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STAYING SHARPElectricity rates set to go up

again in 2016Residents may have unplugged their Christmas

lights as soon as the presents were unwrapped, as electricity rates were set to turn up in the new year.

FortisBC has been approved for a nearly three per cent rate increase, almost $4 more per month for the average residential electricity customer.

While all customers benefit from system im-provements with safer more reliable service, the ongoing investment increases the cost of delivering electricity, explained Amy Bunton, FortisBC cor-porate communications advisor.

A slight trending rate increase started in 2013 when there was a general electricity hike of 4.2 per cent, followed by an electricity rate jump up 3.3 per cent in 2014. The company is challenged with balancing ongoing infrastructure improvements with rates.

In the Kootenays, for example, upgrades to our four generating stations ensure long-term, low-cost power for our customers, added Bunton. Advanced metering infrastructure is now virtually eliminating bill estimates and will allow a quicker response to outages, among other benefits.

The $51 million Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) project affected only FortisBC electrical customers, totaling 130,000 homes and businesses stretching from Princeton in the west, through the Okanagan and West Kootenay, to

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April1 Changes for BC Liquor

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2 After over four years of construction, Columbia Power announced that power is on at

the Waneta Dam expansion site. The $900 million project provided work for over 1,700 tradespeople.

8 Kootenay Festival of the Arts returns have a two-year hia-tus. The event, which began over 80 years ago, highlights regional talents in dance, voice, piano and strings.

14 The Trail and Rossland chambers of commerce discuss merging and the Rossland chapter closes.

15 The Trail SPCA branch is in danger of closing unless a new facility is built. In a letter to the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary, the BCSPCAs chief ex-ecutive director said the current facility is in poor condition and required urgent replacement. The RDKB was to discuss the matter at its next meeting at the end of April.

16 Barbara Gibson, a tire-

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23 The popular Fruitvale Recycling Depot is set to close at the end of the month. The facility, behind Liberty Foods in Fruitvale, will be re-placed by curbside pick up, which is part of the Multi Materials BC project. Tim Dueck of the RDKB, said the move will save taxpay-ers money.

27 Walmart an-nounces it will expand its Trail store to include more grocery items. It also announced it will be closing the tire and lube service. Changes are expected over the course of the year.

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announces it will dis-continue its service from Trail to Kelowna. The service, which began in January, lacked the passenger load re-quired to make it vi-able. Pacific Coastal ex-ecutives said the airline could revisit the route in the future.

8 J.L. Crowe Secondary School is locked down briefly after police receive re-ports of gunshots in the area. Upon investi-gation it was revealed that students had set off fireworks.

8 Colin James en-tertains a packed house

at the Charles Bailey Theatre. The June Award-winning singer, songwriter presented an acoustic performance of some of his biggest hits.

10 Silver City Days provided plenty of sun-shine and little trouble as police report a rela-tively safe and quiet weekend for the annual festivities.

11 Trail council de-cides to conduct a ran-dom survey, at a cost of $16,000, to seek out opinions from residents on a skate park.

12 The Mayor of Trail brokers a com-promise between neighbours over a pro-posed fence in Lower Sunningdale Park. The issue came to light after a citizen raised con-cerns over soccer balls entering their yard. A proposed fence ignited

a backlash and Mayor Mike Martin sat down with all parties to agree to a temporary netting that will be in place during soccer season.

12 B.C. Lt. Governor Judith Guichon begins a week-long visit to the region including stops at schools, senior cen-tres and public build-ings.

16 RCMP officers destroy a black bear that entered a Sunningdale home and tipped over the freezer.

19 The Trail Arts Council is raising funds to replace the familiar time/temperature sign in the Cominco Parking Lot. The current sign is no longer operational

and parts are unavail-able.

20 Kootenay Savings and Credit Union announces it will be closing its Warfield branch in July. Fewer in-branch customers and proximity to the Trail branch prompts the closing. KSCU said it will continue to oper-ate an ATM and night deposit box.

21 Trail and Warfield announce they have agreed to a 5 -year recreation/library agreement. Warfield will contribute $631,500 over the life of the deal with Trail allocating 68 per cent to recreation and 32 per cent to library services.

