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April 30, 2010

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FIGHT HST — Barry Hawes of Invermere takes signatures on Bill Vander Zalm’s Fight HST petition at AG Valley Foods in Invermere this week. Mr. Hawes is one of a handful of registered canvassers who are circulationg the petition.

Fight against harmonized tax gaining traction across B.C.

By Brian Geis Pioneer Staff Bill Vander Zalm’s petition against the Liberal government’s Harmonized Sales Tax proposal is gaining traction, especially in this riding.

A recent press release from the Vander Zalm campaign identified Columbia River-Revelstoke as one of 17 provincial ridings in which signatories have surpassed the 3,000-mark.

Signatures on the Fight HST petition quadrupled in the campaign’s third week to more than 145,000. In total, the campaign reports, 24 percent of B.C.’s electoral districts have met or exceeded Elections B.C.’s threshold of 10 percent of registered voters.

If VanderZalm gets at least 10 percent in every riding, the legislative assembly must act upon it by either repealing the HST or conducting a province-

wide referendum. Invermere Mayor Gerry Taft, who is organizing the ground campaign in this area said he is pleased with the results.

“To date the Invermere/Columbia Valley area has done very well with signatures,” he said. “At the last collection of signatures, our riding had 91 percent of the desired signatures to meet the 15 percent of electorate goal (the actual requirement is 10 percent but we are aiming for higher in case of mistakes). Although we are close to the goal, the work is going to continue to collect as many signatures as possible to send the strongest message possible.”

Anyone wishing to sign can find the petition at the following locations: • AG Foods: Noon hour on weekdays and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays.

• Lakeside Pub: Sunday and Monday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday to Saturday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

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Happy trails, Erwin Kloos: 1959-2010

By Cayla Gabruck Special to the Pioneer There are few people who have the heart of a hero. Although not one to admit it, Erwin Kloos of Invermere was one of those people — in the truest sense of the word. Erwin passed away in his home on April 26th, after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer.

“We, as a family, had a pretty tight group here and we were strong, but we got that strength from him,” said Barb, his wife of almost 30 years. “You gather strength from people during hard times.

Everyone says to me, ‘Oh, you’re so strong’ and I always say ‘I get it from Erwin.’”

Erwin was born in Invermere on Christmas Day, 1959, to Steve and Maria Kloos. He graduated from David Thompson Secondary School in 1977, and following graduation, moved to Vancouver and began to study forestry.

A year later, Erwin decided to move to Calgary and pursue a mechanic apprenticeship. According to Barb, this was a natural decision for him, and it wasn’t long before the couple married, in 1981, and moved back to the valley. Upon his return, Erwin, along with his sister Marion Labrie and brother Harald Kloos joined his parents’ Lake Auto Service in Invermere.

Erwin was known among family and friends for his love of making every moment in life count and that didn’t change when he was diagnosed with cancer in September 2008.

“Every adversity, he just took it in stride,” said his daughter Nicole. “He really showed me what’s important in life.”

Erwin, Barb and the couple’s two children Nicole, 23 and Blair, 21, shared many special times hiking, biking, travelling and at their cabin on Kootenay Lake.

Erwin and Barb Kloos “He was always the most energetic one,” remembers his nephew Justin Labrie. “At Christmas, we would open all of our presents on the 24th as kids and the parents would go and talk in the living room, but Erwin would be in there helping us put our toys together and playing with our trucks.”

Next to his family, nature was one of Erwin’s greatest passions. He loved hiking and one of his proudest moments was accompanying his father and brother Harald to the top of Mount Nelson in 1985 to erect a cross that Harald had welded. Erwin shared the iconic journey with his son Blair years later. “It was a day I will never forget,” Blair said.

Erwin also loved mountain biking. He spent Wednesday evenings in the summer exploring the wilderness with his ‘biking brothers’ and was known among the group by various nicknames including The Erwinator.

“We will miss his loyalty and his sense of fun,” said George Oliver, a member of the Wednesday night bike group, “and how damn strong he was on his bike.

We were always trying to keep up with him.”

Erwin spent many special times riding alongside his biking brothers, including several very special annual bike trips to Moab, Utah.

“The last trip we went on, three years ago, we did a big ride,” George said. “We rode this epic trail; it was called ‘The Whole Enchilada.’ It sticks in my memory because it was something I always wanted to do and I got to do it with him.”

Even through the tough times, including surgery and chemotherapy, Erwin refused to quit fighting.

“He overcame a lot of odds,” Nicole said. “One of his oncologists told him, ‘Erwin, you’re my miracle patient.”

He accomplished a lot in the year and a half since his diagnosis – including trips to Mexico and Maui, he even went scuba diving. However, his crowning achievement was finishing the 2009/2010 season with the Old Timers’ Hockey League in Invermere.

“We always said ‘Dad, if you need to, sit a shift out, or if you just want to play one period that’s fine,’” Nicole said. “They could even have a few extra players on the bench and he would play a whole game and even scored a couple of goals.”

His zest for life, compassionate nature and infectious personality left a mark on each person he met.

Those are just a few things his family said they would miss most about Erwin Kloos, a loving husband, father, brother, son and friend.

“We went on many adventures together,” Barb said. “And I knew I would always be safe with him because he knew everything. He taught me a lot about a lot of things. I miss his happiness, his lovingness, his tenderness – I will miss him loving me. ”

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Submitted by Cpl. Brent Ayers Columbia Valley RCMP • At midnight, on April 24, a complaint was received of mischief to a 1990 Chevrolet pick-up parked on McKay Street in Radium. There was a fight at the bar the night before involving a Radium man. The complainant witnessed the man and others smashing the windows out of his truck. The suspect, who was hosting an out-of-control party in Radium, had friends with him who were yelling and screaming at the complainant who attempted to stop the suspect from smashing the windows of his truck. The suspect punched the complainant in the face and knocked him out. Emergency services attended and transported the victim to Invermere Hospital. The suspect was located at 7578 Pioneer Avenue and arrested by Cst. Harper of the Columbia Valley RCMP. The male fled onto the roof of his house attempting in vain to avoid arrest, but was eventually cuffed. The suspect has been charged with assault causing bodily harm, resisting arrest, and mischief to property.

• On April 22nd, at 12:46 a.m., police received a complaint of robbery that had just occurred at the Best Western Inn located at 1310 7th Avenue, in downtown Invermere. An employee had just been held up by one male, who threatened to stab the employee.

A large sum of cash was stolen. RCMP proceeded to the crime scene after making initial patrols of the area.

Video footage was reviewed and, with the help of the owner of the Best Western Inn and some anonymous citizens, police made the quick identification and arrest of two males associated to this incident along with the recovery of a silver, 2006 Ford F350 Crew Cab, stolen from Medicine Hat, Alberta. Bartholomew Ashton Gladue, age 22, has been charged with armed robbery and possession of stolen property. A second local male might have charges pending for an incident the night before at the Best Western due to his association with Gladue. Some of the money has been returned to date, but not all.

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• On April 20th, Columbia Valley RCMP were advised that mischief was done to the “Stations of the Cross” statuary behind the St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Radium Hot Springs. The exhibit was shot at with what appears to be arrows. Damage to the installation is estimated at $1,500.00. If you have any information regarding this incident, please contact the Columbia Valley RCMP. • On April 23, at 11 p.m., a male walking his dog outside his residence in Radium Hot Springs asked a male and female in passing not to cut through his yard. The man said he was shocked when the two subjects approached him and the female held his arms while the male punched the victim in the head until he was was knocked out. The victim was found by a family member who witnessed the assault. The male assailant has been identified and charges are pending on the area resident. The male and female assailants were associated with the same Radium house party as described above.

• On April 24, at approximately 11:55 p.m., victims of two different assaults visited the RCMP’s Columbia Valley Detachment. The assaults took place at the “wet” grad party at Wilmer’s Poplar Flats area, just off of West Side Road, north of town. A woman has been arrested for the assaults and has been released with conditions. The woman is not a student of David Thompson Secondary School.

The RCMP wish to advise that the “wet” grad party cannot be supported due to provincial law. That is that. The RCMP supports only the “dry” grad functions. In this particular incident there had been threats issued of dragging one of the females through the bonfire. It goes without saying that our community is fortunate this did not happen, as one’s life can be changed forever, with just one idiotic incident. As police we can only keep on trying to do our best and sometimes our best is not good enough. This community belongs to all of us. Do your part. Make it safer. Stand up against those who do things that show us they don’t care!

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Wildfire season looming nell and others to worry about the upcoming summer season, especialAhead of the uply if the rains don’t come. coming wildfire season, “It’s a false sense of Pat Bell, minister of Forsecurity,” said Jim Miller, ests and Range, said B.C. Windermere and Fairresidents “remain vigimont Fire Chief said of lant in helping prevent the light rain that fell inwildfires heading into termittenly last week. the 2010 season.”

“We need two or The minister stated three days of a real good more than 850 fires that soaker.” occurred in 2009 were Mr. Miller’s departlikely “person-caused” FIRE — Flames from Monday’s five-hectare wildfire near ment recently completed and asked for “people’s Lake Enid leap upward. The fire broke out in the after- its annual S100 trainco-operation to reduce noon and burned into the night before it was contained. ing course, certifying his the number of preventPhoto submitted by Perry Horning crew to fight forest fires. able fires.”

His 25-person team Last year, approximately 200 tickets were issued must be ready at a moment’s notice to head out and for people violating fire protocol in the province. fight fires and he said the training is necessary since Cy McConnell of the Invermere Fire Zone said these fires are inevitable. last year’s incident count certainly spiked.

“It’s not a matter of if: it’s a matter of when, I Of the 1,089 incidents in the Southeast Fire Cen- guarantee it,” he said. tre (SFC), 589 were fires, 491 started from lightning One of the people on the front lines, Robyn Canstrikes and 98 were human caused. ty, a senior crew leader, echoed the fear of the dry sumOver 4,100 hectares burned due to these fires and mer. caused approximately $11.8 million in damages.

“We definitely have to be on our toes if the weathThe five-year average for the SFC included 419 er keeps up this way,” she said. annual fires, 90 of which were human caused and a With four three-person initial attack crews in the total of 4,991 hectares burned from various incidents. Invermere fire zone, equipment and resources are just The incident count, 3,049 according to the min- a phone call away, including skid steers, bulldozers, ister’s office, included 213 fires in interface zones, excavators, helicopters and airplanes. which lead to 27 evacuation orders and nine evacuIn Kamloops, a real-time lightning map displays ation alerts. where each bolt strikes, according to Mr. Bell. “AwareIn addition to the higher number of wildfires, a ness is key,” he said. provincial record for wildfire aircraft flying time was Eleven person-caused forest fires have already set with over 53,500 hours. taken place in the SFC this year which includes Inver“Every week the hazard builds a little higher,” Mr. mere. The fires burned over 24 hectares of forest, and McConnell said. grass land. To report a wildfire call 1-800-663-5555 or The thin snow pack has caused Mr. McCon- *5555 on most cellular networks.

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By Pioneer Staff

Opposition to the HST continues to build. In many ridings more than 10 percent of voters have signed petitions opposing the tax and there is now a real possibility of a referendum. Ordinarily polite and obliging Canadians are mounting a tax revolt.

A year ago, opposition was muted, although some people felt deceived, thinking the Liberals had reneged on a promise not to introduce a new tax. People were also surprised. The announcement seemed to come out of nowhere. Had they been working on this in secret or was it pure opportunism to get the federal transfer payment that was offered to the province as an incentive?

The wider feeling seemed to be that acceptance of the tax was inevitable. Efforts to explain the tax were low key and many people didn’t appear to understand it. The Liberal argument in favour of the tax is that it will streamline tax collection and reduce compliance cost for business. This, they say, will attract more business and create more jobs.

Opponents of the tax argue that it is spread over a wider number of goods and services than the present PST and this will result in an increased burden on the most vulnerable among us. Those who can least afford it will either pay more or do without, and small business will suffer a loss of revenue as a consequence.

One thing is clear: Governments should inroduce new taxes carefully and only after consultation with their citizens. The French introduced the temporary salt tax in 1286. In 1790 it was finally repealed after serving as one of the precipitating causes of the French Revolution. It is a lesson worth remembering. People resent taxes. We don’t pay them because we like them.

