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Events to incorporate Trail’s iconic covered stairsB Y S H E R I R E G N I E R
Times StaffWhether it's stepping or
storming, one thing is for sure – the iconic West Trail staircases will take centre stage in two new fundraisers for local charity this fall.
One is a race for fun, the other a competitive run-ride-run, and both are slated for the second weekend of September.
On Sept. 12, Storm the Stairs, hosted by the United Way of Trail and District, is a race open to individuals, teams or fami-lies, regardless of fitness level. While showcasing the city’s unique staircases and rock walls along the route, the one-day race launches the organization’s annual campaign.
On Sept. 13, the Red Roofs Duathlon, co-hosted by the Rotary Club Waneta Trail Sunrise and the High Altitude Triathlon Club will launch a unique, possi-bly annual, competition starting with a seven-kilometre run at Gyro Park.
Trail council recently endorsed the Red Roofs Duathlon upon the condition that the city is secured against legal responsibility and harmless from any claims that might arise as a result of partici-pation.
The idea for the compe-tition began a year ago when the Downtown Business Group approached Carol Currie, a West Trail resident and athlete, about incorporating the staircases into a race that would introduce ath-letes from across the province and beyond to Trail.
“The person said, 'Wouldn't it be great to have a run using the stairs,” said Currie, an ath-
lete who's twice qualified for the Ironman Hawaii. “I was interested and started speaking with a fellow cyclist who is part of Rotary so it just all came together.”
Runners will head up to West Trail through a route of stairways, race past historic rock walls, then run back to Gyro for a change-
over to bicycles. Then the 40km road cycling begins through East Trail, up to Highway 3 and along the Columbia River to Columbia Gardens road. The cyclists will pedal back to Gyro to culminate the duathlon in a four-kilometre run towards Sunningdale before doubling back to the finish line
at the park.“The stairs are going to add
a unique and challenging fac-tor, and the cycling route we are using is already popular because it's so beautiful out there,” Currie added.
Sounds like a challenge, even for the locals who train to run
distances.Currie, the duathlon organiz-
er, has been training with the High Altitude Triathlon Club since 2008.
From Rossland through Trail and out to Fruitvale, she and a group of about 20 athletes train
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As a resident of West Trail and active triathlon participant, Carol Currie is very familiar with the fitness challenge presented by the city's covered staircases. She and members from the local triathlon club have partnered with the Rotary Club Waneta Trail Sunrise to highlight the features in a unique competition this fall.
As the Trail Times contin-ues to celebrate 120 years of reporting local news, we've donned white gloves and browsed through historical newspapers, looking to high-light some of the City of Trail's landmark events.
B Y S H E R I R E G N I E RTimes Staff
The band was playing
while Reverend H.R. Ragg gave a patriotic address as the town bubbled with excite-ment over news from Rossland that the Huns surrendered.
The trouble, as noted the next day in the Trail News Friday, Nov. 8, 1918 edi-tion, was that it was all rumour – armistice terms hadn't been
signed and the war was still on.
“It has been proved to be a hoax and a misrep-resentation by the United Press that sent it out,” wrote
editor W.B. Wilcox under the headline, 'War Not Over, But Trail Celebrated.' “Though there is every belief that
the Germans will surrender almost any time,” he clarified.
Notably, the weekly paper's next edition on Nov. 15 headlined “Great War ended Monday morning,” which included a front page synopsis of terms Germany accepted to end the battle.
Armistice Day, today known as Remembrance Day, is still
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FROM PAGE 1for long distance endurance triathlons, which until now, require travel far out-side the Greater Trail community.
The event is in the early planning stages, however volunteers and sponsor-ships are needed to make the duathlon a first class race.
“The downtown business associa-tion is very eager to help but we can always use more,” Currie said. “We’ll need people to help with organizing aid stations, the post race lunch, and help with the registration papers. There’s lots of things to do before hand and the day of the event.”
For information and to volunteer contact Currie at 231.1671 or email [email protected].
While the first year start up costs may factor into the fundraiser, any sur-plus will be donated to the Sanctuary Pre-Teen Centre and the Greater Trail Hospice Society.
That’s where the Rotary comes into play, says John Lake.
“We are starting from zero and may have to extend monies for service, equip-ment and things like that,” explained club president Lake, adding that the group is pursuing grant money to help cover costs.
“The fundraising will be primarily from the athletes’ registration fees, and we are hoping for 120 entrants, which will make the event self funding.”
The Rotary’s goal is to raise $2,000 as minimum for Sanctuary and the hospice society, he added.
The partners are currently building a website to get word out about the race, which is a duathlon because there isn’t a local body of water large enough to sup-port an aquatic leg.
“We are hoping to be sanctioned by the Triathlon BC website,” Lake said. “If we are, the race will be on their calendar which is Canada and US-wide. So there’s a huge opportunity there to encompass a lot of athletes.”
For information, Lake can be reached at 368.7494.
Meanwhile the Storm the Stairs event will bring attention to the annual United Way campaign.
“Money raised here stays here,”says Jodi LeSergent, the group’s president. “Proceeds will be going to the 2015 campaign fund to be invested in local programs and services that help hun-dreds of people every year in our com-munities.”
The foot race begins at the Colombo Piazza in the Gulch and directs partici-pants up to West Trail via staircases on Pine Ave., Spokane Street and Lookout Street.
The city’s part in the races is mainly to provide the staircase venue and pub-lic works will be sprucing up the aging staircases prior to an overall inspection before run dates.
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John Gibson and Anne Burlaw were dressed in their St. Paddy's Day finest Tuesday afternoon, but neither is green when dan-cing to the golden oldies. The duo were part of a large gathering in downtown Trail's Seniors' Centre. “You're never to old to have fun,” says the Trail Senior Citizen's Branch #47, which includes an annual St. Patrick's Day luncheon and dance.
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B y T i m e s s T a f fInterior Health (IH) officials have
confirmed that two cases of menin-gitis at Glenmerry Elementary are unrelated.
“Further testing has revealed the current meningitis case is a different bacteria from the case in January,” said Karl Hardt, Interior Health communications officer. “Interior Health can confirm that there are no public health implications and no increased risk for other students and staff or the community.”
The two cases of meningitis in the school were reported to the public last Friday when a letter went home to parents assuring them there is no danger to the rest of the school population.
Meningitis is an infection that affects the lining of the brain and the spinal cord, causing neck pain, lethargy, confusion and nausea.
Dr. Rob Parker, a medical health officer with IH, says the best way to keep the disease at bay is to maintain a thorough hand-washing routine and to make sure all vacci-nations are up-to-date.
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Strong public opposi-tion to a variance appli-cation filled the room at Monday night's regu-lar council meeting in Montrose.
The crux of the issue was an application for a variance permit to Lot 26 in Viewmont Subdivision, a neighbourhood in Montrose.
Current residents of the area were strongly against the application which requested council permis-sion to place a modular home on the lot.
