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With 250 jobs cuts expected within the Canadian Border Services Agency over the next three years the axe likely won’t fall on the region’s U.S. ports of entry, an official with the national agency said Monday.
Waneta, Patterson and Nelway border crossings are to be spared from a bloodbath involving over 1,000 people, despite an ominous tone emanating from the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) head office heralding job cuts.
In order to reduce their budget by $143.4 million by 2015, the nation’s bor-der agency issued “affect-ed” letters to approxi-mately 1,150 employees. Affected does not neces-sarily mean layoff, said CBSA senior media spokes-person Esme Bailey.
And “these are not people staffing the ports of entry,” Bailey said.
Most of the surplus positions identified will be found through stream-lining internal services in national headquarters.
But B.C. Southern Interior MP Alex Atamanenko was not con-vinced. He felt the federal government was plan-ning a cut back of border officers, regardless of the message conveyed.
“We should be increas-
ing staff at border cross-ings instead of slashing jobs,” he said. “I’m hoping that none of (the cuts) are touching the border cross-ings in our neighbour-hood.”
Atamanenko criticized the border officer cuts at a time when Canada is introducing comprehen-sive changes on “perim-eter security,” with the United States.
Bailey said the health and safety of Canadians would not be comprom-ised through the imple-mentation of any of the budget reduction initia-tives.
“There will be little to no impact on front line services for travelers and traders who are crossing our borders,” he said.
Bailey went on to say CBSA would also be required to issue addition-al letters as the workforce adjustment processes con-tinue, hinting at further cuts to the workforce.
The notion irked Atamanenko.
“To be faced with a reduction of personnel at our border crossings is ludicrous.
“It seems a contradic-tion to the government’s so-called tough-on-crime focus,” he said. “Let’s also not forget that border service officers and their families help contribute to the local economies of our rural communities.”
Ports of entry staff spared in border cuts, says agency Southern Interior MP skeptical over
claims that axe won’t fall locally
BY BREANNE MASSEYTimes Staff
The 25th anniversary of the Man in Motion World Tour kicked off last summer and the countrywide journey will be bringing the Rick Hansen relay team to Greater Trail next week.
Hansen’s relay team embarked on a nine-month cross-Canada tour last summer, and the organization created partnerships with a num-ber of local participants and visit-ing over 600 communities. On April 24, the relay is scheduled to leave Castlegar at 11:40 a.m. and finish with an End of Day Celebration in Trail at 3:30 p.m.
Although Hansen will not be present at the event, he distinctly remembered visiting the Greater Trail area during the first tour in 1987.
“One of the big highlights for me was going up that big hill out of Trail, up the Rossland hill. That was one of the biggest physical challenges on my journey,” said Hansen. “And, of course, it was lined with thousands of people who were encouraging me to get up that hill and get one step closer to home.”
The 25th anniversary has encour-aged locals to get involved in the relay. The Rick Hansen Foundation has identified “global champions,” who live their lives by creating examples for other people.
“The world is smaller and more connected so we can build a global community and people from the Kootenays can be a part of that,” said Hansen.
Kaeden Magner, Ian Lockey, Marylynn Rakuson have been dubbed as a group of notable medal bearers because of personal achievements.
“It’s bringing back memories from the first tour, I still have a box of clippings from the Trail Daily Times about the event,” said Rakuson.
See RELAY, Page 3
BREANNE MASSEY PHOTO
Steven James, a contractor from All Weather Stucco, scoops up a ladle full of stucco on Tuesday as part of a makeover for the Arlington Hotel.
Anniversary relay rolls into Greater Trail
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RICK HANSEN SCOOP OF STUCCO
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Doug Jones, president United Steelworkers Local 480 presents a $5,000 cheque to Lisa Pasin, director of Development KBRH Health Foundation for “The Gordy Steep Memorial Sick Children’s Fund.” This fund will support sick children and their families by assisting with expenses, such as travel and accommodation.
BY BREANNE MASSEYTimes Staff
The United Steelworkers Local 480 expect to drill the community for support in memory of Gordy Steep.
Steep was an active member in the union that worked wherever he was needed. Unfortunately, he passed away from cancer three years ago.
“He was a big part of this union,” said Doug Jones, the president of United Steelworkers Local 480. “And unions play a big part in communities like this.”
Jones described Steep’s influential work at Local
480 and explained that the organization wanted to give back to the community. Recently, the Gordy Steep Memorial Sick Children’s Fund has been providing financial assistance for local steelworkers and their fam-ilies, but Local 480 wanted to give back to the entire Kootenay Boundary region.
“He was very, very pas-sionate about helping young children and their families,” said Jones.
“Whether it was help-ing them get gas money or finding accommodation. We wanted the memorial fund to be accessible for the entire community.”
The United Steelworkers Local 480 have created a partnership with the KBRH that provides financial aid for families within the Kootenay Boundary region. Requests for assistance are being screened through
KBRH social workers. “This fund is different,”
said Lisa Pasin, the direc-tor of development at the Kootenay Boundary Region Hospital (KBRH) Health Foundation. “Other funds have been dedicated to children, but this fund will support the family and the sick child. For example, if a sick child needs to fly to Vancouver for medical attention—we can help their families go with them.”
Both organizations are collecting donations and have been involved with a number of local initiatives. The United Steelworkers Local 480 are currently ask-ing people to bring in their pennies.
Since the penny has been discontinued, the fundrais-ing group is collecting old pennies for contributions to the fund.
The Gordy Steep fund
will receive 10 per cent of the profits earned at the Blooming Creative Art Sale. Rachel Jansen and Erin Fance organized the sale at the Riverbelle on Saturday between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.
“Each sale is a fundrais-ing event,” said Rachel Jansen, one of the event organizers. “The $2 door entry is donated directly back to the local charity or cause, and each vendor donates $10 of the day’s sales or orders.”
