North Shuswap First Responder Shortage Reaches Critical Stage

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North Shuswap First Responder
Shortage Reaches Critical Stage
We are asking if
you, or others you might
know, will take the
steps necessary to become a First Responder.
Without new responders
to take the place of the
many who have committed their time over
these many years, we
are at a point where we
may not have enough
responders available at
all times, to respond to
every call.
Submitted by Karen Boulter
After twenty years of
helping with medical emergency situations in our community, North Shuswap First
Responders has reached a
critical point in being able to
respond to all our emergency
calls. Our current responders and society members are
fully committed to the community and helping others.
That being said, we need
help. WE NEED MORE
RESPONDERS.
(Continued on page 3)
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A recent Global Okanagan
broadcast reported the early run off,
spring weather conditions and snowpack
levels are similar to those of 2003, the
worst fire season on record in BC.
The average of all provincial snow
water measurements on April 1 was
73% of normal. This is the second lowest provincial average snow water
equivalent in the past 31 years of record,
according to BC River Forecast Centre.
Environment Canada is expecting above
normal temperatures over the next three
months but precipitation is very difficult
to predict.
A weak El Nino is taking part of the
blame for the low snowfall. It forms
when a warm pool of surface water
builds up along the equator on the west
coast of South and Central America. As
air passes over warm water and reaches
the coast, it produces more rain and less
snow in the mountains.
Some scientists are saying the bigger effect is coming from something
they’re calling the Pacific blob, another
big pool of warmer than normal water.
The blob originated in the Gulf of Alaska and is moving south along the Pacific
Coast, and scientists are warning it
could hurt marine life in B.C. At its
warmest point, it's five degrees warmer
than normal, and as the air blows across
it, that air also becomes warmer as it
heads over land. El Nino's effects are
largely confined to the fall and winter
months, but "the blob" helps create a
warmer summer than normal.
A persistent high-pressure ridge that
set up off the West Coast during the
winter of 2013-14 caused “the blob”.
The ridge reformed inland over western
North America this past winter preventing clouds from forming and precipitation from falling.
Living in a forest area, it doesn’t
hurt to be aware of conditions and take
some precautions to protect your property. The Fire Smart Home Owners’ Manual put out by the BC Forest Service
says managing the space around your
house and buildings is of prime importance. The first 10 metres of space
around your home is your first priority.
Remove any shrubs, trees, deadfall or
woodpiles from this area and keep your
grass mowed and watered.
From 10 to 30 metres out from your
home is the second priority zone. In this
zone, you need to reduce fuels by thinning and pruning so that combustion
cannot be supported.
If you are burning yard debris or a
campfire, choose a cleared location out
of the wind and have a shovel, a bucket
of water or a rake nearby, constantly
monitor your fire and to extinguish it,
spray it with abundant water and cover it
with ash, sand or earth.
Of course, predictions are just that
and we know the weather man isn’t always right. Things could turn around if
we get sufficient rain over the next two
months and things don’t heat up quite as
much as predicted this summer.
North Shuswap First Responder Shortage
Reaches Critical Stage continued
(Continued from page 1)
This is a situation we are working
hard to remedy quickly.
If you have ever considered joining the First Responders, now is the
time to get off the fence. NSFR will
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insurance you will require. The future
of our group is in your hands. Please,
call Andrea Carter @250-679-7746 or
Marie Aylward @250-955-0752 for
more information on how to join our
group.
Together, “We Make A Difference.”
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CSRD Director’s Report
Larry Morgan - Director, Electoral Area ‘F’
(North Shuswap & Seymour Arm ) Columbia Shuswap Regional District
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CSRD BOARD MEETING – APRIL 23RD, 2015:
 Crown Grant Amendment – Evelyn
Falls Trailhead – Board Resolution
The Ministry of Forests, Lands and
Natural Resource Operations
(MFLNRO) required a Board resolution
in order to amend the terms of a Crown
Grant to allow for the Regional District
to construct a trailhead parking lot for
the Evelyn Falls Trail System in Anglemont.
This Crown Grant tenure is for a
parking lot, which is to be shared with
Anglemont Fire Department members,
as there is limited parking at the current
site of the Anglemont Fire Hall, 100m
to the south.
The Anglemont Fire Hall was constructed in the mid-1980s on land donated for the construction of a fire hall.
The lot on which the fire hall was actually constructed is relatively small and
additions to the building to the south
for fire hall bay expansion and to the
rear for training room facilities has consumed the majority of the available lot
coverage. Off street parking is very
minimal at the fire hall location. Currently fire department members park on
the narrow road which has a steep
grade. In 2014, a parked vehicle owned
by a department member, began to slide
and collided with another member’s
vehicle causing damage and created a
safety concern.
The resolution to amend the Crown
Grant will now be submitted to the
MFLNRO, with the CSRD Board approval.
Director’s Comment’s: This is a good
news story. The Evelyn Falls Trailhead
parking area will be shared with Anglemont Fire Department members.
 Solid Waste Management Plan Review and Update
The CSRD first adopted a Solid
Waste Management Plan (SWMP) in
1993 to guide the management of solid
waste and recycling. In 2009 the
SWMP was amended to address years
of continued improvement, reflect more
current waste management practices
and help guide staff in program development and delivery.
The CSRD has recently updated
the 2009 SWMP consistent with the
Ministry of Environment (MoE) recommendation that SWMPs are reviewed
and updated on a 5 year interval. This
Board Report summarizes the review
process and recommends that the updated SWMP be endorsed and submitted to the MoE for approval.
In 1992 the Waste Management
Act (now Environmental Management
Act) was amended to require Regional
Districts to submit Solid Waste Management Plans (SWMP) by 1995 and
clarified the roles of local governments
in municipal solid waste management
planning. The purpose of implementing
a solid waste management planning
process was to restructure the way municipal solid waste was generated and
managed in order to create a sustainable
integrated waste management system.
Essentially, the Act gives Regional Districts, with an approved SWMP, the
authority to manage municipal solid
waste and recyclable material, including but not limited to creating bylaws.
In 1993 the CSRD adopted its
SWMP and in 2009 a major review and
update was carried out to reflect new
guiding principles and a new vision
statement. The vision created states
that; “All economic activities in the
CSRD will be consistent with a “Zero
Waste” community”. The following
guiding principles were adopted:
The CSRD will base all solid waste
management decisions on a Zero
Waste approach. Zero Waste maximizes recycling, minimizes waste, reduces
consumption, and ensures that products
are made to be reused, repaired, or recycled back into nature or the marketplace. Zero Waste views all Wastes as
Resources and recognizes that the entire lifecycle of a product must be considered when deciding its value.
The SWMP will be viewed as a
MAY 2015
Plan of Partnerships, where all initiatives are done in partnership with all
sectors of the community, including
individual citizens and businesses, both
locally and outside the Columbia Shuswap Regional District.
The SWMP will be treated as a
living and learning document, forever
adjusting and evolving to the needs of
the CSRD and its partners, including
individual citizens and communities.
The CSRD will emphasize and
encourage the 6R Hierarchy (Rethink,
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Recover,
Manage Residuals), and continually
strive towards a higher “R” in waste
management practice.
The CSRD will use CommunityBased Social Marketing techniques
wherever possible.
The CSRD will continue to finance
the cost of residual waste disposal
through a Region-wide User Pay system to encourage an equitable and sustainable approach to managing residuals.
In addition to a vision statement
and guiding principles the 2009 SWMP
provided staff with numerous recommendations on polices, strategies and
commitments that needed to be either
implemented or evaluated for future
implementation. Furthermore, the Plan
recommended the following implementation schedule:
In June 2014, CH2MHill was hired
to review and update the 2009 SWMP.
It was determined by staff that the existing 2009 SWMP was still very relevant and its vision and guiding principles did not need to be altered. As
such, the MoE was advised that the
CSRD would conduct a review and
update of its SWMP and not develop an
entirely new SWMP.
In July of 2014, staff convened a
SWMP Review Advisory Committee
(Review Committee), made up of existing members of the Plan Monitoring
Advisory Committee (PMAC), the
group responsible for overseeing the
implementation of the 2009 SWMP,
along with new members from the public and specific industry/special interest
groups (i.e. Spa Hills Composting).
The Review Committee met with
CH2MHill and staff throughout the
process to provide input on the review
of the existing SWMP, guidance for
public consultation and implementation
of policies and principles for the next
five (5) years.
The 2015 Review and Update document produced by CH2MHill provides
the following:
1. a detailed review and status report
on over 75 policies from the 2009 Plan;
2. the process used to evaluate and
rank new policy options for consideration;
3. the results of the consultation process used to gauge the public’s support
for the new policy options;
4. a detailed evaluation of food waste
composting and curbside collection
programs;
5. an initial financial analysis; and
6. a detailed Five-Year Implementation Schedule.
It is clear from the review process
that the CSRD has a well-established
and still relevant SWMP. In addition,
the CSRD has accomplished the majority of tasks identified in the 2009 Im-
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Directors Report
plementation Schedule and
many of the policy recommendations aimed at working
towards Zero Waste. Although the CSRD has made
great strides towards Zero
Waste, there remains much to
do. The Review and Update
document identifies a number
of new policy initiatives including:
 food waste collection and
process;
 demolition and land clearing reduction initiatives and
 new programs aimed at increasing Industry, Commercial and Institutional waste
diversion.
Once adopted by MoE,
the PMAC will be reconvened and semi-annual meetings will begin again in the
fall of 2015 to help monitor
continued
the implementation of the
updated SWMP.
New programs and initiatives resulting from the updated SWMP will be funded
through tipping fees (solid
waste budget) and/or
(recycling budget) as per previous years. A review of
program financing will be
conducted in 2015 with results anticipated for presentation at 2015 fall budgeting
workshops.
These new programs and
initiatives are consistent with
the policies in the SWMP
and the Corporate Strategic
Plan.
Director’s Comment’s: The
CSRD Solid Waste Management Plan continues to
evolve.
 Grant In Aid Approved
MAY 2015
- Lakeview Community
Centre (electrical work)
$21,184: GIA funding has
been approved for the following: The balance of the
quote for electrical work by
Spooner Electric, at
$21,184.00, funded through
2015 GIA funds. (See February 2015 Kicker for original GIA request and initial
instalment.
The original GIA request
totaled $45,499.44).
Spooner Electric has
installed a generator which
will take into account the
overall building electrical
requirements.
The Lakeview Centre
Society has deemed safety
issues to be their number one
priority. The Centre is a public building and every effort
is being made to facilitate
improvements that will aid in
the efficient running and
safety of the building. The
community will benefit by
having a safe and warm
place in an emergency, or
during a power outage. The
building is designated as an
emergency preparedness centre and must provide the basics such as heat, light, and
food for those in need,
should a situation arise .The
Centre has also had several
power outages of serious
length, while functions have
been underway, which could
have resulted in serious implications, without a backup
generator in place.
Director’s Comment’s: This
second and final instalment
of the original GIA request
will allow the Lakeview
Centre Society to complete
the necessary updates to the
Lakeview Centre, in addressing fire safety concerns; and
in addressing the Lakeview
Centre’s role as an emergency preparedness shelter.
For more information go to
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www.csrd.bc.ca
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Testimony Continues at
Reinbrecht Trial
By Jo Anne Malpass
The Crown has presented its case and the defence
has started calling witnesses
at the Kamloops Supreme
Court trial of Leon
Reinbrecht for criminal negligence causing death and
criminal negligence causing
bodily harm.
Reinbrecht was charged
after a speedboat crashed
into a houseboat on Magna
Bay following a July 2010
Canada Day fireworks display. The impact embedded
the speedboat completely
inside the houseboat cabin,
killing 53-year-old houseboat
owner Ken Brown and injuring eight of the 16 people
aboard the vessels.
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In defence lawyer Joe
Doyle’s opening statement
and with his first expert witness, he said he said his case
would center on whether the
houseboat's masthead light
was operating.
Earlier last month, Marine vessel collisions expert
RCMP Cpl. Richard Harry
spent several days giving
evidence for the Crown.
Harry said the port light,
starboard light and stern light
on the houseboat were functioning, but he could not verify if the masthead light was
operational. Throughout the
trial, witnesses have given
conflicting testimony about
the lights on the houseboat.
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Roadside
Clean-up
Just a few hours of your time
will make a difference
Clean-up Days
May 8 & 9
The bags should be left on the side of the
road for collection.
Garbage Bags supplied by JPW Road and Bridge Inc. will be available
for pick up at Lakeview Centre (1:00-4:00pm), Ross Creek Country
Store, Spooner Electric, Dave Cunliffe office 3871 Squilax Anglemont
Rd., Scotch Creek and from Kris Jensen.
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Testimony Continues at
Reinbrecht Trial continued
Some said white lights lit up
the cabin, while others testified they could barely see it.
Defence lawyer Joe Doyle
questioned Cpl. Harry about
a phone call to a Canadian
Coast Guard supervisor to
inquire about a defence witness. Justin Beaumont is an
expert in marine accident
reconstruction, employed by
the Coast Guard. The defence has retained Beaumont
to give expert evidence in
the trial. The trial was adjourned for several days
while lawyers reviewed a
disclosure of conversations
between the RCMP investigator and the coast guard.
As the defence's first
witness, Beaumont said the
houseboat's masthead light, a
navigational light was not
working and the wiring was
disconnected.
Multiple witnesses stated the speedboat was being
driven erratically prior to the
crash. There was testimony
that Reinbrecht appeared
drunk and smelled of alcohol
and there were quite a few
beer bottles in the speed
boat.
A toxicology report entered as an exhibit in the trial
showed Ken Brown had a
blood-alcohol level above
the legal limit to operate a
vehicle and elevated levels
of the active ingredient in
marijuana.
Chamber News
Dave Cunliffe, President
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northshuswapbc.com
The next regular dinner
meeting is scheduled for May
25th at a location to be announced later.
MLA Greg Kyllo to Visit
the North Shuswap
I’m pleased to advise
everyone that our MLA Greg
Kyllo will be in the North
Shuswap on Friday May 8th.
He will be available to meet
with residents on an appointment only basis. Please contact Holly at the constituency
office at 250-833-7414 to
make arrangements. It will
be first come first served with
limited availability so book
early. The Meetings will be
held at Unit G - 3871 Squilax
Anglemont Road (C21 Building in the right hand door).
Ph/Fx: 250-955-2113
Roadside Cleanup
The annual roadside
cleanup will be taking place
May 8th and 9th. Kris Jensen
from the Chamber has taken
over from Giovanna this year.
If you are interested in participating please call Kris at 250
955-0383. I want to thank the
North Shuswap Lions for
helping out again this year.
Everett Lowberg is the Lions
contact person and can be
reached at 250-833-2905. I
also want to thank Gem Gravel and Spooner Electric for
volunteering to pick up the
bags and haul them to the
dump. Finally thanks go out
to the regional district for
waiving dump fees for this
community initiative.
MAY 2015
Last year we collected
about 5 tonnes of garbage.
The best outcome is for people to stop littering and despoiling the North Shuswap.
Tourism Office
The Chamber welcomes
back Christina Lepsoe who
will be staffing the Tourism
Office again this season. We
plan on being a little more
accessible this year. First,
we are going to be open for
the Victoria Day weekend on
May 16th to 18th. We are
also planning on adjusting
days and hours of operation
based on demand from last
year to better serve visitors
to the North Shuswap.
Over Regulation
(this time by the province)
For anyone needing
a Riparian Development Permit to allow any work within
30 metres of the lake, it just
got tougher.
The provincial Forests
Lands and Natural Resource
Operations have a new process for riparian assessments.
Doing an assessment is a
requirement of getting the
local government development permit. When the Riparian Area Regulation was
introduced the provincial
government opted for professional self- regulation by the
Qualified Environmental
Professionals. The theory
was to trust that professionals
would follow the rules and
the government would undertake periodic random audits
to keep them honest.
Then along came the
Yankee vs. Salmon Arm
court case in which some
very important principles
were established. The most
important was that a professional could use judgement
to determine whether a
Harmful Alteration Damage
or Disruption to fish habitat
will occur if the work goes
ahead. For example, if there
is an existing structure within
the riparian setback, any
harm has already been
caused so building on that
footprint is considered OK.
The professionals took the
direction from the court and
implemented it.
Staff from Forests Lands
and Natural Resource Operations was not happy about it
so this year we have a new
process. 100% of all assessments are now being audited
by provincial staff. Professionals are being questioned
about details of their assessments and are being instructed to change assessments
where the province disagrees
with their judgement.
The Riparian Area Regulation is a particularly flawed
piece of legislation that tries
to put a cookie cutter solution to protecting riparian
values throughout the Southern Interior. It doesn’t matter
what the local environmental
conditions are, the same rules
apply everywhere. So a
north facing beach on Shuswap Lake will get a 30 metre
setback. A north facing
beach on Nicola Lake attracts
the same setback despite being in a desert where at
around 10 metres from the
lake, the vegetation transitions to Bunch Grass, Rose
bushes, and cactus.
What was positive was
the rules were clearly understood by the professionals
and that helped keep costs in
control and the selfregulating filing of assessments was quick. Now we
can look forward to higher
costs and further delays.
What we now have is essentially a permitting process
and the government’s objective of self-reliance and reduction in staffing has been
thwarted.
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On the evening of April 3rd, Chase
RCMP conducted a traffic Checkstop on
Squilax-Anglemont Road in the Lee Creek
area. Approximately twelve vehicles were
checked and several verbal warnings were
issued for minor Motor Vehicle Act infractions. Police will continue to conduct
Checkstops in the North Shuswap in an
attempt to reduce the incidents of drinking
and driving. Remember to always have a
designated driver.
