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School board trustees are considering plans that could see the closure of several elementary schools and the re-organization of others to deal with declining student en-rolment and budget pressures.

The long-term facility plan makes a number of recommendations for the 2015 school year including the closure of Silver Creek Elementary for September 2015 and recon� guring the grade levels at Ranchero Elementary, Parkview Elementary in Si-camous, Falkland Elementary and North Shuswap Elementary.

The 10-year plan focuses on dealing with the budget impacts and meeting the needs of

5,500 students, down from 8,000 a decade ago.

“We have to take a look at what this means,” says board chair Bobbi Johnson. “We have half-empty schools.”

The school board will not be making an immediate decision on the recommen-dations at, but instead will be deciding whether to initiate the 60-day commu-nity consultation process on the proposed changes.

“Nothing will be decided right away, but we have to put these options out there as part of the process. We might decide to do some, we might decide not to do any. I can’t say what we will do, but we have to do something with all these empty spaces,” says Johnson.

Public meetings will be held in each of the affected areas to allow for community input.

A � nal decision on any school closures and recon� gurations will take place at the board meeting in May.

The decision on whether to proceed with the consultation process on the rec-ommended changes was made at Tuesday evening’s school board meeting which took place after the News’ press deadline.

The � ve options being considered for the 2015 school year include:

• Convert Parkview Elementary in Si-camous from a K-7 to K-5 school, close a “signi� cant portion of Parkview Elementa-ry and create a Grade 6-8, “middle school within a school” program using existing space at Eagle River Secondary;

• The closure of Silver Creek Elemen-tary. The report indicates the school district will review redistributing the Silver Creek elementary students to either Hillcrest or

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NEWSVol. 60 No. 10 Sicamous, B.C., • 1.25 (GST included) • www.eaglevalleynews.com

District looking into curbside

waste collectionPage 2

Eagles welcome new head coach

Ty DavidsonPage 8

Fin detail: Potter Barry Jones helps Parkview Elementary student Scott Rokosh with the finishing touches on his clay fish during the School District #83 Art Fair, held Wednesday at the Mall at Piccadilly in Salmon Arm.Photo by Lachlan Labere

School board to review proposed changes/closures By Tracy HughesEagle Valley News

Sicamous: Plan suggests partial closure at Parkview, middle-school model for Eagle River.

See Parkview closure on page 2

Public meetings will be held in each of

Nothing will be decided right away… I can’t say what we will do, but we do have to do something with all these empty spaces.

Bobbi JohnsonSD#83 School board chair

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South Broadview Elementary, while the middle school-aged students would attend Shus-wap Middle School;

• Convert Ranchero El-ementary from a K-7 to a K-5 school and transfer the Grade 6 and 7 students to Shuswap Middle School;

• Convert North Shuswap Elementary from K-7 to K-8 school;

• Convert Falkland Elemen-tary from K-7 to K-8 school.

The most dramatic change proposed is the closure of Sil-ver Creek Elementary, which currently has 36 students, and whose enrolment over the next few years is projected to be as low as 22 students. In a report

presented to the board at the last meeting, staff indicated closing the school would save the school district $375,000 per year.

Many parents in the area are opposed to the closure, with the school’s Parent Ad-visory Committee supportive of a recent initiative to convert the school to a Montessori model. In a letter the board, they obtained 20 con� rmed intentions from Salmon Arm parents to register in such a program at Silver Creek, which would boost the current enrolment level.

Another suggestion from the PAC was to possibly con-vert Silver Creek into a K-8 school.

In addition, the facilities re-

port makes a number of other recommendations for the next 10 years, however, the board will be looking at deferring any speci� c community con-sultation on those points until some point in the future.

