Anna’s take: I visited Parks Place Pub for the first time last week. It’s a relatively new restaurant at the corner of Municipal Drive and 116th Street in downtown Fishers. It’s a great restaurant to walk to on your lunch break if you work in the vicinity, and with plenty of TVs, it’s a great place to watch sports. I loved the chicken sandwich, especially with the option to order it grilled or fried and to add buffalo sauce, which I did. I had for fries as my side. They had a great crispy texture that I loved.
An Arnprior man faces impaired driving and firearms charges after the Ontario Provincial Police said officers seized a loaded handgun as they responded to a pickup truck that had gone into a ditch in Mississippi Mills early Saturday.
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Called to the crash on on Appleton Side Road at about 3 a.m., police also found the vehicle and driver’s description matched up with an earlier incident in Perth, Lanark County OPP said in a release Monday.
In that incident, a handgun was seen pointed out of the vehicle’s window, police alleged.
The 29-year-old man is charged with possession of a loaded restricted or prohibited firearm, unauthorized possession of a restricted or prohibited firearm, possession of firearm, prohibited or restricted weapon obtained by crime, careless storage, occupying a vehicle knowing there was a prohibited or restricted weapon, impaired driving, and failing or refusing to comply with a demand.
He was scheduled to appear for a bailing hearing in Perth on Monday.
Coincidentally timed with an identical mandate from the provincial government for its healthcare workers, Victoria housing societies Our Place and Cool Aid have been largely successful in ensuring their staffs are COVID-19 vaccinated.
Over 98 per cent of Our Place Society’s 300 staff were fully vaccinated by the cutoff date of Oct. 28, said CEO Julian Daly.
Cool Aid Society’s vaccine mandate for staff, announced Oct. 19, was adhered to by most of their approximately 380 staff by an Oct. 26 deadline, confirmed CEO Kathy Stinson. Six unvaccinated staff were placed on unpaid leave with the option to receive vaccination and return before the new year, she said.
Daly said Our Place’s mandate was announced in mid-September, before Island Health confirmed dozens of COVID-19 cases had been reported in the Victoria unhoused and temporarily housed communities. That scenario prompted Our Place to temporarily shut down some of its programs.
“The outbreak of COVID in the homeless community further confirms the importance of that (earlier) decision, and the importance of keeping clients and colleagues as safe and healthy as possible,” Daly said.
Contracts with the Island Health Authority and the province partly led to Cool Aid Society’s staff mandate, Stinson added.
“Regardless of where the funding comes from – (Cool Aid staff) could work in buildings funded by Island Health or BC Housing – it just makes sense for us to implement the vaccine mandate organization-wide,” she said. “And it was actually well received by our staff and team.”
Our Place Society’s early introduction of the mandate presented some concern for the housing non-profit.
“At that time, no one else had made the decision to require (staff vaccinations) in our sector,” Daly said. “So there was a certain anxiety about how people might respond … we had some people who were understandably hesitant, and we provided lots of information about vaccines which we felt was important.”
That approach resulted in the majority of initially hesitant people taking steps to get vaccinated, he said, noting that only a half dozen or so people remain unvaccinated.
“I’m proud of my colleagues today,” Daly said. “I think (our vaccine rates) are a testament to their commitment to keeping everyone that they serve safe and healthy.”
Laramie County Community College Intercollegiate Horse Show Association (IHSA) equestrian team members place in top ten at the Colby Community College show this past weekend in Colby, Kan.
“Riders competed in a competitive field with many colleges represented and all riders earned placings in their respective divisions,” said Julia Wickerath, IHSA coach.
Six students competed at this contest in western horsemanship which involves rail work and individual patterns that show the ability of the rider to control and guide the horse through the elements like circles, lead changes, stop and back, shared Wickerath.
