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Ducks preparing for annual fundraiser BY BRIAN LAWRENCE Advance Editor

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Faced with angry developers and a looming election, Creston town council has deferred making changes to the development cost charge bylaw to 2015, when it will become part of Official Community Plan discussions. Three of the area’s major property developers stated their opposition to a proposal that would see DCCs increased, and also applied to new developments throughout the town, an expansion from the current Alice Siding designation. DCCs are intended to cover some of the costs of infrastructure upgrades and improvements — roads, water and sewer, primarily — that must be made to accommodate new construction. Developers also pay for all new infrastructure construction on the land they are developing. See TOWN, page 3

— Nathanael Henderson shows off a feathered friend at the Creston Valley Fall Fair, which ran Friday and Saturday at the Creston and District Community Complex. With over 1,400 entries, this year’s fair was substantially bigger than last year’s, Coun. Scott Veitch said during the opening ceremonies. More photos on pages 11 and 17, and at www.crestonvalleyadvance.ca/ourtown.

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With the annual Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) fundraising banquet just over two weeks away, tickets are already getting scarce — less than three dozen remain out of 250. The popular event pulls in about $24,000 each year, with live and silent auctions creating a fun atmosphere for guests, who attend to socialize and enjoy a buffet dinner, which includes hors d’oeuvres, prime rib and local wines. It’s a lot to fit into a short period, but this year’s auctions have been streamlined a bit. “There’s going to be a little more time for people to enjoy themselves,” said Creston DUC committee member Lou Knafla. All proceeds from the Creston banquet and auction, as well as other DUC events, are invested in prioritized provincial and regional wetland conservation and restoration projects, including the Creston Wildlife Management Area (CVWMA), and $73,000 has been spent in the past year alone. Since 2006 — and in collaboration with the province, Columbia Basin Trust, Habitat Conservation Habitat Trust Foundation, Fish and Wildlife Compensation Program, Wildlife Canada and others — DUC and the CVWMA have upgraded 14 water control structures, removed seven redundant structures and repaired close to 10 kilometres of dikes — for a total amount exceeding $1 million. See DINNER, page 3

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Harvest Share season underway BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff

New Harvest Share co-ordinator Clayton Fenrick said on Monday that the annual drive to spread the Creston Valley’s fruit and vegetable wealth is going well. “It’s crazy what grows in the Creston Valley,” he said. “We’ve had all kinds of fresh food to pick and distribute.” Fenrick took over the program in July, replacing longtime co-ordinator Alexandra Dansereau, who is furthering her education. The Prince Charles Secondary School grad returned to Creston after taking a two-year business program and spending a year working on Vancouver Island. “Since I started I’ve been getting everything organized, picking donations of cherries, pears, plums and getting to know the agencies involved.” Harvest Share is operated by Creston Valley Food Action Coalition and was started to help ensure backyard fruit trees didn’t go unpicked. Volunteers harvest the fruit in return for a third of the fruit, a third goes to the property owner and the remainder is distributed to Gleaners, social programs, the Therapeutic Activation Program for Seniors and churches. It’s a win-win program that puts backyard bounty to good use and reduces bear attractants.

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From page 1 Before the Sept. 9 meeting was opened to presentations from delegations, town engineering manager Colin Farynowski provided council with an outline of consultation meetings that have been held over the past two years. “This proposed bylaw has me concerned for future development,” Terry Rendek of Atlin Property Development Corporation told council. He said that a $1 million warehouse construction, for example, would have a negligible impact on existing services, and would increase town property tax revenues, but that higher DCCs would make it economically unviable when compared to other communities. “I appreciate the town has held meetings for developers and we didn’t do a great job of attending, but we also have businesses to run,” he said. “We were waiting to see a finished product and now, with very short notice, we are seeing it close to being enacted.” Rendek said the proposed DCCs would be higher than in all similar size communities in B.C. except Comox and Fernie, “both of which have very different challenges” when it comes to infrastructure. Norm Mailhot, one of the principles in the Hawkview Estates development, provided council with an outline of how much his group had paid to develop the land, DCC costs to date and how much property tax revenue the existing properties are generating. He said consultation on a new DCC bylaw has been inadequate and that increased charges threatened the viability of future development. Bill Hutchinson, who was a longtime town manager, represented the Wigen family, which is currently developing land on Devon Street. “It comes with some shock that council would undertake a public

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Clayton Fenrick is the valley’s new Harvest Share co-ordinator.

