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Meet Marcel Cholo sculptor, maker of masks and more A piece carved out of 250 pound marble tells the story of the demise of the shapeshifters. Marcel’s carving depicts the shapeshifters as men and otters and includes the powerful woman of the woods who fed them medicine and pushed them to their demise.

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Kicking Horse Movies presents The Metropolitan Opera - Live performances, in HD from the Met Opera in New York t Showing: Saturday, March 5th at 11am.

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Golden’s People: Marcel Cholo, the man behind the masks

By Sarah Elizabeth Special to Golden This Week After being together for 13 years and living apart for 11, Marcel Cholo and Anna Rowe Cholo, along with their 8-year-old daughter Mia, settled in the mountains of Golden, B.C., in 2010. It was a decision that would bring Anna home after 20 years; and lead Marcel to discover a community of like-minded artists through sharing his unique three-dimensional creatures during Golden’s annual Snow King Festival.

Marcel and Anna met through mutual friends in the North West Territories in a town called Fort Smith while working for Parks Canada.

Anna was working in Visitor Services at Wood Buffalo National Park and Marcel was with Resource Conservation and Public Safety at Nahanni National Park Reserve. The two spent years working in the outdoors (Anna in various locations, including Pacific Rim National Park), living together in the off season, and often traveling to and from each other’s locations to be together. It wasn’t until Marcel got a local job with Parks Canada 3 years ago that the couple had been able to live in the same place together all year round.

“We realized we had common feelings about the mountains,” Anna says with a laugh, describing their shared love for the land. Growing up in Golden, Anna originally came to Canada from Scotland when she was 10 months old. “My father is a mountaineer,” she explains, adding, “Both parents wanted to live in the mountains and be outdoors as much as possible. I feel very settled here because this is my home.”

A member of the Liidili Kue First Nations, Marcel was born in Fort Simpson, a place known in the Dehcho Dene language as the place where the rivers come together (Mackenzie and Liard

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“We’re finally together as a family,” Anna says of their move to Golden in 2010. From left: Marcel Cholo, their daughter Mia, and Anna Rowe Cholo. Photo by Sarah Elizabeth.

Rivers). His connection to the land is rooted in generations of his family living and travelling in an area that is now a part of Nahanni National Park Reserve. During the ‘80s and ‘90s, Marcel spent many years living off the land with his relatives in a cabin in the bush – six miles from Fort Simpson up the Liard River - where he spent time hunting and trapping for food.

“The land goes forever,” Marcel explains of the location. With no electricity or communication, except for a bush radio, he says they spent their time “trapping, fishing, hunting and listening to the CBC.” “You realize how much you really don’t need and what you really do need. You’re not

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truly free unless you can walk away from your possessions,” Marcel says about what he learned from the experience. “If you got into a car accident, the first thing you’re going to think about is family.”

A memorable moment for Marcel while living in the North was preparing for his wedding to Anna by hunting for caribou. It was something that fed their guests and provided hide for Marcel to make drums out of.

“Nothing went to waste,” he explains.

In 2007, Anna and Marcel welcomed a daughter, Mia, while living in Yellowknife, N.W.T. One year later they were married in Golden and, shortly after, moved to the mountain community to

finally settle and be together as a family.

“I wasn’t sure I would find a community here,” Marcel says of coming to Golden. Soon after arriving, Anna, Marcel and Mia attended the Snow King Festival, an event that inspired the creator in Marcel, and surprised Anna after being away from the community for so long. “I couldn’t believe this amazing thing was happening in the middle of winter,” she says. Marcel was so taken with the event he showed up the following year dressed as a High Elven Warrior from Lord of the Rings.

“I didn’t really know what was going on,” Marcel explains laughing. “I showed up fully dressed.”

The following year, he became involved with the creative committee and stunned participants at the Festival with his beautiful King Fischer costume. Marcel says it was through the Snow King Masque Parade that he found a sense of a community within a community.

“I thought it was so cool. There’s no agenda or anything. People doing crazy silly stuff just for the heck of it. It’s lots of fun and so inspiring.”

Since he started working as part of the creative committee with volunteers and staff of Kicking Horse Culture, who host the event each year in Spirit Square, Marcel says the experience has been electrifying.

“Sparks go off. From nothing to an idea, to dress rehearsal,” he says, adding, “I wouldn’t do it if it wasn’t fun.”

