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The investigation into a fatal accident in Warfield two years ago officially drew to a close last month following the release of the BC Coroner's final report.
The Trail Times obtained a copy of the coroner’s conclusion this week, which identified the factors involved in the crash, which occured early afternoon on May 3, 2013.
Truck driver Frederick Wayne Wilkinson, listed as a resident of Cornwall Ont., died of multiple traumatic injuries, after his loaded tractor trailer crashed
at the bottom of the Rossland Hill in Warfield.
Coroner Janice Riley noted that an autopsy was not warranted to determine cause of death, but a subsequent toxicol-ogy screen detected no substances.
While she classified the cause as acci-dental, Riley states that a damaged brake air line behind the glad hand bulkhead was a significant contributory factor in 52-year old's death.
She notes in her January 2015 report that an RCMP forensic traffic re-construc-tionist determined that the rear trailer had no brake application because the air line was kinked behind the glad hand bulkhead.
After that finding, the police reviewed the truck's maintenance records and found that the glad bulkhead was replaced
in January 2013. She concurs with the RCMP's conclusion that damage to the air brake line likely occurred at that time, but may not have been evident until warmer weather possibly kinked the plastic con-nector.
Riley says that the area where the air line was located would not normally be accessed by an operator of the vehicle but would be examined during regular main-tenance by a heavy duty mechanic.
Wilkinson was an experienced Class 1 driver, but had only been employed for two weeks by Sutco Contracting Ltd., a Salmo-based trucking company.
The day of the accident, the truck was travelling down the Rossland Hill headed to Korpack Cement Products in Annable to deliver a full load of cement cinder blocks.
Glen Wakefield, Sutco's director of health and safety, told the Trail Times on Tuesday, that the company received the RCMP's traffic investigation information shortly after the accident.
“From our end, there were two things we had to look at from this report,” explained Wakefield.
“First, we had to track down where the vehicle was last serviced, so we went on that route. The secondary part of it, is that we had to investigate why the driver was not aware that the trailer was not brak-ing.”
He said Sutco reviewed the company's training policies to ensure driver train-ing was adequate, up to date, and that all drivers were fully cognizant of their responsibilities.
See RUNAWAY, Page 3
Coroner issues report on Warfield truck accidentRear trailer had no brake
application due to kink in air line
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J.L. Crowe counsellor Loretta Jones and student and artist Rachel Danczak show off the painting asking students to dig a little deeper when getting to know someone. The piece was hung in the school's atrium for all students to see and is part of a larger planned art installation at the school depicting the code of conduct in their own words.
Artist paints positive message
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A young artist at J.L. Crowe Secondary School has found a bright and colourful way to leave a lasting positive message for current and future students to see.
Rachel Danzak, following in the footsteps of former students, put together a sizeable piece of art that tries to encourage students to look past rumours and hearsay to get to know an individual before making judge-ments.
“The quote we chose was, 'Be curious, not judgemental,'” she said.
“It is about not just listening to what other people say about someone, but instead just going up and talking to them and seeing what they are really like.”
The piece was unveiled in the J.L. Crowe atrium on Wednesday morning at a school-wide assembly to coincide with Pink Shirt Day – the national campaign against bullying in schools, at work and on the Internet.
Before the art project became a reality, the young artist practised what she preaches and has even made new friends.
“I have this one friend that I didn't really know before,” she said. “I had only heard what other people were saying about him, so I just went up and talked to him. I learned that he is really into cars and he is good at it too.
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Before the city can build one up, they have to tear a few old ones down.
Trail council agreed to a $70,000 pre-budget approval during the Monday gover-nance meeting, which will cover the demolition costs for a rundown building at 1525 Bay Ave.
The city recently pur-chased the property which is adjacent to where the new integrated library/museum is slated to break ground next year.
Demolishing the cur-rent structure on the site was deemed a high prior-ity with the related costs considered to be part of the capital construction for the new Riverfront Centre.
Prior to tendering the building's demolition, the city had an environmental assessment of the site.
Through visual testing and sample analysis, asbes-tos was confirmed to be in the ducting, floor tiles, attic space and suspected to lie within the joints of the building's cast iron piping.
Other hazardous mate-rials include PCB's in the fluorescent light ballasts throughout the structure and mercury within the flu-orescent light tubes.
Under British Columbia's Health and Safety Regulations, all hazardous materials must be removed prior to the demolition.
Grayhawk Industries, a Kelowna-based company that specializes in asbestos abatement, mercury spill clean up and PCB decon-tamination was awarded the job, which will cost close to $15,000.
Council approved an addi-tional $52,600 for demoli-tion of the two structures, including foundations from the Eagles building, and subsequent site restoration. That contract has yet to be awarded.
The procurement of addi-tional square-footage prior
to the facility's $6 million construction is considered a bonus because the building's conceptual design didn't fit the lot - the 18,000-square foot structure would have otherwise jutted onto Helena Street.
Trail Mayor Mike Martin said the acquisition of the property was a timely oppor-tunity given the added space that will become available for the Riverfront Centre.
The city can now consid-er options such as building alignment, the development of additional parking, green space and depending on demand, potentially open-ing up commercial oppor-tunities, like a coffee shop, within the facility.
"Overall this property purchase aligns well with the city's mandate to move forward with Trail's eco-nomic development and the longterm sustainability of
our entire region," Martin added.
Another project Trail council green-lighted on Monday as a pre-budget cap-ital cost for the pipe bridge construction, was demoli-tion of the last remaining home on Riverside Avenue.
The city recently pur-chased that property after an alleged drunk driver plowed his truck into the home last summer, causing damage to the foundation.
“Removal of the home will open up this entire area for use as a park,” Larry Abenante, Trail's pub-lic works manager said to council.
“And also provide a route for interceptor sewer from the old Trail Bridge to the new pedestrian bridge.”
Prior to seeking demoli-tion quotes, the city had the residence assessed for hazardous material.
Cement asbestos was found in the home's exterior siding boards, vinyl flooring, attic space and suspected within the cast iron sanitary pipes.
Grayhawk Industries was awarded the contract for $22,000, which includes proper removal of thermo-stats containing mercury, a PCB light ballast and 'ozone-depleting substances' found in three old refrigerators.
Once the hazardous com-ponents are removed, the regional fire services will demolish the house as a fire practise.
A further $11,500 has been earmarked for clean up, foundation removal and site restoration costs.
The new bridge will be tendered within the next two months. Actual construc-tion is expected to begin in September, and conclude in early 2016.
City plans disposal of old house and building
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The property on the front lot adjacent to the Riverfront Centre site, will be demolished mak-ing way for more space for the city’s new library-museum.
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Music• Saturday, St. Andrew's Church in Trail, 7:30
p.m. for performance by Darrel & Saskia. Blend of celtic, folk and gospel. Tickets $10 advance or $12 at the door. Call Jennifer Sirges at 368. 6666 for info.
• Sunday, Trail United Church, 2 p.m. perform-ance by country singer/songwriter and guitarist Stephen Palmer. Coffee and tea to follow. Tickets $15. Call 368.3225 for info.
Other• Friday, Webster School gym at 6:30 p.m. for
Benefits of Dance. An evening of dance featur-ing Steps Dance Company and special guests, to benefit Webster's Parent Advisory Council's intermediate playground project. Concession available. Tickets, $10 family, adult $5, children $3, available at the door or contact [email protected].
• Friday, Charles Bailey Theatre at 7:30 p.m., E2 Experiments in E n t e r t a i n m e n t presents Little Moths. Hosted by Almeda Glenn Miller, storytellers from across the
valley will frighten, delight and enlighten with authentic stories from our region. Call the box office at 368.9669 or visit trail-arts.com.
• Sunday, Warfield Community Hall from 4-6 p.m. for the Warfield Youth Forum. Ages 12 to 19 invited to have a say in village happenings and plan for the future. For information contact Diane Langman at 368.6836 or email [email protected].
Gallery• VISAC Gallery showing exhibition by Jerry
and Kate Enewold. The Thrums couple brings varied talents in silver and beaded jewelry, paint-ings, carved masks and doors. Visit visacgallery.com for details.
Film• Sunday, Royal Theatre at 4:30 p.m. Sunday
Cinema presents Citizenfour. Winner of the 2014 Oscar for Best Documentary, details how the documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras became one of the first reporters to be contacted by Edward Snowden, the infamous whistleblower.
Upcoming• March 6, Charles Bailey Theatre, 7:30 p.m.,
Black Productions presents Hedwig and the Angry Inch. A musical comedy that tells the story of a fictional rock bank, fronted by Hedwig, a singer who survived a botched sex change operation.
• March 7, Rossland Miners Hall 7:30 p.m.,the Rossland Council for Arts and Culture presents Hungarian vocalist Noémi Kiss and classical guitarist Rita Deane in a concert. Includes a wide repertoire from early classical to contempor-ary. Tickets $20, available in advance at Out of The Cellar (Rossland) and at the Charles Bailey Theatre box office.
