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Waterway makes case for grow op Medical marijuana: Houseboat company looks to transform manufacturing plant. By Lachlan Labere Eagle Valley News
Setbacks will be a setback to medical marijuana production on industrial land within the District of Sicamous. This was the argument presented last week to municipal council by legal counsel for Waterway Houseboats during a public hearing on proposed zoning amendments to accommodate medical marijuana production within the district. Lawyer Jeff Robinson of the firm Rush Ihas Hardwick, told council the zoning changes being considered, particularly the proposed increased setbacks, intended to address security, access, noise and odour concerns, could prevent Waterway from making its former manufacturing facility available for the production of medicinal marijuana under new federal regulations. “That facilty is no longer needed for houseboat operations. My client is aware of See Lawyer on page 2
Industrial use: Waterway Houseboats has an opportunity to rent its former manufacturing plant on industrial land for a federally licenced and regulated medical marijuana production facility. Photo by Lachlan Labere
Shuswap MLA among biggest spenders on accompanied travel
Valued perk: Kyllo says Accompanying Person Travel expense beneficial to health of families. By Lachlan Labere Eagle Valley News
Shuswap MLA Greg Kyllo says a government policy that accommodates spousal visits in Victoria was an influential factor in his running for office. The B.C. legislature recently released a list detailing Accompanying Person Travel expenses for the province’s 85 MLAs. A total of $125,310 was spent last year between April 1, when the province began keeping a record
of these expenses, and also be a constituency or Dec. 31. Kyllo racked up legislative assistant. the fourth highest amount, Kyllo said last year he and the highest among BC used his allotted accompaThe efforts of government… Liberals, at $5,182. nying person trips to bring have gone a long way to make All of the top 10 spendhis constituency assistant, sure families have the ability ers – the highest being Holly Cowan, to Victoria to spend more time together. the BC NDP member for a conference, but “priMichelle Mungall of the marily I think families use Greg Kyllo Nelson-Creston riding at them for spouses.” Kyllo Shuswap MLA $7,806 – were from outsays this travel expense side the Lower Mainland. was a major consideration an accompanying person of the Each MLA may desigbehind his decision to run nate up to 12 trips in a fiscal peri- MLA’s choosing. Typically, it’s a for provincial office. od (April to March) for travel with family member, though it might “Obviously, there’s a remu-
neration package as far as salary, but a big part of the discussion was the fact that I was going to be away from Georgina a lot more,” said Kyllo. “And that was definitely one of the main items that we talked about, as far as wanting to make sure we’re able to spend more time together with the large amount of travel that’s involved.” Kyllo notes the accompanying person travel expense, approved through legislation, has been around for a while, and it’s See Speaker on page 2
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a tenant that would potentially use that facility for licensed production of medical marijuana,” said Robinson, noting the facility would be a legal operation, compliant with the new federal regulations. “However, the proposed zoning text bylaw would prohibit my client from using that existing land for that purpose. And the reason it would prohibit it is because of the setbacks and the minimum lot size.” The hearing began with an explanation by district community planning officer Mike Marrs of the proposed zoning amendments and how they were determined. He said a lot of information forming the new Marijuana for Medical Purposes regulation is still being processed and, therefore, he found there are a lot of unknowns for municipalities that, like Sicamous, are attempting to put bylaws in place to address the potential of medical marijuana facilities coming to the community.