As an artist Marcel says has used many different mediums in the last 10 years, including hide, sinew, bone, rock, paper, feathers, window caulking and foam. He often saves and uses things from “special times” found while traveling or items given to him, like antlers, sticks, rocks and bones, as inspiration for a piece. ... Continued on page 9

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Live the aquatic life this summer - become a lifeguard!

Submitted by the Town of Golden The Town of Golden is looking for some enthusiastic, amazing people to join our team at the Golden Pool as Lifeguards! Earn high school credits through the training, get a job that pays a competitive wage, work outside, teach people water survival skills and be proud to be part of a team that works hard and has lots of fun.

Lifeguarding can open numerous career building opportunities for those seeking to become health and wellness professionals.

The skills developed through lifeguard training can help you build opportunities in many fields.

Importantly, residents can take training right here at home! This is great news for people – especially youth – who aren’t sure what they want to do in terms of a career path. “Lifeguarding is an amazing first step to any career,� says Recreation Coordinator Kim Bryan. “I think that the skills that you learn through lifeguarding – through the certification process and holding a job as a lifeguard – carry on to many different career paths. And, the fact that we can offer it in town is amazing

because it means that it is more accessible to a variety of people and our current team gets to build a bit of a relationship with the National Lifeguard candidates. Talk about a great way to get your foot in the door!�

“Lifeguarding can open numerous career building opportunities for those seeking to become health and wellness professionals. The skills developed through lifeguard training can help you build opportunities in many fields.�

If you enjoy swimming and helping people, get your lifeguard tickets! “The Golden Swimming Pool is such a fun place to work, honestly,� says Bryan. “And no matter what happens down the road - maybe your Plan A falls through for a little while or you need to make some extra money while you go to school - your tickets can get you a job at basically any pool across Canada. Pools are always looking for lifeguards.�

Working at the Golden Swimming Pool is fun and exciting!

Courses start soon! Times/dates are registration dependant and are subject to change.

Standard First Aid & CPR-C: March 5-6 in Invermere. Cost is $249. Call 250-342-3210; March 19-20 in Canmore.

Cost is $128 - $204. Call 403-678-8920; or April 7-8 in Golden. Cost is $249. Call 250344-5901.

Bronze Star – recommended pre-requisites Swim Kids 9 and 12 years old: May 21-June 25, Saturdays 11am-1pm and July 19-28, Tues-Thurs 9-11am. at the Golden pool. Price TBD. Bronze Medallion and Bronze Cross Combo - must be 13 or have Bronze Star: May 27-June 29 from 3:30-5 p.m. Monday to Friday or July 5-14 from 9:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Tuesday to Thursday at the Golden Pool. Price TBD. Call 250-344-0120.

National Lifeguard - must be 16 by last day, have Bronze Cross and Standard First Aid February 26-28 and Mar 11-13 in Canmore. Cost is $361. Call 403-678-8920; March 21-31 in Kamloops. Cost is $350. Call 250-828-3655; April 1-17 in Cranbrook. Cost is $249. Call 250-344-5901; May 24 – June 29 from 3:30-5 p.m. and June 30 - July 14 from 1 – 4 p.m. Tuesday to Thursday or Aug 2 – 12 from 9:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. Tuesday to Friday at the Golden Pool. Cost is $375. Call 250-344-0120.

Golden to host minor hockey provincial tourney Submitted by Kim Weatherall Special to Golden This Week

March 12-17, Golden is honoured to be hosting the 2016, tier 4 BC Bantam Provincial Championships.

This event will house the top tier 4 hockey teams in BC. 135 hockey players, from

across the province of British Columbia, will participate in the province’s biggest and most high profile, divisional event in the quest for provincial supremacy.

Each team that competes in the provincial tournament must qualify through a playdown process. The winning teams that are declared the zone representatives

have earned the right to go for gold at the Provincial Championships.

This tournament is sure to excite all hockey fans; radiating that excitement throughout the entire community; including the volunteers, shops, restaurants and hotels. Players and coaches alike will be showcasing a seasons worth of hard work.

Local church hosts World Day of Prayer event Submitted by Yvonne Johnson Seventh-day Adventist Church

World Day of Prayer 2016, written by the World Day of Prayer Committee of Cuba “Receive children. Receive me.� Christian Women in Socialist Cuba.

