Eagle Valley News, August 20, 2014

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Vol. 59 No. 34 Sicamous, B.C., • 1.25 (GST included) • www.eaglevalleynews.comPM40008236

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RCMP have recovered the body of an Alberta man who went missing in Shuswap Lake following a boating collision Satur-day night. A second man involved in the incident is in hospital with serious injuries.

Late Monday afternoon, Sicamous RCMP reported the body of a 51-year-old Calgary, Alta. man had been recovered fol-lowing an extensive search that began Sun-day morning, when police responded to a report of a boating incident at Hungry Cove in Cinnemousun Narrows.

Upon arrival, officers learned a 45-foot cabin cruiser had crashed into a rock face

the night prior, at around 9:30. The 51-year-old, who had been operating the vessel, was missing and presumed drowned. A second man, who was below deck when the crash occurred, was able to get assistance from passing house-boaters Sunday morning. He was transported to Sicamous, where he was airlifted to Kelowna General Hospital for treatment of various serious injuries. Two dogs that were also onboard were safely recovered.

Sicamous RCMP, the BC RCMP Un-derwater Recovery Team, Air Services and members of the Royal Canadian Ma-rine Search and Rescue participated in the search effort that led to the successful re-covery of the missing man’s body.

The name of the deceased is being with-held pending notification of next of kin. Meanwhile, the Sicamous RCMP continue to assist the BC Coroners Service in the in-vestigation.

Abduction attemptPolice are seeking the suspect in an at-

tempted abduction of a 16 year old girl that occurred Sunday night near Sicamous.

The incident was reported to Sicamous RCMP on Aug. 17 at 9:09 p.m.

Investigating officers learned the girl had been jogging alone in the Two Mile area, when she was approached by a man in a dark green pick-up truck with two grey stripes on top.

The man, described as being in his mid-20s, with chin-length blonde hair and wear-ing a brown hat and a dark red shirt, asked the girl if she wanted a ride. When she de-clined, police say the man grabbed the girl. She fought off the attack and fled unharmed to a nearby residence.

Investigating officers conducted exten-sive patrols, but were unable to locate the suspect.

The matter is currently under investi-gation, and police are asking anyone who may have seen or know of a vehicle or person matching the above descriptions, to contact the Sicamous RCMP detachment at 250-836-2878, or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

One dead, another seriously injured in boating collisionBy Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

Prepare for takeoff: A man who was seriously injured in a boating incident on Saturday night in Cinnemousun Narrows is tended to by paramedics prior to being transported by helicopter from Finlayson Park to Kelowna General Hospital. The body of a second man involved in the incident was recovered Monday. Photo by Kelly M. Dick

RCMP report: Police investigating lake incident as well as abduction attempt at Two Mile.

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Monday to Friday Community Access Site at the Senior’s Activity Centre - 1091 Shuswap Avenue. Internet & related services. Call Diana. 836-2446Every Tues. Stopping the Violence Program in Sicamous - counselling for women who have experienced abuse during childhood or adult relationships. No charge. Call Kathy at 250-832-9700.Every Tues. - Sicamous Amateur Drama Club rehearsals, 7:00 p.m., Red Barn Arts Centre. 836-4705.Tues. & Thurs. - Carpet Bowling at the Seniors’ Activity Centre at 1 p.m.Every Tues. & Thurs. - Seniors Meals provided, 12 noon in Common Room at the Haven. Every Wed. Wednesday Arts for Everyone. 10 am - 3 pm. For info contact Juanita at 250-836-3019 or Gail- at 250-836-5472Every 1st & 3rd Wed. - Parkinsons Support Group at First united Church. 20 - 4th Street SE, Salmon Arm at 10 am. Contact Doreen at 250-836-2509.Every Wed. Girl Guides of Canada. Sparks - 3:00 pm. Brownies - 4:00 pm. Girl

Guides - 5:30 pm. New members welcomeEvery Wed. Lunch by a donation at the Seniors Activity Centre, 1091-Shuswap Avenue at 12 noon.Every Wed. - Crib, 7:30 p.m., Haven seniors building. Everyone welcome - you don’t have to be a senior. Socializing and coffee served after crib. Info: Esther 836-4373.Every Wed. - T.O.P.S. (Take off Pounds Sensibly) meets Wednesday morning at the Sicamous Rec. Centre (arena). Weigh in at 9:00 am and meeting at 9:30. Everyone Welcome. Ph: 250-836-4041 for infoEvery Wed.-Sat. United Church Thrift Store 10:00 am to 3 p.m.1st & 3rd Wednesday - Eagle Valley Photographic Arts Club meets at the Red Barn at 7 pm. Everyone Welcome.Every Thurs. - Sicamous Crokinole Group meets at 7pm at the Sicamous & District Recreation Centre - upstairs for more info and to join call Dave Reed @ 250-836-3652Every Thurs.- Ladies shuffleboard at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #99 in Sicamous. 1pm-3pm. All ladies welcome.

