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Taxpayers can turn page on library budget shortfall Tara Bowie Review Staff
The story of the small community library facing staffing cuts reached an anti-climactic end Friday night as attendees at a meeting at Victory Hall discovered there was a tentative plan that would see local taxpayers pay a little more to ensure they receive the same level of service. Keremeos Mayor Manfred Bauer and Area B director George Bush told the Review just a few minutes into the meeting that if supported by the public Keremeos, Area B and Area G (excluding Hedley) residents would see an increase of about $8 to $10 per household on their tax bill. The money collected would be used to offset the shortfall in the Keremeos Library budget now that
there is a new funding formula used by Okanagan Regional Library (ORL). “Of course it’s important we receive good public input and that will give us an idea of the public’s wishes,” Bauer said. “We’re looking into it and it’s a likely solution,” George Bush said. If the plan goes ahead a bylaw will need to pass at the Regional District Okanagan-Similkameen. Within the month local politicians will receive a report based on information collected during Friday night’s meeting at Victory Hall. The matter will most likely be brought to Keremeos council for discussion during its December meeting. Bauer said he also plans to speak
with the province about funding library boards. The province has not increased funding in 10 years. About 100 people came out to hear more about potential service cuts and to provide their thoughts on the subject. Stephanie Hall, executive director of ORL said more people attended the Keremeos meeting than the other three similar meetings that were held in Kelowna, West Kelowna and Revelstoke. Details of the agenda of the twohour meeting were unknown to the public until it started Friday night. When participants realized the meeting would be a visioning and workshop type meeting about 20 Tara Bowie people left. About 80 people participated in a workshop about the future of the Continued on page 7
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Over 400 responses received in National Park survey Tara Bowie Review Staff
Over 400 people filled out an online questionnaire about the province’s intentions paper on a proposal for a park in the South Okanagan Similkameen. The deadline for the questionnaire was Oct. 31. A spokesperson for the Ministry of Environment stated in an email that the online questionnaire did not track where people were from when submitting. “A review of the public feedback will be undertaken with a consultation report to be posted publicly in early 2016. The results of the consultation will inform recommendations on what, if any, new land protection measures should be undertaken in the South Okanagan,” the spokesperson wrote in an email in response to questions posed by the Review. The province reopened the National Park debate in mid-August when it’s low profile intentions papers was quietly released. The paper detailed policies related to three distinct areas in the region. The province proposes a large area, west of Osoyoos and south of Highway 3 to the U.S.,
be considered by Parks Canada for inclusion in a South Okanagan National Park Reserve. Likewise, part of the White Lake basin and extending down past Willowbrook, west of Hwy. 97, is also being put forward for national park status. Between them, the two cover several protected areas, including the White Lake Grasslands, Spotted Lake, the Osoyoos Desert Centre and the South Okanagan Grasslands Protected Area sites of East and West Chopaka. A third area, covering west of Oliver towards Cawston, and north of Highway 3 to the southern border of the White Lake Grasslands, is being recommended as a conservancy under the B.C. Park Act “(The) Government is committed to exploring a variety of options so we can satisfy the varying interests in this diverse region. The intent with the proposals was to protect significant geographic and cultural values, while providing recreation and tourism opportunities. Government began engagement with local First Nations and various groups to better understand their vision in this area. These discussions have helped us clarify pri-
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More than 400 responses were received to the province’s online questionnaire regarding the future of a proposed park in the South Okangan Similkameen.
orities for the region that protect significant geographic and First Nations cultural values, while also providing recreation and tourism
opportunities. The province understands the importance of protecting these values, while also preserving long standing economic and cultur-
No tips received about bears killed in Olalla Tara Bowie Review Staff
No information has come forward about the illegal shooting of a mother bear and her two cubs near Olalla. The killings occurred sometime in late September and were reported to conservation officers when a young man came upon the bears on September 28 on Olalla Creek Road. The bears had been there for several days. Jeff Hanratty, a Penticton and area conservation officer put a plea out to residents to call into the Poachers and Polluters line if they knew anything about the dead bears. At this point no calls have come in. It’s believed the bears are the same ones that had been reported to conservation officers as being “nuisance bears” often getting into people’s garbage and in yards. There is no hunting season on bear cubs or bears in the company of cubs. Under the Wildlife Act, anyone that
shoots an animal in self defence must report it to authorities. Although there’s been no information about the shooting of the three bears, Hanratty said the public did help in another illegal animal shooting just outside Penticton. A pregnant mule deer just weeks away from delivering two fawns was shot during closed season on April 15 on Spiller Road. Luckily a witness saw the two men attempt to load the doe into a pickup truck and snapped a photo. The pair fled the scene. The photo was sent out to local media and charges were laid against a 41-year-old man and 37-year-old man that live in the South Okanagan. The pair will appear in Penticton court in the coming weeks facing charges of hunting/killing wildlife out of season as well as hunting during prohibited hours, unlawful possession of dead wildlife and failure to retrieve wildlife.
