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“The effect on Teck’s profit and EBITDA will vary with commodity price and exchange rate movements and commodity sales volumes,” she notes. “We will be releasing revised Canadian/U.S. dollar exchange data when we issue our Q4 2015 news release in February.”

After the recovery from the 2008 crash, Teck shares climbed to an estimated $60 in 2011. Since then, the charts have changed course with values dipping under $4.30 at closing Thursday.

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The Trail hospital is ensuring it can safely manage a patient carrying an infectious disease with a new airborne isolation room planned for its Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

But before the addition is installed, the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital (KBRH) needs to take out some mould that was discovered in the ICU in October.

Water was leaking through some of the window fixtures then when facility staff took a closer look and located mould in the wall cavity, according to Jane Cusden, KBRH’s acute health service director.

“When the leak was found, there was very much activity and testing, and as I say, we did environmental testing immediately as soon as we found the issue and that’s continued,” she assured.

The $475,000 ICU Windows and Wall Replacement Project is focused on replacing exterior walls and windows to address issues with water leakage. Some mould was also found in the storage area adjacent to the ICU, which is closed off at this time and will also be taken care of.

The hospital continues to test the air for mould spores weekly while it prepares to move its ICU to another section of the hospital to ensure upcoming improvements are done swiftly without impact to its most critical patients.

“Any relocation is never ideal but we’ve engaged with a lot of the staff, and we need to address problems as they come up,” said Cusden. “We’ve identified a space within the hospital, where we can relocate the ICU patients, but we’re just working to get that finalized and working with facilities to make sure (the temporary location) has all the things that we need for ICU.” Temporary relocation of ICU beds to the third floor will take place later this month or early in February with all renovations expected to be complete by late summer or early fall. The work will start with replacement of windows and walls, with the isolation room next on the to-do list, and further upgrades to potentially follow.

“We don’t have an airborne isolation room here at KBRH, and it’s really for infectious disease,” explained Cusden. “You know, with all the news recently around things such as Ebola, it’s really CONTINUED ON A3

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A retired Rossland doctor is cycling across Africa to raise money for kids in Kenya to continue their education.

Dr. Brenda Trenholme has lived and worked in Rossland for 32 years and is taking on the Tour d’Afrique — a 90-day ride covering 12,076 km from Cairo, Egypt to Cape Town, South Africa — to raise money for the Kenya Education Endowment Fund (KEEF).

KEEF is a Vancouver-based charity “that supports very poor but academically gifted high school students in Kenya,” as secondary education there is not free.

Trenholme and her family have a longstanding affiliation with the charity.

Her parents started supporting Kenyan students through a different program, and asked Trenholme and her late husband if they would be interested in supporting the students as well.

“We sort of took them on and helped them through university, and then we heard about KEEF so we started donating to that as a family — like individuals in our family were donating — and then my sister just became involved in helping and going over to Kenya and helping to choose the students,” she says.

Trenholme’s sister is currently in Kenya interviewing students for the coming school year, which starts in February.

Trenholme’s brother-in-law is now chair of the KEEF board and he and his wife travel to Kenya annually, at their own expense, to interview hundreds of students competing for a limited number of spots.

“They interview I think 400 kids and … last year they had 94 spaces,” says Trenholme. “[It’s] $600 a year per child, and that gives them enough money for school, lodging, eating, medical supplies, books, everything.”

Kids referred to the program are students who show academic promise, but who are living in poverty.

Trenholme says it’s hard for her sister knowing that KEEF

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Rory Belter (right) from Revolution Cycle shows Dr. Brenda Trenholme (left) how to change a tire tube on her bike. can only provide funding for sent me a link and said, ‘Look gear into a van, but there’s still some of them. at this. This is tailor-made for Malaria and security detours “This one student, she said you and it’s safer than going to worry about. he has no parents, his grand- by yourself,’ and I was a little “There’s huge security risks mother has like a dozen or- nervous about taking off by in Africa and at times they’ve phans that she helps raise and myself, but I wanted to explore had to fly the whole group they all have a little plot of more remote places.” over a whole country,” says land that they try to grow food Trenholme would like Trenholme. on, and I mean they’re literally to do the Silk Route tour — Should this happen, cyclists just destitute,” says Trenholme. 12,280 km over 117 days of must pay for their own airfare.

“Since he’s started school he’s riding from Beijing, China to Despite the risks, Trenholme been the top student and he Istanbul, Turkey — but had a is excited to experience the can’t afford to go on.” scheduling conflict this sum- terrain and see the wildlife.

KEEF not only needs to be mer, so instead she’s been She’s been preparing for the able to fund new students, but rushing to prepare for the trip physical demand of the trip by continuing students as well. this month. cycling on a wind trainer and So to help raise money and While TDA Global Cycling spent part of last Thursday at awareness for KEEF, 61-year- takes care of many of the lo- Revolution Cycle learning how old Trenholme is taking part gistics, such as route, security to do small repairs to her bike. in TDA Global Cycling’s Tour and food, Trenholme needs to “I can do some fairly basic d’Afrique beginning today. make sure she can secure visas mechanics, but they expect us Trenholme retired in for seven of the ten countries to be able to adjust our breaks November and wanted to do the tour goes through. and our gears, and I’ve never something to give back. She’s “Three of them are quite really had much of an issue, also been cycle touring for six stringent, like Sudan, Ethiopia but mostly I’ve been riding on or seven years, and wanted to and Malawi, and I’ve got my roads and it hasn’t been tough take on something more ad- Malawi one,” she says. on the bike, whereas this … venturous.

She’ll have to spend some it’s pretty rough terrain,” she “On my last trip, which was of her non-cycling days in em- says. “It’ll be a challenge; it’ll in September/October I went bassies, securing additional be fun.” with three friends and the two visas. She also has to figure To donate to KEEF or to guys were worried that I was out how to get all of her gear, sponsor a student, send going to — once I retired — including camping supplies — cheques to 904-2135 Argyle just take off and go to dan- since only the first and last Ave., West Vancouver, BC, gerous places by myself, be- night will be spent in hotels V7V 1A5 or visit kenyaneducause I had been talking about — and lots of extra parts for cation.org, and write “Brenda’s doing that,” she says. “So in her bike, to Cairo. Once there, Ride” in the memo or comlate November, this one friend the tour company will pack her ment field.