Marrs said local governments have the ability to regulate marijuana production facilities and direct such uses to specific zones. Staff recommended to council that marijuana production be restricted to lands zoned general industrial, and large holdings if within the Agricultural Land Reserve. “We don’t have a lot of the land (industrial), but staff has had a couple of inquiries in terms of production facilities within industrial areas and these amendments are to try to bring about some regulation within our bylaws so that council can regulate the applications…,” said Marrs. Not having any precedents to draw from, Marrs said staff considered regulations applicable to the location of hog production facilities, “which allow greater setback areas to try and control odour and keep those type of facilities away from residential areas or adjoining schools or park areas.” For medical marijua-
na operations on properties zoned for large holdings, staff recommended a setback of 30 metres, and 60 metres where the operation is adjacent to residences, schools or parks and other public/institutional uses. For land zoned general industrial, setbacks of 15 or 30 metres were proposed. So far as these set-
to control odour, when the government regulation – which we can assume is going to be enforced quite strictly – is going to address that problem for council,” said Robinson, explaining his client has suffered financially as of late and the setbacks would potentially deny them an opportunity to “create a more stable
I would submit to council there is no need for increased setbacks to control odour, when the government regulation – which we can assume is going to be enforced quite strictly – is going to address that problem for council. Jeff Robinson
backs are to control odour, noise and security, Robinson called them redundant with the new federal regulations, which he said provide strict guidelines. “I would submit to council there is no need for increased setbacks
source of income and diversify operations based on property it already has.” “What seems to me to be happening here is, if there is going to be medical marijuana production in Sicamous… this bylaw will drive it into the ALR,” said
Robinson. “And that, I submit, is not a good thing for this community. If you look what other communities are doing on this issue, their primary concern is having massive factories directed into ALR land… Don’t be mistaken here. Medical marijuana production is not farming. This is big production.” Marrs noted that applicants for whom the setbacks don’t work could pursue a variance, a point that was later reiterated by Coun. Don Richardson prior to council approving the zoning amendments. “I think what this is doing is setting a generic pattern, shall we say, to open the doors to these considerations…,” said Richardson. “Again, my concern is a lot of the impacts it could have with all these partial legitimate operations at this time. And Health Canada on one hand is saying don’t smoke cigarettes, but now they turn to us and say, you can do marijuana. So, it’s real confusing.”
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only the recording of it that’s new. He said his expenses are due to the proximity of the Shuswap riding to Victoria, and because of “the number of committees I’m sitting on, which requires me to be away
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a lot more than a lot of others.” “I know I was talking with a federal minister not too long ago, and he indicated about 10 years ago the divorce rate among elected officials was something like three times the national aver-
age,” said Kyllo. “The efforts of government, I think both federal and provincial, have gone a long way to make sure families have the ability to spend more time together.” BC Liberal MLA and Speaker of the House Linda Reid is
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under fire for abusing the separate, Speaker Approval Travel expense category, which totalled $55,922 for the last reporting period. This included $5,500 for businessclass airfare for Reid’s to accompany her to a conference in South
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Concerns over grant cuts stop budget By Lachlan Labere Eagle Valley News
Cuts to district grants for community groups prompted council to refer this year’s budget back to the committee level for further deliberation. At its last meeting, council was asked to adopt the 2014-18 financial plan as presented. But Couns. Fred Busch, Suzanne Carpenter and Charlotte Hutchinson said they could not support the related bylaw, as they weren’t satisfied with grants in aid allotted to community
groups. Subsequently, the budget was referred back to the district’s select finance committee, where it took shape. Because of a library board meeting and a pre-scheduled vacation, Busch said he was unable to attend the two committee meetings where grants were discussed. With the budget as presented, he said council wasn’t being socially responsible to the community. “The chairman of the select committee says… that we are in a bad position, there are
many people unemployed and businesses are closing, and I feel that we are simply not helping people, making it impossible for them to stay in our community,” said Busch. “So on that basis, I will be voting against this budget.” Carpenter agreed, adding she was told there could be a oneper-cent tax increase if council continues as it has with the provision of grants. “Well, we voted in $3,000 for councillors for non-sanctioned trips,” said Carpenter.
“We could maybe take that money and put it towards grants in aid rather than non-sanctioned trips.” Couns. Joan Thomson and Don Richardson disagreed, stating the committee spent a long time going through the budget. “And nobody was really cut,” said Richardson. “Everybody was decreased… to come up with the best prudent proposal possible. So I think this budget is well set up. I’m fully in favour of supporting it.”
