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Midway Mayor Kappes acts on the Ice Bucket Challenge from Greenwood Mayor Nipper Kettle

January Fees for those wishing to opt out of the Smart Meter program

have been approved by the BC Utilities Commission (BCUC). If you choose the radio-off option before upgrades begin there is a set-up fee of $60; but it is $88 for those who choose a radio-off meter after meter upgrades begin. There will be a bi-monthly per-read fee of $18.

***Greenwood Winterfest organizer Andy Shelton is taking a

break in 2014. “Sad to say we just can’t do it,” he told council. ***

Demolition of the house on North Kimberley in Greenwood that has not been lived in since it caught fire in April 2003 was brought up by resident Bob Smith during a council meeting. “It is still standing there,” complained Smith. “It’s a hell of a mess—it’s not the only one in Greenwood but it’s the oldest one.”

***Leona Baird, postmaster at the Greenwood Post Office, retired

after 25 years and two months of service.***

Greenwood City Administrator Robin Dalziel told council they should expect projects covered by Towns for Tomorrow and General Strategic Priorities Fund (GSPF) grants to come in over budget by some $28,000 to $30,000. He said the overruns were caused by a combination of errors made during planning and by the inclusion of a much-needed creek crossing.

***The Rock Creek and Boundary Fair Association elected Lin-

coln Blaine as president at its annual general meeting. There was considerable debate about the Ponderosa Music Fes-

tival, with nearby neighbours arguing the event was too loud and played too early into the morning to be consistent with commu-nity standards.

***RCMP discovered a large-scale marijuana grow operation at

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Joke of the Week:POLICEIt was the end of the day when I parked my police van in front of the station. As I gathered my equipment, my K-9 partner, Jake, was barking, and I saw a little boy staring in at me. ‘Is that a dog you got back there?’ he asked.‘It sure is,’ I replied.Puzzled, the boy looked at me and then towards the back of the van. Finally he said, ‘What’d he do?’

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2Friday, Jan. 9: Grade 6/7 class at GES bottle drive in the Midway and Greenwood communities. They are fundrais-ing for their year-end field trip.

REGULAR EVENTS:Mondays: Drop-in crib at Greenwood Legion at 7 p.m. $3 buy-in.Mondays: Girl Guides of Canada meets after school from 3:30 to 5 at WBES. Contact Janine Fraser at WBES or Linda Sheppard at 250-443-1529.Mondays and Wednesdays: Boot Camp in Greenwood from 6-7. $10 drop-in or $60 per month. Info 250-442-3664.First & Third Monday: Midway Village Council meeting; 6:30 p.m. with a delegation or 7 p.m. if none.First & Third Monday: The Bridge Drop-in Centre in Midway is open from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Closed on holiday Mondays, but will be open the next day on Tuesday.First Monday: Greenwood Seniors Centre meeting at 2 p.m. Info: 250-445-2290.Second Monday: The Bridge Drop-in Centre sorting day 10-2 p.m. All helpers are appreciated.Second & Fourth Monday: Greenwood City Council meet-ing at 7 p.m.Third Monday: Bridesville Women’s Institute meets at 11 am. Info: 446-2210 or 446-2121.Third Monday: Frolicking Fancies – the Greenwood Red Hat Ladies Group meet monthly in Greenwood. Informa-tion Francine 250-445-6734; or Shirley 250-445-9908.Third Monday: Discover Rock Creek Society meeting at 6:30 – for location info phone 2500-528-0227.Last Monday: Kettle River Recreation Commission meets at the Little Red School House at 7 p.m. Info Bill Watson 250-446-2325 or Sherry Dalziel 250-446-2997.Monday & Wednesday beginning Sept. 15: Country Kids Playschool 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the Rock Creek Health Centre. For info or to register call Sara Eek 250-446-2202.Tuesdays: AA Meetings at McArthur Centre in Greenwood at 8 p.m.Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday: Drop-in social at the Greenwood Seniors’ Centre, 9 -11 a.m.

Tuesdays and Thursdays: Taekwondo at BCSS gym from 4 to 5 p.m. Open to ages 6 (with supervision) to 106.

Tuesdays and Thursdays: Boundary Women’s Resource Centre on Market Avenue in Grand Forks open from 9 a.m. to - 3 p.m. Info 250-442- 5212.First Tuesday: Elks #493 monthly meeting at the Slavonic Hall in Grand Forks at 7 p.m. Info: 250-442-2856 or 250-442-4276.Third Tuesday: Kettle Valley Wildlife Association meets at the range in Rock Creek at 7 pm.Wednesdays: Girl Guides of Canada meet at King of Kings Church in Midway, Sparks ages 5-6 and Brownies ages 7-8 meet at 4:30-5:45; Guides ages 9-11 and Pathfinders ages 12-14 meet from 6 to 7:30. Info 250-449-2309 or 250-445-9955.Wednesdays: Greenwood Library Story Time for pre-school children ages 3-5 years (with parent or caregiver) Oct. 1st through Dec. 3rd at 10:30 a.m.Wednesdays: Greenwood & District Business Assoc. meeting. Anglican Church at 7 p.m.Wednesdays: Midway Crib Tournament – Bored Room Bistro, 607 Eighth Avenue, Midway at 7 p.m.Wednesdays: Senior’s Bingo at 1 p.m. at the Greenwood Senior’s Drop-in Centre. $1 admission.Wednesdays: Women’s Counseling in Rock Creek and West Boundary: Free and confidential. For information call the STV counselor at 1-855-441-3131 or 442-3131. Childcare and transportation subsidies are available.First Wednesday: West Boundary Senior Housing Society meeting at 1 p.m. in Parkview Manor Midway.Second Wednesday: Boundary Citizen’s Patrol meets at Midway Senior’s Centre from 7 - 8 p.m. Info: Wayne 250-449-2191, Paul 250-445-2111, or Wolfgang 250-446-2455.Second Wednesday: Greenwood Board of Trade meets at 7 p.m. upstairs at City Hall.Third Wednesday:Rock Creek Women’s Institute meet for a potluck lunch at 11:45. Info: 250-446-2454 or 250-446 -2608. Third Wednesday: Main River Women’s Institute meets in

