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Club delivers holiday spirit on Jingle Bell Ride Spotlight Staff
A group of glittery cowboys and girls astride decked out horses brought a little Christmas magic to Princeton Sunday with the second annual Jingle Bell ride. The ride was organized by the Princeton Riding Club and the first stop was Ridgewood Lodge. About a dozen riders, accompanied by voices on the ground, sang carols for the residents. “We’re having a little bit of fun and bringing some cheer to the community,” said Stephanie Antonic, who coordinated the event. Antonic said the first year the club visited the Ridgewood residents was “an emotional experience.” Many of the elderly people living at the lodge have ranching or farming backgrounds and were thrilled to see the horses and riders. “Some of the residents that we visited talked for the first time in months,” she said. Antonic said the mandate of the riding club is to get riders out together to share experiences. The Jingle Bell ride Sunday was also a fundraiser for Princeton Crisis Assistance.
Copper Mountain deflects threats from Indian band Andrea DeMeer Spotlight Staff
An official with Copper Mountain Mine declined last week to respond directly to threats from an area First Nations band to seek a court injunction to close mining operations in Princeton. Don Strickland, vice-president of operations at Copper Mountain, said “we will continue to work with the USIB and LSIB (Upper Similkameen Indian Band and Lower Similkameen Indian Band)…We will continue our dialogue as we have been doing.” A tailings line spill, which released approximately 500 tonnes of slurry over containment walls at the mine, occurred December 10. Days later the
LSIB issued a press release stating the band was “considering legal and direct action” against the mine unless conditions were met. Interior Health ordered a Do Not Use advisory for water from Wolfe Creek directly downstream from Copper Mountain. That advisory was lifted December 16 for all areas except the Rock Ridge Canyon water system and that area was given the all-clear later in the week. In an interview with The Spotlight last week LSIB Chief Kevin Crow called for an independent investigation of how the spill occurred, as well as a probe into the environmental impacts of both the recent spill and a 2013 spill continued page 3
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Stephanie Antonick, member of the Princeton Riding Club and coordinator of the second annual Jingle Bell Ride, saddles up on her husband’s horse Brew before the carol ride.
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Group organizes to lobby for deer cull in Princeton Andrea DeMeer Spotlight Staff
A group of local residents is banding together with renewed calls for a cull to reduce and control Princeton’s deer population. Gino Del-Ciotto is the host of a facebook group called Princeton Pro Deer Culling/ Removal From Town Organization. The group has 115 members. In a recent interview with The Spotlight Del-Ciotto called Princeton “an open zoo,” and he said it’s only a matter of time before someone is seriously hurt. “Being a hunter and an outdoorsman I understand deer and their behavior very well,” said Del-Ciotto, who added he has had to carry a baseball bat to walk his dog so it will not be attacked by deer. Del-Ciotto said a neighbour’s dog was attacked and needed stitches to recover, and that his young godson recently visited and was trapped in a local park by two large bucks who would not let him through the gate. “It’s not safe to have over 200 of these [deer] in town,” he said. In November Del-Ciotto completed an independent deer count and recorded siting 184 deer in town – 92 does, 62 fawns and 28 bucks. He believes it’s accurate to add 25 per cent to that number to account for deer
that were unseen. He said previous counts by the town deer committee have been carried out during the wrong time of year so that the deer population has been historically underreported. “I built my home on Angela Avenue three years ago and there were evenings during the rut that we had 16 deer on the block.” Del-Ciotto will meet with a core group of supporters in the new year to discuss plans for approaching town council about a cull. Any cull would require provincial approval. “Live cull or lethal cull,” he said. “We are looking at non lethal options but from what we understand the cost is extremely high…fundraising may need to be done to facilitate it.” In the event of a lethal cull he said the animals would be humanely trapped and killed instantly with a bolt gun, with any healthy meat distributed to native bands and people in town. “There’s a lot of pressure from special interest groups to preserve the deer and not harm them,” he said. “Disney movies such as Bambi have created this image.” In addition to being threatening, Del-Ciotto said many deer he has seen in Princeton are unhealthy and have tumors or
are infested with ticks that can cause Lyme disease. Last year the Town of Princeton circulated a deer survey, and found that 86.7 per cent of respondents were “very concerned” about the deer population. Preferred solutions for dealing with the issue were split, however, with 41.3 per cent in favor of a capture and relocation strategy and 45.3 per cent in favor of a lethal cull. At a recent council meeting, when questioned about the town’s deer committee, councillor Doug Pateman said it would be wrong of council to proceed with plans for a cull without a firm mandate from taxpayers. “We are elected to carry out the wishes of the town.” Pateman sits on the town deer committee with councillor Rosemary Doughty. While Pateman has yet to be approached by the fledgling deer cull committee he said he is willing to discuss the issue “as long as everybody is respectful.” Del-Ciotto said there are other steps the town could take to help limit the deer population including tougher laws prohibiting feeding deer, greater inforcement, and improved fencing around the Princeton landfill site.
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A plentiful supply of food is fingered as one of the causes of Princeton’s deer population problem. This doe finished off the popcorn recently outside a house in a local mobile home park.
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continued from page one 65,000 liters of coal slurry waste into the Tulameen River. Without such assurances, he said the band was willing “to go the distance.” According to Strickland the spill was contained within 20 minutes.
“We’ve taken quick action and contained it, and controlled it and really done some great work on water sampling,” he said. Approximately 400 people work at Copper Mountain Mine.
