April 11 2014

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Local business owner Steve Allison lists cluster of downtown properties for sale

Local artist Debbie Elliott and University of British Columbia faculty and students invite Peachlanders to take part in a community workshop to record the sounds of Peachland.

Joanne Layh Special to the Peachland View

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Variety Singers to commemorate 40th anniversary

The Peachland Variety Singers began 40 years ago as a glee club. They moved to the Fifty Plus Activity Centre in 1976, when they became the Peachland Variety Performers and later the Peachland Variety Singers. page 10

JOANNE LAYH

LOCAL BUSINESS OWNER STEVE ALLISON this week listed eight downtown properties for sale in the hope that a developer

will purchase them as a consolidated package.

Local business to be showcased at 21st annual Peachland Business Expo Joanne Layh / Special to the Peachland View

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Peachland residents and visitors will have an opportunity to learn more about local businesses and take advantage of some special offers at the 21st annual Peachland Business Expo event this Saturday.

Interim Peachland Chamber of Commerce president Patrick Van Minsel says the expo will offer residents and visitors an excellent opportunity to learn more about local businesses and community organizations.

“We have new businesses that have not been here in other years,” Van Minsel told The View.

In addition to over 50 business vendors, about 10 community groups will also be showcased at the event.

Many of the business vendors participating in this year’s event are home-based businesses that do not have a storefront,

so the expo offers attendees an opportunity to learn more about less visible businesses.

“It’s a fun way to connect with businesses you wouldn’t connect with normally,” Van Minsel said.

Van Minsel says many business vendors participating in the expo this Saturday will have special promotions to offer those who attend.

“Most of them are going to have an offer that runs through the business expo, so come and take advantage of the offer,” Van Minsel advises.

In addition to the business vendors and community group tables, a food concession service will be on offer at the expo provided by the Peachland Lions Club.

The 21st annual Peachland Business Expo will take place 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. at the community centre on Saturday, Apr. 12.

Admission to the event is free.

If you happened to drive down 3rd or 1st Streets in the last week you may have noticed eight new Coldwell Banker for sale signs that popped up at once.

The properties listed for sale are owned by companies controlled by local business owner Steve Allison, who is probably best known in Peachland as the president of TNI. Four of the properties for sale are located on 1st Street and are listed as a package for $2.9 million. Among the four properties for sale on 4th Street are three houses (including one rented by the Peachland View) as well as the TNI building, which takes up most of the end of the block, excluding the ambulance station.

The 4th Street properties, also being sold as a package, are listed for $3.2 million, according to the local Coldwell Banker office.

Allison says at the time when he was considering the redevelopment of 4th Street, operators of the ambulance station had expressed a willingness to relocate if a big project required it.

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The hills are alive with the sound of Peachland What do you think of when you imagine the sound of Peachland?

Local artist Debbie Elliott and University of British Columbia faculty and students invite Peachlanders to take part in “The Hills are Alive with the Sounds of Peachland,” a free community workshop to record the sounds of Peachland for an exhibition this spring.

The workshop, which will be held on Saturday Apr. 12 from 10 a.m. until noon, will provide sound equipment, though participants are invited to use their own smartphones or other recording devices. Sounds will be collected, notes taken, and recordings will be compiled and digitally loaded onto light-sensitive mini-recorders for an exhibition at Peachland’s Historic Primary School.

Participants are asked to meet at the gazebo in Heritage Park.

Those who cannot attend the workshop but who still wish to participate can send sound recordings that remind them of Peachland to elliott.debbie@gmail.com, along with their name, contact information, and a short description of the sound. The recordings must be two minutes or shorter and saved in MP3 or WAV format, and be submitted by Apr. 21.

The Hills are Alive with the Sounds of Peachland is part of the Yellow Schoolhouse Project, a community art initiative funded by UBC’s Okanagan Sustainability Institute and the EcoArt Incubator.

For more information, contact Debbie Elliott at 778-479-1764 or Nancy Holmes at 250-807-9369.

Local business owner Steve Allison lists cluster of downtown properties Continued from page 1

prompted the decision to list the properties for sale now, in an interview with The View, Allison stated he is still frustrated

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rent. I have more than one business and as the landlord of this business, on the property management company side, I had to think about all these empty buildings

lem. I always knew in the back of my mind was that one of the problems would be: what do I do with my existing properties?”

Allison said back in 2012 he felt rea-

If I sit on these buildings and just let them all deteriorate, play dog in a manger, that doesn’t help me or the town of Peachland so if I’m not willing to play ball by their rules, I think the kindest thing I can do is step aside and let someone else do it if they’re so inclined.

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with how things went in 2012, referring to the widely publicized series of events that led to the failure of his proposed Beach Avenue development (intended to centralize his TNI business and house a family member) to move forward.

Allison went on to say another catalyst for the decision was that he was approached by a group seeking his involvement in making a proposal to participate in an opportunity to build a mixed-use municipal hall building in West Kelowna that could have been a new home for his TNI business, which currently employs over 80 people.

Allison says while his group didn’t succeed in making the short list from the other offers put forward to the District of West Kelowna, it got him to thinking further about the future location of his businesses.

“With the realization that within a year TNI could be out of there, ‘there’ being Peachland, I had to think in terms of TNI doesn’t own any of these buildings, they

simultaneously and the impact on maybe some of neighbouring businesses, all these restaurants, and think, is that the environment I want to be in, with my buildings empty, for sale or for lease? Or do I want to be preemptive and see what I can do to sell or lease them in advance and see if that leads me to my solution as to where I’m going to build,” Allison said.

“All along I’ve been trying to focus on where my TNI building would go and I would solve my prob-

sonably certain Peachland would be accommodative to doing something to keep TNI in Peachland.

