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Kicking Horse Movies - “The Intern� t 0QFOJOH 'SJEBZ 0DU UI BU Q N “70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.�
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Golden Women’s Centre - “Support Group for Moms whose Partners Work Away� t This group will first meet up on Oct. 1st, 5:30 - 6:45 p.m. at the Golden Early Years Centre. For more information, contact Elina Salonen at (250) 344-5317 or mtnwomyn@uniserve.com. Petit Tournesol French Clubs t (FU ZPVS POF ZFBS NFNCFSTIJQ GPS PS UISFF ZFBS GPS UP TVQQPSU UIF $1' (PMEFO $IBQUFS BOE IBWF BDDFTT UP t $IFFTF UBTUJOH BOE 'SFODI DPOWFSTBUJPO events: Oct. 20th, Nov. 10th, Dec. 8th, Jan. 12th, Feb. 9th, March 8th, and Apr 12th. t $IJMESFO 'SFODI $MVC BDUJWJUJFT 0DU SE Nov 13th, Dec. 4th, Jan 8th, Feb. 5th, March 4th, Apr. 8th (non-members pay $15 for each event) t %JTDPVOUFE SBUFT GPS UIF 'SFODI 4VNNFS Camp 2016
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.BZPS T 3FQPSU )JHIMJHIUT GSPN 6#$. Submitted by the Town of Golden On behalf of the Town of Golden, its elected council and members of staff, I am pleased to share with you some of the highlights of Council’s trip to the Union of British Columbia Municipalities (UBCM) Conference last month. This year, as with every other, Town Council took its own selected issues to the Province to garner support and provide advocacy for continuing initiatives, making changes, or providing assistance within our community. Council requested and was granted six formal meetings and each Councillor attended a number of Association gatherings as well as a number of Pro-D Sessions on a wide variety of subject matters. Some of the highlights from this year’s event included meeting with some senior levels of the Provincial government. Myself, Area A director Karen Cathcart, Town of Golden CAO Jon Wilsgard, and CSRD Lynda Shykora, Deputy Manager, Corporate Administration for the CSRD had the great opportunity to meet with B.C. Premier Christy Clark to ask that the Province transfer the land the Provincial Visitor Centre sits on to the Golden and Area Community Economic Development Society. We had great success with the Premier saying she was keen to start the process. It’s a big outcome and a real coup for us because it is a really rare thing that the provincial government will transfer land. This will provide long-term flexibility to the transferability and occupancy of the BCVC
building going into the future. At our meeting with Todd Stone, Minister of Transportation & Infrastructure, we received confirmation that the final link of the paved pedestrian path between the strip and downtown is now underway. Council also provided an acknowledgement of thanks to the Minister for projects like the highway twinning. One of the main issues Council debated at our meeting with executive staff for the Ministry of Health, was the responsibility of Interior Health to redesign the helipad at the Golden Hospital. Council feels strongly that the limitations on the current heliport at the Golden and District Hospital is a concern for our community. Council also advocated for better access to care in our community. As many have to travel as far as Kelowna and Cranbrook to receive treatments for various illnesses, not only is it inconvenient for people, but in a number of instances, they are not going to their appointments - which can be detrimental to their health. Of the many services that the Town provides, one of the most critical is the management and maintenance of the dike system. We are in the business of roads, sewer and water, and we choose to be in the business of things like recreation, leisure, cultural Services and Fire Protection, but we are forced to be the diking authority. For the past five years, Council has advocated that it would like to see that authority rescinded. Ultimately, the resolution that the Province be re-established as the diking authority in all local governments was
3PO 0T[VTU t .BZPS 5PXO PG (PMEFO passed at the UBCM meeting. This speaks to a broader issue that we are not alone, but stand with other communities along rivers in that we share the same challenges and financial burden. Golden is one of 14 municipalities that receive Resort Municipality funding and as a group, we all got together to discuss the value of the program and made a presentation to Minister of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training Shirley Bond and her staff. Council voiced its appreciation of the program in its current state, which will run until 2017, but we were unable to get confirmation on what would happen to the program thereafter. To that end, a sub-committee was created that includes three mayors and three CAOs from communities receiving the funding - including our own CAO Jon Wilsgard – whose history, knowledge and experience with that file will be important
to all the communities involved. There was also a discussion in regards to having the group of 14 communities work together to advocate other resort municipality issues – like the Temporary Foreign Workers Program for example, a valuable program to a lot of businesses in our communities. These outcomes are just a few of the positive results that highlight the virtue of the role Council plays at UBCM. UBCM provides Council a great opportunity to compare notes with other communities of similar size. Additionally, as a community we are seeing the fruits of those past face-to-face conversations with senior levels of government: t 5IF (PMEFO QBUIXBZ GSPN UIF CPUUPN to the top was made possible by a $1.3million investment by the province as a direct result of Council going to UBCM and lobbying to the appropriate members and levels of government. t 'VOEJOH GPS UIF (PMEFO &BSMZ :FBST Centre, now out of the ground and a reality in our community, was made possible by the Premier’s direct involvement in helping to secure the dollars. This year, the second uptake of the New Building Canada Fund was announced. We will definitely be applying for the funding and we have already identified a number of projects and have prioritized them. Moving forward, this will form the basis of what we are applying for, guided by the principles of sound asset management planning. If you would like to read about the outcomes of the 2015 UBCM convention, please visit our website at www.golden.ca and click on the link under What’s New.