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Medical issues were found to have been a factor behind a recent collision involving a train and a pickup truck that sent a 27-year-old Armstrong man to hospital. CP Rail spokesperson Salem Woodrow confirmed last week that CP’s police service had completed its investigation into the March 18 incident, where a pickup truck that wound up on the tracks east of Sicamous was struck by a train. She said the driver of the pickup was suffering from medical
Investigation: CP Rail staff go over the scene of a March 18 collision on railway tracks east of Sicamous. File photo distress, which resulted in the eastbound vehicle driving off Highway 1, and onto the tracks. Sicamous RCMP received word of the incident at approximately 2:40 p.m.
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Misuse of public funds warrants more than a shrug It’s not just about Nigerian inheritance schemes, or people stealing credit cards or financial information. Questionable activities touch each and every taxpayer whose hard-earned dollars are siphoned by politicians for unjustified “expenses.” If we have learned anything from last year’s Senate expense scandals, and the recent revelations concerning former Alberta premier Alison Redford’s travel expenses, it’s that this is a problem that crosses all party lines and involves all political stripes. A recent example being publication of details of the vacation expenses billed for NDP MLA Jenny Kwan’s family to the Portland Hotel Society, a not-for-profit organization already under fire for its expenses record. Kwan’s subsequent repayment of the sum was a reason for rejoicing on the right. That jubilation has been tempered somewhat by the revelation, also this month, of travel expenses billed by B.C. legislature Speaker Linda Reid, a B.C. Liberal MLA, for her husband – so that he could join her on a trip to South Africa. In addition to issuing a public apology, Reid has also repaid the sum in total. Whatever the mitigating circumstances of each case, neither inspires confidence in our system. Abusing public trust and dipping into public funds is, or should be, indefensible, no matter the spluttering rants of entrenched ideologues on the left or the right, who will always claim that whatever the other party did is worse. Yet oddly, when it comes to political impropriety, our society long ago suspended any notion of justice or punishment that automatically applies to scammers in any other walk of life. With politicians going on to reap the rewards of generous pensions, lucrative posts and valuable consultancies, it’s no wonder so many average Canadians shrug their shoulders and walk in the other direction when urged to exercise their democratic rights. -Peace Arch News
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My tax guy and I shared a quick laugh last week. While comparing my annual pay over recent years, he commented, with an ironic smile, how it has not kept up with the rate of inflation. I said that seems to be the case for a lot of British Columbians – earnings have generally flatlined – except for those in government. Hardly a zinger, but tax preparation is fairly dry material. There’s been quite a bit of buzz as of late regarding government-type folks giv-
ing themselves pay hikes, or using/abusing their seemingly unfettered access to the public piggy bank,while it’s “austerity budgets” for everyone else. Our federal representatives in the House recently voted themselves their second pay raise in as many years. For 2014-15, MP’s will receive a base salary of $163,700 (excluding expenses, perks, etc.). The prime minister’s pay is going up to $320,400 (MP wage included), plus a house, cottage, car, etc. Senators are also getting a salary increase, up to $138,200. This has to do with their pay being tied to that of MPs. Funny how one day people are calling for the senate to be abolished, and the next we’re giving a senators raise. For more irony, the federal Parliamentary Budget Officer just released Labour Market Assessment 2014, a report that reflects my tax
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guy’s findings: wages and compensation have been stagnant across Canada since 2008, despite an increase in labour productivity (ie: we’re working more for less). But all is not lost – the report also indicates the nation’s top earners continue to do just that, widening the disparity between the “one percent” and, well, everybody else. (The same report also states the much ballyhooed “labour skills shortage” has been largely over hyped. Yet the Temporary Foreign Workers program continues.) Meanwhile, here in the West, the word “entitlement” is being bandied about quite a bit lately, particularly in relation to recently resigned Alberta premier Allison Redford, who racked up quite a travel bill on the public dime, and was in the process of having a luxury penthouse built for her and her son in a building
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owned by the province. In B.C., MLAs too have been receiving criticism for using the public purse to bring their respective others on trips. Or, in the case of the BC NDP’s Jenny Kwan, using public funds intended for a government-contracted charitable organization. Apart from being publicly shamed into paying back excessive travel expenses, don’t expect any disciplinary action for Kwan or Liberal House Speaker Linda Reid. In the newsroom, you’ll often hear the exclamation/ lament, “I’m in the wrong job!” Easy to say, I know, when you haven’t walked a mile in another person’s shoes. I hope to have my taxes done shortly, a portion of which I’m sure will be covering those salaries in the House, a different world where healthy pay raises, perks and pensions are still reality.
