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BEING BEAR AWARE

BY LIZ BEVAN Times Staff

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Sharon Weider from WildSafe BC stopped by the Trail and District Public Library for the Maker Space Tool Time program.

Weider was teaching kids about the best way to stay safe when in the woods surrounded by wildlife, especially bears.

Weider says make sure to travel the trails in groups and to carry bear spray.

Citizens band together to support pedestrian bridge He and long time friends saved and we could see the John D’Arcangelo and confusion.”

Scottie McKinnon regularly Over three weeks of gainmeet for a cup of java and ing insight that included visa chat session when most its to city hall, conversations recently, the heart of the with merchants, citizens conversation and community turned to the leaders, momen“The petition pedestrian walktum grew and was trying to way debate. others joined the On the heels informal group save the old of the petition of “Citizens in bridge, which that halted the support of a pedis something city’s pedestrian/ estrian walkway.” pipe bridge pro- that couldn’t be So far, about ject in May, the 200 people have saved and we trio’s discussion gathered in supcould see the turned to that port of voting topic and their ‘Yes” for the pedconfusion.” concerns that litestrian walkway KEITH SMYTH tle information bridge on Aug. and confusion 23 or during overshadowed advanced polling the issue. opportunities on Aug. 13 “That’s when we got and Aug. 20. involved,” said Smyth. “The There’s no door-to-door petition was trying to save campaigning or phone calls, the old bridge, which is but the group has printed something that couldn’t be a flyer they’ll be distribut-

BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff

A highlight of Keith Smyth’s day used to be the parade of lunchtime walkers passing his home with either a quick wave or brief stop for friendly banter before continuing their loop around town.

The former principal was building his East Trail home as a retirement project in 2007, when he’d put his hammer down around noon to visit with passersbyes as they’d walk the Trail bridges during a midday break from their desk jobs.

Those noon hour visits stopped when the Old Trail Bridge closed four years ago.

The cultural value of walking the bridges and the city’s social value that comes with that exercise is something Smyth misses and believes is integral to the citizens of Trail.

ing throughout town this week with the message, ‘Be informed’ and ‘Help Shape Trail’s Future!’

“We thought if we talked to people who are undecided and needed more information that we will hand them this sheet,” said D’Arcangelo.

Both men said they’ve had a few back-and-forths with people who were undecided or against the river crossing.

But, for the most part, people are on board with the group’s push for affirmative votes in a project that comes without a raise in Trail taxes.

“With this certainty, it was game on,” said Smyth on behalf of the citizens’ group.

“On a zero budget supporters have built an exponential list of like-minded ‘Yes’ enthusiasts and developed a succinct one page informal flyer in tandem with a simple promotional message.”

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This weekend, nearly 15,000 people will be making Salmo, a town of 1,200, their home for a few days.

The annual music festival, Shambhala, begins Thursday, but local businesses have been preparing for months. Connie Stavast, manager at The Salmo Pump gas station, says they start preparing for the weekend well in advance of the festivities.

“It's a small town and it is a big weekend,” she said.

“We start prepping in May. That is when we start really focusing on the products and doing our bigger orders.”

Part of the preparation is looking at sales from the previous years to predict how much stock to order for the event and even hiring some extra staff that may seem out of place at a gas station.

“What we generally do is see what our sales were the previous year and then we order the appropriate amount for that and then a little extra,” said Stavast.

“We hire more staff and we hire security.”

Stavast says Shambhala is the biggest weekend for sales and helps The Salmo Pump throughout the rest of the year.

“Basically, it carries us through the winter,” she said. “There is nothing really here and Shambhala is the big thing.”

Although it is the biggest weekend for The Salmo Pump, Stavast isn't sad when it is over.

“We look forward to see it come and we look forward to seeing it go,” she said with a laugh.

The Mayor of Salmo, Ann Henderson, agrees that Shambhala is good for local business, but not so good for Salmo's infrastructure.

“It is not going anywhere, so we might as well embrace it,” she said about the festival. “It affects our public works. Where normally, garbage cans are emptied once a week and now we often have to empty them three times a day.”

One aspect of the festival that irks Henderson is the stress on the ambulance service and the local RCMP. She says it would be better if Shambhala would help with the stress on public services.

“I've had people that were injured in an accident and they were put on the back burner because the ambulances were coming in so fast with drug overdoses,” she said. “People who were genuinely injured, not of their own choice, were not being looked after. The use of our ambulance system and our police system is, I feel, something they should pay for.”

According to Shambhala organizers, the festival has donated $5,000 to the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital to assist this year and they have doctors and nurses on site during the event.

Henderson says the festival crowds have changed over the years, and so have festival organizers.

“They are an Ltd. company now, so they have definitely incorporated and it is more business-like,” she said the week before the festival. “I understand they are under new management now and they are not communicating with us. There was a lot more camaraderie and communication before and now that isn't happening.”

Shambhala runs from Aug. 6 to 11.

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An impressive array of baseball fans including Trail native Steve Tambellini and wife Denise showed up at Butler Park on the weekend to cheer on the Trail AM Ford Orioles and grandson Reece (middle) alongside Eli Florko with rally-cap, and injured Oriole Kyle Paulson for the B.C.Senior Men’s Baseball championship.

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oday’s column is the 200th column published in the Trail Times and shows the finessing type of end play.

At the end of June, we saw a type of end play executed by discarding a loser.

In both types, the declarer draws trump, performs an elimination removing the defenders’ safe exit cards, and

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Local

Forging path for new crossing

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A group of citizens in support of the City of Trail’s pedestrian walkway project is promoting a ‘Vote Yes’ message over the next few weeks and distributing informational flyers around town.

FROM PAGE 1 Smyth and D’Arcangelo fondly recall walking students over the old bridge to take in a show at the Charles Bailey Theatre back when they were both teaching at Laura J. Morrish School (now the Kootenay Columbia Learning Centre) in East Trail.

“The river is our greatest asset to this town as far as I am concerned,” said D’Arcangelo.

“The walkway will enhance the river rather than an ugly old pipe that will take away its beauty.”

Smyth agrees with his friend’s view, and added that it would be awful to only have a pipe crossing the river, saying, ‘just think about it, we’ll have a poop pipeline across the middle of our town.’

Both men agree that the city

has stepped up its game in promoting the pedestrian bridge initiative, and they are simply bringing more awareness to the matter.

“We get more passionate as the days go by,” said Smyth.

“The way this town will unite is if we get overwhelming support.

That’s the motivation – for this town to see a project that we are all in together.”

Airport improvements continue

By Liz Bevan Times Staff

Trail's airport could be getting a new terminal.

Don Goulard, Trail Regional Airport manager, was at the May 12 Trail City council meeting to submit a Request for Proposals regarding a new terminal at the site, and the process is now moving forward.

“There was a site viewing and information meeting on July 2,” said Goulard. “There were over a dozen architectural and engineering firms in attendance for a tour of the airport grounds.”

Goulard says the reception from the architects and engineers was positive. “(The tour) created a great deal of excitement and enthusiasm for the project,” he said, adding that final submissions for proposals for the new terminal are due Sept. 12 Along with the RFP submission, Goulard was charged with making sure Trail Regional Airport was up to standards after a Transport Canada audit showed there were a few changes that needed to be made. Goulard has since been putting his nose to the grindstone on his Corrective Action Plan for the facility.

Most recently, chevrons on the runway, discovered through the audit to be incorrect, were

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“The incorrectly painted stopway markings were covered back in April,” said Goulard. “The correct markings (were) being applied (July 30).

This is just one of many activities that we are undertaking to ensure that we are in compliance with Transport Canada regulations.”

Some of those activities Goulard referred to include tree removal, security concerns, changes in fencing to reduce wildlife on the runway and ensuring staff are recording training and daily goings-on in the proper way.

Goulard's hopes the airport, once the upgrades and changes are complete, will promote expansion and use of the Trail area.

“Convenient access to transportation is essential to the growth and long-term viability of any community,” he said, adding that the airport is a necessity to the city. “The Trail Regional Airport is an indispensable piece of infrastructure and will continue to become an even safer, more efficient, more reliable and sustainable means of transportation for the Greater Trail area.”

The airport, formerly owned by the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary, came into Trail's possession on Feb. 15 and upgrades to the airport are ongoing.

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Slocan Valley

Area on evacuation alert

Nelson Star Fire crews tackled a blaze Tuesday morning on a ridge above Slocan Park that has resulted in an evacuation alert.

The fire broke out Saturday afternoon on the east side of the valley following a lightning strike. It grew to about 100 hectares yesterday, fanned by high winds.

Early Tuesday, Slocan Park and Crescent Valley residents were placed on evacuation alert. The notice covers 47 homes on or off Highway 6 between the street addresses 2826 and 3024 — from Legendary Meats to the Slocan Valley Co-op.

As of 5:30 a.m. Tuesday, the Southeast Fire Centre dispatched a 20-person ground attack crew, four helicopters and two small water bombers to the site.

A Type 1 provincial incident management team was expected to assume command of the fire. “[The fire] did not move toward any residences overnight,” Turner said. “However, we did have an initial attack crew monitoring the fire in case there were any changes and it moved further down the mountain. That did not take place.

The winds were quite strong and the fire did grow, but luckily it was mostly on top of the ridge.”

Turner said the fire is still showing “aggressive” behaviour and there is potential for further growth, given the dry fuel in the area, but he expects it would be to the northeast, further away from any homes.

Although no homes are in immediate danger, the evacuation

alert will remain in place.

Regional District of Central Kootenay fire chief Terry Swan said they “want residents to be prepared in case the situation worsens. The safety of our residents is our first concern.”

The alert suggests that residents pack some belongings and be ready to leave at a moment’s notice. Those with livestock are also being asked to move their animals to a safe location.

Swan said the decision whether to rescind the evacuation notice will be made jointly with the Southeast Fire Centre, but doesn’t expect it to be discussed until late today.

“The Southeast Fire Centre is giving it everything they’ve got,” he said. “Weather permitting, we hope the fire will be manageable very soon.”

Crews were already working on the fire Monday, but resident Chris Sapriken found its flare-up “alarming.”

“It was enough that, with two kids and my parents, we felt there was too much ground to cover to not be prepared,” he said. “We just packed our bags in case the order comes between now and whenever it’s been put out for good.”

The RDCK’s sprinkler protection units are on standby. RCMP also conducting traffic control last night because of the large number of people stopping on the highway to watch the fire.

• A fire reported near Kaslo around 8 p.m. last night is contained and in mop-up stage.

