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BY TIMES STAFF The candidates haven’t all stepped forward yet but plans are already in the works for a series of forums leading up to the Nov. 15 municipal elections.

The Trail and District Chamber of Commerce has initiated plans for candidate forums in Montrose, Trail, Warfield and Fruitvale.

Norm Casler, executive director of the chamber, said although the forum dates and locations have been set, forums in each community will also depend on who enters the field. If one community has no candidates vying for positions and the incumbents are acclaimed, then no forum will be held.

So far the dates for the forums are set for Oct. 28 at the Montrose Hall, Oct. 30 at the Cominco Gym in Trail, Nov. 3 at the Warfield Community Hall and Nov. 4 at the Fruitvale Memorial Hall.

All forums will run from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Casler is recruiting a media panel to offer up questions but the format will also encourage questions from the public through an open mic segment. Each candidate will be offered the opportunity for opening and closing remarks.

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Plenty of bear sightings in region

BY LIZ BEVAN Times Staff

Summer is officially over and bears are on the prowl for as much food as they can find before the snow starts to fall.

Sharon Wieder with WildSafe BC says she has received plenty of calls about bear sightings in the area.

“In the last three weeks, I have had about four to five calls a day in the Rossland and Trail area about bears,” she said.

So far, none of the bear sightings in the Rossland and Trail area have resulted in dangerous confrontations or interactions, as far as Weider knows and no bears have had to be destroyed.

The Trail Times received a report from a reader describing the same bear returning three nights in a row to their Annable home before knocking down the fence.

The Wildlife Alert Reporting Program See WEATHER, Page 3

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Every season brings high hopes and the Trail Smoke Eaters are reaching for new heights this year.

After winning its two first games of the season at the Bauer-BCHL Showcase in Chilliwack last weekend, the team steps on to the Cominco Arena ice for the first time tonight in a tilt against the Penticton Vees. It’s the first of back-to-back home games this weekend. Saturday night the Salmon Arm Silverbacks come to town. See story on Page 13.

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Local

Feds announce funding for completed projects

By Liz Bevan Times Staff

The federal government is finally trumpeting its funding to projects that were completed in several local communities.

In a press release from Monday, the federal government announced $403,000 worth of funding towards infrastructure projects in the area.

Part of the Community Infrastructure Improvement Fund, seven projects received a chunk of the funding, six of which are in the Kootenay Region. One local organization that benefitted from the federal funding was the Salmo Valley Youth and Community Centre.

Laurie MacDonald, executive director of the Salmo Valley Youth and Community Centre Society, was quoted as saying their $115,000 portion of the grant allowed the centre to improve both inside and out.

“We were able to transform spaces in our facility to increase participation in our programs and we were able to modify our entry way to become more handicap accessible,” she said. “The Salmo Valley Youth and Community Centre is so grateful for the support from the Western Economic Diversification Canada's Community Infrastructure Improvement Fund.”

In Trail, $100,000 was awarded for 225 new lockers at the Aquatic and Leisure Centre. The work was completed during the centre's 2013 annual end-of-summer maintenance.

Out at the Trail Regional Airport, 800 feet of pavement was laid for stop ways by the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary in early 2013

with $100,000 of grant money after increasing air service to and from Vancouver.

Creekside Community Park in Fruitvale added a switchback pathway and hard surface walkway, installed handrails and improved vehicle access with the village's $39,650 portion of the funds.

For $17,800, new playground equipment benches and landscaping were put in at the Community Centre in Procter.

Rock Creek and Boundary Fair Association received $45,300 for new bleachers and fairground maintenance.

In the Okanagan, the Osoyoos International Curling Club spent $1,700 replacing their exterior windows.

Michelle Rempel, the Minister of State for Western Economic Diversification, says the government was happy to provide the funding for communities in southern B.C. “Our government is pleased to support community infrastructure projects in BC's Thompson Okanagan and Kootenay regions,” she said in Monday's release.

“Families and communities are already benefitting from these improved facilities, which provide a lasting legacy for communities across southern British Columbia.”

The infrastructure improvement initiatives are part of the federal government's 2012 Economic Action Plan, promising $150 million to the Community Infrastructure Improvement Fund. In Western Canada, the fund distributed $46.2 million dollars over the last two years.

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Teck crews were at the Gyro Park boat launch on Thursday installing an underwater pump with the help of a large crane. Workers said they go through the process twice a year with the pump getting pulled out from the water in the spring, and put back in before winter sets in.

Weather dictates when bears head into hibernation

FROM PAGE 1 interactive map shows several bears in the Rossland-Trail-Montrose-Fruitvale area in September.

When a call comes in, Wieder says the first thing she needs to know is the location of the sighted bear.

“Sometimes it is just a bear going through a bear corridor and there is not much that you can do,” she said. “If that is the case, I just talk to the caller about not having any attractants anywhere in the area that would keep them there, and just make sure they pass through.”

Bear sightings are more common in the area during this time of year because bears need to eat as much as they can before bunkering down for the winter months.

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When bears start their months-long slumber all depends on the weather, says Wieder.

“It all depends on the snow and how much food they have eaten,” she said.

“They come to a stage where they seem to know that they have enough fat to get them through the winter season, but typically, it will be around when the first big snow stays on the ground.”

A killing frost can also put an end to a bear’s hunt for winter fat stores.

“A good killing frost will kill off their natural foods,” said Wieder, adding that there are exceptions.

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fruit, like elderberries or mountain ash berries that are actually better after a couple of good frosts. If there still isn’t any snow on the ground, they will start going after those too, but it all depends on how much snow there is and how much food they have had in the late summer and into the fall.”

Through the Harvest Rescue program offered by WildSafe BC, Weider says that a lot of fruit trees are picked and eliminated at attractants for bears in the area.

“I always offer the Harvest Rescue program if they have fruit they don’t want,” she said of callers reporting bear sightings. “Typically, (pickers) are people who want the fruit for themselves if it is good, but sometimes there is a situation where is a lot of fruit that is undesirable.”

Undesirable fruit picked through the

program is usually given to the local landfill where it is composted. Some of the fruit that is suitable to eat, but doesn’t have a home will get donated to Kate’s Kitchen – a local food bank.

“We have dropped off pears and plums there already this year and they always appreciate it,” said Wieder.

On Oct. 4, WildSafe BC and Wieder will be holding a fruit pressing day for people with extra fruit they want to turn into juice or cider. This year’s event will be held in Rossland at a volunteer’s home. The fruit-pressing requires preregistration and those who want to participate next weekend, can call Wieder at 250-231-2751.

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Provincial

Premier downplays threat to Minister rules out lowering ferry fares pull out of LNG project

THE CANADIAN PRESS That’s what they should do.

VANCOUVER - B.C. Premier What we’re doing at the negoChristy Clark says a threat by tiating table is trying to get the Petronas to quit a proposed absolute best deal for British liquefied natural gas project is Columbians and for Canadians. just part of negotiations over And that’s the process,” she the province’s tax said. take, but experts “And so I’m “Rather than say the Malaysian still very, very firm’s message hopeful that ensuring the should be cause for we’ll get there development of worry. and a lot of the the LNG industry The Financial discussion that Times quotes you’ve seen through appropriPetronas chief publicly is part ate incentives and executive Shamsul of what you’ll assurance of legal Abbas as saying always see in he’s ready to call the course of and fiscal stabiloff the $10-billion any kind of difity, the Canadian project to be built ficult negotialandscape of LNG near Prince Rupert, tion. But I know B.C. amid a delayed they see the development is regulatory approval assets in British now one of uncerprocess, plans by Columbia as tainty, delay and the provincial govincredibly valuernment to impose able and a really short vision.” an LNG tax and a important part Shamsul Abbas “lack of appropriate of the company’s incentives.” future.”

“Rather than B . C . ensuring the development of shouldn’t assume that Abbas’s the LNG industry through comments are just about posappropriate incentives and turing, said Barry Munro, who assurance of legal and fiscal sta- leads global consulting firm bility, the Canadian landscape EY’s Canadian oil and gas pracof LNG development is now one tice. of uncertainty, delay and short “There would be some people vision,” Abbas told the news- speculating that this is a negopaper. tiation tactic or that there’s just Clark told reporters in a push and pull of companies Vancouver on Thursday she’s trying to get to the best ecooptimistic a deal will be worked nomic terms. You could make out and that British Columbians light of the commentary or the will one day benefit from LNG challenge that’s been put forth,” investment. he said.

“What Petronas is doing is “I just think from a B.C. standing up to try and get the perspective, that would be a absolute best deal that they dangerous assumption to make. can get for their shareholders. It may well be the right one. It’s

just a dangerous one.”

There are a litany of challenges facing LNG players: pricing pressure, cost escalation and global competition among them, said Munro. So all of the right conditions must be in place for a company like Petronas to be convinced it’s worthwhile to shell out billions of dollars on a project.

“I think people should heed the intended message very carefully to make sure that if they’re serious about advancing the LNG business, they do whatever they can to try to address the concerns,” he said.

Cameron Gingrich, director of gas services at consultancy Ziff Energy, said B.C. has to strike the right balance, lest it scare off LNG investment.

“These guys are looking at making a profitable run at it and if the B.C. government is looking to get royalties, a carbon tax and then on top of that an income tax on LNG facilities, it certainly make the economics of building a (multi) billiondollar facility a hard pill to swallow,” he said.

Abbas is expected to visit Canada later this week.

State-owned Petronas is leading the Pacific Northwest LNG project with a 62 per cent stake.

It bought Progress Energy Corp. in 2012 in a $6-billion deal that was closely scrutinized

by Ottawa.

“We’re still working hard towards a final investment decision by the end of the year,” said Spencer Sproule, a spokesman for the project, which also includes partners from China, India, Japan and Brunei.

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Transportation Minister Todd Stone quickly ruled out a demand Wednesday from municipal politicians to unwind recent BC Ferries fare hikes and service cuts.

Speaking outside the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention, after delegates unanimously endorsed the resolution, Stone said affordability is the number one issue and fares cannot continue to rise at four per cent or more a year.

But he said he won’t overrule the independent ferry commissioner and force a reduction in fares.

“That’s not going to happen,” Stone said, adding he also firmly rejected a call from coastal communities to raise taxes to increase ferry subsidies. Instead, he said, fare restraint must come from innovation and efficiencies that will deliver savings that can be reinvested in the ferry system.

Stone wants local support for potentially controversial service changes to cut costs – including a bridge to Gabriola Island and a

cable ferry planned to Denman Island that would save $2 million a year.

“Leaders in coastal communities are going to have to work with us and embrace a number of other ideas, which could include alternative technologies, fixed links, alternative fuels, passengeronly ferries in complement to vehicle ferries – a wide range of ideas we’ve thrown out there.”

The province has also announced plans to retrofit two Spirit-class ferries to run on liquefied natural gas and save an estimated $9 million a year on fuel.

Stone met coastal community representatives Wednesday afternoon on the ferry issues and promised a follow-up meeting in November to discuss avenues for savings – both the ones already announced and others he said are “coming in the months ahead.”

Local politicians intend to keep pressing the province to study the economic impact of rapidly rising ferry fares, after releasing a UBCM-commisioned study pointing to significant losses to the province.

Cities want medical pot grows revealed

By Jeff Nagel Black Press

B.C. cities are once again demanding Health Canada give them the addresses of licensed medical marijuana growers so they can mount inspections in the name of public safety.

The resolution from Abbotsford – a repeat of past years’ requests – was passed Wednesday by the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention in Whistler, despite opposition from some delegates over privacy concerns.

Cities fear unpermitted alterations, illegal rewiring and mould pose a risk not just to current residents but those who may in the future buy former grow-ops that aren’t remediated.

“The safety of our residents and the safety of people buying these homes has to be paramount,” Abbotsford Mayor Bruce Banman told the convention.

The federal government is moving to a commercial mail order model of medical marijuana production, but that strategy is on hold pending court challenges from medical pot users.

While Ottawa expects the legacy medical pot growers to voluntarily comply with the change and stop growing their own plants – if the new system is upheld – many cities doubt that will happen given the number of licensed users.

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Abbotsford and more than 900 – representing 20 per cent of the homes – in nearby Mission.

“That’s a lot of glaucoma in my books,” said Banman, who has been a steady critic of the federal government’s refusal to identify the sites.

He said there are just four Health Canada inspectors to check licensed medical home grows in all of western Canada, adding they could not inspect all of the licensed sites in Abbotsford alone if they were dedicated to his city for a year.

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Moralea Milne said if the more than 1,700 licensed medical growers in Abbotsford-Mission are an indication that “we should be legalizing that stuff if that many people are growing it.”

Central Kootenay Regional District director Andy Shadrachk agreed with calls for legalization and concerns around privacy.

