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The Upper

January 7, 2005

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Serving The Upper Columbia Valley including Golden, Brisco, Radium, Invermere, Windermere, Fairmont and Canal Flats

Contents News

2

Editorial

4

Letters

5

The clear and frosty days of January

Book Review 12 Sports

13

Classifieds

14

New Year’s Resolutions

7 Great Food

8 New Business

10

Photo by Bob Ede

2 • The Upper Columbia Pioneer

VALLEY

January 7, 2005

Locals give from their hearts

By Elinor Florence Pioneer Staff As the death toll from the tsunami disaster in the Indian Ocean reaches 150,000, valley residents are opening their hearts and their wallets on an unprecedented scale.

Local businesses and individuals have been touched by the plight of those left homeless, starving and dying of thirst.

Among the most generous have been the staff at Fairmont Hot Springs Resort, who raised $3,400 from about 50 staff members - an average of $70 each.

The resort’s president Carol Seable said she is deeply moved by the spirit and generosity of her employees in responding to the tragedy. In fact, she is so proud of the initiative they have shown that she has pledged to match the amount of their donation, for a total of more than $7,000.

“Quite frankly, it does not surprise me that these outstanding employees would show such concern and caring for those less fortunate,” she said. Plans will be made in the next few days concerning how the donation will be put to best use.

During the Radium Resort’s dinner and dance on New Year’s Eve, Bill Cropper of Buzz Kool and the Cucumbers called a halt to the festivities so patrons could pull out their wallets. They raised $970 in donations which will be matched by another $1,000 from the resort.

The District of Invermere also moved quickly, passing a motion to donate $2,885 to the aid effort.

“We agreed $1 for every man, woman and child in Invermere would be an appropriate number,” said Mayor Mark Shmigelsky.

The Rotary Club of Invermere has donated $1,000 so far and is requesting further donations from the community. “Rotary is well placed to provide service and supplies directly to those most in need,” said Ken Fisher, president of the Invermere

AG Foods and many other valley businesses have cash boxes set up at every till for easy giving. club. The Canadian rotary clubs will concentrate their efforts on the supply of fresh water and water purifying additives. Donations are being accepted at the Smith & Andruschuk office.

J. A. Laird School is conducting a communitywide bottle drive and penny drive on Monday, said organizer Jamie Lebourdais. The funds raised will be sent to the Canadian Children’s Fund. If anyone misses the canvass, they can take their bottles to the recycling depot in Athalmer and tell staff the funds are for the Laird Tsunami Fund.

Donations are being accepted at both the Bank of Montreal and the CIBC. Anyone can go to the counter and donate money which will be forwarded to the Red Cross.

Sydney-Anne Porter, owner of AG Foods, set up

The January 21st edition of The Pioneer will feature curling in conjunction with the Bonspiel on the Lake.

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cash boxes at each register to make it easy for people to throw in a handful of change. The money will be forwarded to the Bank of Montreal, which will in turn send it to the Red Cross. “In only two days we raised more than $360 cash,” she said.

The Government of Canada will match on a one-to-one basis donations from Canadians to the tsunami relief efforts.

These include the Canadian Red Cross, CARE Canada, OXFAM, World Vision, UNICEF, Doctors Without Borders and Save the Children. Donations will be matched retroactive to December 26, 2004, the date of the earthquake and tsunami. So far Canadians have raised about $70 million. There is no ceiling on the amount of donations the government will match.

Get ready to rock around the clock!

Curl your hair, curl your toes, and curl on the Lake!

The Invermere District Curling Club will be hosting the 22nd annual Bonspiel on the Lake January 21, 22 and 23. Spiel organizers Perry Horning and Jim Galloway say preparations are well under way but, as always, additional volunteers are welcome.

The event is open to 64 teams who play for prizes in four events. Outdoor curling begins Friday afternoon and the final games are held Sunday afternoon with prize presentations at the Joe Peters Curling Rink in Invermere.

The sheets of ice are shorter than a normal curling surface - a blessing in disguise as the natural ice is much heavier than our indoor man-made

ice. The lake is the “equalizer” for all competitors and a novice team can become spiel champions simply due to their ability to adapt to the ice conditions!

The novelty of curling outdoors under the stars with light bulbs reflecting off tin pie plates is an experience in itself.

Add our delicious fresh salmon dinner and dance Saturday evening and it’s a fun-filled weekend.

Music provided by Kenny & the Cruisers will add a touch of nostalgia with their repertoire of 50s, 60s & 70s tunes.

To register your team or volunteer, call the Curling Club at 342-3315 or Perry Horning at 342-9811.

January 7, 2005

NEWS

The Upper Columbia Pioneer • 3

Would you believe this is Invermere?

By Elinor Florence Pioneer Staff

In this artist’s concept, a pedestrian bridge leads over the tracks and to a public beach below.

Four cougars killed

By Elinor Florence Pioneer Staff Four cougars have been destraoyed in four separate incidents during the past week.

The first came when Mary Yadernuk, an 87year-old widow who lives alone near Spillimacheen, spotted a young cougar attacking her little dog on New Year’s Eve. She frightened the cougar away and called her daughter Suzette Dunphy of Parson. The dog, a Shitzu Bichon, was mauled but not badly hurt.

Suzette’s husband Brian and another man tracked the cougar and found three cougar kittens in the yard next door. The dogs treed one of the cougars and he shot it, but the other two cougars escaped into the darkness.