National Flower of Cuba is the white butterfly jasmine. Cuban women have used the flower not only as an adornment for their hair, but also to transmit messages during liberation wars, and as a sign of their being Cuban. There can be no better

emblem for the 2016 World Day of Prayer service written by the World Day of Prayer Committee of Cuba. The service transmits their witness and experience of being Cuban and Christian, even when their faith meant isolation within the country they love.

With the triumph of the Revolution, a trade embargo by the United States brought Cuba economic isolation and material scarcity. Within Cuba a similar isolation formed around people of faith in the officially atheist state. Now the embargo is lifting, but uncertainty remains for the Cuban people. What can these women

tell the rest of the world about how faith endures in a secular world, of material and social challenges, and of hope?

On March 4, 2016, Christians in more than 170 countries and in 2,000 communities across Canada will gather to learn about, pray for, and the celebrate Cuba in solidarity with the women of Cuba through the World Day of Prayer. Please join us and invite your friends and family to attend the World Day of Prayer 2016.

A local World Day of Prayer service will be held at: Seventh-day Adventist Church 917 11th St. S. Friday, March 4, 7:00 p.m.

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Nourish Clinic: Meet the team!

by Liza Hindmarch Special to Golden This Week

806 Park Drive, Golden BC www.nourishclinic.ca Nathalie Bertrand: (250) 439 8479 welcome@nourishclinic.ca Holistic Life Coach Liza Hindmarch: (250) 344-5206 liza@munayholistics.ca www.munayholistics.ca Nutrition Consultation Judith Thibault: (250) 344-7066 judith@nourishclinic.ca Energy Healing Practitioner Randa Sultan: (250) 344-1747 sacredprana@gmail.com www.sacredprana.com Osteopathic Manual Practitioner Mark MacKenzie: (250) 939-8137 RockyMountainOsteopathy @gmail.com www.rmosteo.ca Massage, Bodywork, Yoga Kerri Lautamus: (250) 439-8035 kerrilautamus@gmail.com Art Therapist Janis Dyck: (250)344-5599 janisdyck@persona.ca Confluence Art Therapy

Meet Randa Sultan.

Q: What sort of treatments do you offer at Nourish Clinic?

I treat all forms of physical, mental and emotional ailments, as the underlying principle is the same. Energy imbalances in the body, mind and spirit cause illness; remove the imbalance and you remove the cause of the illness. In addition, there is a strong connection between emotional, mental and physical ailments. An issue that started off as an emotional basis, can turn into a physical ailment, and vice versa.

I specialize in balancing and enhancing energy in the body, mind and spirit through holistic energy healing and qigong; combining techniques I have studied over the last 20 years. Energy healing and qigong are used to treat issues such as pain, trauma, headaches, stress, anxiety, depression, digestive issues, grief/loss, addictions, sleep issues, self-esteem, joint issues, reproductive issues, chronic conditions and diseases.

I also offer personalized qigong instruction for those who have specific concerns (ailment, illness, emotional issues).

With the one-on-one qigong instruction, I develop a personalized qigong exercise program for the client to continue the self-healing process at home. The qigongfocused healing treatments can provide a better option to achieving targeted results.

With all of these methods, my goal is to return the client to their optimal health and wellness. I then put the healing power back in their hands by teaching how to maintain energy balance within the body.

Q: Can you explain a bit more about Energy Healing and how it works?

Like logs can block a stream, stress and negative experiences over time can block your internal energy flow. If our energy system is disrupted for long periods of time, this will lead to ill health. In other words, illness, pain, mental and emotional distress are the body’s way of telling us that our energy system is out of balance. By paying attention to the underlying energy imbalances and treating the cause of the symptoms, we can stop the illness from progressing.

Q: What exactly is Qigong, and how do you pronounce it?

My training is in Medical Qigong (pronounced “chee gong”) which is the oldest therapeutic modality of Chinese medicine. It is based on the principals of enhancing the flow of energy in the body and bringing it back to balance to promote healing. There is a strong self-healing component, which is an active meditation practice.

Qigong is also used to heal others, by using powerful techniques to remove energy blockages from the client’s body to restore health and wellness.

I lead weekly group qigong classes through Golden Lotus Yoga (above Element Therapeutics). I am also offering two empowering workshops for Spring Rejuvenation (April 3rd and April 17th, 3-6 pm) combining qigong, meditation and traditional burning rituals.

Q: What makes you so passionate about the work that you do?

My personal journey to holistic health began over 20 years ago, seeking out help with a series of physical and emotional issues. Most treatments focused on the symptoms, and relief was only temporary.

