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The Trail tradition of pasta and meatballs has traveled far and wide by visitors who still get hungry thinking about the Colander and its popular special.

The endless platters of spaghetti and meat-balls, chicken and jojos, crusty buns and salad is enough to bring someone back. But now there is a virtual tour available for those who've only ever heard of the experience. You just have to Google it.

The Google Business Photos and View Virtual Project saw to 57 businesses — the Colander included — and organizations in the Lower Columbia developing an online presence.

Virtual tours, still photography, a Google land-ing page, and a listing with Kootenay Rockies Tourism was included in the $44,000 project.

“This was the perfect way to kickstart a regional tourism project, as we can now use this info on other websites, as well as increase the vis-ibility of our local businesses online,” explained Deanne Steven of Tourism Rossland.

Steven coordinated the project, which was paid for by Community Directed Funds (administered by the Lower Columbia Community Development Team Society) and Kootenay Rockies Tourism.

Views4Business sent Google certified pho-tographers to the Kootenay-Rockies region this month to shoot footage of businesses with street-style and indoor 360-degree views. Virtual tours already live also include Birchbank Golf Course, Country Roads General Store, and Columbia Gardens Winery.

“When I want to go somewhere, I research the heck out of it, and I think a lot of people do,” said Steven.”This allows people to really get a sense of what they're going to do before they go and also to lure them to our area. I think there is a lot that we can do to improve our online presence as a Greater Trail region.”

This is not the first time Steven has pushed for a larger online footprint. Two years ago, she secured funding to do the same with Rossland just shortly after she met Views4Business at a trade show.

“We (Rossland) became the most Google-photo toured community in the world per capi-ta,” she said.

Now she's expanding that scope with high hopes for the rest of the Lower Columbia – Warfield, Trail, Fruitvale and Montrose – because she believes working together will keep visitors

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The crumbling river wall on the east side of the Trail Memorial Centre is under repair for the next few weeks. So anyone needing a drop off by car in the building's front entrance won't be able to do so for the duration of the proj-ect, which is expected to be completed Aug. 8.

Vehicle access is a no go, but those on foot can follow a delineated path around the facility's perimeter.

All motorists and pedestrians are asked to take caution when driving or walking near the area, explained Andrea Jolly, the city's communication coordinator.

“Please obey all posted information,” she added, refer-ring to information signage about temporary lane and sidewalk closures, posted speed limits and idle reduction notices.

City crews were on site Wednesday, tearing up asphalt along the approximately 60-foot section of the infrastruc-ture project that once complete, includes installation of a new guard rail.

The repairs being undertaken were included in the 2015 capital budget for a total cost of $52,000.

“The project is being undertaken now to limit any dis-ruption to the arena given that ice will be going in shortly,” said David Perehudoff, Trail's chief administrative officer.

“The current repair has been identified for some time and will involve replacing the concrete cap and handrail.  In addition it will provide better protection of the fibre optic line that runs in this location.”

A separate river wall repair further south along the Esplanade near the Fortis building, is slated to begin this fall.

Trail council allotted $30,000 from surplus after an isolated area was identified during the city's annual main-tenance inspection a few years ago.

A concrete fracture and degraded cement became clearly visible following the creation of an unobstructed shoreline in 2013.

The large crack is at the control joint from a previous repair completed in 1969 following a historic flooding of the Trail Creek.

While the risk to public safety is deemed low, repairs are considered a high priority this year and expected to be com-pleted this fall when Columbia River levels are low.

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Jim Clarkson from the city's public works was on site Wednesday, breaking up a section of asphalt on the east side of the Trail Memorial Centre. Repairs to the river wall and guard rail are underway now until Aug. 8.

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The bidding: South has a fairly ugly 13 HCP’s, but his shape dictates an opening.

If partner has a decent fit with one of the long suits, the deck is a 28-point, not 40-point, deck and then game can be made with consider-ably less than 25 HCP’s.

South is not strong enough

to open One Heart and rebid Two Spades, so he lies about length not strength and opens One Spade with the intention of rebid-ding Two Hearts. This keeps the auc-tion at a necessary low level.

North chooses Spades because his partner bid them first and Spades will usually be longer than Hearts.

It is unfortunate that declarer plays the contract in a five-two not a six-three fit, but that is just the way it goes. Bidding systems do not work all the time, however, one must bid in a way that will be successful most of the time.

The Play: West leads the Diamond Queen and not his stiff Heart. Because he has four trump, he wants declar-er to shorten his long-trump holding. Leading a stiff in

declarer’s second suit is a very risky proposition and West finds the for-cing defense as a good excuse not to lead his Heart.

East wins the Diamond Ace and continues a Diamond. Declarer

is forced to ruff with his long-trump hand. Thus, it is called a forcing defense. When East gets in with the Heart King, he will lead another Diamond, and declarer will be tapped again and will have fewer trump than West.

If declarer gets a Heart lead, he will do a lot bet-ter. Here is your assignment. Take two decks of cards and deal both decks as shown in the figure. With one deck, play the hand with a Heart lead and with the other, play the hand with a Diamond lead and continuations. You will see the benefit of a for-

cing defense.Note: South could have

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The Community Inclusion Centre on Bay Avenue in downtown Trail held its grand opening Tuesday afternoon. Career Development Services (CDS), an organ-ization run under the umbrella of Trail Association for Community Living (TACL), developed the idea of an inclusive centre to focus on providing greater access of resources so each community member can participate in all aspects of social, cultural and economic life in Greater Trail. Top photo, from the left; Nancy Gurr, TACL's executive director, TACL's board president William Westcott, Trail Mayor Mike Martin, and Sheila Adcock, CDS man-ager. Right photo; Caren McAndrew slices into the ceremonial cake.

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Other• Friday, Trail Market on the

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• Saturday, Camp Koolaree's First Annual Open House at Kootenay Lake. Pick up at

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• Trail Market on the Esplanade goes Aug 14 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Plenty of vendors, good eats and more. Also runs Aug 28. Sept. 11, Sept. 15, and Oct. 9.

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The Green Party con-tinues to seek a candidate for the South Okanagan-West Kootenay riding.

Though he can’t say when they will have an announce-ment, riding organizer Dan Bouchard said the party is still planning to field a federal candidate.

“We are actively on the search,” said Bouchard, noting that the new riding boundaries encompass a large area, making the search more difficult.

Declared candidates for South Okanagan-West Kootenay are Dick Cannings, NDP; Connie Denesiuk, Liberal and Marshall Neufeld, Conservative.

The Green Party did announce a candidate for the Central Okanagan-Similkameen-Nicola riding earlier this month.

Robert Mellalieu, a Green Party organizer and IT pro-fessional with F1 Computer Services in West Kelowna, was chosen as the riding’s Green candidate for the Oct. 19 elec-tion.

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Daniel Haley, owner of Casa di Cioccolato in downtown Trail, is also keen on finding a collective voice.

He is lead-ing a newly formed Downtown Trail Business Group and reaping the benefits of this successful mar-keting scheme.

“I personally think tourism is going to be part of any fun-damental growth that this community will ever have,” he said. “A lot of people don’t realize how many peo-ple from outside the community come to Trail.”

