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Residents may have unplugged their Christmas lights as soon as the presents were unwrapped, as electricity rates were set to turn up in the new year.

FortisBC has been approved for a nearly three per cent rate increase, almost $4 more per month for the average residential electricity customer.

“While all customers benefit from system improvements with safer more reliable service, the ongoing investment increases the cost of delivering electricity,” explained Amy Bunton, FortisBC corporate communications advisor.

A slight trending rate increase started in 2013 when there was a general electricity hike of 4.2 per cent, followed by an electricity rate jump up 3.3 per cent in 2014. The company is challenged with balancing ongoing infrastructure improvements with rates.

“In the Kootenays, for example, upgrades to our four generating stations ensure long-term, low-cost power for our customers,” added Bunton.

“Advanced metering infrastructure is now virtually eliminating bill estimates and will allow a quicker response to outages, among other benefits.”

The $51 million Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) project affected only FortisBC electrical customers, totaling 130,000 homes and businesses stretching from Princeton in the west, through the Okanagan and West Kootenay, to CONTINUED ON A3

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YEAR IN REVIEW

After four years of construction, Waneta Dam expansion goes online

The Trail Times continues its recap of moments from 2015

April 1 – Changes for BC Liquor Stores came into effect today. In Trail it means longer hours and Sunday openings.

2 – After over four years of construction, Columbia Power announced that power is on at

the Waneta Dam expansion site.

The $900 million project provided work for over 1,700 tradespeople.

8 – Kootenay Festival of the Arts returns have a two-year hiatus. The event, which began over 80 years ago, highlights regional talents in dance, voice, piano and strings.

14 – The Trail and Rossland chambers of commerce discuss merging and the Rossland chapter closes.

15 – The Trail SPCA branch is in danger of closing unless a new facility is built. In a letter to the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary, the BCSPCA’s chief executive director said the current facility is in poor condition and required urgent replacement. The RDKB was to discuss the matter at its next meeting at the end of April.

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less volunteer involved in many community organizations ranging from the library to Sanctuary, is named the Trail-Warfield Citizen of the Year.

23 – The popular Fruitvale Recycling Depot is set to close at the end of the month.

The facility, behind Liberty Foods in Fruitvale, will be replaced by curbside pick up, which is part of the Multi Materials BC project. Tim Dueck of the RDKB, said the move will save taxpayers money.

27 – Walmart announces it will expand its Trail store to include more grocery items. It also announced it will be closing the tire and lube service. Changes are expected over the course of the year. ***** May 4 – Pacific Coastal announces it will discontinue its service from Trail to Kelowna.

The service, which began in January, lacked the passenger load required to make it viable. Pacific Coastal executives said the airline could revisit the route in the future.

8 – J.L. Crowe Secondary School is locked down briefly after police receive reports of gunshots in the area. Upon investigation it was revealed that students had set off fireworks.

8 – Colin James entertains a packed house

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a backlash and Mayor Mike Martin sat down with all parties to agree to a temporary netting that will be in place during soccer season.

12 – B.C. Lt. Governor Judith Guichon begins a week-long visit to the region including stops at schools, senior centres and public buildings.

16 – RCMP officers destroy a black bear that entered a Sunningdale home and tipped over the freezer.

19 – The Trail Arts Council is raising funds to replace the familiar time/temperature sign in the Cominco Parking Lot. The current sign is no longer operational

and parts are unavailable.

20 – Kootenay Savings and Credit Union announces it will be closing its Warfield branch in July. Fewer in-branch customers and proximity to the Trail branch prompts the closing. KSCU said it will continue to operate an ATM and night deposit box.

21 – Trail and Warfield announce they have agreed to a 5 ½-year recreation/ library agreement.

Warfield will contribute $631,500 over the life of the deal with Trail allocating 68 per cent to recreation and 32 per cent to library services.

***** June 3 – June gets off to a soggy start with almost 40 millimetres of rain falling in the few days of the month. However, warm temperatures were quick to return.

5 – Trail nurse Braedon Mauro was honoured by the Calgary Police Department with the Exceptional Recognition of Valour for his actions in 2013 while helping an injured motorist in a Calgary traffic accident.

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10 – Silver City Days provided plenty of sunshine and little trouble as police report a relatively safe and quiet weekend for the annual festivities.

11 – Trail council decides to conduct a random survey, at a cost of $16,000, to seek out opinions from residents on a skate park.

12 – The Mayor of Trail brokers a compromise between neighbours over a proposed fence in Lower Sunningdale Park. The issue came to light after a citizen raised concerns over soccer balls entering their yard. A proposed fence ignited

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A house along Riverside Ave. in Trail was burned and demolished in a controlled fire. The activity allowed Regional Fire Services firefighters the opportunity to train and hone their skills. The demolition of the structure will clear space for the pedestrian/pipe bridge construction.

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Smart meter installation just about complete CONTINUED FROM A1 Creston in the east.

