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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2014 Volume 40, Issue 51 www.starjournal.net $1.35 Includes GSTPM0040030872

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Little Stars reindeer turn out

for concert..... page 16

Christmas story winners named

A visit from St. Nicholas“.... I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself. A wink of his eye and a twist of his head, soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread. He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, and � lled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk, and laying his � nger aside of his nose, and giving a nod, up the chimney he rose...” Excerpt from the poem ‘A Visit from St. Nicholas’ by Clement Clarke Moore.

Pictured: Two-and-a-half year old Daylia Leary, seems to be fascinated while meeting

Santa Claus (a.k.a. St. Nicholas) during the Barriere Christmas Tree Lite Up last Friday in Fadear Park at the Bandshell. Leary’s family

have recently moved to the community, and we are glad that the youngster was able to

see for herself that Santa already has the community of Barriere on his route.

North Thompson Star/Journal

The annual Star/Journal Christ-mas Story Essay Contest was a little slow to get started, but those that have been submitted from area youngsters are wonderful stories full of imagination and enthusi-asm.

We thank all of the children who took the time to enter and share with our readers their creative works, and we thank the teachers and parents who encouraged them to do so.

This year our young writers were asked to tell us in 350 words or less about one of the following themes:

The Best Christmas Dinner Ever - write a story about the best Christ-mas Dinner ever and why it was so special; or, The Magic Rocket - write a story about what happened when a child � nds a magic rocket under the Christmas tree.

We offered two age divisions this year, Kindergarten to Grade 3, and

Grade four to Grade 7. Prizes in each division are; First place $25, second place $15, and third place $10.

You’ll � nd all of the winning es-says from our young area writers inside on pages 20 and 21.

Enjoy!...continued on page 20

STAR/JOURNAL photo: Jill Hayward

The annual Star/Journal Christ-

B.C. oil refinery backers move

ahead..... page 7

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7Doors open at 6pm • Bullarama 7pm •New Year’s Eve Dance to followNT Agriplex, Barriere

Tickets available at: www.farmkidsfund.ca , the Star/Journal (Barriere) or the Horse Barn (Kamloops).Bullarama and New Year’s Party (19+): $50 Bullarama only: $30 • 12 & under (bullarama only): FreeBullarama only: $30 • 12 & under (bullarama only): Free

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A number of Grade 7 students from Barriere Elementary sing and perform at the Success By Six Breakfast With Santa at the Lions Hall on Saturday, Dec. 13.

Christmas Time in our Community!

STAR/JOURNAL photos: Jill Hayward

The Holiday Season is here, and as the community of Barriere and it’s surrounding residents prepare for Christmas, numerous events are tak-ing place throughout the area. As a result, this newspaper is amassing a tremendous number of photographs that tell the story about Christmas in Barriere and the surrounding area; from concerts to shopping, kids to seniors. In this issue and the next you’ll find a number of the ‘Christmas Time in our Community’ photographs. Enjoy!

(Above) The Success By Six Breakfast With Santa was catered and donated by the Barriere Lions Club who were kept extremely busy serving up their famous buf-fet style breakfast from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Breakfast was by donation - cash earmarked for Success by Six, or an item for the Food Bank.

(Above and right) Crafts for kids were part of the Breakfast With Santa event, and a number of volunteers manned the tables which did a booming business. (Below) Pictures with Santa were also on the agenda during the event, while Lions members were kept busy in the kitchen.

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By Jeff NagelBlack Press

Pity the poor diesel truck owner.

While regular gasoline prices have dropped signi� cantly with the plunging price of oil, the pump price for diesel has remained stubbornly high.

According to bc-gasprices.com, regu-lar gas fell below $1 a litre at a Costco sta-tion in Prince George last week, with other prices around the B.C. Interior as low, and on Monday Kam-loops Costco dropped to $.99.9 a litre last Monday.

In Barriere regular was at $104.9, with diesel at $129.9 at the Petro Can and $133.9 at the Esso.

One of the best deals on diesel was $119.9 at the No Frills station in Port Alber-ni, with diesel prices as high as $145.9 at the Esso and Shell sta-tions in Kitimat.

“It shouldn’t be that high,” said John Whittall, a West Kelowna retiree who bought his diesel pick-up for the fuel sav-ings. “Typically, diesel hasn’t been more than gas. When gas was low it was lower.”

That’s historically true.

But early 2009 – when diesel was 85 cents a litre and gas was nearly $1 – is the last time diesel drivers enjoyed big savings.

The price gap closed and since 2012 diesel has cost a few cents a litre more than gas most of the time, according to statistics maintained by petro-leum industry ana-lysts MJ Ervin and Associates.

For the last three years, diesel has been stuck between $1.30 and $1.50 in Vancou-ver, costing a few cents more than regular gas for most of that time.

Jason Parent, vice-president of consult-ing at MJ Ervin, says the reason for the disparity is diesel and gasoline are two very different commodities that don’t move to-

gether in lockstep.“They each have

their own supply and demand fundamentals and they can move in different directions,” he said.

Unlike gasoline, which jumps in price towards summer as more drivers hit the road, diesel tends to rise in the winter.

The reason, Parent said, is that diesel is virtually identical to heating oil, which is in high demand to heat

homes in the winter.“In the winter

season when it gets colder, demand for heating oil spikes and that causes a demand pull on both heating oil prices and diesel prices.”

The drop in crude oil prices has put downward pressure on diesel, he said, but that has been largely offset by the increase in winter demand – much to the irrita-tion of diesel users.

“The guys who use diesel are all wonder-ing why they’re not seeing the same ben-e� t as everyone else.”

Whittall said he has dif� culty believ-ing Parent’s explana-tion.

He said diesel prices never seem to budge, no matter if it’s summer, winter or crude oil prices are collapsing.

“I bet you it hasn’t moved a penny up here,” he said.

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Diesel prices are running higher than regular gasoline, a reverse of the situa-tion � ve years ago.

Diesel price stays high as crude drops

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The STAR/JOURNAL welcomes all letters to the editor. We do, however, reserve the right to edit, condense or reject letters over matters of libel, legality, taste, brevity, style or clarity. While all let-ters must be signed upon submission, writers may elect to withhold their names from publication in special circumstances. Drop your letter off at the Star/Journal Office, fax it to 672-9900, mail it to Box 1020, Barriere, VOE 1EO, or email to [email protected].

Let’s all be careful out there

The North Thompson Star/Journal is a member of the British Columbia Press Council, a self-regulatory body governing the province’s newspaper industry. The council considers complaints from the public about the conduct of member newspapers. Directors oversee the mediation of complaints, with input from both the newspaper and the complaint holder. If talking with the editor or publisher does not resolve your complaint about coverage or story treatment, you may contact the B.C. Press Council. Your written concern, with documen-tation, should be sent to B.C. Press Council, P.O. Box 1356, Ladysmith, B.C., V9G 1A9. For information, phone 888-687-2213 or go to www.bcpresscouncil.org.

