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An observant driver heading up the Montrose cutoff pre-vented the Casino area from going up in smoke Monday afternoon.
The 9-1-1 call came into Kootenay Boundary Regional Fire Rescue minutes before 4 p.m., says Fire Chief Terry Martin, mentioning someone driving to the Beaver Valley reported smoke.
Nine firefighters from Company #4 were dispatched south of the Old Trail Bridge and eventually located the fire on the power lines near Casino, he explained.
The quick response had the fire contained to an area of about 100 feet by 150 feet, Martin added.
“As the fire was near power lines there was a member from Fortis on scene who did an amazing job of knocking down flare ups with a water back pack,” he said.
“At no time were we wor-ried about the fire spread-ing towards the residences at Casino.”
Crews stayed on scene until 7 p.m. dousing flames by shuf-fling water back and forth from the Casino Road site.
Cause of the fire remained undetermined Tuesday and no injuries were reported.
Although most of the region had a brief dousing of rain Monday, thunderstorms kept Wildfire Service crews respond-ing to 52 new wildfires, 50 of those lightning-caused.
Thirty firefighters in the Boundary region were called to 23 new wildfires between Midway and Greenwood, the Southeast
See LIGHTNING, Page 3
B Y V A L E R I E R O S S ITimes Staff
A former workaholic from Quebec is pur-suing his childhood dream of becoming a cowboy, with a trip out West by wagon train.
Pierre Cloutier pulled into Trail Monday night to meet with horse enthusiasts at the Colander. The Back Country Horsemen Club treated him to a meal, gave him eight bales of hay for his horses and $200 to help him along his travels.
Tuesday morning he was off to the Trail Horsemen's Grounds for the night before heading towards more hospitality at the Oasis community hall today and then pointing his four Belgians to Castlegar.
“I had kind of a dead end in Quebec,” he told the Trail Times Tuesday. “I leave a separa-
tion there, and a broken heart and I was kind of a workaholic, so I decided to drop every-thing and sell everything.”
His horses have pulled him and two wag-ons, one a chuck wagon full of his gear and the other a covered wagon for his horses' sup-plies, about 4,800 kilometres to date.
Cloutier and his dog ride up front, travel-ing about 15 kilometres a day and stopping at towns in between. He estimated he's met about 75 people a day in the eight months he's been on the road.
“It's a guy like you who make a difference,” he said to Clay Johnson, a Columbia Gardens resident who donated two bags of horse feed en route Tuesday. Ross Spur's Rene Girolami tags along and directs traffic while Cloutier give his horses some water and a short rest on
the side of the road.The Francophone left his home in the
beginning of November with intentions of heading west to the Okanagan. But now he's waiting for fate to decide where he'll take on his next ambition – starting a country west-ern band and going on tour.
“I decided to cross Canada like the old people did 200 years ago, move out West to find their gold,” he said. “To me, it's my gold, a new world, and new life.”
The self-proclaimed “show cowboy” can't believe the generosity he has received along the way. The winter wasn't as hard as he'd imagined because Canadians opened their doors to him and provided shelter for his animals.
See YEARNING, Page 2
Crews respond to
fire near Casino
Quick action kept blaze contained
VALERIE ROSSI PHOTO
Pierre Cloutier stopped along a shady part of Columbia Gardens Road Tuesday morning to give his horses a rest and talk to the Trail Times about his trip across Canada.
Quebecer on cross-Canada cowboy trek
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The bidding: West has a pass with an exclamation mark. Although one wants to pre-empt the auc-tion as much as legitimately
possible, one does not want to pre-empt bad suits, especially when vulnerable. West must pass.
Even when one is not vulnerable, one needs a good suit to draw trump, especially if declaring doubled or starting the defense with a good lead. Furthermore, if partner sacrifices in one’s suit, and one has lots of values only outside the suit, one may have too much defense to want to sacrifice.
At least, West is not Jack high, but he should have better Spade intermedi-ates and at least another honour. Move the three Diamond cards and the Club Queen to the Spade suit, and it is not a bad weak two (KQJ1098), even vulner-able, because of the stiff in the other major suggesting the opponents may have a contract there.
East passes his eleven-count because it is quacky and has a wasted honour. South has a good 14 points but has the problem minor holding where the
Club suit is longer than the Diamond suit by one. He cannot open One Club and rebid Two Diamonds or Two Hearts after partner makes the inevit-able One Spade response because that
would show a reverse in strength, an ace above a good minimum opening. Therefore, South must lie about length and not strength and open One Diamond and rebid Two Clubs.
South could open One Club and rebid Two Clubs, but misrepresenting one’s hand as single-suited when, in fact, it is three-suited is just bad bidding because one should rarely
misrepresent one’s hand as single-suited when it is two-suited.
North will pick Diamonds, and South will play in a four-three and not the five-three fit. No problem, it is certainly better than No Trump with a Spade void.
The Play: West leads his stiff Heart, and declarer rises with the Ace, refrains from cashing the Spade Ace and leads a small Diamond. East rises with the trump Ace, cashes the Heart King and exits a Heart for West’s ruff.
If South does not cash the Spade
Ace, he will be able to enjoy his fourth and fifth Clubs, otherwise, he won’t see them. South will get one Spade, one Heart, three trump and four Clubs mak-ing +110. He will lose zero Spades, one Heart, two trump and a Club.
If South cashes the Spade Ace at trick two, West will play a Spade after his Heart ruff, and declarer will shorten himself in trump too soon and will get one Spade, one Heart, three trump and two Clubs for down one, -50.
Holding five clubs and four diamonds
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FROM PAGE 1He had planned to stop at stores and
fill up on supplies when needed, but so far he’s gotten by quite well on dona-tions from kind people.
The 41-year-old sports leather chaps, gifted from Alberta, and two knife hol-sters, one engraved with “Lord of Stars,” an English translation for a nickname he received as a kid with a longing to travel under the stars.
“I didn’t have the dream of crossing Canada as a kid, but I had a dream to be a cowboy,” he said.
Growing up in Quebec, Cloutier only knew of the farms with tractors and only dreamt of a real western experience, which further presented itself in the TV show “Little House on the Prairie.”
“I wasn’t watching the stories; I was watching the details of the wagons, the horses,” he said. “I always had a fas-cination for cowboy style and cowboy things.”
He got his first horse at 12 years old and has been horsing around since then. He built his first wagon in 1985 and has dedicated time throughout the years to perfecting it all while keeping it authen-tic looking.
Cloutier has maintained his focus on the way by following three rules: don’t be scared to work hard for what you want, believe in what you’re doing and
break the rules.In his past life, Cloutier worked as
a truck driver, pulling 20-hour days at times, and shared his gift for gab as an auctioneer.
He said he’s found his element and intends to ride out to his next success.
“If you’re following people you’re
going to have the same result,” he said. “If you want something different, you have to do something different and this is what I’m doing.”
West is best for Cloutier, who still has yet to meet a bear in his life and keeps a couple knives nearby should the oppor-tunity to shake a bear’s paw go wrong.
Yearning for the cowboy life
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Pierre Cloutier with one of his five travelling companions - four horses and a dog – taking a shady break along Columbia Gardens Road on Tuesday.
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The beauty of art lies in the eye of the beholder. Certain expres-sionism isn't pretty to some, a debatable art form or, in some cases, a criminal act - especially when it's street art, also known as graffiti.
So when graffiti becomes van-dalism, how can communities counter the defacement of pri-vate and public lands?
After the ongoing spate of spray painting on Trail proper-ties, the local youth centre and a West Kootenay artist aren't turn-ing a blind eye to the illegal practise. In fact they are facing it head on and teaching ways the community's young mem-bers can express themselves with aerosol paint at the right time and in the right place.
