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Risk of dry summer for upper North Thompson Keith McNeill

Fire chief Mike Smith and his sons, Ethan and Chase, throw out candies as they ride on the front bumper of a Clearwater firetruck during the annual May Day parade on Saturday.

Sunny day for a parade Right: Youngsters scramble to fill their bags with candies as the parade travels down Station Road from Capostinsky Park on its way to Raft River Elementary School. For more photos, see page A11 inside.

Two graphs indicate that the upper North Thompson watershed could be facing an unusually dry summer, according to Michael Allchin. The Clearwater resident is presently doing research towards a Ph.D. from UNBC. The first graph, which shows the water flows in the Clearwater River, indicates that, so far this spring, the river has been running close to or above its long-term historical maximum. “Substantially more runoff has already been lost to date this year than that at the same stage in 2003,” Allchin said. “Over the three weeks from late March to mid April, the flows recorded were the highest ever gauged for these dates, since the gauge was established in 1914. There has not been much in the way of rainfall during this time, so the great majority of these flows have derived from melting snow.” Allchin noted that earlier, faster snowmelt, in the absence of substantial subsequent rainfall, has been shown by several research studies to lead to lower levels of spring/summer soil moisture, and in turn to increased wildfire risks. The second graph, which shows the amount of snow near Kostal Lake in Wells Gray Park, indicates that mountain snowpacks are at lower levels than normal for this time of year, so less remains to maintain flows through the late spring and into summer. On May 15, the Kostal Lake automated snow pillow report-

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ed 85 per cent of the 1971-2000 normal snow-water equivalent. “While flows appear for now to be rising to their spring freshet peak at a rate similar to the long-term mean, they should be watched closely to determine if the peak occurs earlier, is lower, and/or lasts for less time, than usual,” Allchin said. “If this occurs, this is likely to correspond to lower soil moisture levels than normal, which in turn implies a higher wildfire risk.”

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Allchin noted that the situation also could have implications for water supplies for North Thompson communities. As reported recently in the Times, the BC Forest Service weather station in Clearwater recorded 16 mm of rainfall during April, compared to a 10-year average of 25 mm. The governor of Washington state declared a statewide drought emergency on May 15. Snowpacks are 24 per cent of normal.

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Startup Coffee for new businesses (L-r) Lincoln Smith and Amber EngelHandford of Kamloops Innovation chat with Christie Curtis during a Startup Coffee meet-up held May 12 at the Hop 'n Hog (previously Flour Meadow Bakery). The event was planned to be a casual meeting of entrepreneurs, students, mentors, and anyone interested in starting a business to get together and pitch ideas, share experiences, and provide feedback. Photo by Keith McNeill

MP McLeod announces job funding for youth Submitted OTTAWA – Member of Parliament Cathy McLeod recently announced that young people in Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo will have access to summer jobs to help them gain valuable skills and work experience. “This region is receiving over $457,131 in Canada Summer Jobs funding to hire 106 young Canadians,” said McLeod. “Canada Summer Jobs helps students gain the skills and experience they need to be successful, now and

in the future, while earning money for the upcoming school year.” Canada Summers Jobs provides funding to not-for-profit organizations, public-sector employers and small businesses with 50 or fewer employees to create summer job opportunities for young people aged 15 to 30 years who are fulltime students intending to return to their studies in the next year. In 2015, the Canada Summer Jobs program is expected to create approximately 35,000 jobs, while helping employers address skills shortages.

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Wells Gray Community Forest gives out a progress report Keith McNeill During its first three or four years of operation, Wells Gray Community Forest logged mostly dead pine that had been killed by mountain pine beetle, according to Dave Meehan, corporation president. At the same time, timber prices were depressed because of the 2008 recession. Despite the difficulties, the community forest survived and was even able to begin giving out grants to deserving community projects. Over the last two years WGCF has been harvesting less dead pine and more green wood. At the same time, the timber markets have been improving. The community forest made a gross profit of $750,000 during the fiscal year ending Oct. 31, 2014, Meehan reported. Of this, $250,000 was transferred to Wells Gray 2010 Society to be distributed to the community. The remainder is being kept in reserves for such things as silviculture. The local community forest has a three-part structure. Wells Gray Community Forest Corporation is the operational arm. It generates income by selling logs through a competitive bid process to local logging contractors. The successful bidders were Dale Miller Logging and Wadlegger Logging and Construction. The contractors in turn sell the logs to sawmills – mostly Canfor and Interfor, but also Gilbert Smith, Tolko, Wadlegger Specialty Forest Products and Colborne Lumber. Wells Gray 2010 Society is responsible for distributing a portion of the community forest's profits to eligible proponents in Wells Gray Country and Clearwater. The funds are distributed twice a year. Community Forest Advisory Committee promotes the community forest to the public and brings public input to the corporation's board. The community forest has three operating areas: Raft, East Blackpool and Burnell. The latter operating area is named after the late Leverne Burnell, who played a lead role in getting the community forest established.

