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December 14, 2012 The <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> <strong>Pioneer</strong> • 1<br />
Vol. 9/Issue 50 Your Weekly Source for News and Events December 14, 2012<br />
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Dozens of community members came<br />
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‘Tis the season for song<br />
<strong>Valley</strong> residents packed Christ Church Trinity on the evening of Friday, December 7th for the Sing for Joy: <strong>Valley</strong> Voices in<br />
Concert performance. Conductor Paul Carriere led the choir, which later shared the stage with students from Eileen Madson<br />
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December 14, 2012 The <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> <strong>Pioneer</strong> • 3<br />
<strong>Valley</strong> NeWS<br />
Regional district says no to Jumbo director<br />
By Greg Amos<br />
<strong>Pioneer</strong> Staff<br />
The Regional District of east Kootenay is not<br />
happy about the prospect of a having a non-elected<br />
director on its board, and is making its displeasure<br />
known to the province.<br />
at its Friday, December 7th meeting, the 15-member<br />
board unanimously passed a motion to send a letter to<br />
Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development<br />
Bill Bennett expressing opposition to the fact that<br />
the Jumbo Glacier Mountain Resort Municipality will<br />
be allowed to vote at the regional district table without<br />
neccessarily having an electorate in place to represent.<br />
Under the letters patent that created the municipality<br />
last month, Jumbo Glacier will gain the right to<br />
vote at the board once the property within it reaches an<br />
assessed value of $30 million, or as of January 1, 2017,<br />
whichever comes first.<br />
Canal Flats council stumped by Eagle’s Nest water<br />
By Kate Irwin<br />
<strong>Pioneer</strong> Staff<br />
The Village of Canal Flats has reached an impasse<br />
in the struggle to bring potable drinking water<br />
to its Eagle’s Nest and Painted Ridge subdivisions.<br />
The Eagle’s Nest Water System, which serves 62<br />
properties in Eagle’s Nest and Painted Ridge, has<br />
been under an Interior Health boil water advisory<br />
since June 18th, 2003. This means the water for the<br />
62 lots cannot be consumed without first boiling it<br />
to remove potential waterborne pathogens.<br />
The village council and staff have been debating<br />
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to tell you the truth. This is a serious governance issue.”<br />
“Panorama has been under construction for more<br />
than 30 years, and I think it has two, maybe three dozen<br />
permanent residents, and I don’t think this is going to be<br />
any different,” he added.<br />
Directors also questioned what would happen to<br />
Jumbo Glacier’s seat at the table if the ski resort doesn’t<br />
end up being developed.<br />
“Whoever sits in that chair will be like a carbon<br />
credit, I guess,” said District of elkford director Dean<br />
McKerracher, who made his skepticism about provincial<br />
carbon offset programs known earlier in the meeting.<br />
Canal Flats director Ute Juras noted Mr. Bennett<br />
had assured regional district board members in September<br />
that a mountain resort municipality would not be<br />
established unless he was assured the project would go<br />
of water to the small group of residents and secondhome<br />
owners, as they are required to do by the<br />
Interior Health Authority.<br />
However, the process is currently stalled due to a<br />
lack of support from property owners for council to<br />
borrow the money needed for upgrades.<br />
“If we can’t borrow the money, we can’t move<br />
ahead,” said Brian Woodward, chief administrative<br />
officer and chief financial officer for Canal Flats.<br />
“When we set out the original estimate a year ago, we<br />
anticipated, based on previous estimates, a $700,000<br />
to $800,000 cost.”<br />
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forward. Board chair Rob Gay, who represents electoral<br />
area C, noted there was no mention of a business plan<br />
during last month’s announcment, and questioned how<br />
the mountain resort municpality would be represented<br />
on the regional hospital board — an aspect that is not<br />
raised in the letters patent.<br />
In august 2009, the regional district board unanimously<br />
passed a motion that any mountain resort municipality<br />
should not be granted a seat on the regional<br />
board until such time as they have sufficient population<br />
to elect a council.<br />
The lack of a tax base at the mountain resort municpality<br />
means the regional district would need to charge it<br />
directly for services such as solid waste collection during<br />
the construction phase, explained chief administrative<br />
officer lee-ann Crane. The resort developer would also<br />
be charged for all costs incurred by the Jumbo Glacier<br />
director until the time they become a voting member of<br />
the board, she added.<br />
estimate that the same amount again needed to be<br />
borrowed to complete the project, all but two Eagle’s<br />
Nest residents were in favour of moving ahead when<br />
consulted last year, Mr. Woodward said.<br />
But when the engineering report for the project<br />
came back, pushing that estimated cost up to $1.64<br />
million, less the grant money, those affected balked<br />
at the cost doubling.<br />
“I can only assume it’s due to cost,” Mr. Woodward<br />
added. “To borrow that money would cost<br />
property owners $1,100 per owner to pay off the<br />
debt. That would be $1,100 every year for 25 years.”<br />
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<strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> RCMP<br />
• On December 7th at 7:05 p.m.,<br />
police responded to a single vehicle<br />
accident 14 kilometres south of Invermere<br />
on Highway 93/95. A 2005 Toyota Echo<br />
driven by a 20-year-old man from St. Albert,<br />
Alberta, drove off the road and ended<br />
up in the westbound ditch upside down.<br />
There were no injuries to the driver, who<br />
admitted to falling asleep. He was charged<br />
with failure to keep right.<br />
• On December 8th at 8:43 p.m., Golden detachment<br />
members assisting the <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> detachment<br />
went to Fairmont Hot Springs Resort to investigate<br />
a disturbance and assault complaint. Investigation<br />
revealed that a 24-year-old man from Golden was in an<br />
argument with a 27-year-old woman, also from Golden.<br />
The man assaulted two female guests not associated with<br />
the two that were arguing. Further investigation revealed<br />
that the 27-year-old woman was in breach of her courtimposed<br />
conditions to have no contact with the man and<br />
abstain from alcohol. He was arrested and charged with<br />
assault while she was arrested for breaching her conditions.<br />
While being escorted out of the building the woman<br />
kicked at a window and smashed it. She was further<br />
charged with mischief for the damage.<br />
• On December 9th at 3:06 a.m., the two Golden<br />
detachment members returned to Fairmont Resort due<br />
to a complaint of an intoxicated woman located in the<br />
staff closet. The woman was in no condition to care for<br />
herself and nobody else was available to care for her. She<br />
was lodged in cells until sober.<br />
• On December 10th at 3:47 p.m., <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong><br />
officers responded to a complaint of an assault near<br />
the Hillcrest Apartments on Invermere’s 13th Street. A<br />
17-year-old female victim was located with severe facial<br />
injuries. She was taken to Invermere and District Hospital<br />
and cared for. A 35-year-old man from Cranbrook<br />
was arrested and charged with assault causing bodily<br />
harm. He was released under certain conditions. The investigation<br />
is continuing.<br />
• On December 11th at 12:18 a.m., while police<br />
were on patrol, a pickup truck was observed with the<br />
rear plate totally obstructed by snow and debris. The<br />
vehicle was stopped on Athalmer Road to confirm it<br />
had plates and was properly registered. The 45-year-old<br />
RCMP Report<br />
male driver refused to provide the police<br />
with his driver’s licence and registration,<br />
stating he didn’t have to produce them.<br />
Wrong answer. He was advised that if he<br />
continued to fail to provide his documents<br />
that he would be arrested and charged with<br />
obstruction. The driver continued to refuse<br />
and was arrested. Once arrested, his licence<br />
and registration were located by the officers.<br />
He was issued a ticket for failing to<br />
display his plate properly and will appear<br />
in Invermere Provincial Court on February<br />
12th for obstruction.<br />
Christmas festivities<br />
Are you going to do some drinking over the Christmas<br />
season? Plan ahead and ensure you have a way to get<br />
back home safely. Counter Attack road checks will continue<br />
throughout the valley during the holiday season.<br />
The hair thing<br />
Thanks to the community stepping up and donating<br />
to the detachment’s Movember fundraising goal, I did go<br />
ahead and dye my hair RCMP colours. You have to look<br />
hard to see the blue.<br />
To my new friend Echo, whom I see during school<br />
patrols, it is RED, not PINK as your mother thinks.<br />
I have been receiving lots of comments. There’s no real<br />
explaining to do in the valley, as most are aware of the reason,<br />
but outside of the area it seems that they do not see<br />
many police officers with RED, gold and blue in their hair.<br />
I have to share my son’s response when his mother<br />
emailed a picture. “Why in all that is holy and sacred did<br />
you allow him to do that?” he commented to Bev. I was<br />
pleased to see that he did have some religious inkling in<br />
his body. I thought we failed him there. I was also very<br />
pleased that he was blaming his mother for my actions. I<br />
did indeed teach him well there.<br />
I shared this comment with my sister in Ontario,<br />
who is on Facebook. She commented that his remark<br />
was rather witty, but she laughed more at what he posted<br />
on Facebook. He has my photo with all the hair colours<br />
and posted, “Looks like my Pops is hosting the Invermere<br />
Pride Parade.”<br />
The colour will eventually grow out. Next year I think<br />
we go with Julie’s suggestion and have the entire detachment<br />
in uniform do Zumba. You won’t have problems seeing<br />
me. Ambulance and doctors will be monitoring.
December 14, 2012 The <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> <strong>Pioneer</strong> • 5<br />
By Kristian Rasmussen<br />
<strong>Pioneer</strong> Staff<br />
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Monday<br />
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Parent $5,<br />
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Musical breakthrough<br />
achieved at <strong>Columbia</strong> House<br />
A rare kinship that has defied<br />
language, age and culture has been<br />
formed between two remarkable<br />
women at the <strong>Columbia</strong> House longterm<br />
care facility.<br />
College of the Rockies health<br />
care student Maria Carmen Mendoza<br />
is graduating from her program today<br />
with the knowledge that she has<br />
brightened the life of the oldest and<br />
most musically experienced resident<br />
at the facility.<br />
Originally from Manila, The<br />
Phillipines, Carmen came to Canada<br />
in 2006 and settled in Invermere<br />
with her husband and now 17-yearold<br />
son. A love of the elderly and a<br />
suggestion from her friend inspired<br />
Carmen to join the College of the<br />
Rockies health care program, where<br />
she met Klara Caplan during her course practicum at<br />
<strong>Columbia</strong> House.<br />
Klara, a 104-year-old resident who speaks mainly<br />
Russian and suffers from dementia, carried a secret that<br />
only Carmen was able to fully unlock.<br />
Through the help of her program instructors, she<br />
discovered that the elderly woman she worked with<br />
every day was in fact at one point a classically trained<br />
concert pianist. Though Carmen doesn’t speak Russian<br />
and Klara has trouble communicating, the healthcare<br />
student decided to try an experiment on the suggestion<br />
of her program instructors Karen Lynor and Aline<br />
Sholinder. Wheeling her over to one of the pianos at <strong>Columbia</strong><br />
House, Carmen noticed an excitement coming<br />
from Klara, who slowly began to hit the keys.<br />
“It was amazing watching her play again,” Carmen<br />
said. “She totally changed; her aura changed. She<br />
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LANGUAGE OF LOVE – Carmen Mendoza observes Klara Caplan practicing<br />
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Photo by Kristian Rasmussen.<br />
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kind of felt a sense of belonging and a sense of purpose.<br />
It was like reviving Klara again.”<br />
Klara was born into a family of musicians in<br />
Paris in 1908. Her mother was a singer and her father<br />
was a composer. The two met each other while<br />
studying music in France. After two years in Paris, the<br />
family moved home to Leningrad, which is now St.<br />
Petersburg.<br />
Growing up in a musical family, Klara spent her<br />
days practising her skills on the piano, which paid off<br />
when she was admitted into the Leningrad Conservatory<br />
at age 17. She met her future husband Michael Caplan<br />
and the two went on to have their first and only child<br />
Inga, who now lives in Invermere.<br />
The couple travelled throughout Russia playing concerts<br />
together before the Second World War.<br />
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6 • The <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> <strong>Pioneer</strong> December 14, 2012<br />
perspective<br />
Jumbo issues<br />
not going away<br />
By Greg Amos<br />
<strong>Pioneer</strong> Staff<br />
When the Jumbo Glacier mountain resort<br />
municipality was announced as a done deal on tuesday,<br />
November 20th, many who supported that move<br />
appealed for people in the east Kootenays to accept and<br />
embrace the decision, to allow for a community healing<br />
process to begin.<br />
That might be hard to do when many feel as though<br />
there’s still a knife in their back. And if a few events<br />
that have transpired since are any indication, the deeply<br />
entrenched positions not ready to give up the fight just yet.<br />
Let’s start with the regional district board, who are still<br />
in shock at the prospect of having a non-elected member<br />
casting votes at the regional table. That’s slated to happen,<br />
unless the quaint hamlet of Jumbo Glacier grows much<br />
more rapidly than most are predicting. Having a corporate<br />
representative voting on local government decisions<br />
would be a first in B.c., and the regional district is right<br />
to be concerned about it.<br />
Then there’s the even thornier issue around the credibility<br />
of the Ktunaxa Nation’s 2010 Qat’muk declaration.<br />
While more than 300 Ktunaxa members and supporters<br />
marched through the streets of cranbrook on<br />
November 30th in support of the application for a<br />
judicial review of the resort’s approval filed that day, a<br />
new website, www.beforeqatmuk.com , was launched by<br />
Jumbo Glacier proponents on the same day.<br />
The site’s headline statement, that the declaration<br />
is not credible, suggests the importance of Qat’muk has<br />
been greatly exaggerated by some. i recommend anyone<br />
reading the site take a look at troy Hunter’s letter of support<br />
for the project in 2003, which mentions an elder’s<br />
recollections of a people called Q’atmuknik.<br />
An author i interviewed earlier this week told me<br />
about the time legendary mountaineer conrad Kain<br />
and a partner once colluded to blow up a chunk of the<br />
Jumbo Glacier. At this point, one can only speculate<br />
about the forces they may have unleashed in doing so.<br />
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Dear Editor:<br />
FIPPA is a poor fit for Canada<br />
Steven Harper has done it again with his<br />
treasonous approval of the Chinese governmentcontrolled<br />
Chinese National Offshore Oil Company<br />
(CNOOC) takeover bid for the Canadian tar sands<br />
giant Nexen. This deal gives the Chinese between<br />
three and six billion barrels of tar sands oil. Harper’s<br />
approval came with no public input and was announced<br />
late on a Friday afternoon - a clear attempt<br />
to sneak it under the public’s radar. The deal is bad<br />
for several reasons, the most important being this is a<br />
gift of a Canadian resource to a foreign government.<br />
Even worse is the fact that Harper could at any<br />
time approve the Canada-China Foreign Investment<br />
Protection and Promotion Agreement (FIPPA). If he<br />
Greg Amos<br />
Editor<br />
Kate Irwin<br />
Reporter/ Special<br />
Publications Editor<br />
Evergreen team<br />
Kristian Rasmussen<br />
Reporter<br />
approves this Act, CNOOC (and any other Chinese<br />
corporation invested in Canada) will be able to sue<br />
Canadian governments (federal and provincial) in secret<br />
tribunals if our governments do anything which<br />
CNOOC perceives as a threat to its corporate profits.<br />
This would include any environmental protections<br />
and job creation efforts.<br />
Harper’s latest action is just one more example of<br />
his failure to protect the interests of Canada. Canadians<br />
must wake up to his treachery and tell him that<br />
Canada is not for sale. The hypocrite Harper, who in<br />
the past railed against the Communist Chinese government,<br />
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December 14, 2012 The <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> <strong>Pioneer</strong> • 7<br />
Dear Editor:<br />
LETTERS<br />
Taft responds to letter<br />
writer’s critique<br />
Regarding the letter ‘Chamber is correct<br />
about mini-Mac’ in your December<br />
7th edition, I don’t know what a ‘mini-<br />
Mac’ is, I don’t have any provincial political<br />
aspirations at this time, and I think Mr.<br />
Berzins is mistaken: Invermere is a great<br />
place to live, visit and do business in.<br />
I make no apologies for having safe<br />
municipal water with low turbidity — we<br />
are working on meeting the excessive Interior<br />
Health requirements that presently<br />
only three out of over 12 water systems in<br />
the <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> meet.<br />
I also make no apologies for helping<br />
to save and preserve historic buildings,<br />
recognizing the importance of sustainability<br />
(including local food) and keeping<br />
garbage off the sidewalks downtown (yes,<br />
the garbage cans are solar, that’s so they<br />
can compact the garbage and we can keep<br />
our streets clean and the locals and visitors<br />
happy during the busy times).<br />
Our economy and the local business<br />
community are important, so are our lake<br />
and our overall environment, and so are<br />
the non-profit and volunteer groups in<br />
the community. Everything needs time,<br />
attention, and in some cases money, to<br />
create success, and the District of Invermere<br />
council is committed to achieving<br />
success. There are no blacklists, just hardworking<br />
people trying their hardest.<br />
If Mr. Berzins thinks that Invermere<br />
isn’t a great place to live, I hope he takes his<br />
negativity and bitterness somewhere else.<br />
Gerry Taft,<br />
Mayor of Invermere<br />
Invermere needs more gardens<br />
Dear Editor:<br />
I wonder if the District of Invermere<br />
would consider expanding the mandate<br />
of its talented and popular group of gardeners<br />
to oversee the setup, planting and<br />
growth of vegetable gardens strategically<br />
placed on the outskirts of district lands.<br />
These people are already employed by<br />
the district. New employment of no income,<br />
low income and other individuals<br />
to do the work in the gardens with expert<br />
supervision and know-how would assist<br />
residents of Invermere and surrounding<br />
communities with earning a living.<br />
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A regular or constant supply of all<br />
kinds of vegetables would become available<br />
locally to individuals, families and<br />
stores. Deer could be allowed to visit a<br />
portion of all these gardens, perhaps causing<br />
them to move out to areas where they<br />
would interfere less with residents in the<br />
more populated areas of Invermere.<br />
Deer culls would perhaps not have to<br />