To the editor;Since Art died I have been amazed at the

kindness of the people in this town. I would like to thank you very much for the

cards, phone calls and visits with hugs from so many people too numerous to name.

All this kindness has made things a lot eas-ier to get through, plus made me realize just what our town is made of.

A whole lot of wonderful people. I was still glowing from all this attention

when we had our Heritage raffle draw. When the people who got the second prize came to pick it up they took one look at the big box full of things for a turkey dinner and asked me to give it to the Food Bank.

Just one more wonderful thing done by one of our town people. Makes me really proud to be a Barriereite. Thank you all.

Love and Merry Christmas, Fran WagstaffBarriere, B.C.

Thanks to wonderful people in Barriere

It’s a familiar refrain this time of year.No, not the holiday wishes.Rather, the plea to motorists and pedestrians to take special care

while they’re on the streets.This week two pedestrians died in separate incidents in the Lower

Mainland.They join a stark and growing statistic: Every December in B.C., an

average of seven pedestrians are killed and another 269 are injured.The dark rainy weather, slippery streets and poor visibility all con-

spire to make driving more difficult.There’s little we can do about that. But what we can do is make the

extra effort to see and be seen.ICBC has a few suggestions. They’re made every year, but they’re

worth repeating.To motorists, remain attentive at all times. Not only is it illegal to

use a hand-held device while driving, the consequences can be deadly.Pay particular attention around intersections where 75 per cent of

all pedestrian incidents occur. Watch while turning left or right for pedestrians who have already begun to cross.

And remember that the rain makes the roads more slick. So build in a bit more braking time.

For pedestrians, never assume that just because you see the vehi-cles, their drivers see you.

Headlights, traffic and other distractions compete with your vis-ibility.

Fight back by ensuring you are dressed to be seen; wear reflective clothing, a reflective arm band, or carry a light.

Keep your eyes and ears open and focus on what’s happening around you. That means pulling out your headphones, or putting the phone away while crossing a busy street.

But the most important point is to never assume a driver sees you. Make eye contact and always err on the side of caution; the conse-quences of an accident are far graver for the pedestrian than for the driver.

The holidays are a hectic time of year. We all have places to be and things to think about.

But they’re also meant to be a happy time; don’t let an accident or injury spoil that.

Seasons Greetings and Merry Christmas from our editorial department to all those who submit

photographs and articles for the enjoyment of our readers.

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Jill HaywardEditor

Lisa QuidingProduction

We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Periodical Fund (CPF) of the Department of Canadian Heritage.

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By Cam FortemsKamloops This Week

The newly elected Thomp-

son-Nicola Regional District board returned a veteran rural mayor and former chairman to lead the organization for at least the next year, rejecting a bid from a City of Kamloops candidate.

John Ranta, mayor of Cache Creek for 24 years, was elected by the board on Thurs-day, Dec. 11, as chairman at its inaugural meeting.

Ranta served as chairman of the TNRD board in 1998-1999 and in 2003-2004 and has made a number of unsuccessful bids since that time.

Ken Christian, City of Ka-mloops councillor and the a TNRD director, was unsuc-cessful in his run for the chair.

Veteran Kamloops Coun. Pat Wallace and Kamloops Mayor Peter Milobar are the only city directors to lead the board in the last three decades.

Voting is dominated by rural members and mayors of small municipalities. Milobar led the board for � ve years.

“I believe we will get [anoth-er] turn,” Wallace said. “I don’t know when.”

Ranta will earn a combined income of about $32,000 a year as a director from Cache Creek and chairman, in addition to his stipend as mayor. The co-lourful retired Greyhound bus

operator drives a McLaren su-percar in the summer months and has been a tireless advocate for higher speed limits on pro-vincial highways.

“They [board] recognized with Peter MIlobar as chair of the hospital district and its tens of millions we’re spending, if we elected a representative from Kamloops, it may have given them too much weight,” Ranta said after being elected by the board.

“Over the past few days, sev-eral people contacted me and asked me to run,” he said.

The vice-chairwoman is Willow MacDonald, a rural representative from the Blue River area.

Both Ranta and Christian emphasized balance between the city and rural areas as chairman.

Ranta succeeds Bill Hum-phreys, the former mayor of Barriere who lost his bid for re-election in the Nov. 15 civic election.

Cache Creek Mayor Ranta elected TNRD chairman

John Ranta

The newly elected Thomp-

Thompson-Nicola Regional District

The Thompson-Nicola Regional Dis-trict is raising tipping fees for household re-fuse as well as demoli-tion, landclearing and construction (DLC) waste beginning Janu-ary 2015 at all waste facilities in the TNRD.

The tipping fees for household refuse will go from $60 per tonne to $80 per tonne, and tipping fees for DLC waste will go from $120 per tonne to $160 per tonne, as per a new bylaw that was ad-opted by the TNRD Board of Directors.

Also in effect as

of January 2015, any amount of household garbage under 50 kg will again be charged $1 per bag, up to four bags, or 50 kg. Any amount greater than 50 kg will be charged at the $80/tonne rate.

The new fee struc-ture for household waste gives custom-ers incentive to reduce and recycle while sav-ing land� ll space. Di-verting material from the land� ll saves space for material that truly belongs there and keeps land� lls open for as long as possible.

The fee structure also gives custom-ers the ability to save money by source sepa-

rating DLC waste. A separate lower fee will be applied to select waste streams if they are separated.

The fee increases are in step with the user-pay principle ad-opted in the TNRD

Solid Waste Man-agement Plan. These changes will move

costs away from the taxpayer and towards the user.

The new fees will make TNRD fees comparable to other regional districts in the southern Interior. Presently, the TNRD has some of the low-est fees in the southern Interior.

TNRD tipping fees increaseFees rise for household, construction waste

The Thompson-

Heritage raf� e picks their three winners(L-r) The winning names from the Barriere & District Heritage Society Christmas Raff� e were drawn at the Star/Journal of� ce by staff member Lisa Quiding, with Heritage Society rep Fran Wagstaff in attendance, Dec. 12. Wagstaff noted that the Society thanks all those who purchased tick-ets and those who donated the prizes. Winners were: First prize - $100 of meat donated by Cindy Stutt and Mitchell Ranch, won by Linda Mac. Second prize - Christmas turkey hamper donated by members of Barriere and District Heritage Society, won by C. Quebec. Third Prize - $50 of meat donated by Rainer’s Custom Cutting, won by June Dallant.

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By Tim PetrukKamloops This Week

The owner of the NHL’s

Dallas Stars and the WHL’s Kamloops Blazers and the company he runs have been fined $140,000.

The fine is less than half of what the Crown had been seeking for environmental offences resulting from work ordered by Tom Gaglardi on his family’s Kamloops Lake vacation home in 2010.

The 47-year-old, who also heads up Northland Proper-ties — which owns the Sand-man Hotel, Denny’s, Moxies, Shark Club and Rockford Grill chains — had earlier been found guilty in Kam-loops provincial court of two counts of harmful alteration of a fish habitat.

