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Ministry of Transportation announces plan to launch bypass study ERIN CHRISTIE EDITOR

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STUDENTS FROM MRS. JUDD’S class perform “A Christmas Tale” during Peachland Elementary School’s annual Christmas concert on Dec. 15. The

concert, entitled Twas the Night Before Peachmas, featured performances from each grade and was hosted by PES students April Loewen and Aidan Wiberg. To see more photos from this event turn to pages 9 and 19.

Happy Holidays!

To bypass, or not to bypass; that is the question. At least, it is if you live in Peachland. But according to the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOTI) on Dec. 15, Peachland residents may finally get an answer. In a press release issued by MOTI on Dec. 15, Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Todd Stone announced the ministry will launch a transportation study that focuses specifically on highway improvements, transportation alternatives and the possibility of an alternate Highway 97 route around Peachland. “We are listening to the people of Peachland and we want to open it up to public discussion on ideas for shortterm and longer-term traffic solutions for the community,” Stone stated on Dec. 15. “The study will look into the options that will meet the transportation needs of Peachland including developing an alternate route, or improving the existing highway.” Stone continued that the two-year study, which will be carried out in concert with the ministry’s Central Okanagan Planning Study launched in the fall of 2014, will focus exclusively on Peachland, both for the short and the longer term. The Peachland study will draw on research from the Central Okanagan Planning study, including traffic counts and future traffic growth projections, the needs of the travelling public, See STUDY on page 2

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and community land use plans. This announcement comes just three months after Mayor Cindy Fortin, Councillor Peter Schierbeck and Councillor Keith Thom attended the the annual Union of B.C. Municipalities (UBCM) convention in Vancouver. During the convention, which was held between Sept.

21 and Sept. 25, the Peachland cohort met with Premier Christy Clark and Stone to discuss the possibility of a bypass study. At a committee of the whole meeting held in Peachland shortly after their return from the conference, Fortin, Schierbeck and Thom told their colleagues they felt the meeting with Stone and Clark would prove to be benefi-

cial for the residents of Peachland. "We have been anxiously waiting for a definitive study on the Highway 97 corridor though Peachland,” Mayor Fortin said in the release on Dec. 15. “Hopefully we will get some answers regarding a bypass versus four-laning, and so that developers can confidently move forward with their plans." The Peachland

CHRISTMAS TREE CHIPPING FOR CHARITY. Free Hot Chocolate & Fire Trucks on Display Date: January 3, 2016 Time: 10 am-3 pm Location: Peachland Community Centre 6th Street. The Peachland Fire & Rescue Service will be offering Christmas Tree Chipping and disposal by donation, on the first Sunday in January. ALL PROCEEDS will be going to the Muscular Dystrophy of Canada. For a minimum donation of $5.00 the Peachland Fire Department will come to your home and pick up your tree for disposal. Prior arrangements must be made in advance by contacting the Peachland Fire Department (250) 767-2841. Please take advantage of the environmentally friendly service and support this very worthy cause. Wishing you a wonderful holiday season PEACHLAND FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICE

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groups. Since 2001, the B.C. government has invested more than $400 million in upgrades to improve safety and mobility on the Highway 97 corridor in the Central Okanagan. Some examples of improvements are: the William R. Bennett Bridge, Highway 97 six-laning from Water St. to Highway 33, four-laning of Highway 97 from Winfield to Oyama, the Westside Rd. interchange and the Campbell Rd. Interchange. For more information on the Central Okanagan transportation study, or to submit feedback online, go to engage. gov.bc.ca/okanagansecondcrossing/.

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DECEMBER 18, 2015

NEWS

Council Briefs Budget deliberations begin with capital projects A new pickup truck, $150,000 of road improvements and new exercise equipment at the community centre fitness room were among several capital projects council considered as it began the first round of budget deliberations at the Dec. 8 Committee of the Whole meeting. Other capital spending staff recommended were $75,000 of stormwater infrastructure projects, $14,500 for a new air compressor at the public works yard, $6,844 for new flatscreen monitors in council chambers and more than $77,000 in waterfront infrastructure improvements (including the sectional dock at Swim Bay, new swim markers and the 8th Street boat launch). Consideration of capital projects is just the first of many discussions that will happen as council decides on the 2016 budget. The Dec. 8 discussion was not for final decisions, just considerations, and council won’t decide whether or not the projects are passed as part of the 2016 budget until the end of the budget process next May.