“I’d be destroying some of my buildings so I wouldn’t end up with a new building and these buildings,” Allison said. “Then you’ve got to look at the capital involved and how does all that work to build the new building and then what do you do with all these older buildings? Then I just realized I’m going at this all wrong. I should see what I can do with these build-

ings and know where my capital lies and my timelines lie and that leaves me free to do what I’m going to do for TNI.” Allison says listing the properties for sale will free up his options regarding where to locate a centralized TNI building in the future, as currently employees are scattered among a few downtown locations.

“It takes the handcuffs off me. Right now having all these buildings that we’re working in and the capital tied up in them, does handcuff me to what I can do to some degree. So selling them first and then having the options open to me does present me some great opportunities,” Allison said. “The city hasn’t apologized for anything they’ve done.

They haven’t retracted anything they’ve done.

If I sit on these buildings and just let them all deteriorate, play dog in a manger, that doesn’t help me or the town of Peachland so if I’m not willing to play ball by their rules, I think the kindest thing I can do is step aside and let someone else do it if they’re so inclined. Time will tell. This is a way to find out.”

Allison says de-

pending on what offers the TNI building was restaurant and The might be available, at proposed to be located Edgewater, are not this stage he would not and which include the among those currently rule out any options for future Latin Fiesta listed for sale.

TNI, including temporarily leasing from a new building owner or taking the business to The Waterfront Grill another community.

The View asked Allison if any recommendations resulting All our leaf lettuce products, spinach, romaine & from the district’s mixed greens are 100% organic recent development review process have All our ground chuck for burgers are changed his perspec100% free range & are tive about developing 100% hormone & antibiotic free in Peachland.

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ust over ten years ago, back when I lived in Regina, my first home was a 20s bungalow near the downtown area. It was a starter home that needed some renovations, but for $81,000 and around $4,000 down (only a 5 per cent deposit was required at that time) even as a part-time university student working in a call centre I had a chance get onto the property ladder, so I took the opportunity and bought the little house.

When it came to doing the renovations, some family members volunteered to help in exchange for a few cases of beer, but when they hit upon some snags I had to hire a contractor to finish the job. The contractor took longer than expected and it cost me more than initially anticipated, but it was an old house with lath and plaster walls that apparently aren’t as easy to deal with as modern drywall and there were some other problems that weren’t discovered until later in the process.

As a single university student on a tight budget, the cost overrun of the project wasn’t easy to manage, but I understood that in the construction business, estimates are just that – estimates – and no one can accurately predict exactly how much something is going to cost because when dealing with an old building, you just don’t know what you are going to find and often there are complications that can’t be anticipated.

I had help from others, but I also put a lot of my own blood, sweat and tears into that house. I’m not very handy, but I repainted, sanded and stained the hardwood floors and made whatever kind of improvements I could. With minimal investment, a few years later that $81,000 house was worth $200,000. I’ve never for a moment doubted that house was worth the investment, even if the effort to improve it was a bit stressful and costly to me at the time.

Similarly, the primary school building in Peachland was renovated for minimal cost and now is an asset worth over $1.5 million. Did it cost a little more to renovate than expected? Sure, but I think with a building that age, that sort of

thing is typical and to be expected. “You’re always going to run into snags,” a relative often used to say to me.

Are the details of those costs hidden from taxpayers and concealed from public view? I think the breakdown of the costs that has been detailed would seem sufficient to most, but for some reason a few people have grabbed onto the idea that there is possibly something untoward going on and are working it for all the leverage they can get out of it.

It’s a shame that decent contractors and volunteers have had their names dragged through the mud all for the sake of what is, in my opinion, opportunistic motives by some politicians and a couple of concerned citizens who are eager to be seen as defending the need for “transparency” and “accountability” as we grow closer to the November municipal election.

From what I can ascertain, there are few local governments around more transparent and accountable as Peachland’s council, who I refer to in general.

I don’t mean this as a criticism, but often even the most insignificant issues are flogged to death as they publicly debate issues, frequently dissecting minor staff decisions and tiny details beyond what most other local governments concern themselves with. Most of them do it, I suspect, because they’re genuinely concerned about making the right decisions; others I think, are more petty and just like to nitpick and micromanage others.

The sheer length of Peachland’s committee of the whole meetings, which often take all morning and sometimes drag on into the afternoon, astounds my colleagues at other larger newspapers. Many other councils have little discussion about the issues being debated and even their committee of the whole meetings are a mere formality, easily finished in less than an hour. Not so in Peachland.

While as journalists, we are sometimes keen to reveal something unscrupulous or uncover some kind of dirt, the reality of the situation is, in some cases there is really just a whole lot of nothing going on. That doesn’t make for a very exciting election platform, but if you have to invent a reason to be in office, maybe you’re there for the wrong reasons.

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It would appear that Christy Clark and her Liberal government are pulling a sneaky move to increase B.C. taxpayers’ income taxes.

I am in the process of preparing my 2013 income tax returns. As is my usual procedure, I always check the income tax rates and personal deductions for the current year and the previous year to see if there have been any changes.

For the income tax rates for 2013, both the federal and B.C. rates are the same as in 2012. As for the personal exemptions, the federal government amounts for both the basic and senior categories were increased by about 2 per cent, which I believe were increased to reflect the increase in the cost of living in 2013.

However, for the B.C. personal exemptions, I was astounded to see that the basic personal exemption, instead of being increased as expected, was actually reduced by about 9.5 per cent. Compared to the federal increase in this

area, the B.C. “reduction” reflects a 11 per cent overall increase.

This huge decrease in the B.C. basic personal exemption makes no sense to me and seems to have been implemented in a very sneaky manner. I would guess that this reduction in the basic exemption for B.C. will cost the taxpayers of B.C. millions of dollars in additional income taxes, and I don’t think they will see this increase until they prepare their 2013 income tax returns. I cannot guess why Ms. Clark would do this to the people of B.C., as it makes no sense to me, especially in the tough times we are in right now.

I think this reduction in the B.C. basic personal exemption will hurt the working poor and seniors the most.

What a shame that Ms. Clark chose to hurt the people of B.C. with this large income tax increase in these trying times.