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A total of 42,000 cubic meters of wood were harvested during the fiscal year. This was 11,000 cubic meters above the community forrest's annual allowable cut, taking advantage of higher prices and demand. Most of the logging took place in the Raft operating area northeast of Clearwater. A total of 22,000 cubic meters were taken, a mix of subalpine fir and spruce. The community forest's second operating area, East Blackpool, contributed 1,500 cubic meters of Douglas fir and lodgepole pine. About 19,000 cubic meters were taken from the Burnell operating area west of town. The logs were a mix of Douglas fir and lodgepole pine. During the fiscal year 4.6 km of permanent road plus an 18 m bridge were installed on the Burnell road.

Members of the Wells Gray Community Forest Corporation board of directors pose for a photograph. Pictured are (l-r) president Dave Meehan, director Paul Streadwick, vice-president Joel Steinberg, director Brent Buck, director Leon O'Dette, and secretary/treasurer Lorne Wright. Photo by George Brcko

In 2013 the community forest completed a forest stewardship plan – a higher level plan that outlines the strategies that will be used to achieve measurable results. In 2104 the community forest

planted 169 ha with 230,000 seedlings. Species were roughly one-third Douglas fir, one-third Engelmann Spruce, one-third lodgepole pine, plus some western red cedar.

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ATV club plans poker ride for summertime Editor, The Times:

The ATV-BC organizes a poker ride every year at different places in B.C. This year it is coming to Clearwater. The local club, Clearwater ATV, is assisting in the event, which will take place on July 18. With special permission from Canfor Forest Products, it will be held at the old airport next to Camp 2 Road, where camping will be available. The poker ride will begin at the airport

and follow a marked trail up into Canfor's timber management area, stopping at some lakes before returning to the airport. Riders will stop at checkpoints to draw a card to see who has the best poker hand. Prizes will be $3,000 for first, a utility trailer for second, and a full year's insurance for an ATV as third. But that is not all – riders will have a chance at a draw for several random prizes. Also, anyone who buys a five-card pack will be entered for the

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hidden hand draw for a new Can-Am Commander fourwheeler. Your hand must match the predrawn numbers to win this special prize. We expect people to come and camp ahead of time to partake in some other activities and look around the town. There is lots to see in Wells Gray Park, “the waterfall park.” River rafting will be in full swing at that time of year; there are plenty of great restaurants in to check out; and there are some local quad trails at hand right by the camping area. The Clearwater club will guide two rides on the Thursday and Friday for those coming early as well as any local riders interested. The Elks Lodge will put on a special pancake breakfast on Friday morning for all quad riders. The poker ride will be on the Saturday.

After the winners are announced and the prizes drawn, those who have purchased supper tickets will ride to the Legion Hall for a full sit down roast beef supper with all the trimmings. There is a limit to the number they can serve, so be sure to get your tickets early. Raffle tickets are being sold for a $14,000 ATV. The second prize is a 2,000 Watt generator, withe third prize being a pressure washer. Tickets are available from Aspen Auto Parts. New regulations require licensing of all off-road vehicles. When applying for insurance, a discount is allowed if you have a membership in a local ATV club. So it is to your advantage to have a membership, which is available at Aspen Auto Parts in Clearwater.

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VICTORIA – It was 2008 when word first surfaced that B.C. farmland was being bought up to grow trees as a European carbon offset. Reckitt Benckiser Inc., a Britishbased global manufacturer of household products such as Lysol spray and Calgon laundry soap, bought 1,500 hectares east of Vanderhoof and planted aspen. For comparison, that’s about the size of downtown Vancouver from 16th and Oak to Stanley Park. Since tree growing is permitted in the Agricultural Land Reserve, a use intended for fruit, ornamental or nursery trees, no permission was needed. And to meet the carbon offset rules of the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change, a 100-year restrictive covenant against harvesting trees was issued by B.C.’s land titles office. Goodbye farmland. After that deal, the B.C. government changed legislation in 2011 to require permission from the Agricultural Land Commission to make these covenants valid. Agriculture Minister Norm Letnick says he is waiting for that process to be tested. It likely will be soon. Reckitt has bought another 7,000 hectares of cleared farmland from Prince George down through the Cariboo to Quesnel. NDP agriculture critic Lana Popham has been tracking these acquisitions, and she says there are more deals in the works. Last fall, the Bulkley Nechako Regional District wrote to Victoria Wood, Reckitt Benckiser’s “global head of sustainability,” telling her that “the planting of trees on centrally located and productive agricultural lands is not appropriate” and would weaken local farm economies. Wood responded that the RB Trees project targets only “marginally productive” land such as pasture, abandoned farms or those that have been up for sale for long periods. Former Cariboo North MLA Bob Simpson raised the issue in the legislature in 2008, noting that Crown land near Vanderhoof had been sold for farming, bought by a numbered