Nearly all of the existing electro-mechanical and digital meters in the Southern Interior have been replaced with the advanced units, which are similar in appearance to the traditional model. The key difference is the “smart meter” communicates directly with FortisBC and provides real-time electricity consumption information directly to customers, too.

The devices lower costs, reduce theft, encourage conservation, and can automatically

detect outages, said David Wylie, FortisBC communications for advanced meters. But the energy the meters emit has caused concern amongst some people who wanted the installation of the meters stopped all together.

About one per cent of the Southern Interior population opted for the radio-off (wireless) option, which required a $60 to $88 set-up fee and costs of an ongoing $18 bi-monthly fee for a manual meter reading.

“A big priority for us was to work one-on-one with customers,” added

Wylie. “We tried to resolve their concerns, talk to them about the project and why we’re doing it and why it’s important. Often times that connection helped a lot.”

The installation has gone smoothly, he said.

Every customer-owned meter base was inspected to flag any unusual wiring, broken government seals, broken or cracked meter base lugs and included a voltage check.

“If they found that there were problems, that there was a potential safety issue that

needed to be repaired, then we’d hire a local certified electrician to make those repairs at our cost,” added Wylie.

FortisBC has since optimized the system to ensure wireless reads are coming in.

Customers can expect to see some benefits to personalizing their accounts come into play this year.

Advanced meters provide different billing options and tools to customers like picking a billing date that suits them or an option to go to monthly billings, Wylie explained. Access

to tools, like in-home displays, to help better manage use or the ability to see how electricity use changes at different times of the day is said to empower the customer and ultimately lower costs.

“Advanced meters help to prevent electricity theft in the millions of dollars range,” he added. “That’s a big financial benefit to the project.”

FortisBC is a regulated utility that works with the British Columbia Utilities Commission to determine rates.

June windstorm barrels through Trail CONTINUED FROM A2 150 Community Infrastructure grant. However, with the grant application comes the commitment that the park would be built in Gyro Park. Successful grant applicants would be announced in September.

9 – Principals from Trail’s J.L. Crowe Secondary School and Castlegar’s Stanley Humphries Secondary School are discussing moving the graduation ceremonies to the end of the month in future years. Crowe’s principal David DeRosa cited student distractions as the main reason for the potential move.

9 – The bidding process for the new pedestrian/pipe bridge in Trail began with interest from both U.S. and Canadian contractors.

11 – Trail’s public works department plans to inspect the city’s iconic covered staircases to make sure they can absorb the traffic from two events in September, which features participants climbing a the stairs through Trail. Due to the age

of the stairs, the department may recommend altering some of the routes.

19 – After 71 years, a U.S. airman will have his remains buried at the Trail Mountain View Cemetery. Sgt. Eric Honeyman, who has family ties to the area, died when his plane crashed in 1944 during World War 2 near Belgium.

His remains were discovered in 2009 and DNA testing eventually linked him to relatives in Trail where he was given a military funeral on June 22.

22 – The Village of Salmo will need a byelection after councillors Cathy Paton and Ken Anderson, the top two voter getters in last fall’s municipal election, resigned. No details were released regarding their resignation.

23 – Citing lack of funds, the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary rejected a proposal to help fund a new BC SPCA facility in Trail.

27 – A large fuel spill from a rolled semi forced an eighthour closure of the Rossland Hill. The semi-trailer was

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Passages of 2015: Bill Bennett

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he death of former B.C. premier Bill Bennett on Dec. 4 prompted the traditional round of polite

tributes.

He was the man from Kelowna who remade Vancouver, with SkyTrain, BC Place stadium and Expo 86 to put the city on the world map. He won three majority governments before handing over the steering wheel of a smoothly running Social Credit Party to Bill Vander Zalm.

Outside B.C., the wire service obituaries ran to a few paragraphs, defining Bennett first as the “architect of financial restraint in the province.”

It seems an ordinary notion today, but when Bennett unleashed his “restraint program” on the B.C. government in 1983, it was presented as a right-wing coup on a socialist utopia.

I was in journalism school in Vancouver when unions organized a general strike and mass street demonstrations under the banner of Operation Solidarity, appropriated from the struggle against Poland’s communist dictators.

Their goal was to bring the recently re-elected government to its

knees. province’s ability The newly tabloid to pay, eliminated Vancouver Province, various boards, and itself largely conincreased the protrolled by some of vincial sales tax to B.C.’s most miliseven per cent to tant unions, was a pay the bills. screeching banshee Another Bill of the big-labour Bennett legacy was TOM left. dismantling the “Socred hitmen monopoly chokeswoop on rights hold of big interworkers,” its front national unions on B.C. Views page declared after public heavy con400 layoff notices were issued to struction. provincial staff. This propaganda Growing up in northeastern was the public’s guide and my pro- B.C., I had seen the impressive pay fessional role model. for jobs on highway construction, A bit of background: the B.C. about twice what I earned laboureconomy was in the grip of an ing for a non-union contractor international recession, hitting re- doing city work. source industries and government A couple of friends discovered revenues hard. the inside track to securing labourBennett had ousted the Dave ing jobs on a provincially-funded Barrett NDP government in 1975, highway project. After joining the but the legacy lived on. During union, those in the know could its three-year reign, for example, visit a business agent and hand education spending increased 13 over $500 cash. Within days, the per cent in the first year and 23 per lucky winner would be “name recent in each of the next two. quested” to join the crew, vaulting The blitz of restraint legislation over those who thought paying reasserted government’s author- dues and working their way up the ity to control the size and wages seniority list would be enough. of provincial staff, reinstated the This struggle over public con-

FLETCHER

struction continues today, with BC Hydro’s decision to make the Site C dam an open shop. The main contract was awarded to a consortium working with the Christian Labour Association of Canada, an alternative union known by more colourful names among old-line building trades.

