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Saturday’s Smoke n’ Steel Cruszn the Columbia brought an eclectic variety of vehicles to Gyro Park including classics such as Terry Basran’s 1957 Mercury M-100. Watch for more photos in Tuesday’s Trail Times.
The ink has now dried on the new five-year agreement between the city’s largest employer and its employees. On Friday Teck Trail Operations and locals 480 and 9705 of the United Steelworkers put final signatures on the new collective agreement for Trail operations after one month of negotiations that began in earnest April 30. The agreement was ratified and commences June 1, running through to May 31, 2017, replacing the three-year agreement that expired May 31. Discussions between the union and the company were very “positive and productive,” said Teck communications manager Carol Vanelli Worosz. “A five-year term offers us a great deal of stability in terms of Trail Operations moving forward for the next five years,” she said. “It is a very busy time with two new projects hitting the ground last week with the No. 4 furnace and the acid plant starting up.” The contract covers 1,180 people in Local 480 on the production and maintenance side, and 170 people in Local 9705 for the office and technical workers. Doug Jones, president of United Steelworkers Local 480, was unavailable for comment at press time however, last week he said the tentative
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Students from Rossland Secondary School had smiles that stretched from one ear to the other at their convocation on Friday. Homework is no longer a serious concern and the freedom to use milk crates as furniture will suddenly become a viable idea, but most participants were focused on the day instead of their future. Graduates shared a day full of activities before taking a step into the unknown. A flurry of dresses from every colour of the rainbow poured into a grass-covered area for a class photograph, and the boys lined up in a row behind all of the girls. A
couple of graduates showed up late for the 3:30 p.m. photograph to start the day, but were happily welcomed by laughing peers. Parents, faculty and friends gathering in a line facing the grads to collect photos of the teenagers they knew. But cameras continued snapping pictures of small groups of close friends and family members even after the gathering dispersed for the ceremony. Guests sauntered through the busy hallways of RSS and looked at Bollywood-inspired decorations, ranging from brightly coloured fabric curtains to costumed-dancers as well as elephant cut-outs and portraits of graduates covered in henna.
The ceremony began with a trio of students singing O Canada, followed by opening announcements from school officials. But the students were eager to hear from Joost Winckers, the art teacher, who gave them 10 tips to succeed after graduation. “Follow your heart even if the people around you don’t know enough to help you succeed,” he told them. Every student looked engaged and watched him closely during the address, often laughing at his selfdeprecating humor or adorning their faces with smiles that reflected the bittersweet moments he shared. Winckers encouraged
graduates to move forward in life with confidence, find activities they love and build healthy relationships with others. The bottom line that both Winckers and valedictorian, Jessica Britton, shared was to love what you do and do what you love. Several awards were presented to students, including a three-year engineering scholarship. The RSS class of 2012 had 44 students applauding for each other before wrapping up the ceremonies with a video about their lives by Camille Craig prior to the grand march and setting the stage for the annual prom. •See photos on Page 2
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The water is flowing once again in Montrose. Kevin Chartres the chief administrative office for the Village of Montrose, said the village has completed repairs after a water main break three weeks ago. Although the Stage 3 water restrictions, which were enacted after the break, have been removed, the boil water advisory remains in effect. Even though the water system is operating normally, new restrictions are in effect, including outdoor watering—excluding manual watering with cans or buckets—is prohibited between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. Households are allowed to run one watering device at a time, including gardening hoses, underground systems and manual sprinklers. But underground sprinkling is only allowed between midnight to 4 a.m. and manual sprinkling is between 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. or 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. The village recommends that turf is watered for no longer than 20 minutes in each zone and advises no watering at the end of every month.
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LOCAL Graduation day takes on special meaning for CEC students BY TIMOTHY SCHAFER Times Staff
Two years ago the drudgery of high school academics was usurped by the excitement of its inherent extra curricular activities for Samantha Anstey. She couldn’t be bothered to focus on her studies when having fun and partying felt so much better — so she quit school. When that life began to feel empty, she turned back to school to find an answer. Last Thursday at Trail Middle School the 19-year-old graduated high school from the Cooperative Education Centre with her Dogwood certificate in hand, four months after she began to reapply herself with vigour to studies that once seemed unbearably tedious. She was one of 27 students, ranging in age from 18 to 55, in Trail who took the road less traveled for their Grade 12 certificate, and participated in a ceremony celebrating their achievement at the school in front of 130 people. “When you get older you finally have to realize you need certain things in your life,” she said after the ceremonies were done.
