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A vehicle that raced through police radar on Highway 3 at high speed last Sunday was found two days later at the bottom of a steep embankment 44 kilometers further along the road.

The driver, German Santana, 65, of Victoria, was deceased at the scene, approximately 24 km west of Princeton. His body was discovered last Tuesday evening by Santana’s 34-year-old son.

The coroner’s office is now investigating the accident. According to Sergeant Barry Kennedy the Independent Investigations Office – which queries all cases where police officers are involved in inci-dents that result in death or serious harm – will not be called in as “there is no correlation between the accident and any actions taken by police.”

According to Kennedy an officer on patrol near Bromley Rock clocked Santana’s 2008 Ford Ranger travelling west on Highway 3 at 150 km an hour, at approximately 6:30 p.m. September 27.

While the officer engaged lights and sirens in an attempt to stop the truck, the speeding vehicle accel-erated even further, and the officer did not initiate a high-speed chase.

“For the safety of the public and the safety of the driver at this point the decision was made to not pursue the vehicle,” said Kennedy. “The vehicle disappeared into the darkness and we never saw or heard anymore about it.”

Kennedy said the officer did not radio ahead to notify officers in Princeton about the speeding truck, as there was only one cruiser on duty at the time.

“The officer made the right call to pull over and not pursue the vehicle,” said Kennedy.

The following morning Princeton RCMP were notified that Santana, travelling from Osoyoos to continued page 3

Driver eludes radar, dies in crash

A pool is on the table

Andrea DeMeerSpotlight Staff

Town council is likely to make a splash with its recent announcement that an indoor pool – part of a health, wellness and aquatic center for the Town of Princeton – is definitely back on the table.

“We are looking to start firmly planning it in 2016,” Mayor Frank Armitage told the Spotlight last week.

Armitage said the question of fund-ing for a pool was recently raised at the Union of British Columbia Municipalities’ conference for the first time. “We asked that the provincial government partner

with us to secure the necessary funding from the federal and provincial govern-ments to complete a project for Canada’s $150th birthday in 2017,” said Armitage. “The premier encouraged us and liked our approach. We feel very confident that there will be funding available.”

Armitage stressed that all plans for a wellness and aquatic center are, at this point, “conceptual in nature.”

A committee of councilors and inter-ested parties will be struck early next year to look at fundraising and planning options, he said.

The idea of a pool will live or die on

the issue of whether or not Princeton can afford to build and operate a facility.

“We hope we can put together a realistic plan with acceptable costs to them [the tax-payers]. Otherwise we will not pursue it.”

Princeton CAO Rick Zerr said the pool project needs to be broad in scope, and could incorporate community meeting spaces as well as an indoor walking track. “It isn’t just a pool, it’s got to be more than a pool. We want it to be a place that is used by the population on a daily basis.”

Twice in the past proposals to build an indoor pool in partnership with the

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While stressing all plans are strictly conceptual in nature, town officials say the proposed aquatic and wellness center could include features like meeting rooms for social gatherings and an indoor walking track.

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History buffs will enjoy century old railway photosHave you ever walked along

the old Kettle Valley rail bed and wondered what it looked like 100 years ago? Are you a long-time Princetonite who would like to recapture the pictures in your mind of what the town looked like when you were young? If you come to Riverside Centre on 9 October you will be able to re-experience old Princeton.

After a packed house last autumn, the Princeton Museum is proud once again to host Joe Smuin who will share his vast collection of railway photo-graphs. Joe Smuin comes from a family of railwaymen and has a wealth of photographs and historical knowledge about the

Kettle Valley Railway. He is the author of two books – Kettle Valley Railbeds:: a Historical Field Guide to the Kettle Valley Railway and Canadian Pacific’s Kettle Valley Railway. During his presentation Joe will show photographs of the Kettle Valley Railway as it runs through Princeton. Particularly interesting will be the way he compares two photos (then and now) taken from the same location. Often he super-imposes the old photo on top of the modern one.

Last year’s presentation was enriched by the presence of Barrie Sanford who wrote the definitive history of the KVR. The evening was also enlivened by the many

people who had personal histories with the KVR and had stories to tell.

This event will also be an opportunity for people to get to know the Princeton Museum and maybe sign up as a member or volunteer. The museum has a wonderful archive of documents and photographs, many of which contain pieces of Princeton fam-ily histories. The museum also puts out a newsletter to members that contains updates about the museum’s activities as well as articles of local historical interest.

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A legal precedent could be set in the sentencing recommendations of the man found guilty of double murder in Princeton.

The sentencing of John Ike Koopmans, 52, who was convicted in April for the murders of Robert Keith Wharton and Rosemary Fox as well as the attempted murder of Bradley Martin, will conclude on Oct. 6.

There was a 15-year disparity between the sen-tencing recommendations that Crown prosecutor Frank Dubenski and defence counsel Don Skogstad put before Justice Miriam Maisonville on Sept. 25. Dubenski said his suggested sentence of life with-out the eligibility of parole for 30 years is backed by recent legislation, Bill C-48, making it the first recommendation of this nature in B.C. according to Dubenski.

The act, also known as the Protecting Canadians by Ending Sentence Discounts for Multiple Murderers Act, amended the Criminal Code when it was passed by the House of Commons on February 2011. It aims to enable judges to use parole ineli-gibility periods as instruments off denunciation, allowing them to keep multiple murderers in custody for longer periods of time serving sentences con-secutively and lengthening parole eligibility periods.

The sentencing recommendations in the bill were first used in 2013 in the case of Travis Baumgartner, who pleaded guilty to the murders of his fellow armoured car guards in a 2012 Edmonton robbery.

However, unlike prior cases that have used this legislation, Koopmans has not pleaded guilty and maintains his innocence.

“The majority of the cases up to this point have involved guilty pleas and some joint submissions after guilty pleas so there’s been some negotiation in the resolution of the matters,” Dubenski said. “This seems to be the first case, at least here in B.C., where there’s been no joint submission. The judge told us the case that she’s doing in the lower mainland is a joint submission, so we’ll see.”

Koopmans’ defence counsel put forward a rec-ommendation for a 17.5-year sentence, less time served.

“We do not deal with it because we’re angry and we want vengeance. We want to exact punishment, but we want to do so in the framework of the law,” Skogstad said.

Koopmans’ application for a mistrial on the count of attempted murder was denied on Sept. 24. The application was submitted due to the fact that the jury in the eight-week trial was not given options to convict Koopmans for lesser charges on that count. Justice Maisonville ruled she did not have the juris-diction post-verdict to call for a mistrial.

Skogstad previously told Black Press that his cli-ent is considering an appeal.

Koopmans to be sentenced this week in Princeton murders

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Vancouver had not reached his destination.

“The police recog-nized the license plate as the same vehicle they attempted to stop on Sunday night,” said Kennedy.

An emergency ping sent by Telus to the driver’s cell phone num-ber indicated the phone was located somewhere within an 8.5 km range of the cellular tower on Copper Mountain and a search was instigated.

“We knew at least the phone was there,” said Kennedy, “We didn’t know whether it was thrown out a win-dow or what happened but we knew the phone was there somewhere.”

A search for the vehicle began in the early hours of Tuesday,

September 29th. “We contacted Search and Rescue,” said Kennedy. “An RCMP helicop-ter was not available, and they (SAR) got a plane out of Kelowna and did an aerial search throughout the day.” Kennedy said search conditions were diffi-cult. “You’re looking at almost 70 square kilo-meters of trees and for-est road.”

At the same time, Santana’s son was driving back and forth along Highway 3 in the search area, looking for a place a car might have disappeared over the embankment.

“He was trying to see if he could find a spot where there could have been an accident and at 7 o’clock he found his father’s vehicle.”

The truck rested

270 feet down a steep embankment, the cab separated from the frame by the force of impact. “He scurried over the embankment to go down and see if the vehicle was in fact his father’s vehicle and he located his father deceased in the vehi-cle.” Kennedy described the man as being dis-traught with grief and shock when emergency workers arrived.

The accident

occurred at the top of Mine Hill.

“We don’t know when this happened,” said Kennedy. “It appears the vehicle was travelling at a high rate of speed and was not able to negotiate the curve. It came into con-tact with the no-post, went up and over the no-post and then proceeded down the embankment into a wooded area.”

