Ashcroft Cache Creek Journal, July 09, 2015

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Cache Creek carries on with CiB judging The Cache Creek Beautification Society is not letting the flood of May 23 stand in the way of taking part in this year’s Communities in Bloom judging. The CCBS withdrew from the CiB judging last year because of flooding in Cache Creek park. This year, only days after the flood which devastated much of the town, the committee reaffirmed that they would not be withdrawing again.

“No one talked about cancelling this year,” said CCBS President Carmen Ranta. “Communities in Bloom looks at the entire community in seven different categories. It helps for residences and businesses to keep as tidy as possible for the judges, but we realize that that’s not a priority this year.”

Instead, the CCBS will be focusing on community resiliency when the judges are in town on July 22. They’ll be making a presentation about the impact of the disaster on the community and showing videos and pictures of the scope of the damage, then driving the judges around town to show them what has been affected and what’s been done.

“It’s a slightly different focus this year, but we’re going to proceed in a normal way as much as possible,” said Ranta. In addition to the improvements to the playground (which was not affected by the flood) since the judges’ last visit, and the expanded horticultural display in the downtown planters, the judges will be taken on a tour of community facilities such as the air strip, the landfill, the new gas utilization plant, the golf course, Cache Creek Elementary school, and more.

“We have a lot to brag about regarding the overall health of the community,” said Ranta.

And while the judges will learn about the scope of the flooding, they’ll also be told about all the positive community activities available, such as free swimming at the pool, fitness and recreation programs, geocaching, the Village’s service clubs, and concerts and events supported by the CCBS. The judges arrive on Tuesday, July 21, and the Society is organizing a welcoming event for them to which all community members are invited. It kicks off at 5:30 pm at the Community Hall with a free family bingo, followed by a barbecue dinner and refreshments.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CANADA!

Communities throughout the area celebrated Canada’s 148th birthday last week. Top left: Members of the Royal Canadian Legion and the Sea Cadets paraded the colours in Ashcroft.

Top right: Elders Diane Sandy and Johnny Pierro of the Bonaparte Band sang in Ashcroft. Centre left: A participant in the Ashcroft Bike Parade shows off his ride. Centre right: The Colour Guard raises the flag in Clinton. Bottom left: Cache Creek Mayor John Ranta cuts the ice cream cake (above) for an eager crowd. Bottom right: Nancy Duchaine, Colin Mastin, and John Kidder lead Ashcroft in the singing of “O Canada”.

For more on the Ashcroft and Cache Creek celebrations, see p. 5; for more on Clinton’s Canada Day, see p. 7.

(Ashcroft photos by Christopher Roden; Cache Creek photos

by Gary Winslow; Clinton photo by Christine Johnstone.)

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Drugstore break-in follow-up

At 5:30 am on Thursday, June 18 the Peoples Drug Store in Ashcroft was broken in to, with the thief or thieves making off with an undetermined amount of prescription drugs, lottery tickets, and cash. On June 29 Ashcroft RCMP were informed by a representative from the BC Lottery Corporation that some of the stolen lottery tickets had been recovered at a home in Coquitlam.

The local detachment is exchanging information with Coquitlam RCMP in order to further the investigation and possibly identify the person or persons responsible for the break-in.

The BCLC has been able to determine the serial numbers of the stolen tickets, and they will be flagged as stolen if anyone attempts to cash one in.

Fortunate motorcyclist

On June 28 (reported on June 30) a motorcyclist returning home to Maple Ridge from Alaska appears to have misjudged a bend near Kingsway Corner on Highway 1 north of Spences Bridge, and collided with a rock face. The motorcyclist continued his journey, but upon reaching home was in considerable pain, so went to hospital to get checked out. He was diagnosed with two broken ribs.

Disagreement in public place

Ashcroft rcMP DetAchMent

On July 4 at 12:25 am, a On July 2 at 9:30 pm police motorist on Highway 1 apreceived a report of a male and proximately 15km south of Barbara Roden female yelling at each other Cache Creek observed the drivin the park near the fire hall in er of a 2000 white GMC van Cache Creek. By the time pothrowing a cigarette butt out of lice arrived both suspects had gone, but RCMP followed the vehicle’s window. RCMP made a patrol of the area up on a description of the vehicle in which the pair had to make sure there was no fire. The vehicle was locatleft, and traced them to a residence in Cache Creek. One ed and stopped in Cache Creek, and the driver was told of the pair was intoxicated, but both confirmed it was a the reason for the stop and informed of the possible condomestic dispute, that the argument was over, and that sequences of his action. No fire was connected to the there had been no physical violence. event.

POLICE REPORT

Oh deer: erratic driving

On July 2 at 10:30 pm police received a complaint about a possible impaired driver on Highway 1 heading into Cache Creek. The vehicle was described as a tractor-trailer, and the complainant said the driver was not able to stay in his lane. The truck was located in Cache Creek and the driver showed no signs of impairment from drink or drugs. He indicated to police that he had had to make some emergency manoeuvres to avoid hitting a deer. No charges were laid.

Hit and run

On July 2 (reported on the 3rd) the driver of a Geo Tracker who was heading out of Ashcroft on Highway 97C was struck by a green Ford pickup travelling towards Ashcroft. The incident occurred below the brake check, and the driver of the Geo reported that the Ford was overtaking another vehicle heading toward Ashcroft. The Ford pulled back into its lane to avoid a collision, but clipped the front bumper of the Geo, damaging it. The driver of the Geo was not injured. Anyone who may have witnessed the accident, or who can identify the green Ford truck involved, is asked to contact local RCMP.

Police Telephone #s Ashcroft: 250-453-2216 Clinton: 250-459-2221 Lytton: 250-455-2225 Crime Stoppers 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) Interior Roads 1-800-842-4122

Reckless behaviour

Venables Valley fire

On July 4 at 10:00 am Ashcroft RCMP were called to assist BC Forest Services in the Venables Valley area due to a forest fire that started at the south end of Venables Lake. Police assistance was required to evacuate a group of campers who were in the area to attend an annual summer music festival, and also to control access into the area via Venables Valley Road. The fire spread to 30 hectares in size, largely because of high winds in the area over the weekend, which carried thick smoke throughout the Interior. Although it was described as an interface fire, there was no immediate threat to any structures. As of July 7 the fire was still active, but the BC Forest Service has reported that the blaze was 100% contained.

Disturbing the peace

On July 4 at 9:30 pm police received a call about a disturbance on Nugget Road in Cache Creek, where two men were fighting in the street. The men were located, and one of the pair, who was intoxicated, was arrested and charged with uttering threats. He was incarcerated overnight and released the next morning, and is due in court on August 31.

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W FORATCH OUR IN-S SPE TORE CIAL S!

Interior Health, the Village of Ashcroft, and the Ashcroft Wellness and Health Action Coalition (WHAC) continue to work together to find a long-term solution to the physician shortage in the community.