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Giving Voice grants give hope too
Planning an art show. Screening a movie. Making birch bark baskets. Attending a CD launch party. Dancing. Participating in workshops, listening to guest speakers, taking part in round table discussions. Sitting at a healing circle. Drumming. Singing. It’s all being done in British Columbia today to end violence against Aboriginal women and girls. These projects – and others like them – are funded by the province through the Giving Voice program, an initiative born of a ministerial advisory group made up solely of First Nations’ women. Over two years Giving Voice is contributing $350,000 to community-based programs aimed at creating opportunities for Aboriginal people to talk about violence against women, and then providing resources to make changes through implementation and action. The brilliant part is listening to First Nations women; taking an ethnic problem, a cultural problem, and arguably a Canadian problem, and putting at least part of the answer in the hands of the people it affects most. The lives of Aboriginal women will not be improved until they are empowered to make improvements. Giving Voice – the project is wellnamed. Thirty-seven community groups are receiving funding through Giving Voice, and an additional $50,000 of government money is earmarked for a related province wide forum in October 2015. Many of the Giving Voice projects ongoing or planned focus on inclusion, and involve not only First Nations women and girls, but men and Elders. In Fraser-Fort St. George a mentorship program is underway, connecting Elders with men of all ages to create a space in which men feel safe to confront some of the key issues that might fuel abusive behavior. They also focus on education – entertaining guest speakers who cover the gambit from traditional activities and lifestyles, decision-making, healthy choices, and family management. In Kitimat-Stikine three full-day workshops are planned to help raise women’s awareness and sense of empowerment. Topics include risk factors and the arrangement of a local support group within the community. Violence against First Nations women – all women actually – most often begins in the home and under the eyes of a community that chooses to look the other way. The women who conceived Giving Voice understand that violence must be stopped in the same places. They are also giving hope. AD
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Climate talks end 2014 in disarray
VICTORIA – In case you missed the outcome perspective. of the latest United Nations climate change Days later, Environment Canada released conference in Lima, Peru, it was another costly, its latest national emission statistics, an event embarrassing failure. ignored by most media. This one is likely to be remembered mostly “Between 2005 and 2012, total Canadian for a staggeringly stupid stunt by Greenpeace GHG emissions decreased by 5.1 per cent, while employees, who were threatened with prosecuthe economy grew by 10.6 per cent over the same tion for defacing the Nazca Lines, a world heriperiod,” the report states. tage site in the Peruvian desert. B.C. Environment Minister Mary Polak joined These vast 1,500-year-old petroglyphs, visthe throngs who jetted to Lima. There she met ible from space, are among the great mysteries of officials from California and other U.S. states to TOM FLETCHER archaeology. “Time for a change!” blared huge re-announce their modest efforts to put a price on yellow letters dragged across the sacred site by carbon emissions. TV anchors and other widepaid protesters trampling the delicate terrain. I’ll eyed innocents might have been left with the mistaken impression that the huge U.S. petroleum say it’s time for a change, starting with scratching industry is cutting back, when in fact it has grown enormously Greenpeace off your Christmas card list. Earlier there was the spectacle of Canada’s national media, thanks to shale oil and gas production. And California continues to produce, by its own state governreflexively denouncing Ottawa’s supposed inaction on greenhouse gases after U.S. President Barack Obama unveiled a surprise cli- ment measure, the most carbon-intensive heavy crude in North mate agreement with China in advance of Peru. America. “Over to you, Mr. Prime Minister,” chirped CBC anchor Overshadowing all of this is the drop in the world price of oil, Wendy Mesley, joining other TV networks in falsely portraying mainly the result of Saudi Arabia flooding the market in an effort the U.S. deal as a breakthrough. to push competitors out of business. In the latest sign of the U.S. This non-binding gesture soon produced many cartoons, one of public’s lack of interest in reducing emissions, sales of larger which shows Obama stripped to his underwear in a poker game vehicles immediately spiked up as gasoline prices fell. with Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is surrounded by a pile of I’m still receiving criticism for a recent column in which I chips and an American flag. declared myself an “agnostic” on human-caused global warming. The U.S.-China announcement served as a preview of Peru, Agnostic means searcher, and my search has continued for real where developing countries would again refuse any substantive signs of climate change and its potential causes. restrictions on their fuel use. China graciously agreed to conOur glaciers are receding, no question, but the current trend tinue ramping up its world-leading greenhouse gas emissions until started around the 1850s, when a sport utility vehicle had one 2030, while lame-duck Obama pretended he could commit the horsepower in leather harness and B.C. was about to be declared U.S. to further reductions. a British colony. Between them, the U.S. and China account for about half of But amid the noise, there is serious evidence being put forward global human-caused carbon emissions. Due mostly to the surge that our province is undergoing a climate shift with major consefrom China and India, Canada’s share has fallen from two per cent quences. And there are calls for action. I’ll discuss that next week. to 1.5, which should help put all those “tar sands” protests into
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Taegert, B.C. 1979. – It was Christmas Eve in Taegert, a small remote former gold mining community in northern B.C. Snow had begun falling steadily the previous night and the mountains surrounding our little town were now bedecked with a soft white mantel. Through the still falling snow plumes of grey wood smoke streamed upward from chimneys into the dark sky. My wife and I leaned forward, pressing into the chill north wind flinging snow into our cold faces. Not far ahead snow laden figures loomed out of the whiteness of the night. We were all hurrying, adults and children, to get a good seat at the Christmas Eve celebration in the community hall. We arrived to find the hall already packed with a boisterous crowd. The only place was along the back wall with other stragglers. Outside, cold snow hurled itself at the hall, but inside it was toasty. The ancient pot bellied wood stove was working its magic. In one corner an enormous fir tree, with lights, ornaments and tinsel encouraged a holiday spirit. The program MC, Marty Dyke, slipped from behind a curtain at the left end of the stage. She was a robust woman, something her loose, bright red dress could not hide. With a hearty laugh and booming voice, she said, “ Welcome to our community’s 38th Christmas concert.” Then she turned to the side of the stage where she had entered. “ Without further adieu, let’s put our hands together and bring on the famous Jones family!” There was clapping, hollering and stamping of feet. The Jones clan came hustling on stage with guitars, fiddles, harmonicas and a banjo. Grandpa Jones began belting out the tunes and his whole lusty clan backed him up like they were on stage at Nashville, Tennessee. Pretty quick folks were smiling and singing along. A few pretty young girls in bright dresses danced in the aisles. It was a Christmas hootenanny. Marty always introduced them first because they knew how to stir up the crowd’s Christmas spirit. Everyone settled down when 11 year old Susie Thomas began telling about the baby Jesus born in Bethlehem and laid in a manger. “It happened in a stable,” she said, “and there were probably sheep and donkeys watching. And shepherds came from taking care of their flocks in the fields.” She seemed awed by the event. Susie was followed by Mrs. Brown reading her latest Christmas poem. Everyone was having a grand time. Everyone except me, that is. Just before the program started, Marty Dyke had whispered to me, “I’ve asked your friend J.K. Barnabas to bring his guitar and sing two or three tunes
“Take my baby. She’ll make you happy. I have more babies at home.”
at the end. Be a fine way to wrap up the evening, don’t you think?” It was too late to change things, so I remained silent. I was concerned because J.K.’s a black man. A big old white haired blues singer who used to perform in bars in cities like Winnipeg, Vancouver and Seattle. Not that anyone in Taegert would object to him singing blues, or to him being black. No one that is, except Gerhardt Gruber. And, in a way, old Gruber had a pretty good reason for not liking black men. He had nothing against black women. In the big war back in the forties, he and his son were in the same company in the German Wehrmacht. In close combat, a black Yankee soldier shot the son dead right in front of Gruber. He’s been bitter against black men since that day. That’s why I was troubled about J.K.
