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Issue for the week of Friday, January 17th, 2020 • Vol. 25, Issue 3
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StrongStart Winter Activities
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submitted by Kary Pittendreigh
aldane StrongStart has some exciting activities planned for January. With all this lovely snow we will be doing loads of fun snowman crafts, beaded snowflakes and icicles (this is some great fine motor exercises), marbled mittens (painting with golf balls), snowman feet (yep we will be painting your little ones feet and turning them
Creekside Jam Night Submitted by Chris Welch
into cute snowpeople) and of course a favourite is melted snowmens. We also will be spray painting the snow when we venture outside but we also have to get creative and paint some snow while being nice and warm in the classroom. Continued on page 3...
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Community Bulletin Board
Announce the activities and events of your community organization (non-business). Notices will run 2-3 weeks before your event, or as space allows. Email the text to info@chasesunflower.ca The Chase Lions Club is hosting its 1st Annual Dog Bowl on January 25th, 1pm. Only 8 teams of 5 people. Team packages available at Village Lanes. Get your friends together, gather up some pledges, and you could win the TOP DOG award. All proceeds
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go towards a seeing eye dog sponsorship. Come out for some fun, prizes, and a really good cause. Interior Savings Unplug and Play Family Literacy Week - Wednesday Jan 29th, 2020, 3pm -4:30pm. Free Family Skate. Art Holding Memorial Arena. Skate with Chase Heat, play games, snack, paint the ice
Box 12, Chase, BC V0E1M0 250-679-8470* chaselions67@gmail.com Meetings are every 2nd & 4th Thursday, at Parkside. New members welcome Call 250-679-8470 for all Chase Lions projects: *Chase Lions RV Park For medical equipment or pull tab donations please call Karen Bassett 250-318-4527
400 Club Weekly Winner: Deb Elliot $100.00
Royal Canadian Legion Branch 107 515 Shuswap Ave, Chase * For info / hours phone 250-679-3536 *
Bingo / Shepards Pie / loonie auction fundraiser for STK Orioles fastball team - Sunday Jan 19, 2020 starting 5:00 pm. ALIB GYM. Bingo start 6:45pm ($30pkg includes 9-up & 2 each specials). FMI Bonnie 250-6828213
The Chase Sunflower invites stories, recipes, comments, photos, jokes and any other information that would be of interest to readers. We reserve the right to accept or refuse submissions and edit for content and length. We also reserve the right to refuse advertising that in our opinion does not reflect the concept of the newspaper. The opinions expressed in Letters and Columns do not necessarily reflect the views of this newspaper. Due care and attention for accuracy is used in checking advertising copy, but no warranty is implied by the publisher. The Chase Sunflower is copyrighted and may not be reproduced in whole or in part without the written consent of the publisher. The Chase Sunflower is independently owned and operated by Shuswap Prairie Publishing. 1500 copies are printed weekly and distributed around Chase, as well as to Pritchard, Sorrento, Squilax, Jade Mountain, and Adams Lake. The Sunflower is available FREE for readers because it is advertiser supported. Please support the local businesses that advertise in the Sunflower; shopping locally enriches our community.
CHASE CURLING CLUB
Chase Curling offers cheap rentals: We have shuffle board, full food safe kitchen facilities, catering, bar with bar tenders and music. Think of us for your next family or work event.
Curling staring back up after the holidays on January 7th all are welcome!!
January 21st FREE Meat Draw 4 - 6:30 pm Pool 3:30 pm Fun Darts ?
FMI Janice 250-679-4471or admin@chasecurling.ca
January 28th FREE Meat Draw 4 - 6:30 pm Pool 3:30 pm Fun Darts ?
Pres: Doug Everett 675-2574 Meetings the 1st & 3rd Thurs of every month at Railside Rest. Start time is 5:30 pm
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OFFICE: 838 Shuswap Avenue, Chase BC Hours: 10 am - 4 pm Monday - Thursday PHONE: *(250) 320-3050* (250) 679-8880 EMAIL: info@chasesunflower.ca WEB: www.chasesunflower.ca ** Alternate drop-off location at Willows Natural Foods ** MAIL: Box 524, Chase BC, V0E 1M0 Publisher/Editor: Kelsey Snelgrove
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CHASE COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP Everyone welcome
Sundays at Creekside Centre, 542 Shuswap
Worship Service 10:30 am Email: chasefellowship@gm ail.com
The Light of Life Native Fellowship
Blessed Sacrament Parish welcome you to Saturday Mass @ 4:00 pm. Every Tuesday at 1:00 there is an Hour of Adoration. Open to all. Sunday Breakfast. Every third Sunday @ 10:00 am. The price is by donation.
