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Uplifting voices Singers from the Watoto Children’s Choir perform at Five Corners Church on Friday, Feb. 6. The choir is a group of African children’s choirs based in Uganda. Each is composed of about 22 children in a program formed to help the overwhelming number of orphaned children in the region. EVAN BUHLER/OBSERVER
Weather prompts slides, flooding Shuswap: House washes away in Anglemont, mud and debris cause problems on highway. By Martha Wickett & Barb Brouwer OBSERVER STAFF
Warm weather, heavy rain and melting snow has resulted in flooding in pockets of the Shuswap. Witnesses say a section of road at the upper end of Vickers Trail in Anglemont Estates gave way on Sunday, Feb. 8, destroying a seasonal home on Hudson Road. The house was pushed about 12 meters and turned sideways by the mud. Along with the house, power lines were downed by the landslide of debris. The Anglemont Volunteer Fire
Department was called in because of trees burning over the electrical lines. Barriers have been put up to stop traffic from entering the area. Cliff Doherty, Shuswap Emergency Program co-ordinator, cautions people not to travel past the road barricades as portions of the road have disappeared. On Monday, Feb. 9, Highway 97A was closed in both directions near Two Mile, between Swansea Point and Sicamous Creek, about 4:30 p.m. Janet McQuhae, fire chief of the Swansea Point Volunteer Fire Department, said a minor mud flow came down a driveway and flowed
onto the highway. A Drive BC update noted the mudslide meant the highway was reduced to single-lane, alternating traffic while a loader removed the debris. The road was partially closed for about two hours. In Silver Creek, residents are also dealing with flooding. Doherty said residents near the Silver Creek town centre have asked for sandbags and sand to put between their houses and the hillside to divert water. As well, three other calls to the
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EVERY SECOND FRIDAY EVAN BUHLER/OBSERVER
From rain to sun and back again: At left, a man walks on the wharf in the rain Saturday, while on Sunday people enjoyed the sunshine and record warm temperatures.
Warm weather breaks records Continued from front emergency program had been received by press time Tuesday regarding flooding along the Salmon Valley Road caused by plugged ditches or culverts. Doherty suggests that if property or structures are prone to high water, residents may wish to take precautionary steps. “Make sure swales are clear, and water is flowing into nearby ditches rather than water starting to pool and collect.” He said if the public is in urgent need
of sandbags to protect property or structures, some have been placed in the parking lot to the south of the SASCU Sports Complex at Little Mountain on 30th Street in Salmon Arm. A truckload of sand has also been dumped there. He says if residents call the Columbia Shuswap Regional District’s Emergency Program, they will be directed to that parking lot. The weather responsible for some of the flooding is definitely warmer than usual. Environment Canada reports that two long-
standing temperature records were broken in Salmon Arm in the past few days. On Friday, Feb. 6, the mercury soared to 11.1 C at the Salmon Arm Airport, breaking the record of an even 10 C set in 1963. The sun raised the temperature to 11.5 degrees Sunday, beating out the old record of 9.5 C set in 1978. “For the meantime, temperatures are going to be five and six degrees above normal,” said Environment Canada meteorologist Matt MacDonald on Monday, noting normal high temperatures are in the
neighbourhood of plus 2 C, not the plus 8, expected this week. MacDonald says the southwest weather pattern will shift, bringing cooler air. It won’t be a cold snap, but will bring more normal temperatures through the second half of February compared to the mild start to the month.
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Twins arrive in truck Birth: Hunter Dodge and Nevada Sierra born en route to Kamloops.
that I would have to have them at a hospital,” she said. “So, I guess in a way, I kind of feel like I got a little bit of my home birth.” In another twist to the story, the truck in which the twins were born has some reality TV credits to its name. It’s the vehicle Guilbault and her husband used while filming Yukon Gold, a show focused on mining, which added the couple to its cast for its third season. New episodes featuring the pair begin airing on History Canada on Feb. 25.
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The Dodge pickup is old and beaten up after summers of mining in the Yukon, but Nika Guilbault thinks she might need to hold onto it for another 16 years. By then, her newborn twins, Henry Dodge and Nevada Sierra, will be old enough to get behind the wheel — and how many teens can say they’re driving the same truck in which they were born? When Guilbault woke up in the middle of the night on Jan. 28, sure she was going into labour at her Sorrento home, she knew from experience she’d have to get to Royal Inland Hospital as quickly as possible. Her first daughter, now two, had also been a fast birth. “We knew it could be quite quick, but it was faster than we thought,” Guilbault told KTW. “I basically went from not any contractions to full labour and having a baby within half-an-hour — and it’s an hour drive from Sorrento to Kamloops.” As husband Chris St. Jean steered the truck down the highway — coaching his wife on her breathing while holding the phone so Guilbault could talk to her midwife — baby Nevada was born. “I had to give her two breaths of air to
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Salmon posting good returns Fish count: Chinook, sockeye numbers go up, coho still down slightly. By Barb Brouwer OBSERVER STAFF
The numbers of salmon going through a Silver Creek fish fence in the fall are reason for cautious optimism. Volunteer Gene Puetz has been counting chinook, sockeye and coho on the Salmon River near his residence for 30 years. This year Puetz counted 863 chinook – up from 660 four years ago and 576 sockeye up from the brood year count of 327. But not all the numbers were on the rise. Puetz reports that the coho count was down a little – 603 fish from the 737 in their breed year three years ago. “Things have been improving in general,” he said, pointing out water levels in the river were good all year. “I would guess maybe they’re not getting over fished.” In terms of the coho Things have been numbers being down this year, Puetz wonders improving in general. if they were incidental I would guess maybe catch in the large comthey’re not getting mercial, First Nations over fished. and recreational fisheries held on the Fraser River in 2014. “I would expect they were incidental catch Gene Puetz with sockeye,” Puetz FISH COUNT said. “There was a lot VOLUNTEER of commercial fishing in the whole Fraser and two seine boats in Kamloops Lake.” Puetz says it’s not as if the coho run was decimated but it’s always a bit disappointing to see the numbers going down. “We’re cautiously optimistic; we’re seeing things that we haven’t see for a while,” said Richard Bailey, Fisheries and Oceans Canada program head of chinook and coho stock assessment for the Fraser River, who explained the variables are complex. “Suffice it to say we’re seeing some production that we haven’t seen for a while… and there is some cause for optimism.” In terms of the incidental catch of coho in the sockeye fishery, Bailey says fisheries is looking into the issue. “There’s a lot of work going on now because they would have been caught and released,” Bailey said. “Counting them is not as easy as it would be if they were in bins on the docks.”
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Deborah Chapman In 1990, the Museum Association at RJ Haney Heritage Village was looking for a curator/archivist at the Salmon Arm Museum. Deborah Chapman got the job. With her wry, self-deprecating humour, she says she didn’t know bathrooms were involved. Today, she still holds the position and is famous for her cemetery tours. After high school and college in Kamloops, BC, Deborah and her husband, Dennis Zachernuk, moved to Nova Scotia. She attended St. Mary’s University. Dennis went to Dalhousie. He earned a law degree and Deborah a degree in Archeology, as well as a diploma in Early Childhood Education from the Nova Scotia Teachers’ College. During the seven years they lived in student housing with two kids, Deborah ran a babysitting co-op whose members exchanged labour and helped run a food co-op as well. She also volunteered at The Citadel, cataloguing historic archaeological artefacts. Westerners at heart, Deborah and Dennis returned to Vancouver after obtaining their degrees, where their third child was born, then moved to Prince George. There she got involved with kids’ activities and non-profits, sitting on the Little League board, volunteering in the schools and as a Beaver leader. She founded and ran a family daycare. She volunteered at the Fraser Fort George Regional Museum, where she took her first museum course. She continued with museum and archival studies after the family moved to Salmon Arm in 1989, where Dennis took up a position with a legal firm. Deborah carried on with her volunteer work, chairing the board of the Salmon Arm Sockeyes Swim Club and continuing to help in the schools her children attended. In 1991 she began collecting hearing aids for third world countries after her godmother introduced her to the program. She became a volunteer with the Salmon Arm Community Heritage Commission in 2009 and she’s been the regional representative of the Archives Association of BC for the past eight years. Being socially responsible is a Chapman family trait; volunteerism is a way of life for her.
Deborah was recently credited with a staff writer byline by the Salmon Arm Observer newspaper, probably, she says, because she’s written so many articles for the paper. “Must be volunteer work too, because I haven’t seen a paycheque yet,” she said with her tongue wedged firmly in her cheek. She and Dennis now have two granddaughters who live with their parents in Japan that they don’t see often enough. They also have two surrogate grandchildren here in Salmon Arm and Deborah loves volunteering in their classrooms. They’ve already created their first museum exhibit. In 2006 Deborah was invited to volunteer on the Shuswap Community Foundation’s Grants Committee, working under the tutelage of Lois Higgins. She had been helping the Chase Museum write grant applications and wanted to help other small charitable organizations access grants to fund activities in their communities. She was appointed to the board in 2008 and took over as Chair of the Grants Selection and Grants in Aid Committees in 2009, a position she continues to hold. “If we work together we can make a big difference and that difference can make our community a better place.” Deborah has spent a lifetime making her community a better place while her community continues to shape her. Shuswap Community Foundation is indeed fortunate to have a person of Deborah’s integrity and compassion on its board.
