Trail Daily Times, March 20, 2013

WEDNESDAY

S I N C E

MARCH 20, 2013

1 8 9 5

Vol. 118, Issue 45

U-16 races kick off this weekend

110

$

Page 9

INCLUDING H.S.T.

PROUDLY SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF ROSSLAND, WARFIELD, TRAIL, MONTROSE, FRUITVALE & SALMO

Faster Internet on the way

Final round of CRT review on Friday

BOUNCING BACK FROM RETIREMENT

BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff

BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff

The City of Trail is quickly stepping toward a future of faster and higher quality internet service.

The Columbia Basin Broadband Corporation (CBBC) request for proposal from fibre optic network contractors closed on Monday.

Duane Birnie, information system coordinator for the City of Trail, said that following the RFP, a construction schedule will be defined within the next three months.

“The project is another step in the City of Trail’s ongoing efforts to enable next generation communications,” said Birnie.

“By establishing high speed broadband capacity via fibre optics, the city is providing business opportunities that otherwise would not exist in a rural area.”

Birnie explained that the construction project will involve getting fibre in front of businesses so that they can access services.

To date, the fibre optic the city owns is designed to transport information across the city.

“This build is the distribution fibre that will connect the buildings in the downtown area,” said Birnie.

The project was initially approved in 2012, but deferred due to delays in securing permits to use pole mounts for some of the fibre installation.

The CBBC will oversee the installation as well as enhancements to the West Kootenay network as part of the project, said Birnie.

Once completed, there will be additional connector locations for end users throughout the downtown.

“This will enable further provisioning of enhanced internet service to private users throughout the CBBC and the city at a reduced cost,” he said.

What this means for the city is faster and higher quality internet service; and a greater capacity to send complicated and detailed information, said Mayor Dieter Bogs.

See INTERNET, Page 2

SHERI REGNIER PHOTO

Glen Halley recently moved to Trail to enjoy his retirement. He enjoys his new work schedule of four days a month, filling children’s vending machines throughout Greater Trail. Halley is most proud of his recent accomplishment: newest member of the Trail Pipe Band.

Municipalities cash in on community grants from province

BY TIMOTHY SCHAFER Times Staff

The province handed out a sack of cash to Kootenay communities in its latest Strategic Community Investment Fund (SCIF), an unconditional grant payment the province makes from its general revenues to municipalities across the province.

With a total of over $450,000 coming to the Greater Trail area—and $1.23 million to the West Kootenay Boundary—the SCIF grant includes the traffic fine revenue sharing program and small community and regional district grants.

Each community uses the cash injection to help flesh out its budget, but how that cash is

used varies with each municipality.

Trail received the largest overall instalment of cash at $106,698 in the West KootenayBoundary, including $22,269 from traffic fine revenue.

Trail was the only community in the Greater Trail region to receive traffic fine revenue.

See SCIF, Page 2

The last public face-toface consultation between the province and residents of the Columbia Basin regarding the Columbia River Treaty (CRT) review is scheduled for Friday.

“The province has done a very thorough canvassing of the basin because they need to hear from people,” said Trail councillor, Gord DeRosa.

“The first time around there was no negotiation.

And, this is the last kick at the cat, so to speak.”

DeRosa is referring to the 1964 agreement between Canada and the United States, on the development and operation of dams in the upper Columbia River basin; for power and flood control benefits in both countries.

The treaty grew out of two major challenges: devastating flooding to areas close to the Columbia River in both Canada and the U.S.; and the need for more electricity to support a growing population in the Pacific Northwest.

Four dams were constructed under this treaty: three in Canada (Duncan, Mica, and Keenleyside) and one in the United States (Libby).

Although the treaty was signed without a specific termination date, a minimum length of 60 years (2024) was agreed upon. However, the treaty states that either country may terminate the agreement by providing a minimum of 10 years advance, written notice.

However, there are now concerns regarding the longterm social and economic impacts to the local communities on both sides of the border, and the environmental effects associated with the construction and operation of large dams.

Contact the Times: Phone: FineLine250-368-8551 Technologies 62937 Index 9 Fax:JN250-368-8550 80% 1.5 BWR NU Newsroom: 250-364-1242

Ron & Darlene

Your Local Home Team We make your Real Estate experience straight forward

BUILDING TRUST - CREATING RESULTS Ron 250.368.1162 Darlene 250.231.0527

Contact us today! We can sell your home!

See CRT, Page 2

Kootenay Homes Inc. See more great homes at

www.hometeam.ca hometeam@hometeam.ca

Canada Post, Contract number 42068012

A2 www.trailtimes.ca

Wednesday, March 20, 2013 Trail Times

LOCAL OFF INTO THE SUNSET

WEATHER rain rain Low: 4°C • High: 8°C POP: 100% • Wind: SE 5 km/h Thursday Mixed Precipitation • Low: 2°C • High: 6°C POP: 60% • Wind: SW 5 km/h Friday Wet Flurries • Low: -2°C • High: 7°C POP: 40% • Wind: W 5 km/h saTurday Cloudy Periods • Low: -4°C • High: 6°C POP: 20% • Wind: S 5 km/h sunday Variable Cloudiness • Low: -2°C • High: 6°C POP: 20% • Wind: NE 5 km/h

Salsman Financial Services

Plan ahead and make regular automatic contributions to your Retirement Savings Plan or Tax Free Savings Account.

Call or drop by for more information 1577 Bay Avenue, Trail (250) 364-1515

Town & Country ALL THE WAY HOME CHAPLAINCY SOCIETY AGM Mar.21st, @4pm @Trail Alliance Church, 3365 Laburnum Drive Public Welcome LENTEN LUNCHEON SERIES “Living Faithfully” Trail United Church 12:00-1:00pm Thursday, March 21 Rev. Keith Simmonds (United Church) Bring a bag lunch.

Refreshments provided

When you’ve finished reading this paper, please recycle it!

DIANA SCHMIDT PHOTO

The sun made a fitting send off for the night for Diana and Gary Schmidt on their 32nd anniversary as they celebrated the day with a cruise along the Alaskan Panhandle last September, when this photo was taken.

SCIF money goes straight into municipal coffers FROM PAGE 1 The traffic fine revenue sharing program funding helps offset the cost of policing and community safety, with Trail using its allotment for the city to employ two extra Crime Reduction Unit RCMP officers to provide a “higher level of service.”

Only communities that pay for policing—Trail, Nelson and Castlegar—received the traffic fine revenue.

The grants come from ticket fines and court-imposed fines on violation tickets, and the amount of money a municipality receives is based on its contribution to total municipal policing costs.

Rossland had $84,075 come its way, while Warfield garnered $79,362.

Fruitvale was given $80,678, while the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary received $35,823.

Montrose was allotted $70,168 in small community grants, dropping the cash into general revenue to offset staff wages, council expenses, benefits programs, legal costs, running the village office, public relations, elections and

eye care professionals

general public works.

Most local B.C. governments with populations under 20,000 received a portion of the total $10 million in small community and regional district grants to help pay for local infrastructure and service delivery priorities.

SCIF was originally set up when the economy “took a nose dive,” said Bill Bennett, minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development, in a press release.

“We wanted to provide funding quickly when the economy was so unstable,” he said. “Now we are still providing a consistent level of funding communities can rely on to keep services and projects ticking along according to their priorities.”

Eligible municipalities (with police services) shared in the $10 million in Traffic Fine Revenue Sharing program funding to help offset the cost of policing and community safety.

Since 2009, the SCIF has provided $562 million to invest money in projects that are identified at the local level as a priority.

for You & Your Family

FREE SIGHT TESTING some restrictions apply

CRT sets framework for decisions FROM PAGE 1 “I think it is important for people to recognize that our dams and reservoirs are a major part of our basin, and occupy a large portion of our land base,” said Kindy Gosal, director of special initiatives with Columbia Basin Trust.

“Their operation have an impact on not only the communities that live in the basin, but also on the general revenue of the province and the fish and wildlife that live here too.”

Kosal said that the CRT set a framework for operational decisions, and people need to be aware that it does affect future decisions regarding BC’s economy, ecosystems, culture, society and recreation.

The conference will be live-streamed and includes an open house and panel discussion. The Castlegar Sandman Inn hosts the event, which is scheduled from 9 a.m until 5 p.m. For more information go to cbt.org.

CBBC looks to expand broadband FROM PAGE 1 “E-commuting is becoming a bigger thing and something we want to foster,” said Coun. Sean Mackinlay.

“Theoretically, new fibre optics will support working from home, by providing improved internet service.”

The city’s cost for the project is $145,000, which includes a grant from the southern interior development trust.

The CBBC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Columbia Basin Trust,

formed in 2011, in an effort to expand broadband in the basin.

An optical fibre is a flexible, transparent fibre made of glass or plastic, slightly thicker than a human hair.

Optical fibres permit transmission over longer distances and at higher bandwidths (data rates) than other forms of communication.

The field of science concerned with the design and application of optical fibres is known as fiber optics.

Trail Times Wednesday, March 20, 2013 www.trailtimes.ca A3

Local

Montrose municipal council reviews private, public tree policy and liability Sheri Regnier Times Staff

Trees are a desired feature in any community, however they can also constitute a hazard, if not properly cared for.

With this is mind, the Village of Montrose reviewed and carried policy 0670 unchanged at Monday night council.

The policy pertains to existing trees and how to manage them if they become hazardous in any way.

If there is a danger to the public from a private tree, such as dead branches hang-

ing over public space, the policy allows the village to remove it, said Kevin Chartres, chief administrative officer for the Village of Montrose.

Chartres said that the owner will be given a seven-day notice, and if they do not comply, the village will complete the removal.

The question of liability responsibility had on occasion been in doubt, when a tree deemed to be a hazard straddled the property line dividing a private lot and a road allowance; and when branches from

a tree located on private property extended into the road allowance air space.

“It is our (Village of Montrose) liability if the tree is overhanging on public lands,” explained Chartres.

The job of overseeing which trees posed a risk to public safety used to be in the hands of the village’s public works foreman.

In 2011, the village transferred the responsibility over to a certified tree risk assessor.

Now, in the event of a disagreement

between a property owner and the public works foreman concerning the health of a tree located on part of private property, the foreman will obtain a written assessment from the certified tree assessor before making a final decision.

Coun. Cindy Cook questioned if Montrose citizens were allowed to plant trees on village boulevards.

“We do not have a policy for that,” said Chartres.

“For safety reasons, we would prefer that they first contact the village.”

Kootenay River dredging unlikely to affect Nelson Hydro

have gravel will travel

Sheri Regnier photo

Earlier this month the City of Trail began its tree removal project when Glacier Valley Tree Service chopped down 23 cottonwood trees along Dyke Road (Gyro Park). On Thursday, Marwest Industries spread gravel to prepare the area which will be paved for 35 new parking stalls later this spring.

Nelson Star A Nelson Hydro manager says any dredging of Grohman Narrows by BC Hydro likely won’t have much effect on the city’s downstream power generation.

“My guess is it will have a minimal positive impact [on Nelson Hydro],” operations manager Mike Amos told the Star. “It won’t have a negative impact because we have a firm license guaranteeing water.”

Nelson’s power plant generates the same amount of electricity except during spring freshet, Amos said. “That’s where it may have a small impact, where we have more water. We can run up to full capacity at that time. The rest of the year it wouldn’t affect us at all.”

Last year Nelson’s plant ran at full capacity from the last week in April until the first week in August due to the higher-than-normal snowpack, rainfall, and runoff that combined for the highest river levels in nearly 40 years.

The 90 gigawatt hours the plant produced was the most in its 107-year history and resulted in a $500,000 windfall for the company, which is normally under contract to sell surplus power to BC Hydro at a fixed rate.

Statistics reveal slow but steady growth in region

By Kyle Kusch

Arrow Lakes News

BC Stats, the provincial government’s statistical agency, has released its annual population estimates for regional districts and municipalities, and the results show another year of slow-but-steady growth across the Regional District of Central Kootenay.

According to BC Stats, the Village of Nakusp recorded an estimated net gain of eleven residents in 2012, bringing the village’s population to 1,544.

Indeed, every municipality in the RDCK except Nelson and Creston experienced some measure of growth last year, led by its smallest villages.

Leading the way not just in the district but in the entire province was Slocan, which experienced a stunning 10 per cent increase in population last year to place

the village at 439 residents. Salmo (1,092; +1.8 per cent), Silverton (206, +1.5per cent), and New Denver (520, +1.0 per cent) also ranked as some of the province’s fastest-growing towns last year with Kaslo (1,194, +0.8 per cent) also showing growth.

Of the larger centres in the district, Nelson stayed even at 9,810; Castlegar was up half-a-percent to 7,958; and Creston experienced its first drop in nearly a decade (5,208; -0.4 per cent). The RDCK’s substantial unincorporated areas, making up over half of the district’s total population of 60,896, also showed slight growth.

