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Local firefighters join battle against wildfires Members on standby to fight Washington’s massive Stickpin fire

BY VALERIE ROSSI Times Staff

Kootenay Boundary Regional Fire Rescue is ready to support neighbouring firefighters with dousing the Stickpin fire, near Grand Forks, should the call be received.

Regional fire chief Terry Martin said some members already added their efforts to the Rock Creek fire, which is now 4,534 hectares in size and considered active but is 75 per cent contained. There is a list of ready and willing regional paid on-call members and career staff to pitch in south of the border.

The Stickpin Fire, still estimated at 19,240 hectares, saw 33 BC Wildfire Service personnel arrived Tuesday to help create guard lines and fuel-free areas on the northeast side of the fire.

“Right now we're in a holding pattern for anything with that Stickpin fire,” Martin explained Tuesday. “We're not sending any apparatus or personnel right now but if called upon, we'll assist as best as we can in what their requirement is at the time.”

He and a crew made their way out to the Rock Creek blaze a day after the fire started mid-month. They assisted the Midway Fire Department,

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Firefighter Mike Parsons was one of the local firefighters who was called in to help with the Rock Creek fire when it first started. The crew travelled though the bush with a Type 1 engine that carries about 200 gallons of water, a small pump, hand tools, forestry hose and chainsaws. alongside members from Grand Forks and Big White.

While Martin helped with the incident’s command portion of the disaster, his members covered hot spots from Rock Creek

right up to Westbridge.

The extent of the damage was really eye opening and the “fast moving, hot moving fire” presented many dangers, according to fire captain Grant Tyson.

“It was vigorous ground fires and it burnt to the roots of the trees so the roots were all gone and there was like 80-foot trees falling down like crazy,” he recalled. “The wind started

to blow, choppers would come in and drop some water and knock some trees over.”

Their job was to secure the campsite areas by stopping burns coming back toward the trailers. They worked the edge of the fire, creating a perimeter and safe zone for campers to come in and get their vehicles. Many trailers rolled out unharmed, beyond the odd melting marks, but it was surreal to walk through and see picnic tables left untouched, dressed with table cloths and glasses yet no tents remain at some sites.

The crew travelled though the bush with a Type 1 engine that carries about 200 gallons of water, a small pump, hand tools, forestry hose and chainsaws.

“We unfortunately had one firefighter who was injured,” added Martin. “He got burns to one of his ankles but he's going to be okay, he's just going to be off for a bit.”

It felt good to lend a hand and more importantly to back fellow firefighters from the region.

“It was a good experience and it was good to work with neighbouring fire departments as well,” Martin added. “We all know these people and it's good to work with them on the ground and become that team that the regional district has right now.”

The last time local firefighters were called out to deal with a fire of this magnitude was See INFORMATION, Page 3

Trail hospital auxiliary searching for volunteers

BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff

The Trail Hospital Auxiliary is asking the community to join their cause after losing half its volunteer base to their own health afflictions.

Less helping hands has forced the society to reduce store hours and scramble to finish a laundry list of daily volunteer tasks at Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital (KBRH).

Closing the popular lobby shop with no one to man the till, is denting the fundraising margin for the first time in

group's 72-year patient care and comfort mandate.

“There are slots that people have left and we weren't able to replace them” says auxiliary president Allana Ferro.

Historically, operation hours are Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and from noon until 4 p.m. weekends.

“So what we are doing is putting a note on the door saying we are closed until the next person comes in,” she explained.

“But we just haven't found anyone to fill those spots.”

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Health Foundation in 1988, records of donations are scattered, says Ferro, adding members probably purchased whatever was needed at the time.

In the last 27 years, however, the Trail group has raised $924,000. All dollars stay at the regional hospital for patient care and comfort, Ferro added.

“We don't give our money to any outside organizations, our mandate is this facility.”

Just this year, auxiliary members handed over $45,000 to the foundation's See YOUTH, Page 2

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suffering. It's also all the other duties like portering, manning the information desk and TV service, delivering mail, and rolling the candy confectionary floor-to-floor.

“We had one lady who did the candy cart for 55 years,” said Ferro. “But she's 97 now and can now longer drive. It was hard for her not to be doing it anymore, and we haven't found a replacement.”

Since 1943 Trail auxiliary members have been providing comfort measures to the infirm, beginning in city's old hospital on Victoria Street.

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FROM PAGE 1 current $400,000 urology campaign. Another $15,000 pledge will be contributed to that drive at year end.

Additionally, the group has given about $5,000 for upkeep of the hospital gardens and, each year, a $1,000 bursary is given to a Grade 12 J.L. Crowe student committed to studies in medicine.

“We also have a youth volunteer program,” said Ferro.

“These volunteers certainly are looked upon favourable for the scholarship, if they are continuing in an aspect of the medical field.”

Age nor gender matter, the auxiliary welcomes anyone who will commit a few hours each week.

“All we are asking is if people are willing to donate their time at two hours per week,” she said. “Health care

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Gulch store licence renewed; plumbing business closes

By Sheri Regnier Times Staff

Getting rid of menus, tables, pots and pans, has the Gulch General Store back in business with a renewed operating licence from the City of Trail.

The owners took necessary action to satisfy the building department requirements pertaining to the building bylaw contravention, confirmed Michelle McIsaac, the city's corporate officer.

“Removing the food service area and cooking equipment and thereby returning the building classification to retail/mercantile,” she said.

“The 2015 business licence ... has just recently been issued to the owner for renewal purposes.”

However, it will not be business as usual for Mike's Plumbing and Heating – the second business run out of the same location.

Manager Casey LeMoel informed the city in a letter dated Aug. 9, that he was cancelling the plumbing company’s business licence.