Work complete - for now, at site of rockslide on Hwy. 3 Review Staff
The second, and last, planned phase of work is complete at the site of the rockfall area on Highway 3 between Keremeos and Hedley. The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure completed the second phase several weeks ago that saw the removal of about 35,000 cubic metres of rock debris. A ditch more than a half-kilometre long was also dug to create a large catchment area. Phase one of the project saw the construction of a three-metre high concrete block wall in the west slow lane to increase rock catchment. Now that work is completed , the Ministry will continue to monitor the location on an ongoing basis to ensure it remains safe for the travelling public.
The rock fall area is located about nine kilometres west of Keremeos. Multiple rock slides have occurred in the area over the last two years. The most recent significant slide occurred in December 2014 when several rocks fell down closing the highway overnight. A previous slide occurred when rocks of all shapes and sizes came crashing down in January 2014. Three vehicles were involved in the incident, and one female with non-life threatening injuries was sent to hospital.
“ T h a t was excellent. That’s a big win,” Hanratty said. “These people need to know that there are people out there with camera’s all the time and they can’t get away with these things. There were people reporting this to us right away and we received several calls with tips. Everyone should pat themselves on the back,” he said. Anyone with information about the Olalla bear shootings or any other poaching crimes can call the RAPP (Report All Poachers and Polluters) line at 1-877-9527277.
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If there was any doubt that Justin Trudeau nurtures panache worthy of his famous patriarch it was dispelled last week with the introduction of the new PM’s cabinet. Surely, the words “Because it’s 2015” will echo in the corridors of Canadian history with the same resonance as “Just watch me.” Brilliant for Trudeau to select a gender balanced cabinet – 15 men and 15 women – the first in the nation’s history. With one sound byte the novice leader grabbed international headlines and catapulted Canada to fourth in the world in terms of percentage of women in ministerial positions, from its previous ranking of 20th. But there is more than great public relations behind the move, more than fair play and more than a bid for equality. There is good, hard, science. It is based on an understanding, supported by significant research, that groups which achieve gender parity work more efficiently and are more successful. Business has already figured it out. The most forward-thinking companies are striving to add women to their corner offices and the result is greater financial performance. A study by London Business School suggests when men and women are equally represented they are better able to avoid “groupthink” -- a tendency of homogenous groups to defend outdated ideas because every member thinks the same way. Groupthink kills business. Groupthink kills progress. Groupthink turns experience and a desire to avoid conflict into negative forces. Clearly, it has the potential to kill politics. Trudeau’s new cabinet, reflecting not just gender differences but a respect of ethnicity, race and disabilities, is a group that by its very design must entertain alternative views, consider differing opinions, and approach issues with openness and fairmindedness. That indeed is more than a sound byte. It is more music to the ears. - AD
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Conservation officers a thin green line VICTORIA – The B.C. government declared the first Conservation Officer Day on Nov. 4, to recognize the 110year history of the service that started out as mostly volunteer “game wardens.” This is overdue recognition for what is essentially a police force that only receives public notice when a bear or cougar has to be killed to protect people. The ceremony at the B.C. legislature included awards. Chief Conservation Officer Doug Forsdick presented longservice medals and two commendations for lifesaving. One was to CO Jason Hawkes, who rescued a family of four from their sinking boat on Kootenay Lake last June. He reached them in rough, windy conditions when they were waist-deep in water, far from shore. The other went to CO Andrew Anaka, for rescuing an angler from an overturned boat, whom he found “extremely hypothermic” at the base of a cliff at a lake near Powell River on Jan. 22. A second angler didn’t make it to shore. An exemplary service
medal went as mobile comto CO Micah mand centres, so Kneller, who people aren’t sitcaught up with ting in offices waitFort Nelson ing for the phone RCMP officers to ring. They patrol and paramedics more and respond on Sept. 6, as faster, which can they treated a be vital. TOM FLETCHER hunter who had C h a n d r a been attacked Herbert also blastby a grizzly in a ed the government remote area. As for a “donation” darkness fell, of $100,000 from Kneller found a second injured the Freshwater Fishing Society hunter, got the group together, of B.C. to increase angling built a fire and assisted until enforcement this summer, adda rescue helicopter from CFB ing more seasonal CO days. Comox lifted the hunters out “What’s next, bake sales?” he at 3 a.m. said. NDP environment critic The real story is a bit more Spencer Chandra Herbert had complicated. In March I reporta couple of things on his mind ed that the B.C. Liberal govat the event. He relayed a report ernment finally made good on from the B.C. Government a decade-old promise to turn Employees’ Union that there over all revenue from freshwahas been a 10 per cent cut in ter fishing licence sales to the CO staff since 2002. society. Not so, replied Environment Its revenue went from $7 Minister Mary Polak. The num- million to $10 million once the ber has “hovered around 148” government finally ended the in that time, she said, including practice of skimming some off seasonal staff for peak hunting for the general treasury. and fishing periods. Energy Minister Bill Polak said extra investment Bennett recalled that the society has gone into trucks that serve was established during the first
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years of Gordon Campbell’s government, a period of what Bennett called “religious zeal” for privatization. The society spends most of its budget restocking lakes with trout and promoting responsible angling, but its new 30-year service contract also calls on it to contribute to enforcement. This is the first year that has happened, and Polak said the extra fishing violation tickets indicate it is working. The CO service also works on cases such as the Mount Polley mine breach. It has a commercial environmental enforcement unit, a special investigations unit to deal with smuggling and organized crime, and an intelligence analyst. In short, they’re real cops, working with a group of about 150 compliance officers at the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations. They don’t get much respect from an urban public informed by celebrity wildlife protesters such as Pamela Anderson, Miley Cyrus and Ricky Gervais. Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.