Barnabas getting in front of this crowd. Gruber might have a flashback. What if he did something crazy? J.K. isn’t a well man. He doesn’t need that. While my mind was thinking about these things, the evening was flying by. Now Marty called on J.K. He walked to the front slowly and sat down on a hard wooden bench. After taking a moment to adjust the guitar strings, he grinned at the children in the front row and launched into a frisky rendition of Frosty the Snowman. Next he pleased the crowd with Rudolph the Red Nosed reindeer. Everyone cheered when he was done, but not Gruber. Then the raucous, buoyant mood was gone and he seemed to forget we were there. He drifted into a tune I was sure he had written himself. “I woke up this mornin’ and the sun, it didn’t shine,
Was sittin’ in my room all alone, didn’t have one friend I could say was mine. Too many nights in the bars, too many days on the road, now this body’s gettin’ old. Snow’s fallin’ and I’m feelin’ mighty low, oh yes, I’m feelin’ mighty low. My little baby’s gone. She’s grown up big, don’t come to her daddy no more to play. Sure has broke this old man’s heart. Oh Yeah, sure has broke this old man’s heart.” Then he was quiet, still sitting on the bench, a lonely old blues man. A single tear rolled slowly down one cheek. A hush fell over the hall, and no one cheered or moved. It seemed everyone was expecting something to happen. I heard the rustle of a dress and I looked to my left where old Gruber was sitting, arms crossed over his chest and face hard as the barrel of a German army rifle. Before he could stop her, his pretty little granddaughter had slipped off his lap and was running to where the white haired J.K. Barnabas was sitting. “Here, Mr. J.K.” she said, holding a little blond doll toward him. “Take my baby. She’ll make you happy. I have more babies at home.” I think everyone stopped breathing and looked at old Gruber. His stiff white Wehrmacht moustache made him look real serious. And then it happened. Gruber got up. Using his cane, he walked unsteadily to where his granddaughter and JK. were. He sat down on the bench next to J.K. and lifted the little girl onto the black man’s lap. Although he wasn’t a religious man, far as I knew, he began singing “Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht,” in his native German, his sweet tenor carrying the words throughout the hall. After hesitating a moment, the old blues man joined his deep baritone to Gruber’s tenor. “Silent night, Holy night all is calm, all is bright Round yon virgin mother and child Holy infant, so tender and mild Sleep in heavenly peace, Sleep in heavenly peace.” Then everyone was singing, and when the song was done, I saw men and women laughing and crying, shaking hands and embracing. At the front of the room, I saw the old black man and the old German army officer rise and embrace. Taegert was never quite the same again. There was more of a sense of peace. And that’s why I say, “Only a child could have accomplished what happened in our little town that night. And only at Christmas.”
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Arts SHIRLEY’S ART CLASSES: Wednesday & Thursday Call Shirley at 250-295-4076 GARDEN CLUB: Meets third Tuesday of every month, 1 PM, Seniors Branch 30. Call Doreen @ 250-295-1577 ARTS COUNCIL: Meets at Noon on the third Wednesday of the month. Everyone Welcome! Contact Marjorie Holland, Pres., 250-295-6718 or Joann Gabriel, Sec., 250-295-3361 for location. General meetings quarterly as announced. BUNCHGRASS QUILTERS Meet 1st & 3rd Thursday of each month at the Riverside Centre from 10 - 3 p.m.. Everyone Welcome! Contact Sharon 250-295-4194 or Rosemary 250-295-6511 PRINCETON POTTERS GUILD, RIVERSIDE POTTERY STUDIO: Access to the potter’s wheel or hardwork, workshop opportunities, group projects. Call Sue for more info or to join. 250-295-0527 PRINCETON TRADITIONAL MUSIC SOCIETY: The Princeton Traditional Music Society puts on the Traditional Music Festival each year in August, featuring traditional music from many places. The three-day festival is free and run entirely by volunteers. The 100+ musicians and dancers also offer their talents for free. If you would like to help out with the festival, please contact Jon or Rika @ 250-295-6010
Community: INTERESTED IN CHRISTIAN MEDITATION? For people who want to learn to pray with great simplicity, for people who would be willing to get to know Jesus who loves each of us immensely, for people who are at a dead end, for people who want to get to know themselves, for people who want to make a new beginning! We can go to God together and it’s free! Call me: Fr. Harry Clarke at 250-295-3541. ORL- PRINCETON BRANCH: Tuesdays: 12 p.m. - 5 p.m./ 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. Wednesdays: 12 p.m. - 5 p.m. Fridays: 12 p.m. - 5 p.m. Saturdays: 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
St. Paul’s United Anglican Church
Office: 250-295-7714 WORSHIP - 10:00 AM Dec. 21st, 10 am Christmas Songfest Dec. 24th, 6 pm Candlelight Service 190 - 1st Avenue Everyone Welcome
165 Vermilion Avenue invites you to join us in Sunday Worship 10:30 am Pastor Jack McNeil 250-295-7951
Club Notes:
HEDLEY SENIORS’ CENTRE: 3rd Monday of every month regular general meetings Everyone welcome. 2nd Sunday Pancake Breakfast, 8 am - 10 am. Daily Coffee & conversation 6:30 am to 8 am. Every Tuesday & Thursday exercise at 9 am.
COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS: Group helps bereaved parents. Will meet as needed. Call Shirley Haker at 250-295-3607. sehaker@persona.ca
VERMILION TRAILS SOCIETY: Meets at the Chamber Basement on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. For more info: Contact kvrrider@gmail.com New Members welcome!
SENIORS BRANCH #30 POT LUCK SUPPER: Last Friday of every month, 5:30 p.m. Seniors Centre. Members can invite a guest.
CRISIS LINE: You can call us 24 hours a day, everyday, and your call is confidential and anonymous. The crisis line is 250-4936622. Or call collect from locations within the South Okanagan Similkameen: 250-493-6622.
MEMBERS ONLY POOL TOURNAMENT: Last Tuesday of every month at the Senior’s Centre. 10:00 am
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Meet Friday In Tulameen at 7:30 p.m. at Library call 250-295-7005
PRINCETON FISH & GAME: Princeton Fish and Game Association, meet the second Wednesday of the Month at the Princeton Library, contact Al Lay 250-295-0250.
WHIST & CRIB: (Seniors Branch #30) First Saturday of each month at 1 PM. Coffee & refreshments included. Everyone welcome.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Tuesdays @ 7:30 p.m. United Church. Contacts: Fred 250-295-7272 or Marena 250-295-7663
PRINCETON RACING DAYS ASSOCIATION: Meets the third Thursday of the month in the office at Sunflower Downs (PXA Grounds) at 6:30 p.m.
VERMILION FORKS PRINCETON O.A.P.O. BR. #185: Regular meetings second Friday of every month at 2 p.m.. Pot luck supper every third Friday at 5:00 p.m.
AL-ANON: Are you concerned about someone’s drinking? Contact Central Referral @1-604-688-1716
PRINCETON & DISTRICT FALL FAIR ASSOCIATION: Meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month in the office at the PXA Grounds at 6:30 p.m.
SEARCH AND RESCUE TRAINING SESSIONS: Meetings will be held on the first and third Tuesday of every month. Call Arnie Powell at 250-295-6759 for more information.
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: Meets every Wednesday & Sunday at the Info Centre in Chamber Basement 8:30 P.M. Phone 1-877-234-5809
PRINCETON ROTARY CLUB: Meets every Tuesday @ 12 p.m. Heartland Restaurant (dining room). For more info. Call Judy @ 250-2950217. New members welcome!
LITTLE FOLKS NURSERY SCHOOL: Meetings are every third Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. at LFNS. 250-295-3083 PRINCETON LEGION BRANCH #56: Reminds all veterans that the D.V.A. Now makes home visits. For more info. Phone 250-295-6060 JA SCHOOL & COMMUNITY GARDEN: New members invited to volunteer as “garden angels” attend committee meetings and garden their own plots. Phone Sandra 250-295-3779, Sharon 250-295-4080 or JAE School 250-295-6727 CINDY PAROLIN SAFE HOMES PROGRAM: Princeton and area, crisis intervention, emotional support, information, legal strategies and safe shelter in cases of abuse against women in relationships. Call the 24 hour women’s crisis line at 250-295-8211 for confidential services. MONDAY NIGHT BRIDGE: @ Riverside Centre 7 - 9:30. Knowledge of bridge necessary. Call Gail @ 250-295-0171
WELCOME WAGON! Are you a new to Princeton? If so, we have information regarding local, civic, community services and facilities. We also have gifts for you from local merchants and businesses. Call 1-866-856-8442
PRINCETON COMMUNITY HEALTH ADVISORY COMMITTEE (CHAC): Meets third Tuesday of every month at 7 PM at Town Hall.
HEDLEY LIBRARY HOURS: A reminder that the Library is open every Thurs. from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. and is located at the OAPO Hall on Scott Ave.
(By Coopers) Join us for “Gospel Hour” Sunday mornings, 11 am We would love to meet you. 250-293-1205
Princeton Penticostal Church
Health
DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB: Wednesdays @ Riverside Centre 10:30-3. Call Arlen @ 250-295-6157
PRINCETON and DISTRICT COMMUNITY SKILLS CENTRE SOCIETY: Meetings are held quarterly on Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m.
Invites You to 38 Kenley Avenue 10:30 Morning Worship Pastor George Donovan Tel: 250-295-7733 Cell: 250-293-6447
Shining His Light Ministries
Community:
PRINCETON MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES: 167 Vermilion Avenue 250-295-7588 princetonmuseum@gmail.com www.princetonmuseum.org
HOSPITAL AUXILIARY: Meets second Monday of every month, 1:00 p.m. Hospital Board Room. For info., Call Doreen @ 250-2951577
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PRINCETON HEALTH ACTION COMMITTEE: Regular public meetings first Wednesday of every month at 7 PM at the BPO Elks Lodge. CANCER SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN: If interested in attending, please call: Barb 250-2954050 or Del 250-295-3266 TOPS: (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) chapter meets at Riverside Wellness Centre every Thursday. Weigh-in-Time 8:30 AM Meeting 9:00–10:00 AM. For more information please contact Lynda 250- 295-3658 or Myrna 250-295-7272 Visit www.tops.org
Club Notes: FREEMASONRY: FOR MEN OF GOOD CHARACTER: Freemasonry has been active in B.C. for over 130 years. It is a fraternity open to men of all races and religions. If you are of good character and want more information, please contact: The Secretary Similkameen Lodge #95 A.F. & A.M. C/O Box 174 Princeton, BC V0X 1W0 ROYAL PURPLE: Meetings first and third Tuesdays 7:30 PM, Princeton. ELKS: Contact Chris at 250-295-3949. PRINCETON PERFORMING ARTS: Meet first Tuesday of each month @ 7 p.m. in Riverside Theatre. Contact Derek @ 250-295-3037 ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION: General meeting held on the third Sunday of each month at 1:00 PM.
PXA MEETING: Held on the third Tuesday of each month. 7 p.m., at the Princeton PXA Grounds. New Members welcome!