McIsaac noted that LeMoel's cancellation does not guarantee cessation of operations. Trail council agreed that intermittent inspections and follow up would be prudent to ensure plumbing services are not being provided.

Darrell and Wendy LeMoel, owners of two Rossland Avenue businesses, appeared before council in an April 29 show cause hearing.

The matter simmered since January when the city withheld licence renewals for the Gulch General Store and Mike's Plumbing and Heating due to ongoing infractions of Trail's building bylaws.

According to the city's business bylaw, carrying out work without required qualifications is considered gross misconduct and a public risk.

Additionally, under the BC Plumbing Code, if an apprentice is on the job site, all work must be under complete supervision of a certified plumber or journeyman with respective certification.

The city maintained that while LeMoel provided copies of his and another employee's apprenticeship registration, he failed to provide proof of the required supervision.

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Thick smoke blanketing Trail has brought business to a near standstill at the Gyro Park concession. Catherine Zahn took time to top the condiments for when the smoke clears and orders pick up.

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FROM PAGE 1 back in Cranbrook in 2003, he said, which was comparable to this busy fire season.

So far this year, the Southeast Fire Centre has seen 554 fires, which have burned 10,515 hectares. Of these 482 were lightning-caused and the rest person-caused (72). In 2003, this time of year, the region saw 593 fires burn 44,205 hectares.

Local fire crews did assist with the Pend d’Oreille fire in 2007 but only by keeping watch during the wee hours.

“But it didn’t come to what the Rock

Creek fire was,” Martin explained. “It stayed in the forrest so the wildfire management branch looked after it.

“And also, if you remember correctly, that fire blew up, as they say, but then a huge weather event came in and started raining and kind of helped extinguish it. It went away as quick as it blew up.”

The Pend d’Oreille fire burned to nearly 4,000 hectares and was contained and controlled within 30 days.

It took 104 days to suppress but much of this number represents the mop-up stage, where firefighters went into the

once out of bounds perimeter to control the hot grounds, making sure no other fires started up.

The Stickpin fire is experiencing very smoky conditions, which is creating low visibility issues that are limiting air access and reconnaissance for the fire, according to Karlie Shaughnessy of the Southeast Fire Centre.

There is an information meeting scheduled for today at 6 p.m. at the Grand Forks Secondary School and another planned for 8 p.m. tonight at the Christina Lake Community Hall.

Salmo

Village gets funding for new playground

By Times Staff The sound of children playing will again be heard at the Knights of Pythias Park in Salmo. Two and a half years after an old structure was removed for safety reasons, a new playground is slated for completion this fall.

The playground — and several other park upgrades totalling $100,000 — has been made possible in part by $65,000 from Columbia Basin Trust. Other contributors include the Regional District of Central Kootenay, Western Financial and the Village

of Salmo.

Knights of Pythias Park is the main park in the village and the heart of community activities, special events, sports and outdoor gatherings. The planned improvements will upgrade the facilities, amenities and grounds of the park to meet the needs of the community, residents and visitors of all ages.

“The children of Salmo will once again have a community playground,” said Salmo Mayor Stephen White. “Thanks to the dedication and cooperation of res-

idents, council members, and our chief administrative officer, who came together to secure funding that will allow this community vision to become a reality. The new playground would not have been possible without the support of the Columbia Basin Trust.”

Specific improvements include the installation of a new playground, maintenance and upgrades to the ball fields and dugouts, sand and waterlines to the campsites, concession stand design and the preparation of a master plan for the park.

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“This project is a great example of teamwork,” said Kelvin Saldern, community liaison for Columbia Basin Trust. “Over 50 concerned community members came together to form a parks working group, which then worked with the local chamber of commerce and the village. Even the children got directly involved by voting on which playground design they prefer.”

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Humpback whales making comeback along coast

By Robert Barron Nanaimo Daily News

Humpback whales are making a comeback in the waters of the Strait of Georgia.

Simon Pidcock is the owner of Cowichan Bay-based Ocean EcoVentures which offers whale-watching tours. He said he came across the first humpback whale he had ever seen in the area in 1997. He now sees approximately 70 individual humpback whales in the strait on a regular basis.

“We seem to see more and more of them everyday,” he said. “People usually come to us to see

killer whales and we’ve become well-known for that over the years, so having the humpback whales return to local waters is an added bonus and some customers are now even coming strictly to see these whales.”

By the time commercial whaling in B.C. waters and elsewhere was finally ended in the 1960s, there were as few as 1,500 humpbacks left in the entire north Pacific Ocean.

In fact, Nanaimo was home to one of the whaling stations that hunted and processed the whales.

The whaling company Pacific Whaling

built a station at Piper’s Lagoon in 1907 and, that year, beached 97 humpback whales at nearby Shack Island.

Soon after, in 1909, most of the commercially viable humpback whales in the waters around Nanaimo were slaughtered and the station at Piper’s Lagoon was dismantled and moved to the Queen Charlotte Islands, now called Haida Gwaii.

But their numbers have rebounded since the end of the commercial hunt and it’s now estimated that there are approximately 20,000 humpback whales in the north

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Pacific Ocean, with increasing numbers of them coming into the Strait of Georgia to feed all the time.

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Careless driving, smoking penalties on way

By Tom Fletcher BC Local News

VICTORIA – The B.C. legislature is being recalled Sept. 28 for a fall session that will likely deal with increasing penalties for distracted driving and careless smoking.

The B.C. government has signalled its intention to increase penalties in both areas.

Justice Minister Suzanne Anton announced preliminary results of public consultation on distracted driving penalties at the end of June, with 90 per cent of respondents calling for stiffer penalties for using smartphones while driving.

Anton said the current $167 ticket for distracted drivers is

not sufficient for repeat offenders, who could have their vehicles impounded.

