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Airport revenue soars in 2012 However, more ridership putting stress on infrastructure BY TIMOTHY SCHAFER Times Staff

Revenue generated by the Trail Municipal Airport has increased 44.1 per cent from last year even as the future of funding for expansion of the facility remains in question. A report on the summary of current airport operations by manager Bryan Teasdale to the East End Services committee revealed an increase of almost $53,000 in revenue as of the end of September, up to $131,985 for the year. Teasdale said the revenue was derived from a 35.4 per cent increase in ridership through the airport’s lone commercial carrier, Pacific Coastal. That money will factor into the status quo budget that was recently requested for the service as management with the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary awaits what, if any, directives will come forth in wake of the recently aborted airport facilities review. “We did a status quo budget as a placeholder to maintain service levels and the tax requisition, but that could change based on the results of the service review,” Teasdale said. On Nov. 22 the stakeholders in the service— including Rossland,

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Trail, Montrose, Fruitvale and regional district areas A and B— voted unanimously to not remove anyone from the service, shutting down the process of a service review. A service review was requested in the letter from Trail council soliciting the desire of the participants to remain in the service, as well as gauging support for future service enhancements to the facility. However, Trail councillor Robert Cacchioni—who represents Trail on the committee—said, although no one expressed any interest in leaving the service, the question remained at what level of investment were they willing to stay at. “Yes, there is support for the airport, but it is at a very minimal rate,” he said. “And it does not appear from the discussion at the meeting we have a very committed group to move ahead with airport expansion.” But the committee will eventually have to make some hard decisions on expansion at the airport. Teasdale said the increase in ridership is coming at some cost as it is putting stress on the facility’s infrastructure. There is a growing need for a new terminal building, he said, and either runway paving or expansion and paving of the existing stopways for aircraft. See RUNWAY, Page 3

Society opens new trail section BY ART HARRISON

Times Correspondent

Hiking and cycling enthusiasts wanting to explore the woodlands around Trail had reason to celebrate as the Kootenay Columbia Trails Society opened a new section of trail above Sunningdale this past Saturday. The new trail, which will eventually link the Sunningdale section with the Society’s Bluffs trail and Miral Heights trail overlooking Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital, is the first part of a two-year project providing a safe, high-level route that will

eventually cross approximately five kilometres of mountain terrain. The trail access is on the water tower hill in upper Sunningdale. At this point the trail head is halfway up the hill at the hairpin corner but will eventually be moved to the bottom of the hill where it meets Marianna Crescent. At the trail opening ceremony, KCTS Director, Hal Harrison, thanked the LeRoi Community Foundation President Adam Monteith for the Foundation’s role as primary funder for this project. See TRAIL, Page 2

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FROM PAGE 1 “On behalf of the KCTS, the community, and the fast-growing number of trail users, I’d like to thank Adam and the LeRoi board for their generosity and vision,” said Harrison. Monteith, already a frequent user of the Sunningdale trail, described his attrac-

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tion to the new route. “It’s a great way to get different views of the area you wouldn’t normally see, all up and down the valley, looking out over the city,” Monteith said. “The number of people on the trail at any one time is amazing and it’s just opened. The new trail, which was also par-

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tially funded by the Columbia Basin Trust’s Community Initiatives Program, gives users a chance to explore more aspects of the Columbia Valley and surrounding mountains and compliments the existing trail system surrounding Rossland. “These trails provide a different woodland experience than the Rossland system, you get longer sightlines and more of a transitional forest area, as opposed to Rossland’s sub-alpine coniferous forest,” said Harrison. “And the lower altitude means

these trails are clear sometimes five weeks earlier in the spring.” Although there are any number of small walking paths in the Greater Trail area, the KCTS trails are by necessity taken much more seriously than your run-of-the-mill backwoods deer trail. The trails are required to have land access agreements in place with property owners, in the case of the Sunningdale trail Teck Ltd., and have to be insured before they are opened for public use. All the trails must be maintained on an

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ongoing basis as well to make sure they can be used safely. “These trails have to be built to a higher standard,” said Harrison. “They have to stand up to heavy use and some of the extreme weather events we sometimes see in our area.” As with all KCTS trails the new Sunningdale trail is designated for nonmotorized use only. “We aren’t trying to exclude anybody,” explained Harrison. “But these trails wouldn’t stand up to motorized use. The construction and insurance costs would be vastly higher and we just can’t afford it.” And there is a definite indication that the trails around the valley are seeing considerable traffic. The Society placed a mechanical counter on the Miral Heights trail that was capable of reading passing cycles. In a one-week period early last spring the counter registered over five hundred passes on the trail.