We pay them because we accept them as our part of the social contract in a democratic society. More effort should have gone into selling the benefits of this tax to us. Instead, we face a divisive contretemps.

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Police and their unions lobby legislators to prohibit marijuana Dear Editor: A.W. Shier, in his letter Sentences In Pot Cases Should Be More Severe of April 23, 2010, is mistaken when asserting the RCMP, “enforce laws, they don’t make them or have much influence in developing them.”

In fact, concerning cannabis (marijuana) laws, law enforcement officers and their unions are the largest group in North America which invests time and money to perpetuate cannabis prohibition.

They used to say, “if you don’t like the laws, change them” and, “we don’t make the laws, we just enforce them,” but not anymore. Something to do with job security.

A sane or moral reason to cage responsible adults for using the relatively safe, God-given plant cannabis doesn’t exist. Cannabis prohibition amounts to legal discrimination. Period.

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The real criminals are hiding in board rooms Dear Editor: I am writing this letter in response to A.W. Shier’s letter last week in which he calls for changing the laws about cannabis. I could not agree with him more; the laws must change. Cannabis was used freely in everyday life for thousands of years, until oil was discovered.

Then, the evil geniuses at DuPont discovered they could produce anything made with cannabis or hemp with petroleum byproducts instead.

Big oil and chemical companies had their politicians pass laws that outlawed a miracle plant and allowed real criminals to rape and plunder the Earth at the expense of our children’s health.

Andrew Mellon, secretary of the U.S. treasury in Herbert Hoover’s administration and DuPont’s chief investor, appointed his future nephew-inlaw, Harry Anslinger, as America’s first drug czar.

For the next three decades, he would continue to tell company lies about the evil weed. During the 1930’s, Anslinger told anyone who would listen that “pot made you crazy” and during the 1950’s

he said it would make people too mellow to fight the communists.

The truth of the matter is people within the U.S. government made a decision that affected the health and welfare of billions of people, for the obscene financial wealth of very few. The Canadian government followed suit without any debate.

The laws of our great country have no chance of ever changing as long as big corporations have their tentacles in our politicians and people are willing to make money from the soul of the Earth.

I agree with A. W. Shier. The laws must change. Prohibition only makes the real criminals and gangsters rich.

Laws should be passed that benefit mankind, not the bottom line of some big corporations. For a perfect example of this kind of depravity, we need look no further than the oil sands projects in Alberta and Saskatchewan. In the future, cannabis will be used to clean up the mess that the oil companies have left behind. Won’t that be one of history’s greatest ironies?

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Smoking pot is victimless crime Dear Editor: In regard to the letter, “Sentences in pot cases should be more severe,” the Bible does not authorize jailing people for marijuana crimes.

Punishing victimless drug crimes exceeds the standard for retributive punishment established in the Bible.

Exodus 21:23-25, “life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise”. Also, see

Leviticus, 24:20, and Deuteronomy, 19:21. Since marijuana “criminals” have murdered no one, blinded no one and haven’t knocked out anyone’s teeth and no maiming has occurred, there is no valid basis for punishment for using, possessing or growing cannabis?

Punishing “victimless crimes” violates the standard of justice God commands in the Bible.

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Government should create revenue stream from legalized marijuana

Dear Editor: After reading the past couple issues of The Pioneer, I see there still seems to be some debate over the marijuana issue once again. I find it hard to believe that this naturally-occurring substance is still beleaguered by this society’s narrow-minded prohibition of the plant.

The amount of taxpayer money that is wasted by pursuing and prosecuting otherwise innocent individuals for partaking in this herb — whether for medicinal or recreational use — is a crime in itself.

A.W. Shier’s letter commenting that the penalties need to be stiffer could not be farther from the truth.

In fact, the opposite needs to happen. The obvious solution is the legalization of the substance and government controls over the growth and distribution of the crops.

Marijuana is a much less dangerous substance than alcohol. Yet, alcohol is legal because the government tried prohibiting it and saw that it did not stop the drinking. It made many criminals wealthy by pro-

viding alcohol for public consumption at a price — which the public was willing to pay and for which the government saw nothing in revenue by taxation.

This is an identical problem only in the form of a God-produced, naturally-occurring plant, instead of a man-made liquid. As they say, “God made pot and man made booze. Who can you trust?” I will trust in God over man on this one.

I have never heard of someone smoking a joint of pot and becoming violent, as can and does happen often with alcohol use. Most of the time, pot users just become relaxed, mellow and hungry with a heightened sense of humour, nothing for society to fear. If cancer patients and sufferers of other diseases and injuries can find relief in the effects of the substance, why should they not be able to use it as needed to control their pain or nausea?

In my opinion, the government should take over the industry — at billions of dollars per year in sales, it is a real industry — and control it as they do alcohol and turn the current group of illegal growers from criminals to skilled farmers with a legitimately saleable

crop. Employment is created in every step from the field to the store. You now have quality control, price control, a built-in distribution network, and revenues from taxation along with the additional savings from no longer prosecuting offenders.

Our national deficit could only benefit from this scenario. Organized crime no longer has the profit; we as taxpayers will receive the benefit of additional tax revenues into the national coffers.

Some people might suggest that legalizing marijuana will decrease productivity because everyone will be stoned all the time — hooey. It’s likely to be very similar to alcohol use. Some will not partake; some will use occasionally; some will use socially; some will use often and some (the smallest group) will be abusers. That’s human nature and something we are not going to change any time soon. I used to smoke — and, yes, I inhaled — but, I no longer partake and I still think legalization is the way to go.

Steven A. Gutsche Dry Gulch

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Farmers’ market should ban non-local produce Dear Editor: The spring season has rolled around again and the promise of summer comes with it. I am writing because I have been thinking about summer events in our community and how I can coordinate the visits from friends and relatives with these events.

The most dominant event that comes to my mind is the local farmers’ market held each summer in the centre of downtown Invermere. It is such a delightful event. Each Saturday morning of summer we walk down to meet people, view and shop for high quality art wares, fresh flowers, baked goods, jams and honey and especially for the fresh produce. I am all for the farmers’ market because it gives our local farmers and crafts people the venue they need to present their products to the buying public and it gives me the opportunity to buy local fresh garden produce all summer long.

However, I am concerned about vendors sell-

ing non-local produce. In fact, much of what they are selling has been grown far from this valley and, yes, even Mexico and California!

I get to thinking that this is so very unfair to the local farmers. I have had visitors come with me to the market and they have noticed and pointed out this unfairness to me as well. I’ve checked the Farmers’ Market Association’s web page and it says very clearly that “vendors must make, bake or grow the products and then sell them at the market”.

Invermere’s market is a member of this association that was formed to support the local farmers and crafts people. I am taking a strong stand for these locals in asking why do those who are in charge of the Invermere Farmers’ Market allow non-local produce to be sold? Everyone knows that those folks wanting to purchase the produce grown in California or Mexico can always stop at Valley Foods or Sobeys on their way home.

Maxine Hawes, Invermere

Golf for literacy

By Pioneer Staff The 17th Annual Literacy Charity Golf Tournament is gearing up to make a positive impact in the Windermere Valley, Wednesday, June 2.

“We’re really try to make it a fun and relaxed event,” said Joe Evanoff, Radium Resort manager.

Your $125 entry fee will be donated to support literacy programs and services for families, children, youth and adults throughout the valley. A portion of this year’s proceeds will also be allotted to community groups who support literacy initiatives including the Parent Advisory Councils. People are encouraged to become a corporate sponsor, register golfers to participate or donate prizes.

The tournament is popular and only the first 144 people will be eligible to play and will be treated well with complimentary breakfast, live entertainment, and a large cash gift for scoring an elusive hole-in-one.

“I’ve never had somebody win it,” said Mr. Evanoff, who hopes this year they can award the money for scoring the perfect shot.

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Lakes Windermere, Winnipeg form alliance

By Trevor Bacque Pioneer Staff Following this year’s Living Lakes conference, Lake Winnipeg has become a member of the International Living Lakes Network and Living Lake Networks Canada alongHeather Leschied side Lake Windermere.

The move comes after Canadian representatives were exposed to Lake Chapala, the largest fresh water lake in Mexico, a onceclean body of water now severely contaminated with pollution.

Heather Leschied, manager of the Lake Windermere Project, said the lake she saw had lots of issues with garbage and debris in the water.

“Lake Chapala is highly threatened,” she said, adding her eyes burned when standing too close to the water because of contaminants.

Over two million migratory water fowl split time between Lake Chapala and Lake Winnipeg and concern about the birds bringing back harmful pathogens

from the Mexican water is real, according to Robert Sandford, Canadian water expert and advisor to the network.

The lake provides six million Mexicans with drinking water but problems from the outflowing Santiago River also causes numerous problems.

“Santiago is a major source of pollution because of many factories on the river’s edge,” said Ms. Leschied.

Foam sitting on top of the river indicated that no oxygen is present in the water and it cannot sustain aquatic life.

With Lake Chapala in such poor condition, it brings concern that there was no lakes network in Canada, she said. The lack of infrastructure for wetlands and watersheds in Canada has prompted action to begin a national partnership.

“Water experts in Canada are urging our nation to develop one,” said Ms. Leschied about a Canadian lake strategy to work together for the common good of natural areas.

Now, under a new initiative, Lake Winnipeg, with its one million square kilometre watershed, will form a network with Lake Windermere.

Lake Winnipeg is not without its own issues. Algae blooms, some of which stretch for 10,000 kilometres,

are found in Lake Winnipeg’s mammoth watershed.

“Often times we tend to look at what’s happening to individual lakes and think they are unique situations,” said Mr. Sandford.

Lakes faced problems with acid rain in the 1950s through the 1970s but now water and climate change are most important, he said.

Soon the lake committees will have increased communication about issues in their natural environments.

“We hope to empower communities to look after their water resources,” said Ms. Leschied of the project’s beginning mandate and said other lake committeses have already expressed interest in joining.

“Water quality is becoming a concern for us,” said Ms. Leschied.

“It would be good to put all our voices together to make our voices heard,” said Lake Winnipeg Foundation President Bruce Smith of new the national collaboration.

Mr. Smith is hoping to see “significant advances” with the new national chain of wetlands and lakes.

He said it’s never too late to prevent Canadian bodies of water from having a “Lake Chapala scenario” occuring.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT, the Council of the Village of Canal Flats proposes to enter into a renewable Lease Agreement with the Municipal Finance Authority to borrow up to a maximum amount of Two Hundred & Seventy-Five Thousand ($275,000) Dollars to finance the lease to purchase of a new Pumper/Tanker Fire Truck for the Village of Canal Flats Fire Department.

The purpose of the Lease Agreement is to borrow upon the credit of the municipality a sum not exceeding TWO HUNDRED & SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND ($275,000) DOLLARS by way of a 5 year renewable lease to be renewed for a further 5 years for a total of 10 years to finance the lease to purchase a new Pumper/Tanker Truck for the Village of Canal Flats Fire Department including expenses incidental thereto in accordance with the Requests for Proposals on file in the Village Office. Annual lease payments are estimated to be a maximum of $30,500.00 in the initial 5 year lease and $28,500.00 in the final 5 years of the lease based on an estimated interest rate of 1.25% The Village of Canal Flats may proceed with the acquisition and lease to purchase of the new Pumper/Tanker Fire Truck, unless, by the deadline set out below, at least 10% of the electors of the Village of Canal Flats indicate their opposition and that the Council must obtain the assent of the electors before proceeding. For the purpose of this alternative approval process, the Council has determined that there are 560 electors in the Village of Canal Flats. Accordingly, the number of elector responses that must be received to prevent Council from proceeding without the assent of the electors by this approval process has been determined by Council to be 56.

Elector response forms for this alternative approval process, as established Council, are available to the public at the Village Office (8853 Grainger Road, Canal Flats, B.C.) or on the Village website at www.canalflats.com. Originals of completed Elector Response Forms must be received by the Deputy Clerk at the Village Office at the address listed above no later than 4:30 p.m. on Friday, June 4, 2010. After the deadline date, the Deputy Clerk will determine and certify, on the basis of Elector Response Forms received by the deadline, whether the elector approval has been obtained. The Deputy Clerk will report the results to Council.