Fenrick has been a familiar sight at the Creston Valley Farmers’ Market, where he spreads the word about Harvest Share, inviting volunteers to sign up for the harvest efforts. “In a perfect world, Harvest Share wouldn’t be necessary,” he said. “All the input process for something as significant as a new DCC bylaw at this time of year and at this time in the electoral calendar,” he said. “First of all, the developers which I have been involved with are busy trying to sell some of their extensive inventory and/or trying to obtain municipal/ provincial approval to start selling some inventory and not miss the positive economic blip which we find ourselves in at this time. Secondly, the introduction of new DCC’s 300 per cent increase may well become an election issue.” Hutchinson said properties that are developed but remain unsold still generate revenue for the town. “One developer who has just placed 19 lots on the market paid $3,000 per lot in DCCs and was considering applying for tax relief for taxes on these 19 lots as none are sold and we are heading into fall and a new tax year,” he said. “These lots will generate $20,000 per year of tax revenue to the taxing jurisdictions with no impact to the infrastructure as long as they remain unsold. If the DCC rate is tripled, you can be assured the next phase will not be developed in the near future.” He also had a recommendation. “At the very least, council should consider increasing the municipal [assist] factor to 50 per cent and phasing in the bylaw over the next six years, an acceptable alternative.” The phases he recommended included DCCs of $3,000 in 2015, $5,000 in 2017, $7,000 in 2019 and $9,000 in 2021. When the regular meeting resumed, Coun. Wesly Graham asked the developers in the audience, “How do we get you to show up to public input meetings? How do we get people engaged before it gets to a drop dead date?” “We are here based on the final product,” Rendek replied. “I’m not sure how our other ideas would have been accepted. But we have to be heard, just like the other ratepayers. DCCs have to be considered from a

food we grow would be put to good use and no one would be hungry.” He said one of the many Harvest Share benefits is “making donors feel like they are part of the community” by ensuring excess fruit is used for people who might struggle to put food on the table. Among the challenges that Fenrick copes with is trying to get freshly picked fruit into the hands of people who need it. “We picked about 2,000 pounds of pears in a two-day period recently, which is a lot of fruit to deal with in a short time,” he admitted. But temporary storage provided by the Creston Valley Chamber of Commerce and St. Stephen’s Presbyterian Church helped keep the pears in good shape until they could be distributed. Harvest Share has spread to include more than backyard fruit trees over the years. Some commercial orchards donate fruit and farmers invite volunteers to harvest vegetables, too. While some of the produce is distributed for immediate consumption, some organizations make pies and dry or can the fruit for later use. Some is used for school lunch programs. “It’s great how well the program is supported,” Fenrick said. To volunteer or donate to Harvest Share, contact Clayton Fenrick at 250-254-1165 or crestonharvestshare@gmail.com. development side, not just from a bureaucratic side.” Coun. Scott Veitch said that the bylaw could have been introduced last spring, but council objected. “Until recently this (bylaw) would have been a fait accompli, but a couple of councillors slowed it down so we could hear from developers,” he said. Coun. Judy Gadicke asked town manager Lou Varela if staff had any opposition to inviting “a little bit more consultation.” “DCCs are important discussions to developers and the general public,” Varela said. “We are starting into an OCP and DCCs usually go hand-inhand with OCPs. It seems very reasonable to refer discussion to the OCP process if council desires.” Council voted unanimously to refer development cost charges to the OCP process in 2015. Council Briefs •A request from the new owner of Creston Cab Co. to be included in a Taxi Saver program under BC Transit was referred to the Creston Valley Services Committee, because the public transit system is funded by the town and Regional District of Central Kootenay Areas B and C. A Taxi Saver program allows riders to purchase subsidized taxi rides as an alternative to the existing HandyDart service. •Budgeted funds for the Creston Valley Wildlife Management Authority have been released, finance director Steffan Klassen said. Council voted to accept an invitation to tour the Creston Valley Wildlife Management Area lands by head of operations MarcAndré Beaucher. •A request by a Cranbrook auto dealership to hold a sale in town was denied because it contravenes existing bylaws, which are already in the process of being revisited. •Council approved a request to allow Hawkview Estates Ltd. to install two community identification signs at the two entrances to the development.