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Residents give health and wellness a failing grade

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Spotlight StaffPrinceton residents

participating in a recent survey gave heath and wellness in their com-munity a failing grade.

The Vital Signs report, produced by the Community Foundation of South Okanagan and Similkameen was released this week.

The report includes the results of 1,500 sur-veys submitted from thirteen communities in the regional district, including Princeton, Penticton, Osoyoos and Summerland.

While overall respon-dents rated their satis-faction with health and wellness as a B+, par-

ticipants from Princeton said it gets a D, meaning “of concern, we have to focus on this.”

Aaron McRann, executive director of Community Foundation, said “no other commu-nity came close” to rat-ing health and wellness as poorly as Princeton.

“This is something that I hope to explore further with the com-munity,” said McRann. “We’re going to be holding sessions in the community to dig a little deeper into this. This will be an area of partic-ular interest because it’s so different from other communities.”

Ed Staples, presi-

dent of the Princeton Health Care Steering Committee, declined to comment on the results prior to reading the report.

“I guess what I can say is that it sounds like something that should be on the agenda of the next steering committee meeting, but I wouldn’t want to have any com-ment on that until I have had a chance to run it by the members,” he said.

This is the third Vital Signs report, the second to include Princeton, and McRann said Community Foundations uses the information to help direct grant dollars and

engage members of the respective communities.

“The report is a start-ing point, a bit of a cat-alyst for conversation. This will help the foun-dation in its grant review process.”

Forty-five survey responses were col-lected from Princeton. McRann said 100 per cent of Princeton respondents said their grading was related to “availability of medi-cal care and health pro-grams and services.”

The surveys gave respondents the oppor-tunity to grade 11 areas of community living.

Princeton award-ed Belonging and

Leadership, Arts and Culture and Environment and Safety with A grades. The town selected C- as the grade for Gap Between Rich and Poor, while Education and Getting Started received Bs. Getting Around (trans-portation) and Housing were also given Ds.

Those opinions were more in line with the

rest of the region, which gave Arts and Culture an A-, Belonging and Leadership a B-, Environment a B+, Getting Started a B-, Housing a D+, Learning an A-, Work a D+, Safety an A-, Getting Around a B+, and Gap Between Rich and Poor a D+.

McRann stressed that while the Vital Signs

report also includes statistical data pulled from numerous sourc-es including Statistics Canada, the grading of metrics is not a scientific poll.

“We had no intention of making this a statis-tically accurate survey. It’s an opinion poll and we are not putting it for-ward as a representative sample.”

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The federal budget docu-ment began with an ominous warning about deep cuts. Social programs, justice and correc-tions would be spared as much as possible, but no department would escape the knife.

The stark truth was revealed in a table of figures. Health care spending, the core of the Canadian state, was cut by 3.8 per cent in just the first year of the fiscal plan, as population and need continued to grow.

No, this is not from the Stephen Harper budget of April 2015, or any other in the last decade. It’s from the Jean Chretien budget of 1995, more than 20 years ago. That’s the last time anyone actually cut health care spending.

But wait, you may say. Didn’t I hear that Harper has slashed health care spending by $30 billion? Yes, you prob-ably did hear the biggest, most brazen lie of this election cam-paign, either from the govern-ment unions that advertised it or the politicians who parrot it.

If health care really is every-one’s high-priority issue, as pollsters have long assured us, voters should at least know the facts.

After cut-ting provincial health and social services trans-fers for years to end the string of operating defi-cits that began under Pierre Trudeau and continued under Brian Mulroney, Liberal finance minister Paul Martin rose briefly to the top job.

In 2004, Martin staged meet-ings with premiers, emerging with what was billed as “a fix for a generation,” with federal health transfers to rise six per cent each year into the future.

The future for Martin’s gov-ernment lasted only two years, as his minority was replaced with one led by Harper.

These galloping increas-es continued until the Conservative majority of 2011, after which then-finance min-ister Jim Flaherty came to Victoria to inform provincial finance ministers of the new plan. (I was there, and the joke was that this was as far from Ottawa as Flaherty could get

without leaving Canada.)

The six-per-cent increases, by that time triple infla-tion, would contin-ue for another five years. Starting in 2017-18, increases would be tied to economic growth, with a minimum hike of three per cent, still well

ahead of today’s inflation. That remains the Conservative plan today.

All provinces east of Saskatchewan pitched a fit. Manitoba’s NDP finance min-ister termed it “un-Canadian.” Lefties immediately called it a cut, to which Flaherty replied that transfers to provinces would rise from $30 billion to $38 billion in 2018-19, and continue to grow after that.

In B.C., then-finance min-ister Kevin Falcon praised the long-term approach, acknowl-edging that health spending was ballooning to half of the provincial budget and had to be brought under control as baby boomers start to retire. B.C. has largely accomplished that,

with spending increases below three per cent and health care outcomes that continue to lead the country.

As the current election campaign turns into the home stretch, Statistics Canada has announced a milestone. For the first time in history, the num-ber of seniors exceeds number of children. This demographic shift is inexorable, predictable and must be addressed by who-ever wins the Oct. 19 federal election.

NDP leader Thomas Mulcair is on record that he will scrap the Conservative formula for growth-based increases that he pretends are cuts, returning to six per cent every year while balancing the budget. Little detail has been provided on how this would be done.

Liberal leader Justin Trudeau announced in Surrey last week that he will ante up an extra $3 billion over four years for health care, and “sit down with the provinces immediate-ly” to renegotiate, a rerun of Paul Martin’s political theatre.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. T Email: [email protected]

There is a mine of interesting nuggets in the Vital Signs report released this week by Community Foundations.

In addition to taking the collective pulse of people in 13 communities in the regional district, the report includes data and statistics that provide a random series of snapshots reflecting life in the Okanagan Similkameen.

For instance:• Twenty-two percent of students in School District

53 seriously considered suicide in 2013. This compares to 18% of students in School District 67.

• The average price of a single-family home in Penticton in June 2015 was $437,042, up considerably from $349,653 in June 2013.

• Last year the Town of Princeton received only $3.67 per capita in BC gaming grants, while Keremeos received nearly twice that amount – $7.51.

• Twenty-one businesses went bankrupt in 2014 in the Thompson Okanagan region last year – down 55.6 per cent from 2013 and 75.3 per cent from 2007.

And so on.Beyond the stats and an aggregation of opinions

from 1,500 on-line surveys, the authors of the report present more than thirty suggestions of initiatives for people to improve their communities and their own lives.

None of them are especially earthshattering or novel. However they are intended to respond to the flavour of the research and just about all of them could be considered good advice.

For instance:• Make a point of purchasing work from a local

artist.• Help a neighbor to make small repairs to their

home.• Take a course at Okanagan College. • Replace the batteries in your smoke detector.• Make 30-60 minutes of activity a protected prior-

ity in your life.• Volunteer at your children’s school.• Feeling depressed? Share your feelings with fam-

ily, friends or professionals.• Drive an elderly neighbor to an appointment.• Hire someone from your local work center.• Visit your local library and borrow a book, audio

book or movie.• Take a CPR course.• Organize a regular “stroll patrol” to visit with

neighbours and increase evening activity in your area.• Help lobby governments to legislate a living wage.• Attend a free outdoor concert.• Shop for locally grown food in stores and markets.And so on.In essence the report is asking people to be nice,

take responsibility, do unto others and have a little fun.Something to think about if you woke up this morn-

ing determined to make your little corner of the world a better place. –AD

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In the past week I’ve had two occasions to contemplate the female posterior.

Okay. Let’s just call a spade a spade and an ass an ass.

We can use the word “ass” in the local newspaper. It’s in the Bible and if it’s in the Bible it’s okay. That’s right isn’t it?

As a wholly unrelated aside we can also use the word spade. Years ago I severely reprimanded a reporter for using “call a spade a spade” in an obituary story about a local politician. It presented as a racial slur. Further digging, however, revealed while the phrase may have adopted dark undertones in the past hundred years, it is actually derived from the early Greek “to call a fig a fig and a trough a trough.”

(My apologies if that’s too much etymol-ogy for a reader who might only have been lured in by the word ass.)

