The Big Issues Issue

The Big Issues

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The Issue of Whose Land We Are On

It’s time to stop pretending there’s no history here in Revelstoke HISTORY 101

>>Michelle Cole

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n the surface, Revelstoke seems to be an inclusive society. Visitors from

around the world are welcome here, and restaurants of an increasing diversity of ethnicities thrive.

Groups of good-hearted volunteers spring up to support newcomers fleeing war-torn home countries.

But, beneath the surface, there is a glaring lack of cultural representation of the area’s most foundational population: Indigenous People.

HIDDEN ROOTS

Few place names allude to the original inhabitants of this territory.

No street signs adorn corners featuring a dialect of Interior Salish. Little public art identifies the First People of the area and their contribution to our modern way of life—other than artwork at the top of Mount Revelstoke, which is buried by snow most of the year.

If we consider ourselves inclusive of the Indigenous population, then it’s only by default, as there’s no significant visible heritage in Revelstoke to oppose.

WHO YOU CALLING EXTINCT? Revelstoke is located on the traditional and unceded territory of four nations native to the area: Sinixt, Secwepemc, Ktunaxa, and Syilx.

In 1956, the Sinixt people were declared extinct by the federal government for the purposes of the Indian Act. The Columbia River Treaty was still in draft form, so the pretext to declaring Sinixt extinct was purely administrative (that verdict, incidentally, is now up for discussion in the Supreme Court of Canada). Our privileged position of living in Revelstoke comes at a tragic historical cost.

Originally, Sinixt gathered at what we now call Big Eddy. They were not nomadic, but seasonal. They hunted or fished in one area and would not return for periods of time. As early as the 1830s, White settlers in their explorations of the New World would encounter Sinixt in the area.

However, if they didn’t cross paths, they simply assumed the land was uninhabited.

In that way, not much has changed.

We don’t see signs of Indigenous people in the social climate of today; therefore we assume they do not exist.

ancestry self-identify proudly in the community without fear of backlash or veiled hostility. One that goes beyond bannock and beading, and embraces traditional cultures and knowledge in public. One where City Council acknowledges we

If we consider ourselves inclusive of the Indigenous population then it’s only by default as there’s no significant visible heritage in Revelstoke to oppose.

BACK TO SCHOOL

If you want to learn about Indigenous history in Revelstoke, ask a student. The classroom is one of the few places this history lives, and for good reason. Any given year, 10-15 per cent of School District 19’s population identifies as Indigenous – from First Nations to Metis and Inuit.

They expect it in their curriculum.

Their families live here, yet we live as if we are separate or absolved from the dialogue of truth and reconciliation happening in the rest of Canada.

In 2011, Marilyn James of the Sinixt Nation gave an impassioned speech at Columbia Park School for an Educational Enhancement Agreement signing ceremony. Her call to action was simple: “Stop pretending.”

GET SMART

Education in schools is ongoing, but it is time that knowledge spread throughout the community.

Let’s create that community; one where families with Indigenous

Michelle Cole is a writer and a product of assimilation whose Nipissing, Haudenosaunee, and Wendat grandmothers, welcomed newcomers to Turtle Island. Her family has lived in Sinixt territory for 40 years. She is a member and sits on the board of the Aboriginal Friendship Society of Revelstoke, whose purpose is to raise public awareness, increase knowledge of and support for Aboriginal people, heritage and culture within our community.

Please visit aboriginalrevelstoke.ca

exist on traditional territory. Let’s familiarize ourselves with the 94 points of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission.

It’s time for decolonization, multi-generational healing, and reconciliation. It’s time to acknowledge whose land we’re on. 

ISSUE OR NOT AN ISSUE?

THE LEGION

Our sustainability locally is an issue. We have an old building and aging

infrastructure that is expensive to maintain.

Our membership is stable, but our elder members are dropping out from helping due to age and other restrictions. Our main sources of revenue are our bar, lotteries and events. The government—although we are a non-profit agency—puts artificial barriers in our way. Most of our income goes to the community. The rules are quite prohibitive.

We get 15 per cent after lotteries and events, and the remainder goes to other charities.

We don’t begrudge the charities at all, but we have difficulty driving enough revenue. It’s a tough go. I’d say we’re stable, but our main economic difficulties stem from maintaining our large building through government grants. Try to remember that Remembrance Day is one day, but veterans and their families need help 365 days a year. You can help by volunteering and getting involved in events, and recognize the Legion year-round.”  Gary Krestinsky is the incoming Revelstoke Legion president.

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More Big Issues

PRESERVING AN ancient forest

Bunnies are an issue?

