Contact the Times: Phone: 250-368-8551 Fax: 250-368-8550 Newsroom: 250-364-1242 Canada Post, Contract number 42068012 Nitehawks gear up for Cyclone Page 10 S I N C E 1 8 9 5 PROUDLY SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF ROSSLAND, WARFIELD, TRAIL, MONTROSE, FRUITVALE & SALMO Follow us online THURSDAY APRIL 10, 2014 Vol. 119, Issue 57 $ 1 05 INCLUDING G.S.T. There is a Special Offer coming your way The Trail Times has hired circulation sales representatives Hans Straub, Chris Hopkyns and Quitcy Macaulay to undertake a subscription drive. They will be calling on you to offer subscription prices for the Trail area at substantial savings over regular subscription prices. Offer not available at the Times Office CHRIS HOPKYNS HANS STRAUB QUITCY MACAULAY FRESH COAT FOR COVERED STAIRS GUY BERTRAND PHOTO Marcel Deschamps of Precise Painting does some touch up work to the covered staircase by Glover Road and Rossland Ave. this week. BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff A three-year grant in funding is taking centre stage in a plan to get more people in the seats of the Charles Bailey Theatre (CBT). In a bid to increase usage of the 731-seat facil- ity, the Trail and District Arts Council presented a business plan to the East End Services (EES) last year, proposing the regional service hand over theatre operations to the non-profit over the course of three years. The regional district has jumped on board with the idea and recently granted the arts council $18,500 annually for three years to hire a marketing and public relations officer for the Charles Bailey Theatre. “This is a great opportunity to promote the Charles Bailey Theatre to agencies and promoters in North America,” said Mark Daines, regional manager of facilities and recreation. “And increase the number of A-list perform- ances in the theatre.” Additionally, the EES (participants) from Rossland, Warfield, Trail, Montrose, Fruitvale, Area A and Area B, agreed to waive sound and lighting fees for local groups, with a goal to bring community talent back into the theatre. That news is music to the ears of a local dance instructor with a long history of renting out the Charles Bailey Theatre. “The cost of the lighting and sound at the CBT has been a huge reason why groups don’t rent the theatre,” said Rhonda Michallik of Steps Dance Centre. See NEED, Page 3 BY ART HARRISON Times Staff Tax season is upon us and, as our reli- ance on web-based services grow, people are increasingly turning towards the Internet to either file their own income tax returns using software applications or are using tax preparation services that do the same. However, a newly discovered Internet hazard, called the Heartbleed Bug, is so potentially damaging that even the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has shut down access to its web-based services until a fix is in place and it could cause delays in Canadians’ ability to file their income tax returns. “Right now it’s affecting our ability to electronically file tax returns for our clients,” said Colleen Harmston, owner of the Trail and Castlegar offices of H & R Block, a Canada-wide tax planning and preparation company. “We can’t check online for client information when necessary and it’s even affecting our ability to contact CRA by phone, I guess because they’re so busy dealing with this it’s difficult to get through.” Although the local tax preparation services can still process an individual’s income tax return, they won’t be able to file them with CRA until the issue has been dealt with. The CRA has posted a notice on the home page of its website informing the public that, upon being notified of the Internet security issue that; “As a preventative measure, the CRA has tem- porarily shut down public access to our online services to safeguard the integrity of the information we hold.” The online applications affected by the shutdown include tax services such as, Efile, Netfile, My Account, My Business Account, and Represent a Client. According to the Internet Identity and Information Security Company, Entrust, the Heartbleed Bug was recent- ly discovered by researchers at Google and Codenomicon but has apparently been in the wilds of the Internet for two years. See CRA, Page 2 Internet bug infects tax-filing season Business plan moves ahead for CBT Reduced costs for local groups, marketing manager to be hired Local teen succumbs to injuries from crash BY TIMES STAFF One of three teens injured in a car accident on Monday has died. The RCMP issued a press release Wednesday afternoon confirming the death. No name has been released. The three young men, ages 17-18, were seriously injured when their car lost control near the Trail airport. All three occupants were ejected from the vehicle. The remaining two males are still battling life-threatening injuries, added the release.
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A three-year grant in funding is taking centre stage in a plan to get more people in the seats of the Charles Bailey Theatre (CBT).
In a bid to increase usage of the 731-seat facil-ity, the Trail and District Arts Council presented a business plan to the East End Services (EES) last year, proposing the regional service hand over theatre operations to the non-profit over the course of three years.
The regional district has jumped on board with the idea and recently granted the arts council $18,500 annually for three years to hire a marketing and public relations officer for the Charles Bailey Theatre.
“This is a great opportunity to promote the Charles Bailey Theatre to agencies and promoters in North America,” said Mark Daines, regional manager of facilities and recreation.
“And increase the number of A-list perform-ances in the theatre.”
Additionally, the EES (participants) from Rossland, Warfield, Trail, Montrose, Fruitvale, Area A and Area B, agreed to waive sound and lighting fees for local groups, with a goal to bring community talent back into the theatre.
That news is music to the ears of a local dance instructor with a long history of renting out the Charles Bailey Theatre.
“The cost of the lighting and sound at the CBT has been a huge reason why groups don’t rent the theatre,” said Rhonda Michallik of Steps Dance Centre.
See NEED, Page 3
B Y A R T H A R R I S O NTimes Staff
Tax season is upon us and, as our reli-ance on web-based services grow, people are increasingly turning towards the Internet to either file their own income tax returns using software applications or are using tax preparation services that do the same.
However, a newly discovered Internet hazard, called the Heartbleed Bug, is so potentially damaging that even the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has shut down access to its web-based services until a fix is in place and it could cause delays in Canadians’ ability to file their income tax returns.
“Right now it’s affecting our ability
to electronically file tax returns for our clients,” said Colleen Harmston, owner of the Trail and Castlegar offices of H & R Block, a Canada-wide tax planning and preparation company.
“We can’t check online for client information when necessary and it’s even affecting our ability to contact CRA by phone, I guess because they’re so busy dealing with this it’s difficult to get through.”
Although the local tax preparation services can still process an individual’s income tax return, they won’t be able to file them with CRA until the issue has been dealt with.
The CRA has posted a notice on the home page of its website informing
the public that, upon being notified of the Internet security issue that; “As a preventative measure, the CRA has tem-porarily shut down public access to our online services to safeguard the integrity of the information we hold.”
The online applications affected by the shutdown include tax services such as, Efile, Netfile, My Account, My Business Account, and Represent a Client.
According to the Internet Identity and Information Security Company, Entrust, the Heartbleed Bug was recent-ly discovered by researchers at Google and Codenomicon but has apparently been in the wilds of the Internet for two years.
See CRA, Page 2
Internet bug infects tax-filing season
Business plan moves
ahead for CBTReduced costs for local groups, marketing manager to be hired
Local teen succumbs to injuries from crash
B Y T I M E S S T A F FOne of three teens injured in a car accident
on Monday has died.The RCMP issued a press release Wednesday
afternoon confirming the death. No name has been released.
The three young men, ages 17-18, were seriously injured when their car lost control near the Trail airport. All three occupants were ejected from the vehicle.
The remaining two males are still battling life-threatening injuries, added the release.
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Crowe students were part of a contingent of more than 400 high school students from around the region had the opportunity to get a taste of college life last week Experience Selkirk Day.
The annual event brought together stu-dents from 11 differ-ent schools and stu-dents had the oppor-tunity to learn more about Selkirk College on both the Castlegar and Nelson campuses.
J.L Crowe had the largest showing of its student body with more than 70 stu-dents making the trip.
“There’s no bet-ter way to learn about college than by attending our annual
Experience Selkirk Day,” says Selkirk College Recruitment Specialist Amy Byers. “Even if you’re not sure that you are going to even come to Selkirk, it’s still a valuable experience that will give you an in-depth look inside the post-secondary system.”
Made up primar-ily of Grade 10 and 11 students, the par-ticipants took in a number of workshops throughout the mor-ning in a variety of different streams of study. From a glance at the Business A d m i n i s t r a t i o n Program (Dragon’s Den) to the Biology Department (Human Anatomy and Physiology), there
was plenty to choose from.
“Every year the high school stu-dent’s excitement and enthusiasm is just awesome,” says Byers.
“They get the opportunity to see first-hand what amaz-ing things are hap-pening right at their local college and are always blown away by how many program and career opportun-ities are available to them, not to mention the state-of-the-art technology that we use in our programs.”
After Selkirk treat-ed the students to lunch, the afternoon consisted of fun activ-ities in both Castlegar and Nelson which challenged students to work together in events like tug-of-war and logger sports.
“College is so much more than just programs, it’s about meeting new people, building friendships with other like-mind-ed people and grow-ing as a person both academically and per-sonally,” says Byers. “We provide the whole
package at Selkirk. You can learn your trade or start your educational journey while experiencing an enriched student/campus life.”
The competition heated up on the Castlegar Campus with the Selkirk Spirit Award and a $500 cheque for stu-dent life going to the school who completed the most tasks.
In the end it was JL Crowe taking this year’s title with Mount Sentinel close behind.
Submitted photo
Students from J.L. Crowe celebrate the Selkirk Spirit Award which was captured in afternoon competitions at Experience Selkirk Day on the Castlegar Campus.
Crowe students show spirit at Selkirk event
FROM PAGE 1The malicious code apparently
affects the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) level of web servers and, “allows an attacker to read the mem-ory of a system over the Internet and compromise the private keys, names, passwords and content” of a website and could potentially affect a considerable number of the websites people use for online email, shop-ping, and a wide variety of other web-based services people use fre-quently.
A number of tech savvy blog-gers and journalists are calling this particular vulnerability extremely serious and are recommending that Internet users change their pass-words on any websites that contain any financial and personal informa-tion.
