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Roads and Grounds Superintendent Patrick Gauvreau surveyed repairs at the city’s longest staircase beside the bottle depot on Rossland Avenue. The city just approved a $50,000 increase to the public works budget for stair repair and maintenance, partly in preparation for a United Way fundraiser that has people climbing 1,501 stairs as part of a community race.
City readies staircases as event nearsB Y S H E R I R E G N I E R
Times StaffAs Storm the Stairs read-
ies for its fundraising day, so is the City of Trail.
This week, Trail council approved a $50,000 increase to the public works budget for stair repair and mainten-ance.
“This is to ensure that the city staircases will be able to safely accommodate a high-er volume of foot traffic,” explained Andrea Jolly, Trail’s communication and events coordinator. “In addition to the staircases’ daily use, it is planned that the staircases will be used for annual com-munity events.”
The money, which is being re-directed from the winter road sanding account, will be used to fix 12 covered
staircases and about 1,200 stairs throughout West Trail. Additionally, a July public works inspection found repairs are needed to leak-ing roofs, broken electrical conduit, and cracked con-crete as well as replacement of rotten stair stringers.
Minimizing impact to the historical stairways was also considered by Trail and District United Way, the organizers of the event.
Participants will be stag-gered when the race kicks off at 9 a.m, says Naomi McKimmie, executive direc-tor for the Trail-based char-ity.
High school kids and any-one else ready to break a sweat for a good cause are asked to join the Sept. 12 event.
The inaugural race is a means to invigorate the launch of United Way’s annual fundraising cam-paign.
So far, 12 people have signed up to climb 1,501 stairs, and walk or run through West Trail streets before heading back down to Rossland Avenue – but McKimmie is hoping for more participants.
Registration has been pushed back to a Sept. 9 deadline, so once vacation-ers get back to town and students start to think about sinking into their desks, chances are more fundrais-ers will jump aboard, she hopes.
“Any students out there looking for a little extra training at the beginning of
the year and wants to help out their community, please come out,” she said. “Help us help our communities. Monies raised will be re-invested back into our com-munities and in programs that serve our commun-ities.”
Teenagers 14 to 18 years are encouraged to race, pro-vided a parent or guardian signs a liability waiver giv-ing permission to partici-pate.
The top three prizes will go to the top three fund-raisers, not for whomever crosses the finish line first.
“It depends on the walk-ers or runners, but we believe the race will be done in two to three hours,” McKimmie said.
West Kootenay fires continue
to burn: centreB Y S H E R I R E G N I E R
Times StaffA wildfire near
Rossland and another burning north of Syringa campground added to the BC Forest Service’s ‘Wildfire of Note’ list Wednesday afternoon.
The two lightning-caused blazes up the number of active fires in the Southeast Fire Centre to five – four in the West Kootenay and one in Creston.
The Big Sheep Creek and Deer Creek Park fires have been burn-ing since Aug. 12 and Aug. 14 respectively, and these lightning-caused fires remain zero per cent contained.
The Big Sheep Creek fire, west of Rossland and 75 hectares, had air tankers assisting a 20-man ground crew Wednesday.
The fire wasn’t threatening any struc-tures or communities at press time, but smoke was visible to residents of Sheep Creek and Rossland.
The remote Deer Creek Park fire was reported to be 560 hec-tares, but only visible via smoke in Castlegar and surrounding areas.
Further west, an aggressive fire con-tinues to burn in the Paulson Pass. Suspected to be lightning-caused, the wildfire has grown to 260 hectares since Friday and remains zero per cent contained.
Two helicopters and six pieces of heavy equip-ment were on site along-side a 30-man crew, creating a fire guard
Wednesday afternoon.Highway 3 between
Nancy Greene junction and Christina Lake was closed Tuesday evening around 7 p.m. when the fire spread close to the roadway.
The 37-kilometer (km) stretch was re-opened the following morning, but was lim-ited to single-alternating traffic. Thick smoke and fallen debris cleared up by noon, and the high-way was opened in both directions, with motor-ists warned of 20-minute delays.
A water tender was patrolling the highway and spraying a 10-metre buffer between the area of concern and the side of the high-way, confirmed Fire Information Officer Karlie Shaughnessy, from the Southeast Fire Centre.
West of Rock Creek, about 4,300 hectares have been consumed by a fire sparked Aug. 13.
The larger estimated size on Wednesday was due to new growth on the southeast side of the valley, though the majority of the fire’s growth happened the initial day.
The Southeast Fire Centre reports 124 new fires since Aug. 12, most from recent lightning activity.
Locally, the most recent is a spot fire ignited by lightning Tuesday, about six km east of Fruitvale. Initial attack crews were on site Wednesday dealing with the fire, estimated to be well under one hectare.
STORM THE STAIRS
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‘WILDFIRE OF NOTE’
B y V a l e r i e r o s s iTimes Staff
A group of criminals are responsible for the rash of thefts in and around the Trail area, according to Cpl. Daryl Orr with the Trail & Greater District Detachment.
“We are working on iden-tifying and dismantling this group,” he added, noting that one man was picked up for some of these offences but it’s clear now that he’s not the only one involved.
Clayton Bone appeared in Nelson Provincial Court early this month and plead guilty to possession of a stolen vehicle, flight from police, and uttering threats to harm a police officer. The 28-year-old from Kimberley was sentenced to 15 months in jail.