Mark Thatcher, a resi-dent of Viewmont, spoke at the meeting and said the modular home plan violated the building scheme restrictions placed on the neighbourhood by original developer Dick Dar of Fruitvale.
“When I first moved to the subdivision, I was told this would be a high-end subdivision and that there would be a schedule of restrictions and everyone had to follow them,” he said, adding that a real estate agent had told him a modular home in the neighbourhood would lower his property value.
After doing some dig-ging on his own, Thatcher shared with the crowd of about 20 people that he had discovered the build-ing scheme restrictions had been removed without consultation from four of the empty lots in the sub-division, including Lot 26.
As it turns out, there is a clause in the agreement that gives the original landowner and developer, Dar, the right to remove the restrictions, which he did.
Montrose's Official Community Plan (OCP) and zoning bylaws also prohibits the placement of modular homes in village limits.
The community plan states that, “To preserve the character and aes-thetics of existing resi-dential neighbourhoods,
new single-wide manu-factured homes generally will not be permitted in Montrose. Council will, however, consider the sit-ing of double-wide mod-ular homes when it can be demonstrated that the appearance and design of the building will be com-patible with surrounding convention.”
In another part of the plan, it says that the guide-lines were put in place, “to ensure that multiple unit housing is developed in a manner that is compatible with the existing scale and character of the commu-nity.”
Peter Bayley, another resident of Viewmont, argued that even though the modular home wasn't a single-wide structure, it still wouldn't fit in with the aesthetics of the neighbourhood.
“We went online and took a look at what this building might look like, and in no way, shape, or form does it conform with what is there already,” he said. “If you take a look at my house and take a look up the street, all around, there is no way that it con-forms. We are submitting a letter and we strongly oppose this.”
Another part of Dar's application detailed a request to offset the home by six-and-a-half feet in the lot, something that has previously been denied by council when Bayley's family went to build their
home in Viewmont. To respond to concerns
about the modular home and its appearance, Wayne Postnikoff appeared on behalf of Eagle Home Sales in Castlegar – the company that would be selling the proposed struc-ture.
“I think a lot of people have a misconception as to what modular or manufac-tured homes are,” he said.
“All of our homes that are modularly built, they have to follow the B.C. building code. We don't sell trailers. We sell homes that have the same specs as any home built here in the Kootenays. The only difference is that we are bringing them in from a factory already 90 per cent finished. “
Postnikoff's reassur-ances didn't alleviate Viewmont residents' con-cerns.
The question was posed to council about whether they should approve the variance.
Montrose Mayor Joe Danchuk pointed out that council has allowed modu-lar homes in the village before, but those decisions had received little to no opposition.
Coun. Rory Steep didn't see an issue with the mod-ular home itself, but didn't agree with the six-and-a-half foot variance included in the permit application.
Coun. Mary Gay men-tioned that she had gone to see the houses and they weren't as bad as people might think.
“I thought I would go to Castlegar and take a look and see what the homes look like and they are beautiful,” she said. “I want to encourage every-one here to go out and take a look at the houses. What you see in a picture and what you see in real life is different.”
Gay still voted 'Yes' when Coun. Cindy Cook put forth a motion to deny the application for a per-mit variance. The motion passed by a vote of 4-1.
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FROM PAGE 1observed in Canada, parts of Europe and Australia on the eleventh hour of the elev-enth day of the eleventh month.
That is why Trail Times staff chose to focus on another Trail News headline from the era almost one century ago, for March’s 120th anniversary feature.
Time seems to have buried the story of another horseman who rode into town that year, carrying an invisible scourge that killed more people worldwide than all the wars put together.
Sometimes called the “greatest medical holocaust in history,” the Spanish Flu hit Trail hard back in 1918, sullying victory celebrations throughout town.
“The feeling being that the old town would fairly bubble over were it not for the number of deaths that have occurred here in the last week from the epidemic,” Wilcox notes in his Nov. 8 front page story.
Men and women nurses were being called for one column right of the head-line, declaring,
“Many homes have not been attended, safety first means help your neighbour, and ‘as soon as you read this phone, T.A. Robley, 143.’”
Robley was said to be a ‘Godsend’ along-side his stenographer, Miss Gray, both whom remained on duty 15 to 20 hours
daily to take some of the routine work off the shoulders of Trail doctors Thom and Nay.
Notably, on Page 3 of the same news-paper, Robley advertises his insurance ser-vices against every known disease, includ-ing the Spanish Influenza, that cost ‘only $1.00 a month.’
Under the “Hundreds of ‘Fluenza Cases in Trail,” feature, the writer notes a doctor and nurses from Spokane were in Trail to help, but volunteers were still needed.
The cases multiplied so rapidly, that the News couldn’t give each death the atten-tion deserved, and “in many instances, whole families were for the time without attention.”
The Trail News reported 15 deaths, identifying the majority of critical cases from the Gulch, and two-thirds of the deaths among “foreigners.”
Hotels in the Gulch, listed as the Montana and the Aldridge, were converted into auxiliary hospitals. Returning soldiers manned the makeshift centres around the clock until they too, became afflicted with the disease.
The Trail News explained an emphatic appeal was sent out ‘yesterday’ for volun-teer help of any kind, printed in English and Italian, that was hoped to be “effective in its aim.”
Hotels became auxiliary hospitals
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Canada’s high court will weigh the consti-tutional rights of med-ical marijuana users for the first time on Friday.
At stake in the case before the Supreme Court of Canada is whether approved legal cannabis users can be restricted to just using dried marijuana – the only authorized product under the new system of regulated producers – and denied access to oil extracts and other options, such as pot brownies and cookies.
It flows from the 2009 drug trafficking arrest of Owen Smith, a Victoria man who baked pot into various
edibles for a cannabis buyers’ club.
Medical pot patients have twice convinced lower courts in B.C. that it’s unconstitu-tional for them to be denied their medicine in different forms if they cannot or do not wish to smoke it.
The B.C. Court of Appeal split 2-1 on the issue last August, agreeing federal regu-lations should sim-ply state “marijuana” instead of “dried mari-juana” but said actual changes to legislation should come from Parliament.
Health Canada has so far refused to authorize alternative medical marijuana products.
“Other means that
don’t involve smok-ing are less problem-atic for health,” said Abbotsford lawyer John Conroy, calling the restriction incon-sistent with the med-ical marijuana regu-lation’s goal of pro-tecting health.
He said alternative forms are more effect-ive for some people.
“Sick people try-ing to enhance their quality of life should not be criminalized for their choice of medi-cine,” said lawyer Kirk Tousaw, who repre-sents Smith.
He will argue the current law limit-ing authorized users to dried marijuana restricts the choice of treatment for serious illnesses and therefore
violates the charter right to life, liberty and security of the person.
Tousaw will urge the top court to simply exempt medical mari-juana possession from the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.
Medical pot could then still be regulat-ed by other means by Ottawa, he said, but its users would be shield-ed from criminal pros-ecution.