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FROM PAGE 1“Part of the due diligence
of a brake check is to check your wheels, see if your hubs are hot, the tires are all inflated, there’s air coming through to the system and that the whole unit is brak-ing properly,” said Wakefield.
“Number two is that in the cab there are air gauges. That will tell you how much air you are using every time you make a brake application.
“If, for example, I was using only five pounds of air when I should be using 10, I would start looking to see what was going on.”
Wakefield maintains that if the driver had identified that air wasn’t getting to the back trailer, then the com-pany would have told him to stop.
“But we were never informed that there were any problems, and in our close proximity, we would have had a service truck out there immediately,” he added.
Another observation the RCMP forensic team reported was that the truck and lead trailer break linings showed evidence of extreme heat exposure, causing the brakes to malfunction. Those find-
ings correspond to witness statements describing flames and smoke coming from the brakes on the first trailer prior to the collision.
“The RCMP forensic colli-sion re-constructionist states in his report that ‘it is evi-dent that mechanical failure of the commercial vehicle was a significant contribu-tion factor in this collision,’” Riley added.
She notes the two run-away lanes available to driv-ers traveling down the high-way toward the village, and that the road was in good repair with a dry, bare sur-
face.Wilkinson was driving a
2012 Cascadia Freightliner pulling a super B flatdeck unit loaded with cement blocks when he lost control, crossed the highway, rolled over once and came to rest on an unoccupied parked pickup truck in the west-bound ditch.
The pickup truck had been in use by three village work-ers who were working in the immediate area but were able to avoid serious injury by seeking cover when another vehicle’s air horn was used to warn them.
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There may be many unan-swered questions about the declining fish stocks in Kootenay Lake, but one thing is certain: residents are alarmed about it. About 300 people packed the Balfour Hall on Monday night to discuss the problem with staff from the Ministry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resources.
The meeting followed a call for government action by a number of groups including the British Columbia Wildlife Federation and the West Arm Outdoors Club.
The ministry staff at the Balfour meeting seemed a bit taken aback by the large
turnout, cautioning people at the beginning of the meeting to be respectful with their questions, apparently fearing a verbal attack.
But they needn’t have worried. The dozens of polite questions reflected a roomful of knowledgeable, thought-ful, experienced residents committed to the lake and the fish.
The questions were about predator-prey relationships, spawning numbers, habitat protection and restoration, research gaps, community involvement, nutrient restor-ation, the dollar value of the fishery, water temperatures, climate change, re-stocking, the IH1 virus, the role of the federal government, the
effects of the dams, funding for restoration, and more.
“People do have the cap-acity to understand technical decisions,” said Josh Smienk, who organized the meeting for the Balfour and District Business and Historical Association. “People want to know why decisions are made. It is so personal for them. It is their own back-yard.
“The people were not just from around here. There were people from Trail, Creston, the north end of the lake. The mayor of Kaslo and the direc-tors from Areas A and D were here. The turnout shows how important this issue is to the people who live around this lake.”
The government offi-cials, headed by biologist Jeff Burrows, responded to ques-tions with charts, graphs, and historical details. They often admitted they didn’t know the answers to some of the hard questions.
But one concrete change is proposed.
Starting in April the min-istry expects to lower the catch quota for kokanee from 15 to zero per day, and increase the quota for rain-bow trout from two to four per day, to balance predator-prey ratios.
Burrows said these chan-ges have the assent of the Kootenay fish regulations advisory committee, a local stakeholder group.
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VICTORIA – When Andrew Wilkinson started the year in his new job as advanced education minister, he knew B.C. universi-ties hired lobbyists to pitch expansion plans to government.
Wilkinson was one of those lobbyists in his role as a lawyer in private practice, before being elected MLA for Vancouver-Quilchena
in 2013.Under attack for the
second day in question period at the B.C. legis-lature, Wilkinson said Tuesday the practice of universities hiring expensive consultants to speak to the govern-ment that funds and regulates them should come to an end.
“It’s been abundant-ly clear since I took this role that access to my ministry and to me is unlimited for
all the institutions,” Wilkinson told the legislature. He said he will advise all B.C. post-secondary institu-tions that they don’t need lobbyists, but as independent institu-tions it will be up to them to decide.
On Monday, oppos-ition critics produced records showing Kwantlen Polytechnic University had paid consultant Mark Jiles $177,000 for “rela-tionship building” with the government over several years. Jiles also worked on executive compensa-tion for Kwantlen, where school officials were paid unreported bonuses that broke government salary caps.
That controversy led to Wilkinson switch-ing cabinet jobs with Surrey-Tynehead MLA Amrik Virk, who was involved in the over-payments as a member of the Kwantlen board. The cabinet shuffle
took place quietly in December, after emails surfaced that contra-dicted Virk’s claims he was not involved in the overpayments.
On Monday, NDP advanced education critic Kathy Corrigan described Jiles’ com-pensation as “$15,000 a handshake.” On Tuesday, NDP leader John Horgan went fur-ther.
“The $177,000 to Mr. Jiles translated into a $50,000 con-tribution to the B.C. Liberal Party from Mr. Jiles,” Horgan told the legislature. “The min-ister [Wilkinson] lob-bied for Simon Fraser University. Is the min-ister okay with $50,000 coming from the pub-lic back to the B.C. Liberal Party?”
Corrigan said Tuesday a similar arrangement saw lob-byist and “Liberal insider” Don Stickney paid $75,000 by Vancouver Community College.
B y A l e x c o o p e rRevelstoke Times Review
Revelstoke council agreed to waive the golf club’s outstanding rent and sign a new lease with the club that would see it go rent free for the next two years while a task force works towards a plan for the course’s future.
“I don’t see any point in burdening them with a lease they can’t pay because I would rath-er them do what they have been doing, which is paying down their debt,” said mayor Mark McKee dur-ing Tuesday’s council meeting.
“What’s the point of collecting money they can’t afford, then have them pay less down on their debt, or have the debt increasing?”
The Revelstoke Golf Club leas-es the golf course from the city. According to a staff report, the Revelstoke Golf Club has not paid its rent for the past year and owes the city about $43,000, including taxes and interest.
The golf club made the request as it works to deal with its finances.
There was some hesitation to the request, with councillor Connie Brothers saying she was concerned
about eliminating future rent.“I think it has to be limited to a
certain period of time and we can review it then,” she said.
Her suggestion was seconded by coun. Gary Sulz. “I understand the point of writing off the rent because they don’t have any money and I’m for us not beating a dead horse,” he said, adding the agreement should be short-term. “We cannot con-tinue to write off their financial obligations.”
McKee proposed an amendment so the next lease would only be for two years. It was passed unani-mously by council.
The decision to waive the club’s rent was followed by a vote to estab-lish a task force that would create a long-term sustainable plan for the club.
The task force would be expected to develop a 10-year capital improvement plan for the club, make recommendations for future priorities, investigate ways to ensure the club is sustainable, help the club develop community partnerships and provide regular reports to council regarding main-tenance issues.
Universities don’t need lobbyists, minister says
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Environmental groups say wolf cull doesn’t protect caribou
T h e c A N A D I A N p r e S SVICTORIA - A coalition of 60
environmental groups has sent the B.C. government an open letter supporting a petition that demands it stop killing wolves.
More than 173,000 people from all over the world signed the online plea saying that shooting wolves in two regions in B.C.’s Interior - one in the northeast and one along its border with Idaho - will not protect shrinking caribou herds.
The government says it plans to have hunters shoot as many
as 184 wolves from helicopters this year.
Petition backers and let-ter signatories Pacific Wild and The Valahalla Wilderness Society argue that human encroach-ment is threatening caribou, not wolves.
They say limits to mining, snowmobiling and backcountry skiing would be a better way to grow the herds.
The provincial government plans to continue culling wolves by sterilizing and shooting them for four more years.
Council waves golf club’s rent, creates task force
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From the Trail Creek News in 1895 to the Trail Times in 2015, the venerable local newspaper and its staff (from the left; Liz Bevan, Shannon McIlmoyle,
Sheri Regnier, Jeanine Margoreeth, Kevin Macintyre, Dave Dykstra, Jim Bailey, Michelle Bedford, Lonnie Hart and Guy Bertrand) are celebrating its 120th
anniversary in 2015.
Newspaper grows from humble beginnings in 1895B Y S H E R I R E G N I E R
Times Staff
The source of prosperity of the
Trail Creek county is, of course, its
magnificent ore bodies, according
the first edition of the Trail Creek
News. “Our interests at present
lie centred in and about the noble
structure that is rising foot by foot
on the brow of the hill overhanging
the beautiful town of Trail and of
its growth and magnitude we now
write,” noted the paper's writer and
editor W.F. Thompson on the inau-
gural front page.