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From page 1 With work in the Corn Creek and Leach Lake units nearly complete, the next major project will address infrastructure in the Six Mile Slough unit, west of Duck Lake. This year’s event will again be MCed by Tanya Wall, but guests will notice a difference — many more local products, including two paintings by Eileen Hirota, in the auctions. “Usually it’s really dominated by the stuff we get from the Ducks organization, and this year, we have more local items, including gift certificates from local businesses,” said Knafla. Local businesses, Knafla said, have been incredibly supportive, knowing that the money raised will stay in the community and go to a good cause. “People know where the money goes, and they have no qualms whatsoever about giving a donation to the wildlife centre,” said Knafla. Tickets are $45 for adults and $15 for children 17 and under (children’s tables will include activities), available by calling Gertie Brown at 250-4287581. Tickets purchased before Sept. 20 are eligible for an early bird draw.

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CRAWFORD BAY TRANSFER STATION WILL BE CLOSING TEMPORARILY FOR UPGRADING WORKS ON SEPTEMBER 22, 2014. THE SITE IS SCHEDULED TO REOPEN ON OCTOBER 26, 2014. TO ACCOMMODATE RESIDENTS GARBAGE DISPOSAL DURING THIS TIME, THE BOSWELL TRANSFER STATION WILL BE OPEN AS FOLLOWS:

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NOTICE TAX SALE OF REAL PROPERTY The properties listed hereunder will be sold at tax sale on Monday, September 29, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. local time, in the Council Chambers of Town Hall, 238 – 10th Avenue North, Creston, BC, unless the delinquent taxes and interest are paid before the stated time. The upset price will be the total of the outstanding taxes, plus interest and tax sale costs. Successful bidders will be required to immediately provide the upset price by cash, money order, or bank draft, with the balance of the purchase price being paid in a similar manner by 3:00 pm of the same day. Failure to pay the balance will result in the property being offered for sale again at 10:00 am on the following day. Bidders who are unable to attend the sale, must authorize an agent in writing, to bid on their behalf. The Town of Creston reserves the right to bid at the auction. Description Of Property

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Creston RCMP responded to 72 calls from Sept. 8-14, Staff Sgt. Bob Gollan said on Monday. September 8 •One of two brothers in their 80s chose to move out of their Canyon-Lister Road residence when police were called to break up a fight between them. •A bike found on Seventh Avenue South was returned to its owner when he called to report it missing. •A female reported that she lost a diamond ring while playing the piano in the Canyon Street Walkthrough. •Two vehicles were reported to be driving erratically and passing dangerously on Highway 3/95 but the licence plate numbers provided did not match the vehicle descriptions. •The driver of a Toyota pickup up who was reported to be driving erratically on Northwest Boulevard was located and warned. •Police are investigating an alleged fraud on 19th Avenue North. •The driver of a vehicle pulling a trailer turned too sharply in a Northwest Boulevard parking lot, damaging an older brown quarterton pickup. The owner of the brown pickup got into the truck and drove off before he could be told about the damage to his rear bumper. He can get information about the other driver, who reported the incident, from the RCMP. •A Highway 3 resident reported smelling marijuana but police were unable to verify a source. •A objectionable message was spray-painted on a vehicle parked at a Highway 3 residence. A person dressed all in black was seen leaving the area at about the same time. September 9 •A complaint from a visitor from Grande Prairie, Alta., who was receiving harassing text messages was referred to Alberta RCMP, where the messages originated. •Police assisted a Prince Rupert RCMP investigation by attending a Fifth Avenue North residence. •A vehicle on Pine Street was struck by a baseball that was hit from a playing field. The players voluntarily moved to a different part of the field to avoid a repeat incident.