The next day, Mrs. Yadernuk looked out of her window and saw a young cougar standing in the doorway of her duck house. She grabbed her shotgun and ran outside and killed the cougar with one blast.

But the third cougar was still at large. The next day Suzette and Brian were visiting when her mother went to the duck house again and found many of her ducks and geese were dead. “She was so upset, she was just crying,” Suzette said. “She had raised them from little ducklings.”

Suzette was looking at the dead birds when she saw the third cougar lying in a corner of the duck house. “It was dark in there, so I held the flashlight while Brian shot the cougar.”

Suzette says she is still alarmed to think of what might have happened to her mother. “She’s pretty proud of herself for killing that cougar and I’m proud of her, too,” she said.

The fourth incident occurred at the Radium Resort Golf Course. A Dry Gulch woman was walking

near the rear of the course when a cougar appeared right in front of her, killed her 13-year-old poodle that was walking nearby, and dragged it off into the bush.

The distraught woman was picked up by a vehicle on the road and driven to her home. She called the RCMP, who tracked the cougar and found it, but the cougar managed to get away.

The next day local conservation officer Lawrence Umsonst returned to the area with a hound and tracked the cougar. It was located asleep on a tarpaulin draped over a woodpile in the yard of a Dry Gulch home right next to the highway. “We shot it immediately,” he said.

The officer said the Dry Gulch cougar was starving. “It was in pretty bad shape, so weak it could barely move,” he said.

All four of the cougars were young animals that had been separated from their mothers too early, he said. “When cougars are very young or too old to feed themselves, that’s when they start looking for pets or other small animals, because they can’t take down a deer or a sheep.”

He said he doesn’t know why these young cougars were around, but speculated that their mothers might have been shot. There is an open season on cougars right now and although hunters are asked not to kill cougars with cubs, sometimes the cubs are in hiding and the hunters don’t see them.

He said this is not a particularly unusual season for cougars, but added that the proliferation of deer in Invermere and sheep in Radium may be drawing the cougars closer to town.

“The public should be aware that they can encounter wildlife at any time, not just in the back country but close to home,” he said.

If you have a conflict with wildlife, please call 1-800-663-9453.

A proposed downtown development that would include 16 new buildings ranging from three to ten storeys high was unveiled at an open house Tuesday evening.

But developers explained repeatedly that the proposed development is only in the planning phase.

The development would occupy 11.5 acres along the gravel banks reaching from a point near the Bayshore at the south end, to north of the Eddie Mountain Memorial Arena.

It would include a 70,000-square-foot hotel and restaurant, a 17,000-square-foot conference centre, 15,000 square feet of commercial space and 600 condominiums.

One of the more attention-grabbing features of the sketch was a pedestrian bridge extending from the end of 13th Street straight across the railway tracks, with an elevator carrying people to a sandy public beach below the tracks.

However, the developers stressed that this is merely a concept that could change. For example, when asked how a public beach could be created in an area where there is only a narrow strip of land not covered by water, the developers said the beach may not materialize.

“This is only a very preliminary plan,” said Adrian Wilson of Cascade Engineering in Canmore.

“We haven’t done engineering studies to determine how a beach could be created.”

The open house is the first step in a long process of rezoning that require changes to density and height before approval.

The purpose of the open house and several meetings held Tuesday with community groups was to garner public opinion before approaching council with a rezoning application.

About 100 people attended the open house to view drawings and computer-generated photographs, and ask questions of the four developers.

“Too much, too many, too high,” were the comments most frequently heard about the scale of the development, although most people who attended did not appear to oppose downtown development in principle. Downtown traffic was the other main concern expressed by residents.

The development consortium does not have a name, but there are four companies involved: Octagon Properties Ltd., Cascade Engineering Group, BKDI Architects, and Motive Marketing Ltd. Two are from Canmore and two from Calgary.

The developers have purchased the old Home Hardware lumberyard, which will change ownership on Jan. 14th. They said they have made conditional offers to purchase the rest of the 11.5 acres.

4 • The Upper Columbia Pioneer

January 7, 2005

Pioneer Perspective Have the resolve not to resolve this year

By Bob Ede Seven days in and how are your resolutions holding up?

Still haven’t smoked. I bet you’re cranky, but breathing better when you wake up.

Quit drinking. That’s easy, especially with that New Year’s Day hangover still fresh in your mind. The real test will be the next long weekend and that is a ways away if you are counting, Family Day in February for Alberta and for us here in British Columbia, Easter.

I usually don’t make resolutions. It just seems that I’m setting myself up for eventual failure. I know myself well enough. I will quit exercising, curse, drink and put off until tomorrow what I should have done today.

Unfortunately and disastrously I’ve been known to break them all on a single day. “Damn it! I’ll go for my run tomorrow, I don’t care what Bob at Majestic says, that wine I started before Christmas is ready now and while we’re at it, give me a cigarette. They can’t be nearly as bad as everyone says.”

This usually takes place on the 4th or 5th of January - the 3rd if it falls on a Friday.

Don’t think I’m lazy, or without will power. It’s not easy to sloth about year-round, drinking, smoking and swearing. As my good friend Henry likes to say: “It takes stamina.”

Resolutions are meant to be broken - the New Year’s kind

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anyway. That’s why we make them, to break them. Calories are not meant to be counted, nor how many strides must be stepped to burn them. And as any Canadian will tell you, all beers are not created equal, the first is not necessarily as good as the last, the trick is searching out and finding the best one. As for swearing, that should be the easiest to abstain from, without a hockey season, we don’t have our favorite team to thrill or disappoint us.

