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Celebrate the holiday season with us!

Submitted by the Town of Golden While Santa and his team prepare for Christmas, the Town of Golden and friends are busy organizing some fantastic holiday events for everyone.

It all begins on Saturday, December 19, with the annual children’s Christmas party! Being held at the Civic Centre from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., this year’s event is going to be the best yet! The Town of Golden has partnered with a plethora of local service groups to bring you story-telling, a lifesized board game, arts and crafts, face painting and a colouring contest. Most importantly, Santa Claus will be dropping by for a special visit! The event is free to attend, please help by bringing a donation for the Golden Food Bank.

The holiday fun doesn’t end there!

Santa has a bit if extra time on Sunday, December 20 and he would like to spend it skating at the Golden Arena! From 4:30 p.m. to 5:45 p.m., Santa will spend the hour skating with some lucky people! All proceeds from this public skate will go to Golden’s Special Olympics athletes.

The ToG Rec Services team has also planned some BONUS skates throughout the holidays and a few extra Puck-and-Stick dates. Our newest dropin program, the Puck-and-Stick hour is a great way for youngsters 12 and under and parents to play hockey together . Admission is $2.75.

Helmets, shin guards and gloves are mandatory and participants must bring their own stick. “The ToG Recreations Services team is getting into the holiday spirit and we want to spread some cheer to residents by offering some extra special BONUS skates!� say Manager of Recreation Services Jordan Petrovics. “Our Public Skate and

new Puck and Stick program are a great way to get out with the family and enjoy the holiday season!�

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Rounding up the Christmas fun is the annual Fire Rescue Christmas Eve tour. “Starting at 5:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve,

Golden Fire Rescue will be continuing their annual tradition of helping Santa hand out candy canes to children,� says Golden Fire Chief Dave Balding. “Watch for them in your neighbourhood.�

Watch and listen for the fire trucks and be sure to come to the end of your driveway to meet them.

If you or your child can’t make it to the street, please contact the Golden Fire Department to make special arrangements at 250-344-6401.

For more information on holiday events, please call 250-344-2271 or email us at rec.booking@ golden.ca.

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Golden’s Gym building a ‘fitness family’

by Sarah Elizabeth Special to Golden This Week Keefer Dondaneau, 25, shares his long-time passion for body building at his newly opened Golden’s Gym where he works with clients to create and achieve their fitness goals. Keefer says he hopes that clients will continue to come back and work out as a member and part of a growing, supportive fitness community in Golden, BC. “It’s a fitness family,” Keefer explains of the inspiring and supportive environment created by the members at the gym. “Everyone builds each other up and works together.”

Keefer has been body building as a sport since he was a student at Golden Secondary School where he took a body building class with teacher Steve Benty. Since then, he has played hockey and taken courses and seminars to build his knowledge. A knowledge he eventually used to branch out and start his own business in Slave Lake, Alta., in 2012, while working in the oil patch.

His determination to build his business paid off.

“I get to go to work, versus having to go to work,” he says, explaining the mentality change

when working for yourself at something you are passionate about. Passion is inspiring, he adds.

“It’s hard to be inspired by people who don’t put 100 per cent into what they do,” he explains, smiling. “It’s any gym goers dream to lift weights.

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There’s no better life than lifting weights and talking about lifting weights.”

Keefer moved his business back to his hometown of Golden this past September.

“It’s much nicer to live here, where everyone knows everyone,” he says, adding, “I can see the ski hill from my office.”

Golden’s multiple opportunities for outdoor recreation through the seasons bring athletes to his gym to balance their strength. Assisting athletes, including skiers, climbers and bikers, is part of what he does as a personal trainer at the gym.

“I’ve been seeing a steady increase in clientele.

Everyone is an athlete here (in Golden),” he explains, adding that working with clients on their work-out goals is part of the fun of his job.

“It feels good to work with people through their unique individual needs,” he says, explaining it is during the initial mandatory consultation process he has with members when injuries and illnesses are typically revealed and goals are set. Of the challenges he’s seen at the gym, Keefer says body image is one.

“It can bother someone to be skinny just as much as it bothers someone to be overweight,”

he explains, adding, “It affects both men and women.”

Keefer says if he can help someone succeed their goals, then they keep coming back and it builds into the family attitude at the gym.

“Generally, we want people to come back,” he says, adding, “It creates an easier, more fun, better environment where everyone’s friends - like working out with a family.”