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The crowd was not huge, but reaction was very positive. Some 75 people attended a presentation on Systems Ecology; Holistic Planning for Today and Tomorrow at the Salmar Classic Theatre on Feb. 3. Systems ecologist Barry Wilson and Salmon Arm Secondary teacher Dave Ramsay have combined their talents and love for science and the planet to create the BC Tomorrow Society. The purposes of the society are to better understand the process of sustainable planning and explore options for balancing human landuse with ecological integrity. To take this into schools, Wilson and Ramsay are developing innovative computer software and related educational tools that interactively explore land use in local watersheds and develop critical thinking skills and improved understanding of system dynamics. Early in the presentation, Wilson explained that systems ecology provides holistic un-
derstanding of humans, natural forces and landscapes in a way that takes into account people, the planet and prosperity – a system that “makes sense of a hairball of data.” Ramsay explained that when he saw the Shuswap Environmental Action’s Shuswap Watershed Project in 2010, he had a eureka moment about why he was teaching students about other areas when he could be teaching them about their own. He earned his masters in education based on a curriculum he built around the Shuswap watershed and has integrated parts of it into his own science classes. He says BC Tomorrow’s software will allow students to begin to understand how to apply a systems approach. BC Tomorrow is using a template for their software based on a similar program in Alberta. Ramsay recently visited a Grade 4 classroom in that province where Alberta Tomorrow is being taught and is excited by the concepts the students not only grasped but were able to share succinctly. He noted the concepts introduced at the Grade 11-12 level are
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four decades (in Salmon Arm).” Derkaz was impressed the critical thinking skills and systems approach to learning are being brought to the schools. “And I liked the
older kids teaching the younger; it’s very positive,” she said, expressing concern for youth disengagement she has seen, particularly in voting. Also in attendance, and very supportive, was Mayor Nancy Cooper. “One of the things I was very interested in was teaching kids about cause and effect,” she said. “There’s a lot more variables. What are we really doing… we can look at this and say, if we cut all the trees, or if we drain all the watersheds, what’s going to happen? It’s relevant and exciting for the future.” Both women had high praise for Dan MacQuarrie who sponsored the event presented by Okanagan College through his MacQuarrie Institute lecture series.
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Pity those poor B.C. government spokespeople. Imagine how horrible it must be to have your name stripped and be known only by your job title: “Hey, plumber! Come fix my toilet!” In the government’s case, it’s spokesperson. As in: “If we don’t fix the road this year we might do it next year,” said a spokesperson for the Transportation Ministry. According to legend, reporters used to be able to call a person to get information about something and then attribute the information to that very same person. That still works for the most part today, but not if the person works for the B.C. government. In that case, a reporter usually gets directed to a communications officer who works for the province’s Government Communications and Public Engagement branch. The communications officer takes the request, formulates a response that includes a couple of key messages and little of substance, then sends it back to the reporter via email with a stipulation the information be attributed to the spokesperson, but not by name. Let me give you an example. Penticton RCMP issued a press release in September claiming it cost $250,000 to police Boonstock and urging the promoter to settle up with the government. I sent the Justice Ministry a few questions related to the release, mainly regarding whether the government had received any payment from Boonstock, and received some answers from a spokesman with a caveat that the response was “not for attribution.” I followed up with a spokesman and was told there was “no one available” that day to which the information could be attributed, despite the fact a living human presumably crafted the response. So in my story I attributed the information to “an unsigned statement” hoping that would draw the ire of readers. It didn’t. A month later I did a follow-up story about the Boonstock police bill and asked the same spokesman if the promoter had settled up yet. The one-sentence response said no, and I included it in my story and attributed it to the spokesman by name since he didn’t say otherwise. Sure enough, he called the next day to ask why I used his name. Seems he caught some flak for getting his name in print. Naughty boy. Some spokespeople have told me off the record they’re only required to drop their names when working for a minister who wants to be the sole spokesman in his kingdom, ostensibly to avoid confusing the public. Although there are some politicians with egos big enough to support that theory, I don’t buy it. Most of us understand the difference between a spokesperson and a minister. It looks to me like a way to dodge accountability, since it’s hard to hold unnamed people to account, which is silly when we’re talking about people who are paid by the public to communicate with the public.Granting people anonymity is – or ought to be – a rarity in journalism, reserved for cases when a source’s safety or employment is at risk by speaking out, not when quoting a paid professional communicator who is just doing his job. - Joe Fries is a reporter with the Penticton Western News
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The Observer asked: Should the city borrow $500,000 to improve Blackburn Park?
Emily Doyle “I think something like that would be used a lot in our town and they have a great financial plan for it.”
Lisa Giddens “Anything that keeps the kids out of trouble is a good idea, just like the skate park.”
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Tom Fletcher VICTORIA – Premier Christy Clark’s push to “re-engineer” the B.C. education system is moving ahead aggressively in B.C.’s 25 post-secondary institutions. One of the first tasks for Andrew Wilkinson in his new role as advanced education minister was to outline the shift in operating grants for colleges and universities to in-demand occupations. By 2017, a quarter of the money for post-secondary institutions will be directed to areas where labour force surveys forecast a need. This was greeted with some alarm when it was announced last year. Simon Fraser University president Andrew Petter at first downplayed the coming skills shortage as “relatively small” and warned against pushing post-secondary institutions into a “zero sum battle for dollars.” Petter has since come on board, as his approving comments were featured in the ministry’s Jan. 26 news release detailing the shift. He and others have been assured that in spite of Clark’s rhetoric, suggesting trades training is in and university is out, the news for SFU and other universities isn’t all that bleak. Wilkinson is completing a provincewide tour of all post-secondary institutions this week, and I reached him at his visit to Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops. “The response to this has generally been pretty good, because the students are putting this pressure on institutions themselves,” he said. “Some of the institutions are … shrinking things like teacher education and putting more effort into the science-based, quantitative fields that are often related to these in-demand occupations.” The surplus of teacher graduates has been noticeable for some time, but that’s largely a function of oversupply, much of it in urban areas. In the Cariboo, for example, teaching jobs are projected to have
the highest number of openings by 2022, followed by nursing and retail and wholesale trade managers. Then come heavy duty mechanics and electricians, but also paraprofessional jobs in legal, social, community and educational services. Province-wide, it’s part of a broader demographic shift to fewer children and more retirees. In fact the government started this targeted funding a decade ago with health care, forcing universities to produce more doctors, nurses, lab techs and so forth. The retiring baby boom is expected to account for more than half of the openings in the next decade, which will expand the skills demand across most fields, beyond the trades training for the anticipated liquefied natural gas industry and other highdemand industrial areas such as truck driving. Wilkinson notes that of the ministry’s $1.9 billion budget, about 60 per cent goes into general post-secondary education, for introductory courses that students take when they are seeking a career path, through undergraduate studies to professions. “So I think the idea that we’re going to somehow minimize or diminish funding in that general education, arts and science category is just not true,” he said. Key to this shift is measuring the performance of courses offered at colleges, universities and technical schools. Each year, the ministry surveys about 30,000 graduates to find out whether their studies helped them find a related job. The results are available on a website that breaks them out by institution and general study area. To find it, do a web search for “BC student outcomes” and select the “executive dashboard” to check the results for courses and schools in your region. The site provides charts showing the percentage of students who land relevant jobs. Not surprisingly, it tends to be higher for technical programs and lower for fine arts. It also shows grads’ average wages, a sobering but useful bit of information for high school students and their parents.
An open letter to Greg Kyllo, Shuswap MLA: Last Sunday, one of our realtors at Royal LePage Access Real Estate was tragically killed west of Salmon Arm. Mary Gould’s car was hit by an out of control semi-trailer on a precarious corner on our grossly inadequate two-lane TransCanada Highway. This morning on the news, a mayor from the Lower Mainland was trying to convince people to vote “yes” to improve transit in the region. He said that if this doesn’t go through, people’s commutes would go from 30 minutes to one hour. Now compare that extra
commute time to a life. If people choose to live in the over-populated, urbanized area, traffic congestion is something they just have to deal with. Losing a life, should not be less important! The B.C. government has stated many parts of the Trans-Canada Highway will be upgraded over the next 10 years. Sadly, I don’t feel that’s good enough. Given the importance of the Trans-Canada as a major trade route and the thousands of families that use it every day, this should be a project that is fasttracked to complete fourlaning from Kamloops to the Alberta border as soon
as physically possible. Many of us would love to see you, as MLA for the Shuswap, champion this cause. Besides, many of those commuters from the Lower Mainland come up and use these highways to access the beaches and ski hills that make our area the jewel that it is. They would see the benefits of that too. I am requesting a meeting to discuss the government’s position and see if we can come up with a way to raise the four-laning on the priority list.
Marv Beer, Broker/ Owner, Royal LePage Access Real Estate
Beware of political fear-mongering Instead of succumbing to Prime Minister Harper’s obvious political fearmongering, Canadians should fear and oppose his government’s secret police legislation. Many mainstream media have published editorials condemning the new powers proposed for CSIS, yet opposition parties have been carefully side-stepping the issue so as to not appear soft on terrorism in advance of the upcoming federal election. Security experts explain that we are more at risk of being killed by lightning, than by a terrorist, yet when Harper introduced the legislation he claimed, “Jihadist terrorism is not a future possibility, it is a present reality. It seeks to
harm us here in Canada, in our cities and in our neighbourhoods through horrific acts.” Why are Canadians falling for this jingoistic lingo and why are they lining up to watch the right-wing propaganda movie, American Sniper? What has happened to our reputation as a peace-loving country that cares about the disenfranchised? Instead of aid, we send bombs to the Mideast and now our democracy is further at risk from this legislation that proposes to undermine our civil liberties and provide police powers to a secret organization that has little oversight by Parliament. Perhaps one of the greatest fears of the proposed legislation is that it pro-
vides the secret police the ability to take action against those who protest resource development here in Canada. If pipeline companies are able to pass through the legal hurdles they now face with the court cases underway and begin construction, the legislation could see protest disrupted before it begins and those who plan civil disobedience in jail even before they try to block the bulldozers. The RCMP was aware of the danger that the Ottawa shooter posed, but did not take action. Canada needs to do a better job with the tools it has, instead of imposing new laws that take away our freedoms.
