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Carol Kuiper, owner of Broke Buckle Clothing Company in downtown Hope, stands next to the display case recently robbed of its contents.

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empty it of its contents. The only seller of Montana Silver Smith jewellery in town, which is “some of the nicest cowboy bling you’ll ever see,” Kuiper Continued on Page A3

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JOB OppOrtunity time durated labourers – these are Union positions (C.U.P.E. Local 458) • 2 will be required to work Wednesday to Sunday Closing date for submissions is 4:00 p.m. April 26, 2019. A full copy of both job postings and job descriptions can be viewed under the “Job Postings” section, within the document library section of the District of Hope web site (https://hope.ca/document-library/71)

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Bylaw enfOrCeMent pOliCy The District of Hope strives for voluntary compliance to infractions through civic responsibility and good neighbor practices. While the District responds to formal written complaints (anonymous complaints are NOT accepted), the Bylaw Enforcement Officer is empowered to enforce bylaws even in the absence of a complaint. On March 25, 2019, Council adopted a revision to the Bylaw Enforcement Policy. A summary of the policy is as follows: • Complaints MUST be provided in writing or email. • Noise disturbances will require two written complaints from 2 people residing in separate residences, within the immediate vicinity. Noise logs may be required to be submitted. • Priority will be given to complaints regarding health or public safety issues. All other complaints will be dealt with in order of receipt. • RCMP are empowered to enforce most bylaws and issue tickets for infractions if necessary. The District will not act on anonymous complains. All complaints will be kept confidential unless ordered by the Freedom of Information Commissioner to release the information, or if the complainant is required to be a witness to the offence or give evident in a court of law. A full copy of the policy can be viewed on the District’s web site at: https://hope.ca/document-library/16

glass reCyCling In order to better facilitate the recycling of glass bottles, jars, etc., the District has added a large bin at the Recreation Centre, in the parking lot, at 1005 6th Ave. Residents are reminded that glass cannot be co-mingled with other recyclables at curbside for pick up.

2019 residential utilities 2019 Residential utilities have been mailed.Please contact the District office if you do not receive your notice.The due date is July 2, 2019. Pre-authorized payment options are available. Payments can also be made through online banking with most financial institutions or by credit card with the District of Hope’s new online services option (processing fees apply). Please contact the District office for further information.

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Expensive to restock store shelves From Page A1 says the loss her store incurred as a result of these criminal acts now tallies above $5,000. “They also took a pair of $300-plus boots, some housecoats, and dog food” in addition to the jewellery. Kuiper and her husband found Hope in 2017 when looking to relocate from Clearwater. “It’s extremely pretty here,” she explained, “and it’s close enough to the madness (of the big city) without being in it.” And while she admits the recent acts of theft have left her feeling somewhat shaken, Kuiper says it hasn’t made her want to quit. “I should be stocking my shelves with syrup and flip-flops,” but cashflows are low after having to restock the stolen merchandise. Because of insurance premiums and penalties, Kuiper is trying to avoid using insurance, and is instead covering the loss out of her own pocket.

Carol Kuiper stands outside her store shortly after being being broken into for the first time in 2018. Now, a year later, it’s happened twice more. EMELIE PEACOCK/HOPE STANDARD In early 2018, Broke Buckle was broken into and had $6,700 worth of merchandise stolen. She’s also not the only business experiencing issues: Fields was also broken into last week, and near the end of March, three downtown businesses had their windows smashed

in acts of vandalism, and the museum was robbed of eight antique rifles dating back to the 1800s. Business “residents are uncomfortable about what’s going on is how I see it when walking around talking with people,” said Stephen Yeung, president

of the Hope Chamber of Commerce. That’s why he says he explains, “crime prevention is like pest control in that it’s a long-term maintenance program designed to protect yourself. If we make it too hard (for criminals to succeed), they won’t come back: if it’s easy

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the first time, (that location) becomes an easy target for next time. “I’m (also) hearing concerns about crime increasing in Hope, that there’s a trend in these

activities, but overall people say they still feel safe about what they’re doing,” said Yeung from inside his McDonald’s franchise. “People also need awareness on how to protect themselves (in residential neighbourhoods), too,” Yeung added. “Lock up all your stuff and leave your car empty. All these little things matter. “And phone the RCMP always. If people report it, enough incidents in one locationand the police may look into it.” Big or small, Yeung emphasizes a crime is a crime and they should all be reported. If you witnessed a crime, or believe you may have information that can assist police in the above investigations, or any others, local RCMP urge you to call (604)869-7750