“On no other health issue do we go into people’s homes and say you’re not doing things right.”

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National

Government weighs tougher penalties for TFW violations THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA - The federal government is considering lifetime bans and heftier fines on employers found to have violated its new regulations on temporary foreign workers.

In a discussion paper posted overnight on the Employment and Social Development website, the government proposes permanent bans in addition to expanding penalties to include one-, five- and 10-year moratoriums that would forbid businesses from applying for temporary foreign workers.

Currently there are only twoyear bans imposed on companies that have broken the rules.

The names of the banned employers would be made public, the proposals state. There are currently four companies listed on the government’s socalled TFW public blacklist, with no new additions since

early June, three weeks before Employment Minister Jason Kenney unveiled his crackdown on the program.

In efforts to deliver on that overhaul, the feds are also now proposing minimum fines of $500 to a maximum of $100,000 for serious violations - in particular those that have resulted in a significant financial benefit to an employer.

The length of the ban would depend upon the type of violation, the employer’s history of compliance, the severity of the violation and the size of the business, the paper states.

The government is asking stakeholders for their input into the proposals. The deadline for submissions is Oct. 16.

Stakeholders and critics say they’re puzzled by the proposals, wondering why the government hasn’t been taking such measures for years.

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Canada helps in fight against Ebola outbreak THE CANADIAN PRESS UNITED NATIONS - Canada contributed another $30 million to the fight against the Ebola outbreak in Africa on Thursday and welcomed a UN plan to co-ordinate the international response to the crisis.

International Development Minister Christian Paradis said the new money will be channelled through the Canadian Red Cross and other agencies.

The announcement came as U.S. President Barack Obama warned that the world has not done enough to fight a crisis which he said poses a grave threat to regional and global security.

“There is still a significant gap between where we are and where we need to be,” Obama told a highlevel United Nations meeting. The outbreak has the potential to become a human catastrophe, he said.

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim warned Thursday of a potential “meltdown” of the African continent.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said the number of cases doubles every three weeks. He wants

almost $1 billion in aid over the next six months to tackle the outbreak.

Canada earlier contributed $5 million and hundreds of doses of an experimental vaccine to fight the deadly outbreak.

Canadian specialists and mobile labs are on the ground in the infected region.

“As the number of cases continues to rise, it is obvious more needs to be done,” Paradis told a news conference in New York.

“We need to combat the disease as well as the fear that surrounds it if we are to be successful.”

“This is the kind of thing they should have been doing right from the start,” said Dan Kelly, head of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.

“My hope is that if they go down this road, maybe they can unwind some of the terrible reforms that they made in the summer that are unfairly penalizing companies that haven’t done anything wrong.”

The overhaul, Kelly added, continues to target the restaurant sector. He says 12 fastfood restaurant proposals were recently shelved in Alberta due to the province’s labour shortage.

“So we’re missing out on economic development, we’re losing out on growth and growing our tax base as a result of these heavy-handed changes.”

Western premiers, including Alberta’s newly elected Jim Prentice, have complained that

the government’s overhaul has been too onerous. Prentice is a former federal cabinet colleague of Kenney’s.

The western leaders say their provinces are grappling with low unemployment rates and facing genuine shortages of skilled labour, requiring temporary foreign workers to fill the void.

Jinny Sims, the NDP’s employment critic, also questioned why the government hadn’t been imposing such penalties for years. She also raised concerns about enforcing the tougher rules.

“Despite their grand claims of reform, this paper reveals how pitifully little the Conservatives have actually done to fix the program,” she said.

“The sanctions also depend on catching violators, and the discussion paper says not all inspections will involve a site

visit, so once again they’re going to rely on paperwork .... how do you judge from a piece of paper? It makes no sense.”

The government is also proposing penalizing employers even if their failure to comply was unintentional - for example, an accounting error that results in a temporary foreign worker being underpaid.

The feds say they’ll want to start assessing the circumstances surrounding a company’s non-compliance when determining the amount of the fine or the length of the ban “so there is still an incentive for the employer to take corrective action.”

“Right now, if an employer is caught withholding wages, they can quickly pay the worker and get away with it,” Sims said.

“Why is the government only trying to crack down on this practice now?”

Concerns raised over Social Security tribunal THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA - A former member of the government’s badly backlogged social security tribunal says the panel is being pressured to hold hearings at too swift a pace.

The one-time member, who quit soon after being appointed to the tribunal, says the government’s focus on hearing cases as quickly as possible is to the detriment of ailing or unemployed Canadians denied employment insurance, Canada Pension Plan or old-age security benefits.

“You want the person hearing your case to consider the facts carefully, who isn’t going to feel rushed or resentful because of the workload,” said the former member, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of possible repris-

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The old regime was “client-motivated and client-driven,” the person said.

“Fairness to the client and fairness of the process was one of the key pillars, and was something that was always to be considered. Under the new process, I never did hear that - it was all about production and getting cases done.”

A spokeswoman for Employment and Social Development Minister Jason Kenney disputed the criti-

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The tribunal, established in April 2013, replaced four other separate panels that heard appeals on social security rulings.

But the former member suggested that some of the government’s 72 full-time

appointees to the SST lack the skill set needed for the job. Several of those appointees have donated money to the party in the past.

“You have to have insight - into the legal aspects, the law and the precedents - and you have to bring that into your decisionmaking,” the person said.

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Do you want a civilized society?

E

ver wonder why it’s difficult for politicians to govern wisely? Part of the reason is straw men created by some in the media.

Here’s an example. Both the Toronto Star’s Rick Salutin and the Vancouver Sun’s Daphne Bramham recently offered up some faulty nonissues, an approach that gets us no closer to what the ancient Greeks called the “good life” – basically human flourishing in its widest sense.

According to Salutin, because elements of both the public and private sector recently found a ship from the doomed Franklin expedition, that ends the “irritating argument between the private sector and the public sector over who’s the problem and who’s the solution.”

Salutin rightly notes both are necessary. But he claimed that Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and the Fraser Institute had created a simplistic narrative where government was always the problem and the private sector always the remedy. That was Straw Man number one.

Straw Man number

two came from Bramham.

“We need citizens, not just taxpayers and bookkeepers,” she writes, irritated by those who analyze how governments spend taxes.

She implied that politicians had become bean-counters (a rare sighting, actually).

Bramham also claims that American anti-tax and anti-government sentiment migrated north courtesy of the Fraser Institute and Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

Some facts: examinations of how governments tax or spend does not equate to an anti-tax, antigovernment or anti-public sector position. Nor should Reagan and Thatcher’s recognition that governments can be problematic some days be construed to mean they thought the institution was unnecessary.

As for the assumed American influence, wrong again. Canada’s earliest politicians wanted to keep Canadian taxes lower than American taxes. It didn’t mean they were “anti-government.” Their position was pragmatic: to attract immigrants and to build up Canada economically.

They also carefully con-

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sidered the public’s ability to pay. One Dominion finance minister, Liberal Richard Cartwright, in 1878, characterized any tax beyond that “necessary to the proper discharge of the public service” as “legalized robbery.”

Fundamentally, Salutin and Bramhan misunderstand the relationship between political power and money and its profound implication for all of us. And far from being American or a result of 1980s politics, the proper functions of government have been debated since at least Plato and Aristotle.

Briefly, Plato thought a top-down, philosopherking government with few freedoms and bureaucrats commanding everything would create a wonder-

ful society. In contrast, Aristotle thought government was helpful to the good life. But it was critical to observe, investigate and measure how human beings actually behave.

Aristotle’s thinking implies many things but here are two: First, the reality of how people and power interact has an effect on the greater public interest and it is not always beneficial. For example, when government unions prevent reform of their defined benefit pension plans, it tells us something about their power; it also has an effect on the rest of us who pay the bills for such plans.

Second, to understand the greater public good, it’s critical to measure what governments do.

Otherwise, you’re left with guesswork.

For example, it matters whether governments spend $1 billion on a failed e-health experiment (Ontario) or hand out billions to General Motors and Chrysler never to be repaid (Ontario and the federal government). These billions incidentally could have bought Toronto a new

children’s hospital, a new subway line, or a Toronto version of Stanley Park.

That’s why a focus on numbers is never just a focus on numbers – it’s an argument about power and lost or better opportunities.

The numbers simply provide guideposts.

It is indeed important to think as citizens and not just in immediate dollars and cents. Few, for example, would think a tax increase in a time of war as undesirable. But I’d bet most people think differently about higher or diverted taxes in peacetime, just to pay for unreformed pensions in the government sector.

Which is why the “taxpayer” label is so useful.

Too many use Orwellian language to propose something contrary to the public good. But, considering the reality of power, the term “taxpayer” helps people focus on the real cost of political decisions that favour a narrow interest, ones which can injure the good life for everyone else.

Mark Milke is a senior fellow with the Fraser Institute.

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Climate activists are unwit- ition in the galaxy, all impact tingly supporting one of the global climate. Today’s sciengreatest moral travesties of our tific debate concerns the degree time: the valuing of people yet to which humanity’s release of to be born more than those greenhouse gases are affecting suffering today. one other component of the cliRather than focus on helping mate system—the natural heat vulnerable people adapt to real trapping characteristics of the climate change in the present, atmosphere. activists concentrate on mitiNo one really knows the gation, trying to answer to this avert hypothetquestion. What ical events that we do know is may, or may not, that the lack of someday happen. global warming Compounding over the past 17 the injustice, years while carmost campaignbon dioxide in ers oppose the the atmosphere development of has risen 8 per Tom coal, oil and natcent contradicts ural gas resourthe models on ces in developwhich the cliing countries. International Climate mate scare is Science Coalition Instead, to help based. Yet camprevent ‘climate paigners assert disruption’, poor nations are that ‘the science is settled’ and supposed to use wind and solar our contribution to the ‘greenpower, energy sources even we house effect’ swamps all other cannot afford. climate drivers combined.

All this was well demonstratThis common but unjustied on Sunday when hundreds fied belief is having a disastrous of thousands of people took effect on climate programs. to the streets in support of The United Nations has said alternative energy and ‘stop- that funding for mitigation and ping global warming’. Drew adaptation efforts should be Hudson, Executive Director of approximately equal. But the Boston-based Environmental San Francisco-based Climate Action, proclaimed that: “We Policy Initiative demonstrates have all the tools and technolo- that only 6 per cent of the $1 gies we need to stop climate billion per day spent on clichange.” mate finance across the world Humanity has absolutely no is dedicated to adaptation. The control over most of the factors remaining 94 per cent goes to that influence climate. Changes mitigation. in our planet’s orbital and rotaIf we knew with absolute tional parameters, the positions certainty that human-caused of the continents, the bright- climate Armageddon lay just ness of the sun, alterations ahead, then the current mitigain ocean currents, changes tion to adaptation funding ratio in cloud cover, even our pos- might make sense. Millions of

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people would suffer and die today but billions would be saved in the future.

But as the degree of certainty that a particular climate policy will significantly benefit future generations diminishes, the 94:6 funding ratio becomes less and less rational. Finally, if we knew with 10 per cent certainty that a human-caused climate crisis was not in the cards, then it would be easy to justify that no money be devoted to mitigation at all.

Aside from funding research so that someday we may be able to forecast future climate change, all climate finance could then safely be devoted to helping vulnerable societies adapt to whatever may happen next.

In reality, we can never know the future of climate change with complete confidence. Uncertainty is inherent to all science, especially one as immature as climate science.

This means that considering the probabilities of various alternative scenarios is critical to rational public policy decision making.

Governments should ignore the hysterical and unscientific claims made by activists and instead convene open, unbiased hearings into the current state of the science, arranging that experts on all sides of the debate testify. Only then will they be able to perform the risk management exercises necessary to properly balance the known needs of those suffering today with the possible problems to be faced by future generations.

Tom Harris is Executive Director of the Ottawa, Canadabased International Climate Science Coalition.

MPs support bill to restore power to Commons

THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA - Conservative MP Michael Chong’s bid to shift the balance of power between caucuses and party leaders easily passed a critical vote in the Commons on Wednesday.

The Reform Act 2014 passed second reading by a vote of 25317 with support from all three major parties and now goes to be studied at a Commons committee.

The private member’s bill had the support of Conservative ministers, the leaders of the opposition parties and ordinary MPs from both sides of the aisle.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper was attending the United Nations General Assembly in New York, but both his parliamentary secretary and Democratic Reform Minister Pierre Poilievre voted in favour.

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair

noted he was the first leader to support the bill when it was introduced last year.

“I think it’s a good idea to start opening things up. I love the debate itself, the very fact of the debate is a good thing,” Mulcair told reporters on Wednesday.

“We don’t think about these things enough. It’s true, it’s a little bit inside-the-ballpark baseball, but I like the idea we’re having a refreshing discussion on this.”

