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warning, a violent storm strikes the mountain, engulfing the adventurers in one of the fiercest blizzards ever encountered by man. Challenged by the harshest conditions imaginable, the teams must endure blistering winds and freezing temperatures in an epic battle to survive against nearly impossible odds.�

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Celebrating 50 years - Down Memory Lanes Bowling Centre

by Sarah Elizabeth Special to Golden This Week This year, Down Memory Lanes Bowling Centre is celebrating 50 years as a place where community members meet to relax and socialize while enjoying a game of bowling. Karen Jones operates the alley with her husband, Lance, and their seven children. She says the bowling alley has a wonderful history. “It’s quite nostalgic,� adds Lance, who takes on the work of maintaining the lanes. “There’s a lot of history in the building with all of the original lanes and machines, the 1960 benches and the trophies, with all the winners dating back to the beginning, and pictures of past players,� says Karen.

The building opened in 1965 and operated under various owners before the Joneses took over. Throughout the years it has had different names, such as Laurie Lanes and A and W Lanes, until it finally became Down Memory Lanes Bowling Center - a name determined by previous owners Vic and Dodie Hodgins who owned the building from 1994 to 2011. Karen says she and Lance decided to keep the name because it suits the centre so well. “We knew that once Dodie retired from her job that she and Vic wanted to move to Nelson. We approached them in the spring of 2011 and a deal was struck. We decided to keep the name because it suited the building and its heritage,�

Karen says.

In 1972, the eight lanes in the alley were upgraded from manually operated pins to the more modernized double diamond string machine (the ones we use today) imported from Switzerland. Before the modernization teen agents were hired to clear and set pins for the bowlers.

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Over the years, Karen says league members have played at provincial tournaments in Kamloops B.C. and Red Deer, Alta. Members of the leagues attend the Inter-City bowling social every eight years; Jean Sime became the first woman to bowl back to back 300’s; and a few perfect games have been bowled in the Golden

alley, something Lance says is honourary. “Three perfect games have been bowled in Golden,� says Karen. “Lyle Cutler bowled his first perfect game of 450 in January, 1981.

Cec Landry followed him in March of the same year. Lyle did it again in November of 1990. We had a team win provincial championships and have done very well at tournaments all over the province.�

Lawrence Dobbin, 55, has been bowling for 16 years. His league team placed fourth at the

provincials in Red Deer. He says bowling is good exercise, fun and relaxing and is “good for the kids.�

Bill Ewing, 68, has been bowling for over 40 years. He says when he started bowling there were two leagues a day and the bowling alley was full. Since then, he says people who started bowling when he did have stopped. “It’s disappointing,� Bill says, adding that he ... Continued on page 4

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continues to bowl because he likes the people and the socializing. It also gets him “out of the house.�

Barb Dianocky, 70, started bowling in 1966.

She says she started bowling for something to do and for the companionship. Barb says when it comes to bowling there are good days and bad days. “A good day is when you can hit the middle (of the pins),� she says with a chuckle.

Lance says he and Karen have seen a decline in leagues over the years. “At one time there were two leagues happening every week from Monday to Friday,� he says. “Now we have one league per day every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. A Seniors group and the Sunshine group meet on Wednesday afternoons.�

In an effort to increase business, Lance and Karen have tried to make the cost of bowling inexpensive - particularly for those who want to have birthday parties at the alley. “It used to be expensive to bowl for a birthday party. We try to make it easier for families,� he says. “We just want people to come and have a good time. It’s a great way to meet new people and socialize. People want to talk. Bowling is good for that.�

Since taking over the building, the Joneses revamped the bar and floors, painted and redid the bathrooms. They hope to install a kitchen at some point in the future when they have more time to spend working on it. Lance says there are days when running the business is a lot of work. “Becoming proprietors has been a little overwhelming at times, but our league players and the public have been very supportive,� Karen says.

All of the Jones children help with the alley. “Without them it would be impossible for us to operate,� Karen says, adding that all of the family pitches in. Karen is “the boss,� and takes on booking the leagues, book-keeping tasks and the computer system. Their kids help with cleaning and working the front desk.

Plans for a 50-year celebration party at the center are currently in the works for Saturday, Nov. 14 from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. Lance says there will be door prizes, treat bags for the kids and 1965 prices.

Down Memory Lanes is an eight-lane bowling centre. It is open Wednesday to Saturday from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. and Sundays from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. They are a licensed facility and have extreme bowling upon request.