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CUPE preparing for strike

CASTLEGAR - The CUPE Local 2262 workers who keep City of Castlegar services running are one step closer to taking job action.

The Local is holding strike training for its members this week.

CUPE 2262 President Leford Lafayette says his 34 members are extremely frustrated. “Despite being in bargaining for a new contract for more than a year, City negotiators have repeatedly refused to seriously address our outstanding issues,” he explains.

“So far, the City has refused to discuss concerns about loss of work, has been unwilling to take concessions off the table and has even proposed a lower wage offer than in other Kootenay communities,” says Lafayette. The two sides have met several times since the last contract expired in July 2013.

The lack of movement on the part of the employer prompted an

historic strike vote on May 22 the first ever in the union local’s 60-year history. CUPE members were also very upset when City management hand-delivered a package containing misinformation on the negotiations to employees’ homes just one day after mediated talks broke down on July 15.

No new talks have been scheduled.

“City management should be trying to bring the temperature down and work towards an equitable settlement with their employees,” says CUPE National Representative Lori Sutherland.

“We want a fair and respectful contract so we can focus on serving the people of Castlegar - the last thing we want is a disruption to important public services.”

While the union is in a legal position to strike, it will still provide 72-hour notice before commencing any strike action.

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Discharge of mining waste forces water ban Water ban expanded to include Quesnel and Cariboo Rivers THE CANADIAN PRESS QUESNEL - Authorities are expanding a water-use ban to include the Quesnel and Cariboo Rivers up to the Fraser River after a tailings pond southeast of Quesnel was breached, sending millions of cubic metres of waste water into nearby roads and waterways.

An initial ban advised all residents living around the Mount Polley mine area, near the town of Likely, to use only bottled water until further notice.

The advisory affected hundreds of people living around Quesnel Lake, Polley Lake, Hazeltine Creek and Cariboo Creek.

The ban has since been

expanded to include anyone living along the Quesnel and Cariboo Rivers.

Authorities are asking people in the region to stop using water from both rivers.

Those areas are sparsely populated and the Cariboo Regional District has not determined how many people have been affected.

People in Quesnel are also being asked to avoid using water from the Quesnel River.

The ban does not apply to people in Williams Lake or other towns along the Fraser River.

Authorities had previously said Likely was not directly affected, because it was unclear how many people in the town used water from Quesnel Lake.

But since then, the Cariboo Regional District has decided to start delivering water to Likely because the main supplier of

bottled water in the area, a small grocery store, could not keep up with the demand.

Al Richmond, chair of the district, said search and rescue crews evacuated campers in the Mount Polley area. But shelters have not been provided for them, as they appear to have set up camp elsewhere without any problems.

Early Monday morning, the earthen dam holding waste water from the Mount Polley mine was breached, sending its contents into Hazeltine Creek, Richmond said.

He said most of the waste appears to have been contained in the creek, though some of the material has flowed into Quesnel Lake and Polley Lake.

“The majority of the slurry and the debris was contained at the mouth of the creek,” said Richmond. “While there has been

some flow of that material into the lake, it hasn’t been substantial in consideration of the size of the spill.”

The width of the creek has swollen in size because of the washout.

“At one time it was four feet and now it’s 150 feet,” he said.

The Horsefly-Likely Road, which joins Likely to the town of Horsefly, has been washed out, and authorities have closed it down until cleanup crews finish making repairs.

The Cariboo Regional District has not received any reports of injuries or people getting sick from drinking water.

No property damage reports have been filed, though that may change with time, Richmond said.

The Ministry of Environment said it is working to determine

how much environmental damage has been done.

“Further monitoring and testing of waterways will be required before the full extent of potential environmental impacts can be determined,” the ministry said in a written statement.

Water test results are expected in days.

No other details have been released as authorities are trying to determine the cause and extent of the breach.

Mount Polley is an open pit copper and gold mine owned by the Imperial Metals Corporation (TSX:III).

The company has been involved on the construction or operation of seven mines, the majority in British Columbia.

Requests for comment from Imperial were not immediately returned.

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School trustees offer action plan Pastor pursues Scrabble title

By Sally McDonald Cranbrook Townsman

School trustees around the province are urging the government and the B.C. Teachers’ Federation to work together to reach an agreement.

The B.C. School Trustees Association (BCSTA) issued a “Back to School Action Plan” last week, at the same time as the Ministry of Education announced that parents of students under 13 would receive $40 a day per child to offset childcare costs during the strike.

Instead, the trustees urged the government to put all money it had saved as a result of the strike and lockout into a Learning Improvement Fund that would support students, student learning, and class size and composition.

“Boards of Education are deeply concerned about the impact of the continuing bargaining impasse on students, families, staff, and the reputation of B.C.’s public education system,” read the statement.

“As the governors

of B.C.’s local school districts and employers of staff who make our schools successful, B.C. school trustees know that a balance must be found between the bargaining objectives of the BC Teachers’ Federation and the economic mandate established by the provincial government. We believe that such a balance can be found.”

As well as asking the government to commit its strike savings to a fund for learning, the trustees also put forward two more sug-

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First, the trustee association urged the BCTF to modify the benefit increases teachers are seeking so that the overall compensation package will fall within the range accepted by other public sector unions.

Second, the trustees asked the government and all education partners to establish a new bargaining and labour relations structure as per the recommendations identified in BCSTA’s October 2013 Bargaining Structure Task Force Report.

“We are committed to have our schools open on September 2,” added the trustees.

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Parksville-Qualicum Beach News A Vancouver Island “word nerd” who thrives in the world of competitive Scrabble will be hoping for some power tiles and a little bit of luck during a major competition this week.

Andrew Twiddy is best known in Parksville for leading the Sunday service at the Anglican parish of St. Anne and St. Edmund but the Reverend is currently in Scotland where he is a member of a threeperson team representing Canada in a tournament inspired by the sporting Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

The 28-game tournament put on by the World English-Language Scrabble Players Association (WESPA) has 20 teams representing Commonwealth countries and takes place from Aug. 7 to 10.

Twiddy has been playing the classic American board game since he was a young boy but about seven years ago he took it to the next level and now he is somewhat of a Scrabble genius.

“In 2007 I noticed that the world Scrabble champion was a UBC student and there was a Vancouver club. I thought this could be fascinating because I played Scrabble

so much for fun that I would like to look into competitive Scrabble,” he explained.

He went to Vancouver and joined the Scrabble club where he did exceptionally well in one of the tournaments.

He then competed in the Western Canadian championship in the entry level division.

“I got really nice scores and some first place finishes so I started to move up the ladder a bit.”

He has progressed a lot since that first tournament and this week will be taking on some of the best Scrabble players in the world.

Twiddy’s language skills would put most people to shame. He agrees he has a way with words and credits his university education for his vast vocabulary.

“A lot of my time was spent on ancient manuscripts studying the bible. Latin and Hebrew are the foundations of the English language,” he noted.

He said pitting his wits against others in a game of words and numbers is a lot like poker and while Scrabble doesn’t qualify as an official commonwealth sport he stated the game is certainly as intense.

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Burglar solicits help

THE CANADIAN PRESS ABBOTSFORD - Police in Abbotsford have run out of ideas in their search for a burglar who forced a 13-year-old boy to help search for valuables after a man broke into his home.

Const. Ian MacDonald says the teenage boy was playing with an electronic device at home back in May when a man came into the house looking for valuables.

Police say the suspect at first locked the boy in the bathroom, then forced him to go through the house to look for more valuables,

before shutting him inside the bathroom again and taking off with some electronics.

Police are hoping the public may be able to lead them to solve the crime.

The suspect is described as a clean-shaven Caucasian male in his 20s, 5’8“ tall with a medium build, short, dark brown hair, and he was wearing a black leather jacket and jeans.

MacDonald calls the burglary a unique method of operation, and says anyone with information should contact the police.

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Father will not face new trial in Ebola drug deaths of twin daughters in 2002 gets first use THE CANADIAN PRESS ST. JOHN’S, N.L. A Newfoundland man convicted of drowning his twin daughters after a so-called Mr. Big sting by the RCMP will not face a new trial after the Supreme Court of Canada ruled what he told police officers is inadmissible.

Donovan Molloy, director of public prosecutions, also confirmed in provincial Supreme Court on Tuesday in Gander, N.L., that with the withdrawal of the two first-degree murder charges, Nelson Hart will be released from prison.

“This brings the matter to a close,” said Judge David Peddle.

Hart’s conviction by a jury of first-degree murder in the 2002 drowning deaths of his three-year-old twin daughters was initially overturned on appeal in 2012.

The Supreme Court of Canada upheld that decision last week and ruled that a confession Hart gave to police posing as mobsters cannot be used against him.

Hart was not in court on Tuesday, but his ex wife Jennifer Hicks did attend the hearing and showed no emotion as the decision to free her former husband was confirmed.

She declined to speak outside court.

Lawyers for Hart say there is no evidence of a crime without the confession given during an elaborate police sting.

The high court cast doubt on the reliability of Mr. Big stings and said the operation may have violated Hart’s Charter rights.

Hart, now 45, was convicted of firstdegree murder in 2007 and sentenced to life in prison for the 2002 drowning deaths of his

daughters at Gander Lake.

Hart has maintained that the deaths of his daughters, Karen and Krista, were accidental but changed his story about what happened.

He initially told detectives that Krista fell in the water on Aug. 4, 2002, at a recreation area called Little Harbour. He said he didn’t jump in to help because he couldn’t swim.

His trial heard that Hart had a cellphone but left his other daughter behind as he drove about 11 kilometres to his home, passing a hospital, to get his wife who also couldn’t swim.

Karen was dead and Krista was floating unconscious on the water by the time police arrived. She was declared brain dead in hospital and removed from a ventilator.

Hart later told police

that he’d had an epileptic seizure and couldn’t remember how his girls got into the lake.

He said he didn’t mention it earlier for fear he’d lose his driver’s licence.

The case stalled until the RCMP launched the Mr. Big sting in February 2005.

They spent about $413,000 over four months while officers posing as gangsters recruited Hart to join their crime network.

He was wined and dined across the country as he met other fake mobsters at restaurants, casinos and strip clubs, moving what he thought was stolen goods.

Lawyers for Hart at his appeal stressed that he had a Grade 5 education, was on social assistance and was easily led.

They argued that he was especially vulnerable to the Mr. Big

tactic used by police across Canada to extract confessions of prior crimes.

In a secretly videotaped exchange in June 2005, an officer posing as a gang leader asked Hart about the deaths of his daughters in a concocted test of Hart’s loyalty.