On the weekend I received a text from my thoroughly frustrated daughter in Ontario.

She is on the eve of a work placement as part of her post-graduate studies and was recently told that if she intends to wear form fitting pants on the job, she also has to wear a long sweater to cover her posterior…er…her ass.

There is a lot for a feminist to get her

eyeteeth into over that kind of instruction.

Suffice to say this: The woman in question is 21 years old. She holds an honors degree in linguistics. She is brilliant, talented, tender hearted and truly wants to make a difference in the world through her chosen career.

All her anxieties about job performance, self-worth and future goals have effectively been crystalized into concern about what her ass looks like in a form fitting pair of pants.

That just hurts.It touches that fear many women share

that it doesn’t really matter who she is, what she has accomplished, and what she might have to contribute.

The real question is: What was she wear-ing?

Been there, done that, got the form fitting t-shirt.

Senior editor to newsroom intern: It would be easier for people to take you seriously if you didn’t wear mini skirts.

Thought in intern’s head: It would be easier for people to take you seriously if you

weren’t an ass.That said, it’s been several

years since I’ve given much thought to how appearance, or attire, would be judged at any given event.

Bless the universe for its sense of humor and timing.

Last Friday I was fortunate to be invited to a meeting of publishers from our region, an opportunity to share news-paper ideas and discuss the general state of business.

The conference took place in Kelowna and I wakened early for a 5:30 am departure time. Coffee, shower, and I pulled a long-skirted suit out of the closet that hadn’t seen daylight in over a year. Two min-utes with a curling iron, a bit of lip gloss, and out the door feeling reasonably confident.

Purposefully, I arrived early. It was my first meeting within the company and it was important to make a good impression on col-leagues I’d never met.

Once at the hotel there was a quick visit to the washroom. Turning for a final inspection in the full-length mirror I was horror struck to realize the back slit of my otherwise very pro-

fessional skirt was ripped – all the way along the seam from mid-calf to the approximate location of my tailbone.

It was a wardrobe malfunction of enor-mous proportions – words chosen carefully – that left nothing to the imagination.

In what can only be described as a panic I texted several girlfriends in quick succession and got back the most useless suggestions.

Go to the conference room, sit down and don’t get up for the whole day.

Go to Wal-Mart, try not to get arrested, and buy a new skirt.

Go out to your car, don’t you have any clothes in your car?

Just leave. Skip the meeting and go home.Eventually a sympathetic hotel attendant

located a sewing kit from the front desk. I reclined in a corner of the washroom – which by that time resembled Grand Central Station, – half naked, stitching together my skirt and reflecting mournfully on that good impression I so wanted to make.

Yes the universe has humor, timing, and a sense of irony.

If only someone had thought to tell me to wear a long sweater with a form fitting skirt, it would have been so much easier to cover my ass.

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Approximately six months after writing about the Similkameen Valley’s well known Allison fam-ily, I received an e-mail from Professor Janet MacArthur of UBC’s Kelowna campus. “I’m collaborating on an anthology of writings by white and indigenous women who lived in the interior

in the early settlement period,” she wrote. “Can we talk?”

I live in a small community not renowned for its sophistication. What kind of prof was she, I won-dered. Would I require a dictionary in hand to understand her academic language? And did I know anything that would be helpful to her?

In a two hour visit at our kitchen table and then a telephone con-versation, I realized that in spite

of an education infinitely superior to mine, I didn’t need the diction-ary. We began by talking about much more than her current writing project. I learned that challeng-ing life experiences have given her an understanding that cannot be attained via a high level of educa-tion.

“My mother was ill during much of my growing up time, but I had lots of support from other family when she couldn’t be there,” she said in response to my question about her early years. “My grand-mother became a big influence. I learned from her about becoming strong, having faith and the impor-tance of education.”

She completed a BEd at University of Calgary, taught school in northern Alberta, pursued gradu-ate studies at Dalhousie and UBC, then earned a PhD in Renaissance literature at U of C in 1988.

In 1989, she was hired at Okanagan University College in Kelowna where she has taught 16th and17th century literature, includ-ing Shakespeare, women’s litera-ture, and autobiography.

When I asked about challeng-es in her life, Janet’s expression became serious and a sober note crept into her voice. “I have a pretty competitive side,” she said. “Twenty years ago I was given a diagnosis of Lupus. There were many things I wanted to accom-plish, but could not. That was dev-astating and at first I was angry.”

She paused to reflect, then said, “the illness forced me to think about my limits and accept them. I under-stand now that people who don’t need to struggle do not comprehend

some things. It’s given me a deeper understanding of life. I hope I have grown spiritually through this.”

When she was 44, Janet adopted an infant girl from China, then another daughter 10 years later. “At my age it has been tougher than I expected,” she said, “but a huge source of joy.”

An area of interest now is how people react to extreme experience. She explores this in a course on Holocaust memoir. “The media simplifies issues,” she said, “but events can mean different things. I urge my students to probe deeper. In the Holocaust course we look at accounts written by victims, per-petrators, bystanders, and children. We consider how this historical episode continues to affect many cultures. We examine thoughts and feelings. Too often people turn a blind eye to what is happening. I value the opportunity to shape the way students think.” Her focus on Holocaust trauma is related to her work on the oppression of the Syilx (Okanagan and Similkameen) people.

The planned anthology of writings by indigenous and set-tler women is a collaboration with Jeannette Armstrong of the En’owken Centre in Penticton and Lally Grauer, retired UBCO pro-fessor..

“We’re bringing out a history that hasn’t been offered to the pub-lic yet,” she said. “We’re trying to create a trace of the women of the past. Even white women’s voices are not central to traditional Okanagan and Similkameen his-tory. Bringing indigenous and non-indigenous women’s voices togeth-

er provides a new way of seeing.”She values the writing of early

Princeton settler Susan Allison, the white wife of John Fall Allison, as she appears to have had an uncon-ventional relationship with First Nations people.

Earlier work on Susan Allison overlooks this. “Susan was in a state of conflict because she knew the white people and was part of that culture. She couldn’t say some things, but she leaves a muted trace.”

Janet feels that Nora Allison, John Fall’s (aboriginal) first wife should be celebrated. “I would like the indigenous women of today to tell the story of John Fall’s two wives,” she said. Janet MacArthur and her collaborators are serious about providing them that oppor-tunity.

Susan Allison “was in a state of conflict”

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The stories of Susan Allison, wife of Princeton founder John Allison, are important to understanding the history of the valley.

A 6 www.similkameenspotlight.com Wednesday, October 7, 2015 Similkameen SpotlightLETTERS

To the editorThe 2015 Terry Fox Run was a huge

success for Princeton!Officially at final count, Princeton

raised $4,316 this year.This success was made possible by

the support of many in Princeton, by their donations, pledges, walking and volunteer-ing.

For those that participated thank you from the bottom of my heart for making it a truly wonderful 35th celebration of Terry Fox.

Our shining stars were our RED SHIRT Terry’s Team, Hayley Huff, Barb Gagnon and Kitty Lynch. It was so wonderful to see those red shirts at the front of the run.

It was a joy seeing our Posse boys in their uniforms stating their team’s support of Terry as well as our lovely ambassador Victoria Gibb honoring us with singing O’ Canada.

I would also like to thank the following donators for making this possible:

• Scott Gilbert manager of Coopers and his beautiful daughter Faith that donated water and hot dogs for everyone, as well as all the work of cooking them for us.

• Dawn Kastor from Princeton Loonie Bin bakery for baking all the cookies we so enjoyed.

• Susan Robinson and Peter Confortin from Fletchers Building Supplies for donat-ing two door prizes and running a water station and our Princeton Golf Course for also donating a door prize.

To the following volunteers thank you for all your hard work:

• Scott Musgrove our MC who stepped in at last minute and did a beautiful job.

• Darrell Tompkins our exciting Elvis. Between him and Nancy Hall, our warm up co-ordinator, they got our hearts pumping before the run.

To my wonderful team thank you for all your support and help :Chris Fenrick, Rita Cruerer, Norma Trembley, Lindsay Wozniak, Phil Boston, Nadine McEwen,

John Sorenson, Linda Thompson and Shandell Phillips.