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A joyful high school band trip to Austria and Italy ended in tragedy for a beloved school secretary and those who knew her best. During March’s spring break, long-time Coquihalla Elementary secretary, Sandra Loring, accompanied the Hope Secondary band as a chaperone, one of six adults supervising the 28 students, during a European tour. However, Loring experienced an unexpected medical emergency during the flight home and passed away a week later in Chilliwack General Hospital. “Sandra was excited to be part of the trip,” said Hope Secondary principal, Rosalee Floyd. “What an wonderful opportunity it was, for her to go along as a chaperone and be a part of her grandson’s experience.” Floyd said she knew that with Loring chaperoning, the students were in good hands. The group was flying back to Seattle on March 28, to get on a bus and drive home. Shortly before landing, the medical emergency occurred and Floyd said assistance was given by flight staff and paramedics, in an area away from the students. “I can’t say enough about the amazing job our band instructor, Ahlbert Dayrit did, gathering all the kids and getting them back to Hope, while working with the Loring family and respecting their wishes,” Floyd said.

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Sandra Loring in Venice, Italy, in March 2019. “Our hearts go out to the family.” Floyd said that counseling has been made available to affected students, through the school’s two counselors and additional help had been on stand-by. The loss has left a void for staff and students at Coquihalla, where Loring had served for nearly 30 years. With the expansion of the school in 2014, Karyn Bonikowsky was hired to assist in the extra workload. “Sandra had such a kind heart and was constantly watching out for the kids and making sure they were fed,”

Bonikowski said. “I enjoyed working alongside her, learning, laughing and enjoying each other’s company. She will be deeply missed by everyone.” Linda Bailey has taught at the school since the early 1990s. She said, “Sandra connected with staff in a deep and meaningful way. She was someone you could confide in. When you share common lived experiences you bond as friends and not merely colleagues. I miss her so very much.” She added, “Sandra made everyone feel their needs were important and she made

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herself available to you, even though she was very busy with her own work. “Sandra was the cornerstone of Coquihalla,” Bailey said. “She was the first ‘good morning’ every day.” Vice-principal, Peter Flynn, who started teaching at the school in 1992, is trying to come to terms with his colleague’s passing. “While I’m sitting in my office, without Sandra being in hers, I keep hearing her calling my name. I keep hearing the creak of her office chair as she gets up to tell me something,” Flynn said. “As I look over my 30-year friendship with Sandra, the phrase, ‘It’s for the kids,’ was always associated with her. She would quietly but heartily approve of anything in the school that would improve the life of the kids entrusted to our care. “She was a quiet saint — and she would hate the word ‘saint’ being attributed to her — but I was so impressed by how she knew the heart of kids, and always did right for them,” Flynn added. “She had a special heart for the neediest of children,” he recalled. “She was so happy when needy kids got new boots, or a lunch, or a good winter jacket — or when kids who had formerly been such poor readers became proficient. “I also saw how mannerly and kind she was with difficult Continued on Page A10

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There’s a lot of misinformation being spread these days. It’s nothing new. People have been leading others on probably since we invented speech. It’s just that we do it faster, more easily and, sadly, more effectively with all our technology. You see it in the SNC-Lavalin debate, where everybody is presenting their own version of “the truth,” not to inform, but to manipulate. And once it is started, it’s impossible to root out. You can bet that a decade from now, we will still be hearing climate change deniers trying to explain away the problems we’re seeing with weather patterns and the research of reputable scientists so they can feel good about continuing to degrade the environment. Misinformation is almost always, at its source, some form of manipulation, whether it’s for a serious political agenda, making money, laughs, or just someone’s narcissistic desire to stroke their own ego. As much talk about misinformation that there

is, there is also a lot of talk about how to fight it – probably because there is no effective way. So much information is now available to us, we have all learned to filter it. Those filter bubbles usually only let through the information we already agree with. It’s safe, it’s comfortable, but it’s no way to develop informed opinions. Opinions are important. They’re not fact, but they are the basis of our world view. Critical thinking and researching contrasting viewpoints play a part in developing that informed opinion. But you can’t do that inside of a filter bubble, nor can you force someone out of their bubble. It has to come from within. Sounds pretty hopeless, doesn’t it? It’s taken years to build up to this level of polarization, and it’s going to take years to change it. Our best hope is that younger generations, who have grown up with all this information flowing to them, are naturally developing the skills to differentiate good information from bad.