Two mural projects are cur-rently underway in both Trail and Salmo for youth aged 13 to 18, offering planning sessions for the design and execution of a graffiti piece that will showcase what the community represents through the vision of a teenager.
“Right now we are brainstorm-ing ideas and getting the juices flowing,” says Coleman Webb, a Nelson-based career artist who's helped various organizations come up with creative solutions to graffiti that support youth. “Typically my workshops are self motivated. Some kids show up without planning to be involved but will eventually become key players in the project.”
He said by allowing self-moti-vation, the sense of ownership to the art piece grows and a sense of pride develops by project comple-tion.
“I have found there are lots of kids eager to get involved but if they don't want to participate, I encourage them to try or suggest they get involved in another way, such as photography, publicity or prep work.”
The second planning session is slated today (Wednesday) from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Columbia Youth Community Development Centre (YCDC) located across from Safeway. Painting of the Trail mural is scheduled for Sept. 5, Sept. 6 and Sept. 13 from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.
The final design will be spray painted on three wooden panels
then installed on the outside wall of YCDC's new locale. The project is twofold – besides highlight-ing youthful talent, the mural will draw attention to the space which is currently nondescript in the block of East Trail brick buildings.
In Salmo, planning times are scheduled at the Salmo Youth Centre on July 28 and July 30 from 4 to 7 p.m., with the mural being painted on the back of the building Aug. 29, Aug. 30 and Sept. 12 from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.
For information and to become part of the mural project, contact Webb at 250.509.0998 or
visit colemanwebb.ca.Graffiti may often express
underlying social and political messages and a whole genre of artistic expression, like hip hop culture and b-boying, is based upon spray paint graffiti styles.
So the mural project is much more than teaching the art form to local youth, says Webb.
“Most youth I have met with and talked to who are interested in graffiti have expressed that they have no place to do their art, legally,” he explained.
“They have an urge to be cre-ative on a large scale and want their work to be public and their
voice be heard.”Feeling pent up and sup-
pressed, Coleman suggests youth may turn to illicit graffiti in the streets to create their “artwork.”
He concedes not everyone classifies the urban display as “art”, but says not dealing with the vandalism is a missed oppor-tunity for creative problem-solv-ing.
“I think what is missed is addressing the youth's needs as members of society,” Webb explained.
“They do have a voice and very specific needs and given the right opportunity and support, they can develop, blossom and grow constructively.”
Other advice he offers, is for those trying to understand graf-fiti or stop it. Webb says youth who tagged a city wall or busi-ness probably didn't do it to hurt or attack anyone personally.
“They probably did it because they are growing up in a pretty scary society that they believe doesn't care about them or their needs,” he continued. “They are probably just saying, ‘hey look at me, I matter,’ or something along those lines.”
Webb added most youth just want an opportunity to paint using freedom of expression.
“By teaching youth about respect and discussing respect for each others space and property, we can come up with solutions for graffiti,” he said.
“This can be addressed by talk-ing about violations of personal property, how it felt to them and how it may feel to someone else. By personifying the offence, the youth may look at vandalism in a different light.”
Graffiti project underway in Trail and Salmo
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Planning sessions are underway for a graffiti project in Trail. The finished piece, which will be completed by youth at the Columbia Youth Community Development Centre, will showcase teenaged artistic expression and draw attention to the group's new location across from Safeway. (Front to back) Sierra Ducker, Mason Mohns, Coleman Webb, Jordan Seaman and youth worker Meagan Zunti.
FROM PAGE 1Fire Centre reported Tuesday morning.
The largest covers 25 hectares and was said to be 100 per cent contained with crews using heavy equipment at the site.
The Christina Lake area was also hit with multiple spot-sized fires, and though many are vis-ible from nearby communities, no structures were under threat at press time.
Within Greater Trail, the fire danger rating remains high, meaning forest fuels are very dry and the fire risk is serious. New
fires may start easily, burn vigor-ously, and challenge fire suppres-sion efforts.
Campfires are restricted throughout the centre’s zone which extends from the US International Border to Mica Dam and from the Okanagan region through the Monashee Mountains to the B.C./Alberta Border. Provincial parks included within the centre are Valhalla, Kokanee Glacier, Monashee, St. Mary’s Alpine, Mount Assiniboine, Top of the World, and Elk Lakes. Borders are also shared with Glacier, Yoho, and Kootenay National Parks.
Lightning ignites another batch of wildfires
B y B i l l M e t c a l f eNelson Star
The company whose truck spilled 33,000 litres of jet fuel into Lemon Creek during a firefighting operation in the summer of 2013 is suing the provincial government and Transwest Helicopters Ltd. for negligence and breach of con-tract.
Executive Flight Centre Fuel Services Inc. filed the action in BC Supreme Court on July 3.
The Calgary-based com-pany provided the fuel for the firefighting operation under
contracts with the provincial government and Transwest Helicopters.
The lawsuit claims the province and Transwest gave Executive Flight Centre’s driver incorrect directions to its helicopter staging area, mistakenly telling him to use Lemon Creek Rd.
“Lemon Creek Rd. had become dangerous,” the state-ment of claim reads. “The prov-ince failed to properly maintain or monitor it. It was situated along the bank of Lemon Creek. As a result of flooding and/or erosion by Lemon Creek, the
bank of the creek on which the road stood has been undercut making the road unsafe for travel. The province was aware that Lemon Creek road had been undercut by Lemon Creek and had taken no steps to fix, remediate, repair, or close it.”
The document also states the government and Transwest knew Lemon Creek Rd. was not the correct route to the staging area, but didn’t provide signage or any instructions to direct the driver.
The action comes on the heels of two other court cases connected to the spill.
Fuel company sues government over 2013 Lemon Creek spill
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Tina was predeceased by her husband Archie, her parents Firovante and Luiga, her sister Mafalda and brother Fred. She is survived by her daughter Carol (Albert), son Bob (Sharon), grandchildren Lisa and Darryl, great-grandchil-dren Avery and Brianne, her sister-in-law Dolly, as well as many nieces and nephews.
Tina lived in Trail since emigrating from Italy when she was � ve years old. She had many friends and was well known for her generous and outgoing, friendly personality. She enjoyed serving the public and worked at various retail outlets in Trail. She was a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles Auxiliary, the Sisters of Colombo, and the Trail Hospital Auxiliary. She volunteered at the Hospital gift shop for 23 years. Mom enjoyed going to Mass, cooking, and camping.
Our family would like to express their heartfelt thanks to Drs. Hume and Benzer as well as all the sta� of Poplar Ridge Pavilion for taking such good care of mom and making her feel so comfortable during her stay.
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B y D e l l a M a l l e t t eGrand Forks GazetteThe journey of
three longboarders making their way from the Alberta border to Vancouver Island real-ly began 17 years ago.
Easton Hays was born with a severe condition known as Gastroscisis and was in a Calgary hospital for the first six weeks of his life. But his par-ents Mike and Eideh lived in Pincher Creek,
and had no money to afford hotel rooms to stay close to him.
Ronald McDonald House welcomed Easton’s parents with open arms.
“We appreciated it so much that this place is available,” father Mike Hays explained, as the boarders stopped in Grand Forks on their journey. “With Easton turning 18, we wanted to do something to
give back.”Easton’s friend
Kieth Green suggested the boarding trip as a way of raising aware-ness and donations to help support Ronald McDonald House Charities Canada to help other families who need that same kind of help.
From the Alberta border to Tofino, Vancouver Island, the trio are facing a total of 1,250 kilometres. Day 8 found them in Grand Forks for a welcome day-long f u r l o u g h — K i e t h ’s grandparents, Gary and Marnie Green, live here and provided warm beds and hot showers.