Should we resolve to stop making New Year’s resolutions?

No way - a matter a fact this is the first year in many that I’ve made a few. I’m hoping my resolve strengthens with age, Lord knows nothing else does.

Resolution #1: Avoid the people whose company you do not enjoy. This lasted as long as the weekend and then the drinking started.

Resolution #2: Appreciate and seek the company of the people you do enjoy. This takes a lot more energy than resolution #1 and possibly harder to keep but far more rewarding.

Whatever your resolutions are, keep them as long as you can and if that piece of chocolate cake is just to tempting or if the warm bed keeps you from your early morning walk, just get back on that horse tomorrow and remember nobody is keeping score.

I forgot to mention Resolution #3: Don’t be so hard on yourself.

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January 7, 2005

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ‘Why do some disasters get so much response?’

Dear Editor:

the UK’s Disaster Emergency Committee was unable to raise funds during later appeals to help the 20 million potential famine victims in Africa.

There are approximately 1.7 million internally displaced people in the Darfur region of Sudan and Chad, and 70,000 dead. There are 24.5 million Africans affected by HIV and AIDS, and by 2020, HIV will kill 20 percent of southern Africa’s farm workers.

In Ethiopia, 8 million people are in need of food; in the Congo there are 100,000 displaced people; 1 million children die from malaria every year in sub-Saharan Africa and locusts are devastating crops in North Africa.

There are already almost 315 million hungry people in South Asia.

This is a very short list of some of the humanitarian crises existing in only a small part of the world.

What are we doing about those?

Are the problems too big? Too longstanding? Too far away? Not on our TVs, in the papers and on the internet every day? Not in an area that many of us are familiar with?

In priding ourselves on our generosity, we need to make sure, as OXFAM suggests that the response to humanitarian crises be “determined by need, not strategic interest, or media coverage.”

The 842 million people who need food, and the 30 million displaced people in the world will still be there after the tsunami-destroyed roads, houses and infrastructure have been replaced.

Your editorial on disaster relief brought up a question that has been bothering me for a while: Why do some human disasters garner more support than others? Is it, as you indicated, that “this disaster was not caused by politics or conflict?” Is it because of where the disaster is, or who it affects?

Or is there simply a mathematical relationship between media coverage of a disaster and the benevolent outpouring of our humanitarianism?

OXFAM has suggested that if the people suffering are geographically close to potential donors, or if the media coverage has reached the extent that people FEEL close, the response will be greater.

In 1999, donor governments gave $207 for every person in need in response to the appeals for Kosovo and former Yugoslavia: those suffering in Sierra Leone received $16, and in the Congo, $8.

In 2000, OXFAM stated that “the vast inconsistency in how governments respond and how generously they provide is one of the most brutal inequalities in the world today.”

They made a number of recommendations to ensure effective humanitarian action, the first of which was: “The international response to humanitarian crises should be determined by need, not strategic interest, or media coverage.”

In the early 90s the media attention that had been devoted to the plight of the Iraqi Kurds grossly overshadowed the suffering caused during Liberia’s civil war – to the extent that Liz Lane, Invermere

‘Leave it up to the people’ Dear Editor:

Canadians across the country have given generously to their chosen various agencies that are in the business of aiding after disastrous events. And that’s by choice.

There is enough double-dipping in this country and the last thing we need is for this elected council to decide on something which does not concern them but lets them take it upon themselves to invade our privacy.

Since charity begins at home, this very dangerous and offensive precedent is not in everyone’s interest.

I heard on the radio that the town council of Invermere had taken the liberty on behalf of all residential taxpayers to donate our tax money to a specific charitable cause in South Asia - an unusual move.

As well intentioned as it may have been, what gives this elected body the authority to donate our tax dollars to their selected choice of charity? I resent their interference in thinking on my behalf when it comes to whom, how and which charity to support in this very personal realm.

Bob Nemeth, Invermere

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December 31, 2004

‘I whacked Artie Shaw on the head’

By Doug George, Invermere When the musical icon of the swing era played out his life of 94 years on December 29th at the end of 2004, several vivid recollections of Artie Shaw floated into my memory.

The great clarinetist was my senior by eleven years when we first met in 1928. At that time we lived at the Doanbrook Apartments in Cleveland, Ohio. I was seven years old and my dad played trombone and Artie Shaw played tenor and clarinet and Austin Wylie’s band at the Golden Pheasant Supper Club. The band spent summers at the Chippewa Lake pavillion, thirty miles south of Cleveland.

Artie had just purchased an Auburn Roadster (fire engine red) that he was showing off to some of his many fans, including me. One early evening Artie came by to drive my dad to work and pulled up to invite me, with my two brothers, for a ride in the Auburn.

After we whizzed several times around the block, I excitedly asked for an encore. When Artie refused us a second ride, I decided to punish him. Upon my request he knelt, turned around and waited for my surprise.

I then let him have it full bore in the form of a ‘thank you’ delivered with a chesnut wrapped in a handkerchief black jack. I nailed Artie Shaw solidly on his skull. He was laughing later when he told my dad about the incident.

It was no laughing matter later

when I fell victim to a hair brush paddling from my father for the dirty deed!

Artie Shaw was a terrific guy with talent to spare and charm to give away, as evidenced by marriages to some of movie’s most gorgeous actresses: Ava Gardener, Lana Turner, and Evelyn Keyes.