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A handful of Greater Trail BC Hydro employees could have a new contract this year after being without one since April. On Monday the Canadian Office and Professional Employees Union, Local 378 (COPE378) and BC Hydro announced they reached a tentative agreement that includes wage increases and an increase to benefits. The agreement is subject to ratification by COPE 378’s members—including three Trailbased employees and 12 in Castlegar—with BC Hydro. Trail service is covered by FortisBC. The tentative agreement contains an overall four per cent wage lift, staggered throughout the two years of the collective agreement. The collective agreement covers April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2014. The union’s bargaining committee is recommending ratification to its members. Highlights of the tentative agreement also include benefit increases such as expansion of immediate family to bereavement language and favourable changes to length of service The ratification vote will be held by mail-in ballot. COPE 378 represents nearly 2,000 inside technical, professional and administrative workers at BC Hydro. The union and the employer have been bargaining since April 2012. On Monday COPE 378 also announced the Insurance Corporation of BC—including employees at the Trail Claims Centre—ratified a four-year agreement with the Corporation. The previous agreement expired March 31, 2010. The new agreement will cover June 1, 2010 to June 30, 2014. Wage increases are one per cent annually for the life of the contract.

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FROM PAGE 1 “Our main concern is for the terminal building, and just how busy it is and how packed it is in the winter time,” Teasdale said. The Trail Flying Club is also seeing some “pressures” on their end having to maintain the building. Cacchioni said the city is still in favour of moving ahead with the airport in terms of its master plan and expanding, disregarding the advice of the Airport Economic Assessment Report handed down in October. “(The report) recommends a more cautious approach and we don’t believe that to be true,” he said. “We support the airport master plan that was developed.” RDKB chief administrative officer John MacLean said the economic assessment report did not factor into the decision by the committee members on Nov. 22. The respective members did not want to withdraw from any part of the service nor did they want to make any changes. “So it’s full speed ahead but it’s full speed ahead with the participants taking a look at the two reports we have: the master plan and the economic impact analysis,” he said. The committee will now have to make some determination as to where they want to invest funds and at what level. However, the results of the economic assessment stated future decisions of expansion at the airport should be balanced with the minimal economic impact the airport holds. For Cacchioni, the next battleground will be over the runway. “We’re just hoping the expanded scope of paving that was turned down earlier we will be able to go ahead with ... when (the Department of Highways) does Highway 22 in April.”

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Music •Tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Muriel Griffiths Room at the Charles Bailey Theatre, Tangerine Swing will be the first act in the Trail District Arts Council’s new Winter Cabaret series. The Nelson-based quintet led by singer and pianist Diane Ermacora will perform some jazzy Christmas tunes and other standards. Beer, wine, coffee and treats for sale. Admission $5. • Tonight, Rossland Sacred Heart Church will be hosting its Annual Advent Music Celebration at 7 p.m. Everyone is welcome to enjoy music and meditation. Hot Chocolate and cookies will follow in the Parish Hall. Other • Friday, Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital is holding Pledge Day 2012 at the Waneta Plaza from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Help Light Up The Friends of Trail, Hospital, enjoy famiFruitvale and Nelson ly fun and entertainwill host a candlement. light memorial ser• Saturday, vice at 2 p.m. in the Warfield Community Trail United Church. Hall, Pancake and Events & Happenings in Friends and family the Lower Columbia Sausage Breakfast welcome. Followed from 9-11 a.m. with by light refreshSanta arriving about ments. For info call 10 a.m. Everyone welcome to Sherrie Brown at 368-5314 enjoy holiday crafts, cookie deco•Sunday, The Village of rating and more. For more infor- Warfield will be hosting their mation, call the Village Office annual Senior Tea at the Warfield 368-8202. Community Hall from 1–3 •Saturday, Fruitvale Memorial p.m. Refreshments, entertainHall, Pancake and sausage break- ment and fun! The event is open fast, and pictures with Santa to Warfield residents aged 55 or from 9-11a.m. Small breakfast older. If you have lived in the $3 and large breakfast $5. All Village for 50-years or more, we proceeds donated to the Fruitvale would like to recognize you with Community Chest Food Hamper our special 50-year pin. Call the program. For more info, please Village Office at 250-368-8202. call Kelly at 367-9319. •The Salvation Army •Sunday, The Compassionate Christmas Hamper Applications

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Province backs down on flu shot edict By Jeff Nagel

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The province has granted a one-year reprieve from its directive that health workers wear a mask this flu season if they refuse to be vaccinated. Those who don’t comply won’t be disciplined, deputy health minister Graham Whitmarsh said in a Nov. 30 letter to health authorities. Enforcement that was to begin Dec. 1 is on hold while the ministry carries out more consultation with unions and other affected staff to help determine how best to fully implement the flu control policy, he said.

