March-12-2010

By Joanne Layh

This week council edged a little bit closer to establishing water meter rates, giving First, Sec-ond and Third Reading to Water Rates Bylaw No. 1931, 2010. How-ever, members of council are still nowhere near a consensus about green credits, so while the by-law may pass soon, a policy about green cred-its will likely follow later on this spring or sum-mer.

The bylaw will most likely be up for adoption on the next council agen-da. As it appears now, residential homes will

be assigned a basic fee of $55.50 per quarter, with a consumption fee of $0.30 per cubic me-ter for the fi rst 400 cu-bic meters, with the rate climbing up to $0.50 per cubic meter for amounts over 400 cubic meters. Agricultural properties will be assessed $0.04 per cubic meter.

Those that have termed been termed “grey area” (non ALR) large proper-ties will have a slightly different rate structure. The grey area properties refer to more than half of the 90 properties which have irrigation meters but are not in the ALR nor have Class 9 (farm-

land) assessment with the BC Assessment Au-thority. 54 of these are properties between .5 and 2.0 acres which the district has identifi ed as being in the grey area. If the bylaw is adopted, these properties will pay a fi xed rate of $0.30 per cubic meter. Only if they exceed 1250 cu-bic meters per acre will their consumption rate increase to $0.50 per cubic meter. That’s a lot of water, so it is unlikely that anyone will actually use enough to pay that consumption rate.

Unfortunately, a deci-sion about how to apply green credits has yet to

be made. At this week’s Committee of the Whole meeting, Councillor Fra-ser objected to the crite-ria that called for at least one-half of the total area available for cultivation to be devoted to the pro-duction of food. Council-lor Condon seemed also to favour giving the cred-it to those with gardens smaller than one-half of the total area available for cultivation. There was also talk about open-ing up the defi nition of water-effi cient irrigation systems to include other technologies. Most coun-cillors spoke in favour of a green credit, though few could agree even on

a size of property they’d like to see it applied to.

A green credit policy will be established when council are all on board with one particular strat-egy. Irrigation rates only apply in the second and

third quarters, so for the green credit policy to be available to food produc-ing grey area properties, it will likely need to be in place before the July 15th water bills are scheduled to be sent out.

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PeachlandMarch 12, 2010

Green credit delayed for food-producing grey area properties

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Peachland Curling Club Fun Spiel winners of Trophy A (shown left to right) Colin Tait, Willie Wainwright, Daryl Wainwright, and Boomer Wainwright sweep the shot made by Julie Tait (not shown). Th e Fun Spiel was held on Sunday at the Summerland Curling Club. Participants from Peachland, Westside and Kelowna ranged in age of 14 to 86. Trophy B was won by the team of Bill Boos, Trudy Boos, Storm Brown and Lynn Bradley. Trophy C was won by the team of Peter Schierbeck, Vern Moberg, Terry Condon and Keith Fielding. Photo Contributed

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� COUNCIL MEET-ING HIGHLIGHTS - MARCH 9, 2010By Erin Boyes, District of Peachland

Water Rates Bylaw No. 1931, 2010

Council gave First, Second and Third Reading to Water Rates Bylaw No. 1931. The bylaw establishes and regulates water rates for the District. Please see online for the rates and charges fee schedule. A deci-sion on “Green Cred-its” for food produc-ing properties will be forthcoming by policy.

Automated Voting Machine Authoriza-

tionCouncil passed First, Second and Third Readings for both Au-tomated Voting Ma-chine Authorization Bylaw No. 1941, and Election Procedure Amendment Bylaw No. 1940. These by-laws will authorize the District to rent two voting machines to be used in the Peach-land Curling Club and Multi-Use Facility Ref-erendum.

Offi cial Community Plan Amendment –

Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets

Council gave Third Reading to OCP Amendment Bylaw No. 1933, 2010. This amendment sets out Greenhouse Gas (GHG) reduction

targets. In 2008 the Provincial Govern-ment enacted Bill 27 – Local Government (Green Communities) Statues Amendment Act, which requires all local governments to set GHG reduction targets in their OCP by May 2010.

Rural to Low Den-sity Residential OCP & Zoning Amend-

ment Bylaws Council passed First and Second Readings for OCP Amendment Bylaw No. 1938, 2010 and Zoning Amend-ment Bylaw No. 1939, 2010. Council also in-structed staff to set a Public Hearing date. The amendments will change rural zoning designation to low density residential at 5308 Law Street.

BC Solar Communi-ties Program

Council passed a reso-lution supporting a submission to the BC Solar Communities Program. This is a grant program that if awarded will help re-duce the costs associ-ated with developing and promoting solar initiatives in Peach-land.

Peachland Boxing Club

Council passed a resolution waiving the fee for use of the Peachland Commu-nity Centre on March 27 & 28, 2010 for the Peachland Boxing Club to host a “Fight Against Drugs” pre-sentation by George Chuvalo.

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By Richard Smith

Today, Tuesday March 9, 2010 a remembrance service was held for one of Peachland’s beloved pioneers. His dad Bill Sr. served in the First World War and was captain of Peachland’s war ca-noe team before the First World War. Born in 1922, Gordon “Sandy” Sander-son was the oldest Peach-land Second World War veteran.

Friends and early Peach-land residents from far and wide came to celebrate his life. It was one of the largest funeral services ever held in the Community Cen-tre. Those present realized it was an honour to have known him and his family. Our own Fire Chief Grant Topham and his brother John told a personal series of fond memories. The Le-gion members then paid special ceremonial tribute to their fallen comrade.

As a young man he en-listed in the army. He was part of the Normandy inva-sion and was wounded by a land mine. After a short recovery he was back in action. While riding on a “Buffalo” armoured per-sonnel carrier through Belgium, the driver wan-dered off the road and on to a anti-tank mine. Gordie was thrown high in the air, landing with a broken back. He was evacuated back to England and in a full body cast all the way back to Canada and fi nally home to the Okanagan.