Hart began to talk about his seizure but was told not to lie.

He then described how he could not accept that social workers planned to give his brother custody of his children. Hart is shown on another tape reenacting on a Gander Lake wharf how he used his shoulder to shove the girls off.

Hart’s defence lawyer argued that his client’s confession was unreliable. He said Hart needed money, was paid more than $15,000 during the Mr. Big operation and was intimidated.

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Court sides in favour of $70-million award to RCMP veterans Clawed-back payments accrue millions in interest THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA - The Federal Court has approved a multimillion-dollar class-action settlement for a group of disabled RCMP veterans whose disability payments were clawed back.

The case involved 1,056 Mounties whose long-term disabil-

ity payments were reduced by the amount of their monthly disability benefits from the Veterans Affairs Department.

The estimated value of the settlement is $70 million. That includes $30.6 million in retroactive payments, $9.1 million in interest on those payments and $30.3 million in future benefits.

The proposed agreement also means the reduction would end for all RCMP veterans

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The case was launched in 2008 by Gerard Buote, but was taken over by David White after Buote died from cancer the following year.

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lawyers said he was pleased with Tuesday’s decision.

“It ensures that the members of this class receive what they rightly deserve, and we are grateful to Gerry and David for their dedication to this cause,” Dan Wallace said in a statement.

The case was almost identical to one that a judge deemed harsh and unfair in a classaction lawsuit by military veterans, who were awarded a $887.8-million settlement after a former army sergeant took the government to court in 2007.

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The drug is a cocktail of three monoclonal antibodies, disease fighting proteins that target a specific part of an invading virus.

Sources have told The Canadian Press that two of the three monoclonal antibodies in the drug were designed at the Winnipeg laboratory.

The work was done under the leadership of Dr. Gary Kobinger who heads the special pathogens research program at the national lab.

The third monoclonal antibody in the product was developed by a U.S. government laboratory.

Rights to the Canadian-designed monoclonal antibodies have been acquired by a U.S. company called Leaf Biopharmaceutical of San Diego, Calif.

The company is partnered with Mapp Biopharmaceutical, also of San Diego, which makes the experimental therapy, called ZMapp.

Mapp Biopharma provided the drug for the treatment of Dr. Kent Brantly, who works with the relief organization Samaritan’s Purse, and Nancy Writebol, an American missionary who works with the organization Service in Mission or SIM. The two were infected at an Ebola treatment centre in Liberia, one of four countries battling this outbreak. The other three are Guinea, Sierra Leone and Nigeria.

The drug had never been tested in humans before it was given to Brantly and Writebol, but had shown favourable results when given to non-human primates infected with Ebola Zaire, the strain of the virus responsible for this outbreak.

The World Health Organization said Monday that as of Aug. 1, there have been 1,603 cases since the outbreak was first detected in early March, and 887 deaths.

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How activist investors impede energy development

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atural resource development is expensive. New projects in oil, gas, and mining all require significant capital investments and companies need to wait five to 10 years before realizing a return.

So Apache Corp.’s recent announcement that it was pulling out of the proposed Kitimat LNG project and selling its 50 per cent interest in a soon-to-becompleted Australian LNG plant, solely because of pressure from an activist investor, raises questions on the negative impact “value investing” could have on Canada’s resource development.

Apache joins companies such as Agrium, CP Rail, and Dow Chemical as companies that have been impacted by activist investors. JANA Partners, the activist investor in Apache’s case, is a “value-oriented investment advisor specializing in event-driven investing.” Through its purchase of a billion dollars worth of stock, and getting other large shareholders on side, it convinced management to divest long-term

future-paying assets inorder to free up cash that will be used to buy back shares and pay shareholders a dividend.

The problem with this strategy, for Apache shareholders, is the Wheatstone LNG project in Australia is nearly complete. Apache and its partner companies have already taken the construction risk. A company purchasing the project will not have this risk, but will gain the advantage of the billion dollars in free cash flow once it starts operating in 2016. As for Kitimat, it is being sold to focus on U.S. shale gas, an overhyped market that has more supply then demand, at a time when global LNG demand is estimated to double by 2030, led by Asian demand not U.S. growth.

Many shareholders have the view that activist investors are a panacea to unlock hidden value.

In fact, a recent paper by Lucian Bebchuk, Alon Brav, and Wei Jiang showed that stocks rose nearly 6 per cent after activist investors got involved and that the gains were not temporary.

Unfortunately, the

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study only went to 2007.

Since then a new breed of activist investors, led by companies like JANA and Pershing Square Capital Management, have come to the forefront. These companies no longer have the low-hanging-fruit of poorly managed companies to pick and are targeting large asset heavy companies, but their record is less success than their predecessors.

CP Rail is often touted as a success story for activist investors. Looking solely at earnings, it would be hard to argue against this point. Company profits rose 28 per cent after Pershing Square gained control. It claims this was done through narrowing

the efficiency gap between CP and its rivals – basically faster average train speeds, 9 per cent longer trains, and reducing the workforce by nearly 30 per cent.

In reality, the gains came from selling real estate assets, differing capital expenditures, but mostly from increased oil transportation which grew from virtually nothing to 200,000 bpd in 2013, and which is expected to rise to 700, 000 bpd by 2016. Even without the changes made

by Pershing Square, CP still would have increased profits simply by the inertia of previous management decisions.

Companies that have not heeded short-term activism of value investors have also not failed, as many think. Dow Chemical was targeted by Third Point investors who pushed for a separation of its commodity-petrochemical and specialty chemical businesses.

Dow rejected Third Point’s breakup proposal and has begun implementing modest divestitures that will allow it to improve its economic metrics at the same time as it maintains a long-

term strategy. The share price is up 20 per cent this year and over 50 per cent from a year ago.

Another example is Agrium, which successfully defeated a boardroom challenge from JANA in 2013. JANA wanted to split Agrium’s fertilizer production operations from its farm products retail unit – a short term strategy that would have adversely impacted future efficiencies. Agrium convinced shareholders its long-term strategy was the best way forward and the share price is currently up nearly 20 per cent from its 52 week low.

In the world of activist investors “cash is king” but in the real world cash reigns equally with “long-term sustainability.” Canadians should look at the example of Apache to see what can happen when short-term objectives trump long-term strategy and realize the dangers companies seeking a quick buck can make to our resource industry.

Ryan Lijdsman is a Canadian-based international business consultant.

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he 2007/08 recession trillion Canadian economy, can knocked many Canadian stimulate economic activity in a governments off the meaningful way and that there sound policy footing would be no negative conseof balanced quences from the budgets, falladditional debt ing debt levels, accumulated. and tax relief.

The analysis But after a susdoes not pretained period of scribe a particudeficit spending, lar type of defithe federal govcit spending but ernment now simply assumes seems poised charles higher overall to balance the program spendbudget. ing will produce Yet a wellthese economic Troy Media regarded instibenefits. Every tution recently dollar the govpromoted the idea that the fed- ernment borrows and spends eral government should pro- in the economy (regardless of long the deficit for three more form or purpose) is assumed years and accumulate further to generate an extra $1.50 in debt in order to stimulate eco- economic activity. nomic activity. This is not the If it were only that easy. right fiscal prescription for Deficit-financed “stimulus” Ottawa. spending hinges on several The federal government will debatable assumptions: that have run consecutive deficits borrowed money could not for seven years if it delivers better be used by the private on its current plan to balance sector, that the government the budget in 2015/16. This will spend the money effecthas led to the accumulation of ively and wisely, that it will not over $170 billion in debt since be captured by special inter2008/09, erasing past progress ests, and that government can made to pay down debt. anticipate an economic downThe argument for extending turn and enact fiscal stimulus and growing the federal deficit on a timely basis. On that last is based on an economic con- point, it is a bit odd to be callcept that assumes government ing for fiscal stimulus nearly spending produces a multi- five years after the recession. plier effect, whereby a dollar We have seen the results increase in government spend- of such Keynesian thinking ing increases overall economic before. Similar rationales were output by more than a dollar. made for delaying balanced Specifically, the claim is budgets in the 1970s, 1980s, that ongoing deficit spend- and early 1990s. The argument ing of roughly $10 billion per was that the economy was too year would increase real GDP weak and unemployment too by $15 billion and lower the high to reduce government unemployment rate by 0.4 per- spending. So when is there a centage points. This assumes good time to consolidate spendthat deficit spending of $10 ing? Waiting for the right time billion, representing 0.5 per could mean waiting forever, cent of the approximately $1.8 leading to a never-ending cycle

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A growing number of empirical studies have examined the economic effects of actual cases (not simulations) of government stimulus spending. The body of research casts serious doubt on the ability of government stimulus spending to boost economic activity.

The response from proponents of stimulus is that it’s different this time because current circumstances are not “normal” with interest rates at historic lows. But expert analysis of the most rigorous research on fiscal stimulus concludes no general consensus among economists regarding the presence of an economic multiplier of greater than one.

As for the assumption that deficit reduction will harm Canada’s economy, we only need to look at the federal government’s own experience in the late 1990s to find contrasting evidence.

The government enacted ambitious reforms in the mid1990s that led to a reduction in program spending of almost 10 per cent and eliminated a $38.5 billion deficit (5.2 per cent of GDP) which is considerably higher than the current deficit of $2.9 billion (0.1 per cent of GDP). These reforms reduced the size and scope of government, created room for important tax reductions, and ultimately helped to usher in a period of sustained economic growth and job creation.

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PEOPLE OBITUARIES FULLERTON, DEBBIE – formerly of Trail, passed away with her daughter Sarah and her sisters Gail and Cindy by her side on Friday, August 1, 2014 at Christina Lake, BC. Debbie was born in Trail, BC April 23, 1953.

Debbie loved her daughter more than anything else and was very proud of her.

She also loved spending time with her family and friends at Christina Lake.

She is survived by her daughter Sarah, her mother Jean Fullerton; her sisters Jeri (Ty), Gail (Lory) and Cindy (Dave); her sister-inlaw Karen and numerous nieces and nephews whom she loved so much. Debbie was predeceased by her father Gerry and her brother Russell.

A Celebration of Debbie’s life will be held on Thursday, August 7th at 11:30 am at the Royal Canadian Legion Hall, Trail, BC. Bill Clark of Alternatives Funeral and Cremation Services™ has been entrusted with arrangements.