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6 Guitars features characters, comedy and great music by Golden This Week staff What do you get when you put one guy on stage with a guitar, an incredible imagination and a great sense of humour? You get “music, characters, comedy and a great time,� says Chase Padgett, performer and creator of 6 Guitars - a musical, character and comedy-filled, something-for-everyone, one-man show coming to Golden on Oct. 17. Growing up in Naples Florida, Chase had no idea of what his future music career would entail. “I actually got a guitar for Christmas in the seventh grade and it sat in my closet for three years,� he says. “I wanted nothing to do with it, I didn’t ask for it.� Chase played the trumpet at the time. It was his first instrument. But, by Grade 10, he became bored with the trumpet. It was then that Chase would open the closet door and pick up the long neglected guitar. Learning to play was not as difficult as it may have been, Chase says, due to “a good public education program that taught music.� Chase decided he would learn to play guitar by applying what he had learned about music theory and by being in jazz band in high school. He eventually discovered he had a knack for it. “There was never a moment where I thought I wanted to be a guitar player, it just sort of happened by accident,� he recalls. Eventually Chase realized there was only so much he could teach himself and he signed up for guitar lessons to further his craft. “I felt like I should have someone illuminate the path. But I told myself that I would take the lessons until they weren’t fun anymore,� he says, adding that he was adamant about not wanting to take the fun and passion out playing guitar. “Luckily, that didn’t happen for a while.� Chase took his love of music through to college where he earned a music degree. “I didn’t have an idea for a career, I just knew that it would involve performing in some way,� he says, noting that he also really enjoyed acting. “I really only chose music over theatre because music majors are more fun to be around.� But, having a real interest and passion for it, Chase says he continued to do a lot
when I first started playing guitar,� he says, referring to “metal guy’s� need to play everything fast loud and to perfection. The jazz and classical guitar characters come from professors he has had and the folk guy is loosely based on Chase’s interpretation of James Taylor or John Denver – think soft spoken and melodic with a story to tell. The “blues guy� is based on musicians he has seen live over the years, including blues guitarist and singer Buddy Guy. “I wanted to capture the experience of seeing him live,� Chase says referring to the story telling nature of Buddy Guy’s show. Since the 2010 premiere of 6 Guitars, Chase says has been doing the show mostly full-time since. “Things have been relatively solid since then. The tricky part was taking the Fringe Festival success and translating that to performing arts centres,� he says. Apparently, whatever Chase is doing is working because demand for the show has definitely been solid in Canada and is $IBTF 1BEHFUU JT UIF DSFBUPS PG (VJUBST B NVTJDBM DIBSBDUFS BOE DPNFEZ mMMFE now branching into the U.S. According to his website, sixguitars.com, the show is TPNFUIJOH GPS FWFSZPOF POF NBO TIPX DPNJOH UP (PMEFO PO 0DU becoming one of the most successful on of improve throughout his post secondary personal challenge,� he explains. “I had the Canadian Fringe Festival circuit and career. He eventually landed a weekend the idea after seeing a friend perform a in 2013, 6 Guitars became one of the top and evening job at Disney World where one-woman show and I thought, ‘That five highest grossing shows in the history he ended up accruing a lot of stage time must be the hardest thing to do for a of the Winnipeg Fringe Festival by selling and a full-time role with the company. That performer.’ I wondered what I would nearly 3,000 tickets in 12 days. In the paid his way through college. do in the same position. I wanted to do spring of 2014, 6 Guitars was one of the By 2010, Chase was full-time with it myself – because I am an idiot and I top showcases at Pacific Contact, a juried Disney – and loving it. Then one day, always choose the hard way,� he laughs. showcase for arts presenters in British without notice, the company moved “I was driving down the road one day and Columbia and beyond. him from a show he was really enjoying thought, ‘How can I combine my two loves But, after performing the show 225 performing to another he was not so fond [guitar and improve]?’� times to date, how does Chase keep it of. Knowing he had been doing a good For three years the idea for 6 Guitars fresh? job and feeling like his hard work had sat in his mind. Eventually, Chase decided “There is a great education to be really gone unnoticed, Chase made the to put the idea on paper. had working at theme parks,� he says. hard decision to leave a company he had “I applied to the Orlando International “They teach you how to make repetition enjoyed working for but no longer felt Fringe Festival with the idea of 6 Guitars. spontaneous.� supported by. It was really scary, but I am so glad that I Chase says that certain parts of the It was around that time that Chase did,� he says. show are improved and interactive with the teamed up with a creative partner to write It was then, in 2010, that the six guitar audience, so even he doesn’t know what 6 Guitars. players living in Chase’s brain made their the outcome will be. “I didn’t know it would change my life, debut on stage. They were greeted with “If you do a show enough, the script but it did,� he muses. sold out shows and standing ovations. changes and evolves,� he says. “I know 6 Guitars wasn’t a new concept for When asked where he got the where the strong parts are and there are Chase by any means. He had been inspiration for the characters, Chase still segments that I keep evolving.� thinking about it in some shape or form for says that they are all based on “certain years before it became a reality. fragments of truth.� ... Continued on page 7 “The show itself really came from a “The metal guy is the closest to me