That could not slow him down, and he mar-ried Dorothy “Dot” Miller of another pioneer family. The Miller Ranch is today Okanagan Park Camp-ground. The family raised fruit and Gordie worked in the bush as a boss, logging and constructing roads. Those were the days of bush camps that had to be moved from location to

location as the trees were logged. They were really just cabins on wheels. He took one or two home af-ter they became obsolete and he also dragged home a Greata Ranch bungalow from behind the hotel. The house is still on the prop-erty at the home farm. He raised a family of two

daughters Jennifer and Linda and a son, Gordy Jr. Gordy Jr. was tragically killed in a car accident as a young boy. Gord soldiered on and served his commu-nity all his life.

While teaching logging in Sri Lanka, he lost his wife to cancer. Later he married a girl, Christine from there had a son John. In our centennial year John presented him with a new-born grandson.

Through his life, Royal Canadian Legion Branch 69 was always a part of his life. He was at every Remembrance service in-cluding the last two when he read the list of the Peachland fallen via video recorded in his hospital room. He personally knew all the four Second World War casualties on the cenotaph, as they were his boyhood friends.

Gordie, your life story could fi ll a book but there is only room here to say you will be deeply missed by all your friends.

Gone but never forgotten

Gord Sanderson Photo Contributed

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How much is peace of mind worth? Ever since the 1970’s, Peachland Fire and Rescue Service (PFRS) have provided pre-hospital emergency service to Peachland area residents. Back then the ambulance was part of the PFRS fl eet staffed completely with PFRS volunteers. As the BC Ambulance Ser-vice evolved, the PFRS continued to provide First Medical Response service, assisting ambu-lance crews or provid-ing service when the ambulance is delayed.However, at Tuesday morning’s Committee of the Whole meeting, dis-trict council discussed the merit of having the PFRS respond to Tier 1 calls. A Tier 1 (code 3) response is one where the 9-1-1 dispatcher in Kamloops decides the caller’s life is in danger through a series of infor-mation gathering ques-tions. If the call meets the criteria of being a ‘life endangering’ situa-tion, the Kamloops Dis-patcher transfers the call to the Kelowna Fire De-partment dispatch offi ce which then calls upon the PFRS. At the same time, the Kamloops dis-

patcher sends an ambu-lance to the scene, as well.

While all the coun-cillors agreed that the PFRS provides a valu-able service to the com-munity, it was stated that no other commu-nity in BC offers the ex-tent of First Responder service that Peachland does.

Councillor Condon wondered if there was a possibility of fi nding a more effi cient way to carry out the service. “From a visual perspec-tive, the residences see an ambulance and am-bulance staff and a fi re response vehicle, one or more, and a number of people. That calls into question the effi ciency of the system. And peo-ple wonder, why do all these people have to re-spond to this?”

However, Councillors Vern Moberg and Ernie Hurd expressed that the extra safety and peace of mind the PFRS provide with the First Responder policy is worth the ex-tra money. Peachland’s Chief Administrative Offi cer estimated the PFRS First Responder service cost the district approximately $45,000-$50,000 a year. This funding comes directly

from the PFRS operating budget.

Vern Moberg ex-plained: “My theory is I don’t really look at the expense of when we have a fi rst responder call. I look at the re-sponse. Somebody has a problem, whether they are choking or some-thing else. We know that in our community, there are people that are volunteer fi remen [who] will respond. And they will get attention pretty quick, whether the PFRS is before the ambulance or not. We know that there is someone there looking after us who is capable of doing the job.”

“Since I have been here (1985) the system has been this way. The fi rst responders have gone in and we have had great response. I have never heard anyone ever com-plain about how much it cost our fi re department to operate or anything like that. The way I feel now is that everyone is happy about the service and the way our fi re department reacts and until they can come up with a better system I would like it to stay the same.”

Councillor Hurd said, “I was a fi rst responder

here, years ago when I was a volunteer fi re-fi ghter. These people are not regular people. They are trained, almost to a point just below ambu-lance service.”

“Look at the demo-graphics here in Peach-land. We have one am-bulance here in Peach-land and a possible backup ambulance. So anytime during the day that ambulance could be out. I had a heart attack a few years ago. I did not have it here but if I did I would be quite thank-ful that I did not have to wait for the ambulance to show up. To me, what-ever is the cost, I am okay with it because I think a tre-m e n d o u s service to the commu-nity.”

Cou nc i l -lors Lindsay Bell and Pe-ter Schier-beck asked the group if there was any way the Dis-trict could recoup the costs in-volved in what they

believe to be a valuable service.

“I called an ambu-lance, for my son, one time,” Bell said. “And I got the bill ($50+). I would be willing to pay the bill for a First Medi-cal Respondent.”

“I don’t know how that could be incorporated so that the town is not pick-ing up the bill,” Bell con-tinued. “It is user pays. That is how I would do it. If there is an emer-gency, I need them, I call them. That is an amaz-ing service and anyone that is in a life threaten-ing situation would be more than happy to pay

x amount of dollars.”Mayor Fielding told

council that when they touched on the topic a few years ago, the con-sensus was that the town did not want to get out of the First Re-sponder business. They just wanted to fi nd pos-sible alternatives to see if any effi ciencies could be found.

The council tabled the topic until staff could prepare a list of possible options. Over a 6-month period (July 1, 2009 - December 31, 2009) the PFRS was called out to 83 First Responder inci-dents.

First Responder medical service too good?

By Barry Kerton

Peachland district coun-

cil took another step in try-

ing to become a more green

community by unanimously

agreeing to apply for the

$5000 grant in hopes of be-

coming a solar community.

The grant from Solar BC

encourages people and com-

munities to reduce their car-

bon footprint by embracing

different solar energy initia-

tives. Currently there are nine

Solar Communities: Dawson

Creek, Kelowna, Saanich, To-

fino, T’Sou-ke First Nation,

District of North Vancouver,

Vancouver, West Moberly

First Nation and Whistler.

An additional six communi-

ties will be added to the list

of solar communities.

Solar communities will:

• Act as f lagship communi-

ties and provide leadership

to community members;

• Help to develop means to

remove barriers to solar hot

water installations;

• Help to promote and

raise awareness of Solar BC

to community members; and

• Provide visible solar dem-

onstration projects.