BUNNIES ARE AN ISSUE

Our forests are a monument to the past

This area is currently unprotected from logging interests. The Valhalla Wilderness Society wants to change that. (PHOTOS SUBMITTED)

>>Laura Stovel

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hen David Thompson and his men first reached the northern bend of the Columbia River in January 1811,

they walked around enormous trees with amazement.

“Cedars were from fifteen to thirty six feet girth,” Thompson wrote, and “appeared to have six or eight sides.”

He estimated that white pine trees were 18 to 42 feet around, and a few birch trees reached 15 feet around.

Two hundred years later, these resplendent valleybottom forests are mostly gone — not just physically, but erased from our imagination, too.

REMEMBER WHEN...

Great runs of salmon once fought their way up the Columbia River and its tributaries to spawn. Their decaying bodies nourished not only mammals and

birds, but the trees, too.

Yet, since 1940, dams have blocked this incredible feat of nature. Instead, roads have stretched into almost every remote valley to log the ancient forests, and in the process, completely decimated the ancient understory, too.

FORGOTTEN FORESTS Today, few reminders of these magnificent lowland forests exist. On the pathways by Tum Tum and Jordan creeks, giant cedar stumps with two holes for springboards remind us of the early forests and foresters.

The few giant cedars that remain may inspire awe, but they are only a hint of the original forest.

Yes, forests can be replanted and undergrowth will return, but a managed forest is no substitute for one grown over millennia.

HAVE HOPE The good news is that there is an area of pristine lowland forest, untouched by road building, logging and mining, and only a short distance north of Revelstoke. It is one of the most biodiverse patches of land in British Columbia – and it is just a patch — currently unprotected any industry interests.

A BIOLOGIST Biologists with the Valhalla Wilderness Society have identified an ancient forest and wetland in the Monashee Mountains, including Frisby Creek, and the north end of the Jordan River Valley.

Last February, the society proposed to the BC government that the 8,408-hectare strip of land,

READ UP ON LOCAL HISTORY

Laura Stovel is a Revelstoke writer and researcher. Her latest book, Swift RIver, discusses First Peoples’ history on the Columbia River in the Revelstoke region.

It is available for purchase at the Revelstoke Museum & Archives, Grizzly Books, and directly from the author. Find her on Facebook or at the winter market.

including over 4,400 hectares of federallydesignated critical caribou habitat, be protected as a Class-A provincial park.

This would define the forest as “lands dedicated to the preservation of their natural environments for the inspiration, use and enjoyment of the public.”

With trees dating back more than 1,500 years and a stunning number of plants, insects and amphibians, this ancient forest is a monument to the past and evidence of what is possible – what nature can accomplish if undisturbed.

The issue is simple: If we value history, and our ecological future, we need to protect it. 

Revelstoke had a near bunny plague once. Pet rabbits were dumped on the ground by the hospital likely as a result of discovering the sheer cost of these monsters. The loose bunnies proliferated (as they do), so Suzanne and Rob Tippe began the Recycled Bunny Project, which seeks to care for and adopt out unwanted pet rabbits. Canmore, the University of Victoria, and the Richmond Auto Mall have all found themselves battling this expensive, troublesome rodent — but not Revelstoke on their watch! “A healthy rabbit will eat your house,” says Suzanne, not joking. They chew wires (love phone chargers), so the stakes are high. “It only takes two rabbits together to start a really bad problem.”

JUST A LITTLE STORY

ON CARING John Morrison saw an injured s q u i r r e l sitting on the center line of Hwy 1, so he made a u-turn and scooped the little guy up.

“It was a miracle the squirrel was not run over ... It was shaking uncontrollably, so I cradled it in my hands and kept it close to my chest.

Eventually it was purring and stopped shaking,” he said. The squirrel was alive despite a bad head wound. John kept the squirrel in his hands for hours to give it warmth and comfort, then made a nest in a cat kennel and stayed up with it until 2 am.

“My worst fear was it dying alone...

When I looked in the kennel in the morning I was saddened to see it had moved out of its nest ... and died sometime in the night. I kicked myself for leaving it alone because I truly do believe the comfort and being in my hands made all the difference.

I made a wooden box and buried it in the woods with the respect I believe all living creatures deserve.”

“We can’t just drive by in life. We have to extend compassion and empathy towards all creatures.”

The Editor’s Desk

The 60th... AND LAST ISSUE

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his issue, if you haven’t already figured, is about issues. Regular Reved Quarterly

readers will know that each issue is based around a central theme – say, housing, death, crime, water, paranormal activity, you name it. This issue is about all of the biggest issues — and some smaller ones you may not have known were issues.