be considered, and people would begin<br />
to lose their fear and hostility toward the<br />
deer. I could see this working for the benefit<br />
of all, as things should be.<br />
Mark Pocock, Invermere<br />
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A 63-year-old Radium woman has died following a<br />
two-vehicle accident on Highway 93/95, three minutes<br />
north of Invermere, on December 12th. The 27-year-old<br />
female driver of a second vehicle was taken to hospital with<br />
serious injuries. Her four-year-old passenger was unharmed.<br />
The accident took place at 9:06 a.m., when a southbound<br />
tan Dodge Dakota pickup, driven by the deceased<br />
woman, lost control, crossed the centre line and was struck<br />
by a northbound black Chevrolet Silverado, the RCMP<br />
stated. The roads were slick with black ice at the time.<br />
Pictured, top: Invermere firefighters work to free the<br />
driver of the Dodge Dakota, which came to a halt in the<br />
ditch beside the highway. She was pronounced dead at the<br />
scene. Pictured, left: debris from the Chevrolet pickup was<br />
scattered across the road. Photos by Kate Irwin<br />
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December 14, 2012 The <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> <strong>Pioneer</strong> • 9<br />
Santa<br />
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10 • The <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> <strong>Pioneer</strong> December 14, 2012<br />
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Steven and Anna Steedman of MacSteven’s Fresh Foods<br />
on Thursday December 6th. The event fed 200 students.<br />
Sobeys and Hopkins’ Harvest and Kountry Kitchen also<br />
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Invermere library unionizes<br />
By Greg Amos<br />
<strong>Pioneer</strong> Staff<br />
Union cards are among the newest documents being<br />
housed at the Invermere Public Library, after local<br />
library staff became members of the Canadian Union<br />
of Public Employees (CUPE) in mid-November.<br />
“Library workers are front-line employees who<br />
carry out the day-to-day<br />
operations at the library,”<br />
said Invermere Public Library<br />
technician Nicole<br />
Pawlak. “We feel that by<br />
joining CUPE we will<br />
have a stronger voice and<br />
be able to better serve our<br />
community.”<br />
The library’s five employees voted unanimously to<br />
join the union, a move they say is aimed at ensuring<br />
library staff input is heard when charting the future<br />
course of the library, which is overseen by a sevenmember<br />
board of trustees that changes significantly<br />
every two years. Three board positions are turning over<br />
this month alone.<br />
“In recent years, some decisions the board has<br />
implemented were against staff reccomendations,” said<br />
Ms. Pawlak. “Now this staff will have more of a voice.”<br />
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With the Invermere library’s chief librarian on sick<br />
leave as of the end of September, some decisions at the<br />
library were made with no staff input over the fall, said<br />
Ms. Pawlak. The chief librarian is expected back early<br />
in the New Year.<br />
“Maybe personnel isn’t the board’s strength, and<br />
maybe having a collective agreement in place will relieve<br />
board members from having to worry about day<br />
to day operations,” she added, not-<br />
ing the board’s mandate is around<br />
fundraising, executing the strategic<br />
plan, and conducting policy<br />
reviews.<br />
Asked about whether the staff<br />
are requesting increased wages,<br />
Ms. Pawlak said staff are more<br />
concerned about a collective<br />
agreement that creates consistency in library policies.<br />
The library operates on a municipal library model,<br />
and is funded by the District of Invermere, and the<br />
regional district areas F and G. There are currently 26<br />
libraries across B.C. that are unionized, including libraries<br />
in Castlegar, Fernie, and Creston.<br />
“CUPE is a large union and by becoming part of<br />
CUPE we will now have access to a wide array of information,<br />
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Pawlak.<br />
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December 14, 2012 The <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> <strong>Pioneer</strong> Page • 11<br />
What’s happening in the<br />
<strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong><br />
Music • visual arts • dining • Bar scene • entertainMent • perforMance arts<br />
CROSSROADS<br />
CUTTER<br />
What does ART<br />
mean to you?<br />
Photo by Kristian Rasmussen<br />
Bryan Robbins performs some<br />
maintenance on his chainsaw<br />
before sawing a log into the<br />
likeness of a bear cub at the Cross<br />
Roads Collective’s open house on<br />
Saturday, December 8th.<br />
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12 • The <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> <strong>Pioneer</strong> December 14, 2012<br />
Music • visual arts • dining • Bar scene • entertainMent • perforMance arts<br />
Movie Review: Ted<br />
Reviewed by Kate Irwin<br />
Ted is a wonderfully offensive comedy about a teddy<br />
bear brought to life by a wish, who just won’t go away again.<br />
You either love or hate the Seth MacFarlane brand<br />
of comedy, and as Ted positively reeks of the Family Guy<br />
creator, you’ll either love or loathe it too. The movie’s<br />
packed with his trademark vulgarity, weirdness, and<br />
crass, tongue-in-cheek humour from start to finish, with<br />
some entertaining celebrity cameos to boot.<br />
Yes, it’s yet another slacker comedy, and yes, it’s another<br />
bromance vs romance tale, but with MacFarlane at<br />
the helm, it is (for the most part) raunchy comedy gold.<br />
The tale begins in 1985, when John Bennett, a lonely<br />
little boy without any friends, wishes his teddy bear to life so<br />
he has someone to play with. There’s nothing more powerful<br />
than a child’s wish, the voiceover interjects, except for an<br />
Apache helicopter. To John’s delight (and his parents’ terror)<br />
Gone<br />
HOLLYWOOD<br />
V I D E O<br />
Gone Hollywood’s TOP FIVE OF THE WEEK<br />
Last Week’s Top 5 Rentals<br />
1 The Dark Knight Rises<br />
2 Men in Black 3<br />
3 Hope Springs<br />
4 Lawless<br />
5 The Expendables 2<br />
Ted springs into action and the pair grow up together.<br />
Maybe I should rephrase that: they grow older together,<br />
but neither really matures. Ted rises to and falls<br />
from fame and by the time the title sequence ends and<br />
we’re into the present day, he’s a nobody.<br />
The pair of wastrels spend their days smoking pot and<br />
trying to outdo one another telling offensive jokes. John<br />
(Mark Wahlberg), now 35, is scraping a living at a car<br />
rental firm, to the dismay of his girlfriend Lori (Mila Kunis),<br />
who wants John to grow up and get on with his life.<br />
What makes Ted work so well is the believability of<br />
the computer-generated character. Taken from a motion<br />
capture of MacFarlane, the foul-mouthed bear feels<br />
creepily human, with expressive eyes and super realistic<br />
body language. It’s a triumph of CGI done right.<br />
This is the first movie I’ve ever watched where a<br />
computer generated character blends seamlessly into the<br />
live action cast. It’s a credit to Wahlberg and Kunis (and<br />
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2 Ice Age: Continental Drift<br />
3 Ted<br />
4 Backwards<br />
5 Dreams of Life<br />
New Releases December 18<br />
1 Total Recall (2012)<br />
2 Pitch Perfect<br />
3 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days<br />
4 Trouble with the Curve<br />
5 Sleepwalk with Me<br />
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MacFarlane’s voice acting) that the characters truly feel<br />
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Even if you’re not a Seth MacFarlane fan, you have<br />
to admire his uncompromising style. Ted ranges from<br />
C-bombs to drug taking to Flash Gordon to excrement<br />
and hookers, but manages to tie irreverent comedy and a<br />
warm and fuzzy tale together well. A few scenes in particular<br />
(Giovanni Ribisi’s dancing, the white trash names,<br />
and the hooker aftermath) are gut-bustingly funny.<br />
The real shocker is that it’s taken this long for the<br />
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Music • visual arts • dining • Bar scene • entertainMent • perforMance arts<br />
Out & About<br />
Please call 250-341-6299<br />
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Submissions must be received by the Monday prior to<br />
publication. We may only run an entry for two weeks<br />
prior to the event. Please limit your submission to<br />
30 words. Priority is given to one-off events,<br />
so weekly events may run rarely.<br />
Toby Theatre<br />
• Closed from October 28th to December 26th.<br />
Friday, December 14th<br />
• Opening Day for the 2012-13 winter season at<br />
Panorama Mountain Village. For more information,<br />
please visit www.panoramaresort.com .<br />
• 5:30-8 p.m. 1st Annual <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> Chamber of<br />
Commerce Holiday Market at the Lions Hall. Shopping<br />
with pizza and beer available. Admission is by donation<br />
to the <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> Food Bank. Event also runs<br />
from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. on December 15th. For more<br />
information, contact Deanne Abrams at 250-342-2844.<br />
Saturday, December 15th<br />
• 10 a.m.: Classic Learn to Ski Clinic by Toby Creek<br />
Nordic Ski Club at Nipika Mountain Resort. Oneday<br />
technique improvement for classic skiing. Second<br />
class held on December 16th. Free for members,<br />
$30 for non-members. for more information<br />
email info@nipika.com<br />
• 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.: Christmas Market at <strong>Columbia</strong><br />
Ridge Community Hall (10 minutes south of Fairmont).<br />
Featuring new homemade items each week:<br />
quilts, crafts, baking, preserves, paintings, fresh Christmas<br />
arrangements, gourmet food and spices and a<br />
book signing and storytelling by local historian Colin<br />
Cartwright. For more information, contact Donna<br />
Rae at donna@columbiaridge.com .<br />
• 10:30 a.m.: Christmas crafts for children at the<br />
Radium Public Library. For more information, contact<br />
Jane Jones at 250-347-2434 .<br />
Saturday, December 15th<br />
• 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.: Cross Roads Collective hosting<br />
an open house with partial proceeds of trees<br />
sold donated to the <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> Food Bank.<br />
Chainsaw carving will take place throughout day.<br />
For more information, please call Jessie Blakely at<br />
250-341-6983.<br />
• 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.: Photos with<br />
Santa at Copper Point Resort. Photos are $15 with<br />
proceeds going to the Toby Creek Nordic Ski Club<br />
and the Invermere Companion Animal Network.<br />
• 4:30 p.m. – 10 p.m.: Christmas Card Craft night at<br />
the Summit Youth Centre.<br />
• 5:30 p.m.: Brisco & District Commission Christmas<br />
Potluck and Santa visit at the Brisco Community<br />
Hall. Christmas carols and sing a long with the<br />
Kootenay Legends . Admission by donation.<br />
Sunday, December 16th<br />
• 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Hot chocolate with Santa at Kicking<br />
Horse Cafe. Free photos will be sent by email. For<br />
more information, please call 250-342-4489.<br />
• 3 p.m. - 8 p.m.: Food Bank Benefit Concert at Angus<br />
McToogle’s Restaurant. The regular menu will be<br />
available. For more information, please call Mike at<br />
250-342-1383.<br />
Tuesday, December 18th<br />
• 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.: Open house at the Dragonfly Discovery<br />
Centre. For more information, please call Charlotte<br />
Streicek at 250-341-7373 .<br />
Wednesday, December 19th<br />
• 9 a.m. and 7 p.m.: Edgewater Elementary presents<br />
Dear Santa: A Musical Tweet for Christmas. For more<br />
information, please call Sharlene Scofield at 250-347-<br />
9543.<br />
Friday, December 21st<br />
• 4:30 p.m. – 10 p.m.: Baking Christmas Cookies at<br />
the summit Youth Centre.<br />
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• 4:30 p.m. – 10 p.m. Karaoke Night at the Summit<br />
Youth Centre.<br />
DANIEL ZURGILGEN<br />
250-342-1612<br />
danielzurgilgen@gmail.com<br />
SCOTT WALLACE<br />
250-342-5309<br />
scott@scottwallace.ca<br />
Saturday, December 22nd<br />
• 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.: Christmas Market at <strong>Columbia</strong> Ridge<br />
Community Hall (10 minutes south of Fairmont). Featuring<br />
new homemade items each week: quilts, crafts,<br />
baking, preserves, paintings, fresh Christmas arrangements,<br />
gourmet food and spices. For more information,<br />
contact Donna Rae at donna@columbiaridge.com .<br />
• 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.: Photos with<br />
Santa at Copper Point Resort. Photos are $15 with<br />
proceeds going to the Toby Creek Nordic Ski Club<br />
and the Invermere Companion Animal Network.<br />
Monday, December 24th<br />
• 8 p.m.: Christmas Eve Fireworks, Conrad Kain Park,<br />
Wilmer. For more info, please call 250-342-9470.<br />
Thursday, December 27th<br />
• 8 p.m. Wil and Kevin Haughton perform at<br />
Panorama’s Great Hall in support of their new album<br />
Hold Me On.<br />
Monday, December 28th<br />
• 6 p.m. The Summit Youth Centre is going to the<br />
Climbing Wall, leaving the Summit at 5:45 p.m.<br />
• 3 p.m. - 6 p.m. Village of Radium Hot Springs 22nd<br />
Birthday Celebration at Brent’s Shack.<br />
• 6:30 p.m. annual fire works celebration at the<br />
Radium Springs driving range. For more information,<br />
please contact Kara Stringer at 250-347-9331.<br />
Invermere Library hours<br />
• Tuesday to Saturday: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.<br />
• Wednesday: 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.<br />
Invermere Thrift Store hours<br />
• Thursdays: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.<br />
• Fridays and Saturdays: 1 - 4 p.m. The Invermere<br />
Thrift Shop will be closed from December 16th to<br />
January 10th.<br />
Radium Library hours<br />
• Tuesday: 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.<br />
• Wednesday and Thursday: 1 - 4 p.m.<br />
• Saturday: 10 a.m. - noon.<br />
• Sunday: 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.<br />
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14 • The <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> <strong>Pioneer</strong> December 14, 2012<br />
<strong>Valley</strong> man to head up Calgary Police Association<br />
By Kristian Rasmussen<br />
<strong>Pioneer</strong> Staff<br />
Calgary law enforcement<br />
is getting a taste of justice,<br />
<strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> style.<br />
Howard Burns, who was<br />
born and raised in the local<br />
area, has just been elected<br />
president of the Calgary Police<br />
Association by its members,<br />
with polls closing at 7<br />
p.m. on November 30th. Howard Burns<br />
“This new position is<br />
going to be very challenging,”<br />
Mr. Burns said. “With the exception of holidays, you<br />
are on call 24/7, but I am proud of what I have been able<br />
to achieve and I am proud of the fact that I am from Invermere,<br />
and I tell people that.”<br />
Although he is now representing close to 2,000 law enforcement<br />
officers throughout the Calgary area, Mr. Burns<br />
. . . ‘Musical breakthrough’ from page 5<br />
Because of his German heritage, Klara’s husband<br />
was sent to Ufa, Siberia, when war broke out between<br />
the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.<br />
It was the last time Michael saw his family. He<br />
was never allowed to leave Siberia again.<br />
Clara and Inga moved to Calgary in 1979, where<br />
they lived for 22 years before relocating to Invermere.<br />
Klara would go on to teach and play piano until the<br />
age of 70, until rediscovering her talent with the help<br />
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(651 Hwy 93/95)<br />
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was born 300 kilometres from the fast paced city in Invermere<br />
in 1967.<br />
His father, also named Howard Burns, was the branch<br />
manager of the town’s CIBC bank and owned and operated<br />
<strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> Insurance for close to 10 years.<br />
Mr. Burns junior began working at age 12, performing<br />
tasks for Eddie Mountain at the local ice skating arena.<br />
“I worked for him every summer doing various<br />
jobs,” he added. “At the end of it all I was driving the<br />
Zamboni. Eddie Mountain was a good man and like a<br />
second father to me.”<br />
When he was not working at the arena, Mr. Burns<br />
attended David Thompson Secondary School, where he<br />
first had the inspiration for his path in life. While leafing<br />
through textbooks, the future police officer discovered a law<br />
enforcement program at Mount Royal College, Calgary.<br />
After graduating high school in 1985 and playing defense<br />
for the <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> Rockies during the 1985-<br />
1986 season, Mr. Burns enrolled full time in the law enforcement<br />
program at Mount Royal College.<br />
He was hired by the Calgary police service in 1988 and<br />
of Carmen. 33 years later.<br />
Carmen was also forced to move halfway around<br />
the world, after a frightening incident in which robbers<br />
broke into her home in the Philippines, placed<br />
guns to her and her husband’s heads and held a knife<br />
at the throat of her eight-year-old son.<br />
“In the Philippines, if someone gets into your<br />
house, 99 per cent of the time they will kill you,” she<br />
said. “It lasted around 45 minutes, but that was the<br />
longest time in my life and triggered me to move to<br />
Canada, because it is actually a place where it could<br />
has enjoyed a career filled with adventure.<br />
“There are lots of good days and some bad, but all of<br />
them are exciting,” he said. “I think the thing that I am<br />
most proud of is that I was in charge of training for the<br />
police service during the G8 event that was held here in<br />
2002 in Calgary.”<br />
Mr. Burns, a sergeant at the time, was tasked with developing<br />
a portfolio of training for law enforcement to follow<br />
if a riot broke out.<br />
“That was a big challenge and we as a police service<br />
pulled it off,” he said. “I am pretty proud of that.”<br />
Although now the Calgary Police Association’s top cop,<br />
Mr. Burns credits much of his success to the freedom of a<br />
childhood spent in the valley.<br />
“I think growing up where I did probably allowed<br />
me to grow as a teenager. I became a little bit more outgoing,<br />
which allowed me to jump into a career such as<br />
policing,” he added. “Ninety per cent of policing is communication.<br />
If you do a good job communicating, you<br />
will get very few complaints and people will be quite<br />
happy with your service.”<br />
be conducive for my son to grow.”<br />
Although she has problems communicating<br />
with her caregiver, the wealth of experience that<br />
Klara and her fellow residents at <strong>Columbia</strong> House<br />
offer on a daily basis has still managed to rub off<br />
on Carmen.<br />
“Lots of our seniors have lived amazing lives.<br />
Some of them have a history of their own. You can<br />
tell that they age with so much grace and so much<br />
wisdom in their minds. That makes me so interested<br />
in this career.”<br />
A reminder from<br />
The Christmas Bureau<br />
of the <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong><br />
Food Hampers & Angel Gifts for Christmas 2012<br />
Submit your request for a hamper by calling 250-342-6752 or 250-342-6789<br />
by Wednesday, December 12.<br />
Phone or email to register your hamper sponsorship by Wednesday,<br />
December 12: 250-342-6752 or 250-342-6789; hghoff@telus.net or<br />
hw6789@telus.net.<br />
Donate an Angel gift for a child (0-12) at Dairy Queen or a gift for a child<br />
(0-12) or senior (65+) at Essentials by Saturday, December 15.<br />
Sponsors: please remember to deliver your hampers to the Invermere<br />
Community Hall on Thursday, December 20, 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.<br />
Applicants, pick up hampers and gifts on Thursday, December 20,<br />
3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.<br />
Remember, if you are unable to come to the<br />
community Hall, write a note to authorize someone<br />
else to pick up your hamper. Volunteers<br />
will not be available for next day<br />
pick-up.