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On being grateful Janet Crandall-Swaffield Publisher “We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.� - J.F. Kennedy Having just lost a family member this past week, I’m again reminded how precious life is. How life is so very short. And that the people we take for granted every day won’t always be there. A death always brings it home to us. Life isn’t perfect, but each new day is a gift on its own, a brand new day full of possibilities. Life is for the living “Heading into though, and we have a responsibility this Thanksgiving to live up to our weekend, I am feeling potential. Heading into immensely grateful this Thanksgiving for the outpouring weekend, I am feeling immensely of generosity to the grateful for the Friends of the Golden outpouring of generosity shown to & District Hospital...� the Friends of the Golden & District Hospital organization, a project designed to raise funds for equipment purchases for our local hospital. For many local families, it will be the first Thanksgiving without ‘Mom’, or ‘Grandma’, or whoever that special someone was to them. It will be a time of grieving for many, and opening a new chapter for some. And no matter how much it hurts, I truly believe that it is gratitude that will be flowing from our hearts, thankful for those we have known and loved. Gone but not forgotten. “Gratitude produces a more meaningful life,� writes Jamelle Sanders in a recent article. “No other force empowers us to become our greater selves like gratitude.� And there is nothing quite like the appreciation one feels when receiving excellent care at a hospital such as ours. Truth be told, one never really knows how things like this will turn out until it’s over and when I got up Tuesday morning and opened my web browser, I was holding my breath. The donations had already started coming in, one after another, and continued on over the next few days. How our little (and extended) community can raise $36,000+ in just a few short days is nothing short of amazing. It’s incredible really. And what better way to celebrate the life of those we’ve lost, than by giving to something we all can benefit from. Well done, friends, well done. Now, what’s next for the Friends of GDH?
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‘Friends of Golden & District Hospital’ good for Golden Dear Editor, I was very pleased to learn of the formation of the Friends of the Golden Hospital. We are extremely lucky to have such a good hospital here. They not only look after the Town of Golden but deal with highway and back country accidents. They are an asset to the district. My wife Annette spent her last three days in the hospital. The nursing and emergency staff could not have been
better. The nurses went about their work with compassion and skill. When the Friends of the Golden and District Hospital launch their fundraising campaign later this month, to help purchase needed medical equipment, I intend to donate. I would urge those who can to make a donation. Yours truly, George Ross Golden, BC
Shocked about bear treatment Dear Editor, My wife and I are shocked to read in your paper about a mother bear and her baby cub being killed by so called “conservation officers”. Why can’t these conservation officers do as they do in Washington State? Bears are simply
tranquilized or trapped then transported many kilometers to a wilderness area for release. There is no shortage of wilderness areas around Golden. Lyle and Gail Shaw Washington
‘I didn’t know it would change my life ...’
“... from his humble trailer park beginnings alongside his white trash mother, Brenda to the crazy gigs on the road with his blues playing mentor, Tyrone.” Chase says he is also planning to develop an online show. “It’s a really exciting time to be an independent artist online, but you have to
Powder Highway – The unofficial networks website has been a trusted source for ski and snowboard resort information since it launched in 2010, recently releasing its annual list of the Top 10 Canadian Ski Resorts. Receiving a spot on the list are the RCR resorts – Kicking Horse Mountain Resort, Fernie Alpine Resort and Mont St Anne coming in respectively at spots 2, 7 and 10. Read the full list on unofficialnetworks.com. At Kicking Horse, we’re proud to garner rave reviews for our incredible verticals, deep ‘champagne’ powder and a truly spectacular and unique terrain mix. With ridiculously long downhill runs, and the option to heli-ski, Kicking Horse is a place where the stories are almost too tall to believe. The fourth highest vertical drop in North America, the raw ruggedness of our mountain, our amazing always-fresh powder, and the sheer beauty of our pristine scenery set Kicking Horse apart as one of the most exceptional ski resorts
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... Continued from page 4 Looking to the future, it seems that Chase has no plans to slow down. Along with the 6 Guitars show, he is also performing his latest creation – the Nashville Hurricane. The 75-minute, one man show takes the audience through he story of Henry Waltrip (the Nashville Hurricane) “from his humble trailer park beginnings alongside his white trash mother, Brenda to the crazy gigs on the road with his blues playing mentor, Tyrone.”