The day was Saturday, Oct. 19,
1895 when Volume No. 1 of The
Trail Creek News was hot off the
presses. Under the headline, “This Means
You! When You Patronize the News
You Help Trail Grow,” Thompson
writes that it is now in order for
every citizen of Trail to subscribe
for the home newspaper, The Trail
Creek News, and “the times are
right for such a movement, the
price is right and if the News of
today is not all right, we will make
it right in future issues.”
The price was said to be “cheap”
at $2 per year, and the News office
would be found open all day long
and far into the night, and future
readers were expected to hand in
their subscription at once, so they
would not miss one issue of the
Trail newspaper. “If you want the
news, you must read the News,”
Thompson proclaimed almost 12
decades ago.While there's no silver or gold
commemoration for more than a
century of news reporting, the Trail
Times staff decided an honorary pat
on the back is deserving to all the
people who have typed, pressed,
written, delivered, or simply read
their way into the 120-year history
of the Silver City's only surviving
newspaper.Over the course of the year, we
will actively seek stories from peo-
ple in the Greater Trail commu-
nity such as long time subscribers,
past paper carriers and retired office
workers, who have memories to
share about how the Trail Times has
impacted their lives.See EARLY, Page 3
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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S STORONTO - A Toronto police officer
whose tweet about a mysterious tunnel found in the city went viral says he hopes the lighthearted appeal will stir up tips for investigators.
Staff Sgt. Chris Boddy drew internation-al attention Tuesday with his tweet: “If you built a tunnel near Rexall Centre in #Toronto give us a call, k?”
The tongue-in-cheek message was shared by thousands on social media and was also featured in newscasts in Canada and abroad.
The 24-year veteran of the Toronto police force, who followed news of the tunnel’s discovery despite being on a weeklong break from work, said he thinks the message resonated with people because they “don’t expect to see that from a cop.”
“Cops are just people too but we wear a uniform - that’s kind of one of my goals in using social media, to remind people of that and to keep it real,” he said.
It’s not the first time Boddy’s tweets have thrust him in the spotlight.
A back-to-school tweet encouraging stu-dents to reach out to kids eating alone in the cafeteria made the rounds after it was shared by U.S. talk show host Katie Couric in 2013.
“Dear Students: If you see a kid eating alone in the cafe, say hello and join him/her,” read the tweet.
Another message, this time about a stuffed animal found at Toronto’s Pearson airport, was retweeted hundreds of times and eventually led to the toy’s five-year-old owner.
So far, no one has stepped up to claim the tunnel as a result of the tweet but Boddy said he hopes his friendly tone will reassure whoever is responsible that it’s OK to come forward.
Police have made it clear there is no indication of criminal activity related to the bunker found last month near a Pan Am Games venue near York University, he said.
“I’d love for us to talk next week and say, ‘Yeah, somebody came forward as a result of seeing that tweet’ and it was who knows what, a university prank or whatever.”
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OTTAWA - Veterans Affairs Minister Erin O’Toole is urging the Senate to pass a government bill fast-tracking wounded ex-soldiers into fed-eral jobs, saying an ongoing reorganiza-tion will address the concerns of military watchdogs.
O’Toole’s com-ments come as the Harper government signals it is looking to see what can be done for reservists who are finding not all of their military pension will count towards their eventual civil service retirement.
O’Toole, who replaced Julian Fantino at the helm of the embattled depart-ment in early January, has been busy putting out political fires.
They’ve ranged from the question of converting pen-sion time - which the minister describes as “a specific and small situation” for part-time members - to the pointed concerns of Canadian Forces ombudsman Gary Walbourne, who says Veterans Affairs should not be passing judg-ment on whether a soldier’s discharge was medically justified.
Walbourne - with the qualified sup-port of the veterans ombudsman - said that determination should be made by National Defence, which is the agency that decides a
soldier is no longer fit to serve.
To that end, Bill C-27, which put quali-fied wounded veter-ans at the head of the line for federal jobs, should be amended, Walbourne said.
But O’Toole told a Senate committee Wednesday that the ombudsman’s con-cerns would be better addressed through the reorganization, which will see Veterans Affairs staff getting involved in cases of wounded members before their release.
“I sincerely hope the National Defence ombudsman’s sugges-tion, the need for it, will be eliminated on making better use of collaboration in that three-to-five year span for medically releas-ing veterans,” O’Toole said, referring to the length of time it takes some soldiers to move through the system.
From the moment a soldier is wounded and posted to a so-called joint person-nel support unit, they have three years under the military’s univer-
sality of service rule to recover and return to their unit. If they are deemed medic-ally unfit after that, the release process can take more than 18 months.
“I see why he made that sugges-tion, because he’s say-ing, ‘You’re injured in uniform, let’s let DND care of that,”’ O’Toole said.
“The issue is we at Veterans Affairs have that expertise, and now that we’re going to be collaborat-ing far earlier in the Canadian Forces life of that future veteran, we will eliminate the delay and frustration that the ombudsman highlighted.”
The legislation to give veterans top access to federal jobs was crafted last year after soldiers com-plained that they were being hustled out of the military before the 10-year mark, when they qualify for an indexed federal pen-sion.
At the time, the government’s answer to the pension con-
cern was that mem-bers could take a return of contribu-tion, or buy back their pension for conver-sion, if they landed in the federal civil ser-vice, the approach the Conservatives were championing.
Yet, earlier this week Beth Lepage, a former air force captain, revealed that a portion of her Canadian Forces pen-sion - accumulated as a part-time member - can’t be converted because of a differ-ence in the way gov-ernment and military retirement benefits are calculated.
The jobs legisla-tion, currently in the final stages of Senate
approval, doesn’t touch on the pension issue.
N o n e t h e l e s s , Lepage and Walbourne say that inability to fully convert a mixed-service pension will be a significant “disin-centive” to ex-soldiers applying for federal jobs.
In order to fix the problem, the federal Treasury Board would have to rewrite the regulations - some-thing it has so far refused to do.
There are some 30 cases in the sys-tem similar to that of Lepage, but O’Toole denies the pension would be a “disincen-tive” for reservists to apply.
Tories scramble to address complaints and fix veterans complaints ahead of vote
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OPINION
Digital eavesdropping puts fear in watching TVOur weekend news
feeds were sup-posed to be dis-tracted by other
things: how people in east-ern North America were supposed to find their neighbours buried under two metres of snow; how to spend quality time with family on the long week-ends, with our February snow melting all around us.
Instead, we were instructed to watch what we say in front of the tele-vision.
Who, in their right minds, would buy a TV set that can listen in to your private conversations and have them transcribed by software owned by an unknown third party?
Canadians, apparently.So-called ‘smart tele-
visions’ have a microphone either built into the screen itself or onto the remote control, theoretically so that couch-potato owners would not even need to exercise their thumbs to raise the volume, change the channel or find another reality show on cable. Just continue reclining and say: “More Honey Boo Boo!” What could be more convenient?
But it’s still early years
for voice-recognition tech-nology, so researchers need to listen in on what people actually say, so the algo-rithms can learn to deduce what you mean. Maybe you thought you said “Duck Dynasty” but what came out was “Overthrow the government!”
That, we are told, is why groups like Nuance Communications Inc. needs to hear what Canadians say when the wrong team scores a goal in a hockey game. Hint: if you wouldn’t say it in front of your mother, why say it in front of a digital eaves-dropper?
The TV people say they just want to serve us bet-ter.
They will not be coaxed or coerced by any govern-ment’s secret police into passing these conversa-tions along to their tran-scribers, to be filtered through their algorithms.
Nor can these devices be hacked. Please, don’t worry your little head about that. Couldn’t hap-pen. The technology may be in its infant days, but it’s rock solid, foolproof. Just the same, best never to say your credit card number out loud.
Samsung is one manu-
facturer of such technol-ogy, LG is another. Both companies were put on the media defensive over the weekend when people real-ized the Orwellian poten-tial of such a device.
Myself, I wonder if Prime Minister Stephen Harper has. Giving CSIS access to remote-control of the microphone switch in such a TV would be right up the dark alley his Bill C-51 would create.
That was another thing we weren’t supposed to be concerned about over the weekend.
According to the news coverage, Bill C-51 effect-ively frees CSIS, the sub-terranean arm of the RCMP, from official gov-ernment oversight.
They will be allowed to arrest you and hold you
without having to charge you with anything. They will be able to secretly monitor not only your crazy blog, but they can listen in on your phone calls and read your emails.
In other words, Bill C-51 will create Canada’s version of the KGB.
That’s all to protect us, says Harper. If not com-munists, there are ISIL extremists hiding under our beds, and our national security agency needs the tools to find them.