Jim Cooperman
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Following high trails in Nepal
V.T. Moberley, Uno Hillstrom and Karl Wallensteen crossed the lake on skis from Sunnybrae to Salmon Arm. Double stitched white hemstitched sheets were on sale at the S.A.F.E for $1.49. At a meeting held in the office of C.R. Barlow, with Ald. Thomson in the chair, arrangements were made to stage a demonstration of ski jumping.
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1935
Eileen MacDonald, Maureen McTavish and Ruth Brighouse gifted their porters with new sunglasses, which they loved.
The federal government brought in its Unemployment Insurance Bill to which employees and employers would contribute an equal portion. The government would contribute one-fifth and assume the cost of administration. Youth would receive $1.50 a week if unemployed, and after contributing 40 weeks, an adult men, $6. The total amount of butter produced at the creamery in 1933 was 218,532,307 pounds valued at $43,381,524.
1945
Cpl. Harold A. LaClaire, son of Mr. and Mrs. LaClaire, was awarded the Military Medal for gallantry in action. Cpl. LaClaire was serving with the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Infantry Battalion in the Italian theatre of war. The Rex featured Hail the Conquering Hero starring Eddie Braken. In appreciation of 10 years of service as president of the Women’s Auxiliary of St. John’s Anglican Church, Mrs. A.P. Suckling was honoured at a social gathering held at the home of Mrs. Rex Lingford.
1955
The increase in salaries granted by an arbitration board meant a boost of $9,368 in the payroll of Salmon Arm’s 74 teachers. Estimated cost of operating and maintaining schools in Salmon Arm School District No. 20 during 1955 was $462,519. Salmon Arm Machine Shop invited readers to view the Volkswagen automobile, the amazing success story of which had appeared in the current issue of MacLean’s Magazine.
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our Salmon Arm women celebrated highs and lows on a 12-day trek in the mountains of Nepal. Eileen MacDonald, Ruth Brighouse, Maureen McTavish and Joyce Johnson were hiking the Anapurna Sanctuary trail in mid-October when avalanches triggered by a cyclone killed 45 people and injured some 170 on the Anapurna Circuit located on the other side of the mountain. Brighouse and MacDonald sat down to tell of their adventures on behalf of the four close friends. The women, who love the outdoors and met through a variety of activities, have been hiking, skiing and canoeing together for 20 years. In 2011, Brighouse, a doctor, went on a one-month volunteer medical mission on the edge of Kathmandu. “I didn’t have time to do any hiking, but I could see the mountains above and thought I’d love to be able to come back and hike,” she says, noting she told McTavish about her interest. “In the beginning of 2014, she said ‘I think I can free up some time to go to Nepal, so let’s go this fall.’” Unsure of how to go about the trek, the women contacted Moon Mountain Adventures through a friend and the company customized a trip for them. Used to backpacking, they were amazed that their entourage included a bus driver, his helper, a chef, a chef’s helper and 10 porters – including one 18-year-old girl and four 17-year-old boys. “The newly bred and nearly dead,” laughs Brighouse, pointing out the sanctu-
ary trek is considered an easy trip for new porters and those who have retired from the high mountain treks. Rules of the sanctuary require permits and a guide and most trekkers stay in tea houses along the trail. “We wanted to do it the traditional way – camp and take a longer route,” says MacDonald, who notes the porters took exceptional care of the women. At 6 a.m. someone would appear at their tent with hot, spicy tea to warm them up. Half-an-hour later, a basin of hot water for bathing would arrive. “We would dress and pack and they’d take down our tents and take off to the next stop while we sat down to a hot breakfast of porridge, eggs, meat, cheese, chapati and roti with jam and peanut butter,” says Brighouse with a grin. “And we would stop for an early lunch that lasted two hours.” “There was always a tablecloth and tray with matching cloth; always salad, soup a main course and always a treat,” adds MacDonald, noting the crew did laundry at lunch because that’s when the wind is best for drying. It took eight days to hike up to 14,000 feet, with concerned porters continually counselling, ‘Bistari Mum, bistari,’ Nepali for ‘Slowly Mum, slowly.’ “You don’t measure in kilometres, rather by the amount of time it takes to climb up the ridges where the villages are located and back down to the rivers below,” says MacDonald. “You go by elevation and because of elevation sickness, some days we went farther than others.” That risk was further reduced because they went shorter distances each day than
most organized tours. “We tried not to exceed 500 metres in a day, but we might go up above that many times; maybe up 1,200 metres, but we’d come right back down,” says Brighouse, noting the trail is handcrafted of large stones by locals, who pack them in on their backs. “It’s up, up, up, down, down, down and sometimes, at the end of the day, we’d look over and see the town we started in across a large ravine.” The women said a cyclone brought intense rain on their fifth day on the trail. It flooded McTavish and Johnson’s tent but brought no avalanches. “The day of the cyclone, the (trail) steps were a waterfall. We hiked for the morning and then stopped,” said MacDonald. They did not hear about the deadly avalanches on the other side of the mountain until day seven and were shocked to hear that four Canadian women had died. Knowing family and friends would be worried, they accessed Internet and sent messages home as soon as they could. While they thrilled to the awesome beauty of Nepal, Brighouse and MacDonald favour the beauty of B.C.’s wider vistas. “We were up at 14,000 feet and still the mountains were towering above us another 10,000 to 15,000 feet. I called them sky giants,” says Brighouse, noting the steep ridges and deep valleys create tight vistas. The women plan to carry on trekking and are looking forward to another trip into the more familiar wilds of B.C. “We have two cowboys that pack us out to the mountains into the wilderness every summer,” says MacDonald.
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Unmarked graves spark curiosity KEEP UP CURATOR’S COMMENTS
Deborah Chapman When Pat Ogden commented on Greg Kyllo’s facebook page on the Chinese presence in Salmon Arm things happened. Phone calls started, emails were sent. Could the Mt. Ida Cemetery be nominated for Heritage BC’s Chinese Historic Places Recognition Project? Pat’s suggestion came with credence. Pat is a Hopkins from Piccadilly Road. She grew up here, is keen about family history, and is working on a publication on the Mt. Ida District. She’s related to almost everyone out in the Salmon Valley. Every family, that is, that has been there for four or five generations. Pat had been on one of my cemetery tours. She remembered a reference to the Chinese section of unmarked graves. I had told the crowd that in the 1960s the graves were marked by wooden sticks with Chinese characters on them. Don Byers had told me about the markers, remembering a time when he worked for the
District Municipality of Salmon Arm. He had attended my first cemetery tour. Don was also a Salmon Arm Museum board member. He was probably checking on me to make sure I was getting my facts straight! Don showed me where the graves were and his story was incorporated into the tour. Don passed away last year. The graves Don pointed out were thought to be those of Chinese people who wanted their bones exhumed and sent back to China. Unfortunately their wishes were never fulfilled. In 1937, the last shipment of bones went to China. The outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War made more shipments impossible. Our deceased Chinese visitors became permanent residents. Ted Reynolds, another District of Salmon Arm retired employee, also remembered the graves, though not the location. He knew they had had stick markers with characters on
them, not how many or where they were. Tony Fryer, the former caretaker at the Mt. Ida Cemetery knew about the graves as well. Tony took over the job after his parents, Wayne and Eleanor, retired and cared for the cemetery for 31 years. Tony pointed out the “Chinese” graves on a map. They were depressions without headstones. Tony told me recently that he didn’t fill them in because there was no record of who was buried there. Respecting the sinking land as evidence was Tony’s way of remembering that there were bodies interred in the ground below. There’s a community-held memory of the cemetery records being lost in a fire. The story has come from several sources. Logically, the records would have been kept in town, not at the cemetery, either at City Hall located on Shuswap St. or with the record keeper for the District of Salmon Arm. The two organizations had separated in 1912 when the City of Salmon Arm was formed. Some say the argument was over taxes, water, sewer, fire protection, and sidewalks. The
fight wasn’t over the cemetery. Both municipal “bodies” shared cost of maintenance and upkeep. The plot of land on Foothills served the whole community. Trying to figure out the truth about the fire is not easy. The District Municipality didn’t have a permanent meeting place until the little brick building was built on Hudson in 1928. Records could have been stored where the meetings were held: over the Palmer Store, in the Bank of Hamilton, in the Agricultural Hall, and in the Exchange Building. Those buildings did not burn prior to 1928. Were the records stored in the basement of the public school that burned down in 1917? No one can say for sure. Whether or not the records were destroyed in a fire, no one knows for sure who resides in these ten plots at the Mt. Ida Cemetery known as the “Chinese graves.” The sticks rotted away, community memory has been forgotten. Or has it? Contact the Museum at 250-832-5243 if you can help. -Deborah Chapman is the curator for the Salmon Arm Museum at R.J. Haney Heritage Park.
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Drugs, alcohol and mental health issues: which came first? YOUth mental health
Dr. David Smith When mental health issues arise among teenagers, parents often wonder: Did alcohol or drugs cause this? Or did a pre-existing mental health issue cause the substance use? Substance use and mental health problems often go hand-in-hand. In fact, surveys show that 33 per cent of youth with a diagnosed mental health condition also have a substance use issue. The rates are even
higher among those with a diagnosed substance use condition (such as dependence on alcohol or addiction to drugs), with anywhere from 60 to 80 per cent found to have an underlying mental health condition. Why do the two issues so often occur together? One reason is that the risk factors underlying both the mental health condition and the substance use issue are
similar and may include a genetic predisposition, family history or any of a series of common life stressors such as a past experience of loss, trauma, abuse or poor attachment; a difficult or unstable family or living situation; limited supportive adults in their life; chronic stress; learning disabilities or poor school performance issues; poverty and neglect. Sometimes the substance use itself can actually trigger mental health concerns like depression, paranoia or hallucinations that may clear up once the substance use is stopped.