8 thefts in Ta’Lana Bay Area
Between April 4th and 13th, there
were eight reported incidents of theft or
attempted theft in the 4400 to 5200 block
area of Squilax-Anglemont Road (Ta'Lana
Bay area)
On April 4th, police responded to a
report of theft from vehicle in the 5100
block of Squilax-Anglemont Road in
Celista. A homeowner stated he was
awakened at 4:30 am to observe an unknown individual in the homeowner’s
Chevrolet pickup truck. The owner was
approximately fifty feet from the vehicle,
but when he turned on his residence lighting, he observed an individual flee down
his driveway, get into
the front passenger seat
of a two door coupe
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the scene. A radar detector had been stolen from the unlocked pickup.
On April 5th, two dirt bikes were
stolen from a residence on Jack Trotter
Drive. The locking cable had been cut.
One bike was described as a 2014 KTM
350 XCF-W orange/black (Alberta plate
FCP58), valued at $10,400, and a 2014
Kawasaki KX100 green (Alberta plate
GGT14), valued at $5,600.
On April 5th, a backpack was stolen
from a vehicle on Ta'Lana Bay Road. The
backpack contained a heart rate monitor,
valued at $200. The vehicle had been left
unlocked overnight.
On April 5th, a resident of Ta'Lana
Bay reported a theft from motor vehicle.
The resident stated someone had stolen
her children's Alberta Driver's Licenses
from within her unlocked SUV.
On April 5th, a resident of Ta'Lana
Bay reported a theft from motor vehicle at
4400 block Squilax-Anglemont Road
(Ta'Lana Bay), in Celista. The resident
stated someone had stolen a Garmin GPS
from his vehicle sometime during the
overnight hours. The vehicle had been left
unlocked
On April 6th, at 9:12 am, Chase
RCMP received a report of a stolen vehicle from 4400 block Squilax-Anglemont
Road in Celista. The complainant reported
his white 1997 pickup stolen overnight.
The truck had a full tank of gas, and was
left unlocked with the owner's wallet in
the cab. The perpetrators also entered the
unlocked garage and stole a Bushnell
Viewfinder and Husqvarna 455 Rancher
chainsaw. The owner's credit cards were
later used in Barriere, and his stolen property was located in another stolen vehicle
which had been recovered in Barriere.
Police continue to investigate these multiple related property crimes.
On April 10th, Chase RCMP received
a report of theft from vehicle on Copper
Cove Road in Celista. The complainant
stated that between November 1st, 2014
and April 9th, 2015 someone stole the
battery from a vehicle that had been
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parked at the residence, as
well as a solar panel that was
inside the vehicle. There was
some damage to the passenger
side keyhole.
On April 13th, Chase
RCMP received a report of
theft from vehicle in the 4400
block Squilax-Anglemont
Road, Celista. The complainant stated the theft occurred
during the early morning hours
of April 5th. A black CD case
containing approximately 20
CDs and two black cell phone
chargers had been stolen. The
vehicle had been left unlocked
overnight.
Suspicious Vehicle
RCMP were dispatched to a
report of a suspicious vehicle
in the 4400 block SquilaxAnglemont Road, Celista. The
complainant, who had earlier
had his truck stolen, stated a
white 2014 Dodge Ram with
Alberta plates drove slowly
through his neighbourhood.
When he approached the occupants of the truck, they told
him they were looking for
certain individuals whom he
did not recognize as residents
on that road. The complainant
reported this as suspicious
activity, and patrols were
made for the vehicle without
success.
CP Rail Request
RCMP received a request from
CP Rail to conduct patrols
between Sorrento and the Tappen crossing. A CP train
passed observed a young man
sitting on the north track, talking on a cell phone. Chase
RCMP want to remind the
public that it is illegal and extremely dangerous to be on
active railway tracks.
Single Vehicle Collisions
On April 19th at 2:38 am,
Chase RCMP responded to a
single vehicle collision on
Trans Canada Hwy, near the
intersection with SquilaxAnglemont Rd. BC Ambulance reported that there were
two occupants trapped in a
vehicle in the ditch. A grey
2014 Dodge Journey had gone
off-road right into the eastbound ditch and struck a rockface. Chase Fire Rescue arrived on scene and used the
Jaws of Life to extract the occupants. The female driver and
female passenger were transported to hospital for assessment. Alcohol and drugs did
not appear to be factors in this
collision.
On April 21st at 12:32
pm, RCMP dispatched to a
single vehicle collision on
Squilax-Anglemont Road near
Beatrice Road in Lee Creek. A
witness heard the collision and
called police. A 2005 Corvette
had attempted to pass a vehicle
making a right-hand turn off
Squilax-Anglemont Road, and
lost control. The Corvette went
down an embankment and
struck a parked unoccupied
travel trailer. There were no
serious injuries, and alcohol
was not a factor in the collision.
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Corey, his wife Angela and his 10 year old son, Abraxas, have lived in Blind Bay for three years and lived in
Celista for five years before that. Corey originally came
from Vancouver Island.
Corey believes in giving back to the community. He is
a founding member of the newly-formed Shuswap Optimist
Club in Blind Bay. The Club aids and encourages youth to
get active and have fun. The Club is working on the idea to
get a kayak or canoe club started and maybe give some disadvantaged kids a chance to do some fun activities that they
wouldn’t normally get to do. He also recently sponsored a
fund-raising breakfast at the Lakeview Community Centre in
Anglemont.
Advantage Roofing is committed to helping customers
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The Kicker appreciates the advertising support from Corey and Angela
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Pink Ribbon Golf
Tournament
By Janice Winfield
Team Chase is holding our Fifth
Annual Pink Ribbon Golf Tournament a
one day event being held on Sunday May
3rdth, 2015 @ Sunshore Golf Course.
We are excited!! to say that due to our
great sponsors and support, all of our
golf spots are full. However we are still
looking for 1) Hole Sponsors – a
$100.00 donation gives you a tax receipt,
a day of on course advertising as well as
advertising in the programs and other in
house recognition posters. AND 2) Donations to be used for door prizes and
silent auction items.
The Members of Team Chase would
like to thank you in advance for your
support. FMI call Janice 250-6794471.
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Team.
Celista Fire Department
has spent the last few weeks
on specialized procedures for
car fires, dumpster fires and
wild land fires. In fact, at
several of our last practices
we have been working with
foam applications to review
and define its effectiveness
in various situations. (Check
our Facebook page for photos and more)
In the upcoming weeks,
you will see us out in various
neighbourhoods, working
with the fire hydrants, local
ponds and of course the
Lake. Another important
continuing training plan involves difficult terrain; how
to plan an attack on property
that has a long and winding
driveway, some with a greater than 30 degree slope, and
other challenging locations.
For another plan, we
need the public’s help.
Search and victim recovery
in a building is a crucial part
of any Fire call. We practice
this in our Fire Hall and in
the Training center in Salmon Arm; however it would
be ideal if we had a derelict
home or shop (preferably
with interior walls) in our
area. Don't worry, we won't
set Fire to it or even use water, as we have an artificial
smoke machine (similar to
those used on movie sets) to
Celista
simulate a smoked filled
By Roy Phillips
In a few short weeks our building. If you can help,
population will dramatically please call Roy @ 250-517increase, some say quadruple 0540.
Remember the woods
or more, and with growth
are
very
dry out there; take
comes the possibility of increased Fire calls. Most of
Anglemont
By Dave King
Anglemont Volunteer
Fire Department has been
very active in training exercises with all members. We
are excited to have completed our most recent training
exercise, a practice burn of a
cabin located in Camp Grafton.
Congratulations to Bryan Rogers on the successful
completion of his Air Brakes
Course.
At this time, we want to
thank Ernie Howe for his
years of service. We are
pleased to welcome Andy
Aichholz back as a member
of our fire department. We
also welcome back Reese
Stone from University and
our newest member, Rachael
Stone.
Our current members
reside as follows: 11 Anglemont – 3 St. Ives – 2 Magna
Bay – 3 Lucerne Beach – 1
Horseshoe Bay.
As stated last month, we
are planning a major Canada
Day Event next to the Ross
Creek Country Store. Plans
include a full firefighting
demonstration including all
apparatus, Fire and Life
Safety Demonstrations, displays by emergency responders and activities for kids and
adults.
We encourage all North
Shuswap residents to attend
our Canada Day Celebration
where we promise fun and
education for all.
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caution with your outdoor
burning.
Above all, think Safety,
be Safe.
We're ready...are you?
Scotch Creek/Lee Creek
By Art Stoll
We are in the planning
stage of hosting our annual
Garage Sale. Folks have
been phoning to reserve a
table. Unfortunately, we offer first come first serve on
tables. If anyone wants to
come and display their wares
instead of at your own yard,
please consider setting up a
space with us. There is a $10
donation per table, yours or
ours, which goes to the
Firefighters’ fund.
We’ve had no fire calls
so far for the month of April.
Our current roster stands
at 21 members.
As the amount of rain
has fallen, folks are still
burning yard debris. Although a burn restriction is
not in place at this time,
please consider the weather
and surrounding ground conditions before you burn yard
debris. If you have a pile that
is larger than 3 meters by 3
meters, please call 1 800 663
-7867 for a free burn registration number. Be aware of
burning demolition waste,
domestic waste (garbage)
plastics, treated lumber, fuel
and lubricant containers or
product. The penalty for
burning these materials is a
fine from Ministry of Environment that will be not
more than $200,000.00.
Please feel free to come
out and observe our drills
and perhaps consider joining
one of the fire departments,
our training is every Tuesday
night from 7:00 pm to 9:00
pm.
It’s festival time again in
the Shuswap!
Submitted by Kelly Hopkins
The twelfth annual Word
on the Lake Writers’ Festival
happens May 15th-17th,
2015, at the Prestige Harbourfront Resort and Okanagan College in Salmon Arm.
Word has something for
everyone--from editors
and publishers to bestselling
fantasy and mystery writers.
Participants will enhance
their writing skills and enjoy
opportunities to network, socialize, and have fun! And,
yes, there’s a workshop on
song writing!
This year's presenter
lineup includes Kelsey Attard, Gail Bowen, Brian Brett, Norma Charles,
Margaret Curelas, Anne
DeGrace, Charles de Lint,
Gary Fjellgaard, Grant Lawrence, Kathryn Para, Jodie
Renner, Harold Rhenisch, and
Louise Wallace.
Did we mention
fun? Friday night is the Coffee House with author readings and the lyrical music of
Juno Award winner and Hall
of Fame songwriter Gary
Fjellgaard. The Saturday
Night Banquet also features
Gary, as well as vocal entertainment provided by Charles
de Lint, MaryAnn Harris, and
popular CBC personality and
author Grant Lawrence.
Check out our website at
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The Celista Coffeehouse
Concert Series Presents:
Summer Solstice with The
Symphony
Some of the
By Jim Leduc
Come and enjoy another proceeds from the
relaxing Summer Solstice
concert will go towards the
night with some of the best
Celista Coffee House Ninety
the Kamloops Symphony has Day Music Challenge. This
to offer. Last year was a
initiative is to support school
great show and this year will aged students in the North
be even better! Sandra Wil- Shuswap who are interested
mot on Violin and Martin
in exploring music lessons.
Kratky on Cello, both from
The Coffee House is offering
the Kamloops Symphony
free music lessons for ninety
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the end of the show with
aspects of learning. If you
some classical banjo. You
know of a student who
don't what to miss this show! would be interested, call Jim
Tickets will be on sale at at 250 679-2174. The prothe Scotch Creek Super Val- gram resumes in the fall.
ue and Ross Creek Country
May 15th will be our last
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sion is $20.00 For more in- Feature act will be "Blu and
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Investing in post-secondary
education pays off
BC Newsroom
Lifetime earnings figures for postsecondary graduates in British Columbia confirm that it is one of the best investments available.
“British Columbians with an undergraduate post-secondary degree can expect to earn an additional $827,000 over
the course of their working life,” said
Advanced Education Minister Andrew
Wilkinson. “A post-secondary education
is one of the smartest investments you
can make whether it is a diploma, trade
or degree.”
An analysis in 2014 by BC Stats
shows that graduates of post-secondary
programs earn a higher income over a
working lifetime than they would make
with a high-school diploma.
BC Stats findings of additional lifetime earnings:
 Registered apprenticeship certificate $524,000.
 Undergraduate degree (all, excluding
medicine, dentistry and veterinary
medicine) - $827,000.
 Undergraduate degree in arts or science - $577,000.
 Undergraduate degree in engineering,
business or health - more than $1 million.
 Trade certificate or diploma (e.g.,
foundation program) - $266,000.
 Certificate or diploma - ranges between $178,000 and $370,000 for a
certificate or diploma below a bachelor degree.
 Master’s degree - more than $1 mil-
lion.
Medicine, dentistry or veterinary medicine - more than $2 million.
“There are one million job openings
anticipated in the province by 2022, two
-thirds of them driven by retirements
and many of them are in-demand careers in the skilled trades and technical
occupations,” said Shirley Bond, Minister of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training
and Minister Responsible for Labour.
“When you look at the higher lifetime
earnings that come with these careers in
our diverse, strong and growing economy, it’s clear that these careers that can
support families and build communities.”
The methodology looked at the level and type of education of people between 19 and 64 years of age and considered the timing of their education. A
similar study in 2006 looked at a variety
of university programs that produced
the single number of $650,000 in additional lifetime earnings. The updated
numbers show median earnings to account for extreme high and low results.
British Columbia has maintained
the fourth-lowest average undergraduate
annual tuition fees in Canada at $5,118.
This is the ninth straight year that the
tuition increase has remained below the
national average increase. The average
college-program base tuition in the
province is $3,000 a year. Increases in
tuition fees are capped at 2% annually
in B.C.
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North Shuswap Community Association
Fundraiser
Garage Sale
Saturday May 16
9 am – 2 pm
(Set-up from 8am to 9am)
Rain or Shine
Fire Department
$10.00 donation to the fire
department for a table
(no reservations taken)
Pancakes, Hot Dogs,
50/50 Draw
Proceeds raised go to the Scotch Creek/
Lee Creek Fire Fighters
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Spring is here! The snow has melted lands, reducing forage quality for liveand the birds are returning. Time to start stock and wildlife.
“The introduction and spread of inthinking about your garden. What invasive seeds are lurking in your backyard? vasive plants can be mitigated through
Do you have a weed that takes over your public education and outreach,” says
CSISS Program Assistant Laura Gaster.
backyard every year?
What can you do to stop the spread of
Invasive plants spread quickly and
invasive plants in your back garden and
quietly. Seeds and plant fragments can
community?
also ‘jump the fence’
and invade our local
 Be Plant Wise ecosystems. When
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invasive seeds in
about invasive plant
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plant-wise/
Prevention is
 Clean, Drain and
key as it is often an
Dry your boat to preup-hill battle with
vent the spread of
Get involved with a local Community
invasive species.
aquatic invasives, such
Weed Pull or plan one in your
Beautiful ornamenas the threatening Zebneighbourhood this summer.
tals, such as baby’s
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CSISS thanks the generous support of
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Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations).
To learn more CSISS, local invasive species and our initiatives, visit:
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Baby’s Breath, a fast-moving invasive plant producing more than 13,000 seeds that takes over
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MLA Kyllo is paying a visit to the North Shuswap
on Friday May 8th and welcomes the opportunity to meet
with constituents at the Chamber office located at Century
21 Building at the Centre in Scotch Creek, 3871 Squilax
Anglemont Hwy
By appointment only
call 250-833-7414 or
[email protected]
to book.
Time slots are limited.
Friday May 8th
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By Jo Anne Malpass
Many of the farmers’
markets open for the season in
May, offering a chance to buy
the freshest and tastiest foods
available.
The farmers’ markets
open this month in Scotch
Creek, Blind Bay, Sorrento,
Chase and Salmon Arm.
Celista will open the first of
July. See our calendar of
events page for dates, locations and times.
Food at the farmers’ market is transported shorter distances and is generally grown
using methods that minimize
the impact on the earth. Fruits
are allowed to ripen fully in
the field and are brought directly to you with all their
nutrients intact.
Buying directly from
farmers gives them a better
return for their produce and
supports the local economy.
Meeting and talking to farmers is a great opportunity to
learn more about how and
where food is produced and
get cooking tips for the foods
they are selling.
Here's what you can find
food wise at the Sunday
Scotch Creek and Saturday
Blind Bay farmers markets pies, cookies, bread, pickles,
jams, jellies, salsa, chutneys,
spice mixes, local honey,
fresh fruits, berries, vegetables, some gluten free baking
and locally made quinoachicken sausages. Deb Gibson
manages these two markets
and says “I’m hoping for eggs
and possibly local meat as
well. Some of the veg, etc. are
organic, they are all tasty.”
Visit the Wednesday
Celista Hall Farmers’ Market
for baking (bread, cookies
muffins, pies) honey, eggs,
lots of produce (4 veggie ven-
dors) and fruit (berries, cherries, apricots, apples and
plums), homemade soaps and
lotions. This year it has a
chocolate vendor too. You
can also get fresh flowers in
bouquets, herb bouquets,
homemade dog food, Celista
Winery wine, tea blends, lots
of jams, pickles, fruit syrup,
chutney etc. The market offers ready-to-eat food: hot
dogs, waffles and the Be
Teased food truck will be
there.
Friday Nights Live at The
Centre in Scotch Creek operates during July and August
offering music, market and
food.
The Friday Chase Farm
and Craft Market offers a
variety of seasonal locally
grown produce, farm fresh
eggs, fresh baked goods,
gourmet preserves, dry rubs,
salsas, BBQ sauces and a selection of unique hand crafted
items.
The Saturday Sorrento
Village Farmers’ Market has
a wide variety of vendors with
organic vegetables, baking,
preserves, eggs, honey, bedding plants and pasture raised
meats. It was awarded the
2013 best small farmers’ market of the year prize from the
BC Association of Farmers’
Markets.
