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Warfield’s Centennial Pool renovations continue as staff from Kelowna’s Lloyd and Gale Concrete Resurfacing cleans off years of old pool paint.
B Y A R T H A R R I S O NTimes Staff
First it was too cold and wet, then it was too hot, now Village of Warfield staff is hoping it’s just right to complete the much delayed renovations of the Centennial Pool.
Work has been progressing slowly on the pool since late April when village works crews began stripping off the old tiles in anticipa-tion of a full resurfacing of the 46-year-old pool.
Vince Morelli, Warfield’s chief adminis-trative officer said that the public had been
patient waiting for the work to be completed and the pool to open but with recent temper-atures, patience might be wearing thin.
“People weren’t too concerned when it was raining constantly,” he told the Trail Times.
“Now that it’s been 110 degrees (43 degrees Celsius) a lot of people are calling to find out when it’ll be open.”
The village is hoping the public can be patient for at least a little while longer as the work is anticipated to take another two weeks to complete.
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Warfield pool still empty as summer heats up
B Y S H E R I R E G N I E RTimes Staff
They came out with a bang but have been quiet ever since.
That is Simone Park’s recollection of the Downtown Opportunities and Action Committee (DOAC), that formed in 2010 to serve as an advis-ory board to Trail council, with respect to projects and initiatives the city was working on.
“I remember they were looking for suggestions on how to improve downtown,” said Park, man-ager of L’Bears Health Foods in downtown Trail.
“And I think I filled out a survey,” she said.“Although I haven’t seen any real changes.”The good news for the downtown businesses
is that the DOAC has been re-energized and will soon become visible within the community.
Within its mandate, the committee maintains a vested interest in revitalizing Trail’s downtown core and membership includes a broad cross-section of the downtown business community.
On June 24, the DOAC was rejigged and appointed two new members as the “Downtown Plan” moves into the execution phase, said Coun. Kevin Jolly.
Essentially the “Downtown Plan” has been mapped out into three phases, he explained.
The Victoria Street Corridor infrastructure work, set to take place over the summer, is the first phase.
“However, the committee’s role in this is some-what limited as it is mostly construction at this point,” said Jolly.
The DOAC role will be advisory in nature, but will make recommendations to council as the second and third phases of the plan draw near, which include downtown street-scape enhance-ments and establishing a civic plaza.
“The committee also functions as a liaison between City Hall and the downtown business community,” said Jolly.
“They will be engaged in planning events, spe-cial projects, and activities that will help down-town become more lively, animated and inviting.”
The committee’s newest members are long established business owners in the downtown core and well respected within its community.
Rob Ironmonger, of Keystone Appraisals, understands the highs and lows of operating a business in downtown Trail and volunteered to join the committee to lend his experiences.
“We have gone through the process of renovat-ing a building in downtown,” he said. “I under-stand the type of financial costs involved with that but also the benefits from having done it.”
Gordon Fischer, of Now Advertising is the second newly appointed member of the commit-tee.
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DOAC appoints new membersDowntown businesses seek more
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Passenger wields hammer on Greyhound bus
B Y A R T H A R R I S O NTimes Staff
Greyhound bus passengers were witnesses to a bizarre incident near Nancy Greene Lake on June 27.
Police received reports of a passenger on the bus acting agitated and appearing like he might be under the influence
of an illegal substance. The suspect, who is still at
large, was said to be pacing the aisle of the bus and going in and out of the washroom.
According to a press release from the Castlegar RCMP, when approached by the bus driver the individual, who reportedly had a hammer and screwdriver in his hands, leapt out of the bus window and was seen running around on the highway.
Castlegar and Trail RCMP
attended the scene and made extensive patrols of the sur-rounding area but were unsuccessful in locating the individual.
Grand Forks RCMP were notified of the incident and road blocks were set up to try to either apprehend or identify the individual but efforts have been unsuccessful thus far.
No injuries were reported and damage inside the bus was said to be minimal.
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FROM PAGE 1The village had planned to
entirely resurface the outdoor pool, which was built in 1967 to celebrate Warfield’s Silver anniversary.
The process involved strip-ping off decades worth of lay-ers of thick, pool paint to get at the bare concrete under-neath, repairing and sealing
the concrete surface and then applying the new layer of the familiar pool paint.
“The product to be applied had to be done when the tem-perature would be constantly above 10 degrees overnight,” said Morelli. “Now it’s been too hot and the crews will be working night shift to com-plete the job.”
He explained that the product being applied is like a plasticized cement, simi-lar to modern stucco prod-ucts applied to the exterior of houses.
“They’re still grinding off all the old paint from the last 40 years,” said Morelli. “Then they’ll apply the product, then paint.”
Weather causing delays in pool repairs
B y S h e r i r e g n i e rTimes Staff
Gardens can be cultivated for the nose, and then the eye takes care of itself.
Such is the case for the Trail in Bloom(TiB) 2013 Garden Contest with categor-ies that feature a little some-thing for everyone to see.
Trail in Bloom 2013 Garden Contest has almost 30 entries for its 13th annual contest but the committee is always on the lookout for new entries. Deadline for applica-tion is today and the contest begins Wednesday when two
judges arrive from Castlegar. “What do the judges look
for?” said Annette Gallatin, TiB chair. “Little scenes that catch your eye and make you say ‘ah,’” she said.
Balance and contrast of colour and foliage are also taken to account as winners are selected in categories that range from rose gardens, bed and borders to water features and garden architecture.
There is no restriction to size or greenery of the garden as rock gardens and patio ter-race entries are also featured.
“There is no limitation to the size of the garden,” said Gallatin.
“There are some wee back-yards that are little pieces of
heaven that just need to come out of hiding.”
Gallatin said that quite often the garden committee must convince the backyard greenthumbs to share their gardens for showcase in the contest.
“Most people feel that their gardens are an extension of themselves and it says who they are on the inside,” said Gallatin. “Once they know that we are here to share and admire, not to criticize, entering the contest is no longer a problem.”
Culmination of all the gar-deners’ hard work will be on July 16 at the Colombo Piazza, 7:30 p.m. when category win-ners will be announced.
Maps for “The Garden Tour” will be available by donation at Ferraro Foods in downtown Trail on the July 25 and 26.
“The garden tour will showcase the winners and the map will include the category of win,” said Gallatin.
“So you can pick and choose what you would like to see, or I suggest going for it and see them all.”
Teck’s Mad Hatter’s Tea, which includes lunch and entertainment in the garden at Teck Guest House will be July 27 from noon until 2:30 p.m., tickets $10.
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Roses were fragrant and blooming on Annette Gallatin’s flower-laden front yard trellis as she pruned back the stems to prepare for the Trail in Bloom Garden Contest, which begins next week.
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FROM PAGE 1Fischer was born and raised in Trail and
served on council in 1980.“Presently we are property owners in down-
town Trail,” he said.“Our interest in seeing the area grow and
thrive is deep rooted.”However, new business owner, Sabine Mann
of Women’s Journey to Fitness on Spokane Street, said she has never heard of the commit-tee or its objectives.
“We have been here for four months but never had any acknowledgement,” said Mann.
“We chose this location because it is on the end of town without much going on,” she said.
“And we want to make things happen here. But I have never been approached to ask about my concerns or to find out how the committee can be beneficial to our business.”
Mann and neighbouring businesses are considering going it alone by hosting a day event to increase foot traffic to the south end of town.
“I’m think we need to give people a reason to come to this end of town,” she said.
“Something fun like Oktoberfest would draw a crowd for sure.”
“I’ll even do the cooking,” laughed Mann, a citizen with German descent.
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Much ado about a tax exemption bylaw earlier this year hasn’t sparked much reno-vation action in the downtown core just yet.
“Since the program’s implementation, renovation projects at two downtown prop-erties have commenced that were eligible for application,” said Michelle McIsaac, corporate administrator.
McIsaac said that one project is well underway and the other is a recent applica-tion so construction has yet to begin.
“Both have benefitted from a 50 per cent reduction in building permit fees and any resultant tax savings will be realized next year.,” she added.
In February, Trail council enacted the Downtown Revitalization Tax Exemption Bylaw to encourage investment in the city’s core.
Properties owners who commit to new construction or substantial renovations are eligible for tax exemptions for terms of up to 10 years. The bylaw “freezes” prop-erty taxes where construction and renova-tions are undertaken at current set values.
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Westcana Electric workers Todd Abbey (foreground) and Les Klein complete wiring on the new pedestrian crossing sign before it is erected Wednesday, a finishing touch on the re-configured corner on Highway 3B in Warfield.
FROM PAGE 1Castlegar RCMP also
reported an incident on July 3, in which a cyclist was struck by a north-bound van on Columbia Avenue in Castlegar.