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An isolation room is reserved for patients potentially infected with airborne-spread diseases and the hospital staff who cares for them. When the ventilation system is turned on, fresh air is pulled into the room with the door kept closed. Professional and support staff entering the room are required to wear specially fitted masks. The ventilation system then filters and cleans used air before it’s circulated out of the room to the outdoors.

The room can also double as a regular room with added comfort of an en suite bathroom.

“We (currently) have single rooms we can put somebody in, and you can have isolation precautions as you go into that room, but this will be a purpose-built room, which we will be exceptionally good,” Cusden said.

KBRH hasn’t counted any cases of Ebola though there may have been query Tuberculosis patients in the past, she added.

The 795,000 project was originally set for last year but after examining plans, it was decided that a redesign was needed to ensure all ICU patients could continue to access natural light. The flawed design was brought back to the drawing board, reworked and made a priority this year. The improved vision now carries a heftier price tag than the original $660,000 estimation.

“It was better to get the project right rather than having to build something that had slight flaws that we could have worked with, but we want the best for our patients and so that’s why it was delayed,” Cusden adds.

The KBRH Health Foundation has shifted its focus to a “mini-campaign” to help top up funds for the $795,000 airborne isolation room. The foundation’s goal of $57,000 will help pay for the total project cost, mostly shared between Interior Health and the West Kootenay-Boundary Regional Hospital District.

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Trail Rotarians Helen Pistak, Lana Rodlie and Jan Morton were pleased to donate $4,920 to Trail Association for Community Living to purchase laptops and computer programs for a project helping people with special needs. Rosie Ingram, childhood coordinator and Nancy Gurr, TACL executive director, were happy to receive the funds which came from the Rotary-managed Erickson Trust.

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The top court announced Thursday it would hear the teachers’ appeal of a lower-court decision, which said provincial legislation that stripped some bargaining powers did not violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

“We never give up,” said B.C. Teachers Federation president Jim Iker at a Vancouver news conference shortly after the decision.

“It’s another important step in this long journey through the court system for us,” he said. “By unconstitutionally stripping our collective agreement 14 years ago, this government did so much harm to our public education system.”

The province first imposed legislation that removed teachers’ ability to bargain class size and composition in 2002. After a B.C. Supreme Court

judge deemed the legislation unconstitutional in 2011, the province imposed new legislation the next year.

Similar to the previous legislation, it restricted school boards’ power to determine staffing levels and establish class size and composition - the number of special needs students in a class, for example, or how many teacher assistants can be hired per student in a school.

The dispute led to an acrimonious strike that cut the school year short in the spring of 2014 and was not resolved until September of that year.

A B.C. Supreme Court judge ruled that the legislation was unconstitutional in 2014, but the B.C. Court of Appeal overturned that decision last April. Four of five appeal judges found the legislation was constitutional and ruled the province negotiated with teachers in good faith.

A long-term contract has been signed between teachers and the provincial government and Iker said relationships with the province have improved, but teachers still have a duty to resolve the issue.

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Do Not Worry!

Are you a worrier? I expect that most of you reading this article are nodding your heads yes. Most of us worry unnecessarily about too many things. The amazing thing is that much of what we worry about doesn’t matter at all!

40% of all things that we worry about never come to pass.

30% of all our worries involve past decisions that cannot be changed.

12% focus on criticism from others who spoke because they felt inferior.

10 % are related to our health, which get worse when we worry.

8% of our worries could be described as “legitimate” causes for concern.

Isn’t that incredible? Fewer than one problem in every ten that we worry about is a real concern.

It is like the person who chose to do all of their worrying on Wednesdays only. When anything happened that made them anxious or stressed, they would write it down and put it in the worry box and forget about it until the following Wednesday. The interesting thing was that when they opened the worry box the following week, they found that most of the things that had bothered them in the past six day were already settled.

Matthew 6:25-34 is all about worrying. We are the

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most valuable of all God’s creatures and as He looks after the birds of the sky and the lilies of the field, He will most certainly look after us.

Worrying is more harmful than helpful. Jesus asks “Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?” We know the answer is no one. Worrying is like sitting in a rocking chair – no matter how much you rock or how hard you rock, you get nowhere. Worrying cannot add time to our life but it certainly can take time away. Many people have missed out on living because of time spent worrying.

The reason why we worry so much is because we lose perspective. We forget how big God is and what He is capable of doing and that is why Jesus says “O you of little faith!”

If our mind is full of worry, it cannot be full of God. We cannot seek God‘s kingdom and righteousness if our focus has been diverted to worry.

Living one day at a time keeps us from being consumed with worry. If you are worrying about the problems of tomorrow, you will miss out on the blessings of today. If you find that you are worrying more than you should, give those worries to God. Lay them at the foot of the cross; leave them there and do not pick them up again! God loves you with an incredible love and wants what is best for you.

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he company has gone. The tree flops sadly at the curbside. The decorations are stowed away for another year. As we resume our normal activities, the feel-good generosity and goodwill of Christmas fade. With the Salvation Army Christmas kettles out of sight, the needs of others are out of mind.

Howard Thurman, an African American whose thought and spirituality influenced Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement, challenged the tendency to forget about others once LOUISE the Christmas season comes to an end.

“When the song of the angels is stilled/ When Everyday Theology the star in the sky is gone/When kings and princes are home/When the shepherds are back with their flocks/The work of Christmas begins.”

In his poem, Thurman goes onto paraphrase a section of chapter twenty-five from the Gospel of Matthew that informs part of the social doctrine of Christianity. Here Jesus of Nazareth outlines some of the behaviors that he expects from his disciples.

These include feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, clothing the naked, welcoming the stranger, visiting the imprisoned and caring for the sick. Furthermore, the disciple should undertake these actions with an attitude of humility and joy.

While the tasks that we associate with Christmas – shopping, baking, decorating, and socializing – can be tiring, it is more difficult to live the social teaching implicit in Christmas throughout the rest of the year. The work of Christmas asks us to honour the dignity of every person and invites us to walk with others in their hour of need.

Years ago, I had a lesson in what it means to live Christmas beyond the month of December.

A gentleman with whom I sat on a board made a comment when asked about his day. He said his day was wonderful; he had had a number of unexpected opportunities to help others. At that time, I was a young mother busy with the demands of three small children; unexpected opportunities to help others were, in my mind, unwelcome interruptions in my schedule. His self-giving attitude amazed me, and his comment challenged me to look at my own selfishness.