“I try to accommodate. Some people wanted a rowing machine, so I put in a rowing machine,” Keefer says of the service he provides through the gym. His motto is “If you don’t succeed, we don’t succeed.”

Golden’s Gym, located at 101 806 9th St. N., is part of a fitness community working together to offer a full range of options and provide incentives to get folks out to the gym. A partnership with Elite Nutrition offers members to Golden’s Gym 15 per cent off products. Keefer says he is currently working on building more partnerships with businesses in the community.

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‘I’m Gipp Forster, have a Merry Christmas’

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If you listen to the local radio station - EZRock, 106.3 FM - you’ll know it’s that time of year again when you’ll hear the stories of Gipp Forster come over the air, in his soothing, gentle voice. “It Feels Like Christmas� - some Christmas music plays, then there’s a story, you know the ones. “Mrs. Beasley,� the story of his daughter, and how she gives away her new doll to another little girl. “The Wooden Soldier,� about the little boy who saved all year to buy his mother a Christmas gift. And so many more. At the end he says, “I’m Gipp Forster, have a Merry Christmas.�

Forster made his home in Victoria. An ordained minister, he was also a natural storyteller, Forster was hired to spin tales on the local radio. He was also a regular columnist for Senior Living magazine.

His greatest claim to fame however, was his project The Mustard Seed, a street church and food bank, founded in 1975.

Forster worked the streets serving “People who knew Victoria’s ‘down and out’ and functioned Forster, knew how largely as a street pastor. The idea came to form a church that would serve this much he loved demographic, and a food bank initiative Christmas. Physically, next was a natural extension of the church. “Gipp was aware of the problems. he resembled Santa He’d seen them. He cared for people who were in jeopardy or had problems,� said Claus, and during the Mel Cooper, a former owner of CFAX, a holidays his home local Victoria radio station. “This was his was spectacularly way of life. He didn’t work for money.�

What began in a small prayer closet, decorated. soon moved to a larger location, and He was also known then again as the operation grew over time. ‘The Mustard Seed has expanded to play Christmas to become a multi-purpose agency that music in his car, meets the needs of the whole person living in poverty.’ all year round.�

Today the Mustard Seed is comprised of a vibrant Street Church, an active Food Bank, a Family Centre and a number of other dynamic ministries. It serves more than 5,000 people each month in Victoria alone, with more than 50 volunteers who keep things running on a daily basis. Sister churches now operate in both Calgary and Edmonton.

People who knew Forster, knew how much he loved Christmas. Physically, he resembled Santa Claus, and during the holidays he went to great lengths to decorate his home for the season. He was also known to play Christmas music in his car, all year round.

Forster died in 2013, at the age of 76. But his spirit lives on in his stories.

Next time you hear the music start to play, take a minute to stop and listen.

It’s a true spirit of Christmas, played regularly in more than 75 cities across North America.

The stories are available on CD, but they’re hard to find. You are more likely to find the complete collection of stories on YouTube. Search ‘Gipp Forster Christmas.’

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Craft Faire a showcase opportunity for all ages

Emme Abbs, aged 11 and friend Elisha Assaf, aged 12, sell their handmade crafts at the faire this year. Abbs’ specialty is sewing. She says it took her a week to prepare the baby blankets of many colours she sold at her booth. She said she felt nervous about possibly not getting everything done in time. As a young crafter who sold her work for the first time at the faire, Emme says, if she doesn’t sell all of her creations, she will branch out and try online.

Elisha’s specialty craft is baking. She offers vegan cupcakes and chocolatey cornflake chips at the shared booth. She says she loves to bake. “It’s really fun being in the kitchen baking and being around sweet stuff,� Elisha explains.

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‘Everyone brings joy to this house’

by Garry Irving Special to Golden This Week

There is a board above our doorway that reads‌Everyone brings joy to this house‌ Some when they enter and some when they leave.

How true that is as we all have those we like and dislike. That is the joy of living where we do so we can decide for ourselves who we wish to associate with while leaving others to live the way we want to.

It is hard to understand that some people do not have the freedom that we have as Canadians. We can choose our own government and our religion. We as Canadians have, through history, welcomed those who wish to start a new life in this country.

Throughout our history this country has always been about 1/10th the population of our neighbor, the United States. This computer board corrected the spelling of the word neigbour with the ‘u’ as we do in Canada, but they do not in the United States.

At the end of World War II we had a population of around 11 million, and today that number has swollen to almost 35 million (about

the population of the State of California).