The trouble, of course, is that these very tools undermine the same free-doms the terrorists would destroy in all the places they control (not that any of the countries ISIL wants to overthrow are all that free right now). But a few nut-case attacks here and there in truly free coun-tries like ours can create conditions where people will give up their freedoms willingly.
Seems to already have happened.
With Bill C-51, we will have two enemies, not one. And both want the power to control what we think and what we say.
I neither tweet nor Facebook. A while back, I joined LinkedIn in order
to contact someone to arrange an interview, and now I can’t get out of it. People keep endorsing me, and I don’t know for what.
My aversion to social media really hurts my blog status, but there you are. If you can’t even get your family to follow you online, what’s the use? I’m grateful if anyone pays attention to my screed, but maybe if the federal Tories and the RCMP signed up as followers, I could get some serious stats.
But I will throw my television onto the city’s electronic waste pile before I allow it to monitor my basement rants. And I will put an election sign on my yard (if my wife agrees) for any candidate in the next election who prom-ises to undo the effects of Bill C-51.
ISIL wants to control what you are allowed to say and even your very thoughts. Apparently, so does Harper.
The Thought Police are here and until they arrest me, I won’t even know if they’re listening. And while CSIS is (or isn’t) lis-tening, I’m sure the prime minister isn’t, either.
Greg Neiman is a retired Advocate editor.
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The first round of the battle for the euro is over, and Germany has won. The whole
European Union won, really, but the Germans set the strat-egy. Technically, everybody just kicked the can down the road four months by extending the existing bail-out arrangements for Greece, but what was really revealed in the past week is that the Greeks can’t win. Not now, not later.
The left-wing Syriza Party stormed to power in Greece last month promis-ing to ditch the austerity that has plunge a third of the population below the poverty line and to renegoti-ate the country’s massive $270 billion bail-out with the EU and the International Monetary Fund. Exhausted Greek vot-ers just wanted an end to six years of pain and privation, and Syriza offered them hope. But it has been in retreat ever since.
In the election campaign, Syriza promised 300,000 new jobs and a big boost in the monthly minimum wage (from $658 to $853). After last week’s talks with the EU and the IMF, all that’s left is a promise to expand an existing programme that provides temporary work for the unemployed, and an “ambition” to raise the min-imum wage “over time”.
Its promise to provide free electricity and subsidised food for families without incomes remains in place, but Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s gov-ernment has promised the EU and the IMF that its “fight against the humanitarian crisis (will have) no negative fiscal effect.” In other words, it won’t spend extra money on these projects unless it makes equal cuts somewhere else.
Above all, its promise not to extend the bail-out programme
had to be dropped. Instead, it got a four-month “bridging loan” that came with effectively the same harsh restrictions on Greek government spending (although Syriza was allowed to rewrite them in its own words). And that loan will expire at the end of June, just before Greece has to redeem $7 billion in bonds.
So there will be four months of attri-tional warfare and then another crisis – which Greece will once again lose. It will lose partly because it hasn’t actually got a very good case for special treatment, and partly because the European Union doesn’t really believe
it will pull out of the euro com-mon currency.
Greece’s debt burden is stag-gering – about $30,000 per cap-ita. It can never be repaid, and some of it will eventually have to be cancelled or “resched-uled” into the indefinite future. But not now, when other euro members like Spain, Portugal and Ireland are struggling with some success to pay down their heavy but smaller debts. If Greece got such a sweet deal, everybody else would demand debt relief too.
The cause of the debt was the same in every case: the euro was a stable, low-interest cur-rency that banks were happy to lend in, even to relatively low-income European countries that were in the midst of clear-ly unsustainable, debt-fuelled booms. So all the southern European EU members (and Ireland) piled in – but nobody else did it on the same scale as the Greeks.
The boom lasted for the best part of a decade after the euro currency launched in 1999. Ordinary Greeks happily bought imported German cars, French wines, Italian luxury goods and much else, while the rich and politically well
connected raked off far larger sums and paid as little tax as possible. Greek governments ended up lying about the size of the country’s debts.
No less an authority than Syriza’s finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, described the atmosphere of the time like this: “The average Greek had con-vinced herself that Greece was superb. A cut above the rest....Due to our exceptional ‘cun-ning’, Greece was managing to combine fun, sun, xenychti (late nights) and the highest GDP growth in Europe.”
Then the roof fell in after the 2008 crash, and “self-immola-tion followed self-congratula-tion, but left self-importance in the driving seat,” as Varoufakis put it.
That is why the sympathy for Greece’s plight in other EU members is limited. Moreover, the EU, and especially the Germans, have managed to convince themselves that “grexit” (Greek exit from the euro) would not be a limitless disaster.
The other PIGS (Portugal, Ireland and Spain) are in much better shape financially, and Brussels no longer fears that the Greek “contagion” will spread irresistibly to them as well. Neither does it think that a Greek departure from the euro would bring the whole edifice of the single currency tumbling down. And it knows that the vast majority of Greeks don’t want to leave either the euro or the EU – so it’s playing hardball.
When the interim deal was made public on Tuesday, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras put the best possible face on it, saying that Greece had “won a battle, but not the war.” In fact he lost the first battle, as he was bound to. It will take him longer to lose the whole war, but that will probably happen too.
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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S STORONTO - Three in four
Canadian adults said they were bullied while in school, accord-ing to a new survey, while near-ly half of the parents polled said their kids have been bullied at some point.
The Angus Reid Institute online poll of more than 1,500 adults sought to measure their experiences of bullying, per-ceptions of how serious the issue is, and thoughts on how
well - or poorly - the country’s schools are responding to the problem.
Seventy-five per cent of the respondents said they were bul-lied at some point during ele-mentary school or high school. Among them, 22 per cent said it occurred “once or twice” and 29 per cent said it occurred “a few times.”
Among the 24 per cent who said the bullying occurred regularly, often, or continu-
ously, 37 per cent said they still think about it and 19 per cent said the events had a serious and lasting impact.
Among parents of kids cur-rently in school, 46 per cent said that as far they knew, their kids are being or were bul-lied at some point. While the vast majority agreed that bul-lies need to be dealt with much more severely, they weren’t optimistic that bad behaviour would end in schools.
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Even during the creative process, it was all about get-ting people involved and hearing what others had to say.
“It started with a pic-ture that I had seen on Pinterest,” said Danczak.
“I asked my class what quote they wanted and we picked one. While I was actually doing the project, I was always interacting with people who would come into the art room and I would explain the project to them and everyone was really helping me out.”
School counsellor Loretta Jones was instru-mental in putting the moti-vational art project togeth-er, but says the message of acceptance is more power-
ful when it comes from a fellow student.
“The artwork is the student code of conduct in their words,” she said. “Rather than a jumble of words and jargon saying, ‘a student has the right to...’
“We have our own way of telling them to play nice, but this was a collaborative effort. They told us what they wanted up there.”
The art is just one piece in a planned series over the next few years to create a welcoming environment for new students down the road.
“I really hope that some-one in 10 years sees the message and listens,” said Danzcak, adding that any-one who has a similar idea should take the plunge.
“Go for it. It could start small but it can always grow to be something bigger.”
Pink Shirt Day got plenty of support to pre-vent bullying on Wednesday. Above, students and staff at Webster School were treated to a pancake breakfast by the PAC and the day was capped off with a recognition assembly in the afternoon. Left; firefighter Kyle Boutin, Deputy Regional Fire Chief Dan Derby, Acting Captain Glen Gallamore and firefighter Clay Alderson donned pink shirts to fight bullying. Below; staff at the Trail Times sported the anti-bullying mes-sage. Bottom left; Brandon Koziel joined the rest of the staff at Ferraro Foods wearing pink t-shirts.
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The Beaver Valley Nitehawks can elimiminate the Nelson Leafs from the KIJHL’s Neil Murdoch division semi-final tonight when they drop the puck at the Beaver Valley Arena for Game 5.
After a 5-2 victory Monday, the Nitehawks beat the Queen City’s Leafs 3-2 in Game 4 Tuesday in Nelson to take a 3-1 stranglehold on the division playoff.
“You win games all kinds of ways,” said Nitehawks coach and GM Terry Jones. “Sometimes you get outstand-ing goaltending and we got that, some-times the power play clicks for you, and a lot of times it’s the penalty kill-ing, and penalty killing has probably been one of the biggest keys, because momentum of all of the games has really been dependant on it.”
After a scoreless first period in which B.V. outshot Nelson 9-8, the Hawks would get into penalty trouble in the second frame giving up four power plays to the Leafs. Nelson had plenty of opportunity outshooting the Hawks 17-6 in the period, but Beaver Valley would emerge with a 3-1 lead, that included Reid Anderson’s winning goal with 3:13 remaining in the per-iod and some great goaltending from Carson Schamerhorn. Despite the out-come, Jones remains concerned with the undisciplined penalties.