Overall, the RDCK’s population grew by 0.3 per cent last year.

Our neighbour to the west, the Regional District of Kootenay-Boundary experienced substantial losses in the Boundary region, but slight gains in Greater Trail.

To the north, the Columbia-Shuswap Regional District also suffered acrossthe-board population losses, with Golden, Revelstoke, Salmon Arm, and Sicamous all losing residents. Tourist-heavy SquamishLillooet and resource-rich Peace River continue to be the fastest-growing regional districts of the province, while northern Vancouver Island’s Mount Waddington Regional District lost over two per cent of its population last year.

Province-wide, the fastest-growing municipality larger than 5,000 people continues to be the suburban Victoria city of Langford, which grew by three percent last year.

On the other end, the fastest-shrinking town was Port Hardy, which lost nearly five per cent of its population. In fact, the top three fastest-shrinking communities last year, and five of the top ten, were on

forestry-dependent northern Vancouver Island.

Unsurprisingly, B.C.’s two largest cities, Vancouver and Surrey, gained the largest net amounts of residents; their populations now sit at 666,517 and 482,725, respectively. As is typical, the province’s overall population grew another percent to 4,622,573.

Each year, BC Stats produces subprovincial population using indicators like health registrations and residential hydro hook-ups to gauge population growth from one year to the next, account for net census undercount, and assist in local and provincial government planning processes. The entire table of provincial population estimates can be found at BC Stats’ website, http://www.bcstats.gov. bc.ca/ under the Demography heading in the Statistics by Subject tab.

Winter Battered Hair?

Receive FREE K-Pak Deep Penetrating Reconstructor 150ml with purchase of K-Pak Winter Litre Duo while supplies last

364-2377 1198 Cedar Avenue

A4 www.trailtimes.ca

Wednesday, March 20, 2013 Trail Times

Provincial Envoy named to deal with First Nations concerns on pipelines and energy

By Heather Scoffield THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper has named an envoy to deal with aboriginal opposition to resource development in Alberta and British Columbia.

That’s where First Nations opposition to the Northern Gateway pipeline has thrown the future of the project into question.

Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver was in Terrace, B.C., to announce that Doug Eyford will be working with aboriginal communities to address concerns about environmental impact, job creation and the sharing of economic benefits.

“It is essential that we work closely with First Nations communities, in order to incorporate their knowledge and experience,” Oliver said Tuesday, according to a text of his speech.

“This truth exists independently of the Crown’s constitutional duty to consult on individual projects.”

Eyford is a Vancouver lawyer with a long history of working for the federal government as a negotiator on First Nations issues.

He will report directly to Harper, producing a preliminary report by the end of June and a final report by the end of November.

Eyford’s job is to hear aboriginal concerns about proposed pipelines, liquid natural gas plants, marine terminals and other energy infrastructure in B.C. and Alberta.

“The representative’s report will not replace negotiations between aboriginal communities and industry on specific projects, and is not intended to. It is meant to encourage and stimulate those discussions,” Oliver said.

“This will not be dialogue for dialogue’s sake, but dialogue in search of solutions. We don’t want another process. We want a product.”

It’s the first concrete step to come from a crisis meeting between Harper and leading chiefs in the midst of widespread protests in January.

The prime minister promised to empower top officials to deal with First Nations complaints about rights, treaties and the sharing of Canada’s natural resource wealth.

The Assembly of First Nations had long complained that a new process set out in January 2012 was going nowhere because the federal government was not consulting First Nations people nor had it given its bureaucrats a clear mandate.

The Columbia Basin Rural Development Institute at Selkirk College Speaker Series presents:

HELMUT PASTRICK FRIDAY, MAR. 22nd 2:30-3:30 PM MIR Center for Peace - Castlegar Campus

Ottawa increases tanker restrictions

By Tom Fletcher Black Press

With one crude oil pipeline to the B.C. coast in environmental hearings and another waiting to apply, the federal government has announced stricter rules for foreign oil tanker inspections and more coastal flights looking for signs of oil spills.

A new Canadian Coast Guard incident command system, improved hazard markers for shipping, increased surveillance flights and research into the hazards of heavy oil were announced in Vancouver Monday by federal Transport Minister Denis Lebel and Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver.

The government has also tabled new legislation it says will strengthen requirements for pollution prevention and response at oil facilities and introduce new offences and penalties related to pollution.

Foreign tankers will have to be inspected annually, a rule now in place for Canadian vessels, to see if they are equipped with double

by pipeline and tanker.

Oliver said in an interview that the changes are not a response to the B.C. government’s demands,. When Clark presented five conditions last summer, Oliver immediately agreed with four of them, related to oil spill safety and aboriginal consultation. The fifth was an unspecified “fair share” of revenues from oil exports.

“There hasn’t been a single major tanker spill off the coast of British Columbia, ever,” Oliver said. “But we want to make sure we keep that record, and in the very unlikely event that someJoe Oliver thing untoward happens, we hulls and other safety features. want to be able to respond A tanker safety expert panel quickly and comprehensivewas also announced to review ly.” current standards and recomB.C. Environment mend further rules. Lebel and Minister Terry Lake said the Oliver described the program announcement is a welcome as moving to a “world-class step. tanker safety system,” the “We’ll have to look at term used by B.C. Premier how it compares with other Christy Clark last year when regimes, but from I see here, she announced conditions it goes a long way toward for provincial acceptance of getting to what we underincreased heavy oil shipments stand to be a world-class sys-

tem,” Lake said. “If we’re going to have this material moved through the province, the environment and the taxpayer have to be protected to the fullest extent.”

B.C. hired an Alaska consulting firm in February to conduct B.C.’s own review of spill response on the coast.

Lake said that is needed with or without proposed oil pipelines, since there are daily crude shipments from Alaska, exports of Alberta heavy crude from Burnaby, and a general increase in shipping for Asia-Pacific trade.

Fuels are shipped to locations all along the coast, and freighters and other ships all carry large amounts of bunker oil for their own fuel.

Transport Canada reports about 1,500 tanker movements on the West Coast in 2009-10, among 475,000 total ship movements that year.

The only major oil spill on the B.C. coast in 20 years was the sinking of the BC Ferries’ Queen of the North in 2006.

Liberal-NDP head-tax apology falls apart during scandal THE CANADIAN PRESS VICTORIA - Plans for a joint LiberalNew Democrat apology in British Columbia’s legislature over the Chinese head tax fell apart last week amid the provincial government’s ethnic-wins scandal.

Burnaby North Liberal Richard Lee and Vancouver-Mt. Pleasant New Democrat Jenny Kwan say both provincial parties were reviewing a draft apology that was planned for presentation in

the legislature last Thursday, but time ran out.

Lee says the Liberals gave the NDP the final draft of the apology, but acknowledges timing was an issue because the legislature was about to close down Thursday.

Kwan says the NDP supports an apology for the head tax, which forced Chinese immigrants to pay a tax to come to Canada over 100 years ago.

Both Lee and Kwan say the issue of a

B.C. head tax apology now rests with a future government since the legislature is officially in recess until after the May 14 election.

Three former Liberal insiders and former multiculturalism minister John Yap have either resigned or left government over a leaked Liberal government document suggesting formal apologies to ethnic communities for historic wrongs could result in quick wins at the ballot box.

Privacy watchdog reviews Liberal party ethic vote plan THE CANADIAN PRESS VICTORIA - B.C.’s information and privacy commissioner says she’s examining

privacy issues related to a Liberal government plan to use public resources to try to woo the ethnic vote.

April is the Month to Fight BAck

Look for us in your community.

Daffodil sales THIS WEEK

Commissioner Elizabeth Denham says she wants to find out if a former aid to Premier Christy Clark tried to evade access to information laws when he used his personal email, instead of a government email account, to exchange messages about the

plan.

She also wants to know if personal information was inappropriately shared when details about members of the ethnic community were exchanged between bureaucrats and the B.C. Liberal party.

Denham says she’s

THE FUTURE OF BC’S ECONOMY

THurSDay, MarcH 21

The public is invited to attend an authoritative, unbiased lecture by Helmut Pastrick, Chief Economist for Central Credit Union 1, the central financial facility and trade association for the BC and Ontario credit union systems.

Rossland: Ferraro Foods 10am-5pm Trail: Ferraro Foods 12pm-6pm, Waneta Plaza 12pm-3pm

PinPoint Personal Tax Services

FrIDay, MarcH 22

Personal Tax Preparation & Planning

Pastrick will speak on the BC economy and the Kootenay region in the broader context of global and US economic backdrop.

For registration and details visit cbrdi.ca or call 1.888.953.1133, ext. 392.

Rossland: Ferraro Foods 10am-5pm Trail: Ferraro Foods 12pm-6pm, Waneta Plaza 12pm-6pm, Walmart 12pm-3pm SaTurDay, MarcH 23

Trail: Ferraro Foods 10am-6pm, Waneta Plaza 10am-1pm Purchase bunches of Daffodil flowers and support the Canadian Cancer Society.

Daffodils are $5/ bunch of 10

Duane Lehr BA CFP Certified Financial Planner & Personal Tax Return Specialist

1501 2nd Avenue, Trail (250) 364-2421 pinpointtax@gmail.com

11340

launched a preliminary investigation into the multicultural outreach plan, and once that’s done a decision will be made on whether to start a formal investigation.

A report released last week by Clark’s Deputy Minister John Dyble said government resources were misused on the ethnic plan, including having one bureaucrat work for both the government caucus and the Liberal party while being paid as a government employee.

After the release of the report, Clark said the Liberal party had written a cheque to repay the government for work that bureaucrats did for her party, and pointed out two staff members in her office have since resigned without severance.

Trail Times Wednesday, March 20, 2013 www.trailtimes.ca A5

National Musings about reopening Constitution stir a storm in Quebec THE CANADIAN PRESS QUEBEC - Musings about reopening the Constitution from the new leader of Quebec’s Liberal party provoked a flood of condemnation from his opponents Tuesday.

The Parti Quebecois government accused Philippe Couillard of improvising on an important file. It said any constitutional changes had better be put to a referendum, as happened with the ill-fated 1992 Charlottetown

accord, and not adopted quickly by any future Liberal government as Couillard has suggested might be possible.

A pair of PQ cabinet ministers, Bernard Drainville and Alexandre Clouthier, said Couillard has to

explain himself. Drainville even said the new leader has “disqualified” himself from becoming premier if he thinks he can get the Constitution approved without setting conditions.

Couillard, who was picked

Sunday to replace Jean Charest, said he would like to see Quebec endorse the Constitution by 2017 but has not gone into specifics on how that would happen.

He said that’s a debate that will first be held in his own party.

Flaherty blasted for reversing mortgage rate cut

By Julian Beltrame THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is coming under fire for using his position to pressure a private sector mortgage lender to raise its interest rates, an action that will increase borrowing costs for Canadians.

“That’s Banana Republic behaviour,” said NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, who added the minister has no business interfering with the free marketplace.

Liberal interim leader Bob Rae called the minister’s actions “ridiculous” and in essence working to increase borrowing costs for Canadians.

“Either we have a market or we don’t,” he said.

“The banks have huge profits.

The idea that they shouldn’t be able to give a break to consumers is ridiculous and the idea that the Minister of Finance would basically be trying to create some kind of a cartel among the banks

and the financial institutions as to what they can offer consumers by way of interest rates is I think completely inappropriate, completely wrong actually.”

On Tuesday, Flaherty admitted he asked a member of his staff to phone Manulife Financial Corp. (TSX:MFC) after it had cut its posted rate for five-year fixed mortgages to 2.89 per cent from 3.09 per cent. The company quickly reversed its decision, saying only that “after consulting with the Department of Finance, Manulife Bank has withdrawn the promotional campaign and reverted to our previous posted rate.”

It’s the second time in a few weeks that Flaherty interfered in the mortgage market. Earlier in the month, he called the Bank of Montreal (TSX:BMO) after it had dropped its posted fiveyear rate to 2.99 per cent, but on that occasion BMO did not reverse itself.

Afterwards, he thanked

other institutions for not following the BMO lead, at least until Manulife’s brief discounted offering.

Since the government tightened mortgage rates in July, Canada’s housing market has slowed considerably in terms of sales, starts and even prices. Two weeks ago, the Bank of Canada signalled it was no longer as concerned about Canadian debt levels, saying it does not expect the situation to worse appreciably from its current high levels.

Slowing home sales and credit, however, has intensified competition among financial institutions and banks for a dwindling slice of the mortgage market, a relatively safe and lucrative sector of the industry. Flaherty told reporters he acted with Manulife to keep lenders from taking on risky loans and was happy with the company’s subsequent decision.