When Chong introduced the bill, he said it was time to restore power to parliamentarians vis-a-vis their party leaders, in order to make the Commons more responsible to the voters who send MPs to Ottawa.

He proposed giving party caucuses the power to review and eject party leaders, to select their caucus chairpeople and to decide on the ouster and

reinstatement of colleagues.

Chong also proposed removing the section of the Canada Elections Act that gives party leaders a veto over who can run for a party - one of the tools used to keep MPs in line.

The proposals immediately sparked a debate amongst MPs, with parliamentarians of all stripes offering support for the reforms.

But Chong wanted to make sure the bill would pass and undertook months of talks with caucus leaders, backbenchers and members of the public on how to make the bill better, or at least feasible.

The MP ultimately promised to amend his bill to introduce more flexibility - for example, allowing parties to decide on their own particular caucus rules after each federal election.

Such amendments can only occur at the committee stage.

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PEOPLE BREAKING GROUND

OBITUARIES KRAHN, JACOB HARRY – was born July 7th, 1938 and passed away on September 22, 2014.

Jacob was predeceased by his parents, Jacob and Agnes Krahn, parents-in-law Samuel and Margaret Haggerty, brother Lawrence Krahn, brotherin-law Victor Dombrowsky and sister-in-law Cathy Collier. He is survived by his wife of 47 years Linda; his children Mona Krahn (Chuck Wigger), Jacob M. Krahn (Kerri Fertuck), and Cynthia Graff (Kevin); and his grandchildren, Liam and Logan Wigger, Brett Fertuck (Chevey White and greatgrandson Weston) and Ryan Fertuck, and Addison, Alex, and Isabelle Graff; sister Lory Dombrowsky, brothers Ervin Krahn (Gloria) and Ken Krahn (Alice), sisters-in-law Sharon Haggerty and Lois Harrison, brother-in-law Arthur Collier, and numerous nieces and nephews.

Jake was born on the farm at Section 3, Township 18, Range 10, West 3, Saskatchewan, an address just north of Herbert, Saskatchewan. He grew up in the Herbert area and graduated from Herbert High School in 1957. Jake attended Teachers College in Moose Jaw graduating in 1959 and received his Education Degree from the University of Regina in 1970. His first teaching job was in Donnellyville, SK followed by Ernfold, SK and then Regina. He ended his teaching career in 1976 as a Vice Principal for the Regina Public School board. At that time he started farming full time in the Belle Plaine, Saskatchewan area with his father-in-law Sam Haggerty. He continued to farm until his retirement in 2001.

In 1967 Jake married Linda Rae Haggerty at Wesley United Church and they took up residence in Regina where they each held teaching positions.

Together they raised three children. During his years in Regina, Jake was an active volunteer; he was a t-ball coach, a scout leader, and a synchronized swimming referee; he served as the president of the Regina Synchro club for several years. Jake supported his children by driving them and attending swim meets, wrestling meets, and Regina Police Band activities. Jake sang with the Regina Barbershop Chorus, where he also held positions on their board, he was a member of the Board of Whitmore Park United Church, and he was a member of the Regina Exhibition Board. He was a long time member of the Board of the Regina Exhibition Farm Progress Show and was the Chairperson for the show in its 10th annual year.

After retirement Jake and Linda moved to Genelle, BC where Jake has enjoyed curling, golfing, gardening, and visiting with many friends.

His new joy was travelling. Together he and Linda visited many countries around the world. A special trip was a visit to Germany where he met his father’s family.

Jake will always be remembered as a people person. He never was in a situation where he didn’t make friends. He will be sadly missed by family and friends.

Funeral services will be held in Castlegar United Church with Greg Powell presiding on Saturday September 27th, 2014 at 2pm with a reception to follow in the church basement. Interment will be at a later date at Stony Beach Cemetery in Saskatchewan.

Donations in his name can be made to the Rotary Foundation through the Castlegar Rotary Club or the Rotary club of your choice.

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B.C. Professional Fire Fighter’s Burn Fund Board and special guests broke ground on the new Burn Fund Centre site on Sept. 17 in Vancouver. Construction on the new centre is expected to being in November. More than 3,700 professional firefighters from 50 communities in B.C. and the Yukon, including the Kootenay Boundary Fire and Rescue, contribute to the British Columbia Professional Fire Fighters Burn Fund.

Canadian touted as Nobel Prize candidate

THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - A Canadian researcher is being touted as a potential Nobel Prize winner by an organization that predicts which scientists are most likely to take home one of the coveted awards.

Dr. Stephen Scherer, director of the Centre for Applied Genomics at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, has been selected as a 2014 “Nobel-class” citation laureate in physiology or medicine by Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property & Science. The organization has correctly predicted 35 Nobel Prize winners since 2002.

Scherer, along with Charles Lee, scientific director of the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine in Farmington, Conn., and Michael H. Wigler, head of the Mammalian Cell Genetics Section at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, have been recognized for the discovery of large-scale copy number variations and their association with specific genetic diseases.

“I think it’s astounding,”

Scherer said of the honour, which he called a surprise.

“This is a big, big thing.”

Scherer is known for his work on the genetic underpinnings of autism spectrum disorder, which includes the role of copy number variations - the deletions or duplication of genes in sections of DNA. In subsequent papers, his team showed that about 10 per cent of children with autism have only one copy of a specific gene.

“Just to have a Canadian on the list is huge because there’s been an incredible investment in science,” he said in an interview Wednesday. “For me, it’s really an independent validation of the importance of our work.”

The Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates study, begun 12 years ago, identifies leading researchers in the fields of chemistry, physics, physiology or medicine, and economics by collecting and analyzing research citations, which illustrate the impact a researcher’s work has had within the scientific community.

“As imitation is one of

the most sincere forms of flattery, so too are scientific literature citations one of the greatest dividends of a researcher’s intellectual investment,” said Basil Moftah, president of Thomson Reuters IP & Science. “The aggregate of such citations points to individuals who have contributed the most impactful work and allows us to determine candidates likely to

receive a Nobel Prize.”

This year’s list of Nobelclass laureates includes 27 researchers from around the world who are predicted to win in one of the four Nobel categories. The Prize for physiology or medicine will be announced Oct. 6.

“Irrespective of any award outcomes,” said Scherer, “it is humbling to be included among such an esteemed list of scientists.”

MALCOLM YOUNG

Health concerns force guitarist to leave AC/DC THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK - Malcolm Young has left AC/DC. A statement Wednesday from the band’s label said: “Unfortunately, due to the nature of Malcolm’s condition, he will not be returning to the band.”

No details were provided.

The band announced in April that the 61-year-old guitarist was taking a break to focus on his health.

AC/DC will release the album “Rock or Bust” on Dec. 2. They will launch a world tour next year.

Stevie Young, nephew of founding members Malcolm and Angus Young, played guitar on the band’s new album and will join them on the tour.

AC/DC includes vocalist Brian Johnson, drummer Phil Rudd and bassist Cliff Williams. Young has performed with AC/DC for 40 years.

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Iraqi Christians are on the brink of extinction

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t the beginning of the second millennium, 1.4 million Christians lived in Iraq, co-existing, as they had for centuries, alongside their Muslim neighbours. By 2010, that number had dropped to 500,000, and today, a dwindling 150,000 Christians remain in the country. While other Islamic extremist groups have targeted Christians in the past, the grand ambitions of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) are threatening these communities with extinction.

The Christian communities of Iraq are among the oldest Christian communities in the world. Some of these communities can trace their lineage back to 60 CE and the Church at Antioch, which was louise the first Christian church established outside of Everyday Theology Jerusalem. The existence of these ancient church communities precedes the presence of Islam in the region by about six hundred years.

Beheadings, executions and amputations, as well as the destruction of churches, monasteries and historical treasures, have forced Christians to flee. ISIS has threatened those that remain in territories under its control with death, saying “there is nothing to give them but the sword.”

Iraqi Christians are not the only people that ISIS is targeting. ISIS has targeted Shiite Muslims, as well as Sunni Muslims who challenge them. The Yazidi are also under threat. As increasing numbers of civilians flee from ISIS, the humanitarian crisis escalates.

One of the grand goals of ISIS is to create a pan-Islamic state in the Middle East. The other name by which ISIS is known, the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), indicates the scope of the group’s ambition to reshape the Middle East according to its ideology. The Levant refers to the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean, among them Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Egypt and Turkey.

While ISIS claims to be a caliphate with authority over Muslims worldwide, leading Muslim authorities, including the influential muftis of Egypt and Saudi Arabia, have rejected and denounced the terrorist group. So have various Muslim organizations, such as the Arab League and the Organization for Islamic Cooperation.

The ISIS idea of a caliphate contrasts starkly with the great caliphates of history, which were open and tolerant, and welcomed Muslims, Jews and Christians. The Abbasid caliphate, for example, welcomed leaders of all faiths to its “House of Wisdom”. (Ironically, given the present-day reality, the “House of Wisdom” was located in the caliphate’s capital city of Baghdad.)

In this cultural and intellectual melting pot, Muslim and non-Muslim scholars explored science, mathematics, astronomy, physics and philosophy. They collected, translated and preserved antiquity’s great texts.

Unlike the ISIS “wannabe” caliphate with its crimes against humanity, the Abbasid caliphate advanced humanity through inclusive communities centered on the pursuit of knowledge.

The ISIS attacks against Iraqi Christians, the destruction of their churches and antiquities, and the crimes perpetrated on other civilians are hallmarks of terror.

It will take decades to mitigate the humanitarian crisis unfolding as people flee from ISIS and seek safety in refugee camps. It may be impossible to restore the Christian communities that were among the most ancient in the world.

Trail, BC resident Louise McEwan is a freelance religion writer with degrees in English and Theology.

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Trail & District Churches Putting The Light Of Christ On A Lamp Stand For The World Scripture quotations are from the RSV unless otherwise noted.

“No one after lighting a lamp covers it with a vessel, or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a stand, that those who enter may see the light” (Luke 8:16).

This is what we are now to do. Christ is the light of the world (John 8:12) that we are to put on a stand to enlighten all. The gospel message of his salvation is the light that we are to share with everyone. Christ came to enlighten all people, to give them hope in their despair, illumination in their darkness, rescuing them from the pit of their sins and from the depression caused by their guilt that cripples their spirit and darkens their heart.

Christ came to shine in their hearts with the splendor of his own righteousness, making them also righteous.

All of this comes about through the good news that Jesus sends his apostles to preach to the world. During his lifetime he had to preach this gospel in a veiled way, because the Jews had an overly political understanding of the Messiah and because it could not yet be understood, since the saving work of his death and resurrection had not yet taken place. But after his departure from them, when he had sent his Holy Spirit upon them, then his disciples were to begin to fearlessly proclaim this saving work in an open way to the entire world.

About this proclamation he said, “What I tell you in the dark, utter in the light; and what you hear whispered, proclaim upon the housetops” (Matt. 10:27). St. Paul tells Timothy and us, “I charge you in the presence of God and

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Our preaching should be an illumination for our hearers.

It should be filled with sound, solid, deep, and orthodox doctrine. We are to speak of God’s salvation now available in Jesus Christ through our faith in him. We are to preach his saving death on the cross and his glorious resurrection that shines upon us, giving us new life in him. We are to preach that he frees us from sin by the merits of his death that made reparation, propitiation, expiation, and satisfaction for them by taking them upon himself (2 Cor. 5:21; 1 Pet. 2:24) and suffering in his own flesh their just and necessary punishment (Rom. 8:3-4).

We should preach Christ as “the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world (John 1:29) by being sacrificed for us on the cross for our sins (1 Cor. 15:3) to be “the propitiation for our sins” (1 John 2:2 NKJV), the one “whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness” (Rom. 3:25 NKJV).

We are to preach that by believing in Christ and receiving his sacraments we are made righteous and new with the very righteousness of Christ himself shining in our hearts, illuminating us from within.

In this way we put the light, which is Christ and his gospel, on a lamp stand for the illumination, salvation, and transformation of the world. © Copyright 2007-2009 Rev. Steven Scherrer www.DailyBiblicalSermons.com

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Franz Ferdinand’s trip down the Columbia River

By Greg Nesteroff Nelson Star

The man whose assassination sparked the First World War was unimpressed with ruffians he encountered on a voyage down the Arrow Lakes and Columbia River.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, whose sudden death in Sarajevo in 1914 plunged Europe into a deadly four-year conflict, made a world tour in 1892-93 that took him to India, Australia, Japan, the US, and Canada.

His two-volume travelogue was published in German in 1896 as Tagebuch Meiner Reise um die Erde (Diary of My Trip Around the World), but has never been translated into English until now. An online project at franzferdinandsworld.com has been posting one entry per day, corresponding to the date of his original journey.