Northland was also con-victed on the same charg-es, while Robert Gaglardi, Tom’s father, was found not guilty.

During the trial earlier this year, court heard the Ga-glardi family home — known as “Tom’s Shack,” according to several Crown witnesses — was undergoing extensive renovations in 2010.

The charges stem from riprap destroyed by workers taking orders from Gaglardi in the construction of a boat ramp and shoreline trees Ga-glardi ordered removed from the property.

“There was an element of wilfulness here — a desire

to get the job done and seek forgiveness later,” Kamloops provincial court Judge Ste-phen Harrison said in hand-ing down his sentence.

Harrison also quoted an expert in salmon habitats who testified at trial that the work changed the shore-line on Gaglardi’s property “from a very good fish habi-tat to a moonscape.”

During the trial, former Northland employee and star Crown witness Jim Parks said he was ordered to de-stroy documents and throw his computer hard drive “in the lake” when federal inves-tigators began looking into alleged environmental im-proprieties at Tom’s Shack.

Gaglardi wrote in his note-book throughout the trial, alternating between notes on the proceedings, Northland business and what appeared to be line combinations for the Dallas Stars. He also had to be told repeatedly by sher-iffs to turn off his iPhone, which, at one point, he con-cealed in a book.

Court heard it will take more than 40 years to restore the salmon habitat that was destroyed by Gaglardi.

In court, Gaglardi said he was sorry.

“I wanted to express my apologies for what trans-pired,” he said.

Gaglardi refused com-ment after sentencing. Rob Toor, lawyer for Northland Properties, said it’s too early

to say whether an appeal is in the works.

“We’re just going to re-view the decision and look at our options,” he said.

Harrison’s sentence was broken down so that Ga-glardi was fined a total of $10,000. Northland was also fined $10,000. In ad-dition, both Gaglardi and Northland were ordered to pay $60,000 each to the B.C. Conservation Foundation.

The Crown had been seek-ing a fine of $300,000 — the maximum penalty — while defence lawyer Rob Bruneau asked for a fine in the range of $50,000 to $75,000, argu-ing anything higher would effectively be punishing

Gaglardi for being wealthy.

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habitat on Kamloops Lake

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Tom Gaglardi arriving at the Kamloops Law Courts in January 2014.

Lunch at Barriere house(L-r) Nick Koester, from CHLW 93.1 The Bear radio, visits with Barriere House resident Albert Par-sons while waiting for Santa to arrive during a Christmas lunch at the facility on Dec. 19.


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By Tom FletcherBlack Press

Backers of a third large oil refinery pro-posal for B.C.’s North Coast made some high-profile appointments Wednesday, nam-ing former Assembly of First Nations nation-al chiefs Shawn Atleo and Ovide Mercredi as advisors to their team.

Pacific Future Energy, proposing what it calls the world’s greenest refinery near Prince Rupert, announced the appointments Wednesday at a Vancouver Board of Trade event hosted by Stockwell Day, the former Conservative trade minister who has been the group’s public face since August.

Pacific Future’s proposal is similar to Kiti-mat Clean, a refinery bid launched in 2012 by David Black, chairman of Black Press. Both would be constructed from modules manufac-tured offshore to produce diesel, gasoline and other fuels for sale, avoiding the transport of heavy oil by tankers to reach export markets.

The third proposal is called Eagle Spirit Energy, headed by aboriginal author and law-yer Calvin Helin with financial backing from the Aquilini Group, the Vancouver family business that owns the Vancouver Canucks and extensive real estate and farm holdings.

Eagle Spirit is proposing a pipeline from the Alberta oil sands to an upgrader that would produce synthetic crude oil for export by tankers, likely from the Prince Rupert area.

Black announced last week that engineer-ing firm Hatch Ltd. has completed a design and feasibility study for a refinery at an es-timated cost of $22 billion, making it one of the 10 biggest in the world.

Black said in an interview he sees obvi-ous similarities with the Pacific Future pro-posal, which describes new technology and carbon capture to reduce its environmental impact. Kitimat Clean proposes a new re-fining process that avoids production of petroleum coke, a coal-like byproduct

of conventional heavy oil refining that is used in steel making.

Black said the entry of Pacific Future, headed by an executive of Mexican conglom-erate Grupo Salinas, shows the business case for a B.C. refinery is sound and there is ca-pacity for more than one plant.

All proposals for B.C. North Coast refin-ing require oil transport to the coast, either by rail or in some version of the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project, which received a federal environmental certificate this year and awaits approval by the federal cabinet.

All proposals also face opposition to trans-port of heavy oil. Pacific Future has appoint-ed Atleo as a senior advisor for partnerships, months after Premier Christy Clark appoint-ed him as an advisor for dialogue between First Nations, government and industry.

Black said his next steps include negotiat-ing “acceptable compensation” for his project with the Kitselas and Haisla First Nations for use of their traditional territory.

B.C. oil re� nerybackers move ahead

Backers of a third large oil refinery pro-

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B.C. police forces have undergone a “sea change” in the two years since a civilian-led unit was put in charge of investigating police-involved deaths and se-rious injuries, says the man in charge of the Independent Investiga-tions Of� ce.

But the road to a new system that is moving away from police in-vestigating other police has not been smooth, former U.S. prosecu-tor Richard Rosenthal acknowledged in his re-port to a committee of B.C. MLAs Thursday.

The of� ce started up in the fall of 2012 with 36 investigators, about half and half civilians and former police of-� cers. Its mandate was to move to all-civilian investigations, and Rosenthal said progress has been made, with two thirds of staff in the two investigative teams being people who have never worked as police of� cers.

This year four former

of� cers were � red from the IIO, and � ve more resigned, Rosenthal told the committee. Two civilian staff also quit this year after three ci-vilians resigned in 2013. Another former of� cer was “separated from the organization” in 2012, Rosenthal said.

He cited three rea-sons for the high turn-over: “cultural con-� icts,” the struggles of a new organization and evolution of jobs that causes people to look for something new.

A one-time Los An-geles deputy district at-torney who worked on the 1999 Rampart case involving violence and drug dealing in the city’s police force, Rosenthal set up independent po-lice oversight in Port-land and Denver before coming to B.C.

He was asked about a survey of his operation that referred to a lower-than expected case load. Rosenthal said that was done before the of� ce dealt with four fatal of� cer-involved shoot-ings in less than three months.

“I don’t believe there is a single person in the of� ce who would say that today,” he said.

Rosenthal said video cameras for police dog handlers, general-duty of� cers and police Tas-ers would help in some cases, but that is a deci-sion for police services due to cost and privacy concerns.

The B.C. govern-

ment committed to a civilian-led agency after a string of incidents in-volving RCMP and city police forces. The of� ce was recommended by inquiries into the 2007 deaths of Polish immi-grant Robert Dziekans-ki at Vancouver airport, and Frank Paul, who was removed from the Vancouver Police drunk tank in 1998 and left un-conscious in an alley.

