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Corinne and Edmund Melendez-Duke are grateful for the life they have shared for 47 years. And they have no intention of letting Edmund’s battle with cancer overwhelm their gratitude. Edmund tells his own story on page 3, but he and Corinne took time out recently to provide some context for their life before Edmund’s diagnosis. “It came as such a shock — wow!” Corinne said. “We’ve lived such a good, active life.” “We were totally at peace, though, with whichever way it went,” Edmund added. “We had no control over the situation.” He speaks carefully, still learning to form his words clearly after a team of surgeons worked for eight hours to reconstruct his jaw, part of which was removed in an effort to rid his body of cancer. He walks with a slight limp, a reminder that bone and flesh were taken from his leg, providing the spare parts that were needed to replace pieces that were removed in the procedure. See CANCER, page 3

After months of having to keep quiet about the news, Creston town council has finally been able to provide an explanation about the flurry of underground construction along streets recently. “We were asked by Telus to keep quiet about it,” Mayor Ron Toyota said at Tuesday’s council meeting. “Now we can say that Telus is installing a fibre optic network that will serve at least 90 per cent of town residences and businesses, and possibly spill over to some areas east and west of town. “Fibre optics will allow Telus to provide television and much faster Internet service.” “Soon, you could be enjoying access to Canada’s fastest growing TV service and Telus’ fastest Internet plan, giving you download speeds of up to 100 Mbps (megabits per second),” says the Telus website, fibre.telus.com/creston. See FIBRE, page 2

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night of fun is scheduled for tonight at Jimmy’s Pub and Grill to support cancer sufferer Delores Metcalfe. The co-owner of Creston Valley Cab Co., is unable to work while she undergoes treatment and the community is invited to help support her. An evening of entertainment, drink and food specials, prizes and draws is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. Donations from businesses are encouraged. “This is what we do in Creston — we help one another out in times of need,” said one of the organizers.

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From page 1 The site invites area residents to register to get further information as it becomes available. “The entire rollout is expected to take a year or more,” Toyota said, “but depending on their location, some customers should be able to access the service within the next several months.”

Council Briefs •Toyota and Creston Fire Rescue Chief Mike Moore presented Harold Standen with a trophy to mark his retirement after 49 years as a volunteer firefighter. •With construction to realign the intersection of Pine Street and Northwest Boulevard scheduled to start this summer, an alternate location for the Creston Valley Farmers’ Market has been identified in the event access becomes a problem. Town manager Lou Varela recommended that the Cook Street parking lot be approved for use as a temporary site, providing parking statistics that indicate the use would not have a significant impact on downtown business customers. Brian Lawrence Farmers market representatives Jen The Creston Valley Hospital Tuck Shop recently helped out Comer and Geri Lee confirmed the Creston Valley Hospital physiotherapy department by their support. The market will open purchasing a $6,100 dual life Powermatic mat platform, at its location adjacent to the which will be a benefit to everyone taking physiotherapy. Creston Valley Chamber of Present for the donation were (from left) Tuck Shop volunCommerce on May 3 and will move teers Ria Ruigrok and Sheila Lawson, Tuck Shop co-ordinaonly if becomes necessary. tor Mabel McCowan and physiotherapist Gail Kuo. Missing: •The town has been informed by Multi-Material British physiotherapist Carol Quinn. Columbia, the controNOW OPEN MONDAYS STARTING JUNE 24 • 250-428-SHOW (7469) versial recycling proCLOSED MONDAYS • 250-428-SHOW (7469) SHOWTIMES 7:30PM gram operator, that it Playing 2D Sun & Tues will not be introducing a curbside pickup of packaging and printed paper. •A $1,000 donation Friday April 24 - Thursday May 1 to Creston Fire Rescue was received from the Seniors Alpine Ski Club of Calgary, whose bus broke down on a winter trip into B.C. Starring: Chris Evans Moore arranged for Coming Attractions: Heaven is For Real, Amazing Spiderman 2, The Other Woman, Legends of OZ the Creston Valley Thunder Cats’ bus to bring the group into Time for a Creston from near Facelift products Moyie, and communiavailable at ty services and busiPYRAMID nesses all worked BUILDING SUPPLIES LTD. together to turn the incident into a positive Your “Small Town experience for the Difference” Sponsor stranded passengers. •Staff will create a report for council so members can make an 1220 NW Blvd. Creston BC informed decision 250-428-7114 about a request from the Creston Valley SUTCLIFFE FARMS Creston, BC Community Housing Society to reduce building fees for a proposed six-unit housing complex. The Weather permitting season starts society also reported that it has abandoned May 1 - June 15 a plan to construct the project on the south side of Millennium WANTED ! Park, and that it has identified a more suitNOW EVEN FRESHER! PICKERS/SORTERS able location. New and ONLY •The annual Dash pickup location Call evenings 250-428-2734 right at the farm. for Trash community 1252 Indian Road cleanup will be held Fax resumes 250-428-0136 (off Lower Wynndel Rd) May 4.

