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New Telus tower in Burton part of provincial network

Red lights blinking on the side of the mountain herald a recent addition to the landscape in Burton: cell phone and internet service. Over the holidays, a Telus telecommunica-tions tower was put up as one part of a ten-year agreement with the Province. Telus is installing towers across B.C., with 862 kilometres of wireless coverage along remote highways completed to date, Telus spokesperson Liz Sauvé told the Arrow Lakes News.

The Connecting British Columbia Agreement, signed in 2011, means an additional 854 km is scheduled to be installed by 2017. The towers provide cell phone and internet coverage along primary and secondary highways, enhancing safety of travel across the province, said Sauvé.

The 24 km along Highway 6 now provides wireless cov-erage to Makinson, Carrolls Landing and Burton. Sauvé said a tower in the Fauquier area near the ferry terminal is in the planning stages, and is scheduled for completion in 2015.

A tower proposal on private land in Winlaw was the source of controversy in early 2013. Concerns were raised that the tower there was too close to residents’ homes and schools.

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‘U.S. Entity’ sets position in Columbia River Treaty reviewThe organization representing regional interests in the U.S. Columbia Basin has sent their ‘regional recommendations’ on the Columbia River Treaty review to the U.S. State Department. Amongst a spectrum of positions, the U.S. Entity seeks to elevate ‘ecosystem-based function’ as primary purpose alongside flood control and power generation

The ‘U.S. Entity’ – an orga-nization representing the inter-ests of regional stakeholders and tribal sovereigns in the U.S. Columbia Basin – released its ‘regional recommendations’ to the U.S. State Department on Dec. 13.

The recommendations spell out U.S. stakeholder positions on the upcoming Columbia River Treaty review process.

The recommendation states ways the stakeholders would potentially like to see the treaty change after 2024, a key date in the 1964 Columbia River Treaty (see sidebar on page 10 for explanation.)

The U.S. Entity recommenda-

tion was the result of a consul-tation and lobby process, and the recommended positions weren’t a foregone conclusion.

The U.S. Entity calls for a “modernized framework” for the CRT.

It elevates ‘ecosystem-based function’ as a key new recom-mendation, to be considered alongside the original main pur-poses of the treaty, which were flood control and water manage-ment for the purpose of hydro-electric generation.

“It is important to achieve a modernized framework for the treaty that balances power pro-duction, flood risk management, and ecosystem-based function as the primary purposes, while also recognizing and implement-ing all authorized purposes,” the U.S. recommendation states.

The U.S. recommendation notes many ecosystem programs have been added in the basin on an ad hoc basis since it was rat-ified in 1964, but more needs to be done, and some of these ini-tiatives need to be incorporated into the framework.

The U.S. recommendation seeks to revise the formula on which U.S. payments to Canada are based, calling the current sys-tem an “imbalance.”

“When the treaty was rati-fied, the United States and Can-ada structured Canada’s share of these benefits as one-half of the downstream power benefits with the Canadian Treaty projects as compared to without those proj-ects,” it states. “An equitable sharing of these benefits should instead be based on the more realistic measure of the power

value of coordinated operations as compared to non-coordinated operations.”

In other words, the U.S. Entity says the U.S. is paying “signifi-cantly” too much, and the pay-ments “far exceeds the value of coordinated power operations under the treaty.”

The U.S. Entity calls for a spectrum of considerations regarding the future of flood con-trol mechanisms.

In 2024, the existing flood control regulations under the treaty shift to a “called-upon” system.

The entity calls for resil-iency in flood control: “As the nation and region develop a bet-ter understanding of the potential implications of climate change, future flood risk management procedures need to be resilient to

provide for public safety.”The U.S. recommendations

note the existing water flow agreement is a complex sys-tem of trade-offs, but say it needs “flexibility” to help meet regional needs for irrigation, municipal and industrial use, in-stream flows, navigation and rec-reation.

Flexibility is needed to adapt to future changes, the U.S. Entity states.

“As the nation and region develop a better understanding of the potential implications of cli-mate change, future flood risk management procedures need to be resilient to provide for public safety.”

The U.S. Entity summarizes their position: “This recommen-

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Sorry, New Zealand. Even with the incredible landscapes real and imagined showcased in The Hobbit, there’s not much that can beat the beauty right here on our doorstep. Claire Paradis/Arrow Lakes News

In the realm of the sensational

dation seeks to for-malize, provide cer-tainty, and build on the many ecosystem actions already under-taken through annual or seasonal mutual agreements between the countries, while also providing a new increase in U.S. power benefits based on the actual value of coordi-nated operations with Canada, preserving an acceptable level of flood risk to the peo-ple of the Basin, and continuing to recog-nize and implement the other authorized purposes in the Basin.”

In the Arrow Lakes region, reservoir levels are a key concern for residents, and are likely to be affected by changes to the treaty.

As an ‘ecosystem-based function,’ the U.S. Entity is calling for specific measures to modern-ize the system.

They want to incorporate a “dry-year” strategy into reservoir management.

They also want to gain long-term assurance of ecosystem-based functions rather than negotiat-ing those functions on an annual basis.

They want adaptability built into the treaty in order to address future reservoir condition changes, such as ones caused by climate change.

Because the man-agement of reservoir levels and river flows are an important part of operating the sys-tem for fish passage, the U.S. Entity rec-ommends that mod-ernized operations “should not interfere with other opportu-nities to restore fish passage and rein-troduction of fish in other blocked areas of the Columbia River Basin,” it states.