Sgt. Darren Oelke assured
residents then that the dra-matic increase in property-related offences would sub-side since Bone’s arrest but that hasn’t been the case.
“Sorry but there are too many incidents to detail,
this isn’t abnormal, just too much info,” said Orr.
“This is abnormal for our area but not unheard of,” he added. “In the past we have encountered and arrested groups operating in this way.
We hope to do the same to this group and we are dedicating resources in this regard.”
Police are reminding the public to be diligent with locking their cars.
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Crews from Canadian Pacific Railway were at the Rivervale train crossing Wednesday, repairing and levelling out the tracks. The railway was originally built from Eastern Canada and B.C. between 1881 and 1885, fulfilling a promise extended to British Columbia when it entered Confederation in 1871. Primarily a freight railway, the CPR was for decades the only practical means of long-distance passenger transport in most regions of Canada, and was instrumental in the settlement and development of Western Canada.
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“But there’s all kinds of possibilities to participate.”
The community is invited to the 11 a.m. block party at the Rossland Avenue site, where the top three fundraisers will be celebrated at 11:30 a.m.
“We’ll have free activities for the kids, live music, raffles and a few vendors,” she said, adding that $5 will cover a barbeque lunch of either a hot dog, hamburger, or smokie. “And for those who love fried
onions, we are going to have those too.”To register, visit traildistrictunitedway.
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Those wishing to donate to the United Way campaign, can visit yodel.org and give directly to the organization or race participants.
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B y A n d r e w T r i p pBoundary Creek TimesThe Rock Creek/
Westbridge fire con-tinues to burn, though is reportedly now 25 per cent contained. According to BC Wildfire, the fire’s growth has slowed in recent days, though its size neared 4,300 hectares by Wednesday afternoon.
The fire began on August 13 at approxi-mately 1:30pm. Its origin has been identi-fied as the sharp high-way curve known as Bishops Bend, which is at the beginning of the long climb toward the Anarchist Summit, and is suspected to be human-caused.
The fire moved rapidly and destructive-ly, consuming 14 kilo-metersin approximate-ly five hours. At last report it had reached approximately two km beyond the Christian Valley junction.
According to eye-witnesses, another fire erupted approximately two hours after the start of the initial blaze, close to Rock Creek’s hub, and merged with that already ascending the tinder-dry moun-tainside Hulme Creek resident Nick Bond described the flames at one point as “Hiroshima-like.”
As the fire burned out of control, evacua-tion orders were quick-ly put in place, forcing residents to flee with any possessions they could gather and, just as importantly for many, get their animals together as best they could and attempt to get them to safety. The corridor that the fire was ravaging, primarily on the west side of the Kettle River, is made up
largely of ranch land, home to thousands of domestic animals as well as hundreds of pets. Many simply opened their gates to allow their animals to flee independently, pro-viding them with the only chance at survival they might have.
Many residents refused to leave their properties, instead choosing to battle the fires themselves. While authorities are highly critical of such actions, some residents’ efforts resulted in dwellings being saved.
On Tuesday, some residents were bussed into the fire zone to view the devastation. For most, it was a hor-rific experience, as they witnessed the loss of their own houses and those of neighbours and friends.
It has, disappoint-ingly, been announced that those who did not have private insurance will likely not be eli-gible to receive disas-ter assistance from the provincial government.
“Legislated rules govern who can access the province’s disaster financial assistance”, said Forests Minister Steve Thomson. “Fire is an insurable risk, so it’s not directly eligible under the program,” he said.
In other words, because homeowners and renters can get personal insurance to cover fire damage, the province is highly unlikely to cover the losses.
With continued hot and dry condi-tions forecasted, one of the worst wildfires ever witnessed in the region appears likely to continue for weeks to come.
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Hulme Creek resident Nick Bond stands above his scorched pasture caused by the 4.000 hectare Rock Creek fire. Thanks to the speedy response by a group of Bridesville residents, his own residence was saved. Below, smoke billows from the blaze.
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Auditor general for local government, designed to fail?
Last week the Union of B.C. Municipalities released its report on the operations of
B.C.’s Auditor General for Local Government (AGLG).
It paints a less than flat-tering picture of the office. No big surprise given that the UBCM was hardly a fan of the auditor general con-cept in the first place.
The report’s findings are based on a survey of 17 communities that had audit contact with the AGLG.
They didn’t pull any punches in their observa-tions: “uninformed, obvious confusion, disarray, fails to meet deadlines, disorgan-ized, mishandles informa-tion.”
Pile-ons are easier when the opponent seems down for the count.
There is something puzzling about the report. You’re left with the impres-sion that this whole auditor general idea happened in a vacuum.
From the report: “While it may be possible to renew the operational approach of the AGLG to better serve local governments, it is unlikely this will be achieved without substan-tive consultation...”
Consultation certainly wasn’t lacking when the
AGLG developed its annual service plans in 2013.
The UBCM executive met B.C.’s first auditor gen-eral for local government, Basia Ruta, at its January 2013 meeting, just a week after she was appointed to the job.
They met again in February and in March at the UBCM’s regional dis-trict CAO/chairs meeting.
The AGLG held a two-day strategic planning workshop that April with key stakeholders, including the UBCM, local govern-ment associations and per-formance audit experts.
There was a one-day performance audit plan-ning workshop with senior staff from 20 local govern-ments, which was followed
by an online audit planning survey sent to every single chief administrative officer in the province.
The themes that were to emerge from those con-sultations were intended to guide “the selection of future performance aud-its.”