After graduating from journalism school, I landed my first full-time job as a reporter for the Kelowna Capital News, shortly before Bennett announced his retirement from the premier’s office to finish his term as a backbench MLA. Bennett and I would sometimes arrive for work together, parking our rusty 1976 Chevrolets on Bernard Avenue, where he kept an office above the family furniture store.

I found out later that Bennett’s modest old sedan was the government-issue car he had used during his entire 10 years as premier.

The party bought it for him as a humourous retirement gift, and he continued to drive it to work. No frills. That was Bill Bennett.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES - “Star Wars” isn’t just strong. It’s unstoppable.

The revival of the nearly 40-year-old space saga has already dominated the box office and toy shelves. Now, it’s also been selected as The Associated Press Entertainer of the Year and is amassing support for Academy Awards consideration.

“Personally, it’s been three years of feeling privileged to be part of something that’s bigger than all of us,” filmmaker J.J. Abrams told the AP in an interview. “This accolade is very much appreciated and no exception to that feeling.”

“Star Wars” won the AP’s annual Entertainer of the Year contest with a volley of votes from members that would rival the firepower of the First Order.

The sci-fi series bested Adele, Taylor Swift and Amy Schumer as the top vote getter. Others up for the honour included streaming services, Jon Stewart, Jennifer Lawrence, Taraji P. Henson, Viola Davis and the Kardashians. Voters were asked to consider who had the most influence on entertainment and culture in 2015.

“In a year full of sequels, reboots and returns, none have recaptured the zeitgeist like ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens,”’ wrote Nick Dutro of The Advertiser-Tribune in Tiffin, Ohio.

The initial impact of a “Star Wars” resurgence first began reverberating across the pop-culture landscape in 2012 when Disney acquired Lucasfilm for more than $4 billion, plotting a pair of movie spin-offs and a new trilogy merging veterans Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher) and Han Solo (Harrison Ford) with newcomers Rey (Daisy Ridley), Finn (John Boyega) and Kylo Ren (Adam Driver).

In the year leading up to the December release of “The Force Awakens,” Disney and Lucasfilm unleashed a barrage of “Star Wars” merchandise, comic books and video games that fueled anticipation for the film.

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Afghanistan: Going Down

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f the Taliban were not so racy in Afghanistan was even busy fighting the rival more naive than the previous Islamic State jihadis Soviet project to build a modwho began operating in ern, secular, “socialist” oneAfghanistan early this year, party state in the country. they might now be within reach The 19th-century British of overthrowing the Afghan army and the 20th-century government that the Western Russian army could both have powers left behind when they told them: it has always been pulled out most of their troops easy to invade Afghanistan, but last year. Even with that dis- it has always been hard for fortraction, the Taliban are doing eign troops to stay there more pretty well. than a couple of years.

Last week, a Taliban suicideAnd having made those misbomber on a motorcycle man- takes, it was another mistake aged to kill six American sol- to pull almost all the foreign diers who were troops out bepatrolling the pefore the Afghan rimeter of Bagram g o v e r n m e n t ’s air base near army was up Kabul. On the to holding the same day Taliban Taliban off. If, fighters took alindeed, it can most complete ever be brought control of Sangin up to that level.

GWYNNE in Helmand provThe parince, a town that lous state of the over 100 British Afghan National troops died to deArmy and the World Affairs fend in 2006-10. sheer fecklessAs Major Richard Streatfield, ness of President Ashraf Ghani’s a British officer who fought at government was highlighted by Sangin, told the BBC: “I won’t last weekend’s desperate plea deny, on a personal level, it by Helmand’s deputy governor does make you wonder - was it Mohammad Jan Rasulyar for worth it? supplies and reinforcements for Because if the people we the troops holding Sangin. were trying to free Afghanistan It’s not just that the army from are now able to just take had neglected the plight of it back within two years, that those soldiers. It’s the fact that shows that something went Rasulyar had to resort to postbadly wrong at the operational ing his plea on Facebook to get and strategic level.” the government’s attention.

It was probably a mistake to Part of the problem is that invade Afghanistan in the first the government and the army place. high command are profoundly Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda corrupt. terrorists could have been dealt For example, up to a quarwith without invading an entire ter of the army’s troops are country, and there was never “ghost soldiers” who only exist any evidence that the Taliban on paper, so that officers can government of the day knew draw their pay. about his 9/11 attacks on the The worse problem is that United States in advance.

