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Survey to gauge age-friendliness of community By Lachlan Labere Eagle Valley News
Pets welcome: Sophie the pug keeps her eyes open for friendly passersby while Black Dog Clothing Company owner Eddie Johnston finishes constructing a portable awning in preparation for the store’s May 1 opening. Photo by Lachlan Labere
Roundabout working for Clearwater
Sicamous: Province proposing roundabout as solution for 97A. By Lachlan Labere Eagle Valley News
Whether a roundabout would untangle Sicamous’ ‘octopus intersection’ on Highway 97A remains to be seen, but a similar setup seems to be working well in Clearwater. The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure recently announced it will be hosting a public hearing in Sicamous Tuesday night (after press time), to present a proposed solution – a roundabout – for the problematic intersection just off the
Trans-Canada Highway. While it’s unusual in the province to have a roundabout on the highway, it wouldn’t be unique. The District of Clearwater has had a roundabout since 2013. It is located on Highway 5 in the town’s core, and at the busy turnoff to Wells Gray Park. District of Clearwater CAO Leslie Groulx says that after incorporation in 2007, the intersection became a safety priority for the elected council. They See District on page 2
Proposed fix: The above illustration is what the province is proposing to fix Sicamous’ “octopus intersection” at Main Street and Highway 97A. BC Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure photo
While some might say Sicamous is already senior-friendly, Jeanne Rokosh is looking for ways to do better. Rokosh is spearheading a local initiative that, when complete, will see Sicamous certified by the B.C. government as an age-friendly community. “I think, in the grand scheme of things, we’re already doing a lot of the things that a town might have to, to be designated as age-friendly,” says Rokosh. “But we’re looking at it and going, perhaps can we be a little more age-friendly?” The Age-Friendly Communities initiative began with the World Health Organization as a means of preparing and providing for generations that are living longer, healthier lives. For example, in B.C. it is estimated that by 2031, approximately 1.5 million people – one-quarter of the province’s population, will be over age 65. An age-friendly community is one that has undergone a self-examination to determine its preparedness for this aging population, addressing areas such as transportation, housing, social opportunities, community support, health services and more. “This is one of the ways we can do that… we have to start thinking about the fact that our seniors population is increasing and we have to have resources and supports for them,” said Rokosh. A local advisory committee has been established and a survey was released this week allowing Sicamous’ senior population to help shape the community’s future. Rokosh says survey input will not only show where improvement is needed, but also help to establish a benchmark from which future outcomes can be monitored to assure Sicamous continues to be age-friendly. The survey can be completed online at www. sicamousagefriendly.com, and Rokosh says hard copies will be distributed throughout the community as well. “In order to not overwhelm people or have people feeling like, oh, here we go again, we’re really conscious of the survey being really user-friendly, quick, not complicated and having some level of accountability in it,” said Rokosh. Another benefit of age-friendly cerfitication, Rokosh adds, is that it will provide another impetus for people to want to move and live in Sicamous.
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Busy month ahead on water plant worksite By Lachlan Labere Eagle Valley News
Construction at Sicamous’ new watertreatment facility will be hopping in May as the sub-trades move in. With walls largely in place, the roof is expected to be added this week. Larger components of the new Mara water treatment facility will be moved in by crane in the process. And then things will really get going inside. “Once the walls and stuff go on, it’s going to be quite a beehive of activity,” says District of Sicamous operations manager Randy Hand. He and staff and the contractors are already working on where everyone is going to park, as summer residents begin to return to the
Projects: Construction continues on the Mara water treatment plant, with the roof slated to go on shortly, while Grizzly Excavating upgrades the water main along Highway 97A. Photo by Lachlan Labere community. “We’re going to get a lot of those residents coming back, so we’ve got to make sure to give them easy access too,” said Hand. “So that was one of the things we discussed. We’ll park some on Cook because it’s close by.” The crane that will be used for the roof will first be used to move
in some of the larger equipment currently being stored off-side, including the filtration membranes. BC Hydro will be hooking up the plant’s transformer in May. One generator, for the high-lift pumping station, may be going in shortly, with a second for the low-lift coming soon after.
