Kimberley Daily Bulletin, December 10, 2013

TUESDAY DECEMBER 10, 2013

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PST surprise for thrift stores Auxiliary thrift stores must charge the tax since the switch back to PST; never had to before C AROLYN GR ANT editor@dailybulletin.ca

“I thought there was supposed to be no changes,” says a very frustrated Jacquie Perreault of the Kimberley Health Care Auxiliary.

Perrault is speaking of the fact that when the

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Students from Kimberley’s Alternate School were lucky enough to be the first group to experience the new Spirit Rock Climbing Centre last week. The verdict? A great place to hang out. See more this week in the Bulletin.

Fernie’s humble heroes

Rescuers prefer to remain anonymous TAMAR A HYND The Free Press

A casual glance in the rearview mirror led a young Fernie couple rushing to help Richard Altvater save his family.

On December 1 the couple

(a boyfriend and girlfriend) were driving home from Kimberley on Hwy 3. The roads were slushy with two tire tracks and a berm in the middle of the road so they were driving below the speed limit at 85 kms/hr. They were the only ones on the road until the girlfriend noticed a minivan travelling behind them in the rearview mirror. She glanced

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in her rearview mirror again in time to see the van launch off to the right of the highway and begin to lift as if it was about to flip. At 1:54 pm the boyfriend called Emergency Medical Services (EMS) before they had even turned their car around. They had no idea what they would find when they arrived at the accident scene. EMS had the boyfriend

relay the accident location, while the couple followed the tire tracks in the snow.

They found the vehicle upside down in a beaver pond eight kilometers west of Fernie; it had broken through the ice and the engine was off.

It was all reaction at that point.

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provincial taxation system returned to the PST, auxiliaries running thrift stores were surprised to find out that they now had to charge PST on everything but clothes.

“It’s all donated stuff,” Perrault said. “Now we have to charge PST.” Thrift stores never had to charge PST in the past, nor did they pay HST. And it is causing real problems at both the Kimberley and Marysville thrift stores.

“It’s not just that there is more accounting work,” Perrault said. “We’re all volunteers, older volunteers.

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Home lost in fire C AROLYN GR ANT Weditor@dailybulletin.ca

Kimberley and Meadowbrook residents are asked to come to the assistance of a family who lost their Thompson Road home in a fire last Tuesday night.

Vic and Kathy Buchy have lost everything after the fire, says friend Donna Wilcock.

“There’s no fire protection in Meadowbrook, so it just burned,” she said. “They got out with nothing.”

Wilcock has started a trust fund at Kootenay Savings Credit Union for the Buchys, who are currently staying with son Tom in Marysville.

The Kimberley Fire Department does not cover out of city limits. There have been two RDEK Area E referendums on bringing fire coverage to the rural areas around Kimberley, but both have failed.

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Another fine evening at Homegrown John Allen

Another wonderful Homegrown Music Evening took place in the Centre 64 theatre Saturday, Nov. 28.

Included were a variety of music types, musicians’ ages and instruments.

Craig Hillman. MC, began by demonstrating one-armed guitar playing.

Well done, considering, but

Segovia did not feel threatened. He also shared a number of awful jokes, which the audience dutifully laughed and groaned through.

Gold Creek, with Layton Parsons and Conner Foote singing and playing their guitars, shared the stage with an intriguing percussion plywood box, the Cajone (originally from Peru),

which the musician sits on, new to Kimberley and played very well by Zack Silver.

Darin Welch sang a number of his own fine compositions; then he was joined by Clayton Parsons on guitar.

The group “Leisa and Pat O’Sullivan” — Leisa, Pat, their two sons Liam and Tomas and friend Bernie

Leisa and Pat O’Sullivan, their two sons Liam and Tomas and friend Bernie Evans,

Darin Welch

Sharla Smith

Evans — were the highlight of the evening. They came from Invermere and played a variety of their Celtic based music. This included a well done demonstration of the English squeeze box

by Bernie.

Sharla Smith added some very fine classical music selections (You know, Bach and those guys.) on

winner of the ‘Best Singer of the East Kootenay’ finished the evening with a number of very fine C&W tunes.

Another fine event at Centre 64. Many thanks to Dave and Carol for all their good work arranging for the performers. The next Homegrown evening will be January 25.

Gold Creek

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Centre 64’s beat up but beautiful sounding piano.

Dave Carlson braved it on his own, without Carol on her bass, and sang some very fine tunes, ending with a sad (not really) song “They’re Hanging Me Tomorrow, so I can’t go with you in your dressup blue stripes to the prison ball.”

Trena Spears, recent

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Local seniors defrauded in ‘grandson scam’ Told grandson was in jail, couple sends $1000 C AROLYN GR ANT editor@dailybulletin.ca

Scams often work because they target your emotions, and the socalled ‘grandson scam’ is especially effective because it targets a grandparent’s love for their grandchild.