As an expression of sympathy, donations in Debbie’s name may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society at 908 Rossland Avenue, Trail, BC, V1R 3N6 or online at www.cancer.ca You are invited to leave a personal message of condolence at the family’s online register at www.myalternatives.ca. *** CHENEY, ALEXINA (INEZ) E. – of Trail passed away on July 31, 2014. She was born on August 30, 1921 in Souris, Manitoba.

Inez is survived by her loving nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband Laverne Cheney.

A Memorial Service will be held on Wednesday, September 3, 2014. A detailed obituary will follow at a later date. Al Grywacheski of Alternatives Funeral and Cremation Services™ has been entrusted with arrangements.

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LONDON - U.S. action star Wesley Snipes is back on the big screen for the first time since his release from prison as he joins Sylvester Stallone and the cast of “The Expendables 3.”

Speaking ahead of the movie’s world premiere Monday, Snipes joked that Stallone had him in mind for the first “Expendables” movie but he was “just a little occupied at the time.”

“They reserved a spot for me and when the opportunity came along he reached out again and said come join us, we would like you to be a part of this.”

Snipes was sentenced to three years in prison in 2008 after failing to file income tax returns. He began his jail term in December 2010.

The movie makes reference to Snipes’ time behind bars with a tax-evasion joke in the opening scenes.

“Whether I do something really funny or really stupid, it is okay with me,” says Snipes. “I think that is what life is about. You can’t take life itself too seriously.”

“At the end of the day, nobody really cares.

You’re going to be forgotten anyway. The issues and problems that you think are like mountains that you have to deal with now, after time goes by, nobody cares.”

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Stage set for embattled mayor musical ‘Birth of a Ford Nation’ debuts in Toronto next month THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - After campaigning nearly as hard as a candidate in Toronto’s mayoral race, Sheldon Bergstrom of Prince Albert, Sask., has landed the role of Rob Ford in an upcoming new musical comedy about the city’s embattled mayor.

“I’ve been fascinated by him for a long time,” the actor-singer-comedian told The Canadian Press on Tuesday.

“All across Canada, all throughout the world, people are watching this man, this mayor of ... Canada’s greatest city, and he has managed to pull off some amazing things and pull off some crazy things in his time as mayor.”

“Rob Ford the Musical: Birth of A Ford Nation” is set to debut at Toronto’s Factory Theatre from Sept. 16 to 28.

The 90-minute show has 10 original tunes and sees a “spiritual guide” leading Ford through the past year of his tumultuous life - including his admitted drug use and stint in rehab.

Bergstrom, 42, said he was starring in the musical “Hairspray” in Edmonton when auditions for the role of Ford were held earlier this summer, so he wrote to the producers and creators “and begged them and pleaded” for an opportunity to try out.

When they agreed, he sent them “love letters” as well as a video of him singing “Mustang Sally” and what he calls “a Rob Ford version” of Amy Winehouse’s “Rehab.”

He later sent them more videos and had friends, family members and fellow actors from across Canada campaign for him via Facebook and Twitter.

Producers say he ended up winning the role over nearly 100 other hopeful actors, including one who’s starring on Broadway.

“He’s kind of like a Shakespearean cartoon character,” Bergstrom said at the Factory Theatre, wearing a Fordesque suit complete with a red tie and a handkerchief to wipe the perspiration off his forehead.

“I am so lucky to be playing him.”

Bergstrom said he was also keen on getting the part because he wanted to work on a new musical and had long been wanting to collaborate with book/lyrics writers Brett McCaig and P. Joseph Regan, as well as composer Anthony Bastianon.

The portly performer also bears a resemblance to Ford - something he’s further emphasized by cutting his brown hair short and dyeing it blond.

McCaig said that resemblance, as well as Bergstrom’s talent, got him the part.

“Sheldon has been very genuine. We looked all over Canada and we saw a ton of people and he was the perfect Rob Ford.”

Liz Gilroy directs the show, which has several other recognizable characters, including councillor brother Doug Ford and novelist Margaret Atwood.

She’ll be played by Lisa Horner, who recently made a splash as Madame Thenardier in a Toronto production of “Les Miserables.”

Bergstrom said before landing his

part, he was mostly familiar with Ford’s “dark side” - the “crazy antics” he’d catch on the news in Saskatchewan.

“Every once in a while they’ll show him exploding in the middle of a city meeting and just scaring people to death, and I would think: ‘First of all, that guy looks like me, and second of all, he’s kind of crazy, someone should write a show about him.”’

McCaig said they only recently wrote the last few pages of the script, as they were waiting to see if Ford’s life would take yet another unexpected turn.

“We’ve got the ending ... but we’re leaving room for possible antics,” he said.

He also put a “shout out” to the Ford brothers to see the show but hasn’t heard back, he added.

“I’d love Rob to come down and give the opening-night speech or the closing-night speech. This is not 90 minutes of Ford bashing. It’s a balanced look at the whole year, of all the players in it.”

Bergstrom is happy the script gives Ford “a fair shake.”

“I don’t want him to feel like he’s been picked on and made fun of. It’s not about that,” he said. “This is a musical comedy, so there’s certainly some jabs, but the best thing about the script is that nobody is safe.”

McCaig said he’s hoping the show will have an extension, and he has ambitions of going off-Broadway with the production - depending on how the mayoral race turns out.

“The story dies if Rob doesn’t get voted back in,” he said. “If Rob gets voted back in, I think we’ve got legs for a continued run, for sure.”

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President Obama hosts full house THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - Will there be “Dancing on the Ceiling” at a White House dinner for African leaders and will it go “All Night Long?”

Both are likely with award-winning singer Lionel Richie set to headline Tuesday’s formal dinner for heads of state and government representing nearly 50 African countries. The leaders are in Washington to attend President Barack Obama’s U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, which opened Monday. “Dancing on the Ceiling” and “All Night Long” are two of Richie’s hit singles.

A guest list topping out at about 400 people makes it the largest dinner to be held by Obama and first lady Michelle Obama. But as large as the White House is, it still cannot accommodate such a big group and so both the fourcourse dinner and the entertainment are being served up in a massive tent

erected on the South Lawn.

Vice-President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, who last month visited Zambia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sierra Leone, were expected to attend, along with Obama administration officials, members of the delegations accompanying the African leaders, members of Congress, U.S. business leaders and others.

“The president is looking forward to hosting them here at the White House tonight for a dinner that, at least for a brief period of time in their visit here to the United States, they won’t be focused on business and will have an opportunity to hopefully have a little bit of fun,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.

Before going to the dinner, Obama was addressing a U.S.-Africa business forum Tuesday afternoon. He is also scheduled to participate in summit meetings on Wednesday, the final day

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After guests arrive at the White House and greet Obama, they will board trolley cars and be driven down to the South Lawn. Obama will deliver a toast before the largely American dinner with hints of Africa in each course is served.

Guests will dine on chilled spiced tomato soup and socca crisps, which are made of chick peas; chopped farmstand vegetable salad, including produce from the first lady’s garden; and grilled dry-aged Wagyu beef served with chermoula, a marinade used in North African cooking, sweet potatoes and coconut milk.

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Making a teen-friendly home THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Start with amenities like a monster TV or fire pit, add a never-ending supply of munchies and a relaxed attitude toward your kids bringing home a friend - or five - and you may just find that your place has become THE place where the tweens and teens want to be.

A hangout house is often the first spot kids think to gather to work on a school project or binge on the latest Xbox game or silly YouTube videos.

“There are some houses that are sort of like magnetic,” says Dana Points, editor-in-chief of Parents magazine. “A hangout house is wellstocked, welcoming, casually decorated and not too fussy, and where there’s an adult present, but on the periphery.”

Sure, with more kids around you can count on some extra cleanup or home repairs, a louder-than-usual roar, and the expense of keeping kids in chips, cookies and (maybe even) baby carrots.

But parents who open their doors to the masses say the upsides are being able to keep tabs on their kids, getting to know their friends well and gaining a peek into their tender worlds.

“I have girls, so it’s very important to have them here,” said Tammy Smith, 48. “I felt safer with them being here. The best way to keep your kids and their friends where you can see them is to own a pool and a pool house.”

Seven years ago, she and her husband built an 8,000-square-foot home on nearly 13 acres in Trussville, Alabama, so they would have room for a heated pool and hot tub. After Friday night high school football games, her daughters would often pile in with eight or nine girls (plus boys who were eventually sent home) for a swim or sleepover. Besides swimming, the kids could play ping pong, pool or video games.

Two years ago, the Smiths added a $115,000 open-air pool house, decked out with fireplace, large TV, refrigerator, two grills and couches, to make the pool area attractive year-round.

“It’s nice to know they’re safe because they’re outside with music on, plenty of food and drink versus a movie theatre parking lot,” Smith said, adding that now, at ages 19 and 24, her daughters still regularly invite friends over.

Another hangout-house parent, Jeff Kasky, says it’s not necessarily what’s in his five-bedroom home that makes it a draw; it’s his relaxed yet not overly permissive approach.

A father of boys ages 12, 13 and 16, Kasky resides on a kid-filled cul-de-sac in a gated community in Delray Beach, Florida, with his fiancee, who has a 7-year-old daughter. The four kids enjoy having friends over, especially the two older boys.

Kids play on gaming systems or watch football on the 120-inch, high-definition TV with surround sound, enjoy the fire pit, practice musical instruments and “just lie all over the place” on couches and recliners.

“They know when they come over to our house, there’s no pretense,” Kasky says. “They can just have a good time. It’s good, clean fun.”

Since Kasky is, in his own words, a “fairly immature 46-year-old,” he gives his kids leeway to get a little rowdy as long as the antics stay positive.

“I’m not going to tell them to keep their voice down for no reason,” he said.

Supervision is crucial during the teen years, when kids may try to sneak sips of a Bud when the lights are low during a movie. Parents can subtly remind kids of their presence by throwing in a load of laundry or offering snacks.

“There are parents who, in order to be the cool house, have had to relax that rule and say as long as you are in the house you can have a drink,” Kasky said. “That’s not acceptable to me for teenagers.”

Samantha Leggat describes her home in Livermore, California, as a playground, with lots of activities for kids, like skateboarding or playing Xbox or Wii. Sometimes, when it’s just her boys, ages 12 and 14, they can’t figure out what to do - until a friend comes over. That’s how Leggat prefers it, so she knows they’re not making bad choices or in an unsupervised home.

“I’d rather they be here than anywhere else because I can be the parental person keeping an ear out,” says Leggat, 48. “I’m never hovering over them. I get to know the kids and be providing them with all the things they need.”

Leggat likes the energy of having people around and says the noise doesn’t bother her.