RCMP say a 34-year-old Castlegar woman was struck while rid-ing along the side of the road when the van appeared to make a right hand turn into a driveway, hitting the cyclist, throwing her into the air over the hood of the van and into some rocks at the road-side.
The cyclist was treat-ed in hospital for non-life threatening injuries and a 66-year-old Trail woman faces pend-ing charges under the Motor Vehicle Act.
The matter is still under investigation.
Castlegar RCMP report a total of 53 calls over the June 28 to July 1 long weekend, the majority involving noise complaints, liquor related disturbances, and traffic incidents.
Trail RCMP have made no reports for the same period of time.
Trail woman facing possible charges after cyclist hit
B y T i m e S S T a f fA 59-year-old Rossland
resident is dead following an off-road motorcycling acci-dent.
Trail & Greater District RCMP and BC Coroners Services attended the scene of a fatal off-road motorcycle collision on Tuesday.
The Trail RCMP received a report on Wednesday morn-
ing of an apparent accidental death of a dirt bike rider.
The deceased failed to show up at a friend’s house the previous evening after a day of dirt biking alone.
Two friends then com-menced a search on Wednesday morning and located the deceased in a heavily treed area several kilometers from Casino,
south of Trail. Scene examination
revealed that the man had veered into a tree while rid-ing his dirt bike and had sustained an instantly fatal injury as result.
Due to the remote loca-tion and difficulty in access-ing it, Rossland Search and Rescue was activated and attended the scene with a
crew. The recovery of the male from the accident site was completed via a heli-copter long-line, brought in from Revelstoke.
With the assistance of the Trail & Greater District RCMP, the Provincial Coroner’s office is conduct-ing the investigation.
The name of the deceased has not be released.
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Grand Forks resident rescued off the coast of Honduras
B y K a r l y uGrand Forks Gazette
Tasha Brown of Grand Forks, who went missing off the coast of Honduras, has been found alive.
Brown, 20, was one of eight who set out Saturday on a boat destined for Roatan, which is considered the largest of Honduras’ Bay Islands.
Natalie Zmurchyk, Brown’s mother, said talked to her daughter, who is fine save for a mild case of dehydration.
“Last Saturday she and a group of locals and two Americans decided to go on a fun trip. They made it (to Roatan) but when they got in their boat to come home, they never came home,” explained Zmurchyk. “They ended up running out of gas and they were adrift for four days out on the ocean.”
Zmurchyk said the group was found by the U.S. Coast Guard.“The Hondurans and the U.S. were a huge part and I just want to
make sure the U.S. is stated in there because without them, they’d still be out there,” she said.
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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SVANCOUVER - The B.C. government has
completed the sale of a prime piece of real estate in Vancouver’s Little Mountain area, with the condition that at least 234 social housing units will be built on the site.
The sale to Holborn Properties is com-prised of cash and non-market housing, valued at about $300 million.
The new housing will replace low-income housing units that were torn down in 2008 to make way for mixed-use, high-density towers.
The demolition forced all but four of 224 families from their homes, but the govern-ment says former residents will get the first option to move back into the new units.
The government says it will invest all of the net proceeds from the sale into social housing throughout B.C., with 50 per cent of the proceeds targeted for Vancouver.
A five-storey building with 53 apart-ments is currently being constructed at Little Mountain, and is expected to be fin-ished in 2015.
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VICTORIA – Costly upgrades to old dams are not enough to pre-pare BC Hydro for a major earthquake, and electricity rates will continue to rise as upgrades and expan-
sion continue.Energy Minister
Bill Bennett acknow-ledged Thursday that further rate increas-es will be needed to finance improvements to the vast hydroelec-tric network and pay debt on works already
completed or under-way.
“My job will be to restrain the increases, but there’s no way we can continue to sell power to customers, whether they’re com-mercial or industrial or residential, at the
rates that we’re selling it right now,” Bennett told reporters at the legislature.
NDP critics focused Thursday on a disas-ter preparedness audit commissioned by BC Hydro last year.
The audit reported in December that BC Hydro is at high risk of a prolonged power outage after a major earthquake because of a lack of coordinated emergency plans.
“BC Hydro is not adequately prepared to react, respond and recover from a wide-spread catastroph-ic event such as an earthquake as there is not a mature or inte-grated preparedness program,” the audit states.
Bennett said BC
Hydro has enough staff to improve dis-aster planning, so that shouldn’t represent a big cost. On that point at least, NDP energy critic John Horgan agreed.
“What the report says is that BC Hydro is not prepared,” Horgan said.
“They don’t have any continuity plan for their business to continue. It’s not about money, it’s about being ready.”
BC Hydro spokes-person Simi Heer said the corporation is responding to the audit by accelerat-ing its province-wide emergency response strategy, improving staff training and par-ticipating in emer-gency exercises.
T H E R E v E l S T o k E T I m E S R E v I E wBC Hydro is giving special
thanks to Downie Timber for helping with the delivery of its new turbine to the Mica Dam last week.
The 137.5-tonne turbine was recently barged down the Kinbasket Reservoir from Valemount, B.C., to Mica, by Downie Timber. The trip com-pleted a 13,000-kilometre journey by the turbine from where it was manufactured in Ravensburg, Germany, to Mica.
The turbine, which has a dia-metre of 6.45 metres and weighs as much as about 1,800 people, began its trip in Ravensburg, where it was taken by road and ferry to the port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
It was then transported for 8,000 kilometres across the Atlantic Ocean to Houston, Texas. From there, the turbine was trucked 4,300 kilometres to Valemount, B.C., where it was placed on Downie’s barge and floated down the Kinbasket.
Along the way, transport
crews used a tractor-trailer that was 33 metres long and had 12 axles and 96 wheels, each with independent suspension and steering to spread around the weight of the turbine. It required two trucks to move – one to pull the trailer and the other to push.
At Valemount, the barge had to be positioned on the dock ramps. The barge hull was filled with water to stabilize it and a
long ramp was built from the road to the barge to minimize the truck grade from land to water. The trucks then drove onto the barge, where it was secured for the trip to Mica Dam. The process was repeated to offload the turbine from the barge.
The turbine is the fifth gen-erator to be installed at Mica. A sixth is expected to be delivered next year.
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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SOTTAWA - Prime
Minister Stephen Harper is getting more blank space on his canvas to draw up a new cabinet, as the number of departing ministers rises.
A major shuffle is expected this month and will include the people Harper wants to be standard-bearers for the policies the party will take into the 2015 election. The prime minister has asked his caucus to let him know their re-election plans as he considers who will get seats at the cabinet table.
Marjory LeBreton, government leader in the Senate, said Thursday she’s giv-ing up her post. Diane Ablonczy, minister of State for foreign affairs, said she won’t run in 2015.
Earlier this week, Ted Menzies, minister of state for finance, said he won’t run again. Last month, Fisheries Minister Keith Ashfield asked to be relieved as he fights cancer.
Public Safety Minister Vic Toews is also expected to retire, but he has not yet made a formal
announcement.All this leaves sig-
nificant space for Harper as he rearran-ges roles and brings in new faces. Calgary MP Michelle Rempel and Ontario’s Chris Alexander, both par-liamentary secretaries, are among the names often raised as poten-tial candidates for pro-motion.
And the prime min-ister is already signal-
ling one structural change to the cabinet as a direct response to the Senate expense scandal that is dogging his government.
Whoever replaces LeBreton as the gov-ernment leader in the upper chamber will not be a member of the cabinet, a government source said on condi-tion of anonymity.
The government has recently amped
up its rhetoric on bringing in an elected Senate.
“The next Senate leader will not be a member of the min-istry, so that would leave us with a 100 per cent elected cabinet,” said the source.
LeBreton, 73, is only two years away from the Senate retire-ment age. She said she
would stay on until then as a Conservative senator for Ontario. A former appoint-ments director and deputy chief of staff to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, LeBreton was named to the Senate in 1993.
“I intend to step up my efforts in support of meaningful Senate reform and also act-
ively back the new strengthened rules we introduced regarding Senate expenses,” she said in a statement.
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extensive flooding that turned part of downtown Calgary into a lake and forced up to 100,000 south-ern Albertans from their homes, the city ended a state of emer-gency just in time for its annual Stampede.
“I think there’s a better feeling for the Stampede this year because people are saying not only are we going to have all the great times that we have every year during a Stampede, but we’re doing it in the context of a community that’s stronger than it’s ever been,” Mayor Naheed Nenshi said at a pre-Stampede pancake breakfast Thursday.
“I thought last year’s Stampede with the centennial could
never be topped, but I think Stampede 101 is going to be even better.”
Nenshi was given a welcome normally reserved for a rock star as he spoke briefly to hundreds of people who turned out for the event one day before the official Stampede parade kickoff. The trademark cowboy hats, boots and jeans were already in full view.