President Ghani, a former seHaving invaded the coun- nior official at the World Bank, try, it was a mistake not to only won last year’s election by hand it over to a tough re- massive fraud. gime made up of warlords from Conflicts with the aggrieved the major ethnic groups and losers have left the government get out before the presence of paralysed: twenty months after over a hundred thousand for- the election, there is still not eign troops gave the Taliban a even a permanent defence minsecond wind. Trying to create ister. a Western-style liberal democMorever, Ghani believes that

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a decisive military victory over the Taliban is impossible. This is probably correct – but he is therefore committed to cultivating close ties with Pakistan in the hope that Inter-Services Intelligence, the Pakistani equivalent of the CIA, will deliver the Taliban to the table for peace talks. (Most Afghans believe that ISI controls the Taliban.) But Ghani is wrong on two counts.

The Taliban have no reason to agree to a power-sharing peace settlement, since they can still hope for an outright military victory.

And Pakistan doesn’t really control the Taliban, although it gives them a safe haven and can manipulate them to a limited extent. There were preliminary peace talks early this year, but there has been nothing since July.

The Afghan army would be collapsing a good deal faster if so much of the Taliban’s attention were not focused on fighting off the challenge from Islamic State. (It has killed at least a thousand IS fighters this year.) But the Taliban still managed to seize the city of Kunduz in the north for a week in September, and now Sangin in the southwest is going.

We are seeing the usual short-term responses in the West. President Obama has halted the withdrawal of most of the remaining 9,800 US troops in the country (which was scheduled for the end of this year), and Britain has ordered ten of the 450 troops it still has in Afghanistan back to Sangin.

But that won’t make much difference, and there is no chance whatever that the NATO countries will build their troop strength in Afghanistan back up to the level – around 140,000 – where it was five years ago.

The Afghans are on their own now, and they will be lucky if they end up back under the rule of the Taliban rather than in the clutches of Islamic State.

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

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The Trail Times ‘Sports Year in Review’ continues featuring the highlights in Greater Trail sports for the months April to June 2015.

April 1 – Greater Trail native Garrett Kucher played on the Evolve professional golf tour in Spain in the winter, before joining the Vancouver Pro Golf Tour in April.

3 – The Ministry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resources releases a report that shows northern pike populations in the Columbia River around Robson Reach have grown, and pose a threat to native and non-native species.

5 – Trail Smoke Eater captain Jake Lucchini is named to the BCHL’s second All Star team.

15 – Glenmerry Bowl’s Tim Flack qualifies for the 5-Pin Master Bowlers Association National championship after finishing in the top-four in the B.C. Master Bowlers circuit.

17 – Seven Summits Gravity Racing team began its first year of racing

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Clockwise: 2015 highlights include Tim Flack’s trip to the 5-Pin Master Bowling National championships, Kai Birks and the Trail Eagles winning the B.V. May Days Tournament, the Seven Summits Gravity Racers first ride at Race the Ranch, the signing of local Smoke Eaters Spencer McLean and Ross Armour, the retirement of Brad Elliot after half a century of calling games, and the dedication of the Canadian Sledge Hockey Jersey at the Memorial Centre by former coach Mike Mondin. in the BC Cup Series of downhill mountain bike events at Race the Ranch in Kamloops.

21 – Penticton Vees capture the BCHL Fred Page Cup by beating the Nanaimo Clippers 3-2 in overtime of Game 6.

23 – The Trail AA Orioles baseball team joins the XBL Men’s Baseball League, while also competing in the Washington State American Legion AA Baseball League.

24 – Long time Trail resident Brad Elliot retires from umpiring after almost 50 years behind the plate.

- Trail native and former Trail Smoke Eater Travis St. Denis is named assistant captain by the Quinnipiac University Bobcats.

29 – Megan Campsall wins gold and silver at the Regional Karate

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30 – The Trail Skating Club officially folds after 80 years due to lack of volunteer help.

May 5 – The Penticton Vees win the Western Canada Cup with a 4-3 victory over the Portage Terriers to advance to the national championship RBC Cup. - The Trail Smoke Eater sign 19-year-old goaltender Bailey MacBurnie from Salisbury School in Salisbury, Conn.

7 – Fruitvale native and former Trail AM Ford Oriole Joey Underwood signs with Okotoks Dawgs of the Western Major Baseball League.

8 – Greater Trail soccer player Nolan DeRosa commits to attend and play for the Thompson University Wolfpack in the Canada West division of the CIS. 15 – Nick Merkley and the Kelowna Rockets win the WHL’s Ed Chynoweth Cup by defeating the Brandon Wheat Kings in four straight.

16 – Fruitvale’s Ella Matteucci is selected to play for Team Canada women’s baseball team that will compete in the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto.

21 – J. L. Crowe golfers take first in the East-West Kootenay zone playdowns to qualify for the B.C. High School championships.

