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That's where the river front properties come into the picture and Trail council's mandate to collaborate with the realtor and cinch a devel- oper for the lots, which are now used for parking. “Although there is no direct financial com- mitment on the part of the city,” Martin told the Trail Times. “There is a strong interest and work being undertaken to secure a developer to work with us to develop that area into something that is very attractive from the point of view of hous- ing stock.” Santori reiterated the ideal during the meet- ing, saying as part of the ongoing implementa- tion of the downtown plan, Trail council will develop a strategy to market and sell Esplanade land. “And build a case on why that can be a good private sector project moving forward,” he added. Another vital action for the officials concerns the operation and maintenance of city facilities such as the Trail Memorial Centre and aquatic centre. “Regional recreation agreements are para- mount to council in terms of arriving at a fair agreement with all our neighbours,” said Santori. “Being successful in that is in the best interest of all residents in the community and our relationships moving forward.” See INFRASTRUCTURE, Page 3 EXPLOSIVE FUN Trail council nails down four-year plan LIZ BEVAN PHOTO Nicole McIsaac shows the kids at Camp Chaos how to make their own volcano using a pop bottle, yeast, water, hydrogen peroxide and dish soap. The combination creates a reaction, pushing the foam up through the mouth of the bottle. The camp was put on by Trail Parks and Recreation and ran during spring break. Festival Society gets less money than requested BY LIZ BEVAN Times Staff The Trail Festival Society got some discouraging news at Monday night's governance meeting. The group will be receiving nearly $10,000 less than they requested from council to put on the annual Silver City Days summer celebrations. Ian McLeod, president of the society, says there is a sense of frustration with the decision to only fund $38,000 of the $46,685 they requested. “It is like they doesn't realize that by putting something like this on, you get people coming to town,” he said. “With the new council, they don't really realize what we need. The councillors that were there before should know what is going on, but they don't seem to be too receptive to keeping us going.” Over the last few years, the Silver City Days cash grant from the city has remained fairly steady, around $35,000, with an exception in 2013 with $49,085 allocated for the 50th anniversary celebrations. The amount granted to the society this year is only slightly lower than last year's cash grant of $38,725. Trail Mayor, Mike Martin, says the amount of money going to the society is right on par with previous years, and is actually a little bit higher. “The funds provided for the Trail Festival Society in 2015 are consistent with previous cash grants, recognizing that over and above the $38,000, there is approximately $15,000 of in kind services provided by the city,” he said. See TRAIL Page 3
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The wish list was lengthy but after two days of talks, Trail council landed a game plan to follow during the next four years of governance.
While council reached a consensus with six major initiatives, the direction can be modified pending unknowns and variables that may enter the picture at any time, clarified Coun. Sandy Santori during the Monday night meeting. “This is the path we've set based on what we know today but again it is a flexible strategic plan and subject to change as required.”
The priorities, which aren't sequential, include marketing the Esplanade properties, reaching recreation agreements, expanding the Trail air-port, design and construction of the Riverfront Centre, a final funding determination for a Trail skate park, and completion of the boundary expansion proposal.
The strategy is ambitious and workload-heavy for both council and city staff.
However, it reflects campaign pledges made by Trail Mayor Mike Martin and current council during the Nov. 15 civic election.
Martin ran on vitality and growth, such as encouraging economic development in the busi-ness district and improving livability in down-town Trail and throughout the region.
That's where the river front properties come into the picture and Trail council's mandate to
collaborate with the realtor and cinch a devel-oper for the lots, which are now used for parking.
“Although there is no direct financial com-mitment on the part of the city,” Martin told the Trail Times. “There is a strong interest and work being undertaken to secure a developer to work with us to develop that area into something that is very attractive from the point of view of hous-ing stock.”
Santori reiterated the ideal during the meet-ing, saying as part of the ongoing implementa-tion of the downtown plan, Trail council will develop a strategy to market and sell Esplanade land.
“And build a case on why that can be a good private sector project moving forward,” he added.
Another vital action for the officials concerns the operation and maintenance of city facilities such as the Trail Memorial Centre and aquatic centre.
“Regional recreation agreements are para-mount to council in terms of arriving at a fair agreement with all our neighbours,” said Santori. “Being successful in that is in the best interest of all residents in the community and our relationships moving forward.”
See INFRASTRUCTURE, Page 3
EXPLOSIVE FUNTrail council nails down
four-year plan
LIZ BEVAN PHOTO
Nicole McIsaac shows the kids at Camp Chaos how to make their own volcano using a pop bottle, yeast, water, hydrogen peroxide and dish soap. The combination creates a reaction, pushing the foam up through the mouth of the bottle. The camp was put on by Trail Parks and Recreation and ran during spring break.
Festival Society gets less money than requestedBY LIZ BEVAN
Times StaffThe Trail Festival Society
got some discouraging news at Monday night's governance meeting.
The group will be receiving nearly $10,000 less than they requested from council to put on the annual Silver City Days summer celebrations.
Ian McLeod, president of the society, says there is a sense of frustration with the decision to only fund $38,000 of the $46,685 they requested.
“It is like they doesn't realize
that by putting something like this on, you get people coming to town,” he said. “With the new council, they don't really realize what we need. The councillors that were there before should know what is going on, but they don't seem to be too receptive to keeping us going.”
Over the last few years, the Silver City Days cash grant from the city has remained fairly steady, around $35,000, with an exception in 2013 with $49,085 allocated for the 50th anniversary celebrations. The amount granted to the society
this year is only slightly lower than last year's cash grant of $38,725.
Trail Mayor, Mike Martin, says the amount of money going to the society is right on par with previous years, and is actually a little bit higher.
“The funds provided for the Trail Festival Society in 2015 are consistent with previous cash grants, recognizing that over and above the $38,000, there is approximately $15,000 of in kind services provided by the city,” he said.
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B.C. Cancer Society’s Relay For Life is build-ing as teams and par-ticipants register.
Currently there are nine teams registered to participate in the annual relay at Gyro Park on May 30, and, with a goal of 20 teams, the Relay committee is out in the community looking for support.
“We hope that the new six hour time frame will bring out some new teams and hopefully more fam-
ilies, as well as bring back teams that have been looking for some change,” says Belinda Pitt, Relay Leadership Chair. “With an event that is about to cele-brate its 15th anniver-sary, it is important to keep things fresh espe-cially with so many charitable events hap-pening in the com-munity.”
The Relay For Life event has been part of the Greater Trail com-munity for 15 years! The event was origin-ally built on a 24 and
12 hour event model and as times changed and society has got-ten increasingly busy we are excited for this opportunity to change to a shorter event model.
“As a show of appre-ciation and thank you to the community for 15 wonderful years of Relay in Greater Trail I am excited to announce a special anniversary Relay registration bonus for the month of April. Register four participants on your team and get the fifth free. That’s up to three members free if you have a full team of fifteen,” says Jenn Smith, Community Giving Coordinator.
To take advantage of this offer, send an email to [email protected] when you are ready to register to get your Promo Code.
The event will continue to have the same key elements of Relay; celebrating can-cer survivors, fighting
back against this dev-astating disease, and remembering loved ones through the Luminaries Ceremony.
The day will also include live music, activities, food and Kid Zone in what will be a fun-filled day for the whole family to come out and enjoy. There are some fantastic fundraising incentives for all participants as well. For adults, there is a flight from Pacific Coastal Airlines and for youth a Norco bike from Gericks Cycle.
All the fundrais-ing from Relay for Life goes towards the Canadian Cancer Society’s Mission to eradicate cancer, and also have a big impact in the communities of Greater Trail.
Help us make this the best Relay ever for Trail! To register a team visit relay for-life.ca For event details or more information, contact Belinda Pitt at 250-512-2312 or Jenn
Smith at 364-0403. The southern inter-
ior region of B.C. relies heavily on these funds. In the last five years the region has received over $700,000 in fund-ing, serving more than 1500 clients. This makes our area by far the largest user of the financial support program of the five regions in BC/Yukon; serving just under 50 per cent of the total 3,184 clients and using just over 50 per cent of the more than $1.3 million dollars distrib-uted.
While funds raised support our Lodges in Kelowna, Vancouver, and Prince George, the financial support pro-gram, our peer support program, research and health advocacy for all Canadians, Trail is one of the few commun-ities in our Region to host a local office with a wig room and immediate access to staff support for volun-teers and clients.
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Hazel Arnold, Phyllis Boates, Deborah Shergold, Allison McCarthy and Eben Sirges take some time to bundle up daffodils deliv-ered to the Trail branch of the Canadian Cancer Society on Wednesday. Fresh cut daffodils will be available March 26 to 28 at Trail and Rossland Ferraro Foods, Waneta Plaza, Walmart, Trail Shoppers Drug Mart, Liberty Foods in Fruitvale, Cafe Books West and No Frills in Castlegar and at Ferraro Foods and Walmart on April 4.
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Monica Nissen, Wildsight’s Education in the Wild Program Manager says, “Across Canada, kids are spending less and less time outside, creating what some refer to as a ‘nature deficit.’ Winter Wonder gets them out there, connecting them with the winter ecol-ogy in their own backyards.”
“Our team of professional outdoor educators really bring the curriculum
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Wildsight’s Winter Wonder program brought students from around the Kootenays, including those from Webster Elementary in Warfield, up close and personal to Mother Nature in a fun and educational field trip.
FROM PAGE 11 Another key strategy fac-
tors in the crucial role of small airports in connecting rural B.C. The Trail Regional Airport remains at the fore-front of council’s to-do list, in terms of expanding the runway and building a new terminal.
“We’ll be reviewing future extending of the airport, and establish a process in terms of timelines and scope of that project moving forward,” noted Santori.
With funding in place for the new library/muse-um, giving council a clear
mandate to move forward, Santori said design of the project is ready to commence.
“So we can expedite this project as quickly as pos-sible,” he noted. “Having said that, in order to provide the best benefit and best project pos-sible, we have to exercise due diligence. And, sometimes that takes time.”
Though there is no prom-ise that a skate park will be
constructed in the next four years, Trail council included
the project as a strategic direc-tive.
“We will set a process to help us deal with making a final funding determination with respect to the all- wheel park,” Santori explained.
Growing city limits, the sixth iniative, presently lies in the hands of the province.
“We will continue to work
towards the completion of the boundary extension project,” Santori said. “The speed at which this proceeds will largely be based on our response and how they expe-dite the process moving for-ward.”
During the strategic plan-ning sessions, Trail council had a list of over 70 initia-tives to narrow down, Martin said.