Larry Weisgarber, Peachland

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Thanks are deserved for primary school renovation project Re: Councillor’s criticisms dismay primary school reno project volunteer (Apr. 4 issue of The View) In reference to Mr. Prevost’s letter to The View last week, I am sure that Mr. Provost feels that his gift to Peachland is not appreciated, but of course it is.

In a project like this, a clear record needs to be kept and made public so that everyone can see their questions answered. We need to have councillors who are not afraid to ask

questions and we need a council who will be willing to work together to encourage the publication of a complete financial statement of the primary school restoration from the beginning to the present.

As taxpayers we need to say “thank you” to Mr. Prevost and “thank you” to Cindy Fortin, who was not afraid to ask a question.

Patricia Ryder, Peachland

Volunteers provide an outstanding example of selflessness Re: National Volunteer Week, Apr. 6 - 12 2014 During National Volunteer Week, Apr. 6 to 12, I would like to send a heartfelt thank-you to everyone who volunteers in our community.

Volunteers provide an outstanding example of selflessness that others can look up to, and are the foundation of the strength in our community. They are the people who we turn to in a time in need; they are neighbours who support us, and the courageous that fight for us.

This is a time to celebrate those dedicated volunteers who give to make this the kind and

supportive community we know it to be.

I especially would like to thank those I work directly with at the Canadian Cancer Society. You are among our most valuable ambassadors and assets, and continue to be at the heart of the Canadian Cancer Society.

Happy National Volunteer Week!

Jacqueline Salvino Volunteer Engagement Coordinator, Canadian Cancer Society

Program continues addling goose eggs to control population Now in its eighth year, the Okanagan Valley Goose Management program is resuming its annual egg addling initiative.

Egg addling involves shaking the unhatched eggs or coating them with non-toxic corn oil so that they will not hatch. The eggs are then returned to the nest, and by the time the geese realize, it will generally be too late in the year for them to produce more.

In this process, approved by the U.S. Humane Society, the adult geese are not harmed and are free to continue their lives normally.

Most communities in the valley struggle with management of these non-migratory Canada geese. They are largely the descendants of non-native species of geese that were brought here from different areas of Canada in the 1960s and 1970s to encourage the creation of an Okanagan goose population.

What was not foreseen was their ability to adapt to and thrive in the mild Okanagan climate and their inability to migrate because they had no natural parents to teach them how. As a result, the number of geese

has grown with few natural controls, creating a need to manage this population.

The public is asked to keep away from goose nests and to avoid touching eggs, but to assist in the location of new nests by reporting lone geese, pairs of geese or nest locations by emailing coordinator@ okanagangooseplan.com or calling 1-877943-3209.

The Okanagan Goose Management Program has a special permit from the federal government to allow crews to addle goose eggs on public and private lands with the

owners’ permission.

The Okanagan Valley Goose Management Program is a partnership between the City of Kelowna, Central Okanagan Regional District, Regional District of Okanagan Similkameen, District of West Kelowna, City of Vernon, City of Penticton, Town of Lake Country, Town of Osoyoos, Town of Oliver, District of Peachland, District of Summerland and Glenmore Ellison Irrigation District. More information about the program is available at www.okanagangooseplan.com.

Temporary Foreign Worker Program back in the news The temporary foreign worker program has again made major headlines across British Columbia. This week complaints centered on a number of fast food restaurants in Victo-

Dan Albas, MP ria. The complaint was that temporary foreign workers were being offered employment over Canadian workers who were also available for work. If these allega-

tions are established as being accurate, an offending employer could face significant fines and even imprisonment. At the present time these allegations are being actively investigated by the same integrity division that has been involved in the situation I referenced in last week’s report that involves a resident of South Africa teaching dance in the community of Merritt under the temporary foreign worker program.

Over the past seven days since last week’s report, significant progress has been made in the hope that in the future dance classes for children in Merritt will continue to be offered.

Some of the questions I most frequently receive from concerned citizens on this issue is the

lack of an obvious common sense solution and slow timeframe of the compliance process.

As I am discovering first hand, there are a number of variables in these situations that are all deserving of consideration. Obviously, no Canadian desires to see temporary foreign workers exploited while in Canada – to help guard against exploitation, complaints can be reported through emailintegrity@servicecanada.gc.ca or by phone at 1 800 367-5693.

Although a complainant may decide to publicly identify themselves, the government handles all complaints of this nature as strictly confidential.

The compliance process is in many ways one and the same as an investigative pro-

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cess and depends upon actual evidence being presented to ensure employers and workers in Canada under the temporary foreign worker program are honouring the commitments agreed to under the initial agreement to participate in the program. There may be a need for verification that a worker has been fully compensated and legitimately paid and not siphoned off by third parties or elaborate kickback schemes to circumvent the law.

It also should be pointed out that investigators with the integrity division acquire expertise in methods that are frequently used by some in an attempt to exploit the temporary foreign worker program and resulting best practices for compliance are used to help resolve cases of

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non compliance. All of this unfortunately takes time.

My intent of this week’s report is not to defend how the integrity division of the temporary foreign worker program has worked in Merritt with the Love to Dance Academy but rather to provide some context on some of the reasons why compliance concerns can be quite extensive to satisfy.

Fortunately progress continues to be made in Merritt and I am hopeful that lessons learned here can offer future efficiencies in other areas with similar circumstances.

A few other points for this week. In last week’s report I mentioned that youth who are twelve years of age or older may apply for their own SIN number.

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I should have also provided more detail on this point: for children under twelve years of age, parents or other legal guardians can apply for a child’s SIN number – for example, if someone wished to set up a Registered Education Savings Plan.

Twelve years of age is when a youth can apply for a SIN card on their own. Another point comes courtesy of the Okanagan Basin Water Board: to remind

boaters that a vessel infected with invasive freshwater mussel larvae may live inside moist areas of a vessel for extended periods of time – potentially for as long as a month, thus pointing to the need for a thorough inspection process. If you have a comment, question or concern on any matter before the House of Commons I can be reached at dan.albas@ parl.gc.ca or toll free at 1-800-665-8711.

