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LITERARY LINEUP
B Y S H E R I R E G N I E RTimes Staff
Proposed cuts to Greyhound Canada’s B.C. routes were approved last week.
For Kootenay residents, that means there will be three less opportunities a week to catch a ride.
“The schedule being removed on Highway #3, is the one that runs three days a week in each dir-ection,” said Grant Odsen, regional manager for Greyhound Canada.
There will continue to be one trip each way (between Kelowna and Calgary) each day, seven days a week.
Last Wednesday, the B.C. Passenger Transportation Board
(PTB) approved reductions in ser-vices after Greyhound made its case last fall.
Odsen said that the company is currently reviewing implementa-tion dates, but it will be at least 14 days from the date of notification on its website.
The Greyhound depot in Trail hasn’t received official word about when the schedule will change, but it has received many calls from concerned customers.
“People have called with con-cerns around the freight schedule changing,” said Carol Schwab, an employee at the depot.
“There is a lot of confusion around what the cuts mean,” she said. “There will be no changes to our freight schedule, this decision only affects bus passengers.”
See LACK, Page 2
Changes won’t affect freight schedule
Greyhound cuts approved
B Y T I M O T H Y S C H A F E RTimes Staff
The direction of parks and recreation in the city could be changing.
The department in charge of managing parks and the recrea-tional facilities and programs in the city is undertaking a 10-month process to overhaul, examine and formulate a new plan for the future in the delivery of those services.
Last week city council awarded a $69,470 contract for the con-struction of a parks and recrea-tion master plan to the group Professional Environment Recreation Consultants (PERC), said city director of parks and recreation, Trisha Davison.
She said the master plan will be a guiding document with a long-term plan attached to it, designed as a living document to aid deci-sion making over the next 10 to 12 years.
“It will have solicited the com-munity through a whole variety of ways to gauge their input and thought on recreation services, as to where they are today and what they think is working well and what is missing as far as the service
is considered in the community as a whole,” Davison said. “We want to ensure we are meeting the needs of the community and this is one way that really hones in on com-munity engagement.”
Davison said the master plan will look at facilities within Trail and consider changing trends in parks and recreation services across the province and country.
PERC will devise a master plan through a series of commun-ity engagement and stakeholder meetings and workshops that will happen over the next 10 months, gauging what the community wants and then laying out a plan to help guide how the recreation department delivers that service.
There will be an opportunity for people to share stories as far as what they would like to see in recreation services in the area, said Davison. Once the plan is done, PERC will host a public meet-ing, opening it up for comments. Ultimately, it gets presented back to the community at the very end, said Davison.
The next step begins in the next few weeks with a community sur-vey being mailed out to residents.
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Recent news that Rossland’s hopes for the Canada Ski Hall of Fame and Museum have been dashed, are a disappointment for Rossland Mayor Greg Granstrom, as well as the city.
Granstrom was one of the champions for the bid, put forth as a potential replacement for the mine tour that had to be closed a few years ago, due to safety concerns.
Granstrom said he heard the news of Mont Tremblant’s winning bid, yesterday, through media and had not been contacted by the Canada Ski Hall of Fame and Museum board.
He said the Rossland proposal was well thought out for this city.
“We had to be very sure that what we presented was sustainable to Rossland,” he said, but added that hall of fame board had some conditions that were concerned the Rossland board. For instance the board would be under the supervision of the Ottawa board.
“So we put a proposal out there that we thought was sustainable and could work in Rossland,” he said. “They went with Mont Tremblant, which is interesting, because we (Rossland) also talked to Tremblant about some kind of East-West partner-ship. That wasn’t pursued by either side, but we did put that out there.”
The mayor said that the museum in Rossland has many historic skis from the likes of Nancy Greene-Raine and Kerrin Lee Gartner, and so a partnership could have presented opportunities to share collections.
He also noted that it’s interesting it didn’t go to Revelstoke.
“Other than Rossland for history out west, that would be the place,” he said.
“We weren’t told their final criteria.”Another concern they had was the logistics for
inductions into the hall of fame.“That could have got really onerous for
Rossland, because of the distances,” he said. “Ottawa is more the place you would do those kind of inductions. It was really expensive, they pay for the inductees to come there, travel, food… That was a concern too, but like I said we put a proposal together that was sustainable. Our opin-ion on the task force was that you can’t put in a pie in the sky proposal, we have to put in what’s sustainable to Rossland.”
Granstrom seemed to leave the possibility of the Hall of Fame Museum coming to Rossland if Mont Tremblant faltered.
“Museum’s aren’t the easiest things to run. Our board here has a lot of experience; I think we’ve had a museum here since 1964, I believe,” he said. “So we have a very experienced board and they understand totally what it takes to make it work. Who knows what could happen.”
As for what is next for the museum, Granstrom said the Gateway Project is moving forward, with a meeting later this month where they will put out a request for proposal and present their plan for the museum upgrades.
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FROM PAGE 1Although, Greyhound buses do
not pass through Trail, its pas-sengers are shuttled to Castlegar by the Silver City Stage Lines to make connections on routes from Kelowna to Calgary.
Due to lack of ridership, Greyhound cut the number of trip it makes through the Kootenay corridor, one of 16 route reduc-tions approved by the PTB.
“We aren’t in the habit of elim-inating trips that have lots of people on it,” said Odsen to the Trail Times in an interview last October.
“But the ridership in that
whole (Kootenay) corridor hasn’t been good for quite some time.”
He attributed that a number of factors including cheaper airfares, more people driving and changes in traveling habits.
The bottom line is the simple fact that fewer people are taking the bus on those specific routes, he said.
The PTB is an independent tri-bunal in British Columbia.
The board’s primary respon-sibility is to make decisions on applications relating to the licens-ing of passenger directed vehicles and inter-city buses in British Columbia.
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Nelson’s aquatic centre could be in line for major repairs — or even replacement — based on the outcome of structural assessments.
The Nelson and District Recreation Commission is looking at correcting problems with that part of the community complex, built in 1975 and last renovated in 2005.
“The layout of the facility is not
the best, as anyone who has used it knows,” says commission chair Ramona Faust. “But it’s not cos-metic, it’s structural and mechan-ical issues that are prompting the evaluation.”
Last month, the commission asked for an update on the state of the building from Fairbank Architects, as well as a timeline on repairs, and a retrofit design with an option to build a new aquatic centre.
“We need an evaluation whether we continue to throw good money after bad or look at a new facil-ity,” Faust said. “We have no heavy commitment to a new facility. It’s our hope that it’s still pragmatic to address the issues prevalent with the aquatic centre as it is now.”
The last upgrades, done in 2005 as part of construction of the com-munity complex, have yet to be paid off. Faust said they were “sub-stantial” but incomplete.
Among the present issues are a failing heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system, compounded by a lack of separation between the pool and rest of the building.
“That’s a critical part of oper-ations because of all the humidity in the building,” said Nelson city councillor Deb Kozak, who also sits on the rec commission. “That par-ticular function is not doing well, which means the building envelope is at risk.”
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If you can’t beat ‘em in the alley, you can’t beat ‘em on the ice.
Conn Smythe, former Toronto Maple Leafs owner, once espoused those words as his credo for winning hockey games.
But the same analogy could be applied to Lower Sunningdale residents, who petitioned City Hall to have garbage collection moved from the back alley to city streets for the winter months.
Despite a petition of 39 per cent of resident names—with 83 per cent in favour of the move—a city staff report on the matter found additional costs would arise if the change was made and council voted against the move.
It was found that front street pick up would hamper numerous owners that were unable to get their garbage to the front street. This would result in the refuse collection contractor having to pick-up in both lanes and the front street.
Alpine Disposal indicated that if the city were to approve both front street and lane pick-up at the same time, the additional cost would be $2,200 per month or $8,800 for the four-month period. This cost would probably increase to $10,000 as there would be a transition period for residents to get used to the change in both December and April.
“The combination of the petition and the city poll have resulted in only 62 per cent of the owners who responded being in favour of front street pick-up. Therefore we are recommending to continue with lane pick-up through the winter season,” wrote Warren Proulx, the city’s engineering technician, in his report to council.
The refuse and garbage collection contract has a clause where the city can change the loca-tion of lane pick-up if the lanes become impass-able due to snow or mud.
The city’s records indicated that 122 proper-ties in Lower Sunningdale received their collec-tion from the rear lane. The city wrote letters to all 122 property owners in Lower Sunningdale and asked if they supported or did not support the proposed change.
A total of 61 owners replied to the letter with 29 in support and 32 opposed to the change. With only 61 of the 122 (50 per cent) who replied to the city’s letter city staff decided to combine the petition and its own poll to deter-mine the results of the combination.
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The City of Rossland’s contention with an arbitra-tion process over a sewer system service snafu with the City of Trail has been flushed down the toilet after the province’s arbitrator overruled their protest.
The objection Rossland entered on the sewer dispute as to whether a provincial arbitrator had the right to hear the dispute has ruled against Rossland.
That means the two cit-ies will be going to court over who pays what in the regional sewer service.
“So we are proceeding with the arbitration and hopefully we can get this done and over with,” coun-cillor Rick Georgetti said last week.
Rossland Mayor Greg Granstrom said he could not comment on the proceed-ings now before the court.
In September the two cit-ies were not in agreement over a preferred arbitrator. Rossland believed the juris-diction of the dispute and resolution officer to order arbitration at all was ques-tionable.
The delay puts the city into arrears of five years—at $109,000 per year—on a service the Trail city council contends they are over pay-ing for.
Lois-Leah Goodwin, executive director of Intergovernmental Relations and Planning under the Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development, was appoint-ed as the dispute resolution
officer in August to help settle the matter of who pays for what in the deliv-ery of regional sewer service between Trail, Rossland and Warfield.