company and then “flipped” for around $1 million to RB Trees. Now mayor of Quesnel, Simpson takes issue with the company’s claims with his usual shyness. “It’s bull----,” he told me. “This isn’t marginal land.” He said it includes prime alfalfa fields and historical ranch and forage crop lands. In one case, neighbours found out about the new use when they saw a helicopter spraying herbicide to prepare the area for tree seedlings. In the Cariboo as in other rural B.C. areas, aging farmers want to retire and young people keen to work seven days a week are in short supply. So naturally there is pressure to sell. Perhaps Letnick is right, and the ALC will stop productive farmland from being turned back into forest. While we’re waiting for that, here are a couple of other questions. What happens when these forests burn? The first big forest fire of 2015 grew out of control near Prince George last week. And since aspen doesn’t last 100 years, what is its real carbon offset value? How’s that European carbon trading market doing? It’s a mess, with the cost of emitting a tonne of carbon dioxide fallen far below what’s needed to be effective, and Interpol investigating various schemes to game the system. Remember B.C’s own Pacific Carbon Trust? This Gordon Campbell brainchild to sell carbon offsets was quietly greenhouse gassed after the Auditor General revealed its first two big projects were of questionable value to say the least. Finally, does anyone really think that returning B.C.’s scarce farmland to forest is a good way to change the weather? Would it offset the loss of local production and trucking in farm produce from elsewhere? And where are B.C.’s tireless food security advocates on this dubious scheme? – Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Twitter: @tomfletcherbc Email: tfletcher@blackpress.ca

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Do you think more people should take part in Bike to Work Week, May 25 – 31?

Travis Aback (working at IWW for summer): I do believe they should. The way the economy's going, we need more green.

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Yes, because everybody needs more exercise than they're getting. And maybe it would make the motorists slow down.

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In Holland we do that all the time but it's a flat country. Some use electric bicycles. They're easier to use but maybe a bit expensive.

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I want to thank the many people of Clearwater who have given me money to send to Nepal. Right now in Nepal, it costs $8 a week to feed a person or $40 a week to feed a family of five. Food is being distributed, but the demand is high and the price is going up. Getting the food into the remote villages is difficult as many villages are a week's hike away from the nearest road. It is shelter that is hard to find. A huge amount of the population is living under tarps and tents in fields in front of their destroyed

homes. Every tarp and tent in Nepal is now being used and more are on the way. All of Langtang valley has been evacuated to Kathmandu as the main village was wiped off the face of the earth by an avalanche and it is still unstable and not safe to be there. There are only a few people left there and they are dealing with the bodies. In the village of Langtang, only 15 people survived and over 150 were killed. From the whole valley, all 488 survivors are now in one place under tarps on monastery grounds in the city of Kathmandu.

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efficiently. You are a great group of people. The heat and fumes you had to endure for my benefit and protection is so much appreciated. Thank you also to the forestry members who returned the next day to check on things. A very special thank you to unknown neighbors – a husband, wife and son – who were the first to arrive, quickly removing propane tanks and tires from the burning area, ensuring my animals' safety and even calming my panic-

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An excited Dee Dee Null was crowned May Queen. Donna Cooper was Miss Congeniality. Events during the weekend included the queen pageant, parade, Shuffling Shoes square dancing, Squirts and PeeWee softball tournaments, a black powder shoot, senior men's softball and ladies' softball. VIA Rail was to use Clearwater and Blue River as regular stopping points when Super Continental passenger service was restored between Jasper and Vancouver

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(after having been cut in 1981). MP Nelson Riis rose in the House of Commons to ask about possible closure of the railroad stations at Clearwater and Blue River. Wells Gray Wrestlers hosted their first annual Mat Rat invitational tournament. Longtime East Blackpool resident Harry Fairbrother passed away. He had operated the ferry from East Blackpool to the Golden Spur Store for 21 years before retirement.