Internet email and online shop-
ping aside, the CRA acknowledges the potential inconvenience the shutdown of its online services may cause to individuals who are trying to submit their income tax returns and say that consideration will be given to taxpayers who are unable to file their tax returns on time because of the interruption.
As of press time the CRA announced it is hoping to have its online services restored some time over the weekend.
“We have to assume that CRA is still processing returns that they have already received but the online service is just on hold temporarily,” said Harmston.
“Obviously it’s important that they protect the private information they have and I assume they will still be able to process paper returns sent by mail.”
CRA acknowledges inconvenience
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FROM PAGE 1“The actual rental cost has always
been quite reasonable but the light and sound fees were insane and we had no choice regarding use of our own equipment or sound techni-cian.”
Michallik’s dancers are travelling to the Capitol Theatre in Nelson next week for a spring performance, which is a cost-saving trip for the downtown Trail dance centre.
“My entire contract is less than just my lighting and sound fee at the Charles Bailey Theatre,” she said.
Rental fees currently start at $500 for non-profits and reach as high as $1,000 not including sound and lighting costs in the CBT.
Those charges vary depending on the performance needs, according to Daines.
However, the sound fees start at $190 for the first four hours of the rehearsal and show and $40 per hour for additional service; and lighting fees are $170 for the first four hours then $35 per hour after that.
With those fees waived, local dance troupes would be more
inclined to put on performances, said Michallik.
“And encourage many of my friends who run dance companies to come to Trail on their tours.”
The 77-year-old theatre needed some TLC and a refreshed vision to reinstate itself as a cornerstone of local community theatre and as a venue for imported performances after all bookings took a nose dive over the past few years.
Last year, the theatre was rented out for a mere 20 performances, which was down from 30 bookings in 2012, according to Daines.
And things aren’t looking much brighter this performance season because bookings at the theatre are on par with last season.
If management is passed to the non-profit arts council, the venue could become eligible for addition-al grants and donations and could alleviate future rental costs.
The BC Creative Spaces program awarded 41 grants to help arts and cultural organizations in com-munities across the province, the Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development announced Wednesday.
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Other• Thursday, Rossland Miners’ Hall, Lorne
Elliott, a Canadian humorist, storyteller, musi-cian and playwright will perform. Tickets $20 advance in Rossland at Out of the Cellar, or in Trail at the Charles Bailey box office. $25 at the door. Part of the Rossland Council of Arts and Culture 2013/2014 Performance Series.
• Saturday, Trail Legion Branch #11 from 1-3 p.m. for a spring tea. Bake table, craft table and meat pies. Everyone welcome.
• Friday, Charles Bailey Theatre from 2:30-8 p.m. Saturday from 9 a.m. until 7 p.m. the Trail DanceFest committee presents Kootenay area dancers performing for adjudica-tion. Full day of workshop class-es Sunday with judges from Vancouver and Toronto at Steps Dance Centre.
• Saturday, Trail Walmart at 10:30 a.m., meet the Rossland Trail Roller Derby Girls. Chili, hotdogs, hamburgers, beverages, mer-chandise, door prize and most of all our April 26th and May 31st Bout tickets for sale.
• Saturday, Columbia View Lodge from 1-4 p.m. for Katrina Fontaine fundraiser. Bake sale, with cake and coffee $2.
• Saturday, Waneta Plaza from noon until 2 p.m. Heart & Soul Tae Kwon Do is “Breaking boards, Breaking chains,” to fundraise for the International Justice Mission Canada. a human rights organization that secures justice for
victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violent oppression.
• Saturday, Warfield Pool Park at 11 a.m. for an Easter Egg Hunt. Children aged 0-12 years invited, dress for outdoors, limited parking, so please walk to the park.
• Tuesday, Gerick Cycle & Sports in Trail at 5 p.m. for Mural Heights spring mountain biking, and coaching tips with Cindy Devine, former world champion. Beginner/intermedi-ate level bikers. Ride 60-90 mins. Class runs
until May 6. Call 364.1661 for information.
• The Beaver Valley Citizen of the Year Committee is accepting nominations for the 2014 Citizen of the Year. Pick up nomination form from Montrose or Fruitvale village offices and include as much information as possible. Deadline is April 15 at 4 p.m.
• The Trail Bottle Depot is collecting bottle donations to help purchase a wheelchair access-ible van for Leanne, a local youth afflicted with Cerebral Palsy. For info or bottle pick up call Tammy Cox at 368.6975.
Gallery• Thursday, VISAC Gallery from 4-7 p.m.
public is invited to the opening exhibition of Joost Winckers, an art instructor at J.L. Crowe Secondary School. Regular VISAC hours are Tuesday to Friday from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m., Thursdays until 6 p.m. By donation. Call 364.1181 or visit visacgallery.com.
Canada is a large country and there was a time when criminals could avoid the legal consequences of their actions simply by leaving the province where they committed what-ever crime they may have been found guilty of and hiding out in another.
Trail RCMP and B.C. Fugitive Return Program (BCFRP) have pointed out to one individual who was wanted in Ontario that that particular strategy doesn’t always work out so well any-more.
David Patrick Lupul was wanted by the Toronto Police Service for failing to com-ply with a recognizance after being accused of assault with a weapon and possession of a weapon for a dangerous pur-pose.
The Toronto Police issued a warrant for Lupul’s arrest in September of 2013 and he showed up on the radar of B.C. law enforcement a month later.
In late March of this year, the
Toronto warrant was extended to B.C., on the basis that the BCFRP would cover the cost to return Lupul to Ontario to face the charges. Trail RCMP arrested Lupul in the down-town core on March 27 and he was sent back to Toronto five days later under the escort of the B.C. Sherriff Services.
“This was the first time I am aware of the Fugitive Return Program being used in Trail,” Dave Johnson, acting sergeant
for the Trail and District RCMP, said in an email. “The Fugitive Return Program is a great pro-gram as it is funded through the Civil Forfeiture Unit which means that it is not taxpayer monies being used for the pro-gram. I also like the message it sends the community that offenders will be held account-able for their actions and that they can not hide from arrest warrants by moving to another province.”
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In other Trail RCMP news, Gordon Sims, crime prevention officer for the Trail and District RCMP is warning citizens of fraudulent telephone calls where the caller identifies himself or herself as an RCMP office calling to collect fines or income taxes or a variety of other scam tactics. The caller threatens the victims that they must pay immediately or be arrested within 24 hours.
The RCMP would like to remind residents that they never make contact with individuals for the purpose of collecting fines or taxes and would never ask anyone from the public to make a payment over the telephone.
Anyone who receives a call from someone alleging to be a police officer making any kind of collection should hang up immediately and contact the local RCMP and the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (toll free) at 1-888-495-8501.
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As the local school district is discussing yet another multi-million-dollar budget shortfall, the educa-tion ministry wants it and others in B.C. to help pay for half of capital projects.
New schools and other construction have traditionally been funded 100 per cent by Victoria.
Education Minister Peter Fassbender said this week that he would like to see school districts pitch in to help the prov-ince fund capital pro-jects, such as seismic upgrading, if they have extra cash.
In the Maple Ridge-
Pitt Meadows school district, there is little left for the province to take.
A shortage of funds is the main topic of local education, as trustees once again grapple with a budget that will have a short-fall in excess of $5 million.
On Wednesday night, the 2014-2015 preliminary budget is on the agenda, and staff will begin a dis-cussion of where cuts can be made.
There is also a facilities review as part of the agenda.
As boards such as the local one plead poor, Fassbender clarified that there are some in B.C.
carrying a surplus: Vancouver has $23 million, Surrey $20 million and Victoria $17 million.
In Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows, the dis-trict used most of its reserves last year to cover funding short-falls in its operating expenses, and there is less than $2 million left.
“We don’t have any reserves anymore, so there’s nothing to claw back,” said trustee Ken Clarkson. “We’ve reduced our’s every year, to cover the budget deficit.”
He noted that when the province negoti-ated a salary increase with CUPE, but failed to provide boards with additional funding, it was contingency funds that made up the difference.
“Some boards still do have cash reserves,” he said. “My understanding is that the province does not want boards to have contingency funds.”
He said that is a shortsighted view, one that fails to rec-ognize that local dis-tricts can encounter financial emergencies that require available funds.
School District
staff clarified that there are no local seismic upgrade pro-jects that are a prior-ity.
The B.C. School Trustees Association will be meeting soon for its annual general meeting, and Clarkson believes his contem-poraries from around the province will be irked by this latest government initia-tive. He is the local board’s representative on the BCSTA.
“This is not accept-able to boards,” he said. “This is govern-ment taking whatever autonomy boards do have, away.”
He said school boards are increas-ingly having their authority eroded. Payroll centralization is another ministry initiative that could affect boards.
“You’ve got a school board there, but you’re gutting everything they do,” said Clarkson.
The AGM will be held April 24-27 at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver.
Fassbender said whether or not a cap-ital project receives Victoria’s approval will not be linked to a board’s ability to pro-vide funds.
B y K y l e W e l l sVictoria News
A traffic court has convicted a driver of hitting two ducks on the Malahat last year, killing one and injuring another.
On June 16, 2013 drivers on the Malahat came to halt as a group of baby ducklings and their mother crossed the Trans-Canada Highway. The ducks were tak-ing their time and traffic became quite backed up, by about two kilometres.
At some point a driver, in an uninsured vehicle and under the influence of alcohol, decided they had had enough and started pass-ing the row of cars on the right-hand shoulder, clipping a number of side-view mirrors in the pro-cess.
When the driver reached the ducks, they did not stop, and ended up killing one of the ducks and injuring another.
West Shore RCMP ticketed the
driver for passing on the right and driving without insurance, and also issued a 90-day roadside suspension for driving under the influence of alcohol.
