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The Magazine I Love Creston Magazine is produced monthly and distributed free of charge by I Love Creston Marketing Ltd. feature story Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. Any advertisements or graphics Hurry hard, party hearty designed in-house are property Trends and teams have come and gone, but the Valentine’s Bonspiel of I Love Creston Marketing Ltd. 5 has always been about equal parts curling and carousing. and may not be used in any other medium without permission. Views expressed in the magazine does not necessarily reflect those what’s inside of the company. Town Hall History Letters to the Editor 8 SportsCentre highlights 2012. 18 Mighty clever, by George! Letters to I Love Creston Magazine may be emailed to office@ First Nations Nature ilovecreston.com or mailed to 9 Chief calls for unity. 20 Snowflakes one of a kind? Box 143, Creston, BC, V0B 1G0. 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KOOTENAY WEBSITE www.ilovecreston.com January 2013 3 this issue – the Butterfly Bonspiel for men, rapidly as the 10th anniversary Guest which continues to this day. edition, hailed as the “highlight of From the editor While the Valentine’s Bonspiel was the curling season,” was won by a foursome from Calgary, and guests he Valentine’s Bonspiel, the named for its proximity to Feb. 14 were charmed by the warmth of the annual women’s event hosted by (being held on the weekend closest T small-town atmosphere. the Creston Curling Club, marks its to that date, but not later), the men’s 50th anniversary on Feb. 8-10. But ’spiel earned its title less practically. “Get-togethers were held Saturday the sport’s formal roots in the valley and Sunday and members of local According to a 1957 article in the date much farther back than that. rinks took the visitors to their homes Advance by Russ Joyce, the club’s for breakfasts and lunches,” said one Newspaper archives from the old secretary-treasurer, “During the report. “This hospitality was much Creston Review and Creston Valley opening ceremony conducted by appreciated by the visiting rinks.” Advance reveal that the club’s first the late Frank Staples on a glorious meeting was in December 1925 spring day, there fluttered down As recently as 2003 the Valentine’s with a Dr. Henderson presiding. from parts unknown a flight of small was still drawing close to 40 teams, Games were held in the town’s butterflies. Thus the name ‘Butterfly a figure organizers would be happy Agricultural Building on a natural Bonspiel.’ Since then it has become to reach this year as attendance has ice surface, portions of which the biggest and most popular ’spiel been in decline. Vice-chairman were designated for curling and in the interior of B.C.” Bev Pommier, however, remains confident of the ’spiel’s long-term skating. The curlers – membership Noting that the 1954 Butterfly appeal and survival. was capped at 24 – considered boasted a robust 82 rinks, with 78 themselves fortunate that freezing and 72 in subsequent years, Joyce “It’s a lifetime sport where if you temperatures prevailed that winter. wrote, “The B.C. Spiel in Victoria teach your kids to curl when they’re The club erected a curling-specific this year had an entry of 88. All younger they can curl until they are building to the west of the power to the Butterfly.” seniors and want to go south,” she agricultural grounds the next fall, says. “(And) it’s a social thing. If you The club moved into a new rink in move to a different town and you with carpenters earning 40 cents an 1950 and expanded membership hour. By the 1929-30 season they don’t know anybody, go to a curling to 132 from 62 two years later, rink.” were playing under electric lights. allowing a fourth sheet of ice to be Though founded by men, the installed and sets of matched rocks The key to growth, she adds, is club was not exclusive of women, to be purchased. revitalizing the dormant local junior program, because “that’s where your who were permitted to play in the The women’s game was also afternoon for $2 apiece. bonspiel people come from when gaining momentum as Creston they’re 20 and up.” The groundwork for the next ladies hosted the 1950-51 East and phase of modernization was laid West Kootenay Spiel and earned To enter the Valentine’s Bonspiel in 1938 when a concrete floor was the following props from Joyce: phone Pommier (866-5492) or poured. A new roof and clubhouse “Words fail to adequately express chairman Marlys Joy (428-7583). improvements followed in 1943, our gratitude and thanks to the Among planned special events are when affiliation with the B.C. Ladies Curling Club for what they dances to live music on the Friday Curling Association was struck. are doing and have done in many and Saturday nights, a Saturday ways besides donations of time and An ice-making plant was installed in banquet also open to former curlers services. A big thanks, gals.” 1945, making Creston the smallest and the traditional costume parade community in Canada to boast A-event winners of the first Friday evening. artificial ice, according to published Valentine’s Bonspiel in 1963 were “You never know what’s going to reports. skip M. Werner and rinkmates show up,” Pommier says. Mabel Smith, D. Langston and L. The club had incorporated under the There’s more on the bonspiel and McKenzie. Societies Act by 1946, when what curling in Creston in this month’s was billed as the biggest event in The field numbered in the 20s at cover story.  Creston curling history was launched first but the bonspiel gained cachet 4 January 2013 www.ilovecreston.com feature