These deferred motions have signi� cant long-term impacts on the structure of education in the district and include:

• Consideration of amal-gamating all Grade 9 to 12 students at the Sullivan cam-pus within � ve to 10 years;

• Consideration of convert-ing Eagle River Secondary to a K-12 school and closing Parkview Elementary within an additional two years;

• Consideration of clos-ing Len Wood Middle School

and converting Pleasant Val-ley Secondary to a Grade 6-12 school for September 2017;

• Consideration of clos-ing Grindrod Elementary and converting M.V. Beattie in Enderby to a K-5 school and A.L. Fortune Secondary to a Grade 6-12 “middle school within a secondary school” for September 2016. Grindrod Elementary students would be redirected to M.V. Beattie or Ranchero Elementary.

While the above four rec-ommendations are part of the report, the motion indicates the school board will set them aside for the time being, and will only begin consultation on the recommendations that involve changes for the Sep-tember 2015 school year.

Parkview closure part of long-term considerationsContinued from front

Council looking into curbside programThe District of Si-

camous is once again looking into the option of curbside garbage and recycling collection.

In January, munici-pal council heard from Columbia Shuswap Regional District op-erations manager Darcy Mooney and environ-mental service leader Ben Van Nostrand re-garding recycling in the region.

During that presen-tation, council raised concerns with the cur-rent set up for the col-lection of recyclables on Main Street, with Mayor Terry Rysz stat-ing he would like to see the bins removed with-out question. This led to discussion about a past effort to bring a curbside

garbage and recyclable collection program to the community, why it was turned down, and what’s transpired since, including the inception of Multi-Materials B.C., which has taken over the collection of recy-clables, resulting in the cost of related programs being shifted from the taxpayer to industry.

At its Feb. 25, meet-ing, council received a letter from resident Amy Boutwell. In it, she asks if the district con-siders a curbside pro-gram, it should look at a per-bag fee structure, as opposed to a weekly/monthly rate.

“Sicamous has many seasonal residents. There are also may sin-gle-person households who do not require weekly collections,” writes Boutwell. “A

weekly/monthly collec-tion fee might be a hard-ship to those on � xed in-comes who do not need regular pick-ups; but, would be willing to pay

for services rendered.” Coun. Jeff Mallmes,

who leads the public works portfolio, said he’s begun looking into a curbside program for Sicamous for a few rea-sons, one of them being the Main Street bins, where illegal dumping is known to occur.

Mallmes notes MMBC provides a re-fund to the City of Salm-on Arm for overseeing a curbside program. That program includes the

collection of one bag of garbage a week (tags are available for additional bags at $2 a piece), and unlimited recyclables every second week.

“I haven’t got the numbers yet. I’m trying to set up a meeting with them and the company that’s doing the work.

But early indications are that, let’s just say you pay a dollar a week to have your garbage bag picked up, and it’s one bag…,” said Mallmes, later explaining a part-nership with Salmon Arm could bene� t both communities and the contractor involved.

“That’s what I’m hoping to accomplish, is getting us garbage pick-up,” stated Mallmes. “The numbers may vary slightly and may get better slightly be-cause the company that’s picking up the garbage in Salmon Arm is working 3.5 days… If they actually picked up Sicamous’ garbage, they’d have a full � ve-day week, which would be to their advantage, Salmon Arm’s advan-tage and our advan-tage.”

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Though still new to the job, Sicamous coun-cillors are working full-speed ahead with their respective portfolios for the betterment of the community.

Councillors’ reports is a standard item on the regular Sicamous coun-cil agenda. Typically, it’s an opportunity for individual councillors to share what they’ve been up to since the last meeting. At its Feb. 25 meeting, however, council took this item to a new level, with each councillor providing lengthy, detailed reports about what they’ve done and are doing, largely in relation to the portfolios they were recently as-signed.

First up was Coun. Todd Kyllo, who leads the economic develop-ment portfolio. Kyllo said he had an opportu-nity to meet with a lo-cal cat skiing operation, K3 Cat Ski. He said the company employs 23 people, and brings about 1,000 skiers to the area annually.