And lastly a big thank you to Princeton high school students: Abby Phillips, Kaci Van Horlick, Shelby Maynard, Bailey O’Donnell & Michael White as it was such a delight that you all were able to offer your help!

Holly Fenrick Terry Fox event co-ordinator

Warm thanks for Terry Fox Run success

Terry Fox Run coordinator Holly Fenrick, right, was pleased to accept $1,000 in donations from organizations represented by Barb Gagnon at the Terry Fox Run recently. The donations, from Ridgewood Lodge residents and the local breast can-cer support group, helped the run exceed its 2015 goal.

To the editorMany long

years ago and far, far away, I real-ized that if I was willing to forfeit the major portion of my pay cheque, I could buy a new house for my young family. This naïve young man did a quick mental calculation and concluded that in a short ten years the new house could belong to him, free and clear.

Whoa there, not so fast young man---it’s not quite that simple. I was soon to learn that money-lending is what makes the world go ‘round---no Bunky, not the industry you work in or the sweat of your brow. The world’s economy is controlled by people who inherited fortunes or gained their wealth in stock manipulation. Even the corporation you work for is owned by those same money lenders---and regrettably, it will take 30 years for you to buy that house and you will pay for it three times over before you may actually call it your own.

No, this is not hate mail, because I realize that money lending is the accepted practice in this, our wonderful country. This letter is prompted by the preponderance of lending institutions that infest the radio waves, the internet and TV programming. “We’ll make borrowing money really easy, if you own your home” and the reverse mortgage gim-mick---now that you own your home, we’ll buy it back----- for a fee of course. (The implication of the previous statements are that we miss your monthly payments and we would like to continue living in the way in which you have made us become accus-tomed over the past thirty years).

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“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs”.

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Princeton crew stages intense training sessionsTara Bowie

Spotlight StaffThe Princeton Volunteer Fire Department takes practice

seriously.Earlier this year the department held a real-life scenario

practice at the arena unbeknownst to most of the department, other emergency responders and the public.

The dispatch came in that there was a fire and leak with the cooling system at the arena, Princeton’s largest building. There were injured and possible casualties inside.

The situation was going to be complicated and require a great deal of searching to make sure everyone was out.

“There were 30 kids from the youth group running out and people from the Princeton Theatrical crew. They ran out with tears it made it look real when we pulled up,” Rob Banks, deputy chief of the Princeton Volunteer Fire Department said.

When firefighters entered the building there was a haze of orange and yellow smoke as they attempted to search for people.

“We wanted it to look real. When it’s a practice often people take it like it’s just a practice. They don’t have to be

serious. I wanted to see how they worked together as a team,” he said.

Banks said the crew did well but there’s always room for improvement.

“You want to see boots on the ground moving quickly when you first arrive. That’s what we need to work on,” he said.

Banks devised the training along with another officer. It was kept top secret – an extremely difficult task in a small community.

The session was just 40 minutes but took two hours to cleanup.

“Some of them weren’t happy about it for sure. Some were pretty upset but it’s the best way to practice,” he said. “It was an eye opener for them. They didn’t get much sleep but the following week we went over it step by step.”

What made the Princeton exercise even more beneficial was that other agencies weren’t aware it was a practice either in the beginning.

Out of 33 fire departments the Kelowna dispatch works with, Princeton is the only one known to hold these kinds of

practices.“It was an experience for all of them. Ambulance looked

at this as a mass casualty. Those are happening more often. There was three major bus accidents this year, two in Merritt and one up Osoyoos way,” he said.

The department has held three other real-life practices and more are in the works.

Currently the Princeton Fire Department has 28 members with five of those junior members.

Banks said he’d like to see a compliment of 26 firefighters and six junior members.

“We need about three or four more that are dedicated,” he said.

Although the department has offered the junior program for quite a few years it waned in popularity.

“It’s good to see numbers back up. We have a spot for one more this year,” he said.

The Princeton Department attends about 100 to 120 calls a year including everything from structure fires, burning com-plaints, medical calls, MVI’s and more.

Tara BowieSpotlight Staff

When the fire chief yells for help in Tulameen people come running.

Jody Woodford has been chief of the depart-ment for the past eight years and a member for 18.

She’s one of two female chiefs she knows of in the area - the other from Kaleden.

“I guess that I’m chief makes women equal in the fire department,” she said.

Woodford was voted in as chief by her colleagues - a practice that is no lon-ger. Now Regional District Okanagan-Similkameen interviews prospective chiefs and they must be officially retired.

Woodford said as a self employed carpenter she’s happy to have the time to dedicate to the fire depart-ment as many of the other members work outside the area.

Over the years she has grown the department to have one of the largest rosters in the Similkameen with a total of 28 mem-bers.

“We’ve been fortunate with a fairly large roster. I always go out when we need things and talk to people get them emotion-ally involved. You have to touch people’s hearts and explain why the department is important to them,” she said.

Although blessed with a large roster, there are challenges only known to small communities that have a lot of vacation properties in them like Tulameen and Coalmont.

While the communities have a combined popula-tion of about 260 year-round that swells to more than 4,000 at different points in the summer.

The increase in people and greater chance for vehicle collisions makes it vital to have a large roster to draw on.

Even with the large roster sometimes there just isn’t many people trained in the community to fight fires as many full time residents work out of the community.

Earlier this year Woodford found she was the only one available for a fire call when two homes burned on George Street.

“The whole communi-ty came into help. There’s a lot of really good com-munity people,” she said.

With about 16 call outs each year including medi-cal, fire and MVI’s there is generally several members available for each call.

“It was circumstances that day,” she said. “But when I yell for help people come.”

Volunteers of the Tulameen fire department are non-paid.

Ages range in age from 17 to 77 and the depart-ment has three members that have served more than 30 years.

Over the years three firefighters have went on to take schooling to become full-time paid firefighters or to work in forestry.

“They come back and help train the fire depart-ment from time to time,” she said.

This year Tulameen is gearing up to buy a new fire truck.

Because the Tulameen fire department is certified regulations require their lead truck to be less than 20 years old.

Currently Tulameen has two trucks from 1992 and 1995.

At this point they’ve raised about $12,000 for a downpayment on a truck and taxes will be used to pay the remaining balance over a period of years.

Tulameen firefighting a real community effort

The Tulameen Volunteer Fire Department generally handles about 16 calls a year.

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A 10 www.similkameenspotlight.com Wednesday, October 7, 2015 Similkameen SpotlightSALUTE TO FIREFIGHTERS

Membership in Hayes Creek Department reaches every homeTara Bowie

Spotlight StaffHayes Creek Fire

DepartmentThe Hayes Creek

Fire Rescue plays such a vital role in the com-munity almost every full-time household in its coverage area has a family member on the department.

The department is about 40 kilometres east of Princeton on Hwy. 40 and services the com-munities surrounding Osprey Lake and Chain Lake.

There are 350 houses and 90 per cent are sea-sonal homes.

“We have 20 but we’ll never have enough. There’s just never enough people,” Hayes Creek fire chief

Rob Miller said.Although numbers

aren’t the lowest for a roster at a volunteer fire department in the Similkameen Valley, the average age of a fire-fighter is definitely the highest.

At Hayes Creek the average age of a fire member is 60 years of age.

“Fitness is a huge thing in firefighting. We’re not any good at forest firefighting, that’s a young man’s game. As far as firefighting goes the biggest challenge is training,” he said.

What Hayes Creek lacks in youth they make up with having several highly experi-enced members.

Miller spent 31 years

working as a career fire-fighter in Vancouver before retiring and set-tling in as a member at Hayes Creek 12 years ago.

Other experienced first responders on the team are Janet Fraser with 30 years with BC ambulance ser-vice (retired) and Brent Fraser with 30 years BCAS and 12 years as a firefighter with West Bank Volunteer fire department.

The Hayes Creek department is also a full medical first responder and does highway res-cue with the jaws of life.

So far this year they’ve attended 27 call outs with 22 of those for medical reasons.

“It can be anything. It can be someone having a heart attack, they’ve fallen, respiratory prob-lems,” he said. “We’re about an hour from an ambulance. What we do it’s pretty important.”

There have also been four motor vehicle inci-dents and three fires.