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Biodiversity: the Web of Life

MOVIE REVIEW

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AT THE ARTYM

Dr. Faisal Moola, Director of the Terrestrial Conservation and Science Program of the David Suzuki Foundation, will deliver the keynote address — Biodiversity: the Web of Life — at Wings Over the Rockies, 14th annual gala banquet , Saturday, May 8. at 7 p.m.

See Page 14 for more.

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Wings Over the Rockies Art Show April 27 – May 16. Artist Opening Wed April 28 from 7 to 9 pm.

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Visit columbiavalleyarts.com for our current events calendar, or call 250-342-4423.

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Music • visual arts • dining • Bar Scene • entertainment • performance ARTS

Movie Review: It’s Complicated Reviewed by Dave Sutherland It’s Complicated is a romantic comedy that distinguishes itself from other recent rom-coms in that its story deals with middle-aged characters.

But if you aren’t middle-aged yourself, don’t let that deter you. Also unlike some other recent romcoms — like Couples Retreat — this movie is funny.

It’s about a couple, Jake and Jane, divorced for ten years, played by Alec Baldwin and Meryl Streep, who find themselves attracted to one another once again, and begin an affair. The problem is that, he’s remarried, to a much younger woman, and she has just begun a tentative romance with the architect who is redesigning her kitchen.

Both Streep and Baldwin are fun to watch. Streep

has the chamaeleon-like ability to immerse herself in any character she plays. In It’s Complicated she gets to play wistful, sentimental and madcap, all to great effect. Baldwin, as well, has a talent for light comedy, though he is equally known for his tough-guy roles.

He has some hilarious moments here, as a man who seems to be suffering from reverse middle-age crazy syndrome.

Steve Martin, as Streep’s architect, Adam, is generally more restrained, and thus funnier, than he’s been in some recent performances. But, when he does let loose in a few scenes, there are echoes of that wild and crazy guy from the seventies.

In the supporting roles, John Kracinski stands out as Baldwin and Streep’s potential son-in-law, who is put into a position of supreme awkwardness, when he

learns too much, too soon. For me, the mark of a good adult comedy is the ability to take potentially serious situations, in this case divorce and adultery, dip them in a coating of froth, and apply a liberal frosting of silliness that leaves you howling at the foibles of humanity in general.

Writer-director Nancy Meyers, a veteran of adult comedies with such films as What Women Want, and Something’s Gotta Give under her belt, knows exactly which buttons to push to make It’s Complicated, simply entertaining.

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Out & About Please call 250-341-6299 or e-mail us at info@cv-pioneer.com to enter your event in our FREE listings.

Toby Theatre • Closed until May 12th

Friday, April 30th: • 6-9 p.m.: Opening reception for Brent Heighton and Elizabeth Wiltzen exhibition at the Artym Gallery. Artists also in attendance on Saturday, May 1st, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Sunday, May 2nd: • 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m.: The Columbia Valley Cycling Society will be holding its Bike and Gear Swap at the Invermere Community Hall. Bring your gear in between 8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. The sale will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. For info: www. columbiavalleycyclingsociety.org.

Monday, May 3rd: • 9 a.m.-12 p.m.: Sonshine Children’s Center Open House, Preschool Registration. For info: 250-3411164.

• 7-9 p.m.: Steamboat Mountain Quilters meet at Edgewater Community Hall.

• Wings Over the Rockies Festival. Activities include guided nature walks, Columbia River floats, voyageur canoe trips, hikes in the grasslands, workshops and Wings gala banquet. For info: 250-342-4423.

• May 3rd-9th: Wings Over The Rockies: Little Peeps’ Art Show at Pynelogs Cultural Centre. Art by children of the valley’s early childhood centres. For info: 250-342-4423.

Tuesday, May 4th: • 7-9 p.m.: Steamboat Mountain Quilters meet at Edgewater Community Hall.

Thursday, May 6th: • 7 p.m.: Wilmer Waterworks Improvement District Annual General Meeting at Wilmer Community Hall.

• Birdsong Singalong Dinner at Windermere Community Hall. A “fowl” dinner, catered by Anne Riches, entertainment by the Valley Voices. Joint fundraiser between Wings Over the Rockies and Windermere Community Association. For info: 1-888-342-9464.

Friday, May 7th:

Tuesday, May 18th:

• 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m.: Wings Over the Rockies Ecotourism Presentation and Lunch with Carol Patterson. Discussion about many shapes that nature-based tourism can take, from tour packages to wildlife festivals. For info: www.wingsovertherockies. org or 250-342-9464.

• 12 p.m.: Mothers Day Luncheon at the Edgewater Legion. Price $5.00.

• 1 p.m.: Windermere Valley Saddle Club membership drive, free BBQ lunch for joining.

Saddle Club Grounds, Invermere Crossroads. For info: 250-347-6499.

• 7-9 p.m.: Steamboat Mountain Quilters meet at Edgewater Community Hall.

Saturday, May 8th:

• 1-4 p.m.: Valley GoGo Sisters hosts a sale of handmade Kazuri Jewellery from Africa in aid of the Stephen Lewis Foundation at Pynelogs Cultural Centre.

• 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. and from 2:30 p.m.-4 p.m.: Arabian Mountain Spice, the Columbia Valley’s own bellydancing troupe is having a workshop at the Invermere Community Hall. All levels welcome, bring yoga mat or towel, $25 for either session, $40 for both. For info: 250-341-5203.

Monday, May 10th: • 6:30 p.m.-8 p.m.: Open House and pre-school registration for September 2010 at the Windermere Valley Childcare Society. For info: 250-342-3168.

Tuesday, May 11th: • May 11th to June 3rd, 7:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.: Red Cross Swim Lessons at Radium Resort, Tuesdays and Thursdays. For info: 250-342-5979.

Wednesday, May 12th: • May 12th to June 2nd, 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.: Junior Lifeguard Club and 7:30 p.m. to 8:20 p.m.: Water Fitness at the Radium Resort. For info: 250342-5979.

Thursday, May 13th: • 3:30 p.m.-9 p.m.: Navigating Childhood: A GPS Approach to Children’s Success, by the Windermere Vallley Early Childhood Development Team.

Tickets $20 per person or $30 per couple. For info: 250-342-9576.

• May 13th-15th: Royal LePage National Garage Sale event. Proceeds go to the Women’s Shelter in Invermere. Drop off items of good quality at Royal LePage on May 13th and 14th from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

No large appliances please. The garage sale will be held on May 15th. For info: 250-345-4000.

Saturday, May 15th: • 10 a.m.: East Kootenay ATV Club meeting at Windermere Community Hall.

Wednesday, May 19th: • 7-9 p.m.: Opening reception for Impasto art exhibition by Karla Pearce at Pynelogs Cultural Centre. Exhibition until May 30th. For info: 250342-4423.

• Allison Lickley performs at Bud’s Bar and Lounge.

For info: 250-342-2965.

Saturday, May 22nd:

Wednesday, June 2nd: • Literacy Charity Golf Tournament at Radium Resort. Gourmet breakfast, awards banquet, live music, prizes. Registration $125. For info: 250-3476266.

Other: • Mondays 1:30 p.m.: Carpet bowling at Invermere Seniors Hall. For info: 250-342-9893.

• Mondays 6:30-8 p.m.: Yoga at Radium Hall. All abilities welcome. $10. For info: 250-342-9765.

• Mondays 6:30 p.m. and Fridays 1 p.m.: Duplicate Bridge at Invermere Seniors’ Hall. Cost $2. Visitors welcome. For info: 250-342-9893.

• Tuesdays 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m.: Join Purcell Mountain Painters at the Invermere Seniors’ Hall. For info: 250-688-0220.

• Tuesdays 10 a.m.: Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy presents the free Baby Goose program for parents with babies aged up to 18 months at Radium Public Library. For info: 250-347-2434.

• Tuesdays 1:30 p.m.: Floor curling at Invermere Seniors Hall. For info: 250-342-9893.

• Wednesdays 6 p.m.: Weight Watchers meetings at the Lions Hall. Weigh-in and registration at 6 p.m., meeting at 6:30 p.m. For info: 1-800-682-8011.

• Wednesdays 7-9 p.m.: Lake Windermere District Rod and Gun Club archery at Invermere Community Hall. For info: 250-342-9033.

• Thursdays 10 a.m.-noon: Gym Play drop-in at the gymnastics club in Radium. For one- to four-yearolds, $5 per child. For info: 250-342-3023 or www. cvrec.ca.

• Fridays 9:30-11:30 a.m.: Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy, Baby Goose program for children up to 18 months at the Valley Connections Building, Invermere. For info: 250-342-9576.

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April 30, 2010

Wings: Moola to deliver keynote

By Trevor Bacque Pioneer Staff Dr. Faisal Moola, Director of Terrestrial Conservation and Science at the David Suzuki Foundation, said he will deliver an environmentally-charged speech about global warming, sustainability and B.C.’s forests and animals in Invermere on May 8.

The keynote speaker at this year’s Wings Over the Rockies Gala Banquet, Dr. Moola will make his first visit to Invermere.

The forest biologist with a doctorate degree from Dalhousie University believes British Columbia is a wealth of wildlife and natural resources.

“B.C. is one of the most unique jurisdictions in Canada,” said Dr. Moola, who called the province “blessed” with exceptional species.

The province is one of the few areas that retains all the “charismatic wildlife” that dazzled European settlers when they arrived in the country, including grizzly bears and wolves.

“With this richness comes responsibility,” warned the 39-year-old Toronto native. “Protecting nature is critical in our fight against global warming.”

Dr. Moola firmly believes global warming has caused major problems internationally and in B.C. The devastation of B.C.’s forests by the mountain pine beetle is a direct result of global warming, said Dr. Moola.

In the past, he said, the pine beetle population was regulated with routine cold snaps, but warmer winter temperatures in recent years have allowed the species to spread.

“This species is out of whack and is causing unbelievable devastation to the forest that sustained the logging industry in B.C,” he said. “Global warming is real and it’s having direct consequences on people’s lives.”

The solution is also not to have a “gold rush” mentality to the new crop of trees shooting up.

“If we clear cut too hard, we will actually undermine the recovery of that forest,” Dr. Moola explained.

It’s a simple formula for the rising temperature in the world, he said. “When you destroy nature you release that heat back into the atmosphere.”

Unfortunately, he said, top levels of government and powerful decision-makers have “a poor understanding of the direct benefits we receive from nature.”

“It’s not just a jobs versus the environment debate,” petitions Dr. Moola. “Protecting the environment will inherently protect our own lives.”

In Vancouver, for instance, where the water supply comes from three forested watersheds located above the city, it’s important to prevent industrialization in order to preserve natural habitat.

“Those mature forests regulate, filter and store the drinking water of Vancouver.”

“If we were to destroy those forests, we would have to replace that service — which we are currently getting for free — with engineered or built solutions.”

He said building water filtration plants and tunneling giant piplines is not a road people should have to go down. The example is applicable to Invermere as well, he said.

Dr. Moola said he became enchanted with the outdoors and loves the fact he dedicated his life to the cause of conservation.

“I’m a city boy who fell in love with the bush.”

Dr. Faisal Moola will deliver his keynote address, “Biodiversity: the Web of Life,” at the 14th Annual Gala Banquet of the Wings Over the Rockies bird festival on Saturday, May 8 at 7 p.m.

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Ecosystem restoration is for the birds been identified there, prompting the Ministry of Environment to protect this significant population by designatWith spring bird migrations well ing certain critical sites as wildlife habiunderway, the rare Lewis’s woodpecker tat areas. will soon be returning to its East KooteBut, the habitat created by the Spen nay nesting grounds. Travelling from as fire 25 years ago is deteriorating. The far south as Mexico, these woodpeckers open forest landscape is filling in with with the distinctive dark green and rosy trees, and existing nesting snags are fallred colouring often return to the same ing down. Fortunately, a partnership of nests year after year. conservation landowners and Crown The benchlands rising above the land stewards — Nature Conservancy western shores of Columbia Lake proof Canada, Rocky Mountain Trench vide habitat this endangered bird likes Ecosystem Restoration Program, The best: a dry open forest recovering from Nature Trust of British Columbia and wildfire, near water, and with lots of Thunderhill Ranch — has stepped up Lewis’s Woodpecker shrubby undergrowth. to the plate. Working with the MinisMating pairs seek out familiar nesttries of Environment and Forests and ing cavities in Ponderosa pine or Douglas fir snags and Range, the partners are focusing their efforts on 4,500 in black cottonwoods. They feed mainly on insects hectares and have already developed a long-term plan caught on the wing — the only woodpecker that fly- to restore and maintain the area as Lewis’s woodpecker catches instead of boring into trees for bugs — but habitat. also forage for berries on native shrubs.