“As I said before, we encourage prudent lending

Magnotta collapses on floor while hearing evidence in his gruesome case

By Andy Blatchford THE CANADIAN PRESS

MONTREAL - Luka Rocco Magnotta collapsed in court during his preliminary hearing while appearing distraught by the evidence presented against him Tuesday.

The notorious suspect in a killing-and-dismemberment case was suddenly lying on his right side, crumpled into a fetal position. He was still handcuffed and shackled.

“You might want to make room for an ambulance,” the Crown prosecutor, Louis Bouthillier, told the guards outside the courtroom.

“Somebody’s collapsed.”

His lawyers came to check in on him, and gazed at Magnotta across the glass-enclosed defendant’s box in the special high-security courtroom where the case is being heard.

The episode happened while Magnotta took in evidence in the gruesome case, whose content is temporarily subject to a publication ban. The evidence could be made public, if the case goes to trial.

It wasn’t immediately clear whether Magnotta left in an ambulance. What was announced, however, was that Magnotta would not be back in court for the 2 p.m. afternoon session and the hearing was suspended for the rest of the day.

Judge Lori-Renee Weitzman said they could not continue without Magnotta present and ordered the case suspended until Wednesday morning. Leclair said he believes his client will be fine with a little bit of rest. During the morning segment Magnotta had held his hand over his mouth, as if he felt ill. His eyes were closed for the session.

He is charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of Jun Lin, a 33-year-old Concordia University engineering student from China.

Magnotta is also facing four other charges relating to the case.

He is accused of dismembering Lin and mailing parts of his body across Canada, before leading police on an international manhunt.

Magnotta was ultimately arrested in Germany.

practices, we don’t want a race to the bottom on mortgage rates by our financial institutions so I’m pleased at their response,” he said.

“I had one of my staff call them and indicate my displeasure, which is the same thing I did with the BMO except I called myself.”

But the opposition leaders said the government has no right to interfere in the free marketplace once it sets the ground-rules. To act otherwise is to substitute its opinion for that of the players in the market.

Flaherty has for the past several years complained that Canadians are borrowing beyond their means, particularly on mortgages, and worried they will be trapped once interest rates start to rise.

To slow down borrowing, he has tightened the rules on four occasions, reducing the amortization rate to 25 years from a historic high of 40 years, which was reached under Flaherty’s watch.

Spirituality & Aging HURRY! CLASSES START APRIL 1 This course examines the importance of spirituality in aging, and its effects on health, wellness and achievement of meaning in life and would be of interest to anyone wanting to explore spirituality related to health and well-being.

Contact Gail Potter, at gpotter@selkirk.ca for more information.

selkirk.ca

HIGH FRAME RATE 3D

DOLBY 7.1 SURROUND SOUND

Now Playing to March 21

OZ: The Great & Powerful 7pm until Thursday

March 22-28

The Croods 2D & 3D Fri-Wed 7pm Fri-Thurs 2pm 2D Fri-Thurs 5pm Listen to Wayne & Jayne to win your tickets for EZ Tuesday

1597 Bay Ave, Trail 24 Hour: 250-364-2114 www.royaltheatretrail.com

Mon. & Tues. Nights Come Twirl With Us Pasta & every Wednesday, Chicken Cutlets Thursday & Friday Salad, pasta, jojo nights with our potatoes, Italian Ribs Special style chicken, cutlet, including spaghetti, salad, vegetables & bun and bun.

1348

$

1500

$

dine in only

250.364.1816 1475 Cedar Ave., Trail While shopping at Waneta Plaza try the Colander Express Pasta & More!

Lunch Hours

Dinner Hours

11:30 - 2pm Weekdays 4:30 - 8:30pm daily

Are you a senior who just needs a little help?

We are now accepting new clients Dementia / Alzheimer clients welcome

Call April Cashman 250-368-6838 www.MyAlternatives.ca

Serving Rossland Warfield Trail Montrose & Fruitvale

A6 www.trailtimes.ca

OPINION

Wednesday, March 20, 2013 Trail Times

Published by Black Press Tuesday to Friday, except statutory holidays SECOND CLASS MAIL REGISTRATION #0011

1163 Cedar Avenue Trail, B.C. • V1R 4B8 OFFICE Ph: 250-368-8551 Fax: 250-368-8550 NEWSROOM 250-364-1242 SALES 250-364-1416 CIRCULATION 250-364-1413

Barbara Blatchford PUBLISHER, ext. 200 publisher@trailtimes.ca

Guy Bertrand EDITOR, ext. 211 editor@trailtimes.ca

Michelle Bedford

CIRCULATION MANAGER, ext. 206 circulation@trailtimes.ca

Jim Bailey SPORTS EDITOR, ext. 210 sports@trailtimes.ca

Timothy Schafer REPORTER, ext. 212 reporter@trailtimes.ca

Sheri Regnier REPORTER, ext. 208 newsroom@trailtimes.ca

Dave Dykstra SALES ASSOCIATE, ext. 203 d.dykstra@trailtimes.ca

Lonnie Hart

SALES ASSOCIATE, ext. 201 l.hart@trailtimes.ca

Jeanine Margoreeth

NATIONAL AND CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING CLERK, ext. 204 nationals@trailtimes.ca

Kevin Macintyre

PRODUCTION MANAGER, ext 209 ads@trailtimes.ca

Shannon McIlmoyle PRODUCTION, ext 209 production@trailtimes.ca

All rights reserved. Contents copyright by the Trail Times. Any reproduction of material contained in this publication in whole or in part is forbidden without the expressed written consent of the publisher.

It is agreed that the Trail Times will not be responsible for errors or omissions and is not liable for any amount exceeding the cost of the space used and then only such portion where the errors actually appeared.

We reserve the right to edit or reject any submission or advertisement that is contrary to our publishing guidelines.

Iraq 10 years later: no explanations can justify war Why did George W. Bush choose 19 March, 2003 to invade Iraq, rather than some day in May, or July, or never?

Because he was afraid that further delay would give United Nations arms inspectors time to refute the accusation (his sole pretext for making an unprovoked attack on an independent country) that Saddam Hussein’s regime was working on nuclear weapons.

The US president couldn’t say that, of course, and so instead his administration’s spokesmen mumbled about the need to get the war over and done with before the summer heat made fighting impossible.

Yet American soldiers proved perfectly capable of operating in that summer heat during the ensuing seven years of fighting, in which over 4,000 of them were killed.

That was nothing compared to the number of Iraqi deaths. At least five times as many Iraqis have died violently in the decade since the US invasion as were killed by Saddam’s regime in the ten years before the invasion.

The exact number is unknown, but Saddam’s secret police were probably killing less than 2,000 people a year in 1993-2003.

An estimated 121,000 Iraqi civilians have died in

GWYNNE

DYER World Affairs

the military and political struggles of the past ten years.

Iraq’s infrastructure has still not recovered to its prewar level.

More than a million Iraqis still live in internal exile, unable to return to the homes from which they were “cleansed” during the Sunni-Shia sectarian war of 2006-2007.

Another million have fled the country for good, including a large proportion of the country’s intellectual and professional elite.

Iraq ranks eighth from the bottom on Transparency International’s corruption index, ahead of Somalia and North Korea but below Haiti and Equatorial Guinea.

The government in Baghdad, though dominated by sectarian Shia politicians, does little for the impoverished Shia majority. The Sunni minority

fears and hates it. And the Kurdish ethnic minority in the north just ignores Baghdad and runs a state that is independent in all but name.

Iraq’s courts do the regime’s will, torture is endemic, and the swollen army and “security” forces (used almost exclusively for internal repression) eat up a huge share of the budget.

And from the perspective of American grand strategy, the main result of the war has been to weaken the position of the US in the Gulf region and strengthen that of its perceived opponent, Iran.

The United States spent about $800 billion on the Iraq war, and will eventually spend at least another trillion dollars on military pensions, disability payments and debt service.

Yet it achieved less than nothing. Why on earth did it invade in the first place?

Even the defenders of the invasion have stopped claiming that Saddam Hussein was cooperating with al-Qaeda terrorists who were plotting to attack the United States.

They were also plotting to overthrow and kill Saddam, as everyone with any knowledge of the Middle East already knew.

The UN weapons inspectors never found the slightest evidence that Saddam had revived the nuclear

weapons programme that had been dismantled under UN supervision in the early 1990s.

The people in the White House who took the decision to invade must have known that there was no such programme: the way they carefully worded their propaganda in order to avoid explicit lying is ample evidence of that.

The strategist Edward Luttwak once suggested that the real reason was that the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 had been too easy.

After 9/11 the American people really wanted to punish somebody, and Afghanistan had not provided enough catharsis.

So another invasion was an emotional necessity, and (given the American public’s ignorance about the Middle East) almost any Arab country would do.

There was certainly a parallel desire among the neo-conservatives in the Bush White House to restore American power to unchallenged dominance after what they saw as the fecklessness of Bill Clinton’s administrations in the 1990s.

That required a short and successful war that would put everyone else in awe and fear of American military might – but, once again, any weak and unpopular country would have done. Why Iraq?

The closest we can come to a rational answer is the argument, common in Washington a decade ago, that permanent military bases in Iraq would give America strategic control of the entire Gulf region.

The role of those bases would not be to ensure prompt delivery of the region’s oil to the United States at a low price: only 11 percent of US oil imports come from there.

The bases would instead enable the United States to block Gulf exports of oil to China if the United States found itself in a confrontation with that country.

(Geo-strategic arguments are often frivolous.)

None of these explanations can justify what was done, and we haven’t even gone into the damage done to international law by this blatantly criminal act.

But can we at least conclude that the world, or even just the United Nations, has learned a lesson from all this?

Probably yes for the United States, at least until memories fade. (Give it ten more years.) Not so much for the rest of the world, but then most other countries are less prone to invade faraway places anyway.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

Trail Times Wednesday, March 20, 2013

www.trailtimes.ca A7

LETTERS & OPINION Referee never decides the outcome of a game attend that I don’t like or agree with.

However, I also realize that things never look so cut and dried from the on ice (or field) perspective as they do from the cheap seats. The angles are different, the focus is different and the view is not as wide or all encompassing and you don’t have your buddies sitting beside you to alter your opinion or to impress with your vast knowledge of the game.

The other thing that I know (in this context) is that the referee almost never decides

the outcome of a game. This particular game had the Nighthawks lose a two-goal lead twice and miss numerous chances in the overtime. The bottom line is that the Rebels capitalized on one more chance than the Nighthawks.

As a Beaver Valley (past, present and future) season ticket holder I would like to thank the players, coaches and all the volunteers for an entertaining season. See you next year.

Bill MacMillan, Trail

WEBSITE POLL RESULTS:

Do you think the NDP will face stiff competition in the Kootenay West riding in the provincial election?

YOU SAID...

NO

YES 16%

83%

Luca Hair Studio is pleased to welcome

As well as Pedicures, manicures and is a qualified Gel Nail Technician.

Sarah is an advanced colour technician and is a natural curl specialist.

Deep Tissue Massage

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

I read, with some dismay, the letter entitled “Refereeing shouldn’t determine outcome” published on Friday, March 15.

I am not sure what game Mr. Phillipoff saw but the one we saw was an incredibly entertaining “Jungle B” hockey game. I am at a loss to understand how a game that was won late in the second overtime could be “one sided” but I guess it’s all in the perspective.

I have officiated both hockey and baseball in this area for the last 30 years or so and I often see things at games we

Kerri Pedersen is now offering

Sarah Thomas back from maternity leave.

She is offering 20% off for all new and existing clients for the month of March.

Coming in June: Hot

Stone Massage 1287 Cedar Avenue, Trail, BC V1R 4B9

(250) 368-3911

SILHOUETTE® SHADINGS NOW HAVE UP TO 88% ULTRAVIOLET PROTECTION! Just like your skin, if not properly blocked, ultraviolet rays can damage your artwork, flooring and furniture.

Silhouette window shadings, with the Signature S-VaneTM, provide superior UV protection compared to other window covering products - up to 88% with the vanes tilted open.

Call us today to see Life in a Whole New Light.

www.trailtimes.ca

THIS WEEK’S QUESTION: Should the federal government overturn its doctorassisted suicide law?

Cast your vote online at www.trailtimes.ca

gwfloors.ca

Helping you turn your house into a home...

364-2537

11255

MARKET QUOTATIONS MARKET QUOTATIONS Vancouver & Toronto Quotes

NATIONAL

Economy to improve, but loonie to remain below parity for next two years: RBC

BY JULIAN BELTRAME THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA - Canada’s largest bank is forecasting the economy will do slightly better than most expect in the next two years, and one reason why is that the Canadian dollar won’t.