Every Thurs.- Malakwa Thrift Store between the 2 churches Open every Thursday 10-5.Every 2nd Thurs. - Sicamous Lions Club meeting at the Seniors Activity Centre, 1091 Shuswap Avenue. Doors open at 6:15 and meeting starts at 6:30. Anyone interested in being a volunteer for the community, please feel free to call Mary at 250-517-8107, Joan at 250-836-4876 or Pam at 250-836-4788 or just drop in to one of our meetings where you will be welcome.Every 1st, 3rd, 4th Thurs. - Keepsake Kwilters meet at the Haven Common room 1095 Shuswap Avenue at 7:00 p.m. For info call 250-836-2695.Every 2nd and 4th Thurs. Options For Sexual health from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., The Sicamous Health UnitEvery 4th Thursday monthly meeting of the Malakwa Community Association at 7:00 in the Learning Centre Library.Every Fri. - Parents & Tots, 10-12 noon at the Eagle Valley Resource Centre. 836-3440.Every Fri. - Eagle Valley Brush & Palette Club meets at the Red Barn, 10am-3pm, Everyone welcome! For info call Carol 250-

836-3135 or Amy 250-836-4756. www.eaglevalleybrushandpaletteclub.comEvery Friday - Pool Tournament at the Legion at 6:00 pmEvery 2nd 3rd and 4th Fri. Wii Tournament at 10 am at the Sicamous Seniors Activity Centre - 1091 Shuswap Avenue. Everyone Welcome.Every 2nd 3rd and 4th Fri. Lunch at noon. Everyone Welcome. At the Sicamous Seniors Activity Centre - 1091 Shuswap Avenue.Last Sat. of the Month - Ladies’ Auxiliary Dinner at the Royal Canadian Legion at 6 pm. Tickets sold until the Friday before at the Legion. No tickets at the door.Sundays - Candlelit Karma 6:30 pm. Warm & Gentle. Class by donation. Funds go towards community causes.Every 4th Sun.- Royal Canadian Legion Br. #99 general meeting, 1 p.m.Every 4th Sun. - OAPO Birthday Tea for members & friends, Seniors Activity Centre, 2 pmEvery Sat. - Morning Sicamous Royal Canadian Legion Brach 99 tailgate market – Everyone welcome – sell anything – for details call Murray @250-836-2224.

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The district has or-dered a Larch Street home, the site of a for-mer marijuana grow operation and subse-quent fire, be torn down and removed.

Last week, council supported a Remedial Action Requirement, as per the B.C. Commu-nity Charter, for the de-molition of a residence at 705 Larch Ave. – the site of a structure fire on July 22, 2013.

An Aug. 11, 2014 staff report states the registered owner, iden-tified as Thi Hong Lien Dao, has not made an effort to communicate with the district, nor has any remedial ac-tion been taken on the site since a March 20, 2014 site inspection involving the district’s building inspector, fire chief and the property manager for the mort-gage holder.

A resolution con-tained in the report states the building was badly damaged in the fire and is in an unsafe condition, and that written complaints have been received by the district. The resolu-tion goes on to declare to the structure a nui-sance “so dilapidated as to be offensive to the community,” and orders it demolished and removed, includ-ing its foundation, no later than 60 days after notice of the Remedial

Action Requirement has been sent to the registered owner. In addition, a 1.5 metre tall fence is to be kept around the structure until the above condi-tion is met (includ-ing the removal of the septic system), and the hole left by the demoli-tion is filled in and lev-elled.

If the owner does not submit a request to council to reconsider the proposed remedial action, nor does he fol-low through with it, the district may undertake any or all of the actions at the owner’s expense.

Community plan-ning officer Mike Marrs explained any cost to the district would be collected by way of property taxes

and by the sale of the lot.

“So the bank, in oth-er words, will take this loss,” said Marrs.