Next generation of curlers needed to ensure 50-year-old Valentine’s Bonspiel thrives into the future

iva the Valentine’s Bonspiel, at “We’re trying to make it bigger and every two hours,” says Pommier, Vwhich female curlers have been better (with) more entertainment who headed the organizing drinking in a combination of the and . . . more giveaways and gifts committee that year. “Literally every sport’s social and competitive elements and door prizes and things like two hours there was another for half a century. that,” Pommier says. “We have a live (draw). When the Creston Curling Club’s band this year instead of a DJ.” “I remember quite well (coming annual women’s event turns 50 in The committee invited as many past home) from the party at 1 (a.m.), February its entries may number entrants as it could track down to sleeping till 3 and coming back to barely half that of its peak period pump up the draw and augment the curl. You knew at the beginning of in the late 1980s, but they’ll still be atmosphere of nostalgia that seems the weekend that’s the way it was rockin’ the house as far as letting certain to prevail, given the 2013 going to be and if you didn’t like it, loose, according to vice-chairman Bev theme of It Happened in 1963. you didn’t sign up. Pommier. “(It) seems to be working,” Pommier “The year before we had 48 teams “Oh, absolutely,” she says with a says. “We’ve had a couple of e-mails so the last draw was at 1 in the laugh, before adding, “That’s all we from people that haven’t come for morning. Then they started at 7 on can say about that. What happens at years and years who are going to Saturday and 9 on Sunday morning the rink, stays at the rink!” come back because it is the 50th. so you had a few hours of down Attendance has been a roller-coaster “We’re hoping for more rinks. Lately time.” over the past five decades, attributed we’ve been around 24, 26. We’re Corn brooms were still used for to such factors as the number of ice hoping for 36 this year.” sweeping which “was hard work,” sheets and changing demographics, Even that, however, would be a far she remembers. but camaraderie, good times and – yes cry from the bonspiel’s heyday when “I’ve heard that they had to unfold – intense play remain constants. The games ran 24/7 all weekend. their fingers to wrap around the tradition is set to continue this year “The largest we’ve had was 54 at one broomstick because your hands are and well into the future at the recently time, and that was when we only so sore,” says Marlys Joy, who chairs renovated Creston and District had the four sheets of ice instead of this year’s committee. “And the Community Complex. six, so we curled around the clock blisters – lots of blisters.” www.ilovecreston.com January 2013 5 feature The Valentine’s was so popular that A lifelong Crestonian, Salvador took that attracts curlers today. some rinks were turned away. up the sport with a group of friends “Very much so – maybe a little more,” “In those years it started Thursday as a young adult out of high school in she says when asked if the bonspielers night, with the local rinks playing the early ’50s. of her day enjoyed themselves as off before the out-of-town teams got “I just liked sports, and curling was so much as they do now, before pausing here,” Pommier says. “I think that much fun,” she says. “We all had fun. to reflect. year, and maybe a few years before There were always a few of us who “I don’t know . . . They probably party that, there was a lottery of local teams would put on skits and plays and keep just as hearty as we did,” she adds to get into the bonspiel. It wasn’t a things laughing. The competition was with a laugh. given that you’d get in. great. There were lots of good curlers.” “Some rinks were really competitive, but down under they were lots of fun as well. It was a great atmosphere. “We knew everyone. We got to know all those girls from going out of town every year. They’d come up here and curl and we’d go back to Cranbrook “They took 24 teams from in town She and her husband Gino both or Kimberley or wherever. There’s lots and 24 from out of town, so if there served on the Creston Curling Club of memories.” were 26 teams in town or 30 or executive and were heavily involved in whatever, everybody’s name went in the Valentine’s Bonspiel every year – Sitting in the comfortably appointed a hat and you got pulled out to see if she as a curler and/or organizer, he as lounge overlooking the six sheets of you made it or not.” one of many male helpers who tended ice at the Rec Centre, Salvador can’t help but marvel at the contrast with Donna Salvador was a mainstay bar and dished up meals – until they the facility where she learned the in the early years of the Valentine’s began wintering in the south. ropes. Bonspiel, which she says was preceded “(I) miss it a lot,” says Salvador, who by a tournament known simply as played third when she wasn’t skipping, “When we first started curling our the Creston Ladies’ Curling Club “(but) there’s a time when you can’t rink was across from the Dairy Bonspiel. get out there on the ice.” Queen, with two sheets of ice,” she says. “We had so much fun there, She recalls being and then they built the Creston Civic drawn by the same Centre and remodelled it and now we blend of socializing have this beautiful complex. I think and competitiveness it’s wonderful.”