For more information, please visit their Facebook page at Down Memory Lanes Bowling Centre, Golden, B.C., call 250-344-5500 or email downmemorylanes@hotmail.ca.

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New fundraiser for Golden & District Search and Rescue

Support Golden District Search and Rescue and enter for an awesome ski holiday for two at Chatter Creek this Christmas!

Chatter Creek Mountain Lodges is organising a raffle to raise funds for Golden District SAR. The lucky winner will get to go cat skiing with a friend this Christmas; Dec 24-26, 2015. A value of $3270.00!

The draw for the winning ticket will take place at the TGR’s movie premiere “Paradise Waits� presented by GNAR on November 7th at the Civic Center.

The proceeds from the raffle ticket and the bar sales that evening will go to GDSAR. Mt. Begbie Brewery generously donated a large Keg to help support the cause. The GNAR-Golden Alpine Rippers ski club will also have several incredible door prizes to give away that evening.

Anyone who wants to support Golden SAR can purchase raffle tickets for $20 each at: Off the wall, DJ Paper Place, Higher Ground Mountain Sports, and Eat Pure Mountain Market.

Tickets will also be available at the Golden Ski Swap and Snow Show on November 7th at the RexPlec.

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The guinea pig has landed, at our house Janet Crandall-Swaffield Publisher We’ve never really had a pet in our little family. We tried the fish thing, but after several unsuccessful attempts (floating fish), we gave up.

Despite much lobbying on the part of our youngest daughter, Madi, for a dog or anything that moves around really, I thought we had moved past the ‘pet’ phase. Not that I didn’t think she could successfully care for a pet, I just didn’t think we were pet people. Not exactly a pet friendly lifestyle, I told myself.

That pretty much went out the window one sunny afternoon, when I received a call from a very determined Madi, who was currently at the farmer’s market, and had procured a ‘free’ guinea pig. “Mom,� she said over the phone, “there’s this little guinea pig, he’s so cute, and he’s for free! Can I keep him?� And something else about how she was going to stay right there until I decided that she could keep him, as long as it took. She was standing her ground on this one, yes sir, we were getting a guinea pig that day.

I had concluded in my own mind, rationalizing to myself, that no, we weren’t pet people and that she would soon get over it. Done deal. Who wants a stinky thing in the house anyway? By the time I realized what was happening, she had gone around me to her dad, and indeed we were getting a guinea pig. Wow, she really has us figured out. “After one night in After one night in the cardboard box, the ‘free’ the cardboard box, guinea pig had himself a brand new $100 cage, the latest in guinea pig technology, so I’m told. the ‘free’ guinea pig A food bowl, a handmade cardboard house to had himself a brand go inside the cage (very stylish), some sort of moving wheel thing, a chewy long thing, a ball, a new $100 cage, water bottle thing, wood shavings of some kind, a the latest in guinea special kind of hay, some eating pellets, and now we buy more salad buckets than ever, so he can pig technology, have fresh greens four to six times a day. And so I’m told.� since the ‘Friends’ series was recently viewed in our house, the name ‘Chandler’ is over the door of the cardboard house, in black, handwritten Sharpie. Very nice.

Didn’t see all that coming. No way. But here it was, whether I like it or not, the newest member of our family had arrived.

Chandler and I are both early risers, so I feed him (so he can stop all that whistling) and then I can drink my coffee in peace, but that’s about the extent of our relationship thus far. Baby steps. I’m sure we’re friends. He whistles, I give him food. That’s how our relationship works. He may only think of me as the lunch lady, but that’s ok. I may not be much of a pet person (I’m not-so-secretly afraid that he’ll bite me), but my husband Steve on the other hand, is way ahead of me.

Seriously, you’d think we had a baby in the house. “I see you� and “are you hungry� and “hey, why are you on top of your house, you silly thing.� It’s like a whole new form of gibberish has entered our domain.

I also didn’t realize how social guinea pigs were. Nowadays, at any given time, one may enter our living room to find Steve with the guinea pig on his shoulder, perfectly perched there, watching TV or gazing out the window. Happy as a clam.

At the end of the day, it’s actually turning out ok. He’s a bit of a runt, so he’s pretty small, but he is cute after all, growing steadily, and man, can he pack away the lettuce. What I had underestimated was the value for Madi in caring for a pet. Cleaning the cage, determining what food he can and can’t have, and overall, caring for another living thing.

