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If there is broad support for Bill 24 and changes to the way the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) is governed, it wasn’t evident at Monday night’s Creston Valley Food Action Coalition meeting. “A lot of us who have read the bill really closely are very, very concerned,” said Nadine Ben-Rabha, whose family operates a dairy farm that produces organic milk and cheese in Lister. “There has been no public consultation with farmers or the public. This is your farmland as well as the farmers’.” Ben-Rabha’s sister, Erin Harris, who also works on the family farm, made the news on Monday when she and a fellow farmer from Windermere set up a table in front of the B.C. legislature to display a cornucopia of Kootenay agricultural products. The display was intended to counteract a comment by Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett, who has been quoted as saying that as a resident of Cranbrook all he can eat in a 100-mile diet is hay. Bennett was also the minister who oversaw a core review of government services that led to Bill 24.

Recommendations from staff to the School District No. 8 (Kootenay Lake) board have raised concerns about the future of Creston’s Homelinks program. A report from Supt. Jeff Jones given to the board at the April 1 regular meeting recommended that Homelinks students from kindergarten-Grade 9 move from the Creston Education Centre (CEC) to share existing space at Canyon-Lister Elementary School (CLES), and that students in Grades 10-12 be supported through the Prince Charles Secondary School Learning Centre. Homelinks, which allows parents to home-school their children while having access to a teacher and social activities, has 147 students from 65 families, and is overseen by a district vice-principal. SD8 has four Homelinks classes — Creston, Kaslo, Nelson and Slocan Valley — and the Creston program is the only one that is not co-located in an existing public school and operated by that school’s principal, the other three having made that transition this school year.

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responses by parents contacted during the community engagement process, and no specific numbers related to the proposal. “I don’t think that this report should be given any credence whatsoever. … “Is totally abhorrent to all of the parents sitting there,” HamblerPruden said via videoconference from the Nelson school board office, referring to the gallery watching the meeting in Creston. “In my opinion, you have a summary of the information that was gathered,” countered Jones. “I only got it tonight,” said Nelson trustee Bob Wright. “I don’t know if it’s incomplete or not.” In accepting the report, the board of education approved an amendment from Crawford Bay-East Shore trustee Lenora Trenaman directing Jones to

From page 1 “We are finding that this transition opens opportunities for inclusion in the schools where the Homelinks classes are located, provides access to a higher level of resources and provides clarity regarding administrative responsibilities and accountabilities,” said Jones in the report. (A link to the full report can be found in this story at www.crestonvalley advance.ca/ourtown/253655021.html.) The report was received for information by the board, but not before a motion by Creston Valley trustee Annette Hambler-Pruden to reject the report was defeated. It was, she said, incomplete, not including specific

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bring to the next meeting information she felt was missing, specifically, how the move would impact other programs operating in the CEC, the future of the CEC and the way facilities would be utilized at the receiving schools. The board had been expected to vote on the recommendations at the April 22 meeting, but with the additional information being presented at that time, the vote may be put off. “My thinking is the board will receive the information and choose to review it,” said Jones. The presentation of the report came as a surprise to local teachers, who, along with Homelinks parents, weren’t consulted during the process, according to Creston Valley Teachers Association president Rebecca Blair. That disrespect, she said, created anxiety for parents and teachers. “I’m surprised this recommendation has gone forward before anybody actually had that conversation with staff,”