Saskatchewan has introduced a one-week seizure of the vehicle for drivers who get two distracted driving tickets less than a year apart.

After dry conditions sparked an early start to the B.C. forest fire season, Forests Minister Steve Thomson announced a review of penalties for violating campfire bans and tossing lit cigarettes.

Thomson appointed Prince George-Mackenzie MLA Mike Morris, a former RCMP superintendent, to lead a similar review of those penalties. Morris said he was considering the

vehicle impoundment option for careless tossing of cigarette butts, and prohibiting people from camping in provincial parks if they violate campfire restrictions.

Fire bans allow use of camp stoves or barbecues with briquets for cooking, but conservation officers continue to find people lighting wood fires that give off sparks and can spread in dry conditions.

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City aims to push Salvation Army shelter out

The Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows News Maple Ridge council has asked B.C. Housing to work towards ending its shelter contract with the Salvation Army’s Caring Place.

“Council has advised the Salvation Army of our decision and expressed heartfelt thanks for their years of service to our community,” Maple Ridge Mayor Nicole Read said.

“We’re striving to create a service provision ecosystem based on concrete results. We’re looking at the outcomes for every dollar spent by service providers on this issue in the community, their performance metrics, and their impact on the surrounding neighbourhoods.”

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But Birdsall said there’s insufficient data at this stage to determine exactly

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up to 4,000 humpback whales may now regularly visit B.C.’s coast and the Strait of Georgia, particularly in the summer months.

She said the whales are slowly returning to their historic habitats as their numbers grow

how many humpback whales are regularly visiting the strait.

“We are hoping to see their numbers continue to recover, but now they have new challenges to face in the area,” Birdsall said.

“These waters are much busier than they were a century ago and now we’re seeing more vessel strikes on the whales so we’re advising people to give them space and go around them. We’re also seeing more whales getting caught in fish nets and gear.”

Birdsall said reporting and cataloging humpback whales, and all other whales, in the Straight of Georgia is very important for scientists to get a sense of just how many whales are visiting local waters and their behaviour while they are here.

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Council feels the city needs a different shelter provider, while some have raised concerns about the shelter model, in general.

“What we have seen in the conversations in the community is that our citizens have lost faith in the Salvation Army as well,” Read added.

“It is time to act.”

Council has also asked B.C. Housing to review its service agreement with the Alouette Home Start Society, in relation to the operation of Alouette Heights, and to amend the agreement to better meet the needs of the community. Those needs would be identified by Maple Ridge council.

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Amid swooning markets, leaders battle over who’s best suited to manage economy

THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA - The three main federal leaders battled Tuesday over which of them is best equipped to manage Canada’s economy as investors licked their wounds and North American stock markets bounced back from the previous day’s dizzying dive.

Stephen Harper was asked about the previous day’s phone conversation with the governor of the Bank of Canada, which was publicized by the Prime Minister’s Office on a day of widespread market anxiety.

It’s the prime minister’s job to watch the economy, Harper told supporters in Quebec City, and if his opponents have a problem with that, they shouldn’t be running to replace him as prime minister, he said.

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair has characterized Harper’s discussion with Stephen Poloz as a sign that the Conservative economic plan isn’t working.

Harper wouldn’t reveal details of the conversation, but seized on the question as a chance to promote his government’s strategy - a balanced budget, low taxes and affordable investments - as the right choice.

“You do not - as any financial planner will tell you, whether it’s from the prime minister on down - you do not run around and change your plans based on daily market news,” he said.

“You have a long-term plan and you stick to it.”

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau unveiled members of his economic team in Toronto and was joined by former prime minister Paul Martin, who helped slay the federal deficit during his time as finance minister in the 1990s.

Martin touted his track record: eight budget surpluses, cutting government debt, and reducing Canada’s debt ratio to one of the lowest in the G7.

“While the challenges today are different, very different than a generation ago, they are no less severe,” Martin said.

“But the Liberal party, again, has the right team, made up of the right people to take on the vacuum that has been left by the Conservative government for the last nine years.”

Trudeau said Harper’s economic plan has failed the middle class by seeking to make wealthy people wealthier and “to give the most to those who need the least.”

Mulcair, who began a day of campaigning in southwestern Ontario with a stop in Hamilton, insisted that an NDP government wouldn’t need to run a deficit to finance its promises and would bring in a balanced budget next year.

Mulcair has not yet released the full costing of his platform, but he took swipes at the past records of the Conservatives and Liberals.

“Mr. Harper has taken an approach - he’s following in the footsteps of the Paul Martin Liberals and it’s the same mistake,” Mulcair said.

“Giving tens of billions of dollars in tax reductions to Canada’s richest corporations didn’t create jobs.”

Harper took his own shot at Martin, noting that the Liberals “lost control of the deficit” during the relative economic stability of the 1990s, and balanced the budget by raising income taxes.

Martin’s appearance marked the second day in a row that an elder party statesman accompanied of the leaders in a campaign appearance.

On Monday, Stephen Lewis, the former Ontario NDP leader and international diplomat, said Mulcair’s 35 years in politics has made him the strongest prospect yet to become Canada’s first New Democrat prime minister.

Senior police officer found guilty of three charges in G20 disciplinary hearing THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - The most senior police officer charged over mass arrests made during the Toronto’s G20 summit five years ago was found guilty on three out of five offences at a disciplinary hearing on Tuesday.

Retired Ontario judge John Hamilton, who had been presiding over the case, found Supt. David Fenton guilty of two of three counts of unnecessary exercise of authority and one of two counts of discreditable conduct.

Hamilton said Fenton is committed

to serving the public but was working with a lack of understanding of the public’s right to protest when he chose to order the boxing in and mass arrest of protesters five years ago.

“This case is about the order that Supt.