One of the themes was emergency management and protective services, which included police ser-vices.
If the UBCM survey is any indication, that one hit a nerve.
One community with RCMP policing commented that since they had very lit-tle discretion over the terms of their policing contract, “the AGLG is not quite sure how to assess our situation.”
Another claimed that the “auditors appeared to have very little background information regarding municipal police unit agreements.”
If policing was going to be so problematic, why didn’t someone catch it earlier on in the consulta-tions before it was assigned as an audit topic?
There’s a wee bit of the pot calling the kettle black in the survey as well.
The AGLG’s high staff turnover rate was singled
out for criticism. Yet, of the 17 local governments in the survey, nine saw their chief administrative officer (CAO) depart in the same time period.
The cost to local gov-ernments of fulfilling audit requirements was con-sidered “substantive.”
Fourteen of the local governments came up with an estimated average cost of $12,378.
Should they be so stingy when it comes to six-figure CAO severance cheques.
When asked to comment on the value of the three reports publicly available during the survey, only two of the 17 agreed they pro-vided “valuable informa-tion that will contribute to the improvement of their operations.”
No question about it, Rossland’s nose was out of joint over the audit of their procurement practices.
Here’s how Adrian Barnes, editor of the Rossland Telegraph, summed up the city’s press release: “a sort of dark masterpiece of failed deflection. It’s like some-thing from an episode of House Of Cards as penned by the peevish teenaged son or daughter of one of that show’s writers.”
And the other two com-munities?
In Sechelt, the AGLG took a look at how plans for a new wastewater treat-ment plant and a road pav-ing project were handled.
Mayor Bruce Milne was appreciative: “Sechelt is now able to benefit from an independent review that shows us where adjust-ments and improvements are needed.”
In Dawson Creek, the AGLG did an audit of pro-curement practices related to the Calvin Kruk Centre for the Arts.
Mayor Dale Bumstead noted the city received “tremendous value” from the audit, adding: “We had actually expected to have to engage consultant exper-tise to develop a (capital assets) framework, which the report provides for free.”
Since the Kruk Centre came in $7.63 million over budget and three years late a free framework can’t hurt.
Interestingly enough that cost overrun alone would have covered the AGLG’s annual budget for three years.
Dermod Travis is execu-tive director of IntegrityBC. www.integritybc.ca
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Protesters thronged Brazil’s cities on Sunday demanding the impeachment of Brazil’s
President Dilma Rousseff, narrowly elected to a second term just last October, but not one of them made any refer-ence to the Peter Principle. But if Rousseff were a senior man-ager in any bureaucracy, public or private, it would surely have been noticed by now that she has been promoted to her “level of incompetence.”
We owe the insight that “managers rise to the level of their incompetence” to Dr Laurence J Peter, who pointed out half a century ago that people are promoted on the basis of their success in their last job, not their aptitude for the next one. Eventually, inevitably, they are promot-ed into a job they are not equipped to do well. Even if they are not your conventional kind of manager.
Dilma Rousseff was a success as a left-wing guer-illa fighting Brazil’s military regime in the 1980s: captured and tortured for three days, she never said a word. She was a success as the chief of staff to Brazil’s first working-class president, Luis Inacio “Lula” da Silva, in 2003-2010. She was a political success in get-ting elected as Lulu’s succes-sor in 2010, and was re-elected in a tight race last year. But being a president herself is not part of her skills set.
Two years ago Rousseff had an approval rating of 66 per-cent. According to the most recent Datafolha poll, only 8 percent of the population now gives her a positive assessment, while 71 percent disapprove of her performance. Indeed, two-thirds of those polled believe that Congress should impeach her and remove her from power.
Part of the problem is the
economy. Since it peaked in 2010 at 7 percent, Brazil’s economic growth rate has plunged. This year the econ-omy is predicted to shrink by 2 percent. It’s not all Rousseff’s fault: the worldwide collapse in commodity prices has hit Brazil particularly hard. But in practice, the government in power at the time gets the blame.
An even bigger bigger prob-lem for Rousseff is the legal investigation codenamed Lava Jato (Car Wash). The biggest corruption scandal in Brazil’s rather impressive history of such things, it involves an esti-mated $22 billion in “suspi-cious contracts” going back for almost two decades involving Petrobras, Latin America’s lar-gest oil company.
Some of it involved graft for personal enrichment, but most of it appears to be money skimmed off government con-tracts to pay for election cam-paigns and other party political activities. Since the governing parties for most of this period have been Rousseff’s Workers’ Party and its parliamentary coalition partner, the Brazilian Democratic Movement, sev-eral dozen senior politicians from both parties have been arrested.
On the other hand, there is no charge against Rousseff that
could justify an impeachment. Even in the absence of such a charge, a two-thirds majority in Congress could theoretic-ally impeach her, but no such majority can be achieved in the current Congress.
So Rousseff can just tough it out, and so far she has done just that. Sunday’s big demos were mostly attended by white, middle-class people who prob-ably never voted for her any-way. Her own constituency of poorer Brazilians, although angry about her austerity measures and rising inflation, have not yet come out in the streets against her.
That could change if the economic situation gets even worse. A major slowdown in China, Brazil’s biggest export market, could spell big trouble for Rousseff. So long as no evidence emerges that clearly links her to the corruption at Petrobras, however, she can probably stay in office until her term ends in 2018. What she cannot do is restore popu-lar confidence in her leader-ship.