The court charge of harassing wildlife fell under the Wildlife Act, with the driver given a $345 fine. RCMP Sgt. Max Fossum said the charge is a rare one, but import-ant nonetheless.
“It could have been easily a kid crossing or it could have easily been a hitchhiker,” he said. “It just shows you have to be cautious of wildlife. We’re living in an area with wildlife and birds and every-thing else and we have to respect that.”
A witness took the injured duckling and gave it to an RCMP officer, who took it to the SPCA’s Wild Animal Rehabilitation Centre in Metchosin.
The bird was nursed back to health and released, at an esti-mated cost of $1,700.
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VICTORIA – The B.C. NDP caucus lined up behind leadership contender John Horgan Tuesday, including his only rival for the job, Mike Farnworth.
“Yes, today marks the end of my cam-paign for B.C. NDP leader,” Farnworth said at a news con-ference in Victoria Tuesday. “But more importantly, it begins our campaign to elect a B.C. NDP govern-ment in 2017, with John Horgan as pre-mier.”
Horgan thanked Farnworth for “put-ting aside his leader-ship campaign to cre-ate a unity candidate, a unity committee, to go forward and beat the Liberals in 2017.”
Horgan said he will continue to campaign for the leadership until May 1, the dead-line for nominations to lead the party. If that deadline passes with no new candi-dates, Horgan expects to be acclaimed.
Farnworth’s cam-paign has suffered two setbacks in recent days, the latest being Horgan’s increased lead in endorsements. Horgan’s latest sup-porters are party members around Farnworth’s Port Coquitlam home turf, including Coquitlam-Maillardville MLA Selina Robinson, NDP
MP Fin Donnelly and former area MLAs Dawn Black and Joe Trasolini.
Farnworth’s only public endorsers from the B.C. NDP caucus were Saanich South MLA Lana Popham and Stikine MLA Doug Donaldson, while Horgan had 15 MLAs publicly sup-porting him.
Farnworth also bore the brunt of former premier Mike Harcourt’s decision last week to quit the NDP. Harcourt endorsed Farnworth in the 2011 NDP leadership where Farnworth finished second to Adrian Dix.
Another key
endorsement for Horgan came from the B.C. executive of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, which represents 85,000 municipal workers in the prov-ince.
The board led by CUPE B.C. president Mark Hancock, for-merly president of the Port Coquitlam local, was among those call-ing for Horgan to run.
A f t e r D ix announced he would step down this fall, Horgan initially said he would not seek the leadership, mak-ing way for younger contenders. But those contenders, includ-ing new MLAs elected
in 2013, ruled them-selves out one after another.
The party has a deadline of May 1 for candidates to be nom-inated for the leader-ship, which includes payment of $25,000 to go towards staging of leadership debates around the province.
Candidates have until June 26 to sign up new party mem-bers, with a province-wide vote scheduled to be completed Sept. 28.
Both the B.C. NDP and B.C. Liberals fin-ished 2013 in debt after the election last May. The B.C. Liberals raised $14 million and ended the year $2.2 million in debt, while the B.C. NDP raised $11.6 million and had a $3 million debt.
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Juan de Fuca MLA John Horgan (right) thanks leadership rival Mike Farnworth and the rest of the B.C. NDP caucus for their support Tuesday.
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spotted after a report came in about a single rat found in a farm yard south of Highway 41A.
The city, along with Cypress County and Alberta Agriculture are working together to investigate.
In August 2012, an 80-metre-long rats’ nest was found in the landfill and residents called in sightings, resulting in at least 100 Norway rats being killed by city staff.
It took six hours for 21 workers and two excavators to dismantle the nest.
Since then, the landfill has been continu-ously monitored and the city credits that for discovering the new cases.
The city says additional bait stations have been put out to poison rats, and staff are checking sites daily.
Agricultural fieldmen known by Albertans as the “rat patrol” have worked for years targeting invading rats within a control zone along the province’s eastern boundary.
Pet rats are also forbidden under provin-cial law.
T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SREGINA - Regina police are looking into
more than 30 incidents where windows were smashed out of homes or vehicles by passing vandals.
Staff-Sgt. Paul Tate says it’s only a matter of time before someone gets seriously hurt.
Tate said police started getting reports of smashed-out windows in early March, with the most recent attacks occurring over the weekend.
Mostly ball bearings and glass marbles have been used in sling shots, fired at people’s homes or vehicle windows.
Most of the attacks have been in the city’s south end, while the weekend saw homes targeted in the east end.
While some suspects have already been found, Tate says police are searching for two young men, aged 16 to 20.
No charges have been laid in any of the incidents.
“It’s of epidemic proportions,” Tate said. “It’s careless.”
In some cases, living room window panes have been shot at and smashed. Just this weekend, a vehicle stopped at a red light was targeted.
T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SWINNIPEG - Paramedics in Manitoba say
the province’s crumbling roads are hurting patients.
Eric Glass, with the Paramedic Association of Manitoba, says not a day goes by when he doesn’t hear his colleagues complain about the poor state of the province’s roads.
Glass says the bumps and gaping potholes make it hard for emergency crews to perform medical procedures while an ambulance is en route to a hospital.
He says it’s virtually impossible for para-medics to even move around the ambulance on most of Manitoba’s roads. He also says ambulances are forced to plot alternative routes because of poor road conditions.
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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SOTTAWA - Liberal Leader Justin
Trudeau says he’ll repeal the Harper government’s controver-sial overhaul of election laws if he becomes prime minister.
It may not come to that, if the bill is defeated.
Both Trudeau and NDP Leader Tom Mulcair are urging Prime Minister Stephen Harper to allow Conservative backbenchers to vote freely on the bill - although they acknowledge that seems unlikely.
The bill has been almost univer-sally panned by federal and prov-incial electoral experts in Canada and by international experts as
well.Critics fear the reforms would
disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters, erode the independence of the chief electoral officer, impede investigations into wrongdoing, give an unfair financial advantage to rich, established parties and undermine people’s faith in the fairness of the electoral process.
The government has shrugged off all the criticism, maintaining the bill contains common-sense reforms that will prevent voter fraud, crack down on misleading robocalls during elections and stiffen penalties for those who break election laws.
Trudeau would repeal election changes if he becomes PM
T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SMONTREAL - Now
that Pauline Marois has tendered her resignation as Parti Quebecois leader, the question within the battered sovereigntist party is who will be the right person to rebuild it.
It won’t be easy. The PQ suffered one of its worst defeats since the 1970s on Monday night when Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard won a majority government.
Two-thirds of Quebecers also flatly say they’re not inter-ested in another sover-eignty referendum, one of the party’s main goals.
The PQ’s inter-im leader is to be announced on Thursday night. Nobody has come for-ward yet to claim the permanent job Marois won by acclamation in 2007.
However, PQ mem-bers seemed to get a preview of a few possible choices on election night when some who have been
touted as contenders addressed them before their defeated leader spoke.
In a twist that seemed to come out of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar,” Pierre Karl Peladeau, Jean-Francois Lisee, Bernard Drainville and Nicole Leger came to praise Marois before she buried her own political career a few moments later.
Lisee and Leger extolled Marois’ qual-ities and the party’s determination to fight on, while Drainville and Peladeau made a pitch to sovereigntist hearts
Peladeau insisted the PQ caucus would continue to “defend the inter-ests of Quebecers and the country” while Drainville was even more forceful, giving a stemwinder speech on the virtues of the goal to make Quebecers masters of their own destiny.
“We will never abandon it - never,” he said before leading the crowd in a chant of
“we want a country.”Lisee, Drainville
and Peladeau have often been mentioned as eventual successors to Marois, although it has also been sug-gested Peladeau might not have the patience to toil in Opposition and rebuild a shat-tered party after so many years as a cor-porate titan.
He has mused he would be an ideal negotiator for Quebec with Canada after a sovereigntist referen-dum win although his polarizing reputation with many - includ-ing the PQ’s social-democratic wing - is of someone who relies more on lockouts to resolve contract dis-putes.
That seems to can-cel out the benefit of his hefty business cre-dentials with the PQ’s left wing, although others profess a bigger knock against him.
They say his fist-pumping, enthusias-tic embracing of an independent Quebec at his campaign launch on March 9
started the PQ elec-tion effort’s careening skid into the ditch.
Besides the 52-year-old political rookie Peladeau are two party stalwarts who handled some of the tougher files during Marois’s minority government.
Drainville, a for-mer TV reporter for the CBC’s French-language network, was the point man for the controversial secular-ism charter and pro-moted it with almost missionary zeal.
One of the more popular cabinet min-isters within the PQ, the fluently bilingual Drainville studied at the London School of Economics.
The 50-year-old was also Radio-Canada’s correspondent in Latin America before being assigned to Ottawa and Quebec City as a political reporter.
First elected in 2007, he served as the PQ health critic before being re-elected in 2008 and 2012, when he was named min-ister of democratic institutions.
Lisee, a former journalist, author and professor, was Marois’s minister of inter-
national relations as well as being respon-sible for Montreal. T
he 56-year-old also often handled the hot-button issue of lan-guage.
A well-known sovereigntist think-er, Lisee advised PQ premiers Jacques Parizeau and Lucien Bouchard, serving as one of the architects of Parizeau’s strategy in the 1995 referen-dum that was nearly won by sovereigntists.
The bilingual and urbane Lisee quit working for Bouchard in 1999 after disagree-ing with his govern-ment on sovereignty strategy.
A dark horse can-didate is former Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe, who quit as chief of that party when it was decimated by the New Democratic Party in the 2011 federal elec-tion.
Many sovereigntists find Duceppe appeal-ing because of his wide popularity but others chafe at the possibility he would try to bring the iron discipline he imposed on the Bloc to the more freewheel-ing PQ.