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Buckerfields says no to big-business recycle program Guest column: Costs outweigh the benefits of signing contract with Multi-Materials B.C. statements. Now, several months later, I have discovered the following: • MMBC is a corporation under the Societies Act comprised of three directors, two of whom live in Ontario. None of the directors have public sector credentials. All of the directors represent large corporate interests. • MMBC is not accountable to any government agency, appointed official, elected official or any other government body other than the registrar of companies under the Societies Act. • MMBC is not governed by the province’s Financial Administration Act which sets out the rules for the administration of all public monies. • None of the monies collected by MMBC, including the fees Buckerfields is supposed to pay, go to the public accounts of the province or any other government organization. • MMBC is not subject to oversight by the auditor general of B.C. • Under MMBC’s ‘stewardship plan’ as approved by the provincial government, MMBC has the authority to charge compa-
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they will cause newspaper closures and job losses of 300-500 in the newspaper industry in British Columbia, even though recycled newsprint is actually very valuable. In finding all this out, I lament the fact that none of this was introduced into the legislature for proper debate because it means that instead of spending my days managing the sale of chicks and garden supplies at Buckerfields, I have to spend my time trying to revive democratic processes in British Columbia, retroactively. I find it appalling. My position as of the time of this writing is this, we ain’t paying a dime to MMBC and neither should anyone else, not until: • The provincial government reconciles what it is doing with the municipal governments and municipal taxpayers so that taxpayers don’t have to pay twice. • The provincial government takes back the legislation which calls us ‘producers’ and ‘blames us’ for
the choices made by manufacturers and indeed consumers that are completely outside of our control. • Any monies charged under the auspices of the Recyling Regulation are included in the public accounts of the province and subject to the provisions of the Financial Administration Act and the Auditor General Act. • Whatever is going to be done is introduced into the Legislative Assembly in the form of a bill so that the proper public debate can occur. • Insofar as MMBC has not filed its audited financial statements since inception, and the period of time not reported spans more than two years, and insofar as MMBC is actually a taxing and funding agency, there be an independent public enquiry into the financial operations, sources and uses of funds, contractual procedures and expenditures of MMBC. No, Buckerfields is not paying a dime until this cash and power grab is unravelled and revealed for what it is.
One final word, 96 per cent of all printed paper and packaging material is already being picked up or deposited into municipally financed facilities. Despite what MMBC is saying, at least 53 per cent of that is already being recycled and it is very likely that number was seriously understated to give the government a reason for its MMBC cash and power grab. In reality, there is no basis for setting up a recycling dictatorship and charging punitive fees to companies like Buckerfields at all. Recycling is a booming business with rapidly increasing prices of marketable commodities. Could that be why the board of MMBC is all big business and outside the jurisdiction of the auditor general? We don’t have to change a thing to see recycling take off in B.C., in the hands of our elected municipal officials. We need to send the MMBC regime to the recycle bin. Kelvin McCulloch is co-owner of B.C.’s Buckerfield’s stores.
