Trail Daily Times, December 11, 2012 by Black Press Media Group

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School board seeking public input on facilities

SANTA STOPS BY SILVER CITY NITES

BY TIMOTHY SCHAFER Times Staff

The funeral dirge has begun for two schools in School District 20 (Kootenay Columbia) as the board of trustees embarks upon its facilities review this week. The district is faced with closing one of the two schools in Rossland, as well as one elementary school in Castlegar, but how that end will come has yet to be determined. Beginning last week, the district released background information to the public on how the closures could take place in preparation for public forums that begin in mid January, as well as announcing the period was open for written submissions. When people take a look at the various configurations under consideration (www.sd20.bc.ca/facilities), and they attend the public forums, they should be amply armed to express an opinion on school closures, said board chair Darrel Ganzert. Although Ganzert said the board was not bound to the current motions passed or to the intention of closing schools, the situation has become dire. “We are under such budget pressure we have to take extreme measures,” he said about the closures. “What we are hoping is we can get a sense from the public, pos-

sibly some areas that would be less impactful upon them, possibly some ideas we haven’t considered ourselves in the past. That is the intention of the public input.” All trustees will be in attendance at the forums and they will review all of the information sent to them. The board is hosting a public forum on Jan. 15 at 6:30 p.m. in the Rossland Secondary School gym to discuss potential closures or reconfigurations in the Rossland and Greater Trail area. Two days later the Castlegar public forum takes place at Twin Rivers Elementary. Wendy Herbert, a retired superintendent from SD 64 (Gulf Islands) will help staff and guide the board through the final steps of the facilities review. She will facilitate meetings, including public forums, and co‐develop resources. Once the public comment period is over the board of directors will move swiftly into a decision, with first readings of any potential bylaws related to reconfiguration and closures coming Feb. 4. On Feb. 12 second readings of any potential bylaws related to reconfiguration and closures will take place, with third and final readings of any potential bylaws coming Feb. 25. However, Ganzert hinted there could be additional public meetings held. See DEADLINE, Page 3

Crash claims local man BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff

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A special appearance by Santa Claus caught the attention of some of his biggest fans during the Silver City Nites festivities in downtown Trail on Friday. Over 1,000 people joined the evening of fun. For more photos see Page 2.

A local man was killed in a motor vehicle accident on Sunday evening in the Birchbank area near Murphy Creek. Trail RCMP and regional firefighters responded to a two-vehicle crash on Highway 22 at 7 p.m. Initial investigation revealed that 53-year-old Franklin Murray Kotyk, from the Trail area, died at the scene as a result of injuries sustained in the crash. According to the police report, Kotyk was traveling toward Castlegar in a 2000 Ford SUV and crossed into the incoming lane.

The driver, from Vernon, was traveling toward Trail in a 1990 Chevrolet truck and was unable to avoid the SUV. He suffered serious injuries from the crash and was transported to Kelowna. As a result of the collision, the highway was closed for almost four hours, said Cpl. John Ferguson of the West Kootenay Traffic Services. Alcohol was not a factor in the crash, and the occupants wore seatbelts, said the police. The investigation into the crash continues. The roads were slippery and snow covered at the time of the crash.

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Downtown Trail hosted over 1,000 people at the Silver City Nites celebration on Friday night. Plenty of treats at the Candy Cane Parade, a visit from Santa, pots brimming with hot dogs, and Victorian inspired characters, were all part of the fun-filled festivities.

