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BY TIMOTHY SCHAFERTimes Staff

The balance of nature has been tipped in favour of Wile E. Coyote as predators are gaining the upper hand in the region, according to local outsdoorsmen.

An annual Trail Wildlife Association survey of the populations of deer in the region has revealed some startling numbers.

Unofficially, deer populations in the Fort Shepherd region have declined by 80 per cent since 1969, when the annu-al count showed around 500 animals on average—and over 600 at its high-est—wintering in the region.

But with around 100 deer settling into the lush for-est southeast of the city last winter, there is some concern the cause of the decline is related in recent years to a rise in predators.

Cougars and wolves are pushing into the area, adding their numbers to the plethora of coyotes plaguing the backcountry in some areas, said Terry Hanik, president of the Trail Wildife Association (TWA).

As a result, dropping deer popula-tions have become the association’s main concern, he said.

“We, as hunters and members of Trail Wildlife Association, have got to do something on our part to relieve the pressure on deer,” he said.

Last year was the worst season for hunting for everybody, Hanik point-ed out. There were a lot of hunters that went out in fall when the season opened and never saw a deer.

“Either the deer are getting pushed back far into the bush or what, we just don’t know, but they are just not here,” he explained.

The former president of the TWA concurred. Rick Fillmore said it was his belief and that of many other outdoors people that predators have

increased in numbers in the West Kootenay.

Black bears, coyotes, cougars and now wolves are the culprits, he noted.

“Our mule deer populations are at extremely low levels and the preda-tors (especially cougars) are one of the causes,” he said. “Last year hunt-ers complained of seeing more wolf and cougar tracks than deer tracks.”

Wolf sightings are becoming com-mon, Fillmore pointed out, as they have been seen in the Salmo-Creston

area, at Nelway, in the Pend d’Oreille Valley, the Cascade summits and in the Arrow Lakes District.

In fact, a wolf has been spotted at the top of the Montrose cutoff, Hanik

added.Fillmore felt the network of power

lines, logging roads and pipeline right-of-ways criss-crossing B.C. con-tributed to a corridor that allowed predators to be very mobile in their pursuit of prey.

And it explained how so many predators have made it into the Greater Trail region. Those corridors have led the predators into more settled areas where the deer have been thriving for years.

Hanik said an explosion of deer a few years ago in settled regions of the West Kootenay meant preda-tors would eventually follow as their numbers dwindled in the upper reaches of the backcountry.

And predator populations have stayed while prey populations dwin-dled.

“As ungulate populations—white-tail deer, mule deer, elk—decrease the predators will probably move on,” Fillmore stated.

But Hanik said until they do some-thing needs to be done now before the balance is upset beyond repair.

See FEDERATION, Page 3

Predators taking their toll on local deer population

“Last year hunters complained of seeing

more wolf and cougar tracks than

deer tracks.”

RICK FILMORE

BY BREANNE MASSEYTimes Staff

Kootenay culture will lend its flavour to artisan exhibitions throughout the region this week-end.

The Columbia Basin Culture Tour (CBCT), a project of the Columbia Kootenay Alliance, will be hosting artisan exhib-itions throughout the West Kootenay starting Saturday.

The CBCT is a grass-roots arts tour with creative individ-uals exhibiting their artwork and hosting a series of demonstra-tions.

Nearly 70 artists have been busily preparing their studios for tours and demonstrations this season, including several artists from Greater Trail.

“This is my second year par-ticipating,” said Montrose artist Rebecca Leeworth. “I think the tour is a really good thing to have because it makes people aware that we actually do have artists in the community, and it allows them to come and see

what we’re doing.”But the culture tour does

more than bridge gaps between artists and their communities, for some it’s a way of life.

Leeworth began producing artwork shortly after being diag-nosed with multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia and ischemic col-itis.

“I used to write, but I couldn’t put my thoughts together prop-erly so my husband bought me a bunch of art supplies about five years ago,” she explained. “ So, I started painting garden orna-ments and that’s how I learned.”

But now artwork is a way to cope with adversity. Her med-iums range from oils to acrylics, with some multimedia. She even teaches classes for children in Montrose.

“I’d like things to be about my art instead of my illness, even though one does impact the other a lot more than I would like,” said Leeworth. “Sometimes when I’m not feeling well I can just get lost in colour and it

means that sometimes the col-ours I use can be really dull and sometimes I’m more vibrant, but I still keep going.”

Most of the time she can be found perched on a stool in a tiny wooden shed in front of her house, she calls it “the art shack.”

Inside of the shack, square canvases are suspended from the ceiling with fishing line and some are stacked up in tiny nooks and crannies. The shack is as quirky as the artist.

“I have so many paintings that our house is filling up too,” she said, gesturing at the work around her.

But the space is organized in her way. It’s accessible and if you ask the right questions, Leeworth is more than happy to explain the work. She uses art as an escape from the daily impacts of being ill, and explained how her moods often dictate how she works, but it doesn’t get her down.

See SELF, Page 2

Culture tour offers up slice of Kootenay art

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Rebecca Leeworth’s “art shack,” in Montrose will be displaying her work during this weekend’s Columbia Basin Culture Tour

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Regional support for a second access point for the regional hospital has fizzled at the regional district level.

The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary (RDKB) board of directors voted against any direct support for the construction of a second access to the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital.

All the RDKB will do is support the City of Trail in its future pursuit of grant fund-ing, said the city’s regional district representative,

Robert Cacchioni.“I was particularly dis-

appointed with that deci-sion,” he said. “I had hoped the regional district would have taken a stronger pos-ition on that second access but they didn’t and that is the way it is.”

The board chose not refer it to the West Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital Board, it chose not to pay for it across the whole region, and it chose not to refer it to the East End Services Committee, said Cacchioni.

“In terms of regional think-

ing … that is something that a regional hospital needs to be supported with,” he said. “It’s a regional service and it should be shared in terms of regional cost apportion-ment since it is important to everybody.”

Now the City of Trail will be speaking to the Minister of Health in September on securing a grant for the second access project. There had been some concern about the way grants are given out and the way the provincial government was distributing money, said Cacchioni.

“That would seem to be one way they could improve the situation in the Kootenay,” he said. “We haven’t really received a great deal in terms of grant money.”

In mid-April the RDKB board of directors made a call for letters of support from all municipalities and electoral areas to see if the second access project had any appeal, either regionally or just locally. Trail was the first municipality to sign back on to the proposed $2-mil-lion project.

See ACCESS, Page 3

Second access for hospital hits dead end

FROM PAGE 1“There are also a

couple of really great artists this year,” said Rachael Roussin, a member of the Rossland arts coun-cil.

“Tricia Rasku is absolutely amazing, not only does she weave all of the prod-ucts she makes—she also dyes the wool.

“She makes everything by hand, Roussin added.

Rasku, based in Rossland, will be exhibiting a series of handmade soaps and crafts during the cul-ture tour.

Other highlights include paintings from Stephanie Gauvin in Rossland and pottery from Trail artist Fran Moll.

Guests may browse artisan studios and galleries or watch demonstrations.

The self-guided tour takes place on Saturday and Sunday between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.

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BY BREANNE MASSEYTimes Staff

It’s better to give than to receive.

A Rossland teen gave a little bit of Canadian hospitality to Burmese refugees when she won a local fundraiser.

When Nemaiah Shaw, 19, won the West Kootenay Friends of Refugee (WKFR) recently—a quilt from its raffle fundraiser—the teenager swiftly decided to pay it for-ward.

Shaw’s mother has been working with the local NGO to raise $20,000 to aid two Burmese families through the immigra-tion process. Nemaiah was tickled pink by the idea of offering hospi-tality to the commun-ity’s newest residents by donating the quilt to them upon arrival.

“I’m really excited for the families to come here and I’m glad that I can give them a gift when they get here,” Shaw gushed. “They’re from Burma originally, but right now they’re in a refugee camp in Malaysia so they’ve had a tough go of it.”

She hopes the quilt will offer the family of four a warm hug dur-ing their first Canadian winter. The refugees are expected to arrive as early as November.

“We’ve been fund-raising for about a year now and our goal is $20,000,” explained Rachael Roussin, spokesperson for the WKFR. “We’ve raised close to $10,000 so we’re almost halfway to our goal and we’re planning a couple of events this fall.”