The work of Christmas does not require us to engage in grand gestures to save the world, although some, like King, will have a huge impact on society. For most of us, our actions are more likely to be ordinary than heroic. If we can “do ordinary things with extraordinary love” (to quote Mother Theresa), our simplest action becomes grand.

In some ways, the work of Christmas stands in opposition to our annual custom of formulating New Year’s resolutions, which typically focus on improving the self or one’s situation. Year after year, our most common resolutions – to lose weight, to spend less and save more, to quit smoking, to get organized and to spend more time with family – have little to do with incarnating the spirit of Christmas.

Christmas, as one of my neighbours put it, should kick start our giving, not restrict it to a few weeks of the year. Although we feel good when we drop some coins into the Salvation Army kettle, the season of giving reminds us of the manner in which we are to live from January to December.

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PEOPLE ‘I am not Donald Trump,’ says brash O’Leary, mulling bid for Tory leadership

THE C ANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA - Both of them are business titans, authors, and TV personalities - one actively running to lead the U.S. political right, and the other thinking about doing the same in Canada.

But if Kevin O’Leary does indeed decide to go into federal politics, it won’t be because he’s trying to be Donald Trump, the brash Canadian businessman said Thursday.

“I understand what he is doing with the media, and you can certainly claim I am trying to do the same, but I am not Donald Trump,” O’Leary said in

an interview with The Canadian Press.

“I’m a LebaneseIrish, I don’t build walls (and) I am very proud of the society we’re building in Canada, I think it is the envy of the planet.”

O’Leary, a Canadian entrepreneur who became known outside business circles thanks to his stint on CBC’s “Dragons’ Den” and its American equivalent “Shark Tank,” said he’s got nothing in common with Trump on social, foreign or domestic policy.

He said he thinks Trump’s surprise success in vaulting to the front of the Republican leadership race is a reflection of a populist RENE ANGELIL

movement underway in the U.S. It could happen in Canada, he added, but it’s not what he’s trying to do.

“It’s an interesting observation; I can see why people would say it, but that’s not what motivates me.”

Rather, O’Leary is contemplating politics for two reasons: Canadian graduate students are telling him they think they need to leave Canada to make their fortunes, and he has strong objections to the job done so far by Alberta Premier Rachel Notley.

Earlier this week, he offered to invest $1 million in Canadian energy companies if Notley

“He’s being a dad at the house, which I’m really happy about,” she told a news conference in Montreal.

In March 2015, she announced she was resuming her residency at the Colosseum in Las Vegas. She said at the time that Angelil had a feeding tube and that she was helping him to eat three times a day.

Despite his illness, it was Angelil who encouraged her to return to the stage.

“He wants me back, he wants me strong, he wants to see me again because I’m his favourite singer,” Dion said at the Billboard Music Awards in May. “So he wants me out there, and I have to say that I’m ready. It’s hard, but we’re ready.”

One year after announcing she was put-

ting her career on hiatus to dedicate her time to helping her husband in his recovery and tend to their family, Dion returned to Vegas in August 2015.

“I didn’t want to be here at first. I don’t need it,” she told USA Today.

“Don’t get me wrong. I love singing for people, but I have priorities.

“But Rene really gave me a gift,” she added.

“All my grieving, it was during this last year. I think I’ve got this. For now. When it hits me, it’s going to hit me. But my biggest job is to tell my husband we’re fine.

I’ll take care of our kids.

You’ll watch us from another spot.”

Dion and Angelil have three children Rene-Charles, who was born in 2001, and twins Nelson and Eddy, who arrived in 2010.

Celine Dion’s husband and exmanager, dies at the age of 73

THE C ANADIAN PRESS LAS VEGAS - Rene Angelil, the entertainment maestro who guided Celine Dion to superstardom and then married her, has died, according to Francine Chaloult, a spokeswoman for Dion.

He was 73.

Chaloult said Angelil died Thursday morning at his home in Las Vegas.

Coroner John Fudenberg said in a statement that Angelil died of throat cancer and no further investigation into his death was expected.

Angelil had been battling a recurrence of throat cancer since initially undergoing surgery in April 1999.

He battled it successfully, but had to undergo another operation in December 2013.

While Dion and Angelil’s entourage insisted he was doing well, Angelil stepped back from the day-today management of his megastar wife’s career in June 2014. He turned it over to longtime friend Aldo Giampaolo, a noted impresario himself in Quebec, but remained involved in key decisions.

Just a month after that announcement, Dion said Angelil was focusing on his sons and “working really hard on his health.”

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would step aside as premier. Notley fired back, saying a Toronto businessman had no business telling Albertans how to vote.

“She said, ‘Bring it on,”’ O’Leary said. “I’m bringing it on.”

No matter what people may think of it, the energy industry drives the Canadian economy and if it is suffering, it’s the company CEO - in this case the premier who is to blame, he said.

“You should not be allowed to manage (the Alberta economy) or be the premier of that province unless you have made payroll for two years in a company

with sales of over $5 million,” he said. “...I say the same for the prime ministership, I say the same for any leader of any province.

If you haven’t made payroll, you have no right to sit in that seat.”

That, he acknowledged, would disqualify many past prime ministers, including former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper - someone about whom O’Leary seems to have mixed feelings.

“I think Stephen Harper was doing a good job in terms of policy for the private sector and he enjoyed a long period of success

Frederick Leonard Cragg Was born on July 17, 1938 in Powell River, BC and passed away peacefully at home in Trail on January 12, 2016.

Fred is predeceased by his parents Robert and Elizabeth, brother Gary, brother-in-law Avery and nephew Wesley.

He is survived by his loving wife of 51 years, Sandra, children; Leonora (Jim), Teresa, Ron (Jenny), 23 grandchildren, 3 great-grandchildren, his mother, Anne, sisters; Eleanor, Diane (Harvey), Christine (Blair) and numerous other family and friends.

Fred worked at Cominco for 30 years and was a chartered member of the Rossland Lion’s Club. He spent numerous hours walking on Main street in Rossland collecting coins to donate to the club. He also was security for the Rossland Warriors hockey games and will be remembered for his loud yell.

Not too many people were able to get past Fred without receiving one of his very firm handshakes.

In his later years he enjoyed attending the bridges program at Columbia View Lodge and was always excited to go to the casino. The last 5 years were his most enjoyed as he was able to spend quality time with his family watching his grandchildren and great grandchildren grow.