Recently a Senator in the US suggested that a fence be built between Canada and the United States to ensure that terrorists could not cross the large undefended border between our two nations. Thank heavens that was only one voice we heard although I am sure those on both sides of the border feel the same.

The point in my mind is that this type of rhetoric always surfaces when there is a depression that affects all of us. We all tend to retreat to our abodes and hunker down but unfortunately there are those that do not have that luxury.

Provided those in the refugee camps really want to come to Canada then let’s help them.

However, we do not need to push them to come here if they really do not want to so we can fill up a quota.

My father and mother came from England.

My grandfather was transferred to Canada in the late 1920’s to take over an English based company that had expanded to London, Ontario.

Dad was just a young fellow but had a good life during the dirty 30’s as his father (my grandfather) ran the company and was provided with a home and a new car every two years. Dad decided that Canada was for him so he joined the RCAF when his father was recalled to Britain in 1939. The rest is history as he met my mom who was in the WRAF (Women’s Royal Air Force) and she came back with him to Canada as a war bride.

Mum is due to celebrate her 94th birthday in Vancouver (where she now lives) and is very vocal about the state of the world today. Her comment was that if others really wish to live in this country, let them come, do not make this a political issue.

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It’s a Brighter Life - Roasted cauliflower and red pepper soup Getting ready for winter? Warm up with this easy, healthy and tasty recipe for roasted veggie soup.

Roasting intensifies the flavour and ramps up the sweetness of the cauliflower and red bell peppers in this colourful, fibre- and vitamin-rich soup, which gets a little extra kick from garlic and fresh thyme.

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Eat Pure: Shopping locally

by Judith Thibault Eat Pure Mountain Market Special to Golden This Week

Last year, one of my New Year’s resolutions was to shop locally as much as possible.

There are many reasons one may choose to attempt this; from the more obvious one of keeping money in our local economy; to more personal reasons like looking at our consumption habits, where products in our lives come from and how the person who produced them was treated or valued. One thing I know for sure is that no matter your reasoning, if you spend your money in your community it has a positive impact on its economy and it has a much higher chance of staying in the community.

By starting to spend our money in our local community we are creating a circle of what goes around comes around! Living in a small town like Golden, our shopping is limited in some ways and not in others - if you really start looking. Being limited can be a good thing because sometimes it helps us to look at whether we truly need something in the first place. We are lucky to have a wide selection of stores that offer pretty much all we need. From clothing and shoes to books, toys, art and office supplies to sports equipment, food, superfoods and herbal supplements to furniture and appliances, mechanical and hardware to general store supplies – there are a variety of amazing services!

Now, I can hear some of you say, “What about the things we can’t find here?” or “It’s cheaper at...” and I’m sure there are some things you need to find outside of Golden, but really have you done the research rather than jumping up and saying it’s cheaper to buy it elsewhere or I will never find this here? If you

leave town to go buy something don’t forget to factor in your gas money, your time, meals on the road, maybe even a hotel! Also, I’m sure all out of town shoppers can relate to buying items they didn’t really need or want but, “It was nice, cute, cheap, accessible so I just bought it anyway.” One more important thing to consider is that buying out of town means that if it is broken, the wrong size or you just changed your mind, you’ll have to go back to exchange it or just keep it and take the loss.

“By starting to spend our

money in our local community we are creating a circle of what goes around comes around!

Living in a small town like Golden, our shopping is limited in some ways and not in others if you really start looking.”

Online shopping is another easy, from-thecomfort-of-your-own-home, consumerism opportunity. Ask yourself: Do you really need it?

If you do, can you possibly find it or something similar in your town? It is worth looking and asking the local business owners as you will be surprised what they can get their hands on for you at a comparable price. I am doing it regularly. Not that I never buy things online, but I do consider spending my money here in Golden first. To give you an example, Bacchus Books has an amazing online store that you can shop at anytime of the day and then pick up at the store in within a few days for the same price as other popular online stores! At Eat Pure Market, Nicole will always compare prices from her many suppliers to find you the best deal for a bulk order. Make sure you ask her before heading off to Calgary as you might be pleasantly surprised with the price she’ll give you. Recently, there was a toy I really wanted for a Christmas gift. I went to all the stores that carry the brand in Golden, looking for a specific set. I couldn’t find it so I asked the owner to see if she could bring it in. In the end she wasn’t able to get it, but I felt that she was grateful for the opportunity and also surprised by the request - meaning it probably doesn’t happen very often! In the end, I ordered it online and felt good about myself because I had made the effort to ask my local store.