As to who’s pet it really is, well, I suppose that’s not really important. Chandler probably has enough love to go around. He might not get to sit on my shoulder any time soon, but I’ll still sneak him a carrot, even though he may have already had one today.

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An inside look at the Golden Fries Guys and their spectacular poutine.

See story and photos on pages 12-13.

The Golden and District Hospital (pictured 4VCNJUUFE CZ ,FJUI 8 )FSO 4QFDJBM UP (PMEFO 5IJT 8FFL When Frances and I returned from our vacation in June we read that the Golden Hospital was fundraising for a Transportation Ventilator and decided that we would like to help. Preliminary discussions with the hospital staff in July indicated that they had applied for a grant to cover the outstanding balance, the result of which would be known by the 3rd week of August. The grant application was successful and the acquisition of the Transportation Ventilator is now fully funded.

It became apparent during our discussions that the Golden Hospital and Durand Manor had a sizeable list of small equipment needs over and above their annual budget for which funding is not easily nor readily found. The list comprises of 18 pieces of equipment, individually

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each under $5000, totalling $36,000. forward with a crowd-funding project in Shortly thereafter on September support of the EKFH through CanadaHelps.

4th Frances passed away. In the days org. following, the family decided it would be Donna Grainger, Executive Director, a fitting tribute to the memory of Frances EKFH is thrilled. “Your choice of selecting to raise funds so that the hospital could to fundraise for a number of minor acquire this list of equipment. equipment items for the Golden& District There are many families in our situation Hospital and Durand Manor is truly of wanting to thank the hospital staff for appreciated. These items truly do make one reason or another and that there a big difference and have a huge impact should be a group formed to provide on the equipment needs of a small rural ongoing help to the hospital in a tangible hospital. The leadership team at the way. We have been joined in this cause by Golden Hospital is ecstatic with your the Dusevic family, the Oddy family, the decision�.

Ross family, the Cundliffe/Peacock family, We are currently working to set up the and the Lindsay/Matheson family. Each crowd funding page on the CanadaHelps. have their own story to tell and reasons org platform, “Giving Thanks to the Golden for giving thanks to the Golden and District & District Hospital� which we anticipate Hospital. will be open for donations from October This group, the Friends of the Golden & 6th to October 11th 2015. This will District Hospital, has now been endorsed coincide with the Celebration of Life being by the East Kootenay Foundation for Health held for Frances at the Island Restaurant and has been given approval to move on October 10th.

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Scouts in the bugaboos

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Ranger Ross: ‘This is the most challenging time of the year’

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by Claire Dibble Special to Golden This Week

Visits from excited summer tourists have stopped for Boo, the resident grizzly at Kicking Horse’s Bear Refuge. He’s moving at a slower pace, carrying his winter weight with the relaxed gait of someone about to have a very long nap.

But for his closest human contacts, this is a busy time of preparation. Boo winters in a log cabin at the edge of the 20 acre refuge, secured within the overwintering area, the same spot he’s hibernated for the past 11 years. To ensure a safe and healthy winter sleep for the big griz, Wildlife Rangers Ross Prather and Nicole Gangnon are monitoring his behaviour, appetite, and overall health quite closely at this time of year. That, and the weather. They’ve also stripped and sterilized the den, and have brought in a truck load of fresh wood chips to serve as his bedding and insulation. “This is the most challenging time of year,�

Ross said, “we don’t like putting him away.�

Everything Ross and Nicole do is for the health and wellness of Boo, with intentions of making

his experience mirror that of a wild bear as much as possible.

Now that the den is prepped and Boo is well fed, the rangers are waiting on the weather, looking for the first major snowstorm as a sign that the time has come for Boo to hunker down for the season. They’ll aim to have him in the overwinter area the day before a storm, as close to when he’s naturally ready to snooze as possible. He’ll be spending progressively more time inside until he finally starts to sleep the days away. Once he’s been separated from the larger refuge area, the crew will close off his view of the ski hill with giant black curtains, encouraging him to forget the outer world and focus on building up his den.

The rangers check on Boo every day, year round. During the week or two that he’s in the overwintering area, but hasn’t officially begun hibernating, they toss in natural bedding materials like dried grass and cedar boughs, which he gathers and uses to pad the den, making it his own. “He likes to bring in some sticks to chew on too,� Ross said. It’s good to have a hobby.