The Ashcroft Hospital and Health Centre Emergency Department will remain open most weekends, which is Friday at 6:00 pm to Monday at 8:00 am. There had been some concern that the Emergency Department would close over the summer months due to the physician shortage. At this time, Interior Health has been successful in obtaining locum physician coverage for the majority of the weekends throughout the summer, and is working to find coverage for the few that remain. We will notify residents in advance of any changes to ED coverage and/or hours.

It remains the goal to recruit additional physicians to Ashcroft in an effort to provide reliable and long-term primary and emergency care services. Recently, Interior Health has been in discussion with physicians interested in working in the region through the Practice Ready As-

sessment pilot program. This program recruits internationally-educated physicians who have completed residencies in Family Medicine outside of Canada. This process takes time and the physicians involved still have to complete immigration processes as well as certification requirements through the College of Physicians and Surgeons. These candidates are very promising, and the host communities will be advised if and when recruitment of these physicians is complete.

If you have any questions, please contact Berni Easson at (250) 319-3934.

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“Communities in Bloom BC is a wonderful community partner, and we’ve received a lot of moral support from them,” said Ranta, who cited a piece which appeared on the front page of the BC CiB June 2015 newsletter. Headlined “One of our own: Cache Creek in recovery”, it states that the “BC Communities in Bloom organization was impressed to hear the announce-

ment from the Village council that ‘We are proceeding with our entry featuring community strength! We’re looking forward to the tour this year!’ even before BC CiB offered to waive their registration fee.”

By highlighting resiliency this year, Ranta says the Beautification Society is showing how the residents of Cache Creek have come together in the aftermath of a disaster. “In the long run, it’s a very positive thing for our community.”

Barbara Roden

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Flood relief donations reach $250,000 More than six weeks after the flood that battered Cache Creek, relief funds continue to come in. The Lions Club in 100 Mile House met the challenge of the Ashcroft and District Lions and donated $500, and last week the TNRD’s board of directors voted in favour of a resolution that would see each of the 10 directors donate a portion of their discretionary funds—about $500 each—to the Village’s Disaster Relief fund.

That fund got a huge boost over the weekend, with two concerts and a silent auction raising more than $40,000 for disaster relief. On July 3 Arrival and Dreams—tribute bands to ABBA and Fleetwood Mac— performed well past midnight to an appreciative crowd of some 180 people, while Saturday saw tribute bands Aerosmith Rocks (Aerosmith), The Night Train (Guns N’ Roses), and Who Made Who (AC/DC) perform a high energy concert that had close to 200 people on their feet rocking the Cache Creek Community Hall until 2:00 am.

“The generosity of people, related to the unrecoverable losses some of the citizens of Cache Creek suffered, is heartwarming, for sure,” said John Ranta, Cache Creek’s mayor and chairman of the TNRD board of directors.

Live and silent auctions at Friday’s concert brought in just under $12,000, with a local businessman purchasing two minutes of Ranta’s speech time. This left the mayor with only three minutes to talk about the effects of the flood on the community, no part of which was unaffected, and say how proud he was to be the mayor. “My mother said you can never stop water from running,” he concluded. “The Village of Cache Creek has shown that its spirit is stronger than nature, and that we will rebuild, we will be stronger.”

Councillor Wyatt McMurray, who organized the two concerts, thanked everyone for helping put Cache Creek back together. “Everyone rose to the occasion,” he said, singling out the Village of Ashcroft, and Cache Creek resident Clayton Cassidy, for their efforts. He acknowledged that relations between Cache Creek and Ashcroft have been difficult at times, but said that no one could

have had a better neighbour during the recent catastrophe. Speaking of Cassidy, who has been tireless in his efforts to help out since the flood, McMurray said that there can’t be many residents he hasn’t helped in the weeks since the flood, digging out yards for anyone who needed assistance.

“This has been an amazing unification and coming together,” he said.

“Few communities have neighbours helping neighbours for no other reason than that they care.”

A special council meeting will be held on Tuesday, July 14 at 9:30 am to appoint the committee that will over- Ernie Beale of Kamloops “auctions off” Cache Creek council see the dispersal of the relief funds, (from left Cllrs. Wyatt McMurray, Lisa Dafoe, and Herb Hofer which currently total $250,000. Sever- and Mayor John Ranta) before the Friday night concert. The al people have already put their names winner, who paid $900, will have council come to their home forward, but McMurray said the Viland cook, serve, and clean up dinner for eight. lage would like to see a few more.

Photo by Barbara Roden “We’d like a committee of five people,” he said, noting that prospectes to be around $3 million, which does not include soive committee members will have to be vetted to ensure that there is no conflict of interest. called “non-essentials”, such as landscaping. Damage to Asked if out of town people would be considered for Village infrastructure is estimated to be around $2 milthe committee, McMurray said “That absolutely makes lion.

Anyone interested in participating in the Relief Fund sense. Anyone on the committee will have to be comcommittee should contact the Cache Creek Village Ofpletely objective, and not emotionally tied to the disasfice at (250) 457-6237, or by e-mail at admin@cater. Someone from out of town would have no dog in the checreek.info, by Monday, July 13. race.”

McMurray also said that a Family Day is in the earHe admits that the committee will be a hard one to be ly stages of being planned for Cache Creek, to take place a part of. “The members will have to make tough decibefore the end of summer.

“We’ve had a lot of fundsions, and not be influenced, not let emotions get in the raisers, and they’ve been more adult-oriented,” he said. way. But we have to get going on this,” he added. “We The Family Day isn’t a fundraiser; it will be a chance have the money, and have to get the funds to the people for children and families in Cache Creek to have a good who need it.” time.

“People can relax, party, be together, and have The fund is specifically for residents and small busifun,” said McMurray.

“It will be a chance to put this benesses who suffered losses during the flooding, and will hind us and move on.” not be used to replace or repair damaged Village infraBarbara Roden structure. John Ranta estimates personal property loss-

Funding sought for rebuilding

CONCERTGOERS IN CACHE CREEK last Friday were able to listen to some of the greatest hits of ABBA and Fleetwood Mac when tribute bands Arrival (ABBA, above) and Dreams (Fleetwood Mac, right) played at the Community Hall for Cacheaid to benefit the Disaster Relief Fund. Three more tribute bands played on Saturday night, with the two concerts raising more than $40,000 for the fund.

The Village of Cache Creek has two dozen applications in to the government for funding infrastructure rebuilding projects, and is waiting to hear which have been approved, which need adjudicating, and which have been rejected.

“We should start hearing within the next two weeks,” said Cache Creek Mayor John Ranta. The applications were submitted on July 2, but the officials who will be looking at the applications are also examining the recent floods in Kamloops, which Ranta indicated might slow down the process.

Among the applications are funding for upper and lower Old Cariboo Road, as well as for two culverts under the road which need attention; an irrigation ditch behind Valleyview; support for the Village in the absence of a permanent CAO and CFO; a Lopez Creek watercourse study; the fire hall; and the park, its parking lot, and the ball diamond.