She doesn’t lack the intel-ligence or the experience to be an effective president, and most of the time she gets her economic and social priorities right. There is no reason to believe that Lula, the man who finally brought change for the better in the eyes of poor Brazilians, would have coped any better with the economic headwinds that Rousseff has been struggling with. But he would still be popular, and she is definitely not.
She tries hard, but it just doesn’t work. She has been promoted to her level of (pol-itical) incompetence, and it is going to be a long three years for her and for Brazil.
Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.
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Though she has been ply-ing her trade for more than a decade, it hasn’t always been easy on the jobsite frontlines for the journeyperson electri-cian.
“As a woman in trades, I still encounter the old-school attitude where some men wonder what you are doing on the job,” says Hamilton. “You have to prove yourself even that much more, but the men-tality is changing and that needs to happen with every-one. We are just as capable in the trades and in some cases women can excel at them.”
Now an Electrical Instructor at Selkirk College, Hamilton has been charged with leading a special cohort through an exploration of trades this fall. In partner-ship with the Greater Trail Community Skills Centre, Selkirk College is offering a special Trades Discovery Program for Women. The 14-week program with a two-week job shadow component provides women the oppor-tunity to check out many dif-ferent elements of the trades, get hands-on experience, and gain exposure to a variety of worksites and employers.
“The need for qualified tradespeople will continue to be a constant in our econ-omy,” says Kate Pelletier, Dean of the Selkirk College School of Industry & Trades Training. “With such a demand for skilled workers, it doesn’t make sense that women—who make up half the popula-tion—are barely represented. They need to be encouraged to take a look at the trades as a potential career choice. The goal of this program is to introduce women to the trades who show interest, but perhaps lack the confidence to dive right in.”
The Get It Done AttitudeHamilton grew up in
Deep Cove near Vancouver and describes her family as the un-handiest people she knows. After high school, Hamilton pointed herself in the direction of a Bachelor of Arts degree and attended the
University of Victoria. Finding it wasn’t for her, she switched gears and went to chef school. Fifteen years ago she moved to Nelson and while working in area ski lodges started to take a look at new directions.
A friend who was work-ing as a first year electric-al apprentice pushed her towards the trades because of the long-term pros-pects and she enrolled in Selkirk College’s Electrical Foundation Program.
“I really didn’t know what an electrician did and had never had any experience with power tools,” she says. “So I came into the program as the only woman in the class with zero experience… it was very intimidating.”
What she lacked in back-ground knowledge, Hamilton made up with in determina-tion. Still, the first few months were difficult.
“A lot of it was in my head because nobody wants to be the worst in the class,” says Hamilton. “Everything was new to me… going back to school, the power tools, the work required to be success-ful.”
Hamilton completed the Electrical Foundation Program with a newfound con-fidence, solid grades and pros-pects for a bright future. She then moved her way through four years of apprenticeship, working on local jobsites and returning to Selkirk College for the education component of the process which culmin-ated with attaining her inter-provincial Red Seal ticket.
Despite the qualifica-tions, top-notch skills and solid work ethic, Hamilton continued to find working in a male-dominated industry tough.
“Whether or not you are good at your trade, you will
stand out in a jobsite because you are not the norm,” she says. “So of course it’s a chal-lenge, but it’s rewarding when they realize you can do it and you gain that respect.”
A Great Opportunity for Women
The Trades Discovery Program for Women is being offered in collaboration with the Greater Trail Community Skills Centre and runs October 26, 2015 to February 12, 2016 at the college’s Silver King Campus in Nelson. A few years ago, Hamilton worked on a similar initiative called Skilled Trades Exploratory Program (STEP) for Women where she taught the elec-trical portion of the program. This time she will be leading students through the entire scope with help from the Skills Centre and her peers at Selkirk College in carpen-try, welding, metal fabrication and machinist/millwright.
“I’m excited about the pos-sibilities in the trades and the chance to share them with women,” says Hamilton. “There are so many avenues to pursue and once you get that ticket, the opportunities are endless.”
The program will be split between Trail and Nelson with the first three weeks in Trail and the shop por-tions in Nelson. Students will explore the trades with hands-on activities and exposure to actual worksites.
They will learn what aca-demic skills are required if they want to pursue trades training as well as what employers are looking for in future workers. The class will also provide employable skills in fall protection, con-fined space and forklift oper-ations—skills that are use-ful on many jobsites. At the conclusion of the program, participants will have a better understanding of their indi-vidual strengths and possible pathways for further explora-tion.
The tuition for the Trades Discovery Program for Women is $800 and funding may be available for those who are eligible by contacting Jaime Malcolm at the Greater Trail Skills Centre at 250.368.6360. To find out more about the program call 250.354.3204.
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Julie-Claire Hamilton, Selkirk College Electrical Foundation Program instructor, will be leading the Trades Discovery Program for Women that begins on Oct. 26.
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BY JIM BAILEYTimes Sports Editor
About 40 players will hit Cominco Arena ice on Monday for the Trail Smoke Eaters train-ing camp in preparation of its 20th season in the BCHL.
The team is already in a better position than last year when coach Nick Deschenes and assistants Craig Clare and Barry Zanier had to start from scratch. With only four returnees, the Smokies brought in 18 new players last season, so to begin their 20th BCHL campaign with over 10 returning players is a step in the right direction.