The Tuesday and Friday
Shuswap Farm and Craft
Market in Salmon Arm has
about 70 regular vendors offering fresh farm products and
crafts; all made, baked, or
grown locally.
Most of the local growers
sell at the farmers’ markets
but some also sell directly to
customers, either through a
weekly basket system or from
their gardens.
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Lee Creek Organics sells
from their garden on View
Road in Lee Creek as well as
at the Celista farmers’ market. When their sign goes up
for the season, they will have
organic vegetables and later
on, you can pick your own
cherries and buy plums, pears
and apples.
Golden Ears Farm by
Chase sells at Kamloops and
Chase farmers’ markets but
also runs a community supported agriculture program
offering a weekly food box.
As the season progresses, you
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can expect to enjoy fresh
spring greens, salad turnips,
radishes, peas, carrots, strawberries, beans, potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes, raspberries, corn, squash, onions,
leeks and much more. It will
be running on Tuesdays from
June 16 to September 22.
Full details can be found on
their website:
www.goldenearsfarm.com.
If you want to try growing yourself, the farmers’
markets have some locally
grown tomato and other bedding plants available in the
early part of the season.
Caravan’s West
Electrical Upgrade
employees of Spooner Electric
By Drina Latrace
Spooner Electric this year will also be spent in the local
was awarded a large contract community at large.
Spooner Electric is doing
at Caravans West RV Resort
in Scotch Creek to upgrade the an amazing job and it is hard
electrical at all sites from their to find evidence of the trench
current 30 AMP service
digging that has taken place in
the South End
Work is
of the Park.
progressing
They are comrapidly with
pleting the job
wiring to large
in a quick,
number of our
382 sites alsafe and effiready comcient manner.
It has been
plete. Each
very interestsite will have
ing living in
their own
breaker box
the middle of
a work site
with a 70
watching the
AMP, 50
AMP, 30 AMP
different machinery being
& 20 AMP
used to do the
breaker availaTrenches are dug to place electrical lines job. I am
ble for use
for upgrade at Caravans West in Scotch
hopeful all
depending on
Creek. Picture credit: Drina Latrace
each owners
work will be
individual needs.
completed by the end of June
As a permanent resident at 2015.
Caravans West, I am pleased a
Currently the majority of
the work is taking place in the
local contractor was used for
work in our Park, this ensures North End of Caravans West
and the breaker boxes are belocal tradesman are used for
this project. It also means
ing installed in the sites allocal business will also benefit ready done, completing the
from this contract as some of majority of the work at the
South End.
the money earned by these
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Shuswap Trail News
Submitted by Phil McIntyre- throughout the Shuswap,
Paul, Shuswap Trail Alliance find out how to get more
Shuswap Bike Month
involved in trail care as a
May is Shuswap Bike
Month - check out shuswapbike.com for the event
schedule. And don't miss
the Salty Street Festival,
May 9th, on Hudson Street,
Salmon Arm. And of
course, the Salty Dog 6
Hour Enduro hits the South
Canoe trails the next day,
May 10th.
TrailRiders
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Everyone: Book the TrailRider - two Trail Riders are
available for booking out to
use on trails throughout the
Shuswap (minimal donation
of $10). They're a great way
to get out on trails with
friends who need mobility assistance. Visit: shuswaptrailrider.com
Guided Hikes
Guided hikes by Carmen Massey. The series of
3 hikes started on April
25th but there are still two
hikes left in May. The Hike
series is a partnership of the
Shuswap Trail Alliance and
the NSSCRA (North and
South Shuswap Children's
Recreation Association). It
is for families and individuals in the South Shuswap
area. Learn the basics of
hiking with a group, learn
more about the trail system
volunteer, enjoy a day out
with friends and neighbours
on our world-class trail system.
McArthur Heights to
Balmoral: Saturday, May
9 at 10:00 am. (4 hour
hike)
Meet at the Balmoral
Parking area, 3 km north of
Hwy 1 at Balmoral store, on
Blind Bay road. We will
shuttle up to the McArthur
Heights parking area from
there.
Be sure to bring a large
lunch! This hike will extend well over the mid-day,
including shuttling vehicles
at both ends.
White Lake Lookout:
Saturday, May 30 at 10:00
am. (2 hour hike)
Meet at the John Evdokimoff Bike Park in White
Lake
People are encouraged
to pre-register by emailing
Carmen at [email protected] or calling
250-804-3466.
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head out on one of the beautiful Shuswap trails? We
would love to know if there
are any issues. Let us know
by sending an email to
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Community Cleans Up
By Jo Anne Malpass
Removal of the derelict buildings
and burnt out trailer at Butters Road in
Scotch Creek was accomplished in early
April through community donations of
labour, equipment and money. There
are still a few odds and ends left to sort
through and anyone with a wheel bar-
row or maybe a bobcat who would like
to help is encouraged to stop by.
The North Shuswap Clean up our
Community Committee already has a
few suggestions for its contest to rename the area, contest closes May 30.
To offer a suggestion or learn more, see
the Committee’s Facebook page.
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By Jo Anne Malpass
Ride along on a tour of the British
Isles at the 22nd Pig and Whistle
“Britain or Bust” at Lakeview Community Centre in Anglemont.
The Tour Director leads a group of
Canadians and one family from the
Ozarks on a bus tour of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.
The audience learns about the history of Britain, views photos of the
areas on a large screen and is entertained with music from each location,
some new songs and many old favourites.
A variety of musical and dance
numbers are interspersed with drama
and comedy. There’s a little bit of everything; black and white dancers, singing miners in a coal mine, Henry VIII
and his wives, a drunken sailor, an audience participation sing-a-long in an
Irish Pub and a strange Viking.
The tour director tries to keep her
group moving along, from the odd
Ozark grandparents with young bored
granddaughter to the overly excited
one, the one who enjoys the food too
much and the know-it-all.
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The Anglebay Entertainers show
up in a wide variety of costumes and
the cast comes out in a different outfit
(where does the Ozark grandmother get
those stockings?) for each location.
The last two performances will be
May 1 and 2 at 7:00 pm. Tickets are
available at Super Valu, Ross Creek
Country Store and on the Lakeview
Community Centre website.
Doors Open
at 7pm
*All proceeds go to Celista Hall
Tickets can be purchased at Super Valu,
Sunnyside Supermarket and Ross Creek Store
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Meat draw/50/50 continued with good attendance.
They’ll keep going every Saturday at 3PM at the
Copper Island Pub
with good food, good
drinks and lots of fun.
Thanks. Gino quiet
this month. Very
large 50/50’s last two
weeks.
May activities include:
May 8/9 Highway Cleanup;
May 10 Cooking pancakes for
Celista Hall Mother’s Day
Breakfast; May 22 serving
free hotdogs and drinks at
North Shuswap Elementary
Science Fair (donations accepted for the school)
Worth repeating:
Got any old glasses, prescription or non, please drop
them off at Peoples Drugs in
Scotch Creek, Lions Club
International Foundation with
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friends and partners maintain
a worldwide Saving Sight
program. Last year Saving
Sight grants totalled over 13
million $. This included distribution of about
400,000 pairs of glasses. You can also drop
off old hearing aids at
Peoples.
Lions would like
to remind Grade 12
graduates of our $750 bursary. As in past years, Lions
will award two $750 bursaries
to graduating students of
Salmon Arm Secondary who
attended North Shuswap Elementary School for at least
two years and will be pursuing post secondary education.
For more criteria information
and how to apply, go to the
schools website and follow
the links to the Counselling
Services folder.
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There’s A New Face
“Around” Town
Four years ago, Don
and Peggy Shurniak of
Kamloops, B.C. were
searching for a custom
home design that would be a
perfect fit for their lot located on the north shore of
Shuswap Lake. They wanted something that was
unique, that featured panoramic views and that would
be an energy conscious legacy to their family for generations to come.
From the moment the
Shurniak’s walked into the
round, ENERGY STAR
Mandala Show Home in
Nelson, B.C. they knew that
a Mandala Home was in
their future. What they were
yet to discover, was that
they were also walking
through the doors of their
new business- SilverLeaf
Solutions; The Shuswap &
Okanagan Sales Representatives for Mandala Homes at
www.silverleafsolutions.ca.
This spring, Don and
Peggy are building their
first Mandala Show Home
on a beautiful lot above the
golf course in Anglemont
Estates. Their new home,
which will be open for tours
and a friendly cup of tea,
will display key Mandala
Homes features- the beautiful radiating round shape,
the WISE WALL system (a
registered air barrier technique), the WOW wall of
windows, the spectacular
BC cedar cathedral ceiling
and Energuide Ratings.
Plus, their new home
will be a showpiece for the
quality work of local contractors, craftspeople and
subtrades, the “Sterling Select team” of SilverLeaf
Solutions. This is a fast and
experienced team that will
set up and finish future
Mandala Home packages in
the area.
There are already plans
in place for a second Show
Home to be erected at Regal
Ridge, in Oosoyos, this
summer.
“We’re passionate
about bringing these quality
homes into the Shuswap and
Okanagan region for the
following reasons.” state
Don and Peggy. “First, we
believe that purchasing a
Mandala Home can support
a family or couple to build
the home of their dreams,
and to live a more relaxing
lifestyle within architecture
that embraces them with a
sense of wellbeing, health
and harmony. Second, super energy efficient homes
are more cost effective,
more comfortable and they
are essential for the future.
Third, offsite manufacturing
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building and results in less
waste, more accuracy and
faster onsite construction.
Lastly, innovative companies like Mandala Homes
are making the world a better place one home at a time
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Stay tuned for local
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Former Lee Creek
Ratepayers donates
remaining monies
By Cathy Hopland
The Lee Creek Ratepayers Association, which recently dissolved as a society, has donated all monies it has collected through memberships in the
amount of $1408.60 to the North Shuswap First Responders. At the board
meeting prior to the 2014 Annual General Meeting, the board passed a motion
to donate the society funds to the NSFR
in the event of dissolution at the AGM.
The board prepared a Special Resolution
to dissolve the society in light of declining community participation on the
board and at public meetings. The resolution was passed the 2014 AGM. The
NSFR plan to use the money to purchase equipment to enhance their service to residents of the North Shuswap.
Thank you - Spring Fling Ceilidh
was held on April 11th as a fund raiser for
the Sorrento Memorial Hall and for the
Sorrento Drop In Society. Supporters
enjoyed an afternoon of dancing and merriment in the Celtic style.
This event was headed up by the Sorrento Scottish Country Dancers together
with members of the two Boards and of
the community. As a fundraiser, this was
a resounding success. Thanks to everyone
who took part.
Wendy Dean
Sorrento Scottish Country Dancers
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Dare to Dream
By Bev Shea
While out golfing with friends last
week I took time on one of the greens
to stop and admire the view of the lake,
the mountains and forest around us. I
reminded my friend to do the same and
she pointed out how lucky we are to
live where we do. So often we take
how fortunate we are for granted and
need to be reminded to be grateful for
all that we have in our lives.
True gratitude isn’t just mechanically listing all the things we are grateful for every night in our “gratitude
journal” (although this is a great place
to start), but it is having a mindset of
thankfulness and joy for all the blessings and beauty in our lives. It is living
with an attitude of gratitude. Okay, so
maybe not everything in our lives is
perfect right now. Gratitude can be
hard to foster when we are also experiencing struggle at the same time. Maybe we've just lost a job, or a loved one.
Maybe we have difficult financial
struggles. Maybe we are mired in depression and sadness. Maybe we are
experiencing challenges with our
health. It's hard to feel grateful during
moments like that. This is where faith
comes in. Gratitude (reflecting on and
being thankful for the blessings in our
life) and faith (believing that more
blessings are on the way) go hand in
hand. Maybe not everything is perfect
in our lives, but some things are great
and those other things will get better.
I believe that what we focus on is
what we attract in our lives. I have
found this to be a powerful truth in my
life. We can use that truth to help us
with those parts of our life that we may
not be happy with. Maybe there is a
person or situation which annoys you
for one reason or another. Due to circumstances you find it necessary to
spend time with this person or in the
situation. How can we turn this into a
blessing that we are grateful for? Think
about the person, or situation and instead of dwelling on whatever it is that
annoys you try finding one positive
things you like about it and write that
down. Think about that positive, dwell
on it. See if you can continue with this
exercise and find two or three positive
things. Write these down. Look at your
list, read it over. The more you do this
the more these will become the characteristics you associate with this person
or situation. Since you are now focused
on positives you will attract more of
these positives into your relationship
and before you know it you may find
that now this person or situation is a
blessing in your life.
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of
life. It turns what we have into enough,
and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to
clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast,
a house into a home, a stranger into a
friend. Gratitude makes sense of our
past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.” ~ Melody
Beattie.
When you have an attitude of gratitude you will find that miracle follows
miracle and wonders never cease. And
that’s the way it is.
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Our Healthy Community
Submitted by Jay Simpson
$1000 Reward!
You will see a new advertisement in this issue of
the Kicker and you'll likely
see these ‘wanted posters’ all
over town. Physician Recruitment is our main focus
and we had a very creative
idea that we thought our
community would love. We
are offering a reward for any
person who successfully refers a family physician to us
who agrees to set up practice
in Scotch Creek. We know
you all know doctors or
know people who know doctors and the best way to promote life in the North Shuswap is by word of mouth.
That is how a lot of us got
here. So the race is on – if
you are successful then we
are successful and the community wins! It's well worth
the reward of $1000!!
Volunteer Month and our
New Board Members
April was National Volunteer Month and the North
Shuswap has many caring,
committed people who work
for their special cause, as a
volunteer. Some of them run
our fire departments, first
responders, community hall,
Lakeview Centre, churches,
Lions club and men’s and
ladies golf leagues, gardening clubs, stitching groups,
historical society, naturalists,
garden club – wow what a
list! And I know I have
missed some. Of course, the
health centre has a board, and
some new board members,
who are full of knowledge
and enthusiasm. Pat Roberston and I, Jay Simpson,
want to thank our board
members, and all volunteers
in general, for giving our
community their precious
time.
Registered Dental
Hygienist
Our newest addition to
services available at the
Health Centre is dental hygiene care. Denise
Pawlyshyn is a Registered
Dental Hygienist who will be
at our clinic one week per
month. She has over 17 years
of experience and will manage all your dental hygiene
needs. See her ad in this issue of the Kicker or go to her
website
www.cleanbetweencastlegar.
com. You can make an appointment by calling 250-365
-8024.
Nurse Practitioner
Deborah Lewis, is getting busier but she will accept new patients in Scotch
Creek. If you like the idea of
having your medical care
managed by a professional
with a focus on improving
health and preventing illness
you should try a nurse practitioner. Call 250-679-1420 to
see Deborah and ask to have
that appointment in Scotch
Creek.
vDoc - Telemedicine
Dr. Figurski’s virtual
medicine practice is also
catching on with a lot of our
residents. He can’t do everything that an in-person visit
with a doctor can but he is
very easy to talk to and will
be able to help you with
many prescription problems,
referrals, and lab tests.
MAY 2015
Get your Lab
results at home
You can view and print
out all your future lab results
from LifeLabs (Fridays at the
clinic) just by registering at
their website. I have a folder
of my lab requisitions and
results that I take to every
doctor appointment. I find it
handy to look at what they're
looking at on their computer
screen and can ask more informed questions. The
printouts show where your
results are normal or where
they may deviate from the
norm and you could do some
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Submitted by Robert Piper
It was a beautiful day on
Easter Sunday, a perfect day
for the Easter Egg Hunt at
Sorrento-Blind Bay Park in
Sorrento. As they have been
doing for 16 or more years,
the Sorrento Lions Club
joined the River of Life
Church to provide a great
experience for everyone.
Hundreds of people of all
ages took part, some from
distant locations in British
Columbia and Alberta.
The Lions members
spread 7000 tiny foil-wrapped
chocolate eggs around the
play area. At 11:00 the gates
to the play area were opened
and the youngest children
rushed through to fill their
Easter baskets. Five minutes
later the older children joined
the hunt.
The Lions also hid 50
plastic eggs along the trail to
the side. Once found by lucky
youngsters, these numbered
eggs were exchanged for
large chocolate bunnies.
Ten more bunnies were
presented as prizes in the
Easter Bonnet Contest. Some
very creative bonnets were
judged and the winners were:
5 Years and Under:
1.
Lily Seys
2.
Evan Janzen
3.
Lilli Regnier
6 – 10 Years:
1.
Naomi Prouty
2.
Zachary Watkins
3.
Kaleyih Stockburger
11 – 15 Years:
1.
Gabe
Niewenhueizen
2.
Owen Stockburgger
3.
Shelby Merry
Adults (16 years and over):
1.
Cilla Watkins
2.
Dean Carteer
3.
Lynda Mercs
The River of Life Church
kindly barbequed 650 hotdogs
and supplied plenty of coffee,
hot chocolate and juice- all at
no charge.
At precisely 11:30 a fire
truck appeared on the scene
carrying a very special guest.
Excited children and parents
gathered around to receive
Easter eggs from this special
guest -The Easter Bunny! It
was a great day!
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MAY 2015
Kickin’
Computer Tips
Nobody wants PUPs
John Seymour
Lakeside Technical
Solutions
One of the great things
about the Internet is that you
can download computer programs from it. Almost any
software you can imagine is
available online, much of it
free. It’s important to understand however, that more
often than not, freeware (and
some paid for software) will
come bundled with one or
more PUPs. A PUP or Potentially Unwanted Program
is software that downloads
alongside legitimate programs, and installs itself with
the consent of the user.
PUP’s often come in the
form of adware, spyware and
browser toolbars but sometimes can be much worse.
Typically, it is your
method of installing freeware programs that often
brings Potentially Unwanted
Programs into your devices.