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Area pioneers Granny Radmacher, Marjory Harby and Jim MacLennan were honored as part of Clearwater's 65th anniversary and May Day parade. School District 26 trustees wrote a letter to the TNRD expressing concern about a proposed PetroCanada card-lock facility to be located next to the Hub on Highway 5. Property owner Al Miller said most customers would be logging truck drivers, who would use the facility between 5 p.m. and 5 a.m.

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MLA Fred Jackson announced that Clearwater was to get a community skills center. “This caught me totally unaware,” said Chuck Emery, unofficial chair of the committee that was promoting the skills center. Approximately 90 workers stopped work at WeyerhaeuserVavenby to protest disciplinary action taken against one millworker who had allegedly threatened another while holding an axe. “These people feel the termination was too harsh,” said IWA plant chairman Carol Toth. Bob Gledhill and Abe Loveway won the Dominion Command (national) cribbage championships in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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Two new signs were erected to mark the borders of Wells Gray Country on Highway 5. Local schools had their share of accolades: Four CSS students, calling themselves The Native American Bread Friends were awarded Best Team Spirit at a business competition in Edmonton while they presented their plan for “Bannock in a Bag.” Also bringing home awards, both CES and CSS concert

bands won gold in a national competition, MusicFest Canada. The Latremouilles of Little Fort were honored with the unveiling of a sign, naming Latremouille Park in honor of the legacy of contributions made to the community since Joseph Horisdas Latremouille first settled in 1907.

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Dr. Spiros Theocharous, a South African doctor who had arrived in the community the previous fall, planned to leave in July. Apparently, the main reason for his leaving was he had been offered a job in a major city in South Africa. Improvements to Clearwater's water supply will be needed in the next decade or two to avoid problems, several specialists told town council. Garry Rushton won the Erland Lee award from the Federation of Women's Institutes of Canada for his work in restoring Blackpool Hall.

YEAR AGO: The North Thompson Aboriginal Centre float won first place in the clubs and organizations category at Clearwater's annual May Day parade. There were 192 participants in the parade, Rotary Club organizers reported. MLA and Health Minister Terry Lake announced $40,000 for a feasibility study into locating a hospice in the North Thompson Valley.

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Vavenby water petition times staff Thompson-Nicola Regional District has received a 72-signature petition that asks for communication with the community of Vavenby regarding installation of water meters in the village's water system. “After experiencing several leaks in our aging system last year, we want to know – are we using it or losing it.” the petition reads. “Spending $500,000 to install water meters is not repairing our system.” The petition notes that five water systems within the regional district, including Vavenby, have high water usage. The petition goes on to ask how many of the other four have an industrial user on their system and how old the other systems are in comparison to Vavenby's. In an email addressed to Wells Gray Country director Carol Schaffer, Vavenby resident Kathy Cederholm said that, in 2006, water rates were $15 per month. It has since gone up to $40 per month, and the

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Regional district merges North Thompson advisory planning commissions into one Times Staff The advisory planning commission for Wells Gray Country and Thompson Headwaters (Electoral Areas A and B) has been merged with the APC for Lower North Thompson (Area O). The ThompsonNicola Regional District board of directors made the decision during its meeting on May 14. APCs advise the board on matters such as land use, community planning, or proposed bylaws or permits. In a report to the board, TNRD staff noted that, following incorporation of Clearwater and Barriere as municipalities, the APCs in the North Thompson Valley have had less to do. In 1986, Wells Gray Country had a population of 4,274. In 2011, after District of Clearwater became separate, the number Compassionate PET CARE Close to home

was 1,536. Similarly, the population of Lower North Thompson went from 2,989 to 1,335 after District of Barriere was formed. The new APC will have one member from Thompson Headwaters, two from Wells Gray Country, and two from Lower North Thompson. The new bylaw also allows for: • APC member numbers over the whole TNRD to be reduced from 35 to21, thus reflecting the population shift; • Attendees may opt to “attend” a meeting by telephone, Skype, or other electronic means; • Appointment is by the board on a four year rotation — not staggered; • A provision for a possible alternate member for each APC (assist with quorum); and • Legislative concordance update and simplification of bylaw

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allocation for the 2015 to 2018 term. Five themes were identified during the planning session: • focus on communication; • focus on excellence in governance and management; • continue to focus on providing services that increase value to ratepayers; • actively promote economic growth in the region; • advocate on key issues impacting the region.

Funding for tourism marketing The North Thompson Marketing Committee’s regional tourism marketing initiative for the North Thompson Valley will receive $6,000 of North Thompson Economic Development funds allocated to Electoral Area “B” (Thompson Headwaters) to support participation from Area “B” in the marketing initiative.