Smith felt the same way, though her husband was a little less tolerant of the floating pizza crusts and cookies that forced them to drain and clean the hot tub several times, or of the late-night laughter.

“I always thought it was a pleasant feeling, lying in bed and you heard all the giggling,” Smith said.

Having a hangout house is not for everyone.

“Not everybody enjoys their teenager,” Smith said. “You’ve got to want to be around them and be easygoing and still set the rules.”

Many parents who want their house to be the cool house can’t make it happen, try as they might.

“You might have a formula, but there’s some magical piece,” Points says, a “secret sauce” that’s intangible, yet needed to have a house full of other people’s kids.

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Emily MacHattie married Benjamin Crook at First Presbyterian Church in Trail on July 26. Emily is the daughter of Lorraine Webber and Robb MacHattie of Trail. Ben is the son of Bill Crook of Vancouver and Betty Jean Crook of Winnipeg. Family, friends and beautiful weather made it a perfect day. The couple resides in Vancouver and honeymooned in Phoenix.

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Selkirk College instructor helping build peace Selkirk College NELSON – Peace seems more distant than ever in Israel, but Selkirk College instructor Denis Kleine is forging ahead with a project he hopes will act as a symbol of what can be achieved in the future.

Bloodshed and tension rises daily in the Gaza Strip as Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas continue the conflict that has taken a terrible toll on the region.

With no end in sight to the struggle, earlier this month Kleine headed to the Middle East to get started on a sculpture project that promotes peace.

“When you look around the world there has been so much tension in that region seemingly forever,” says Kleine, who is the Metal Casting Instructor at Selkirk’s Nelson-based Kootenay Studio Arts.

“It just seemed like a logical place to start.”

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ed the sculpture Peace Symbol which was installed at the West Kootenay Regional

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Since the popular sculpture was installed, Kleine has wanted to expand the reach of the meaning and artistry of the piece by creating a series of Peace Symbol sculptures around the world. In the spring— prior to the recent explosion of strife in the Gaza Strip— Kleine got started on the project that would see a 12-foot version of Peace Symbol created for installation in Israel.

“This has been on my mind for a long time and I just couldn’t wait any longer,” says Kleine.

To make the project a reality, Kleine recruited Israeli sculptor Gadi Fraiman and Dutch sculptor Marielle Heessels to join him in making the $150,000 project a reality.

Turning it up a notch, the sculpture team has decided to include at least 40 hand casts of actual Israeli and Palestinian residents to bring a more authentic symbol to life. In middle July, Kleine traveled to Israel to meet with Fraiman and Heessels to get started.

Arriving only weeks after the most recent rise in hostilities in the Gaza Strip, the team got to work on finding willing participants who wanted to take part in the lasting beacon of peace. Despite the images seen on television around the world, Kleine says it wasn’t difficult to find both Israeli and Palestinians who wanted to be involved.

“Our first stop was Tel Aviv where we just started visiting coffee shops and telling people about the project,” says Kleine.

“So many people willingly stepped forward.

Casting the hands is a bit of a process and it became like performance art, it was a really cool experience.”

Heading into the Palestinian-controlled West Bank was a bit more of a challenge and the sculpture team was warned by some not to venture into the contentious territory.

Undaunted, Kleine and his colleagues ventured into Bethlehem and beyond where they were met with equally

open arms.

“I never really felt unsafe or in danger,” says Kleine. “I think there is more danger walking across the street in Nelson during a busy summer day.”

Over the 10-day period the three sculptors managed to cast 20 hands which will be used in the final sculpture. Kleine says he will need to return to Israel to complete the rest on a future trip.

Ultimately the sculpture team would like to see Peace Symbol placed in the small community of Neve Shalom which is a cooperative village midway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem

have a story to be told.

And even the experiences we’ve had so far, we’ve had a lot of doors closed, but a lot more doors opened. I think in the end more people will gravitate towards this and there will be more open doors which means more dialogue around peace.”

His optimism to bring small change through sculpture is not matched by a realistic view of what can be accomplished in the troubled region he witnessed first-hand.

Kleine says the depth of the turmoil in Israel and Palestine is far too complex for most people, including himself, to grasp.

An artistic rendering of the Peace Symbol which Nelson artist Denis Kleine (left) hopes will be placed in a small village in Israel upon completion. that was jointly founded in 1969 by Israeli Jews and PalestinianIsraeli Arabs. Meaning “Oasis of Peace,” Neve Shalom is an attempt to show that two peoples can live sideby-side peacefully.

With the sculpture still in its early stages, Kleine says financial support is required to get it to its final state.

He has launched an Indiegogo campaign to help raise the needed funds which will allow for the completion of Peace Symbol.

“I believe in this project, so the idea is to get it going and I feel in my heart that the money will come,” says Kleine.

More determined than ever to make it happen, Kleine says his experience in Israel and Palestine has added new meaning to the project.

“It now has energy of its own,” he says.

“All the people that are involved in getting their hands cast all

“I’m an eternal optimist so I think anything is possible,” says Kleine. “But there are so many questions and it is so complex… I’m just not sure. I think the average person on both sides want peace, but it is ultimately not going to be up to them.”

For more information on the Peace Symbol Project go to peacesymbolproject.moonfruit.com.

To donate to the Indiegogo campaign head to indigogo.com and search “Peace Symbol Project.”

To find out more about programs and opportunities at Kootenay Studio Arts at Selkirk College head to selkirk.ca. There are still seats available in the Sculptural Metal, Textiles, Ceramics and Jewelry studio programs.

For more information please contact: Denis Kleine Selkirk College Metal Casting Instructor at 825-0076.

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From top: Trail organizer Wayne Florko handed out the hardware at the B.C. Senior Men’s Baseball championship presenting Lea Wilman with the George Connelly Memorial Award for her contribution to senior baseball over the years, and to MVP of the tournament Luc Simpson who scored the winning run in the final match. (Right photo) Florko then awarded the provincial championship trophy to Trail native Pat Brown (on left) and the rest of the Kamloops Sun Devils.

BY JIM BAILEY

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The B.C. Senior Men’s baseball championship final between the Kamloops Sun Devils and the Langley Blaze on Monday was a thrilling combination of ‘Iliad’ and ‘Odyssey’, a heated battle combined with a long, challenging journey, in what was an epic conclusion to the provincial tournament at Butler Park.

The Kamloops Sun Devils would emerge from the glowing twilight dust of a five-hour long, 15 inning marathon with the Langley Blaze with a 5-4 victory to win the Senior Men’s provincial title, and advance to the Canadian championship.

“We never (played) this many innings for this magnitude that I can remember,” said Sun Devils coach Ray Chadwick. “I got a bunch of kids that have a lot of heart, as you can see. We got down and we kept battling, kept battling – that’s a lot of heart.”

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another scoreless eight innings, before Adam Halland’s single over short in the bottom of the 15th inning brought home Luc Simpson to end the match.

Simpson, the tournament MVP, led off with a single up the middle, and advanced to second on a Yoshi Nakamara bunt.

A well-executed hit-and-run by Blayne Halland put Simpson on third to set up the final showdown between Blaze’s PWB MVP pitcher Jesse Peters and Adam Halland.

The Kamloops short stop would then line a two out, 1-1 pitch into shallow left to score Simpson and end the game.

“We missed some chances and we didn’t execute a couple times, but we got it done eventually.”

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“Pat was hurt the whole time but he still gives 110 per cent, and Strach has been hurt, but a couple of great kids. I gotta get more Trail guys,” said Chadwick.

Brown and Stachan started the final game against Langley with Brown at second base and Strachan as the designated hitter.

“It feels great,” said Brown after the win. “We came shy the last couple of years to the exact same team. It went to game two and to end like that, in 15 innings, it is just unreal to end on a walk off hit, you just can’t explain how it feels.”

For Strachan defeating their historic nemesis at home made it even better.

“It is definitely sweeter at home, in front of your hometown crowd,” said Strachan.

“We grew up playing here so winning the B.C. Championship at home is a pretty big thing for me.”

The Sun Devils and the Blaze went undefeated through the round robin, but

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Langley began its play at 8 a.m. Monday morning, beating Coquitlam 4-2 before taking the first tilt against Kamloops in a 1-0 seventh-inning victory.

In the second and deciding match, the teams were tied 3-3 through three innings and it would stay that way until Langley took a 4-3 lead in the top of the seventh and looked poised to win. However, the Sun Devils were able to manufacture the tying run on a sacrifice fly by Evan Douglas to deep centrefield that would plate Brown from third sending it to extra innings.

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Mickelson shines in PGA practice round Canadians falter Tennis

Associated Press Phil Mickelson will be the first to admit he’s a bit streaky.

Sure, it’s been more than a year since his last victory, then he goes and makes 10 birdies while shooting 62 on the final day at Firestone.

Just like that, Lefty is being mentioned as one of the

favourites at the PGA Championship.

Can he keep it up?

Mickelson has no idea.

“If I could answer that question, it would be a lot easier,” he said Tuesday after a practice round. “It’s been 20-plus years and things are just that way. Rather than question it or try to find an answer, I just accept it

as being the way it is.”

Mickelson hasn’t had a lot of fun since winning the British Open nearly 13 months ago. He failed to crack the top 20 at any of the last four majors. His highest finish on the PGA Tour is 11th. His putting got so shaky that he experimented with a claw grip during the U.S. Open at

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“It would be out of nowhere for me to play well,” he grumbled just last Saturday.

The very next day, Mickelson put up his lowest round since the 2013 Phoenix Open.

“It’s just kind of the way I play golf,” he said.

“I’m streaky. I’ll get on rolls and get some good momentum, and all of a sudden the hole looks huge. Then there are days where it’s the opposite.”

More than anyone, Mickelson realizes the way he was feeling just a few days ago may be gone by the time he tees off.

“In this game, things can turn around, really, in an instant,” he said. “I’m interested to see how it goes Thursday and Friday. But certainly my confidence level and my practice sessions are totally different.”

At 44, he can no longer keep up with big hitters like Keegan Bradley and Rickie Fowler, who joined Lefty for Tuesday’s practice round.

Someone asked Mickelson what it felt like to go against players who grew up idol-

izing him.

“Just makes me feel old, that’s all,” he said, smiling.

Mickelson has another goal this week besides winning.

He’s played his way onto every Ryder Cup team since making his first in 1995, but he’s 10th in the points heading into the final event before the top nine spots are determined. If he doesn’t move up, he’ll have to rely on being one of three picks by captain Tom Watson.

Mickelson would prefer to claim his place without Watson’s help.

“I’m confident that I’ll get on the team on my own and won’t require that pick,” Lefty said.