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5 Trail nurse Braedon Mauro was honoured by the Calgary Police Department with the Exceptional Recognition of Valour for his actions in 2013 while helping an injured motorist in a Calgary traffic accident.

8 Trail council puts the proposed all-wheel park telephone survey on hold after it decides to apply for a Canada

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9 Principals from Trails J.L. Crowe Secondary School and Castlegars Stanley Humphries Secondary School are discussing moving the graduation ceremonies to the end of the month in future years. Crowes principal David DeRosa cited student distrac-tions as the main reason for the potential move.

9 The bidding process for the new pedestrian/pipe bridge in Trail began with interest from both U.S. and Canadian contractors.

11 Trails public works de-partment plans to inspect the citys iconic covered staircases to make sure they can absorb the traffic from two events in September, which features par-ticipants climbing a the stairs through Trail. Due to the age

of the stairs, the department may recommend altering some of the routes.

19 After 71 years, a U.S. airman will have his remains buried at the Trail Mountain View Cemetery. Sgt. Eric Honeyman, who has family ties to the area, died when his plane crashed in 1944 during World War 2 near Belgium. His remains were discovered in 2009 and DNA testing even-tually linked him to relatives in Trail where he was given a military funeral on June 22.

22 The Village of Salmo will need a byelection after councillors Cathy Paton and Ken Anderson, the top two voter getters in last falls mu-nicipal election, resigned. No details were released regarding their resignation.

23 Citing lack of funds, the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary rejected a proposal to help fund a new BC SPCA facility in Trail.

27 A large fuel spill from a rolled semi forced an eight-hour closure of the Rossland Hill. The semi-trailer was

loaded with food items when it went on its side and slid to a stop blocking all lanes on the highway.

27 Due to the extreme hot and dry weather, fireworks have been cancelled for the an-nual Canada Day celebrations.

29 A gust front, a

weather term for an extreme wind, hit the Trail area leav-ing a path of destruction, which included uprooted trees in downtown Trail and power outages throughout the region. Several trees were also damaged in Gryo Park and the Sunningdale area.

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A sudden windstorm left a path of destruction through Trail and communities like Genelle, Castlegar and Nelson. Two towering trees by the Trail Community Health Centre were uprooted while a third had its top snapped off.

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isting electro-mechani-cal and digital meters in the Southern Interior have been replaced with the advanced units, which are similar in ap-pearance to the tradi-tional model. The key difference is the smart meter communicates directly with FortisBC and provides real-time electricity consumption information directly to customers, too.

The devices lower costs, reduce theft, en-courage conservation, and can automatically

detect outages, said David Wylie, FortisBC communications for ad-vanced meters. But the energy the meters emit has caused concern amongst some people who wanted the instal-lation of the meters stopped all together. About one per cent of the Southern Interior population opted for the radio-off (wireless) option, which required a $60 to $88 set-up fee and costs of an ongoing $18 bi-monthly fee for a manual meter reading.

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The installation has gone smoothly, he said. Every customer-owned meter base was inspect-ed to flag any unusual wiring, broken govern-ment seals, broken or cracked meter base lugs and included a voltage check.

If they found that there were problems, that there was a po-tential safety issue that

needed to be repaired, then wed hire a local certified electrician to make those repairs at our cost, added Wylie.

FortisBC has since optimized the sys-tem to ensure wireless reads are coming in. Customers can expect to see some benefits to personalizing their ac-counts come into play this year.

Advanced meters provide different bill-ing options and tools to customers like picking a billing date that suits them or an option to go to monthly billings, Wylie explained. Access

to tools, like in-home displays, to help better manage use or the abil-ity to see how electricity use changes at different times of the day is said to empower the cus-tomer and ultimately lower costs.

Advanced meters help to prevent elec-tricity theft in the mil-lions of dollars range, he added. Thats a big financial benefit to the project.

FortisBC is a regu-lated utility that works with the British Columbia Utilities Commission to deter-mine rates.

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The death of former B.C. premier Bill Bennett on Dec. 4 prompted the tra-ditional round of polite tributes.