There are a few variations on the scam, but the central theme is that the grandchild is in jail and needs immediate funds for release. Often, as recently occurred in Nanaimo, the grandparent is contacted by a “lawyer” who says the grandchild is incarcerated and immediate funds are required for his release. In Nanaimo, the grandchild was supposedly jailed in Peru. Several seniors fell victim to this scam in November; one senior reported losing almost $7000, another $3500 and just another lost $24,000.

The request is that the money be sent through a wire transfer, which can be done at the post office.

Last Friday in Kimberley, a senior couple fell victim as well, but luckily only lost $1000. The senior contacted the Bulletin to get the word out but prefers her name not be used.

She is 78 years old and mad at herself for falling for it but says you get so upset at the time that you just want to help.

“We weren’t very proud of it. Usually we’re sharper than that.”

They were called at four p.m. Fri-

day afternoon and told by a “lawyer” that there grandson was in a holding tank in Burnaby and would be held for the weekend on an impaired driving charge.

“They told us that he didn’t want to contact his parents because he didn’t want to upset them.”

She and her husband were actually suspicious but the timing made haste seem imperative.

“We asked for a cell phone number and his name, but it’s 4:30 on Friday, there’s nowhere to check.

They even put my grandson on the line and I said, “it doesn’t sound like you”, and he said that he broke his nose when the airbag deployed.”

She had her grandson’s cell phone number and called it, but as luck would have it, it went to voice mail.

Unfortunately, that helped convince them the story may be true.

“We thought they took his phone when they arrested him.”

The couple remained leery and although $2200 was asked for, only sent $1000.

Having realized later they were scammed, they regret it.

“We weren’t very happy about it, but luckily we are not in a position where $1000 means we don’t eat. But our heart was in the right place. When they hit you with your grandchild, you just want to help.”

Despite embarrassment over falling for it, the Kimberley senior wanted to tell her story so others wouldn’t become victims of the same scam.

Hamper deadline nears C AROLYN GR ANT editor@dailybulletin.ca

As most Kimberley residents are aware, the volunteers at the Kimberley Helping Hands Food Bank spend much of their fall fundraising for the annual Christmas hamper campaign.

The hampers con-

tain everything a family or single person needs for a Christmas dinner, as well as gifts for children.

They will handed out on Friday and Saturday, December 20 and 21.

If you haven’t put your name in for a hamper yet, or if you know of someone in need,

please contact the Food Bank and get your application in.

Cut off for applying for the hampers is December 16. The application process is easy; the Food Bank just needs to know if you require a family or single person hamper.

Grant Lawrence visits For the Bulletin

Kimberley residents will have the opportunity to meet one of the famous voices behind CBC radio 3, when Grant Lawrence visits the Public Library on Wednesday, December 11th at 7:00 p.m. Grant is host of the top-rated CBC Radio 3 Podcast with Grant Lawrence, a monthly showcase of Canadian independent music. He also hosts Grant Lawrence Live, a live and interactive daily program on CBC Radio 3’s popular web radio station.

Prior to his work at CBC, Grant was

the lead singer of the internationally acclaimed Vancouver band The Smugglers. He is a great promoter of the indie music scene in Canada.

Grant will be covering his award winning book “Adventures in Solitude” What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound”, as well as his newly released “The Lonely End of the Rink: Confessions of a Reluctant Goalie”.

There is no cost to attend this event.

For more information, please call the library at 427-3112.

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PST and thrift stores

From Page 1 “It’s stressful for our volunteers to try to remember what is taxable, and how to use the till to put the tax in.

It’s just been horrendous. We don’t understand and trying to get some of the older ladies to understand has been hard. Some are ready to quit and we need our volunteers.

Even our customers cannot believe it.”

The Kimberley Health Care Auxiliary has written the BC Hospital Auxiliary but has not yet received a response. They have also contacted MLA Norm Macdonald.

“Clearly the promise the BC Liberals made to take things back to the way they were with the PST is a promise they have not kept,” Macdonald said.

Macdonald said that despite time scrutinizing the bill that returned the PST some of the differences are not coming to light until now.

“These things show up over time and this is one circumstance. But this one is particularly frustrating because it is primarily impacting volunteers. It makes the good work they are doing unnecessarily complicated.

Why would the government want to undermine the good work of a charity?

It’s an odd choice.”

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Despite the tax aggravation, both the Kimberley and Marysville Thrift Shops have been busy getting the dolls that are donated ready for Christmas. Bonnie Wager( on the right) from the Kimberley shop has been doing dolls for 26 years now. Louise Henderson has been volunteering for 10 years.

Macdonald says he will pursue the matter through the Minister to

try to set things right.

“If the system works the way it is supposed to

this will be resolved quickly,” he said.

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Rescuers prefer to remain anonymous From Page 1 The boyfriend tossed the phone at his girlfriend and he ran down the bank breaking through the ice into waist deep water. He fought his way to the van, going to the passenger side first as it was higher out of the water and seemed the best chance to enter.

The girlfriend started flagging down traffic passing by on the highway. A

mother and daughter stopped, so the girlfriend gave them the phone to continue relaying information to EMS. Then she made her way to the van too.

The boyfriend went to the front passenger door first but it wouldn’t open.