A Celebration of Life will be held on Saturday, January 23rd at 1:00pm at the Warfield Hall. Thank you in advance to Jim and Sharon Merritt for officiating the service. Gwen Ziprick of Alternatives Funeral and Cremation Services has been entrusted with the arrangements. You are invited to leave a personal message of condolence by visiting the family’s register at www.myalternatives.ca The family would like to extend a sincere thank you to The Greater Trail Hospice (particularly Tom McEwan), the staff of both Columbia View Lodge and the Oncology department, Dr. Scully, Dr. Paul, Dr. Scotland, Dr. Degreef, Home support, WeCare (particularly Charlotte and Anita), Handy Dart, Sherry and Andrew Bligh, Homefirst, MediChair, BC Ambulance Service and numerous others who cared for and loved Fred.

As an expression of sympathy, your donations made to The Greater Trail Hospice Society www.trailhospice.org or by cheque to the Golden City Lion’s Club (PO BOX 1051, Rossland, BC, V0G 1Y0) in Fred’s memory would be greatly appreciated.

there; however, you also have to be compassionate,” he said.

“Canadians are that way - they just are - and they are very inclusive, and the minute you go off the rails on a topic like that, it costs you immensely, and I think he found what the price of that was.

“I don’t think politicians should dabble in social mores, in religion - their job should be to stabilize and grow an economy.”

That point of view reflects the beliefs of many Conservatives when it comes to the role of government, as does O’Leary’s philoso-

phy that higher corporate taxes and a carbon tax would hurt Canada far more than help.

Asked whether he thought Canada should continue bombing Islamic militants in Iraq and Syria, however, O’Leary suggested a different route.

“We are the best peacekeepers in the world,” he said. “I would like Canada to be very involved in peace initiatives, not war.”

O’Leary, who calls himself politically agnostic, said he’s eyeing a run for the Tories because of timing - it’s the only party actively seeking a new leader.

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Doreen Cronie passed away on January

6, 2016. Doreen is survived by her loving husband, Mervyn and her children Wendy Cronie, Barbara Zetterberg, and Scott Cronie. Doreen was born on January 1, 1939 in Macleod, Alberta to Dora and Herb Jacobs. She was preceded in death by her parents and sister Muriel.

Doreen and Merv were high school sweethearts and married in 1959. They had a life together filled with love, friendship and adventure.

The family was at her bedside until the end. The family would like to extend their gratitude to the doctors, nurses and staff on the third floor of Swedish Issaquah.

A private family service is planned.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital.

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Internet makes different TV viewing habits possible

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ccasionally, over the years since I cancelled our satellite television service, I wonder if we miss much in not having a cable or satellite TV provider. The answer, after nearly a decade without it, is still no.

Nonetheless, we still enjoy watching movies and television series. And last weekend I was still able to take in the National Football League wild card playoff series, including the vicious and disturbingly wonderful Pittsburgh-Cincinnati game. But whatever we watch, some sports games aside, is commercialfree. Most of our home entertainment is provided by streaming sites, which we watch with our flat screen television connected to my laptop computer.

Netflix is the only service we pay for, and even that is enhanced with a subscription to a program that allows my computer to pretend we are in different countries, giving us access to more than just the Canadian Netflix library. The other movies, series and sports we enjoy are provided courtesy of others who share what they are watching.

Streaming is not without its challenges. The picture, particularly for games, is variable and occasionally I have to change streaming provid-

ers to get a feed that watching a movie on doesn’t break up regthe big screen, but ularly. But the frusviewing in the comtration level is not fort of our living comparable to that room has its appeal. of watching 10 minIn recent weeks we utes of commercials have watched many for every half hour of of the movies likely viewing. to be nominated for LORNE Much of what Academy Awards we watch on Netflix and there are a can be found on free number that I simsites, but I happily ply would not have This is the Life continue to pay the gone to a theatre to monthly subscription because I watch. It’s easier to turn off a stinker think it is the best entertainment than it is to walk out of a theatre. value available. And when I instruct Streaming video fans have come my computer to pretend we live in to enjoy binging, or watching entire Britain, Netflix offers a much better TV series in a short period of time. selection of British and European It’s much easier to get caught up in a television series, many of which we story when one doesn’t have to wait thoroughly enjoy. a week or more for each episode.

It seemed strange recently to read For the second series of the exnewspaper sites commenting on the cellent British series “Broadchurch,” new and final season of “Downton for example, we took in all eight epAbbey.” We watched those shows a isodes in about three evenings, the few months ago, as soon as they had time equivalent of viewing a twobeen aired in the United Kingdom. hour movie each night. Likewise (I will resist spoiling the viewing with “Downton Abbey,” “Fargo,” experience for others by revealing “Hell on Wheels,” “True Detective” the ending!) and our other favourites. It now Most movies can be watched seems like a hardship to wait a week on Internet sites shortly after, or for the next episode of “The Good sometimes even before, they have Wife” or “Madam Secretary.” The been released to theatres. Of course, same fate will result when we finally nothing beats the experience of get up-to-date with Suits.

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Streaming availability also lets us keep programs on the backburner until just the right time. We opted out of Breaking Bad after one episode because it just wasn’t what we were looking for at the time. But the time will come when we want to watch it and we can view a few shows a night to take in the entire series when it suits us.

Streaming does have its downsides. Water cooler chat about current television series is less common now as more and more people abandon traditional cable and satellite services.

We watch on our own schedules now, and are rarely in sync with others’ viewing habits. It creates addictive habits, too. I recently became hooked on “Salvage Dawgs,” about a small company in the eastern U.S. that salvages building materials before demolition destroys old structures, and watched all halfdozen series in a few weeks. Call it a winter luxury.

Of course, streaming viewers lose out on the water cooler chat about the latest commercials too, which still seem to thrill a segment of the public.

It’s a conversation I am happy to stay out of, though.

Lorne Eckersley is the publisher of the Creston Valley Advance.

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LETTERS & OPINION LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Christmas generousity story touching

I enjoyed this article so much (“Christmas story is one to remember year round,” Trail Times Jan. 7).

Knowing of the goodness of the RCMP officers and Canadian Tire in helping two distressed innocent children in need is just wonderful.

What a great community we live in.

Maureen Lechner Fruitvale

FortisBC responds to reader’s letter on rates

Providing good customer service, as well as a safe and reliable supply of electricity at the lowest reasonable cost, is a priority for FortisBC. On Jan. 7, a Trail Times reader raised concern in a letter about FortisBC’s increase in electricity rates and company projects (Fortis rate increases continue unabated, Trail Times Jan. 7).