Goodwin was required to review the matter and, under the Community Charter, dir-ect the dispute to binding arbitration.
Trail city council had notified the province in late May it wanted to engage in the process of arbitration with the City of Rossland to determine the correct percentages of shared costs for sewage service in the Greater Trail region.
For four years the ques-tion of who pays what por-tion of the cost of sewer ser-vice among Trail, Rossland and Warfield has been boot-ed around like a political
football.Trail currently pays close
to 70 per cent of the regional budget following a formula created in the late 1960s, based mostly on population and projected growth.
In early April Rossland council dismissed an elev-enth-hour attempt from Trail to avoid arbitration.
Trail council had draft-ed a cost sharing proposal based on population, though it previously agreed with a mediator report that sug-gested the old formula was unfair, and a new formula should be based on 50 per cent population and 50 per cent water consumption.
The legal price for the process is expected to out-weigh the cost difference quoted in the proposal--around $20,000.
Showing more Christmas spirit, the Beaver Valley Lions helped the Fruitvale Community Chest share more holiday cheer. Presenting $1500 to Doug Hall are members Bev Thompson, Doug Brooke (Hall), Paul Terness and Helen Underwood. The regular Wednesday night Bingo at the Fruitvale Hall is the reason for the Lions’ generosity.
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B Y K R I S T Y P A T T O NPenticton Westsern News
WestJet has confirmed they will not be making an announcement about their new regional flights until February.
In November, WestJet said they planned on making the announcement of which com-munities their new regional carrier would land in on Jan. 21.
“That was a target date. We moved it to sometime in February. No firm date set,” said Robert Palmer, WestJet
media representative, via email.
The City of Penticton has been lobbying WestJet to choose the city as one of the communities for Encore and provide service to Calgary. Palmer had previously told the Penticton Western News that the communities that Encore will be flying out of would be announced in a news release sent out every January to announce the summer sched-ule. It is a release that they traditionally done twice a year
for almost 17 years.“We certainly appreciate
that there is a great deal of interest in this schedule in par-ticular, but as with all schedule releases, we work to ensure everything is in place inter-nally before we make them,” said Palmer. “To this end we often move the date internally as operational needs change.”
The City of Penticton has also approached Air Canada, who will be adding an extra flight to Vancouver in May, to launch a flight to Alberta.
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British Columbia Premier Christy Clark, centre, stands with Indian film director Karan Johar, left, and Indian dance choreographer Shiamak Davar in Vancouver, on Tuesday during an announcement that The Times of India Film Awards will be held in the city in April.
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VANCOUVER - Vancouver will be under the spotlight this April when it hosts the Hindi film industry’s annual Times of India Film Awards.
B.C. Premier Christy Clark announced her government would spend $11 million to help pay for production and hosting the event that organ-izers say is the Oscars of India.
Clark says the awards cere-
mony will be watched by hun-dreds of millions of people around the world and getting the chance to host the event will put Vancouver on centre stage.
The province will provide $9.5 million in matching finds to the Times Group to help pro-duce the event and another $1.5 million for activities around the event, including hosting a B.C.-India business forum.
The three-day celebration will bring some of Bollywood’s biggest stars to a special con-cert, showcase some of the most popular Hindi movies in screenings and wrap up with the awards ceremony on April 6.
The awards are based on a global voting system involving fans who are invited to vote for their favourite stars across 14 categories.
B Y D I A N E S T R A N D B E R GThe Tri-City News
A looming $7.5-mil-lion deficit has School District 43 scram-bling to make $5 mil-lion in cuts to supply budgets, professional development help for teachers and discre-tionary spending to ward off a financial crisis that could have an impact on Tri-City public school budgets for years to come.
So far, it looks like there will be no staffing cuts but next year’s budget will be severely constrained unless expenses can be trimmed from now until the end of June.
And the presidents of the Coquitlam Teachers’ Association and CUPE Local 561, which represents SD43 support staff, say they’re doubtful the short-term fixes will do the job.
At the Jan. 15 meeting, Teresa Grandinetti and Dave Ginter lambasted trustees for not doing their job and being fiscally accountable to taxpayers.
“That is your responsibility,” Ginter, who represents sup-port workers, told
trustees, who were mostly silent when they received the news of the massive deficit. Ginter called planned cuts “chump change” that may not stem the bleeding.
“The shortfall is the board’s responsibil-ity,” CTA president Grandinetti said, add-ing, “I don’t actually believe you are going to get $5 million in savings.”
The revelation of the board’s financial situation, which had been circulating in the rumour mill for weeks, was provided by superintendent Tom Grant because the district is current-ly without a secretary treasurer.
(Rick Humphreys resigned effective Jan. 1 but board chair Melissa Hyndes would not confirm whether his departure was related to the finan-cial crisis, saying he left for personal and medical reasons.)
At the Jan. 15 board of education meeting, Grant confirmed that the district had a drop in enrolment of 223 students at the same time as it budgeted $3 million more for staff
than its provincial funding allows. Other factors in the deficit, which leaves the dis-trict in dire financial straits, he explained, including the district receiving less income from international education and poor investment revenue, and having to pay hikes in benefits and utility fees.
SD43’s current financial circum-stances are a sea change from nine months ago, when trustees unanimous-ly passed the richest budget in its history — $270.4 million — doling out extra funds for special needs stu-dents, counsellors and program expansions.
Today, trustees are still trying to figure out what happened and how it will impact next year’s district operating budget.
According to Grant, the district found out after its student head count in the fall that there were 223 fewer middle and high school students than expected and the dis-trict also got $200,000 less in provincial holdback money than was expected for a loss of $1.7 million.
C o m p o u n d i n g the problem, accord-ing to Grant, is less money than expected from fees that for-eign students pay to attend school here and reduced rental and investment income — another $1.3 million.
The district is also spending $3 million in salaries that are not funded by the Ministry of Education.
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has been charged in connection with the shooting death of his older brother.
He has been charged with man-slaughter and illegal possession of a prohibited weapon.
Authorities have not laid murder charges but, on the other hand, they are not describing the shoot-ing as an accident either.
Police say the 16-year-old vic-tim was shot in the upper body by a handgun they said could have belonged to the family.
The boy was arrested at the family home after Monday’s shoot-
ing and was questioned by inves-tigators overnight, until 5:30 a.m.
The boy was accompanied by a parent during the interrogation.
“This is a very sad event,” police spokesman Simon Delorme said early Tuesday.
Delorme said police will not reveal the calibre of the gun, or whether it was registered, until investigators are finished meeting with potential witnesses.
He said someone called 911 around 5:30 p.m. to report the shooting in suburban Dorval, Que. Paramedics tried to treat the ser-iously injured teenager, who was later declared dead at the hospital.
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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SCALGARY – The fate of
TransCanada’s controversial Keystone XL pipeline was put squarely in the hands of the U.S. State Department on Tuesday after Nebraska’s governor approved a new route amid fierce opposition from environmental groups.
Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman sent a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama confirming that he would allow the Alberta-to-Texas oil pipeline to go through his state along a revised route that skirts an environmentally sensitive area.
Because the Keystone XL would cross an international border, it requires approval from the U.S. State Department and President Barack Obama.
The $7-billion project would carry bitumen extracted from Alberta’s oilsands to refineries
along the U.S. Gulf Coast.Some critics of Keystone see
it as an environmental threat and symbolic of a wrong-headed energy policy. The project has faced some of its strongest resistance in Nebraska from a coalition of land-owners and environmental groups who say it would contaminate the Ogallala aquifer.
Calgary-based pipeline giant TransCanada, which operates throughout Canada and the United States, and some workers’ unions say the project is safe and will cre-ate thousands of jobs.
The original route would have run the pipeline through a region of erodible, grass-covered sand dunes.
The new route skirts that area, although the pipeline’s most vocal critics remain firmly opposed to it as well.
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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S STORONTO - Ontario’s projected deficit for
2012-13 has fallen from $14.8 billion to $11.9 billion.
Finance Minister Dwight Duncan says the nearly $3-billion drop from last spring’s budget projection is due to higher than expected rev-enues and lower expenses.
Corporate taxes were more than $1 billion above the budget forecast, while revenues were also up from the sales tax and the land transfer tax.
The government expects to spend $1.2 bil-lion less than budgeted mainly because of lower interest on debt, and savings from reducing the ability of teachers to bank sick days and cash them out at retirement.
Duncan says the government will not need to use the $1-billion reserve in the budget, so will use half of that to reduce the deficit and the rest will be kept for any unforeseen events this year.
Despite the lower deficit, Duncan says the weakened global economy, especially in the U.S. and Europe, will require “continued strong action” if Ontario wants to balance its books on
schedule by 2017-18.“Ontario continues to beat its deficit targets,
a direct result of managing expenses while also protecting health care and education,” Duncan said in a speech to the Canadian Club in Toronto.
“Ontarians don’t want deep, across-the-board cuts that would hurt their valued public servi-ces.”
The lower deficit projection was Duncan’s last official announcement as finance minister.
The Liberals will pick a new leader this weekend, and Duncan has already offered to resign his Windsor-Tecumseh seat for Sandra Pupatello if the former Windsor-West MPP emerges as Ontario’s new premier.
The Opposition wasn’t impressed, however, saying Ontario’s economy has a “history of mis-management” under the Liberal government.
“This is Minister Duncan playing clean up, his swan song,” said Progressive Conservative critic Vic Fedeli.
“When you look at the experiences of the last nine years, you would see that this is a com-pletely mismanaged economy.”
Projected deficit falls by $3 billion
T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S STORONTO - Wine
producers will be proposing a toast to Canadian consumers: a new study shows wine consumption in this country is growing three times faster than globally and Canada is projected to be the fifth fastest-growing wine market in the next five years.