His brief visit to West

Kootenay occurred 121 years ago this week.

The archduke arrived in Vancouver from Japan on September 5, 1893 and departed two days later for Banff. He then backtracked to Penticton, and reached Revelstoke late on the evening on the 17th, where his party left its wagons and boarded the Columbia and Kootenay Steam Navigation Company’s steamer Columbia, en route for Northport, Wash.

He noted the ship could accommodate 100 first class passengers, but despite being launched only two years earlier, “it seems to be quite old and in need of repairs, as everywhere it was posted that the lifebelts were to be found under the beds in each cabin. In my cabin I discovered that I could look through yawning gaps in the ship’s side while it directly rained

through the deck on the bed of one of the other gentlemen.”

At 4 a.m. the following day, “Noise, rumbling and the whiny howls of the steamer’s whistle” announced the boat’s departure. Ferdinand admired “the skill and audacity” of the captain who drove his “hard-to-steer ship” at full speed through the narrow valley.

But again he mentioned the “numerous life-belts” which were “apparently deemed sufficient for all eventualities as it is well known that human lives do not count for all that much in America.”

The ship passed by a forest that had suffered a fire, and then came upon an area that had been spared but where a railway was planned, “thus putting an end to the splendid forest.”

Ferdinand noted this part of BC was “one of the least known

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Wikipedia/Library of Congress/From The War of Nations

Nearly 20 years before Franz Ferdinand’s assassination precipitated the war to end all wars, he took a steamer ride down the Arrow Lakes. and explored parts” of North America by Europeans. Most new residents were prospectors who panned for gold and combed the mountains for minerals, although there were also farmers, for whom the ship was transporting a plow.

At some point, the steamer dropped a group of prospectors off in the middle of nowhere. Ferdinand wasn’t sorry to see them go.

“One can …

imagine without difficulty the strange company assembled on board. Ugly and rough fellows were milling around on deck and in the salons in threadbare torn clothes with large hats on their heads and a revolver near their hands. This gave us the opportunity to acquaint ourselves already here with the American ruthlessness.

Everywhere these fellows were lounging around, putting their feet upon

couches and chairs, spitting everywhere and taking possession of books that had been left for just a moment in the salon.”

Ferdinand noted only one settlement along the way, which “owes its existence to a silver mine that had been opened in the Selkirk Range and is said to be quite rich.” This might have been Nakusp or Trail.

Castlegar didn’t yet exist.

He continued: “In this settlement that consisted of multiple small log huts with the inescapable shop and a steam saw we saw all workers united at the landing pier as it just was pay day for which our steamer brought the money.”

Ferdinand complained that loading wood into the ship’s boiler ”seemed to go on forever.” Logs were stacked at the forest’s edge, and the ship landed in the mud nearby so the crew could retrieve them.

A dense fog that morning prevented a clear view of the river and it started to rain that afternoon, turning so bitterly cold that Ferdinand had to huddle in the salon with the “spitting sons of the wilderness.”

Fortunately for him, an American woman “who was by the way very pretty had sufficient mercy with us and permitted us to smoke for which we were greatly thankful.”

Did his fellow passengers realize who Ferdinand was?

Possibly not, as his

head chamberlain, Count Wumbrand, wrote in a telegram that they were “Traveling in strict incognito.”

We know one other person on that voyage was W.A. Jowett, as the Nelson Miner reported the mining man went down river with the ”Crown prince of Austria.”

The newspaper also related something that supposedly occurred on board the ship at lunchtime: Ferdinand’s entourage was standing behind their chairs, waiting for him to seat himself, when the steward, surprised at their modesty, exclaimed “Sit down! Sit down!

Anywhere you like.”

It’s unclear where the steamer tied up for the night, but it crossed the international boundary at about 10 a.m. the next day and a few minutes later landed at the Northport wharf, where Ferdinand’s party was whisked to a special train bound for Spokane.

According to the Spokane Daily Chronicle, “It took nearly half an hour to crowd the load of trunks, satchels and bundles into the baggage car.”

Ferdinand continued on his way, gazing through the window at the trees and villages along the way, and chatting with his companions, blissfully unaware his name would become inextricably linked with one of the worst conflicts of the 20th century.

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All-girls ski movie coming to Miners’ Hall

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The Kootenay Gallery and TD Canada Trust present the Selkirk Trio: Nicola Everton, clarinet, Sue Gould, piano and Jeff Faragher, cello on Oct. 5 at the Trail United Church.

Selkirk Trio performing at Trail United Church SUBMITTED The Kootenay Gallery is set to present a new season of music as part of the Gallery’s TD Canada Trust Sunday Concert Series.

The 2014-15 series will offer programming to suit all listening tastes with six concerts running October through March.

Season highlights include the sweet voice of Lizzy Hoyt and her Celtic fiddling, up and coming virtuosi violin-harp duo Rebecca MacLeod and Sophie Baird-Daniel, jazz local Clinton Swanson and Victoria-based string quartet Die Mahler.

The season opens on Oct. 5, 2 p.m. at the Trail United Church with the Kootenaybased Selkirk Trio featuring pianist Sue Gould from Golden, cellist Jeff Faragher and clarinettist Nicola Everton, both from Nelson.

The trio will reach beyond their traditional classical roots to include contemporary works, new compositions as well as jazz and Celtic favourites.

“We’d like to give this program a bit of

a twist,” says Everton, who will be throwing her hand in for a rendition of Artie Shaw’s famous Jazz Concerto.

All three musicians are active chamber and orchestral musicians in B.C. and Alberta.

Everton was a member of the Vancouver Symphony for over 20 years and now joins Conductor and performer, Jeff Faragher in the Symphony of the Kootenays.

Susan Gould originates in Calgary and has been performing as a pianist since her debut with the Mount Royal College orchestra at the age of 11.

Outside of their busy performance schedule, music education is a passion for the trio. Jeff directs the Mountainside Chamber Music program in Nelson, Sue the Young Voices Children’s Choir in Golden while Nicola enjoys teaching privately, both adults and youth. The trio will also be sharing their music with seniors in the community as part of the Health Arts Society’s Concerts in Care program.

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Tickets $15 at the door for general admission or $12 for Kootenay Gallery members Contact the Kootenay Gallery for more information call 250 365-3337 or visit www.kootenaygallery. com

BY TIMES STAFF Rossland native Leah Evans is coming back home, albeit on the big screen when the new ski film “Pretty Faces” comes to the Rossland Miners’ Hall on Oct. 6.

Evans, now a Revelstoke-based pro skier, said making the ski movie was to inspire women young and old to get out and enjoy the slopes.

“We’re excited to be part of a project that encourage girls and women of all ages to get on their skis and challenge themselves both on and off the hill. The film is about encouraging people to follow their dreams and at Girls Do Ski, we’re big fans of that.”

What began as a Kickstarter campaign to test the interest for such a project has become something much larger, said a press release.

With help from presenting sponsor Eddie Bauer, “Pretty Faces” is the first crowd-sourced, crowd-funded and most successful action sports Kickstarter campaign to date.

A project that is sure to shatter the status-quo of women in ski movies, this film is a first of what is hopefully a revolution across the board in action sports.

Sarah Woods, who also works with Girls Do Ski freeski camps, said the movie is a source of inspiration on so many levels.

“For me, skiing and Girls Do Ski has been a huge source of personal inspiration both on and off the ski hill. The messages Girls Do Ski offers their participants about facing fears, stepping out of your comfort zone and trying new things are all messages mirrored in this film.

“For me personally, Girls Do Ski has been a huge source of inspiration and helping me make

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Our hope is that by bringing “Pretty Faces” to Rossland, these important messages will reach girls and women and continue to create inspiration and powerful change.

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A new traffic lights system controlled by computers and cameras has been installed and is running for the first time in Cranbrook.

The city provided a tour to local media this week, and traffic seemed to flow effortlessly through the intersection in all directions.

The intersection uses a complex com-

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It’s all quite a detour from the old system of large sensor rings that are imbedded in the asphalt in the lanes.

Tony Hetu, City Electrician and Trades Manager, said the upgrade was one that was greatly needed as the infrastructure was Fernie Free Press file photo first installed in the The famous Titan Truck in Sparwood may be getting a makeover for this ‘90s. The life cycle of winter. the equipment is usuSparwood ally 15-20 years, so the upgrade is overdue.

“For the old system, all the sensors are in the road, so

By Sarah Kucharski Fernie Free Press what would happen in the winter with all the The District of Sparwood has agreed to set aside funds to light up the moisture, they were Titan Truck with professionally installed LED lights. starting to fail,” he According to Chief Administrative Officer Terry Melcer, the lights could said. cost anywhere between approximately $30-60,000 to buy and install.

Hetu said the cost The funds for these lights will be reallocated from the city’s float, which all-in for the new sys- will be put into storage for two years. During this time, the float will undertem was about $25,000. go upgrades, according to Sparwood Coun. Joanne Wilton.

He noted that the cost The only exception to the temporary retiring of the float will be for its for a contractor to put scheduled appearance in the annual Coalminers Day Parade in June. in a single sensor ring “If our goal of the float is to increase exposure of the District of Sparwood can be $4,000 and that to our neighbours, we feel that this project would do just that. We’re not particular intersection saying to never use the float again,” said Sparwood Mayor Lois Halko, “but has nine of them, one to instead reallocate those funds to a project that would give a lot of visibilfor each lane. ity to the city.”

The lights also have According to the Chamber of Commerce, attraction to Titan Park has a system that can be never been higher. The visitor count from January 2014 to September 15 controlled from the totaled 57,883, exceeding the entirety of last year’s 55,000 visitors. This fire hall, as well as a gives council all the more reason to invest in the lights.

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Hockey update: Bertolucci leads Oil Kings Interior division battle

set for home-opener

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The Edmonton Oil Kings’ Luke Bertolucci, a Montrose native, picked up two assists including one on the game winner in a 4-2 victory over the Kootenay Ice on Saturday. The team celebrated its Memorial Cup win with a pre-game banner-raising ceremony to open the 2014-15 WHL season.

BY TIMES STAFF Montrose native Luke Bertolucci started his third season with Memorial Cup champion Edmonton Oil Kings on a positive note Saturday.

In a 4-2 win over the Kootenay Ice, Bertolucci counted two assists including a set up on the winning goal by Andrew Koep with just over three minutes remaining in regulation.

The victory was a fitting compliment to a night that saw over 11,000 fans turn up to watch the Oil Kings raise the 2013-14 Memorial Cup and Ed Chynoweth banners to the rafters at Rexall Place in Edmonton. It was the largest crowd ever to attend an Oil Kings opening game, and Bertolucci, who was also chosen to wear the ‘A’ as assistant captain, did not disappoint.

The 19-year-old former Trail Smoke Eater played physical all night, setting up Koep’s first goal midway through the second period to put the Oil Kings up 2-1, then start the play that capped off the winning goal late in the third.

The Oil Kings are coming off one of their most successful seasons in franchise history.

The team finished with a 50-19-3 record and 103 points, but it was the hardware the club took home that highlighted the campaign.

The Oil Kings overcame a 2-0 series deficit against the Portland Winterhawks to win the WHL title, before becoming the Canadian junior hockey champions in winning May’s Memorial Cup tournament in London, Ont. NHL Hockey Briefs: Boston Bruins The Boston Bruins Craig Cunningham joined the main camp on Tuesday after getting a clean bill of health from team doctors. The Warfield returned to the Bruins after enduring a bout of

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mononucleosis in August.

“He’s come back from mono, so he’s been cleared to practice with us,” Bruins coach Claude Julien said on the B’s website. “It’s his first day back with the big team.”

Cunningham has been skating, but Tuesday marked his first time taking part in Boston’s main camp. The fourth year pro who has put up three straight 20-goal seasons with AHL affiliate Providence has been eyeing a roster spot with the big club all summer.

The 24-year-old restricted free-agent signed a one-year, two-way deal in July for a reported $600,000 at the NHL level or $85,000 with Providence. Cunningham made his NHL debut on December 17, 2013 against the Calgary Flames and recorded four shots in the B’s 4-0 victory. The forward appeared in his second NHL game on April 13, 2014 against the New Jersey Devils.

Cunningham skated in 75 regular season games with Providence last season and recorded a team-leading 25 goals along with 22 assists for 47 points (third on the team).

Cunningham was drafted by the Boston Bruins in the fourth round (97th overall) of the 2010 NHL Entry Draft.

Edmonton Oilers A day prior to the Edmonton Oilers 3-2 exhibition win over the Winnipeg Jets on Wednesday, the NHL Oilers cut back their training camp roster sending Montrose twins Connor and Kellen Jones to their American Hockey League affiliate Oklahoma City Barons. The Oilers reassigned 18 players Tuesday leaving 49 players remaining in camp; five goalies, 15 defencemen, and 29 forwards.