“I just wanted to do something with my life instead of sitting at home and doing nothing. It gave me way more determination, going away and coming back.” But school won’t be ending for Anstey. She will now be going to college in fall in Vancouver for aesthetics and spa to begin building her career. Under the Kootenay Columbia Learning Centre, the Cooperative Education Centre (CEC) offers a family-like environment for students that have found the program because they left high school and decided to come back, or felt that a traditional campus wasn’t working for them. A lot of the 140 students at Trail Middle School — and a total of 200 across the school district itself — are in a position where they might have thought they wouldn’t ever be graduating high school, said Derek Zimmer, district coordinator for alternative education and one of the two teachers who work at the centre. “You see that fear when they come in … and things haven’t worked out, and there is that fear that they won’t graduate,” he
said. “So this day is an amazing celebration for everyone, to see them get through this in whatever way they can.” Using a more understanding and nurturing format, the centre takes on students young and old with different learning capabilities. Though still providing a structured learning environment like J. L. Crowe or Rossland Secondary School, the co-op program accepts that it may take longer for students to complete their studies. On Thursday, some students received a completion certificate, some earned an adult Dogwood, while some got through with a regular Dogwood (Grade 12 matriculation). Two of the graduates were university prepared and will be looking to go on to post secondary, said Zimmer, and some are looking at opening up businesses or head into the trades. One of those is Tom Eulenberg, an 18-yearold Trail resident who wasn’t inspired by the school system, but knew Grade 12 was something he had to complete. It felt good to be done, he said on Thursday, but there was some doubt throughout
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Above: Tom Eulenberg accepts a Dogwood, Grade 12 graduation certificate from superintendent of schools for School District 20, Greg Luterbach at Trail Middle School on Thursday for the Cooperative Education Centre’s graduation ceremony. Right: Tears were shed as students and teachers parted ways. he would finish after he transferred to CEC three years ago. “I knew I wanted to (graduate) but I felt like it was taking so long. I wanted to get on with other parts of life but still I wanted to get this done,” he said. “It feels exciting
and a relief to get this done.” With the help of the school’s teachers urging him on, making sure he attended class, Eulenberg has now set himself up for entrance into a trades apprenticeship program later this year.
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Deal done as major projects start City offers to be heritage resource FROM PAGE 1
deal carried an 18 per cent increase over five years of the contract, a 12 per cent boost in pension, and a $10,000 signing bonus. As a result of the new deal, Teck will incur a one-time after-tax charge to earnings in the second quarter of approximately $34 million related to a signing bonus and enhancements to pension and post-retirement benefits. The five-year deal follows on the heels of a “really successful bargaining in 2008” for the union’s now expired contract, after a three-month strike in 2005. “It is a very exciting time at Teck Trail Operations to have the agree-
ment and to be moving forward with our new projects,” Vanelli Worosz said. In late September, 2011, Teck announced they would invest $210 million to recycle end-of-life electronic waste in Trail through the No. 4 furnace project, as well as construction of a slag fuming furnace and settling furnace. The two furnaces will be situated at the southeast corner of the property, overlooking downtown and the Columbia River. Around 500,000 man-hours of work will be involved in the No. 4 furnace project, meaning approximately 200 construction jobs over two years when the project is complete in 2014.
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Rossland has set out to make it easier for communities in the region to start a heritage commission, by offering to act as a resource. Jackie Drysdale, chair of the Rossland Heritage Commission, explained the possibilities to Regional District of Kootenay Boundary board members last week. Currently the commission keeps a registry of heritage sites in Rossland, which includes over 30 buildings, such as the Miners’ Hall, built in 1898, and the Bank
of Montreal, built between 1898 and ‘99. Drysdale said they are working on a three year plan for the restoration of the Rossland Cemetery. She offered some steps to start to make heritage a priority in other communities. First they need to seek out the support and leadership of local government, through an official community plan or council motion. They need to identify citizens who are willing to work voluntarily. She said there is also opportunity to use existing societies to help with this. Next is to call on the prov-
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pany has to replace 70 per cent of its old-style meters to meet modern standards regardless, and the new technology would also help the company pinpoint power outages and improve conservation programs. If approved, the $47 million retrofit project would begin in 2013 and take two years to finish. According to Gibney, each meter would transmit for about one minute per day, and its electromagnetic radiation would be “literally thousands of times below” levels deemed unsafe by Health Canada. Noting another common concern about smart meters, Gibney said his company has no interest in using the hourly data to see what its customers are doing
with their power. Nineteen FortisBC meter readers would lose their jobs in the switch, although the project would create nine new high-tech positions and the company would work with its union to transition displaced employees. RDOS Director Allan Patton told Gibney he’s not concerned with the electromagnetic radiation from individual meters, but worries about the cumulative output in an apartment building with individually-metered units. Meanwhile, Director Tom Siddon said he doesn’t like the idea of the company’s information-capture plans: “You guys don’t have a right to come down my street and put up transmitters and receivers without my consent.”