December 14, 2012 The <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> <strong>Pioneer</strong> • 15<br />
Court Briefs: Invermere,<br />
By <strong>Pioneer</strong> Staff<br />
December 10th<br />
Banned driver gets jail time<br />
A motorist with a history of driving<br />
while prohibited was led from Invermere<br />
Provincial Court in handcuffs on Monday,<br />
December 10th, to serve a 28-day<br />
jail sentence.<br />
Gregory Pocha, 52, was spotted driving<br />
down Athalmer Road in Invermere on<br />
July 17th, 2012, by a pair of constables<br />
on patrol, one of whom believed he did<br />
not hold a valid driver’s licence. The pair<br />
pulled Mr. Pocha’s vehicle over.<br />
“Mr. Pocha was confirmed as the<br />
driver and when he was advised that the<br />
vehicle plates were inactive he said he knew<br />
that and didn’t have a driver’s licence,” said<br />
Lianna Swanson, Crown counsel.<br />
Mr. Pocha was stopped a second time,<br />
by one of the same police officers, on October<br />
4th in the Invermere area.<br />
“He said he couldn’t understand why<br />
police were harassing him and wouldn’t<br />
leave him alone,” Ms. Swanson added.<br />
Mr. Pocha, who was given an indefinite<br />
suspension from driving in July 2010,<br />
pleaded guilty to two counts of driving<br />
while prohibited.<br />
“It’s apparent he has had a long series<br />
of driving prohibitions,” said Buffy Blakley,<br />
duty counsel. “He has been trying hard<br />
to get his licence back.<br />
“Given the impact of these two convictions<br />
it’s increasingly unlikely he will get<br />
his licence returned,” said Judge William<br />
Sheard in his sentencing.<br />
“I’d rather have more jail time than go<br />
without my licence,” Mr. Pocha added.<br />
Taking into account a previous conviction<br />
for the same offence, Judge William<br />
Sheard imposed the minimum of two<br />
14-day jail sentences on Mr. Pocha, to be<br />
served consecutively, plus two $500 fines,<br />
to be paid within six months. He remains<br />
indefinitely prohibited from driving.<br />
. . . Continued on page 38<br />
Axor project axed by<br />
provincial government<br />
By Greg Amos<br />
<strong>Pioneer</strong> Staff<br />
The Regional District of East<br />
Kootenay is applauding the provincial<br />
government’s termination of an<br />
unpopular run-of-river hydroelectric<br />
project slated to run from the Purcell<br />
Mountains through the Duncan <strong>Valley</strong><br />
in the West Kootenays.<br />
In a November 27th letter, the<br />
BC Environmental Assessment Office<br />
informed the Montreal-based Axor<br />
Group that its assessment application<br />
for its proposed 98-megawatt Glacier-<br />
Howser project would be terminated<br />
for failing to meet the requirements<br />
set out for it after the review was suspended<br />
in September 2009.<br />
“Much of the environmental impact<br />
would’ve been on the other side,<br />
but nevertheless, we would’ve suffered<br />
transmission lines through the<br />
very pristine Stockdale Creek area,”<br />
said regional district Area G director<br />
Gerry Wilkie. “There was no real economic<br />
benefit to the <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong><br />
coming out of this; there might have<br />
been two permanent jobs created.”<br />
In August 2009, the regional district<br />
board unanimously agreed to inform<br />
the B.C. Environmental Assessment<br />
Office that it didn’t support the<br />
project, citing the the proposed transmission<br />
line’s impact on high value<br />
forests, and the fact that the power<br />
that would be generated is not required<br />
in the Upper <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong>.<br />
Concerns arising from West Kootenay<br />
environmental groups included<br />
the project’s likely impact on bull<br />
trout and caribou. The project, being<br />
proposed under an Axor subsidiary<br />
called Purcell Green Power, would<br />
have involved 92 kilometres of new<br />
power transmission lines stretching<br />
across the Purcell Mountains from<br />
the west to the east Kootenays.<br />
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BOSS TIME — Thanks to a<br />
connection made by his friend<br />
Pedro Cebulka, Invermere<br />
musician Franz Grasegger had<br />
a chance to meet Bruce Springsteen,<br />
a.k.a. “The Boss”, after<br />
seeing the legendary rock singer<br />
and songwriter play at Rogers<br />
Arena in Vancouver on Monday,<br />
November 26th. Grasegger,<br />
who’s been playing music<br />
for 24 years, was able to slip<br />
Springsteen a copy of his original<br />
accordion and polka music<br />
recording, entitled Northern<br />
Lights. Springsteen played for<br />
three and a half hours, including<br />
a 45-minute encore, and didn’t<br />
appear to be tired after the show,<br />
said Grasegger.<br />
Photo by Holly Morine<br />
Kain legacy captured<br />
By Greg Amos<br />
<strong>Pioneer</strong> Staff<br />
in historical fiction<br />
Leading up to the hundred-year<br />
anniversary of the 1913 first ascent of<br />
Mount Robson, the tallest peak in the<br />
Canadian Rockies, one Cranbrook writer<br />
is aiming to increase<br />
the public’s awareness of<br />
legendary mountaineer<br />
and former Wilmer<br />
resident Conrad Kain.<br />
“I’ve had so many<br />
people tell me they<br />
don’t like reading history,<br />
but they like this<br />
story,” said Keith Powell,<br />
the author of Raising<br />
Kain: the adventurous life<br />
of Conrad Kain, Canada’s greatest<br />
mountaineer. The self-published historical<br />
fiction novel, based on true stories<br />
from Kain’s exceptional life, came out in<br />
February and has recently eclipsed the<br />
1,000-copies-sold mark.<br />
Powell, also the publisher of Kootenay<br />
Business magazine and owner of<br />
Koocanusa Publications, said his goal in<br />
writing his second novel was to provide a<br />
window into Kain’s life.<br />
“I hope it’s a launching pad for<br />
people to discover more about him,” said<br />
Mr. Powell, who visited Kain’s birthplace<br />
in Nasswald, Austria and the Conrad<br />
Kain Hut in the Bugaboos during the<br />
book’s six-year writing process.<br />
Mr. Kain became the Alpine Club of<br />
Canada’s first official guide after coming<br />
to Canada, a move made in part to escape<br />
looming political clashes in<br />
Europe. He racked up 70<br />
first ascents in the Rockies,<br />
plus several in New Zealand.<br />
“He’s one of the<br />
Kootenays colourful characters;<br />
he was known for<br />
his humour, and was very<br />
conscious of safety in most<br />
cases,” said Mr. Powell.<br />
Keith Powell<br />
One anecdote covered<br />
in the book casts some doubt<br />
as to Mr. Kain’s respect for safety, during<br />
the making of a documentary being filmed<br />
by Mr. Kain and mountain photographer<br />
Byron Harmon, who was intent on capturing<br />
an action scene for his film.<br />
“They tried to blow up Jumbo Glacier<br />
with dynamite at one time,” explained<br />
Mr. Powell. “It went off early and just<br />
about killed them both.”<br />
Raising Kain includes 30 historical<br />
photos sourced from Banff’s Whyte Museum,<br />
including some that are being published<br />
for first time.
December 14, 2012 The <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> <strong>Pioneer</strong> • 17<br />
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - it all adds up!<br />
Holiday Recycling<br />
Electronics<br />
Recycling<br />
There is a new, permanent electronics recycling depot for<br />
the <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong>!<br />
Invermere Bottle Depot<br />
133 Industrial Rd. #2<br />
Phone: 250-342-7272<br />
Hours: Mon-Fri 9:00am-3:45pm<br />
Sat 10:00am-3:45pm<br />
They accept<br />
• Televisions<br />
• Computers & peripherals<br />
(keyboard, mouse)<br />
• Monitors<br />
• Fax machines<br />
• DVD/VHS players<br />
• Scanners<br />
• Stereos, MP3 players Discman<br />
• Earphones<br />
• Microphones<br />
• Telephones<br />
• Speakers<br />
• Radios<br />
• Cable, satellite and PVR boxes<br />
• Vehicle audio and video systems<br />
Batteries<br />
One of the items people seem to stock up on at this<br />
time of year is batteries. Both alkaline and rechargeable<br />
batteries are recyclable.<br />
The drop off location in the <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> is:<br />
Selkirk TV & Appliance, Invermere<br />
Glass Recycling<br />
Glass goes in the yellow bins marked GLASS ONLY.<br />
The ONLY glass accepted for recycling is container glass.<br />
That means jam jars, salsa jars, wine bottles, olive oil<br />
bottles, etc.<br />
NO other glass (including dishes or drinking glasses) is<br />
accepted. If in doubt, please leave it out.<br />
Glass bins are located at the <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> Landfill,<br />
Edgewater Post Office, Fairmont Transfer Station,<br />
Invermere Industrial Park, Invemere Bottle Depot, and<br />
Radium Liquor Store<br />
Recycling Basics<br />
Wrapping Paper - all paper based wrapping paper can be recycled in the yellow bins<br />
or Invermere’s blue bag program. Foil based papers cannot be recycled and should<br />
be thrown in the garbage if they can’t be saved and reused. Please consider paper<br />
based paper when purchasing gift wrap.<br />
Ribbons & Bows - cannot be recycled. They can be saved and reused. If they can no<br />
longer be reused, they go in the garbage.<br />
Aluminum Pie Plates & Roasters - cannot be recycled. They can be rinsed<br />
and reused. If they are not longer usable, they go in the garbage.<br />
Cardboard Boxes - all cardboard and boxboard (like cracker and cereal boxes)<br />
are recyclable. Please flatten them to conserve space in the bin or blue bag.<br />
Tin Cans - all tin food and beverage cans can be recycled. They must be rinsed out.<br />
Labels can be left on if they are difficult to remove.<br />
Styrofoam - Even though Styrofoam is marked with a #6, it is NOT recyclable in our program. It should go in the garbage if<br />
it can’t be reused.<br />
Plastics - all plastics with the triangular recycling symbol and the number between 1 and 6 (except Styrofoam) can be<br />
recycled in the yellow bins or Invermere’s blue bag program. They must be clean and every piece of plastic must be<br />
numbered. Lids often are a different type of plastic, and if there is no number on the item, it goes in the garbage if it<br />
can’t be reused.<br />
X7 Plastics Not Accepted:<br />
• #7 plastics, dirty plastics, plastics with no number. They go in the garbage if they can’t be reused.<br />
Holiday Hours<br />
COLUMBIA VALLEY LANDFILL<br />
December 24 9:00am-3:30pm<br />
December 25 Closed<br />
December 26 9:00am-6:00pm<br />
December 31 9:00am-3:30pm<br />
January 1 Closed<br />
All other days, the Landfill will be open from<br />
9:00am to 6:00pm.<br />
COLUMBIA VALLEY RDEK OFFICE<br />
The RDEK <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> Office is open<br />
Monday to Friday 8:30am to 4:30pm<br />
(closed 12pm to 1pm). During the holiday season, the<br />
only change to those regular hours is as follows:<br />
December 24 8:30am-3:00pm (closed 12pm-1pm)<br />
December 25 Closed<br />
December 26 Closed<br />
December 31 8:30am-3:00pm (closed 12pm-1pm)<br />
January 1 Closed<br />
For more information, contact the RDEK at 1-888-478-7335
18 • The <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> <strong>Pioneer</strong> December 14, 2012<br />
YOUR MONEY<br />
Should you charge an executor fee?<br />
Many Canadians will be the executor of an estate<br />
at some point in their life. This is because most people<br />
elect a family member such as a spouse or children as<br />
their executor. This is often a good fit, as a person’s family<br />
generally has a vested interest in their affairs and the well<br />
being of everyone else involved.<br />
During the course of settling a person’s estate, an<br />
executor can be faced with many important dilemmas.<br />
One of these choices is whether or not to charge an executor<br />
fee to the deceased’s estate.<br />
Before making any decisions, it’s important to be familiar<br />
with the scenarios in which an executor may or<br />
may not want to.<br />
Estate settling fees<br />
An estate may incur a number of fees and expenses<br />
during the settlement process, such as commissions on<br />
the sale of real estate, fees on investment transactions,<br />
probate fees, and minor administrative expenses. These<br />
fees are merely the cost of doing business for the estate<br />
and must be paid for by the estate.<br />
The executor also has the right to charge fees to the<br />
estate for their time, effort and skill. Sometimes, the executor’s<br />
fee is explicitly stated in the will. Other times, it<br />
is up to the discretion of the courts.<br />
Under British <strong>Columbia</strong> law, the executor may<br />
charge up to 5 per cent of the gross value of the estate,<br />
and five per cent of its income. When writing a will it is<br />
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The executor may also receive an annual care and<br />
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where the executor continues to act over a long period<br />
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Should I take a fee?<br />
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For example, imagine that a person is named the executor<br />
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December 14, 2012 The <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> <strong>Pioneer</strong> • 19<br />
. . . ‘Eagle’s Nest water’ continued from page 3<br />
When the project, with its new $1.64 million price<br />
tag, was put to a vote among property owners through<br />
an alternative approval process in July 2012, 66 per cent<br />
of residents with more than 50 per cent of the assessed<br />
property value rejected the idea.<br />
The challenges the village faces are compounded by<br />
a newly issued Interior Health order requiring the upgrades<br />
be completed by September 30th 2013, rather<br />
than the original date of January 2015. The order, issued<br />
on October 15th, was obtained after council requested it<br />
from Interior Health.<br />
Staff and council members had hoped that, with an<br />
Interior Health order in place, the provincial government<br />
would approve borrowing for the project. This<br />
would override the need for voter consent.<br />
notice of poWer interruption<br />
Windermere AreA<br />
Time: 9:00 am - 12:00 Noon<br />
When: Sunday, Dec 16th<br />
The move angered at least one property owner, who<br />
sent a letter of complaint to the village on December 10th.<br />
“This is merely an attempt by the Village of Canal<br />
Flats to go against the wishes of the property owners<br />
in the Eagle’s Nest Local Water Service Area,” said<br />
the letter, from 391043 Alberta Ltd, a development<br />
company principally owned by former Calgary Flames<br />
goaltender Mike Vernon, which constructed the 31-lot<br />
Painted Ridge subdivision.<br />
“This letter serves to notify you that this matter will<br />
be hotly contested should it go any further.”<br />
But the move to request an Interior Health order<br />
backfired on the municipality. When the order was sent<br />
to the B.C. Office of the Inspector of Municipalities, the<br />
village staff were informed the province would not support<br />
the borrowing without voter approval.<br />
We will be making electrical system improvements in the Windermere area on Dec 16th. To<br />
ensure the safety of our work crews, it will be necessary to interrupt electrical service for<br />
approximately 3 hours, from 9:00 am - 12:00 Noon.<br />
The area affected is from Hwy 93/95 S of North Street to Windermere Road, West to Wilmai Place,<br />
Nelles Crescent & Indian Beach. East on Windermere Loop Road to the end of the Windermere<br />
Golf Course. Kootenay #3 South to the intersection of Hwy 93/95<br />
To prepare for this interruption and protect your equipment from damage, please unplug all<br />
electronics, such as TVs, PVRs, DVD players and computers. Please also turn off all lights,<br />
electric heaters and major appliances, such as your clothes or dishwasher, dryer or oven.<br />