“We have our goaltend-ing situation sorted,” said Deschenes. “At forwards we have some pretty good depth, and on defence we have a few good pieces that are coming back and we’re just waiting to see how everyone prepared themselves, and have they elevated their games through training (in the summer).”
With the graduation of goal-tender Adam Todd, the Smokies signed 20-year-old Bailey MacBurnie of Beverly, Mass. and 17-year-old six-foot-three back-up Linden Marshall of Victoria to tend the nets.
The Smokies also have four returning defenceman including Trail native Jeremy Lucchini, and up to seven returning for-wards, along with quality post-season acquisitions like Kolby Livingstone, Rhett Wilcox, Jake Kauppila and former Beaver Valley Nitehawk Kurt Black.
“We made some pretty key trades and brought in some
experienced veterans that are going to give the team a differ-ent identity,” said Deschenes. “We’re only going to have, I think, four scholarships to start the year, so we’re going have a whole boat load of players knocking on the door and look-ing for that opportunity.”
In addition, the team also announced the acquisition of Toronto native Quinn Syrydiuk, a six-foot, 172 pound forward who played with the Toronto Lakeshore Panthers of the Ontario Junior Hockey League for the past two years. Syrydiuk, a versatile forward, netted 14 goals and 33 points with the Panthers in 49 games, and played in the 2014 RBC Cup.
“The opportunity came up and its hard to pass on a player of this calibre,” said Deschenes. “He’s been a part of two cham-pionship teams in the OJHL . . . He had a solid playoff and had 15 points in 20 games for them. He’s capable of playing wing and centre, and to keep up with everyone else in our division we have to find the best players.”
The Smokies will also see Montrose native Spencer McLean and Rossland’s Ross Armour round out the local contingent of players. Both played Affiliate Player roles with the Smokies last year and were impressive in their perform-ances. As for returning play-ers, Deschenes is expecting big things from Max Newton who scored 17 of his 24 points in the final 22 games, and Lucchini can also look forward to a bigger role on the back end.
“A lot of guys are poised for breakout seasons, so if every-
one breaks out then we’re in the running, but if we stumble a bit, we’re going to have to change things quickly, and not let the lapse happened that did in December of last year.”
Deschenes also hopes to identify potential Smoke Eaters at the camp, giving a confident nod to Trail’s Ethan Martini, a 14-year-old defenceman who played with Edge School Bantam Prep last season in Calgary.
With a strong core of returning players, quality off-season acquisitions, and solid goaltending, the Smoke Eaters chances, at least early on, look good, but as for competing for a playoff spot in the always tough Interior division - never an easy prospect.
“It’s the million dollar ques-tion,” said Deschenes. “With the group we had last year, I thought we had some really good pieces in play, and at time showed our potential and that we were def-initely capable of more last year as a group and it just never played out.
“This year we have a differ-ent make up, a different identity and we’ll see. This will be year two. The test as a coach is that we brought in a lot of players and they’re carrying over and hopefully everything, our pro-gram, has gotten them to a place where they are going to have a good impact this year.”
The camp gets underway on Monday starting with practice at 10 a.m. and game going 7-9:30 p.m. at the Cominco Arena. The camp goes at the same times for Tuesday, with the final Black and Orange game dropping the puck on Wednesday at 10 a.m.
B C H LOne of the top prospects for the
2016 NHL Draft, Penticton Vees forward Tyson Jost, has committed to the University of North Dakota for the 2016-17.
Jost made the announcement Monday afternoon via social media.
“Excited to announce I will play for @UNDmhockey in 16/17,” wrote Jost on his Twitter account, @josty_17. “Thank you to my family, @PentictonVees @OkanaganRockets & @POE_Hockey #support.”
Jost, 17, will captain the Vees in the 2015-16 season before heading to Grand Forks, N.D. next fall.
He was named one of the top players to watch for the 2016 NHL Draft by NHL Central Scouting and his commitment comes on the heels of winning a gold medal with Team Canada at the Under-18 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Cup last week in the Czech Republic.
The centre had a terrific rookie campaign with the Vees, finishing
fourth in team scoring in the regu-lar season, with 23 goals and 45 points in 46 games; the 23 goals were tied for a team best. Jost’s first season in the BCHL earned him a spot on the BCHL All-Rookie team.
He also impressed in the posts-eason, scoring a team best 10 goals in the Vees run to a BCHL Fred Page Cup Championship. He was the top scorer at the Crescent Point Energy Western Canada Cup (WCC) in Fort McMurray, Alta. and was named the tournament’s Top Forward after scoring five goals in six games as the Vees won their first ever WCC title. He had another four points in five games at the RBC Cup in Portage la Prairie, Man. helping lead the Vees to a semifinal berth.
Jost is the fourth player on the Vees’ roster committed to UND. The other three are returning defence-man Gabe Bast, defenceman Colton Poolman and forward Dixon Bowen.
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The Trail Smoke Eaters Max Newton will look for a breakout year as a returning player, as the Smokies get set to kick off its 2015 season with training camp starting on Monday.
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CFLAll Times Eastern
East Division GP W L T PtHamilton 7 5 2 0 10Toronto 7 5 2 0 10Ottawa 7 4 3 0 8Montreal 7 2 5 0 4 West Division GP W L T PtCalgary 7 5 2 0 10Edmonton 7 5 2 0 10B.C. 7 3 4 0 6Winnipeg 8 3 5 0 6Sask 7 0 7 0 0
WEEK EIGHTBye: SaskatchewanSaturday’s resultsHamilton 52 B.C. 22Calgary 48 Ottawa 3
Friday’s resultToronto 27 Winnipeg 20
Thursday’s resultEdmonton 15 Montreal 12
WEEK NINEBye: Winnipeg
Thursday, August 20Montreal at B.C., 10 p.m.