For more information about the Gordy Steep Memorial Sick Children’s Fund, contact United Steelworkers at 250-368-9131 or the KBRH Foundation at 250-364-3424. For more informa-tion about the Blooming Creative Art Sale, e-mail S h o p p i n g F o r C h a r i t y @gmail.com.
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FROM PAGE 1“That’s part of the reason that Trail is so accessible for
wheelchairs. I think the Rick Hansen relay made people more aware of issues for the disabled.”
Other local participants include: David Grantham, Kristine MacGillivray, Morgan Albo, Sarah Mcauley, Vince Mills, William Burkholder and Terry Martin. Martin, the endurance athlete for the silver anniversary of the ‘Man in Motion World Tour,’ will be carrying the medal from Castlegar to Trail.
The Trail End of Day Celebration will for the community of greater Trail in Gyro Park at 3:30 p.m.
The relay heads up the hill on April 25 making a stop in Warfield at 1:30 p.m., behind Webster School. Participants will arrive near the Warfield Village office around 2 p.m., and meet around 3 p.m. at the Warfield Community Hall.
“Kimberly Joines, a paralympic skier from the area, will be the last one for this leg of the tour,” said Teresa Mandoli, the recreation co-coordinator for the Village of Warfield.
The journey continues to Rossland with the End of Day Celebration at the Rossland Miners’ Hall at 3:30 p.m.
The relay will resume on April 26 at Maclean Elementary School at 11:30 a.m., then will travel to Grand Forks. The Rossland choir will be performing two songs.
Prior to the stop in Trail, Hansen, an avid fisherman and conservationist, will be in Castlegar on April 23, for the annual sturgeon release festival. The sturgeon release will take place at Hugh Keenleyside Dam (southwest side) on April 23, at noon and the event runs until 3 p.m. Hansen is scheduled to be on site for a speech at the opening of the event and will leave at 1 p.m.
For more information, visit the Rick Hansen Foundation website.
Relay heads to Rossland April 25
BY TIMOTHY SCHAFERTimes Staff
Details on how the Columbia Basin Trust affordable housing pro-ject is delivered in the Greater Trail region will be revealed in a meeting later this month in Castlegar.
The April 27 gathering on the Affordable Rental Housing initiative (ARHi) is an information session on what parameters the call for proposal submissions for housing projects should include to be considered for funding under the initiative.
In late March the Columbia Basin Trust (CBT) announced it would pool $10 million for rental housing ventures to help solve the housing crunch afflicting most corners of the Kootenays.
It was the first leg of the process that continues April 27 in Castlegar at the Fireside Inn (1 p.m.).
“Whatever proposals
can come forward to make these units happen, we wel-come those submissions,” said Delphi Hoodicoff, dir-ector of communications with the CBT.
Every creative submis-sion will be examined and given its due in order to support construction of new affordable rental hous-ing projects in communities across the Columbia Basin, Hoodicoff said.
The call for proposals is intended for non-profit societies or private oper-ators interested in partner-ing with BC Housing to pro-vide housing with support services.
And the money is there. Using a combined $5 mil-lion in investment over three years from the fed-eral and provincial govern-ments, a further $5 million has been added to that sum by the CBT through a separ-ate funding agreement with the province.
CBT’s affordable housing details on the horizon
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THE SAANICH NEWSVideo showing a motorcyclist
barreling down the Trans-Canada Highway at speeds reaching 300 km/h has Saanich police attempting to identify the dangerous driver.
The two-minute clip, showing the motorcycle dashboard and the driver’s first-person view weaving in between vehicles, was posted to YouTube on April 8 and quickly came to the attention of police.
“This is an entirely unaccept-able set of driving behaviour,” said Saanich police Sgt. Dean Jantzen, adding that traffic safety officers are investigating, and are looking to lay charges under the Criminal Code of Canada and Motor Vehicle Act.
Police believe the video was shot in the late afternoon on either April 5 or 6, and are looking to speak with anyone who may have seen the blue motorcycle travelling at such high
speeds.The digital read-out on the
motorcycle dash shows the motor-cycle maxed out at 299 km/h, but Jantzen said it’s likely that the speed exceeded that, and the digital speed-ometer doesn’t go higher than 299 km/h.
“This is an egregious driving incident, and it has regional signifi-cance, regardless of any perceived jurisdictional boundaries,” Jantzen said about why Saanich police have taken the lead on the investigation, despite the majority of the video showing the motorcycle travelling through Colwood, View Royal and Langford.
Jantzen, while speaking on behalf of the police department, questioned the need for bikes to be able to travel so fast. The speed limit along the stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway shown in the video is 80 km/h.
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Top cop calls for changes to RCMP ActTHE CANADIAN PRESS
VANCOUVER - The man in charge of the RCMP in British Columbia says the laborious process of firing or even sus-pending Mounties with-out pay after serious misconduct is “absolute madness,” but mak-ing changes requires a commitment from the
force’s political mas-ters.
RCMP Deputy Commissioner Craig Callens said the RCMP Act is long overdue for change to allow local management to hire and fire like other employers in the coun-try.
For example, Callens said an application was
made years ago to sus-pend Cpl. Benjamin “Monty” Robinson without pay, but the request was rejected at RCMP headquarters in Ottawa.
Robinson was con-victed last month of obstruction of justice in the death of a young motorcyclist in Delta, B.C. He admitted to tak-ing two shots of vodka to “calm his nerves” after the accident and before he gave him-self up to investigating officers, but the court heard testimony that Robinson would have known those actions can be used to cover up drunk driving.
A year before the traf-fic accident, Robinson was the senior officer in charge when Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski was jolted several times with an RCMP Taser and died at Vancouver’s airport.
Robinson and three fellow officers still face perjury charges, accused of lying under oath in that case.
C o m m i s s i o n e r Thomas Braidwood concluded in his final report into Dziekanski’s death that the officers
deliberately misrepre-sented their actions during the investi-gations and during their testimony to his inquiry.