The U.S. Entity rec-ommends the federal government make a decision by the mid-dle of 2014 to pro-ceed with a renegoti-ation of the Columbia

River Treaty with Canada “in order to modernize the treaty by incorporating the objectives in this regional recommendation.”

They call for negotiations to be completed by mid-2015, and if they are not successful at getting agreement on key aspects of the U.S. position, to stop and explore other options to create a “mod-ernized, post-2024 treaty.”

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The Village of Nakusp invites proposals from individuals or organizations for Municipal Campground Operator for the 2014 camping season. General duties will include overall management of the campground, collection of fees, cleaning and maintenance of the campground. Details of this opportunity are outlined in a Request for Proposal-Campground Operator and RFP packages are available at the Village of Nakusp Office, 91-1st Street NW, Nakusp BC or on the Village website at www.nakusp.com.

The contract period will be negotiable and may include a right of renewal for 1-2 years upon mutual negotiation. The campground is open from May to October.

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With the new year come annual property assessments, and area residents won’t be seeing much of a change unless they live in Silverton or rural Upper Slocan.

In Nakusp, the overall assess-ment roll decreased from $234 million in 2013 to $232 this year. New Denver’s essentially remained steady at $89.4 mil-lion, Silverton’s assessment roll saw an increase from $44.7 mil-lion to $46.9 million, and the sur-rounding rural area remained the

same at $1 billion. In these areas, nearly $13 million of assessed value was attributable to subdivi-sions, rezoning and new construc-tion.

Owners of commercial and industrial properties in Nakusp, New Denver and Silverton will see changes between plus or minus five per cent this year.

“Property owners who feel that their property assessment does not reflect market value as of July 1, 2013 or see incorrect informa-tion on their notice should con-tact BC Assessment as indicated on their notice as soon as possible

in January,” said Hickson. “If a property owner is still

concerned about their assess-ment after speaking to one of our staff, they may submit a Notice of Complaint (Appeal) by Janu-ary 31, for an independent review by a Property Assessment Review Panel,” added Hickson.

The Property Assessment Review Panels, independent of BC Assessment, are appointed annually by the Ministry of Com-munity, Sport and Cultural Devel-opment, and meet between Feb-ruary 1 and March 15 to hear for-mal complaints.

Assessment of area property values changes little in 2014


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‘U.S. Entity’ sets position in Columbia River Treaty review

Property owners in Nakusp will see minimal changes in their assessments this year, but those in Silverton and Upper Slocan might notice a difference. Claire Paradis/Arrow Lakes News

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Nakusp Mobile Mechanics more than meets the eye

Heading down the road behind North Nakusp Automotive, just at the curve there’s a big sign that reads Nakusp Mobile Mechan-ics, with a wrench design welded below it. Below that, is an Auto-bot sign. And like the Trans-formers, the shop is more than meets the eye. You’ve probably seen work from Nakusp Mobile Mechanics around town even if you didn’t know it. The railing at Halcyon House, metal work in Madden Timber Frames con-structions, the benches up at the Nakusp Hot Springs footbridge.

Dave Mackintosh started the business back in 1981. His son Coleman, a Nakuspian through and through, works there too and gave me a tour of the shop. Cole-man began learning his trade at age seven working alongside his dad long before he went to school in Kamloops and Kelowna. Hav-ing bought the property where the business stands in 2005, the large bays were built during the reces-sion, a testament to their success.

Nakusp Mobile Mechanics now has four full-time mechan-ics, hiring the fourth in the last couple of years. Unlike other businesses, the crash of 2008 that hit many so hard didn’t affect the shop.

“The recession didn’t hit,”

said Coleman. “It wasn’t killer busy, but we worked every day.” Although logging dried up in the area, many loggers continued to come home to get work done.

For instance, brand new haul-ing truck come bare, all the work that is needed to make them ready for the line of work they’re used in happens in a shop like Nakusp Mobile Mechanics. Chains, water and electrical connections and more are added to a truck to spe-cialize it. It can take a week, about 100 hours, to transform a truck. In 2013 the shop did five trucks, and the year before that two trucks were done. The pic-tures Mackintosh shows me are of shiny brand new rigs freshly outfitted and ready to drive off to their hardworking futures.

Nakusp Mobile Mechanics offers more than just truck build-ing. All kinds of metal fabricat-ing, maintenance and repairs as well as welding and inspecting. Computers, ABS: you name it. Rebuilding large truck engines is possible, too, Coleman told me, although doing it is more compli-cated with all the new emission technologies in place.

The mobile part of the shop is in the form of two trucks com-plete with cranes that can be driven out to fix heavy equipment on site. One crane is able to lift 3,500 pounds, a necessity when dealing with big machines.

NMM has been able to build up its inventory of vehicles and tools by buying equipment that has needed work, or auctioned off by businesses that have gone under. Because they can fix vir-tually anything themselves, they can cut a lot in costs. Coleman’s most prized tool at the moment is a CNC (computer numerical control) machine, which can cut sheet steel up to six inches thick into patterns taken from Auto-CAD files. Thinner metal can be cut into intricate designs at 100 inches per minute. The machine need a tray built, but now it runs like a dream.

“It’s like comparing walking to driving,” Coleman said, liken-ing manual welding to the CNC.

Many of the pieces that bring and hold the ferry together were made at the shop on the machine, hundreds of dogs and over a thousand gussets. The repeti-tion of form cut from sheets of steel leave interesting rem-nants behind. Theses scrap metal pieces known as ‘skeletons’ can be used on their own design merit (some would make beautiful pieces for gates, for example) or can be recycled.