Most of the wine consumed in Canada is imported but “Canada is now very strong on the production side and domestic wines are getting more popular,” said Vinexpo chairman Xavier de Eizaguirre.
“But the fact there is now a local indus-
try, particularly here in Ontario, is helping the overall picture. Volume-wise it’s cer-tainly a country where consumption is going up. Our forecast is it will continue to go up in the next five years.”
De Eizaguirre said Canada’s per capita wine consumption is around 15 litres a year, compared to about 12 in the U.S.
“France, Italy, Spain, the traditional markets, consume somewhere around 50 litres per capita. England is about 25, Argentina is about 45, so there is a lot of potential” for Canada to increase its con-
sumption, he said.Between 2007
and 2011, Canadian wine consumption increased by 14.55 per cent. Consumption hit 43.21 million cases in 2011; one case repre-sents 12 bottles.
Analysts said that between 2012 and 2016 Canadian wine con-sumption will go up 14.27 per cent, even-tually reaching 50.7 million cases annually,
which is three times greater than the global average.
Italy has taken over from France as Canada’s leading wine supplier. American, Chilean and Spanish wines gained ground in the Canadian mar-ket.
The Asia-Pacific region consumes the most spirits, with 61.5 per cent of global con-sumption in 2011.
Canadians averaging 15 litres per yearWine cOnsumptiOn repOrt
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OPINION
NDP and Liberals are not natural alliesAnyone still fond-
ly clinging to the hoary belief that Liberals and New
Democrats are natural soul mates clearly isn’t paying attention.
The cross-border embrace between the Premiers of B.C. and Alberta – Alberta Tories are helping B.C. Liberals raise money and may even be loaning them political operatives in an effort to defeat the NDP in the upcoming provincial election – underlines afresh that Liberals have more in common with Tories than with New Democrats.
The political party that almost invariably wins in Canada is the one best exemplifying opportunity, meritocracy and freedom, while the losing party is often identified with the defence of unearned priv-ilege.
This has long been the pattern federally and prov-incially. Take the long per-iod of Liberal dominance in Ottawa in the first half of the 20th century where the Grits spoke up force-fully for moderate taxation, open immigration, reli-gious toleration and end-ing ties with Britain. These were Main Street attitudes. The Tories were often stuck defending Bay Street, the
imperial tie, sectarianism and suspicion of immigra-tion.
Canadians were most comfortable with the Liberals, but liked to keep the Tories in reserve, as a discipline on the arro-gance of a party too used to thinking of itself as the nation’s natural gov-ernment. And when the Tories did take power, their behaviour wasn’t all that different from that of the Liberals, although compe-tence wasn’t always their long suit.
Even when the Liberals were seduced by the cre-ation of the welfare state in the ’60s, and let spend-ing rip, the Tories followed. That suited the electorate. They had two parties rea-sonably close to the core values of society, so voters could change leaders with-out having to change fun-damental policy direction. Then both parties reversed course over the deficit.
That allowed first the CCF, then the NDP, to parody the other two par-ties as Tweedledum and Tweedledee, indistinguish-able from one another. What the social democrats didn’t get was that that was just what the elector-ate wanted. And as long as the NDP stood no real
chance of taking power, the reasonably friendly rivalry between Tories and Liberals made sense.
But virtually everywhere that the CCF and later the NDP grew to have a real chance of taking power, the division between Liberals and Tories became a liabil-ity. By splitting the votes of people who agreed they wanted a society of oppor-tunity, competitive mar-kets, free choice, moderate taxation, limited govern-ment and social programs that help but don’t entrap, the NDP could occasionally take power.
NDP governments tend to have certain character-istics. They are close to the trade unions, for example, a movement dominated by public sector work-ers keen to expand pub-lic services, raise levels of
public sector pay and pen-sions and remove limits on public sector collective bargaining. The party also attracts many who believe sincerely in the state’s ability to achieve fairness by high levels of redistri-bution, financed by high taxes, big debt, or both.
There is nothing wrong with believing in any of these policies, except that Canadian voters have, with time, tended to recoil from governments that pursue them.
They do so because such policies drive out invest-ment and growth, reduce opportunity overall and create a privileged class of public sector workers.
There are import-ant regional variations of course. But on the whole, when New Democrats become major political players, the other two par-ties quickly learn there is a high price to indulging their separate identities. Where they successfully present a united front, they almost invariably beat the NDP. Where the anti-NDP coalition is weak or only partial, the NDP often tri-umphs.
Which brings us back to B.C. Responding to the rise of the CCF, a formal coali-tion of Liberals and Tories
was created. When that construct fall apart, Social Credit stepped in, ruling for decades. When it stum-bled the Liberals rose and now are stumbling in their turn. In between these long periods of dominance, the NDP briefly took power with rather disastrous eco-nomic consequences, for-cing the anti-NDP coalition to reconstitute itself.
Under the last NDP government, Alberta bene-fited as people and invest-ment fled B.C. This time, an anti-business NDP that obstructed every plausible means of moving Alberta’s oil through B.C. to Asia would cost Albertans as well as British Columbians.
While a week is fam-ously a lifetime in politics and the B.C. election isn’t until May, the smart money remains on an NDP victory thanks to disillusionment with the Liberals. If the NDP remains true to eco-nomic form, watch for the rapid reinvigoration of the Liberal-Tory coalition, with trans-mountain support, in time for 2017.
Brian Lee Crowley is the Managing Director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, an independent non-partisan public policy think tank in Ottawa: www.macdonaldlaurier.ca.
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If North Korea’s new leader, Kim Jong-Un, wanted to end the brutal and destruc-tive tyranny that his father
and grandfather imposed on the country, he would need sup-port from abroad. The military and Communist Party elites who control and benefit from that system would have to be brought round or bought off, and that would require lots of foreign aid and a global amnesty for their crimes. So how would he get the foreign-ers to help?
Well, he’d have to show them that he was willing to reform – but he couldn’t be too obvious about it at first, or those elites would just get rid of him. He’d drop a hint here, make a gesture there, and hope that the foreigners would trust him and help him to change the country.
Rather like the Burmese generals did when they began to dismantle their own half-century-old dictatorship two years ago.
Unfortunately, Kim Jong-un would drop the same hints and make the same gestures if his only wish was to sucker the outside world into propping up the bankrupt system in North Korea with more big shipments of free food and fuel.
There’s no way to read his mind, so how should the for-eigners respond?
This is not a theoretical question, for he is sending out those signals. Never mind the cosmetic stuff like being seen in public with a new wife who dresses in fashionable Western clothes. In his televised New Year’s message to the Korean people, he spoke of the need to “remove confrontation between the North and the South,” and called for dramatic improve-
ments in the national economy.It’s the first time the regime
has ever celebrated the Western New Year (including fireworks in Pyongyang). It’s nineteen years since the country’s leader last spoke to the people dir-ectly. He may be trying to tell them and the rest of the world that he is starting down the
road of reform, or he may be bluff-ing. What to do?
Unfortunately, since he’s not making any polit-ical or economic reforms at home at the moment – that’s what he MIGHT do if he had foreign help – we can’t con-clude anything about his inten-tions from his
domestic policies. And his for-eign policy is hardly encour-aging either.
North Korea doesn’t have much by way of a foreign policy. The only consistent thread is its obsession with military power (it has one of the world’s biggest armies, though it has about the popu-lation of Australia), and lat-terly with ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons.
Both of Pyongyang’s nucle-ar weapons tests, in 2006 and 2012, were conducted when Kim Jong-il was still alive and in power, but Kim Jong-un has not repudiated them.
Moreover, he has continued to test ballistic missiles, includ-ing the launch last month of a rocket that his regime says could hit the United States. (It was ostensibly used to launch a satellite, which it did, but the technology for satellite launch-ers and ICBMs is almost identi-cal.)
On the other hand, here is a man whose only claim to power is heredity, in a country that does not have a formally recognised monarchy. To con-solidate his power, he must
persuade the military and Party elites that he is a reliable suc-cessor who will perpetuate the system that keeps them fat and happy, so his current aggres-sive posture in foreign policy is really no guide to his real intentions either.
In fact, at this point there is really no way of telling what he means to do. The rest of the world, and in particular the United States and North Korea’s neighbours, South Korea, China and Japan, are going to have to make their decisions blind. What can they do that would help Kim Jong-un to bring the country out of its cave and start loosening the domestic tyranny, without actually making matters worse if he is not a secret reformer?
The safest course would be to encourage dialogue between North and South Korea (which has just elected a new presi-dent, Park Geun-hye, who has declared her presidency ready to initiate unconditional talks with the North).
It would also be sensible to ease back on the embar-goes and other restrictions on North Korean imports for a while, since they are obviously achieving nothing in terms of stopping its weapons projects anyway.
And what if Kim-Jong-un dares not or simply does not want to respond to these ges-tures with more promising moves himself? Then you just give up and go back to the policy of containment that has had so little success over the years. North Korea is really a very small threat (except for its own people, of course), and it’s safe to take a little risk in the hope that the new ruler will respond.
It’s the country’s only hope. There is not going to be a North Korean spring in the Arab style.
Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.
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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SEDMONTON - Oprah Winfrey
believes Lance Armstrong has the opportunity to be a hero again.
And she thinks people will be willing to forgive him.
Winfrey said Monday that the hardest thing Armstrong has done in his life is confess in an inter-view with her that he used per-formance-enhancing drugs to win his seven Tour de France titles.
“If he is willing to do the work ... he can be a real hero,” Winfrey said during a lecture in Edmonton, the first stop on a speaking tour through Western Canada.
She said Armstrong’s fall from grace is so huge, it means a lot that he has finally come clean. But he also needs to realize his life is not just about a bike, races or a big mistake.
“Everybody has the ability with-in them to rise again. What really matters in the world is what kind of human being he chooses to be.”