According to the East Kootenay Friends of Burma (EKFB), a constituent of the WKFR, $20,000 is

enough to help eight Burmese immigrants relocate. In addition the mechanical depart-ment at AMEC donated over $1,800 to support this initiative.

“It helps them with rent, clothing, food, utility bills, recrea-tion—basically any-thing for the cost of living,” Roussin said. “But we’re still trying to get creative to raise the remaining $10,000.”

But Shaw’s goals for

international develop-ment don’t end there.

She’s currently pack-ing her bags to attend Rossland Secondary School’s Interact club for a volunteer project in Honduras.

“Interact is like a junior rotary and we have it at our school for youth,” she explained. “We do an international project every other year and community pro-jects during the years in between. I’ve been a part of it for about three years.”

Previously Shaw completed a one-year study abroad program in Mexico during Grade 11, so she graduated one year later than some of her peers. But she expects the upcom-ing trip will be an even bigger eye-opener. The Interact club will be working in an aids clinic, working with children and building a house.

“The trip that I’m going on in about four days will probably have an impact,” she said.

“The other traveling that I’ve done hasn’t been volunteer-work so I think that this (trip) will be really cool and it probably will change me, but I’m not sure how yet.”

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BREANNE MASSEY PHOTO

Nemaiah Shaw won a quilt from the West Kootenay Friends of Refugees in Rossland’s Pioneer Park on Tuesday morning. She plans to give the quilt back to the community by dona-tion.

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THE NELSON STARPolice across Canada are asking

for help locating a 14-year-old girl from Nelson who has been missing since “voluntarily” leaving Trail on July 30.

The family of Morgan Durocher has issued a picture and along with police are asking for any help from the public locating the youth.

“We are trying to find her to establish her well being,” said Trail RCMP Sgt. Rob Hawton. “If anybody knows where she is, they should contact any police depart-ment. It would be much appreci-ated.

Durocher is described as 5’4” and 115 pounds with a slim build. She has a small nose stud, braces and shoulder length brown hair.

Family members say if she is

spotted she may run if approached and ask that the local police depart-ment be advised immediately.

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BY SALLY MACDONALDKimberley Bulletin

Mosquito control in the regional district has

come to end after an “unusual and challen-ging” season.

Although it’s barely August, the contractor who applies larvi-cide on behalf of the Regional District of East Kootenay (RDEK) has exceeded the budget of $112,000 trying to keep a handle on the insects during a record bad year.

“Last year, we described the mosquito season as a perfect storm as we had high snow loads, a cool and wet spring, and sus-tained high flood wat-ers,” said RDEK com-munications officer Loree Duczek.

“This year, condi-tions are even worse.”

The contractor, Kendra Lewis of Morrow Bioscience, struggled to keep up with treating areas

of mosquito larvae in Skookumchuck, Wasa, and Ta Ta Creek, and by the middle of June had already exceeded the 2012 budget for larvicide expected to last until August.

In May and June, 2012, Morrow Bioscience used 12,340 kilograms of larvicide to treat 2,056 hectares. From May to August, 2011 - over four months instead of two - Morrow used 12,644 kilograms of larvicide to treat 2,461 hectares.

“What makes this year more unusual and challenging is that it comes on the heels of a record bad year in 2011,” said Duczek.

Normally, ‘bad’ years are separated by better years where less larvicide is needed than the RDEK budgets for.

“This pattern allows

us to stockpile larvicide for exceptional years. Last year, we exceeded the forecasted budget, but were able to use reserve funds to con-tinue with treatments.

“This year, there were no reserve funds built up and we were not able to carry over any larvicide from 2011,” said Duczek.

When the larvicide ran out in the middle of June, the RDEK had to make the call: increase the budget, or call it a day?

“As a result of all of these factors, the RDEK has had to make the difficult decision to suspend treatments for the remainder of the season. This decision was not made lightly,” said Duczek.

“To continue with larviciding in a sum-mer experiencing sig-

nificant local flood-ing would result in a dramatic increase in annual parcel taxes and was not deemed appropriate. Even by suspending this year’s treatments in June, parcel taxes for the service will increase in 2013 and beyond so that recovery of program costs can be achieved.”

But Wasa resident Susanne Ashmore said the mosquitoes are not as bad as reported.

“Talking to people in the Wasa area, it hasn’t been as bad as I was expecting it to be,” she said.

“Bummer’s Flats was a lake. When I saw that, I was preparing for the worst. We have had mosquitoes, but no worse than other years where the flooding wasn’t as extensive.”

TIMOTHY SCHAFER PHOTO

The adept work of Eric Volpatti with a backhoe on Hazelwood Drive is making short work of the water line replacement job the city undertook this week. Along with John MacGillivray, left (in backhoe), and Ryan Dean (not shown), the three are replacing a main water line with new four-inch pipe on one section of block. The job should be completed early next week.

No dough ends fight against mosquitoKIMBERLEY

FROM PAGE 2Cacchioni said if the entire region had

elected to contribute to the undertaking, it would have cost Trail $34,583 (23.5 per cent) over the 20-year lifespan of the borrowing, but $64,943 (44.13 per cent) per year if only the seven East End communities—including Rossland, Warfield, Montrose, Fruitvale, and electoral areas A and B—signed on.

The second road is meant to relieve traffic and offer an alternative route, should the main access ever be closed due to an emergency.

The most recent proposed route sends traf-fic from Goepel Street to Fourth Avenue and up a bank of land toward the current ambu-lance station. A former proposed route access was from McBride Street.

DIGGING IN THE DIRTAccess meant to ensure traffic flow

FROM PAGE 1As an association the provincial BC Wildlife

Federation is lobbying for some control of preda-tors, said Hanik. But what happens once predator management is advocated is resistance develops that blocks the management process.

In the East Kootenay they have shut five regions down for mule deer hunting, hoping to stop their decline in those areas. In the West Kootenay, Hanik said, they don’t want to shut anything down—but they need to.

“But by the time they get more hunters into the picture, there aren’t going to be anymore animals for them,” he said.

“Opening up everything is no good. They’ll kill off all of the animals.

“They are all over and we have to do something to take the pressure off of the deer and the animals around them.”

B.C. Conservation officers would not return phone calls.

Federation lobbying for predator control

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This file photo shows trainer Indy Canagaratnam feeding beluga whale Kavna at the Vancouver Aquarium in Vancouver in 2011. The Vancouver Aquarium’s oldest beluga has died at the age of 46. Aquarium staff say Kavna, believed also to be the oldest beluga at all other accredited aquar-iums in North America, had been behaving differently in recent days.

THE CANADIAN PRESSVANCOUVER - If Enbridge (TSX:ENB) and

the Alberta government get their way, an addi-tional 500 tankers could be coming in and out of northern B.C. each year, with each departing ship carrying millions of litres of oil destined for foreign markets.

As each double-hulled tanker makes it way through the Douglas Channel near Kitimat, a teth-ered tug boat would help keep the massive ship on course. A marine pilot trained on local wat-ers would make sure the vessel navigates safely through the water.

But what if the unexpected happens? What if the giant vessel hits a rock along B.C.’s coast line, and oil begins to seep into the water? Who springs into action first? Who takes on the cleanup, and who is responsible for making sure it is done properly?

Despite the controversy around the pipeline and the questions raised by the B.C. government and environmentalists about safety and liability, the nuts-and-bolts process of who does what is relatively clear.

Right away, first responders on the tug boats would rush to contain the spill. The tanker com-pany - the polluter that is financially responsible for the mess - must immediately notify the Canadian Coast Guard, or the province’s emergency line. A call would also be made to a federally-certified spill response organization, which would come to handle the crisis.

In B.C.’s case, that organization is the Western Canada Marine Response Organization. It dis-patches vessels to the spill within hours and con-tains it using a variety of booms, skimmers, suc-tion pumps and absorbent pads.

Meanwhile, the Coast Guard would arrive on the scene to supervise the clean-up. Under Canadian regulations, the spill is supposed to be contained within 10 days.

Bruce Turnbull, with the Western Canada Marine Response Organization, said stormy weather conditions could delay response time, which is typically between six to 72 hours.

“You think six hours (seems like a lot), but we don’t drive there, we don’t fly there, we have to be on the water and water speed isn’t that great,” he said.

Turnbull said resources - including a high-speed response skimmer - and personnel will be moved closer to the Douglas Channel to match the level of perceived risk if the Northern Gateway project gets approved.