The door handle was submerged in the black and murky water. He tried the passenger sliding door and it opened all the way.

The van was full of water except for a six-inch air pocket at the top. He could see Richard who had managed his way into the back. He was yelling that he had a wife and three kids in the van.

“There was zero visibility in the water so it was crucial that the father could communicate that to us because we couldn’t see a thing,” said the boyfriend. He went back to

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the back passenger side and “suddenly there was a little girl in my arms who was scared and in shock.

Her dad must have gotten her free”.

“The dad never gave up,” said the boyfriend.

“Richard couldn’t feel his hands anymore but we kept trying. He must have unbuckled his kids.”

The boyfriend reached into the water with his arms as far as he could with water up to his neck when suddenly a boy was in his arms. He could see the boy was trying to breath as he carried him to shore wiping away the water coming out of his mouth. He passed the boy to his girlfriend who cleared the child’s airway, as she knew he had been under water for a while.

“I didn’t have time to think,” said the girlfriend.

“Autopilot turned on. I needed to make sure each person was safe before leaving them. When one was OK, then I could go back (to the van).”

The boyfriend called out for a knife to the several people who had stopped by then.

He ran back down to the van and cut the front passenger seatbelt by reaching around from be-

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hind the seat. He still couldn’t feel anyone in the dark water. He knew then he needed to get the passenger door open.

“I started yelling for help to the people on the shore and two men rushed into the water to assist me,” said the boyfriend.

The three men pulled on the door in unison over and over, heaving the door open inch by inch until it was wide enough to reach inside. He finally reached the mother, Kunthea Altvater, and carried her to shore and up the steep slippery bank to the roadside. The couple performed two person CPR on her for approximately five minutes until EMS arrived.

The girlfriend went in the ambulance continuing with assisted breathing on the mother, arriving at the Elk Valley Hospital at 2:35 pm. The boyfriend stayed to help EMS package the little boys on to spine boards and into the ambulances.

“We’re so thankful that we do have first aid training and feel good that we could help,” said the couple. They both have Occupational First Aid Level 3.

“The role of the father was crucial,” they said.

“He (Richard) told us how many people were in the van so we knew who to look for and EMS could send several more ambulances and resources immediately. Plus the father’s familiarity with the van made all the difference. He was able to open the back door, pull the luggage out and unclip the rear seat to get at the youngest child in his car seat.

“So many people gave assistance that day. People at the side of the road had blankets and clothes; the mother and daughter speaking with EMS.” Sadly Kunthea passed away after she arrived at the Elk Valley Hospital.

Richard and their sevenyear-old daughter Rachelle were treated for hypothermia and minor injuries at the Sparwood hospital and released. The two younger boys, Alex and Ben, were transported to Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary by air ambulance in severe condition. Ben has since been transported to an Edmonton hospital. The Altvater family is from Coaldale, Alberta.

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Ottawa puts on pipeline push

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he federal government stepped up its sales pitch for new pipelines to the B.C. coast last week, as it prepares for the imminent release of the federal review panel’s report on the feasibility of the Enbridge Northern Gateway project.

Transport Minister Lisa Raitt and Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver arrived in Vancouver to release an expert panel’s report on the current state of tanker safety on the West Coast. It was the first of two reports that tell the Stephen Harper government in blunt terms how steep a hill it must climb to enable energy exports to Asia.

Oliver gave a speech to the Vancouver Board of Trade the following morning, where he vowed to implement one of the panel’s key recommendations.

Legislation is coming to ensure that polluters, not taxpayers, must pay for any environmental damage from resource development and transport.

The panel was chaired by Gordon Houston, a former Prince Rupert harbourmaster and CEO of Port Metro Vancouver. Its report details the little-noticed fact that coastal waters around Victoria and Vancouver are already congested with shipping traffic, including Alaska oil tankers, and are at “very high risk” of an incident.

BC Views Of course that Tom “very high risk” should be seen in Fletcher the B.C. context, where there has never been a serious oil spill at sea in a century of continuous petroleum shipping.

The report calls for potential polluters to show they are prepared for a “worst case” discharge like the 1989 Exxon Valdez grounding in Alaska. It tells Ottawa the Canadian Coast Guard must be properly funded to serve as incident command.

Oliver recounted efforts made so far, including annual tanker inspections, increased aerial surveillance and marine markers. And he reminded his audience that Canada’s only

energy export customer, the U.S., is about to surpass Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest petroleum producer.

The second federal report was from Doug Eyford, a lawyer who has been meeting for months with aboriginal communities in northern B.C. and Alberta.

He found, as Enbridge has reported, that many aboriginal communities are working with energy producers to get the economic activity they so desperately need. (Most urban people likely don’t believe this, because the conflict-addicted media report mostly protests.)

Eyford’s report is no whitewash either. It reminds Ottawa that B.C.’s unresolved aboriginal title and a general lack of trust of both the energy industry and the federal government are key obstacles to the largest economic opportunity in the world today, the rise of Asia.