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ply for the City of Red Deer and other communities downstream from Thursday’s spill, crews were busy spreading booms across the surface to skim away any sour crude. Plains Midstream Canada estimates as much as 475,000 litres of oil spilled and then leaked into the river. The company says the oil spilled into Jackson
bill is to the economic benefit of the country, but critics say jamming so many major changes into a single bill means they aren’t getting the scrutiny they require. But with a Conservative majority, the bill is set to pass, so all the Opposition parties have pulled procedural rabbits of their hats. The New Democrats and the Liberals gave notice of over 1000 amendments seeking to delete various clauses of the bill. Technically, a vote is required on each one, which could keep the Commons sitting around the clock for days. “The content is flawed in many respects and they just want to bulldoze through the whole process,� said NDP deputy finance critic Guy Caron. Both parties had
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he forthcoming United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro (Rio+20) on 20-22 June has brought out the usual warnings of environmental doom. They have been greeted with the usual indifference: after all, there are seven billion of us now, and we’re all still eating. What could possibly go wrong? The UN Environment Program published its fiveyearly Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-5) saying that significant progress has been made on only four of ninety environmental goals that were adopted at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. “If current patterns of production and consumption of natural resources prevail,” warned UNEP head Achim Steiner, “then governments will preside over unprecedented levels of damage and degradation.” Yawn. Meanwhile, a team of respected scientists warn that life on Earth may be on the way to an irreversible “tipping point”. Sure. Heard that one before, too. Last week one of the world’s two leading scientific journals, “Nature”, published a paper, “Approaching a state shift in
Earth’s biosphere,” pointing out that more than 40% of the Earth’s land is already used for human needs. With the human population set to grow by a further two billion by 2050, that figure could soon exceed 50%. “It really will be a new world, biologically, at that point,” said the paper’s lead author, Prof. Anthony Barnofsky of the University of California, Berkeley. But Barnofsky doesn’t go into the details of what kind of new world it might be. Scientists hardly ever do in public, for fear of being seen as panic-mongers. Besides, it’s a relatively new hypothesis, but it’s a pretty convincing one, and it should be more widely understood. Here’s how bad it could get. The scientific consensus is that we are still on track for 3 degrees C of warming (5 degrees F) by 2100, but that’s just warming caused by human greenhouse-gas emissions. The problem is that +3 degrees is well past the point where the major feedbacks kick in: natural phenomena triggered by our warming, like melting permafrost and the loss of Arctic sea-ice cover, that will add to the heating and that we cannot turn off. The trigger is actually around 2 degrees C (3.5
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Why would a warmer or colder planet kill off all those species? The warming was caused by massive volcanic eruptions dumping huge quantities of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere for tens of thousands of years. But it was very gradual and the animals and plants had plenty of time to migrate to climatic zones that still suited them. (That’s exactly what happened more recently in the Ice Age, as the glaciers repeatedly covered whole continents and then retreated again.) There had to be a more convincing kill mechanism than that, and the paleontologists found one when they discovered that a giant asteroid struck the planet 65 million years ago, just at the time when the dinosaurs died out in the most recent of the great extinctions. So they went looking for evidence of huge asteroid strikes at the time of the other extinction events. They found none. What they discovered was that there was indeed major warming at the time of all the other extinctions – and that the warming had radically changed the oceans. The currents that carry oxygen-rich cold water down to the depths shifted so that they were
bringing down oxygen-poor warm water instead, and gradually the depths of the oceans became anoxic: the deep waters no longer had any oxygen. When that happens, the sulfur bacteria that normally live in the silt (because oxygen is poison to them) come out of hiding and begin to multiply. Eventually they rise all the way to the surface over the whole ocean, killing all the oxygen-breathing life. The ocean also starts emitting enormous amounts of lethal hydrogen sulfide gas that destroy the ozone layer and directly poison land-dwelling species. This has happened many times in the Earth’s history. Don’t let it worry you. We’ll all be safely dead long before it could happen again: the earliest possible date for a mass extinction, assuming that the theory is right and that we continue down our present track with emissions, would be well into the next century. The only problem is that things like this tend to become inevitable long before they actually happen. Tick, tock. Gwynne Dyer is a Londonbased independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.
