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District aims to get annual use of ALR land By Lachlan Labere Eagle Valley News
Sicamous council plans to put pressure on the Agriculture Land Commission to get around its application process to use local agricultural land for a motorcycle event. Last year, the district submitted an application to the commission so that the community dog park, which is currently in the Agricultural Land Reserve, could be used for the Summer Stomp motorcycle rally and concert. Anticipating this will be an annual event, district community planning officer Mike Marrs says the district is working with the ALC to figure out a way around having to make an annual application. He did not state the district is seeking to remove the land from the reserve. In September, council met and raised the matter with Agriculture Minister Pat Pimm. In a Nov. 12 letter to council, Pimm states that in order to use ALR land for a non-farm use like mu-
sic festivals, an application to the ALC must be made. He said the B.C. government “does not have any involvement in individual applications or decisions made by the ALC.” However, the minister goes on to say the province is currently undergoing a core review of all government agencies and activities, and that Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett, who is overseeing the review, has indicated the Agricultural Land Reserve will be a part of the review. Pimm and Bennett recently came under fire when cabinet documents were leaked outlining a strategy to break up the ALR into two zones, one that would cover the Lower Mainland, Fraser Valley and the Okanagan, and a northern zone where the Oil and Gas Commission would play a greater role in ALR land removal applications. District administrator Heidi Frank told council the news has prompted division among local govern-
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District council is attempting to arrange for the annual use of the community dog park, part of the Agricultural Land Reserve, for a music festival without having to apply to the Agricultural Land Commission. Photo by Victoria Rowbottom
ments, those calling for greater protection of the ALC, and those wanting change. There is a similar division among Sicamous councillors. “Being a new councillor, I’m not sure what the previous view is, but I like the ALC,” commented Suzanne Carpenter. “I know how it works and I think I’m probably not with everybody here, but boy, we have to protect our lands, because we need food in the future, we need food for our children, we need a stable
industry. If we didn’t have this, half those orchards would be sold off.” Coun. Don Richardson was of a different mindset, saying the commission is more of a hinderance than good. “Up in the hills where I live with a bunch of rocks, that is not farmland,” said Richardson. “And yet, I’m compelled by a whole lot of bureaucratic dumbness to comply with this stuff. What we are saying is you guys need to revisit your boundaries. Because
way back in whatever, they just took a map and made a bunch of lines and said, ‘this is ALR.’” Coun. Terry Rysz agreed with Richardson on the need for a review of the ALR. Speaking specifically to Sicamous’ situation, he recommended council send a delegation to meet with the minister to reiterate the district’s concerns. Coun. Fred Busch said what the district is asking isn’t necessarily going to take the dog park out of the land commission. “All we’re asking is if we can have this music festival… the Stomp, on those premises,” said Busch. “That is not necessarily saying that in the future, this land couldn’t once again go back to growing corn or alfalfa or whatever crops that it used to have. I think there is that difference… we’re not going to be putting up houses or paving it over, at least I assume that’s not what we’re going to be doing, paving it over.”
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Committee sorts through $64,000 in grant requests By Lachlan Labere Eagle Valley News
District grant-in-aid requests for this year totalled $64,000, the second highest amount received since 2010, when requests were over $68,000. Though the 2014 budget has yet to be formally approved,
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Shuswap Community Church receive $2,500 (requested $10,000) for a basketball court, sports and computer equipment; Community Banner Project receive the $500; Eagle Valley Snowmobile Grooming Society receive $7,500 (requested $20,000) for capital costs; Eagle
December 24th - Sicamous United Church 7:00 PM Family-friendly, safe candle-light Christmas Eve service. December 24th - Sicamous Bible Church Candlelight Service. 7 pm. Everyone welcome Mondays, Tuesdays & Wednesdays Active After School Kidz. Ages 5-12 - to register or for more info contact Recreation and Wellness #250-836-2477 or recreation@sicamous.ca Every 1st & 3rd Wed. - Parkinsons Support Group at First united Church. 20 - 4th Street SE, Salmon Arm at 10 am. Contact Doreen at 250-836-2509. Every Mon. & Fri. - Bridge, Seniors Activity Centre, 1 p.m. Every Tues. Stopping the Violence Program in Sicamous - counselling for women who have experienced abuse during childhood or adult relationships. No charge. Call Kathy at 250-8329700. Every Tues. - Sicamous Amateur Drama Club rehearsals, 7:00 p.m., Red Barn Arts Centre. 836-4705. Tues. & Thurs. - Carpet Bowling at the Seniors’ Activity Centre at 1 p.m. Every Tues. & Thurs. - Seniors Meals provided, 12 noon in Common Room at the Haven.