In April 2012, po-lice began investigating activities at the house after comments were received by concerned residents. On April 18, Salmon Arm RCMP pulled over a vehicle “associated with the residence.” This led to the arrest of the ve-hicle’s sole occupant, a 41-year old Surrey man. Later that day, investigating officers obtained and executed a search at 705 Larch Avenue, where they discovered 1,000 mari-juana plants in various stages of growth.

On July 22, 2013, at around 1:30 p.m.,

Sicamous firefighters responded to a report of a fire at 705 Larch, which was unoccupied at the time. Firefighters arrived to find the at-tached garage fully en-gulfed, with the flames spreading up the side of the home and into the attic.

At the time, the fire chief referred to the blaze as being “some-what suspicious,” not-ing there was a hedge fire at the same address in October 2012. Po-lice, however, could only call the fire an “unfortunate incident,” noting the structure appeared to have been under renovation at the time.

Neighbour Dawn Backs thanked council for supporting the reso-

lution, but asked that it include removal of the septic system, which council agreed to do.

District orders demolition of residence

Blaze: On July 22, 2012, firefighters extinguish a blaze at a Larch Ave. residence, the same home where a marijuana grow operation was busted by police the year prior. File photo

By Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

Crime scene: Larch Avenue home site of former grow operation.

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DRIVERS: Please drive with care as students head back to school. Please observe School Zone speed limits from 7 am to 5 pm. All eligible school bus riders will be receiving a post card in the mail with their bus times on it. If they haven’t received it they should either check the school district website www.sd83.bc.ca or call Transportation at 250-832-9415

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Three children, ages 10, eight and six, have been identified by the Salmon Arm RCMP as the ones responsible for setting a fire in a class-room of South Broad-view school on Sunday.

At 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 17, crews from Salmon Arm Fire Department’s Hall 2 were dispatched to the school.

The 911 caller ad-

vised fire dispatch that a window had been bro-ken at the school and she could see fire inside, which prompted the fire department to enhance their response to include firefighters from Hall 3 and rescue apparatus.

“Upon arrival our I.C. (incident com-mander) confirmed smoke and fire showing on a west side class-room and that bystand-ers were attempting to extinguish the fire,” said

Salmon Arm Fire Chief Brad Shirley.

“It was also brought to (the incident com-mander’s) attention of a possible suspect in the setting of this fire and RCMP were sub-sequently requested to attend the scene.

RCMP report a win-dows had been broken and burning material had been thrown inside.

Staff Sgt. Kevin Ke-ane of the Salmon Arm RCMP reports that po-

lice investigation quick-ly identified the three children believed to be responsible for the arson and vandalism.

Due to their young age, no criminal charges can be laid. Their names will also not be made public.

Shirley reports that the initial attack team quickly extinguished fire, containing it to the one classroom, while other teams ventilated the school as there was

a significant amount of smoke throughout the building.

Further investigation also found another bro-ken window in a class-room on the east side of the school; however, there appeared to have been no attempt to set a fire there.

Crews were on scene for approximately two hours.

By Tracy HughesEagle Valley News

RCMP REPORT

RCMP and the BC Coroners Service con-tinue to investigate a motor-vehicle incident that resulted in the death of a Calgary man.

On Monday, the BC

Coroners service re-ported that Kim Alan Edwards, 57, died as a result of a two-vehicle collision near Avoca Road in Craigellachie.

Edwards was the sole occupant of a ve-hicle travelling east

on the Trans-Canada Highway early Friday morning (Aug. 15), when he lost control of the vehicle.

Police say the ve-hicle went off-road to the right, returned to the highway and was struck

by a westbound trans-port truck. Edwards sustained a head injury as a result. BC Coroners Service spokesperson Barb McLintock states Edwards was taken by ambulance to Shuswap Lake General Hospital

in Salmon Arm, and then to Royal Inland Hospital in Kamlooops. He died from his inju-ries the following day.

McLintock notes Edwards had recently moved from Kamloops to Calgary.

Calgary man dies after highway collisionBy Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

Children suspects in Salmon Arm school fire

Neskonlith Chief Judy Wilson took an eviction notice to Impe-rial Metals in Vancou-ver but never made it off the ground floor.

The notice seeks to bar Imperial Met-als owners, employees, insurers and inves-tors from the Ruddock Creek mine site high above the headwaters of the Adams River – land the Shuswap Nation claims to own under ab-original title.

Wilson says the “cat-astrophic breach” of the company’s Mt. Polley tailings pond, proves Imperial Metals does not have proper risk management policies in place.