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Clearwater residents to cycle for global warming petition Keith McNeill Can your editor keep up with Jean Nelson on a bicycle? That's the central question to be answered when Nelson and I cycle from Toronto to Ottawa May 23 – June 2. Mind you, anyone who knows Jean and who know me already knows the answer. Jean might be an 80-year-old grandmother, but she's also remarkably fit. She has competed in cycling at the BC Seniors Games for many years and consistently wins medals (although not all gold, as she modestly says). She also has completed several lengthy bike tours in places such as Iceland. Your editor, on the other hand, spends way too much time behind a computer and in the office. I haven't done much cycling for many years and I have never done a long bike trip. Of course, there's also the question of promoting a global warming petition that your editor has posted online at Care2. The petition calls for a Canada-wide referendum on carbon fee-and-dividend. So far it has collected more than 28,000 names - not too bad, but far from the 400,000 target. Carbon fee- anddividend, for those interested, is a proposed method to control human-caused global warming. A fee would be charged on fossil fuels at the wellhead, mine or point of import similar to a carbon tax. Unlike a tax, however, the money collected would not go into general government revenues. Instead, it would be distributed in equal and repeating dividends to everyone. As stated on the petition, a Canadawide fossil fuel fee set at the same level as B.C.'s carbon tax ($30 per tonne of carbon dioxide produced) would generate about $20 billion per year.

Times editor Keith McNeill gets ready for a training ride with longtime North Thompson resident Jean Nelson recently. The pair plan to cycle from Toronto to Ottawa soon to promote a petition on global warming. Nelson was Mrs. Chatelaine in 1970 and the former chair of School District 26 (North Thompson). Photo by Yevonne Cline

A cartoon by Clearwater resident Max Roy gives an opinion of a bike ride that Times editor Keith McNeill plans to make from Toronto to Ottawa May 23 - June 2. While in Toronto McNeill plans to pick up an award the newspaper won for first place in best editorial page from Canadian Community Newspapers Association.

Assuming there are about 20 million adults in Canada, that would mean each person over age 18 would receive carbon dividends totalling close to $1,000 per year. (The actual numbers, for the sticklers in the crowd, are $21 billion in fees, 24 million adults, and $875 in dividends annually). We know carbon taxes work in reducing carbon dioxide production. A fossil fuel fee should work as well or better.

The carbon dividend would be an important step in reducing the economic inequality that is increasing in this country. Those getting the lowest 10 per cent of income would collect 150 per cent more in carbon dividends than they would pay in fossil fuel fees. In fact, two-thirds of Canadians would collect more or at least break even. Those who would pay the most would

be people with a lot of shares in fossil fuel companies and/or whose lifestyles include multiple homes, yachts and private jets. "Why ask for a referendum?" is a question sometimes asked. In my opinion, this question is altogether too important to be left to the politicians. In Switzerland, the citizens have the right, through a petition with 100,000 signatures, to bring forward any important question to a national

referendum – meaning the people get to vote on it. Canada has about four times the population of Switzerland and so the online petition calls for 400,000 names. We don't really expect to get that number and, even if we did, it would not be legally binding. Still, it's a worthwhile goal and it does get the idea out there that we need more democracy, not less, if we are to solve the

problems that face us. Jean and I plan to start our trip from the Rouge Hill GO station northeast of Toronto on Saturday, May 23 (at 10 a.m., if you have any friends or relatives there who might want to see us off). That day will see a relatively short ride to Oshawa. May 24 - about 60 km to Coburg. May 25 – Trenton. May 26 – Napanee. May 27 – Kingston. May 28 – spend a day Kingston.

May 29 – Rideau Lakes, stay at historic Hotel Kenney. May 30 – Smith Falls. May 31 – Carleton Place. June 1 – Ottawa. At noon on June 2 we will meet Citizens Climate Lobby – Canada national manager Cathy Orlando at the Centennial Flame in front of the Parliament Buildings. There we will give her six memory sticks containing the names on the petition as of that date. Orlando then will pass them on to the leaders of the six parties in the House of Commons: Conservative, New Democrat, Liberal, Green, Bloc Quebecois and Force et Democratie. If you want to add your name to the petition, the URL is www.thepetitionsite. com/850/161/365/petition-for-a-referendumon-carbon-fee-anddividend-for-canada/ (or Google: Care2, petition, carbon fee, Canada). Please get others to sign as well. We may not save the world, but at least we intend to have fun trying.

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Jorja Bond rides on the DQ float during the May Day parade.

M.P. Cathy McLeod hands out bubble gum as she rides in the parade on Saturday.