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Resident faces down fears after cancer diagnosis BY EDMUND MELENDEZ-DUKE

We raised our family in a small rural area with the premise that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Maybe too many people use the health care system excessively, or when common sense would have sufficed. We thought, Eat right, stay active and all would be fine. Boy, was I wrong! On Jan. 16, I went to the Creston Valley Hospital emergency room concerned about a growth on the inside of my mouth. The busy intern worked diligently and cheerfully, fitting in all the patients on an as-needed basis. Obviously, he saw my problem to be of a very serious nature. He used his smartphone to take pictures, then forwarded them to a specialist in Cranbrook, and came back saying he was required to take a biopsy immediately. In a few short hours, this intern was having my problem professionally assessed. Unfortunately, on Jan. 31, the results came back — cancer. One of our local doctors phoned right away and had arranged for a rush appointment with the Cranbrook specialist for Feb. 1. This bright young man diagnosed instantly that the cancer had spread into my jawbone and possibly further. Under the circumstances, if care was available, it would be required in Calgary. Being on the ball, he urgently requested at CT scan and blood work to be done ASAP, in Cranbrook’s East Kootenay Regional Hospital. Upon my arrival, I was notified that the bloodwork office was closed at this late hour. Who comes to the rescue? One of the many volunteers. Hearing my out-of-town story, he asked me to give him a few minutes. He went through back hallways, rang buzzers and knocked on doors, and soon came back, saying that a “Florence Nightingale” would sneak me through now. The CT scan was done, with results available by the end of the week. On Feb. 10, I was in Calgary, with a CD copy of the CT scan in my possession. I waited to see two of the preeminent surgeons in the field at the Foothills Medical Centre and Richmond Road Diagnostic and Treatment Centre. Did I have a chance, or did the facts indicate terminal? My turn came, more tests

were performed and the CT scan findings were reviewed. Bottom line: The cancer had not spread excessively, and if my general health was as good as indicated and if the blood flow to my legs was adequate, a procedure was doable. Subsequent tests over the next few days indicated that I was a suitable candidate. My story started on Jan. 16 in the waiting room of the Creston ER, and about 40 days later I was in my hospital gown waiting for surgery in the Foothills Medical Centre (McCaig Tower). The admission desk attendant verified my wrist ID and asked me to take a seat against a wall. Someone then came and put a number on the wall behind me.

Ten minutes later, a nurse came over and introduced herself, followed by an anesthesiologist who had a few questions. The nurse returned and said they were ready. I entered the operating room and there were at least a dozen people in scrubs. I looked questioningly at my nurse, and she said there were three surgeons and the rest were nurses and technicians. Over the next eight-plus hours they were going to do their all to give me back my best health possible. I was awed and stunned, but mostly humbled. We all have read assorted stories of current conditions in our health care system. I can’t

comment. I can only tell my personal story. Could anything be more amazing or inspiring? Some of you may say that the system can be improved. That people aren’t perfect. And, of course, you are right. But it is these people, who through their actions make our care special. Are all mechanics equally capable or all nurses equally talented? No, but in my 16 days in the hospital and my dealings with 100-plus caregivers I can admit to only one time that was less than ideal. The situation was verified by my family and the problem, I now know, was me. I was