Provincial Health Officer Dr. Perry Kendall gave the needle-or-mask order this summer, citing an inadequate flu immunization rate of less than 50 per cent among B.C. health care workers despite free shots and much encouragement. But unions denounced the policy as a privacy violation, saying the threat of discipline to compel unvaccinated workers to wear masks would have forced them to disclose their decision not to get a flu shot. Those who did get vaccinated were expected to wear badges or pins to assure

patients they were immunized. Health Sciences Association of B.C. president Reid Johnson said the union encourages its members to be vaccinated but defends their right to choose. “If they choose not to be vaccinated for any number of factors – including experiences with bad side effects to vaccines and fundamental, philosophical, or religious objections to vaccination – that is their right,” he said. Rather than enforcing a season-long order to mask up, he said, that step can be taken during an actual flu

outrbreak, along with other long-standing options such as relocating staff or having them stay home. Hospital Employees’ Union spokesperson Margi Blamey said some members questioned the research on the benefits of vaccination, while others refuse to have foreign substances put in their bodies or considered it a human right to make their own decision. Despite the controversy, more health workers did roll up their sleeves. According to Kendall, more than 60 per cent of full-time health workers are now vaccinated.

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Timber deal reached to rebuild mill By Tom Fletcher Black Press

VICTORIA – The partners in the Burns Lake sawmill destroyed in a fatal fire in January have accepted the conditions for rebuilding the mill. To the community’s relief, the announcement comes despite last week’s decision by WorkSafeBC to refer their fire investigations at Babine Forest Products in Burns Lake and a later fire at Lakeland Mills in Prince George, to Crown counsel for possible charges. Two workers died and 42 others injured in the two fires, which WorkSafeBC concluded were caused by dust explosions. “I’m very pleased with the decision,” said Nechako Lakes MLA John Rustad, who joined officials in Burns Lake Tuesday for the announcement. He said it delivers on a promise made by Premier Christy Clark when she visited the community in the hours after disaster struck. Steve Zika, CEO of Oregon-based Hampton Affiliates, and Albert Gerow, CEO of Burns Lake Native Development Corp., announced in September that they would rebuild if an agreement could be reached with the B.C. government to supply enough timber in the wake of the pine beetle epidemic. Rustad chaired the committee that reviewed the timber supply and determined it could support existing mills in the region and a reconstructed Babine sawmill. The deal also depended on re-inventory of areas affected by pine beetle, after the epidemic has run its course.

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Mother charged in deaths THE CANADIAN PRESS DRUMMONDVILLE, Que. - The mother of three dead Quebec children was charged Wednesday with three counts of first-degree murder. Sonia Blanchette, 33, was arraigned in Drummondville three days after the children were found at her home. Blanchette will undergo an evaluation to determine whether she is fit to face criminal charges. Her next court appearance is scheduled for Dec. 14. She appeared unsteady and dazed as she shuffled into the courtroom, not making eye contact. When she arrived at the courthouse in the back of an unmarked police cruiser, she kept her head

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PQ tables water-downed language bill THE CANADIAN PRESS QUEBEC - The new Parti Quebecois government has tabled language legislation that appears far milder than what the party campaigned on. The legislation will not extend language restrictions to postsecondary institutions, as the PQ promised in the recent election campaign. Nor will it extend them to businesses with more than 10 employees. “We have tabled legislation that is balanced, and responsible,” said Diane De Courcy, the minister responsible for the bill tabled Wednesday. If adopted the bill will, however, intro-

duce French-language requirements for companies with more than 25 employees - which is a lower threshhold than the traditional level of 50 employees. It also says companies would not be able to require people to speak a language other than French, unless the job specifically required it. It offers a complaints mechanism to people who believe their right to work in French is affected. De Courcy said it’s “unacceptable” that Quebec goes out of its way to attract immigrants from Frenchspeaking countries, promising them that they can work in French, and that once

they arrive some are stunned to discover that they can’t find jobs until they take English lessons. The government was to hold a news conference to explain, in greater detail, the 36-page bill. The minority government had been hinting for weeks that its language legislation would be weaker than what it campaigned on because, with well under half the seats in the legislature, the PQ would have been immediately blocked by the opposition if it presented its originally planned bill. A nationalist push for a new language law has emerged in recent

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n other parts of the world, separatist movements are usually violent (e.g. Kashmir, Sri Lanka, the various Kurdish revolts) and they sometimes succeed (South Sudan, Eritrea, East Timor). Whereas in the prosperous, democratic countries of the West, they are generally peaceful, frivolous, and unsuccessful. A case in point is the various separatist movements in the European Union. Scotland will be holding a vote on independence from Britain in 2014, and both Catalonia and the Basque country in Spain have just elected nationalist governments that promise to hold referendums on independence. But it will probably never happen. The Scots, the Catalans and the Basques tend to see themselves as victims, but nobody else does. They are self-governing in most matters except defence and foreign affairs, they have their own budgets, and they maintain separate education systems and cultural institutions. What really drives the separatism is emotion, which is why popular support for it is so soft.

Rectifying the historic defeat of (insert name of centuries-old lost battle here) by declaring independence in the hereand-now has great emotional appeal, but most people put their economic interests first. Nationalist leaders therefore always promise that independence will change nothing important on the economic front. The way they do this in both Scotland and the separatist regions of Spain is by insisting that membership in the European Union would pass automatically to the successor state. The opponents of secession, however, argue that there’s nothing automatic about it. The arguments are not just directed at the home audience. Last month, when Scotland’s First Minister, Alex Salmond, agreed the terms for the 2014 referendum with the British government, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo promptly declared that an independent Scotland would NOT automatically be an EU member, and that any one of the 27 EU member states (like Spain, for example) could veto it.