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be able to do it in three-minute chunks,” he says. Catch 6 Guitars at the Golden civic Centre on Oct. 17 at 7:30. This is one you don’t want to miss. Chase is an amazing guitar player and freakin’ hilarious to boot. This show is for everyone. For more info and to check out a snippet from a 6 Guitars show, visit kickinghorsecultre.ca. Tickets can be purchased at the Art Gallery of Golden or purchase by phone by calling 250 3446186.
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Bargain Basement filled to the brim with affordable treasures by Sarah Elizabeth Special to Golden This Week The St. Andrew’s United Church and Centre for Peace Bargain Basement has been serving people of all ages and walks of life for decades. It is considered to be a “magical place� where people who live in Golden, or come to visit, can find what they need whether they are in a bind; looking for something unique; or looking to find a sense of community. The Bargain Basement has something for everyone and is literally filled to the brim with unique treasures. All of the items available at the Bargain Basement have been donated by community members and sorted by volunteers. Everything can be found from books to greeting cards to wrapping paper, sewing supplies to jewellery. Wendy Oszust, Coordinator of the Thrift Shop, says she is “always amazed at the extravagance of what comes in.� “We feel so fortunate. The stuff we put out is amazing. We are fortunate for the
From left Marilyn Olson, Wendy Oszust, and Denise Shular. Oszust says, she “looks forward to going to work every day.� amount we receive. We can put out the best stuff! People are thrilled with what they find here,� says Oszust. Melanie Stolz, 35, shops at the Bargain Basement with her husband and two children. She lives in the Blaeberry. She says it is the one of two stores they shop
at in Golden and they are the only places her family shops. “I have a four and a six-year-old and we live out in the bush. It’s great to find clothes they can pick out themselves and get dirty. We can’t keep up with the amount of clothes kids need as they grow.
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The kids get to pick and we get to say yes, you can have that, because it’s affordable,� says Stolz. About 20 volunteers help with sorting, organizing, restocking the shelves, and working the cash. Some volunteers take on special tasks based on their interests and abilities. Michele Rowe, Reverend of St. Andrew’s Church says the volunteers bring a sense of community and friendship to the shop. “We have many faithful, enthusiastic volunteers, it’s just so obvious they love being here. They come with such a positive attitude,� says Rowe. Myrna Henderson, 77, has been volunteering at the shop for nearly 15 years. She manages the book and sewing sections. Henderson says she finds her volunteer work, ‘very rewarding.’ “I meet lots of nice people, great people, who I would not meet anywhere else,� says Henderson. Denise Shular, 75, works the check out. She has also been a volunteer at the Thrift ... Continued on page 10 Proudly serving Golden for 45 YEARS!
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‘I like to see people surprised at the low prices and happy with what they see’ ... Continued from page 9 Shop for close to 15 years. She says she loves it. “I like to see people surprised at the low prices and happy with what they see, the good bargains. I believe in helping out. I like the fact that we help the community,” says Shular. Marilyn Olson, 61, has also volunteered at the Thrift Shop for the past 15 years. She says there’s a kind of serendipity that happens for people who just need a little bit of help. She volunteers because she is retired and loves to meet the people who shop there. “I know a lot of people who come down here to shop. We get a lot of repeat customers,” says Shular. “We’re very convinced we have a magic gugu,” says Rowe. “If you ask for something you need, it turns up within a week,” says Rowe. “We think it’s a very magical place,” says Oszust. “Someone came in and asked for a turn
table. I have never seen a turn table come in before and one came in the next day,” says Oszust. “Another person asked for a juicer and I found one in the next box I opened. It happens all the time.” Annually the Thrift Shop raises about $46,000 to help cover costs of continuing the ministry of the church, honorariums for coordination and management of the shop, maintaining the inside and outside of the facilities, and outreach in the community. “We see a lot of people who find themselves in a situation. Who come camping and need sleeping bags and blankets, or who’ve lost clothes, or have had their coat stolen. The store serves a real need for people in a tight spot and we’re here to help and do what we can,” says Rowe. Staff and volunteers invite people in if they can help them, they provide those in need with gift cards when necessary and can offer a place for people to stay if they need a roof over their heads for a night. They can help people who come by hard times with a small donation.