Friday, August 21Hamilton at Edmonton, 9 p.m.
Saturday, August 22Calgary at Saskatchewan, 7
p.m.Sunday, August 23
Ottawa at Toronto, 4 p.m.
Unofficial 2015 CFL scoring leaders through Week Eight
(x-scored two-point convert): Top 20 in scoring TD C FG S PtJMedlock, Ham 0 24 16 4 76G.Shaw, Edm 0 14 16 6 68R.Leone, BC 0 11 15 6 62B.Bede, Mtl 0 9 16 5 62Hajrullahu, Wpg 0 9 14 5 56McCallum, Sask 0 9 14 1 52R.Pfeffer, Tor 0 11 12 2 49R.Paredes, Cgy 0 9 12 4 49x-.Rogers, Cgy 6 2 0 0 38D.Alvarado, Ott 0 4 11 0 37A.Harris, BC 6 0 0 0 36T.Gurley, Tor 5 0 0 0 30K.Stafford, Edm 5 0 0 0 30x-Marshall, Wpg 4 4 0 0 28x-A.Collie, BC 4 2 0 0 26x-Getzlaf, Sask 4 2 0 0 26
x-B.Grant, Ham 4 2 0 0 26B.Banks, Ham 4 0 0 0 24Lawrence, Edm 4 0 0 0 24E.Jackson, Ott 4 0 0 0 24
NFLExhibition GamesThursday, Aug. 20
Detroit at Washington, 7:30 p.m.
Buffalo at Cleveland, 8 p.m.Friday, Aug. 21
Atlanta at N.Y. Jets, 7:30 p.m.Seattle at Kansas City, 8 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 22Baltimore at Philadelphia,
7 p.m.Miami at Carolina, 7 p.m.
New England at New Orleans, 7:30 p.m.
Chicago at Indianapolis, 7:30 p.m.
Jacksonville at N.Y. Giants, 7:30 p.m.
Oakland at Minnesota, 8 p.m.Denver at Houston, 8 p.m.
San Diego at Arizona, 10 p.m.Sunday, Aug. 23
Green Bay at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.
Dallas at San Francisco, 8 p.m.
St. Louis at Tennessee, 8 p.m.Monday, Aug. 24
Cincinnati at Tampa Bay, 8 p.m.
GolfPGA TOUR
WYNDHAM CHAMPIONSHIPSite: Greensboro, North
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Purse: $5.4 million. Winner’s share: $972,000.
Last year: Camilo Villegas closed with a 7-under 63 for a
one-stroke victory.Last week: Australia’s
Jason Day won the PGA Championship at Whistling
Straits in Wisconsin for his first major title. He finished at 20 under to break the record for major championships. Jordan
Spieth was second, three strokes back. He took the No.
1 spot in the world.
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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SSURREY, B.C. - Alex Hoffman-Ellis
has been waiting a long time to get his first CFL start, but he didn’t want the opportunity to come this way.
The 26-year-old Hoffman-Ellis will start in place of injured linebacker Solomon Elimimian, the 2014 CFL Most Outstanding Player and Defensive Player of the Year, as the B.C. Lions host the Montreal Alouettes on Thursday.
“It’s bittersweet, because Solly is not only a great football player and a great leader, but a great guy,” said Hoffman-Ellis. “The only sweet part out of it is, I get to showcase (myself). Guys play football to get out on the field.”
Hoffman-Ellis has platooned at line-backer and played on special teams this season after only getting into one game in his 2014 rookie season. Elimimian is sidelined six to eight weeks and possibly longer after suffering a ruptured Achilles tendon in a 52-22 loss in Hamilton last Saturday.
The Lions (3-4) are looking to redeem themselves after that humiliating set-back, while the Als hope to end a three-game losing streak after dropping each game by three points.
“We do need to respond with a lot of urgency, and we need to show what we’re capable of doing and just be con-sistent,” said Lions linebacker Adam Bighill. “If we have another soft game, it
starts becoming who are, and that’s not who we want to be and that’s not what we want to accomplish. So we’ve gotta get on the right track and the right road to where we want to go.
“Solly being gone is unfortunate, but it is next man up and (Hoffman-Ellis) is a great player. He’s been learning a lot and he’s ready to play. So I don’t expect there to be too much fall-off at all.”
The Lions are looking to get off to a strong start after allowing Hamilton to get out to an early 21-0 lead from which they could not recover. Bighill, who likens his team’s plight to a season-long climb up a mountain, wants the Lions to show that they can handle adversity.
“You can visualize whatever moun-tain you want,” he said. “But the thing is, every mountain’s going to have an upward battle that you’re going to crawl, run (or) walk up the whole year.”
Lions coach Jeff Tedford does not believe the defence has a long climb back to respectability. He noted that Hamilton’s touchdowns included a return off an Andrew Harris fumble and a Bakari Grant punt return.
“It wasn’t like they were giving up 80-yard drives or anything,” said Tedford of his defence. “So it was just a culmina-tion of everything, really.”