He never took lessons on the clarinet, but with his infinite skill he played into the soul of music-lovers with renditions of Begin the Beguine, Moonglow, Frenesi, Stardust, and Accentuate the Positive. Artie Shaw was one of the last of the big band swing era favorites but his memory is still fresh in my mind.

I last saw Artie Shaw in 1945 in San Fransisco after World War II when I was working undercover for Pinkerton’s Detective Agency. I was bell-hopping in a clean-up caper within the Mark Hopkins Hotel on Knob Hill. One night it was after 1 a.m. when Artie and Ava Gardiner came into the lobby.

When I took them up in the elevator to their floor, I asked Artie if he recalled that long-ago whack on the head by a bratty seven-year-old. With instant recognition he lit up and said, “It was you!�

We then had about five minutes of reminiscing before parting.

After all those years my memory of Artie Shaw is still encased with admiration for one of the world’s finest innovators.

Bandleader Artie Shaw

Lion Bev Palfrey with Norm Miller, Ed Hinz of Fairmont Citizens on Patrol.

Fairmont Lions Club serves the whole valley

By Pioneer Staff The Fairmont Lions Club has existed only four years but has already made our valley a better place to live.

Separate from the older and more established Lake Windermere Lions Club, the Fairmont group was formed simply so members wouldn’t have to drive to Invermere for meetings.

Their activities don’t just benefit Fairmont, says president Barry Jonas. “The whole valley is our community.�

In 2004 alone, the 38-member group raised more than $20,000.

About half of that amount was donated to the new Magnetic Resonance Imaging machine, to be shared among the Cranbrook, Trail and Penticton hospitals. The total cost was $3.1 million, funded by the provincial government and various community groups.

Another very worthwhile venture was sending nine-year-old Invermere resident Katie Gibbs, who suffers from cerebral palsy, to a summer camp for disabled kids in Winfield. “Katie came and thanked our club in person and we felt so happy to have helped her,� said Lions director Bev Palfrey.

Assisting the visually impaired is another commitment by the Fairmont group, which has purchased a reading magnifier and table, talking books and large print books for the Invermere Public Library. The group has also donated to the Canadian National Institute of the Blind for guide dogs.

Then there are several other recipients, among them the Fairmont Citizens on Patrol, the the Windermere Elementary School and the B.C. Senior Games.

The group also helps pay for Christmas lights in Fairmont and conducts a roadside cleanup of Fairmont every spring.

The bulk of the group’s budget is earned by volunteering at the bingo hall in Cranbrook, which allows charities to keep a portion of the profits.

Another fund-raiser is the Holein-One contest, held all summer at Riverside Golf Course on the eighth hole. Anybody who wants to try for a hole in one pays $5 and fortunately nobody has hit the hole in one stroke yet!

The Fairmont Lions Club is the first service club in that community, and has mixed membership. Everyone is welcome to join. For more information call 345-6675.

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The Upper Columbia Pioneer • 7

NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS

Peter Panneton Juniper Heights “To enjoy life more.”

Jamie Lebourdais Invermere “To stay healthy and fit.”

Howie Williams Invermere “To laugh more and worry less!”

Pat Andruschuk Invermere “I don’t believe in new year’s resolutions becuase they never last!”

Maxi Hann Invermere “To get in shape!”

Mark Renzetti Panorama “To lose weight, give even more to the needy, live life to the maximum, and keep Maxi Hann happy!”

Janice Hamp Invermere “I’m gonna stop saying gonna!”

Doug Anakin Invermere “To continue to do and persuade others to get out and enjoy the wilderness.”

Rob Dunn Invermere “To treat people with more respect and give more of my time to the community.”

Mary Lou Delesalle Invermere “To encourage those who make New Year’s resolutions to keep them!”

Fred Thode-Hamilton Invermere “To eat less sweets, live a healthier life in general, and although I’m very good to my wife already, be even nicer to her!”

Helen Metcalfe Windermere “To improve my fitness level so I can join my husband Roscoe on his bike trips.”

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He served as food and beverage manager at Panorama for two years.

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What started out as a vacation for “Secondly,” he says with a smile, Nick Gibbs became a way of life.

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Rice 1. Cook one cup of rice or enough for two servings.

2. Add a few strands of saffron to rice while cooking.

Grilled Sea Bass 1. Season sea bass fillets and sear in a hot skillet for two minutes (one minute each side).

2. Remove and set aside.

3. In a shallow baking dish, place cooked rice and shrimp broth, top with spinach leaves.

4. Place sea bass fillets on top of rice and spinach.

5. Garnish with shrimp, mussels and julienne of vegetables.

6. Bake for 10 - 15 minutes at 350˚.

7. Serve in large shallow soup bowls with crusty French bread.

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BUSINESS

January 7, 2005

Missy’s Restaurant to replace Norma’s

By Elinor Florence Pioneer Staff

Sharon and Rob Roberts are busy preparing for the opening of Missy’s Restaurant.

Norma’s Restaurant, a popular eating spot next to AG Foods, has closed its doors and will reopen under new ownership.

Sharon and Rob Roberts have purchased the business and it will be called “Missy’s Restaurant,” after the nickname that Sharon’s father gave her when she was a child.

Sharon was born and raised here and has been cooking since she was 12 years old. She has worked at a number of local restaurtants including Smitty’s in Radium and The Bistro in Invermere.

Rob Roberts is a truck driver for Chief Transport at the BPB (Westroc) Mine.

Sharon says the restaurant will be a family affair since Rob will help out when he can, along with their two sons, 19-year-old Darrell and 18-year-old Shawn.