Westbridge at 1 p.m. Info: 250-446-2616.Third Wednesday: Rock Creek & Boundary Fair Assoc. meets at 7 p.m. at the pavilion from March through November. Info: 250-446- 2465.Thursdays: Kinesiology at the old Kettle Valley School House from 9:30 to 12.Thursdays: Anglican Thrift Store from 11-3. Info phone Les Williams 250-445-2216.Thursdays: Quilters and other crafters meet at the Midway Senior’s Centre at 9:30 a.m. Come for coffee and bring your needle project to work on. Fee $10 per year.First Thursday: Rock Creek Medical Society meets at 7 p.m. in the boardroom of the clinic.First & Third Thursday: Food bank at the Evangel Chapel at 11 a.m. Donations welcome. Info 250-445-2125.Second & Fourth Thursday: Kettle River Lions Club meets at 7 p.m. in the Medical Clinic boardroom at Rock Creek.Fridays: Bingo at Greenwood Community Hall. Doors open 5 p.m., early bird 7 p.m. Progressive jackpot.Fridays: Coffee at Midway Seniors Centre from 9:30 - 11.Fridays: Overeaters Anonymous 11 a.m. - 12 noon at St. Jude’s Church in Greenwood.First & Third Friday: Karaoke at the Royal Canadian Legion in Greenwood. 7 p.m. until 11 p.m.Third Friday: Movie nights at Midway Community Hall; 7 p.m. Bring your own travel cup. $3 includes movie, drink and popcorn.Saturdays: Lion’s Club Meat Draw, at Prospector Pub in Rock Creek. Starts at 3 p.m.Saturdays: Greenwood Royal Canadian Legion Canteen open 2-6 p.m. Meat draw 3:30 p.m.Last Saturday: Karaoke at Hot-L Pub at 8:30.Sunday, Nov. 2, 16 & 30: Westbridge crib - $5 per session (eight games per session). Prizes per session Highest score $25, second $15, third $5, and lowest score $5. Prizes doubled if more than 24 players. Info Dell 250-446-2330.Greenwood Public Library: Open Mon, Wed, Fri and Sat. Opens at noon.Greenwood Seniors Centre Thrift Store: Open Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday 11 a.m.- 3 p.m.

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a residence near Beaverdell. Over 1,600 marijuana plants were seized.

*** With nearly $10,000 in prize payout the inau-

gural running of the Boundary Dog Sled Classics Sprint Races were run last weekend on the frozen surface of Jewel Lake. The race was organized by the Boundary Dog Sled Association.

***On Jan. 21, Midway police received a complaint of

a break and enter into the Petro Canada Gas Station in Rock Creek. Cpl. Christensen told the Times in an email that the sus-pect kicked in the front glass door and stole alcohol from the store. An attempt to steal cigarettes was made as well. Midway RCMP arrested and charged Joshua Letendre, recently of Rock Creek, with Break and Enter, Theft, and Mischief.

***The Greenwood Board of Trade (BOT) asked council that

camping in the municipal campground be provided free of charge, that stays be limited to two or three days maximum and that signage be used to indicate the availability of alternate camping facilities within the City of Greenwood.

February Midway RCMP seized over 550 marijuana plants when they

were conducting a road check looking for impaired drivers on Highway 3 just west of Rock Creek. They intercepted a large U-Haul moving truck loaded with the plants.

***The regional district has approved two

resolutions to be presented to the Asso-ciation of Kootenay and Boundary Local Governments (AKBLG) regarding fire de-partments acting as first responders during emergencies.

***The 5th annual Midway Old Timers

Hockey Tournament was a huge success at the local arena with ten teams on the ice, five men’s and five women’s squads.

***Midway councillor Marguerite Rotvold was re-elected as

chair of the West Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital Board. ***

Regional district directors are considering granting them-selves a 36 per-cent raise; increasing the director’s monthly sti-pend by $200 per month, plus $200 per month for a technology allowance (which would combine the present $75 cell phone allowance and $175 technology allowance) and establish a car allowance of $50 per month.

***More than 200 race fans turned out on a cold day to watch

the 5th annual Kettle Valley Racing Association Snowmobile Drags at the Midway airport. Race organizer Darrin Metcalf said that five years in the race had some growing pains; the last run didn’t happen until after dark.

***A quick melt caused by last Thursday’s warm temperatures

triggered a flood at Byman’s Bend campground in Rock Creek.***

Greenwood Council adopted a course of action plan to deal with unsightly premises. The city will chart the worst offenders and letters will be sent to the 10 who top that list in April, giving them 60 days to have their property cleaned up.

***The Midway Community Association welcomed 81 people

to the Valentine’s Day Dinner and a Movie at the village community hall. The $5 deal was intended to ensure

that “everyone had an opportunity for an afford-able evening out,” said organizer Cat Kappes.

***The Kettle River Lions Club came to weekly

fire practice in Midway last week with a $2,000 cheque to help with the cost of the water tender

that was purchased from Grand Forks last year.***

Robert (Bo) Macfarlane has been appointed prin-cipal of Boundary Central Secondary upon Louise Bayles’

retirement.***

Greenwood took bronze at the 24th annual Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting in West Virginia.