Eyford was dealing with the profusion of gas pipeline projects that are set to cross northern B.C., as well as the Enbridge and Kinder Morgan Canada oil proposals. The entrenched opposition is against oil, particu-

larly heavy oil in tankers.

Politics and protesters aside, these are the facts for B.C. The prosperous provinces in Canada today are Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland, based mainly on energy development. The rest are struggling.

B.C. continues to lose skilled workers to Alberta, where oil sands development continues to expand despite the continuing chorus of U.S.-financed misrepresentation of its environmental impact.

It’s a key moment in Canadian history. This is where we see if we can go beyond our status as a client state of the U.S. This year’s B.C. election, where pandering to urban protest backfired on the NDP, suggests a new seriousness in the public mood.

More people understand today that our comfortable modern society with free-access health care is a fragile thing. We have it better than most of the world, for now.

Tom Fletcher is B.C. legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

Genocide forestalled in the CAR

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he Central African Republic (CAR) is one of the poorest and most inaccessible countries in the world. It’s the size of France, but it only has four and a half million people. It is a serious contender for the title of Worst Governed Country in Africa, and it is now teetering on the brink of a genocide. Something has to be done, and only France was able and willing to do it.

France moves fast. There are already 600 French troops in the capital, Bangui, and another thousand will be moving out into country areas by the end of the week. (There are already 2,500 African peace-keeping troops in the CAR, but they lack transport and don’t have orders to shoot.) It has all happened so fast that France hasn’t even decided yet if it supports the man who currently claims to be the president of the CAR. Asked last Saturday if Michel Djotodia, who seized power last March, should stay as “interim president”, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said: “I don’t think we need (to create) more difficulties by adding the departure of the president.”

On Sunday, however, President Francois Hollande said exactly the opposite: “We cannot leave in place a president who was not able to do anything, or even worse, has let (some very bad) things happen.”

Fabius and Hollande may simply not have had time yet to talk to each other about Djotodia’s future — and besides, it doesn’t much matter: he controls virtually nothing.

The CAR has had eight coups since it got its independence from France in 1960, and got eight bad leaders out of it. The worst was Jean-Bedel Bokassa, who proclaimed himself emperor of the “Central African Empire” and used his “Imperial Guard” to murder people, including schoolchildren, who defied his rule, but even he had little

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impact on life outside Bangui, the capital.

The vast majority of people in the CAR are herdsmen or subsistence farmers who have little or no contact with the institutions of the state: the coup leaders and “presidents” came and went almost unnoticed. Until this time, because Michel Djotodia is the first Muslim president in a mostly Christian country, and he was brought to power by Muslim fighters many of whom don’t come from the CAR. Gwynne evenDjotodia has been trying to seize the presidenDyer cy for eight years. Coming from the Muslim northeast of the country, he recruited some fighters from that area – but up to 80 percent of the soldiers in his Seleka (alliance) militia were Muslim mercenaries whom he hired from Chad and Sudan. Except that he didn’t actually have the money to pay them; he just tacitly offered them the chance to loot if they won. So when he ordered Seleka to disband last March, having fought his way into power in Bangui, they did nothing of the sort. They hadn’t come all this way just to steal a few things and go home again.

Like Djotodia, the mercenaries are in the game to get rich, but while he can now do his thieving from the presidential palace, they still have to do it in the traditional way. So the majority of Seleka’s fighters have broken up into bands of marauders who plunder, rape and burn their way around the country. Many of the country’s villages now lie abandoned, while their former inhabitants hide from the bandits in the fields or the woods.

Tens of thousands may have already died in the more remote parts of the CAR, and at least four hundred were killed right in Bangui last week. Worse may follow: there is now a serious risk of genocide.

The Christian majority and the Muslim minority in the CAR have generally lived alongside each other in peace. However, the ex-Seleka mercenaries, being Muslims, tend to spare Muslim communities and target Christian ones. In self-defence, the Christians have begun banding together in vigilante groups — and there are a lot more Christians than Muslims.

Inevitably, they suspect the local Muslims of helping the ex-Seleka killers, so they are starting to see them as enemies as well.

In the circumstances of extreme deprivation and fear that now prevail in country areas — at least a million people are living in severe hunger or actual famine — this could quickly slide into a genocidal level of killing.

That’s why France moved so fast. It got the approval of the United Nations Security Council and the African Union for the intervention last Thursday, and by Saturday it had troops on the ground in Bangui. Djotodia, who could not be found last week, has also belatedly endorsed the intervention.

The need for speed is still paramount, and French Defence Minister Jean-Yves le Drian said that the job of disarming the ex-Seleka fighters got underway on Monday: “First we’ll ask nicely and if they don’t react, we’ll do it by force.”

This is the second time this year that French troops have been sent in to stop an African state from collapsing into slaughter and anarchy. (The French intervention in Mali in January saved that country from conquest by jihadis.) It is deeply embarrassing for the African Union to admit that its own peace-keeping force cannot do the job in time, but it hasn’t let its pride get in the way of preventing a genocide in the CAR. Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist based in London.