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This was furiously disputed by Alex Salmond, who knew that his chances of winning the 2014 referendum were nil if the Scots believed that they were voting to leave the EU. For months he insisted that he had sought the opinion of his government’s law officers, who had confirmed that Scotland would inherit EU membership automatically, and would not even have to adopt the euro. Alas, he was lying. Late last month, it became known that Salmond had not actually asked for the law officers’ opinion at all. Now he has been forced by public opinion to pop the question – and he may not like the answer. An even bigger defeat for Salmond came in his nego-

tiations with British prime minister David Cameron, where he had to agree that the referendum would ask a simple yes-or-no question: in or out? This goes against the instincts of all separatist leaders, who prefer a fuzzy, feel-good question that doesn’t mention the frightening word “independence” at all. The most famous formulation of this question was in the 1995 Quebec referendum on secession from Canada: “Do you agree that Quebec should become sovereign after having made a formal offer to Canada for a new economic and political partnership within the scope of the bill respecting the future of Quebec and of the agreement signed on June 12, 1995?” Not exactly clear, is it? That referendum was very close, but in 2000 the Canadian federal government passed a law generally known as the “Clarity Act”. It said that negotiations between the federal government and any province on secession should only follow “a clear expression of the will of the population of a province that the

province cease to be part of Canada.” This requirement would not be met, it added, if the referendum question “merely focuses on a mandate to negotiate without soliciting a direct expression of the will of the population of that province on (independence),” or if the question “envisages other possibilities..., such as economic or political arrangements with Canada, that obscure a direct expression of the will of the population on (secession).” This law drastically reduces the likelihood that the separatists could win any future referendum in Quebec, and it’s obviously what David Cameron had in mind in his negotiations with Salmond on the Scottish referendum. As for Catalonia and Euskara, the national parliament in Madrid must approve of any referendum on separation, and the current Spanish government has made it abundantly clear that it has no intention of doing that. So it’s mostly just hot air and hurt feelings, really. Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Is Canada trading away its rights and environment?

lobal trade has advantages. For starters, it allows those of us who live through winter to eat fresh produce year-round. And it provides economic benefits to farmers who grow that food. That could change as oil, the world’s main transport fuel, becomes increasingly scarce, hard to obtain and costly, but we’ll be trading with other nations for the foreseeable future. Because countries often have differing political and economic systems, agreements are needed to protect those invested in trade. Canada has signed numerous deals, from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to several Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreements (FIPA), and is subject to the rules of global trade bodies, such as the World Trade Organization (WTO). Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favour the interests of business over citizens. With Canada set to sign a 31-year trade deal with China, a repressive and undemocratic country with state-owned corporations, we need to be cautious. Should we sign agreements if they subject our workers to unfair competition from lower-paid employees from investor nations, hinder our ability to protect the environment or give foreign companies and governments excessive control over local policies and valuable resources? Under some agreements, basics like protecting the air, water and land we all need for survival can become difficult and expensive. One recent case could put Canada on the hook for $250 million. Quebec has put a hold on fracking pending a study into the environmental impacts of blasting massive amounts of water, sand and chemicals into the ground to

fracture rock and release gas deposits. A U.S. resource company plans to sue Canada under Chapter 11 of NAFTA, claiming compensation for the moratorium’s damage to its drilling interests. Similar disputes have already cost Canada millions of dollars. Ontario also wants assurances that fracking is safe

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before it allows the practice. That province is facing costs and hurdles because of another conflict between trade and environment. Japan and the European Union filed a complaint with the WTO, claiming a requirement under the Ontario Green Energy Act that wind and solar projects must use a set percentage of local materials is unfair. Many of the problems arise because of an investor-state arbitration mechanism, which is included in NAFTA, as well as the proposed Canada-China FIPA, Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement and Trans-Pacific Partnership. It allows foreign investors to bring claims before outside arbitrators if they believe their economic interests are being harmed by a nation’s actions or policies. So economics trump national interests. This has caused many countries, including Australia, South Africa, India and several in Latin America, to avoid signing deals that include the investor-state

arbitration mechanism. In Australia’s case, the country recognized the pitfalls when tobacco companies, including Philip Morris, attempted to claim damages under a bilateral investment treaty after the federal government introduced a science-based law requiring cigarettes to be sold in plain, unappealing packages. According to Australian National University law professor Thomas Faunce, Philip Morris then lobbied the U.S. government to include a similar mechanism in a new trade agreement it was negotiating with Australia. In an article for Troy Media, Faunce wrote that, with such a mechanism, the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes “would, in effect, become the final arbitrators on major Australian public policy questions concerning mineral royalties, fossil fuel and renewable energy, water, telecommunications, banking, agriculture and power.” The 31-year trade agreement between Canada and China is worrisome, with its 15-year opt-out clause (compared to just six months for NAFTA), but the inclusion of the mechanism in other agreements is also cause for concern. At the very least, we could be on the hook for millions or billions of dollars if our environmental, health, labour or other policies were deemed to harm the interests of those investing in or trading with Canada. The government’s desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn’t give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals. Dr. David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author, and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation.