The new downtown group encompasses businesses in the core,

Gulch, and East Trail. The group is busy

supporting events and making partner-ships with city mov-ers and shakers, all in the name of attract-ing people to Trail and expanding the busi-ness sector.

Some recent work includes help-ing the Trail and District Chamber of Commerce pro-mote an indoor mar-ket in the former Liquidation World building and trying to get the Market Along the Esplanade moved to Saturday to attract professionals who work full time.

The team of busi-ness-minded peo-ple are also adding their energy to the Waneta Rotary Club’s Red Roofs Duathlon scheduled for Sept. 13, providing volun-teer support but also offering up prizes to draw participants into downtown Trail.

While the group leads with a positive stride, Haley admits owning a business in a small town can be difficult.

Challenges he faces

daily remain to be a lack of adequate park-ing for shoppers and creating a vibe that is enticing while often

the city’s affordability attracts people who wind up panhandling on the street outside his business.

He adds, getting people to shop locally in a city that doesn’t have a wide variety of retail choice can be tricky.

“The reality is busi-ness brings business, retail brings retail,” he said.

“People that shop retail want to go from store to store and it’s up to us to supply the goods.”

That said, he added institutions like the Colander, Star Grocery, and Ferraro Foods give Trail its Italian heritage repu-tation that keeps tour-ists coming back.

Haley is invested in this identity, too, with a shop on Bay Avenue that specializes in chocolate, olive oil, and tea.

His friendly, happy disposi-tion keeps his doors open. Customers are encouraged to sample his goods, sign his

guestbook and chat about what the city has to offer.

“When people go shopping, they want to have an experi-ence,” said Haley.

“They want to go away and feel like they’ve touched that community or the community has touched them.”

The downtown group’s efforts are only further amplified by the Google foot-age, said Steven, who is particularity amped about a Kootenay

Rockies app that can easily be down-loaded for free onto a cell phone. Visitors’ phones will notify travellers of what’s available in the sec-tion of the region they’re traveling through.

The new Google details—a business address, descrip-tion, photo and a vir-tual tour—will pop up, and chances are they’ll pull over and check out what the Lower Columbia has to offer.

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Aya Higashi, the last remain-ing Kaslo resident interned there during the Second World War, has died at 96.

Higashi enjoyed a long teach-ing career in Slocan and Kaslo. In a 2012 interview, she proudly declared she never used corporal punishment. “Sometimes former students say ‘We were bad kids, weren’t we?’ I never knew a bad kid. In 33 years of teaching, I never yelled at a kid nor strapped nor shook them. My kids, I hug them.”

Higashi was born Ayako Atagi in Campbell River and grew up on Quadra Island where her father was a boat builder. They later moved to Vancouver, where she graduated high school at 16. Although she planned to become a doctor and took some pre-med courses, the war changed her path.

In 1942, when Japanese Canadians were forcibly removed from the Lower Mainland, her family was interned in Kaslo where they lived in an aban-doned house — minus her father, who was sent to work in the Crowsnest Pass. They didn’t see him again for years. That winter it was so cold, Kaslo Bay froze.

Never having lived near other Nikkei and Nisei families, Aya discovered her spoken Japanese

was formal and stilted compared to her contemporaries.

At 19, she started teaching in Kaslo in the Giegerich block, a building that is still standing. Later she became principal of the school at Popoff farm near Slocan.

Following the war, she went to Vancouver to obtain a teach-ing certificate and spurned many other offers to return to Kaslo, fulfilling a promise to the local principal. She taught senior high, specializing in commerce and home economics.

In 1949, she married Buck Higashi. They spent 59 years together until his death. Although they had no children, she considered all her students to be her kids.

She said she treated them equally and never forgot anyone.

They invited her to their weddings and anniversaries and packed the gym when she retired in 1986. At that point, she and Buck were going to move to the coast, but she discovered she couldn’t leave Kaslo.

Buck told her: “I wondered when you would realize that.”

“I could never leave Kaslo,” she said. “Kaslo is my family.”

By that time, they were already the only ones left in town who had been forced there by the internment. As a result, she was frequently asked to speak to tour

groups, schools, and visitors. Although slightly embarrassed at the attention, she took pride in being an ambassador for the village. She showed little bitter-ness at the circumstances that brought her there.

“I was raised on ‘It can’t be helped.’ You make the best of what you get,” she said. “I accepted what came. I couldn’t have a better life than I have here.”

Higashi had been in ailing health for some time, but was

publicly honoured twice in 2012: she unveiled an interpretive sign at the former Popoff farm com-memorating the internment camp there and a few months later received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee medal for out-standing community service.

Higashi died July 21, a week after her 96th birthday, and was honoured Friday evening during the gala opening of Regeneration at the Langham Cultural Centre, where she was instrumental in helping put together a museum

exhibit on the internment.“Kaslo’s last Nisei daughter

lived a vigorous life of service from an early age,” said Ian Fraser, who curated that exhibit. “She is fondly remembered by genera-tions of students and friends. Aya always found the positive side and educational opportunities in every situation.”

Higashi was predeceased by her husband and is survived by brother Yute Atagi of Nelson. A memorial service is planned for Sept. 19 at Kaslo United Church.

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Fruitvale’s Tom Samulak will be performing with country duo Haley and Michaels this weekend at The Gorge Amphitheatre in Quincy, Wash. as part of the Watershed Music Festival.

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A Fruitvale born-and-raised turned country music artist is taking his talent to the big stage this weekend at The Gorge.

Tom Samulak, 25, is the lead guitarist with Haley and Michaels, a top-selling country duo performing Friday at the fourth-annual Watershed Festival. The three-day music and camping event includes coun-try superstars Dierks Bentley, Florida Georgia Line and Carrie Underwood.

“I'm always excited to play, but I really hope to see some familiar faces,” he wrote the Trail Times Wednesday. “I'm just preparing myself as we speak, packing my bags.”

The humble musician is just following his pas-sion. Although he's not “quite there yet” in the music industry, he said when he makes it big his Kootenay pride will always remain strong.

“I'm always thankful for the hometown support and also my parents for never doubting me,” said the son of June and Darcy Samulak.

The acoustic and electric six-string guitarist was recently home with musical talent Molly Brown. The two brought a little bit of Nashville to his old stomping grounds with a show at the Villagers.

“It was a hoot,” he said earlier this month.Samulak started taking guitar lessons with

Pricilla Cole at about 10 years old and then from radio personality Wayne Kelly. His interest piqued

in Grade 8 when he enrolled in his school’s band program.

After completing the Selkirk College music program, Samulak won one of 12 Fred Sherratt Awards. At 19 years old, he traveled Europe to explore the jazz scene.

He's inspired by music idol Jimi Hendrix and spent many nights trying to learn his sound.

In his earlier days of finding his tune, Samulak enjoyed funk, blues, hip-hop, country, classic rock, bluegrass, and fusion. However, nowadays Nashville is starting to rub off on him. The band he plays with has a modern country sound “with a bit of a California twist to it.”

“I'm always happy to be playing anything, but really twangy, bendy guitar like Brad Paisley is my absolute favourite,” he said. “I like to learn from watching the old timers in Nashville.”