COPPERHILL LANES: YBC Bowling Saturday 10 AM. Club 55. Mens, Ladies and Mixed bowling leagues. Call 250-295-6500 for more information. SPECIAL “O” BOARD; Meets 3rd Tuesday of the month. Contact 250-295-7218 for meeting place & time. LAPIDARY PRINCETON’S ROCK & FOSSIL CLUB: Meetings held third Tuesday of the month. 7:00 p.m. Riverside Centre. Call Franz Hofer @ 250-295-3896 for more info. New members welcome! PRINCETON COMMUNITY BAND: Meets Mondays and Thursdays 6 p.m. in the PSS Band Room. New musicians welcome! PRINCETON CURLING CLUB: Leagues start Oct. 20th. Mon - mixed, Wed - Ladies, Thurs - Day League. www.princetoncurlingclub.com or 250-295-6400
GRANITE CREEK PRESERVATION SOCIETY: Meet the third Thursday of every month at 1:00 p.m. in the Princeton Museum Archive Room (upstairs). Everyone is welcome!
RECREATIONAL BADMINTON: Mondays at 8:00 pm at PSS gym, beginners welcome. Adult & Juniors (age 12+)
PRINCETON LADIES AUXILIARY LEGION BRANCH 56: Meet 2nd Tuesday of the month @ Legion Hall at 7:00 p.m.
GIRL GUIDES OF CANADA: Contact: Carol Mack 250-295-7085
HEDLEY MUSEUM: General Meeting, meets the 2nd Monday of each month. 6 p.m. @ The Hedley Museum THE PRINCETON RIFLE AND REVOLVER CLUB: INDOOR SHOOTING RANGE Juniors & Seniors meet at 7 p.m. every Wednesday at the Family Centre (behind the legion). Phone 250-295-6150. VERMILION FORKS FIELD NATURALISTS: Group meets second Tuesday of every month, 7 p.m. at the Riverside Centre. Public welcome. OTTER VALLEY FISH & GAME: Meetings 3rd Thursday of each month at noon in the Club House.
Youth PRINCETON MINOR HOCKEY: Lori Gullison 250-295-3977 SIMILKAMEEN (JKA) SHOTOKAN KARATE CLUB: 250-295-3909 or 250-295-7374 PRINCETON POSSE JR. HOCKEY CLUB: 250-295-6544 PRINCETON FIGURE SKATING CLUB: Lynette Boyd: 250-295-7113 KOKANEE SUMMER SWIM CLUB: Lindsay: 250-295-0759 PRINCETON FAMILY SERVICES SOCIETY : FAMILY PLACE 120 Kenley Ave. open Tues., Wed., and Thurs. 11- 2. (Pre-natal) 11 -12 Moms help prepare and enjoy lunch together.
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By industry standards you are a nice person It is my experience that some of the nicest people in the world are community newspaper readers. To clarify, I don’t think people are nice because they read the community newspaper. Community papers naturally attract nice people; people who are interested in the neighborhoods around them, people who are active in their town and want to feel connected to others. You can always judge a readership by the temperature of the circulation complaints. People who work in the circulation side of the business don’t have an easy life. At large papers they do nothing all day but take complaints and not one goes by that someone doesn’t yell at them and slam down the phone. No one ever thinks to call that department and say: “Good job. I got my paper on time this morning, it was in perfect condition, and the carrier didn’t walking across my flower bed.” One of the best circulation complaints to ever hit the desk at the daily Woodstock Sentinel Review came from about two dozen different people, all living on the same four blocks, who were upset because someone
poration’s website the average had cut a large hole out of the age of a Canada Post employee front page. is 48 and payscale.com puts the It turned out a carrier objected to the word “hellish” in the median annual salary of a letter headline and felt it was wrong carrier at nearly $50,000. to distribute profanity. She sat I love young newspaper down with her bundle of papers delivery boys and girls, with and practiced a little editing. their paper bags and their (Her papers were also delivered wagons and their rosy cheeks. late, that day.) However when you consider ANDREA DEMEER There was a race in the those same carriers have hockey practice and piano lessons, newsroom to see who could old dog and homework every night, and tweet that story first. If you new tricks they earn maybe five dollars a Google the key words you will week – well, they can make the see the carrier made headlines around the globe – as far away as the United post office look pretty darned reliable. All that said when there is a circulation Emirates and most notably in the New York problem at the Spotlight the complainant is Times. The industry takes the idea of censorship unfailingly kind. Usually the conversation very seriously, even when the person execut- begins with an apology. “I’m sorry to bother ing it is a woman at her kitchen table with a you but I didn’t get my paper this week.” pair of craft scissors, just trying to do what The reader also is willing to assuming blame she thinks is right. almost immediately. “Maybe I didn’t renew We don’t get a lot of circulation com- my subscription in time.” plaints at the Spotlight. We have a crackerSee? Community newspaper readers = jack circulation clerk in the person of Tammy nice. Hartfield. Also, the paper is delivered to mailThe crankiest readers in the world are the boxes by Canada Post. According to that cor- people who read shoppers. Most monster
shoppers have now flown the way of the pterodactyl. (I thank Kijiji, and similar free classified sites.) However for a couple of fairly depressing years I published a shopper – the Pennysaver it was called at one time – in Kitchener-Waterloo Ontario. With a circulation of more than 100,000 and at least 1,000 carrier routes life was just one long complaint. Loud, threatening, obscene. It is amazing, the abuse some people will heap on a complete stranger because he didn’t receive a free Pennysaver. Those people compare favorably, however, with the ones who received a free paper after expressly asking it not be delivered. The only time I’ve had to call the police to handle a circulation complaint was after a woman promised to take the day off work and lay in wait for her carrier to “catch him” delivering her Pennysaver. Hours I spent, staring at the plaster cracks in the ceiling, trying to devise a way to connect the people who didn’t get a Pennysaver, with the people who got one and didn’t want one, that would remove me entirely from the equation. Readers of the Spotlight– thank you for being such nice people.