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KIMBERLEY AND CRANBROOK COMMUNITY CALENDAR UPCOMING

British Columbia Government Retired Employees Association, Rky Mtn Br., hold their Christmas luncheon meeting at Days Inn, Sam Steele Rm, Cranbrook on Dec 11th at 12 noon. Info: Jack Hogan 250-426-2335.

Marysville Community Church: Ladies Christmas Tea - Wear your favourite hat! Share your Christmas traditions. Wednesday, Dec. 11, 12-2pm. Everyone welcome. 730 - 302 Street, Marysville.

Kootenay Christian Academy Christmas Band Concert, Dec. 12, 7:00 pm. Kootenay Christian Academy Preschool campus – 629 6th St. NW. Everyone is invited to attend. Info: Call Alissa @ 250426-0166 or kcacademy.ca CBAL - A Book Under Every Tree – donate gift-quality books (children, teen & adult) before Dec 13th for distribution with Christmas hampers & Angel Tree. Volunteers needed to sort and bag books; Anna 250-581-2112 or mail: wccranbrook@gmail. com The company dancers at Stages School of Dance will be holding a free dance workshop on a drop-of basis on Saturday, Dec. 14, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Dance Studio at #42-6th Avenue South, Cranbrook, for children six-16 years of age. The Stages Dance Parents Group will be selling baked goods to raise money for the company dancers.

Live Outdoor Nativity with live donkey, sheep, youth actors and music from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir - Monday, Dec 16 and Tuesday Dec17 at Cranbrook LDS Chapel, 2210-2nd St. N., Cranbrook, 7:00pm. Hot chocolate and Christmas goodies will be served!

Kootenay Christian Academy Elementary drama production is entitled Miracle at Midnight, Dec. 18 at 7:00 pm. Everyone is invited to attend. Kootenay Christian Academy, 1200 Kootenay St N. Monetary donations accepted at the door for Christmas dinner hampers. Info: Alissa @ 250- 426-0166 or kcacademy.ca A Cuba Christmas; Sunday, Dec. 29, Wildhorse Theatre, Fort Steele, 12 noon. Bring a non-perishable item for the Food Bank.

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ONGOING Dance/Practice: every Saturday. Practice from 7 to 8 PM, dancing until 11 PM. Dance With Me Cranbrook Studio, 206-14 A 13th Street, South, behind Safeway.

Volunteers are needed to assist staff with childminding while parents attend programs at the Kimberley Early Learning Center.

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An appointment with fear “I have nothing to say, and I’ll only say it once.”

Floyd Smith, hockey coach

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onestly, I am not one of these folk who check medical sites on Google then complain that they seem to suffer from every known disease except, maybe, house-maid’s knee. In fact, if I am told that I have a medical problem, I feel insulted. I am therefore anxious about visiting doctors.

In a doctor’s ‘surgery’ you’ll inevitably encounter some acquaintance or other and you’ll ask, “How’s it going?” and be assured that things are all right. But then, when you find a seat and wait and pick up all sorts of ancient magazines plus an assortment of other people’s ailments, you think “If he’s okay, what’s he doing here?” then, “What am I doing here?”

Local doctors have been good, diligent, patient and extremely kind to me and my family but, I’m sure, they’re not aware that they’re becoming a danger to my mental health.

A week or so ago, I visited my doctor. It’s the duty of the elderly to visit doctors because, if we didn’t totter into their offices occasionally, they’d get bored.

My doctor gave me a thorough going-over and said that, for my age, I was

doing all right. However, she said, “Your blood pressure is a little high.”

I naturally believed that this was the case because I was in (a) a doctor’s office (b) the doctor was an attractive female, and so dismissed my concerns. The doctor then informed me that she would not need to treat me for this high pressure but that I should, on occasion, stick my arm in one of those infernal blood-pressure machines that lurk in drugstores.

I ignored this instruction mainly because, fortunately, I seldom have need to visit a drugstore but, one day, I opted to Peter have a go. I read the inWarland structions carefully, ripped off my jacket and plunged my arm in. I pressed the start button and awaited the tidings.

When I read the results and compared them with the “normal” figures on the machine, I almost passed out. I was, I reckoned, just a few short steps from death.

Sweating all over, I went home to die.

The next day I forced myself into yet another drugstore and tried again. And again I got the scary results. I scarcely slept a wink that night, fearing I might wake up deceased. Amazingly, I survived the weekend but, on Monday morning, I phoned the doctor’s office, was informed that my doctor would not be available for a week or

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so and then, when I begged (on my knees) for another doctor, got myself an appointment.

The new doctor informed me that my blood pressure was all right except for the supposedly low–diastolic- end. I sighed audibly. Then she suggested that there was a bit of a skip in my heart beat and that I should go and have an E.C.G. I did know what that was and so did as I was told.

Later, I was shown a huge graph with my poor old heart skipping beats, the way it must have done when I first saw the girl who was to become my wife.

The new doctor gave me a prescription, cancelled one my own doctor had prescribed then told me to come in a week later.

The following week, I was in such a panic that I dragged my old body up several mountains without any malfunction of my aged heart, and began to relax.