“I still think, there is lots of room for improvement. We’re dealing with young men here and every once in a while their emotions get control of them and take over . . . We had a couple guys take dumb penalties (Tuesday), the dumb ones you can’t kill, the hard working ones are easy to kill.”
Nelson’s Patrick Croome scored first capitalizing on the power at the 11:30 of the middle frame. But Beaver Valley would tie it after the Leafs Aaron Brewer was sent off for boarding. Ross Armour would set up Taylor Stafford in front who put it by Nelson AP goalie Jason Mailhiot at the 7:24 mark.
Four minutes later Sam Swanson would set up Spencer McLean to give the Hawks the lead, and Reid Anderson would finish some hard work in front from Mitch Foyle and Armour to net the winner only 16 seconds after
McLean’s marker to make it 3-1. “I was happy with our overall game
on both nights,” said Jones. “I thought we moved the puck well out of our end, our defence were really moving their feet, and when they do that we’re a better team. When they feel pressure and they don’t move their feet, it puts pressure on our wingers, and causes turnovers, and it causes us to be in our end more.”
The Nitehawks cranked it up in the third, limiting Nelson to just four shots while firing 13 at Mailhiot on three straight power plays to start the period. But the Leafs proved resilient and would find the back of the net on a power-play goal by Tyler Fyfe to cut the lead to 3-2 at 9:44. But the Hawks PK would come up big again killing a late penalty with under six minutes to play.
The Leafs outshot the Hawks 29-28 and went 2-for-8 on the power play while the Hawks were 1-for-5. Armour received the Game Star for the Hawks with his two assists.
Goaltending has been key in the series, with Schamerhorn replaced starter Drake Poirier in Game 2 and came up big, emerging as a steady and dependable presence between the pipes.
“Carson has been excellent,” said Jones. “It’s funny we started the playoff with Drake and he was unbelievable in Game 1, (a 5-0 shutout) and really he didn’t play poorly in Game 2 it was more of a momentum move, then Carson came in and played exceptional hockey. We know we have two guys who can play well and that’s really good to know as a coach.”
The series has been a bitter, physic-al battle, and while Castlegar and Spokane are locked in a 2-2 series tie, guaranteeing at least a Game 6, the Nitehawks would like nothing more than to oust the Leafs in Game 5 tonight at the Hawks Nest.
“The sooner that you can finish a series off the better it is for the future of the playoff round. But that being said, it’s one game, and would I like to win it and finish it, absolutely, but it’s sports anything can happen and I hope we’re just prepared and ready to play our game.”
The puck drops tonight at 7 p.m.
Smoke Eaters suffer OT loss B y T i m e s s T a f f
The Trail Smoke Eaters came close to eliminating the West Kelowna Warriors, but would fall 4-4 in overtime on Tuesday at Royal LePage Place in Kelowna.
A victory would have dealt a fatal blow to the Warriors chances to make the playoffs, but a last minute goal by Jason Cotton in the 4-on-4 overtime period kept the Warriors in the loop.
“We’re playing against teams that are fighting for playoff spots,” said Trail cap-tain Jake Lucchini. “These are exciting games to play in, they’re really high intensity and we’re right there.”
Trail outplayed West K in the first period but trailed 1-0 heading into the second after Tanner Campbell popped in a rebound over the shoulder of Brett Clark to make it 1-0.
The Warriors took a 2-0
lead early in the middle frame when Tyler Kunz’s slap shot went off the post and in. But as Trail has done all year, they battled back. Max Newton deflected a Jeremy Lucchini point shot past Scott Patton at 11:07, and 34 seconds later Kienan Scott would score unassisted to tie it at 2.
The Smoke Eaters would take the lead at 14:28 when Scott took a feed from Conner Wynne and beat Patton for his 15th goal of the year. However, less than four min-utes later, Kyle Marino tucked one by Clark to tie it 3-3.
Desperate for the two points, the Warriors domin-ated in the third, outshooting the Smokies 14-4 but Clark stood tall and West K failed to find the equalizer.
The Smokies killed a pen-alty in the opening two min-utes, but at 4:18 Cotton gath-ered up a loose puck in front and wired it top shelf for the Warriors victory.
With Dallas Calvin out
with injury, West Kelowna keyed on Lucchini and Martin and held them off the score sheet.
“It was a tough couple games for us,” said Lucchini. “We just couldn’t get any-thing going and it was tough but those games happen and hopefully we’ll get it done on Saturday.”
The Salmon Arm Silverbacks also won in overtime Tuesday defeating the Langley Rivermen 4-3, to remain tied with West Kelowna for fourth with 64 points. Merritt currently sits two points back, but has two games in hand on the Warriors and one game on Salmon Arm.
The Warriors wind up their season on Saturday with a game against Surrey, while Merritt played Surrey Wednesday, face Salmon Arm on Friday and Trail in Merritt on Saturday. Salmon Arm plays its final game against Penticton on Saturday.
Trail captain MVP finalist
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The Beaver Valley Nitehawks Carson Schamerhorn backstopped the Hawks to a pair of playoff wins in Nelson, as the Leafs face elimination tonight in B.V.
B y J i m B a i l e yTimes Sports Editor
Trail Smoke Eater captain Jake Lucchini is in the running for the Vern Dye Memorial Trophy given to the BCHL’s Most Valuable Player.
“It’s cool,” said Lucchini. “I was on the bus . . . and my brother actually looked back at me and told me I was the finalist for MVP and I was shocked. I couldn’t believe it, it’s really cool and I never thought it would actually happen.”
A coaches online poll determined the final-ists from each of the three divisions, Lucchini was voted MVP for the Interior division and is up against league-leading scorer Corey Mackin of the Coquitlam Express from the Mainland division and goaltender Guillaume Decelles of the Island division’s Nanaimo Clippers.
“Corey Mackin is the best player in the league and Nanaimo’s goalie is really good,
and to be put into a category with them is really something special for me.”
Lucchini had a breakout year in his third year with the Smokies leading the team with 34 goals and 46 assists good for fourth place in league scoring. The Michigan Tech com-mit has also been a leader on and off the ice, and was awarded the ‘C’ after Trail’s former captain Scott Davidson was traded in January to Chilliwack.
“I never really set any goals for myself, I just wanted to improve from my last season. My first season was tough, and I did a little bit better last year, but to do what I did this year is something I never thought I could do, so I’m really happy.”
The Trail native has scored four-times as many goals as last year, and tripled his assists total. While his production has sky-rocketed, Lucchini is also one of the team’s iron men and has yet to miss a game this season. The skilled player is also a relentless backchecker, fearless in the corners, with a hard, quick shot, yet he readily attributes much of his success to the players around him.
“I played with Charlie Zuccarini who is a really easy player to play with, and when he stopped playing, Dallas Calvin and Craig Martin, I mean they are unbelievable hockey players, so easy to play with, they put you in good situations to succeed.”
Unlike past seasons when there was a win-ner from each conference for each award, there will be just one winner per award as the league is currently aligned into three divisions.
In 2013, Smoke Eaters forward Brent Baltus won the Interior Conference MVP, and is the only Smoke Eater to receive the award. If suc-cessful, Lucchini would join the ranks of local players who won the MVP with other BCHL teams, like Bruno Campese (Penticton Knights 1981), Ray Ferraro (Penticton Knights, 1982), Travis Drake (Vernon Lakers 1988 ) and Shawn Horcoff (Chilliwack 1996).
The winners will be announced prior to the start of playoffs next week.
See Scoreboard for all award finalists.
Hawks poised to oust Leafs
Smokies wrap up season Saturday
Jake Lucchini up for MVp Award
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ScoreboardHockey
BCHL All Times Pacific Interior Division GP W L T OL GF GA PtPenticton 56 42 9 3 2 211 112 89Vernon 57 36 17 1 3 216 158 76SalmArm 56 28 20 3 5 185 169 64WKelona 57 28 21 0 8 199 208 64Merritt 55 30 23 0 2 196 199 62Trail 57 18 33 0 6 203 247 42 Island Division GP W L T OL GF GA PtNanaimo 56 37 16 0 3 228 158 77Victoria 55 26 18 1 10 205 201 63Powell R 56 26 20 1 9 199 200 62Alberni 56 26 24 2 4 195 187 58Cowichan 57 20 32 2 3 173 233 45 Mainland Division GP W L T OL GF GA PtChilliwack 56 35 17 1 3 204 181 74Langley 56 28 22 1 5 195 190 62P.G. 56 26 23 1 6 187 204 59Coquitlam 56 25 26 1 4 215 227 55
Surrey 56 9 43 1 3 137 274 22
Wednesday’s results N/ASurrey at Merritt, 7 p.m.
Victoria at Cowichan Valley, 7 p.m.Tuesday’s results
West Kelowna 4 Trail 3 (OT)Salmon Arm 4 Langley 3 (OT)
Friday’s gamesVernon at Penticton, 7 p.m.