Thinning out trees to retain open forest conditions In Canada, the Lewis’s woodpecker is found only got underway in 2009 when government job-creation in British Columbia’s southern Interior. B.C.’s coastal grants became available. A Canal Flats-based crew of populations are gone, most likely due to habitat loss, unemployed forestry workers, sponsored by the Rocky and the bird now occurs only in the Similkameen, Mountain Trench Natural Resources Society, has hand Okanagan, Chilcotin and East Kootenay valleys, with slashed and piled juvenile stems on about 900 hectares scattered occurrences in the West Kootenay. Current of forest over the past 12 months. numbers, estimated at fewer than 1,000 birds, are deThree prescribed fires are planned over the next six clining every year. years to keep tree regeneration in check. These lowIn the East Kootenay, the Dutch-Findlay Range intensity controlled burns will also rejuvenate native Unit between Canal Flats and Fairmont Hot Springs is shrubs and grasses. Because nesting trees are crucial a hotspot for Lewis’s woodpeckers. The Spen wildfire in sustaining the current population and perhaps exthat burned 11,000 hectares in 1985 produced ideal panding it, a mapped inventory of existing and potenhabitat, particularly in the vicinity of Fir Mountain tial wildlife trees will be completed this summer. The overlooking Canal Flats. Up to 25 nesting snags have Fish and Wildlife Compensation Program is contribSubmitted by Susan Bond Rocky Mountain Trench Society

uting to this phase of the project as a working partner and funder. The goal is to create 100 wildlife trees this year and possibly more in 2011.

While the restoration plan targets Lewis’s woodpecker habitat, forest thinning and prescribed burning will benefit badgers, elk, deer and domestic cattle — all of which inhabit the area. Removing forest fuels also reduces the risk of another catastrophic wildfire like the Spen, which forced a 10-day evacuation of Canal Flats.

The restoration program, an East Kootenay initiative directed by a coalition of stakeholders, is restoring open forests and grasslands on Crown range in the Trench.

Rancher Brian McKersie, who operates the family’s Thunderhill Ranch in the midst of prime Lewis’s woodpecker habitat, grazes cattle on the range unit.

The Nature Conservancy, a national non-profit habitat conservation organization, bought portions of Thunderhill’s 600 hectares a few years ago and holds conservation covenants over the remainder.

The Nature Trust, a B.C. non-profit habitat conservation organization, also has substantial land holdings within the range unit and immediately to the north.

You can learn more about the Lewis’s woodpecker and Dutch-Findlay restoration project during Wings Over the Rockies, the Columbia Valley’s annual birding festival, which, this year, takes place May 3-9.

Forester Randy Harris from the Trench restoration program and wildlife biologist Gary Tipper of the Nature Conservancy will lead a field tour on May 3, while a display featuring the bird will be on view throughout the week at the festival’s Pynelogs headquarters in Invermere. Visit www.wingsovertherockies.org for more information and to register.

Brent Heighton & Elizabeth Wiltzen Exhibition Opens Friday April 30th, 6-9pm

Brent Heighton, Acrylic – Evening Promenade, 36” x 48”

Elizabeth Wiltzen, Oil – The Fairholme Range, 30” x 40”

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Artists in attendance Friday April 30th for the opening and Saturday May 1st 11-3pm

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April 30, 2010

Shooting birds: tips from a pro

By Pioneer Staff Just in time for Wings Over the Rockies, here are a few tips from one of our favorite photographers, Dani Tschudin.

• If you can’t change lenses and you love birds, you have to step up to a DSLR. • You need, at least, a 200-millimetre lens.

Use a doubler (teleconverter) and you have 400 Millimetres. Six hundred would be better, but then you’re looking at big bucks.

• Animals always see you before you see them.

Find a good spot, be patient, and be prepared to stay there for hours.

• Watch what the birds are doing. Pay attention to their patterns of movement to know when your next opportunity is coming.

• Pay attention to your camera settings from shot to shot. If you have to fiddle with a dial, you will miss an opportunity.

• If the birds have forgotten you’re there, make a noise to gain their attention. That shot of a bird looking right into your lens can be powerful.

• Get out there.

You’re not going to get any pictures sitting at home.

ON THE WING — Clockwise from top, Common Goldeneye and her brood, Pygmy Owl, Wilson’s Phalarope, Bald Eagle, Cedar Wax Wing.

Photos by Dani Tschudin, VisualExposures.Ca

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Tonight at the Artym Gallery Submitted by Deanna Berrington Artym Gallery This weekend, the Artym Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition featuring artists Brent Heighton and Elizabeth Wiltzen. The show opens Friday, April 30th, with an evening reception with both artists in attendance from 6-9 p.m. Both artists will also be at the gallery on Saturday, May 1st, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Both Brent Heighton and Elizabeth Wiltzen are best known for their landscape pieces; however both artists are proficient and varied in their painting ability, creating stunning paintings of international street scenes, still life studies and figurative work.

“Most of the time it is the everyday things that are the most beautiful ... things we take for granted,” Mr. Heighton commented.

Both artists travel extensively, painting as they go, capturing such locales as Mexico, Peru, Greece, France, the BC west coast as well as local landscapes and mountains.

“When you are certain about something, I don’t think you spend much time weighing in around whether you think it will be one thing or another. You just follow your heart,” Ms. Wiltzen said.

Teaching also plays a role in their artistic careers and is one of the ways they challenge themselves to progress in their field.

“It helps me get back to basics,” Brent said. “It is very important sometimes to think in simpler terms.”

Elizabeth sees teaching as an opportunity to clarify her thinking and artistic process.

“Teaching teaches me what I have learned so far.

Sometimes this can be very surprising. Often, I will speak about what I am thinking as I apply paint ... [usually] that process is deeper in my consciousness, not verbalized.”

Mr. Heighton has been a full-time professional painter for more than 30 years. Ms. Wiltzen heard the call to be a painter when she was 25 years old: “I never had any ideas about it being easy or difficult,” she said.

“It was simply what I was compelled to do.”

Becoming a professional artist takes a great deal of dedication. “It is not easy to be a full-time artist” says Brent Heighton. “A lot of people dream of becoming an artist after they make their money doing something else, but to truly be good at anything you’ve got to start young and have years of practice.”

Don’t miss this opportunity to meet these two established artists tonight at The Artym, from 6-9 p.m., or on Saturday, May 1st, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

If you can’t make it into the gallery, check out their work online at www.artymgallery.com.

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Fairmont and District Lions’ turning 10

By Trevor Bacque Pioneer Staff Celebrating 10 years is no small feat and it comes as little surprise that the Fairmont and District Lions’ Club will be partying in style to observe a decade together.

On May 8 from 2 to 4 p.m., the Lions will be gathering at the green space at Fairmont corner with coffee, juice and the official cake cutting at 3 p.m.

The Fairmont Lions began their club in late 1999, led by Norbert Schab.

When he moved to Fairmont Hot Springs he became a member of the Windermere District Lions but saw a growing need for Fairmont to have a club of their own. The late Ray Wilder was named the guiding Lion for the group.

Over the 10-year stretch, 17 original members have been retained and 20 new people have been recruited over the years to replace deceased lions’ club members.

The group has a strong commitment to fundraising and has brought in over $250,000 for various charitable organizations including the following:

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Te Papa Nui, on Juniper Heights Road, is the home of Elizabeth and Joe Klein. Tour visitors enter on a winding drive-way through a fir forest to discover artists in delightful clearings. The artists will surround the Klein’s lovely log house, and the Rockies provide a stunning backdrop.

The second site is Pat and Chester Allen’s garden near the Radium Resort.

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A bit farther up the Valley, in the village of Edgewater, is the recently constructed log home of Rene and Forrest Estby. A tree-lined drive leads to the rolling property with a fish pond, fruit trees, patios and verandas – all wonderful places to show works of art. This garden, hidden from the main road, is sure to delight Tour guests.

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A tough day at Dead Dog Bluff

Submitted by Ronald V. Clarke Wildsight Invermere Chair Undeterred by cool and wet weather, 39 volunteers turned up at Wilmer Community Hall on the morning of April 24 to receive their assignments for a major clean-up day in the Wilmer wetlands from project leader, Pat Morrow.

Teams fanned out along the beach at the foot of Dead Dog Bluff, adjacent coves and a benchland area above Westside Road to begin the grimy and difficult work. The goal was to remove more than 175 discarded tires from the wetlands and beach and move them to an area above the lower pathway. A future phase of the project will focus on the complete removal of this material from the area.

Many large and small pieces of rusted metal from tin cans to car hoods were also trucked away to the landfill. A team led by Arnor Larson even attempted to pull an entire auto body out of the water using a series of ropes and winches. Their valiant efforts were not, however, crowned with success, but more than seven truck loads of debris, not including the tires, were taken to the landfill.

While hesitant to single out particular individuals or groups to praise for their efforts (and by doing so, perhaps unintentionally denigrate the work of everyone else involved) the contributions, both physical and financial, of a few should be noted: the members of Wildsight Invermere, the Lake Windermere District Rod and Gun Club, the Columbia Wetlands Stewardship Partners and the Friends of the Columbia Wetlands. Dean Timothy, Wallace Kennedy and Gerry Wilkie generously provided trucks to move the junk. We also ought not to forget the contributions of Joanne Bragg’s tourism class from the high school who started the whole clean-up on April 21.

In addition to the obvious benefit to fish and wildlife, this project was intended to let the residents of the Columbia Valley know that there are people out there who care about sustaining and maintaining our valley environment and ecosystems. Of course, all the animals, birds and plants in the region would be very grateful if habitual dumpers would take their refuse to the landfill for proper — and free — disposal.

Stay tuned for details of the next phases of this wetlands clean-up, because there is much more extrication and removal work to be done.

CLEAN-UP ARTISTS — At top, Bob Campsall, Tom Meredith and Hans Hortenhuber take a break; middle, Coral Booty pitches in; bottom-left, Arnor Larson rapels down the bluff with the help of Max Konig in the red hat, Mark Hillary at right and Norm Hendricks at top; At bottom-right, Mark Hillary ropes a car chassis.

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Relay for Life support continues because of strong community spirit Relay Round-Up Submitted by Sheila Tutty, Columbia Valley Relay for Life I cannot say it enough, what a wonderfully giving community we live in.

On Thursday, April 14, hundreds of people came out to support our Canadian Cancer Society Relay for Life kick-off party at Copper Point Sheila Tutty Golf Club.

This event is just that, a kick-off to the Relay for Life, which is being held June 12 and 13 at the David Thompson Secondary School track in Invermere.

The contributions we received from the community and the support of all the people who attended

helped us raise approximately $10,000. I believe it is a record for us in the Columbia Valley.

To put it in perspective, we had just more than $13,000 in auction items, which means we got almost dollar for dollar. That is fabulous. With the proceeds from the kick-off party and the donations and pledges we received online, we are nearing 35 percent of our goal of $53,072.

What we need now are more teams for the relay.

As of the end of last week, we have 14 teams. Our goal is to have 26 teams. That means we need you. It’s easy!

Just go to www.cancer.ca/relay, choose Columbia Valley, and enter your team — or individual name and we’ll match you with a team. This year, we are aiming to have no zero-dollar participants.

What that means is, if you register to participate, it is your responsibility to go out and get pledges. Ask your family, friends and neighbours. Have a car wash; babysit for free. The list is endless. One thing I am doing is selling little-girl t-shirts, which are available in a variety of sizes. They are pink and say, “Help find a cure, before mine grow” on the front, along with a breast cancer ribbon.

I had 36 of these shirts made and I am selling them for $20. All the proceeds go directly to Relay for Life.

The Canadian Cancer Society’s Relay For Life is a life-changing, fund-raising event that gives you and your community the opportunity to celebrate cancer survivors, remember and honour loved ones lost to cancer, and fight back for a future without cancer.