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Dogs were never deemed dangerous I am shocked that the Trail Daily Times is in the business of publishing “he said, she said” drama (“Two dogs deemed dangerous,” Trail Times June 7.) I find it lacking in taste that not once did you state in there that the Trail Daily Times tried to talked to the owners of the dogs regarding what happened. Not once did it state in this same article that the Times had contacted the SPCA to confirm these allegations. That’s because these things never happened. I am the owner of these so-called “dangerous” dogs. I find it
offensive that this lady completely fabricated this story to make her seem like a poor little victim. Not once was a kid ever the focus of an attack, the grey dog was only near her oldest child for the simple fact that he was holding the leash to their dog. These so called dangerous dogs are around children everyday including my two-yearold daughter. Not once have any of my animals shown any aggression to my children, our friends’ children, or any children at that! I would not own dogs like this if they were a risk to my chil-
dren or the children of anyone else in our neighborhood – bottom line! Yes there was an altercation between my grey “dangerous” dog and her dog. No we did not stick around to find out if her dog was okay for two reasons; Her and her son telling us sorry wasn’t good enough, the verbal attack towards us , and I personally was focused on getting my dog in the yard. My dog is 11 months old and obviously has some learning to do. Saturday he left to a dog boarding school if you will, to be socialized with other dogs
and to get some extensive training! So for her to try and portray us as being uncaring owners is completely unacceptable and false. We are obviously taking the responsible steps to make sure this type of dog-on-dog aggression doesn’t happen again. In closing I have been at the SPCA all day going over this article and their investigation, they never once declared any of my dogs dangerous, Nor were they contacted by the Trail Daily Times to confirm any of these allegations. The file has since been closed. Jeremy Brown Montrose
Oilsands good for all of Canada An editorial from the Kamloops Daily News Even Thomas Mulcair knows that oilsands is much more than a dirty word. The federal New Democratic Party leader attracted scorn from politicians across the West for complaining that Alberta’s rich resource is responsible for artificially inflating the value of the Canadian dollar, thus hurting the nation’s manufacturing sector - an economic affliction known as Dutch disease. Mulcair got some support for this controversial thesis this week from the Pembina Institute, which concluded that, indeed, Canada is suffering from a type of Dutch disease it dubbed oilsands fever, “a strain that is beginning to create clear winners and losers in Canada’s economy.” But what’s so different about this state of affairs? Canada’s economy has always been a topsy-turvy study of opposites. Boom in the East, bust in the West. Boom in the West, bust in the East. Now that the West is enjoying some well-deserved pros-
perity due to the price of its natural resources, the East is feeling the pinch due to a sluggish manufacturing sector. But is the slowdown due to a relatively strong Canadian dollar or is it because North America’s economy has been caught up in global financial turmoil? Likely the latter. There’s no denying that Alberta’s oilsands have made the province the envy of other provincial finance ministers, but the truth is that the benefits of the resource are felt nationwide. According to the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, more than $200 billion in capital investment will be made in Alberta’s oilsands over the next 25 years. And for every $1 invested, about $8 in economic activity is generated, with one-third of that outside Alberta. Mulcair’s broadside against Alberta and his subsequent highly publicized visit to Fort McMurray succeeded in garnering national media attention (maybe that was the plan in the first place), but it also
served to focus the spotlight on the giant energy projects and how they’re developed. He admits that he’s not necessarily against the oilsands, but simply wants to ensure they’re exploited in an environmentally sensitive way. Well, who doesn’t? There’s no denying that oil is a dirty business, whether it comes from a well on the Prairies, gouged from the earth in northern Alberta or pumped from a platform in the Atlantic. Nobody wants to hurt the environment, but at the same time, you’d be hard-pressed to find anybody who would say no to a cheque that came courtesy of the oil industry. The much-maligned oilsands are good for Alberta, but there’s no question that they’re good for Canada, too. And it’s the job of government to ensure they’re developed with environmental sensitivity and with careful consideration for the planet. Contrary to what Mulcair might have you believe, that’s not politics, it’s just common sense.
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PEOPLE OBITUARIES EXNER (NEE GUESFORD), MILDRED ‘MILLIE’ — was born in Birmingham, England on July 6, 1926 and passed away peacefully at Poplar Ridge in Trail on June 6, 2012. She is predeceased by her first husband Albert Marsh, second husband Dave Exner and granddaughter Rhonda. She is survived by her children Len and Barbara (Doug), grandchildren Rich, Bill (Cheri), Kyle and Jesse as well as four great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. A Celebration of Millie’s life will take place at St. Andrew’s Anglican Church on Pine Avenue in Trail on Wednesday, June 13, 2012 at 11:00 am with Father John Ruder, Celebrant. Gwen Ziprick of Alternatives Funeral and Cremation Services™ has been entrusted with arrangements. As an expression of sympathy, your donations to The Alzheimer Society of B.C. at 300-828 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. V5Z 1E2 or online at www.alzheimer. bc.org would be greatly appreciated. You are invited to leave a personal message of condolence at the family’s online register at www.myalternatives.ca *** ATKINSON, ERNEST GORDON — Loving father, uncle and friend quietly passed away on June 2nd, 2012. Gord, as he was known to most, a retired businessman from Rossland, spent the majority of his life in the Rossland / Trail community. He was an avid golfer, enthusiastic fisherman, and spent many hours in his retirement enjoying both. He was born in Rossland, July 18,1930, to Ernest G. and Ingrid Atkinson. After earning a trade with Cominco, he spent time working in Trail, Kimberly and Spokane before settling into the insurance business and eventually setting up shop in Rossland, where he worked until he retired in the late eighties. Gord is survived by his two sons, Campbell of Spokane Washington, and Dan of Kelowna, his niece, Gail Dudley of Christina Lake, his nephew Ron Parker of Rossland and his former wife, Maggie Atkinson of Spokane. Any who knew Gord will tell of his gruff demeanor, but know that inside he had a soft heart and great sense of humour. Gord will be deeply missed by all who knew him. He spent the last year of his life at Columbia View Lodge and many thanks go the those staff members that came to be his extended family and filled his final days with care. A small gathering of family and friends will be held in the near future, the place and time yet to be determined. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the Alzheimer’s Asociation of B.C. We’ll miss you, Gord. May your final journey be blessed…
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A new school gymnasium in Winnipeg will be named after Nelson Search and Rescue volunteer Sheilah Sweatman. The Queenston School gym committee and Winnipeg school division jointly announced Friday that the facility, expected to open this September, will honour Sweatman, who died on a volunteer mission in the summer of 2011. “Sheilah grew up in River Heights and was an outstanding student, athlete, artist and community volunteer dedicated to serving others,” said Colleen McFadden, chair of the gym committee. “Naming the gym in Sheilah’s honour will provide our students and young people with inspirational messages of community service and living life to the fullest.” Queenston School was built in 1931 but lacks adequate gym space. The new 5,150 square foot gym will serve both student and community needs. Sweatman’s father Wynn said the family was moved by the tribute. “We are very pleased that Sheilah has been recognized in this way,” he said. “She was a fabulous young lady, strong in mind and spirit.” He added his daughter was a “wonderful athlete, amazing snow boarder, cyclist, hiker, swimmer and dog sledder.” The gym naming is the latest of several posthumous honours: Central Okanagan Search and Rescue named its new jet boat after Sweatman last summer, and a cairn is expected to be constructed in her memory at the North Shore hall out of stones contributed from each of the province’s search and rescue groups. Sweatman, 29, drowned June 29, 2011 trying to recover a submerged vehicle in the Goat River near Creston.