***One month after Typhoon Haiyan (said to be the strongest

windstorm to ever make landfall) swept through the Philip-pines, two local high school students, Thinh Alkinson and Anna Danyluk, partnered with the Midway Community Association, the Girl Guides and many members of the Filipino community from Osoyoos to Grand Forks to serve a dinner to raise funds for the village where Midway resident Elnora Faminoff ’s family lives.

***

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The Red Hat Ladies visit Phoenix Ski Hill.

March According to the RCMP annual

report to mayors and councils crime is on the decrease in the Boundary. Reductions in 2011 of 19 per cent, 11 per cent in 2012 and a further re-duction of 23 per cent in 2013. “We have now seen crime reduced by 48 per cent since 2010,” read the report by Boundary Regional Detachment Staff Sgt. Jim Harrison.

***Midway RCMP received sev-

eral reports of break and enters into green mailboxes located in the Rock Creek area.

***The Regional District of Koo-

tenay Boundary is preparing a re-port on the Anaconda waterworks which proposes creating a regional district service to manage the sys-tem.

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Every year at the stroke of midnight on December 31, people around the world usher in a new year with fanfare and a host of unique traditions. From fi rst-footing to smashing dinner plates to watching a crystal ball descend from the sky, tradition domi-nates the dawn of a new year.

Though the new year is now celebrated in January, this was not always the case. Prior to 700 B.C., the months of January and February did not exist, so the arrival of a new year was celebrat-ed on March 1 in adherence to the Roman calendar. Prior to that, new year celebrations took place mid-March, right around the time of the vernal equinox. Various cultures and peoples tied the new year to certain seasons, celebrating a new year on the au-tumnal equinox or the winter solstice.

The Roman calendar consisted of 10 months, the names of which are still refl ected in the Gregorian calendar that is so widely used today. For example, the months of September through December get their names from the Latin words for seven, eight, nine, and ten. On the Roman calendar, a year began with March, as this was seen as a time of rebirth for animals and the envi-ronment. The second king of Rome, Numa Pontilius, added the months of January and February, and then the new year was moved to January from March. However, some people still cele-brated the new year on March 1, perhaps due to the slowness at which information moved between cultures. It wasn’t until the ancient Roman calendar was eliminated and a new lunar one implemented by Julius Caesar in 46 B.C. that the new year was widely and consistently observed in January.

During the Middle Ages, celebrations honoring a new year were considered pagan and January 1 was abolished as the beginning of the year by religious groups. During these years, dates such as December 25, March 1, March 25, and Easter were used to mark a new year throughout Christian Europe.

January 1 eventually was restored as the start of the new year when the Gregorian calendar was introduced in the 16th cen-tury. From then on, people near and far could say goodbye to another year in December and welcome the arrival of a new one come the fi rst of January.

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You may think that because you don’t own a condo in Palm Springs or Arizona, or property in another foreign country that this doesn’t affect you. Think again!

Every taxpayer in Canada with foreign investments in their portfolio could be affected by the changes that CRA has brought in recently. These changes will affect the filing of your 2014 and subsequent years’ tax returns. For example, if you own shares in Apple Inc. in your investment portfolio you could be affected by these changes and may have to complete the foreign asset reporting form.

You will be required to put together a significant amount of information that you or your investment broker haven’t needed to assemble in the past. So, we would strongly recommend that you begin as soon as possible compiling the information you will need to provide to your tax professional in order to avoid rather onerous late filing or gross negligence penalties. These penalties are not for the faint of heart. Late-filed T1135 Form penalties begin at $25/day (minimum penalty of $100) to a maximum penalty of $2,500. If CRA finds that you have made errors in the reporting of your foreign investments, the gross negligence penalties are evenmore punitive.

Information you should start to compile in

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• Combined value of your foreign investments on a country-by-country basis;

• The adjusted cost base of the foreign investment;• Highest fair market value of your foreign

investments at the end of any month during the year;• The fair market value at the end of the year of your

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held during the year;• The total fair market value of all the assets (such as

the land, building and appliances) that are part of the foreign real property at the end of the year (and the highest month-end value during the year);

• Foreign exchange rate in effect on the date you bought the assets and the foreign exchange rate in effect at the fair market value date(s).

We would recommend that you make an appointment to speak with your tax professional as soon as possible to review the nature of your foreign investments and the information you may or may not need to compile. Do not wait until tax season to start the process as you

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Greenwood Mayor Nip-per Kettle told council at their Feb. 24 meeting that Dr. Ajaero had met with him to tell him that he is planning on mov-ing out of the area.

***Greenwood City

Council issued a statement following an in-camera meeting on March 10 to explain why Council-lor Barry Noll was removed as the city’s representative at the regional district table. Minutes released from that meet-ing alleged Noll had violated section 117 of the Community Charter, “Duty to re-spect confidentiality”.

At the end of the Feb. 24 regular meeting of council Noll informed coun-cil that he would no longer attend in-camera meetings without legal repre-sentation.

***

Midway council voted to give a $5,042 grant-in-aid to the Midway and Beyond Little Theatre. The grant will cover electrical work on lighting and new curtains.

***The Midway Hiking and Biking Trails

Society reports that they were success-ful in obtaining a $2,000 grant from the RDKB that will go towards improve-ments on the trails system.

***At 77 years young, Midway’s Tannis

Killough has decided to hang up her Midway Ice Maidens hockey jersey.

***At their March 10 meeting, Interior Health public health

nurse Cheryl Unger provid-ed written guidance to the City of Greenwood about requirements for setting up a municipal campsite.

***The four elementary

schools in the West Boundary will continue to by administered by

one principal next year as trustees of School District 51 voted in favour of continuing the Four Schools Model for the 2014-2015 school year.

***The Greenwood Board of Trade and

the Boundary Country Regional Cham-ber of Commerce have signed a Mem-orandum of Understanding that will bring the two organizations together as they work to serve businesses through-out the Boundary.