A young girl wears a big smile as she rides her horse in Clearwater's May Day parade on Saturday.

Far left: Clearwater councillor Barry Banford throws out frisbees to the crowd. Near left: A boy looks very happy as he is presented with one of the frisbees. All photos by Keith McNeill

Lots of fun at the parade Times Staff Sunny skies and happy faces meant Clearwater’s annual May Day parade on Saturday, May 16 was a success. A total of 214 participants took part in the parade, according to Clearwater Rotary Club’s Ursula Schaer, one of the event organizers. This compares to 192 last year.

The participants included M.P. Cathy McLeod, TNRD director Carol Schaffer, Mayor John Harwood, RCMP, BC Ambulance, Clearwater and District Highway Rescue, Wells Gray Search and Rescue, Clearwater Fire Department and Blackpool Department. There were 12 floats, six classic cars, and many horses in the May Day parade this year.

Results of the judging were: 1, Wadlegger Logging; 2, Canfor/United Steelworkers; 3, Always Living Landscaping. Clubs: 1, District of Clearwater; 2, Clearwater Minor Hockey; 3, Wells Gray Search and Rescue. Classic Cars: 1, Al Timms; 2, Henry Werkmann; 3, Phil Brown. Horses: 1, Wells Gray Riders Association.

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Sports Season finally ends for Spartans Times Staff As reported in last week's Times, the North Thompson Spartans, a joint Clearwater/ Barriere secondary school rugby team, got a second chance to compete in the provincials, despite being eliminated in the Okanagan semi-finals. The Spartans travelled to the

Lower Mainland on May 13 but lost 15 – 5 to RE Mountain Secondary School of Langley. “The boys worked their butts off,” said Gabe Francis, one of the coaches. “One try 'held up' that would have made a bit of a difference. A very gritty game, I would not hesitate to call it our best 'team game' of the year.”

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The trailhead is signed and easy to find 300 m up The Bend taking a right from the Candle Creek parking lot. Funding for the Ridge trail was provided by Recreation Sites and Trail BC and the Thompson-Nicola Regional District. WGOC appreciates all the volunteers who have come out to help on the trail, and Kurt Dodd and Clyde MacLennan for volunteering their time to fall danger trees. A grand opening for the Ridge trail is planned for Sunday, June 14 10 a.m. at the trail head. Trail design and building course May 24 WGOC is going to host a mountain bike trail design and building course sponsored by Rec Sites and Trails BC. The course will be a full day May 24 at the Candle Creek trails Students will learn about designing and building sustainable trails to professional IMBA standards. If you are keen to help work on the planned network of cross country, all mountain, and shuttle downhill trails, this course will provide you with essential base line skills. Space is limited to 10 participants. There will be no cost. To register contact Aaron Cooperman by email solmountain2@gmail.com or phone 250.674.1231. It’s not what you earn, it’s what you keep

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A Lutheran, an Anglican, and a United walk into a church Submitted At first glance, there seems to be an error on the sign outside the small white church in this community, located 66 km north of Kamloops. “ST PAUL,” it reads, without the usual period following the “ST.” But it is no error — the sign, though it refers to the saint, is actually a clever acronym: “Serving Together, Parish of Anglicans, United and Lutherans.” The Church of St Paul, a parish with a Lutheran pastor and a mixed Anglican and United Church congregation, is an ecumenical shared ministry, an arrangement that has become increasingly common across the Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior (APCI), where small communities are spread out across hundreds of kilometres of rugged, mountainous terrain. “We were getting smaller and smaller, and it got to the point where we didn’t have a regular minister,” said parishioner Laura-Ann Farquharson, speaking of the old Anglican Church of the Redeemer. “Our core group was 10 or less, and most of them were elderly people, and the upkeep of the building was getting to be a challenge.” It is a story that many Anglican churches across Canada can relate to, but instead of just turning out the lights and quietly mourning the end of their ministry, Redeemer’s parishioners decided to try something else. “It was 2009, at Pentecost in May — we decided we would join services [at Barriere United Church] for the summer and see how it went,” Farquharson said. “One Sunday a month we had Anglican services, and the other three were United. We got to the end of the summer and it was such a seamless transition — we were a part of this family — that we just didn’t go back.” Leslie Stirling, who was a member of Barriere United Church before the creation of St Paul, said that it took about a year more for the memorandum of understanding to be signed by territorial and presbytery leaders and the union formalized in a service. “It was Pentecost of 2010 when we became married,” she joked. “By that time, we were just well established. It just felt so right.” There were hardly any challenges in bringing the two congregations together, parishioners said, in part because they were already familiar with each other’s traditions. “Over the years prior, the Anglican and the United churches did worship together,” explained Stirling. “Quite often, one would have a Good Friday service and one would have an Ash Wednesday service, so we would often worship together.” Like any marriage, the joining together has led to some changes in how the congregations live together. “Our worship is blended,” the Rev. Brian Krushel, St Paul’s Lutheran pastor, explained. “We don’t do an Anglican Sunday, a Lutheran Sunday and a United Sunday. Sometimes it’s stuff drawn from the