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shows one or four keycards, five hearts shows two keycards without the queen of trump, five spades shows two keycards with the queen of trump and five notrump WARREN shows two keycards with a WATSON useful void. Play Bridge The bidding: South, with 15 points and five spades opens one spade. North has DUPLICATE BRIDGE three card support, ten plus Nov. 28 game/ potluck dinner was points and a beautiful club 1. Richmond Williams held. 72 people attended suit. He bids two clubs and and Dave Thiel coming from as far as then bids four spades. South 2. Lorne Nicolson and Balfour and Grand Forks. has a strong hand and asks Trevor Hart Results for those in our for keycards. North has one 3-4 Bert Pengelly and area: or four keycards. Declarer Joyce Bjorgan; Mollie Dot Dore and Ross will always be able to figure Palmason and Mary Bates 1st in A out which one from the numForrest Dick Vission and ber of his keycards or from Nov. 22 Warren Watson 2nd in A the points. 1. Bill Gorkoff and Lorne Nicolson and Declarer then bids the Hubert Hunchak Trevor Hart 3rd in A and next suit up from five dia2. Sara and Dave Thiel 1st in B monds asking if North has 3. Richmond Williams Jean Fischer and Laurie the queen of trump. The next and Ross Bates Charlton 4th in A suit up by North says “no,” Nov. 21 Bert Pengelly and and any other response shows 1. Trevor Hart and Eleanor Harper 5th in A the lowest ranking king and Lorne Nicolson Gloria Hopland and an answer of “yes.” 2. Dot Dore and Ross Holly Gordon 3rd in B North has the queen of Bates Jean Paolone and trump and the king of clubs. 3. Joan Field and Heather Webb 6th in B Seven is certain as the losers Hubert Hunchak Mary Martin and Joyce will go on the clubs which Bjorgan 3rd in C can be ruffed good if necesOn Nov. 24, the annual Donna Backus and sary. In order to ask for the West Kootenay Christmas Simon Oakley 4th in C queen of trump, South must know that he and North have

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all the keycards. He did not ask for kings because of the queen-asking response, but all the keycards are necessary to ask for the number of kings. The contract: Seven spades by South The opening lead: The Queen of diamonds. This is a natural lead with three touching honours. The queen is top of a sequence. The play: South draws trump, sluffs (discards) his four heart and diamond losers on clubs and claims. The result: Seven spades by South making seven for +1510.

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Senior citizen apprehended for vandalism

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Pennies for Paws

By Sheri Regnier Times Staff

For one 64-year-old Trail resident, ignoring video surveillance warnings, meant his quick capture on charges of mischief and vandalism. Trail and Greater District RCMP apprehended a retirement-aged suspect Sunday, who vandalized three local businesses, by using black spray paint to graffiti windows, gas pumps, and cars. The incidents occurred overnight between Saturday and Sunday. The perpetrator was caught with the aid of video surveillance, identified and arrested, stated a press release. “It’s really unusual to have a fellow at this age doing this type of stuff,” said Sgt. Rob Hawton, of the Trail and Greater District RCMP. “It caught us by surprise, that’s for sure.” The preliminary investigation indicated that the acts were targeted vandalism, and there is no dollar estimate of the damages, however it is estimated to be well over $5000, according to the release. “A fair bit of damage was done with this guy in just one night, but he was caught, and that is the main thing,” added Hawton Alcohol does not appear to be a factor, he said. Instead of having a day of rest, on Sunday the staff at Gerick’s Cycle and Glenmerry Husky had to put in a lot of extra elbow grease to clean up their property. “It took a lot of heavy duty chemicals and time to scrub off the windows, their frames and stucco,” said Jason Proulx of Gerick’s Cycle. Screens on the gas pumps at Glenmerry Mohawk had to be scraped off and scrubbed, said owner John Dyer, whose video cameras caught the suspect red handed. The accused is scheduled for an arraignment on Feb. 7.

Power bills going up on New Year’s Day By Timothy Schafer Times Staff

The Christmas bills will come early this year for Greater Trail residents as FortisBC has received approval to slap a total 6.6 per cent increase on residential power customers as of Jan. 1. The power company gained the nod from the B.C. Utilities Commission for a 4.2 per cent increase in a revenue requirements decision, along with a 2.3 per cent increase from rate rebalancing. For the average residential customer using 1,050 kWh per month, the change is an increase of approximately $7.07 per month. There is some good news for small business owners. The cumulative rate adjustment on Jan. 1 will see business customers receiving a 5.5 per cent reduction in their bills.