“It was just good to see a small com-pany like that out of Sicamous can create their own ski line,” said Kyllo. “I think their tenure is 30,000 acres, so it’s a pretty big area. They’re only utilizing a certain percentage of that for sure. It was ac-tually good seeing there are some other employ-ment factors that I don’t think we think about here.”

Next up was Coun. Janna Simons, who leads the school/educa-tion portfolio. Simons

said she attended the re-cent district-organized cooking class, adding, “Hopefully in the future we can continue with the cooking classes without a recreation di-rector.”

She also commented on attending the Feb. 17 inter-agency meeting, and how her eyes were opened to the challeng-es of applying for social assistance. She noted Parkview Elementary is compiling a cookbook to fundraise for play-ground equipment, and the school board meets on March 10 to discuss potential school clo-sures.

Coun. Gord Bush-ell, who leads the parks and recreation portfolio, said he, Mayor Terry Rysz and Coun. Mal-colm Makayev attended a recent meeting with the Splatsin regarding the ongoing effort to es-tablish a North Okana-gan Rail Trail.

“It was a really mo-mentous meeting that they had there, and we’re working to put together a team to ac-tually acquire the rail trail,” said Bushell, who is also working with on the Regional Shuswap Trail Strategy to link communities via trail systems.

In addition, Bushell said he and Coun. Jeff Mallmes met recently with Jake Dewitt re-garding three upcoming softball tournaments.

“One of them is May 22 to 24, which is the Sicamous Ladies open, 12 to 16 teams; June 19 to 21, there’s the Okan-agan Valley Champion-ships, that’s 19 and un-der age, 16 girl teams;

and Aug. 1-3, there’s men’s provincial cham-pionships, which is 12 to 16 teams,” said Bush-ell. “So we have some work to do to our ball diamonds, and we’re looking forward to hosting that and helping Jake out.”

Makayev, who leads

the transportation and infrastructure portfolio, commented on a recent meeting he had with Ministry of Transporta-tion and Infrastructure staff, who came to town to discuss proposed changes to the Trans-Canada Highway/High-way 97A intersection.

“They’re getting close to having a public consultation with our community, so hope-fully that will be in the near future…,” said Makayev, later adding he’s also been involved in in-camera meetings with MOTI regarding the Bruhn Bridge.

As lead on the health care and seniors port-folios, Makayev also attended a recent meet-ing in Blind Bay on the recruitment of doctors. He noted it went well, and council has com-mitted money in the budget.

Tourism portfolio lead, Coun. Colleen Anderson, spoke of her attendance at the recent Sicamous and District Chamber of Commerce AGM, and took a mo-ment to congratulate the new board president and directors in the au-dience. She also attend-ed a Shuswap Tourism workshop, and spoke to the important role the houseboat industry plays in the region’s economy, as well as snowmobiling.

“We have bragging rights to sledding in the morning and boating in the afternoon,” said Anderson. “Not a lot of locations have that ability and we need to share that. We need to start being really proud of what we have here.”

Mallmes, who leads portfolios for water-front and public works, said he continues to in-vestigate the possibility of Sicamous acquiring a head lease, that could potentially give the district control over its marina frontage and the ability to collect head lease funds. He stressed proceeding on this will depend on revenue po-tential.

As the district’s

representative on the Okanagan Regional Li-brary board, Mallmes also reported on his attendance at a recent ORL meeting, and the cuts the board is under-taking at local library branches.

“A place like Salm-on Arm, they got cut $307,000 of their fund-ing because they were being over-serviced. Sicamous was cut by $3,000,” said Mallmes. “I did ask if they con-sidered library usage at all in their formula, and that wasn’t really a cal-culation that they were using.”

Having also attend-

ed the meetings with MOTI staff, Mallmes took a moment to praise Makayev.

“He’s the guy that’s bringing this stuff to this town and these people respect him and they like to work with him…,” sad Mallmes. “They’re very forth-coming with him, they’re very open, it was a very interesting meeting with them.”

Before going into the mayor’s report,

Rysz took a moment to share some praise of his own.