Fenton made and the consequences that fell from them,” he said.

“Legitimate protesters ... had the right not to be subject to arrest for making noise, chanting and sitting in the public street.”

Fenton had pleaded not guilty to a total of five Police Services Act charges stemming from two “kettling” incidents that

occurred during the chaotic 2010 summit weekend.

The first took place on Saturday, June 26, 2010, hours after a small group of vandals smashed windows and set police cruisers alight.

Fenton ordered officers to box in protesters in front of a downtown hotel. More than 260 people were arrested and taken to a makeshift processing centre, which came under severe criticism for its deplorable conditions.

The second incident occurred the next day when, six minutes after coming on shift,

Duffy trial to resume after election THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA - Sen. Mike Duffy’s trial on charges of fraud, breach of trust and bribery is poised to take a break until November - after the Oct. 19 federal election.

Ontario Court justice Charles Vaillancourt says the trial - which had been expected to sit through Friday - will adjourn at day’s end until its next scheduled window, which isn’t for several months.

The Crown had been expected to call a long-awaited witness: Gerald Donohue, a friend of Duffy’s who was given Senate

office contracts that are alleged to be fraudulent.

But defence counsel Donald Bayne says he has a personal issue that might keep him away from the courtroom this week.

Vaillancourt says that means there isn’t much point in trying to press ahead right away.

It’s possible that the week set aside for the trial in November won’t be enough; the Crown hasn’t yet called all of its witnesses, while the defence has its own witnesses to summon to the stand.

Fenton ordered police to keep scores of people standing for hours at a downtown intersection despite a severe thunderstorm that left them drenched.

Hamilton said Fenton was charged with discreditable conduct because he had a responsibility to protect detainees from the harsh weather.

Fenton was found not guilty of a second count of discreditable conduct for detaining

people at the hotel because those people “were not subject to unduly harsh conditions,” Hamilton wrote in his ruling.

Hamilton said Fenton’s decision to order mass arrests of the crowds in both cases was an unnecessary exercise of authority, and he had no legal or probable grounds to arrest people for breach of peace or conspiracy to commit mischief.

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This year we are hosting the International Choral Festival which features choirs from the U.S. and Canada.

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Corporations are the new sovereign power

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his electoral season in Canada has exposed a shocking truth: We don’t really know what a democracy is.

The Canadian Press is no help. It has focused on, and become obsessed with, individual party leaders’ popularity as though they were covering a horse race.

Behind the scenes a general malaise has settled over the political landscape, leaving a far more important question unanswered in the general rush to power: What’s wrong with our democracy?

Democracy is in our ancient institutions. Ask what they mean, and they’ll tell you that voting once every four or five years is what the public does to exert its democratic will. The rest of the time, elected politicians exercise power in our name.

Those perceptions are inadequate to describe the complex beast that is modern democracy.

Some scholars - A.C. Grayling prominent among them - contend we’re not a democracy at all. They believe that a democracy means power

to the people. In a proper democracy, all citizens are equally empowered and participate directly in the creation of laws. By this definition, democracy is an ideal, impractical in the large-scale complex societies we have today.

Instead, these scholars tell us that we have a representative form of government. The public elects representatives to makes laws in their name. It may seem like hair-splitting but they have a point. The citizen in a representative democracy is - at least one step removed from the laws that govern them.

So, let’s accept we have a representative form of government in Canada.

Or do we? Technically, in Canada, the Queen in England is sovereign, not the public. We may believe we’re a representative democracy, but formally the Government of Canada rules in her name, not ours.

OK, I can hear the critics moan, this is an ancient myth and the Queen is just a symbol. She doesn’t vote and Prime Minister Stephen Harper is not looking over his shoulder

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wondering if the Queen approves of his legislative agenda.

The fact remains, however, that in the Parliamentary System, monarchs still have important constitutional authority. So, it seems citizens in Canada are only informally sovereign, and, as such, another giant step removed from the laws that are made in their name.

This monarchial sleight of hand is one of the reasons democrats used to admire the United States so much. Unlike the rest of the English-speaking world, the U.S. is an unabashed republic with a constitution explicitly defining the public as sovereign. In other words,

it is a representative democracy without qualification.

Or is it?

It is possible to make the case that a sovereign public in the United States is also a myth. In Washington, D.C., alone there are more than 11,000 corporate lobbyists spending more than US$3.24 billion (annually) to influence U.S. legislation. As a result, governments at all levels in the U.S. represent the interests of corporations well ahead of the publics.

In Canada, many of the same forces are at work. The National Rifle Association and the U.S. gun industry, for example, lobbied hard and successfully to eliminate Canada’s long-gun registry. They succeeded, even though the gun-registry was hugely popular with the public and supported strongly by the Canadian Association of Police Chiefs.

Throughout the entire Western world the idea of a ‘sovereign’ public is being eroded. Through our own complacency, or because the power of money simply overwhelms constitutional principle, the public

is becoming further and further removed from the laws that govern their lives.

Ask yourself whether your member of Parliament truly represents the interests of your constituency?

They don’t. Whatever their political stripe, they’re neutered, disciplined by whips to vote the party line. But MPs are not alone in their feebleness.

The Harper government’s assault on the Supreme Court, the Senate and other independent governing institutions is evidence of the powerful forces bent on undermining what’s left of our formal and informal checks on executive power.

Canadians are rapidly descending into a form of elective autocracy. Governments today increasingly represent the interests of powerful corporations - the true sovereigns in Canada.

Robert McGarvey is an economic historian and co-founder of the Genuine Wealth Institute, an Alberta-based think tank dedicated to helping businesses, communities and nations build communities of wellbeing.