“We believe this package is manageable in the near term,” he added. “We have a vision for the next four years but we are moving forward on these items right now.”
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Sanitary systems, water supply, and storm drains aren't the most glamorous topics politi-cians talk about.
But existing infrastructure was the hot topic during Warfield council March 11, because according to its engineering consultants, data for the village bones is out-of-date and in some cases, absent.
Council opted to get back on track through the UBCM Asset Management Program to help unify village departments and introduce better ways to collect and upkeep asset information.
“The long term sustainability of our village is the top priority for this council,” said Warfield Mayor Ted Pahl. “To that end, we have engaged a consulting group to come in and lead us through a strategic planning exercise.”
Infrastructure needs and building a solid written community plan remain a priority, Pahl added. “This will enable better understanding of what grant money is available and will give structure to the process of making sound deci-sions.”
By 2016, the province requires eligible municipalities, like Warfield, to submit an asset management program update before receiving its annual Small Community Grant. The grants provide $200,000 plus $50 per capita in towns up to 5,000 people.
To help communities with planning and enhancing asset management practises in the next year, the province set aside $1.5 million to match respective grants up to $10,000.
TRUE Consulting was hired to help access the infrastructure needs of the village (specifically water and sewer), said Pahl, noting the com-pany gave its first presentation to council as an overview of work already done and initial recom-mendations.
“Projects are not numbered yet in priority,” he continued. “We are accessing the financial capacity of the village through the budget pro-cess, which has not been finalized.”
Council's next step is to meet with TRUE for a one-day planning session to gain a complete picture and start prioritizing the village's needs.
Current infrastructure fixes council is consid-ering include sewer capacity issues on Forrest Drive, storm culvert replacements and erosion at Beaver Bend.
A long term matter involves a complete change in the village's water supply. Teck cur-rently supplies Warfield water through its Columbia River pumping system. The company has given Warfield until 2022 to design another water supply system, and until 2025 for its completion.
“Council is aware that the water deal with Teck does expire,” said the mayor. “But how we tackle that issue has not been discussed. Before anything happens we want to explore all the options.”
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In its current form, the B.C. Treaty Commission would need a century to settle all the aboriginal land claims that are before it, Premier Christy Clark said Wednesday.
Taking questions for the first time about the sud-den cancellation of former cabinet minister George Abbott’s appointment to lead the commission, Clark said she doesn’t know yet if the organization will con-tinue. She emphasized that having only 50 out of 200 B.C. First Nations involved, and painfully slow progress with those, is not enough.
“There have been some results, but four treaties in 22 years for $600 million is not enough result,” Clark said. “We have to be able to move faster, and we have to find a way to include more First Nations in the the pro-cess.”
Word of Abbott’s rejec-
tion came out late last week, with surprise and dis-appointment from outgoing chief commissioner Sophie Pierre and commission-ers representing the other two parties it represents, the federal government and B.C.’s First Nations Summit.
NDP leader John Horgan said the B.C. government’s sudden decision to leave a key position vacant is a vio-lation of trust with aborig-inal communities and Ottawa, which provides the cash for treaty settlements. B.C. provides Crown land once claimed territories are defined.
“I don’t disagree with those who suggest the treaty process can be revitalized,” Horgan said. “You don’t do it by blowing it up without talking to your partners.”
Pierre and others have expressed their own frustra-tions with the slow pace of progress, particularly from Ottawa.
Treaty deals involv-ing a share of salmon runs were put on hold for years while the fed-eral government held an inquiry into the state of Fraser River sockeye runs.
Pierre has also called for forgiveness of the debt piled up by First Nations as negotiations drag on. Money to con-tinue talks is borrowed against future cash settlements for resour-ces extracted from aboriginal territories, leaving the parties with little left to invest in communities.
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liberties group says newly disclosed Canadian Security Intelligence Service records on protest surveillance bolster its formal complaint that spies went too far in eyeing environmental activists.
The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association has asked the Security Intelligence Review Committee to consider
the documents - which reveal CSIS delibera-tions on the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline - as it investi-gates the spying allega-tions.
The association filed a complaint with the review commit-tee in February 2014 after media reports suggested that CSIS and other govern-ment agencies con-sider opposition to the petroleum industry a threat to national
security.The complaint also
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The groups included Leadnow, ForestEthics Advocacy Association, the Council of Canadians, the Dogwood Initiative, EcoSociety, the Sierra Club of British Columbia, and the aboriginal rights move-ment Idle No More.
The civil liber-
ties association said it expected the investi-gation to address why CSIS monitors the groups, the length of time it has been doing so, and the authority or law allowing such surveillance.
The association also wants to know why the spy service has shared intelligence with the petroleum industry, as well as copies of any notes, transcripts or recordings it has made available.
Some activists are now afraid to protest because they might come under CSIS sur-veillance, said Josh Paterson, executive director of the civil lib-erties association.
“It’s literally keep-ing people away from
completely lawful activities - expressive activities that are part of our democracy,” he said in an interview.
The Canadian Press reported earlier this month the latest documents show CSIS helped senior fed-eral officials deal with protests expected last summer in response to resource and energy development issues - including a looming decision on Northern Gateway.
CSIS prepared advice and briefing material for two June meetings of the dep-uty ministers’ com-mittee on resources and energy, say the documents, obtained under the Access to Information Act.
The spy service also gave deputy min-isters a federal risk forecast for the 2014 “spring / summer pro-test and demonstra-tion season” compiled by the Government Operations Centre, which tracks and ana-lyzes such activity.
CSIS did not respond to requests for comment on the rec-ords.
In a letter sent Wednesday to the review committee, civil liberties association lawyer Paul Champ says the newly released documents “show that CSIS prepares reports and shares informa-tion regarding protest activities, even where it recognizes that such actions are lawful and
therefore outside the service’s statutory mandate.”
Such intelligence-gathering and informa-tion exchange amounts to a “disturbing trend” that poses a significant threat to freedoms guaranteed under the Charter of Rights, Champ adds.
It has been more than three months since the civil liberties association has heard from the review com-mittee, he notes in the letter. The association is prepared to proceed with its complaint before committee member Yves Fortier to ensure the “inquiry into this import-ant matter proceeds in a timely fashion,” Champ says.
B.C. civil liberties takes issue with CSIS spying on protesters
T h e c A N A D I A N P r e S SBELLA BELLA, B.C. - The
Heiltsuk Nation is vowing to protect herring in its terri-tory by any means necessary as it readies boats to defend a contentious fishery on B.C.’s Central Coast.
The First Nation has issued a news release saying it met with federal officials about a commercial herring gillnet fishery in its territory Wednesday afternoon but failed to reach an agreement.
Kelly Brown, who directs the Heiltsuk’s resource man-agement department, says the industry took 680 tons out of the same area with a recent seine fishery, and a gillnet fishery “would only add insult to injury.”
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans opened the herring-roe seine fishery near Bella Bella on Sunday, saying there is enough stock to support the harvest.
The Heiltsuk Nation says it
has received strong statements of support from neighbour-ing bands and other aborig-inal governments, including a resolution passed by Coastal First Nations on Wednesday condemning the actions of the department of fisheries.
Chief Councillor Marilyn Slett says she feels the nation has exhausted all means of negotiation with the DFO and it is now prepared to protect the herring “by any means necessary.”
“We are saddened that it has come to this, but we can-not stand by while DFO uses flawed science to destroy a resource we have depended on for thousands of years,” she says in a release.
“If we don’t protect the her-ring, who will?”
The Heiltsuk Nation is the latest aboriginal band on B.C.’s coast to speak out in a long-standing dispute over the sustainability of the herring fishery.
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First Nations defy DFO to protect herring fishery
BlAck PreSSThe B.C. govern-
ment is giving itself new authority to regulate ongoing teacher train-ing, possibly requiring completion of new pro-grams for teachers to maintain certification.
Education Minister Peter Fassbender said there are currently no detailed requirements for certified teachers to stay current with new education techniques. Those requirements are to be worked out with the B.C. Teachers’ Federation, which was notified only hours before changes to the School Act were intro-duced in the legislature
Thursday.“The research is very
clear that one of the most important ways to support students is to focus on quality teaching,” Fassbender said. “That’s why these amendments set a foundation on which the province will work co-operatively with the teaching profession to build a truly modern framework for profes-sional development.”
There is no change to the six professional development days per school year that are currently part of the BCTF contract, or any new training during those days.
Government to legislate teacher development
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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SOTTAWA - Stephen Poloz stood
on an international stage Thursday and defended his surprise January decision to cut the Bank of Canada’s key interest rate.
The central bank governor used a speech in London to justify a move that shocked markets, stressing the urgency to react to the stunning speed and magnitude of the oil-price shock.
Poloz acknowledged he was well aware dropping the overnight rate would catch everyone off guard.
“We knew at the time that finan-cial markets would be surprised by the move in January, and we generally prefer to avoid surprises,” Poloz said in his address to the Canada-United Kingdom Chamber of Commerce.
Observers have questioned the decision, with some suggesting the central bank’s integrity may have taken a hit as a result. Poloz appeared to respond to critics in the speech, arguing the central bank’s credibility remained intact.
He continued by saying bouts of increased volatility should be expected as the world emerges from the Great Recession, abandons unconventional policy tools - like forward guidance - and returns to a normal trading environment.
Poloz described the bumpy reac-tion of financial markets to this kind of economic uncertainty as natural and “not an erosion of central bank credibility.”
The central bank slashed its rate for the first time in years to 0.75 per cent from one per cent. It argued the move would provide “insurance” for Canada’s oil-exporting economy amid plunging crude prices.
On Thursday, Poloz reiterated -
this time for a foreign audience - his explanation that the cut was a way to buy the bank time to assess the evolving economic impact of the oil-price plunge.
“We thought that it would be best to act sooner rather than later,” Poloz said in his speech, titled “Central Bank Credibility and Policy Normalization.”
“This (oil-price) shock, of course, surprised everybody, and the fact that it is so large and happened so quickly means that many of us have had to work hard to fully grasp all of its implications.”
He said the negative impacts of the oil slump are starting to appear in the country’s economic data, while the offsetting positives, tied to factors such as the lower Canadian dollar and the strengthening U.S. economy, will take longer to emerge.
Since the rate cut, Poloz said inflation has declined as the bank expected. He also said financial con-ditions have eased and crude prices have stabilized in a range “reason-ably close” to the bank’s January predictions.