The 2005 gunshot death of Ian Bush at the RCMP detachment in Houston, B.C. was an-other case that pushed the B.C. government to end the practice of police incidents being investigated by other police forces. The in-dependent of� ce also brought B.C. RCMP of� cers under civilian oversight.

The B.C. Police Complaints Commis-sioner is continuing to handle public com-plaints against police forces in the province.

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Richard Rosenthal is three years into a � ve-year term as chief civilian director of the Independent Investigations Of� ce. He is eligible to be reap-pointed to one more term.

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By Dale BassKamloops This Week

On the day a doctor was beaten by a patient in a psychiatric unit in Penticton, a nurse at Hillside Centre in Ka-mloops was also as-saulted.

Two days later, the same nurse was at-tacked again while on duty at the psychiatric centre adjacent to Roy-al Inland Hospital — and help could not be summoned because the alarm system nurses use did not work, ac-cording to a represen-tative of the B.C. Nurs-es’ Union (BCNU).

Tracey Quewezance, the Thompson-North Okanagan BCNU rep-resentative, said the nurse is now at home resting and dealing with pain and bruises. She said the second at-tack saw a patient grab the nurse by her head, punch her, pull hair out and throw her into a wall.

Quewezance said the nurse did not re-port the Friday, Dec. 5 incident, which in-volved a patient with dementia, because she felt the injuries weren’t worth documenting.

That was the same day a doctor at Pentic-ton Regional Hospital was attacked and left unconscious in his of-� ce by a patient who walked out and told staff there he thought he had killed the physi-cian.

Police arrested 30-year-old patient Gregory Nield of Sum-merland. He has been charged with assault causing bodily harm

and aggravated assault. He is in custody pend-ing a psychiatric assess-ment.

Quewezance said at least weekly — and, of-ten, daily — a nurse in her region is attacked while on duty.

Staff at Hillside have waited almost three years for a reli-able personal-alarm system, she said. Work-Safe BC told the Inte-rior Health Authority (IHA) in 2012 the sys-tem had to be replaced, repeating the order in September 2013.

A new system was being installed, Quewe-zance said, but there were problems with parts and it has again been delayed.

In 2013, 31 “inci-dences” were reported at Hillside Centre, ranging from minor brushes with patients to serious interactions blamed on a lack of staff.

Quewezance said staf� ng remains an is-sue. In fact, after the Sunday assault, the nurse did not want to go to the ER and leave her pod at Hillside Centre understaffed.

Co-workers prevailed, pointing out her inju-ries and the need for medical attention.

Quewezance said the IHA continues to decrease the number of staff in the pods at the centre depending on the number of pa-tients, not taking into account the speci� c mental-health issues of each patient.

The BCNU and the Union of Psychiatric Nurses has in the past called on the Interior Health Authority to do more to ensure each area in the psychiatric centre is adequately staffed and enough measures are in place to ensure the safety of employees and pa-tients.

That call was re-peated on Tuesday, Dec. 9, by BCNU president Gayle Duteil, who said “nurses are assaulted almost daily in hospitals across B.C.

“In many cases, the assaults could be prevented with better staf� ng levels, on-site security personnel and alarm systems that work,” she said.

“Nurses are at-

tacked everywhere, pretty much every day, somewhere in the province and they are starting to accept the abnormal as normal,” Quewezance said.

She is encourag-ing nurses to report all incidents, including near-misses, because the cumulative effect of working in an environ-ment where safety is a daily concern takes its toll.

“And, then, it might just take a little thing, but the cumulative effect is the nurse � -nally snaps and, a lot of times, their career is over,” Quewezance said.

While concerned for the welfare of a Kam-loops nurse attacked at Hillside Centre — and her colleagues around the province — Health Minister Terry Lake said the number of in-cidences involving dan-gerous behaviour by a patient has decreased.

With B.C. hospitals providing more than 30-million services each year, Lake said, the percentage of Code Whites — situations that have the potential

to escalate beyond the ability of medical staff to control — have been decreasing.

Provincially, the number has decreased to 3,749 last year from 4,307 in 2011; Inte-rior Health Authority (IHA) � gures show the numbers dropping to 933 in 2013 from 1,114 in 2011.

Lake said it’s “al-ways concerning when someone is injured at work,” but noted the B.C. Liberal govern-ment has put $37 mil-lion into training medi-cal staff to acquire ”the tools they need to manage situations like that.”

When the Hillside incident occurred on Sunday, Dec. 7, one of the nurses on duty hit the personal-alarm button to create a

Code White, but the equipment failed. The alarm system has been an issue at Hillside as staff there have waited almost three years for a new system to be put into place.

Lake deferred to comments about the system made by Dr. Paul Dagg, the IHA’s medical director of ter-tiary mental-health ser-vices, who said the sys-tem is being installed and will go online once it is tested.

Lake noted the B.C. Nurses’ Union has called for security guards to be present in every psychiatric unit in B.C..

But, Lake agrees with Dagg’s assessment such a move could cre-ate also cause situa-tions to escalate.

“Dr. Dagg said he

would take a trained nurse over a security guard and I think that makes some sense,” Lake said. “We’ve all seen One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and we don’t want to go back to those days,” Lake said.

The Ken Kesey nov-el addressed charac-ters in a mental-health facility and the way the medical staff used electroshock therapy, over-medication and rigid mechanical pre-cision to deal with the patients.

“This is an ongo-ing challenge in health care,” Lake said. “Some jobs are riskier than others, but we are doing everything we can to give them the tools they need — and we learn from every event.”

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Tom Fletcher: The B.C. Liberal govern-ment has given every indication they’re go-ing to proceed with the Site C dam on the Peace River. What do you think?

John Horgan: I’ve always maintained that it’s a good project, but it’s a question of when to add another $8-9-10-12 billion onto the backs of ratepayers.

First of all, go to the B.C. Utilities Commis-sion and � nd out if this is the power you need and if this is the time to build it. The govern-ment refuses to do that, and I think that’s just an Achilles heel in this process.

TF: You voted for the lique� ed natural gas income tax to provide certainty, and then you

immediately said you would work to increase the LNG tax in 2017, before any major proj-ect could be started. How is that certainty?

JH: I thought it was important that the in-vestment community in this sector knew there was bipartisan support for LNG in British Co-lumbia. But we went from a seven per cent [tax] to a 3.5 per cent because of a softening market.

If there is a decline in return to the province because of a softening market, then surely over a 25-year period – not just between now and 2017, but if the market conditions change and prices go up – I think British Columbians would want their gov-ernment to make sure they were getting a fair share of that bene� t.

TF: Why did you

vote against the LNG environmental legisla-tion?

JH: They said prior to the election that LNG would be the greenest in the world. And then when they tabled legislation they left out 70 per cent of the emissions from up-stream activity.

TF: Gordon Camp-bell’s great goal for greenhouse gases, 33 per cent reduction by 2020, can that be reached assuming a substantial LNG devel-opment?