Interesting skeletons aren’t the only creative project on the go at the shop. In his off time, Mackin-tosh plays with cutting steel into interesting patterns. Too inter-esting to resist for some: two

pieces put on a bench put up at the Nakusp Hot Springs footbridge tem-porarily were stolen by filching fans. The pieces were a native design and a Transformers Decepticon insignia.

Mackintosh works ten hours each of the six days he’s at the shop, and just as hard outside of work. With three kids, he’s busy at home (which he built himself) but finds the time to coach student skiers up at Summit Lake. But it’s not about the money for Coleman.

“If you don’t have your health, you don’t have anything. ‘Bad’ is kidney failure, everything else is fine.”

Still, everyone in the shop is flat-out working: pieces come in for main-tenance and inspection from the area (20 from Kaslo where there is no inspector, for instance), and driving out to repair jobs.

“That’s what dad’s out doing,” Mackintosh told me. His dad Dave

was out at Shelter Bay this Saturday, fixing a loader for Crescent Bay Con-struction.

Some trips are longer than oth-ers: Coleman is willing to travel fur-ther than the usual three-hour limit for a bit of adventure or people he likes. And although he likes the occa-sional trip out of town, it’s clear he cares about Nakusp and has his own opinions about the direction he thinks Nakusp should take into the future.

“We need industry in this town, not tourism,” he told the Arrow Lakes News. “We don’t need slow stud-ies, we need quick results.” Coleman brings up Christina Lake as an exam-ple. Although the town has a booming tourist season, it’s a ghost town except for two moths a year. Small industry and businesses that are quick to adapt are what Nakusp needs, according to him, companies that have more than meets the eye.


Coleman and Cameron Mackintosh have fun playing with metal after hours at Nakusp Mobile Mechanics Claire Paradis/Arrow Lakes News

NMM mechanics service big rigs like this one that hauls equip-ment to the gold fields in the Yukon. Claire Paradis/Arrow Lakes News

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Is there a War on Christmas?

Let me say first that I am a pac-ifist insofar as the War on Christmas is concerned. Like all intelligent athe-ists, and I am sufficiently arrogant to count myself amongst that number, I believe that the “War on Christmas” is grossly overdone. My personal view is that, if it wasn’t started by Bill O’Reilly of the odious Fox News Net-work, the flames of the War on Christ-mas were most certainly fanned by him and his Faux News cohorts.

I find it passing strange that Craig Savage acknowledges that Jesus was not born on December 25 and that most of the trappings of Christmas have their origins in paganism, not secularism as the pastor stated, and yet I am compelled to ask why is it known as Christ’s Mass, and why is it celebrated on December 25. It is also rather strange that the pastor, in his column writes that “the party (i.e. turning water into wine), wasn’t about him, but nobody remembers whose wedding that was.” Little wonder there; only Jesus and his mother get a mention in John 2, with an oblique mention of the anonymous bride-groom at the end of verse 9.

A comment on an atheist website to which I subscribe puts the whole Christmas season, including the Win-ter Solstice, into a succinct and prosa-ically rational perspective: Axial incli-nation is the real reason for the sea-son!

As everyone who read my Rational View series of columns during the first

half of 2013 will know, I was raised in the High (Anglo-Catholic) Church of England. My first “encounter” with the real Catholic Church, rather than Henry VIII’s version, was during my military service in Italy. A few col-leagues and I took a Christmas ski-ing vacation at Cortina d’Ampezzo in 1948, the future site of the 1956 Winter Olympics. On Christmas Eve we all went to midnight mass at the Church of San Giacomo – none of us was Catholic, but we all enjoyed the “exotic” ambiance of a real Italian church – the sounds, the smells, every-thing that appealed to the senses. When I returned to England and lived in London, my apartment was one half-mile from Westminster Abbey and the same distance, in the opposite direction, from Westminster Cathedral the Roman Catholic cathedral. I rarely went into the Abbey, but every Christ-mas Eve, if I was off-duty, I attended midnight mass at the Cathedral, not as a communicant but as a spectator.

I rationalised my admittedly odd behaviour by comparing it to my love of military ceremonies. I have always thought of war as an abomi-nation, but I never missed The Troop-ing of the Colour nor a military tattoo or parade whenever I could see one. In the same way, I could insulate myself from the emotional appeal of religion and enjoy the spectacle of ceremony. I attended my last midnight mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Calgary about 20/25 years ago, many years after atheism had become my worldview. I don’t think I attended midnight mass very often after the celebration of the mass in the vernacular was approved by Vatican II. I had learned Latin at school, had loved it and can still recite passages of Virgil’s “The Aenid” in Latin.

Big deal, you may say, but I am what I am and I love my life in the cer-tain knowledge that, when I “shuffle off this mortal coil” (Hamlet-speak for dying), nothing will follow.

No scientific consensus on GMOs

In Part I of this column I talked about the motion passed by the Union of BC Municipali-ties to make B.C. a GE-free area and presented an overview of GE crops grown in Canada. I noted the potential economic conse-quences to farmers and the envi-ronmental dangers of introducing uncontainable GE alfalfa and the GE Arctic Apple.

If a GE crop looks tastes and smells the same as its non-GE counterpart, then it is deemed to be ‘substantial equivalent’ and completely safe. This was a reg-ulatory gift by our government to the biotech industry to help them avoid any need for testing.

