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Every parent knows that taking the family for a day at the fair can leave you feeling like your wallet is considerably lighter than when you left the house in the morning.

But how much does it really cost?Of course, the total can vary drastically

depending on how hungry you are, how many rides you want to try and how big a prize you want to win.

A conservative estimate for a family of four for the day; $40 for lunch, $25 for games, $45 for rides, $20 for snacks and drinks and $40 for dinner for a total of $170.

According to the owner and general manager of West Coast Amusements, I.R. (Bingo) Hauser, the pricing for the rides at Silver City Days this year is the same as last year.

“We're keeping everything the same this year but we'll have to look at it next year,” said Hauser. “The biggest cost we have is for fuel to bring these things here and it goes up all the time.”

Hauser, who has been working in travelling shows in Canada since 1944, began as a lion tamer and moved west in 1947.

He says that, as much as they try to keep the prices reasonable, everything costs more now than it once did.

“Between the fuel for the trucks, insurance for the show, permits... everything goes up,” Hauser said. “I'm not sure how much longer these travelling shows will be able to keep going.”

A leisurely stroll through the Silver City Days food mall and West Coast Amusements midway might give you an idea of how much you may need to withdraw from the bank machine before you take in the show this year.

Basing an estimate on a family of four, two adults and two children, provides a starting point.

The typical Saturday at the annual festival generally begins with the parade and carries on to lunch after the parade when the sidewalk cafe in the Cominco Arena opens at noon.

Prices at the Smoke Eaters’ sidewalk cafe will be the same this year, according to Smoke Eaters president Tom Gawryletz.

“We’ll have the usual spaghetti and meatballs with a roll, italian sausages, and pizza, beer and wine for the adults and pop,” Gawryletz said. “And we’ll have a condensed Spud Shack menu as well, with fries, onion rings and hotdogs for the kids.”

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If you listen to the cam-paign platforms then you have probably heard that a solution to improve the economy is jobs, jobs and jobs.

So, it is ironic that the provincial election itself has brought jobs, albeit tempor-ary, to over 37,000 British Columbians, including 500 in the Kootenay West District.

Since April 1, the District Electoral Office has been hir-ing locally, and offering a pay rate that is nothing to scoff at. Compensation for the day is $250.

No experience is required but the worker, called an election official, must be at

least 15 years of age, literate in basic English and legally entitled to work in B.C.

In order to work at the voting stations, a training session (approximately two hours) must be completed, which will net a pay of $35.

The work day is long, and election officials must be prepared to sit or stand for extended periods.

“Election workers are asked to arrive at 7:15 a.m. to set up their stations,” said Don Vinish, district electoral officer.

“And there they must stay for the duration, until after 8 p.m. and until they balance.”

From Trail to Trout Lake, there are 26 polling sites, officially called voting places,

to be manned by the elec-tion officials on Tuesday, said Vinish.

Each table will have two ballot boxes, and be attended by two people at all times, he explained.

Currently there are three places to advance vote, and in Trail, a fair amount of resi-dents have already been in the electoral office on McQuarrie Street in East Trail, to place their votes, Vinish said.

Results of those votes will be counted and added to votes on election day and released as an initial count later that night.

Vinish said that a final count will take place in the East Trail office from May 27 to 29.

“Those days we count all those absentee ballots and add them to the initial count,” explained Vinish.

“If the race is close, the absentee ballots could con-ceivably change the out-come.”

This election, a full enum-eration was not done, due to expense.

“In the past, a full enum-eration was done, which is door-to-door in the whole province,” he said.

“That was just way too expensive, so this time, everyone had an opportunity to register on-line or at one of our registration desks.

“Instead of going to the people, we had them come to us.”

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As I have said many times, the modern automobile is a mar-vel of complexity. The

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When the cus-tomer decides to pay hard earned money to fix something that is broken we can say that option must have significant value. Sometimes the cus-tomers are less than rational.

Air conditioning comes to mind. When the sun comes out even safety features are trumped by air conditioning repairs.

I have fixed a few air con-ditioning systems on vehicles that would have benefitted

much more from a new set of shock absorbers. These vehi-cles would have driven down the road one hundred percent better, stopped shorter, had longer lasting tires, steering

and suspension components but the driver and/or passenger would have been hot and bothered.

In fact, safe-ty features are probably the most overlooked options when it comes to repairs. I am sure that there are a lot of vehicles driving around with the airbag or inflat-

able restraint light glowing. This means the system will not work. The other safety system that is quite often neglected is the antilock brake system. A stuck on ABS light means your braking ability will not be augmented by a computer trying to keep you in control in a panic

situation.Most of the new whiz bang

options on vehicles involve added electronic systems. Back up cameras, proxim-ity sensing systems, cruise control systems that main-tain the distance between the vehicle in front of you, vehicles that will park them-selves, systems that help you stay in your lane, the list goes on.

Many of these options seem to be heading in the direction of cars that drive themselves. Will consumers fix these systems when they fail? Once you drive with them, will you not be able to drive without them and spend your hard earned cash to fix them?

As a mechanic I know these new options will not be flawless and therefore I will need to learn to fix them. For this I will need informa-tion, training and tools. First though, I must learn to oper-ate the system. An owner’s manual is a necessity.

Speaking of options I

found an interesting one that I did not even know existed and was way ahead of its time. The vehicle was a 2001 Audi. Upon parking the vehicle and turning it off we noticed that the interior fan was continuing to run.

Was this supposed to hap-pen? And if so, why? Stuff that stays running usually means dead battery. Time to find the owner’s manual. This car has a solar panel in the sun roof that provides power to run the interior fan to circulate air and keep the interior of the car from heat-ing up in the sun.

That is an option I would like to have. An overheated interior is hard on everything in it. Who hasn’t done some damage leaving something in a parked vehicle in the sun. Would I pay to fix it? Maybe!

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Gallery• Friday, VISAC Gallery opens its next exhibit

and features the scenic acrylic paintings of West Kootenay artist Lainey Benson. The exhibit runs until June12. Gallery hours are Monday to Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Thursdays and Fridays, 2-6 p.m.

Music• Saturday, The KP Hall on Eldorado Street,

from 8-11 p.m. Trail Knights of Pythias present: Ballroom Dancing to the big-band sounds of the “SwingSationS.” Featuring a variety of dance styles for all ages. Tickets $15, at Trail Coffee

and Tea Co., or Mallard’s Source for Sports in Castlegar. Out-of-towners may reserve tickets by calling 367-6115

Other• Friday, Charles Bailey Theatre

at 7 p.m. The crowning of Miss Trail Ambassador, the culmination of 7 months of preparation and training

of talented young women (15-17 years old) from the community. Tickets $15.

• Saturday, downtown Trail at 11 a.m. The Silver City Days Firefighter's Parade.

• Saturday, downtown Trail at dusk. The 50th Anniversary Festival of Lights Fireworks Display.

Sunday, Gyro Park from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. Family Day Festival in the Park, live entertain-ment and vendors market.

• Wednesday, Trail United Church at 10:30 a.m. Gordon Sims, RCMP Crime Prevention Officer for the City of Trail, will be speaking on the Gatekeeper program.

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FROM PAGE 1The sidewalk cafe, being a local

organization fund-raiser, typically can provide food and drinks at a lower price than a private individ-ual making a living.

A post-parade lunch for the family with two spaghetti dinners at $8 each, say pizza for two kids at $3 each, a plate of fries to share at $4, a beer or a glass of wine for the adults at $5 each and two pop for the kids at $1.

This is a pretty full meal and, of course, only an estimate but the total works out to $38.

An even more frugal approach might be to take in a basic corn dog for each of the kids, burgers for the adults, and pop on the food mall, which can be bought for as little as $20.

However, there appears to be a broader selection of options for food this year and with a variety of burgers and meat buns from $5 to $9, donairs and wraps from $8 to $10, and salads in the $9 to $10 range, it’s easy to imagine lunch for four as potentially costing con-siderably more.

From lunch the family continues on to the midway rides and games with the prices varying depending on the size of the prize one is aim-ing for and the rides preferred.

Playing one of the basic chil-dren’s games can give the oppor-tunity for a kid to win a small stuffed creature for only $2, larger toys will cost at least $10 worth of gaming to win.