If items come in that are specialty items for any clubs, volunteers at the shop will put them aside and donate the items back to the group for example, Girl Guide uniforms, and swim suits and caps for the Dolphins Swim Club. Most recently they donated a bag of uniforms to the local karate club. The Thrift Shop is open three days a week on Wednesdays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and on Fridays and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Summer stock is currently being put away and winter stock is being put out. Community members can look forward to a Halloween section and Holiday section. Ongoing promotions at the store include: free kids books; five dollar bag sales about every five weeks; and $1 bag sales on regular books and on kids toys. Donations are accepted at any time. A drop box is available on the west side of the church or downstairs in the thrift shop during business hours. The shop is accessible for those who need assistance getting down the stairs. Oszust, Rowe
and the volunteers at the shop ask for all donations to be in resalable condition with few exceptions. “We want items that are not ready for the garbage can, not worn out. Things somebody else would want. We are big on recycling. We use anything that is 50 percent cotton and turn them into rags for our rag bin, we take zippers and buttons of off things,” says Oszust. Oszust says, they have limited space, but anything they can’t use, will be sent to Calgary to the main depot and then dispersed from there. Volunteer opportunities are available. Oszust says, they are currently looking for someone to check electronics. For more information and to sign up as a volunteer please contact: 250-344-6117. For more information on the history of the shop, St. Andrew’s Church and Centre for Peace please visit: www.standrewsgolden. ca. ... See photos on page 11
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‘It’s a community gathering place just as much ...’
Oszust says there has been a significant increase over the last three years in the amount of donations they receive. “If you had told me three years ago this is what we would have grown into, I wouldn’t have believed you. It’s amazing,” says Oszust. According to statistics tracked by volunteers during a week in September, a whopping 300 people visited the store during business hours. “It’s a community gathering place just as much as it is for shopping. We always see new faces,” says Oszust. All photos by Sarah Elizabeth.
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Via Rail: A rocking, rolling journey across Canada by Claire Dibble Special to Golden This Week This is a big country. It spans 6351 kilometres from Pacific to Atlantic, from Vancouver to Halifax, along train tracks laid down some 150 years ago. The railways across this gigantic country helped to shape it in more ways than one. The spacing of towns along the tracks was determined by the need to refuel and resupply steam engines every 125 miles or so. And the fact that British Columbia is a jewel in Canada’s crown rather than a lengthy extension of the U.S., that was all thanks to the development of an east-west connector during critical times. All this and more was revealed over the course of a six-day journey by rocking, rolling rail, a journey I took last month from Vancouver to Halifax. There was much to learn, much to see. As the countryside rolls out before the train, through sunrises and sunsets, through grasslands and past jagged peaks, the affinity for this nation grows. Like riding through a Canadian calendar, with scenery that takes the breath away and tiny glimpses into what it is to call this place home. Flags blowing in a stiff wind, mowed lawns behind lake cottages, careful stacks of cordwood, hunting cabins tucked in remote woods, winding rivers and soaring mountains, plumes of dust kicked up by autumn harvests, dramatic skylines of metal and glass. It’s all part of Canada. It’s all visible from the train. As historian George Stanley wrote in The Canadians, “Bonds of steel as well as of sentiment were needed to hold the new Confederation together. Without railways there would be and could be no Canada.� 8IJUF MJOFOT BOE QPSDFMBJO JO UIF EJOJOH DBS XIFSF XBJUFST NPWF XJUI VOJNBHJOBCMF HSBDF BNJETU UIF VOQSFEJDUBCMF TIJGUJOH PG XIFFMT PO TUFFM All photos by Claire Dibble.
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Eat Pure: Pumpkin Bliss
Photo by Nicole DuVent. Bliss balls are raw superfood snacks, they are super easy to make, require no baking and are free of refined sugar or any processed foods.
by Nicole du Vent Eat Pure Mountain Market Special to Golden This Week
If you’re a weekly reader of our column you may notice a theme here: Last week Hanna gave us a KNOCK YOUR SOCKS OFF Pumpkin & Chocolate Ganache Pie recipe and the week before Judith did a stuffed Acorn squash recipe and told us all about the health benefits of squash! Well I’ve got one more for ya, ‘tis the season of Pumpkin Spiced LattĂŠs after all!
energy - no energy high then crash. They have become a staple in my fridge. I’ve brought Tupperware containers of them to Alaska on snowboard trips, and to the desert to give away at Burning Man, an epic festival in Nevada. You can flavour them anyway you like, from chocolate mint to lemon coconut, even rum at Christmas, but for fall it’s got to be Pumpkin Bliss Balls!
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Brighter Life - Six creative ways to teach your kids about money she also used it as a chance to teach another important lesson about advertising. “Kids can be really gullible,� says Deveau. “So when you have a chance to do an experiment like that, you take it.� *OWPMWF UIF SFTU PG ZPVS GBNJMZ Ensure you and your family are on the same page about how to teach your children about money. Work with your spouse to develop a plan and make sure members of your extended family, such as grandparents, aunts and uncles – are on board.
Submitted, written by Daina Feick BrighterLife.ca Understanding financial issues is challenging enough for adults, so it’s no wonder many parents struggle when it comes to teaching them to kids. According to a Harris/Decima Youth Financial Literacy Study for the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants, 84% of Canadians believe young people are ill-prepared to manage their finances when they enter the workforce. While 78% of Canadian parents have attempted to teach their children financial management skills, 60% believe that they haven’t been successful.