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•A purple Roadmaster bike was found on Highway 21. September 10 •A white Dodge Caravan reported to be driving erratically near Summit Creek Bridge was not located. •A male and female reported to be fighting on Canyon Street were not located. •Police patrolled Mission Creek forest service road to assist US Border Patrol in checking possible illegal border crossing points. •When police attended a Clement Road residence they could not locate a person who reported an assault. •A hiker reported missing on Mount Thompson showed up as a search and rescue effort was being organized. September 11 •A Porthill Road resident reported a strong smell of marijuana. •Text messages from a troubled teen in Nelson were referred to Nelson RCMP. •A minor collision occurred on the Kootenay Lake ferry. •A vehicle whose driver hit the gas instead of brakes went up the front steps of a Dogwood Street residence and damaged the front door. September 12 •A male on Erickson Road was reported to be sitting on the ground and making strange noises. He just giggled when a citizen asked if he was OK. Police could not locate him. •The owner of dogs that have been straying onto a Canyon-Lister Road property has agreed to keep the dogs in check. •An Erickson Road resident complained that he was being defrauded at a gas station that wasn’t filling his tank as requested. Police attended the gas station with him, where they determined that his gas gauge is broken. •An overdue hunter near Porthill Road got disoriented in the dark and was unable to find his way out of the bush. He was contacted by cellphone and counselled to stay overnight. He was able to make his own way out when daylight arrived. September 13 •Police were unable to determine the source of a female’s screams near Dugan Street. •A hiker was bitten by a dog on Balancing Rock Trail but its male and female owners refused to acknowledge the incident before driving off in a white crew cab. The man needed hospital treatment for the bite. •A vehicle sustained extensive damage when it collided with a deer on Highway 21. •When police were called to keep the peace on Hillside Street, the subject of the complaint was gone. They did learn, though, that the caller had an outstanding warrant. He was arrested. •A hit and run was reported on Murdoch Street. •A motorcyclist crashed and required hospital treatment when he drove too fast for conditions on Highway 3A near Boswell. •A report of shots fired in the night near West Creston Road was referred to conservation officers. •A Hilton Place resident co-operated when informed about a noise complaint stemming from a party. September 14 •When police conducted a well-being check on a 16th Avenue North resident, they learned she had gone camping. See RCMP, page 5

SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 8 (KOOTENAY LAKE) FINANCE & OPERATIONS COMMITTEE MEETING at 2:00 P.M. BOARD MEETING at 5:00 P.M. (times are PST) Tuesday, September 23, 2014 Board Office, 570 Johnstone Road, Nelson BC Video Conferencing to Creston at: Creston Education Centre, 617-11th Ave S, Creston Public Welcome

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Province, BCTF reach tentative deal BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff

Becky Blair says she first heard of a proposed settlement of the teachers’ strike at 6:10 on Tuesday morning. “When I put my feet on the floor at 10 after 6 I looked at my email and learned we have a tentative agreement,” she said on Tuesday. “I yelled at my husband, ‘It’s done!’ ” The president of the Creston Valley School Teachers’ Association said teachers are ready to get back to their classrooms and students as soon as the deal is inked. “We know nothing about the details yet,” she said. Once the bargaining teams have ironed out the wording the BC Teachers’ Federation executive must approve it and put it to a membership vote.

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“We have already scheduled a meeting to go over the details with our teachers on Wednesday (yesterday) and I assume a vote will be held on Thursday (today),” she said. “We were ready to go back to work last Wednesday,” she said, referring to a Sept. 10 99.4 per cent yes vote by teachers to settle the dispute with binding arbitration, a proposal that was rejected by the government. Blair said it will take a day or two as teachers have to organize their classrooms. High school teachers don’t even have their teaching assignments in hand yet. There will be some upheaval as newcomers register their children and class structures are organized. Creston Valley schools have an advantage in that teachers did not picket schools over the summer, allowing CUPE workers to continue with maintenance schedules. “Our schools are ready to go.” Pickets will remain in place until the vote, but Blair doesn’t expect that teachers would vote down a negotiated settlement. “To her credit, Christy (Premier Clark) said she wanted a negotiated settlement and she didn’t waver from that,” Blair said. “We trust our bargaining team as a whole and our members will be thrilled to be back in the classroom, as will students and parents.”