“You can keep your outdated, ineffective prohibition on rec-reational marijuana consumers and produ-cers. But let’s take sick people off the front lines of this ridiculous war on this plant.”
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Tousaw insists it’s a red herring and other jurisdictions have dealt with that issue.
“To our immediate south in Washington, you can access all of these products, medic-ally or recreationally, without fear of crim-inal sanction.”
The one-day Supreme Court hear-ing on March 20 is just one legal front in in a war
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The other key battleground is in Federal Court, where Conroy has sought to overturn the federal government’s ban on personal home grow-ing by licensed users, which has continued under an injunction pending the outcome of the case.
He is also mak-ing a constitutional argument on behalf of users who say they cannot afford to buy commercially grown marijuana under Ottawa’s new system and that it denies them control over the strains they use.
The court heard conflicting evidence last week from fire chiefs from Surrey and Fort McMurray on the
severity of public safe-ty risks from author-ized home grows.
Conroy will argue Ottawa has insuffi-cient justification for the ban in closing arguments set for the end of April.
A win at the Supreme Court of Canada would likely have major implica-tions for the case on home growing, Tousaw said, and could finally force reforms that the government has resisted, despite 15 years of litigation.
“Canadians have had to fight for every inch they’ve been able to get in court and the system continues to cause people to suffer in an arbitrary way that’s unrelated to protecting health and public safety.”
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Harper government’s controversial income-splitting tax plan will encourage some workers - particularly women - to leave or stay out of the labour force, the parliament-ary budget office said Tuesday.
In a new report, the federal budget watch-dog said the gov-ernment’s so-called “Family Tax Cut” will lead to a small drain on the workforce: the equivalent of 7,000 net full-time jobs.
The plan, it said, provides incentive
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Since men are the primary breadwin-ners in 80 per cent of Canadian households, the budget office expects women to make up the majority of those who withdraw from the workforce.
Last fall, Prime Minister Stephen Harper introduced the multibillion-dollar measure, a key pledge in the Conservatives’ 2011 election platform. It was announced in time for this spring’s
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OPINION
Post-secondary education still the ticket to better jobsIt is almost one year
since the B.C. govern-ment unveiled details of its plan to re-engin-
eer the post-secondary edu-cation (PSE) and training system.
The Liberal govern-ment’s “Skills for Jobs Blueprint” will see addi-tional funding directed to expand capacity to edu-cate/train people in high-demand occupations – and fewer dollars available for programs in other parts of the system. An important factor behind the revamp is a belief among policy-mak-ers that the “supply” of and “demand” for skills are out of alignment in the con-temporary labour market.
While there are differing views on the B.C. govern-ment’s blueprint, the worry over skills mismatches is legitimate. One sign of this is a pattern of “over-qualification” among PSE graduates, including those with university degrees. A 2014 Statistics Canada study shines a light on the issue. Based on an examin-ation of the 2011 National Household Survey, supple-mented with data drawn from the 1991 and 2006 censuses, the study reports the following results:
• Among univer-sity graduates aged 25 to 34 in 2011, 18 per cent toiled in jobs requiring a high school education or less, and approximately 40 per cent were employed in occupations that demand a college-credential or less. These proportions are little changed from the early 1990s, which sug-gests the incidence of over-qualification among uni-versity graduates has not increased – notwithstand-ing a common perception to the contrary. However, there are far more univer-sity graduates in Canada today, in absolute numbers and also as a share of the 25 to 34 age cohort, so a similar incidence of over-qualification translates into a growing pool of work-ers whose education levels don’t accord well with their current employment.
• In 2011, immi-grants aged 25 to 34 with university degrees earned outside of Canada or the United States were far more likely to be over-qualified in their jobs than either Canadian-born individ-uals possessing degrees or immigrants with Canadian/U.S. university creden-tials. Over-qualification is
noticeably less common among the Canadian-born. It turns out that immigra-tion is a big part of the broader story of over-quali-fied workers.
• For university graduates aged 25 to 34, there are marked differ-ences in over-qualification by field of study. Those with degrees in the humanities and arts fare worst, while graduates who studied engineering, education, architecture, business, and health-related fields are less likely to be classified as over-qualified. In the case of mathematics, computer and information sciences programs, over-qualifica-tion among graduates is low among men but some-what higher in the case of women.
• I m p o r t a n t l y , among all university graduates over-qualifica-tion decreases with age. This reflects the fact that after completing university, it often takes a few years for young adults to find employment that is related to their skills and field of study.
• People hold-ing masters and doctoral degrees were less likely to be over-qualified in their jobs than those who did not proceed beyond the bach-elor’s degree level.
In summary, a few key messages emerge from the Statistics Canada study.
First, over-qualification among young adults with university degrees is quite common. As of 2011, close to one-fifth of all university graduates in Canada aged 25 to 34 were working in jobs requiring only a high school diploma, accord-ing to Statistics Canada’s system for grouping occu-pations by skill levels and educational attainment.
Second, immigrants are especially at risk of finding themselves over-qualified. In 2011 more than one third of immigrant men under age 35 with non-North American university
degrees, and 43 per cent of women, were working in jobs demanding only a high school diploma, com-pared to 15 per cent for Canadian-born men and women in the same age cohort who had also com-pleted degrees.
Third, Canada’s labour market is dynamic. Regardless of where they start in the job market, many university graduates eventually migrate to pos-itions and types of work that are more closely linked to their post-secondary education. And most people with masters, doctoral and professional degrees are employed in occupations that seem to match their areas of study.
Finally, taking a longer-term perspective, there is strong evidence that a post-secondary credential, par-ticularly from a Canadian or U.S. institution, remains a good investment. For most young adults, com-pleting a PSE program is still the ticket to better jobs and higher incomes over the course of a working career.
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If he just had the “flu,” why didn’t they say that he just had the flu? We’d all have sent him get-well cards,
and that would have been the end of it.
The lengthy and mysteri-ous absence of Vladimir Putin ended on Monday, when the Russian president emerged in St. Petersburg to greet the vis-iting president of Kyrgyzstan, Almazbek Atambayev. The only explanation he offered for his 11-day disappear-ance from public view was that “It would be boring without gossip.”
The rumour mill certainly went into over-drive during his absence. He had suffered a stroke. He was in Switzerland for the birth of his child with his alleged girlfriend, gymnast Alina Kabayeva. He’d had a face-lift, or maybe just another botox job. There had been a palace coup, perhaps connected in some way to the murder of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov last month.
All mere speculation, whose only useful function was to hold the ads apart. The Kremlin remains, as it was in Communist and Tsarist times, a place of perpetual intrigue, and Kremlinology is as imprecise a science as ever. There are clearly rival factions struggling to influence Putin’s decisions, but nobody can clearly say what they want or even who belongs to which one.
Why, for example, was Putin’s first action after his resurrec-tion an order to put the Russian navy on full combat readiness in the Arctic, of all places? That’s a long way from Ukraine, which is the focus of the current con-frontation between Russia and the Western powers. Is Putin opening up a new front, or just demonstrating his resolve? And if so, who is the demonstration aimed at? NATO? Some faction in the Kremlin? Both?