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aving just been on rocket and several artillery holiday with two shells at the loudspeakers, very strong-willed though none seem to have hit little boys aged them. South Korea responded 8 and 9, I feel particularly with a barrage of dozens of well qualified to explain why 155mm artillery rounds, the two Koreas went to the which led North Korean leadbrink of war over some loud- er Kim Jong-un (the pudgy speakers, but didn’t go over one with the very bad haircut) the edge. George and James to declare a “semi-state of could explain the process even war” and set a 48-hour deadbetter themselves, but child line for the loudspeakers to be labour laws prevent them turned off. from writing for newspapers, Otherwise, Kim said, so I’ll do it for them. his troops would carry out It began with “indiscriminate a land-mine strikes” against explosion in the the South. This Demilitarised would have Zone between been a grave the two counthreat if he tries that severeactually meant ly wounded two it, since most South Korean of Seoul, a army sergeants. city of 25 milGWYNNE The mine was lion people, is of an old Soviet within artillery design, so Seoul range of the World Affairs said it must have DMZ, but the been put there Saturday deadby North Korea and demanded line passed without further an apology from Pyongyang. shooting.

The North Korean denied Instead, urgent talks began it, of course, but Pyongyang on Saturday in the “truce” gets very upset every year village of Panmunjom, in the around this time, when South middle of the DMZ, between Korea and the United States Hwang Pyong-so, the political hold their annual joint mil- director of the North Korean itary exercises. armed forces, and Kim KwanSo to punish North Korea, jin, national security adviser South Korea re-activated the to the South Korean presiloudspeakers that used to dent. broadcast anti-North Korean The talks lasted more than propaganda across the DMZ three days, with the South until they were turned off Korean loudspeakers still eleven years ago. Nobody blaring out and North Korean could hear the propaganda artillery, landing craft and except North Korean soldiers submarines moving towards on the other side of the DMZ, the frontiers. “If nothing is so it’s hard to see what actual agreed, we have to continue harm it was doing, but North the broadcasting,” said the Korea rose to the bait with South Korean representative alacrity. at the talks. “We are tired Last Thursday afternoon, of speaking the language of North Korean troops fired a escalation.”

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That last sentence didn’t even make sense. Were Kim Kwan-jin and his North Korean counterpart really flirting with the idea of a war that would certainly kill hundreds of thousands of people, and might even turn nuclear, over some loudspeakers? Maybe, but there was a distinct lack of panic in other capitals, and in the end they made a deal.

That brings us back to the two litle boys. Siblings who are close in age, even if they are friends, are also rivals, and they generally squabble a lot. They often get locked into quarrels over matters of little or no importance and seem unable to walk away from them.

What keeps these struggles from ending in real violence, and usually restores order in the end, is adult intervention.

Even if they resent it, the kids also secretly welcome it, because it frees them from the trap of their own emotions.

The adults, in this case, are the great-power allies of the two Koreas: China for the North, and the United States for the South. It’s not that Americans and Chinese are really more grown-up than Koreans, but being farther away, they could see how petty the confrontation really is, and they had no intention of being dragged into a war over it.

So in the end North Korea expressed “regret” about the land-mine, and South Korea turned off the loudspeakers, and everybody lived grumpily ever after. Or something like that.

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

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Twenty years ago to the day, Greater Trail wrapped up arguably the most prestigious and memorable event in its sporting history – the Babe Ruth World Series. This is the last of a three-part series in which the Trail Times revisits the tournament that ran from Aug. 19-26, 1995; highlighting its evolution, its players, and those that made the event possible.

Trail’s build up and preparation for the Babe Ruth age 16-18 World Series was a massive effort, but when players finally hit the Butler Park diamond it was all business as the Trail Jays began their run at a World Series title.

Ten teams, including the first invitational team from Tsukui, Japan, competed in the World Series.

Teams from Stamford, Conn., Delaware, PA., Newark, Ohio, Omaha, Neb., Nederland, Tex., Sarasota, Fla., San Luis Obispo, CA., and Vancouver, Wash., rounded out the field.

“At that age, you’re playing the best from each region, and it was really good baseball,” said D. J. Ashman, outfielder for the Trail Jays ‘95 squad. “We’d obviously played growing up in (age) 14-15 teams and then when we were 16, we played some tough teams in the Regionals, but the World Series are just that much better.”

Most of Trail’s ‘95 team had played ball together since they were kids. Many played on the Trail Little League team that won the nationals and went to the 1990 Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa. The ‘95 Trail Eagles,

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as they were known then, played in the Washington State American Legion League and had just won their first district championship and finished third at State to qualify for the American Legion World Series.

“It was almost identical to the Little League World Series team . . . the good core was definitely still there from Little League and if you’re successful at one age, you end up kind of doing the same thing,” said Ashman, now a longtime coach of Trail Little League.

On the way to the District championship, the team suffered a crucial loss when a young Jason Bay injured his ankle and was lost for the World Series.

Nevertheless, good news soon followed when Trail learned that Todd Thompson and Matt Mason would be available to play, and would return from Team Canada’s Youth team that lost at the World Youth Baseball championship in Massachusetts.

The transformation from the Trail Eagles to the Jays was complete when the Toronto Blue Jays helped outfit the team with new Trail Jays uniforms.

Then, after legendary Yankees third baseman and American League president Dr. Bobby Brown and B.C. Premier Mike Harcourt threw out the first pitch at the Opening Ceremony, the Jays were finally ready to “Play Ball!”

The team was led by coach and San Francisco Giant draft pick, Jim Wasem of Spokane, and assistants Jason Startup and David Colquhoun of Fruitvale. Wasem had

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The Trail Jays All Star team represented Canada at the 1995 Babe Ruth World Series held at Butler Park in Trail, Aug. 19-26, 1995. Front row from left: Todd Thompson, Kyle Cull, Len Rogers, David Profili, David Caron, D.J. Ashman, Scott Wallace, Ryan Andrews, Mark Profili. Top row from left: Coach Dave Colquhoun, coach Jason Startup, Chris Florko, Chad Craig, Steven Mailey, Matt Mason, Darrin McCarthy, Jason Bay, Jarrett Knight, Brad Maloff, Jeff Sell, coach Jim Wasem. coached the Eagles for the past two years and was all-too familiar with their winning tradition.