“I don’t pay my kids to do chores,� says Cole. “No one is paying me to make dinner, so I’m not paying them to clear the table. But I do think they need to learn about money, and how to earn it, spend it and save it.� Sarah Deveau, mother of three and author of Money Smart Mom: Financially Fit Parenting and Sink or Swim: Get Your Degree Without Drowning in Debt, recommends starting the money talk early. “Start small and start young, making it a daily habit to talk about money as you grow as a family,� says Deveau. “If it becomes natural to talk about money when your children are six, then it won’t be a problem when they are 13 and college or university savings are on the line.� But when your children are young, it’s important to approach complicated financial concepts with a bit of creativity, says Julie Cole, mother of six and co-founder of Hamilton-based blog The Mabelhood. Having trouble getting started? Here are six parent-tested strategies to teach your kids about money: -FU ZPVS LJET FBSO NPOFZ Opinions differ on whether or not allowances should be tied to household chores, but whichever route you choose,
“Deveau’s daughter wanted to spend her savings on a toy that she had seen in a commercial. Deveau warned her that it wouldn’t work as well as the commercial had promised. Her daughter wasn’t convinced, so Deveau let her purchase it anyway.� find ways to teach your child about earning an income and managing savings. “I don’t pay my kids to do chores,� says Cole. “No one is paying me to make dinner, so I’m not paying them to clear the table. But I do think they need to learn about money, and how to earn it, spend it and save it.� Cole’s family uses an elaborate checkmark system where each child has a box on a whiteboard, and they earn and lose checkmarks based on behaviour. At the end of the week, checkmarks get cashed in at the price of $2 for five checkmarks. While they aren’t rewarded for doing basic family chores, they are rewarded for things like being helpful, being a good listener, and showing initiative. 4QPOTPS B DIJME Many families sponsor international children through organizations like World Vision, a good way to teach children about the difference between “wants� and “needs.� “I wanted my kids to understand how lucky they are,� says Cole, who would sometimes tell her children that their requests for new toys weren’t in the budget because they had to send money to their foster child.
“They would realize he needed food and running water,� she added. “It was an easy, teachable piece in their lives and he was a real boy that they could write back and forth with.� %POBUF UP DIBSJUZ Cole also includes her children in the decision-making when she and her spouse plan to donate to aid during an international crisis. “When the earthquake in Japan happened, I decided I wanted my kids to give up something so we could make a family donation. We did the same thing for Haiti,� says Cole. “We all decided we wouldn’t stop for hot chocolate after hockey for a month.� 5FBDI iCVZFS CFXBSFw Kids also need to learn to interpret consumer advertising. Deveau’s daughter wanted to spend her savings on a toy that she had seen in a commercial. Deveau warned her that it wouldn’t work as well as the commercial had promised. Her daughter wasn’t convinced, so Deveau let her purchase it anyway. When the toy wasn’t up to snuff, Deveau took that as an opportunity to teach her daughter about store return policies. But
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Ice Cream for Breakfast - Crazy Dr. Seuss book love and angst by Sarah Elizabeth Special to Golden This Week
“I can read in red. I can read in blue. I can read in pickle color too.� – Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut One of my favourite activities to do with my daughter is read books. I’m so grateful for books. Books teach me things and give me insight into some of the ways of the world. Books take me to places I’ve never been. Books inspire me. Books help me relax. Books make me laugh and cry - I love, love, love curling up with my daughter and reading books. As a huge fan, I was excited to dive right into Dr. Seuss books as soon as possible. Who doesn’t love Dr. Seuss? His books are fun and delightful to read for anyone, young and old, with or without kids. Many of his books are filled with positive messages like in Oh, the Places You’ll Go! I particularly love the enthusiasm in which I’m told I will, “go to great places,� that I have, “brains in my head,� and I’m, “too smart to go down any not so good street.� I also love how he keeps it real by informing me that sometimes things will not go my way. That I may experience, “bang ups and hang ups,� and get lost, and become confused and wait for extended periods of time – as an adult I can appreciate how true these words are. I’m grateful they are all tightly bundled in a book I can give to my daughter. It’s all there for her to appreciate as she grows up. Since my daughter is still a toddler and her sense of adventure compares to that of Annie Taylor, who was the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, I am careful not to expose her to too many things that may inspire any more shenanigans than already take place in the house. For example, my days are regularly spent explaining to an emotionally unbalanced half-kid half-baby why we don’t eat cat food or rinse our toothbrush off in the toilet, and why we don’t chase the cats or draw on walls. I am often monitoring the shenanigans of stickers being stuck to the most random of places; folded laundry being thrown on the floor and food throwing - among
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the children to throughout the book. Things like flying kites and riding bikes in the house, and standing on balls while holding as many fragile and flammable objects as possible. By the time I’m done reading this book I feel like I need a nap. My daughter, on the other hand, loves it and looks forward to her future making a living standing on balls. She has already tried it once. Green Eggs and Ham seems to be my