He was the man from Kelowna who remade Vancouver, with SkyTrain, BC Place stadium and Expo 86 to put the city on the world map. He won three majority governments before handing over the steering wheel of a smoothly running Social Credit Party to Bill Vander Zalm.

Outside B.C., the wire service obituaries ran to a few paragraphs, defining Bennett first as the ar-chitect of financial restraint in the province.

It seems an ordinary notion today, but when Bennett unleashed his restraint program on the B.C. government in 1983, it was pre-sented as a right-wing coup on a socialist utopia.

I was in journalism school in Vancouver when unions organized a general strike and mass street demonstrations under the banner of Operation Solidarity, appro-priated from the struggle against Polands communist dictators. Their goal was to bring the re-cently re-elected government to its

knees.The newly tabloid

Vancouver Province, itself largely con-trolled by some of B.C.s most mili-tant unions, was a screeching banshee of the big-labour left.

Socred hitmen swoop on rights workers, its front page declared after 400 layoff notices were issued to provincial staff. This propaganda was the publics guide and my pro-fessional role model.

A bit of background: the B.C. economy was in the grip of an international recession, hitting re-source industries and government revenues hard.

Bennett had ousted the Dave Barrett NDP government in 1975, but the legacy lived on. During its three-year reign, for example, education spending increased 13 per cent in the first year and 23 per cent in each of the next two.

The blitz of restraint legislation reasserted governments author-ity to control the size and wages of provincial staff, reinstated the

provinces ability to pay, eliminated various boards, and increased the pro-vincial sales tax to seven per cent to pay the bills.

Another Bill Bennett legacy was dismantling the monopoly choke-hold of big inter-national unions on public heavy con-

struction.Growing up in northeastern

B.C., I had seen the impressive pay for jobs on highway construction, about twice what I earned labour-ing for a non-union contractor doing city work.

A couple of friends discovered the inside track to securing labour-ing jobs on a provincially-funded highway project. After joining the union, those in the know could visit a business agent and hand over $500 cash. Within days, the lucky winner would be name re-quested to join the crew, vaulting over those who thought paying dues and working their way up the seniority list would be enough.

This struggle over public con-

struction continues today, with BC Hydros decision to make the Site C dam an open shop. The main contract was awarded to a consor-tium working with the Christian Labour Association of Canada, an alternative union known by more colourful names among old-line building trades.

After graduating from jour-nalism school, I landed my first full-time job as a reporter for the Kelowna Capital News, shortly be-fore Bennett announced his retire-ment from the premiers office to finish his term as a backbench MLA.

Bennett and I would sometimes arrive for work together, park-ing our rusty 1976 Chevrolets on Bernard Avenue, where he kept an office above the family furniture store.

I found out later that Bennetts modest old sedan was the govern-ment-issue car he had used during his entire 10 years as premier.

The party bought it for him as a humourous retirement gift, and he continued to drive it to work. No frills. That was Bill Bennett.

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saga has already dominated the box office and toy shelves. Now, its also been selected as The Associated Press Entertainer of the Year and is amassing support for Academy Awards consider-ation.

Personally, its been three years of feeling privi-leged to be part of something thats bigger than all of us, filmmaker J.J. Abrams told the AP in an interview. This accolade is very much appreciated and no exception to that feeling.

Star Wars won the APs annual Entertainer of the Year contest with a volley of votes from mem-bers that would rival the firepower of the First Order.

The sci-fi series bested Adele, Taylor Swift and Amy Schumer as the top vote getter. Others up for the honour included streaming services, Jon Stewart, Jennifer Lawrence, Taraji P. Henson, Viola Davis and the Kardashians. Voters were asked to consider who had the most influence on entertain-ment and culture in 2015.

In a year full of sequels, reboots and returns, none have recaptured the zeitgeist like Star Wars: The Force Awakens, wrote Nick Dutro of The Advertiser-Tribune in Tiffin, Ohio.

The initial impact of a Star Wars resurgence first began reverberating across the pop-culture landscape in 2012 when Disney acquired Lucasfilm for more than $4 billion, plotting a pair of movie spin-offs and a new trilogy merging veterans Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher) and Han Solo (Harrison Ford) with new-comers Rey (Daisy Ridley), Finn (John Boyega) and Kylo Ren (Adam Driver).