The latest fad is a black “Hell or High Water” T-shirt that was introduced dur-ing the flood after the Stampede’s president used the words to vow the annual celebration of the cowboy way of life would go on.
Brown, muddy water swamped the Stampede grounds and filled the parade route at the height
of the flooding. But cleanup and recovery are well underway and things are starting to get back to normal. Lifting the state of emergency less than 24 hours before the Stampede parade was meant to be a sign of that.
“Symbolically ... us saying we’re no longer in an emergency is a really big thing,” said Nenshi. “For people to say, ‘All right, I can take a breath. It’s not wrong for me to take a day off and enjoy the Stampede.’
“While we’re work-ing hard with our neighbours, we can take a day off to cele-brate what makes the city great.”
Calgary also has launched a national ad campaign that will run over the next three weeks to let
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Nenshi said the campaign is mainly economically motiv-ated.
“A lot of our neigh-bours are in a lot of pain. A lot of people have lost wages over the time we’ve been closed, and many of those folks depend on the tourism indus-try to do well, and of course they make their bread and butter during Stampede,” he said.
“Whether you’re working in a restau-rant or in a hotel or a retail business, we need to get those people back up again. They’ve suffered enough. It’s a chance to show the world we’re back.”
Federal NDP Leader Tom Mulcair was in
Calgary on Thursday for Stampede festiv-ities and to view flood damage.
He said now is not the time for partisan politics.
“It’s quite the sight. I took a very long tour. A lot of devastation. We saw the pictures on TV, but I don’t think everyone understands the extent of the dam-age and how long it’s going to take to get everything done,” said Mulcair.
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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SREGINA - Saskatchewan is changing
the rules to allow more communities to get liquor stores.
Nine communities with populations greater than 1,000 will now be eligible for a liquor franchise.
The franchises sell alcohol on behalf of the Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority.
Before the change, businesses inter-ested in liquor franchises had to be at least 20 kilometres from the nearest govern-ment liquor store or another franchise.
The distance rule meant many growing communities, such as those near Regina and Saskatoon, were excluded.
Another change will allow existing franchises to sell a full selection of beer, not just specialty beer products.
“As Saskatchewan continues to grow and populations increase, we want to ensure that services provided are consist-ent with people’s expectations,” Donna Harpauer, minister responsible for the liquor and gaming authority, said in a news release Thursday.
Earlier this spring, the government changed liquor laws to allow private liquor stores.
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OPINION
Egypt and Turkey: Democracy in troubleEgypt and Turkey
have the same basic political problem. Democracy can
work despite huge ideo-logical differences, but only if everybody is willing to be very tolerant of other people’s ideas and values.
Three weeks ago the streets of Turkish cit-ies were full of protesters demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who won his third straight election in 2011. Why? Because, they say, he is shoving conservative Islamic values down their throats.
The Turkish protests have now died down, but this week the streets of Egyptian cities have been full of protesters demand-ing exactly the same thing for exactly the same rea-son. The Egyptian army has now intervened to remove the Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi, and the very survival of the new Egyptian democracy is in doubt.
Neither Erdogan nor Morsi could have come to power in a country that wasn’t fully democratic. Turkey has been a partly democratic country for sixty years, but if a pol-itician with a religious agenda won, the army would remove him. It even hanged one prime minister in 1960.
In Egypt, three generals
had ruled the country in unbroken succession since the mid-1950s. Latterly they allowed “elections”, but their party always won, and the main reli-gious party, the Muslim Brotherhood, was always banned.
The Turkish and Egyptian generals were mostly devout Muslims themselves, but they were willing to kill to keep reli-gion out of politics. Islamic parties were a vehicle for traditional and anti-mod-ern values, and the gener-als’ goal was to modern-ise their countries so they would be strong enough to stand up to the West.
There was some cyni-cism in their policy, too. The secular political parties in Turkey (and in Egypt too, until they finally with-ered away under 60 years of military dictatorship) were too fragmented and disunited to pose any real threat to the army’s power, whereas a single Islamic party with broad popular support might do just that. So religion must be firmly excluded from politics.
In both countries, the generals’ modernising agenda had considerable success. Turkey is now a powerful middle-income nation, and at least half of its 75 million people are secular and “modern” in their political values. So they wanted the military
out of politics, and finally the army withdrew – only to see the new Justice and Development (AK) Party, a “moderate” Islamist party led by Erdogan, win the 2003 election.
The Turkish generals let the AK rule because it didn’t try to impose its own religious values on the whole population. It refrained because even in its best result, in 2010, the AK only won 50.3 percent of the vote – and some of that support came from secular voters who saw it as the best hope for perma-nently excluding the army from politics.
Egypt is a much poorer, less educated country than Turkey, but at least a third of the 85 million Egyptians would also qualify as “mod-ern” people with secular values. They were the ones who made the revolution happen in 2010 – but in the new democracy’s first free presidential elec-tion last year the Muslim
Brotherhood’s candidate, Mohammed Morsi, won 51.7 percent of the vote.
The Mus l im Brotherhood promptly started writing its con-servative religious values into the new constitution. More recently, Erdogan’s AK Party in Turkey passed some laws that imposed its religious values too.
It wasn’t a wholesale assault on the secular soci-ety – in Turkey they just placed some restrictions on the sale of alcohol – but in both countries it greatly alarmed the secular part of the population. So it took only the slightest pretext – a demonstration over the destruction of a park in Istanbul, the first anni-versary of Morsi’s election in Egypt – to bring huge crowds of protesters out on the street in every city.
At that point, both Islamist leaders stopped pretending that they gov-erned in the name of the entire nation. “Let them go into mosques in their shoes, let them drink alco-hol in our mosques, let them raise their hand to our headscarved girls,” said Erdogan of the Turkish protestors. “One prayer from our people is enough to frustrate their plans.” He blamed the protests on an international conspiracy by something called the “interest-rate lobby.”
In Egypt, Morsi vowed to
“give my life” to defend the new constitution written by his Islamist colleagues last year, and blamed the unrest on a plot by remnants of the ousted Mubarak regime. The Egyptian army has now suspended the constitu-tion, but it is a “soft coup” that will almost certainly leave Morsi alive. Perhaps even free.
The Islamists are to blame for this crisis in both countries, because their political programme does ultimately involve shoving their values down every-body else’s throats. But the secular parties are also to blame, because it is their inability to unite behind a single candidate and pro-gramme that has let the Islamists win power in both Turkey and Egypt.
It is hard for democ-racy to survive in a country where large parts of the population hold radically different ideas about the purposes of the state and the rights of its citizens. Urbanisation will ultim-ately resolve this conflict, for in one more generation most of the recent immi-grants to the fast-growing cities will have adopted secular values. But in the meantime, Egypt will have a very rough ride. Maybe Turkey too.
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David Suzuki implied that I am a “climate-change denier” (We ignore scientists at our own peril, Trail Times June 20). I deny that. So I am a denial denier.
The only constant about climate is change. It is has been changing since the Earth formed and will continue to change until the planet is even-tually enveloped by the Sun in the distant future. Thoughtful readers will likely conclude that Suzuki’s denier label is merely an attempt to discredit scientists who disagree with him about the causes of cli-mate change instead of ration-ally debating the issue.
I also deny that climate sci-ence is settled. Climate experts know that the science is highly
immature. We are in a period of “negative discovery,” in that the more we learn, the more we realize we do not know. Rather than “remove the doubt,” as Al Gore advocates, we must recog-nize the doubt in this, arguably the most complex science ever tackled.
The confidence expressed by Gore and Suzuki is due to a belief in what professors Chris Essex (University of Western Ontario) and Ross McKitrick (University of Guelph) call the “Doctrine of Certainty”. This doctrine is “a collection of now familiar assertions about cli-mate that are to be accepted without question” (Taken by Storm, 2007).
Essex and McKitrick explain, “But the Doctrine is not true.
Each assertion is either mani-festly false or the claim to know is false. Climate is one of the most challenging open problems in modern science. Some knowledgeable scientists believe that the climate prob-lem can never be solved.”
Creating rational policy in the face of such uncertainty is challenging. So we need cli-mate experts to speak freely without fear of retribution regardless of their points of view. Suzuki must help this come about by engaging in constructive behaviour, not further poisoning the debate.
Tom HarrisExecutive Director,
International Climate Science Coalition
Ottawa, Ont.
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I usually enjoy irony. Verbal irony can add humour. Situational irony is usual-ly not funny. Getting the
opposite of what you aimed for is not funny.
Take Airdrie Alberta’s new anti-bullying provisions.
Airdrie wants to force the bul-lies to stop bully-ing so it passes a bylaw. By their very nature, laws are coer-cive. Bullying is aggressive behaviour; laws are coercive.