Heritage Fund will allow historical society donations Council directed staff to create a Heritage Project Fund to help the Peachland Historical Society manage donations. The society is embarking on several of the projects outlined in its recently created heritage strategy. According to society member Don Wigfield, some Peachlanders are interested in donating money to those efforts if they can receive official tax receipts. The Heritage Fund will allow the district to control donation revenues and money disbursement for the society. It will cost the district nothing, as the fund will be built solely through donations.

Council supports RDCO zoning Council supported a Regional District of the Central Okanagan amendment bylaw that will permit special use of a lot adjacent to Westside Rd. and Okanagan Lake, in the Central Okanagan West Electoral Area. Under the bylaw, owners of the 5.97 ha lot will be allowed to build six additional buildings which, according to their application, is in line with the historical use of the lot. CONTRIBUTED

PANTON’S SEVEN-YEAR-OLD PRESA CANARIO, Jake, has been ordered to be humanely destroyed after a

January 1 attack on another dog.

Panton continues fight for dog on death row ERIN CHRISTIE EDITOR

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A Peachland man is appealing the court’s decision to euthanize his dog. Drew Panton, who represented himself in court on Dec. 9, presented his grounds for an appeal to Justice Rogers, to save the life of his beloved presa canario, Jake. Jake was ordered to be euthanized following a fatal attack on fellow Peachland resident Jeff Clarke’s 12-year-old lhasa apso/Wheaten terrier, Charlie, during their morning walk nearly one year ago. Panton filed an appeal requesting the judge reconsider and allow Jake be sent to a friend of Panton’s rather than be euthanized. He called Wallace’s initial ruling regarding Jake “unfair.” Panton says he feels that Jake was unfairly

judged because of his breed, and though believes Jake should be deemed a dangerous dog, he argued Jake should not be euthanized. Panton is asking the court to reverse Wallace’s decision and either return Jake to him with conditions, as she did with his American pit bull, Buddy, who was also involved in the attack last January, or give Jake to another suitable home for rehabilitation. He has requested that the judge consider allowing him to send Jake to a friend who runs an animal shelter in Kitimat. “I’d be happy if we could get him there,” Panton told The View. “Anything but killing him.” Panton said an expert witness, animal behaviourist Dr. Rebecca Ledger, advised Jake could be rehabilitated “and live his life out to its natural end.” Final submissions were expected from the RDCO Wednesday afternoon. A decision is expected at a later date.

MUNICIPAL OFFICE CLOSURES Please note that the District of Peachland Municipal Office and Fire Department Office located at 5806 Beach Avenue, and the Recreation Department Office located at 4450 - 6th Street, will be closed for the holidays from Friday, December 25th, 2015 to Friday, January 1st, 2016. Offices will re-open at 8:00 a.m. Monday, January 4th, 2016. Tax and utility bill payments received through the mail drop slot at the Municipal Office by 8:00 a.m. on January 4th, 2016 will be credited as December 31st, 2015 for the purpose of calculating interest or penalties.

Six applicants for civic grants Council received six applications for Peachland’s civic grant program and forwarded them to 2016 budget meetings for consideration. Peachland Citizens’ Patrol, Peachland Community Policing Office, the Peachland Historical Society, the Peachland Ambassador Society, the Peachland Community Arts Council and the Peachland Wellness Centre all applied for grants. No grants will be awarded until budget deliberations are complete.

District of Peachland Council Committees – Volunteers Wanted The District of Peachland has established a Compost Site Committee and a Canada 150 Committee. If you are interested in participating on either of these committees please submit a letter of interest including your background and contact information. • Compost Site Committee A committee for the purpose of looking into compost site closure challenges that the community has raised, with periodic updates to Council and to seek solutions and make recommendations to Council. As a committee member you will be expected to attend a series of meetings commencing in January. • Canada 150 Committee The Government of Canada has established the Canada 150 Fund to celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary of Confederation in 2017. We are seeking participation from businesses and the community to establish celebration principles, priorities, projects and initiatives for Council approval. As a committee member you will be expected to attend a series of meetings commencing in late January. Please make submissions to Corporate Services 5806 Beach Avenue, Peachland, B.C. V0H-1X7 or email to ppalmer@peachland.ca by 4:00 pm Monday, January 4th, 2016. Please note the District Office is closed for the holidays December 25th – January 1st. Office will re-open at 8:00 am Monday, January 4th, 2016.