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“Fruitvale Kids Care About Animals,” is the slogan for a fundraiser started in November by Fruitvale Elementary School teacher Eliza Forbes. Students have been collecting “Pennies for Paws” and filling up classroom jars with pennies and loose change. Once all the pennies have been rolled up, the proceeds will be given to the BCSPCA.

Question period prevails at RDKB meetings By Sheri Regnier Times Staff

It’s official. Bylaw number 1514 was passed by Regional District Kootenay Boundary (RDKB) board members, during an open meeting on Nov. 29, to ensure that the public and media can voice its concerns during an open question period at the end of each board meeting. Earlier in November, an Area C citizen wrote a letter to the editor of the Trail Times, to address his concern about the possibility that the RDKB may

want to disallow a question period or public input at its board meetings. “All you are doing with not allowing speakers etc., is alienating people,” wrote Joe Tatangelo. Tatangelo’s letter was in response to an article published in the Grand Forks Gazette on Nov. 8. Chair of RDKB, Larry Gray, did rebut this “misunderstanding” on Nov. 20 in a letter to the Trail Times that said, members of the press or the public do have an opportunity to address the board on items on the agenda or to ask

questions of the board, at the conclusion of meeting. “As part of the discussion, a motion arose during the meeting to allow an undefined open-mike period at the onset of the meeting,” wrote Gray. “This motion was defeated and the whole bylaw was referred back to committee for further recommendations to the board.” The new bylaw is just “house-keeping” said Gray. “Now, a question period at the end of each meeting is a formal thing.”

Deadline for written submissions is Jan. 4

FROM PAGE 1 “We haven’t nailed down all of the process,” he said. Starting in the fall of 2008 the district began a process of reviewing its facilities in light of declining enrolment and budgetary pressures. Various reports were generated and pub-

lic meetings held, all focused on a variety of options and scenarios related to school configurations. After the multi‐ year process the board stated in April of 2012 its intention to look at facilities specifically in relation to reconfiguration or possible closure in Rossland

and in the Twin Rivers/ Castlegar Primary area of Castlegar. Two specific motions were passed and had decisions being made around both areas by Dec. 31, 2012. The board subsequently revised the decision dates on those motions to have them completed by

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Feb. 28, 2013. “There are time considerations by law, and we have contractual situations with our unions if we go in that direction,” said Ganzert. Jan. 4 is the deadline for written submissions from members of the public for consideration by the

board. Send your submission to: Facilities Consultation, School District No. 20 (Kootenay-Columbia), suite 120-1290 Esplanade (V1R 4T2). A l t e r n a t i v e l y, people can email a submission to facilitiesconsult@sd20. bc.ca by the same deadline date.

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HENSCHELL, EDWARD GILBERT — was born March 5, 1929, in Trail, B.C. He spent most of his life in Trail, where he met his wife and raised his family. He passed away peacefully at Columbia View Lodge on November 27, surrounded by his loving family. Ed was predeceased by his wife Mavis, his sisters June Bradbury and Frieda McIntyre, and his grandson Kyle Tombaugh. He is survived by his brothers Cliff (Beryl) Reimann and Len Henschell. He was lovingly escorted on his journey by his son Terry (Eileen) Henschell, granddaughters Elizabeth (Tony) Henschell and Teresa (Daniel) Henschell. His special daughter, Pat Henschell, was also by his side to the very end. To his beloved Calgary family, Linda (Wade) Stewart and their children Marilyn (Jamie) StewartJohnson and Donald (Jill) Stewart, thank you so much for all of the love and support you gave Uncle Ed when he took ill while visiting in Calgary. Ed is also survived by his daughter Lynne (Gerry) Tombaugh and their two children, Tawnya and Matthew. He leaves behind numerous nieces, nephews, and grandchildren. Ed worked at Cominco for 40 years and was active with the Trail Eagles #2838, as well as the Fruitvale Legion. When he was young, he served with the Merchant Marine (WWII), and later joined both the Trail Artillery Unit and the 44th Field Engineering Squadron. Ed was an avid bowler and curler. In later years he enjoyed golfing, fishing, and wood working. The family would like to thank the Peter Lougheed Centre in Calgary and the Trail Regional Hospital. A warm thank you goes out to the staff of Columbia View Lodge in Trail for the attentive care and wonderful kindness they showed Ed. No funeral will be held at this time, but a celebration of his life will be held at a later date. Donations may be made in