Coming in one day, I noticed that someone at “Regional Health” had phoned me.

My heart skipped several beats in a row, so I sat down and made myself some tea, wondering if it were to be my final “cuppa” on this earth.

Eventually, I called the number back, explaining who I was and what might be the problem might be, but nobody at the far end had any clues as to what it was all about. I sat down at my computer and started work on my own obituary, wondering if I had time to finish it.

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SPORTS BRIEFS Toronto trades Rudy Gay, Aaron Gray and Quincy Acy to Sacramento Kings TORONTO, Ontario - Rudy Gay’s brief time with the Toronto Raptors has come to an end.

The Raptors confirmed Monday that the 27-yearold small forward, along with centre Aaron Gray and forward Quincy Acy, has been traded to the Sacramento Kings.

The Raptors receive guards John Salmons and Greivis Vasquez, forward Patrick Patterson and centre Chuck Hayes in return.

Gay averaged 19.4 points per game, 7.4 rebounds and 2.2 assists for the Raptors this season.

The move will free up significant cap space for the Raptors.

The six-foot-eight, 230-pound Gay was the Raptors’ highest paid player with a contract that pays him US$17.8 million this season with a $19.3-million player option for next season.

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Gord McArthur, bottom right, heads up a climbing structure during a World Cup event last year. McArthur will soon be entering another season of competition, which includes the Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.

Local climber preparing for Olympics Gord McArthur is fundraising to support his passion of competing in World Cup and Sochi Games TRE VOR CR AWLEY Sports Editor

The Olympics are just a few months away, and Cranbrook will be represented as local athlete Gord McArthur will be competing for Canada in sport climbing.

McArthur got the nod to represent Canada earlier this year, and has been busy training for both the Sochi Games and the UIAA World Cup circuit.

However, there are significant expenses that come with competing at the highest level of any sport in the world, and climbing is no different, as the World Cup circuit takes McAr-

thur across the world from South Korea to Russia and countries in Europe.

With a budget of $23,000, the Cranbrook athlete has raised a large chunk of what he needs already, and is inviting the community to help support him towards his climbing passion.

“This town has already been so amazing,” said McArthur.

“So many people have already stepped up which is really great.”

Donations can be made at the East Kootenay Community Credit Union or by visiting McArthur’s website at: machavokadventure.com/donations.

Most of McArthur’s financial support has come from local individuals and businesses, without help from the Canadian Olympic Committee or Own the Podium, an umbrella sports funding program that supports Olympic athletes.

“So much of the town has already come together,” said McArthur.

He will take off for the World Cup circuit in January, hitting a few events on the tour before representing Canada at the Sochi Games.

Funds raised will go to the basics that come with competing in professional sports— things such as flights, food, ho-

tels and rental cars.

Though McArthur has been competing in the World Cup for the last few years, he’s stepped up his training in the summer with the help of a sports psychologist to prepare for the mental pressure of competing against the world’s best.

“It came quick,” said McArthur. “It came really quick, faster than I expected. But I’m ready. Everything is in place, for the most part.”

He’s already done some overseas training in South Korea on competition-specific structures and will take off for close to two months at the beginning of January.

Stamps RB Cornish wins 2013 Lou Marsh award C ANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO - No one was more surprised by Jon Cornish capturing the 2013 Lou Marsh award as Canada’s top athlete than the Calgary Stampeders running back himself.

Cornish narrowly defeated Milos Raonic, the first Canadian men’s singles tennis player to achieve a top-10 world ranking, and Kaillie Humphries, who dominated the women’s bobsled circuit this season,

for the honour.

“I really didn’t know anything was going on, I was just getting ready to go for a day of work,” said Cornish, employed as a bank rep in Calgary during the off-season.

“My phone is always on silent so my iPad was getting most of my notifications and it started making a lot of noise and so I was wondering but I was playing video games so I wasn’t really too worried about checking my iPad.

“But then (Stampeders communications director) Jean Lefebvre called and informed me that I had been selected . . . this was a nice little addition to my day.”

And in a truly CFL moment, the 29-year-old Cornish spoke to reporters during a conference call while on a break at the bank Monday.

Cornish became just the third Canadian to win the CFL’s outstanding player award after rushing for a league-high

1,813 yards. That broke his own record for the most rushing yards in a season by a Canadian.

The native of New Westminster, B.C., also led the league with 2,157 yards from scrimmage and 14 TDs en route to being named the CFL’s top Canadian for a second straight season.

He’s the first Canadian to win the CFL’s top player award since Ottawa Rough Riders tight end Tony Gabriel in 1978 and the first CFL player

to claim the Lou Marsh award since legendary Ottawa quarterback Russ Jackson did so in 1969.

Damian Warner, figure skater Patrick Chan and Chicago Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews were the other award finalists.

The trophy is awarded annually to Canada’s top athlete as selected by representatives of Canada’s leading news organizations. It’s named after a former Toronto Star sports editor.

NHL board of governors approves $5.2-billion, 12-year Rogers TV deal

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. - The NHL board of governors has approved the $5.2-billion, 12-year Canadian television rights deal with Rogers Communications Inc. It came as no surprise that the deal, which begins next season and runs through 2025-26, passed as it will be a major windfall around the league.