A rough estimate of what it would cost to win one of huge stuffed characters on display, pro-vided by a midway worker who preferred to remain anonymous, was in the neighbourhood of $100. I imagine those to be the exclu-sive territory of younger men who are somewhat desperate to impress a particular young lady. Or vice-versa.

For the purposes of this esti-mate, a reasonably strict family limit for midway games could be

around $25.For the midway rides, $15 for a

book of six, $22.50 for 16, and $45 for 40 Thursday and Friday.

All day wrist bands are available Saturday for $32 and Sunday with a donation of two non-perishable food items for $29.

Small children’s rides are four or five tickets, larger rides, more targeted towards teens or adults require six.

Depending on your income, level of indulgence with your chil-dren, and their ages, it may just be best to pay the $62 for wrist bands and let them go wild for the day but those with younger kids and with less disposable cash would probably consider a book of tickets as more reasonable.

If one of the parents will, at some point, have to accompany one or both of the children on a ride or two, the $45 book is probably the most realistic choice.

Snacks throughout the after-noon can range from cotton candy at $4 or $5, popcorn from $3 to $7 depending on the size of the bag, candy apples at $4, and drinks in the $1 or $2 range. Put a rough guess at $20.

After a long day of parades, entertainment, rides, and street food many would opt for taking the kids home for a quite dinner and to wind down before the Saturday evening fireworks but if your chil-dren are closer to their teens this may not happen so the family may choose to have more of a dinner at the food mall or return to the sidewalk cafe for more food, and music in that venue. If so count of another $20 to $40 for a dinner-like meal and drinks.

Of course this will change con-siderably with the age of the chil-dren and the level of tolerance the parents have for wandering around town for the day but this is cer-tainly not out of the question and probably less than many will spend.

But above all, have a safe and enjoyable Silver City days.

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Election issue: health care privatizationB Y T O M F L E T C H E R

Black PressNDP leader Adrian

Dix has promised to repeal the remainder of Bill 29, the legisla-tion that broke union contracts and allowed contracting out of health support servi-ces early in the B.C. Liberal term of govern-ment.

Parts of that legisla-tion were struck down and the government was forced to pay com-pensation and consult

with unions before any further contracting out of services.

In a pre-cam-paign interview with Guardian the Hospital Employees’ Union magazine, Dix made no specific commit-ments.

“We are going to need to improve and strengthen the public role if we are going to continue to provide a high level of service, given the federal cuts that are coming to

health care in 2014-15,” Dix told the HEU publication.

They’re not really cuts. After a string of six-per-cent increases, the growth of health care transfers is capped at four per cent start-ing next year.

After signing a ser-ies of “net zero” con-tracts with various public service unions in the past year, the B.C. Liberals tabled an election budget pro-posing to hold health

spending growth to two per cent this year.

In 2008, the B.C. Liberal government passed amendments to comply with the court ruling that collect-ive bargaining rights are constitutionally protected. The ruling didn’t reverse pay cuts, but ordered payment of $80 million in com-pensation and retrain-ing, and required negotiations before any further contract-ing out of health care jobs.

Platform high-lights:

• The B.C. Liberals emphasize their legis-lative change to allow Licensed Practical Nurses to leave the HEU and join the B.C. Nurses’ Union. The party wants to “partner with hospice societies” to double the num-ber of hospice beds by 2020.

• The B.C. NDP distances itself from public-private partner-ships to build and run hospitals. It promises

to “accelerate” Surrey Memorial Hospital’s critical care expan-sion “as a public pro-ject,” and Dix has said 30-year contracts are too long for health care facilities.

• The B.C. Conservative platform criticizes the B.C. Liberals for spending less than the nation-al average on health care, and for raising Medical Services Plan premiums. Party lead-er John Cummins has joined the B.C. Liberals and NDP in promising an expansion for the 63-year-old Penticton Regional Hospital.

• The B.C. Green Party platform prom-ises to “support development of co-ops and social enterprises for the provision of c o m m u n i t y - b a s e d health, social and edu-cation services.” It also wants to expand MSP coverage for chiroprac-tic, physiotherapy, eye exams and massage therapy, and impose a junk food tax.

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Doctors working to raise the profile of a proposed expansion project at Penticton Regional Hospital were rewarded this week with fresh commitments from B.C. political leaders, but physicians aren’t let-ting down their guard yet.

“We’re not going away until the shov-el’s in the ground,” Dr. Susan Tebbutt said Friday, moments after NDP leader Adrian Dix reaffirmed his commitment to build-ing the four-storey ambulatory care tower.

Tebbutt and the rest of the Penticton Medical Society have been working since last year to rally public support for the $300-million ambulatory care tower and get to it on the political radar. The mis-sion was accomplished this week when the tower became a provincial election campaign issue.

“It’s certainly getting a lot of discus-sion and play, and that is what we want,” Tebbutt said.

At numerous campaign events includ-ing in Penticton, Liberal leader Christy Clark claimed the NDP would cancel the hospital project if it forms government.

Dix denied that claim at an event staged directly across the street from PRH.

“We’ve said clearly in our platform that we’re going to maintain the projects that are in place now, including, and especially, the Penticton Regional Hospital project.”

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They’re young, they’re suburban, and they’re mainly from Asia, although Africans are arriving in growing numbers.

But the historical comparisons are few and far between in the National Household Survey, which Statistics Canada designed - at Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s behest - to replace the cancelled long-form census of the past. The new survey of almost three million people shows that Canada is home to 6.8 million foreign-born residents - or 20.6 per cent of the population, compared with 19.8 per cent in 2006, and the highest in the G8 group of rich countries.

It also shows that aboriginal populations have surged by 20 per cent over the past five years, now repre-senting 4.3 per cent of Canada’s population - up from 3.8 per cent in the 2006 census.

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That’s because many comparisons with the past can only made reliably at a national or provincial level, said Marc Hamel, director general of the census. He said the agency suppressed data from 1,100 mainly small communities because of data quality, com-pared with about 200 that were suppressed in 2006.

Until 2006, ques-tions on immigration, aboriginals and reli-gion were asked in the mandatory long-form census that went to one-fifth of Canadian households.

When the Conservatives can-celled that part of the census in 2010, Statistics Canada replaced it with a new questionnaire that went to slightly more

households, but was voluntary instead of mandatory, skewing the data when it comes to making direct com-parisons.

What the NHS does show is that, over-whelmingly, most recent immigrants are from Asia, including the Middle East, but to a lesser degree than in the early part of the decade. Between 2006 and 2011, 56.9 per cent of immigrants were Asian, compared with the 60 per cent of the immigrants that came between 2001 and 2005.

The Philippines was the top source coun-try for recent immi-grants, with 13 per cent, according to the National Household Survey - although a footnote warns that the survey data “is not in line” with data col-lected by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. China and India were second and third as source coun-tries.

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- Canada’s aboriginal population grew by 20.1 per cent - 232,385 people - between 2006 and 2011, compared with 5.2 per cent for non-aboriginal people.

- Almost half (48.1 per cent) of all chil-dren aged 14 and under in foster care in Canada in 2011 were aboriginal children.

- About 1,162,900 foreign-born people immigrated to Canada between 2006 and 2011, making up 17.2 per cent of the foreign-born population and 3.5 per cent of Canada’s total population.

- More than 200 different ethnic origins were reported in the 2011 survey, with 13 of them representing more than a million people each.

- Nearly 6,264,800 people identified themselves as a visible minority, repre-senting 19.1 per cent of the population. 65 per cent of them were born outside Canada.

- South Asians, Chinese and blacks accounted for 61.3 per cent of the visible minority population, followed by Filipinos, Latin Americans, Arabs, Southeast Asians, West Asians, Koreans and Japanese.

- More than 22.1 million people - two-thirds of Canadians - said they were affili-ated with a Christian religion, including 12.7 million Roman Catholics, the largest single group.

- 7.8 million people, 23.9 per cent of the population, reported having no religious affiliation.

- Slightly more than one million people, or 3.2 per cent of the population, identi-fied themselves as Muslim, while Hindus represented 1.5 per cent, Sikhs 1.4 per cent, Buddhists 1.1 per cent and Jews one p

The survey, which replaced the manda-tory long-form census cancelled by the Harper Conservatives in 2010, is filled with warnings that the data may not be as accurate, given the survey’s voluntary nature.