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Instructors Meg Broswick and Karla Stowards provided a mountain bike skills course for women and girls over the weekend at Hope’s popular Bike Skills Park located just off of Kawkawa Lake Road. The two-day event, hosted by Hope Mountain Centre for Outdoor Learning, was sponsored through a grant from The North Face Canada Explore Fund. This is the second of three events designed to encourage women and girls to discover and improve their backcountry skills in a challenging, supportive, and fun environment.

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that the NDP’s $40 million “low wage redress” fund for community social services agencies is going to only half of them. That would be the half where the employees are unionized. Thousands of people work for agencies contracted to the province to care for developmentally disabled and other vulnerable people, including children and the elderly. All these agencies get funded for the standard six-per-cent pay increase over three years that the John Horgan government is offering to its big government unions. The unionized half gets the “low wage redress” fund, allowing their employers to add an additional 14 per cent increase, around $4 an hour. It would be half as much if the fund went to the whole

sector, but the unions took the whole pot at the bargaining table, and the NDP has been trying unsuccessfully to conceal that fact ever since. As many people have pointed out, this is clearly a strategy to force unionization of the whole group. It pays some people doing the same difficult work significantly less. In all health care and elderly support fields, there is a chronic shortage of willing and able workers, and this is how the B.C. government proposes to fix that: a cull of non-union community agencies on ideological lines. Incidentally, the previous NDP government tried to do this in 1998, before being swept out of office and reduced to two East Vancouver seats. After several days of con-

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ment is simply false. The “disparity” was created by this government, in March, intentionally and for a purpose they don’t want to talk about. Horgan added that the non-union agencies are those who “aligned themselves with the Liberals for question period fodder.” And as was apparently decided at his inner-cabinet crisis meeting prompted by this “fodder,” the new party line is that these targeted agency managers might just line their own pockets instead of paying employees to keep them from leaving. What a disgrace.

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routine, and received the same tired, dismissive evasions from Simpson. Fast forward a week, and Horgan is asked in another media scrum whether this obviously unfair situation is ever going to change. He revealed that he met with the ministers the previous night, joined by Finance Minister Carole James and NDP house leader Mike Farnworth, whose job is to keep the government from losing votes or otherwise screwing up. Asked if there is “some plan for parity,” perhaps after three years, Horgan replied: “Absolutely. There is a disparity, and it wasn’t created by us, and it won’t be solved in one year.” No one is arguing that these employees shouldn’t be paid more, but this state-

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Time for public to have its say as federal election gears up

Editor: In regards to Sarah Gawdin’s story, “MPs draw line in the sand over budget,” I have to agree with MP Mark Strahl’s assertion that PM Trudeau’s fiscal policy of spending your way to success is just another failed attempt of neo-liberalism’s trickle-down economics. If Trudeau wins his second term to the House of Commons, it’s quite conceivable that our national debt could

surpass $1 trillion. This added amount of national debt would equal the amount that the Harper Conservative reign, racked up during their glutinous spending terms, increasing the structural deficit then by $240 billion. I would also have to agree with Mr. Strahl that corruption in Canadian politics has become epidemic. From the Harper/Duffy Senate scandal, where payouts were blatant,

and graft was the word of the day. All the way to today, where the Liberals have picked up where the Conservatives left off, just trying to save skin. Let it be known that I believe NC Lavellin have had both the Conservatives and Liberals in their back pocket for as long as political donations have been allowed. It is completely evident to me today that neither of these political organizations have the

best interests of Canadians at heart. In fact, it’s my belief that the primary function of both the Conservative and Liberal caucuses is to get elected at any cost. This is more commonly referred to as populism. Today in Canada, and throughout the world, leaders of nations are taking a dim lead from our notorious southern neighbour’s leader. Constantly, we’re hearing the leader of the opposition, An-

drew Scheer, mimicking the economic and environmental policies of the Trump Whitehouse. These divisional, racist, and environmental destructive policies will be the bane of our children, grandchildren, and future generations. It’s time Canadians recognized these very difficult truths, and send a message in October. The time has come for change! Art Green

British Columbians finally seeing surgical waittime headway, says BC Health Coalition co-chair Editor: After years of government inaction on wait times for surgeries, British Columbians are starting to see some progress. One year ago, Premier John Horgan announced the province’s surgical strategy to shorten wait times. The strategy includes steps the