Samulak visited Nashville on a school spring break trip, where he witnessed 80 bands playing all day and night downtown on Broadway Street.

After graduation from Berklee College of Music, he packed his “pickup full of clothes and equip-ment and saddled up for the 40-hour drive” with his dad to keep him company.

He considers his time in Music City invaluable.“I want to go through a full lifetime of develop-

ment in my craft, leaving behind a large body of work,” he said.

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SKELOWNA, B.C.

- A perplexing mys-tery in the Okanagan is raising concerns of area police and the B.C. Fruit Growers Association.

There is still no sign of four farm workers and asso-ciation president Fred Steele says this is the first disappearance in the decade-long his-tory of Mexican farm-hands travelling to the Okanagan to help with fruit harvests.

“To my knowledge, no one’s ever pulled a Houdini act, vanishing like this, before now,” Steele said.

The four men, who range in age from 27 to 39, were among 1,500 Mexicans work-ing this summer in the Okanagan at farms or nurseries, as part of the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program.

They had been in Canada for only 10 days when they took a cab into Vernon, June 26, from the North Okanagan orchard where they were

employed, RCMP said.They cashed some

cheques and haven’t been heard from since.

“Right now, we don’t have any idea where they are,” said Gord Molendyk, Vernon RCMP spokes-man.

Some of the other Mexicans interviewed by police at the orchard where the four were employed said they believed the men were going to try enter the U.S. illegally, he said.

But it’s also possible the four have simply gone to work on a dif-ferent Okanagan farm, Molendyk said, and the orchardist hasn’t yet advised officials who oversee the program, which is designed to help farmers who can’t find enough Canadians willing to work in the orchards.

The Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program is overseen by both the Canadian and Mexican govern-ments, that approve orchardists for partici-pation, screen Mexican applicants, inspect the accommodation pro-vided for farmhands, and ensure compliance with relevant employ-ment and contract law.

“It’s a very well-run program,” Steele said. “Of course, there can be some problems that come along, like with rates of pay and housing conditions, but those are usually resolved within a day or so.”

Mexicans’ general satisfaction with the program, earning con-siderably more money here than they could at home, is evident by the number who return

each year, says Pinder Dhaliwal, the BCFGA’s vice-president.

“Eighty-seven per cent of the Mexicans who were here last summer are here this year,” said Dhaliwal. “And of all the thou-sands who have come here since the program began in the Okanagan

10 years ago, these are the first ones that have disappeared.”

Okanagan grow-ers have to pay the Mexicans’ transporta-tion costs.

The missing men are Uriel Soto, 37, Issac Bautista, 27, Juvenal Binedo, 39, and Juan Sanchez, 30.

T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SOTTAWA - It’s not just polit-

ical parties that will be spending money hand over fist if Stephen Harper fires the starting gun for the Oct. 19 federal election weeks earlier than necessary.

Taxpayers will be shelling out big bucks, too - millions in extra administrative costs and tens of millions more in rebates to parties and candidates for their inflated election expenses.

Speculation is rampant that Harper is poised to officially kick off the election campaign - known as the writ period - as early as this weekend.

That would make for an 11-week campaign, the longest federal campaign since 1926 and more than twice the five weeks typically allotted for campaigns in recent times.

Elections Canada estimates that a campaign this fall of 37

days - the minimum required by law - would cost roughly $375 million to administer.

The agency was not able to estimate how much more a longer campaign would cost, but spokes-woman Diane Benson acknow-ledged there would indeed be some additional expenses.

For instance, she said Elections Canada will have to pay for longer office leases for returning offi-cers in each of the country’s 338 ridings; telephones, equipment and furniture rentals for those offices; additional hours for staff; and Elections Canada staff who handle public inquiries.

A longer campaign puts the squeeze on taxpayers in other ways too, since they subsidize the donations that fuel campaigns and then subsidize parties and their candidates again for spend-ing that money during a cam-paign.

Most of the money parties and candidates will be throw-ing around during the campaign comes from donations, which are worth a generous tax credit of 75 per cent on the first $400, 50 per cent on the next $350 and 33.3 per cent on the next $500.

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation estimates those tax credits are worth somewhere between $16 million and $36 mil-lion per year in foregone revenue.

Each party running a full slate of candidates is entitled to spend a maximum of about $25 million for a five-week campaign; each candidate an average of about $100,000.

But, under the recently passed Fair Elections Act, those spend-ing limits will increase by 1/37 for each day a campaign exceeds 37 days. That’s an extra $675,000 per day for each party’s national campaign, an additional $2,700

per day for their candidates.A campaign that is double the

minimum length would effective-ly double the spending limits and, theoretically, double the amount of money parties and candidates stand to be reimbursed - by tax-payers - when it’s all over.

Parties are entitled to rebates of up to 50 per cent of their eligible election expenses; candi-dates up to 60 per cent.

The major parties are prom-ising to spend the maximum allowed, or very close to it. However, few candidates will likely be able to afford to take full advantage of increased spending limits, making it hard to estimate how much their rebates could go up.

Still, the rebates will undoubt-edly be considerably higher than the rebates handed out to par-ties and candidates after the five-week election campaign in 2011.

Elections Canada estimates that tab topped $60 million.

Aaron Wudrick, federal direc-tor of the taxpayers’ federation, says his organization appreciates that elections, like other funda-mental democratic institutions, deserve to be properly funded. In addition, his group does not take issue with leaving the length of campaigns to the prime minis-ter’s discretion.

However, he says abuses and excessive costs could be avoided if taxpayers weren’t subsidizing donations to political parties in the first place.

“Our main position is to get rid of the subsidy,” Wudrick says.

“If parties had to work harder for their money and/or had less of it, they wouldn’t want longer writ periods. They’d be far more care-ful with their resources.”

Longer federal election campaign will cost taxpayers millions more

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PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - A hotel in Prince George, B.C., says its employee was “misinformed” when he told a Prince George mother she was not welcome at the establishment.

Esther’s Inn says a new manager at the front desk was wrong to refuse a room to 39-year-old Aimee Bespoyasny and her two teenaged children after learning they are Prince George residents.

According to a statement posted on the Esther’s Inn Facebook page, the hotel vehe-mently denies having a “no locals” policy and adds the tone and context of the man-ager’s words don’t reflect the company’s practice and beliefs.

Bespoyasny posted a letter on social media sites saying she planned to stay at the inn to celebrate her birthday and spend some special time with her children, but was rudely turned away.

She says before the manager ordered her to leave, he told her Esther’s has a policy of banning locals because Prince George residents just drink beer and party in the rooms, forcing hotel staff to call the police.

Jesse Park, general manager of Esther’s Inn, says there have been problems with people using hotel rooms for drinking par-ties in the past, but he says management is investigating Bespoyasny’s complaint and has apologized to her privately.

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Government’s credit cards tell quite a storyOne of the more

feared aspects to the release of the public accounts

each year – at least as far as government ministers are concerned – is that tiny volume itemizing each ministry’s credit card char-ges.

Guess the anxiety finally got the better of them, because last year the Finance ministry decided to post the statements online on a quarterly basis instead, presumably hoping fewer would take notice.

It didn’t seem right not to wait for the annual totals though.

