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The sports camp week kicked off with an Akido lesson in the Nakusp Arena auditorium with Roland Werner from White Pines Dojo.

Photo by Ryan Willman

Highway 6 reopens after five weeks of construction RYAN WILLMAN Arrow Lakes News

Highway 6 is is now open concluding over five weeks of construction due to the slide on Feb 18. The site was challenging for the highways crews, as the soils were saturated due to recent rains causing the

slide area to be actively moving until Feb 28. Crews responded to the destruction caused by the slide by reconstructing the road base, installing new drainage appliances and excavating hundreds of cubic meters of material. The completed maintenance has restored the highway route but will remain as a gravel surface until a hard sur-

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Local sports camp gets kids moving RYAN WILLMAN Arrow Lakes News

Gone are the winter days of trying to entertain energetic kids in the house, augmented by bouts of cabin fever. Sufferfest organizer and local active living enthusiast Janice Neufeld encouraged the youth of Nakusp to take advantage of the warming weather by hosting a spring sports camp for students registered in Grades 3-7. Highlighting the best of what this area has to offer, Neufeld organized a number of healthy activities, drawing on local and regional resources for the 28 registered youth participants. The week kicked off with an Akido lesson in the Nakusp Arena auditorium with Roland Werner from White Pines Dojo. Akido is a modern martial art form based on the teachings of jujitsu and kendo. The discipline is non-violent and non-competitive, focusing instead on the individual physical and mental benefits of concentrated action and attentiveness. The week continued with a foray into the mountains on a bike tour followed by a day of soccer orchestrated by the Kamloops based group, Soccer Quest. Thursday was a unique opportunity for camp participants as the group traveled to the Nelson indoor climbing wall at The Cube. The week culminated with a parkour activity hosted by Kootenay Parkour and Development, a pizza lunch and a final game of ultimate frisbee in the sunshine. “The whole point of this spring camp was to get kids moving and active,” Neufeld explains, “but the theme was to try new things and different things and that everyone is different and may not like the same activities.” The camp concluded with a group reflection of which activities the kids liked most and a discussion about how to continue partic-

Top photo: Jake Falmand takes a curious peek at the camera. “I signed up for the camp because it looked fun,” he shared. Bottom photo: Camp rock star, Dane Robichaud, takes a break during an ultimate frisbee game. Photos by Ryan Willman ipation. Neufeld was keen to help the camp participants “discover their own passion and figure out what they like to do so they can lead active healthy lives.” The camp was supported by over 10 volunteers from a pool of grandparents, parents and “rock star high school students who came out to help,” Neufeld said.

Grant funding from a number of organizations including Nakusp and Area Community Foundation, Community Power, Rec Commission #4, KCSU, Village of Kaslo, Shon’s Bike and Ski, RDCK, and Kootenay Sufferfest who all donated and helped subsidize families so no youth who wanted to participate would be turned away.

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The Village of Nakusp will be presenting the proposed 2015-2019 Financial Plan (Budget) on Monday, April 13, 2015 at 6:30 pm in Council Chambers, 91 1st Street NW. Public Encouraged to attend.

12 year old Eden Reske with his nesting box for chickadees or house wrens built from lumber donated to the class. Every Grade 6 student made a birdhouse for the class’s entry in the Green Games held by the Columbia Basin Environmental Education Network’s Wild Voices For Kids program. Photo by Megan Jamison

Grade 6 class goes to the birds Trisha Shanks Arrow Lakes News

Thanks to a fun and potentially rewarding contest, Nakusp Elementary School’s Grade 6 class has taken an interest in the environment and especially in local birds. They have been busy over the winter. Their teacher, Ms. Megan Jamison attended an environmental education conference with the Columbia Basin Environmental Education Network (CBEEN) in October and brought back some ideas the students enthusiastically went to work on. CBEEN’s Wild Voices For Kids (WVFK) is a program geared toward elementary school students. According to the CBEEN website, it is an “environmental and heritage education program that provides students with curriculum-based presentations and field trips by local experts (community educators, or CEs) on the land, history and culture of the Columbia Basin region.” Once the kids showed such an enthusiastic response to working on environmental projects, Ms. Jamison told them about the BC Green Games (BCGG)

