Bringing the FREE Creston Valley together. November 2011

Soul Survivors Fresh start in Creston restores hope for refugees Creston Entertainment Museum Sports New York twist on Local wartime Forestry Corps Community-minded Thunder Elena Yeung’s latest CD a cut above the rest Cats scoring off the ice PROVEN LEADERSHIP John Kettle On November 9th (advance poll) and November 19th (general election), YOU will have the opportunity to elect a Director for Area ‘B’ Regional District Central Kootenay. The person you elect will have a direct impact on you and your family for the next 3 years. We do not need more government in our lives, we need ecient government. EVERY VOTE COUNTS! It is easy to nd a reason not to vote. I’m asking you to take the time to VOTE. Good people with good ideas and basic family values need to speak out with their vote. Join with me to continue the good work in Area B, let’s work together to make our valley a better place to live. On NOVEMBER 9th (advance poll), you can vote at the Creston Recreation Centre or the Yahk Community Hall 8:00 am to 8:00 pm. On NOVEMBER 19th (general election), you can vote at the Creston Recreation Centre, Erickson Elementary School, Canyon School, Kitchener Community Hall, Lister Community Hall, Yahk Community Hall from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm.

Voting Information 18 years of age or older. On November 19th You must be a Canadian citizen. A resident of the province for 6 months. A resident of ‘Area B’ for 30 days. RE-ELECT (see ‘Area B’ locations above) Must have 2 forms of Identi cation. (1 must have signature) For more information John Kettle Call John (250)428-6096 or visit Thank You www.re-electjohnkettle.com www.re-electjohnkettle.com contents what’s inside Resources 9 Cross-border pact under review. Mayor’s Desk 10 Reflections on first term in office. Theatre 12 Aladdin latest musical collaboration. Music 14 Little glamour in life on the road. History 16 Creston crew kept Allies in lumber. Remembrance Day 19 Honouring our soldiers.

The joy of freedom and safety is apparent as Sports Tareq, Bilal and Ziad Abo-Nofal (from left) race 23 T-Cats on the prowl for around the streets of their new home town. odd jobs. Wildlife 24 Public support key to From bleak to bright CVWMA’s future. Health 5 Creston Refugee Committee reverses outlook for displaced family of five 26 Are you off your rocker? Martial Arts 30 Much more than punching The Magazine and kicking. I Love Creston Magazine is produced monthly and distributed free of charge by I Love Creston Marketing Ltd. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohib- Wellness ited. Any advertisements or graphics designed in-house are property of I Love Creston Marketing Ltd. and may not be used in any other medium without permission. Views 32 Get with the transformative expressed in the magazine does not necessarily reflect those of the company. program. Letters to the Editor Letters to I Love Creston Magazine may be emailed to [email protected] or mailed to Box 143, Creston, BC, V0B 1G0. Letters may be edited for clarity and space.