BC Health Coalition has been calling for, including putting our existing operating rooms to better use, reorganizing wait lists to be more efficient, and investing funding in priority surgeries. The good news is, the strategy is working. A March 28 report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) shows

wait times are going down in BC. But we still have a long way to go. The CIHI report also shows BC’s surgical wait times are still among the longest in the country. It’s clear the previous government’s patchwork approach of short term injections of funding to deal with urgent backlogs,

expensive and risky contracts to private for-profit clinics, and lack of system-wide modernization only saw wait times grow. Smart investments in public surgeries and common sense steps to modernize our surgical system is what is working to get faster care for British Columbians. Now the BC government

Hope should be a tourism hotspot, so why isn’t it?

Editor: How I imagine we can make Hope a better place to be. Imagine, if you will, a small town situated in the fringe of a seaport metropolis, surrounded by mountains, and with a hub of major highways running through it that deliver truckers and tourists nearly 24 hours a day. Yet, this town struggles to polish itself as a tourist

destination. Sinking taxpayers’ money into the Visitor Centre, with its temporary trailer and the Station House, is not a solution. It is time for a change of direction or to cut the umbilical cord with AdvantageHOPE. I believe their tunnel vision and high expectations for money from struggling homeowners so they can have living

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It’s looking to be a status quo budget for 2019-20 in the Fraser-Cascade School District. “I’ve said this year over year, but this is another status quo budget,” district secretary-treasurer Natalie Lowe said at the school board meeting Tuesday (April 16). “It hasn’t been too difficult to balance the budget, but it doesn’t mean a lot of extra room for extra projects.” The $25.5 million budget will see some increases in funding from the province, including $163,264 to offset the additional cost from the Employer Health Tax and an extra $397,002 for the Classroom Enhancement fund to restore 2002 class size language. These increases are largely to compensate for additional costs to the district. Other costs to the district haven’t been covered by the province. As a whole, the province has taken $2 million to pay for copyright

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infringement going back to 2013. The cost is around $4.38 per fulltime student, and will be taken from districts until the debt is repaid. Carbon tax is also an increasing cost — the tax is increasing to $50 a ton by 2021, and will cost the district an extra $10,000 a year — although it is put into a fund the district can use for carbon-related capital projects. Despite some of the increasing expenses, ministry grants and

district revenue came pretty close to creating a balanced budget. The district is using about $1.8 million from its reserves to balance the remainder. The preliminary operating grant from the province has increased, partly because of increases to per-student funding for the district. The base grant for each full-time student will be $7,468 in 2019-20, up from $7,423 in 2019-18. The largest increases were for physically-de-

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pendent special needs students ($42,400 up from $38,800) and Indigenous students ($1,450 up from $1,230). “I think that was in recognition that we need to work to ensure … there’s more focus on relationships between Aboriginal communities and schools” Lowe said about the increase for Indigenous students. The number of students in the school district is projected to stay about the same as the 2018-19 school year, Lowe said, although she added that her predictions had been wrong before. “I’m anticipating pretty much a static enrolment for next year,” she said. “I was wrong last year, and we had a little bit of an increase.” On the whole, the district has been seeing an upwards trend in the number of students coming into its schools. Lowe expects to continue to see that trend, especially in Agassiz, as more families in the Lower Mainland move east to more affordable communities. “We’re starting to see that in our numbers in Kent and Agassiz, and it’s starting to roll out to Hope already,” she

said. “We have space right now, and we have plans to be able to accommodate more students.” Like the total enrolment, the district isn’t expecting a major change to the number of students with special needs designations, although an increase is possible. In 2018-19, there were a total of 244 students with special needs in the district, about 14 per cent of the total student population. The district is expecting at least that many special needs students in 2019-20. Provincially, there is expected to be 484 additional students with special needs designations. Staff salaries are another unknown in the 2019-20 budget. The district is in the middle of contract negotiations with teachers and support staff, and won’t know how much the bargaining may cost. Salaries currently make up around 68 per cent of the district’s operating expenses, with the average teacher making $75,214 in 2018-19. Few staff layoffs are expected in the 2019-20 budget. For teachers, several temporary positions are ending, but those jobs are being filled by staff who had been on leave. Eight support staff have been laid off, but may be rehired depending on where the need is in schools. The budget presentation to the school board on Tuesday was largely for information. The May 10 meeting will see the board give first reading to the budget; the final budget must be approved and sent to the ministry of education by June 30.