While the bylaw says “Don’t bully,” the larger mes-sage is “We can force you to stop bullying.” To a bully, that’s not so much a message as a challenge. Bullies will say, “You can’t make me!!” Bullies will not bully in public places where there are witnesses, but they will continue to bully. And if they bully hard enough, they won’t have to say or do anything in public places to intimidate their targets. Airdrie’s Council may think it can force bullies to stop bully-ing but it can’t. Bullying won’t stop, it will just shift.
When I talk about bully-ing, I’m talking about inten-tionally aggressive behaviour that’s objectively excessive or unnecessary (or both), that intimidates, dominates, manipulates or socially attacks the target. Airdrie’s bullying
bylaw is excessive and unneces-sary: excessive because it goes beyond Airdrie’s authority and unnecessary because there are already criminal and civil laws to deal with bullying’s bad behaviours.
It’s not a good idea to pass any law that can be read-ily struck down. Airdrie’s bylaw steps into fed-eral territory in two major aspects: first, by setting a pen-alty for physic-al abuse and threats, it deals with the crim-inal law; second, the phrase
“through any medium whatso-ever” involves telecommuni-cations: phones, cell phones (also used for texting) and the internet (the web and email).
Airdrie’s definition of bullying is badly worded. For example, what do they mean by “verbal abuse”? This par-ticular phrase is used to cover everything from “they-hurt-my-feelings” to a death threat. They-hurt-my-feelings usually involves a misunderstanding by an overly sensitive individ-ual or a social misstep. Death threats are crimes.
Airdrie’s greatest power to deal with bullying does not lie in its ability to pass bylaws, but in its ability to lead and to engage its residents in posi-tive social action. People tend to behave like those around
them. So start celebrating teamwork and co-operation and peacefully resolving dif-ferences.
Airdrie Council could take the lead and co-ordinate a lot of events in and around Airdrie. What’s it doing for Bullying Awareness Week, November 17th to 23rd this year? Awards can be given to those who have peacefully dealt with a bully or to groups that help the targets of bully-ing.
Has Airdrie looked into sponsoring an activity with the Boys & Girls Club of Airdrie and other youth organ-izations?
Creating a social climate in which bullying is not acceptable will take time and the sustained effort of many organizations and people.
Can Airdrie Council take a leadership role?
Such a change will be deep-rooted and will last for a long time. Passing an anti-bullying bylaw is a short-cut, one that might not last long.
It would be better to take the money Airdrie will spend defending its bylaw in the courts and use it to lead posi-tive social action to make bullying unacceptable and to provide clubs and social organizations with resources to help who are bullied.
That’s better than passing bylaws.
Troy Media columnist Anne McTavish is a conflict coach and lawyer, and her website is www.FistFreeLanguage.com.
Bylaws will not stop bullying
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Troy Media
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John passed away peacefully at KBRH a� er a brief illness on July 1, 2013. It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our dear husband, father, grandfather, uncle and friend. He leaves his wife of 61 years, Ruth, his son Pat (Luba), daughter Erin Marsh, grandchildren Eric and Je� rey, Patrick and Erica and many beloved nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his parents, Archie (Les) and Minnie Hall, brother David (Helen) and sisters Vivian (Frank) Kohar and Clara (Lee) Sutherland. John was blessed with 86 years of a life well lived. He was born February 2, 1927 in Nelson, BC, where he grew up, and joined the Royal Canadian Navy at the age of 16, serving as a Radio Articifer and Wireless Operator from 1944 – 1948. A� er returning from military service he completed his education in Calgary, AB and was accepted into Medical School at UBC in 1949. In 1952 he married his love, Ruth, and they resided in Vancouver until he graduated, with Honours, in 1956. John carried on post-graduate work at the Vancouver General Hospital and a year of Internship at Shaughnessy Military Hospital. John and Ruth moved to Castlegar in 1958 where he practiced medicine until his retirement in 1989. John volunteered his time to countless groups, associations and organizations both locally and internationally throughout his life. His zest for travel and adventure took he and Ruth to remote locations throughout the world, practicing medicine in Papua, New Guinea, Guyana, and several remote areas of Canada. Medicine and Aviation were his lifelong passions that he ardently pursed until the end of his life. John was one of the founding members of Selkirk College and was instrumental in starting the Aviation program. He received national awards for his participation in aerospace Aviation, served as Chairman of the Castlegar Airport Advisory Committee and was instrumental in establishing our Regional Airport. John was an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed hunting, � shing, hiking and had an fervent appreciation for nature’s splendour. John Vernon George Hall was a husband, father, friend and con� dent who savoured every moment of his life and will be dearly missed, but never forgotten.. A Celebration of Life will be held for John on Saturday, July 13, 2013 at 10AM at the Pentecostal New Life Assembly in Castlegar, 602 7th St
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T H E A S S O C I A T E D P R E S SNEW YORK - Joey Chestnut has
downed 69 franks and devoured his own record in the annual Coney Island hot dog eating contest.
The San Jose, Calif., man known as Jaws scarfed down the dogs and buns to win the Fourth of July men’s contest. He takes home $10,000 and a mustard-yellow champion’s belt.
Sonya Thomas, a 100-pound dynamo known as the “Black Widow” of competi-tive eating, wolfed down nearly 37 wie-ners for a narrow victory in the women’s competition.
Chestnut, 29, is a seven-time winner who set the old record - 68 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes - in 2009 and tied it last year. Thomas, 45, powered through 45 dogs to take the women’s champion-ship last year and also won in 2011, the first year women competed separately.
Chestnut had said his pace has been uneven in the past, but “this year I’m trying to eat a little more gracefully, conserve my energy.”
Second-place finisher was Matt Stonie, who chomped down 51 hot dogs.
With this year’s victory, Chestnut has now bested his former rival, Takeru Kobayashi, who won six times. Kobayashi competed in a different eat-ing contest Thursday.
Thomas went toe-to-toe with Juliet Lee with a second to spare. Lee ate 36 hot dogs.
FORSTER, MARY “VIRGINIA” — Sept 18, 1916 - May 12, 2013
There will be a Memor-ial Reception/Tea at the Trail Senior’s Centre on July 15, 2013 at 2:00 pm in memory of Virginia Forster, resident of Trail for 70 years. Vir-ginia Forster’s four surviv-ing children will be at the reception to share remem-brances of Virginia with her friends and the family.
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Trail’s two Rotary clubs got together recently to install new executives. From left: Waneta Sunrise Rotarians include: Shane McIntyre, Juris Harlamovs, John Lakes, Monica Fantin, Joan Cooke, David Cooke (past president) and Madeleine Harlamovs (president 2013-14). Trail Rotary Club includes president Helen Pistak (president 2013-14), Brenda Rutherglen, Ardith White, Barb Pistak and Lana Rodlie (past president). Both clubs welcome new members. Waneta Sunrise meets at 6:45 a.m. for coffee in the foyer at Gateway Christian Life Centre on Fridays. Trail Rotary meets at noon at the Crown Point Hotel on Wednesdays. For more information, check the website at www.trailrotary.com or call Madeleine at 367-367-6549.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Nelson Mandela is being kept alive by a breathing machine and faces “impending death,” court documents show.
The former presi-dent’s health is “perilous,” accord-ing to documents filed in the court case that resulted in the remains of his three deceased chil-dren being reburied Thursday in their ori-ginal graves.
“The anticipa-tion of his impend-ing death is based on real and substantial grounds,” the court filing said.
Mandela, who was hospitalized on June 8, remains in critical but stable condition, according to the office of President Jacob Zuma, who visited the anti-apartheid leader on Thursday. The president’s office also
said doctors denied reports that 94-year-old Mandela is in a “vegetative state.”
A younger person put on mechanical ventilation - life sup-port - can be weaned off the machine and recover, but that it can be difficult or impos-sible for an older per-son. The longer a per-son is on ventilation the less the chance of recovery, said the chief executive of the Faculty of Consulting Physicians of South Africa.
“It indicates a very poor prognosis for recovery because it means that he’s either too weak or too sick to breathe on his own,” said Dr. Adri Kok, who has no con-nection to Mandela’s care. “Usually if a per-son does need that, any person, not keep-ing in mind his age at all, for any person it would be indicative of a grave illness.”
“When they say
‘perilous’ I think that would be a fair description,” she said.
In Mandela’s hometown, Qunu, on Thursday, the bodies of three of his chil-dren were returned to their original rest-ing site following the court order.
Family members and community elders attended a ceremony on the Mandela prop-erty that included the singing of hymns. The reburial took place in Qunu, where Mandela grew up and where the former president has said he wants to be buried. Forensic tests earlier confirmed the remains were those of Mandela’s children.
Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years during white racist rule and was freed in 1990 before being elected president in all-race elections. He won the Nobel Peace Prize along with former President F.W. de Klerk.