Hand says most of the underground work related to the plant is done, though there is still work outside of the building to be done. Those driving by the water plant construction site during the past week will have no doubt noticed the work being done along the roadside. Though is separate project, the
upgrading of the Highway 97A water main between Mara Lake Lane and Kappel, and is expected to be done by June. The job, says Hand, involves replacing about 600 metres of pipe. Last Friday, Valley Blacktop was expected to remove the speed dips at the SicamousSolsqua Road bridge before moving on to paving jobs along Old Spallumcheen and Coach roads where the sewer extension occurred. Hand says that work should be done today (May 7). Regarding the removal of the controversial speed dips, Hand had a bit of a laugh, stating, “you either love them or hate them, everybody has got an opinion.”
District of Clearwater staff lobby for second roundabout Continued from front
first approached the ministry on the matter at the 2008 Union of B.C. Municipalities convention, seeking a fix that would work for the community. Groulx says the ministry eventually came up with the idea of the roundabout, and council embraced it. Public information meetings were held to explain the roundabout concept, and Groulx said there was opposition for sure. But many who were initially opposed have since come around. “We now have
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people who were very strongly opposed to it come in and say it was the best thing to ever happen because it works really slick,” said Groulx. Groulx says Clearwater’s double-laned roundabout was engineered to handle “extraordinary loads” – including the tour buses and tractor-trailer traffic that frequently turn off for the park, or carry on north for the oil patch. “One of the key things… it’s a continuous flow,” said Groulx, noting the integrated crosswalks are more
safe than those that existed prior. “The other option was to put a red light at that intersection, and it wouldn’t have been a good thing because there’s a hill that comes up, so in the winter time if you had five semis at a stop light, they wouldn’t get going again.” According to the ministry, roundabouts serve as a “traffic calming” measure that reduces the potential for serious crashes. “In fact, studies have shown that roundabouts have 35 per cent fewer crashes, 90 per cent
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fewer vehicle fatalities and 76 per cent fewer vehicle-related injuries,” states the ministry’s TranBC website. The ministry has created another website, How To Use Roundabouts, which provides an interactive animation allowing people to test different scenarios and learn the rules of the roundabout road. Groulx says the roundabout has been so impressive that council is now lobbying for a second one at another, “even more dangerous” intersection along Highway 5 near the Wells Gray Inn.
In addition to improving traffic safety, Groulx says the roundabout also appears to be having a positive impact on business. “In all honesty, I believe, as the economic development officer, and as the CAO, that it’s actually creating a bit of a hub and some interest in our community, people wanting to come and locate their business here,” said Groulx. The How to Use Roundabouts website can be found at http:// w w w. t h . g ov. b c . c a / roundabouts/clearwater.html.
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CSRD calls for review of education funding By Barb Brouwer
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Columbia Shuswap Regional District directors are unhappy with the government’s funding of the education system and are calling on the province to undertake a complete review. Directors approved a resolution asking the Union of BC Municipalities to lobby the provincial government to complete an independent review of the funding formula used to fund public education. Extolling the virtues of Silver Creek school and its Parent Advisory Council and voicing concerns about the long hours young children would have to travel on a bus, Area D director Rene Talbot told school board chair Bobbi Johnson the regional district is taking action. He said closing rural schools kills the community and asked how many people would be thrilled if they had kindergarten kids on a bus for 90 minutes. “We do have a motion to go after the government for more money,” he said. “Hopefully it will pass here today and go on to UBCM (Union of British Columbia Municipalities). “Rural areas are much safer and a better learning environment.”
Three School District #83 board officials attended the April 23 CSRD meeting to present directors with the options under consideration to find the $1.8 million needed to balance their budget. Johnson, accompanied by secretary-treasurer Sterling Olson as well as school trustees Barry Chafe from Sicamous and Michel Saab of Salmon Arm, answered questions from the board. Johnson explained that nine of the schools in the board’s 8,000 square kilometres are within CSRD boundaries. She addressed the school board’s shortfall, continually dropping enrolment and the need to close schools or spaces within schools. “We’ve done the first five consultations and we’re going through consultation results,” Johnson said. “We have been moving along trying to find out what we can do with schools; there’s lots of empty classrooms.” Johnson said the school district is having challenges to maintain an education system in outlying areas and is making a concerted effort to think outside the box. “Are there efficiencies we can find between regional districts such as watering school grounds in summer that are used by members of the pub-
lic?” asked Olson as an example. Johnson pointed out that trustees are also looking at things other ministries, such as the Ministry of Health, should be funding, instead of the education system.