Ed’s memory to the Columbia View Lodge. *** INFANTI, MARCIANO (MARK) — of Castlegar passed away at Castleview Care Centre on Wednesday, December 5, 2012, blessed with 91 years of life. Vigil Prayers will be at St. Rita’s Catholic Church, Castlegar, BC on Tuesday, December 11, 2012 at 7:00 PM and Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated by Father David John at St. Rita’s Catholic Church, Castlegar, BC on Wednesday, December 12, 2012 followed by interment at Park Memorial Cemetery. Arrangements are in care of Castlegar Funeral Chapel. *** ROTTER, MARY — daughter of Mary and John Shutty from S h u t t y B e n c h (Kaslo, BC.) passed away Tu e s d a y, November 27th, 2012 peacefully at the Castleview Care Centre in Castlegar, BC. She leaves behind her two daughters Donna, and Bobby, six grandchildren Marylou, Michele, Richard, Jean, Patti, and Linda. Three great-grandsons, Sean, Spencer, and Kieran. Her family and friends will miss everything about this wonderful women especially, her quarky sense of humor, her smooth radiant skin and her super delicious baked goodies. A graveside service will be held at Kaslo cemetery in the spring 2013. As an expression sympathy family and friends may make donations to the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada Okanagan/Kootenay Area Office #4 - 1551 Sutherland Avenue Kelowna, BC V1Y9M9. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Valley Funeral Home Ltd. On-line condolences may be expressed at www.valleyfh.ca

Lost hunter survived 21 nights THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG - A hunter who turned up after being lost in the southeast Manitoba bush for three weeks says thoughts of his family and the hundreds of people who were looking for him kept him going. “(It was) my wife and my son and the knowledge that the search and rescue community and people I don’t even know were out looking,” said Brad Lambert, who turned up safe and sound Saturday after spending 21 nights in his truck, stranded in the bush. “That means a great deal.” Lambert, 46, had been last seen Nov. 15 when he stopped to buy supplies for a deer hunting trip southeast of his Winnipeg home. Things went off the rails when a “wrong turn on the wrong trail” left him stuck and stranded in the middle of nowhere. When he didn’t return home, the search began. Police and hundreds of volunteers scoured the densely forested area. Aircraft were called in. Residents and busi-

ness owners throughout Manitoba and Ontario were asked to check any buildings such as outdoor sheds, abandoned structures and garages on their properties. Meanwhile, Lambert said he did what he could to survive. Although he had no food and ate nothing during the entire ordeal, he was able to melt snow for drinking water. And he did his best to aid searchers. “Daytime was spent building signal fires, walking through an expansive marsh trying to flag aircraft with my blaze orange hunting gear and trying to be noticed,” he said. “I could see some planes. At night there were some aircraft as well. “Unfortunately, I guess they couldn’t see me. It had to be a 10-20 square kilometre open meadow with bluffs - it would be extremely difficult to locate from the air one person. “At times, it was very disheartening.” Eventually, Lambert realized he had to set out on foot. He thrashed his way through heavy bush

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Clean LNG development can still be done

n Friday, as the federal government was giving the green light to a Malaysian investment of billions more into northern B.C.’s liquefied natural gas megaproject, Coastal First Nations chiefs held their quarterly board meeting in Vancouver. These are now the most powerful aboriginal leaders in North America, bankrolled by U.S. environmental groups and their wealthy charity foundation backers as guardians of the Great Bear Rainforest. A major topic was the Haisla Nation, the Kitimat partner that abruptly quit its voluntary association with the Haida, Gitga’at and other communities over its plans to develop LNG exports. This discord comes at a bad time. Premier Christy Clark has bet heavily on LNG, not just for her government’s future, but the industrial and economic