Through the intense study of Spiritual Energy Healing and Qigong, the focus shifted to the underlying energy imbalances.

This energy work has changed my life, and I have seen others also have powerful shifts

in their bodies and their lives. It constantly amazes me how effective these simple and gentle techniques are! My desire is to share this knowledge with others and help them along their healing path.

Q: Tell us a bit about yourself and what brought you to Golden?

I am originally from Toronto, and yet found myself constantly wandering off to find places of peace, which inevitably would be in nature. I came to the mountains 15 years ago with a love for the outdoors, a desire to belong to a community, and looking for the place I could call home. With my strong wanderlust tendencies, I have travelled all over, and yet I found myself returning to Golden as often as possible. I am ecstatic to be able to call this home for the last 7 years!

Q: Any final words?

I am overjoyed at this endeavour with the wonderful crew at Nourish Clinic! Such a warm atmosphere and genuine desire from all of us to help you reach your optimal health and wellness. I look forward to meeting and continuing to have a positive impact on the lives of those who are ready to take that step on their healing path.

I strongly believe we all have the innate ability to be fully and completed healed; sometimes we just need a little help!

Please visit www.sacredprana.com for more information or to book an appointment with Randa.

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Surveying the survey Janet Crandall-Swaffield Publisher

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A survey was recently released for the residents of Area A, which has brought considerable discussion among the folks who it affects. Questions regarding priorities are good, seeking feedback is obviously a priority for the director, having worked directly on it for some seven months or more. This particular survey is just one piece of the puzzle.

It has raised some issues however. Despite efforts to put the message out there, I fear many residents have missed the opportunity to participate in the survey. And for a variety of reasons. Perhaps they didn’t catch the advertisements, or maybe they aren’t comfortable in an online environment. For those reasons and more, I have to wonder why the survey wasn’t simply sent to all residents by mail. Surely that would have led to the highest possible response. This would likely have been at considerable expense, but for issues of such significance it seems justifiable, and after all, doesn’t everyone get their mail?

Next, I wonder how it can be confirmed beyond a doubt that only Area A residents were filling out the survey. When a computer goes online, it is given a unique number to identify it, called an IP address. According to Survey Monkey (the online service used to conduct this particular survey), IP addresses are NOT recorded when a survey is done anonymously, like this one. And since no personal data was requested (name or email address), how can we be sure? Why does it matter? Well, do you want just anyone giving input that might affect your home or land?

How about when a person fills out the survey multiple times? I don’t know why someone would want to do it, unless they felt strongly about a particular issue I suppose. According to Survey Monkey, “each response is assigned an ID number.� It went on to explain, “this is not a unique number to the respondent. It is unique to the actual response itself. It does not mean that the same person will receive the same ID number if s/he submits a 2nd response.� So, as I understand, if I really wanted to, I could fill out the survey 100 times. And I could get my friends to do it too.

Surprisingly, the survey can be changed, or edited, after it has begun. So, the survey I fill out might be different than the version you see, and neither of us would be the wiser. (See answers to these questions and more at help.surveymonkey.com, click on the ’analyze results’ section.)

These are all interesting points, but what seems most concerning are the actual questions themselves. Topics range from Land Use Planning to Zoning to Mosquito Control and Road Maintentance. All are issues of much significance to the people that are directly affected, there’s no doubt. Somewhere in the mix of rating my ‘satisfaction level’ and indicating ‘how important’ these points are to me, I found myself going forward and then backward and then forward again, wondering what my responses were really indicating - in short, I was confused by the questions. I wonder, is it just me? Or are there others who might feel the same?

If, for example, I’m ‘very satisfied’ with something and yet it is ‘very important’ to me, does that indicate that I want more zoning or less, or that I want it to remain as is? Or, if I’m ‘very dissatisfied’ yet the issue is still ‘very important’ to me, does that combination of answers indicate whether I want more or less zoning? I can’t answer that, which leads me to ask: Were the questions designed to be interpreted a particular way regardless of the answers given?

I could go on, but I’ve probably made my point. Instead of making it more difficult, why not make it as easy as possible for residents to communicate? Simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answers should do it.

To that end, let’s conduct a survey of our own, see page 7. Very casual, but the intent is to be clear. If these issues are important to you, please fill it out and mail it back to the address on the bottom.

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The Natural Bridge, located near Emerald Lake in Yoho Nationral Park, is stunning this time of year. Photo by Wendy Chambers.