While residential landscaping is not covered under provincial disaster funding, Ranta believes that restoring the park will be approved. “When High River, Alberta was flooded [in 2013] one of the first things the provincial gov-

ernment approved was restoration of the park,” he said. “A park is considered to be a necessary component of public life, and qualifies for funding.”

As of July 2, provincial funding for residents who had been displaced from their homes came to an end, but as far as Ranta knows all those who were staying in motels have either been able to return to their homes or have found alternative accommodation.

Requests for volunteers, as well as applications to help out, are being handled by the Village Office.

“Not many people are asking for help now,” said the mayor, but added that if any residents still need assistance they should contact the Village Office, which has a list of the names of volunteers on file.

Ranta expressed his appreciation for the support and contributions of communities throughout the province. “Ashcroft, Abbotsford, Hope, Clearwater, 100 Mile House, and other communities in the local area and beyond came through with offers of help and volunteers. It was heartwarming to see the province pull together to help a community in need.”

Barbara Roden

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Gardening for the non-greenthumb I’ve done some gardening this year. I know; I’m as shocked as you are. I probably should have given the neighbours a heads up, so that no one got injured doing a double-take when they saw what I was up to.

I admire a lovely garden as much as anyone; but while many people genuinely enjoy spending hours in their garden, I’m not one of them. This is possibly because while planting flowers or vegetables is a one-time thing, keeping them healthy and looking their best is an ongoing process. Watering and deadheading isn’t bad early in the season; but come August, when it’s so hot my eyeballs feel as if they’re perspiring, I wonder what possessed me to embark on the process, way back in May. And don’t talk to me about weeding. I firmly believe that, like planting, weeding should only have to be done once in a season, but those tenacious weeds simply will keep coming back. That said, I rather admire them for their plucky ability to thrive with absolutely no help from me, because if there’s one thing I like in a plant it’s independence. That’s why, when something strange starts sprouting in my garden, I give it the benefit of the doubt and let it show me what it’s got. As Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple once noted, weeds are simply flowers that grow where you don’t want them to. If dandelions were sold in trays of six at Desert Hills, instead of erupting all over the lawn, people would be using them to edge gardens faster than you can say potting soil.

Now, the fact that I used the word “dead-heading” may lead some of you to think I’m a more serious gardener than I am. The truth is, I’ve learned enough to be able to fake it for a short period of time when I’m speaking with a real gardener. For those of you who aren’t gardeners, here are a few handy tips: Marigolds, snapdragons, and petunias are lovely, but common. Research more exotic flowers—preferably with Latin names—and sprinkle those into your conversation. “I was going to use some calibrachoa in my hanging baskets this year, but decided on sutera cordata instead. The white flowers contrast so beautifully with the other plants, don’t you think?”

If you work in an office with a coffee machine, loudly announce in May that you’d like the used coffee grounds for your garden; then put an ice cream bucket on the counter and make a show of taking it away every few days. If you have a real gardener in the office who will actually use the grounds, ask everyone for newspapers instead, so you can put them in your garden when you’re planting. Don’t forget to recycle the papers after not using them.

If anyone asks if you planted vegetables this year, shake your head sadly and say that you simply couldn’t find the heirloom vegetables you wanted. It helps to know what heirloom vegetables are, and the names of a couple (try “Bull Nosed Large Bell Peppers”—Thomas Jefferson liked them!—and “Pruden’s Purple Tomatoes”).

And now I have to go. Those osteospermums aren’t going to dead-head themselves. . . .

SECTIONS OF THE FLUME BUILT TO SUPPLY WALHACHIN with water more than a century ago are still visible on the hillside to the north of Highway 1.

Photo by Barbara Roden

Plea for return of missing pictures

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dear Editor, I was recently deployed as a volunteer with the Disaster Management team of the Red Cross to of all places Cache Creek; a beautiful town where I had the pleasure of growing up. I am so proud of the strength and courage the town had through this event! Bravo to all of you.

Sometimes when we are deployed we use our personal equipment at the beginning. I was using my Samsung tablet, and left it on my desk at the Resiliency Centre at the Community Hall on May 29 between 12:00 and 12:30 pm, and when I came back it was missing. I was disheartened. It is okay, though: whoever has it needed it more than me. The problem is I had spent three months taking care of my grandfather in Germany last year, and all of the wonderful last memories of him were on the tablet.

I am reaching out to whoever has the tablet. Out of the kindness of your heart, perhaps you could anonymously return the pictures to the Journal office. I would be eternally grateful. The tablet is yours—it was a helpful tool for when I am deployed and being a single mother I can not replace it. One day.

However, the pictures: well, my Opa

has since passed, and I can’t stress how wonderful it would be to have those special memories back.

Debbie Blumauer, Abbotsford [Editor’s note: the pictures can be burned on a disc or put on a flash drive and left in the white dropbox outside the Journal office]

Beware as stores raise prices after tax cuts Dear Editor, Progress was made when the B.C. government recognized that feminine products are a necessity and a very costly burden for women, and legislated that they are to be non-taxable starting July 2015. Greed became evident when it was brought to my attention that a drug store chain with stores throughout Kamloops (and B.C.) is raising the prices on all feminine products effective July 1.

Apparently the chain reasoned that it will take advantage and scoop in extra revenue that the government has forfeited, since women are forced to pay—and used to paying—what-

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ever the price. The timing of the corporate policy is strategic and alarming. I cannot do anything about it except to warn women to be aware of sudden price increases, and move your business to the businesses that best represent your interests.

Now that prescriptions are online, moving to another drug store is easy.

I am the mother of two daughters, and seeing as how the chain in question is next to other feminine product and drug providers, we are moving our business elsewhere. We estimate this business is worth more than $14,000 per year for purchases of prescription drugs plus over-the counter drugs, vitamins, makeup, some food items, hair products, gift cards and gifts, seasonal items, magazines, etc. (they do not sell clothing). Buyer be aware.

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Local bee colonies are in good shape Amid reports that North American honey bee populations are in grave decline, longtime local apiarist Joe Lomond says that mortality in our area over the past winter was 10– 15%, which most apiculturists consider acceptable and sustainable.

“It was an average winter.

Touch wood, we haven’t had

Local apiarist Joe Lomond

much trouble with mortality,” said Lomond who, with his wife Marguerite, has operated in the area for 35 years, producing Lomond’s Ashcroft honey. “Some places in the province were as high as 30%.”

Other areas of the country have it much worse. In the spring of 2014, the Canadian Association of Professional Apiculturists reported that it was estimated 58% of the bee colonies in Ontario did not survive the winter. The Ontario Beekeeper’s Association estimates that in the two years before 2014, some 35% of Ontario’s bees were lost each year.