“I want him (Robinson) dis-missed from the RCMP,” Callens told a forum at the Radio Television Digital News Association annual provincial gathering on the weekend.
“Now he’s convicted of obstruction of justice and so I say to myself, a reasonable-minded Canadian, a British Columbian, is outraged by that. I’m outraged by that.”
The RCMP Act gives Callens the power to suspend an officer if he considers the officer’s actions serious miscon-duct.
He must get approv-al from headquarters in Ottawa if he wants an officer suspended with-out pay.
But Callens said the process becomes adver-sarial, similar to the criminal justice system.
“That’s the problem with the RCMP Act. What I want to do is have the ability, for me personally, as the dep-
uty commissioner, or for the commissioner ... to say ‘No, you need to be fired from the RCMP.”’
The current process sometimes seems to overtake the necessity of decisive action, and that’s why he supports its modernization, he told The Canadian Press in a later interview.
“I think what frus-trates the commun-ity are cases where an RCMP officer is con-victed of a serious crim-inal offence and yet an internal adjudication board must be held, and the delays that are associated to that occur, to determine whether a member should be dismissed from the RCMP,” he said.
“And it’s quite obvious, or it is the view of the community that it’s obvious, the individ-ual should be dismissed from the RCMP.”
Neither Robinson nor his lawyer were available for comment.
In the four months that Callens has been in charge of the B.C. division, he said he has taken the step to request suspension without pay four times.
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major overhaul of environmental assess-ment rules for big projects will create jobs and growth, the federal government announced Tuesday, sparking resource industry praise and fierce criticism from environmental groups.
First signalled in last month’s budget, the Conservative gov-ernment said pro-posed new rules would encourage investment by avoiding wasteful duplication and setting strict time limits for project reviews.
“We intend to focus federal assessment efforts on major pro-jects that can have sig-nificant environmental effects, such as energy and mining projects,” Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said.
“Streamlining the review process ... will attract significant investment dollars and give every region of our country a tremendous economic boost.”
The plan calls for three organiza-tions - the Canadian E n v i r o n m e n t a l Assessment Agency, the National Energy Board and the
Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission - to conduct reviews, down from 40 government departments that can currently be involved.
Ottawa would defer to provincial reviews that meet national standards, and reviews would be limited to 12 months for standard assessments, rising to a maximum of two years.
The necessity of a review would have to be determined within 45 days.
Oliver said it would be “obvious” in many cases which projects would be captured under the new legis-lation, but gave the example of pipelines of at least 40 kilometres that can have signifi-
cant impact nationally or regionally.
Opposition New Democrats and environ-mental groups accused the Conservative gov-ernment of ramming through legislation that would “rubber-stamp” assessments to the benefit of large corpor-ations at the expense of communities and the environment.
The various gov-ernment agencies now involved have par-ticular expertise, and removing their input could be risky, they said.
“These changes are about handing oil and mining companies their approvals faster, rather than asking what kind of legacy this leaves for the next generation,”
said Keith Stewart of Greenpeace Canada.
Gillian McEachern with Environmental Defence accused Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government of abdicating its respon-sibilities to protect land, air and water.
“This is really a weakening of key environmental protec-tion measures that have been in place for dec-ades,” McEachern said. “It’s meant to pave the way for Big Oil to get what it wants.”
However, David Collyer, president of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, said the legislation would not increase the likelihood that projects will get the green light.
What it would do, he said, is provide “more clarity” in terms of time frames for deci-sions which in turn helps “investment cer-tainty.”
Todd Nogier, a spokesman for Enbridge, said the proposals make “great sense” and would sup-port development.
“Enbridge supports the very general con-cept of one project, one review completed in a clearly defined time frame,” Nogier said.
Some groups, like the Pembina Institute, worried about leaving assessments to prov-inces such as Alberta, which it said is not able to review projects prop-erly by itself.
New environmental guidelines draw praise and criticism
THE CANADIAN PRESSWINNIPEG - Manitobans will pay more for
gas, cigarettes and spa treatments as the NDP government grapples with a $1-billion deficit by hiking taxes and user fees.
The province is boosting fees for land titles, birth, marriage and death certificates in its budget.
Gas taxes are going up by 2.5 cents a litre while smokers will pay 50 cents more per pack.
The NDP is also expanding the provincial sales tax to include some forms of insurance, as well as manicures, haircuts, tattoos and piercings.
The government says it hopes to raise $75 million through the unspecified sale of govern-ment assets. Finance Minister Stan Struthers is also pledging to loosen the province’s strict Sunday shopping hours by Boxing Day.
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OPINION
Welcome to the world of con-munications
In the midst of the robo-call scandal Postmedia columnist Andrew Coyne tweeted that
“everyone in politics is try-ing to con you one way or another.” Response from Canadians was supportive. Disagreements came, not surprisingly, from polit-icians.
Calgary’s Mayor Nenshi, for one, expressed surprise at the number of people agree-ing with Coyne describing the tweet as ‘cynical’ and failing to ‘stand up to any kind of scrutiny.’
The Mayor probably missed recent polling numbers released by the Manning Centre for Building Democracy in which 58 per cent of Canadians described politicians as ‘unprincipled’. Only 1 per cent had a ‘very favorable’ opinion of polit-icians, probably close to the proportion of people active-ly involved in the political process.
In releasing the poll num-bers, Manning described the robocall scandal as ‘deplor-able’ noting it was eroding public confidence. Ironically, the Manning Centre itself is less concerned with build-ing democracy as it is with strengthening the political right. Anyway, the observa-tion seems a little late in the day considering the poll results. Another percentage
point of erosion before pub-lic confidence becomes non-existent.
It’s possible that only 1 per cent of Canadians have it right, but it’s also possible Canadians are expressing a view consistent with their experience.
