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Wendy Franz - Sales/Graphic Design www.ilovecreston.com 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 December 2011 3 this issue the Community Greenhouse which in the areas of the environment, Guest were donated to the Creston Valley understanding human rights and From the editor Gleaners Society food bank. fund-raising,” he says. avid Falconer is well-known Out of this program sprouted Falconer-led fund-raising efforts Daround town as an educator, the Creston Valley Food Action went toward digging wells in India having spent the past decade in Coalition, which now oversees a and buying school supplies for Creston, first as vice-principal at farmers’ market that runs through African countries as well as the Prince Charles Secondary School three seasons at three locations. earthquake-stricken Chilean city (PCSS), then principal at Erickson A free, hot lunch program established of Concepcion. CLES is currently elementary (EES) and now serving in by New Life Church at EES while raising money to build a playground the same capacity at Canyon-Lister Falconer was principal has been in the impoverished inner-city school (CLES) and Yahk elementaries. He’s running for half-a-dozen years. At Falconer attended in Santiago. also in charge of international student CLES, Falconer got students involved “These experiences have provided recruiting for School District No. 8 in Harvest Share, which benefits students with the opportunity to (Kootenay Lake). individuals in need through the food learn that they can have a positive In all he’s spent a dozen years as a bank. impact in the lives of others,” he teacher and the same number as an He sponsored the 30 Hour Famine says. “The experience itself provides administrator in a handful of B.C. at PCSS to raise awareness of global learning. Connections happen and outposts –Lillooet, Penticton, Port hunger-related issues as well as money then these learning experiences Hardy and Salmo are the others – for UNICEF. He also launched become real, become part of who since earning his teachers’ degree in The Voice, a monthly, high school they are. Edmonton in the 1980s. student-drive page in the Creston “It also provides them with the Locally Falconer initiated a handful of Valley Advance which branched into knowledge that they are truly blessed programs in keeping with his motto: It’s Elementary when he moved to to live in a country such as Canada.” to live a positive life, no matter what. EES. And Creston is blessed to have had The “no matter what” part comprises “In both cases I started these pages Falconer, wife Roma and their two a large portion of his life story, which with the intentions of providing sons call this valley home for the is chronicled in the pages of this, the students with experiences that would past decade, according to friend and December issue of I Love Creston. At translate into, ‘We have a voice, we recently retired colleague Leonard a time of year when people often look have minds and we have the potential DeVuono, who describes him as beyond themselves to the needs of to transform,’ ” he says. always accessible and fully engaged. others, in keeping with the Christian roots of the Christmas season, who “I also partnered with Mount Hall “David cares unceasingly about the more fitting to profile than a man Elementary School in Porthill to emotional, educational, social and who backs up the following words create the Hands Across Borders physical needs of children and is with action: “It’s a small world and program to bring better relationships a tireless advocate for the rights of it continues to get smaller. We need and understanding between Canadian children to have a secure, safe and to take care of each other. It’s our and U.S. students. EES students progressive place at which to learn,” responsibility.” travelled to Mount Hall where they DeVuono says. “He is tenacious and met students and exchanged ideas unrelenting in not compromising In conjunction with the Creston about our countries.” Rotary Club, Falconer co-sponsored his beliefs about the rights of all the PCSS Interact program which By September 2012, Falconer children to an equitable public school provides volunteering opportunities anticipates flying the United Nations education.” in foreign countries. With the College Educational, Scientific and Cultural As for Falconer’s future goals, an of the Rockies (COTR) he started Organization (UNESCO) flag at autobiography entitled B.E.L.I.E.V.E. Grow Your Own Lunch, which CLES, which would make it the is set for completion this winter, and promoted knowledge of agriculture only such sanctioned school in the beyond that he quotes Richard Back: and nutrition among three grades province. “Here is the test to find whether your at EES. Students were mentored by “This privilege will be due to all mission on Earth is finished: if you’re volunteers in growing edible plants at the work that this school is doing alive, it isn’t.”  4 December 2011 www.ilovecreston.com feature Prosperity to Poverty – and Back

Creston Valley educator experienced the extremes of social injustice during a tumultuous childhood in South America