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Tom King on The Story of Golden, published in 1963

by Duane Crandall Special to Golden This Week The writings of Tom King, as published in his book “The Story of Golden,� written in 1963.

Continuing on in the series of writings, here is the next section: “The soil on the Kootenay reserve is quite productive if properly worked and the number of cattle they could raise if so inclined wold give them a real high standard of living But they are like so many whites — do not take advantage their opportunities. But they are happy with today and maybe get more enjoyment than those of us who worry about what things will be like next winter.

The greatest development in settling the valley came in the first ten or fifteen years of the century — mostly in the first ten. Many thought a quarter section of land would be a life’s security but between 1950 and 1965 small places have been harder to make pay and wages at other work so good that working a place of small acreage has driven many land owners to timber operations, for which they cannot be blamed.

Many tales were told of incidents happening in those early days, few of which can be told here as many descendants are still living in the valley.

But one instance, which the participant told me of himself, was of a young fellow who had been a school teacher in Minnesota. How he ever learned of the then small settlement of Brisco I do not know. His name was W. J. McCord and he and another young man, J. Christianson, each around twenty-five years of age, came to Golden on their way through. The stage only went south on Sunday mornings so they were to ride up on a wagon with Mr. Ed Watkins who had been in Golden to get his winter’s supply of flour and other needs. At their first stop for the night — at that time half the farm houses were “stopping places� — the place was more than filled for regular accommodation. To get the horses fed by five o’clock in the morning all the teamsters went to bed early. The landlady, not

having enough of house to accommodate all, told McCord that he’d have to sleep on a “shake down� on the floor.

This article was first written for private reading so we’ll omit the balance of this particular story as it relates to the stopping place episode and to the jilted girl as too much Peyton Place for public reading. Suffice to say that a school had just been newly built at McMurdo and the trustees having learned that Mr. McCord had been a teacher in Minnesota, persuaded him to stay and take over their school, the first in the valley between Golden and Windermere.

He left his school and took a night train out of Golden — to an unknown destination. Twelve years later he showed up in Seattle and a large picture of him appeared in the Post Intelligencer bearing the caption, “W. J. McCord, successful and prominent mining engineer of Alaska, where he is President of several mining companies�. And only a few years ago both the Sun and Province newspapers carried large front page pictures of him as having just married in London, England, a U.S. lady barrister who had been President of the Bar Association of all the United States. This was a goal, the captions read, he had desired for several years. By then both were in their seventies.

Several still live in the valley who went to school to him and I thought would be interested in what eventually became of him.

The first teacher at Wilmer (then Peterborough) was a beautiful looking girl whose name was Miss Jean McDonald, a sister of Mrs. Mike Carlin, wife of the manager of the Columbia River Lumber Co. at Golden. She was on a visit to Mrs. Carlin and, having an Ontario teacher’s certificate, was persuaded to teach at Wilmer.

A young fellow by the name of Jimmy Howden, who worked for the Columbia River Lumber Co. at Beavermouth had fallen deeply in love with Jean and when she went up the river on the steamboat “Duchess�, he went up on the same boat too. One of the deck hands told me that, to impress Jean with his courage, he offered this fellow $2.00 if he’d seemingly by accident, fall off the boat into the river so Jim could jump in to rescue him.

Naturally the deck hand wasn’t very cooperative.

I was on the boat on the same trip and I remember Jim expressing his sorrow at such a beautiful girl going to such a place as Wilmer was then and he said to me, “pity is akin to love,� so I guess he felt he had a double dose of it on Jean.

But it seemed Jean was not long very lonesome in her new location, then being cut out of the woods. Among several admirers was the then most important citizen of the Upper Country, Mr. R. R. Bruce, who operated the Paradise Mine and

5PN ,JOH GPSNFS CVTJOFTTNBO PG (PMEFO BOE GPSNFS .-" whose headquarters at that time were in Wilmer. It developed so seriously that they were engaged to marry and Jean gave up the school and returned to her home about seventy-five miles north-east of Toronto to await the consummation of each other’s love.

Soon afterward, Mr. Bruce went east to bring back his bride but, to everyone’s astonishment, came back alone. No one, so far as was learned, ever knew what happened but it was surmised that it was broken off because of religion. The McDonalds were very strong Roman Catholics and it is presumed Jean’s people objected unless Mr. Bruce would change his religion, which he felt he could not do. So the Columbia saw no more of this beautiful, comely lady.

I wonder if I might here report something of Mr. Bruce.