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Some battle scars are just invisible Art Martens living significantly.ca
I have many times experienced a tingling of awe and reverence watching aging veterans solemnly marching in measured cadence to the Hedley cenotaph, a solitary piper playing martial music. Invariably, their visages are inscrutable, possibly remembering fallen comrades. On Remembrance Day we honour them, but unless we have hunkered down behind rocks in the mountains of Afghanistan under attack by the Taliban, or flown in bombing missions against ISIS, we cannot know the fear and danger many vets have endured. I returned recently to the account of Louis Zamperini in the best selling book and movie, Unbroken. An Olympic runner, Louis’ athletic career was interrupted by The Second World War. The Green Hornet, in which he served as a bombardier, went down over the Pacific Ocean on May 27, 1943. He and two crew members inflated two rubber rafts and began floating toward Japanese held territory. Their only food was several thick Hershey chocolate bars designed to be unpalatably bitter A few half pint tins of water, a fishing line and hooks, a brass mirror and a patch kit were among their meagre supplies. Near the equator, they endured heat during the day and cold at night. Sharks six to 12 feet long circled the rafts incessantly, rubbing against the undersides. Their clothes were growing looser. Determined to survive, Louis and Phil, pilot of the Green Hornet, challenged each other and willed fear away. Mac, another crew member, became increasingly pessimistic and resigned. His body grew weaker, following his spirit. One night, immersed in depression, he ate the remaining chocolate. Louis captured two albatrosses, which they ate. He and Phil devised an ingenious plan and killed two sharks. They ate the livers. Having no drinking water Louis, whose lifestyle had been thoroughly irreligious, prayed for rain. The next day there was a downpour. One day two Japanese planes strafed them, damaging the rafts but not wounding the men. That night they fought off sharks while baling water and repairing the rafts. In the water, Louis thwarted a shark attack by punching it hard on the nose. He promised if God would save them, he’d serve Heaven forever. On Day 47 , they landed on an atoll of the Marshall Islands. Mac had given up and died. Gaunt in their ragged clothes, Louis and Phil were taken prisoner by the Japanese. Their initial captors treated them well. When Louis was sent to “Execution Island” though, a new ordeal began. In a small cell he shared with rats, fleas and mosquitoes, he received two cups of water per day. Rice balls were thrown on the gravel floor. Guards beat and poked him with sticks. “The guards tried to rob us of our dignity and self-worth,” Louis wrote later. “I made a decision to not let them break
Images from the cenotaph in Hedley, on Remembrance Day, inspire awe, respect and imagination.
me.” One guard, The Bird, singled out Louis for particularly harsh attention. He regularly clubbed him and punched him in the face. Sometimes he forced him to stand holding a long beam over his head. In the final weeks of the war, he told Louis to fill a barrel with water. “Tomorrow I’m going to drown you,” The Bird told him. Only the end of the war prevented the prisoners from following through on a plot to kill this inhumane tormentor. Free and back home, Louis could not escape the horrors he had endured. In flashbacks and nightmares, lice and fleas wriggled over his body. The Bird struck him with the heavy steel buckle on his belt. “I believed only The Bird could restore me, by suffering and dying in the grip of my hands.” One night he woke up on his wife Cynthia, choking her.