“We’ve slept under the stars, we’ve had a motel—tonight’s stop, we’ll be half-way to Osoyoos, we’ll just have to make a lean-to,” Mike said, explaining that to reduce weight, they
gave up their tents.“We are just carry-
ing a water purifying pump so we can drink from any water source we pass, and we are mailing supplies to towns via general delivery to give us any needed items we don’t want to carry,” Mike said.
Their boards are handling the 50-kilo-metre-per-day trip well. An Australian company, Brakeboard, gave all three a set of disc brakes—invalu-able on the mountain-ous roads.
“People have been honking and waving; they’re been amazingly helpful,” Easton said.
Their goal is to raise $50,000. The best way to donate is to go their Facebook page, Journey of Dreams. Under the “About Us” tab is a website link where donations can be made directly.
“Then there’s no
question that the money is going to Ronald McDonald House,” Easton con-firmed.
So give the Joureny of Dreams page a Facebook Like and a
Share, and consider heading on the Ronald McDonald site to make a donation.
And why will their journey end in Tofino? They wanted to reward their efforts with an
afternoon of surfing and sand. “A happy and worthwhile end-ing. An ending we wish for every family who is suffering the chal-lenges of a child in the hospital.”
Longboarders riding across B.C. to support charity
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Golfing, lots of laughs and plenty of prizes are all “fore” a good cause Thursday at Redstone Resort.
Golf Fore the Cure tour-nament is in its third year of raising money that stays local to help people affected by cancer.
“This is the only one held in the West Kootenay and we ask that our money is used to help the Kootenay people in need of help for stays or prosthesis etc. who are affected by cancer,” says Deborah deTremaudan, a volunteer who began the tournament two years ago.
Since 2013, the event has raised about $3,000 each summer and this season, organizers are hoping to get the word out, and up the ante by doubling the num-ber of participants.
Entrance fees for Redstone members is $44 and $69 for non-members. Besides making a donation to the Canadian Cancer Society, tickets include din-ner in the clubhouse and plenty of prizes and door prizes, says event volunteer
Kelly Rintoul.“The biggest part of
this, is that it is fun,” she explained. “It's a fun scram-ble, you don't have to be a good golfer and it's open to men and women.”
Golfers can sign up indi-vidually, in teams of two, or in teams of four.
So far, 42 golfers are ready up to kick off the tournament with a 5p.m. shotgun start in a nine hole scramble.
"We are happy to see so much support from the
community to raise funds for a much needed cause," said deTremaudan. “But to Golf Fore the Cure you don't 'have' to fundraise, just come out and join us.”
Golf Canada's Golf Fore the Cure event is aimed at growing women's participa-tion in the game of golf.
A unique element to the program, which is a part-nership with the Canadian Cancer Society and Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation, allows women from across the country to participate
in golf activities and raise money for a cause close to all women's hearts, breast cancer research.
To date, Golf Fore the Cure has raised over $4.5 million towards the fight against cancer.
Participants are encour-aged to dress “pink” and decorate their carts in “pink” if they so wish, but it is not required, added Rintoul.
For information, contact the Redstone Pro Shop at 362.9141.
Golf fundraiser for cancer tees off Thursday
t h e a S S O C i a t e D P r e S SNASHVILLE - Grammy-winning songwriter Wayne Carson, who wrote hits like the
Willie Nelson classic “Always On My Mind,” and The Box Tops’ “The Letter,” has died. He was 72.
Carson died on Monday in Nashville, Tennessee, in hospice care after a lengthy ill-ness, according to family friend Shirley Hutchins.
He got his first No. 1 hit in 1966 on “Somebody Like Me,” performed by Eddy Arnold, and his songs have been covered by artists across genres, from Elvis Presley to Al Green. “Always On My Mind,” co-written with Johnny Christopher and Mark James, won two Grammy Awards in 1982.
He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1997.
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B y T . C u n n i n g h a mNanaimo News Bulletin
Nanaimo city offi-cials want to build a new regional team to help control Vancouver Island’s Canada geese population.
The City of Nanaimo is about to call on gov-ernments and wildlife experts to join forces on a regional strategy to manage a persistent Canada geese problem. The move will see the new group look beyond municipal boundaries at the bird’s popula-tion numbers and the tools they can employ to control the geese, including relocation and a potential cull.
A regional strat-egy makes sense with the resident birds moving between east Vancouver Island com-munities, according to Kevin Brydges, the city’s environmental bylaw enforcement officer. If Nanaimo, for example, took an approach to deal with the birds here, is it a futile effort consid-ering it may get more birds from the north and south Island?
“Instead of five of us working apart, we’re trying to get together and work together,” he said.
Canada geese aren’t a native resident bird to the Island. Young were transplanted in the 1960s and ’70s as part of an introduction program to Vancouver Island to boost wild-life viewing and sport hunting opportunities, a city report shows. They didn’t learn to seasonally migrate, with little opportun-ity to learn behaviour from mature geese and like other urban-ized animals like deer and rabbits, lack the stressors of predators and being out in the wild. They’re becom-
ing a public concern, with feces scattered on lake beaches, parks and damage done to agricultural lands and estuaries.
The city has tried to manage popula-tions with an egg-addling program and temporary measures like scaring geese with noisemakers and dogs, and reloca-tion. Twenty-three geese were relocated to Cottle Lake, from Westwood, this year.
The city will be consulting with local governments and stakeholders like the Canadian Wildlife Service and Guardians of Mid-Island Estuaries in an effort to create a new committee.
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Penticton City Council came close to having its shortest meeting ever on July 20.
A huge rally that drew hundreds of protesters to the steps of City Hall prior to the regular council meeting Monday evening. Opponents of a deal that would see a portion of Skaha Lake Park leased to private interests were in the majority, but there were a significant number supporting the plan to build a water slide complex next to the marina at the east side of the park.
After rallying outside for 45 minutes, many of the crowd took seats in council chambers and an overflow room. As council took their own seats, they were treated them to a rousing rendition of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land.”
But the mood darkened when Mayor Andrew Jakubeit informed the crowd that the Skaha Lake project was not on the agenda and would not be discussed.
As the audience raised their voices in protest and question, Jakubeit tried to override them, threatening to adjourn the meeting, which drove the audience to higher levels of shouting.
Jakubeit recessed the meeting, but protesters stayed, with the fac-tion opposing the leasing of park land milling about council chambers until RCMP Cpl. Don Wrigglesworth entered and asked them to clear the gallery.
As council reconvened, Wrigglesworth stayed on scene, informing protesters that if anyone disturbed the peace, he would escort them from city hall. Council reconvened at 6:30 p.m., making some adjust-ments to their agenda and cancelling a planned public hearing on another matter.
“It was disappointing that the gallery got unruly,” said Jakubeit after the meeting. He refused to say, however, whether council would reconsider their June 29 decision to enter into the long-term lease with Trio Marine Group.
“I don’t want to make any comment on, or a decision on a motion that is fueled by what took place tonight,” he said.
Protesters force city council into recess
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T h e C a n a d i a n P R e S SVANCOUVER - For Metro Vancouver lawns,
brown is the new green.Metro Vancouver, the authority that governs
the water supply for 21 cities and municipalities, has banned the use of sprinklers in an effort to conserve its shrinking reservoirs.
Stage 3 water restrictions mean all forms of residential lawn watering are restricted, although flower and vegetable gardens can still be watered by hose with a spring-loaded shut-off nozzle.
Metro Vancouver Chairman Greg Moore said Monday the three water reservoirs in the dis-trict are at 69 per cent capacity, down from the 74-per-cent level last week.
He said 2.4-million residents were using 1.35-billion litres of water daily.
“Because our water reservoirs are lower than our projected average ... and we don’t see a lot of water in the foreseeable future, we need to reduce the amount of water that we consume to 1.2-billion litres of water a day.”
If that goal is met, Moore said, area residents should be able to get by with the current water supply until October with little to no rain.