I Love Creston Marketing Ltd. www.ilovecreston.com Wendy Franz - Sales/Graphic Design email: [email protected] Justin Ziola - Sales/Financials emai: [email protected] COOLEST KOOTENAY Box 143, Creston, BC V0B 1G0 • Ph/Fx 250.428.2631 WEBSITE www.ilovecreston.com November 2011 3 this issue In March of that year, “Tareq’s Idris was sponsored to move to Guest brother Mohammed and a Canada earlier this year by the From the editor Palestinian friend were killed in Cranbrook-based East Kootenay he challenges of supporting a Baghdad after they were stopped in Friends of Burma, a group with Trefugee family for a year – in a checkpoint by unknown which the Creston committee a generous, caring community Shia militants. Their bodies were partnered to bring a Burmese family like Creston, at least – pale in found thrown in a street two days here. When that fell through, the comparison to the challenges of later. Creston group pursued a Plan B that simply trying to survive in refugee “After exactly one year passed, resulted in the Abo-Nofals getting camps like those in Syria the Abo- another brother, Omar, was killed the life-altering break they’d been Nofal family endured for four years by unknown militants who broke yearning for. while waiting for permission to into his house in Baghdad in front Linda Price chairs a committee to enter Canada. of his own kids and wife. Tareq or which she belonged the last time a They arrived this fall and have begun any of their family couldn’t attend refugee family came to Creston – the the sort of transition that none of us the funerals because they were afraid Samais in 2006 (who are revisited in privileged to be born in these parts (for) their own lives too.” this issue). can truly comprehend. But it’s an Their first refugee camp, the “After you have a family come . . . opportunity they wouldn’t trade for notorious (and since-closed) Al- it’s a lot of work,” she says. “We were anything – at least nothing short Tanf, just across the Iraqi border, pretty tired so we took a break.” of having been spared the whole was a dismal place. (An Al Jazeera nightmare in the first place. Now refreshed and inspired, not to documentary that can be found by mention excited about the possibility The Abo-Nofals – parents Tareq and searching “Far from home – Witness of the Burmese family yet being Eman and their three school-aged – Al Jazeera English” chronicles the cleared to come sometime in 2012, children, who are profiled in this plight of another Palestinian similar Price et al are toiling to help the Abo- issue of I Love Creston – are now to that of Tareq.) Nofals not only dream again, but to immersed in a culture and society “Then,” Idris says, “all the refugees realize those dreams. completely foreign to what they were moved to another refugee knew living in pre-war Iraq, save for “Even though I’m the chair, it’s only camp inside Syria called Al Hol one similarity. a name,” Price says. “We all are because the United Nations High working really, really hard. We’re all “They used to live a normal life,” Commissioner for Refugees saw it committed.” says Adem Salim Idris (an Arabic- was not safe enough. speaking Eritrean refugee now living To learn more about the committee “The Al Hol refugee camp was safer in Cranbrook who is the closest and its latest family, read on. but the family are now too worried thing to a translator the Creston for the refugees there because of Be sure to check out the I Love Refugee Committee could find), the declining political and security Creston Web site, as well, for “working in Baghdad until the war conditions in Syria these days. coverage of the local government in 2003. After that their life and ‘Always whenever any political elections set for Nov. 19. All area personal security started to decline instability occurs, we Palestinians candidates for town council and due to the civil war there.” are the victims and we are those the boards of School District No. 8 Tareq, a Sunni Muslim, received who pay the bill of violence, as it (Kootenay Lake) and the Regional his first death threat in 2006 “from happened in Iraq,’ Tareq adds. Tareq District of Central Kootenay unknown persons telling him he wants to use this opportunity to were invited to have submissions had to leave the country or would plead (for) any volunteer group or posted at www.ilovecreston.com/ be executed,” Idris says. “Tareq individual to sponsor his youngest meetthecandidates. Look for election then managed to leave Iraq with his brother, who lives in Al Hol with his results online too – and don’t forget family to Syria.” wife and only son.” to vote. 

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Story by: I Love Creston Staff

There is now an optimism for the Abo-Nofals (from left: Ziad, Dana, Eman, Tareq and Bilal) that did not exist until they immigrated to Creston.

he simplest of pleasures elicit the 11 – along with their folks, Tareq he used to be a hard worker,” relates Tbiggest of smiles: racing around and Eman – was somewhat of a Adem Salim Idris, a onetime refugee the block on a bicycle, booting miracle, courtesy of the Creston from Eritrea (sponsored to live in a soccer ball, even stepping off a Refugee Committee which Cranbrook earlier this year) who school bus at the end of the day. sponsored them. knows Arabic and was among those greeting the Abo-Nofals at Canadian The kind of humdrum occurrences After four years in squalid Syrian Rockies International Airport on that wouldn’t even register on local refugee camps where the future Sept. 20. “He also says that it was kids are cause for the Abo-Nofal was bleak, at best, the displaced not easy for his wife nor for his siblings – Creston’s newest and Palestinian family had begun to lose children, who wasted four years of perhaps most appreciative residents hope. their precious time with no proper – to celebrate the new life and “Tareq says that it was too hard for education. renewed hope represented by their him to stay at home all day for four “Tareq says they are looking forward adopted Canadian home. years in the refugee camps with to starting a new life with a new soul The recent arrival of 16-year-old nothing to do, just waiting for the in Canada and are optimistic for Dana, 14-year-old Ziad and Bilal, United Nations to feed them, after their kids’ bright future.” www.ilovecreston.com November 2011 5 feature A forced move to a different refugee camp in 2010 brought houses made of wood and bricks but the water was still polluted. Public education was offered but the Abo-Nofals were among parents who withdrew their children due to discrimination and even beatings from Syrian youths. Here in Creston, the first order of business is language study. Tareq can get by with some basic English but the others are starting from scratch. He and Eman, 33, take English as a second language at the College of The Abo-Nofals are a tight-knit family, but escaping the despair of a Syrian refugee camp has brought the siblings even closer together, says their mother, Eman (pictured with Dana, left, and Bilal). the Rockies through the Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy, while the It’s instantly enough to make 42, was driving taxi and working children were immediately enrolled months of hard work worthwhile as a security guard for a petroleum in local schools. for the nearly two-dozen refugee company in Baghdad when life went “At first they were pretty upset committee members who laid the sideways with the onset of war in (because) the two older ones were groundwork for the Abo-Nofals to 2003. going to one school (Prince Charles leave the strife-ridden Middle East. A death threat several years later secondary) and Bilal another (Adam Ironically, their good fortune came prompted Tareq and his family to Robertson elementary), and they at the expense of a family from flee to Syria, and not a moment were really concerned because he is Burma whose placement in Creston too soon. Two of his brothers were only 11, and you know what you’re collapsed at the 11th hour in April murdered within 12 months of each like when you’re 11: pretty worried,” when the Canadian government other by Shia militants in Baghdad. Price says. “But he has had such a capped Burmese immigrations. Momentum had been building for the town’s first refugee sponsorship since the Samais of Sierra Leone in 2006 [see sidebar], “and we just said, ‘We can’t wait till 2012,’ ” says committee chairman Linda Price. “So we went on the ready-to-travel Alas, life in the refugee camps was wonderful reception over at ARES . refugee list of the government and not much safer. . . so he’s really excited.” found this family from Palestine. “They always lived in fear,” Idris The children were assigned “buddy” They were told two years ago that says. “They lived in tents set close to students to show them around, “and they would be sent to Canada, so each other in an open, windy and then they’ll spend a lot of time just they’ve been waiting.” sunny desert which (allowed) fire to sitting, trying to absorb words they Conditions in the camps were spread very quickly. Electric wires don’t understand. The children learn wretched and not at all what they from the camp’s generator were so much quicker than anyone so it were used to in Iraq, where Tareq’s spread all over the place, which was won’t be long. I think . . . within a and Eman’s parents had lived since a scary hazard for parents. Snakes, year the adults will be able to carry 1948, and where all but the Jordan- scorpions and other dangerous on some form of a conversation with born Ziad entered the world. Tareq, insects were another nightmare.” anyone.”