Passport campaign generates serious local shopping dollars To the editor The Princeton and District Chamber of Commerce Passport Program was a great success. There were over 960 passports turned in which works out to local shopping of over $72,000 – way to go Princeton!! The lucky three who won prizes were: 1st Stan Poslowsky; 2nd Delta Coutu; and 3rd Karen Nendick. It takes great support from the businesses and the people of the Princeton District to make events like this work so well. The following is a list of prizes from the businesses who participated, please continue to support them and thank them the next time you visit their establishment. First prize - $85 Christmas Cash; Christmas Craft Store - Gift Basket; Cooper’s Foods - $50 Gift Card; Eikonic - Hempz Hair Set; Everything Pets $25 Gift Cert.; Funky Monkey - $25 Gift Cert.; H&R Block - $50 Gift Cert.; Home Hardware Duck Dynasty Glasses;
IDA Pharmacy - 8 Chocolate Bars; Jess Because - Tea & Candy Gift Bag; Mikados Sushi - 2 x $15 Gift Cert.; PetroCan - Gift Basket; Princeton Glass - 2’x3’ Mirror; Princeton Outdoor Supply Backpack , Knife, & Compass; Princeton Paint & Decorating - $25 Gift Cert.; Princeton’s Loonie Bin - Cookie Jar; Round the Corner Cafe - Fish & Chips for 2; Shoppers Drug Mart - Dove Men’s Kit; Suzie’s Shoppe - Purse & Earrings; Sweet Sensations - Mixed Chocolates & Candles; The Source - Chill Wave Headphones, 8-in-1 Multi Tool Kit & Flashlight with MultiTools; Thomasina’s Tea Room - $40 Gift Cert.; Winking Pedlar - $25 Gift Cert.; Work N’ Play - $30 Gift Cert. Second prize - $ 65 Christmas Cash; Auto Tac Graphics & Embroidery - Cashmere Scarf; Brown Bridge Pub - $50 Gift Cert.; Christmas Craft Store - Gift Basket; Country Kitchen Rest. - Lunch for 2 ; Cowboy Coffee/
CoCo’s - $25 Gift Card; Everything Pets - $15 Gift Cert.; Fletchers/Ace Hardware - $50 Gift Cert.; Funky Monkey $15 Gift Cert.; Home Hardware Chia Willie; IDA Pharmacy - 8 Chocolate Bars; Jess Because - Tea & Candy Gift Bag; Mikados Sushi - $25 Gift Cert.; Princeton Outdoor Supply - Backpack , Knife, & Compass; Princeton Paint & Decorating - $15 Gift Cert.; Princeton’s Loonie Bin - Cookie Jar; Shoppers Drug Mart - Men’s Fragrance; Similkameen Spotlight - 1 year Subscription; Suzie’s Shoppe Antique Picture Frame; Sweet Sensations Chocolate Mints & Candle; The Source – Earbuds & Flashlight with Multi-Tools; The Style Chamber - Gift Cert. for Shampoo, Cut & Style; Winking Pedlar - $25 Gift Cert.; Work N’ Play - $30 Gift Cert. 3rd prize - $50 Christmas Cash; Christmas Craft Store - Gift Basket; Cowboy Coffee/CoCo’s - $25 Gift Card; Dairy Queen
- $50 Gift Cert.; Pasha’s Pizza - 2 Lg. Special pizza; Everything Pets - $10 Gift Cert.; Fields - Velour Blanket; Funky Monkey - $10 Gift Cert.; Home Hardware - Chia Uncle Si; IDA Pharmacy - 8 Chocolate Bars; Jess Because Tea & Candy Gift Bag; Maeve Lily School of Music - Music Lessons Gift Cert; Mikados Sushi - $25 Gift Cert.; News Leader/Jam Busters - 1 year Subscription & Hot Pepper Jelly; Princeton Outdoor Supply Backpack , Knife, & Compass; Princeton Paint & Decorating - $10 Gift Cert.; Princeton’s Loonie Bin - Cookie Jar; Shoppers Drug Mart - Lindor Chocolates; Suzie’s Shoppe - Antique Picture Frame; Sweet Sensations - Chocolate Mints & Candles; The Source – Earbuds & 8-in-1 Multi Tool Kit; Winking Pedlar - $25 Gift Cert.; Work N’ Play - $30 Gift Cert. Christmas Cash – $50 each was donated from Mac’s Auto, Mikados Sushi, Princeton Tire, and Westland Insurance.
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Prosperous New Year! Lori Thomas Manager, Princeton and District Chamber of Commerce
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May all good things await you and yours in this wonderful season of fun, memories and magic. We hope all of your fondest wishes for happiness and success are granted during the holidays and beyond.
Bryan Kromm battles at the net during the Posse’s match up against Osoyoos in Princeton Wednesday afternoon.
Bob Marsh
Posse has a week of hard rides Spotlight Staff It wasn’t a great week to be a cowboy. The Princeton Posse gave up three consecutive games in the past week, sliding farther away from rivals Osoyoos and Summerland in the standings. While the Posse enters the Christmas break sitting in the middle of the Okanagan division, just one point separates the team from fourth place Kelowna.
Last Wednesday the Posse took on division leaders Osoyoos Coyotes on home ice in an afternoon game attended by hundreds of local school children. Despite an earsplitting cheering section, the Posse fell 4-2. Konnar Dechaine was the Posse’s Star of the Game with two assists. Brandon Schaber notched a goal and an assist, and Kurtis Klinger contributed a goal. The Coyotes out-
shot Princeton 31-22. Stephen Heslop made 27 saves. Friday night, again at home, The Posse chased Summerland Steam to a 2-1 defeat. Again significantly outshot, 38-26, the Posse gave up two goals in the first period, came back with a power play goal by Brandon Schaber in the second (assists to Tyler Ehlers and Brandon Workum) but were unable to pull ahead. Schaber was the home Star of the Game
May you enjoy the warmth of hearth and home as well as the love of family during this special season.
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year Mayor Frank & Darnella Armitage
and Bailey Stephens stopped 36 of 38 shots. The Steam was hot again Saturday night in a return match, shut-
ting out the Posse 3-0. Captain Kurtis Klinger was Star of the Game and Stephen Heslop turned away 22 pucks.
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The Community Worker Position is designed to work collaboratively with family physicians to support vulnerable patients in the community. Community Workers offer patients psychosocial support and resource coordination, and work in an interdisciplinary team based environment. : • Follow primary care treatment plans • Provide psychosocial support • Coordinate the range of community and allied-health resources designed to benefit vulnerable patients • Assist in stabilizing vulnerable patients so that they can fit into typical family practice settings • Help to strengthen the quality of connection (attachment) between patients and family doctors • Community Workers work collaboratively through a shared care arrangement with the local family physicians to help improve both patient and provider experience.