I suspect the latter because so many involved in politics have demonstrat-ed themselves to be unprin-cipled, at least in the spirit of Bill Bernbach’s observa-tion that “A principle is not a principle until it costs you.” When was the last time a politician stood on principle to the point of losing office?
The idea is embed-ded in our parliamentary democracy as ministerial responsibility, but really, when was the last time a Minister resigned because of this? Nowadays, they call the communications depart-ment.
The communications department (including pub-lic relations, public engage-ment, etc.) has replaced responsibility in the polit-ical landscape because of how enormously effective modern communication techniques are at deflecting responsibility through fram-ing and spinning messages. The practice itself is spun as “presenting the positive,” or the horribly pompous “edu-cating the public,” but is,
nonetheless, a exercise in manipulation based on hard science.
People make different choices depending upon how information is pre-sented to them – the way it’s framed. For example, anti-abortionists frame their position as pro-life (making everyone else pro-death) while abortion supporters frame their position as pro-choice (making everyone else pro-dictatorship).
You may think yourself above this kind manipu-lation but none of us are. Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize for a lifetime of work demonstrating just how well it works and the cognitive processes behind it. Modern communications makes use of this knowledge by presenting information in a way that has people reach-ing conclusions and making decisions they would not otherwise make.
American physicist, Richard Feynman defined honesty as not just saying why you think you’re right, but also why you could be wrong. Honesty is the oppos-ite of spin. What comes out of communications then, isn’t lying exactly, but it’s not being honest either.
So, the government of British Columbia correctly asserts that alcohol-related fatalities have dropped since the introduction of recent driver legislation, but omits statistical analysis that the drop is insufficient to con-clude the legislation made the difference.
Federal Minister Leona Aglukkaq describes recent cost cutting in the Health portfolio as an effort to pro-tect the Canadian taxpayer, but presumably, not from food poisoning.
Ontario Liberals proclaim their plan created “46,100 jobs in March,” but omits the same plan was in place during job losses.
The City of Calgary reports high attendance fig-ures for community engage-ment workshops, but omits it’s the same paltry few representing special inter-ests attending every event.
The Canadian Institute of Healthcare Information highlights positive wait-ing time benchmarks, but doesn’t mention that the
benchmarks themselves make the data biased and unreliable.
The point is not to high-light the most egregious examples, none of these are, but rather, to show just how ubiquitous the framing and spinning of messages has become.
We even have govern-ment framing messages to itself, raising the at once frightening, and comical, specter of political leaders believing their own spin. Even the Auditor General couldn’t tell precisely who was saying what to whom in the F35 debacle. The gov-ernment is now framing this as an accounting issue. No wonder politics has become a spectator sport with the public more interested in, ‘I wonder how they will get out of this one?’ than any issues of malfeasance.
Edward Tufte, said that communicating is, “a moral act as well as an intellectual activity.” We’ve lost sight of that. In politics, the new conmunications has made it an intellectual activity in commission an immoral act.
PS: Notice I didn’t men-tion elections. Too easy.
Robert Gerst is a part-ner at Converge Consulting Group Inc. He is author of numerous peer reviewed journal articles.
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going to happen April 25, 26, and 27.
When rak-ing your lawn and boulevard, the works crew would appreci-ate leaving the rakings as a windrow along the front instead of piles. This makes their job a little easier and the machine works more effi-ciently. Also happening that same week is the first yard and garden waste pick up on April 26.
We are coming into the time of year when each community has its special weekend.
This year, due to the low usage last year, we will not have the bus available for tours of the dam, at Montrose Sports Day on June 9.
For those residents who wish to see the progress at the dam, the bus will be available for tours during Fruitvale’s May Days, May 25, 26 and 27 as well as at Trail’s Silver City Days May 11, 12 and 13. Hope everyone
enjoys the festivities.Moving onto the subject of
water. We are progressing with our water project. Final design should be complete by the end of April, so we can then go to
tender for getting the job done.
We will be par-ticipating in the Columbia Basin Trust initiative of Water Smart A m b a s s a d o r Program again this year. This will again be a shared person with Fruitvale. The program is established to help
residents understand water con-servation programs. There will be residential irrigation audits and residential indoor fixture and behaviour surveys. Anyone wishing more information can contact the Village office or make an appointment at the display that will be set up ay Montrose Sports Day.
Council had a strategic plan-ning meeting earlier this year. This full day session allowed us to discuss and priorities our views as a team. The big ticket item, of course, is our new well and associated features to allow us to get rid of the “boil water
advisory.”Other items identified for
this year are the community hall lower roof replacement and electrical upgrades in the hall kitchen.
Ongoing work with paving; we are trying to work with the surrounding communities to get a company that does “Micro-surfacing”.
This is a process that reworks the top layer of pavement to extend its life. The equipment is expensive and large to move around so we are trying to get a large amount of work lined up to make the cost worthwhile.
We will also be purchasing some excavation shoring to keep our crew safe when working in trenches.
And last but not least, spring is also the time of year when the bears awake from their winter hibernation, and they are hun-gry. In an effort to keep the bears away, please remember to set your garbage on the morn-ing of pick up so as not to invite them to snacks.
We thank you for helping in keeping the bears away from the village.
Don Berriault is a council-lor for the Village of Montrose.Community Comment is writ-ten by elected officials in Greater Trail.
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THE CANADIAN PRESSOTTAWA - National health
groups are condemning the Harper government for cuts to a federal non-smoking program.
Melodie Tilson, from the Non-Smokers Rights Association, says the cuts give tobacco companies the upper hand in influencing future health policy decisions.
“Why would the Harper gov-ernment gut a program that saves the lives of Canadians, saves government money and
safeguards the health and well-being of our youth?” Tilson asked.
“Consider who wins by this decision. The only winner - and they are big winners - is big tobacco.”
Tilson is one of several public-health experts and non-smoking advocates who are critical of the recent federal budget that cut $15 million - more than 30 per cent - from the Federal Tobacco Control Strategy.