contest being held. Classroom projects have a chance to win cameras, workshops and travel subsidies for a free Science World field trip as well as cash prizes to encourage environmental endeavours in schools. Jamison said, “We discussed things that they were interested in. The students came up with lots of ideas but we had to narrow it down to something we could do in the winter.” Three projects were decided on: bird feeders from pop bottles, wooden birdhouses and a program to collect and recycle empty milk containers from all of the classrooms. Since they were mostly interested in making new things out of recycled materials, they researched and found designs for feeders and birdhouses. They had Julia Burger, a local wildlife biologist, come in and talk about bird species. Burger talked about what type of food is healthy for them and what type of birdhouses they would be more likely to nest in. “Prizes tend to motivate people too,” Jamison admitted with a laugh when talking about the gung-ho her class has demonstrated for the project. “They are most keen on winning some money to-

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wards a field trip to Science World in Vancouver. All contestants will receive free entry but this would help with money to travel there.” One of the contest components was documentation — either a video or a power point presentation was required to enter the contest. Jamison is thrilled with the skills her students developed including a long list of skills in addition to learning about the environment and finding uses for recycled materials. “Regardless of whether they win or not, they have learned so much. Building things with wood and other materials, organization, public speaking. Some of the girls got super keen about taking on the project themselves. They did presentations in each of the classes, made up schedules, and approached all of the teachers. And then making the video — editing, music selection, voiceover work,” Jamison continued. While the top prizes will be selected by a panel of judges, their three-minute video has been up on the web vying for the highest number of votes to win the wild card “viewer’s choice” award. Winning would see $500 go towards further environmental learning.

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Making real progress on poverty

TOM FLETCHER Black Press

The B.C. government has made its most significant moves in decades to address the needs of some of the province’s poorest people. The largest financial commitment is for a new program to help single parents escape from the welfare trap. There are 16,000 single parents in B.C. receiving provincial income assistance or disability payments, most of them women. Even if they could find an entry-level job, it wouldn’t pay enough to cover the child care they would need to go to work. Worst of all, the current system requires that if they enrol in training, they lose their income assistance, including dental and extended medical care for themselves and their children. That is the welfare trap, one of the most perverse government policies to have survived into our supposedly enlightened modern era. The new program takes effect in September. It will not only continue in-

come assistance payments when single parents enrol in skills training, it promises to cover their child care and transportation costs for an approved training program of up to one year. Medical and child care costs will then be covered for up to a year after training, to allow a transition to employment. Approved training means training for jobs that are identified as in demand, requiring high school and occupationspecific training that can be completed in a year or less. They include retail sales, general office work and assistance jobs in health services. Another overdue policy change is to double the allowable earnings for all income assistance recipients from $200 to $400 a month. This gives people a chance to improve their circumstances by taking whatever part-time or casual work they can manage, without having that little income cut from their already meagre welfare cheques. And then there was the recent decision to end the claw-back of parental

child support payments from income assistance payments. The province has for many years run a costly child maintenance enforcement program to track down (mostly) deadbeat dads and force them to pay at least a token amount to support their children. Now when they pay child support to a single parent on income assistance, they will at least have the satisfaction of knowing the children actually receive the extra benefit. These harsh, historic policies were built around a philosophy that welfare is a temporary last resort, to be withdrawn as soon as some other source of income is identified. That is a valid if unfashionable position to take on behalf of working taxpayers who pay for all this, but it only makes sense if the income assistance recipient has a realistic option. For those who are already in the entry-level job market, the minimum wage goes up 20 cents an hour in September, from $10.25 to $10.45. This is the beginning of an annual review that

will tie the wage to the consumer price index. A paltry sum, to be sure, but anyone who still thinks jacking the minimum wage up to $15 an hour is a magic solution that won’t cost some entry-level jobs is clinging to a socialist dream world.

