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Spring Into Action Last Sunday’s trade fair of local homebased business organized by Cache Creek’s Marcie Down, was a great success, giving exposure to many local businesses and providing customers with some very unique purchases.

A community-led healthcare coalition is what finally got Princeton more doctors and a return to a 24/7 Emergency Room again, but it took more than the town expected. First it took a lot of community discussion and soul searching, as well as a new way of thinking about healthcare. Ed Staples and Nienke Klaver from Save Our Health Care and Okanagan-Similkameen Regional District director Brad Hope were in Ashcroft last Friday at the invitation of MLA Jackie Tegart to talk about how they got their health care moving on the right track again. About 30 members of the public attended their presentation, including a delegation from Logan Lake who are presently without any doctors. Hope said that two years ago Princeton went from seven family doctors and a fully functioning ER to three doctors - two of them over 70 years old - and an ER with irregular hours. Residents were irate. They wrote letters, signed petitions, held rallies, and formed a coalition called Save Our Hospital. Hope said the results of these actions were not good. Nothing seemed to happen, he said. “We were in limbo.” They were spending $2,000 per month to bring in locums and wondering what else they could do to encourage doctors to come. They developed a doctor recruitment plan with incentives, said Staples, but they found that other communities were doing the same thing. All of a sudden, they were in competition with other communities to provide more and more incentives, and it just wasn’t working. “We said, ‘Look, we share the same problems. Let’s not fight against each other’.” Staples said they had to change

their attitude from one of confrontation and suspicion to mutual respect. They changed the name of their coalition from Save Our Hospital to something that didn’t have the same ring of desperation and negativity - Save Our Health Care, and together with Interior Health they began a research project with UBC-Oianagan. A research facilitator brought together the community and asked questions like what’s working in local healthcare, what’s not working, and what needs to be improved? Before the research began, said Hope, they knew everything. They knew what everyone wanted from their healthcare and from their hospital and from their doctors. And then they found out through the research that they didn’t know anything. “Things that we thought we agreed on, we didn’t agree on.” They are still working on improvements to their healthcare, but the ER is open 24/7 again, they have four new physicians, three new RNs, a nurse practitioner and many other services. Most communities go for the Red Carpet treatment in doctor recruitment, said Hope. But what he found when talking with doctors is that they’re not attracted by perks and incentives. They’re more interested in communities that are interested in healthy living. “Make it an interesting place for doctors to come and live,” he said. Rural healthcare is on the Liberal agenda, said MLA Tegart. The Princeton story is muh bigger than doctor recruitment and hospitals. “The key was community involvement,” she said. “And only because it was community led does it continue to grow.” She said the Liberal’s Rural Caucus is focussed on healthcare this year and are looking at quotas and training and ways to get doctors to come and stay in rural parts of the province.

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Ambulance waits for prioritized calls criticized Jeff Nagel Black Press B.C. firefighters say a downgrade in response priority for less urgent medical calls by the B.C. Ambulance Service has resulted in much longer waits for paramedics to arrive. A reallocation of ambulance service last fall shifted dozens of call types – often for broken bones and other incidents where the patient is medically stable – so that those ambulances now roll at posted speed limits without lights and siren, rather than code 3 at high speed. Officials say it’s meant an average of six minutes slower arrival times to those calls, but allowed one minute faster average responses to urgent lifeor-death emergencies like heart attacks, while reducing the risk of high-speed crashes between ambulances and other vehicles. B.C. Professional Fire Fighters Association president Mike Hurley said that doesn’t match what fire department first responders are seeing. “Our experience in the field is it’s anywhere from 30 to 45 minutes and longer for an ambulance to show up,” Hurley said of the downgraded calls. “They’ve lessened the service to the citizens of each community.” He said the types of calls that are no longer dispatched at high speed include serious falls, serious hemorrhages and certain pregnancy calls.

They make up about nine per cent of overall ambulance calls, according to a report on the reallocation plan, and mean 800,000 fewer kilometres of lights-and-siren driving each year. Dr. William Dick, vice-president of medical programs at B.C. Emergency Health Services, said the changes flow from a rigorous two-year expert review that assessed outcomes for patients and the risks of high-speed ambulance driving. “It’s safer to the driving public, it’s safer for our paramedics and it’s safer for our patients,” Dick said Wednesday. He likened the change to hospital triage policies that give the most urgent cases priority ahead of patients who can safely wait longer. “We’re doing the same thing they’re doing in the emergency department but we’re doing it on the street or in people’s homes.” Dick said a rolling analysis of the changes has so far found no change in medical outcomes for patients whose call priority was reduced. Several fire departments and municipalities have criticized the change. A report by the Vancouver Fire Department estimates ambulance response times there are an average of 21 minutes slower and Burnaby has also reported a jump in long ambulance waits. Dick said he believes reports of extreme waits are anomalies and none of the cases involve people in medical danger. Several Metro Vancouver We are saddened that because of mayors say the service change circumstances beyond our control amounts to downloading of we have had to close the Trackside costs by the province because Diner. We would like to thank all of firefighters who respond first the community who supported us to end up waiting longer with pathe end. Anyone with gift certificates tients, sometimes incurring for the Trackside can call 250-457more overtime as well. “They are reducing qual1791 before July 1, 20014 to get ity of service,” Port Coquittheir money back (any gift certificate lam Mayor Greg Moore said. funds left over will be donated to the “Sometimes the patient’s Elizabeth Fry Society.)We have family has driven someone to had a wonderful journey; thank you the hospital, which is just not