Another reason is self-medication. Sometimes a teenager begins to use substances because he or she finds it provides temporary relief from uncomfortable symptoms. They may feel using the substance helps relieve anxiety, tension or depression. For a time it reduces psychological or physical suffering or makes them feel better. When self-medication is occurring, there is a greater risk of long-term dependence because the youth truly feels the substance is helping them cope. Alcohol and marijuana (or cannabis) are
the substances most used by B.C. teenagers. We now know that adolescent brains are not completely developed until about age 25. Youth brains appear to be more vulnerable to substance use in ways that adult brains are not. It seems that the younger the start, the higher the risk. Fortunately, results from the 2013 Adolescent Health Survey found that more B.C. students are waiting to try alcohol and/or cannabis until after they are at least 15 years of age or older. But the 2013 survey also found that 75 per cent of 16 to 18 years had tried alco-
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Doctors encourage ongoing help to fund hospital By Barb Brouwer OBSERVER STAFF
Something fishy is going on at Shuswap Lake General Hospital. Doctors John Wickert and Maureen McTavish have fish bearing their names hanging on the hospital’s recognition wall. The fish, in four categories – bronze, silver, gold and platinum – are hung in recognition of donors who reach a particular level of giving. Not only do both doctors believe strongly in giving to the foundation, they are hoping others will contribute
towards their own fish. “The key is, we’re doing it as members of the community; our kids, our neighbours, our colleagues and our friends live here,” says McTavish. “And the days of everything being provided by the taxpayer are over.” Even though governments direct more money to health care every year, the cost of providing care is much higher. For example, heart attack victims have a much better chance of surviving, but the clotbusting drugs, angioplasties and open-heart surgeries that save lives,
also cost a lot more. McTavish, who is a member of the board of the Shuswap Lake Hospital Foundation, says the organization is always looking at how they can continue to raise funds. As well as encouraging doctors to contribute to the foundation, a voluntary payroll deduction for hospital staff will be rolled out. At $5 a pay cheque for 500 employees, that’s potentially $60,000 a year to put toward health care in the Shuswap. And it is the hightech equipment that helps to attract highly
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Budget offers relief for rich, poor By Tom Fletcher bLACK Press
b.C. will likely be the only province in Canada to report a balanced budget for the current year and project surpluses for the next three years, Finance Minister Mike de Jong says. In a briefing for reporters on what to expect when the annual budget is presented Feb. 17, de Jong said the surplus for the current year will be larger than the $444 million forecast in November. Corporate
and personal income tax has been stronger than expected, but there is no certainty that will continue into the new fiscal year that begins April 1. The second straight surplus after billions in deficits the previous four years will be used to pay down debt, but there is some room for helping poorer people, de Jong said. He hinted that this may include a change to the longstanding practice of deducting spousal child support payments from
social assistance and disability payments to single parents. “We have a little more ability to deal with them and relieve some of that pressure, to assist people in greatest need,” de Jong said. NDP house leader Mike Farnworth said he is hopeful the child support clawback policy will be changed after more than a year of protest by the opposition. And he said the government isn’t telling the whole story about balancing the budget
using “tax increases by another name. “You’re going to see higher Medical services Plan premiums, higher ICbC rates, we’re already seeing higher fees for camping,” Farnworth said. The next budget will also provide tax relief for the wealthiest b.C. residents, as a two-year increase on incomes more than $150,000 a year comes to an end. De Jong imposed the 2.1 per cent hike in his preelection budget in 2013, after then-NDP leader
Adrian Dix promised a similar move to help balance the books. The recent plunge in oil prices has had a major impact, but b.C. has largely escaped that due to continued gas production but little oil from b.C. petroleum fields. De Jong emphasized that with the continued glut of shale gas produced across North America, it remains an urgent priority to develop liquefied natural gas exports to Asia before b.C. revenues fall further for lack of sales.
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Melanie Gotell, a recovering anorexic, promotes eating disorder awareness week at the Ross Street Plaza on Friday, Feb. 6. She spearheaded the Salmon Arm event to join others in the province in starting a conversation about the prevalence of eating disorders and the need for treatment options. DEVELOPMENT OF A PEST MANAGEMENT PLAN Pest Management Plan Number: Salmon Arm~MOS~PMP~2015/2020 Applicant: City of Salmon Arm. Box 40. 10030th Street SE, Salmon Arm, BC V1E 4N2 Tel: (250) 803-4087 Attention: Rob Hein Location: The City of Salmon Arm intends to apply pesticides for mosquito control within the city boundaries with permission of the appropriate landowner, manager or agency. Pesticides: The active ingredients and trade names of the pesticides proposed for use under this plan include: Bacillus thuringiensis var israelensis Strain H-14 (AM65-52) (Vectobac 200G, & Vectobac 1200L); Bacillus thuringiensis var israelensis Strain H-14 (BMP-144) (Mosquito Dunks, Aquabac XT,& Aquabac 200G); Bacillus sphaericus (VectoLex WSP & VectoLex CG); and Methoprene (Altosid XR briquets & Altosid Pellets). No adulticiding will be conducted under this Plan. Application Methods: Backpack applicator, & manual placement for Vectobac 200G, Aquabac 200G & Altosid Pellets. Manual placement only for Mosquito Dunks, Altosid XR Briquettes & VectoLex WSP. Backpack sprayer & truck/ATV mounted sprayer for Vectobac 1200L & Aquabac XT. Helicopter for Vectobac 200G, Vectobac 1200L, Aquabac 200G, VectoLex CG & Aquabac XT. The selection of insecticides has been chosen to target mosquito populations in the most environmentally responsible manner. The proposed term of the PMP is 5 years from April 20, 2015 to April 19, 2020. A draft copy of the PMP may be viewed at City Hall at 500-2nd Ave NE, Salmon Arm or online at www.salmonarm.ca/publicworks A person wishing to contribute information about a proposed treatment site, relevant to the development of the Pest Management Plan, may send copies of the information to the consultant at the address below within 30 days of the publication of this notice: BWP Consulting Inc Attn: Cheryl Phippen 6211 Meadowland Cres S Kamloops, BC V2C 6X3 Phone 250-573-1750 Email: bwp@shaw.ca
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Perfect weekend: Gorillas go three-for-three, win streak to five.
Funmobile coming to town Thanks to ParticipACTION’s provincial partnership with the B.C. Ministry of Health, the Bring Back Play Funmobile tour, will visit schools, events, neighbourhood parks and festivals to encourage kids to get out and move, while educating parents on the importance of play. On Thursday, Feb. 12 the Funmobile will visit schools and the SASCU Rec Centre, and on Friday, Feb. 13 it will be at Centenoka Park Mall from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
SMS boys basketball action Shuswap Middle School Grade 8 boys basketball regular season ends Feb. 13-14, when they host the Second Annual Barry Dearing Invitational Tournament. Teams from Vernon and Kelowna will be competing in the two-day event, with all money raised going towards the Barry Dearing Foundation.
WolfPack clinches division title The Thompson Rivers University WolfPack women’s basketball team downed the Mount Royal University Cougars in Kamloops last weekend. Friday’s game marked the regular season swan song for the ’Pack’s lone fifth-year guard, Jorri Duxbury. The ’Pack closed out their last home games of the regular season with a convincing 84-56 win on Friday and a 69-59 win on Saturday. Duxbury led the scoring for TRU with 15 points, six rebounds, six assists and two steals in last Friday’s win. The wins also sealed the ’Pack’s first ever Explores Division title.
Curling Junior Open The Salmon Arm Curling Club will host the Salmon Arm Junior Open this weekend. The two-day tournament is open to curlers around the area.
Bridge winners The results for Feb. 3 are as follows: first Tom McNie and Judy Harris, second Dennis and Doreen Roberts, third Barb Grier and Gene Demens and fourth Chuck and Shirley Buckler. The results for Feb. 8 are as follows: first Shirley and Chuck Buckler, second Nancy McAdam and Carol McGregor and third Arlene and Bert Lamoureux. Have a sports event? Write to us at:
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The Silverbacks might just be the hottest team in the BCHL right now, winning their last five games and moving into a playoff spot. “We’re competing hard every game and surviving the playoff race right now. This is the time of the year when you have to win hockey games and we’ve been doing that,” said Silverbacks head coach Brandon West. Salmon Arm started their weekend off against division rivals West Kelowna and Merritt downing them 4-1 and 7-3 respectively, before edging out Surrey 3-2. Regina native Josh Laframboise gave the Silverbacks an early lead in the second period before Ross Heidt and Chase Priskie each added a goal to give Salmon Arm a threegoal lead midway through the third last Friday against the Warriors. West Kelowna ended Angus Redmond’s bid for a third consecutive shutout when Jonathan Desbiens scored his 22nd goal of the season on the man advantage with six minutes remaining in the game. Desbiens’ goal snapped more than 200 minutes without the Silverbacks conceding a goal, stretching back to Jan. 28. “Angus is our best player right now, and when you have a goalie that is hot, you’re going to have a better chance at winning games,” West said. Shane Danyluk iced
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Sweet victory: The Silverbacks celebrate Phil Middleton’s opening goal of the game against Surrey at the Shaw Centre last Sunday. The Silverbacks won the game 3-2. the game for the Silverbacks as he scored an empty netter from the red line for the 4-1 victory. The Silverbacks headed to Merritt on Saturday for the fourth and final time this season, winning a wild contest 7-3. Merritt got off to the worst possible start when Bryden Marsh opened up the scoring just over two minutes into the game. Josh Blanchard and Heidt hemmed the Cents in their own zone before setting up Marsh for his 12th goal of the season, at the side of the net, beating Merritt’s starter Jonah Imoo. Damian Chrcek scored his first goal of the year, and first of his BCHL career on a shot from the point that found its way through heavy traffic 13 minutes into the period. Laframboise would add his first of two
goals on the night on the power play, extending the ’Backs lead to three before the end of the opening period. Average doesn’t make the playoffs.