Born in Banffshire, Scotland, like so many of his race, he took up the profession of engineering; and in the building of the Crows Nest Railroad was employed by the Canadian Pacific Railway Co. as a resident engineer.

That road was completed in 1898 but several times before this he’d taken the stage from Fort Steele into the Windermere Country which he thought most beautiful and was sure rich mineral deposits could be found in the Selkirk Mountains on the west side of Lake Windermere and the Columbia River. With this in mind, he told me he went to McGill University to get a mining degree as well as the civil one he already had. This he obtained in the college year — October to May — and came back to Windermere full of hope and enthusiasm.

While in the east he met Mr. Hammond of the financial firm of Osler, Hammond and Nanton of Toronto. Mr. Hammond told him, if he found anything promising to let him know about it and he’d supply the financing of the development of the claims.

Mr. Bruce told me the names of the different properties, but I do not recall them now. The first one he thought worthy petered out after expending $8,000.00 of Mr. Hammond’s money. He was very depressed to have to advise Mr. Hammond that the money was all spent and the property held out no hope of it ever paying to go any further with it. The news didn’t seem to worry Mr. Hammond at all for he wrote back that mining was a gamble and that the next time might be more fortunate.

So Mr. Bruce secured another promising looking prospect. Surface showings were good but those are days before diamond drilling so it had to be done the expensive way — drilling a tunnel.

This turned out as did the first one, except that $12,000.00 had been expended.

Still Mr. Hammond was not down-hearted. And those were days when these amounts were large expenditures as miners’ wages were only about $2.50 for a ten-hour day. Mr. Hammond wrote back again that maybe the third try might be successful. Mr. Bruce then obtained the Paradise claims that had been staked by Mr. Tom Jones — a very colourful and typical western prospector.

Mr. Bruce still had his headquarters in Wilmer and first shipments were hauled out by team, loaded on the boat at Athalmer, taken to Golden, and re-shipped to the smelter at Trail. This was very expensive transportation but carried on until the K.C.R. was built through to the Crows Nest line in 1915. Altogether Mr. Bruce told me that after paying off Mr. Hammond, he himself made a net profit out of the operation of the Paradise of $385,000.00 and then sold it for $375,000.00 so that eventually his decision to stay in the Windermere Country made him quite successful financially.

Some years after his breaking off with Jean McDonald, he married Lady Elizabeth Northcott of Scotland, who passed away in Invermere a few years later and, later on, married a widow woman, Mrs. Nolson of Montreal.

Because of his doing too much of his own assaying, he became “leaded� which gradually effected his eyesight and he could see but very little for some years before his passing.

After making his home in the Windermere till the 1920’s, he was appointed Lieutenant Governor of the Province of British Columbia and later was Canadian Ambassador to Japan.

All in all I’d presume to say he has been the valley’s most prominent citizen.�

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MasqueParade provides a sense of a community within a community ... Continued from page 3 Marcel also loves to make three-dimensional art. His creative abilities extend to carving, painting and mixed media sculptures where he creates pieces that embody his First Nation’s history through traditional stories.

In 2010, Marcel’s work was displayed in the Dehcho Artists Show during the annual Open Sky Festival in Fort Simpson.

Anna currently works year round for Parks Canada, based in Field as the Operations Coordinator for Visitor Services. Marcel also works for Parks Canada, based in Lake Louise in the summer months as a Human Wildlife Conflict Officer. With more time on his hands in the winter months and a workshop to get creative in, Marcel finds himself working on things he says he’s always wanted to work on; and along with his daughter is currently learning Dene Zhatie, the language of the Dehcho Dene. “It was a big move for Marcel,� Anna explains of coming to Golden, adding, “We try to go back to Fort Simpson every year to stay connected, but when we go, we are welcome with open arms by the community.� In the meantime, Marcel says he’s already picking away at costumes for the next Snow King event and is working on more pieces that reflect traditional stories from his Dene culture.

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Winter wonders

by Garry Irving Special to Golden This Week

I guess we all are thankful that this winter was not one of the winter blast ones. Thinking back over the years I have to smile at all the times the snowfall outdid the removal attempts.

Visiting the local library the other day I got involved in talking about how the horses had started to shed and listened to memories of past bitter local temperatures and snowfalls.

When I was growing up in Saskatchewan during the later part of the 1950’s (my dad was stationed with the Royal Canadian Air Force in Saskatoon) I remember having to dig ourselves out of snowdrifts almost two storey’s tall. We have a picture that showed my sister standing in the snow tunnel we had to dig to get to our front door.