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appropriate.” BCEHS maintains the changes are not a money-saving measure but are strictly to improve care by speeding response to those in most urgent need. And it contends municipalities could make smarter use of their own resources by redeploying firefighters to other services if they didn’t opt to dispatch them to routine calls where first responders aren’t medically required. Mike McNamara, president of the Surrey Firefighters Association, said firefighters fear fire halls won’t get dispatched to the calls deemed less urgent at all in the future, leaving patients to wait longer without aid. “One crew waited over 45 minutes for a lady that fell and broke her hip,” he said, recounting one recent incident of ambulance delay in Surrey. Of particular concern, he said, are cases when a panicked 911 caller gives unclear information that results in an ambulance being dispatched at low priority to a call that proves more urgent. “There is room for error there,” McNamara said. Because there are many more fire halls than ambulance stations, fire departments maintain they’re uniquely placed to act as first responders with quicker response times. “What happens when [dispatchers] get it wrong?” McNamara asked. “We’re just down the street and it’s a real emergency. We’re just minutes away from helping this person and we’re not going.” Dick said BCEHS is consulting cities on the changes and promised a further review of the results. He said there are no plans to exclude fire halls from low priority calls if the local city still wants its firefighters to respond to provide “comfort care” while awaiting an ambulance. “I will not arbitrarily cut anyone off,” Dick said. “I question the wisdom of spending a really expensive resource when it’s not required medically. But it’s not my decision to make.” – with files from Diane Strandber

Controlled burn near Clinton 100 Mile Free Press Smoke and flames from a prescribed burn may be visible north of the Village of Clinton and west of Hwy 97 from April 1-11, says Emily Koch, Cariboo Fire Centre fire information officer for the Wildfire Management Branch. Clinton Volunteer Fire Depart-

ment is conducting a 40-hectare controlled burn with the assistance of Cariboo Fire Centre personnel. The exact timing of the burn will depend on weather and site conditions. This prescribed burn will help maintain a fuel management project that was completed in 2009. The goal is to reduce the threat of an interface wildfire Police Telephone #s near the Village of Clinton by reducing the amount of Ashcroft: 250-453-2216 wood debris and other comClinton: 250-459-2221 bustible material in grasslands and open forest areas. Lytton: 250-455-2225 Removal of forest fuels Crime Stoppers helps slow the spread of 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) wildfires and will provide firefighters with a much safer work environment durInterior Roads ing any future fire suppres1-800-842-4122 sion operations, Koch says.

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Two injured in High Bar Rd. MVI At approximately 4:14 am on Apr. 6, the Clinton RCMP received a report of a single vehicle that had gone over a steep embankment on High Bar Road near Big Bar Road. Initial reports indicated that there were five adult occupants and a dog in the vehicle. Three managed to escape to call for help. Local Emergency Services including BC Ambulance, the Clinton Fire Rescue, and SAR teams from the 100 Mile House and Kamloops areas attended and extracted the 30 year old female driver and a 38 year old male passenger who were then taken by Air Ambulance to the Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops with serious injuries. The remaining adult passengers were taken to the Ashcroft Hospital by Ambulance where they were treated for minor injuries and released. The dog has been missing since the accident. Spike is a male doberman-type with short brown hair and a docked tail. Last seen near the Big Bar Ferry. If found or seen, please call Becky at 250-571-8801. Police investigation has determined that all passengers were accounted for. The vehicle described as a White 2013 Dodge Ram Crew Cab truck was travelling northbound on High Bar Road when it failed to initiate a sharp right curve and rolled down a steep embankment. Both the driver and passenger remain in hospital and are described as being in stable condition. The investigation is still ongoing and investigators have not ruled out alcohol as a contributing factor. The RCMP are asking that if anyone witnessed this accident to please contact the Clinton RCMP at (250) 459-2221.

Hospital board budget means rate hikes for district The Thompson Regional Hospital District Board of Directors has approved its 2014 annual budget, and approved cost-sharing with the Interior Health Authority (IHA) for various major equipment and renovation upgrades. The 2014 annual budget will see an increase of $21 per household on average. The average household in 2014 will pay $126.55 as compared to $105.60 in 2013. “This increase is part of a larger tax strategy in anticipation of the Hospital District contributing $100 million towards the Royal Inland Hospital (RIH) Master Plan,” said TRHD Chair Peter Milobar. “This includes the construction of the RIH Clinical Services Building and Parkade, and the Surgical Tower.” The three-year tax strategy, which wraps up at the end of 2014, employs building a reserve in the next few years and then borrowing the balance of funds once the project is complete. The TRHD also approved cost-sharing at 40 per cent with Interior Health for various major equipment and renovation upgrades. The total sum for the upgrades is $7.2 million, of which the TRHD will pay approximately $2.6 million. The list includes six renovation projects, including a renovation of the Anatomic Pathology Unit at RIH, and six pieces of equipment, including a Gamma Camera for RIH and a Nurse Call for Ponderosa Lodge in Kamloops. Submitted