Lomond says that one cause of the mortality is an external parasitic mite called Varroa destructor, which can only reproduce in a honey bee colony. They attach themselves to bees and suck a fluid called hemolymph which circulates in-

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treated with the pesticide. And since neonics spread through the entire plant that has been treated, including the nectar and pollen on which bees feed, it can be spread to bees in that way.

It’s for this reason that Lomond doesn’t move his bees near where crops that have been treated with neonics have been planted. Indeed, he says that honey bees seem to do better in towns and cities than they do in outlying areas planted with feed crops. “People in towns and cities have more varied gardens,

with more flowers that bloom all year round,” he said, which provides the bees with the nectar and pollen they need. He supports the Buzzing Garden seed kit set, containing pollinator-friendly plants (see article below).

“Just don’t spray your garden with pesticides,” he asks.

The bees—upon which we rely for as much as a third of our food, because of their pollination—will thank you.

side the bee; by doing so they transmit viruses. A significant mite infestation can kill an entire colony over the winter, and Lomond says he and his wife take steps in the fall to control the Varroa mite. It was a lesson learned after a mite infestation more than 15 years ago wiped out 70% of their 500 colonies.

“We didn’t do our homework,” Lomond admits.

Barbara Roden Another possible cause of bee mortality, which studies are increasingly bearing out, is the use of neonicotinoid pesticides (neonHundreds of people in area sang two songs; then John Kidder ics) on corn, canola, and communities celebrated Can- entertained with songs and stories some soybean seeds. The ada’s 148th birthday last Wednes- about Ashcroft and cowboy life, neonics—meant to stop the day with music, stories, prayers, and the entire crowd joined in the spread of worms and other games, face painting, bike parades, singing of “O Canada” and “God pests throughout crops— and much more.

Save the Queen”. The Lions were are applied to the seeds beIn Ashcroft events kicked off on hand to provide free hot dogs fore planting, which in the at 10:00 am in the Heritage Park and water, and there was the tradcase of corn seeds is done on Railway, where children could itional Canada Day cake, as well as by spraying the seeds out get their faces painted, take part ice cream, provided by the event’s of air-pressurized seedin a bike parade, and participate in organizers, the Winding Rivers ers. This kicks up a large games such as water balloon throwArts and Performance Society. amount of dust which coning and sack races.

The park was In Cache Creek some 120 tains the neonics, and a festooned with maple leaf decorpeople enjoyed Canada Day at the massive bee mortality rate ations, and some 350 people took Community Hall, which opened in Ontario and Quebec was advantage of the shade to watch with a family bingo, as well as observed in colonies near the Colour Party arrive and listen games, crafts, and face paintrecently planted corn fields to prayers and music from Kevin ing for the children.

Free hot dogs where the seed had been Sandy and Elders Diane Sandy and and Dairy Queen ice cream cake Johnny Pierro from the Bonaparte were available to all at 5:00 pm, Band. Fraser-Nicola MLA Jack- and Mayor John Ranta spoke to ie Tegart and Ashcroft Mayor Jack those in attendance. The event endJeyes gave short addresses and for- ed with a lively family dance in the and recognized and promoted by Communities mer Mayor Andy Anderson did his Hall, with about 40 people staying in Bloom. traditional fly past. to enjoy the music and dancing.

As part of the initiative, and with the support Grade six student Colin Mastin Barbara Roden of the Canadian Honey Council, a new program called “Buzzing Gardens” was launched, where Canadians can help feed honey bees by signing up at www.beesmatter.ca for a free Buzzing Garden seed kit, which includes pollinatorThe 2015 Ashcroft Rodeo Parade friendly plants.

While you may have your garden all in place Committee would like to extend for this year, you can always go online and orour sincere gratitude to the der the seed kit for next season. Visit the webfollowing people who helped to site and learn about the very valuable and necesmake our parade such a success: sary honey bee.

Canada Day fun for everyone

Buzzing Gardens helps feed honey bees Ashcroft Communities in Bloom was excited to receive information in the mail recently outlining a new initiative to help our honey bees. We all love to see pollinators like honey bees in our gardens, but did you know that they rely on the flowers we grow to feed their colonies? If honey bees don’t collect enough pollen and nectar, their hives won’t have enough nutrient-rich food to eat.

That’s why it’s important to plant pollinatorfriendly flowers that are nutritious food sources for pollinators like the honey bee. To support honey bee health, Canada’s agriculture community has created “Bees Matter”, an initiative dedicated to honey bee health. This initiative is supported by a variety of organizations,

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Our sponsors: 2nd Time Around (largest sponsor), Wastech Services, the Ashcroft Rodeo Association, the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 113, Cantex, the Village of Ashcroft, Arrow Transportation, A.E.S., and the TNRD. Other important contributions came from: Kelly Adamski and family for large lot for midway, Joris Ekering and friends, Cam at Friendship Auto, and Brian Bennewith, for helping to bring the dragon to life, Joris for the great job of announcing, the Ashcroft Journal, Community Futures, the outhouse sponsors, the plaque sponsors, Bar M-Ranch, The Catholic Church, Safety Mart, The Masonic Lodge, Arrow Transportation, Community Futures, Anita Ladoski, the Village of Ashcroft, Cariboo Septic Services, and Cariboo Clear Water Co.

Music is around us all summer long Ashcroft Wellness and Music Festival

This annual fun-filled festival focuses on health and well being. Mark your calendars this year for Saturday, July 18, and come down to the Heritage Park on Railway to enjoy and participate in the many activities and events scheduled. There’s much to see and do, with two stages filled with musical entertainment and a variety of “wellness themed” demonstrations, plus an amazing kids’ zone with activities for all ages, as well as vendor booths brimming with local information and services.

In addition to the entertainment, the Festival includes workshops and classes such as sushi making, yoga, camera classes, photo walks, history tours, and organized hikes. This year a “Wellness Healing Garden” has been added, giving visitors the opportunity to experience a wide range of healing arts under one roof.

8th annual Lillooet Apricot Festival

Lillooet’s annual Apricot Tsaqwem Festival is the weekend of July 24-26.

Events include the Lillooet Farmers Market on Friday and Saturday; Lillooet Golf Tournament; a street dance; live bands; a beer garden; dinner at the Legion on Saturday evening; and a baking with apricots and Saskatoon berries contest.

Romi Mayes returns to The Packing House

The Packing House in Spences

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Bridge presents the return of good friend Romi Mayes, on Thursday, July 23. If you haven’t heard Romi’s music yet, it’s time you did. She’s one of the hardest working independent musicians touring the globe. Devil On Both Shoulders, her sixth release, is another testament to why Mayes’s albums have garnered three Western Canadian Music Awards

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for Songwriter of the Year, two WCM Awards for Album of the Year, a Juno nomination for Album of the Year, and various Canadian Music Award nominations.

Mayes is known for her powerful lyrical ability that gives life to the words she sings. Her insightful, sweet, and edgy vocals paint pictures of heart on her sleeve sincerity and a road well travelled.