JH: I � nd it dif� cult to believe that they’re going to achieve those results. [Environment Minister] Mary Polak has a different point of view, and our job as opposition is to hold them accountable to the numbers that they passed into law, and

we’re going to do that.One of the three sec-

tors, housing, energy and transportation, where emission pro� les can be managed down-ward is transportation. And the government has wasted 18 months talking about a refer-endum on [Metro Van-couver transit.]

TF: What’s your top priority for 2015?

JH: I think the pub-lic is going to increas-ingly � nd affordability issues to be the chal-lenge. We didn’t spend as much time as I had hoped to on hydro rate increases, ICBC. When the government bal-anced the budget, they did it by selling assets, and by increasing costs at their Crown corpora-tions and then pulling that revenue in for bud-get purposes.

We’re going to have to use new technolo-gies and means of com-munication to better explain to people what the government’s doing to them.

TF: What should happen with the agri-cultural land reserve?

JH: I don’t think there was a ground-swell of opposition to the ALR, quite the op-posite in fact, and the commission has in my opinion, in� nite � ex-ibility to meet the de-mands of development in northern areas as well as urban centres.

I’m going to make sure that [agriculture critic] Lana Popham, who as you know is fearless on this issue, is let loose on [Agricul-ture Minister] Norm Letnick, and we’re go-ing to dog this issue up to the next election.

Tom Fletcher is leg-islature reporter and columnist for Black Press newspapers. Email: t� [email protected] Twitter: @tom-� etcherbc

Horgan on LNG and moreHighlights of a year-end interview with NDP leader John Horgan. For an extended version, see the Opinion section at www.starjournal.net

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In just a short time it will be Christmas, but not everyone is excited, some of us may not be able to see our way to pro-viding Christmas for our families.

This is where the Barriere and District Food Bank Society (BDFBS) can lend a hand.

The BDFBS have been extremely busy taking orders for hampers, and then filling these hampers. It would be totally impossible for the BDFBS to do this on our own.

Without the won-derful support of the community, many would go hungry.

All hampers have been made available for pick up or deliv-ery on Wednesday, Dec. 17.

The food bank will be closed from Dec. 18 to Jan. 7, but if there is an emer-gency, phone the food bank and leave a message and one of the ladies will get back to you.

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Last but not least to the people of the community who

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After the holiday season, the shelves at the food bank are almost bare, so when you are out and about please keep us in mind. We are al-ways in need of non-perishable food items and especially peanut butter.

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The Sun Peaks Education Society is hosting the Winter Holiday Art Market & Gift Wrapping on Dec. 20 at the Hearth-stone Lodge. The room will be burst-ing with arts and � ne crafts such as paint-ings, stained glass, � -bre art, jewellery, pot-tery, sculpture, soap works and much more. Gift wrapping will be offered by donation, with all proceeds go-ing to the Sun Peaks Education Society.

From Dec. 22 to 24, Santa will be at the resort once again to go skiing, skating and will join in a pancake breakfast with families spending their holiday time at Sun Peaks.

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combining outdoor recreation with deli-cious dinners, such as the Fondue Dinner & Evening Descent, Snowshoe Camp� re Cookout & S’mores and the Starlight Nor-dic Ski & Àpres, res-taurants throughout the village are offering set menu dinners and buffets with local and regional specialties.

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Little Stars reindeer turn out for concertBy Jill HaywardNorth Thompson Star/Journal

The Yellowhead Community Services Little Stars Pre-School Concert and Open House on Dec. 11 at the Barriere Ridge was once again played to a packed house of parents, grandpar-ents, caregivers, siblings and friends.

The charming two to four-year-old young-sters all wore reindeer hats as they sang three songs and recited a poem.

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The free Community Christmas Dinner held in the Barriere Christian Life Assembly Church on Dec. 8, was a huge success accord-ing to church representative Lynn Bode.

“The event brought in $667 and 150 pounds of food for the Barriere Food Bank,” said Bode, “And we fed 200 people a full Christmas dinner.”

Bode says that the annual event is now hosted between the Christian Life Assembly Church and the Barriere Lion’s Club, receiv-ing help from their members and other vol-unteers.

Asked what she thought of this year’s event, Bode answered, “It was wonderful!”

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The free Community Christmas Dinner

(Above) Christian Life Assembly Church rep Lynn Bode says she is very happy with the results of the Christmas Dinner.

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When one of the staff members at Interior Savings in Barriere suggest-ed that for the five weeks leading up to Dec. 15 each em-ployee could chip in $5 to wear jeans each Friday; and that the funds raised would be used to purchase perishable and non-perishable food items for the food bank’s Christmas hampers, branch manager Lin-sday Arcand heartily embraced the project.

Last Monday, Arcand delivered the food that had been purchased with the funds they had raised, to the Barri-ere Food Bank just in time for putting

Christmas hampers together.

The delivery in-cluded potatoes, carrots, onions, gi-ant containers of salsa, crackers, corn, pancake mix, and of course some treats.

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All Food Bank ham-pers were picked up or delivered on Dec. 17.

The food bank is now closed from Dec. 18 to Jan. 7, but if there is an emergency, people can contact the food bank at 250-672-0029, leave a mes-sage and someone will contact you.

Seasonal treatsStaffer Madison Kerslake helps keep a table of goodies and refreshments stocked during the late night shopping event last Friday at the Barriere IDA Pharmacy.

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Wrapping it up(L-r) Barriere and District Chamber of Commerce directors, Judy Taylor, Mary Ann Sewchuck and Rick Weik, were on hand with gift wrap and bows during the Chamber’s late night Passport to Shopping for those needing the gift wrap-ping service. A number of Barriere businesses remained open until 8 p.m. on Dec. 12.



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Christmas stories

Reindeer Jack Gets LostBy Reegan WillmsGrade 1

It was Christmas Eve. Santa and the reindeer were on their way to deliver presents. The reindeer bumped into each other and made the sleigh crash. Jack saw a polar bear, a seal and a penguin. He went to go say hi and play with them.

The sleigh left with-out him. Jack was wor-ried. He was worried about his babies. He had to get home.

His new friends promised to help him. Penguin had a map. They followed it to the North Pole.

Jack’s babies were happy to see him be-cause they were wor-ried about him. His new friends returned to Penguin Island and Jack misses them.

Santa Meets a Dairy FarmerBy Austin DavisGrade 1

Santa has just thrown a present down the chimney of Farm-er Hingles when the sleigh began to make funny noises. The sleigh dropped to the ground. Santa found

himself surrounded by cows in a pen.

“Is everyone okay?” Santa said.

“Yes but we are hungry and thirsty.”

Santa tried to find the dairy farmer to ask for help. When he found him he said, “I need help fixing my en-gine.”

Farmer Hingles gave the reindeer food and milk. He and Santa fixed the sleigh and then they had tea. Santa was able to fin-ish delivering the pres-ents and was happy that he had made a new friend.