The Royal Bank is projecting growth rates of 1.8 per cent for 2013 and 2.9 per cent for 2014, which is a couple of decimal points better than the consensus estimate federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty will be using in Thursday’s budget.

But the bank says the Canadian dollar is unlikely to see sustained parity again over the next two years, averaging at about 96 cents US in 2013 and 98 cents US in 2014. The loonie was down 0.17 of a cent at 97.65 cents US in early trading Tuesday.

“Previously, we had a firmer Canadian dollar outlook,” the RBC economists say in a report released Tuesday. “However, reduced Bank of Canada rate hike expectations, steady to lower commodity prices, and softening demand for Canadian financial assets are likely to result in Canada’s currency trading below parity with the U.S. dollar for the forecast horizon (two years).”

While that’s bad news for snowbirds and crossborder shoppers, the lower-flying loonie should do wonders for exporters and Canadian manufacturers, reducing the price of what Canadians ship abroad and raising the cost of imports.

The new numbers represents a climbdown

for the private sector bank, which last year had expected the Canadian economy would be far stronger at this point.

RBC chief economist Craig Wright says 2012 was a very different year than what had been expected, starting off sluggishly and then continuing to weaken, producing the worst twoquarter growth rate in the second half of the year - averaging 0.7 per cent - since the end of the recession in 2009.

And this occurred despite the fact none of the doomsday scenarios, from a European collapse to the U.S. economy falling off the fiscal cliff, came to pass. What’s even more surprising is that while the economy slowed, hiring in Canada kept growing, churning out an above-consensus 310,000 jobs during the year.

“The assumption was that as we see consumer spending pull back, and housing pull back and government being neutral, the growth baton would be handed off to exports and business investment,” he explained. “(But) the economy doesn’t seem to be transitioning as smoothly as was hoped for. I think a lot of it has to do with uncertainty and the impact that is having on businesses, more on the investment side than on the hiring side.”

The year will also see fewer jobs created, the bank says, with expectations in the 200,000250,000 range in both years, enough to lower the unemployment rate below seven per cent.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR POLICY The Trail Times welcomes letters to the editor from our readers on topics of interest to the community. Include a legible first and last name, a mailing address and a telephone number where the author can be reached. Only the author’s name and district will be published. Letters lacking names and a verifiable phone number will not be published. A guideline of 500 words is suggested for letter length. We do not publish “open” letters, letters directed to a third party, or poetry. We reserve the right to edit or refuse to publish letters. You may also e-mail your letters to editor@trailtimes.ca We look forward to receiving your opinions.

MARKET QUOTATIONS Vancouver & Toronto Quotes

HSE Husky Energy Inc ............................. 30.08 MARKET QUOTATIONS MBT Manitoba Telephone....................... 32.56

ZCH BMO China Equity ........................ 11.52 BMO Bank of Montreal........................... 63.75 Vancouver & Toronto Quotes BNS Bank of Nova Scotia....................... 59.66 BCE BCE Inc ............................................... 46.73 CM CIBC...................................................... 82.22 Funds.............................. 76.57 CUMutual Canadian Utilities Vancouver & Toronto Quotes CFP Canfor ..................................................

21.60 Mutual Funds ENB Enbridge Inc ...................................... 46.81 ECA EnCana Cp ........................................ 20.20 FTT Finning Intl Inc ................................... 25.46 Mutual Funds FTS Fortis Inc ..............................................

33.35 VNP 5N Plus Inc ...........................................2.29

NA National Bank of Canada ............... 76.64 NBD Norbord Inc .................................... 37.00 OCX Onex Corp ..................................... 47.95 RY Royal Bank of Canada ....................... 61.03 ST Sherrit International ..............................5.06 TEK.B Teck Resources Ltd.................... 28.45 T Telus ............................................................ 69.58 TD Toronto Dominion ............................ 84.44 TRP TransCanada Cp ............................... 49.49 VXX Ipath S&P 500 Vix ........................... 22.17

Cdn Dollar US Dollar Gold Crude Oil Mutual Funds Cdn Dollar US Dollar Gold Crude Oil

Norrep Inc.................................................... 11.19

AGF Trad Balanced Fund............................5.98

Cdn Dollar US Dollar Gold Crude Oil London Gold Spot ..................................1611.3 Silver .............................................................28.843

Crude Oil (Sweet)..................................... 92.52 Canadian Dollar (US Funds) ................0.9731

Cdn Dollar US Dollar Gold Crude Oil

Looking for a Second Opinion?

Looking forRetirement a Second Opinion?

At Canaccord Wealth Management, on your At Canaccord Wealthterms!

Management, we are dedicated to providing you Atdedicated MP Wealthto Advisory let our we are providing you Looking for awealth Second Opinion? with sound, unbiased investment personalized management process with sound, unbiased investment show you how.

We focus on capital At Canaccord Wealth Management, advice. Contact us for an evaluation advice.

Contactrisk us for an evaluation preservation, and weyour are dedicated tomanagement, providing you of financialinvestment future. consistent returns. of your financial future.

Looking for a Second Opinion? with sound, unbiased investment The MPPastro Wealth Darren DarrenPastro At Canaccord Wealth advice.

Contact us forManagement, an evaluation Advisory Team &&Scott ScottMarshall Marshall we are dedicated to providing you of your financial future.

T:Investment 250.368.3838 InvestmentAdvisors Advisors with sound, unbiased investment T:T:1.855.368.3838 250.368.3838 TF: Darren250.368.3838 Pastro www.canaccord.com TF: 1.855.368.3838 advice. Contact us for an evaluation TF: 1.855.368.3838 & Scott Marshall www.mpwealthadvisory.com www.canaccord.com www.canaccord.com of your financial future.

Investment Advisors

T: 250.368.3838 Darren Pastro TF: 1.855.368.3838 & Scott Marshall www.canaccord.com information contained thisadvertisement advertisementisisdrawn drawnfrom from sources sources believed and completeness of the TheThe information contained in in this believedto tobe bereliable, reliable,but butthe theaccuracy accuracy and completeness of the Investment Advisors author or or Canaccord Canaccord Genuity This information is given as of information is not guaranteed, nor providingititdo dothe theauthor GenuityCorp.

Corp.assume assumeany anyliability. liability.

This information is given as of information is not guaranteed, nor ininproviding the date appearing on this advertisement, and neither the author nor Canaccord Genuity Corp. assume any obligation to update the information the date appearing on this advertisement, and neither the author nor Canaccord Genuity Corp. assume any obligation to update the informatio T: 250.368.3838 or advise on further developments relating information providedOF herein.

INDEPENDENT WEALTH MANAGEMENT AND CANACCORD WEALTH MANAGEMENT ARE DIVISIONS CANACCORD GENUITY CORP., MEMBER

INDEPENDENT WEALTH MANAGEMENTAND ANDCANACCORD CANACCORDWEALTH WEALTH MANAGEMENT MANAGEMENT ARE GENUITY CORP., MEMBER INDEPENDENT WEALTH MANAGEMENT AREDIVISIONS DIVISIONSOF OFCANACCORD CANACCORD GENUITY CORP., MEMBER — CANADIAN INVESTORPROTECTION PROTECTIONFUND FUNDAND ANDTHE THE INVESTMENT INVESTMENT INDUSTRY OFOF CANADA. — CANADIAN INVESTOR INDUSTRYREGULATORY REGULATORYORGANIZATION ORGANIZATION CANADA.

A8 www.trailtimes.ca

Wednesday, March 20, 2013 Trail Times

This Wednesday - Sunday Only!

Spend $100, earn

®

®

AIR MILES reward miles

®

99

¢ lb.

3

MARCH 24, 201

0d a ALID MARCH 2 ust be presente nsaction. *With coupon and cery VLimit one Bonus Offer perchr astraensmacustiot ben. mCoadupeonin ma singlheertradisco offer or t un any ot ase. Pu at time of purchons cannot be combined wierthAppreciation Day & Senior’s, minimum $100 groa AIR MILES coup on offer including Custom upon excludes prescriptions AIR MILES coupat Safeway Liquor Stores. Colin pump supplies, blood purchase made in Day. Not validchandise, insulin pumps, insu gift cards, enviro levies, bottlr e . n diabetes mer itors, tobacco, transit passes, ply. See Customer Service fo ate single transactio mon ns ap to activ ®

e by LoyaltyOne, Inc. ng B.V. used under licens S International Tradi ®TM Trademarks of AIR MILE

33 00000 511

®

0

S U 1AIR0M0ILEBS OreN ward miles*

9

ARN E , 0 0 1 $ D N E P S

ce clusio pressure les tax. Other exshiers: Scan the coupon only on deposits and sa Ca . ns sio clu . ex ce of on t lis an e th et e pl or m co Do not scan m the Bonus Offer.

TURKEYS GRADE A

Grade A Turkey

Under 7 kg. Frozen.

LIMIT ONE PER HOUSEHOLD WITH A MINIMUM $50 PURCHASE

99

Valid March 13 to March 21.

While supplies last.

¢

/lb 2.18/kg

Club Price

Prices effective at all British Columbia and Alberta Safeway stores. AIR MILES® offer effective March 20 to 24, 2013. Turkey offer effective March 13 to 21, 2013. We reserve the right to limit sales to retail quantities. Some items may not be available at all stores. All items while stocks last. Actual items may vary slightly from illustrations. Some illustrations are serving suggestions only. Advertised prices do not include GST. ®™ Trademarks of AIR MILES International Trading B.V. Used under license by LoyaltyOne, Inc. and Canada Safeway Limited. Extreme Specials are prices that are so low they are limited to a one time purchase to Safeway Club Card Members within a household. Each household can purchase the limited items one time during the effective dates. A household is defined by all Safeway Club Cards that are linked by the same address and phone number. Each household can purchase the EXTREME SPECIALS during the specified advertisement dates. For purchases over the household limits, regular pricing applies to overlimit purchases. On BUY ONE GET ONE FREE items, both items must be purchased. Lowest priced item is then free. Online and in-store prices, discounts, and offers may differ.

Trail Times Wednesday, March 20, 2013

See us for ATV Tires

www.trailtimes.ca A9

SPORTS

Come get some

Car Love

1995 Columbia Ave, Trail, BC 250-364-1208 www.integratire.com

250.364.2235 jbsbiz.net Personal & Business Tax Preparation

Club awards CanSkaters

Bookkeeping Clients Welcome

GREATER TRAIL MINOR HOCKEY

Bantam AAs still in mix

One more win and bantams are in

BY JIM BAILEY

BY JIM BAILEY

Times Sports Editor

Times Sports Editor

The Trail Skating Club (TSC) recognized its coaches, volunteers, and skaters as it wrapped up its season with a friend and family fun skate Thursday, followed by hot dogs and treats to further reward the hard work of the young skaters.

About 20 skaters, aged three to 10, enjoyed the CanSkate program taught by head coach Sabrina Hinson.

Hinson brought enthusiasm, experience, and dedication to the rink, as the Trail club is just one of four clubs she coaches in the area.

“She puts a lot of effort and time into planning and delivers not only a learning program but also a fun environment for your children,” said TSC president Allana Ferro at the presentation.

Hinson had lots

JBS business services

JIM BAILEY PHOTO

The Trail Skating Club recognized the great work of all its Can Skate and Star program skaters with a season ending windup. The young skaters all took home certificates and ribbons, while coaches Sabrina Hinson (bottom left) and Andrea Poznikoff (right) awarded Rohan Fossy (bottom middle) with the Can Skater of the Year award, and both Nemi Okonkwo (second from left) and Zoe de Pellegrin (second from right) with the Spirit Award. of help from Andrea Poznikoff a former competitive skater turned coach who was a great asset in incorporating the new Can Skate program.

Skate Canada introduced the revamped program last summer to help young skaters develop and improve faster while maintaining the fun elements and challenges to suit all levels and ages.

The coaches presented certificates and participation ribbons to its skaters including a few special awards.

Rohan Fossey was selected as the Can Skater of the Year Award for excellence on the ice as well as his commitment,

determination, and perpetually positive attitude.

Skaters Nemi Okonkwo and Zoe de Pellegrin were also

honoured with the Spirit Award, going to the Can Skaters who demonstrate the qualities that embody the “Spirit of Champions,” commitment, determination, discipline, and physical fitness.

The skating club hopes to see all the skaters back next year and invites all youngsters to join its program when it resumes in October.

The club will also hold its AGM on Apr. 11, at 7 p.m. in the Trail Skating Club room at the Trail Memorial Centre.

DOWNHILL SKIING

Nancy Greene skiers rise to occasion at Phoenix

BY TIMES CONTRIBUTOR The Nancy Greene Ski League drew to a close this past weekend but not before its young athletes finished on a high note.

The final Nancy Greene race, at Phoenix Mountain, saw U10 athletes get individual results for the first time this season. Chase Eagleton swept the U10 boys while Emelia Hoffman did the same in the U10 girls. Iman Livingstone and Finlay Kinghorn, also took podium spots in the U10 category.