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World’s oldest person passes on

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MONROE The woman who was listed as the world’s oldest person died Tuesday in a Georgia nursing home at age 116. Besse Cooper died peacefully Tuesday afternoon in Monroe, according to her son Sidney Cooper. Monroe is about 45 miles (72 kilometres) east of Atlanta. Cooper said his mother had been ill recently with a stomach virus, then felt better on Monday. On Tuesday he said she had her hair set and watched a Christmas video, but later had trouble breathing. She was put on oxygen in her room and died there about 2 p.m., Cooper said. Besse Cooper was declared the world’s oldest person in January 2011. “It’s a sad day for me,” said Robert Young,

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Guinness senior consultant for gerontology. He recalls meeting Cooper when she was 111. “At that age she was doing really well, she was able to read books,” Young said. Last year on Cooper’s 115th birthday, she celebrated with friends and relatives, enjoyed two small slivers of birthday cake and was serenaded by a musician from Nashville who sang “Tennessee Waltz.” Sidney Cooper said his family will likely hold a funeral for his mother later this week. The title of world’s oldest person now belongs to 115-year-old Dina Manfredini, of Johnston, Iowa, Young said. The oldest known person of all time was Jeanne Calment, a 122 years old French woman.

Hadfield’s space mementoes

THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL - So what exactly does an astronaut bring with him on a visit to the International Space Station that could last up to six months? If you’re Chris Hadfield, a newly minted wedding band is at the top of the list. When he blasts off on Dec. 19, the Canadian astronaut will have the ring as a constant reminder of his wife Helene. The 53-year-old Hadfield said in an interview from Russia on Wednesday that he and Helene decided he should take something small and light given that space aboard the Soyuz capsule is limited. “Something that can remind you on a daily basis, something that is both personal and also that is not just a collector’s item,” he told The Canadian Press. “We thought about jewelry, earrings and a necklace, but it just seemed to make sense - so I’m flying a ring for my wife.” The couple will celebrate its 31st wedding anniversary four days after Hadfield soars into space aboard a Russian spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The veteran astronaut is also taking up a watch belonging to his 26 year-old daughter Kristin. “On my first flight I flew a watch from my first son, on my second flight I flew a watch from my other son and so on this one, I’m flying a watch for my daughter that she chose,” he said. Hadfield’s first space trip was in November 1995 when he visited the Russian Space Station Mir. His second voyage was a visit to the International Space Station in April 2001, when he also performed two space walks. During his upcoming visit, he will become the first Canadian to command the space station. That will happen during the second half of his mission.

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A requiem for a jazz legend

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HARTFORD, Conn. - Jazz composer and pianist Dave Brubeck, whose pioneering style in pieces such as “Take Five” caught listeners’ ears with exotic, challenging rhythms, has died. He was 91. Brubeck, who lived in Wilton, died Wednesday morning at Norwalk Hospital of heart failure after being stricken while on his way to a cardiology appointment with his son Darius, said his manager Russell Gloyd. Brubeck would have turned 92 on Thursday. Brubeck had a career that spanned almost all American jazz since World War II. He formed The Dave Brubeck Quartet in 1951 and was the first modern jazz musician to be pictured on the cover of Time magazine on Nov. 8, 1954 - and he helped define the swinging, smoky rhythms of 1950s and ‘60s club jazz. George Wein, a jazz pianist and founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, had known Brubeck since he first worked in Wein’s club in Boston in 1952. “No one else played like Dave Brubeck,” he said. “No one had the approach to the music that he did. That approach communicated.” Brubeck “represented the best that we can have in jazz,” he added. “The

quality of his persona helped every other jazz musician.” The seminal album “Time Out,” released by the quartet in 1959, was the first ever million-selling jazz LP, and is still among the bestselling jazz albums of all time. It opens with “Blue Rondo a la Turk” in 9/8 time - nine beats to the measure instead of the customary two, three or four beats. A piano-and-saxophone whirlwind based loosely on a Mozart piece, “Blue Rondo” eventually intercuts between Brubeck’s piano and a more traditional 4/4 jazz rhythm. The album also features “Take Five” - in 5/4 time - which became the Quartet’s signature theme and even made the Billboard singles chart in 1961. It was composed by Brubeck’s longtime saxophonist, Paul Desmond. “When you start out with goals - mine were to play polytonally and polyrhythmically - you never exhaust that,” Brubeck told The Associated Press in 1995. “I started doing that in the 1940s. It’s still a challenge to discover what can be done with just those two elements.” After service in World War II and study at Mills College in Oakland, Calif., Brubeck formed an octet including Desmond on alto sax and Dave van Kreidt on tenor, Cal Tjader