Langley at Prince George, 7 p.m.Victoria at Nanaimo, 7 p.m.
Chilliwack at Coquitlam, 7 p.m.Merritt at Salmon Arm, 7 p.m.
Alberni Valley at Powell River, 7:15 p.m.Saturday’s games
Alberni Valley at Powell River, 5 p.m.Salmon Arm at Penticton, 6 p.m.Surrey at West Kelowna, 7 p.m.
Nanaimo at Victoria, 7 p.m.Coquitlam at Chilliwack, 7 p.m.
Langley at Prince George, 7 p.m.Trail at Merritt, 7:30 p.m.
BCHL Playoffs commence Mar. 2
BCHL Award FinalistsMVP
Interior: Jake Lucchini – F – TrailMainland: Corey Mackin –F- Coquitlam Island: Guillaume Decelles -G- Nanaimo
Rookie of the YearInterior: Liam Finlay -F- Vernon VipersMainland: Brett Supinski -F- CoquitlamIsland: Brett Gruber – F – Victoria
Top Defenceman Award:Interior: Andrew Farny – Salmon ArmMainland: Daniel Fritz – Coquitlam Island: Kurt Gosselin – Alberni
Most SportsmanlikeInterior: John Schiavo – F – MerrittMainland: Corey Mackin – F – CoquitlamIsland: Sean Harrison – F– Cowichan
Coach of the YearInterior: Fred Harbinson – Penticton VeesMainland: Jason Tatarnic – ChilliwackIsland: Mike Vandekamp – NanaimoThe league’s non-voting awards (Top Goaltender, Goalie Tandem and Top Scorer) will be included in the release next
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The Trail Wildlife Association and West Kootenay Big Game Trophy Association members restocked the winter storage of pellets in December at the Salmo-Creston sheep-feeding station to help the bighorn sheep survive the winter. From left: Ken Moon (TWA), Liam Den Biesen, Dawson Den Biesen, Tyler Hwalstad (W.K.B.G.T.A), Josh Conci (W.K.B.G.T.A) and Laurie Bursaw (TWA & W.K.B.G.T.A). Missing from photo - Dean Den Biesen (W.K.B.G.T.A) and Eric Turner (W.K.B.G.T.A).
S u b m i t t e dThe West Kootenay Big Game
Trophy Association ventured over the hump to Creston to pick up 4,400 pounds of feed for Salmo-Creston bighorn sheep in early December.
The program originated over 25 years ago with the Trail Wildlife Association (TWA) and the Nelson Rod and Gun Club. Each winter starting around Christmas the sheep are fed pellets and hay three times a week in a joint effort amongst the clubs.
“It is a great opportunity for any-one to see these animals up close and personal,” said longtime TWA mem-ber and co-chair Laurie Bursaw. “I have taken my family and friends on feed days and they love it, espe-cially the kids. To see these sheep that close and watch their behav-ior with each other is priceless. If you haven’t made the trip I would strongly recommend it to anyone. It just doesn’t get old”
A few years ago a shed was con-structed to store hay bails that are brought up earlier in the fall before the snow falls. For over 20
years Bursaw has taken part in the program with help from Gordon Krantz and now Ken Moon. Feed days are Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays throughout the winter months until mid to late March.
The sheep-feeding program is one of many conservation efforts overseen by the TWA over the years. Others include the Murphy Creek spawning channel, the mountain goat transplant, Fort Shepherd Conservancy, Elk transplant in Arrow Lakes and Christina Lake regions, as well as mule deer track-ing in Fort Shepherd.
The West Kootenay Big Game Trophy Association will also be hold-ing its Big Game banquet on Mar. 7 at the Trail Memorial Centre. Doors open at 3 p.m. with awards presen-tation starting at 4:30 p.m. and din-ner at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are on sale until Wednesday, Mar. 4 at Colander, Valley Firearms, Warfield FasGas, Country Roads in Fruitvale, Integra Tire in Castlegar and Castlegar Sports Centre.
For more info contact W.K.B.G.T.A president Josh Conci at 231-5674.
Wildlife groups aid bighornsb y t i m e S S t a f f
With a pair of wins last week, Gerick’s Sports did the improbable clinching a playoff berth in the Trail Commercial Hockey League.
Gericks beat Allstar 8-3 Sunday to claim a playoff spot, as Arlington continued its freefall from playoff contention with a 3-1 loss to Re/Max.
The cycle and sports crew won its fifth game in a row and now sits tied with OK Tire for third
place each with 30 points. Allstar meanwhile secured second place with a 6-5 win over OK Tire on Thursday, while Re/Max clinched the regular season title over a week ago.
Gericks Craig Clare scored twice and added three assists in the victory, while Eric Hill had a four point game with two goals and two assists. With the game tied at 1-1 after the first period, Gericks erupted for five second-period goals to take a 6-2 lead, then put it away in the third. Steve Walker added a goal and two assists, while Mike Boisvert, Nathan Stanton, and Curtis Wabelin rounded out the scoring for Gericks.
Arlington’s final game of the season was a must-win, but Re/Max spoiled any chance of a return to the playoffs with a 3-1 victory.
Jason Vecchio led Re/Max with a goal and two assists, while Riley Deadmarsh scored the win-ner, and Devyn Hill added the other marker. Kris Davis counted the only goal for Arlington.
In last Thursday’s other match, Gericks defeated Re/Max 6-2 to tie Arlington in the standings. The Big A led Gericks by as much as 10 points in January, but a February surge by Gericks, and four straight losses by the Big A would end its season.
Tonight’s game between Gericks and OK Tire will decide the third and fourth playoff seeds with the puck drop at 7:15 p.m., while Allstar will face off against Re/Max at 8:30 p.m. at the Cominco Arena.
The playoffs start Sunday, with Re/Max taking on the fourth seed at 2:15 p.m. and Allstar the third seed at 3:30 p.m.
Gericks seize playoff spot
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Dear Annie: I am currently in a two-year relationship with “Alison.” Both of us are recently divorced. During Alison’s mar-riage, she became a confidante to “Will.” They have remained friends, and she insists nothing of a sexual nature ever happened.
When we first got together, Will was in a new relationship and had limited contact with Alison. However, eight months ago, that relationship ended. Now he and Alison text each other mul-tiple times a day, all day long. He lives with his parents, and Alison stops by a couple of times a month to visit with his family.
Will has made it very clear that he doesn’t want to be around me at all. Every time he gets into trouble, Alison is right there to help. At least once every few weeks, he drives 15 miles to eat at the restaurant where she works.
I am not sure how to handle this friend-ship. I trust Alison, or I would have left already. Any advice, or am I foolish? -- N.
Dear N.: There is nothing wrong with having friendships, even those that include confidences. The prob-lem is when one per-son’s significant other is unwelcome and entirely excluded from these relationships and the confidences shared are intimate and inter-fere with the primary relationship.
We think Will is a bit possessive of Alison, but that shouldn’t alarm you. Does Alison show you his texts? She should (but you
do not need to com-ment on them). If you trust her and she is not hiding anything from you, we’d let this run its course. It is impor-tant, however, that Alison understands the boundaries of this friendship so she isn’t leading Will on or dam-aging her relationship with you.
Dear Annie: I take both Pilates and yoga classes. One student loves to chew gum during class. It was ingrained in me by my father that loudly chewing gum is con-sidered bad manners. It drives me crazy.
I find it hard to con-centrate when she is popping and chomping away on her gum, and I know I’m not the only one in class who feels this way. Any sugges-tions on how to get her to stop? -- Cringing in Exercise Class
Dear Cringing: People do a lot of boor-ish things during exer-cise classes. Perhaps the gum helps her
concentrate or keeps her from having a dry mouth. She probably isn’t aware of how loud and annoying it is. Unfortunately, you can-not eliminate all behav-iors that drive you crazy. You can, howev-er, register a complaint with the instructor, move into a different class or ask the woman nicely whether she can make the gum chewing less noisy.
Dear Annie: I’m responding to “Outvoted,” who is caring for her abusive mother and arguing with her siblings about replacing the batteries in Mom’s pacemaker.
I, too, have been a caregiver for a person with dementia who became verbally abu-sive. Another option is to seek the assistance of a geriatric psychiat-ric professional. He or she can prescribe medi-cation that will calm the abusive tendencies and allow the siblings to care for their mother in her home with much
less stress. -- Been There
Dear Been There: Putting Mom on medi-cation that will calm her down could help. It’s quite possible that she should have been on some type of anti-depressant for most of her life. After all,
her abusive personal-ity isn’t recent or due to dementia. She has always been this way, and the dementia sim-ply makes it worse. Medication may not completely resolve the issue of replac-ing Mom’s pacemaker batteries, but it could
make the siblings less stressed when working on these decisions.