But history has shown that despite protocol,

a significant marine spill - such as the one that many environmentals and aboriginal groups say could happen on the West Coast if the contro-versial $6-billion Northern Gateway project gets approved - often doesn’t go according to the best-laid plans.

Protocol doesn’t take into account human error.

Just last week, roughly 190,000 litres of crude spilled from Enbridge’s pipeline in rural Wisconsin, causing the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration to demand the oil giant submit a re-start plan before it can reopen the pipeline.

And in 2010, millions of litres of oil sand crude poured into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan state, affecting more than 50 kilometres of water-ways and wetlands.

The Kalamazoo River was only recently opened up again, and the clean-up cost Enbridge $800-million.

Since the incident, the oil company has said it has made many changes, including doubling the number of employees to detect pipeline leaks, increasing technical training and improving the company’s safety culture.

“The key aspect in terms of avoiding human error would be to start with the philosophy of the company, and that would be no spill is accept-able and we must do all we can to ensure there won’t be a spill,” John Carruthers, president of the Northern Gateway project, said in an interview.

The Northern Gateway project, currently before a federal review panel, would carry tar sand oil - crude that contains diluted bitumen - from Alberta to northern B.C., where it would be shipped to Asia.

Enbridge said late last month it would invest a further $500-million in boosting the safety of the proposed pipeline.

Canada’s liability rules means a spiller may not have to spend more than $1.3 billion cleaning up a marine disaster. The rest of the costs could fall to the province and Ottawa.

That has helped prompt B.C. Premier Christy Clark to insist Ottawa underwrite more of the financial liability of cleanup and to require B.C. get a bigger share of the profits from the line to compensate for the increased risk the province may take on.

Edward Owens, a geologist and shoreline pro-tection consultant with Enbridge, said the project’s spill management plan will be “state-of-the-art.”

“There’s no one formula for success. The key is to have everything in place that you can have.”

BY KRISTI PATTONPenticton Western News

The defence for the man accused of sex-ually abusing his teen stepdaughter and for-cing her into the sex trade industry ended last week with the girl’s mother testifying.

“I know the truth,” said the mother.

After the stepfather was arrested last sum-mer, the mother said she was living with the girl and ordered the girl’s boyfriend to leave

the residence because she was tired of sup-porting him. The moth-er said her daughter was drunk and they got into an argument.

“When she looked at me and said I’ll make sure (stepfather) is out of our lives for good, I knew,” she said.

Testifying in support of the stepfather, all of whose names are being withheld to protect the girl, the mother said she never saw anything inappropriate between

the two.“There is nothing to

forgive him for because I know he hasn’t done anything,” said the mother during cross-examination.

The mother painted a picture of a drug-fueled lifestyle. She said the stepfather was a binge drug user and both of them dealt drugs while living in Penticton, Osoyoos, Okanagan Falls and in Vancouver.

“I’m sure I wasn’t the perfect parent, but I always made sure there was food on the table and we had a roof over our head. I wasn’t the perfect parent. I made my mistakes,” said the mother.

Crown counsel asked the mother about information from a witness that said they were concerned about bedroom activities the girl had with the step-father. The mother said she knew nothing was happening and it was common for the girl to fall asleep in the step-father’s bed and then later move to her own room or bed.

Closing arguments from the Crown and defence are scheduled to be heard today in provincial court.

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THE CANADIAN PRESSMONTREAL - The Parti Quebecois is taking

on a famous target in the provincial election campaign: the Queen.

The pro-independence party’s leader has been referencing the monarchy in her speeches and refers to it as a waste of money; an outdated institu-tion; and a sign that Quebec has no place in Stephen Harper’s Canada.

At a news conference today, PQ Leader Pauline Marois was asked about that kind of talk and whether it might be impolite during the Queen’s Jubilee year.

“It doesn’t bother me at all to attack roy-alty,” she replied to a reporter from the Toronto Star.

“It’s not because it’s the... event... what’s that... the Jubilee - I was looking for the term - not because it’s the Queen’s Jubilee we should avoid commenting.”

The PQ, under Marois, has been much more active in appealing to cultural nationalism than it was under her some of predecessors.

The party suffered its worst election defeat in decades in 2007 under Andre Boisclair, and was believed to have lost much of the national-ist vote to the now-defunct ADQ.

Marois has sought to address that. Under her, the party has repeatedly drawn attention to slights against the French language in public and private institutions.

In the span of several months, after last year’s federal election, the Harper Tories pro-vided her with some new targets and she has consistently hammered away at them.

Moves to hire people who can’t speak French to senior federal positions, and to place the monarchy on prominent display in federal institutions, have become a familiar PQ attack theme.

On Tuesday, Marois ridiculed the Harper Tories for replacing the paintings of Alfred Pellan with a large portrait of the Queen in the Foreign Affairs building in Ottawa. The com-missioning of a separate portrait, a new one for Rideau Hall, was “money badly invested,” she said.

And Marois called it wasteful to have vice-

regal institutions in every province.“(The monarchy) creates institutions like

the lieutenant-governor’s office that, in my opinion, are not useful,” Marois said.

“What’s not useful is having sums spent for no reason to have him sign laws he has nothing

to say about, and accepting the premier’s demand to have an election.

“If you ask me, these are completely outdated institutions and we should question them.”

The PQ now warns there will be some dark conse-quences for Quebec’s cul-ture if the Charest Liberals

are re-elected for a fourth term. Marois says Quebec’s identity could be imperilled by a Liberal win.

She accuses the Liberals of ignoring a per-ceived decline in the use of French in Montreal. Marois promises to toughen language laws, introduce a so-called secularism charter with guidelines for religious accommodation; and expand the teaching of “national history” at school.

Identity issues have not figured promin-ently in the campaign so far. While they are a frequent part of the PQ’s campaign messaging, they have been virtually absent in media cover-age of the campaign’s first week.

The dominant themes, to date, have been the student conflict, attacking corruption, and economic promises.

Francois Legault, leader of the Coalition for Quebec’s Future, said today his government would reduce taxes on middle-income families by $1,000, in part by cancelling a health tax imposed by the Jean Charest government.

Opinion polls suggest there’s a three-way race in the election, with the PQ starting the campaign as the slight favourite.

QUEBEC

PQ takes aim at monarchy

“(The monarchy) creates institutions like the

lieutenant-governor’s office that, in my mind,

are not useful.”

PAULINE MAROIS

THE CANADIAN PRESSEDMONTON - Speeding con-

tinues to be a problem on Alberta highways, with police handing out more than 3,500 tickets over the long weekend.

Those numbers include 655 speeding tickets issued to motorists on Highway 63 to and from the Fort McMurray area.

RCMP says the numbers are

about average for a summer long weekend.

Mounties and provincial traffic sheriffs also issued 266 tickets for alcohol-related offences, including 29 24-hour licence suspensions.

The province recently announced measures to improve traffic enforce-ment on Highway 63, including assigning more officers to patrol the dangerous road.

Cops issue 3,500 tickets on long weekend

ALBERTA

THE CANADIAN PRESSEDMONTON - Anglers are being

told they can’t take fish from one of Alberta’s most popular rivers while the government studies the effects of a major pipeline spill.

The catch-and-release restriction is on the Red Deer River where a Plains Midstream pipeline leaked nearly half a million litres of oil in June.

Alberta Environment spokesman Dave Ealey says the restriction will last for at least the rest of this year’s

season and may continue into next year.

Ealey says the restriction is intended to help scientists deter-mine whether the spill has affected fish populations.

He says there are concerns the spill may have left fewer younger fish in the river.

The Red Deer is a popular river for both Albertan and foreign anglers, who come to its waters for sport fish such as mountain whitefish and brown trout.

Anglers can’t take fish from river

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OPINION

The power of mockery rattles tyrantsHow much do

tyrants fear mock-ery? Consider the case of Belarus,

often called “the last dic-tatorship in the heart of Europe,” where President Alexander Lukashenko has just fired his air force and border security chiefs because they did not stop a Swedish light plane from dropping teddy bears into the country.

The plane, chartered by a Swedish public relations firm called Studio Total, crossed into Belarusian air space from Lithuania on July 4, and dropped hundreds of teddy bears on little para-chutes on the outskirts of the capital, Minsk. The teddies bore labels calling for free-dom of speech and respect for human rights, which is only what Lukashenko’s opponents within the coun-try demand (before they are carted off to jail).