on drums and Bill Smith on clarinet. The group played Brubeck originals and standards by other composers, including some early experimentation in unusual time signatures. Their groundbreaking album “Dave Brubeck Octet” was recorded in 1946. The group evolved into the Quartet, which played colleges and universities. The Quartet’s first album, “Jazz at Oberlin,” was recorded live at Oberlin College in Ohio in 1953. Ten years later, Joe Morello on drums and Eugene Wright on bass joined with Brubeck and Desmond to produce “Time Out.” In later years Brubeck composed music for operas, ballet, even a contemporary Mass. In 1988, he played for Mikhail Gorbachev, at a dinner in Moscow that then-President Ronald Reagan hosted for the Soviet leader. “I can’t understand Russian, but I can understand body language,” said Brubeck, after seeing the general secretary tapping his foot. Brubeck and his wife, Iola, had five sons and a daughter. Four of his sons - Chris on trombone and electric bass, Dan on drums, Darius on keyboards and Matthew on cello - played with the London Symphony Orchestra in a birthday tribute to Brubeck in December 2000.

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Vancouver Archdiocese develops mass app for parishioners

THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER - A new smartphone app is connecting Roman Catholics in the Vancouver area with nearby masses and confessionals - an idea the local archdiocese says developed partly

out of some biblical inspiration. “We’ve always had bishops here who have recognized the need to be out where people are,” says Paul Schratz, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of Vancouver.

“Just as Jesus went and talked to people where they were - he went into their homes - now the people are on Facebook, they’re on YouTube, they’re on their tablets, and we have to be there, too,” he added.

The archdiocese recently launched an iPhone app that allows users to search for nearby Catholic churches, check mass and confession times, and see directions on a map. They can filter their searches based

on their location. Schratz says he believes it’s the first app released by a Canadian archdiocese, though several in the U.S. and abroad have developed their own. Schratz says the app could prove espe-

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NASHVILLE - A person familiar with the deal tells The Associated Press that free agent outfielder Jason Bay has reached a one-year contract with the Seattle Mariners. The person spoke on condition of anonymity Wednesday because there was no announcement by the team. Reportedly, the deal is pending a Bay

physical. The 34-year-old Bay is hoping to resurrect his career with the Mariners after three disappointing and injury-plagued seasons with the New York Mets. Last month, Bay and the Mets agreed to terminate his contract with one guaranteed year remaining on his $66 million, four-year contract. The

agreement let the Mets spread out the $21 million they still owed him. Bay hit .165 with eight home runs and 20 RBIs last season. He was slowed by concussions and rib injuries while with the Mets and played only 288 games in three years with them. Bay grew up in Trail and went to Gonzaga University in Spokane.

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Bantam tourney on tap BY JIM BAILEY

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While the Trail Smoke Eaters enjoy a rare Saturday night off, it doesn’t mean the Cominco Arena will be idle, as Greater Trail Minor Hockey hosts its Bantam AA hockey tournament on the weekend. Eight teams from B.C., Alberta and Washington will descend on the Cominco and Rossland Arenas for the annual tournament that routinely attracts junior and university scouts to see some of the best Bantam players. Teams will be split into two pools with Pool A featuring the host Trail up against Penticton, Castlegar, and Spokane, while Pool B consists of Calgary, Nelson, Kelowna, and Westside. Many players will graduate from these teams looking to move into the junior ranks. “There’s a lot of good skilled players,”

said coach Terry Jones of the KIJHL’s Beaver Valley Nitehawks. “They’re a good young group. It’s the way the development is, it starts with the young kids and hopefully they grow up and want to be Smokies and Nitehawks, that’s a good thing.” Play begins Friday at noon with Trail opening up against Castlegar at the Cominco Arena. Following the round robin, playoffs go Sunday with the tournament final scheduled for 12:30 p.m. Westside is the defending champion, beating Trail in last years final 7-3. However, the 9-4-1 Greater Trail AA Bantams can be considered favourites as the team currently leads the Okanagan Mainline Hockey Association Tier 2 standings with 19 points, two points up JIM BAILEY PHOTO on Penticton and three on Westside. Rossland’s Wannes Lupens looks to rebound off a North Port player in Trail Mens’ Basketball See scoreboard on page 12 for comLeague action Monday. The TMBL got back into the swing of things last month with a fourplete schedule. team league playing every Monday night at the Rossland Secondary School gym.