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Mountain bike shuttles come to Williams Lake Williams Lake Tribune A joint pilot project between three organizations will pave the way for free mountain biking shuttles in Williams Lake throughout the month of July. The city, in partnership with the Cariboo Regional District and the Cariboo Mountain Bike Consortium, announced Tuesday the project will begin July 5 and will continue each Saturday and Sunday all month long. The purpose of the project is threefold, the city said. First, it wants to use the free shuttles as a marketing tool to further cement Williams Lake as a preferred destination to mountain bike tourists and to draw them to the region. Second, it will use the project as a study for a potential new shuttle business in the area. Lastly, the city recognized the need for a unique service for local riders to help promote mountain biking. “Free shuttles, a draw to any downhill and gravity mountain biker, offer the opportunity to broaden the tourism experience and showcase the extent of

the Williams Lake trail network,” the city said in a release. During weekends in July the shuttles will pick up and drop off riders at designated trail network locations. “We want to give people another reason to come to our region and try our mountain biking trails,” said Williams Lake Mayor Kerry Cook. “We feel that this initiative will help those visitors we draw here to understand the scope of the trails and the riding available in Williams Lake. “At the same time we can get a better sense of what mountain biking means economically to our community and possibly open some business opportunities that will help enhance our community and its economy.” Mark Savard, owner of Red Shreds Bike and Board Shed and CMBC board member, said if you spend any time at his shop in the summer months you’ll quickly hear requests for shuttling services. “The Puddle is doing the right thing,” Savard said. “The mountain bike world knows how awesome our

trails are. Now they can catch a ride back to the top. This is a positive thing that can really make you love the Cariboo.” Final details of the weekend shuttle schedules are still being ironed out, but the shuttles will follow a strict schedule running each hour between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. each Saturday and Sunday in July. Riders utilizing the shuttles will be required to sign a waiver and fill out a questionnaire. The city said since the initiative is partially designed to attract mountain bike tourists, 25 per cent of the seats will be reserved for out-of-town visitors, however, seats will be released to locals if not required each shuttle run. Detailed information about the shuttles will be available at the Cariboo Memorial Recreation Complex, Red Shreds Bike and Board Shed, Barking Spider and the Tourism Discovery Centre in early June.

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Beware the chair it’s not your friend Remember ParticipACTION? It used to be advertised all over the place back in the 80s and 90s. Communities would challenge each other to get the public involved and they had buttons and banners and t-shirts to promote it. It was catchy. Guess what? It’s still around! In a much lower key program, they sent out a press release over the weekend for their third annual Sneak It In Weekend, which runs from Apr. 7-11. It’s a sign of the times that their tips for being active now include things like standing up while on the phone, “power shopping” and grabbing a coffee or lunch a few extra blocks away. Canadian adults spend at least nine and a half hours per day – almost 70 per cent of their waking hours – being sedentary. Much of this time is spent sitting at work, or in cars commuting to and from work. Excessive time spent sitting increases the risk of diabetes and heart attack, and causes high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, sore backs and foggy brains. It’s time, they say, to Beware the Chair! The campaign calls on Canadians to “stand up for their health” and take active breaks, and “sneak in” 10-minute increments of physical activity throughout their workdays. I recall the last ParticipACTION challenge I was involved in - many years ago in Hudson’s Hope. It was organized by the town’s Recreation Director, Martin Dalsin, and encouraged by Mayor Lenore Harwood, who drove around town and wrote down the names of everyone she saw walking or biking or working in their garden or cutting the grass. We had one of the highest participation rates in BC! The folks at ParticipACTION say that 10-minute bouts of physical activity not only break up sedentary time, but are an effective way to increase fitness and meet the recommended 150 minutes of heart-pumping physical activity recommended for adults per week. I’m not totally convinced of that, but any activity is better than none. They recommend regular breaks in order to get out of the chair and stretch, drinking extra water so you have to take frequent breaks to the restroom (!), starting a lunchtime walking group, and walking to the restaurant for lunch or coffee - which many of us do already. Really, what’s the point of driving half a block to the restaurant and then looking for a parking spot? It’s great to have things for the kids to do, but it’s good to see more adult exercise activities being offered recently. Adults need more motivation than kids do to get moving, and we have more reason to sit. It’s finally Spring - get out of that chair!

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Private health insurance won’t improve health care TORONTO, ON/ Troy Media/ Canada is about to face its second court challenge over restrictions on private health insurance when Dr. Brian Day’s case appears before the courts in September 2014. It is true that there are examples of jurisdictions that value universal health insurance coverage and also allow private insurance - the UK and Sweden would be two examples. But it is important to note that although these countries, among others, may allow for private insurance, they still have many of the same problems with their healthcare system that Canada does. A recent review of the economic evidence on the effects of private insurance on public healthcare systems that I wrote with Matt Townsend for the Encyclopedia of Health Economics suggests that there is little evidence for many of the benefits that advocates of private insurance claim will occur for those who do not make use of the private system. The first thing to note is that very few people in most countries purchase private insurance for care covered in the public system. In the UK, for example, it is less than 10 per cent, and in Sweden it is fewer than that. For the remaining 90 per cent plus of the population, the weight of the evidence suggests that private insurance provides little benefit for the rest of the system. There is evidence, however, that physicians shift their time to the private system, resulting in fewer publiclyfunded services. And there is evidence that the cases left in the public system

are the most complicated and costly. But there is little evidence that wait times in the public system go down. And there is little evidence that a private system reduces the costs of public systems. In fact, in some jurisdictions, overall costs in the public system actually went up in those cases where the tax system subsidizes people who purchase private insurance (as Canada does). Overall, those systems that have private insurance have had to continue to grapple with issues of costs and access, much as we do here in Canada. What is slightly more exceptional about the Canadian system is how it continues to promote inequality through two accidents of history. First, the evolution of our system from a system of mostly private insurance to one that focused on public insurance, first for hospital services, then doctors services, has left large holes in both coverage and financing. We continue to exclude prescription drugs from our basket of medically necessary goods. Secondly, we continue to allow for regressive subsidies through our tax code for employer-provided health insurance. When we receive insurance through an employer, we don’t pay tax on the benefit the way we do with wages. It’s a lot of money - more than $3 billion dollars a year. And people in the highest tax bracket (29 per cent plus provincial taxes putting people in most provinces over 40 per cent) save over 40 cents on each dollar of health insurance they receive from their employer. People in the lowest tax bracket get less