PQ leadership in limbo after defeat
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OPINION
Will we ever learn to celebrate Earth Month?April is Earth Month,
and April 22 Earth Day. We should really celebrate our
small blue planet and all it provides every day, but recent events give us par-ticular cause to reflect on our home and how we’re treating it.
Through an amazingly ordered combination of factors, this spinning ball of earth, air, fire and water – with its hydrological, carbon, nitrogen and rock cycles, biological divers-ity and ideal distance from the sun – provides perfect conditions for human life to flourish. But with our vast and rapidly increas-ing numbers, breakneck technological advances, profligate use of resour-ces and lack of concern for where we dump our wastes, we’re upsetting the balance.
We’re a relatively new species, but we’re altering the geological properties of Earth to the extent that many scientists refer to this epoch as the Anthropocene – from the Greek anthro-pos meaning “human” and kainos meaning “recent”.
When Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 disappeared on
March 8, crews in planes and boats set out to search the Indian Ocean. Debris sightings raised hopes that the crash site was located, but they turned out to be endless streams of garbage that humans have been dumping into the oceans for ages – plastic bottles and bags, fishing gear, household wastes, ciga-rette butts, detritus from shipping containers, even bits of space shuttle rocket boosters.
We now have massive swirling garbage patches in our oceans, and thou-sands of birds and fish from remote seas turning up dead, their bellies full of plastic and flotsam.
We’re also upsetting the delicate carbon cycle of the planet and its atmos-phere, mostly through wasteful burning of fos-sil fuels. This, in turn, is shifting other natural pro-cesses, including the ways water circulates around the globe and climate and weather are regulated.
For a disturbing illus-tration of the damage we’ve done and how much more we’ll do unless we change our ways, we need only look to the recent installment
of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report. Findings show we’re already experiencing the ever-increasing impacts of global warming: ice caps and Arctic sea ice melt-ing and collapsing; more extreme weather-relat-ed events like droughts and floods; dying corals; stressed water supplies; rising, increasingly acidic oceans; and fish and other animals migrating with some going extinct. Unless we act quickly, our food and water supplies, critical infrastructure, security, health, economies and communities will face ever-escalating risks, lead-ing to increased human displacement, migration
and violent conflict.Some argue we must
choose between “grow-ing” the economy and protecting the planet. In response, the report states, “Throughout the 21st century, climate-change impacts are projected to slow down economic growth, make poverty reduction more difficult, further erode food security, and prolong existing and create new poverty traps, the latter particularly in urban areas and emerging hotspots of hunger.”
That’s if we do little or nothing – which is not a viable option. We must reduce our individ-ual impacts, but more importantly, we must tell industry and governments at all levels that we’ll no longer support the fouling of our planet and the mad-ness of putting short-term economic growth ahead of protecting everything that keeps us alive and healthy.
We elect governments to act in our best interests, not to promote polluting industries at the expense of human health and long-term prosperity. One of our species’ unique abil-ities is foresight, the cap-
acity to look ahead to avoid dangers and exploit oppor-tunity. It’s time for our leaders to be visionary and steer away from hazards while taking the enormous opportunities offered by renewable energy sources. As I said in last week’s column, climate change is serious, and “Confronting it will take a radical change in the way we produce and consume energy – another industrial revolution, this time for clean energy, con-servation and efficiency.”
Meeting this challenge, through reducing green-house gas emissions and adapting to changes we can no longer prevent, will offer myriad side benefits, from better health and lower health-care costs to greater economic oppor-tunities through cleaner and longer-lasting tech-nologies.
There’s no excuse to keep on destroying our home. If we are to observe Earth Day and Earth Month, let’s make it a time to celebrate, not to despair.
Dr. David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author, and co-found-er of the David Suzuki Foundation
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Proposals to boost the minimum wage have been drawing attention on both sides of the
Canada-U.S. border. In January, U.S. President
Barack Obama called for lifting the U.S. federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. Since 2011 several American states and cit-ies have increased minimum wages in their jurisdictions.
In Canada, four provinces are raising their minimum wages in 2014 (Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland). Ontario is taking the biggest step, hiking the min-imum wage to $11.00 an hour and indexing it to the Consumer Price Index going forward.
Are higher statutory min-imum wages an effective way to improve the economic well-being of low- to moderate-income workers and families? Will some businesses respond to escalating minimum wages by shedding jobs?
These questions have been extensively studied by academic economists in the past decade. Overall, the research yields mixed results.
Clearly, a rise in the min-imum wage is positive for the lowest paid employees who experience no changes in their hours, benefits, or work-ing conditions after the fact. Other workers, whose wages are slightly above the current minimum, are also likely to enjoy a pay bump. But basic economic logic and intuition suggest that any increase in labour costs, absent offsetting gains in productivity or addi-tional business revenues, will prompt some employers to lay off workers, reduce hours, and/
or find other ways to econo-mize on the use of labour (for example, by investing in labour-saving technology). It follows that at least some businesses affected by a higher minimum wage can be expected to trim their payrolls and adjust their hiring practices. Many will also seek to pass on any increase in labour costs to their customers via higher prices for the goods
or services they sell.
Most econo-mists who have studied the topic agree that small, periodic adjustments to the minimum wage don’t have much impact on the demand for labour. But lar-ger increases are another matter.
According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which is the non-par-tisan research arm of the U.S. Congress, Obama’s proposal to push the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour could cost up to one mil-lion jobs (although the CBO’s central estimate is closer to 500,000 lost jobs). The good news is that many millions more low-wage workers would see higher earnings under the President’s policy, and the total income accruing to U.S. work-ers would undoubtedly rise.
However, the CBO says that only one-fifth of the benefici-aries of the President’s plan live in households with the lowest incomes. And a higher min-imum wage can make it harder for low-skilled and entry-level workers to gain a foothold in the job market.
This suggests that a higher minimum wage may not be the best instrument to address poverty or the incidence of low paid employment. Still, it is
one way to improve incomes for workers who are paid at or near the statutory minimum. For that reason alone it remains an appealing option in the eyes of some economists and policy analysts.
There is no reason to believe that the effects of a rising min-imum wage on the demand for labour will be uniform across jurisdictions or time periods; much depends on the context. If the minimum wage has been frozen for many years, a mod-estly higher one is unlikely to result in many lost jobs. If the minimum wage is already set at a relatively high level – say at 55 or 60 per cent of the average industrial wage – then raising it further may create strong incentives for employers to alter their business practices to reduce the use of labour.
One alternative to higher minimum wages is an earned income tax credit (EITC) that uses the tax system to increase the economic bene-fits of employment for lower-income workers. Experience in the United States has shown that an EITC can be helpful in reducing poverty and providing a minimally acceptable income to families with low-wage work-ers. The U.S. government now spends twice as much on the EITC as it does on welfare pro-grams.
The Canadian government’s Working Income Tax Benefit (WITB) is a scaled back ver-sion of the American EITC; the Canada Revenue Agency’s web site describes it as “a refundable tax credit intended to provide tax relief for eligible working low-income individuals and families . . .” It is time to con-sider expanding the WTIB to increase the economic returns from employment for relatively low-paid workers.
Jock Finlayson is Executive Vice President of the Business Council of British Columbia.
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T H E c a n a D I a n P R E s sOTTAWA - Veterans of
bureaucratic battles over the treatment of ex-soldiers unleashed a scathing critique Tuesday of the Harper govern-ment’s record.
Outspoken advocate Sean Bruyea, at the centre of a pri-vacy scandal when his per-sonal medical information was leaked, testified to a parliament-ary committee that MPs have failed to hold the department
of veterans affairs accountable and to demand recommenda-tions from previous studies be implemented.
The House of Commons vet-erans committee is reviewing the Conservative government’s signature legislation, which governs the benefits and entitle-ments of those who’ve served.
It conducted a similar exer-cise in 2010 and came for-ward with 18 suggestions for improvements.
Bruyea says the department claims to have implemented 10 of them, but he can’t find evi-dence to support that, notably on issues such as compensating families who care for severely disabled veterans.
Similarly, 16 recommenda-tions coming from a separate advisory group that oversees the New Veterans Charter have been ignored and all of the efforts seemingly amount to a giant wheel-spinning exercise.
Bureaucrats sabotaging veterans care
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CIVITARESE, VELIA ELVA – 1925-2014
We are sad to an-nounce the passing of our mother on April 1st after a short time at the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital.
Predeceased by hus-band Gino, parents Fanny and Egisto De-cembrini, brother Irvo.
Survived by daugh-ters Debbie (Brian) Towns, Kayla (Don) Gurniak. Grandchildren, Brennan (Tracy) Towns, Jenny (Dustin) Parsons, Kyle Gurniak, Andrea Gurniak (Kyle Wong), brother Dino and numerous nieces and nephews.
Mom was born and raised in Trail’s “Gulch”. Etched in our minds are the end-less gulch tales that Mom loved to tell. From pool halls to bootleggers, hardship and happiness, lifelong friends and family; her stories spoke of a tight knit Italian Community - the fabric of Trail.
Much to her mother’s dismay she ditched her embroidery for athletics. Mom made her parents proud, winning blue rib-bons in the Butler Park track meets. In her youth she performed in local theatre pro-ductions. In 1947 she was crowned Colom-bo Queen. Mom attended Trail Business College and later worked for the CP Rail where she met Gino. They were married in 1949. As the train rolled past St. Anthony’s Church, their co-workers punctuated the ceremony with several loud toots of the engine!
Mom loved her job and continued to work for 33 years. When we were teen-agers, mom was offered a yardmasters position. (That would have made her the � rst female yardmaster in CPRail history) She refused the job for two reasons: She needed to keep an eye on her teenagers; it would have made her Dad’s boss (not good).
We are thankful to have had such a car-ing and thoughtful mother who was also as tough as Judge Judy (her favourite show).