The program has successfully reduced the number of smok-ers across Canada, including a reduction of youth tobacco use by half.
There are still about five mil-lion smokers in the country.
The health groups say that decreasing funding for the pro-gram will leave Health Canada ill-prepared for emerging issues, such as growing use of smoke-less tobacco products and fla-voured water-pipe tobacco.
Budget cuts favour tobacco industry
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HALEY, BERTHA LAFACE — was born on June 28, 1917 in Alberta and passed away peacefully on April 13 in Trail B.C. Bertha is predeceased by her first husband Robert LaFace and second hus-band Edwin Haley. She is sur-vived by her son Larry (Connie) LaFace and daughter Claudia (Ron) Wisted, her grandchildren Tracy (Craig) McCallum, Troy (Lisa) Wisted, Tami (Kelly) Collins, Linda LaFace, Brenda (Garth) Kozler and Rachel (Ron) Profili, 13 great grand-children and 1 great great grandchild. Bertha belonged to the Birthday Club in Rossland for over 50 years. She loved dancing, cooking and baking. She loved shopping at Ferraro’s and Safeway! A very special thanks to the staff and residents at Mountainside Village in Fruitvale, Interior health -case manager Lorraine Morris, supervisors and care personnel who attended to Bertha for the last 2 years, Dr. Wilson who cared for Mom for many years and also the staff at Columbia View Lodge.
A private interment will be held at a later date. As an expression of sympathy your donations to KBRH digital mammography fund www.kbrhhealthfoundation.ca would be greatly appreciated.
Gwen Ziprick of Alternatives Funeral and Cremation Services has been entrusted with arrangements.
***WALLACE (NEE PELLIZZARI),
GRACE — October 30, 1962-April 13, 2012.
Passed away peacefully at Abbotsford, BC, after a courageous battle with cancer. Grace is survived by Lyle, her loving husband of 30 years, children; Bobby (Stacey), Theresa (Curtis), mother Luisa and father Angelo, brothers; Larry and George (Karolyn). She will be missed by her family, friends, co-workers and the numerous patients that she touched over many years. Grace was loving, kind and gracious and always put others first. Her children were very dear to her heart. Many thanks to the BC Cancer Agency, the Doctors and the Nursing staff in the Tertiary Hospice Palliative Care Unit who made Grace’s last few months comfortable.
A Celebration of Grace’s Life will be held on Friday April 20th at 2:30PM at the Clayburn Schoolhouse 4315 Wright Street, Abbotsford. A memorial mass will be held in Trail at a later date. In lieu of flowers, dona-tions may be made in her memory to the BC Children’s Hospital.
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A couple looks back as they stand in line to pose for a picture in front of portraits of the late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il at a fes-tival for the “Kimilsungia” flower to mark 100 years since the birth of North Korea’s late leader in Pyongyang, North Korea, Tuesday.
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESSGENEVA - After a dec-
ade of promoting refugee causes around the world, Angelina Jolie herself has been promoted.
The United Nations refugee agency has ele-vated the Hollywood star from being a goodwill ambassador to a special envoy, a role that will see her represent the organ-ization at the diplomatic level to governments and diplomats.
It is the first time the U.N. refugee agency has named a special envoy, said its spokesman Adrian Edwards. Elsewhere in the global body such posts are usually reserved for career diplomats or retired polit-icians.
“Her work does go sub-stantially beyond what we would typically see as being the normal role of a goodwill ambassador,” Edwards told reporters in
Geneva. “I don’t think you need a rocket scientist to see the benefits that she is bringing in terms of the attention that she is get-ting for the plight of the world’s displaced.”
Jolie has jetted the world on behalf of the organization over the past ten years, making high-profile visits to refugee camps in Iraq, Haiti and Pakistan, among other places.
Apart from her time, Jolie has also given large personal donations to the organization, which relies entirely on voluntary con-tributions from govern-ments, companies and individuals.
“She has donated sub-stantially to refugees,” said Edwards, noting that the actress/director won’t receive any money for her role. “There is to my knowledge absolutely no connection between any
donation of money and this role.”
Jolie’s new position will focus on the complex crises that result in the mass displacement of people, such as in Afghanistan and Somalia. In addition, on special occasions she will represent the U.N.’s High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres.
“That can mean con-veying messages to gov-ernments. It can mean conveying messages to other people and partners that we work with,” said Edwards.
UNHCR works to help almost 35 million refugees and internally displaced people around the world. It was established to aid millions of Europeans dis-placed during World War II and has since become one of the world’s most prominent humanitarian organizations.
ANGELINA JOLIE
Actress named special envoy for UN refugee agency
IKE BARBER
THE NELSON STARIke Barber, who founded Slocan Forest
Products, and built it into one of North America’s leading lumber producers, has died at 89.
Barber passed away Friday at home after a long illness, the University of BC said today in a news release.
Barber spent 18 years with MacMillan Bloedel, and later joined Triangle Pacific, which operated in the Slocan Valley.
As vice-president and CEO of Triangle Pacific, he teamed up with co-worker Ron Price in 1978 to buy the sawmill at Slocan and form Slocan Forest Products.
The company later acquired sawmills and other facilities throughout BC.
Barber retired as chairman in 2002, and the following year Canfor bought Slocan Forest Products. The Slocan sawmill was subsequent-ly purchased by a local concern that rebranded it Springer Creek Forest Products. It has been idle for the last year.
In his retirement, Barber was one of BC’s leading philanthropists, endowing the University of BC, where he graduated from the forestry program in 1950.
UBC bestowed him with an honorary degree in 2002, and the following year he received the Order of BC.
Barber spent five years with the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II.
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Following a two-year layoff due to injuries, Rossland’s Kimberly Joines is back.
The Paralympic sit-skier made a gold-en return to the World Cup and NorAm circuit in December, after a hip injury forced her from competition just prior to the 2010 Vancouver Paralympics.