•A car and motorcycle collided on Canyon Street. No injuries were reported. •A domestic incident on Sixth Avenue North is under investigation. •When police responded to a report of a male causing a disturbance in a Canyon Street business he was gone when

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CRESTON MUSEUM Once again, the Creston Museum is gearing up for its annual quilt show and sale. On Sept. 20, dozens of quilts will be on display at the museum. It has over 20 antique quilts in its collection, and local quilters are starting to bring in their own creations for display. This is the one day of the year that museum is completely upholstered in quilts and quilted items. The record is about 200 quilts on display in, around and over the regular exhibits. The entire museum becomes one big patchwork piece, bringing together every colour, texture and style, both new and old. The museum’s quilt show grew out of the Creston Valley Quilt Festival. When the festival started, the museum participated with an antique quilt show.But, a few years later, when the festival shut

down, the museum began showing all sorts of quilts, old and new. Since then, it has also added an opportunity for people to purchase one of these works of art for themselves. Local quilters and quilt owners are invited to loan their quilts to the museum for the day. Any quilt, of any size, and all quilted items are welcome. The show runs 10 a.m.4 p.m. Sept. 20, and admission is by donation. For more information, contact the museum at 250428-9262 or mail@creston. museum.bc.ca.

they arrived. •Police received a report that drugs were handed to two youths on scooters in exchange for money on Erickson Road. •A fight between a male and female adult on MacDonald Street is being investigated. Alcohol was a factor.

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It’s National Forest Week, a time for all Canadians to celebrate our forests. Plant a tree, tour a local mill or take a walk in the woods – these are just a few ways you can take part in National Forest Week. For a list of events happening around the province, check out our website: www.abcfp.ca or find us on Facebook: BC’s National Forest Week

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The first performance of the Creston Concert Society’s season takes place Oct. 7, not Oct. 1, as stated in the society’s press release last week.

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Museum exhibits covered with quilts in a previous year’s quilt show.

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Threats and opportunities

Last week I attended a daylong sewer grates. Of course when the workshop on climate resilience orga- system can’t absorb the heavy rainnized by Columbia Basin Trust’s fall, properties are flooded and the Communities Adapting to Climate damage can be significant. Change Initiative. It was an interestChanges in the way snow packs ing day, and not only because of the at higher elevations form were also convincing information we were given. On the surface, local data about climate change doesn’t seem that convincing. Creston is one of a handful of B.C. communities that has reliable weather data for more than a century, and the average Lorne Eckersley temperature has only increased by about two degrees. Step outside and odds are noted. An increase in freeze-thaw cycles creates more instability in the you wouldn’t be able to tell the snowpack, increasing the likelihood difference in a two-degree swing of avalanches, as top layers tend to in temperature. slide off lower ones. But the cumulative effects There are many downsides to cliappear to be significant. We also mate change, of course. But I was saw data indicating a more drapleased to hear the facilitators tell us matic increase in “sudden” weather events, notably huge downpours that our group was unique among communities where this workshop of rain in a very short time. These was previously held. Our focus, on 100-year storms, as they were once referred to, are now occurring each the whole, was positive. We saw our abundance of water availability, 20 years or less. Ten-year or 20-year events of the past might be especially for agriculture, as a plus. We certainly have the potential to annual now. So how does that affect us local- store water in the spring so that it ly? Well, for one it means that gov- will be ready for use in the drier summer months. ernments have to revisit their It is really our agriculture that infrastructure plans. Storm sewer sets us apart. With a large part of systems that worked until recently — except for those 100-year storms our Creston Valley capable of producing food products, we have — now might be more regularly options that other communities simfound to be incapable of handling ply don’t. And no doubt our 17,000 heavy downpours. We have seen acres of wetlands is another of our more and more rainfalls in recent years at our home where the top of strengths. Late in our session, I sat at a the paved area of 16th Avenue table whose assignment was to disNorth becomes a river that drags cuss agriculture and we were lucky gravel down from the unpaved road further up. The water literally to have the Town of Creston’s new flows right overtop the storm planner, Jamai Schile, working here

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on a contract to oversee a new Official Community Plan, contributing with us. She is extremely knowledgeable about agricultural issues and how they relate to community planning, having written her master’s thesis on a related topic. Listening to her contributions, I began to fantasize about how great it would be to have a Creston Valley planner who could work with the greater community to envision a future that adapts to changes in not only climate, but population and land use. And I couldn’t help but wonder if it wouldn’t make sense to do an agricultural land use study that identifies and maps the best potential use of each piece of agricultural land in the valley. What a great tool that could be for landowners who are unaware of what opportunities their land might hold! Instead of doing the same old same old, or nothing at all, such a mapping tool could encourage people to look at land from an entirely different perspective. It could be of great value to aging owners who are looking to sell, allowing them to promote their land not just on its traditional use, but its potential. We have some interesting options as we look forward. If we get caught up in gloom and doom mode, that’s exactly what we will get. But if we can see that new opportunities will also be possible, we can get to work sooner rather than later. Working toward something is always better than sitting back and waiting for something to happen. Lorne Eckersley is the publisher of the Creston Valley Advance.