“This made us feel increasing-ly comfortable with the amount of insurance we had already taken out,” he said, explaining why the bank decided to hold the rate steady earlier this month.
One expert told his clients Thursday that this remark likely signals Poloz will avoid another rate cut at the Bank of Canada’s next policy announcement, scheduled for April 15.
However, National Bank sen-ior economist Krishen Rangasamy remained unsure of what to expect from Poloz.
“As we’ve seen before, the (Bank of Canada’s) comfort with the eco-nomic situation can change quickly in response to updated data such as oil prices or employment,” wrote Rangasamy.
T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SSTANDOFF, Alta.
- A southern Alberta reserve where two people died from what police believe was a potent amount of fentanyl is training people on the use of an antidote.
Health officials from the Blood Tribe say the special drug kit could help save some-one’s life in the event of an overdose.
The illegal drug is sometimes sold to unsuspecting buyers as OxyContin or heroin and has been linked to more than 100 deaths in Alberta last year.
Blood Tribe doctor, Esther Tailfeathers, says the drug Naloxone (nay-LAHKS’-ohn) can counter the effects of opioids such as fentanyl.
The band declared
a state of emergency earlier this month over the use of pills con-taining fentanyl.
Three people from the reserve have been charged in the drug overdose deaths of a man and a woman who were both in their 40s.
Blood Tribe police Chief Lee Boyd has said authorities on the reserve will do every-thing in their power to stop trafficking of the
illicit drug.Fentanyl can be
many times more powerful and toxic than morphine and can be mixed into other street drugs.
Fentanyl made by pharmaceutical com-panies is used to treat severe pain or to man-age pain after surgery. Illegally made fentanyl is made in clandestine drug labs and sold in pills or powder.
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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SM O N T R E A L
- Air Canada has announced it is changing its policy on the number of people required in the cock-pit of its aircraft, a move prompted by the Germanwings plane crash in France.
Air Canada says it is implementing - with-out delay - a policy change to ensure that all flights have two people in the cockpit at all times.
The change comes after it was learned that the pilot of the airliner that crashed in the French Alps earlier this week was
locked outside the cockpit.
French investiga-tors have concluded that the co-pilot delib-erately crashed the Germanwings plane, killing all 150 people on board.
Air Canada says in a statement that it will not discuss flight deck protocols and access because they involve security measures.
The airline also says that when pilots are initially hired they undergo a behaviour-al assessment.
It adds that they also receive recurrent medical exams every year.
C A N A D I A N P R E S SThe co-pilot of the
German airliner that crashed in the south-ern French Alps appar-ently locked the chief pilot out of the cockpit and caused the plane to crash, as passengers could be heard scream-ing, a French prosecu-tor said Thursday.
The co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 4U9525, identi-fied as a 28-year-old German national named Andreas Lubitz, appeared to want to “destroy the plane,” Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin said. The co-pilot was breath-ing and alive until the plane hit the ground, Robin said.
The Airbus A320, on a flight from Barcelona to Duesseldorf, began to descend from its cruising altitude and slammed into a remote mountainside in the French Alps on Tuesday, killing all 150 people on board.
Lufthansa chief executive Carsten Spohr said he has been left “speechless” by the revelations about the plane’s co-pilot.
“No system in the world can rule out such an isolated event,” he said.
This photo taken from Facebook shows Andreas Lubitz. A French prosecutor says Lubitz, 28, deliberately caused Germanwings Flight 4U9525 to crash. (Facebook)
Lubitz had been alone in the cockpit after the chief pilot left to use the wash-room. Robin said audio recovered from the the cockpit voice recorder indicated that the co-pilot didn’t say a word while he was alone in control of the plane.
“It was absolute silence in the cockpit,” he said.
The chief pilot tried to get back into the cockpit but was unable to regain access.
The A320 is designed with safe-guards to allow emer-gency entry into the cockpit if a pilot inside is unresponsive. The override code known to the crew does not go into effect, however — and indeed goes into a lockdown — if the person inside the cock-pit specifically denies entry.
Robin said Lubitz apparently pushed a button that put the plane into a descent. The jet dropped thou-sands of metres before
it hit the ground.In the final minutes
of the flight, terrain warning alarms sound-ed and pounding could be heard on the cock-pit door, Robin said.
The plane did not respond to communi-cation from air traf-fic controllers and did not issue a distress call before it crashed, he added.
Just before the crash, screams could be heard on the audio recording, the pros-
ecutor told reporters.German Chancellor
Angela Merkel said the development gives the Germanwings tragedy a “new, sim-ply incomprehensible dimension.”
Merkel said that “something like this goes beyond anything we can imagine.” She underlined a pledge that German author-ities will do “every-thing imaginable to support the investiga-tions.”
Co-pilot crashes Germanwings plane
Crash prompts changesair canada
bank of canada
Poloz answers to rate cutinterest rate cut necessary
to weather oil crisis
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OPINION
Salmo village council off to a fresh startLast December 2nd,
Salmo’s new village council took office with a clear man-
date from the voters. People wanted a new
relationship with their council, one built on trust and openness. The voters call was for a council that truly listens to the people they represent. Salmo’s new village council has moved quickly to deliver.
With no audited finan-cial statements since 2012 council made it a priority to get the books in order and to publicize the results. The priority was the 2013 audit and with a lot of hard work by council and staff the first ever “Town Hall Meeting” was held in Salmo on February 11.
The public got the same information that the new council had. We were 20 months behind in paying Worksafe BC premiums for our staff, thousands of dol-lars of GST rebates owed to the Village had never been applied for, village staff including council mem-bers and our volunteer fire-fighters had in some cases been issued incorrect T4
information. Then the newly elect-ed council learned that the Village had been r e c e i v i n g w a r n i n g s from our auditors for over a year that there were ser-ious gaps in our financial controls and internal gov-ernance. At the same time we got the good news that at least as of the end of 2013, the village was sol-vent.
This situation had not developed overnight and wouldn’t be remedied quickly. Immediate prior-ities were identified. We ensured our accounts were updated, Worksafe pre-miums paid, T4 informa-tion corrected and over $50,000 in GST rebates were applied for and received. New safeguards were put in place to ensure proper financial controls, signing authorities were revised and corrected and, most
importantly, a senior staff member was r e c r u i t e d who could oversee and manage the work.
With over 80 members of the pub-lic at that first “Town Hall” meet-ing, word spread that
things really were different. Council meetings were moved to venues where the public was welcome and for the first time people could all sit down and observe a council meeting. Questions were welcomed and input from the public was actively sought out.
Salmo has a long way to go but we are moving forward and quickly given that less than four months has elapsed since Council took office.
Council knew that by admitting mistakes, open-ing the books, welcoming questions and listening, the kind of positive change the Village needed would not
just be possible, it would be unavoidable.
Our focus now is on professionalizing our oper-ations, planning and set-ting priorities and manag-ing our assets in a way that is fiscally responsible and best positioned to sustain-ably deliver quality services to our residents.
The first step, auditing all the village’s equipment, contracts and procedures is beginning and will form a key to our five year finan-cial plan, our 2015 budget and future planning. The 2014 financial audit is beginning and the decision of the former Council to seek the assistance of the City of Nelson in provid-ing financial services has paid off.
The next step, is updating our Official Community Plan which is almost 15 years old. We look forward to this big project as a way to engage, inspire and involve Salmo residents in the long-term planning of our Village and provide a blueprint for future action.
Through all of this the day-to-day work of the vil-
lage has continued. Village staff carries on their work, ensuring water and sewer services, snow removal, assistance with permits, bylaw enforcement and all the other services required and rightly expected by residents.
Salmo has amenities other municipalities the same size can only envy -- a medical center, Youth and Recreation Center, library, curling and skating rinks, and outdoor pool to name a few. Most importantly, we are a community built on the hard work of so many volunteer groups and individuals. Our strength is the incredible number of people who really care about our community and want it to be an even better place to live, work and raise a family.
This village council has embraced our mandate to govern well and w e look forward to reporting back not just at our formal coun-cil meetings but through “Town Hall” meetings to ensure we all know where we are and more import-antly where we are going. Salmo is back!
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From the Trail Creek News in 1895 to the Trail Times in 2015, the venerable local newspaper and its staff (from the left; Liz Bevan, Shannon McIlmoyle,
Sheri Regnier, Jeanine Margoreeth, Kevin Macintyre, Dave Dykstra, Jim Bailey, Michelle Bedford, Lonnie Hart and Guy Bertrand) are celebrating its 120th
anniversary in 2015.
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The source of prosperity of the
Trail Creek county is, of course, its
magnificent ore bodies, according
the first edition of the Trail Creek
News. “Our interests at present
lie centred in and about the noble
structure that is rising foot by foot
on the brow of the hill overhanging
the beautiful town of Trail and of
its growth and magnitude we now
write,” noted the paper's writer and
editor W.F. Thompson on the inau-
gural front page.
The day was Saturday, Oct. 19,
1895 when Volume No. 1 of The
Trail Creek News was hot off the
presses. Under the headline, “This Means
You! When You Patronize the News
You Help Trail Grow,” Thompson
writes that it is now in order for
every citizen of Trail to subscribe
for the home newspaper, The Trail
Creek News, and “the times are
right for such a movement, the
price is right and if the News of
today is not all right, we will make
it right in future issues.”
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at $2 per year, and the News office
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and far into the night, and future
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their subscription at once, so they
would not miss one issue of the
Trail newspaper. “If you want the
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decades ago.While there's no silver or gold
commemoration for more than a
century of news reporting, the Trail
Times staff decided an honorary pat
on the back is deserving to all the
people who have typed, pressed,
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This letter is in response to Dave Thompson’s tribute article regarding Don (Smokie) Mcleod’s passing .
First let me say thank you for writing the tribute
I am a relative of Don’s and remember him well. We played a few games of pool in the base-
ment of his home in Shaver’s Bench .
What I would like to say is could someone explain to me why his name is not on the Home of Champions. (At least the last time I looked) and would whoever is in control of placing names there consider
putting him on the Home of Champions tribute.
He definitely belongs there and I think many of us who live in the greater Trail area who knew him would agree whole heartedly.
Thank youLorne Haas
Mcleod a true Trail champion
The last American troops have been pulled out of Yemen after al-Qaeda fighters stormed a city near their base last Friday. Houthi rebels who had already overrun
most of the country have now entered Aden, the last stronghold of President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi. And on Wednesday Hadi boarded a heli-copter and departed for parts unknown.