Big A upset

BY TIMES STAFF In Trail Commercial Hockey League action the Arlington Hotel took down the league-leading Re/ Max Sunday in a convincing 6-1 win, while OK Tire and Firebird skated to a 5-5 draw. Defenceman Al McMartin blasted home the winning goal with 1:20 remaining in the first period to give the Big A a 2-1 lead over the realtors. After league-leading scorer Graham Proulx put Re/Max on the board at 11:11, the Arlington scored six unanswered goals to cruise to the victory. The elusive Kelly Shipit started the scoring for the Arlington converting an Eric Laithwaite pass for his first of two on the night. After McMartin made it 2-1, Mike Broyd notched his first of the season, before Shipit added his second to make it 4-1. Jeremy Robinson and Daryl Zol rounded out the scoring for Arlington as former Beaver Valley Nitehawk fortress Eric Volpatti picked up his seventh win in goal. The cellar-dwelling Firebird refused to be run over by the second-place OK Tire Sunday, coming back from deficits all night in order to finally earn a tie. Down 3-0 and 4-2 in the first period, the Bird’s would tie it at 4-4 when Gord Aiken made a great individual effort to tally his first goal of the season with three minutes to go in the second period. The Tire’s Al Berglund made it 5-4 at the end of the second, but Firebird’s Mike Turner would tie it with 3:33 remaining in the final frame.

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Albo falters under Fines’ late surge BY TIMES CONTRIBUTOR A surging Team Fines looked to swamp Team Albo in Kootenay Savings Super League curling action last week. Team Albo buffeted the Fines storm early as skip Darrin Albo made two double take-outs in the second and fourth ends for threes to go up 6-2. Skip Ken Fines answered with his own double take-out for three in the third and after Fines was forced to take one again in the fifth, he stole a single in the sixth, then made a gamechanging shot with his last rock in the seventh. Without last rock and facing five Albo stones, Fines made a perfect hit

and roll from the edge of the 12 foot to the back of the four foot, laying shot stone buried behind a wall of granite. When Albo couldn’t find a path to follow him in, Fines stole another, deflating the Albo team, and eventually winning 9-7. The Nichol and Ferguson rinks went at it, but an absent Myron Nichol and third Garry Beaudry didn’t help Team Nichol. Ferguson seized an early advantage stealing two in the first two ends on his way to a 6-2 lead after six. He stole three more in the ninth for a 9-2 win. Meanwhile, Team Schmidt exacted revenge on a shorthanded Maglio

Mens squad from an earlier loss. Skip Desiree Schmidt made a delicate tap back in the second end to lay three, then a double take-out to sit two in the fourth, before stealing the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth ends for a comfortable 12-3 thrashing. • The Trail Curling Club plays hosts this weekend to the Mens Region 1 and 2 Provincial Qualifier. Local teams led by Deane Horning, Myron Nichol and Brian Lemoel will be in contention for the two provincial spots against the likes of East Kootenay Teams Buchy and Shypitka among others. First draw is 2 p.m. Friday, with final qualifying on Sunday.

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Westbank vs Nelson 3:45 p.m. Penticton vs Trail 6 p.m. At Rossland Arena Nelson vs Kelowna 9 a.m. Penticton vs Castlegar 11:15 a.m. Sunday Games at Cominco Arena A1 vs B2 8 a.m. A4 vs B4 10:15 a.m. Rossland Arena B1 vs A2 8 a.m. A3 vs B3 10:15 a.m. Final Game at Cominco Arena winners of early games 12:30 p.m.

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says her mommy says she doesn’t have to listen to me because I am not her mother. Even worse, she’s been told that when my husband and I have a baby of our own, Daddy won’t love her as much as the new baby. Christie is obviously too young to draw these conclusions on her own, so Mom is giving her these impressions or telling her these things outright. I don’t know why any mother would want to hurt her child this way, but I worry it is going to cause Christie to resent me. How can we handle this? -- Stepmom in the Middle

myself sitting next to a man who once spoke to me after the service. After several weeks, I could tell he seemed interested in me. After a few conversations, I realized I am 10 years older than he is. He seems like a kind and polite man, and his wife has been dead for many years. I am flattered by his attention and shocked at this chain of events. I would appreciate your input on the age difference. I am basically a happy, healthy woman, but this is a situation I could take or leave. So if you tell me to come to my senses, I will say “Goodbye, Columbus.” -- California Dear California: The age difference is irrelevant as long as you don’t mislead him about it. If you enjoy his company, we say go for it. There is nothing wrong with a companionable friendship, and if either of you is looking for something more, just be sure you

are both comfortable with it. Dear Annie: You printed several responses to “Looking for a Relationship, Too” and included one from “El Paso, Texas,” who suggested that women take up shoot-

ing because “guys like a gal with good aim.” I laughed, thinking of a song from the Broadway musical “Annie Get Your Gun,” which was titled, “You Can’t Get a Man with a Gun.” Thanks for a good chuckle. --

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Dear Stepmom: Many courts now recognize parental alienation. Suggest that your husband speak to his lawyer about this possibility. In the meantime, when Christie is with you, do your best to counter the negative brainwashing. Let her know how much you love her and always will; that a new baby means she will be more important than ever, and the new baby will need a big sister; that everyone in the household has chores to do, and you want her to learn to be a big girl. As she gets older, she will recognize her mother’s bitterness, so please don’t play into that drama. Dear Annie: I am a recent widow in my mid-70s. I decided after the death of my husband a couple of years ago that I would live out my life alone. I don’t have much of a social life, but I do attend church services regularly. I find