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It may be early in the season, but the Trail Smoke Eaters will look to make a statement against division rivals this weekend, as they host the Penticton Vees for their homeopener tonight and the Salmon Arm Silverbacks on Saturday at the Cominco Arena.

The Interior division dominated Mainland and Island division teams at the Bauer BCHL Showcase on the weekend, with the Smokies, the Vees, and the Silverbacks going into this weekend all undefeated.

“Salmon Arm, I was impressed, they have a lot of different elements, and they play the game hard so they’re going to be a good test,” said Smoke Eater coach and GM Nick Deschenes.

“Penticton brings a younger, smaller team to the table, but they’re a team that is capable of breaking out offensively and capitalizing.”

The Vees rookie line of Tyson Jost, 16, Lewis Zerter-Gossage, 19, and Liam Finlay, 17, poured in 16 points in two games at the Showcase includ-

ing hat tricks by Jost and ZerterGossage.

“It’s kind of crazy to think that all three are rookies,” Vees coach-general manager Fred Harbinson told the Penticton Western News. “The three of them don’t keep the puck on the stick very long. When it’s on it, they are moving it again, jumping into the holes.”

Jost was named BCHL Player of the Week on Tuesday, and the rookie line will have to be neutralized for the Smokies to be successful.

However, Trail also received outstanding performances from its own rookies with forward Charlie Zuccarini netting six points in an 8-3 win over Coquitlam, and Jeremy Lucchini and Connor Brown-Maloski named Fortis Energy Players of the Game in the two tilts. Veterans Craig Martin, Jake Lucchini, and Victor Dombrovskiy also starred in Chilliwack and solid goaltending from Adam Todd will again be key for the Smokies to defeat the Vees and Backs.

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BC MIDGET HOCKEY

Ice and Wildcats open season

BY TIMES STAFF The Major Midget Kootenay Ice opens its season this weekend in Richmond, while the Female Midget AAA Kootenay Wildcats season is already underway and will host a trio of games in Nelson this weekend.

Greater Trail Minor Hockey Association graduates like forwards Christian Macasso of Montrose, Trail’s Blake Sidoni, defencemen, Karsten Chang of Rossland, Trail natives Evan Gorman and Matthew Alderson, and goaltender Jason Mailhiot will hit the ice for the Midget Ice as they take on the Greater Vancouver Canadiens in a pair of games Saturday and Sunday.

Head coach Rob Wright is returning for his second season with the Kootenay Ice. Wright replaced Mario

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Over the course of a 40 game season, teams will battle it out for a chance to represent British Columbia in the Pacific Region Championship, and potentially a trip to the 2015 Telus Cup in Quebec Meanwhile Cary Fisher of Rossland is back as skipper of the Kootenay Wildcats, which plays in the sixteam Female Midget AAA Hockey League (FMAAA).

Fisher’s team boasts many local faces including Trail’s Stephanie McAuley and Julia Sidoni, Maddie VokerothFisher and Dakota Mular of Rossland, and Kendra Waterstreet of Fruitvale.

They began their season last weekend, but the WildCats are still looking for their

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first win after dropping 4-1 and 3-1 games to the Vancouver Island Hurricanes on Saturday and a 5-1 match Sunday morning in Campbell River.

The Wildcats play three home games at the Nelson Civic Centre this weekend against the Fraser Valley Phantom at 8:15 a.m. and 3:45 p.m.

Saturday, and 9:30 a.m. Sunday.

The other FMAAA teams include the Northern Cougars, Thompson Okanagan Lakers, and West Coast Avalanche.

The 2014 – 2015 FMAAA League will be entering its seventh season as the top female league in the province. The league has seen over 50 graduating players continue on to CIS, NCAA or ACAC opportunities.

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Sports Curling

Scoreboard Today’s games Powell R. at Nanaimo, 7 p.m.

Victoria at Cowichan, 7 p.m.

P.G. at Coquitlam, 7 p.m.

Vernon at W. Kelowna, 7 p.m.

Merritt at Salmon Arm, 7 p.m.

Chilliwack at Surrey, 7 p.m.

Penticton at Trail, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday’s games W.Kelowna at Vernon, 6 p.m.

Victoria at Nanaimo, 7 p.m.

PG at Coquitlam, 7 p.m.

Surrey at Chilliwack, 7 p.m.

Powell River at Alberni Valley, 7 p.m.

Salmon Arm at Trail, 7:30 p.m.

Penticton at Merritt, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday’s games Powell River at Cowichan 2 p.m.

Langley at Vernon, 2 p.m.

Prince George at Surrey,4 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at Washington, 8:25 p.m.

Sunday, Sep. 28 Green Bay at Chicago, 1 p.m.

Buffalo at Houston, 1 p.m.

Tennessee at Indianapolis, 1 p.m.

Carolina at Baltimore, 1 p.m.

Detroit at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.

Miami vs. Oakland at London, 1 p.m.

Jacksonville at San Diego, 4:05 p.m.

Philadelphia at San Francisco, 4:25 p.m.

Atlanta at Minnesota, 4:25 p.m.

New Orleans at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Open: Arizona, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Denver, Seattle, St. Louis Monday, Sep. 29 New England at Kansas City, 8:30 p.m.

All Times Eastern Thursday, Sep. 25 N/A

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Tampa Bay at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m.

Baltimore at Toronto, 7:07 p.m.

Minnesota at Detroit 7:08 p.m.

Houston at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Boston, 7:10 p.m.

Oakland at Texas, 8:05 p.m.

Kansas City at Chicago White Sox 8:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

Saturday’s Games N.Y. Yankees at Boston, 1:05 p.m.

Baltimore at Toronto, 4:07 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Cleveland, 6:05 p.m.

Minnesota at Detroit, 7:08 p.m.

Houston at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.

Kansas City at Chicago White Sox, 7:10 p.m.

Oakland at Texas, 8:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Seattle, 9:10 p.m.

National League Today’s Games Miami at Washington, 1:05

Clubs look for new teams p.m., 1st game Atlanta at Philadelphia 7:05 p.m.

Miami at Washington, 7:05 p.m., 2nd game Houston at N.Y. Mets 7:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Cincinnati 7:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee 8:10 p.m.

St. Louis at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.

Colorado at L.A. Dodgers 10:10 p.m.

San Diego at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Pitts at Cincinnati, 1:05 p.m.

Miami at Washington, 4:05 p.m.

San Diego at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m.

Atlanta at Philad, 7:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee, 7:10 p.m.

Houston at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.

St. Louis at Arizona, 8:10 p.m.

Colorado at Dodgers, 9:10 p.m.

By Times Staff The Beaver Valley and Trail Curling Clubs are getting set to hit the hack for the upcoming curling season and are seeking curlers and teams for a variety of leagues.

Sign up for Beaver Valley Men’s Curling on Monday at 7 p.m. and throw rocks on Monday, Tuesday, or Thursdays.

Registration for the B.V. Mixed Curling Club goes Oct. 3 at 7 p.m.

The mixed night alternates Fridays and Saturdays, and is a fun, social evening, where beginners are encouraged to come out and play.

The B.V. Ladies curling registration is scheduled for Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. with games played on Wednesday nights.

The Trail Curling Club’s Men’s Retirees registration goes on

Wednesday at 1 p.m. with games slated to start on Oct. 8.

The Day Men’s and Ladies’ clubs are having an open house on Wednesday at 1 p.m., while the Men’s evening curlers will register Oct. 7 at 7 p.m.

Also, the Kootenay Savings Super League will see eight teams take to the ice this year with the first matches going Tuesday at 7 p.m.

The Trail club’s Junior curling registration goes on Oct. 22 and 27 from 3-5 p.m. with games starting on the 29th.

All clubs are looking for new teams and curlers, sign up as a team or an individual.

For more info. contact the Trail Curling Club at 368-6222 or Ed at the B.V. Curling Club at 367-7628.

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Important start for Smokies and fans Co-ed hockey drops puck

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t was a nice start for the Smoke Eaters, but the real heavy lifting begins tonight.

All the interior teams did pretty well, most of the mainland/ island teams did not, so there is little indication of the relative merits of Interior teams in the outcomes at the, “Showcase.”

DAVE Tonight, when the Penticton Vees hit Cominco Arena, will be the first true measuring stick placed against the Smokies’ potential. And on Saturday they will face another first place team (entering the weekend) in the Salmon Arm Silverbacks.

Strong results the next couple of nights would

do a number of good things for Trail.

It would indicate to what is shaping up to be a large crowd for the first home game that this is a team that will compete for playoff positioning from the get-go.

It would really kick start the 2014/15 campaign in the Interior Division positively, especially given that the schedule has Trail playing its following four games against the seemingly weaker western clubs giving the Smokies an opportunity to run up and stay up in the early season standings.

It would inspire confidence within the brand new roster and relatively new regime, and the fan base.

All of those good things are possible, but it won’t be easy. The Vees are perennially powerful contenders in the BCHL and, despite the six-point heroics of two Smoke Eaters last weekend, boast the Player of the Week in 16 year-old Tyson Jost and a combined four players - to Trail’s three - in the early season’s Top 20 scoring list.

And, it is very early, so nothing that happens in the Trail Memorial Centre tonight and tomorrow can foretell the season-long future for the Smokies or the league.

I am hopeful for this season, with all the work and worry and outreach the team has gone through in their own hopes of claiming a needed playoff run. It might take at least two points out of the four on offer this weekend to light that optimist fire in the hockey crowd around here.

It is a critical season for the franchise. Tonight and tomorrow are a bright opportunity for the team to get a jump on success. We all should, if we can, be there to encourage them.

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JOIN AS AN INDIVIDUAL OR A TEAM IN ANY OF THE FOLLOWING: Ladies Coffee: Tuesday @ 9:30am Mixed Money League: Tuesday @ 7pm Mens Night: Wednesday @ 7pm Seniors’ Drop in Bowling: Wednesday @ 1pm Mixed: Thursday @ 7pm Youth Leagues (YBC Program): Saturday @10am (ages 5-10) Sunday @ 5:30pm Young Adults (11-19) - Start Sept. 20th & 21st

We Welcome New Bowlers!

Open Daily for Public Bowling.

Friday & Saturday nights are Disco Bowling Fun Nights

Phone 250.368.6211 or hemmer@shaw.ca

Adult Co-Ed Pick-Up Hockey starts Friday Oct. 3 from noon to 1 p.m. at the Trail Memorial Centre Kids Rink. Join us each week for some extra ice time and fun scrimmages, all levels are welcome.

Register for all days at a very low rate, or purchase drop-in tickets at the Trail Aquatic Centre prior to playing for only $5 each.

Evening Badminton in running every Tuesday and Thursday at the Willi Krause Fieldhouse from 8:15 to 10:15 p.m. Register or buy dropin tickets at the aquatic centre. We welcome all levels of players with the focus being on fun, fitness, and sportsmanship.

Morning Badminton starts Oct. 1 and runs every Wednesday from 9 to 10 a.m at the Trail Memorial Centre Gym. This recreational badminton program is for men and women, beginners to advanced, with emphasis on the game and having fun. Birdies and racquets are provided. Minimum registration is required so call to register to avoid cancellation at 364-0888.

Public Skating starts on Wednesday, so come on out and enjoy the ice. Schedules are available at the aquatic centre; there’s ice time every day of the week.

Enjoy the Parent and Tot Stick

and Puck every Sunday evening from 5:45 to 7:15 p.m. at public skating. Kids six and under and their parents are welcome to play with the supplied sticks and pucks and enjoy practicing your passing, shooting at the goal, and skating with a hockey stick. Helmets mandatory. Teen Glow Skates are on the first Saturday of each month with our kickoff night on Oct. 4 from 7 to 8:15 p.m. in the Kids Rink. Fun for all youth ages Grade 7 and up.

Enjoy rockin’ music, laser lights, and the disco ball. Call your friends and come on down for the hottest night of dancing on ice. Regular public skating admission applies and rentals will be available.

High Intensity Interval Training classes with Jenny Picton go every Monday and Wednesday from 6:15 to 7:15 p.m. in the Fitness Studio at the Trail Memorial Centre. Rev up your metabolism by working hard and maintaining a higher heart rate. There will be timed cardio bursts, core and muscle strength, and exercises with free weights and bands. Take you fitness to the next level; modifications will be offered so all fitness levels can participate at their own pace. Call Trail Parks and Recreation at 364-0888 to register or purchase a drop in ticket.

Smokies open on home ice FROM PAGE 13 “I feel confident that if we put our best foot forward, we have a good chance here especially at home,” said Deschenes.