avid Falconer recalls the first day nightmare of living with strangers Indeed, Falconer never forgot his Dhe attended Public School No. in the Amazon jungle, cut off from roots – his parents made sure of 121 in Santiago, his Chilean home civilization and attending a “school” that – which is a big reason why he town. He was eight, had been born where survival was the primary is committed to broadening local with a proverbial silver spoon in his subject and machetes, not pencils, pupils’ world view and furthering mouth and was at once confused, were on the supply list. the cause of social justice, near and shocked, embarrassed and terrified to By age 14 he was gone from South far. He does this through innovative be transferred from a cushy private America, relocated with his parents educational programs and by raising institution to a low-income school in to Canada, far from the political money to improve the lot of students the midst of a shanty town. turmoil of Chile where Gen. Augusto back in Santiago, where he was born “Most of its students came from Pinochet had seized power from the in 1962 and has visited twice more in homes where a decent meal was rare,” democratically elected government in the past three years. he says, “where most parents were a bloody coup within sight of where Things are stable now compared to not much more literate than their the Falconers lived. that infamous day in 1973 – Sept. sons and daughters. On my first day He didn’t go back until 2008, by 11 – when the young Falconer of school they looked at me as if I which time he’d been in Creston for “witnessed the bombing of the had come from another planet. I seven years and was bearing a $6,000 presidential palace, helicopters, initially thought and felt the same.” cheque for School 121 raised through tanks, machine gun fire outside our Within four years No. 121 would Erickson elementary, where he was front yard, corpses floating down seem like a dream compared to the the principal. the canal next to my home, friends www.ilovecreston.com December 2011 5 feature that were apprehended and taken to Maria, Falconer’s paternal Ignoring pressure to “find a man to concentration camps, friends that grandmother, was widowed at take care of her,” Maria eventually disappeared, the smell of burned 16 when her husband died of trained as a social worker and became bodies at night. It was a horrible tuberculosis. Her home and a union and political activist, even period,” he says. everything in it burned when a going to jail several times for her role Not 48 hours earlier it had been candle near her husband’s coffin set a in demonstrations. a joyous occasion in the Falconer curtain ablaze. “Maria’s belief that she could be a residence, a celebration of his mother She moved to Bolivia with her two tool for transformation made her Mafalda’s 50th birthday. Not that sons, including Falconer’s father, fight for change even at her own times hadn’t been troubled in Chile James, enduring dreadful conditions personal risk,” Falconer says. “What for several years, however. while working long hours at multiple an incredible example for those Government opposition was jobs. two boys,” both of whom obtained manifesting itself in bombings and “Amongst fleas, lice, cockroaches university degrees. assassinations, inflation was running and a horrible infestation of rats, Maria married Pedro, a Mapuche Indian from Chile, in her 50s, and “It was the irony of life that the Falconer embraced him as his nono, challenges of difficult times can produce or grandpa. the most happiness in the end” “Nono had his own stories to tell,” Falconer says, “stories of abuse, sacrifice, injustice, discrimination into four digits and only the bare she believed that things were going and racism in his own land. What essentials were available in stores – to to improve,” he says. “It took Maria used to impress me was the fact that those who could afford them. approximately 10 years to have these stories always had an incredible, “Reflecting on these very chaotic the finances to return to Chile,” positive message. only to find that “the situation was years I have realized how, as a young financially not much better.” “Nono used to say that our power child, I developed critical resilient lied in how we responded to abilities by watching adults around the circumstances in our lives. me model resilient thinking and Circumstances, within themselves, behaviour in response to adversity are inherently neutral, so he used to and stress,” Falconer says. “Both say it is human judgment that assigns my nono and my grandmother positive and negative values to those Maria had been incredible circumstances. For him, it was the examples of strength and vision.” irony of life that the challenges of All of Falconer’s grandparents difficult times can produce the most immigrated to South America from happiness in the end.” Europe in the early 1900s. “As kids, my parents experienced poverty and family disintegration,” he says. “On my mother’s side, the entire Jewish family living in Germany disappeared during the Nazi regime. On my dad’s side, contact with the entire Scottish family in Europe ended with the beginning of World War II. Also, Celebrating Mafalda’s 50th birthday. my parents lost their fathers when they were just young kids, so the two teenage mothers had to fend for themselves.” Huallaga River, Amazon.