Sage Stefani finished her racing season with a stellar silver medal in the U12 girls category, achieving a goal she had trained for all season.

All the racers had a fun day and medals were had by all. The RMR teams,

which included athletes from Rossland, Trail, Fruitvale, and Castlegar, achieved gold in the team results.

But the racing isn’t over, and the best is yet to come, as Red Mountain Resort and Red Mountain Racers are hosting the U16 Provincial Championships in Slalom and Giant Slalom this week.

The action starts Thursday and continues through to Sunday.

“The snow was really hard and fast during training on Sunday,” says Christine Andison, Race organizer for this week’s event. “We are going to have some pretty outstanding racing.”

Featured at this event is Red Mountain’s own Soleil Patterson who comes off a stellar performance sweeping both days of the Giant Slalom at Red

in late February.

Also featured are Red Mountain Academy students Liene Groeger (Germany) and Arina Rora. Arina is representing Red Mountain Racers and is here training from Romania. She has just come back from competing in her national championships at home, with a gold in GS and a bronze in Slalom.

But to make the event an unqualified success, Andison is on the lookout for volunteers.

“This is a great opportunity to help out the community and also to see some very high calibre athletes competing against some very formidable homegrown talent.”

If interested contact Andison at andison@shaw.ca or 362-5135.

Georama has your gardening know-how and supplies.

Organic products, seeds, bulbs, containers, tools and more.

Just a short, scenic drive 5 min West of Nelson on Granite Road www.georamagrowers.com • 250-352-3468 Monday to Sat 8 to 5:30 • Open Sundays 10 to 4

It was a tough day for Greater Trail minor hockey teams at the provincial playdowns on Monday, but the Bantam AA team was able to turn it around in Salmon Arm Tuesday with a win over Langley.

The four local teams went winless Monday with GTMHA’s Pee Wee AA Smoke Eaters falling to Powell River 3-2, the Bantam AA losing a 5-2 match to Williams Lake, the Midget AA succumbing to Vancouver 3-1, and the West Kootenay Bantam A female Wildcats getting shut out by Juan de Fuca 3-0.

Despite the loss, the Bantam AA’s are still in the playoff mix thanks to a 3-1 win over a tough Langley side early Tuesday morning.

Jason Mailhiot made 36 saves for the Bantam Smokies while Karsten Jang, Blake Sidoni, and Spencer McLean scored to hand Langley its first loss of the tournament. With a win over Kelowna Tuesday night, the double-A Bantams should make it to the playoff round today.

The Wildcats meanwhile had a chance to advance to the semifinal round but had mustwin games against Tri-Cities and Prince George Tuesday. Unfortunately, Tri-Cities ruined their chance with an early 5-1 victory.

“The Tri-Cities are very talented and not dirty, nice to watch,” said team spokesperson Lori Dawson. “Too bad for us, but it is nice to play a team like this that isn’t looking for dirty stuff.”

The Pee Wee AA team was essentially eliminated from the playoff round Monday, but can play spoiler with a win over Cranbrook, who sit at 1-1 with a 7-5 win over Powell River and a 6-5 loss to Burnaby.

The Midget loss also means they’ll be on the outside looking in with just one game remaining against 0-2 Williams Lake.

If the Bantam AA Smokies win the semi-final game this morning, they’ll play tonight at 8 p.m.

SPRING Sprouts

A10 www.trailtimes.ca

Wednesday, March 20, 2013 Trail Times

Sports Go Greene Go

NCAA hockey

Quinnipiac survives Cornell

By Jim Bailey

Times Sports Editor

The number-one ranked Quinnipiac Bobcats advanced to the semifinal round of the NCAA Div. 1 ECAC playoff on the weekend, but were pushed to the limit by a surprising Cornell club.

Number-nine seeded Cornell University defeated the Bobcats 3-2 in the first game of a best-ofthree series Friday, but Quinnipiac bounced back Saturday with a 10-0 rout of the Red Men in Game 2.

Montrose’s Connor and Kellen Jones each netted a goal in the first game, and exploded in Saturday’s second game. The twins, along with Trail’s Travis St. Denis, combined for 10 points with St. Denis and Kellen scoring twice and getting an assist, while Connor added a goal and three assists for a four-point night.

“It was obviously a tough night and he’s been a good goalie (Cornell’s Andy Iles) every time we’ve played against him,” Kellen Jones told a USCHO reporter. “I’ve played against him for three years and he’ll be good tomorrow night, so we will expect his best.”

And indeed Iles was brilliant in the rubber match Sunday stopping 60 shots in a 3-2 double overtime loss to the Bobcats.

Quinnipiac was down 2-1 until the final minute of the third period

when Clay Harvey banged in his own rebound at 1:04 to force OT. After numerous scoring chances in the first OT, the Q-cats would end it in the fifth period on a dramatic game-winning goal by Kevin Bui, a former Drumheller Dragon of the AJHL. Bobcat d-man Loren Barron connected with Bui as he crossed over the blue line, raced behind the Cornell defense and streaked toward the net. Bui put the puck on his backhanded and tossed it under Iles for the game-winner.

“I was just trying to get up ice and had a lot of speed going wide and Loren hit me with a nice pass and I had their defensemen beat,” Bui said. “The next thing I know, everyone was on top of me.”

The goal was Bui’s second of the season and just his fifth career goal in 63 games.

“That’s the fastest I’ve ever seen him skate,” Quinnipiac coach Rand Pecknold told the USCHO .

“He was motoring and that is credit to him and our strength coach. He was flying; I’m real happy for Kevin. He is such a good kid and he’s been such a big part of our success this year.”

Quinnipiac takes on Brown in the semifinal of the ECAC playoffs this weekend, a team they’ve yet to beat this year, having met and tied them twice.

The best full family shoe selection in the Kootenays We specialize in a number of brands for men, women and children.

We are a Castlegar owned and operated business aimed at bringing the entire West Kootenay region an excellent selection of well priced footwear for the entire family. There is no longer a reason to drive great distances to get the quality, selection, and prices you want.

Lesley chisholm photo

The Nancy Greene Racers topped off a great season on the weekend with multiple podium finishes at Phoenix Ski Hill. Red Mountain and its racers now prepare for the U16 provincial championship in Slalom and Giant Slalom this weekend. See story Page 9.

nfl

New rules to protect players Defensive teams can now have only six or less players on each side of the snapper at the line of scrimmage. Players not on the line can’t push teammates on the line into blockers, either.

The alignment violation is a 5-yard penalty. The pushing penalty is 15 yards for unnecessary roughness.

But the potential change that has drawn the most attention - yes, even more than eliminating the infamous tuck rule, which seems to be a foregone conclusion - is prohibiting ball carriers outside the tackle box from lowering their helmets and making contact with defenders with the crown.

New York Giants owner John Mara, a member of the competition committee that

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOENIX - NFL owners approved two rule changes Tuesday to enhance player safety. They might not vote on a proposal to ban offensive players from using the crown of their helmets against defenders.

The owners outlawed peelback blocks anywhere on the field; previously, they were illegal only inside the tackle box. A player makes a peelback block when he is moving toward his goal line, approaches an opponent from behind or the side, and makes contact below the waist.

The penalty will be 15 yards.

Also banned is overloading a formation while attempting to block a field goal or extra point.

Scoreboard

d-Pittsburgh d-Montreal d-Carolina

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts 30 22 8 0 44 28 19 5 4 42 28 15 11 2 32

GF 108 90 83

GA 80 70 78

Birchbank Golf is getting ready for the 2013 Golf Season The Birchbank Driving Range and 18 Hole Golf Course are scheduled to open March 19 - 25

Thanks to Mother Nature, Birchbank Greens and the entire course came through the winter in great shape!

25% Discount on all green fees until April 30th

Check our website for final opening days WWW.BIRCHBANKGOLF.COM

or call us at 250.693.2255 359 Columbia Ave. Castlegar, BC • 250.365.5510 • centralcityshoes@hotmail.com

has recommended the change, expressed doubt Tuesday that the proposal would be voted on before Wednesday, when the owners meetings conclude. He also said there was “a chance” it could be tabled until the May meetings in Boston.

“There was a spirited discussion,” Mara said. “We’ll have more discussion today.”

Many coaches have said they are concerned about officiating such a new rule.

“In all fairness it’s going to be tough on the officials, it’s going to be tough to make that determination at live speed with one look,” said John Harbaugh of the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens.

The penalty will be a spot foul for 15 yards.

A P S

Account-Plus Services Accounting & Income Taxes

Boston Ottawa Toronto d-Winnipeg New Jersey N.Y. Rangers N.Y. Islanders Tampa Bay Philadelphia Washington Buffalo Florida

d-Chicago d-Anaheim d-Minnesota Los Angeles St. Louis Detroit Vancouver Phoenix San Jose Dallas Nashville Edmonton Columbus Calgary

27 19 5 3 41 29 15 8 6 36 29 15 12 2 32 29 15 12 2 32 29 13 10 6 32 28 14 12 2 30 28 13 12 3 29 29 13 15 1 27 30 13 16 1 27 28 12 15 1 25 29 10 15 4 24 29 7 16 6 20 WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts 29 24 2 3 51 28 21 3 4 46 28 16 10 2 34 28 16 10 2 34 28 16 10 2 34 29 14 10 5 33 28 13 9 6 32 29 13 12 4 30 28 12 10 6 30 28 13 12 3 29 29 11 12 6 28 28 11 11 6 28 29 11 12 6 28 27 11 12 4 26

KIJHL Monday Results Castlegar 3 at Golden 1 Castlegar leads series 3-0 N.Okanagan 5 at Osoyoos 0 N. Okanagan leads series

81 72 86 77 72 67 83 96 81 78 76 70

57 62 83 85 81 68 91 86 92 85 93 109

GF 100 95 73 85 85 78 78 77 67 73 67 69 64 78

GA 62 69 69 71 80 75 80 82 74 84 77 81 76 91

2-1.

Tuesday Results Castlegar at Golden 7 p.m. scores unavailable N. Okanagan at Osoyoos 7 p.m. scores unavailable

INCOME TAX EFILE • Personal, Proprietorship and Corporate Returns • • Full accounting services • • Reasonable rates • Fast, friendly service •

Bill James 118 Pine Ave, Fruitvale 250.367.2247

Trail Times Wednesday, March 20, 2013 www.trailtimes.ca A11

Leisure

Mother may have reacted out of fear Mailbox

Marcy Sugar & Kathy Mitchell

Dear Penny: We don’t think your mother meant to imply that your health is not worth $600. Have you ever seen a parent yell at a toddler for running into the street?

It’s not out of anger.

It’s because they were worried to death by what might have happened. We think this was your mother’s reaction. Your illness turned out to be curable, but it could have been something far worse. Becoming angry at the bill was emotionally safer than facing her fears of losing you altogether. Please forgive her outburst.

Dear Annie: I was married for 47 years

(I tried that, filled out a visitor card and never heard from them.) I’ll be 70 soon, and I feel life isn’t worth living if I have to be alone.

-- Florida Dear Florida: You sound terribly depressed, and this may be part of the reason you have trouble making friends. People are attracted to those who are upbeat and energetic, and those traits are difficult for you to display when you feel so low. Talk to your doctor about an antidepressant. Ask someone in charge whether you could help organize a group outing, perhaps to a movie or a play. Do some volunteer work where your help will be appreciated and you can spend time getting to know others and practicing your social skills. You’ve spent years being “programmed” to push people away. Attracting them won’t happen overnight. Consider yourself a work in

progress.

Dear Annie: This is in reply to “A LongTerm Care Employee,” who admonished families for not bringing new clothing to nursing home residents.

There is another factor at play here: dementia.

My mother wears

the same clothes over and over. She has new clothes in her closet.

She doesn’t recognize them and thinks they are someone else’s clothes. I have tried to remove the most worn items, but she stands over me and says, “No, I wear that.” This per-

ceived problem is not always what it seems to be. -- Kentucky Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net.

Today’s PUZZLES 5

4

7

1

By Dave Green

9

2

1

3 4 6 7 5 9 2 8 4 9 8 3 7 3 5 7 1 2 9 6 4

Difficulty Level

Today’s Crossword

3/20

Sudoku is a number-placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with several given numbers. The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so that each row, each column and each 3x3 box contains the same number only once. The difficulty level of the Conceptis Sudoku increases from Monday to Friday.