The US State Department spokesman put the best pos-sible face on the withdrawal of American troops, saying that due to the deteriorating security situ-ation in Yemen, the US govern-ment has temporarily relocated its remaining personnel out of Yemen. He even said that the US continued to support the political transition in Yemen. But there is no political transition. There is a four-sided civil war (although one side is about to collapse).
Why would anybody be surprised? There has been no 25-year period since the 7th century AD when there was not a civil war of one sort or another in Yemen.
(They are often many-sided wars, and the impression that it was less turbulent before the 7th century may just be due to poor record-keeping.) But this time it’s actually frightening the neighbours.
Yemen’s current turmoil started in 2011, when the dictator who had ruled the country for 33 years, President Ali Abdullah Saleh, was forced out by non-violent democratic protesters (and some tribal militias who backed them). Saleh’s deputy, Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, took over and even won an election in 2012, but he never man-aged to establish his authority over the deeply divided country.
Hadi had the backing of the United States and most of the Arab Gulf states (including Yemen’s big northern neighbour, Saudi Arabia) because he was willing to fight the Islamist extremists who had seized much of southern and eastern Yemen. But his main preoccupation was actually the Houthis, a tribal militia based in largely Shia northern Yemen.
Angry at the status that the north was being offered in a proposed new federal constitution, the Houthis came south in force and seized Sanaa last September. In February, after months of house arrest, Hadi fled to the southern port of Aden, his home town and Yemen’s second city, and declared that the capital instead. So the Houthis came south after him.
Meanwhile Saleh, the former president, returned from exile and made an alliance with the Houthis despite the fact that he had launched six major offensives against them back when he was president. That’s what radicalised the Houthis
in the first place, but they needed some national figure on their side as they moved deeper into the south, and Saleh is at least a Shia. He will have to do. Clear so far? Good.
The third contender for power is al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), whose forces are only a half-hour drive from Aden. As its fighters
closed in on Aden last week, AQAP seized the town next to the airbase where the American forces were living, and Washington ordered its troops out. But the Houthis got into the city of Aden first, and it is not yet clear whether AQAP will try to take it from them.
Finally, we mustn’t forget the fighters of ISIS (Islamic State), who announced their presence in the country last month. Their sole operation of note so far has been suicide attacks on two Shia mosques in Sanaa on Sunday that
killed 137 people. But as Sunni fanatics in a country that is currently being overrun by its Shia minority, ISIS will not lack for recruits. So the war will continue with three sides: Hadi goes out, and ISIS comes in.
In conventional terms, Yemen doesn’t matter much. It has a lot of people (25 million), but it is the poorest country in the Arab world. Its oil has almost run out, and its water is going fast. You could argue that its geographical position is strategic at the entrance to the Red Sea, com-manding the approach to the Suez Canal but it’s hard to see any Yemeni government getting the kind of military forces it would need to close that waterway.
What worries people is the possibility that the jihadis (either al-Qaeda or ISIS) could come out of this on top. They are certainly not there yet, but many Sunnis will see them as the best chance to break the hold of the Shias who, despite their internal quarrels, have collectively dominated the country for so long. In fact, al-Qaeda and ISIS are now the last organised Sunni forces facing the Houthis.
Shias are only one-third of Yemen’s popula-tion and the resentment runs deep. The Houthi troops now occupy almost three-quarters of the country’s densely populated areas, but it would be an exaggeration to say that they actually control all that territory. They are spread very thinly, and if they start to lose they could be rolled up very quickly by the jihadis.
That could turn Yemen into a terrorist-ruled Islamic State with five times the population of the one that sprang into existence last July on both sides of the Syrian-Iraqi border. The odds are against it, but after that July surprise nobody is ruling it out.
Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.
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maligned monarch found under a parking lot was buried in pomp Thursday, as Britain embraced comeback King Richard III, a long-reviled ruler who is experi-encing a remarkable posthumous renaissance.
Royalty, religious leaders and actor Benedict Cumberbatch joined archaeologists, Richard’s distant relatives and curious Britons for a service in Leicester Cathedral that saw the king’s bones buried with dignity, 530 years after his violent death.
“Richard’s posthumous repu-tation has been less than glori-ous,” Gordon Campbell, the University of Leicester’s public orator, noted with understate-ment about a man whose name was long a byword for villainy.
But now, Campbell said, he has “the greatest following of all English monarchs” apart from Queen Elizabeth II.
Twenty first-century Britain has enthusiastically embraced the story of the medieval king whose battle-scarred skeleton was found under a parking lot in Leicester in 2012.
Thousands came to view his
coffin ahead of Thursday’s ser-vice, which was televised live.
In his sermon, Bishop of Leicester Tim Stevens said the discovery of the skeleton “has broken open not just a car park, but a nation’s story.”
Stevens said Richard was found just 40 yards (meters) from where he was being reburied - but his journey from ignominy to hon-our was evidence that “reputation does not have the last word, for Richard or for any of us.”
The service was the cul-mination of a wave of Richard-mania that has been building since archaeologists looking for Richard dug up a skeleton with a distinctively curved spine.
Scientific sleuthing - including radiocarbon dating, bone analysis and DNA tests - confirmed the remains belonged to the long-lost king, who died at the Battle of Bosworth, near Leicester, in 1485.
The victor, Henry Tudor, went on to reign as King Henry VII and founded the Tudor dynasty.
Richard was buried, without a coffin, in a church that was later demolished. For centuries his image was defined by William Shakespeare’s “Richard III”: a
hunchbacked, power-hungry tyrant who murdered his two young nephews because they were rivals for the crown.
Some historians argue that Richard was a relatively enlight-ened monarch whose reign between 1483 and 1485 saw reforms including the introduc-tion of the right to bail and the lifting of restrictions on books and printing presses.
Many of those who this week came to Leicester, 100 miles (160 kilometres) north of London, were unabashed Richard fans, ecstatic that he is finally getting his due.
“He suffered such indignities after death,” said May Doherty, who had flown from Northern Ireland to stand outside the cath-edral. “This is brilliant to see. It’s how a king should be buried.”
Doherty and a friend had come dressed in 15th-century garb - or as close as they could find on the Internet.
“I might be Elizabethan,” a hundred years too modern, she said. “I’m not sure.”
Michele Wild, from the cen-tral England city of Birmingham, lined up for two-and-a-half hours to view the coffin before it was
buried.“It was one of those queues
where you don’t mind queuing,” she said. “You feel like you’re part of a silent protest about the Tudor propaganda that has been maligning him for 500 years.”
Richard’s fans and foes alike agreed that Thursday’s service was a historic occasion. Elizabeth has ruled for 63 years, and most Britons have never seen a king buried.
The service - not a funeral, organizers stressed, since he probably had a simple one in 1485 - borrowed from 15th-century rites, with Latin and plainsong amid the more modern hymns.
There was star power, too, as Cumberbatch - who plays Richard III in the BBC’s Shakespearean TV series “The Hollow Crown” - read a poem by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy.
University of Leicester geneal-ogists, leaving no Richard-related stone unturned, have identified Cumberbatch as the late king’s second cousin, 16 times removed.
“Grant me the carving of my name,” Cumberbatch read, of a king who lay for centuries in a forgotten grave.
That wish was granted. In a cli-
max of simple dignity, the king’s oak coffin was lowered by a group of soldier pallbearers into a grave in the cathedral floor, surrounded by a black marble plinth carved with his name: “Richard III.”
The coffin was made by Michael Ibsen, a 17th great-grandnephew of Richard whose DNA helped identify the parking-lot skeleton.
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, leader of the Church of England, scattered dirt taken from the sites of Richard’s birth, childhood and death on the coffin, and spoke the words: “Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.”
Richard remains a conten-tious figure. The current queen - a distant relative, though not a descendant - did not attend the service. She sent her daughter-in-law Sophie, Countess of Wessex, to represent the royal family.
Elizabeth wrote a note for the order of service, noting neutrally that the reburial “is an event of great national and international significance.”
“Today we recognize a king who lived through turbulent times and whose Christian faith sustained him in life and death,” the queen wrote.
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PHOTO: Columbia Basin Trust’s Board welcomed new and returning board members Back row (left to right): Rick Jensen, Kim Deane, Gord DeRosa, Larry Binks, Greg Deck. Front row (left to right): Am Naqvi, John Dooley, Wendy Booth, Vickie Thomas, Laurie Page, Loni Parker, Jeannette Townsend. The Trust’s 12-member Board consists of qualified individuals appointed by the provincial government: six from among the nominees of the five regional districts and the Ktunaxa Nation Council and six others. All directors must be residents of the Basin. The Board meets throughout the year in commun-ities around the Basin. The public is invited to attend in order to meet the directors and ask questions about the organization’s work in the Basin. The next public component is on Tuesday in Fairmont Hot Springs.
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THE CANADIAN PRESSOTTAWA - A “disturbing” report
about journalistic meddling prompt-ed Canada’s broadcasting regulator to issue a sharply worded reminder Wednesday of Bell Media’s statutory duty to let its CTV reporters work free of interference.
Before day’s end, that same report had prompted an apology from the reported meddler in question: Bell Media president Kevin Crull.
In a story citing unnamed sources, the Globe and Mail said Crull intervened in how journalists reported a major regulatory decision last week - a decision that did not go the way the corporation might have hoped.
Crull demanded that jour-nalists not give any airtime to Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission chairman Jean-Pierre Blais, the Globe reported. CTV News president Wendy Freeman communicated that edict to journalists, telling some that she feared for her job if they did not comply, the Globe reported its sources as saying.
Blais had just announced rule changes requiring broadcasters to offer a low-cost package to consum-ers and to allow them to “pick and pay” other individual channels. He
had appeared at a news conference, and also did individual interviews that day.
Blais put out statement Wednesday that reminded Bell of its responsibil-ities under the Broadcasting Act.
“That a regulated company does not like one of the CRTC’s rulings is one thing. The allegation, however, that the largest communication company in Canada is manipulating news coverage is disturbing,” Blais wrote.
“Holding a radio or television licence is a privilege that comes with important obligations that are in the public interest, especially in regards to high-quality news coverage and reporting.”
In his own statement, which emerged after the release by Blais, Crull said his only intention was to suggest that media coverage of the decision focus on “a broad and necessary discussion” of the impact of the decision.
It also suggested he’d spent the day weathering a fair bit of criticism as a result.
“It was wrong of me to be any-thing but absolutely clear that edi-torial control always rests with the news team. I have apologized to the team directly for this mistake,” he said.
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the Year Committee is accepting nominations for the 2015 Citizen of the Year.