Oprah’s exclusive interview last week with Armstrong was a ratings boon for her specialty channel, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. The channel has been struggling and even Winfrey admitted it hasn’t been the success she had hoped.
The media maven compared her channel’s bad reviews to Armstrong’s lost respect. She said
she has decided to shift focus and believes her channel will soon get back on track.
“In three years it will be a force for positivity and raising consciousness in the world.”
Billed as “An Evening with Oprah,” Winfrey easily switched hats between motivational speaker and stand-up comic.
She had the crowd of about 15,000 laughing, gasping and nod-ding their heads.
Organizers said it was Winfrey’s first big arena show, and a sell-out to boot.
Unlike the arena’s usual hockey crowds, most people there Monday night were women. Many came with girlfriends and
some with their moms.“Oprah’s changed a lot of
people’s lives,” said 77-year old fan Jeanine Bussiere, who went to the event with her daughter.
She said she used to watch Winfrey’s daytime talk show reli-giously before it went off the air in 2011.
Winfrey gained world-wide fame for her nationally syndicated show, which lasted 25 years. She said it was the best job in the world and the show’s legions of fans were like family.
“I have a bunch of children in Edmonton that I have raised,” she told the crowd. “Now you have children and I’m raising your chil-dren.”
Oprah will be speaking in Calgary on Tuesday night and Vancouver on Thursday.
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T H E A S S O C I A T E D P R E S SNEW YORK - The woman whose
photo was used as the “face” of the Twitter account of Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o’s supposed girlfriend says the man allegedly behind the hoax confessed and apologized to her.
Diane O’Meara told NBC’s “Today” show Tuesday that Ronaiah Tuiasosopo used pictures of her without her knowledge in creating a fake woman called Lennay Kekua. Te’o asserts he was tricked into an online romance with Kekua and, until last week, did not understand he was being hoaxed.
O’Meara went to high school in California with Tuiasosopo, but she says they’re not close. He called to apologize Jan. 16, the
day Deadspin.com broke the hoax story, she said.
“I don’t think there’s anything he could say to me that would fix this,” said O’Meara, a 23-year-old marketing executive in Los Angeles.
O’Meara said she had never had any contact with Te’o, and that for five years, Tuiasosopo “has lit-erally been stalking my Facebook and stealing my photos.”
Tuiasosopo has not spoken publicly since the news broke. His family has said they may speak out this week.
Te’o did an off camera inter-view with ESPN last week and is scheduled to appear on appear with his parents on Katie Couric’s syndicated talk show Thursday night.
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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SVANCOUVER - For the past
year, chef Alex Chen has spent up to 12 hours a day, six days a week, preparing to step into a cubicle akin to a boxing ring outfitted as a high-end kitchen as he aims to be crowned the top chef in the world.
The cubicle kitchen built for Chen in a Vancouver restaurant by a former fellow chef is the same size as the 10-square-metre space he’ll be stationed in at the prestigious Bocuse d’Or cooking competition in Lyon, France, on Jan. 29 - the first day of the two-day event involving chefs from 24 coun-tries.
Chen and his 10-mem-ber crew have been practis-ing feverishly for their chance at glory as tunes from hip-hop bands Public Enemy and Wu-Tang Clan blare in the kitchen where they’re reduced to nearly yelling at each other to get attention.
It’s all good mental prep for when they face up to 4,000 revved-up foodies cheering for their home country at an exhib-ition centre where the fans will don red hockey jerseys sporting Chen’s name.
“I describe it like a World Cup soccer match,” said Vincent Parkinson, a chef and spokesman for Calgary-based Bocuse d’Or Canada. “People get their faces painted, there are noise makers, air horns, the Swiss have cowbells, the
French have trumpets, the Danish have drummers. You can’t have a conversation with the person next to you sitting in the bleachers, that’s how loud it is.”
The chefs will have 5 1/2 hours to cook two dishes - European turbot and French blue lobster as well as Irish beef tenderloin, with the option to include chuck steak, ox cheek and oxtail. They’ll also have to come up with three garnishes, including one that represents their home country.
Twelve chefs will be com-peting in side-by-side kitchens on each day, and Chen and his crew will showcase their skills between the Finland and Belgium teams, with Guatemala, Brazil and Morocco - a newcomer this year - also competing the same day.
The United States, Sri Lanka and Japan will be among the contenders the next day, when the winner will be announced.
Getting ready for the cham-pionship has consumed Chen’s life since he beat five chefs in a national contest in Toronto in April 2010, putting him on a track to fulfil his dream of representing Canada at the Bocuse d’Or, which has been held every two years since 1987 and was named after Lyonnais chef Paul Bocuse.
“It’s all about conditioning yourself, not only your body, where you can withstand all the pressure and competition,
but also your mind,” Chen said of the thousands of hours he has spent preparing for the big day. “Throughout this journey you’ll go through a lot of ups and downs. It’s an emotional roller coaster.”
During 2012, fundraisers held by Moxie’s Grill and Bar - Chen’s sponsor - in Calgary, Toronto and Vancouver helped Chen secure money for the equipment and supplies he’ll be taking to France, including the $15,000 platter designed for him and on which his fish creation will be presented.
Chen, 35, was lured back to Canada in December 2011 from Los Angeles, where he worked as executive chef at the high-profile Beverly Hills Hote.
Taking the plunge to com-pete in the intense Bocuse d’Or meant uprooting his family when the youngest of his two children was just two months old.
“Most people don’t under-stand why I would give up on a pretty good job. I looked at my wife and said, ‘You know I’ve always wanted to do the Bocuse d’Or.”’
With a push from his wife, Liz Ow, to go for the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and coach-ing from Canadian chef Robert Sulatycky, whose fourth-place finish in the Lyon competi-tion in 1999 still hasn’t been surpassed by any other chef in North America, Chen was ready for the challenge.
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B Y T I M E S S T A F FRossland freeskiers owned the
podium on Saturday following the North Face Canadian Open Junior Freesking Championships at Red Moutnain Resort.
Rossland’s Sally Steeves won her fourth title, winning the Female 15-18 category for the second year in a row, following two consecutive 13-15 age group titles.
Trailing after her first run, Steeves put together the best run of the day on her second descent on Granite Mountain to give her the gold with a combined score of 57.90, outscoring Camilla Loughlin of Vancouver with 56.43 and Thea Tuzycki from Calgary.
Simon Hillis of Rossland also nabbed
gold in the Male 7-11 category with two excellent runs of 34.43 and 29.57 for a 64.00 total. Sandy Phillips of Kamloops and and Ladd Costain placed second and third respectively.
In the Female 7-11 event, Rossland’s Erin Flood won bronze.
After posting the best time of 30.00 points in her first run Erin couldn’t duplicate it in her second go round, but still came away with a podium finish.
Mackenzie Flood came up just short of repeating her gold medal perform-ance of last year, but would get silver with a 59.00, narrowly beaten out by Nelson’s Haley Cooke who scored 61.56. Hadley Michaels of Mercer Island took bronze.
Rossland skier Xander Sterpin laid down the best run of the day on his first go with a score of 34.07, but lost to Trace Cooke whose combined 67.93 narrowly beat Sterpin’s 67.54 in the Male 15-18.
In Male 12-14 Loki Wickman-Rathe of Nelson took first place, while Cooper Bathgate of Whistler came second, and Seth Amundsen of Fernie third.
Freeskiing competition uses a sys-tem where judges base their score on creativity in selecting natural terrain features and aggressive lines.
The point system is based on five cat-egories where judges give credit based on line choice, control, fluidity, tech-nique and aggression.
B Y T I M E S S T A F FAfter setting the
BC Intercollegiate Hockey League win-ning streak, the Selkirk College Saints hockey team faltered Friday, before boun-cing back on Sunday.
The Saints absorbed their first loss of the season, a 2-1 defeat at the hands of Trinity Western, but rebounded smartly on Sunday en route to a 5-3 victory over Eastern Washington University.
With just 28 seconds remaining in the middle frame, league-leading scorer Jordan Wood tipped in a Lucas Hildebrand point shot to make it 4-2, on what would prove to be the win-ner for the Saints.
Wood and Jake Flynn traded third period goals and net-minder Stephen Wolff came up big with a breakaway save off
EWU forward Ryan Pajimola to help pre-serve the two-goal lead.
Selkirk fell behind 1-0 in the first, but in the second period Cody Fidgett scored on an early man-advantage and min-utes later, Beau Taylor pounced on a rebound to give the visitors their first lead of the night.
Pajimola tied the game briefly on another Eagles power-play, but Scott Swiston took a long lead pass from Ben Starbuck and fired a snap shot home from the top of the circle to re-take the lead, and Wood capped it with his tip in.
“We started slow-ly today, which has become a running theme over the last number of games,” says Saints head coach Jeff Dubois.
See SAINTS, Page 10
B Y J I M B A I L E YTimes Sports Editor
Greater Trail arenas will be hives of activity as the Greater Trail Minor Hockey Association’s Pee Wee Tier 2 and 3 teams get set to host their tournament on the weekend.
Seven teams take to the ice for the Tier 2 event with Greater Trail welcoming Nelson, Spokane, Kelowna, Westside, Penticton and Port Moody to this year’s event. Games will take place mainly at the Cominco Arena in Trail, however three games are also scheduled for the Rossland Arena.
The Tier 2 Pee Wees play in the Okanagan Mainline Amateur Hockey Association where they faced off against Kelowna, Penticton, and Westside this season. The Tier 2 Smokies placed third in the tightly-contested division just four points back of Westside and two behind Kelowna.
“I think they can compete with any team,” said GTMHA president Mark Ballarin, whose son plays on the team. “They have a good chance going to the semifinals and finals, as long as they decide to play.”
GTMHA Tier 2 Pee Wees open the tourna-ment at 12:45 p.m. Friday against Nelson, and again at 7:30 p.m. versus Port Moody.