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Woman recalls iconic Vietnam War photo THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - A woman who came to symbolize the horrors of the Vietnam War said she thought she would “die of hatred” after the bombing that left her scarred for life. Though she eventually learned to forgive those behind the attack - and the brutal conflict that spurred it - Kim Phuc Phan Thi vowed she would never forget the terrible consequences of war. That she survived the raid was “an accident of history,” she said on the 40th anniversary of the photo that made her famous. “A moment captured on film turned one child’s atrocity into a story of hope and survival,” she told friends and relatives gathered in Toronto on Friday to mark the occasion. “But I’ll never forget my two cousins who were killed in that napalm fire and I’ll never forget the millions of innocent victims who live their lives with the daily threat of violence and war,” she said. Kim Phuc was only nine years old when
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Associated Press photographer Nick Ut (right) is pictured with Kim Phuc Phan Thi ahead of a tribute dinner in Toronto on Friday. Ut shot an iconic photo of Phan Thi in 1972 after the Vietnamese village Trang Bang suffered a napalm attack. she was photographed fleeing a napalm strike on her village in South Vietnam on June 8, 1972. The image of her running naked down a road captured worldwide attention and later won a Pulitzer Prize. Recovering from the physical and emo-
tional wounds she suffered took years, Kim Phuc said, thanking the journalists, nurses, doctors and loved ones who came to her aid in the decades since the bombing. “In order to be really free, I had to learn to forgive,” she said in an emotional speech punctuated by tears. “It was the hardest work of my life, but I did it.” The woman who garnered worldwide fame said there was a time that she “wanted to hide from that photograph,” which the Vietnamese government long used against her. But she grew to embrace the spotlight as a tool to improve the world around her, particularly children in volatile situations like the one she escaped. Kim Phuc and her husband came to Canada in 1992 and now live in the Toronto area. Five years after landing in her adoptive country, she founded the Kim Foundation International, which provides free medical assistance to children who are victims of war and terrorism.
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I’ll Have Another forced to retire THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK - Trainer Doug O’Neill gave his horse three friendly slaps on the flank, removed his saddle, and I’ll Have Another was led out of the Belmont Park winner’s circle into retirement. I’ll Have Another never got a chance to try for a Triple Crown in the Belmont Stakes
on Saturday after an injured tendon forced the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner to be scratched and then retired on the eve of the race. About a half hour before the Belmont, the Canadian-owned colt’s handlers led I’ll Have Another from the paddock, through the tunnel and into
Union Rags wins THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK - Union Rags nipped Paynter at the wire in a photo finish to win the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, beating a field without Triple Crown hopeful I’ll Have Another who was retired with an injury. The finish was another thriller in the final leg of the Triple Crown, and hard luck trainer Bob Baffert was on the losing end each time. Canadian-owned I’ll Have Another used two stirring stretch drives to beat Baffert’s Bodemeister in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness. In the 1 1/2-mile Belmont, it was Union Rags who provided the thrills. A crowd of 85,811 cheered as the horses battled down the stretch, and Union Rags barely caught the front-runner at the end. Union Rags, trained by Michael Matz, finished a disappointing seventh in the Derby and skipped the Preakness.
the winner’s circle. The crowd cheered for the few minutes, and jockey Mario Gutierrez climbed aboard for a few quick pictures. He jumped off, O’Neill took off the colt’s saddle, and I’ll Have Another was led back to his barn. “I wish I can be unsaddling him in the winner’s circle after a win,” O’Neill said. “He was a once in a lifetime, heroic horse. We love the horses, we love this extraordinary sport and it’s an honour to be part of it.” I’ll Have Another was originally set to lead the post parade onto the track before the Belmont, but that planned changed early Saturday after concerns the horse might become too agitated. “We felt that this would be a fitting ceremonial retirement for an incredible racehorse,” O’Neill said. “There are many fans who travelled from near and far to see I’ll Have Another today,
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I’ll Have Another is led to the winner\’s circle by groom Ignocenzio Diaz and Benjamin Perez for a retirement ceremony at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y., on Saturday. and we wanted to give them a chance to help us send him off to retirement.” The colt won’t lead the Belmont horses to the starting gate with jockey Mario Gutierrez aboard as previously planned.