22 – Rossland’s Thea Culley is once again named to Team Canada women’s field hockey team that will play in the Pan Am Games and attempt to qualify for the 2016 Olympic Games.

26 – Four young athletes from the Trail Track and Field Club excelled at the Centennial Track meet hosted by the Kamloops Track and

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Field Club, winning a total of nine medals that included four gold medals by Sadie Joyce, two golds and two silver from Jendaya Shields and a bronze from Maya Amantea.

29 – The Wenatchee Wild join the BCHL. June 3 – Trail Smoke Eaters sign Montrose native Spencer McLean and Ross Armour of Rossland to add two more local players to its roster.

10 – Megan Campsall captures bronze medal in kata at the Provincial Karate championship in Richmond, while Scott Hutcheson took home a silver.

11 - Mike Mondin former coach of the Canadian Sledge Hockey team dedicates team jersey to City of Trail in a case designed and made

by KCLC student Curtis Haynes.

12 – Rossland-Trail Country Club founding father Dr. Jack Colbert becomes part of Trickle Creek Golf Resort history by hitting a holein-one on the par-3 eighth hole at the Kimberley course. His first ever ace, despite being a member of the Rossland-Trail Club for over 60 years.

19 – Jake Kauppila returns to the Trail Smoke Eater line up following a stint in the US Junior Hockey League. Kauppila played in 41 games in 2013 with the Smokies.

23 – The Trail AA Orioles open season with a pair of wins over Lewis and Clark in Washington State American Legion Baseball, a sign of good things to come.

-The Trail AA Orioles’ Austin Tambellini commits to play baseball with Hill College in Hillsboro, Texas.

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BY JIM BAILEY Times Sports Editor

The Beaver Valley Nitehawks are back in action at home tonight against the Castlegar Rebels, as they get set for a five games in six days run.

The Neil Murdoch division leading Nitehawks play a Rebels team looking to bounce back from a 5-2 loss to Grand Forks Dec. 19 and a 7-2 drubbing by the Hawks in Castlegar on Dec. 12 that dropped the Rebels eight points below B.V. in the standings.

The Hawks then face Nelson in a home-and-home Wednesday and Thursday before hitting the road to face the number-one team in the league in the Kimberley Dynamiters on Saturday and a game in Castlegar Sunday.

“We always play Castlegar a little different than everybody else, but other than that we play to win, especially in our own division, we have to beat those teams,” said Hawks assistant coach Bill Birks.

The four games against division teams are critical but the Dynamiters game will be a measure of how Beaver Valley matches up against the defending KIJHL champions. It is their first meeting since last March when Kimberley beat the Nitehawks in five games of a best-of-seven playoff for the KIJHL’s

Kootenay Conference championship.

But first the Nitehawks will have to keep their seven game win streak alive when they face the Rebels tonight. Castlegar, at 21-10-1-0, owns one of the toughest and quickest defences in the league, led by 20-year-old Nick Headrick, who is second in scoring on the Rebels with 10 goals and 38 points.

Six-foot-three inch Tyson Wornig anchors their back end along with a pair of six-foot-two, 18-yearold defencemen Anthony Oliverio and Vince Bitonti. Among them, they have over 170 minutes in penalties. The Rebels also sport the second best goals-against in the KIJHL this season allowing 74 goals in 32 games, with Joseph McLeod carrying most of the work. The 18-year-old Kelowna native has a 2.25 goals against and a .934 save percentage with 13 wins in 21 starts.

Tayden Woods, 18, leads the Rebel attack scoring 20 goals and 19 assists in 32 games, while Chris Breese and Mike Bhatoa have chipped in with 34 and 33 points respectively. Aside from veteran Darren Medeiros with 25 points, the Rebels offence falls off dramatically after that with defenceman Darren Petten the next highest scorer with 14 points.

The Hawks-Rebels rivalry has been a bitter yet highly entertaining one over the years and it should be no different tonight. The fact the two teams loathe each other only adds to the drama and intensity of the matches between the top two teams in the Murdoch division.

“It (the rivalry) goes years back into the playoffs,” said Birks. “It’s been a 1-2 rivalry for years . . . so you definitely get up for those.”

Braden Fuller has returned to form since missing action in November, netting 15 points in his last 10 games, and is currently second in team scoring with 13 goals and 36 points. The Hawks have also solidified their goaltending tandem. With the addition of Tallon Kramer, and the return of Drake Poirier to good health, the Nitehawks have allowed just 12 goals in seven games for a miniscule 1.74 goals against and a combined 94.61 save percentage.

The Nitehawks-Rebels game goes tonight at the Hawks Nest at 7 p.m. They host the Leafs on Wednesday at 7 p.m.

Nelson Leafs name new coach NELSON STAR The Nelson Leafs are hoping a former coach can work some magic midway through a nightmare season.

Mario DiBella, 59, was hired Sunday as the Leafs’ new head coach and general manager after David McLellan’s resignation. It’s DiBella’s second time around in the roles after previously serving from 2000 to 2002. He resigned after his second season to focus on his family.