Missy’s will keep the same menu, including the popular fish-and-chips entree every Friday.

“We’ll keep the same great taste and big portions,” she said. “Nobody will leave hungry.”

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January 7, 2005

Sentiments From Slovakia

By Kate Reston Editor’s Note: Ian and Kate Reston, both high school teachers in Invermere, left with their two sons last fall for an overseas teaching adventure at a private school located in Bratislava. She sent her personal observations to The Pioneer.

Today the sun is rising in one of the only crystal blue skies since September and chickadees flit through the apple trees next door. It is suddenly cold in Bratislava with a skiff of snow on still lush grass. It drizzled and misted until last week and many trees and bushes are still green.

Our adventure so far has been fraught with frustration, small joys, unexpected laughs and unexpected tears. Just when we think we have an issue sorted out we discover that there is a glitch. One of my International Baccalaureate students wryly mocked: “Welcome to post-communist Europe!”

It seems each time I begin to describe a scene, I fall into stereotypes and generalizations; however, I will start with one. Slovaks love children and dogs, providing of course that they are well-trained. This was and continues to be a source of consternation for us, as most public places seem to be hushed compared to the normal sounds of the antics of children in North America.

There are so many incongruous images I could write about but one that keeps standing out includes some of the surprising sights that I observed within the first few days: The former regime built hundreds of stark, unadorned, concrete buildings (we wittily refer to them as the communist blocks).

Due to lack of money, many elements of infrastructure are neglected.

There are rust stains scrawled below windows, huge gaping chips on facings of stucco, weeds up to two feet high through cracked and crumbling sidewalks and so on. Also the number of cigarette butts, litter and amounts of graffiti initially shocked our little small town sensibilities - we now realize that Canada is truly remarkable in both its aesthetics and cleanliness.

Despite the seemingly impoverished nature of these unadorned buildings we are often surprised. Here is one

such image: a door opens and a strik- ly bowed) and ran away. It was quite ing, professional individual emerges funny, as I had spent a great deal of with leather bag and two purebred time in setting up displays and work retrievers on leads, and proceeds to samples! Only one woman stayed and climb into a shiny Skoda or Renault chatted at length; she is Russian and (or BMW in some cases); if the indi- her son, Konstantin, is in my secvidual is a woman, she will likely look ond year International Baccalaureate like she stepped off a page of a French class. We discussed Russian authors at fashion magazine - thin, immaculate length - it was cool. and coiffed.

The whole experience of teachThere are expensive purebred dogs ing Orwell’s 1984 here when the fall everywhere of all sizes and textures - of communism is so recent makes the like one big dog show smattered over novel more real than fiction! I invited the city, all are purebred. According the school’s security guard to come in to Stano, our Slovak friend on staff, and speak to my students about his many people in the country make experiences as a “dissident” journalist their living breeding dogs (his father is in prison. a vet in a small town, so we trust that He has written a book in Slovak he knows these about the exthings). perience for I have even which he won seen a person a book award emerge from in Toronto. an apartment Sadly enough, building with he was not presa horse-size, ent to receive brindled Great the award; the Dane. It doesn’t travel cost was bear thinking prohibitive. about; I find He told us our flat very that after the small for four “Velvet RevoIan and Kate Reston humans! It is still lution” prisoners odd to see dogs on buses, trams, in fine were granted amnesty, although the restaurants, and even shopping malls. political prisoners were the last to be We take the tram everywhere here, released after robbers and murders. He even to shop for groceries. The transit managed to land work but when Slois unbelievable - a tram every ten min- vakia awarded him the Top Journalist utes or less. We walk much more than Award in the 90s, he was released from we ever have, and our boys now real- his job the next day. ize that people in this world really can My Slovak, Bulgarian and Russian exist nicely without one more vehicle students competed with each other to polluting the air. Ultimately, we find translate what he was saying-some of it much less stressful. Everyone walks it was extremely moving. When asked a great deal in Bratislava and bikes if he became friends with any of the abound. Bikes are welcome on trains prison guards, he rolled his eyes to the and wide paths are paved along the ceiling and said in Slovak: “This is not Danube from Bratislava to Germany. Hollywood.”

Work is fairly similar to work evI will leave off with one thought. erywhere, with some exceptions. My I must confess to being old enough to friends back home will be pleased remember the Trudeau years (I shook to know that staff meetings are staff his hand in Kingston). Although I was meetings, regardless of where. young at the time, I clearly remember When we held our first open much rhetoric around the “search for house at school for the parents, I met the Canadian identity.” It seems that only one American parent; the rest all one has to do is go abroad in order were Slovak, German or Russian, or to find it!

Korean.

Canadian Thanksgiving Day, ReSome brought their children to membrance Day and Christmas have translate but otherwise some parents passed, reminding of us of traditions just smiled and waved (or alternative- we once took for granted.

Since most of my students had never heard of Remembrance Day, we spent the day reading poems and stories of war and recalling family stories.

They had never heard of Flanders Fields and they mentioned that the Treaty of Versailles was not so good for them and then they wanted to know about Canada.

As I spoke, I remembered the many remarkable Remembrance Days spent in Invermere where the day is commemorated in such a professional and honourable fashion. We spoke of peace and the students were exceedingly vocal in their admiration of our government for refusing to enter the fray in Iraq.

As we spoke, my throat ached for home and although we have come to love this beautiful city and its people, our identities as Canadians are now very clear to us.