In the year leading up to the December release of The Force Awakens, Disney and Lucasfilm unleashed a barrage of Star Wars merchandise, comic books and video games that fueled anticipa-tion for the film.

When the movie opened in theatres, The Force Awakens lit up screens - and fans eyeballs - brighter than a lightsaber. With an astronomical $248 million debut at the box office last weekend,

Star Wars named top entertainer for 2015

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If the Taliban were not so busy fighting the rival Islamic State jihadis who began operating in Afghanistan early this year, they might now be within reach of overthrowing the Afghan government that the Western powers left behind when they pulled out most of their troops last year. Even with that dis-traction, the Taliban are doing pretty well.

Last week, a Taliban suicide-bomber on a motorcycle man-aged to kill six American sol-diers who were patrolling the pe-rimeter of Bagram air base near Kabul. On the same day Taliban fighters took al-most complete control of Sangin in Helmand prov-ince, a town that over 100 British troops died to de-fend in 2006-10.

As Major Richard Streatfield, a British officer who fought at Sangin, told the BBC: I wont deny, on a personal level, it does make you wonder - was it worth it?

Because if the people we were trying to free Afghanistan from are now able to just take it back within two years, that shows that something went badly wrong at the operational and strategic level.

It was probably a mistake to invade Afghanistan in the first place.

Osama bin Ladens al-Qaeda terrorists could have been dealt with without invading an entire country, and there was never any evidence that the Taliban government of the day knew about his 9/11 attacks on the United States in advance.

Having invaded the coun-try, it was a mistake not to hand it over to a tough re-gime made up of warlords from the major ethnic groups and get out before the presence of over a hundred thousand for-eign troops gave the Taliban a second wind. Trying to create a Western-style liberal democ-

racy in Afghanistan was even more naive than the previous Soviet project to build a mod-ern, secular, socialist one-party state in the country.

The 19th-century British army and the 20th-century Russian army could both have told them: it has always been easy to invade Afghanistan, but it has always been hard for for-eign troops to stay there more than a couple of years.

And having made those mis-takes, it was another mistake to pull almost all the foreign

troops out be-fore the Afghan g o v e r n m e n t s army was up to holding the Taliban off. If, indeed, it can ever be brought up to that level.

The par-lous state of the Afghan National Army and the sheer feckless-

ness of President Ashraf Ghanis government was highlighted by last weekends desperate plea by Helmands deputy governor Mohammad Jan Rasulyar for supplies and reinforcements for the troops holding Sangin.

Its not just that the army had neglected the plight of those soldiers. Its the fact that Rasulyar had to resort to post-ing his plea on Facebook to get the governments attention.

Part of the problem is that the government and the army high command are profoundly corrupt.

For example, up to a quar-ter of the armys troops are ghost soldiers who only exist on paper, so that officers can draw their pay.

The worse problem is that President Ghani, a former se-nior official at the World Bank, only won last years election by massive fraud.

Conflicts with the aggrieved losers have left the government paralysed: twenty months after the election, there is still not even a permanent defence min-ister.

Morever, Ghani believes that

a decisive military victory over the Taliban is impossible. This is probably correct but he is therefore committed to culti-vating close ties with Pakistan in the hope that Inter-Services Intelligence, the Pakistani equivalent of the CIA, will de-liver the Taliban to the table for peace talks. (Most Afghans believe that ISI controls the Taliban.) But Ghani is wrong on two counts.

The Taliban have no reason to agree to a power-sharing peace settlement, since they can still hope for an outright mili-tary victory.

And Pakistan doesnt really control the Taliban, although it gives them a safe haven and can manipulate them to a limited extent. There were preliminary peace talks early this year, but there has been nothing since July.

The Afghan army would be collapsing a good deal faster if so much of the Talibans at-tention were not focused on fighting off the challenge from Islamic State. (It has killed at least a thousand IS fighters this year.) But the Taliban still managed to seize the city of Kunduz in the north for a week in September, and now Sangin in the southwest is going.