daughter’s favourite book by Seuss at this time, therefore I’ve read it to her at least a hundred times and counting. My daughter finds the book hilarious – she would. I can’t help but feel mildly annoyed at Sam. He clearly doesn’t know the word no, neither does my toddler – go figure. I empathize with the elder who was just trying to read his newspaper in peace. He tells Sam over and over again that he doesn’t want to eat the green eggs and ham, which I believe is a wise choice as it seems the food is clearly on the verge, if not already, rotten. “I don’t like them Sam I am, I don’t like green eggs and ham,� seems like a pretty clear no to me, yet Sam continues to bother him. Since being consistent with my toddler about household agreements is important for teaching purposes I fear the elder caving at the end will send a message to my daughter that if she persists long enough I’ll cave and let her eat cat food and stand on balls after all. Great Day for Up holds a special place in my heart. As my daughter has grown from her snuggly baby stage into a fullblown toddler, going, going, going are the days when we would snuggle all day together. As inspiring as it was to read about all the animals rising with the sun, and dancing in celebration of a new day I felt a fond appreciation for the cheeky character at the end who sleeps in while the rest of the world got busy doing things – sleeping in is just what we did when my daughter was just a baby. Now that she’s in crazy toddler mode I look back on those days fondly. With all of the activities and chores to be done throughout the day - the rush to all the different activities (sometimes), trips to the park, diaper changes, washing poop off of my hands, picking up toys and managing all of the lessons being learned throughout the day (in honour of consistency), planning and making meals and snacks, cleaning up afterwards, there are endless something to dos and something or others to get done – as my daughter grows and gets busier– reading books is probably the easiest way to be quiet and settled together, to spend quality time together while doing something we both love, and the bonus is the mess is minimal.
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Great mistakes in Golden’s past It is both important and interesting to understand the major stages in our Golden history. Part of that includes celebrating the things that have made our area successful. But it is perhaps also important to know and understand what things have held
us back or caused problems as the area has grown. Only then can we know if we have grown as we should have or might have. This issue and the next in our little history series deals with what we see as possible mistakes. The fact that we include
them here is, of course, only our amateur interpretation, and no better than yours. If you have another idea, let us know. If nothing else, we hope these articles might at least give you some cause to look back at some of these things and give them
some thought. We think our history is significant and very much part of the history of Canada and, inasmuch as it may have played a role in the establishment of the boundaries of our country and the United States, perhaps of North America as well.
History part 4 - Big mistake. CPR over Rogers Pass Walter Moberly was right. The railway should not have gone over Rogers Pass. It should have gone around the Big Bend. Of course, it does go over or through or close to Rogers Pass today and it is working just fine so who cares? Maybe nobody cares today, but only because of the passage of time. A hundred years or so ago there were probably many people who cared greatly because about two hundred of their family members were in their graves because of the choice of the route over Rogers. Two hundred people, two hundred funerals, two hundred families with, in many cases, their husbands and fathers gone. When the railway was built there had been at least six proposed routes through the Rockies, with two being close to Golden, the Kicking Horse and the Howse Pass routes. Either could have continued through to Rogers Pass or gone around the Big Bend and down to Revelstoke. Which of those two routes to the west was the best one? Moberly said it was the Big Bend. Of course, it depends on what you use as a basis for deciding which way was best. The railway and the federal government used cost and construction time in making their decision, usually the standards which we would expect governments to use. But if you use human lives as the basis there might be a different conclusion. Even operating costs, as opposed to capital/ construction costs, might have led to a different result. But on the day after the big snow slide in 1910 that took 65 lives of Golden and Revelstoke families, 2015 and all the changes that would happen over those next 95 years was still a long, long way off. And the 65 lives that were lost that day were by no means all that were lost as a result of the track going over Rogers. It has been
by Duane Crandall Special to Golden This Week estimated that as many as 200 people had lost their lives in the Rogers Pass area. Then too, the date on which you choose to make an evaluation can change the answer. Here in 2015 with two tunnels to ease the grades and huge locomotives to pull the trains, Rogers Pass has been largely conquered. But it was far from conquered when the locomotives were small steam engines and they had to go clear up over the summit where the Trans-Canada Highway goes today. It is instructive that very soon after the big slide the railway started looking at the possibility of a tunnel which could bring the line down out of the pass itself and partly away from the dangerous avalanche areas. That work would eventually lead to the building of the Connaught Tunnel in 1916 and the Mount Macdonald Tunnel in the late 1980’s. Walter Moberly, the guy after whom our rural area just northwest of Golden is named after, was a civil engineer who recommended routes on both sides of Golden, neither of which were chosen. He wanted the line coming from the east to use Howse Pass, not the Kicking Horse. On the other side, he favoured the route around the Big Bend, presumably for operating cost advantages and lessor safety
hazards such as avalanches. The CPR had, however, hired Major A.B. Rogers, an American railway surveyor, to make a recommendation on routes on both sides of Golden. Rogers found the pass which now bears his name (although disputed by Moberly as to who really found it) and the railway and federal government adopted it as the best route between Golden and Revelstoke. Rogers also selected the Kicking Horse Pass to the east, and did so basically on a ‘gut feel guess.’ There was very little, if any, surveying work done in the Kicking Horse prior to its selection as the route through the Rockies. Moberly might well have been right on the Rockies side as well, maybe Howse Pass was the better route there.