The Tier 3 Pee Wee division holds all its games at the Beaver Valley Arena with teams from Grand Forks, Spokane, Creston, Kelowna, and Cranbrook joining the fray in Fruitvale.
The Pee Wee Tier 3 Smoke Eaters kick off the weekend Friday at 3 p.m. against Grand Forks. Each team will play three games in the round robin with the seeded teams vying for top spot in the playoffs on Sunday.
See schedule on Page 10.
B Y T I M E S S T A F FOK Tire is pumped as it
makes a run for the top spot in Trail Commercial Hockey League.
The Tire won a pair of games last week to gain some traction on league-leading Re/Max, as the realtors came out flat, falling 5-2 to Allstar Maintenance Sunday.
After an 8-5 victory over Allstar Thursday, the Tire kept rolling as it defeated Firebird 4-3 Sunday to climb within three points of Re/Max, with an all-important two games in hand.
Troy Palmer took a sweet pass from Mike Fudge and popped what proved to be the winner with 4:06 to go in the
third period. The goal made the score 4-2, but Firebird’s normally taciturn defence-man Mike Boisvert blasted one by Tire goalie Rocky Dickson with just 2:27 to play to cut the lead to one.
Despite a too-many-men penalty to the Tire with just 1:17 to play, Dickson shut the door and Firebird was unable to obtain the equalizer.
Fudge started the scoring when he converted a set up from Jeff Sidey and Palmer at 6:41 of the first.
The electrifying Shaun Venturini then gave the Tire a 2-0 lead, before Eric Hill and Travis Drake replied early in the second to tie it at 2-2. Sidey would give the Tire a
3-2 lead on a nice feed from Palmer who would ice it in the third.
Palmer and Sidy each col-lected a goal and two assists, while Boisvert and Hill counted three points a piece for Firebird.
In the Allstar victory over Re/Max, Ryan Jenner scored the winning goal at 11:21 of the second period, taking a pass from Mark Hutchinson and beating Chris McIsaac in the Re/Max goal.
Allstar jumped out to a 2-0 lead on goals from Jim Maniago and Jenner, before Re/Max got on the board when a Graham Proulx blast narrowed the lead to one. But Jenner’s next goal iced it
for the Allstars and a pair of goals from Hutchinson made the score 5-1 before the end of the second frame. A late third-period goal by Dallas Stanton completed the scor-ing.
In other TCHL action Thursday the Arlington crawled out of the cellar with a 3-0 shutout of Firebird. Jeremy Robinson had a goal and two assists, while Eric Volpatti was brilliant between the pipes, stymieing the Firebird time and again for the shutout.
TCHL continues Thursday with Firebird facing Re/Max at 7:15 p.m. and Arlington taking on the Tire at 8:30 p.m.
GREATER TRAIL MINOR HOCKEY
Pee Wees host top teams
GUY BERTRAND PHOTO
Freeskiers from around the Kootenays and western Canada descended on Granite Mountain at Red Saturday for the Canadian Open Junior Freeskiing championships. Rossland skiers performed brilliantly placing in the top three in almost every category.
Rossland freeskiers on fire at Red
BCIHL
Saints rebound
Tire’s pumped, realtors sluggishTRAIL COMMERCIAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
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Tournament SchedulePee Wee Tier 2
All games at Cominco Arena unless other-wise posted
Friday Games 1. 12:45 Trail vs Nelson 2. 3 p.m. Spokane vs Kelowna3. 5:15 Westside vs Penticton4. 7:30 Pt Moody vs Trail
Saturday Games5 8 a.m. Nelson vs Penticton6. 8 a.m. Westside vs Pt Moody - at Rossland 7. 10:15 a.m. Trail vs Spokane 8 12:30 p.m. Kelowna vs Westside 9. 2:45 p.m. Penticton vs Port Moody 10. 2:45 p.m. Spokane vs Nelson at Rossland 11 5 p.m. Kelowna vs Trail
Sunday Games12 7:15 a.m. 6th vs 7th at Rossland
Arena 13 7:30 a.m. 2nd vs 3rd
14 9:45 a.m. 4th vs 5th15 noon Final 1st vs Winner of 13
Pee Wee Tier 3 ScheduleAll games at the Beaver Valley Arena
Friday Games1. 3 p.m. Trail vs Grand Forks 2. 5:15 p.m. Spokane vs Creston3. 7;30 p.m. Kelowna vs Cranbrook
Saturday Games4. 8:15 a.m. Creston vs Trail5. 10:30 a.m. Cranbrook vs Spokane6. 12:45 p.m. Grand Forks vs Kelowna7. 3 p.m. Trail vs Cranbrook8. 5:15 p.m. Kelowna vs Creston9. 7:30 p.m. Spokane vs Grand Forks
Sunday Games10. 8 a.m. 1st vs 4th11. 10:15 a.m. 2nd vs 3rd12. 12:30 p.m. 5th vs 6th13. 2:45 p.m. Final Winner of 10 vs Winner of 11
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FROM PAGE 9 “But we also put in one of our best per-iods in the second to take control of the game, and we limited Eastern’s chances for the most part in the third.
“It was good to get back on a win-ning note right away, especially with a weekend off coming up. I think the sense of urgency kicked in after the first that we didn’t want to lose back-to-back games going into a break and from there they guys responded the right way.”
Selkirk is now off until Feb. 1 when the team travels to Kamloops to face Thompson Rivers University.
T H E A S S O C I A T E D P R E S SDETROIT - Tomas
Holmstrom has made
his retirement official after 15 seasons with the Detroit Red Wings.
H o l m s t r o m ’ s a n n o u n c e m e n t Tuesday was no sur-prise, but the Red Wings held a news conference before their home opener to give the Swedish winger a chance to reflect on a career that included four Stanley Cups and over 1,000 regular-season games.
H o l m s t r o m , who turns 40 on Wednesday, says he had the greatest job in the world. Last sea-son, Holmstrom had 11 goals and 13 assists in 74 games - the 24 points were his low-est total since 1997-98, his second season.
The gritty forward was known for his hard-nosed play in front of the net.
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The Greater Trail Minor Hockey Tier 2 and 3 Pee Wees host their annual tournament this weekend welcoming 13 teams from across western Canada and Washington state.
B y D O n B O D g E RCowichan News Leader
The Cowichan Valley Capitals will have a new owner at season’s end.
Caps’ majority owner Stew Gordon revealed Tuesday he reached an agreement Monday afternoon to sell the team. The buyer is “not local,’’ he said.
The rumour mill had been working overtime around Cowichan Arena about the status of the B.C. Hockey League club.
“It was put out there a little bit and a person approached me right away,’’ said Gordon.
“It’s not 100 per cent signed up. It’s all hand shake and that kind of stuff.’’
The buyer is not being iden-
tified at this time.Gordon earlier quashed one
rumour about former National Hockey League player Cliff Ronning buying the team, call-ing it “untrue.’’
Gordon first bought shares in the Caps three years ago. He became the majority owner of the club in March of 2011.
Gordon cited time con-straints as one of the main reasons he decided to sell the team, with his time stretched between the Gordon ‘N’ Gordon Interiors business he runs in Victoria and family matters.
He was also the longtime owner of the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League’s Kerry Park Islanders before selling the club in December of 2012
to Mark and Denika Osmond, owners of the Black Swan Pub in Shawnigan Lake.
“We did great with the Islanders,’’ said Gordon. “Once again, I didn’t pay enough attention to it.’’
The Caps are struggling on the ice this season with the worst record in the BCHL and Gordon hopes someone else can invest more time in the team.
“It’s time to move on,’’ he said.
BCHL notes: Trail resident and former Trail Smoke Eater coach Jim Ingram led the Capitals into the playoffs in his first year as head coach in 2011-12, where they lost in seven games in the first round.
BCHL
Deal reached in Cowichan Capitals sale
Saints take a break
T H E C A n A D I A n P R E S SVANCOUVER - The Vancouver
Canucks goaltending controversy has taken another turn.
Cory Schneider has been given the starting nod for Vancouver’s home game against Calgary today after a forgettable performance in the Canucks’ season opener.
Schneider was given the hook after letting in five goals on just 14 shots in a 7-3 loss against Anaheim on Saturday. Roberto Luongo stepped in to finish the Anaheim game, then stopped 30 shots in a 3-2 shootout loss to Edmonton on Sunday.
Despite Luongo’s solid goal-tending, Schneider is being given another chance to cement himself as the starting goalie and live up to the three-year, US$12 million contract he was rewarded with last summer.
When asked what he hoped to achieve against the Flames, Schneider’s wishes were simple.
“Just a bounce back game,”
he said after Tuesday’s practice at Rogers Arena. “A much better per-formance and hopefully a win for our team because we need to get one here.
“It wasn’t not the way I wanted to start but hopefully it gets better. I don’t think it can get much worse, so I’ll just hit the reset button and almost start the season over again.”
Meanwhile, a story in the Vancouver Sun quoted Canucks general manager Mike Gillis as say-ing there is a “potential deal in place with one team” for Luongo’s services.
Luongo said Thursday that Gillis has not yet approached him about a possible trade.
“It’s just the status quo from my side,” he said. “Like I’ve said, until Mike comes to me, I’ve got nothing to report.”
Head coach Alain Vigneault tried to shrug off the latest speculation and said - not for the first time - that he was fortunate to have two high-quality goalies to choose from.
Another Wing flies away
nHL
Schneider gets start
Leisure
Dear Annie: I’ve been studying abroad in Rome for the past three months. I head back to America in a few weeks. I can hon-estly say I haven’t missed being home. I’ve absolutely loved my stay in Europe. I feel safe and happy.