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adults who may have come into the school,” Flynn continued. “She would always look them in the eye, talk politely and quietly to them, use their name, and offer to help in anyway she could. She was a champion at de-escalation. “When I became an administrator, I found that Sandra always had answers to my questions, and usually knew what I was asking before I knew what to ask! Her knowledge of how things were to run in the office was phenomenal,” Flynn recalled. “A large hole has been left in our community. I didn’t know how large it was until I had to actually stare into it. At this point, anyway, I don’t think we are ever going to get over it. She is missed.” School principal, Monique Gratrix, had a special connection with Loring, as the two were hands-on in the planning and daily operations of the school. “Sandra was a close friend and a colleague,” Gratrix said. “She will be missed, more than words

“A large hole has been left in our community. I didn’t know how large it was until I had to actually stare into it. At this point, anyway, I don’t think we are ever going to get over it. She is missed.” Peter Flynn

can express. As a staff, we will be thinking of her far more than anyone can know. She was an integral part of our school team.”

Gratrix visited each classroom, to speak with the students about Loring’s passing. Parents were also notified and asked to speak with their children. Staff and students were invited to put their feelings on paper and six-year-old Phoenix Glentworth made a drawing, remembering a time when she had brought an injured friend to the office, to seek medical attention. Mrs. Loring is depicted, dealing with three ailing children. A thought balloon shows her thinking of the healing power of a bandage with hearts on it. Injured students felt the love, in Mrs. Loring’s caring hands. While the Loring family has held its own private service, the school has planned a student-led service for next week. A planning committee, including Loring’s sister, Jackie Miller, has proposed an outdoor memorial table for the school grounds. It would be large enough to seat an entire class. People wishing to make a donation toward the project can inquire at the school’s office.

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Grade 4/5 students from across school district compete in annual Reading Link Challenge Sarah Gawdin Hope Standard

Not every child is a born athlete, but that doesn’t mean that every child can’t participate in sport. This is why one of the goals behind the province-wide program, the Reading Link Challenge, is to get Grade 4 and 5 students engaged in the ‘sport of reading.’ The program, a partnership between the Ministry of Education and the Libraries and Literacy Branch, urges students to read outside of academic hours, and encourages information retention. In teams of six, children read a group of six pre-selected books. At first, teams within a school compete while answering questions about character, plot, and settings. The winning team from each school then goes on to the next level, and then finally to the Grand Challenge, where winning teams from different library systems across the province come

together for a competition. On Tuesday, April 16, teams from across the Fraser-Cascade School District gathered in the Coquihalla Elementary School gym and participated in an exciting three rounds of questions about the following group of books: A Boy Called Bat; Stella by Starlight; Howard Wallace, P.I.; Ungifted; The World According to Humphrey; The Land of Forgotten Girls. And after 90 minutes of gruelling competition, the Silver Creek Bibliophile Bookworms came out as the leaders of the pack, winning the local Challenge, and given the honour of progressing to the next stage, which will happen sometime within the next month. For more information about the Liam Quinn, Kaitlyn Brown, Kaelen Faux, Jacob Hoppus, Trent Turner and Jayde Wristen comprised the winning team, the Bibliophile Reading Link Challenge, please visit Bookworms. SARAH GAWDIN/HOPE STANDARD ReadingLinkChallenge.ca. TO

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ure is one of the fastest growing groups: 10,000 seniors living on an inadequate fixed income who would be facing hunger if not for the efforts of their local food bank. Thanks to our partnership with Envision Financial, food banks in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley are ensuring that no one in their community ever goes hungry.” The Full Cupboard is a 10-year, $1 million commitment from Envision Financial that was launched in March

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Heavy sedimentation and debris from last summer’s fires has baracaded the Bonaparte River fishway, which is the pathway to steelhead spawning grounds. The stranded steelhead have been recommended for a listing under the Species at Risk Act after an emergency assessment in early 2018 confirmed the species are at imminent risk of extinction.