FortisBC recognizes that the cost of electricity is an important consideration for customers.

This is why FortisBC is meeting the challenge of balancing ongoing infrastructure improvements with the impact on rates by focusing on those projects that provide the system reliability and integrity our customers require.

FortisBC is regulated by

the British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC). Through transparent, public proceedings, the BCUC approves the overall revenue we collect from our customers to cover the cost of providing service.

The BCUC also approves the rate structure that appears on customers’ bills.

We are evaluating the way our business operates to more efficiently meet our customers’ service expectations and are committed to building long-term, cooperative relationships with them.

For example, major deployment of advanced metering infrastructure throughout our electricity service territory was completed late last year and is anticipated to save customers approximately $14 million

NHL commissioner’s hard sell on Calgary arena insulting

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ports moguls and politi- economic despair. cians make strange bed“Over time, we’ve seen the fellows. When they get dollar rise and fall, we’ve seen together they often seem the price of oil rise and fall, just to ignore economic realities, and to name two factors,” Bettman that makes a liaison between blithely said this week. “You don’t them potentially do this based on what’s dangerous. Think happening in 2016. a lustful teenage There has to be a vision couple with no for the future.” concept of birth He then added: control.

“If this project is So it’s always going to happen, the a relief for hardmayor needs to embrace JOHN pressed taxpayers it, the city needs to emwhen a politician brace it. . . . If he’s not Troy Media isn’t willing to prepared to embrace dance cheek to cheek with sports. it, then the people will have to National Hockey League com- deal with it,” Bettman told the missioner Gary Bettman ar- Calgary Chamber of Commerce. rived in Calgary recently to try But Bettman is apparently to stir up support for the pro- unaware that Calgary Mayor posed CalgaryNEXT project, an Naheed Nenshi is no light$890-million extravagance that weight. would house the NHL’s Calgary “Perhaps in other cities he has Flames and Canadian Football come to, the city councils have League’s Calgary Stampeders, as just written cheques based on well as offer a variety of commu- back-of-napkin proposals withnity facilities. out any consultation to the public The project was introduced or without any analysis,” Nenshi last year by Calgary Sports and said, unintimidated. “That’s not Entertainment Corp. (owners of how we operate here.” the Flames, the Stampeders and Although it does seem to be other sports properties). Based how Edmonton operates. on initial numbers, about $700 After years of negotiations million of the total cost would that bordered on bullying, a new come out of taxpayers’ pockets. complex is under construction And who knows how much more in downtown Edmonton. Rogers it would cost to upgrade local Place will cost in the neighbourservices, plus clean up a decades- hood of $500 million by the time old creosote mess from a former it is done this fall, much of that wood preserving plant. coming from public sources.

In a perfect world, it would While that project has given be a wonderful project. Set near a significant - and much-needmajor transportation arteries, on ed - boost to Edmonton’s gritty under-used land near the city downtown (other projects are centre, it could be a great gather- popping up around it, bringing ing place. overdue revitalization), it was But Alberta in 2016 is no- initiated before oil prices fell off where close to a perfect world. a cliff, and Edmonton’s existing Bettman seems completely clue- rink did not measure up in any less about the depth of Alberta’s way to Calgary’s Saddledome.

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Nor did Edmonton’s downtown measure up to Calgary’s.

Nevertheless, Bettman tried to push as many buttons as possible in Calgary. Edmonton’s new rink, he said, will mean that Calgary is falling behind (nothing bothers Calgarians more than being compared unfavourably to Edmontonians, and vice versa).

Calgary will be denied any opportunity to host the league’s allstar game, the World Cup of Hockey or the annual amateur draft, he threatened.

In fact, the future of the city may rest on this project, Bettman said. “It is not an overstatement to say the future stability, viability and continuity of the Calgary Flames, and perhaps the city of Calgary, rests on the achievement of CalgaryNEXT,” Bettman said. Overstatement is too tame a term, in fact, for that nonsense.

Bettman also wants Albertans to think of stadium projects as infrastructure. Frankly, they are not. Pumping tax money into stadiums for professional sports is not creating a public resource.

True infrastructure - roads, schools, hospitals - are for the common good. They serve and better society as a whole. And we have a long list of overdue priorities in this province, with no mammoth sports entertainment complex on that list.

Stadiums and arenas built for privately-owned sports franchises don’t exist for the common good. They exist primarily as means to an end - profit - for those franchises.

And no sports ringmaster who comes courting with threats and bluster should be able to convince us otherwise.

Troy Media columnist John Stewart is a journalist based in Red Deer.

over the life of the project.

FortisBC has applied to the BCUC for the construction of a new Kootenay Operations Centre. This will replace existing, aging facilities in the Kootenay region, unify our long-term space requirements and meet commitments to our customers and employees. The investment is $20 million, much less than was claimed by the reader’s letter. At this time we are working through a public regulatory proceeding for these facilities. We anticipate a decision in 2016.

Since purchasing the utility in 2004, FortisBC has invested approximately $1 billion in required safety and reliability upgrades and have added onto the system to support growth in the region.

We seek to balance the long-term cost of maintaining infrastructure with short-term changes in rates that customers see.

For decades, our four hydro-electric plants have provided low-cost,

renewable power to our customers.

Because of our significant ongoing investment, these assets will continue to be our lowest cost source of electricity generation for our customers for decades to come.

We continually invest in our infrastructure to make sure we have a modern system that ensures customers receive reliable, cost effective service with minimal interruption.

We appreciate our customers’ interest in this process. Customers can follow regulatory proceedings for all of our applications on the BCUC’s website at www.bcuc.com.

Customers interested in learning more about their rates can visit www.fortisbc.com/electricityrates or call us toll free at 1-866-4367847, Monday to Friday, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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The closures will be in effect until Friday, Mar. 4.

The Rossland Winter Carnival Committee made a request to extend the closure of Spokane St. between First and Second Ave. until 2 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 31 to accommodate a new event, downhill snow skating. Council approved the request.

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New avalanche research looking into terrain choices ALEX COOPER Revelstoke Times Review

You’re going out ski touring with friends.

You’ve read the bulletin but now you’re wondering — where should we ski?

New research at Simon Fraser University (SFU) hopes to provide more information to recreational backcountry travellers by looking at the practices of professionals.