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With the long-awaited arrival of spring, those of us who plan to exchange their unwanted winter tires for summer or an all-season set it’s time to look into the question of local recycling facilities available to those wishing to part with unwanted tires. The question then follows:

Just what can we do with our old or unwanted vehicle tires which we don’t wish to see abandoned alongside ditches or piled up in one’s backyard or even within the local landfill facility? In response to similar concerns being expressed, a nonprofit initiative entitled the Tire Stewardship BC (TSBC) program came into being. The program’s goal is to collect an advance disposal fee, generally referred to as “eco-fee” stemming from the sale of every new tire sold to vehicle owners. These fees are then used to cover the costs of transporting

and recycling the BC generated scrap tires, ensuring they are disposed of within an environmentally responsible venue. This is an alternative to the tires being dumped in an undesirable location. A number of innovative products are the result of utilizing the resultant recycleable rubber. Examples of end products include the production of colourful and resilient flooring often used within recreational facilities as well as in private homes or business premises. The recycled product is also used as playground surfaces,

landscape mulch and other options. The TSBC program is shown to be highly successful in this province, and this is partially due to the commitment of registered local businesses that offer a free automobile, recreational and industrial use dropoff tire service that is open to the public. Drop-off venues located within Nakusp and area include, Crescent Bay Construction Ltd., 1002 Highway 6 (near Brouse) at 250-265-3747 and Kal Tire (across from Nakusp public library), at 250-265-

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• This Week in History • Friday, April 3, 1925 Those who do not speak from authority, but from their own observation, sometimes speak scornfully of the fertility or the productivity of the land in the Arrow Lakes District. The News is, this week, able to refute such statements based on a report from the University of British Columbia, in connection with its extension work. The report concerns the farm of Mr. Gust. Henke, close to town, and was made in comparison to 28 other similar farms. It was found to be the best such farm in B.C. Thursday, April 4, 1935 Complete renewal of the great flume, through which Carpenter Creek pours its waters through the heart of Sandon, is one of the big jobs of the Provincial

Public Works Department of West Kootenay at present, the work being carried out by relief crews under Walter Johnson, general road foreman for the KasloSlocan riding.

dragged through the mud Tuesday and a tion’s annual show. Almost all aspects of truck remained at the scene all night to the enjoyment of sports and Leisure will drag any further traffic through. be represented.

Thursday, April 1, 1965 The oldest retail food chain in B.C., Thursday, April 5, 1945 Overwaitea, is celebrating its Golden Lee Kam Way, proprietor of the Royal Anniversary this year. Cafe has announced the sale of the property to Miss Mary Fable, at present em- Wednesday, April 9, 1975 ployed at the Nakusp Bakery. Lee Kam A plaque has been presented to Duane Way has been a resident of Nakusp since Edward Bunt and his mother, Mrs. R. 1913. Bunt, to commemorate his being the first baby born in the new Arrow Lakes Thursday, April 7, 1955 Hospital. Mud from the spring break up has made the Monashee Highway impass- Wednesday, April 3, 1985 able at the Needles end, Department of Danny Santano of the Nakusp Conpublic works engineer, J.A. Dennison, servation Association reports that plans said Tuesday night. Cars were being are almost completed for the Associa-

Immunization fail Compared to rest of interior, Kootenay Boundary ranks at bottom

able to infants and children up to age six and then additional immunizations that are offered in Grade 6 and Grade 9. Shots are given at According to the B.C. Centre appointments or in school. for Disease Control (CDC), the Immunizebc.ca lists five reaaverage rate for a British Colum- sons for vaccinating: “Vaccines bia two year old to be up-to-date save lives, deadly diseases still pose on vaccines has varied from 65 per a risk, travel can spread diseases cent to 71 per cent. In the interior, quickly, vaccines are safe and efthe Kootenay Boundary rate is fective, and vaccines protect everyonly 57 per cent. one.” Vaccinations are a controversial Dr. Sue Pollock, medical health topic — of that there is no doubt. officer with Interior Health agrees. There are camps both for and “We are seeing an increase in vacagainst administering inoculation cine-preventable diseases such as to children, which normally begins measles. Before these vaccines are at the age of eight weeks. put on the market, there are extenA child routinely receives vac- sive clinical trials and we continue cinations beginning at two months to monitor their safety.” of age and on a regular basis until Measles was thought to be eradtheyFrom: are six, according to a docu- icated in 2002, according to the Hugh Keenleyside DamHealth Organization, yet mentLockkeeper, available on theL. Interior World From: Phone: 250 BC 365-3115 Health website, Routine Im- it’s been Lockkeeper, Hugh L. Keenleyside Dam making a comeback. PolEmail: munization Schedule. It lists up to lock says that thanks largely to the Phone:hlk.lockkeeper@bchydro.com 250 365-3115 25 vaccinations and boosters avail- vaccines’ effectiveness, people have Email: hlk.lockkeeper@bchydro.com Trisha Shanks Arrow Lakes News