Lukashenko, who has won every “election” in Belarus since 1994, was furious. ““Why didn’t the commanders intercept that flight?” he raged last week. “Who did they sym-pathize with?” In reality, his commanders weren’t pay-ing much attention to air defences because nobody is going to bomb Belarus,

but he couldn’t accept that explanation. His power rests on people believing he is too strong to resist, and the teddy bears said the oppos-ite, very loudly.

Meanwhile, some hun-dreds of kilometres (miles) to the east, a trial opened last week in Moscow. Three young women, Maria Alyokhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, and Yekaterina Samutsevich – Masha, Nadia and Katya to their friends – face a charge of hooliganism that could send them to jail for seven years for singing a song in church. Their real offence is that it was an anti-Putin song.

Masha, Nadia and Katya belong to a punk rock band called Pussy Riot. It’s a loose collective of around 10 young Moscow women, feminists in a very macho country, who dress up in brightly coloured clothes and balaclavas (ski masks) and use music and per-formance art to criticize the repression and conformity they see around them. They are funny, brave, and some-times offensive. They are not criminals.

In an action that one band member later called an “ethical mistake”, five of them entered the Cathedral

of Christ the Redeemer in Moscow last March, stepped onto the altar, and delivered a cheeky, shrieky song beg-ging the Virgin Mary to free Russia from Putin. A com-panion videotaped them, and the performance lasted exactly 51 seconds before the security guards inter-vened and the police were called.

The cops came and took down three of the band members’ names (the other two escaped), but they made no arrests, did not confiscate the videotape, and did not open a case against any-body. Only nine people had seen the performance, and most of them were guards. It just wasn’t worth pursuing – until the video appeared on YouTube two weeks later and went viral.

This all happened during

the election campaign that saw Vladimir Putin return as Russia’s president after eight previous years in that job and four more as prime minister (to get around the constitutional limit of two terms as president). Pussy Riot chose to make their pro-test in Moscow’s cathedral in response to Patriarch Kirill’s public statements that it was “un-Christian” to demon-strate and that the Putin era is “a miracle of God.”

People accused of non-violent crimes are hardly ever held in custody in Russia before their trials, but Masha, Nadia and Katya were refused bail and have already been in prison for five months. Nobody has been allowed to visit them, though two of the three have small children. The state-controlled TV channels (i.e. almost all of them) have waged an endless propa-ganda war against them, portraying them as foreign agents.

The trial verges on the ridiculous. On Thursday a lawyer for one of the cath-edral guards (who has “suf-fered deeply” and lost sleep over the incident), described the punk band as “the tip of an iceberg of extrem-ists, trying to break down the thousand-year edifice

of the Russian Orthodox Church by...guiding the flock through trickery and cunning not to God, but to Satan.” And behind it all, of course, was the “world gov-ernment”: the Satanic West.

The girls of Pussy Riot – they deliberately call them-selves girls (“devushki” in Russian) to emphasize their innocence and powerless-ness – have done more by mockery to unmask the authoritarian nature of the Putin regime than all their more earnest colleagues together.

At a greater personal cost than they ever imagined, they have raised political consciousness in Russia and made the regime look both cruel and foolish.

Vladimir Putin is no fool. He realizes that things have gone too far, and on a visit to London last week he tried to throw the machine into reverse. “There is nothing good in what (Pussy Riot) did,” he told reporters, but “I don’t think they should be judged too severely.” The court, no doubt, will take this an order. But the dam-age to the Putin regime is already done.

Gwynne Dyer is a London-based independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries

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As the local woman helped by Rossland and area Search and Rescue (Rossland News, Aug. 2, 2012) I would like to express my appreciation to the many people who assisted me after I broke my ankle on Record Ridge on July 25.

Thank you to the ladies who hiked out to find cell phone service, to the capable ladies who splinted my leg and kept me warm and sheltered, to the ladies who kept me company

and picked off the ants. A very special thank you to

the volunteers of the Rossland and South Columbia Search and Rescue who were so encourag-ing and competent in loading me into the Stokes litter and getting me down to the trail-head.

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An editorial from the Waterloo Region Record

Faster, higher, stronger, cheater. It’s easy to say which word doesn’t belong in the Olympic ideal. It’s harder to root it out of the all-too-human Games themselves.

Just look at the furor sur-rounding the expulsion of eight women badminton play-ers from the London competi-tion last week.

Their fault? They cheated. Two doubles teams from South Korea, one from Indonesia and another from China deliber-ately tried to lose matches so they could rig their quarter-final draw.

The world-champion Chinese team, for its part, tried to throw a match so it wouldn’t have to meet another Chinese team until the final.

There’s no argument the four teams did what they were accused of doing. The furious spectators who were denied the world-class competition they had paid good money to see were incontrovertible witnesses. Eight of the best badminton players on Earth intentionally missed shot after shot and refused to exert themselves even when a ref-eree implored them to do so. They made a mockery of the tournament.

Yet amazingly, many people

defended the disgraced bad-minton players. Such apolo-gists contend the women’s teams were, in fact, doing their best to win - it’s just that their goal was a medal.

Throwing games before the medal round to get a bet-ter position later on is legiti-mate, or so the argument goes, because it is simply another strategy used by athletes.

That argument has more holes than a badminton net. If American swimmer Michael Phelps holds back in a qualify-ing heat to conserve energy for the medal race, that’s accept-able strategy.

He still has to compete hard enough to qualify in the heat - and beat out other contend-ers.

Or if a National Hockey League team sits out its best players for a meaningless game at the end of a season in order to rest them for the playoffs, that’s fair, too. The team on the ice can still do its best - and should be expected to do so.

What the four women’s badminton teams did was dif-ferent. They not only refused to play their best. They delib-erately tried to lose. But what are the Olympics - or any other world-class sporting event - about?

Repeat the word, “world-class.” The Olympics are a play-

ing field for many of human-ity’s finest athletic specimens and the contests in which they meet are supposed to be the best on the planet. That is the allure of the competition. The integrity of the Games mat-ters, too.

And it is a basic tenet of good sportsmanship that com-petitors will try to win each game they play.

It’s true that some people flout this essential rule.

There are reasons to believe that the Swedish men’s hockey team deliberately lost a game to Slovakia at the 2006 Turin Winter Games so it could have an easier route to the medals. And the Swedes won gold. But if they tried to throw even one match, that medal is forever tarnished.

In sports, as in so much else in life, the journey matters as much as the destination.

To deliberately lose a game is to insult the spectators who have come to watch - and show their support. It violates the rules of the game. It is unethi-cal. And so it was right for Olympic officials to disqualify the women badminton play-ers.

They don’t belong on any Olympic podium. They belong on a plane home, where they should have some explaining to do.

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Harold Joseph Piche suddenly passed away at his home in Pen-ticton, B.C., on Thurs-day, August 2, 2012 at the age of 66. He is sur-vived by his wife Jerry; son’s, Aaron (Karen) and Derek (Robin) and three grandchildren, Nolan, Shy-Anne and Cali.

Harold was born in Meadow Lake, Sas-katchewan on January 13, 1946 and was the youngest child of six , born to Melvina and Arsen Piche. He moved to Oliver, B.C. in 1966 and started a Lineman apprentice-ship at West Kootenay Power in 1974. He retired from the company after 36 years in various roles. He enjoyed hunting, golf, fastball and hitting home runs in slow-pitch. He loved spending time with his family and chasing the grandkids around. He will be remembered as a big man with an even bigger heart, always full of laughs and ready to crack a joke. He will be sadly missed by all of his family and friends.

A “Celebration of Life“ will be held on Saturday, August 11, 2012 from 1 to 4 pm at the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 97, 36217-97th Street, Oliver, B.C. Everyone is welcome.

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deep sadness that we announce the pass-ing of our beloved husband, father, grand-father, and friend to all.

Born in 1920 in the Friuli, he emigrat-ed to Trail in 1956 with his wife and chil-dren, leaving behind parents, 3 brothers, a sister, many cousins, and his beloved ancestral home at Mason. He retired from Trail Hospital in 1985, and in 2009, when his health began to fail, he moved with his wife to the coast to be near his family. His quiet and unassuming personality ac-companied a fundamental commitment to his fellow man. Tireless, industrious, and self-suffi cient, he is remembered for his willingness to help anyone in need, his dignity, his discretion and perceptivity, his decency, and his devotion to family.

The world was richer for his good-ness, his light and surefooted step, and his twinkling blue eyes.