Alcohol was destroying their marriage. Although he resisted strenuously, Cynthia persuaded him to attend a rally of a young Billy Graham. Graham’s words penetrated into the depth of his being and he was reminded of his promise on the raft. He responded to Graham’s invitation to accept God’s healing and never had another flashback. In time he wanted to meet and forgive those who had tormented him. The Bird refused, but when Louis met many of the former tormentors in a Japanese prison, they warmly embraced him and his message. For combatants, the inner battles don’t always end when they are demobilized. As a nation we need to commit to their physical, mental and emotional healing.
The produce department demands life skills Every so often there’s an occasion to truly despair for future generations. Generally, this feeling follows close observation of present generations. Case in point: while chatting with a girlfriend on the phone Sunday she received a text from her daughter. Mom. How do you make hardboiled eggs? The young woman in question is bright, articulate, a college graduate, recently married and expecting her first child. How do you make hard-boiled eggs? Best consult Jamie Oliver. Immediately I sent off my own grandmother’s coveted hard-boiled egg recipe (the key is the boiling water) as well as directions for making toast. Smart phones have a lot to answer for when it comes to making people...not smart.
There is an app available today that allows the user to simply scan food in order to be provided with a complete list its nutritional components. Could be useful, but so is a passing acquaintance with Canada’s Food Guide. Years ago, when grocery store advertising came in delicious full pages in the newspaper as opposed to preprinted flyers, it was always a challenge to find a graphic artist in the design department who knew the difference between carrots and parsnips or, as we sometimes had to call them, “the white carrots.” The average age of an ad builder was about 23, and the field was heavily populated with young men who lived with their mothers and lacked the life experience required to tell the difference, for example, between broccoli and cauliflower. Grocery ads needed to be proofed very, very carefully. One memorable afternoon a new
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old dog new tricks designer brought me a double-truck grocery store layout, pointed to the meat section and said: I think there is something wrong with these pork chops. Suspecting a trick, I told him that with pork chops you can’t really tell by looking, you have to actually smell them to see if they are off. The graphics department of course had access to large libraries
of clip art. He had duly typed in the words pork chops, grabbed the photo and placed it on the ad. They were indeed pork chops. They looked okay to me. His concern and confusion were puzzling. Had to think about it quite awhile but eventually the truth dawned. Have you ever seen a pork chop before it was cooked? Ohhhhhh. These are RAW pork chops? Uh huh. Almost all grocery stores sell their pork chops raw. The grocery store itself is another theatre where a basic lack of food knowledge gives way to giggles. Guaranteed, any check out clerk under the age of 20, at a first job perhaps after graduating high school, is going to peer suspiciously at a bag of brusell sprouts. Wow. How did they ever get cabbages to grow this small? Never will forget the check out clerk at the A and P in Brantford
Ontario who looked at my cart, pointed to the produce and asked “those are green onions, right?” They were leeks. Think of them as green onions on steroids. It’s our job as parents to equip the young with fundamental life skills, and that includes a few smarts in the kitchen. It’s the least we can do considering they have to program the DVD player. Just last week I was available to pass on wisdom to the eldest DeMeer child, who called with her own culinary dilemma. Mom, I put this bottle of wine in the freezer and forgot about it and now it’s frozen and I’d really like a glass of wine. Sigh. Fill the sink with tepid water, insert the bottle and wait fifteen minutes. At the very least you will have a wine slushie. Give the girl her due, she knows where to go for answers.
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Penticton business owner in favour of National Park plan To the Editor: My name is Russ Turner, owner of Skaha Rock Adventures Ltd., a rock climbing and mountaineering school, operating in Penticton since 1994. As an outdoor guiding business, we want it to be known that we fully support the concept of forming a South Okanagan Similkameen National Park. Born and raised in Kelowna, a small town of less than 9,000 persons at the time, I have witnessed first hand the explosive population growth in our valley since then. Most of the prime land is gone and what remains won’t be there to save for long, due to continued residential, industrial and agricultural growth. I have spent 35 years of my life working as an Outward Bound Mountain Instructor and as a professional Association of Canadian Mountain Guide in Manning Provincial Park, Cathedral Provincial Park, Skaha Bluffs Provincial Park and Okanagan Mountain Provincial Park. I have always thought that these parks together with the Snowy Mountain Wilderness, deserved more connectivity between themselves. The South Okanagan Similkameen National Park is a natural fit to connect and protect all of these precious regions. With connectivity in mind, I also strongly feel that Area 2 (Mt. Kobau), East Vaseux Protected Area