All of B.C.’s South Coast, Vancouver Island and the Lower Fraser Valley are experiencing Level 4 drought conditions, which are rated as extremely dry.
The tightened conditions also mean home-owners won’t be able to refill their backyard pools, wash their cars and pressure washing is banned. Commercial car washing is still allowed.
Metro Vancouver lived through Stage 3 restric-tions once before during the 2003 dry spell.
“This isn’t something that we do regularly,” said Moore. “This is extraordinary for us. Even when we went through it in 2003, we didn’t do it this early on in the season, either.”
The water levels are currently where they
would be at the end of August or beginning of September, he added.
Small changes can make a big difference, he said, pointing out that many people run water until it gets cold when they’re filling a glass.
“We’re guilty in our own house,” he said. “Fill up a jug of water and put it in the fridge and then you don’t have run it - it’s cold.”
The dry conditions have prompted warnings about the dangers to returning salmon in shal-low rivers and have spurred almost 1,200 forest fires since early April.
Nanaimo seeks regional strategy to deal with geese
Metro Vancouver’s Stage 3 of water restrictions means no lawn sprinkling
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B.C. wildfire threatening homes along the west side of Okanagan Lake grew dramat-ically Tuesday morning.
The Westside Road blaze had burned just a few hec-tares about 20 kilometres north of West Kelowna since it was sparked by lightning on Sunday, but it flared up in stiff winds on Monday.
Regional District spokes-man Bruce Smith said it had charred 1.75-square kilo-metres of timber and bush on steep hillside above the lake and remained uncontained.
Evacuation orders were issued late Monday for 70 properties including several along Westside Road, the main route between West Kelowna and the north Okanagan.
“The fire came really close to some of the structures,” Smith said. “But at this point, even though it is an active fire, we are not aware of any structures known to be lost.”
Evacuation alerts were also issued for other properties in the region and BC Hydro said 1,400 customers were without power after the utility had to cut electricity as the fire came close to a transmission line.
Another major blaze in the Shuswap region southwest of Salmon Arm grew to three-square kilometres since it was
sparked Monday and prompted evacuation orders for 24 prop-erties, including one resort, around Bolean Lake.
Evacuation alerts have also been issued for several other areas of the province, includ-ing 28 homes near Ashcroft close to the 2.5-square kilo-metre Coldstream wildfire and 80 properties near Bear Creek Provincial Park, just outside West Kelowna.
Provincial Fire Information Officer Kevin Skrepnek says 60 fires were sparked within 24 hours on Monday and almost all were caused by lightning.
There have been almost 1,200 wildfires this season in B.C. and there are currently 216 burning, 15 of which are considered major fires.
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OPINION
Towns in turmoil while province fiddlesIf the screams for help
are any indication it would seem a few town councils aren’t settling
in so well following last November’s elections.
Couple of common themes: the life expect-ancy of what may be the most risky job in civic life and old-fashioned col-legiality.
Since the last tally, a few more towns have said “au revoir” to their Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), includ-ing: the Regional District of Central Kootenay, Fraser Lake, Kitimat and Sicamous.
Lillooet terminated one CAO in September 2013, hired a new one three months later who quit last month. Penticton’s CAO quit in January, an inter-im CAO was appointed in February who quit in June too.
There’s also a bit of a musical chairs quality with the CAO file.
Mission said goodbye to its CAO in February who then emerged as a finan-cial consultant to Lillooet (desperately needed one) and Kitimat said goodbye
this month to its CAO who is moving on to take up the position in Mission.
Sadly, the civic may-hem isn’t limited to staff-ing, it’s cross-contamin-ated a few council cham-bers, sometimes making the Hatfield and McCoy feud seem like an episode of the Brady Bunch.
Consider these head-lines: Bitterness lingers as Lantzville’s council implodes; Tensions flare in Pouce Coupe coun-cil dispute; White Rock councillor censured over online ‘defamation;’ Volunteer firefighters in Chase, B.C. being bullied by mayor.
And that’s just in the last 90 days.
In Grand Forks – as if the city didn’t have enough problems after firing their CAO last December pay-ing him $200,000 in sev-erance and rehiring him two months later – coun-cil has circled the wagons with guns squarely aimed inwards.
They’ve picked a fight between themselves by serving papers on one councillor to have her dis-qualified over an alleged
conflict of interest.The city claims coun-
cillor Julia Butler was in a conflict over a vote on the city’s water meter work program while owning a seasonal gardening busi-ness. Butler is fighting the move.
And in a remarkable display of civic pride, Grand Forks’s mayor Frank Konrad ended a recent CBC interview with: “Would you really think this is a great com-munity to live in with what is going on with city government?”
Further north, in Pouce Coupe, they’ve already had one by-election since last November’s elections and – as the Alaska Highway
News has pointed out – tensions are flaring.
Rumours are rife in the village that efforts are afoot to bully one council-lor off council. The bad blood has entangled the mayor, a Facebook page, a citizen’s watchdog group and the the RCMP.
Note to Grand Forks and Pouce Coupe: coun-cils aren’t tree forts where you get to vote to keep the girls out.
In Lantzville, four of seven councillors just cut to the chase and quit, as did two senior staff.
Next door in Nanaimo, council is bringing new meaning to damn the torpedoes when it comes to debating the future of Colliery Dam Park.
According to the Nanaimo Daily News, “pas-sions seethed” at a council meeting this month. One resident stormed out of the meeting yelling, “he’s the mayor, not the king.”
In Lillooet, residents woke up in April to learn that the district had spent $204,817 in legal and aud-iting costs in about 15 months, a little shy of $90 for every man, woman and
child in the community. It includes $30,437 in legal fees so that a former CAO could sue a handful of residents for defamation.
This month residents got to wake up to the news that the consult-ant the district hired to review its finances doesn’t “have confidence in the numbers used as the basis for the District’s 2015 budget.”
Warm fuzzy feelings all round no doubt, but not much of a surprise for a town that’s had three mayors and is now look-ing for its third CAO since 2012.
It’s time for someone in Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development Coralee Oakes’s office to answer the phone before things go really south.
Otherwise former Alberta Municipal Affairs minister Doug Griffiths – who once wrote a book entitled “13 ways to kill your community” – will have a few more chapters to add in the next edition.
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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SOTTAWA - What
voters will decide on Oct. 19 is beyond the Conservatives’ control. But one thing is firmly in their grasp: when to drop the writs that will take them to the polls.
Exactly what day Prime Minister Stephen Harper will visit the Governor General to make the formal request to dissolve Parliament and call the election has been the source of weeks of polit-ical speculation. And with good reason - it’s ultimately a pol-itical calculus of the Conservatives’ own devising.
Although a law passed in 2007 set a fixed election date for Parliament, it didn’t set a fixed length on how long the elec-tion campaign could be, only how short - no less than 37 days including the day it begins.
Fast forward to 2014 and the introduc-tion and subsequent passage of the conten-tious Fair Elections Act, which among other things changed the rules around cam-paign finance.
In short - the long-er the campaign, the
more everyone can spend.
As the party sitting on the biggest war chest, there’s no ques-tion the Conservatives would want to start the election sooner rather than later, the New Democrats suggested.
“Word is Stephen Harper could call the election early, in as lit-tle as 25 days,” reads a fundraising pitch sent by the party last week.
“It’s not hard to see why - the long-er the election, the more money the Conservatives can spend attacking us.”
The sooner the writs are dropped, the soon-er the Conservatives could also poten-tially curb third-party groups like Engage Canada, a union-backed organization currently running ads against them, much to their frustration.
Right now, groups like that also have no limits on spending, but if they spend $500 on ads after an election call, they must register as a third party. Then, limits come into effect, though they are also increased according to the length of the elec-tion.
Then there’s the other side of the polit-
ical coin.Once the election
has begun, govern-ment institutions can no longer advertise unless they have a legal obligation to do so or it’s a public safety matter.