He’ll spend the first few weeks entirely asleep, but before long Boo spends a bit of time each

day awake, even in the dead of winter. During the coldest days of the year, he might only wake for 5 minutes a day, spending much of his time asleep and shivering. The shivering is not a reaction to the cold weather, but a way to maintain muscle mass and tone. By the time February rolls around, Boo is often awake for a couple hours each day, sometimes setting off the motion sensor infrared camera in his den. While the footage from the camera can be fun and entertaining, it’s also an important monitoring tool, essential in case of a need for intervention due to sudden illness or other emergencies. When the first rays of direct sunlight reach him, that is his cue to begin spending some time outdoors again, returning to the den for progressively shorter naps as the days grow longer.

The team at the refuge has been increasing the amount of data collection they do over the years, measuring the temperature and humidity inside the den as well as outside each day through the winter. This summer they’ve started weighing Boo twice monthly, as well as calculating his daily caloric intake. During his most voracious days of eating, the hyperphagia phase that all bears go through in preparation for hibernation, Boo was eating up to 50,000 calories per day. These days

he’s down to a more mellow 16,000 calories in a day. He isn’t showing signs that he’s still hungry with that reduced intake right now, signs that apparently are not hard to miss. The difference between hungry Boo and satiated Boo can be summed up nicely by how he consumes corn on the cob; normally he’ll eat the corn row by row, but when he’s at his hungriest, he eats the whole cob in one go.

Putting Boo into his overwintering enclosure is one of the most stressful days of the year, for the rangers and the bear alike. But on the converse, one of the most joyous days of the year for all parties involved is the day he is again released to roam his full 20 acres in the spring.

The original intent of the refuge was to raise and release orphaned bears like Boo, setting them up with the resources and skills they would need to thrive in the wild. Although this is no longer the aim of the program (with another location in BC providing such a service), the refuge has become an important educational facility. “One of the real pleasures of my job is seeing people become bear ambassadors,� Ross said, speaking of the shift many visitors experience after meeting Boo. You can check in on Boo’s activity via www. facebook.com/grizzlybearboo.

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Ice Cream for Breakfast: Whose night is it anyway?

by Sarah Elizabeth Special to Golden This Week

As parents who will be escorting our child door to door we’ve added arm extensions and roller skates to her costume. This means we will not have to bend over too much to hold her hand and we can walk at an adult pace – this, I believe, will also lead to more candy. We are so excited - for her.

Since we live in an area where there are minimal houses and trick-or-treaters are slim to none, we are strategizing and planning our route.

We know from experience, location is everything.

In order to help our daughter understand time saving candy-collecting strategies and important trick-or-treating facts we set up a flip chart and drew an example of what a not so great trick-ortreat area looks like compared to a great trickor-treat area. For example, we explained to her that when houses are close together more candy can be gathered versus when houses are farther apart, but it depends on how many houses are in an area. If you have to walk far to get to another trick-or-treat location then it could work against you. My partner and I then got into a debate on whether or not quality candy was more important than quantity – it’s debatable. When it comes to candy collecting, is quality better than quantity?

I’m not sure. I’m more of a “more is more� kind of gal, but my partner is all about quality. In the end I’m always grateful for a full-sized Snickers, I mean, I’m sure my daughter will be grateful for a full-sized Snickers.

If you’ve ever struggled with nudity, a week with a toddler will cure you. They have no inhibitions.

It’s all naked-time - complete with acts that adults might think twice before doing in their birthday suits, like summersaults and bending over to play with Legos.

I’m mildly envious of the freedom our half babies/half kids get to enjoy. Imagine this time in your life: You’re cute enough to get away with anything and are becoming more and more able bodied; you get to run around in the yard naked; you get to really dance like no one is watching; you get to demand things and be rude, but no one shuns you because you don’t know any better and you’re just so darn cute.

“My willpower will also be tested as I do my best to not eat the candy. In preparation for this night my daughter, partner and I have undergone quite a bit of training and preparation together.�

For my daughter, this Saturday will mark the beginning of many years to come of getting to call on the neighbours and ask them for candy on Halloween. It will be a test of manners and endurance, as she walks door to door and uses the words “trick-or-treat� and “thank you.� My willpower will also be tested as I do my best to not eat the candy. In preparation for this night my daughter, partner and I have undergone quite a bit of training and preparation together.