Solution for previous SuDoKu 9 1 5 7 3 8 4 6 2 8 4 2 9 5 6 7 3 1 7 3 6 2 1 4 9 5 8 2 5 3 1 8 7 6 4 9 4 8 9 5 6 3 1 2 7 6 7 1 4 2 9 3 8 5 1 2 7 3 4 5 8 9 6 3 9 8 6 7 2 5 1 4 5 6 4 8 9 1 2 7 3 Difficulty Level

2013 Conceptis Puzzles, Dist. by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Annie’s

to a man who did not want me making friends outside his family. Unfortunately, his family didn’t much care for me. I acquiesced to his wishes (pre-women’s rights).

When he died, I tried volunteering in order to make friends, but I guess I am programmed to push people away. I correspond via email with a few folks, but no one wants to take the friendship further.

I let my son have my house and moved back to my hometown into a retirement place that my son convinced me would be beneficial.

But they sold him a bill of goods about the activities here. There are none. No one wants to be friends. They say good morning, but even my invites go unanswered.

I would like to move, but I can’t afford it, and no one will help me pack up. People are full of suggestions -- go to the mall, go to church.

2013 Conceptis Puzzles, Dist. by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Dear Annie: I am a teenager in the northwest. Recently, I contracted a kidney infection that was painful and needed treatment.

I didn’t know what I had and wasn’t familiar with the symptoms, so the only thing I said to my parents was that I didn’t feel well. After a few days, it got so bad that I had to go to the emergency room. I was given a prescription and healed, but the hospital bill was $600.

When the bill came, my mother read me the riot act for costing her so much. She told me I should have said something earlier and saved them some money. That was true, and I apologized. But the impression I got is that my health is not worth that much money to her.

I’ve never had a good relationship with my mother, but this stung.

Why would she insinuate such a thing? What should I do? -- Not as Pretty as a Penny

3/19

A12 www.trailtimes.ca

Leisure

YourByhoroscope Francis Drake For Thursday, March 21, 2013 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Today fair Venus moves into your sign to stay for three weeks. This increases your desire to relate to others and paves the way for good times with friends and partners.

Enjoy!

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Solitude in beautiful surroundings will please you in the next few weeks. You also might feel more inclined to put your needs and wants second to those of others.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) In the next several weeks, friends could become lovers, and lovers can become friends.

It’s a good time to party with pals and enjoy all groups and gatherings.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Some of you might develop a crush on your boss in the next several weeks. Whatever happens, you’ll create a won-

Wednesday, March 20, 2013 Trail Times

derful impression on others, especially bosses.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Because your appreciation of beauty is heightened in the next month, visit beautiful places, parks, museums and art galleries. Travel for pleasure also will delight.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Intimate relations will become cozier during the next month. Many of you will benefit from the wealth and resources of others.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Friendships and close partnerships will become more loving and affectionate in the next few weeks. (It will be easier for you to understand what others want.)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Relations with co-workers can improve in the next few weeks. Not only that, your health can improve as well.

Yay! SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) You’ll find it easy to relate to children during the next several weeks. Partly, this is because you are more attracted to creative activities, the kind of thing kids love to do all the time.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Entertain at home in the next few weeks. Enjoy redecorating or making where you live look more attractive. Be on the lookout for real-estate

deals as well.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) For different reasons, you will find that you will appreciate the beauty of your surroundings more in the next few weeks. You might even discover that there is more love in your life than you thought.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Expect to be spending money on beautiful things for

yourself and loved ones in the next few weeks. This is also an easier time to borrow money from others.

YOU BORN TODAY You can be a dreamer and a visionary, but you’re also hardworking.

You often are misunderstood, because you march to the beat of your own drum. You don’t worry about trying to please others. Your confidence is quiet, but you often express your energy quite physically.

In the year ahead, an impor-

DILBERT

TUNDRA

ANIMAL CRACKERS

MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM

BROOMHILDA

HAGAR

BLONDIE

SALLY FORTH

tant personal decision will arise -- choose wisely.

Birthdate of: Matthew

Broderick, actor; Rani Mukerji, actress; Rosie O’Donnell, comedian/actress.

(c) 2013 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Misplaced your TV Listings?

Find TV listings online in every Tuesday edition at trailtimes.ca/eeditions

Trail Times Wednesday, March 20, 2013

www.trailtimes.ca A13

Your classifieds. Your community

250.368.8551 ON THE WEB:

PHONE:250.368.8551 OR: 1.800.665.2382 FAX:

250.368.8550

EMAIL CLASSIFIEDS TO:

nationals@ trailtimes.ca

DEADLINES 11am 1 day publication.

prior

AGREEMENT

It is agreed by any Display or Classified Advertiser requesting space that the liability of the paper in the event of failure to publish an advertisement shall be limited to the amount paid by the advertiser for that portion of the advertising space occupied by the incorrect item only, and that there shall be no liability in any event beyond the amount paid for such advertisement. The publisher shall not be liable for slight changes or typographical errors that do not lessen the value of an advertisement. bcclassified.com cannot be responsible for errors after the first day of publication of any advertisement. Notice of errors on the first day should immediately be called to the attention of the Classified Department to be corrected for the following edition. bcclassified.com reserves the right to revise, edit, classify or reject any advertisement and to retain any answers directed to the bcclassified.com Box Reply Service and to repay the customer the sum paid for the advertisement and box rental.

DISCRIMINATORY LEGISLATION

Advertisers are reminded that Provincial legislation forbids the publication of any advertisement which discriminates against any person because of race, religion, sex, color, nationality, ancestry or place of origin, or age, unless the condition is justified by a bona i de requirement for the work involved.

Copyright and/or properties subsist in all advertisements and in all other material appearing in this edition of bcclassified. com. Permission to reproduce wholly or in part and in any form what-soever, particularly by a photographic or of set process in a publication must be obtained in writing from the publisher. Any unauthorized reproduction will be subject to recourse in law.

250-368-8551 ext. 0

Information

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

The Trail Daily Times is a member of the British Columbia Press Council.

The Press Council serves as a forum for unsatisÀeG reaGer comSlaints aJainst member neZsSaSers.

Personals ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 250-368-5651 FOR INFORMATION, education, accommodation and support for battered women and their children call WINS Transition House 250-364-1543

Employment Business Opportunities TAKE OUT RESTAURANT Small investment for this FRANCHISE concept Downtown trail Owner will train. 250-777-1273

Career Opportunities ATTENTION Work from home Turn spare time into income Free training/flexible hours Computer required. www.freedomnan.com

Drivers/Courier/ Trucking DRIVERS WANTED:

Terrific career Opportunity with outstanding growth potential to learn how to locate rail defects.

No Rail Experience Needed!!

Skills Needed - Ability to travel 3 months at a time, Valid License w/ air brake endorsement.

Extensive Paid Travel, Meal Allowance, 4 weeks Vacation and BeneďŹ ts Package.

Compensation based on prior driving experience.

Apply at www.sperryrail.com under careers, keyword Driver.

DO NOT FILL IN CITY OR STATE

Help Wanted BUSY OPTOMETRY Clinic is looking for a full time optician/ frame room assistant. Experience an asset. Please reply to Box 550 C/O Trail Times, 1163 Cedar Ave., Trail, BC V1R 4B8 HOOKTENDER, F/T.- Duncan, BC. Wages as per USW coastal agreement. Loader & processor experience an asset or be willing to learn to run these machines. Fax resume to 1-604-736-5320 or email to kenfraser@telus.net LIVE-IN RESIDENTIAL Manager needed for a N/S, N/P 50 unit apartment building in Trail, BC. Send resume to: sstevenson@telus.net or mail to 100-3525 Laburnum Drive, Trail, BC V1R 2S9 **WANTED** NEWSPAPER CARRIERS TRAIL TIMES Excellent Exercise Fun for All Ages Call Today Start Earning Money Tomorrow Circulation Department 250-364-1413 Ext. 206 For more Information

Executive Director Kalein Hospice Centre

ComSlaints must be ÀleG Zithin a Gay time limit.

to

Lost & Found and Free Give Away ads are no charge. Classified rates vary. Ask us about rates.

Combos and packages available - over 90 newspapers in BC.

Find it all here.

Employment

)or information Slease Jo to the Press Council website at www.bcSresscouncil.orJ or teleShone toll free

1-888-687-2213.

RATES

COPYRIGHT

Announcements

fax 250.368.8550 email nationals@trailtimes.ca Employment Help Wanted Help Wanted Help Wanted

Leanne and Bryan Muth of El Granada, California are pleased to announce the birth of their son,

Anthony Bryan Muth

on December 18, 2012. A brother for Sophia.

Proud grandparents are Mirella & Frank Como of Trail, BC and Kathleen & James Muth of Montara, California.

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Payroll Administration / Accounting We require a highly-proďŹ cient, detail-oriented individual with solid experience in payroll and beneďŹ ts administration and various accounting duties. Along with accounting experience, you must be accurate, at ease with computers, personable, exible and professional.

This is currently a permanent, part-time position. As our businesses grow, there is opportunity for this to transition into a full time position.

Please send your cover letter and resume, with references, to: Mitch Rinas Kalawsky Chevrolet Buick GMC 1700 Columbia Avenue Castlegar, BC V1N 2W4 Fax: (250) 365-3949 Email: mitch@kalawsky.com

CHEVROLET BUICK GMC (1989) LTD.

2IĂ€ FH &OHUN

The Trail Times requires an enthusiastic, mature inGiYiGual IRr a Sart time RIÀce cleN tR cRYer aSSrR[ tR hRurs Ser ZeeN Slus YacatiRn cRYeraJe 4XDOLÀ FDWLRQV • custRmer serYice e[Serience • à e[iEilit\ • NnRZleGJe RI 0icrRsRIt 2IÀce • e[cellent aEilit\ tR multi tasN • strRnJ RrJani]atiRnal sNills • aEilit\ tR meet Gail\ GeaGlines • NnRZleGJe RI Jeneral RIÀce SrRceGures • e[cellent Rral anG Zritten sNills • Iamiliarit\ Zith immeGiate anG Rutl\inJ areas 4ualiÀeG aSSlicants shRulG aSSl\ in ZritinJ nR later than 0arch , tR 7UDLO 7LPHV 0LFKHOOH %HGIRUG &LUFXODWLRQ 0DQDJHU &HGDU $YH 7UDLO 9 5 % 2nl\ qualiÀeG canGiGates Zill Ee cRntacteG nR ShRne calls Slease

How might a culture-shift towards fully embracing death as a natural part of life, impact the following: Personal values and choices, social policies, approaches to education, bringing communities together to develop effective regional strategies. Where would you focus if you were asked to evolve more expansive ways of providing care in a rapidly aging world?

Kalein’s Executive Director will lead the development and growth of a unique centre where questions like these, and all aspects of what it means to “live fully at all stages of life including end-of-life,� are explored in a master-planned campus setting, featuring a Centre for Dialogue & Education fully integrated with a residential hospice care facility.

You will consult with the Board of Directors to fulfill Kalein’s unique vision and mission for this integrated campus. In addition to the management aspects of the position, you will oversee and be engaged with development of a variety of programming and funding initiatives, you will cultivate relationships with thought leaders and partners locally and globally, from a wide range of disciplines, you will lead Kalein’s evolution as a recognized centre of inquiry and care.

You will feel completely at home in a variety of environments, whether developing long term strategies, managing day-to-day operations, representing Kalein to the public and potential funders, negotiating cooperative partnerships and working side-by-side with volunteers. You will have compassionate empathy for the end-of-life experience.

You will be living in the city of Nelson, on the shores of Kootenay Lake in British Columbia. Known internationally for its limitless outdoor recreation, lively cultural influences, and unique reputation as a place that attracts social “change makers,� Nelson offers an unmatched quality of life for those seeking a dynamic, family-friendly, rural community change from the urban experience.

To Apply:

Please send your resume with cover letter to sandi@kaleinhospice.org Submissions must be received by 5pm, March 28, 2013.

All applications will receive a personal response.

Complete Job Description available on our website at http://www.kaleinhospice.org

Newspaper Advertising Works! “Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.� in Leo Burnett “Call me for dependable service.�

Dave Dykstra

250-368-8551 local 203 d.dykstra@trailtimes.ca

A14 www.trailtimes.ca

Wednesday, March 20, 2013 Trail Times

Classifieds

Employment

Employment

Employment

Employment

Services

Rentals

Rentals

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Trades, Technical

Garden & Lawn

Apt/Condo for Rent

Make a difference in the lives of seniors.

Come work for AdvoCare Health Services, we take “Pride in Caring”

UNIFAB Industries is located in Grand Forks BC. We are currently seeking [5] Level A, CWB cert. welders. Level B & C should also apply. We offer a competitive wage and after a trial period an extensive benefit package. Please email your resume to rob@unifab.ca Visit our website for more information at www.unifab.ca

Mobile Homes & Pads

WANTED

PAPER CARRIERS

For all areas. Excellent exercise, fun for ALL ages.