Every Sun 3 pm @ Chase Evangelical Free Church Friendly fellowship with food, family & friends after service. Everyone is welcome. Light of Life Mission- OPENShuswap Ave Pastor Joseph (250) 679-7656
Chase Evangelical Free Church
Shuswap Community Church
295 Shuswap Ave, Chase Sunday service 10am • Kids Hour 10:30 Pastoral office hours: Monday 9-5, Tuesday 12-5 Door is open, coffee is on -- come for conversation, council, or prayer
Sunday Worship, 10:00am@ the Chase Community Hall. Children’s Programs for Kids For more information visit www.aplacetobelong.ca
Shuswap Victory Church
641 Shuswap Ave, Chase BC
Sunday Morning Service: 10:00 am Wed evening Prayer/Praise; 6:30 pm - 9 pm OFFICE HOURS: Tuesdays and Fridays from 10:00-12:30. 250-306-6078
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Chase and Area Young Learners Society Unplug and Play - Afternoon in the H February O R I Z O N1,T A L - at N2Opm ICON Park - Saturday, 2020 at Memorial Park - Traditional Games (Capture the Flag, Scavenger Hunt, etc) & Activities (Snow Graffiti). Dress for the Weather. Bring yourself a snack for an outdoor picnic in the park.
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StrongStart Partnering With Parkside January 13th to the 15th the children will be getting to make their own pancakes from 8:40 - 9:40 each morning. We are super excited to be partnering with Parkside and visiting them once this month for a morning of play and shared snack. This event is a must register, please message Kary if you would like to attend. Haldane StrongStart is a FREE early learning program which provides schoolbased early learning services for children aged birth to five with a caregiver. Both children and adults can benefit from attending StrongStart - children have access to high-quality learning environment and benefit from social interactions while adults who accompany them learn new ways to support learning,
both at the program and at home, while having adult interactions. Haldane StrongStart is all about learning through our play! StrongStart hours are 8:40 11:40 on most regular school days. Please message Kary for any special closures due to outings or events. Monthly calendars are done up and can be picked up in the classroom or found on our Facebook page @ Haldane StrongStart. A FREE healthy snack is served at 10:45 each morning and there is always coffee and tea for the adults. If you have any questions or would like to attend please message Kary on Facebook @ Haldane StrongStart or call the school @ 250-679-3269 or text her at 250-574-7108.
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CREEKSIDE 2020 EXECUTIVES
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Submitted by Chris Welch Creekside Senior Centre are pleased to announce the newly elected board of Executives for 2020, they are:President - Paul Relland, Vice President - Ivan Hawley, Treasurer - Billie Phillips, Secretary - Hilda McKinnon, Directors : Shar ron R el l and Mau re e n Hei k k i l a - L ind a Haw l e y - Dianne Davidson - Vern Gulka - Chris Welch. All Creekside members would like to congratulate and thank the board in advance for giving their time and effort to keep this great centre going in 2020.
New Market Starting Up In Pritchard
submitted We are Now BOOKING for all upcoming dates. Ask for a Vendor Application Form Today!! This Market/s is Open to all types of sales from home based businesses to hand made items, new and used items of all sorts, baked goods, garden or greenhouse goods, yard sale items, Men's items of sorts, Clothing of all sorts, Jewellery and so much More!!! Hours of market dates are 10 am - 4 pm. If you have any other Questions please Crystal Stad at 778-344-8671.