6 December 2011 www.ilovecreston.com feature Falconer drew strength from these examples many times, including December 1973 when, at age 11, he fled the chaos of Pinochet-ruled Chile for the relative safety of Peru with the oldest of four brothers. “Saying goodbye to my family was difficult,” Falconer says. “Thirty-eight years later, I still remember the feel of my heart pounding, hammering against my rib cage.” He clearly harboured no ill will toward his parents for having yanked him out of private school and plunked him into No. 121 three years earlier, despite its jarring effect. His folks, after all, had worked their way out of poverty by the time Cumana,Venezuela Falconer’s home for 18 months. Falconer came along, “the nights when my mother had to stay up to winds whipped in from the Andes Falconer’s enrolment in the school ensure my older brothers wouldn’t through gaps around the doors and of hard knocks wasn’t complete, get bitten by rats running throughout windows, supplies were minimal however, until after the move to Peru, the house, if we could call it a house,” and other students did not enjoy where he lived with his brother in becoming a distant memory. the luxury of nice homes or decent Lima for just three months. “Unable clothing. to provide me with a school where he James, labouring by day, earned a was working,” his brother turned the degree in civil engineering after many “I felt like my parents had pulled lad over to “a family I had never met years of night school and landed a the rug (out from) under me,” says before” who lived in the Amazonian well-paying government job. Falconer, who nonetheless “was village of Tocache – “middle of nowhere, no radio, newspapers, no “Thirty-eight years later, I still remember media whatsoever.” the feel of my heart pounding, “I had never understood what hammering against my rib cage” loneliness meant before this,” Falconer says. “For over a year I didn’t have a proper shower or bother amazed by the fact these kids, with brushing my teeth. My stomach, “By the time I arrived he was all their challenges, could still laugh, unable to eat the local foods, building a beautiful home in a play and dream. The move gave me a screamed in pain (from) intestinal beautiful, upscale neighbourhood chance to pay a lot more attention to worms which didn’t disappear for as of Santiago where poverty was long as I lived in the jungle.” something other people experienced,” the realities of my country. Falconer says. “(But) even though “The contrast between my In retrospect, he realizes how the tough financial times had neighbourhood and No. 121’s perilously close to death he was from disappeared, my parents never forgot was too great to ignore, even for a combination of disease, hunger and their past.” an eight-year-old. It was at this malnutrition. It was in this context that Mafalda school that I began to develop a “I look back now and it’s actually decided her youngest child’s personal understanding of social like a movie. ‘Wow, did that really “education was not quite finished” consciousness. My mother was right; happen?’ ” he says. “Once again I and required placement in an I was learning different things in this was confronted with the injustice unheated public school where cold school.” that exists in Third World countries www.ilovecreston.com December 2011 7 feature and it bothered me. I promised that some day I would do everything possible to help those unable to help themselves.” With conditions not improving on the home front, Falconer’s parents left Chile, reclaimed their youngest son and relocated to Venezuela for 18 months before coming to Canada in 1976, sponsored by another son, Horacio, who preceded them in Edmonton as a refugee. “Initially things were difficult as I did not speak any English,” he says. “(But) it became clear that my new home was going to offer me opportunities unheard of and Concentration Camp Pinochet, 5 minutes from Falconer’s Chilean home. that this particular gift came with responsibilities.” first in his family to pay for all his of over 40 of the poorest students schooling. was overwhelming for this young Falconer soon felt called to the university physics student. This was field of education and founded the “I was also inspired by one of truly a case of ‘becoming the change Latin American-Canadian Student my brothers who, while going to you wish to see in the world.’ “Some would question what good “Having experienced School 121, school did my brother do during those in the Amazon and remembering being two years? I am not sure. What it taught by family, friends and grandparents is possible to consider, though, is that his presence, filled with a sense all led me to where I am today” of responsibility for others’ welfare, gave many of these children the only Association at the University of university in Chile, volunteered reason for coming to school.” Alberta in 1987, fund-raising to buy to become a teacher in one of the Falconer is startled at the clarity of school supplies for various Central poorest schools in Santiago,” he says. his life-long memories, both good American countries. He became the “Teaching in an intermediate grade and bad, which he’s compiling in an David Falconer conducts a brainstorming session over lunch with his CLES newspaper autobiography titled B.E.L.I.E.V.E. committee: (from left) Richard Blackmore, Olivia Kettle, Meredith Cote and Emma Penner. (portions of which are quoted in this story). “I know why I remember, or maybe I should say, I know why I must remember,” he says. “My answer lies in the fact it helps me correct each day the way I live my life, or how I need to dedicate my life. “Having experienced School 121, school in the Amazon and remembering being taught by family, friends and grandparents all led me to where I am today.”  8 December 2011 www.ilovecreston.com town From the Mayor’s desk Story by: Ron Toyota, Mayor of the Town of Creston The Holiday Train is coming! Take up the challenge! n Monday, Dec. 12, at the funds to our food bank and O9:45 a.m. we will once again the Creston Valley Ministerial be treated to a special CP Holiday Association Christmas hamper Train musical performance, with program. This is perfect timing another cheque being presented to for the distribution of 400-plus the Gleaners food bank. hampers on Dec. 20. PIZZA 2 FOR 1 TAKEOUT t DAILY SPECIALS FREE “Let’s raise $5,000-plus and present the funds to t NEW MENU INTERNET! our food bank and the Creston Valley Ministerial t HOMEMADE PIES Association Christmas hamper program” t FULLY LICENSED BOOK NOW ROADHOUSE FOR YOUR CHRISTMAS This year’s entertainment will feature I will personally be giving $500 PARTY! DINER Valdy and his Rock and Roll Song. to this worthy cause and it is my OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK 5 AM TO 8 PM Valdy entertained the Creston challenge to every employed or 
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Monday, December 12 along with many food items. 9:45 am Please bring or mail your donation Millennium Park This special train did not travel to Town Hall at 138 10th Ave. N. Great family entertainment! through our valley in 2010 as the (Box 1339). Thank you. Come experience Canadian music two Holiday Trains travel different legend Valdy with special guests routes on alternate years, but it’s Merry Christmas and season’s Brothers Dube’ and Tracy Brown. greetings to all.  Raise money, food and awareness back for 2011. for your local food bank. Ron Toyota can be reached by phone at So here is my mayor’s challenge: 250-428-2214, e-mail at [email protected] Making a difference, let’s raise $5,000-plus and present or on the web at www.creston.ca. one stop at a time www.ilovecreston.com December 2011 9 fund-raising Foundation grants total $28,000 for 2011 Story by: Peter Hepher who had been serving for one year, was entitled to issue tax-deduction receipts to wo new directors, Ted Hutchinson re-elected for an additional two years. its donors. Tand Heather Suttie, were elected The CKF, a non-profit body, is Ken Gadicke of Gadicke, Minichiello to the board of the Creston-Kootenay a member of the Community and Carr, the group’s auditor, told the Foundation (CKF) at the organization’s Foundations of Canada. It accepts meeting that the foundation’s assets annual general meeting Oct. 25. donations of cash, securities, real exceeded $634,000 as of May 31. Lon Main and Peter Hepher, whose property, bequests, etc., and invests Each year the proceeds from its three-year terms were expiring, were them in perpetuity. Being registered investments are distributed in the form returned as directors and Nicole Nilsson, with the Canada Revenue Agency it is of grants to non-profit groups serving the area between Riondel and Yahk. President Larry Brierley told the AGM Creston Valley Business Buzz that the 11 grants for 2011 totalled $28,000. We do lose some production in the winter months, or on those cloudy The largest grant, $9,200, went to the days, but with new solar panel Therapeutic Activation Program (TAPS) for its healthy meals for seniors project. Kootenay technology, 50 % of full potential is Another substantial grant of $9,000 Energy achieved on a lightly cloudy day. Solutions went into a three-way partnership with Steaming By adding our ductless heat pumps the East Kootenay Foundation for Solar Panels to your home heating and cooling, Health and an anonymous donor to you can get as much as $2000.00 in purchase a $27,000, extra-long bariatric Kootenay Energy Solutions has rebates, or Fortis will finance your bed for Swan Valley Lodge. many products available that can project and deduct the payments In his annual report, Brierley rated the either reduce your carbon from your power bill, if you qualify. soiree held in June and attended by more footprint, or even become self than 120 diners and dancers as one of sufficient (Off Grid). e ductless system produces 3x the energy that it consumes. As much the highlights of the CKF’s year. He also Rebates are now available for some as 40% savings over most electric paid tribute to Julie Ewashen, winner of of our Energy Star rated products. heating systems. Ductless systems the group’s volunteer-of-the-year award, Adding solar hot water to your and thanked Alex Nilsson for raising are very easy to retrofit into your domestic system, you can get a a substantial contribution to the CKF Stuff happens. $1250.00 rebate. home. That’s why there’s Falkins. fund with his 24-hour golf marathon on Just give us a call 250 428 4706, and a we the longest day of the year. Creston has a fairly good year round can give you a free in home estimate. average for using solar products. At a board meeting following the AGM, Brierley was returned as the foundation’s Creston Valley Business Buzz is proudly sponsored by... president and Main was chosen vice- president. Other officers elected were Vern Ronmark, back as treasurer, and That’s what it feels like. Suttie as secretary. Freedom. Comfort. Creston town Coun. Joanna Wilson will continue representing elected local Peace of mind. government officials in the Town of Creston and areas A, B and C of the Regional District of Central Kootenay, Falkins Insurance formerly Ph: 250.428.5338 and Suttie will double as chairman of the Herchmer Insurance has a new name, Fx: 250.428.2203 Youth Advisory Committee.  but the same great people. www.falkins.com Brierley encouraged anyone interested in learning Our service is insurance, and our promise is more about the CKF, or wondering about how Interested inpeac beinge of themind. next Falkins Creston Insuranc Valleye has been Business Buzz? to donate to it, to visit its Web site at www. Call 250.428.2631providing caring, or email individual o [email protected] customer service ckfoundation.com. in the Kootenays for over 100 years. 10 DecemberWe believe ea 2011ch of our customers deserve a www.ilovecreston.com warm relationship of trust and understanding. Stop by any of our locations, or visit our website for more information. www.falkins.com agriculture Much to offer at December market Story by: Jen Comer, Creston Valley Farmers’ off and wiping the squash with Market Manager vinegar. Then I let them air dry on he snow has crept down the the counter and pack them away in Tmountains (and is probably my garage with air space between sticking to the ground by the time each one. The vinegar acts as a Don’t worry if you don’t have time you’re reading this). Gardens have sanitizer and the garage stays cool, for all your holiday baking. There are been put to rest for the winter. but not cold. Evenings are spent inside, snuggled lots of delicious cookies and squares under a quilt, sipping hot cocoa. “Buying gifts locally is at the market that you can put in Sigh. The holiday season is upon us. your freezer and pull out for holiday I always look forward to this time of a unique experience” gatherings. Buying gifts locally is a year. It means no matter how much unique experience. When you buy I neglected getting the last of the Looking for a delicious squash a gift, learn about the person who garden taken care of, it’s over. recipe? Check out Heidi at made it and then tell the story to the FoodDoodles.com for her Locavore’s gift receiver. You can be guaranteed Fortunately, just because I let the Cookbook submission in the that a gift with a story behind it is frost hit the last of my produce, Creston Valley Advance. We’ve got that much more special.  