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The quick melt caused by last Thursday’s warm temperatures triggered a flood at Byman’s Bend campground in Rock Creek. There’s been a history of the property flooding during snowmelt over the years. Snow built up on the sides of the road leading to the bridge melts and runs back down the hill until it reaches the driveway of Kim and Rune Byman. It is the snow bank itself that prevents the water from draining to the ditch alongside the road. Unless a channel is present to allow the melting snow to run off the road toward the ditch before it gets to the driveway, the area around the shop and carport will flood.

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Rune was away from home the day of the melt and Kim sent out a call for help shortly after noon. Emcon Superintendent Dan Price and employee Bill Reagean showed up to help dig out channels through the snow banks on both the road and in the Byman yard. Other neighbours and friends showed up to help as well. Derrick and Irene Harsch and Walter Siewert jumped in with snow shovels and Ron Flexhaug put his pickup-equipped snow plow to good use pushing the water out of the yard in the direction of the drainage ditch. The warm weather left a lot of standing water at places along the highway too, raising the risk of hydroplaning or frozen patches later that night when the sun went down.

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(Inset) Sudden warm temperatures last week left pools of standing water on the highways. (Above) Kim Byman works to clear a channel through the snow bank that will allow highway runoff to drain back to the drainage ditch. Emcon Services Area Superintendent Dan Price works in the background to improve a drainage channel that could have prevented the ﬂooding in the ﬁrst place. PHOTO: PAT KELLY

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Feb. 21-23: Boundary Minor Hockey Atoms Playoffs at Midway Arena start at 5 p.m. on Friday. Feb. 21- 23: No Boundaries Film Club presents the 9th annual Grand Forks screening of the World Community Film Festival at the GFSS auditorium. Info online at noboundariesfilmclub.weebly.com. Sunday, Feb. 23: Meeting of Greenwood-Boundary ATV Club at 1325 Klondike at 1 p.m. Information Ed Smith at 250-445-9931. Tuesday, Feb 25: RDKB Electoral Area E Town Hall meeting. 6:30 p.m. at Beaverdell Community Hall, 5841 Highway 3. Tuesday – Thursday, Feb 25-27: Introduction to First Aid presented by paramedic Judy Letendre, 12:30 to 3:30 at the Rock Creek Medical Clinic. Info 250-528-7433. No charge. Sponsored by Kettle River Seniors #102. Wednesday, Feb. 26: Pink Shirt Day. Saturday, March 1: Partners in Parenting 9:30 – 3:30 at West Boundary Elementary School. Registration starts at 8. Tuesday, March 11: RDKB and the Kettle River Watershed Management Plan Stakeholder Advisory Group present a special meeting called “Sustaining the Flow: managing water supply and demand to support ecosystem health and community needs.” Doors at 5 p.m. with a light dinner and open house conversations. Presentations and discussions start at 6:15 and go to 8:30. Info Graham Watt at 250-442-4111 or plan@kettleriver.ca. REGULAR EVENTS: Extreme weather shelter open nightly seven days a week At 2212 Riverside Drive, Grand Forks from 8 p.m. until 8 a.m. Guest Intake until midnight. Pets can be accommodated. No one deserves to be left out in the cold with no place to go and no one to care. Mondays: Floor curling at Westbridge Hall at 1:30 p.m. $1 per person contact Linda 250-446-2031. Mondays: Midway Art Club meets from 2 - 4 p.m. Info: 250-4492673. Mondays: Pokino at the Greenwood Seniors Centre, starts at 1 p.m. Mondays: Legion drop in crib at the Greenwood Legion 7 PM start. $3 for the evening. Mondays: Sparks, Brownies Guides and Pathfinders meet from 3:30 to 5 at WBES. Monday - Saturday: Drop-in social at the Greenwood Seniors’ Centre, 9-11 a.m. 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. First Monday: Greenwood Seniors Centre meeting at 2 p.m. Info: 250-445-2290.