After all, what other nation do you know that can treat its currency with enough humour to term coins as Loonies and Toonies (two-knees?) or, much to our Slovak hockey players’ delight, feature hockey scenes on fivedollar bills?

At Christmas we remembered with great nostalgia the parties spent over the last few years with dear friends in Invermere. As distance and time will do, we have immortalized the Columbia Valley into a winter wonderland where the snow is always like powder and the sun shines through trees dressed in white lace and Mount Nelson is like a white dog’s nose pointed upward at the moon and you can skate from James Chabot to Kimberly . . . there are never stones or rocks at the ski hills and laughter and friendship ring through the magical valley like chimes.

We know that one day we will look back on these adventures with nostalgia as well, especially watching our children move in wonder through our experiences from culture to culture and through each language. When we hear them play word games in Slovak, French, German, Italian and Dutch we realize the adaptability and openness of the human spirit.

For the first time in our lives, we are the “foreigners” and the “outsiders”; it is surely an experience that will change each of us forever.

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January 7, 2005

Design authors refreshed by their visits to the valley

By Elinor Florence Pioneer Staff

Peter and Charlotte Fiell of London, England.

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An internationally-renowned author who lives in London, England says Invermere is his “spiritual home.”

Peter Fiell, who with his wife Charlotte Fiell has written about a dozen books on furniture design, visits his parents John and Eileen Fiell here for one or two months out of every year.

The couple was here for the Christmas holidays with their daughters Emelia, 14 (named after grandmother Emelia Hamill of Invermere) and Clementine, 12.

“If I couldn’t get back to the Windermere Valley every year I’d be climbing the walls,” says the handsome, articulate author.

It’s a long leap from his Calgary childhood to the world of international art and design.

In 1981, Peter was a university student in Victoria when his parents were transferred from Calgary to London with an oil company.

When he visited his parents in London, he remained to study furniture design in an intensive year-long program at Sotheby’s auction house.

After working in the antique trade for several years and marrying his English wife Charlotte, the couple opened their own furniture store on King’s Road.

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“We were ahead of our time,” Peter says ruefully. The Fiells specialized in post-war design – the 1950s and 1960s furniture that is experiencing such a revival today, but was not fashionable twenty years ago.

So they decided to try something new: researching and writing a reference book on the history of modern furniture.

The book did so well that the Fiells went on to produce more books for their German publisher Taschen. Eventually they gave up the furniture trade to become full-time authors whose books are avidly collected and studied by designers everywhere.

Their books are beautifully-illustrated reference guides to such topics as industrial design, Scandinavian design and American design.

Ironically, although the pair has been interviewed by such publications as Vogue Magazine and Newsweek, they have never been interviewed by any Canadian publication except The Pioneer.

“It’s a tiny bit annoying,” says Peter, a fiercely Canadian patriot.

Peter says he has been visiting the valley for 37 years now and still feels very close to this part of the world.

“And if we ever decide to move here and build our own home,” says Charlotte, “there’s only one type of Canadian architecture we would choose - a log house.”

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nuendo. Human touch, the noise and confusion of a street or train station, or the disruption of his rigid routine cause Christopher to moan in agony and become physically ill.

To conduct the detective work, Christopher devises strategies that enable him to act independently, despite his disability.

The story provides readers with insight into the challenges of children with autism and the equal interest to solving the mur- heartbreak and stress encountered der mystery. Christopher has a by their parents.

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The

SPORTS

Old Zone

By Brent Raven Welcome back to another exciting year of the OLD ZONE. I hope everyone has had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Since our league has been on a break, there is no new news to report.

Considering this, I thought I would tell you all a joke.

Yesterday, Scientists for Health Canada suggested that men should take a look at their beer consumption, considering the results of a recent analysis that revealed the presence of female hormones in beer.

The theory is that drinking beer

Arc it up

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makes men turn into women. To test the findings, 100 men were fed six pints of beer each.

It was then observed that 100 percent of the men gained weight, talked excessively without making sense, became overly emotional, couldn’t drive, failed to think rationally, argued over nothing and refused to apologize when wrong.

No further testing is planned.

Action at the Arena Eddie Mountain Memorial Arena Calendar:

All times and events subject to change or cancellation.

General Public Skating (All Ages) $2 Sundays, 5:45-6:45 p.m.

Adult Public Skating $2 Fridays, 11 a.m. to Noon Parents and Tots Free Fridays, 2:15-3 p.m.

Shinny, Full Gear $2 Fridays, 1-2 p.m.

Minor Hockey Practices Weekdays Figure Skating Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays Adult Fun Hockey League Sunday Evenings Oldtimers, 35 and up Wednesday Evenings Senior Men, 55 and up Tuesday and Friday Mornings Junior B Practices Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays Recreational Ladies’ Hockey Sunday Afternoons Competitive Ladies’ Hockey Prac. Thursday Nights

Results from Dec 22: Hazelaar tied Smith, Oaks tied Wilker, Jones tied Nester and Kloos tied Swal- Friday, January 7: 7:30 p.m. low.

Saturday, January 8: 8:00 am - 10:00 p.m.

Schedule for Jan 12:.

6:45 p.m. D - G 8:00 p.m. B - H Sunday, January 9: 9:15 p.m. A - C 10:30 p.m. E - F 8:00 am - 4:00 p.m.

5;45 pm - 6:45 p.m.

White to play Canal Flats Allstars on Tuesday, January 11: 7:30 p.m.

Jan 10.

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do as much work when we ski. Part of the turn is already built into the skis.

This is called the self-steering effect.