“He’ll be my hero forever,” said Gutierrez, who called Vancouver his second home after arriving as an apprentice at Hastings Park in 2008. “What I’ll Have Another did for me is so amazing. He brought happiness to my life.”
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Kings have entered uncharted territory. After a quick cross-contintent trip to New Jersey and back, their task remains the same: win one game and sip from the Stanley Cup. However, with Saturday’s 2-1 loss to the Devils, they find themselves facing a Game 6 for the first time all playoffs. And the Los Angeles players know they best not blow a third opportunity to finish off the Devils. “I’m pissed off,” Kings “The only way forward Justin Williams, to look at it in a standout in this series, said after Game 5. “A lot the series is of guys in that room are the first goal. pissed off.” Whoever It likely made for a quiet flight back home. scores the The Kings were schedfirst goal, uled to have a meeting at their El Segundo, that’s the way Calif., practice facility on it’s been.” Sunday in preparation DARRYL SUTTER for tonight’s Game 6 at Staples Center. New Jersey elected to skate Sunday after making the 3,900-kilometre trip to California. Everyone involved in the series is plenty aware of what’s at stake now. “They’re going to award the Stanley Cup to somebody here in the next two games,” said Devils coach Pete DeBoer. “There’s only two games left in a season where both teams are going on 110 games. So this is probably right where you want to be.” The mood has certainly shifted since the Kings won the opening three games of the Stanley Cup and appeared to be heading for a sweep. “We don’t want any distractions,” said defenceman Drew Doughty on Sunday. “I think a lot of us before Game 4 were distracted with family members and friends, the Cup coming in the building. A lot of things we have to put aside. Family always comes first for everyone, but at this point of the year the team has to come first. “We’re a family in the room and on the ice.” There has been very little to separate the teams and veteran Devils goaltender Martin Brodeur had solid outings in Games 4 and 5 to get his squad back in the series. Some significant history will be made no matter who raises the trophy. Los Angeles is after its first title in 45 years while the Devils are seeking to become the first team since the 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs to erase a 3-0 deficit in the Stanley Cup. A key factor to watch in Game 6 is who scores first. In a series where goals have been extremely tough to come by, the team who takes the first lead has won five in a row. “The only way to really look at it in the series is the first goal,” said Kings coach Darryl Sutter. “Whoever scores the first goal, that’s the way it’s been. We scored the first goal in the first three. That tells you just really how close it is.”
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Addict hubby will do anything to support habit Dear Annie: Please help me. My husband, whom I love very much, is addicted to pain pills. It’s been more than a year. He says he takes them to maintain his energy levels for his long 12-hour days, but, Annie, he still takes the pills on his days off. When he tries to stop, he goes through withdrawal symptoms. Not only am I concerned for his health, but it’s putting stress on our budget. He spends at least $100 a week on these pills. I’ve tried everything I can think of to get him to stop, but nothing works. Rehab is not an option because we don’t have the money and insurance won’t cover it. I love my husband very much, but this is affecting our marriage, and he’s ignoring it. -Distraught Wife Dear Distraught: Your husband isn’t trying to wreck his marriage. He is an addict, and addicts do whatever is necessary to sup-
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port their habit. He will need to gradually taper off the medication until he no longer suffers withdrawal symptoms. We assume your husband has some kind of prescription for these pills that needs to be refilled regularly. Call and alert your husband’s doctor (and possibly local pharmacies) that he is abusing the pills. And please contact Families Anonymous (familiesanonymous. org) at 1-800-736-9805 and Nar-Anon (naranon.org) at 1-800477-6291 for assistance and support. Dear Annie: I have two questions concerning proper etiquette. When wedding invita-
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It’s a crapshoot! For some, however, the introduction of new technology will be exciting. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Parents need to be extra vigilant about their children today, because this is an accident-prone day for your kids. Privately, you feel full of creative ideas! Romance might hold a few surprises. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19)
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events. PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) If shopping today, count your change and keep your receipts. Guard your possessions against loss or theft. Something that has to do with your finances and possessions is unpredictable YOU BORN TODAY You have an innate optimism and faith in your future, and it contributes to the success of whatever you do. You are idealistic, yet also
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All Pro Realty Ltd. Fruitvale
$207,000
This great home sits on a nice private corner lot. All the work’s been done with new roof, windows and siding.