Consider also the many home-based businesses in town. There are a wide variety and it’s worth knowing who those people are. You can get some pretty amazing products, support someone local and know that you are getting a quality-made product, too! You may pay a little more for things made locally, but you can be sure that the person who made it was paid a living wage and has fair working conditions.

Too many of the products we use everyday come from far-away places, like China and Bangladesh, are made cheaply and end up breaking anyway. Never mind the issues of wages, working conditions or pollution from transportation. Again the money you spend in your community will most likely stay in your community if we all work at it!

And then there is the habit that our modern world tries to force upon us: Consumerism.

First, I want you to imagine a big box store the ones you see on the outskirts of big cities with parking lots the size of football fields and a store the same size within. Once inside, you see attractive colorful displays, SALE signs everywhere making you think you are getting a terrific deal, and rows upon rows of STUFF. You forget what you came in for, are swayed by the “buy 2 get 1 free” signs and end up leaving with a cart full of things some that you came for and at least a few extra things you didn’t!

These stores are designed to help you make impulse purchases. Do you really need what you are about to buy? This is the other part of the resolution I made; to look at what I was purchasing and ask myself if I truly need it. I would have to say that more than half of the time I didn’t. Eliminating impulse shopping isn’t easy, for many of us it brings positive emotions or a short lived “high,” but later when the bill comes it can cause stress and anxiety. If you start to consider whether you need something before you purchase it, then when you do make a purchase, it is something you truly need and you will truly appreciate it. I’ve just spent the last year doing that, asking myself those tough questions for every purchase, and I would have to say that 90 per cent of the time I left the store without it. It now makes Christmas a very exciting time and I have an exceptional wish

list filled with useful things like tools for my kitchen, wool socks, hemp or organic cotton undies and comfortable shoes to work in. That is what considerate shopping does to you. I plan to keep my New Year’s resolution going and take it to the next level as it feels wonderful to not fall into the trap of consumerism. I buy less and then when I do buy, I buy quality.

I have made the step to buy locally and that feels wonderful. I choose quality versus quantity and am giving myself a target to buy things locally made, hand-made, recycled or Canadian-made.

On a bit of a side note, I’m reading a book right now called Simplicity Parenting by Kim John Payne. My friend Sandra recommended it and said to me, “I would like to give a copy to all of my friends, it’s such a good book.”

I would have to agree. I’m about half way through and everything the author is saying my husband and I are working to apply to our family life. It is about less is more in all aspects of family life. Also, last week I watched the documentary I AM by filmmaker Tom Shadyac, which I rented from my local movie store. It is a must see on the subject of less is more.

Teaching children from a young age that consumerism doesn’t need to be such a huge part of our lives is a beautiful thing. Knowing the people behind your purchases is also a beautiful thing and you enjoy a connection you would not otherwise have. By shopping locally we help to create a better local economy allowing people to build their homes and lives here and continue to attract tourists and new residents alike.

This holiday season think about skipping that trip to the big city and exploring some local businesses, craft fairs or home-based businesses instead! I’m not trying to sound anti-Christmas, there is still a place for gift giving if you enjoy it, and I do, but take the time to find out what the person you are buying for really needs or likes so that your gift is appreciated and used! Of course you can make a gift too! Something as simple as a loaf of home-baked bread or a painting from a child can brighten anyone’s day.

We cast our vote everyday by what we do.

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Ice Cream for Breakfast: The many characters of Mommy

by Sarah Elizabeth Special to Golden This Week

Becoming a Mother means adopting new characteristics, or to make it fun new characters, into your world. Some of these characters are real, some not. Some characteristics come from the pit of your soul and others from a pit – or something. Since I’ve become a Mom, I’ve tried to be like my Oma by saying things like, “oy, oy, yoy,” and rolling my eyes like Lucille Ball from the I Love Lucy Show, when things get frustrating - and making homemade perogies. Surprisingly, the “oy, oy yoy,” has stuck, and brings me a bit of joy whenever I say it.

In addition to new characteristics, come new tools. For example, you know you live with a toddler when you’ve added a putty knife to your repertoire of cleaning supplies and use it as much as paper towels or rags. Rags are handy, paper towels are a luxury, but a putty knife is your best friend.