The problem with an opaque
regime like Putin’s is the dif-ficulty in reading its motives and intentions. Even demo-cratic governments like that of the United States can be reckless and unpredictable – consider President George W. Bush’s decisions after 9/11 – but American policy is a mir-acle of transparency compared to the decision-making process in Moscow. The difference is stark, and it has serious effects
in the real world.At the moment,
for example, there is a major debate underway in Washington (and in other NATO cap-itals as well) about whether Putin must now be seen as an “expansion-ist” leader who has to be stopped before he goes any
farther. The debate strongly resembles the one about Soviet intentions after the Second World War, which ended in a Western decision that the Soviet Union was an expan-sionist power that had to be “contained”.
The debate back then drew heavily on analogies with the rise of Hitler in the 1930s and the failure of the policy of “appeasement” – and the deci-sion to surround the Soviet Union with alliances and mil-itary bases, right or wrong, led to an extremely dangerous 40-year Cold War.
Hitler has been dead for 70 years and the world is now a very different place, but here comes the same old debate again. If you argue in Washington today that Putin’s actions in Ukraine are not the first step in his plan for world conquest, but just a clumsy over-reaction to the overthrow of pro-Russian former presi-dent Viktor Yanukovych by the rebels in Kiev a year ago, you can be sure that various people will accuse you of being an appeaser.
They don’t even under-stand what the “appeasement” policy actually involved. British
defence spending, for example, more than doubled in the five years between Hitler’s rise to power and the decision to go to war with Hitler. They knew they might have to fight him in the end, but they used the time before they were ready to fight to see if he could be appeased by giving him back some of the territory Germany had lost after the First World War.
If it had worked, it would have been a lot cheaper than fighting a second world war. In the end it didn’t work, and so Britain and France went to war. But it is extremely unlikely that the NATO powers are in a similar situation now. For one thing, they never really disarmed after the end of the Cold War, so they don’t have to re-arm now even if Putin does turn out to have big plans.
If Putin really is planning on world conquest – or at least on recreating the old Soviet Union – then he has left it very late. Hitler started grabbing terri-tory within a couple of years of coming to power.
Apart from a little war with Georgia (which Georgia start-ed), Putin has waited 15 years to make his first move. If he does have a plan, it’s a very slow-moving one.
Besides, his strategists will be warning him that Russia could not hold up its end of a new Cold War for very long. Russia has only half the popu-lation of the old Soviet Union, and it is now a largely de-industrialised petro-state with a GDP comparable to Italy’s. He is probably just blundering around, trying desperately to save face after his humiliation in last year’s Ukrainian revolu-tion.
Unfortunately, what goes on inside the Kremlin is so obscure that nobody can be sure of his ultimate intentions. That leaves a nice large space for the hawks in the West to play in, and they are taking full advantage of it. But Putin probably just had a bad case of ‘flu.
Gwynne Dyer is an independ-ent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.
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heard talking about their achievements in hockey, baseball, and softball.
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later date in Port Coquitlam.
age 55, passed away peacefully at home on March
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of 32 years, Bev, daughters Dr. Ashley George (Sheldon) of Redmond
Washington and Hannah of Nelson B.C. Sister Lynne of Fort St. James and brother David of Trail B.C, nieces Jamie and Maggie and nephew Ben. Father Mike George and partner Eileen Townsend of Nakusp. He also has many in-laws and numerous nieces and nephews. He is preceded in death by his Mother, Mimi.
Huw was born on December 20th 1959 in Winnipeg Manitoba. He grew up in the East Kootenays and Nakusp and attended the University of Victoria where he received a BSc in Chemistry in the Co-op program. He worked at a number of mining and industrial plants and settled at Teck in 1982 where he worked in a number of positions but found his home in Analytical Services.
Huw was a great family man and a loving father. He married Bev Profi li in 1982 and they spent a year backpacking around the world. They had 2 girls together and continued to haul them off on family adventures to foreign lands for many years. Huw was deeply involved in the community, including Union work (USWA 9705) and various social causes for the majority of his life. He was very proud of his Welsh heritage. He was very active and enjoyed all outdoor sports including slow pitch, curling, hockey, soccer, skiing, hiking, cycling but the love of his life was golf. Huw kept track of all courses played, scores and handicap. The highlight of his golfi ng days was playing the Kapalua Course on Maui in 2010. His family and friends will always remember him as a kind, compassionate person who tried to always be fair and make everyone feel that they mattered.
No service will be held by request. A celebration of life will be held later this summer. If you wish to attend please send your request to [email protected]. The family would like to thank Dr. T Cheng of the Tom Baker Cancer Centre in Calgary for her expertise, Dr. Norm Lea in Nakusp for care over the past summer and Dr. Keith Merritt for his years of compassionate care and home visits. Also to the Home Care Nurses who were patient, kind and always available. In Lieu of fl owers, donations can be made in Huw’s name to Castlegar Friends of Parks and Trails: P.O Box 3212 Castlegar B.C. V1N 3H5
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Justin Bieber really wants you to like him again. After being the butt of the joke for hours during the taping of his Comedy Central roast, the 21-year-old Canadian singer gave a contrition speech.
“I turned a lot of people off over the past few years, but I know I can still turn out good music and turn everything all around,” said Bieber, whose music has been overshadowed by his offstage antics, which include reck-less driving, public urina-tion and throwing eggs at a
neighbour’s home.“I’ve lost some of my best
qualities. For that, I am sorry,” he said. “I’m looking forward to being someone who you guys can all look at and be proud of.”
It was a sweet ending to a night of sharp barbs aimed as much at Bieber as the rest of the roasters. Hosted by Kevin Hart, the “Comedy Central Roast of Justin Bieber,” taped Saturday at Sony Studios, also features Snoop Dogg, Shaquille O’Neal, Martha Stewart and Ludacris. It’s set to premiere March 30.
“This is like suicide.
Why would you do it?” Hart asked the singer, whom he described as a “huge success that confuses everybody over 14.”
“The name Bieber has become so offensive, the Washington Redskins think you should change it,” quipped comic Jeffrey Ross.
The roasters - includ-ing a surprise appearance by Will Ferrell’s character Ron Burgundy - jabbed at Bieber’s bad behaviour, his relationship with Selena Gomez, his music and his appearance.
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Stewart offered Bieber tips for his eventual trip to prison. Snoop Dogg appeared to smoke a joint onstage after telling the singer his next album should be called “Straight Outta Talent.”
Bieber, who was lowered from the ceiling to the stage wearing white angel wings, gently swiped back.
“What happens when you give a teenager $200 mil-lion?” he asked. “You get a bunch of has-beens calling you a lesbian for two hours.”
Bieber is the butt of the joke, apologizes at Comedy Central roast for recent behaviour
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Boulud at Montreal’s Ritz Carlton has won the Canada’s Best Sommelier award.