6 November 2011 www.ilovecreston.com feature Once the language barrier is having a nice fall, so they were denominational outfit. “We haven’t sufficiently breached, Tareq will looking for sweaters and things.” got enough money in the bank to be more employable, says Price, Others accompany the family to buy support a whole family of five for a who introduced him to the folks at groceries. year and so we just go on faith and Kootenay Employment Services to it always works out. help with the job hunt. The costs, Price adds, are “like any normal family . . . whatever expenses “As soon as they are able they start “Tareq is really eager to start work, you have, we have. It’s all raised in controlling their own money. They really hard-working,” she says. the community.” get a monthly cheque from us “Eman is committed to being a mother and homemaker.” Ziad and Bilal love riding the bikes that were given to them soon after they arrived, and also playing soccer, while Dana is into computers and related technology – luxuries they possessed in Baghdad. She uses Skype to keep in touch with fellow refugee relatives who’ve been Some benefactors make onetime and they’re taught to use the bank scattered to places like Sweden, Italy cash donations while others machines and how to pay their and Halifax. contribute monthly post-dated bills, and that becomes part of their Local preparations for the delayed cheques. Committee members rotate orientation to Canada. Burmese family transferred catered, by-donation brunches of “As soon as they are working a easily to the Abo-Nofals, who quiche and muffins through half- little bit that becomes part of their are living in a two-bedroom a-dozen local churches to raise income. As soon as you get one condo furnished entirely through additional money. family self-supporting you can start donations. The committee provides “A lot of our fund-raising is just working to raise money for the all living expenses for one year on faith,” Price says of the non- next one, and our Burmese family while assimilating the family into Canadian culture and equipping them to be self-supporting. A housing sub-committee headed by Ed and Sylvia Turner rented the condo and set up the utilities. Its contents were accumulated by a group led by Heather More. Denise Harris looks after the volumes of documentation required by government authorities, Jean Mutch and More are the public school liaisons, Judy Kirkby sets up the budget and Price co-ordinates ESL. “Someone took the family down to the Gleaners and they were able to choose what clothing they needed,” Price says. “They are finding it’s a Soccer is a passion, as evidenced by the celebration of Ziad and Bilal (from left) as their hero, Lionel Messi, scores for FC Barcelona in a European match live-streamed over their laptop computer. Don little cool here, even though we’re Price of the Creston Refugee Committee looks on with somewhat less enthusiasm. www.ilovecreston.com November 2011 7 feature could be arriving in a year. We’re refrigerator is plastered with pictures friends. They’re going to be lonely committed to them and all looking of committee members and their at first and we should visit them forward to having two families telephone numbers. and check up on how they’re here.” “This is the good thing about a doing.” No to be overlooked are the privately sponsored family,” Price It isn’t only committee members family’s social needs. Simply being says. “They already have over 20 who get involved, as witnessed sponsored by a community group friends when they arrive. We stress by the family’s initial experience creates an instant support network. that in our committee meetings, in their new home town – a foot The side of the Abo-Nofals’ that we are their support and their tour of landmarks like the college, grocery store, post office, downtown shops and elementary school. One passer-by offered to include them in personal outings in the valley; a woman handed $20 bills to both Tareq and Eman. “That walkabout we did that first day was really exciting because we met people that weren’t on our committee that would stop and say, ‘Is this the family?’ and we would stop and introduce them,” Price says. “It was exciting to see how the Don Price is among the volunteers committed to familiarizing the family with the norms of everyday community was accepting them Creston life, including this trip to the recycling depot with Ziad. already. It’s amazing.” 