New Naturopathic Practice On Westside

Introducing DR. LUCI SKAKEN, N.D., Naturopathic Physician, practicing family medicine with a special interest in longevity, formerly of Vienna Clinics in Edmonton, AB, and in Peace River area for over 20 years.

Dr. Skaken now welcomes new patients at her office in the previous Natural Harvest Market location at 3654 Hoskins Road in downtown West Kelowna.

For information or to arrange an appointment call 1-800-747-5447.

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Jerry Dober Breakfast, 8am, Peachland Wellness Centre Peachland United Service, 10am, United Church St. Margaret’s Anglican Church Worship, 10am, St. Margaret’s Anglican Church Emmanuel Church Workship Service, 10am, Peachland Elementary School Peachland Baptist Service, 10:30 service fellowship 11:30am, 4204 Lake Ave. Ukulele Group, 1pm, 50+ Activity Centre. Call 250-767-6574.

Meat Draw, 2pm, Royal Canadian Legion Branch #69

Mid-week Study and Conversation Coffee, 9:30am, St. Margaret’s Anglican Church Trail Blazers, 9:30am, Power Creek Trail Outdoor Fitness Trail Orientations, 10am. Meet at the kiosk by Trepanier Creek. Call 250-767-0141 for info.

Carpet Bowling, 10am-noon, 50+ Activity Centre Computer Literacy, 10amnoon, all sessions take place at Peachland Wellness Centre Volleyball, 10am-noon, community centre Wellness Circle Fitness Equipment Guides, 10am. Call 250-767-2133 to register for your spot Peachland Boardwalk for Seniors, 12pm AA, 12-1pm, 50+ Activity Centre Men’s Coffee, 1pm, Peachland Wellness Centre Friendship Tuesday/Movie, 1-3:30pm, 50+ Activity Centre Tween Drop-In, 2:30-5pm, meet at Peachland Elementary. Grades 5-6 Youth Drop-In, 3:30-8pm, Peachland Youth Centre. Grades 7+ Peachland Sparks and Brownies, 5:45-7pm, community centre Bridge (Experienced), 7pm, 50+ Activity Centre

Yoga, 8-9am, 50+ Activity Centre Indoor Walking, 8-9am, community centre Aerobics For The Not So Young, 9:30-10:30am, 50+ Activity Centre Pincushion Hike & Yoga, 9:30am. Call Dawn 250-8786342 Wellness Centre, 10-12pm, Peachland Wellness Centre.

Speaker on second and fourth Wednesdays of the month Bridge Creative Playtime (0-6 yrs) 11am-1pm, community centre Art Class, 1-4pm, 50+ Activity Centre Chess, 1:15-3:30pm, 50+ Activity Centre Sunshine Singers, 1:30pm, Peachland Wellness Centre Writer’s Bloc, every second Wednesday of the month, 6:30pm, Peachland Wellness Centre.

Tween Cooking Night, 5-7:30pm, Peachland Youth Centre.

Lions Den Meeting, 7 pm. 2nd week: 6th Ave. Police Station. 4th week: community centre. Dan 250-767-9034 Central Okanagan Model Railway Company Group, 7pm, Peachland Museum

Tai Chi, 9:30am, United Church Annex Free Tax Clinics, 9:30am-noon, Emmanuel Church. Until Apr. 24.

Call 250-768-3305.

Intergenerational Choir, 9:30am, Peachland Elementary School Peachland Boardwalk, 9:30am Bereavement, 10am, Peachland Wellness Centre Volleyball, 10am-noon, community centre Iron and Silk Exercise, 10:45amnoon, 50+ Activity Centre Storytime, 11:30am, Peachland Library. For ages 3 to 5. Until Apr. 24.

Peachland Rotary Club Meeting, 12pm, Gasthaus Pub AA, 12-1pm, 50+ Activity Centre Breastfeeding Cafe, second and last Thursday, 1pm, Peachland Wellness Centre. Call 250-7670141 Tween Drop-In, 2:30-5pm, meet at Peachland Elementary. Grades 5-6 Youth Drop-In, 3:30-8pm, Peachland Youth Centre. Grades 7+ Meat Draw, 4pm, Royal Canadian Legion Branch #69 Drop in Floor Hockey (8-10yrs) 4:30-5:30pm, community centre Trail Blazers, 5:30pm, Power Creek Trail Gentle Yoga, 6-7pm, community centre Bingo, 6:45pm, Doors 5:30pm, 50+ Activity Centre Volleyball, 7-8:30pm, community centre

Indoor Walking, 8-9am, community centre Men’s Coffee, 10am, Peachland Wellness Centre Bridge Creative Playtime (0-6 yrs) 10am-noon, community centre Yoga Beginners, 10:30-11:30am, 50+ Activity Centre Friday Art Club, 1pm, 50+ Activity Centre Ladies Crib, 1pm, Peachland Wellness Centre Art Class, 1-4pm, 50+ Activity Centre Tea in the Tranquil Room, 2pm, Peachland Wellness Centre Legotime for Kids, 3pm, Peachland Library. Every other Friday until May 30.

Youth Drop-In, 3:30-8pm, Peachland Youth Centre. Grades 7+ Ladies Snooker, 5pm, Royal Canadian Legion Branch #69

MONDAYS Yoga Advanced Beginners, 8-9am, 50+ Activity Centre Indoor Walking, 8-9am, community centre Take Off Pounds Sensibly, 9:30am, 50+ Activity Centre Ladies’ Coffee, 10am-11am, Peachland Wellness Centre Tai Chi, 12-1pm, 50+ Activity Centre Income Tax Program, 1-3pm, Wellness Centre. Until Apr. 17.