“They’ve been minor fires. Mostly chimney fires, power lines down, brush fires. We’ve had

no major structure fires this past year,” he said.

The group trains once a week on a variety of different skills.

“The hardest thing to train them is to be calm. They’re all very com-petent, very dedicated and what they’re doing is hugely dangerous,” he said.

A big project under-way for the department is a 760 square foot

addition to its hall. The addition will be used to store the medical first responder truck and pro-vide a space for a work-shop area.

But the main purpose is to create a space that can be used if a natural disaster occurs and peo-ple need to be evacuated to a safe place.

“With the forest fires like the one we had last year there are times we

need to evacuate or we need a central meeting place but there isn’t any-where for us to go. We want to have this hall in case of any emergency. A place to have a hot coffee or a warm place to sleep if that’s need-ed,” he said.

The addition is being funded through a Forestry Corp. and fundraising initiatives through the hall.

Hayes Creek is an uncertified department and will most likely stay that way in the future.

The cost to run the department is about $15,000 per year.

The money comes from dues paid by resi-dents and by collecting refundable cans and bottles.

With an average member age of 60 years, fitness is an important part of training for the Hayes Creek Volunteer Fire Department.

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Tara BowieSpotlight Staff

In Erris the fire department isn’t just a building that houses life saving equipment and offers a place to train – it’s a community hub.

In the small com-munity located on the Princeton-Summerland Road there is about 220 properties and a popula-tion of about 600 people.

But most that drive through it wouldn’t know it.

“The properties are big here. In the city you meet your neighbours when you’re out for a walk or washing the car or doing yard work but

when your next door neighbour is on the next five-acre lot you really don’t see them,” co-chief Dave Stringfellow said.

Since the fire depart-ment started about five years ago it’s become a gathering place for department members and residents.

Because the depart-ment is not certified all the money needed to operate must be fund-raised through differ-ent avenues including grants, fire coverage fees, and fundraising.

There has been great support throughout the community for fundrais-

ing initiatives.“Even from when

having our own fire department was just an idea the commu-nity has come together. It’s remarkable,” Sandi Lawlor, president of the Erris Fire Association said.

Prior to there being a hall, the fire depart-ment stored equipment at a member’s house. The group of about 15 members trained weekly at different places and spent time fundrais-ing and working on the hall’s future property.

The hall is built about in the middle of Erris on a piece of Crown Land

that has been leased by the association indefi-nitely.

‘We spent countless hours getting rid of all the stuff that had been dumped here and lev-elling it,” Lawlor said. “You wouldn’t even recognize the property now.”

With the help of fire department members and the community the hall was built about 18 months ago. The cost was about $12,000 to build the structure. The labour was donated and many of the materials were also donated.

“It’s great to have a home now,” chief

Stringfellow said. “We don’t have to empty the truck of water because we can keep heat on in the building. That makes a big difference.”

The fire depart-ment holds spring and fall socials to help raise funds, attract new mem-bers and give back to the community. About 100 people attend.

“People come here and they meet and many of them become friends,” he said. “It’s really brought the com-munity together.”

The fire department started five years ago when a group of people saw a need in the com-munity, Lawlor said.

Although the depart-ment has attended doz-ens of call outs over the years they still haven’t attended a major struc-ture fire – and that’s just fine with them.

“We really started because we wanted to have trained first responders in the com-munity. Just like every-where we have elderly here and the need to have ambulances come in is higher but we’re waiting for an ambulance from Princeton or depending

what’s going on maybe even Summerland,” she said.

The Erris department has attended many med-ical calls from every-thing from shortness of breath to heart attack and someone injured while cutting down a tree.

In addition to its fire fighters Erris also has three local dispatch per-sons.

“The signal doesn’t reach us from Kelowna. This works very well. We have a main per-son and then two other people that if that person can’t be reached it is sent to them,” Lawlor said.

The group is now fundraising to add to its building so it can also have a community hall

for events not just fire-fighter related.

“People could have anything at a communi-ty hall. It could be used for dinners, showers, anything that was going to be a bigger gather-ing,” Lawlor said.

A community board is also being placed in front of the hall soon so people can post their community events or any other community news.

The group from Erris also works mutual aid with Hayes Creek and Princeton and is some-times part of their train-ing initiatives.

“Everyone has been great to us and we’ve learned a lot from the other departments,” he said.

Erris crew waits with patience for first major fire

The Erris Volunteer Fire Department was founded five years ago by community members who wanted to train as first responders.

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“Well, it didn’t fly,” said Armitage.

The last plan to get dunked was for a $9 million indoor pool, in 2011. Armitage said it’s too early in this process to put a price tag on the facility, but added the municipal-

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Armitage said he anticipates solid community support for an aquatic center.

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Posse loses veteran goaltender Heslop Andrea DeMeerSpotlight Staff

The Princeton Posse lost its starting goaltender Friday when veteran Stephen Heslop – last year’s Most Valuable Player – was signed by Junior A franchise The West Kelowna Warriors.

A philosophical coach Geoff Goodman said the team “is happy for Stephen, obviously he’s a buddy and a teammate, but obviously it’s a big loss of a veteran goalie that gives you an opportu-nity to win every time he’s in net.”

Rookie Zachary Babin, who has five games under his belt and an impressive save percentage of 92.3 per cent, takes the lead between the pipes for the Posse.

“Zach is front and center right now and we are going to be using affiliate goalies for the time being to help him and back him up,” said Goodman. “I believe in Zac and he’s our guy right now.”

The shake up to the roster seemed to punctuate a week that Goodman could only

describe as “pretty rough.”The Posse dropped three

decisions in four days, losing 5-2 to Osoyoos, 6-0 to the Castlegar Rebels and 5-3 to Grand Forks Border Bruins.

Princeton moves to third place in the Okanagan divi-sion, with 8 points, after briefly enjoying a shared spot for the number one berth.

Goodman speculated the news about Heslop might have impacted team confi-dence Friday. “Friday night was not a good game. I don’t know what happened but we just came out flat and we didn’t have the normal jump that we have, the normal energy.”

The Posse came out much stronger against Grand Forks Saturday. “In terms of effort and competing the guys gave everything they had. I can’t fault the guys for work ethic,” he said. Goodman said the game tipped on a couple of bad penalties, resulting power play goals, and a Posse goal that was called off by the officials.

“We made three or four

mistakes and they cost us.”If the Posse has had an

Achilles heel this season it is defensive play.

“What I’m concerned about is that there are some of the guys that are making the same kinds of mistakes and the same kind of play. Now that we are nine games into the season you would hope that some of them would have exorcised their demons.”

In a bid to strengthen the defensive line – which has been crippled with two players on the injured list – the team recently signed 19-year-old Connor Harding, formerly with Chase Heat.

The move creates some stress for the existing ros-ter, as one defensive posi-tion will need to be cut this month.

“Somebody is going to be the odd man out but we will let the games decide that,” said Goodman.

The Posse plays at home Saturday October 10 against Chase Heat, with a 7 p.m. start.

Bob MarshDefenseman Mort Johnston earned two points in the last week, with two assists in the 5-3 loss against the Grand Forks Border Bruins, while the Posse slipped from first to third in the standings.

Although BC Wildfire Service has rescinded the campfire ban on those lands which fall within their provincial fire jurisdiction, the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen’s (RDOS) temporary open fire ban, which includes camp-fires, remains in place for those lands which are contained within the RDOS Fire Protection Areas, which include the Anarchist Mountain, Kaleden, Keremeos, Naramata, Okanagan Falls, Tulameen and Willowbrook Fire Area.

The RDOS, in conjunction with the municipalities of Penticton, Summerland, Oliver, Osoyoos, Princeton and the Village of Keremeos has determined that due to the current weather conditions and fire risk, the ban should remain in place.

This ban includes all open fires, including campfires and fires in portable wood burning fireplaces. The ban does not restrict fires in stoves using gas, propane or bri-quettes.

Provincial Parks and Campgrounds are Crown Land and fall under the authority of the BC Wildfire Services area.

Please check to see if you fall within the RDOS fire service area at http://www.rdos.bc.ca/news-events/eoc/current-eoc/.

For more information, please call

250-492-0237 or toll-free 1-877-610-3737 or visit our website at www.rdos.bc.ca.