If you choose the ‘Express’
or ‘Recommended’ install
method, chances are high
that your computer will install not only the desired
program, but one or more
PUP’s as well. Always
choose the ‘Custom’ install
option when installing freeware. In fact, I recommend
choosing the custom install
option for any program you
install on your computer,
free or not.
There are several tricks
employed by software installation packages to get your
consent to install PUP’s. The
companies that provide freeware downloads get paid
based on how many users
download additional software along with the requested program. Therefore they
will employ
somewhat
sneaky tactics to try to fool
you into installing something
you don’t want.
For example, among the
main tricks is to present a
EULA (a page with I ACCEPT and I DECLINE buttons) on the dialog box with
a Next Button. If you read
the top of such a page on the
dialog, you will often find
that the program you are
accepting the agreement for,
is not even the one you’re
after.
Another common trick
often used, is to show the
EULA page, with I ACCEPT
already checked. There is no
I DECLINE option. The
hope is that you not notice
the checkmark, and just
press the ‘Next’ or ‘OK’
button.
Sometimes you’ll find
double negatives designed to
confuse you into making the
wrong choice and unintentionally installing the unwanted software. Other times
you might see a big bright
OK button right next to a
very small and almost unreadable ‘no thanks’.
The key to avoiding
PUPs is to CHECK THE
WORDING CAREFULLY
during each step of the install. Always read and make
sure you understand each
dialog box before moving
onto the next. Your computer will thank you.
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Al Christopherson’s
Real Estate View
Direct Line (250) 955-2188
e-mail: [email protected] website: www.northshuswap.com
Two points this month:
Alberta buyers:
The number of my Alberta buyers has
increased so far in 2015. The forecast by some, that
Alberta's oil price economic downturn would lower the
Alberta buyers’ interest in Shuswap property, is actually
resulting in a reverse effect. I'm not about to guess how
long this trend will last.
Incorporation:
We seem to have the topic of
incorporation for the North Shuswap as a current topic of
discussion among North Shuswap citizens. As
frustration with the CSRD continues, it’s not a surprise
that people talk about incorporating and becoming the
Municipality of North Shuswap. Frustration comes from
a lack of control. If we want more control we must have
the authority. Authority comes from incorporation.
Incorporation equals local control and less frustration.
One day enough citizens will vote to incorporate. I
wonder when?
Disclaimer: Al Christopherson is affiliated with Century 21 Lakeside Realty Ltd.
and the opinions expressed herein are his own and not those of the company.
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MAY 2015
Letter to the Editor
Imperial Metals Applies to Re-open the Mount Polley Mine
Deadline for public input into the
Imperial Metals application to reopen Mt Polley Mine are due by
email end of day May 2, 2015
([email protected]). I am
opposed to allowing Imperial Metals to
re-open the Mount Polley Mine and
have written in to say so. Petitions can
be found online but individual letters
have more impact. Feel free to include
any information from this article in your
own email. Based on my discussions
with many indigenous peoples, I do not
believe that the re-opening of the mine
has the support of the majority of peoples of the Secwepemc Nation, nor the
general (indigenous and not) populace
off reserve. Williams Lake Band council may appear to support this endeavour, but that does not mean that the majority of Williams Lake Band members
do support it and of course, the WLB
council does not speak for all
Secwepemc peoples (who would include our local bands Little Shuswap
Lake, Adams and Neskonlith, Kamloops etc.).
The only way to really understand
the interests of the Secwepemc and settler peoples of the regions affected, in
my opinion, would be to create a poll or
referendum. Imperial Metals states that
they fulfilled their obligation to have
community meetings but don't report on
how they were responded to by different
communities and stakeholders. The BC
Conservation Service inquiry, in conjunction with the RCMP, Environment
Canada and Fisheries and Oceans Canada, is investigating the impacts of the
Mt Polley Breech on the environment
and their report is not due out until
June. Will the results of that investigation be available for the Ministry of
Energy and Mines and Ministry of Environment to use in their decision about
this re-opening permit application?
Why is the deadline for public comment
so soon, meaning that we will not have
these BC Conservation Service inquiry
results available to us by your May 2
deadline for public comment?
It states in the proposed Water
Management Plan (WMP) document
(Golder 2015) that the current permit
allows 1.4 million cubic metres of water
discharge, while at the same time stating that the current discharge could be 3
times that.
It also states that onsite levels of
Nitrate, Copper, Sulphate, Aluminum,
Iron, Selenium and Suspended Solids
are above accepted concentrations. The
report implies that if the WMP is not
pushed through then previously unaffected areas like Bootjack Lake will
potentially be impacted. This feels like
the threat of contamination of Bootjack
Lake is being used to push through the
latest permit application. The Return to
Restricted Operations permit application implies that they will be working at
reduced capacities, although the work
suggested is at half load, which is still
very substantial.
I feel strongly that pushing this
Return to Restricted Operations Permit
through before the results from the BC
Conservation et al inquiry, and a fuller
understanding of the actual individual
First Nations and settler support or rejection of this permit is unacceptable.
Scientists in the area reported a
substantial diatom dieoff in the fall of
2014 in Quesnel Lake. Diatoms feed
zooplankton that salmon fry consume.
Until we better understand the long term
impacts of the disaster on the environment, we cannot justify putting any
more people, animals and flora in jeopardy by re-opening the mine. The clean
-up that has occurred (minimal) barely
begins to address the impacts on the
environment. I suggest that more time
is spent getting an understanding of the
long term impacts especially on salmon
before any re-opening at any capacity
will be considered. The WMP could be
put into place without starting up the
mine again.
Please make sure you are heard and
write with your comments
by May 2. Email me for
links to the reports. [email protected]
Celia A. Nord
MAY 2015
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Anglemont Fire Hall
Renovations
By Jo Anne Malpass
The North Shuswap’s
oldest Fire Hall has been undergoing renovations and upgrades with new office and
kitchen areas.
Anglemont Fire Hall was
built in 1978 and, at that time,
had room for one fire truck.
Over the years it has been
expanded twice to hold four
fire department vehicles, a
meeting room, office and storage areas.
The kitchen area in the
reconfigured training/meeting
room is almost complete, just
waiting for cupboards and
sink. Two computers hooked
up to the internet are available
for firefighters to use for the
required courses and a modern air refilling station has
been recently installed, making this procedure safer.
The Fire Hall will also be
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The name of our organization is the North Shuswap
Community Association. The most important part
of our name is Community
because it is the essence of
what we are. So what is
community anyway? Community is togetherness; it
means being there for people
when they need help, it
means getting together over
cookies and coffee and chatting while you decorate the
hall for Christmas, or it
means hanging out at the
coffee house to see your
friends and neighbours perform, or taking part in
Zumba or Nia or joining the
Lions Club or the Historical
society and learning about
the past. The Community
Hall is the place to see people you know or meet people
you don’t know yet.
The NSCA serves the
entire North Shore from Lee
Creek to St Ives, so we help
make the North Shore a single community instead of a
string of neighbourhoods.
Without community we are
just isolated individuals and
settlements, but together we
are stronger and we rise up
to achieve moments of greatness when called upon.
Here is a little story that
is not about greatness, but
it’s about community. The
other day I saw a man I
knew walking down the
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road. I had seen his truck at
the garage, and I could see
he was probably walking to
get his truck. So I turned
around and asked him if he
needed a ride. He was sort of
confounded because I was
the fourth person to ask him.
He said he just wanted the
exercise, but he would take
the ride anyway because
why not? He had already
walked a fair way. I almost
felt bad because he was just
out enjoying a nice fresh air
walk on a sunny day and
people kept stopping to offer
him rides. That, though, is
what kind of community this
is. People just want to help,
and if they think you need it,
they will jump in and offer
it.
I am pleased to see this
year we will have a full slate
of directors and executive
positions filled with some
old and some new faces. As
some people leave, others
have joined in to help maintain, nurture and care for our
old hall, so people can
dance, sing, cry, discuss,
vote, drink and listen with
their friends and neighbours. The Community Hall
has been handed down generation after generation, and
I have been proud to be the
janitor, sit on the board as
both a director and now as
president. As president I
don’t feel my voice is more
important than anybody
else’s. We are a consensus
based democracy where we
discuss the issues seriously
and try to do the right thing.
So thank you to everybody
who has helped to create
what we have, and thank
you to those who have just
joined to continue the work
of building community.
A big thank you to the
all the volunteers (about
50!) who came out to the
Annual Clean Up at the
Hall. Since many hands
make light work everything
was done in a few hours and
everybody had a chance to
lean on their rake and chat .
Thanks to Lyn Barton and
Corrine Gaskin for organizing the kitchen and Al and
Harley Christopherson for
the BBQing.
A reminder to everyone
that Wine Stein and Dine is
approaching (May 30 at 7:00
pm). This will be the premier social event of the year,
so when the tickets go on
sale, do not hesitate to buy
one or two or three or four...
All proceeds go to the upkeep of the hall, so it is a
worthy cause as well as a
chance to sample delicious
wines and beers and eat food
and don’t forget the chocolate fountain... need I say
more?
Mother’s day is May 10.
The whole family can enjoy
a delicious—and affordable—breakfast with all the
trimmings for $7.00 per person. The pancakes start flipping at 8:30 am.
The Fathers Day Prime
Rib and Lobster Dinner is
coming up on June
19th. This event is as fun
and tasty as it sounds. Tickets on sale soon!
Membership fees are: $20/family, $10/individual
Contact information as follows:
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Rise and Shine Breakfast: A heartfelt
thank you to Al Christopherson and
his Personal Realty Corporation for
sponsoring the April 11 spring breakfast. Lucille Wood greeted each one at
the door with a cherry smile. Thanks to
Lynn Bryan who decorated the tables so
nicely in a spring theme; each table sported a bird house with a “sold by Al Chrisopherson” sign on each one. So clever!!
Donna Dancy and her team of Lorrie,
Annette, Gloria, Darla and Shirley made
a spring type breakfast of Wife Saver,
homemade cinnamon buns, fruit salad
and Orange Julius drinks. Thanks Donna
for making all those cinnamon buns.
Thanks to our bus boy Vern Dancy –
sorry about the dishpan hands Vern! Louie Trentin pitched in to help clean-up and
that was much appreciated. Thanks to
those who helped set up the tables on
Friday after our Pig and Whistle Rehearsal. The May 9 breakfast will be hosted
by the Community Bible Study and Prayer Group. We sincerely thank them and
the sponsor for this breakfast, Triton
Docks. See you May 9!!! Breakfasts run
from 8:00 to 11:00 on the second Saturday of each month.
 Regularly Schedule Activities: Most
of our regularly schedules activities have
concluded for the summer. The Art
Group, however, will continue painting
on Tuesday mornings. The Table Tennis
Group will meet on a drop in basis: FMI
Dennis Chow 250-955-2899. Also continuing for the summer will be the bridge
player group on Wednesday evenings.
 PIG AND WHISTLE – BRITAN OR
BUST! Our 22nd Pig and Whistle show
ends with our last show on May 2nd. We
have had a busy winter with rehearsals. A
full report will be in the June Kicker after
we have time to reflect on our show!
 Renos Continue: Thanks to Brian
Ruddock for insulating, dry walling, fire
coating and applying one coat of drywall
mud to the wall at the back stage area
walkway. The area is now bright, clean
and safe for our use. It just needs a coat
of paint!!!
 MARK YOUR CALENDARS:

June 20, 2015: Elvis Evolution – Adam
Fitzpatrick is coming to wow us with his
Award Winning Elvis Tribute show.
Those who have seen him say he is very
authentic in his presentation and puts on
a fabulous show. Tickets are $25.
July 24, 2015: Divas – Vegas Meets
Vaudeville with Bonnie Kilroe. Bonnie
“does” Cher, Marilyn Monroe, Patsy
Cline, Barbra Streisand, Tina Turner and
many more during her show. Tickets are
$30
Tickets for both Elvis and Diva
shows will be available from Marianne
Brama at 250-955-0364. Light Refreshment included.
August 22, 2015 - Revival with
“Kenny Rogers” coming from Kelowna
to play for our dancing and listening
pleasure. Revival plays music of the 60’s,
70’s and 80’s and they pack the dance
floor. Ticket information coming soon.
September Murder Mystery Dinner
Theatre: the September Party Guys and
Gals are already busy planning our Annual Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre for
the end of September. James Gaub and
Germain Begin are busy writing the
script and the food planners have their
heads in cookbooks to come up with a
tasty meal. There will be two evening
performances of 120 tickets per night.
Ticket information will be available
soon.
June 13 Plant Sale - starting at 8am,
hosted by the Country Gardener’s Club
For more info call Suzanne Dussome at
250-679-2614.
 Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow: Sadly
we have to say goodbye to 4 Lakeview
Centre Members who are moving away.
Joe and Lucille Wood have given so
much to our community and the Lakeview Centre. Joe’s Remembrance Day
Services are Legendary. He put so much
passion and heart into each service and
we always heard the comment “that was
such a beautiful service”. Joe was bar
manager for many years and his domain
was well organized, spotless and his records meticulously kept. He organized the
yearly garage sale and in his own words
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we hear him say, “It’s a Joe
Job”.
Lucille did a wonderful
job as our Membership Chair
bringing the membership from
88 members up to the present
156 + members in good standing. She organized the music
room music which was a huge
job and she could be counted
on to be our door greeter at
breakfasts and special events.
We, The Barbershop Girls
(BG’S) will miss her direction
and patience as she taught us
how to sing in 4 part harmony.
Bill and Melrose Scott
were enthusiastic members
and I will always remember
Melrose dressed in Goalie
Gear at our Canada Day Celebration Hockey Tournament.
She did a wonderful job between the pipes stopping shots
left and right. I will remember
Bill at that same game taunting
“we want a Ref” as he deeked
out a player to score a goal.
We will miss their humour,
hard work and enthusiasm.
Lucille and Joe are moving to Salmon Arm and Bill
and Melrose to Kamloops.
Best wishes in your new
homes.
VOLUNTEERS WANTED:
“Volunteers don’t necessarily have the time; they have
the heart” ……E. Andrew
Library Coordinator: Someone is required to maintain and
organize the library
Social Convener: Someone
is required to be the Social
Convener for all the social
events that happen at the Centre.
If either of these positions
sound like something you
would like to do please contact
Fay Begin.
For more information
about the Lakeview Community Centre and our upcoming
events visit our website at
www.lakeviewcommunitycent
resociety.com
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Anglemont Estates Golf
Ladies’
Club
By Brenda
Buffel
Our Club’s
Official Opening Day is
Thursday, May 14th – tee off
time at 10 AM. And, we want
you! Please join us for some
fun golfing, followed by an
information meeting and lunch
Big or Small
at the Clubhouse. And, there
will be prizes for the fun golf
We Haul it All
game.
Following the recent Zone
More than thirty years
Captain’s meeting in Kelowna,
in the towing industry.
we are excited about a Zone
Fully qualified drivers.
Club Challenge in June. DurLawrence Jonker
ing a two-week time frame,
our Club will submit the best
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individual score to the Zone
[email protected]
and vie for the best Zone
score. I can think of a few of
our golfers who would love to
win!
Our executive is busy
planning some special events
this season with lots of prizes,
some for merit, and others for
Weekly runs to Vancouver, Calgary & Edmonton
quite nonsensical reasons. As
Towing, Boosting, Lockout, Tire Change, Gas &
well, we will again play Pin
Rounds in which we each play
Diesel Delivery, Impound Lot,
against our handicap.
Cash paid for Scrap Cars
As is our custom, we will
hold a Guest Day in June,
Serving Chase, North Shuswap & surrounding areas
(this year June 11th) with a
special
rate for
our members’
guests,
another
fun golf
game,
prizes and
Inquire at Pro Shop about our
lunch. If
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you haven’t golfed
with us
Running from May 12th to October 1st, 2015
before,
it’s a
great initiation day.
However,
Pints and Pizza!
we welWatch the games on our
Open 7am to 10pm
come
flat screens.
Daily
women to
come out any time during our
regular golf days, Tuesdays
and Thursdays. Just call the
Clubhouse at 955-2323 for
information.
For May, our tee off time
is 10 AM on Tuesdays and
Thursdays; in June, 9 AM; in
July and August, 8 AM; and
back to 10 AM in September.
We’re looking forward to
seeing you all on the course.
Our goal is to have fun, while
hopefully improving our game.
Already we have had several
weeks of beautiful golf weather with plenty more in store.
Come out and enjoy!
Live . . . Laugh . . . . . GOLF!
Men’s Club
By Jim Perry
The Senior
Men have paved the
course with birdies
and pars mixed
with boogie with 6
rounds played in
the last 3 weeks and
we now declare it ready for
play by the boys of summer.
Said group took up the challenge and began play of their
usual Thursday evening
rounds on April 23. We were
saddened to be informed that
our Club Captain Bill Scott
and his wife were moving their
residence from the North
Shuswap at the end of the
month. We thank you, Bill for
your service and look forward
to playing a few rounds with
you when you come to visit
your family in the North Shuswap.
We are very fortunate to
have elected a young and energetic Vice Captain Rob MacDuff to assist last fall and he
will now ascend to the Captaincy. We look forward to
some new, innovative, and
highly competitive rounds of
golf this season. Good luck,
Rob.
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up the grounds at the North Shuswap Community Hall in
Celista. About 50 people came with rakes, wheelbarrows,
shovels and smiles. Thank you to Lumberjack Tree Services and Roger Zinck for providing the heavy equipment
that was necessary to gather and transport the debris. Thank
you to Al and Harley Christopherson
for the BBQ and to the ladies who
served refreshments at break time and
all the fixings with treats for lunch
when we were done our work.