“Georgina and Abdul have stayed Rockies, while Abdul is in Grade 9 Out of Africa for a long time,” Price says of at Prince Charles Secondary School. Story by: I Love Creston Staff mother and son. “Georgina said, He plays hockey and soccer, takes ost families sponsored by the yes, she likes Creston.” swimming lessons and joined the MCreston Refugee Committee Originally there were six relatives in cadets. don’t stick around much longer Creston, including two biological While all sponsored refugees enjoy than the 12 months for which their daughters of Georgina (Mabinty and landed immigrant status in Canada, bills are paid. That’s less a knock Christiana), an adopted daughter Georgina took that one step on Creston than it is a natural (Mary) and a sister (Mildred). further by becoming a citizen after reflection of cultural demographics. Mabinty, 27, now lives in Thunder making the obligatory repayment “We’ve had a couple of families Bay, Ont., with her husband and to the Canadian government of her that stayed on for a couple of years two young children. Mildred, 25, is family’s travel expenses out of but, generally speaking, if there’s in Toronto and has one child. Mary, Africa –estimated in the low five not very many of that ethnic group 22, moved to Edmonton to attend figures. in Creston they do tend to move college and also has one child. Pat Smith, who chaired the to a bigger city,” says committee Christiana, 18, is in her second year committee in 2006, says the chairman Linda Price. of university in Thunder Bay. sponsorship turned out well. The Samai family, sponsored out Georgina, who has worked at “The fact that she’s become of war-torn Sierra Leone five years various restaurants around town, Canadian is very successful,” ago, is an exception. is upgrading at the College of the she says. 