Needle Arts/Quilting, 1-4pm, 50+ Activity Centre Peachland Guides, 5:15pm, community centre Youth Boxing Club, 6-8 pm, 4th Street Place Learn to Speak Spanish, 6:308:30pm, community centre Wood Carving, 7-9pm, 50+ Activity Centre

SATURDAYS Trail Blazers, 9:30am, Power Creek Trail Carpet Bowling, 10am-noon, 50+ Activity Centre Dance Church, 10:30am-12:00, Peachland Youth Centre, sliding scale cost of $5-$10.

Meat Draw, 3pm, Royal Canadian Legion Branch #69 Boys and Girls Club, 3-5pm, Peachland Youth Centre. Ages 6-12.

Youth Drop-In, 5:30-9pm, Peachland Youth Centre. Grades 7+

UPCOMING EVENTS Sound Recording Workshop, Apr. 12, 10am, gazebo in Heritage Park. Join local artist Debbie Elliott and UBC faculty and students for a free community workshop. Sounds will be collected, notes taken, and your recording will be compiled and digitally loaded onto light-sensitive mini-recorders for an exhibition at Peachland’s Historic Primary School

on Beach Avenue this spring.

Chamber of Commerce Business to Consumer Expo, Apr. 12. Vendors, presenters, antique appraisals and more. Contact the Chamber office at 250-767-2422 to reserve your booth. Watch for weekly planning updates for this year’s event.

Peachland Spring 10K, Apr. 13.

Registration required, volunteers welcome.

Peachland Chamber of ComPeachland Variety Singers 40th merce 2014 First Quarter MemAnniversary Concert, Apr. 13, 7am. bers Meeting, Apr. 16. Free for members in good standing. $10 for How To Exhibit and Arrange future members.

Roses, Apr. 15, 7pm, Little Schoolhouse. With rose judges Malcolm and Danielle Scott. The Rose Show is June 21. Bring a friend. Everyone is

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COMMENTARY

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Volunteers make a difference: National Volunteer Week Apr. 6 - 12 Moyra Baxter Commentary I have just returned from a weekend in Naramata, where I attended the District 5060 Rotary youth exchange orientation meeting for next year’s outbound students.

As you can imagine, it was a vibrant, exciting, often noisy couple of days, as the students who will be travelling abroad for the next school year, and their

Moyra Baxter parents, met the current inbound students (those who are here now, from many different coun-

tries, experiencing life in British Columbia or Washington, USA).

There were also young people who had been Rotary exchange students in the past, and were able to answer the many questions raised by the parents of the outbound students.

As I drove home, I suddenly remembered that Apr. 6 - 12 is National Volunteer Week, and was reminded what an important role volunteers play in our

communities. I had just had the opportunity to meet many volunteers from towns such as Kamloops, Kelowna, Clearwater, Yakima and Wenatchee, and had learned that Rotary District 5060 has 59 clubs and almost 2,800 Rotarians. I expect that all those towns also have Lions and other service clubs, as well as various other volunteer organizations.

Just think of all the activities and work

that takes place in our communities that is undertaken and supported by volunteers.

As a school trustee, I know how much we rely on volunteers in our schools. Many extra-curricular activities, school choirs and clubs would not exist without people volunteering their time to support our students. These are often our employees who share their passion with the students who participate. Would

we have science fairs without teachers being willing to put in many extra hours supporting their students?

Many community members also volunteer with extracurricular activities.

Our sports teams often have community members serving as coaches and referees.

As our students prepare for graduation, the secondary school counsellors ask people from the general public to participate in the graduation My Action Plan (MAP) interviews.

The panels engage in conversations with students about their plans for their future after graduation. Community members are also asked to serve as judges for speech competitions and to assist with bicy-

cle rodeos. The list goes on and on.

Parent Advisory Councils (PACs) and School Planning Councils (SPCs) spend countless hours working on behalf of all the students in their school.

PACs fundraise for field trips and other special activities. Parents on SPCs work with staff to ensure that the needs of all students in a school are met, and that student achievement remains a top priority.

Volunteers touch the lives of so many people as they give their time and effort to support others. I know that the volunteers get just as much out of it as do the people they serve, but this week I hope all the volunteers know how much their hard work is appreciated.

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ARTS & CULTURE

Peachland Community Arts Council artist of the month: Toni Baviello

Grape Harvest, acrylic

Toni Baviello was born in Italy. She moved to Edmonton in September 1964 and to Peachland in May 2010.

While vacationing in Hawaii, Baviello was impressed by the local artists and decided that it would be a good hobby to follow.

She joined the Peachland

Ballerina, acrylic

Art Group in March 2012 and has since been inspired by many Peachland artists.

Baviello’s media are acrylics, oils, and watercolour through which she creates landscapes, birds, flowers, and people.

Toni Baviello’s paintings can also be viewed on the Peachland Community Arts Council’s website at: http://www.pcartscouncil. com/artist_of_the_month. htm.

Rocky Bay, acrylic

Bouquet, acrylic

Rocco Pizzaria, acrylic

Man’s Best Friend, acrylic

Hydrangeas, acrylic

Grapes & Leafs, acrylic

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Peachland Variety Singers to commemorate 40th anniversary with concert event Joanne Layh Peachland View The Okanagan’s longest running seniors choir will celebrate its 40th anniversary on Apr. 13 with a special anniversary concert at the Fifty Plus Activity Centre.

Peachland Variety Singers director Phyllis Papineau told The View audiences can look forward to an interesting program and a new look for the choir.

KelownaHR_HI “It’s a new look, entirely different.

We’re growing as a choir and we’re growing with a new, more modern look. We’ve progressed from the polyester vests to this new look,” Papineau said.

The Peachland Variety Singers began 40 years ago as a glee club that met in the old arena before it burned down. They moved to the Fifty Plus Activity Centre in 1976, when they became the Peachland Variety Performers and later the Peachland Variety RES.pdf 1 14-03-14 Singers. Former director Murdoch Meredith

retired 20 years ago, at which time Papineau was approached to lead the choir.