It was a message the chief wanted to deliver to company officials first-hand, but she ar-rived at the company’s Vancouver office last Thursday to discover access blocked by locked stairwells and elevators.

Gordon Keevil, Imperial Metals vice president of corporate development, called the incident an unfortunate

set of circumstances based on miscommuni-cation.

He said there had been a number of pro-tests following the Mt. Polley incident and building and manage-ment made the move for employee security.

In terms of the fed-eral government’s deci-sion to forego an envi-ronmental assessment at Ruddock Creek in favour of a single pro-vincial assessment, Keevil says the decision was to try to eliminate duplication.

“At the end of the day, the federal govern-ment has to sign off on it,” he says. “They have

to review it; it’s not a complete walkaway.”

Keevil says some $50 to $60 million has already been spent in an environmental process that has just begun and is expected to take an-other two to three years.

“We’re very aware of the high level of sen-sitivity; we know that unless it mitigates all the sensitivity, it’s not going to go,” he said, claiming the mine will be a much smaller op-eration than Mt. Polley.

Keevil says the company has been in consultation with four First Nations bands affected by the mine – Adams Lake Indian

Band, Little Shuswap, Neskonlith and the Simpcw First Nation in the northern part of the Shuswap.

“We’ve been talking to them all the time; not so much with Neskon-lith,” he said. “That re-quires a two-way street in consultation.”

“Let’s be honest, what happened was an accident and while we can’t give anyone a 100 per cent guarantee, we’re doing all kinds of work in support of the permitting process,” he said. “Everything we do is in the context of where we are – we know the sensitivity, we know the hurdles.”

Imperial Metals eviction returns with senderBy Barb BrouwerEagle Valley News

Mine: A view from the Ruddock Creek Mine, as taken in 2008 before Selkirk Mines sold the zinc-lead mining operation to Imperial Metals, Mitsui Mining and Smelting Company Ltd. and Itochu Corporation. File photo


Today I’ll attempt to cut through the speculation and fear-mongering that have swirled around the Mount Polley mine dam breach and tell you what’s really known.

As Black Press and our local publication the Wil-liams Lake Tribune re-ported before and after the incident, the mine reopened in 2005 after a four-year shutdown and was expand-ing its operation, including the tailings pond.

Imperial Metals applied earlier this summer for an increase in water discharge, and was waiting for B.C. government approval at the time of the Aug. 4 dam breach. This was to be the second amendment to a water release permit issued when the mine started up in 1997. It has had a surplus of water due to rain and snow accumulation since it opened. The reason water

release has been allowed is that in the absence of acid-producing rock, metal con-tamination of water is mini-mized. Imperial Metals’ routine tests with rainbow trout in undiluted tailings pond water have now been confirmed by environment ministry results, and water and fish from all but the immediate spill area have been cleared for human consumption.

For an example of acid mine drainage, look up the Britannia Mine Museum, now a reclaimed national historic site with a water treatment plant built to function for hundreds of years. Before that, acid-pro-duced toxic metal pollution drained from the abandoned mine into Howe Sound for decades.

Early tests at Mount Polley indicate this sort of long-term water remedia-tion may not be required. The initial pulse of sus-pended sediment didn’t last long enough to affect fish

in most of Quesnel Lake, much less the Fraser River system. Sediment tests show elevated iron and cop-per, with “leachability” re-sults to come. Containment and removal will have to be undertaken.

On May 24 of this year, Mount Polley received the first high water warn-ing in its history. This was not a “breach,” contrary to some reports. The latest wa-ter permit application and work to raise the dam took place after that.

It’s not difficult to de-duce from aerial photos what was happening as mine management found ways to extend operation, including an underground phase. The pond was filling up with pulverized rock, re-ducing its capacity to hold water. Most of the accumu-lation is still there for all to see, as is the cross-section of the dam so abruptly ex-posed in the wee hours of Aug. 4.

It may be months before

inspectors and geotechnical engineers can determine the cause of the breach, which occurred with the water level 2.5 metres below the top of the dam, well within permit specifications. Either the design of the earthworks was not adequate, or it was not adequately followed.

TV crews have packed up and left, after sucking out the initial drama and retelling every sensational claim they could find. Tour-ism operators are pleading with people not to turn their backs on the region after that influx of visitors.

Professional environ-mentalists are now exploit-ing Mount Polley as part of their campaign to de-industrialize B.C. A key propaganda tool is a single picture of a salmon with skin removed from part of its dorsal region.