While the charges them-selves are a drop in the bucket of a $44.4 billion budget, sometimes they offer a peak at a ministry’s attitudes or priorities.

In 2014-15, there were 102,418 purchasing card transactions totalling $45.1 million, up from $41 million the year before.

More than 1,250 trans-actions were for less than $5.00; eight of them at 7-Eleven, 27 at iTunes and one at Ogos Ice Cream.

There were 976 pur-chases over $5,000. The largest? A $92,513 charge

at Sensus Communications by the Ministry of Children and Family Development.

In the shred that file department, ministries charged $46,078 for shred-ding documents and that’s on top of the $258,260 they billed to the government’s account at Shred-It.

Top three ministries for shredding fast: the Ministry of Technology, Innovation, and Citizens’ Services at $3,664 which coincident-ally oversees B.C.’s access to information legislation, the Ministry of Children and Family Development at $5,821 and the Ministry of Justice at $17,848.

Though it is a mys-tery why the government spends so much money shredding documents when it goes to such great lengths not to create them in the first place.

Thirteen ministries chipped in $58,697 to help ensure the success of B.C.’s second international con-ference on LNG.

Over at the Ministry of Children and Family Development, someone is a tad tone deaf politically speaking.

A few of the charges that stand out: the Four Seasons Hotel ($1,730),

the Empress ($607), the Westin Bear Mountain Resort ($2,543) and Seasons in the Park ($343).

Establishments you might expect to see in the charges at International Trade, not Children and Family Development.

Speaking of which no surprise over some of the charges at International Trade, where five-star is the order of the day.

Total tab of $1.18 mil-lion. Among the ritzier ones: $3,302 at Singapore’s Fullerton Hotel, $25,907 at Taj Mahal, $37,495 at Millennium Residences in Beijing, and $51,193 at India’s Taj Hotels.

There were a few pricey meals too, including a $2,495 charge at Victoria’s Saaz Restaurant which is

about five times what the ministry charged at Tim Horton’s ($575) over the entire year.

Someone took the bus one day if that $2.75 charge at TransLink is any indica-tion and someone needed a passport ($160).

Ever find yourself in need of a good caterer? The government’s rankings are in and include: Cooks Day Off ($57,954), Mr. Mom’s World ($47,354), Food for Thought Catering ($26,407), Potluck Cafe and Catering ($17,245) and Truffles Catering ($12,777).

Put all the ministries together and they charged $30,528 at golf cours-es in B.C., $20,386 of it by Children and Family Development.

The Ministry of Justice continues to celebrate at Earl’s Restaurants. The ministry rang up a tab of $10,434 at the restaurant chain, more than half of the $17,540 spent by all ministries.

The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure spent $236 on Twitonomy, a service that helps you “browse, search, filter and get insights on the people you

follow and those who fol-low you.”

Premier Christy Clark may consider The Economist to be “the most boring publication you can find out there,” but some of her colleagues don’t exactly share her point of view.

Finance, Justice, Health, International Trade, Forests, Lands, and Natural Resources, Technology, Innovation, and Citizens’ Services all seem to have subscriptions. Don’t tell the premier.

Facebook was popular at the Ministry of Advanced Education with charges of $92,078. Eight minis-tries charged a combined $33,808 at Google, for ser-vices such as AdWords and Earth Pro.

Ministries slapped down $1.7 million for flights on Harbour Air, $1.55 million on HeliJet and $260,000 in sailings with BC Ferries.

There is one company that the government should consider billing more with though: Correct Solutions. The $100,347 they charged last year didn’t buy enough.

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Last Friday, Turkey joined the war against Islamic State (IS), the terrorist-run entity that

now controls eastern Syria and western Iraq. After four years of leaving the border open for supplies and recruits to reach IS, the Turkish government sent planes to bomb three IS targets in Syria.

At the same time, Ankara ended a four-year ban on its anti-IS “coalition” allies using the huge Incirlik airbase near the Syrian border. There was rejoicing in W a s h i n g t o n , since coalition aircraft (mostly American) will now be much closer to IS tar-gets in Syria, and Turkey will also presumably close its border with Syria at last. But there may be less to this change than meets the eye.

On Saturday, Turkey broke a two-year ceasefire with the PKK, a Kurdish revolutionary group that fought a 30-year war to establish a separate state in the Kurdish-majority southeast of Turkey. In fact, since then Turkey has car-ried out considerably more air strikes against the PKK than it has against IS.

The Turkish army has even shelled territory controlled by the PYD, the Syrian branch of the PKK, although the PYD has managed to drive IS troops out of most of the Kurdish areas of northern Syria.

So which war is President Recep Tayyip Erdo�an really planning to fight, the one against Islamic State or his own private war with the Kurds? And why now?

The only person who knows the answers is Erdo�an, and he’s not saying. But you can work it out if you try.

Erdo�an has spent more than a decade subverting a secular and democratic sys-tem and establishing his own unchallengeable power. At first he was responding to real popular demands for

equal civil rights for religious people and for an improve-ment in living standards. He delivered on his promises, and won three successive elec-tions by increasing majorities.

But he reduced the once-free mass media to sub-servience, undermined the independence of the judiciary, and staged show trials of his opponents. He also allowed his own political associates to engage in massive corruption.

As his power grew, more-over, he began to indulge his

obsessions. He is a deeply con-servative Sunni Muslim who shares the wide-spread Sunni belief that Shia Muslims are not just heret-ics, but heret-ics whose power is a growing threat.

From the start of the

Syrian civil war in 2011, therefore, Erdo�an supported the Sunni rebels against the regime of Bashar al Assad, which is dominated by the country’s Alawite (Shia) min-ority – and he didn’t much mind if the Sunni rebels were head-cutting extremists like Islamic State or not. That’s why the Turkish-Syrian bor-der stayed open, and the coalition didn’t get access to Turkish airbases.

At the same time, Erdo�an opened peace negotiations with the PKK, because con-servative Kurds who voted for his party on religious grounds were an important part of his electoral base. But then his party lost its majority in par-liament in last month’s elec-tion (7 June).

What cost him his major-ity was the new People’s Democratic Party (HDP), which seduced most of his Kurdish voters away. It’s lib-eral, pluralistic, all the things that Erdo�an isn’t. But con-servative Kurds had already got the religious freedoms they wanted, and the HDP was also advocating equal political rights for the Kurdish minor-ity. Of course they switched

their votes.So now, if Erdogan wants

to form a coalition govern-ment (or even win a new elec-tion), he needs the support of the hard right – but they are ultra-nationalists who loathe his willingness to make deals with the Kurds. To win them over, therefore, he has started bombing the PKK.

He might be re-starting a Turkish-Kurdish civil war (the last one killed 40,000 people), but that’s a risk he’s will-ing to take. And on the side he has dropped a few bombs on Islamic State to make the Americans happy.

Erdo�an’s problem with Washington was that it finally had the goods on him. A US Special Forces raid in Syria last May killed Abu Sayyaf, the IS official in charge of selling black-market oil from IS-controlled wells into Turkey.

The American troops came away with hundreds of flash drives and documents that proved that Turkish officials were deeply involved in the trade, which has been IS’s main source of revenue.