We are seeing the usual short-term responses in the West. President Obama has halted the withdrawal of most of the remaining 9,800 US troops in the country (which was scheduled for the end of this year), and Britain has or-dered ten of the 450 troops it still has in Afghanistan back to Sangin.

But that wont make much difference, and there is no chance whatever that the NATO countries will build their troop strength in Afghanistan back up to the level around 140,000 where it was five years ago.

The Afghans are on their own now, and they will be lucky if they end up back under the rule of the Taliban rather than in the clutches of Islamic State.

Gwynne Dyer is an indepen-dent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

Afghanistan: Going Down

GWYNNE DYER

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The Trail Times Sports Year in Review continues featuring the highlights in Greater Trail sports for the months April to June 2015. April1 Greater Trail native Garrett Kucher played on the Evolve professional golf tour in Spain in the winter, before joining the Vancouver Pro Golf Tour in April.3 The Ministry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resources releases a report that shows northern pike populations in the Columbia River around Robson Reach have grown, and pose a threat to native and non-native species. 5 Trail Smoke Eater captain Jake Lucchini is named to the BCHLs second All Star team.15 Glenmerry Bowls Tim Flack qualifies for the 5-Pin Master Bowlers Association National championship after finishing in the top-four in the B.C. Master Bowlers circuit. 17 Seven Summits Gravity Racing team began its first year of racing

in the BC Cup Series of downhill mountain bike events at Race the Ranch in Kamloops.21 Penticton Vees capture the BCHL Fred Page Cup by beating the Nanaimo Clippers 3-2 in over-time of Game 6. 23 The Trail AA Orioles baseball team joins the XBL Mens Baseball League, while also competing in the Washington State American Legion AA Baseball League. 24 Long time Trail resident Brad Elliot retires from umpiring after almost 50 years behind the plate.- Trail native and former Trail Smoke Eater Travis St. Denis is named assistant captain by the Quinnipiac University Bobcats. 29 Megan Campsall wins gold and silver at the Regional Karate

championships in Kelowna, while Beaver Valley Chito Ryu Sensei Scott Hutcheson captured silver in kata and gold in weapons. 30 The Trail Skating Club offi-cially folds after 80 years due to lack of volunteer help. May5 The Penticton Vees win the Western Canada Cup with a 4-3 victory over the Portage Terriers to advance to the national champion-ship RBC Cup. - The Trail Smoke Eater sign 19-year-old goaltender Bailey MacBurnie from Salisbury School in Salisbury, Conn.7 Fruitvale native and former Trail AM Ford Oriole Joey Underwood signs with Okotoks Dawgs of the Western Major Baseball League.

8 Greater Trail soccer player Nolan DeRosa commits to attend and play for the Thompson University Wolfpack in the Canada West division of the CIS.15 Nick Merkley and the Kelowna Rockets win the WHLs Ed Chynoweth Cup by defeating the Brandon Wheat Kings in four straight. 16 Fruitvales Ella Matteucci is selected to play for Team Canada womens baseball team that will compete in the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto. 21 J. L. Crowe golfers take first in the East-West Kootenay zone play-downs to qualify for the B.C. High School championships. 22 Rosslands Thea Culley is once again named to Team Canada womens field hockey team that will play in the Pan Am Games and attempt to qualify for the 2016 Olympic Games.26 Four young athletes from the Trail Track and Field Club excelled at the Centennial Track meet hosted by the Kamloops Track and

Field Club, winning a total of nine medals that included four gold medals by Sadie Joyce, two golds and two silver from Jendaya Shields and a bronze from Maya Amantea. 29 The Wenatchee Wild join the BCHL. June3 Trail Smoke Eaters sign Montrose native Spencer McLean and Ross Armour of Rossland to add two more local players to its roster. 10 Megan Campsall captures bronze medal in kata at the Provincial Karate championship in Richmond, while Scott Hutcheson took home a silver. 11 - Mike Mondin former coach of the Canadian Sledge Hockey team dedicates team jersey to City of Trail in a case designed and made by KCLC student Curtis Haynes. 12 Rossland-Trail Country Club founding father Dr. Jack Colbert becomes part of Trickle Creek Golf Resort history by hitting a hole-in-one on the par-3 eighth hole at the Kimberley course. His first ever ace, despite being a member of the Rossland-Trail Club for over 60 years. 19 Jake Kauppila returns to the Trail Smoke Eater line up follow-ing a stint in the US Junior Hockey League. Kauppila played in 41 games in 2013 with the Smokies. 23 The Trail AA Orioles open season with a pair of wins over Lewis and Clark in Washington State American Legion Baseball, a sign of good things to come. -The Trail AA Orioles Austin Tambellini commits to play base-ball with Hill College in Hillsboro, Texas.