While the Lions look to avoid giving up another touchdown on special teams, Als returner Stefan Logan will attempt
to show that B.C. made a “bad deci-sion” by releasing him in the off-season. Logan, 34, whose two stints with B.C. sandwiched an NFL tenure, has racked up 880 all-purpose yards this season, and his total return yardage (797) already exceeds his 2014 mark.
Als coach Tom Higgins is not con-cerned about his team’s struggles in Vancouver. He just wants to make sure they don’t beat themselves.
The same goes for Lions quarterback Travis Lulay, who will be supported by a new-look offensive line. Josh Aladenoye will make his CFL debut at the critical left tackle spot due to Tommie Draheim’s ankle injury. Lulay says he’s comfortable with the newcomer watching his blind side.
“He has been here,” said Lulay. “He’s not completely off of the street. He’s been talking our language. He’s been in our system.”
Ironically, Aladenoye, a 25-year-old Mesquite, Tex., native, gets the start after he was released from the practice roster following an on-field confrontation with Tedford but kept his apartment near the Lions practice facility. The Dallas Cowboys castoff was quickly re-signed after Draheim went down.
“It means a lot to me,” Aladenoye said of the second chance. “I just want to come out here and help the team win in any way I can.”
Lions look to bounce back from blow out
T H E A S S O C I A T E D P R E S SGREENSBORO, N.C. - It’s now
or never for many players at the Wyndham Championship - the last chance to qualify for golf’s post-season.
That group includes Tiger Woods.The biggest name in the sport is
playing the final event of the PGA Tour’s regular season for the first time, in an effort to get his game back on track and make a last-gasp push for the playoffs.
“I’ve started to build. I just need to get more consistent with every-thing, and start stringing togeth-er not just holes, not just rounds but tournaments,” Woods said Wednesday. “That’s why this tourna-ment’s important to me. Hopefully I can win it, get into the playoffs and play a bunch of golf.”
Woods, who missed the cut at the PGA Championship last week, beat last Friday’s deadline to enter the Wyndham but didn’t finalize his commitment until Monday.
He said he had “a blast” playing a pro-am round Wednesday with NBA All-Star Chris Paul - a native of nearby Winston-Salem who starred at Wake Forest.
And now he wants to stick around for a while.
In 10 previous events this year, Woods has missed the cut in four of them and withdrew from another.
He’s had three rounds in the 80s, his best finish was a tie for 17th at the Masters and his best week came at The Greenbrier Classic where he finished just six shots out of the lead.
He’s eager to test his game on the Donald Ross-designed course at Sedgefield Country Club that puts
a premium on strong iron play and features fast, undulating Bermuda grass greens that Woods is trying to quickly figure out.
During a soggy pro-am, though, the course played a bit differently with more, well, woods.
“It’s going to be a lot of irons off the tee, but it wasn’t the case because it’s so wet,” Woods said. “Balls are plugging. Lot of mud balls out there.”
The Wyndham has relished its spot as the last chance for the four’s bubble players to force their way into the FedEx Cup playoffs, which begin next week at The Barclays in New Jersey.
Woods - who’s at No. 187 on the points list - is pretty far from the bubble. Only the top 125 players will make it to The Barclays, which means he probably needs a victory in his first visit here.
Recent history seems to be against him: Last year, only one player outside the top 125 - Sang-Moon Bae - earned enough points here to move into the playoffs. A 14th-place tie helped him jump from No. 126 to No. 120. The year before, nobody did it.
“If I don’t win this event,” Woods said, “I’ll have my off-season early.”
Also on the bubble: Luke Donald is 124th, followed by Charl Schwartzel, Scott Langley, Seung-Yul Noh, S.J. Park and last year’s winner, Camilo Villegas. The top 125 in the standings also will earn 2015-16 tour cards.
“There’s so much to play for,” said Webb Simpson, the 2011 winner who’s safely at No. 49 on the points list. “It’s definitely on guys’ minds, I think.”
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Our children are 19 and 22 and still live at home. The oldest graduated college but is extremely immature. In the past year, he has been in jail twice for intoxication and pot possession. He also lost a job due to an alcohol-related inci-dent. He found another position, but he rarely shows up on time. He doesn’t help around the house, is very messy and refuses all requests to contribute. He makes a stu-dent loan payment each month, but the rest of his small income goes toward fast food, tobacco and alcohol.
Here’s the problem: I see red flags everywhere with our son but my husband refuses to deal with
these matters. Instead, he keeps bailing him out. I feel strongly that our son needs a plan to become independent and accountable for his actions. My husband claims he doesn’t have time to talk to him. My children have no respect for my author-ity because any conse-quences I impose are always undone by my husband, who says he’s tired of me nagging him about it.
My efforts to get my husband on board have exhausted me and made me resentful. I feel cheated of a better relationship with all of them. Allowing these patterns to continue cannot be good for anyone. My husband refuses counseling. I am out of patience. Please advise. -- Midwest Mom
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Dear Annie: I want to warn “Need Your Help,” the 66-year-old gal who has been with “Joe” since his wife died nine years ago. Joe is 75 and verbally abusive. He sounds just like my husband. Tell her to run, not walk, out of that relation-ship now.
She says Joe is unwilling to
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model12 In -- (as found)13 Flower holder21 Olive yield23 Gold, in combos26 Actress Gerwig27 Baseball’s Hank --28 Full of zest29 Quebec school30 Fumbler31 Garden products
brand32 Jeweler’s unit33 Prevents errata36 Purpose42 Protozoans43 Potter or
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58 Kind of tradition59 Licentious sort62 Benedictine title
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on their 60th Anniversary on August 20, 2015. With love from their family, Terri (Bill) Taylor, Sue (Steve) Lessard, Dan (Rita) Anselmo, 9 grandchildren and 71/2 great grandchildren.