At the same time, limits are imposed on what political parties can spend.
So, among the cal-culations being made in the Conservative war room is what’s worth more - attack ads on their oppon-ents, funded by party dollars that are limited by law; or limitless tax-payer-funded ads they could be running pro-moting their policies.
For a while, they were doing both in tan-dem. Health Canada at one point had an ad campaign against drug abuse which was running at the same time as a radio ad from the Conservative Party attacking Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau for his stance on the legalization of mari-juana.
Just last week, the department announced it was put-ting its drug-abuse campaign back on the air until Aug. 8.
That’s around when most Conservative insiders think Harper will go to Rideau Hall.
Government spend-ing announcements are on the calendars
for some departments right up until the end of July, though this week’s roll out of the universal child care benefit cheques is considered among the final major things on the government’s to-do list before for-mally going to the polls.
Then, there is the first leaders’ debate, set for Aug. 6, which will allow Harper the opportunity to set a political tone and pot-entially gather foot-age that can be turned around immediately into advertising.
Meanwhile, some staffers have been told to make sure their bank accounts are flush enough by mid-August to cover off their rent for a few months, as many will be taking unpaid leaves of absence to work on the campaigns.
That’s not to say campaign planes will take flight right away. Harper told MPs in June he had no inten-tion of spending all of August traipsing across the country. It’s more likely that the official machine won’t rev up fully until Labour Day.
He has, however, cancelled his usual August trip - the annual tour to the Arctic.
There’s no word on whether the Governor
General has also been told to clear his cal-endar in early August to formally kick start
the vote. Rideau Hall never discusses any-thing related to pol-itics.
And from the prime minister’s office itself, only two words:
“Stay tuned.”
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The process is informally known as “drop-ping the writ,” though in the Canadian context it is more appropriately called “drop-ping the writs” since a formal written order calling an election must be issued for each of Canada’s 338 federal ridings.
Here are some facts about the process and its implications for the campaign trail:
The fixed date:The 2007 law that created a fixed election
date specifies that a general election must be held on the third Monday of October in the fourth calendar year following polling day for the last general election.
However, nothing in the law affects the power of the Governor General to dissolve Parliament at his discretion.
What that means is that an election could be called before that fixed date, if the Governor General was asked.
While there is a fixed date for the vote, there is no fixed date on which the writs must be issued. However, the amount of time between the two must be at least 36 days, making for a minimum 37-day election per-iod in total.
And a few other things:The media as well as the bureaucracy also
have guidelines they must follow.For example, once the campaign begins,
media must observe a specific set of rules around the reporting of public opinion polls, including reporting on the questions being ask in the poll.
For their part, government institutions must cease nearly all advertising, unless they’re legally required to do it or it’s a ques-tion of public safety.
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When walking or driv-ing through downtown Trail, one can’t help but notice the beautiful murals and statues that are scattered throughout the town.
What many people may fail to notice is the lack of women and girls represented in these.
I counted a total of three females in the statues and murals.
One women in the mural by the A&W is sitting in a chair outside of a business. It reminded me of our Dick and Jane readers in Elementary School, “See Dick run. See Jane do nothing.”
The other two females are in the beautiful statue by the bridge.
The statues at the bottom of the Gulch are of a man and a
young boy with a hockey stick and another young boy with a bat.
Hopefully, in the future, when a new mural or statue is being planned, the other half of Trail’s population will be more fairly represented. I guess Women’s Lib still has a long way to go.
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A few weeks ago, at the height of the panic in the Chinese stock mar-kets, a sour joke was
doing the rounds: “Last month, the dog was eating what I eat. Last week, I was eating what the dog eats. This week, I think I’ll eat the dog.” A lot of people have lost a lot of money.
The Chinese governent is permanently terrified. It is ter-rified of climate change, of slowing economic growth, even of a fall in the stock market – of anything that might cause the population to turn decisively against it. When you are running a 66-year-old d i c t a t o r s h i p , and your only remaining cred-ibility in the public’s eyes is your abil-ity to keep liv-ing standards rising, any kind of change is frightening.
How terrified is it? Consider its reaction to the recent sharp fall in the two main Chinese stock markets. China has a capitalist economy, albeit a highly distorted one, and stock markets are a normal part of such economies. They go up, they go down, and normally governments do not intervene in the process.
The Chinese stock markets have recently been on a roller-coaster ride.
After treading water for years, prices exploded in June 2014. Over the next year, there was a 150 per cent average rise in prices on the Shanghai Composite exchange, and almost 200 per cent on the Shenzhen.
Obviously this was not sustainable, especially since
growth in the real economy has been falling for years. A “correction” was inevitable.
It came with a bang, on June 12 of this year. Since then prices have fallen 30 percent on the Shanghai market, 40 per cent on the Shenzhen. Around $4 trillion in paper values have been wiped out – but so what? Chinese stock prices are still far higher than they were a year ago. Indeed, at an average of 20 times earnings they are still overvalued by real-world
standards.Why would any
government inter-vene over this? Some investors will win, some will lose, and it will all work itself out. But the Chinese government inter-vened in a very big way.
First it cut interest rates to the lowest level
ever. When that didn’t stop the slide in prices, it banned large investors (holding more than 5 percent of a listed company’s shares) and all foreign invest-ors from selling their shares for six months.
Anything and everything to stop the prices from falling, and lo! They did stop. Last week, prices even rose a bit.
This may just be what trad-ers call a “dead cat bounce” – if the price falls from high enough, there is bound to be a little bit of a bounce at the bottom – but that is mainly of interest to Chinese investors. The interesting question for the rest of us is: why did the Chinese Communist regime do all this?
Because there are 90 mil-lion private investors in the Chinese stock markets. They tend to be older (two-thirds
of them didn’t finish high school), they have been bet-ting their savings on the mar-ket – and according to state media they have lost, on aver-age, 420,000 yuan ($67,000) in the past six weeks.
So the regime intervened. This may be because the Chinese Communist Party loves the citizens so much that it cannot bear to see them lose. It is more likely to be because it is frightened that those tens of millions of stock-market losers (who were officially encour-aged to invest) will start pro-testing in the streets. Whether the Chinese regime’s power is secure or not, it certainly does not FEEL secure.
This latest government action is part of a pattern that extends back to the global bank crisis of 2008, after which China was the only major country to avoid a recession. It did so by flooding the economy with cheap money.
So few people lost their jobs, but the artificial invest-ment boom created a bubble in the housing market that is now starting to deflate: millions of properties lie empty, and mil-lions of mortgages are “under water”.
Sooner or later, this game is going to run out of road. The risk is that China’s road ends where Japan’s thirty years of high-speed growth ended in the late 1980s, with a collapse to 2 percent growth or less and a quarter-century of economic stagnation.
China is around the thirty-year point now, and its regime is doing all the same things that the Japanese government did just before the collapse there.
Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.
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Every once and awhile a team comes together at the right time, with the right mix and the right leadership and history is made.
Such was the case in 1979 when a group of young hockey players were selected to represent B.C. at the Canada Winter Games in Brandon, Man.
And the rest, as they say, is history.This weekend that team, which includes Rossland’s Barry
Zanier, a forward, goaltender Dan McFarland of Warfield and defencemen Steve Unti of Trail and Bruno Tassone of Castlegar, will be inducted in to the BC Hockey Hall of Fame.
They’ll join the 2015 class of inductees, which includes former Vancouver Canuck captain Markus Naslund, Stanley Cup winner Rob Niedermayer from Cranbrook and current NHL assistant coach and former Canuck Curt Fraser.
But for the four local inductees, the weekend provides an opportunity to revisit a moment etched in time with their comrades who made it possible.
“I’m sure some of the faces will look different,” admitted Zanier. “But the bond remains tight.”