DiBella said Monday he’s looking forward to returning to the team.

“I’ve coached a long time and I see this as a challenge,” said DiBella. “I see that there is a good core group of players. I’m excited by the opportunity. I was flattered when I was approached and I hope some of my experience will help them move forward in a positive direction.”

McLellan resigned last week citing interference from the team’s board of directors in hockey operations as the reason for his departure, an allegation team president John Dooley denied.

Dooley said hiring DiBella is a great development for the team, which was under pressure to find someone before the Leafs return from the holiday break for a road game against the divisionleading Beaver Valley Nitehawks on Dec. 30. “[DiBella is] a very well prepared person,” said Dooley. “He’s going to bring some real structure to the organization and I believe that’s what we need now on the team side.”

DiBella’s coaching staff has not yet been an-

nounced, although he said he wants to make that decision prior to Christmas. Assistant coach Greg Andrusak left the Leafs alongside McLellan, while assistant coach Sean Dooley served as interim head coach for one game.

The team’s new coach already has plenty of work to do. Nelson (14-19-1) has just three wins in its last 18 games, is fourth in the Neil Murdoch Division and has been mired by injuries and a revolving door of players. Yet DiBella said he’s not willing to call it a lost season.

“We’re going to be positive. They’re young men.

They are all winners and they are going to be treated like winners,” said DiBella, who added he wants to break up the remaining 18 game up into segments where the players can see success.

He previously coached the Kootenay Ice major midget league team as well as held coaching positions with the provincial team at various levels and scouted for teams in the BCHL and SJHL. DiBella, who owns Martech Electrical Systems based out of Castlegar, also played goaltender for the Nelson junior Maple Leafs in 1976-77 and the senior Maple Leafs in 1977-78 and from 1981 to 1985.

“It’s a storied organization,” he said. “There’s been a lot of great players and great citizens that have graduated from the program. When I was a youngster I looked up to the Nelson senior Maple Leafs team and some of the players that played on those teams as role models in the community.”

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GENELLE VOLUNTEERS HONOURED

THE C ANADIAN PRESS Notable quotes from Canadians in 2015 listed chronologically:

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Genelle Recreation honoured its volunteers and supporters with a dinner in November. At the event, special recognition was given to Jim and Colleen Gourlie for their 15 years of helping the community.

“Canadian consumers walked in expecting the American store experience and got this watered-down version .... We didn’t need Target to be Canadian. We needed them to be the company they’ve been in the U.S.” Brynn Winegard, a marketing analyst at Winegard and Company, after Target announced in January it was leaving Canada due to dismal sales and a failure to connect with Canadian shoppers.

Tyler William Tjader

August 11th 1987 December 19th 2015 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of an amazing young man, Tyler William Tjader. Born August 11th 1987, Tyler’s life was tragically taken from us on December 19th 2015.

Tyler was a millwright at Teck for ten years. He was an avid outdoorsman who had a passion for mud bogging, snowmobiling, quadding and hunting. He also loved to be in the shop with his friends rebuilding anything he could get his hands on, and spending time with his “lifer” Andrea. Tyler was always known for his kind heart, willingness to help anyone and his perfection in everything he did.

He is survived by the love of his life Andrea Mangialaio, his loving parents Gordon and Bonnie Tjader, his sister Kaylee (Bryce), grandparents Jack and Verna Finlay, and Eileen Tjader as well as many aunts, uncles and cousins.

He is predeceased by his grandfather Ronald Tjader, and Uncle Bernnie, and Auntie Julie Doherty.

A celebration of life will be held on Thursday, December 31st at 1:00pm at the Fruitvale Memorial Hall with Ken Siemens, Celebrant.

Jordan Wren of Alternatives Funeral and Cremation Services™ has been entrusted with arrangements. You are invited to leave a personal message of condolence on the family’s online register www.myalternatives.ca.

OBITUARIES &NOTICES FUNERAL Nadia Susan “Susie” Lotecki Susie passed away peacefully with her family by her side on December 23, 2015 at Poplar Ridge Pavilion in Trail, British Columbia.

Susie leaves behind her sons, Tedde (Noralee), and Ken; grandchildren Joshua, Victoria, Josiah, Jeremiah; and her siblings Lovie, Doreen, and Michael.

Susie was pre-deceased by her husband Henry, her father Michael, her mother Victoria, and by her siblings, Olga, Max, Benny, Marusia, Helen, and Joe. Susie was born in Poplarfield, Manitoba to a family with 10 siblings, and moved to Rossland in 1972. She was involved in the Rossland Lions Club, the Catholic Women’s League, the Thrift Shop Rossland, and a member of the Rossland Legion Ladies Auxiliary Branch #14.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Rossland, on December 30, 2015 at 10:30am with burial to follow at Mountain View Cemetery. Father J. Joseph Kizhakethottathil M.S.T. officiating.

Jordan Wren of Alternatives Funeral and Cremation Services™ has been entrusted with arrangements. Expressions of sympathy may be sent to a charity of your choice.