For the first hour after the power comes back on, please plug in or turn on only what you really<br />
need. This will help ensure the electrical system does not get overloaded.<br />
We are sorry for the inconvenience. We will restore your power as soon as we can.<br />
Prepare for outages and stay informed by visiting bchydro.com/outages or<br />
bchydro.com/mobile from your handheld device.<br />
Please call 1 888 POWERON(1 888 769 3766) if you experience any electrical difficulties or for<br />
more information.<br />
AD #<br />
3766<br />
This leaves Canal Flats with voters who will not<br />
approve the borrowing for the project, and a rapidly approaching<br />
deadline of September 30th, 2013 to complete<br />
upgrades, which it’s estimated will take six months.<br />
There is also a ticking clock on the $400,000 provincial<br />
grant, which expires in March 2013.<br />
The only option left for the Village of Canal Flats<br />
is to get property owners in Painted Ridge and Eagle’s<br />
Nest on their side to approve borrowing, then apply for<br />
Interior Health to extend the deadline to complete the<br />
project, Mr. Woodward said,<br />
“Council did send out a letter to all owners in November<br />
explaining everything,” he added. “They are<br />
also discussing a further consultation process ... Without<br />
a vote or second counter-petition process, we can’t<br />
move ahead.”<br />
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20 • The <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> <strong>Pioneer</strong> December 14, 2012<br />
Coats For Kids<br />
Coat drop off locations until December 20th at 12 p.m. are: Letters To Santa<br />
• CIBC, Mondays to Fridays<br />
10 a.m. - 4 p.m.<br />
• Monkeys Uncle Monday to<br />
Saturday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.<br />
and Sundays 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.<br />
• The new Hot Springs Studio<br />
in Fairmont<br />
• 443 Fourth Avenue near<br />
RONA, There will be a box<br />
outside for dropping off<br />
coats.<br />
• Please drop off coats in<br />
good condition and clean,<br />
thank you.<br />
Distribution will be on December 23rd, 2 p.m. -<br />
7 p.m. at the Invermere Legion and December<br />
27th 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. at the Hot Springs Studio.<br />
Contact Kristine Tan at 250-342-2033 for more<br />
information. Volunteers needed to help sort and<br />
distribute the coats.<br />
Great stocking stuffers!<br />
• European chocolates and candies<br />
• Bison, turkey and beef jerky<br />
• Holiday gift cards<br />
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Before sending their holiday greetings to the North Pole for Santa to read, the Kindergarten and<br />
Grade One students of Canal Flats’ Martin Morigeau Elementary shared their festive correspondence<br />
with The <strong>Pioneer</strong>:<br />
Der santa.<br />
Wen r u coming? I wont loop to loop<br />
hot weels tract<br />
from Elijah.<br />
Dr. Santa,<br />
I wod lik a t.v. And a cat in the hat<br />
toy.<br />
Luv Thomas<br />
Dr Santa<br />
How r the elvs wrken? Can I plez have<br />
a kity?<br />
From Trystan<br />
Dear Santa<br />
How is it going in the North Pole? May I<br />
Please have a Purpul furby and diapers<br />
for huggies that fit her and cloths for<br />
her too and can you get me some lego in<br />
my stocking and please get my mommy<br />
some more cloths. She wants more and<br />
are furbys scard of cats? In case your<br />
wondering I have a lot of stuffy kittys.<br />
Please let mommy and daddy have<br />
a great day at work every day. Do you<br />
have any pets?<br />
Love Slone.<br />
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From Dominic<br />
How r u doing Santa?<br />
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Aiden<br />
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Love Dylan<br />
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December 14, 2012 The <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> <strong>Pioneer</strong> • 21<br />
Der<br />
Santa,<br />
how are you dooing? How<br />
mene elfs doo you have? Wat<br />
is yorr elfs nams? I want a<br />
noo DS. Do you have ene pets?<br />
Love: Trinat y<br />
Der Santa<br />
I wondr wat all yor elves nams r? I wondr how<br />
fast yor sla gos? I love you so much Santa. I<br />
wondr how you do majik. Wat colr is yor randeer.<br />
Gud nit Santa<br />
Marguerite<br />
Dear Santa<br />
How long dus it tac to git heer? Can you git me a pupe and a noo<br />
bebe and four clring books. Can you git me a culring set and four<br />
stufees and noo scool supliss. Can you com heer to the chrismis<br />
consrt Santa?<br />
Love Emmy<br />
Der Santa<br />
I wundr wat your elfs<br />
nams are? I wont for<br />
crismis a barbe and a<br />
furbey. I hope you come<br />
to my house on crismis,<br />
Luve Carmynn.<br />
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COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS<br />
Sweet potatoes with<br />
caramel<br />
Ingredients<br />
• 4 large sweet potatoes<br />
• 2 tablespoons (30 ml) butter<br />
• ¼ cup (60 ml) pecans<br />
• 1 tablespoon (15 ml) brown sugar<br />
• 15 caramels<br />
• ¼ teaspoon (1 ml) salt<br />
• ¼ teaspoon Freshly ground pepper<br />
• ¼ C (60 ml) maple syrup<br />
Method<br />
1) Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C).<br />
2) Scrub sweet potatoes, prick with a fork and place<br />
potatoes in a baking dish or cookie sheet (with foil that<br />
has been sprayed with Pam).<br />
3) Cook for 45 minutes. Take out and cool a bit.<br />
4) Remove skin and cut potatoes in 1 inch slices.<br />
5) In a casserole dish sprayed with Pam, layer the<br />
potatoes slices, with sprinkled slivers of butter, pecans,<br />
brown sugar, caramel, salt and pepper. Top by pouring<br />
the maple syrup on top.<br />
6) Bake for another 30 minutes.<br />
Submitted by Lawanda Neilsen,<br />
Radium Hot Springs<br />
Shannonbrook<br />
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Recipes<br />
Pecan butter tarts<br />
Ingredients<br />
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• 1 cup liquid honey<br />
• 1 cup white sugar<br />
• 1/3 cup melted butter<br />
• 1 teaspoon vanilla<br />
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• 1 teaspoon lemon juice<br />
• 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg<br />
• 1/4 teaspoon salt<br />
• 1 cup pecan halves (coarsely chopped)<br />
• 24 large pastry shells (unbaked)<br />
Method<br />
1) In a large bowl, beat eggs until light and foamy.<br />
2) Beat in honey, sugar, melted butter, vanilla, lemon<br />
juice, nutmeg and salt.<br />
3)Fold in chopped pecans and fill the pastry shells<br />
almost to the top.<br />
4) Bake tarts for 10 minutes at 400°F (200°C),<br />
then reduce the heat to 325°F and continue baking for<br />
20-25 minutes.<br />
Submitted by Kim Collens,<br />
Royal LePage Rockies West Realty<br />
Ukrainian wheat salad<br />
Ingredients<br />
• 1 ½ cups wheat<br />
• 8 ounces Philadelphia cream cheese<br />
• 1 can drained crushed pineapple, 16-19 ounces<br />
• 2 teaspoons lemon juice<br />
• 1 large box vanilla instant pudding<br />
• 1 large tub Cool Whip<br />
Method<br />
1) Soak wheat in water for 4 to 5 hours.<br />
2) Cook in slow cooker with water for 5 to 6 hours.<br />
Do not boil. Keep adding water as needed, then drain,<br />
rinse and cool.<br />
3) Mix cream cheese, pineapple and lemon juice.<br />
4) Add vanilla instant pudding and wheat and mix.<br />
Add Cool Whip before serving.<br />
Submitted by Lucy Miller, Invermere
December 14, 2012 The <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> <strong>Pioneer</strong> • 23<br />
Cranberry scones<br />
Ingredients<br />
• 3/4 cup buttermilk or plain yogurt<br />
• 1 egg<br />
• 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour<br />
• 4 teaspoons baking powder<br />
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda<br />
• 1/2 teaspoon salt<br />
• 1/2 cup butter/margarine (room temperature)<br />
• 1 cup chopped cranberries (fresh or frozen)<br />
• 1/2 cup sugar<br />
• Rind of one orange, finely grated<br />
• 1 tablespoon melted butter<br />
• 1/4 cup icing sugar<br />
Method<br />
1) Preheat oven to 375°F (190°C).<br />
2) Beat buttermilk or yogurt and egg together<br />
in a small bowl and set aside.<br />
3) Mix together flour, baking powder, baking<br />
soda and salt in a large bowl.<br />
4) Add small cubes of butter to the flour mix.<br />
5) Rub the butter and flour mix together by<br />
hand until it resembles coarse breadcrumbs.<br />
6) Mix in cranberries, sugar and orange rind.<br />
7) Pour in buttermilk and egg mixture and<br />
stir until a soft dough forms.<br />
8) Use your hands to form a large ball of<br />
dough, then place onto a floured surface.<br />
9) Pat the dough down to one inch in thickness<br />
and cut into four-inch rounds.<br />
10) Place onto an ungreased baking sheet and<br />
bake for 15 to 20 minutes.<br />
11) While still warm, brush with melted butter<br />
and dust with icing sugar.<br />
Submitted by Kim Collens,<br />
Royal LePage Rockies West Realty<br />
Mulled wine<br />
Ingredients<br />
• 2 clementines<br />
• peel of 1 lemon & 1 lime<br />
• 1 cup sugar<br />
• 6 whole cloves<br />
• 1 cinnamon stick<br />
• 3 fresh bay leaves<br />
• 1 whole nutmeg<br />
• 1 whole vanilla pod, halved<br />
• 2 star anise<br />
• 2 bottles of red wine<br />
Method<br />
1) Put the sugar in a large saucepan over a<br />
medium heat, add chunks of lemon, lime and cle-<br />
mentine peel, plus the juice from the fruit.<br />
2) Add cloves, cinnamon, bay leaves, vanilla<br />
pod and about 10 gratings of nutmeg.<br />
3) Stir in just enough red wine to cover the<br />
sugar. Let this simmer until the sugar has completely<br />
dissolved and then bring to the boil.<br />
4) Boil until syrup thickens (4-5 minutes).<br />
5) Reduce heat to low and add your star anise<br />
and both bottles of wine.<br />
6) Gently heat wine for 5 minutes and serve.<br />
Submitted by Greg Amos, Invermere<br />
Turkey & ham pie<br />
Ingredients<br />
• 4 cups cooked turkey<br />
• 1 cup chopped ham (can substitute 1/2<br />
pack of bacon, chopped up and fried until crisp)<br />
• 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour<br />
• 1 large onion<br />
• 3/4 cup + 2 tbsp (200 ml) dry white wine<br />
• 3/4 cup + 2 tbsp (200 ml) chicken stock<br />
• 1/3 cup single cream<br />
• Mixed herbs<br />
• Salt and pepper<br />
• 1 sheet pre-made puff pastry<br />
• Small chunk of butter<br />
• Dash of olive oil<br />
Shortcrust pastry ingredients<br />
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour<br />
• 6 tablespoons butter (3/4 stick) - chilled<br />
• 6 tablespoons lard (3/4 stick) - chilled<br />
• 3 tablespoons cold water<br />
Method - pastry<br />
1) Sift 1 1/2 cups flour into a large glass bowl<br />
and add 6 tablespoons of chilled butter and 6 tablespoons<br />
of lard, cut into small chunks.<br />
2) Rub the butter, lard and flour mix together<br />
by hand until it resembles coarse breadcrumbs.<br />
3) Using a knife, stir in the cold water, a little<br />
at a time, until the mixture binds together.<br />
4) Wrap in saran wrap and chill for at least<br />
15 minutes before using.<br />
5) Roll out pastry and line a large, deep baking<br />
pan with pastry (a deep 8 inch by 8 inch pan<br />
is ideal - most pie dishes are too shallow). Cover<br />
with saran wrap and return to fridge until needed.<br />
Method - filling<br />
1) Pre-heat oven to 400°F (200°C)<br />
2) Mix 2 tablespoons flour with salt & pepper.<br />
3) Finely chop onion and fry with oil in a<br />
frying pan until translucent. Set aside.<br />
4) Heat butter in a large saucepan until melted<br />
and then add seasoned flour and cook over<br />
medium heat until flour paste is lightly browned<br />
and starts to crumble.<br />
5) Mix stock, wine and cream together in a<br />
jug and slowly add to flour, whisking thoroughly<br />
after each addition to avoid lumps.<br />
6) Bring to boil and allow to simmer until<br />
sauce thickens.<br />
7) Add chopped turkey, ham and cooked onions,<br />
plus seasoning and herbs and stir together.<br />
8) Place filling into lined pie dish and top<br />
with puff pastry, pinching the pastry edges together<br />
to prevent the filling bubbling out.<br />
9) Place into oven and immediately reduce<br />
heat to 350°F (175°C). Cook for 45 minutes.<br />
Submitted by Kate Irwin, Fairmont Hot Springs<br />
Festive fudge<br />
Ingredients<br />
• 1 pound granulated sugar (3 1/3 cups)<br />
• 1 cup double cream (300 ml)<br />
• 4 tablespoons butter (50g)<br />
• 3 tablespoons water<br />
• 1/2 cup milk (150 ml)<br />
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract<br />
• 1 package dried cranberries<br />
• 1/2 cup chopped nuts (optional)<br />
Method<br />
1) Take one large, heavy-bottomed saucepan,<br />
pour all ingredients inside and place over<br />
a low heat, stirring until the sugar has dissolved.<br />
2) Once the mixture is smooth, with no grittiness<br />
from the sugar, increase heat to medium.<br />
3) Slowly heat, stirring often, until the sugary<br />
syrup reaches a gentle boil.<br />
4) Allow to boil, stirring very occasionally,<br />
until the mixture reaches 234 to 241 °F (112 to<br />
116 °C). A sugar thermometer is key to precisely<br />
measure the temperature, a very important part<br />
of making fudge. Do not leave the pan unattended,<br />
as the temperature will very sharply rise<br />
toward the end of the cooking process.<br />
5) As soon as the mixture reaches the soft<br />
ball stage (234 - 241 °F), remove the pan from<br />
the heat and set aside to cool. Do not stir at all at<br />
this time or your fudge will be grainy.<br />
6) Once the pan’s contents have cooled to<br />
175 °F (80 °C), add cranberries and nuts and<br />
beat contents with a wooden spoon until the<br />
mixture loses its shine and starts to thicken.<br />
7) Pour into greased heatproof container and<br />
set aside to slowly cool. Do not attempt to cool<br />
the mixture too quickly or the fudge will be grainy.<br />
8) Leave to set overnight.<br />
Submitted by Anne Picton, Windermere
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PIONEER ON THE ROAD
December 14, 2012 The <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> <strong>Pioneer</strong> • 25<br />
PIONEER ON THE ROAD<br />
Wordly wanderers<br />
It’s the final countdown to<br />
submit your travel photos for The<br />
<strong>Pioneer</strong>’s annual Travel Contest,<br />
which draws to a close at the end of<br />
this month. Send in your high resolution<br />
images to info@cv-pioneer.<br />
com by midnight on December 31st<br />
for your chance to win two tickets to<br />
a Calgary Flames game, plus overnight<br />
accommodation in Calgary,<br />
courtesy of Invermere Travel World.<br />
The winners will be announced in<br />
our January 5th edition.<br />
Opposite page, clockwise from<br />
top left: Jose and Felicitas Hidalgo,<br />
from Fairmont Hot Springs, and<br />
their grandson Dagwood Casavant,<br />
of Canal Flats, display The <strong>Pioneer</strong><br />
in front of The Big Cedar Stump in<br />
Seattle, Washington; Rob & Karen<br />
Bedford of Radium Hot Springs in<br />
Casablanca, Morocco; Glen ‘Finn’<br />
Findlay tends the water bladders<br />
at a wildfire up Nine Mile Creek<br />
(between Canal Flats and White<br />
Swan Lake); Ron and Carol-Anne<br />
Zawalykut in the ‘White Village’ of<br />
Frigiliana, Spain.<br />
This page, top left: friends converge<br />
at Sylvia and George McLean’s<br />
farm in Edgewater to celebrate a<br />
pioneer weekend. Back row, left to<br />
right: Ron Schnider, Eric Godlien,<br />
Brian Dahl, John Carson, Lorne<br />
Hansen, Ben Schnider and George<br />
McLean. Front row, left to right:<br />
George Schuck, Lynda Schuck,<br />
Vivian Carson, Ann Burnett, Pat<br />
Godlien, Jan Schnider, Gunnar<br />
Malberg, Doris Hansen, Sylvia<br />
McLean, Sharon Dahl and Shirley<br />
Malberg. Above: Lawrie and<br />
Diane Mack of Invermere outside<br />
the Chateau de Biron in southwest<br />
France; Irene Hogan, Bonita and<br />
Harry Hogan, and Roxane Larrabee<br />
(left to right) enjoy a family trip<br />
to Waikiki, Oahu.