There are many people who have committed time to their community in many ways, some quietly and in the background, so look around, nominate some-one who has dedicated a part of themselves to their community.
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Pick up a nomination form from the Montrose or Fruitvale Village Offices and include as much information about the person or group as possible.
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The Beaver Valley Citizen of the Year Award will be pre-sented during this years May Day Festivities on Friday, May 22nd, 2015 at 7:00 pm at the Beaver Valley Curling Rink and will be followed by a reception. The recipient will also be hon-oured in the Beaver Valley May Days Parade on Saturday.
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Nelson filmmaker James Tucker gradu-ated high school last year, and already he’s been picking up gigs around town filming for SEEDS, various art-istic initiatives and pro-ductions like Detour and Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
And now that he’s involved in organizing the Kootenays’ first youth film festival, he’s hoping others can have the same opportunity.
“I got my start through similar initia-tives to what we’re doing here,” said Tucker, who is solicit-ing submissions until April 1.
“Amy Bohigian was my first mentor. I did some projects and some workshops with her. She’s been a really great resource and she’ll be here as a workshop facilitator, so hopefully she can be to other kids in the com-munity what she is to
me.”The festival consists
of two days of program-ming, and was made possible by a Columbia Basin Trust grant. The selected films will be screened at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 15.
“We’ve gotten eight or nine submissions. Some are still pend-ing. We got three from Haida Gwaii, which is exciting,” said co-organizer Anundi Brownstein, noting one film is in a foreign lan-guage.
“We also have this Chinese Canadian film-maker in Vancouver who filmed her broth-er coming out to her straight Christian par-ents, so that’s power-
ful. And a submission from a local Tribute-sponsored snowboard collective.”
The films will range in length from two to 30 minutes.
“We have filmmakers coming from Golden, New Denver, Nakusp. It’s pretty exciting,” said Brownstein.
Prizes will be award-ed to the entrants, including tuition for film at the Gulf Islands Film School.
“Animation, action, direction, cinema-tography — anything to do with film, they offer that and they want to bring youth from the Kootenays to their school,” said Brownstein.
The next day there will be workshops and classes offered with local professionals, which will be followed by a screening of the Toronto Film Festival’s Top 10 Canadian shorts.
“This is only the beginning,” said Tucker. “We’d really like to see the festival grow big-ger, and ultimately our objective is to not only enhance the Kootenays artistically but also cre-ate a forum for local youth — youth being 13 to 30, so there’s a broad range — and give them an opportunity to share their piece with the community.”
Visit youthfilmfesti-val.com for more infor-mation.
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Trail native Burhan Pourmokhtari is a rising star in B.C.’s bodybuilding community, pumping iron and pos-ing like a champ.
He recently won the Leigh Brandt Muscle Classic in the light heavyweight category in Kelowna on March 14.
When he heard his number called as the winner of the competition, he couldn’t control his excitement.
“There are no words,” he said. “It was just crazy. I just lost my mind. I should have kept my composure a bit better, but to be the last man standing, seriously, I just started screaming and swearing. I definitely lost control.”
The competition was fierce on the bodybuilding stage in Kelowna, making the win taste that much sweeter.
“It was a really close competition,” he said. “There wasn’t one guy who stood out as the worst. They were all number one quality. The margin for error was so small and just to win was really crazy for me.”
Pourmokhtari credits his success to his coach and mentor, Michael Martinz, and says he would never have been able to win without a strong support system.
“He keeps saying that I did all the work, but his guid-ance and knowledge was huge,” said Pourmokhtari. “I did not know anything before he got there. You think you know everything about training but I was doing so many things wrong. In high school, all I cared about was chest and biceps and day three was rest. Rinse and repeat. I didn’t have my back done, I didn’t have the symmetry. I had a lot to learn and I am glad I had a guy like him to help me become a champion.”
To prepare for the competition required 16 weeks of intense training and close attention to nutrition. For eight weeks, Pourmokhtari bulked up, eating more cal-ories than he was burning, then for the final eight weeks, trained with a calorie deficit to lean down and minimize body fat – all while working a different part of his body on different days of the week.
The bodybuilder has entered competitions before, and looked to those for inspiration while preparing for the Muscle Classic.
“We really started preparing for this competition after I came in fourth at provincials last year,” he said. “The top three went on to the next step, and I came fourth. That sucked and it was frustrating. It was extra motivation for this competition. I had the wrong mentality last year. You should consider one competition a year and do your best at that one.”
Having his family support him during the Muscle Classic competition was important to Pourmokhtari, put-ting on the pressure from the spectator seats.
“It meant a lot to my parents,” he said. “It was my
mom’s birthday on the Friday before, and it was nice to have them there. Two of my grandparents aren’t feeling top notch, so I told my parents not to come and to stay home and take care of them.
“Like my parents are, they always let me know things at the last minute and they just showed up at house, but I was psyched. It showed how much they love me and support me, so I am really glad they were there. I am glad I won while they were there, especially for my mom. It was a good present. No pressure or anything,” he said with a laugh.
Next up, he will be taking a bit of a break before hit-ting the gym again to prepare for a second appearance at provincials.
“Provincials is on another level,” he said, adding that while this year’s competition is in nine weeks, there isn’t enough time to prepare properly. “I’ve experienced it before and I don’t want to just participate anymore. Now, I want to show up and win. I’ve got ten more pounds to go, so we thought it was best to build for next year and take some time to recover and put on more size. I want to be perfect and I still have weaknesses. Plus, I want to live a little and enjoy my win.
“My goal is to win provincials and then to win overall. No more of this placing garbage. I want it all.”
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Born in Trail, Burhan Pourmokhtari is making a name for himself in the amateur bodybuilding world in British Columbia with a big win at the Leigh Brandt Muscle Classic on March 14.
P e n t i c t o n W e s t e r n n e W sAfter giving up the opening goal in the first
game of the BCHL’s double round-robin ser-ies, it was all Penticton Vees over the Nanaimo Clippers Wednesday, in a 4-1 decision at the South Okanagan Events Centre.
Cole Maier blasted a shot past Hunter Miska at 8:07 on a set up by Anthony Rinaldi when they capitalized on an opportunity created when Vees defenceman Mike Lee lost his footing in the defensive zone and lost Rinaldi. Rinaldi made his way behind the net and snuck the puck between Hunter Miska and the post and it slowly made its way in the high slot for Maier tee up while Miska couldn’t regain proper positioning. The Vees outshot the Clippers 11-7 in the opening period but couldn’t solve goalie Guillaume Decelles, who entered the third round with the best save percentage in the playoffs at .937.
The Vees got back on even terms when Dante Fabbro wired a shot high over Decelles shoulder. That got the crowd of 2,433 out of their seats. After that, Riley Alferd buried the winner, while Patrick Newell and Dakota Conroy pocketed the other goals.
“It wasn’t good enough for the full 60 minutes obviously,” said Clippers coach Mike Vandekamp, adding that he liked their start. “We didn’t stick with it long enough.”
Alferd’s winner came in the final three min-utes of the second. Playing 4-on-4, with Maier and Conroy sitting in the penalty box, Alferd fired a shot on goal and jumped all over the rebound when he found a gap between Decelles and another defender and tucked the puck past the goalies right pad just inside the post.
“You have a lot more ice. I had it and the goalie couldn’t see so I took a shot and it was right there,” said Alferd. “I just kept going. There was plenty of room, plenty of time.”
In the final frame, Patrick Sexton took a pass from Tyson Jost just inside the blue line and fired a shot that squeaked through Decelles and went by the post. Skating by the net, Newell was able to bury it. The Vees got their final goal on the power play after Jacob Jackson, a San Jose Sharks draft pick, was assessed a goalie interference penalty for running Miska and was also given a game misconduct. Conroy beat Decelles after making it look like he was passing the puck and fired a wrist shot over the shoulder at 16:50. Decelles finished with 32 saves in the loss, while Miska made 27 saves.
When asked if running Miska was a way to get to the Vees, Vandekamp said not at all then didn’t comment further. Alferd said with the Vees hav-ing a goalie like they have, the Clippers have to try everything they can.
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Through four games of the KIJHL championship, home-ice advantage rings true.
After the Kimberley Dynamiters claimed Games 1 and 2 this past weekend, the Kamloops Storm ventured home and returned the favour.
“I was proud of the boys, the way they came out hard, showed some desperation, but confidence to go along with it,” Storm head coach Ed Patterson told Adam Williams of Kamloops This Week.
After a 3-2 double-overtime thriller in Game 3, the Storm followed up with a resounding victory in Game 4, blanking the visiting Nitros by a 4-0 final.
“I don’t think we were ready to play,” said Dynamiters head coach Jerry Bancks. “They out-physic-alled [sic] us the first period or two and took advantage of their power plays. I just don’t think we were ready to play.”
Doing the heaviest damage early on and with the man advan-tage was Storm forward Mitch
Friesen.The former Kamloops Blazer
proved more than enough offence for the Storm in this one, open-ing the scoring less than seven minutes into the festivities with a tap-in tally on the doorstep.
A little less than 10 minutes after opening the scoring, Friesen found pay dirt once again — this time on the power play — taking a bounce in front of Nitros goal-tender Tyson Brouwer and putting it past the helpless net minder for a 2-0 Kamloops lead after 20 minutes.
Brouwer did all he could to keep his team in Game 4, but at the end of the night it just wasn’t enough.
Kootenay Ice prospect Max Patterson and forward Ian Chrystal added a pair of rebound goals to round out the scoring and Jacob Mullen turned aside 34 shots for the shutout.
Thursday will serve as a rest day for the Dynamiters, while the Storm will hop the bus and trek back to Kimberley for Game 5.
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Canada figure skating pairs win gold at WorldsTHE CANADIAN PRESS
SHANGHAI - Canadians Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford have their perfect season.
The pair held off two Chinese teams in the free skate to capture gold in the pairs event on Thursday at the world figure skating championships.
After a seventh-place finish at the Sochi Games last year, Duhamel, from Lively, Ont., and Radford, from Balmertown, Ont., decided to continue their careers and skate another year - and haven’t lost since. They’ve won all six international events they’ve entered this season, including the Grand Prix Finals and Four Continents.
“Some dreams are so big that you can’t even imagine them happening and it’s all happening right now,” said Radford. “I could never have imagined it and I can’t tell if it’s a dream or reality.
“We’ve worked so hard to get here and it’s amazing.”
Duhamel and Radford, who won bronze at the previous two world cham-pionships, were the leaders after the short program. It is Canada’s first pairs title since Jamie Sale and David Pelletier won in 2001.