6 January 2013 www.ilovecreston.com feature The original quarters on what’s now status and the proliferation of And not just in Creston but the Canyon Street were cramped by televised tournaments. But Pommier Cranbrook club and the Kimberley comparison – first two, then four offers a simple explanation, one the curling club, they all had large junior sheets of ice on a lower level and an club is hurrying hard to address. programs that they don’t have now.” upstairs lounge she pegs at a quarter “A lot of it has to do with not having The Creston club is trying to develop of the present size. the junior program as active as they a new generation of curlers to ensure “It was a pretty old building,” used to be,” she says. “When I went the long-term survival of local Salvador says. “When they were to high school there were 150 kids in traditions like the Valentine’s Bonspiel dancing up in the lounge you thought that curling club and now they don’t and the men’s Butterfly Bonspiel. they were going to come through to even have a curling club. We’re not “We have open ice on Tuesday the curling rink. getting the juniors and the older kids nights,” Pommier says, “so anybody who are starting that wants to learn to curl can come curling and then down and try it. We have brooms. curling when We have sliders. All they need are they’re 20, 25, clean shoes and stretchy pants. 30. That part of There are instructors here for every it is missing. sheet of ice so we’ve got some kids “Those were the good old days. We “The largest part of our club now is coming out now.” had a lot of fun, and I think the kids the seniors, who were all the 30- The program also runs Saturday today are having a lot of fun too. It’s year-olds back then” – and even mornings at 11. just a different atmosphere. When we those numbers are decreasing due to “For as long as people show up were curling we didn’t have all these snowbirding. who are interested, they’ll keep doing beautiful brooms and all these lovely “The junior programs are kind of it,” she says, presumably speaking shoes and all the nice attire. Now they lacking and I think it’s partly the both of the junior mentors and those look pretty darn nice out on the ice.” kids have so many choices of things who organize the Valentine’s Bonspiel Salvador plans to watch the 50th to do that curling isn’t one of them, as it heads toward a second half- Valentine’s ’spiel, partly for its necessarily, and then you also need a century.  historical significance, partly so as teacher/sponsor representative and a not to miss out on all the revelry and bunch of active people also because her two daughters are that will volunteer their coming out of curling retirement to time,” Pommier says. participate. Now living in Cranbrook, “That’s also (a factor). the sisters grew up curling in Creston “A lot more people work but “haven’t curled for years. (They these days (and) and want) to support what the girls now there’s a lot of things are trying to do, make it a big ’spiel.” you can volunteer for, It may seem odd that interest in the so something’s got to bonspiel has declined, given curling’s slide and I think that’s higher profile through full Olympic what’s happened here.