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Lifeboat Society receive $2,000 (requested $5,000) for safety equipment; and Eagle Valley Arts Council receive $2,000 (requested $3,500) for operations and programming. Final grant funding approval has to be made in a regular meeting of council.
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Community Futures has turn seeking grants By Lachlan Labere
nections between individuals and groups to address those issues,” states the foundation. The foundation administers grants in aid for Salmon Arm, as well as a Founders Fund, from which grants are given out annually to community groups throughout the region. Only this time, the foundation is the organization seeking financial assistance, including $4,000 from the City of Salmon Arm, $2,000 from the District of Sicamous and $4,000 from the Columbia Shuswap Regional District. Bailey says Shuswap Community Futures is contributing $5,000 to the report, Salmon Arm’s Economic Development Society is kicking in $1,000, as is Okanagan College. The foundation itself is committing $10,000 towards the Vital Signs study, which Angove said will help raise
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The Shuswap Community Foundation is in the midst of acquiring local government support to undertake a $35,000 report measuring the health of Shuswap communities. Foundation directors Rod Bailey and Karen Angove recently visited both Sicamous and Salmon Arm municipal councils seeking support for the completion of a Vital Signs report card for the region. A Community Foundations of Canada program, Vital Signs would identify trends and assign grades to 10 or 12 areas critical to a community’s quality of life. “Measuring our community’s vitality in critical areas will increase the effectiveness of our grant making, help us to inform our donors about issues and opportunities in the community, and assist us in making con-
awareness of the foundation and help empower it in taking a leadership role on needed projects. “What a lot of foundations have been finding after doing the Vital Signs report is that a donor will come forward who could be interested in low-cost housing, for example,” said Angove. “And the Community Foundation has the ability to take leadership of such a project if we saw a need. So, what’s happened in, I think it’s Sunshine Coast, they got a donation of a million dollars towards a specific project.” In compiling the Vital Signs report, the foundation will be consulting with other community organizations to ensure a comprehensive view of the areas’ unique issues and attributes are included. Salmon Arm council agreed to a motion by Coun. Chad Eliason to commit $4,000 of the
$10,000 remaining in the council initiatives fund for 2013 towards the Community Foundation report. “As someone who sits on the economic development society, it will be very beneficial for us in moving forward with our action plan, as well as the city’s strategic plan,” said Coun. Denise Reimer. While a formal decision has yet to be made by Sicamous council, council’s select finance committee is recommending that only $250 of the $2,000 be funded. Following Bailey’s presentation, Angove made an appeal to Sicamous council to consider letting the foundation handle the municipality’s grant funding. “The benefit that they see in Salmon Arm is that the decisions for giving out grants is more arm’s length, it’s not people having their
Donation benefits Shuswap hospital By Barb Brouwer
“The Shuswap Hospital Foundation and Shuswap Lake General Hospital are extremely grateful to donors such as Roy and Pamela Moor, who are now Patrons of the Shuswap Hospital Foundation,” says Fiona Harris, the foundation’s director of development. “The thoughtfulness and generosity of folks like Roy and Pamela Moor will help to provide assistance to heart patients in the Shuswap area.” Many of the items on doctors’ and Shuswap Lake General Hospital