“But on the day after the big snow slide in 1910 that took 65 lives of Golden and Revelstoke families, 2015 and all the changes that would happen over those next 95 years was still a long, long way off.” But back to the question as to whether the railway should have gone over Rogers Pass or around the Big Bend, was Moberly right or wrong? I think he was right. He was certainly right for his time. He had no way of knowing that the two tunnels would or could ever have been built. Nor did he know that railway equipment would advance as it has. It has probably taken both modern railway equipment technology and at least the Connaught Tunnel to make Rogers Pass the best route. But Moberly did know that it would be far easier to build a railway along the low lands of the Columbia River valley to the
Big Bend and down to Revelstoke, rather than building way up through the rocks and ridges of Rogers Pass. He would also have known that operating costs would be much lower staying down below. And he knew that nobody could measure the risk associated with avalanches in the high country of the pass, but he was of the opinion that those risks would be high, and in that he was most certainly right. So the route through Rogers should probably well be there today, but it maybe should have been built much later. Maybe the route should have gone around the Big Bend for the first few decades, at least until the Connaught Tunnel was built, and then be moved to Rogers. At least this writer believes that Moberly was right for his time. And what was his time? It wasn’t just after the 1910 avalanche disaster when reducing the hazards became mandatory. It was at least thirty years before that, before the route was chosen in the first place, which makes his recommendation against Rogers Pass even more remarkable. Any fool is an expert with hindsight, but Moberly made his recommendation long before hindsight was available. Moberly felt very strongly about the choice of routes. Strongly enough that he eventually left the public service because his recommendation was not accepted. He ended up working in Winnipeg where he engineered the first sewer system for that city, likely a significant achievement in itself. He died exactly 100 years ago, in 1915, while the railway was still using the perilous route over the summit of the pass, but he probably had heard about the 1910 slide. Interestingly enough, Major A.B. Rogers, the guy who got credit for discovering the pass, and maybe might have had sober second thoughts had he lived to hear about the slide, never heard about it. He died in 1889.
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Garry Irving - On communication by Garry Irving Special to Golden This Week Although my wife and I are now residents of Horsefly (40 minutes east of Williams Lake) the years we spent in Golden will always remain with us and we will always look back with fondness on the community and those we became friends of and those we worked with. Communication. Writing a letter or picking up the phone dominated communication in the early and mid -parts of the 20th century. Not that many years ago a rotary phone was used by most teenagers trying to talk to each other. You used your fingers to dial the number and did not have an app to put in a contact list. You learned how to write and print in school and sent letters to friends and family in other parts of the country or overseas. Today it is I-phones, texting, emails, twitter and such devices as facebook that seem to dominate our world. I was
watching my wife on Facebook the other day and she was keeping in touch with friends on a medium that did not cost us a lot of money. What a great way of keeping in touch with people on an instant basis instead of getting a busy signal or waiting on a postal delivery.
“I started my radio career in Portage-la-Prairie Manitoba in 1967. That station consisted of two pedestal mounted turntables that played 78’s as well at 33’s (record albums). There were also two tape machines that had all the commercials on them. There was also the microphone for announcing.” I am a history buff and was interested in communication during World War 11 when pigeons were used to send word of the landing in Europe on June 6th 1944. Allied correspondents used the pigeons
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for backup as radio communication was sparse. Sending units and receivers in those days did not have a lot of range and it was hit and miss transmitting from France to England. What a change today when satellite phones and emails are used by Canadian soldiers on duty in Canada or overseas to keep in contact with family and loved ones at home. How the troops and persons serving their country in the 20th century wars would have loved to have a communication service such as todays personnel have. Letters mailed in Europe could take up to two weeks to reach those overseas. Cable service was available for those that could access it for notifications of many issues including casualties. I started my radio career in Portagela-Prairie Manitoba in 1967. That station consisted of two pedestal mounted turntables that played 78’s as well at 33’s (record albums). There were also two tape machines that had all the commercials on them. There was also the microphone for announcing.
Today it is all on computer and you just push a button for the music and commercials. Through modern technology you can also pre-record a program and email to the mother studio to be loaded on a computer and presto I was would be heard on the air Saturdays and Sundays. Computers now dominate newspapers but that is another story for another time. Even cameras have changed substantially in the past few years. Maybe next time I will talk a bit about how a newspaper editor felt when he printed an editorial that appeared in a Toronto newspaper on July 1, 1867. The editor wondered at that time what Canada would look like in 100 years. ~ Garry Irving Publisher’s Note: I’d like to welcome Garry Irving to Golden This Week. Garry and I first worked together in 1998, until sometime in 2004 I believe. He has worked in both the radio and the newspaper in Golden for many decades and I’m pleased to have him along for the ride. Welcome aboard! ~ Janet
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