Turkey has now bombed a few IS targets to show will-ing – but if you look at the videos, the Turkish planes are launching missiles at single buildings out in open fields, not exactly where you’d expect IS to have weapons stores and command centres. It’s as if the Turkish forces were ordered to hit targets that wouldn’t do any real damage. But least the coalition gets to use Incirlik.

Is Erdo�an still in cahoots with IS? Maybe. Is he act-ively supporting the other big Islamist group, the Nusra Front, which dominates the battle in western Syria?

Yes he is, quite openly, and the difference between these two terrorist groups is only skin-deep. So if you’re expecting a radical change in the military situation in Syria – don’t. Assad is still losing slowly, the Islamist extremists are still winning, and Turkey is still playing a double game.

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There are no fires of concern in the Boundary region thanks to immediate responses from the BC Wildfire Service in the last two weeks.

The largest fire burning is the Gibbs Creek fire north of Grand Forks, at 18.5 hectares. The fire is in “expanded attack” but is not threatening any structures, con-firmed Southeast Fire Centre fire information officer Fanny Bernard.

“Expanded attack means a fire has gone beyond initial attack cap-acity so there’s additional resources on it,” Bernard explained.

The Rhone fire (7 hectares) in the West Boundary is in the mop-up stage, as is the Christina Lake Southwest fire (6.8 hectares).

There are two fires at Sandner Creek: one is in patrol (perimeter has been secured, crews patrolling for hot spots), one is in mop-up.

The Eholt and Ingram Creek fires are out, Bernard said.

BC Wildfire Service’s chief fire information officer Kevin Skrepnek said in a teleconference call Monday that the recent precipitation has definitely helped the wildfire situa-tion, but he would not say the worst is over.

“There are some areas of the province that didn’t necessarily get a lot of rain over the weekend,” he said. “We expect a ridge of high pressure to build over B.C.”

In many areas, temperatures are expected to climb back into the

high 20s, low 30s.Skrepnek said as of Monday,

there were 166 active wildfires. Of those, 121 were lightning caused, and the remaining either person caused or under investigation.

There have been 1,340 fires since April 1, which have burned an esti-mated 290,000 hectares at an esti-mated cost of $157 million.

In 2014 during this same time period, there were 710 fires which burned an estimated 189,000 hec-tares at a cost of $95 million.

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Trail’s Jackson Konkin continued his spree of top finishes, as he swam, biked and sprinted his way to a podium finish at the U15 Canadian tri-athlon championship in Magog, Que. on Saturday.

Facing close to 60 of Canada’s top triath-letes in his age group, the 15-year-old J. L. Crowe student captured the bronze medal in the demanding race in a time of 40 minutes and 17.2 seconds.

“It felt awesome, one of the best experiences in my life so far,” said Konkin.

The 20th running of the Trimemphré Magog race attracted approxi-mately 2,000 of Canadas best triathletes from all age groups in what Konkin describes as one of the most competitive atmospheres he has ever experienced.

Most of the competi-tors in his age group, like first and second-place fin-ishers Pavlos Antoniades and Filip Manville, belong to ultra-competitive triathlon teams, while Konkin has excelled as the lone triathlete under the tutelage of his father Mike Konkin.

“It’s kind of funny, all the guys show up with their team jersey and stuff and I’m like the one kid without a jersey and I’m just a loner, without a team to hang out with,” laughed Konkin. “It use to intimidate me with my races, but then I started doing better and better, so I got over it, because I know that I’m going to do good. But going over to Quebec, I had no idea, so I was a little nervous.”

Konkin was quickly over the butterflies as he shot out to a terrific start in the water, leading through the whole 500-

metre swim, and exiting Lake Memphremagog in first place.

“I knew I had it in the bag after the first 100-metres, because I knew these guys weren’t as strong swimmers as me. I wasn’t crazy fast but fast enough to push them to the limit.”

Jackson came out of the water in 6:37, then laid down the fourth fast-est time, 17:37, in the 10-kilometre bike por-tion, before finishing strong in the four-km. run, where he held down second spot until the half-way point.

His coach wasn’t sur-prised at Jackson’s quick start or his ride, but was pleasantly so with Jackson’s run.

“I knew he should be first in the swim based on past results and his ranking in Canadian swimming, and his bike is getting really strong so

I knew he would be in the mix on the start of the run,” said coach Konkin. “But the run was the wild card. He pulled off the third fastest run-split so it is starting to catch up to the other two areas.”

Jackson came in 27 seconds behind Manville, and just over a minute back of the front-runner, Antoniades.

“There was two of us

working together try-ing to catch the fast kid (Antoniades), but we just couldn’t do it, he was like a machine,” said Jackson.

Antoniades, a 14-year-old Trois Riviere native, was named Quebec’s 2014 junior athlete of the year after winning all four triathlons in the 2014 National Series, including the U16 Apple Triathlon in Kelowna last August, where Jackson finished seventh.

Konkin’s result in Quebec, then, is all the more impressive. While his strength in the water is undeniable, having swam with the TRAX swim club for a number of years, his progress on the bike and run has put him in the same class as Canada’s elite.

“There are lots of fast-er teen runners out there, but the trick is to be able to still go fast after going full gas on the bike first

and he is starting to get there,” said Mike.

After winning three bronze at the BC Summer Games in Nanaimo last summer, the bronze-medal result on Saturday in Magog further shows just how far he has come in one year.

“It’s nice to see that progress,” said a confi-dent Jackson. “There’s only one way I’m going and that’s forward.”

Jackson will compete in the CYSWOG’n’Fun triathlon in Nelson this weekend, getting the nod to compete in the Sprint portion of the race, gen-erally reserved for 16 and over.

He will cap off the summer with a trip to Edmonton, where he and Mike will watch the ITU World Triathlon cham-pionship, and where Jackson will also com-pete in the Youth Elite category.

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Trail’s Jackson Konkin (left) secured his position as one of Canada’s top young triathletes, taking home bronze from the U15 Canadian Triathlon championship in Magog, Que. on Saturday. Finishing first was (right) Pavlos Antoniades, and second, Filip Manville (middle).

P e a c e a r c h N e w sThe White Rock All Stars punched

their ticket to Ottawa and a place in the Little League Canadian Nationals.

The undefeated 11-12-year-old team kept their season’s record intact with a 7-1 win over second-place New Westminster, Monday evening in the final at Vancouver’s South Memorial Park.

The convincing victory sends the White Rock South Surrey Baseball Association squad to the nationals, which run Aug. 6-16, with the winner of that contest earning the right to compete in the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa.

“It was a pretty tight game, despite what the score was,” said Ed Bak, father of No. 6 Darius – who pitched the winning game – adding that it was a contest characterized by a lot of base hits and no home runs for either team.

“In the first inning, New West was up to bat first. At one point they had bases loaded with nobody out – it was looking pretty dicey.”

The All Stars have made it to Williamsport before – in 2007 and 2008 – although the world title eluded them both times. The team returned to the nationals in Nova Scotia in 2013, only to fall to Ontario, one game shy of making the World Series.

White Rock beat the Trail All Stars 19-7 in the final game of the round-robin to go a perfect 6-0, while the loss dropped Trail to 1-5, their only win coming against Lynn Valley in the opening match.