and the Fairview Townsite be included together with National Park Areas 1 & 3 of this proposal. Since the inception of Skaha Rock Adventures Ltd. we have completed more than 35,000 client days of training in Manning, Cathedral, Skaha and Okanagan Mtn. Provincial Parks. As an example for potential growth, annual visitor use in Skaha Bluffs Provincial Park in 1994 was 3,000 user visits, whereas last year there were more than 50,000 user visits in this park alone. Ninety per cent of our clientele travel from all corners of the world to join us to hike and climb in these regions. As a commercial operator in these parks, we average over 150 course training days annually, providing high paying jobs which support our local economy. With National Park status, the south Okanagan’s tourism growth will bloom as we create another Banff-Lake Louise-Jasper linear Park structure for tourists to visit and enjoy (a record 3.6 million visitors passed through Banff National Park this past year). Therefore as a local business in Penticton, we whole-heartedly support the creation of a South Okanagan Similkameen National Park. Russ Turner & Beth Warlow Penticton, BC
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“The format wasn’t perfect but we did hear everyone’s voices and that’s what this was designed to do,” Hall said. Those participants that remained were tasked with answering questions about the future of the library spanning topics of how to better meet the needs of the local community. The chaotic and loud exercise which saw people broken up into groups and moving from table-to-table answering questions, was overshadowed by most attendee’s frustration that they just wanted to see the library remain open the same number of days. “It’s wonderful to come up with all these ideas to improve service but if it isn’t open then it it isn’t open for anyone to use it,” Cawston resident Lee McFadyen said. Ideas that came forward included making the library larger so meeting rooms could be rented to generate money, increasing technology including computers and software, organizing classes so local youth could teach seniors how to use computers and others. At the end of the visioning a representative from each group read out a
summary of their findings. Councillors Jason Wiebe and Arlene Arlow both read out for their group. Wiebe was clear that he was speaking on behalf of himself and not council. “We love our library,” Wiebe started. “We’re okay with a tax increase as long as we keep our library where it’s at. Councillor Arlow echoed his comments and said her group was fine with a tax increase also. “Eight dollars is not that big of a deal,” she said. If a solution cannot be found to come up with about $30,000 for the library, 18 hours of staffing time will be cut and four hours of page time. Hall explained that would most likely mean the library would be closed Thursdays in addition to it’s regularly closed days of Sunday and Monday. The ORL needs a decision by the end of 2015 by the municipalities or hour reduction will begin in January 2016. The shortfall comes from adjustments made after a study found that Keremeos was getting more than what it paid for in library services.
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Student council members from Similkameen Elementary Secondary School collected 383 cans for the food bank during their food drive Halloween.
Lots of things cooking at Grist Mill Next Saturday, November 21st, the Grist Mill Kitchen will be hosting its first ever Soup Saturday. We’ll be serving a half-dozen (or more) amazing soups pulled from our favourite family recipes and vintage cook books from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Every bowl comes with some of our amazing fresh-baked sourdough bread. Two dollars from every bowl sold will be going to the Grist Mill Foundation in support of their fundraising efforts to provide new historical costumes for staff and volunteers of the site for 2016. Also on that same day, volunteers from the Grist Mill Foundation, a charitable organization dedicated to supporting the sharing of the exceptional heritage of the Grist Mill site, will be working hard to undertake a variety of indoor and outdoor projects to help get the site in tip-top shape for 2016. If you’ve got time and are interested in helping out, please get in touch with Marilyn Bergen at 250-499-7217 or mclarkebergen@hotmail.com. It’s going to be a busy Christmas season at the Grist Mill with a variety of special events planned over the next month. In addition to a busy weekend of family-oriented activity as part of Light Up Weekend (Dec 4-6), the Grist Mill will also be hosting a series of Christmas craft workshops. Tradition is at the heart of each of our crafty Christmas workshops and what better way to relive old Christmas customs than by making your very own wreath. On
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Wednesday, November 25th from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., we will show you how to use abundant winter greenery to make a vibrant wreath to adorn your door. The fee for this two hour workshop is $25 and every participant will get to take their own wreath home. Also, the kitchen will have dinner options available before the workshop, starting at 5:30 PM. Advanced registration is required; please call 250499-2888 or email info@oldgristmill.ca.
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One of the newest employees at Valu-Plus Foods stumbled upon her sweet career almost two decades ago. Shelly North the new pastry chef at Valu-Plus, who started in early October, has already made a significant impact on Keremeos’s sweet tooth and maybe some waist lines. “I worked up front at a bakery and one day the owner needed help. I just loved it and have never looked back,” North said. North started at the Rainbow Delights Bakery in Penticton as a teenager. She worked on-and-off at the bakery for years. “I’m self taught but I’ve also learned under a pastry chef and baker,” she said. North also worked at Market Place IGA in Penticton for a period of time where she met Theo Walta, who is now the bakery manager at Valu-Plus. Walta saw North in the store one day a few months ago and wondered if she needed a job. She did and the rest is history. Since starting at Valu-Plus Foods, North has brought in a variety of new desserts. She’s made merlot truffles, diplomat cake, puzzle cake and death by chocolate mocha tarts and many more scrumptious edibles. She’s looking forward to next summer when she can utilize more local fruits in her desserts.