Trail
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$389,000
Absolutely beautiful 2400 sq. ft. home with the most incredible river views!!
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$269,900
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$149,900
Trail
No stairs, no problem! Close to Gyro Park, rancher w/ off-street parking. Nice yard. Awesome for the retiree.
$144,900
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Rentals Apt/Condo for Rent COTTONWOOD CREEK INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY LIVING: Two bedroom apartments available immediately. Bright, spacious, and clean apts. on a 1 acre setting. Beautiful community gardens, green space with Cottonwood Creek as your soundscape. Pets considered. Laundry on site. On bus route or a short 10 min. walk from Nelson. cccpropertymanagement@gmail.com or 778 9620500 $900 + utilities with hardwood oors (2 bdrm) $850 + utilities (2bdrm) E.Trail 1bd, f/s, 250-368-3239 Rossland. 2 bdrm, clean, quiet, F/S, W/D, N/S, N/P. 250.362.9473. SUNNINGDALE, large 2bdrm. 1bth. Cable, heat & a/c included. Free use of washer & dryer. No smoking, No pets. Avail. Jul.1st. 250-368-3055 TRAIL, 1&2-BDRM, 250-3681822 TRAIL, DT, Updated, bright, large 3Bd. Apt. $1,000./mo. +utilities. Available Sept.1st. Call Cary 250-505-6282 TRAIL, spacious 2bdrm. apartment. Adult building, perfect for seniors/ professionals. Cozy, clean, quiet, comfortable. Must See. 250-3681312 WARFIELD, 2BD. condo. $650./mo. plus utilities. F/S, coin-op laundry. 250-362-5970 W.TRAIL, 2Bdrm. in 4-plex., garage. $550./mo. 604-2505714
Commercial/ Industrial TRAIL, 1200sq.ft. Many upgrades/ options. Across from Trail Times. Call Cary 250505-6282. Available Sept.1st.
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Modular Homes $429,500 Waneta A stunning executive quality home in a quiet setting with a beautiful back yard. This 3 bedroom home is only 6 years old and is a “must see.�
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Beautiful 9.86 acre parcel on Col. Gdns. Rd. 3+bdrms, 2 bath home w/ large shop & stunning views across the valley. Beaver Creek meanders along the back of the property.
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$295,000 $499,900 Fruitvale A fantastic custom made home on a large, landscaped lot. The attention to detail and quality make this home one of the Ànest. Call on this one today!
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Beaver Falls
Genelle
Nicely updated 4 bedroom mobile with addition. Newer Ă ooring, freshly painted. Located in Fruitvale mobile home park. 1000 sq. ft of living area. Why pay rent when you can own this?
This 2 bedroom mobile home is located in quiet park. Freshly painted, newer à ooring, covered deck. Perfect for Àrst time buyers or seniors.
This double wide modular has a spacious open Ă oor plan, newer kitchen, newer bath, newer Ă ooring & wood stove. Located in Whispering Pines park, just steps from the Columbia River
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Denise Marchi ext 21 Keith DeWitt ext 30
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$65,000
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Fruitvale
$39,500
JUNE SPECIAL Brand New 16’ Wide Modular Homes. From $69,000.00 mark@eaglehomes.ca
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MLS# K211181
MLS# K212535
MLS# K204952
MLS# K206097
Fruitvale $274,500
Warfield $259,900
Trail $239,900
Trail $229,900
Warfield $229,900
Warfield $227,000
Trail $214,000
Rhonda van Tent 250-231-7575
Patty Leclerc-Zanet 250-231-4490
Patty Leclerc-Zanet 250-231-4490
Patty Leclerc-Zanet 250-231-4490
Fred Behrens 250-368-1268
Fred Behrens 250-368-1268
Gerry McCasky 250-231-0900
s 2 Home 1 Lot
MLS# K210392
ce New Pri
MLS# K205930
MLS# K211761
Super 3 e om Bdrm H
ce New Pri
MLS# K207019
Beaver Falls $209,900
Trail $206,000
Annable $169,900
Trail $155,000
Fred Behrens 250-368-1268
Gerry McCasky 250-231-0900
Fred Behrens 250-368-1268
Fred Behrens 250-368-1268
MLS# K200362
Trail
$133,000
Gerry McCasky 250-231-0900
ce New Pri
MLS# K204267
MLS# K211022
Trail $105,000
Warfield $59,900
Gerry McCasky 250-231-0900
Gerry McCasky 250-231-0900
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Monday, June 11, 2012 Trail Daily Times
LOCAL
No free lunch when it comes to claiming expenses
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s the summer entertainment season quickly approaches,
for those running their own business there are ample opportunities to engage clients or cus-
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tomers outside of the office, shop or store. It is often appropriate to pay for the cost of this entertainment – golfing, boating, fishing, BBQing – for both you and your client or customer. A friendly tax reminder: only 50 per cent of this cost is a legitimate business expense as CRA assumes there is personal benefit that must be accounted for. If it’s a foursome of golfers, still only 50 per cent can be expensed, not 75 per cent even though you are only a quarter of the foursome - some people like to argue that only their portion of the total participants should be removed, but CRA says no. Only 50 per cent of the entertainment