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Central Division W L Pct GB WCGB StrKansas City 61 39 0.61 - - L-1Minnesota 52 47 0.525 8.5 - L-3Chicago 48 50 0.49 12 3.5 W-6Detroit 49 52 0.485 12.5 4 W-1Cleveland 46 54 0.46 15 6.5 W-1

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JiM BAiLeY PHOTO

Jay and Joy Mykietyn, organizers of the Mad Trapper Archery Shoot, present a cheque for over $12,000 to the BC Special Olympics-Trail from funds raised at the annual shoot last month that saw over 70 archers participate in the two-day event held at Secret Creek Ranch.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESSF O X B O R O U G H ,

Mass. - The Winter Classic is coming to the home of the New England Patriots.

NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman joined officials from the Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens on Wednesday to say

the Original Six rivals would meet at Gillette Stadium on New Year’s Day.

The Bruins will be the first team to host the event twice. They also hosted it in 2010, at Fenway Park.

Patriots owner Robert Kraft also spoke at the ceremony, just hours after his impas-sioned “Deflategate” defence.

Bettman notes

that the three organ-izations are among the most successful in their sports, with 34 championships. The Canadiens have won 24 of those, but the Patriots are the defending Super Bowl champs.

Bettman also says the league has extended the game’s title sponsorship with Bridgestone for another five years.

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AMERICAN LEAGUEToday’s Games

Detroit (Simon 9-6) at Baltimore (Mi.Gonzalez 9-6),

7:05 p.m.Kansas City (D.Duffy 4-4) at Toronto (estrada 7-6), 7:07

p.m.Chicago White Sox (Sale 9-5) at Boston (S.Wright 3-4), 7:10

p.m.N.Y. Yankees (Pineda 9-7) at

Texas (Gallardo 7-9), 8:05 p.m.L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 5-7) at Houston (Kazmir 6-5), 8:10

p.m.Seattle (Happ 4-5) at

Minnesota (P.Hughes 9-6), 8:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Carrasco 10-8) at Oakland (Bassitt 0-3), 10:05

p.m.Friday’s Games

Detroit at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.Kansas City at Toronto, 7:07

p.m.Tampa Bay at Boston, 7:10

p.m.San Fran at Texas, 8:05 p.m.Arizona at Houston, 8:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m.

Seattle at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m.Cleveland at Oakland, 9:35

p.m.L.A. Angels at L.A. Dodgers,

10:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUEToday’s Games

San Diego (Cashner 4-10) at N.Y. Mets (Niese 5-9), 12:10

p.m.Washington (Scherzer 10-8) at Miami (Haren 7-6), 12:10 p.m.

Atlanta (S.Miller 5-7) at Philadelphia (Harang 4-11),

7:05 p.m.Pittsburgh (Burnett 8-4) at Cincinnati (Holmberg 0-0),

7:10 p.m.Colorado (Rusin 3-4) at St.

Louis (C.Martinez 11-4), 7:15 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 11-6) at Milwaukee (Nelson 8-9),

8:10 p.m.Friday’s Games

Atlanta at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m.

San Diego at Miami, 7:10 p.m.Wash at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.San Francisco at Texas, 8:05

p.m.Arizona at Houston, 8:10 p.m.Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee,

8:10 p.m.Colorado at St. Louis, 8:15

p.m.L.A. Angels at L.A. Dodgers,

10:10 p.m.

BASEBALL’S TOP TEN AMERICAN LEAGUE

R H Pct.MiCabrera Det 43 97 .350Kipnis Cle 66 131 .333Fielder Tex 47 125 .333Hosmer KC 54 116 .315Trout LAA 75 113 .315Jiglesias Det 28 94 .313LCain KC 63 106 .313

Bogaerts Bos 44 114 .311NCruz Sea 52 117 .309Altuve Hou 54 115 .305

Home Runs: Trout, Los Angeles, 31; Pujols, Los Angeles, 29; JMartinez, Detroit, 27; Donaldson, Toronto, 24; Runs Batted In: Donaldson, Toronto, 68; KMorales, Kansas City, 68; Bautista, Toronto, 66 Pitching FHernandez, Seattle, 12-5; Keuchel, Houston, 12-5; McHugh, Houston, 12-5.

BASEBALL’S TOP TEN NATIONAL LEAGUE

R H Pct.Goldschmidt Ari 66 122 .347DGordon Mia 47 124 .341Harper Was 65 103 .330Posey SF 52 111 .325LeMahieu Col 56 115 .324GParra Mil 52 102 .324Yescobar Was 46 107 .319Votto Cin 55 109 .311Panik SF 54 113 .309MDuffy SF 42 95 .304

Home Runs Frazier, Cincinnati, 27; Harper, Washington, 27; Stanton, Miami, 27; Arenado, Colorado, 25; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 22; Runs Batted In Arenado, Colorado, 76; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 75; Frazier, Cincinnati, 67; Pitching GCole, Pittsburgh, 14-4; CMartinez, St. Louis, 11-4; Wacha, St. Louis, 11-4;

Bruins - Habs in Winter Classic NFL patriots

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T H E A S S O C I A T E D P R E S SFOXBOROUGH, Mass. - New

England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady vowed to fight his four-game suspension on Wednesday, and team owner Robert Kraft opened training camp by saying he continues to “believe and unequivocally support” the three-time Super Bowl MVP.

“I was wrong to put my faith in the league,” Kraft said.

Taking the podium a day after NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell upheld Brady’s four-game suspension, Kraft angrily targeted the league for its hand-ling of the case.

“The decision handed down by the league yesterday is unfathomable to me,” he said. “I have come to the conclusion that this was never about doing what was fair and just.”

Brady was suspended four games and the team was docked $1 million and two draft picks

after the league determined that the team provided improperly inflated footballs in the AFC championship game against the Indianapolis Colts. Investigator Ted Wells zeroed in on two equipment managers - one who called himself “The Deflator” - and said Brady was “at least generally aware” of the illegal deflation scheme.

The team has denied wrong-doing, but it fired the two equipment managers whose text messages included discus-sions of football inflation.

The Patriots went on to win the Super Bowl for their fourth NFL title under Brady and coach Bill Belichick.

Brady, who had earlier denied cheating accusations with the tepid “I don’t think so,” more forcefully defended himself in the Facebook post, claiming he co-operated with the investi-gation except where doing so would have set a bad precedent

for his union brethren.“I respect the Commissioner’s

authority, but he also has to respect the (collective bar-gaining agreement) and my rights as a private citizen,” Brady wrote. “I will not allow my unfair discipline to become a precedent for other NFL play-ers without a fight.”

Much of the post involved an explanation of Brady’s cell-phone swap, which was cited by Goodell as new evidence of the quarterback’s failure to co-operate. Brady said he replaced a broken phone only after his lawyers told the league they couldn’t have it.

“Most importantly, I have never written, texted, emailed to anybody at anytime, anything related to football air pressure before this issue was raised at the AFC Championship game in January,” he wrote.