Open fire ban remains in place for Princeton

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ArtsSHIRLEY’S ART CLASSES:Wednesday & Thursday @ Riverside Center Call Shirley at 250-295-4076

GARDEN CLUB: Meets third Tuesday of every month, 1 PM, Seniors Branch 30. Call Doreen @ 250-295-1577

ARTS COUNCIL: Meets at Noon on the third Wednesday of the month. Everyone Welcome! Contact Marjorie Holland, Pres., 250-295-6718 or Joann Gabriel, Sec., 250-295-3361 for location. General meetings quarterly as announced.

BUNCHGRASS QUILTERSMeet 1st & 3rd Thursday of each month at the Riverside Centre from 10 - 3 p.m.. Everyone Welcome! Contact Sharon 250-295-4194 or Rosemary 250-295-6511

PRINCETON POTTERS GUILD, RIVERSIDE POTTERY STUDIO:Access to the potter’s wheel or hardwork, workshop op-portunities, group projects. Call Sue for more info or to join. 250-295-0527

PRINCETON TRADITIONAL MUSIC SOCIETY:The Princeton Traditional Music Society puts on the Traditional Music Festival each year in August, featur-ing traditional music from many places. The three-day festival is free and run entirely by volunteers. The 100+ musicians and dancers also offer their talents for free. If you would like to help out with the festival, please con-tact Jon or Rika @ 250-295-6010

Community:INTERESTED IN CHRISTIAN MEDITATION?For people who want to learn to pray with great sim-plicity, for people who would be willing to get to know Jesus who loves each of us immensely, for people who are at a dead end, for people who want to get to know them-selves, for people who want to make a new beginning! We can go to God together and it’s free! Call me: Fr. Harry Clarke at 250-295-3541.

ORL- PRINCETON BRANCH:Tuesdays: 12 p.m. - 5 p.m./ 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.Wednesdays: 12 p.m. - 5 p.m.Fridays: 12 p.m. - 5 p.m.Saturdays: 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.

PRINCETON MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES: 167 Vermilion Avenue [email protected]

WELCOME WAGON! Are you a new to Princeton? If so, we have information regarding local, civic, community services and facilities. We also have gifts for you from local merchants and busi-nesses. Call 1-866-856-8442

HOSPITAL AUXILIARY: Meets second Monday of every month, 1:00 p.m. Hos-pital Board Room. For info., Call Doreen @ 250-295-1577

PRINCETON and DISTRICT COMMUNITY SKILLS CENTRE SOCIETY:Meetings are held quarterly on Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m.

HEDLEY LIBRARY HOURS: A reminder that the Library is open every Thurs. from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. and is located at the OAPO Hall on Scott Ave.

Community:HEDLEY SENIORS’ CENTRE: 3rd Monday of every month regular general meetings - Everyone welcome. 2nd Sunday Pancake Breakfast, 8 am - 10 am. Daily Coffee & conversation 6:30 am to 8 am. Every Tuesday & Thursday exercise at 9 am.

SENIORS BRANCH #30 POT LUCK SUPPER: Last Friday of every month, 5:30 p.m. Seniors Centre. Members can invite a guest.

MEMBERS ONLY POOL TOURNAMENT: Last Tuesday of every month at the Senior’s Centre. 10:00 am

WHIST & CRIB: (Seniors Branch #30) First Saturday of each month at 1 PM. Coffee & refreshments included. Everyone welcome.

VERMILION FORKS PRINCETON O.A.P.O. BR. #185: Regular meetings second Friday of every month at 2 p.m.. Pot luck supper every third Friday at 5:00 p.m.

SEARCH AND RESCUE TRAINING SESSIONS: Meetings will be held on the � rst and third Tuesday of every month. Call Arnie Powell at 250-295-6759 for more information.

LITTLE FOLKS NURSERY SCHOOL: Meetings are every third Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. at LFNS. 250-295-3083

PRINCETON LEGION BRANCH #56: Reminds all veterans that the D.V.A. Now makes home visits. For more info. Phone 250-295-6060

JA SCHOOL & COMMUNITY GARDEN:New members invited to volunteer as “garden angels” attend committee meetings and garden their own plots. Phone Sandra 250-295-3779, Sharon 250-295-4080 or JAE School 250-295-6727

CINDY PAROLIN SAFE HOMES PROGRAM: Princeton and area, crisis intervention, emotional sup-port, information, legal strategies and safe shelter in cases of abuse against women in relationships. Call the 24 hour women’s crisis line at 250-295-8211 for con� -dential services.

MONDAY NIGHT BRIDGE:@ Riverside Centre 7 - 9:30. Knowledge of bridge nec-essary. Call Gail @ 250-295-0171

DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB:Wednesdays @ Riverside Centre 10:30-3. Call Arlen @ 250-295-6157

Health

CANCER SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN:If interested in attending, please call: Barb 250-295-4050 or Del 250-295-3266TOPS: (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) chapter meets at Riverside Wellness Centre every Thursday. Weigh-in-Time 8:30 AM Meeting 9:00–10:00 AM. For more information please contact Lynda 250- 295-3658 or Myrna 250-295-7272 Visit www.tops.org

HealthCOMPASSIONATE FRIENDS: Group helps bereaved parents. Will meet as needed. Call Shirley Haker at 250-295-3607. [email protected]

CRISIS LINE: You can call us 24 hours a day, everyday, and your call is con� dential and anonymous. The crisis line is 250-493-6622. Or call collect from locations within the South Okanagan Similkameen: 250-493-6622.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS:Meet Friday & Saturday In Tulameen at 7:30 p.m. at Li-brary call 250-295-7005

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Tuesdays @ 7:30 p.m. United Church. Contacts: Fred 250-295-7272 or Marena 250-295-7663 AL-ANON:Are you concerned about someone’s drinking? Contact Central Referral @1-604-688-1716

NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: Meets every Wednesday & Sunday at the Info Centre in Chamber Basement 7:00 P.M. Phone 1-877-234-5809

Club Notes:FREEMASONRY: FOR MEN OF GOOD CHARACTER:Freemasonry has been active in B.C. for over 130 years. It is a fraternity open to men of all races and religions. If you are of good character and want more information, please contact: The Secretary Similkameen Lodge #95A.F. & A.M. C/O Box 174Princeton, BC V0X 1W0

ROYAL PURPLE:Meetings � rst and third Tuesdays 7:30 PM, Princeton.

ELKS: Contact Chris at 250-295-3949.

PRINCETON PERFORMING ARTS: Meet � rst Tuesday of each month @ 7 p.m. in Riverside Theatre. Contact Derek @ 250-295-3037

ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION: General meeting held on the third Sunday of each month at 1:00 PM.

GRANITE CREEK PRESERVATION SOCIETY: Meet the third Thursday of every month at 1:00 p.m. in the Princeton Museum Archive Room (upstairs). Every-one is welcome! There will be no meetings in July & Aug.

PRINCETON LADIES AUXILIARY LEGION BRANCH 56: Meet 2nd Tuesday of the month @ Legion Hall at 7:00 p.m.

HEDLEY MUSEUM:General Meeting, meets the 2nd Monday of each month. 6 p.m. @ The Hedley Museum

THE PRINCETON RIFLE AND REVOLVER CLUB: INDOOR SHOOTING RANGE Juniors & Seniors meet at 7 p.m. every Wednesday at the Family Centre (behind the legion). Phone 250-295-6150.

VERMILION FORKS FIELD NATURALISTS:Group meets second Tuesday of every month, 7 p.m. at the Riverside Centre. Public welcome.

OTTER VALLEY FISH & GAME:Meetings 3rd Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. in the Club House.

Club Notes:

VERMILION TRAILS SOCIETY:Meets at the Chamber Basement on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. For more info: Contact [email protected] New Members welcome!

PXA MEETING: Held on the third Tuesday of each month. 7 p.m., at the Princeton PXA Grounds. New Members welcome!

PRINCETON FISH & GAME:Princeton Fish and Game Association, meet the second Wednesday of the Month at the Princeton Library, con-tact Al Lay 250-295-0250.

PRINCETON & DISTRICT FALL FAIR ASSOCIATION:Meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month in the of� ce at the PXA Grounds at 6:30 p.m.