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Canada’s Royal Botanical Gardens in Ontario feature Floribunda and Hybrid Tea roses, the University of B.C.‘s garden has both spec-tacular ocean as well as mountain views. Australia has Ruston’s Roses displaying over 4000 contempor-ary and old garden varieties, France’s Roseraie du Val-de-Marne was intended to exhibit every rose in the world, the UK’s Queen Mary Gardens in Regent’s Park boost an amazing display of some 40,000 roses in bloom throughout the summer. Roses are a timeless flower celebrated around the world.
Anyone who appre-ciates the diverse colors and glori-ous scents of these blooms, value what it takes to keep them looking great.
Start by picking out a healthy, disease resistant plant suited for your climate zone. Make sure it has a good root mass and healthy leaves. Ask the nursery about a guarantee. (most will provide one year)
Choosing color is an individual choice often used to high-light the color of a home or compli-ment an entranceway. Roses come in a var-iety of cultivars such as hybrid teas, gran-diflora, floribunda, climbers and shrub roses.
All have their merits and it becomes a matter of taste as to what works best for your garden. Roses require at least 6 hours of sunlight daily. Well drained,
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Roses are heavy feeders. To ensure it receives enough nutrients to bloom scratch 5-5-8 granu-lar fertilizer into the soil around the stock.
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An amount of two tablespoons up to half a cup scratched into the soil around the rose is all that is necessary to encour-age the plants to grow properly.
The color of roses is steeped in sym-bolism and tradition inspiring people through the ages. When choosing a color you are person-alizing your gift. Red roses say “I Love You” given in romantic situations, pink rep-resents grace, appre-ciation or admiration.
Yellow invokes warmth and happi-ness and white roses mean innocence, pur-ity and new begin-nings. So in effect there can be a rose for every occasion and feeling.
The AARS (All-America Rose Selections) winner for 2013 is a lovely soft pink hybrid tea rose called Francis Meilland. It is highly disease resistant and strongly fragrant.
Roses evoke many different emotions, their beauty and scents appealing to our senses and desire to be surrounded by the beauty these shrubs provide in abundance.
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Blooming roses bring a wide variety of colour and scents to a garden
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Oh CanadaIt isn’t until you have driven across this great country of ours that you can truly appreciate just how big it is. How far it is from sea to sea to sea. Not just the east west southern corridor, but the north south distances without roads, without any single means of transport. Canada is a truly great country. Every summer, many of us take the opportunity to explore more of our land, driving for days to reach destinations we have heard of , read of, dreamt of, seen on the TV. Drumheller, The Dempster Highway, Port Hardy, Ottawa, PEI, the Cabot trail. I’m sure you have your own list of places you want to go …. Someday.And every year I meet people, and take funerals for a few people who achieved their goals and many who did not. There are many of us who are afraid to take a chance, to try and reach that dream, that destination, to get to know something more of their country, and the stuff of their own identity. We are Canadians, with “the best back yard in the world”. Of course in Trail we have the best of the back yard, but that is all the more reason to go visit other places. It is by knowing the other that we know ourselves.Many religious traditions encourage travel, Christianity has many places of pilgrimage, Islam has the Sufi traditions of journeying. These traditions are partly because of the value of seeing things differently, of experiencing how other people live. When we travel we discover other possibilities for our own lives, as well as the things we are deeply grateful for that are part of our life. And where ever we go we find that God is there, God is active in people’s lives, and God is waiting to welcome us.This summer, take the plunge. Leave the old familiar places and go for that destination you’ve longed to visit. The journey will amaze you, especially if you go with an open mind. Your destination will surprise you, both in the expected and unexpected. But most importantly, you will find and grow new things in yourself. Neil ElliotSt Andrew’s Anglican ChurchTrail
Sitting down with a book is my idea of the perfect activity for the dog days of sum-mer. This summer I have set myself the goal of reading through Dante’s “The
Divine Comedy”. The “Commedia” (as the Dante scholars call it) is not a work of literature that I want to approach without some guidance, so I have been watching lectures on it to help my understanding.
Fortunately, not every book requires the guidance of a scholar. Nor would I want every read to require such exten-sive effort. That would lessen the pleasure of finding a patch of shade, stretching out and reading for the sheer enjoyment of it on a blistering summer’s day.
Historical fiction is one of my favorite genres, providing the book is well researched. I always turn to the back of the book to check the bibli-ography and the author’s acknowledgement before I select a piece of historical fiction. I have no problem with artistic license; I just want to know where and why an author has altered the facts.
Kimberly Cutter’s “The Maid”, a novel about Joan of Arc, is a realistic portrayal of Joan’s life from the time she first hears voices until she is condemned to death. Initially I was lukewarm about this novel, but after listening to Mary Himes interview Cutter on “Tapestry” I had a better appreciation for the book. Or maybe I was just impressed with Cutter’s dedication to her subject. Prior to putting pen to paper, Cutter retraced, on horseback, Joan’s historic journey to meet Le Dauphin.
My book club always reads at least one classic work of fiction each year. This year we tackled “The Master and Margarita” by Mikhail Bulgakov, a novel that I first encountered in university. This thought provoking and funny book has entire websites devoted to it. While some readers may want to delve deeply into its political, economic, social and cultural contexts, the novel can be read for its highly original and macabre story - the devil’s visit to Moscow.
I am a fan of well-written biographies; for me, this means that the author does more than merely provide a chronological retell-ing of events. I like something that integrates facts, events and analysis. Robert K. Massie’s “Catherine the Great: A Portrait of a Woman” fits my criteria for a well-constructed biog-raphy. This biography reads like a novel, and in Massie’s skillful hands Catherine comes to life.
I would be remiss if I neglected to men-tion something in the theology/spirituality cat-egory. Father Ronald Rolheiser has written a series of meditations on the Eucharist. It discusses Eucharist as a mystery central to the life of faith and it considers the many ways in which Christians understand Eucharist. As always, Rolheiser writes in plain language and illustrates his insights with story. “Our One Great Act of Fidelity: Waiting for Christ in the Eucharist” is a must read for those who seek to deepen their understanding of Eucharist.
Louise McEwan is a freelance religion writer with degrees in English and Theology. She has a background in education and faith formation. Her blog is www.faithcolouredglasses.blogspot.com. Contact her at [email protected]
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What with soccer becoming more and more and more popular in North America, including locally, it may be time for the movers and shakers on
this continent to get involved in the international operation of the game.
America, Canada and Mexico, because of the financial clout of their linked economies, should have a strong voice in the way the game their children are taking to in droves is organized and run.
Things on the international level are approach-ing International Olympic Committee disaster status, with FIFA, the overseeing body for all things football, being run by a venerable clique that is quite comfortable with its corrupt and incompetent ways - to the point that max-fixing is running rampant and small elites in entire countries are as invulnerable to common sense and law as the international committee honchos themselves.
How else to explain FIFA award-ing and supporting the riot-inducing Brazilian effort towards for next year’s world cup, and shrugging off the riots that have been supported by iconic Brazilian footballers? How else to explain awarding the fol-lowing one to the dictatorship of one of the hottest countries on the planet - scheduled for mid-summer to boot - without simply assuming such acts are the result of IOC level bribery schemes?
Be clear, FIFA and the IOC are run with Enron/Bernie Madoff levels of corruption, often vaguely admitted by those involved, and FIFA, in particular, dictates government policy, in the Americas and around the world, when it comes to football.
Just recently, the government of Cameroon arrested the head of football in that country for embezzling more than $20 million from the private company, not the mini-football empire, he also ran. FIFA’s response was to suspend Cameroon, perhaps the most popular African soccer state worldwide since the artful heyday of the effervescent Roger Milla, from all inter-national competition because, according to FIFA, the government had interfered with, “the football federation of Cameroon,” by arresting its hand picked leader.
FIFA has been resisting rule changes, drug regulations and any suggestion officiating can be improved while irregularly publicizing its sup-posed war on racism (but not sexism or other civil liberty issues) and acting in often tragi-comic ways on that lone front.
Neophytes to the game probably thought div-ing was its worst problerm.
The current long-term president, Sepp Blatter, seeking to last two decades in the job, had com-petition for it this last time around - so he dis-patched FIFa agents to dig dirt, like the fact his competitors took bribes like everybody else in the mix, to arrange a virtual acclamation for himself.
Who wants their children to aspire to get to the highest levels of a mess like that?
Soccer can be a, “beautiful game,” as Brazilians say, but there is little pretty about the way it is managed world wide.
As more of our children become involved it behooves us to work towards cleaning it up, making it healthy for society as well as individual people to embrace.
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Reds rule in junior baseball finalB y J i m B A i l E y
Times Sports EditorThe Trail Reds are
the junior champions of the Trail Youth Baseball League, defeating the Trail Mariners in the title game Tuesday night at Butler Park.