She was a fabulous nona to our children, in fact, she was the nona of the neighbour-hood. Quick with the candy dish, a pizzelle or iced tea. Her love for sports was with her life long, an avid Canucks fan, hockey was her favourite game.
Mom, we’re going to miss you!Graveside Service for family and friends
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A donation helped fund the presentation, Garden Myths by Jim Hole. The popular Alberta horticulturalist was sponsored by Trail Community in Bloom and the Trail in Bloom Garden contest Committee. Frank Marino, director of human resources and corpor-ate services for Columbia Power Corp. presented garden chair Annette Gallatin and CiB chair Dan Rodlie with a cheque for $750. The event took place April 3 at the Colombo Lodge with donations received for local food banks.
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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S STORONTO - Five of the
country’s top scholars and sci-entists have been named win-ners of the 2014 Killam Prize, created to honour Canadians who have made contributions to research that has had far-reaching national and inter-national impact.
Winners of the annual Killam Prize, administered by the Canada Council of the Arts, each receive $100,000. The awards were endowed by Dorothy Killam in memory of her late husband, Canadian industrialist Izaak Walton Killam.
The winners are:-Sajeev John, University
of Toronto, a physicist and pioneering theoretician in photonic band gap (PBG) materials, a new class of optical materials sometimes referred to as “semiconduct-ors of light.” His work has the potential to help save lives as PBG materials could eventu-ally be used for optical com-munications processing, clin-ical medicine, lighting and solar energy harvesting.
-Andreas Mandelis, University of Toronto, an engineer who special-izes in diagnostic applica-tions of lasers in applied physics, materials science and biomedical engineer-ing. His fundamental and
applied research has led to non-invasive biomedical and dental technologies, and non-destructive methods for monitoring structural faults in industrial materials ran-ging from cars to aerospace products and optoelectronic devices.
-James Miller, University of Saskatchewan, an historian whose research and teaching has focused on the history of relations between Canada’s indigenous and immigrant peoples over the past four centuries. His public pres-entations, publications and counsel have enriched and informed national discus-sions and public policy related to residential schools, treaty rights and native-newcomer relations.
-Frank Plummer, University of Manitoba, is the chief scientific officer of the Public Health Agency of Canada and director of the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg. Best known as a tenacious HIV/AIDS researcher and vaccine crusader, Plummer was the first investigator to track transmission rates among heterosexual women in Kenya, leading to the dis-covery of effective HIV pre-vention strategies that were adopted worldwide. His find-ing that some women have
a natural immunity to HIV has fuelled the search for an effective vaccine.
-Fraser Taylor, Carleton University, introduced the world to the power of cyber-cartography, an enhanced form of multimedia mapping using geographic informa-tion management, to deepen our understanding of socio-economic issues. In Canada, and around the world, his cybercartographic atlases have delivered new perspec-tives and a way to compre-hend complex issues such as trade and economic patterns,
international development and the risk of homelessness.
“The Canada Council joins all Canadians in paying trib-ute to this year’s Killam Prize winners - individuals who have boldly and consistently pushed the boundaries of our understanding of the world,” Joseph Rotman, chair of the Canada Council, said in a statement.
“Each has aspired to excel-lence in their chosen disci-plines and to improving the lives of people around the globe through their research and scholarly pursuits.”
Five Canadians claim Killam Prize
Popular pro wrestler diesT H E A S S O C I A T E D P R E S SThe Ultimate Warrior,
one of the most colorful stars in pro wrestling his-tory, has died, the WWE said. He was 54.
The WWE said Warrior, who legally changed his name from James Hellwig to his wrestling moniker, died Tuesday. Scottsdale, Ariz., police spokesman Sgt. Mark Clark said he collapsed while walking with his wife to their car at a hotel and was pro-nounced dead at a hospital.
Hellwig was one of pro wrestling’s biggest stars
in the late 1980s. He beat Hulk Hogan in a memor-able match at Wrestlemania in 1990.
He was in the spotlight again earlier this week, making appearances at the latest WrestleMania in New Orleans and on “Monday Night Raw,” and being inducted into the WWE Hall of fame.
The Ultimate Warrior personified the larger-than-life cartoon charac-ters who helped skyrocket the WWE into the main-stream in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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much attention has been devoted to mon-itoring the activity lev-els - or lack thereof - among Canadian kids, many of the country’s adults are also at risk of spending too many of their waking hours being idle.
With its Sneak It In campaign, which runs until Friday, ParticipAction is encouraging adults to break up sedentary time spent commuting and sitting in the office. To help reach that goal, they’re encouraged to take active breaks and boost their fitness levels by “sneaking in” 10-minute bursts of physical activity into their workdays.
According to Statistics Canada’s Canadian Health Measures Survey from 2007 to ‘09, just over 15 per cent of the country’s adults were meeting the recom-mended guidelines of 150 minutes of physic-al activity a week.
The figures for older children are similarly grim. In its annual report card on the physical activity level of children and youth released last year, Active Healthy Kids Canada revealed that only seven per cent of five- to 11-year-olds and four per cent of 12- to 17-year-olds met recommended guidelines of 60 min-utes of moderate to vigorous activity daily. Walking quickly, skat-ing and bike riding are examples of moderate
activities, while run-ning, basketball and soccer are examples of vigorous activities.
StatsCan found that adults spent an aver-age of 9.5 hours a day - or approximately 69 per cent of their waking hours - in sed-entary activities, which
involve little physical movement and a low expenditure of energy.
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“Too much seden-tary behaviour has led to increases in risk of diabetes, even heart attacks, high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol,” he said.
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tax tips & Pits
If childcare is required in order to earn income, the paid expense is deductible against earned income.
It’s important to define “earned” income. In this case, income from employment or running a business, plus grants and fellow-ships related to work are included. A CPP disability pension is also considered earned income.
There are many qualifiers attached to this deduction – some missed during tax prep-aration that even soft-ware doesn’t pick up sometimes.
First, if married, both parents have to be earning income.
And from this, the most often made mistake is to deduct the childcare expense from the higher income earner – makes sense since this would have the most impact on tax savings. In actual fact, Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) requires the expense to be deducted from the lower income earner.
That’s point one. Exceptions to point one – if the
a parent is enrolled in full-time studies (part-time may qualify) for part of the year, is medically incapable of caring for a child, is confined to a wheelchair, bed or hospital for at least two weeks, or is confined to a prison for two weeks or more during the year. If any of these cases apply then the higher income earner can claim the childcare expense.
Point two, the maximum allow-able deduction is the lower of the actual childcare expense or two-thirds of the earned income or CRA’s set dollar maximum per child. It’s amazing how easy to miss this point and claim the wrong amount.
A related frustration arising from the maximum allowable
claim is the desire to carry forward unused childcare expenses to the next year’s tax preparation. This is not an option.
Types of services that qualify as childcare expenses include baby-sitting, day care, nursery school, and a nanny. Camps and boarding
schools also qualify, sub-ject to maximum rates. An official receipt from an organization must be provided, and in the case of an individual provid-ing the service, their name and social insur-ance number needs to be reported on your tax return.
Mom or dad cannot pay the other parent for childcare, but a related person over 18 can be paid and the cost expensed as childcare, assuming of course that person claims it as income.
If you think about this one, it’s not a bad way to “hire” your older kids – they get money that is most likely not going to be taxed and you get a legitimate childcare expense claim. But remember, the kid has to be 18.
Separated parents sharing cus-tody may claim an apportioned amount. Note that it must be a shared custody arrangement. A parent earning income and paying child support but not having cus-tody cannot claim any childcare expense if the child should happen to reside with that non-custodial parent during the year and that parent requires childcare during that time period.
In fact, even if the childcare for the custodial parent is paid by the non-custodial parent, it’s not claimable by the non-custodial parent – an often overlooked rule.
Ron Clarke has his MBA and is a business owner in Trail, provid-ing accounting and tax services. Email him at [email protected].
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By Jim BaileyTimes Sports Editor
The Beaver Valley Nitehawks will continue their wild ride today as they get set to face off against the Aldergrove Kodiaks in the first game of the Cyclone Taylor Cup at the Nelson Community Complex.
The Nitehawks will then play the Nelson Leafs on Friday, and the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League (VIJHL) champion, Victoria Cougars, on Saturday.
The last time the Nitehawks played in the Cyclone was just two years ago in Abbotsford, where they came away with a fourth-place finish. This time around returning three-year veterans like Ryan Edwards, Dallas Calvin, Archie McKinnon and Fraser Stang will look to improve on their 2012 showing.
“We’re pretty close actually,” said Edwards after winning the KIJHL title over Kamloops. “We’ve got depth, we got size, speed, and just pretty similar. We know the sea-son isn’t over yet, we want
to win the Cyclone, unlike two years ago.”
But the Cyclone is not a seven-game series, it is a sprint to the fin-ish, and one bad game in the three-game round robin can be disastrous, particularly when playing on the road.
“It all comes down to how you are going to skate, and if you going to come out and be quick, resilient, and hard work-ing then it doesn’t matter who you are playing,” said Nitehawks coach Terry Jones. “We just have to come out and be ready, and we’ve shown to be so in the playoffs.”
Cyclone PrimerThe Aldergrove
Kodiaks finished first in their division 34-6-2-2 for 72 points and second over-all behind the Richmond Sockeyes, 34-5-2-3, in the Pacific Junior Hockey League that includes two divisions and 10 teams from around the Lower Mainland.
After cruising through the first round of the PJHL playoffs with a sweep over the Mission City Outlaws and a 4-1
series win over the second-seed Abbotsford Pilots, the Kodiaks needed seven games to beat the Sockeyes in the league final. Aldergrove was down 3-1 in the ser-ies but reeled off three straight victories includ-ing a 3-2 overtime win in Game 6 to win the cham-pionship.