Reved sat down with Mayor Gary Sulz to talk about myriad local issues, while city councillors write about one issue they’d like us to take to heart (p8/9).

Michelle Cole (p3) and Laura Stovel (p5) issue polite warnings about otherwise overlooked local land issues. Business

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owners Poppi Reiner and Nicole Cherlet wade into the issue of how to do business in a small town. (p13).

Builders and realtors weigh in on housing issues (p10). Meanwhile, parents struggle Reved's publisher hilariously with has issues of his own. children having issues of their own with Santa (p.11).

In short, Revelstoke has its share of issues. Each of us are a bundle of personal issues—employment, money, health, automotive (been there!)—surrounded by local issues—housing, roads, racism— in a sea of overarching global issues.

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The “issues” issue, is a chance tou talk do. a yo Two Yethem. openly and rationally about issues that personally worry me are our increasingly illiterate society, and that issues seem to divide more than unite us.

This is the 15th anniversary issue.

It is also the last issue. Due to time issues (personally) and environmental issues (generally), I’ve decided to cease publication of the full-size paper. Reved has had a good run, and Revelstoke is well-served on the actual issues front by its local media—the real newspapers, and timely, dutiful, and occasionally incredibly intrepid reporting of actual journalists. Those saintly living, breathing beings attend City Council, town halls, protests and every single damn community event.

I have no issue leaving it to them :) 

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FROM AROUND ICY GREENS—Who knew this was an issue? Revelstoke Golf Club volunteers help shovel off the greens after a particularly cold week in November. The turf will suffocate and die as ice layer prevents oxygen and co2 exchange, says course superintendent Mark Hoey SORTA LIKE SANTA—Only, instead of bringing presents, Principal Greg Kenyon of Revelstoke Secondary gives students cafeteria credit in exchange for their vaping devices — and therefore the gift of longer, healthier lives.

Read more in the Big Issues Issue centrefold, pages 8/9.

DID YOU KNOW! —Lovely little elves at the REVELSTOKE CREDIT UNIT put a few $50 bills in place of $20s in the ATM during the week of Christmas. #BETTERTHANMYBANK MEANWHILE IN GOLDEN — The server at the Husky takes my order. Uh, those guys look like they've been waiting longer...

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SPOT THE DIFFERENCES (p13 ) Bob’s pom-pom is bigger; Jeff’s electric on the drums; Steve is

beard-ier; the reindeer on Landra’s scarf is reversed; Jo-Ann’s clarinet is larger; Hailey is gnawing into a Toblerone; Tim’s blowing fire; Aaron’s sax is now a Christmas tree; and Doug has a turkey; the band sign is different;

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CRIME OF THE TIMES?

CONSUMER QUANDRIES

BUYING LOCAL

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nce upon a time in the carefree early years of Revelstoke Mountain Resort,

TRICKS 4 TRIPS*

ISSUE: HOW TO GET REVELUNSTUCK Ridesharing options abound!

1. Revy Rideshare

Facebook, so evil, but affective. Often free.

2. Poparide

Much less evil.

Agreed fare.

3. Kootenary Rideshare

Also, far less evil and agreed fare.

4. BC Transit

Damn near angels. BCT offers weekly bus service Rev-Kel/Kam-Rev every Tue/Wed for only $5.*

5. Rider Express

Cal-Van daily. ~$100 dep.

May or may not be evil.

6. Everything Revelstoke Rev-Kel ~5x daily.

Good company. $115ish, too.

*(really!)

Shopping online can be I’m a merchant in a addictively convenient, small, remote location. but it hurts local retailers more than you may think.

It’s called showrooming.

It’s the act of visiting a local business, getting expert advice from the employees, maybe even snapping a picture so you don’t forget, and intentionally walking away to order the same or similar item online to save a few dollars.

Your neighborhood businesses support local jobs, donate to local charities, and sponsor or host local events like a Santa Claus parade or a winter market offering locally made goods.

Local businesses also offer you, the buyer, a much more personalized shopping experience, greater product knowledge, and unique product selection. These things don’t come with a price tag. Increasingly, consumers are trying to get the best of both worlds: Amazon prices with small business’s expertise.

Muriel Protzer is a policy analyst for B.C. and Alberta with the Canadian Federation of Independent Business muriel.protzer@ cfib.ca

Yes, we’re on Highway 1, but we’re not direct-ship. All of my shipments go past us to Kelowna and come back up on a smaller truck. We do our best. No one wants my shipping bill. When I order big quantities, I get free shipping, so I can make my price-point the same as the cities (because I don’t have to mark it up). I can get it fast or I can get it affordable; I can’t get both. And if I can’t get it affordable, there’s no point because no one’s going to pay that premium.