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I attended the Christmas concert this afternoon at the Peachland Elementary School and was so impressed with the amount of effort and practise that obviously went into the show. In all of the years of attending concerts at the school (eleven, to be ex-

act) I have to say this was by far one of my favourite ones. Thank you to the staff and students for putting on such an enjoyable event. Janet Hornseth (Reese’s Grandma), Peachland

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One of the last acts of the previous council was to debate the New Year’s Eve event that was planned by Marty Edwards in 2014/15. It was the unanimous opinion of the Mayor and council that having such an event in Peachland was a good thing for the community and we should try and help. The event was a success and a great evening, so I’m really glad that he has organized another event for this New Year’s Eve 2015/16. Marty Edwards performs in several different countries and has a great reputation. We are lucky that he decided to make Peach-

land his home and he deserves our support. So I encourage everyone to go down to Peachland Pharmacy and get your tickets. Marion and I attended last year’s event and we had a really good time; this year we are going to help with the setup and take down. If you would like to be a helper, call me at 250-767-0318. This year’s celebration will be even better than last year. The Beach Avenue Café will be providing the food and there are chances to win prizes at the penny social. Whether you are part of a group or just looking for a place to see in the New Year,

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Marty’s New Year’s Eve event at the community centre is the place to be. I look forward to seeing you there. Eric Hall, Peachland

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DECEMBER 18, 2015

COMMUNITY | EDUCATION

New grant aims to put up to $12,000 in parents’ pockets have been born in 2007 or later. Families have three years, or until the day before the child’s ninth birthday, to submit an application. More than 42,000 B.C children may be eligible to receive the grant, and already the Ministry of Education says more than 4,300 families have applied. With more financial institutions coming on board, uptake is expected to grow in the coming months. According to the ministry, the $1,200 grant, on top of an investment of $50 a month, has to potential to grow to as much as $12,000 in 13 years. For more information on the BC Training and Education Savings Grant visit www.gov.bc.ca/ BCTESG.

A newly announced B.C. government grant aims to help families save for their kids’ post-secondary education. The Ministry of Education announced the new $1,200 BC Training and Education Grant earlier this year, saying it will help give students the opportunity to get the skills and training they need after high school. “The grant is our way of helping parents plan, save and kick-start their children’s post-secondary education,” said Minister of Education Mike Bernier. Any parent, grandparent or loved one can apply for the grant if they open a Registered Education Savings Plan at a participating financial institution. To be eligible, children must

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A LONE BUCK takes a leisurely afternoon stroll down 3rd Street on Dec. 11.

Ending Polio one drop at a time.

New education minister tours southern interior TREVOR NICHOLS

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British Columbia’s Minister of Education took a tour of the southern interior last week. Although he didn’t make it all the way to Peachland, the fiveday tour saw Mike Bernier visit several schools in B.C.’s interior, including Kamloops, Vernon, Dawson Creek, Oliver and Penticton. Bernier, who was appointed British Columbia’s Minister of Education this July, said he plans to visit every single school district in the province by the end of his first year in the position. So far, he says he’s hit about 30, where he’s been catching a glimpse of British Columbia’s new “Building Student Success” curriculum in action. “You can’t make decisions from Victoria if you don’t get out and see everything,” Bernier said during a tour stop in Oliver

Dec. 10. Bernier highlighted what he called the “flexibility” of the province’s new curriculum, explaining how the new teaching method is more geared toward individual learning, and teachers can adapt it as they see fit for the students they have. By incorporating things like more group work and unique methods of investigation, students receive more rounded learn-

ing than what an individual subject can provide. “With [the new curriculum] you still have the same outcomes, but you pick up a whole bunch of other skills along the way,” Bernier said. Bernier also talked about the diversity of the province’s school districts, and the difference he has seen from one to the next. He admitted that in rural districts and smaller schools it can

sometimes be difficult for administrators to offer every single class they would like. Those administrators need to make sure their students are getting all the foundational courses, and the balance of which classes to offer can be difficult when student populations are low. “As much as we’d like to, we can’t have a physics teacher for four kids,” he said. To help increase course offerings

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in low-population schools, Bernier said the province is investing in distance education. He said that, while distance education is not quite the same as face-toface teaching, “it’s still an opportunity” where one wouldn’t exist before.