The putty knife guarantees some of the worst fears I have as a toddler’s Mom do not come true. Stepping on a toy car in bare feet and that pee smell are two of those fears, so is slipping in unidentifiable wet stuff or discovering a new kind of grass growing from an old food source off the floor or worse, maggots.

As it is now, no matter what character I am, I wouldn’t even know I’m walking on floors half the time. I’m always hopping over puzzles, thrashing through stuffed animals, kicking diapers that have been torn off and thrown, like a University student who has just left home for the first time and has had too much to drink at a party and tears off his clothes – proudly and unashamedly - only for the sober best friend (which would be my character in this scenario) to pick up after them and attempt to get them home or, in forward thinking, to a potty.

Toddlers don’t need to become characters, they are characters and they love to dress up.

What’s truly lovely about them is how proud to be themselves they are. As a Mom to one and an experienced adult, I find this refreshing to see in practice. The look of satisfaction on my daughters face when she tears off her diaper and lets it drop to the floor with a pee-filled “plop,” is almost as endearing as when she throws a bowl of food on the floor - like a toostrong-for-its-size, naked-dwarf tyrant - because she doesn’t like it. Sometimes I feel like Snow White – the 1937 version - where she’s washing all the dwarfs’ dirty clothes, making their beds

“I’m always hopping over puzzles, thrashing through stuffed animals, kicking diapers that have been torn off and thrown.” Photo by Sarah Elizabeth. and cooking them food. I guess it’s about “earning your keep?” If I’m Snow White, then on a good day, my daughter is Happy, and on a bad day, she is Grumpy. Either way, I try to find the humour and the ever-so-important learning opportunities to make appropriate suggestions.

This, in an effort to develop my daughter’s character, is in the hope that she will grow up to be a delightful, if not at the very least, a respectful dinner companion.

Playing is one of my favourite parts of Motherhood. Just the other day, my daughter and I loaded up her pretend car and went to the beach. While swimming in the water a shark came by. Since I have a rational fear of sharks while swimming in any body of water, including fake ones, we screamed and ran out of the

water as fast as we could. Then I gave it a bit of thought. Perhaps my fear is a bit irrational.

After all, I find myself questioning the deep blue waters at the Ramada Pool and that water has been a friend of mine since I was pregnant and turned into a mermaid while swimming there regularly. I don’t want to pass this irrational fear of sharks on to my daughter, so I decided the next time we went to the “beach” I would face my fear. “Come on Mom!” my daughter excitedly yelled to me. I jumped in the back seat of her pretend car and off we went. When we arrived at the beach we put on our bathing suits and jumped into the water. As predicted my daughter yelled, “Oh no! Shark!” She started to run away and looked back to make sure I was following.

She stopped and watched as I continued to

swim. Not this time, I thought to myself. Not in this fantastical play scenario will this “shark” come and scare me out of my fun. So, I asked my daughter, “What do you think it wants?” This confused her, but she played along. It turned out the shark didn’t want anything at all. I said it if it didn’t want anything in particular, then perhaps it would like to swim with us. By this time my daughter loaded the pretend car and drove back to Lego Island while I stayed behind and swarm with the shark.

Later that evening while wearing my best homemade love-cats ears (yes, there’s such a thing), I suggested we have ice cream. My daughter and my partner sat on the couch watching a show on Netflix while I went to the kitchen to get ice cream, just like Snow White, except as a cat. I thought it would be fun to jump out from behind the kitchen wall into the living room and do my best impression of said cat. Out I jumped, full-on pajamas, no bra, “I’m a cat,” I said. “Meow! Meow!” They reluctantly looked away from the snorting pig on the television in my direction. My partner smiled, but my daughter’s response was to not look at me at all. Instead she made a loud request-demand.

It went like this, “Ice cream!” I was stunned.

My high principles were offended. There I was giving my best cat impression and I was rudely interrupted. “What?!” I said, as I sadly went back to the kitchen. My partner made excuses from the couch, “She’s been really patient. She’s really looking forward to ice cream.” I gave them dirty looks from behind the wall.

I scooped a bowl of ice cream and drizzled warm, yummy, raspberry coulee on top. I grabbed a spoon and went back to the living room, walked past my partner and my daughter, who were still sitting on the couch watching pigs snort, and took my ice cream to the bedroom.

No I didn’t, I’m Snow White remember? I gave her the ice cream while merrily singing and went back to the kitchen to fetch my own bowl. Why? Because I’m a sucker fool - or a fool in love, rather.