Spring sports feature Trail dedication and accomplishment

Clockwise: 2015 highlights include Tim Flacks trip to the 5-Pin Master Bowling National championships, Kai Birks and the Trail Eagles win-ning the B.V. May Days Tournament, the Seven Summits Gravity Racers first ride at Race the Ranch, the signing of local Smoke Eaters Spencer McLean and Ross Armour, the retirement of Brad Elliot after half a cen-tury of calling games, and the dedication of the Canadian Sledge Hockey Jersey at the Memorial Centre by former coach Mike Mondin.

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NELSON STARThe Nelson Leafs are hoping a former coach can

work some magic midway through a nightmare season.

Mario DiBella, 59, was hired Sunday as the Leafs new head coach and general manager after David McLellans resignation. Its DiBellas second time around in the roles after previously serving from 2000to 2002. He resigned after his second season to focus on his family.

DiBella said Monday hes looking forward to returning to the team.

Ive coached a long time and I see this as a chal-lenge, said DiBella. I see that there is a good core group of players. Im excited by the opportunity. I was flattered when I was approached and I hope some of my experience will help them move for-ward in a positive direction.

McLellan resigned last week citing interference from the teams board of directors in hockey opera-tions as the reason for his departure, an allegation team president John Dooley denied.

Dooley said hiring DiBella is a great develop-ment for the team, which was under pressure to find someone before the Leafs return from the holiday break for a road game against the division-leading Beaver Valley Nitehawks on Dec. 30.

[DiBella is] a very well prepared person, said Dooley. Hes going to bring some real structure to the organization and I believe thats what we need now on the team side.

DiBellas coaching staff has not yet been an-

nounced, although he said he wants to make that decision prior to Christmas. Assistant coach Greg Andrusak left the Leafs alongside McLellan, while assistant coach Sean Dooley served as interim head coach for one game.

The teams new coach already has plenty of work to do. Nelson (14-19-1) has just three wins in its last 18 games, is fourth in the Neil Murdoch Division and has been mired by injuries and a revolving door of players. Yet DiBella said hes not willing to call it a lost season.

Were going to be positive. Theyre young men. They are all winners and they are going to be treated like winners, said DiBella, who added he wants to break up the remaining 18 game up into segments where the players can see success.

He previously coached the Kootenay Ice major midget league team as well as held coaching posi-tions with the provincial team at various levels and scouted for teams in the BCHL and SJHL.

DiBella, who owns Martech Electrical Systems based out of Castlegar, also played goaltender for the Nelson junior Maple Leafs in 1976-77 and the senior Maple Leafs in 1977-78 and from 1981 to 1985.

Its a storied organization, he said. Theres been a lot of great players and great citizens that have graduated from the program. When I was a youngster I looked up to the Nelson senior Maple Leafs team and some of the players that played on those teams as role models in the community.

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BY JIM BAILEYTimes Sports Editor

The Beaver Valley Nitehawks are back in action at home tonight against the Castlegar Rebels, as they get set for a five games in six days run.

The Neil Murdoch division leading Nitehawks play a Rebels team looking to bounce back from a 5-2 loss to Grand Forks Dec. 19 and a 7-2 drubbing by the Hawks in Castlegar on Dec. 12 that dropped the Rebels eight points below B.V. in the standings. The Hawks then face Nelson in a home-and-home Wednesday and Thursday before hitting the road to face the number-one team in the league in the Kimberley Dynamiters on Saturday and a game in Castlegar Sunday.

We always play Castlegar a little different than everybody else, but other than that we play to win, especially in our own division, we have to beat those teams, said Hawks assistant coach Bill Birks.