The one thing I’m dreading is reverse cul-ture shock. I’m afraid I’ll resent my small-town college or that I’ll become depressed when I get home. All of my friends will have left for their own study-abroad adventures. No one will be able to speak the Italian I’ve learned and help me maintain my fluency. The foods and pastimes that I’ve become fond of are nonexistent in America.
My European friends say I should just enjoy the little time I have left abroad and keep positive thoughts when I’m back in America, but I don’t expect my reimmersion process to be that easy. How can I learn to stop liv-
ing like a dead man walking and not fall into a pit of despair once I board the plane “home”? -- Pining for Rome
Dear Rome: Please recognize how fortun-ate you are to have had the opportun-ity to spend time in Europe and the fact that you’ve enjoyed it so much. You will miss your Italian friends and Italian pasta, but try not to over-roman-ticize the experience. Accept it for the short-term fun it was, and know that you can cer-tainly return whenever you can afford to do so. How well you adjust depends entirely on your attitude. Be deter-mined to make it as
positive as possible. Dear Annie: I have a
problem with my par-ents’ decorating habits. They insist on putting up artwork that I did when I was a child. The dining room, living room and bedrooms all have pictures that I drew or painted from the time I was 6 until I was 17. I have repeat-edly asked that they remove them, but they say they can’t bear to take them down. Mind you, they have no such pictures from my sis-ter’s childhood. In fact, they don’t even display pictures their grand-children have drawn.
I know it’s their house, but I’m a 35-year-old man, and I don’t want people to see this stuff and think I still do such childish collages. It also feels creepy. It’s like my par-ents aren’t allowing me to grow up.
My father insists on telling people I am an artist. At one time, I wanted to be, but now I am a high school teacher and proud of
it. How can people take me seriously after talking to my parents? My father says being an artist is special and interesting, and he becomes unhappy if I ask him to describe me differently.
I’ve gotten so fed up that I dread visiting their home, especially when they have guests. What do I do? -- Not an Artist
Dear Artist: So your parents think being an artist is ever so much more glamorous than other professions, and they prefer to fantasize about your job. Your attempts to force them to change will only make all of you miser-able. Who cares what their friends think? As long as you conduct yourself appropriately and correct any mis-impressions, no one will mistake you for a 9-year-old with finger-paints. We know it’s annoying, but please try to ignore this.
Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Dreading Christmas,”
whose husband’s two siblings take turns hosting Christmas Eve dinners in their homes, but they won’t let her reciprocate because she doesn’t want to have it in her house.
I have two sis-ters who love hosting Thanksgiving dinner
and alternate each year. They have lovely china and beautiful homes. I have always lived in a small house, but we have a beautiful yard and garden. We reciprocate by hosting a barbecue on Labor Day weekend.
Maybe “Dreading
Christmas” could do something like this. -- Oregon
Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers col-umn. Please email your questions to [email protected].
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For Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) You’ll enjoy meeting unusu-al people today. In fact, all group situations, whether small classes or large confer-ences, will be stimulating and might inspire you to set new goals. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Parents, bosses or someone in authority will surprise you today by saying or doing some-thing unusual. No doubt this will be entertaining, but it also might make you nervous. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Unexpected travel opportu-nities might fall in your lap today. However, travel plans can change or be delayed. Others will explore opportuni-ties in publishing and higher education. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) You might be excited to get the support from others that you least expected. Someone could give you a gift or do you
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construct something that is valuable. Your rewards soon will follow. Birthdate of: Neil Diamond, singer/songwriter; Mischa Barton, actress; John Belushi, comic/film actor. (c) 2013 King Features Syndicate, Inc.
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KASLO, BRIGHT 3BDR 1.5 BATH: F/s, w/d hookups, close to hospital/school, covered deck, internet/cable included, $850/mo. LARGE 1 BDR UPPER DUPLEX, HERITAGE APARTMENT, NELSON: Near downtown, ns, w/d, hardwood oors, clawfoot tub, covered deck, full sunlight, $900/mo.+utilities, available now, references required.LOVELY NELSON APARTMENTS AVAILABLE! Some rent controlled, including water & hydro, references required. NELSON, 3BDR, 2BATH HOME: Airy, close to all amenities, absolutely ns/np, reference required, $1250/mo. +utilities.ROBSON 3BDR HOUSE: Very clean, big yard, near school, church, bus stop, f/s, ns/np, refer-ences, $1150/mo. 250-365-2920(msg).ROSEMONT BACHELOR SUITE: Available Feb. 1, ns/np, $650/mo., includes utilities, cable & internet. SLOCAN MOTEL APARTMENTS, $500-$750, fully-furnished, large kitchen units, manager onsite. SMALL 2 BDR HOME, DOWNTOWN CASTLE-GAR: Ns/np, w/d, f/s, $825/mo. +utilities, SOUTH CASTLEGAR: Furnished 1bdr +ofce home, available immediately, $800/mo. +utilities. THRUMS: 3 bdr apartment, $850/mo. +utilities.
Homes For RentUPPER KASLO, COZY 1 BDR CABIN: Furnished, beautiful view, ns/np, responsible single adult, reference.S. CASTLEGAR 2BDR BASEMENT SUITE: Newly renovated, ns, pets on approval, laundry, references, $725/mo. utilities +internet included. 1BDR BASEMENT SUITE, OOTISCHENIA: Quiet single, No pets or smoking, w/d, $600/mo. including utilities, D.D.-$300. 1 BDR APT: Balfour, fully-furnished/equipped, lake & mtn view, sun deck, ns/np, $695/mo. inclusive. 1 BDR SUITE, DOWNTOWN CASTLEGAR: Ns/np, references required, $625/mo. utilities included. 1BDR APARTMENT, DOWNTOWN CASTLEGAR: Heat/hydro included, ns, references, $675/mo. 1BDR BASEMENT SUITE, CASTLEGAR: Private entrance, backyard, available Feb. 1, shared laundry, ns/np, references. 2 BDR BASEMENT SUITE: Very large & clean, gorgeous lake view, 15 mins from Castlegar, ns/np, $750/mo. includes electric. Travis, 2 BDR MOBILE HOME, 6-MILE, NELSON: Available immediately, ns/np, references, $950/mo., includes utilities. 2-3 BDR DUPLEX, SALMO: Available immediately, np, f/s, w/d hookups, $700/mo. +utilities.
2BDR APARTMENT, CASTLEGAR: Bright, spacious, f/s, laundry, close to amenities, nsnp, $725/mo. +utilities. 2BDR HOUSE ON 5 ACRES: 5 minutes south of Kaslo. Looking for responsible, cleatenant(s), $650/mo. +utilities. 250-354-16983 BDR HOUSE, NELSON: Newly refurbisheperfect for family, close to schools, $1500/mo. Contact Colleen or Nick, 250-229-2333 or 250-229-4771.3 BDR MAIN FLOOR HOUSE, CASTLEGARNice, updated, 5 appliances, double garage$950/mo. +utilities. 250-365-5896.3BDR HOUSE, NEWLY RENOVATED: Withlarge yard, Slocan City, available Jan. 1, $90mo. +utilities. 250-365-7574.3BDR MOBILE: In Sunny Bridgeview CrescOotischenia, close to all amenities/college, $750/mo. +utilities. 250-365-3733.3BDR, 2BATH, ROSSLAND: Spacious Heritage home, hardwood oors, large privayard, available Feb. 1. 250-368-1066.AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY: Newly renovatefully furnished 1 bdr, 1 bath basement suite,centrally located in Castlegar, close to storeshops and bus routes, 1 car parking availabcable and internet included, ns/np, $750/moincluding utilities. 250-365-6772.BALFOUR WATERFRONT: 1 bdr apartmentall utilities included, laundry, Jan. 1, semi-furnished $625/mo. 604-315-5632/604926-7362 [email protected], SUNNY, QUIET BACHELOR SUITE: In family home, private entrance, newly renovated, ns/np, $595 utilities includ250-365-1465.CASTLEGAR 1BDR PLUS DEN: Available immediately, on bus route, w/d, garage, separate entrance, ns/np, $700/mo., utilitiesincluded. 250-229-5703.COZY TRAILER: In quiet nature setting, 15 minutes west of Nelson, in friendly commun$390/mo. includes heat & electric. Sorry, nodogs. 250-359-8280.DOWNTOWN CASTLEGAR: Renovated 3bapartment, laundry, ns/np, quiet couple/famiavailable immediately, $1150/mo., utilities included. Rent negotiable. 250-365-4914 (leave msg).FRUITVALE, 2BDR: Remodeled, w/d, $595/mo. 250-367-9676.GLADE 2BDR HOUSE PLUS WORKSHOPNewly renovated, on riverfront acreage, $1150/mo. +utilities. 778-962-0044, [email protected] 1 BDR SUITE: 5 minutes from Nels$1000/mo. utilities included (+extras). 250-84767. Available Feb.1.LARGE 4BDR HOUSE ON ACREAGE, SLOCAN VALLEY: Bright, hardwood oors, woodstove, large kitchen, garden, private/qu$990/mo. 250-355-0035.LOWER KASLO: Nice, clean 1bdr suite in heritage four-plex, close to beach, 2 decks,
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WANT TO WORK OUTDOORS?Established utilities services company is seeking part time and full time METER READERS for Cranbrook, Sparwood, Vernon, Cache Creek, Trail, Kamloops, Grand Forks, Salmon Arm, Osoyoos, Penticton, Merrit, Nelson, Revelstoke and surrounding areas. E perience reading meters is considered an asset ust have a reliable vehicle ust be customer oriented ith good communications skills ust be capable of orking independently in various
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Required for an established, medium size logging andconstruction equipmentdealership located in South Eastern B.C.Qualifi ed applicants should have “hands-on” experience in the general repairs andmaintenance of utility,construction and logging equipment.Applicants can work full-time or part-time (as their schedule permits).Most work will be inside shop - diagnosing and repairingcomponents...- Engines- Transmissions- Planetary Final Drives- Hydraulic Pumps & Valves- Winches, etc.Wages to be based onexperience and productknowledge.For more information - Call us TOLL FREE: 1-800-562-5303
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DRIVERS WANTED:Terrifi c career Opportunity with outstanding growth potential to learn how to locate rail defects. No Rail Experience Needed!! Skills Needed - Ability to travel 3 months at a time, Valid License w/ air brake endorsement.