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t appears our federal government will be ending the year on a series of sour notes. Polls as of late indicate the popularity of the Harper government has been dropping. While British Columbians know well that polls aren’t always an indicator of things to come, it’s difficult to deny the increasing cynicism among members of the public towards our federal leadership. Of course, the Senate scandal has certainly captured and, more importantly, continues to hold the attention of Canadians. If anything, it has highlighted the fact that our Prime Minister lacks one of the key attributes of leadership: taking responsibility for what happens on your watch. Oh, and also that there is a purveying sense of entitlement among our ruling elite. Another, more recent bit of poor publicity for the Harper government came in the form of a clearly unscripted sound bite by Industry Minister James Moore. While being interviewed by a Lower Mainland radio reporter, the minister candidly revealed his perspective on the responsibility of the state for its children. “Certainly, we want to make sure that kids go to school full-bellied, but is that always the government’s job to be there to serve people their breakfast… Is it my job to feed my neighbour’s child? I don’t think so,” said Moore. At first, the portly Conservative MP for Port Moody-Westwood-Port Coquitlam assured the quote was taken out of context. When an audio recording of his comments were made public, however, Moore appeared to have a Rob Ford moment and abruptly changed his tune, expressing his deepest regret for the insensitive comment. “I know the cause of fighting poverty is not helped by comments like those I made last week. For that, I am sorry,” said Moore. Whether or not Moore’s slip will help further sink the Conservative ship remains to be seen. But it does give Canadians further insight into the mindset of the ruling elite and how they feel about being their brothers’ keeper.
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Province takes page from private sector By Tom Fletcher News Columnist
VICTORIA – One of Canada’s great entrepreneurial success stories in recent years is WestJet, the Calgary-based airline that is expanding across the country and taking on European routes. Clive Beddoe, the founding CEO of Westjet, was famous for helping the cabin crew tidy up the plane before getting off a flight. And the company is also known for its profitsharing program, with all employees referred to as “owners” who have a stake in the success of the operation. I thought of this management approach when news emerged that the B.C. government was offering public service unions a new kind of contract, with a five-year term and wage increases tied to improved economic growth.
The surprising thing is that unions are accepting the idea, even though provincial growth must exceed the government’s independent economic forecast council projections before it can take effect in a given year. The generally nonmilitant Health Sciences Association was the first to recommend acceptance of a five-year agreement with only 5.5 per cent raises guaranteed. They were joined by the B.C. Government Employees’ Union and other unions that have long been adversaries of the B.C. Liberals. Perhaps today’s union leadership is beginning to accept that its wage, benefit and pension arrangements look pretty good compared to the harsh reality of private businesses competing in a global economy. I asked Premier Christy Clark if this new approach is inspired by private-
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sector profit sharing. She agreed that is the model. “I think that’s a great principle for all of us to work from,” Clark said. “Until now, the growth of public-sector wages has been completely insulated from changes in the private sector. And this is the first time we’ve ever been able to successfully link those two things. At this point it’s still a small increment wage growth, but it’s a big change, and I hope we can continue to build on it.” From an employee perspective, it is indeed modest. If real gross domestic product increases one per cent beyond the independent forecast used in the provincial budget, employees get an additional half of one per cent raise for that year. Contrast this labour relations development with what’s happening on the federal scene. A classic confrontation is brewing
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between the Harper government and the Public Service Alliance of Canada. A key dispute is over sick days, which the government estimates are averaging 18 a year. PSAC currently has 15 “bankable” sick days a year, which the union president refers to as a “negotiated right.” It takes me back to my first union job, where I was warned never to take just one sick day. We negotiated for two at a time, so always take two, the union rep told me. Implicit in this is the mindset that employees should give as little and take as much as possible. Looking through my files each December for the B.C. story of the year, I consider what is likely to matter five or 10 years from now. This partnership approach to building the provincial economy is my pick for 2013.