By simply balancing on a solid platBy Wil Comrie form (your feet), the skis will help you Technical Director do the turning.

Panorama Mountain Village The type of movements we blend in with the hip, knee and ankle deTo ski down the slopes and to pend on the type of turn shape that make it look and feel easy may be a lot we wish to execute. When you try this simpler than you think. on the mountain, feel as if you’re on With the new technology in skis a rail track of some sort - I like to enthese days, we generally don’t have to vision a mining car rail. Like in that

CV Rockies vs. Fernie Pee Wee Tournament Pee Wee Tournament Public Skating Rockie vs. Creston Midget Tournament

Indiana Jones movie. Feel like you’re gliding along an arc in the track. Make sure you’re balanced in the center of the skis. As the ski are turned out of the fall line, make sure you’re active by pushing the hands forward to allow the shoulders to line up with your feet. You can start to feel the skis grip as you glide on this new found arc.

What will start to happen is that pressure will build under the feet.

This is a result of good balance. The better the balance the better the grip

on the snow and ice, as we discussed last week. To develop these feelings I would best suggest combining the idea of maximum speed on minimum terrain.

Find a nice flat slope and try using some speed to help you arc up your turns. Try putting a few turns together and see what happens. As well, go back and review earlier articles so can put all the building blocks together and become a better skier. See you on the slopes!

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January 7, 2005

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IN MEMORIAM DONATIONS to the Family Resource Center: drop off at The Pioneer, No. 8, 1008-8th Avenue, Invermere or mail to Box 868, Invermere. For info call Pat Cope, 342-4204, Mon-Thu.

MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE Best wood prices arund for quality hardwood, ash to zebra, 4/4 and 8/4 lengths, 2-inch to 12-inch widths. Call 342-0211.

Woodrats Firewood for sale. Birch $250 cord. Pine $130 cord. Call 342-6952.

24-HOUR WOMEN’S SAFE HOME. 1-800-200-3003 or call the Family Resource Centre, 3424204, Mon-Thu. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS. If alcohol is causing problems in your life, call 342-2424 for info. All meetings at 8 p.m.: Monday - Invermere Group, Invermere Health Unit, 1100-10th Street, Invermere; Wednesday Windermere Group, Valley Christian Assembly Church; Friday - Radium Group, Radium Catholic Church; Saturday - Invermere First Step, Invermere Health Unit, 1100-10th Street, Invermere; Sunday - Columbia Lake Band Hall, off Highway 93/95 south of Windermere; Sunday 7:30 p.m. Brisco Group , Brisco Town Hall.

All meetings are open.

ALCOHOLISM SHATTERS LIVES. To help the alcoholic, you have to help yourself first.

Al Anon meets 10 a.m. Tuesdays at Catholic Church, 1210-9th Street, Invermere. For info call Carol, 347-9841.

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ful one-bedroom suite is located one block from downtown Invermere and two blocks from Kinsmen Beach. It has 9’ ceilings and brand-new appliances including in-suite washer/dryer. The suite has dedicated parking and a private entrance off a large, southfacing private patio. N/S, N/P. The size of the suite is suitable for one person. $585/month. Available January 1st. Contact Kristi or Eric at 342-8676.

Journeyman electrician preferably with experience in service work and/or 3rd or 4th year apprentice.

Call 342-9918 or 342-3838 evenings.

VEHICLES FOR SALE 1994 Ford Aerostar, AWD, good condition, $2500 OBO, 3476966.

1992 Nissan NX1600, 5 speed trans., T-roof, cruise control, CD, winter tires, good shape. $3500 OBO. Phone 342-3236.

2000 Toyota Sienna XLE, sun roof 6 track CD, leather interior, 7 passenger, power door, well maintained, 124,000 km, great shape! $22,000 OBO Phone 342-3236.

1989 Olds. Fully loaded, great on gas, good condition. Used for transportation to Panorama. $2995. 342-3306.

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Duplex/Fourplex Rentals Windermere - 3 bedroom upper level suite, private entrance, deck, washer/dryer/ non-smoking, no pets, $700 plus utilities unfurnished or $850 plus utilities furnished. Available January 15.

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Downtown Invermere, 3 bedrooms, long-term, $850/month plus utilities, available Jan. 1. Call (403) 547-2955 or 342-0688, leave message.

TOURIST ACCOMMODATION Beautifully furnished 2-bedroom vacation apartment, sleeps four.

Daily and weekly rates. Visit www. redcottage.ca or call 342-2243.

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OBITUARY OBITUARY

René Bosc

August 11, 1920 - January 2, 2005 We regretfully announce the sudden passing of René Bosc. René was born on a dairy farm at Warcq, District of Ardennes, in France in 1920 and came to Canada in 1951.

René was a long-time resident of Brisco and resided in Invermere for the last five years. He was living in Invermere at the time of his death.

Funeral Mass was held Thursday, January 6, 2005 at 3:30 pm Catholic Church of Canadian Martyrs, 1210 - 9th Street, Invermere.

Rest in Peace, René.

January 7, 2005

News Briefs

Two valley men die over holidays

Obscene phone calls reported to RCMP

Foul play is not suspected in the recent deaths of two valley residents who died over the Christmas break.

Trevor Wright, aged 32, was found in his Invermere home and rushed to hospital on Christmas Eve, where he was pronounced dead.

Since there was no obvious cause of death, B.C. Coroner Susan Claus of Fairmont Hot Springs ordered a forensic autopsy which concluded the death was not a result of foul play.