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than half of that per dollar, making it a very regressive subsidy that contributes to inequality in this country. We are more like the U.S. than the rest of the world in these respects, except that the Affordable Care Act (Obama Care), despite its flaws, aims to provide a much more comprehensive basket of medically necessary goods, including both prescription drugs and mental health treatment when required, and takes steps to counter the inequalities generated by unfair tax subsidies. These are first order problems with the Canadian system that need to be fixed. International comparisons can’t provide all the answers to Canada’s healthcare system woes, but they can show us where there are similar problems even among differing healthcare systems. Those countries with two-tier health insurance still manage to provide a reasonable quality of care for their citizens, but they continue to face many of the same challenges we do. To really improve our healthcare system we’ll have to look beyond simple solutions that other nations have shown don’t really work. Focusing on reducing the ways in which our system contributes to inequality would be a good place to start. -Mark Stabile is an expert advisor with EvidenceNetwork.ca, Director, School of Public Policy and Governance and Professor, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and a Fellow at the Martin Prosperity Institute. Subscribe to The Journal 1 Year Subscription: $44.10 (GST included) Senior Rate: $37.80 (GST included) Out of area subscriptions pay a $17.85 mailing surcharge The Journal is a politically independent community newspaper. All material contained in this publication is protected by copyright. Reproduction is expressly prohibited by the rights holder. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Periodical Fund (CPF) for our publishing activities.

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Teaching in Jessmond’s one-room schoolhouse by Esther Darlington MacDonald There couldn’t be many of them left. Teachers who taught in a one roomed school. A school made of logs, with a sod roof. Joyce Freeman of Ashcroft started teaching at age 19, fresh out of high school. Picture a pretty girl from the town of Langley, taking the bus to a place called Clinton, a place she’d never heard of, finding a taxi at the local hotel, and traveling for what seemed miles in the dusk of a late summer evening through miles of woodland, and finally reaching her destination, Jesmond. And where was Jesmond? A hamlet with a few families deep in the Marble Range mountains surrounded by meadowland and woodland stretched away into infinity. A few ranches scattered over the area had children in need of a school. At least the basics. So Mr. Coldwell senior, built the log building, putting windows on one side only, and installed a barrel stove. The Coldwell family came out en masse to greet the young school teacher and ushered her into their home. Whatever apprehension Joyce had been feeling quickly disappeared, as the warm welcome became more than a place she would board in, they’d become family. As so often happened in the rural areas of the province, the young school teacher was courted by some young fellow from one of the ranching families. The young good looking Pete Coldwell immediately became smitten. And the rest was inevitable. It was called the Big Bar School. Whatever administration there was came directly from Victoria.

“There wasn’t a school board then,” Joyce explains. “I was paid $78 a month, or $780 a year. Victoria paid $68 and the local people put up $10. I had to save for summer school, because I only had grade 12 at Langley high school. I took grade 13 by correspondence. Then I had one year of normal school. I graduated in 1940, but I added courses at summer school for two years, and finally got my certification from Victoria.” Every grade had its own curriculum, so Joyce had to figure a way to combine part of the curriculum in the older grades with the younger. She had to modify the curriculum accordingly. She chose topics to suit the grades. Canada was one of the topics, the geography of the country. “It was amazing how much the younger kids learned by hearing the material I was teaching the older kids,” she said. Joyce showed me an old photo of the school. It was not very big, and the dozen or so kids who formed the classes pretty well filled the school. The school was lit with coal oil lamps. Water was brought in by pail from a nearby spring. And the outhouse was at the back of the lot. Joyce used her imagination to get projects together that the children could relate to. For example, there were several girls who were, ‘horse crazy’, so Joyce got magazines dealing with horse and ranch life, and the Western Horseman. The girls cut pictures of horses out and wrote about the uses of the different types of horse. This helped develop reading, writing skills. Another project was a correspondence with a school in Ontario. The children exchanged letters, describing their

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lives and activities. Joyce wanted her students to get as much experience beyond the ranch, logging life they lived. She was asked, “What is an elevator?” Joyce decided she would arrange a field trip to Vancouver for them. It wasn’t that easy to do back in the 1940s. Field trips were probably considered ‘frills’, but Joyce was determined. And the metal that had shown itself early when she had gone ahead into the wilds of the interior to teach, despite apprehension about not knowing where and what she was going to, served itself well. Subsequent field trips included visits to Stanley Park and the big department stores where the kids were not only introduced to the joys of modern city life, like taking the elevator up and using the escalators, they discovered the joys of choosing what to eat from the cafeterias. Joyce said there were only a few occasions when she had to threaten to use the strap. “And I only used it once” on a boy who had defied her too strenuously and she felt she had to make a stand to the rest of the class. When the strap was abolished, one student boasted that she could not use it now. “I took him to my desk and opened the drawer and showed him the strap inside. ‘But I still have the strap’,” she told the lad. “I had no trouble after that.” In those days, the authority of the teacher was respected. If a child or children became difficult, and word got back to the parents, the parents would discipline