been able to forget how severe and deadly these diseases can be. She cites fear around autism and misinformation for the low adherence. “There is so much access to information, but there is a lot of misinformation on vaccines and their safety. Vaccines are safe and reliable and there is good, solid scientific research to back that up.” Many parents are relying on “herd immunity” in order to keep their children from getting vaccinations because under this theory, the unvaccinated are protected from disease thanks to those who get their shots. However, Pollock says, “In order for community immunity to be effective, more than 90 per cent of the population has to be vaccinated,” and not vaccinating should only be a consideration for those who cannot be immunized such as infants and people who are immune-compromised.

ARROW RESERVOIR FORECAST ARROW RESERVOIR FORECAST

March 27, 2015 March 27, 2015

The following forecast information is provided to federal, provincial and municipal officials, media and who have expressed in receiving this provincial information. Forecast information is The others following forecast informationinterest is provided to federal, and municipal officials, media subject to change atexpressed any time ifinterest there are significant in the projected weather is and others who have in receiving thischanges information. Forecast information patterns inchange the Columbia basin, provisions subject to at any time if load thererequirements, are significantColumbia changes River in the Treaty projected weatherand other variables during this period. patterns in the Columbia basin, load requirements, Columbia River Treaty provisions and other variables during this period. ACTUAL ELEVATION ACTUAL ELEVATION March 28, 2015 March 28, 2015

1390.9 ft. 1390.9 ft.

PROJECT ELEVATION April 04, 2015 PROJECT ELEVATION April 04, 2015

Projected 7-day TREND Projected 7-day TREND

1392.6 ft. 1392.6 ft.

Up 1.7 ft. Up 1.7 ft.

Wednesday, April 5, 1995 Although Columbia River Treaty Committee Chairman Josh Smienk has nearly completed his Columbia Basin Accord Community open house tour, the real legwork has yet to begin. Smienk has spoken to communities throughout the Columbia-Kootenay region, further explaining the Downstream Benefit package and the to-be-formed Columbia Basin Trust (CBT). He is in Nakusp to speak to local residents tonight at the Nakusp and District Sports Complex from 6:30-9 p.m. It is his second to last open house on a nine-community tour.

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The fifth element, QuintEssence, served Nakusp a musical meal RYAN WILLMAN Arrow Lakes News

To say that QuintEssence, the five piece operatic group, arrived on the Bonnington stage Thursday night would be a gross understatement. A more accurate description of their rousing entrance to start the evening of music and merriment would be to say they crash-landed in a helter-skelter of mock inebriation accented by a pitch perfect and spirited drinking song, Brindisi from La Traviata. Raising champagne glasses the spirited vocalists bade welcome to the assembled crowd of musical enthusiasts and ignited the Bonnington with enough vocal power to make more than one eyebrow raise in astonishment. There is nothing quite like the practiced and honed power of the human voice and when that force, designed to fill massive auditoriums without technical aid, was

cubically contained in the intimacy of our little theatre the result was a thrilling acoustical ride that traveled through a scale of bass rumbling lows from baritone, Peter Alexander and titillating highs from soprano, Robyn Driedger-Klassen. Rounding out the melodious spectrum, mezzo-soprano, Barbara Towell added a sensual element to the performance with her sexually charged rendition of the familiar Habanera from Carmen, while Peter Alexander complimented the quartet with his excellent vocal command and charming charisma. Tina Chang, pianist and musical director, supported the group with the ivory keys, sometimes acting as host, sometime acting as the parental figure as the vocalists playfully bickered about who was going to sing next. The evening was cleverly designed around the service of a fine meal with the parade of courses represented by thematic