sleep-deprived and having a bad day. I apologize to anyone I may have offended. To close, thank you to the hundreds of volunteers who give so much help and love to each visitor or patient they come in contact with. Thank you to the nurses and caregivers who have precise and pressure-filled days. Their patients are often in discomfort, if not pain, and disoriented. Their words of support and care are treasured. I am in awe of the doctors and surgeons who have crafted the talents of their profession into an art form. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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Vilna (population: 260). “We had never lived on a farm and I had never built anything,” Edmund admitted. The family commuted from Edmonton on weekends and holidays to build a house, living in a small trailer on the property. When they made the move a permanent one, it was a very different life, just what they wanted. “Corinne cooked on a wood stove for years and years,” he laughed. “It was lovely,” Corinne insisted. Soon, Edmund took a job at a local seed-cleaning plant. After Park Drive eight weeks,115 heThorncliffe was appointed Toronto Ontario M4H 1M1 manager. And then another opportunity presented itself. Tel 416•696•2853 “The Vilna grocery store went up for sale,” Edmund said. Grocery stores in small prairie towns tend to fill demands for services and this

small business was no exception. The tin-ceilinged, circa 1920 building even held a bakery, deli and movie rental department. They bought it. “The store took off like you wouldn’t believe,” Corinne said. “It went like gangbusters,” Edmund agreed. Business owners and farmers, the Melendez-Dukes found a way to balance family life with farm and business, and spent 32 happy years living in the house that Edmund built. Wherever they looked, opportunities seemed to arise. In their spare time they visited a racetrack.Docket: 23302 “Before we knew we were 247 -itJWT Client: owning Job racehorses that ran Ads in Name: Participation Edmonton and Calgary,” Lara Vanderheide Production Contact: Edmund laughed. They bought a 12-unit townhouse complex in St. Paul as an investment. B:5.8125” “We neverT:5.8125” had a vacancy in

the 11 years we owned it,” he said. Eventually, though, retirement beckoned. “We decided to move to an easier, warmer location,” Corinne said. “We got to Creston on a trip from Lethbridge. Five thousand people — it was perfect for us. You can walk everywhere. We just love it to death — and our family loves to visit us here.” If Edmund’s optimism took a hit from post-surgery test results, it doesn’t show as he shares the news. Surgeons were optimistic that they had removed all the cancer, but turns out not to be the case. He now awaits a treatment schedule for radiation therapy, meaning many more weeks in and around Calgary’s Foothills Hospital, much more reliance on countless medical personnel, all of whom are about to experience his endless optimism and positive attitude.

From page 1 A large scar on his throat is the most overt evidence of Edmund’s remarkably quick odyssey, 40 days from diagnosis through major surgery. The gauze that covers a breathing passage lower on his throat is hardly noticeable. Corinne and Edmund arrived in Creston less than three years ago, after spending most of their life together north of Edmonton. Their story starts in Victoria, where they were married in the spring of 1967. Edmund was working for BF Goodrich, which operated vehicle service centres in Woolco (now Wal-Mart) stores. He had no previous retail experience, but he took to the job like a duck to water. Soon he and Corinne, in the midst of starting a family, were on the move. Transfers to Burnaby, Lethbridge, Edmonton and London, Ont., helped move Edmund up the corporate ladder. From his job as district manager in London he moved higher. The next stop was Toronto, where he became the head of personnel for the Canadian operations. “But we had three boys by then, and I didn’t see enough of them. I needed a change of plan,” he said. Soon the family was on the move again, back to Edmonton. There they decided to start a new life in the country. They purchased a 92-acre parcel northeast of Edmonton. It was 15 miles from the nearest village,

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Fifteen months for guilty plea to drug charges BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff

•Keys and a passport were stolen from a vehicle on Alder Street. •A mobility scooter being operated on 16th Avenue North was reported to be obstructing vehicular traffic. •A family dispute involving a father and son was reported on 19th Avenue South. •Police assisted with a medical emergency on Dogwood Street. •A male was reported to be sending harassing text messages to a 17-year-old female on 14th Avenue North. •Youths were reported to be jumping off Goat River Bridge on Highway 21, “a very dangerous practice at any time, but especially now with the river running high and fast,” Gollan said. •A male was caught boating across the international border into Canada at Rykerts. He was extradited back to the U.S. April 15 •A theft from a vehicle was reported on Moyie Road. •A Sixth Avenue South resident heard noises in the basement and reported a break-in in progress. Police could find no signs of entry. •Police attended a Lakeview-Arrow Creek residence while provincial officials apprehended two children. •A suicide threat made on the Internet from the U.S. was referred to Interpol. April 16 •Two dead dogs reported in the ditch beside Highway 3 were not located. •A driver was warned after he nearly hit a pedestrian while making a turn onto Canyon Street. •A driver was given a ticket for distracted driving after his vehicle rear-ended another on