Before I get into the details of preparing our toddler for this evening, I would like to take a moment to recognize how fantastic Halloween is compared to Valentine’s Day. Even though the main point of the day is to dress up in disguise and beg for food at stranger’s houses, or play tricks on people, it doesn’t pretend to be something it isn’t and it’s genuine in nature.

Adults seems to be enthused about giving out the candy just as much as the kids seem to be enthused about dressing up and collecting it, unlike Valentine’s Day. Valentine’s Day, especially when it falls on a weekday, is about mustering up the energy to do something romantic with your partner and pretending to be excited about the bouquet of flowers he or she brought you. These flowers, you know, will bring you more stress

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No, unlike Valentine’s Day, Halloween is full-on genuine excitement. To build enthusiasm for our daughter, we’ve been explaining to her how awesome Halloween is and have been randomly

saying things like, “yay Halloween!� and “trick-ortreat� when she’s not suspecting it or when she’s in the middle of something. For example, when she’s eating her vegetables we discourage her as much as possible and encourage her to save her appetite for the candy. “You don’t need these yucky vegetables,� we tell her. “Yay, Halloween!�

When she’s sleeping nothing wakes her up quicker than yelling, “Boo! I’m a ghost. I’m going to get you,� or “Halloween is coming - yay!�

The best part is dressing up as ghouls when we do this - we believe this will condition her out of fear when she sees real ghouls running around loose on the streets on Halloween night. Therefore she will not be distracted while running door to door next to them. This, in the end, leads to more candy.

“As parents who will be escorting our child door to door we’ve added arm extensions and roller skates to her costume. This means we will not have to bend over too much to hold her hand and we can walk at an adult pace...�

Last, but not least, is the costume. At first my daughter wanted to be a naked ninja warrior, but I informed her that the weather just doesn’t lend itself to that kind of a costume. Therefore, she decided she wanted to be a robot. We also informed her, when she fussed over them, that roller skates and arm extensions are a part of robot costumes and make trick-or-treating more fun. She ate the flipchart paper and drew sad faces all over the walls as my partner and I debated over if Halloween candy collecting was about quality or quantity. We agreed on two things, Halloween is fun for the whole family and I’m probably not going to get flowers on Valentine’s Day next year.

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Eat Pure: Taste the season

by Nicole du Vent Eat Pure Mountain Market Special to Golden This Week

This year I’ve been eating seasonally and regionally more than ever, and I am loving feasting on whatever produce is perfectly ripe and bountiful. Forget bananas! This fall I’ve been feasting on apples and pears - two or three a day! Apples perfectly crisp and just the right balance of sour and sweet; pears sweet and juicy!

“Eating in season also supports B.C. producers and helps our local and regional economy. If we don’t support B.C. producers we are prone to lose them.�

Why eat seasonally? Eating seasonally has many benefits. Produce is at its peak for flavour and nutritional value when it is fresh and hasn’t been sitting in storage for months.

Environmentally, if we eat what is in season in our region instead of what is in season in Mexico or further, we contribute less to pollution due to transportation. Eating in season also supports B.C. producers and helps our local and regional economy. If we don’t support B.C. producers we are prone to lose them. Learning to eat seasonally from your own garden is key too, as well as learning the age old techniques of food preservation like fermenting, canning, dehydrating and root cellaring.

Eating seasonally in this day and age is often overlooked. When you can buy strawberries or asparagus year round, it is easy to lose track or even know what is in season. While in Golden a few frosts have already taken out all but the hardiest of crops, the greenhouses of the Okanagan and coast are full of longer season

Root vegetables like carrots, beets, parsnips and potatoes store exceptionally as well as onions, cabbage and squash. Photo submitted by Nicole DuVent crops like eggplants and peppers. Fall is like a second spring for B.C. greens, everything from radishes to romaine has a second chance in warmer areas. This year I tried an August planting of arugula and several other greens in an unheated greenhouse and am now enjoying tender young “spring� greens, while outside my lettuces have all gone bitter and frozen! Kale, one of the last garden vegetables in our region, actually gets sweeter after a frost or two and hangs on until the snow comes!

Eating seasonally through the fall and into winter means going back to your ROOTS. Root vegetables like carrots, beets, parsnips and potatoes store exceptionally as well as onions, cabbage and squash. So the next time a recipe

calls for a yam (a Californian crop) why not try a turnip, rutabaga or winter squash instead! Of course we all love avocados and bananas, but the more we tune into what is available from our region/province, the more appreciation we can cultivate for our local farmers and the food itself.