Fruitvale

Blueberry

Route 380 26 papers Galloway Rd, Green Rd, Mill Rd Route 369 22 papers Birch Ave, Johnson Rd, Redwood Dr Route 375 8 papers Green Rd & Lodden Rd Route 378 28 papers Columbia Gardens Rd, Martin St, Mollar Rd, Old Salmo Rd,Trest Dr Route 382 13 papers Debruin Rd & Staats Rd Route 381 9 papers Coughlin Rd Route 370 22 papers 2nd St, Hwy 3B, Hillcrest, Mountain St

Route 308 6 papers 100 St to 104 St

Castlegar Route 311 6 papers 9th Ave & Southridge Dr Route 312 15 papers 10th & 9th Ave Route 314 12 papers 4th, 5th, & 6th Ave Route 321 10 papers Columbia & Hunter’s Place

Genelle Route 302 8 papers 12th Ave, 15th Ave Route 303 15 papers 12th Ave, 2nd St, Grandview Pl

Rossland Route 403 12 papers Cook Ave, Irwin Ave, St Paul & Thompson Ave Route 406 15 papers Cooke Ave & Kootenay Ave Route 414 18 papers Thompson Ave,Victoria Ave Route 416 10 papers 3rd Ave, 6th Ave, Elmore St, Paul S Route 420 17 papers 1st, 3rd Kootenay Ave, Leroi Ave Route 421 9 papers Davis & Spokane St Route 422 8 papers 3rd Ave, Jubliee St, Queen St & St. Paul St. Route 424 9 papers Ironcolt Ave, Mcleod Ave, Plewman Way Route 434 7 papers 2nd Ave, 3rd Ave,Turner Ave

Montrose Route 341 27 papers 10th Ave, 8th Ave, 9th Ave Route 342 11 papers 3rd St & 7th Ave Route 348 21 papers 12th Ave, Christie Rd

Call Today!

250-364-1413 ext 206

Houses For Sale

Houses For Sale

Services

Now recruiting casual, potentially permanent positions at; Mountain Lake Seniors Community in Nelson • Registered Care Aides • Cooks • Registered Recreation Aides • Multi-Service Workers- Housekeeping and Dietary

For more information and to apply please see our website www.advocarehealth.com or email resume to Janice.VanCaeseele@ advocarehealth.com or fax (1)250-352-0056

Trades, Technical

Financial Services GET BACK ON TRACK! Bad credit? Bills? Unemployed?

Need Money? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Acceptance Corp. Member BBB. 1-877987-1420. www.pioneerwest.com

Garden & Lawn

• Aeration • Power Raking • Fertilizing & Weed Control • Weekly Lawn Maintenance

SUMMIT Truck and Equipment Repair Ltd. requires a Service Writer with parts experience. This position requires attention to detail and ability to work in a busy environment.

The ideal candidate brings experience in parts and service order writing, however training will be considered. The position offers competitive wage, extended benefits and pension plan eligibility after 1 years’ service. Resumes can be faxed to 250-357-2009 or in person 8561 Hwy 6N. Salmo.

Enquiries: rob@summitrepair.ca

Kootenay Outdoor Living *Aerating, Lawn Dethatching, Pruning *Spring Tune-up *Tool Rentals *Gravel & Landscape Supplies 2910 Highway Drive, Trail 250-368-5552

Houses For Sale

Houses For Sale

Call for your FREE ESTIMATE 250-231-5245 888-304-5296 jeff@terragreen.ca www.terragreen.ca

M.OLSON’S YARDCARE Dethatching & Aerating 250-368-5488, 250-512-2225

Bella Vista, Shavers Bench Townhomes. N/S, N/P. 2-3 bdrms. Phone 250.364.1822 EDGEWATER APTS. in Glenmerry, 1bd. heat incl. F/S. $600./mo. 250-368-5908

Misc Services MOVING / Junk 250-231-8529

Removal

EDGEWATER APTS. in Glenmerry, 2bd. heat incl. F/S. $750./mo. 250-368-5908

PLUMBING REPAIRS, Sewer backups, Video Camera Inspection.

24hr Emergency Service. 250-231-8529

Ermalinda Apartments, Glenmerry. Adults only. N/P, N/S. 1-2 bdrms. Ph. 250.364.1922

Merchandise for Sale

Francesco Estates, Glenmerry. Adults only. N/P, N/S, 1-3 bdrms. Phone 250.368.6761.

Heavy Duty Machinery

GLENVIEW APTS. Large, Quiet 1&2Bdrms. available.

250-368-8391, 250-367-9456

A-STEEL SHIPPING DRY STORAGE CONTAINERS Used 20’40’45’53 in stock.

SPECIAL 44’ x 40’ Container Shop w/steel trusses $13,800!

Sets up in one day!

Also Damaged 40’ $1950 Call Toll Free Also JD 544 & 644 wheel loaders JD 892D LC Excavator Ph. 1-866-528-7108 Free Delivery BC and AB www.rtccontainer.com

ROSSLAND, 2BD furnished and unfurnished, clean, quiet, N/S, N/P. Ph. 250-362-9473 TRAIL, Rossland Ave., 3bdrm. avail. immed. f/s, w/d. dishwasher, newly renovated, $850/mo. +util. 250-368-1361 TRAIL, spacious 1&2bdrm. apartment. Adult building, perfect for seniors/ professionals.

Cozy, clean, quiet, comfortable. Must See. 250-3681312

Misc. Wanted

WANETA MANOR 2bdrm., NS,NP, Senior oriented, underground parking 250-3688423

Local Coin Collector Buying Collections, Accumulations, Olympic Gold & Silver Coins + Coin Guy: 250-499-0251

W.TRAIL, 2bd., tiny yard, suitable for small dog, close Downtown.$695.250-368-6075

Real Estate

Commercial/ Industrial

Houses For Sale 1978 14x68, 2bd.w/addition mobile home in Fruitvale.

F/S,W/D.Must be moved. $10,000. OBO. 250-367-6054 FRUITVALE; acreage life right in town! Almost 1 acre, private lot, end of no-thru traffic street.

Quaint 3bdrm., 1.5 storey smaller home. RV park/ single garage/ covered deck. $165,000. 1-403-396-2923

4500SQ FT (418sq meters) grd flr, suitable for retail/whole sale, customer parking, loading dock, high traffic visibility.

Call (250)352-5674.

Houses For Sale

BEAVER FALLS, Mobile Home Lot. N/P. $285. 250367-6005

Homes for Rent E.TRAIL 1bdrm, small house no yard, f/s, laundry facilities 250-368-3239

E.TRAIL, 2bd. house & 2bd. apt. available. 250-362-3316 MONTROSE, 3BD, 1bth, n/p, n/s, clean/ new floors, garage, f/s,w/d, convenient location.

Available Apr.1st. Damage Deposit. Phone 250-367-6583 SMALL 3BDRM. house, good location, level entry, parking, fenced yard. 250-368-1312 TRAIL, 3BD., newly renovated. N/S, N/P. Avail. immed.

250-367-7558

Office/Retail

NICELY FINISHED 3200sq.ft., +ample parking, centrally located, ideal for medical or dental office. 250-368-1312

Rooms for Rent

TRAIL, 1 room, fully furnished. $500./mo. includes utilities.

Room &board: $700./mo. 250368-5473, 250-513-0058

Shared Accommodation

FURN. room in W. Trail hse.

Incl. util, laundry, wifi. N/S, N/P, Refs. $475/mo. 250-6084425.

Townhouses

GLENMERRY, clean 3bd., n/p,n/s, 4appl. Avail.Apr1 Seniors pref.Ref.req.250-368-9493

Houses For Sale

1st Trail Real Estate ul Beautif e om Solid H

6.89 Acres

OPEN HOUSE

ICE NEW PR

lly Tastefu d te Decora

TING NEW LIS

Views Valley

Host: Rhonda MLS# K218271

MLS# K216561

MLS# K218695

MLS# K216346

Montrose $495,000

Fruitvale Rural $399,900

Rossland $359,900

Patty Leclerc-Zanet 250-231-4490

Patty Leclerc-Zanet 250-231-4490

Marie Claude 250-512-1153

Totally ed Upgrad

MLS# K214846

MLS# K217644

MLS# K218320

MLS# K218424

Genelle $339,000

Rossland $299,000

Patty Leclerc-Zanet 250-231-4490

Marie Claude 250-512-1153

Family Ready

New price

MLS# K215314

Fri, Mar 22 4 - 6pm 956 Thackeray Warfield $199,900

MLS# K218642

Fred Behrens 250-368-1268

2011 ction Constru

ICE NEW PR

MLS# K218337

MLS# K216882

Montrose $324,000

MLS# K217833

MLS# K216917

Rossland $297,000

Trail $259,900

Fruitvale $249,900

Trail $229,900

Fruitvale $225,000

Trail $225,000

Rossland $199,000

Rob Burrus 250-231-4420

Patty Leclerc-Zanet 250-231-4490

Rhonda van Tent 250-231-7575

Rhonda van Tent 250-231-7575

Rob Burrus 250-231-4420

Rhonda van Tent 250-231-7575

Marie Claude 250-512-1153

amily Great F Home

MLS# K216126

Great n Locatio

nt Excelle ent m t s e v In

Nice n Locatio

MLS# K218105

MLS# K218058

MLS# K214582

BRING OFFERS

MLS# K214620

Quick sion Posses

MLS# K218384

MLS# 217865

Trail $178,900

Fruitvale $169,000

Fruitvale $159,900

Trail $129,900

Trail $123,500

Trail $99,000

Rossland $55,000

Fred Behrens 250-368-1268

Rob Burrus 250-231-4420

Patty Leclerc-Zanet 250-231-4490

Fred Behrens 250-368-1268

Rob Burrus 250-231-4420

Fred Behrens 250-368-1268

Marie Claude 250-512-1153

1252 Bay Avenue, Trail (250) 368-5222 1993 Columbia Ave Rossland, BC (250) 362-5200

www.coldwellbankertrail.com

Patty Leclerc-Zanet 250-231-4490

Fred Behrens 250-368-1268

Rob Burrus 250-231-4420

Jack McConnachie 250-368-5222

Rhonda van Tent 250-231-7575

Marie Claude Germain 250-512-1153

Nathan Kotyk 250.231.9484

Trail Times Wednesday, March 20, 2013

www.trailtimes.ca A15

CLASSIFIEDS Houses For Sale

Transportation

Houses For Sale

Houses For Sale

Auto Financing

All Pro Realty Ltd.

• YOU’RE APPROVED • YOU’RE APPROVED • YOU’RE APPROVED •

• GOOD CREDIT • BAD CREDIT • NO CREDIT • HIGH DEBT RATE • 1ST TIME BUYER • BANKRUPTCY • DIVORCE

YOU’RE APPROVED

Call Dennis, Shawn or Paul

1-888-204-5355 for Pre-Approval www.amford.com

• YOU’RE APPROVED • YOU’RE APPROVED • YOU’RE APPROVED •

YOU’RE APPROVED • YOU’RE APPROVED

YOU’RE APPROVED • YOU’RE APPROVED

1148 Bay Ave, Trail

GARAGE SALE?

www.facebook.com/allprorealtyltdtrailbc www.allprorealty.ca LE AB RD O F AF

IEW TV EA R G

S RE AC 19

MLS#K210444

SOLUTIONS FOR ALMOST EVERY CREDIT SITUATION!

MLS#K211093

Annable $115,000

We have the financial tools and specialists to get you behind the wheel! CALL PETER

Fruitvale $207,000 T LO RE AC 2 1/

MLS#K210812

Pend d’Oreille $499,000 W NE

ICE PR

1-877-287-3812

WWW.NELSONFORDSALES.COM DLN28082

MLS#K218300

MLS#K217600

Montrose $185,000 Y NN E SUREAG C A

W NE

Waneta $479,000

ICE PR

SE EA E L EX LIFDUPL

G TIN LIS

MLS#K215427

Waneta $560,000

MLS#K218299

Sunningdale $299,500

MLS#K211947

Fruitvale $299,500 & N ND IO LANDAT U FO

The Trail Times provides the most comprehensive GARAGE SALE PACKAGE available, at the BEST PRICE!

12

Package Includes:

99

• 3 line classified ad • 4 “Garage Sale” signs • 192 pricing lables • Successful tips for a ‘no hassle’ sale Only • Pre-sale checklist • Sales record form • ‘No Parking’ sign • ‘Pay Here’ sign • ‘Sorry, no restrooms’ sign

$

+ HST Non refundable.