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UNIT #209
A PASTORAL PERSPECTIVE
Good Questions by Tyler Harper
HAPPY THANKSGIVING
ONE BEDROOM SUITE AVAILABLE NOW UNIT #209
Every day we ask so many how I got lost now). questions in life. What should But a good question produces I wear? What is the weather a meaningful result. going to be like? How am I The question “do you love me?” going to fit everything in? Why can be a good question. The did you do that? answer to this question should If you spend any time around produce results or change. If we young kids, you’ll likely hear are loved by someone then we lots of questions. Many of should be able to let down our them are just summed up with guards, we should experience the word “Why?” Sometimes trust, affection, and comfort. these are good questions — big So and oftenyour we find ourselves Happy Thanksgiving to you family questions that shape young lives distracted from good questions and challenges adults to think. by immediate questions And sometimes these questions (what’s weather? Coffee is always on - call for yourthe tour today. what’s for are simply a stall tactic when it dinner?), and by unimportant Contact us at 250-679-1512 is time to clean up or time to go questions (who is a certain or 250-320-0400 to bed. celebrity in a relationship with live@parksidecommunity.ca In life there are big questions, now?), so that we are diverted 743 Okanagan Ave, Chase but we don’t always have an from actually asking good answer for these questions. questions. Questions that seek Questions like “why am I meaning, questions that change here?”, “where am I headed?”, or something, questions that allow “Is there more to life than this?” us to grow as people—questions When was the last time you that make us more human. asked a good question? Good questions help us When was the last time you understand who we are, what Oct 11 had to answer a good question? we are doing, and where we are Of course, there are bad going. Good questions don’t questions. Asking a question assume we already know the with an already known answer answer. is an example of a bad question: If you are interested in good are you conscious while reading questions, big questions, this column, is another example questions of the meaning of of a bad question. Reading life, or the purpose of life, then requires consciousness. I would invite you to consider There are also insignificant checking out our upcoming questions. Asking someone Alpha Series. Alpha is a series for directions is a perfectly of sessions exploring Life, Faith, reasonable question. In my and Meaning. It is a space to former line of work as truck explore big questions, good driver, finding myself in strange questions, to say what you think cities — far from home—I and hear other’s answers. We would often find myself asking: start with dessert, then a short “where am I?” and “how do I video, followed by a discussion. get where I am going?” But this There is no obligation to say sort of question doesn’t seek any anything and there is nothing transformative information, you can’t say, seriously. it helps but it doesn’t really Check out Alpha out on change anything. After making Monday evenings starting a delivery, those directions February 3rd, 7pm. 295 slipped out of my mind to be Shuswap Ave. replaced by something more immediate (like wondering
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BUSINESS LISTINGS
Classifieds Classifieds are $5 for 20 words. 20 cents for each additional word. Email info@chasesunflower.ca or drop off at 838 Shuswap Avenue or Willows Health Food Store.
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Integra Tire Auto Centre is pleased to announce that as of January 2nd, John Jablonski has joined our automotive technician team. John previously owned and operated JJ Mechanical on Aylmer Road, where for the past 20 years he gained a loyal customer base with his reputation for quality work. Now working alongside Drew McLean and Tyler LaCroix, John is excited to continue to serve those customers at Integra Tire Auto Centre. Integra is proud to continue expanding our team of qualified professionals to offer our customers a one-stop shop for their automotive repair and maintenance needs.
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Ch[s_ Fish & G[m_ @nnu[l B[nqu_t Saturday Feb 1, 2020 Chase Community Hall Happy Hour 5:50 to 6:30 pm Banquet 7:00 pm Dance to follow to the Live Band "Sleepless Nights" " $30.00 $30 Tickets or info call Vickey 250-955-2374 or pick up tickets at Millers Pet Vault (across from Chase Post Office)
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TEMPERATURE DOWN, HEAT GOES UP submitted by Scott Koch
Wild times, we are feeling the chills and thrills of winter, while at the Chaos Castle we are feeling different thrills and chills with HEAT hockey. Four thoughts cross one’s mind, which is three more then usual. 1. Wrangle tangles and Heat feats. Friday night the 10th your Team at the Art Holding Memorial Arena faced off versus the 100 Mile House WRANGLERS. It was a ‘four point game” as the Doug Birks Division rivals are 2nd and 3rd, and the space between could
be greater or smaller, all dependent on the outcome. Through 59 of 60 minutes this was anyone’s game, and for days afterward the town was buzzing. A small crowd of 180 fans of both teams braved the elements to bite nails, claw out hair and sit on seat edges. In the 1st Luke Recchi started the show with apples for Jayden Russell and Cam Watson. Less then 8 minutes later the Cariboo crew got a puck past the red line, 1-1 after 1. In the 2nd period 100 Mile House gained the lead momentarily, before