26 • The <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> <strong>Pioneer</strong> December 14, 2012<br />
• Copper City Saloon<br />
• Radium Hot Springs Pools<br />
• Brisco Store<br />
• Rick Ruault<br />
• Kirsten Feldmann<br />
• Pete Feldmann<br />
• Krista Horn<br />
• Karel Wood<br />
• Clayton Mattson<br />
• Diane Mattson<br />
• Marlies Kuechler<br />
• RONA<br />
• Kathleen Campbell<br />
• Brooke Tegart<br />
Brisco Riding Club<br />
would like to thank all our<br />
donators of this year’s auction!<br />
Congratulations to all our<br />
winners and to all who make<br />
the club possible.<br />
DONATORS<br />
• Blaine & Amanda Jopp<br />
• Mitch & Kerry Jopp<br />
• Shelley Black<br />
• Black Wolf Photography<br />
• Stoddart Creek Stables<br />
• Bob & Claudia Mitchell<br />
• Brent & Tanya Dubois<br />
• Wayne Price<br />
• Mardi Hayton<br />
• Ruault Mechanical<br />
• Town & Country<br />
Feed Store<br />
• Elk Park Ranch<br />
• Darryl Goldsmith<br />
Super G shredders<br />
A field of 76 skiers competed in the Federation Internationale<br />
de Ski (FIS) Ladies’ Super G Nor-Am Cup Race at<br />
Panorama Mountain Village on Monday, December 10th,<br />
where skiers blasted through a short course on soft snow.<br />
Clockwise from top left: Austria’s Hannah Sugerman carves<br />
through the upper gates; American Lila Lapanja balances<br />
on an edge while rounding a steep corner; American Katharine<br />
Irwin blasts through the course en route to a sixth place<br />
finish; Slovenia’s Ana Kobal stands atop the podium with a<br />
time of 57.71 seconds, ahead of runner-up Brooke Wales of<br />
the United States and third-place finishers Abby Ghent and<br />
Anna Marno of the United States and Mikaela Tommy of<br />
Quebec, who all tied with a time of 58.45 seconds; Canada’s<br />
Hannah Melinchuk throws up a spray of snow while leaning<br />
into a corner. Photos by Greg Amos; podium photo submitted<br />
by Kevin Sweeney / University of Utah.
December 14, 2012 The <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> <strong>Pioneer</strong> • 27<br />
SAVVY STICKHANDLER — Wilmer’s Alexis Westergaard has scored five hat tricks for the<br />
Banff Hockey Academy while only halfway through the season. Photo Kristian Rasmussen.<br />
Teen leads league<br />
By Kristian Rasmussen<br />
<strong>Pioneer</strong> Staff<br />
Since donning her jersey for the<br />
Banff Hockey Academy’s Women’s Varsity<br />
Team, a Wilmer teen has skated her<br />
way into stardom.<br />
Alexis Westergaard, who just turned<br />
16, is currently the top point scorer in<br />
the Alberta Junior Female Hockey League<br />
with 26 goals and 14 assists for 40 points at<br />
the halfway mark of the 32-game season.<br />
As the youngest member of her team<br />
she was also elected captain by her teammates<br />
for the 2012-2013 season.<br />
“I love pretty much everything about<br />
the game,” she said. “I like the fact that it<br />
is a team sport and you are out there just<br />
for hockey, and you don’t have to worry<br />
about anything else.”<br />
Born in Yellowknife and having<br />
grown up in the <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong>, Alexis<br />
was accepted into the prestigious Banff<br />
Hockey Academy varsity program last<br />
year. She was scouted by a recruiter from<br />
the academy while she was playing for<br />
the Invermere Midget Devils during their<br />
provincial tournament last year.<br />
The academy specializes in developing<br />
hockey players from around the globe<br />
both academically and through sport for<br />
post secondary scholarship opportunities.<br />
Alexis’ team is made up of players from<br />
across Canada, Slovakia and Japan.<br />
“It was tough to let her go at the age<br />
of 14,” said Kim Westergaard, Alexis’ mom.<br />
“We dealt with the pros and cons of staying<br />
here and playing hockey here, and the pros<br />
and cons of going there, and left it up to her<br />
to decide. It has been the best decision.”<br />
Alexis lives in residence in Banff with<br />
her teammates and must balance her academic<br />
life with five practices per week and<br />
a series of games leading up until the end<br />
of April.<br />
“It is like your family when you live<br />
there because everyone is away from<br />
home and they definitely make your time<br />
easier,” she added. “We live in the same<br />
house, go to school together, and the rink<br />
together. At the beginning it was hard,<br />
but everyone gets along now.”<br />
Overcoming challenges has been a<br />
constant in the hockey star’s life as she<br />
is usually playing against girls older and<br />
more experienced than she is.<br />
“I just try to not think about it and<br />
concentrate on things that I can be doing<br />
to either stop them or help our team.”<br />
Although hockey remains her priority,<br />
Alexis is hoping to slapshot her way<br />
into an education in physiotherapy at<br />
Minnesota’s St. Cloud State University<br />
within the next few years.<br />
RDEK Public Hearing Notices<br />
Bylaw 2417 & 2418<br />
Bylaw Amendment - Lake Windermere<br />
The Regional District of East Kootenay (RDEK) Board of Directors is considering an amendment to the<br />
Upper <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> Zoning Bylaw and the Lake Windermere Official Community Plan.<br />
Bylaw No. 2417 cited as “Regional District of East Kootenay – Upper <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> Zoning Bylaw<br />
No. 900, 1992 – Amendment Bylaw No. 277, 2012, (LWMP Implementation / RDEK)” will include six<br />
new surface water zones and corresponding definitions and regulations for Lake Windermere.<br />
Bylaw No. 2418 cited as “Regional District of East Kootenay – Lake Windermere Official Community<br />
Plan Bylaw No. 2061, 2008 – Amendment Bylaw No. 13, 2012, (LWMP Implementation / RDEK)” will<br />
include a new shoreline development permit area and amend the policies for Lake Windermere.<br />
A public hearing will be held at: Windermere Community Hall<br />
4726 North Street<br />
Windermere, BC<br />
Thursday, December 27, 2012 at 7:00 pm<br />
The Board has delegated the holding of this hearing to the Directors for Electoral Area F, Electoral Area G<br />
and the District of Invermere.<br />
If you believe that your interest in property is affected by the proposed Bylaw, you may prior to the<br />
hearing:<br />
• inspect the Bylaw and supporting information at the RDEK office in Cranbrook from 8:30 am to<br />
4:30 pm Monday through Friday, excluding statutory holidays;<br />
• mail, fax or email written submissions to the addresses/numbers shown below; or<br />
• present written and/or verbal submissions at the hearing.<br />
Submissions cannot be accepted after the public hearing.<br />
All written submissions are public information pursuant to the Freedom of Information and Protection<br />
of Privacy Act.<br />
This notice is not an interpretation of the Bylaw. For more information, contact Karen MacLeod,<br />
Planner, at 250-489-0313, or toll free at 1-888-478-7335.<br />
Bylaw 2423<br />
Bylaw Amendment - <strong>Columbia</strong> Lake<br />
The Regional District of East Kootenay (RDEK) Board of Directors is considering an amendment to the<br />
Upper <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> Zoning Bylaw.<br />
Bylaw No. 2423 cited as “Regional District of East Kootenay – Upper <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> Zoning Bylaw No.<br />
900, 1992 – Amendment Bylaw No. 278, 2012 (<strong>Columbia</strong> Lake / RDEK)” will amend the surface water<br />
zones for <strong>Columbia</strong> Lake.<br />
A public hearing will be held at: <strong>Columbia</strong> Ridge Community Centre<br />
6890 <strong>Columbia</strong> Lake Road<br />
Fairmont Hot Springs, BC<br />
Thursday, December 27, 2012 at 4:00 pm<br />
The Board has delegated the holding of this hearing to the Directors for Electoral Area F, Electoral Area G<br />
and the Village of Canal Flats.<br />
If you believe that your interest in property is affected by the proposed Bylaw, you may prior to the<br />
hearing:<br />
• inspect the Bylaw and supporting information at the RDEK office in Cranbrook from 8:30 am to<br />
4:30 pm Monday through Friday, excluding statutory holidays;<br />
• mail, fax or email written submissions to the addresses/numbers shown below; or<br />
• present written and/or verbal submissions at the hearing.<br />
Submissions cannot be accepted after the public hearing.<br />
All written submissions are public information pursuant to the Freedom of Information and Protection<br />
of Privacy Act.<br />
This notice is not an interpretation of the Bylaw. For more information, contact Karen MacLeod,<br />
Planner, at 250-489-0313, or toll free at 1-888-478-7335.<br />
19 - 24th Avenue South, Cranbrook BC V1C 3H8<br />
Phone: 250-489-2791 Toll Free: 1-888-478-7335<br />
Email: info@rdek.bc.ca Website: www.rdek.bc.ca
28 • The <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> <strong>Pioneer</strong> December 14, 2012<br />
WATER WORKS — Water management at the community level is changing significantly as<br />
governments decrease their levels of involvement, explained speaker Dr. Anna Warwick-Sears to<br />
guests at a Lake Windermere Ambassadors talk on December 10th. Photo by Greg Amos<br />
Water issues weighed<br />
By Greg Amos<br />
<strong>Pioneer</strong> Staff<br />
The <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> has a long way<br />
to go before reaching the levels of water<br />
stress faced in the Okanagan <strong>Valley</strong>, but<br />
there are issues here to address.<br />
This was one topic of discussion<br />
amongst the roughly 30 people in attendance<br />
at a watershed talk hosted by<br />
the Lake Windermere Ambassadors at<br />
Copper Point Resort on Monday night,<br />
December 10th.<br />
“In the Okanagan, we’ve been really<br />
good at identifying what our water issues<br />
are,” said guest speaker Dr. Anna Warwick-Sears,<br />
who is the executive director<br />
of the Okanagan Basin Water Board.<br />
Local water issues identified through<br />
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discussion at the talk included the declining<br />
water level of Lake Windermere,<br />
the increasing populations of bass and<br />
dropping numbers of burbot and rainbow<br />
trout in the lake, the need to protect<br />
tributaries and upland water sources, and<br />
preserving foreshore access.<br />
“Illegal dock building is rampant<br />
across the interior of B.C.,” Mrs. Warwick-Sears<br />
said. “If this is something you<br />
care about, it’s a good thing to focus on.”<br />
The Okanagan region spends<br />
$500,000 each year to manage Eurasian<br />
watermilfoil, a weed that’s yet to appear in<br />
Lake Windermere, she added. Irrigation<br />
demands of residential yards, parks, golf<br />
courses and agriculture in the Okanagan<br />
account for 85 per cent of the water used in<br />
that region, attendees heard.<br />
Cell: (250) 270-0666<br />
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Fax: 866-600-0673<br />
Invermere’s Happy Hands knitting group present their year’s worth of production<br />
of blankets, mitts, toques and slippers, which will be donated to the Family Resource<br />
Centre and other local causes. The women meet every Wednesday afternoon throughout<br />
the year at <strong>Columbia</strong> Garden Village, and the group has been doing its good work for a<br />
decade. Pictured, left to right: Debbie Clarke, Alice Stewart, Irene La Rochelle, Maryann<br />
Bergen, Audrey Osterloh, Elsie Hemmelgarn, Thelma Hindley, Doris Langerud,<br />
and Olga Hynes. Photo by Greg Amos<br />
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Cougar kills sheep in Radium<br />
By <strong>Pioneer</strong> Staff<br />
A young bighorn sheep has been<br />
killed by a female cougar with two<br />
cubs in tow in Radium Hot Springs<br />
during the early morning hours of December<br />
10th.<br />
Residents are being cautioned by<br />
Village of Radium Hot Springs staff to<br />
avoid confrontation with the animal<br />
and to leave room for it to escape.<br />
If you encounter the big cat,<br />
slowly back away from it, without any<br />
sudden movements. Avoid getting between<br />
the mother and its cubs.<br />
Anyone encountering the cougar,<br />
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December 14, 2012 The <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> <strong>Pioneer</strong> • 29<br />
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30 • The <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> <strong>Pioneer</strong> December 14, 2012<br />
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Andy Charette<br />
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32 • The <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> <strong>Pioneer</strong> December 14, 2012<br />
Toddler fights for life with each breath<br />
By Kristian Rasmussen<br />
<strong>Pioneer</strong> Staff<br />
A former Canal Flats couple has spent the past two<br />
years holding their breath as they await the day their infant<br />
daughter will be able to breathe freely.<br />
Two-year-old Zoey Sagar-Massie was born with Jeune<br />
Syndrome, a rare bone growth disorder that’s left her with<br />
a shortened rib cage that won’t allow her lungs to properly<br />
inhale and exhale.<br />
The family has learned that Zoey’s oxygen-starved<br />
lungs may finally get the life saving treatment they<br />
need on June 2013 at Nationwide Children’s Hospital<br />
in Columbus, Ohio.<br />
“It’s very nerve-wracking and exciting all at the<br />
same time that one day she will live a normal life,”<br />
said her mother, Shaylene Sagar. “Until that day, we<br />
live life day by day.”<br />
Shaylene and her partner Glen Massie must brave the<br />
odds for their daughter when she undergoes a lateral thoracic<br />
expansion surgery to enlarge her rib cage. Zoey will<br />
have her ribs separated and expanded with titanium struts<br />
— a procedure that comes with a 50 per cent chance of<br />
survival. If the surgery is successful, Zoey’s ribs will begin<br />
to grow on their own.<br />
Only 125 cases of Jeune Syndrome have been documented<br />
since 1955. The primary surgery available for patients<br />
in Canada is known as the vector procedure, which<br />
would require Zoey to undergo 28 consecutive operations,<br />
each with only a 50 per cent chance of survival,<br />
Shaylene added.<br />
Although there is a light for them on the horizon,<br />
the family has battled the darkest of times together,<br />
which began in November 2010 when a six pound, 14<br />
ounce Zoey arrived by cesarean-section in East Kootenay<br />
Regional Hospital.<br />
“She was as normal as a normal baby could be,” Shaylene<br />
said. “Nothing was different about her at all. She was<br />
just a beautiful baby girl.”<br />
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The joy of holding their healthy little girl was shortlived<br />
as signs of danger slowly began appearing. Zoey began<br />
making small grunting sounds when breathing — a<br />
fact that worried the hospital’s pediatrician.<br />
X-rays showed her chest had a distinct bell shape, and<br />
Zoey soon wound up in the neonatal intensive care unit<br />
at BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver. She was initially<br />
diagnosed with a mild case of Jeune Syndrome, and the<br />
family returned home to Canal Flats that December.<br />
In May 2010, her condition took a turn for the worse.<br />
While grocery shopping with her mother and grandmother,<br />
Zoey became agitated, vomited and started choking.<br />