In Quesnel in the mid 1970’s I went out one early morning to head to work at CKCQ and it was -41. I could see the smoke from chimney’s flat lining just above the stacks. I has to use two hands to turn the ignition of my 1977 GMC Heavy Half (350-4 barrel)managing to start it and then driving with bias ply tires that thumped along the road until they warmed up.

Today we have low viscosity oils, block heaters

and radial tires to make winter vehicle warmups more livable. More and more we are seeing newer vehicles with remote start capabilities.

Speaking of winter I remember a photograph showed me by a long time Golden resident of a VW dwarfed by an eight foot snowdrift.

The huge snowfalls in Golden have steadily disappeared and some say it is because of the Kinbasket flooding. I have a picture given to me by Lori Johnson of Golden taken in January of 1952 near Chancellor Peak in Yoho National Park. It is of a Canadian Pacific steam passenger train eastbound on the railway. Lori looked after the Lyncoil station and had walked to an open spot to take the picture. The photo by the way was taken in the winter and hangs today in my entrance.There are no traces of the Lyncoil site as it went the way of progress.

The last couple of winters in the Cariboo have been mild and I can count on my fingers the number of times I have had to plough. I felt sorry for those in the east who have put up with endless snow and wind storms of late.

I can only thank the powers that be of how mild this winter has been in my neck of the woods. In fact as I am writing this my wife is out brushing our horse and donkey. The other horse we left Golden with, Aida, is out on a ranch run by friends of my son and is doing wonderfully according to them. She is used for rounding up cattle and summer rides by them and they love her.

I do not know what the Lady of Summer has in store but I am hopeful that it allows us to explore more of the Cariboo. I can tell you the fishing is top notch, if only I could learn to fish!

Garry Irving was Editor for The Golden News and The Golden Star from 1991 - 2004. He also worked for EZ Rock in the 70s and 80s, and again in 2005 until he retired in 2014.

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Ice Cream for Breakfast: May I have your attention please?

by Sarah Elizabeth Special to Golden This Week

I wouldn’t dare call myself a noblewoman, but sometimes I feel I have my own Court Jester living in my proximity. As a bit of a fool myself, I have a deep appreciation for the Jester, who at the best of times can make us laugh at ourselves as they reflect some of the absurdities of our day to day lives and at the worst of times hold a mirror up to our faces in florescent lighting first thing in the morning after we’ve been up all night.

“While the Court Jester is skilled at portraying various emotions and situations for the purpose of entertaining and therefore capturing our attention, our kids have the capacity to do the same, but they do this with their instincts in ways that can sometimes be exhausting.”

According to Wiki, Court Jesters were entertainers during the medieval and Renaissance eras. They wore brightly coloured clothes and eccentric hats. Their job was to amuse and criticise their masters or mistresses and their guests through songs, music, storytelling, acrobatics, juggling, jokes and magic.

Often they would use well-known people or events as the foundation of their jokes, touching on political activities and being the bearers of news no one else wanted to tell the King, like the loss of a war or a battle ship. What’s interesting about a Court Jester is how they appear to be a fool and yet they are significantly clever, testing the boundaries of their roles with political statements and mimicking the very people who house them and pay their way.

When it comes to the antics of a toddler, I often don’t know whether to hide in a closet or check myself in to a mental institution.

Sometimes, to gather my bearings on what’s “normal,” I reflect on Robert Munsch’s book Love You Forever. Specifically, page 3 where the little boy grows until he turns two and, to quote the book, “he ran around the house, pulled all the

When it comes to the antics of a toddler, I often don’t know whether to hide in a closet or check myself in to a mental institution. Photo by Sarah Elizabeth.

books off the shelves, pulled all the food out of the refrigerator and took his mother’s watch and flushed it down the toilet.” The book captures the insanity of the back and forth feelings of feeling like your child is driving you crazy and feeling the crazy amount of love you have for them. The love

being something you can savour while they are peacefully asleep with a half-smile that leaves you to wonder whether or not they took some pleasure in the mayhem of the day. I could be wrong, but I don’t think a Court Jester is capable of those kinds of emotional mind games. If they

were, I can’t help but wonder if the King would have them arrested for disrupting the court or pay them more.