I’ve been looking at how as a retail store can I serve my community as a merchant as they did back in the day?

I go out, I do the research, I try to find the right product, and service the product and provide backup and support in a way that digital retailers often can’t and big box stores won’t.

Nicole Cherlet owns Big Mountain Kitchen on Mackenzie Avenue. Stop in and say hello.

HAVE YOU BEEN TO

Spice O’ Life ... turn up the heat this winter!

a single snowboard disappeared at the base of the gondola. The victim of this apparent theft immediately posted a news alert with a picture of said snowboard.

Within minutes, Stoke FM saw the post and broadcast the information. By mid-morning, it seemed like everyone was talking about it, and dutiful lifties were on the lookout. By lunch, a repentant thief quietly and anonymously (perhaps shamefully) returned it.

What followed was discussion on whether or not the townsfolk would be cowed into locking up skis and boards as they do at bigger, busier hills.

So far, we haven’t.

I run a local guesthouse in this little fairy tale town called Revelstoke, and I often leave the front door unlocked during the day for new arrivals. Guests from around the world always laugh because they can’t imagine such trust and freedom.

That is, until this fall. After 12 years without incident, a local woman stayed at the guesthouse while looking for long-term accommodation. Two days after checking out, she came back, cut through the power cable and telephone lines on the back of my point of sale machine, and stole the lock box, which contained a small amount of money.

My initial reaction was: Great, now I have to lock my front door from now on, and get a keypad installed. This new hassle having to inform guests before arrival, plus changing a digital code every day, made me re-think it: Should I really give up my open-door policy

BTW, you didn’t just teal from Poppi, you stole from Butch, too.

because of one stupid theft?

People point to the resort as the cause of rising thefts in town, but, generally, any increase in population means a rise in crime.

More people. More poverty. More adversity.

More inevitable crimes.

In this case, it was a local woman known to police and many others in the community of whom she had taken advantage. Had there been more communication, this theft could have been averted.

I think back to when I first moved here from the ‘Big City,’ and attended the funeral of a local homeless woman. Close to 100 people were there. People knew her and cared.

As we grow, let’s hold on to that precious smalltown community spirit. Let’s assist each other, especially the less fortunate, with shelter and support. Let’s communicate openly, inform each other, share, set up neighbourhood watches. Let’s strive to remain good neighbours. Let’s know each other, and care. 

Poppi Reiner is the owner of Poppi’s Guesthouse.

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LIVING EXHIBIT

Stories Beneath the Surface at the Revelstoke Museum explores life in the Columbia valley prior to the flooding of the region by the Hugh Keenleyside Dam in Castlegar 50 years ago. It will be brought to life with Agathe Bernard’s film. She is looking for an investor who wants to support the project. “A good film takes a lot of people,” she said.

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“Our ultimate goal was to Narrated by Eileen Delehanty he largest river in the give a sense of empathy,” said Pearkes, author of A River Captured, Pacific Northwest runs by our doorstep. The Bernard, adding that many of those who the film features an incredibly

Columbia runs through many places and people, and its stories, like itself, seem virtually endless.

Here in the Columbia Valley, a deep part of our Canadian history was nearly lost below the surface 50 years ago when the dam at Castlegar was put in place. Stories Beneath the Surface is an exhibition that opened at the Revelstoke Museum in 2018. Now, Revelstoke photographer and videographer Agathe Bernard, is helping bring that story to life in her latest film project.

The story is one of displacement: displacement of First Nations; displacement of settlers; and displacement of nature and wildlife. It is also a legacy project, she says. Legacy is what sparked the film, fueled by a sense of urgency to retrieve at least some of the stories otherwise lost to time.

lived through this period are in their 90s now. “We wanted them to feel heard.”

Their stories are hard, says Bernard, since BC Hydro made people in the dam’s path essentially powerless (typical power company move). A controller would paint a red mark on homes that would be destroyed by flooding of the new Hugh Keenleyside Dam. Many were instructed they had a couple months to leave, and most would be compensated as little as possible.

The issue is obviously more complex, and goes back to the 1930s Dust Bowl drought that hit central Canada. People moved to B.C. to plant their gardens next to the Columbia and survive. By the same economic token, however, post-Great Depression Canadian governments wanted to give people work. Dams and other large projects were just the ticket.

insightful and important array of people. It includes Shelly Boyd of the Sinixt Nation on how Sinixt were declared extinct just before the dam was constructed. “It’s pretty outrageous in the context of today’s reconciliation,” said Bernard. “What needs to happen is we bring the salmon back, and let people die knowing they were heard.”