“It was the scariest time of my life,” Shaylene said.<br />
“That moment put a picture in my head that both my<br />
grandma and I will never forget. We didn’t even get out<br />
of the parking lot and she had turned blue, tensed up and<br />
then turned very pale and went limp.”<br />
The two women immediately called 911 and rushed<br />
home to put the infant on her oxygen machine. Shaylene<br />
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performed chest compressions on her daughter, which revived<br />
her momentarily to a non-responsive state. A twonight<br />
hospital stay in Invermere returned her to her regular<br />
state, but it was only a warning of danger that would<br />
repeatedly attempt to choke the life from the young girl in<br />
the months to come.<br />
In June, Zoey began to require more oxygen, and one<br />
morning she could hardly breathe.<br />
Despite a 15 litres per minute flow of oxygen, Zoey<br />
wasn’t able to take in enough air, and was flown by STARS<br />
Air Ambulance to Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary,<br />
where she would spend the next several months.<br />
In September, she had what doctors refer to as a<br />
“death spell.”<br />
“I closed my eyes for not even five minutes and alarms<br />
were ringing and Zoey’s oxygen levels began to drop rapidly,”<br />
said Shaylene. “When I say rapidly, I mean 100-70-<br />
50-20-10 then zero in a matter of two minutes. The room<br />
was full of people and I couldn’t see Zoey, I could just hear<br />
the respiratory therapists saying they couldn’t get any air<br />
into her lungs and then the doctor saying there was no air<br />
going into her lungs.”<br />
The medical staff decided to paralyze young Zoey by<br />
injection so that she could receive much needed oxygen.<br />
Although she was able to breath again, Zoey would suffer<br />
five more death spells over the next five days — a symptom<br />
of what was later discovered to be abnormally high<br />
blood pressure in the arteries of Zoey’s lungs.<br />
After much debate, in September 2011 her parents<br />
allowed doctors to carry out a tracheostomy to attach<br />
a dedicated breathing tube to Zoey’s neck, but it hasn’t<br />
dampened the youngster’s spirit.<br />
“Even with all she’s been dealt, she wakes up every<br />
morning and goes through her day smiling, playing and<br />
laughing, and goes to bed every night with a smile on her<br />
face! I am very blessed that I am the lady she calls Mom.”<br />
Donations to help the family obtain Zoey’s life-saving<br />
surgery can be made through the Invermere and Radium<br />
Kootenay Savings Credit Union branches.<br />
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December 14, 2012 The <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> <strong>Pioneer</strong> • 33<br />
<strong>Pioneer</strong> Classifieds<br />
s In MeMorIaM s<br />
CeCil Reid<br />
december 18, 2009<br />
No One Knows<br />
They say there is a reason,<br />
they say that time will heal.<br />
But neither time nor reason,<br />
will change the way we feel.<br />
For no one knows the heartache,<br />
that lies behind our smiles.<br />
No one knows how many times,<br />
we’ve broken down and cried.<br />
We want to tell you something,<br />
so there won’t be any doubt.<br />
You’re so wonderful to think of,<br />
but so hard to be without.<br />
Love from your wife,<br />
Margaret and family.<br />
ANNOUNCEMENT<br />
There are at least two things<br />
that can’t be produced overseas,<br />
boxed, and put on store shelves at<br />
Christmas. One is the spirit of peace<br />
and goodwill. The other is the real,<br />
live Christmas tree. Have a merry<br />
“Real Tree” Christmas.<br />
Alcoholics Anonymous. If alcohol<br />
is causing problems or conflict in<br />
your life, AA can help. All meetings<br />
are at 8 p.m. For more information,<br />
please call 250-342-2424.<br />
<strong>Columbia</strong> United AA, Invermere:<br />
Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday (closed),<br />
and Wednesday at the BC Service<br />
Building, South End – 624 4th<br />
St., Invermere. Radium Friendship<br />
Group: Friday at the Catholic<br />
Church, East Side of Main St.<br />
With the exception of Tuesday, all<br />
meetings are open.<br />
s In MeMorIaM s<br />
Gerald (Gerry)<br />
Wayne Miller<br />
June 3 rd , 1940 -<br />
December 14 th , 2010<br />
Cherished always<br />
and loved forever.<br />
It has been two years since our dear Ger passed<br />
away. We know that he is our guardian angel<br />
giving us strength to deal with the sad times and<br />
bringing the joy to celebrate the happy times.<br />
Our Ger is ever present in our hearts and his<br />
legacy of love continues to guide us.<br />
With deep love and fond memories,<br />
Bendina, Barb, Mike, Cole and Adam, Pam,<br />
Chris and Sam along with our extended family<br />
N E WSP A P E R<br />
ANNOUNCEMENT<br />
Windy Café . . .<br />
is now open for lunch from 11:30<br />
a.m - 2:30 p.m. and dinner as<br />
always from 5 - 9 p.m. Enjoy 10%<br />
off all orders.<br />
Al-Anon. Are you concerned<br />
about or affected by someone<br />
else’s drinking? If so, please join<br />
us. Al-Anon meets EVERY Monday<br />
in Invermere at 7:15 p.m. at<br />
the Canadian Martyrs Catholic<br />
Church, 712 – 12th Ave (behind<br />
the Invermere hospital). For<br />
information, please call 250-342-<br />
8255.<br />
Narcotics Anonymous meeting now<br />
available. Thursdays at 8 p.m. Call<br />
250-342-1071 for more info.<br />
gArAgE sAlE<br />
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ChEErs & jEErs<br />
Cheers to the owners and staff at<br />
Home Hardware and AG <strong>Valley</strong><br />
foods. Their part in the Table Top<br />
Christmas trees is huge! The Elf.<br />
Cheers to Cooper for his dedication<br />
to the Rockies Atoms hockey team.<br />
We appreciate your help, especially<br />
showing up every week at 6 a.m!<br />
ChEErs & jEErs<br />
Cheers to Mel at BMO for going<br />
above and beyond. If only the<br />
people who worked in banks in<br />
Australia were as nice! Thank you.<br />
Adam.<br />
Cheers to Peter P. for being such<br />
a good neighbour and making<br />
Christmas special for us. G & P.<br />
Jeers to people who insist on<br />
parking in the disabled spots in<br />
front of the post office because they<br />
are only going to be “5 minutes.”<br />
Cheers to those who remind these<br />
offenders of their wrong doing<br />
even when the offenders become<br />
rude!<br />
Cheers to my left side. Thank you<br />
for the incredible annual birthday<br />
bash. I loved it! From, Strong side.<br />
Cheers to the couple who stopped<br />
to help my kids and me when our<br />
truck died down on December 4th.<br />
Thank you so much and have a<br />
merry Christmas!<br />
Jeers to $8.40 cauliflower. Shop<br />
local? I could have had almost a<br />
meal out for that much!<br />
Cheers to Fairmont Hot Springs<br />
Resort for such a wonderful holiday<br />
party. Also, cheers to all of the staff<br />
who worked and volunteered so<br />
the rest of us could party! It’s an<br />
honor to work with such incredible<br />
people.<br />
Jeers to the local business who<br />
left my pregnant fiancée and me<br />
standing on the curbside for over<br />
2 hours.<br />
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ChEErs & jEErs<br />
Cheers the Monkey’s Uncle for<br />
making sure that a very sweet<br />
little girl got her Calico Critter<br />
Hedgehogs after a playful golden<br />
retriever chewed hers up. That<br />
is why I shop local. Outstanding<br />
service!<br />
Cheers to all the businesses that<br />
supported the recent Winter<br />
Marketing Event in Calgary.<br />
Working together is the secret to<br />
our success.<br />
Cheers to Josh and Vic for ensuring<br />
we all made it home safely. Much<br />
appreciated. Happy Holidays! T.H.<br />
Cheers to the N driver who didn’t<br />
yield at the yield sign. You gave me<br />
the excuse to test my winter tires.<br />
Yep, they’re still good. Are you glad<br />
now?<br />
Cheers to Darlene C. for a great girl’s<br />
weekend!<br />
Jeers to whoever decided it is<br />
okay to outsource all of our jobs<br />
to people from other countries.<br />
Nothing against them, but locals<br />
should have first, second and third<br />
crack at those jobs. Homeless In<br />
Invermere.<br />
Jeers to those who destroyed Camp<br />
12. If you had enough times to<br />
chainsaw a structure into pieces<br />
then you had enough time to clean<br />
it up and take it away. Your actions<br />
are not doing the bush any favours.<br />
Cheers for Nick Berzins and also the<br />
CVCC! You speak for an enormous<br />
silent and disappointed majority.<br />
ChEErs & jEErs<br />
Cheers to Dee Conklin and the<br />
town council members for working<br />
so hard to bring Canfor back to<br />
Radium and all those families who<br />
will now have a more abundant<br />
and happier Christmas. I hear there<br />
are fewer food hamper applications<br />
this year, and thanks goes to Dee<br />
and her efforts!<br />
Cheers to Dale at Canadian Tire.<br />
You have superb customer service<br />
skills and you always go above<br />
and beyond to help me. It is much<br />
appreciated. CB<br />
Double jeers to those responsible<br />
for unionizing the library. What’s<br />
next, the Food Bank and the<br />
Christmas Bureau?<br />
Cheers to people for shopping<br />
wherever the heck they want. It’s a<br />
free country! We’re allowed.<br />
Cheers to the flu. A great weight<br />
loss program and just in time for<br />
Christmas!<br />
Cheers to our Rockies for coming<br />
out to skate with the kids last<br />
Saturday. My daughter was thrilled<br />
to skate with real hockey players<br />
and your interactions with the kids<br />
made for lots of smiles.<br />
Cheers to the greatest husband!<br />
You make me so happy! Let the<br />
birthday week continue.<br />
Cheers to the Rockies hockey<br />
players who showed up at the<br />
Skate with Santa event at the arena<br />
on Saturday. Very classy! The kids<br />
loved it, and so did I. Santa Claus.<br />
NOTiCe OF HOlidAY deAdliNeS & ClOSURe<br />
We wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.<br />
The advertising deadline for the december 21st issue is 12 noon, Monday, december 17th; Classifi eds are<br />
12 noon Tuesday, december 18th. The advertising deadline for december 28th is 12 noon, Wednesday, december<br />
19th; Classifi eds are 12 noon, Thursday, december 20th. Please note that the <strong>Pioneer</strong> offi ce will be closed<br />
from Saturday, december 22 nd until Sunday december 30th. Opening 8:30 a.m. december 31st.
34 • The <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> <strong>Pioneer</strong> December 14, 2012<br />
cheers & jeers<br />
A great big cheers to the staff of The<br />
<strong>Pioneer</strong> for their amazing Christmas<br />
songs mix tape! Who doesn’t like a<br />
good mix tape! Thanks everyone!<br />
Cheers to CBC Radio for your 24hour,<br />
7-days-a-week, “This is That”<br />
programming.<br />
Cheers to all those individuals who<br />
can tune out the outside world<br />
drama and think for themselves,<br />
sanely. The gift of life to us is<br />
having the choice to chose our state<br />
of mind constantly which in turn<br />
creates our state of being and our<br />
experience of life.<br />
Cheers to everyone! You’ve given<br />
us the contrast to reality with your<br />
focus on ageing, dying, and death.<br />
Now, what you can do with eternal<br />
youth, living now, and being<br />
present with life as it emerges in<br />
and from you and unfolds as love,<br />
joy, and thoughts of absolute wellbeing.<br />
Cheers to the lady who has the guts<br />
to let her dog run freely and chase<br />
deer, and ignores other people who<br />
chastise and threaten her.<br />
Cheers to the Rockies who showed<br />
up to our Skate with Santa. The kids<br />
really enjoyed it. You really do rock!<br />
Sobeys.<br />
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commercial space<br />
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to female roomie. Ideal for working<br />
professional. Located in Westside<br />
Park, Invermere. Clean house with<br />
W/D, internet, storage. Utilities<br />
included. Call for a view. 250-341-<br />
5192.<br />
Downtown Invermere by the Lake:<br />
groovy 4 + bedroom, 3-bath<br />
home, fully furnished. Very healthminded<br />
roomies looking for two<br />
more to share a cozy cottage.<br />
Bunkroom available for 1 person,<br />
$450 utilities included. N/S, N/P.<br />
Phone or text 250-342-5937.<br />
sUite For rent<br />
Near Invermere: 1-bdrm upperlevel<br />
suite situated on an acreage.<br />
Private, with beautiful views<br />
overlooking the lake and Rockies.<br />
D/W and great wood stove for<br />
cozy heat. $750 month. References<br />
please. 250-342-3790.<br />
2-bdrm, 2-bath near Kinsmen<br />
beach. Walk to downtown. Fully<br />
furnished, 6 appliances, $1,000/<br />
month includes utilities. N/S, N/P.<br />
250-342-8787.<br />
Invermere: brand-new 2-bdrm,<br />
1-bath, fully-furnished basement<br />
suite with private entrance. 6<br />
appliances, N/P, N/S. $1,250/<br />
month, utilities included. $625<br />
D.D. References required. Available<br />
immediately. 250-342-7323.<br />
sUite For rent<br />
Radium: modern 2-bdrm, lowerlevel<br />
suite. W/D, D/W. $850/month,<br />
utilities included. 250-342-3790.<br />
Radium: 2-bdrm apartment, F/S,<br />
W/D, dishwasher, real fireplace.<br />
$850/month, utilities included.<br />
250-347-6420 or 250-688-1582.<br />
CARRIAGE COURT APARTMENTS!<br />
Conveniently located behind<br />
Sobeys within walking distance<br />
to downtown. 2-bdrm townhouse<br />
units, outside entrance. Sliding<br />
glass doors open onto balcony,<br />
overlooking private courtyard.<br />
Fireplace and W/D included in each<br />
unit. Long-term preferred, N/P.<br />
Utilities not included. $750/month.<br />
Available immediately. 250-270-<br />
0729.<br />
2-bdrm (upper floor) deluxe<br />
apartment. Available immediately<br />
for long-term rental in Canal Flats.<br />
Newly renovated, fridge, stove,<br />
W/D, perfect for couples or 2<br />
roommates, N/P, N/S. $650/month<br />
+ utilities + D.D. Call after 6 p.m.<br />
250-342-3345.<br />
2-bdrm apartment, close to<br />
downtown Invermere. Fully<br />
furnished, balcony, shared laundry,<br />
N/S, pets negotiable, storage space<br />
available. $850/month, utilities<br />
included. Available immediately.<br />
250-426-5454.<br />
Radium: 2-Bdrm, 1 bath, shared<br />
laundry/large back yard. $600/<br />
month, D.D. + hydro. 250-347-<br />
9970.<br />
Large, renovated 2-bdrm suite<br />
close to schools. Large yard, insuite<br />
laundry. $650/month +<br />
utilities. 18thstrental@gmail.com .<br />
Beautiful, 1,200 sq. ft. luxury<br />
apartment. Must be seen! 2-bdrm,<br />
2-bath, 5 appliances, N/S, N/P.<br />
$1,000/month + hydro and<br />
utilities. References required.<br />
Available immediately. Email<br />
panacheinteriors@telus.net or 250-<br />
342-5805.<br />
Lovely 1-bdrm suite in Windermere.<br />
Unfurnished, extra storage. N/P,<br />
N/S, long term. $550/month + half<br />
utilities. 250-342-2082.<br />
hoUse For rent<br />
FOR RENT<br />
RADIUM<br />
2 bedroom + den, 2 bathroom Sable Ridge<br />
Condo. Furnished and equipped.<br />
$1,000 + utilities.<br />
FAIRMONT<br />
Beautiful executive home. Spectacular views<br />
and creek in back yard. $1,500 + utilities.<br />
WINDERMERE<br />
1 bedroom + den Akiskinook Resort Condo.<br />
Seasonal rental, furnished and equipped.<br />
$750 includes utilities.<br />
INVERMERE<br />
3 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom Westside Park family<br />