“As you can see, by the reports from our councillors, with their portfolios in hand, the direction that this group is going and how they’re going to bene� t this community,” said Rysz. “I’m thoroughly thrilled with the reports and support and the energy and effort that they’re putting into all the portfolios….”

Highway improvements, rail trail among portfolio pursuitsBy Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

Focus: Council reports provide opportunity for insight on new district portfolio responsibilities.

opened to the challeng-es of applying for social assistance. She noted Parkview Elementary is compiling a cookbook to fundraise for play-ground equipment, and the school board meets on March 10 to discuss potential school clo-

Coun. Gord Bush-ell, who leads the parks and recreation portfolio, said he, Mayor Terry Rysz and Coun. Mal-colm Makayev attended a recent meeting with the Splatsin regarding the ongoing effort to es-

We have bragging rights to sledding in the morning and boating in the afternoon. Not a lot of locations have that ability and we need to share that.Colleen Anderson

Councillor


VICTORIA – B.C.’s new seniors’ advocate has issued her second report, and the media mostly ig-nored it.

When this new office was promised by a cam-paigning Premier Christy Clark two years ago, I sug-gested B.C. already has 85 seniors’ advocates. They’re called MLAs, and inquiries go to their local offices.

Much to the chagrin of the opposition, Seniors’ Advocate Isobel Macken-zie’s mandate is not to pur-sue individual cases, and so she won’t be serving up a fresh assortment of hor-ror stories to embarrass the government.

Instead, it is to look for “systemic challenges” and recommend ways to deal with them. The latest re-port is based on a survey of more than 500 seniors from around the province, and the key finding was not what she expected.

“We were surprised to learn of the lack of aware-ness among seniors, partic-ularly low-income seniors, of government programs and the subsidies available to assist them,” Mackenzie said.

The survey found that 60 per cent of seniors living on $30,000 or less annual income didn’t know they are eligible for discounts on Medical Services Plan premiums. For income less than $22,000, the en-tire $864 cost of individual MSP premiums is waived.

Other frequently over-looked programs are a monthly rent subsidy called Shelter Aid for Elderly Renters (SAFER), grants for disability modifications called Home Adaptations for Independence, drug cost assistance called Fair Pharmacare, property tax deferment and the federal Guaranteed Income Sup-plement program. Those older than 75 with income of less than $30,000 re-ported the lowest aware-

ness of assistance designed specifically for them. But you don’t get these benefits unless you apply and show that your income qualifies.

The survey also found the biggest fear of low-income seniors is that they won’t be able to afford to stay in their homes. See home adaptation, property tax and rent subsidy pro-grams above.

Awareness and usage of the SAFER program was lowest in the north and highest in urban areas, per-haps not surprising since the B.C. government exists more in theory than in fact in many remote places.

So what should the government do about this? Well, it could advertise these programs. The gov-ernment does lots of ad-vertising, but not about old news like the SAFER pro-gram, which dates back to the 1970s.

Clark’s government did a whack of advertising in the election year, 2013. Much of it was about the

B.C. Jobs Plan. Last year, the government’s big ad campaign was around the teachers’ strike. Education Minister Peter Fassbender is still bragging about the response rate for $40-a-day parental strike pay, which was snapped up by almost 100 per cent of eligible parents. This demonstrates the government can indeed give away money with great efficiency, just by tell-ing people how to get it.

The NDP’s version of seniors’ advocacy is to find the most tragic problems from complaints coming into constituency offices, and use those to ambush the government. A popular choice is an elderly couple who have to be separated because their medical needs are too different to keep them in the same fa-cility. TV news loves that one. People cry on camera and denounce politicians for being heartless.

Maybe this seniors’ ad-vocate wasn’t such a bad idea after all.

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School districts forced to cut

OPINION

School trustees across B.C. must be scratch-ing their heads at their premier’s apparent lack of awareness about what’s going on

in their schools and administration offices.Christy Clark has suggested school boards grab

a step-ladder and start picking some “low-hanging fruit,” to the tune of nearly $54 million over the next two years from district administrative costs.