This approval procedure has been criticized and rejected by many important bodies of scien-tists including The Royal Soci-ety of Canada (RSC). In their 2001 report ‘Elements of Precau-tion: Recommendations for the Regulation of Food Biotechnol-ogy in Canada,’ the RSC stated that it is scientifically unjustifi-able to presume that GM foods are safe without rigorous test-ing because when new genes are introduced there can be unantic-

ipated changes in the expression of other genes, the pattern of pro-teins produced and/or metabolic activities. The RSC report listed 58 regulatory recommendations, one of which included manda-tory labelling, but most have been ignored by our government.

This year’s World Food Prize, which is meant to recognize indi-viduals who have increased the quality, quantity, or availability of food in the world, was awarded to three biotech scientists. One recipient works for Monsanto (the company donated $5 million to WFP); another who worked for Syngenta (also a company spon-sor of the prize) while the third is the president of the lobby Euro-pean Federation of Biotechnol-ogy.

“We need to make people understand the technology has been tested and the safety has never been compromised,” stated the WFP recipient Robb Fraley, Monsanto’s executive vice presi-dent and chief biotechnology offi-cer. A flood of articles appeared in newspapers and commentators gushed that the scientific debate about GM food is over and all agree that they are safe.

The conflict of interest in this choice of award recipients and the commentary which followed prompted 93 world-renowned scientists, and other profession-als relative to the legal, social and safety aspects of GE crops to counter with ‘Statement: No Scientific Consensus on GMO Safety’ (easily found on the web). They note that a literature review on the safety assessment of GE plants found an equal number of studies between those which

found harm and those that didn’t. And, you guessed it: those that concluded GM foods were as safe and nutritious as any obtained by conventional breeding were per-formed by the biotech companies responsible for their commercial-ization.

The Statement also notes the complete absence of epidemio-logical studies in human popula-tions to determine if health effects might be associated with GM food consumption. Of course, without GM labelling anywhere in North America it would be sci-entifically impossible to trace patterns of consumption and its potential impacts.

Could this be why Monsanto spends millions upon millions of dollars lobbying officials and issuing false and misleading ad campaigns to squash labelling initiatives such as those that were defeated in the recent California and Washington referendums? I have personally had meetings with two of the signatories to the Statement, Dr. Ann Clark and Dr. Gilles Seralini, and admire them for their scientific integrity. It is disturbing to see the relentless personal attacks that they and other independent scientists are forced to endure at the hands of this corrupt industry.

When it comes to the science behind technologies and prod-ucts which can affect our health and environment, there should be zero tolerance for such obvious conflicts of interest. Our regula-tors are failing all of us when they refuse to challenge industry sci-ence and propaganda with thor-ough and long-term independent testing.

John PerkinsA Rational View

Alex AtamenekoMP, B.C. Southern Interior

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So, you’re an angsty bottle full o’ hormones, and it’s Friday night. What do you want to do? Your homework? Let’s be realistic here. That’s what Sunday is for. Depend-ing on the kind of person you are, you might like to read, or work on your car, or go out with your friends

for a night of getting smashed and fist fighting a tree. Now, there’s another option, but it might not be here for much longer.

The Nakusp and Area Youth Society (Or NAYS for short) inhab-its a building next to the CutRite deli, and much like a certain police box, is bigger on the inside than the outside. There’s a pool table, some couches, air hockey, and hope-fully more coming (read on for that). Though it has a pretty decent turnout, especially on said Friday nights, it needs your help. The soci-ety’s coordinator, Cassia Parent, explained the situation to me.

“While we have the attendance, we just don’t have the youth inter-est. People just come in, play pool,

and go. The thing is, I want this to be a gathering place for everyone, a place where cool things happen; but it can’t happen without kids coming in, telling me what they want, helping me to organize it,” said the centre’s coordinator. “The bottom line is, we need youth vol-unteers, or else we’re just going to run out of steam.”

You heard her. Ever think of something you wanted to happen, like a bad pun-off? Terrible movie night? William Shatner imperson-ations? Video game tournament? Shuriken-throwing classes? Okay, so the last one isn’t exactly health and safety certified, but you get the point. I bet you have at least two ideas swimming around inside that skull of yours, maybe even more! If you want those ideas to happen, get in touch with her at [email protected], or 250-265-2000. In addi-tion, there will be a volunteer info session on Sunday, January 12 at 2 p.m., and a youth advisory council info session on Monday, the 13, so attend those if you’re interested.

You’ll have to unstick yourself from that La-Z-Boy soon, though, because the youth centre’s cur-rently operating on an extended test flight. It was originally running from October 1 to December 31, but the endpoint has been pushed back to February. That means that if the NYC doesn’t get more par-ticipation before then, it may be shut down. That would be a loss

for everybody, especially those involved in its creation, who put a lot of time, effort and money down to realize their ideas.

The Nakusp Youth Centre is a goldmine of potential for any and all things organized for the younger generation, but much like its intended audience, that poten-tial could possibly go unfulfilled. It needs people like you, reader, to step in and help out. Don’t just sit there and think about how totally rad it would be to have an [insert

niche activity here] night, tell them so, and help them do it. Much like a bonfire, you’re not getting the met-aphorical hot dog if you don’t put in the effort to take the slimy meat tube out of the package and cook it (Side note: 10 hot dogs, 8 buns. Why is this still a thing?).

Check out www.nakuspyouth.wordpress.com for info, events and news. Also, they have a Facebook (facebook.com/nakuspandareay-outh) & Twitter (twitter.com/nakus-pyouth).

By Angus SchroffSpecial to the Arrow Lakes News

Remember when you were a kid? Are you still a kid? Now is the time to put the ‘you’ back in ‘youth.’

The Nakusp Youth Centre wants You! ...to keep the space go-ing and cool thing happening. Courtesy Cassia Parent

Medical and pension payments up in 2014

Medical premiums for all but low-income B.C. residents go up again with the start of a new year.