Bowlers at the recreation centre are getting into the swing of things as the season progresses. This week in Alley Oops action Madeleine Pruden bowled 221 while in the men’s Harold Desjardins bowled 212. Wayne Ritchie reached a score of 205 and close on his heels was Bruce Crossman with 203. In the Wednesday short league Peter Lantela earned top honours this week scoring 215. Cheryl Hendsbee was a close second with 214. Alos bowling high scores were Henry Jensen, 211, Garry Jefferson, 207, and Reta Lantela with 207.
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Two local wartime researchers and historians were recognized in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia last week. MLA Linda Larson from Boundary-Similkameen used time in the legislature to recognize Andy English and Jennifer Douglass for their efforts in researching the Hedley Boys. The Hedley Boys were a group of 17 men who joined the First World War all on the same day on August 22, 1915. One hundred years later, English and Douglass tracked down surviving family members and organized a weekend of remembrance to honour the men and educate their descendants on the roles they played in the war and in the community of Hedley. The men ranged in ages and professions including miners, bankers and engineers. English and Douglass are currently working on writing a book about the men. The community is raising funds to restore the cenotaph in Hedley. The cenotaph was built in the exact spot the 17 men stood and posed for a picture before going on to Penticton to officially signup for the war. “A huge thank you to Andy and Jennifer and all the people of Hedley for saving this unique piece of history for all of us,” Larson said. English and Douglass are holding a talk at the Hedley Museum on November 25 about the cenotaph and to update everyone about the status of fundraising.
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Andy English, left, and Jennifer Douglass, right, were recognized for their work on commemorating the Hedley Boys in the BC Legislature last week. The pair researched and spearheaded a tribute weekend to the 17 men from Hedley, who joined up for the war on the same day on August 22, 1915.
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Parents, advocates for the disabled and even the opposition critic applauded the B.C. government’s move to increase financial independence for people receiving disability assistance payments. Social Development Minister Michelle Stilwell has announced that effective Dec. 1, recipients will be able to receive financial gifts and inheritances of up to $100,000 without affecting their monthly payments. The current lifetime limit is $5,000 per person, after which assistance payments are reduced. Stilwell said the change affects 96,000 people in B.C. who receive disability assistance. “It’s available to all those individuals, and of course it would depend on their personal situations, their family support, friend support, whether they’re working or not working,” Stilwell said. “And those are definitely changes that we’re trying to encourage as well, to help individuals to get into the workforce, so they can create opportunities for themselves to earn and to save.” The government previously raised the earned income exemption so people can earn up to $9,600 a year without reduction of their disability assistance, and has encouraged B.C. businesses to hire disabled people. James Ho, a member of the minister’s council on employment and accessibility, called the gift and inheritance policy “a quantum leap forward” for disabled people like his son. Kathy Bromley, a disability advocate whose daughter attends Simon Fraser University, struggled to control her emotions at a ceremony at the B.C. legislature announcing the change Nov. 5. “Just because Shannon was born with a disability and needs help to brush her teeth and put her coat on … she needs to have a good reason to wake up every morning,” Bromley said. NDP social development critic Michelle Mungall the change is “definitely good news” for those who can take advantage of it. “I know with some of the families that I’ve been working with, people have come forward wanting to help them out, and they haven’t been able to because of the gift rule,” Mungall said.
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Keremeos school receives $400,000 for capital projects Review Staff
Similkameen Elementary Secondary School is receiving more than $400,000 for much needed upgrades. MLA for Boundary-Similkameen Linda Larson’s office announced the funding under the Province’s Routine Capital Program on Monday in an email. The SESS building will undergo numerous improvements including installing new windows, upgrading washrooms, and increasing accessibility for people with disabilities. SESS received a total of $436,000 from the province to pay for the routine capital upgrades. Work is expected complete by spring 2016. Osoyoos Secondary School received $271,000 to replace the current dust collection unit, which is undersized for the machinery, in the shop area. Replacement will be combined with ducting improvements. “These upgrades will greatly improve the air quality at Osoyoos Secondary and Similkameen Elementary Secondary,” Larson stated in the press release. “Ensuring our schools are safe and healthy is one of our government’s commitments and I am pleased that we are providing nearly $710,000 for these improvements.” These projects were approved under the Province’s Routine Capital Program. Projects were chosen based on need, priority, and supporting student learning. To be eligible for the funding the board submits capital plans to the ministry that include details on school building priorities in their school districts. The provincial government establishes an overall capital budget for schools based on the ministry’s capital allocation.