Predeceased by everyone but his sister, he is survived by his wife of 69 years, An-tonietta (Della Mattia); daughters Luci-ana (Sergio) and Maria (Andrew); grand-children Tina, Tony, and Tania (Zanet) and Cara, Rachel, and Alexis (Statz); and great-grandchildren Sophia and Dawson (Gray)

A funeral mass will be held on August 8 at the Gardens of Gethsemane in South Surrey.

OBITUARIES

THE ASSOCIATED PRESSNEW YORK - Marvin

Hamlisch was blessed with perfect pitch and an infallible ear. “I heard sounds that other children didn’t hear,” he wrote in his autobiography.

He turned that skill into writing and arranging com-pulsively memorable songs that the world was unable to stop humming - from the mournful “The Way We Were” to the jaunty theme from “The Sting.”

Prolific and seeming with-out boundaries, Hamlisch, who died at 68 after a short ill-ness, composed music for film heroes from James Bond and Woody Allen, for powerful singers such as Liza Minnelli and Aretha Franklin, and high-kicking dancers of the Tony-winning “A Chorus Line.” To borrow one of his song titles, nobody did it better.

“He was a true musical genius, but above all that, he was a beautiful human being. I will truly miss him,” said Barbra Streisand, who first met the composer in 1963 and sang his “The Way We Were” to a Grammy win in 1974. “It was his brilliantly quick mind, his generosity, and delicious

sense of humour that made him a delight to be around.”

Hamlisch collapsed and died Monday in Los Angeles after a brief illness, his publi-cist Ken Sunshine said, citing the family. Other details were not released.

The New York-born Hamlisch composed more than 40 film scores, including “Sophie’s Choice,” ”Ordinary People,“ ”The Way We Were“ and ”Take the Money and Run.“ His latest work came for Steven Soderbergh’s ”The Informant!“

Hamlisch became one of the most decorated artists in

history, winning three Oscars, four Emmys, four Grammys, a Tony, a Pulitzer and three Golden Globes. The marquees of Broadway theatres in New York will be dimmed in his memory on Wednesday at 8 p.m.

He arranged many of Minnelli’s albums, including her first two as well as “Judy Garland & Liza Minnelli ‘Live’ at the London Palladium.”

“Marvin Hamlisch and I have been best friends since I was 13 years old,” Minnelli said on Tuesday, calling him “one of the funniest people I knew. I will miss his tal-

ent, our laughter and friend-ship, but mostly I will miss Marvin.”

“I have lost my first lifelong best friend, and sadly we have lost a splendid, splendid tal-ent.”

Actress-singer Lucie Arnaz, the daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz who performed with Hamlisch for years, said: “There is some kind of gor-geous music in the heavens tonight.”

Hamlisch was perhaps best known for adapting composer Scott Joplin on “The Sting.” In the mid-’70s, it seemed every-body with a piano had the sheet music to “The Entertainer,” the movie’s theme song. To this day, it’s blasted by ice cream trucks.

“My heart is broken. He made me feel so special. I love him so much,” said actress and singer Idina Menzel, who often performed with Hamlisch and called him “a second father.”

Hamlisch received both a Tony and the Pulitzer for “A Chorus Line” - the second longest-running American show in Broadway history - and wrote the music for “The Goodbye Girl” and “Sweet Smell of Success.”

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A man slides down a hill after a rare snowfall in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Tuesday. Temperatures dropped to below freez-ing Tuesday morning as snow flurries blew through South Africa’s commercial hub Johannesburg, dusting the city in white as residents poured into the streets to watch the snowflakes fall.

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Composer Marvin Hamlisch at Heinz Hall in downtown Pittsburgh. Hamlisch, a conductor and award-winning com-poser best known for the torch song “The Way We Were,” died Monday. He was 68.

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BY JIM BAILEYTimes Sports Editor

The ice is in at the Trail Memorial Centre as Champions Hockey School gets set to drop the puck on Sunday.

The hockey camp is open to all levels of hockey player starting with young skaters age 5-7, then moving through the various groups - Avalanche ages 8-10, Bruins age 10-12, Canadiens 12-14, to age 15 and up that includes elite midget, junior, and college hockey players.

“The camp’s been great,” said camp organizer and instructor Terry Jones. “It’s a week of hard work, but something we really look forward to.”

The camp focuses on conditioning and develop-ment, with lots of on- and off-ice instruction including video analysis, dry-land training, and fun activities such as floor hockey, flag football, and kickball depending on the age group.

“With the younger kids it’s about having fun, to give them a sense of loving the game, and enjoying the game, and teaching some of the fundamentals and some skating. If they want to keep playing the game its all about having fun with it,” added the Beaver Valley Nitehawks coach.

With the middle groups, instruction will con-centrate on fundamentals, skill improvement in part through video analysis courtesy of Hawk assistant coach Mike Morissette, and team play.

“As the kids get older, you start treating it a bit more seriously but you still try to have fun and be competitive . . . The junior prep group is something to watch, like it’s so competitive it’s pretty darn good hockey,” said Jones.

With the elite older group, it is more about get-ting the players prepared for the upcoming season, combining intense scrimmaging, with off-ice core training before heading to various midget, junior, and university camps.

With about 30 skaters in each group, it makes for a long day, starting at 7 a.m. and going until 10 p.m., but the sheer diversity and long hours of instruction necessitate a dedicated core of instruct-ors. As a result, Jones has recruited ample local talent to help teach young players, which include: former Vernon Vipers, RBC Cup champs and Quinnipiac University Bobcats Connor and Kellen Jones, Travis St. Denis of the Penticton Vees - the reigning RBC Cup champions, Boston University’s Sahir Gill, former Smokie and Yale University forward Kevin Limbert along with Hawks coach Paul Matteucci and Ella Matteucci (Clarkson University), and assistance from the Nitehawks coaching staff and players leading the groups.

Jones says there are still a few spots open, but the camp is filling up fast.

For more information go to www.champion-shockeyschool.com

Local teams look ahead to seasonBY JIM BAILEY

Times Sports Editor The Castlegar Rebels

are getting a jump start on their rivals in the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League play this season.

The Rebels are hitting the ice at the Castlegar Complex Aug. 17-19, to avoid colliding with Junior A camps.

“We’re hoping to get a good look at some local tal-ent,” Rebels’ head coach Steve Junker told the Castlegar News. “We’re also looking at bringing some other talent in to make a stab at our squad for the upcoming season.”

Meanwhile rival Beaver Valley Nitehawks won’t skate until Aug. 27, hoping to have a good idea by then who will be available for the upcoming year.

“We’ll go pretty much full bore from there,” said Nitehawks’ coach and GM Terry Jones.

Rather than a rookie camp followed by a main camp, the Nitehawks, last year’s KIJHL

champions, will have all play-ers on the ice at the same time.

“We want to try to get everybody back. We want to see our veterans leading our younger guys,” said Jones.

Divergent philosophies from two teams that were the cream of the crop in the KIJHL last year. The Rebels lost to the Nitehawks in a thrilling seven-game series that decid-ed the Neil Murdoch Division champion.

“It’s also a little benefit for the players before they head off for their Junior A camps,” said Junker. “Not only do we get to have a look at them, but they get a little shot in the arm before they head off and make their case at a Junior A camp.”

It is too early for either Jones or Junker to say who will be returning to the lineup and who will be moving on, but almost certainly the Nitehawks will be without captain Chris Derochie who committed to Okanagan College, leading

scorer Craig Martin who is off to the Vernon Vipers, Ryan Dickson is gone to Edmonton, and Mike Vlanich to SAIT. Other players like goalie Zach Perehudoff, and for-wards Dallas Calvin and Ryan Edwards will undoubtedly try their luck at Junior A camps and likely won’t return.

Despite the early camp, the Rebels won’t have a good idea of what the roster will look like until pre-season rolls around in September.

“There’s always some late changes, the trickle down effect, waiting on Junior A ros-ters to be done. But we like to have it done for the most part before school opens up so we can get guys settled in and put in billet homes if they’re from out of town.”

With an early Mar. 7 start to the BCHL season this year, the Trail Smoke Eaters and many BCHL teams will host their camps earlier directly following the Rebels camps and preceding the Hawks.

The Smoke Eaters will have

a rookie camp Aug. 22-23 while their main camp will run Aug. 24-26.

“From a Castlegar Rebels’ fan perspective we’d love to get our guys back, but we real-ize that we’re hoping they take the next step and play Junior A,” Junker said. “But we’re not going to know that for a while.”