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History - We dodged a bullet in the ‘40s, and didn’t even know it!

2015. Just put that in the back of your mind for now.

Okay here we go!

by Duane Crandall Special to Golden This Week

In this little very condensed version of Golden’s history there has been a little straight history, a little bit of the positives and a little bit of the negatives, all mixed together with a little bit of opinion, and all very amateur.

“From either your experience from living here or from learning about local history, can you think of a government decision that would have resulted in no plywood mill in Golden, no dam at Mica and therefore also no Kinbasket Lake of the size that we have now.�

But this last instalment is, I believe, something you might find interesting because it is about something that, I believe, has largely ‘fallen through the cracks.’ Not that it matters for our lives now, but it is something that came within a whisker of happening and could have dramatically changed the history of Golden, yet I think I am correct in saying that most of us have never even heard of it.

I’m not going to ask you to guess what I’m talking about because I know you wouldn’t even come close, unless you have been exposed to more local history than most of us. I would be surprised if there are many of even the most senior of our senior citizens, who will read this and remember about the possible decision and the ramifications it involved.

I could start this story in lots of ways, but let me do it with this question: From either your experience from living here or from learning about local history, can you think of a government decision that would have resulted in no plywood mill in Golden, no dam at Mica and therefore also no Kinbasket Lake of the size that we have now. It would also probably have resulted in a dam being built at Luxor (the Spur Valley area south of Brisco)

“So an agreement was reached and the deal was done in 1920.

The road became known as the Banff-Windermere Highway #93 and the park was named Kootenay National Park. If you look at a map you will see that the park boundaries are pretty much in line with the highway, just five miles away on either side.�

Roads to Alberta and the creation of Kootenay National Park In the early part of the 1900’s the government of B.C. was frustrated that it had very poor access to the rest of Canada except by railway.

Automobiles and trucks were becoming more common and the province could see the future need for good road access into the province.

But roads were expensive, both to build and to maintain, and the province wasn’t rich enough to build them. At some point, however, an idea was hatched that some federal/provincial cooperation could get it done. The idea was that if the federal government would build and maintain a road from one place to another, the province would give the feds some land adjacent to the road with which it (the federal government) could establish a national park. Now this idea maybe would not have worked in some parts of flatland Canada, but it had appeal to both parties in beautiful British Columbia. The federal government was interested in preserving the most pristine parts of Canada and B.C. wanted roads to Alberta. Most of the province of B.C. thought that the land in the southeastern part of the province was simply hinterland of little value to the province anyway.

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MLA writes to Forest Minister regarding nearby timber ... Continued from page 12

Hon. E. T. Kenney, Minister of Lands & Forests, Victoria, B.C.

So an agreement was reached and the deal was done in 1920. The road became known as the Banff-Windermere Highway #93 and the park was named Kootenay National Park. If you look at a map you will see that the park boundaries are pretty much in line with the highway, just five miles away on either side. When the park was created it contained 320,000 acres (1200 sq. km). A lot of land, but no cash.

How about Hamber National Park?

Now click ahead fifteen years and put yourself in the shoes of B.C. Premier Duff Pattullo, a different premier than the one who made the deal in 1920 for Kootenay National Park, but still a premier looking to help his province grow and looking for greater access to the rest of Canada.

So how to do it?

“Discussions leading to the next proposal, which turned out to be in the Big Bend area northwest of Golden, began in 1932 ...”

Pattullo had been the B.C. Minister of Lands at the time of the Kootenay Park deal and would have known all about it. Discussions leading to the next proposal, which turned out to be in the Big Bend area northwest of Golden, began in 1932 when the feds asked the province to set up a reserve of a quarter mile of land along the Big Bend Highway, which was under construction at the time as a depression make-work project at federal expense. The feds wanted to protect some old-growth timber between the original (and much smaller) Kinbasket Lake and Boat Encampment.

The province replied that timber licences had already been granted to forest companies in that area so it could be difficult.

The feds asked again in 1934, but setting aside a bit of land to only protect some old growth timber was far from B.C.’s much-larger goal of cash-free roads, so the province played a bit of hard-to-get. This was a roll of the dice since the feds had given B.C. a sort of veiled threat that if they didn’t agree to the federal proposal Ottawa might pull out of the depression road construction project of building the Big Bend Highway. That project was providing much-needed employment for many B.C. families.