Northwest Boulevard. •When police responded to a report of five people fightA Creston woman pleaded ing on 18th Avenue South guilty to two drug-related they found no one who would co-operate in the investigacharges in the Creston Law tion. One male was taken to Courts April 17 and was senhospital with facial injuries tenced to a total of 15 months and another was arrested and and ordered to pay a $200 vicheld in police cells for being tim surcharge. drunk in public. Jhana M. Bradshaw faced April 17 several charges. She was given •At the same location as the a 12-month jail sentence for previous item, flooding was production of a controlled subreported in an apartment after stance and prohibited from someone apparently left water possessing firearms for 10 running in a stopped sink years. A three-month sentence intentionally. was handed out on a charge of •A purse was reported lost possession for the purposes of on a street between Cook Street trafficking. and Cavell Street. Stays of proceedings were •When police responded to issued on another count of a report of strange noises comeach of the preceding charges, ing from Ninth Avenue South, as well as possession of propthey found four people climberty obtained by crime and ing trees and “goofing around,” contravention of firearm reguthey said. lations. •An intoxicated male was found on Erickson Road and Police Beat arrested. He spent the night in Creston RCMP responded to police cells. 60 calls for service from April April 18 14-20, Staff Sgt. Bob Gollan said •When police responded to on Tuesday. a domestic dispute on Simon April 14 Road, they found a small •Three people were arrested number of marijuana plants, after a drug-related home invawhich were seized and sion on Lakeview-Arrow Creek destroyed. Two hours later, a Road that ended in a chase that male who had left before their wound up in the RCMP parkprevious visit returned, and ing lot. The three were held in police were called back. The custody to face charges of male was arrested for being breaking and entering and intoxicated and held overassault. night in cells. •A debit card from a wallet •A driver reported his stolen in Yahk was used vehicle was hit by a snowfraudulently. plow near Kootenay Pass, but •Windows were smashed at the plow driver doesn’t recall a Ninth Avenue South resimaking any contact with the dence and cameras and a vehicle. motorcycle stolen in a crime •Police picked up a quantity believed to have been connectof male erection medication ed to the aforementioned home that was seized at the Rykerts invasion. border crossing. •A cheque from a Highway April 19 3 residence was filled out with •Fireworks were shot off the intent to defraud. by unknown persons in the community complex parking lot. CRESTON VALLEY ROTARY CLUB •A man who passed out on the ground near 15th Avenue North was This is your opportunity to nominate an outstanding taken to hospital for citizen of the Creston Valley for recognition of their observation and given volunteer work to our community. a ticket for being drunk in public. The nominee’s volunteer activities may be in business, government, •Shots fired near social improvement, community service, cultural arts, religion, youth work, or any other Reclamation Road area of activity that you feel contributes to a better community. turned out to have Submissions MUST be detailed as to the accomplishments, involvement, and come from licensed contribution to the Creston Valley of the nominee, or your nomination CANNOT be turkey hunters. considered. Attend the Citizen of the Year presentation at the Friday evening Opening •A person causing Ceremonies of the Creston Valley Blossom Festival celebrations. a disturbance at a Cook Street business NOMINATION FORMS ARE AVAILABLE AT: was banned from the Town of Creston - 238 10 Avenue North, store. or Creston Valley Chamber of Commerce / Visitor Info Centre - 121 NW Blvd, April 20 or Creston Valley Advance - 1018 Canyon Street •Two males found to be smoking mariLetters marked “Citizen of the Year - Conﬁdential” juana at the Highway can be dropped off or mailed to: Creston Valley Advance, 3A lookout had a 1018 Canyon Street, Box 1279, Creston, BC, V0B 1G0 small quantity of Deadline for nominations: April 30, 2014 at noon marijuana and their Unsigned nominations will not be accepted. bong seized.