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said Blair during the public comment portion of the meeting. Creston and District Community Resource Centre (CRC) executive director Serena Naeve also felt the school district showed disrespect to the CRC, a community partner that operates seven early childhood programs in the building in collaboration with SD8 since 2000. “If Homelinks was removed, all the programs would be in jeopardy,” she said. In April 2010, the SD8 board voted to maintain the facility after public outcry arose when its closure was considered, displacing both early childhood programs, as well as occupational, physical and speech therapists. “To keep fighting for this model since 2000 is really exhausting,” said Naeve. Hermen Koehoorn was one of several Homelinks parents in attendance who spoke against the proposal. He questioned the effectiveness of the “extensive consultation process” mentioned in the report, noting that the final recommendation was the same as the original recommendation. “It feels almost like the input was not really wanted, just a matter of process,” he said. “We didn’t want our children to be subjected to the peer pressure from public school,” said Amanda Cannon, another Homelinks parent. “Our children have expressed that they feel betrayed.” Cannon said that she and her husband are researching other options that would allow them to remain loyal to their children’s needs if changes are made at Homelinks. Cody Beebe, a parent from CLES, spoke on behalf of a group of parents, none of whom wanted Homelinks to move to their school. The report says that space at CLES is “more than adequate to meet the needs of the Homelinks program,” but Beebe’s group argued that there is no “empty” space at the school — rooms with lower use house music, language arts and special needs — and that whether the program is at CLES or CEC, it takes up the same amount of room. “If I held up a blanket, cut off the bottom and sewed it on top, it’s still the same length,” he said. Beebe also expressed concerns about security — CLES is locked down during the day, but visitors to Homelinks can come and go as they please. Homelinks teacher Laurie Riehl also expressed concern. The last time the idea of colocating the schools was examined, Homelinks and CLES each had about 80 students, and it was decided there was no room to house both in one building. Now, the schools each have about 150 students. Of the 65 families in Homelinks, 19 said they would not continue to register their children if it moves, and not one family said they would continue, Riehl told the board. Both Homelinks and CLES parents have agreed that co-location would not be a good fit, calling CLES as a “hostile location.” “I personally don’t see a good mesh between these groups,” she said.

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Collier’s new novel won’t be a secret for long BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff

With the release of Confined Space two years ago, friends and acquaintances of Deryn Collier were excited to learn she had a reputable publisher (Simon & Shuster Canada) and that it received good reviews across the country. We were determined to like the book even before we opened it up. Collier, after all, was one of us. She had worked at several local jobs, was a familiar fixture at Kingfisher Used Books and she and her schoolteacher husband, Ron Sherman, were raising their kids here. It didn’t hurt that Confined Space, set in the fictional town of Kootenay Landing, had an air of familiarity, much of the story taking place in a brewery and all. We could pick out landmarks and neighbourhoods, maybe even put an unintentionally familiar face to one of the crime fiction novel’s characters. Now, with the release of her second in a series, Open Secret, Collier doesn’t get the same slack. She lives in Nelson, where Sherman is a school principal, and she only returns to Creston occasionally. Kootenay Landing still seems familiar, but it now has a bit of a Queen City feel to it, too. Luckily for Collier and her readers, she doesn’t need to be cut any slack. From the first page, Collier demonstrates the confidence of a writer who has found her stride. With surefooted, long and confident

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From page 1 Ben-Rabha told a group of about 30, many that sell produce at the Creston Valley Farmers’ Market, that dividing the province’s protected farmland into two zones is a mistake. “They (the government) don’t understand that what’s grown in Zone 2 is connected with what’s produced in Zone 1,” she said. Under Bill 24, Zone 1 land on Vancouver Island, the Southwest Coast and Okanagan would continue to be treated as primary farmland. Other areas, including the North and the Kootenays, would see a shift in priority. Applications to change the use of Agricultural Land Reserve parcels in Zone 2 would be assessed with a different set of standards, including economic development priorities. Ben-Rabha said the changes could have a dramatic and undesirable effect on the Creston Valley. “There is no recognition that the Creston Valley is a lush and vibrant agriculture community,” she said. “Even people being hopeful that their land can be cut up into smaller

steps, she speed-walks right through a sophisticated series of plotlines. Invigorated readers keep pace, absorbing energy from their fit and energetic muse, taking only the shortest of breaks to catch their breath before springing along though the next twists and turns.