The talented players who surround her are another confirmation of how her honest abilities draw the best of the best toward her authentic brand of roots music.

Dinner is from 5:30 pm, with music at 7:15 pm. Tickets are also available for

the show only. To reserve your tickets for the dinner and/or show, call The Packing House at (250) 458-2256

The Jessica Stuart Few at Music in the Park

The Winding Rivers Arts and Performance Society presents a Music in the Park outdoor concert on Wednesday, July 29 with The Jessica Stuart Few. Jessica’s unprecedented take on the Japanese koto (a 13-stringed harp), her exceptional guitar work, and signature songwriting are innovative and refreshing, earning The Few main stage performances at festivals worldwide. Stuart exhibits a pitch-perfect vocal sensibility reminiscent of Joni Mitchell, with stunning 3-part harmonies onstage, earning the group a spot on the music industry and the media’s must-see lists.

Come early for a great seat. The music starts at 6:30 pm, so bring your family and friends, and a favourite lawn chair or blanket, to the Heritage Park gazebo on Railway and prepare to enjoy wonderful live music in a relaxed, family friendly venue. Admission is free, but pass-the-hat donations are encouraged.

Desert Daze Music Festival

The live music schedule for Spences Bridge’s 6th annual Desert Daze Music Festival has been confirmed; and what a line-up it is! Mark your calendars for August 7-8 in the Bridge.

Desert Daze isn’t a country music festival, nor a roots and blues festival; nor is it fringe or a Palapalooza! Desert Daze

is a MUSIC festival celebrating the best things in life: music, food, and fun in the desert sun. There will be two days of the best in blues, folk, country, and rock in a magnificent setting at the old school grounds, a stone’s throw from the TransCanada Highway, so come on out and celebrate rural communities with some incredible music that you can move to, groove to, clap, sing, and dance along to.

No matter what kind of music you like, you will find lots of it at the 2015 Desert Daze! For details of this year’s lineup, visit www.desertdaze.ca.

Kids’ summer Fine and Dramatic Arts Camp

WRAPS is pleased to announce that this year’s Kids’ summer camp will be bigger and better than ever, and is designed for students entering Kindergarten through to grade 12. Elementary students will sing with Sabrina Weeks and Mike Hilliard, paint with Jo Petty, play music with David Dumont, and act with Mavourneen Varcoe-Ryan! New this year is an opportunity for high school students to work on a special week-long project with Gareth Smart!

Classes run from August 17-21 from 9:30 am to 2:30 pm daily, with a lunch break at 11:30. Students are required to bring a bagged lunch, and snacks will be provided. The cost is $50 for the first child in a family and $30 for each additional sibling. Register by phone, e-mail, or online by August 7 at (250) 453-0036 or windingriversarts@gmail.com, or visit the WRAPS website at windingriversarts.ca.

Ashcroft Wellness & Music Festival July 18 - 19, 2015 Ashcroft Heritage Park 600 Block Railway Ave., Ashcroft

Live Music • Healing Garden Vendor Market • Workshops Demonstrations • Kids’ Zone Stagecoach Rides • Hikes Sushi Making Sponsored by: Steve Rice TNRD area I, Historic Hat Creek Ranch, Graymont Western Canada Inc., Interior Wellness Magazine, Ashcroft Bakery & Coffee Shop, Ashcroft Terminal, and WRAPS

More info & schedules: www.wellnessawaits you.ca • facebook: Ashcroft Wellness Awaits You

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Canada Day in Clinton couldn’t have been better Canada Day fun

It was a beautiful day to celebrate Canada’s 148th birthday on July 1. The weather couldn’t have been better as the crowd gathered in Clinton’s Reg Conn Centennial Park for the festivities. From the flag raising by the Legion members and RCMP, the singing of “O Can-

ada” by Daniela Dyck, and the face painting and games to the hot dogs and cake, it couldn’t have gone better.

And being such a hot day, it was perfect for the kids to run through the big sprinklers put out by the Clinton fire department.

Kudos to the mayor and council, staff, the Literacy group, the Legion, the Ladies Auxiliary members, the RCMP, the fire department, Wayne’s daughters for doing the face painting, and everyone else who helped. Although I could only drop by for a few moments I heard lots of positive comments about the event. Happy Birthday, Canada!

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FACE PAINTING AND FLAGS went hand in hand in Clinton on Canada Day. Photo by Christine Johnstone

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mittee wasn’t able to think “outside the box”.

For example, how does “Desert Sands” reflect the outlying communities of the district? As a description I can think of several communities, including the closest, Cache Creek, that can hardly call it an area of “desert sand”.

I think, as a result of a petition of 650 persons protesting the name, a revisit can hardly be considered “undemocratic”. On the contrary, it reveals a willingness to compromise and reconsider the naming. It is scarcely a reflection that the selection committee made a mistake.

Criticism that the naming wasn’t sufficiently publicized seems equally justified. I read my Journal faithfully every week, and whatever information that was in it about the naming was not sufficient enough to penetrate. I still consider myself a reasonably intelligent reader.

To continue to hang on for dear life to a name that so many people don’t like is inexplicable. In a civil society, which so many of us believe we have, reconsideration of a decision is considered the hallmark of success. The name has not been written in stone; at least, not yet.

Why not name a school after a person? Many schools are named after prominent people, such as Captain James Cook in Vancouver. That school could have been named “Snowy Mountains” or “Ocean Tide” or—well, you get the

point. But no: it was named after Cook. Isn’t it time we paid a little homage to those who have contributed so much in years past to our communities? I can think of several retired educators who deserve a school named after them.

Let “Desert Sands” be drained out of our thinking apparatus, and replaced after some serious consideration.

Esther Darlington MacDonald, Ashcroft

Cacheaid congratulations Dear Editor, I’d like to express sincere thanks to Cache Creek Councillor Wyatt McMurray for his wonderful work in bringing together the Cacheaid events over the past weekend. Dedication is a wonderful thing, and you showed that in abundance, Wyatt! Thank you.

Christopher Roden, Ashcroft Correction: A headline in the issue of June 25 stated that the upcoming Desert Daze Festival in Spences Bridge was the fifth one. The August 2015 event will actually be the sixth annual Desert Daze.

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Mill Girls do us proud

The Clinton and District Outdoor Sportsmen Association recently teamed up with the Clinton Snow Jockey Club to clean up a part of Old Cariboo Highway that has been used as an illegal dump.

Twenty-six members, as well as several local residents, showed up to clear out all the garbage. Four hours of hard work later, the former dumpsite looked much better. A Bobcat was used to pull out the larger items to the road, and made the job a bit easier.

The members of the Sportsmen As-

New school name needs reconsideration

sociation would like to remind everyone that dumping a load of garbage or even grass clippings will get you a $2,000 fine if you are caught. Grass clippings and brush can be taken to the Clinton Eco Depot for free, so why risk getting a fine?