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Forum offered a glimpse of candidates not platformsMonday's all-can-

didates forum at the Cominco Gym said a lot of

the state of political affairs locally and provincially.

The four candidates vying for the right to rep-resent the Kootenay West riding made their pitches, answered questions and shook a lot of hands on the evening but the fact remained that only about 60 people, out of a couple of thousand of eligible vot-ers, turned out to hear the candidates.

For those who didn't attend, you didn't miss much.

There wasn't a lot of debate among the candi-dates and no vocal support or applause from the audi-ence. It was a rather cor-dial meeting that allowed the candidates to campaign from their chairs with promises of a better life for all if they're elected.

Nevertheless, each can-didate's demeanour during the two-hour forum gave voters an insight into the person they would be vot-ing for.

Katrine Conroy was pol-ished and poised, like a pol-itical veteran should be, as she delivered the “change”

message to the audience. As the NDP's critic for sen-ior affairs, it played right into her wheelhouse that the small crowd featured a majority of senior citizens.

Meanwhile, the BC Liberals Jim Postnikoff looked very much like the man thrown into the fire as the ruling provincial party needed some type of rep-resentation in every riding to avoid the embarrassment of not fielding enough can-didates to cover B.C.

U n f o r t u n a t e l y , Postnikoff's late entry into the political race was apparent as he stuck to the scripted message and rarely deviated or lifting his eyes from the abundance of notes in front of him.

That alone was enough to create a glaze over the crowd more often seen in a mathematics class when the teacher starts explain-ing formulas and percent-ages.

Then the two independ-ent candidates provided a different take.

Joseph Hughes of Nakusp came on like a Kootenay politician. He preached the rights of the voters, the problem with the current system and the God-given right to live life

like we choose while help-ing our local communities grow.

Glen Byle presented his radical idea of using tech-nology to help hear the voter's voice. His assertion that everyone gets a say in decision making under-scored his lack of know-ledge in certain areas.

And he didn't address the fact that perhaps some in the audience and no doubt throughout the Kootenay West riding there are people who either don't have a computer or don't feel comfortable enough with it to cast a vote.

Perhaps his time will come but it won't be now.

Even with Conroy's experience, Postnikoff's notes, Hughes' passion and Byle's technology-based

thinking, the candidates had a hard time answering questions from the audi-ence that impact local vot-ers.

A question on school funding came with prom-ises from the NDP candi-date, a repeat of the econ-omy first mantra from the Liberal candidate and no concrete direction from the independents.

A question on sen-iors brought a little more detailed reply from Conroy, using her exper-tise. Postnikoff again said changes have to be made but provided little specifics and left many in the room scratching their heads when he said changes were coming to the United Way.

It may have closed its doors in Castlegar, Postnikoff's home base, but continues to help many in the Greater Trail area. So the idea of changing the format was made even more confusing without any details.

At every turn Hughes spoke with passion and a grassroots feel that had many in the crowd nodding in agreement but even he admitted he wasn't about to form the next provincial government so his goal is

to look after our region first and go from there.

Unfortunately, the holes in Byle's Technology Enabled true Democracy (TED) began to appear as he replied to some questions with the familiar refrain that he would simply ask the voters what to do.

There were no ques-tions on smart meters, legalization of marijuana, better road services, cross-border shopping or even pipelines.

The best question of the night was perhaps one of the last ones, which asked candidates how they would generate the funds to pay for their promises.

They all had a plan. It's a matter of which one you think will work.

With the small turnout at the forum, it begs the question, “Have people already made up their minds or don't care?”

I'm hoping it's the first option because if people don't care about which direction the province is headed at this point, then it makes you wonder what needs to happen to make them begin to care.

Guy Bertrand is the managing editor of the Trail Times

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John Bellinger is the last person in Washington you’d expect to criticise President Barack Obama

for making too many drone strikes. It was he who drafted the (rather unconvincing) legal justification for targeted drone killings when he was legal advis-er to the Secretary of State in George W. Bush’s second administrat ion, and he still sup-ports them. But he went ahead and criticized Obama anyway.

Speaking at a conference at the Bipartisan Policy Centre in Washington on May 1, Bellinger said: “This govern-ment has decided that instead of detaining members of al-Qaeda (at Guantanamo), they are going to kill them.” Leaving aside the question of whether most of the people detained at Guantanamo were ever actually members of al-Qaeda, there is a certain amount of plausibility in this accusation.

President Obama wants to close the US prison camp on the Cuban coast where hun-dreds of suspected supporters of al-Qaeda have been held without charge, some for more almost a decade. There are still 166 prisoners at Guantanamo, and just last week Obama, hav-ing been thwarted by Congress in his first-term pledge to close the place, announced his inten-tion to try again with the new Congress.

The US president was quite eloquent about why Guantanamo should be closed. “It is expensive. It is inefficient. It hurts us in terms of our

international standing.”It also flouts international

law, but even foreign-born Muslim socialist presidents of the United States can never concede that the whole enter-prise was illegal. The furthest Obama will go is to say that it was counter-productive from

the start, but that alone should be a sufficient justifica-tion for closing the place.

So why did John Bellinger, of all people, then accuse Obama of using drones too often? The US president cer-tainly does seem to

like them: the vast majority of the 370 US drone attacks, kill-ing an estimated 3,500 people, have been carried out on his watch. According to Bellinger, it’s because Obama knows that if he can’t send the evil-doers to Guantanamo, his only alterna-tive is to kill them with drone strikes.

What we actually have here is an unusually subtle Republican argument: if you don’t like the drone strikes (because they kill lots of innocent people), then you should keep Guantanamo open. But subtle is not the same as valid.

There are two unstated assumptions at the heart of this argument. One is that the US could put its drones away and just capture the people it suspects of being al-Qaeda supporters by conventional means and lock them away in Guantanamo. No fuss, no muss, and no innocent “collateral damage.”

That’s ridiculous: the United States is not going to

have much luck in tracking down alleged al-Qaeda sup-porters in the wilds of Yemen or Afghanistan and spiriting them away to Guantanamo. If it doesn’t target them with drones, then most of them will go on living (and so will the innocent people nearby).

This brings us to the second unstated assumption: that if all those dangerous people had been allowed to live, then there would have been hundreds of terrorist attacks against the United States. Or at least doz-ens. Okay then, how about a couple?

After all, there were no drone strikes for the first three years after the 9/11 attacks in 2001, because the technology was not yet available. Yet even then, when al-Qaeda was still a relatively strong and cohesive organization, there was not one further terrorist attack on the United States. The link between drone strikes and possible ter-rorist attacks on the United States is purely rhetorical.

Never mind. The whole argu-ment is moot. Obama won’t get the Republican majority in the House of Representatives to go along with closing Guantanamo this time either. And he won’t stop the drone strikes because he needs to be seen by the American public to be doing something “positive” as he brings the American troops home from another needless and lost war.

There is not one iota of stra-tegic thinking in any of this. It’s all about American domestic politics, as the response to 9/11 has been from the beginning.

Gwynne Dyer is a journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

The question of drones and Guantanamo

An editorial from the Toronto Star

Near the end of the latest federal budget, tucked away like so many controversial measures before it, in a distant corner of an omnibus bill, is a deceptively innocuous, deeply worrying piece of legislation that will give the government unprecedented controls over Crown corporations.

The budget implementa-tion bill tabled last week con-tains provisions that will allow the government to intervene in the collective bargaining and executive salary negotia-tions of more than 40 Crown corporations, including VIA Rail, Canada Post and, most problematically, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.

Given the Harper govern-ment’s history of hard-line interventions in Crown cor-porations’ labour disputes, affected unions are under-standably worried. Denis Lemelin, national president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, decried the measures

as an “unbelievable” threat to “our right to negotiate” - a concern that could not have been assuaged by Wednesday’s question period discussion of the measure.

In the case of the CBC, the threat the new provisions pose to that public interest is clear. Social media was rife last week with unlikely claims that the Harper government, by giv-ing itself these new powers, is attempting to make a Pravda of the CBC.

By taking control of salary negotiations the government will necessarily exert tacit pol-itical influence, compromising the independence necessary for the CBC to serve its import-ant democratic function. What government hasn’t occasionally been angry at the CBC and its handling of the news?