“This is a very personal victory. Every single victory along the way this season had a very special meaning,” Duhamel said.
Sui Wenjing and Han Cong of China finished second, and 35-year-old veterans Pang Qing and Tong Jian, competing in their 16th world champion-ships, took home the bronze.
Pang and Tong, who came out of retirement this year to finish their careers in Shanghai, now have six world medals (two gold, one silver, three bronze) to go with their silver medal from the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
“I fulfilled (my partner’s) wishes to come back to the rink,” Tong said, before adding with a smile, “I certainly hope Pang Qing will not drag me back to the rink once again.”
Also, 18-year-old Russian Elizaveta Tuktamysheva landed a triple axel on her first leap of the figure skating world championships on Thursday, opening up a big lead over the rest of the field after the short program.
“When I landed the triple axel, I got goosebumps and I thought, ‘Is this a dream or did I really just do the tri-ple axel at the world championships?”’ Tuktamysheva said.
Only a handful of women skaters have successfully landed a triple axel in international competition, among them Tonya Harding, Midori Ito and Mao Asada. Tuktamysheva land-ed the difficult jump in one of the biggest competitions of her career after only practising it for a couple months.
“It’s 50 per cent I could land it and 50 per cent I could miss it, anything could happen with this jump,” Tuktamysheva said.
“However, I think that figure skating needs to develop and many girls will do the triple axel in the future. You have to do difficult elements and you cannot stagnate.
“Maybe we will even be doing quad (jumps) in the future, who knows?”
A year after inconsistent results kept her off the Russian team for the Sochi Olympics, Tuktamysheva is having a ban-ner season. She has captured seven titles in nine events, including the European Championships and Grand Prix Finals, and is now closing in on her first world title.
Skating to Maurice Ravel’s “Bolero,” Tuktamysheva dazzled not just with her jumps - her footwork was crisp and her spins tight and blisteringly fast.
She scored 77.62 points, the third-highest short program tally since the International Skating Union changed its judging system in 2004. Sixteen-year-old Elena Radionova of Russia was more than eight points behind in second, while Satoko Miyahara of Japan finished third.
It is a sad March when the only hockey on view in the West Kootenay
for the latter half of the month is a busy training camp full of folks who have been in Next Year Country for several weeks already.
We have been spoiled over the years, I suppose, by the perennial quality of the Beaver Valley Nitehawks and the local (Neil Murdoch) junior B division - such quality that in any year when the Nitehawks were not playing at this point it could be assumed the teams in Nelson or Castlegar were still in the running for titles.
Now the closest junior hockey rink that still has action is in Kimberley, a bit much of a drive during the dicey weather condi-tions of early spring around here, even for hockey zealots.
The surprising Dynamiters went on an 8-3 run against teams above them in the standings to achieve the league champion-ship finals, then won the first two games of that series, pushing their playoff record to 14-3, before Kamloops fought back with two wins in their home town to tie it.
Likely a zealot would enjoy the fifth game
in Kimberley tonight. Given that Kamloops had to overcome the regular-season-domin-ant Osoyoos Coyotes to get to this point, it seems clear the finals are being competed by two surging squads.
Otherwise, as noted, the Smoke Eaters have a bustling business going at the Cominco Arena. There are things on the line there, just not current championship things.
A positive about that is it seems unlike-ly the team would be expending all that energy if there were many doubts about the Smokies appearing on the 2015/16 BCHL schedule. Nothing decided, or at least announced, officially, but I am being very hopeful.
• I suppose I was mislead by a similarly mislead writer when I placed, “Dr.,” in front of eldest son Marty Howe’s name in last week’s bit about Donnie Mcleod. I had seen in some article about his iconic dad that he was a Dr. now and tending to his famous but fail-ing father.
Wherever I read that was mistaken, too. It is the youngest son, Murray, who is the MD - chairman of Toledo (Ohio) Hospital’s department of radiol-ogy, in fact. Marty, ori-ginally drafted by the Montreal Canadiens but more a WHA play-er than an NHL one, stayed around the hockey world after his playing retirement in 1985.
So, sorry, Murray, and everyone I misin-formed last week.
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Remember someone special by making a donation to the Canadian Cancer Society, BC
and Yukon in memory or in honour.Please let us know the name of the person you wish to remember, name and address of the next of kin, and we will send a card
advisingthem of your gift, and your name and address to receive a tax receipt.
To donate on-line: www.cancer.ca Greater Trail Unit/ Rossland unit
c/o Canadian Cancer Society 908 Rossland Ave Trail BC V1R 3N6
For more information, please cal (250) 364-0403 or toll free at 1-888-413-9911
It’s a rare case when a film’s most iconic line practically preordains its franchise. As prom-ised, The Terminator, and the man who originated the steely machine - Arnold Schwarzenegger - are back for another go-around in “Terminator: Genisys.”
With four films (two
great, two question-able), over $1 billion in box office receipts, and a jumbled time-travel mythology, “Terminator: Genisys” is taking the elements of James Cameron’s 1984 original and twisting them a bit to create an entirely new timeline. Two more “Terminators” are planned.
Getting a jump on a summer that’s chock full of franchise fare, including continua-tions of “The Avengers” and “Jurassic Park,” Paramount Pictures recently showcased a few minutes of action-packed footage from “Terminator: Genisys.”
Key cast mem-bers, including Schwarzenegger, were also made available - all to help generate early buzz for what the studio hopes will be
a bona fide summer blockbuster.
Paramount is on a major push to restore its once robust pro-duction prowess. Although its fran-chises, including “Transformers” and “Mission: Impossible,” are successful, the stu-dio has lagged behind its Hollywood counter-parts in recent years.
Seated on a mas-sive couch next to his three new co-stars, S c h w a r z e n e g g e r seemed glad to be back. “I watched all the movies again to really get up to speed with the character,” he said. The film opens in a familiar spot - 2029, when the war against the all-powerful arti-ficial intelligence sys-tem Skynet is raging. Resistance leader John Connor (Jason Clarke) once again sends sol-
dier Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) back to 1984 to save his mother, Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke), from being killed by a Terminator. But this time, things are different. Sarah has her own protector: An aged Terminator who has raised her since childhood.
“We’re really hark-ing back to James Cameron’s original characters that were in one and two and we’re taking it from there,” said Emilia Clarke.
The footage - basic-ally a trailer on ster-oids - takes what fans have already seen in the first trailer, which debuted in December, and gives everything a bit more context, like what happens when Kyle pops up in 1984 and why that school bus starts cartwheel-ing on the Golden Gate
Bridge, in addition to one massive secret.
The project on the whole is an intensely hush-hush endeav-our, but director Alan Taylor (“Thor: The Dark World”) has said many times that, at its heart, the film is about man’s relation-ship to technology in the modern age.
In 2015, that idea has evolved from when James Cameron first introduced us to the T-800 31 years ago.
“In ‘84, this was total science fiction - when machines take over. And now, we’re there,” said Schwarzenegger. “That’s the wild thing about it. When we did this movie, it was kind of almost reality, unlike in 1984 where we thought, ‘oh well wouldn’t this be a funny world.’ Things have changed.”
With support from his sister Kayleigh, Selkirk Saints Arie Postmus of Fruitvale, along with team-mates Logan Proulx of Trail, former Smoke Eater Darnell Dyck, and Tyler Kerner will be cutting off their hair, beards, or other next week to help raise funds to fight cancer. Support the Saints by visit-ing convio.cancer.ca/goto/selkirksaints1.
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He’s back - again; Terminator franchise returnsSchwarzenegger
THE ASSOCIATED PRESSPASADENA, Calif. - There’s
a mystery to cancer, in large part because of fear, that PBS tries to unravel in next week’s six-hour documentary “Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies.”
“We’re not really honest with each other,” filmmaker Ken Burns said. “We know about heart disease. We know about diabetes. We know about other things, but there’s a kind of resistance because cancer is so scary.”
Burns, who was 11 when his mother died of breast can-cer, is executive producer of the film, directed by Barak Goodman. It’s one of the few times Burns has been involved in a project that he didn’t instigate.
The film airs over three consecutive nights beginning on March 30 and is inspired
by Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same title. Starting at its most elemental - how can-cer got its name - the docu-mentary tells the story of advances and setbacks in years of research on how the disease develops and is treated, since Mukherjee’s book was pub-lished in 2010.
Mukherjee sees it as a State of the Union address on can-cer, a topic with a reach and complexity that can make the entirety of the federal govern-ment seem simple in com-parison. The film softens the science with individual stories of people fighting for their survival.
Cancer proves an elusive and resilient enemy. Much of the promising research has been done since the 1970s, establishing that the cell mutations that characterize
the disease can be triggered by genetics, the environment or a virus. Treatments that once seemed promising proved dis-appointing. Some had limited success. Immunotherapy, the use of a person’s own immune system to fight cancer cells, is so new that it barely received a mention in Mukheerjee’s book but gets a thorough telling in the film.
The film follows the story of the very first child ever to receive a new treatment to attack cancer cells.
“The history of cancer has been littered with false dawns with, as our film discusses, moments of great optimism followed by immediately crashing disillusionment,” Goodman said. “So we did have to be very careful about those we chose to follow.”
Often, the doctors and sci-entists are pushed by patients
themselves. The story of rad-ical mastectomy for breast cancer in particular, how it went from the universally accepted treatment with nay-sayers ridiculed until other, less invasive approaches were proven effective.
The film discusses the groundbreaking surgeon general’s report in the 1960s strongly linking cigarette smoking to cancer and the slow but steady reduction of probably the best-known car-cinogen.
“You could say, ‘Does that matter?”’ Mukherjee said. “Trust me, in the next 10 years we will find yet another new carcinogen being somewhere that we don’t know about and a company that’s eager to obfuscate on its origins, and the lessons from what we learned about cigarettes will apply all over again.”
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We love our action mov-ies with heroes who al-
ways get the bad guy, win the girl, and never die. Truth is, we want to be
just like them, but unfor-tunately we are not bullet
proof. We don’t always have the right answers,
do the right thing, or get the job done. We, in fact, are the ones who need to
be rescued.Our true Hero has come
to rescue us from our lives of uncertainty and failure and give us hope.