A win would remove any doubt.

It also would end Mickelson’s longest drought since 2003.

“Ideally, you want to have some momentum through the course of the year, through the course of the month heading into big tournaments,” he said.

Of course, Mickelson is never quite sure how things will turn out.

“You don’t want to put too much emphasis,” Mickelson said, “on just one round.”

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THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - Good times in Canadian tennis were rolling, right up until play started at the Rogers Cup on Tuesday.

One by one, three of the five Canadian men in the field bowed out of the tournament, as Vasek Pospisil lost to Richard Gasquet, Frank Dancevic fell to Donald Young and Brayden Schnur was defeated by Andreas Seppi.

Pospisil, who reached the final of the Citi Open on Sunday before losing to fellow Canadian Milos Raonic, was hampered by a right leg injury and fell 7-5, 7-5 to Gasquet in a rematch from last week.

“I think I’m just a little bit tired mentally, maybe,” Pospisil said. “Just been on the road a lot of weeks. You need to be a 100 per cent at this level if you’re playing against Richard. I wasn’t feeling a 100 per cent today.”

Adding injury to insult on a rough day for Canadian tennis, Pospisil was set to have an MRI on abductor injury, which also forced him to withdraw from doubles play. The Vancouver native was set to team up with American Jack Sock to face Gasquet and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who advanced on a walkover.

Pospisil said he had been bothered by the “strange feeling” in his leg off and on for a few weeks but didn’t think it would be a long-term problem that would keep him out of next week’s event in Cincinnati or the U.S. Open.

As a home-country fan favourite, the crowd was understandably behind Pospisil as he gutted through the injury.

“He has an extra motivation because it’s being home,” Gasquet said. “It’s the same when I’m playing in France.”

The loss drops Pospisil out of the top 40 of the ATP rankings. He had been 27th, just short of his career-best ranking of 25th.

“He has no weaknesses,” Gasquet said of Pospisil. “He has a very big forehand, very big serve, so it’s always tough for me to play against these kind of players. ... I know it’s a difficult opponent for me, but I played a good match.”

Out of doubles, Sock got some extra time to rest up for his next singles match, which will be against the sixth-seeded Raonic on Wednesday night. Sock beat Austrian Jurgen Melzer 6-1, 6-3.

Raonic beat Sock, a Nebraska native, in straight sets at Wimbledon and then again last week at the Citi Open in Washington.

“I’m definitely excited for tomorrow,” Sock said. “The juices will be flowing. He got me in my home country last week, so I’m going to try to maybe get some revenge.”

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Penguins re-sign Sutter THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PITTSBURGH - The Pittsburgh Penguins have re-signed forward Brandon Sutter.

General manager Jim Rutherford announced Tuesday that Sutter agreed to a two-year deal that will average $3.3 million per season. The 25-year-old Sutter has

been a fixture on the third line since he was acquired in a 2012 trade that sent popular centre Jordan Staal to Carolina.

Sutter had 13 goals and 13 assists in 81 games for the Penguins in 2013-14. The former first-round pick has 77 goals and 75 assists in six seasons.

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Canadian couple detained in China for spying Son confused over allegations against parents THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - A Canadian couple detained in China on suspicion of stealing state secrets about the country’s military spend their days running a coffee shop and have never been in a position to gain access to classified government information, their son said Tuesday.

Kevin Garratt, 54, and Julia Dawn Garratt, 53, who have lived and worked in China for the past 30 years, were out for dinner with friends in the city of Dandong, near the border with North Korea, when they were detained Monday night.

“As of right now my parents are being held in an undisclosed location. I have heard that they’re safe but they’re just a bit confused.

They actually have no idea what’s going on,” Simeon Garratt told The Canadian Press in an interview from Vancouver.

The 27-year-old said his younger

brother, who lives in Dandong, was told of his parents’ detention

by Chinese authorities and instructed to bring spare clothes and toiletries for them on Tuesday, but wasn’t allowed to speak with the couple.

“He was brought in for questioning and that was relayed to him. He didn’t get to talk to them. (Officials) said ‘maybe later,”’ Garratt said, adding that the allegations against his parents weren’t explained to the family.

China’s official Xinhua News Agency has reported that the couple are being investigated by the state security bureau on suspicion of stealing state secrets about the country’s military and national defence research.

The accusations come just a few days after the Canadian government blamed Chinese hackers for infiltrating computers at the National Research Council of Canada, something Bejing has vehemently denied.

The fresh allegations in China have led to much bewilderment

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Unknown drug kills two at music festival tHE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - Toronto police are trying to determine what drugs may have been consumed by two people who died and 13 others who were sickened at a weekend music festival, but some of the recovering victims are not even sure what they took.

A 20-year-old woman and a 22-year-old man who attended the Veld Music Festival in Downsview Park died after it’s believed they took party drugs purchased at the concert, police said.

Investigators had earlier urged anyone who may have bought drugs at the festival to hand them over so experts can analyze the substances. A small brown pill and a small clear capsule containing a white substance have been turned in, but police are still urging others to come forward.

“I need to get my hands on these pills so I can get them tested,” Det.-Sgt. Peter Trimble said at a news conference Tuesday.

The 13 people who fell ill at the concert are expected to make full recoveries and some have already been released from hospital, he said. But it’s not yet clear what all of them consumed, Trimble said.

“Unfortunately some of these people didn’t even know what they were taking,” he said. “We had some people taking upwards of 10 pills, some people picking up pills on the ground.”

Several of the recovering victims reported having seizures, as well as a “general feeling of unwellness,” becoming pale and feeling faint, Trimble said. Police are hoping toxicology tests on the two victims will provide a cause of death.

among the couple’s children.

“At this point it just seems like my parents are getting caught up in something that’s a whole lot bigger than them,” said Garratt, who grew up in China.

“My parents basically run a coffee shop, my mum taught some courses at the university there, and they’ve done some human aid work in North Korea, but nothing ever detrimental or negative towards China, or anything like that.”

The couple has lived in Dandong since 2008, running Peter’s Coffee Shop, located within sight of a bridge which leads to North Korea.

They offer weekly sessions in their cafe where customers can come practice English, according to the coffee shop’s website.

“They’ve been there for a long time and everything they’ve

done has always been above board,” Garratt said of his parents. “It’s not like they’d ever try to push the limits or get around the system.”

A spokesman for the department of foreign affairs said Canadian officials are in contact with local Chinese authorities and are providing assistance to the detained couple.

Garratt added that government officials had told him a Canadian consular official in Dandong was expected to be able to meet with his parents on Wednesday.

The biggest immediate concern for the couple’s children is how long their parents might be detained.

“The Chinese government has the ability to detain people for months at a time without really giving any answer,” Garratt explained, adding that

he was also eager to find out just what sort of conditions his parents were being held in.

At least one observer said there is a possibility the Garratts might be detained for weeks or months, not days, as Chinese and Canadian officials negotiate.

“Time is required to solve these issues,” said Gordon Houlden, director of the University of Alberta’s China Institute, who spent years working in the country for the Canadian government.

The offence of stealing state secrets is a serious crime in China, said Houlden, noting that the allegations against the Garratts came as a surprise to him.

“These people living on the North Korean border have been there for a very long time. They’re operat-

ing a coffee shop... this would not appear to be the profile of people who might be attempting to purloin military secrets,” he said, emphasizing that he did not personally know the couple or the specifics of their case.

The timing of the Garratts’ detention, is noteworthy, Houlden said, as it comes on the heels of Canada’s accusations that China hacked into a government agency’s computers.

“If these people were an annoyance or a hindrance to the Chinese, they would have been lots of ways quietly they could have dealt with them - not renew their visas, send them home,” said Houlden. “But to bring forth these tremendously serious charges, is unusual and of concern.”

Likely the best way to secure the couple’s

release would be for discreet diplomatic negotiations out of the public spotlight, said Houlden.

“Both sides, I suspect, will want to find ways in which they can deal with these issues in a quiet manner,” he said.

The detention of the Garratts, as well as the cyber hacking incident come at a time when Prime Minister Stephen Harper is planning a possible state visit to China in November, coinciding with his attendance at an Asian economic summit in Beijing at the end of that month.

Canada and China have also already been wrestling with several thorny issues, such as Ottawa’s delay in signing an investment treaty with China and new Canadian rules imposed on stateowned foreign investors.

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and attributed my dizziness and inability to focus to a hectic schedule. I became terrified that my inability to compete was a result of laziness, so I started running. About 10 minutes in, everything went black. I collapsed on the ground, but no one saw, and I didn’t tell. But it made me realize my actions were spiraling out of control, and I finally sought help from my family doctor.

It took years to undo the damaging behavior that had developed in a few short months, and those thoughts still nag at me today.

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Now I need advice.

My husband admits he may have a “little bit of depression,” but sees no need to change. It is everyone else’s problem if they don’t like the way he is. He saw counselors twice and complained that neither of them listened to him.

It is difficult to live under the cloud of an unpredictable, often angry man. He has problems at work and has switched jobs three times in the past eight years because he is “never appreciated, management is the problem, they don’t know what they are doing.” He has estranged his family.

It is sad, frustrating and emotionally painful to live with him.

Unless a person wants help, no one can force him to get it. Any solutions? -- His Wife, Too Dear Wife: You can try talking to his doctor (or leaving a message for him) about the

depression and anger and asking about an antidepressant. Beyond that, however, you might consider counseling for yourself so that you can cope better with a situation that is making you so unhappy.

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Life is the best gift anyone could give. -- S. Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar.

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are diagnosed, simply because people refuse to speak up if they see that something is wrong. Those few words from my coach helped me realize that I had a problem, freeing me from the firm grasp of denial. If you or someone you know may be suffering from an eating disorder, please reach out to a qualified mental health professional immediately.

Losing a few pounds can quickly spiral into losing a life without the proper treatment. -Recovered in Nebraska Dear Nebraska: Thank you for writing.

We are sure you have helped more people than you realize. If you recognize yourself or someone else in this letter, we hope you will contact the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders at anad.org.

Dear Annie: “His Wife” said her depressed husband was a changed man after proper medication. That is my story

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Dear Annie: During the middle of my freshman year in high school, I was in the midst of training for my first real track season. My winter workouts gradually gained intensity, and my food intake gradually started to drop. Initially, the more weight I lost the easier it became to complete tough workouts. With that mentality, I slipped into the world of anorexia nervosa, thinking that eating less and exercising more would translate to success in athletics.