Despite not knowing who’s coming back, both the Nitehawks and the Rebels should once again contend for top spot.

“I think we’ll be a strong team again. I have no doubt in that,” he added.

“You can talk to anyone and there’s three or four guys that can swing your club and determine whether you’re an upper-echelon team or just in the mix.

“But I have no doubt we’ll be there in the mix. It’s a mat-ter of whether we can find those few guys that can push us over the top.”

With files from the Castlegar News.

BY TIMES STAFFThe Langley Blaze won its first 2012

B.C. Senior Men’s Baseball championship in Prince George on Monday.

The Blaze beat the Nanaimo Coalminers 4-1 in the semifinal match to send them to the final against the Kamloops Sun Devils, who earned the berth after scorching the AM Ford Trail Orioles 16-1on Sunday.

Dave Diachuk, manager and coach of the Blaze, told the Prince George Citizen he was proud of his team for fighting through a season riddled with injuries after they wrapped up the weekend tour-nament at Citizen Field in Prince George

with a 6-1 win over the Sun Devils.“It feels pretty damn great,” said

Diachuk. “It’s our third year in existence and we’ve managed to track down a cer-tain number of players and have done a good job in organizing everything.”

Since the spring the Blaze have watched seven players go down to injury, includ-ing Prince George’s Brooklyn Foster, who suffered a partial tear of his MCL during a Canada Day game in Nanaimo.

“We had a fairly decent roster and we managed to fill in the spots and make up for the injuries,” said Diachuk.

Blaze first baseman Scott Webster was the tournament MVP after going 7-for-16

at the plate for a .438 batting average, with three homeruns and five RBIs.

Corey Parsons picked up the complete game, two-hit win against the Sun Devils, fanning eight. His only mistake came in the fifth inning when he gave up a homerun to Dave Hole. Graig Merritt, Bob Foerster and Tyler Willson all went deep for the Blaze.

“We’ve battled the whole way and we had tough games every game we’ve had,” said Diachuk. “We just sucked it up and got it done.”

The victory earned the Blaze a trip to the 2013 Canadian Senior Men’s cham-pionship in Windsor, Ont.

The Blaze catch fire at B.C.sBASEBALL

SUBMITTED PHOTO

From left: Terry and Connor Jones, Ella and Paul Matteucci and Kellen Jones are back again to help local hockey players improve their game at the Champions Hockey School starting Sunday.

KIJHL

CYSWOG N’FUN

BOB HALL/NELSON STAR PHOTO

The Cyswog n’ Fun Triathlon went off swimmingly in Nelson on Sunday with approximately 250 swimmers, bikers, and runners taking on the popular three-stage race. Results were unavailable.

Langley captures first title

SPORTS

SCOREBOARDOlympics

Team ResultsBASKETBALL

WomenQuarterfinals

Australia 75, China 60United States 91, Canada 48

SOCCERMen

SemifinalsMexico 3, Japan 1

HANDBALLWomen

QuarterfinalsNorway 21, Brazil 19

South Korea 24, Russia 23Spain 25, Croatia 22

HOCKEYMen

Pool AAustralia 7, Pakistan 0

Argentina 6, South Africa 3Pool B

Netherlands 4, South Korea 2Belgium 3, India 0

VOLLEYBALLWomen

QuarterfinalsBrazil 3, Russia 2 (24-26, 25-22,

19-25, 25-22, 21-19)Japan 3, China 2 (28-26, 23-25,

25-23, 23-25, 18-16)WATER POLO

WomenSemifinal Round

United States 11, Australia 9China 14, Italy 10

Russia 11, Britain 9

CFLAll Times Eastern

East Division GP W L T Pt

Hamilton 5 3 2 0 6Montreal 6 3 3 0 6Toronto 6 3 3 0 6Winnipeg 6 1 5 0 2

West Division GP W L T PtB.C. 6 4 2 0 8Sask 5 3 2 0 6Edm 5 3 2 0 6Calgary 5 2 3 0 4

Week SixByes: Calgary, Edmonton, Hamilton, Saskatchewan

Monday’s resultB.C. 18 Toronto 9

Friday’s resultMontreal 36 Winnipeg 26

Week SevenByes: B.C., Montreal, Toronto,

WinnipegThursday, Aug. 9

Calgary at Hamilton, 7 p.m.Friday, Aug. 10

Saskatchewan at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m.

BaseballAmerican League

East Division W L Pct GBNew York 63 45 .583 -Baltimore 58 51 .532 5 1/2Tampa Bay 56 52 .519 7Boston 55 55 .500 9Toronto 53 55 .491 10

Central Division W L Pct GBChicago 60 48 .556 -Detroit 59 50 .541 1 1/2Cleveland 50 59 .459 10 1/2Minnesota 48 61 .440 12 1/2Kansas City 45 63 .417 15

West Division W L Pct GB

Texas 63 45 .583 -Los Angeles 59 51 .536 5Oakland 58 51 .532 5 1/2Seattle 51 60 .459 13 1/2

Today’s GamesMinn at Cleveland 12:05 p.m.

Texas at Boston 1:35 p.m.L.A. Angels at Oakland, 3:35 p.m.N.Y. Yankees at Detroit 7:05 p.m.

Seattle at Baltimore 7:05 p.m.Toronto at Tampa Bay 7:10 p.m.Kansas City at Chicago 8:10 p.m.

National LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBWashington 66 43 .606 -Atlanta 63 46 .578 3New York 53 56 .486 13Miami 49 60 .450 17Philadelphia 49 60 .450 17

Central Division W L Pct GBCincinnati 66 43 .606 -Pittsburgh 62 46 .574 3 1/2St. Louis 60 49 .550 6Milwaukee 49 59 .454 16 1/2Chicago 43 64 .402 22Houston 36 74 .327 30 1/2

West Division W L Pct GBSan Francisco 59 50 .541 -Los Angeles 59 51 .536 1/2Arizona 55 54 .505 4San Diego 47 64 .423 13Colorado 39 68 .364 19

Today’s GamesCincinnati at Mil 2:10 p.m.

Chicago at San Diego, 6:35 p.m.Arizona at Pittsburgh 7:05 p.m.

Atlanta at Philadelphia 7:05 p.m.Miami at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.Wash at Houston 8:05 p.m.

San Fran at St. Louis 8:15 p.m.Colorado at L.A. 10:10 p.m.

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THE CANADIAN PRESSLONDON - More disappoint-

ment for Canada at the London Games.

Simon Whitfield’s bid for a third Olympic medal ended abruptly Tuesday after he was thrown from his bike and forced to withdraw from the triathlon.

It came after the 37-year-old put himself in good position with a strong swim. However, shortly after making the transition to his bike, he lost control while going over a speed bump and crashed into a metal barrier.

“I hit the speed bump on a funny angle and ended up crowd surfing, which is good for con-certs and not so good for sport events,” said Whitfield, who suf-fered minor injuries.

The Victoria resident was Canada’s flag-bearer during the opening ceremony and arrived at the start line with hopes of adding to the gold he won in Sydney and the silver he claimed

in Beijing.Instead, he ended up in the

arms of wife Jennie while the leaders continued to make their way around the scenic course through Hyde Park.

“That’s not how I pictured the script ending,” said Whitfield.

It continued a run of tough results for Canadian athletes since Victoria swimmer Ryan Cochrane won silver in the 1,500 metres on Saturday. Ever since, the country has been stuck on 10 medals - one gold, three silver and six bronze.

Edmonton cyclist Tara Whitten, who won bronze in the women’s team pursuit on Saturday, finished a disappoint-ing fourth in women’s six-race omnium on Tuesday.

Fourth overall after Monday’s event, the former two-time world champion moved into a tie for third with Australian Annette Edmonson after the three-kilo-metre individual pursuit.

But Edmonson won the 10-kilometre scratch race, rel-egating the 32-year-old Whitten back to fourth. Whitten was unable to make up the deficit in the final time trial.

Canada only other medal hope on Tuesday comes in div-ing, where Alex Despatie of Laval, Que., will take part in the men’s three-metre springboard final.

Meanwhile, the syncronized swimming duet of Marie-Pier Boudreau-Gagnon and Elise Marcotte narrowly missed out on the podium finishing fourth with a score of 189.12 points.

The Canadian women’s basketball team saw their Olympic tournament come to an end with a 91-48 loss in the quarter-finals to the top-ranked U.S.