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Today the few remaining Interior Fraser steelhead trout are stuck at the base of the Bonaparte River fishway, which is a major tributary of the Thompson River. The steelhead can’t get to their spawning grounds because the Bonaparte fishway is inoperable due to heavy sedimentation and debris from recent summer’s fires. The stranded steelhead have been recommended for a listing under the Species at Risk Act after an emergency assessment in early 2018 confirmed the species are at imminent risk of extinction. Harvey Andrusak, President of the BC Wildlife Federation, is furious that Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) has known that this crucial fishway was impassable for months and have not resolved the problem in time for the return of the vulnerable Interior Fraser steelhead. Andrusak said the Shuswap Nation alerted DFO and conservation groups months ago that Chinook salmon were stuck at the Bonaparte fishway and not able to reach their spawning grounds. DFO observed only a few Chinook salmon ascending the fishway successfully. The BCWF wants to know why DFO did not inform the province of this problem and bring the province into the conversation and problem resolution. Andrusak said, “it is inexplicable that the Thompson River steelhead remain at risk with evidently

little communication between the agencies.” Evidently, the province only became aware of the problem two weeks ago and is now contemplating capture of steelhead to move them by truck around the fishway. Andrusak supports trucking the steelhead to where they can swim freely to their spawning grounds but remains concerned about who is in charge of these fish and why DFO didn’t include the province in resolving the problem of fish passage, “If this is an example of cooperation between DFO and the province then salmon, and especially steelhead, are in even more trouble,” he said, “The right hand does not know what the left hand is doing.” The BCWF and other conservation groups have been calling on DFO to stop its outdated practice of allowing net fisheries on the Lower Fraser River to kill and entangle at-risk steel-

head when caught as bycatch during commercial fisheries. The BCWF hosted a Selective Fishing Forum in March to share the science and research about alternative methods of fishing that would not further harm at-risk marine fish. Meanwhile, both Premier Horgan and DFO Minister Wilkinson have announced $142 million for the restoration of salmon and salmon habitat. Andrusak said, “despite all the announcements from provincial and Federal leaders about saving salmon and the huge investment they are making in salmon habitat, the same old duck and weave tactics of DFO are still very much at play”. The BCWF expects leaders to at least agree that funds should be made available immediately to solve the fishway problem so that Chinook and Interior Fraser steelhead can move through their next spawning season.

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Defender, Emily Taylor guides the ball to Brianna Pennell’s hands. The Hope Secondary Mustangs finished sixth out of 15 in their annual two-day long tournament, which was held last weekend. BARRY STEWART/HOPE STANDARD

During the annual two-day long tournament, Hope Secondary Mustang, Darby Link, leaps through the gap to get to the ball first. The team finished sixth out of 15. BARRY STEWART/HOPE STANDARD

Hope Secondary Mustangs finish in top half of their fourth annual 2-day tournament Mustangs finished sixth out of 15, teams came from as far as Nechako Lake school district

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It was a busy weekend for the Hope Secondary girls’ soccer team and their coach, Jeremy Smith. The team hosted its fourth annual tournament on Friday and Saturday — then capped off the weekend by serving a four-course supper to 125 people at the rec centre, Sunday evening. HSS and fourteen visiting teams, from as far away as Fraser Lake and Fort St. James (north-west of Prince George) used fields at Silver Creek, C.E. Barry and HSS in 40-minute mini-games, Friday. Results from

the round robin matches put the teams in tiers for the Saturday playdowns. The Mustangs’ three wins and three losses put them up against Ashcroft for the fifth and sixthplace final, which the visitors won 3-1. Merritt beat Clearwater, 2-0 in the championship match. Friday’s weather was quite pleasant until a cool breeze kicked up for the late games — but Saturday morning started with blustery winds and the threat of rain, which was boiling up from the lower valley but somehow waited till the event was over before arriving in Hope.

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est Mustangs was Emma Miller, who scored the first goal in her first-ever game. Sarah George and Camryn Ogren were the Mustangs’ leading scorers on the weekend. Ogren and Kristen Feltren will be the only players graduating from the team this year, so Smith will have many returnees to work with next year. Sunday morning at 11, Smith and the girls were back at school, cooking up a storm in preparation for the volunteer appreciation dinner at the rec centre. “Dennis Adamson (FVRD Area B director) hosts the dinner every two

years and he asked me if we wanted to do it as a fundraiser for the team,” said Smith, who is a foods teacher at the school. “We made soup, Caesar salad, chicken Marsala — and baked Alaska for dessert.” Trouble was: there were no facilities for keeping the foods hot — or cold — at the venue. “We had to make phone calls back to the school: ‘Bring it now!’ when the next course was needed,” said Smith. “We got caught by the train a few times but it all worked out.” Funds raised will help with travel to tournaments this spring.