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“The prohibition on physician-assisted dying infringes on the right to life, liberty and security of the person in a manner that is not in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice.” - Text from the unanimous Supreme Court ruling handed down in February legalizing physician-assisted suicide in some cases.

“I just want anyone who’s ever done it or is thinking of doing it or thinks it’s funny, just think of the consequences. It’s degrading, it’s disrespectful. You really put these reporters in a very uncomfortable position, and it’s not just me - we’re all sick of it.” - Toronto television reporter Shauna Hunt, speaking in April after confronting men heckling her with vulgar insults while she was filming a live report. Hunt and other female journalists said the trend has been plaguing them for months.

“I think I knew his sister. My condolences to the family, who I think were dealing with their grief by strewing my garbage through my yard last night - totally get that.” Facebook jokester in July following the death of a Toronto raccoon on a downtown street and the makeshift shrine that was constructed around the corpse.

“The residential school experience is clearly one of the darkest, most troubling chapters in our collective history. The survivors showed great courage, great conviction and trust to us in sharing their stories. These were heartbreaking, tragic and shocking accounts of discrimination, deprivation and all manner of physical, sexual, emotional and mental abuse.”

- Justice Murray Sinclair speaking at the June release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report, which documented the devastating impact that Canada’s residential school system had on its First Nations population.

“Rid yourself of those racial stereotypes of Indians and indigenous people being dumb and lazy and drunk on welfare. Rid yourself of those things, so new things can come in.” - Assembly of First Nations Chief Perry Bellegarde reacting to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s report and exhorting Canadians to take its findings to heart.

“This is sort of Matthew:6, right?

You should do those things quietly, and not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing.” Nigel Wright, former chief of staff to Stephen Harper, testifying on Aug. 13 at the fraud trial for former senator Mike Duffy. Wright was citing scripture to explain his decision to cut Duffy a cheque for $90,000 to cover some of his questionable expenses.

“I am the one who should be at blame. I blame myself because my brother does not have money. I sent him the money to pay the smuggler.

If I didn’t send him the money, those people still (would be) alive.” - Tima Kurdi, speaking on Sept. 5 in B.C. and taking the blame for the death of her three-year-old nephew, Alan. “(The public) is not informed.

They are being misguided by the government on this particular issue.

They were of the view that Muslim women who are wearing the niqab objected to show their identity for security purposes, but that’s not the case .... The image of Muslim women, and as a whole the Muslim community, has been damaged by this.”

- Zunera Ishaq, the woman whose fight to wear her niqab while swearing an oath of Canadian citizenship sparked a lengthy court battle and became a hot-button issue on the campaign trail. The quote above came during an Oct. 8 interview with The Canadian Press.

“Sunny ways, my friends, sunny ways.” Justin Trudeau to a jubilant crowd on Oct. 19 in his Montreal riding of Papineau, invoking the philosophy of former prime minister Wilfrid Laurier, after he led the federal Liberals to a majority win.

“Because it’s 2015.” - Trudeau, speaking on Nov. 4, responding to a question as to why he made gender parity a priority when naming his cabinet. Trudeau’s hand-picked group of 30 ministers features 15 men and 15 women.

“It’s very uneasy. There are probably going to be more job cuts.

People are still kind of living scared.”

Stephen Scott, 45, who lost his engineering job at Cenovus Energy in Calgary amid the oil price plunge during a December interview.

“We feel as if we got out of hell and we came to paradise.” - Syrian refugee Kevork Jamkossian, who fled Syria with his wife and children, in a discussion with Trudeau at Pearson International Airport.

“I was pleading with them to show some kind of decency; all of these born-again Christians were throwing me to the lions.” - Sen. Mike Duffy in testimony at his Senate expenses trial on Dec. 15, describing his alleged treatment by the Prime Minister’s Office under Stephen Harper.

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Latest ‘Star Wars’ sets bar high CONTINUED FROM A5 the newest “Star Wars” entry trampled over the record for biggest debut in North America, set earlier in the year by “Jurassic World.”

“The Force Awakens” also has won over most critics, despite not being screened for them ahead of the film’s mammoth Dec. 14 premiere in Hollywood. The American Film Institute selected it as one of its 10 best movies of the year, and the Critics’ Choice Awards added it as an 11th best picture nominee, leading many to have faith in “The Force Awakens” as a viable Oscar contender.

“The ‘Star Wars’ franchise is holding an IOU that it could cash in this year,” said Tom O’Neil, editor-in-chief of Gold Derby, a site that handicaps Hollywood awards and other events. “The Oscars owe major love to the ‘Star Wars’ franchise. It’s one of the most successful and beloved franchises in Hollywood history. It’s criminal that Oscar voters have never historically taken sci-fi seriously.”

While previous “Star Wars” films garnered 22 nominations and seven wins at the Academy Awards, only the original “Star Wars” earned a best picture nod. It lost to “Annie Hall” in 1978.