The Kodiaks are led by PJHL scoring leader Stephan Ryan who aver-aged two-points per game, netting 41 goals and 47 assists in 44 games this season. The six-foot, 19-year-old forward also played 69 games in the BCHL, the majority, 56, with the Prince George Spruce Kings in 2010-11. Adam Callegari, 20, was second in league scor-ing with 26-44-70 in 38 matches played. The tan-dem, along with playoff scoring leader Spencer McHaffie with 12 goals and 10 assists in 16 post-season games, will be players to key on in today’s opening match.
Jordan Liem, 20, has carried the load for the Kodiaks in the playoffs, getting all 16 starts and
posting 12 wins with a 2.32 goals-against aver-age, and a .926 save per-centage.
The Victoria Cougars won their league with a 3-0 Game 6 win over the Peninsula Panthers to capture the VIJHL title for the third year in a row. The Cougars won the overall regular sea-son championship in the nine-team league going 35-10-1-2 for 73 points, ahead of the North div-ision champion Comox Valley and the Panthers which each totalled 65.
Victoria swept the Kerry Park Islanders in the first round of the best-of-seven series, then took out the Campbell River Storm in five games, before eliminating the Panthers in six games.
The Cougars defence-man Graham Zagrodney, 20, led the team in scor-ing with eight goals and 56 assists in 48 games, but in the playoffs the Victoria trio of Michael Fretz, 10-15-25, Blake Roney 12-10-22, and Sam McMullen 12-9-21 lead all scorers.
See LEAFS, Page 11
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B y T i m e s s T a f fCanadian Paralympians
Kimberly Joines and Mike Mondin, bronze medallists at the 2014 Sochi Paralympics, will be the special guests at a community celebration on Friday at CIBC in Trail.
The CIBC Trail Banking Centre at 1298 Bay Ave. invite all residents to help celebrate the return of the
Greater Trail residents and mark their performances in Sochi with a gold-plated coin and personalized sports pen-nant. Joines won bronze in para-alpine skiing, while Mike Mondin coached the paralym-pic sledge hockey team to a bronze medal.
Come meet Joines and Mondin at the CIBC between 9:30 and 11 a.m. on Friday.
B y J i m B a i l e yTimes Sports Editor
While the Seven Summits is still wrapped in snow, spring has decidedly sprung in the Silver City giving area moun-tain bikers an early chance to start the season, and there’s no better way than with some tips from former mountain biking world champion Cindy Devine.
The Rossland resident and physiotherapist invites begin-ner and intermediate riders on a series of free rides that will include local trails like the Sunningdale singletracks, the Miral Heights lookout and bluffs on Tuesdays from Apr. 15 to May 6.
Devine says the purpose of this event is to keep beginner riders in their comfort zone, while more advanced riders can go at their own pace, and hopefully learn something as well.
“So that’s what I am after is getting your fitness up . . . I’m hoping that it breaks into pods, where you just go as a group and the slower people create their own pod at that middle level of fitness, and the faster ones create theirs.”
Devine will help out riders with their shifting, anticipat-ing obstacles and technical
areas, and knowing when to get off when necessary.
“That’s what group rid-ing is, it is really riding with someone at your fitness level because you can always just jump over a technical section, but it’s how you do the climb in the end.”
The focus will be on hav-ing fun, meeting friends and potential riding partners, and getting fit for the upcoming season. The first trail on the list Tuesday will be the Miral Heights’ lookout trail.
“It’s such a beautiful trail and everyone should know it,” said Devine. “I call it little Moab for trails. It’s a beautiful trail once you start to ride the bluff, you get that sense what Moab offers, which is riding on rock slabs and then you’ve got the river beside you . . . it’s very exciting.”
Founder of Devine Ride, she learned to mountain bike in Whistler in 1987 and by 1990 was World Champion. By 2000, Devine had achieved two more bronze World Downhill medals, and several American and Canadian Championships.
The group will meet at Gericks Sports in Trail at 5 p.m. on Tuesday. For more information contact Cindy at [email protected].
MounTain biking
Jim Bailey photo
Coaching volunteer Joel Graf can’t help but be impressed with this shoe-string catch from one of Trail’s up-and-coming baseball stars, as Trail Little League held its evaluation camps on Monday and Tuesday at Andy Bilesky Park.
Devine leads rides
Nitehawks prepare for Cyclone TaylorparalyMpics
Joines, Mondin honoured
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Kimberley Joines returned to Red Mountain for some skiing after a bronze medal performance at the Sochi Paralympic Games last month. She will join Mike Mondin, coach of the bronze-winning sledge hockey team, for a celebration at the CIBC in Trail on Friday.
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ScoreboardHockey
Cyclone Taylor CupAll games played at Nelson & District Community Complex
Today’s Games3:30 p.m. Aldergrove vs.
Beaver Valley7:30 p.m. VIctoria vs. Nelson
Friday’s Games3:30 p.m. Aldergrove vs.
Victoria7:30 p.m. Beaver Valley vs.
NelsonSaturday Games
3:30 p.m. Beaver Valley vs. Victoria
7:30 p.m. Aldergrove vs. Nelson
Sunday Games
10 a.m. Fourth vs. Third2:30 p.m. Second vs. First
BCHLFOURTH ROUND
Fred Page Cup FinalVernon (In3) vs. Coquitlam
(M3)(Best-of-7)
Friday’s gameCoquitlam at Vernon, 7 p.m.
Saturday’s gameCoquitlam at Vernon, 7 p.m.
Monday, April 14Vernon at Coquitlam, 7 p.m.
Tuesday, April 15Vernon at Coquitlam, 7 p.m.
Thursday, April 17x-Coquitlam at Vernon, 7 p.m.
Saturday, April 19x-Vernon at Coquitlam, 7 p.m.
Sunday, April 20x-Coquitlam at Vernon, 7 p.m.
x - if necessary.WHL
2014 PLAYOFFSTuesday Games
Edmonton 5 Brandon 2Edmonton leads series 3-0
Kelowna 5 Seattle 4Kelowna leads series 3-0
Portland 4 Victoria 3Portland leads 3-1
Wednesday Games N/AMedicine Hat at Kootenay, 7
p.m series tied 1-1Edmonton at Brandon, 6 p.mKelowna at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.
Today’s GamesMed Hat at Kootenay, 7 p.mVictoria at Portland, 8 p.m.
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figHting witH pride
This contingent of Pride Gym kickboxers took home seven medals after competing at the International Tiger Balm Tournament last month in North Vancouver. From left: Instructor Shane Voight, Kyle Huard, Jonah Ciardullo, Kylie Nekrasoff, Quinnlin Lysek, Lincon Voight, Tucker Lysek, Chris Tadevic, Caleb Nekrasoff and instructors Glen Kalesniko and Chad Lysek. Missing Delaney Bella.
T H E A S S O C I A T E D P R E S SSTORRS, Conn. - UConn forward
DeAndre Daniels got a chance to storm the court at Gampel Pavilion as a fan on Tuesday night, joining thousands of other UConn students in celebrating the school’s dual national basketball titles.
Daniels and other men’s play-ers watched on movie screens in the crowded arena as the women’s basketball team dismantled Notre Dame 79-58 in Nashville, Tenn., to capture a record ninth national title. The win came one night after the men won their fourth.
Daniels jumped into the mid-dle of the crowd at centre court during the final few minutes of the women’s win, bouncing up and down and cheering. Guard Ryan Boatright stayed on the periphery; his left foot in a boot after rolling an ankle in the men’s 60-54 victory over Kentucky on Monday.
“It’s history being made,” Boatright said. “It’s only happened
one other time and that was in ‘04, and I’m just glad to be a part of this.”
About 7,500 fans came to the UConn arena Tuesday evening for a rally to welcome home Husky men. A smaller crowd, but still in the thousands, stayed to watch the women improve the school’s record to 13-0 in national championship games.
After the final buzzer, the fans poured out of the arena and began a second night of partying.
UConn police say they behaved themselves for the most part. Only two arrests had been reported before midnight Tuesday, one for breach of peace and the other for reckless endangerment. On Monday night, police arrested 36 people, mostly for alcohol-related offences and some minor vandalism.
Police Chief Barbara O’Connor issued a statement thanking fans on campus for making it a positive celebration.
ncaa basketball
Double titles for UConn
FROM PAGE 11Former Castlegar
Rebels goalie Connor Beauchamp back-stops the Cougars and has carried the team through the playoffs with seven wins in 11 starts, including one shutout, and a spark-ling 1.89 GAA, and a .925 save percentage.
In the 2012 Cyclone, Victoria beat B.V. 3-0, but would lose in the final game to the host team Abbotsford in double overtime.
The Leafs mean-while, should be well-rested after bowing to the Nitehawks in the Neil Murdoch division final in six games almost a month ago. Led by Trail native and regular season scor-ing champion Jamie Vlanich, the host Leafs will be looking for a good performance and a measure of revenge against the Hawks in Friday’s game.
“I think the boys are focused and ready to go, regardless if Beaver
Valley was coming or Kamloops,” Leafs coach Frank Maida told the Nelson Star. “But, being Beaver Valley, I think we owe them one and we are going to be ready to go.”
The 2012 KIJHL champion Castlegar Rebels won bronze at last year’s Cyclone
in Comox. The last KIJHL team to win the B.C. title was the Revelstoke Grizzlies in 2009, while the Hawks wins came in 1997 with coach Pat Corrado and rookie of the year Barrett Jackman, and Jones’ team in 2001 led by forward Jeremy Cominotto.
Leafs look to payback Hawks
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The lowly fuel pump has proliferated in the mod-ern day vehicle. Until the late 2000s most
gasoline powered automobiles had only one fuel pump.
T o d a y many vehicles are sporting Gasoline Direct Injection (GDI). As such these vehicles have a low pressure fuel supply pump feeding a very high pressure fuel pump.