The Showcase

enabled Smoke Eater coaching staff to scout rival teams and get an indication of what to expect going into the season, however, Deschenes views it as a process where chan-

BV Mixed Curling CluB league Registration Night

Friday, October 3rd

drop in 7 - 9pm @ the Beaver Valley Curling Rink.

Contact Paul Goodreau 250-367-9794 New Curlers Welcome Beginner’s Clinic available for new members Fun People - Fun Times!

ges or adjustments are imminent.

“You have to look at the big picture; you could be successful now, but ignore some of the things we need to deal with, other team’s aren’t successful but they make those changes and they got the edge. It’s still very early.”

The Smoke Eaters are expected to have captain Scott Davidson, who was out with a concussion, in the lineup for tonight’s game.

Game time is 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

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Report bully brother-in-law’s behaviour to parents Mailbox

Marcy Sugar & Kathy Mitchell

Thanksgiving, and I know Chris won’t be able to get away with this then. But I don’t know whether I can hold out that long.

I also feel really guilty because I find myself wishing that Chris would die in a car wreck or something. I know that’s wrong, but I can’t help it. -- Your Friend Dear Friend: Please tell your parents, your friends, your friends’ parents and your teachers what is going on. Make sure Chris knows that every time he hurts you, you will inform your parents.

And don’t worry that he will take it out on your sister. Bullies

do the same for you.

There may be times when texting is necessary, but I do not want that to be our principal means of communication.

Annie, am I asking too much? -- Dorothy Dear Dorothy: Of course not, but as much as you prefer a phone call, others prefer texting. It allows them to respond whenever they choose.

We suggest you pick up the phone when you want to talk and ask others to do the same, but understand that they might text anyway. To each his own.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Mostly Over It in Vermont,” who said her mother probably didn’t recognize that some of her childrearing techniques were abusive.

I’m sure that my dad was the same.

When my younger sister and I were to be punished, we had to remove all of our

clothes while Dad sat on our bed and lectured us. The door to the bedroom stood wide open so anyone could walk by. Then he’d turn us over his knee and spank us.

This punishment made me ashamed to be seen in the lock-

er room at school. I also believe it contributed to the fact that I fondled some of my friends when we were in grade school. It’s taken me a long time to have a healthier attitude. I wonder how my life would have been different had I

grown up another way.

-- Forever Free Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net

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Annie’s

pick on those they believe are too small, too young, too weak or too frightened to stand up to them and report it. Your sister will not be such an easy target, and if he tries anything with her, the entire family will know what he really is.

Dear Annie: May I post this for my friends and family members?

Dear Friends and Family: When I phone, it’s because I want to speak with you. If you would like to speak with me, please do the same. Do not attempt to carry on a conversation by texting. We can get the same results in a two-minute phone call as in a texting session that leaves things out and takes way too much time. I also have to wait for your response. And I wouldn’t dream of texting you back while I am driving.

I would love to hear from you, so please call. If I don’t answer, leave a message. I will

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Dear Annie: I am an 11-year-old boy and the youngest in my family. My sister is 22 years old and married to a bully. “Chris” is always mean to me when no one is watching. He punches and kicks me and shoves me into things. One time, he drove me to a friend’s house and punched me in my arm six times in less than 10 minutes. He calls me names, including gay slurs, and makes fun of me for being small and having asthma. He says he is trying to toughen me up because I’m such a baby, and if I tell anyone he will take it out on my sister.

When we’re around my family, Chris acts like my best buddy. He puts on a big show, and my parents think he’s the greatest. I try to avoid him, but they live next door, and we’re always around each other. My older brother comes home from the army at

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YourByhoroscope Francis Drake For Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) This is a lovely day to schmooze and do something different. Talk to people from different backgrounds. Go someplace you’ve never been before. Put a little variety into your life!

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) You might come out smelling like a rose if you decide to share something with someone today. It looks like things are going in your favor. (This is a good day to discuss how to deal with an inheritance.)

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Conversations with partners and close friends will be upbeat and pleasant today.

Nevertheless, someone wants to get right down to the nittygritty. This person wants the straight skinny!

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) You will enjoy your job today, and you might encoun-

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ter work-related travel as well.

People from different backgrounds will intrigue you and perhaps have excellent advice for you.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) A playful day! Enjoy sports events, the entertainment world, show business, the hospitality industry and playful activities with children. Kick up your heels and have fun!

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Family gatherings will be positive today, and a conversation with a female family member in particular could help you (perhaps literally, with money or direct gifts).

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Your relations with others are warm today, and you likely will attract happy, positive people to you. That’s because you’re in a positive frame of mind!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Business and commerce are blessed today. Look for ways to

get a better job or boost your income. You may get good advice from a female associate.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Today you have a strong concern for the general welfare of others beyond your immediate circle. If you can help someone, you will reach out to him or her.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) It’s easy to put the interests

of others before your own today, because you feel genuinely concerned. In the long run, this will benefit you, because what goes around, comes around.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) A conversation with a female friend will be upbeat and pleasurable today. Share your hopes and dreams for the future with this person because her feedback will help you.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) People in authority are impressed by you today. You appear to know what you’re talking about, and they are willing to listen.

YOU BORN TODAY You quest for perfection, which makes you expect a lot from yourself and others. You are versatile and enjoy many kinds of work. Go slowly this year.

There is something important to learn. The first half of this

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year will seem slow, but soon your efforts of the past six years will start to show results.

Get out into nature this year.

Birthdate of: Avril Lavigne, singer; Shaun Cassidy, screenwriter; Gwyneth Paltrow, actress.

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250.368.8551 Announcements

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fax 250.368.8550 email nationals@trailtimes.ca Announcements Announcements Employment Employment

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Help Wanted

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

Kitchen Help Wanted

Local Insurance Agency Seeking Level I or Level II Agent

Lost & Found FOUND: iphone around the 2300 block of McBride Street on Tuesday, Sept.23. Please claim @ Trail Times.

LOST: Medic Alert Bracelet, first week of September in Trail. If found please call 250364-0998 LOST: Snap-on boat cover, tan color, on highway between Trail and Nelson. Please call 250-921-9020

Employment Drivers/Courier/ Trucking EXPERIENCED CLASS 1 Drivers, F/T, P/T for California & Arizona produce hauling, excellent pay and benefits, safety bonus and home time. Call Jerry or Bill 1-877-539-1750.

Help Wanted Room Attendant & Office help wanted. Drop off resume in person & apply at Casa Alpina, 1199 Highway 3B Rossland

Apply at in person with resume to Benedict’s Steakhouse Scho¿eld +iJhway 7rail 250-368-3360 Weekend Driver needed to Haul Propane Class 1 or 3 Please send resume to jahlefeld@calgasinc.com

An Alberta Oilfield Company is hiring experienced dozer and excavator operators, meals and lodging provided. Drug testing required. 1-(780)7235051.

Autoplan is an asset Please mail resume to Box 567 1163 Cedar Ave V1R 4B8

We’re on the net at www.bcclassiďŹ ed.com

PART TIME experienced kitchen help, available all days. Apply in person after 2pm @Lil T’s Cafe, 2905 Hwy Dr., Trail.

In Memoriam

In Memoriam

Cards of Thanks

Help Wanted

The family of the late

Luisa Malito

would like to thank the following for their services and support during the loss of our dear mother/nonna: Dr. Francois Bachand of the Kelowna BC Cancer Agency.

Trail KBRH- 3rd floor medical staff nurses and care aides for all the care given to mom, it made her feel at home. Big thanks to Natalie Handley for all her support during this difficult time! KGH (Kelowna) 4th floor medical staff. Dr. Wilson, Dr. Phillips and Dr. Scotland. Bill Clarke & staff at Alternatives Funeral and Cremation Services. CWL for the lovely luncheon. Father Bart and Sister Norma.

Pallbearers. Church Choir and especially Toni Druitti for the beautiful song “Ave Maria�. All our friends and family for lovely baking, flowers, cards, masses and phone calls.

Have a Rewarding career in Senior’s Home Support We are looking for a resourceful, dedicated individual with a RCA certificate.

Must be physically fit, have good communication skills, a reliable vehicle and able to work flexible hours.

Email your resume to acashman@telus.net or call April @250-231-5033

Your thoughtfulness and caring for mom is greatly appreciated.

Mom/Nonna was a thoughtful, caring and loving person and we are going to miss her dearly.

God bless you all!

Malito and St.Denis Families

In Memory

Help Wanted

Robert (Bob) Lamoureux

Help Wanted

Oct. 15, 1957 - Sept. 29, 2008 Death leaves a heartache No one can heal.

Love leaves a memory No one can steal.

Forever in our hearts Ragan, Renae & Randy

Help Wanted

Care Aides and LPN’S

Castleview Care Centre is seeking casual Care Aides and LPN’s.

We offer competitive H.E.U. wages and benefits.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS Care Aide: Certificate in Long Term Care Aide Current BCCA Registration Number LPN: Current LPN License CPR & First Aid Certificates Geriatric Experience

In Memoriam In Loving Memory of

Shawn William Whitehead June 25, 1964-September 26, 2013

Join our Nursing team! CVCC is focused on Resident-First, Person-Centered Care.

We welcome individuals interested in making a difference Email: cvcc-admin@chantellegroup.com Only successful applicants will be contacted.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

CASUAL LIBRARY ASSISTANT The Trail & District Public Library is seeking a qualiďŹ ed individual to ďŹ ll the casual position as Library Assistant.

Applicants must have a exible work schedule.

QualiďŹ cations and expectations are outlined in the job description, which is available at the library. Salary and beneďŹ ts are in accordance with the CUPE Local 2087 Collective Agreement.

Interested applicants are invited to submit their resume along with a cover letter and three references to: Belinda Wilkinson, Library Director Trail & District Public Library 1051 Victoria Street, Trail, BC V1R 3T3 or by email to director@traillibrary.com Applications will be received up to 1 p.m., Monday, October 6, 2014.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Client Services Coordinator Castlegar, BC Independent Respiratory Services is a BC-owned and operated full service respiratory company that has been providing sleep apnea and home oxygen therapy to British Columbians since 1996. We are currently looking for a highly motivated individual to join our Castlegar Team.

You never said “I’m leaving�, you never said “Goodbye�.

You were gone before I knew it and only God knows why.

The moment that you died, my heart was torn in two.

One side was ďŹ lled with heartache and the other died with you.

A million times I’ve needed you, a million times I’ve cried.

If love alone could have saved you, you never would have died.

My heart still aches in sadness, my silent tears still ow.

For what it meant to lose you, no one will ever, ever know.

In life I loved you dearly, in death I love you still.

In my heart I hold a place, that only You can ever ďŹ ll.

Remembering you is easy, I do it every day.

But missing you is a heartache, that will never go away.

It broke my heart to lose you, but you didn’t go alone.

As part of me went with you, the day God called you home.

I hold you tightly within my heart and there you will remain.

Until the joyous day arrives, that we will be together again.

All my love forever Maria ******************************

Forever in our hearts, always in our thoughts Leonarda and Rocco Bonito

Request for Qualified Applicants: Specialized Business Consultants Community Futures invites consultants interested in providing on-call consulting services for the Basin Business Advisors program.

This successful program helps small and medium businesses including social enterprises. We are seeking consultants with skills in, but not limited to the following areas: ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡

human resources; financial; new technology; social enterprise; sales / marketing; and other business related specialities and skill as needs arise

Learn more at www.futures.bc.ca

The successful candidate must be: • Committed to Customer Service • Comfortable in a dynamic team environment • Meticulous and detail oriented • Organized, Efficient • Confident, Outgoing, Independent • Professional in Approach and Appearance • Skillful in all forms of Communication Education and Background: • Strong computer skills • In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office applications • Certificate in Business Administration • 1 to 2 years of general office experience Our company offers competitive remuneration and benefits. To launch an exciting career with Independent Respiratory Services today, forward your resume in confidence to hr@irscanada.ca.

Closing date is October 4, 2014.

We sincerely thank all applicants for their interest; however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

For more information about our company, please visit:

www.irscanada.ca

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WANTED

PAPER CARRIERS Excellent exercise, fun for all ages.

Fruitvale

Fruitvale cont’d West Trail

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 356 11 papers Green Rd, Pine Ave Route 363 12 papers Casemore Rd, Tamarac Ave

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

Route 135 15 papers Austed Lane, Binns St, Buckna St

Montrose Route 341 24 papers 10th Ave, 8th 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

CARRIERS NEEDED FOR ROUTES IN ALL AREAS

Call Today!

250-364-1413 ext 206

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WANTED

PAPER CARRIERS is Excellent exercise, fun for all ages. looking

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 Call 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

Route 149 7 papers Binns St, McAnally St, Kitchener Ave Route 195 12 papers Blake Crt,Whitman Way Route 211 26 papers Hazelwood Dr, Olivia Cres, Viola Cres.