Chambers of commerce and boards of trade are federally regulated by Industry Canada, and the two or-ganizations are not al-lowed to operate in the same territory.

AprilPownall Contract-

ing of Rock Creek has been chosen by city council to build the new $122,948.95 concession and washroom building at Barbara Diane Colin Memorial Ball Park in

Greenwood. This is phase one under the $263,200 Community Recreation Pro-gram funding the city received in 2012.

***At about 10 p.m. on Tuesday, March

25 Midway RCMP received a report of a theft in progress from a residence on North Government St. in Greenwood.

***Energy efficiency upgrades will be

undertaken at the Midway village office this year as some windows will be re-placed and exterior walls upgraded.

***Lisa Siewert and six BCSS students

who recently returned from Guatemala presented a report on their trip to the community.

They travelled to San Antonio Aguas-calientes from March 13-24 to work with Hope for Home, a home for chil-dren with disabilities. Lisa said the team spent their spring break learning first-hand what life is like in the third world.

***The Heritage Credit Union marked

its 10th anniversary of the West Bound-ary branch in Greenwood.

***The Greenwood Demolition Derby

organizers have been told by the city that if the tires at the demo derby site are not claimed by May 1 the tires will be disposed of by public works.

***Doug Jensen and Petra Picher opened

Greenwood City Foods Market and Deli in downtown Greenwood.

***Bridesville Hall was spun back in

time as Boundary Theatre produced The Speakeasy – it played to two sold-out crowds. After a wonderful dinner provided by the volunteers from the Bridesville Community Club, those in attendance were treated to a grand the-atrical event with a delightful storyline covering the period from the mid ’20s through the crash of 1929.

***The 3rd annual Spring Bazaar in

Midway was held last Saturday in the Community Hall. There were 34 tables booked and proceeds from the day went to the Midway and Beyond Little The-atre Group.

***A lottery grant of $65,000 sponsored

by the Kettle River Lions has been ap-proved. The money will be used to buy equipment for the expansion of fire pro-tection services by the Midway Fire De-partment to the Kettle Valley.

***The Kettle River Lions have support-

ed the library in Midway in their expan-sion of the children’s summer program to the entire West Boundary. The area covered is from Midway to Bridesville to Beaverdell.

Bill Baird shows off the new tourism information kiosk in Rock Creek.

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Letters Policy

It is always interesting to put the year-in-review paper together. Looking back over the previous 12 months, al-most all of us can find something that surprises us.

Something we had forgetten, but which had the com-munity abuzz with chatter and clatter at the time.

Probably the biggest news in the Boundary was the teacher’s strike. We are all certainly glad to see that over—all that arguing and lost time was perhaps a waste of time since some of the main issues like class size and composition weren’t really even at the table.

Instead, at the end of the negotiations, they remained unresolved and before the courts. But at least the kids are back in school.

One of my biggest worries in 2014 was that someone was going to call me out on that Ice Bucket Challenge. That was a period of intense insanity for a month or two back in the sum-mer. It was enough to make a fellow afraid to turn on their computer for fear they had been called out.

***I have to marvel at the energy being put into the ice

rink in Greenwood. Plans are for a major outdoor ice skat-ing party on New Year’s Eve after the RCMP Community Consultative-sponsored family fun skate ends at the Mid-way arena.

It’s taken a lot of work by some really dedicated volun-teers to make the rink happen this year and it is unfor-tunate Mother Nature couldn’t be more accommodating with the temperature. If this were the hugs and slugs col-umn then those volunteers would be getting a hug right now.

But there is another outdoor winter event that it would

be great if this group might consider adopting as well—Greenwood Winterfest.

Mind you, Winterfest isn’t mine to give away. That would be up to the fellow who’s been the main organizer of the Greenwood Winterfest since it started here—Mr. Andy Shelton. But it didn’t run last year and it would be nice to see it revived.

In the meantime, let’s everyone make a last minute Christmas wish that the weather stays below freezing for the rest of the season (or at least the rest of school break).

***The Boundary Creek Times is going into

the new year with a new and improved on-line experience. We are more active on Face-book and we are also online at boundary-creektimes.com. This is where you can find archived copies of the paper going back as far as late September 2012. Just click the e-Edition link at the top of the page.

This is handy because we didn’t manage to get the Christmas house light-up pictures into the print edition of the paper this year—instead you can find them being fed onto Facebook as the rest of the year winds down.

***Because I must complete this article before the dead-

line that looms, I must resort to using long words. Gordy Jones was helpful in that. I suggested wheelbarrow as a long word and he supplied the other.

So Gordy and I wish you all a happy New Year and may you all have the good fortune to enjoy a wheelbarrow full of marmalade in 2015!

Year in Review can surprise

Christmas and News Year’s work so well to-gether.

At Christmas you make a wish for what you would like to have. Often people ask for good things that are almost impossible for Santa to deliver on—like world peace or a wish that one might be on better terms with their spouse or a relative.

You must admit that the Christmas wish re-quires belief in magical thinking. It is wonderful to wish for these things. But when you get down to it, the old saying, “The good Lord helps them that helps themselves” is true.

That’s where the New Year’s resolution comes in so handy. You get the opportunity to resolve to work towards anything you want in your life.

This is where the magical might become real-ity. It can happen when you set a course toward your wish, you resolve to think about it daily and work toward it every chance you get.

Best wishes to all for a very happy and pros-perous new year. Not prosperous in the material-world sense of the word. Not an abundance of money or bright, shiny things.

Rather a wish that you may find prosperity in terms of personal well-being and a sense of be-longing in your community; in our community.

A good way to feel connected to your commu-nity is to be engaged; and there are many groups and societies that would welcome new members.

Make your Christmas wish for community come true—resolve to get involved.