I struggled with the disorder in silence for months, dropping from 130 to 98 pounds on my 5-foot-7 frame. I’d eat a granola bar for breakfast, run five miles in 100-degree heat and then fall asleep in an attempt to ignore the hunger pangs.

The only person who ever directly confronted me about my weight loss was my volleyball coach. I lied about how “I was fine”

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Leisure

YourByhoroscope Francis Drake For Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Others notice you today.

Perhaps this is because you are fundraising for a worthy cause or sharing what you can with someone in need.

This is a noble impulse.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) If you are in negotiations with others today, make sure you stand up for your own best interests. Don’t give away the farm or fall for a sob story.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You will be happy to help someone on the job today, because it feels right. You might even lead the way for others to join your efforts to benefit someone.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Look for ways to express your creativity today. You will enjoy admiring the work of others. However, it will be hard to rev your engine in

competitive sports.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22)

At home, there is increased activity and chaos this month. Today in particular, you feel genuinely sympathetic to a family member or a loved one.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Although you will talk directly to others today, you will be understanding and patient. This is an excellent combination for important communication.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) If spending money today, you will be tempted by glorious luxury! If you can afford it, fine. But don’t go into debt for something you don’t need.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) You will feel gratified if you can help others today, and ironically, you will.

Expect to be in a position to extend someone a favor or help someone in need.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Secret activities that are behind the scenes have your attention today. (This could include clandestine love affairs.) But you also might want to spy on someone.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) You will use your energy to encourage others to work for a charitable organization today. You see a need to be filled, and you know how to

get others to act with you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18)

Although your ambition is aroused, you are not ruthless today. Far from it.

Instead, you will use your influence with people in authority to help someone.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Because your appreciation of beauty is heightened, give yourself a chance to enjoy parks, galleries, muse-

ums and beautiful places. If you can help someone from another culture, you will.

YOU BORN TODAY You have wonderful social skills, and you enjoy the company of others. Many of you are attracted to secret events or undercover work. You are clever and funny, especially if you can discover hidden information about others.

This is a year of growth and testing. You might build or construct something that is

DILBERT

TUNDRA

ANIMAL CRACKERS

MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM

BROOMHILDA

HAGAR

BLONDIE

SALLY FORTH

a poor. Do not make major changes -- not yet.

Birthdate of: Jimmy Wales, Internet entrepreneur; Brit Marling, actress; David Duchovny, actor.

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Lost & Found FOUND: 10ft.x4� PVC pipe on highway near Shavers Bench.

Please call 250-364-0968 Lost Keys 3 Total. 1 key chain lost in or around Safeway July 29th. Please return to the Trail Times office.

Employment Business Opportunities The Butcher Block Meat and Deli In Christina Lake is for sale.

Great business with reasonable lease.

Owners retiring. $49,900 Call 250-447-9559 Evening 250-447-9323

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We are looking to ďŹ ll the position for a Mechanical Designer Technologist with 1-5 years of experience.

The position will focus on signiďŹ cant 2D & 3D drafting, drawing detailing and design work.

A detailed description for the position can by accessed at: http://www.iodesign.ca/designer.html To apply, please submit your resume to jobs@iodesign.ca. This job posting closes on August 19, 2014

Cards of Thanks

Cards of Thanks

Thank You In Memory of

Enrico (Bric) Bisaro

The family of the late Enrico (Bric) Bisaro wishes to express their appreciation to those who have offered their support, comfort and sent messages of sympathy in our bereavement.

We especially wish to thank the many people who offered masses, food, flowers and made donations to the Canadian Cancer Society and the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital in Bric’s memory.

We also want to thank the many people form out of town who travelled to attend from Bric’s funeral.

Last, but not least, least, to to Dr. Dr.Hill, Hii, Dr. Scotland and our very special Home Nursing Care, Teresa and Mary and Trail Home Support Workers - We thank you very much for all your care. It meant more than words can say.

Anna Bisaro and the Bisaro Family.

A Keepsake for a Lifetime Receive a 2x3 birth included announcement for only $3000 GST

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Deadline: 2 days prior to publication by 11am.

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Apply at in person with resume to Benedict’s Steakhouse Scho¿eld +iJhway 7rail 250-368-3360 An Alberta Oilfield Company is hiring experienced dozer and excavator operators, meals and lodging provided. Drug testing required. 1-(780)7235051.

BARTENDER, FULL-TIME. Serving It Right & Food Safe required. Drop resumes at Rex Hotel, Trail. No phone calls.

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

WASH BAY ATTENDANT/DELIVERY DRIVER Kootenay Chrysler in Trail, BC is looking for someone to work part-time in our busy wash bay who is also capable of performing customer shuttles and parts deliveries.

This position is intended to be permanent part-time, 3 days per week with the days possibly changing week to week.

We are looking for a presentable, personable, physically ďŹ t team oriented person with a valid full drivers license (no ‘N’ please). Must be able to operate both manual and automatic transmission vehicles.

Please fax resume, Attention:Jackie, to 250.368.8254 or email jackie@kootenaychrysler.com. (no phone calls please)

WANTED

PAPER CARRIERS Excellent exercise, fun for all ages.

Fruitvale

Genelle

Montrose

Route 362 20 papers 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Evergreen Ave Route 366 18 papers Beaver St, Maple Ave Route 369 15 papers Birch Ave, Johnson Rd, Redwood Dr, Rosewood Dr Route 375 12 papers Green Rd & Lodden Rd Route 379 18 papers Cole St, Nelson Ave Route 380 23 papers Galloway Rd, Mill Rd Route 381 7 papers Coughlin Rd Route 382 7 papers Debruin Rd & Staats Rd Route 384 19 papers Cedar Ave, Kootenay

Route 303 15 papers 12th Ave, 2nd St, Grandview Route 304 13 papers 12th & 14th Ave

Route 341 24 papers 10th Ave, 8th Ave, 9th Ave Route 344 17 papers 10th Ave, 9th Ave Route 345 12 papers 10th Ave, 9th Ave Route 347 16 papers 10th Ave, 9th Ave, 9th St Route 348 19 papers 12th Ave, Christie Rd Route 346 27 papers 8th, 9th & 10th Ave Route 340 24 papers 10th Ave, 7th St, 8th St

West Trail Route 149 7 papers Binns St, McAnally St, Kitchener Ave

Warfield Route 195 12 papers Blake Crt,Whitman Way

Sunningdale Route 211 26 papers Hazelwood Dr, Olivia Cres, Viola Cres.

Route 219 15 papers Hazelwood Drive

Rossland

CARRIERS NEEDED FOR ROUTES IN ALL AREAS

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Help Wanted

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Apt/Condo for Rent

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House for Sale

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

TRAIL, spacious 1&2bdrm. apartment. Adult building, perfect for seniors/ professionals.

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

FIVE Full Time, Permanent Housekeeping Room Attendants required by 611017 BC Ltd DBA Holiday Inn Express in Golden-Kicking Horse, BC Compensation: $14.00 hourly, 40 hours per week Education: High School Experience in related field an asset; Job Duties: Make beds, clean/disinfect bathroom/fixtures, Stock linen closet and supplies area, Vacuum carpets and mop floors. Wash windows, pick up debris and remove trash from units, Provide information on facilities and handle complaints. Location: Mail- PO Box 1462, 1120 14th St, Golden, BC V0A 1HO E-mail: gm@hiexgolden.com Fax: 1-250-344-4665 P/T Medical Laboratory Technologist LifeLabs, Kimberley Duties: performing routine hematology, coagulation and miscellaneous hematology testing. May perform Urinalysis testing. Evaluates quality control materials. Processes and releases accurate patient results. Req.: CSMLS registered. Experience preferred. If interested, please apply at: www.lifelabs.com **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

Retail ARDENE is looking for Sales Associates at Waneta Plaza.

Apply online at www.ardenecareers.com YVS at Waneta Plaza requires a part-time sales associate.

Apply in person or email crockett@shaw.ca

Trades, Technical NELSON’S Glass Ltd., located in the sunny North Okanagan Valley, is looking for a full time ticketed auto glass installer. Drivers license is required and glazing experience is an asset. Email inquiries/resume to nelsonsglass@telus.net

Sunningdale, Trail

Reasonably priced in a very desirable area.

Property has a nice private backyard with a garden area for the green thumb.

Super neighbours in an area of both young families and retirees. Nearby park, wonderful walking trails, and just steps from public transit. Newly refinished wood flooring in all three bedrooms and the living room. Gas furnace for cost effective winter heating and an oversized carport for the car. Laundry downstairs in partial basement. Low maintenance metal roof and vinyl siding both in good condition.

E.TRAIL, 1&2bdrm. apts. F/S, Coin-op laundry available.

250-368-3239 Francesco Estates, Glenmerry. Adults only. N/P, N/S, 1-3 bdrms. Phone 250.368.6761.

PARKSIDE APARTMENTS. Large 1bdrm., insuite laundry, AC, secure quiet building. Call Richard 250-368-7897 TRAIL, 2BDRM. Glenmerry.

Newly reno’d, perfect for senior, no stairs. N/P. Utilities included. 250-368-1312.

3 Bdrm.

Avail Now

HOUSECLEANER, experienced, reliable. Also, will clean move-outs. References. Call Candy 250-368-6191

Merchandise for Sale Firewood/Fuel Firewood, you cut. Birch, larch, fir, cedar. $70 per cord.

250-368-6076 / 250-367-0274

Misc. for Sale A- STEEL SHIPPING DRY STORAGE CONTAINERS Used 20’40’45’ 53’ and insulated containers all sizes in stock.

SPECIAL Trades are welcome.

40’ Containers under $2500!

DMG 40’ containers under $2,000 each.

Also JD 544 &644 wheel Loaders Wanted to buy 300 size hydraulic excavator Ph Toll free 1-866-528-7108 Delivery BC and AB www.rtccontainer.com Blue Jays in Seattle Aug. 11 Section-115 Row-31 Seats 8-9 $100obo Call 250-364-8502

Misc. Wanted Collector Buying Coin Collections, Native Art, Estates, Gold, Silver + 250-499-0251

WWW.COLDWELLBANKERTRAIL.COM New Price! $299,900

300 Acres e Sub dividabl

$OLD!

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Rossland 299,900

Rossland $OLD!

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Offer Pend

Rossland 998,000

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1 Bdrm Furn

$195,000

Trail 115,000

250-498-7585 cell 250-498-3519 res

Marie-Claude

FRUITVALE, large 3 bedroom home close to amenities. 250367-9770 FRUITVALE, older 3bdrm, Laurel Avenue, incl. extra lot.