The B.C. government is increas-ing its Medical Services Plan pre-miums for the fifth straight year, by four per cent across the board. The Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation released its annual survey of tax

and other payroll deductions Mon-day, calculating that MSP premi-ums in B.C. have risen 28 per cent since 2010.

Effective Jan. 1, the monthly health premium for a single per-son rises from $66.50 to $69.25. In 2014, families of two pay $125.50, up from $120.50, and families of three or more pay $138.50, up from $133.00.

Many full-time employees have

their MSP premiums paid by their employer. People earning $30,000 or less are eligible for reduced pre-miums on a sliding scale, with pre-miums eliminated for those earning $22,000 a year or less.

The B.C. government has used the increased MSP revenues to off-set the long-term growth of health care costs, which are approaching half of the total provincial budget.

Finance Minister Mike de Jong’s

2013 budget projected health spending to increase 2.3 per cent in the current fiscal year, 2.7 per cent in the year beginning April 1 and only 2.2 per cent the following year. The government’s critics called that unrealistic after years of increases of more than five per cent.

The CTF reports that Canada Pension Plan and Employment Insurance payments are also going up for many people, despite a fed-

eral government pledge to freeze EI premiums for three years.

In its New Year Tax Changes report, it calculates that maximum EI premiums will go up $23 in 2014, totalling $914 for the year.

The maximum employee Canada Pension Plan deduction, charged to those earning $52,500 or more, goes up $70 to $2,426. Employ-ers match employee CPP payments dollar for dollar.

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See? There’s a pool table. And a fooseball table too. That’s the beginning of the fun. Courtesy Cassia Parent

In Europe, there is a small, red-breasted bird called a Euro-pean Robin. In Canada, we have a larger, red-breasted bird called an American Robin. Here in Aus-tralia there is an entire family of birds called robins, ranging in colour from yellow to white to black to red. What is the relation-ship between these ‘robins’ scat-tered all over the world?

The term robin originated with the European Robin. One source suggests that the small friendly bird that hopped around in peo-ples’ gardens was referred to as robin redbreast; the term Robin being used as a familial form of the name Robert.

When the naming of bird became more systematic, the name robin was retained. Much later when British settlers encoun-tered a red-breasted bird hopping around in their gardens in Canada and the U.S., they began referring to it as a robin. Again, this name

was retained when official names were assigned to New World birds. Australia was also settled by the British, and the name robin was carried there, too.

The naming and taxonomy of all species is very complex and sometimes quite confusing so I won’t delve too deeply into it here, but all of these robins fall into just two bird families: Turdi-dae and Petroicidae. Bird families often include groups of birds with very different common names. For example, members of the Turdidae family in North America include American Robin, Swainson’s Thrush, Townsend’s Solitaire, and Mountain Bluebird.

With such diversity in com-mon names, assigning a common name to families is quite diffi-cult. But since the family Turdi-dae does include quite a number of thrushes, it is therefore sometimes referred to as the thrush family, even though not all Turdidae are actually thrushes... confused yet? Both the European Robin and the American Robin are in the fam-ily Turdidae. The American Robin actually is a true thrush whereas the European Robin is not.

Australian robins are not related to their overseas namesakes and fall into the family Petroicidae, commonly referred to as Austra-lian robins and chats. There are 16 species of robins in Australia. Dur-ing my current trip to Australia I have seen just five of them, but on

previous trips I have seen all but one of them.

All of the Australian robins are similar in size and general shape, but they vary greatly in their colour and in their preferred habi-tat. To mention just a few, the Pale Yellow Robin has a yellow breast, white throat and greenish back; it inhabits the mountainous rain for-ests in two distinct but widely sep-arated locations. The Red-capped Robin is red on the breast and the top of the head, the belly is white, the back and wings are black and white; it inhabits Australia’s drier

areas, which includes most of the continent. The Pink Robin has a pink breast, the head and back are black; it is restricted to Tas-mania and southern Victoria. The Mangrove Robin is comparatively dull in colour, greyish-brown above and greyish-white below; it is restricted to a narrow strip of coastal mangrove habitat in north-ern Australia.

The one species of Australian that I have not seen is the White-faced Robin. This species is found more commonly in Papua and New Guinea, to the north of Australia;

but like many PNG species, is also occurs in extreme northern Aus-tralia on the Cape York Peninsula. This area of the country is not eas-ily accessed. It is remote, lacks paved roads, is subject to flood-ing and gasoline is scarce. To visit this intriguing place one needs to be completely self-contained, in a sturdy 4WD vehicle, with room to carry plenty of fuel and extra spare tires, and the ability to complete on-the-spot repairs if necessary. I seem to fall short in several of those areas! I suspect I may never see that last robin.

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This Eastern Yellow Robin isn’t what most Canadians would envision when they think of a robin. Courtesy Gary Davidson

Brrrton bears take the icy Jan. 1 plunge

Courageous? Crazy? Still feeling the effects of the celebrations the night before? Details are unknown, but the fact is these folks sumberged themselves in chillly lake waters on Jan. 1, 2014. Courtesy Suzanne Story

About 30 bundled-up onlookers watched 12 of their neighbours strip down to bathing suits and go jump in the lake on New Year’s Day. Every-one gathered at the Burton Historical Park and trudged down the hill to the lakeside, which was a long way off, through heavy, deep mushy snow.