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collection and recycling eliminates the need and justification for ‘consumers’ i.e. property taxpayers to pay for these services through the municipalities. • The Provincial government did not consult with the municipal governments or the public but companies like Buckerfields are pointing it out because until it is resolved, we are being taxed twice for the same service and residential taxpayers (including me) are being taxed for something that someone else is actually paying for. • Taxpayers and municipal governments were not consulted as to whether they really want to shift the financing and control of municipal waste and recycling services out of the municipal jurisdiction, into the hands of a corporation under the Societies Act that is accountable to no one and is outside the jurisdiction of the provincial auditor general • Taxpayers and voters are unaware that the fees being charged by MMBC are so onerous
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nies like Buckerfields unlimited fees based on whatever MMBC spends, regardless of what the actual costs are to recycle our feed bags and regardless of the fact that we already pay municipal taxes in all eight of our locations. • MMBC has the authority to come into any municipality in the province and offer financial incentives to the locally elected government to do what MMBC wants in the area of waste collection and recycling; if the locally elected government refuses, MMBC has the authority to do what it wants anyway. • The municipal governments of the province do not know the background of MMBC and don’t yet realize the fees that MMBC is charging to Buckerfields and all the other companies amounts to double taxation • The municipal governments are going to have to give up that tax base they have for waste collection and recycling because the shift to ‘producers’ paying directly for waste
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A few months back, I received a notification which advised me that I had to declare whether Buckerfields was a ‘producer’ of printed paper or packaging material. If so, we would have to implement an ‘approved stewardship plan’ to deal with the material. Otherwise we would have to join another ‘stewardship plan’ and pay fees to that plan holder. I thought it was a scam. But I looked into it further and determined that there was indeed regulatory provisions in effect which stated this very thing and, according to the regulations, Buckerfields is now a ‘producer’ of printed paper and packaging material, with the best example being our Buckerfields feed bags. I then discussed the alternatives with a Ministry of Environment official and came to realize that we had no choice but to join the only approved stewardship plan in the province, MMBC. We signed the MMBC contract. But we also read it. And it stated that MMBC had to file audited financial statements on its web site. I recently went to the website and there are no audited financial
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Countering anti-evolution argument In attacking the Shuswap Market News’ refreshing column Gaia Gardening,” David Riley (“Column about trees goes off base,” Mar. 14, 2014) is actually who’s off base – literally off the scientific reality base altogether. A hodge-podge of uninformed, unsupported assertions and rhetoric careen through this letter, contributing little to our awareness of how evolutionary processes drive the natural selection of tree adaptation over millions of years. Indeed, millions of years and processes of evolution itself, are obviously Mr. Riley’s downfall. He baldly as-
serts: “…evolutionary beliefs pose many questions and unsolvable problems.” What questions? What problems? He states further: “The whole evolutionary long age development scenario is a farce, a myth, the great new age fairy tale.” Grounds for this emotional outburst? None to be found in Mr. Riley’s letter. “How do you know what the climate was 250 million years ago, or since then?” he laments. Geoscience, paleoclimatology, paleontology (fossil-study) and palynology (pollen analy-
sis) have long provided comprehensive details of past climates. Countering misunderstanding on this scale, and clarifying for Mr. Riley, the universal, scientifically-accepted role of evolutionary processes in producing this amazing world of nature we know today, would easily require an entire issue of the Shuswap Market News. “Where did the parent tropical trees come from?” Using the slow radioactive decay rates of uranium isotopes, the age of the Earth has been established as 4.55 billion years old, and fossil microrganisms
have been dated at 3.55 billion years old. The origin of trees begins with evolution of the plant world, 2.5 billion years ago, when photosynthesis radically transformed the Earth’s primitive, oxygen-free atmosphere to an oxygenated one, allowing land life to flourish and evolve. The evolution of ‘vascular plants,’ with fluid-conducting tubules led, 420 million years ago to the beginning of an extensive distribution of upright plants in terrestrial environments – such as trees like: ginkgos, cycads, metasequoias, araucarieas and wollemi pines. Explanations of
Earth’s magnificent natural phenomena and events unfolding over billions of years, have been successfully achieved by evolutionary science. In the process, the intricate beauty of the Earth, our home, is made even more meaningful by knowing its true, evolved character. Reasoned debate on this science is healthy and welcome; emotionbased criticism – lacking evidence – is without merit. Thos. J. Crowley, Professor of biology and chemistry (emeritus), Okanagan University College
Community groups made to suffer In light of this exorbitant spending, it is hard to take council’s pleas of poverty to groups requesting grants-in-aid seriously. One councillor even suggested that we certainly can have anything we want; council will just have to raise our taxes. The reality is that, not only do these groups rely on these grants just for bare minimum operations, but also matching grants become available, conditional on the awarding of these grants from the district. No wonder representatives of these community groups are in shock over being denied the relatively paltry amounts they have requested. The big question that citizens would like answered is, ‘What has changed?’ Council supported these groups in the past; taxes have not dropped, etc. Where has the money gone that has usually been allocated to these very worthwhile community groups? Grants make up less than one per cent of the total annual municipal budget. Please tell us what has changed with our tax money, so that in order to continue to assist these groups, you must raise our taxes?