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CSRD chair Rhona Martin asked Johnson to leave the decisions on facility changes until next year as opposed to the current May 12 decision day. “People are concerned the school board is in a rush to get this done,” echoed Talbot, who reiterated his concerns for Ranchero and Silver Creek schools. “It’s always the rural school that gets the axe.” But Johnson pointed out the school board has a time limit on consultation on any issue. “We get the report and have 60 days to do it,” she said. “It always seems rushed; people always like time to digest everything.” Calling Silver Creek School wonderful, Johnson pointed out urban schools includ-
ing Salmon Arm Elementary and South Canoe had both been closed and that extra staffing required to operate Silver Creek takes away from the broader base. For example, she said staff members might drive all the way to outlying schools like Falkland or Silver Creek to help one student, whereas they could help several in the same time-frame if they went to a closer and more-populated school like Hillcrest. “I agree a long bus ride is not my favourite thing to do. It may not mean closing the school,” she said, noting perhaps non-classroom spaces could be closed off. “A lot of the decline is coming from the rural schools so that is where we have to find (solutions).” Martin pointed out that Peace River has adopted a $120 school bus fee, but the suggestion did not sit well with Johnson. “When we looked at it the last time, 2,813 kids ride buses, most in outlying areas, so we’re hitting all the outlying areas,” she said, clearly concerned about the possibility of a student refused entry on the bus because struggling parents have not been able to pay the bill. “We run buses to get kids to school. Will we look at it? Maybe, but we have trouble
collecting school fees as it is.” Martin again made a plea for leaving school closure decisions until next year. As she was leaving, Johnson made a request of her own. “Have you any extra money, maybe to hire a speech pathologist?”
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very so often, news of a massive disaster will begin hitting the headlines, complete with harrowing stories and images of destruction and anguish. And, every time this happens, the news media covers it like a blanket on a cold Alberta night — only to slowly pull away, bit by bit, as other news stories edge their way into the spotlight. The problem is those stories of disaster still have a narrative, a more important one — the rebuilding effort — that often gets overlooked or subjected to the back pages of the newspaper or the end of the newscast. It happened with the Southeast Asia tsunami, again with Hurricane Katrina, once more with the earthquake in Haiti and also with the quake and tsunami in Japan. Coverage of all those disasters was intense and, while follow-up stories were done well, it simply is the nature of the news beast to jump from story to story once a new event materializes. That makes it all the more important for the media and public to get news of the latest disaster and resulting humanitarian crisis in the public consciousness as soon as possible, and as often as possible as soon as the tragedy occurs. Approximately 7,500 people are believed to have died in Nepal following the big earthquake that occurred Saturday, April 27 in Nepal. Another 14,500 were injured. There are residents of Kamloops deeply affected as they have family members in the Himalayan country. This story is significant and will continue to dominate the headlines this week. Next week, however, the Nepal earthquake will slowly be eased aside by other stories. If you can help those affected, please do. The Canadian Red Cross is collecting donations online at redcross.ca or by phone to 1-800418-1111. –Kamloops This Week
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Time for teachers to question union By Tom Fletcher News Columnist
VICTORIA – After the first few glum lines of his speech, it was difficult to tell anything had changed for B.C. Teachers’ Federation president Jim Iker as he took his familiar place before the TV cameras last week. Iker droned on about how B.C. schools are underfunded by hundreds of millions of dollars, echoing demands from the disastrous strike he led the union membership into last year. The B.C. Court of Appeal had just overturned a bizarre trial court decision that tried to give the union everything it wanted: a trip back in time to the NDP wonderland of 2001, a constitutional spanking for the B.C. Liberal government and a $2 million bonus of taxpayers’ money. The BCTF must now pay back that $2 million and scrape up whatever is left of its members’ com-
pulsory dues to plead for an appeal at the Supreme Court of Canada, continuing the executive’s self-righteous fantasy of controlling education spending in B.C. The appeal court didn’t just overturn the judgment of B.C. Supreme Court Justice Susan Griffin. It shredded her legal reasoning and bluntly corrected her, over and over, on evidence she ignored or misinterpreted. Did the government bargain in bad faith? No. Did they conspire to provoke a strike? No. Did they illegally strip working conditions from the teacher contract? No. Turns out our kids are not just “working conditions” for teachers, and public policy still matters. And it turns out that making special-needs assistants dash between classes to deal with two kids here and three over there was a lousy idea. Now there’s even a credit course offered in high school for students with learning difficulties,
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which probably has some BCTF minion crafting a pile of grievances about segregation. In the negotiated settlement reached last fall, teachers shared $105 million to make thousands of baseless grievances go away, after the union filed one for student numbers in every class in the province. This bloated perpetual protest machine drains the public purse in more ways than taxpayers realize. Parents understand the strikes, though. They remember a union that scrapped report cards, disrupted administration and forced schools to shut down at graduation time. The strike then dragged into the fall, as the government held the line on public service spending. And what was the key issue that kept schools closed? It wasn’t special needs support, where student performance has continued to improve. No, it was the BCTF de-
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manding a raise twice as big as other public sector unions had already accepted. In the end, their paltry strike fund long gone, the union grudgingly accepted the going rate. They figured they had the elected government on the run in court. Wrong again. Next up for the ministry is taking control of professional development. A bill before the legislature will enforce standards. Singing Solidarity Forever around a campfire and calling it paid professional development (a real example, by the way) will soon go the way of the union-controlled College of Teachers – onto the scrap heap of history. There are BCTF members who understand how ill-served they are by their union. They are looking critically at the performance of their leaders, who are too often distracted by grandiose “social justice” campaigns as far away as the Middle East.