The funds raised help the Canadian Cancer Society save lives by funding leading cancer research, offering support services to those in need and leading prevention initiatives.

Relay participants commit to raising a minimum of $100 for the Canadian Cancer Society. The average participant in Canada raises $350. Challenge yourself and your team. The more money raised, the bigger the difference. Let’s make this a record year!

The Canadian Cancer Society Relay for Life is organized and run fully by volunteers. And this year we are attempting to keep our expenses as low as possible, to ensure as much money as possible goes to fighting this dreadful disease.

We have a very energetic and efficient committee working on the 2010 Relay for Life in the Columbia Valley. We need, at least, eight people to help set up and take down tents on June 12 and 13 at David Thompson. If you would like to donate your time — and muscle — please give me a call at 250-342-9059.

Cancer Society cancels north valley Relay: Golden residents welcome in Invermere Submitted by the Canadian Cancer Society It is with regret that the Canadian Cancer Society shares that, this year, there will not be a Relay For Life event in Golden.

According to the Canadian Cancer Society’s Regional Manager Sally Ginter, “We are looking forward to continuing to build strong relationships in Golden, and although a Relay for Life event

did not materialize for this year, we are encouraged by our growing base of support.

We are certain that 2011 will include a successful and fun-filled Relay For Life in Golden.”

As an interim measure for this year, the Canadian Cancer Society would like to invite everyone in Golden to participate in the Columbia Valley Relay For Life event in Invermere, on June 12 and 13, 2010, from 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., at David Thompson Secondary School.

For more information about the Columbia Valley Relay For Life, residents of Golden are invited to contact Sheila Tutty, Columbia Valley Relay for Life Coordinator, at 250-342-9059.

Ginter adds, “The CCS would like to thank all

the team participants, team captains, volunteers, corporate sponsors, donors, and community members for their past support of the Golden Relay For Life from 2004 to 2009.

We appreciate all your contributions to the fight against cancer and look forward to bringing this event home to Golden in 2011.”

The Canadian Cancer Society is dedicated to working with the community of Golden in the Fall of 2010 to begin preparations for the 2011 Golden Relay For Life.

All interested in volunteering with the 2011 Relay in Golden are invited to contact the Kootenay Regional Office at kootenay@bc.cancer.ca or 1-800656-6426.

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Bicycle Works under new ownership

By Trevor Bacque Pioneer Staff

BICYCLE WORKS — Byron Grey, the new owner of Bicycle Works in downtown Invermere fine-tunes a bike for a customer. Byron recently took the helm of the shop from former owner Rob Rempel. Photo by Trevor Bacque.

The new owner of Bicycle Works, 32-year-old Byron Grey, has lived in the valley for a dozen years and there is one thing, he said, that riders demand: specialization.

“Riders like to see a place that is specifically for them, not selling swim shorts,” the Kelowna native commented.

Mr. Grey said he is proud of the niche shop on Invermere’s main drag that has been in business for the last 15 years.

Taking over the reins from former owner Robert Rempel in February, Mr. Grey began to learn the ropes of managing a business.

“It’s very overwhelming off the bat,” he said of being in charge of all product coming into his store.

With the help of friend and employee Jamie King, he said, the service side of Bicycle Works doles out-top notch treatment to all bikes.

“The level of mechanic work here is second to nowhere,” said Mr. Grey confidently.

Each bike that comes through the store undergoes a complete rebuild before going out the door and, Mr. Grey said, the bikes don’t return for maintenance because of the shop’s attention to detail.

Mr. Grey sees a busy summer on the horizon, including the shop’s popular Tuesday-night trail rides for kids. Usually comprised of 12 to 30 adventurous seven to 13-year-olds, the rides promote a friendly, fun en-

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He said he has “broken enough bones” without being paid for it through the years.

“Some of the younger generation think it’s cool to not wear helmets, but helmets are becoming the norm for every sport,” said Mr. Grey, a former free-rider for bike team Norco.

Byron’s wife, Rebecca Wright, a teacher, helps out around the shop in the summer when school is out.

“She probably gets out riding more than I do,” he said with a laugh.

The shop’s owner will also be looking ahead to the cooler months with plans for winter. With coldweather clothing, studded tires and other winterized gear, Bicycle Works is extending their season on both ends. After outfitting riders for the bitter cold, he said, a race is planned for the next Lake Windermere Whiteway.

“You see so many more people out on the lake now, enjoying it,” he said.

Although costs can soar in specialized sports, he said, Bicycle Works intends to keep prices low to make riding with reliable equipment an affordable reality.

“We’re trying to have some really affordable gear for the kids,” he said.

Bicycle Works is located in Parkside Place on Seventh Avenue in Invermere, across from Pothole Park.

The shop can be reached by telephone at 250-3427231

Cycling Society to host annual bike swap and sale Submitted by Columbia Valley Cycling Society The Columbia Valley Cycling Society (CVCS) will be holding its third annual Bike and Gear Swap on Sunday, May 2, at the Invermere Community Hall. This is a great opportunity to get yourself some bike gear, or get rid of gear you no longer need. There is always a great demand for kids’ bikes, helmets, burleys and chariots, so please bring your gear for resale.

There will be a bike mechanic on site to ensure that bikes are running well and adjusted to the size of riders.

This is done to ensure that everyone rides away with a proper fitting bi-

cycle. A small percentage of the sales will help the club continue its efforts to provide new trails in the surrounding community.

Please bring your gear in between 8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. The sale will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Come by at 1 p.m. to pick up your cheque for the gear you have sold and pick up remaining items that didn’t sell.

The CVCS is a non-profit organization and volunteer group dedicated to sustainably developing, promoting, practising, and protecting mountain biking in B.C.’s Columbia Valley.

Since 2006, the CVCS board has had multiple local areas protected as officially recognized mountain bike trails.

GEAR HEAD — Darcy Lehr, president of the Columbia Valley Cycling Society gives the thumbs-up while riding in the Brewer basin.

Photo by Mylene Lefebvre

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HERE TO SERVE YOU Aaron Sherban Your premier choice for restoration and carpet cleaning service

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For a virtual makeover or to shop online, visit www.marykay.ca/mszekely w w w.valleysolutions.ca • valleysolutions@shaw.ca

Margit Szekely Independent Beauty Consultant

Warbrick Towing & Salvage

Quality Hand-crafted Steel • Structural Steel • Welding • Fabricating & Machining • Custom railings and ornamental iron #117 Industrial Rd. #2, Invermere, BC Ph: 250-342-9926 • Fax 250-341-3956 e-mail: txn@telus.net

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Call Judy: (250) 341-1903

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(250) 342-2611

asphalt maintenance • RepaiRs • cRacksealing • seal coating driveways • parking lots • roads

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Cell: (250) 342-5850 email: al_angie@shaw.ca

reducing your carbon footprint blackline is serious about our products, our service, our reputation in the community and the environment.

introducing blackline’s eco-friendly hot in place, asphalt repair system

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HERE TO SERVE YOU • Structural Timbers and Posts • KD Tongue & Groove (Pine, Cedar and Fir)

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Millwork Cabinets Stairs Custom Framing • Renovations

• KD Bevel & Channel Sidings • Radius Edge Cedar Decking 5/4 and 2” • Wide Plank F/L Flooring

Box 80 SKOOKUMCHUCK, BC V0B 2E0 PHONE (250) 422-9229 FAX (250 422-9227) Email: mardis@cyberlink.ca

Mike Cope Journeyman Carpenters

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Doors Windows Flooring Painting/ Interior/Exterior • Kitchen Renovations

250-342-5682

• Bathroom Renovations • Additions • Decks • Finish Carpentry • Basement Renovations

We use the most successful products available.

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1320 Industrial Road #3 Box 159, Invermere, B.C. V0A 1K0

•Shower Doors•Mirrors •Auto•Home•Commercial

Telephone: 250-342-3659

Jeff Watson

Residential Jesse Vader 250.341.5426

Bruce Dunlop

www.cranbrookpestcontrol.com info@cranbrookpestcontrol com

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Septic Tank Pumping Portable Toilet Rentals

From Framing to Finishing Complete Automotive Repairs Al Tallman (Beside the Petro Canada Car Wash)

Phone: 250-342-6614 • www.autowyze.com

Commercial Ken Johnson 250.341.5427

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For competitive prices and prompt service call: 250-342-3268 (plant) 250-342-6767 (office)

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HERE TO SERVE YOU RADIUM HOT SPRINGS ESSO

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Residential, Commercial Electric Furnace and Hot Water Tank Repair and Service For All Your Electrical Needs invermereelectric@gmail.com

1710 10th Avenue – Invermere, BC V0A 1K0

Automotive Repairs

J. Douglas Kipp, B. Sc. (Pharm.)

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7 days a week

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Come in and browse our giftware

Open Monday - Saturday 9:00 am - 6:00 pm

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• Drinking Water Systems • Duct Cleaning Service • Water Softeners • Whole House or Specialised Filtration including iron lters that really work!

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Day Care kids help raise money for new rescue truck Children, parents and staff from the Sonshine Children’s Centre enjoy Invermere’s new Rescue One rescue vhicle. The organization raised more than $2,000 by collecting bottles from last September to April. The truck, according to Assistant Fire Chief Tom McNeil cost $423,000.Children were given an extensive tour of the vehicle and some parents participated in demonstrations of the tools and equipment.

Photo by Trevor Bacque

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• Excavators • Mini-Excavators • Bobcats • Dump Trucks • Water Trucks • Compaction Equipment • Snow Plow • Sanding Equipment • Crane Truck • Mobile pressure Washing & Steam Cleaning • Underground Services • Site Prep & Demolition • Road Building • Land Clearing • Controlled Burning • Rock Walls • Rip Rap • Top Soil • Sand & Gravel

Jim Detta • Canal Flats, BC • Ph: 250-349-7546

CONTRACT OR HOURLY MACHINE RENTALS AVAILABLE

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Pioneer Classifieds

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Phone: 250-341-6299 Fax: 250-341-6229 Email: info@cv-pioneer.com www.columbiavalleypioneer.com

GARAGE SALE

GARAGE SALE

s obituary s

ANNOUNCEMENT

ANNOUNCEMENT

Lost & found

Multi family yard sales, Saturday, May 1st from 8am to 3pm, White Tail Estates, 8561 Eacrett Road, Dry Gulch.

Garage sale, Saturday, May 1st, from 9am to 2pm at 600 4th Ave.

Memorial service for Metta Harrison/Penner, Saturday, May 8th , 1 p.m., Christ Church Trinity, Invermere, Tea following.

Alcoholics Anonymous

For every girl who is tired of acting weak when she is strong, there is a boy tired of appearing strong when he feels vulnerable. (www.crimethinc.com). WISH can be reached 24 hours a day 7 days a week by calling the emergency help line at 1-800200-3003 and/or during the day at 250-342-4242.

Lost, gold pendant, in shape of a stop sign, on weekend of April 9 to 11 in Invermere area.

Sentimental value, 250-3428819.

Saturday, May 1st , 9am to 3pm, 4785 The Dell Road, Windermere, used and new items, artwork, carpets, furniture, and clothes.

Big furniture moving sale, Saturday, May 1st from 9am to 12pm, #44 640 Upper Lakeview Road, the Highlands, queen log bed, dressers, kitchen table and chairs, and so much more!

Te Papa Nui is having a warehouse sale, making room for new shipment. Take advantage of clearance sale pricing on one of a kind antiques at Te Papa Nui in the Invermere Industrial Park, sale on until May 16th, 250-342-0707.

Garage sale in Castle Rock, Friday, Apr 30, 12pm to 2pm and Saturday, May 1st, 8am to 12pm, 1-2598 Mountainview Crest.

THANK YOU Thank you to all who turned out for our Spring Clean-up at the All Saints Church Cemetery.

ANNOUNCEMENT Lovely community center available at Bella Vista Estates (Fairmont), for weddings, clubs, reunions, up to 60 ppl. Call Bob 250-345-6668.