“It’s a good group of kids, they’ve come a long way from the Little League World Series that most of

them went to,” Wasem told the Times. “These guys expect to win every game and they expect to win every

championship.”

Winning is precisely how the Jays started the tournament, defeating the Japanese

team 12-4 in their first match Saturday, and beating Nederland, Texas on Sunday 3-1.

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SPORTS

SCOREBOARD Baseball American League

East Division W L Pct GB New York 69 55 .556 Toronto 69 55 .556 Baltimore 62 62 .500 7 Tampa Bay 62 62 .500 7 Boston 57 68 .456 12.5 Central Division W L Pct GB Kansas City 76 48 .613 Minnesota 63 61 .508 13 Detroit 59 65 .476 17 Chicago 58 65 .472 17.5 Cleveland 58 66 .468 18 West Division W L Pct GB Houston 69 57 .548 Texas 64 59 .52 3.5 Los Angeles 63 61 .508 5 Seattle 57 68 .456 11.5 Oakland 55 71 .437 14 Today’s Games Houston (McHugh 13-7) at N.Y. Yankees (Pineda 9-7), 1:05 p.m.

Oakland (Bassitt 1-5) at Seattle (F.Hernandez 14-8), 3:40 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Santiago 7-7) at Detroit (Verlander 1-6), 7:08 p.m.

Milwaukee (Nelson 10-9) at Cleveland (Co.Anderson 2-3), 7:10 p.m.

Minnesota (Duffey 2-1) at

Tampa Bay (Archer 11-9), 7:10 p.m.

Toronto (Price 12-4) at Texas (Lewis 14-5), 8:05 p.m.

Baltimore (W.Chen 7-6) at Kansas City (Cueto 2-2), 8:10 p.m.

Boston (Porcello 5-11) at Chicago White Sox (Sale 12-7), 8:10 p.m.

Thursday’s Games L.A. Angels at Detroit, 1:08 p.m.

Toronto at Texas, 2:05 p.m.

Baltimore at Kansas City, 2:10 p.m.

Minnesota at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.

Seattle at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m.

National League East Division W L Pct GB New York 68 56 .548 Washington 62 61 .504 5.5 Atlanta 54 71 .432 14.5 Miami 50 75 .4 18.5 Philadelphia 50 75 .4 18.5 Central Division W L Pct GB St. Louis 79 45 .637 Pittsburgh 75 48 .61 3.5 Chicago 72 51 .585 6.5 Milwaukee 53 72 .424 26.5 Cincinnati 52 71 .423 26.5 West Division W L Pct GB Los Angeles 67 56 .545 -

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Today’s Games N.Y. Mets (B.Colon 10-11) at Philadelphia (Eickhoff 1-0), 7:05 p.m.

San Diego (T.Ross 8-9) at Washington (Scherzer 11-10), 7:05 p.m.

Colorado (Flande 3-1) at Atlanta (S.Miller 5-10), 7:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (B.Anderson 7-8) at Cincinnati (Holmberg 1-3), 7:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (Nelson 10-9) at Cleveland (Co.Anderson 2-3), 7:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Locke 6-8) at Miami (Narveson 1-0), 7:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Lackey 10-8) at Arizona (Corbin 3-3), 9:40 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 6-5) at San Francisco (Peavy 3-6), 10:15 p.m.

Thursday’s Games L.A. Dodgers at Cincinnati, 12:35 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at San Francisco, 3:45 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.

San Diego at Washington, 7:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Miami, 7:10 p.m.

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

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FROM PAGE 9 The experience of playing in front of a more-than-packed house, was exciting for Trail players unaccustomed to such attention.

“Obviously none of us had played in front of 7,500 people before,” said Ashman. “I just remember it was almost like you weren’t playing baseball, because there were so many things going on . . . it was like you were playing at a minor league baseball field.”

Trail’s luck would turn for the worse in the next game and the Jays would be knocked down to the loser’s bracket in a 5-3 loss to Sarasota, Fla.

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D. J. Ashman crushes this one out of the park at the 1995 Babe Ruth World Series in a 7-6 loss to San Luis Obispo to end the Trail Jays run at the title.

They would then face elimination in a game against Delaware.

In a classic pitcher’s duel, the score remained 0-0 until the seventh when David Caron’s walk-off single scored Darrin McCarthy to give Trail a 1-0 victory in front of a frenzied crowd of 6,312 fans.

San Luis Obispo meanwhile had defeated Nederland, Tex. in a wild 8-1 game highlighted by a bench clearing brawl in the fifth inning that saw the Nederland catcher get run over for a second time by a California player. The win would set up an elimination match with Trail.

In that semi-final qualifier, Ashman would send Trail’s hopes soaring when he launched a two-

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“Just having the fans behind you is just one of those feelings I’m probably never going to have in my life again, it was awesome,” said Ashman. “It was basically a once in a lifetime thing.”

Yet, San Luis Obispo would battle back and win it 7-6 to eliminate Trail from the World Series.

The Vancouver, Wash. Team, meanwhile, rolled through the series going undefeated and beating San Luis Obispo 6-1 in the final to capture its second World Series title in four years.

Despite the Trail loss, the Babe Ruth World Series was not only a defining moment in Trail sporting history, it helped local talent move onto bigger and better things.