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their child. Joyce notes that times have changed substantially since the 1940s. Joyce married Pete Coldwell in 1942 and settled down to raise a large family on the ranch and post office. They had eight children, five boys and three girls. Joyce didn’t teach again for 30 years. “It wasn’t so bad,” said Joyce, teaching in a one roomed school. Mr. Coldwell senior always brought in the wood for the stove and kept the school warm. And a sod roof didn’t leak. There were no drafts that she could remember. “We didn’t suffer.” Joyce’s scrapbooks with the horses project impressed the visiting Superintendent who asked to take the project back to Victoria. Joyce agreed, with the proviso that it be returned later. All the kids rode horses to school, so gymkhanas were annual events. Christmas concerts were also popular. “But we didn’t have a piano or any other musical instrument. I used to start the singing and sing the carols with them.” Teaching in a one roomed school may not have been “so bad”, but it took a good teacher’s ability to think of projects and learning mechanisms that enlightened and broadened their rural charges. Teachers came and went frequently in rural schools during the 40s, 50s and even up until the 1960s. They seldom stayed for more than a year. Times have changed of course. Mostly for the good. But there’s always a downside to change. And teachers everywhere know what they are!

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Have your waste to the curb by 8:00 AM THURSDAY, April 24, 2014 In an effort to assist you with your spring cleaning, the Village of Cache Creek is providing an opportunity for excess refuse removal. We’ll take anything from garden refuse to auto bodies. No hazardous waste please. The TNRD Household Hazardous Waste Roundup will be held at the Visitor Information Centre parking lot (Hwy 97 & Stage Road) on Saturday, May 24th from 9:00 am – 12:00 pm for items such as paint, pesticides, gasoline and oil containers, etc. For larger items and/or quantities, please phone in advance no later than Wednesday, April 23rd at 250-457-6237.

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Day takes first in OK College Half Marathon Capital News In the end just 12 seconds separated the winner and second place finisher in the 12th annual Okanagan College Half Marathon. Cache Creek’s Ryan Day won the 21.1 km event in a time of 1:11:16 edging out the 2013 winner, Hans Aabye, who finished second. Kelowna’s Jeff Vogt came third in the men’s half marathon division with a finishing time of 1:18:35. On the women’s side, Salmon Arm’s Sandra Kilmartin came in first with a time of 1:28:56. Michelle Blackburne of West Kelowna came in second at 1:29:45 and Fruitvale’s Heather Johnson placed third at 1:31:26. In the 10 K race, the top female finishers were: Carrie McGillivray of Kelowna (43:50), Chantal Jeffrey of Blind Bay (43:50) and Vera Geschiere of Kelowna (45:42.) The men’s 10 K race was swept by Kelowna runners,

they were: Jonathan Menzies in first (37:52, Paul Willinsky (38:18), and Ken Byl (40:18.) The Half Marathon Relay Race was won by the Results 4 Life 2 team (1:24:07.) In second in the relay was ReLazy (1:40:11.) Third place went to UBCO War Child with a time of 1:40:47. “Today’s race couldn’t have been better,” said Race Director Christine Ulmer. “We had a great mix of elite and amateur runners, each of whom added a huge amount of energy and enthusiasm to the event. I continue to be amazed by the wide range of participants in this event. Some of our most competitive racers are under the age of 15 and then we also have some really great seasoned runners who come out to enjoy the nice course and supportive environment.” “I can’t thank our volunteers enough – they make this race really special and we couldn’t do it without them.”

Ryan Day won the 21.1 km event with a time of 1:11:16. Dirk Handke, Photo

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can connect a name to something like: Rhyme (e.g. Pam – Jam) Starts with same letter/sound (e.g. AlfVicky Trill ie – Elephant) Person or the name trills@telus.net reminds you of something (Anne – Queen) As soon as you are introduced, say their What’s in a name? A friend and name aloud back to them (Nice to I were marvelling at how a presentmeet you “Ken”) and then in your er to a group of 50 new people was mind, attach their name to one of able to remember almost everythe methods above. one’s name after only one meetLast week I presented at a ing. I feel terrible when I can’t reworkshop and was introduced to a member someone’s name because number of new people. Here is how I know how much it means when I remembered some of their names. someone remembers my name. Queen Anne: I chose “Queen” In the 90s you may have because of the name and the propwatched the TV show “Cheers.” er, put together look of the person. When one of the show’s reguEila, Iris: I chose “Iris” because lar patron’s entered the bar, everyof the blue/purple colour she was one greeted him loudly shouting, wearing and because the flower “Norm!” I’ve had that experience and when your name is remem- started with the same sound as her bered, you feel honoured, special name. Jewelry Judy: I chose “Jeweland important. ry” because she was wearing a Since that is true, and if people sparkly necklace and earrings and are important to me, then I need to the word started with the same letfind a better way to remember their ter as her name. names. My friend came to the resThis was the first time I had cue and a couple days after our ever tried the “Name Game” and conversation she sent me the solunot only did I remember everytion she found in a magazine. I read one’s name without mistake, I also it, found an occasion to practice it found that I connected with each and it worked! I’d like to share it person as well! So next time you with you, so here’s my version of meet someone new, try playing the the “Name Game.” “Name Game” not only will you Decide ahead of time that you remember their name, you may will play the “Name game” Choose a way that your brain also make a lifelong connection!