PRINCETON ROTARY CLUB:Meets every Wednesday @ 6 p.m. Heartland Restaurant (dining room). For more info. Call Judy @ 250-295-0217. New members welcome!

COPPERHILL LANES:YBC Bowling Saturday 10 AM. Club 55. Mens, Ladies and Mixed bowling leagues. Call 250-295-6500 for more information.

SPECIAL “O” BOARD;Meets 3rd Tuesday of the month. Contact 250-295-7218 for meeting place & time.

LAPIDARY PRINCETON’S ROCK & FOSSIL CLUB:Meetings held third Tuesday of the month. 7:00 p.m. Riverside Centre. Call Franz Hofer @ 250-295-3896 for more info. New members welcome!

PRINCETON COMMUNITY BAND:Meets Mondays and Thursdays 6 p.m. in the PSS Band Room. New musicians welcome!

PRINCETON CURLING CLUB:Leagues start Oct. 20th. Mon - mixed, Wed - Ladies, Thurs - Day League. www.princetoncurlingclub.com or 250-295-6400

RECREATIONAL BADMINTON:Mondays at 8:00 pm at PSS gym, beginners welcome. Adult & Juniors (age 12+)

YouthGIRL GUIDES OF CANADA:Contact: Carol Mack 250-295-7085

PRINCETON MINOR HOCKEY:Lori Gullison 250-295-3977

SIMILKAMEEN (JKA) SHOTOKAN KARATE CLUB: 250-295-3909 or 250-295-7374

PRINCETON POSSE JR. HOCKEY CLUB: 250-295-6544

PRINCETON FIGURE SKATING CLUB:Lynette Boyd: 250-295-7113

KOKANEE SUMMER SWIM CLUB:Lindsay: 250-295-0759

PRINCETON FAMILY SERVICES SOCIETY : FAMILY PLACE 120 Kenley Ave. open Tues., Wed., and Thurs. 11- 2. (Pre-natal) 11 -12 Moms help prepare and enjoy lunch together.

THE SPOTLIGHT COMMUNITY CALENDAR

HELP US KEEP THE COMMUNITY CALENDAR

UP TO DATE.Please remember to check your listing in the

Spotlight Community Calendar.If changes to your listing are needed,

please call us at 250-295-3535 or email [email protected]

Princeton Pentecostal Church

165 Vermilion Avenueinvites you to join us in

Sunday Worship10:30 am

Pastor Jack McNeil250-295-7951

Princeton Baptist Church

Across from Arena - Old Hedley Road Family Worship

10:00 am

250-295-7752

St. Paul’s United Anglican Church

O� ce: 250-295-7714

WORSHIP - 10:00 AM

190 - 1st AvenueEveryone Welcome

Living Water Community Church

Invites You to38 Kenley Avenue

10:30 AM Morning WorshipPastor Jason Neu� eld

Tel: 250-295-7733Cell: 250-293-6224

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Town Hall News

Phone: (250) 295-3135 * Fax: (250) 295-3477 * Email: [email protected] * Website: www.princeton.ca

Below are just some of the organizations the Town of Princeton has supported with in kind grants and/or funding :

GRANT IN AID POLICY

PURPOSE To support non-profit organizations and agencies that provide programs and services that serves, benefits and/or adds value to the community. POLICY That Council allocates annually a finite sum of money through the Town of Princeton budget for Grants in Aid, up to a maximum of $10,000 per individual application request. Applications for Grants in Aid are to be received no later than January 31st of each year in which the grant will be used. That applicants will attach a complete description of their organization/agency and further information including:

1. Program/service goals and objectives 2. Profile of users/clients/participants 3. Budget details of how Grant in Aid funds will be allocated 4. Intended community benefit/value and outcomes 5. Details of other/additional sources of revenue received, including donations, fund-raising activity

and/or grants from other government sources 6. Funding history related to Grant in Aid funds previously received from the Town of Princeton 7. Copy of Financial Statements

Mayor and Council, as part of the annual Town of Princeton budget process, will review and assess Grant in Aid requests by April 1st of each year.

APPLICATION FOR A GRANT IN AID Applications shall be received in the Princeton Municipal Hall by close of business on the last working day in January. Organizations must apply for grants on an annual basis. A grant received in one year does not guarantee approval of a grant in the future . Grants are limited by budget allocation in each year. Applications are available on the Town of Princeton’s website under Town Hall, Documents and Links. Further information may be obtained from the Town Hall at 250-295-3135.

ORGANIZATIONS:

Rotary Club Racing Days

Doctor Recruitment Museum & Archives

Princeton Curling Club Hospital Auxiliary

Princeton Arts Council Princeton Legion

Princeton Posse Ground Search & Rescue

Traditional Music Festival Little Britches Rodeo

Halloween Family Fun Nite Seniors Branch #30

China Ridge Trails Show N Shine

Kokanee Swim Club Bull Riding Championships

Youth Ambassadors Terry Fox Run

Rodeo Club Vermilion Trails Society

Fall Fair Association Leaders for Literacy

Find local employees.

By Jackie TegartMLA, Fraser-Nicola

An important program for many people in the Princeton area began in September with the launch of the Single Parent Employment Initiative to help them achieve long-term, rewarding careers.

The Single Parent Employment Initiative is designed for women and men on income and disability assistance.

More than 16,000 single parents on income and disability assistance now have access to funding that can include up to 12 months of funded training for an in-demand job, or a paid work-experience placement.

Funding also includes child-care costs during training or work placement and for the first year of employment. Public transit costs to and from school are covered, along with a wide range of WorkBC Employment Services Centre programs such as workshops on resume writing and interview preparation.

In addition, through recent changes to our government’s income assistance program,

families on income assistance and disability are eligible for increased earnings exemption (from $200 to $400 per month, or $300 to $500 per month for individuals with a child with disabilities) and supplemental health coverage for a year after they leave income assistance for employment.

We want all British Columbians to have the skills they need to be able to care for their families with well-paying, family-supporting jobs.

This investment of $24.5 million over five years helps ensure all British Columbians have an opportunity to benefit from our growing economy and move into the work-force with skills and training that fit with today and tomorrow’s job demands.

To learn more about Single Parent Employment Initiative, go to www.sdsi.gov.bc.ca/programs/spei.html.

In Princeton and area, single parents can also get assistance at the Service BC office at 136 Tapton Ave.

Program aids single parents

Posse Visits Manning The Posse took advantage of a rare Saturday / Sunday off to soak up some fantastic late September weather and local scenery. After dispatching the Nelson Leafs 6-2 on Friday Sep 25 the team loaded onto their bus early Sunday and headed to Manning. The boys hiked up Skyline trail to the ridge for 3 hours and truly were rewarded for their efforts. The day finished off with a team BBQ on the patio at LIVINIT Fitness for a fitting end to a great team day.

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Angelique Wood,NDP What qualifications do you have for the job of our Member of Parliament? I have served for the past three years, 2011-2014 as an

Electoral Area Director for the Regional District of the Okanagan-Similkameen. During that time I worked on two sub-provincial boards and travelled much of the area within this riding, working on issues of concern with local First Nations and mayors and councils. Maintaining the health and economic security of our sig-nificant seniors population and veterans, and out-migra-tion of our youth are brought up consistently in every com-munity. Doctor recruitment and retention are issues brought up regularly in our rural areas.

Dan AlbasConservative What qualifications do you have for the job of our Member of Parliament?

To be effective in Ottawa it is vital to understand the needs of the communities and citizens we represent. My service began first as a volunteer work-ing with non-profit organizations such as the United Way, Critteraid, Rotary and others and evolved into being elected as a city councilor before finally being elected as an MP.

This community expe-rience helped me to pass a bill that was important to our region and more recently to help expedite invasive species regulations to protect our BC fresh-water lakes against invasive mussels. My work in Ottawa has also been recognized with a nomination for a Golden Scissors award for cutting red tape from the CFIB and my house voting atten-dance record is among the top 5 in Canada. Locally I conduct an annual summer listen-ing tour that has result-ed in citizen’s ideas and suggestions becoming government policy. I am also a former small business owner who understands what it is like to make payroll and the importance of low taxes that helps to ensure families keep more of their money instead of sending it to Ottawa. I am known as a hard worker and publish an annual accountability report to keep citizens informed.