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This is the future Story by: Jason Louie, Chief, Lower Kootenay Band our past great chiefs envisioned for us. LKB meeting challenges There will be many difficult times of new year head on this year for all of us in this world. The path in life is not easy and appy New Year to all! I hope political views of the leadership but many times we may question all of the holiday season was full of this team is what democracy has for H the struggles. joy and laughter spent with loved the band. ones. These questions may never be As chief I must lead. There are times answered but we are all warriors in Time has gone by fast and 2013 when I must follow and times when our own way. We all have the elder marks the halfway point of my I will walk beside my people, but in our family who expects us to do tenure as chief of the Lower never will I hide in the background the right thing even when no one is Kootenay Band. The tasks at hand of the citizens. looking. are difficult but I wish to thank the If we sink we will swim. If we fall we LKB council for all of its hard work My wish this year is for good health will rise. If we cannot run we will for all who reside in the Creston and dedication for the betterment of walk. We will meet our fate together. the band. Valley. We could be financially well The LKB has lost numerous elders off but without good health we are A band election held in November and knowledge-keepers. This year merely trying to survive.  resulted in a newcomer, Robin I wish to see key citizens assume Jason Louie can be reached by phone at Louie, joining the council team. 428-4428, ext. 235, e-mail at the elder roles, the young men [email protected] or on the Web at I wish to acknowledge outgoing assume the hunter role and the www.lowerkootenay.com. council member Sandra Luke for ladies assume the responsibilities of the years she contributed to Yaqan gathering roots and medicines. Nukiy (Lower Kootenay). The Discovery Team Many of us have had the same Michael Carpenter Sara Millar A council retreat is scheduled teachers who bestowed their this month to revisit some of last priceless knowledge upon us and year’s goals and objectives and to expected us to move forward. continue to live the following vision Through the seasons of this statement: the Lower Kootenay upcoming year we will see progress Band strives to provide a full and the change which must come The Experience and Energy range of programs and services from us as individuals. you need to get the job done! in a holistic manner to meet the Our community partners are not Buying or Selling, call us Today current and future needs of the for all your Real Estate Needs the enemy. They are our allies who membership of Yaqan Nukiy. This Discover the Difference! will be accomplished with the full will assist in the band living out the participation of the community vision statement. through self-government and There appears to be more ease when self-sufficiency, in harmony with the RCMP visit the reserve or when Discovery Real Estate Ktunaxa traditions. a social worker attends a community 2 Offices to Serve You function or when a Regional District 1013 Canyon St., Creston I strongly believe that we must take 106 33rd Ave. S., Hwy. 3, Erickson charge of our own destinies, but to of Central Kootenay director drops Office 250-428-2234 achieve that goal we as citizens of by to visit and have a coffee. Toll Free 1-877-428-2234 [email protected] the Lower Kootenay community There was a time, not long ago, [email protected] must unite. I acknowledge that not when these efforts would be pursued www.remaxcreston.com all citizens of LKB agree with the half-heartedly or not all. I commend www.ilovecreston.com January 2013 9 regional district chance to debate the issues and most times reach some Area B News common ground with a mutual understanding. Story by: Penny A.P. Anderson That brings us to today. I have accepted being the alternate director, which means that when he cannot New alternate make a meeting, I step in for him. It is also my belief that tax dollars are on the line so director for Area B the director has to make extremely important binding decisions for us all. It takes many hours of meetings irector John Kettle has appointed me as the alternate and discussions not only with communities but federal, director for Regional District of Central Kootenay D provincial and local governments. Area B. I believe I have the ability to help our director by working with the people in the rural communities. In addition, background investigation and information searching are needed to make decisions from a “My belief is that working knowledgeable position. I am up for the challenge on behalf of the director and together in a co-operative the people of Area B. In the first two weeks as alternate manner is paramount in the director I attended a variety of meetings with and without success of any community” Kettle. I participated in the branding exercise for the Creston In the past I have participated through business dealings Valley and attended an agricultural meeting held by in communication technology, the arts and community Columbia Basin Trust and Creston Valley Chamber building. I have been involved in and have a good of Commerce, a meeting of the Advisory Planning understanding of boards and their operations. Commission and two annual general meetings (Erickson My belief is that working together in a co-operative Community Association and Creston Valley Food Action manner is paramount in the success of any community. Coalition). 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• Sell taxable goods, for example: • Provide related services, for selling exclusive products of a direct alcoholic beverages, motor vehicles, example: repair or maintain taxable seller. goods such as automobiles, knives, You are also required to register if you watches, TVs, stereos, office are a contractor: equipment or computers, apply protective treatments to taxable • Who enters into contracts to goods such as fabric protection, rust improve real property (e.g. home Member British Columbia proofing or paint, set up, install renovations); and, & Alberta or dismantle taxable goods such • Your contracts specifically require as temporary display counters, your customers to pay PST on the Rita M. Patstone shelves or booths at trade fairs and material and equipment that you Certified General Accountant conventions, or restore taxable goods supply under the contract and that such as furniture. remains attached or affixed to the real Personal Taxes • Provide four or more units of property after the improvement. Corporate Taxes accommodation. You are not required to register with Business Consulting • Provide legal services. the province if you do not make Bookkeeping taxable sales of goods or software, • Provide telecommunication do not make taxable leases of goods • Flexible appointment times services, including Internet access, and do not provide taxable services • Your home or office or non-basic cable, non-residential (related services, telecommunication my office in West Creston telephone services, cell phone services, legal services and services, satellite services, facsimile accommodation). Phone: 250-428-2662 services and digital and electronic Cell: 250-254-2646 media content such as music and The following examples are email: [email protected] movies. circumstances when you do not need 1605 Evans Rd., Creston, BC V0B 1G7 to register: • Provide software.