Doug Pryde, Peachland’s

Director of Finance, ex-

plained. “This is simply a

grant, which we sought, and

the application expires at the

end of the month. We can ob-

tain $5,000 for the purposes

of creating a strategy to in-

form and encourage people

of the benefits of changing to

solar energy type systems.”

The District of Peachland

has been trying to implement

and encourage local residents

to do what they can to reduce

greenhouse gas emissions.

Applications will be as-

sessed and selection of Solar

Communities will be deter-

mined according to the fol-

lowing criteria:

• Solar targets, actions and

initiatives proposed;

• Innovation in the targets,

actions and policy/planning/

leadership measures pro-

posed;

• Intention to apply for

grants to help implement

the solar hot water initia-

tives;

• Commitment of re-

sources to achieve the so-

lar hot water initiatives;

• Demonstrated commit-

ment and past implementa-

tion of solar initiatives in

the community; and

• Applicability of initia-

tives in other communi-

ties.

After an audit of Peach-

land facilities, it was deter-

mined that the community

centre’s hot water system

is closing in on the end

of its useful life. Since so-

lar technologies for heat-

ing hot water are well de-

veloped and have shown

to save money and lower

greenhouse emissions,

district staff will likely

include in the upcoming

budget the replacement of

the aging hot water system

with a solar hot water in-

stallation.

Peachland to apply for solar community grant

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Olympic accolades to all who were involved and helped to facilitate the large screen viewing of the 2010 Games events. We felt as if we were “right there” throughout the two weeks. Though we were few in number most days, the opening and closing ceremonies, as well as the gold medal game in hockey, were marvelous on the big screen. Thank you so much.

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Peachland Pipe Band explains move

This letter is in regard to the one thousand dollar civic grant to the Peachland Pipe Bank approved by Peachland Council as reported in The Peachland View recently.

As many residents already know, the Peachland Pipe Band moved from the Peachland Recreation Centre to the Summerland Legion a few months ago. The move was necessitated for several reasons, which I will try to explain in simple terms.

First of all, our goal of attracting new people into the band was a failure. In the four years plus we practiced here we could not attract young Peachland-ers, despite many attempts to promote our tutoring program. However, we were and are gaining young members from the Summerland, Penticton, and OK Falls communities as well as ex-perienced pipers and drummers. This suggests the move was the right one.

We had seemingly failed to grasp the imagination of a majority of our pre-vious council and district staff who appeared unable to help us address such concerns as providing the band with adequate and proper equipment storage and a practice facility that we could always count on to be available.

Thanks to the Summerland Branch of the Royal Canadian Legion, we now have an excellent practice facility.

Nor could we get municipal fi nancial support. Our one and only civic grant of $1,000 was awarded in our second year of operation. Further assistance requested in the following year was rejected without explanation. We saw this as a clear indication that the previ-ous Council did not support the band and that we were, in their eyes, not worthy of future grant consideration.

It is not my intention to turn this into a list of gripes and issues. However, suffi ce it to say we have left Peachland for a new home and many of our prob-lems appear to have been solved.

Since we have left town we feel we cannot in good faith accept council’s civic grant and we have informed them of our decision. However, we want to assure our Peachland supporters and citizens that we will still come out to assist in community events whenever we can and that we want to continue to have a relationship with the wonderful residents of Peachland.

David Cain, Pipe Major, Peachland Pipe Band

� WEEKLY COMMENTARYJOANNE LAYH, PUBLISHER/EDITOR

In council chambers, much has been said re-cently about green cred-its. As it had been laid

out last week, the now-rejected green credit policy for grey area properties seemed like a reasonable compro-mise and a good idea to me. It is a shame that not enough members of council could support it.

The green credit would have seen grey area properties get a break on their water rates pro-vided that:

• At least 50% of the cultivatable area is de-voted to the production of food;

• The area devoted to food is at least 0.25 acre; and

• A water effi cient (e.g. micro-jet, drip irriga-tion) system is employed to irrigate all cultivat-able areas.

Under this criteria, only those that take up food production in some kind of serious way and do so in a conserving fashion would qualify for it. However, coun-cil couldn’t fi nd enough support for this because some felt that no one should get a break, and others felt that everyone with a large property should get a break, or that anyone with any sort of garden should get

a break.On the one hand, I be-

lieve that those who can afford to live on a large lot in the central Okana-gan are among the most privileged in this coun-try. They own prop-erty that most Canadi-ans can only dream of. For these people to ask those who live in condos or on smaller properties to subsidize their utility cost seems unfair to me. If they want to live big, they should pay big.

Some would like to see the green credit ex-tended to anyone with a large property, whether

they produce much food on it or not. To offer a credit to owners of large properties just for the sake of subsidizing their heavy usage isn’t fair, nor does it encourage conservation. To call that credit green when what is going on is actu-ally over-consumption rather than conservation in some cases just seems wrong.

On the other hand, if the owners of these properties are producing a considerable amount of food and are using sustainable practices, then they should be sup-

ported by the commu-nity. I don’t think the importance of local food production can be over-stated. It is of great sig-nifi cance to our health, local tourism, the econ-omy, and the environ-ment and, as the mayor recently stated, should be encouraged. Offering a green credit to those who devote a signifi cant area of their property to the sustainable pro-duction of food makes sense. Offering the same credit to a hobby gar-dener makes less sense to me, and seems impos-sible to regulate.

Who should be eligible for green credits?

Last week as you may have heard, both the Federal and B.C. Provin-

cial governments intro-duced new budgets. As your Provincial Member of the B.C. Legislature, I would like to share with you information from the B.C. Budget 2010 as it compares to last year’s budget. First is to-tal spending, as the BC Budget 2010 will again see an increase of total spending, up to $40.6 billion. Fortunately, rev-enue is also forecast to increase up to just over $39 billion. Unfortu-

nately, this still leaves a defi cit of $1.7 billion when also factoring in a $300 million forecast allowance. The positive news is that this year’s defi cit is forecasted to come in one billion be-low last year’s defi cit, in spite of the increased spending announced in Budget 2010.