Skills and Abilities:
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• Excellent written and verbal reporting skills • Demonstrated ability to teach and work effectively with others in both team and one to one setting. • Knowledge and understanding of working in interdisciplinary teams • Ability to build effective and diplomatic working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders • Knowledge and understanding of primary care settings • Knowledge and awareness of appropriate community resources • Good organization, time and general management skills • Good interpersonal communication skills • A moderate level of physical fitness is required since direct delivery of program activities may involve standing, walking, bending, lifting.
Qualifications, Education and/or Equivalent Experience Essential Requirements • Experience working with vulnerable populations (people living in poverty, elderly, substance misuse and mental health issues) • A diploma in social work/human services or a related field or the equivalent education and/or experience. • Direct program delivery experience in the community social services sector with a demonstrated working knowledge of community, regional and provincial based programs • Valid BC’s Driver’s License • Access to an adequately insured reliable vehicle
Assets (preferred requirements)
Experience working in healthcare field
For further information regarding this position please e-mail Heather Eriksen at childcareadmin@telus.net or call our office 250-295-3126. This posting will be open until January 9th, 2015.
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Best Wishes this
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Princeton Crisis Assistance received a large cup of holiday cheer last week from Copper Mountain Mine, who presented a cheque for $8,840 to help shelter and feed people in need over the holidays and for the coming year. The donation included dollars from the mine, as well as matching dollars from Copper Mountain’s suppliers. Princeton mayor and Copper Mountain executive Frank Armitage, centre, presented the cheque Friday to Rayleen Brewer from Princeton Crisis Assistance.
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A Heartfelt “Thank You” To all of our community members for their wonderful support through out the year. Once again our Safe Home program was supported by Shoppers Drug Mart’s.
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Mrs. Dobb’s Grade 2 class from John Allison Elementary School dazzled a packed house recently at the annual Christmas concert with a rendition of Winter Wonderland. Left to right are Nathan Gereau, Olivia Vandergulik and Kashis Waddington.
Together with our partner agencies we are striving to find ways to improve the availability of resources in our great community. 2015 promises to be a very busy year. A special Thank You for the personal donations made throughout the year.
We wish you all a Very Merry Christmas & Prosperous New Year Princeton Family Services Society
Bob Marsh
Students from Vermillion Forks and John Allison raised the roof at the Princeton arena last Wednesday during an afternoon Posse home game against Osoyoos. Despite the earsplitting cheering section, Princeton lost the match 4-2.
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Staging Christmas Light-up truly a community effort To the editor The Princeton and District Chamber of Commerce had a lot of people help make Christmas Lightup a successful event. We would like to thank the following for their contribution: First and Foremost Santa ! Doug Pateman our wonderful MC Copper Mountain Mine – sponsoring the AP Guest Ranch horse & wagon rides Diane Blank Photography – Santa photos Seniors Citizens Branch #30 – supplying Santa Candy & Oranges; and for the use of their hall to make popcorn and hot chocolate Valley First – sponsoring hot chocolate and popcorn; and Tammy & Clarence Cooper and Barb & Barry Fraser for making both. Princeton Ambassadors – giving out candy & the use of their popcorn machine & tent Sue Coyne – thermos for hot
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Brownies: Aivry Thomas, Kabrie Hartwell, Azlyn Brewer, Shaelin Tomusiak, McKinley Ford, Brook Minshull, Wyatt Antonick, Hanna Zirk, McKenna Taylor, Tagen Cranston, Hanna Leduc, Mya Robbins, Taryn Greening, Tatum Greening, and Olivia Vandergulik Highland Dancers – Teachers: Janet Banks, Amy Blank and Clara Coyne. Dancers: Lily Traverse, Savannah Jwaszko, Tegan Gilbert, Kaileigh McClelland, Chloe McClelland, Maja Gillerstedt, Delorian Osborne, Caprice Roccamatisi and Natalie Yurkowski. Princeton Community Youth Choir led by Laurie Thomas. Singers: Abby Coyne, Katie Coyne, Kiera Anderson, Lacy Baird, Tauren Baird, Brooke Heron, Carter Heron, Payton Barth, Addy VanGene, Gilly VanGene, Corben VanGene, Shambree Reichert, Taylor Gibb, Victoria Gibb, Delorian Osborne, Danica Sulentich, Van Costa,
Mekai Metz, Shanna Metz, Maddy Wessel, Julie Oliver, Eden Jensen, Noah Jensen, Natalie Yurkowski, Michaela Sutton, Eric Gillerstedt, Maja Gillerstedt, Kaelan Druck, Hailey Hogg, Ben Tinney, Megan Tinney, Kellan Robinson, and Denise Pasco. And finally the heros of the day, Princeton Cheerleaders: Shelby Bothe-Nylund, Katie Bartlett, Hailey Darby, Haley Anderson, Kyley Barbeler, Sarah Nelsom, Travis Fedun, Thyme Callihoo and their Coaches Megan Pateman and Tasha Ferdinand. These young citizens showed us what Christmas spirit is all about. They came to our rescue and helped with set up and clean up; they also served the hot chocolate and popcorn on behalf of Valley First – and they did all of this with a great attitude. Thanks to Councillor Pateman, and Chamber President Brenda Crawford and Director Kim Vokey for helping with set up and clean
up; and thanks to Manager Lori Thomas for helping and overseeing it all. And thank you Citizens of Princeton for your patience while we needed to change dates for the event - twice. The Chamber Craft Sale had a prize draw at almost every table - winners of some fantastic prizes were: June Hope (2); MichaelAnn Miller; Nola; Diane Couger (2); Linda; Yvonne Hage; Maureen Turner; Natasha Adams; Tina Hunt; Deanne Stadler; Simone Vermette. The winner of the Christmas Tree Competition is the Princeton Sparks who won a bowling party at Copper Hill Lanes. Thank you Copper Hill Lanes, these young ladies are looking forward to bowling in their pajamas!! We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Lori Thomas, Manager, Princeton and District Chamber of Commerce
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Holiday garbage collection hours
Princeton and district minor hockey held there second annual 50/50 Christmas cash raffle. 500 tickets were sold at $20 a piece. The lucky winner was drawn on December 13 at the Princeton district arena. Congratulations to Kyle MacMurchy of Princeton BC for winning the $5000 prize. Thank you to all the community members for supporting minor hockey in our area.