We all know our vehicles need fuel to run. Some of us know that fuel is sup-plied to the fuel injectors by a pump. In the carburetor era (pre 1980) that fuel pump was likely a mechanically driven device mounted on the side of the engine. It sucked fuel out of the tank up to itself and then pushed the fuel into the carburetor where it was then metered into the engine.
Along comes fuel injection and the fuel pump becomes an electromechanical device that in most cases is mounted in or very close to the fuel tank. The fuel injector (a much more accurate metering device) requires some serious pres-
sure (thirty to sixty pounds per square inch) compared to the lowly carburetor’s demand for three to six pounds per square inch.
Now, with GDI, our fuel injectors are diesel like and must spray fuel directly into the combustion cham-ber during your engine’s com-pression stroke. Pressures are now in the thousands of pounds per square inch.
These pressures require a very spe-cial pump famil-iar to most diesel aficionados, a high pressure mech-
anical pump driven by the engine. Sound familiar? This thing is a lot more intricate than the one that was feeding low pressure fuel to the old carburetor.
This high pressure pump in fact still requires 30 to 60 pounds per square inch of fuel from the electromechanical fuel pump in your gas tank. So now you have two fuel pumps.
If the high pressure pump fails your engine stops run-ning, plain and simple. When it comes to replacing a failed high pressure pump it is a
very good idea to know why. If the in-tank electromechanical pump is weak or fuel filters are clogged and the high pres-sure pump is not getting the lower pressure fuel it needs, another failure is imminent.
Many diesel owners have been familiar with this scen-ario for some time. Their high pressure diesel injec-tion pumps and common rail pumps produce tens of thou-sands of pounds per square inch pressure and are very costly to replace. They are quickly destroyed by a mal-functioning low pressure lift pump or clogged fuel filter.
Do not underestimate the value of that annoying check engine light in clueing you into a burgeoning fuel pres-sure problem. Your vehicle now incorporates fuel pres-sure sensors to control and monitor the high and low fuel pressure.
Driving around with that orange light on does not always mean to check your gas cap. It may be an indica-tion of more serious prob-lems. The sooner you react, a simple fuel filter replacement may save you the cost of two expensive fuel pumps.
Trail’s Ron Nutini is a licensed automotive technician and graduate of mechanical engineering from UBC. E-mail: [email protected]
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t H E A S S o C i A t E D P r E S SBOWLING GREEN, Ky.
- Workers are digging away to retrieve the last of eight classic Corvettes gobbled up by a giant sinkhole beneath a museum in Kentucky.
The last car buried is a 2001 Mallett Hammer Z06 Corvette. The vehicle is upside down, about 40 feet beneath the surface.
National Corvette Museum spokeswoman Katie Frassinelli
says the workers hope to recover the car Wednesday or Thursday.
The prized cars were swallowed by the sinkhole that opened up in February beneath part of the domed section of the museum in Bowling Green.
Frassinelli says the damage has been progressively worse as each car was pulled out in recent weeks.
The eight cars will be on dis-play at the museum through August. They will be shipped to a General Motors plant in Michigan to be repaired.
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WINNIPEG - Manitoba has added solar-powered cameras along some of Manitoba’s busiest highways.
The cameras are along the Trans-Canada Highway, as well as highways 75 and 16, and drivers can see what the roads look like from their computer or smart-phone.
Seven of the cameras trans-mit an image back every 10 min-utes that link to the Manitoba Highways website. Five more will be installed in the next year along the TransCanada and highways 5, 6 and 10. The province says the cameras each cost $10,000.
Liz Peters of the Canadian
Automobile Association Manitoba says while they aren’t perfect when it comes to predicting trac-tion, they complement the reports made by Highways staff on the roads.
“It’s another tool in the toolbox so they can see, ‘Yes it’s too dan-gerous for me to drive,”’ Peters says.
She says CAA in Alberta has 103 cameras on the highways and last year, they received 34 million hits from those looking for road conditions.
The cameras sometimes get covered in snow or freeze over-night in extremely cold temper-atures, but are usually up and running when it gets light out.
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Dear Annie: My husband and I live in Minnesota. His 78-year-old stepbroth-er lives by himself in Florida. “Horace” has a part-time job and goes to church regularly, but otherwise sticks to himself. He has only a nodding acquaintance with the neighbors.
We are his only fam-ily. We are the ones who initiate phone calls and send cards on holidays. He never calls us. We used to email, but he stopped using his computer. Horace is healthy, but I worry so much about what will happen to him when his health declines. He has no one nearby who can help. If he became incapaci-tated or died suddenly, we’d be completely in the dark as to how to proceed with his finan-cial affairs. He did give us a copy of his liv-ing will, and we know where his burial plot is, but that’s it.
My husband and his brother both think
there’s no sense in worrying about things until they happen. But by then, it will be too late. I don’t know how to approach Horace about making plans for the inevitable. I once asked him to consider moving to Minnesota, but he didn’t respond, and besides, I doubt he’d actually come back to the cold after all this time. My hus-band won’t be retiring for another eight years, so it’s not as if we can take off and visit when-ever. Where can we turn for help? -- Losing Sleep in Minnesota
Dear Losing: You are kind to worry about Horace and smart to plan ahead, but there’s
only so much you can do without his coop-eration. Ask Horace whether he’d mind if you spoke to his neigh-bors to get their phone numbers and email addresses so you can contact them if he becomes unreachable. Perhaps Horace would allow you to make a copy of his house key in case of emergency. Visit his church and find out whether there is a program to check on the members who live alone. Also suggest to Horace that he leave financial information with his banker or law-yer. And should Horace become ill or require care, you could con-tact Eldercare Locator ( 1 - 8 0 0 - 6 7 7 - 1 1 1 6 ; eldercare.gov) or ask about hiring a geriat-ric care manager (care-manager.org) to handle the details.
Dear Annie: Can I make a suggestion for people who are down-sizing or for any other reason don’t want to keep old items around?
Please tell them to con-sider photographing these things. That way, they still have a visual record but can discard the actual item. They also can scan these photographs and keep digital records.
This works particu-larly well if the items are pictures. They can simply scan them into their computer and give copies to as many people as might be interested. The photos can be printed out if you want or put into digital photo frames. I love watching pic-tures of my past pop up and cycle through on these frames. And getting rid of clutter was an added benefit. -- Getting Organized for Retirement
Dear Organized: Folks often think they need to keep origi-nals of everything, but unless your items are historically valuable and worth profession-al preservation, those family photographs will fade and old letters will
disintegrate. Keeping digitized records is a good idea, although people should create a backup copy (whether on a flash drive, CD or cloud).
Dear Annie: I have a different take on “Tears in Vermont,” the cou-ple whose son was a
recovering addict and had moved away with his girlfriend and want-ed no contact with his parents. “Tears” said their son lived with them until he was 30. It sounds as if the par-ents are enablers and may have been part of the problem.
It’s no coincidence that after moving away, he’s turned his life around. If they truly love that son and have a choice between estranged and clean, or in contact but an addict, they should be happy with estrange-ment. -- Seen It Before
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understand where they’re coming from. It’s easy for you to be sympathetic and imagine yourself in some-one else’s shoes. YOU BORN TODAY You are most comfortable being part of a decision-making team. You’re a straight-talk-er who shoots from the hip. Because you understand ideas, words and what oth-ers want, you can be an excellent mediator. Your year ahead is one of growth
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Working closely with the Recreation Department, the Pool Manager provides leadership to the Pool Staff and is responsible for the daily operations of the Pool. Th is full time position from May to August, requires the following certifi cations; NLS, WSI, CRP-C SFA, LSI, (Pool Operator 1 is an asset) Staff report directly to the Pool Manager and are responsible for providing leadership to the community - ensuring a safe, enjoyable aquatic experience through lessons, quality customer service, water safe education and prevention. Staff are employed full time from the end of May until the end of August and require the following certifi cations; NLS, WSI, CRP-C, SFA and LSI.
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We currently have an opening for a sales person to help us with our paid distribution newspapers across B.C. This position means getting out in the community and talking to subscribers about our newspapers and working to build stronger relationships with existing readers of our newspapers. It also includes finding new subscribers for our newspapers and helping introduce them our award winning host of community newspapers. This is not a year-around position and will run from March to October each year. We offer a spectacular compensation package and bonus incentives. Your own vehicle is required, but we cover all travel expenses. This is really a great opportunity for the right person. It is a different type of job, but definitely has different types of rewards. If you feel this position would be the perfect fit for you, then we would love to hear from you. Please email all enquiries to Michelle Bedford at [email protected].