With an increase in spending the question to be asked is; where is the government spend-ing your money? Health

care will again see the largest budgetary in-crease in spending with a $447 million increase towards an additional $2 billion in increased health spending by 2012. Education fund-ing is the next largest in-crease with an addition-al $156 million over the next three years, with a $50 million increase in this year’s budget alone. Other spending increas-es include $ 20 million this year in funding for a new sports and the arts legacy fund, along with an additional $ 8 mil-lion towards increased day care support. An increase of $10 million will also be allocated towards justice and the court system with a fur-ther $12 million to sup-port increasing policing operations. There will also be $58 million to-wards increasing local government infrastruc-ture projects in this year’s budget, as well. Finally, on the energy front $5 million will in-vested in the LiveSmart

BC Program and $20 million is destined for the support of new clean energy initiatives.

As mentioned pre-viously, the 2010 BC Budget also contains a $270 million contin-gency fund, based on the Ministry of Finance economic forecast of 2.2 per cent. It should also be noted that this year’s budget is part of a three year fi scal plan to return B.C. back to our previ-ously enjoyed surplus situation. While B.C. currently is on track for the three year budget targets, I made a point of listing many of the bud-getary items as they will be spent in this year’s budget in an effort to provide more clarity on the spending of your tax dollars. It should also be noted that while the areas above outline in-creases in expenditures, there are also other ministries that will, as a result, see a reduc-tion in their funding. For example, both the Ministry of Forests and

the Ministry of Labour will see a reduction in their annual operating budget. I will in future weeks discuss in greater detail many aspects of B.C. Budget 2010. The introductory informa-tion here was presented to provide an overview and I am always happy to answer further ques-tion in greater detail.

Before I conclude this week’s column, I would like to thank rural Sum-merland residents for taking the time to share your concerns regarding the potential of hosting the Targa West automo-tive rally in your area. I appreciated both the ef-fort and constructive na-ture of your many com-ments, and it became apparent there was an overwhelming consen-sus that the Targa West proposal, as it currently stands, is not one that I could recommend for approval on the May long weekend. Thank you again to everyone for your calls and emails on this matter.

Monday morning a week ago the streets of Vancouver were quiet. Quiet? Yes! Especially compared to all the pre-vious nights of the Win-ter Olympics.

Only hours before, the downtown was jammed with 150 thousand de-lirious cheering Canadi-ans.

“Can’t the afterglow last a little longer?” I thought. I didn’t have to wait long for the Olym-pic fl ame to rekindle.

48 hours later I was on Parliament Hill in another crowd. This time, it was cheering, fl ag waving school kids. They were there to ap-plaud (wildly) our Para-lympic athletes who were lighting the torch that would get to 31 Ca-nadian cities on its way to Vancouver.

The Prime Minister greeted our athletes in front of the Peace Tower and wished them all the best in their quest for gold. Like athletes ev-erywhere, each one of our Special Olympians carries a story of over-coming the odds and pressing on with their dreams.

There will be over 50 hours of Paralympic

television. Tune in. You will be thrilled by what you see. Go Canada Go!

Talking about gold, the next day the Minis-ter of Finance unveiled about $270 billion of it in his budget. Yes, that’s a big number. Here’s what it looks like in bite size pieces.

Imagine you were giv-en your own portable ATM machine and you were then told you could go shopping. You would be allowed to pull mon-ey from the machine at a rate of a thousand bucks an hour, only resting one day a week to re-spect any local Sunday shopping by-laws.

Do you know how long it would take you to spend a billion dol-lars at that pace? 375 years! And that’s only one billion. We’re going to spend about $270 bil-lion in just one year.

So now you under-stand why I shake my head when our critics come out exclaiming, “There’s nothing in this budget.”

It’s one thing to dis-agree on the spending priorities. That’s fair comment. But it’s an-other thing to tell the hard working taxpayers there’s ‘nothing’ in the budget.

$36 billion for seniors is not ‘nothing.’

Over a billion for the Department of the Envi-ronment is not ‘nothing.’

Our National Defense takes $18 billion to pro-tect our country. Foreign aid to help others is $5 billion. Youth Oppor-tunity and Employment Training programs are in the hundreds of mil-lions…and on it goes.

That’s not ‘nothing.’

It’s something!This budget also sets

us on a course to get rid of the defi cit (balance the budget) by 2014/15. Not by slashing the Health and Education transfers to provinces. As matter of fact, we will increase the health transfer.

Program funding for seniors and families will also increase, and not by raising taxes.

Instead, we will put a lid on government oper-ations. All departments ‘spending’ will be fro-zen for the next 3 years. We’re also introducing legislation to freeze Min-ister, MP and Senators’ salaries at 2010 levels.

What kind of rating are we getting on our tight fi scal manage-ment?

The International Monetary Fund, the World Economic Forum, the OECD and the Econ-omist Intelligence Unit all say we are now in the best position fi nancially of the G-8 countries. International invest-ment advisors are saying Canada is the place to be due to our fi nancial management.

Our debt ratio is the lowest in the G-8. Four of the last six months we have seen the job num-bers increase. This last quarter, our economic performance surprised analysts with 5% annu-alized growth.

We’re certainly not perfect. We still need to do some things better. But you’ve told us you expect us to manage re-sponsibly. The same way you’ve had to.

Thank you for that clear advice. That’s the plan.

Peachland Views

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Would you like to feature your event in the Peachland View’s weekly Calendar of Events? Please call 250.767.7771 or email [email protected].

Community Volunteer Income Tax Program

March 5 - April 23

Fridays - 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. at the Peachland Wellness Centre. For more information call

250.767.0141

Peachland Sportsmen’s Association

General MeetingMarch 17

The General Meeting will be held at the Community Centre at 7;30 p.m. Special guest from 7:30 - 8:30 p.m. - Jessica Hobden of Invasive Plant Council of BC.

Peachland Little Schoolhouse

8th Annual Wine and Cheese eveningMarch 19

Featuring wines from Greata Ranch Estate Winery. For tickets and more information call 250.575.8226

Peachland Newcomers Club

The Peachland Newcomers Club....more than just cookies!