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The basement of St. Jude’s church was flooded when city crews constructed a berm to di-vert water from flooding the sew-er lift station beside the ball park. The problem was made worse be-cause the ground was frozen and the water didn’t soak in, instead it ran overland and flowed in through two basement windows.

MayThe West Boundary Sustain-

able Foods and Resources So-ciety (FAR) has received a New Horizons for Seniors Grant for a community-based program they call Seed to Table—Passing on the Knowledge.

***Greenwood’s Well

Upgrade Project funded by a $394,400 Towns for Tomorrow infra-structure grant has been completed. The grant provided 80 per cent of the funding.

***The Kettle River Art-

ists hosted their second annual Art Show at the Rock Creek Pavilion, in conjunction with B.C. Arts and Culture Week.

***School District 51 has an-

nounced that Anna Lautard has been appointed vice-principal of West Boundary Elementary School effective Aug. 1, 2014 to July 31, 2015.

***After flip-flopping twice on the

issue, Greenwood council rejects a bylaw change that would allow residents to keep laying hens.

***The Boundary Invasive Species

Society has a busy summer ahead of it as the focus of the group ex-pands beyond weeds to include aquatic invasive species.

***There was plenty of action this

year for the Grade 7 students cho-sen to be 2014 Mounties for a Day. Pilot Greg Burgess flew RCMP Air 3 helicopter from Kelowna to team up with local RCMP, highway res-cue and ambulance to make the day even more exciting. The ride-along RCMP Mounties this year were students Riley Condon, Faith Zitko, Robert McLaren and Portia Grandmaison.

***Administrator Penny Feist re-

ported the radio repeater change-over is completely done now, with the fire department now entirely on their own frequency.

***BCSS Grade 12 student Bran-

don Millet won silver and a nomi-nation for a BC Hydro Science Fair Scholarship worth $2,000 in the Senior Experiment category at the West Kootenay and Boundary Regional Science Fair in Nelson with his homemade electrolytic hydrogen fuel cell.

***Teachers across the province

began rotating strikes as part of stage two of job action.

***

Continued from page A5 Schools in the Bound-ary area will not have to make any major cuts to programs or staff for the 2014-15 school year under the bud-get adopted by the trustees. A deficit of $441,000 was covered by surplus funding from the previous year.

***Greenwood administrator

Robin Dalziel reported in the pro-cess of renewing business licenses it was found that about 15 to 20 of the estimated 60 to 70 businesses in the city did not have business

licenses. Letters have been sent to all those affected.

***A frustrated Greenwood resi-

dent (now mayor, Ed Smith) de-cided that the only way to get the city’s attention about the appear-ance of the former demolition derby site was to start moving the mess to City Hall.

***The City of Greenwood has

been in discussion with a Kelowna-based company about the possibil-ity of establishing a medical mari-juana production facility in the old elementary school house on South Government Street. Mayor Nipper Kettle let the Times in on the proposal a couple of weeks ago when he confirmed that rumours circulating in the community were true. The story was also confirmed by Adam Sexsmith, co-founder and vice-president of production with CorCanna Group Inc.

***Midway and Greenwood are

both losing Saturday postal ser-vices. Canada Post used a form letter to alert its customers in the two communities that Saturday retail services will end effective June 21, 2014.

*** Police located and arrested two

males by the Canada/U.S.A. bor-der in the same area where United States Border Patrol located sev-eral bags of a controlled substance on their side of the border.

*** The Royal Canadian Legion

Greenwood and District British Columbia No. 155 Branch turned 75 years old.

Students staged a walkout in June

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dents stood beside Hwy 3 in Midway protesting

the impact of job action being taken by their teachers.

***After an exten-

sive review, dep-uty chief forester

Diane Nicholls an-nounced that the al-

lowable annual cut for the Boundary Timber Supply Area (TSA) will remain at 700,000 cu-bic metres for 10 years.

Things have changed in five years since 2009 when the Village of Midway adopted their eco-

nomic development plan and the council felt it was time to give it a tune up.

After all, the name Vaagen didn’t appear anywhere in the ear-lier plan; and the goal of building a highway rest stop had been dropped when the full costs became known.

So they called in Richard Toperczer, regional manager of regional economic operations at the Ver-

non office of the Ministry of Jobs, Tourism and Skill Training and Responsible for Labour.

***Midway council has given the

go ahead to The Spot gas station to purchase a 7.6 metre strip of village property between the northern edge of Palmer-ston between Florence and Chamblet. The purchase of the property would al-low the pump islands to be moved to the south to pro-vide better access on the north side of the pumps.

***Marshall Lake was

stocked with fish on June 1 and a dock should be in-stalled by the end of June.

***Midway knows Nicole

Ferrier as a very talented photographer, but since May 15 she’s been wearing a different hat. That was when she officially began her new job as director at the library.

***The Midway arena was

filled with proud par-ents and anxious grads as Boundary Central Senior Secondary celebrated its 44th commencement cer-emony last Saturday. There were 27 graduates in the Class of 2014.

***Teachers go on full

strike.***

Westbridge Thrift Shop is celebrating its 10 year-anniversary.

***School trustees approved

a GSM (gender sexual mi-nority) policy for the dis-trict.

***

Midway adopted a bylaw to establish a fire department and to regulate fire protection, suppres-sion and prevention that replaces Bylaw #381.

This bylaw is needed to pro-vide language accommodating the rural fire protection service soon to be offered by the vil-lage. Property owners in Kettle Valley and Rock Creek will have the opportunity to contract fire pro-tection response beginning July 1.

***RCMP say

there has been a rash of break and enters and thefts. A number of vehi-cles were recently broken into at the Vaagen Mill park-ing lot.

***C o m m a n d

of the Midway RCMP detach-ment has been taken over by Cpl. Judson E.T. Mayes, who is re-placing Cpl. Kevin Christensen.