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For Friday, Feb. 27, 2015 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Be patient with family members today, especially females, because it’s easy to lose your temper. The influence that provokes you is fleeting, and soon will be gone if you hold your tongue. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Resist the urge to snap at others today, because you might want to do this. If you teach or are involved in sales and marketing, mind your words, as you might be overbearing. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You will be keen to go after what you want if shopping today or in any kind of financial negotia-tion. In fact, not only are you keen, you might be demanding! CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Today the Moon is in your sign, at odds with fiery
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Be patient with partners and close friends today. The Moon is opposite your sign but is agitated by fiery Mars. That’s why you find others challenging to deal with. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) You are focused on money and cash flow now, which is why it behooves you to be patient with co-workers. Don’t bite the hand that
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1st Trail Real Estate1252 Bay Avenue, Trail 250.368.5222
1993 Columbia Ave, Rossland 250.362.5200WWW.COLDWELLBANKERTRAIL.COM
Trail $169,000Nathan 250.231.9484
Rossland $699,000Marie-Claude 250.512.1153
Fruitvale $219,500Rob 250.231.4420
Fruitvale $OLDNathan 250.231.9484
Rossland $344,900Marie-Claude 250.512.1153
Fruitvale $319,000Rob 250.231.4420
Warfield $189,900Nathan 250.231.9484
Rossland $59,900Marie-Claude 250.512.1153
Trail $499,000Jack 250.368.5222
Trail $149,000Nathan 250.231.9484
Fruitvale $295,000Rob 250.231.4420
Rossland $OLDMarie-Claude 250.512.1153
Trail $215,000Rob 250.231.4420
Nathan Kotyk
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Marie-Claude Germain
250-512-1153
Jack McConnachie250-368-5222
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New ListingGST Paid!
Owner OccupiedNew Listing
House & Acreage 1 bedroom Condo,
Quick Possession Rural with Huge Shop
Executive Living2 Suites 5 Bedrooms &
New Shop
Call Today! 250-364-1413 ext 206
FruitvaleRoute 362 20 papers 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Evergreen AveRoute 366 18 papers Beaver St, Maple AveRoute 369 15 papers Birch Ave, Johnson Rd, Red-wood Dr, Rosewood DrRoute 375 12 papers Green Rd & Lodden RdRoute 379 18 papers Cole St, Nelson AveRoute 380 23 papers Galloway Rd, Mill RdRoute 381 7 papers Coughlin RdRoute 382 7 papers Debruin Rd & Staats RdRoute 384 19 papers Cedar Ave, Kootenay
GenelleRoute 303 15 papers 12th Ave, 2nd St, GrandviewRoute 304 13 papers 12th & 14th Ave
West TrailRoute 149 7 papers Binns St, McAnally St, Kitchener Ave
WarfieldRoute 195 12 papers Blake Crt, Whitman Way
SunningdaleRoute 211 26 papers Hazelwood Dr, Olivia Cres, Viola Cres.Route 219 15 papers Hazelwood Drive
MontroseRoute 341 24 papers 10th Ave, 8th Ave, 9th AveRoute 344 17 papers 10th Ave, 9th AveRoute 345 12 papers 10th Ave, 9th AveRoute 347 16 papers 10th Ave, 9th Ave, 9th StRoute 348 19 papers 12th Ave, Christie RdRoute 346 27 papers 8th, 9th & 10th AveRoute 340 24 papers 10th Ave, 7th St, 8th St
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Rossland CARRIERS NEEDED FOR ROUTES IN ALL AREAS
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Help WantedCOLANDER RESTAURANT is now taking applications for Line Cook. Career training available. Bring resume to 1475 Cedar Avenue, Trail.
INTEGRA TIRE, Woody’s Tire & Auto is looking for an experi-enced full time Tire Techni-cian, minimum 2 years experi-ence in a tire shop, valid drivers licence. Must be able to work in a fast-paced envi-ronment as a team member. Qualifi ed applicants contact Woody at 250-364-1208,[email protected] or in person at 1995 Columbia Ave-nue in Trail.
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TomorrowCirculation Department250-364-1413 Ext. 206For more Information
Work WantedHousekeeping or visiting with the senior at their home or in a facility. Families need a break. Contact Gwen 250-304-7380.
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Garden & LawnM.Olson’s Yardcare, Book Now for dethatching, aerating 250-368-5488, 250-364-0075SPRING YARD CLEAN UPaerating, de-thatching, pruningBook now. 250-368-5552Will do TREE PRUNING. 250-231-4560
RecyclingSUNSHINE RECYCLING will pick up your batteries and your refundable recycling for free! Please call 250-368-6300 or 250-231-4560
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Heavy Duty Machinery
A-STEEL SHIPPING DRY STORAGE CONTAINERS
Used 20’40’45’53’ and insulated containers all
sizes in stock. Trades are welcome.
40’Containers under $2500!DMG 40’ containers under $2,000 each. Also JD 544 & 644 wheel Loaders & 20,000 lb CAT forklift.
Wanted to buy 300 size hydraulic excavator.
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Misc. WantedPrivate Collector Looking toBuy Coin Collections, Silver,Antiques, Native Art, Estates +Chad: 250-499-0251 Local
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LotsFRUITVALE, 57’X80’ Flat lot for sale. Laurel Ave. $65,000. 250-367-7436
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Apt/Condo for RentBella Vista, Shavers Bench Townhomes. N/S, N/P. 2-3 bdrms. Phone 250-364-1822
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Apt/Condo for Rent1/2 MONTH FREE RENT
WANETA MANORSuites
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250-368-8423
Ermalinda Estates, Glenmer-ry, spacious 1-2bdrms. Adults only. Secure building w/eleva-tor. N/S, N/P. Ongoing im-provements. Ph.250-364-1922E.TRAIL, 1&2bdrm. apts. F/S, W/D. Yard. 250-368-3239Francesco Estates, Glenmer-ry,spacious 1-3bdrms. Adults only (45+). Secure building w/elevator. N/S, N/P. Ongoing improvements. Ph. 250-368-6761FRUITVALE, 1 & 2bdrm. suites; spacious, bright; good location, close to school/town and borders on park. F/S, W/DNo pets, No smoking. Refer-ences. $650. - $750./mo. + utilities. 250-921-9141Glenmerry 2bdrm. apt. F/S Heat included. N/S. $695./mo. 250-368-5908GLENVIEW APTS. Spacious, quiet 2 bdrm. apts. available. 250-364-2401TRAIL, 1bd. Ross. Ave., w/d/f/s. ns/np. $600./mo. utilities inc. 250-368-1361TRAIL, 2bd. apt. Friendly, quiet secure bldg. Heat incl. N/P, N/S. 250-368-5287WANTED: 2-3 bdrm apt. Downtown Trail or within walk-ing distance. With parking & W/D. Suitable for 2 seniors. Call 250.368.6647WARFIELD, 1bdrm. condo. Laundry on site. Free parking. N/S, N/P. Available immedi-ately. $550./mo. + electricity. 250-229-4149WARFIELD, 2BD. apt., facing south, ground fl oor. $800./mo. includes heat & power. Long term negotiable. References. 250-512-1382 after 5:30pm.WARFIELD APARTMENTS. 2-bdrm, N/S, N/P. Long term tenants. 250-368-5888W.TRAIL 2-bdrm. main fl oor. f/s,w/d,d/w. $700./mo. plus utilities. 250-368-1015
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SHOP/ WAREHOUSE, 4300sq.ft. Ample outside space. Good access. 250-368-1312
Duplex / 4 PlexFRUITVALE, 3bd., renovated, w/deck. $900. heat incl. F/S, N/S. Avail. Apr1 250-368-3384
Homes for RentShavers Bench! 3 Bedroom, full basement, F/S, N/S, N/P. $900/month. 250-364-1551TRAIL, 4b/r home, 1 reno’dbathrm, central A/C, f/s/w/d, ns,np, full bsmt, rv carport, nr Safeway, 1534 4th Ave. $1150. + util. 250-364-3978W.TRAIL, 3BD. $1,000./mo.incl.util. W/D,F/S. March 1st. 250-368-3732 after 6pm.
TownhousesGLENMERRY, Clean 3bd townhouse, covered parking, F/S, D/W, central air. NS. No Pets. $925./mo. Available immed. Ref.req. 250-367-9607
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Auto ServicesPAINT, AUTOBODY &
Restoration. (250)835-2070canadianhotrodsinc.com
Trucks & Vans2006 FORD F150 4X4, verygood condition. 147,000km. $12,500. New summers & win-ters. 250-231-4242
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Trail’s Future is Bright!Victoria Street Buy-a-Light Fundraising Campaign
• Showcase a Feature Landmark • Celebrate our City & Community Spirit • Enhance the Esplanade •• Create more Excitement & Energy around the Downtown Core • Reconnect Downtown with the Columbia River •
• The LED Lights will complement the lights to be integrated in the soon-to-be Pipeline/Pedestrian Bridge •
*96 lights available. Charitable donation tax receipt available. Forms available at City Hall & online. Image is rendering only.