“To put it in perspective,” said Ashman. “I think our whole starting nine ended up playing college baseball of some sort. If I went around the diamond, everybody played: Matt Mason, Mark Profili, me, Todd Thompson, Darrin McCarthy, Dave Caron, Jeff Sell, Dave Profili, and (Jason) Bay.” The ‘95 Babe Ruth World Series had its challenges and its detractors, but for a small town in southeastern B.C. to host a world class event, in world class fashion was an exceptional accomplishment. It left a state of the art facility in Butler Park and an enduring sense of pride - but perhaps its greatest legacy is still to come.

“We seen the bleachers going up, it was just crazy seeing all that stuff going on,” added Ashman. “I don’t know how they pulled it off.

It was one of those things that was just ridiculous, but you know what?

I wish we could do it again to be honest.”

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The search for another Sullivan Mine continues

By Carolyn Grant Kimberley Bulletin

Hope springs eternal, especially in the hearts of prospectors and geologists.

Scott Broughton, President and CEO of Santa Fe Metals Corp.

(SFM) has been on the hunt for another Sullivan Mine type sedimentary exhalative (SEDEX) deposit.

His latest venture is drilling on the Sully project about 30 kilometres due east of Kimberley. A drill program commenced on the Sully property in 2014 and was not shut down for lack of findings, but for lack of

money.

In early 2014 SFM’s Project Team defined twin parallel vertical masses, the EAST and WEST Targets at the Sully Project.

“We proved last year that these masses occurred at exactly the same geological time as the Sullivan Mine deposit,” Broughton said. “That’s what brings us back to this site.

“Unfortunately we ran out of money last year, but now we are getting traction again.

There is interest in zinc especially.”

Broughton was showing some poten-

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Superintendent’s Message The Labour Day weekend in September marks the end of summer for students and staff. September is an exciting time as we begin the school year helping students on their learning journey. We encourage all of our community to be actively involved with your schools. Talk to your child’s teacher and principal and find a way to stay involved and connected. Parental involvement really can make a difference in student achievement.

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Students will report for instruction on Tuesday, September 8, 2015 at times noted below. September 8th will be a shortened day for students. Shortening the day will allow students an opportunity to become acquainted with their school, while at the same time enabling teachers to finalize their preparations for Wednesday, September 9th, the first full day of instruction. Kindergarten students will have gradual entry over the first two weeks so please contact your school for those times or visit the district website at www.sd20.bc.ca.

To our existing students and families welcome back! To our new students and families, whether you are just starting kindergarten or moved here over the summer, a special warm welcome to your new school and district.

School Opening: September 8, 2015 Regular start times Regular School Times with dismissal as follows: Beginning September 9, 2015 Fruitvale Elementary 8:20 am to 10:50 pm 8:20 am to 2:20 pm Glenmerry Elementary 8:15 am to 10:45 am 8:15 am to 2:15 pm JL Crowe Secondary 8:38 am to 11:08 am 8:38 am to 2:38 pm Kinnaird Elementary 8:20 am to 10:50 am 8:20 am to 2:20 pm Robson Community 8:25 am to 10:55 am 8:25 am to 2:15 pm Rossland Summit 8:25 am to 10:55 am 8:25 am to 2:30 pm Stanley Humphries Secondary 8:38 am to 11:08 am 8:38 am to 2:53 pm Twin Rivers Elementary 8:25 am to 10:55 am 8:25 am to 2:10 pm (includes Castlegar Primary campus) Webster Elementary 8:15 am to 10:45 am 8:15 am to 2:15 pm Kootenay Columbia Learning Centre campuses Please contact program directly for start-up procedures (Alternative Education Programs)

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tial Chinese investors the project this week, and says that everything is in place to begin drilling by October at the latest.

What makes the project so compelling, Broughton says, is that science points to there being more than one massive SEDEX deposit in this basin.

“The Sullivan Basin itself is very large and it makes sense that where there was one, there’s another.”

Broughton explains that these deposits were once “black smokers” at the bottom of an ocean.

“You need a basin that’s shallow and quite —not a lot of other minerals drifting in. All these little grains of sulphides come up through the vent. The Sullivan Mine was one that occurred. You’d need them to be about 30 kilometres apart for another to occur.

“So many pieces of the puzzle overlap in one place.”

That place is the Sully Project.

One of the problems in finding another SEDEX deposit in this basin is that it really needs a massive drill program, which junior mining companies

cannot do.

“A junior company can usually afford one or two holes that might be meaningful,” Broughton said. “But it doesn’t work that way. It’s such a compelling target, it needs millions to properly explore it.

“But we’re persisting. If we do drill some massive sulphides, we’ll have an unlimited amount of money to explore further.”

Broughton says that in the last drill program the last hole just missed intersecting the eastern target. The theory is that the drill hole did hit Sullivan time at the appropriate depth but that smaller faults at depth shifted the deposit, so the hole just missed.

“The most recent hole completed (SU14-09) is estimated to have passed within 100-m of the EAST mass based on down hole mag-field and temperature measurements,” a SFM press release says.”

Management and the Sully Project Team believe that the geophysical masses are best explained by the presence of high- specific gravity,

SEDEX-style, massive sulphides. The contrast between the specific gravity of typical Sullivan massive sulphides and the sedimentary country rock is particularly well suited to modern gravity techniques. Sully’s targets present a discovery opportunity based on their Sullivan-size geophysical anomalies and confirmed Sullivan-time geological setting.”

Planned exploration for 2015 and 2016 includes additional detailed gravity measurements followed by ongoing drill testing at the EAST and WEST targets. The overall program will be results-oriented and will evolve as new information is learned.

Attempts to raise funds to expand the program will be ongoing, hence the visit with Chinese investors this week.

“I still get all tingly just thinking about it,” Broughton said. “It’s so difficult to imagine all these puzzle pieces not becoming anything that’s not hugely significant in terms of its economics.