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1252 Bay Avenue, Trail 250.368.5222 1993 Columbia Ave, Rossland 250.362.5200WWW.COLDWELLBANKERTRAIL.COM
Nathan Kotyk 250-231-9484
Rhonda van Tent 250-231-7575
Jack McConnachie 250-368-5222
Rob Burrus 250-231-4420
Marie Claude Germain 250-512-1153
Warfield $149,000
Nathan MLS# 2395554
Trail $109,900
Nathan MLS# 2214582
Salmo $294,000
Rhonda MLS# 2396380
Montrose $495,000
Rhonda MLS# 2393112
Trail $49,900
Rhonda MLS# 2394479
Fruitvale $139,900
Rhonda MLS# 2393772
Fruitvale $204,000
Rhonda MLS# 2392778
Renata $249,000
Rob MLS# 2215536
Renata $235,500
Rob MLS# 2215924
Trail $135,000
Rob MLS# 2393731
Genelle $319,900
Rob MLS# 2393958
Fruitvale $164,900
Rob MLS# 2393806
Rossland $399,000
Rob MLS# 2392108
Rossland $69,900
Marie-Claude MLS# 2393621
1 Bdrm Furnished,
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Rossland $59,900
Marie-Claude MLS# 2395154
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The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary has an immediate opening for a Manager of Planning and Development.The Manager of Planning and Development will be responsible for managing land use planning, development services, GIS services, and land use related bylaw enforcement. Reporting to the General Manager of Operations, the Manager of Planning and Development is responsible for a range of professional and administrative planning work, including: preparation and reviews of technical reports; provision of advice to the Board of Directors and its committees; preparation of departmental fi nancial plans; supervision of the department’s unionized employees; and project management. The ideal candidate will have excellent oral and written communication skills.The preferred candidate for this position will have a masters degree in community and regional planning, or a closely related discipline. Additionally, the preferred candidate will have 8-10 years of community/regional planning experience and will be a member of the Canadian Institute of Planners.The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary offers a market competitive compensation and benefi ts package. A detailed job description can be found at www.rdkb.com .Please submit a letter of interest and a detailed resume by 4:30 PM, May 2nd, 2014 to:General Manager, OperationsRegional District of Kootenay Boundary843 Rossland Ave.Trail, BC V1R 4S8e-mail: [email protected] Regional District of Kootenay Boundary wishes to thank all applicants for their interest in this position, however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
DIRECTORMidway Public Library is looking for a permanent part-time Director. You will work independently and report to a board on a monthly basis.Minimum Requirements:• Grade 12 education or equivalent job experience.• Must be well organized with time management skills.• Strong computer skills are essential.• Sitka systems or related programs would be an asset.
Deadline for applications is Friday, April 25, 2014.
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Misc. for Sale42” LG LED “Smart” TV, new, still in box. 250-364-3056
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Houses For SaleLOWER ROSSLAND, Easy highway access. 2bdrm., 2bath, s/s appliances, gas fi re-place, new furnace, large deck and carport. $270,000. OBO. Call 250-362-9541
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Apt/Condo for RentW.TRAIL, 1bdrm., fenced yard, suitable for dog. $595., 1 block to Downtown Trail. 250-368-6076
Homes for RentE.TRAIL, 3bd, 2bth, renovat-ed, yard, storage. $1100. Avail.May 1st. 250-512-1153
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Cars - Domestic2005 FORD Silver Mustang Convertible, one owner, never winter driven, excellent condi-tion, has 4L, V6 manual trans-mission. 61,000kms. Asking $10,900. 250-364-2752
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2007 SUZUKI Swift Plus Hatchback, 142,000kms. Great car. 250-368-5645
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2002 Nissans, 4cyl 2.5 & 1.8, Altima 187,000km & Sentra, auto & 5 speed, both 4dr and new snow tires. $3,100 & $4,900. 250-442-0122 or 250-493-1807. Run and look excel-lent. Sentra one owner, non smoker, 5 speed. Grand Forks
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B y A r n e P e t r y s h e nCranbrook TownsmanWhat is a livable
wage for Cranbrook? A local society was in front of council on Monday, April 7, to say that the livable wage, the amount someone needs to make to meet living expenses, for Cranbrook is $14.16 an hour.
D a r e l y n Hutchinson, repre-senting the Social Planning Society and the Living Wage Project and Poverty Reduction Initiative, talked about the pro-ject. She was joined by Darcy Victor, from the Ministry of Children and Family Development in Cranbrook, which the project is run through.
“It’s just to bring awareness to how much it costs to live in Cranbrook and what kind of wage you need to be making to be comfortable here,” Hutchinson said.
She explained that the living wage cal-culation is an hourly rate that reflects what people need to meet
their basic expenses and support their fam-ilies. It is based on the actual cost of living, rather than the min-imum wage which is legislated by the prov-incial government.
“It’s based on two full-time parents working and two chil-dren, for this purpose they are aged four to seven,” she said. “And it’s just minimal budget to eat and sleep and survive.”
She pointed out that expenses for a family include things like childcare, shelter and food.
“Both parents need to be making that with two children in their household to be able to afford the minimal living, which is quite a bit more than our minimum wage which is $10.25 provincially,” she said.
“Obviously we can’t fix minimum wage, but just starting con-versations around dif-ferent ways we can maybe work on mak-ing it more livable for people in Cranbrook, like daycare and trans-
portation and things like that.”
Cranbrook resident Amanda, last name withheld, took part in the living wage pro-ject. She is a stay-at-home mother. She and her partner have three children aged five and younger. Her husband had to find work an hour outside of town and commutes there.
“If I were to obtain employment out-side of the house as well, I would have to make close to $2,000 a month to secure two full-time daycare spots and a part-time spot for our oldest,” Amanda said.
“Working full-time minimum wage I would still be a few hundred dollars short each month, even if my wages weren’t taxed.”
Because there is no financially secure way for her to work, she has remained a stay-at-home mom.
She said they often have to rely on gov-ernment tax credits to make ends meet.
“After paying for
housing, heat, elec-tricity, transporta-tion, clothing, med-ical expenses and insurance, our family doesn’t have a lot left for food,” she said.
In 2012 she was approached to be part of the project.
She found that there are many more families like hers liv-ing in Cranbrook.
Coun. Angus Davis noted that a lot of the problem was the economy, as a healthy economy would keep unemployment around four per cent, as compared to B.C.’s 6 per cent.
He said the city needs to work to get industry jobs here.
Coun. Denise Pallesen commended Amanda.
“I know how hard it is; 10 years I was under the poverty line and you’re right, it is a rude awakening when you realize that that’s where you are,” she said.
Coun. Diana J. Scott noted that places like the UK and New Westminster in B.C.
have projects like this.Coun. Sharon
Cross noted that there is a group working on a childcare needs assessment initia-tive and wondered if Amanda wanted to be a part of that, which she did.
Mayor Wayne Stetski said that it has been interesting the past couple of years seeing the project brought to council. He also said council has to weigh what the role of the city should be on these issues, along with the other levels of government.
“I have also talked to our CAO moving ahead; some of the larger cities now have social planners on staff, we do not have a position like that on city council,” he said, adding that it would be a position that staff could refer social issues to.
Cost of living in city above minimum wage, council hears
Cranbrook
t h e n e l s o n s t A rFor the fourth straight year, Nelson’s L.V.
Rogers Secondary is the top local school in the Fraser Institute’s controversial annual rankings of BC high schools.
LVR placed 91st out of 293 public and private schools on the 2012-13 list released today based on criteria such as average exam marks, graduation rates, and English and math gender gaps, which are combined into a single rating out of 10.
Despite leading all other West Kootenay/Boundary schools, LVR’s placement was actually below its five-year rank of 68th, although it was slightly higher than last year when it was pegged at 98th.
Rossland Secondary, which was converted last fall into a K-9, was the only other school in the top 100. It finished 95th and had a five-year ranking of 52nd, the only mark higher than LVR’s among local schools.
Among other School District 20 second-ary schools, Trail’s J.L. Crowe ranked 182nd and its five-year ranking is 100th. Castlegar’s Stanley Humphries Secondary was 213th with a five-year mark of 137th.
Among other Kootenay Lake dis-trict schools, Mount Sentinel was 155th, Creston’s Prince Charles 204th, and Kaslo’s J.V. Humphries 279th. Salmo and Crawford Bay were not ranked.
The rankings are widely dismissed by educators and administrators as a limited and misleading measure of a school’s worth.
nelson
LVR leads the way in school rankings
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8327 Highway 3B, Trail $519,000
Stunning package! This home features Brazilian Cherry hardwood fl oors, a great fl oor plan, and amazing mountain views. The home is well maintained and fi lled
with light. The yard is completely private and features an in ground swimming
pool!Call Mary M (250) 231-0264
NEW LISTING
8412 Theatre Road, Trail
$449,000Newer 4 bdrm home on 0.87 acre private
lot. This home offers private entrance, open fl oor plan, beautiful kitchen and gorgeous gas fi replace with antique
mantle. Also included is a large (22x28) insulated shop. Call now!
Call Mary M (250) 231-0264
360 - 2nd Avenue, Rivervale $389,000
Perfection! This gorgeous home built in 2009 has it all, 3 bdrms 4 baths, 9 foot
ceilings, granite counter tops, hard wood, man cave, double garage and so much
more!! All this and situated on a beautifully landscaped, private lot close to all amenities. You must see to believe!
Call Deanne (250) 231-0153
1360 - 2nd Avenue, Trail $199,000
Interior completely new since 2006. This charmer offers level access, 2
bdrms, 1 bath, unfi nished basement, fully fenced and landscaped yard with underground sprinklers, dog run, as
well as a carport. This little gem will go quickly! Don’t wait call now!
Call Deanne (250) 231-0153
SOLD
910 Tamarack Crescent, Genelle
$370,000Full package: 3 bdrm 2 bath on main,
plus 1 bdrm 1 bath self-contained inlawsuite. 14x14 shop and 2 car garage,
great storage and fully landscaped .51acre flat lot.
Call Tonnie (250) 365-9665
NEW LISTING
#312 - 880 Wordsworth Avenue, Warfi eld $69,000
Very modern fully furnished 1 bdrm/ 1 bath condo has been totally updated - new windows-sliding door - paint - fl ooring - this could be your new condo - quick
possession is possible - book your viewing and get ready for a maintenance free lifestyle.
NEW PRICE!
QUICK POSSESSION
Call Mark (250) 231-5591
Submitted photo
The Colombo Lodge Men’s Lodge recently held its sixth annual Sante Berno Red Wine Competition. This year there were 21 entries in the members-only event, which was created to honour Sante’s great passion for making red wine. The com-petition has been organized by Mario Berno to honour his father Sante in the past, but this year a special thanks goes to Pasquale Amantea and Star Grocery for stepping to organize and provide all the prizes for the contest. (Left to right) Mario Berno, Lawrence Arcuri with an honourable mention, Lino Moro, third place, Vic Pozzobon, first place, Sergio Pasquali, second place, Frank Como and Lawrence Schiavon with honourable mention medals.