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Book examines couples living apart BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff

The idea of writing Living Apart Together came to Linda Breault when she was working in China with co-editor Dianne Gillespie. “We started noticing the number of our colleagues who had left their partners at home,” she said. “Then I went to Egypt and found even more — partners coming back and forth, but not actually living together in the traditional sense.” Living Apart Together tells the story of about two dozen such couples, most of them written by one of the partners, who have made lives together while living in separate residences. The reasons are many, but the common ground is that they are committed to making their relationships, and often marriages, work. “There is no other book on this topic, just research papers,” she said, adding that the fact came as a surprise because such partnerships are increasingly common in a shrinking world where people often work far from their residence. Breault, who describes herself as having “lived and loved as a single, married, divorced and single again woman,” is well qualified to comment on lifestyle choices. She has degrees from the B.C., Victoria and Simon Fraser universities and her professional background is in education, social work and community development. Since retiring “much too early” she has traveled the world to continue with her passion of supporting marginalized people in selfdevelopment and self-reliance. Breault attended high school in Creston, where she later returned to live so she could be closer to her elderly parents. She partnered to write Living Apart Together with her friend, who taught secondary English in B.C. for 30 years. “Dianne always wanted to write a book,” Breault said. “We naively thought we could just interview a bunch of people and it would be done.” They put out feelers to friends and even advertised in publications across North America to find a selection of contributors for the proposed book. Many of the submissions came from writers, probably because they were comfortable

easy and it has never been easy but having more choices and having those choices be validated and understood gives us all just a bit more room for what we need or want to do for the relationships in our lives in all their glorious and wonderful complexity,” she wrote in a review of Living Apart Together. In their collaboration, Breault and Gillespie have created something of a minor miracle. A book that has already been selected by universities as a reference in social work and other studies is also a very readable collection of personal stories, each providing fascinating insight into just how much work committed couples are willing to put into making their relationships fulfilling. A book launch for Living Apart Together is scheduled for 7 p.m. May 1 at Black Bear Books. It will feature an introduction by Armstrong and a song from Shirley Cameron and Bob Gollan, who will perform K.T. Oslin’s Live Close By, Visit Often, which includes the lyrics, “Live close by, visit often. That’ll work, that’ll work for me. Live close by, visit often. Save us both a lot of misery.” Creston & District Community Resource Centre

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Thursday, April 24, 2014 Creston Valley Advance

A little honesty from SD8 board would go a long way

In recent weeks there has been a(nother) scramble by parents of Homelinks students, with the future of the Creston Education Centre and dramatic changes to the home-school support program in the air. I would never have thought I would be citing Stockwell Day in support of an argument, but let’s start this with what he had to say in addressing the Association of Kootenay and Boundary Local Governments conference last week. Day, with his quarter-century of experience in provincial and federal governments, said that too often politicians fall into a pattern of reporting back to constituents on what the government is doing. They forget their reason for being is to communicate the wishes of their constituents back to the government. “Have faith in the people in your constituency,” he told the crowd of mayors, councillors and regional directors. “We are there to see that their burden is decreased, not increased.” He also had another observation that caught my attention. Arguing that much of what goes on in government is driven by management, who have a vested interest in protecting their own jobs, Day said that elected representatives have an obligation to assess their recommendations and make decisions that are in the best interests of the public, and not the system. In recent years I have begun, not without discomfort, to suspect that elected school boards have become pointless. They no longer have any power to tax, as they once did, and now operate entirely as a buffer between the provincial government and the general public. They oversee management, which allocates resources. With a huge proportion of their budgets needed to cover staff salaries and benefits (and no longer having much say in negotiated — or imposed — contracts) there isn’t much left for discretionary spending. Attend a school board meeting and you might be astonished at how much time is spent debating the wording of a policy or discussing minutiae brought forth by administration, the head of which has a depressing predilection for talking in “education speak”, tossing out phrases like “family of schools” as if they have any substantive meaning to others not in his inner circle. In the last board of school trustees meeting I attended, in two hours there was not a sin-

gle word spoken that had any relevance to what happens in a classroom. Back to Homelinks and the Creston Education Centre. Those