Later, Education Minister Peter Fassbender clarified that districts must find efficiencies to get administrative costs down to six per cent, where they were 10 years ago, which requires 0.5 per cent savings this year and one per cent the year after.

While there is a concern that trimming adminis-trative costs will eat up valuable dollars that must go to the classroom, the province should lead the way by showing where this cost-cutting should be made.

BC School Trustees’ Association president Te-resa Rezansoff has been quoted as saying Clark’s comments ignore the fact that school districts are already working together to save money and have been doing so for years.

Among the ideas being touted is converting school board meetings to a paperless model and moving professional development workshops outside school hours, thereby saving in substitute teaching costs.

Bulk buying, sharing services — many of these measures have been tried with more or less success, depending on the district and the cir-cumstances. One area that has been discussed is the high cost of legal services. CUPE has argued the district could do more to cut arbitration costs but clamping down on legal charges has been difficult given the large number of Freedom of Information requests, and districts are also pay-ing higher legal fees to resolve student-related issues.

Everyone hates waste, but instead of mak-ing off-the-cuff comments, would the premier please show school boards exactly where the hidden cache of cash is located?

– Black Press

Seniors not tapping into programsBy Tom FletcherNews Columnist


The Columbia Shuswap Regional District (CSRD) is looking for volunteers in Electoral Area ‘E’, interested in joining their local Advisory Planning Commission (APC).

APC members work together in making recommendations to the CSRD Board and Staff on planning and land use related matters (community planning, zoning bylaw amendments, Agricultural Land Reserve applica-tions, Development Variance Permits etc.) within the Electoral Area. The APC typically meets once a month, or less, depending on the number of referrals they receive.

Successful candidates will be appointed to the APC for a four term be-ginning in May 2015, with the opportunity to apply for successive terms. Training will be provided and all expenses incurred by members will be reimbursed.

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What kind of mes-sage are we sending to our kids?

B.C. Premier Chris-ty Clark posed this question when she be-rated the parents whose 11-year-old children were allowed to join in the Kinder Morgan pipeline protests at Burnaby Mountain.

In November, Kate Fink-Jensen, friend Naomi Cech and mom Kim Fink-Jensen were arrested for crossing the police barrier es-tablished through a court injunction for the bene� t of Kinder Morgan. The women were released soon af-ter without charges. In fact, the BC Supreme Court threw out all initial civil contempt charges because the injunction granted to Kinder Morgan was based on incorrect GPS

data provided by the company. While this didn’t speak well for Kinder Morgan, Clark chose to shame Kate and Naomi’s parents instead.

“Teaching your kids that it’s OK for them to break the law when they’re 11 years old isn’t OK,” she com-mented.

While the girls’ par-ents did not comment on the social legitima-cy of the controversial law utilized by Kinder Morgan, they did take offence with the pre-mier’s criticism.

Kim said her daugh-ter had her own reasons to oppose the pipeline proposed to go though their community, and her daughter’s pres-ence at the protest fol-lowed thoughtful con-sideration at home.

“Finally she said, ‘Mom, I’m not old enough to vote and people don’t listen to kids. The strongest statement I can make is crossing that line,’” Kim told the media, adding she � nally re-lented on the grounds that she would accom-pany her daughter to ensure her safety.

Kim did take a re-turn shot at the pre-

mier’s parenting skills, however, referring to the incident in which the premier ran a red light while driving her son, Hamish, to his goalie clinic.

There’s more to this story, though. First off, Vancouver Sun re-porter Jonathan Fowlie

was also in the vehicle. Secondly, the deci-sion to run the early-morning red light was premeditated. Hamish challenged his mother to go through the light, to which she replied, “I might. Don’t test me.”

As the goading continued, Clark re-plied, “Would you go through? You know you shouldn’t because that would be breaking the law.”