“We want to better understand how mountain guides choose terrain to mitigate avalanche hazard under different types of conditions,” said Pascal Haegeli, the research chair in avalanche risk management at SFU. “We’re working with a number of operators to monitor how they assess the conditions, what type of terrain they chose and where they actually ski.”

The goal, he said, is to study what professional ski so that recreationalists can have a baseline of what’s acceptable terrain given certain avalanche conditions. “The idea is based on that information we can capture their operational expertise around that, and then hopefully extract the rules they use to make these choices,” Haegeli said. “Based on that information we hope to eventually develop tools for the amateur recreationalist.”

The new research position was launched

by SFU in December.

The five-year, $1.025 million project was created through a collaboration between the university, Avalanche Canada, the Canadian Avalanche Association,

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Red Mountain Resort will be hosting its annual Avalanche Awareness Day on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. It will touch on subjects such as building a snow shelter, snow profiling, transceiver use and probe line. and Heli-Cat Canada. It is being led by Haegeli, an avalanche researcher with more than a decade of experience in the field.

Avalanche Canada is contributing $15,000 per year to the program and is also serving in an advisory capacity.

“The interesting thing about Pascal’s program to us is it’s a multi-disciplinary program,” said Karl Klassen, the avalanche warning service manager for Avalanche Canada. “It’s not just hard physical science, but there’s also human psychology and decision making stuff.

There’s social science involved in his program that is of great interest to us because we know there’s more to making good decisions in the mountains than just doing hard science.”

The main focus of the research is a project that will track ski guides with several

heli- and cat-skiing outfits in B.C., including CMH Revelstoke and Selkirk Tangiers Heliskiing. Guides with those companies are being equipped with GPS devices so researchers can see what runs they opened that day and what they actually skied. That information can be then be related to the avalanche conditions for that day.

“The operators have well established procedures how they assess conditions and how they document their process,” said Haegeli.

“That provides a nice environment for doing this research.”

He hopes to eventually expand the program to recreationalists and other backcountry operations. “That would allow us to see what are the differences, where are the strengths and weaknesses of people, so we can start to look at developing tools that target existing users,” he

said.

Klassen, who is one of the guides carrying a GPS this winter, said the research is an extension of the work that went into the Avaluator. In that case, guides were surveyed to see what kind of terrain choices were made depending on conditions. The research at SFU will take that to next level.

“What it’s doing is it’s creating an expert database that will help inform when it is reasonable to be in what kind of terrain,” he said.

“There’s certainly days where it’s perfectly reasonable to go into very steep, very aggressive terrain. It’s just a matter of deciding when that time is.”

Haegeli is working with with one Masters student, one PhD student, and one postdoctoral student who is

also a ski guide. They will be publishing research over the course of the next five years and are also working to turn the research into practical products.

Haegeli hopes the research will eventually lead to detailed terrain guides for backcountry users. He spoke of the Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale, which currently divides terrain into simple, challenging and complex areas, and said he hopes that could be extended to develop maps that are condition dependent. Those maps could be accessed by the user when they head out.

“If we have a persistent slab that we know is in certain areas, maybe we can come up with maps that would take that into account,” he said. “How exactly those products will look like is unclear at the moment. It depends on the results that we get.”

Klassen said the tracking could lead to a baseline that could be used by recreationalists.

They could get an idea of what a professional would ski that day, then make their own terrain choice based on their own risk tolerance.

“In a perfect world you’d be able to look at your device and see what a professional would do in these kind of conditions today in this kind of terrain,” he said. “Would they go here or not? That would help you decide if you’d be willing to accept the risk presented on that day or not.”

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Pat Burke releases this rock, while Joe Parrila is poised to sweep in Trail Retirees Curling action. The Trail Retiree Curling Club will host its annual bonspiel at the Trail Memorial Centre with 30 teams attending from across the Kootenays.

Full house for Retiree Bonspiel

BY TIMES CORRESPONDENT Retiree curlers are getting ramped up for the annual Retirees Bonspiel at the Trail Curling Club in the Trail Memorial Centre this weekend.

A total of 30 teams from across the Kootenays will compete in the bonspiel, including a dozen from the Trail Retiree Curling Club. The action starts Friday morning at 8:30 a.m. with four draws hitting the hack Friday and Saturday, while the semifinal and final draws will go on Sunday.

The first draw begins sweeping at 8:30 a.m. on each day.

In this week’s Retiree curling, Team Dan Horan had the Kevin Oliver foursome right where they wanted them, with Oliver up 9-0 after three ends. The Horan side scored seven over the next three ends to reduce the lead to two, but after a blank in the seventh,

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Oliver ran Horan out of rocks in the eighth to secure the win.

In a back and forth battle it was team Brett Rakuson that held a 6-2 lead after six against the Forrest Drinnan foursome. The turning point was a steal of one in the seventh to extend the lead to three. Drinnan could only manage two in the eighth, falling just short of the tie.

In a tight game between teams Alvin Caron and Tom Hall, it was team Caron that held a one point lead after seven. With Alvin’s last shot he guarded shot stone, just back of the button. That left Hall with a six-foot angle raised takeout. The Hall front end swept like mad and made the shot for four.

Make the final 8-5, Hall.

In the first end of the Ernie Brown versus Primo Secco match, it was Primo drawing against four, and cutting it down to a steal of two that set the tone.

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With the score 9-4 for Secco after six, Brown had a possible double take out for six but only removed one Secco stone for two, for a 9–8 Secco victory.

Team Murray Walsh faced off against the new skip, Doug Shadbolt. It was close going into the fourth end when Walsh stole two, followed by a steal of three in the fifth. With a lead of 9-2 after seven, the gloves came off and it was handshakes all around.

The turning point was a steal of three in the fourth for team Serge Pasquali. Team Pat Burke with steals in the seventh and eighth closed the gap but came up one short, for a 6-5 Pasquali win.

Down one with hammer in the eighth could team Harvey Handley beat team Clare Coleman? It came down to the last rock, and despite the enormous pressure, Harvey came through and won the game 7-6.

Home for Quin Hall is manicured grass beneath a blistering sun.

Home is sweat dripping down his brow and the feel of a broken-in glove on his hand as he waits for the ball to come his way.

The baseball field is his safe space, the place Hall is allowed to be himself.

“I just feel like I belong out there,” says Hall. “That’s what I want to do with my life.

I want to move somewhere where it’s hot and baseball is an everyday thing forever.”