8 November 2011 www.ilovecreston.com resources Learn more about the Columbia River Treaty CBT co-hosts information sessions in Creston Submitted the issues and the approaching date of Creston, CBT is bringing experts he Columbia Basin Trust (CBT) of 2014, both countries are now on the CRT and international water Tis hosting information sessions conducting studies and exploring management from across Canada to about the Columbia River Treaty future options for the CRT. Creston. (CRT) in Creston on Nov. 28. The “Our primary role with respect to CBT is hosting similar sessions in sessions are hosted in partnership the CRT is to act as an information other communities as well as online with local governments and the CRT resource for basin residents,” says information sessions. CBT has also local governments committee. Muth, adding that CBT does not prepared documents, videos and other “The information sessions will help make decisions with respect to the resources to help residents learn more. people who live in the Canadian CRT. “Consultation on the CRT is a Find out more at www.cbt.org/crt.  portion of the Columbia Basin better provincial responsibility.” CBT delivers economic, social and environmental understand what the CRT is, how it benefits to the residents of the Columbia Basin. To Working with the Regional District learn more about CBT programs and initiatives, works and what considerations exist of Central Kootenay and the Town visit www.cbt.org or call 1-800-505-8998. for the future,” said Neil Muth, CBT president and CEO. An open house runs from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m., with a free barbecue from 5:30 to 6:30 and a presentation from 7 to 9 that evening at the Creston and District Community Complex. The CRT is an international agreement between Canada and the United States for co-ordinating flood control and optimizing hydroelectric power generation on both sides of the border. Under the 1964 treaty, the Mica, Duncan and Hugh Keenleyside dams were constructed in Canada. A fourth dam – the Libby – was constructed in Montana. Its reservoir – the Koocanusa – extends 67 kilometres into Canada. The CRT has no official expiry date but has a minimum length of 60 years, which is met in September 2024. Either Canada or the U.S. can terminate many of the provisions of the agreement effective any time after September 2024, provided written notice is filed at least 10 years in advance (2014). While no decision has been made by either country on the future of the treaty, given the importance of www.ilovecreston.com November 2011 9 town enjoyable and our town council saw From the Mayor’s desk positive progress in our community. Story by: Ron Toyota, Mayor of the Town of Creston Year 1: a feral cat bylaw was enacted; approval was received from the Our three-year term Agricultural Land Commission to exempt land from the Agricultural is done Land Reserve for a hotel and he old cliché “but oh, how time Admittedly the first year was a conference centre (with future Tflies” is very true in the case of powerful learning curve, being my economic development allowed serving my first term (three years) as first year in the local government on the balance of the property); your mayor for the Town of Creston. arena. The last two years have been our new Town of Creston Web site was launched (www.creston.ca); we received Build Canada grants of $5 Creston Valley Business Buzz million for our waste water treatment plant upgrade; regional rural policing metals. With the addition of both meetings and public meetings started; fused glass and lampworking to and, I attended the Federation of Firefly, we are poised to expand into Canadian Municipalities conference new realms of creativity and artistic in Whistler and the Union of Firey expression. Flameworks B.C. Municipalities conference in –Hot Glass We are also thrilled to be showcasing Vancouver. & Cool Silver the work of local artists, including Margaux Allard and Brandy Dyer. Year 2: a memorandum of understanding and friendship was Firefly Flameworks is the end result Soon classes will be offered in the signed with the Lower Kootenay of the eight-year artistic journey new studio and people will be able of Jan MacDonald-Potyok. e to explore their own creative side Band; our local Olympic torch new studio and showroom at 2804 with folk-art painting, jewelry- relay celebrations were awesome; Hwy. 3 in Erickson features her making, doll-making, basic our aquatic complex opened; Tim distinctive line of handcrafted metalsmithing, lampworking and Hortons opened; and, I attended the Jan Mac Jewelry. With unusual fused glass. We’ll even design FCM conference in Toronto and the gemstones and unique, one-of-a- classes based on demand. Drop by UBCM conference in Whistler. kind settings, these pieces are as Stuff happens. and let us know what you’d like to Year 3: I emceed the Lower Kootenay striking as they are original. That’s why there’slearn. Falkins. Band council inauguration at Trained as a goldsmith, Jan works For more information visit Prince Charles Theatre; our new in both precious and semi-precious www. reyameworks.com fitness centre facility opened; Lou Creston Valley Business Buzz is proudly sponsored by... Varela was hired as our new town manager; the Jenny’s Night Out event was held at Centennial Park; I attended the FCM conference in That’s what it feels like. Halifax and the UBCM conference Freedom. Comfort. in Vancouver; I participated in the Peace of mind. Creston Fire Department’s hose laying competition; and, Dr. Raphael Elemuo arrived to open his practice Falkins Insurance formerly Ph: 250.428.5338 at the Osprey Medical Offices. 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Stop by any of our locations, or visit our website for more information. www.falkins.com town housing project, the new Creston As I have stated to many, being Place office building and upgrading mayor is not a full-time job but it the waste water treatment plant. is a full-time commitment which I The next three years will see the new enjoyed for the past three years and I town council working toward: the am wanting to do for another three Judy Gadicke removal of heavy truck traffic from years. “Being mayor is not a full-time job Town Council but it is a full-time commitment which I enjoyed for the past three years” Canyon Street, including a true, I would also like to thank the aligned intersection at Pine Street I Love Creston group for allowing and Railway Boulevard; creating me to provide open communication an enhanced rural policing unit for by writing a monthly From the the Creston Valley; continuing to Mayor’s Desk column to the recruit new physicians through the citizens of Creston and the entire Creston Valley Health Working Creston Valley. 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12 November 2011 www.ilovecreston.com theatre Ewing as his sultana and Jacqui Vezina as the beautiful Princess Zubbediya. “The orphans are wonderfully portrayed by 27 children from various schools throughout the area”