Open Secret picks up the story of coroner Bern Fortin, a retired career army man who has chosen Kootenay Landing for its remoteness to his past. Scarred and damaged by his experiences in far away war-torn countries, Fortin wants nothing more than to forget, but his past isn’t one that offers escape. Only weeks after wrapping up his first mystery in Kootenay Landing, Fortin is once again drawn into the

dark side of small-town life as a series of seemingly unrelated incidents begin to merge into a complicated whole that revolves around the illegal drug culture. Collier neatly makes the connection between the innocent use of marijuana in natural health remedies and the infiltration of organized crime into a largely unaware rural community. The North American “war on drugs” is rightfully controversial. It’s been a spectacularly unsuccessful effort and that keeping so-called soft drugs like marijuana illegal chews up resources and starves governments of tax money. But there is no getting away from the fact that organized crime now controls much of the drug trade, including marijuana — right here in Creston we have had murders that tie to the business. Like it or not, there are no easy answers to the problem we have created, a premise that Collier explores without ever getting political about it. Along the way, readers of Open Secret are introduced to new characters and get to better know others that were introduced in Confined Space. They are invariably compelling as the author breathes life into her supporting players as well as those in lead roles. I finished Open Secret within 48 hours of receiving my advance copy from the publisher. And despite Collier’s admonition as we chatted by email — “Whoa! Slow down! It took me two years to write that

parcels is enough to drive up land prices.” The Harris family farm is about 100 acres, she said, but numerous small leases total about 600 acres, where feed for milk cows is grown. Loss of access to leased lands would threaten the value-added production of milk and cheese. “Worst case scenario: We lose our farm,” she said. “Jobs, economic activity, everyone in the community loses.” Randy Meyer, who produces hay, cattle and chickens, said he, too, depends on leased land. The loss of agricultural land to other uses would have a negative impact on local food production, he said. “There is nothing definitive in this legislation that allows parcels to be divided, and there are farmers that changes can help — if it’s done right,” he said. He encouraged residents — producers and consumers — to contact local politicians to express their views. Canyon resident Pat Martin said it was important to recognize that changes to the Agricultural Land Commission (ALC) affect everyone, and that more emphasis should be

placed on supporting food production in the province. “Farmers who are struggling in this valley are our problem,” she said. Putting the Creston Valley into Zone 2 and changing the way the ALC operates by placing applications for change in the hands of government appointees is the wrong way to go, said Joanne Galius, who farms with her husband in Canyon. “The arm’s length relationship with the ALC has been beneficial to us,” she said. “We need that to continue.” Julie Groot, whose family has long been involved in food production, including market gardening, orchards and greenhouses, cast a lone dissenting voice. Small parcel owners are hamstrung by current regulations that restrict land use to agriculture, she said. A small parcel that can’t produce minimum sales requirements loses farm status and is subject to much higher tax rates. “In 2009 this government cut the Ministry of Agriculture budget by 30 per cent,” BenRabha said. “And now they tell us these changes are to help farmers. It doesn’t make sense.”

book!” — I never felt like I was rushing. Quite simply, I got caught up in the story in the first pages and I didn’t want to put it down. I did force myself to slow down for the last quarter of the 427-page novel, though, trying to stretch the enjoyment out a little longer. Crime fiction is one of my favourite genres.

And, if I didn’t know Collier at all, after reading Confined Space and Open Secret, she would still be among my favourite authors. She is that good. End of story. Deryn Collier will be at Black Bear Books on April 16, signing copies of Open Secret from 2-4 p.m., with a book launch to follow at 7.

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Plea bargain results in 36-, 39-month sentences BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff

A plea bargain on charges stemming from a home invasion last year has resulted in 36- and 39-month jail sentences for two

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the home invasion, and of break and entry and assault for the other crime. The pair entered a Creston residence and, when the female resident locked herself in a room to call 911, shot the door lock with a pistol. They then fled. They were captured after breaking into another residence and committing an assault. A total of 11 charges were laid after the two incidents, but the remaining charges were stayed as part of the guilty plea agreement.