The 16-year-old Nelsonite played with the Trail Little League Major All Stars when the team hosted the BC championships in 2012, and went on to play with the single-A and AA Orioles, methodically honing his craft along the way.

Even during Nelson’s winter months, when snow covers the local diamonds, Hall is working away. There’s high school, but there’s also the gym, the net in his living room he throws whiffle balls into, the mirror he practises his swing in front of. He’s been playing baseball for eight years, but soon

it won’t just be a passion.

Very soon it will be his career.

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Next week Hall will attend Major League Baseball’s Breakthrough Series in Tempe, Ariz.

The evaluation event gives scouts a chance to see 60 high school players who don’t normally have the means of getting on MLB’s radar.

Hall, by virtue of living in Nelson, is one such player.

Attending the event, which starts Saturday and goes until Monday, required an invitation from an MLB team, which Hall’s family believes in his case came from the Washington Nationals. Scott Ramsay, a scout for the Nats, saw Hall when he played for the developmental club Spokane Dodgers last year and reached out to him after he turned 16 in July.

Former MLB catch-

er Bob Didier, who has coached Hall, said he recommended the young prospect be invited four months ago.

The invite also included a call in early December from Nationals manager Dusty Baker.

Once he returns to Canada, Hall and his father, Bob, will move to the Lower Mainland later this month so he can join the White Rock Tritons of the BC Premier League Baseball, which will give him year-round baseball, better competition and exposure to MLB and college scouts.

“I want to make a bigger name for myself,” said Hall. “I just want to actually compare and look like an MLB guy so if I do get the shot at being an MLB guy they’ll be like, ‘hey, I’ve seen this guy play, I know what he can be like, I think he’s a realtime MLB guy.’”

The family had received previous requests to move Hall away to club teams when he was as young as 14, but his mother, Pam, said she wouldn’t hear it. In the end, Hall’s talent forced the family’s hand.

“It wasn’t really a decision,” said Bob Hall.

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TIMES STAFF Red Mountain Racers (RMR) will be looking for podium finishes as they get set to host the Teck Kootenay Zone Race and BC Games Qualifier this weekend.

The RMR are coming off successful events in Nakiska and Sun Peaks last weekend. Soleil Patterson claimed silver in Giant Slalom at Nakiska, while Sammie Gaul came second in GS at Sun Peaks, and Gavin Patterson finished Top 10 in

Slalom at Sun Peaks as well.

This weekend’s Giant Slalom and Slalom races are part of the Teck Kootenay Race series but will also double as the BC Winter Games qualifier for racers 13-14 years old.

The racers hit the Backtrail slopes Friday to Sunday, with the first run going at 9:15 a.m. and the second runs scheduled for 12:30 p.m.

The 2016 B.C. Winter Games go in Penticton from Feb. 25-28.

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ocal junior hockey teams are Saturday. By that time the Vipers on two different tracks. Beaver and Smokies will each have played Valley may pretty much clinch the same number of games, so the the Neil Murdoch Division standings will be straightforward to title with a win tonight at the Hawks’ follow through the season ending Nest - not numerically but to a posi- stretch run. tion from which only The Smokies, in gena total Nitehawks coleral, have played imlapse over the final proved hockey over the month of the season past six weeks, and at can deny them top their disciplined best spot. can compete with most • Meanwhile, every teams in the BCHL. This Smoke Eater game is not a strong five-onDAVE from now on will have five scoring group, howa bearing on their ever, so special teams push for a recently- the power play has Sports ‘n’ Things rare playoff position in shown some improvethe Interior Division. ment while the penalty Beginning last night, the Smokies kill has been good most of the season play the last two of a five-on-the-road - will most likely decide Trail’s standswing that is putting a lot of klicks on ings fate. the bus tires and begin a period of There is good reason for hope for twice as many (10) home games as (5) Trail fans. The team has been better, road games to finish the season. seven points better in fewer games, at After poor results at the main- home than on the road, and their last land division - including a final two shots at Vernon are at Cominco game against a weak Surrey team Arena, including what could turn that the entire organization seems to out to be a big, huge, massive season have underestimated after dominat- finale on Feb. 27. ing a shorthanded Eagles squad at Don’t wait for then to get on the Cominco Arena the previous week- bandwagon. The team provides great end - coming games, especially the entertainment value almost every first three at home, are almost must outing at Cominco Arena and there win situations. is good reason for fans to be hopeful, That home heavy schedule begins so you should get out and support it, Sunday. Trail will play the last two particularly Sunday. games for the year against out-ofI admit it is nice to have reason for division teams Sunday and Thursday, a positive outlook at this relatively then faces another four-pointer late stage in the BCHL season. A few against Vernon, the two teams pen- quick good results from the Smoke ultimate meeting for 2015/16, on Eaters would make it even nicer.

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The Trail Eagles executive of Victor Steiner, Kim James, and Dan Chanyko presented Special Olympic BC-Trail volunteers Jodi Lemeiux and Rhonda Chandler with a $500 donation to help out with the upcoming SOBC Winter Fest at Black Jack Ski Club and Red Mountain Feb. 5-7.

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So it wasn’t really should we, shouldn’t we, it was like we’re just going to do it, bite the bullet and make it happen.”

Quin Hall plays centre field, bats lefthanded, and watches the Toronto Blue Jays, Los Angeles Dodgers and Pittsburgh Pirates.

His favourite player is Pirates centre-fielder and former National League MVP Andrew McCutchen, who Hall models his game after.

At the plate, Hall prides himself as a power hitter.

“I don’t swing just to make contact and hit the ball over the shortstop’s head, a little blooper single. I like to stretch doubles and triples,” he said. “I’m fast too on the bases. Any time I can, I steal. I’ll steal on almost anybody.”

Marty Lehn is the general manager of the Tritons and a former scout with 10 years of MLB experience. He’s known Hall since he

started coming to a baseball camp four of five years ago that Lehn runs in Oliver.

“You can dare to dream about Quin,” said Lehn. “He’s a great kid, he’s very coachable, he’s got a passion for the game.”

In scouting terms, Lehn said Hall currently has plus-speed and pluspower. His throwing arm needs to be stronger, but it’s improving every year. Lehn also noted Hall generates great bat speed and boasts raw power at the plate.

“It’s funny. I don’t think he recognizes how good he is,” said Lehn.

“He’s got a phenomenally quick bat. So I think as he matures he’ll start to realize that he can basically sit on balls a little bit more and evaluate pitches a little bit more because he is that quick to get to the bat and get the barrel to the ball.”