Others in the cast include Malcolm Ferguson as Chop Chop, the executioner, and Mack Sanderson as Chip Chip, his apprentice. Narrating the story is Ann Deatherage as the old lady and Lief Deatherage as the child to whom she is telling the story. The genie is played to Jason Smith as evil Alitutu, with his sidekick, Hasan, played by Kienna Dyer. perfection by Colin Hardwick. The stage manager, who is September and will be ready for Also included in the cast are Vern responsible for the smooth running showtime.  Gorham, Axel Marini and T.J. van of the show, is Gary Deatherage. Tickets (adults $10, seniors and students $8 and Hooft. children under 12 $5) will soon be available at The enthusiastic actors and crew Black Bear Books. Buy your tickets early as only The orphans are wonderfully have been rehearsing since early a few will be available at the door. portrayed by 27 children from various schools throughout the area. Many songs have been woven into Elect the plot, among them: A Bushel and SCOTT a Peck, High Hopes, A Wonderful Day Like Today, Those Were the Good Old Days, Lonely Boy, I VEITCH Remember It Well and Thank You for Town Of Creston Councillor Very Much. And what would a play set in Persia be without belly dancers? Guiding TAKING ACTION... the singers and dancers through their GETTING RESULTS routines are Geri Buchanan, Joanna Wilson, Lorraine Doeleman, Susan Jorgensen and Frank Goodsir. Scott is committed TE SC to improving Quality VO O The colourful costumes are being of Life by supporting V T designed and constructed by Jennifer growth that encourages TT economic vitality, provides Dewald with an able crew of sewers. housing opportunities, Footlighters received a grant of respects the environment C and builds communities O $500 from the Columbia Kootenay with good schools and U N Cultural Alliance to assist with the safe neighbourhoods. CILLOR cost of making the costumes. www.ilovecreston.com November 2011 13 music Yeung’s Dandelion in bloom this month Story by: Trish Bartlett ith her first CD, The Gravedigger’s Daughter, Wbehind her and her first Canadian tour over, Elena Yeung is ready to release her second CD, Dandelion, with a Kootenay tour beginning Nov. 4. Dandelion continues Yeung’s love of bluegrass music by exploring its roots in the style of old spirituals, gospel songs and folk music. The new CD contains 13 new songs written by Yeung and accompanied by Mark Vaughan on mandolin, Chris Suen on a clawhammer banjo and Karl Sommerfeld on the fiddle. However, one track, Gonna Build Me a Boat, was recorded with The Persuasions, an a cappella gospel singing group from Brooklyn whose members have been together for 50 years. “I met The Persuasions at a music festival in Dawson City in 2009,” Yeung says. “I’d written this song on a bus while touring Canada and I wanted it to sound like an old Negro spiritual but I wasn’t sure how to do it. I spoke with one of the band members and asked if he would give me some feedback and he said, ‘Sure.’ “I sang it for him and some of the other band members joined in and it was the exact sound I was looking for.” One member of the group, who was filling in, told her and ask if they would perform it with her. After realizing his regular band might like to do a cover of her song and the worst they could do is say, ‘No,’ she got in touch and asked if she would e-mail it to him. Excitedly, Yeung did they were happy to look at it. After a few false starts they so, but never heard back from him even after numerous agreed to sing the song. attempts at follow-up. She figured her song ended up in “I though I would record my track here and send it to his spam. them but friends said I had to go to New York,” Yeung As the time approached for the production of her second says. “It was the opportunity of a lifetime.” CD, a friend told her she should contact The Persuasions Her friends helped her find a place to stay and Yeung Googled her way around New York public transit before leaving. “I was a bit nervous but I had no real expectations going into the recording,” she says. “I was confident because I am fairly consistent in my ability. The recording session was very laid back. There were no egos and everyone was very helpful. “I recorded a scratch track and was able to listen to the other voices and make changes before recording the final track. It took about five or six hours to complete because it was a cappella; there were no instruments to record.

14 November 2011 www.ilovecreston.com music The other songs with instruments made enough to pay for travel and Right now, my life has balance and take much longer.” food. If you don’t count the cost of that’s important.”  Asked if she had any advice for the CD, then I broke even. It’s hard Yeung will be performing and selling her new work, but the more you play, the CD at the following venues: Nov. 4, Gray Creek people wanting to break into music Hall; Nov. 5, Scout Hall, Nelson (advance tickets full time, Yeung says: “In order to more you tour, the more you record, at Otter Books); Nov. 18, The Stage Door, the more people hear about you, it Cranbrook; Nov. 19, Clawhammer Gallery, make a living from music a lot of Kimberley (advance tickets at Clawhammer people believe you need luck and may become easier.” Gallery); Nov. 25, Kaslo Hotel; Nov. 26, The Snoring Sasquatch, Creston. “I sang it for him and some of the other band members joined in and it was the Please VOTE exact sound I was looking for” SNOPEK, Joe for MAYOR talent. You do need a certain amount When asked how long she would of talent, a baseline, but you mainly continue to play, she replies, “This need perseverance, a positive attitude, is my hobby and it’s cheaper than a organization and more perseverance. snowmobile. I don’t see me doing Someone who wants to make it has this long-term. I look forward to the to work really, really hard. day when I’m done with this wild “This isn’t glamorous. On my year- ride and can play music for fun and long tour I slept in friends’ basements love. and even in my car. I booked my “I’ve taught at workshops and camps. t
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 www.ilovecreston.com November 2011 15 history Forestry Corps played an important role in the Great War Story by: Tammy Hardwick Manager – Creston and District Museum and Archives ne of the biggest challenges for OBritain during the First World War was the problem of keeping her troops supplied with everything they needed. Almost everything was shipped from Britain’s colonies and dominions, and shipping space was at a premium. Lumber and other wood products were required for a whole host of purposes at the front, but took up huge amounts of the space available in ships. To solve this problem, in early 1916, the British government began specifically seeking recruits Local Forestry Corps unit, 125 men including 18 from Creston, taken just before they left on the train in the spring of 1917. with experience in logging and other forest industries who would be able central to the area where the recruits After nearly four months of to tap the forests of England and were being pulled from yet did not recruiting and training in Creston, France for the needs of the front. interfere with the coal mines to the the corps was sent to France, sailing east or the smelters to the west. from Halifax on May 3, 1917. Canada, a major exporter of wood Most of the local boys under Capt. products, was a logical place to seek Capt. Edward Mallandaine of Mallandaine remained together and that expertise. Creston was the commanding officer of the local unit. The local were sent directly to France. Hilton Eighteen men from the Creston boys were joined by more than Young was transferred to a forestry Valley enlisted in this specially- 100 other recruits from unit that remained in England. formed Forestry Corps, which had communities across the East and Joseph Heath, unable to stay with one of its mobilizing points in West Kootenays. his original unit due to illness, Creston. Creston was chosen for the wound up in a separate Forestry southern B.C. draft because it was Many of these recruits had been Corps that was also sent to France. found medically unfit when they UNIQUE GIFTS FOR tried to enlist earlier in the war, but Wherever they served, the men of requirements were considerably the Forestry Corps felled thousands CHRISTMAS more relaxed for the Forestry Corps. of trees – for railway ties linking • Taking Christmas orders now For example, flat feet would keep the various sectors of the front, for • One of a kind pieces • Affordable a recruit out of the regular forces posts to support the underground but not out of the Forestry Corps, structures of the trenches, for as long as he could stand a five- heating and cooking fuel for the MASTER GOLDSMITH troops on the front lines. 1022 Canyon St., Creston (Cresteramics) mile march. Blindness in one eye Phone: 250.428.5538 or deafness in one ear also were not Young wrote of cutting oak and Visit me online at www.ilovecreston.com/ grounds for disqualification from other hardwood in England for use ronhurrymastergoldsmith the Forestry Corps. in planes, tool handles and rifle