The Little Grumpy Elf And SantaBy Cohen HuntGrade 2

The little grumpy elf got left in Barri-ere. The little elf saw a school. Little Elf saw small kids on the play-ground. Elf wanted to play too. He played with toys and had fun with the toys. After he played he had lunch and went home.

The little elf worked and worked. He saw this house with Santa’s reindeer on it. “It’s Santa, he’s back!”

We said, “Let’s have a parade. I can’t be-lieve it...it’s Christmas.

Stuck In The ShopBy Cole HarrisGrade 2

Once upon a time there was an elf named Clide who was work-ing on his work. Then Pepper came to see what he was doing. Clide was Pepper’s uncle. When Pepper came in she pressed a button. It locked the shop.

Clide had a pet polar bear. The polar bear was scared.

Pepper thought that they could call Santa. Santa came. Clide asked if he could see how to climb up the chimney. Santa said, “Ho ho ho, yes.” He taught them how to. They escaped.

The Shining SnowBy Shandeen DochertyGrade 2

Once upon a time there was a dog, a cat, an owl and a person. They were trying to find home. The group found a boat. They climbed in and set sail.

It was just in time because a polar bear had come looking for his lunch. Too bad bear.

They find their way onto land. Before go-ing too far from the

water they found fish. The bear got a boat and got to land too. The animals defeated the bear.

The Little ElfBy Emily RainerGrade 1

Little Reindeer got lost in the dark forest. He wanted his mom. He was in trouble and had to go to his big, dark, scary room in the forest. He was hungry because the sack of food he was carrying had a hole in it. He cried and cried. He was wasn’t feeling well.

His mom came to see him. She loved him! He cried because he was so happy to see his mom. He loved his mom.

The Little ElfBy Debbie Hernandez Grade 2

A little elf went for a ride and his tire popped. He stepped out of the car and he called, “Help!”

An elf helped him and he needed to take it to a shop and fix it. They were waiting for an hour, for two hours and Santa was waiting for him.

The car was done. The little elf went to the North Pole and Santa was happy when he got there.

He didn’t believe it. Santa was happy to see him.

The Elves That Make ToysBy Corey BourqueGrade 1

Santa’s elves make toys at the North Pole. On Christmas Eve the elves wanted to play in the snow. When Santa wasn’t looking they

The annual Star/Journal Christmas Story Contest was a little slow to get started, but in the past few days we have been swamped with dozens of wonderful stories and poems from area youngsters. Due to this fact, our judges have not had sufficient time yet to name their winners, so we are publishing the sto-ries first for the enjoyment of our readers, and the winners will be named after Christmas. We thank all of the children who took the time to enter and share with our readers their creative works, and we thank the teachers and parents who encouraged them to do so. Please note that all the stories will appear in no specific order in this issue and will be continued in our issue of Dec. 26, 2013. Enjoy!

Shopping for giftsThis is the season for shopping as area residents turn out to craft fairs and bazaars, such as at the Barriere Seniors Hall on Nov. 30, to find those special gifts for family and friends.


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Division 1 - Kindergarten

to Grade 3

First Place

The Magic Rocket

By Bobby-Raye Farrow

There was a little Girl who found a re-ally big present under her tree. She looked on the name tag it said “To Maddy”. She opened it fast. It was

a really cool rocket. She was so excited she quickly grabbed it and ran outside. She got in and counted down, 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1…Blast off!!!!! She screamed so loud that her Mother and Father came out the door. They could not see her anywhere, they were worried. But she was having the time of

her life. Maddy was in space, she landed on the Moon, and met 9 aliens. She landed on Jupiter and she met 8 purple aliens. Maddy landed on Mars and ate 7 mars bars. Then her rocket broke down. She crashed into her Tree House. Her Mom and Dad looked at her. They ran to her and gave her a big hug. She smiled and said, “Mer-ry Christmas”

The EndBobby-Raye Farrow

is in Grade 3Mrs. Matthews Class

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The Best Christ-mas Dinner Ever

By Curtis Farrow

One Christmas we were very sad. Our Dad had to work on Christmas Eve.

My Mama started cooking Christmas dinner.

We kids started hoping and wishing that Dad would come home. We put out presents.

My Mama was cooking a 25lb Tur-key. Mashed potatoes, gravy, candy yams, Brussel sprouts, and stuffing.

She also was cook-ing for dessert Apple pie, Pumpkin pie,

Muffins and cake. Mama told us kids

to start setting the table.

We got out all the good dishes and silverware. We put out the pickles and homemade cranberry Sauce.

Even though Dad was not coming we still set out a place for him at the table, wish-ing for a Christmas miracle.

Dinner was ready, so we all sat down at the table to eat.

Then we heard a car coming up the driveway!

We ran to the win-dow and looked out.

We seen our Dad was here. Our Christ-mas miracle had come.

We all sat down at the table for the Best Christmas dinner ever!

The End

By Curtis Farrowis in Grade 2

Mrs. Peterson’s Class

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Third Place

The Best Christ-mas Dinner Ever

By Grace Farrow

The best Christmas dinner ever was when I went to Kamloops. I had breakfast with Santa. We ate marsh-mallows, cake and watermelon. To drink we had apple juice and water. We drove in our truck to the poop. Then we went swim-ming with Santa.

The endGrace Farrow

is in KindergartenMs. Simpson’s Class

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think Santa got me a puppy?”

“ I don’t know. You will have to wait until morning.”

“Okay” said Billy and went to bed.

“BILLY WAKE UP!” said Suzie “It’s Christmas.”

Billy got his pa-jamas on and ran downstairs. He was surprised by a huge gift that was marked from Santa. “Who’s it to?” asked Suzie.

“I don’t know. Lets open it.”

They both tore off the wrapping pa-per, stood back for a second. WOW! This was the coolest pres-ent they’ve ever seen. It was a North Pole Rocket. The first thing they did was climb up to the cock-pit. They took flight going places they’d never seen before like China, Russia, Australia, and the Ukraine. “It’s getting c-c-cold” said Billy as he shivered.

A few minutes later there was a sign that said North Pole and a secret tunnel opened. As they flew in it got warmer and smelled like candy canes, fresh paint, hot chocolate, and cook-ies. Once the rocket landed, they hopped out and started look-ing around. “Hel-lo, anyone home?” Heads popped out of no where and lights turned on. Elves started to sing and make toys again. A man dressed in white and red came up to them and said, “Hel-

lo I am Santa. I will give you a quick tour of the workshop.” So off they went.

Santa brought them to the toy mak-ing station where all the elves there were kept busy. Lastly Santa brought them to where he keeps the Book of Wishes. “Do you know what you want?”

“Ya!” They both said.

“Billy wants a pup-py and Suzie wants a Lego Friends set”

“How did you know?”

“ I know what ev-eryone wants”

“Did you get us our presents?”

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Tyson Schillingis in Grade 7

Barriere Elementary

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The Best Christmas Dinner

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By Maggie Dana

It was Christmas morning and Frost, the reindeer, was waking up to the sound of her brother running around the room shouting with glee.