direction of the province for decades to come. Initial press reports were misleading. One had it that Haisla Chief Councillor Ellis Ross, the B.C. government’s key ally on LNG, was “buddying up” with the Harper government on the Enbridge oil pipeline proposed to go to Kitimat, in the heart of Coastal First Nations territory. Not so. Both Ross and Coastal First Nations executive director Art Sterritt confirmed to me that they remain solidly against the Enbridge proposal. The disagreement is over how to power the processing of LNG, which the Haisla are pioneering with provincial assistance. Sterritt said the Haisla and the rest of the group were in agreement until a few weeks ago. The plan was to follow Clark’s solemn vow to make B.C. LNG the “greenest” in the world. All parties acknowledge

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that some of B.C.’s shale gas will have to be burned to process and ship LNG to Asia. The initial idea was that one or two natural gas-fired power plants would be built, eventually backing up wind, small hydro and other renewable supplies. BC Hydro has 600 megawatts available from its dams, which would require new transmission capacity up to Kitimat to help run the first two LNG plants proposed in partnership with the Haisla. Then the play got bigger. The B.C. government

transferred Crown land on Douglas Channel to the Haisla for an LNG project planned by Shell, PetroChina and Korea Gas. And Sterritt said he started getting signals from Victoria that the industry doesn’t want to buy power from outside producers to drive LNG cooling and compression. Instead they wanted to power it directly with gas, using equipment called “mechanical drives” rather than electrical drives. In a letter to Haisla members explaining why he quit the Coastal First Nations, Ross said he was insulted by Sterritt’s comments that the Haisla were choosing “the dirtiest way possible” to ship LNG. Ross noted that emissions would be about the same if gas is burned in the LNG plant or in a power plant nearby. That’s true, but Sterritt points out a critical difference. If LNG producers are allowed to use

single-purpose mechanical drives, no renewable energy can ever be added. And as more LNG producers rush into B.C., reserves that would have lasted 75 to 100 years could be depleted in 30. And when the gas is gone? “These big, hulking plants that are going to be in Kitimat are just going to be sitting there, rotting,” Sterritt said. “It happens all over the world.” B.C.’s clean energy plan envisions extending the BC Hydro grid, developing run-of-river and wind farms such as the big offshore proposal off Haida Gwaii, and ultimately a future beyond oil and gas. Now, in their rush to develop LNG, Clark and Energy Minister Rich Coleman seem poised to abandon that strategy. Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com

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hey made some prog- for assessing the damage or ress at the annual allocating the blame, so it will December round of become a lawyers’ playground the international nego- of little use to anybody else. tiations on controlling climate So if mitigation is a lost change, held this year in Qatar. cause, and if adaptation will They agreed that the countries never keep up with the speed that cause the warming should at which the climate is going compensate the ones that suffer bad, and if compensation is a the most from it. The principle, nice idea whose time will never known as the Loss and Damage come, what is the next stage mechanism, has no numbers in these climate talks? Prayer? attached to it, Emigration to but it’s a step foranother planet? ward. The only Mass suicide? step forward, There will be unfortunately. a fourth stage In the first to the negotiaphase of these tions, but first talks, which conwe will have to cluded with the wait until rising Kyoto Protocol temperatures, GWYNNE of 1997, the falling food proemphasis was duction and caton “mitigation”; astrophic storms that is, on stopshake governWorld Affairs ping the warmments out of ing by cutting their present human emissions of carbon lethargy. That probably won’t dioxide and other “greenhouse happen until quite late in the gases”. That made good sense, decade – and by then, at the but they didn’t get anywhere. current rate of emissions, we Fifteen years later, emissions will be well past the point at are still rising, not falling. which we could hold the rise So gradually the emphasis in average global temperature shifted to “adaptation”. If we down to two degrees C (3.6 can’t agree on measures to stop degrees F). the average global temperature We will, in fact, be on course from going up, can we learn to for 3, 4 or even 5 degrees C live with it? What’s the plan for of warming, because beyond developing new crops to with- plus 2 degrees, the warming stand the droughts and high that we have already created temperatures that are coming? will trigger “feedbacks”: natWhat’s the plan for coping with ural sources of carbon dioxide massive floods that drown river emissions like melting permavalleys and inundate coast- frost which we cannot shut off. lines? So then, when it’s too late, Well, there are no such everybody will really want a plans in most places, so the deal, but just cutting greenemphasis has shifted again, to house gas emissions won’t be compensation. Terrible things enough any more. We will need will happen to poor countries, some way to hold the temperso who pays for them? In prin- ature down while we deal with ciple, says the new Loss and our emissions problem, or else Damage mechanism, the rich the temperature goes so high countries that are responsible that mass starvation sets in. for the warming pay. But the The rule of thumb is that we “mechanism” has no method lose ten percent of global food