Since returning, she has won an incredible 14 medals on the International Parlalympic circuit, including a gold-medal performance at her first competi-tion in nearly two years.
Despite an excellent career that includes a bronze medal at the Paralympic Games in Italy in 2006, the 30-year old has faced a litany of injuries and equip-ment problems that plagued her in 2010. The tough season and disappointment of missing the Vancouver Games was not how she wanted to leave the sport.
“It didn’t end the way I would have wanted it to,” said Joines. “My last really good year was ’08 and then we switched up my equipment as a way of getting back for 2010.”
After winning virtually every World Cup and NorAm race in ’08, a new sit-ski chair had a negative affect on her performance and resulted in many more
spills and injuries. But rather than let the setbacks keep her down, Joines has risen time and time again.
In her first race back at Copper Mountain, U.S.A, on Dec. 14, the Edmonton native raced to a bronze medal. She followed that up the next day by taking gold in the combined ski, defeating long-time rival Laurie Stephens of the U.S.
“I wanted to put in a good amount of time into the sit-ski to get back to the point where I’m back getting results, and back at the top of my game, because I’d rather end on that type of note.”
Joines spent most of 2011 training and making adjustments to her equipment until she was comfortable and confident.
“Once you get through an entire (year) without an injury, it doesn’t seem like it’s that crazy to continue doing what you do.”
Joines won five gold medals and two silver medals at World Cup events in 2011-12, including taking overall runner-up in the giant slalom. She added six NorAm golds and a bronze to the total and finished the season last month with a stunning come-from-behind gold medal performance in the super-combined at the World Cup Finals in Panorama.
Sitting in third, 4.06 seconds back of first-place Alana Nichols, Joines laid
down a brilliant second run beating the American by over six seconds to claim the gold in the combined race.
“Super happy for Kim,” coach Sven Pouliot told Alpine Canada after the race. “She had a decent run in super-G and definitely showed how strong she can be in slalom . . . You can see she’s very confident now.”
Injuries are common for sit-skiers who reach speeds of up to100-kph, with gates bouncing off their faces at every turn on a slalom run.
“I’ll end up with all sorts of bruises, we have a chin-bar but it will smush right down on your face on the second gate,” said Joines. “Getting hit in the face and not letting it disturb you is the change that I made this year, finally.”
With her success, the dynamic Rossland racer will continue to compete, her sites set on Sochi, Russia for the Paralympics in 2014.
“I definitely want one more Games,” said Joines. “Whistler really didn’t hap-pen for me, it was pretty disappointing not to go there, so Russia’s a new place on the list and I’m pretty excited to get another Games in - then we’ll see.”
Joines previously won World Cup Crystal Globes in giant slalom, super-G and slalom, as well as an overall Crystal Globe in 2008.
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Sit-ski racer Kimberly Joines powers down the mountain at Panorama, as she blazed to a combined slalom gold medal in the World Cup Final last month, in what was an amazing comeback year for the Rossland resident.
Rossland skier returns to form
BULLARAMA
BY JIM BAILEYTimes Sports Editor
No one needs to be sheepish about the Kootenay Chrysler Bull-a-Rama, especially since mutton busting is making it’s heralded return to the rodeo ring next week.
“We’re hoping that anyone interested gets a hold of us quick, because it’s going to fill up fast,” said Robert Baker, Trail Parks and Rec deputy director.
After going MIA last year, organizers have wrangled up 15 sheep for the spectacle, which has been a crowd-favourite over the years. But that means there are only 15 spots available for chil-dren ages 3 to 5, that weigh less than 55 pounds, to cling to the back of these thickly coated woolly steeds for as long as they can, just like real bull-riders.
“Everybody knows that this is a family event and in order to get back to a family themed event we know that we need mutton bustin’,” added Baker.
This year’s sheep shaking is sponsored by Kiwanis and will take place during the intermis-sion of the bull riding.
The kids will have an opportunity to show their stuff in front of the crowd, and serve notice of the next generation of bull riders.
Former Trail resident Guy Thompson is organiz-ing another great lineup, with junior boys steer rid-ing on tap, along with the bull riding. Competitors include the return of bull rider Chad Besplug of Claresholm, Alta., who will try to defend his four-year reign as Bull-a-Rama champion.
Tickets for the April 28 event are on sale and can be purchased at the Trail Parks and Rec office or the Aquatic Centre. To enter the mutton bust-ing, parents can call Parks and Rec at 364-6484.
The mutton busting is free with each purchase of a Bull-a-rama ticket. Advance tickets are $10 for 14-years and under, and $22 adults. Tickets will also be available at the door for $12 and $25.
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESSATLANTA – Trail’s Jason Bay stole a home
run, and then hit one to lead the New York Mets to a 6-1 victory over the Atlanta Braves Monday night.
The Mets are trying to send an early message in the NL East: This isn’t the same team that fin-ished fourth in their division a year ago.
The Braves are certainly taking note.Ike Davis hit a tiebreaking three-run homer
and Dillon Gee pitched four-hit ball over seven innings, leading the Mets to another victory over Atlanta.
New York snapped the Braves’ five-game win-ning streak and kept up their early dominance in the NL East rivalry, winning again after a three-game sweep of Atlanta in the Big Apple to start the season.
With the game tied at 1 in the sixth, Atlanta intentionally walked hot-hitting David Wright with two outs to get to Davis - a move that cer-tainly made sense, given the first baseman was batting just .118. The strategy backfired when Davis drove a 2-2 curve from Tommy Hanson (1-2) it into the right-field seats.
“He’s thrown (the curve) every at-bat, every pitch, every time I’ve faced him,” Davis said. “Obviously, they think I’m a fastball hitter.”
Hanson said the breaking ball was right where he wanted it to be.
“Sometimes,” the pitcher said, “you’ve got to tip your hat to the other guy.”