Steven Robinson of Ottawa’s Atelier Restaurant came second in the recent competition, held by the Canadian Association of Professional Sommeliers and Wine Country Ontario.
In third place was Carl Villeneuve Lepage of Toque! in Montreal.
Contestants completed an exam that included components of service, theory and tasting and then performed in front of their peers and members of the public at Montecito restaurant in Toronto.
Judges were master sommelier John Szabo, principal critic of WineAlign; master sommelier Geoff Kruth, CEO for the Guild of Sommeliers; and Ricardo Grellet, founder and vice-president of the National Association of Sommeliers of Chile. Magdalena Kaiser of Wine Country Ontario was a guest judge.
Lambert will represent Canada at the Association Sommellerie Internationale World’s Best Sommelier competition in Mendoza, Argentina, in 2016.
A previous win disqualifies her from the Pan-American Sommelier Alliance competition slated for April 20-25 in Chile, leaving an opening for Robinson and Villeneuve Lepage to go.
Previous national champion Veronique Rivest went on to win second place at the 2013 World’s Best Sommelier competition, which takes place every three years.
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The B.C. Midget Tier 2 Hockey Championship is attracting a steady stream of spectators to the Cominco Arena this week. The nine-team tournament wraps up tonight with the championship game at 8 p.m.
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known for many things, chief among them its sunshine and borscht. In fact, legend has it that was exactly what the sign welcom-ing visitors to our area said back in the 1990s. Now, of course, it urges you to ‘settle down.’
Borscht is one of the main staples of the Doukhobor diet and is available at pretty much every restaurant in town for eating in or taking out.
A few months back, filmmaker Nik Green, formerly of Grand Forks, made several promotional videos for the city. One of the videos that ended up catching the most attention was a short one about the proper spelling of borscht/borshch.
While the more popular spelling is borscht, there are other spellings. The USCC (Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ) urges the spelling borshch. A letter in the Gazette from local Russian teacher Rob Stevenson urged people to use the proper USCC spell-ing of borshch. For a while, there was plenty of discussion in town between different sides on what the correct spelling should be.
Wikipedia lists many different spell-
ings of borscht includ-ing borshch, borsch, borstch, borsh and more.
Borscht is popular in many Eastern and Central European cui-sines including Poland, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. As much as there are different spellings, there are also many different types of borscht.
According to a local lore, in the 1990s writ-er William Rezinskin transliterated many Doukhobor words into English. He said that the way borscht was spelled in English was not close to the actual way it was pro-nounced in the origin-
al language. Rezinskin said that in order for Doukhobors to be true to their heritage, they should spell it borshch.
Dawsha Hunt of the tourism centre at gal-lery 2 said that they get many requests dur-ing the year for visitors asking where to get good borscht in Grand Forks.
“We prepared a list of the top 10 most frequently asked questions by visitors and where can I get a good bowl of borscht is near the top,” said Hunt. “It’s really one of the main things that people stop in for in Grand Forks. They know our culture;
they’re curious about our history. Those that have tried it before keep coming back.”
As for Hunt’s favour-ite borscht it town, she says her mom’s with-out hesitation. As for the spelling, Hunt says there is no argument: “It’s spelled b-o-r-s-c-h-t.”
As for Stevenson, who teaches Russian at Grand Forks Secondary, he said he was prompted to write in to the Gazette because he felt the video did not properly respect the Doukhobor heritage. Stevenson was born and raised in Grand Forks with a Doukhobor mother and English father.
“It wasn’t so much the spelling of borshch but the lack of cul-tural sensitivity with was apparent in how the video was made,” said Stevenson. “It appeared to me that the producers of the video didn’t collabor-ate with the members of the Doukhobor com-munity to ask for our feedback on how we feel about the image of Doukhoborism and the Doukhobor culture was framed in it.”
Stevenson admits one of his pet peeves is the spelling of borshch. “It’s not something I’ll go ballistic over,” he said. “We’ve been a big part of the community, a founding part of the community over the
last 100 or so years. I thought we were past the part where one group would make assumptions about our culture. They could come and ask us and get our feedback on it.”
Stevenson said the borshch spelling is phonetically correct.
“That’s my personal preference,” he said.
Spelling aside, Stevenson says he does love his borshch. His mom continues to make the soup dish for the big functions at the USCC Hall.
“It’s a staple.”Stevenson said
there are two main variations of borshch:
summer and winter.“Winter borshch is
primarily cabbage,” he said. “Whatever people think of as Doukhobor borshch, that’s winter borshch. My favourite is the summer bor-shch (also known as green borshch) where
you add the cabbage, rhubarb leaves, swiss chard, a whole bunch of green, leafy vege-tables. They have a sour taste to them. It makes for better bor-shch—because the tang is the important part of it.”
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By Times sTaffAfter scoring all three goals in a 3-1
victory in Game 1 of the BC Intercollegiate Hockey League final Friday, Selkirk College forward Ryan Edwards would net the winner on Saturday to propel the Saints to their third straight title with a 4-2 win over Simon Fraser University at the Castlegar Rec Complex.
“It’s a really satisfying feeling to see the guys finish the season this way after all the work they put in,” Selkirk head coach Alex Evin told Selkirk media rep Bob Hall. “We played a really committed, disciplined style tonight and all through playoffs and we were rewarded for that. We kept shifts short, we were smart with the puck and we didn’t give up anything easy on the defensive side.”
Former Trail Smoke Eater Darnell Dyck intercepted a failed clearing attempt and hit Edwards at the side of the net for a tap in to put the Saints up 3-1 with 3:12 left in the period. It was the former Beaver Valley Nitehawk’s sixth playoff goal in four games to lead all BCIHL shooters.
“It was an unlucky play by their player and the puck hopped off his stick,” says Dyck, who was the Saints top scorer dur-ing the regular season and added four more points during playoffs. “I had a lot of space and I was thinking shot, but I saw Eddy and moved it over to him. He’s a great player and he scored so many big goals for us, so I knew he was going to finish it off.”
Thomas Hardy opened the scoring on a fine individual effort on the power play, taking a pass from Jamie Vlanich and mak-ing a move to the slot then backhanding it by SFU goalie Jordan Liem. But SFU’s Jared Eng would draw the Clan even four minutes into the middle frame, before Trail native Vlanich put the Saints up 2-1 on a nice pass from Lucas Hildebrand.
After Edwards made it 3-1, the Saints would stifle the SFU attack in the third with the Saints Ryan Procyshin scoring into an empty net, before SFU made it 4-2 with just 20 seconds left on the clock.
Selkirk College outshot the Clan 28-23, as Saints goalie James Prigone won his
fourth consecutive playoff game. Vlanich was the games’ first star, while
Prigone and Hardy garnered second and third star honours. Selkirk beat UVic in two straight games last weekend, while SFU dispatched the heavily favoured num-ber-one seed Trinity Western University to set up the BCIHL final.