Colton Miracle knocked in what proved to be the tying and winning runs with a bases-loaded single in the first inning as the Reds jumped out to a 5-0 lead and never looked back cruising to a 15-5 victory.
“We started off well, made some good defensive plays, Tyler Atkinson pitched well, and we got some good hits that we scored some runs on,” said Reds coach Dave Colquhoun.
“Our guys did a good job of being patient, some close pitches we took that helped us out.”
Tyler Atkinson got the win on the mound for the Reds, giving up five runs on six hits,and six walks while striking out nine batters. Atkinson also helped himself out at the plate, scoring two
runs and going 1-for-3 with a double.
“I just throw what-ever the coach tells me,” said Atkinson, who also plays for the West Kootenay AA Diamondbacks.
“My fastball was pretty good, but our team played well.”
Brenden Makay also had a decent night at the dish going 1-for-2 with two walks and a double, while Miracle was 2-for-4.
A couple of errors and free passes killed the Mariners, who managed to gener-ate some offence, but could not capitalize leaving eight run-ners stranded includ-ing the bases loaded in the third inning. Bonn Johnson led the M’s in batting with a 2-for-3 night.
The Phillies won a close 6-5 game against Nelson in the semifinal, after going 17-3 in the regular season to finish first in the standings.
“It was a good sea-son,” said Colquhoun. “We had eveyone show up to all our games so we have a team of dedicated young play-
ers and we have a lot of fun too.”
The Trail XBL sen-ior men’s baseball
final was postponed until Wednesday.
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Tyler Atkinson delivers a pitch during this week’s junior baseball final. Not only did Atkinson pick up the win on the mound, but he also helped out the offence by scoring two runs.
Golf
B y T i m E s s T A f fA pair of Vancouver golf-
ers share the lead heading into the final round of the B.C. Junior Boys golf cham-pionship in Revelstoke.
On Wednesday, Jordan Lu, a 15-year-old out of the Marine Drive Golf Club, fired a five-under par 67 to drop to six-under par after 54 holes.
Fellow Marine Drive golf-er Jordan Yu carded a round of 70 to also sit at six-under heading into today’s final round.
Kimberley’s Jared Dutoit, the second round leader, fired a 73 to fall two strokes off the pace and sit fourth overall at four-under par.
Trevor Vigna of Couitlam is in third at five-under par after his round of 68.
Local colours are being carried by Rossland’s Tyler McKay.
McKay shot a 74 on Thursday to sit in a tie for
35th overall at plus-nine, 15 shots behind the co-leaders.
Other local golfers, Brenan Moroney and Braden McKay, failed to make the 36-hole cut.
Yu, who will compete in the 2013 Canada Summer Games, and Lu will be in today’s final pairing.
They also combined to capture the club trophy at the championship based on the combined total in the first three rounds of play.
The championship’s lowest overall score came from the first group that
teed off on Thursday. Port Coquitlam’s Gunntas Sidhu just missed tying the Revelstoke Golf Club’s course record carding a seven-under par round of 65. The Revelstoke course record is 64.
His sensational round left him in a tie for sixth at one-under par.
The top three finish-ers after today’s round will represent the province on Team B.C., at the 2013 Canadian Junior Boys Golf Championship at the end of July in Ontario.
Vancouver clubmates battle for top spottyler McKay in 35th place heading into final day of junior
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Yeah! I bought a car! A new car! First one since
1986. Summer is here and as luck would have it Canada Day week-end was going to be my first significant drive. I was excited. The important word in that statement is “was”.
Why a new car? I am a mechanic. Why would I suck up all that first few years’ depreciation to own a brand new car when I can do my own repairs and maintenance at a deep dis-count. Well, lets see if I can rationalize this one.
It would be best to own some-thing that has the latest in tech-nology that way I will learn about all the new systems and be better prepared to service and repair them.
My new car has direct fuel injection, turbocharging, variable valve timing, a dual clutch gear-box, and a Haldex all wheel drive system.
All of these technologies are becoming quite common in the automotive industry and there are more and more of them on our Kootenay roads. It was time I learned to live with them, study their idiosyncrasies, learn their maintenance requirements
(remember what I have said before; “the guy who wrote the book never saw the car”).
Yeah, I know all these technologies have been around for years. I could have bought into all these same technol-ogies in a vehicle at least five years old.
Why not? Well the truth
has to come out. I like to maintain cars and ideally I don’t want to own somebody else’s
lack of maintenance. It is some-times very hard to find a really well maintained vehicle.
It is next to impossible to actually tell that some mainten-ance was done and that it was done properly. Just because a vehicle was serviced at the dealer-ship it was bought from does not mean it was well maintained.
Poor maintenance in the first 100,000 kilometres may not rear its ugly head until 150,000 kilo-metres and above. Good mainten-ance is not just doing what the book says but it is a good start. Did you just buy a fairly low mile-age vehicle and only several thou-sand kilometres down the road figure out that it is using a fair bit of oil?
Once new technology gets some miles on it is when the faults start
to show up. Gasoline direct injected vehi-
cles have carboning up prob-lems. How does one prevent that? Variable valve timing is very sensitive to having clean oil with very stringent physical proper-ties. Dual clutch gearboxes need fairly frequent oil changes with the proper lubricants.
Haldex units also require fluid changes on a regular basis. Long interval oil changes are some-times too long when the proper fluids and filters are not used or the driving conditions are too severe. Kootenay Pass on a 30 degree day sound familiar?
Back to my first long drive in my new car. Two weeks before my trip I get a speeding ticket. Made a mistake leaving Waneta on my way to KC Recycling. The batter-ies I dropped off did not pay for my ticket.
Friday before the long weekend I decide to leave after dinner for Vernon. Traffic is light and I am enjoying the handling of my new car. Remember I am usually at the helm of a minivan or an SUV pull-ing a boat.
Four speed traps within 10 kilometres either side of Rock Creek. I figured three would be the limit. Highway 33 is a 90 kmh speed limit not 100. I thanked the officer for only giving me the minimum fine. Time to check out how my new car’s cruise control works.
Trail’s Ron Nutini is a licensed automotive technician and gradu-ate of mechanical engineering from UBC. E-mail: [email protected]
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demand for trucks drove auto sales higher in June, even as sales of passen-ger cars hit the brakes compared with a year ago, according to data compiled by DesRosiers Automotive Consultants on Wednesday.
Sales of light vehi-cles totalled 171,608 last month, up 1.3 per cent compared with the 169,459 vehicles sold in June 2012. While light truck sales climbed 6.7 per cent to 96,587, passenger car sales fell by 4.9 per cent to 75,021.
The automotive con-sulting firm called it the “best June yet seen in Canada.”
“The Canadian vehicle market inched upwards from last year’s chart-topping June sales to set another monthly record in June 2013,” DesRosiers said in a statement.
Ford Motor Co. of Canada said it sold 28,713 vehicles last month, down from the 30,543 it sold in June 2012. Truck sales climbed 1.1 per cent to 21,284, while sales of pas-senger cars slid by 21.7 per cent to 7,429.
The Canadian sales
results followed U.S. sales at their highest level since the recession, bolstered by growing consumer confi-dence.
Chrysler Canada and GM Canada both saw improved sales last month compared to June 2012.
Chrysler sold 26,222 vehicles last month, helped by strong demand for its passenger cars and Jeeps.
That’s 11 per cent high-er than the 23,705 vehicles it sold in June 2012.
GM Canada’s sales for June totalled 24,707 vehi-cles, including fleet sales, an eight per cent increase from the 22,869 it sold a year ago. GM’s retail sales totalled 20,723 last month.
Toyota Canada Inc. reported a decline in sales compared to a year ago. The auto maker said it sold 18,338 vehicles in June, down four per cent from June 2012.
But the company said truck sales increased by 12.6 per cent to 8,716 in June.
Honda Canada Inc. saw its June sales climb 10 per cent to 14,971 vehicles, while Nissan’s sales slid 10 per cent lower to 8,889 vehicles.
Demand for trucks drives up June sales
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Conservation Officers are still looking for the bear that attacked two local men on Mount Proctor Wednesday morning.
Conservation Officer (CO) Joe Caravetta said that five CO’s are cur-rently working on the case, three of which are out actively searching for the injured bear.
“We are searching for her not because she is bad,” he explained. “It is because she is injured and we don’t want her to suffer, she was just protecting her cub.”
The two men, both in their mid thirties, were hiking along the ridge top of Mt. Proctor around 9 a.m. Wednesday. What appeared to be a sow grizzly bear charged towards them and began attacking one man,
biting his upper arm and chest area. When the man discharged pepper spray into the bear’s face, the bear backed off, but then ran at the second man.