16 November 2011 www.ilovecreston.com history stocks. He mentions in passing how sent, and all kinds of rumours were Our camp was just about three challenging the hardwood was for afloat . . . One day the order came miles behind the trenches and in the the boys from Creston, who were for us to fall in, and we were issued midst of the French artillery . . . It used to the western softwood forests. with steel helmets, which looked did not take us long to discover that we were in a warm corner, and our “We were skidding logs one day when we first experience from bursting shells heard a Hun aeroplane some distance away, was from the French 75’s. and our guns opening fire on it” “We were skidding logs one day when we heard a Hun aeroplane some distance away, and our guns The importance of the work of the very suspicious . . . and were issued opening fire on it. It was not long two gas masks apiece. We knew Forestry Corps was made clear by before they scored a hit, and the then that we were going somewhere statistics published in the Creston plane started to come down, and where it was pretty warm . . . Review in the spring of 1918. The made directly for where we were troops on the western front were “We had to set to work to build working, the guns pumping in shells using 60 million feet of lumber our mill and start skidding the logs. as fast as they could. in each of the first four months of 1918; mills in France, fed and run by the Forestry Corps, were cutting three million feet every day. There were 22,000 men engaged in the work, and it was not enough; reinforcements were urgently needed and, according to a letter written in March 1918 by Ktunaxa soldier Pte. Issaacs, transfers out of the Forestry Corps to fighting units were being refused because the demand for foresters was much more pressing even than the need for soldiers. Some of the woods that the Forestry Corps units were felling were barely half a mile from the front lines, and the Review reported in March 1918 that officers and men of the corps were being given a French decoration “for devotion to duty and bravery under fire.” Excerpts from a long letter from Pte. Heath, published in the Review on April 19, 1918, shows what forestry work was like for the units in France: “When we first landed on French soil . . . there was a good deal of speculation as to where we should be www.ilovecreston.com November 2011 17 history “By the time it reached us it was just over the treetops, meant especially for us. We used to hate seeing his old and the shells were bursting all around us, and I tell you sausage balloons go up on a clear day when we were we scuttled for the cover of any handy tree or log for working in the open, as he would try to get us wherever protection. It is surprising how big you feel, and how small possible. One place where we worked used to be pretty a log seems, when you are seeking refuge for the first time. warm at times, as he could get a good view of us and, say, “Battles in the air over would he pepper us. our heads were everyday “By the time it reached us it was just over the occurrences in fine weather . . . At times the air fighting treetops, and the shells were bursting all around us would be so fierce that a perfectly clear sky would in a couple of hours be entirely “We were always having narrow escapes. One day, just 150 overcast with the puffs of shrapnel smoke, and we had yards from where we were working, a shell burst, killing to be constantly taking cover from falling nose caps and and wounding 18 French soldiers. pieces of shell. “It is marvellous, too, how we have been preserved from “But it was not this sort of stuff that worried us most; gas. The French, just a mile or so to the south of us, have it was the high explosive, bigger shells from Fritz’s guns been gassed and one morning on reaching the skidways a gas attack had just died down. A lot of the French got it here but we were just too late for the effects, other than a headache. “Now, we are in a very pleasant spot amongst the mountains, back out of danger, and you can’t imagine how good it is to go to bed at night without fear of shells being KYLE showered on you. Seven months under shell fire without a day out of the danger zone is not good for the nerves, for and I tell you we all appreciate our present position to the utmost. “We hear the French used our huts for their troops as soon Council as we pulled out, and just six days later the Huns got them with their artillery, killing 48 and wounding 30, which will give some idea of the danger we were exposed to. “We managed to do some good work at any rate, cutting about two million feet of lumber and thousands of pickets for barb wire entanglements, right under the noses of the Huns.” The achievements of the Forestry Corps were crucial to the Allied efforts in the war. Nearly 814 million board feet of sawn lumber were produced by the Canadian Forestry Corps during the war. The Review reported in March 1918 that Canadians were producing 70 per cent of the army’s lumber needs. Above all, that self-sufficiency in wood, made possible by the Forestry Corps, freed up trans-Atlantic shipping space for other much-needed supplies, including food, ammunition and additional troops.  For more information, contact the Creston and District Museum and Archives by phone at 250-428-9262, e-mail at [email protected] or by visiting www.creston.museum.bc.ca.