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Federal budget exciting for Canadians
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On Budget Day 2015, a CBC reporter commented that the budget had nothing exciting in it. I disagree. The very fact that our government has balanced the budget when countries all around the world are running deficits is
something to get very excited about. Since the 2008 global economic downturn, our government has implemented the Economic Action Plan to grow the economy, create jobs and return to a balanced budget. Well, the plan has worked and I am excited! Our budget supports families. Economic Action Plan 2015 benefits 100 per cent of families with children by lowering taxes and increasing benefits. An average family will receive $6,600 in support per year due to measures our government has introduced. Seniors have also benefited from our
plan. Since the introduction of the Economic Action Plan, we have implemented pension splitting, higher OAS supports, introduced the Tax Free Savings Account, and increased the age for RRIFs to be withdrawn and now reduced the minimum withdrawal factors for RRIFs. Economic Action Plan has also cut taxes for small business from 12 per cent to 11 per cent, while Budget 2015 will further cut these rates from 11 per cent to 9 per cent by 2019. In 2006, a small business with a taxable income of $500,000 would have been taxed $83,600. In
2015, this has declined to $55,000 and in 2019 it will be $45,000 or a 46 per cent savings. More money in your hands to expand your business and hire more employees is good for the economy. Since 2006, our government has introduced more than 180 tax relief measures. Putting money in Canadians’ hands is good for the economy, but it also will help many Canadians to save for their first home or retirement, and our government is assisting Canadians accomplish this by increasing the limits on the Tax Free Savings Account. Increases in the Uni-
versal Child Care Benefit will help parents save for their children’s education. Canada’s government will also give a 20 per cent boost to Registered Educational Savings Plans (RESPs) where parents have invested $160 per month for the first six years. If parents choose to likewise invest the $60 monthly Child Care Benefit for children aged seven to 17 in the RESP, they will be able to save $25,000 by the time their child is ready for post-secondary education or skills training. This budget provides tax savings today so you can save for tomorrow’s priorities.
Kyllo honoured for support of organ donation that his heart was weakened by a virus and he had only six months to live,” Kyllo said. “Tony was just 37 years old at the time with a wife and three young children. Fortunately, on Christmas Day, Tony received a call from the hospital, and on Boxing Day 1988, Tony was B.C.’s second successful recipient of a donated heart, saving the life of a husband, a father and a brilliant and dedicated teacher and coach. “After recovery, Tony was able to continue his teaching career in Sicamous and resume his passion for running marathons.”
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tered their decision to be a donor. This program makes it easier for those who have yet to register. “I am truly honoured and humbled by this award,” Kyllo said. “Advocating for organ donor registration is an issue that is near and dear to me and I am thrilled that I was able to advance this matter to my colleagues in government. It is now much easier for British Columbians to sign up.”