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2015 REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING SCHEDULE Pursuant to Sections 94(1) & (2) of the Community Charter, notice is hereby given of the schedule of Regular Council Meetings for 2016: January 12 & 26

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DECEMBER 18, 2015

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Albas: “having a little fun on the job is all part of working together” ERIN CHRISTIE EDITOR

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C e n t r a l Okanagan-Similkame en-Nicol a Conservative MP Dan Albas scored a substantial amount of social media “street cred” in the Twittersphere thanks to a spur of the moment decision to poke fun at Canada’s new Prime Minister. “Must. Work. On the hair,” the twoterm MP tweeted on Dec. 9. The tweet, which was accompanied by a stylized black and white photo of a neatly coiffed Albas, appearing lost in thought, is a “convivial” response to a widely criticized profile of Justin Trudeau in the upcoming issue of Vogue, a fashion magazine. The roughly 2,000word profile released online earlier this month chronicles our “optimistic, swishyhaired,” famously-surnamed leader’s political career, family history, and most notably, his relationship with wife Sophie Grégoire-Trudeau. Since its release, the article, and accompanying photos, have drawn a number of critical responses, calling out the prime minister and his wife for appearing in the women’s magazine. The critiques ranged from G r é g o i r e -T r u d e a u donning a non-Canadian designer for the photo to Vogue referring to Canada’s Minister of Justice Jody Wilson-Raybould as “Native American” (the post

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FEELING LIGHT-HEARTED, ALBAS poses for an impromptu photo mimicking Norman Jean Roy’s recent photo of Prime Minister Justin

Trudeau’s in Vogue magazine. To see Roy’s original photo of Trudeau visit www.vogue.com

has since been corrected by Vogue). For Albas, who refused to be baited into directly criticizing Trudeau’s decision to sit for the glossy international publication, the headline-making article gave him an opportunity to do something the married father of four says politicians rarely get to do: “have fun

and show their human side.” In explaining his urge to share his lighter side, Albas, who spoke to The View by phone from his office in Ottawa, said he feels it’s important for politicians to have a sense of humour, and he was happy to see his version of photographer Norman Jean Roy’s “glam” shot of

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Trudeau resonate with his online supporters. At press time, his “M-Ogue” (mock Vogue) photo had received 120 likes and 101 retweets. “When I saw the photo it just seemed like a chance to have a little fun,” Albas told The View on Dec. 11. “I thought, why not? My assistant,

Rudy [Enzmann], took the photo, we did it in two minutes.” Albas admits, even though he loves his job, it can be stressful. “It’s important to have some innocent fun on the job sometimes,” he added. “Like any other job, it has its moments and if you don’t have a sense of humour sometimes, you can lose perspective.”

Though he admits he couldn’t resist the chance to have “a little fun” at the new PM’s expense, Albas says so far, his relationship with Trudeau has been positive. He told The View Trudeau supported his 2012 private members bill on wine imports, an issue Albas feels passionately about.

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“Right now vintners in the Okanagan Valley find it easier to send their product to Tokyo and Texas than to Calgary and Toronto, and that’s just one case,” he explained.” “There are probably hundreds, if not thousands of other barriers of different sorts. Most of them are at the provincial level, but I know that this is an area that the federal government has taken leadership on prior to, in the previous government, and I hope to build some consensus to address this with the current government.” He continued, pointing to the joint press conference between American President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau held in November, where Obama said that the United States and Canada would be moving forward together on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. “When we’re talking about having more market access worldwide for Canadians than ever before, it just spotlights that there are still choke points in our own economy that don’t allow Canadian producers and manufacturers to be able to access their own market as a single, united economic market,” said Albas. It’s only fitting, it would seem, that interim Conservative Party of Canada leader Rona Ambrose has appointed Albas to serve as critic for inter-provincial trade, including labour mobility. “Does it make sense for someone who is shipping something across the country to have four or five different sets of rules when they enter into a new province and they’re transporting product through that province?” he posited. “Those add to complexities, those add to costs.” He said standards of accreditation could also potentially be harmonized between provinces.