Open to all. Regular meetings of the Columbia Valley A.A. are held at 8 p.m. Saturday, Sunday and Wednesday at the Valley Connection, far end of the Service B.C. building, 625-4th Street, Invermere. The Radium Friendship Group meets at 8 p.m. Friday at the Catholic Church, east side of Main Street, Radium. Call 250-342-2424 for more info.

s obituary s Erwin Kloos With great sadness we announce the passing of Erwin Kloos on April 26, 2010 after a heroic battle with pancreatic cancer. Erwin died at home with his family by his side. He is greatly missed and lovingly remembered by his wife Barb, his children Nicole and Blair, his parents Maria and Steve, his sister Marion (Marcel) Labrie, his brother Harald (Samantha Monfee), his parents in-law Bob and Marg Comer, sister-in-law Pat Comer (Mike Bourns), brothers-in-law Ken (Susan) Comer and Gordon Comer, his special nieces and nephews whom he loved very much, and many friends.

Erwin was born at the Invermere & District Hospital December 25, 1959. He grew up in Invermere and graduated from DTSS in 1977.

Erwin was an outdoorsman at heart; his passion for life was his family and nature. He loved hiking and climbing the highest peaks. He spent many great days on the ski hill and in his youth he was an avid ski racer and judoka.

Erwin spent a year living in Vancouver and attending UBC. He then decided to move to Calgary and do a mechanic apprenticeship. It was a natural decision for him to return to the valley with his wife and work with his parents at Lake Auto Service. He took over the family business in partnership with his sister and brother until their retirement in 2008.

Erwin worked hard in life and played even harder.

Some of his most special times were spent on his mountain bike alongside his ‘biking brothers’, including the famous trips to Moab.

After several great summers spent at Kootenay Lake with friends and family Erwin and Barb found a log cabin in Gray Creek and purchased it. In 2008 they spent a glorious summer enjoying each other and the tranquility that Kootenay Lake brings. The cabin remained a place of love and happiness, bringing peace and solace in the good and hard times that followed.

In the last two years Erwin defied all odds and accomplished so much throughout his battle. He traveled to Mexico and went scuba diving and took another trip to Maui. He completed the 2009-2010 hockey season with the old timers and cleaned house at the awards ceremony. He also traveled many times to his cabin where precious memories were made.

Erwin was the kindest, most thoughtful person; he will be greatly missed. He touched many lives and was a source of inspiration to those around him until the very end.

We do not have enough words to thank the following people: Dr Ross, you allowed us to go about this the way we wanted to right until the end. You were there for all of us; Renate and Alice and all the doctors and nurses at the Invermere & District Hospital; Dr Dowden from the Tom Baker Cancer Center; Dr Sargeant, Dr Hinds, Mia, Isabelle, and Robin from the Canmore hospital; Keith, Alisha, and Camille from Pharmasave; and the lab girls for all the kind pokes. You have all walked alongside of us in this journey and eased our burden in such a big way.

A celebration of Erwin’s life will be held Saturday, May 1, 2010, at 3 p.m., outside at Pynelogs. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to PanCAN, the pancreatic cancer action network, or please do something special with your family and dedicate it to our family.

cheers & Jeers Cheers to Sarah Bennett at Prose Art for donating her time and expertise to our local Stephen Lewis Foundation Group “The Valley Go Go Sisters”.

Cheers to Cindy at Choppers Pet Supply for the great service and keeping her prices very low.

Don’t drive to the city when Cindy will take care of you here in Invermere.

Jeers to the department of highways, thanks for trying to patch the potholes in Edgewater, they are far too big to do by hand. Maybe next year you could possibly consider repaving at least one street in town.

Cheers to Fairmont Hot Springs Resort, Mountainside Market, and Smoking Water Coffee Shop for providing food and hot coffee to the Fairmont District Lion’s Club highway clean-up crew on Saturday, April 24th .

storage NEWHOUSE MULTI STORAGE Various sizes available.

Now with climate controlled units.

Call 250-342-3637 STORAGE SPACE – assorted sizes, easy access, immediate availability, long-term or short-term. Deck Properties Warehouse, Industrial Park, 250-342-3166.

You own it, we can store it!

Secure, fenced compounds any size up to one acre. Secure containers available. Would also build building to suit for long term tenant. Zoned heavy industrial. Invermere Industrial Park. Phone 250-342-5297, 250-346-3011 or 250-3422100.

COMMERCIAL SPACE Financial professional looking for other professionals to share space with. I have a great location with excess room.

Please call 250-270-0270.

thank you A huge Thank You to the following for making 2010 a very successful, fun-filled Easter Egg Hunt in Windermere! AG Foods, Babin Air, Columbia Cycle, Dairy Queen, Dobel Family, Eagle Ranch, For You, Great Canadian Dollar Store, Inside Edge, Interior World, It’s A Wrap, Lambert Kipp, Mei Mei’s, Monkey’s Uncle, Quality Bakery, Race Trac Gas, Radium Hot Springs Pools, Rockies Pizzeria, Ron & Rosemary Clarke, Source, Syndicate, Valley Hawk Security, Terry Pal, Valley Peak, Windermere Pantry, and Windermere Valley Golf Course.

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Phone: 250-341-6299 Fax: 250-341-6229 Email: info@cv-pioneer.com www.columbiavalleypioneer.com

COMMERCIAL SPACE

SUITE FOR RENT

SUITE FOR RENT

house FOR RENT

condo FOR RENT

condo FOR sale

864 sq.ft. warehouse space with loading dock, unheated, $656.25/month includes GST, available immediately. Call 250342-3637.

CARRIAGE COURT APARTMENTS. Conveniently located behind Sobey’s within walking distance to downtown. 2 bdrm townhouse units, outside entrance. Sliding glass doors open onto balcony, overlooking private courtyard. Fireplace and W/D included in each unit. Long term preferred, N/P, $750 - $850/month + DD. Utilities not included. Available immediately, 250-342-8781.

2 bdrm, furnished, clean apartment, $850/month, including cable and utilities, references required, DD, long term, 250-342-9636.

For Rent in Windermere, 3 Bedroom House, available May 15, 2010, $900.00/month + ½ DD. Hydro and satellite TV included, W/D, furnished. Quiet individuals or couples only.

Please contact Connie or Doug at 250-342-3047 in the evenings.

Radium, Stanley Street, 2 bdrm, 2 bath + den, insuite laundry, laminate flooring, fireplace, A/C, 2 underground parking stalls, N/P, N/S, available November 1st, $1100/month + DD, utilities included, 403-472-8992.

Affordable condo downtown Invermere, fully furnished, 2 bdrm, 1 bath, $139,900, 250341-1182.

Office/retail space for lease, street-front location in Invermere, 1 to 5 office layouts, incentives available with year lease. Competitive rates starting at $550/month. Mountain Creek Properties, 250-341-6003, Local 108.

Office space available.

Rent 1 room in a natural health practitioner’s office.

Available May 1st . Ideal for an acupuncturist, homeopath or any other natural health practitioner. Email radmarg@ xplornet.com

ACCOMMODATION WANTED 3 bdrm house for family of 3, all 40+ in age. Fixer upper okay, long term, 250-342-3981.

shared accommodation Roommate wanted to share a 3 bdrm, 2 bath, house in Edgewater with a single male and child, large yard, pet friendly, W/D, $450/month, 250-688-3473.

Room to rent in house in Invermere, satellite TV and internet included, $500/month, available immediately, Kelly 250-342-0700 or Kate 250-3421157.

One or two roommates wanted for a house in Radium, private bathroom and living room with shared kitchen and laundry, $450/month, phone 250-3477724.

Hillcrest furnished apartments utilities included. 1 bdrm units, $600/month, 2 bdrm units, $800/month. 250-341-1182.

Radium, 1 bdrm furnished apartment, $650 including cable & utilities. Bachelor efficiency, $550, available immediately. DD, N/S, N/P, references required. Call Don or Susan, 250-342-6908 or 250347-7775.

2 bedroom lower walkout suite for rent in Invermere, very bright and clean, large yard, N/S. $ 800/mth. Includes utilities. Available immediately.

2 bedroom, 2 bathroom upper suite, large decks and yard, very clean, N/S. $925/mth. Includes utilities. Available immediately.

250-342-9770.

Invermere, 2 bdrm, spacious, 1400 sq.ft. suite, 2 min. walk to schools, newly renovated floors and kitchen, large fenced in yard, all appliances included, $750/month + ½ utilities. 250341-5747.

2 bdrm, lower level walk-out, clean & bright, large windows etc. D/T location, D/W, W/D, N/S, $850/month. 250-342-3790.

Bright 2 bdrm basement suite, available June 1st , N/S, separate entrance, includes 4 appliances, cable, and utilities, close to beach, $850/month, DD required, 403-819-8121.

Mobile on large lot in Wilmer, $800/month + Hydro, 250-3463011.

house FOR RENT

condo FOR RENT

FOR RENT

2 bdrm + den condo in Radium.

Fully furnished, 6 appliances, granite, cast iron fireplace, hot tub, pool, underground parking, long or short term rental, 403861-7754.

Contact

250-342-5914 for seasonal or long term rentals or go online at

www.EricRedeker.com

Outstanding 3 bdrm, 3 bath executive home, steps to everything. Mature, responsible renters only, $1350/month, 250-342-6577.

Home for rent, close to downtown, 2 bdrm, W/D, available May 1st . $800/month + utilities, 250-341-6080.

3 bdrm house in Windermere, $1100/month + utilities, 7 appliances, fenced yard, available immediately, H. 250498-6298, C. 250-689-1041.

Small 1 bdrm home on 12 acres, Edgewater area, utilities included, $850/month, N/S, N/P, available immediately, 250342-3381.

Radium 3 bdrm house, W/D, N/S, N/P, $900/month + utilities + DD, 250-342-3841.

Sable Resort, Large 1 and 2 bdrm units avail both with a den, 2 bths, 6 appliances, in-suite washer/dryer, fireplace, gas bbq, secure underground parking w/ storage. N/S, N/P $775 (1bdrm) and $900 (2 bdrm) per/month, fully furnished. Unfurnished option available. Call Brent at 888-292-3332 ext 2 or email brentmpeters@gmail.com Downtown Invermere, 2 bdrm, fully furnished, all utilities included, $900/month, N/P, N/S, available May 1st , 250-3411182.

Brand New 3 bdrm, single garage, townhouse with insuit laundry, in Borrego Ridge, Radium. 1400 sq. ft. Available Immediately. $1300 + Utilities.

Call 403-875-0214.

Black Forest Village unit available for rent immediately. 2 bdrm with garage, N/S, $1100/ month. Call Keith for more info, 250-341-1400.

Radium Pinewood 3 bdrm, 1400 sq.ft., in-suite laundry, F/P, A/C, underground parking, available immediately, $1200/month, utilities included. 403-8750214.

A bright & spacious upgraded 2brm townhouse with laundry & a single car garage. Call 403 251-6947 or remi.plante@ gmail.com to move in today!

Panorama 1 bdrm condo in Horsethief, available June 1st , furnished, recently renovated, $900/month, 403-256-9099 or rossgreen@yahoo.com Panorama, 1 bdrm loft condo, fully furnished, available April 15th to November 30th , $950/ month, includes utilities. 250347-9017.

Panorama Condo, 1 bdrm in Hearthstone, fully furnished, 5 appliances, private garage, $900/month, includes all utilities, for quiet couple or single, available May 1st . 250688-0634 or 250-688-0635.

house FOR sale

Radium Sable Ridge condo, 2 bdrm, 2 bath, Den, A/C, F/P, Granite counter tops, heated parking stall, swimming pool, hot tubs, club house, asking $269,900 OBO. Contact Roger at 403-256-0694.

Brand new 1600 sq.ft. D/T Invermere, 3 bdrm, 2 bath + garage. Reduced to $299,900 + GST, www.cedarwoodglen.com, 250-341-1182.

Mobile home FOR sale Must sell, 3 bdrm mobile on pad in Juniper Heights. Only $30,000 OBO, 250-342-6813.

2006 Modular home, immaculate condition, wood stove, boat shed, and storage shed. Pad rental $225/month, drive by 8814-7 Shawnessy Street, Canal Flats. $118,000 OBO. Call 250-349-5439 or 250421-4790.

timeshare FOR sale Radium Valley Vacation Resort, RV Site, Lot #100, weeks 28 & 29, peak time, $4500 for each week. Call 403-948-2625.

LOT/ACREAGE FOR SALE

condo FOR sale

8 acres of hay meadow, beautiful mountain views with great building opportunity, on town water, near Wilmer, Toby Hill Road. Price reduced $395,000.