Intercollegiate Horse Show Association equestrian team members from left to right: Taylor Fawcett, Haley Wade, Katelyn Cowin, Madison Fehringer, Danae Baker and Anna Bossman. LCCC Courtesy photo
Results from Saturday:
Beginner Class 11A: Danae Baker, Cheyenne, Wyo., fourth place
Rookie B Class: Anna Bossman, Moorcroft, Wyo., fifth place
Beginner Class 11C: Katelyn Cowin, Pasco, Wash., sixth place
Beginner Class 11B: Taylor Fawcett, Laramie, Wyo., fifth place
Rookie A Class: Madison Fehringer, Sidney, Neb., second place
Rookie A Class: Haley Wade, Cheyenne, Wyo., sixth place
“After Saturday’s classes our team really focused on what they could work on and showed up Sunday with a sense of newfound confidence,” said Wickerath. “The amount of growth I saw “overnight” at this show makes me excited to see how much they’ll learn throughout the season.”
Results from Sunday:
Beginner Class 11C: Baker fourth
Rookie B Class: Bossman first
Beginner Class 11A: Cowin sixth
Beginner Class 11B: Fawcett fourth
Rookie A Class: Fehringer third
Rookie A Class: Wade fifth
“I was impressed with the team’s horsemanship and sportsmanship throughout the show,” said Wickerath. “Before each class, all team members helped each other prepare to enter the ring, and once inside would cheer and encourage from the sidelines. I was so happy to see the camaraderie amongst our students.”
The biggest challenge of these IHSA shows is that riders draw a horse’s name out of hat and are assigned to ride that horse all day and will draw for another horse the next day. Sometimes a rider may draw a really pleasant, well trained horse and other times the horse may be more challenging to ride, shared Wickerath.
The team will be traveling and competing at an IHSA hunt seat show next. For more information or to get involved with next years team, contact coaches Wickerath and Deeda Randle at jwickerath@lccc.wy.edu or drandle@lccc.wy.edu.
Photo above, Usha Kumar’s Fascination will be among the works available at this month’s virtual art show and sale hosted by the Beach Guild of Fine Art. Inset photo: Trish Cummings’ Dusk at the Lake.
By KAI GAMMAGE
The Beach Guild of Fine Art (BGFA) is hosting a virtual art show and sale from Nov. 5 to 28 as a way to highlight the incredible talent the community has to offer and for residents to find a way to enhance their homes with engaging and unique artworks.
For 27 years, the BGFA has supported local artists and given them a place to showcase their work. The Guild has been hosting art shows since 1994 in spaces such as the Gardener’s Cottage on Lee Avenue and the Beach United Church on Wineva Avenue.
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the BGFA switched to a virtual format to display its artists’ work last year.
This month’s show and sale is the fourth iteration of the Guild’s online art event. The works that will be exhibited range from acrylic to oil and watercolour paintings, to wooden boxes that are perfect for gifts as they have an original painting on the lid.
“One of our mandates is to promote art within the Beach. We have a range of artists from realism to abstract, and different mediums from watercolour to acrylic, oil, and even sculpture.” said Shelley Cinnamon, a member of the Guild and a past president.
“There are a tremendous number of artists in the Beach community, and I know that the community down here loves art. Fostering the arts is important to us.”
The BGFA made the switch to a virtual format over the course of the pandemic, and will continue to run the shows this way until restrictions across the province ease further. Though much is lost with the switch to a virtual platform, finding ways to adapt to a changing world is something that makes art as special as it is.
“You have none of the ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’ or even the ‘oh don’t like that one, wouldn’t put that in my house’ You don’t get the immediate responses in an online show that you would get in-person,” said Shelley.
“When you’re working the show, you get input from others. Sometimes it’s just a little kid running up and saying ‘look look!’, or sometimes it’s more serious talk by possibly other artists. It’s the outside voices that give you that validation.”
Silver linings, though, can be found throughout this virtual experience as a whole.
For some artists, it gave them time to hone their craft, to stay home and put more energy into their art. According to Shelley, for a few members of the Guild, they looked towards art as their salvation of sorts in helping them overcome the darker days of the pandemic.