When the participants saw that it would be a mud-bath at best, and that the cozy warm, non-dunkers would most likely have to rescue them, a new plan was hatched. Everyone jumped back in their vehicles and headed for the “Cemetery Road.” After a long, snaking procession of cars and trucks made it to the lakeside, through about a kilometre of snow, the fun could begin.

The intrepid swimmers shed their warm clothes and ran, dove and tip-toed into what they later were told was four-degree water. Everyone went all

the way in and quite a way out into the lake. They came out and were smiling and said “next year!”

One person came a bit late to the party and was going out by her-self. Inga, already dressed and warm-ing up, took off her warm clothes down to her wet bathing suit and dove in again...to keep her company.

Yep, folks, Burton is bubbling like a glass of Champagne. There are all kinds of activities and events going on these days, just down the lake.

By Suzanne StorySpecial to the Arrow Lakes News

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DEVELOPMENT OF A PEST MANAGEMENT PLAN

Application #: FLNR-S-INTERIOR-2014 Applicant: Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, Range Branch 441 Columbia Street, Kamloops, BC, V2C 2T3 Agent: SMC Consulting, 1582 Lawrence Avenue, Penticton, BC, V2A 3C1 Tel/Fax: 250-492-6193, email: [email protected]

The purpose of the proposed multi-agency Pest Management Plan (PMP) is to manage invasive alien plants and/or noxious weeds on provincial Crown land in the southern interior of B.C.

The PMP applies to areas located within the Thompson Nicola, Cariboo, Central Coast, Squamish Lillooet, Columbia Shuswap, North Okanagan, Central Okanagan, Okanagan Similkameen, Koote-nay Boundary, Central Kootenay and East Kootenay Regional Districts.

The PMP applies to areas in the vicinity of the communities of Bella Coola, Alexis Creek, Quesnel, Williams Lake, 100 Mile House, Lillooet, Clinton, Cache Creek, Blue River, Clearwater, Kamloops, Salmon Arm, Revelstoke, Golden, Merritt, Vernon, Kelowna, Penticton, Oliver, Osoyoos, Princeton, Grand Forks, Castlegar, Kaslo, Nakusp, Nelson, Trail, Salmo, Creston, Cranbrook, Invermere, Fernie and Sparwood.

The pest management methods proposed for use include mechanical, cultural and biological control and the use of herbicides within the area to which the PMP applies. The common name and examples of the trade names of the herbicides proposed for use under this plan include aminopyralid (Milestone), clopyralid (Lontrel), dicamba (Vanquish), diflufenzopyr (Overdrive), glyphosate (Vantage Plus Max), imazapyr (Arsenal), mecoprop-p (Dyvel DX), metsulfuron methyl (Escort), picloram (Tordon 22K), 2,4-D Amine (2,4-D Amine 600) and triclopyr (Garlon XRT). Selective application methods include wick/wipe-on, injection, squirt bottle, cut surface, and foliar applications using backpack or vehicle mounted sprayer.

The proposed duration of the PMP is from May 1, 2014 to April 30, 2019.

A draft copy of the proposed PMP and map of the proposed treatment area may be examined in detail at: Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, Range Branch, 411 Colum-bia Street, Kamloops, BC, V2C 2T3, online at http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/HRA/Plants/ or by contacting the Agent listed above.

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Summit Lake Ski Area opens up for bigger and better season

With all the snow, Summit Lake’s ski hill is open again, but now into new expanded digs. Vis-itors can now see the renova-tions that have been the sweat and love of volunteers, including an expanded ski shop with more room and more light. Volunteers are the heart of the little ski hill that could, building the lodge and the hill into more and more of a recreation cen-tre for the area.

The expanded lodge is just one

part of their efforts. Now situated over the new � rst aid station in the renovation, the shop has a large counter space as well as benches for skiers and snowboarders to try boots. And now ski tech Mel Paul has a bright, new space to sort and work on gear.

A good deal of the storage in the upstairs shop has been brought up from its previous home, some of it modi� ed like the ski racks which have had wheels added making them easier to manoeu-vre. The old boot-drying rack sits next to racks of increasing sizes of

boots, and a rack for snowboards is in the works. A separate room houses the waxing equipment, and two of� ces are available for either storage or of� ce space. It’s a bright space that people can wait comfortably in, socializing with-out feeling cramped.

Below the ski shop, a new � rst aid station is at the ready, just in case. Two beds and drawers of � rst aid supplies sit in the new medi-cal room, which with its curtain and bamboo picture hanging in the corner could be mistaken for a bodywork establishment.

Not all the changes at the lodge will be visible to the eye: the gen-erator that runs the T-bar will be tied into the lodge’s electrical sys-tem, allowing most of the build-ing to have power even in the event of an outage. That’s one of the plans of things to come, said Eric Water� eld, who is also hoping to have the lodge open this summer in partnership with the ATV club. Water� eld, who volunteers a lot of time at Summit, would like to see the facility be used year-round in partnership with other community

groups. Volunteers were also the force

that allowed the hill to stay open over the holidays as much as it did since its Boxing Day start. When a shortage of willing bodies on Jan. 1 and 2 looked like it would shut the hill, volunteers leaped to help, keeping it open and letting kids and families enjoy their days ski-ing and snowboarding before the reopening of school. And there is always room for more volunteers at the welcoming and friendly Summit Lake Ski Area.