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After 40 minutes, the ’Backs led 4-1 and had outshot the Cents 2518. There were nine penalties called in the final 20 minutes of play as Merritt became upset the game had not gone their way. Blanchard, Marsh, and Laframboise each added a goal in the third. The win saw Salmon Arm take all four of their games in Merritt this season, which West contrib-
utes to hard work and a little bit of luck. The next and last meeting with Merritt will be Feb. 27 at the Shaw Centre. The ’Backs returned home for a Sunday matinee with the league’s basement dwellers, Surrey. Phil Middleton and Nick Hutchinson each scored in the first period, and led 2-1 heading into the third period. Taro Hirose scored the eventual game winner, his third of the season, on a tap in at the side of the net after an incredible pass by Danyluk. After picking up all six points this past weekend the ’Backs leap-frogged the Warriors into a tie for third with the Centennials, and a playoff spot in the tight Interior Division. This evening the Silverbacks go south to face the struggling Trail Smoke Eaters,
before heading north to play Vernon at Kal Tire Place on Friday. The ’Backs have been rotating and tweaking line combinations every game, something West says keeps the players fresh and gets the best out of them. “We’ve been flipping things around, we’re not content to wait and see if a line combination will spark.” West says the team’s recent form has been great but they can’t rely on their past successes in order to make the playoffs. “Average doesn’t make the playoffs. Everyone has been contributing, it’s not all about the goals and assists, it’s about doing the little things right and paying attention to the fine details.” The Silverbacks’ next home game is Feb. 20 at 7 p.m. when they host the Alberni Valley Bulldogs.
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Salmon Arm’s Paul Cseke, who threw third rocks for Dean Joanisse, missed his chance at a Brier appearance by a stone Sunday. Vernon’s Jim Cotter calmly drew to the button with the last rock in the 11th end Sunday to beat Joanisse of New Westminster 7-6 and capture a second straight Canadian Direct Insurance B.C. Men’s Curling Championship, this one in front of a boisterous, bell-ringing, hand-clapping, partisan crowd at the Vernon Curling Club. Cseke, joining a front end of Jay Wakefield and John Cullen, was cheered on in the final by his parents, Frank and Wendy, and about 20 to 30 friends, who were dubbed the Joanisse Police by the skip himself. “The name is funny because I just turned to them and said ‘Are you the Joanisse Police?,” explained Joanisse. “It just came to me then, and then they started writing signs. The fans that were here, most of them are from the area and Jim’s from the club so whenever we made
shots against them earlier in the week it was like crickets out here, pretty quiet. “To have them (Joanisse Police) made it so much more fun. We were going to have a lot of fun out here today anyway. It really made it very neat and special. It’s a big part of my memory of that final game.” Joanisse won in 2001 and 2007, but lost the 2002 final to Kelowna’s Pat Ryan, now the coach of Cotter’s squad. The 2002 Tim Hortons Brier was also held in Calgary. “Whenever the Brier’s in Calgary, we don’t have a chance, and the two that we won had a nicer finish to them,” joked a gracious Joanisse after the trophy presentation. Facing two Joanisse stones in the extra end, Cotter took a little more time in the hack, delivered his rock and turned things over to sweepers Sawatsky and Tyrel Griffith of Kelowna, who followed the call of third Ryan Kuhn to bring the decisive stone directly to the button in the house. The two rinks were the top qualifiers with Cotter going undefeat-
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For two weeks starting Friday, more than 2,400 of Canada’s emerging athletes will ascend on Prince George and northern B.C. to compete in the 2015 Canada Winter Games. Nineteen sports will be contested by athletes ranging in age from 12 to 35 at more than 10 venues across the area. Salmon Arm will be represented by 17-year-old ringette player Kairo Mair and head coach Cathy Lipsett. Also a product of the Shuswap ringette program is Brooklyn Hay
from Enderby. The girls were named to Team BC a year and a half ago and have attended training camps in Vancouver, Quesnel and Vernon. The team also travelled to compete at tournaments in Vancouver, Edmonton and Regina in preparation for the Games. Team BC will look to improve this year as they did not medal in 2011’s ringette tournament. The highlight of Team BC’s tournament in the last Games was the come-from-behind upset of Team Ontario, the eventual gold medalists against Alberta, who won 5-4 in overtime.
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Look of determination: Paul Cseke throws his second rock in the fourth end in the final of the B.C. Men’s Curling Championships in Vernon last Sunday. ed to win the A event, and Joanisse captured the B side, dropping down after a 10-9 loss to Cotter Friday. Joanisse got a bye to the final while Cotter needed a near carboncopy 7-6, 11-end win over New West’s Brent Pierce in Saturday night’s semifinal. After blanking the opening end, Joanisse was forced into a draw for only one in the second to take an early 1-0 lead. The teams traded deuces and Cotter hit and rolled into the house to score a
pair with his final rock of the fifth to take a 4-3 lead into the break. Cotter upped the lead to 5-3 in the sixth with a steal of one after Joanisse‘s final stone slid a bit too far in the house. After blanking the seventh, Joanisse picked up a deuce with the hammer in the eighth to tie the contest. Cotter could only manage a single with the hammer in the ninth, but managed to hold the Royal City Curling Club squad to one point in the 10th, forcing the extra end.
It was memorable for Cseke. “It was an amazing run. I’m really proud of the guys. We played so well. It came down to last rock so what more could you ask for? The fans that came from Salmon Arm really gave us an extra boost.”
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Lipsett of Salmon Arm, right, is joined on Team BC’s ringette squad by Kairo Mair, left, and Brooklyn Hay, as the trio prepare to leave for the start of the Canada Winter Games Saturday in Prince George. The provincial team held a final pre-Games training camp in Vernon. Cathy’s daughter Erica Lipsett scored the overtime winner for B.C. In the last Winter
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Shutting the door Salmon Arm’s Gabriel Murrells-Allaway, left, makes a point blank save against Kamloops’ Carson Evoy during a peewee tier 2 game at Hucul Pond on Sunday, Feb. 8. Salmon Arm went on to win the game 6-3.
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Larch Hills claims team title This past weekend Larch Hills Nordics were crowned b.C. midget champions, taking home the team aggregate trophy. The two-day event was held at Mount Washington on vancouver Island. saturday started with a two-kilometre classic event. In the 2002 boys category, stephen Moore placed first and Calvin Hepburn was fourth. Maggie beckner and Keeya Corbett finished first and third respectively in the 2002 age group. In the 2003 division, both Trond May and sophia van varseveld earned first, while Lys Milne claimed the bronze and Julia Hart came in fourth in the girls category. Julianne Moore and samantha vukadinovic finished one-two in the 2004 girls division. In the 2005 boys category, eric Moore came in first and eli
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Festival features finest of films The 26th annual Shuswap International Film Festival opens Friday, Feb. 20 with a top-notch selection of movies. Don your best Hollywood show business finery and join the Shuswap Film Society for premiere night and receive a special gift. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and entertainment starts at 7:30. All films are shown at the Salmar Classic Theatre and include: Boychoir: 7:30 Friday, Feb. 20; Tuesday, Feb. 24 at 4 p.m. – Stet, an angry 11-year-old orphan, is sent from his small town in Texas to attend the historical American Boychoir boarding school after the death of his single mom. Out of his element, he finds himself in a battle of wills with the choirmaster. The Rocket: 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 21; Tuesday, Feb. 24 7:30 p.m. – A boy who is believed to bring bad luck to everyone around him leads his tribal family and two friends through Laos to find a new home. After a calamityfilled journey through a land scarred by the legacy of war, and to prove he’s not bad luck, he builds a giant rocket to enter the most exciting and dangerous competition of the year: the Rocket Festival. Keep On Keepin’ On: 1:30 p.m. Saturday – This film documents jazz legend Clark Terry’s life over four years as he mentors a blind piano prodigy Justin Kauflin. Terry, now 93, mentored Miles Davis as a young musician and is among the few performers ever to have played in both Count Basie’s and Duke Ellington’s bands. Elephant Song: 3:30
Winner: Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne star in the Theory of Everything, which shows on Monday, Feb. 23 at 4 p.m. p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21; Thursday Feb. 26 at 4 p.m. – Canadian director Charles Biname adapts the psychological thriller script of the eponymous play into this film with its many layers of mystery and complication. Phoenix: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21; 4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 25 – A disfigured concentration camp survivor, Nelly now unrecognizable after facial reconstruction surgery, searches ravaged postwar Berlin for her husband. This same man may have betrayed her to the Nazis. One Chance: David Frankel directs and re-creates the unlikely but true rags-to-riches story of Paul Potts, the chubby working class boy from Wales who always wanted to sing opera. Eventually Paul does make his way to opera school in Venice where he is offered the chance to sing for Pavarotti. 10:30 a.m. Feb. 22; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 28 An Eye For Beauty: Director Denys Arcand pays homage to beauty as a backdrop to his script. The cinematography displays the beauty of the Quebec countryside in all sea-
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sons, especially along the St. Lawrence River. 1:30 p.m. Feb. 22 Red Army – This feature documentary about the former Soviet Union and its most successful dynasty in sports history, the Red Army hockey team, is told from the perspective of its captain Slava Fetisov. The story portrays his transformation from national hero to political enemy. 3:30 Feb. 22; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 25. Zero Motivation – The human resources office at a remote desert base is the scene of a dark comedy about the everyday life of a unit of young female Israeli soldiers, who bide their time pushing paper and battling in competitive games, counting down the days till they can return to civilian life. 7:30 p.m. Feb. 22; 4 p.m. Feb. 27. The Theory of Everything – This film tells the story of the most brilliant physicist of our time, Stephen Hawking, and his wife Jane Wilde. Little was expected from Stephen, a bright but shiftless student of cosmology, given just two years to
live after a diagnosis of ALS at the age of 21. He becomes galvanized by Jane’s love and goes on to be called Einstein’s successor, as well as a husband and father to three children. 4 p.m. Feb. 23. Playing Dead – Francois Damiens returns as the clueless egotistical actor in this hilarious whodunit. Famous for a role 25 years ago, Jean has been fired repeatedly for arguing with directors, so the difficult down-on-his luck thespian takes on the assignment of a murder victim in a police investigation. 7:30 p.m. Feb. 23. Leviathan – On the outskirts of a small coastal town on the Kola Peninsula in the Barents Sea where the land is unforgiving and wild, there lives the hard-drinking Kolya with his wife and son. The corrupt local mayor is trying to take away their land, their house and their auto repair shop for a redevelopment 7:30 p.m. Feb. 26. Still Alice – In a brilliant performance, Julianne Moore plays Alice Howland, a respected linguistics pro-
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fessor who is happily married and has three grown children. Seemingly out of the blue, she begins forgetting words and getting lost. In a subsequent medical exam she finds out that she has early-onset Alzheimer’s. 7:30 p.m. Feb. 27. Help celebrate closing night in the lobby for refreshments and hand made chocolates before the final movie. Advance tickets are available at Wearabouts, or call the reservation line at 250832-2294.