Call 250-342-2802.

Canal Flats Townhouse for sale, rent to own, $1450/month. Call today 250-344-5594.

2 fully serviced lots, 82’ X 100’ each, north end of Invermere.

Call 250-342-6157.

House for sale, 3 bedroom plus in-law suite, $379,000. To view, 250-342-8621.

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Pioneer Classifieds LOT/ACREAGE FOR SALE

Misc. for sale

View lot close to schools, 211 Pinetree Lane, Invermere, .220 acres, $135,000. Phone 250341-3521.

Quality Top Soil & Manure.

Top Soil $160/dump truck load, $70/pick-up load. Manure $100/ pick-up load, delivery extra. Call, 250-342-1268.

wanted Wanted: truck Cap for 2001 Tundra, 78” x 68”, 250-341-6287.

PETS

Snoopy is a 4 year old Bichon x Cocker x Beagle. He is great with children but is not so good with cats. He does not like being left alone so he’d be best suited to a stay-at-home sort of family.

He needs an understanding yet firm owner to help him live a happy life. Snoopy is currently at Second Chance Animal Shelter in Nelson, BC. If you are interested in adopting Snoopy please call 250-352-2228 or email secondchanceadoption@ shaw.ca

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BEDS FOR SALE

CALL 250-342-9246 Beautiful double garden door with sky light window, still in the wrapper, $1200 OBO, 250342-5024.

18 speed Huffy mountain bike, $75 OBO, 250-342-6126.

Explornet Internet Satellite System, 2 years old, new $620 value, for $200, includes dish, modem, and installation. Call 250-342-3129.

Moving boxes, approx. 20 lg.

China boxes and 20 – 25, 3 cu.ft., $100 OBO; small oval antique dining table, 36” X 45”, plus 4 chairs, all with twist legs, $700 OBO; 3 antique rocking chairs, different wood and styles, $150 each OBO. Call 250-341-3749.

8’ X 20’ metal shipping container, makes great secure storage, very good condition, $3500.00, phone 250-342-4665.

2006 Thurobuilt, 3-horse angle haul trailer, mats, drop windows, tack room, $5900, 250-342-4665.

Misc. for sale

Fertilizer, Money’s sterile mushroom compost, $60/cubic yard, 250-342-5224.

RECREATIONAL VEHICLES 2005 Yamaha Scooter for sale, 170 kms, call 250-342-5070.

For Sale: 2002 33 ft Tahoe Toy Hauler fifth wheel, $14,900.

Fits up to three quads, sleeps 6-8, walk around master bed microwave, heater, hot water, fridge-freezer. AC unit and onboard generator, large awning, stereo, excellent condition, Contact: 250-3415829.

2007 Rockwood Signature ultra Architectural Shingles, 3000 light trailer, 32 ft, dbl slide, N/P, sq.ft., dark green, used 16”x36” N/S, mint condition with many panels, $3650 OBO. Bob, 250- options, $18,900, 807-629-6535 345-6668, Fairmont.

Dirt bikes for sale, 2002 Yamaha Ikea, birch and silver, 2 level TTR125P $1500, 2002 Honda computer desk, easy to XR200R $2500, both bikes in assemble, 2 pull out panels for good condition, call 250-342more work space, with chair 1010. $60, 250-342-3595.

VEHICLES for sale Large deep freeze, $90, 2501997 Chrysler Intrepid, good 342-3841. condition, new tires, $2000 OBO, 2-person peddle boat, rubber 250-347-9585. wheel carriage, $190; Double bed, box spring mattress, $250; 2004 Chevy Trailblazer LT., fully 2 closets, 3’x5’, $25 each. 250- loaded, black, well maintained, 219km, REDUCED TO SELL!!

341-6043. $6500 OBO call 250-342-5440

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VEHICLES for sale

services

2000 Dodge Caravan, excellent condition, 250-342-6154.

Phil’s Carpentry, Everything from roofs to decks, completion of basement and bathrooms.

Phone 250-341-8033 (cell) – 24/7. Not on valley time.

1986 F-250 XLT Lariat, $800 OBO, call 250-342-5024.

Working hand-crafted oak spinning wheel; coastal Salish woven cedar tray and basket from early 1900’s, call 250-3426846 for information.

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2003 Chevy Silverado LT., fully loaded + extras, black, comes with custom canopy, great truck, 266km MUST SELL!! $7000 OBO Call 250-342-5440.

2007 Ford Focus Wagon, 58000 kms, fully loaded, 4 winter tires on rims, $12,500, 250-3415740.

boat for sale

SAILBOAT for sale, MacGregor 26, purchased new in 1995 and in excellent condition. Four sails, including spinnaker and furling genoa, easy to transport with water ballast system, full cabin with head, sink, and sleeping accommodation, int. lighting and exterior navigation lights, Nissan 8HP motor and trailer with surge brakes. Comes complete with cushions, swim ladder and GPS and orange float ball. Located in Windermere.

Price $17,500, 250-342-9436.

18’ Starcraft, Aluminum hull, 85hp merc, 4hp merc, kicker, and fish finder (older model), $6000 OBO, 250-341-1004.

BUSINESS FOR SALE Busy seasonal cafe for sale in Invermere, B.C. Serious inquiries only, 250-341-5370.

Vacuums Parts, repairs & accessories, All makes & models Central Vacuums – sales and installations Bonded & licensed Fine Homeservices 250-342-9207, fhs@telus.net Furnace & duct cleaning services using the patented rotobrush system. Call AQUAIR for free estimates, 250-342-5089.

Water treatment & purification, includes drinking water systems, softeners & conditioners, iron filters. Call AQUAIR, 250-3425089.

Heaven’s Best Carpet and Upholstery Cleaning. Dry in one hour! Call 250-688-0213.

Budget Blinds Customized to fit any window “No Questions Asked Lifetime Warranty!”

Commercial or residential Call a professional covering the Kootenays Free In-Home Consultations 250-342-5749 shannonsblinds@yahoo.ca www.budgetblinds.com ”We have a blind for any budget” New nail technician wanting to enhance skills and clientele using CND gel and liquid and powder, hypo-allergenic products at my home salon. Get pampered in a clean and casual atmosphere. Limited offer, $30/ set. Call Tracy at First Hand Nails, 250-688-0286.

services Tile & Slate Installs Journeyman Tilesetter 30+ years experience Custom Steam Rooms, Showers and Floors All work Guaranteed Competitive rates.

Call 250-341-5645.

SMT Construction Available for all your home building needs from start to finish including renovations. Call or email for your free quote today.

(250) 341-5529 or clever1@telus.net Working locally since 1997.

Red Rock Contracting, Custom installations of interlocking paving-stones, for your patio, driveway, etc. Retaining wall systems. For estimate call 250341-6869.

Flooring installations, lino, carpet, laminate and hardwood.

30 years experience. Call 250347-9192 or 250-341-1235.

CashCashCash We buy houses any price, any condition. Quick close. Call 250-344-4890.

College Student with a truck is back!

Book now for your spring yard clean, trash hauling, furniture moving, exterior painting, or the extra hands you need to complete any household job.

250-342-9446.

36” wide Ditchwitch SK500 for hire w/ stump grinder, Auger (6”, 10”, 24”) 6 way blade, 2 buckets, 14’ dump trailer for clean-up or moving needs, call Dean at 250347-9678.

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April 30, 2010

Pioneer Classifieds services

careers

Dog Grooming, bathing, nails, ears. Call now to make your appointment, 250-342-6178.

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Experienced Hungarian Cook required for seasonal work at Citadella Restaurant in Radium, BC. $15/hour, May to October, accommodation available. Email info@milliondollarview.ca

Odd jobs, casual work wanted, 250-342-6068, call Douglas.

English as a Second Language?

Private tutoring with certified teacher: Business English, TOEFL preparation, conversation, or grammar classes. All levels/all ages. Please email a.auger@ shaw.ca

HELP WANTED Fun loving, adventurous, physically able person to work with young man with cerebral palsy. For more info, call Debbie at 250-342-6907 or 250-3425341.

Windermere Valley Childcare Society, student wanted starting in May, must be 19 or over and willing to have a criminal record check, must be currently in school and returning in September, 40 hrs/week, some experience/courses necessary, will be working directly with children, 250-342-3168, ask for Arlee.

Laborer/Carpenters Helper wanted for 2 month job. Please phone after May 8th , 250-3421354.

Helna’s Stube is accepting applications for permanent p/t evening kitchen help/ dishwasher. Please call 250347-0047 or email mail@ helnas.com La Cabina Restaurante in Radium is looking for an experienced morning chef. For info call 250-347-2340. Drop off resume.

Invermere Family Chiropractic, part-time position, all day Friday, half day Saturday, with flexibility, needs to be a friendly team player, basic computer skills an asset. Please drop resume at our office next to Gone Hollywood Video.

Columbia Cycle (located in Invermere, BC) is looking for a full-time, experienced Bike Tech/Sale Assoc. Competitive wages. This position may result in year round employment.

Apply in person, send resume to: ccycle@telus.net , or fax 250342-6174.

careers

Bud’s Bar and Lounge is looking for door staff for the summer, please drop by or call Emily at 250-688-0710.

Roofer/Laborer wanted, must have valid Class 5, experience an asset but willing to train, starting $15/hour. Email cover letter and resume to koss. exteriors@gmail.com If you are self-motivated, reliable, energetic, have a clean drivers abstract, and want to work outdoors; a property maintenance company is looking for you, $15/hour to start, fax resume to 250-3420818.

Phone: 250-341-6299 Fax: 250-341-6229 Email: info@cv-pioneer.com www.columbiavalleypioneer.com

careers

OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR

Full time service station Assistant Manager required, working shifts and starting immediately at GAS PLUS in Fairmont, BC. $20.30/hr. duties included assist in managing staff and assigning duties, good customer service relations, motivated and flexible. Must have at least 1 year experience.

Knowledge of VERSA POS and INFO NET systems and LOTTO machine is a must, able to resolve customer complaints.

Fax resume’s to 250-345-6600, attn: to Mr. Muhammad Azeem Jutt.

Expanding Computer Services and IT company requires a full-time Office Administrator. The successful candidate will have outstanding communications skills, be highly organized, flexible and capable of performing tasks without supervision. This position requires excellent computer skills that include MS Word, Excel and Outlook, as well as bookkeeping experience, with knowledge of Simply Accounting being preferred.

Duties to include phone reception, bank deposits, invoicing, work order preparation and internet research for hardware quotes. A familiarity with the Information Technology business would be an asset. Remuneration includes a benefits package.

WANTED F/TIME SHORT ORDER COOK, GAS PLUS in Fairmont, BC, 2 positions, $15/hour, 40 hrs/ wk., work shifting schedules, overtime, weekends, days or nights. Must completed high school or equivalent, speak, write, understand and read English language, customer service oriented, related experience an asset, work with specialized cooking equipment, prepare and cook individual dishes and food, ensure quality of food and determine size of food proportions, and all other related duties, food preparation certificate essential but not required. Fax resumes to: 250345-6600, attn: Mr. Muhammad Azeem Jutt.

Administrative/Logistics Assistant

careers Landscaping Ferrier’s Waterscapes has a rare opportunity for an experienced landscaper in the Invermere area. If you have equipment experience, a positive attitude, good communication skills, along with related industry and safety courses, we would like to talk to you. Some travel may be involved.

Wage dependent upon attitude and experience.

Fax resume to: 250-3428860. Call 250-341-1589.

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careers

Please send resume with salary expectations to LPeppard@mountaincreek.ca or fax to 250-342-2029 or mail to Box 249, Invermere, BC V0A 1K0.

Please do not call the office to inquire about this position.

Eagle-Eye Tours is based in Windermere and is Canada’s largest birding tour operator, offering 40+ tours worldwide each year. To keep the show on the road, we need someone who can handle correspondence with our clients and help pull these tours off without a hitch. This is a long-term position of 30 to 40 hours/ week (flexible to meet your needs). You will have a variety of tasks to keep you busy from researching hotels in Australia to sending out packages for our trips to the Arctic.

Core responsibilities include: • Client correspondence (inquiries, invoicing, etc.)