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BAKER, James Donald Dec. 1, 1936 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Apr. 4, 2019 It is with great sadness we announce that James Donald Baker passed away in his sleep at home in Hope, B.C. on April 4, 2019. Jim will be greatly missed by all who knew him. Until his last days, he lived his life with gusto and passion. He was a Viking to the end. He is survived by his wife Eran, children Mary (Paul Dumouchel), Wendy (Kelly Russ), and Paul (Megan Alford), and Eranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughter Arwen Fitzpatrick (Jeremy Ohlback), who have two children each, respectively, Ă&#x2030;tienne, Mathieu, Peter, Sarah, Charlotte, Julianne, Rex and Beatrix. Born in Vancouver, B.C. on December 1, 1936 to Marguerite Hope and Harry Raymond Peterson, Jim was raised mainly by his mother and his uncle Don Hope after his fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death in 1939. His mother married Ernest Baker when Jim was in his teens. He was adopted by his step-father and, at the age of 16, Jimmy Peterson became Jim Baker. Jim attended Gladstone High on Vancouverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s east side, and then went on to UBC. Prior to graduating, he met and married his first wife, Sherry. Together they had three children, who were raised mostly in Chilliwack. In 1991 Jim married Eran and they remained happily married until his death. Jim and Eran split their time between their homes in Hope and on Hornby Island, where they enjoyed each otherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s company and the love of their cat. Professionally, Jim was known as an exceptional lawyer and as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bakerâ&#x20AC;? in Baker Newby. After graduating with a LL.B. from UBC in 1962, Jim articled with Lawrence and Shaw (now McMillan LLP), moved briefly to Robertson, Liddle and Shrum (now McCarthy Tetrault LLP), before being recruited to the City Prosecutorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office where he began honing his storied litigation chops. He was recruited by Wilson, Hinds & Davies in Chilliwack in 1965, where he soon became a partner. In 1983, he was appointed Queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Counsel and remained Chilliwackâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only QC for many years. Jim was an exceptional litigator, and took great pleasure in being in a courtroom. He was a lawyer in the finest tradition, following the words of Shakespeare, to â&#x20AC;&#x153;strive mightily, but eat and drink as friendsâ&#x20AC;?. Jim continued practicing with Baker Newby in Chilliwack until he retired at the age of 80 in 2016. On his retirement, Jimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office was retired also and it has been converted into a lounge for after-work drinks, with his court robes and vest presiding over all from a frame on the wall. Although Jim often gave the impression that his main hobby was reading spy novels in a horizontal position (multitasking in later years by also providing a platform for a napping cat), he had many other interests: wine, good food and nice cars of course, but also golfing, football, fishing, travelling, and cooking, which he enhanced with hours of YouTube research and instruction. Most of all, he enjoyed chatting and joking with his many friends and family. His sharp mind, sense of humour and warm heart will be sorely missed. A memorial service will be held at 1 pm on April 27, 2019 at the Chilliwack Cultural Centre, 9201 Corbould St, Chilliwack, BC.

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MINES ACT NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR A PERMIT APPROVING THE AMENDED MINE PLAN AND RECLAMATION PROGRAM FOR THE GIANT COPPER PROPERTY Take notice that Erik Andersen, Land Administrator for Imperial Metals Corporation, has filed with the Chief Inspector of Mines, pursuant to Part 10.2.1 of the Health and Safety Reclamation Code for Mines in British Columbia, a proposed mine plan together with a program for the protection and reclamation of the land and water courses related to the proposed limited program of mineral exploration trenching and drilling located at Smitheram Creek and the Silverdaisy Mountain area. The proposed work will be located on Crown granted mineral claim nos. L1577, L1579, L1581, L1586, L1587 & L1595, YDYD and mineral tenures 236533 and 236535. A copy of the permit application, including supporting documentation, is available for public viewing at the Hope Public Library, 1005A-6th Avenue, Hope BC. Any person affected by or interested in this program has 30 days to make written representation to the Chief Inspector of Mines, Ministry of Energy, Mines & Petroleum Resources,c/oMiningDivision,SouthwestRegion, PO Box 9395 Stn Prov Govt, Victoria BC, V8W 9M9,Email:SouthwestMinesDivision@gov.bc.ca, with a copy to Imperial Metals Corporation, 200580 Hornby Street, Vancouver BC, V6C 3B6, Email: inquiries@imperialmetals.com.