Mel Paul and Ron Santano get his boots ready for the hill in the new and expanded ski shop, now with extra sunlight. Claire Paradis/Arrow Lakes News

Eric Water� eld and Butch Warrantz take a break from groom-ing snow for a tour of the renovated ski shop and � rst aid station. Claire Paradis/Arrow Lakes News

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Westies are one of the white dogs of winter

For January’s columns I thought we would explore the theme of “winter white” starting with one of the terriers, the “Westie” or West Highland White Terrier. A tough little dog, the Westie is the breed featured in the Lil Caesar dog food commercials on TV. With but-ton black eyes peeking out from scruffy bangs, the Westie looks like a cute plush toy but don’t let that adorable face fool you, Westies are tough!

Originally developed to hunt vermin, the sturdy body and strong, short legs are perfectly suited for

chasing rats and even foxes and badgers down holes and their per-sonalities reflect the determination and toughness needed to do this kind of work. Although they make affectionate and cheerful pets Wes-ties tend to be a bit stubborn and single-minded.

The coat of this tough little ter-rier is rough and wiry. They do require frequent brushing to pre-vent matting. Show dogs are “hand-stripped.” This means the wiry hairs are pulled out using fingers or a stripping knife. Every loose hair is grabbed and pulled. It sounds painful but the hairs are short-rooted and pull out easily. The hair is plucked in stages so that it is lon-ger and shorter to keep the shape of the terrier coat.

Westies who are not show dogs are usually trimmed with clip-pers. The Westie clip is similar to any of the short legged terriers – the back and neck are kept rela-tively short with a tapered “carrot” tail and the face is left longer with a beard and eyebrows. Each of these

terriers has a unique face trim: the Scottie with a long beard and eye-brows for example, but the Westie face is the cutest with a rounded beard and face and layering over the top of the head so that the smallish pointed ears and black button eyes peek out from a face that looks a bit like it has been electrified in all direc-tions.

Westies must be like potato chips, it is hard to have just one. Most of the Westies I groom at Brouse Loop Kennels come in pairs. I groom Fergus and Finlay from Edgewood and also Bonnie and Chip who visit regularly from Calgary. Whenever these two city dogs visit their cabin in Galena Bay, their own-ers Bob and Barb Little makes an appointment for them to visit me for a grooming.

“I love Westies because they are an all-purpose dog,” said owner Barb Little. “They go where you go, do what you do. They love to

play and run, come skiing or boat-ing with us but they love to cuddle too.” Bonnie and Chip are the sec-ond pair of Westies for Barb who is devoted to the breed.

The benefit of a purebred dog is that certain traits are predict-able. For the Westie it is the small size, white coat, charming face and determined but affectionate person-ality. But sometimes some traits are not as desirable. Westies tend to have skin problems, especially

allergies and yeast infections. This may be related to their white coats and pink skin which can be a bit delicate. As tough as they are when cornering a badger, I have to be

very careful when brush-ing their skin especially around their feet. It pays to watch their diets too, mak-ing sure that they are fed a good quality food and pos-sibly avoiding common allergens like grain and chicken.

I always say that white dogs are God’s practi-cal joke. They love being grubby and often arrive at the groomer’s as dirty as possible. But after a thor-ough combing and a sham-poo, a trim and a good cleaning up there is noth-

ing prettier than a fluffy white dog. The West Highland Terrier is one of the prettiest.

I am pleased to hear from so many readers that they enjoy my column. Nothing makes me hap-pier than writing, talking or enjoy-ing pets.

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Barb Little’s Westies Chip and Bonnie are two white dogs who need a helping hand keeping themselves sparkling in wintertime. Courtesy Til Niquidet

The tough wiry coat on Terriers is plucked in stages. Courtesy Til Niquidet

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THANK YOUNow that my chemo treatments are over and my spirits are rising, my mother Val

and I would like to take this time toexpress our sincere gratitude.

To our family and friends for alwaysbeing there when needed. Debbie

and Jessica Godtmark for organizing an amazing fundraiser. Pat and Jan Dionfor losing their hair with me. All themusicians for their performances.

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What you need to know to start getting juiced on juicing

One glass of juice counts towards your five-to-ten-a-day, can lower your blood pressure and improve your digestion among many other health benefits. Fresh juice can be highly nutritious, tasty and refreshing, especially if you’ve made it yourself. But what does each glass really con-tain from a nutritional perspective and what type of juicer should you buy?

Juicing isn’t for everyone as there can be a lot of preparation to do as well as cleaning up after-wards; not to mention unless you are ‘shopping smart’ the cost of fruit and vegetables can add up. Personally I have just got-ten into the habit of juicing in the last six months since becom-ing involved with Vegibox and having more produce to use up than I would have been buying otherwise. Juicing is not only fun, nutritious and addictive, it is a great way to ingest my least favourite veggies when paired with some ripe fruit or other taste enhancers.

Yard sales, thrift stores or the online classifieds may be places to get your first juicer to see how often you will use it. I bor-rowed a juicer to get started and then bought two of my own; a new one and a used one in case the new one quit. That’s how seri-ous I am about my fresh daily juice. Watching for specials will help – I got my new one here in Nakusp at 50 per cent off.

There are many types of juicers available, varying in both qual-ity and price. The two main cat-egories are centrifugal or mas-ticating. How they get the job done is what makes them differ-ent. The centrifugal juicer may be an appropriate start for begin-ners and certainly preferable to not juicing at all, if other models are unaffordable. However, a cold press juicer (also known as a mas-ticating or slow juicer) will def-initely produce a superior qual-ity juice and allow you to extract more from your fruit and vegeta-bles, upping nutritional properties and producing less waste.