The four games against division teams are criti-cal but the Dynamiters game will be a measure of how Beaver Valley matches up against the defend-ing KIJHL champions. It is their first meeting since last March when Kimberley beat the Nitehawks in five games of a best-of-seven playoff for the KIJHLs

Kootenay Conference championship. But first the Nitehawks will have to keep their

seven game win streak alive when they face the Rebels tonight. Castlegar, at 21-10-1-0, owns one of the toughest and quickest defences in the league, led by 20-year-old Nick Headrick, who is second in scoring on the Rebels with 10 goals and 38 points. Six-foot-three inch Tyson Wornig anchors their back end along with a pair of six-foot-two, 18-year-old defencemen Anthony Oliverio and Vince Bitonti. Among them, they have over 170 minutes in penalties. The Rebels also sport the second best goals-against in the KIJHL this season allowing 74 goals in 32 games, with Joseph McLeod carrying most of the work. The 18-year-old Kelowna native has a 2.25 goals against and a .934 save percentage with 13 wins in 21 starts.

Tayden Woods, 18, leads the Rebel attack scor-ing 20 goals and 19 assists in 32 games, while Chris Breese and Mike Bhatoa have chipped in with 34 and 33 points respectively. Aside from veteran Darren Medeiros with 25 points, the Rebels offence falls off dramatically after that with defenceman Darren Petten the next highest scorer with 14 points.

The Hawks-Rebels rivalry has been a bitter yet highly entertaining one over the years and it should be no different tonight. The fact the two teams loathe each other only adds to the drama and in-tensity of the matches between the top two teams in the Murdoch division.

It (the rivalry) goes years back into the play-offs, said Birks. Its been a 1-2 rivalry for years . . . so you definitely get up for those.

Braden Fuller has returned to form since missing action in November, netting 15 points in his last 10 games, and is currently second in team scoring with 13 goals and 36 points. The Hawks have also solidified their goaltending tandem. With the ad-dition of Tallon Kramer, and the return of Drake Poirier to good health, the Nitehawks have allowed just 12 goals in seven games for a miniscule 1.74 goals against and a combined 94.61 save percent-age.

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2015 listed chronologically:

Canadian consumers walked in expecting the American store expe-rience and got this watered-down version .... We didnt need Target to be Canadian. We needed them to be the company theyve been in the U.S. Brynn Winegard, a marketing analyst at Winegard and Company, after Target announced in January it was leaving Canada due to dismal sales and a failure to connect with Canadian shoppers.

The prohibition on physician-as-sisted dying infringes on the right to life, liberty and security of the person in a manner that is not in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice. - Text from the unanimous Supreme Court ruling handed down in February legalizing physician-as-sisted suicide in some cases.

I just want anyone whos ever done it or is thinking of doing it or thinks its funny, just think of the consequences. Its degrading, its disrespectful. You really put these reporters in a very uncomfortable position, and its not just me - were all sick of it. - Toronto television reporter Shauna Hunt, speaking in April after confronting men heckling her with vulgar insults while she was filming a live report. Hunt and other female journalists said the trend has been plaguing them for months.

I think I knew his sister. My con-dolences to the family, who I think were dealing with their grief by strew-ing my garbage through my yard last night - totally get that. Facebook jokester in July following the death of a Toronto raccoon on a downtown street and the makeshift shrine that was constructed around the corpse.

The residential school experience is clearly one of the darkest, most troubling chapters in our collective history. The survivors showed great courage, great conviction and trust to us in sharing their stories. These were heartbreaking, tragic and shock-ing accounts of discrimination, de-privation and all manner of physical, sexual, emotional and mental abuse. - Justice Murray Sinclair speaking at the June release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report, which documented the devastat-ing impact that Canadas residential school system had on its First Nations population.

Rid yourself of those racial ste-reotypes of Indians and indigenous people being dumb and lazy and drunk on welfare. Rid yourself of those things, so new things can come in. - Assembly of First Nations Chief Perry Bellegarde reacting to the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions re-port and exhorting Canadians to take its findings to heart.