With the car now

passing beneath the red, Hamish replied, “You always do that.”

What kind of mes-sage does that send to our kids?

Well, here’s another one from the premier: teenagers are lazy.

Speaking at a recent BC Liberal fundraiser, Clark apparently threw her 13-year-old son under the party bus for cheap laughs and po-litical points.

“My son is 13, and when you look at a 13-year-old, a teenager, generally. I don’t know about you, but the � rst thing that comes to my mind is lazy,” said Clark, who, ultimately, was setting up for a BC NDP take-down.

“When your son is 31 years old and he’s still sitting on the couch and he’s asking you to clean up after him and he doesn’t want to get up and do anything, and he doesn’t have any ambition for the future… he is no lon-ger a teenager. He’s a New Democrat.”

Though I’m not yet the parent of a teen-ager, the generaliza-tion that teenagers are “lazy” doesn’t sit well with me. It’s tactless stereotyping of a demo-

graphic already dealing with a lot of pressure and change, both so-cially and physiologi-cally. That said, I’ve chatted with and pho-tographed many kids/young adults in that age range from Parkview Elementary and Eagle River Secondary who have bowled me over with their energy, abil-ity, heart, initiative and general awesomeness.

The message I get from the Fink-Jensens, the Cechs, and all the amazing youth I’ve had the pleasure to meet/write about in my ca-reer is maybe it’s time to lower the legal vot-ing age in B.C.

I’d be interested to see how Clark’s shtick goes over with an audi-ence of “lazy” 16-year-old voters.

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LACHLAN LABERE

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While the girls’ par-ents did not comment on the social legitima-cy of the controversial law utilized by Kinder Morgan, they did take offence with the pre-

Kim said her daugh-ter had her own reasons to oppose the pipeline proposed to go though their community, and

…when you look at a 13-year-old, a teenager, generally, I don’t know about you, but the � rst

thing that comes to my mind is lazy.

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The process of ac-quiring hearing aids has opened Juanita Etson’s eyes, and ears, to the Internet’s potential for the provision of medical services to rural com-munities.

It began when Et-son saw a notice with a phone number at the Si-camous Medical Clinic for a free hearing test. While she didn’t think there was anything overly wrong with her hearing, Etson says one of her ears seemed plugged all the time (which she later learned to be an indicator of a hearing issue). So she gave the number a call, and eventually con-nected with NexGen Hearing in Vernon, and owner/registered hear-ing instrument practi-tioner, Bea Jackson.

Etson then learned that Jackson has a space at the clinic where she

interviews people for hearing tests.

“We’re very fortu-nate she’s able to come here and do this and Dr. (Jack) Beech gives her space in his building to use. It’s a good partner-ship I think,” said Etson, who has since acquired hearing aids through NexGen. “It certainly does bring a service to Sicamous that wouldn’t be here otherwise.”

Equally impressive to Etson is the follow-up service Jackson of-fers through the Internet via virtual care soft-ware, Medeo. The pro-gram, Etson explains, allows her to commu-nicate from home with Jackson in Vernon.

“I remember before I changed the batter-ies in my hearing aids, Bea Jackson and I had a conference… she was right there just as clear as can be…,” said Et-son. “Ordinarily, I’d have had to go to Ver-non to see her… In this

case, it was as though she was sitting in front of me and showing me exactly how to do that. Now that’s a really in-teresting thing, isn’t it?”

Jackson says she’s received a fabulous re-sponse from Sicamous,

where seniors aren’t always able to drive long distances to get the medical services they need. Cost, she says, is also a huge factor, not-ing many people put off dealing with hearing loss to more pressing needs.

“They may not deem hearing as important as something else, when

really, one of the � rst things it affects is the memory, and now it’s linked to dementia,” said Jackson. “And so there’s a lot of contrib-uting factors to hearing loss that go untreated, that the general public

isn’t aware of.”Regarding Medeo,

Jackson said she’s been using the program for about a year and a half, and she’s been approached by the Si-camous Seniors Centre to set it up on comput-ers there.