• Database management • Researching and handling tour logistics (hotel, vehicle, and flight bookings) Requirements include: • Strong computer skills (Word, Excel, email) • Ability to work independently • Excellent customer service skills • Excellent communication skills (written & oral) • Attention to detail • Ability to manage competing priorities • An interest in travel Additional beneficial skills or experience could include: • Graphic design • Website design or maintenance • Marketing (web or print) • Bookkeeping • An interest in birds and birding We offer a competitive wage, flexibility, interesting work, and a collegial positive work environment. Work will commence June 15th.

Please submit your resume and a brief story about a personal travel experience

by May 15th to travel@eagle-eye.com. Ph: (250) 342-8640

CAREER OPPORTUNITY

East Kootenay Realty Ltd. Insurance Division has an immediate opening for a Level One General Insurance Agent.

Experience and licensing would be an asset but training will be considered for the right candidate.

Please drop off resume at East Kootenay Realty Ltd. (Insurance Division). 1225 A 7th Avenue, Invermere BC or e-mail ekrinvermere@ekrealty.com

Full-time Cook

Eagle-Eye Tours

For Austrian restaurant. Minimum 3 years experience. $17/ hour.

Resumes to Old Salzburg Restaurant at Box 217 Highway 95/93, Radium Hot Springs, BC V0A 1M0 or fax to (250) 347-9890

Pioneer Classified Advertising 250-341-6299

April 30, 2010

The Columbia Valley Pioneer • 37

Father and son duo make history

By Kelsey Verboom together since Dan inPioneer Staff troduced his son to the

backcountry at an early Local mountain age. guides Luke Griffith and The Griffiths lived in his father, Dan, have cut the town of Field, B.C., a new notch in Canadian before moving to Invermountaineering history. mere in 1993, so Luke Luke recently became has always been exposed certified as a full mounto the mountains. tain guide for hiking, Dan said, “I took mountaineering, and him ever since he was a skiing, making him the little tiny guy. He was alfirst second-generation ways riding in the backmountain guide to be pack. He just went along certified in Canada. on all kinds of trips.

Although mountain “I remember taking guides from all over the him heli-skiing when world work in our counhe was four-years-old. It try, only 155 have been was really cool. He stood certified in Canada as in the front of the helimembers of the Associacopter between my legs. tion of Canadian MounI was worried that he tain Guides (ACMG). wouldn’t be able to ski, Dan was certified in 1979 LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON — Local mountain guides Luke Griffith and his father, Dan, made Canadian moun- but he knew how to do as the 43rd guide in the taineering history this year by becoming the first father and son certified as a full mountain guide for hiking, moun- it.” country, while Luke now taineering, and skiing. Luke is the first second-generation mountain guide to be certified in Canada. Photo submitted.

Now, Dan and Luke holds the 152nd spot. both work for Canadian “In 30 years, only around 100 guides went through my dad was always around them as a guide. Because of Mountain Holidays heli-skiing during the snowier those courses, so it’s pretty spread out,” said Dan. that, I know stories about the roots of mountain guid- months, and spend the summer guiding clients of Canada’s mountains hold a rich history of guid- ing. I had the opportunity to learn from their stories Dan’s company, Mountain Adventures. ing tradition. In 1899, the Canadian Pacific Railway and experiences.”

Spending so much time together in the mountains began importing European guides to take their guests Dan agreed, “He has experiential knowledge I sometimes makes for a unique father-son relationship, safely into the mountains. These early guides — like don’t think even he knows he has. Because he’s been but the two men agree that arguments are inevitable. the Austrian Conrad Kain who settled in Wilmer — around guiding his whole life, I think he’s just good at “In order to be a mountain guide you have to be helped make first ascents of major peaks like Mt. Rob- it without really knowing why.” quite opinionated, and so often when we’ve had scraps son, Mt. Louis and Bugaboo Spire.

Although Dan downplays his own accomplish- because I thought we should do things one way and Early European guides lived in a housing complex ments, Luke has some rather large mountaineering he thought we should do it another way,” commented named Edelwiess, which was built by the CPR near boots to fill: in 2006, Dan set a world record when Dan. the railway in Golden, B.C. in 1911. This small village he successfully climbed the highest peaks on each of Laughing, Luke said, “We had a good argument still stands and can be visited today. the seven continents in only 187 days. He also became about me putting hot sauce in the soup. He didn’t By 1963, the need for a set system of standard- the oldest Canadian to summit Mt. Everest when he like that. We just suck it up. Me and my dad don’t ized testing resulted in the formation of the ACMG. reached its peak in 2006 at age 55. really have a father-son relationship when we’re in the Eight guides founded the association, including the Luke accompanied Dan up three of the seven mountains, we’re kind of buddies.” pioneers of heli-skiing, Hans Gmoser, and Brisco’s Leo summits, and Dan’s entire family joined him to the Adding another Griffith name to the list of CaGrillmair. The ACMG later became part of the Inter- top of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Dan, his wife Deborah, Luke, nadian mountain guides and becoming the first ever national Federation of Mountain Guides Association, and Luke’s sisters Rachel and Genevieve all climbed second-generation guide in Canada is an honour, but which qualifies its members to guide internationally. the Tanzanian mountain together, which Dan said was not the most important thing, Luke said.

As a new member of the ACMG, Luke feels con- his favourite mountaineering memory to date.

“I kind of think being first at it doesn’t mean anynected to the history and tradition of the guides who “I’ve climbed tons of different mountains and had thing really,” he said. have gone before him. different feelings of excitement or success, but it was “It’s an honour, and I think it’s great in the his“I think, as soon as you start doing it, you have to pretty neat when my whole family climbed Kilimaja- tory and tradition of guiding in Canada, but being a have that kind of a connection,” he said. “I’m lucky ro. It’s a different sort of feeling when you’ve got your mountain guide is more interesting than having a title. because I got to meet Hans Gmoser and all the old whole family there with you,” said Dan. It’s not really about what you do, it’s about how much guys. I’ve known them since I was a little kid because Dan and Luke have made countless other trips you enjoy it.”

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April 30, 2010

Green Zone: memories of Pebble Beach

By Harold Hazelaar Pioneer Columnist It has been 100 weeks since I played my round of golf at the Pebble Beach Golf Links.

Even after all that time, I can still remember all my great or good golf shots (21) and all of my really crappy shots (76). The course was spectacular, extremely tough and awesome at the same time.

The views of the Pacific Ocean are fantastic and almost worth the green fee. I said almost! However, like I said back in 2008, the fee may be high but considering the history, scenery and challenge of the course, it was worth it.

Coming up in June, two years after I hacked up the course, the professional golf world will arrive at

Pebble for the playing of the 110th U.S.Open. I’m sure the rough will not be as forgiving for the pros as it was for me!

The course was already under renovation when I was there. Tee boxes were being constructed so far back on some holes, I would have to play them, driver, 3-metal, 5-metal to get there. And that was on a parfour! Seriously, the speed of the greens, the height of the rough, the narrowed fairways, will turn the course into a brutal test for even the pros.

I do not believe for a minute, the USGA will allow a 15 stroke victory by Tiger Woods (2000 US Open), or anyone else for that matter. Pebble Beach will play as tough as it ever has.

Their website boldly proclaims: “In preparation, Pebble Beach has unveiled a number of course

enhancements, all under the direction of legendary champion and course designer Arnold Palmer. Pebble Beach Golf Links has recently been strengthened to enhance player appreciation, heighten the challenge and exceed guest and championship expectations.”

If you were brave enough to book a tee time there for sometime between now and early June, (a mere $600 that includes cart and tax), I am willing to bet, you would be so discouraged you would contemplate knitting as your new sport!

One day, I will return to play the course again, but only when it returns to the tamer, normal brute that is Pebble Beach.

The Green Zone Quote of the week is by Arnold Palmer: “How did I make a twelve on a par-five hole?

It’s simple. I missed a four-foot-putt for an eleven.”

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April 30, 2010

FAITH

Is your life in full bloom?

By Pastor Scott Peterson Valley Christian Assembly I love spring time. In fact, it’s probably my favourite season of the year.

Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy all four seasons.

Winter time is fun, but after we’ve gone through several months of cold weather and windshield scraping, I’m ready for the sun to heat up. There are also a couple of significant celebrations around spring time. The major one being Easter Sunday — not to mention my birthday in March!

Something wonderful occurs in the spring. Flowers begin to bloom, the days become longer, the temperature becomes warmer, and the grass becomes greener. Spring is a time for transformation, where potential beauty begins to bloom. My question today is: what would you like to see bloom in your life?

In John, 10:10, Jesus said, “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” Just as flowers and trees come into full bloom, God desires for all of us to reach our full potential.

Jeremiah, 29:11, tells us that God plans to bless us, to give us a hope and a future. How do we find our blessed future, and experience life to the full?

The key is to discover our God-given potential.

When I was a kid, I began to play the piano and gui-

tar. Then, at age 11, I picked up the drums. A few years later, I was playing bass and trumpet.

Now, don’t misunderstand me. Just because I can play several instruments doesn’t mean I am proficient at them all — you know the old “jack of all trades, master of none” idea.

However, what I did discover at an early age was my God-given potential for music and, through the years, I have had the opportunity to develop it and use it for the Lord.

The Bible gives us all a blueprint for how to properly build our lives, with our faith in Jesus Christ as the Chief Cornerstone (I Peter, 2:6). God also has a specific plan and purpose for His children, to use the specific personality, talents, and abilities that He blessed us with.

He reveals His will to us a season at a time, as we continue to live for Him. In order for us to discover who we are and what we are called to do, we need to follow God’s plan, rather than try to live life on our own.

If we tried to build a house without architectural plans, we would probably make a lot of mistakes along the way, wasting time and resources. How many of us have wasted precious time in our lives, trying to figure out the secret to happiness, life to the full?

The answer is Jesus, the one who created you, loves you, and prepared a divine destiny for you. James, 1:5, says, “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.”

God is ready to help you bloom where you are planted, and experience genuine life to the full!

Pioneer briefs Windermere Valley Ladies Golf Club April 21st was the first day of golf for the Windermere Valley Ladies Golf Club and 21 ladies enjoyed the game in hot weather.

The game was ‘Team Putts’ and the winning team was Deb Plato, Pat Andruschuk, Raylene Oram and Oris Hanson. The putting pot was won

by Mary Jean Anakin and the deuce pot by Diane Kochorek.

Dale will be running golf clinics on May 5, 12 and 19 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., and the cost

is $10.00 for each clinic. Please sign up for each clinic.

Valley Churches Lake Windermere Alliance Church Sunday, May 2nd, 10:30 a.m.: Worship and Life Instruction, “Public Relations: LOVE” K.I.D.S. church for children aged 3 to 12 during the service.

Pastor Trevor Hagan • 326 - 10th Avenue, Invermere 250-342-9535 • www.lakewindermerealliance.org Windermere Valley Shared Ministry ANGLICAN-UNITED Sunday 8:30 a.m.: Worship at All Saints, Edgewater 10:30 a.m.: Worship at Christ Church Trinity, Invermere Rev. Sandy Ferguson • 110 - 7th Avenue, Invermere 250-342-6644 • www.wvsm.info or www.christchurchtrinity.com Valley Christian Assembly Sharing Truth, Showing Love Sunday 10 a.m.: Worship and Word Kids’ Church provided.

Pastor T. Scott Peterson 4814 Highway 93/95, Windermere 250-342-9511 • www.valleychristianonline.com Roman Catholic Church Sunday: 9 a.m. at Canadian Martyrs Church in Invermere 11 a.m. at St. Joseph’s Church in Radium 11:30 a.m. at St. Anthony’s Church in Canal Flats Father Jim McHugh 712 -12th Ave., Invermere • 250-342-6167 ST. PETER’S LUTHERAN MISSION OF INVERMERE Worship services every Sunday at 1:30 p.m.

Christ Church Trinity, 110 - 7th Ave., Invermere Pastor Rev. Fraser Coltman • 1-866-426-7564 Radium Christian Fellowship Sunday 10 a.m. Worship service 7 p.m. Special Praise, Special Prayer and Especially the Love of God Pastor Wayne and Linda Frater • 250-342-6633 No. 4, 7553 Main St. Radium • 250-347-9937 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Worship Service, Sunday 10 a.m. • Sunday School, 11 a.m.

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