Are we to believe that pol-itics won’t come into play - even if only in some subtle, subconscious way - when the government helps to renegoti-ate David Suzuki’s contract? Or when the producers of The

National, their salaries subject to cabinet’s approval, decide what to investigate? There’s a good reason why the CBC - and other Crown agencies - have been kept at arm’s length from the government of the day.

Moreover, the legislation opens the door to further infringements on the CBC’s independence. In an attempt to crush the unions, Harper has - whether unwittingly or uncaringly - created a tool with which governments wishing to tamper with the CBC’s editorial approach can do so with great-er precision than ever before. Whether or not this govern-ment intends to use that tool, defenders of public broadcast-ing would surely sleep easier if it didn’t exist.

Keeping costs down is a fine goal, but in that pursuit the government has accepted unacceptable collateral dam-age.

That’s precisely why Crown corporations have until now been spared these far-reaching government controls.

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T H E A S S O C I A T E D P R E S SLOS ANGELES - Jeanne Cooper, the endur-

ing soap opera star who played grande dame Katherine Chancellor for nearly four decades on “The Young and the Restless,” has died. She was 84.

Cooper died Wednesday morning in her sleep, her son the actor Corbin Bernsen wrote on Facebook. The family confirmed the death to CBS, according to a network spokeswoman.

She was in a Los Angeles-area hospital, according to Bernsen’s spokesman, Charles Sherman, who said the cause of death was not immediately available.

“One of the last great broads in our busi-ness - Jeanne Cooper, Mom - is now stirring up trouble in great beyond,” her family said.

Cooper will be remembered “as a daytime television legend and as a friend who will truly be missed by all of us here at the network,” said Nina Tassler, president of CBS Entertainment, adding that the actress brought “indelible charm, class and talent to every episode.”

“Heaven just gained one feisty angel,” cast member Melissa Claire Egan posted on her Twitter account.

“A very sad day for all of us. You will be deeply missed,” tweeted Jessica Collins, also on the serial.

Cooper joined the daytime serial six months after its March 1973 debut, staking claim to the title of longest-tenured cast member. The role earned her 11 Daytime Emmy nominations and a trophy for best actress in a drama series in 2008.

“God knows it’s claimed a big part of my life,” she told The Associated Press in March as CBS’ “The Young and the Restless” celebrated its milestone 40th anniversary.

As the years passed, Cooper brushed aside thoughts of saying goodbye to the show and its fictional Wisconsin town of Genoa City.

“What would I do? I’m no good at crochet-ing. My fingers would bleed,” she told the AP as she turned 83 in October.

But on April 12 Bernsen tweeted that his mother faced an “uphill battle” for an undis-closed illness. In subsequent days he wrote of her gradual improvement and said that she’d been taken off breathing equipment.

In a Facebook posting April 17, Bernsen said his mother cursed several times, “showing me that she’s becoming her old self, not thrilled about the situation, and ready to get out of the hospital and shake up the world.”

On Wednesday he wrote that she remained a fighter until the end: “She has been a blaze her entire life, that beacon, that boxer I spoke of earlier. She went the full twelve rounds and by unanimous decision... won!”

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The Trail area and a generous donation from Scotiabank’s Bright Future Program, the Heart and Stroke Foundation will con-tinue to fund leading heart and stroke research that saves lives. This year $15,776.46 was raised locally. That is 122 per cent of our 2013 fundraising goal for the Trail area, said Nancy Liknes, the Heart and Stroke Foundation’s Kootenay Area Coordinator. Pictured is the cheque presentation at the Scotiabank. From the left; Nancy Liknes, Delfina Ciardullo, Allyson Tremblay, Maria Ciardullo, Heather Mcwhirter and Marly Jeffries

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T H E A S S O C I A T E D P R E S SLONDON - When Ray

Harryhausen was 13, he was so overwhelmed by “King Kong” that he vowed he would create otherworldly creatures on film. He fulfilled his desire as an adult, thrill-ing audiences with skeletons in a sword fight, a gigan-tic octopus destroying the Golden Gate Bridge, and a six-armed dancing goddess.

On Tuesday, Harryhausen died at London’s Hammersmith Hospital, where he had been receiving treatment for about a week. He was 92.

Biographer and longtime friend Tony Dalton confirmed the special-effects titan’s death, saying it was too soon to tell the exact cause.

“Ray did so much and influenced so many people,” Dalton said. He recalled his friend’s “wonderfully funny, brilliant sense of humour” and love of Laurel and Hardy, adding that, “His creatures were extraordinary, and his

imagination was boundless.”Though little known by the

general public, Harryhausen made 17 movies that are cherished by devotees of film fantasy.

George Lucas, who bor-rowed some of Harryhausen’s techniques for his “Star Wars” films, commented: “I had seen some other fan-tasy films before, but none of them had the kind of awe that Ray Harryhausen’s mov-ies had.”

The late science fiction author Ray Bradbury, a long-time friend and admirer, once remarked: “Harryhausen stands alone as a techni-cian, as an artist and as a dreamer. ... He breathed life into mythological creatures he constructed with his own hands.”

Harryhausen’s method was as old as the motion pic-ture itself: stop motion. He sculpted characters from 7.5 cm to 38 cm (3 inches to 15 inches) tall and photographed them one frame at a time in

continuous poses, thus creat-ing the illusion of motion. In today’s movies, such effects are achieved digitally.

Harryhausen admired the three-dimensional quality of modern digital effects, but he still preferred the old-fash-ioned way of creating fantasy.

“I don’t think you want to make it quite real. Stop motion, to me, gives that added value of a dream world,” he said.

The great-grandson of African explorer David Livingstone, Ray Frederick Harryhausen was born in Los Angeles on June 19, 1920. As a boy, he saw the 1925 silent fantasy “The Lost World,” Willis O’Brien’s stop-motion movie about dinosaurs in a South American jungle.

“I always remember the dinosaur falling off the cliff,” he remarked at a Vancouver, Canada, animation and effects convention in 2001. “That stuck in my mind for years.”

His future was assured

in 1933 when he saw “King Kong” at Grauman’s Chinese theatre in Hollywood.

“I used to make little clay models,” he recalled. “When I saw ‘King Kong,’ I saw a way to make those models move.”

In contrast to the mil-lions spent on digital effects today, Harryhausen made his magic on a shoestring. His first effort, “The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms” (1953), cost $250,000 for the entire film. He commented wryly in 1998: “I find it rather amusing to sit through the on-screen cred-its today, seeing the names of 200 people doing what I once did by myself.”

Other notable achieve-ments included the film “Earth vs. the Flying Saucers,” where aliens slice through the Washington Monument and crash into the U.S. Capitol. He also was behind “The Golden Voyage of Sinbad,” where a one-eyed centaur battles a part-lion, part-eagle creature known as a griffin.

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A deluge of snow and media atten-tion have given the Rossland accommoda-tion industry its best month ever in the seven-year history of Tourism Rossland.

February broke all records for total accommodation rev-enue in the city as $568,390 dollars rolled through the tills of the city’s hotels, motels, bed and breakfast’s and condominiums.

The previous month saw the record for accommodation rev-enue—$492,000 in February of 2006—broken at $526,212.

Tourism Rossland’s executive director, Deanne Stevens, said the 2013 numbers compared to the years previous really stand out and illustrate what a great year the city had.

She pointed to the announcement of the opening of cat ski-ing at Red Mountain Resort, combined with a high profile story in

the New York Times—ranking Rossland as the eighth among the newspaper’s 46 places to go—and winning the Powder Magazine’s Ski Town Throwdown along with Nelson’s Whitewater Ski Resort as the best ski town in North America.

“It was a combina-tion of really great news, great snow and then a lot of attention in the press this year,” Stevens said. “The area has been teetering on the edge of being really strong for a number of years and we were close.”

March is expected to be near the record as well, she said, but the numbers aren’t tabulated.

In January many people came and stayed in the city for the Winter Carnival, which is gaining some measure of fame out-side of the borders of the West Kootenay.

The exposure wasn’t by accident. Stevens, along with Red Mountain, Big Red Cats, Canadian Ski

Quest and Kootenay Rockies Tourism attended nearly one dozen tourism indus-

try trade shows around the world to promote the area and the then planned lift and ter-

rain expansion onto Grey Mountain at Red Mountain Resort.