Give a tip of the hat to Gee, too.Atlanta put together a couple of hits and a
walk in the second, leading to its only run on Jack Wilson’s RBI groundout. Otherwise, Gee (1-1) was never in much trouble.
“I was trying to catch them looking with fast-balls,” he said. “I’m happy with where I’m at. I feel like all my pitches are where they should be. ”
Wilson nearly homered in the fifth, but left fielder Jason Bay leaped against the wall to make a brilliant catch above the yellow line. Bay tum-bled back onto the warning track and held the ball up for the umpire to make the out call.
“Robbing homers isn’t a huge part of my game,” said Bay, who made a similar catch on Alex Gonzalez last year at Turner Field. “Same spot. Same ball. It was like deja vu. You can feel it in your glove. It’s almost like tunnel vision.”
Wilson pulled up near second base, smiling incredulously at what he had just seen from his former Pittsburgh teammate.
“I’ll text him later,” Wilson said. “It won’t be pleasant.”
Hanson went seven innings, allowing just five hits. But his throwing error on an attempted pickoff at first base led to an unearned run in the third, erasing Atlanta’s early 1-0 lead. Then, in the seventh, Hanson skipped a pitch in the dirt for a wild pitch, allowing Thole to race home from third with an insurance run.
Bay capped the scoring with a leadoff homer off Livan Hernandez in the ninth.
The Mets sit a half game back in the National League East with a 7-3 record. They trail a surpris-ing Washington Nationals team that has gone 8-3 to start the season.
METS
Bay propels Mets over Braves
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About 160 retirees launched the 2012 golf season at the Birchbank golf course last week. The weather was great and everyone had a good time and connected with friends. The winning team in the two-best-ball tour-nament is (from left) Ken Coupland, Larry Brandt, Norm Moll, and Brian Powell. All new retirees are welcome; the retirees club tees off every Thursday morning. Sign up on the retiree’s board in the clubhouse.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESSSANTA MONICA, Calif. - After
missing 12 games with an apparent concussion, Daniel Sedin will be with his Vancouver Canucks at their next practice.
Vancouver’s top goal-scorer is showing up in Los Angeles just in time to witness either a stirring comeback or a shocking fall.
“It’ll be great to have him back, even if it’s just in practice,” goalie Cory Schneider said Tuesday outside the Canucks’ seaside hotel. “In a ser-ies where goals are hard to come by, a 30-goal scorer would be huge.”
The Canucks don’t know if Sedin can play in Game 4 tonight, but they certainly could use the Swedish twin’s scoring skills after they man-aged just four goals during three losses in five days.
The eighth-seeded Los Angeles Kings have pushed the NHL’s best regular-season team to the brink of elimination with a remarkable stretch of tenacious play accented by a few lucky bounces, including the rebound that went right to captain Dustin Brown for the only goal in Game 3.
The Kings attribute their incred-ible playoff start to chemistry that takes months to build and days to unravel. The Canucks can relate: Sedin and his brother, Henrik, form one of the NHL’s most potent scoring tandems, and Daniel’s absence forces many small changes that can add up to a big mess.
“Obviously right now, because Danny’s not there, we’ve got quite a few guys playing out of roles, out of their best possible position to help
out this team,” Vancouver coach Alain Vigneault said. “That’s noth-ing new. You go through that in the regular season, but with the level of competition that we’re up against and the situation we’re faced with, for him to be back in our lineup would obviously be a big boost. But we don’t know, so we’ll see how everything goes.”
Henrik Sedin clearly isn’t at his best without his brother alongside. The playmaking specialist managed just one shot and lost 13 of his 18 faceoffs in Game 3, and Brown flat-tened him with a shoulder hit in the second period, briefly sending him to the locker room.
“We knew it was going to be like this,” Sedin said. “I mean, we weren’t hoping to be down 3-0, but we are. It’s about how you respond, and if we can play on Wednesday the way we played (in Game 3), if we can get a bounce and get to their guy a little bit and win one game, it’s going to go quick.”
The Canucks spent Monday try-ing not to ponder their predica-ment. Although three of the last six Presidents’ Trophy winners have lost their first-round playoff series, Vancouver is one game away from becoming the first team in the expan-sion era to fail to win even one post-season game after finishing with the NHL’s best regular-season record.
Vancouver is in a serious playoff slump, losing seven of eight post-season games. The Canucks have scored just 12 goals in their last 10 post-season games encompassing last season’s Stanley Cup finals and the current round.
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Dear Annie: The facts about tobacco use are startling. Every day, nearly 4,000 kids under the age of 18 try their first cigarette, and another 1,000 become regular smokers. To hook kids, tobacco companies spend bil-lions of dollars each year targeting kids like me with advertis-ing near schools and malls, and they even alter these deadly products to look and taste like candy! They also oppose efforts to make it more difficult for kids to obtain ciga-rettes, like tobacco tax increases and smoke-free laws.
With almost 20 percent of high school students who are cur-rent smokers, we need a change, and it needs to be both youth led and adult supported. Cigarette companies cannot survive unless kids smoke, so I am thankful to be work-ing with the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids as a young advocate to
fight to reduce tobacco use and its devastat-ing consequences on youth.
Your readers can get involved by visiting www.tobaccofreekids.org to learn more about what is being done in their community and how they can help. -- Judy Hou, age 17, vol-unteer at Y Street, The Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth, Richmond, Va.
Dear Judy Hou: Many thanks for your terrific letter. We hope it will inspire readers to become involved, as well as convince others not to take that first puff. Smoking kills, and it can harm those around you. If you
already smoke, please quit. It doesn’t make you cool. It makes you stink.
Dear Annie: My friend “Steve” has been married for 10 years. Six months ago, he had an affair. The other woman became pregnant, so Steve left his wife. But within a few months, he real-ized he had made a ter-rible mistake. The new girlfriend was verbally abusive and control-ling and interfered with his relationship with his other children. He finally ended things and returned to his wife.