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Class size, composition important to education To the Editor: I am a parent of two students, a taxpayer and a teacher with 24 years’ experience, and it is time I wrote and publicly weighed in on the conversation regarding Teacher’s Contract negotiations with the BC Public School Employers’ Association. So what is this sticking point of class size and composition? I feel the BC Teachers’ Federation has not done a great job at explaining what this means to the public, especially people who are paying taxes and don’t have school age children of their own. Class size goes hand in hand with composition. Thirty motivated, capable students in an intermediate class can be a great situation. They can focus for a period of time, ask questions and get the help they need. But a class like this rarely happens. Students are arriving at schools with more and more special needs. Do parents, grandparents and the general public even know what the different issues are that are happening in classrooms? Among them are ADHD (attention deficit), OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder), FASD (fetal alcohol syndrome disorder), autism, mild intellectual disabilities, moderate intellectual disabilities and physical disabilities. The policy of inclusion of all students in a classroom is an important one, and it is a win-win for all involved IF there is enough support. Otherwise it is just lip service and not a positive experience for anyone. I have spent entire school days with child care workers, social workers, mental health care professionals and parole officers. I am supposed to be teaching algebra or how to write a five-paragraph essay, not dealing with all of this! My professional development days are increasingly about these issues. We feed students breakfast, healthy snacks and lunches. Most of my own children’s clothes that they have outgrown are given to students. Our job has changed so much over the years — it’s still all about the students, but not what it used to be. Teachers are getting classes with more challenging students and bigger numbers. I can handle the various learning differences most of the time, but with some students with severe behaviour (documented history of violence or impulse control issues) a class’s learning environment can be destroyed. If this is a high school class, it is one hour and 20 minutes of your day, then the group moves on to a new class, and it isn’t that bad. But if it is an elementary class, these students are together all day daily. You are dealing with this group constantly for a whole year. The Learning Improvement Fund (LIF) is meant to get help for these

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classes overcrowded with issues. But you have to apply, get rejected, apply (or beg) again, get some help (never enough) but by then it’s November or December. If one per cent of the 30,000 classes in B.C. are in this situation, that is 300 classes times 30 students: 9,000 students and 300 teachers. Do those 9,000 students not count? Do those 300 teachers deserve a year of hell trying to meet those needs, and beat themselves up each night knowing they couldn’t? This is what class size and composition are about. I do not blame the students; they were put in that configuration because there was no contract preventing it. LIF money is the government acknowledging some classrooms are unworkable and offering a BandAid. Class size and composition language are a prevention. To those many people who honk, wave or even drop off coffee and donuts, thank you so much. The support is greatly appreciated. To those few who boo (or worse) the picketing teachers and CUPE workers, please pull in and join us in a discussion of the situation. Allison Kepke Lister

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are asking for eight per cent over five years. That is 1.6 per cent per year. With inflation running over two per cent, the teachers will be losing purchasing power and I have to ask: Are the other unions losing purchasing power faster than the teachers? When I bought my first house in 1962 it was a renovated duplex in the Kitsilano area. It cost $17,500 and the real estate agent advised us that the payments should be less than 25 per cent of after-tax income. I hear that homeowners are now paying 60-70 per cent of their monthly income for a similar home and the purchase price is close to $1 million. And Christy Clark doesn’t want wages to keep up with the inflation rate? Sorry, Christy, that is an express train ride to excessive debt, bankruptcies and a collapsing market economy. If the wage earners, who are the market, are not paid enough to meet the prices set by the one per cent without overloading themselves with debt, then the economic activities generally set in motion as a function of supply and demand cannot get started. The wage earners must be paid enough to meet the prices set by the suppliers for the cycle of supply and demand and employment to work, and that wage should be the goal of union/company negotiations. Peter Ross Lister

Inflation rate, wages must Is housing meet to up development buying power actually ‘affordable’?