That sentiment was echoed by each of the local players when recalling that six-month whirlwind that culminated with an 8-0 win over Nova Scotia in the gold medal game.
“I remember how well the guys got along without even knowing each other,” said McFarland.
“I remember just the way a group of guys, who have never played together before, were able to come together from Day One,” added Zanier.
Tassone, who served as an assistant captain on the team of predominantly Junior B players, credited the team’s suc-cess to its “unity.”
“The team was unbelievable. I think it was the way the coach picked the team. We gelled very well,” he added. “Everyone knew their role.”
Head coach Colin Patterson, who was inducted to the
Hall in 2013, was a mainstay in local hockey circles as a Cranbrook coach known for his calm and positive demeanor.
“I learned more about hockey in those few months,” said Unti. “I think it was a testament to the volunteers involved. We had talent but we also had coaching.”
Zanier, who is an assistant coach with the Trail Smoke Eaters, recalled Patterson’s calm presence behind the bench.
“In the opening game against Quebec, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau came out for the ceremonial puck drop. Then when he left he shook the Quebec players’ hands but not ours. I think that rattled us a bit but Colin calmed us down.”
B.C. went on to roll over Quebec en route to four straight wins, the gold medal and completing a string of 13 straight wins, which began during exhibition matches prior to the Games.
“We had such a solid team,” said Zanier. “There was no first or second lines.”
Even the gold medal game provided no match for the B.C. boys. The team beat P.E.I. 13-2 in the semifinal and didn’t slow down against Nova Scotia.
“It was the only game where I was nervous,” admitted Tassone.
“We jumped on (Nova Scotia) right away and Dan was outstanding in goal,” said Zanier.
McFarland, one of the youngest players on the team, didn’t know what to make of all the fuss around the final, where he notched his first ever shutout.
“When I got home and they interviewed me I said I just stopped the puck, gave to the defencemen, they gave it to the wingers and they scored.”
Simple as that. Yet it still stands out.“It was a memorable event,” said Unti.He said the team didn’t get to attend the opening cere-
monies but took part in the closing ceremonies with a gold medal hanging around their necks.
“That was cool,” said Unti.All those emotions and memories will come rushing back
to the forefront this weekend as the team will be celebrated in Penticton with events throughout the weekend high-lighted by the induction ceremony on Friday.
The team will join the likes of the 1938 and 1961 world champion Trail Smoke Eaters, the 1955 world cham-pion Penticton Vees and 1937 world champion Kimberley Dynamiters as teams who have all been inducted into the BC Hockey Hall of Fame.
Golden team gets the call from the Hallthe 1979 Canada Winter Games champion hockey team, which included locals Steve
Unti, Dan McFarland, Barry Zanier and Bruno tassone, will be inducted into the
BC Hockey Hall of Fame on Friday
Photo courtesy of the Bc hockey hall of fame
Team BC captured the gold medal with an 8-0 win over Nova Scotia at the 1979 Canada Winter Games in Brandon, Man. The team will be honoured this weekend when it is inducted into the BC Hockey Hall of Fame.
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Double-A Orioles book spot in
Washington state championships
B y t i m e s s t a f fThe Trail AA Orioles are off to the Washington
State American Legion Championships.The team booked its ticket to the state finals
winning three of four games at the district play-offs in Spokane on the weekend.
After opening with an 8-1 win over University High last Thursday, the team defeated Mead 8-7 on Friday to move them within one win of the top two seeds on Saturday.
However, they went up against Mt. Spokane in a battle of undefeated teams and fell 8-2.
Trail still had two opportunities to advance and made the most of their next chance in a matchup against Pullman.
Despite falling behind 4-1 after four innings, the Orioles mounted the comeback by loading the bases for Reese Tambellini to deliver a two-RBI single, which eventually led to a four-run inning and a 5-4 lead.
Trail tacked on two more runs to carry a 7-4 lead into the seventh.
But Pullman wasn’t going quietly.The team loaded the bases with one out before
Brendan McKay zeroed in and closed the door to seal Trail’s berth in the state championships beginning Saturday in Lacey and Olympia, Wash.
“We pitched really well all weekend,” said coach Kyle Mace. “And our good players played great.”
While the players were excited at the prospect of competing for a state title, Mace joked that there were plenty of nerves in the crowd in the late stages of Sunday’s win over Pullman.
“I think the parents were more nervous than the players.”
B y t i m e s s t a f fWith the meet schedule creeping closer to
the regional championships, the Trail Stingrays continue to hone their skills in the pool.
Last weekend, the club good a good look at the site of next month’s regionals with the annual Castlegar Aquanauts Swim Meet in Castlegar.
With the pool also hosting the regionals on Aug. 8 and 9, it was a perfect opportunity for the swimmers to acclimatize themselves to the Castlegar swimming complex.
With that in mind, the Stingrays took full advantage posting several personal best times and collecting a total of six aggregate medals with members of the coaching staff leading by example.
Junior coach Diego Greenwood placed first in Div. 5; assistant coach of the Rossland program, Jennifer Chung, was first in Div. 7 and head coach Samme Beatson was third in Div. 8.
Following their coaches’ cues, Kayla Fraser took gold in the Open Category 2, Logan Blair was second in Div. 6 and Juliana Zhou was third in Div. 4.
Of note, Reuben Demmler had an amazing weekend with six personal best times taking off a total of 51 seconds in his races.
Not only did the Stingrays have success indi-vidually but some teamwork led to great results too.
See RELAY, Page 10
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Stingrays test the waters in Castlegar
SportS
ScoreboardNational League
East Division W L Pct GBWashington 50 41 .549 -New York 48 45 .516 3Atlanta 44 49 .473 7Miami 38 55 .409 13Philadelphia 33 62 .347 19
Central Division W L Pct GBSt. Louis 58 34 .630 -Pittsburgh 54 38 .587 4Chicago 49 42 .538 8 1/2Cincinnati 41 49 .456 16Milwaukee 41 52 .441 17 1/2
West Division W L Pct GBLos Angeles 53 41 .564 -San Franc 49 44 .527 3 1/2San Diego 44 49 .473 8 1/2Arizona 43 48 .473 8 1/2Colorado 40 51 .440 11 1/2Wednesday’s GamesL.A. Dodgers (Bolsinger 4-3) at Atlanta (Teheran 6-4), 12:10 p.m.Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 4-4) at Cincinnati (Leake 7-5), 12:35 p.m., 1st gameN.Y. Mets (Syndergaard 4-5) at Washington (Zimmermann 8-5), 12:35 p.m.Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 5-6) at Philadelphia (Morgan 1-2), 1:05 p.m.Cleveland (Co.Anderson 2-1) at Milwaukee (Lohse 5-10), 2:10 p.m.Texas (M.Perez 0-1) at Colorado (J.De La Rosa 6-4), 3:10 p.m.San Francisco (M.Cain 1-1) at San Diego (Shields 8-3), 3:40 p.m.Chicago Cubs (Beeler 0-0) at Cincinnati (Cingrani 0-3), 6:10 p.m., 2nd gamePittsburgh (Morton 6-3) at Kansas City (Volquez 8-5), 8:10 p.m.St. Louis (Lynn 7-5) at Chicago White Sox (Danks 5-8), 8:10 p.m.Miami (Fernandez 2-0) at Arizona (Ray 3-4), 9:40 p.m.