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... Past, Present & Beyond Death on the Range - Pt. VII: The trial concludes The Crown had had its say in the tions knowing that they were deciding case of Rex vs. Clinger, asserting that a very grave matter, for the automatic the case was one of sentence in a case of cold-blooded murder murder was death. for profit. Albert LesThose who folter “Chubby” Clinglow such things will er had killed his partoften assert that the ner, Thomas Burfaster a jury returns ton Smith, on Feb. 4, its verdict, the more 1915 with the deliberlikely it is that it will ate intent of profiting render a decision of from the crime. As guilty. Of course, a evidence the Crown fast decision by a jury produced a cheque could merely indicate Clinger had forged on that one side has preSmith’s account and a sented a much more bill-of-sale (likewise compelling case than GOLDEN COUNTRY forged by Clinger) the other; but in 2009 BARBARA RODEN that left all of Smith’s a paper in Review of property and possesLaw and Economsions to Clinger. There ics: Volume 5, Issue 1 was also a letter to a neighbour that which studied criminal trials in Oresupposedly came from Smith, and ex- gon suggested that guilty verdicts do plained that the man was leaving the indeed take less deliberation time on country; but it was proved to be in the part of the jury. Be that as it may, Clinger’s handwriting, and was seen as it could not have been reassuring to Ala deliberate attempt to mislead anyone bert Clinger when, after only 45 mininquiring into Smith’s disappearance. utes, the jury indicated it had reached The defence, however, presented a a verdict. When the 12 men returned case of accidental death. Clinger had to the makeshift courtroom within the tripped over something in the snow Clinton schoolhouse, the foreman dewhile approaching his partner at their clared that they found Albert Lester camp near Dog Creek, and his rifle had Clinger guilty of the murder of Thomdischarged, killing his partner. Clinger, as Burton Smith. whose initial thought was to give himThe defendant was asked if he self up to police, had panicked, and his had anything to say. Clinger, who had subsequent actions were, he said, a re- shown a great interest in the proceedsult of his “dazed and stupefied state” ings, and had told a very connected (as reported in the Ashcroft Journal and plausible story, declared that he on Oct. 9, 1915). was innocent of killing Thomas Smith Mr. Justice Denis Murphy, pre- intentionally. It was consistent with the siding over the trial at the Clinton As- tale he had told the court; but weighsizes, had listened to both sides of ing against that story was the fact that the case. It was now his turn to ad- while he claimed to have been dazed dress the jury, and on Sept. 25, 1915 by the tragic turn of events, he had subhe made a lengthy and detailed charge sequently acted in a way that appeared to the 12 men assembled. According to deliberate and calculated. The jury, The Journal, he went into the case in comprised of 12 cattle country men aca very thorough manner, and the jury customed to the ways of the world, apwould have gone into their delibera- parently had no doubt that the entire

scheme was a premeditated plan on the part of Albert Clinger. Why would he do such a thing? In 1 Timothy chapter 6, verse 10 we are told that “The love of money is the root of all evil”, and there is no doubt that Clinger profited – or at least tried to – from the death of The Kamloops courthouse - which still stands on Seymour Smith. It is doubt- St. - in 1910, shortly after its completion. ful that he would have continued to tinued even after he and Clinger set forge cheques in Smith’s name long after the man was up their ranch at Springhouse, which known to be dead – Smith’s bank in might indicate that their financial situAshcroft would have realized some- ation was precarious, and needed the thing was up – but the bill-of-sale, additional income Smith’s business had it been acknowledged as authen- provided. We cannot know what Clingtic, would have given Clinger all of the er’s financial situation was at the time, dead man’s worldly goods. It is impos- and history leaves no clue, but it might sible to know what their pre-emption at well have occurred to him, as 1915 Springhouse Prairie was worth, but the began, that he could be doing much land, house, and cattle would have had better if he had sole control of his and a cash value; more than enough, one his partner’s assets. Having heard Clinger’s statement, supposes, to put a decent sum in ClingMr. Justice Murphy proceeded to the er’s pocket. And perhaps that pre-emption was next, inevitable, step. He announced not earning quite enough money for that Albert Lester Clinger would be two men to live on comfortably. At the taken to Kamloops, where he would beginning of World War I, in August be hanged on Dec. 23, 1915. The ac1914, demand for beef increased, and cused now knew how long he had to anyone with an interest in cattle would live; a terrible knowledge for anyone, have assumed he was in for a healthy regardless of the circumstances. But profit. Doubtless fearing war profi- how much more terrible would those teering, however, the Canadian gov- three months be for Albert Clinger if ernment acted quickly to freeze beef he was indeed innocent of murder? It prices, so as 1915 began Clinger and is true that he would still be guilty of Smith might well have been facing a other, lesser, crimes, but none that carbleak future wherein their cattle ranch- ried a sentence of death. What if Clinging venture was producing very little er’s story – that it was a tragic accident return for a good deal of investment. – was true? To be continued Smith, it will be remembered, had a freight-hauling business which he con-

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Kevin Boys of Clinton is a Grade 12 student at David Stoddart School. He has struggled with severe dyslexia all his life and has a goal of furthering a career in environmental and wildlife conservation. In the fall of 2012 Kevin applied for a scholarship to Lethbridge Community College. Approximately 200 people applied at that time. He made it to the top 10 finalists in the college’s Extreme Career Makeover contest. A film crew came to Clinton and shadowed Kevin for an afternoon filming him at school, at home and doing one of his favourite things – ice fishing. The resulting film was then posted on the college’s website along with the other nine finalists. Two winners would receive tuition, books and accommodations for two years of study at Lethbridge College. Most of the other finalists were from large centres (Calgary, Lethbridge, Victoria, etc.). Coming from the small community of Clinton, all Kevin could do was ask friends and family to vote for him. He made a pitch to the school board and they said they would put it on their facebook. The Village of Clinton also posted it on facebook and urged everyone to ‘vote for Kevin’. It was the talk of the town. Voting closed at 11:59 pm on March 30. Although voters would decide the final four, a college judging panel would pick two winners from those four. Family and friends of Kevin passed the word and through the phenomenon that is social media, Kevin got enough votes to keep him in the top four. The small community of Clinton rallied folks from all over the country to vote for Kevin. And it paid off. Voting closed on Sunday night but the announcement wasn’t made until Thursday. What an anxious time that was. Finally the word came in. Kevin won! Thanks to all those votes, Kevin Boys of Clinton and Greg Matt of Lethbridge are the recipients of the scholarship and will be attending Lethbridge College in the courses of their choice. This just goes to show what a small community with a big heart can do. Way to go Clinton and congratulations to Kevin and Greg!