PEACHLAND VIEW

DECEMBER 18, 2015

COMMUNITY

Recipient organizations from this year’s Legion meat draw proceeds include:

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ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION Branch 69 president Jean Saul gave out some early Christmas presents on Dec. 11. Approximately 30 locally-based charitable community agencies and B.C.-based charitable organizations received a portion of the proceeds from the legion’s tri-weekly meat draws. The legion selects recipient organizations for these funds each year.

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VIEW STAFF Giving the gift of technology has been a popular present choice in recent years as tablets, smartphones and eReaders have come down in price. For those considering giving a device this holiday season, the Okanagan Regional Library (ORL) has created gift packets filled with brochures and information on the free digital collections library members can enjoy on their eReaders or tablets. Packets can be picked up at any ORL branch to include with the present, as well as Kelowna Tickets in the Orchard Park Mall and Simply Computing in downtown Kelowna. Digital collections are available through the ORL website at www.orl.bc.ca. To get started using the ORL’s digital collections, a library card, PIN/password and email are also required.

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DECEMBER 18, 2015

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If you have a love for literature, the Peachland Community Arts Council, the Peachalnd Wellness Centre and Writers Unblocked are looking for you. With the PCAC sponsored Peachland HeArts Festival just around the corner, the cultural organizations are putting out the call for entrants for its annual literary competition. According to a release issued by the PCAC

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I was browsing in Chapters one day and Leonard Mlodinow’s name popped out from a book spine. The flyleaf sounded interesting so I bought The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives. It came out in 2008, but is still relevant. Mlodinow is an American physicist who has written several notable science books. He wrote for

Judy Wyper the Star Trek and MacGyver television series as well as co-authored children’s science books. He co-wrote with Stephen Hawk-

ing the fascinating 2010 book The Grand Design, and the 2005 A Briefer History of Time. A drunk might wobble randomly from side to side and back and forth. The “drunkard’s walk” is a term from Einstein’s time, referring to the random microscopic movement of atoms bumping particles and in turn bumping others, or Brownian movement. This can be a metaphor for the paths of our lives. He acknowledges that skill, preparedness

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section on predicting a Hollywood box office success, and the resultant rise and fall of careers. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank was repeatedly rejected, as were works by Dr. Seuss, J.K. Rowling, and George Orwell. He observes that “successful people in every field are almost universally members of a certain set – the set of people who don’t give up.” The “availability bias” is when we give unwarranted importance to vivid memories, like when we feel we are cursed with always picking the longest line at the checkout. But that is the memory that stuck, because we were upset about it. We forget the times that we zipped through, or waited a small amount of time. Mlodinow makes his points through anecdotes and explanations about simple probability calculations, false positives and positive fallacies, illusions of patterns and patterns of illusions. Bruce Willis, Bill Gates, IBM, Pearl Harbour, Ste-

phen King, and Roger Maris are some of the names that pop up. Published in 2015, How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics, by Eugenia Cheng, is a delightful book. The topic is mathematics, but each chapter starts with a recipe for something edibly delicious. I wish I had a math teacher with Cheng’s passion. She describes math as the study of numbers, leading to mathematical techniques, applying those techniques to other things, and then logically looking for what else could be similarly studied. That’s how Cheng relates math to baking: learn the technique of cake baking, then substitute to your heart’s content and you will still get a cake. (e.g. the fat helps make air bubbles.) There are recipes for clotted cream, gluten-free chocolate brownies, hollandaise sauce, conference cake, and ideas for substitutions. Math is based on logic and reason.