The Saints appeared far from cham-pionship contention early in the season, as injuries and a spotty road record held the team close to the bottom of the league standings. But the squad finished off the fall semester on a high when they won their first-ever game against CIS competi-tion at the University of Lethbridge and went on to earn home-ice advantage in the playoffs with a strong second half.
“We had a group that came together when it mattered most and really rose to the occasion,” says Evin. “Tonight we got great games from Jamie Vlanich and Ryan Procyshyn, and Ryan Edwards showed why he was our MVP over the last three months.
“James Prigione was rock solid and
very consistent, which you need that when you’re playing close games in the playoffs.”
The championship win was the third in as many years for a core of key players that included team captain and former Smoke Eater Logan Proulx as well as forwards Hardy and Mason Spear and blueliner Hildebrand. It also marked the second title in as many tries for forward Dyck, defencemen Stefan Gonzales, Tanner Lenting, Procyshyn, Stefan Virtanen and Arie Postmus, plus goaltender Prigione.
Tonight’s win marked the final time that many in that group will suit up in a Saints uniform. They couldn’t have asked for a better send-off.
“I want to thank Selkirk College, (ath-letics director) Kim Verigin and the coach-es who gave me the opportunity to have two tremendous seasons here,” says Dyck, who plans on joining the RCMP once the school year concludes. “I got to play with some amazing players and win two cham-pionships with great teammates. It was an unbelievable experience.”
With files from Selkirk College.
B y J i m B a i l e y Times Sports Editor
The Greater Trail Bantam Tier 2 Smoke Eaters remained undefeated and secured a playoff spot in the Bantam Tier 2 provincials in Cranbrook on Monday with a 7-5 victory over Vancouver.
Ethan Chang led the team with two goals and three assists, as the Bantam Smokies jumped out to a 5-1 second-period lead, then fended off a concerted coastal attack in the third.
Vancouver came out strong and scored two goals early to make it 5-3, but Trail’s Brad Ross tallied their sixth goal to extend the lead. Vancouver’s Cameron Luk would score two more to make it agonizingly close, but Trail goalie Josh Ballarin shut the door and Ross notched his second into an open net to seal the win for the Smoke Eaters.
Trail played a winless Prince George team in its final game of the round robin on Tuesday afternoon but the score was unavailable at press time. Regardless, Trail has locked up first place by virtue of its 6-5 win over Campbell River Sunday and defeat of Vancouver Monday. The two teams, Campbell River and Vancouver, played Tuesday night to determine the second seed in the playoff round today.
In the other pool, a crucial 5-3 victory for Cranbrook over an undefeated and heavily favoured North Shore Winter Club (NSWC) on Monday kept the host team in the running for a playoff spot, along with Vanderhoof and West Kelowna. The top two seeds from each pool advance with first place in Pool A playing second place in Pool B and vice versa.
After going 1-1 on Sunday, the Female Bantam Wildcats had their playoff hopes ser-iously compromised by the Richmond Ravens in a 4-0 loss Monday in Castlegar. Surrey and South Island remain undefeated in the round robin with the final games going today. Castlegar played South Island on Tuesday (score was unavailable) and play Kelowna at 1 p.m. today.
The Wildcats have a mathematical chance at the playoffs but would need South Island and Richmond to lose its remaining games to make it into Wednesday’s final.
By Jim BaileyTimes Sports Editor
The final day of the round robin at the Midget Tier 2 provin-cials Tuesday proved pivotal for North Delta as they defeated the Kelowna Midget Rockets 5-3.
After bowing 6-3 to Saanich in their open-ing match, North Delta showed steady improve-ment, beating Williams Lake 6-4 before roast-ing the previously undefeated Rockets 5-3 Tuesday morning at the Cominco Arena.
“That’s huge,” said North Delta coach Chad McGuire. “For our guys, that was a must win. We lost our first one, then got the win yesterday, today was a must win, and now tonight is a must win, so it’s just one step closer.”
North Delta played Greater Trail in the late game Tuesday night, and a win or tie would move them into the playoffs with a 3-1 record, but a Trail victory would put the Smoke Eaters into Wednesday’s playoff round as second-seed after tying the Saanich Braves on Monday night 1-1.
A loss to Kelowna would have likely quashed any North Delta hopes at advan-cing but the team was stellar defensively in the opening 40 min-
utes, taking a 2-0 lead into a wild third per-iod that saw six goals scored.
“They (Kelowna) are a good hockey team all the way through, they have a big roster too, lots of bodies, lots of legs,” said McGuire. “So consistently through-out the game, they are going to keep coming at you. We just kind of found the holes where we did, we got some guys that can go, and we told our guys when you get the opportun-ity you have to take it, and capitalize on the opportunities.”
Kevin Allen did just that, netting the win-
ning goal at 8:11 of the third period on a setup from Erik Olson to make it 4-1 North Delta.
The effort displayed a much improved Delta team from Sunday when it fell to Saanich 6-3.
“It’s a different rink here,” said McGuire. “So we came out a bit flat (against Saanich), didn’t really know what was going on, chased pucks around, so they got up on us, and then we just couldn’t get back into the game.”
Sheldon Kumar opened the scoring midway through the first, and Sean Olson
would give Delta a 2-0 lead at 6:26 of the second period.
The Rocket’s Wyatt Head would cut the lead to one just over two minutes into the third period, but Jacob Apostoliuk, Allen, and Adrian Kumar would score three goals over a three-minute span to give North Delta a 5-1 lead. Kelowna would notch a power-play goal at 3:49 and draw within two 24 seconds later, but that was as close as they would get.
In the other early game Tuesday, the Williams Lake Timberwolves sent Saanich packing in a
surprising 3-2 victory. At 1-1-1, Saanich was still in the playoff hunt, and with a Trail win or North Delta tie Tuesday night, would have left them tied for second, but the T-wolves took care of that scenario with their first victory of the tournament.
Down 2-1 head-ing into the third, Williams Lake forward Daine Dubois scored on a power-play to tie it at 2, and after the Braves’ were handed a slashing penalty, the Timberwolves would make them pay as Cody Swan sniped the win-ner at 7:56.
See MIDGET, Page 11
Jim Bailey photos
New Westminster’s goalie Dominic Von Shoenberg gets some help from Cooper Birks in thwarting Smithers forward Shawn Cote as the they went on to quell the Smithers Storm 6-2 on Tuesday.
Selkirk College Saints celebrate third BCIHL title
Bantam Smokies win playoff berth
Midget Tier 2 playoffs underway
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ScoreboardHockeyBCHL Playoffs
Monday’s GamesPowell River 2 Nanaimo 1Nanaimo leads series 2-1
Chilliwack 4 Prince George 3Chilliwack leads series 3-0
Tuesday’s Games N/APenticton at Vernon 7 p.m.Penticton leads series 2-0Nanaimo at Powell River 7
p.m.Chilliwack at Prince George
7 p.m.Today’s Games
Penticton at Vernon 7 p.m.Thursday Games
Powell River at NanaimoFriday GamesIf Necessary
Prince George at Chilliwack 7 p.m.