12 January 2013 www.ilovecreston.com business • You only sell non-taxable or to July 1, 2010, under the Social comply with the provisions of the exempt goods or software, such Service Tax Act or Hotel Room Tax Provincial Sales Tax Act you may as food for human consumption, Act will need to apply for a new PST have your registration suspended or or provide non-taxable or exempt registration number. cancelled. services, such as dry cleaning or You can apply to register using any of All businesses required to register transportation services. the following options: are considered to be collectors • You are a wholesaler and do not • Online, using the new online regardless of whether they are actually make retail sales. system called eTaxBC (see the Web registered. All collectors have specific • You are a small seller. page Register to Collect PST for obligations to charge, collect and  more information). remit PST. • You are an independent sales For more information call toll free 1-877-388- contractor only selling exclusive • In person at your local Service 4440 or e-mail [email protected]. products. BC Centre. You can access Bill 54-Provincial Sales Tax Act If you are not registered and you • By fax or mail. Complete a on the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia Web site at www.leg.bc.ca/39th4th/3rd_read/ collect PST, or an amount as if it paper form and mail or fax it to the gov54-3.htm. were PST, on any sales or leases, province. For up-to-date information on the return to PST, you must remit that amount to the The Application for Registration for subscribe to the What’s New page at www.sbr. province. For example, if you charged Provincial Sales Tax form (FIN 418) gov.bc.ca/msbr/whats_new/consumer_taxes/ whatsnew.htm. and collected PST on an exempt or is available from any Service BC non-taxable item, or collected tax Centre and online. Rita Patstone can be reached by phone at at an incorrect rate (e.g. 10 per cent 250-428-2662, cell at 250-254-2646 or email [email protected] instead of seven per cent), you would Note that registering to collect PST still have to remit that amount. and having a registration Depending on the circumstances, number does not take the your customer may be entitled to a place of a business licence refund either directly from you or or any other required from the province. authorization. You apply for a business licence If you are not required to register you through your municipality may still wish to register so you can or regional district, or the self-assess any PST you are required OneStop Business Registry in to pay through the tax return participating municipalities. process. For example, in certain circumstances, some businesses are Once you are registered you required to self-assess PST on goods are required to notify the purchased for use in their businesses. province if: In December 2012 letters should • You change your address, have been sent out to businesses with change the name or nature information about how to register. of your business, or stop If you do not receive a letter or are operating your business; or unsure if you need to register, contact • You change the legal your local Service BC Centre. structure of your business Registration for businesses can occur (e.g. sole proprietor to as of Jan. 2. corporation). 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14 January 2013 www.ilovecreston.com education Herbal educational still going strong at College of the Rockies Story by: Rachel Beck students from all over the Kootenays programs. Many graduates have he popularity of herbal and as far away as Alberta to attend gone on to open their own herbal Teducation at the College of classes while continuing to work and consulting service or apothecary, the Rockies in Creston continues care for family. produce their own herbal products to grow after 11 years, and the and work in health stores or as Response to the program has been programs offered there provide sales representatives for companies overwhelming over the years and, some of the best training of its kind producing herbal products. in January 2005, an online version available in Canada. Others are growing herbs to either sell in plant form or to suppliers. “Many program graduates now share their Some have gone on to take further knowledge of herbs with the community” training in related fields such as massage therapy, midwifery and aromatherapy and have combined of the program was developed. The these with their training here to The college will be offering a range online course has allowed students expand career opportunities. of programs in 2013 for those from all over Canada, the United interested in the subject. States and as far away as Central Others have simply used their newfound knowledge to care for A workshop series called Celebrating and South America to expand their their family and friends. Herbs is set to start in late January knowledge of herbs. Some graduates and will offer participants an have embarked on careers in the field. In Creston the course inspired the introduction to the many uses The online program has since been creation of the Greenheart Herbal of herbs, including the growing, further extended to include a version Society. Many program graduates medicinal, culinary, cosmetic and specifically designed for health-care now share their knowledge of herbs craft uses. professionals looking to broaden their with the community through this knowledge of herbal medicine. group.  The extremely popular Herbal To learn more about these exciting programs Practitioner classroom course is set The college is proud of the courses call the COTR at 428-5332 or visit Web site at to start again at the end of February; and students who have taken the http://www.cotr.bc.ca/creston/. the online version will have intakes throughout the year. It all started back in 2001 when COTR recognized an increasing interest among students for training in herbalism and natural medicine. The Herbal Practitioner NEW & QUALITY CONSIGNMENT program was launched as a result. $-05)*/(