choices of music. As mentioned, drinking was the first course, then once the crew had “drunk Nakusp dry” according to Chang, the appetizers and the mains were heavy with the notions of loved gained and lost. Intermission allowed a brief respite to ponder the desert cart, as Chang invited the audience to choose between musical selections of “tasty arias and juicy quartets” by use of applause. Finally, as with any well-orchestrated meal, the evening concluded with the serving of musical liquors, cognac as the group performed their own throwback-Thursday meme with a sing-a-long performance of the old CBC late night favorite the Log Drivers Waltz, no doubt familiar to anyone who remembers bunny ears. A dazzling show of vocal pyrotechnics, QuintEssence stretched the musical frontier of listeners with an interactive and enigmatically spirited show.

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Put this in your ear and dig it: Local School District 10 music teacher and accomplished musician Patrick MacGibbon has released his debut full-length album, “Music for Listening” available for private purchase. “Music for Listening” is nothing short of butter for your jazz toast as MacGibbon and friends navigate their way through the technical jungle of mainstream jazz to unearth a musical gem from the Kootenay region. Combining sultry grooves, exciting tempo changes and a healthy dose of style, these veterans of the music world have come together under the direction of MacGibbon to breathe life into five of his original compositions. Recorded in West Kelowna at Michael Garding Studios, MacGibbon assembled Neville Bowman on piano, Bernie Addington on bass and Christopher Collier championing the rhythm with his percussion — a fine selec-

tion of musicians whose alchemy yielded improvisational jazz tour de force. “Recording an album was something I planed to do in a while,” MacGibbon explained, “but there were no concrete plans. I had five original tunes and just realized there was no perfect time to get them done, so we just went in and did them.” MacGibbon draws on his extensive resume of education, experience and performance to rock the spit-valve out of his SeaWind Phil Dwyer Edition tenor saxaphone on this album. Well mixed and balanced like a proper cocktail, Music for Listening embodies the local artist’s chosen flagship quote from the famous author Victor Hugo, “Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to remain silent.” The five original compositions are poppy and warm, dripping with the improvisational jazz technique that MacGibbon is so well versed. The album also includes the song Shepard, which is an original composition by drummer Collier and highlights

the tingling combination of drum, piano and sax. The album wraps up with a familiar jazz standard, It don’t mean a Thing (if it ain’t got that swing), originally composed by Edward Ellington and Irving Mills. The quartet revitalizes the swinging soul of the tune with an upbeat rendition. “I am proud of it” MacGibbon responds when asked about how he feels about the finished product. “I am proud to present it to people. It has been a huge learning experience. Looking back, there are a few things that I would do different next time, but that is the point. Other than teaching, recording the album has been the best learning experience above anything else I have done musically.” MacGibbon has no immediate plans to follow up his debut with a sophomore album, “but there is an idea for the next one in theory,” he shared. Further information about MacGibbon’s musical resume and performance information can be found on his website www.macgibbonmusic.com.

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR April 2 Mother Goose @ Nakusp Public Library 10 to 11 a.m. Parents and babies welcome. April 2 Nakusp T’ai Chi @ the Legion 10 to11 a.m. Call Ruth 265-3353.

up. Cost is $7 on your first practice only. For more information contact Marilyn Massey @ 250 265-4087.

April 2 Strong Start a school based early learning program for ages 0-6 years.

April 5 Drop-In Floor hockey @ Burton Learning Center. 1 to 3 p.m. Cost $2.00 and a waiver must be signed before play. For ages 16 and up, or younger depending on ability.

@ Fauquier Communication Centre. 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. @ Edgewood Elementary School. 12:15 to 3:15 p.m. @ Nakusp Strong Start Building at NES. 12:30 to 3:30 p.m.

April 5 Jam Night @ Leland Hotel. Starts at 5:00 p.m.