While a jester is meant to entertain and a toddler can be entertaining (when he or she is not picking the leaves off your houseplants), a jester answers to the Royal court. A toddler demands a more egalitarian approach to maintaining order in the court. Not getting down to their level can lead to a wrath so great hours will go by before you realize they’ve managed to take over an entire town causing riots in pockets of neighbourhoods and forcing people out of their homes to gather on the street corners around garbage can pit fires. All the while, in their revenge for offending their high principles and (because they didn’t forget) jealously because you showed your pet(s) more affection, they’re holding them (your cats and dogs) hostage, threatening to do terrible things to them with a fork, Where-the-Wild-Things-Are style. In the end I think Court Jesters have more class.

While the Court Jester is skilled at portraying various emotions and situations for the purpose of entertaining and therefore capturing our attention, our kids have the capacity to do the same, but they do this with their instincts in ways that can sometimes be exhausting.

According to parent educator Alyson Schafer, author of the Good Mom Myth, there are four goals kids are trying to attain with what looks like “misbehaviour” 1. Attention 2. Power 3.

Revenge and 4. Avoidance. In my reading I learned that pulling leaves off of houseplants is an act a child will engage in to get attention.

When this happened in our home, I felt frustrated and annoyed, as the author suggested I would, but I didn’t run for the closet. I simply collected the leaves, put them in the compost bucket and invited her to help me with dinner. She simply wanted to feel connected and included – in fulfilling the need I believe I managed to avoid a wrathful overtake of the town. Phew!

While our kids can be entertaining, the magic in being a parent is in the connection we have with them. When they invite us through their crazy antics to connect and enjoy the moment with them, that’s where we find valuable life lessons. It’s in the moments when we see the look on our child’s face when they see a fish in the river for the first time, when they make their first meal or when the chaos of the day is over and we’re reading quietly in bed enjoying a story together. It’s in that first inside joke you find together, and yes, when they are finally, peacefully asleep and you can look at them without being “on duty” and can take a quiet moment to marvel in their innocence.

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Brighter Life: TFSA or RRSP? How to choose

The math is simple. Tax timing based on your financial situation and discipline will help you decide whether to save your money in a TFSA or an RRSP.

by Kevin Press, It’s a Brighter Life.ca

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Choosing between a tax-free savings account (TFSA) and registered retirement savings plan (RRSP) is one of those personal finance decisions that can leave you spinning your tires like a bike messenger in February.

Both vehicles offer a tax benefit. The difference is that while there is no immediate tax advantage to be gained from TFSA contributions, neither your principal nor the investment income you earn on funds in the account are taxed when you make a withdrawal. On the other hand, RRSP contributions are deductible on your annual tax return. Effectively, RRSPs provide a tax deferral, which is to say that you’re taxed when you make a withdrawal down the road.

In other words, it’s up to you whether you take the tax hit now or later. Deciding which is right for you depends partly on what you earn now versus what kind of financial situation you anticipate for yourself in the future. “For younger people, especially lower-income people, the math might favour the tax-free savings account because they’re in a lower tax bracket at the time,� said Robert Brown in a recent interview with me. Brown is the author of Wealthing Like Rabbits: An Original Introduction to Personal Finance.

There’s another way to look at this, though. The fact that withdrawals from an RRSP are taxable is a powerful motivator for a lot of us. It’s meant to make us think twice before drawing down retirement savings, and it works.

“You get the tax savings when you’re 32 or 33,� explained Brown. “You still have to pay the tax further down the road when you’re 70 or 71. But hopefully at that time you won’t have the mortgage. You won’t be saving money for the kids’ education.�

If you’re in your early 30s and living with multiple financial obligations, there are real advantages to an RRSP from a behavioural finance perspective. “You get the tax savings when you’re 32 or 33,� explained Brown. “You still have to pay the tax further down the road when you’re 70 or 71.

But hopefully at that time you won’t have the mortgage. You won’t be saving money for the kids’

education. You’ll be in a better overall position financially. So even if you pay a little more in taxes, it might be better from a timing perspective, because you can afford it at that stage of life.�

Of course, TFSAs are ideal for less long-term savings goals. “If you’re saving to buy a car, make a down payment on a house or a shorter-term thing, I’m all over the tax-free savings account,� said Brown.

By the way, Brown’s Wealthing Like Rabbits is excellent. It’s an introduction to personal finance best practices, so it’s not for everyone. But if you’re looking for a smart gift for one or two 20-somethings in your life, it’s a terrific, plainlanguage read.

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