“Juanita is my oldest person who was able to walk through that. She’s

amazing. So it’s a huge support,” said Jackson.

With Dr. Rose-mary Kelsall retiring and no longer serv-ing Sicamous, Etson sees great potential for Medeo in the commu-nity and others dealing with doctor shortages.

“A patient may have to ask about something that does not require a doctor’s visit at all, and you and the doctor can sit there and talk, and the doctor can say, ‘it’s nothing to worry about; things are going to be OK; or, ‘you should come in and see me.’ You can get a lot of that preamble done through this software on your computer…,” said Et-son. “And it would be great for a lot of our seniors who don’t get out that easily, but may have access to a com-puter.”

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Performing the songs of Neil Diamond has put Jason Scott on stages across the na-tion, and soon it will put him on the silver screen.

Scott brings his one-man show, Diamond Forever, back to the Sicamous Legion stage for a dinner/concert on Saturday, March 14.

Last time Scott was in town, he performed to a sold-out audience. The March 14 show will be different in two ways. One, it will be a St. Patrick’s celebra-tion of Neil Diamond. Second will be Scott himself, who is buzz-ing with excitement over his part in an up-coming motion-picture documentary featur-ing a select few who have managed to carve out a career singing the songs of Neil Dia-mond.

The movie is enti-tled, Play Me, after one of Diamond’s songs, and will feature 12 oth-er artists from around the globe.

Scott will be the only Canadian per-former in the film.

“The movie isn’t about who’s the best one, it’s what goes on in our lives to do this, what drives us to do it,” Scott said. “Most of us have got, if not a heartbreaking story, then a motivational sto-ry that has culminated in us finally doing what we are all doing now. What our story line is.”

What separates Scott from the rest is that he doesn’t use a live band.

“I use tracks, I’m a one-man show and I carry an audience for nearly two hours by myself, without a band and no nets,” he said. “So it’s kind of like a high-wire act.”

Scott explained the motion picture and

what he was hoping to accomplish with his act.

“We struck up a deal,” Scott said. “I wanted to have a show that illustrated what I do when I go and per-form on the road.”

Scott said he strictly performs at Royal Ca-nadian Legions now. He used to play venues like the Key City The-atre and Royal Theatre in Nelson, but liked the atmosphere and audi-ence at the Legions.

“I come from a mili-tary family, going back to my dad’s dad, who was in four wars for Canada — he fought from the backs of hors-es to the backs of tanks, and he survived it all. So it’s kind of special to me to be playing the Royal Canadian Le-gions.”

Scott has been a pro-fessional singer since 1979, and was part of the West Coast rock music movement, the one that spawned Lov-erboy, Sweeney Todd and Bryan Adams.

“I know all those guys. We were part of the same family. We were all playing the West Coast. We were all playing in rock-and-roll cover bands.”

He was working with Brian “Too Loud”

MacLeod from Head-pins on a band called You Are One Too.

“We were work-ing on the fourth song of a nine-song album, and Brian up and died of cancer. It just killed him in six months.”

At that point, the U.S. side of the record label dropped all distri-bution.

“That was it,” he said. He looked in the mirror, wondering if he’d just wasted the last two decades of his life and wondering what he was going to do now.

“You can’t start again. You can’t go back to playing bars on Hastings Street,” he said.

He eventually made his way to Cranbrook to help a friend run a

bar.“I had this one expe-

rience with my family where we ended up in a karaoke bar,” he said. His sister asked him to sing Love on the Rocks by Neil Diamond. The bar had the Canucks game on and most people were watching that with the sound off, while people sang.

“I started singing and I got to the sec-ond line and I hear this scream from the crowd. I thought the Canucks had just scored,” he said, but the crowd was looking at him. “It hit me that Neil Diamond was falling out of my face.”