“I remember saying I would for a couple of years, but I’m still around,” Papineau said. “I was a bit startled when I went because they were a glee club. They all sang in unison so then we had to introduce harmonies and that sort of thing. So now they sing in six-part harmonies. They’ve evolved as choir from a sing-a-long glee 2:16 PM club to a real choir where there is lots

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PHYLLIS PAPINEAU, DIRECTOR OF THE PEACHLAND VARIETY SINGERS (right) was presented with

a framed picture showing the present day choir, and the choir from 1994. The framed photos were given to Papineau by the choir on Monday, Apr. 7 in appreciation of her dedication and leadership over the past 20 years. Two dinner and theatre tickets were also part of the appreciation gift to thank Papineau for all her hard work. The choir has been in existence for 40 years, and the Peachland Variety Singers’ 40th anniversary concert on Apr. 13 at the Fifty Plus Activity Centre will be a celebration of the choir’s history, with the choir performing many favourites of the past.

of harmony and they blend very well. They worked really hard. I

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Currently the seniors choir has 42 members, some who have belonged to the choir for almost 20 years.

Papineau promises the 40th anniversary concert event will provide a unique program that will encompass favourite selections from over the years.

“Because it is a 40th anniversary concert, the choir were asked last fall to choose the music they loved to sing over the years that they’ve been there. Some [members] are brand new and they’ve been there just since January, but a lot have been there for almost as long as I have – 17 or 18 years.

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cifically about the Okanagan region by a Lake Country songwriter.

The 11-track CD will be available for purchase at the concert, with proceeds going to the choir’s 2015 trip to senior’s workshop event Chorfest. The CD is also available for purchase at the Peachland Visitor Centre for $10.

Papineau promises there will be excellent refreshments served at the event.

“We joke, ‘Do they come for the food or the singing?’” Papineau said.

The Peachland Variety Singers’ 40th Anniversary concert will take place Sunday, Apr. 13 at 2 p.m. at the Fifty Plus Activity Centre. Admission is by donation.

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sing and so they came up with a really neat program in terms of songs that are very popular,” Papineau said. “There is quite a variety. I was quite surprised by the choice.”

Beautiful British Columbia, which the choir just last week recorded on CD, will be one of the selections performed at the concert. The choir recorded the track at the request of B.C. Lieutenant-Governor Judith Guichon, who was very moved after hearing the choir’s rendition during her visit to Peachland in February.

“It’s not sung anywhere else. We’re the only ones who sing it,” Papineau said, adding that the song was written spe-

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DISPATCHES FROM THE FARM

Dear diary: cut down on burgers Jordan Marr Special to the Peachland View Mar. 27: I’m keeping a purportedly non-fictional farm journal for The View this year.

For some reason I feel the urge to remind myself of that about, oh, every two weeks or so. Weird!

Jordan Marr

CONTRIBUTED

Karen Onrait-Casper, president of the Peachland Farmer’s and Crafter’s Market (left) presents Mayor Keith Fielding with a $600 cheque. This is a repayment of the grant the market received when they started in 2006. Now that the market is more financially secure they felt that other groups could benefit from these funds so, as it is a non-profit society, they decided to pay it forward.

Mar. 28: A full day off the farm spent down the road in Summerland at TH Wines, helping friend and moustache enthusiast Tyler Harlton bottle 1,000 cases of his best stuff. Tyler made me the dumper, who stands at the head of a mobile bottling line on a tractor-trailer and dumps each case of empty bottles into the bottling machine.

Thrived in the role, but, likely owing to repeated exposure to the tiny puffs of microscopic cardboard particles that wheeze out with each dumped case by day’s end, I was showing the telltale dry cough of dumper’s lung.

Another dumper wunderkind snuffed out before his time.

Mar. 31: Transplanted beets, spinach, scallions,

basil, parsley, salad turnips, kale, chard and lettuce into unheated tunnels. Peas could be planted outside any time. Started broccoli and kale in the nursery. Potted on tomatoes, peppers, eggplants. Local gardeners should get their tomatoes started indoors if they haven’t already, or plan on buying seedlings.

Apr. 2: Such nice weather!

Bumped into my landlord, Joe, just after having removed my shirt for cooling purposes following a hard run.

He remarked that I had shoulders like a runway model. Wore a tube top around the farm for three days before I realized it wasn’t a compliment.

Apr. 4: Embarrassed to be seen in IGA just to buy candy, $1.50 worth, for sweets addiction, on a debit card.

I grab some flowers for Vanessa too. This was a good decision; she was pleased. She mightn’t have been if she knew the moral compromise involved.

You’ve heard of blood diamonds?

These were gummy bear tulips.

Apr. 6: Rehearsals for Bus Stop with the Peachland Players continue as we

approach opening night on Apr. 10. My character, a young cowboy, is supposed to eat three burgers during the play, which we’ll be procuring from A&W. I just did the math: 5 shows x 3 burgers per show = 15 burgers in four days.

And an angioplasty on the fifth.

Apr. 7: Experimenting with starting carrots in the nursery for later transplanting.

Not normally done, but using a special potting method called soil blocking will allow me to transplant the carrots out, three or four to each soil block, without disturbing their roots.

If it works I’ll avoid time-consuming carrot weeding later on.

One of my favourite

parts of this job is the leeway to approach every single task from various angles. A farm is a giant set of puzzles to be solved.

Apr. 8: Does anyone else’s heart sing when they drive by the once controversial Peachland Skate Park and see, like a jillion youths enjoying the heck out of it? Though suppose it comes at the expense of the traffic at the Peachland Drugs and Graffiti Park, so I guess it’s a zero sum game.

Jordan Marr grows veggies for home delivery at The Homestead Organic Farm in Peachland.

You can read more of his writing at thehomesteadorganicfarm.ca.