The scriptures tell us that Jesus agonized over His
mission but chose to ac-cept it, dying on the cross
and rising again on the third day. Through the completion of His mis-sion, Jesus conquered death, and gained the
power to set us free. The twist on this story is that He offers to give us this power to be overcomers
just like Him. Have you met the one true action Hero? He can make
a difference in your life.Pastor Bryan HenryFruitvale Christian
Catholic CommunitiesHoly Thursday, Mass of the Lord’s Supper - April 2, 2015 Holy Trinity, Trail 7:00 pm Sacred Heart, Rossland 5:00 pm St. Rita’s, Fruitvale 7:30 pm Good Friday - April 3, 2015Way of the Cross beginning at St. Michael’s School at 2:00 pmReading of the Passion (Venera-tion of the Cross) Holy Trinity, Trail 3:00 pm Sacred Heart, Rossland 3:00 pm St. Rita’s, Fruitvale 5:00 pmEaster Vigil - April 4, 2015 Holy Trinity, Trail 8:00 pm Sacred Heart, Rossland 5:00 pm St. Rita’s, Fruitvale 7:30 pmEaster Sunday - April 5, 2015 Holy Trinity, Trail 8:30 am 10:30 am Sacred Heart, Rossland 9:00 am St. Rita’s, Fruitvale 11:00 am
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St. Andrew’s United Church
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Beaver Valley United Church
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Salmo United Church304 Main St, Salmo
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For Information Phone 250-368-3225or visit: www.cifpc.ca
St. Andrew’s Anglican Church1347 Pine Avenue, Trail 250-368-5581
Sunday, March 29th
8 am Traditional Eucharist 10 am Palm Sunday Family Service (with Children’s program) 7 pm Holy Week Study
Tuesday, March 30th
10:30 am Holy Week Study
Wednesday, April 1st
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Thursday, April 2nd
10:30 am Holy Week Study 6 pm Maundy Thursday Service
Friday, April 3rd
10:30 am Good Friday Service (coffee at 9:30 am)Contact Canon Neil Elliot www.standrewstrail.ca
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A faith-based curriculum can contribute to the goals of a secular, democratic society. The Supreme Court of Canada decision in the Loyola case supports this point.
In 2008, the province of Quebec adopted a mandatory secular Ethics and Religious Culture (ERC) Program to replace religious education in schools. A statutory provision gives Quebec’s min-ister responsible for education the ability to grant an exemption from the ERC program if a school offers an alternative, equivalent program. Loyola, a private Catholic high school, applied for and was denied an exemption.
The objectives of the ERC program are the “rec-ognition of others” and the “pursuit of the com-mon good”. Through the program’s three compon-ents - world religions and religious culture, ethics, and dialogue - students are expected to develop attitudes of openness, diversity, tolerance and respect. They are to learn
the skills necessary for engaging in respectful dia-logue with others who hold differing views. Loyola had no quarrel with these goals and competencies but wanted to teach from the Catholic perspective that animates it.
While the justices of the Court ruled unani-mously in Loyola’s favor, they were split 4-3 on the remedy. The majority referred the matter back to the Minister for reconsideration, while the minority recommended that Loyola be allowed to proceed with its proposed program.
In the majority decision, Justice Abella writes, “Preventing a school like Loyola from teaching and discussing Catholicism, the core of its identity, in any part of the program from its own perspective, does little to further the ERC Program’s object-ives while at the same time seriously interfering with the values underlying religious freedom.” However, the state does not have “to abandon its objectives by accepting a program that frames the discussion of ethics primarily through the moral lens of a school’s own religion.”
Writing for the minority, Chief Justice McLachlin and Justice Moldaver did not see a problem with a discussion of ethics occurring through Loyola’s Catholic lens.
“Loyola’s teachers must maintain a respectful tone of debate, but where the context of the class-room discussion requires it, they may identify what Catholic beliefs are, why Catholics follow those beliefs, and the ways in which other ethical or doctrinal propositions do not accord with those beliefs.”
I welcome the Supreme Court decision as a Catholic who supports faith-based schools and the rights of individuals who choose those schools. I welcome it, too, as a former teacher with experi-ence in both the Catholic and public school sys-tems, and as a Canadian who values the freedoms of our secular democracy.
In my view, this decision strikes a balance between religion and secularism. On one hand, the Court affirms the legitimacy of the state in prescribing and regulating curriculum in reli-gious schools. State oversight helps to prevent religious indoctrination and the intolerance that accompanies it. On the other hand, the decision protects freedom of religion. A religious school may teach from the perspective of its tradition and doctrines provided its beliefs or practices do not “conflict with or harm overriding public interests.”
At a time in Canadian history when the courts are frequently asked to rule on cases that pit reli-gion and secularism, Loyola serves as a reminder that church and state, though properly separate, can work together for the common good.
Trail resident Louise McEwan has a back-ground in education and catechesis, and degrees in English and Theology.
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Dear Annie: My young-est son is 34 years old and lives with my wife and me. He is an alcoholic and is unemployed, with no interest in getting a job. He helps at home by doing the cooking. He is a great cook by trade. He was laid off as head cook at a res-taurant and can’t get over it.
My son is a good per-son, and I love him very much. He claims he was blackballed. He has had 10 good jobs over the past 15 years, but has had at least five DUIs and has been in jail three times.
Could this be true? Is there any way I could get him out of the house and into a work program? My wife will not back me up when I tell him he has to get a job. -- Beside Myself
Dear Beside: Employers routinely refuse to hire those who have a drug or alcohol problem and have been arrested mul-tiple times. It has nothing to do with being “black-balled.” Regardless of his cooking skills, your son is not a reliable employee. Before you check out a
work program, please see if he will go to an AA meeting (aa.org). You and your wife could also ben-efit from understanding how you may be enabling your son’s drinking, which undermines his efforts to find employment. For you, we recommend Al-Anon ( a l - anon .a l a t een .org ) . Your son can still turn his life around, but he needs to get off the booze first.
Dear Annie: I could have written the letter from “Tired of Sharing,” the woman in her 50s who was dating a man who always had a group of women around him. It brought back vivid memo-ries of a crazy time in my own life. I, too, met a man who seemed witty and funny. I fell hard, ignor-
ing all the signs of a lousy relationship blooming on the horizon.
My guy had a harem of women, too. They were only “friends” whom he talked about all the time. They knew no boundaries and would call him at any hour for anything. If they wanted help, he’d drop whatever he was doing, leaving me to handle stuff at home by myself. How stupid of me not to know that the relationship could only go downhill.
My life was a living hell for a long time, culminat-ing in a nervous break-down. I finally had enough and moved out, and it was the best thing I ever did. He ended up marrying one of his “friends.” I dodged a big bullet.
There is life after such a horrendous mistake if you get out in time. I always thought I had to have a man in my life in order to be happy. But after years of dating and being in unhappy relation-ships, I gave it all up, and I’ve never been happier or more free. It’s exhilarat-ing to know you can do
for yourself and be truly content with life. I would never go back to that crazy lifestyle. Tell that woman to run away as fast as she can. She’ll be glad she did. -- Older and Wiser
Dear Older: No one should remain in a rela-tionship where you don’t
feel valued, where you think you have to put up with constant mis-treatment and disregard because otherwise you would be on your own. There are worse things than being alone, as you have learned.
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For Saturday, March 28, 2015 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Your focus continues to be on home, family and domestic matters. In fact, even though this is Saturday, you might just want to cocoon at home. It happens. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) This is a social, busy, fun-loving day. Get out there and run errands, talk to siblings, take short trips and enjoy the company of others. It’s a good day for study and reading as well. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You will enjoy being among familiar surround-ings, especially things you own, today. You might want to clean, repair or organize your possessions. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Today the Moon is in your sign, which can make you more emotional than
usual. However, it also can increase your good luck -- just a little bit. (Every bit helps.) LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Work alone or behind the scenes today to get the most benefit for your efforts. Keep a low profile; then explore fun times. You will want to have fun tonight! VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) A conversation with a female friend could be important today. This is a good day to tell others what your hopes and dreams for the future are so that you can hear their feedback. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Personal details about your private life might be made public today. This looks minor; nevertheless, be aware that this is hap-pening. You might have to do some damage control. SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21)
You want adventure and a chance to learn some-thing new today. Primarily, you want a change of scen-ery! Go someplace you’ve never been before. Shake it up a little. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Issues about inheritanc-es, shared property, insur-ance matters, taxes and debt are your focus today. Clean up loose details if you can, to get ahead of the
game. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Your focus will be on partners and close friends today. Furthermore, you will have to compromise when dealing with others, because the moon is oppo-site your sign. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Today you are concerned with health issues, or issues related to pets, or just a
general desire to get bet-ter organized. You want to improve your world. PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) This is a fun-loving, play-ful, flirtatious day! Enjoy the arts, the theater, sports, fun activities with children and romance. YOU BORN TODAY You are an independent person who has amazing focus for whatever you do. Your friends are loyal
to you because you value them. A major decision will arise this year. Save your money in the first half of the year and reduce expens-es, because this will make things easier for you later in the year. Happiness is having alternatives. Birthdate of: Dianne Wiest, actress; A. Bertram Chandler, author; Karen Kain, ballerina. (c) 2015 King Features Syndicate, Inc.
Your horoscopeBy Francis Drake
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The Corporation of theVillage of Warfield
Is accepting applications for the following Summer Student Employment Opportunities:
Park Maintenance (3)Summer Playground Leaders (2)
Application forms are available at the Village of Warfield Municipal Office or
resumes must be returned to the Village of Warfield, 555 Schofield Highway,
Trail, BC V1R 2G7 by April 10, 2015 at 4:30 pm.
City of Trail - Parks & RecreationDepartment Employment Opportunity
CASHIER/RECEPTIONIST (Casual)The City of Trail Parks & Recreation Department is seeking an energetic, enthusiastic and people-oriented individual who is available for casual work as a Cashier at the Trail Aquatic & Leisure Centre. Detailed information about this employment opportunity is available on the City’s website at www.trail.ca or by request to Trisha Davison at(250) 364-0852.Applications will be received until Friday, April 3, 2015.The City of Trail thanks all applicants for their interest and will only reply to those selected for an interview.
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BirthsLEAH MCINNES & SCOTT VANDERMEER, of Beaver Falls, are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter,Lainey Sara, on March 20, 2015, weighing 6 lbs. 14 oz. Proud grandparents are Sheri & Jim McInnes and Cheryl & John Vandermeer.