Thank you
to the people
who sat at SuperValu to help
renew the membership of the
North Shuswap Community Association. Thank You to SuperValu as well. Thank you to all
the people who renewed their
membership. If by chance we
have missed you or you have not
yet renewed you can still mail
your 2015 membership in to the
North Shuswap Community Association, 5456 Squilax/
Anglemont Road, Celista, B.C.
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North Shuswap
Community Association
Thank you to the thirty or
more people who came out on
Sat. April 15th to rake, scrub and
shovel at the North Shuswap
Cemetery. Also a thank you to
all those who brought or sent
goodies. Thanks to the people
who brought their equipment and
trucks.
North Shuswap Cemetery Board
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A Grimm Night For Hans
Christian Andersen
Submitted by Rhys Laug
South Shuswap Children’s Theatre presents: “A
Grimm Night For Hans Christian Andersen” by Sue Gordon, and directed by Elizabeth Ann Skelhorne.
Hans Christian Andersen
and his latest stories have
attracted the attention of the
Brothers Grimm. When accusations of forgery are implied
the pressure is on and a duel
of storytelling ensues. Find
out what those well known
characters from
classic fairy tales
have been up to
lately as they join
in the fray. Kids of
all ages will laugh
at the antics of
characters including The Little Mermaid, Rapunzel, Hansel & Gretel, The
Ugly Duckling, and a whole
host of princesses and princes.
This SSCT production of
“A Grimm Night For Hans
Christian Andersen” includes
a cast of 22 local children
ages 6 to 14 who have been
working since January on
developing characters and
their acting chops. Director
Elizabeth Ann Skelhorne may
be familiar to local audiences
from her work with the Shuswap Theatre including the
2014 award winning production of “The Complete Works
of William Shakespeare
(abridged)” and . “2 x 2 Two
One-Act Plays, Two Directors” earlier this year.
The South Shuswap Children’s Theatre is presenting 3
performances of “A Grimm
Night For Hans Christian Andersen”.
The first performance
will be Saturday May 30th at
the Shuswap Lake Estates
community hall stage in Blind
Bay. Doors open at 6:00pm
for a 6:30 performance.
The second
performance will
be at the Shuswap
Theatre in Salmon
Arm on Saturday
June 6th with doors
open at 6:00pm for
a 6:30 performance.
Sunday June 7th will be
the matinee performance at
Shuswap Theatre with the
doors opening at 1:30pm for
the 2:00pm performance.
Ticket prices are $12 for
adults and $8 for children 12
& under. Advance tickets for
both performances can be
purchased from Steamers
Coffee in the Blind Bay Marketplace, and at The Candy
Vault on Hudson St in Salmon Arm. Tickets may also be
purchased at the door based
on availability. All sales are
cash only. Inquiries can be
emailed to [email protected].
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and along the way the daily
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‘daily’ deposit… For many
this would be a dream come
true. You expect this of your
pet, why not of yourself? After all you eat every day, so
why can't you go every day?
You try to eat ‘healthy’,
making sure you consume
your fair share of fruit, veggies and cereal grains; all
sources of natural fibre that
we’re repeatedly told is vital
for a healthy functioning
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with that yogurt with the
healthy ‘bugs’ and end it with
a glass full of that fibre
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you’ve been anticipating for
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thumb rule to use is simple; if
man made it, it's processed.
High on this list are products
made with cereal grains, the
processed food world is load(Continued on page 47)
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starch that most likely is contributing to your perpetual
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and those who journey with
you through this column,
wish you the best and keep
you in our thoughts and
prayers.
To our readers, Heather
loves her garden. Perhaps
we can all plant something
with her in mind, a shrub or
flower to brighten our days.
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By Jan Penner
I was able to speak with
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obvious she is not well. She
told me that she has pneumonia. I did not question her
further.
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Looks Like a Busy Summer for the
South Shuswap Chamber
Submitted By Karen Brown, General Manager
The next few months will prove very busy for the South
Lot Clearing - Gravel
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- Manure overview of what’s taking place...
(Cow/Mushroom)
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wap invites community business owners and residents to
become ‘ambassadors’ for the communities of the Shuswap.
Once visitors come to our area, they will be asking ‘What
do you do for fun around here?’ and we need to be able to
point them in the right direction. Details appear on the
chamber website; please call the Chamber if you wish to
attend.
On Friday May 29th the First Annual South Shuswap
Chamber Golf Tournament is being held at Shuswap Lake
Estates Golf & Country Club. For the public, $99 will get
you a round of golf with cart, a great chicken and rib buffet
and tons of opportunities to win prizes and auction items.
SLE Members pay $69 with cart. Dinner only option without golf is $28. Loads of challenges and mini-contests inServing Fresh, Healthy, Fun Food
cluding a Hole-in-One will take place. If you would like to
Open Thursday-Sunday 11-7pm
attend or sponsor, visit the Chamber website.
th
(larger
groups call ahead for breakfast/lunch)
Tappen Co-op is celebrating its 100 Anniversary this
year and Barb and Andy Munro will have a whole lot of
celebrating to do with the public on June 4th, 5th and 6th. Be
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Final details are being put in place for the Second Annual South Shuswap Outdoor Living Show, being held on
Centennial Field Sat/Sun June 27th & 28th. This exciting
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“We’re fortunate in B.C.
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available through public
health clinics, doctors’ offices and school-based programs. By taking advantage
of this program, parents are
not only protecting their own
children but others in the
community as well.”
Measles outbreaks this
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outbreak of 400 cases in the
Fraser region of our province
are reminders of why immunization is important.
The more people who
are immunized, the greater
the protection for those who
can't be immunized or have
weakened immune systems
like babies or people with
certain health conditions.
“An immunization rate
of at least 90 per cent helps
protect vulnerable people in
the community. When the
majority of people are vaccinated for a disease, it becomes harder for the disease
to spread from person to person, says Dr. Althea Hayden,
Public Health Physician with
Interior Health. “When immunization rates drop, diseases come back. This puts
our most vulnerable citizens
at risk.”
In the Interior Health
region, 71 per cent of children have completed their
recommended immunizations by two years of age.
This number has remained
relatively stable over the last
few years. The provincial
rate is 68 per cent.
Ironically, one of the
challenges in increasing immunization rates may be the
success of immunization programs themselves.
“Many of today’s parents have not seen vaccine
preventable diseases in their
lifetimes; thanks to very successful immunization programs, so they don’t realize
how dangerous these diseases can be,” said Dr. Hayden.
“Measles and chickenpox
viruses can lead to serious
complications like pneumonia and encephalitis (brain
swelling). Pertussis
(whooping cough) can cause
seizures and brain damage in
babies and mumps infection
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In the last 50 years, immunization has saved more
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is the best way to protect
yourself, your family and
your community from many
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Planning for fun in
retirement
Submitted by
Terry Von Neissen
Investors Group Financial
Services
Remember when the perfect picture of retirement was
a grandmotherly woman and a
grandfatherly man sitting on a
porch knitting and whittling
away their sunset years? Well,
maybe that was once an accurate depiction of retirement
but it certainly isn’t today.
Today’s retirees are active and
looking forward to many years
of excitement, fulfillment and
fun!
What have you got
planned for retirement – travel
to terrific locations, RV-ing
across the continent, volunteering for your favourite
charity, adding to your education, or even starting a new
business?
Whatever your retirement
plans, you need a few things
to make your retirement
dreams come true: good
health, a positive attitude and,
of course, money. That’s why
you’ve built your retirement
savings for so many years –
because you know your good
financial health is essential if
you want your third age to be
as wonderful, personal and fun
-filled as you wish.
Sure, you’ll have to use
some of your nest egg income
to cover essential expenses for
food, health care, utilities and
other everyday living costs.
But how you choose to use the
rest of your money is entirely
up to you. The key is to make
sure you have enough money
to fund your essential needs
and fun interests – whatever
they may be -- for all your
retirement years. And that
takes planning – the same kind
of planning that went into
building your retirement nest
egg in the first place.
Your retirement financial
plan should make sure your
hard-earned investments last
longer and go farther. It
should ensure a steady, predictable cash flow that will
cover all your expenses. And
that means being very selective about your investment
options.
Talk to your professional
advisor about the best ways to
cash in on the retirement of
your dreams – and keep them
well-funded for life.
Want to know how ready
you are for retirement and
how to get the most out of
your retirement years? Go to
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to assess your emotional, financial, social and physical
preparedness for retirement.
And don’t forget to have fun.
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A gardening column? Well my
qualifications are minimal, actually
none, except that my great grandfather
was a horticulturalist commissioned by
the BC government in the late 1800s to
determine the feasibility of growing fruit
in the Okanagan. Not sure how many
generations one can continue to ride on
the accomplishments of those who came
before us, but there it is. My qualifications. (smiley face)
Having retired from medicine last
year, I thought I would attempt to supplement our non-existent pension with
my love of gardening, so we are gradually delving into farmers marketing,
(and also attempting to grow as much of
our own food as we can). I thought for
this column I would talk about the trials
and tribulations I have doing this.
I find I have spent many more years
learning gardening than university and
med school combined, and I still have so
much more to learn. It’s like every single plant has its OWN set of instructions
and I do not mean the instructions on the
package. I spent several years following
the package instructions and that was
usually the last I saw of that seed package. I have also spent years refining my
skills at growing tomatoes (heirloom
tomatoes) and I am pretty good at that.
...... but one cannot live on tomatoes
alone.
Sooo I thought I would just jump
right in and write about the mistakes I
made last year growing everything else.
Last year, my carrots did not grow, nor
did my zucchini (and that is very embarrassing to admit), spinach or beets. (sad
face) You are probably asking yourself at
this point, “Why is she
writing this column?” Well..... to give a
sense that we are all in this together. We
shall all grow these veggies this year
and learn from her mistakes. (Believe
me, there is a lot of material under the
heading: Her mistakes)
One of my neighbours recently
grew some new lawn in an area, and he
was out there at least twice a day watering, getting those seeds started, and it
occurred to me that that was my mistake. I did not water enough to get the
seeds to germinate. Most Aprils this is
not a problem.... you know, April showers bring... May showers. We had a dry
spring last year and it looks like the
same this year. So while my tomatoes
and peppers were thriving because I
grew them indoors, the seeds I left to
fend for themselves, did not. So right
now I am planting carrots, spinach,
chard and cilantro and … I am watering
LOTS. I planted peas 3 weeks ago (early
April) and they are all up now. Once
they have germinated, the watering is
not so critical.
I planted all my heirloom tomatoes
in March, indoors and I currently have
500 plants that I am trying to keep alive
and healthy indoors (in a hoop house)
until weather permits them to be planted
in the ground. The average last frost in
my area is May 1st, but I would expect
higher elevations to be a bit later. So the
safe time to plant tomato plants in the
ground would be mid-May here.
If anyone wants to try growing heirloom tomatoes, I will have the plants for
sale at the first few Scotch Creek Sunday markets (starting May long weekend). If you would like them sooner,
email me at [email protected]
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Victim Service
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Naturalist News
By Claudette Carlsen
As I was perusing the
Kicker from last month, I
read the whole of Germain
Begin’s column on Nutrition
and it is well worth reading
again.
We are being bombarded with sugar ads by the Media and I have always been a
proponent of growing my
own food – even chickens a
couple of times. Again, we
will have a big garden here
in Chase. The lettuce and
spinach are already up; I can
hardly wait to eat my own
greens.
Last month we hiked in
Rod erick Haig Brown Park,
excellent except for the
sticky florets from the Cottonwood trees. So if you are
going, wear old boots. Other
than that, the trail was clean
and flat so it was a pleasant
walk.
This month, May, we
are having our Breakfast
Meeting followed by a trip
to see the waterfowl at the
Chase Lagoon and then to
the pond behind the Sorrento
Fire Hall where we generally
see the Ruddy Ducks and
Painted Turtles. We will
have breakfast at my house
in Chase at Number 26, 161
Shuswap Ave. on Tuesday,
May 12 at around 9:00 am.
Please call if you’d like to
join us. Bring your Binoculars, Bird and Plant Books,
Bug Repellent, Rain Gear,
proper footwear, camera and
snacks if needed.
For the rest of the schedules, see the April Kicker or
phone me at 679-8148.
Thank you to the people
who phone me with their
sightings, a Goldfinch and
Hummingbird at Scotch
Creek and the Swallows are
back en masse here in Chase.
I hope they will set up
housekeeping in one of my
birdhouses. Last year, the
first Hummingbird sighting
was April 26 at Celista, earlier this year due to the great
winter we had.
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Mother’s Day Breakfast
By Alison Elmes
Once again the North Shuswap Community Association
will be serving a Mothers Day ‘breakfast on Sunday May 10th
between 8:30 and 11am . On the menu are pancakes, bacon,
sausage, scrambled eggs, yogurt, fruit salad, home-made muffins, coffee, tea and juice. This is one of several fundraising
events the NSCA sponsors for the upkeep and improvement of
the community hall and grounds.
Tickets at the door: $7 per person, $3 children under 12.
Stump Removal
Trenches for Electrical,
Sewer, Water, etc.
Screening Mammography Clinic
Interlocking Pavers
AB Retaining Walls
Concrete Finishing
Material Moving
will be at the North Shuswap Christian
Fellowship on Butters Rd.
Thursday May 28th, 10:00am - 5:40pm
Friday May 29th, 8:20am - 4:50pm
Phone 1-800-663-9203
to book an appointment.
Material Hauling
Len Barker
[email protected]
250-804-9913
MAY 2015
Chase School Leads
Canada in Green Initiatives
Dot Doyle had the pleasure of celebrating
Easter with her family of 5 generations
Pictured above (left to right) is Dot, Dianne,
Sherrie, Anastasia & Karly ages 89 to 5!
19 family members shared in the Celebration.
Happy Mother’s Day Dot!
Haldane Elementary
School in Chase is officially
the greenest school in Canada,
according to Seeds Connection.
Students from the school
have been taking part in environmental initiatives since
1992. But just in time for
Earth Day, they reached the
milestone of 10,000 green
projects and the title of a
Green X school – the first in
the country.
Seeds Connection is
a national non-profit, charitable foundation with a mission
to develop and provide environmental sustainability and
energy education resources to
support Canadian educators.
Seeds Connection made a
special presentation to the
school April 22 followed by a
number of green activities that
the students planned, including hosting a flea market and
a community bottle drop off
site.
The students take part in
many activities, including
spray-painting fish near sewer
drains to prevent dumping of
litter and chemicals, a worm
composting and a school-wide
bottle recycling program
called "Green Kids Club”.
The school’s principal
Mark Orr says the students
have adopted being green as
part of everyday school life,
even rushing to power down
all the electronics and lights
in the school at the end of
each week.
The Haldane students
planted a tree to mark Earth
Day – just one of many more
green initiatives to come.
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You’re Invited!
Auxiliary Footsteps for our Future
Harris, Fiona
The Shuswap Lake Health Care Auxiliary in Salmon Arm
has been busily planning it’s annual “Footsteps For Our Future” event which is a walk/run in aid of women’s health to be
held on Mother’s Day, Sunday May 10th, 2015.
This very popular event starts and finishes at the south
end of Salmon Arm Fairgrounds where participants commence their 2km, 5km or 10km walk/run. Last year the
Shuswap Lake Health Care Auxiliary was able to raise $7,000
for the purchase of priority women’s health equipment for
Shuswap Lake General Hospital. Gloria Lynd, the project
chair of this event said “the Auxiliary have now been able to
name an item that the funds raised at this years’ event will
support. A new resectoscope is needed for women’s surgical
procedures at Shuswap Lake General Hospital and we are
looking forward to being able to bring this equipment to our
hospital here in Salmon Arm”. You can also make donations
to this worthy project on line at
www.shuswaphospitalfoundation.org under Auxiliary.
Everyone is invited to get together with friends and/or
colleagues, form teams or challenge friends to walk or run the
distance together or participate as a singles. Registrations can
be made on event day or at the Radiothon at Save-On-Foods,
Piccadilly Mall, all day Thursday April 30th as well as at the
kiosk in Piccadilly Mall. Dates and times will be posted at
the kiosk and pledge forms will be available. For more information on how to
participate, please call Gloria Lynd at
250-832-0481. With the many activities
such as face painting, games and a BBQ,
this is an entertaining and fun-filled
event for the whole family!....Come and
join us on Mother’s Day!.
North
Shuswap
Elementary
School
Division 1
Bottle
Drive
May 2nd
Contributions gratefully
accepted. You can
also leave bottle
donations at the
Scotch Creek
Bottle Depot.
CSRD 2015 FREE Residen al
organic yard waste and metal waste April 4 ‐ May 18 at Shuswap landfills and transfer sta ons during regular hours of opera on at Seymour Arm May 16 ‐ 18 Organic Yard Waste Includes items such as: Grass Clippings, Leaves, Prunings, Weeds, Tree Limbs (up to 8” diameter) All Metal Materials are accepted. However, items that include Freon (ex. fridges, freezers, air condi oners) are subject to a $15 fee. 56 THE NORTH SHUSWAP KICKER
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MAY 2015
Kickstart Your Health
& Wellness
Lacking Something in Your Life? Here's an
Abundance Experiment to Try.
By Jenn Szabo
I'm the type of person who likes scientifically backed ideas, and I have a hard time embracing concepts without sound
supporting evidence. I also note however, that science is never
absolute. Science is constantly changing based on new studies,
and it is fluid by it's very nature. For example, in a recent
study, a team of cardiologists reviewed the most prestigious
scientific journals from 20 years ago to review the relevance of
the material according to the current understanding of heart
health. These doctors found that only 50% of the information
published was relevant according to today's accepted
knowledge.
You might be asking yourself at this point how science
and cardiology have anything to do with personal abundance,
and I have to admit, for the purpose of this article they don't.