JuneAbout 25 BCSS students joined

others across the province in a protest spread via social media on Wednesday morning. Local stu-

JulyThe school year

ended with no contract in place for the teachers union and picket lines in front of all

of the schools in the district.***

Earl Lehmann returned from his nine-week trip to the Philip-pines in early April. It was his sec-ond trip in as many years to help the people, especially the children, on the island of Samara.

***Canada Day celebrations

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stretch ed across the West Boundary beginning with a party in Rock Creek and ending with fire-works sponsored by the Greenwood Board of Trade in Lions Park at dark.

***The Greenwood Im-

provement Society (TGIS) has received a $10,000 seed fund-ing grant from the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corpora-tion (CMHC) to support a feasi-bility study to determine the need for a senior housing facility in Greenwood.

***George Longden of the Phoenix

Foundation presented the Mid-way Community Association a cheque for $4,000. The money will be used to purchase eight theatre lighting fixtures for use by Mid-way and Beyond Little Theatre.

Heritage Credit Union gave another $4,700,

the first of three annual instal-ments toward the purchase of a portable stage system for the

theatre that will be located in the

Midway Community Hall.

***Canada’s Smallest City (aka

Greenwood) celebrated its 117th birthday with Founder’s Day 2014.

***The newly opened Rock Creek

Visitor Centre offers tourists an-other opportunity to discover what the Boundary has to offer them.

***Greenwood council approved

a payment of $11,203.73 to Young Anderson Barristers. “Legal costs”

were given as the reason for the cheque. In May when the budget for the year was being developed budget line items across the board were held steady or cut as much as possible, with one notable excep-tion. The amount set aside for le-gal fees increased from $3,653 to $20,000. When asked at the time why that item was going up so dra-matically, Kettle replied, “That is something we can’t tell you about.”

***The Midway Partnership Fund

handed out grants totalling more than $6,000 for projects benefiting the people of Midway and area. Funding went to the new picnic table at the library, reconditioning of the caboose at the museum, an upgrade to the washroom facili-ties at the curling club, and to help provide equipment for the Mid-way and Beyond Little Theatre.

***The 15th annual Kettle River

Family Fun Day happened in Midway’s Riverfront Park. There are new horseshoes tournament champions in 2014. Southpaw Tom Sheldon and his partner Dave Sherbinin took first; finish-ing second were Dick Dunsdon and Ken Essery.

***G-Force Real Estate Inc. of

Vancouver, B.C. has been appoint-ed marketing agent under a fore-closure action to sell most of the assets of Mount Baldy Ski Corpo-ration. They state the primary ob-jective is to find a buyer who will be able to complete an acquisition in time to operate the resort for the upcoming 2014-15 ski season.

***An estimated 200 BCSS alumni,

their spouses and family mustered for dinner on Saturday night as the BCSS 45-year reunion brought many old friends together in Mid-way’s James G. McMynn Park for

the first time in decades. ***

The Kettle River Lions Club provided funding to Parkview Manor to purchase two evac chairs valued at over $3,500.

AugustThe second annual Boundary

Bash Social 10s Rugby Tourna-ment was bigger by one team this year than last; Jewel Lake resident Oliver Glaser invited his Van-couver club, the East Vancouver Scribes, and a few other teams to Greenwood for some rugby and socializing. Three other men’s teams on the pitch were the Nel-son Grizzlies, Trail Colonials and Grand Forks Wanderers. One team of women came this year.

***A rapid response by the Mid-

way Volunteer Fire Department last Thursday morning quickly

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Through the lens

Mountie for a Day

On parade

Lions step up

That’s entertainment

Together again

All the way to City HallThe ride-along RCMP Mounties this year were Portia Grandmaison (left), Riley Condon, Faith Zitko, and Robert McLaren.

The Boundary C 4-H Club float in the Rock Creek Canada Day parade.

Fire protection in Kettle Valley under contract from the Village of Midway is aided by $2,000 donation from Kettle River Lions Club.

The second annual Ponderosa Arts and Music Festival entertained many at the Rock Creek fairgrounds.

BCSS alumni left a note on the blackboard to a favourite teacher when they toured the school during the reunion in July.

A frustrated Greenwood resident (now mayor, Ed Smith) decided that the only way to get the city’s attention about the appearance of the former demolition derby site was to start moving the mess to City Hall.

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Ron Roylanceaka Butch

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ber 12, 2014 at the age of 85. Pre-deceased by his parents, Jack

& Mildred and his “little” sister Jean, he leaves behind his partner and much-loved wife of 60 years, Audrey, daughters Trish (Henry Batynski), Rhonda (Gavin Smart), Diane (Marcus Eyre), grand-children Cameron, Rowan, Silken, Gareth & Findlay and his buddy Spike along with his honorary daugh-ters Cindy Liebel & Susan Rutherford and long time treasured friends and loved ones.

An avid vintage car buff, fi sherman, outdoorsman and huckleberry picker, he will be missed but his presence will live on in all of us particularly when we are at his beloved Jewel Lake. Please remember him as a man who lived well, loved unconditionally and laughed often.

A celebration of an extraordinary life will be held in 2015.

knocked down a grass fire beside the Trans Canada Trail near the Kettle Riv-er Museum.

***The Midway Com-

munity Association hosted the second an-nual Picnic in the Park for everyone in the community and surrounding areas at James G. McMynn Park.

Teachers in the West Boundary re-

turned to the picket line on Tuesday morning outside of Greenwood Ele-mentary School. The teachers, who have been without a contract since June 2013, walked off the job two weeks before the end of the school year last June. School District 51 (Boundary) Board of Educa-tion issued a press release acknowledg-ing the impact the current labour dis-pute is having on students and warning parents that school opening is in jeop-ardy unless a deal is reached by Sept. 2.