Police Beat Creston RCMP responded to 52 calls for service from March 31-April 6, Taylor said. March 31 •When police responded to a 911 call, a male on a courtordered curfew fled from the residence. A police dog was used to track him in his hiding spot in a bushy area. He was arrested, and his charges were stayed by a judge who didn’t agree with the curfew order. •Police were called to assist emergency medical personnel after a male fell off a swing and landed on his head in a school playground. He was among a group that had been consuming alcohol in a late night party. •A vehicle had a word scratched into its paint while parked in a 16th Avenue North lot. •An investigation into a break and entry to a seasonal residence in the 13000 block of Highway 3A continues. •A Birch Street female reported getting a call that her computer was infected with a virus. She gave the caller access to her computer and now suspects it was hacked. •A vehicle fire in a Cook Street parking lot required a

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a fire pit, making their escape in a red pickup truck. The male was wearing a baseball cap and the female had long dark hair. •A male reported to be causing a disturbance at a 16th Avenue North residence was found to have been drinking and was given a ride home. Shortly after, another male was reported to be throwing rocks at a window at the same place. Police located him and he said he was looking for the man who had just been escorted back home. •Two females reported to have been fighting at an Erickson Road residence refused to co-operate in a police investigation. April 3 •A driver of a semi on Canyon Street reported that a male threw an object at his truck and then ran off. Minor damage resulted. •A female driver whose vehicle went off Highway 3 and into a residential yard disappeared when the resident went inside to call an ambulance. A short time later, a male arrived and reported she had driven off after an argument. She was not immediately located and there was no damage to the vehicle. No charges were laid. •A Stihl and a Husqvarna chainsaw were stolen from an unlocked shed in the 2800 block of Highway 3 in the last couple of weeks. •A female on Atlin Avenue in Kitchener reported that she believe her phone has been tapped and used for long distance phone calls. •The owner of a blue pickup truck reported to be swerving on Highway 3 was given a verbal warning. •Police are investigating a complaint from Highway 3A from a male who says an exgirlfriend is making harassing phone calls. •Shots were reported in the Kitchener area.

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The Creston Valley Thunder Cats' 2013-2014 record wasn't simply better than last season's; it was an almost total reversal, with 17 wins and 28 losses becoming 39 wins and 17 losses. That about-face helped the team move farther than ever before, ultimately losing to the Beaver Valley Nitehawks in the third round of the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League playoffs. "I thought we were going to have a good year and some good opportunities," said head coach and general manager Josh Hepditch. "We knew if we started with a core of players who came back, if we filled in a few holes, it would be a good team." Hepditch said he and the team made some mistakes last season, which cut short their play — they finished at the bottom of the Eddie Mountain Division without advancing to the playoffs — but with those lessons learned, the team returned stronger than ever. "For the guys who did come back from last year, I'm so glad they did. ... They were able to reap the benefits of going through the hard times," said Hepditch. This season, he said, the team was better able to trust the plan he and assistant coaches Travis Ludwar and Leigh Walker put in place, a plan that went beyond merely learning skills. "The biggest thing was just respect," said Hepditch. "We respected them as players and they respected us as coaches. When you do that, you can have a lot of fun." A core group of experienced players returned this season, which proved to be an advantage, but five 20-year-olds — Jesse Collins, Trevor Hanna, Brandon Formosa, Andrew Hodder and Jonathon Watt — are aging out. Three of them are among the KIJHL's top 20 scorers, with Collins' 91 points placing him second for the season, with Formosa in sixth place and Hanna in 12th.