time, School District No. 8 (Kootenay Lake) has been “assessing” the program in the guise of questioning whether the CEC is the best place to deliver the program. Maybe Homelinks students might be better served in schools like Canyon-Lister Elementary School, the administration has postulated. Yes, and maybe they might be better served if they just started attending those schools Lorne Eckersley full-time, but that ain’t gonna happen. No, repeat no, parents of Homelinks students have come of us who remember the latter as forward in support of moving the an elementary school will recall program. Parents of Canyon-Lister what happened in the years after students aren’t happy. And South Creston Elementary School Homelinks teachers don’t seem to was closed, ostensibly to save like the idea of the move either. So money (that rarely happens to any what’s driving this “discussion” significant degree, by the way, which is smelling more and more unless you count the elimination like a done deal? Well, either Supt. of a principal’s position, which is Jeff Jones and his administrative only valid if you believe that a associates have an ideological school can’t function without a objection so strong that they are full-time principal). In not too willing to push home-school familong a period, the building began lies out of their system entirely, or to fill up, providing space for staff the financial picture is so bleak like speech therapists, ancillary that they feel like cost savings outchildren’s programs and — are weigh the desires of the taxpayers you ready for this — Homelinks. who pay their salaries. The school district that couldn’t Either way, the board of trustafford to install air conditioning ees and the general public deserve for the comfort of South Creston a straight answer, preferably one students and teachers somehow that doesn’t include “family of managed to come up with money for air conditioning when it under- schools”. If the agenda is to empty CEC of school district programs took major renovations. So much and employees, the Kootenay Lake for cost savings. school district owes it to the peoHomelinks was started in this community as a way of offering an ple of the Creston Valley to come clean and allow for other agencies alternative for parents who didn’t to make proposals that might see want their children to attend pubthe facility continue to house lic schools. Those parents, for a many other existing programs, and variety of reasons, wanted to be their children’s primary educators, maybe even to invite others into the fold. A little honesty and forthbut needed resources to ensure rightness would go a long way, that their kids got a decent educaand maybe even set an example tion and could later return to the for the children whose future we public system in their secondary are all responsible for. and post-secondary years. I am choosing to view how the Establishing Homelinks offered Homelinks issue unfolds as a refthe best of both worlds — parents erendum on the need for an electgot support without having to ed board of trustees. If it is only send their kids off to full-time for financial reasons that the propublic schools, kids got direction gram ends up getting moved, and attentive support from teachadmit it publicly and make darn ers, the public got some peace of good and sure you have the nummind knowing that these kids bers to back it up (the numbers (Homelinks has nearly 150 studidn’t add up the last time the dents registered and there is a CEC existence was threatened, if waiting list) are getting a decent you recall). If changes are ideologeducation, and the school district ical in nature, get it out in the got money in the form of per stupublic and have a discussion dent funding, which also helps to about whose ideals are more defray costs of other support staff. important — administrators’ or Agree with the idea of homethe people who pay for, and use, schooling or not, Homelinks has the service. been a valuable and popular serLorne Eckersley is the publisher of vice to a lot of families. the Creston Valley Advance. This winter, not for the first

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ALR should Democratic return to NDP rights erased version Driver kills cat by Tories on purpose To the Editor: About 100 years ago, when I was a youth, my journalist father mentioned that newspapers had a 48-hour rule. That meant you could not print a contradictory story less than 48 hours after the story being contradicted because it took that long for people to forget. I think Father was upset about something at the time. When I was the director for Regional District of East Kootenay Area A, I resisted development in the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR). That’s not easy when there are nine mayors and only six rural directors on the board, most of whom thought hayfields and grazing lands are expendable. I don’t, and having grown a 2,000-square-foot organic garden in West Fernie for 24 years, I also know what vegetables are supposed to taste like. Kootenay East MLA Bill Bennett tells us the new Agricultural Land Commission (ALC) process will allow farmers to use a portion of their land in a way that helps them stay on the land. Since it’s been more than 48 hours, perhaps Mr. Bennett has forgotten that his government created the existing model of six regions and six regional panels made up of appointees, some of whom he selected. Now he says it didn’t work out, but if they formalize it into law, establishing governance and accountability frameworks and service standards consistent with other government boards, agencies and commissions, as well as filling staff vacancies and appointing a CEO, it will work perfectly. Sounds to me like job creation for the “right kind” of people. The ALC as originally created by the NDP consisted of four or five knowledgeable retired farmers. Their offices were in Burnaby. I made a presentation to them on behalf of a gentleman who owned a large piece of property adjacent to the Fernie Alpine Resort. They had no problem removing it from the ALR. It remained in the forest reserve. When the Fernie Brewing Co. applied to start their business on a small ALR acreage on the west side of Hosmer, they included the proviso that if they were successful they would relocate to the Fernie commercial zone. I trusted them and recommended the board support their application. They succeeded and they relocated. In that same area, on a similar lot, a young couple applied to start a blacksmith business. We supported that application also. I understand they are doing all right. None of these three applications came from farmers needing to save their farm. Farmers usually applied to subdivide a couple of acres off for their retirement home. How could you say no? The decisions made by the ALC created by the NDP worked to preserve the ALR and protect farmers because the commissioners were farmers and understood what would accomplish those objectives. Mr. Bennett’s version of the ALC consists of six regions and panels of politically appointed locals who may or may not know anything about farming but in any case will be hampered by the confines of the legislation he intends to pass and also by the complexity and cost of the ALC organization he is creating. And that is notwithstanding the possibility of locals quietly making their own rules. I can see developers and legal challenges in the future. Anyone can apply for a variance; that’s always been available and if it doesn’t impair agricultural capability,