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The Clinton Health Care Auxiliary Elegant Dessert Party on Sunday, April 6 was

very well attended. In addition to the numerous desserts available attendees were entertained with three short skits, a silent auction, hat contest and 50/50 draw. The Auxiliary members had also created a cookbook with recipes for many of the desserts presented. Emcee Fran White explained the many things that the Health Care Auxiliary has funded over the years and invited anyone interested to come and join them. Over all it was a very enjoyable way to raise funds for health related needs of the community and surrounding area.

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The Clinton Legion Ladies Auxiliary Traditional Annual Bean Supper is on Wednesday, April 9 from 5-7 p.m. in the Clinton Memorial 1-877-420-1116 Hall. Come and enjoy home made beans, baked ham, scalloped potatoes, coleslaw and delicious pies. Tickets may be purchased at the door, $10 for adults and $5 April 12 - “iPad iPod iPhone - I want to know” 10:00 for children under 12.

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The Clinton Communities in Bloom Committee Seedy Sunday on April 13 is growing!. There will be seed and plant sales, seed cleaning (winnower on site), garden books and magazines available, displays and demos, door prizes, a silent auction and activities for the children. The TNRD will have displays and information on Noxious Weeds, Bear Aware Program and will have for sale backyard composters, worm composters and green cone food digesters. Lunch will also be available on site. It is open from 10 am to 3:30 pm in the Clinton Memorial Hall and admission is FREE, so load up the car with some friends and come to Seedy Sunday.

April 14 - Movie Night at Zion United. Showing The Power of the Resurrection, The Easter Story. Show time is 7:00pm at the Church Hall, 401 Bancroft Street, Ashcroft. Admission is Free; refreshments are by donation. April 19 - Spectators are welcome at the Sporting Clays Competition, taking place at the Trap range in Cache Creek (above the Campbell Hill Airport) starting at 9:00am. For more information call 250-453-2570.

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April 25-29 - Ashcroft Art Club Fine Art Show & Sale. 6:00-9:00pm Friday (adults only), Noon - 5:00pm Sat. to Tues. St. Alban’s Anglican Church Hall, 501 Brink St. Ashcroft. April 26 - Strawberry Tea at Ashcroft - Cache Creek Seniors’ Centre, 1:00 - 3:00pm April 27 - Ashcroft CiB Annual Plant Swap will be at the Heritage Park (aka Millennium Park) at 10 am precisely. April 27 - Mesa Multi Yard Sale. Starts 9:00am (no early birds). Contact Sandy (250-453-2574) or Lee (250-4532625) Tues. evenings: Trap shooting now open at 4:30 at the trap range above the airstrip in Cache Creek. Beginners welcome: no shotgun required. For info call 250-453-570. Ashcroft - Cache Creek Seniors’ Group meets on the third Thursday of the month at 1:00pm at the Seniors’ Centre, Village Office, Ashcroft.

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I moved to the Okanagan over 13 years ago and, as a recovering coffee addict, reluctantly drank my very first Tim Horton’s “double double.” The two-cream-two-sugar combination instantly had me hooked for the next couple of years. I was a new mother at the time, so this silly passion wasn’t the most convenient, but I still managed to get my fix on a daily basis. And then one day, when I was pregnant with our second child, and not yet aware that I was, I took a sip of the warm comforting beverage that I loved so much and it tasted awful. I sipped it a few more times trying to figure out what was wrong with it, but there was nothing different about the drink, just that I no longer liked its taste. I poured it out and never ordered another one again. Once I realized I was expecting, I figured our unborn child must have had something to do with my sudden dislike for double doubles and I started to cater to different cravings, none of which

ON A BRIGHTER NOTE LORI WELBOURNE loriwelbourne.com included coffee. But after Daisy was born I picked up my coffee habit again – this time from Starbucks. My “grande non-fat mild coffee misto with two pumps of sugarfree vanilla, extra hot” took longer to say and was a little more expensive, but I ordered it once or twice a day for several years until I no longer wanted to. “This tastes awful,” I said to my co-worker one morning after taking a sip. “I hope this doesn’t mean I’m pregnant.” It didn’t. My body was just rejecting another longtime craving, and while I didn’t know the reason for it, I was relieved to see it go. Much like the time I gave up double doubles, I had headaches for the first few days