Hope & Area Transition Society is a non-profit that provides programs and services to individuals and families affected by social issues. The Society is seeking Request for Quotations for IT Services: • IT Services: RFQ #HATS 2019-04 Visit www.hopetransition.org to download a copy of the RFQ.

Request for Proposals #2019-01 for Full Phase Logging and Road Building for approximately 42,000m3 of timber located in Cascade Lower Canyon Community Forest. RFP 2019-01 for “Full Phase Logging Services” is available for qualified Full Phase (stump to dump) Logging Contractors to submit proposals for consideration. The detailed RFP 2019-01, including all submission and contact details, can be found on the CLCCF website at the following link https://clccf.egnyte.com/flC7wyxPzPQI”. The closing date and time of this RFP is Wednesday May 1st at 4:00 pm. Please provide your proposal by email to mwealick@clccf.ca.

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to consider Official Community Plan Amendment Bylaw No.1444 and Zoning Amendment Bylaws No. 1445 & 1446 for the properties at 64231 and 64295 Flood Hope Road

TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2019 AT 6:30 PM IN COUNCIL CHAMBERS, MUNICIPAL HALL Council will hear the views of the public at the above referenced meeting in order to assist them in deciding whether the proposed amendment bylaws should proceed. Intent of the Proposed Amendment Bylaws ° Rezone the property at 64231 Flood Hope Road from Single Family Residential (RS-1) to Compact Single Family Residential (RS-2). Add Comprehensive Development (CD-7) as a compatible zoning category under ° the Urban/Suburban Land Use Designation in the Official Community Plan. ° Rezone the property at 64295 Flood Hope Road from Single Family Dwelling (RS-1) to Comprehensive Development (CD-7) in order to allow a multifaceted development consisting of Compact Single Family Dwellings, Multiple Family Dwellings, and a Hotel, Motel or Motor Inn and Accessory Restaurant. Legal Description and Location of the Subject Properties (see location map below) Lot 2 DL 11 YDYD Plan 5358; PID 010-320-521; 64231 Flood Hope Road and PCL “A” (DD135521F and Plan B6372) of NW ¼ of Sec 4 TWP 5 RGE 26 W6M YDYD; PID 014-646-986; 64295 Flood Hope Road

Inspection of Documents If you consider that these proposed bylaw amendments affect you or your property, you have the right to: • Inspect the staff report and the proposed amendment bylaws at the District of Hope Municipal Hall at 325 Wallace Street during regular office hours. The Municipal Hall is open from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday, excluding Statutory Holidays. • View the staff report presented to Council at the March 11, 2019 meeting available on the District of Hope’s website at www.hope.ca. • Submit your views to the District of Hope by letter, fax or e-mail before 12:00 noon on Wednesday, April 17, 2019 in order for your comments to be included in Council’s agenda package and/or attend the Tuesday, April 23, 2019 Public Hearing and make your views known to Council when the Mayor asks for comments from the public. John Fortoloczky, Chief Administrative Officer

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Thank You The Volunteer Appreciation Dinner for Electoral Area B was a huge success, thanks to the generosity of these local businesses.

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Hope Standard Newspaper Hope Sushi Hope Outdoors Hope Pharmacy Starbucks NAPA Auto Parts Sunshine Lanes Bowling Alley The Rolling Pin Bakery Somewhere Else Cafe Canyon Carpets Lordco Auto Parts Hope Signcrafters

Hope Mountain Cafe The Mossy Stump Rolly’s Restaurant Hope Golf Club Dairy Queen Mother Hubbard’s Spa6 Tanning and Wellness Holiday Trails Hope Optical Flying J Truck Stop Pharmasave Lucky Dollar Plus Store

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Bee’s Food Market Holiday Trails Barry’s Trading Post Hope River General Store & Esso So Shic Studio Tashme Museum Canyon Shell Hope Local House- Silver Chalice Pub Valley Helicopters Mobil 1 Lube

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Hope Cinema Treehouse Health Foods Store Hope & Dist. Recreation Centre & staff Sasquatch Crossing Eco Lodge Erica Press Shay Fuzion Salon Pacific Satellite

Special thanks to Jeremy Smith and the HSS Girls’ Soccer Team, who provided the catering. As well, thank you to Trevor McDonald and Ashley Pater for the great entertainment.

Dennis Adamson, Director Electoral Area B