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Exploring the power of love By Barb Brouwer OBSERVER STAFF
Love is in the air and on the stage. Shuswap Theatre presents two one-act plays – both deal with love but on very different levels. First up is the powerful Jewel, written by Joan MacLeod and directed by Elizabeth Ann Skelhorne. The one-woman show stars Kaitlin Hunter and is based on a real-life catastrophe – the sinking of the Ocean Ranger oil rig off the coast of Newfoundland on Valentine’s Day, 1982. Three years later, widow Marjorie Clifford, at home in her trailer in Fort St. John, begins to take the first step in understanding that the humanity of love, in all of its tentative frailty, uncertainty and promise, can free a life paralyzed and dominated by loss. “It’s a history of her love, love she shared with her husband and losing him on him on Valentine’s Day,” says Skelhorne, noting all 84 men on the rig died and the tragedy was magnified by the fact not one of them had been trained in safety procedures, there were no survival suits and a warning the previous week was ignored. The event became the catalyst to improve conditions on the rigs, says Skelhorne, noting the tragedy struck far from the Maritimes as some 20 of the men were from Newfoundland, 10 from the U.S. and the rest from across Canada. Skelhorne has combined her anger at the oil industry “that kills in so many ways” with her appreciation for MacLeod’s writing and a strong female lead to present a powerful play. “I wanted to do a play written by a woman; I know women in town whose husbands go away to work,” says Skelhorne, noting Clifford was just 27 when her husband was killed in a job the couple had
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Coping: Kaitlin Hunter explores the depth of her acting ability in a powerful play about a woman who is determined not to let loss rule the rest of her life. hoped would provide the wherewithal to start their own family. “As an actress, this is one hell of a part and I have a really strong gifted actress, who is just chomping on it.
Imagine what would happen if that little voice inside your head – the one that tells you how to behave and what choices to make – suddenly took on a life of its own?
I said when I went into this, if I could direct 90 kids in a musical, I could direct four people in a play Kate McKie DIRECTOR
It’s really neat to watch her unfold,” Skelhorne says. “She really goes down to the depths of the ocean.” But Skelhorne is quick to point out humour, the buoyancy of the human spirit and the beauty of life, even in the darkest moments. “It’s such a beautiful love story after the loss, so many beautiful moments,” says Skelhorne, who has been a member of Shuswap Theatre since 2007 when she had the lead in Norm Foster’s Kiss the Moon Kiss the Sun. And, following Jewel, comes another Norm Foster comedy – My Narrator.
For Lacy and Miles, love is what happens, and with hilarious results. “It’s a really good laugh, light and frothy,” says director
Kate McKie of the love story. “The narrators complicate things by trying to direct their humans to do the right things, but humans don’t always listen to their narrators, that voice in their heads.” McKie promises further complications but laughingly says they will be divulged at the theatre. “There are some really funny situations and lot of silly things happen,” she says. “I see a lot of people I know in it, including self.” The romantic couple are played by Laura Jean, who is new to Shuswap Theatre and Mike Nash who appeared in Bah Hambug! and The Odd Couple. Nathan Zwicker and Joy Peters are the offstage narrators who are also the subject of complications. “I am very grateful to Shuswap Theatre for giving me the opportunity to direct; I have been mentored through it and this is the theatre’s way of getting new directors,” says the School District #83 music teacher. “I said when I went into this, if I could direct 90 kids in a musical, I could direct four people in a play.” Tickets are available online at www.shuswaptheatre.com or at Intwined Fibre Arts, 81 Hudson Ave NE, Salmon Arm. Performances take place Feb. 20–22, Feb. 26 to Mar 1 and Mar 5 to 7 at 7:30 p.m. Sunday matinees take place at 1:30 p.m.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): The energy will start off on an intense note for you when dealing with the public or those within your household. There will be a reason for you to learn how to calm your nerves and go with the flow. At week’s end, there is more opportunity for you to meet that special someone. More action will be taken by the end of the week, so get out there and socialize! TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Romance and bonding with others is in the air for you, especially when dealing with friends and within social gatherings. The start of the week will prompt you to look at your emotional reactions with others. The truth of the matter is that this week will highlight your true passions and you will find comfort and resolve many issues by simply speaking your truth. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The week will start off with you focusing in on your emotional attachment to things. You will be able to release this pent- up energy by interacting with others. Understand that area of your life will always be in fluctuation. By the end of this week, when Valentine’s Day is in full swing, you will no doubt be very active with others in your life. Enjoy their enthusiasm! CANCER (June 21-July 22): It is time to release any hurt co-created with others in your life. Trust that your belief system is right, but don’t ask others to believe it as well. You will feel much better in not having to prove anything to anyone. The better able you are to grasp that idea at the start of the week, the more able you will be to truly express yourself on a positive note by the end of the week. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): There will be some tension for you at the start of this week. You will start to learn how to balance out that subconscious mind and not act on impulse as you often do. There is a sense that you are finally letting go of fears and just going with the natural order of events. By the end of the week, you will be excited and inspired to celebrate Valentine’s Day on a glorious level! VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): At the start of the week, there will be some inconsistent energy when it comes to your personal worth and finances. The more emotionally sound you are in the decisions you make, the more confident you will be. It truly is the week to celebrate love and cherish your own passions. Blend in with others, celebrate everyone’s presence in your life, especially your loved ones!
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The irritability you feel this week will trigger some need to release or declare those stresses on a public level. There is no doubt that you will have to calm your nerves a little at the start. The more you interact with others, the better able you are to move towards your true aspirations and dreams. Valentine’s Day will be wonderfully romantic and will inspire you to advance once more! SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The week will start off with a need to balance out what is going on for you on a subconscious level with truly understanding what needs to be let go of on a daily level, within your work and particularly with your health. Valentine’s Day will reach you with a smile on your face, as you celebrate love with everyone you meet! Express your truth now! SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You are feeling tension with regards to resources needed to pull your dreams forward. Either someone will offer you support or you will be able to conquer those fears and do it yourself. Family and those within your home are very compassionate at this time. All in all, you will find the inner confidence to pull you towards what you know is the best solution! CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): At the start of the week, you will feel this irritating tension between your inner world that your family knows and the outer world, how you would like to be seen. There is a strong indication that whatever you are going through is the same for others you are in communications with. Valentine’s Day will be special and there will be a lot of activity going on! AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There will be an intensity to your perspective at the start of this week. You understand that some part of how you think needs to be let go of. You will see that your confidence or perhaps your finances will fluctuate now. This is just a signal that you need to adjust your belief in your new perspective. Valentine’s Day will be wonderfully exciting and new! PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In order to make your dreams and aspirations a reality, you will have to make some financial adjustments. Perhaps spending more in order to push a project through will be highlighted. It will be a healing point in time with health, daily life, and work. The service you provide will be celebrated this week. Things are going to happen fast and out of the blue!
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STONE, CHARLES (CHUCK/CHARLIE) HERBERT POWELL Born in Vermilion, AB on July 11, 1936 and raised in Edmonton as the oldest of four children. Charlie and Doreen (nee Roeder) married in June, 1956 at Galahad, AB. Together, they raised four children: Janice, Donna, Bill and Patty. Job opportunities took the family to a variety of communities in Alberta and British Columbia. Charlie took work seriously and tried numerous ventures both as an employee and as an entrepreneur. Charlie had a short but valiant fight against cancer and passed away with his wife and daughters by his side on January 30, 2015. Charlie was predeceased by son, Bill, in 1996. He is survived by his wife, Doreen and their daughters and families. Thanks and appreciation go to his medical team (Dr. Levins and Dr. McLellan) as well as the nurses and care aides who provided excellent care. “There was a man who had a calf, and that’s half. He took it from the stall, and tied it to the wall. That’s all! Goodnight!” Arrangements entrusted to Fischer’s Funeral Services & Crematorium Ltd., Salmon Arm (250) 833-1129. Email condolences and share memories through Charlie’s obituary at www. fischersfuneralservices.com.