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16 January 2013 www.ilovecreston.com festivals were given more importance and March 25 was Happy New Year announced as the beginning of the New Year. March 25 was called the Annunciation Day as on this day 2 013 Mary got the news that she should The Origin of New Year be impregnated. www.newyearfestival.com Later, the King of England ensured that Jesus’ birth December 25 ew Year is the world’s most be a New Year in 46 B.C. Romans worshiped God Janus who had should be commemorated as New Npopularly celebrated festival. Year. The Origin of New Year dates back two faces, one looking forward to the era of emperors. They thought and the other looking backward. Gregorian Calendar The month of January was named of celebrating a special day which About 500 years later, Pope Gregory after this Roman God and it gave should dot a day for beginning and XIII abolished the old Julian an idea to the emperor to establish end of the year. calendar and introduced Gregorian January as a gate to the New Year. calendar which comprised of a Ancient New Year Calendar It is said Caesar celebrated leap year after every four years to January 1 - New Year by ordering the First New Year celebrations were maintain balance between seasons revolutionary Jewish forces to noticed in Mesopotamia around and calendar. Finally, in 1582, route back. 2000 years. It was celebrated at the Gregorian calendar was set to time of Equinox in mid-March Abolition of Roman New Year Date celebrate New Year on the first day by the Egyptians, Persians and In the medieval period, pagan of January.  Phoenicians while Greeks celebrated it on winter solstice. As per the ancient Roman calendar New Year fell on March 1. This calendar just had ten months and March was the first month of the year. The calendar originated by the cycles of the moon, beginning in spring and ending with autumn planting. Inclusion of Two Calendar Wishing you a Wishing you and yours Months Happy New Year success, happiness and It was Numa Pompilius, the second prosperity in 2013. king of Rome who divided the year filled with happiness into twelve lunar months by adding prosperity and the months of January and February. good cheer! The New Year was shifted to January as it marked the beginning of the Opening for the New Year civil years in Rome. on January 18. January 1- an Official Date of New Year Celebrations www.creston.ca The Roman emperor Julius Caesar Home Style Cafe UI
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“ e want to know who ‘George’ is. Mr. Marchbank Wseems to think he’s in Grade XIII.” So reads a little paragraph near the bottom of a column called Class Chatter in the Hi-Lites newspaper of the Creston Valley Junior-Senior High School from Jan. 11, 1939. The Creston Valley Junior-Senior High School, for those Creston Valley Junior-Senior High School under construction, 1938. Photo of you who were not here in 1939, was the school now taken by Guy Constable, a member of the building committee known as Adam Robertson elementary. It got its start in 1910 as a two-room public school. An additional two The possibility of consolidation came under serious rooms were added to it in 1912. consideration in 1937. All those high schools would be merged into a single school district in order to offer a full “Canyon, Wynndel and Alice secondary program to all students of the Creston Valley. Siding all had their own high The nine public (or elementary) schools in each of the schools in the mid-1930s” communities would also be consolidated into a single school district, though most of the elementary schools The school accommodated all the children in the would continue operating. community of Creston in grades 1 through 8. (Each of Wynndel opposed the idea because of its recently- the outlying communities eventually had their own public acquired high school. Alice Siding opposed it due to the school.) impracticality of reliable transportation, and a few other Students who attended school beyond Grade 8 went to communities expressed similar concerns. (They were the high school in a different location. A superior school, resolved through the purchase of five school buses and for grades 9 and 10, was opened in 1911. considerable efforts to improve roads throughout the valley.) In 1919, Creston’s first high school was opened. It was later enlarged to two rooms. Canyon, Wynndel and Alice Many communities were concerned about the increase in Siding all had their own high schools in the mid-1930s. taxation – a valid concern considering the Creston Valley was still in the grip of the Great Depression. Nevertheless, a vote in early 1938 approved the expenditure of $85,000 for the new school. Construction began almost immediately on what is now the large, front section of ARES – classrooms, an auditorium, a library, rooms for home economics, science, music, commerce and the arts, as well as a couple of offices, two staff rooms (one for men and one for women), and the school nurse’s office. It officially opened on Jan. 11, 1939. The range of subjects offered by the high school was a first for the Creston Valley. The opportunity to participate in a wide range of clubs and activities and on athletic teams was also an important advantage of The completed school shortly after it opened. consolidation.