250.368.8551

0LACE YOUR AD IN THE s -!8)-5- %80/352% s '5!2!.4%%$ 0!'% 0/3)4)/. s "/,$ #/,/52 02).4 Phone 250 368-8551 ext 0

S RE AC 1.6

MLS#K217178

Glenmerry $299,000

Waneta $560,000 W NE

LE UB E DO RAG A G

ONBANK ER RIV

MLS#K215427

Warfield $117,700

MLS#K215805

DreamTeam Auto Financing “0” Down, Bankruptcy OK Cash Back ! 15 min Approvals

Having a

250.368.5000

fax 250 368-8550

email: nationals@trailtimes.ca

Deadline: 11am 1 day prior to publication. 65¢ per word per day + GST

MLS#K215998

Fruitvale $519,900 D CE DU RE

What goes around, comes around, right?

1-800-961-7022

www.iDreamAuto.com DL# 7557

MLS#K214555

Recreational/Sale

Fruitvale $314,000

1987 CITATION Supreme Fifth Wheel, very clean, N/S. $5,400. OBO. 250-367-6005

Sport Utility Vehicle 1997,1998 red Jeep Cherokee, 4 doors, 6 cly eng, auto trans & 5 speed, 270,000km, excellent condition. $3,200 / $3,600 obo. 250-442-0122 / 250-493-1807.

Find it here.

CANINE: Now at 1611-5th Ave, Trail. Dana, TOBY’S DOGGY DO! Supports Rescue dogs.

Discounts on rst grooming of adopted dogs.

YORKIE CHIHUAHUA: Mom is 90% Yorkie & ARLES SPANIEL: father is purebred 5lb Yorkie, ready Jan 12, $500. ed with kids, cats & males $500, female, WOLF, MALAMUTE & AKBASH CROSS PUPPIES: 6 males and 2 females, good working and family dogs. Best suited for large yards and a ZU PUPPIES: Nonlot of time outdoors. females $475, males BICHON PUPPY: Snowball cutie, non-shed, /1st shots). . hypo-allergenic, male, rst shots, vet checked, g female grey tabby, CKC registered, micro chipped, ready now, $650. ots. She is looking for 2 BEAUTIFUL 6MO OLD BEARDED DRAGONS: o other cats. Call the All accessories, $350.

OR AGILITY, TRICKS, 4 BLACK LAB/SHEPHERD PUPPIES: Females, 7 weeks, black/white, ready to go es, private sessions, now, adorable, $50. ange behaviour.

ALL PLAY PET CARE & ADVENTURES, NEW HOURS: Monday-Friday, 8am-6pm RT: 2 acre fenced neighbourhood CANINE PSYCHOLOGY CENTER: Dog 5 dogs at a time. Lots of boarding, consulting, personal & group training, ookings call Monique, daycare, workshops.

UPPIES: Cute, healthy, DOG OBEDIENCE CLASSES offered by Linda home, $475.

Murray’s Simply Paws-itive: Puppy Smart, Basic, ROSS: Ready Jan 19, Intermediate. Wareld, Jan. 27, Castlegar, Jan. 29 and Nelson, Jan. 30. Teach your canine companion gently and fairly. Learn to motivate S: Champion your pet with positive reinforcement. s, smart, loyal, lovable, DOGS INN - CAT & DOG BOARDING: Cageless kennels, in-home environment, 2 acre playpen, of your home, in 10yrs experience boarding animals, now boarding d), references. Susan, only 5 dogs, book early.

ROOMING BY DIVINE

MLS#K212732

Shavers Bench $249,500

250-368-8551 ext. 0

MLS#K216798

Beaver Falls $249,900 ES CR NT 9 A RO 3.6TERF WA

MLS#K210554

Montrose $319,900 W NE

MLS#K213358

Ross Spur $369,500

SES OU H O TW

ITE L SU NTIA E T PO

HIHUAHUA n. 29, family raised, 1st shots, females

Call us to place your classified ad

MLS#K216999

Fruitvale $119,000

T LO BLE U DO

MLS#K217078

Salmo $239,500 L CIA ER E M M C CO SPA

G TIN LIS

MLS#K218676

MLS#K218681

Fruitvale $339,900

What makes us different

MLS#K215097

Salmo $114,900 TER AC AROME H C H

MLS#K4100550

?

• Canadian owned • Family-friendly content • High moderation – No scams, no spam, only quality content!

How to post A FREE AD

1. Click on the “Place an Ad” tab on UsedKootenays.com 2. Describe your item, upload a photo and name your price 3. Provide a password and click “Place Ad” MLS#K217602

Trail $79,900

Rossland $466,000

Annable $159,900

Wayne DeWitt ext 25 Mario Berno ext 27 Dawn Rosin ext 24

Tom Gawryletz ext 26 Keith DeWitt ext 30

Thea Stayanovich ext 28 Joy DeMelo ext 29 Denise Marchi ext 21

A16 www.trailtimes.ca

Wednesday, March 20, 2013 Trail Times

regional Balfour slide report criticized by residents

Nourish your skin with

15

%

off

Spa Facials

and be eligible to enter for an Eminence Gift Basket!

and

Tami Mayne is offering 15% off colour services

offers end April 13, 2013

1334 Cedar Ave beside JJ’s Fashions 250-368-3300

to about 100 homes, forcing residents to use bottled water for a few months.

Problems reoccured last spring due to erosion. The 15-page report, released last month, came in response to a complaint from water users who asked for an investigation into whether a lack of professional diligence was to blame.

While the report made several recommendations to prevent future slides, it concluded BC Timber Sales’ practices were sound and that it acted responsibly following the slide.

Beerbower says although the report suggests ways to improve assessment and decision-making processes, it takes a “very narrow view” of the professional

By Greg Nesteroff Nelson Star

Several people who complained to the Forest Practices Board about a 2011 landslide near Balfour say they’re disappointed with the board’s final report, calling it “unacceptable” and “disturbing.”

In a letter to the board, John Beerbower, who has long worked in planning for the West Arm demonstration forest, says the report “fails to ensure accountability for the flaws” in roadbuilding and logging by BC Timber Sales that were identified as contributing to the Laird Creek slide.

The slide damaged the water supply

The Local Experts™

recommendations to be considered.

“This report fails to demonstrate the capability and/or willingness of the Forest Practices Board to ensure accountability in a case where the necessary result of protecting domestic water was clearly not met,” Beerbower wrote.

Fellow complainant Al Walters said for water users the report is “unacceptable on a number of levels” and “represents another significant failure to address our concerns.”

BC Timber Sales local manager Shane Bowden said the Crown corporation is pleased the board’s investigation found their operational and technical practices sound.

KOOTENAY HOMES INC.

1358 Cedar Avenue, Trail • 250.368.8818 www.kootenayhomes.com www.century21.ca

OPEN HOUSE

OPEN HOUSE

Saturday Mar 23 11am-1pm

SOLD

Saturday, March 23

11am-1pm 1004 Regan Crescent, Trail

#A-1003 Creekside Terrace, Rossland

1151 Marianna Crescent, Trail

2213 – 4th Avenue, Rossland

$370,000

$143,000

$242,000

Spectacular 4 bdrm 3 bath townhome located at Red Mountain, open floor plan gas fireplace, granite counter tops, stainless steel appliances, hardwood floors, steam shower, decks and patios to take advantage of the amazing views!

Cozy, cute and nicely updated 2 bdrm home with laundry room and storage space in the basement. The lot is in the process of being subdivided and this home will sit on an approx 60x50 lot.

Quick possession available!

3 bdrm home in Sunningdale! Features large living room, country kitchen, huge family/room, and workshop. Single car garage and enough room for a couple more vehicles on the paved driveway.

Make certain to have this home on your viewing list.

Call Christine (250) 512-7653

Call Christine (250) 512-7653

Call Art (250) 368-8818

$237,900

9043 Highway 6, Salmo

231-5591

Call Tonnie (250)-365-9665

3 bdrm home in $185,900 Sunningdale. Vinyl 4 bdrm 2 bath family home in Sunny siding, ac- u/g Salmo! On .46 flat acre, fully fenced, sprinklers, 24 x 20 and insulated 12x16 shop, treed shop with ventilation. powered & private, large mudroom, master suite, Mechanical upgrades generous open kitchen with breakfast - call your REALTOR® nook for 2. Only one minute to shopping for a viewing. & all amenities the beautiful Village of Salmo has to offer.

Call Mark (250)

ICE NEW PR

214 Binns Street, Trail

2024 – 8th Avenue, Trail

Columbia Gardens Winery 9340 Station Road, Trail

Perfect starter home featuring 2 bdrms on the main, gleaming hardwood floors, newer kitchen, upgraded mechanics, u/g sprinkler system and a private back deck. Downstairs you will find laundry, more storage, a 2nd bathroom (3pc) and 2 more finished bdrms.

4 bdrm, 2 bath home on a quiet street , close to high school, shopping and on a bus route! Features include a covered patio, private sundeck. detached garage, plenty of parking, a bright, sunny dining room. Call for a viewing now!

Incredible 47.5 acre country estate in Columbia Gardens! Includes two 3 bedroom homes, and 1 mobile home on a separate 1.3 acre parcel. A well established, fully operational winery with all the facilities and tasting room.

Call Richard for more info.

Call Tonnie (250) 365-9665

Call Terry 250-231-1101

Call Richard (250) 368-7897

$139,900

$165,000

Ron & Darlene Your

SOLD

1599 Columbia Avenue, Trail

1912 Hummingbird Dr, Fruitvale

$379,000

$195,000

Built in 2008 this 4 bdrm, 3 bath home boasts vaulted ceilings, fireplace and Convenient location and lovely views, this loads of sunlight. Enjoy the bright home is move in ready. The plumbing, wiring and most of the flooring has been spacious walkout basement with covered deck, large family room/hobby room, updated. Bonus is a second kitchen, full and access to the double garage. bath and outside access in the basement All this situated on a quiet street on a for separate living. This one will go very large flat lot. quick. Call now!

Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

3353 Dahlia Crescent, Trail

$199,000

$159,000

501 Montcalm Road, Warfield $314,000

845 Burns Avenue, Warfield $255,000

Call Mary A (250) 521-0525

Ron 368-1162 Darlene 231-0527

Looking for that property that has it all?

Large garden areas, fruit trees, privacy, views, immaculate home. 1.3 acres of space and only 4 blocks from Webster school.

Call Ron or Darlene today.

Mary Amantea

deannelockhart@shaw.ca www.kootenayhomes.com

mamantea@telus.net www.kootenayhomes.com

Cell: 250-231-0153

Mark Wilson

Cell: 250-231-5591

ext 30

mark.wilson@century21.ca www.kootenayhomes.com

Cell: 250-521-0525

ext 26

Darlene Abenante ext 23

Cell: 250.231.0527

darlene@hometeam.ca www.kootenayhomes.com

Christine Albo

Cell: 250-512-7653

ext 39

christine.albo@century21.ca www.kootenayhomes.com

Art Forrest

ext 42

c21art@telus.net www.kootenayhomes.com

2068 Topping Street, Trail

$89,000

3 bdrm Glenmerry bungalow. Many upgrades including roofing, furnace, a/c and hot water tank. New 100 amp electrical panel to be installed before possession. Single car garage in a great location, close to elementary school and on bus routes. Excellent back yard with good privacy.

Solid home with amazing views. This home has large, enclosed front porch, great living room with wood-burning fireplace and 2 bdrm on main. Exterior of house is vinyl siding and most windows have been updated. Just a bit of your decor items, and this house will be home.

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

WE CAN SELL YOUR HOME. NOBODY HAS THE RESOURCES WE DO! Deanne Lockhart ext 41

Call Mary A (250) 521-0525

STING NEW LI

675 Shakespeare Street, Warfield

This 4 bdrm 2 bath home has lots of space, private patio, fireplace and woodstove. Great price for this solid home in a solid neighborhood.

$269,000

Fantastic southern exposure, a gorgeous 90 x 100 fenced yard and a sunken family room with a wood stove and lots of windows to take in the view are featured in this 3 bedroom / 1.5 bath home. Full basement with a large hobby room and workshop, tiled mudroom entry and close to downtown Rossland.

Local Home Team

We Sell Great Homes!

Beautifully maintained upper Warfield home with a sunny dining area addition.

One bedroom on the main floor, two upstairs and another in the basement that could easily be a rec room.

Nice yard with a patio for summer dining.

Garage & a large workshop below.

1947 Kootenay Avenue, Rossland

Mary Martin

Cell: 250-231-0264

ext 28

mary.martin@century21.ca www.kootenayhomes.com

Terry Alton

Cell: 250-231-1101

ext 48

terryalton@shaw.ca www.kootenayhomes.com

Tonnie Stewart

Cell: 250-365-9665

ext 33

tonniestewart@shaw.ca www.kootenayhomes.com

Ron Allibone

Cell: 250-368-1162

ext 45

ron@hometeam.ca www.kootenayhomes.com

Richard Daoust

Cell: 250-368-7897

ext 24

richard.daoust@century21.ca www.kootenayhomes.com