With every new council term, we hear of plans to turn the economy around, bring in industry, trim costs, etc. What we get, however, is disturbing and appalling – unnecessary spending at the cost of stripping the local community service groups of much needed resources. Volunteers who have given so much to the community, in organizations such as the seniors groups, the Eagle Valley Community Support Society, the Royal Canadian Legion, and The Eagle Valley Arts Council,
have been treated like adversaries, and those who depend on their services are suffering. The core of a small community is its citizens, volunteers, and the community groups they form out of necessity, not a half dozen elected officials and some municipal staff. If you erode the community organizations and the good works they do, you are well on the way to destroying the town, from the inside out. John Schlosar
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Re: Editorial, ‘Cynicism among the Electorate,” in the March 26 EVN. The $14,000 for administration and council to attend FCM in Niagara Falls may seem like a torrential cost, but it is actually a drop in the bucket compared to questionable expenditures. Just check out some of the comments from interviewed councillors in the EVN of March 12. Coun. Charlotte Hutchinson speaks of the “chaos that ensues when the council, in its wisdom, fires the CAO immediately and the byproduct was a mass exodus of key staff.’ Hutchinson states that the community paid dearly for the time and monetary cost lost because of this decision. Conservative estimates of payouts to terminate the last administrator, and the administrator in the 2005-2008 term are over $400,000. In addition, the current administrator’s actions in replacing key staffing positions in the last two years amount to additional tens of thousands of dollars. As Coun. Suzanne Carpenter stated, “I have been very frustrated with the workings of our district.”
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Tiny home project captures public interest By Lachlan Labere Eagle Valley News
In creating a home for herself, Kayla Feenstra has unintentionally become part of a movement towards small living spaces. Since December, the Shuswap native has been constructing her residence in Abbotsford. Calling it her ‘Jack in the Box,’ this labour of love (documented on the Facebook page: Jack in a Box: my tiny home) has recently appeared in local newspaper and TV stories, was featured on the Huffington Post, and is rapidly being picked up by other websites world-over. This attention is largely to do with the size of the house, a 130-square-foot structure, built on a trailer bed, which puts it firmly in the category of “tiny home.” “That’s what people are calling it. I don’t like being pinned to any movement, but it appears I am part of it…,” laughs Feenstra. Budgeted at $15,000, her house is 16 feet long and eight feet wide inside with an 11foot ceiling. It includes a 70-square-foot bedroom loft, a toilet and shower, a small woodstove, fridge and oven, bookshelves – all the essential comforts of home. Feenstra’s favourite part so far: “My bay windows. I haven’t seen a single (tiny) house that has those, and I’m so proud of coming up with that,” said Feenstra. “It adds so much light, and adds space for two to three more people to sit inside the little seating area. And it doesn’t look like a box.” Feenstra’s inspiration to build her own home was a mix of upbringing, circumstance and lifestyle choice. From 2004 to 2007, Feenstra was in Haiti teaching English. The following year, she was in the Dominican