Vernon at Penticton 7 p.m.Nanaimo at Powell River 7:15
p.m. Saturday Games
Penticton at Vernon 7 p.m.Chiilwack at Prince George
7 p.m.
National Hockey LeagueEASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division G W L OT PtMontreal 70 43 20 7 93Tampa Bay 71 43 21 7 93Detroit 68 38 19 11 87Boston 69 36 23 10 82Ottawa 68 33 24 11 77Florida 69 31 24 14 76Toronto 71 27 38 6 60Buffalo 69 19 43 7 45
Metropolitan Division G W L OT PtRangers 68 44 17 7 95Islanders 71 43 24 4 90Pittsburgh 69 39 20 10 88Washington 71 38 23 10 86Philadephia 71 29 27 15 73New Jersey 69 29 29 11 69Columbus 69 30 35 4 64Carolina 68 26 34 8 60
WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division
G W L OT PtSt. Louis 69 44 20 5 93Nashville 71 43 21 7 93Chicago 68 41 21 6 88Minnesota 69 38 24 7 83Winnipeg 69 34 23 12 80
Colorado 69 32 26 11 75Dallas 70 32 28 10 74
Pacific Division GP W L OT PtAnaheim 71 44 20 7 95Vancouver 68 39 25 4 82Calgary 69 38 26 5 81LA 69 34 22 13 81San Jose 69 34 27 8 76Arizona 70 21 41 8 50Edmonton 70 19 39 12 50
NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.
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FROM PAGE 10 The top two teams in Pool B faced
each other for first and second seed in the Tuesday afternoon tilt, with New Westminster scoring four times in the opening period to cruise to a 6-2 victory. New Westminster went 3-0 to take top spot in Pool B, while Smithers finished with a 2-1 record.
In Monday’s late games New Westminister pummeled Castlegar 9-1, while Saanich and the Smoke Eaters skated to a 1-1 draw. After a scoreless first period, Ryan Neil put the Smoke Eaters up 1-0 early in the
second period, but Braves forward Elliot MacIssac drew Saanich even with five minutes remaining in the middle frame.
With a win over North Delta, Greater Trail would advance and play number-one seed New Westminster in the semifinal at 8 a.m. on Wednesday. However, a North Delta victory would make them top seed and Delta would face Smithers at 11 a.m. Wednesday.
The final of the Midget Tier 2 provincials goes tonight at 8 p.m. at the Cominco Arena.
Midget title game goes tonight
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The longtime exec-utive most recently served as the executive director of CBC Sports. He succeeds Mark Cohon, who stepped down in January after an eight-year run as league commissioner.
“Jeffrey will be a tremendous leader for our league at an excit-ing time for its future,” said CFL Board of Governors chairman Jim Lawson. “He has every skill set our board was looking for and he clearly under-stands what our league means to this country and what our fans and partners mean to this league.”
Orridge, a Harvard
Law School graduate, will officially assume his new duties April 29.
“I believe we are living in an age of seemingly limitless possibilities and the opportunities ahead for the Canadian Football League are second to none,” he said.
Orridge, who also handled management duties for the CBC’s Olympics coverage, has overseen rights acqui-sitions, partnership management, revenue initiatives and pro-gram execution involv-ing marquee sports properties and digital opportunities. He suc-cessfully helped secure the media rights to the 2014 and 2016 Olympic Games, the 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Games, and the 2018 and 2020 Olympics for the network.
Orridge previously served as the chief operating officer and head of global busi-ness development for the Right to Play International charity. He has also worked for Mattel Inc., Reebok International and USA Basketball.
Born and raised in New York, he and his family have lived in Canada since 2007 and he is about to become a Canadian citizen.
“My international experience and back-ground have only reinforced for me the
importance of the Canadian Football League,” Orridge said. “Its place in Canadian culture, on the Canadian sporting landscape, and in the hearts and minds of Canadians make this a responsibility I take very seriously and an opportunity for which I am very grateful.”
Orridge succeeded Scott Moore as execu-tive director of CBC Sports in 2011.
He becomes the 13th commissioner in league history.
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A Five Diamond sacrifice would be only down 500 which is good in compari-son with the 680 that North and South can get in hearts. However, they do not get the opportunity to play there doubled.
South bids Three Hearts and North raises him to game. North has shown a fair
amount of values even outside of clubs or he could not have passed a double of a low level club contract. South, fairly sure he can make Five Hearts makes a slam try of Five Diamonds. This could be a Last Train slam try discussed in a previous column or just a dia-mond Ace. North likes the prospects for slam and bids it.
The Play: The King of clubs is led and South makes Six Hearts for +1430.
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Dear Annie: I mar-ried “Oliver” 20 year ago, and we moved to a small Midwestern city where Oliver was offered a well-paying job. I’m impressed with my husband’s “stay-ing power” and am proud that he’s been able to keep this job through thick and thin. However, his pay leveled out a few years ago, and he hasn’t had an appreciable raise in many years. Our cost of living, however, has increased.
This is not an area where I can easily find a job in my chosen career. I’ve been fortun-ate to be able to work from home while rais-ing our children, but the oldest will be out of high school in June. I’ve been unhappy here the entire time we’ve lived in this town. It’s a declining area, there is no job growth, and travel can be impos-sible in the winter because of the snow and ice.
I’ve tried to “grow
where I’m planted,” getting involved in the community and the school, but I’m dying on the vine. I’ve had enough. I want to move to a more vibrant area, a better climate, and a place where I have more employment options. Oliver, how-ever, has no interest in relocating.
I want to be out of here within five years, when our youngest child finishes high school. But Oliver is a homebody and doesn’t like change. We can’t afford a second home or an annual winter vaca-tion. If Oliver won’t go, I’m considering leaving on my own. I’ve put in my time, and he’s had
his career. When is it my turn? -- Stuck in the Midwest
Dear Stuck: You have five years to get Oliver ready for a change of scenery. Start to research areas that appeal to you and that also offer job opportun-ities for Oliver. Look into housing prices, cost of living and com-munity organizations. Try to take at least one vacation in the area to see whether it meets your expectations. Then inform Oliver that this is where you would like to move and when. Bring it up every few months, showing him your “new neighbor-hood” and the things you will do there. Make it familiar to him, and he will be more amen-able to going there.
Dear Annie: I am a great-grandmother who left an abusive husband in the 1960s. My children were sex-ually abused by him. We have all been in counseling. I have uncovered intergenera-
tional abuse in both my family and my ex-hus-band’s family. Domestic abuse has also been found in the homes of my children and grand-children.
I am presently doing all I can to protect the great-grandchildren. My ex-husband is planning a trip to see the family, and I have warned all the parents not to leave their chil-dren alone with him and explained why. He may be 80, but he is still capable of offend-ing. As loving grand-parents, we must do all we can to protect the children. The heal-ing is long-term. -- BC Canada
Dear Canada: Your family seems to have had some major issues with abuse that have persisted through the generations. We are glad all of you have had counseling. You also are wise to protect the great-grandchildren from your ex-husband, even though such information is often
difficult to convey and believe.