There are many characters a Mom can play throughout the day. Snow White as she scrubs the dried tomatoes from the kitchen floor, her own parents or Grandparents as she recites clichés such as, “oy oy yoy,” or rolls your eyes like Lucille Ball at the day to day absurdities encountered in her family life – like hearing excuses from a couch. Through it all there are personal lessons learned, like facing your fears with new tools and clever conversation, but the number one lesson I learned this week is there’s a time for play-time and there’s ice-cream time and toddlers are serious about their ice cream.

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History Column - Names are part of our history too

by Duane Crandall Special to Golden This Week

You might have noticed the new signs that the Ministry of Transportation has put up on the local bridges and overpasses. It was a good idea since we are often talking about those things just as we talk about roads It was also interesting for me, because I have been recently wondering about the naming of community features and have been specifically wondering about the main bridge in town, Kickinghorse #1. It is good that it has a name, and it is the right name. This piece is not at all to suggest that it be changed.

But I still don’t like it.

I only wonder if the Kicking Horse name isn’t a bit overused. And it is probably the same with ‘Columbia.’

The way we name public things is a funny business.

That issue has been in my head lately because I have been wondering if anything has ever been named after the long-time MLA

from this town, Tom King. I may have missed it, but I don’t think so. And if someone had asked me to suggest a name for the bridge I would have said “It should be the Tom King Bridge.” I am sure that it was King who got the bridge built. If you have noticed the year that is carved into the bridge on each end, it is 1952. That is the year that he retired from politics, after being the MLA for twenty years. I can’t imagine it getting built without him having made it happen. Besides, it is something that is very significant in our daily routine here, we all cross it everyday, which would make it a fitting tribute to King, since he worked and contributed to this town for so long in his political life, and more importantly as a supportive citizen for much longer.

It isn’t that being MLA should get something named after you, but being MLA for that long perhaps should. There is a lot of difference between being elected six times compared to just once or twice. Only one other person, Jim Chabot, from Invermere, was elected more times in this riding, and James Chabot Park on Lake Windermere has been named after him.

So while I am making a case for public facility names in some instances, I also wonder why we have some that we do.

Take Lady Grey School for instance.

It was named for the wife of a Governor General of Canada. The Governor General was on a tour of Western Canada and there was a new school opening in Golden so they asked him to cut the ribbon and then named the school after his wife. Now I’m sure that Mrs. Grey was a nice lady, but all she did was breeze in and breeze out of Golden — and

we have paid homage to her for a hundred years since by naming a school after her!

Not only that, we did it twice! The school was originally called Lady Grey, then it was changed to Golden Elementary which again, made more sense. But then it was later changed back to Lady Grey, I would guess at the request of some of the alumni who had fond memories of getting their first kiss in the cloakroom in Grade 6.

“It was named for the wife of a Governor General of Canada.

The Governor General was on a tour of Western Canada and there was a new school opening in Golden so they asked him to cut the ribbon and then named the school after his wife.

Now I’m sure that Mrs. Grey was a nice lady, but all she did was breeze in and breeze out of Golden — and we have paid homage to her for a hundred years since by naming a school after her!”

In defence of those who did name it LG, that was in 1912, long before many of Golden’s history makers were on the scene (although they could have used

David Thompson’s name. They left that for Invermere to use for its high school in 1958).

Our streets used to all have names. Now they have numbers. I know that numbers make more sense, because it is so much easier finding places. But if what makes sense was what we always did you and I wouldn’t have names either, we would just have numbers, such as our Social Insurance Number. And Vancouver wouldn’t be Vancouver, it would just be B.C. #1. And then every town would have a number working out from Vancouver. Golden would probably be something like BC712 because we are 712 km from Vancouver. Which would make sense wouldn’t it? Just like 789 Nicholson Road tells you that that location is 7.89 km from the bridge in Golden. The name Golden doesn’t tell you anything. BC712 does, but what a wretched name that would be. How would we like our hockey team to be called the BC712 Rockets!?

Before street numbers Invermere used to have a street named Rotten Row. I think it was named after some place in England, but everyone was always proud to tell you that they lived on Rotten Row. Speaking of schools, the change of high school names from ‘high’ school to ‘secondary’ was one of the dumbest things that was ever done. That was a provincial thing where some Minister of Education must have thought thought we needed to pander to academic correctness. High schools might be called ‘secondary’ on the sign and diplomas, but they will always be called ‘high schools’ in common usage, and it is what they should still be named.

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