The book is a primer on this. Cheng proposes mind experiments applied to category theory, abstraction, puzzles, generalization, topology, and imaginary numbers. “Math is a world in which the end does not justify the means: quite the reverse. The means justifies the end. It’s called mathematical proof. Math tries to take almost nothing as basic or given, apart from the rules of logic. It always seeks further explanation.” Cheng ends her book by saying that it is powerful to understand why something is the way it is. She encourages questioning and searching for answers, as “the heart of math is the desire to understand things rather than just to know them.” Mlodinov says that “as important as it is to recognize meaning when it is there, it is equally important not to extract meaning when it is not there.” Both authors are entertaining teachers.

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FAITH FOOD FOR THE SOUL

Christmas through the angel Gabriel’s eyes DOROTHY BROTHERTON

PEACHLAND BAPTIST CHURCH Maybe it was a dream, or maybe the angel at the top of the tree really did stir and smile at me. Suddenly I seemed wide awake. “Hi,” he whispered. “Wanna hear a wild story?” As I stammered, he continued. “My name is Gabriel. Fear not. (I say that a lot.)” And in the next split second – or maybe hours – his story unfolded: A couple of thousand years ago, said Gabriel, I took part in the mother of all dramas. It was my moment in the sun. I was lounging around heaven one day, when suddenly my brain sizzled on a secure circuit with a message straight from the throne. I heard my orders: “Gabriel, go.” The map and mission were instant-messaged to my personal frequency. I hit the celestial speedway faster than the speed of light, faster than thought. Pausing only to kick up my heels, I sped through time zones, leaving comets in the star dust. Galaxies parted in my path. (I love this part of my job.) You see, I’m a kind of cosmic messenger person. You humans call our kind “angels.” I was mega-excited that day, on my way to deliver the greatest message ever to burn on an angel-tongue.

THE ANNUNICATION, PAINTED by Sandi di Tito, circa 1580. The archangel Gabriel

announces to the Virgin Mary that she will bear the Christ Child, while God the Father and the Holy Ghost (in the form of a dove) appear above left. The white lilies Gabriel holds are symbolic of the Virgin’s chastity. The painter has depicted the loggia of the Church of the Santissima Annunziata (Annunciate Mary) in Florence behind his own Annunciation scene, revealing his pride in being a Florentine artist. The elongated and graceful style and the decorously draped figures were characteristic of Florentine painting of the late 16th century.

Oops, I nearly zoomed too far. I caught myself just in time, paused, hovered over a somewhat dingy planet, focused on a scrap of land beside a sparkling sea, and touched down in Galilee. There she stood. Angels are not supposed to doubt. But as I looked at this young woman I wondered if – horrors – I’d garbled

the message. Was this the right place – this forgotten corner of a minor planet? Was this the right person – a peasant? (Patches in her shawl.) And I hadn’t expected she’d be a teenager. (See, I’d anticipated making my announcement at a palace or before heads of state. Maybe I’d appear at the United Nations or

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Scorpio, concern yourself with substantive actions and not empty promises. This will make it easier for you to make decisions about pressing issues.

Gemini, make the most of an opportunity to move forward with your goals. You have plenty of energy, and your mind is focused. Hang around with like-minded individuals as well.

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LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23

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Don’t get too wrapped up in other people’s business, Cancer. You don’t want to intrude on others, and your loved ones are fully capable of solving their own problems. Leo, you may feel like you’re on top of the world this week. That’s because you have the potential to conquer an elusive goal in the next few days. Act now, Virgo, or you might get left behind. You can’t sit around and wait for things to unfold. Sometimes you have to take charge, and this is one of those times.

Try not to spread yourself too thin, Sagittarius. If you do, you will not be able to put your best foot forward. If you feel yourself getting stressed, step back. Capricorn, now is a great time to take a step back and exhale. Avoid taking on any additional responsibilities. Instead, take some time to recharge. Aquarius, let friends know how much they mean to you because you might not say it often enough. Others will appreciate your candor and generosity. Pisces, you tend to hold your feelings inside and that can be unhealthy. Share your feelings more often so negative energy will not build.

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DECEMBER 18, 2015

PEACHLAND ELEMENTARY CHRISTMAS CONCERT

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STUDENTS FROM MRS. OGG and Mrs. Pendergast’s kindergarten and Grade 1 class perform “Reindeer Pokey” during the PES Christmas concert on Dec. 15.

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