Route 219 15 papers Hazelwood Drive

Rossland

CARRIERS NEEDED FOR ROUTES IN ALL AREAS

today

Service Advisor Kalawsky Chevrolet Buick GMC seeks an energetic, customer-focused and professional service advisor. Duties include scheduling maintenance and repair work, providing estimates, selling service and parts, coordinating technicians and embracing administrative tasks. Strong communication and multitasking skills required.

Would consider 2nd or 3rd year apprentice We are offering a very competitive pay rate and benefit package with an exceptional work environment to the qualified candidate.

Give us a call, you might be surprised what you’re worth in today’s market 250-364-9988 Send resume and cover letter attn: Justin summitsubaru@shawbiz.ca

Our standards are high because our customers deserve the best treatment when entrusting their vehicles to us. We offer excellent benefits, bonuses and a positive working environment. This is a full-time position. If you have sales or service experience outside the auto sector, we will also seriously consider your application.

Please send your resume with cover letter to:

SUMMIT SUBARU Old Waneta Rd

Mitch Rinas, Controller Kalawsky Chevrolet Buick GMC 1700 Columbia Avenue Castlegar, BC V1N 2M8 Fax: (250) 365-3949 Email: mitch@kalawsky.com

CHEVROLET

BUICK

Trail, BC

Full Times Sales Representative.

Andre’s Electronic Experts in Castlegar is looking to grow their sales force.

Looking for individuals with sales experience and knowledge of cellular/ electronic and appliances.

Full time salary/commission plus benefits.

Drop off resumes to 200 - 1965 Columbia Ave Castlegar. Or email jim.d@andres1.com

GMC

1700 Columbia Avenue Castlegar | (250)365-2155

We’re on the net at www.bcclassified.com

Rossland

for paper carriersWest Trail in all Warfield areas for one daySunningdale a week

Journeyman Automotive Technician Wanted Immediately

Call Today!

250-364-1413 ext 206 250-364-1413 ext 206

STEP UP

**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

If you seek a career, not just a job, step up and apply to Castlegar Hyundai.

Product Advisor

Listen to customers, ask questions and help them select the right vehicle. Become familiar with one of the world·s most e[citing automotive lineups. Build your own business with unlimited potential in this sales position.

Step into a career position with continuous training, beneÀts, e[cellent pay for a job well done, the opportunity to advance and a supportive team. :e want people who wake up each day e[cited to work hard and achieve their goals. A track record of success in your work, education or other pursuits is an asset.

Take that ÀUst step and apply today.

Contact Keith Kalawsky keith@castlegarhyundai.com.

CASTLEGAR

HYUNDAI

Drivers/Courier/ Trucking

Career Opportunities

Seafood Retail Program Merchandiser (Vancouver Island)

Full time coordinator for a seafood merchandising program including ad program management & department manager training in our main office in Errington, BC. Previous experience in the grocery industry with a specialty in seafood and seafood operations is required. The ideal candidate will demonstrate excellent operational knowledge, communication, team building and leadership skills.

We offer Excellent Benefit & Incentive Programs For further details visit: www.QualityFoods.com Apply to Lyall Woznesensky : Quality@ QualityFoods.com

Drivers/Courier/ Trucking

Trimac Transportation, is North America’s premier provider of services in highway transportation of bulk commodities.

Our Trail/Castlegar, BC location requires...

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Company Drivers Owner Operators Excellent pay • B-train & dry bulk experience preferred • Safety equipment Safety bonus • FAST card required Please send your resume to: Mark Davy, E-mail: canrecruiting@trimac.com Fax: 888-746-2297 Phone: 866-487-4622

North America’s Premier Provider www.trimac.com

(Trimac)

MANAGERIAL POSITIONS We’re growing on Vancouver Island! If you have multiple years’ experience in a managerial role in the grocery business and want to join an innovative & creative group then we would love to hear from you.

We offer exceptional benefits, Group RSP and many other incentives.

Please send your resume to: Lyall Woznesensky Lyall@Qualityfoods.com QF Director Professional Development.

Art/Music/Dancing GUITAR LESSONS WITH FLETSCH FERGUSON. ALL AGES. 250-364-2139

Education/Tutoring CONTINUING EDUCATION

Upcoming Courses: CORE Hunter Training: Sept 21 Stress Management: Sept 24 Simply Accounting: Sept 24 Emotionally Connected Relationships: Sept 25 Confined Space: Sept 26 Standard First Aid with CPR C: Sept 27 Foodsafe Level I: Sept 27 To Register, please call Nella at 250.364.5770 TUTORING for BC Chemistry 11 or 12. Very experienced in teaching and tutoring. $20/h (1st session free). Email dcolgur@gmail.com

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

Need Money? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Acceptance Corp. Member BBB. 1-877-987-1420 www.pioneerwest.com LARGE FUND Borrowers Wanted Start saving hundreds of dollars today! We can easily approve you by phone. 1st, 2nd or 3rd mortgage money is available right now. Rates start at Prime. Equity counts.

We don’t rely on credit, age or income.

Call Anytime 1-800-639-2274 or 604-430-1498. Apply online www.capitaldirect.ca

Garden & Lawn Aerating, Hedge Trimming.

Tree Removal, Fall Cleanup.

Haul Aways. Call 368-5488

Household Services A-1 FURNACE & Air Duct Cleaning.

Complete Furnace/Air Duct Systems cleaned & sterilized. Locally owned & operated. 1-800-5650355 (Free estimates)

Merchandise for Sale

Food Products BC INSPECTED

GRADED AA OR BETTER LOCALLY GROWN NATURAL BEEF Hormone Free Grass Fed/Grain Finished Freezer Packages Available Quarters/Halves $4.10/lb Hanging Weight Extra Lean Ground Beef Available TARZWELL FARMS 250-428-4316 Creston

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Classifieds Firewood/Fuel

Garage Sales

Firewood, you cut. $80 per cord. 250-367-0274

Montrose: 905 9th Ave. Sat Sept 27th 8am - 2 pm Misc & collectables

Garage Sales Fruitvale: 2047 Old Salmo Rd Sat Sept 27th, 8 am - ?Lots of great stuff CHEAP FRUITVALE 2066 Caughlin Rd. Sat. & Sun. Sept. 27 & 28, 8:30am-3pm. Large strawberry collection, furniture & household.

Garage Sale! 1140 Cedar Ave, d/t Trail. Even under tarp.

Sat. Sept.27. 10:00am-noon GENELLE, Moving Sale 1212 2nd St. Sat. Sept.27th 9-1, Sun. Sept.28th, 11-2 Yard Garage, household items, Xmas toys/fabric craft sale.

GLENMERRY, 1604 Daphne Street.

Sat. Sept.

27, 8am-12noon.

Baby items, boys clothing, toys & household items.

GLENMERRY, 3032 Laburnum Drive. Sat. Sept 27th, 8am-1pm. Electric scooter, Furniture, appliances, Chesterfield, chair, sofa, bedding, curtain, drapes & much more.

TRAIL, 1330 Esplanade. Indoor Market. Sat. Sept.27, 10-3. Farmers produce, baked goods, arts & crafts. Vendor tables available $10. 250-3686076 Lots of Free Items!

Misc. for Sale Affordable Steel Shipping Containers for sale/rent 20’ & 40’ Kootenay Containers Castlegar 250-365-3014

Montrose : 900 12th Ave Fri, Sat & Sun Sept 26th, 27th & 28th 9 am - ? Looking for something, we likely have it!

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

Houses For Sale

Houses For Sale

Misc. for Sale Dynamic is having a Clearance Sale, misc wood products,excess landscape material, tools, sawmill equipment, large trucks forklifts & much more we are located in Castlegar 1839 Brilliant Rd. Sale starts Sept 15th runs to Oct 15th HOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available.

1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com/ newspaper?

HOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available.

1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com/ newspaper?

Misc. Wanted Cash Paid for old guns, signs, tins, toys, military medals, swords, coin collections, cowboy, railroad & mining items, Bottles, license plates, estates. Larry 1 250 545-7140 sumas@shaw.ca Private Coin Collector Buying Collections, Accumulations, Olympic Gold & Silver Coins + Chad: 250-499-0251. Local.

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Houses For Sale For sale by owner. Built in 2005, 1640sqft custom built home. Located on the 3rd fairway of the 27 hole golf & country club in Chewelah, Washington. 3 bdrms, 2 bath, 2 car garage. 10 miles from ski-area. $285,000. For more info call 509-828-0649 or 0648 TRAIL, 1134 Marianna Cres.

Spotless, bright, updated, move-in ready 2bdrm. home in desirable location. Won’t last long at $189,900. Photos at kijiji ID# 1011459826. Call to view 250-364-1940.

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Unit Price TENDERS INVITED by AM FORD SALES LTD from bone fide Contractors to construct: PARKING LOT AND RETAINING WALL At AM Ford Plus located on Highway 3B at Waneta Mall on: Lot 1, Plan EPP12291, DL 4598, KD Work consists of:

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

Glenmerry 2bdrm. apt. F/S Heat included. N/S. $750./mo.

250-368-5908 GLENVIEW APTS. Spacious, quiet 2 bdrm. apts. available.

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1. Excavation and removal of approximately a. 900 cubic meters topsoil b. 6,300 cubic meters of subsurface soil 2. Supply and installation of approximately 202 Concrete Block Retaining Wall Tender documents and instructions to tender may be obtained from the Project Manager: Elmer Verigin, BE., P.Eng., E Verigin Consultants (EVC) 145 – 4200 Grandview Drive Castlegar, B.C. V1N 4X6 (250) 304 2801 (O) (250) 608 2215 (Cell) EMVerigin@shaw.ca Tenders close at the offices of EVC at 1:00 P.M., September 30, 2014. The lowest or any Tender will not necessarily be accepted.

All Contractors must schedule a site visit with the Project Manager.

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

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Miral Heights. $89,000 Redstone ......... $70,000

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Rentals ROSSLAND, 2bd. furn. apt., util. incl. $700./mo.; 3bd. furn. apt. $1,000./mo. all incl. Short term ok. 604-902-3341 TRAIL, 1BD, 1 Blk. to city small fenced yard, $595/mth 250-368-6076 TRAIL, 1bd. apt. Friendly, quiet secure bldg. Heat incl.

N/P, N/S. 250-368-5287 TRAIL, 1bdrm. f/s, heat incl., close to park, bus stop & town.

250-231-1125 / 250-364-1129 TRAIL, 2BDRM. Glenmerry.

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

TRAIL, 3BD. Bright, clean, spacious, in quiet bldg. W/D. S.exposure w/deck, off-street parking. N/S. $835. 250-2294600, 503-302-5428 TRAIL, spacious 1&2bdrm. apartment. Adult building, perfect for seniors/ professionals.

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

Homes for Rent 3 BEDROOM house for rent, available immediately, located at 462 Rossland Ave. in Trail.

F/S, W/D. $675./mo. plus utilities. Phone 250-368-1237 Mobile Home in Thrums 2 brms, addition, deck, F/S W/D, small 15 unit park small pet ok, 250-304-9273 Shavers Bench! 4 Bedroom, full basement, F/S, N/S, N/P. $900/month. 250-364-1551 SUNNINGDALE, 2-BDRM. 1142 Marianna Crescent. $700./mo. +utilities, n/s, n/p.

Avail. Nov.1st 250-551-2582 TRAIL, 2BD., N/S, N/P. Available immediately. 250367-7558 TRAIL, 2bdrm., full basement, garage, nice view. F/S, W/D, N/S, N/P. $850. 250-365-5003 TRAIL, 2BD. + sunroom. Near Safeway. $795./mo. 250-3686076 WARFIELD, 3BD. $925.mo.

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2014 GENERAL LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTION MAIL BALLOT VOTING On Saturday, November 15, 2014 from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary (RDKB) will hold the General Local Government Election for the office(s) of Dlrector(s) for the RDKB jurisdictions of: Electoral Area A, Electoral Area B/ Lower Columbia-Old Glory, Electoral Area C/Christina Lake, Electoral Area D/Rural Grand Forks and Electoral E/West Boundary.

Who Can Vote By Mail?

Pursuant to the RDKB Elections and Other Voting Conduct Bylaw No. 1556, 2014 RDKB Electors may vote by mail if you: 1) have a physical disability, illness or injury that affects your ability to vote on General Voting Day, Saturday, November 15, 2014 or on one of the two advanced voting opportunities (Wednesday, November 5th and Wednesday, November 12th) OR

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2) expect to be absent from the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary on General Voting Day (Saturday, November 15) and at the times of all advance voting opportunities (Wednesday, November 5th and Wednesday, November 12th).