Work underway to crush material into gravel, sand Review Staff
The village is crushing it. The Keremeos Public Works department is currently crushing old pavement and concrete to be recycled into future projects. The crew is also crushing small rocks to make into sand required for road maintenance over the winter months. It will take about another week to crush all the material stockpiled at the public works yard on 9th street near the skateboard and wastewater treatment plant. This project was budgeted for in the 2015 budget process.
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This year’s Keremeos and area Ambassadors received recognition from village council recently. Back row, left to right, councillors Arlene Arlow, Jason Wiebe, Mayor Manfred Bauer, councillors Jeremy Evans and Sherry Philpott-Adhikary. Front, Keremeos and Area Ambassadors Bryan Deyaeger, and Selena Nugteren. Missing Chelsea Matzick and Jodi McRae.
RSVP now for museum society Christmas dinner Arlene Arlow Museum Society
The South Similkameen Museum Society invites you to the annual Christmas Dinner. This year’s dinner will be a sumptuous home-made roast beef dinner with mashed potatoes, vegetables, gravy and green salad. Dessert will be rice pudding. The dinner will be gluten-free. You must RSVP so that the Grist Mill staff know how many people to cook for. Chris Mathieson at the Grist Mill has agreed to provide a 10 per cent discount for gifts purchased at the Grist Mill Gift Shop on the night of the dinner for museum members.
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First responders attended a call that a man had doused himself with gasoline in Keremeos Saturday afternoon. RCMP Cpl. Kat Thain declined to comment on if the man had actually poured gasoline on himself, citing “privacy and health concerns” for the individual. She did say there were no injuries and no charges are expected to be laid. The RCMP, ambulance service and Keremeos fire department attended the scene.
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If you aren’t a museum member and you would like to purchase some Christmas gifts at the gift shop and receive the 10 per cent gift discount, museum memberships will be sold at the dinner. The evening will include games and a gift exchange. Please consider bringing a gift valued at no more than $10. Please wrap and mark your gift as male or female or wrap your gift with a blue ribbon for male and a pink ribbon for female. Please join us on Thursday, December 3, 2015 for a traditional roast beef dinner. Doors at the Grist Mill on Upper Bench Road will open at 5 p.m., dinner will be served at 5:30
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Keremeos joins movement to squash radon-linked cancer Towns across BC have joined the BC Lung Association in proclaiming November Radon Awaremonth – Prince George, Kamloops, Penticton, Princeton, Trail, Creston, Nakusp, the Village of Salmo, Fort. St. James and Keremeos. Radon gas exposure accounts for an average of 55 percent of a person’s lifetime radiation exposure – and for as many as 16 percent of all lung cancer deaths each year in Canada. “Radon is one of the most hazardous sources of indoor air pollution in Canada,” said Dr. Peter Paré, Chair of the BC Lung Association and Professor Emeritus of Respiratory Medicine at the University of British Columbia. “And BC community involvement is vital to making real progress on the issue.” “It’s encouraging how many BC community leaders have stepped up and spoken out in a short period to help keep BC families safe from radon-related lung cancer risk,” he continued. “It’s a serious issue and we expect community support will grow further.” “No one should have to suffer from preventable radon-caused W ATM NO LE! B AVAILA
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lung cancer. Home radon testing is affordable, and relatively straightforward solutions exist to reduce radon to safe levels if it turns out the radon level in your home exceeds the recommended safety threshold,” he said. Affordable do-it-yourself radon test kits are available online at RadonAware.ca, which include home delivery of lab results. And while the BC Lung Association continues to promote community action, they’re also championing the issue with industry groups central to the development of a comprehensive solution. “To put a stop to radon-related lung cancer - building inspectors, builders and tradespeople, realtors, and home warranty organizations will all play a very significant role,” said Britt Swoveland, RadonAware Manager for the BC Lung Association. “Radon policies and regulations need to be established to ensure both new and existing BC buildings are future-proofed from the risk of radon. And these policies need to be effectively enforced,” she said. “Ultimately, it needs to become standard practice to address radon
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Environmental Lawyer, Author and Adjunct Professor at Simon Fraser University. “In addition to residential testing, there should be strategies to ensure that radon testing, and if necessary radon mitigation measures, are undertaken in all public buildings with priority given to schools and daycare facilities” he added. “The good news,” continued Dr. Boyd, “is that radon problems
Volunteers and clients needed for Meals on Wheels Review Staff
There’s room for more people who want meals and those that want to use their wheels to deliver them. The Lower Similkameen Community Services Society wants to drum up some interest in the Meals on Wheels program. The LSCSS took over running the program in 2008 and currently has 15 clients that use the service. The hot noon hour meals are available up to three times per week for a cost of just $5 a meal. The meals consist of a protein source such as chicken cutlets, potatoes and vegetables and a small soup or salad and dessert. Josie Sandford was the first volunteer to deliver meals back in 1997 and she is still delivering to this day. The LSCSS is also looking for drivers to deliver the meals every Monday, Wednesday and Friday
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HELLO BOOMERS - DO YOU REMEMBER SOME OF THE SLANG WE USED?