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Second Monday: The Bridge Drop-in Centre sorting day 10-2 p.m. All helpers are appreciated. Second & Fourth Monday: Greenwood City Council meeting 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. Information Francine 250-4456734; or Shirley 250-445-9908. Third Monday: Discover Rock Creek Society meets in the WBES library at 6:30. 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 and Wednesday: 2-3 p.m. Zumba for Women at Kettle River Chapel 1735 Hwy 33, Rock Creek. Info Kathie 250-446-2243. Monday and Wednesday: Country Kids Playschool 8:30 – 11:30 at Rock Creek Medical Clinic boardroom. Tuesdays: AA Meetings at McArthur Centre in Greenwood at 8 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays: Kettle River Art Club meets from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. In McArthur Centre. Tuesdays & Thursdays: Taekwondo 6-7 p.m. West Boundary Elementary Gym. For ages 6 to 90. Wear loose clothing - lessons are free. Instructor Bo Macfarlane. Tuesdays and Thursdays: 6:30-7:30 p.m. Zumba for Women at Kettle River Chapel 1735 Hwy 33, Rock Creek. Info Kathie 250446-2243. 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 Midway. Sparks ages 5-6 and Brownies ages 7-8 meet from 4:30 to 5:45 p.m. Guides ages 9-11 and Pathfinders ages 12-14 meet from 6-7:30 p.m. For information call 250-449-2309 or 250-445-9955. Wednesdays: Greenwood & District Business Assoc. meeting. Anglican Church at 7 pm. Wednesdays: Belly Dancing at Bridesville Hall from 6:30 – 8 p.m. No experience necessary. Free. Info: 250-446-2942. 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: Storytime at Greenwood Library from Feb. 5 through April 9, at 10:30 a.m. for ages 3-5 with caregiver/parent. Siblings welcome. Wednesdays: Curling club “Fun” league. 1 p.m. $10 drop-in fee.

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Quote of the Week: I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on. ~ Jean Kerr Joke of the Week: An older man comes into a small fruit store and sees a new delivery of fresh fruit. “Give me two pounds of kiwis and wrap every kiwi up in a separate piece of paper, please,” he says to the saleswoman. She does. “And three pounds of potatoes, please, and wrap up every one in a separate piece of paper, too.” She does it again. “And what is that there,” he asks pointing out a basket in the corner. “Cherry tomatoes,” says the saleswoman, “but they are not for sale!”

Info 250-446-2242 or 250-449-2869. 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 pm in Parkview Manor Midway. Second Wednesday: Boundary Citizen’s Patrol meets at Midway Senior’s Centre from 7 - 8 pm. 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 pm at the pavilion from March through November. Info: 250-4462465. Thursdays: Kettle River Art Club meets from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Thursdays: Bored Room Bistro Texas Hold’em Poker at 607 Eighth Avenue, Midway at 6:30 p.m. 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. $2 includes movie, drink, 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 1-6 p.m. Meat draw 3:30 p.m. First Sunday: Royal Canadian Legion Br. #155 meets at 2 p.m. 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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Vandals target equipment

A local logging contractor has found their equipment vandalized/sabotaged on the job site. Several pieces of logging equipment belonging to Highland Logging of Beaverdell, owned by Chris and Olivia Galley, were hit by vandal(s) in late January. When reached by phone Olivia told the Times that they had moved their equipment onto a local woodlot on Jan. 14. It had come straight from another job site, so they know it was in working order. “Chris was not on the job site each day at that time because he was taking a course for his Class 1 driver’s license in Kelowna,” Olivia explained. “He’d go up and operate the buncher for a day and then would be on the hoe building road the next time he went up.” She said he’d noticed the buncher was acting strangely. But a few days later when he tried to start the limber he discovered it wasn’t running. During this time Chris said he’d seen someone, after dark, driving onto the highway from the bush road where the equipment was located. “It was the next day we discovered some obvious damage on the inside of our excavator,” said Olivia. She said their logging equipment has never been damaged before. To help make sure it doesn’t happen again, they have installed surveillance equipment both on the site and along roads leading to it. “Hopefully no major damage has happened. We’ve taken precautions like draining fuels and oils, changing filters, etc. But costs are still being incurred – the limber is not being run yet. We went straight to hand bucking because we have to get some wood moving down the road. If we have to get a mechanic out to go through the limber it may quickly turn into the thousands in which case we may turn around and go through our insurance company.” Olivia says Highland Logging is a small outfit that’s been in operation since 2003, typically hiring one to two employees. Over the last three years they have specialized in logging woodlots. She said they don’t understand why anyone would want to do this. “All we can think of is if the person is angry that they didn’t get the work. But we had done work for the woodlot owners before and were hired to do the job. Reputation is

