Trail Times Tuesday, January 8, 2013
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NATIONAL OBITUARIES BUCCINI, CHRISTOPHER ALAN (CHRIS) — passed away peacefully at the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital on January 2, 2013 surrounded by family and friends. He was born in Trail on February 1, 1950 and resided here most of his life. Chris loved his sports, having played baseball, hockey and golf. He loved his teams as long as they began with Philadelphia. After many years at Cominco, Chris took over the Trail Gym Club where he has been head coach for 30 years. Chris received a number of awards for his dedication to gymnastics including the BC Gymnastics Member of Distinction, BC Community Sports Heroes Award and was nominated for BC Coach of the Year. Chris was predeceased by his parents Fred and Lida Buccini, in-laws Sam and Ruth Maber and brother-in-law Ron Maber. Surviving Chris are his wife Sandie, his son Dave, daughters Stephanie (Keith) May and Lauren (Jason) Beson and his loving grandchildren Tyson, Alyssa and Austin May all of Edmonton. He also leaves his bother Gerry (Anne) Buccini, niece Andrea (Rob) Daly and children Claire, Sam and Grace, and nephew Tony Buccini as well as many aunts, uncles, and cousins. “Topher” also leaves behind the hundreds of children he coached throughout the years, all of whom he loved as his own, each receiving their own special nickname. At Chris’ request, there will not be a service at this time. A Memorial Service will be announced at a later date. Al Grywacheski of Alternatives Funeral and Cremation Services™ has been entrusted with arrangements. As an expression of sympathy, donations in Chris’ name may be made to the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital Foundation, 1200 Hospital Bench, Trail, BC V1R 4M1 www.kbrhhealthfoundation.ca or to the Trail Gymnastics Society, Box 2, Trail, BC V1R 4L3. You are invited to leave a personal message of condolence at the family’s online register at www.myalternatives.ca *** CAMPEAU (nee Brewer), ARLENE ELIZABETH — June 20, 1942 – January 2, 2013.
It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of Arlene Elizabeth Campeau of Nelway, BC. Arlene’s courageous battle with cancer ended peacefully on January 2, 2013 at the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital. Arlene was born in Trail, BC to Lester and Pauline Brewer (Tamelin) and graduated from J. Lloyd Crowe Secondary School. She married Lucien Campeau in October 1960 and in 1963, their daughter Eva was born. Arlene loved working for both Canada Safeway and Super Value in the meat department and she took pride in the many friendships she developed with the people of Trail over the years. Arlene’s passions included gardening, cooking, boating, swimming, fishing and spending time with her beloved grandchildren, Josh and Mackenzie. She was predeceased by her father in 1953 and her mother in 1978. Arlene will be greatly missed by her loving husband of 52 years, Lucien, her daughter Eva (Dave) Mathews and grandchildren Josh and Mackenzie. She will be remembered by her two sisters, Joyce (Morgan) Gladdish, and Beatrice (Emil) Shumey and sisters-in-law Claudette (Dave) Trevison, Cora (Carmin) Angerilli, Carmene (Paul) Harl and her brother-inlaw, Dennis Campeau. Arlene will also be missed by her nieces and nephews, Brenda Paul, Lance Trevison, Danne Houle, Cheryl Klassen, Virginia Blanchard, Correna Slavin, Sonia Woolford, Jay Angerilli, Annette Shumey and Derrick Gladdish and their families, as well as many great nieces and nephews, in-laws and wonderful cousins. A Funeral Service will be held at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church on Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 10:30 am with Father Jim McHugh, Celebrant. Jordan Wren of Alternatives Funeral and Cremation Services™ has been entrusted with arrangements. As an expression of sympathy, donations in Arlene’s name may be made to a charity of your choice. Be reminded that love never leaves; it just becomes stored in those special places inside of our hearts.
New $20 bank notes still posing problems for vending machines THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA, Ont. Thousands of vending machines still can’t digest those plastic $20 bank notes the government released two months ago, with machine owners blaming the Bank of Canada for their problems. As many as half a million machines that scan bank notes needed reprogramming to accept the radically redesigned $20 bills, the most popular denomination in Canada. Some 145 million polymer $20 notes have been put into circulation since Nov. 7, one of a series of new plastic notes intended to thwart counterfeiters and last much longer than their paper-cotton predecessors. Kim Lockie has been converting his 1,200 machines in Fort McMurray, Alta., fulltime for two months, but still has about 300 to go. His unconverted machines, dispensing chips, candy, ice cream and even overthe-counter pharmaceuticals, are frustrating customers who can’t use their crisp, new bills. “I would think less than half the machines in Canada would accept this bill right now,” says Lockie, the industry’s point man for the conversion project as an official of the Canadian Automatic Merchandising Association. “As a small business, I am losing money.” Lockie blames the Bank of Canada for failing to heed three years of warnings from owners that they needed a long lead time to recalibrate their vending machines before the official release of the new bills.
“The Bank of Canada didn’t really even talk to us in the last three years,” he said in an interview. “It seems like they have no desire to work with us. ... Tough luck for our industry.” Sabbir Kabir, a Toronto-based official of the Canadian National Vending Alliance, says his members - representing the nine biggest vendingmachine operators also report they were not given enough lead time to convert their scanners. “The customer gets upset very easily and he’s not going to come back,” he said of the potential losses to the $5-billion-a-year industry. The Bank of Canada rejects the criticisms, saying its officials have worked closely with the sector, providing vending-equipment manufacturers with sample bills months before the official release so they could create the right software. “For the $20 note, these final notes were made available in May of 2012, fully six months before the notes were issued into circulation in November 2012,” said spokesman Jeremy Harrison. “Eighty-five companies took advantage of the Bank’s offer, representing the vast majority of equipment manufacturers and suppliers to the Canadian market.” Harrison notes the six-month lead time was twice as long as that provided for the previous series of newly designed bills, the so-called Journey notes released in 2004. “In short, the bank has worked hard to help ensure that notehandling equipment is ready for the new
notes,” he said. Each vending machine or other device that processes bank notes - such as self-serve checkouts, parking-permit dispensers and even ATMs - can require up to 15 minutes of reprogramming administered on site by a technician using a laptop. The labour-intensive process is costly, time-consuming and follows weeks or months of software development, testing and training by manufacturers and service providers. Lockie’s group had asked the Bank of Canada to release its new plastic $5 and $10 bills at the same time as the $20s to allow for a single recalibration visit to each machine.
But the bank decided to issue the two lower denominations simultaneously later this year, forcing vendingmachine owners to plan another round of site visits in 2013, absorbing the costs. The acrimony between the central bank and the vending industry is in sharp contrast to operators’ experience with the Royal Canadian Mint, which issued new loonies and toonies made of lighter alloys in April last year, says Lockie. The mint treated the vending industry as a partner, he says, providing long lead times before issuing the coins, giving operators ample time to convert their equipment.
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