It is very nice when your neighbours wel-come you with cookies to your new com-

munity; however, there are more things you need to know about your new place of resi-dence. If you are new to Peachland, this is a great way to meet new people and get in-volved in the activities of your community. We are a fun-loving group that goes out for lunches, excursions, games, walks or just a good time and yes, we also have cook-ies! Contact Doris at 250.767.2391. Robie at 250.767.6322 or [email protected]

UPCOMING EVENTS & ACTIVITIES

MARCH 19Community Volunteer Income Tax Program at Peach land Wellness Centre: 9:30 a.m. -

11:30 a.m. For info call

250.767.0141

Tales for Tots at the Peachland Library: 11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Children 3 to 5 years. Fridays, Feb 5 - Apr 30.

Friday Art Club: 1-4 p.m. acrylic painting with Roberta. PDRS membership required. Call Roberta 767-2054.

Royal Canadian Legion Karaoke with Anita: 1930 hrs.

MARCH 20Sun Run Clinic at the Peachland Recreation Centre: 9 :00-10:30 a.m. Call 250.767.2133 for more information

Carpet Bowling at 50+ Activity Centre: 10:00 a.m.

Royal Canadian Legion Meat Draw: 1500 - 1700 hrs.

MARCH 24 Wellness Circle at Peachland Wellness Centre: 10:00 a.m. Speaker each week.

Chess at 50+ Activity Centre: 1:00 p.m. Experienced and beginners.

Central Okanagan Model Railway Company:Group meets at 7:00 p.m. at the Peachland Museum. Contact Dave at 250.767.2409 or visit http://www.corc-bc.com

Yoga for the young at heart at the 50+ Activity Centre: 1:30 - 2:30p.m.

MARCH 25Line Dancing at 50+ Centre: 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Tai Chi for Wellness: 9:30 a.m. beginning students meet at United Church Hall

Tai Chi for Wellness: 10:15 a.m. continuing students meet at United Church Hall

Bereavement Support Group at the Wellness Centre: 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

“Iron & Silk” excercise at 50+ Centre:11:00 a.m. - noon.

Bingo at 50+ Centre: 6:45 p.m.

MARCH 22TOPS at 50+ Activity Centre: 9:30 a.m. Call 1.800.932.8677 or Doreen at 250.767.2132

Peachland Variety Singers at 50+ Activity Centre: Meets 9:45 a.m.

Senior Coffee Morning at Peachland Wellness Centre: 10 a.m. Call 250.767.0141

Peachland Quilters Guild at 50+:1–4 p.m.

Royal Canadian Legion General Meeting: 1930 hrs.

MARCH 23Carpet Bowling at 50+ Centre:10:00 a.m.

Computer Literacy at the Wellness Centre 10:00 a.m. For those needing basic computer skills. Call 250.767.0141

Health in Action at 50+Activity Centre:1:00 p.m.

Tai Chi for Wellness: 6 p.m. continuing students meet at United Church Hall

Peachland Bridge Club at 50+ Activity Centre: 7 p.m. Call Eva at 250.767.6407

MARCH 21Sunday Breakfast Program: 8-11 a.m. at Peachland Wellness Centre. $5 for a full breakfast. Call 250.767.0141

MARCH 15TOPS at 50+ Activity Centre: 9:30 a.m. For information call 1.800.932.8677 or Doreen at 250.767.2132

Peachland Variety Singers: Meet 9:45 a.m. at the Fifty Plus Activity Centre

Senior Coffee Morning at Peachland Wellness Centre: 10 a.m. Call 250.767.0141

Peachland Quilters Guild at Fifty Plus:1–4 p.m.

Royal Canadian Legion Executive Meeting: 1900 hrs.

MARCH 16Computer Literacy at the Wellness Centre 10:00 a.m. For those needing basic computer skills. Call 250.767.0141

Carpet Bowling at 50+ Centre:10:00 a.m.

Tai Chi for Wellness: 6:00 p.m continuing students meet at United Church Hall

Peachland Bridge Club at 50+ Activity Centre: 7 p.m. Call Eva at 250.767.6407

MARCH 17Wellness Circle at Peachland Wellness Centre: 10:00 a.m. Speaker each week.

Chess at 50+ Activity Centre: 1:00 p.m. Experienced and beginners.

Sunshine Singers at Peachland Wellness Centre: 1:30 p.m. Come and sing!

Yoga for the young at heart at the 50+ Activity Centre: 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.

Central Okanagan Model Railway Company:Group meets at 7:00 p.m. at the Peachland Museum. Contact Dave at 250.767.2409 or visit http://www.corc-bc.com

MARCH 18Tai Chi for Wellness: 9:30 a.m. beginning students meet at United Church Hall

Tai Chi for Wellness: 10:15 a.m. continuing students meet at United Church Hall

Bingo at 50+ Centre: 6:45 p.m

Peachland Sowers and Growers Monthly Meeting: 7:00 p.m. at the Little Schoolhouse. Speaker - Michael Farynycz

MARCH 26Community Volunteer Income Tax Program at Peach land Wellness Centre: 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. For info call 250.767.0141

Tales for Tots at the Peachland Library: 11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Children 3 to 5 years. Fridays, Feb 5 - Apr 30.

Friday Art Club: 1-4 p.m. acrylic painting with Roberta. PDRS membership required. Call Roberta 767.2054

MARCH 27Sun Run Clinic at the Peachland Recreation Centre: 9 :00-10:30 a.m. Call 250.767.2133 for more information


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MARCH 12Community Volunteer Income Tax Program at Peach land Wellness Centre: 9:30 a.m. -

11:30 a.m. For info call

250.767.0141

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Children 3 to 5 years.

Fridays, Feb 5 - Apr 30.

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Peachland Wellness Centre Gala Benefi t- at the Royal Canadian Legion #69 on Saturday, March 13, 7:30 - 10:30 p.m. Admission: by donation. Featuring the Dynamic Debut of The MADames: Melita, Anita, Dagmar. A talented trio and stirring soloists - a don’t miss performance! Plus a Giant Raffl e with over 30 great prizes and a SPECIAL RAFFLE: 3 days & nights at an elegant condo in Whistler or in downtown Vancouver - FREE

Peachland Riding Club is hosting a Competitors Workshop on March 17, at the Peachland Riding Club clubhouse. This is a motivational seminar with personal coach/trainer Dave Freeze. The Workshop is open to the public. Tickets - Mem-bers $10 each and Non-members $30 each. Contact Erin at 250.768.0920 or Sandy at 250.718.2761.