18 January 2013 www.ilovecreston.com history In addition, the students had the students to enrol before they could His name, I’m guessing, benefit of specialized instructors get the go-ahead from the provincial was George.  in core subjects. As Marj Gilmore Ministry of Education. For more information contact the Creston and District Museum and Archives by phone at 428-9262, e-mail at [email protected] “Grade 13 was also required for entry or the Web site www.creston.museum.bc.ca. into some technical programs at vocational schools” Help Control Unwanted wrote, 50 years after the school was As it turns out, when the junior- Pets opened, “Today all of this is taken senior high school opened in for granted, but it was a giant step January 1939 there were only 11 Support S.N.A.P. forward” in 1939. students interested in taking Grade (Spay/Neuter Animal Program) 13, so the school made one up. The junior-senior high school also Please help with your donations Mr. Staples added, “One of the Phone 250.428.2811 or offered Grade 13. Also known as clerks in the office was really good – Creston’s Treasures & Books senior matriculation, Grade 13 was 4356 Hwy 21, Creston, BC she even found records for him!” a fifth year of high school that was, more or less, the equivalent of first- year university (though students could graduate from high school after Grade 12 and go directly to university from there). Grade 13 was also required for entry into some technical programs at vocational schools. For you trivia buffs, the Grade 13 classroom was located on the second floor of the school, immediately above the main entrance. W.A. Marchbank had been the principal of Creston High School for a few years prior to consolidation, and when the new junior-senior school opened he taught science and mathematics for all grades, including senior matric. Nobody sells more real estate than But none of this explains that 3&/."9
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“Snow is not frozen rain Temperature and humidity are as many two main factors that affect the people think” In the last few years, a Russian growth patterns of snowflakes. For scientist’s work showed that in example, at 28 degrees Fahrenheit the early stages of snowflake you get thin plates and star shapes; development, when it is a snow 23 degrees F gives you needles and s it true that no two snowflakes crystal, the likelihood of finding columns. Between 15 and minus-5 are alike? Let’s start by taking a I a matched pair is greater than degrees F you will get anything from more detailed look at a snowflake. previously thought. plates to the big, many-branched Snow is not frozen rain as many But as the snowflake develops shapes called dendrites. people think. But, like rain, a and becomes more complex, your Why snow crystal shapes change snowflake begins as a droplet of chances of finding two snowflakes so much with temperature remains water that condenses and freezes on that look exactly alike are not as something of a scientific mystery. a speck of dust inside a cloud. great. As the eternal optimist I say, yes, it At that stage it is actually called a There are more than 100 different is possible! Two snowflakes could be snow crystal – a single crystal of features that can be identified in alike. ice with plain, six-sided prisms a single snowflake. That means (hexagonal shape). the number of possible different Will I find a matching pair? Maybe. Will I continue to look? Yes! As more water molecules take hold snowflake patterns is represented by and freeze, the snow crystal grows a one followed by 158 zeros! Please experience the joy and fun of and sprouts branches from the About one septillion (which is a getting out in the snow and finding corner of the basic hexagonal shape. trillion times a trillion) snowflakes that elusive pair. And if you do, let Snow crystals can also join other fall each year. So, if you look at how me know. I’ve never seen $1 million crystals to make even more complex many different snowflake patterns but I know it exists.  shapes. could exist and then try to compare Always feel free to get in touch if you have any questions via phone (402-6900), e-mail As the development moves from a a septillion snowflakes to find ([email protected]) or in person at single crystal to multiple crystals, we that matching pair . . . my head is our administration building located at 1874 now have a snowflake. spinning. Wildlife Road in West Creston.