Commissioner Gary Bettman was set to announce next year’s projected salary cap during Monday’s meeting at the Inn at Spanish Bay. An increase of roughly 10 per cent from this year’s upper limit of US$64.3 million was expected.

That would represent a major bounce-back for the league less than year removed from the end of a contentious lockout.

Teams were allowed to spend up to US$70.2 million during the lockout-shortened 2013 season as part of a transition year before the cap went down in accordance with the 50/50 split of hockey-related revenue that was agreed to as part of the new collective bargaining agreement.

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Roy Halladay signs one-day contract so he can retire as a Toronto Blue Jay

TORONTO, Ontario - Roy Halladay is retiring as a Toronto Blue Jay. The Blue Jays announced Monday they’ve signed the veteran pitcher to a deal that will allow the righthander to retire in Toronto colours.

Halladay was Toronto’s first-round selection in the 1995 major league draft and pitched 12 seasons with the Blue Jays, winning the 2003 Cy Young award.

Halladay spent his final four major-league seasons with the Philadelphia Phillies, winning a second Cy Young award in 2010.

“Roy is one of the most professional and dominant pitchers of his generation and the Toronto Blue Jays are very proud and honoured he will retire as a member of our organization,” Jays president and CEO Paul Beeston said in a statement. “His talent and determination led our club for many years on the field and his work ethic provided an example for all to follow.”

Halladay amassed a career record of 203-105 in 416 games, 390 being starts.

The eight-time all-star also has an earned-run average of 3.38.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) You might be taken aback by everything that is going on around you. Experience your feelings rather than act on them; otherwise, you might just be adding fuel to the fire. Once you reach a realization, a conversation becomes far more plausible. Tonight: Not to be found.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Honor a change involving a friend. You can’t take back words you’ve said. Though you could have a strong reaction, try discussing your feelings without inflaming a situation. Working as a group proves far more effective than being independent.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) Take a stand, move forward and handle a problem. Your sensitivity mixes well with your practical nature. Together, these assets will help you wade through muddy waters and come out sparkling clean. Know that you have what it takes, and trust yourself. Tonight: In the limelight.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Read between the lines as you walk into a situation where people have strong opinions. Understand the underlying issue.

Help others see what they have in common as opposed to what is different. Communication allows greater give-and-take. Tonight: Return calls, then decide.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) A partner could be somewhat difficult. You might have a strong reaction as a result. Resist going off on a spending spree in this mood. A discussion is necessary. You understand the importance of timing; just wait.

Tonight: Spend time with your best friend.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

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Defer to others. You could have a difficult time maintaining your authority. Walk in the other direction, and refuse to be a part of this situation. The other parties might be floored, but they will look at their actions as a result. Tonight: Entertain suggestions, but do what you want.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Listen to what is being offered, even if you don’t like what you hear at first. Pace yourself and accomplish what you must before following someone’s chosen path. You have the drive to get a lot done. Stay focused. Tonight: You deserve to take it easy.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Your playfulness might not be in tune with others’ moods. Someone you care about could be on the warpath. This person’s actions and words might surprise you. Be a good listener, and look for solutions. Your willingness to help will come through. Tonight: Time for fun.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Stay centered, and know where you are coming from. Avoid testing out ideas on others right

now. An unexpected insight tumbles into your lap and forces you to regroup. You can’t avoid a personal matter and/or an issue involving real estate. Tonight: Have an important discussion.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You are coming from a good place, but suddenly you might find yourself feeling angry. Focus on how you can change the outcome of the situation. Do not rely on the tried and true. Have an important discussion when you feel more settled. Tonight: Hang out at a favorite haunt.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Be aware of your spending. No matter what you do, you seem to make choices that could cause a problem. Perhaps you need more information and feedback, as you have yet to see the clear path. You will be given time and openness. Tonight: Pay your bills first.

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by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar Dear Annie: I’ve been employed for two months at a large retail outlet and have gotten to know many of the people who work there.

“Amanda” is in the food section, and I am in the clothing department. I’m a straight woman, and she is bisexual. Two weeks ago, the two of us went out to dinner for her birthday. Since then, I have developed strong feelings for her.

I asked Amanda to dinner the other night, and she turned me down, saying she had plans. Yesterday, another co-worker told me she saw Amanda having lunch with a woman who works in the automotive section. The co-worker said the two of them were very touchy.

This made me really jealous and sad.

Should I tell Amanda I have feelings for her?

If so, how do I do that? -- Confused and Maybe in Love Dear Confused: There are different types of jealousy. Amanda seems to be a popular girl.

If you consider yourself to be straight, you should examine whether your jealousy is romantic in nature or whether it’s the type that female friends develop when one of them picks a different “best friend.” If you want a romantic relationship, let Amanda know by asking her again to lunch, dinner, a movie or other entertainment outside of work. If she is repeatedly “busy,” it means she is not interested.