Peachland Garden Club -The Peachland Sowers and Growers are an active gar-dening group who meet the third Thursday of each month at 7:00 p.m. at the Little Schoolhouse. The club has guest speakers, garden tours, workshops and much more. COME ONE COME ALL! This month’s speaker is Michael Farynycz who will demonstrate the construction of old wood bird houses. Contact - 250.767.2218 or 250.767.2546.

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By Eric Hall

Friday March 19th is the annual wine and cheese evening at Peachland’s Little School House. There are still tickets available at $25 each; call 250-575-8226 for de-tails. This event is usually a sell out well before the date. Last year, the wine talk by our local Working Horse Winery was very well received. This year we will be hearing from the staff at Greata Ranch and will sample some of their fi ne wines. Because of space restrictions, there are only 40 tickets to be sold, so act soon if you plan to go. Greata Ranch will give the lucky few a chance to sample their new Peachland red wine.

Although Greata ranch is not within the Dis-trict’s boundary, it is a place with many histor-ical links to our town. George Greata arrived in the Okanagan in 1895 from Souris, Manitoba

and built a log cabin and a wharf at the lakeshore. Four years later, in 1899, he built a fi ve-mile wood-en pipeline to get water from Deep Creek. It was a major project for that time and, with water as-sured, Greata planted an orchard of mostly apple trees. In 1910 Greata sold the property and the Long family took over the running of the orchards. Ross Fitzpatrick, a long-time Okanagan senator, purchased the property in 1994. He had visited the property with his father many years before and remembered the magnifi -cent peaches that he had sampled. The fi rst vines were planted in 1996.

The Fitzpatrick family have been working on plans for a new residen-tial community, The Greata Ranch Vineyard Estates. This develop-ment will allow people to live in luxury surrounded by the splendours of na-ture, including the grape-vines.

Peachland Little School House Wine and Cheese evening

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For a short time only, wine and cheese soon to be found here. Photo Eric Hall

By Bud Day

The popular traditional Christmas movie, “It’s a Wonderful Life” has a timeless theme which could apply to all of us. How would the lives of those whom you have touched, even those who are just the recipients of your warm smile, be altered should you not have visited this plan-et? These lives would include all signifi cant others: parents, siblings, spouses, relatives, close friends, plus those whose lives that you impacted somewhat, such as cas-ual friendships, business colleagues, and even nodding acquaintances. In the main, we are un-

aware of the infl uence we have on others, subtly or otherwise, either by a kindness or a listen-ing ear. Think back to those occasions where you made a person’s day by sharing a part of your-self, for a moment.In our community, we

are fortunate to have a facility that embodies the traits of caring, help-ing, sharing, and sup-porting - the Peachland Wellness Centre (PWC), which was a dream ten years ago, of the charm-ing, indefatigable Phyllis Papineau, then a munici-pal councillor. Through

the assistance of others, she galvanized the resi-dents to work together to house a facility where disenfranchised seniors may fi nd help regarding health and welfare issues.With this recession

rearing its ugly head to shake a defi nite “no!” to funding requests to sus-tain the much-need pro-grams, we should pause momentarily to refl ect how the lives of those now touched by the PWC, would be altered, should it cease oper-ations. “Where do I go now

for a wholesome Sun-day Breakfast where I can enjoy the company of the regular patrons?” (average 45 patrons each Sunday) “Where can I have

Monday morning cof-fee and look forward to the camaraderie of the group?” (average 22 people) “Who can transport

me to my medical ap-pointments?” (some in the handicap van) - (aver-age 23/month) “I lost my spouse/close

friend - where do I go for comfort and solace?” (Bereavement Support Group - average 8/week) “Where can I fi nd a

Learn to Sing group that enjoys singing just for fun?” (Sunshine Singers:

average 12-14/week) “I’m lonely and de-

pressed - who can I turn to now to help me through this ‘funk?’” (Blues Club - average 6-8/week) “I have a low pension

and I can’t afford to pay someone to do my in-come tax” (annual Com-munity Volunteer In-come Tax program - 60 people last year) “My husband and I

can’t cook anymore and we love the nutritious frozen dinners/soups prepared by Penticton Hospital that we use to get at the PWC. We can’t drive to Penticton, so what can we do?” (Din-ners-at-Home program - 96 served last month) “My brother recently

fell in his home and broke his hip. I learned that the PWC has trained person-nel in their Falls Preven-tion Program that will come into my home to assess the potential acci-dent areas. My husband and I are susceptible to accidents, but who will carry on the program now?” “I use to look forward

to the friendliness of the Wellness Circle and the informative guest speak-ers - now what?” (average 10-12 per week)Space does not permit

me to include other ser-

vices, such as: Computer Literacy, Painting with Pete, Tai Chi, et al. But I think that the aforesaid underscores the loss of the myriad of services offered by the PWC to the community, should Phyllis not have had her dream! The Peachland Well-

ness Centre is hosting a Gala Benefi t tomorrow night (March 13) at the Legion Branch 69 from 7:30 - 10:30 p.m. which features the debut per-formance of The MA-Dames: Melita, Anita and Dagmar, who have had musical theatre ex-perience. Admission is by donation. Also fea-tured will be a giant raffl e with over 30 great prizes, plus a special raf-fl e for a free 3 days and nights stay at an elegant condo in Whistler or in downtown Vancouver. Please come out and sup-port the Peachland Well-ness Centre. If you can-not attend, please send your donation, (you will receive a tax receipt) to: Peachland Wellness Cen-tre, 4426 Fifth Street, Peachland, BC, V0H 1X6. I think that our com-

munity has been more enhanced since the Peachland Wellness Cen-tre had been born.