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Evangelical Lutheran Worship Book, sometimes it’s the Book of Alternative Services, sometimes it’s [United Church’s] Celebrate God’s Presence, sometimes it’s Iona, and we blend it all together.” Mel Schmidt, another St Paul’s parishioner, said that this ability to bring together different traditions speaks to the extent to which all three denominations have changed in the last few decades. “Back in the late ’60s and ’70s, there was a lot of talk of the Anglican [and] United churches joining, and that was one of the stumbling blocks: ‘Our service is so different from yours — no way we’re going to meet,’ ” he chuckled. “It takes years, but it’s like osmosis — it takes years to finally meld.” Glenn Andrews, who had been a long-time member of Barriere United Church, agreed. “Oftentimes when people talk about these differences in services — I’ve gone to services in different parts of Canada — there are, in all of them, similarities,” he said, “but nothing is done exactly the same in church to church to church. I think people get hung up on little things.” While the Anglican and Evangelical Lutheran churches of Canada have been full communion partners since 2001, the dream of bringing Anglican and United churches together is a long-standing one in the B.C. interior. As early as the 1960s, there were many active shared ministries in the neighbouring diocese of Kelowna, and Anglican and United leadership on the diocesan and presbytery level is used to and supportive of such ventures; for this reason, Krushel had no difficulty becoming licenced to perform baptisms and eucharistic ministry in each of the traditions he serves. As Stirling put it, “We get along well with the in-laws.” Indeed, the arrangement is working so well that it is being expanded to become a twopoint shared ministry with Clearwater United Church, about 60 km farther north, which will be renamed Trinity Shared Ministry. “We’ll be the first, probably, in North America — and maybe even the world— where we’ll be two points, three denominations, one minister, one God,” said Krushel, laughing.

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A British company buying up thousands of hectares of cleared farmland in B.C.'s Interior for carbon offset projects will have to get its plans past B.C.'s Agricultural Land Commission first, Agriculture Minister Norm Letnick says. The B.C. governAgriculture Minister Norm ment has compiled a Letnick list of farm properties totalling 7,000 hectares from Prince George to Quesnel that have been bought to grow trees, to offset carbon emissions from the U.K. That is in addition to nearly 1,500 hectares east of Vanderhoof that the company bought in 2008. That land was granted a 100-year covenant against logging that is required to qualify it as a carbon offset for Reckitt Benckiser Inc., a British maker of household and health care products with world-wide sales. It was planted with aspen in 2009-10, according to a Bulkley Nechako Regional District staff report. Under its program RB Trees, the company has continued to buy farm properties in the Interior. Its website says it has planted seven million trees and the goal is 10 million. Letnick said a 2011 amendment to B.C. legislation requires permission from the Agricultural Land Commission before a 100-year covenant is valid. Properties bought after 2011 will be a test case for this requirement to seek ALC approval. "My guess is that if there is marginal land that maybe can't grow anything but trees, the commission would see fit to give permission," Letnick said in an interview. "But if the land is good for other purposes, like growing crops, hay or whatever, then the commission would have a different argument to make." NDP agriculture critic Lana Popham said she shares the concerns of local governments that reforesting farmland around established communities will reduce food growing capacity and weaken local farm economies. RB Trees is after farmland because it is cleared and accessible, and reforesting it meets United Nations rules for "afforestation," or adding permanently to forest cover, she said. "It's cheap," Popham said. "The main goal that they have is to find land that is easily planted." In an October letter to the Bulkley Nechako regional district, Reckitt Benckiser executive Victoria Wood said its purchases represent less than one per cent of ALR land in the district. "Our approach is, and always has been, to target land that is marginally productive, such as rough pasture, pasture, hay land and abandoned farms or farms that have been on the real estate market for an extended period of time," Wood wrote.