More info at www.trail.ca/en/inside-city-hall/Buy-a-Light-Campaign.asp or call 250-364-0834
Light-up our Bridge for only $200/light!The Downtown Opportunities & Action Committee (DOAC) is well on their to reaching their $190,000 fundraising goal. Show your support too! Buy-a-Light after March 2nd for $200* and you will receive formal sponsor recognition at the west entrance of the Victoria Street Bridge.
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We need carriers in your area!Deliver the West Kootenay Advertiser one day a week and pad your pockets with a little extra cash!
SubmittedJuno award winner Valdy is coming to the
Rossland Miners Hall on Saturday, March 14, 2015. Part of the fabric of Canadian pop and folk music for over 30 years, Valdy has four gold albums and Juno awards for Folk Singer of the Year and Folk Entertainer of the Year.
This is an evening not to be missed:A Rossland Rotary event, visit www.valdy.
com and www.rosslandrotary.org to learn more. Proceeds of the event will go to Rossland Rotary community and youth projects.
Tickets are $25/person - $30 at the door, available at Powderhound Sports, Rossland, and Mallard’s Source for Sports, Castlegar on Feb 28.
Doors open at 7 p.m. and the concert starts at 8 p.m.
Valdy coming to Miners HallRossland
Submitted photo
Juno Award winner Valdy will play in Rossland on March 14.
(Columbia Basin) – Organizations with projects that directly benefit Basin youth may apply for funding through Columbia Basin Trust’s Youth Grants program.
A range of organizations can apply—including non-profit, public and First Nations groups, plus youth aged 15 to 29 with a sponsoring organiza-tion.
Projects that meet eligibility
requirements can receive up to $15,000.
The application deadline is March 10, 2015.
“Thanks to the dedication and creativity of projects that organizations bring forward, young people have a range of opportunities to engage in their communities and with one another,” said Lisa Kilpatrick, Columbia Basin Trust Senior Manager, Delivery of Benefits.
“From theatre projects to pow-wows, robotics teams to youth-led television networks, funding is being used to benefit youth in the Basin in meaningful and diverse ways.”
For more information or to discuss your project idea, contact Michelle d’Entremont, Basin Youth Liaison, at 1.800.505.8998 or [email protected]. For details, visit cbt.org/youthgrants2015.
Columbia basin TRusT
Grants available for projects that benefit youth
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KOOTENAY HOMES INC.1358 Cedar Avenue, Trail • 250.368.8818
www.kootenayhomes.com www.century21.caThe Local Experts™
WE CAN SELL YOUR HOME.
NOBODY HAS THE RESOURCES WE DO!
Mark Wilson250-231-5591 [email protected]
Terry Alton250-231-1101 [email protected]
Tonnie Stewart250-365-9665 [email protected]
Mary Martin250-231-0264 [email protected]
Richard Daoust250-368-7897 [email protected]
Mary Amantea250-521-0525 [email protected]
Bill Craig250-231-2710 [email protected]
Deanne Lockhart250-231-0153 [email protected]
Art Forrest250-368-8818 [email protected]
Christine Albo250-512-7653 [email protected]
Dave Thoss250-231-4522 [email protected]
Dan Powell Christina Lake250-442-6413 [email protected]
804 Redstone Dr., Rossland$369,000
This near new home is built in a contemporary style with
3 bdrms, 2 baths and an open fl oor plan. The exterior is tastefully fi nished with low maintenance in mind and has
8 years left on the 10 year new home warranty.
Call Richard (250) 368-7897
430 Wellington Ave., Warfi eld$189,000
Beautiful property on Trail Creek. This warm and cozy home
features 3 bdrms, hardwood fl oors and large workshop. Lots of parking too. Bring an offer!
Call Mary M (250) 231-0264
NEW PRICE!
1756 4th Avenue, Trail$159,000
This solid home has great shop/garage and low maintenance yard. There are 3 bdrms on
main, 2 baths and very large rec. room. A few updates and you
will enjoy your new home. Quick possession possible.
Call Mary M (250) 231-0264
1934 4th Ave., Rossland$330,000
This character house is great location and features a newer furnace, hot water on demand, and a hot tub. The original fi r fl oors and trim combined with
some of the more modern updates has added to the houses
charm. Call today!
Call Christine (250) 512-7653
NEW LISTING
709 Hermia Crescent, Trail$245,900
This house is perfect for a smaller family with 3 bedrooms and 2 full baths. Features include
open fl oor plan, hot tub and low maintenance yard. Come and
have a look today.
Call Christine (250) 512-7653
435 10th Ave., Montrose$229,000
4 bdrm 2 bath well cared for home with RV covered parking
and single car garage/workshop. Newer roof, upgraded bath,
laminate fl ooring, central vac, some upgraded windows and wood/electric furnace or zone
controlled baseboards. This is a great package.
Call Tonnie (250) 365-9665
Trail2 bdrm renovated upper suite .................................$800/mo3 bdrm renovated house .................................$750/mo2 bdrm renovated upper suite .................................$750/moMontrose2 bdrm upper fl oor of house .................................$800/mo
Great rentals available now!If you have a property you would like professionally managed, call
to set up an appointment. Terry Alton 250-231-1101
Tonnie Stewart (250) 365-9665
FOR RENT
8327 Highway 3B, Trail$469,000
Stunning package! This home features Brazilian Cherry hardwood fl oors, a great fl oor plan, and amazing mountain views.
The home is well maintained and fi lled with light. The yard is completely private and features an in ground swimming pool!
Call Mary M (250) 231-0264
For additional information and
photos on all of our listings, please visit
kootenayhomes.com
536 Portia Crescent, Trail$319,000
Don’t miss out on this, like new, beautifully renovated 3 bed
room family home in popular Sunningdale on a dead end street.
In like new condition
Call Deanne (250) 231-0153
NEW LISTING
2252 Riverside Ave, Trail$119,000
Sweet little package. Enjoy the view of the magnifi cent Columbia River on your large private deck.
This home has had many upgrades including roof, plumbing, and wiring.
Call Deanne (250) 231-0153
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market evaluation
Mark Wilson ext [email protected]
1463 Bay Ave, Downtown TrailFor Lease
Updated and very clean space in downtown core. Security system, air conditioned, and great access to bring in large
items. In an area of long standing businesses with good foot traffi c.
Call Art (250) 368-8818t
55 Hazelwood Drive, Trail$179,000
Sunningdale market for excellent price. Very clean,
great fenced yard, detached garage, 3 bdrm 1 bath. Quick
possession available.Call Terry 250-231-1101
OPEN HOUSESat. Feb. 28 1:30-3:30pm
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B y T r i s h a s h a n k sArrow Lakes News
The golf course located next to the ferry landing in Fauquier has fallen victim to the early mild weather causing a large section to fall into the lake.
The third and fourth holes were right along the waterline but ero-sion has occurred at a pace nobody could predict.
This parcel of land previously belonged to BC Hydro and sold to the golf course in 1997 for $1 upon the club’s request after a 30-year lease had ended. accord-ing to Jen Walker-Larsen, Stakeholder Engagement Advisor and community rela-tions with BC Hydro,
“Erosion at this site is a well-known issue that’s been happening for decades. The pur-chase agreement itself explained the land was unstable and that any erosion would need to be managed by the club.
“The club was well aware of the risks and was prepared to manage them moving forward. They have a geotechnical engineer who is very familiar with the property who can assess the situa-tion and determine what they can do to fix the issue.”
W a l k e r - L a r s e n states that BC Hydro has been very sup-portive of the golf club over the years.
“In addition to sell-ing the property to the
Club for $1 in 1997, we also donated the former school build-ing at the site for use as a clubhouse and have contributed more than $50,000 over the years to complement local individual dona-tions of time, equip-ment and a good deal of volunteer effort to make improvements at this site.”
Gerry Gairns, Fauquier Golf Club president who is cur-rently away, responded by email
“Yes, we have had a fairly significant slide at the course due to a warm wet winter and the extremely low lake levels. However, we do plan to open the course in April although we may not have number 3 and 4
holes available at that time.”
BC Hydro has not been contacted by the golf club directly and they have only received
reports from third par-ties. They are reaching out to the golf club to get more information and ensure the proper procedure is being fol-
lowed.“We understand
from members of the community that there has again been some erosion at the
Fauquier Golf Course. This property is owned by the golf club and we understand they are managing the issue,” Walker-Larsen said.
Fauquier
Golf course loses two holes to mudslide
Annette Devlin photo
Erosion has taken two of the holes at the nine-hole Fauquier Golf Course on Highway 6.