it doesn’t mean I go without local one more reason for you to join Find us online: www.CrestonValleyFarmersMarket.ca; food this time of year. The Creston us every Saturday at the farmers’ www.Facebook.com/CrestonValleyFarmersMarket; Valley Farmers’ Market is a bounty market . . . (insert drum roll) . . and, www.Twitter.com/CVFarmMarket. Or call market of winter squashes, apples, carrots, . we’ve got fresh gourmet waffles manager Jen Comer at (250) 977-5362. beets, onions, garlic, potatoes and being served up by the Blueberry more. There’s still time to purchase Patch Country Market! With fresh larger quantities of produce and fruit toppings, whipping cream and Original, handcrafted store them for the winter. maple syrup, it’s a good reason join silver jewelry us for a late breakfast or for lunch. My favourite method for storing Look for winter squashes is washing the dirt After you’re done munching on your classes after waffle and sipping on your coffee, Christmas! take a stroll around the market to tick off your Christmas shopping list. We’ve got gifts for kids: think handmade wooden toys with eco- friendly finishes, marshmallow guns, toques, activity aprons and handmade candy. For the men, try a bolero tie, knit Made locally with designer glass & semi-precious gemstones slippers or a wine rack. Ladies are Also featuring the work of local artists always easy to please with gifts from the market; check out the wide selection of handmade jewelry, furniture from reclaimed wood products or a matching table setting Winter hours: Tues.-Sat. Noon-4 with placemats and table runners. Open 9 - 5 Dec. 16 - 24 #1 2804 Hwy. 3, Erickson For anyone, edible gifts are always (In the plaza next to Chatka Restaurant) a hit. Pick up jars of honey, jams, 15% o all Silver Jewelry jellies, pickles, salsa or pickled eggs. December 1 to 15 www.ilovecreston.com December 2011 11 history The wars on the home front Story by: Tammy Hardwick Manager - Creston & District Museum & Archives was recently asked to give a talk at Toastmasters about the Iwork done in Creston to support the First and Second Little Artist of the Month world wars. With Christmas rapidly approaching, the spirit of giving that prevailed throughout both wars seems an appropriate topic for this month’s article. The wars touched everyone in the Creston Valley. Family members who were left behind struggled to make ends meet without their principal wage earner or farm worker. Every resident was issued ration books filled with coupons for his or her monthly allotment of meat, butter, sugar and other staples. Collection drives gathered all kinds of materials, from rubber to metal to paper, for use as war Kati Foy supplies. Age 9 People served in local militia units and as air raid wardens to protect Creston even though they could not serve overseas. But the biggest effort on the home front, by far, was the endless fund-raising throughout both world wars, resulting Art Classes for Kids is pleased to name Kati Foy, in hundreds of thousands of dollars being collected. Little Artist of the Month. Kati did a wonderful In August 1915, the Creston Review congratulated the job on her Keith Haring inspired piece. Yay Kati! community for raising nearly $300 – the cost of a new machine gun for the boys at the front. Great War fund-raisers Don’t forget to pick up your copy of oodles of also provided tobacco for soldiers and paid the expenses of an doodles, a super cool activity book made by the Allied prisoner of war, among many other causes. kids at Art Classes for Kids. The sales of these In the Second World War, the Women’s’ Institute raised books will go directly into the Art Classes for money for mobile kitchens and Milk for Britain, while Kids Scholarship Fund which will sponsor art Bundles for Britain gathered money, clothing and other classes for children without other means to necessities for people left homeless by the Blitz. attend. Books available at Imagine Ink. The Canadian Dorothy Spitfire Fund encouraged girls named Dorothy to raise funds to buy a fighter plane. The local Dorothys, led by Dorothy Sinclair, contributed $22. 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16 December 2011 www.ilovecreston.com sports Volunteers are the key to success Story by: Creston Valley Thunder Cats three pairs of compression shorts). he Creston Valley Thunder We would like to extend our thanks TCats are a community owned to Ina Schultz, Mayday Electric, Come out and operated junior B team in Kozy Heating & Plumbing and the Kootenay International Junior Pharmasave for helping keep the Hockey League. Without the players on the ice when facing minor and cheer on countless hours put in by many injuries and to prevent the injuries your local Junior B Team! volunteers of all ages you would not from escalating. December Home Games All game start at 7:30 unless otherwise noted. see the product we are