The story is as much about the past as it is prescient in the face of other major hydro-electric projects in BC and the world. Bernard worries a similar fate awaits the people of the Peace River with Site-C dam.

“The story is perpetuating, and that’s not OK,” she said. “The ball is in our court. It’s important to know what we are up for, what was the past, and how we can make things better.”

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Applesauce! (I don’t think I used those correctly, but moving on...) Yes, this New Year’s Eve marks a new year and a new decade, so Revelstoke will kick it off in 1920s Great Gatsby gala-themed style and a real sockdollager at the Legion.

Horsefeathers, you say! No, but there will be a jazz quartet, 20s remix tunage courtesy of DJ Dexaville, a light show, a candy bar, and Roaring 20s dinner with oysters Rockefeller. It is also for a good cause.

The event speaks to the issue of fundraising in the community. The organizer of said bash is the Rotary

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Meet the club! Rotary meets Thursdays @ 12:00 PM the Regent Inn email: Sally@carmichaelconsulting.ca

Club, a service club that raises money throughout the year. Rotary sponsors and raises money for both infrastructure and service projects. Some projects include Kovach Park, the gazebo at the Revelstoke Railway Museum, the pump track at Mt. Macpherson, international student exchanges and post-secondary scholarships. This upcoming 2020 fundraising season will need you, says Rotary’s own bearcat, president Sally Robertson. “Fundraising is instrumental in bringing large projects to Revelstoke.”

Come have a martini or jorum of skee, whatever that may be, and someone now please butt me. (That means cigarette.)

Kick off the new decade in style—helping others!

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WELL, GOTTA GIV’EM CREDIT! (...‘Cuz that’s how credit unions work.) The Revelstoke Credit Union staff sure know how to give back this holiday season. Food bank donations, membership dividends—and get this!—they even put some $50 bills in the ATM! Check next time you withdraw money, but first!—SPOT 10 DIFFERENCES!

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NOT TO TOOT THEIR HORN, but the Revelstoke Community Band is the jammingest, hammingest,

hiphophappeningest community band around. They’re also the givingest, playing Christmas tunes to drum up donations for the Food Bank. Support your food bank and community band — but first!— SPOT 10 DIFFERENCES! Left-right: Bob Rogers, Jeff Bolingbroke, Steve Earle, Terry Marshall, Dennis Grey, Landra Lamacchia, Jo-Ann Scarcella, Hailey Christie-Hoyle, Tim Auger, Aaron Johnson and Doug Rodney. ANSWERS ON PAGE 5.

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The Revelstoke Humane Society has many kittywitties for adoptionwoption. To view animals, report a stray pet or if you’re looking for a lost pet, call (250) 837-4747

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PET-TRAITS

WORKIN' CATS RUSTY THE THREE VALLEY ‘CHAT’

@lousae’s ...

Joey-in-a-Box!

#SHOTGUN KITTY

and his mountain cat

#catsifieds

What d’Ya Call

HOW REVY CATS ROLL

MOUNTAIN MIKE

A gang of kitties out for revenge?

—a ...wait for it ... “paws”y.

SALT & PAWPER

BONUS POINTS...

...if your cat reads Rev’d LOVE HU

The Revelstoke Humane Society has kittywitties for adoptionwoption. To view animals, report a stray pet or if you’re looking for a lost pet, call (250) 837-4747

PET PAINTER FOR HIRE

Paws up if you want to be painted like one of those French cats.

Contact: @aalya_hash MEERSED CATNECTIONS

ALSO SHREDS CURTAINS

Andrea ruvs her cutiewootiekittywitty, Hubert.

MORE THAN ONE way to skin a Tyson.

(How many cats is too many cats?

Three. Three is too many cats.)

Meet

Larry, came by but you weren’t home.

GET IN REVED

Hang on a minute ...

TRACTOR CAT (A kioti, naturally.)

Andy Dog sneaks into the Catsifieds

MERRY CATSMAS

GROOMING

SEX AND THE KITTY DID’YA KNOW: A single unspayed cat can produce 470,000 offspring in just seven years. Don’t litter! Get your kitty spayed right meow. www.spca.bc.ca

WORKIN’ CATS

TOO MANY CATS IN THE KICTHEN

Jeanette and her Spanish hunter cat Cazador.

DON’T BE A SCAREDY CAT SEND A #CATSIFIED

PAWING AROUND

Find them on FacebooK AT:

@REVEDQ #CATSIFIEDS

BOBCAT CAT Now, that’s a #Catsified!

Book a massage at Alchemy Studio

Z DAY I R F

OLD SCHOOL

WARNING! YOU MAY BE READING THIS NEWSPAPER SIDEWAYS.

BIERHAUS CAT RINA