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the application should succeed. The ALC should be returned to the original NDP version. It worked, and if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Peter Ross Lister

To the Editor: Last week, there occurred another example of the two sides of human nature. My neighbour’s beloved ginger cat was deliberately run over on Highway 3 in Erickson. A red car was seen deliberately swerving to hit it on the edge of the road! The kind and caring driver of the following car stopped and picked it up, then took it to the vet, but it was of no use. The owner is known to the vet’s office, so they were told and were devastated. Accidents to free-roaming cats are often inevitable, and sad but manageable, but deliberate killing shakes one’s faith in the goodness of human nature. If an apology were to come from the driver of that red car, our faith in the ability of people to change their nature would be restored. The family will always remember with appreciation the kindness and concern of the driver who tried to rescue an orange bundle of fur. Thank goodness there are more caring people in this valley than there are insensitive jerks! Jennifer Dewald Erickson

Public should vote re: time To the Editor: (Re: “Public won’t vote on daylight time issue”, April 3) Unbelievable. “[Mayor Ron] Toyota met with opposition from [Regional District of Central Kootenay] Area A director Gary Jackman and Area B director John Kettle, neither of whom support a move to daylight time.” I would like to know how these two men are authorized to stonewall a pursuit for a referendum in this valley on daylight time. And in the same article, “Kettle organized an online survey of his constituents, with the majority of respondents opposing a change.” How would Mr. Kettle’s “survey” stand up to the scrutiny of a statistician? How was his survey worded? How many people responded? Two out of three respondents opposed is a strong two-thirds majority, but it also means that only one more person is opposed out of that sampling. If we were to follow Mr. Kettle’s logic, we could dispense with the bother and expense of any election once the pre-election polls (surveys) are taken. Just place into office the person/party who has the majority at that point in time. Our situation is not in the same league as a civic election. I get that. But the principal holds true nonetheless. We are being denied our democratic right based on the whim, wishes and power of two directors. This so-called democracy in which we live and we should cherish so dearly is laughable when two men can so easily derail it. Larry Binks, Area C director and supporter of a referendum on the issue, good for you! Now talk some sense into your colleagues so they are no longer permitted to decide what’s good for the rest of us. History is replete with examples of Big Brother(s) running the show, and that’s not a good thing, on principle alone. Glen Whitehead Creston

To the Editor: (Open letter to Kootenay-Columbia MP David Wilks) Your party has milked their majority and now has embarked on a determined venture to strikingly erase democratic rights in Canada by: •creating omnibus bills so that there is inadequate time to properly examine them, not just by my representative in the Canadian House of Commons, but little time for me as a citizen to review them myself, so I can direct my representative as to my wishes. This is deliberate; •skipping over hard-won environmental concerns in favour of furthering the goals of Conservative campaign contributors, particularly those in the resource extraction industry; •engaging in international trade deals that threaten Canadian autonomy over our own resources and which I believe are worldwide in appearance so as to distract from the true purpose which is to cause Canada to eventually become the newest acquisition for the United States of America; •using the ruse of a “fairer” elections act to restrict the autonomy of Elections Canada and to make it more difficult for those voters who aren’t likely to vote Conservative in the next election; and •allowing for the implementation of two-tiered health care in our country while we are used as an example for our neighbours to the south as being a country with a national healthcare system available and readily accessible to all. May I say, I am hoping you will respond to this letter in a personal manner because although, as you can see, I am not a Conservative, I feel I deserve consideration as a person. Pat Martin Canyon