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(Logan Styler, in his first year with Creston, follows in 14th place.) And Hodder and Watt are two of the team's leading defencemen. "Those are going to be huge holes to fill," he said. "I don't think you can ever replace Trevor Hanna. He's been the heart and soul of the team since he got here." This was Hanna's third season with the Thunder Cats — his points jumping from 29 to 59 to 71 over the seasons — and he will be moving on to Vermont's Castleton State College on a scholarship next season. While filling the holes is a challenge, it doesn't necessarily spell disaster for the team. Although a core group returned for this season, 13 new players arrived, 10 of them rookies. "For thirteen new guys to come in and do what they did, it's awesome," said Hepditch. A decided advantage over last season was the team's stability. Only a few players were replaced before the trade deadline — compared with the total of 39 who wore Thunder Cats jerseys over the course of the 2012-2013 season. The Thunder Cats found their rhythm early in the season, winning at least one game in each of their first several weekends, leading to a 13-game winning streak early in 2014. Crowds of over 500 came out to many games, with 1,000 in the audience for the game 7 win over the

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From page 4 April 4 •Another complaint in the ongoing neighbours’ dispute on Erickson Road was received. •Two occupants from Nelson drove through the Canadian customs stop at Rykerts. When located by police, they said they arrived at the border by accident and made a U-turn before getting to the U.S. border, and didn’t realize they had to stop to report to Canadian border officials. April 5 •A vehicle reportedly driving erratically on Highway 3 near Helen Street was not located. •Warnings, but no tickets, were issued to several drivers during a checkstop at Cook Street and 16th Avenue South. •A report of a domestic assault by a male in the 3100 block of Highway 3 is under investigation. •A grass fire was extinguished beside the grain elevators on Northwest Boulevard. Cause of the fire is unknown. April 6 •Two dirt bikes stolen from a vehicle in a Canyon Street parking lot were later located several blocks away.

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A lesson learned?

We have the answer. Now what was the question? Only a few months ago I expected to be writing an entirely different column after learning the outcome of a Quebec election called by Premier Pauline Marois specifically to give her Parti Québécois (PQ) a majority government. So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye, was to be my message, perhaps not as tuneful as the von Trapp family version, but a heartfelt reversal of attitude after many decades of supporting Canadian unity and Quebec’s place in my own vision for Canada. I am surely not alone in feeling that The Rest of Canada has done its fair share in making sure Quebecers feel at home within this huge and diverse confederation. Somehow I have managed to overlook my years of pathetic French classes, in which we endlessly repeated mind-numbing phrases about the activities of the dreaded M. and Mme. Thibault. I have come to terms with half of my cereal box being given over to a language that I never came close to mastering. Shouldering the cost for a Francophone to get government service in his own language, regardless of where he is in the country? Hey, it’s the least we can do. And then the election results roll in and as quick as we can say Robert est ton oncle, Marois and her team have been given the derriere’s rush and a Liberal government is back in power, with Marois’ dreamed-of majority, no less. Eighteen months in the doghouse and a far from cleaned up bunch, not having had a real chance to rid itself of the cynicism

and isolation that inevitably takes hold in long-governing parties, the Liberals are back in the driver’s seat.