able to provide The team does not survive on you, our fans, each weekend from Saturday ...... Dec 3 ...... Kamloops grant money or advertising dollars; Sunday ...... Dec 4 - 2pm ...... Golden September through February/March. therefore, we are required to go out Friday ...... Dec 9 ...... Sicamous At the head is a board of directors in the community to raise additional Friday ...... Dec 16 ...... Kimberley (ranging from six to 11 members). funds. This year we are raffling off a Saturday ...... Dec 31 ...... Fernie Currently we have a hard-working 2011 Chevy Cruze and nine other group of 10 people, a mix of men prizes (eight being cash). We printed and women, who dedicate a lot 1,000 tickets and have started selling of time during the whole year to them in the community. Creston providing family entertainment to Tickets are $50 each and can be Valley our community for six months. The purchased from any board member, board is responsible for the financial at home games or by calling the THUNDER CATS aspects as well as the management of Thunder Cats office. Players and Visit us online at the staff and other volunteers. volunteers will also be selling at www.crestonvalleythundercats.com There are many volunteers who help Overwaitea Foods, Extra Foods and out the team, from the equipment Home Building Centre from time to manager, statistician, trainers, game time. night event staff, concession and The draw will be made during the merchandise sales people, and special first weekend of playoffs (Feb. 26). promotional events personnel, etc. All proceeds go to help pay for team A rough calculation is that it takes travel, meals and accommodations about 100 volunteer hours to host on road swings, equipment purchases one home game, and we have at least and many more expenses that the 26 games this season. team faces on a daily or monthly Volunteers are always welcome. basis. We look forward to your If you would be interested in continued support to keep junior B volunteering, contact Lorraine at hockey in Creston. (250) 428-5356 or the Thunder Cats To our faithful and seemingly tireless office at (250) 428-8929. volunteers: it wasn’t the reward that The team relies on support from our mattered or the recognition you community, not only in volunteer might harvest; it was your depth of hours but in financial sponsorships commitment, your quality of service, (rink/wall advertising, program the product of your devotion – these advertising, etc.), supporting our were the things that counted in life. fund-raising endeavours and fan When you gave purely, the honour attendance at our games. in giving, that was honour enough Recently some community members (Capt. Scott O’Grady).  purchased support equipment for Check for game updates and schedules at the team (two shoulder braces and www.crestonvalleythundercats.com. www.ilovecreston.com December 2011 17 martial arts The meaning of the black belt Story by: Shifu Neil Ripski he idea of rank in martial arts is to spur them on to remain with their Tvaried and has different meanings teachers and find the real depth of the from teacher to teacher. For some, art they have chosen to study. a black belt is like graduation, or I would also like to add, in answer finishing your training, but in most to many questions I get at my school traditional arts like kung fu it is really about our rank system, how it works a new beginning. and the order thereof: green sash is the To receive a black belt or sash is a beginners’ rank and it contains three great accomplishment requiring levels marked by Chinese characters hard work and understanding found written on our sashes as we progress. after years of study and practice. But First green is a plain sash, second has in truth it is the acceptance of the the character for beauty and third student by the teacher as a serious the character for truth. Green is the beginner. When seen by the student colour of spring and symbolizes the in this way, the chances of gaining fresh start you are experiencing in a deep understanding of the art are starting martial arts training. more likely. The next colour sash is blue, In our Chinese martial art the entire symbolizing summer and the youth style is broken into two pieces: of the training, and being able to foundations and the art itself. Up run and move along with your other to black sash, Level 1 trains in the classmates. It has three levels as well, foundations necessary to handle the the same as green sash. advanced training that takes place Orange follows blue and symbolizes after black sash. autumn, the beginning of the