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everything when it comes to logging woodlots.” She says the damage is definitely in the thousands of dollars. “Diesel is not cheap, oil is not cheap and the production time that we’ve lost.” Olivia said that someone had dropped the belly pan on the feller-buncher and drained the oil and then put the pan back in place with the bolts only loosely holding it. When Chris tried to start it, warning buzzers were going off. “Things that he’d never heard before. Normally when you have a buzzer go off it’s just low hydraulic oil or something, but this was different.” When he started checking the feller-buncher, he noticed the bolts on the belly pan were loose and the engine was almost completely out of oil. “We realized someone was really out to do some damage but in a sneaky kind of way—cause us breakdowns, cost us money.” The excavator was also damaged. Someone had taken a chainsaw file and hacked away at the fuse box, tearing all the fuses out and the clips that hold the fuses in are all broken. “Our limber is still sitting there because somebody has tampered with the hydraulics. Like I said, it was working fine, we had just come from a job where it was working and now it won’t function properly so something has been messed with. There are a lot of valves, a lot of hydraulics. We might try to catch a mechanic who is working in the area on another job to cut the costs a bit.” RCMP in Midway confirmed that a file has been opened and that police are still investigating. If you have any information that can assist please contact Midway RCMP or Crimestoppers.

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Few give input to SD51

The Board of Education moved their monthly meeting to BCSS again this month to provide West Boundary parents the opportunity to weigh in with their thoughts about the four-school model (FSM) that sees one principal providing administration for Beaverdell, West Boundary, Midway and Greenwood elementary schools. The board will be voting at their March meeting on whether to continue the model, which was given a one-year trial this year. Superintendent Kevin Argue guided the conversation by asking questions seeking to discover how the students experienced the model as well as the parents own observations. What did you see as positive, and as a challenge for your child in this? What do you see as positives, or as a challenge, about the model? Only a few mothers came to the meeting. Argue said that staff would be given an opportunity to provide their own input anonymously through an online survey site. One parent liked the opportunity presented by the FSM for sharing resources across the schools—field trips, getting enough players of the same age-group together for a team, etc. Another mother noted that her daughter, who likes to know in advance what is planned, had felt confused at times because the FSM often leads to changes in teacher’s schedules. The lack of a full-time administration person in the building leaving nowhere for teachers to send a child away from the other students when necessary, which could lead to the entire class being disrupted and losing a teaching period. It was noted that opportunities for sports had declined and there are fewer coaches. The same parent also said it would be nice to have more of a presence of a leader role model.

The complaint was heard that under the FSM the principal is not as available to parents, as he doesn’t have a set schedule. Prior to the board’s regular meeting the trustees and senior administration heard a presentation by principal Brian Foy and West Boundary Elementary School vice-principal Jennifer MacDonald who reported their observations of the model after being involved with it during the current school year. “Tonight’s presentation isn’t just simply my perspective or Jen’s it has our team’s perspective as well,” Foy said, explaining he’d used a staff survey to inform the report the board was receiving. Their report looked specifically at communications, staff development, support systems created for the four-school system and inquiry school plan survey. MacDonald said that planning for the four school model began in May of 2013. Communication was seen as key to the model, and new opportunities have been opened up with the larger pool of staff being encouraged to collaborate around ideas and issues.

Atoms host tourney

This weekend Boundary Minor Hockey (BMHA) and Grand Forks Minor Hockey will once again host the West Kootenay Minor Hockey Association Atoms House Playoff Tournament. Rob Payne, president of the BMHA, explained that the teams have been divided into A and B pools, with the Boundary Predators in B pool and the Grand Forks Atom team in A pool. Finals for the B pool will be in Midway, and in Grand Forks for the A pool. “So if the home teams make it, their local fans will be able to easily get out to cheer them on,” said Payne. The first game of the tournament for the Midway Arena is set to go on Friday night at 5 p.m. and games will be starting early in Midway on both Saturday and Sunday mornings. Payne said the majority of Boundary teams’ games will be in Midway. Atoms are 9- and 10-year-old players. There will be lots of playoff action the following weekend for the other age groups with the Pee Wee playoffs in Kalso and the Midgets hitting the ice in Trail. The Boundary Minor Hockey AGM and awards banquet has been scheduled for Thursday, April 17.

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New student handbooks were drafted, school calendars were reviewed and events scheduled so that students across the four schools had more interaction, the practice of printing a weekly newsletter was adopted in each school. “We’ve been given this year,” said Foy. “How do we make the most of it? How do we continue to have our staffs come together, build relationships, have those professional conversations? Foy said he has a real comfort level that the quality of education is really similar in any of these schools. Amoung the challenges listed by Foy and MacDonald were the fact that the principal is no longer in the school full time and is no longer part of student’s day-to-day experience. The principal being in the right place at the right time is a challenge and this model doesn’t afford that opportunity. He reminded the board that declining enrollment and resources had been the catalyst for doing the one-year trial of the FSM. “It is not going to answer all the questions,” admitted Foy.

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