In triathlon, Kyle Jones of Oakville finished as the top Canadian in 25th while Victoria’s Brent McMahon was 27th.

Canada stalls on 10 medalsOLYMPIC ROUNDUP

THE CANADIAN PRESSMontreal Alouettes running back Brandon

Whitaker won his second CFL offensive player of the week award on Tuesday. The Al’s and the Lions dominated the honours in week six.

Whitaker posted a season-high 115 yards on 18 carries and 64 yards on six receptions for a 179-yard performance in the Als’ third win of the season over Winnipeg.

Whitaker’s teammate Sean Whyte won the CFL’s honour for special teams player of the week. Whyte kicked a perfect four-for-four on field goal attempts, adding three extra points to a total of 18 points for Montreal against the Bombers. Whyte now leads the CFL in kicking points scored with 62.

B.C. Lions linebacker Adam Bighill took the defensive player of the week award. One sack, one interception and seven tackles in the Lion’s 18-9 win over the Argos at the Rogers Centre were enough for Bighill to earn his second award of the season. With the win, the Lions top the West Division standings.

James Yurichuk took the honour of top Canadian player for week six. Registering five tackles and one interception in the Lion’s victory. Yurichuk intercepted a crucial Ricky Ray pass at 13:16 of the first quarter, to help the Lions set the tone for the remainder of the game.

CFL

Lions, Als sweep week honours

Mickelson kicks in for Padres

THE ASSOCIATED PRESSA group headed by

former Los Angeles Dodgers owner Peter O’Malley and includ-ing pro golfer Phil Mickelson reached agreement Monday to buy the San Diego Padres from John Moores.

The purchase price is believed to be around US$800 million.

O’Malley is the son of Walter O’Malley, who bought the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1950 and moved them to Los Angeles before the 1958 season.

“An agreement has been confirmed but is not yet finalized. It has to be voted on,” Padres senior vice-president, public affairs Sarah Farnsworth said after San Diego beat the Chicago Cubs 2-0 Monday night.

Major League Baseball owners must approve the agreement. They are scheduled to meet later this month.

U-T San Diego first reported Monday night that a purchase agree-ment had been signed.

The purchase price apparently includes the $200 million in upfront money the Padres received from Fox Sports San Diego in a $1.2 billion, 30-year TV deal.

The agreement

came months after Jeff Moorad’s attempt to buy the team on a layaway plan fell apart. Moores’ deal with Moorad, who began his attempted purchase of the club in 2009, was valued at about $500 million.

The price for this sale was inflated thanks to the deal with Fox and the recent sale of the Dodgers for $2 billion.

Moores’ divorce forced him to put the team on the market in 2009.

Moores had owned 51 per cent of the team while a minority group, once controlled by Moorad and then by local businessman Ron Fowler, owned 49 per cent. Fowler is expected to join the O’Malley group.

Fans hope a change in owners can turn around the Padres, who regularly have had one of baseball’s low-est payrolls and have largely struggled since reaching the 1998 World Series.

The Padres are 47-64 this season.

Moores, the owner since December 1994, slashed the player pay-roll both in 1999, while the club waited for voter-approved Petco Park to open, and again as he went through his divorce.

BASEBALL

LEISURE

Dear Annie: My wife and I have a 23-year-old son who is a heroin addict. “Rob” has been to rehab twice and has relapsed again. We have been attending Nar-Anon meetings for the past eight weeks and find them help-ful. Rob seemingly has not hit rock bottom yet. By that, I mean he still has some income due to odd jobs and unemployment bene-fits. The latter are from a well-paying job that he lost for obvious rea-sons, and they won’t last much longer. He has a prescription for Suboxone that he gets from a doctor who periodically tests him for drugs. He also sees a psychologist once a month as a part of his treatment. Yet he is still using occasionally.

From our Nar-Anon meetings, we are learn-ing that others have it much worse. We also are learning that we are textbook enablers. My wife manages his finances and dispenses

his Suboxone, and we allow Rob to live with us, making sure he is fed and clothed.

Nar-Anon says to cut all ties until he gets clean. But we are afraid that he will go off the deep end, and we would lose him for-ever. This kind of tough love scares me. As bad as things are, we are afraid to put the ham-mer down and throw him out. We also have two younger children, and this isn’t doing them any good. What do you think? -- Dad in Wisconsin

Dear Dad: It is heartbreaking and ter-rifying to watch your child descend into drug addiction. There is a

real risk to your son’s life, whether or not you enable him. Many par-ents have to reach the end of their rope before they are able to toss their child out and live with the consequences. You aren’t there yet. Please continue with Nar-Anon and encour-age Rob to remain in therapy and to keep seeing his doctor, and if possible, get him into a halfway house so he is not under your roof

Dear Annie: I have a question regarding bridal shower etiquette. My brother recently became engaged to his girlfriend. Would it be appropriate to host a bridal shower for my future sister-in-law? -- California

Dear California: While it used to be improper for rela-tives to host a shower (too self-serving), it is now OK to do so, especially if the bride lives far away. And if you can include some of the bride’s friends as hostesses to spread the

responsibility around, that would help.

Dear Annie: Your response to “Alone in Minnesota” was right on track: Her hus-band is a coward and an abuser. Marriage is about respecting each other, and by letting his mother keep her away all these years, he clearly does not respect his wife.

When we mar-ried, my husband was 27 and I was 20. I knew my mother-in-law interfered in her daughters’ marriages and wondered what she would do to us. It took four months. She insisted that we pur-chase Christmas gifts for my husband’s nieces and nephews when we were struggling to pay bills.

When I told my hus-band about this con-versation, he immedi-ately got into his car and drove to see Mom. I have no idea what he said to her, but she did not make any attempt to interfere in our

marriage for 20 years. Then my in-laws want-ed me to talk to my husband’s sister and convince her to divorce her husband. I refused and again told my hus-band. He had another “visit” with his parents, and they didn’t speak

to him for six months. We now have spent

42 years together, and every day is more won-derful than the last. -- Loved and Respected in Michigan

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy

Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers col-umn. Please email your questions to annies-mailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

TODAY’S CROSSWORD

SOLUTION FOR YESTERDAY’S SUDOKU

Sudoku is a number-plac-ing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with several given numbers. The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so that each row, each col-umn and each 3x3 box contains the same num-ber only once. The diffi-culty level of the Conceptis Sudoku increases from Monday to Friday.

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LEISURE

For Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Family relations are very sweet and friendly today. You also enjoy doing any kind of redecorating at home, because it will please you to make things look more beau-tiful. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Today it’s easy to appreci-ate just how much love there is in your daily world. In fact, you also might appreci-ate how much beauty there is around you. How cool is that? GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) If shopping today, beware of spending too much on elegant luxury. Of course, if you’re part of the 1 percent and have the dough to blow, that’s your business. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Today you feel unusually sympathetic. Because of this, your relations with others

will be full of tenderness and understanding. It’s a good day to mend broken fences. LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) You feel pleased with your-self today. Because this is like approving of yourself, it’s easier for you to approve of others. (This is how it always works.) VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Friendships are sweet and reassuring today. You feel grateful to have someone you can turn to. Just be careful you don’t idealize this friend who is also a frail mortal like you. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) You might develop a crush on a boss, authority figure or even a distant celebrity today. This attraction is not grounded in reality, which makes it particularly seduc-tive. SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Travel for pleasure totally

appeals to you today. If you have a chance to travel any-where, grab it. Your appreci-ation of beauty also is height-ened. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Because you have feel-ings of sympathy for the underdog today, be careful that you don’t give away the farm. Meanwhile, romantic intimacy will be sweet and tender (and memorable).

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) It’s easy to relate to others today. You have a sense of where they are coming from, and vice versa, which makes a mutual understanding eas-ier. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Look for ways to help co-workers if you can today. Someone needs to confide in you, or a person needs your assistance. (This could also

be vice versa.) PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Love at first sight might take place for some of you. It’s very easy to be starry-eyed about someone, because you have Vaseline on your lens today. YOU BORN TODAY You are convincing and a tower of strength to those around you. You are courageous and determined once you have set your goals. You like to be

well-prepared and will edu-cate yourself for any endeav-or. (You do your homework.) You are also a giving, gen-erous person. Work hard to build or construct some-thing this year because your rewards soon will follow. Birthdate of: Whitney Houston, singer/actress; Sam Elliott, actor; Kevin McKidd, actor. (c) 2012 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

TUNDRA

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DILBERT

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Shavers BenchLovingly cared for family home in a great location of Shavers Bench. Four bedrooms, rec room, underground sprinklers, single garage, must see.$169,900

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FruitvaleLarge family home on an unbelievable piece of land. 1.63 acres, right in town. Great parking, new kitchen. Well worth a look.$359,000

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MontroseThis 3 bedroom home is in a great location, plus there is room for all of your toys!