National League leaders AB H BAGoldschmidt, ARI 328 112 .341Gordon, MIA 361 122 .338Harper, WAS 287 96 .334Escobar, WAS 319 103 .323Tulowitzki, COL 303 97 .320Panik, S-F 344 109 .317Aoki, S-F 262 83 .317Posey, S-F 319 101 .317Parra, MIL 288 90 .313LeMahieu, COL 327 102 .312
RUNS-Harper, Washington, 62; Pollock, Arizona, 61; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 60; Fowler, Chicago, 57; Frazier, Cincinnati, 56; Blackmon, Colorado, 55; AGonzalez, Los Angeles, 55.RBI-Arenado, Colorado, 72; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 72; Stanton, Miami, 67; Harper, Washington, 64; Posey, San Francisco, 64; AGonzalez, Los Angeles, 60; Frazier, Cincinnati, 58.HOME RUNS-Harper , Washington, 27; Stanton, Miami, 27; Frazier, Cincinnati, 26; Arenado, Colorado, 24; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 21; AGonzalez, Los Angeles, 21; Pederson, Los Angeles, 20.PITCHING-GCole, Pittsburgh, 13-3; Arrieta, Chicago, 11-5; Wacha, St. Louis, 10-3; CMartinez, St. Louis, 10-4; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 10-5; Scherzer, Washington, 10-8; Greinke, Los Angeles, 9-2; Heston, San Francisco, 9-5.ERA-Greinke, Los Angeles, 1.30; Scherzer, Washington, 2.09; deGrom, New York, 2.14; GCole, Pittsburgh, 2.30; SMiller, Atlanta, 2.33; Burnett, Pittsburgh, 2.44.S T R I K E O U T S - K e r s h a w , Los Angeles, 174; Scherzer, Washington, 158; Shields, San Diego, 137; Arrieta, Chicago, 133; Liriano, Pittsburgh, 125; TRoss, San Diego, 124; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 124; Hamels, Philadelphia, 124.SAVES-Melancon, Pittsburgh, 30; Storen, Washington, 28; Familia, New York, 27.
American LeagueEast Division
W L Pct GBNew York 50 41 .549 -Baltimore 46 45 .505 4Toronto 47 47 .500 4 1/2Tampa Bay 47 48 .495 5Boston 42 51 .452 9
Central Division W L Pct GBKansas City 55 36 .604 -Minnesota 50 42 .543 5 1/2Detroit 46 46 .500 9 1/2Cleveland 44 47 .484 11Chicago 42 48 .467 12 1/2
West Division W L Pct GBLos Angeles 52 40 .565 -Houston 51 43 .543 2Texas 43 49 .467 9Oakland 43 51 .457 10Seattle 42 51 .452 10 1/2Wednesday’s GamesTampa Bay (Odorizzi 5-6) at Philadelphia (Morgan 1-2), 1:05 p.m.Cleveland (Co.Anderson 2-1) at Milwaukee (Lohse 5-10), 2:10 p.m.Texas (M.Perez 0-1) at Colorado (J.De La Rosa 6-4), 3:10 p.m.Baltimore (Gausman 1-1) at N.Y. Yankees (Nova 1-3), 7:05 p.m.Seattle (Montgomery 4-3) at Detroit (An.Sanchez 9-7), 7:08 p.m.Boston (Miley 8-8) at Houston (McHugh 10-5), 8:10 p.m.Pittsburgh (Morton 6-3) at Kansas City (Volquez 8-5), 8:10 p.m.St. Louis (Lynn 7-5) at Chicago White Sox (Danks 5-8), 8:10 p.m.Minnesota (Pelfrey 5-6) at L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 7-7), 10:05 p.m.Toronto (Doubront 1-0) at Oakland (Gray 10-4), 10:05 p.m.
American League leaders AB H BACabrera, DET 277 97 .350Fielder, TEX 354 120 .339Kipnis, CLE 359 117 .326Iglesias, DET 268 86 .321Cain, K-C 313 100 .319Bogaerts, BOS 330 102 .309Trout, LAA 339 104 .307Burns, OAK 285 86 .302Cruz, SEA 342 103 .301Moustakas, K-C 316 95 .301
RUNS-Trout, Los Angeles, 71; Dozier, Minnesota, 70; Donaldson, Toronto, 67; Gardner, New York, 64; Kipnis, Cleveland, 61; Bautista, Toronto, 59; JMartinez, Detroit, 59.RBI-KMorales, Kansas City, 65; Bautista, Toronto, 63; Teixeira, New York, 63; Donaldson, Toronto, 62; JMartinez, Detroit, 60; Pujols, Los Angeles, 60; BMcCann, New York, 58.HOME RUNS-Pujols, Los Angeles, 29; Trout, Los Angeles, 28; JMartinez, Detroit, 26; Teixeira, New York, 23; Donaldson, Toronto, 22; NCruz, Seattle, 21; Dozier, Minnesota, 20; MMachado, Baltimore, 20.STOLEN BASES-Altuve, Houston, 26; Burns, Oakland, 19; LCain, Kansas City, 18; DeShields, Texas, 15; Gardner, New York, 15; 6 tied at 14.PITCHING-Keuchel, Houston, 12-4; FHernandez, Seattle, 11-5; Gray, Oakland, 10-4; McHugh, Houston, 10-5; Buehrle, Toronto, 10-5; Richards, Los Angeles, 10-6.ERA-Keuchel, Houston, 2.12; Gray, Oakland, 2.29; Santiago, Los Angeles, 2.30; Price, Detroit, 2.32; Kazmir, Oakland, 2.38; Archer, Tampa Bay, 2.73; FHernandez, Seattle, 2.77.STRIKEOUTS-Sale, Chicago, 163; Kluber, Cleveland, 159; Archer, Tampa Bay, 153; Carrasco, Cleveland, 128; Price, Detroit, 127; Keuchel, Houston, 127; FHernandez, Seattle, 117.SAVES-Perkins, Minnesota, 28; Street, Los Angeles, 24; Britton, Baltimore, 24; Boxberger, Tampa Bay, 23; Uehara, Boston, 22; Soria, Detroit, 21; AMiller, New York, 20; DavRobertson, Chicago, 20; GHolland, Kansas City, 20.
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Two local athletes at the Pan Am Games in Toronto had their teams post winning results on Monday.
The Canadians made a big splash in their first ever Pan Am women’s baseball game, routing Cuba 13-1.
Women’s baseball is making its Pan Am debut this year.
Bradi Wall of Guelph, Ont., led Canada with four runs batted in, including two in an eight-run sixth inning for the Canadians.
Fruitvale’s Ella
Matteucci was not in the lineup.
The team was back on the field last night against Venezuela. Results were unavail-able at press time.
Today the team takes on Puerto Rico and wraps up the round robin on Friday against the United States.
Meanwhile, the Canadian women’s field hockey team defeated Uruguay 2-0 in their quarter-final match on Monday.
The women will play the defending cham-pion United States on Wednesday in the semifinals with the winner advancing to the gold-medal game on Friday.
Vancouver’s Abigail Raye and Karli Johansen of North Vancouver had the goals for Canada.
Rossland’s Thea Culley was held off the scoresheet but she did score once in the team’s 4-0 win over Mexico on Friday.
PAn Am GAmes
Women win first baseball game, field hockey squad on to semis2015 Pan Am Medal Standings
TORONTO - Medal standings at the 2015 Pan Am Games (ranked by total gold medals won):Nation G S B TotalU.S. 65 55 49 169Canada 55 51 42 148Brazil 30 29 43 102Colombia 24 8 24 56Cuba 23 18 28 69Mexico 14 21 28 63Argentina 10 20 21 51Guatemala 6 0 2 8Ecuador 4 8 11 23Chile 4 4 9 17Venezuela 3 14 9 26Peru 2 3 5 10Dominican Rep. 1 3 6 10Puerto Rico 1 0 8 9Bahamas 1 0 1 2Trinidad & Tobago 0 1 1 2Honduras 0 1 0 1Jamaica 0 1 0 1Panama 0 1 0 1Uruguay 0 1 0 1Paraguay 0 0 2 2Bermuda 0 0 1 1El Salvador 0 0 1 1
FROM PAGE 9The Div. 3 girls Freestyle Relay team of Paige
Marrandino, Lea Boiridy-Graves, Avery Zanussi and Maddy Fraser, turned in a great swim and placed first overall.