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School District No. 20 (Kootenay-Columbia)
CASUAL EMPLOYEESSchool District No. 20 (Kootenay-Columbia) is looking for multiple casual employees for the On-Call List in custodial, bus driving, clerical and direct student support. Casual staff can expect to work 3 – 5 days a week; however, casual work cannot be guaranteed. Individuals looking to work in a rewarding team environment all across our School District (Rossland, Trail, Fruitvale, Castlegar, Robson) with the likelihood of attaining a permanent position in the future should apply immediately!
Custodians:• Building Service Worker Course Certificate or
equivalent, minimum of two (2) years of work experience as a custodian or building service worker in a commercial or industrial setting, or an equivalent combination of training, education or experience.
• Rate of Pay: $21.82/hr + 13.4% in lieu of benefits = $24.74 / hr. Premium of $0.35 for afternoon shift.
• Hours of work: afternoon shift between the hours of 2pm and 11pm; day shift between the hours of 6am and 2:30pm
Bus Drivers:• Valid Class 2 driver’s license with Air endorsement
(course takes approx. 2 weeks to complete through Mountain Transport Institute 1-877-965-DRIVE)
• Rate of Pay: $24.58/hr + 13.4% in lieu of benefits = $27.87 / hr Hours of work are between 6:30am and 10:00am and 1:30pm and 4:30pm with the opportunity to work charter trips in between regular routes.
Education Assistants, Child Care Workers, Child & Youth Care Workers:• Completion of Classroom and Community
Support Worker Program, Special Education Assistant Certificate, Special Needs Worker Program or equivalent training and experience.
• Rate of Pay: Ranges from $23.50/hr + 13.4% in lieu of benefits = $26.65 / hr to $24.58/hr + 13.4% in lieu of benefits = $27.87 / hr.
Clerical:• Business College Certificate in Office
Administration or equivalent and a minimum of two (2) years of recent experience in a secretarial or clerical position
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite on PC and/or Mac Platforms
• Rates of Pay: Ranges from: $22.48/hr + 13.4% in lieu of benefits = $25.49 to $24.58/hr +13.4% in lieu of benefits = $27.87
NOTE: Bus Drivers, Direct Student Support and Clerical staff have Winter break, Spring break and summers off!
For full position details including qualifications and how to apply please refer to the Careers with SD20 section of our website at www.sd20.bc.ca. Completed applications should be sent to Mrs. Marcy VanKoughnett, Director of Human Resources, School District #20 (Kootenay-Columbia), 2001 Third Ave, Trail, B. C. V1R 1R6 (Fax: 250-364-2470) by Friday, August 28, 2015 @ 12:00 Noon. Please submit electronic applications to: [email protected]. It is understood that applicants agree to confidential reference checks of all previous employers.
A silent thought, a secret tearKeeps your memory ever dear
God took you home, it was His willBut in our hearts, you live still.
Forever in our hearts,your family
In Loving Memory
William Ronald TweedMarch 6, 1933 to August 19,2014
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SOLD
This is the last column on lying. Next week will be the start of a ser-
ies of columns on the Two-Over-One bidding system.
Weak two bids, in first or second seat, are made with hands holding a reasonable six-card suit, no four-card major and no void.
Also very important is that the weak-two bid will get partner off to the correct lead.
A weak-two bid will always give good lead dir-ection and will categoric-ally never have a four-card major nor a void, but the condition that may be relaxed is the suit length.
The weak two suit may only be five cards espe-cially in third seat and infrequently in first or second seat. When the weak two is five cards, any outside major will be at most a doubleton.
The suit will likely be a one or two-loser suit if played with no dummy entries. Such examples are AQJ109, KQJ109, KJ1098 and AQ1098, while QJ1098 does not qualify.
The bidding:The Golden fit for a
trump contract is eight cards. This, however is not true for high-level sacrifices. The golden fit for a sacrifice is nine
cards or more. The law of total tricks is a useful guideline. With a nine-card fit, one can bid to the three-level and one can bid one-level higher for every additional card over nine.
South opens a five-card weak two because he has a really good suit and is extremely short in Spades. West has just enough to take dir-ect action over a weak two. North sees only one defensive trick in his
hand and further pre-empts to the five level, taking away any room for slam investigation and making opponents make their decisions at the five-level.
North may think he is using the law with what he believes to be an elev-en-card fit, but a bid of Four Hearts is not much of a hindrance.
East is forced to double and resign himself to tak-
ing any positive score he can get.
Bidding Five Spades or Six of a minor will not, as it turns out, get a positive result. A stiff to the Spade Ace and a ruff will defeat any minor suit slam.
The Play:Declarer needs four
ruffs in dummy, but the opponents will likely play two rounds of trump before he can lose two Diamonds and one Club, and then declarer will need to set up the fifth Spade in dummy for a discard.
There are sufficient entries (including draw-ing the second round of trump with the Nine) to do this, but declarer must cash the Spade Ace and ruff a Spade as soon as he gets in. Declarer will lose one Heart, two Diamonds and a Club for down two and -300. This is better than -630 for 3NT or -600 for five of a minor.
warren watson
Play Bridge
Play Bridge: Weak two with five