home, close to schools. $1,300 + utilities.<br />
SEASONAL<br />
Fully furnished and equipped 2 bedroom,<br />
2 bathroom condos in Lake Windermere Pointe<br />
and Heron Point from $1,250 inclusive.<br />
www.gdpm.ca<br />
or call Ben Green at<br />
250-688-0362 for more info.<br />
Townhouse for rent at Cedarwood<br />
Glen Estates. 3-bdrm, 1.5 baths,<br />
garage. $1,200/month + utilities.<br />
N/S, N/P. Available immediately.<br />
250-341-1182.<br />
Windermere: 1-bdrm house. Cozy<br />
and clean, $750/month + utilities.<br />
250-342-3790.<br />
Windermere: newer 2-bdrm,<br />
2-bath with garage on 11 acres.<br />
$1,000/month. Mark, 403-519-<br />
0252.<br />
Fairmont: 1,200 sq. ft. bright,<br />
3-bdrm, 1.5-bath, large yard. 6<br />
appliances, N/P, N/S. $900/month<br />
+d hydro. References required.<br />
250-345-6100 or 250-341-8177.<br />
Edgewater: large, 4-bdrm trailer.<br />
Skylights in kitchen and bathroom,<br />
W/D, F/S, D/W, jetted tub. Electric<br />
and wood heat, $850/month<br />
+ utilities and D.D. References<br />
required. Please call Marge Eugene<br />
at 250-347-9401 or 250-342-5275.<br />
Invermere: 3-bdrm house close<br />
to hospital and downtown. Quiet<br />
location suitable for families.<br />
Available immediately until May<br />
2013. $1,200/month. 250-342-<br />
3790.<br />
hoUse For rent<br />
Edgewater: large 3-bdrm + den<br />
double wide. W/D, F/S, dishwasher.<br />
Jetted tub, skylights. Close to<br />
schools. $800/month + utilities.<br />
Has wood stove. 250-347-9401 or<br />
778-440-1523.<br />
Newly renovated clean, bright,<br />
3-bdrm, 2-bath home with<br />
attached in-law suite. Fenced back<br />
yard. Walking distance to James<br />
Chabot beach. W/D, D/W, partially<br />
furnished, or unfurnished. N/S,<br />
small pet OK. $1,100/month.<br />
Available December 15th. 250-<br />
342-1597.<br />
3-bdrm house. Great location and<br />
lake views! One level, W/D, F/S,<br />
dishwasher. Available January 1st.<br />
$815/month + utilities. Jeff, 250-<br />
688-1105.<br />
Invermere: 3-bdrm home with W/D<br />
and walking distance to all schools.<br />
Available immediately. $800/<br />
month + utilities. Call 342-3410 or<br />
342-0088.<br />
Invermere: 2-bdrm house for rent.<br />
New propane furnace and wood<br />
stove. W/D, fenced yard and great<br />
location. $1,000/month. 250-341-<br />
5427.<br />
condo For rent<br />
Canal Flats: 2-bdrm,<br />
1.5-bath condo with<br />
in-suite laundry.<br />
1,000 sq. ft. of beautiful,<br />
comfortable, living space in quiet<br />
neighbourhood. $700/month +<br />
utilities. Available immediately.<br />
Call 403-873-8158 or e-mail<br />
canalcondo@live.ca . Serious<br />
inquiries only.<br />
Akiskinook Resort: 1-bdrm condo,<br />
fully furnished, 6-appliances,<br />
equipped indoor pool and hot tub.<br />
$700/month includes cable. 403-<br />
281-3991.<br />
2-bdrm, 2-bath, at The Peaks in<br />
Radium. Furnished, underground<br />
parking, N/S, N/P, 7 appliances.<br />
Swimming pool and hot tub.<br />
$940/month, all included. 403-<br />
920-3664.<br />
condo For rent<br />
FOR RENT<br />
INVERMERE:<br />
Lake Windermere Pointe starting<br />
at $800/month for unfurnished;<br />
$1,250 and up for furnished.<br />
Pool, underground parking,<br />
elevator and much more.<br />
CASTLE ROCK:<br />
Luxurious condo, 2 master<br />
suites, fantastic view, garage.<br />
$1,250 plus utilities.<br />
RADIUM RESORT:<br />
Furnished 2 bedroom condo at<br />
$1,250 plus utilities.<br />
FAIRMONT SOUTH:<br />
Luxury two bedroom furnished<br />
home at Spirits Reach.<br />
Call for information.<br />
Contact<br />
Eric Redeker<br />
250-342-5914<br />
FirstChoiceRentals.ca<br />
homes For sale<br />
Manufactured mobile home<br />
situated at #2 Green Acres<br />
Mobile Home Park. 8628 -<br />
Eacrett Road, Radium. 250-<br />
342-6007 for details.<br />
condo For sale<br />
Ski to your door, fully furnished<br />
1-bdrm condo, F/P, deck, heated<br />
parking, swimming pool, and hot<br />
tubs. Tamarack Lodge, Panorama,<br />
BC, $115,000 Firm. Call 250-342-<br />
6858 after 6 p.m.<br />
wanted<br />
Do you have a piano that is taking<br />
up space that you would like<br />
moved to a good home? If so, email<br />
amandadiakiw@hotmail.com .<br />
1966 - 1967 Nova/Acadian 2-door<br />
coupe. Postless. Ask for Doug, 250-<br />
688-1024.<br />
Please email<br />
classified ads to<br />
info@cv-pioneer.com
December 14, 2012 The <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> <strong>Pioneer</strong> • 35<br />
misc. for sale<br />
Kidz Outlet<br />
Consignment<br />
December sale. 20% off<br />
second hand clothing. Bring<br />
in a donation item for the<br />
local food bank and receive<br />
an additional 10% off. Open<br />
Tuesday - Saturday. Located<br />
below Lambert and Kipp.<br />
Exterior Smart Trim: factoryfinished<br />
in black. 36 pieces, 1” x<br />
4” x 16 ft. + flashing etc., $350.<br />
CanExel Dutch Lap siding: factoryfinished<br />
in Granite, 525 sq. ft.,<br />
$750. Kenmore dishwasher, $50.<br />
Snowboard gear: men’s and<br />
women’s. Tons of stuff, priced to<br />
sell. Call and ask. 250-341-6287.<br />
Local, free-range, natural,<br />
gourmet Berkshire pork for<br />
sale. Cut, wrapped and ready for<br />
your freezer. Hams, roasts, sausages<br />
and more! Call 250-347-6868.<br />
Kim Collens<br />
Representative<br />
misc. for sale<br />
Electric scooter, needs 2 batteries,<br />
$400. 8-person Nahanni hot tub,<br />
like new. 2 water pumps/air pump.<br />
AM/FM stereo and CD player. Builtin<br />
100’ electrical cable and GFI<br />
breaker. 27 large jets, 35 small jets.<br />
Deep seat, 2 recliner seats. $3,500.<br />
Phone 250-342-5905 or 250-688-<br />
0176.<br />
Hay and Greenfeed, round bales.<br />
$30 - $80/bale depending on<br />
quality. Elkhorn Ranch, 250-342-<br />
0617.<br />
Bowflex Xtreme. Great gift for<br />
fitness buff. We need space for<br />
grandchildren! $625 (new $1900)<br />
250-345-0350.<br />
Regency 2100 Hearth heater Wood<br />
stove. 2001, EPA approved with<br />
built-in fan. Excellent shape. Takes<br />
18” logs and heats 800-1500 sq. ft.<br />
Contact Dave, 778-253-2503.<br />
Rockies West Realty<br />
Independently Owned and Operated<br />
492 Highway 93/95, Invermere, BC<br />
toll free: 1.877.342.3427<br />
cell: 250.342.1671<br />
kim@rockieswest.com<br />
www.kimcollens.com<br />
Recipe Of The Week<br />
SHORTCUT ALMOND ROCA<br />
1 tablespoon Corn Syrup 1¼ cups Slivered Almonds,<br />
1¼ cup White Sugar toasted<br />
1 cup Butter ¾ cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate<br />
¼ cup Water Chips<br />
In a large heavy saucepan, gently boil syrup, sugar, butter and<br />
water until “hard crack” appears on the candy thermometer,<br />
300F degrees. Do not stir. This step takes at least 20<br />
minutes.<br />
Remove from heat, add almonds and stir well.<br />
Spread on an ungreased cookie sheet and, before candy is<br />
allowed to cool, sprinkle with chocolate chips.<br />
As they melt spread the chocolate chips evenly over the candy.<br />
Cool in the refrigerator or freezer.<br />
Break into bite sized pieces.<br />
This treat is perfect for gift giving!<br />
See all my recipes at recipes.kimcollens.com<br />
Home Of The Week<br />
Juniper Heights Gem!<br />
Check out this “cute-as-a-button” three bedroom home<br />
upgraded with laminate flooring, pine baseboards, new<br />
furnace and dishwasher and freshly painted interior.<br />
$29,900 WOW!! MLS ® K210728<br />
misc. for sale<br />
SOny TriniTrOn<br />
TV fOr SaLe<br />
32”, in good working condition.<br />
Call Kristian at 778-963-0241.<br />
2 Toyo Open Country M/T tires, size<br />
285/75R/16. Very good condition.<br />
65% tread wear left. $250, firm.<br />
Call 250-342-7313 after 6 p.m.<br />
Husqvarna Sapphire 875 Quilt,<br />
sewing machine. This machine was<br />
purchased a year ago and has been<br />
very lightly used. $1,250. 250-347-<br />
9272 or 403-274-2822.<br />
Antique sideboard. 100-year-old<br />
treadle sewing machine. Ladies<br />
saddle with gear. 250-342-2082.<br />
fireWood<br />
Support Rockies Hockey! Pine, fir,<br />
larch, dry and split. To order call<br />
250-342-6908.<br />
Fir firewood, split and delivered<br />
$200/cord. 250-342-5413.<br />
recreational VeHicles<br />
2001 Yamaha Warrior. Clean,<br />
well maintained. New chain and<br />
sprockets, low hours. $2,000 OBO.<br />
587-227-6609.<br />
VeHicles for sale<br />
2004 Cavalier. 2-door, black,<br />
5-speed. 185,000 kms, alloy rims,<br />
winter tires, 2 extra rims with tires.<br />
Great commuter, 40+ MPG. $3,500<br />
OBO. 250-341-8578.<br />
1999 Toyota Corolla. White, 4-door<br />
sedan, 269,000 kms. 2011 new<br />
winter tires, windshield and wipers<br />
new car-starter battery. Regular<br />
maintenance, in good running<br />
condition. $2,350 OBO. 250-342-<br />
6829.<br />
1994 NISSAN ALTIMA SE.<br />
Automatic, excellent condition,<br />
well maintained. New brake<br />
lines, gas lines, rear brake pads,<br />
distributor. Only 2 owners, both<br />
seniors. Includes 4 winter tires, 4<br />
all-season tires, roof rack. Asking<br />
$1,600. 250-342-5574.<br />
2005 Chevy Cavalier VL 2-door<br />
coupe. Automatic, 152,500 km,<br />
good condition. $4,500 OBO. 250-<br />
341-5920.<br />
automotiVe<br />
autowyze Services<br />
250-342-6614<br />
Monday – Saturday<br />
Here for all your automotive needs!<br />
Leaks, squeaks, or rattles?<br />
Check engine light, running rough,<br />
or perhaps not running at all?<br />
We’re here to help!<br />
Autowyze2012@gmail.com .<br />
Remote control car starters sold<br />
and/or installed at Autowyze<br />
Services, 250-342-6614. Great<br />
Christmas gift!<br />
fitness<br />
fiTneSS PrOGraMS<br />
fOr STay-aT-HOMe<br />
MOMS.<br />
Personal Training<br />
in your home.<br />
Lose the baby weight<br />
during nap time!<br />
FREE Fitness assessments<br />
and consults.<br />
www.fitness4life.tv<br />
Hayley: 250-688-0024<br />
Kate: 250-688-0221<br />
Small Group Fitness also available.<br />
serVices<br />
Custom Picture<br />
Framing<br />
Professional<br />
Photography<br />
Camera Classes<br />
Gift Certi� cates Available<br />
250-342-5102<br />
www.kimberleyrae.ca<br />
Kimberley-Rae Sanderson<br />
...look for the red door<br />
behind the Invermere<br />
Dry Cleaners!<br />
Home Building and renos<br />
Chuck Newhouse Builders<br />
250-342-3637<br />
chucknew@telus.net .<br />
Vacuums<br />
Parts, repairs & accessories,<br />
All makes & models<br />
Central Vacuums – sales and<br />
installations<br />
Bonded & licensed<br />
fine Homeservices<br />
250-342-9207, fhs@telus.net .<br />
serVices<br />
Dryer Vent and Furnace Cleaning<br />
& inspections. Call AQUAIR today!<br />
250-342-5089.<br />
Water treatment & purification,<br />
includes drinking water systems,<br />
softeners & conditioners, iron<br />
filters. Call AQUAIR, 250-342-5089.<br />
Heaven’s Best Carpet and<br />
Upholstery Cleaning.<br />
Environmentally friendly products.<br />
Dry in 1 hour! Call 250-688-0213 or<br />
visit www.heavensbest.ca .<br />
Buy a Gift Certificate<br />
& receive 20% Off<br />
“Amazing service! I shopped<br />
around and it was the best price.<br />
Shannon selected the perfect<br />
product and I love my new blinds.<br />
Thank you Shannon!“ - Leslie<br />
Shannon’s Blinds & Designs<br />
250-342-5749<br />
Expires December 21.<br />
Covering the <strong>Valley</strong> – One<br />
Window At A Time<br />
Have you purchased a Mac<br />
computer and need a tutor to<br />
learn the basics? Making the move<br />
to a Mac can be an intimidating<br />
experience. I will show you the<br />
basics and show you how to get<br />
more value from your system. Basic<br />
tutoring session, $30/hour. Call<br />
Emily at 250-409-4104.<br />
Windermere <strong>Valley</strong> Childcare has<br />
permanent spaces in the 3 - 5<br />
year old group daycare. Available<br />
immediately! Please call 250-342-<br />
3168. Ask for Arlee, Silvia, or Pat.<br />
Gift wrapping - you hate it, I do it!<br />
Contact JD Jeffery for drop off and<br />
cost at 250-341-5803. Proceeds go<br />
to Windermere District Museum.<br />
HealtH & Wellness<br />
serVices<br />
Guitar lessons. Available most<br />
evenings and weekends. Call Emily<br />
at 250-409-4104.<br />
Help Wanted<br />
Have fun and<br />
earn extra income<br />
What’s better than extra money?<br />
FREE JEWELLERY! As a Silpada<br />
Representative selling Sterling<br />
Silver Jewellery, you can earn 30%<br />
commission on your sales, expensepaid<br />
trips and free jewellery. Why<br />
not get paid to party for a living?<br />
Call 341-5956 and start your<br />
jewellery business now.<br />
Peppi’s is now hiring cooks and<br />
servers for the winter season. All<br />
applicants must be able to work<br />
weekends. Please forward resumes<br />
to p.fuel@yahoo.ca .<br />
Ichi Resources Ltd. is seeking<br />
experienced logging equipment<br />
operators for work in Radium<br />
Hot Springs / Canal Flats area.<br />
Please send resume by email to<br />
ichiresources@gmail.com or fax to<br />
778-479-2088.<br />
Exciting employment opportunity<br />
for the right person. Do you have<br />
skill in using computers, social<br />
media, fashion, health, and public<br />
relations? Are you looking to grow<br />
with a company? If so, I would like<br />
to here from you! This is a full-time<br />
management position, located in<br />
Invermere, BC. Send resume by<br />
email to t.thredz@telus.net .<br />
Invermere Petro-Can is currently<br />
accepting resumes for F/T and<br />
P/T employment. Apply in person<br />
to 185 Laurier Street, Invermere<br />
between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.<br />
QI GONG AND TAI CHI<br />
• Chinese exercises to promote healing, fitness and anti-aging<br />
• Practices of moving meditation to promote good health and well being<br />
• Classes are on-going and beginners are welcome<br />
• Ask about the new year schedule and register.<br />
For more information please contact:<br />
Betty Newton 250-342-6343 or newtonhome@shaw.ca
36 • The <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> <strong>Pioneer</strong> December 14, 2012<br />
BAKER, SHAKER,<br />
SANDWICH MAKER<br />
(Part-Time)<br />
Start off the new year FRESH AND<br />
LOCAL as one of our resident<br />
Kicking Horse Café FOOD GURUS!<br />
Your creation of exceptional baked goods and pastries,<br />
lunch items and seasonal specialties will be showcased<br />
daily in the Kicking Horse Café. Ideally, you will have<br />
some formal cooking/baking experience and/or training.<br />
BARISTA (Part-Time)<br />
As a Kicking Horse Café BARISTA, pulling the<br />
perfect shot, sharing your latte art with the masses, and<br />
providing a level of service that is second to none, will<br />
not so much be a job as it will be a vocation. The only<br />
requirement… ya gotta be crazy about coffee; think it,<br />
drink it, love it, dream it!<br />
Both these opportunities will be available, starting<br />
in January 2013. Candidates must be willing to work<br />
weekends and some holidays. We will supply the tools<br />
and training – you will work the magic. If you’ve got<br />
what it tastes…, fire us off your resume to lianne@<br />
kickinghorsecoffee.com or fax 250-342-4450. We will<br />
contact successful applicants.<br />
The only local newspaper<br />
with free online content!<br />
Magazine editor and newspaper reporter<br />
The location<br />
The <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> <strong>Pioneer</strong> Newspaper<br />
is seeking a full-time magazine editor/<br />
newspaper reporter.<br />
The role<br />
This full-time, permanent position involves<br />