I'm merely pointing out the fact that sometimes the ideas we
accept as truth can be revised, and we can experiment with new
ideas and theories to find ways of being
that work for us.
The idea I'm proposing may be
counter intuitive to everything you believe, and I can understand as I once
was of the opinion that the more you
clung to your assets, the more you
would accumulate. I have changed this
attitude through self reflection and studying Buddhist philosophy and metaphysics. After my learning and applying
the principals, I have personally found
that the more I give away, the more I
receive. Now I know the argument here
is: My aunt Martha didn't give away a
cent in her life, and she died a wealthy
woman! And I get it. The trick here is,
you don't have to give away money. In
order to receive abundance, you need to
give abundance. Think of Newtons law;
every action has an equal and opposite
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reaction. Or you could think in
terms of karma; what goes
around, comes back around.
According to expanding
knowledge of the way energy
works, everything is an exchange of energy, and your
energetic vibration attracts the
same energy back. If you play
the lottery, and gamble your
time and money in hopes of
receiving something in return,
why not take a chance and
give something away freely on
the off chance of receiving
something great? I know that
we shouldn't give with an expectation of receiving, but for
this experiment, we all get a
hall pass.
There is a social movement happening, whereby
thousands of people have accepted and acted on a challenge, which has been
spawned by the book 29 Gifts:
How a Month of Giving Can
Change Your Life.
I am proposing a similar
challenge to you: intentionally
give something away for 29
days. What you give away is
up to you, but the intention
must be set every day to give
something of value to someone. Some giveaway examples
could be: laughs, teaching a
skill, donating to charity, a
back rub, coffee to the person
behind you at the drive
through etc. Once you start
giving abundantly, notice what
you are receiving. Whether
you are reading this article and
thinking it's awesome, or
thinking it's ridiculous, there's
only one way to know for
sure..... Go ahead and give the
29 day challenge a try, the
worst thing that will happen is
finding pure joy in the act of
giving.
Jennifer Szabo
Transformational Wellness Coach
Licensed Zumba Fitness Instructor
Yoga instructor
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Sunday Service 10:30
Children’s Church during service
All Are Welcome
 Soup Day - Wed., 11:30 - 1:00  AA meetings Thurs., 7 pm
 Counselling services
 Prayer Meetings - Wed., 10am
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ANNOUNCING
the engagement of
Kristina Janzen to Scott Graham.
There will be a community Jack and Jill shower May 16th
FMI call Laurie Larsen at 250-955-0400
4079 Butters Rd, Scotch Creek
Church Office: 250-955-2545 / Pastor Lloyd Peters 250-793-2201
at the N.S. Community Hall
Friday, June 19th
Happy Hour 5 pm, Dinner at 6 PM
Dinner Includes Choice of:
1 1/2 lb LOBSTER - $40.00
PRIME RIB DINNER - $30.00
LOBSTER PLUS PRIME RIB - $55.00
complete with baked potato, salads, garlic butter, dessert
Cold Beer and Wine available
Reservations only by June 12th. Contact Janice at 250-955-2393
A North Shuswap Community Association Fund Raiser
MAY 2015
South Shuswap Chamber of Commerce
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Friday, May 29th, 2015
Shuswap Lake Estates Golf Club
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- Longest Drive ~ Men’s & Women’s
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Jolly Old England
James Gjaltema,
International
Travel Consultant
England is great place to
travel, steeped in history and
tea. With easy day-trips from
London, you can explore the
rich history and learn about
the ancient stone circles of
Avebury and Stonehenge,
Roman villas and baths, Anglo-Saxons, Normans, Oxford & Cambridge, Canterbury, the East India Company, Tudors, Shakespeare and
much more. With so much to
see and do, make sure you
take time to relax and enjoy a
brew – a nice cup of tea or a
pint at a local pub.
Most flights from Canada will arrive at Heathrow or
Gatwick. The Piccadilly line
of the subway, or “tube” as
it’s called locally, connects
Heathrow to central London.
It is easy to get into London
from either airport by train or
bus.
An excellent option for
visitors is the London Pass, a
single ticket that includes
entry to over 60 attractions
including the Queen’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace,
Westminster Abbey, the
Tower of London, and
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. The pass even includes a
hop-on hop-off Thames River Boat Cruise that you can
take to the Tower Bridge and
Greenwich where you can
see the Cutty Sark, one of the
fastest tea clippers to sail
between England and China.
A 3-day London pass is $164
and a 6-day pass is $217.
Harry Potter’s magical
powers are well known, even
amongst muggles who like to
visit Warner Brothers Studios where they can be immersed in the making of the
films. The $115
Harry Potter tour
provides transportation and
gives a behind the scenes
look at props, costumes, special effects and sets including
Hogwarts Great Hall, the
Gryffindor common room,
Hagrid’s cabin, Diagon Alley
and Dumbledore’s office.
Fans of the TV series,
Downton Abbey, can take a
$124 tour that visits the village of Bampton where the
show is set and includes a
fish & chips lunch in the
Cotswolds and a tour of
Blenheim palace.
There are many reasonably priced daytrips with various combinations available.
For example a tour to Warwick Castle, Oxford & Stratford-upon-Avon is $81, a
Windsor Castle, Stonehenge
& Bath daytrip costs $114
and a trip to Leeds Castle,
Canterbury and the white
cliffs of Dover is $81.
When I lived in London,
I would often cross the English Channel to visit nearby
France. Paris is only a few
hours away and it is an easy
side-trip. Why not have a
glass of good wine and see
the Eiffel Tower when you’re
so close. A daytrip by train
on the Eurostar through the
Chunnel is $244 return.
If you are thinking about
traveling to England, I’m
sure Queen Elizabeth would
love for you to visit. Airfare
from Kamloops or Kelowna
to London costs around
$1400 including tax.
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School News
By Jan Penner
April whizzed by at North Shuswap
Elementary. Curriculum in classrooms is
in full swing, with the end of the school
year fast approaching.
Events in April included the second
session of PALS for the year. Kindergarten and Grade 1 students welcomed a good
turnout of parents, working as partners on
Math learning centers. Grade K-3 students
visited Nico's Nursery in Blind Bay, before
going to the South Shuswap -Okanagan
Regional Library branch in the Blind Bay
Market for a tour and a presentation by
Kathy Reid-Naiman, a children's songwriter/performer. This was followed by lunch
and playground exploration at the Lions
park in Sorrento. Lucy the pygmy goat
stopped in, allowing the children to find
out what it is like to have a goat for a pet,
and the entire school participated in the
Terry Fox Run, marking the 35th anniver-
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sary of the start of Terry's journey. Incidentally, Terry's goal of $1 per Canadian
was surpassed by our school population,
with a total of $117 collected in donations.
The high point of April was our one
and only Library Day for the month, on
April 20th. Mrs. Ellis comes to us every
other Monday and with Easter Monday
being one of her days, we had a long
stretch without a teacher-librarian. The
lack of sufficient teacher-librarian allotted
time at our school is very noticeable to
staff and students.
May 4th is a busy day. Not only is it
our only scheduled Library Day for May
(because of the Victoria Day long weekend), it is also Music Monday and Spring
Tea. Ms. Bowlby has the students working
on a great presentation for our annual
"Thanks" to the community.
The 2nd Annual Sci-Bee takes place
on May 22nd. Get your team in for the
Spelling Bee! Put on your Mad Scientist
goggles and enter your best science project! Or just stop by for a burger or hot
dog, try your luck with the ticket raffle and
cheer on your favourite spellers in this fun
evening of funding raising, organized by
the North Shuswap Elementary PAC.
Other May events include an SPCA
visit/presentations, the District CrossCountry Run Meet at Little Mountain on
May 14th, a presentation by Eureka Science and 4 days of Gymnastics instruction.
The School Bottle Drive this year is on
May 2nd Before we know it we will be at
the 1st of June and the last few weeks of
the school year!
2nd Annual Sci-Bee
& Grand Opening
Outdoor Learning
Space
From Angela Simpson
North Shuswap Elementary School
P.A.C. is celebrating the opening of Phase
I of its beautiful new Outdoor Learning
Space. We are also having our 2nd Annual
Science Fair AND Spelling Bee (Sci-Bee).
Enter one or both. The event will commence on May 22nd from 4:30pm to
7:30pm at North Shuswap Elementary
School. Get your teams together for the
spelling bee. The Science Fair is open to
everyone, including students from our
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excellent condition. Cash donations towards our event or Outdoor Learning
school, our community's homeschooled
Space would also be greatly appreciated.
children, and any scientifically inclined
All donations over $25 will receive a tax
community members. No entry fee is
receipt. If you wish a
required. The Lions
receipt, please provide
Club will be serving
your contact inforhot dogs and drinks
mation. A bin is locatbetween 4:30 and
ed at the school office
6:30 for a modest fee
to drop off your donawith all proceeds
tions.
going towards Phase
This is a commuII of the learning
nity event! We want
space.
to showcase our wonFor entry forms
derful school and
and a complete list of
learning space and
rules and regulations
have fun doing it!
and schedule, please
Our outdoor learning area is almost completed. Funds raised beyond
visit our website at
The seats, table and pergola are all up. All that
covering event costs
www.NSPAC.ca,
remains it tidying up and ground cover. The
email at inchildren are very excited and full of ideas about will go toward Phase
[email protected] , call or what classes will be able to do with the space. II of our learning
pick up a registration June's Kicker will have details of those involved space and funding
extra-curricular proform at the school
with the project!
grams for our kids!!
office as preFor more information email: inregistration is mandatory! We will be [email protected] or call Angela @ 250-377ing our Bucket Raffle again and we are
5406 or Leigh @ 250-679-8009.
looking for donations of items of new to
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Bugs R Us
By Landon Hay and Ryder Oliphant
At our April Bugs R Us meeting, we
started by going outside. We played
Hunter where 1 person is the predator and
everyone else is the prey. The prey hide
and the predator has to stay still and look
for prey. When the predator sees someone, they say the colour they are wearing.
We went inside and had a snack.
Ryder, Carlos and Louis brought muffins,
popcorn and veggies with dip. Landon
really liked the dip and Ryder really liked
the tomatoes. The whole snack was delicious.
We had a guest speaker named Toby.
He told us about bees. He has had bees
for 4 years. He said there are many kinds
of bees and there are 3 kinds of honeybees. Bees like the dark.
We all had a lot of questions. Toby
brought his bee book and he looked up
answers for us. He writes new words
about bees at the back of his book. Toby
has to ask other beekeepers lots of question about bees.
Toby showed us some real bees.
They were in a special wooden bee cage
that beekeepers have. The bees were
crowded together, pushing on each other
and walking over each other and
climbing up the glass wall of
the cage. They were doing it to
find spots to lay their eggs.
There were nurse bees and guard bees, the
queen bee and scout bees. Every single
bee had one job to do.
We learned that the queen bee is the
biggest bee in the colony. Her job is to
lay the eggs. If she stops laying eggs she
has to fly away with all the other old bees
and find a tree to live in instead of the
hive.
If the bees sense smoke from a fire,
they eat as much honey as they can to save
it. Then they look for a new place to live
and put the honey in their new hive.
Some beekeepers put lots of bee hives
on semi-truck trailers and move them
around. Farmers with big gardens and
crops and fruit trees need lots of bees to
pollinate. Travelling around is hard for
bees because they like to stay in one place.
They can get angry and they don’t like
being stuck in a small cage.
We want to thank Toby for teaching
us about bees. It was totally interesting.
We are having our last Bugs R Us
meeting on May 14th.
Shuswap spring wildflowers
painted on our altar
St. David’s by the Lake
on the highway in Celista
Join us for worship
Sundays at 11:00
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Inspiring messages and music
Something special for children
Light lunch each Sunday
Everyone welcome!
Contact us at
[email protected]
Google our website
www.stdavidschurch.info
Thrift Shop Opening
Wednesday, May 6
Donations gratefully accepted
after Monday, April 20; but please,
no TVs, computers or furniture
(we don’t have room)
Check out our weekly specials
North Shuswap Christian Fellowship
4079 Butters Road, Scotch Creek
250-955-2545 ([email protected])
 Worship & Sunday School, 10:30 am
Potluck 3rd Sunday after service
Soup Day Wednesdays 11:30 - 1:30
Pastor Lloyd Peters
St. David’s by-the-Lake
Anglican/United Church
5518 Squil/Anglmt Hwy, Celista
[email protected]
Rev Brian Smith  Sunday 11am
Catholic Services
Our Lady of the Lake - Blind Bay
 Sunday, 11: 15 am
Chase  Sunday, 9:00 am
MAY 2015
Emotions – Friend or Foe?
Eileen Peters MA
Certified Professional
Counsellor
PACCP #20140074
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Have you ever said to
someone (or to yourself) “You
really shouldn’t feel that way!”
Do you wonder what really
triggers a specific emotion?
How important is it to be “in
control” of our emotions. How
do I know what’s the right
emotion in any given situation?
And the big question: Are
we really at the mercy of those
“little voices” in our head dictating what we should feel?
What if what we’re feeling is
not only the result of what just
happened, but part of a whole
package of memories, losses,
reactions, and years of conditioning?
Every day we experience
situations where the same circumstance has the potential of
producing two very opposite
emotions. Think about the
young girl who has been anticipating a trip to the mall with
her friend. If the trip is suddenly cancelled by her friend, she
may think, “Oh good, I’ll be
able to finish a project I’ve
been working on.” Or she may
think, “I just knew she’d cancel! I never thought I was good
enough for her!” Same circumstance; different emotions.
Or consider a couple engaged in a heated argument.
The husband may say something particularly cruel to his
wife and she may feel deep
sadness. However if that wife
has actually been looking for
an excuse to end the marriage
and her husband makes a remark that goes beyond the
boundaries of decency, she
may feel a sudden sense of
something like relief: “Aha, at
last I have a reason to leave!”
So if what we FEEL is not
only the result of what has
HAPPENED, then what’s actually going on inside? Good
question! And not hard to answer.
In between what has HAPPENED and the EMOTION
we’re experiencing is a set of
BELIEFS – what I believe
about myself, what I believe
about what’s happened, what I
believe about the person who
instigated the situation, and all
sorts of threads that come together. Our emotions are always filtered through our set of
Beliefs.
So if we’re only concentrating on the emotional piece
of the picture, we aren’t seeing
the whole page. If we believe
that our emotions are the result
of a specific event or action on
the part of another, then we
become focused on trying to
change, or reproduce that situation depending on whether or
not we’re enjoying the emotion
we are experiencing.
If we believe it’s all about
being able to “control” our
emotions, then in a negative
situation we become focused
on trying to manage how we
feel. That usually leads to suppressing our emotions or denying what we’re really feeling.
And that never ends well!
It takes a lot of hard work
to uncover what we really believe, but the process is so
worth the effort.
Because in the end, even if
we don’t get it right every time,
it’s a relief to know that my
emotions are not controlling
me. I may have to go back and
say, “Hey, I’m sorry I misread
the situation and over-reacted,
but at least now I know why I
did.”
And then we can begin to
mend relationships and enjoy
honest conversations. And after
all, that’s what most of us really want.
If you are interested in
information regarding counselling please feel free to contact
me at 250-793-2202.
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 1 tbsp Garam Masala
 2 tbsp chopped fresh cilantro
 1 tsp paprika
 2 tbsp lemon juice
 1 tsp salt
 1 clove of garlic, minced
 1tsp cracked black pepper
 1 tbsp grated fresh ginger
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 1/2 tsp salt
 1 tbsp tomato paste
 1/2 tsp pepper
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15. Name of a book
16. Every single one
17. Operatic solo
18. In a foolhardy manner
20. English blue cheese
22. Dimensional
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24. Cantankerous
25. Having low blood pressure
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5. A rapidly flashing light
6. Mortgage
7. And so forth
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9. Large brown seaweed
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52. Lean
53. Decorative case
54. False god
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25. Hoopla
26. Scream
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28. Twangy, as a voice
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30. List components
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MAY 2015
NORTH SHUSWAP
 Shuswap Shred Fundraising Event - Postponed until fall
 Pickleball - Tuesdays and Fridays 10 am, Saturdays 1 pm. at the Tennis Courts in Scotch Creek.
FMI Heather 250.833.8069
 Pig and Whistle “Britain or Bust - May 1 and 2.
Performances at Lakeview Centre in Anglemont.
Tickets available by phoning 250-955-0835 or at
SuperValu in Scotch Creek or Ross Creek Country Store in Magna Bay. Or purchase on line at
 NS Chamber Roadside Cleanup - May 8, 9.
Show your Shuswap Pride by helping to clean up
the community. See ad on pg. 45 of this issue of
the Kicker for more details. Kris 250-955-0383
 Mothers Day Pancake Breakfast - May 10th,
8:30 am - 11 am. North Shuswap Community
Hall. Everyone welcome.
 Giant Fundraiser Garage Sale - Saturday May
16, 9 am – 2 pm rain or shine at Scotch Creek/
Lee CreekFire Department. Pancakes, Hot Dogs,
50/50 Draw. Proceeds raised go to the Scotch
Creek/Lee Creek Fire Fighters
 Science Fair & Spelling Bee - May 22, 4:30 to
7:30 pm at NS Elementary School. Hot dogs &
drinks will be served by the Lions club with all
proceeds going to the Phase 11 learning space.
 NS Chamber Dinner Meeting - May 25th. Location to be announced.
 Mammography Clinic - Thurs May 28, 10 am5:40 pm and Fri May 29, 8:20 am - 4:50 pm. For
appointment call 1-800-663-9203.
 Wine Stein & Dine - May 30, 7 pm. Live Band,
Cash Bar. Local beer, wine & food. Raffles, door
prizes. Proceeds to NSCA. Tickets at SuperValu, Sunnyside Supermarket and Ross Creek
Store.