There’s also a bright side for people looking to buy art at the show. Though you won’t have that desired in-person connection with a piece and the artist, buying art has never been easier.
“Shopping is easy. If your kids are asleep and you want to look at art, you can go check it out from the comfort of your living room.” said Shelley. “You could look at a painting, and look at the space on your wall right in front of you, and say ‘that would look great right there!’”
Four racially derogatory place names in Shelburne County will be changed early in 2022.
In an interview at Province House on Thursday, Service Nova Scotia Minister Colton LeBlanc said the process that began in 2018 to change the place names that include a racial slur is in its final stages.
The places in the Municipality of Barrington that will be getting a new name are ones that include the word negro or squaw, which have been called harmful by Black and Indigenous communities.
Community groups in Shelburne County were consulted this summer about possible new names for the four places.
"We've got a list from residents," LeBlanc said.
The next step in the process is to present the names to all of the county for feedback.
After background work with the Municipality of Barrington and local politicians, the process will be complete.
"And that's the final decision for the names," said LeBlanc. "The change will be announced early in the new calendar year."
Process should be changed, says former minister
The process to change the four names began in 2018, when a local man issued a complaint to the Nova Scotia government about place names including a racial slur, after being called the same slur in a coffee shop.
When changing a place name, the province follows national guidelines published by the Geographic Names Board of Canada.
There is a detailed process to change a place name that could include getting letters from local politicians and municipal governments, creating a petition or holding a plebiscite in the affected community.
However, the process can't be initiated by the government. It must be set in motion by a complaint from a citizen.
Liberal MLA Patricia Arab, the former minister of Service Nova Scotia, said she thinks this process needs to change.
Liberal MLA Patricia Arab says the process to change derogatory place names shouldn't fall on individual complaints. (CBC)
She said the "most frustrating part" is that it is based on complaints.
"So the way the system is set up is [the government] can take a look at the map of Nova Scotia and know, generally speaking, what would be terminology that wouldn't be appropriate ... but we can't activate anything to do with those unless a specific community member brings it to our attention."
Arab believes the provincial government should be able to change derogatory place names without needing a citizen to speak up.
She said she hoped to change the process while she was minister, but could not.
"Let's not wait for a marginalized person whose voice doesn't always feel like it could be heard or feels safe enough to use it, be the ones that alerts [us]," she said.
LeBlanc doesn't necessarily feel the same way.
"I think when we're talking about derogatory names, there's a role for the application-based process," LeBlanc said.
He said when a name is harmful to a community, it is important to consult them.
"That's why through this process here, we've ensured that consultation has taken place at a local level with the Black Loyalist Historical Society and at a provincial level to make sure that we're doing the best decision here."
The potent Okanagan Sun rushing game was bottled up for most of the match by the Langley defence and it was the Sun’s passing attack that was the deciding factor in the second half.
Sun quarterback Dominic Britton was able to throw the go-ahead touchdown in the final minutes of the fourth quarter to give them the win — 13 to 6.
Fans packed the stands once again, enjoying every minute of live football that is now finally back in Kelowna.
“It’s amazing. So nice, beautiful weather. Great game so far, we are on the score board. It’s a great time for us to be out here today,” said Ruth Huber, an Okanagan Sun fan.
“Very exciting to be here. We hope the Sun win and make the playoffs. We couldn’t ask for a better (atmosphere) for the game,” she said.
Unfortunately, even though the Sun won the game, they will finish the season in second place as both the Sun and Rams have a 7-1 record, but the Langley defence allowed fewer points over the regular season.
The Sun will host one playoff game next weekend against the Vancouver Island Raiders. Game time has not been announced yet.
Hockey academy in Okanagan sends six to Team B.C. for western regional women’s U18 championship
Hockey academy in Okanagan sends six to Team B.C. for western regional women’s U18 championship