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The Corporation of theVillage of Warfield
Chief Financial Officer & Corporate Officer
The Village of Warfield is seeking to fill a key vacancy in the municipality’s organization – a Part-Time Chief Financial Officer & Corporate Officer (CFO) working 20 hours per week. If you are a positive, creative and self-directed individual who enjoys being part of a Management team in a small but fast paced office this is the place for you.This position will report directly to council, responsibilities include all statutory duties of the Corporate Officer and overall responsibility for the Village financial and administrative portfolio. Duties also include those outlined in financial officer as described under the Community Charter including asset management, budget preparation, financial analysis, funding applications and financial reporting requirements. The CFO will manage the office staff, provide human resource support and will provide advice to Council on the long term goals and financial health of the community. In addition the successful candidate will be required to attend council meetings and any related planning or municipal functions related to the position. The CFO will work together with council and coordinate municipal resources on various municipal projects to ensure an affordable and vibrant lifestyle for our residents. The preferred candidate will have a professional accounting degree (CGA, CMA, CA) experience in a municipality would be an asset. The Village uses the VADIM accounting software. All applications must be received by 4:00 pm on Tuesday, March 31, 2015.Applicants are encouraged to submit their resume and salary expectations marked Personal & Confidential with a cover letter to:Selection CommitteeVillage of Warfield555 Schofield HighwayTrail, B. C. V1R 2G7Phone: (250)368-8202Fax: (250)368-9354Email: [email protected] thank you for your interest however please be advised that only applicants to be interviewed will be contacted.
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We are seeking a Customer Service oriented professional with the ability to communicate and apply modern selling skills to a varied
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team environment. A Leader who is disciplined, adaptable and performance driven.
Please submit your resume in confidence with subject line territory sales specialist
CIMS Limited Partnership is a 100% Canadian owned company. CIMS provides unionized, heavy industrial mechanical services for large plant maintenance shutdowns and complex capital industrial projects. We are active in the Oil & Gas, Pulp & Paper, Mining & Smelting, Petro-Chemical and Renewable Energy sectors across BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
We are looking for an experienced and talented Regional Manager at our Kootenay BC Division, based in Rossland, BC. The Regional Manager reports directly to the Regional Vice President, BC.
The ideal candidate will have: • A university degree (e.g. P Eng.) OR Technical
School Certification OR Trade Certification such as Pipefitter, Boilermaker or Ironworker.
• 10+ years of progressive management experience associated with Heavy Industry, Turnaround Maintenance and Project Work.
• Strong Management, Leadership, Project Management and Team Building skills.
If you are interested in joining the CIMS Team, please send your cover letter and resume to [email protected].
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2351 Caughlin Rd2 Bedroom Country Living on 10 Acres
$259,000
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Style
151 Beavervale Rd, Ross SpurAcreage, Pool, Barn and Shop!
$389,000
Private
Setting
845 Ninth St, SalmoOwn Your Own Fishing Hole!
$259,000
Beside
Greenspace
255 Rossland Ave, TrailCentral Location, 2 Bedroom Home
$124,900
New Listing
1420 Lookout St, TrailIn Law Suite, Terraced Yard
$139,500
View
Property
375 Willow Dr, Warfi eldMust see home, Great Lower Warfi eld Location
$265,000
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Saturday, March 2811:00am - 1:00pm
166 Mill Road, Fruitvale$279,900
Open House
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115 Pine Avenue, Fruitvale$449,000
Open House
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Carpentry/Woodwork
Carpent r y /const ruc t ion . Concrete, Framing, Finishing, Design, CAD work. New construction and renovations. Call Ken Pistak (Red Seal certifi ed carpenter) at 250.921.4577 or email at [email protected]. Book now for spring/summer!
ContractorsREMODELING Contractor - Professional Service & 1st Class Workmanship! 250-551-3867www.ironridgecontracting.com
Garage SalesDarren Sbitney’s Kidney Transplant FundraiserGarage Sale - Bake Sale -Silent AuctionSaturday, March 28, 8am-2pmFruitvale HallDonations would be greatly appreciated. Financial contri-butions can be made towww.gofundme.com/o85f7k
W.TRAIL, 1924 Wilmes Lane. Sat. Mar.28th (if rain, Sun) 9am-? Moving Sale. Furniture, pictures, shelving, kitchen-ware, tools, etc. Everything must go.
Heavy Duty Machinery
A-CHEAP, LOWEST PRICES STEEL SHIPPING Dry Storage Containers Used 20’40’45’53’ and insulated con-tainers all sizes in stock. 40’ containers as low as $2,200. Also JD 544 & 644 wheel Loaders & 20,000 lb CAT fork-lift. Ph Toll free 24 hours 1-866-528-7108 1-778-298-3192 8am-5pm. Delivery BC and AB www.rtccontainer.com
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TRAIL, 1bd. Ross. Ave., w/d/f/s. ns/np. $600./mo. utilities inc. 250-368-1361
TRAIL, spacious 1&2bdrm. apartment. Adult building, per-fect for seniors/ professionals. Cozy, clean, quiet, com-fortable. Must See. Best kept secret downtown Trail. 250-368-1312
WARFIELD APARTMENTS. 2-bdrm, N/S, N/P. Long term tenants. 250-368-5888
W.TRAIL 2-bdrm. main fl oor. f/s,w/d,d/w. $700./mo. plus utilities. 250-368-1015
W.TRAIL, 2bd., tiny yard, suitable for small dog, 1blk. to shopping and bus. $695./mo. 250-368-6075
Commercial/Industrial
SHOP/ WAREHOUSE, 4300 sq.ft. Ample outside space. Good access. 250-368-1312
Halls/AuditoriumsGLENMERRY HALL, 3375 Laburnum Drive,Trail. Hall fea-tures quiet and comfortable at-mosphere, theatre seating, stage, sound system, easy ac-cess, ample parking and level entry as required. Best uses include: Religious ceremonies and worship, memorial servic-es, musical and other perfor-mances, fashion shows, lec-tures, seminars, study sessions, workshops, meet-ings, readings and variety of other gathering possibilities. 250-364-0352, 250-368-1312. Please leave a message.
Homes for Rent2 bdrms, Passmore. Applncs, fruit trees, room 4 veg garden. $850/mo + utils. N/S/P. 250-764-7712
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E.TRAIL, 2BDRM. Central lo-cation. Full bsmnt. Garage. N/S, N/P. Refs. Req’d. $750./mo. 250-364-2801
1992 Honda Civic LX, 4dr se-dan, 5 speed standard. Power windows, power mirrors, pow-er locks, in exceptionally clean condition, very well main-tained, 235k, $2,800 also Volks Wagon Jetta diesel, 5 spd. 250-442-0122 / 250-493-1807
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KOOTENAY HOMES INC.1358 Cedar Avenue, Trail • 250.368.8818
www.kootenayhomes.com www.century21.caThe Local Experts™
Well maintained and spacious 1/2 du-plex. The kitchen is spacious with lots of counter space and opens to a bright and cozy sun-room. This home offers double car garage with driveway separate from neighbours. Keep cool with central air.
There are NO STRATA FEES for this home. Call or text your REALTOR® for
your personal viewing.Call Mary M (250) 231-0264
NEW LISTING
For additional information and photos on all of our listings,
please visit kootenayhomes.com
1367 - 2nd Avenue, Trail$129,000
Bright and full of character, this home in an excellent location.
Newer roof and windows, great parking and private patio area. Call your REALTOR® for your personal viewing, you will not want to miss
out on this delightful home.
Call Mary M (250) 231-0264
NEW LISTING
745 Dickens St., Warfi eld$199,500
Beautifully upgraded. You will love the kitchen, lots of storage, stainless steel
appliances, and wood fl ooring. The charming dining room has french doors to large deck. Living room and dining rooms
also have wood fl ooring.
Call Mary M (250) 231-0264
1506 Kootenay Avenue, Rossland
$209,000Cozy and comfortable 2 bdrm
home with heated shop/garage, stone fi replace, sauna, open
kitchen and dining room. Zoned as a Guest House.Call Christine
(250) 512-7653
NEW PRICE
1463 Bay Ave, Downtown TrailFor Lease
Updated and very clean space in downtown core. Security system, air conditioned, and great access to bring in large
items. In an area of long standing businesses with good foot traffi c.
Call Art (250) 368-8818t
FOR LEASE
1345 Thom Street, Trail$162,000
Directly across from Butler Park and near the proposed new walking
bridge, this home has tons of character. Wood fl oors, antique wall sconces, gas fi replace, and caw-foot tub. Upgrades include new kitchen and some new fl ooring. This is a
fantastic package.
Call Terry 250-231-1101
OPEN HOUSESat March 28 12-2pm
1420 Glendale Avenue, Salmo
$259,0005 bdrm 2.5 bath on 2.46 fl at acres in Sunny Salmo. Easily suited as a mortgage helper. Sub-division
potential exists. 2nd house onsite that needs fi nishing but has a good
start. Exceptional value!
Call Tonnie (250) 365-9665
NEW LISTING
1768 Daniel Street, Trail$129,000
Attention starter or couples! 2 bdrm home with spacious rooms,
garage, high ceilings and views. Call your REALTOR® now before
it’s gone!
Call Deanne (250) 231-0153
NEW LISTING
4191 Casino Road, Casino$69,000
Looking for country living and acreage for your new home? Look no further! This lovely
relatively fl at 2.6 acre lot with easy access in a very quiet
community awaits your ideas. Don’t wait! At this price it will be
gone quickly.Call Deanne (250) 231-0153
Trail2 bdrm upgraded upper suite ..............................$800/mo2 bdrm upgraded upper suite ..............................$750/mo2 bdrm house ..............................$750/mo
We have excellent tenants waiting for rentals in
Glenmerry, Sunningdale and East Trail.
Call today if you need your property professionally
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
Spring break with trail rec
(Above) The more experienced hockey players helped the emerging little ones on the ice this week during Trail Parks and Recreation’s spring break hockey camp. The sessions focused on stick handling, skating skills and extra playing time in the kids rink for children ages 6-7 for 90 minutes in the morning then ages 8-12 until 12:30 p.m.(Top right) Thursday mornings in the Cominco gym give preschool children ample room to roam, bounce, ride and slide during Kinder Indoor Playground days. The sessions are a partnership between Trail Parks and Recreation and the Trail & Castlegar Child Care Resource and Referral program. Parents, grandparents, and child care providers can access the service, which offers child care referrals and information, subsidy assistance, weekly play groups, and educational opportunities in a healthy and nurturing environment. To join the play program contact Trail recreation at 368.6484. For further information about the resource program visit childcarechoice.ca or call 364.2980. (Bottom right) William Mullett, 2, enjoys the vroom of a toy dump truck during play time.