“Went to all the dif-

ferent ski shows and having something new to talk about (like Grey expansion) got their

attention and that attention got us expos-ure in the New York Times,” said Stevens.

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this column I am writing in anticipa-tion of the celebration of Hospice Month in May. I have just come in from beginning to clean up the garden. Though I was dressed for winter and could see my breath, I also could see so many things peeking out from under last year’s old foliage. The old and the new. What is new about Hospice that has sprung from its roots?

The word hos-pice comes from the Roman era, when people would provide hospitality to travel-lers. In turn, they would expect to be hosted when they were travelling.

The word began to imply a mutuality, host and guest becom-ing interchangeable, both affected by the encounter.

Hospice originates from the 11th century when the Sovereign Order of St John of Jerusalem established wayfarer houses to care for people on their way through high mountain passes, to or from the cru-sades. Interestingly enough they are still involved with the hos-pice movement as a sponsor of our prov-incial hospice associa-

tion BCHPCA.The 1800’s saw

homes for the dying established by vari-ous religious orders in Paris, Ireland and New York. Although not connected with each other, the principles of these organizations shared a concern for the care of the dying, and in particular the dying poor. Although they were not places that offered sophisti-cated medical or nurs-ing care, these early facilities created some of the preconditions for the development of modern hospices.

Dame Cicely Saunders founded St. Christopher’s Hospice in South London in 1967. A friend of mine growing up in that neighbourhood remembers walking past each day on the way to school.

As a teenager she was inspired to go in and began volunteer-ing. As the first mod-ern hospice, inspiring work all over the world, St. Christopher’s com-bined three different principles: excellent clinical care, educa-tion, and research.

Greater Trail Hospice Society in our small rural area also tries to incorpor-ate these principles in our work in the com-munity. You will see they are reflected in

the activities we have planned for Hospice Month in May.

We will be cohosting a regional Community Conversation on Dying: Lessons from the Field, today Trail and Castlegar Hospices are collaborators on a research project with UBC Okanagan and are bringing in the researchers to report on some of the chan-ges occurring in Canada and how they affect us.

We will be host-ing several workshops on Advanced Care Planning and Estate Planning, allowing people the opportun-ity to work in a small group to actually begin the work of articulat-ing their own wishes.

Research shows that procrastination is one of the greatest blocks when thinking about creating our personal plans and that those who do are more likely to end up having what they consider a “good death”.

We hope to help overcome the blocks for those who partici-pate. Details can be found on our website www.trailhospice.org.

Please join us for any or all of these events and join in the conversation, as we sit at the bedside, not just of individuals, but of the community.

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The Kootenay Robusters Dragon Boat team launched its 13th season last month paddling the calm waters of Christina Lake. The team, made up of breast cancer survivors and support-ers from Rossland, Trail, Castlegar, Grand Forks and Christina Lake, is looking for new members. Check out the team website www.kootenayro-busters.com.

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Kootenay Lake: It’s that time of year. The weather has warmed up to the balmy spring-like condi-tions we’ve all been waiting for and with that, the water will warm and the fish will start to get more active. My favourite time of year is coming.

April saw some good and bad days on the water. Still had to be patient, but we were normally rewarded. The creeks started to flow a bit in the past few weeks and that has brought out some bugs and debris on the water. This has also brought out the small, insect eating fish. So, we have been hooking into a lot of shakers lately. At least it keeps us running for the rods.

One of our best days last week saw us hooking into 12 Rainbows. The first few were only small and had us wondering if we would find a big one. But after catching half a dozen little guys, we finally hooked into a hog. The fish ran the counter out to over 500 feet of line, and jumped about six times, before making a mad run towards the boat when it spit the hook. Heart breaker.

However, the day got better as the boat landed a 14, 14.5, and 12 pound Gerrards in addition to some smaller rainbows.

Temperature: The water tem-perature hasn’t quite reached our prime number yet, but when it does, these fish are going to go wild. Also, with the hot weather, keep an eye open for the famous flying-ant hatch. They will get blown into the water by the thou-sands and that’s when every fish in the lake will finally come to the surface and put the feed on.

Lures and flies: We’ve been catching a lot of fish on buck-tail flies. Lots of shakers at this time of year, but always a few big ones mixed in. Favourite colors so far have been: black/white, grey/

white, and still purple/white. The lucky numbers being: 210, 215, 222, 228

Apex lures are working well also. Similar colors as the flies. Black/white, Silver, or blue/green has been working as well.

And my favorite Lyman plugs have also been producing some fish. Lucky numbers: 10, 16, 55, 69.

Prime time is coming, so Let’s get out there.

Columbia River: The Columbia has been nothing short of spectacular this month. With unseasonably hot weather bring-ing out a variety of hatches for the fly fisher and spincaster including caddis, baetis mayflies, stoneflies, salmonflies, cicadas, and flying black ants, not to mention midges and mosquitoes (chironomids).

Size 6-8 golden stonefly nymphs or size 4-6 salmonfly (pteronarcys californica) nymphs fished on a full-sink or sink-tip line worked great in April and continue to produce in early May.

After landing a half dozen rain-bows on nymphs, I changed to the dry line in the afternoon and also had success on an adult stonefly pattern.

But May is the month of the dog-day cicada and flying black ant. Columbia rainbows go crazy over these terrestrial treats at this time of year.

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BY JIM BAILEYTimes Sports Editor

Silver City Days wouldn’t be complete without the Colombo Lodge-AM Ford Bocce Classic and the Fun Run, two events that have added a touch of athleticism to the annual celebration.

The Bocce tournament gets rolling at the Trail Curling Rink where 28 teams will vie for the cov-eted Classic title. The bocce throwers will also get a chance to warm up tonight and practice throw-ing bocce on the carpet-lined lanes of the curling club venue from 6 to 9 p.m.

The players get bowling in earnest from 2 to 9 p.m. on Friday and will continue on Saturday from 9 a.m. to about 5 p.m. with an 11 a.m. break so competitors can step outside and enjoy the parade.

The two-player-per-team open tournament began in 2006 to celebrate the Colombo Lodge’s 100th year.

Original organizer Sergio Freschi says spon-sors like Kootenay Savings and AM Ford have been huge contributors to the success of the event, and he encourages everyone to stop in, enjoy a bever-age at the bar and watch teams from around the Kootenays play their best bocce.

The Silver City Days Fun Run will look to duplicate its record turnout at last year’s run, that saw close to 300 participants take to the pavement in Sunningdale.

The run starts in Gyro Park Sunday at 9 a.m. follows the river, circles Sunningdale and returns along the sidewalk. Entrants in the 5K will finish at Gyro, while the 10K competitors head towards East Trail, and eventually a loop of downtown Trail before heading back to the finish at Gyro.

Last year the Fun Run received a healthy boost from Teck’s Health and Wellness program

entering about 80 runner and walkers. The event is open to everyone from elite run-

ners to the casual stroller and is divided into age categories. In the 5K junior category: eight and under, 9-11, 12-15. For 10 K: 12 and under, 13-15 and in the Senior category, 16-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59 and 60-plus.

Prizes will be awarded to the top place finishers in each group and random draws will award lucky participants at the awards presentation where refreshments are provided by local businesses.

Everyone who preregisters gets entered into a draw to win a $200 gift certificate for Gerick’s Cycle and Sports.

Early registration must be received by 7 p.m. Friday. Latecomers are still welcome but must register at Gyro Park on race day between 7:45 and 8:45 a.m.

The entry fee is $5 for a walker and $10 to run. To register early contact Gerick Cycle and Sports or download entry form at www.trailtrackclub.ca or email [email protected].

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Fly of the month:Golden stonefly nymph

Hook: Size 8-10 2XL wet fly hook with .30 weighted wire wrapped around top third.

Thread: Black #8 Body: Olive Hareline Dubbing

Tail: Gold goose biots Shellback: 1/8” Mottled Turkey Thin Skin

Rib: Medium copper wireLegs: Brown grizzly soft hackle

BY TIMES STAFFOver 51,000 run-

ners hit the streets of Spokane for the 37th Lilac Bloomsday Run on Sunday, including close to 100 partici-pants from Greater Trail.

This year’s run paid homage to the Boston Marathon by giving participants “Bloomsday stands with Boston” brace-let. In honor of the victims of the Boston bombing.