April 2 Bingo @ Nakusp Legion. 6 p.m. April 2 Nerd Night @ Nakusp Youth Centre. 6 to 10 p.m. For more information contact Leah @ 265-2000. April 2 Badminton @ NSS Gym (Use gym door) for NSS students and adults. $3 drop in rate or $30/year + $15/yr insurance membership fee. Beginners welcome. Bring racquet and nonmarking indoor shoes. For more information call 265-3326. April 2 African Drumming Group @ NaCoMo at 7:15 p.m. Bring your own drum. New drummers welcome. April 3 Nakusp Youth Centre closed for Good Friday April 4 Community Choir practice @ Saddleback Church. 1 to 2:30 p.m. For ages 19 years and

April 5 Nakusp Hospice Drop-In Bingo @ Nakusp Legion. April 5 AA Meeting 5 to 6 p.m @ the Terra Pondera Clubhouse in Nakusp. For more information call 265-4216. April 5 Overwaitea’s Annual Easter Egg Hunt @ noon, Waterfront Park. Egg hunt for children 12 and under. Easter Bunny will arrive courtesy of the Nakusp Volunteer Fire Dept. BBQ, contests for guessing the number of candies in a jar, best Easter basket (ages 6 and under, and 7-12 yrs. ) and home made Easter Bonnet. Raffle for a big basket of goodies and prizes given out from the Golden Tickets. April 6 Bridge @ Nakusp Senior’s Centre, every Monday 1:15 to 3:30 p.m. Cost is $2.50, and beginners welcome. April 6 NSS PAC Meeting @ NSS Library at

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April 8 Poker Night @ the Leland Hotel. It’s free and beginners are welcome. 7 p.m. start. For more information contact Dan @ 265-3314.

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Former Nelson-Creston MLA Corky Evans opens up about his fight with prostate cancer in the spring issue of Forward magazine, a publication of the BC Cancer Agency. Evans’ results were first flagged after a routine exam in his late 40s, but a decade went by before he was diagnosed with a “moderately ag-

gressive” cancer. He “begrudgingly” agreed to a surgical consultation and underwent brachytherapy, which involves the insertion of radioactive seeds next to cancer cells. In the story, Evans describes a desolate night in a Kelowna hotel after the treatment in 2011. “A neighbour from home was pass-

ing through and brought me a bowl of soup,” he told the magazine. “It was one of those moments where you see a person’s face and you’re not quite sure if it’s a person or an angel.” Evans admits that he didn’t handle the process well, ignoring his doctor’s advice, and referring to himself as “a failure when it came to learn-

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Eighty-eighth in an alphabetical series on West Kootenay/Boundary place names Howser presents one of the most perplexing place name mysteries in this area, with alternate spellings and red herrings galore. Due to its complexity, we’ll devote several installments to it. Paul and Marion Howser of Reigate, Surrey, England have gone to extraordinary lengths and travelled thousands of kilometers to sort it all out. While they haven’t learned precisely who the community was named after, in 2013 they produced an exhaustive report on the subject. They note the surname Howser is very rare in the United Kingdom. They first learned it was a place in BC when Marion’s father gave them the fall 1980 edition of Beautiful British Columbia Magazine, which contained a photo of Howser Spire and a map showing the locality of Howser. “We wondered how these geographical features came to be named and did not realize at the time that this would be the start of a research program extending over more than 30 years,” Paul writes. Paul and Marion visited North America in 2004, 2005, and 2011 to further their investigation. Their search took them to dozens of archives and libraries as well as to Howser itself. One of their most significant discoveries was that the earliest mention of Howser Creek, from which the community ultimately derives its name, appears in George M. Dawson’s The Mineral Wealth of British Columbia, published in the 1887-88 Annual Report of the Geological & Natural History Survey of Canada. Dawson wrote: “‘Howser Creek: On this and another stream tributary to Duncan River, which flows into the north end of upper Kootenie [sic] Lake, coarse gold has been