 AGM - North Shuswap First Responders - June
10, 7 pm at the North Shuswap Community Hall in
Celista
 Country Gardener’s Club Annual Plant Sale
June 13th at Lakeview Centre in Anglemont. 8am
to 11am in conjunction with the breakfast. FMI
please call Suzanne Dussome at 250-679-2614.
 Summer Solstice with the Symphony - Sunday
Jun 21, 7pm at Celista Hall. Sandra Wilmot and
Martin Kratky from Kamloops Symphony will be
joined by local musician Sylvain Vallee and Chris
Stevens. Tickets at Ross Creek store and Super
Valu.
 Fathers Day Lobster Dinner - Fri June 19.
Happy hour 5 pm, dinner 6 pm. Reservations
JPW Road
Maintenance
24hour hazard
Reporting line
1-877-546-3799
only by June 12 - Call Alison 250-955-2588.
 Elvis Evolution – Adam Fitzpatrick is coming to
wow us with his Award Winning Elvis Tribute
show June 20 Tickets are now available from
Marianne Brama at 250-955-0364. Tickets include
light refreshment. FMI check out our website
SOUTH SHUSWAP
 Hike for Hospice - Enderby Cliffs. - Sun, May 3,
Meet 8 am in the parking lot of Enderby IGA.
Time of departure 8:30 am. FMI www.shuswap
hospice.ca/hike-the-enderby-cliffs/
 Girls Night Out - Fashion Show. Fashion, food,
fun & friends. Tues, May 26. Happy hour 4-7,
Fashion show 6pm. Finz Resort, Bar & Grill, 2001
Eagle Bay Rd. Blind Bay.
 Study of Solomon's Song of Songs - Wed.
nights until May 27th at Sorrento Memorial Hall.
1150 Passchendale Dr. Topics of discussion
include: Deepening Desire, Increasing Intimacy,
Fighting Fair, Rediscovering Romance, Cultivating Commitment, Savoring Spirituality, Refreshments Provided
 South Shuswap Chamber Golf Tournament May 29 at Shuswap Lake Estates Golf Club.
Dinner, 50/50 draws, silent auction, awards, FMI
southshuswapchamber.com
 Special Coffee House at Carlin Hall June 6th,
7:30pm. All proceeds to Second Harvest Food
Bank. Also, Carlin Hall is looking for people to come
to help out with Hall and Grounds Spring Clean
up May 9th, 9 am, if you are looking for some way
to help out, we would love to see you! Please call
Garth if you can bring some clean up tools etc. 250
-835-0058. AGM on May 20, at 7:30pm.
 Plant and decorative garden art sale - May 9, 9
am to 1pm at Cedar Heights Community Centre
on 2316 Lakeview Drive in Blind Bay. We welcome any donations of your left over plants for
this fundraising event. Plant drop offs are available on May 8th, from 3 pm to 6 pm or May 9 at 8
am at Cedar Heights Community Centre or as
prearrange with Gloria. Contact Gloria at [email protected] or 250-675-0036
 Sorrento Lions Club Garage Sale Sat. May 30,
at Sorrento Memorial Hall. This is a fundraiser for
the Hall. FMI, Wayne @ 250 675 2616 or Brian
@ 250 675 4742 for pick up.
 Mammography Clinic - May 30 in Blind Bay next
to the Okanagan Regional Library in the Blind Bay
Market Place. To book an appointment call 1-800
-663-9203
 A Grimm Night for Hans Christian Andersen
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Sat May 30th at Shuswap Lake Estates Community Stage. Sat June 6th & Sun June 7th – Shuswap Theatre, Salmon Arm. Presented by the
wildly talented kids of the South Shuswap Children’s Theatre group: FMI: shuswaparts.com
 Ladies Night at the Cove - June 24th, 2015 - An
evening of appetizers, wine & browsing the
clothes, jewellery, women's interests. Venue:
FINZ Resort Eagle Bay Road, Blind Bay. Organizer: South Shuswap Chamber & Finz Resort. FMI
southshuswapchamber.com
 South Shuswap Outdoor Living Show- June
27, 28 - Showcasing wonderful lifestyle in the
Shuswap. FMI www.southshuswapchamber.com
or call Karen at 250-515-0002 to find out how you
can exhibit or become a sponsor.
CHASE
 Sunshore Ladies Golf Club are now meeting
every Tuesday morning in Chase - Come join us!
For information call Pat Kornack @ 250- 6798762 or Evelyn Chilton @ 250-679-3860.
 BC Barrel Races - Friday, May 15 & 29 and June
12 & 26. 6:30 pm at VLA rd. Rodeo Grounds.
 Mammogram Clinic - Chase Creekside Seniors
Centre. Tuesday, May 26, 27. For appointment
please call 1-800-663-9203
OTHER LOCATIONS
 Word on the Lake Writers’ Festival - May 1517 at the Prestige Harbourfront Resort and Convention Centre in Salmon Arm. Readings, Coffee
House, Keynote speakers, workshops, lunch and
breakfast. FMI
www.wordonthelakewritersfestival.com
FARMERS’ MARKETS
 Blind Bay Farmers Market - Saturdays May 16
to Sept 5, 10 til 2 at the Blind Bay Marketplace
parking lot. Local produce, crafts and fun! Vending enquiries Deb Gibson 250 804 9441, [email protected]
 Scotch Creek - May 17th to Sept 6th. Every Sunday from 10am to 2pm at Home Hardware parking
lot with plenty of parking. Local produce, baking
crafts and more. Leashed dogs only. No smoking
thanks!
 Chase - Every Friday from 10am to 2pm in downtown Chase. FMI email [email protected] or call 250-679-2166
 Sorrento - Saturdays, May 9 to Oct 12, 8am to
noon at Sorrento Shopper Plaza. We have new and
exciting vendors and we are having a Lions sponsored Pancake Breakfast on June 6th.
North Shuswap Library
Tues: Noon - 7 pm
Wed & Fri:
11 am - 3 pm
Sat: 11 am - 4 pm
250-955-8198
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MAY 2015
Regularly Scheduled Events
Things sometimes change so be sure to check before you go.
11am. Great food, come hungry
Cedar Heights Community Hall in
NORTH SHUSWAP
Table Tennis - Mon. & Fri. 9:30am,
Sorrento on the second Thurs./mo. at
CELISTA COMMUNITY HALL
Dennis 250-955-2899
10 am Coffee at 9:30. For details call
Celista Coffee House - Live
OTHER NORTH SHUSWAP ACTIVITIES Mr. Doug Brown 250-803-8930
entertainment, 3rd Friday of the
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
Shuswap Rock Club - First Tues of
month, Oct to May. $4 admission,
Scotch Creek - Thurs. 7:30 pm at
the month (Sept - June) 7:30 pm at
doors 7pm, Open mic; 7:30-9pm,
North Shuswap Christian Fellowship Toad Hall in Sorrento. Saturday
feature bands to follow.
Church. 4079 Butters Road
workshops 1-4 pm. FMI Pat 250-675
Refreshments. FMI 250-679-2174
Alcoholics Anonymous AA -2849.
Community Association - meeting
Squilax Group Sunday 7 PM. 1 km
Shuswap Wood Carvers - Wed &
3rd Tues of the month, 7pm.
Sat 8:30am - 12pm. FMI Ken 250-675Craft & Needlework every Wed, 10- west Squilax Hotel @qwel room. FMI
250-679-3945 or cell 250-833-2117
3316, Norm 250-675-3764. Meeting,
2. FMI Gerry 250-955-6279
Chamber of Commerce Meetings 3rd Wed of every month (Sept-June)
NS First Responders Society 4th Mon of the month, Location to be in the Toad Hall. FMI Ian 250-835meet 2nd Wed. of the month at 2pm
announced
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Historical Society - meeting 2nd

NS First Responders - meet 1st &
SORRENTO DROP IN SOCIETY
Thurs of the month, 2pm.
3rd Thurs, 7pm at Celista Fire Hall. Mon: AA & Alanon - 8pm, Glee Club
Lions Club - meetings 2nd & 4th
- 9:30am
Thurs of the month, 7pm. Meat Draw NSHCS - meet 2nd Thurs of the
at the Copper Island Pub, Saturdays month, 10am at the Health Centre in Tues: Crib -1:30pm, Snooker (men) Scotch Creek
1:00pm, Meals to Wheels 2nd & 4th
3-5pm
Lions Club Meat Draw & 50/50
Naturalist Club - meet 2nd Tues of
Tues. at noon
Draw - at the Copper Island Pub.
the month, 1:30 pm
Wed: Snooker 6:00pm, Cards Saturdays, 3-5pm. Ten draws for the 1:00pm
NIA Dance Fusion Classes - Tues
& Fri 10:30am -11:30am. FMI Nancy various cuts of meat purchased from Thurs: Foot Clinic (call for appt. 250SuperValu. 50/50 Draw
Parkinson 250-679-8233
675-0065), Quilting - 10:00am
Soup Day - Wed. 11:30 to 1:30pm at
N.S. Players - meet 2nd Tues. of the
Snooker (men) - 1:00pm
North Shuswap Christian Fellowship Fri: Ladies Snooker- 2pm
month, 7pm.
Church. 4079 Butters Road. Scotch Sat: Scottish Country Dancing 9:30.
Zumba and Yoga - Classes for
Creek
Zumba are on Tues & Thurs 9am to
FMI 250-675-3518
SOUTH SHUSWAP
10am. Yoga on Wed 9am FMI Jenn
SHUSWAP LAKE ESTATES
778-988-1459
Al-Anon Meetings - Mondays at
COMMUNITY CENTRE:
LAKEVIEW CENTRE ACTIVITIES
2pm. at St. Mary’s Anglican Church
FMI call 250-675-2523
Achy Breaky Body Parts Line
CARLIN HALL
Mon: Line Dance - intermediate
Dancing - Every Wed, 10am for
To book call Laurene, 250-835-2322 1:00 - 2:30, Sponge Ball 9:30 - 12:00
beginners (pls call Donna), 10:30am Weekly Lessons & workshops/
Tues: Ladies Bridge 1:00 - 4:00,
for advanced. FMI Donna Gallant
jams Blue Grass Music, Acoustic
Good Time Quilters 1st, 3rd, & 5th
250-679-2419
instruments only, beginners /
Wed: Line Dance - beginners 10:00 Anglebay Entertainers Chorus
intermediates. Tues. 7 - 9 pm. For
11:30, Advanced 1:30 - 3:00. Lego
practice - Wed. 1pm, Jo 250-955more info call 250-835-2322.
Club - every 2nd Wed.
2282
Monthly Meeting Wed, 7:30pm.
Thursday: Play Group 9:00 - 12:00
Arts and Crafts Club - Tues. 10am
Come out and support your Carlin
Friday: Sponge Ball 9:30 - 12:00,
to 2pm. Bring your lunch. Everyone
Community. All welcome.
Youth Group - Grade 7 & up 7:00 welcome. FMI call Dolores @ 250Carlins Card Night Friday, 7pm
9:00. Family Move Night - 1st Fri. of
955-0296
weekly.
month 6:00 - 8:00
Bible Study - Group meeting at 7:00 Coffee House - 1st Saturday.
The Ta'Lana Twirler's Square
Thursday evenings at Lakeview
October - May, 7:30pm. Come
Dance Club Meet Thursdays
Center. Everyone Welcome.
support local talent. Coffee & goodies (starting Sept.26), at the Blind Bay
Bridge Night - Wed evening, 7 pm.
avail.
Hall, 2010 Blind Bay Rd. 7:30pm to
Coffee and Treats, Everyone
EAGLE BAY COMMUNITY HALL
9:30pm. Round & Main Stream
welcome.
Quilting Mondays 10-2 (Bring
dancing. FMI Betty at 250-675-4408
Carpet Bowling - Mon & Thurs 10Lunch). FMI call Inez: 675-4531
The Piecemakers Quilt Group 12. FMI Blair Scranton 250-955Crafts Wednesdays 10-2 (Bring
Thurs. 10 - 2pm at the Sorrento Drop
0032. Spares list call Ann Chow 250- Lunch). FMI call Dot: 675-4282
In Centre. FMI 250-955-2393
955-2899
Games - 4th Tues. 1-4pm FMI call
TOPS Sorrento #4369 - meets every
Community Prayer Group - 3rd
Sharon 675-2408
Wed from 8:15 to 10:00 am at Our
Thurs of the month, 7 pm. FMI Val
Fitness Workouts - Tues. & Thurs.
Lady of the Lake Catholic Church.
250-955-2117 or Sharlee 250-6799-10. FMI call Sharon: 675-2408
2740 Fairway Hills Rd. Blind Bay BC
2120.
Darts Fri evenings at 7:15 pm. FMI
(lower level). FMI Gail 250-675-2849
Cribbage - Thursdays 1 pm
call Alan: 675-5403
CHASE
Country Gardener’s Club - 3rd
Coffee House 4th Sat of the Month, Chase Duplicate Bridge - Thurs in St.
Wed of the month, 7 pm. FMI Chris
except Dec, June, July & Aug. 7:30 Andrews Church (rear door) Zoë 250250-955-6467
pm. Performers always welcome!
679-8488
Rise & Shine Breakfast - 2nd
Dave 675-4850 or Gaetane 675-2178 CHASE CREEKSIDE FOR SENIORS
Saturday of every month at the
Probus Copper Island - meets at
FMI Sharron 250-679-1183
Lakeview Community Center. 8-
Mon: League darts 7:30pm
Tues: Pool 3:30 pm, free meat
draw
4-6:30
Wed: Exercise 9am, Line Dancing
10am, Snooker & games 1pm
Thur: Regular Crib 7pm, league
darts 7:30pm
Fri: Ladies darts 2pm
Sat: Meat draw, 50/50, fun darts 2pm
Monthly General meeting 2nd
Thurs 1pm
Monthly Supper every 3rd Friday
5:30pm
Monthly Mini Crib 2nd Fri
Coffee House 2nd Friday
Movie Night - Chase Community Hall,
every Thurs, minimal admission,
concession available. FMI 250-3196302.
Parkside Estates - Public Bingo Wed.
1pm, FMI 250-679-4477 Ext. 5
ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION
250-679-3536
Tuesday Pool- 3:30pm, meat draw 4 - 6:30pm
Wednesday - 3rd Wed of every month
Branch General Meeting 7 pm.
Saturday Meat Draw, 50/50, Fun
Darts - 2pm
Sunday - Giant Crib on the first Sun.
of every month. All other Sundays
closed.
Sunshore Ladies Golf Club meet
Tuesday mornings. For information
call Pat Kornack @ 250- 679-8762 or
Evelyn Chilton @ 250-679-3860.
Taoist Tai Chi - Chase Community
Hall on Tuesdays from 10-11am and
Thursdays from 9:30-11:30 am. FMI
Judy 250-679-5425
SUNNYBRAE
COMMUNITY HALL
Tues & Thurs: Karate 6pm (250-8358875)
Mon & Fri: Badminton (250-835-4625)
2nd Sat: Coffee House (except June
to Sept)
4th Wed: General Meeting 7:30pm
SENIORS HALL
Sunnybrae Painters Tues 10am
(250-835-4625)
Needle Arts Guild 1st & 3rd Thur:
10am (250-835-8842)
Wed Quilters 1st & 3rd (250-8358255)
Potluck dinner and Meeting 3rd
Tues, 5:30 pm(except July/Aug)
Shuswap Needle Arts Guild meet
1st & 3rd Thursday, 10am to 4 pm at
Sunnybrae Seniors Centre (Sept. to
Jun) FMI are Jo (250)-832-9308 or
Sharon (250)-832-4588.
To add a meeting/event call 250-955-0534, Fax 250-955-0515 or email [email protected]
MAY 2015
Adams River Salmon Society.. Sheila Empey 250-253-2598
AWE Society.. email: [email protected].
Anglemont Ladies Golf.. Bev Shea 250-955-0365
Anglemont Men’s Golf Club.. Rob MacDuff at 250-505-2781
Artistic Community.. Lynn Erin 250-955-6234
Baseball Club.. Mike McManamna 250-819-0522 or 250-9550688
Camp Grafton.. Judy MacPherson 250-374-5115
Chamber of Commerce.. Dave Cunliffe 250-851-6852
Coffee House.. Jim Leduc 250-679-2174
Country Kids Play School.. Alanna Stearns 250-679-3005
Country Gardens Garden Club.. Chris Trueman
250-955-6467
CRIMESTOPPERS.. 1-800-222-8477
Crowfoot Snowmobile Club.. Martin & Julie Lucas
250-955-2246
CSRD - Area F.. Larry Morgan 250-955-2567
FIRE DEPARTMENTS
Anglemont - Graham Lucas - 250-833-8997 / 250-955-2173
Celista - Roy Philips - 250-517-0540
S.C./L.C. - Art Stoll - 250-955-2422 / 250-517-0098
Skwlax - Keith Power - 250-679-4472
First Responders.. Andrea Carter 250-679-7746
First Responders Society.. Catherine McCrea
[email protected]
Girl Guides .. 1-800-565-8111
Heart & Stroke Foundation of BC & Yukon..