SPRINGFIELD, TOM “PUFF” It is with great sadness that we announce that Tom Springfield, “PUFF”, died on Monday, January 19th. Tom was born on September 27th, 1946, at Saint Boniface Hospital, Winnipeg, MB. He is survived by his loving mother, Joan Currie; his sister & brother-in-law, Lynn and Lee Taschuk, niece’s & nephew’s: Rob & Natasha Horsman; Sarah, Chelsea, Jessica, Josiah, & Levi Taschuk, and numerous aunts, uncles, & cousins. A celebration of Life will be held on Saturday, February 7th, at The Bridge Community Church, 2100 Gordon Drive, at 2:30 p.m. Tom loved and served the dear Lord Jesus with his whole heart, and for many years he was dedicated to running the overhead projector at New Life, and later at The Bridge and Free Believers in Christ 2 Corinthians 5:6-8 so we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight. Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. Tom is now home with the Lord, in that we rejoice. Online condolences may be sent through Tom’s obituary at www.bowersfuneralservice.com Funeral arrangements are in the care of Bowers Funeral Service, Salmon Arm, BC
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BABCOCK, ELEANOR BURNS (HANNAH) NEE DIXON July 25, 1929 – Jan. 29, 2015 Eleanor was truly a free and fun loving spirit. She was loved and admired by all who knew her true nature, charisma and tenacity. She loved all things in nature, an animal lover and an advocate for animals. Our heart breaks for losing such a great Mom, Grandmother, Great Grandmother, Aunt, and Friend. She lived life to the fullest, joining in on the fun where ever she happened to be at the time. She was a great listener to all her many friends, always keeping in touch by phone. Eleanor was an adventurer too, she travelled solo in her motor home in the US and Mexico in her early retirement. She also joined in on the fun, boating and sailing with family and friends on the Ocean near Powell River. Earlier years she was a teacher and taught in Peace River in a one room school made of logs in 1949 (Sunset Prairie School), Richmond, BC (1949-1952) and North Vancouver, BC (1960-1970). Her most memorable times were spent at the cabin on Sheridan Lake. Sheridan Lake was her most favorite place in the world, and she shared the magic with all who came to visit. The last ten years she resided at her daughter and son in law’s property at White Lake. There she grew beautiful flower gardens, walked her dog, fed the birds and enjoyed the scenic vista from her double wide. She lived independently next door and was still driving and maintaining her own home until shortly before her passing. She will be forever missed by her family: children; Edward (Karen La Combe) Hannah, David (Desiree) Hannah, Susan (Bruce) Whitehead, step children; Rosemary (Daryl) Farquharson, Tim (Ida) Babcock, grandchildren; Jennifer Hannah, Duncan Hannah, Sophia (Jason) Mattioli, Marian (Phillipe Klein) Shukster, Beau (Carney Varga) Whitehead, Vicki, Trudy, Stacey and Terry, great grandchildren; Matthew Mattioli, Elisabeth Mattioli, Sven Sabo “Shukster”, Laura Klein and Brenna Varga. She was predeceased by her two husbands Lewis Babcock and Glenn Hannah, grandson Robert Hannah, sister Joan Graham and parents Leslie Dixon and Annie Dixon. Greatly admired and sadly missed by many nephews, nieces, greats and cousins as well as a long list of friends. Forever in our hearts. A celebration of Eleanor’s life will be held in April 2015. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to your local SPCA. Arrangements entrusted to Fischer’s Funeral Services & Crematorium Ltd., Salmon Arm. Email condolences and share memories through Eleanor’s obituary at www.fischersfuneralservices.com.
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FOREST MATTERS Forestry Consulting in Sorrento BC has a position for a Forest Technician conducting Silviculture Surveys and Planting contract administration. Full time seasonal employment with competitive wages. Preferred qualifications include accredited silviculture surveyor with experience with Survey Wizard, GPS and Tree Planting. Proficient with Excel/Word. Send resume/letter to derek.w@telus.net. Only successful candidates contacted.
Help Wanted EXPERIENCED Care Worker for 2 day shifts per/wk, private home, Tappen area, nonsmoker, $18/hr. to start, (250)835-0145 ask for Gwen FABRICLAND Want to work in a busy, fun environment? Drop off your resume at the Salmon Arm Store. Must be able to work some weekends and have sewing experience. LOCAL business is looking for an experienced Travel Consultant. Resumes by email ONLY: Jeh8085@hotmail.com MONTE Creek Ranch seeking ranch hand for irrigation, fencing, calving, equipment operation. Email resume to mennos@telus.net or mail to Monte Creek Ranch Box 11 Monte Creek,BC V0E 2M0
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Serving and caring for families in our community since 1947. Whether you’re considering pre-planning or have lost a loved one, you can trust our professional and friendly team to support you with meaningful grief services. We provide individualized funeral, memorial and celebration of life services, as well as grief counselling and an aftercare program. For more information and the answers to many frequently asked questions, visit us online at: Capreece Bowers, Celebrant & Clinical Counsellor
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BLACK & Decker convection counter top oven, $50., Double hide-a-bed, smoke & pet free, clean, both used very little $125. (250)832-2663
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IDEAL FOR: Table covers, crafts, drawing or packing. Various sizes. Available at the SALMON ARM OBSERVER OFFICE • Cash Sales Only 171 Shuswap St. NW, Salmon Arm
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Canadian Firearms Safety Courses (PAL) Downstairs at Chase Legion Feb 21 & 22, 9am-5pm Cost $100 includes manual & exams Pre-registration required Call Ivan: (1-250)679-2758
STEEL BUILDINGS/metal buildings 60% off! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100 sell for balance owed! Call 1-800-4572206 or visit us online: www.crownsteelbuildings.ca.
2 bedroom apt. ground floor quiet building, adult oriented, avail. Feb. 1, on bus route, walk to DT & hospital, heat/hot water incl., AC in suite, coin laundry, NS, NP, across from McGuire Lake in Salmon Arm $825/mo. plus ref’s & DD (250) 309-2254 (250)546-1970 (250)938-2043
Food Products Pastured Roasting Chickens no medication/antibiotics, frozen, 4-9lbs. (250)833-1016
Misc. Wanted Private Collector Looking to Buy Coin Collections, Silver, Antiques, Native Art, Estates + Chad: 778-281-0030 Local
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Heavy Duty Machinery A-STEEL SHIPPING DRY STORAGE CONTAINERS Used 20’40’45’53’ and insulated containers all sizes in stock. Trades are welcome. 40’Containers under $2500! DMG 40’ containers under $2,000 each. Also JD 544 & 644 wheel Loaders & 20,000 lb CAT forklift. Wanted to buy 300 size hydraulic excavator. Ph Toll free 1-866-528-7108 1-778-298-3192 8am-5pm Delivery BC and AB www.rtccontainer.com
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BUNDY Alto Saxophone with hard case $500. obo (250)832-9256
Free Items BIG (not fat) & BEAUTIFUL orange calico cat. Male, neutered, healthy, smart, good companion cat or mouser (250)833-4228
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CRAFTSMAN snow blower, 8.5HP, 24”, electric start, runs good $375. (250)804-0326
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Rentals Apt/Condo for Rent 1Bdrm across from City Hall. Adults, N/S, No pets. Ref’s required. $710/mo. Call 250-833-0420 after 6pm. 1BDRM. immaculate apt. f/s & hot water incl., NP, NS, $725/mo. (1-855)852-5660 1BDRM view, priv level entr., f/s, quiet pet ok, $830, avail. Mar 1, 1070 1st SE 833-2129 FURNISHED 1bdrm condo, Mar 1. priv. entr., W/D, mature adults, cat ok. $995 & hydro, cable (250)833-2129
Homes for Rent
Lakeside Realty Ltd.
SORRENTO: Mobile Home beside Frankie’s Pizza, avail. for rent $650./mo + util.,refs & DD, NS (1-250)675-4104
1BDRM home on fishing lake in Skimikin Valley. Long term, mature couple preferred, avail. immed. (250)679-3950
Serving the Columbia-Shuswap since 1976. www.tekamar.ca
SHUFFLEBOARD playmaster by national 14 feet also Treadmill- Pro form EKG (250)675-5024
MARA: 2bdrm. mobile, addition, deck, creekside, new floors, electric & plumbing, f/s/w/d/ac, elec. heat, $700/mo. + DD Avail. Mar.1. (250)838-7670
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COMPLETE home wine making equipment and instruction books $150 (250)833-1110
SAWMILLS FROM only $4,397 - Make money & save money with your own bandmill - Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. Free info & DVD: www.NorwoodSaw mills.com/400OT 1-800-5666899 Ext:400OT.
Modular Homes
LAKEVIEW LOT $118,000. See Kijiji for pict & more info. (250)835-8680
5” dense double foam mattress. Excellent for camping or R.V. $75 o.b.o. (250)804-1186
MATCHING loveseat & chair $75. entertainment centre fits a 32”tv inside or 55”tv on top 52”h x 20”d x 59”w $150., chrome kitchen table w/4 chairs $125. 2 hand fuel pumps for fuel tidy tanks $75. ea (250)832-9256
3 BED apt. near Buckerfields for rent March 1st. Newly Reno’ed, non smoking property. Small pet considered. $1200./mo + util. References mandatory (250) 804-8421
Homes for Rent
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2 BDRM., 1 bath unit in 4 plex 4 appliances N/S, N/P 7010 Black Road, Salmon Arm 3 BDRM., 1 bath house 4 appliances, N/S, N/P 1616 Blind Bay Road, Sorrento
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3 BDRM., 2 bath Adult Townhouse Complex 5 appliances, N/S, N/P #10 - 111 Harbourfront, Salmon Arm $1400/mo. 2 BDRM., 2 bath Condo 5 appliances, N/S, N/P #302 420 4th Ave. SE, Salmon Arm
2 BED/2 BATH home in Tappen/Notch Hill. Country setting. W/D, DW, FS. $750. mth +DD & utlit. (250)679-5403 avail. immed. 3 BDRM 2 BATH Sicamous House $1,000/mo + utilities. Avail Mar. 1/15. House is also for sale. If sells, last mo. free. Call 604-945-5882. 3bdrm house with 2bdrm basement suite in Enderby, $1600, you may sublet basement suite. 1-250-804-3003 4bdrm, 3 bath older house in Enderby, avail March1, $1100. /mo. 1 (250)838-6630 Bright, Lake View 2bdrm. + den downstairs of Salmon Arm home, fully furnished 2000sqft. with private entrance all new appl., 5 minute drive to town, quiet NS adults only, NP $1450/mo. + util. & refs Available Feb 15 a6a61082@telus.net
Suites, Lower 1BDRM suite close to Uptown Askews & high school incl. util, internet & tv, $750/mo., NS (250)804-0399 2BDRM. on 4acres, near priv. ent., W/D, garage, area, NP, $800/mo. incl. refs req’d, looking for term renter (250)804-2854
BRAND new legal executive suite 1 bdrm. 6 appliances. Nat. Gas F/P. Ground level within newly built contemporary home. 630 sq. ft. of luxury. $1000/mo + util. avail. March 1st. 740 4th ave. SE (250)463-2063
Want to Rent RESPONSIBLE employed 27 years old female looking for level entry bright clean 1 bdrm bsmt suite with gas fireplace. NP, NS, $800-$850 incl. util. March/ April 1st call Jenn (250)253-7581
Transportation $950/mo.