Residents across the RDOS with regular garbage collection on Thursday will not receive refuse collection on Christmas and New Years Days. Residents of the Town of Princeton that normally receive collection on Thursdays will see their refuse day shift one day to Friday over the holidays. Thursday collection areas will be collected on Friday December 26th and January 2nd. Check with your local collection calendar for recycling collection dates. All other collection days remain the same including Friday December 26th. If you are visiting a local landfill over the holidays please check to ensure the days of operation as some may be closed on specific days.
THANK YOU We would like to thank Anna and her staff at the Heartland Restaurant for hosting the “Best Company Christmas Party ever”! Also a big thank you to April & George and their staff at the Sandman for their wonderful hospitality! The Envirogreen Family
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Business & Service Directory MAC’S AUTO PARTS 193 Vermilion Ave. Ph: 250-295-6944
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Hunters protest shift favouring non-residents By Tom Fletcher Black Press
As B.C. hunters packed rooms to protest regulations giving guideoutfitters and their out-of-province clients a larger share of big-game permits, the provincial government argues that the shift is being exaggerated. The latest increase in the share of guide permits to hunt moose, grizzly bear and other restricted animals in limited-entry hunting areas of B.C. totals 618 “hunting opportunities” across the province per year, says a statement from the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations. Based on the success rate of hunts for different species, “this model represents a transfer of approximately 186 animals from residents to guides.” The B.C. Wildlife Federation’s estimate that the wild game allocation policy could result in 5,000 fewer hunting permits for resident hunters under limited entry hunting rules is “not accurate,” the ministry says. Forests Minister Steve Thomson said in an interview he made the decision on the latest allocation after a long consultation where the BCWF and the Guide Outfitters Association of B.C. couldn’t agree. The decision was to provide certainty for guide businesses, but also took away guides’ rights to pool
regional game allotments and hunt in vacant guiding territories. “There are arguments over the number, depending on which base you use, and I expect those arguments will continue,” Thomson said. “At the end of the day we all want the same thing, which is healthy wildlife populations.” BCWF hosted hunter meetings in Kelowna and Langley this week, and spokesman Jesse Zeman said hunters were lined up out the door in Langley. He said the latest changes are part of a longer-term shift going back more than a decade that has seen a loss of harvest share for resident hunters. B.C. hunters are concerned that the share reserved for guide-outfitters is now higher than anywhere else in North America. Under the latest policy, that share is 20 per cent for elk, 20 or 25 per cent for moose depending on the restricted region, 35 per cent for mountain goat, and 40 per cent for grizzly bears. Open season areas for moose and other animals remain in the southern Interior and northeast, where anyone can buy a license and tag to hunt. Abundant species such as mule deer, whitetail deer and black bear have no hunting quotas in any part of B.C. Zeman said for prized species such as Roosevelt elk on Vancouver Island, winning a resident tag in the
BC wines headed for some grocery stores By Jeff Nagel Black Press
lottery is rare enough to be a oncein-a-lifetime opportunity. As hunter numbers rebound, they increasingly face the choice to aim for another species, drive long distances to an unrestricted region, or hire a guide. The latest changes include returning Kootenay bighorn sheep to a general open season for guided hunting. The restriction that only full-curl rams can be hunted remains in place. Thomson said the population will be closely watched, and harvest limits returned if necessary. Zeman said the BCWF is concerned that this iconic Rocky Mountain trophy could once again be over-hunted. The popularity of hunting in B.C. continues to increase, from about 81,000 licences issued in 2003 to more than 100,000 last year, which means more resident hunters are losers in regional hunting lotteries. BCWF compiled statistics for moose, the most popular big-game target. Moose populations have declined in some areas while both applications from resident hunters and the share reserved for guides has risen. In 2005 there were 56,000 applications for moose, with only one out of five successful. By 2013, there were nearly 67,000 would-be resident moose hunters, 54,000 of Hockey refused Pool Manager whom were a moose tag.
The province’s latest liquor reform will make it easier for wine stores to relocate into grocery stores – provided they offer only B.C. wines – but there’s no sign the government is rethinking its change to wholesale wine pricing that will sharply drive up the price of more expensive bottles. Friday’s announcement by Justice Minister Suzanne Anton in Langley at Chaberton Estate Winery is being hailed by B.C. wineries because some supermarkets that can begin selling wine come April will be barred from stocking foreign wines. Under the change, existing VQA and independent wine stores can relocate or transfer their licence to an eligible grocery store as long as 100 per cent B.C. wine is sold. Those licence transfers won’t be limited by a rule that disallows new outlets if there’s an existing one within one kilometre. Liquor policy reform leader John Yap called it a “winning combination” to allow grocery shoppers to also buy B.C. wine and support the local industry. “The B.C. wine industry is entering into a new era of winemaking,” added Chaberton co-owner Eugene Kwan. The new model is different from the store-within-a-store model in that it allows B.C. wine to be on regular grocery store shelves and shoppers would pay for it at designated registers staffed by trained employees who are at least 19. Anton said a limited number of new licences – she would not specify how many – will be made available to sell just B.C. wine in grocery stores. The extra licences will mean more competition for private wine stores that have already been critical of some of the province’s liquor reforms. Vancouver lawyer Mark Hicken, who acts for wine industry clients, predicts there will be “no takers” on wine stores relocating under the new B.C.-only model because they would lose most of their international product lines. Hicken said the B.C.-only rule may violate Canada’s international trade agreements. A major concern for wine stores and B.C. restaurants is the change unveiled recently to the province’s wholesale pricing formula for wine that ends the discount advantage for independent wine stores. It may mean little change or even cheaper prices for wines that now cost $15 and under. But the final retail price of pricier bottles is expected to rise sharply come April, in both private and government stores, and in restaurants.
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Moose are the most sought-after species for hunters in B.C., with harvest restricted by a lottery in most regions. Hunting is increasing in popularity after a long period of decline. 14-12-21 5:25 PM
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653
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670
20 164
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622
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621
0
11
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