Republic, where she became sick. She moved to Abbotsford in 2008 to be near needed medical services. While living there, she said she grew tired of renting, but didn’t want to buy a traditional home. “I started thinking about what kind of space I would actually need, and what I really wanted to do with my life,” said Feenstra. “I knew that I wanted to travel and I knew I didn’t want to be in debt for the rest of my life.” So Feenstra started designing her little home – a concept that’s been with her since childhood. “I remember being eight or nine or something and drawing up this little house that I thought would be really cool to live in.” The home, though on wheels, is nothing like an RV or mobile. It’s framed and insulated like a normal home, with energyefficient windows. It is also designed to be self-sustaining. Solar panels provide electricity. Water is captured from the roof, stored in a tank and filtered for use. Greywater is captured and the toilet is of the composting variety – the waste used for fertilizer. Feenstra says the home is a reflection of her organically-minded business, Dragonlily Gardens, through which
she has set up five community gardens and maintains 30 others. She also established the Fraser Valley’s Farm to Food Bank program. “For me, to live this way just made a lot of sense. I didn’t want to be one of those people who said one thing and then turned around and drove a big Hemi or whatever,” said Feenstra. “And the more people got interested, the more I thought, ‘wow, I have to be really conscious about what I do with this thing because there’s a lot of people paying attention,’ and this is going to be kind of a demo project or a prototype for a lot of people.: As for property, Feenstra says she has received numerous offers from property owners in the Fraser Valley with agricultural land on which she can live and grow food. Since being featured on Huffpost, etc., business opportunities have also been coming in from people wanting custom-built tiny homes of their own. “It has to be very thoroughly thought out, because you can’t waste two-square feet – you don’t have that privilege…,” said Feenstra. “I have a bunch of potential investors that want to take a look at it. We’ll have those conversations and if those conversations go positively, I’ll look at putting a team together.” Feenstra’s mom and dad, Murray and Wilma Feenstra, live in Salmon Arm. Murray has done some of the work on Kayla’s home, including the custom-built cabinets. He says small-space living runs in the family, explaining his first selfbuilt home near Smithers was a 12’ by 16’ A-frame with no water or electricity. “I lived there for a few years, and then got married and we lived in it for a few more years…, said Murray. “We’ve always kind of done different things. She grows organically, we’ve always grown organically. We’re not into the big, massive homes… So she probably gets that kind of lifestyle thinking from the way she was raised. We didn’t push it on our kids, it was just something we did and she just picked up on it.” One regret Feenstra has over building her new home is that she didn’t do it sooner. “Every time I walk into it, I can’t stop smiling,” said Kayla. “And I wish I had started this when I was 18. It makes a lot of sense and it would have solved a lot of problems for me.”
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Feenstra has been documenting the construction of her new home, from the selection of the 16foot trailer on which it’s built, to the completion of the bay windows, installation of cabinets and furnishing of her bedroom loft.