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When nature turns off the tap GAIA GARDENING MARGO WESTAWAY
I try to be upbeat and even a little funny when I type these columns, but now I’m going to be a bit of a drip and get serious about the wet stuff. Although fun to do a rerun of our trip to San Fran, what really sunk in for us was seeing firsthand how bad the withering drought situation was, and how grim it was getting there. When nature turns the taps off for that length of time, the dominoes start to fall pretty fast and the consequences were clearly visible, such as the deep ‘bathtub ring’ of Lake Shasta, dried up stream and river beds, grapevines and orchards being pulled out, fields lying fallow and the parched earth as we crossed the Central Valley. “America’s salad bowl has now become a dust bowl,” read a headline, but it’s just the tip of the iceberg compared
to what else is on the sunshine state’s plate. California has many existing and looming environmental fronts they’re facing besides this record drought, such as unsustainable population and resource pressures, poorly managed agricultural land and irrigation practices, serious soil degradation and elimination from development and bee colony collapse, just to name a few. What’s really worrisome though, is that the excessive extraction of water from the pumping out of the massive ice-age aquifer lying under the state. It is causing a colossal sink hole that’s dropping at a drastic rate of at least a foot a year, in turn creating chaos by crumbling homes, cracking roads, twisting railway lines and messing up the vital irrigation canals that run throughout the countryside. To top it off, rising oceans are threatening to roll into critical inland estuaries that provide key sources of fresh water to wildlife, humans and agriculture – Florida included. A perfect storm may be brewing for a total food and environmental catastrophe, and millions of people will be up the creek without
a paddle if they – and we – are not somehow prepared for it. The shame and blame game has been going on for years and will continue to get mired in the mud due to political interests and economic drivers, such as the billion-dollar tourism and wine industries. For example, we had a bull session with a local about water usage in their supposedly sustainable wine-growing valley, who angrily stated that homeowners were getting hosed because backyard food gardens had been banned in order that the vineyards – a major source of tax and tourism income for the town – could have it instead. Now a statewide rationing of 25 per cent per home has been declared, which is just a drop in the bucket because the farmers – who consume at least 80 per cent of it – are excluded. Yet they’re one of the worst sources of the problem. The rains may return and the oceans may cease to rise one day, but immediate and emergency measures will need to be put in place, such as constructing dikes to stem the tide, more desaliniza-
tion plants for drinking water, legislating strict regulations on irrigation practices (maybe even mulching through mandatory food, farm and yard waste recycling, which would make total sense), eliminating unsustainable food crops and water-wasting plants and lawns from the landscapes. Going too may be the luxury of a green fairway, backyard pool, fountain, long shower or the leisurely Sunday car wash. Who gets the water and how much, plus what it’s going to cost may get ugly, and even plunge the lower-income families and farmers into debt or forced departure. Rains are the watery lifeblood for the thousands of tons of nuts, fruits, vegetables, meat, grains and rice that are grown and raised there. Indeed, two out of every three meals eaten in the U.S. come from California. We rely heavily on those crops too, and our food security experts are now describing the situation as alarming if the agricultural output begins to pack it in to the point where there’s not enough to share. What this will mean for us is a seriously destabilized
food supply with major price hikes to boot. It also means that we’ll be left even more high and dry if we don’t protect and support the survival of Canadian food growers and, especially, our local farmers and seed suppliers. If things get really rough, then every household food garden is going to count too. So if you catch yourself mumbling ‘rain, rain go away’ this spring, then remind yourself that it’s better than having to pray for the life-giving rain like they are. Going against the flow of nature never works out well for us and we humans tend to learn the hard way. The lesson here is if we abuse it, then we might just lose it – and then what?