Clinton’s Mill Girl Follies performed in Germany on July 3, 4, and 5. Photos of their adventure were posted on the Mill Girl Follies Facebook page. We in Clinton and the Cariboo can’t wait to hear all about it when they return. Way to go, troupe!

Clinton Health Auxiliary says thank you

The Loon Lake Community Agricultural Recreational Society (LLCRAS) recently presented the Clinton Health Care Auxiliary with a cheque for $1,504.17 to support health-related projects in the community. The Health Care Auxiliary advised that this group has donated to them in the past, and that their generosity is greatly appreciated.

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Stop hiding behind the camera

Last week I was interviewed by a newspaper reporter for the “Stop Dog Theft” event I was planning and he asked for a picture of me with our beloved pup who’s been missing since March. Before I even started looking I warned him the chances weren’t good.

I knew I had tons of photos from the last five years of Charlie with his sister, and with our children, but even though I was with the dogs the majority of the time, I wasn’t sure if I’d ever had my picture taken with either one of them. After reviewing thousands of images

ON A BRIGHTER NOTE LORI WELBOURNE loriwelbourne.com in my computer, I was disappointed that I couldn’t find any.

A few weeks before that I went through a similar exercise when it was the birthday of my dearly departed mother and I wanted to post a picture on Facebook of me alone with her. I could only find two, and neither

one was great.

Since my daughter’s birthday was approaching I also started looking for photos of just her and I together and wasn’t able to find many.

“Remind me to give you the camera,” I told my husband when he came home that night. “I’m in hardly any of our pictures with the kids and they’re going to be saddened by that one day.”

“You’ve mentioned that before,” he said.

“The problem is you never like getting your picture taken.”

He was right. I don’t, and I almost always object. I know all too well that taking

pictures of someone who’s trying to avoid the camera isn’t fun or easy.

My 14 year old son, Sam has become one of those people.

He didn’t used to be like that. He used to be like his 12 year old sister, Daisy who hams it up whenever the camera’s on her.

But in the last few years he’s quick to hide his face and I’ve noticed most of his friends do the same.

“No, mom,” he’ll say behind his hands whenever I attempt to take his picture. “Later.” He must have learned that from me. Now I threaten I won’t leave him alone until he lets me get a good shot. I also promise not to post any images online without his approval.

“One day you’ll be happy you have these photos of you with your friends,” I said to him and his buddies while they complained about us parents taking their pictures at middle school graduation a couple weeks ago.

Now I need to get

myself out from behind the camera and in front of it once in awhile. I can’t worry about not looking good enough either.

Good enough for what? My kids aren’t going to care if I’m not picture perfect any more that I cared if my mother was.

They’ll just be happy to have photos of themselves with their

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dear old mom. Of course they’ll want them with their dad, relatives, teachers, friends and dogs as well, but I’ve done a decent job providing them with plenty of those.

Photographs are powerful. They capture our memories and connect us to the people, places, events and emotions

that make us who we are. It’s important we leave our children with pictures of us because we’re a huge part of their lives.

We might not love looking at ourselves in a photo album, but they will cherish them.

Lori Welbourne is a syndicated columnist.

She can be contacted at LoriWelbourne.com

July • Week 3 ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20 Aries, don’t be fooled by appearances.

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CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22 Cancer, your creativity is at an all-time high. Take advantage of your inspiration and get involved in a special project. Embrace this opportunity to put your creative energy to use.

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CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20 Get the facts before drawing any conclusions this week, Capricorn. Allow some time to assess a situation that has proven difficult to handle. Things may be more clear tomorrow.

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PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20 Pisces, don’t fret when plans are canceled at the last minute. Try to reschedule as soon as possible and make the most of your newfound free time.

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A stroll down Railway as it used to be

Railway closed. store, where we were able to buy ginger Let’s begin at the north candy from her collection of glass jars end of Railway. In 1970 a full of candy. There was Wing Wo Lung, small cottage sat where the and Loy’s grocery store, and a dark brown Looking up or down Railway Avenue as if their lives depended on getting from today, we find many gaps between build- one clear cut to another. But there are town’s second little red fire hall now sits. shop where one brought their bottles.

Neither side of Railway on that block ings. The wide street seems to have had hours, even days, when a lone tumble- It seemed disenfranchised on that spit of too many of its teeth pulled over the past weed tumbling its melancholy way down land above the road leading to a string of had room for vacant lots. It was filled with few decades, and is only a ghost of what the middle of Railway, diverted occasion- cabins which stretched along the bench See COLOURFUL on p. 14 it was in 1970. Ashcroft’s main street then ally into one of the vacant lots by a va- just above what’s now the parking lot of was a progression of structures—some of grant gust of wind, makes the town look the River Inn. Yes, there were cabins there, rented out to people passthem sound, some of them not so— ing through or to crews surveying but the string of wood and brick the highway; the River Inn did not stores, cottages, sheds, and fenarrive until the early 1980s. ces made for a full spectacle. The The cottage at the top of Railstreet—first paved in 1962—had Esther Darlington McDonald way was a neat, well-kept resijust been repaved from end to end dence with a picket fence, if memby the illustrious Highways MinCHANGE TO OFFICE HOURS ory serves, and I always wondered ister, Flying Phil Gaglardi, whose crew had asphalt left over from the pav- more like a scene in a spaghetti western. who lived there. Kitty-corner from FOR PROPERTY TAX PAYMENTS ing of Highway One and used it up on We expect to see Clint Eastwood, gimlet- the cottage, where the car wash Please be advised that the Village Office Railway at the request of the then-Mayor eyed, dust-covered, the band on his cow- stands, was a fence built of high located at 601 Bancroft Street will remain of Ashcroft, Chris Hollis. boy had stained with sweat, trotting non- boards and the start of a string of open during the noon hour from Thursday, false-fronted shops, with small It’s hard to imagine the street, as it chalantly by, rifle in hand.

July 2nd to Wednesday, July 15th, 2015 now is, as having been one of the busiest Of course, on days like that people verandas above the entries. Those inclusive to allow residents to pay their and most colourful thoroughfares in the stay home, and Railway seems a light false-front shops began with Wing whole Cariboo. Yes, we’re seeing more year away. Who notices its gap-toothed Chong Tai’s general store, which property taxes. truck traffic rumbling by, including log- reality then? That is why on Sundays sold everything from soup to nails, ging trucks barrelling across the bridge we see most of the establishments along fresh meat and vegetables to boots: Deadline for property tax payments is you name it.

4:00 pm, Wednesday, July 15th to avoid Across from Wing the 10% penalty.

Chong Tai’s, where Safety Mart now is, was a stretch of more shops, with houses behind. This first block of Railway was Chinatown, stretching right to Bundus’s Blacksmith and FabricatJuly 18/19: Ashcroft Wellness & Music ing. I don’t think you Festival. Free music, kids activities, workshops, can imagine the varvendors and more! Heritage Place Park. iety, colour, and texture of that section of July 20: Cache Creek Council meeting at 7 pm Railway.