end of Looking deeply into the matters of the basics. It also has three levels. internal connection, martial ability Then comes the coveted black sash, and nei gong, or the building of full autumn descending into winter. character, involves the study of the It contains four levels before reaching martial arts philosophy of non- the final rank in the system of white, violence and good citizenship. These showing the cycle is complete. are the most important lessons of Typically a student who works hard the Asian arts, in my opinion, and and is dedicated can accomplish a without them the art itself is but a black sash rank within about five shell. years. I am happy to add that last It is a shame that I have met so many month I was able to welcome a people who refer to getting their Creston student to the rank of black black belt as “finishing” their training sash. It is a proud and wonderful when in fact it is the beginning of time for our school to have another real understanding. qualified instructor among us. Well I wanted to write this article in done.  hopes of sharing with others how Neil Ripski teaches kung fu and tai chi at Red Jade much more there is to go once this Martial Arts in Creston. He can be reached at 250- milestone is achieved, and hopefully 866-5263 or at www.redjademartialarts.com. 18 December 2011 www.ilovecreston.com health Say goodbye to indigestion this holiday season

Story by: Maya Skalinska Master Herbalist, Registered Herbal Therapist he holidays are here and we’re Good thing we’ve got some amazing I also want to mention the problem Tbusy baking and cooking all our herbs and spices to help us along the with choosing antacids for digestive favourite holiday treats. Unfortunately, way. One of the best spices for this is complaints. Antacids neutralize the a lot of those treats can bring us as fennel seed. acids in the stomach, preventing proper much pleasure as pain, with bloating, Crush two teaspoons of the seeds, add digestion and interfering with absorption gas and indigestion. one cup of boiling water, cover and steep of nutrients, which leads to continued The good news is that it all can be for 10 minutes. Drink this tea about half indigestion. I see this in my own practice avoided with some simple herbs and an hour before your big meal. with many of my clients with digestive issues. spices that most have in their kitchens. After the meal, make a spice tea that Holiday meals give us trouble due I am sure your family and guests will Antacids also contain aluminum to the traditional food combinations enjoy. Grate a chunk of ginger root, add compounds which cause constipation, (starches, proteins, sugars/simple carbs) two or three teaspoons of cardamom, and calcium carbonate which causes a rebound effect in which the stomach that digest at different rates. Drinking one or two teaspoons of coriander seeds produces more acids than before, once the during meals dilutes the stomach and one or two cups of boiling water, antacid effect has worn off. This results in juices and enzymes needed for proper cover and steep for 10 minutes. You can heartburn, so more antacids get taken and digestion. On top of that, most of us add a little bit of cinnamon for some a vicious circle begins. eat too fast, not chewing our food long extra-warming holiday flavour. enough. Alternatively, simple peppermint tea Taking natural remedies to help digest holiday treats is better for your body as Digestion starts with chewing our food, will work in a pinch. For those who there are no negative side effects. So enjoy which in turn gives signals to the rest have chronic heartburn, avoid the your favourite treats, slowly savour each of the digestive system to prepare to peppermint. bite and save that drink till after your break down the food for absorption. If you have digestive troubles already, try meal and spice tea. Happy holidays!  All of this results in fermentation in the digestive enzymes containing pancreatin Maya Skalinska is a master herbalist and a registered stomach and small intestine, producing just before or during your meal. Take herbal therapist offering iridology, pulse and tongue carbon dioxide, hydrogen and organic two or three capsules, depending on analysis, herbal medicine, nutrition consultations and flower essences in Crawford Bay and at Vital acids which in turn manifest as painful how large your meal is, and drink fennel Health in Creston. For more information or to book an gas and bloating. tea on a more regular basis. appointment call 250-225-3493.

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