By Carole Fawcett PART I Baby Boomers…..kind of a catchy generational name don’t you think? Of course we know it refers to the post World War II baby boom. Boomers are those of us born in the years 1946 to 1964 and are considered to be the “me” generation. We lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Walk on the Moon, Woodstock, and the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. We introduced the concept of “free love”, were the first generation to be raised with television, made divorce acceptable and grooved to the beat of rock ‘n roll and of course, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix and many more. We were “groovy” man and we were not a silent generation. We are the social activist generation, i.e. civil rights in the U.S, anti war protests for the Vietnam War, Women’s rights (Take Back the Night Marches), Peace Marches demonstrating against Nuclear Arms and then later, AIDS in the 80’s. Do you remember some of the slang we used? I’ve got ‘dibs’ on that (means you own it) Oh that was a “gas” (means lots of fun) Were you a “flower child” (hippie) ‘Pedal Pushers’ (now called Capri pants) ‘Neato’ (means kewl or groovy) ‘Groovy’ (means neato or kewl) We represent the work ethic and believed that if you worked hard enough you would achieve your dream. Our dream typically included a paid off mortgage, a new-ish car, one or two children, (1.5 would have been perfect and I believe at one point statisticians had us believing we had achieved this) enough money for retirement and an old age of spoiling grandchildren and travelling. We are considered to be ambitious and hardworking and created the concepts of “workaholic” and “superwoman”. As for fashion, we are considered to have been fashion-blind and wore things like culottes, hot pants, penny loafers, go-go boots, tennis shoes (plain white runners that were used for all activities) tie dyed shirts, the mini skirt and more. Due to our large numbers, we have had the ability to make more change in our society than any other generation. According to Statistics Canada, we will make the senior population double, outnumbering children for the first time. By the year 2031 the entire baby boom generation will have turned 65. (That’s only 20 short years away) This article is of the copyright of OK in Health and the author; any reproduction, duplication and transmission of the article are to have prior written approval by OK in Health or the authorThese articles are provided by OK In Health eMagazine. To sign up for your free eMagazine go to www.OKinHealth.com for more great articles, events, recipes, and more. This column and articles are provided by OK In Health. Come visit HYPERLINK “http:// www.OKinHealth.com” www.OKinHealth.com Your on-line community events and wellness magazineGet Connected! Sign up for your FREE monthly OK In Health’s E-Magazine.OK In Health - Your Wellness Community at Your Finger-Tips!
It’s common knowledge that our bodies can metabolize one standard alcoholic drink per hour. Binge drinking on the other hand is very dangerous. Binge drinking is defined as six or more drinks (4 for women) over two hours at least once weekly. Binge drinking doubles your risk of heart attack.
LIFE EXPECTANCY FOR WOMEN
Food for thought: Life expectancy for a woman in Zimbabwe is 42 years. In Japan it is 86 and in Canada it is 83. The massive difference is due to the variability in living conditions and availability to good healthcare.
DEPRESSION AND AGING
Depression is not a normal part of getting older. What is normal is to be sad over the loss of a loved one, illness restricting mobility or activitiers such as driving. This isn’t depression. But depression comes with an overshelming sense of helplessness, boredom, a loss of interest in hobbies and friends, lack of energy and a strong sense of hopelessness. Depression cannot be ignored. Seek help now.
BODY TEMPERATURE AND HEALTH
Normal body temperatures can range from 97.5ºF (36.4ºC) to 98.9ºF (37.2ºC). Body temperature also varies through the day being a bit lower around 3 am to higher twelve hours later. Body temperature is one of the “vital signs” doctors use to diagnose illness. Have a good working thermometer available in your home. Knowledgeable, approachable, dependable...our pharmacists are all this and more. We’d be happy to fill your next prescription or advise you on any prescription or non-prescription product. We’ll even help you find a good thermometer.
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Influenza vaccine now available contact with higher-risk groups. About 3,500 people die in Canada each winter from influenza and its complications, with hospital and residential care patients the most vulnerable. Kendall said influenza causes more deaths than all other vaccine-preventable illnesses combined. This year’s vaccine is expected to provide 40 to 60 per cent protection against H3N2 and 65 per cent protection against various strains of influenza B. “The annual flu vaccine is still the best tool we have to protect against getting the flu,” said Dr. Charles Webb, president of the Doctors of B.C. “Combined with regular hand washing, you are also
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