Dear Annie: Your answer to “Brokenhearted in Florida” was much too nice. I don’t know what her circumstances were when she gave up her son, but to give up a child at age 4 is pretty
harsh. Telling him he should have contacted her sooner is just an excuse to avoid contact and is so cruel that I can’t wrap my head around it.
It can take years to track down birth par-ents. “Brokenhearted” sounds like a cold
woman without empathy. Maybe she deserves to feel a small bit of what her son has been feeling all these years. -- Stunned in Pittsburgh
Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar.
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You want to cocoon and hide so that you can rest for a while. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) The pace of your days will accelerate in the next four weeks, with short trips, visits, discussions and increased reading and writ-ing. Just go with the flow! PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) In the month ahead, you will focus on cash flow,
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Fort Steele Heritage Town, it’s hard not to marvel at the more than a century old engineering feat that is the water wheel. It stands above the Kootenay River and tells of a bygone era of gold fever and the Wild West.
Thanks to a newly built support, which was installed last week, it will be around
for years to come. The retrofit of the
waterwheel has been in the works for a number of years.
Brad Froggatt, manager of Heritage Services at Fort Steele, said the retro-fit was badly needed.
“We noticed that — since the original structure supporting the wheel was put in in 1965 and it had never been replaced — we had to do an inspection on it,”
Froggatt said. “We realized that it was weak and we also noticed that the wheel itself had been listing to one side and rubbing against the frame.”
Froggatt said that since the support wasn’t original to the structure, they decided to replace the structure and preserve the wheel, which is the original.
The whole wheel was moved to the
current site in 1965 — that’s also when the bottom structure was built to hold the wheel.
The wheel itself was built in 1899 and decommissioned around 1934. It was originally used in gold mining up Perry Creek.
It was an overshot mine and at the time the wheel was used to supply power to two pumps that were used in mining in the
Kootenay River. “You’ll notice if you
come out here and look under the wheel itself and if you go down on the ground, you’ll see there are a couple more other pieces of equipment around it,” he said.
“Those are the rest of the gears and rest of the structures that would’ve been used to power the pumps.”
He said the wheel is the only remaining water wheel of its type that still exists in the area.
“When they found it, it had been sit-ting in Perry Creek for a long time, so they decided to res-cue it,” he said. “It does fall within our interpretive scope in that the whole area was known for gold mining.”
The repairs used new wood, so they will be evident for the next few years — until the wood has been weathered.
“It will look the same in the long term,” Froggatt said. “We had lots of debates about this wheel, because after all it’s not from Fort Steele. However, being that it’s perched there above
the Kootenay River, visible as you come down the mountain on Highway 3/95, it’s become an icon-ic symbol for Fort Steele.”
Froggatt said he hopes that they can get some lighting on the wheel so it will be visible at nighttime from the highway.
“When you look at it closely, it’s quite an engineering marvel. It’s this huge wooden wheel, with all these scoops on the outside for moving water,” he said.
“It’s also braced with long metal rods and supports. It’s really amazing that it’s lasted as long as it has. We don’t find many wooden struc-tures that big any-more.”
Froggatt said the process of building the support structure took quite a while.
“It took a few months, because the wood had to be milled locally, and it’s hard to find trees that big,” he said. “Everything was measured and pre-cut and brought onsite.”
It was all laid out so that it could be assembled immedi-ately once the work
started. They worked with
local timber fram-er Dan Higgs and his partner, as well as students from the College of the Rockies timber fram-ing course.
On Wednesday, the crews were at the site with two cranes. They lifted the wheel and suspended it while they tore down the old structure and put up the new one.
“Luckily the con-crete bases and the middle brackets that hold it together were all still stable and they were in good condi-tion,” Froggatt said.They started at 8 a.m. and late Wednesday night it was assem-bled together with only minor tweaks left to complete.
The same crew is working on a new support for the water tower.
The funding came through the Province of B.C. heritage branch.
“Even though the society runs the park, it is done through a partnership with he province,” he said. “The province tech-nically owns the site.”
The project cost around $75,000.
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You & The LawTYLEEN UNDERWOOD LAW OFFICE presents
SPOUSAL SUPPORT AND INCOME INEQUALITY – A TREND ARRESTED?
Richard, 56, and Alice, 49, (names changed) were married for 20 years. They had no children. Neither made sacri� ces during the marriage, and both were self-suf� cient and able to make a clean break when they separated. But Alice was earning signi� cantly more than Richard.
Should he get spousal support under the federal Divorce Act just because of their “income disparity”?
BC’s appeal court decided this case recently.
Richard argued that if roles were reversed and a husband made a lot more than his wife after they broke up, she’d almost routinely get some spousal support.
Here, Alice had made a career for herself, getting bachelor’s and master’s degrees and a teaching certi� cate without Richard’s help. She became a high school principal, worked full-time, and earned roughly $120,000 when the marriage broke up.
Richard was working for CN full-time when they met. He continued with CN after they got married, earning up to $48,000
a year. Then he was injured in a car accident in 2001, so he later began work as a part-time personal trainer.
He said he earned less than $10,000 per year when he left Alice in 2011, but wasn’t able to prove what his earnings really were. He was paid mostly in cash and didn’t keep a record of his earnings or � le tax returns. Alice found out after the separation that he also had earnings from questionable activities, selling steroids and growth hormones, but Richard told the court he no longer did that.
Economists told the court full-time personal trainers without university degrees averaged between $51,000 and $68,000 a year. The court concluded Richard had chosen to work only part-time and not to become certi� ed or explore other better-paying occupations – so he was under-
employed by choice. The court said his annual income should be treated as though it was between $50,000 and $60,000.
The appeal court noted earlier cases where some transitional spousal support was paid to the “disadvantaged” spouse after a long marriage, when there was substantial income inequality post-breakup.
But it emphasized that marriage alone, even if long, doesn’t automatically entitle a spouse with lower income to spousal support. If you’re both self-suf� cient and a clean start is possible after separation, the lower-income spouse can’t automatically lay claim to the fruits of their ex’s future labour. They must prove why they should get support – whether due to foregone opportunities, need, lack of means or other relevant factors. Here, Richard couldn’t.
Another factor in this case was that, after separating from Alice, Richard started living with another woman who made a base salary of $75,000 to $90,000 plus overtime (close to what Alice earned), and they lived in a condo similar to the one Alice bought post-separation.
So the appeal court agreed Richard wasn’t entitled to spousal support. (But it allowed him to keep the $17,500 Alice had paid him earlier in interim support – equivalent to transitional support payments.)
Before, courts were inclined to automatically award support when there was a big difference in income between the spouses after they split. By stressing that a spouse seeking spousal support must � rst prove they’re entitled to support, this decision may have put the brakes on this trend.
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