Robert Mellalieu, Green Party What qualifications do you have for the job of our Member of Parliament? The only qualification I need is to be Canadian. I am as

Canadian as the red serge and pacific salmon. However, I also have some skills that I have acquired in the 20 years I have run my business. Those skills are obviously missing in parliament today. My wife and I home schooled our son and through that pro-cess have learnt a lot about patience and understanding. I have been a director/chair/president of many boards and clubs – Rotary, Antique Boat Society. During those tenures I learnt a lot of “poli-tics” Of course anyone who has been happily married for 25 years knows politics too.

Karley Scott, Liberal What qualifications do you have for the job of our Member of Parliament?

I spent 10 years work-ing for the federal gov-ernment and have an in-depth understand-ing of how government works which will be of great benefit in cau-cus and the House of Commons. As a lawyer I am a skilled advocate and accustomed to stand-ing up for my clients and will use those skills to stand up for the people in this riding.

As a mother I intuitive-ly seek solutions that will improve current cir-cumstances and benefit future generations. As a Metis woman I am inherently diverse and I excel at building collab-orative relationships as a result – many issues are multi-jurisdictional and they require repre-sentation that can work collaboratively with other levels of govern-ment to find the best solutions. I understand the value of hard work. I landed my first job when I was twelve at the local video store and have worked ever since. My work experiences have been varied. I have been a cashier, lifeguard, swimming instructor, houseboat captain, bartender, server, pub-lic servant and lawyer. I have been both a union member and in management. I also understand the com-plexities entrepreneurs face. My husband works as CEO of a medium sized business and I run my own law practice.

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Brian CoyneOwner

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MAC’S AUTO PARTS193 Vermilion Ave.Ph: 250-295-6944HONDAWATER PUMPS, TILLERS, LAWN MOWERS, GENERATORS, SNOW BLOWERS

3 Licenced Mechanics 250-295-0005TIRES

TOWING

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SERVICES

THE HUT Bottle Depot

367 Hwy. 3 250-295-3835

WE ACCEPT MOST BEVERAGE CONTAINERSHOURS: 11 AM - 4 PM DAILY

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• Electronics• Household Fire Alarms

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THE HUT

331 Old Hedley RoadPO Box 948Princeton, B.C. V0X 1W0

Brian CoyneOwner

Ph: 250-295-0606Fax: 250-295-6588

Brian Coyne

Phone: 250-295-7381 Princeton Plaza

Quality Foods,

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Dogs & Cats.

Aquarium Supplies Aviary Supplies

Herp SuppliesLive Fish

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OTTER VALLEY

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• Gas Fitting• Custom Sheet Metal• Lennox Dealer• Wett Certi� ed • Chimney and Wood Stove Inspections

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· New Fixtures Supplied & Installed · Drain & Sewer Cleaning

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Fully LicensedEmergency Service

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• High Efficiency Furnaces• Boilers, mid and high efficiency• Full Ducting Installations• High Velocity Systems• Residential & Commercial Units• Trailer Furnaces, LPG or Nat. gas

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KRAUSE,ALVIN LLOYD

July 10, 1949 - September 18, 2015

A Celebration of Life will be held October 10, 2015, 1 p.m. at the Princ-eton Seniors Centre.

Alvin is survived by his wife Diane Krause, daughter Roxanne Dore (Bob Proulx), a son Steven Krause (Teresa), and grandchildren Ashley Dore and Brett Dore.Alvin worked many years in the min-ing industry at Newmont and Similco.He enjoyed fishing, hunting and family camping trips.Thank you to Dr. Vanderheide and the nurses and kitchen staff at Princeton

General Hospital.

PLOW TRUCK

OPERATORSArgo is accepting Resumes for drivers experienced in the operation of tandem axle trucks for the Princeton Area. Positions are seasonal. Exp. operating snow re-moval equipment would be an asset. Must hold a valid BCDL, minimum Class 3 with air. Submit your Re-sume with a current National driver abstract by email to [email protected] or by fax to 250-295-7983.

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Business Opportunities

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Caretakers/Residential Managers

MOTEL ASST Manager Team to run small Motel in Parksville BC. Non-Smoking, no Pets, good Health, fulltime live-in position. Fax 250-586-1634 or email resume to: [email protected]

Education/Trade Schools

HUGE DEMAND for Medical Transcriptionists! CanScribe is Canada’s top medical tran-scription training school. Learn from home and work from home. Call today! 1-800-466-1535. [email protected]

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Help Wanted

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hours of work can be: from 5:00 am to 1:00pm or

2:00pm, sometimes working until 4pm or 5:00pm is

required during summer time when production is heavy and overtime is available

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Services

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Obituaries

LARGE FUNDBorrowers Wanted

Start saving hundreds of dollars today! We can easily approve you by phone. 1st, 2nd or 3rd mortgage money is available right now. Rates start at Prime. Equity counts. We don’t rely on credit, age or income.

Call Anytime1-800-639-2274 or

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TAX FREE MONEYis available, if you are a homeowner, today! We can easily approve you by phone. 1st, 2nd or 3rd mort-gage money is available right now. Rates start at Prime. Equity counts. We don’t rely on credit, age or income.

Call Anytime1-800-639-2274 or

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Misc ServicesSTAMP COLLECTOR

Looking to buy stamps [email protected]

Painting & Decorating

WWW.PAINTSPECIAL.COM (1) 250-899-3163

3 Rooms For $2992 Coats Any Colour

(Ceiling & Trim extra)Price incls. Cloverdale Premium

Quality Paint. NO PAYMENT, until job is completed!

ObituariesObituaries

FULL SERVICE plumbing from Parker Dean. Fast, re-liable, 24/7 service. Take $50 off your next job if you present this ad. Vancouver area. 1-800-573-2928.

Heavy Duty Machinery

A-CHEAP, LOWEST PRICES STEEL SHIPPING Dry Storage Containers Used 20’40’45’53’ and insulated con-tainers all sizes in stock. 40’ containers as low as $2,200DMG. Huge freezers. Experienced wood carvers needed, full time. Ph Toll free 24 hours 1-866-528-7108 or 1-778-298-3192 8am-5pm. De-livery BC and AB www.rtccon-tainer.com

Misc. for SaleSAWMILLS FROM only $4,397. Make money and save money with your own bandmill. Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. Free info & DVD: 1-800-566-6899 Ext:400OT or www.Norwood Sawmills.com/400OT

STEEL BUILDINGS. Madness Sale! All buildings, all models. You’ll think we’ve gone mad deals. Call now and get your deal. Pioneer Steel, 1-800-668-5422. www.pioneersteel.ca

Misc. WantedPrivate Coin Collector Lookingto Buy Collections, OlympicGold & Silver Coins, Estates +Chad: 250-499-0251 Local.

Apartments for rent in Prince-ton, available now. Level ac-cess in a quiet building. Need excellent references & D.D. No pets, can furnish if needed. Rents start at $500.00 month. Phone 1-250-295-1006 for de-tails or leave a message with the best time to call back.

Homes for Rent2 bdrm apartment, 4 applianc-es, excellent view, large open concept, 18’ vaulted ceilings, laundry room. Must see to be-lieve. $1200 includes heat and hydro. 250-295-0005, Monday to Friday, ask for Neil.

2 bedroom, fully furnished, dish network and internet in-cluded. Absolutely no pets or smoking. $600.00 plus utilities. Quiet area on Similkameen River. Call 469-615-7178

For LeaseCommercial space for lease. 1500 square feet. 20ft ceilings, overhead door, small offi ce. $800.00/month. Day time call 604-877-1599 & Night time call 604-298-1948.

Suites, LowerLarge furnished suite available for out of town workers need-ing a place 3 or 4 days a week. Very clean & quiet, lo-cated downtown. Everything is included - bedding, applianc-es, dishes, fridge, TV and cleaning. Suitable for 2 or 3 workers sharing. Mature adults only - references required. Phone 250-295-6408

Coming Events Education/Trade Schools

Financial Services Plumbing Apt/Condo for Rent Auto Financing

Cars - Domestic2006 Honda Accord Coupe, fully loaded, 177,000 kms, asking $7,000. Call 250-295-6598

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