This is sort of Matthew:6, right? You should do those things quiet-ly, and not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing. - Nigel Wright, former chief of staff to Stephen Harper, testifying on Aug. 13 at the fraud trial for former sena-tor Mike Duffy. Wright was citing scripture to explain his decision to cut Duffy a cheque for $90,000 to cover some of his questionable expenses.

I am the one who should be at blame. I blame myself because my brother does not have money. I sent him the money to pay the smuggler. If I didnt send him the money, those people still (would be) alive. - Tima Kurdi, speaking on Sept. 5 in B.C. and taking the blame for the death of her three-year-old nephew, Alan.

(The public) is not informed. They are being misguided by the government on this particular issue. They were of the view that Muslim women who are wearing the niqab objected to show their identity for security purposes, but thats not the case .... The image of Muslim women, and as a whole the Muslim com-munity, has been damaged by this. - Zunera Ishaq, the woman whose fight to wear her niqab while swear-ing an oath of Canadian citizen-ship sparked a lengthy court battle and became a hot-button issue on the campaign trail. The quote above came during an Oct. 8 interview with The Canadian Press.

Sunny ways, my friends, sunny ways. Justin Trudeau to a jubilant crowd on Oct. 19 in his Montreal riding of Papineau, invoking the phi-losophy of former prime minister Wilfrid Laurier, after he led the fed-eral Liberals to a majority win.

Because its 2015. - Trudeau, speaking on Nov. 4, responding to a question as to why he made gen-der parity a priority when naming his cabinet. Trudeaus hand-picked group of 30 ministers features 15 men and 15 women.

Its very uneasy. There are prob-ably going to be more job cuts. People are still kind of living scared. Stephen Scott, 45, who lost his en-gineering job at Cenovus Energy in Calgary amid the oil price plunge during a December interview.

We feel as if we got out of hell and we came to paradise. - Syrian refugee Kevork Jamkossian, who fled Syria with his wife and children, in a discussion with Trudeau at Pearson International Airport.

I was pleading with them to show some kind of decency; all of these born-again Christians were throwing me to the lions. - Sen. Mike Duffy in testimony at his Senate expenses trial on Dec. 15, describing his alleged treatment by the Prime Ministers Office under Stephen Harper.

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Genelle Recreation honoured its volun-teers and support-ers with a dinner in November. At the event, special rec-ognition was given to Jim and Colleen Gourlie for their 15 years of helping the community.

GENELLE VOLUNTEERS HONOURED

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the newest Star Wars entry trampled over the record for biggest debut in North America, set earlier in the year by Jurassic World.

The Force Awakens also has won over most critics, despite not being screened for them ahead of the films mammoth Dec. 14 premiere in Hollywood. The American Film Institute se-lected it as one of its 10 best movies of the year, and the Critics Choice Awards added it as an 11th best picture nominee, leading many to have faith in The Force Awakens as a viable Oscar contender.

The Star Wars franchise is holding an IOU that it could cash in this year, said Tom ONeil, editor-in-chief of Gold Derby, a site that handi-caps Hollywood awards and other events. The Oscars owe major love to the Star Wars fran-chise. Its one of the most successful and beloved franchises in Hollywood history. Its criminal that Oscar voters have never historically taken sci-fi seriously.

While previous Star Wars films garnered 22 nominations and seven wins at the Academy Awards, only the original Star Wars earned a best picture nod. It lost to Annie Hall in 1978.

The Force Awakens is already on the acad-emys short list for a visual effects nomination with 9 other films, and ONeil is hopeful that it will be among the best picture candidates when the Oscar nominations are announced Jan. 14. He also wouldnt be shocked if Harrison Ford is recognized for reprising his role as Han Solo and composer John Williams earns his 50th nomina-tion for the films score.

Its funny, said Abrams. Ive spent the last few years with everyone asking me how I am dealing with the pressure. The truth is that any-thing that happens at this point is icing on a cake that Im just happy came out of the oven.

Star Wars joins the list of previous AP Entertainer of the Year winners who in recent years have mostly included female performers, including Adele, Taylor Swift, Jennifer Lawrence, Lady Gaga, Tina Fey and Betty White. The ani-mated Disney juggernaut Frozen captured the prize in 2014, and Stephen Colbert was honoured in 2007.

Latest Star Wars sets bar high

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