The second man had a shotgun and discharged one shot at the bear at a very close range. The bear con-tinued to attack the second man before fleeing into the bushes. One cub was seen with the sow.
The hikers were able to apply basic first aid to each other and then quickly made their way down the mountain. They arrived at the Elk Valley Hospital where they were treated for their injuries. Authorities were notified at this time.
All recreational trails in the area have been closed while the search continued Thursday for the injured bear.
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Dear Annie: My grandmother died the day before I was sched-uled for an impor-tant job interview. I’d received notice two weeks prior, and it said there would be no rescheduling of the interview for any reason whatsoever. If I failed to show up, I would be barred from being hired for another year.
I was desperate for work, and when my father called to tell me my grandmother died, I told him I was sorry, but there was no way I could make it to the funeral in the morning, although I did go by his house to see him.
I went to the inter-view (and was hired) and went to the house right after. Nobody said anything, but I could tell my family was dis-appointed. Since the funeral, my parents have been angry with me. I understand this, but work is scarce in my area, and I couldn’t afford to miss this
opportunity. Frankly, if I were unemployed, I doubt my parents would give me any money, and it would be foolish to rely on that kind of help anyway. Besides, who wants to have to ask their parents for stuff when they’re 35 years old? I needed this job.
I told my parents that my grandmother would rather I secure a job than attend her funeral. But now my relatives are saying nasty things about me behind my back. Was I right to skip the funeral in favor of a job inter-view? -- Downstate Illinois
Dear Illinois: We understand why the job interview could not be
postponed, especially for a full year. But we also know that your parents are hurt and maybe a bit embar-rassed that their child didn’t show up for Grandma’s funeral. You need to apologize, but without simultaneously justifying and defend-ing your choice. Simply say that you are truly sorry, and you hope they can forgive you. Then give them time to do that.
Dear Annie: My daughter turned 16 last week. We asked her friends to come to her party, and no one showed up. She was so upset.
My daughter is in a special needs life skills classroom with 12 kids just like her. How can their parents be so cruel? It’s so unfair to my child. What can I do about this? -- Not So Sweet 16 Party
Dear Not So Sweet: It’s very possible that these classmates felt uncomfortable attend-ing your daughter’s
party and lacked the social skills necessary to say so. Or, if your daughter invited them word-of-mouth, they might have forgotten or the parents were unaware of the time and date. The important thing is your response to your daughter. Please don’t turn this into a tragedy or a reason to badmouth her class-mates. Instead, teach your daughter how to graciously cope with these disappointments and move forward. You might even try to reschedule a party for her over the summer, although you might first get in touch with the parents to be sure there are no additional difficulties.
Dear Annie: This is in response to “Enlightened,” who threatened to throw her child’s things away if she didn’t pick them up. I was a messy daugh-ter growing up, and my mother did exactly that. What she failed to see (and still does not)
is that my messy ways, forgetfulness and “lazi-ness” were the result of posttraumatic stress disorder due to years of emotional, sexual and physical abuse.
Parents should be careful with how harsh-ly they judge their children, as they are a
result of how they are raised. Yelling, arguing and throwing things in garbage bags often do more harm than good. Look for the root cause. There may be more going on than meets the eye. Perhaps she’s being bullied at school or is stressed about
grades. No one enjoys being messy. It makes our lives more diffi-cult, as well. -- Shell-Shocked
Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers col-umn.
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For Saturday, July 6, 2013 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) This is a good day to enlighten others about your opinions, because you have lots of intellectual energy. Your mind is charged with enthusiasm to learn as well as to share your knowledge. You rock! TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Pay attention to your moneymaking ideas today, because you are motivat-ed to boost your income. Admittedly, you are just as motivated to spend money. Use caution. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You’re full of enthusiasm today because you have the energy to follow through on what you want to do. This is a fortunate combination, so make the best of it. Enjoy great productivity. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Secret love affairs might be taking place for some of
you. Certainly, behind-the-scenes activity is stirring the pot. What’s up? LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Lend energy to groups today, especially if you want to help a female with a spe-cial project. You also might want to advocate for reform or help a charitable organi-zation. VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Bosses, parents, teachers and VIPs will be impressed by your energy today. You know what you want. You mean what you say, and you say what you mean. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) You’re so enthusiastic to expand your horizons today that you will travel any-where if you can. If you can’t travel, then learn something new. Be a tourist in your own town. SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) You might dispute inheri-tances, shared property or
anything you own jointly with others today. However, you’re feeling hot and sexy! (Woo, woo.) SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Be patient when talk-ing to others today, because people are so enthusiastic about what they are saying that their enthusiasm could lead to a pushy argument. The thing is, people identify with their beliefs today.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) You’ll be productive at work today because you’ve got energy and the motiva-tion to accomplish a lot. In fact, you might feel competi-tive with someone, which will spur you into action. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) This is a fabulous day for those of you who are involved in sports. You feel competitive, eager and ready
to win! PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Today you might want to shove furniture around and rearrange things -- you’re that energetic. Basically, you want to make improvements to your home scene. YOU BORN TODAY You are passionately involved with whatever you embrace. You’re always involved, never completely detached. This is why people are drawn
to you. Very often, life dic-tates major choices for you, which you accept coura-geously. You have amazing perseverance and a strong work ethic. Your year ahead is the beginning of a fresh, exciting new cycle. Open any door! Birthdate of: The Dalai Lama, spiritual leader; Geoffrey Rush, actor/pro-ducer; Hilary Mantel, author. (c) 2013 King Features Syndicate, Inc.
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Please apply by sending your resume to Trevor Argue
targue@fl atironcorp.comor fax (1)780-454-8970Please indicate in youremail which fi eld you
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Employment
Education/Trade Schools
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Help Wanted
Colander Restaurant is now taking applications for
Prep Cook /Line Cook
Career training availableBring resume to
1475 Cedar Ave, Trail
Account ExecutiveImmediate opening for an outside Account Executive in the Petroleum Industry
Help WantedAn Alberta Oilfi eld Company is hiring dozer and excavator operators. Lodging and meals provided. Drug testing re-quired. Call (780)723-5051 Edson, Alta.
Better Book Delivery persons w/vehicle required for 3-4weeks for Trail to Fruitvale 20 cents a book. Starts ap-prox. Jul.8 250-367-7602, [email protected]
EXPERIENCED STYLISTApply 1470 Cedar Ave., TrailTues.-Fri.
**WANTED**NEWSPAPER CARRIERS
TRAIL TIMESExcellent ExerciseFun for All Ages
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TomorrowCirculation Department250-364-1413 Ext. 206For more Information
LabourersT E L E C O M M U N I C AT I O N S Contractor requires ground persons/linemen. Air ticket and clean driving record required. Will train suitable candidates. Please email resumes to [email protected]
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.
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Misc ServicesTry Our new BP Italian Pizza24/7 Ordering! BP Hot Foods Deli 250-512-9449 online me-nu: bpdinermineralsparesortat-traction.com
Pets & Livestock
Feed & HayHAY FOR SALE
small square$160/ton
250-428-4316
LivestockNIGERIAN DWARF/ Nubian cross goats. Some very small. Economical, easy to handle, little clean up. All ages. For milk/ pets. Inquiries welcome. 250-362-5149
Merchandise for Sale
Food Products
BUTCHER SHOPBC INSPECTED
GRADED AA OR BETTERLOCALLY GROWNNATURAL BEEF
Hormone FreeGrass Fed/Grain Finished$100 Packages Available
collectable’s & vintage itemsfurniture, Sat & Sun, July 6 & 7
10 - 4, 2378 Pass Creek Rd Rain or shine
GLENMERRY, 3401 Highway Drive, Sat. July 6th, 8:30am-1pm. Teen boy’s clothes, an-tiques, housewares.GLENMERRY, 3870 Wood-land Dr. Sat. Jul.6, 8am-12noon. Multi-Family.ROSSLAND, 2420 8th Ave. Sat.&Sun., Jul.6 & 7, 7am-? Freezer, stove, entertainment center, antique furniture.TADANAC, 302 Kootenay Ave. Sat. Jul.6, 10am-3pm.All proceeds donated to the Food Bank.TRAIL, 1735 Riverside Ave. Lazeroff Apts. Jul.6th, 9am-12. BARGAINS! 250-231-5815WARFIELD, 458 Whitman Way. Sat. July 6th, 9am-2pm. Downsizing! Tools, some furni-ture.
Misc. for SaleHOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available. 1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com/news-paper?MAPLE HUTCH and buffet: Hutch- 2doors & 4 drawers; buffet- glass doors, interior lights, wine rack, 2 drawers. 250-368-3570
Misc. WantedTrue Coin Collector Looking to Purchase Collections, Accu- mulations, Olympic Gold and Silver coins, Bills + Not melting down, Serious Collector. Call: Coin Couple 1-250-499-0251
Real Estate
For Sale By OwnerStellar Place Adult
Townhome #36, 2 Bdrm + den, 2.5 bath, Central air enclosed garage, laundry
on main, bright & open for photos or showing please
call 604-534-2190
Real Estate
For Sale By Owner
GREAT STARTER HOME
&/OR INVESTMENT ON RIONDEL RD.