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production for every rise in average global temperature of one degree C. There probably is a way to stop the warming from passing plus 2 degrees C and triggering the feedbacks, during the decades it will take to get our emissions back down. It’s called “geo-engineering”: direct human intervention in the climate system. Our greenhouse gas emissions are an inadvertent example of geoengineering that is pushing the climate in the wrong direction. Another, deliberate kind of geoengineering may be needed to stop it. Geo-engineering to hold the heat down is quite possible, though the undesirable side-effects could be very large. The biggest problem is that it’s relatively cheap: dozens of governments could afford to do it – and just one government, acting alone, could do it to the whole atmosphere. So the fourth phase of the climate talks, probably starting late this decade, will be about when it is time to start geoengineering, and what techniques should be used, and who controls the process. They won’t agree on that either, so things will drag on further until some government, desperate to save its people from starvation, decides to do it alone, without global agreement. That could cause a major war, of course. So we had better hope that neutral observers like the fossil fuel industries are right in insisting that global warming is a fraud. Maybe all those scientists really are making it up just to get more money in research grants. That would be a happy ending, so fingers crossed. Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

Truth first casualty in F-35 fiasco

An editorial from the Toronto Star They don’t call the F-35 a “stealth” fighter for nothing. Years after Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government identified the warplane as the only viable one for Canada, and shouted down critics who dared to say otherwise, Canadians still haven’t got a clue as to the true cost of each plane. We don’t know how many we can afford. We don’t even know whether we’ll buy it at all. We’re flying blind. The F-35 may prove one day to be the most fearsome bird in the sky, but it is also proving to be a bit too stealthy, in too many ways. A plane the Conservatives originally said would cost $9 billion may end up costing $40 billion over its life cycle, a sticker shock that has sent

the Harper government into damage control, scrambling to consider cheaper options. Defence Minister Peter MacKay has been fatally discredited by his obtuse handling of this file to replace our aging CF-18 fighters. From the get-go, the Tories and the military kept the public in the dark, issued slippery, lowball cost estimates, played down development problems and tried to discredit anyone who doubted that the F-35 was the only plane worth considering. Costing the F-35 is a tricky, politicized business. Initially, the Tories publicly pegged the deal at $9 billion, or $16 billion over the life of the jets. But it took Auditor General Michael Ferguson to put the true “full life-cycle cost” at $25 billion over 20 years. Ottawa is now sitting on

a KPMG study that reportedly pegs it at $40 billion over 42 years. Stung by the truth, the Tories have been dragged kicking and screaming to where they should have been years ago: kicking the tires on other warplanes, instead of solesourcing a new plane. However you work the bottom line, the F-35 has become a pricey political fiasco. Canadians deserve better, going forward. We need an apples-toapples comparison of the unit costs, plus the full life-cycle costs, of each of the planes being considered. And we need to know what benefits manufacturers are prepared to offer to get our business. So far, the only thing the F-35 has shot down is the Harper government’s credibility. And they’re not out of the line of fire yet.

