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Season’s Greetings! Change is fun, not to mention inevitable, which is why you will come to find REVED sporting a whole new look!. The reason for newsprint is simple: I realized the hypocrisy when I started an environmental section (What Matters) and implored people to recycle - yet I printed on bleached white paper. Ooops. There are also more ways to use REVED in its newspaper form. When encountering your Ex, a 22x17 sheet of paper is easier to hide behind than 8.5x11. You can also use it as window-coverings, wallpaper and tablecloths...think about it. Another change you’ll notice inside, among new writers and new columns, is the absence of the Entertainment Calendar. Upon returning from holidays, I noticed that the Revelstoke Times Review now has an events calendar. REVED, while it could, helped in providing information for events and happenings around town as there was no one source making this available at the time. But being a quarterly publication, it is futile to contend with a source that can supply weekly event listings and so I have pulled the Calendar. I, for one, am happy the Times is doing this community service. Also, I’ve recently been
Nancy Geismar - potter
Kathleen Hay - photographer
Jim Sharp - artiste of junke
informed that we also have yet another paper joining our small community The Revelstoke Connector. Uhm hmmmm....Well, this is where I keep my mouth shut. Anyway! With extra room inside, I hope you will enjoy the addition of writers other than myself. This is a good thing because, well, what if you hate the way I write? And as REVED grows, so does its need for different viewpoints, topics and writing styles. Thus, a REVED committee has been established so that we are better able to offer Revelstoke an alternative reading source that only gets better with age, like red wine and George Clooney. As always, your comments are important and we would love to hear what you have to say. If you have an idea for something new, let us know. Don’t like
What Matters... plastic bags and our environment
something? – too bad. Well, okay, we can all use a little constructive criticism so write to editor@reved.net Recently, I was in an airport and during the omnipresent waiting that comes with airports, I found myself people watching. Quickly tiring of my Crosswords for ages 12 and Under book, (I don’t like feeling stupid, so I make it easy on myself), I glanced around. I noticed that no one is talking to one another and everyone has a gadget in their hands, in their ears or on their laps. A man with white hair and weathered skin was talking to himself and I think, he’s clearly senile, but then I realize he is talking on the phone. And where is this phone? Protruding from the ear not facing me is a thing that is connected to another thing that makes the man look like he’s taking fast-food orders at MacDonald’s. I then decide I’ve got little else to do but casually wander around looking over people’s shoulders. I want to see what sort of world-stopping important business they are doing on those laptops that they can’t enjoy a nice, “So, where are you flying to?” chat with a neighboring seat partner. My conclusion was that a lot – and I mean a lot of people have a $3000 deck of cards sitting on their laps. Heather Lea editor@reved.net
Heritage Moment by Sarah Newton
Greed, Gold Fever and Forestry In 1988 Michael Douglas won an
by Steve Bender - Manager, BC Interior Forestry Museum
district; emphasis on the term
partially because B.C. has one
plastic bag, they should ask if you need Each week Canadians use over 55 of the most advanced Forest Oscar after appearing in the Hollywood logging. There was no re-planting, one. Secondly, the store should charge million plastic bags, that is almost two Practices Codes on the planet. cut block management, riparian blockbuster, Wall Street, for his for the bag. I am not talking 3 cents. If per person! At least 100,000 whales, We use species like portrayal of the avaricious stockbroker, (river bank) concerns, wildlife stores charged 30 cents, then people sea turtles, and birds die from eating stewardship, erosion prevention, fire Hemlock for lumber that were Gordon Gekko, who uttered that would quickly bring their cloth bag, or from being entangled in plastic bags considered weeds 30 years suppression, etc. definitive corporate catch-phrase of and the store could buy plastic looking each year. As well, Canadians recycle ago. Being located in the only Forestry came much later. The the 80’s, “Greed is good.” bags made from cornstarch that