Described in the Village Office. in 1977 as “The finAug. 7/8: Desert Daze music festival in Spences est western streetscape Bridge. Two days of music, arts, culture and in Canada” by an offiagriculture. cial from Ottawa one fine summer’s day, Every Saturday from 9 am to noon. that scene is gone, alThe Cache Creek Market is open at the main Chinatown on Railway Avenue in 1952, looking north. It remained relatively unchanged though a few of us will intersection in Cache Creek, next to Chums until the early 1970s, when most of the remaining shops were pulled down. remember Mrs. Aie’s Restaurant, from now until October. We welcome both Farmer and Flea tables. Call 778-207-6957 for vending information.

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The legend of Walhachin gets a fresh look Walhachin: Birth of a Legend

by Larry Jacobsen (2014) Reviewed by Barbara Roden Walhachin, located halfway between Cache Creek and Savona, is often referred to as a ghost town; but it’s an odd sort of a one. Most ghost towns are long since abandoned and forgotten, and Walhachin is neither. Several dozen people still live there, and far from being forgotten, Walhachin has passed almost into the realm of legend, the subject of books and dissertations, home to a vibrant museum and community centre, and an enduring fascination to many.

This unlikely community was the brainchild of American engineer Charles E. Barnes (no relation to the Barnes family that first settled Ashcroft) who, in late 1906 or early 1907, passed through the area by train and was attracted by the verdancy of the Penny Ranch, with its 40 acres of irrigated land in the middle of a seeming desert. Barnes had seen the Okanagan Valley, and knew what could be coaxed from the land there. He envisioned the same thing for the area around the Penny Ranch, which would not just grow the cattle fodder that Penny had devoted most of his space to. For Penny also had two acres of apple orchard, and Barnes

knew that fruit and vegetable crops were worth much more than feed.

He turned to the B.C. Development Association, founded in Britain in 1895 to invest in development projects in the province. After an agriculturist and engineer from the BCDA had visited the site, the group purchased the Penny Ranch and the nearby Greaves Ranch—nearly 1,750 acres—in 1908. By 1911 more than 500 acres of apples had been planted, following the building of an extensive flume system which brought water to the parched land. Four years later the apple orchard had doubled in size, with filler crops of vegetables planted alongside the apples to provide revenue until the trees could produce crops.

Sage & Sand Pony Club Then came August District Commissioner: Marcie Down 1914, and the start of mleedown@yahoo.ca.

World War I. Most of the Walhachin settlers Ashcroft-Cache Creek Rotary Club were English in origin, Contact Person: Karin Magnuson Phone 250-457-6629 and they answered Desert Spokes Cycle Society their country’s call Phone 250-457-9348 and left for war. The fact that almost none Ashcroft Curling Club Phone 250-453-2341 of them came back— combined with the failure of the main flume in a Ashcroft & District Rodeo Association Phone: 250-457-9390 disastrous 1918 storm—are, in the popular imagination, Ashcroft Volunteer Fire Department what doomed Walhachin.

Phone 250-453-2233 In Walhachin: Birth of a Legend author Larry JacobCache Creek Volunteer Fire Department sen examines the birth, rise, Phone 250-457-9967 and fall of Walhachin. In South Cariboo Sportsmen Assc. #3366 addition to a thorough look Attn: Marian Pitt, Box 341, Ashcroft BC V0K 1A0 at the community itself, Jacobsen extends his scope Soccer Association to include a history of the Contact: Tom Watson Phone 250-457-7178 Christie family, which was instrumental in the early Thompson Cariboo Minor Hockey Association Contact: Lewis Kinvig 250-457-7489 days of Walhachin, as well Lewis@thompsoncariboominorhockey.com as a thorough look at the people who were there when Historic Hat Creek Ranch the area was known as “WalContact: Jack Jeyes Phone 250-453-2259 hassen”: the Skeetchestn Indians. He gives valuable inKinsmen Club of South Cariboo Contact Person: Dave 250-453-9062 sight into many of the men who settled in Walhachin in Cache Creek Recreation Society its early days: the so-called Contact Person: Jackie Phone 250-457-9122 remittance men, second (or third or fourth) sons of midBridging to Literacy dle- to upper-class British Contact Person: Ann Belcham 250-453-9417 families who had been eduThe “Purpose of Sunday” Car Club cated to be gentlemen and President: Tom Lowe 240-457-6564 little else, and thus were unsuited to much in the way of SCI Thompson River, B.C. Chapter work. Their families shipped Ken Brown - Phone: 250-453-9415 them off to the Colonies, and places like Walhachin, with Ashcroft Yoga Group Call Marijke - Phone: 250-453-0050 little more than a remittance sufficient to get them across Second Time Around the ocean and away from be201 Railway Ave., Ashcroft BC Anne Bonter 250-457-9781 ing a burden on the family.

Jacobsen breaks away Cache Creek Market and from popular wisdom— Cache Creek Garden Club Marcie Down 250-457-9630 which states that the Snohoosh Flume, that brought Ashcroft Royal Purple Phone 250-457-9122 water from the Deadman Valley to Walhachin, was shoddily constructed, hence BC Lung Association Carolyn Chorneychuk, its destruction after a twoDirector 250-453-9683 Email:carelee67@gmail.com day downpour in 1918—by Ashcroft Cache Creek Better at Home arguing that the flume was 405 Railway Ave. 250-453-9911 - Sandy well engineered and built,

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and that its destruction was just one of many factors which doomed Walhachin.

In addition to the lack of men in the community during and after the war, he points to depressed land prices both during WW I and in its immediate aftermath, and the dramatic drop in fruit and produce prices after the war, which would have made labour- and water-intensive Walhachin a poor fruit-growing area.

Along the way, Jacobsen’s book provides a fascinating look at the genteel, quasi-English country life of the early Walhachin settlers, as well as the toll the war years took, and the sad aftermath.

A facsimile of an early advertising brochure for Walhachin, intended to promote the settlement in England, is also included. An early page states that Walhachin

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is “An Indian word signifying an abundance of Food Products of the Earth”; research shows the First Nations name actually meant “land of round rocks”. Also included are dozens of wonderful photographs—many of them never before seen—of the community and its early inhabitants.

If I have a criticism, it is that the information is marshaled in rather haphazard fashion, with certain threads picked up, dropped, and then picked up again; more coherent organisation of information would have been helpful (particularly as there is no index). And while Jacobsen asserts that none of the Walhachin men who went off to war came back—the story he heard in 1969—he fails to go into the details as to why this might have been the case. (Although Walhachin certainly sent a disproportionately large number of men, as a percentage of the population, off to war, the number of Walhachin men killed was well within the average, leaving room for speculation as to why the survivors did not return. It is not beyond the realm of probability that, since most of the Walhachin enlistees were of British origin, those who survived decided to return to their homes in England rather than go back to an uncertain future in far-off Walhachin.)