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ALR plans show gov’t behind times To the Editor: The proposed tinkering with the Agricultural Land Reserve confirms again how outdated and behind the times the B.C. government, like many other governments, is. There should be no question that every square metre of B.C. farmland should be fully protected. Only five per cent of B.C.’s land is for farming; only one per cent of that has the best soil with the highest capability of growing crops. Governments think as far as the next election and not of protecting our sacred Earth and of the tremendous population increase. They don’t seem to care whether future generations have a livable planet to survive on or not. Instead of destroying this most important resource, fertile farmland, they should put their time in to helping farmers in any way possible. Food prices are going up and up, but those increases don’t reach the farmers. They could promote and find ways so B.C. farm production goes into our stores instead of being brought in from places thousands of kilometres away. See FARMING, page 8

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Thursday, April 24, 2014 Creston Valley Advance

Precepts encourage ceasing from doing harm

To cease from harm means to refrain from harming oneself, other people, animals, plants, soil, the water and the air of our Earth. Imagine someone who says, “I don’t do harm.” It may be

true that he doesn’t pick fights and avoids hurting living beings whenever he can. Instead, his major pastime is sitting on the couch eating potato chips and watching horror movies and action films. How can he do any harm that way?

clears and we can move toward positive influences. When we don’t stir up the water by habitually exposing ourselves to images and sounds of others doing harm through violence, the mud naturally settles to the bottom and the “water” clears. Think about how you feel after watching violent acts (queasy, excited, nervous, agitated, anxious) and recognize that these are negatives. They stir up the mud at the bottom of your mind. On the other hand, exposing ourselves to positive actions and thoughts add clear water Kuya Minogue that will dilute the mud so much that it will hardly be noticeable. When we sit in meditation, the The first precept isn’t just about the muddiness of our thinking settles, and harm we do to others; it is also about the our minds become clear. When this hapharm we do to ourselves. Avoiding exer- pens, it is natural to cease from harm. In cise except for walking back-and-forth to meditation, we listen to our inner voice of the kitchen or remote control is doing enlightenment and connect with the truth harm. The body and mind need nourish- of our interdependence with everyone ing stimulation in order to be healthy. The and everything. Over time and through mental ingestion of violence for violence’s practice, our bodies and minds are suffisake will do harm to the psyche. This ciently empowered to speak and act out doesn’t mean that watching violent mov- of tenderness. ies or playing violent digital games will The first of the three pure precepts, necessarily cause us to go out and per- “Cease from harm,” is the root of all form violent acts, but these activities will Buddhist teaching and practice. When we desensitize us and dampen awareness of bring this precept into daily life, we natuviolence in our own thoughts and actions. rally and effortlessly benefit ourselves, They make it easier to harden our hearts each other, the plants, the animals, the air against suffering. and the water that sustains us. But it takes Let’s use the metaphor of the mind as a tremendous effort to wake up from culturglass of muddy water. The mud represents ally ingrained habits that seem to do no negative dispositions, habits and influ- harm, but that rob us of being truly alive. ences. The water represents a clear mind. Suggested practice: For the next two An objective of Buddhist practice is to set weeks, notice what kind of images and aside negative influences so the “water” ideas you are putting into your mind.

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From page 7 We know that 38 per cent of B.C. farmers are over the age of 55, 50 per cent of farm sales average less than $10,000 annually and much of the farmland is leased or rented from other owners. We all can support our farmers first of all by buying food grown in B.C. and as close as possible to consumption. After all, we are now into climate change and the less distance we transport food or anything else, the better it is. I believe that farmers would rather go on farming and keep their land in production and young farmers would stay on family farms if they could make a good living with a good income. We can stop working for the economy and let the economy work for our well-being. Good changes are taking place right here in the Creston Valley and more and more nutritious food is produced and grown right here. For the sake of a cleaner planet, well-being and happiness, and an economy that works for us all, we can start right here. We can help and create a better, sustainable world by supporting our local farmers and fruit growers. Henry Dahle Creston

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