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#103, 1199 Bay Ave Trail
An Alberta Construction Com-pany is hiring Dozer and Exca-vator Operators. Preference will be given to operators that are experienced in oilfi eld road and lease construction. Lodg-ing and meals provided. The work is in the vicinity of Edson, Alberta. Alcohol & Drug testing required. Call Contour Con-struction at 780-723-5051.COSMETICIAN, part-time.If you love make upIf you love peopleIf you love new challengesThis is the job for you.Drop off your resume to:Box 559, C/O Trail Times,1163 Cedar Ave.,Trail, BCV1R 4B8 by Feb.1st, 2013
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Help WantedEXPERIENCED SERVER. Must be able to work week-ends. FoodSafe an asset. Ac-cepting resumes @ Glenwood Cafe daily until 12noon.Full-Time Class 1 driver with Super B experience hauling within all of BC. Fax resume & current abstract to 250-364-5687 or call 250-231-7328.JANITOR WANTED. Waneta Plaza Shopping centre is hir-ing a part time casual janitor. Call for information at 250-368-5202 and bring resume complete with employment ref-erences to the Administration Offi ce on the 2nd fl oor of the shopping centre until January 28, 2013.
Kootenay Society for Community Living
in Castlegar is seeking a Temporary Full-Time Financial Coordinator.
For more information on this posting, please visit our
website at; http://www.
ksclcastlegar.net/employment/Located under Job Posting:
TomorrowCirculation Department250-364-1413 Ext. 206For more Information
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Financial ServicesGET BACK ON TRACK! Bad credit? Bills? Unemployed? Need Money? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Acceptance Corp. Member BBB. 1-877-987-1420.
Misc. WantedPrivate Coin Collector Buying Collections, Accumulations, Olympic Gold & Silver Coins + Chad: 250-863-3082 in Town
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Apt/Condo for RentApartment for Rent in Trail. Available immediately. Reno’d, character suite. 2 bdrm + small offi ce, n/s close to downtown $685 includes heat, coin op. laundry. Also available Feb lst similar reno’d 1 bdrm @ $515250-226-6886Bella Vista, Shavers Bench Townhomes. N/S, N/P. 2-3 bdrms. Phone 250.364.1822EDGEWATER APTS. in Glen-merry, 3bd. heat incl. F/S. $900./mo. 250-368-5908
Happy 16th Birthday, Jessica Happy 80th Birthday Mom, the rst born in Trail in 1931 Love from Al, Kim, Chelsea, Craig, Alyssa, Bob, Sandra, Tyler & RyanThe New Year’s Baby in the early sixties is now turning the Big 50! Happy Birthday Bob! Love from all the family.Happy 50th Carol Secco Join us for a surprise party No gifts please!Please Join us in Celebrating Rosemarie (Mosie) Mandoli’s 80th Birthday! Family & friends are invited. Best wishes only.Lordy Lordy, the Newe nally turns forty! A very special 75th Birthday to Jo Bailey Love from family and friendsHappy Birthday Irene Smyth Mom, Grandma, GG. Wishing you much joy and happiness on your 80th birthday Love from our hearts Your FamilyIt’s Hallowe’en and her 50th Birthday! Come & wish Janet LaRocque at Bank of Montreal a Spooktacular 50th Birthday, Fredi, October 29, 2010 Happy 60th Birthday Henry Ralph Love All Your FamilyHappy 40th Birthday Jamie! August 15, 1970 Love, your family
Happy 60th Birthday Bruce!! Vancouver Suits You. We Miss “You”. The Girls From Your Ofce Cheryl, Louanne, Louisa, Wendy & LindaHappy 50th Birthday Didi! Mom, Dad, Dave, Malcom and all the FamilySing a song of Birthdays full of fun and cheer and may you keep on having them for many a happy year. Happy 80th Alice Wilson Love, your familyHappy 13th Birthday Jaxy Chan Luv from the 2nd Avenue Clan“Look who’s 1 year old!” Proud sister Gracie Bobbitt would like to introduce her baby sister, osemarie Jolie Belle Bobbitt Born August 14, 2009 in Cal-gary, AB. Proud parents are Victor and Helen Bobbitt of Trail and proud grandparents are Ben and Sandy Bobbitt of Rossland and the late beloved Tom and Rosemarie Peirson, formerly of Rossland. It only took a year to let you all know! Happy 1st birthday Rosie!! We love you!” this is a birthday wish to you!
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Wayne DeWitt ext 25Mario Berno ext 27Dawn Rosin ext 24
WANT TO WORK OUTDOORS?Established utilities services company is seeking part time and full time METER READERS for Cranbrook, Sparwood, Vernon, Cache Creek, Trail, Kamloops, Grand Forks, Salmon Arm, Osoyoos, Penticton, Merrit, Nelson, Revelstoke and surrounding areas. E perience reading meters is considered an asset ust have a reliable vehicle ust be customer oriented ith good communications skills ust be capable of orking independently in various
eather conditions hysically demanding ob ompany provided uniforms and training aid by piece rate paid per meter that you read f hired clean rivers bstract clean riminal
ackground heck and proof of business class vehicle insurance required Earning potential of appro imately per hour
Email resume to [email protected] noting location of choice in the sub ect line
or fa to 877-864-2831
Employment
Career Opportunities
ATTENTION Work from home Turn spare time into income Free training/fl exible hours Computer required. www.freedomnan.com
Heavy Duty Mechanic
Required for an established, medium size logging andconstruction equipmentdealership located in South Eastern B.C.Qualifi ed applicants should have “hands-on” experience in the general repairs andmaintenance of utility,construction and logging equipment.Applicants can work full-time or part-time (as their schedule permits).Most work will be inside shop - diagnosing and repairingcomponents...- Engines- Transmissions- Planetary Final Drives- Hydraulic Pumps & Valves- Winches, etc.Wages to be based onexperience and productknowledge.For more information - Call us TOLL FREE: 1-800-562-5303
Drivers/Courier/Trucking
CLASS 1 Driver required for fl atdeck haul from Trail to Ta-coma WA. ABOVE Average wage offered, home every weekend. Fax 250-367-2206 or call 250-364-8354
DRIVERS WANTED:Terrifi c career Opportunity with outstanding growth potential to learn how to locate rail defects. No Rail Experience Needed!! Skills Needed - Ability to travel 3 months at a time, Valid License w/ air brake endorsement.
under careers, keyword Driver. DO NOT FILL IN CITY OR STATE
Help Wanted
Now Hiring
Full Time/Part Time
Drivers Starting Now
Must provide own reliable vehicle and
cell phone.Also be willing to do
light cleaning and customer service.
Hourly wage plus gas allowance & gratuities.Apply with resume at
Panago Pizza (not between 4pm - 7pm)
#103, 1199 Bay Ave Trail
An Alberta Construction Com-pany is hiring Dozer and Exca-vator Operators. Preference will be given to operators that are experienced in oilfi eld road and lease construction. Lodg-ing and meals provided. The work is in the vicinity of Edson, Alberta. Alcohol & Drug testing required. Call Contour Con-struction at 780-723-5051.COSMETICIAN, part-time.If you love make upIf you love peopleIf you love new challengesThis is the job for you.Drop off your resume to:Box 559, C/O Trail Times,1163 Cedar Ave.,Trail, BCV1R 4B8 by Feb.1st, 2013
Employment
Help WantedEXPERIENCED SERVER. Must be able to work week-ends. FoodSafe an asset. Ac-cepting resumes @ Glenwood Cafe daily until 12noon.Full-Time Class 1 driver with Super B experience hauling within all of BC. Fax resume & current abstract to 250-364-5687 or call 250-231-7328.JANITOR WANTED. Waneta Plaza Shopping centre is hir-ing a part time casual janitor. Call for information at 250-368-5202 and bring resume complete with employment ref-erences to the Administration Offi ce on the 2nd fl oor of the shopping centre until January 28, 2013.
Kootenay Society for Community Living
in Castlegar is seeking a Temporary Full-Time Financial Coordinator.
For more information on this posting, please visit our
website at; http://www.
ksclcastlegar.net/employment/Located under Job Posting:
TomorrowCirculation Department250-364-1413 Ext. 206For more Information
Services
Financial ServicesGET BACK ON TRACK! Bad credit? Bills? Unemployed? Need Money? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Acceptance Corp. Member BBB. 1-877-987-1420.