That said, anyone interested in the history of Walhachin in particular, or in the early days of our area in general, would be advised to get a copy of Walhachin: Birth of a Legend, for its evocative look at a nearby community, and for its wistful photographs of an attempt to turn the dusty benchlands of the Thompson into something more akin to what the early settlers were accustomed to in the English countryside. And the next time you’re driving along Hwy. 1, if you have an hour to spare then take the time to turn off the road and visit Walhachin, the not-quite-ghost town, and imagine what could have been, and almost was.

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An abundance of water, but fire is still a threat Make hay and make it rain?

Sunshine and blue skies marked the month of June along Loon Lake Road. Sure, there was a bit of rain as well, and as usual it came along just as the ranchers had cut their first crop of hay. It seems that cutting hay is a very effective rain-making activity. Now the hay is all stacked, the next crop is well underway, and the rain is scarce, so irrigation systems are working around the clock.

It is possible to grow a wide variety of crops here, but all need to be watered. When homesteaders first came

FROM LOON LAKE ROAD Barbara Hendricks into the area they looked for low-lying, damp meadows for growing hay, as irrigation was difficult, time-consuming, and often not an option. Food crops were often hand irrigated and it was an all day, every day kind of job at this time of year. As time passed, many ranchers dug complex systems of ditches, bringing water from a distance to small diversion channels to water the fields and crops. Sprinkler irrigation came much later, as sprinklers require water pressure usually only available with a pump and/or a large gravity feed system.

The old ditches and furrows have long since disappeared from most fields and new, highly effective water guns have taken over the job of watering the hay crops. Drip irrigation is almost the opposite of a water gun, and is very effective for food crops. Drip irrigation uses water very efficiently, delivering it to the base of the plants and not to the weeds in between the rows.

Some plants do not like to get their leaves wet and others, like zucchini, do not like water on the flowers, so drip irrigation is an excellent choice for crops like tomatoes, squash, and similar plants. In my garden the zucchini grows rampant over the compost and little watering is needed. I add it carefully on the side to make sure

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the flowers are not wetted. Like everything else the zucchini is early in producing fruit this year, and already we are enjoying fresh little zucchinis with the flowers still attached—just like in the gourmet magazines.

Taking water for granted

Water is the basis of life on this planet. If we didn’t have clean water we would have nothing to eat or drink and life would cease. Yet we tend to take water for granted: just turn on a tap and there it is. Here—where water comes from wells for the most part—one starts to notice just how often water is used and taps turned on when the power is off and there is no water.

There is so little consideration given to ensuring that the earth’s water stays clean. Here at Loon Lake Road we are very fortunate with the number of springs and small creeks coming off the mountains and bringing clean water into the lake and Loon Creek. Loon Lake is deep and holds a lot of water, which stays cold long into the summer and warmish well into the winter season, making it late to freeze over.

Out of sight, into the water supply

The major change the past century has wrought for water at Loon Lake is that decades of logging activity on the mountains appear to have altered the flow of some streams. They may again return to their former patterns as the young forests develop the deep, complex root systems that play a part in how water moves through and over the soil. In general there is very little obvious threat to the water in our area; however, as the population density increases, small individual actions could add up to future problems. Dumping chemicals, diesel, and so forth onto the ground, or flushing pharmaceuticals into the septic tank, creates a legacy of trouble. It is not “away” when you do that— the stuff is on its way to water somewhere.

Sprinklers mean worms to eat

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These long summer days with the cooling breezes in the evening are being enjoyed; but did you notice that June 30 was even longer than usual? The scientists who keep track of time needed to adjust our clocks, and they added one second onto the last minute of June. In the lifetime of one person it doesn’t make a difference, but in the Earth’s lifetime it can make a difference if adjustments aren’t made regularly. I am amazed by how accurate the earlier scientists who measured and set the day into hours, minutes, and seconds were, while using relatively simple instruments.

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The other natural element on the minds of Loon Lake residents at this time is fire, especially wildfire. The sound of fire-fighting planes overhead every day is a reminder of the serious situation around us right now. The recently announced ban on all types of outdoor fires, including campfires and fireworks, has left some worried residents breathing a bit easier.

While most of the people who live at or visit Loon Lake Road are very responsible, there are always one or two who are careless and create potentially dangerous situations. Some visitors love to set off fireworks here when they know it is forbidden in the cities where they live. No one wants to ruin their summer by getting into a confrontation with a careless neighbour, and this ban makes it a lot easier. If you witness some one with a campfire, setting off fireworks, or even dropping a cigarette butt onto the ground do not hesitate to call the wildfire number (1-800-665-5555), providing as much detail as you can about the incident.

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ing the squirrels drink at the bird water basin.

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“Colourful” Railway no more to be seen RAILWAY from p. 11

wood frame structures that sold one thing or another; and a few of us will recall the gardens behind the high board fences and the alleys between the shops, where a bear once found himself trapped. Some might even remember drinking a chocolate soda at the ice cream shop on Railway (but if there any such people around, they must be of an age). There was even a butcher shop, where the Credit Union parking lot is today.

Railway held several hardware stores, each of them specializing in something different from the others. One had fishing

and hunting merchandise, for example; another sold outdoor clothing, boots, and rain gear; and yet another had building supplies, lumber, nails, and appliances.

You could go from shop to shop and see something different all along Railway.

Further up the street there was Jay Ray’s mens’ clothing shop, specializing in fine quality garments and footwear that were as good as anything to be found in Kamloops. Fran Helland’s ladies’ readyto-wear shop was nothing short of elegant in the quality of dresses, suits, and jewellery available. There was also Grant Sidwell’s jewellery and watch repair shop.

How many people chose their wedding

and engagement rings there?

On the block between 5th and 6th, where the garden centre is now, was a two-storey frame house where Ashcroft’s policeman, Joe Burr, once lived with his family. A high caragana hedge framed the yard. At the corner of 6th and Railway stands a beautifully maintained heritage building with two brick chimneys which was in turn the BX Express headquarters, the main office of the cannery, and the courthouse, and is now a private residence. Jack Elgy’s repair shop was a weather-darkened cottage near where the Bottle Depot (once the Purity Feeds store) is located.

The point of this article is that this quality of neighbourhood—cluttered, full

of character, and unique to Ashcroft— is just history today. And it’s happening all across North America, as can be seen in now-abandoned country towns across the prairies. There is little left to take their place, as we seem to have substituted character and colour for the stark substance of utility.

No doubt the railway right of way had something to do with the elimination of some buildings on Railway Avenue. But whatever the reason for the changes that have left too much room for the tumbleweeds, and too much of a wind tunnel for the spring and fall gusts to swirl down the street, it is more than a little sad.

Yes, change is inevitable. But too much change for Ashcroft has meant an emptier and emptier Railway Avenue.

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