He thought that maybe he wasn’t done with his old life yet. That led to his new ca-

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The Sicamous Ea-gles Junior Hockey Club has announced Ty Davidson will be the team’s new head coach.

Eagles general man-ager Wayne March says Davidson brings with him a strong skill-set, both as a teacher and a recruiter, and a good rapport both within the KIJHL and the WHL. Plus, there’s the fact that he’s local.

Davidson, a Salmon Arm resident, recently stepped down as head

coach and general man-ager with the Golden Rockets. Prior to that, he served as head coach with the Salmon Arm Silverbacks and assistant coach with the Princeton Posse. A highlight of David-son’s time with Golden was taking the team to its first playoff series in 2012/13. His stepping down was motivated largely by a desire to be back home with family, including his two daughters, ages 12 and nine.

“I’ve been apart from them, well, not totally apart, the better

part of five winters,” said Davidson. “So this is giving me an oppor-tunity to be much more in their lives when it comes to the winter months.”

As for joining the Eagles, Davidson says he’s excited to have been given the oppor-tunity and about get-ting started. Asked to describe his coaching style, Davidson re-ferred to himself as a “player’s coach.”

“I really focus on the player. We have systems and all that stuff too, but I really focus on the players,”

said Davidson. “I try to get a relationship with each and every one of my players, and I think my players, for the most part, like me and they like playing for me.”

Davidson will be taking over coaching duties from Blair Rob-inson, who was the team’s head coach for 18 years.

“Blair did a fantas-tic job for us over the years,” said March in a news release. “He did a great job of recruiting and ensured we made playoffs every single year. The team that

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Asked about ru-moured difficulties between players and coaching staff in the latter part of the recent hockey season, March only stated it was sim-ply time.

“There’s nothing I want to say bad about it, and I won’t, it’s just, he did a great job for us, it was time for him to move on,” said March. “We parted amicably, but he did a good job for us and has been well-appreciated over the years.”

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Hard work and determination will pay off for Shea Weber in February when he suits up in the red and whites of Team Canada.

The 24-year-old Sicamous product was tagged last month to represent the nation in the 2010 Olympic Games. It’s a goal Weber had been working towards, and an opportu-nity he’s proud to be part of.

“The Olympics are a very special event, not only for hockey but for winter sports and to be able to play for your country and compete for a medal is kind of neat,” says Weber.

The 6’4”, 234 lb. Nashville Predators defenceman will be sporting the maple leaf with other big names in hockey like Scott

Niedermayer (Anaheim Ducks), Roberto Luongo (Vancouver Canucks), Chris Pronger (Philadelphia Flyers) and Sidney Crosby (Pittsburgh Pen-guins).

Apart from a camp held last summer, We-ber guesses the team may have a couple of days to gel in February before hitting the ice in Whistler, and he’s interest-ed in seeing how everyone fi ts. But Weber’s mom and dad, Tracy and James, don’t ex-pect Shea will have any problems.

“Whatever they want him to do, he’ll do it,” said James. “He’s a team-fi rst guy, he’s not a selfi sh player at all.”

Both parents share what could be described as a subdued excite-ment for their son and the hon-our that’s been bestowed up on him.

“Shea phoned home and said ‘I’ve been chosen

to play in the Olympics, and I said ‘okay,’” Tracy commented, explaining it’s kind of a family trait not to overreact – one that Shea

shares. But she and James who, with Shea,share roots in Sicamous minor hockey, are defi nitely excited, and are hoping to attendat least one of their son’s games.

Sicamous Eagles manager Wayne Marchis also pretty excited by the news that Shea, an Eagle alumni, will be playing forhis community and country at the Games.March says Shea has been totally focusedthroughout his career on what he wanted todo: make it to the NHL. In the process, Sheahelped the Eagles win the KIJHL West-ern Canadians in 2001-02; he helped takethe Kelowna Rockets to three consecutiveWHL Memorial Cup championship games,including the win in 2004; and, after signingwith Nashville in 2004, he helped the Ca-

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