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is there any activity or alternative presentation mode you can do or offer as a business owner that would allow you to concurrently conduct business and entertain your clients, and therefore write off 100 per cent of the expense? Just a thought. Then there are those experiences for a small business owner when the entertainment doesn’t involve his or her clients. Instead, the business owner is a client of some other business he’s engaged and in actual fact is having to pay for his or her own entertainment and food as a cost of his or her participating. The typical example of this involves conventions when the entrance
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fee includes food and entertainment. Only half of the portion of the food and entertainment cost can be expensed, and if the figure is not identifiable in the convention fee, $50 per day is the CRA assumed entertainment and food cost, so only $25 can be claimed as an expense. In other words, for each day of participation at a convention, $25 of the convention fee (if it includes food and entertainment) is nondeductible. When convention fees can range into the thousands, can you say nickel and dime-ing? Ron Clarke providing accounting and tax services. Email him at ron. clarke@JBSbiz.ca
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and food would be costs can be required durclaimed as an ing a daylong expense. workshop The enterand the partaining of ticipants (cliRON prospective ents) would clients also expect to be Tax Tips & Pits qualifies as a fed especially legit expense, given a short but again, only 50 per break or remote locacent of it. It should be tion. In fact, two or noted though, what three meals could qualtraditionally is defined ify. as entertainment The regulation reads expense is actually â€œâ€Ś where expenses sometimes deemed are incurred for food, a business input and beverages or entertaintherefore a 100 per cent ment provided for, or expense in the eyes of in expectation of, comCRA. pensation in the ordinIf food or entertain- ary course of a busiment is required to ness carried on by that carry on normal busi- person of providing ness activity, CRA will the food, beverages or allow 100 per cent of the entertainment for comexpense to be claimed. pensation.â€? For example, a meal A business tax tip:
$149,900
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1672 Stang Road, Fruitvale
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4 bdrm home on 2.6 acres with open floor plan, hardwood floors, formal dining room, and a sunroom! A pool, sauna and firebox makes for great outdoor entertaining! All this plus 1500 sq. ft. of shop and garage!
2322 – 2nd Avenue, Rossland
1665 Maida Road, Christina Lake
$109,000
$399,000
36 Moller Road, Fruitvale
$369,000
Bring offers! Beautiful level corner lot with all services in a great neighborhood - Christina Lake the jewel of the southern interior - offers year round recreation - this is your chance to build your dream retreat ! Call Mark (250) 231-5591
Elegant family home loaded with mechanical upgrades and gorgeous features on .38 acres. Call Tonnie (250)-365-9665
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Wed, June 13th 3:30-5:30pm 901 Scott Street, Warfield $219,000
2260 Ralph Road, Fruitval
$214,500
460 Forrest Drive, Warfield.
$359,000
This home offers 4 bdrms, spacious Fantastic 3+ bdrm family home on a large .45 rec room, 200 amp service, security system, acre lot. Modern design & decor, open floor cozy wood fireplace, underground sprinklers, concept and vaulted ceilings. Gas fireplace, a/c, and 20X24 (shop/garage). oak kitchen, private deck and yard and so All this on a 0.97 acre lot!. much more. Call now! Call Darlene (250) 231-0527 or Ron (250) 368-1162
385 – 8th Avenue, Montrose
1280 Birch Avenue, Trail
$324,000
$189,000
This custom-built home is located on one of the most beautiful lots in the area. The yard offers almost 360 degree view of Montrose and incredible privacy. Home offers vaulted ceilings, 2-3 bdrms, huge windows, and 2 fireplaces. Huge workshop, double carport, 2 private patios and 1 sundeck. This one has it all.
Large 4bdrm family home with wood burning fireplace, large kitchen, updated plumbing and electrical, and low maintenance yard! If you are looking for an affordable family home, this may be it! Call now Call Mary M (250) 231-0264
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$330,000
Dropped from $439,900! View 1.4 acres with subdivision potential. This home has great views from every window, large open living and dining rooms, 2 bdrms on main and 1 down. You will love the huge deck in summer and the cozy wood stove in winter. Call Mary M (250) 231-0264
Ron Allibone
Christine Albo
Terry Alton
Cell: 250-512-7653
ext 39
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Mark Wilson
Art Forrest
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Thurs June 14th 3:30-530pm 1739 First Street, Fruitvale $269,000 Call Deanne (250) 231-0153
Tonnie Stewart ext 33 Cell: 250-365-9665 tonniestewart@shaw.ca www.kootenayhomes.com
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3955 Red Mountain Road, Rossland
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ext 26
Cell: 250-521-0525
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ext 45
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Cell: 250-231-0264
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Cell: 250-368-7897
ext 24
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