Now the Other Woman is refusing visitation with the new baby. Steve and his wife have hired an attorney to fight this. I know Steve has tried very hard to put his life back together and wants to do the right thing. But I was dis-heartened to see the new mother badmouth him on Facebook, call-ing him a deadbeat dad
and telling horrible lies about his family. Steve pays regular child sup-port and has already added the baby to his insurance. Meanwhile, throughout her preg-nancy, this woman drank and smoked, even though Steve pleaded with her to take better care of her-self.
This is a small community, and I am appalled that she has dragged Steve’s name through the mud. It is affecting his children at school. I worry about this woman raising a child. Steve thinks he has to accept the pub-lic bashing because he cheated. Is there any way to get his side of the story out there? -- A Friend
Dear A Friend: This is what friends are for. Feel free to refute the lies when the oppor-tunities present them-selves. But we caution you not to say unkind things about the Other Woman. Steve has his hands full, and there’s
no reason to make the woman more defen-sive and angry than she already is.
Dear Annie: This is in regard to the let-ter from “California,” whose stepdaughter’s children keep playing with their iPhones dur-
ing dinner. I had this problem
with my sister. During dinner, she kept play-ing with her phone, so I snapped a photo of her with my iPhone and sent it to her with a text message: “Having a great time. Wish
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For Thursday, April 19, 2012 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) You will notice that in the next six weeks, your focus on money, cash flow and earn-ings will intensify. In fact, some of you might make some major expenditures! TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Today the Sun enters your sign, where it will stay for the next month. This means it’s your turn to recharge your batteries for the rest of the year. Yeehaw! GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) In the next few weeks, you will need to take a break from your recent spate of popularity. By contrast, you’ll be relieved to work alone or behind the scenes. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) An increase in popularity is going to take place in your life during the next month. Be aware of this. Accept all invitations, and enjoy
schmoozing with others. LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) The Sun is now going to slowly cross the top of your chart for the next six weeks. This is the only time all year this happens, and it puts you in the spotlight! VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) In the month ahead, grab every opportunity to travel or get further education because you’ll want to explore more of life. Enjoy meeting people from other backgrounds. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Gifts, goodies, favors from others and unexpect-ed generosity will be com-ing your way in the next six weeks. Just say, “Thank you, world!” SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) During the next month, the Sun will be as far away from you as it gets all year. This means you’re going to need more sleep, because the Sun
is your source of energy. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Expect to be motivated to work hard in the com-ing month. Act on this urge, because you can get better organized at home and in your job. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Lucky Capricorns will slip away on a vacation in the month ahead. You want to play, party, flirt and enjoy
fun times with children. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Home, family and your private life will be your focus in the next six weeks. This is also a good time to research real-estate deals. PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Busy you! In the month ahead, you’ve got places to go, things to do and people to see. The pace of your days will accelerate!
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1533 – 4th Avenue, Trail $154,900
Good, solid house on a flat lot in a great location! Several upgrades including vinyl windows, hardwood floors, new laminate,
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garage and easy maintenance yard complete the package.
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2786 Queen Street, Rossland $274,900
Spectacular gardens create a tranquil setting for this cozy 4 bedroom /1 bath home. Situated on a 90 x 117 fenced
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1345 Spokane Street, Rossland $559,000
This amazing heritage family home also operates as popular B&B. Features
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bathroom upgrades. It is located close to town, the ski hill and trails and offers
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1638 Cedar Avenue, Trail $225,000
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202 Kootenay Avenue, Tadanac $329,000
This family home has a terrific floor plan with large living and dining rooms,
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Lot 2, Highway 3B, Ross Spur $250,000
Fantastic opportunity- 29 subdividable acres for your dream home, hobby farm or to hold as an investment opportunity. Treed with large level building sites and
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3621 Rosewood Drive, Trail $249,000
Gardener’s delight! This 4 bdrm, 2 bath family home, features gas fireplace, new
windows, updated bath, new front entrance, new flooring, new H20 tank and freshly
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3732 Woodland Drive, Trail $219,000
3 bedroom 2 bath home on exceptional lot. Look at this great price!
Central air conditioning, gardens and fruit trees.
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BY SALLY MACDONALDCranbrook Townsman
Higher than average snow packs could lead to flooding in the East Kootenay,
As of April 1, snow levels in the Kootenay Basin are 27 per cent above average, said David Campbell of the River Forecast Centre, but it’s higher in the East Kootenay.
“We are seeing the trend in the East Kootenay of higher value than that overall Kootenay snapshot. It seems to be more concentrated as we get into the Rockies,” said Campbell.
North in the Columbia Valley, the snowpack is 25 per cent above aver-age.
That could lead to flooding when the snow melts from May through June, Campbell added.
“As we go into the spring snow-melt season, if we even have any-thing around normal snowpack lev-els, there is a risk of spring flooding,” said Campbell.
“When we see higher snowpacks, snowmelt-dominated rivers specific-ally, around about 120 per cent of average we start to see elevated risk for flooding.”
But it’s too soon to know for cer-tain if we will see flooding in the East Kootenay, Campbell added.
“The snowpacks alone aren’t enough to say that we are going to get flooding on these systems or even have it is more probable than not.”
The weather will decide that: if we have a series of warmer than average days, or wetter than average days, it could signal flooding.
“Or potentially the two together in some moderation. A moderately warm spell with moderate precipita-tion can push it,” said Campbell.
This year’s snow build-up came later in the season, with March con-tributing the most accumulation.
“In general, we certainly saw very wet conditions through March. That really built up snow packs this year.”
CRANBROOK
High snow pack raises flood riskCRUISING ON THE COLUMBIA
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With the Columbia River Reconnect mural serving as a backdrop, Sunday provided a perfect oppor-tunity for boaters to get their crafts warmed up and seaworthy for the upcoming season.