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Eagle Valley News Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Flowers colour our lives on different levels
GAIA GARDENING MARGO WESTAWAY
A Chinese proverb says: ‘When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.’ It’s a pretty tough transition to go from the wonderful flowers of spring and summer, to the glorious tones of reds, oranges and yellows in the fall, to the colourless whites and greys of winter. If you get the blues during this time of year, it really helps to keep some pretty plants in your house to get you through those dreary days. A friend of mine has always been willing to budget a little extra of
her hard-earned money to buy a bouquet of flowers for her table, all year round, for as long as I can remember. To her, they’re worth every penny, because they lift her spirits and bring cheer and beauty into her home. I’m too tight to spring for the bouquets, but now I continually keep a colourful plant on my table to enjoy until I can cut some out of the garden again. Lovely poinsettias are always a Christmas favourite, especially the big ones with the added touch of sparkles all over the leaves. My plant is now going on five years old, looking like a threefoot high bonsai tree, so you don’t necessarily have to throw them out. Other choices for winter are the beautiful orchids, the brightly tri-coloured plant I just bought from the grocery store called a kalanchoe, African violets or the unfortunately short-blooming win-
ter cactus or impressive amaryllis. Your potted geraniums from summer will sometimes keep their pretty blooms for quite a while, or maybe even some good fake flowers
We should never underestimate flower power and how they can affect our psychological well-being and grey matter. might do the trick. Ideally, you want plants that have long-lasting blooms with plenty of colour, so check out the florists, grocery and plant stores to see what pick-me-ups they have to offer. We should never underestimate flower power and how they can affect our psychological well-being and grey matter. Take for example the University
of Florida brain awareness study, in which the keynote speaker discussed flowers’ effects on us humans. She states: “Flowers are not only a symbol of happiness and good cheer, but that their little chemical factories create positive responses within our brains along with decreasing anxiety and improving our moods. From an evolutionary standpoint, this makes people better survivors because positive people are more likely to maintain social relationships, reproduce, find needed resources and be creative.” They also found that the more flowers older adults received, the happier they were. Plus, they performed much better in memory tests than those who did not get flowers. It never hurts to have a little feng shui working for you too. In addition to the energy or Chi of beauty and grace that they give, flowers
also bring good luck and numerous blessings to any home – and we can always use plenty of that. So make this winter a little easier by adding some flowers to your home, which will not only help you ride out the roughest part of the year, but to just give yourself a little cheer with the added bonus of a brain boost and fewer ‘senior moments.’ And let’s not forget those family members, friends or neighbours who truly struggle through these colourless months by surprising them with a pretty pot too. Happy holidays everyone!
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FROM THE LEGISLATURE GREG KYLLO
Here in the Shuswap, we’re blessed with a number of farms that I recently had the privilege to show off to Agriculture Minister Pat Pimm. We started the day at the Spallumcheen farm of the Veldhuisen family, who gave us an informative tour of their automated milking facility. We then toured the robotic milking facility at Bouwe Mediema in Trinity Valley, which was also an eye-opener. The folks at both farms showed us how modern technology is helping to get their delicious products out to more people. We also visited the Blue Goose Cattle Company in Grindrod, the only federally regulated organic abattoir in the province. Next up was a visit to the famous Dutchman Dairy farm in Sicamous, where the minister and I enjoyed a delicious ice cream cone. For more than 30 years, the Dewitts have
offered old-fashioned, hand-made dairy products with a focus on topquality ingredients. We ended our trip at Farmcrest Foods, a small family-run operation in Salmon Arm. Family members spanning three generations have collectively more than 150 years of experience in the poultry industry. These visits spoke to the amazing knowledge, dedication and hard work of our farm families who supply locals and visitors with high-quality goods. It was a great learning experience for us, but also a way for us to show our commitment to the local agriculture industry. There has been a lot of discussion recently about the B.C. government’s Core Review process, and whether it will impact the Agricultural Land Commission. Our Core Review is looking at the ALC to ensure it is set up to provide the best possible services, at the best possible value for taxpayers. Now and in the future, the ALC will continue to be an independent decision-maker and will continue to preserve B.C.’s best agricultural land for future generations. Our commitment to the Agricultural Land Commission remains
strong. In last year’s budget, the ALC received an extra $4 million over three years to protect British Columbia’s farmland, including increased enforcement capacity. Government needs to continually look for opportunities to improve the delivery of services and ensure that they are meeting the needs of British Columbians – the ALC included. I hope we can work together to make that happen. In the meantime, buy local and enjoy a yummy holiday feast courtesy of our hard-working local farmers.