To the Editor: A couple of weeks ago, Education Minister Peter Fassbender announced that Premier Christy Clark had put him completely in charge of negotiations with B.C. schoolteachers. A few days later, Clark announced the government can only negotiate with the teachers when they go back to work. Whatever happened to the Fassbender being in charge? And since, as is usual with employer-employee contract negotiations, the union goes out on strike only when the employer won’t negotiate reasonably while they are working, Christy has presented the teachers with a real loselose Hobson’s choice. The premier has also declined the teachers’ offer to submit to binding arbitration. Of course she did, because, as a right wing government, she does not want to lose control of anything, even to the judiciary that found she could not exclude class size and other working conditions from being negotiated. Perhaps she does not realize that smaller classes mean more teachers, the job creation she has been touting. Christy tells us the teachers are asking for twice what other unions are getting but much of what the teachers are asking for is improvements to the public education system and that benefits the future of Canada. For their own benefit they

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To the Editor: (Re: “Ground broken on housing project”, Aug. 14 Advance) Maybe someone can help me with the math. The Advance listed $400,000 from B.C. and Canada, $400,000 from the Columbia Basin Trust, $400,000 in long-term financing, $26,000 equity, and $100,000 in grants or project savings. If the $100,000 is project savings, the total cost is $1,126,000 or an average of $187,700 per unit. If the $100,000 is grants, the total cost is $1,326,000 or an average of $221,000 per unit. How is this “affordable housing”? There are approximately 50 residential units for sale within Creston right now on the multiple listing service website for less than $200,000, some a lot less than $200,000. Yes, some are pretty rough, but not most. Admittedly it was 2009, but I purchased a nice condo on Hillside Street for $100,000 plus closing costs. It would seem that, by purchasing existing housing, more units could have been obtained for the same money. Or the same number of units for less money. So what is wrong with my math? Peter Bulkowski Calgary

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Thursday, September 18, 2014 Creston Valley Advance

Library partners with community Just $3 for an untimed shower The Book

What do the Breastfeeding Mamas, Creston Valley Hospice Society, Creston Valley Cruisers, Erickson History Group and Teen Action Committee have in common?

recognition of this, the club will host a fundraising tea on Nov. 15, with all proceeds going to the library. Last year’s event raised over $500 to help support library programming and services. Come by and enjoy some tea and homemade goodies with these wonderful ladies of our community! In addition to our meeting room, the library also provides office space to a number Aaron Francis of local organizations. The Teen Action Creative minds might come up Committee and Creston Valley with more entertaining solutions, Early Years both make their home but the most straightforward in the library. Tutors with the answer is: Each of these groups — Columbia Basin Alliance for along with countless other local Literacy make frequent use of our community clubs and organizations office for literacy instruction. — make use of the library’s meeting Partnering with local organizations room on a regular basis. in this way saves money for our Every one of these clubs and community and makes more effiorganizations contribute to the cient use of scarce public resources. community in unique ways. Take The library works in partnership the Creston Valley Embroidery with community agencies in other Guild, for instance. Besides provid- ways as well. On Oct. 4, for examing an opportunity for amateur ple, Creston will host the first annuembroidery aficionados to get al “baby picnic”, a joint production together and practice their craft, of the library, Interior Health, they also design and produce Totes Family Place and Dots to Tots. The for Cancer — handmade bags dis- event will provide parents and tributed free of charge to any babies an opportunity to come woman diagnosed with cancer in together in a fun, informal setting the Creston area as a practical ges- and learn about all of the commuture of support and understanding. nity resources and services availSince 2005, over 80 of these bags able to them. The event will take have been given away. You can place 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Oct. 4 in the view their most recent designs in Creston Education Centre gym. the display case in the library. The library’s pear trees, currentCommunity clubs like the ly laden with ripe, organic fruit, are embroidery guild use the library’s another example of community meeting on a “by donation” basis. In partnerships in action. The trees

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were pruned in the spring by students of College of the Rockies horticultural program as a training exercise under the direction of Dave Mutch. The resulting bounty will be picked by Harvest Share volunteers and given to the food bank for local citizens in need. It is small things like this that make Creston so unique, and that will provide the basis for our future growth and success as a community. In addition to our many local partners, the library also works closely with regional and provincial agencies such as the Kootenay Library Federation, BC Libraries Cooperative, British Columbia Library Association, and the Libraries and Literacy Branch of the provincial government. By taking advantage of economies of scale, we are able to offer services and programs far beyond what we could by relying local resources and capabilities alone. With the ever-increasing financial pressure on families, businesses and non-profit organizations alike, it is imperative that we work together to ensure that every dollar of public funds is put to best possible use. Have some ideas on potential partnership opportunities? Email, phone or drop by to talk to me in person. I would love to hear from you! Aaron Francis is the chief librarian at the Creston Valley Public Library.

