Curling club news
Mark your calendars for Feb. 22–24 and come down to the Ashcroft Curling Club, where the U18s—the future of curling in Canada—are coming to play. At stake is a chance to get to the B.C. championships, so the curling will be top quality and intense. Come out, show your support, and see some great curling!
Spirit of the blues
David “Boxcar” Gates—one of Canada’s most renowned acoustic Piedmont, ragtime, and delta blues guitarists—will be at UniTea Café and Lounge in Ashcroft for a concert on Saturday, March 2.
Gates is heavily influenced by forefathers of the genre like Mississippi John Hurt, Big Bill Broonzy, and Mississippi Fred McDowell, and his astonishing playing styles are drenched with bottleneck slide and alternate finger picking with a ragtime twist.
The concert starts at 7:30 p.m.. For information and/or tickets, drop by UniTea or call (250) 457-1145.
Swing time
Ever wanted to learn how to swing dance, or do you already know how and want to show off your moves? Lindy in the Loops—a Kamloops-based swing dance society—will be at UniTea Café and Lounge in Ashcroft on March 9 for an evening of fun dancing and good music.
The evening will feature dance instruction provided by instructors from Lindy in the Loops, who have experience with the Charleston, the Lindy Hop, the St. Louis Shag, tap dance, and vernacular jazz dance. The dancers will bring the spirit of New York’s Savoy ballroom in the 1930s with them and hold a beginner Lindy Hop lesson, followed by a social dance where participants can show off their new moves.
Tickets are $12 each, with the doors opening at 6:30 p.m. and the lesson starting at 7 p.m. For more information, or tickets, drop by UniTea on Railway Ave., Ashcroft or call (250) 457-1145.
Possible soccer camp
Anyone interested in a three-day soccer camp during Spring Break this year for children aged seven through 12 should contact the Ashcroft HUB. They have been in touch with professional soccer coaches from Soccer Quest, who would be available to come out to the HUB from March 26–28.
The camp would be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily, and include skills training and a “World Cup” program, with the cost being approximately $100 per person. Anyone interested should contact the HUB at (250) 453-9177 or email ashcrofthub@gmail.com.
The Equality Project
A reminder that the Equality Project clubhouse on Stage Road in Cache Creek is now open three days a week (Monday–Wednesday) for members. Lunch is available each day, and members have access to prepared meals, clothing, household goods, toiletries, and more for $5 a month ($60 per year).
Anyone who wants to can purchase a membership (monthly or yearly) which will be distributed to someone who needs it. For more information, drop by the clubhouse during opening hours (9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday) or call (250) 457-6485.
B.C.’s Great Bear Rainforest comes to classrooms
A new educational resource will help B.C. students discover the Great Bear Rainforest, one of the most unique and treasured areas in British Columbia. A website sponsored by the Great Bear Rainforest Education and Awareness Trust will help students in Grades 7 to 9 explore the rich biodiversity of the area.
Through teacher-guided activity plans with clear objectives, students can learn through inquiry and research about everything from the white spirit bears in the 64,000 square-kilometre area, to the 26 First Nations communities who live in the region, to whales, birds, salmon, and the importance of environmental stewardship.
The website and curriculum resources are designed to employ an exploratory approach, based on an inquiry model of learning through a variety of learning projects, including video, images, text, and interactive media, to allow for a personalized learning experience for students.
The activity plans and backgrounders on the Great Bear Rainforest website align with four subject areas within B.C.’s Grade 7–9 curriculum: art education, English language arts, science, and social studies.
Stretching for more than 400 kilometres along the coast of British Columbia, the Great Bear Rainforest is sometimes called the Amazon of the North. The vast, sodden land encompasses 1,000-year-old cedars, waterfalls, granite dark waters, and glacial-cut fjords. Under the Great Bear Rainforest land use order, 85 per cent of the forests are protected, with the remaining 15 per cent providing economic opportunities and jobs for local First Nations and communities.
Visit the Great Bear Rainforest educational website at https://greatbearrainforesttrust.org.
Oscar fun fact
The nominations for the 91st Academy Awards were announced on Jan. 22, and the Oscars will be handed out on Sunday, Feb. 24. In the run-up to the ceremony, here is an Oscar fun fact.
As noted two weeks ago, the number of Oscars awarded has varied year by year, as categories have been eliminated or introduced. However, the number has stayed around the 16–18 category each year mark, which makes the nominations received by three films particularly noteworthy.
In the 91 years of the Oscars, the most nominations any one film has received is 14, and it has only happened three times: All About Eve (1951), Titanic (1997), and La La Land (2016). Both Titanic and La La Land received their nominations in years when 17 Oscars were in play; All About Eve got its 14 nominations in a year when there were only 16 categories.
It’s interesting to note that All About Eve—made almost seven decades ago—saw six of its 14 nominations go to women. In addition to acting (Bette Davis and Anne Baxter as Best Actress and Celeste Holm and Thelma Ritter as Best Supporting Actress), Edith Head was nominated for Best Costume Design Black-and-White, and Barbara McLean was nominated for Best Film Editing.
La La Land, made 55 years after All About Eve, saw five women nominated for Oscars—four of them in technical categories—while Titanic only had three women Oscar nominees, two of them in the acting categories.
editorial@accjournal.ca
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