April • Week 3 ARIES - Aries, you may need to come up with some new ways to show your affection, as your old ways are starting to fall short. Look to Leo for inspiration. TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21 Taurus, a few kinks still need to be worked out, but your master plan will soon be in place. Start putting the wheels in motion and your work won’t go unrecognized. GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21 Gemini, you are great at creating a good time out of nothing at all. Get together with a few friends and let the good times roll. Others may envy this talent. CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22 You have a rare opportunity to show off your skills this week, Cancer. When your talents are on display, don’t worry about hogging that spotlight. Enjoy your time in the limelight. LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23 Take some time for quiet inspiration, Leo. It is just what you need after a busy week in which your stamina was put to the test. Rest and recharge for a few days. VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22 Tasks at work have certainly tried your patience, Virgo. Just when you are settled in, you get pulled in another direction very quickly. Save up those vacation days. LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23 It’s time to lighten up, Libra. Throw a party, take a trip or hang out with friends. Just be sure to focus on fun and let other concerns fall by the wayside for a little while. SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22 Scorpio, do your best to get all of your ducks in a row this week. Keep distractions at bay and don’t allow social engagements to take precedence over more pressing matters. SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21 Sagittarius, you will have to remain two steps ahead of everyone else to get a project done this week. Things are moving quite quickly now, so make every minute count. CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20 A challenge is on the horizon, Capricorn. But remain calm and you will handle every challenge that comes your way. Aries provides some extra help. AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18 Aquarius, some may call you stubborn, but “dedicated”might be a more appropriate term. Once your mind is set, it is hard to pull you off course, and this week is no different. PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20 You have plenty of energy to carry you through to the weekend, Pisces. A big surprise is in store in the coming days.

and then I was fine. I started drinking more water, and for the warm comfort I was looking for, I turned to tea. I tried several types and finally settled on peppermint as my favourite. I never craved it the way I did coffee, but it was still an enjoyable treat. I can’t remember how long my java drought lasted that time, but it ended one day when I drank the most delicious cup of joe I’d ever had. It was Irish coffee, with Baileys added, sugar around the rim, a dol-

lop of fresh whipped cream and chocolate sprinkles on top. This, unfortunately, became my new daily craving and one that I gave into despite the fact that even though I never felt a buzz, I was technically boozing every day of the week - and in the morning no less. By far, this was the coffee obsession I liked least, and I was constantly trying to end it. I didn’t include the sugar, whipped cream or sprinkles, but still added Baileys, making the drink fattening even without the extras. After countless unsuccessful attempts to give it up, and a noticeable unwanted weight gain, my cravings persisted until the day I was introduced to organic coffee lattes and I started drinking those instead. My new addiction wasn’t one that I

minded at all. It had some health benefits and was conveniently available in my cupboard at all times. But even that didn’t last forever. One day after years of drinking it daily, it too lost its deliciousness. I no longer question why these intense cravings abruptly vanish, I just try to pay attention to my body, and if it’s no longer reacting well to something, I’ll eliminate it. Now tea is back on the agenda and I’m looking forward to trying more varieties. I can’t imagine I’ll ever become addicted to it like I have with coffee so many times, but you never know, I’ve heard there’s a chocolate one I’ll love. Sounds promising. Maybe I’ll steep a pot and mull it over. Lori Welbourne is a syndicated columnist. She can be contacted at LoriWelbourne.com

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Local golfers support BC Lung Association Flowers are blooming and the weather’s improving – sure signs for golfers to swing into savings with the BC Lung Association’s Golf Privilege Club Membership Book. “Our membership book saves golfers hundreds of dollars for less than the price of one round of golf. It’s also a great way for golfers to pay less and play more while supporting the Lung Association’s work to improve lung health in British Columbia,” says Carolyn Chorneychuk, BC Lung Association Volunteer Director for Ashcroft. For a small price, the membership book entitles golfers to discounts at more than 120 courses across BC and Washington State – and includes Cache Creek’s Semlin Valley, Sun Rivers in Kamloops, Meadow Creek in Logan Lake and more. All proceeds go to BC Lung Association’s various programs and services. Save on golf while supporting

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Discovering Creation’s Creator lecture series this week companies his talks with drawing pictures using the black light effects. He will display real fossil bones and fossils. His talks begins Karl Samek on Friday, Apr. 11 at Seventh Day Adventist 6:30 pm in the Ashcroft Community Hall (SDA door entry), and continues with two The Ashcroft 7th Day Adventist Church has sponsored sever- slots Saturday morning from 10 am al events over the years such as – 12:30 pm followed by potluck the monthly Veggie Night So- meal to which all participants are cials and concerts with the Foun- invited. At 2:30 pm there are two tainview Academy Youth Group. more topics. Topics include: EvoThese have been well received and lution vs Creation plus Dinosaurs; The Cross of Christ as Found in enjoyed by the community. This time we have invited a re- Nature, In His Image, Wonder of tired pastor, artist and naturalist Human Body and Noah and the Terry McComb to speak on Na- Flood. Our invitation goes to all inture and Creation. Terry has authored several books on nature for terested in nature and the lessons the children that teach positive val- it teaches and the wonders of creues and spiritual lessons. He ac- ation that are so amazing.

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SUMMER EMPLOYMENT MUSEUM POSITION The Village of Ashcroft has a position available in the Ashcroft Museum for the summer months. This position would run June 14 to August 30th (start and end dates are negotiable) and would be for 40 hours per week at $11.00 per hour. This position will be of interest to anyone with a love of history. Duties would include greeting guests, answering general questions as well as janitorial duties. This position is designed for students who will be returning to a secondary or post-secondary institution in the fall. The Village is an equal opportunity employer and this position is open to both male and female applicants. Interested parties are invited to submit their Resumes to the following address by 4:00 pm on Wednesday, April 30th, 2014. Village of Ashcroft PO Box 129 Ashcroft, BC V0K 1A0 Phone: 250-453-9161 Fax: 250-453-9664 Email: admin@ashcroftbc.ca

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