Liberals a four-year reward, less for being what they aren’t than what they are? After all, even the resounding defeat of the PQ didn’t drive a wooden stake into the heart of separatists. “We will never give up,” said one possible successor to Marois. Karl Peladeau was no less defiant, fresh from his own victory in an election that pushed Marois out not only from the premier’s office but from her Lorne Eckersley own constituency. “As I have said since last summer, I had the utmost confiHard to imagine that Marois dence that Quebec voters would managed to effectively drive away reject the negative, divisive politics the PQ’s soft support in such a short campaign. But Quebec voters of Ms. Marois’ proposed plan,” Justin Trudeau told the Globe and were clearly turned off at the Mail (the same newspaper that thought of another separatist camerroneously reported two weeks paign and vote. By contrast, the ago that Creston is going to refertired old Liberals emerged looking endum on the daylight time issue). as young and fresh as Rocket “I am proud that my fellow Richard’s hair in the old Grecian Quebecers have chosen unity and Formula commercial that saw him acceptance as we move forward being sent off to the penalty box. together.” “Two minutes for looking so Stephen Harper was equally good,” he was told. relieved. It’s hard to find any parallels “The results clearly demonstrate with last year’s B.C. election, which that Quebecers have rejected the also saw a massive and unpredicted idea of a referendum and want a collapse of the early campaign government that will be focused favourite. The BC NDP got spanked on the economy and job creation,” by voters for acting like they had he said in a statement. “We look already won, while Marois lost her job for wanting an even bigger man- forward to working with the new government of Quebec on those date. Maybe it’s just a sign of the priorities.” times that voters can no longer be It isn’t difficult to envision taken for granted, and maybe that’s Harper, Trudeau and Thomas not a bad thing. Mulcair calling meetings this As the dust clears and the movmorning to debrief on the election ing crews get to work, shuttling the result. They will all be asking the PQ out and the Liberals back in, same question: “What the heck just Quebec voters have to be wonderhappened?” ing. Have they just rearranged the Lorne Eckersley is the publisher of deck chairs on the Titanic? Have the Creston Valley Advance. they made a mistake in giving the

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IMF taking control of Ukraine To the Editor: (Re: “Ukraine Unrest Part of U.S. Plan”, March 27) It was refreshing to read the letter by Anton Skerbic, who presented the Ukrainian situation from the view of the other half of the world in a clear and professional manner. To ferret out declarations from various western leaders regarding their involvement in support of the coup against the democratically elected president of Ukraine must have taken some painstaking research. Many of his statements are corroborated in online sources I have been reading. I was quite surprised to read in the March 29 Vancouver Sun an article that concurs with the strong involvement and influence of neo-Nazi activists in the Ukrainian uprising itself, who are now members in an independent militia that seems to have both the government and its regular military intimidated. That the purpose of this whole enterprise is to take over, through the aegis of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the economic control of Ukraine is corroborated in a recent article by Paul Craig Roberts (www.paulcraigroberts.org), former assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. The IMF will require the dismantling of any social security remaining for Ukrainians and will facilitate the takeover of national industries by foreign companies. Another goal, of course, is the inclusion of Ukraine in NATO, he predicts. I would not be surprised if the U.S. added to its hundreds of military bases around the world by constructing another one in Ukraine. Many innocent and well-meaning citizens of Ukraine unwittingly got caught in the protests, and unfortunately they will pay a heavy price through economic deprivation prescribed by the IMF. Ukraine seemingly just follows Yugoslavia, Iraq and many others. I recently read in the popular press that Canada is preparing to follow up its adventures in Afghanistan by beginning the mining of that country’s plentiful mineral resources, hopefully not in the style of their South American operations. Bob Ewashen Creston

Fortis bills too high for residents To the Editor: As many of you are aware, the recent Fortis BC work stoppage and rate increases have resulted in astronomically high power bills being received. While we also realize that these must be paid because consumption has occurred during this time, it poses undue hardship to most of us, as previous bills were estimated. This bad feeling could not have come at a worse time. Christmas just passed, as well as one of the coldest winters Creston has had in many years. Many of us have called Fortis

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and been requested to hold for as long as 30 minutes to one hour or more for a customer service representative. We are then told we can make a payment plan but another bill is due and if we breach our repayment we will be set up for disconnection. Fortis is the only choice we have, so there is no solution. As with the Fortis estimates, we too can estimate how much a month we can afford to pay and it comes nowhere near what they require. This billing in some cases is over a six-month period and Fortis wants it paid as soon as they can get it, but since many people are on a fixed income this means they have to take money from other expenses to compensate. It will take six months before our bills are paid in full, and that is if a certain amount is paid monthly and not knowing what the next bill will be. If you would like to voice your concerns, please contact Nelson-Creston MLA Michelle Mungall at 1-877-3884498 or BC Utilities Commission customer service specialist Patrick Wruck at 1-800-663-1385. Maybe a better solution can be found for repayment should this happen again. Linda Wellspring Lister Helga Schmidt Erickson