Centrifugal juicers extract the juice by pulverizing fruit and vegetables against a round cut-ting blade that spins very quickly against a metal strainer. The cen-trifugal force generated by the spinning motion of the cutting surface separates the juice from the pulp. They are cheaper but noisier, smaller, and easier to store as well as readily available in many retail stores. Heavier, more expensive, and quieter mas-ticating juicers give the optimum juice yield and can retain more nutrients than centrifugal juic-ers. Masticating juicers crush fruit and vegetables using slowly rotating gears (augers) and press

out the juice through a perfo-rated screen. If you need the high-est quality juice for medical or dietary reasons, masticating juic-ers are the way to go, though are not as easy to find, so in our area the best source would be to order online. The pulp produced in either method can be added to soups, muffins, baby food and dog food.

It is worth noting that while the juice of a fruit or vegetable still contains vitamins and nutrients; it lacks the fibre to ‘fill you up.’ In other words, you get the nutri-tional benefits but that also means the calories. The juice of a pine-apple wouldn’t fill you up nearly as much as eating an actual pine-apple, but the calories are the same. There is a saying in juicing that goes “juice your veggies but eat your fruits.”

I have found that I can enjoy the more earthy flavours of juiced vegetables as long as some of them are from the sweeter tast-ing choices such as carrots, romaine lettuce, cucumber, snap peas, beets, fennel, and bell pep-pers. Adding ginger, lemon, lime, chilli pepper, Himalayan salt, dill, mint or jalapeno can really pump up the taste of a vegetable juice if you are willing to branch out and away from that sweet psychologi-cal requirement.

No matter which way you decide to go with the purchase of a juicer, remember that fresh juice should be ingested immediately as it begins to oxidize and lose nutri-ents as soon as it’s made. Most experts agree that it is still okay to drink for up to 24 hours when stored in a dark bottle or at least chilled in the fridge, where it is dark most of the time. Avocados,

most melons, bananas and berries have low juice yield so it’s better to eat those whole.

I hope that this has encouraged some of you to try juicing, buy a juicer or dust off the one in the basement. With winter upon us, consider your glass full of vita-mins like an extra ray of sun-shine. If you do make a glass of juice, or become a ‘Juice Fiend’ like me please let me know the next time you see me in town.

More recipes to try:Basic: romaine lettuce, apple,

gingerIntermediate: snap peas,

cucumber, kiwi, half a peeled lemon

Advanced: fennel, parsley or cilantro, celery, lime and a dash of chilli flake or cayenne pepper

Trisha Shanks writes about

nutrition, recipes and her per-sonal experience with seasonal fruit and vegetables. She is the Big Cheese at Nakusp Vegibox,- a new local, organic and pesticide-free variety box service. This is a seasonal cornucopia of local fare available for pick-up or delivery during the growing season and year-round.

Trisha ShanksThe Veggie Patch

Although fruit juice is a popular beverage, it’s better to drink veggie juices. Claire Paradis/Arrow Lakes News

The top baby names for B.C. parents in 2012 were Olivia and Ethan.

Those choices replaced the

2011 top parent picks, Liam and Emma, which both fell to second place. The most popular picks are compiled by the B.C. Vital Sta-tistics Agency, which registered 44,270 births in the province in

2012. That’s a slight increase from 43,991 in 2011.

The most popular five girl names were Olivia, Emma, Sophia, Emily and Ava. The top boy names for 2012 were Ethan,

Liam, Lucas, Mason and Logan.The influence of popular cul-

ture shows up in baby names each year. In 2012 there were 71 babies named Justin, 70 named Taylor, 35 named Khloe and 30 named

Bella. The agency has posted a full

list of B.C. baby names that includes all names chosen five times or more during the year.

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Having survived a snowless and rather drawn-out cold snap in December, 2013 wrapped up by sporting a cascade of winter white

along with much milder tempera-tures. Our true Trout Lake winter has officially begun!

A basic CPR and automated external defibrillator (AED) instruction course took place at the Community Hall in Novem-ber. Greg Bobicki, a paramedic and coordinator for EMS first responders, directed the four-hour session at which ten residents par-ticipated. Thanks go out to the Trout Lake Beach Club, who pur-chased the AED for the commu-nity and funded the course.

The Trout Lake Community Club (TLCC) hosted a Christmas potluck dinner on December 28. Over 50 people from Trout Lake

and surrounding communities enjoyed the festive setting at the hall, sampling delicious entrees and sides as they mingled with neighbours and friends.

Following the dinner, the tur-key toss proved to be a family affair as the Schmitts took home the mens’, ladies’ and seniors’ prizes: turkeys, of course! A num-ber of door prize draws were held, and the Karaoke machine kept the mood lively. Thank you to Columbia Basin Trust (CBT) for their generous contribution and

support, TLCC President, Carrol Christiansen, along with her team of club volunteers, Uschi Rankin, who created a beautifully deco-rated setting at the hall, and Keith Thomas and Krys Barnwell for providing the Karaoke.

The Nakusp Food Bank received a generous donation of non-perishable items from the guests, and the Trout Lake Com-munity Club collected 17 new memberships, bringing the 2013-2014 total to 129, which is a new record for the Club.

The TLCC winter exercise classes have resumed at the Com-munity Hall after taking a break for Christmas. They will continue Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur-days at 10:30 a.m. until March, but will be flexible to accommo-date public and private functions at the hall when necessary. You can contact Linda Wall at 250-369-2222 for information.

As we greet the New Year with hope for peace and good tidings, I wish you all the very best in 2014.

Cheers!

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Laura Schmitt, Ryan Miller, and Rick Schmitt were the winners of the Trout Lake turkey toss. (that’s Keith Thomas in the background). Courtesy Schmitt family

Gerrard on a frosty morning this winter. Courtesy Linda Wall

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