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(NC) A lot of preparation goes into a memorable holiday party. It starts slowly with sending out invitations and dusting off the decorations days or weeks ahead of time, then gains speed from grocery shopping all the way through to placing the final sprig of parsley on the canapés. After all the hustle and bustle, it’s tempting to think the prep is over when the first guest arrives at the door, but seasoned hosts know the doorbell signals that the next round of planning is just beginning. “Every successful party needs a happy ending,” says Charlie Angelakos, the vice president of corporate affairs at Labatt Breweries of Canada. “Hosts need to play a role to ensure the safety of their guests and communities, and that means preventing their guests from drinking and driving.” Here are a few tips to help hosts with the in-party planning: • Know that being a host comes with
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lights a candle for advent. Photo by Lachlan Labere through the Second World War. “So part of this journey was about learning some of the history… but also seeing how the Palestinian territories have gotten smaller and smaller and more divided, and where there are illegal, I mean, according to United Nations, illegal Jewish settlements in Palestinian territory, and thinking, if they’re illegal and recognized as such by the UN, why is this allowed to continue?” asked Austin. During her stay, Austin said she had an opportunity to learn more about the arrests, and how Palestinian villages have been replaced by Israeli settlements. Austin also had an opportunity to see the wall/security bar-
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rier under construction around the West Bank, which she was told is “keeping Palestinians from each other and from their farms and from their family.” “It was maybe more of an eye-opener than I wanted but, but I think an important thing to see,” said Austin. When she and other members of her group asked what they might be able to do to help, Austin says she was told to share the stories of what they saw. “What we were asked to do was go back, share our story, encourage governments to listen to the whole story including things like sanctions and boycotts of products made in the settlement areas, where the illegal settlements are happening,”
said Austin. While opposed to the imprisonment of Palestinian children, something Austin learned more of during a visit to Ofer Prison, the Sicamous pastor recognizes how any action towards a perceived wrongdoing can turn sour. Case in point, she explains how the United Church looked at a boycott of products made in the contested Israeli settlements. In response, the church was told it could upset years of work between Christians and Jews. “We don’t want to destroy that, and yet there’s also another party here who is suffering,” said Austin. Austin says she wrote her welcomeback sermon on the plane trip home, want-
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Attempting to unravel the complexities of conflict in the Middle East can be frustrating and heartbreaking, as Juanita Austin discovered in a recent visit to the area. In November, the pastor of Sicamous United Church was part of an educational pilgrimage of sorts that brought her to Jerusalem where she met with Palestinian Christians and Muslims, Jewish Israelis and internationals. Together, said Austin, the group had an opportunity to learn about the region and its people from a perspective North Americans are seldom exposed to through mainstream media. “I hadn’t planned on doing this at all, “ said Austin, whose curiosity about the Middle East was particularly piqued when she heard about Israeli soldiers arresting and imprisoning Palestinian children and youth as young as age 12. “She compared it with how First Nations children were taken from their homes and forcibly put in schools,” said Austin. “That just really impacted me and I thought, I need to pay attention.” Prior to her journey, Austin described herself as being “proIsraeli,” knowing the immense suffering the Jewish people endured
ing to share her experience bit by bit with her congregation, not wanting to overwhelm them. She’s also thinking of doing a presentation for the local branch of KAIROS, an ecumenical advocacy group for social justice. If there was one part of the trip that gave hope in inspiration, it was a visit to the Tent of Nations. Austin described this as an area of contested land where “Jews and Muslims and Christians and internationals can come together,” and build bridges towards peace. “It was good to end the journey on something that did give some hope,” said Austin.
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