RDKB List of Registered Electors Electors are allowed to vote by mail if you are, or you become, registered on the RDKB List of Registered Electors as: 1) a Resident Elector (i.e. you reside in RDKB Electoral Area A, B, C, D, or E) OR 2) a Non-Resident Property Elector (you live elsewhere in B.C. but you own property in one of the RDKB’s Electoral Areas (e.g. A, B, C, D or E) or you own property in more than one of the RDKB’s Electoral Areas (e.g. A, B, C, D or E).

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All Mail Ballot Electors must meet all of the following requirements to vote: 1) You must be 18 years of age or older on general voting day (November 15, 2014).

2) You must be a Canadian citizen 3) You must have been a resident of BC for at least 6 months immediately before you register to vote.

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(a) have been a resident of the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary Electoral Areas A, B, C, D, or E for at least 30 days immediately before you register to vote (for Resident Electors), OR (b) be a registered owner of real property in the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary Electoral Areas A, B, C, D, or E for at least 30 days immediately before you register to vote (for Non Resident Property Electors).

5) You must not have been disqualified by law from voting.

For clarification and to confirm that you are on the RDKB’s List of Registered Electors, contact Theresa Lenardon, Chief Election Officer at tlenardon@rdkb.com, 250-368-0225, 250-368-9148 or 1-800355- 7352 (Toll Free in BC only). If it is necessary, Resident Elector or Non-Resident Property Elector registration forms will be included in the Mail Ballot packages.

According to Sections 6 b), 6 c) and 6 d) of the RDKB’s Election and Other Voting Conduct Bylaw No. 1556, 2014 and pursuant to Section 100 (4) (b) of the Local Government Act, the Chief Election Officer is authorized to establish time limits and deadlines in relation to voting by mail ballot, registering by mail, applying for a mail ballot and elector registration package and for other matters to which time limits are not established in Bylaw No. 1556.

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Mail Ballot Electors may request a Mail Ballot Application form beginning October 10, 2014.

Application forms can be obtained from www.rdkb.com- Elections and Referendums, or by contacting the RDKB Chief Election Officer at the contacts listed below.

Mail Ballot Application forms may also be obtained in person at the following locations:

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Regional District of Kootenay Boundary 843 Rossland Ave., Trail, B.C.

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Once you have obtained a Mail Ballot application form, you must complete it and submit it with all the required documentation to the Chief Election Officer or designated person no later than 4:00 p.m. on Friday, November 7, 2014.

The completed form may be returned to the Chief Election Officer 1) in person at 843 Rossland Avenue, Trail, BC V1R 458 2) by mail via Canada Post to the RDKB Trail address, 3) via e-mail (tlenardon@rdkb. com ) or 4) by fax (250-368-3990).

Upon receipt of an application for a Mail Ballot and after the Nomination Period has expired (October 10, 2014) and ballots have been ordered, printed and delivered to the Chief Election Officer, the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary will begin to send out the said packages sometime during the last two weeks of October until 4:00 p.m., Friday, November 7, 2014.

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Submitting a Mail Ballot Further to instructions in the Mail Ballot package, and to be counted for the election, your Mail Ballot (and registration forms if necessary) must be returned to the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary, 202-843 Rossland Avenue, Trail, BC V1R 458 and be received: by the Chief Election Officer or designated person no later than 4:00 p.m., Thursday, November 13, 2014.

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Mail Ballots may be delivered to the Chief Election Officer at the RDKB Trail office 1) in person, 2) via Canada Post mail or 3) via courier at your expense.

Mail Ballots will not be accepted after 4:00p.m., Thursday, November 13, 2014.

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It is the sole responsibility of the person applying for a Mail Ballot to ensure that both the completed application and the Mail Ballot are received by the Chief Election Officer or designated person within the required timelines stated above. The Chief Election Officer and the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary are not responsible for absent, lost or late Mail Ballot voting documents.

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Please note that the requirements specified in this notification are established by Provincial legislation found in Part 3 of the Local Government Act. No alteration from these requirements can or will be permitted.

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Indoor Market. Farmers produce, baked goods, arts & crafts. Vendor space $10.

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A German car with a price tag under $15,000

By Zack Spencer

Volkswagen has had an impressive ride here during the past few years, gaining market share and selling record numbers of cars – its best-selling car being the Jetta.

When the last VW Jetta was introduced in 2011, it represented a major shift in the company’s sales philosophy.

The decision was to make a larger sedan, yet drop the price to compete right in the heart of Canada’s compact segment, our largest sales category. With a starting price under $15,000 the Jetta is the biggest car in the compact class, offering a gateway into owning a German car, yet having the space and comfort North Americans expect. For 2015 VW continues with the same philosophy but ups the ante to include new engines, styling and interior amenities.

Looks It would be easy to overlook the substantial updates to this new Jetta because the exterior tweaks are so subtle they need pointing out. The front grille, bumper and headlamps have all been replaced to include a bigger air opening

and LED marker lights, plus xenon headlights are available. The back also receives a minor update that includes a new bumper, trunk and tail lamps. With a starting price of $14,990, the Trendline comes

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with hubcaps on 15-inch wheels. The midlevel $20,090 Comfortline can be equipped with 16-inch alloy wheels and the $25,490 Highline is fitted with 17-inch alloys. Then there are the TDI diesel versions that range from $22,490 to $27,790. Volkswagen has a wide range of prices, equipment and engine choices to suit. The most popular is the Trendline Plus at $17,190 that includes the must have… heated front seats!

Inside What isn’t obvious on first inspection is just how far the Jetta interior has come unless you know the previous model.

It was a practical car but hardly luxurious or even sporty – spartan might be a good word.

That has all changed with the new 2015 model thanks to new switches and dials that looks and feel first rate. The upper dash on all but the base Trendline is now fitted with soft-touch materials and the base model even comes with a 6.5-inch touchscreen that also doubles as a backup camera.

Bluetooth is optional on the Trendline plus but becomes standard on Comfortline and above. The top highline features leather, a bigger 8-inch screen and push button start.

What all Jetta’s come standard with is a huge back seat, massive trunk and plenty of room side-to-side. This really is a mid-size car that starts at a compact car price.

Drive The drive event for the all-new Jetta was held in Middleburg Virginia, which I later discovered is in the wealthiest county in the United States. Huge homes on rolling farms, with

stone fences and colonial designs reminds visitors that this is historic country; Middleburg witnesses action during the Gettysburg campaign of the American Civil War. The Salamander Resort was the backdrop for the introduction, an equestrian themed luxury resort that would make any new car look good. Surrounding it are rolling hills and winding roads, a perfect place to exercise the new suspension and engines in the Jetta.

The previous car was recently updated to a full independent suspension and that carries over, as do disc brakes on all four wheels. The big news is a new 1.8L direct injection, turbocharged 4-cylinder with 170hp but an impressive 185 lb.-ft of torque. Speaking of torque, the new TDI diesel engine pumps out a whopping 236 lb-ft of torque and now comes with “AdBlue” exhaust after treatment to improves tailpipe emissions by forty percent.

Verdict After driving both the new engines back to back I’d be hard pressed to choose. I love the torque of the diesel and the impressive efficiency. (It

is rated at just 6.7L/100km in the city and 4.7L on the highway.) But the new turbo gasoline engine is a more spirited unit provides a more enthusiastic experience. This engine delivers 8.1L/100km in the city and 5.6L on the highway. If I drove a lot, the diesel would be the way to go, but for more, fun the new 1.8L is impressive. Still in the mix is the old 2.0L 4-cylinder with 115hp offered in all Trendline and Comfortline models. This engine has been around since Moses was a boy, but it is a proven engine and offers a great starting price.

At first glance the 2015 Jetta looks like a warmed over update but belowunder the surface is substantial change.

The highlights are the new interior and wonderful optional engines. Diesel or gas? – That’s a tough decision. zack.spencer@drivewaybc.ca

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Friday, September 26, 2014 Trail Times

Into the Blue

Guy Bertrand photo

Chris Kissock is used to painting the corners of home plate as a pro pitcher but now he’s displaying he’s adept at painting the goaltender’s crease too as preparation are underway to get the ice in at the Kid’s Rink in the Trail Memorial Centre

The Local Experts™ OPEN HOUSE

Saturday, September 27th 11am-1pm

KOOTENAY HOMES INC.

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

1211 Primrose Street, Trail

STING NEW LI

$189,000

WOW- super clean and very modem 3 bdrm./2 bath corner unit townhouse with central air-Fully fenced back yard that is completely landscapedcovered patio for entertainment and relaxation -carport and paved driveway - many new updates..

Call Mark (250) 231-5591

2017 Valleyview Drive, Trail

Small and compact this home offers the perfect place for a single or couple at a very affordable price. Many upgrades include a newer kitchen, upgraded bathroom, some wiring and plumbing, air conditioning and more! Call now before it’s gone!

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.

Call Tonnie (250) 365-9665

Call Jodi (250) 231-2331

$149,000

Mark Wilson

250-231-5591

mark.wilson@century21.ca

1402 Bay Avenue, Trail

1845 3rd Street, Fruitvale

490 Austad Lane, Trail

SELLER MOTIVATED! This large 3 bed/3 bath home is the perfect project. Get in now and finish the renovations to your taste. Most of the electrical, plumbing, insulation, drywall and windows have been done. Come check it out!

Great Columbia Heights package on a level corner lot with double garage, right across from park! Legal duplex provides a steady revenue stream for investors, or move in to one side and rent the other to help pay your mortgage!

Prime location in downtown Trail, this well maintained building has excellent revenue history with long term tenants.

The lower floor has a lawyer’s office and barber shop (38 yrs in same location!), while upstairs there is a 3 bdrm suite and a bachelor’s suite.

Call Richard (250) 368-7897

Call Terry (250) 231-1101

Call Terry (250) 231-1101

$219,000

$259,000

$159,000

Thinking of moving?

439 Rossland Avenue, Trail

$68,000

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

Call me for a FREE market evaluation today!

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Terry Alton

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Tonnie Stewart

250-365-9665

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Jodi Beamish 250-231-2331

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Mary Martin

250-231-0264 83 Perdue Street, Trail

414 2nd Avenue, Rivervale

This immaculate gem offers 3 bdrms, 2 full baths, beautifully decorated with modern spacious kitchen and bathrooms, wood floors, high ceilings, large living room and updated windows and doors. Move right in and enjoy

This bright cheery home features upgraded, kitchen, bathrooms, flooring, roof, wiring, plumbing, most windows, tastefully decorated, beautiful decks and low maintenance landscaping, and garage.

Such a fabulous little package! Call now!!

Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

$159,000

Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

$164,000

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Richard Daoust

250-368-7897

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Mary Amantea

250-521-0525

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Bill Craig

250-231-2710

bill.craig@century21.ca 441 Whitman Way, Warfield 1354 Mountain Street, Trail

$575,000

$289,000

Spectacularly renovated home overlooking Trail. New wiring, plumbing, heating. Open floor plan with gorgeous kitchen and high ceilings. 3 bdrms/1.5 baths and covered parking.

3 bdrm, 3 bath family home large 27x28 covered deck. Fireplace, walkout basement with huge rec-room, workshop, covered parking and new roof. Garage and tons of storage complete this package.

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

Call Christine (250) 512-7653

$239,900

Deanne Lockhart

1645 Victoria Avenue, Rossland

Gorgeous custom built home with high quality finishings, fantastic kitchen, open floor plan and beautifully landscaped yard. Great parking with huge garage and workshop area. An excellent family home with room for everyone. Come see it today!

250-231-0153 103 Ritchie Avenue, Tadanac

$339,000

4 bed, 3 bath home with plenty of living space and main floor laundry. Lots of bright, big windows in every room. Good parking with double garage. The lot is expansive, flat and offers inground sprinkling system.

deannelockhart@shaw.ca

Art Forrest

250-368-8818 c21art@telus.net

Christine Albo 250-512-7653

christine.albo@century21.ca

Dave Thoss

2207 Columbia Ave, Rossland

$289,000

Great opportunity to start a new business or move an existing one!

Fantastic central location, lots of windows, hardwood floors and tons of character. Fully finished 1 bdrm, basement suite with lots of light and a little covered sundeck. Call your realtor for details!

Call Christine (250) 512-7653

1463 Bay Ave, Downtown Trail

For Lease

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 Art (250) 368-8818

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

www.kootenayhomes.com

250-231-4522

dave.thoss@century21.ca 308 Kootenay Avenue, Tadanac

$329,000

4 bdrm home with circular driveway. Large windows, fireplace, library and sunroom. The yard is stunning and private. Call for your personal viewing.

Dan Powell

Christina Lake 250-442-6413

powelldanielk@gmail.com