Ethiopian Belete Assefa won the hilly 12-kilometre race overall in the men’s division, while country-

woman Buzunesh Deba recaptured the women’s title for the third year in a row.

Seven Greater Trail runners fin-ished in the top 25 of over 420 B.C. entrants, includ-ing Patrick Walker of Trail who led all locals with a time of 56:18, coming fourth among B.C. runners.

Rossland’s Mandy McGill finished ninth, and Gerry Heacock, 10th, Amy Shields, 14th, Dean Corkill, 19th, Carolyn Buehler, 22nd, and Rocky Dickson, 23rd, rounding out the top 25.

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FROM PAGE 11Flies: Any cicada size 6-8 or black

ant pattern. Size 8-10 golden stone-fly and size 4-6 salmonfly nymph patterns are very effective nymphed or fished with sink tip, also orange and yellow stimulators or skwalas, size 8-12.

Local Lakes have been produ-cing well. Fly fishers have had good success fishing chironomids on Rosebud, Box, and Summit Lakes since mid-April, while Champion Lakes is just recently ice-free and ready to fish.

I had great results on Box Lake a few weeks ago, casting a six-foot sink tip and a 3X long size-12, bead-head prince nymph, and landed a good number of rainbows and brook trout.

Chironomids are the most pro-lific hatch early in the season, but with warmer temps, mayflies start emerging and nymphs like the prince or Adams dry-fly pattern should start to produce.

Fish chironomids about a foot off the bottom where cruising trout are

inhaling this vast source of protein. Measure the depth with either a marked anchor rope, or by clamp-ing your forceps to the end of your line and dropping it until it hits bot-tom. Set your strike indicator about a foot below this. Size and colour are also key variables in the chiron-omid game. Observe the hatch to figure out size, and a stomach pump used on your first trout will help identify colour and size

Lardeau River: It’s that time of year when the big Gerrard Rainbows make their journey up the river to spawn. The numbers have been good so far and should continue until the second week of May. For anyone that hasn’t seen this, it’s something to experience. Right now there is over 700 rainbow trout under the bridge. Hopefully we see a few more show up over the next week or so.

Go to www.env.gov.bc.ca/koote-nay/fsh/main/mainfish.htm.

Lakes and River report courtesy of Jim Bailey and other anonymous sources.

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But major chan-ges loom after the Canucks, who came within a game of win-ning the Stanley Cup in 2010-11, bowed out early from the playoffs for the second con-secutive spring.

The Canucks announced early in the afternoon they will hold a media availabil-ity Thursday. In the

morning, the team’s recorded phone mes-sage said it could be “a few days” before one was held in wake of Tuesday’s 3-2 overtime loss in San Jose, which gave the Sharks a 4-0 sweep of their best-of-seven series Western Conference quarter-final series.

Management is trying to figure out what went wrong in the playoffs for a team that viewed itself as a strong Stanley Cup contender but fell well short of its target.

General manager Mike Gillis decided not to make any major moves following last year’s five-game loss to the Los Angeles Kings.

Gillis thought the club was close to returning to the Stanley Cup final, but the humiliating sweep by the Sharks likely means that, as players have acknow-ledged, the so-called Stanley Cup window of opportunity is clos-ing quickly and bold moves are inevitable.

The Canucks have

lost 10 of their last 11 playoff games dating to the 2010-11 finals.

There is no guar-antee Gillis will get the chance to do a redesign.

His future and those of coach Alain Vigneault, Vancouver’s veteran core and, as usual, goaltender Roberto Luongo, are all in question as the Canucks hope to avoid a freefall with NHL realignment, tougher divisional opponents, and a reduced salary cap looming.

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to F-45

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non-5.0

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4x4/ F-

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cluding

Chassis

Cab) / F

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and 4x4

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Cab and

Super C

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er Cab a

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anufact

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binable

with any

fl eet co

nsumer

incent

ives. ±U

ntil Ma

y 31, 20

13, leas

e a new

2013 F-

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LT 4x4 w

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percent

age rat

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fi nancin

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to 48 m

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n appro

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ord Cre

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all buy

ers will

qualify

for the

lowest

APR pay

ment. Le

ase a ve

hicle w

ith a va

lue of $

28,999/

$30,999

at 3.99%

APR for

up to 4

8 mont

hs with

$0 down

or equiv

alent tra

de in, m

onthly

paymen

t is $38

6/$402

, total le

ase obl

igation

is $18,52

8/$19,2

96 and o

ptional

buyout

is$13,

906/$15

,408. Off

er includ

es Manu

facturer

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of $9,25

0. Taxes

payable

on full

amoun

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include

freight

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tax of $

1,700 bu

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urance, d

ealer PD

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licable)

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SA, adm

inistrat

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and cha

rges, an

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al char

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ees, and

all app

licable

taxes. A

dditiona

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nts requ

ired for

PPSA, re

gistrati

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osit, NS

F fees (

where a

pplicab

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ar, and l

ate fees

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conditi

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mileag

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tions of

80,000

km ove

r 48 mo

nths ap

ply. A ch

arge of 1

6 cents

per km

over m

ileage r

estrictio

ns appl

ies, plu

s applic

able tax

es. Manu

facturer

Rebates

can be

used

in conjun

ction w

ith most

retail co

nsumer

offers

made a

vailable

by Ford

of Cana

da at eit

her the

time of

factory

order o

r delive

ry, but n

ot both

. Manuf

acturer R

ebates

are not

combina

ble with

any fl ee

t consu

mer ince

ntives.

††Until

May 31

, 2013, r

eceive 1

.49%/3.9

9%/5.8

9% ann

ual perc

entage

rate (AP

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ase fi na

ncing on

a new

2013 Fu

sion S/2

013 Esc

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F-250 X

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aximum

of 72 m

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approve

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(OAC) f

rom For

d Credit

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buyers

will qua

lify for

the low

est APR

paymen

t. Purcha

se fi nan

cing mo

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ayment

is $349

/$360/

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of twel

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ly paym

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ayment

of $161/

$166/$

316 with

a down

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alent tra

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03.62/$

2,900.75

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total to

be repa

id is $25

,102.62/

$25,899

.75/$49

,363.60.

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include

a Manu

facturer

Rebate

of $0/$

0/$6,00

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eight an

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istration

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istration

fees (a

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fees ma

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ll charge

and all

applica

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s. Taxes

payable

on full

amoun

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chase p

rice aft e

r Manuf

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ments a

re only

availab

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a custom

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(Interne

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one Pay

system

throug

h the cu

stomer’s

own

bank (if

offered

by that

fi nancia

l institu

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sign a m

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ct with a

fi rst pa

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ate one

month

from t

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e and to

ensure

that th

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onthly

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by the p

ayment

due dat

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aking pa

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equival

ent to t

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of 12 m

onthly

paymen

ts divid

ed by 26

bi-week

ly perio

ds every

two wee

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mencing

on the

contrac

t date. D

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y sell fo

r less. O

ffers va

ry by m

odel an

d not all

combina

tions wi

ll apply.

*Purch

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ew 201

3 Fusion

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for $23

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payable

on full

amoun

t of pur

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rice aft e

r Manuf

acturer R

ebate o

f $0/$0

/$9,250

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n deduc

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air tax

of $1,65

0/$1,70

0/$1,70

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ariable

charges

of licen

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ees, and

all app

licable

taxes. A

ll prices

are bas

ed on M

anufact

urer’s Su

ggested

Retail P

rice. Ma

nufactu

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not com

binable

with any

fl eet co

nsumer

incent

ives. ▲

Offer on

ly valid f

rom Apr

il 2, 201

3 to Ma

y 31, 20

13 (the

“Offer P

eriod”)

to resid

ent Can

adians w

ith a Co

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members

hip on o

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March

31, 2013.

Use this

$1,000C

DN Cost

co memb

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toward

s the pu

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f a new

2013/2

014 For

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, Rapto

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Medium

Truck)

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le must

be deliv

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/or fact

ory-ord

ered fro

m your

particip

ating Fo

rd deale

r within

the Off

er Perio

d. Offer

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valid at

particip

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subject

to vehic

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ability,

and ma

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celled o

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y time w

ithout n

otice. O

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urchase

or leas

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to a ma

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of two

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ehicle sa

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ip Num

ber. Off

er is tran

sferable

to perso

ns dom

iciled w

ith an e

ligible Co

stco me

mber. O

ffer is n

ot com

binable

with any

CPA/GP

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ly Rent

al incen

tives, th

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gram or t

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mercial

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centive

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s calcul

ated bef

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offer is

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ell or lea

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offer, s

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call th

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t 1-800-

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stimated

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nsump

tion rat

ings for

2013 F-

150 4X4

5.0L V8

6-spee

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atic tra

nsmissio

n: [15.0

L/100km

(19MPG

) City, 10

.6L/100

km (27M

PG) Hw

y] / 201

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FWD 2.