cost less than 5% of plastic bags, and way we sheared the forest like a bad inland, moderate rainforest in The debate continues regarding the about 30 cents to make. worse yet is the fact that many bags value of greed but in the 1860’s, greed haircut, it’s somewhat amazing how North America brings this If you haven’t seen these bio bags, collected for recycling in Canada are district plenty of precipitation the trees lasted long enough for us was very good for the development of as they are called, they really are actually shipped to developing to make the transition from logging so coveted species like Revelstoke and most areas between something. They look and feel like countries where their laws allow Western Red Cedar and to forestry. Golden and Sicamous. Gold was plastic but are really strong! I have burning of plastic. Many of the pioneer loggers hiked Douglas Fir can flourish and rediscovered in many of the creeks loaded them down for about ten Plastic is a petrochemical product grow rapidly. north from central U.S. states like feeding the Columbia River, which different grocery trips and they are still and most plastic bags area designed Almost 140 years after the Michigan and Wisconsin, which had triggered a series of mini-rushes and holding up. The amazing thing is that for one time only use. Plastic doesn’t about a 75-year start on the Western start of logging, one of brought an onslaught of pan-handlers they will completely break down in readily breakdown and is harmful to Revelstoke’s three main Canadian industry, using fallers, with 24-karat bling on the brain. To your compost in about 20 days, and if the environment once it does. economic generators is still bring those early prospectors with their buckers and sawyers from Norway push comes to shove I suppose you So does that mean the answer is listed as Forestry, initiated by and Sweden. Logging families with towns and settlements, transportation could eat them with a little salt. paper bags? Actually paper bags also the onslaught of get-rich-quick Scandinavian names can still be routes had to be built; roads, bridges Mountain Goodness Natural Foods have a pretty bad track record. Only 5 seen in the Revelstoke phone book. fortune hunters. and ultimately, a railroad. carries this type of bag, try one. to 10% are recycled, and paper bags Gordon Gekko would have Make it to Forestry, we did. We This created a demand for lumber are made from virgin wood pulp . been proud. now have more merchantable timber and that’s when large scale logging . r.. e because recycled paper isn’t strong in this area than 75 years ago, started in the Farwell (now Revelstoke) n enough. cor s i h It takes four times as much energy to 5 mins of prep, a lifetime of cellulite! in t make a paper bag as it does a plastic d n A Chill the chocolate bar by keeping it in the fridge, then mix the flours and baking soda together. Add milk until one, and the process involved uses 1 Mars bar you get a batter with the consistency of thin cream. toxic chemicals. The answer is 1c flour Drink the beer. reusable cloth bags. They hold more, 1/2c cornflour Heat the oil until a small piece of bread will brown in a few seconds, but don’t allow to smoke. Well, OK, 1 pinch baking soda are stronger, and of course are smoke if you want to. Remove wrapper from chilled chocolate bar. Wait! Don’t eat it – try to control milk or beer reusable. The three R’s- reduce, reuse, yourself… oil (for deep fryin’!) and recycle, aren’t equal. The best one Coat bar completely in batter. Carefully lower into hot oil (suggestion: use tongs) and fry until golden brown. is reduce, then if we can’t do that, we Serve with ice cream or French fries, (as if you need more fat). should reuse, and lastly if we have to This recipe is a must have in any Super-size me North American diet. Try it, you’ll agree! It is an excellent source of fat, we should recycle. Disposable items sugar and calories. For extra calories, try using Cadbury Cream Eggs in stead of regular eggs. like plastic bags are simply Calories 90,032 Calories from Fat (120%) Total Fat 30,000g Saturated Fat who cares at this point? Cholesterol um…yes! Total Carbohydrate This is an unacceptable now. Atkins friendly recipe – NOT! Sugar enough to pick up a semi and throw it into the ocean Fibre not likely Retail outlets need a major shift in Warning: eating a Deep Fried Mars Bar may block all orifices for several weeks. their thinking. No longer should And remember, If you fatten up the people around you, you will look thinner. clerks automatically put your sales in a
DEEP FRIED MARS BARS