Gadicke showed strong ethics To the Editor: Yes, he is our accountant but methinks that it’s time to proclaim publicly our longstanding respect and loyalty to Mr. Gadicke. Not only is he a professional by calling, but he demonstrated his professionalism and strong sense of ethics by indicating that the current dispute is a private matter between two parties. When all is said and done, this unfortunate state of affairs may be resolved by the generous action of the Family Practice Associates Clinic coming to the rescue of the stranded physicians and their clients. Jen DeYoung Creston

More docs needed to serve valley To the Editor: I had a fall on the ice in January requiring a visit to the emergency room. Upon the visit, the physician at Creston Valley Hospital was very good and went out of his way to get me in to see a specialist the next day in Cranbrook. At the Cranbrook hospital, I spent five hours waiting for the specialist, whom I had an appointment with. The CT scan took five minutes and then it took two or three hours to get the results. Meanwhile, five weeks since the fall, I was still not able to use my hand. I was told that everything should be fine but to have it checked by my doctor in seven to 10 days. How do I do this when I have no family doctor? Do I go back to sit at emergency for another five hours? Will they be able to refer me for further treatment? Is this what we can expect from the medical system that we pay for? If so, then maybe all of

us should curl up in a corner and give up. I don’t think so. The government needs to put more funding into recruiting physicians so that we can all have access to medical care. I agree with the statements by director John Kettle in the winter Regional District of Central Kootenay Area B newsletter that having people go to the emergency is not the solution, and I do encourage people to email for the required form to provide more information about how many people do not have a physician. However, can they not get some idea of this from the emergency reports? I would like it understood that I am not directing this to a bad doctor or a bad system. I am directing this to people that need a little bit of help in order to survive. If this is too much to ask, then why are we paying taxes and why are we paying government health fees? If we cannot get the help that we need, we may end up back in the old ways, when there was no medical care and people died young and suffered needlessly. I know how frustrated I am. I can only imagine how it would feel to be a parent with young children and not be able to have a family doctor, to have to sit with them in emergency for hours on end. To the politicians out there: If this were your child, wouldn’t you want and expect the best care for them by the system that you pay for? I know my daughter, my grandchildren and I deserve the best, even though they are not as rich and do not make the money in a year that most politicians do. They still deserve the best of care. We all pay for our medical system, so why are we having such a hard time getting someone to look after us? I think that our government needs to look very closely at taking less jet rides and putting more funds into getting more doctors. I realize that this has been looked at before, but overlooked due to politicians’ salaries. So therefore, we all suffer. Can somebody please explain to me when this is going to stop, when we can actually pay for our medical situations and not our politicians’ salaries? Dwight Hazen Yahk

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Who needs feminism?

Today, if one was to hear the word “feminism”, one would probably imagine noisy rallies of angry women and Rosie the Riveter proudly flexing her powerful muscles, all complete with a neatly organized time frame of late 1800s to the 1960s, locked away expediently in a steel chest marked “Trials of the Past”. One would probably then feel relief that the key to said chest is buried deep in the garden of the convenient progression of basic human rights, and resentment toward anyone who should try to redeem the key and reopen the times of such conflict, such discomfort. After all, it’s 2014. Justice has been served. Women can cast a ballot and wear pants, so we’re good! Right? Unfortunately, wrong. Feminism is a necessary movement for freedom and equality for women, and one that has sadly slipped into shallow stereotypes and misconceptions with the passage of time. So, what is feminism, really? What are these stereotypes and misconceptions? As Wikipedia states, “Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies aimed at defining, establishing and defending equal political, economical and social rights for women.” While this is very true, I have my own definition. Feminism, to me, is a movement for freedom. Freedom for women to do whatever they want, be it walk on the moon or grow long, hairy armpits. Sadly, this fight for freedom has been minimized down to a stereotype of a bunch of man-hating, bra-burning crazies seeking to rule the Earth and destroy all males, dancing joyously in their ashes. Nope, it’s much more than that. To me, the ultimate goal of feminism is a world where being a female isn’t a disappointment or an inconvenience or a bad thing at all, where you are free to do whatever you want, even if you’re a woman.