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HEAT leading scorer Breckin Erichuk got a mesh bender from his friends Colton Nikiforuk and Hayden Wiebe, its 2-2 after 2. In the 3rd a seriously energized Nikiforuk waited until 53 seconds left to break loose from the blue line in, to deposit the vulcanized rubber in the twine. Up by 1, the rival tender was pulled, with the result an empty net counter from Wiebe. The end credits noting a 4-2 win for the HEAT, with “Benny in the net” Bennedetto stopping 23 of 25. Star of the game, Colton Nikiforuk with a goal and two assists. The HEAT got a little more breathing room between them and the WRANGLERS. 2. Six from sticks on KNIGHT night. Led by stellar stopping from Dylan Barton, the HEAT visited the North Okanagan KNIGHTS in Armstrong, Saturday the 11th. The depleted roster of the HEAT due to injury and illness pulled up their socks in this contest, that was relatively free of penalties. In the 1st period Evan Vinterlik started the activities with a man advantage tally from Jacob Biensch and Danton L’Heureux. Nikiforuk added to that with his own powerplay goal from Erichuk and Wiebe, after 20 minutes it was 2-0. In the 2nd newly acquired Cameron McKenzie from Erichuk and Matthew Poole expanded the lead. That was followed by Mattey assisted by Watson, prior to “Nifty” Nikiforuk scoring unassisted. After 40 the score 5-0. In the final stanza the hard driving duo of Russell with the goal and Vinterlik with the assist sealed the deal. At games end the HEAT won 6-0 with Barton starring with a shutout stopping 26 shots. A total of 4 very valuable points gained over a weekend of adversity due to injuries and illness. 3. Breaks, bruises, concussions and contusions. Hockey is a fast game filled with contact, errant sticks and elbows, that play a toll on both the physical and mental well-being of athletes. Since the turn from 19 to 2020 the illnesses popping up have been beyond sniffles and sneezes, the boys play through that stuff. Injuries have mounted up, some of them of significant length. Concussions are in a category all to themselves, and there are way too many of them happening. In some cases a junior hockey career ends and sometimes a ride in an ambulance to an emergency ward is the result. There is a solution of course and it is staring us right in the face. Our national game needs decision makers to make decisions, officials need the ability to error on the side of safety, long suspensions, heavy fines, whatever it is make it happen. It’s a game, our game, and the players have the right to live long and productive healthy lives. 4. Last weeks resolutions. Another attempt will be made to encourage the crowds to grow at HEAT home games. After last week’s scribbles on ideas and reasons for game attendance the HEAT played before 180 fans. If you are waiting to jump on a bandwagon, it has been going all season, don’t wait any longer. If you are already a faithful fan, thank you! Bring a friend or two to the coming games, twist their arms. We are a small town and fortunate to have the quality of winter entertainment we do. The HEAT are currently 6th overall in combined standings in the 20 team league and 2nd in their Division.
Village of Chase !
Newsletter
! Water Services in Chase We in the Village of Chase have a very safe and efficient community water system. The system includes various components including two sources of water: water that is drawn from the Little Shuswap Lake, also known as surface water, and water that is drawn by way of a well out of an underground aquifer, also known as ground water. Once water is drawn out of the ground or the lake, it is pumped into the Village’s Water Treatment Plant where it is filtered and disinfected by Ultra Violet and chlorination ensuring it is safe for distribution. The Village is required by law to follow guidelines set out by Federal and Provincial regulations to protect consumers from microbiological, chemical and radiological contaminants. Interior Health Authority employs environmental health officers, public health engineers and medical health officers that are involved in ensuring drinking water standards are met. Once the water is treated to the required standards, it is pumped to a reservoir where gravity feeds the distribution system into homes and businesses. All the infrastructure (pumps, pipes, treatment components, reservoirs) are the property of the Village of Chase and must be maintained by the Village. Once a service line crosses into private property, it becomes the sole responsibility of the property owner to maintain and repair any damage or leaks. A turn off valve is located at property line to define ownership should a leak or damage occur. The Village collects fees from each serviced property in the Village to fund the operation of the water system. Based on Local Government legislation, the Village should be collecting enough revenue to not only cover the costs of maintaining the system, but should also be able to save money in a reserve to ensure timely replacement of aging infrastructure (pipes, pumps, and other components) with minimal unscheduled interruption of service to consumers. Costs that need to be covered by the Village to operate the water system include: • Chemicals, Testing equipment, Pipes, Pumps, Water Meters • Electricity, Back-up Generators in case of an electrical outage • Treatment Plant infrastructure including filters, gauges, electronic monitoring systems • Reservoir infrastructure and pumps, gauges, quality testing equipment • Equipment to ensure all these components are operating properly • Utility operators to conduct repairs that are needed in the event of damage or breakage of a component of the system Recent Asset Management assessments (2019) indicate that the major risk to the Village’s water system is the failure of aging water mains. The majority of the distribution mains were constructed in the 1960s and about 60% of these pipes are made of asbestos/concrete with an estimated life span of 50 years. 1960 was 60 years ago!
Village of Chase www.chasebc.ca For more information, please call us at 250.679.3238 or come and see us at 826 Okanagan Avenue, Chase