Columbia Shuswap Regional District GET INVOLVED IN COMMUNITY PLANNING AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE! The Columbia Shuswap Regional District (CSRD) is looking for volunteers in Electoral Area ‘E’ (including Swansea Point, Malakwa, CambieSolsqua) interested in joining their local Advisory Planning Commission (APC). APC members work together in making recommendations to the CSRD Board and Staff on planning and land use related matters (community planning, zoning bylaw amendments, Agricultural Land Reserve applications, Development Variance Permits etc.) within the Electoral Area. The APC typically meets once a month, or less, depending on the number of referrals they receive. Successful candidates will be appointed to the APC for a four term with the opportunity to apply for successive terms. Training will be provided and all expenses incurred by members will be reimbursed. Individuals who best demonstrate the following will be recommended for appointment: • an interest and passion for balanced community development; • a desire to share knowledge and experience in a range of subjects relevant to planning and development (e.g. housing, agriculture, construction, parks, environment, youth, seniors, business, geography, engineering, education, arts and culture etc.). Expressions of Interest forms are available at the CSRD office or by visiting our website: www.csrd.bc.ca (click “Volunteer Opportunities” under the “Quicklinks” heading) Please fill out the on-line form or return completed forms by mail, fax or in person by 4:00 pm June 1st, 2015 to: Jan Thingsted, Planner Columbia Shuswap Regional District 781 Marine Park Drive NE PO Box 978, Salmon Arm BC V1E 4P1 jthingsted@csrd.bc.ca Phone: (250) 833-5918 or (Toll Free) 1-888-248-2773 Fax: (250) 832-3375
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It’s been a while since a vessel was set afloat on the test pond at Twin Anchors Marine’s manufacturing facility. That’s where the “Happy Eh” was last week, one of two vessels the company is manufacturing for a rental fleet in Ontario. A third boat is also in the works. This will be a higher-end private craft that will be shipped to California. These are the first houseboats to roll off the Twin Anchors Marine assembly line since 2011, when a houseboat was built for a company in St. Petersburg, Russia. “We’ve come up with an excellent product here and the guys have got something to be proud of and it’s exciting…,” says Twin Anchors manufacturing manager Nigel Watson. “These are more than
Back onboard: “Happy Eh” is one of two houseboats from Twin Anchors Marine heading for a rental fleet in Ontario. A third vessel is being built for a buyer in California. The three are the first houseboats produced by the Sicamous company since 2011. Photo by Lachlan Labere $300,000, the two for Ontario. The private vessel for California is a little bit higher. So it’s a good revenue for us.” The company is still building well-site trailers under its TA Structures banner. However, the slowdown in Canada’s oil sector last winter, resulting from
lower oil prices, forced the company to lay off up to 40 employees earlier this year. With the houseboat orders, the company has been able to bring people back to work – something that Watson is grateful for. “We’re fortunate here and for a small town – the staff that we
have available within Sicamous is still here from back in the day… when we were building houseboats primarily,” said Watson. “I think we brought six back this week and our plans are to get more people back. And these are high end – they’re high hours, so we need more
Okanagan College to see funding for trades By Tom Fletcher Black Press
The B.C. government is adding new trades seats to 12 postsecondary institutions, to allow students to sample different trades. The “trades discovery” program runs 10 to 12 weeks, providing hands-on experience. Those who complete the program can then enrol in a “foundation” program for the trade or seek an apprenticeship place with an employer. Premier Christy Clark donned her hardhat and joined high school students in
new secondary trade programs for the announcement at the B.C. legislature this week. Jobs Minister Shirley Bond said the government has made progress in the Skills for Jobs Blueprint, launched a year ago to redesign the B.C. education system from elementary to post-secondary to match education up with high-demand jobs in the future. The additional funding of $727,500 is to provide 68 seats at Camosun College, 32 at College of New Caledonia, 32 at College of the Rockies, 16
at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, 16 at Nicola Valley Institute of Technology, 12 at North Island College, 40 at Northwest Community College, 32 at Okanagan College, 16 at Selkirk College, 30 at Thompson Rivers University, 16 at University of the Fraser Valley and 16 at Vancouver Island University. Advanced Education Minister Andrew Wilkinson said the blueprint assigns 25 per cent of post-secondary funds to in-demand jobs, to fill positions left vacant by a wave of retirements in the com-
ing decades. New or expanded trades facilities are underway at Camosun College, Okanagan College and Nicola Valley. Bond said in the legislature last week that she is concerned about the low completion rates in trade programs, and she expects to make an announcement soon about placements in government activities. “That work is nearly finished,” Bond said. “My goal is to ensure that we have incremental growth of apprentices on projects that are funded by taxpayers.”
people to manufacture them as well, which is good for the business and good for the people in the town.” Watson notes this time of year is typically slow for the company, but he adds the phones haven’t stopped ringing with companies looking for quotes. This, he says, has to do with the B.C. government’s push to develop the liquid natural gas industry. “The government has still got a little bit to do with the LNG project – I’m sure they’ll get that in place, and then we’ll be busy,” said Watson. “And the good thing is, we’re still set up to do it, we’ve still got the guys available.”
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ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20 You are a mystery lately, Aries. No one is quite sure what you will do next and you may like to surprise. But share your plans every so often with those closest to you.
SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22 A difference of opinion may be highlighted at work this week when you are confronted by a coworker, Scorpio. Act with integrity, but be firm with your resolve.
TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21 Taurus, surround yourself with positive people who maintain optimistic outlooks. Many opportunities will open up if you keep a positive attitude.
SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21 Sagittarius, others may try to stop you from having fun, but you are determined to enjoy yourself. Your entire week is focused on having a good time with friends and family.
GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21 Gemini, you may resist social activities this week at first, but soon you will get swept up in the fun and lose your inhibitions. Use social activities as a way to network.
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CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22 Cancer, if you are thinking about a career move, it’s about time you put your plans in motion. This week you may find you are full of energy and ready for a new challenge.
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LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23 Leo, a renewed sense of enthusiasm has you eager to get started on future plans. Perhaps a new course of study will suffice and pave the way for new experiences.
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$1,000 Reward for Missing Dog!!! Lost on April 13th, 2015. She is a small black miniature pincher. 11 lbs, black and tan color with a bit of grey due to age. When she went missing she was wearing a beige jacket with brown teddy bear patterns on her coat. The coat has a blue trim. She was last seen near old Sicamouse road in Grindrod. Please call me if you have any information at 778-883-7219 or donnadinh2@gmail.com. Thank you and please help me, she is my family.
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By Owner - Malakwa 49 acres with house 800sqft. 2 Bedroom
15 minute drive to Sicamous
1/4 mile of Eagle River frontage
$350,000.
Owner will carry mortgage with small down payment Call Mark 1 (604)541-6391 or 1(604)671-7498
Merchandise for Sale
Auctions KWIK Auctions Commercial Food Equipment & Restaurant Auction House - Burnaby & Kelowna - Live & Online - visit KwikAuctions.com for Catalog, Pics, Video Preview ONSITE AUCTION - MAY 7, 2015 All Assets - Formerly Akari Japanese Restaurant 112 - 3000 Lougheed Hwy, Coquitlam, BC Complete Cooking Line, Sushi Cases, High End Furnishings & More!!!!.....View all lots ONLINE, Register to Bid & Bid via Live Broadcast. Visit www.activeauctionmart.com or call 604-371-1190 buyit@activeauctionmart.com
Free Items 3BDRM. 60’ trailer-house in Sicamous in good living cond. is available free. Only cost to you is you pay to move. If interested call Carol or Doug (403)255-7932
Heavy Duty Machinery
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A-CHEAP, LOWEST PRICES STEEL SHIPPING Dry Storage Containers Used 20’40’45’53’ and insulated containers all sizes in stock. 40’ containers as low as $2,200. Also JD 544 & 644 wheel Loaders & 20,000 lb CAT forklift. Ph Toll free 24 hours 1866-528-7108 1-778-298-3192 8am-5pm. Delivery BC and AB www.rtccontainer.com
Misc. for Sale 4 TURF Master tires for ride on lawn mower $200. ( 2 ) 1 5 X 6 . 0 0 - 6 N H S (2) 20X10.00-8NHS Tonneau cover for Ford short box, velcro, black $250. Canopy for Ford short box (high rise) $200. (250)836-0033 SAWMILLS FROM only $4,397. Make money and save money with your own bandmill. Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. Free Info and DVD: 1-800-566-6899 Ext: 400OT www.NorwoodSawmills.com/400OT
STEEL BUILDINGS “Spring sales with hot savings!” All steel building models and sizes are now on sale. Get your building deal while it’s hot. Pioneer Steel 1-800-668-5422 www.pioneersteel.ca
Misc. Wanted Private Collector Looking to Buy Coin Collections, Silver, Antique Native Art, Estates + Chad: 778-281-0030 in town. PURCHASING scrap gold & old Canadian & American coin collections. 250-548-3670
Real Estate Business for Sale COIN-OP BUSINESS FOR SALE. Pool tables, juke boxes, digital music systems, & various games. All coin operated All on Locations Revenue producing Okanagan & Area. Serious Inquires only waitingtretire@gmail.com Asking $55,000.00
Mobile Homes & Parks
Best pricing for New Homes in Sicamous Bi-weekly payment from
47000
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Land and Home Ownership
250-833-4728
eaglehomes.ca/listings
Transportation
Recreational/Sale 1992 Toyota Itaska RV, Class ‘C’, 6cyl, 5spd, auto over drive, air bags, good mileage, runs well $7500. obo(250)836-3533
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