Dear Annie: Seven years ago, my closest cousin died. His wife wanted me to have his wardrobe, which included a tuxedo.

This cousin’s daughter is going to be married soon, and the wedding is black tie.

Would it be proper to wear that tux? I don’t intend to broadcast the fact that it belonged to her late father, but it seems wearing it would allow a part of him to watch his only child marry. What do you think? - DressedUp Cousin Dear Cousin: We think it’s a lovely idea. No one will know that you are wearing this particular tuxedo, except perhaps your cousin’s widow. If she mentions it, please tell her what you told us -- that you thought it would allow a small part of him to be there in spirit.

We hope she will find it as touching as we do.

Dear Annie: I hope it’s not too late to comment on the letter from “Can’t Believe Adults Act This Way,” whose daughter, a teacher, was being bullied by her co-workers. This happened to me when I was younger.

One day, one member of that group gave me some advice. She said, “Play dumb and pretend you don’t know they are talking about you. Always be pleasant, say ‘hello’ and ‘good morning’ to everyone, even when they do not respond. Join them in the lounge. Make a pleasant general comment, and then turn to your magazine or whatever you have to do. Always have something to occupy your time. If you have to ask anyone a question about work, ask it in the lounge in the presence of everyone. If they make a nasty comment, just brush it off and pretend that you didn’t realize it was nasty. When you really need a breather, occasionally go off on your own, but don’t make it obvious.”

And I also made it a point to look fabulous every day.

This may not appeal to everyone in such a position, but it worked for me. It was terribly hard for the first few months, and then it became a routine. Eventually, the ringleader asked me where I was when I didn’t come into the lounge the day before. After that, I was completely accepted by the group.

I have lived by that rule ever since and have passed it on to my children. One cannot fight with someone who will not fight. You keep your dignity and, above all, gain their respect. It works in school, at the workplace and even with your own family. -- Yvonne from Montreal 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, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. To find out more about Annie’s Mailbox and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

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Don’t get me wrong; for the most part I like snow. As a matter of fact, the first thing I do every morning when I am let out of doors is to roll rigorously in its fresh whiteness. I find making these canine snow angels invigorating, refreshing, and fur cleansing. However there is always the possibility of having too much of a good thing.

An unrestrained dogumentary.

One good turn deserves another: Boulder’s veterinarian, Jamie Levine, showing off how hominids have used their ingenuity to get around in winter.

You see, for many of us dogs, once snow reaches a certain depth it greatly limits our ability to move in, on and through it. Oh yes. you humans have invented all manner of contrivance to circumvent this predicament — snowshoes, skis, snowmobiles and who could forget K-Tel’s Super Slider Snow Skates) — but what of we four- leggers?

On the occasions that we do accompany our people out into wilds to play in the powder, it is not just the depth of the stuff that makes things problematic.

Being of the golden retriever persuasion, Dog Taylor and I have long blonde coats that are, if I do say so myself, handsomely stylish. In the snow however, they are not completely functional. The longer, feathery guard hairs that adorn our flanks, chest, and the ruff of our necks, have the unfortunate habit of allowing snow to stick to them. These dingle-ball-like adhesions would be of little consequence except for the fact that they continue to grow in size and number until we find ourselves virtually incapacitated by their weight and bulk.

Another retriever trait that has proven maladaptive when it comes to winter wandering is our webbed feet. That skin between our toes makes us powerful swimmers but poor snowshoers. I can barely go a kilometre before I have to stop and try to chew off the ice that has accumulated between my toes. This oral manipulation is our only recourse since the powers that be saw fit not to bless us with opposable thumbs.

This has unfortunate consequences, since during this de-icing process a goodly amount of saliva is deposited between said toes, causing a redoubling of snow and ice accumulation. To my human’s credit he has attempted to rectify the situation by providing us with cute little doggy booties. They were — now how do I put this delicately — a total waste of #&$=# time.

Truth be told, these tribulations that winter presents to Goldens and other longer haired canines would be endured without comment or complaint if it meant we could continue to be outside with our humans during this frozen season. Unfortunately, humans being the overly compassionate and empathetic species that they are, see our discomfort and feel compelled to intervene. In short, they decide to leave us at home, with its central heating, so that we don’t have to suffer the wading through drifts, iced toes and dingle-ball syndrome.

The human heart may well be in the right place but please heed this advice gentle reader. The next time you go skiing, or snowshoeing, or tobogganing and leave your dog at home, please take him on an extra long walk later, or at least spend some quality time scratching his belly, so as to ease his concerns over being abandoned by the pack. And if you can’t do that, maybe take those fancy Italian shoes you are so fond of and put them some place safe. Just sayin’.

Photos and word processing by Dan Mills

Dogless in the Mountains: Boulder’s person in his natural state of affairs; going down hill fast.

Dingle-ball Syndrome: Taylor gladly bares her icy burden if it means she can spend a winter’s day in the mountains with her Mike.

Taylor demonstrates to her Mike that it can be done with out snowshoes.

Dog Gabby starts the day off right by exuberantly making snow angels.

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Boulder wades the drifts without complaint.

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