210k. 250-367-7436

Rentals Apt/Condo for Rent

MLS#

Rossland $ 59,900

$

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Marie-Claude

MLS#

2395984

Marie-Claude

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New Price! $105,000

Mobile Homes & Parks ROSSLAND, 2 new 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom modular homes in Rossland Paradise MHP, from $64,900. includes net GST. Rick 250-254-7997, Kim 250-512-1222.

Rossland 199,900

$

Brand New Carrier Routes are coming available in Trail!

The Trail Times is looking for newspaper carriers to deliver The Advertiser once a week, on Thursdays.

Contact Michelle today to find out what routes are available near you!

Bella Vista, Shavers Bench Townhomes. N/S, N/P. 2-3 bdrms. Phone 250.364.1822 Edgewater Townhouse Glenmerry, 3bd, f/s, $850./mo.

Long-term only. 250-368-5908

Warfield 144,900

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Private

250.368.8551 ex. 206 Fruitvale 194,000

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Rhonda

Fruitvale 279,000

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Rhonda

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Rhonda

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Rhonda

Fruitvale 139,900

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Warfield $OLD

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Rob

10 Acres

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Salmo 189,900

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Nathan Kotyk 250-231-9484

Rob Burrus 250-231-4420

Rhonda van Tent 250-231-7575

Marie Claude Germain 250-512-1153

Jack McConnachie 250-368-5222

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4 OUT OF 5 PEOPLE WITH DIABETES DIE OF HEART DISEASE.

WARFIELD APARTMENTS. 1&2-bdrm, N/S, N/P. Long term tenants. 250-368-5888 W.TRAIL, 2Bdrm. in 4-plex., enclosed parking. $575./mo.

250-551-1106

Mobile Homes & Pads 14 WIDE 2bd. trailer w/additions on 1acre. Avail. Sept.15. $800. plus utilities. References required. 250-693-2107

Homes for Rent E.TRAIL, 2bdrm., full basement, F/S, W/D, N/S, N/P. $850./mo. 250-365-9306, 250365-5003 E.TRAIL, Exec.style home, 2bd, 1bth. Gas-BBQ, F/S, D/W, W/D, N/S, N/P. Ref.req. $1000/mo +util. 250-231-6768 TRAIL, 2bdrm., full basement, garage, nice view. F/S, W/D, N/S, N/P. $850. 250-365-5003

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Better your odds.

Visit getserious.ca

Recreational/Sale Castlegar 1997 Chev 3/4 T super deluxe, 1994 24 1/2 Ft Rustier 5 Wheel good shape 250-365-5521 or 304-3115 3005 - 5th Ave

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Montrose $199,000

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Shavers Bench $179,900

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Glenmerry $254,900 G TIN LIS

Montrose $249,500 W NE

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Rivervale $154,000

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Salmo $229,000

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Rossland $279,000

Emerald Ridge $100,000 T EA N GR ATIO C LO

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East Trail $169,900 E LU VA AT E GR

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Glenmerry $195,000

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Salmo $88,900

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Trail $135,000

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Wayne DeWitt........... ext 25 cell: 250-368-1617 Mario Berno ..............ext 27 cell: 250.368.1027 Tom Gawryletz .........ext 26 cell: 250.368.1436 Dawn Rosin...............ext 24 cell: 250.231.1765 Thea Stayanovich.....ext 28 cell: 250.231.1661

Fred Behrens ............ext 31 cell: 250.368.1268 Keith DeWitt .............ext 30 cell: 250.231.8187 Denise Marchi ..........ext 21 cell: 250.368.1112 Joy DeMelo ...............ext 29 cell: 250.368.1960

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KELOWNA

2153 Springfield Road (250) 860-2600

VERNON

200-3107 - 48th Ave. (250) 542-3000

PENTICTON

ANDRES CAR AUDIO WEST KELOWNA 1881 Harvey Avenue (250) 860-1975

ANDRES WIRELESS

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101-2601 Skaha Lake Rd. (250) 493-3800

VERNON

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KAMLOOPS

101-2601 Skaha Lake Rd. 200-3107 - 48th Ave. (250) 493-3800 (250) 542-3000

#200 - 2180 Elk Rd. (250) 707-2600

KELOWNA

2153 Springfield Road (250) 860-2600

Villiage Green Mall (250) 542-1496

PENTICTON

ANDRES WIRELESS Cherry Lane Mall (250) 493-4566

KELOWNA

#200 - 2180 Elk Rd. (250) 707-2600

2153 Springfield Road (250) 860-2600

WEST KELOWNA #200 - 2180 Elk Rd. (250) 707-2600

745 Notre Dame Drive (250) 851-8700

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200-3107 - 48th Ave. (250) 542-3000

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CASTLEGAR

Aberdeen Mall (250) 377-8880

CRANBROOK

215 - 450 Lansdowne Mall (250) 377-8007

200-1965 Columbia Ave. 101 Kootenay St. North (250) 365-6455 (250) 426-8927

TELUS KIOSK

NELSON

Chahko Mika Mall (250) 352-7258

300 St. Paul Str. (250) 377-3773

KELOWNA

2153 Springfield Road (250) 860-2600

154 Victoria Str (250) 314-9944

WEST KELOWNA #200 - 2180 Elk Rd. (250) 707-2600

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b.V. rec The Beaver Valley Chito-Ryu Dojo held a Karate Demonstration for the kids at the Beaver Valley Summer Parks Program on Tuesday. The program wraps up on Thursday after a very successful summer at the parks in Fruitvale and Montrose. B.V. Rec’s Karate Dojo is preparing for their inaugural B.V. Karate championship which will be held Oct. 4. To register for the upcoming season (starting Sept. 8th) and train with the 2014 provincial Kata silver medalist and weapons Kata gold medalist, call Kelly at B.V. recreation 367 9319.

The Local Experts™ ASE FOR LE

KOOTENAY HOMES INC.

WE CAN SELL YOUR HOME. NOBODY HAS THE RESOURCES WE DO!

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

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Updated and very clean space in downtown core. Security system, air conditioned, and great access to bring in large items. In an area of long standing businesses with good foot traffic.

Call Mark (250) 231-5591

Call Art (250) 368-8818

mark.wilson@century21.ca

Terry Alton

2099 Third Avenue, Rossland

$259,000

250-231-1101 229 2nd Ave, Rivervale

This very well kept building has been used since 1986 as a house of worship.

Alternate uses include a day care, or contractor’s office .There is ample yard space for a contractor and room to construct a shop building or light industrial yard.

Breathtaking one-of-a-kind riverfront lot!

Build your dream home and garage/shop on this beautiful property on the banks of the Columbia River! This one will not last, see it today!

Call Richard (250) 368-7897

Call Terry 250-231-1101

$130,000

terryalton@shaw.ca

Tonnie Stewart

250-365-9665

tonniestewart@shaw.ca

Jodi Beamish

STING NEW LI

STING NEW LI

Mark Wilson

250-231-5591

$157,900

SUPER 2 bdrm updated home in Shavers Bench on a fenced private flat lot (50’ x 100’).

Fully landscaped with large patio.

Newer insulated double garage with alley access. This very well cared for home needs to be seen. Call for your viewing today!

1463 Bay Ave, Downtown Trail

STING NEW LI

2069 6th Avenue, Trail

250-231-2331

jodi.beamish@century21.ca

Mary Martin

250-231-0264 31 Hillside Drive, Trail

$179,000

Looking for one-level living? 3 bed home with large kitchen and original hardwood floors. Single car garage & room to park an RV, a covered patio for summer barbeques and a tiered back yard with mature landscaping.

Call Terry 250-231-1101

3918 Reo Road, Bonnington

$575,000

#203 880 Wordsworth Avenue, Warfield

2017 Valleyview Drive, Trail

Park-like 1.72 acres this 3 bed/3 bath home is detailed to the max. You honestly have to see it to appreciate it.

An extraordinary home! Call for your personal viewing today.

$155,000

This house has is all... great location with a fabulous view of the river. 4 beds/2 baths and plenty of room for the whole family. Have your REALTOR(R) call today for an appointment to view.

85 Forsythia Drive, Fruitvale

Call Tonnie (250) 365-9665

Call Jodi (250) 231-2331

Wonderfully updated home with 4 beds, 2.5 baths, new roof and more.

Call Jodi (250) 231-2331 or Christine (250) 512-7653

$282,000

$88,900

2 bedroom low maintenance condo beautifully updated and ready to move in.

Lovely laminate floors, renovated bathroom, new modern kitchen. Exercise facility, and newer laundry on main floor of complex.

Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

mary.martin@century21.ca

Richard Daoust

250-368-7897

richard.daoust@century21.ca

Mary Amantea

250-521-0525

mamantea@telus.net

Bill Craig

250-231-2710

bill.craig@century21.ca 8327 Highway 3B, Trail 1274 Paquette Drive, Trail

$539,000

103 Ritchie Avenue, Tadanac

Ultimate executive rancher!

Like new 3 bed/3 bath home with open floor plan custom kitchen, fireplace, 3-car garage and much more!!

Call your REALTOR® today!

4 bdrm 3 bath home with lots of bright living space. Good parking with double garage on an expansive flat lot.

Call for your personal viewing.

Stunning package! This home features Brazilian Cherry hardwood floors, a great floor plan, and amazing mountain views. The home is well maintained and filled with light. The yard is completely private and features an in ground swimming pool!

Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

$339,000

Deanne Lockhart

$499,000

250-231-0153

deannelockhart@shaw.ca

Art Forrest

250-368-8818 c21art@telus.net

Christine Albo 250-512-7653

christine.albo@century21.ca

308 Kootenay Avenue, Tadanac 1950 1st Avenue, Rossland

$269,000

760 Shakespeare St, Warfield

$179,000

Very well cared for duplex located in the heart of downtown Rossland.

Perfect for a family looking for extra revenue to help pay the mortgage or as an investment opportunity.

Beautifully renovated Warfield home including, insulation, drywall, flooring, trim, kitchen counters and cupboards, wiring and panel, plumbing, fresh paint inside and out and attic venting. Quick possession available!

Call Christine (250) 512-7653

Call Christine (250) 512-7653

For additional information and photos on all of our listings, please visit

www.kootenayhomes.com

$329,000 4 bedroom home with circular driveway.

Large windows, fireplace, library and sun-room.

The yard is stunning and private.

Call for your personal viewing.

Dave Thoss

250-231-4522

dave.thoss@century21.ca

Dan Powell

Christina Lake 250-442-6413

powelldanielk@gmail.com