By Barrie Hewer

The PLSL player names below are listed in the or-der of their fi nal 2009 – 2010 League Standings. Yes, the player ordered frivolous forensic au-dit has been completed by the accounting fi rm of McLean and Stuart. They found all records kept by league offi cials to be without error and accompanied their audit fi ndings with a letter of commendation to league offi cials for outstanding efforts that have kept all, but a few with personal-ity disorders, calm and

pleased with league ac-tivities. With well over 400 games completed without property dam-age or injury (except egos) those listed below deserve congratulations (and thanks) for an inci-dent free season of league play. But now the Cham-pionship Round has be-gun and the gloves are off. The format of play is a round robin, dou-ble knock-out. You can be knocked to the mat once and still return to battle. However medical advice insists that if you are knocked to the mat a second time, you are out,

but can rejoin in Octo-ber, with a doctor’s note indicating medical clear-ance. Games are played Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday between 5:30 and 7:45 p.m. The fi nals will be played on March 28. Unconfi rmed reports would like us to believe that we may have an internationally recog-nized guest attending the fi nals. The standings be-low refl ect the results of play prior to the Champi-onship Round that com-menced March 4, 2010. Watch this paper for con-tinuing reports or better yet, watch a game.

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Ken DavisDwayne SmithRoger Moxley

Charlie SimpsonBob Menzies

Debbie StewartBernie NeesonHarry PankratzBrad VallanceHarry Rusch

Mark SaulAndy Doyon

Scott WilshawFrank ReindlBarrie HewerClare StinsonJoey Neeson

Peach Tarts’ jammer Teri-Lyn Martin (Evol-Lin) reaches for Kelly McKenzie (Melody Full Nelson) to get a hip whip. Th e Peach Tarts played their fi rst bout last Saturday (March 6th) against the Raggedy Rollers. Photo David Conzatti

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Bears live and sleep in the forest that surrounds us in the Okanagan and they have perhaps been having their winter sleep (some call hiberna-tion) since early winter days in November. They will soon be waking up, driven by powerful hunger. Some will be searching for food for the newly born cubs and themselves. Plant life will still be scarce, and they may climb trees in search of vegetative or reproductive parts such as fruit, nuts, and seeds. However, the bear is considered to be carniv-orous and can often be seen near rivers where salmon runs. They will also be looking for al-ternative sources of food, like the contents of your garbage can.

A bear’s ramblings will be driven mostly through their keen and principal sense of smell used to fi nd most of their available food re-

quirements. Bears are not fussy eaters and they are unlikely to ramble past an easy meal, even if it means coming up to your house and raiding your food waste garbage can or knocking over your uncleaned BBQ or carelessly spilled sugary drinks and crumbs. They will also raid your bird feeders, so these should be taken indoors and put away until next year, as the birds will by now be foraging for themselves in the fi elds’ gardens and forest for all the food they need.

You would do well to remember that bears will soon associate food with human activities and that is when they become a nuisance and put our youngsters and adults at risk.

Let me give you some advice so you can avoid that furry cuddly look-ing bear climbing onto a chair and joining you for dinner or the family BBQ (see photo). Here’s what you can do:

• No matter where you are, clean up thoroughly when you have fi nished your meal and carefully dispose of your food garbage;

• Store your garbage in a bear-proof contain-er. Better still, keep it in a freezer or cold stor-age until the morning of collection. Then there is no odour to attract that hungry bear;

• Keep your barbeque clean and free of grease and do not leave food unattended. After cook-ing, consider turning your burners on high for a few minutes to burn off any remaining odor-ous residue;

• Pick your berries and fruit as they ripen. Also keep the ground clear regularly of fallen fruit;

• If you have pets, en-sure you feed them in-doors;

• Outdoor freezers should be removed to a secure indoor location;

• Garden compost should be sprinkled with lime frequently;

• Do not compost fallen fruit or rejected canning fruit, stones or skins from jam making;

• Make sure that pe-troleum products in-cluding turpentine, kerosene, charcoal and tarpaper are stored in a secure safe place as bears are attracted to these things;

• If you are an outdoor person and like walk-ing, jogging or running in the wild country, do not wear headphones. You want to be able to hear as well as see wild animals. It is always ad-visable to make noise if you suspect animals are around. Try singing. Learn your choir music. Bears are not fussy if you are on key or not. Alternately you can clap your hands, or just make a noise blowing a shrill whistle;

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• If you do encounter an animal, remain calm. Do not frighten the ani-mal, as this may provoke an attack;

• If you plan to carry bear spray, know how to use it should you feel the need. Make sure it has not expired or been exposed to freezing tem-peratures or rain;

• Photography is great to bring home a picture of bruin feeding or play-ing with cubs. However, I caution you not to at-tempt to get too close. Better to spend a few dollars on a telescopic lens and take a photo from a safe distance (at least 100m) than to be mauled by an aggres-sive bear that may only

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Gordon Sanderson (Sandy) passed away peacefully with family by his side on Wednes-day, March 3, 2010 at the Village at Smith Creek. Born on June 2, 1922 to Peachland pioneers, W.B. (Billy) and Jenny Sanderson, Sandy lived almost all of his life in Peachland, leaving only to serve overseas during WW II and to work in Sri Lanka in the 1970’s. Sandy grew up churn-ing butter, canning fruit, and working the family orchard on Princ-eton Avenue, in the same house he brought up his own family. After at-tending school in the old Peachland Elementary school on Beach Avenue for Gr. 1 to 11, Sandy worked the orchard full time and logged in the bush behind Peachland. He joined the Army in 1942 and served over-seas with the Calgary Highlanders and the North Nova Scotia High-landers, landing in Nor-mandy on the evening of D-Day. He was wounded twice. The second time he was rafted down a Belgian river for medical help and, after spending several months in an English hospital, he was shipped home in a body cast, crossing the Atlan-tic on the Ile de France and crossing Canada by train. Sandy went back to orchard work and log-ging, working for Traut-man and Garraway Saw-mill Co. in Peachland, SM Simpson Sawmills, and Crown Zellerbach as foreman of a logging crew and road superin-tendent. He spent many long nights grading log-ging roads both in the bush and for the Mu-nicipality of Peachland, always with his dog Nub running shotgun. In 1946, Sandy married