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESSPASADENA, Calif. -

NASA’s Curiosity rover has transmitted its first colour photo and a low-resolution video showing the last 2 1/2 minutes of its dra-matic dive through the Martian atmosphere, giving a sneak peek of a spacecraft landing on another world.

As thumbnails of the video flashed on a big screen on Monday, scientists and engin-eers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory let out “oohs” and “aahs.” The recording began with the protect-ive heat shield falling away and ended with dust being kicked up as the rover was lowered by cables inside an ancient crater.

It was a sneak pre-view, since it’ll take some time before full-resolution frames are beamed back.

The full video “will just be exquisite,” said Michael Malin, the chief scientist of the instrument.

The first colour photo from the crater where Curiosity landed showed a pebbly land-scape and the rim of Gale Crater off in the distance. Curiosity snapped the photo on its first day on the surface after touching down Sunday night.

The rover took the shot with a camera at the end of its robotic arm. The landscape looked fuzzy because the camera’s removable cover was coated with dust that kicked up dur-ing the descent.

NASA celebrated the precision landing of a rover on Mars and mar-veled over the mission’s flurry of photographs - grainy, black-and-white images of Martian grav-el, a mountain at sun-set and, most exciting of all, the spacecraft’s plunge through the red planet’s atmosphere.

Curiosity is the heav-iest piece of machinery NASA has landed on Mars, and the success gave the space agency confidence that it can unload equipment that astronauts may need in a future manned trip to the red planet.

The roving lab-oratory, the size of a compact car, landed right on target after an eight-month, 352-mil-lion-mile (566-million-kilometre) journey. It

parked its six wheels about four miles (6 kilometres) from its ultimate science des-tination - Mount Sharp, rising from the floor of Gale Crater near the equator.

E x t r a o r d i n a r y efforts were needed for the landing because the rover weighs one ton, and the thin Martian

atmosphere offers little friction to slow down a spacecraft. Curiosity had to go from 13,000 mph (21,000 kph) to zero in seven minutes, unfurling a parachute, then firing rockets to brake. In a Hollywood-style finish, cables deli-cately lowered it to the ground at 2 mph (3 kph).

At the end of what NASA called “seven minutes of terror,” the vehicle settled into place almost perfectly flat in the crater it was aiming for.

“We have ended one phase of the mis-sion much to our enjoy-ment,” mission man-ager Mike Watkins said. “But another part

has just begun.”The nuclear-pow-

ered Curiosity will dig into the surface to analyze and hunt for some of the molecular building blocks of life, including carbon.

It won’t start mov-ing for a couple of weeks, because all the systems on the $2.5 billion rover have to be checked out. Color photos and panoramas will start coming in the next few days. But first NASA had to use tiny cameras designed to spot hazards in front of Curiosity’s wheels. So early images of gravel and shadows abound-ed. The pictures were fuzzy, but scientists were delighted.

The photos show “a new Mars we have never seen before,” Watkins said. “So every one of those pictures is the most beautiful pic-ture I have ever seen.”

In one of the photos from the close-to-the-ground hazard cam-eras, if you squinted and looked the right way, you could see “a silhouette of Mount Sharp in the setting sun,” said an excited John Grotzinger, chief mission scientist from the California Institute of Technology.

A high-resolu-tion camera on the orbiting 7-year-old Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, flying 211 miles (340 kilometres) directly above the plummeting Curiosity,

snapped a photo of the rover dangling from its parachute about a minute from touch-down. The parachute’s design can be made out in the photo.

“It’s just mind-boggling to me,” said Miguel San Martin, chief engineer for the landing team.

The landing tech-nique was created in 1999 in the wake of devastating back-to-back Mars spacecraft losses. Back then, engineers had no clue

how to land super-heavy spacecraft. They brainstormed different possibilities, consulting Apollo-era engineers and pilots of heavy-lift helicopters.

“I think its engineer-ing at its finest. What engineers do is they make the impossible possible,” said former NASA chief technolo-gist Bobby Braun. “This thing is elegant. People say it looks crazy. Each system was designed for a very specific func-tion.”

NASA’s Curiosity beams back first colour picture of Mars

(AP PHOTO/DAMIAN DOVARGANES)

Ken Edgett, Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) principal investigator, Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, describes the first color view of the north wall and rim of Gale Crater where NASA’s rover Curiosity landed Sunday night, during a news briefing at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., Tuesday. The picture displayed was taken by the rover’s camera at the end of its stowed robotic arm and appears fuzzy because of dust on the camera’s cover.

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371 Murray Drive, Warfield $425,000

One of the area’s finest! This amazing 4 bdrm home features inlaid oak floors,

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2480 St. Paul Street, Rossland $269,000

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115 Pine Avenue, Fruitvale $459,000

Wow! This 4 bdrm family home features a gourmet kitchen with granite counter

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2061 McLeod Avenue, Rossland $375,000

This substantially renovated home features brand new kitchen with granite counter tops, wood stove, new windows

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204 MacLure Avenue, Salmo $284,000

Nicely maintained family home on 0.58 acres. Home features 3 bdrms, 1.5 baths, newer gas furnace and new flooring and paint on the main floor. The yard is treed and private, and there is plenty of room

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2740 Tamarack Avenue, Rossland

$339,000 4-level split 4 bdrm 2½ bath home is located in Pinewood. 200sqft deck,

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1771 First Avenue, Rossland $209,500

Looking for complete privacy in Rossland? Want to be a 3 minute walk to Idgie’s and the Steam Shovel? How about your own

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NELSON – The third annual western toadlet event - Toadfest - will occur at Summit Lake Provincial Park, just southeast of Nakusp, on Aug. 22, between 4 p.m. and 7p.m., and Aug. 23, between 9 a.m. and noon.

The free community event, to help a few toadlets safely across the highway, has quickly become one of the highlight summer activ-ities to do for many families in the Kootenay region.

The event is coordinated by the Fish and Wildlife Compensation Program (FWCP), with support from B.C. Parks, the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations (FLNRO), the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (BCMOT), and Columbia Basin Trust.

“The timing of the event is right at the start of the annual toadlet migration so we can’t guarantee numbers, and the emphasis is on education and awareness about

this important western toad breed-ing area,” said Trevor Oussoren, program manager for the FWCP in the Columbia region.

“The event provides an oppor-tunity to talk to biologists, under-stand the life cycle of the western toad, and learn about other spe-cies in the watershed – and of course to have lots of fun in the process, as there will be games and live music as well!”

In addition to being able to find toadlets and carry them safely across the highway, there will be other activities to see and do, including live aquatic insects, amphibians, and reptiles on dis-play, information on invasive plants, face painting and a chance to explore a simulated “toad tun-nel.”

Every year tens of thousands of western toadlets, each not more than the size of a dime, get squashed as they attempt their first migration from the shoreline

of Summit Lake, across Highway 6, to upland habitat.

In 2006 the B.C. Ministry of Environment and BCMOT began to address the situation through the design and installation of directional fencing and culverts (“toad tunnels”) to safely guide the toads underneath the high-way. Project partners are currently working to monitor and evaluate their effectiveness.

“Summit Lake is one of the key breeding areas for western toads in the Kootenay region, if not the province,” said Arrow Area Supervisor for B.C. Parks, Chris Price. “We need to ensure that it remains that way for generations to come, and a key part in doing so is ensuring that local communities know what we have here.”

To ensure the safety of event participants, traffic control, donated by Yellowhead Road and Bridge (YRB), will be in place dur-ing the scheduled times, and driv-

ers can expect very minor delays. “We do not want anyone moving the toadlets outside of the organ-ized event,” added Oussoren.

Camping spaces at Summit Lake Provincial Park cannot be reserved. To learn more about

B.C. Parks, visit www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks. The event is free and containers for carrying the toadlets across the road will be provided. For more information about the event visit fwcp.ca or call 250-354-6333

Toadfest set for Summit Lake

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The total annual toadlet migration at Summit Lake is estimated to be in the millions.