Above Kootenay Lake. 4km to Ashram, Marine, Golf Course, Riondel & beach. 2 3/4 acres & 2 storey unfi nished (but furnished) “Small is Beautiful” cabin. Good benches for building, one with lake view. In Aug, 12 appraised at $170,000 but older, fl exible vendor open to offers & might carry part of mortgage for suitable person or couple. For info & viewing please call:
1-780-566-0707
Homes Wanted
WANTED IN ROSSLAND:HOUSE or CONDO
To Rent or Buy for earliest August 1st.or Sept 1st.Can accommodate date for the right place & arrangement.
Reasonable pricing for Sale. Can commit to Long term lease of 1 yr, minimum 3
bedroom with yard & garden space. Upper Rossland or Red Mtn. Resort area pre-ferred. We are a family with behaved outdoor dog & cat.
Professional couple with steady income and children. Please call 250-362-7681
ROSSLAND, 2bd. furn. $800.; unfurn.$900. plus utilities. N/S, N/P. 250-362-9473
TRAIL, spacious 1&2bdrm. apartment. Adult building, per-fect for seniors/ professionals. Cozy, clean, quiet, com-fortable. Must See. 250-368-1312
WARFIELD APARTMENTS. 1&2-bdrm, N/S, N/P. Long term tenants. 250-368-5888
Homes for RentEAST TRAIL 3 bed/1bath, garage & appliances $950 + utilities, long term & referenc-es Ph 368-7366
E.TRAIL, 2bd. near Safeway, fenced yard. $750./mo +utilities. 250-362-3316
EXECUTIVE Home 5 bdrm, 4 bath. South Castlegar. Up 3 bdrms, large kitchen. Down 2 bdrms include ensuites. Large rec room. $1800. 250-608-0801 [email protected].
Rentals
TownhousesEdgewater Townhouse in Glenmerry, 3bd, 1.5Bth.,f/s, $850./mo. 250-368-5908
Transportation
Auto FinancingYOU’RE APPROVED • YOU’RE APPROVED
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• GOOD CREDIT • BAD CREDIT• NO CREDIT • HIGH DEBT RATE
Sport Utility Vehicle2009 Hyundai Veracruz 7pass. 119000km. well-maintained, exc.cond., hitch, extra mats, window&hood defl ectors,block heater.$17,000. 250-364-1940
Boats14’ Jon boat almost new
complete with oars, depth fi nder, cover, etc, offers to $7,000 Call 250-231-8227
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KOOTENAY HOMES INC.1358 Cedar Avenue, Trail 250.368.8818
WE CAN SELL YOUR HOME. NOBODY HAS THE RESOURCES WE DO! Jodi Beamish ext 51Cell: [email protected]
Teck’s Mad Hatters’ Luncheon
July 27, 12 - 2:30pm. Tickets available at Century 21
Kootenay Homes Inc., or Columbia Greenhouse.
Here’s What YOU Can Do Help:• Mow your lawn (doesn’t matter if it is dry and yellowed)
but keep it neat.• Clean up the boulevards and sidewalks around
your home.• Deadhead or pick weeds in public fl oral beds.
• Clean up after your pets.• Help your neighbours who may not be able to tidy up
their yard or boulevard.
Visit www.trail.ca/bloom for more information.
It’s that time of year again!The International Judges
Arrive July 18th...
16A Redstone Drive, Rossland
$395,000includes GST
Currently under construction. This spa-cious contemporary style 3 bdrm home
has lots to offer to the active family. Fea-turing an open fl oor plan with spacious covered front deck and amazing views!
Call Richard (250) 368-7897
840 Forrest Drive, Warfi eld $295,000
5 beds, 2 baths. Lovely family home on a nice street. Features a bright, daylight basement and fully fenced
backyard with a deck. Call today to view.
Call Jodi 250-231-2331
1577 – 3rd Avenue, Trail $159,000
Location, location! Walk to Safeway, schools, parks and aquatic centre from this 2 bdrm home on a 50’ x 100’ level lot. Features a grand entry with large
living room and main fl oor laundry. The new furnace makes this a great value!
Call Terry 250-231-1101
2104 7th Avenue, Trail $169,900
Little Gem! Perfect for the retiree, empty nester, single, couple or small family. 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, kitchen, dining room, living room and laundry all on one level
with room to grow in the basement. Many upgrades!
Call now before it’s gone!Call Deanne (250) 231-0153
NEW LISTING
340 Grandview Place, Genelle $879,000
Live the dream! This gorgeous custom-built home features stunning views and quality workmanship. Gourmet kitchen, 3 bdrms with master suite, gas fi replace
and an open fl oor-plan with oodles of windows. You have to see it to believe it!
Call Mary M (250) 231-0264
3892 Dogwood Drive, Trail $299,000
Renovated Glenmerry home with 3 bdrms and 3 baths. Features bamboo fl oors,
new windows and doors, new heat pump and furnace... and the list goes on.
Outside has covered parking and storage shed. Come see for yourself!Call Terry 250-231-1101
2132 Daniel Street, Trail $74,900
2 bedroom / 1 bath. This home has a great view over the city and features a lovely yard with two off street parking
spaces. A home to make your own. Call today before it’s gone.
Call Jodi 250-231-2331
REDUCED
602 French Street, Warfi eld $242,000
Immaculate home on a very large landscaped lot in Warfi eld! This 3 bdrm, 2 bath home offers plenty of parking, space
from your neighbors several outdoor living spaces, and awesome hobby room
or shop area. All of this is close to all amenities including a Village park for this
kids! Call now!!Call Deanne (250) 231-0153
NEW LISTING
3397 Laurel Crescent, Trail $149,900
Great price for a Glenmerry townhouse,in good condition. Quick possessionpossible. Easy care living with small
yard, the backyard is fenced and has asmall patio. These townhouses have acharm about them and offer 3 bdrms,
11/2 baths.Call Mary M (250) 231-0264
REDUCED
1880A Kootenay Avenue, Rossland
$416,950This is a unique fully furnished turn-of-
the-century home, featuring 5 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. This home has been renovated and restored with style and taste adding to its original character.
Call Christine (250) 512-7653
NEW LISTING
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. Treed with
large level building sites and plenty of privacy. Electricity and telephone available at property line. Call your
REALTOR® today to view this opportunity.Call Art (250) 368-8818
2645 Cooke Avenue, Rossland $605,000
Built in 2001, this incredible, one-of-a-kind, 4000 sqft. Executive home is centrally located in upper Rossland
with gorgeous fully fi nished guest suite situated on .54 acres.
Call Christine (250) 512-7653
NEW LISTING
304 Austad Lane, Trail $77,900
GREAT character 2 bdrm home in Columbia Heights - solid home - newer roof - tile, laminate fl ooring - upgraded
plumbing - terraced lot with private patio - Great investment!
Call Mark (250) 231-5591
NEW LISTING
650 - 9th Avenue, Montrose $319,000
NEW BUILD! 4 bdrm 2 bath home! Fully fenced yard, shop, shed, rebuilt from
foundation up! Perfect opportunity to own a new home without having to pay GST!
Call Tonnie (250) 365-9665
1665 Maida Road, Christina Lake
$99,100EXCELLENT retreat- fantastic corner fl at lot - recreational activities 12 months of the year- perfect for the family that
wants to get away-water, septic, power are all done!!!
Call Mark (250) 231-5591
NEW LISTING
Ron & Darlene Your Local Home Team
2058 5th Avenue, Rossland$175,000
Great location, charming and quaint, 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom home on a fl at corner lot. Enclosed garage ideal for
Rossland weather. With some work this home can fi t a starter couple or rental
property. Fantastic home with a great price.
3461 Marigold Drive$199,000
Perfect location in Glenmerry -1 block to the school and park. Perfect price - no house is more affordable this close to the school. Perfect timing - you will be
moved in and settled before school starts in September” Call us today
Ron 368-1162 Darlene 231-0527
We Sell Great Homes!
1006 Earl Street, Rossland
Solid family home in a quiet neighbourhood. This home is ready
for your personal touch. Customize to showcase your
great style.Call Bill (250) 231-2710
3353 Dahlia Crescent, Trail $179,900
Rare opportunity. Don’t miss viewing this 3 bdrm Glenmerry bungalow. This home
has been well maintained by 1 owner since 1954. Many upgrades including
roofi ng, furnace, a/c and hot water tank. New 100 amp electrical panel has been