5L I4 6-

speed S

ST tran

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loading

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equipm

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icle con

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est-sell

ing pick

up truck

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da for 4

7 years

in a row

based o

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icle Ma

nufactu

rers’ As

sociatio

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tical sa

les repo

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. †††So

me mo

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some di

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SYNC® –

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.com for

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liance w

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ional on

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B y M a r v i n B e a t t yCastlegar News

The West Kootenay Regional Airport Advisory Committee has announced an increased in the sum-mer passenger service of Jazz Air, to better meet the needs of the travelling pub-

lic in the West Kootenay region.

Jazz Air will now provide four flights a day, seven days a week from the West Kootenay Regional Airport in Castlegar and will be using bigger aircraft.

“The schedule will

change May 1,” said Castlegar Mayor Lawrence Chernoff, who was reached by telephone. “The big change here is in the num-ber of passengers they are able to carry now, because they are using the Dash 300. It’s really 400 passen-

gers per day if they went to capacity.”

Chernoff said the next step is to continue long-term discussions with Air Canada.

“We really want to maintain that partnership because they’ve been here

since 1985 and they are long-term corporate cit-izens of the community,” he said.

Chernoff added having four flights a day out of Castlegar, one to Calgary and three to Vancouver, is a good step forward.

Jazz adds more flights

to West Kootenay

Castlegar

Leisure

Dear Annie: My hus-band is the youngest of seven siblings. While they are all successful, some are more finan-cially comfortable than others.

Five years ago, the oldest sibling wanted to give their mother an 80th birthday party. She planned a huge party for hundreds of her moth-er’s friends and neigh-bors. She rented a party place, hired a band and catered an elaborate buffet and open bar. She then emailed all of the siblings and informed them that they each owed her $1,000.

Annie, my husband didn’t have that kind of extra money. He had recently moved, found a new job and married me, a graduate stu-dent. He also pays child support for a daugh-ter and the mortgage on another daughter’s home, as well as our rent.

He explained this to his sister and said he could pay $150. We attended the party

and enjoyed ourselves. There was no animosity from the sister about the money at that time. But now she has start-ed making rude com-ments to my husband and the other siblings via Facebook and email that she is still waiting for my husband to “step up to the plate” and pay the rest of his share.

Is it right for one member of a family to plan an event without consulting the others and then expect them to pony up the money requested? This has caused a serious rift between my husband and some of his sib-lings. -- Wife of Mr. 15 Percent

Dear Wife: Obviously,

your husband’s sister should have discussed the finances with her siblings if she expected them to split the bill. And if she is having a problem with your husband, she shouldn’t be slamming him on Facebook or in group emails. However, she did go through a lot of trouble to plan the party, and for five years, she’s been out of pocket the amount she thought your husband would pay. He doesn’t “owe” her the rest. But in order to maintain good family relations, your husband might speak privately with his sister and ask whether he could contribute whatever additional monies he can afford on an installment plan.

Dear Annie: Please tell the men in your reading audience that women interpret their wedding vows differ-ently than we do.

I finally proposed to my girlfriend of many years. It made such a huge difference in our

relationship, which had been floundering a bit. I never realized how hurt she was by my lack of commitment. She thought I didn’t love her enough and told me it made her feel as if she wasn’t a part of my life or a member of my family. She said she felt like a housekeeper with privileges.

Now our ability to communicate and enjoy things together is so pleasurable again. It scares me to think we had almost given up on each other and might have ended up living out our lives apart and unhappy. We men don’t think about the sense of security it gives a woman to know, with legal vows, that a man wants to spend the rest of his life with her. -- Happy and Alive Again

Dear Happy: In all fairness, not all women feel this way. But we are glad you figured out what mattered to your girlfriend and told her so. The inability to commit is a problem

we hear a great deal about, so we appreciate your spelling it out for the relationship chal-lenged.

Dear Annie: Please tell “Not Anti-Social or Addicted to the Internet” that frater-nal organizations offer a place for everyone

who is looking for friendship and a way to become involved and active. If one has a military background, I suggest checking out the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars or one of their affiliate organizations. In addition, there are

the Elks lodges, Eagles clubs and Masonic organizations, to men-tion a few. I belong to the Shriners, and they have a great deal of social interaction. -- Kansas Brother

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For Friday, May 10, 2013 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) The next three to four weeks are perfect for those of you who write, sell, market, teach or act, because your commu-nication skills will be excellent. Look for ways to make money from your words. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) In the month ahead, many of you will want to buy beauti-ful treasures for yourself and loved ones. (You are a sign who loves antiques and col-lectibles.) GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) With fair Venus moving into your sign now to stay for the next several weeks, you will be extra-charming and diplo-matic with everyone you meet. Use this to your advantage. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Solitude in beautiful sur-roundings will appeal to you in the next month. Slip away to gentle places where you can ponder your navel.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) You’ll find it easy to make friends in the next four weeks, especially in group situations. In fact, a friend might become a lover. (Oh my.) VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Some of you might become involved with someone older or richer in the next month, or you could develop a crush on your boss. Whatever happens, you look very attractive to oth-ers. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Travel for pleasure will delight you in the next month. Get away anywhere, if you can. Romance with someone from another culture might blos-som. SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Gifts, goodies and favors from others will come your way in the next month. Be open to this. Just keep smiling and say, “Thank you!”

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This Community, the Revelstoke friends and friends from all over B.C., Canada, USA, Australia and other parts of the World have been Incredible to our family during this trying time in our loss of Jason.Thank you everybody for “ being there” in every form you have come in: email, texts, phone calls, writing eulogies, flowers, hugs, food, mysterious treats appearing in the fridge and hippy remedies on the counter, in notes on the door, in person and in vibration - even cheering for the Oilers!It has been overwhelming to us but also very Awesome.Nothing can bring our Jason back but knowing that you are there for us is such a comfort.To the RCMP, Victim Services, Revelstoke Search and Rescue, Jordan and Staff at Alternative Funeral Home, Gary at Brandon Funeral Home in Revelstoke, Denise and staff at Trail Parks and Rec., Ferraro Foods and all the helpers at the Cominco Gym.Thanks for all the donations to the different Children’s Charities. We thank you for every kindness to our family.With Love Jan and Gary Westbury, Stacey and Aaron Wilson, Lisa Pettenuzzo and Alice Westbury

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BirthsSAMANTHA MANN & MATT PROULX, of Trail, are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter, London Everly Proulx, on April 3rd, 2013 at 5:05pm, weighing 7 lbs. 7 oz., 19.7 inches. Proud grandpar-ents are Shelley Aro (Lauri Pompu), Brian Mann (Sabine Mann) and Lynn & Corky Proulx.

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Misc. WantedTrue Coin Collector Looking to Purchase Collections, Accu- mulations, Olympic Gold and Silver coins, Bills + Not melting down, Serious Collector. Call: Coin Couple 1-250-499-0251

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HOUSE or CONDO To Rent or Buy for earliestJune 15th or July 1st. Can accommodate date for the right place & arrangement.

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bedroom with yard & garden space. Upper Rossland or Red Mtn. Resort area pre-ferred. We are a family with behaved outdoor dog & cat.