Misc. WantedPrivate Coin Collector Buying Collections, Accumulations, Olympic Gold & Silver Coins + Chad: 250-863-3082 in Town
Rentals
Apt/Condo for RentApartment for Rent in Trail. Available immediately. Reno’d, character suite. 2 bdrm + small offi ce, n/s close to downtown $685 includes heat, coin op. laundry. Also available Feb lst similar reno’d 1 bdrm @ $515250-226-6886Bella Vista, Shavers Bench Townhomes. N/S, N/P. 2-3 bdrms. Phone 250.364.1822EDGEWATER APTS. in Glen-merry, 3bd. heat incl. F/S. $900./mo. 250-368-5908
Happy 16th Birthday, Jessica Happy 80th Birthday Mom, the rst born in Trail in 1931 Love from Al, Kim, Chelsea, Craig, Alyssa, Bob, Sandra, Tyler & RyanThe New Year’s Baby in the early sixties is now turning the Big 50! Happy Birthday Bob! Love from all the family.Happy 50th Carol Secco Join us for a surprise party No gifts please!Please Join us in Celebrating Rosemarie (Mosie) Mandoli’s 80th Birthday! Family & friends are invited. Best wishes only.Lordy Lordy, the Newe nally turns forty! A very special 75th Birthday to Jo Bailey Love from family and friendsHappy Birthday Irene Smyth Mom, Grandma, GG. Wishing you much joy and happiness on your 80th birthday Love from our hearts Your FamilyIt’s Hallowe’en and her 50th Birthday! Come & wish Janet LaRocque at Bank of Montreal a Spooktacular 50th Birthday, Fredi, October 29, 2010 Happy 60th Birthday Henry Ralph Love All Your FamilyHappy 40th Birthday Jamie! August 15, 1970 Love, your family
Happy 60th Birthday Bruce!! Vancouver Suits You. We Miss “You”. The Girls From Your Ofce Cheryl, Louanne, Louisa, Wendy & LindaHappy 50th Birthday Didi! Mom, Dad, Dave, Malcom and all the FamilySing a song of Birthdays full of fun and cheer and may you keep on having them for many a happy year. Happy 80th Alice Wilson Love, your familyHappy 13th Birthday Jaxy Chan Luv from the 2nd Avenue Clan“Look who’s 1 year old!” Proud sister Gracie Bobbitt would like to introduce her baby sister, osemarie Jolie Belle Bobbitt Born August 14, 2009 in Cal-gary, AB. Proud parents are Victor and Helen Bobbitt of Trail and proud grandparents are Ben and Sandy Bobbitt of Rossland and the late beloved Tom and Rosemarie Peirson, formerly of Rossland. It only took a year to let you all know! Happy 1st birthday Rosie!! We love you!” this is a birthday wish to you!
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The new chair of the Columbia Basin Trust wears a Jumbo-sized hat — but insists it shouldn’t be a prob-lem.
Greg Deck says his appointment as mayor of Jumbo Glacier Resort, which officially becomes a mountain resort municipality next month, elicited “some groans” when he informed his fellow Trust directors.
“Probably some unparliamentary lan-guage came out,” he said in an interview. “They quite reasonably asked ‘Why are you doing this?’“
Deck answers that question like this: he was mayor of Radium Hot Springs, another municipality focused on tourism, from its incorporation in 1990 until 2008. That experience — as well as the fact his com-munity was on record as a supporter of the proposed Jumbo resort — led the province to approach him.
“[They asked] ‘Would you be willing to put those areas of expertise to work to make sure this is as successful as possible?’ I can’t imagine any-body, proponent or foe, wants to see it done badly. That’s the worst of all possible worlds.”
Deck said it was
hard to say no, but he knew it would chal-lenge his position with the Trust, on whose board he’s served since its inception in 1995. He was vice-chair until this month, when he took over from retiring chair Garry Merkel.
Deck said before the Jumbo appointment became public, he explained the situation to the board, and left the room to let them discuss it. He returned to find he had con-vinced them he could do both.
“It was pretty much unanimous, as I under-stand it. [They said] ‘The things that make you valuable for the province to appoint you to that other job are also the things that make you valuable for us here.’“
Even so, he expects them to watch closely to ensure no damage is done to the Trust — just as he prom-ises to be extra dili-gent about avoiding conflicts. “I’m going to be even more careful about making sure the two are kept separate because of the contro-versy that surrounds this municipality,” he says.
(The creation of the Jumbo municipality in the Purcell Mountains has been criticized because it has no cit-izens and isn’t likely to for some time.)
Deck adds there is no room at the Trust board for people who aren’t regional think-ers anyway, and some Radium residents feel that as mayor he didn’t do enough to get them their slice of the pie, ”but that’s not how we work.”
Deck made his first appearance as Columbia Basin Trust chair before the Regional District of Central Kootenay board last week, where Nelson city council-lor Donna Macdonald raised the issue of his position with Jumbo.
Deck said he had no
problem addressing it, and was relieved that while it wasn’t ignored, neither was it dwelled upon. “We were able to still get our message out about the Trust without people having a hard time listening.”
CONSULTATION IN TRUST’S GENES
Deck also says he’s fine with the idea of a broad consultation on the future of the Trust and its joint ven-ture partner Columbia Power Corporation as suggested by former Nelson-Creston MLA Corky Evans and for-mer Trust chair Josh Smienk.
“This organization, I think, does a greater amount of consulta-tion than almost any-body,” he says. “That’s how we operate. It’s in our DNA.”
Deck says he takes seriously suggestions from the regional dis-tricts and First Nations involved in the Trust’s formation, but hopes any wide consulta-tion isn’t restricted to power investments.
“A long range con-sultative exercise like this takes up an awful lot of people’s time — our time and the time of the partici-pants,” he says. “That
doesn’t mean it’s not important, but we should get the very most out of it.”
Columbia Power president Jane Bird says she wouldn’t object to such a con-sultation either, but would first like to com-plete the corporation’s current process, seek-ing feedback on what project they should tackle once the Waneta expansion wraps up in 2015.
Evans and Smienk called for a symposium to discuss the next stages of the crown corporations’ exist-ence.
Jumbo not an issue, says new CBT chair
GREG NESTEROFF PHOTO
Columbia Basin Trust chair Greg Deck (seen here with vice-chair Laurie Page) is also the incoming mayor of Jumbo Glacier Resort. But he doesn’t think wearing both hats should pose a problem.
B Y L O R N E E C K E R S L E YCreston Valley Advance
Creston town council got a remind-er at its Jan. 15 regu-lar meeting that signing on to a prov-incial carbon neutral commitment comes with a cost.
In response to pressure in recent years for local gov-ernments to reduce carbon emissions, three adjoining regional districts — Central Kootenay, East Kootenay and Kootenay Boundary — along with Columbia Basin Trust and some First Nations, formed their own consulting organization.
The result, Carbon Neutral Kootenays, provides advice on how to reduce carbon footprints and how to mitigate target shortfalls with car-bon credit purchases.
“Creston signed on to the voluntary climate action char-ter several years ago, committing, among other things, to be carbon neutral in its operations by 2012,” CNK’s Trish Dehnel told council.
She outlined steps the town has taken toward achiev-ing that goal, but said that it will be as much as 300 tons of carbon emissions over neutrality when the analysis is finally complete.
“To meet this c o m m i t m e n t , Creston must take responsibility for its remaining emissions by purchasing off-sets,” she said.
The cost will be under $7,500, pos-sibly much less, Dehnel said, and CNK recommends that the credits be purchased from the Darkwoods project, the forest on the southwest side of Kootenay Lake that was recently bought by the Nature Conservancy of Canada.
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REALTOR® now!Call Tonnie (250)-365-9665
1025 Regan Crescent, Trail $259,000
You’ll love the modern design and beautiful renovations of this Sunningdale family home! 3 bdrms, 2 full baths, huge family room, loads of light through large recently replaced windows, newer roof,
spacious fl at fenced yard and much more!! Don’t wait! Call your REALTOR(r)
today before it’s gone!Call Deanne (250) 231-0153
9043 Highway 6, Salmo $185,900
4 bdrm 2 bath family home in Sunny Salmo! On .46 fl at acre, fully fenced,
powered and insulated 12x16 shop, treed & private, large mudroom, master suite, generous open kitchen with breakfast
nook for 2. Only one minute to shopping & all amenities the beautiful Village of
Salmo has to offer. Call Tonnie (250)-365-9665
956 Spokane Street, Trail
$167,888Baby it’s cold outside, but downtown Trail is heating up! 1250 sq. ft. building with established retail on main and spacious
residential suite up. Call for revenue details and be part of the buzz!Call Tonnie (250) 365-9665
NEW PRICE
3353 Dahlia Crescent, Trail $199,000
3 bdrm Glenmerry bungalow. Many upgrades including roofi ng, furnace,
a/c and hot water tank. New 100 amp electrical panel to be installed before
possession. Single car garage in a great location, close to elementary school and on bus routes. Excellent back yard with
good privacy. Call Mary M (250) 231-0264
7740 Crema Drive, Trail $289,900
Immaculate 1/2 duplex with gorgeous kitchen, great fl ooring throughout, gas fi replace and spacious rooms.
Full sized garage with automatic door opener. Includes appliances and window coverings. This is ready to move in and enjoy. It is a pleasure to show, call your
REALTOR® today.Call Mary M (250) 231-0264
NEW LISTING
OPEN HOUSESat Jan 26 10:30am-12:30pm
OPEN HOUSESaturday Jan 26 1pm-3pm
Ron & Darlene Your Local Home Team
Saturday January 26th
from 12-2pm#7 – 2205 Rockland Avenue,
Trail $225,000
2050 Green Road, Fruitvale $469,000
What a package! 5 acres, shop, fenced. Beautiful 4 bdrm, 3 bath home.
Ron 368-1162 Darlene 231-0527
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1773 Noran Street, Trail
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AriA art of hair welcomes
1198 Pine Ave, Trail250.364.2213
Erin Sims is a master colourist and stylist with 10 years of experience. Having graduated from the Aveda Institute, Erin continued her advanced education at the Aveda Academy in Vancouver, where she was hired on as lead colour educator after completing her program. Over the past 10 years, Erin has continued to train under Global Master Colourist Ana Karzis,
travelling internationally to teach and work hairshows, both on and off stage. Erin had recently relocated to Trail from Vancouver. She has extensive experience with all salon services, but specializes in colour services including
highlighting, and colour correction call us and book your color appointment today .
Kendra FlacK photo
The J.L. Crowe Secondary 2013 Grad Class helped clean up the last remnants of the holiday season on Saturday. Students and volunteers scoured Trail for Christmas trees and dropped off over 20 truck loads at the landfill where they will be chipped and reused as compost.