Dorothy (Dot) Miller and they spent the next 25 years working and raising their family and being involved in the community of Peach-land. They lost their son Gordon in a tragic car accident in1969. In 1971 they travelled to Sri Lanka (Ceylon) where Sandy worked for CIDA teaching road build-ing techniques and log-ging. Just a few months after their arrival in Sri Lanka Dot died at the age of 47. After bring-ing her home, Sandy returned to Sri Lanka for several years. He married Christine Rezel in 1973. In 1977, after returning to Peachland, Sandy became the proud father of son John, 10 days after becoming a grandfather! He contin-ued to work in the log-ging industry for sev-eral years and worked his grader and his hay field on Sanderson Av-enue until well into his 70’s. He was a master storyteller and a great listener, always asking questions and want-ing to learn new things about people and places. He taught his children and grandchildren a love of learning and a love for travel. He was a proud member of the Peachland Royal Cana-dian Legion Branch #69, serving for many years as the spokesman for the Remembrance Day ceremonies and more recently as the reader of the Role of Honour. He was able to continue to read the Honour Roll until November 2009 by being filmed in hospital while he was in care. He was a member of the Tre-panier Masonic Lodge, the original Peachland Curling Club, a former member of Peachland Council, and was very

active in the communi-ty. Sandy is survived by his loving family; wife Christine and their son John, daughters Jen-nifer (Gary) Reece and Linda (Fred) McNeill, daughter-in-law, Lon-nie and his much loved grandchildren Koreen & Daryn Reece, Erika McNeill, and Sylas Jo-seph Sanderson. Also, survived by nieces and nephews and his sister-in-law Geneva Miller as well as by Christine’s extended family in Eng-land and Australia. Pre-deceased by his beloved wife Dot, his much loved son Gordie, and his brother Bill. The family wishes to thank Veter-an’s Affairs Canada for their support, particu-larly over the past four years and the staff at the Village of Smith Creek for their compassionate care of Dad for the past year. We also thank Mel Fondrick, good friend, as well as the many Peachland people who supported his jam-making efforts and lis-tened to his stories! He will be missed by family and friends whose lives he warmed with his big smile and bright blue eyes. A Celebration of Life will be held Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 1:00 PM at the Peachland Com-munity Centre, 4450 – 6th Street, Peachland. In lieu of flowers, dona-tions may be made to the Heart and Stroke Foun-dation of BC & Yukon, #4 – 1551 Sutherland Av-enue, Kelowna, BC V1Y 9M9. Funeral Arrange-ments entrusted to Val-leyview Funeral Home (Kelowna) (250) 765-3147 Honoured Provider of Dignity Memorial. Con-dolences may be made to the family by visiting www.valleyviewfuner-alhome.com


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I don’t have any prob-lem with the secular bent of our public school sys-tem. We live in a country that is made up of many vibrant cultures, and I have no desire to force my particular values on oth-ers. In order for all of us to get along, we Canadi-ans don’t allow the state to adopt a religion as its own. It’s all about being intentionally respectful and tolerant of others, whether you have dif-ferent perspectives from them or not.

I don’t always get why the school system is so nervous talking about re-ligion. There seems to be some leeway for talking about religions that are in

the minority in Canada for educational purpos-es. But as a whole, the study of religion has been pushed to the sidelines, with an apparent sigh of relief from our educators.

This can be a bit an-noying at times, particu-larly when it comes to holidays like Christmas or Ramadan or Hanuk-kah, where our secular sensibilities take great educational moments and castrate them. Bil-lions of people around the world celebrate these holidays, but it’s so much safer to downplay them. In one case a local Christ-mas pageant became a love fest for the environ-ment, a relevant topic to

be sure, but transplanted awkwardly on to the Christmas season, replac-ing even generic values like “peace on earth” and “goodwill to mankind.”

Regardless, as long as the motives remain pure, and religion is not down-graded on the education-al ladder because of some hostility or particular bias held by the powers that be, I can live with the tensions of a secular system.

This brings us to the de-bate over Trinity Western University (TWU). If you haven’t heard, TWU’s status as a university has been called into ques-tion. What is the conten-tion? TWU is a private,

Christian university that requires its professors to sign a “community cov-enant,” or statement of belief. The Canadian As-sociation of University Teachers (CAUT) argues that this practice sup-presses academic free-dom. In their words, “a university is meant as a place to explore ideas, not to create disciples of Christ.”

At fi rst blush, it’s hard to determine why CAUT has decided to take on TWU in this way. TWU has always supported the defi nition of aca-demic freedom, encour-ages discussions on all perspectives and ideas in the classroom, and have

no previous complaints of suppressed academic freedom.

Further, this doesn’t seem like a concern over academic license as much as concern over a Chris-tian bias. Although I am no academic, I’ve always assumed it was general knowledge that we all have a particular bias or perspective on the world. If a professor signs a creed at a Christian university then they are admitting to a Christian bias. How-ever, if a professor at a public, secular university doesn’t sign a creed, it merely suggests that oth-er biases are in play. Any of these biases can stag-nate academic freedom if allowed. But a university fi nds its strength when, in spite of the many biases, there is a commitment to a free study of ideas.

So why this battle, why did CAUT choose this hill to die on? TWU has been around for awhile, and so has their commu-nity covenant. The public school system may han-dle religion like a hot po-tato, and for good reason, but CAUT seems to want to infl ict damage, prefer-

ring to draw a line in thesand over an accusationthat seems groundless.To what ends?

What should be the is-sue for discussion is thequality of education, andperhaps this is where thereal issue lies. TWU wasfeatured in Maclean’s2010 Student Survey ofUniversities. The schoolperformed remarkablywell. Apparently profes-sors that have a Chris-tian bias are just as goodat producing top notchstudents as any other in-stitution. Apparently thestudents of TWU areopen-minded enough tobe successful contribu-tors to society. It’s thequality of education ac-cording to the studentsthat CAUT should beconcerned about. In thatregard, TWU seems to bedoing just fi ne.

And yes, I’m biased.About 15 years ago I wasin a serious car accidenton the Hope-Princetonhighway. The fi rst vehicleto stop at the scene of theaccident was a carloadof medical students fromTWU. They prayed forme, but they also gave meexcellent medical atten-tion until the ambulancearrived. I never got thechance to thank them. Iremain deeply apprecia-tive for both their spiri-tual care and medical ex-pertise.

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