3 BDRM., 1 bath House F/S, walking distance to Sorrento. N/S, N/P. 1216 Dunkirk, Sorrento $850/mo.
Cars - Sports & Imports 2003 Jeep Liberty Renegade. 4 W.D., PS, PB, PW, auto, low mile, 4 off road lamps. $5500. OBO (250) 804-2005
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meanings because only a few exotic flowers were readily available, and many of these meanings have withstood the test of time. Giving a type of flower that signifies you just want to be friends may not bode well for a relationship when the recipient was hoping for more. As a result, it pays to understand the subtle meaning of flowers to make giftgiving easier. The Society of American Florists has compiled the following list of flower meanings from various sources. But in spite of these meanings, keep in mind you can always work with a florist to design a personal arrangement that speaks directly to that special someone this Valentine’s Day.
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Amaryllis: drama Anemone: fragility Apple Blossom: promise Aster: contentment Azalea: abundance Bachelor Button: anticipation Begonia: deep thinking Camellia: graciousness Carnation: pink: gratitude red: flashy striped: refusal white: remembrance yellow: cheerful Cosmos: peaceful Daffodil: chivalry Daisy: innocence Gardenia: joy Geranium: comfort Gladiolus: strength in character Heather: solitude Hyacinth: sincerity
Hydrangea: perseverance Iris: inspiration Jasmine: grace and elegance Lilac: first love Magnolia: dignity Marigold: desire for riches Orange Blossom: fertility Orchid: delicate beauty Pansy: loving thoughts Passion flower: passion Ranunculus: radiant Rose: pink: admiration/appreciation red: passionate love red and white: unity white: purity yellow: friendship Sunflower: adoration Sweetpea: shyness Wisteria: steadfast Zinnia: thoughts of friends.
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MUSIC • VISUAL ARTS • BAR SCENE • ENTERTAINMENT • PERFORMANCE ARTS Call us at 250-832-2131, drop in to our office, or use our new, easy to use calendar online. See below.
ONGOING…
SALMON ARM ART GALLERY – presents Game On, the
annual juried members’ exhibition on the theme of sports and recreation. Gallery hours are Tuesday to Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
SHUSWAP FLY FISHERS – meet every second Thursday of
the month at Yan’s Restaurant at 6 p.m. Supper, meeting, fishing report. For information, contact Al: 250-832-0430.
SHUSWAP LIFE DRAWING GROUP – invites new members
and drop-ins from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. most Tuesday evenings in the Jackson campus art room. Call 250-8329993 for information.
TO FEBRUARY 15 COURTYARD GALLERY – is pleased to announce their
for transporting symphony players and their instruments to Salmon Arm, at 7:30 p.m. at the Fifth Avenue Seniors Activity Centre, 170 Fifth Ave. SE, featuring live music, silent auction and cash wine bar. Tickets are $25.
BAREFOOT BOOKS – will hold a fundraiser to support
Raffi’s Child Honouring initiative from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Mall at Piccadilly. Raffi has created an anthology of essays by leaders in the fields of such areas as emotional intelligence, conscious parenting, self-regulation, etc. For more information, contact Joan Sturdy at 250-804-3008 and visit www.childhonouring. org. Both Raffi and Barefoot books will be available.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15 ANCORA WOMEN’S ENSEMBLE – a 15-voice adult choir,
with members from the Shuswap and North Okanagan, presents Heart Songs, their second annual concert, at 2
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17
PANCAKE SUPPER – will be hosted by the First United
Church Men’s Club, at 5 p.m. Tickets are available at the church office, or at the door.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18 THE CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION (CMHA) – will
present Living Life to the Full, a seven-week program in which tools will be provided to reduce stress and boost moods, improve motivation and problem-solving skills and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. The first session is from 1 to 2:30 p.m. in the amenities room at Clover Court, 51 Ninth Ave. SE. For more information, or to register, contact co-ordinator Denise Butler at 250-832-8477 or by email to denise.butler@ cmha.bc.ca.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20 current open exhibition of new works by nine local SALMON ARM COFFEE HOUSE – An associate and gallery artists. acoustic open mike event will be held Tuesday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 Cleaning your furnace & air ducts could be the healthiest from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. at Little p.m. 907 Belvedere Street, Enderby. HOME IMPROVEMENT you will ever make! Mountain Field House, 250 - 30th St. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11 SE. A tune or a toonie gets you in the BC GOV’T. RETIRED EMPLOYEES door. All ages are welcome. ASSOCIATION – A luncheon, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21 followed by an update on activities SOUP’S ON SATURDAY – will be held of interest to seniors, will be held from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at from noon to 2 p.m. at the Fifth Sunnybrae Seniors, 3585 SunnybraeAvenue Seniors Activity Centre. Canoe Point Rd., for all ages. For For information, call Doug Ibbitson more information, contact Gail at 250-832-1374. Burkitt at 250-463-3889 or gburkitt@ THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12 gmail.com. THE JAZZ CLUB – presents The FEBRUARY 20-28 Dharma Dolls, at 7 p.m., featuring With a complete furnace THE SHUSWAP FILM FESTIVAL – vocalists Tanya Lipscomb, Melina and air duct cleaning presents its 26th annual International Moore and Judy Rose, with Jim Film Festival, featuring 13 films, package Leonard on keyboards, in the Work must be booked by opening night gala, closing night banquet room of Shuswap Chefs Feb. 28th, 2015 not to festivities and prizes. Buy single Restaurant, 551 Trans-Canada be combined with any tickets and passes at the door or at Highway. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. other offer Wearabouts. Reserve tickets on the Admission by donation. The 24-hour line at 250-832-2294. Dharma Dolls will seamlessly combine their musical styles to sing THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26 their way through the worlds of THE JAZZ CLUB – presents The Jazz opera, jazz, pop and original Handles at 7 p.m. featuring guitarist compositions for one unforgettable Neil Fraser, Bill Lockie on bass and display of song, surprises and sass. Brian Pratt-Johnson on drums, in the FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13 banquet room of Shuswap Chefs Restaurant, 551 Trans-Canada Highway. Doors open at THE HIDEAWAY PUB – presents a fundraiser for the Snow p.m. at St. John’s Anglican Church in Salmon Arm. 6:30 p.m. Admission is by donation. Blazers at 6:30 p.m. at the pub, featuring burger, beer Under the artistic direction of Terry Logan, Ancora will and a band. The evening features the return of the perform Canadian works for women’s choir, classical, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27 Whiskey Danglers. Door prize, 50/50 and prizes. If you folk-pop, lullaby and spiritual. Jim Johnston will DAN FRECHETTE AND LAUREL THOMSEN – perform in explore Fly Hills during the winter, summer, spring or accompany the choir, and Salmon Arm soprano Hannah concert at the Downtown Activity Centre library. Doors fall, come out and support the Snow Blazers club. Gomme is a guest artist. Tickets are available at Acorn open at 6:30 p.m. Dan, originally from Manitoba, and Tickets are on sale at the Hideaway Liquor Store now. Music, at the door, or from choir members. Laurel, from Santa Cruz, California, will be promoting No minors. For further information, call 250-833-4833. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16 their second album New Disguise. THE WICKED SPOON – presents comedian Tim Nutt at 8 LAUGHING GAS IMPROV – has set up play dates for those SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28 p.m. Tickets are available at the Wicked Spoon or from who would like to try their hand at improv, or refresh the Barley Station Brew Pub. SINGLE MOMS DAY OUT – We would like to treat all the their skills from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. on the third Monday “single moms” in our community to a day of pampering SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14 of every month. This is a great way to have fun and and blessing. All services are free for the day, including learn without the burden of public performance. There VALENTINE’S DAY COOKIE WALK – will be held at Little haircuts, manicures, pedicures, facials, massages, free is no cost to join, but participants must be members of Mountain Field House, 30th Street SE, from noon to 2 clothing, toys, books, free snacks, drink and free Shuswap Theatre. For more information, contact Julia p.m. for all ages. Participants will receive a cute box, childcare. We know single moms have it hard and we Body at jebody@telus.net or call her at 250-833-1496. fill it full of home-made cookies for someone special, want to show them we care. For all ages. Broadview and help the Shuswap Food Action Co-op raise funds OKANAGAN COLLEGE’S CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS AT THE Church - The Gathering Place, 350 - 30th Street NE. for a new community garden in Salmon Arm. For further information, contact Tamara Peterson, pastor CLASSIC – runs to the end of March. Wes Anderson’s of Women’s Ministry, at 250-832-6366. The Royal Tenenbaums will be featured at 5 p.m. The THE SALMON ARM COMMITTEE OF THE KAMLOOPS fi lms are open to the public. For more information, SYMPHONY – presents Death By Chocolate, an evening email Tim Walters at TWalters@okanagan.bc.ca. of romantic music and heavenly desserts, to raise funds
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