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Face for name: Dutch project aims to provide identity to interred Canadian service people. By Lachlan Labere Eagle Valley News
To the people of the Netherlands, Rifleman Victor J. Emsley and Pte. Jasper L. Armitage are much more than names on tombstones. Both Emsley, of Sicamous, and Armitage of Salmon Arm, were laid to rest at the Holten Canadian War Cemetery, in the municipality of Rijssen-Holten in the Dutch province of Overijssel. The two were killed in action during the Second World War, Emsley at age 27 on April 5, 1945, and Armitage at 22 on April 25, 1945. The conflict officially ended with Germany’s unconditional surrender on May 8, 1945. It is known that
Emsley served with the 4th Battalion, The Regina Rifle Regiment, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps., and that he was the son of Francis and Anna Emsley of Sicamous. Armitage served with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise), RCIC, and was the son of Major C.L. Armitage and Mrs. D.W. Armitage of Salmon Arm. But the rest of their story remains unknown to the Dutch people, which is where Mike Muntain comes in. Muntain, a Kingston, Ont. resident and piper with the Princess of Wales Own Regiment, says he was assisting Kingston, Mayor Mark Gerretsen
Honouring our fallen: The Holten Canadian War Cemetery in the Netherlands, where more than 1,300 Canadians are remembered in annual ce. Photo by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission on an initiative to rec- was asked to assist in cal info on every Canadian who was laid to ognize school children another program. “Gerry VanHolt, rest at the Holten cemefrom Holten for their Christmas Eve efforts chairman of the Wel- tery,” said Muntain. “A honouring Canadian come Back Veterans Face For Every Name” war dead resting in the committee, is in the is a significant underHolten Canadian War process of collecting taking. Muntain has been Cemetery, when he pictures and biographi-
seeking photos and biographical information of the 1,393 Canadian war dead interred at the Holten cemetery. That information will be placed at the respective gravestones on the various dates when respects are paid, including Remembrance Day, Liberation Day (May 5) and Christmas Eve, as well as when the cemetery is visited by a Canadian regiment or dignitaries. “I asked them why you do this on Christmas Eve of all days, when we’re all sitting at home with our families? They said, ‘so the boys aren’t alone at Christmas,’” explained Muntain. “They consider these ‘their Canadians.’ When they talk about them, they talk
about their Canadians.” Mutain says the Dutch people are tireless in their efforts to honour Canada’s war dead, and take on this responsibility as a duty, not a hobby. This can be seen in the video, 1400 Candles, posted on Youtube. “If the adage, ‘A man lives as long as he is remembered,’ is true, the people of Holten… make sure that, for their Canadians, ‘their name liveth for evermore,’” says Muntain. Anyone with information about Rifleman Emsley and Pte. Armitage, wanting to contribute to the A Face For Every Name project, may contact Muntain at 613-888-7267, or by email at mjmuntain@ gmail.com.
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ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20 Aries, you have a great deal of energy but have no idea where to focus all of it. This could be a good week to visit with friends and family and spend time together.
SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22 Things move along quite smoothly for you this week, Scorpio. There are plenty of distractions heading your way, but do your best to stay focused.
TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21 Don’t get swept away by old habits, Taurus. It is time to try something new and get a new perspective. Accept a new challenge and you will be glad for having done so.
SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21 Get outdoors and enjoy some fresh air, Sagittarius. Fresh air is just what you need after a bout of cabin fever. The weather is breaking and outside projects beckon.
GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21 Gemini, you may be tempted to question the actions of others this week. But try to focus instead on what you are doing and do not be concerned with the motivations of other people.
CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20 Capricorn, start planning a much-needed vacation for you and your significant other. Some time away from the hustle and bustle is just what the both of you need.
CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22 Cancer, you have to go to great lengths to get your point across this week. Approach such situations with tact and patience and do your best to simplify your point of view. LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23 Leo, all you need is a little spark to motivate you this week. You may be able to tackle projects around the house or assignments at work with ease and a little inspiration.
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VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22 Virgo, your romantic life is full of complicated patterns and obstacles, which could be taking their toll on your relationship. Some subtle changes might get things back on track. LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23 Unfortunately, sitting back and doing nothing this week will move you nowhere fast, Libra. The vacation is over; you need to find the motivation to increase the pace.
Your Suduko Complete the grid so every row, column and 3x3 box contains every digit from 1 to 9 inclusively. (For solution see Today’s Answers in this paper).
AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18 Trust your instincts, Aquarius. When something seems off-kilter, you owe it to yourself to trust your gut and speak up, even if others aren’t ready to believe you. PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20 Express your passion for a special project to a loved one, Pisces. Don’t be afraid to share your feelings with those closest to you. FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS APRIL 2 Michael Fassbender, Actor (37) APRIL 3 Cobie Smulders, Actress (32) APRIL 4 Phil Morris, Actor (55) APRIL 5 Krista Allen, Actress (43)
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