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Two men are seen on a corduroy trail along Howser Creek, ca. 1910. The creek is first mentioned in a document dated 1887-88. John Logus collection. Photo submitted found. No work of importance.” The spelling is important, however, for Howser was also written Hauser and Houser. Paul maintains Howser is the original and correct form. Howser Creek is also mentioned in a legal notice taken out by G.O. Buchanan in March 1890 and published in the British Columbia Gazette, and further appears on Perry’s Mining Map of 1893. (Paul and Marion also located Father Pierre-Jean De Smet’s 1846 map of Oregon Territory, which shows Howser Creek as Rio Charles.) Duncan Lake was formerly called Upper Kootenay Lake and Howser Lake. It was first mentioned by the latter name in the Nelson Miner of July 4, 1891, but spelled Hauser in the Miner on Dec. 31, 1892; Houser in the Nelson Tribune of April 20, 1893; and Hawser in the Miner of Oct. 5, 1895. The Spokane Review of March 9, 1893 wrote: “Still they persevered, following slowly up the Lardo and Duncan rivers to Hauser lake or what is more commonly termed the upper Kootenai.” But according to the Miner of May 20, 1893: “Hauser, or as it is incorrectly called on the government maps, Upper Kootenay Lake, is about as pretty a little sheet of water as one can find …” When William

Simpson and Shirley Keeling took out a pre-emption on Lot 528 on Aug. 25, 1892, their survey plan called it “Howser or Upper Kootenay Lake” — the first appearance on a map of Howser Lake by that name. They established a townsite called Duncan or Duncan City, first mentioned in the Miner of Dec. 10, 1892 (we’ll explore the origins of that name in a later installment). According to Elsie Turnbull in Ghost Towns and Drowned Towns of West Kootenay, the CPR offered $50,000 for the townsite (something like $1.3 million today) but the owners refused. Consequently, the railway bypassed the town and Howser station was built about a mile inland from Howser Lake. Over the next few years, the town’s name was in flux. In 1893, merchant Frank Heap advertised in the Kaslo Claim that he was doing business at Houser City, but maps showed it as Duncan City. The 1899 Minister of Mines report mentioned “Duncan City, or Howser as it is now called.” In 1900, in anticipation of the Great Northern Railway building its own line through the Lardeau, Simpson and Keeling had their townsite resurveyed. This time it would be known as Hauser. Next: More confusion.

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Birds of Nakusp Gary Davidson Arrow Lakes News

As I’m sure I’ve mentioned before, I do a fair bit of golfing! Leisurely strolls down the fairways provide plenty of opportunity to chat with your playing partners. Last week my partner described watching two crows lying flat on the ground with their wings outstretched. He wondered if I knew why they were behaving in this seemingly unusual manner. The birds were likely doing one of two things: anting or sunning! Anting is the term used to describe the action of birds using ants to help rid their feathers of parasites. Some birds merely lie down on an anthill, (or at least where ants are present), and allow them to crawl through the

plumage. Others are more aggressive and will pick up ants and place them in their feathers. Still others will actually rub the ant on the feathers. It is believed that the formic acid in ants is what actually discourages the parasites. Worldwide, over 200 species of birds have been observed anting. Some birds have been observed rubbing substitute materials into the feathers. Things like Sumac berries, beetles, mealworms and citrus juices are perhaps not unusual, but coffee, cigarette butts and soap suds seem unnatural, to say the least! One woman in Wisconsin who regularly put mothballs in her garden to discourage rabbits, observed a flock of grackles picking up the mothballs and rubbing them on their feathers. Using foreign materials to discourage parasites is a widespread practice that has

been recorded throughout the world. Sunning is not an activity one would associate with birds, but like anting, birds throughout the world do engage in this activity. Some, by lying on the ground with their wings outstretched, others by standing on a branch or post and spreading their wings. So why do birds sun themselves? There are apparently quite a few potential benefits. Firstly, using the sun’s energy to warm up actually conserves the food energy stored in the bird’s body. This might be particularly beneficial during times of high activity such as raising young or during migration. Secondly, exposure to sun also promotes the production of vitamin D, a necessary nutrient for all living creatures. Thirdly, some parasites, when exposed to the sun, move to other parts of the

bird’s body. So exposing some hard-to-reach spot to the sun could result in parasites moving to easier-to-reach places, whereby the birds can preen more effectively. A fourth reason may be associated with molting. All birds go through a molting period when feathers fall out and are replaced. It is believed that this causes some irritation to the bird’s skin. Increased sunbathing has been observed during these molting periods so perhaps sunning gives some skin comfort. And finally, some birds stand in the sun to dry wet feathers. This is particularly true of cormorants, a group of birds that regularly dry feathers in this manner. There is much we don’t understand about animal behaviour. Perhaps that’s what makes watching them so interesting.

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