Eight of Stingray swimmers and coaches – Logan Blair, Jaxzen Marion, Keandra Billingsley, Fraser, Zhou, Greenwood, Chung and Beatson – participated in the Miracle Mile relay race in which the group placed second out of seven teams with a time of 18:01.22.
The team heads to Kimberley this weekend for its next meet.
Relay team takes first
Golf
s u B m i T T e dOLIVER –For four days, Jared du Toit proudly
sported his 2013 Champion bag that he earned for winning the 2013 BC Junior Boys title in a playoff over Jordan Lu and Kevin Vigna.
Now he can put that into storage because he has a 2015 Champion bag which signifies his win at the 113th BC Amateur at Fairview Mountain.
The Kimberley played a solid final round, never letting his closest competitor, Stuart Macdonald of Point Grey, get any closer than four strokes.
Du Toit finished at (-10) 278 after his final round (+1) 73 to win by seven strokes over Point Grey’s Stuart Macdonald.
Kimberley golfer win’s B.C. title
Leisure
Dear Annie: I am a divorced male in my mid-50s. A couple of years ago, I met a divorced woman through a mutual friend. We share a common hobby, which led to us spending hours of time together, often just the two of us.
I asked my lady friend early on if she was inter-ested in dating. She told me she had recently been through a bad breakup with her live-in boyfriend. She thought it would be nice to have someone with whom to go out for dinner, but she wasn’t interested in a sexual relationship with anyone. I accepted that. As time went on, however, we became closer. Although there was never anything physical between us, we had what I considered “dates,” where I would pick her up and we’d have dinner. I thought it was only a mat-ter of time before our rela-tionship became romantic and intimate.
I recently learned that, for the entire time I have known her, my lady friend had been having a sexual affair with another guy who already has a live-in girl-
friend. When I confronted her, she neither admitted it nor denied it. Instead, she said her sex life was none of my business.
I think I’ve been used for two years. I enjoyed our time together, but I never would have spent so much of it with this woman if I’d known she had a sexual partner. We are no longer seeing each other, and although that is probably for the best, it is awkward since we have mutual friends.
What do you think? -- Feeling Used
Dear Feeling: We think this woman definitely took advantage of you, but we also believe you went into this with different expecta-tions. The woman needed someone to squire her
around for dinner and such, and could not do so with her already-attached boyfriend. You were a con-venience, and she mis-led you. You, however, assumed there would be an eventual sexual relation-ship with a woman who told you upfront that she wasn’t interested (the rea-son is irrelevant). If you had instead considered her to be simply a friend, with no other agenda, you could have enjoyed dinners out and hobby time without feeling used.
It’s time to let it go. You made a mistake get-ting involved with her, but it shouldn’t shame you into avoiding your mutual friends. Hold your head up, be civil around her, and look for romantic compan-ionship elsewhere.
Dear Annie: I thought I was being respectful by addressing ladies using the title “Ma’am.” Recently, I said that to a woman and she responded, “My name is Mrs. X. I am not a ‘Ma’am!’”
What do you think? -- Lafayette, La.
Dear Lafayette: We think some people are too eas-
ily offended. We all have a preferred term of address, but we cannot expect oth-ers, especially strangers, to know what that is. One doesn’t chastise a person for being polite. For those of you who have been unin-tentionally insulted and feel the need to respond, simply correct the person
in a gentle manner so they will know for next time.
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Leisure
For Thursday, July 23, 2015 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Because this is a social day, you’ll enjoy schmoozing with others. Make it a point to spend time with partners and close friends to show them that you care. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Work-related travel is pos-sible today. Others will be supportive of your efforts. Meetings, conferences and get-togethers will go well. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) This is a playful day! Flirtations, sports events and fun activities with children will delight you. It’s a great day for the arts and romance. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Discussions about family matters or real-estate situa-tions will be positive today. A female relative might be gen-erous to you or, at least, very upbeat and joyful. LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22)
Expect to meet new faces and see new places today, because you want some adventure and a chance to explore your surroundings. Conversations with siblings and neighbors will be positive. VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Business and commerce are favored today. Look for ways to boost your income or get a better job. However, the after-noon is a poor time to shop for anything other than food and gas. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) For most of today, the Moon is in your sign, dancing nicely with lucky Jupiter. This is an indication of domestic peace and happiness. It’s also a good time to socialize with others. SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) You have a warm feeling in your tummy today because things feel good around you. Even though relations with authority figures are excellent, don’t volunteer for anything today. Wait until tomorrow.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) A new friendship with someone from another cul-ture or a different background might begin for many of you. Conversations with a female friend will be important. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) For some reason, you might get a little fanfare from oth-ers today. People are talking about you. Fortunately, it looks like they’re saying good
things. (Whew!) AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) If you can travel today, you will enjoy getting away from your usual routine, because you want some adventure. You also want a chance to learn something new, so keep your eyes open. PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) In one way, today is good for discussion about red-tape details like inheritances and
shared property. However, it’s a poor day to finalize any-thing. Wait until tomorrow. YOU BORN TODAY You are a traditionalist, and uncer-tainty makes you nervous. You also are caring and com-passionate. You research the history of anything that inter-ests you. Personally, you often retreat into your own protec-tive shell. This year, your suc-cess lies with others. People will benefit you. Therefore, make friends and join clubs
and organizations. Help oth-ers, because you also will be helping yourself. Birthdate of: Alison Krauss, musician; Woody Harrelson, actor; Michelle Williams, singer. (c) 2015 King Features Syndicate, Inc.
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be at CSTCs in Comox, BC, Victoria, BC and Gimli, MB.
The 2015-2016 Training Year will start in September and all area youth between the ages of 12 and 18 invited to join.
The Royal Canadian Air Cadets, in partnership with the Air Cadet League of Canada and the Department of National Defence has been training youth in Canada for over 70 years. The Cadets are the largest government fund-ed youth program in Canada with over 50,000 participants across Canada.
The Royal Canadian Air Cadets accepts youth between the ages of 12-18 who have a desire to learn more about the air element of the Canadian Forces, wish to develop the
attributes of leadership and good citizenship and who wish to promote physical fit-ness. While the program is military based, there is no obligation for a cadet to join the Canadian Armed Forces when he or she finishes their cadet career.
Cadets are also encouraged to learn more about opportun-ities within Canada’s Aviation Industry.
For more information about 531 Trail Squadron, email [email protected]
For more information on the Royal Canadian Air Cadets, please visit www.cadets.ca
For more information about the Air Cadet League of Canada, please visit www.aircadetleague.com
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Cadet Noah Lucht (Rear Centre) poses with other members of his Basic Aviation Course in front of a CF-188 Hornet
Local cadet training in Cold Lake
b y t a m a r a H y n dNelson Star
A major washout that had closed Glacier Creek Road has been repaired. Glacier Creek Road is east of Duncan Lake and leads to various trail heads such as Jumbo Pass and Monica Meadows.
According to a post on the Lardeau Valley LINKS blog on July 13, “The whole river was diverted due to a rock slide further up and the river has completed eradicated the road
just after the bridge.”The Selkirk district forestry office near
Nelson said the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations road engineers have been directing contractors throughout the repairs at the 28.5 km washout.
By Friday morning the road was back in service with only minor delays expected along the way.
For current forestry road conditions, visit www.for.gov.bc.ca/dkl/.
Glacier Creek Road repairedNelsoN
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755 Dickens Street,Warfi eld
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3802 Dogwood Drive,Trail
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Guy Bertrand photo
This masked bandit found a quiet and cool spot high in a Shaver’s Bench tree for an after-noon nap on Sunday.