Brady’s comments came a few hours before the Patriots

opened training camp and the defence of their Super Bowl title. The post was liked by 51,000 people - including his wife, supermodel Gisele Bundchen - in the first 30 minutes after it was posted on Facebook.

Belichick declined to comment on the scan-dal.

“Nothing to talk about there,” he said.

Brady vows to fight suspension

Leisure

Dear Annie: Yesterday, I had an argument with my 85-year-old mother. She said I must be a lesbian because of my recent Facebook posts in support of all my gay friends and the Supreme Court deci-sion upholding gay marriage. Specifically, I changed my photo so it was colored in beautiful rainbow shades.

My mother was appalled that I was supporting “those people” and demanded that I change my picture. She said she was embarrassed and claimed that all of her friends were calling her to ask whether I was gay. This was a lie and she admitted it. Then she said she does not support gay people and I should sup-port them in more private ways. I told her I am 50 years old, not 10, and these are my choices. If she doesn’t like it, she doesn’t have to look at my Facebook page.

I have never felt comfort-able having my mother as a friend on Facebook. I want to un-friend her, but I’d feel guilty. She has always been this way, and frankly, I’m fed up. She has other friends and family on Facebook, so it’s not as though she’ll be out of the loop. What do you say? --

New York Dear New York: There

are kinder ways to deal with this rather than un-friending your 85-year-old mother. You can arrange your privacy set-tings on Facebook to limit what she sees and what she can post on your page. But truly, you are 50 years old and should know how to deal with your bigoted mother by now. Ignore her com-ments. Change the subject when she says things you find offensive and refuse to engage her in these pointless arguments where neither of you will influence the other. Don’t become angry. Smile, and then do what you want. It’s how children have dealt with difficult parents for cen-turies.

Dear Annie: I’d like to respond to “Not Buying

Narcolepsy,” who complained that her husband sleeps con-stantly. Many people associ-ate narcolepsy with the way it appears on TV sitcoms, where people fall asleep mid-sentence. But the most com-mon form of narcolepsy is excessive daytime sleepiness.

A year ago, I could not sit down without falling asleep. I woke up sleepy and probably could have slept 12 hours a day and still manage to fall asleep in my chair. Narcolepsy can be diagnosed by sleep studies and blood work. Since my diagnosis by a neurologist and finding the right medication, I have my life back.

Perhaps “Not Buying” should sit down with her husband and fill out the Epworth Sleepiness Scale as a way to begin a discussion of the medical reasons behind his need for such great amounts of sleep. It’s avail-able through the Narcolepsy Network (narcolepsynet-work.org). I hope this helps. -- Wide Awake

Dear Wide Awake: Thank you for the excellent resource. Narcolepsy isn’t simply about insufficient sleep. It’s a neurological

disorder affecting the way the body regulates sleep-wake cycles. Information on narcolepsy is also available through the National Sleep Foundation (sleepfounda-tion.org). Anyone who is hav-ing problems staying awake should also speak to his or her physician and, if neces-sary, ask for a referral to a

sleep clinic. Annie’s Mailbox is writ-

ten by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmail-box@creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach,

CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/AskAnnies. To find out more about Annie’s Mailbox and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

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For Friday, July 31, 2015 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) The next four weeks are great for romance, love affairs, holidays and vaca-tions, sports events, play-ful times with children and just plain fun. Make plans to make this happen. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Until October, you will enjoy entertaining at home and redecorating. If you send out invitations, this will motivate you to com-plete home projects. (There’s nothing like company com-ing to get you in gear!) GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You will enjoy the beau-ty of your surroundings much more in the next two months. In fact, you will discover just how much love there is in your daily world. How perfect. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) You will attract material possessions and money to you

in the next few months. Be on the lookout for financial opportunities; however, do guard against extravagance. LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Fair Venus will be in your sign for the next two months, helping you to make peace with others. It’s the perfect time to enjoy fun with friends and buy ward-robe goodies. VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Secret love affairs might heat up for many of you in the next few months. You also might have to take care of a loved one, which will require charity and selflessness. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Group activities and fun with friends will be quite wonderful in the next few months. Enjoy meetings, classes and group settings. A friend could become a lover. SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) In the next two months,

you might develop a crush on your boss or someone who is richer and more experienced. People in power will be good to you. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) In the next two months, you will have wonderful opportunities to travel for pleasure. You also might learn about new aspects of the world through a loved one.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) The wealth and resources of others will benefit you in the next few months. If offered gifts of cash or goodies, just say, “Thank you!” AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Your relations with oth-ers will improve in the next two months. Use this time to patch up misunderstand-ings and deepen your bonds

with others. PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) In the next two months, a romance with a co-work-er might begin. Others will get a raise or praise for their efforts. Your work surroundings will be more pleasant. YOU BORN TODAY You are thoughtful, observant and philosophical. You like to share your observations with others by speaking

about them or through writ-ing. Your work is impor-tant to you and sometimes comes ahead of everything else. This year is the begin-ning of a fresh, new nine-year cycle for you. Open any door! Start a new business activity. Birthdate of: Alexis Knapp, actress; Charlie Carver, actor; B.J. Novak, actor. (c) 2015 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Your horoscopeBy Francis Drake

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Montrose

Fantastic house & yard

MLS#2403431 $269,000

Trail

What a view! Also includes leased property

MLS#2404686 $399,000

Fruitvale

A fantastic family home in a great location - a rented suite in bsmt too!

MLS#2407197 $269,000

250.368.5000 ex.29250.368.1960 (cell)

jedemelo@telus.net

www.allprorealty.ca

Joy DeMelo

Trail

Friday, July 31 2-4pm143 Rossland Ave, Trail

MLS#2405349 $179,900

OPEN HOUSE!Montrose

Thursday, July 30 2-4pm920 9th Ave, Montrose

MLS#2406753 $249,000

OPEN HOUSE!

Denise Marchi250.368.1112denise.marchi@shaw.ca

All Pro Realty Ltd.

2169 Daniel StTrail$152,500

1915 Robin St Fruitvale$355,000

2600 sq.ft.

Beautifully updated

1st Trail Real Estate

1252 Bay Avenue, Trail

250.368.5222WWW.COLDWELLBANKERTRAIL.COM

Trail$259,000

Rob Burrus 250-231-4420

2 Houses

Trail$169,900

Nathan Kotyk 250.231.9484

Recent Updated

Completed

Trail$74,500

Nathan Kotyk 250.231.9484

Quiet Location

Fruitvale$319,000

Rob Burrus 250-231-4420

New Shop

& 5 Bedrooms

Trail$54,900

Nathan Kotyk 250.231.9484

Thursday, July 30 4 - 5:30 pm1051 Regan Crescent

Trail $219,000Jack McConnachie 250.368.5222

OPEN HOUSE

Apt/Condo for RentFrancesco Estates, Glenmer-ry,spacious 1-3bdrms. Adults only (45+). Secure building w/elevator. N/S, N/P. Ongoing improvements. Ph. 250-368-6761

LARGE 1 bdrm apart with bal-cony. Trail. Sunningdale. Rockcliff Manor. NS/NP. Heat/Cool/Electricity/Laundry incl. $750/month. 250-231-0466 or dfl ick60@gmail.com