Didier, who played for parts of six seasons in the majors between 1969-74, echoed Lehn’s

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Dallas at Anaheim, 10 p.m.

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New Jersey at Arizona, 2 p.m.

Ottawa at Los Angeles, 4 p.m.

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Washington at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

Colorado at Columbus, 7 p.m.

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evaluation but added Hall’s personality also stands out.

“He’s always talking to other kids and applauding them and patting them on the back,” said Didier. “It’s not all about Quin, it’s about the team. He’s got a lot of attributes that could really help out if he does 4370B Minto Road, Castlegar, BC Open for breakfast Sat, Sun at 11 am go far. I mean, who Sat, Sun am 4370B Minto Road,Road, Castlegar, BC Open for breakfast forat 11 breakfast Sat, Sun at 11 am knows?”

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He’s eligible to be drafted once he finishes high school, which is still a year and a half away, but he’s more foJanuary 14, 2016 cused for now on making a good impression For the benefit of Kootenay Lake area residents, the following lake levels are provided by FortisBC as a public service. in Tempe. When he joins White Rock, he’ll Queen’s Bay: Present level: 1743.66 ft. be working toward get7 day forecast: Down 0 to 4 inches. ting noticed by NCAA 2015 peak:1747.14 ft. / 2014 peak:1750.37 ft.

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And second, how can I trust my ing to do with remaining faithful husband when he kept this secret to one’s partner. Your husband is from me for so long? the same man you fell in love with.

Please don’t suggest If you trust him, your counseling. My husband marriage is solid. says there is nothing to Please look into “change” about him, alPFLAG (pflag.org) Marcy Sugar though he says he will which can offer infor& Kathy Mitchell go if I insist. But what if mation that will help we go and then, just like you understand what’s my sister says, this bisexual stuff is going on. But if you find that your all bogus and he decides he is gay? marriage is floundering over this, I don’t want to end our marriage. I consider counseling from somejust want to turn back the clock so one who specializes in LGBT marI can think of my husband the way riages and can address your speI did before. -- Confused Wife cific concerns.

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Dear Annie: I met my husband in college. He was outgoing, handsome and a star athlete. We now have two beautiful babies and, I thought, a perfect marriage.

A month ago, we had dinner with a couple we’ve known for years. One of them said something about “bisexuals,” to which I replied, “There is no such thing.

You are either gay or straight.”

Everyone looked uncomfortable.

The next day, my husband told me said that he is bisexual. He said he’d had a relationship with another man in college before he met me. But he reassured me that I had nothing to worry about because he loves me and has no desire to be with anyone else of either sex.

Annie, I wish he’d never told me. I’ve been upset ever since.

I believe my husband when he says he is not interested in anyone else, but I have to ask, is there really such a thing as “bisexual”? My sister says that is just what people claim before they come out as gay.

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To Nadia’s friends you had a special place in her heart, thank you for being a part of her life. Nadia had such a zest for life and a strong will till the end.

Time slips by and life goes on, but from our hearts you’re never gone. We think about you always, we talk about you too. We have so many memories but we wish we still had you. Now you’re at peace with Joe and Mitch. Always in our hearts, always on our minds, you are our Heart and soul always and forever Nadia / Mom / Nonna

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Thanks for all the visits, phone calls, cards, food, fruit baskets, flowers, masses and donations made in Nadia’s memory.

Thanks to the ER doctors and nurses, ambulance drivers, the 2nd and 3rd Floor nurses, Dr. Hii, Dr. Wilson, the ICU doctor and nurses for all their care and attention while Nadia was sick and upon her passing.

To Gwen, Bill and staff at Alternatives Funeral Services thank you for abiding by Nadia’s wishes, we are ever so grateful. Thank you Father Bart for the many visits and mass, sister Norma, the pallbearers, CWL Ladies for the baking, the Sisters of Colombo.

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Working together with the Technology & Systems Administrator, you will be responsible for a variety of tasks including the day-to-day oversight of GFCU’s computer systems and networks, hardware and software and problem resolution.

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See dealer for details. ®Registered trademark of The Bank of Nova Scotia. RBC and Royal Bank are registered trademarks of Royal Bank of Canada. † $12,000 is a combined total credit consisting of $1,000 Loyalty Cash (tax inclusive) and a $11,000 manufacturer to dealer cash credit (tax exclusive) for a 2015 Sierra HD gas models (excluding 1SA 4x2), which is available for cash purchases only and cannot be combined with special lease and finance rates. By selecting lease or finance offers, consumers are foregoing this $11,000 credit which will result in higher effective interest rates. Discounts vary by model. ‡ $10,380 is a combined total credit consisting of a $3,000 manufacturer-to-dealer delivery credit (tax exclusive) $5,195 Cash Credit (tax exclusive) available on 2015 GMC Sierra Double Cab 1SA 4WD models, $1,000 Owner Cash (tax inclusive), $750 manufacturer-to-dealer Elevation Package Discount Credit (tax exclusive) for 2015 Sierra 1SA Elevation Edition with 5.3L Engine and a $435 manufacturer-to-dealer cash credit (tax exclusive) on any 2015 GMC Sierra Elevation Double Cab AWD with a 5.3L engine, which is available for cash purchases only and cannot be combined with special lease and finance rates. By selecting lease or finance offers, consumers are foregoing this $5,630 credit, which will result in higher effective interest rates. Discounts vary by model. ¥ Offer applies to eligible current owners or lessees of any model year 1999 or newer car that has been registered and insured in Canada in the customer’s name for the previous consecutive six (6) months. Credit valid towards the retail purchase or lease of one eligible 2015 Sierra or 2016 model year GMC SUV, crossover and pickups models delivered in Canada between January 5 and February 1, 2016. Credit is a manufacturer to consumer incentive (tax inclusive) and credit value depends on model purchased: $750 credit available on eligible GMC vehicles (except Canyon 2SA, Sierra 1500 and HD); $1,000 credit available on all 2015 and 2016 GMC Sierra models. Offer is transferable to a family member living within the same household (proof of address required). As part of the transaction, dealer may request documentation and contact General Motors of Canada Company to verify eligibility. This offer may not be redeemed for cash and may not be combined with certain other consumer incentives. Certain limitations or conditions apply. Void where prohibited. See your GM Canada dealer for details. GM Canada reserves the right to amend or terminate offers for any reason in whole or in part at any time without prior notice.

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