***A book launch and author signing

was held at the Greenwood Museum for former Greenwood resident Chuck Tasaka’s latest—and he says last—book telling the stories of the Boundary and its families. Tasaka was available to sign a copy of the new book My Hometown, My Furusato: Family History of Green-wood-Midway.

SeptemberB.C. teachers and the province were

unable to reach agreement on a contract so parents had to find other options for their children at the start of the school year.

Key issues in the contract dispute are wages, class composition and class size.

*** Midway council continues to con-

sider how to fill the fire chiefs’ position when Walter Osellame retires.

***Owners of The Spot Gas Bar have

accepted the village’s price for the land they are purchasing along Palmerston Avenue. The price was determined by an independent assessment and the sale will proceed in October.

Purchase of the land will allow the gas station to relocate their gas pumps to a better location further away from Hwy 3.

***Council approved a proposal by

School District 51 (Boundary) to create a learning circle in Entwined Tree Park. The village had to commit to keeping it in the park and to continue to maintain the park.

***The grave of John Jarrett, a man

feared by many in the days of yesteryear, was the scene of a service and marker dedication. Jarrett rode with the James/Younger gang in his early years, died at Sisters Hospital in Greenwood in 1906 and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery.

***At the regular meeting of Greenwood

Council on Sept. 8, council agreed to permanently close the entrance to North Government on Hwy 3 as recommend-ed by Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure.

***Greenwood council voted to ask the

Regional District of Kootenay Bound-

ary planning department to put the Greenwood Official Commu-

nity Plan on their 2015-2016 work schedules.

According to Mayor Nipper Kettle the OCP re-view is long overdue since they are meant to be a re-

viewed every 10 years and the last one for the city was

signed in December 1996.***

The new TELUS cell tower on the Bugeaud property just east of Ingram Bridge went live last week.

***Midway RCMP responded to a com-

plaint of a bear in Midway at approxi-mately 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 9, when

a male youth was riding his bike and feared for his life when an adult sized bear walked towards him.

***The City of Greenwood announced

that Dr. Michael Slatnik will be start-ing his private practice at the Green-wood Medical Clinic in December 2014.

***John and Jan Kohlhauser, who

moved to the Boundary six years ago from Tumbler Ridge, were acknowl-edged for their many hours of service to the library and museum by Midway mayor Randy Kappes in a Volunteer of the Year Ceremony.

***The annual Greenwood pumpkin

weigh-in was won by Ray and Karen Renaud with their 62 kg (137 pound) entry.

***The 69th annual Rock

Creek and Boundary Fall Fair was special because it was also the 100th birthday celebration of 4-H in British Columbia. The Boundary has been par-ticipating in 4-H for 68 years.

***A tentative deal has been

struck between the BC Teach-ers’ Federation and the gov-ernment in the teachers’ strike. The start of the school year was two weeks behind schedule.

***The Boundary Country

Regional Chamber of Com-merce was awarded the 2014 Communications Award for Chambers with under-200 members by the British Co-

A farewell tea was held for Dr. Henry Ajaero in the Rock Creek Health Clinic, hosted by the Rock Creek Medical Society and the Rock Creek Seniors Association. Ajae-ro is taking over an established practice in North Delta.

lumbia Chamber Executives organiza-tion. Black Press sponsored the award.

***Grant & Holley Harfman won the

2014 Dave and Cathy Matthews trophy after beating out the competition in the Rock Creek Fall Fair Lamb Carcass Class.

Finishing first this year in the beef carcass class was first-time participant Ben Macfarlane. Macfarlane is a mem-ber of Boundary C 4-H with a ranch horse project.

***The Boundary Creek Times an-

nounced that their office has returned to the West Boundary. We are now lo-cated at 263 South Copper St. in Green-wood.

OctoberThe Village of Midway and City of

Greenwood were formerly awarded a community forest by Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations Min-ister Steve Thomson at the Union of British Columbia Municipalities annual convention. The West Boundary Com-munity Forest agreement will have an allowable annual cut of 23,000 cubic metres per year and an initial term of 25 years.

***The City of Greenwood is getting a

$10,000 infrastructure-planning grant that will pay for a wastewater utility 20-year financial plan; a key step in get-

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ting the sewer plant up-graded.

***Village coun-

cil turned down a second request from The Bridge for a property tax exemption. The Bridge is a charita-ble organization based out of the old Midway Church.

***Councillor Marguerite Rot-

vold was recognized at the 2014 UBCM convention for her 25 years of service as a local elected official.

***Thanks to the Phoenix Foun-

dation, the Boundary Theatre Group and the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary, the Rock Creek Health Centre Park now boasts four outdoor exercise sta-tions.

***The 2014 BC Seniors Games

had three competitors from the West Boundary. Les Jackman of Rock Creek took silver in the Men’s 70-74 Division A Golf with a score of 148. His wife, Donna, won a bronze Women’s 70-74 5,000 m Power Walk with a time of 45:16:48. She also placed 4th in the 10 km Power Walk finishing in 1:34:19.

Midway’s Gladys Brown brings home silver in the Wom-en’s 75-79 Triple Jump with a dis-tance of 2.7 m.

***

A year in the making, the 2014 Vital Signs report

on the Boundary was released. The com-munity check-up measures the vitality of the area communi-ties, identifies signifi-cant trends, and sup-

ports action on issues that are critical to quality

of life. This report updates one done in 2009.

***The City of Greenwood is over

budget on its legal account by about $10,000.

***New minimum training stan-

dards for firefighters have come down from the Office of the Fire Commissioner. Titles The Play-book, the new standards will required records be kept of fire-fighter’s training.