No such fish has been produced, and a single rain-bow trout collected the day of the spill is the only con-firmed aquatic casualty.

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Canadians paying more in taxes

OPINION

A Fraser Institute study was released Tuesday, showing the share of Cana-dians’ income going towards gov-

ernments at all levels has risen from 33.5 per cent in 1961 to 41.8 per cent in 2013.

It’s important to put the study into context. The Fraser Institute is a think tank which

believes in smaller government, and has stead-fastly engaged in many studies over the years to debunk “big government.” Some of those studies have been quite useful, others not so much.

The institute also participates in the world-wide “Tax Freedom Day” event, which marks the day when people begin to work for them-selves each year, as opposed to the taxman. This year, the date in Canada was June 9.

All that said, there is no question that some of the money paid in taxes is not well-spent. While abuses by politicians like Alison Red-ford or Mike Duffy get the headlines, there are many programs in government of limited or almost no use. One B.C. example is the carbon tax rebate to large corporations, paid by school districts and hospitals with tax dol-lars.

However, as the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (the polar opposite to the Fraser Institute) notes, it’s very difficult to compare 1961 to 2014. Governments provide medicare now — there was little spending on health care in 1961. That’s where a lot of tax dollars go.

There are also many more government pro-grams that redistribute funds to lower-income Canadians, including the GST credit and the carbon tax credit in B.C.

The Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security also did not exist prior to 1961.

Governments certainly have room to cut. A focus on how much tax we pay as a percent-age of income is useful, because taxpayers need to consider whether we get full value for the money we spend each year.

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The B.C. govern-ment has launched a new website to pre-pare parents for a pos-sible continuation of the teacher strike after Labour Day.

The website, bcpar-entinfo.ca, promises the latest bargaining updates on B.C.’s fes-tering teacher dispute, and will act as a portal for parents registering to collect $40 a day for each child under 12 if the strike drags on.

It also offers links to online learning resourc-es from school districts, which have proliferated in recent years.

Talks have continued under a media blackout since mediator Vince Ready met the two sides last week.

“Mr. Ready agreed to monitor the situa-tion, and to resume ex-ploratory talks or com-mence full mediation when he believes it will be productive,” the B.C. Teachers’ Federation and B.C. Public School Employers’ Association said in a brief statement.

Negotiations broke off and a full-scale strike and lockout ended the school year in June. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Kelleher met both sides earlier but declined to attempt mediation, after finding too large a gap between the two sides.

Education Minister Peter Fassbender and BCPSEA chief nego-tiator Peter Cameron have maintained that the BCTF’s benefit de-mands remain far be-yond those of other public sector unions that have settled con-tracts. Also at issue is class size and special needs support, with BCPSEA’s latest offer rejected by the union and the latest of a series of court actions sched-uled for this fall.

Ready’s last involve-ment in the long-run-ning series of teacher disputes was as an in-dustrial inquiry com-missioner in 2007. At that time he recom-mended that a senior provincial official be involved in talks along with an independent mediator.

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Open letter to dis-trict of Sicamous:

Please, all in good humour!

Imagine that I had to set an alarm if I wanted to get my fill of Uncle Terry’s blueberry pan-cakes at Moose Mouse days. How dare they make it so early – don’t they know I’m not a morning person!

I hope the town has

insurance to cover the cost of an accident should anyone have slipped in the poop left on the parade route by the cute little Shetland ponies. And what were they thinking having a parade full of little kids, floats, classic cars, dignitaries, pi-rates, clowns, gorillas and local businesses showcasing their stuff.

I hope the town had all the say.

How dare they set off fireworks while there’s a fire ban. Oh that’s right, they were set off of a barge under very controlled circum-stances. And Sicamous knows how to do fire-works!

And I hope anyone who didn’t want to be forced to listen to

some great blues music stayed clear of the Red Barn Arts Centre or the beach park as the tunes were rocking till dark!

I think, in the eyes of the town and anyone I asked, this event was a huge success, as are all the other commu-nity and special events Sicamous puts on. It brought to our commu-nity: tourists, econom-

ics, awareness of what we have to offer and a sense of pride for those who live here.

If anyone is consid-ering moving to, say, Salmon Arm, let me know cause I know lots of people who would love to live here!

I can’t wait to see what’s next!