“But it comes with risk.”

Kaslo celebrates volunteer-built bridge

By Will Johnson Nelson Star

The brand new Unity Bridge in Kaslo is a 130-foot, 50-tonne community project that cost $201,000 and took eight years to finance.

Officially dedicated on Sunday, it will connect the north and south sides of the Kaslo River Trail, opening up new options for hikers — they can now choose between a 3.7 or 10 km loop.

“The name Unity stands for the fact that it unifies the trails, unifies the north and south sides of Kaslo, and it shows what a small group of volunteers can do when they have support from people all over the world,” said society president Val Koenig.

The society was able to raise all but $15,000 of the bridge’s cost through international plaque sales.

Over 70 volunteers assisted with the project, and Koenig estimates about 35 per cent of Kaslo’s adult population belongs to the society.

The timbers used for the bridge were sourced locally from Hamill Creek Timber Homes. Local contractors and companies provided free labour and support.

“This bridge is 100 per cent built by volunteers with no paid labour,” said Koenig proudly.

“Gwil Cranes of Castlegar came out with a 200-tonne crane and 141,000 pounds of counterweight to put it in.”

The society received financial contributions from people in countries such as Australia, New Zealand, South Africa. The bridge was designed by Kaslo baker Silvio Lettrari.

“He designed our first bridge [installed in 2007] and we liked it so much we had him do the second one the same,” Koenig said.

One enhancement of the Unity Bridge is that it’s entirely wheelchair-accessible.

And though they did receive funding from Columbia Basin Trust, 90 per cent of the funds were either sourced locally or came through bridge plaque sales.

Koenig said the society will now focus on the trail-building aspect of their mandate. They plan to extend trails out towards South Fork, and ultimately cross the highway to connect to the Kaslo-Sandon wagon road.

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is unaware of how she speaks to me. forever? Your minister husband I’ve asked Ben about moving to should be aware that spouses promise to put each other a place of our own, but first when they marry. he won’t do it. He also He has not done this. doesn’t like the idea of Please get counseling paying rent when he has with or without Ben. a place to live for free.

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Dear Annie: My husband, “Ben,” and I each lost a spouse and then found each other. We live in the same house with one of his daughters and a granddaughter. Ben is quite attached to this house. The two daughters are the owners now, but their father bought it originally and has always maintained it.

The daughter who lives here has a neurological disorder, which keeps her from accepting me. She has only spoken to me by name two or three times, although she knows how to blow up at us when something makes her angry. I try to greet her every morning with a family nickname that she likes, but she still only grunts in reply.

It seems that she has influenced the granddaughter to resent me, as well. I have tried to put my foot down on occasion, but mostly, I just meekly defend myself from her criticism. My husband feels sorry for her and she fawns over him, so he believes that she can do no wrong. He cannot hear well, so he

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3928 Woodland Drive, Trail

$249,000

4 bdrm, 3 bath family home in Glenmerry. Features include: fenced yard, master bedroom ensuite and walk-in closet, garage, and sunny basement with family room, 4th bedroom and bath room. At this price this one will be gone quickly!

Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

1843 Beaver St., Fruitvale

$165,000

Fantastic starter package, close to school, park, etc. This 3 bdrm 1.5 bath, half duplex has covered patio, fenced yard, under ground sprinklers, lots of parking and “inner bigness”.

Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

YOU!

$249,000

Fantastic location for a great Commercial Building in Downtown Trail. This building has so much opportunity with the possibility of different businesses on huge main floor and residential development on 2nd level. What ideas do you have?

Call Richard (250) 368-7897

1731 3rd Avenue, Rossland

$309,000

4 bdrm / 3 bath home with upgraded kitchen, flooring and bathroom.

Large master w/ ensuite. Big deck overlooking back yard. Don’t miss viewing this great family home.

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

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

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

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1151 Cedar Avenue, Trail

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Amanda Cupello, daughter of Sandra Cupello and granddaughter of Ralph and the late Maria Cupello of Trail, graduated from the University of Toronto’s Doctor of Pharmacy program with honours. Amanda is looking forward to starting her career in B.C. She graduated from J.L. Crowe Secondary in 2006 and UBC Okanagan with a Bachelor of Science in 2010.

7551 Devito Drive, Trail

$319,000

One level living!

This single family home has a beautiful yard.

Come take a look!

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

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4 bdrm 3 bath Tadanac home on double lot. Upgraded wiring & roof, elegant Great Room with fireplace and H/W floors. Roomy master has walk in closet & ensuite. Down offers 2 bedrooms, 3 pc bath / laundry combo and workshop.

Terry 250-231-1101

GLENMERRY GEMS! 3802 Dogwood Drive, Trail Bordering on the park, this 3 bdrm home is excellent value and is close to the elementary school.

$239,000 3838 Dogwood Drive, Trail Lovingly maintained, this 3 bdrm home has lots of updates.

Call today.

$274,900 3249 Lilac Crescent, Trail New kitchen and updated flooring, this home is in immaculate condition.

$255,000

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

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Tonnie Stewart

250-365-9665

tonniestewart@shaw.ca

Mary Martin 250-231-0264

mary.martin@century21.ca

Richard Daoust 250-368-7897

richard.daoust@century21.ca

Mary Amantea

250-521-0525

mamantea@telus.net

Bill Craig

250-231-2710

bill.craig@century21.ca

Deanne Lockhart 250-231-0153

deannelockhart@shaw.ca

Art Forrest

250-368-8818 c21art@telus.net

Christine Albo 250-512-7653

christine.albo@century21.ca

Dave Thoss

250-231-4522

dave.thoss@century21.ca

Dan Powell Christina Lake 250-442-6413

powelldanielk@gmail.com