content gathering, writing and editing<br />
for six annual magazine publications<br />
including a local visitor guide, homes &<br />
lifestyle magazine and wedding magazine.<br />
As the driving force behind all magazines,<br />
creative flair and the ability to self-motivate<br />
and work independently are integral.<br />
When not working on magazines, the<br />
successful applicant will be 1/3 of a smalltown<br />
newspaper’s editorial team, working<br />
alongside a reporter and editor to take<br />
photos, write stories, and lay out and edit<br />
N E WSP A P E R<br />
N E WSP A P E R<br />
Phone: (250) 341-6299 • Fax: (250) 341-6229 • Email: info@cv-pioneer.com<br />
pages in InDesign. A passion for smalltown<br />
news and unearthing interesting<br />
features is key.<br />
Around 50 per cent of the role is as a<br />
reporter, with occasional cover of the<br />
newspaper editor’s position. The other six<br />
months are dedicated to magazines. Some<br />
weekend and evening work is required.<br />
Qualifications<br />
• Degree or diploma in journalism<br />
• A minimum 2 years’ newsroom<br />
experience<br />
• Proficiency with InDesign and<br />
Adobe Photoshop<br />
• Mac platform experience<br />
• A reliable vehicle and a valid driver’s<br />
licence<br />
• Strong organizational, editing and<br />
journalistic skills.<br />
To apply, send a copy of your resume, along with writing samples,<br />
cover letter and references to Rose-Marie Regitnig, Publisher.<br />
The <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> <strong>Pioneer</strong><br />
Box 868, 8 –1008, 8th Avenue,<br />
Invermere, B.C. V0A 1K0<br />
Email: rose-marie@cv-pioneer.com<br />
www.columbiavalleypioneer.com<br />
Gifted glider<br />
Invermere’s Kiana Strand skates across a glass-like Lake Windermere on December 29th, 2011. Kiana’s 91 per cent<br />
academic average when graduating high school at the Athol Murray College of Notre Dame, along with her success in<br />
winning the Saskatchewan provincials in AAA hockey while playing on the school’s team, secured her a full scholarship at<br />
the University of Prince Edward Island. She currently plays hockey for the UPEI Panthers and is working at completing a<br />
Bachelors of Business Administration. Photo submitted by Tim Strand<br />
Publisher<br />
Aberdeen Publishing has an opening for the position as<br />
Publisher of the Jasper Fitzhugh.<br />
We are seeking a proven leader with the entrepreneurial<br />
skills to continue and further enhance the strong growth this<br />
paper has experienced over the past six years.<br />
Ideally, you should have a good understanding of all facets<br />
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December 14, 2012 The <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> <strong>Pioneer</strong> • 37<br />
New problem solver for the <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong><br />
By Kristian Rasmussen<br />
<strong>Pioneer</strong> Staff<br />
An Invermere woman is putting her surgeon-like<br />
ability to dissect conflicts to work with a new business.<br />
Robin Kinnersley has lived in Invermere for the past 22<br />
years and started her service, Common Ground Mediation,<br />
with the hope of providing collaborative solutions<br />
to the valley’s problems.<br />
Working with local RCMP in the restorative justice<br />
program and completing a certificate in family mediation<br />
from the Justice Institute of British <strong>Columbia</strong>, Mrs. Kinnersley<br />
solves problems by using an interest-based model.<br />
“What that means is that you work on things that parties<br />
already have in common and already agree upon, instead<br />
of what they don’t agree upon,” she said. “It is more<br />
of a collaborative approach instead of a compromise. It is<br />
basically figuring out what they actually want and how to<br />
get there.”<br />
Although she specializes in family mediation, Mrs.<br />
Kinnersley also lends her services and knowledge to separation<br />
agreements, child custody and access agreements,<br />
child support, marital disputes, workplace conflicts and<br />
landlord and tenant problems.<br />
“My greatest success would be just hearing feedback<br />
from people,” she said. “I have had a few repeat clients<br />
and the feedback I have gotten from them about how they<br />
work differently with each other now is very rewarding.”<br />
The rewards of her job do not come easy. Mrs. Kinnersley<br />
must work to clean away excess emotional baggage that<br />
attaches to many of the conflicts that she mediates.<br />
“I find it easiest to separate that by really digging in<br />
and finding out what the actual issues are and why people<br />
want what they want. Not just what people want,<br />
but why they want it.”<br />
Ultimately, the end goal of mediation is for both parties<br />
to come away with an agreement that works for everyone,<br />
and in which no stakeholder feels like they have had to sacrifice<br />
too much, she added.<br />
“They might not get exactly what they want, but they<br />
don’t feel like they have given anything up.”<br />
Mrs. Kinnersley is a true believer in mediation and<br />
has found that her experience and training has blossomed<br />
into other aspects of her clients lives, she said.<br />
“It helps how you deal with all sorts of family, friends<br />
and workplace. You just see things a little differently.”<br />
Wonderful windows<br />
MASTER MEDIATOR — Robin Kinnersley is the owner<br />
and operator of Common Ground Mediation in Invermere.<br />
Photo by Kristian Rasmussen<br />
This series of 3 sparkling windows are CIBC's entry into the Invermere Business Committee's annual window decorating contest. The final entries will be featured in the December<br />
21st and 28th editions of The <strong>Pioneer</strong>. Photos by Kate Irwin<br />
Correction<br />
In a photograph in the December 7th edition of the <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> <strong>Pioneer</strong><br />
entitled ‘Leaving a legacy’, Cory Stuart was incorrectly identified as a student on the<br />
Legacy Project carpentry training program.<br />
Mr. Stuart was in fact the instructor for the program. The <strong>Pioneer</strong> wishes to apologise<br />
to Mr. Stuart for the error.<br />
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. . .’Court Briefs’ continued from page 14<br />
Disqualified driver caught by police<br />
A disqualified driver caught by the RCMP’s automatic<br />
licence plate recognition system has been sentenced<br />
to a one-year driving prohibition and $500 fine.<br />
Loren S. McLeod, who appeared before judge William<br />
Sheard at Invermere Provincial Court on Monday,<br />
December 10th, was caught driving on a suspended licence<br />
on Highway 93/95 near Windermere on August<br />
30th, 2012.<br />
Mr. Mcleod, who had been banned from driving on<br />
July 30th of the same year, was stopped by a constable<br />
from the <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> detachment. The police officer<br />
was alerted to Mr. Mcleod’s vehicle when their onboard<br />
computer system indicated that it was owned by a<br />
prohibited driver, said Lianna Swanson, Crown counsel.<br />
Mr. McLeod pleaded guilty to one count of driving<br />
while prohibited.<br />
“I note that you were stopped because of the RCMP<br />
automated licence plate reader,” said Judge Sheard while<br />
sentencing. “I hope the message will get out to the community<br />
that there is this powerful mechanism in the<br />
hands of police.”<br />
Mr. McLeod was ordered by the court to pay his fine<br />
and a $75 victim surcharge by the end of February 2013.<br />
Speeder stopped without licence<br />
A speeding motorist stopped near Windermere and<br />
found to be driving without licence has been banned<br />
from driving for a year and ordered to pay a $500 fine.<br />
Michael G. J. McKenzie, who lives in the valley<br />
part-time and works in Fort McMurray, was pulled over<br />
by police on Highway 93/95 on October 12th, when he<br />
was spotted driving at 115 kilometres per hour in a 90<br />
zone, said Lianna Swanson, Crown counsel.<br />
“He didn’t have a driver’s licence on him and, when<br />
queried, told police he was prohibited,” she added.<br />
Mr. McKenzie pleaded guilty to driving while prohibited,<br />
admitting that he “shouldn’t have been driving.”<br />
Judge William Sheard imposed the minimum penalty<br />
of a 12-month driving prohibition, $500 fine and $75<br />
victim surcharge fee, to be paid within three months.<br />
Drunken booze thief pleads guilty in court<br />
A liquor thief who stole two bottles of alcohol in<br />
Cranbrook pleaded guilty to the offence at Invermere<br />
Provincial Court on December 10th.<br />
Appearing before Judge William Sheard, Jaryd S.<br />
Endersby admitted to the theft, stating, “I really wish I<br />
hadn’t done it.”<br />
On December 5th, Mr. Endersby entered the Great<br />
Canadian Liquor Warehouse in Cranbrook, asking the<br />
store attendent where he could find a specific type of<br />
alcohol, the court heard. He then crouched behind some<br />
shelving, inserting two bottles of liquor into his jacket<br />
before attempting to pay for the third, said Lianna Swanson,<br />
Crown counsel.<br />
When Mr. Endersby’s card was declined, he left the<br />
bottle on the counter and exited the store without paying<br />
for the remaining two bottles, Judge William Sheard<br />
heard. But he had aroused the suspicion of the store<br />
manager, who noted the spaces on the shelf and checked<br />
the video surveillance footage, printing off a picture of<br />
the suspect for the RCMP.<br />
When the officer arrived, he remembered passing a<br />
man wearing similar clothing while driving to the store,<br />
and returned to find Mr. Endersby walking drunkenly<br />
down the street hand in hand with his girlfriend, Ms.<br />
Swanson added.<br />
“I’m concerned that if you don’t deal with your alcoholism<br />
you’ll be back in court and in jail again,” Judge<br />
Sheard said when sentencing.<br />
As Mr. Endersby had already been held in police custody<br />
for five days, he was credited for time served and released.<br />
He was ordered to repay $33.40 to the liquor store.<br />
Holding<br />
penalty<br />
<strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong><br />
Rockies forward Dustin<br />
Boone takes Conner<br />
Brooks, 5, for a spin<br />
around the ice during the<br />
Family Skate with Santa<br />
event at the Eddie Mountain<br />
Memorial Arena on<br />
Saturday, December 8th.<br />
The annual skating<br />
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Sobeys, featured free<br />
hotdogs and pop for the<br />
youthful attendees, plus<br />
the chance to meet Santa<br />
Claus himself.<br />
Photo by Greg Amos
December 14, 2012 The <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> <strong>Pioneer</strong> • 39<br />
FAITH<br />
God was one of us<br />
<strong>Valley</strong> Churches<br />
By Pastor Murray Wittke<br />
<strong>Valley</strong> Christian Assembly<br />
In 1995, the Top 40<br />
hit “What if God was one<br />
of us” asked listeners what<br />
they’d do if God got up<br />
close and personal with<br />
them. Have you ever wondered<br />
how you’d respond?<br />
The Christmas story<br />
declares God did become<br />
one of us during the reign<br />
of Caesar Augustus. Ancient<br />
Israel longed for God<br />
to rescue them but never actually expected God to show<br />
up personally. And definitely no one expected God to<br />
arrive the way the gospel writers say he did.<br />
Matthew says God became one of us in the womb<br />
of a young woman named Mary. There within her, God<br />
— infinite, omnipotent, and eternal was united with a<br />
human ovum and became Jesus Christ, a person with<br />
both a divine and human nature. Nine months later he<br />
experienced a real birth and entered our world weak and<br />
dependent just like one of us. Just imagine God with a<br />
belly button, here with us, one of us.<br />
For over thirty years he made himself at home with<br />
us. He felt hunger, thirst, and weariness. He experienced<br />
our joys and sorrows, our grief and pain, and our frustrations<br />
and disappointments. He learned what it’s like to<br />
live in poverty; to work at hard manual labour; and to<br />
live with political corruption and the threat of violence<br />
all around.<br />
He endured misunderstanding, hatred, and rejection<br />
from those he loved. Then, publicly and painfully,<br />
he died. His heart stopped, he breathed his last breath,<br />
and was buried just like one of us. God was one of us and<br />
with us all the way from conception to grave.<br />
We show compassion and support for sick or bereaved<br />
loved ones by visiting and spending time with<br />
them, so does God. He could have felt sorry for us<br />
and remained at a distance, but instead he joined us<br />
within the human predicament. As one of us, Jesus<br />
Christ knows and understands all we’re going through.<br />
You’re not alone. God became one of us and He is near,<br />
Emmanuel-God with us forever.<br />
The song’s long gone but its questions remain…<br />
“What if God was one of us?”<br />
Horseplay<br />
Southern rock band Willhorse perform songs from their new self-titled album while dancers strut their stuff at the<br />
Willhorse CD release party at Invermere’s Station Pub on Saturday, December 8th. Photo by Greg Amos<br />
LAKE WINDERMERE ALLIANCE CHURCH<br />
Sunday, December 16th, 10:30 a.m. Worship and Life Instruction,<br />
“The Joy of Christmas.” Pastor Trevor ministering<br />
“K.I.D.S.” Church for children age 3 to Grade 1 and Grade 2 to 5<br />
during the morning service.<br />
Pastor Trevor Hagan • 326 - 10th Avenue, Invermere<br />
250-342-9535 • www.lakewindermerealliance.org<br />
WINDERMERE VALLEy SHARED MINIStRy<br />
ANGLICAN-UNItED<br />
9 a.m.: Worship at All Saints, Edgewater<br />
9:30 a.m. God’s Breakfast Club for children and youth<br />
10:30 a.m. Sunday school Christmas Pageant Christ Church Trinity,<br />
Invermere.<br />
Reverend Laura Hermakin<br />
110 - 7th Avenue, Invermere 250-342-6644<br />
www.wvsm.ca<br />
VALLEy CHRIStIAN ASSEMbLy<br />
Sunday, 10 a.m.: Worship and Word Kids’ Church provided.<br />
Pastor Murray Wittke<br />
4814 Highway 93/95, Windermere<br />
250-342-9511 • www.valleychristianonline.com<br />
RoMAN CAtHoLIC CHURCH<br />
Saturday: 4:30 p.m. at St. Anthony’s, Canal Flats.<br />
Saturday: 7 p.m. and Sunday: 9 a.m. at<br />
Canadian Martyrs’ Church in Invermere.<br />
Sunday: 11 a.m. at St. Joseph’s Church in Radium.<br />
Father Gabriel • 712 -12th Ave., Invermere • 250-342-6167<br />
ST. PETER’S LUTHERAN MISSION OF INVERMERE<br />
Worship services every Sunday at 1:30 p.m.<br />
Christ Church Trinity, 110 - 7th Ave., Invermere<br />
Pastor Fraser Coltman • 1-866-426-7564<br />
RADIUM CHRIStIAN FELLoWSHIp<br />
Sunday 10 a.m. Worship service • Thursday 7 p.m. Fun Night<br />
Pastor Wayne and Linda Frater • 250-342-6633<br />
No. 4, 7553 Main St. Radium • 250-347-9937<br />
CHURCH oF JESUS CHRISt oF LAttER-DAy SAINtS<br />
Worship Service, Sunday, 10 a.m. • Relief Society, 11:15 a.m.<br />
President Barry Pratt • <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> Branch<br />
5014 Fairway, Fairmont Hot Springs • 250-341-5792<br />
You can remember someone special with<br />
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To donate In Memory or In Honour:<br />
www.cancer.ca | 250-426-8916<br />
or call toll-free 1-800-656-6426<br />
or mail to:<br />
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Name of the person being remembered<br />
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