18 November 2011 www.ilovecreston.com remembrance day November 11, 2011 Our thanks to the members of the Army Cadets band, Air Cadets, Creston Valley REMEMBRANCE DAY Cenotaph Service Flying Club, Jim McSeveney and Bryan Daybell, ARES School Choir for their CALENDAR OF EVENTS O Canada Brian Daybell - participation. A special thanks to the Wednesday, November 9 Prayer - Lt. Col. Randy Wood establishments and organizations who Remembrance Ceremony (members & Last Post and Reveille supported the Royal Canadian Legion cadets) at Swan Valley Lodge (10am) and Poppy Campaign. Crestview Village (11am) Piper - Army Cadet Thursday, November 10 Fly Past Remembrance Day Ceremony at schools Laying of the Wreaths (ARES, Canyon/Lister, Erickson, Yaqan Nuki School & PCSS) members and cadets attend Benediction - Lt. Col. Randy Wood God Save the Queen Thursday, November 10 2pm members and cadets attend March off the Colours Remembrance service at 6 local cemeteries Dismissal (Pioneer, Warrior Rock, Lower Kootenay Band, Lister, Canyon & Forest Lawn)

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11 The Service of Remembrance will be conducted by Reverend Randy Wood, Padre of the Creston Legion and assisted by Comrades of the Branch 10:00 AM Service of Remembrance held in the Legion Upstairs Hall 10:45 AM Parade forms “ ’ve never had any personal experiences with war,” says Atalanta Shi, (behind new Pharmasave building) I15, of Burnaby, B.C., first-place winner in the senior colour poster competition, “however, wars have affected all of us, whether we were 11:00 AM Cenotaph Service and a part of it or not. It is because of the brave soldiers who sacrificed Laying of the Wreaths their lives for us that we are able to live peacefully in Canada today, and I think sometimes it’s easy for people to take that for granted.” “OPEN DOOR POLICY” Centred in her poster, titled The public is welcome to afternoon Remember the Sacrifice, entertainment in the lounge are a mother and child walking hand-in-hand with the memory of a husband and father, represented by a figure whose body is made up of poppies. At the top of the painting are the eyes of an aged veteran, and at the bottom, two people clasping hands “as if to say that we are all part of this and we’re all together,” says Shi.  Branch 29 Colour Poster - First: Atalanta Shi, ROYAL CANADIAN Burnaby, BC LEGION www.ilovecreston.com November 2011 19 remembrance day Remember The amazing history of “Taps” the Veterans Submitted The Captain had asked if he could f any of you have ever been to have a group of Army band members that have made Ia military funeral in which taps play a funeral dirge for his son at the many sacri ces in was played; this brings out a new funeral. meaning of it. The request was turned down since the the name of peace We in the Canada have all heard the soldier was a Confederate. and freedom. haunting song, ‘Taps.’ It’s the song But, out of respect for the father, they that gives us the lump in our throats did say they could give him only one and usually tears in our eyes. musician. But, do you know the story behind The Captain chose a bugler. He asked the song? If not, I think you will the bugler to play a series of musical be interested to find out about its notes he had found on a piece of humble beginnings. paper in the pocket of the dead youth’s Reportedly, it all began in 1862 uniform. during the American Civil War, This wish was granted. when Union Army Captain Robert Ellicombe was with his men near The haunting melody, ‘Taps’ was born. Harrison’s Landing in Virginia. The The words are: Confederate Army was on the other Day is done. A-1 VAC SHOP side of the narrow strip of land. Gone the sun. 
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