Regardless of any threat, Pattullo decided that this was the time to make his pitch for another national park (and its road maintenance benefits) which would include the road from Golden to Revelstoke, along with one-quarter mile of land on

either side of the highway for parkland. If the feds agreed, it would put them on the hook to forever maintain most of the road from the Alberta border to Revelstoke.

Ottawa must not have been impressed, because they didn’t even reply to Pattullo’s proposal.

So the issue sat on the back burner until 1941.

But it hadn’t died in the mind of the premier. There had also been a change in government in Ottawa with the Liberals replacing the Conservatives in 1935 (sound familiar?). Pattullo decided to sweeten the deal. He suggested that the proposal may be more palatable to the feds if his proposed area for a national park was first a provincial park, and also if it contained a much larger piece of land.

So in September of 1941 Pattullo created

Hamber Provincial Park, a Class A park, which prevented logging or mining, and made it bigger than Banff National Park by about 50 percent. It was huge, taking in much of the land from the Blaeberry River just northwest of Golden almost to Valemont. Remember, Kootenay Park was 1200 sq. km. at its creation. Banff National Park today is only 6641 sq. km. Pattullo made Hamber Park a whopping 9700 sq. km. That’s 2.4 million acres.

And a lot of timber. Not much left for a forest industry.

So what happened?

Well the national park obviously didn’t happen because we do have a plywood mill in Golden and there is a dam at Mica.

Why didn’t it happen?

I’ll tell you next week.

Dear Ed: You’ll remember I spoke to you while in Victoria during the past session regarding the reducing of Hamber park from the status of an A to a B park. This would allow of Government owned Timber being available for a small operator (all large stands are now privately held) to obtain merchantable stands from which he is now precluded because of the impossibility to finance the large stands.

Possible seventy-five percent of the {standing} timber is already disposed of so that it is only spots here and there that are left available and the operations from these would not detract from the value of this territory for Park purposes. As you know the small operations in the interior does not lay the country waste as at the coast and in certain sections the timber is over mature.

Talk it over with Mr. Orchard, Ed, and see if my reasoning is fairly correct.

Yous Sincerely, Thomas King

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It’s a Brighter Life - Five things you need to know about credit cards

By Brenda Spiering, Editor, BrighterLife.ca Whether you’re applying for your first credit card or you’ve had one for years, these tips can help prevent you from getting over your head in debt.

My 18-year-old son returned home from university at Thanksgiving with a credit card. I was surprised he even qualified for a card, given he’s an unemployed, first-year student. But apparently they were giving out free frosh-week T-shirts on campus to anyone who signed up for a card and he and all his friends got both the shirts and cards.

Don’t get me wrong. My son’s a smart kid. He’s managed his own bank account and debit card responsibly for years. But when it comes to credit cards, I realized there were a few things he was likely unaware of.

“You’re far better off to use regular bank cheques that withdraw funds directly from your account.�

A lack of understanding about credit is a common problem, not only among teens. It’s one of the reasons the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada has declared November to be Financial Literacy Month. It’s also why a number of financial institutions, including Sun Life, sponsor Credit Education Week events across the country to help promote sound money management.

So, in honour of Financial Literacy Month and Credit Education Week, I share the following five credit card tips I gave my son: 1. Check interest rates Credit cards charge varying interest rates. In my son’s case, he discovered he could obtain a

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2. Pay off credit cards in full each month Don’t be confused by the fact that credit card statements only require a “minimum payment.�

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Credit card companies often mail out cheques you can use to draw funds. But, unlike regular purchases charged on a credit card, these cheques are considered to be cash withdrawals, so interest kicks in right away. You’re far better off to use regular bank cheques that withdraw funds directly from your account. %PO U BQQMZ GPS NVMUJQMF DBSET Along with the fact that it’s far easier not to have to keep track of numerous cards with varying due dates, having too many cards may tempt you to spend more than you can afford. It can also hurt your credit score as credit bureaus consider the amount of available credit you have as an opportunity for debt and, as a result, may consider you to be a higher credit risk.

Despite all these warnings, I’m glad my son has gotten a credit card. Living away from home, it’s bound to come in handy. Plus, using it responsibly can have a positive impact on his credit rating, which will be helpful someday when he’s looking to get a loan.

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