In 1921, women won the right to vote in Canada. With the Roaring Twenties came scandalously dressed women, pushing the boundaries of their expected roles. In 1929, women

were declared “persons” under Canadian law. During the Second World War, women entered the work force as manual labourers, pushing their roles even further. The 1960s brought great progress for women, including the formation and reports of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. Upon hearing this beautiful progression that women have made in being recognized as people, one might say “How nice. It’s a good thing that’s all over with and we don’t need feminism anymore,” to which I would answer, “If only we didn’t.” In 2011, Statistics Canada found that women are 11 times more likely than men to be victims of sexual offences. In a study called “Self-reported Victimizations: 1999, 2004 and 2009”, they also found that only about 10 per cent of all sexual assaults are reported to the police. Also, on average, a woman is killed by her intimate partner every six days. Not only has abuse run rampant in Canada, the gender wage gap still stands strong. In 2009, Statistics Canada stated that based on full-year, full-time earnings, females have earned 72 per cent of what males do since the early 1990s. I don’t know about you, but those numbers don’t look so great to me. It’s 2014, and it’s still not safe for a woman to walk home at night.

It’s 2014, and 90 per cent of sexual assaults go unreported. Why? Because women fear being blamed for rape on account of skirt length or alcohol consumption, and because they’ll be told they were “asking for it”. It’s 2014, and women are stuck in abusive relationships, and instead of calling out the abuser, we call the victims weak for staying in these relationships. It’s 2014, and women still aren’t being paid as much as men for doing the same work. It’s 2014, and 90 per cent or more of anorexia cases are female, because young girls are fed unreachable beauty standards from birth, and raised on the idea that their worth depends on whether they’re a size zero or not. What are we going to do about it? Write it off as “women’s issues”, or do something? I hate to tell you this, but if you chose the latter, you’re a feminist, like it or not. So, maybe there is something to this hype of “equal human rights”? Maybe it’s understandable that women get a little angry at a society where victimblaming is the norm, where abuse is OK, where wages are still not completely equal and where they’re told their appearance is more important than their brains. No, the need for feminism did not end when women got the vote, or when they were officially declared persons. As long as these injustices still persist, so will the need for feminism. We look upon the past, and are thankful for all those women who made change. To us, the lack of rights “back then” seems outlandish. So it’s up to us to make a change today, and have future women look back and be shocked at “how things were back then”. Feminism, although locked behind silly stereotypes, is a movement that has done amazing things in the past, and is necessary today to continue the progress towards justice for women. LoRae Blackmore is a Grade 11 student at Prince Charles Secondary School. The Teen Take is a column co-ordinated by the Teen Action Committee.

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ation. Evening stands for darkness, and darkness is nothing, just absence of light. There was nothing of what God was going to create. Morning stands for a new time, a new day, a ready creation. If evening and morning is taken literally, how come nothing was done in the day? Consider all that was created on the sixth day, including Adam, who named all the animals, then got lonely and lost a rib for the creation of Eve, and then the creation of the Garden of Eden. It would have taken

Adam more than a day to name the animals since he had never done anything before and was, like me, computer illiterate. I feel sorry for the fine Christian youth who are fed the story of a 6,000-year-old Earth. Because of that, we lose 75-80 per cent of them when they go to high school and university. Just be strong about creation. Evolution is easily disproved as it is just a laughable hoax. John Jorgensen Creston

From page 7 One-day theorists claim God created several thousands of stars every second in one day, that he only had one part of heaven with the angels for billions of years, and then, all of a sudden, He went on a mad rush, and in six days from evening to morning created the whole universe. “There was evening, there was morning,” was written after each cre-

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