“Russell!” Frost said, “You woke me up!”

Russell turned around and looked at his sister. “I can’t help it! It’s Christ-mas!” He said excit-edly.

“Oh, yeah!” Frost said, “I forgot! Let’s go wake up mom and dad!”

Russell agreed as Frost and Russell raced to their mom and dad’s part of the

cave and shouted, “MERRY CHRIST-MAS!” Their mom stood up and smiled, meanwhile their dad groaned. He was tired and sore from delivering presents the night before.

“Wake up, daddy!” Frost squealed in her dad’s ear as Russell started jumping on their dad’s belly.

“Come on, Dash-er.” their mom said. Dasher got up and stretched as his fawns dashed around the floor, as he walked to their Christmas tree. Russell and Frost were hollering and squealing, then there was a knock at the cave door.

Frost and Rus-sell’s mom opened the door to see her sister, her nieces, her nephew, and brother-in-law.

“Sister!” She ex-claimed. “What a surprise!”.

“I knew that it would be a real treat for my sons and daughters to see their cousins and aunt and uncle.” Her sister said.

Frost trotted over with Russell next to her. “Cousins?” Frost asked nervously.

“Yes!” One of them exclaimed. “I’m Bell, and this is my sister Holly, and my brother Adam and his twin sister Eve.”

Frost and Russell smiled. “I’m Rus-sell,” Russell said, “And this is my sis-ter Frost. It’s nice to meet you. I can final-ly play with a boy my age.”

Frost rolled her eyes. When they sat down to eat, there was salad, buns with butter, cranberry sauce, and much more.

“This is the best Christmas dinner ever!” Frost said.

“Especially with family and food!” Russell added.

The rest of the day was full of fun, like games, music, danc-ing, and much, much more.

“Merry Christmas everyone!” Frost ex-claimed.

The End

Maggie Danais in Grade 7

Barriere Elementary

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The Christmas sea-son is here and that means photographers, digital cameras in hand, will happily begin fill-ing memory cards with all the photographic opportunities as they join family, friends, and co-workers at all this month’s festive events.

I have the feeling that for many, it is more about the process of picture taking than it is about making memo-rable photographs, or even documenting the party.

The act of picture taking has become easy and so much fun as a process as photogra-phers rush over to take a picture, look at the LCD, and quickly slide back to show others those tiny images. And seem more interested in that quickly snapped candid than what is ac-tually happening at the moment.

Most images made in this fashion never become more than files stored on computers and tucked away on hard-drives with good intentions, but after that initial viewing, most photos loose their value because there are too many, and very few are

good enough to give to others anyway.

What is my advice for photography at the next Christmas party? Yes, continue to make candid photographs of people having fun, but, perhaps, think about making pictures that tell a story, capture an exciting moment, and importantly, flatter the subjects. Most people don’t mind seeing a pic-ture of themselves being silly or having fun, but they don’t like pictures that make them look stupid or unattractive.

My approach is to take a moment to look at the room in which I intend to make photo-graphs, make a couple of test shots using lon-ger shutter speeds (my favourite is 1/60th of a second), to include the room’s ambient light when making exposures using an on-camera flash (I always use a flash) so as not to end up with brightly lit faces surrounded by a black environment.

I suggest taking group shots with two or three people. Get them to position themselves so they are squeezed together with a tight composition, and in-

clude only a little back-ground or foreground. Don’t shoot fast, steady the camera, and select a shutter speed that includes the ambient light, and use a flash. Fortunately most mod-ern DSLRs easily allow ISO sensitivity that can be set to 1600, and some can go a lot higher.

Shutter speeds of 1/60th of a second, or less, doesn’t always work for children playing in the snow during the day because moving subjects will be blurry, but, with limited indoor lighting, moving subjects will only be properly illu-minated when the flash goes off.

Lighting everything with complicated stu-dio equipment would be great, but that would ruin the party for ev-eryone. The occasion would become more about the photography than about the fun and festivities. I use a hot-shoe mounted flash and

make adjustments as I go. I want to join in on the fun, blend in, and not act like a photojour-nalist.

Family and friends don’t mind having their pictures taken as long as it’s enjoyable and I want pictures that show them having a good time.

So, along with those quick candids I make posed portraits with smiling faces, and if I select some pictures to give away later I want people to like, not be embarrassed by, the pic-tures taken of them.

These are my thoughts for this week. Contact me at www.enmanscamera.com or [email protected]. Stop by Enman’s Camera at 423 Tranquille Road in Kamloops.

I sell an interesting selection of used pho-tographic equipment. And if you want an ex-perienced photographer please call me at 250-371-3069.

withMaking Pictures

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Christmas party photography

Most people don’t mind seeing a picture of them-selves being silly or having fun.

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Greeting shoppers with a smile(Above) L-r; Staff person Sherry Humphries and Armour Mountain Office Sup-ply proprietor Lana Laskovic show a gift basket to be won by a shopper during the Chamber of Commerce late night shopping on Dec. 12, plus gift baskets to be won as a part of Barriere’s 100th birthday celebration.

(Right) A happy senior welcomes shoppers to her table filled with delicious baking at the late night shop-ping Farmer’s Market in the Barriere Legion basement Dec. 12. Most of the market vendors stayed for the next day as well, to take part in the Winter Farmers Market.


Turkey dinners all aroundChristmas lunches and din-ners have been ongoing as the weeks lead up to Christmas. So far the Barriere Senior’s Society, Christian Life Assembly Church and Barriere Secondary School have all served up a full turkey dinner with all the trimmings.




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Aquarius, now is a great time to aim for a promotion at work or make some changes to make yourself more mar-ketable. It’s time to push ahead in your career.

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Chocolate Candy Cane CookiesCookies1 3/4 cups all purpose � our1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder1/4 tsp salt1 cup sugar3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature1 large eggFilling1 cup plus 2 tablespoons powdered sugar3/4 cup unsalted butter, room temperature3/4 tsp peppermint extract2 drops (or more) red food coloring1/2 cup crushed candy canesFor cookies:Whisk � our, cocoa, & salt in med. bowl. Using electric mixer, beat sugar & butter in lrg. bowl. Beat in egg. Add

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The Magic Rocket

By Connor Farrow

Gage Just rushed home from Exton’s

house, because his Mom said he had to be home by 4:30 to deco-rate the tree. Gage was so excited because to-morrow was Christmas Eve!

When he got home the tree was set up and ready to be decorated. Gage was hungry from rushing home, so he ran to the pantry and grabbed a chocolate bar and a can of pop. He went to the other room to decorate the tree. When he got there the tree was a beautiful 7’ tree.

“Wow!” Gage yelled. “It’s beautiful.”

“Isn’t it” said his Dad, “let’s decorate”

“I will get cookies and egg nogg” Said his Mom

“Okay” said Gage. “Dad and I will get the decorations.”