Students deserve classrooms with resources

On Sept. 2, I was reading my Facebook news feed, keeping up with the daily posts from many of those whom I represent. Several posts were from parents talking about how that day was supposed to be the first day of school for their children. One parent posted the photo that should have been the annual memory for heading back to class. Her daughter was wearing her backpack, new school clothes and a big smile. The only thing missing was a classroom to step into.

In Your Corner Michelle Mungall The next day, the headlines in most of B.C.’s local and provincial news focused on parents taking action to support teachers. In Maple Ridge, parents wanted to speak with their MLA, but were locked out of the office. Similar scenes took place across the province at Liberal MLA offices. Meanwhile, the premier posted four tweets and one Facebook message about the dispute before taking to the mike to deliver unfactual details about the bargaining process. After that, she was absent again, offering nothing to the 500,000 kids who are missing out on their education. Such absence is ridiculous and irresponsible. The minister of education has shown that he cannot be trusted at the bargaining table, failing to respect the basic premises of fair bargaining and the agreed-upon rules to hammer out a deal. Meanwhile, the premier and her Liberal MLAs are MIA. The public deserves more than this. Our kids deserve classrooms with the resources they need to succeed. Two months ago, I wrote in the about how kids are missing out because teachers are overstretched and under-resourced in classrooms with too many kids, more of whom require special attention that they just can’t get. See TEACHERS, page 13

Autumn has always been a time of change, a bit more noticeable to me, than spring, as the move to green is less noticeable than the often quick change to the fall reds and yellows. Often, we are doing our annual fall trips to visit kids (and now grandkids) in Alberta so the changes can be that much more dramatic as we leave our little paradise and head to the frozen prairies. We made a loop through Alberta early September and after driving for miles beside swathed fields of canola, it solidified what time of year it was. Back home a few days later, the fickleness of Mother Nature was also demonstrated by the sight on TV of many of those crops under a blanket of snow.

From the Centre Neil Ostafichuk

I did notice a tie-in back to our facility at a truck stop outside of Hanna, Alta., where we stopped for a java refueling and behind the cash register was a sign that stated showers were $12 plus a deposit. My first thought was, ‘What are you doing with a shower that it requires a deposit?’ but I was reminded of a conversation at our front desk during the summer where a couple young ladies were not impressed with our $3 charge for a shower and they left, presumably for Goat River or the lake. Depending on other bookings and availability, we do offer showers year-round (not just fruit picking season) and as an example, this last three months we saw about 215 guests come in for cleansing. The bit of revenue we obtain helps to cover water, heat and custodial, among other items, but it also provides a service to those campers, pickers and cyclists that form part of our community, if only for a short while. I was also reminded of our trip to Haida Gwaii this summer where we stayed at a RV park where we were actually forewarned about the length of the coin-operated shower. (I won’t say where but it starts with M and rhymes with asset.) I dutifully plugged in my loonie and started counting one thousand-one, one thousand-two until it clicked off at 42 seconds. Crap. It took me 20 seconds to get the right temperature but nevertheless I dutifully lathered up, plugged in a second loonie and got fully rinsed before the next 42 seconds ran out. I actually felt like raising my arms in the air like a cowboy at a calf roping event in celebration of a beating a certain time. Actually, if we all took showers like that, or maybe three loonies’ worth if you have long hair, we might have less water shortages. I however, am a realist, as well, having raised teenage boys (which are the single biggest contributors to draining a hot water tank in a household), so I don’t think $3 for an untimed shower at the complex is excessive. On the home front, we have pretty much wrapped up the upstairs renovation at the Rotacrest Hall as mentioned in the Sept. 11 Advance and are now heading downstairs to do the same. You won’t recognize the place; new paint, flooring, renovated bathrooms and lighting are a few of the changes, so if you are looking for a smaller venue for a wedding or party, you really need to have a look as you check out options around the valley — you’ll be impressed! No showers though… Neil Ostafichuk is the recreation supervisor at the Creston and District Community Complex.

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