She has also ordered toxicology tests but her final report will not be concluded for several months.

Meanwhile, the body of Stewart Walter Hague of Radium, aged 35, was discovered in a Banff hostel at about 2:30 p.m. on December 27. RCMP Constable Phalen of the Banff detachment said police are still investigating the cause of death but foul play is not suspected.

Two reports of obscene phone calls were reported to local businesses on December 22. The caller, a mature-sounding male with an eastern European accent, using a “mean” voice, asked: “Who’s this?

Who’s your daddy?”

Columbia Valley RCMP ask that anyone receiving similar calls please call 342-9292.

Family violence settled peacefully On the afternoon of December 27th the Columbia Valley RCMP received a report of an assault in Invermere. Upon contacting the complainant, Columbia Valley members determined that the altercation occurred when one brother punched another brother in the nose.

The father of the brothers stated that the incident had been resolved by the family, and attendance by police was not now required.

Two drunk drivers try to escape on foot On Christmas day, a Columbia Valley RCMP officer saw a male driving through Invermere. As the officer knew the driver was prohibited from driving, he attempted to pull the vehicle over. However, the driver failed to stop, and so the officer followed the driver to Wilmer, where the driver jumped from the vehicle and attempted to flee through the bush.

The RCMP member pursued the suspect on foot for about one kilometre where he caught up to the suspect, arrested him and charged him with impaired driving and driving while prohibited.

In another incident, a single-vehicle accident was reported near Panorama Village early on Dec. 26. A security guard reported seeing a male running away from the accident.

Upon arrival, an RCMP officer found a male attempting to remove the vehicle. The male identified himself as the driver of the vehicle, and admitted that he had been drinking. The vehicle was towed and the driver issued a 24-hour suspension.

Valley Churches Lake Windermere Alliance Church Sunday, January 9th 10:30 a.m. Worship and Life Instruction, “The Heart Restored.”

Communion will be served.

Open session Sunday School for Grades 3 to 7 during the morning service.

Sunday, January 16th 10:30 a.m. Worship and Life Instruction, “The Heart Attacked Open session Sunday School for Grades 3 to 7 during the morning service.

Senior Pastor Rev. Dieter Magnus Associate Pastor Rev. Jared Enns 326 - 10th Avenue, Invermere • 342-9535

Windermere Valley Shared Ministry Christ Church Trinity 10:15 am Every Sunday

All Saints, Edgewater

8:30 am 1st, 3rd and 4th Sundays Rev. Michael Rice 110 - 7th Avenue, Invermere • 342-6644

Valley Christian Assembly

Sunday, 10:00 am Celebration Service Childrens’ church during the message part of the service.

Children 4 - 12 years.

Sunday, 7:00 pm Prayer Meeting Senior Pastor Rev. John Cuyler www.vcassembly.com Highway 93/95, 1 km north of Windermere • 342-9511

Roman Catholic Church Canadian Martyrs Church, Invermere

Saturday, 7:00 pm Mass • Sunday, 9:00 am Mass

St. Joseph’s Church, Radium Sunday, 11:00 am Mass

St. Anthony’s Church, Canal Flats

Sunday, 4:00 pm Mass Father Jose Joaquin 1210 - 9th Street, Invermere • 342-6167

ST. PETER’S LUTHERAN MISSION OF INVERMERE

Man charged with assault after ramming truck

Really, really drunk driver detained on New Year’s Eve

Shortly after midnight on January 1, 2005, Columbia Valley RCMP received a report of a male assaulting a female, and then when the victim and friends tried to leave the area, the suspect jumped into his vehicle, a grey 1993 Toyota pickup truck, and rammed the fleeing vehicle four or five times.

The four fleeing the assault drove to the Columbia Valley detachment for assistance. The suspect, who is well known to police, was arrested and charged with assault and dangerous driving.

A driver with a breathalyzer reading of .320 was stopped about 3:30 a.m. on January 1.

The vehicle was seen leaving Invermere’s downtown area without lights. The vehicle drove towards an RCMP vehicle, almost causing an accident.

The vehicle was pulled over, and the driver detained and charged for impaired driving. The initial reading on the breathalyzer machine was .320, and subsequent breath samples confirmed this level.

Cst. David Gareau stated that this was the highest breath sample reading he had ever seen.

Kids cause restaurant flood

By Pioneer Staff It was “poolside dining without the pool” at Portabella Restaurant in Invermere on the evening of December 29 after some unruly children flushed a linen table napkin down the women’s toilet and caused a flood, said owner Nick Gibbs.

The restaurant had already served about 40 people when the problem occurred about 7 p.m., after the children and their parents had left.

Restaurant staff were forced to phone and cancel reservations for another 40 patrons.

Nick’s own mother-in-law from Calgary was booked to arrive at the restaurant in a limousine for her 75th birthday party. “I had to send the birthday party to the Black Forest,” Nick said. “Many thanks to Nick and Dregitza Veen for taking them in on short notice.”

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The real problem began after he started to look for a plumber.

“I made about 50 phone calls up and down the valley before I finally located somebody who was willing to help,” he said.

Bruce Dehart, who is not a plumber by trade, came into the restaurant and managed to get the toilet unplugged. “Many thanks to Bruce for saving the day,” Mr. Gibbs said.

With the help of some heavy-duty fans from Peter Sweetman, owner of Mr. Klean carpet cleaning in town, the carpet was dried and the restaurant open for business the next evening.

“Children are always welcome at Portabella,” Nick said. “We’ve never had any problem with children.”

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