Peachland Senior Housing Annual General Meeting Where: Little Schoolhouse When: April 17, 2013 7:00 pm

For the annual reporting and election of officers.

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NEWS FROM THE 50 PLUS ACTIVITY CENTRE

All work and no play is not good Linda Norden / Special to the Peachland View By now, we should have all emerged happily from our winter cocoons! Spring always brings about a pleasant busyness as we make the transition from scarves, gloves, boots and jackets to a lighter wardrobe that is boot free! While we may have spring cleaning and gardening on our agendas, keep in mind that all work and no play is not good for the soul.

I urge you to read on to find out what’s happening at the 50 Plus Activity Centre over the next few weeks.

While the office is open Monday to Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., the centre is open from Monday Saturday, with a variety of activities held most days.

Throughout the week there are three different ability levels of yoga offered and new participants are always welcomed. If you have a mat, bring it along.

Bingo is a good place to meet new people, have a fun evening and possibly walk away with more money than you came in with. Bingo takes place at the centre every Thursday. The doors open at 5:30 p.m.

and game starts at 6:45 p.m.

On Sunday, Apr. 13 at 2 p.m. the Peachland Variety Singers will perform at the activity centre in celebration of their 40th anniversary. They always are a special treat to listen to.

On Friday, Apr. 25, there will be a potluck supper, which will start at 6 p.m. Bring a large portion of one of the dishes you enjoy making, along with your own plate and cutlery. The entertainment follows at 7 p.m. and this month the Geriactors will perform a series of humourous skits about aging.

If you are thinking about celebrating a special event, whether it be a wedding reception, birthday party or an anniversary banquet, then think about the activity centre! We have a fully equipped kitchen, a large stage and a dance floor large enough for you to twirl the night away. Give our office a call for details.

We have a lot going on this month to get you out and about, so we look forward to you visiting the centre and to either introducing or reacquainting ourselves to you!

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Monday night is now cribbage night at the legion. Check at the bar for further information.

The month of April usually signifies the beginning of spring. The thought of cleaning and renewal comes to mind and the legion will do its annual housecleaning on Sunday, Apr. 13 at 9 a.m.! If you can wield a paintbrush or a cleaning cloth, come on down and join the work party.

No experience is necessary as many hands make light work.

Apr. 23 is a date set for the executive to conduct a workshop to acquire new insights in operating your legion. The social event of this month is the pickerel dinner to be served on Friday, Apr. 25. There will be two sittings – one at 5:30 p.m. and

another at 7 p.m. If you are among the early diners, why not linger after to enjoy a cup of coffee or brew in the lounge?

Lately, if you have been in the building, you may have noticed some birdhouses that have been donated for a silent auction in addition to last month’s baskets of flowers that were offered.

Volunteers are needed to help with the meat draws on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. If you are interested, you are invited to request a volunteer sheet at the bar.

Legion plans are currently underway for the May long weekend. Help is needed for this event as well, as there will be set up, tear down, cooking, and other volunteer work to be done. If you have some time, your help would be appreciated. A legion cannot function without volunteers.

Monies donated by the legion to the various community groups in Peachland are a result of the efforts of these people.

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upcoming Peachland Rose Show. Tips on how to prolong the life of a rose, remove damaged foliage and pick a winning bud will be covered.

Prize lists for the 4th annual Peachland Rose Show will be available in May. Ribbons, including Best of Show and trophies will be awarded. This colourful fragrant event will take place in the banquet room at the Peachland Community Centre on Saturday, June 21. Entry tags can be purchased for 25 cents.

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The very popular Rose Show Tea will be featured again this year with fine china and homemade goodies. Patrons can enjoy entertainment while sipping their orange pekoe. As well, there will be a rainbow auction, with plenty of garden items to win.

The master gardeners are also returning to answer all garden problems.

For inspiration, plan to attend the rose demonstration at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Apr. 15 at the Peachland Little Schoolhouse.

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DIVERSIONS

HOROSCOPE

CROSSWORD CLUES ACROSS 1. Express disgust or contempt 4. Do-nothings 10. Before 11. Gave birth to a horse 12. Spanish pain 14. Khmer Rouge’s Pot 15. Tory opposition 16. Even chance 18. Horse feedbag 22. Selfishness 23. Windward Island nation 24. On and on:ad ___ 26. 2nd musical tone 27. A steady brisk pace 28. People in southern India 30. Withered, dry 31. Central nervous system 34. Short composition for solo instrument 36. Communist 37. Specific localities 39. Garden cultivator 40. Stratford’s river 41. Atomic #34 42. Stalkless leaves 48. Significant other 50. Chilled 51. Dakar is the capital 52. Amuse & delight 53. Explorer Vasco da ____ 54. Annoy 55. 365 days (abbr.)

56. Peremptory command 58. Born of 59. Particle fineness grades 60. Obtain

ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20

Aries, despite a full workload, you are already looking ahead to some much-needed rest and relaxation. Focus on what’s on your plate at the moment.

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21

Taurus, your personal life follows you to work this week.

You can often compartmentalize things, but you are finding it difficult to do that this week.

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21

Gemini, information that may alter your future plans is brought to your attention this week. It is not necessarily bad news, but you will need to alter your plans a little.

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22

Cancer, financial responsibilities must be a priority this week.

Now is the time to make important financial decisions that you have been putting off for several weeks.

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23

21. A protected community 25. Nation of birth 29. Two people singing 31. Applauding sounds 32. Variable stars 33. Reject

35. Building up 38. Not a fraction 41. Sailor 43. An evening party 44. Hollow for a lightbulb 45. Type

46. Dutch portrait painter Sir Peter 47. River of Hesse 49. N. Botswanan lake 56. 1/10 gram (abbr.)

57. Original Hawkeye actor’s initials

SUDOKU

Your feelings are transparent this week, Leo. You can’t hide much from others, especially your romantic feelings. The person you admire will soon learn of your feelings.

VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22

Virgo, a lot of drama is going on behind the scenes this week. How much you get involved is entirely up to you. Just be prepared for the consequences.

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23

Libra, you might have to set your personal needs aside this week in order to help a friend out of a difficult situation. You are ready to provide any assistance you can.

CLUES DOWN 1. Colas 2. Awaken 3. Better half 4. In event that 5. Demotes 6. City in NE Pakistan 7. Lotus roadster model 8. University board trustees 9. 40th state 12. Egyptian Sun god (var. sp.)

13. Hindu exercise discipline 17. Small coin (French) 19. More naked 20. Feel deep affection for

SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22

Responsibility comes naturally to you, Scorpio. However, sometimes you just have to let loose and show off how you are feeling.

Others will have a new appreciation for you.

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21

You are on the brink of a breakthrough, Sagittarius. You just don’t know when it is coming. Be patient and you will be pleasantly surprised with events that unfold.

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20

PUZZLE ANSWERS

A serious issue arises this week, Capricorn. You may have avoided addressing this issue in the past, but there is no putting it off now.

Approach the issue with an open mind.

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18

Level: Intermediate

Here’s How It Works - Sudoku puzzles are formatted as a 9x9 grid, broken down into nine 3x3 boxes. To solve a sudoku, the numbers 1 through 9 must fill each row, column and box. Each number can appear only once in each row, column and box.

You can figure out the order in which the numbers will appear by using the numeric clues already provided in the boxes. The more numbers you name, the easier it gets to solve the puzzle!

When an associate presents a problem, you are the perfect one to present a solution, Aquarius. Make the most of this opportunity and others will appreciate your efforts.

PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20

Responsibilities at work may be a bit overwhelming, Pisces.

You are held to a higher standard than others, and now is the time to show why.

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FAITH

FOOD FOR THE SOUL

There are many ways that we are blind Robin Graves St. Margaret’s Anglican Church It was a Monday morning, although it could have been any other weekday, for the scene was not unfamiliar. Looking at first, then pacing, then racing through the various rooms of the house, I loudly proclaimed to any who would hear, “Where are they? I know I had them yesterday when I came home and I know I put them in a safe place. Why aren’t they there now?”

“What’s with Dad?” our daughter asked.

“Oh, you know, the usual,” replied her brother. “Oh, you mean the where-are-my-keysI-can’t-find-them rant,” she replied.

“Ah, yes,” chimes in their mother, “The one that ends with ‘It’s all right. I found them.

They were right on my bedside table. I can’t believe it, I must have looked there at least three times already!’”

Yes, I am prone to losing or misplacing my keys – house keys, car keys, office keys – it doesn’t seem to matter which; and I am also the one with the remarkable capacity to look in the same spot at least three times before they are found. Too often in the very place that they were left, the place right before me that I have so much trouble seeing.

There is a measure of comfort and a degree of reassurance, I’ve found, in recognizing that I am not alone. When I share this story with others, their response is often to share their own tale of searching high and low to discover that what was lost was hidden in plain sight. It would seem that my capacity to not see what is right before me is not unique, but rather shared with many others.

As in my day-to-day life, so too I have found this to be the case in the life of faith. Today, many of us gathered in Sunday worship and heard the story of Jesus’ encounter with a man who had been blind from birth.

In the course of their meeting, the blind man was healed, and while his testimony is not accepted by the religious

leaders of the time, his faith is nevertheless confirmed and he is able to recognize Jesus as Messiah, the promised one of God. In so many ways it is a story about blindness and sight, a story from 2,000 years ago, and one for today. While it features a particular individual who was literally blind, it is also a story for all of us who struggle with the ability to see.

There are so many ways in which we are blind. We can be, and often are, blind to our world, to our neighbour or to ourselves. Too often we fail to see the need in the world, the want of our neighbour, and indeed, our own poverty. Equally so, our eyes are too often closed to the blessing that surrounds us – the blessing of creation, the blessing of our relationships, and the blessing that is simply inherent in who we are.

With eyes that are closed we are left blind to the presence of God and to God’s activity in our lives and in the world; unable to respond to the call and invitation to share in God’s life and work. Such blindness is about the inability to see and about the failure to see; about our unwillingness to look and our remarkable capacity to look without truly seeing, to look without recognizing what is before us. It is a story that names a difficult truth: that we are all, in one way or another, quite blind.

Yet it is also a story about the power of God to heal, about how the encounter with the divine can bring fresh perception, recognition and wholeness. The events described are sparse and unadorned.

Jesus spits on the ground and from his saliva and the dust of the ground He makes a mud paste.

He applies the paste to the eyes of the blind man and then directs him to go and wash in the waters of Siloam, nothing else – no special prayers, no religious ritual, no exotic oils or potions, no profession of faith. Jesus instructs the man to use only the materials at hand, the stuff of every-

FRANK WARBURTON

THE CONGREGATION OF ST. MARGARET’S ANGLICAN CHURCH served a surprise luncheon to John and Jean Miller (left) on

Apr. 6 to thank them for their services to the church. Jean was the people’s warden and president of the ACW and John was priest’s warden for over two years. The Millers are moving to be with their family in Prince George and the congregation wishes them the best.

day life (saliva and dust) and the directions are clear: go and wash.

The blind man is required to act, to move, and as he does so he aligns himself with God’s purpose and is healed. In a subsequent encounter with Jesus, he is able to see Jesus for who He is, and affirms his belief.

How remarkable that an encounter with the divine mediated by dayto-day events brings healing.

How ironic it is that the man born blind is able to see and to recognize God present before

him, yet the religious leaders and authorities (those considered to be both knowledgeable and wise) continue unable to see, unmoved by their blindness.

Tomorrow is another day and an opportunity to revisit the ongoing saga of my misplaced keys. It is also an opportunity to consider our lives and to hear again God’s promise of wholeness. It is also an invitation to recognize that often what seems lost or missing is in fact hidden in plain sight.

True of keys, true of God and true for us all.

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