W.TRAIL, 1BD. 1blk. to down-town, fenced yard, suitable for dog. $595./mo. 250-368-6076

W.TRAIL, 1bd. plus, semi-en-closed balcony, pet friendly. 1Blk. to Downtown, $575./mo. 250-368-6076

Commercial/Industrial

SHOP/ WAREHOUSE, 4300 sq.ft. Ample outside space. Good access. 250-368-1312

Homes for RentTRAIL, 2BD. + sunroom. Near Safeway. W/D. $750./mo. 250-368-6075

W.TRAIL, 3BDRM. (Garage) N/S, N/P, F/S, W/D. $800./mo. + utilities. 250-364-1838

Seasonal Accommodation

Kelowna annual timeshare until 2092, 2-bdrm & 2-balco-nies each week. Ed Johnson, (250)426-7415

Shared Accommodation

TRAIL, $395/month, near shopping & bus, quiet person. 2bths. 250-231-3172

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KOOTENAY HOMES INC.1358 Cedar Avenue, Trail • 250.368.8818

www.kootenayhomes.com www.century21.caThe Local Experts™

WE CAN SELL YOUR HOME.

NOBODY HAS THE RESOURCES WE DO!

Mark Wilson250-231-5591 mark.wilson@century21.ca

Terry Alton250-231-1101 terryalton@shaw.ca

Tonnie Stewart250-365-9665 tonniestewart@shaw.ca

Mary Martin250-231-0264 mary.martin@century21.ca

Richard Daoust250-368-7897 richard.daoust@century21.ca

Mary Amantea250-521-0525 mamantea@telus.net

Bill Craig250-231-2710 bill.craig@century21.ca

Deanne Lockhart250-231-0153 deannelockhart@shaw.ca

Art Forrest250-368-8818 c21art@telus.net

Christine Albo250-512-7653 christine.albo@century21.ca

Dave Thoss250-231-4522 dave.thoss@century21.ca

Dan Powell Christina Lake250-442-6413 powelldanielk@gmail.com

Are you interested in learning about potential residential

development in Trail? We want your feedback!

Visit: www.surveymonkey.com/s/KTVGQC8 and take our 5 minute survey.

We want to hear from YOU!

2031 Daniel Street, Trail $125,900

WOW!!!! - Comfortable 2 bdrm/2 bath home - this home requires

some TLC but you will have a great home with newer furnace/updated plumbing and wiring and the most amazing water views. Call today!

Call Mark (250) 231-5591

3928 Woodland Drive, Trail$259,000

4 bdrm, 3 bath family home in Glenmerry. Features include: fenced yard, master bedroom ensuite and walk-in closet, garage, and sunny basement with family room, 4th

bedroom and bath room. At this price this one will be gone quickly!

Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

NEW PRICE

1244 Green Avenue, Trail$104,500

Wow - this 2 + brdrm home has been totally remodelled - new kitchen - new bathroom - new appliances help complete this

package - this home is ready for you to move in today - call for your

viewing!!!!Call Mark (250) 231-5591

952 Redstone Drive, Rossland

$399,000 Brand new home in a gorgeous subdivision. This home will have

3 bdrms, 2.5 baths and 2 car garage. Features include modern kitchen with granite countertops,

hardwood fl ooring and heated tiled fl ooring. Act now and you can

move in later this summer.

Call Richard (250) 368-7897

QUICK POSSESSION

108 Ritchie Avenue, Tadanac

$299,9004 bdrm 3 bath Tadanac home on

double lot. Upgraded wiring & roof, elegant Great Room with fi replace and H/W fl oors. Roomy master has

walk in closet & ensuite. Down offers 2 bedrooms, 3 pc bath / laundry combo and workshop.

Terry 250-231-1101

2227 - 7th Avenue, Trail

$152,0002 bdrm home on a great lot, with private yard. Single car garage plus lots of off street parking.

Priced below the assessed value. Call today!

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

NEW LISTING

#4-1008 Olaus Way, Rossland

$309,000Beautiful ground fl oor condo with 3 bdrms and2 baths. Hardwood

fl oors, gas fi replace, open concept with gorgeous woodwork, granite

counter tops, underground parking, tennis courts, hot tub and much, much more. Great price for this

package!

Call Christine (250) 512-7653

737 Waterloo Road, Castlegar

$449,0005 acres of river front in fast

developing area in Castlegar. Double wide mobile with large

addition is on site. Sub-division potential exists (proposed 7 lots).

Call Tonnie (250) 365-9665

1354 Mountain St, Trail$229,000

WOW! This home is incredible. It has been extensively, tastefully and carefully renovated. Wiring, plumbing and heating have all been updated. Open fl oor plan, gorgeous kitchen, high ceilings and new sun deck! Single car

garage too!

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

NEW PRICE

NEW LISTING

1101 Christie Road, Montrose

$479,000Hideaway in your timber style

executive home. Quality abounds in this 3 bed/3 bath home. Hydronic heated concrete fl oors, cathedral ceilings, recess lighting, gourmet

kitchen and open fl oor plan. Too many extras to list. Come see for yourself!

Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

2063 Washington Street, Rossland

$399,000This is your opportunity to get into the Rossland commercial

real estate market! Unique residential apartment upstairs and

commercial space down. Great location in the heart of downtown.

Call Christine (250) 512-7653

NEW LISTING

217 Balsam Rd, Ross Spur$299,900

Spacious 2 bdrm home on 2 private acres. One bdrm

guest cabin for your visitors. Spend hot summer afternoons

down at the creek. Once you are home you will not want to leave

this beautiful property.

Call Art (250) 368-8818

TRAIL RENTALS2 bdrm, 1 bath house - PET FRIENDLY

$750 / mo plus utils / NS3 bdrm, 1 bath house

$850 / mo plus utils NP / NS2+ bdrm, 1 bath house

$875 / mo plus utils NP / NS2 bdrm, 1 bath upper suite

$750 / mo plus utils NP / NS4 bdrm 1 bath house

$1000 / mo plus utils NP / NS2 bdrm suite

$625 / mo plus utils NP / NS2 bdrm suite

$650 / mo plus utils NP / NSFRUITVALE RENTAL1 bdrm, $625 / mo plus utils

WARFIELD RENTAL2 bdrm, $750 / mo plus utils NP/NS

Terry Alton 250-231-1101Tonnie Stewart (250) 365-9665

640 - 8th Avenue, Montrose$125,000

This large fl at lot is at the end of a private and quiet cul-de-sac with access from front and lane. Cute home is clean, ready to move in and

very affordable. Fenced yard, garden areas and single car garage.

3838 Dogwood Drive, Trail $274,900

Act quickly on this beauty. Lovingly maintained by one family, this home offers 3 bdrms on main & large rec room down. Signifi cant updates

including windows, furnace, torch-on roofi ng, central air and u/g sprinkling. Beautiful yard and great views!

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

NEW LISTING

NEW LISTING

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A crowd of over 300 people came out to Gyro Park for a special Tuesday evening edition of Music in the Park. African folk singer Bongziwe Mabandla treated concert-goers to a great evening of vocals and music. Organizer Ray Masleck noted although many pre-vious performers have tried, Mabandla was the first to get the crowd up dancing by the end of the performance.

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