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Dear Annie: My incredible husband of two years has a 4-yearold daughter with his ex-wife. I have actively helped raise “Christie” since she was barely a year. We haven’t communicated with the mother since the time we took her to court for refusing visitation, but my husband and I have always provided for Christie in every way possible, above and beyond the courtordered child support. This little girl loves me. I have never tried to replace her mother, encouraged or expected her to call me “Mom,” or even so much as talked badly about her mother in front of her. But lately, Christie has been questioning my relationship with her father, saying the reason her mommy and daddy are not together is because of me. When I ask her to do something she doesn’t want to do, she

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Difficulties with friends or people in group situations might arise today. A meeting may be canceled or someone might refuse to cooperate. Expect a few boomerangs. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) It’s easy to upset authority figures today (bosses, parents and teachers), so be careful. In turn, if they say something that upsets you, count to three

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Communities awaiting results from deer cull case By Carolyn Grant Kimberley Bulletin

Several communities are waiting for a result from the lawsuit launched against the District of Invermere by the Invermere Deer Protection Society (IDPS). Penticton City Council decided in November to postpone their planned cull until there is a result in the court case. Cranbrook and Kimberley will also wait to see what the courts decide when the case goes to trial in January. The case is complex, but the issue appears to be whether the District of Invermere consulted properly with its residents before beginning a cull last February. That cull only took 20 animals before a court injunction stopped it. Last May, a Supreme Court of British Columbia judge ruled in favour of the IDPS, meaning they were free to continue with their suit to challenge the DOI Urban Deer Management Program. While the District argued there was no reason to continue the lawsuit as their cull permit had already expired, the judge did not agree. IDPS lawyer Rebeka Breder said in an interview that the judge agreed with her argument that the lawsuit was not a moot issue. However, there was another reason the judge had stated, which Breder felt was especially important. “If I were to take anything away from this decision, one of the reasons that he decided not to dismiss [the lawsuit] is because he found that the issues that we’re dealing with have much broader implications in B.C. when it comes to animal control,” Breder said. “I think that’s key, because there aren’t any precedents right now in B.C. dealing with how much public consultation, if any, is required in animal control matters.” Meanwhile other communities have not quite reached the point of deciding a cull is necessary. The latest deer counts in Grand Forks have shown a reduction in numbers from the previous years.

Invermere

Hot pools privatization protest gathers steam By Nicole Trigg

Invermere Valley Echo

As the Government of Canada proceeds with its decision to privatize the hot pools in the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks, a fight-back committee is forming to defeat the mandate and keep the hot pools in public hands. “The union opposes commercialization of the hot pool enterprise unit and we believe that Parks employees should be maintaining those services. That’s what Canadians expect. They don’t expect that service to be commercialized or privatized in any way shape or form. And there will be an awareness campaign to contest that,” Kevin King told The Valley Echo. King is

the Union of National Employees Public Service Alliance of Canada regional vicepresident and represents Parks Canada workers. “We’ll have the beginnings of a campaign probably after the Christmas season in the New Year,” A page on the Public Service Alliance of Canada Prairie Region website called ‘Don’t Sell Our Hot Springs’ urges people to take action by writing to their local Member of Parliament and demanding the hot pools remain in the public domain. King said the committee is deciding on an independent domain name that they’ll be ready to launch in 2013. “We can perform

those services at cost for the net benefit of Canadian and international visitors to the hot springs and in a manner that’s consistent with fair value to the average Canadian taxpayer,” said King. “For a private enterprise to take it over, perhaps even one owned by American interests, and then describe the hot pools as an elite experience with elite dollars would really take away from the attraction that the Canadian public has with this iconic national treasure. “The hot pools were not designed to be a wholly profit-making venture.” Earlier this year in May when the federal government announced its plans to privatize all three hot

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Train tickets sold out

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If you can’t catch a ride on the real thing Saturday in Fruitvale, Trail’s Waneta Plaza is once again showcasing the talents of the Golden City Railway Modellers including this Christmas-themed set.

The Local Experts™ Ron & Darlene Your 1537 Bay Avenue, Trail

By Times Staff If you thought it was tough to get tickets to see Paul McCartney in Vancouver think again. Tickets for the popular Santa’s train for this Saturday’s Jingle Down Main in Fruitvale sold out mere hours after going on sale. The demand for tickets prompted officials to contact the Trail Times to explain to readers that there are no tickets left for the

three rides scheduled for this Saturday. But even though the train leaves the station without you, there are still plenty of events to take in on Saturday. From a morning pancake breakfast to a family movie to music and entertainment and street vendors and store deals in the evening, the Christmas atmosphere will be abundant in the valley.

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