20 January 2013 www.ilovecreston.com employment “Time Flies Like an Arrow; Fruit Flies Like an Apple” Story by: Kootenay Employment Services When we talk to someone F2F, we information that is either detailed or 0 years ago, the now world- can see the other person’s expression lengthy and/or needs to be recalled at 3famous David Suzuki, was and body language. These two some point in the future. It is much excitedly sharing his findings from elements add a great deal of subtle easier to read an email a few times to years of studying fruit flies on the information to a conversation. For understand it’s meaning than to keep CBC show “The Nature of Things.” example, a co-worker explaining to asking someone to keep repeating I happened to be watching an their supervisor the difficulty they themselves because they are passing episode where he explained that are having understanding a job- on too much verbal information to related task they have to complete computers could never replace process at one time. can see and judge if the supervisor humans, because computers are Whether you are communicating is listening and understanding. The unable interpret language the same in person or using technology, supervisor may be nodding their way people can. understanding the basics of effective head and “appear” to be listening, communication is crucial to success His example was the statement but the employee can “see” that the on the job. At KES, we understand “Time flies like an arrow; fruit employer is checking their email flies like an apple.” People can while they are listening. This is a the importance of communication understand that these two good visual clue to the employee that and offer workshops to job seekers to help them communicate successfully statements are different, even they do not have the full attention while they prepare for a job search or though they both use the word of the person they are talking to. “like”. Time flies LIKE an arrow However, if the employer was maintain a new job.  is a metaphor. Fruit flies LIKE an emailing their supervisor, they would For more information about services provided by not have these extra visual clues Kootenay Employment Services, give us a call at apple is a statement. One word, two (250) 428-5655 or drop by our office at 119 – 11 meanings. to know if their request for help is Avenue North in Creston. being given full attention. When we I have often thought of this communicate F2F we can judge by statement over the years as I have a person’s posture and their facial More than just experienced miscommunication and expression if they are “getting” the your oor store! communication breakdowns in life, message. That is where the expression both personally and in employment “looking clueless” comes from – a situations. The meaning of words person is showing a facial expression is often taken for granted but one that is saying they are not getting word can have more than one the message – communication has meaning, and different people can broken down! have different interpretations of the same word. It is quite amazing Workplace communication can be that we accomplish as much made easier by emails but can also */45"--"5*0/4
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22 January 2013 www.ilovecreston.com health care quite there. This model takes into results, the patients should be allowed Inter-practitioner communication account not only the practitioner’s to choose where and how they receive stimulates a focus not on the knowledge and latest evidence but treatment. practitioner – not even necessarily includes the patient in the decision- Another noteworthy comment: on the treatment – but on how the making process. inter-practitioner communication is patient can best be served. There is still much left to say about “A key element of patient-centred care is patient-centred care. I feel like the discussion has only started. allowing patients to choose their preferred However, I’m sure this article will type of therapy and practitioner” generate enough thought about your own experience with health care and In this system, autonomy is given also critical in patient-centred care. your relationship with your health- back to the patients and the patients This is something I have striven care practitioner. feel validated and respected. They are toward in cases where patients I I hope I have not caused offence. I given control of their own bodies and treat have conditions that require have endeavoured to write honestly care. co-management by their family and ethically. Next time we’ll doctors. Of course, there are inherent venture further down the patient- problems with this system as well, Short notes or reports help centred path, highlighting a new such as when a patient opts out of practitioners communicate for the project at a Toronto hospital that a treatment that could save his or benefit of the patients. They also exemplifies the patient-centred her life. In a scenario closer to my allow practitioners to see how each ideal.  practice, a patient may opt out of other are helping the patients using For more information call Moreton treatment that may lead to a pain- their own expertise. Chiropractic at 428-3535 or visit moretonchiropractic.blogspot.com. free higher level of function. A key element of patient-centred care is allowing patients to choose their preferred type of therapy and practitioner. I find this issue particularly relevant to my practice. I have had patients receiving benefit from care who have been advised by other practitioners to discontinue treatment in favour of treatment with themselves. This type of “patient poaching” is clearly not motivated by patient-centred care, to say nothing of it being disrespectful and unprofessional. It takes advantage of Everyone the knowledge inequality between deserves a practitioner and patient and reduces the patient’s autonomy. loving home. Fortunately this does not happen Creston Pet frequently but it still does occur, and Adoption and not only with my type of practice. Welfare Society '6--
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