“The Force Awakens” is already on the academy’s short list for a visual effects nomination with 9 other films, and O’Neil is hopeful that it will be among the best picture candidates when the Oscar nominations are announced Jan. 14.

He also wouldn’t be shocked if Harrison Ford is recognized for reprising his role as Han Solo and composer John Williams earns his 50th nomination for the film’s score.

“It’s funny,” said Abrams. “I’ve spent the last few years with everyone asking me how I am dealing with the pressure. The truth is that anything that happens at this point is icing on a cake that I’m just happy came out of the oven.”

“Star Wars” joins the list of previous AP Entertainer of the Year winners who in recent years have mostly included female performers, including Adele, Taylor Swift, Jennifer Lawrence, Lady Gaga, Tina Fey and Betty White. The animated Disney juggernaut “Frozen” captured the prize in 2014, and Stephen Colbert was honoured in 2007.

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“Big Fish” “Blood Cells” “Far From The Madding Crowd” “The Fifth Estate” “Gangsters: Faces Of The Underworld” (season 1 and 2) “I’ll See You In My Dreams” “Inshallah Football” “Jesus Camp” “Life’s Too Short” (series 1) “Pac-man And The Ghostly Adventures” (season 2) “Ripper Street” (series 3) “Run” (season 1) “True Story” “What’s Love Got To Do With It?” Jan. 6 “Tomorrowland” Jan. 8 “Dragons: Race To The Edge” (season 2) “ Tom Segura: Mostly Stories” “The Wolfpack” Jan. 13 “S h a d o w h u n t e r s : The Mor t al Instruments” Jan. 15 “Being Ginger” Jan. 17 “Z Nation” (season 2) Jan. 20 “Drone” Jan. 23 “Chelsea Does” Jan. 26 “Inside Out” Jan. 28 “Suits” (season 4) Jan. 29 “Ever After High: Dragon Games” (season 4)

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Christian Slater stars in the cyberpunk thriller as the head of a shadowy team of hacktivists known as “fsociety,” which is bent on going after greedy multinational corporations.

The show is up for several Golden Globe awards including best TV drama, best actor for Rami Malek and best supporting actor for Slater.

- On Jan. 23, Chelsea Handler’s new documentary series kicks off on Netflix. The comedian’s “Chelsea Does” four-part series explores “questions that we all have, but are too afraid to ask” with topics including marriage, racism and drugs.

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Estrangements hurt all parties in relationship

Dear Annie: I am one of six sisters. We are all adults with children of our own. One lives in New Jersey and the others live in Florida, three of us in the same city. My sister, “Claire,” lives two hours away.

Three years ago, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. With good doctors and care, she has successfully come through five surgeries and battled the rounds of chemo. So far, she remains cancer-free.

Four of us did whatever we could to help Claire during this time. Two of my sisters worked remotely so they could help with her medical appointments. Even my sister in New Jersey offered to stay with Claire. Only one sister, “Pam,” never helped, and in fact, never even acknowledged the cancer or wished Claire a speedy recovery.

The problem now is that four of us are empty nesters and we vacation together once or twice a year.

We have been doing this for more than a decade. But family isn’t only for the good times. If a person can-

not care about her sister when she and angry that you cared so little is ill, then I don’t think she should about Claire that you couldn’t even be included when we go on vaca- wish her well”? She needs to know tions. We always stay how upset you are and in timeshares, which I why. She may have some own. I don’t invite Pam explanation for her calon these vacations, but lous behavior, and even another sister does. I though it will hardly be can’t uninvite her withgood enough, we hope out creating a rift. you will hear her out Annie, I don’t want and maybe even find it to vacation with Pam, in your heart to forgive but feel the choice is out her. It’s so much better Marcy Sugar & of my control. I would than holding onto your Kathy Mitchell appreciate advice from anger. a disinterested party. -Dear Annie: I read Sibling Dilemma the letter from “Snowbird Driver,” Dear Sibling: Are you sure you whose friends refuse to let her want to do this? The consequences drive when they are going out for could turn out to be more distress- dinner. The one thing that was not ing than worthwhile. An estrange- mentioned was alcohol. ment hurts you, too, and, as you We have many friends who said, will create a rift between all of gather together for cocktails before the siblings. We know Pam deserves leaving for dinner at a restaurant. your condemnation for acting so With a cocktail or two before, and uncaring toward her own sister, but several drinks at the restaurant, have you asked her about it? Did they may well be driving under the you say, “Pam, I am so disappointed influence by the time they are on

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their way home.

I live in Florida and see this situation often. If the neighbors do not drink themselves, they might feel terribly uncomfortable driving with anyone who has had a few. I agree with your answer about treating them with a gift card or dinner out

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in order to reciprocate. However, the real reason for their reluctance to share driving responsibilities might be too many cocktails imbibed by the driver. -- Sarasota.

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Home is Where the Heart is Thanks for warming our hearts with your friendship and kind support this year.

Neighbours like you make us especially proud to call this fine community home.

Season’s Greetings

1358 Cedar Avenue, Trail • 250.368.8818

Kootenay Homes Inc.

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