So Gage and his Dad went downstairs to get the decorations. In the meantime his Mom was grabbing the cookies and eggnog. When she was done grabbing the goodies the boys had already started decorating the

glamorous tree. “Hey Mom, I

found the Angel” Said Gage

“Awesome” Said his Mom

Soon they found the shining bulbs and hung them on the tree. Then they had an excellent meal

and dessert.“Time for bed” said

his Mom“Okay” Said Gage,

“tomorrow is Christ-mas Eve you know?”

So Gage went to his room and fell asleep. Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z … .THUMP! Gage woke up got on his housecoat and ran to his Mom and Dad’s room.

“Mom and Dad I heard a big T H U M P ! ! ! ” G a g e yelled

“Okay, calm down” Said his Dad, “Take some deep breaths.”

“Okay Mom and Dad. I was dreaming that I got a rocket ship and I went to blast off and then THUMP!” Gage Said.

“Okay go back to bed” said his Mom “I will wake you in the morning to go skiing.”

So gage fell back to sleep in his bed.

“Gage…Gaaage….GAGE!!” Said his Dad

“Ahhh ….what… you scared me!” ex-claimed Gage

“Do you want to go skiing?”

“Yes”So Gage grabbed

an apple then went down the stairs to get his cozy wool toque, gloves, scarf and his warm boots on. Then they jumped into their 3500 dodge and then he buckled himself and started eating. Dad started the Truck “VROOOM!”.

“Off to the hill!!” Dad said.

“Hooray” everyone shouted.

When they got to the hill they rented there skies and jumped on the chair lift and head-ed down the hill.

“Wee” shouted GageThe next time they

went down Gage fell. THUMP. Gage was cold so they went home. It was 4:30 so they had dinner. After dinner they went to Church. They went home and

grabbed cookies and eggnog for Santa. Hung up their stockings and went to bed.

In the morning Gage awoke and ran to the Tree to find a big present from Santa. He awoke his parents then they came out and watched him open it. It was a rocket!!!!

“Just what I wanted” Said Gage.

Gage and his Dad were constructing the rocket. When Gage fell inside. Then the rocket blasted off! It landed at Santa’s work shop.

Gage was starving and he needed some-thing to eat. So he knocked on the door.

An Elf answered and said “Hello, How may I help you?”

Gage was amazed. He said “May I please speak with Santa?”

“Sure” Said the Elf.Gage was stunned,

it was amazing. There were Elves working ev-erywhere. When he seen Santa he nearly fainted.

“Santa Sir, I would like to go home please” Gage stammered.

“No Problem” Said Santa. Santa did a fun-ny dance and the next thing Gage knew he was at the front door of his house in the rocket. He came out and hugged his parents.

Mom said. “Where were you?”

Gage said “I cannot remember!”

Then they had a Merry Christmas.

The End

Connor Farrowis in Grade 5

Mrs. Williams Class

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Honourable Mention

The Magic Rocket

By Georgia Clough

Long ago there lived a boy named Joie. he was the happi-est boy in Barkerville.

It was only one night to Christmas.

He got so excited his head almost ex-ploded.

That’s how excited he was all right!

Then they had a nice Christmas dinner.

In the morning Joie ran downstairs so fast it looked like he had no nose.

When he got down, there was an odd shape present under the tree. It said: Joie From: _____

It was odd all right.For some reason he

got a tingling feeling on his toes and hand.

When his parents woke up he opened the present and it was a toy rocket, and it start-ed to fly on its own for some reason. They were serious about it!

Then they found a note saying, “dear Joie, I found this in my attic, it was a present to your great grandpa, so I decided to give to you. It was a great invention I made all right.

Joie was pretty lucky about getting this present.

Three years later Joie still enjoyed the magic rocket. He still remembered what happened all right.

Georgia Cloughis in Grade 4

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Honourable Mention

The Magic Rocket

By Macky Jackson

Once upon a time there was a small eight year old boy named Billy.

“Christmas is com-ing Billy,” said Billy’s Mom.

Billy rushed down to the basement and got the holiday deco-rations.

Billy’s Mom set up the tree, and Billy put on the ornaments.

Sixty-four hours later it was 8 p.m. on Christmas Eve. Billy went to bed wanting for Santa to come.

When Billy woke up he went downstairs to see all the presents., but there was only five presents.

Billy ran upstairs crying with disap-pointment.

Billy’s Mom came upstairs to Billy’s room and asked him “What’s wrong?”

“There are only five presents,” said Billy.

“What if the pres-ents are what you wanted?”

Billy always wanted a pair of roller skates.

One hour later Billy came out of his room and looked at the presents. Four pres-ents said Billy’s Moms name, Jenney.

Billy opened one present. It was a pair of roller skates. Billy wasn’t surprised.

Billy put on the roller skates, zoom!

Billy was flying around the room and out the door.

This is the best Christmas ever!

The End

Macky Jacksonis in Grade 5


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The Thompson Valley Players Old Fashioned Christmas Variety Show held at the Fall Fair Hall last Sunday was � lled with music, laughter and the spirit of the season. Organizer Bev Murphy says the show was pretty much put together in a week, and she thanked everyone who participated and helped bring the Christmas mood to the community.

Barriere Betty made a cameo appearance due to Barriere’s 100 birthday, and members of Leah Jones’s North Thompson Community Chorus from Barri-ere and Clearwater sang beautifully for the audience. Gordie West crooned some favourites, as did Bob Armstrong, Tracey Corraini, and Jo Jo Red. Dave Baines rendered a great poem by Robert Service called ‘The Trappers Christ-mas’, and Barriere’s Mayor Virginia Smith read ‘Yes, Virginia, There Really is a Santa Claus’. Gary Peifer showed a hidden talent when he performed as a three-legged man, and proved that the only way to do a three-step dance is of courtse - with three legs! Thompson Valley Players youth members were awe-some as usual, garnering plenty of laughter with their Park Bench skit, and creating nostalgia for a time gone by with Dear Diary.

Thanks to sound man Charlie Kibble, Judy Armstrong and those running the concession, and numerous volunteers and supporters the whole event was great entertainment and a � ne way to kick off the Christmas spirit in Barriere.

The Thompson Valley Players Old Fashioned Christmas Variety Show


(Above) Leah Jones conducts the North Thompson Community Chorus.(Left) TV Players youth sing Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.(Right) 100 year old Barriere Betty (Bernice Randrup) made a cameo appearance in honour of Barriere’s 100th birtrhday.(Below) Three-legged man Gary Pfeifer does a little ‘three-step’ with Jo Jo Red.

Dave Baines with a great Robert Service Christmas Poem.

Mayor Virginia Smith reads ‘Yes Virginia, There Really is a Santa Claus’.

Tracey Corraini leads the audience in singing ‘I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas’.

Bob Armstrong singing ‘Silver Bells’, which he dedicated to his mom Peggy.

An interesting looking elf dances with Clarissa.

Clarissa and Payden reading ‘Dear Diary’ excerpts from 2014 and comparison excerpts from 100 years ago in 1914.

Gordie West sang a number of favourite Christmas tunes while encouraging the audience joining in.


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