Karen Warrington

Writer voices Moose Mouse “concerns”

Province provides website in case strike continuesBy Tom Fletcher Black Press

District hall recalled: Sicamous Coun. Fred Busch shares his memories of the former district office on Riverside Avenue with a crowd of current and former district staff and elected representatives during a luncheon Friday, at the Red Barn, commemorating the now-demolished municipal facility.Photo by Lachlan Labere


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Vic Phillips sees a lot of potential for Si-camous and the Park-land Centre Mall.

Phillips recently purchased the mall, and is in the process of assessing the struc-ture to determine what work might be done.

“There’s really no immediate plans on it, as in anything ma-jor – there may some face lifts,” said Phil-lips. “I spent all week checking it and I still have a lot of assessing to do, so I really can’t comment on what the future is.

“It’s got a very good future, it’s a very good structure… it’s in ex-cellent shape, a well-built building in a great location.”

Phillips is the found-er/owner of Rocky Mountain Alarms and Shuswap Fire & Safety

based in Salmon Arm. The Parkland Centre Mall is his first com-mercial investment in Sicamous. He said he was looking to invest

in the young munici-pality, believing it has a great future.

Prior to the pur-chase, the mall had been in receivership

for a few years. Phillips says the current tenants are fantastic and he is optimistic they’ll con-tinue to stay with the facility for many years

to come. The 13-unit,

31,248-square foot building on 3.38 acres was listed at $1.5 mil-lion.

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Prime location: The Parkland Center Mall’s new owner Vic Phillips is optimistic about his investment and the future of Sicamous as a whole. Photo by Lachlan Labere

By Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

Music in the Park takes place this Sat-urday, Aug. 23 at the Malakwa Centennial Park.

The line-up of musi-cians includes the Dust Puppets from Sun-nybrae – well known on the coffee house circuit, the Jim Abbott band from Mission, Lyn Sande, gospel re-cording artist, Chris Stevens and his incredi-ble banjo picking, Dale “Bushy” Bush, pickin’ an grinnin,’ an Elvis impersonator, and the band Revival with their ’60s, ’70s ’80s rock ‘n’ roll, blues and pop. Bring your dancing shoes.

Great things are in store for the kids too with a bouncy castle, horse rides, a cake walk, games and prizes.

A special treat will be Happy the Hula Hooping Clown, with music and a hula hoop contest for kids with prizes.

A silent auction, concession and 50/50 draws, as well as dem-onstrations from the fire department are some of the other things to en-joy during at the park. Watch for signs on the highway.

This is a fundraiser for the Malakwa Com-munity Centre Asso-ciation, with proceeds going to the commu-nity hall fund, to assist with either repairing or rebuilding of the Mal-akwa Community Hall.

Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for kids ages six to 16, and pre-schoolers are free. Get them at the gate which opens at noon.

Kids games run from 1 to 3 p.m. (may-be later), music from 1 to 11 p.m.

Bring your lawn chair and see you there. For information or to volunteer, call Audrey at 250-836-2108, or Sandy at 250-836-3761.

Music in the Park this weekend

Powerful performance: Annie Cook as Sek’lap (Coyote) plays a powerful and humourous role in Tuwitames, a community play with a cast of 50, which traces the life of an adopted young man who discovers his roots in the Splatsin First Nation. The play, presented by Runaway Moon Theatre and the Splatsin Language and Cultural Program, brought both laughter and tears to sold-out crowds. Photo by Aaron Leon

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Laundromat – Summer Hrs (May 1st – Sep 30) Mon – Sat 9am to 8 pm Sun 10 am to 6pm

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We have 2 top load and 6 Front Load single washers with 10 Gas Dryers. We are always hands on to provide our customers with assistance and clean machines no matter when they arrive! Wash and Fold Service is also available at a reasonable

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In our retail area: We carry a vari-ety of care products for Cars, Boats, RV and Trucks. Specialty Products include Fukken Wax and Fresh Wave odor Eliminator products; Unique Novelty and souvenir T- shirts, and key rings

Our customers continue to offer comments of “A Great Wash” and “A Great Laundry Experience”. Thank you to all for your support and warm welcome into the community!

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Slap putt: Kaden LaRoy, Sicamous Hockey School instructor Liam Gallagher, Jake O’Keefe and Tao Flory watch as Malachi Gossen hits his ball during the hockey school’s traditional mini-golf outing at Frontier Mini-Golf Friday, followed by ice cream. Last week marked the 27th year for the Sicamous Hockey School, which once again included ice time with guest instructors Cody Franson and Shea Weber. Photo by Lachlan Labere


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