Professional couple with steady income and children. Please call 250-362-7681

evenings & weekends. 250-231-2174 daytime. Monika

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RETIRE IN Beautiful Southern BC, Brand New Park. Af-fordable Housing. COPPER RIDGE. Manufactured Home Park, New Home Sales. Kere-meos, BC. Spec home on site to view. Please call 250-462-7055. www.copperridge.ca

Open HousesTRAIL, Recently upgraded riv-er-front home on spectacular Tadanac lot. $389,000. OPEN HOUSE, 2-4pm. Sat. May 11th 250-368-3142

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Apt/Condo for RentErmalinda Apartments, Glen-merry. Adults only. N/P, N/S. 1-2 bdrms. Ph. 250.364.1922

Francesco Estates, Glenmer-ry. Adults only. N/P, N/S, 1-3 bdrms. Phone 250.368.6761.Glenmerry 2bdrm. apt. F/S Heat included. $750./mo. 250-368-5908Glenmerry 3bdrm. F/S $850/mo. Heat included. 250-368-5908ROSSLAND, 1bd. & 1 bach. apt. Golden City Manor. Over 55. N/S. N/P. Subsidized. 250-362-5030, 250-362-3385ROSSLAND, 2BD., covered carport, clean & quiet, N/S, N/P. 250-362-9473Sunningdale:2bdrm corner unit,TV cable & heat included & free use of washer and dry-er. $750/mo. 250-368-3055TRAIL, 2bd. Close to town, bus stop, park, new blinds, paint. $600. 250-364-1129TRAIL newly renovated 1bd suite in triplex, quiet building. $450/mo. +util. 1-250-428-6788, 1-250-428-7351.TRAIL, Rossland Ave. 1bdrm w/d f/s, n/s n/p. $550/mo. Avail. immed. 250-368-1361TRAIL, Rossland Ave., 3bdrm. avail. immed. f/s, w/d. dish-washer, newly renovated, N/S, N/P. $750/mo. 250-368-1361TRAIL, spacious 1&2bdrm. apartment. Adult building, per-fect for seniors/ professionals. Cozy, clean, quiet, com-fortable. Must See. 250-368-1312WANETA MANOR 2bdrm., NS,NP, Senior oriented, un-derground parking 250-368-8423WARFIELD, 1BD. F/S. Coin laundry, storage. Secure bldg. N/S, N/P. $625. util.incl. 604-459-8327

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1988 BMW 735I, excellent shape, runs & looks great! Very unique in style! Gary 250-368-1826, 250-364-2063

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Off Road Vehicles2010 Toyota Venza AWD V6, 34483 km, black, automatic, leather, sunroof, backup camera, warranty, excellent condition, $13200. [email protected]

Recreational/Sale2002 24.5’ Cougar 5th Wheel with slide. $11,500. 250-367-9175

2004 31’ Titanium 5th Wheel w/6’ pull out back porch &2 slides. Includes extras. 250-368-5666. I will return calls.

Sport Utility Vehicle1999 Subaru Forester, 1 lady owner, serviced by local deal-er to Subaru schedule. Winter tires fi tted, summer tires available. $4,500. 250-367-7042

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3892 Dogwood Drive, Trail $319,000

Renovated Glenmerry home with 3 bdrms and 3 baths. Features bamboo

fl oors, new windows and doors, new heat pump and furnace... and the list goes on. Outside has covered parking and storage

shed. Come see for yourself! Call Terry 250-231-1101

1932 – 2nd Avenue, Trail

$105,0002 bdrm, 1 bath bungalow

is centrally located. 20 x 28 detached shop is an

added bonus! Call Tonnie (250) 365-9665

948 Glover Road, Trail $102,000

Remember when you said: “I should have invested in Trail when...”? This up/

down duplex (2 & 1 bdrm suites) with good tenants waits for you. Solid, close to town and good parking options. Very low

vacancy rate. Invest in Trail today!Call Tonnie (250) 365-9665

1824 Wilmes Lane, Trail

$184,000Very Special Package - New Older

Home - this 3 bdrm/2 bthrm. home has had a total update - nothing to do but enjoy - new wiring-plumbing-windows-paint-roof - tastefully decorated with all

kinds of charm - super views - call for an appointment to view.

Call Mark (250) 231-5591

409 Rossland Avenue, Trail $179,900

A lot of house - 3 fl oors of living - 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms - only

13 years old - looking for a family that requires room - This is it! - asking price is $179,900 just above assessed value -

seller is motivated. Great location.Call Mark (250) 231-5591

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840 Forrest Drive, Warfi eld $295,000

Fabulous family home in Warfi eld.4 beds, 2.5 baths & fenced back yard.

Ready to move? This is the house for you. Call Jodi 250-231-2331

531 Turner Street, Warfi eld $189,000

Built in 2009, this compact charmer is perfect for single, couple or empty

nesters that want modern open concept, low maintenance living. Home features vaulted ceilings, heated garage, private

yard and comes with New Home Warranty. Call now before its gone.

Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

309 – 12th Avenue, Genelle $249,000

Meticulously maintained home with lots of extras located on approximately 1 acre of relatively fl at land. Enjoy entertaining in

our above ground pool and hot tub. Home features newer kitchen, bathrooms and

fl ooring! Call now!Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

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NEW PRICE

1151 Marianna Crescent, Trail $242,000

3 bdrm home in Sunningdale! Features large living room, country kitchen, huge family/room, and workshop. Single car garage and enough room for a couple more vehicles on the paved driveway.

Make certain to have this home on your viewing list.

Call Art (250) 368-8818

1867 – 4th Avenue, Rossland $330,000

Newly renovated 1800’s home with 3bdrms, 2 baths and plenty of parking. Inside boasts a spacious open kitchen

with large deck through the French doors, and new fl ooring throughout. New 200 Amp panel wired and ready for a hot

tub. Don’t miss this great package.Call Christine (250) 512-7653

2023 Hepburn Drive, Fruitvale $249,900

Situated on a half acre lot, this home boasts a barn and a brand new two

storey 24 x 30 garage. The furnace is only 2 years old, there is new fl ooring in the kitchen, an updated bathroom, a

metal roof and large deck. Only minutes walking distance to downtown Fruitvale,

but feels like you are in the country.Call Christine (250) 512-7653

1345 Spokane Street, Rossland $499,000

This amazing family home, also operating as popular Black Bear B&B, offers 7

bdrms, 6 baths, a separate deluxe living area for family and space and luxury for guests. Exquisite kitchen, and extensive upgrades. There are so many fantastic

options with this property. There is subdivision approval for a lot to be

subdivided if buyer wishes. This lot could be sold, or built on.

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

3397 Laurel Crescent, Trail $154,900

Great price for a Glenmerry townhouse,in good condition. Quick possessionpossible. Easy care living with small

yard, the backyard is fenced and has asmall patio. These townhouses have acharm about them and offer 3 bdrms,

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SubmittedYoung filmmakers

impressed the audience at this year’s annual U19 Film Festival held on April 27 at the Royal Theatre in Trail. The annual festival is the largest youth film fes-tival in the West Kootenay region where young film-makers compete with short films for cash prizes.

“The calibre and quality of the films was the best I’ve ever seen. It’s really inspir-ing to see what young people are creating today with

film,” says Rachael Roussin, program coordinator for the Rossland Council for Arts and Culture.

A team of four dedicat-ed judges including a film maker, multi media special-ist, youth, and local high school graphics teacher worked hard to judge the twelve submitted films in five categories plus the judge’s choice award. Trail’s Chris Tremblay, Jordan Strobel and Tim Baldwin won best Drama. Warfield’s Jordan Strobel took home

the famous people’s choice award and Fruitvale’s Eric Gonzales won the grand prize Judge’s Choice award.

2013 U19 WinnersComedy: “Sock Monkeys”

- Madeline Grace-Wood, Rossland, Age 14

Documentary: “Barefoot” - James Klemmensen and Liam Barnes, Rossland, Age 17

Drama: “Loose Ends” - Chris Tremblay, Jordan Strobel and Tim Baldwin, Trail, Age 16

Snow Sports: “The

Moments Continue” - Andrew Woodward, Nelson, Age 18

S p o r t s / A d v e n t u r e : “Surge Freerun” - Lian Barnes, Rossland, Age 17

People’s Choice: “High Rise Ski Edit”- Jordan Strobel, Warfield, Age 16

Judges’ Choice: “Seattle and Aviation” - Eric Gonzales, Fruitvale, Age 17

An online Vimeo account for all the 2013 U19 films is being created for people to view the submitted films (vimeo.com/u19filmfest).

Submitted photo

Young film makers Tim Baldwin, Jordan Strobel and Chris Tremblay are presented with the award for best Drama film at this years U19 Film Festival by film festi-val judge and multi media specialist, Zeb Hansell.

Trail filmmakers garner awards at U19 festival

trail daily times, may 09, 2013

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