***Midway RCMP report that in

the early morning hours on Fri-day, Oct. 17 they received a com-plaint of a man ramming his car into his father’s car while driving from Rock Creek to Midway. Po-lice arrested one man in Green-wood later that morning.

In a separate incident, po-lice responded to a call about a forcible confinement at a legal marijuana grow operation in the Bridesville area.

***Boundary resident Heather

Hollingsworth has scored anoth-er triumph in the art world. Her

piece “A Break in the Clouds” won Best Landscape at the Annu-al International Representational Show (AIRS) exhibition held at Granville Island in Vancouver.

NovemberThe Greenwood Improvement

Society (TGIS) has obtained funding from Canada Mort-gage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) to conduct a feasibil-ity study regarding building a se-niors’ housing complex in Green-wood.

***Unanticipated cost overruns

on the McArthur Centre kitchen renovation project has forced the Greenwood Community Asso-ciation to ask the city for help in paying for the work.

As originally envisioned the project was to replace applianc-es and install a dishwasher for a cost of $63,000. After the build-ing inspector had reviewed the plans the cost had increased to $70,000. Then the health inspec-tor added more requirements and as work went forward electrical and plumbing issues continued to add to the costs.

The project brings the heritage building into compliance with health regulations.

CAO Robin Dalziel said that today the project has a revised budget $115,000. The commu-nity association received a grant for $25,000, $8,600 in donations and put in $53,000 of their own

toward the project.Dalziel explained that, as

landlord for the building, the city is liable for $20,000 in maintenance and repairs. But a shortfall of $8,400 re-mained. The city contrib-uted an additional $7,500, for a total of $27,500 com-ing from the Gas Tax fund account.

***A Job Creation Project in

Greenwood is seeing work done at the A-frame and at O’Hari Park.

***On Nov. 4, Midway

RCMP were alerted to a call in Greenwood of a male go-ing through unlocked ve-hicles at dusk, described as a lone male, wearing a dark hoodie.

***The first post-fair meet-

ing of the Rock Creek and Boundary Fair Association heard that income for the 2014 weekend was up and expenses were down com-pared to 2013.

Attendance was up too, according to the wrist band/day pass count. In 2013 there was 8,773 given out, and in 2014 there were 9,519. Sims said that Sat-urday was busier this year than last, but Sunday was not.

***The results of the 2014

local government elections

bring a new director for Area E, a new mayor for Greenwood and the status quo in Midway.

Vicki Gee has taken the Area E regional director seat from Bill Baird, a seat he has held for the past 22 years.

Richard Dunsdon with 167 votes, followed by Darrin Metcalf 148, Gary Schierbeck 139, and Marguerite Rotvold 126. Martin Fromme received 114 votes and Earl Lehmann 71. Voter turnout in Midway was pegged at 42 per cent.

Greenwood Mayor Nipper Kettle was replaced by first-time candidate Ed Smith and rookie candidate Nola Tutti took the most votes in the five-candidate race to fill the four seats at the table. With 290 votes, Tutti fin-ished far ahead of the three in-cumbents on the ballot who were all re-elected: Lee Cudworth 239, Colleen Lang 214 and Darla Ashton 213. First-time candidate Christopher Yates came in very close with 210 votes.

West Boundary school trust-ees were acclaimed. Mark Dany-luk is replacing Vicki Gee and Cathy Riddle and Rose Zitko have returned for another term.

***The West Boundary Branch

of the Heritage Credit Union has made a donation of $2,500 to the Greenwood Community Asso-ciation for their kitchen renova-tion project at McArthur Centre.

***Council approved an appli-

cation by Lawrence Morgan of Grand Forks to use Barbara Di-ane Colin Memorial Ball Park on Aug. 15, 2015 for a car show.

***A fire at a trailer on North

Kimberley Avenue in Green-wood caused severe damage and forced a family out of their home. Greenwood Volunteer Fire De-partment Chief Roy Terashita said the call came in around 2:30 on Tuesday, Nov. 18.

***Effective Nov. 17 a voluntary

registration system for off-road vehicles is in place in British Co-lumbia. The program does not become mandatory until June 1, 2015.

However, the early registra-tion will provide plenty of notice and allow for a smooth transi-tion to the new system.

DecemberMidway and Beyond Little

Theatre produced its first play in the Midway Community Hall. All That Glisters played over two nights to sell out crowds.

***The Fire Services Exemplary

Service Medal was awarded to Gordon Kamigochi in recogni-tion of his 20 years of “loyal and exemplary service to the public security of Canada” with the Mid-way Volunteer Fire Department.

***The Royal Canadian Legion

Branch 155 (Greenwood) has distributed the proceeds from their weekly meat draw to the community.

A cheque for $1,000 was giv-en to the Agnes Srahulek Trust Fund.

A cheque for $500 went to the Greenwood Food Bank that op-erates out of Evangel Chapel.

The Greenwood Seniors Community Christmas Dinner received a cheque for $250. The residents of Parkview Manor were given $500.

***The small, unincorporated

township of Bridesville is seeth-ing with anger and frustration. A significant uptick in police calls to attend the town site prompted the RCMP to call a public meet-ing in the community hall. There have been 53 calls to Bridesville so far this year and at least six ar-rests. The mid-day public meet-ing on Nov. 4 brought out over 50 people.

***Service fees for water, sewer

and garbage collection in Green-wood will be going up by four per cent in 2015. The increase will equal 6¢ per day.

***A new service has started in

the Boundary that will help di-rect those in need of legal advice to the information they need. Legal services outreach worker Barry Pratt will be funded four days per month under a contract with the Legal Services Society (LSS) program called the Com-munity Partners Program.

***“The Community Forest

Board met to give final approval of the community forest man-agement agreement with Vaagen Fibre Canada ULC.

Deadwood Junction always provides a great first impression to the traveling public.