Cynthia Bentley 250-955-2222
Historical Society.. Loretta Greenough 250-955-6431
Imai Ball Park Foundation.. Brian MacDuff 250-955-0981
JPW Road Maintenance.. Attendant 1-877-546-3799,
Main office (Armstrong) 250-546-3765, Celista yard
(answering machine) 250-955-2231
Karate Club.. Dale Cundy 250-682-3094
Lakeview Centre.. Fay Hadden 250-955-2488
Lions Club.. Jim Perry 250-955-0839
Meadow Creek Park Assoc.. Don Grimm 250- 955-0262
Naturalists Club.. Claudette Carlsen 250-955-8148
Needle Bugs Club.. Gerry Kendall 250-955-6279
NS Cemetery.. Doug Prigmore 250-955-6454 or
Loretta Greenough 250-955-6431
NS Christian Fellowship.. 250-955-2545
NS Community Association.. Toby Alford 250-955-2978
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Hall Bookings – Alison Elmes 250-955-2588
NS Craft & Needlework Club.. Gerry 250-955-6279
NS Elementary School.. Rob Ellis 250-955-2214
NS Health Centre Society.. Pat Robertson 250-955-2999 and
Jay Simpson 250-377-5462
NS Players.. Judy Weller 250-955-0744
Okanagan Regional Library.. Lee Carreiro 250-955-8198
Parents Advisory Committee.. Angela Simpson 250-377-5406
Parks Commission Contact.. CSRD
1-888-248-2773
Police Advisory Committee.. Lynda Sutton 250-319-7797
Ratepayer Associations
Anglemont - Marian Zackery 250-955-0359
Magna Bay - Alan Nunn 250-679-2565 or 604-522-3346
Scotch Creek - Mary Stewart 250-955-2967
Saratoga - Aileen Brand 250-955-6123
St. Ives - Dave King 250-955-0573
School District # 83 North Shuswap Trustee.. Larissa Lutjen
email [email protected], 250-803-1587
Scotch Creek Medical Clinic: for appointment 250-955-0660
Seymour Arm Comm. Assoc.. Bob Reimer 250-833-7610
Seymour Arm First Responders Society.. Sharon Kelly 778-373-6274
Seymour Arm Snowmobile Club.. Wilmer Marks 778-785-2032
Shuswap Environmental Action Society.. Jim Cooperman
250-679-3693
Shuswap Hospice Society.. 250-832-7099
Shuswap Volunteer Search & Rescue.. Tara Stanley 250-308-9248,
shuswapsar.org
Shuswap Needle Arts Guild.. Marleine 250-675-2507 or Sharon
250-832-4588
Shuswap Rock Club.. Pat or Gail Bowden 250-675-2849
Shuswap Waterfront Owners Association (SWOA)
[email protected], web: www.SWOA.ca
Skmana Ski club .. George 250-679-3688 / John 250-679-8600
South Shuswap Canada Day Committee..
Reuben Pauls.. 250-675-6852
South Shuswap First Responders.. Sherri Mitchell
250-675-2420
South Shuswap Health Services Society.. Sue McCrae
250-675-3562
Taoist Tai Chi .. Judy 250-679-5425
Victim Services.. Brandi Nakazawa 250-679-8638
Whittlers Club.. Marian Zackery 250-955-0359
DISCLAIMER – The information in this publication is carefully gathered & compiled to ensure maximum accuracy. The North Shuswap Kicker cannot, and does not, guarantee the correctness of all information furnished them,
nor the complete absence of errors or omissions: therefore, no responsibility for same can be nor is assumed. Press releases and reports from community organizations and businesses are encouraged but may be edited to fit available space. We reserve the right to refuse any ad or item that conflicts with the intent of this paper. Articles, advertisements and design in this publication may not be reproduced in any way without prior permission of the author.
ERRORS AND OMISSIONS: Advertising is accepted on the condition that, in the event of a typographical error, the portion of the advertising space occupied by the error will not be charged for, but the balance of the advertisement will be paid for at the applicable rate.
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TRANSFER
STATION HOURS
Scotch Creek
Fri - Tues 8am - 2pm
Closed Wed & Thurs
Christmas, New Years &
Remembrance Day
Seymour Arm
Saturday 1pm - 5pm
Closed Statutory Holidays
MAY 2015
$6 up to 20 words, 20¢ ea. additional word. $1 for box-around. Single column Classified Display Ads are $2.00 per 1/4 inch. Drop ads along with cash or check (made out to the KICKER)
at drop boxes, e-mail ad to [email protected] or mail to 7320 Estate Place, Anglemont, B.C.
V0E 1M8. Ads must be received 12 days prior to the paper hitting the stands.
CLASSIFIED ADS MUST BE PAID IN ADVANCE.
SERVICES
SERVICES
Making Waves Marine Service,
Service, parts, and marine accessories to your location. Full mechanical marine repair and service available to all makes and models of
pleasure craft. Certified marine technician with over 20 years experience. Call Alan today at 955-0884.
www.makingwaves marine.ca
WE
DELIVER
Ian Bischoff
250-955-2340
250-833-6073
250-320-4050
sports Shop
Tues to Sat 10ish - 5:30ish
K9 ScallyWags
(Shuswap Time!)
 Professional Counselling
 Completely Confidential
 Anonymous and secure
927 Shuswap Ave. Chase
250-679-8456
BrushwithGreatness
Kyle
Lessey
Painting
/
It is simply taking therapy
online to overcome issues like
distance and accessibility
For more information visit:
250‐679‐2164
(Cell)250‐320‐6820
www.northstarcounselling.ca
THOMPSON RIVERS APPRAISALS
www.trappraisals.ca
250-682-5995
250-372-2599
 Pre-purchase and Pre-sale
appraisal reports
 Mortgage Refinancing?
 Estate or Division of Family Assets?
 Depreciation Reports for Strata
Properties
Fully Accredited Appraisers and
Depreciation Report Planners
(AACI, CRP)
Linda’s Security Checks
Worried about break ins? We do
house checks, walk arounds.
References available.
Lived here since 1981
250-955-2500 Cell 250-819-2500
[email protected]
Ship Shape Shelter Indoor Boat
and RV Storage. Call Gary or
Michele at 250-835-4224 or email:
shipshapeshelter@ hotmail.com
for rates
Renovations
Foundations
Framing
Finishing
Siding
Flooring
Roofing
Decks
SERVICES
Movement Classes
Dance Fitness
Feel great - Have fun- Great people
Low impact
Summer Drop-in’s welcome
10:30am - Tuesdays & Fridays
at Celista Hall
$8 Drop - in rate
10 Sessions for $65
Nancy Parkinson (250) 679-8233
Pet Grooming
IPG Certified
622 Shuswap Ave Located
in the Chase Veterinary
Clinic
(under the library, lane
access...NO STAIRS!!)
250-679-7889
REAL ESTATE APPRAISALS
Magna Bay
Bdeb Clean
Year round cleaning services.
Excellent references.
Call 250-679-2164
Cuts ● Colors
Manicures ●Pedicures ● Facials
Waxing ● Lash & Brow Tints
Gel Nails ● Shellac
At the Centre in Scotch Creek
Call Doreen to book appointment
- Force
SERVICES
TOPSOIL
MANURE (rotted)
GRAVEL
LOT CLEARING
EXCAVATING
250-955-6435
PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER

Construction Design

Consulting / Inspections

Sewage System Regulation

Project Management
250-571-0580
[email protected]
abcengineeringservice.com
Cathryn Rankin
B.A., R.M.T.
Phone: 250.675.5054
Mother's Day Special for May
Complementary paraffin treatment with
every nail service done. Valued at $15
EXPERIENCED NAIL TECH Gel or Shellac
250-955-6136
or text 780-881-6912
Scotch Creek
Shuswap Piano tuning and restoration call or text 250-517-7717
Dock Doctor
We will help keep you afloat. Repairs and maintenance of docks,
new wood docks, used docks.
250-955-2500, Cell 250-318-2890
[email protected]
Woodwork & Wood
Furniture Repairs
Dave Cross
250-955-0065, Celista
VACATION
RENTALS
Celista Esthetics
Anglemont - Weekly, Monthly, &
Long Term. Lakeshore two bedroom condos plus two bedroom
mountainside cabin , weekly and
monthly rentals. WIFI and Sat. TV.
available in all units. From $800
month. phone 250-955-0701
------------------------------------------Trailer rental, nightly or weekly.
$25 per night, $150 per week. Very
quiet lovely location, 10 min to
Celista, store and beach.
Brian 250-955-0528
Courtney Meier
Manicures, Pedicures, Waxing, Facials
250-955-2149
5205 Tallington Rd, Celista
Celista Hair Studio
Helga Terwoort
For all your hair-care needs call
250-955-6195
5205 Tallington Rd, Celista
MAY 2015
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RENTALS
REAL ESTATE
FOR SALE
PRIVACY SEEKERS and
OUTDOORS ENTHUSIASTS
OPEN YEAR ROUND
Daily Room Rates
16 Guest Rooms
RV & Campsites
Weddings / Reunions
Up to 100 persons
CREW RATES AVAILABLE
check us out at
www.anglemontinn.com
(250) 955-0701
B&B
Suite Escapes BC
$308,000.00
• 2.5 Acres
• 1400 Sq Ft 2 Level
• 1000 sq ft Heated Shop
• Septic and Water Well
• In Floor Heating
• Main Floor Laundry
• 200 Amp Service; 3 phase power
• Water Softening and
Filtration System
• Property approved for 2
residences
 VERY Private Yard
For more information call Joanna at
250-763-9056 or check out our
Virtual Tour:
http://youtube/xAQmwbaXsSM
Country Cottage
$219,000
Rooms Available
●Queen Suite ●Queen Room
●King Room
6770 Magna Bay Drive
WiFi,Satellite
SatelliteTV
TV
Free Wifi,
Games room with pool table
& foosball
BBQ for your use
Certified Nail Tech on location
4465 Squilax-Anglemont Rd
Scotch Creek BC
250-955-6136 or 780-881-6912
[email protected]
REAL ESTATE
WANTED
Looking to purchase
a house or serviced lot
in Scotch Creek area.
Please call Chris at
250-955-6467
Country Cottage & 5 Lakeview
acres of Shuswap await your
plans. 2 acres have already been
cleared in preparation of new home
site. Blast rock driveway is in
along with hydro and phone. Year
round cottage is already in use.
Take advantage of the recreational
playground that surrounds you.
Call Joel Ellams (250) 309-1171
REALTOR® Lakefront and Lake
view Specialist
Beautiful, Private, Peaceful
20 acres, fruit trees, 2 acre pasture,
rest forest, with attractive, sunny 3
bdr house with full basement, and
3600 sq. ft. chalet, 6 bdr, 3 kit, 3
bath, near finished bsmt suite. 10
min to Celista, store and beach.
Call Brian 250-955-0528.
$525,000 Vendor financing.
REAL ESTATE
FOR SALE
HELP WANTED
Fully Serviced
$229,000
4144 Squilax-Anglemont Rd
Fully Serviced property in Scotch
Creek. Great location just West of
the Provincial Park and across
from the ball fields and tennis
courts. The perfect place for a
business and/or home. Currently
zoned C4, could possibly be
rezoned into residential.
Call Joel Ellams (250) 309-1171
REALTOR® Lakefront and Lake
view Specialist
COMMERCIAL
SPACE
LEASE SPACE AVAILABLE
Check out our great lease opportunities at the Blind Bay marketplace mall. Excellent rates, great
potential. 5,000 immediate area
population and 10,000 trading
area. Call Terry at 250-804-6132
Commercial space for rent 940 sq. ft. and 800 sq. ft. Rent now
and get set up for the busy summer
3970 Squilax- Anglemont Road,
Scotch Creek.
1-866-618-0222
WANTED
De-clutter, De-stress any unwanted garage sale items, goodused furniture and household
items. Thrift shop opening, donations greatly appreciated call or
text for pick up 250-299-3299
HELP WANTED
Wanted: someone to cut grass
1-2 days a week $15/hr start immediately. 250-371-7003
Scotch Creek SuperValu is
accepting resumes for the following
full-time & part-time positions
(some available immediately)
 Bakery
 Deli
 Cashier
 Produce
 Meat cutter/wrapper
 Janitorial
 Gas Station Attendant
 Stock
Resumes can be handed in at the
store, faxed to 250-955-2132
or email: [email protected]
Shuswap Cabins
Cleaners required to clean vacation rental properties. Potential
to make $50.00/hr. Must have
own vehicle. To book an interview interested applicants should
call: (250) 371-7003
Shuswap Lake Provincial Park
Is accepting applications for summer
Employment for the following
positions:
 Gate
office
 Janitorial
 Grounds
Keeping
– Day and Evening
positions
 Security
Please email resume to
[email protected]
For any inquiries call Cassie at
250-955-0861
Summer Cleaners Wanted
Saturdays/Sundays/Some midweek work. North Shuswap, Blind
Bay, Sunnybrae areas
Student's OK. Vehicle is a
bonus. Top dollar paid.
Contact Jay Simpson:
[email protected]
Reliable cleaner required for
summer rental home in Celista,
Saturdays during July and August,
experience preferred, reply to
[email protected].
MAY 2015
RENTAL
WANTED
FOR SALE
New & Used Medical Equipment
Scooters, walkers, wheelchairs,
bathroom safety, stair-lifts,
hospital beds. Free Screening for
obstructive sleep apnea, treatment
and follow-up. CPAP masks,
parts, and accessories.
Respiratory therapy equipment
and home oxygen. Located in
Salmon Arm and Vernon
www.lakesidemedical.ca or
1-877-777-2431
2004 Toyota Rav 4 4X4, 4cyl,
215,000km, excellent condition, 4
new tires Oct/2014, all service
records, $7500. 2004 Toyota
Matrix, 4dr Hatchback,
93,000km, estate car, all service
records, $8500. 1994 21' Wellcraft Eclipse Cuddy, 5.7
Mercruiser MAG 260 HP, low
hours, all service records $7900.
250-955-0752 or
[email protected]
Must see Fibreform inboard boat.
Good shape. Comes with boat trailer.
Open to offers. 250-679-8609 or
312 Schouten Rd. Chase
-----------------------------------------Inversion Exercise Table with
instructions new price $250. sale
price $125. call 250-955-0949
Tandem Axel Flatdeck Trailer
6x12 wood deck, asking $900.
Phone 250-955-6300
BUSINESS
FOR SALE
Clever Clean Business for sale
or trade! Carpet and Upholstery
cleaning based out of the North
Shuswap. Great money-maker!
(selling for medical reasons)
All reasonable offers considered.
Call Dave at
250-955-0866
Clip & Save
GARAGE SALE
Looking to rent a small acreage
preferably year round with
workshop or Quonset in the
North or South Shuswap. Property with out building or barn
could work or large garage/
workshop with suite attached.
Call Ron at 250-261-3554
FOR RENT
3 Bedroom house available June
15. Semi waterfront. Lee Creek.
Boat dock, large yard, fireplace,
jet tub. $1000/month + utilities.
403-302-3053 or 250-253-8158
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Two bdrm semi-lakefront
suite for rent in Scotch Creek.
Available June 1st . $695/
month. Call 250-955-2415
Garage Sale - May 16-17, 9am4pm, 5121 Disdero Rd Celista.
Household, golf, shelves, dishes,
crafts, patio set, 1996 olds and
much more.
Garage Sale - Simpson Road,
Lee Creek Victoria Day weekend, May 16-17, 9am-noon. Furniture (bring your truck), electrical equipment, water toys etc.
---------------------------------------Huge Multi-family Yard Sale –
rain or shine/under cover. Saturday May 16, 9 am to 2 pm. 8698
Penwith Way, St. Ives. Watch
for signs. Misc. household, tools,
collectibles, etc. No early birds
please.
LOST
Lost - 2 tires mounted on rims
between Celista and Anglemont.
Call 250-319-4734.
Classified Ads
$6.00 up to 20 words; $ .20 each additional word. Price includes HST. Drop ads at one of our boxes: Scotch Creek SuperValu, Peoples Drug Mart
in Scotch Creek, Sunnyside Supermarket in Celista, Ross Creek Country Store in Magna Bay or 7320 Estate Place, Anglemont BC, V0E 1M8.
June Deadline - May 25 at noon * must be paid in advance*
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Total # OF WORDS: ___________
Basic Charge: 20 Words =
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Add’l words: ____ x .20 =
Box your ad:(check)
Phone:
Category:
Cost per month:
$ 1.00
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Payment Info:
Cash
Cheque
MAY 2015
Bedding Sand
Fill Sand
Crusher Chips
Pea Gravel
Pit Run
Navi Jack
BARK MULCH
TOP SOIL
3/4" Screened Drain Rock
3/4" Crushed Road Gravel
3/4" Minus
1 1/2" Crushed Drain Rock
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North Shuswap
BOAT, RV & MINI STORAGE
Indoor, Outdoor & Covered Storage
Easy Access Ground Level Units
Short or Long Term
Valet Service for your Boat or RV
Secure “Your Lock” - “Your Key”
Reasonable Rates
250-955-0788
Email
[email protected]
1337 Cardy Drive
Scotch Creek
Professional Lawn & Garden Care
Serving the Shuswap Since 2000
Serving the North Shuswap
GUTTERSBC.CA
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Renovations, New Construction & Repairs
Continuous 5”, 6” & Fascia Gutter
Custom Gutter Systems for Snow Load
Heat Trace Installation
Full Liability & WCB Coverage
Experience the ADVANTAGE of quality, personalized service!
Open Daily
6am-8pm
Chase
120 Aylmer Rd.
10 am to 3 pm - Mon. to Sat.
¨ Hot Food Takeout
¨ Lunch /Dinner Specials
¨ Pizza
¨ Grocery
¨ Gas
¨ Diesel
¨ Laundromat
¨ Lotto
250-679-8408
Full Refund on all Ready to Drink Containers
1L and under - 5¢, Over 1L - 20¢
MOTHERS DAY SPECIALS
May 10th Sunday Brunch
Quiche with a salad or fruit salad
250-679-4082
6929 Squilax Anglemont Rd, Magna Bay, B.C
Wine & Spirits
1L and under - 10¢, Over 1L - 20¢
All Beer Imports
$1.20/doz.
Domestic Beer & Coolers
$1.00/doz.

North Shuswap First Responder Shortage Reaches Critical Stage

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