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Train wreck shatters Avola’s peace and quiet Eleanor Deckert PART ONE: A reenactment – Thursday, May 28, 1942, 3 p.m., Mile 34 CNR engine 6058, the eastbound daily ‘Number 2’ scheduled for Wednesday, May 27, was delayed by repairs to a bridge near Mile 34, which had been damaged by the spring runoff. Over 24 hours late, on Thursday afternoon the engineer had orders to proceed. Superintendent Gough was on board and with him enjoying the sights through the windows of the observation car were officials from the National Film Board of Canada (a division of the War Services Department) and several representatives of a Hollywood film company. In the other passenger cars local residents returning home to Blue River, long-distance travellers destined for Toronto, sightseers from the USA and the

CNR Number 6058 was the engine pulling the first train. A mountain class 4-8-2 locomotive, it was commonly used to pull passenger trains (4-8-2 means there were first four small pilot wheels, then eight large main drive wheels, followed by two small trailing wheels). As a point of interest, the sister engine 6060 was featured at Expo ‘86 after it was restored. Later the 6060 steamed through the North Thompson Valley. Photo submitted

usual train crew staff. At the controls of the Thursday daily passenger train, CNR engine 5123, a second ‘Number 2,’ was D. A. (Stub) McKenzie. He was instructed to follow the first ‘Number 2’ at 35 miles per hour, the usual speed, leaving a 20 minute interval between them.

Without a speedometer, like other engineers at the time, he measured with his pocket watch how much time it took to pass the telegraph poles and calculated his rate of speed knowing that is was always 40 poles to one mile. Without a radio, like other engineers at

CNR Number 5123 was pulling the second passenger train. The Pacific class 4-6-2 type was a standard, common engine of its day. This engine was repaired after the accident and was in service until the 1950s. Photo submitted

the time, he had only the last train orders he received from the telegraph operator at the last station to tell him what he was to do. After the delay, messages had to be conveyed to each train. Attempting to return to normal schedules after such a complex interruption took a lot of coordination. Since the beginning of World War II, trains were being used to move young soldiers headed towards Europe. Fresh recruits filled the Thursday ‘Number 2.’ Norman Moxness was serving in the air force, travelling to Edmonton. He didn’t know his life would be in danger on May 28, 1942. 3:35 p.m., Avola Train Station Engine 6058

required more water for its boiler after such a long delay. The Avola Station water tower at Mile 24.8 was a necessary stop. The dining car was late with lunch or early with the evening meal and weary travellers were making their way forward from the tail end observation car. At the head-end, new train orders for the engineer were available from the telegrapher at the Avola Station. Brakeman Kelly stepped off the rear-end to routinely walk back along the gently curved tracks with red flags to ‘protect the train.’ Up the hill in Avola, Thomas and Agnes Craig were about finished planting their large vegetable garden. Their daughters Vernetta,

Evelyne, Molly and Bernice, were just home from school. Royce Gibson, a 17-year-old who lived right beside the tracks, and his buddies, Ivor and Elmer Lundeburg, knew all about the trains. On-time or late, there were usually about four freight trains per day and two passenger trains each way. On Monday, Wednesday and Friday the boys made a point of meeting the Way Freight coming from Kamloops with local stops to deliver groceries, mail, coal, grain and shopping orders from catalogues. On Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, the same train returned from Blue River south to Kamloops making stops at each town and section crew headquarters. The boys knew the names of the engineers and crew and repeated stories they heard. One train travelled from Wire Cache to Avola (a distance of 5.2 miles) in three minutes! That calculates to be a speed of about 75 miles per hour! Another tale of unusually high speed that the boys told was of a train going from Avola to McMurphy (a distance of nine miles, much of it curved track) in 13 minutes. Ever alert to the train whistle signals, the boys knew the meanings of the short and long blasts used to communicate between the front and rear end of a train, to the station master, warning forward or reverse movement, and to let

workers know to begin or finish their assignments. On this particular afternoon, Royce was riding on a wagon with his dad, on their way to Messiter to finish a logging project. Thursday, May 28, 1942, 3:52 p.m. Superintendent Gough had been talking to Gordon McKenzie, both riding in the observation car at the end of the train. When the train stopped he stepped out the door and looked around the curve to see the tender at the head-end of the train taking on water. Behind the train, he could see Brakeman Kelly walking back around the curve with his red flags. Unexpectedly, one long blast was heard signalling the approach of a train just passing the onemile board before the station! Kelly started to run, waving frantically. Seated on the right side of the engine cab, the counterclockwise curve of the tracks blocked Engineer McKenzie’s view of the stationery train. Brakeman Kelly’s flags would be his only warning. But the flags were only 10-15 car lengths down the track when the second ‘Number 2’ passed Kelly. Engineer McKenzie saw the flags, shut off the steam valves, set the brakes and, realizing the collision was inevitable, jumped off. Continued next week –

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