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Sandler finds scoring touch Smokies on three game win streak BY JIM BAILEY

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The Trail Smoke Eaters are streaking in the right direction this week, thanks to a pair of double-overtime wins. Garrett McMullen, Brent Baltus, and Tyler Berkholz had big games last week in leading the Smokies to 2-1 and 6-5 victories over Vernon and Langley, but it was Luke Sandler who led the team with five points over the three games. Sandler may have felt a little out of his element when first arriving in Trail, but he has certainly grown more comfortable in recent weeks, as he piled up four goals and an assist to lead the Smokies to three wins in its last three starts. The 19-year-old forward banged in the tying goal late in the third period, to send a 5-5 game against Langley on Friday into overtime, where defenceman Braden Pears would ice it for the Smokies in double OT. Sandler’s contibution has been significant lately and includes a hat trick in a 6-3 win against league-leading Chilliwack last week, in addition to the tying goal against Langley. “It was nice (his first BCHL hat trick), it took a while, but it was nice,” said Sandler. Sandler has racked up 16 points in the last 17 games, after netting just three points in his first 10 as a Smokie, and while it may have taken a little time to get comfortable, he is feeling much more at home now. “It’s a role I usually come into,” he said. “I’ve been lucky enough here to finally start contributing . . . I was pretty quiet at first, and wasn’t really happy, but now it’s kind of nice to see it start happening.” The Smoke Eaters picked up Sandler in a Sept. 20 trade with Cowichan Valley Capitals for the rights to Travis Stephens. Sandler, a native of Chicago, Ill., played in the U.S. Junior Hockey League with stints in Des Moines, Iowa, Tri City, Wash., and Fargo N.D., before crossing the 49th parallel for a brief stay in Cowichan. The rugged forward has been a welcome fixture up front, combining physical play and 51 penalty minutes to go with a scoring touch that has netted him 12 goals and nine assists this season. Incidentally, Stephens, now with the Coquitlam Express, has just three goals. “It’s good for him to get back to putting the puck in the net,” said assistant coach Brent Heaven. “We’ve been talking to him about shooting the puck a lot more. He likes to kind of dangle guys so being a big body like he is - sixfoot-two, 200 pounds - he needs to buy into that power-forward role and he’s starting to do that.” With injuries and illness hurting the Smokies of late, line juggling has been a necessity, but the team has adapted and showed a lot of character in the late comeback wins. “We got behind the eight ball a little bit early, but it was good to see we could battle back,” said Heaven. “I think it’s the sixth time this year that we’ve been losing going into the third period and we came back to win so it builds some confidence in the guys and obviously getting four points on a crucial weekend was big.” Trail is looking to continue its run this week when it plays four games in five days beginning Friday in West Kelowna against the Warriors, then returning home for three games against Vernon Saturday, Nanaimo Sunday, and Merritt on Tuesday. For more details visit trailtimes.ca.

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Skip Deane Horning lines up a shot as Kimberley’s Tom Buchy checks out the line over his shoulder. Horning would make the right call, as his rink went on to defeat Buchy 7-5 at the Mens’ Kootenay playdowns at the Trail Curling Rink on Sunday.

Horning prevails, off to provincials BY JIM BAILEY

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The Deane Horning rink bounced back from an earlier loss to Kimberley’s Tom Buchy to defeat his long-time nemesis in the final of the Men’s Kootenay playdowns on Sunday. The win automatically qualifies the Horning rink for a trip to the provincial curling title in Parksville in March. The winning foursome comprised of skip Deane Horning, third Don Freschi, second Rob Nobert, lead Adam Wood, and fifth Kevin Nesbitt went a combined 4-1 over the weekend, but the team put together arguably their best effort in the final match against Buchy. Brilliant and timely shot-making by Freschi of Trail helped the Horning rink score three in the eighth end to break open a tight 3-3 match and send the former B.C. champs to a 7-5 victory. “We made some really nice shots in there, and we got a couple doubles, and we popped them for three which is really, really good,” said Freschi. Buchy third Dave Stephenson came up a little light as he curled around a guard to tap back his yellow. With two reds guarded in the four foot, one as shot and the other as third stone, Freschi stepped up and threw a laser that sent Buchy’s outside yellow rock careening out of the rings and the other yellow sideways, narrowly slipping between the two reds, to leave the

Horning rink counting three. Buchy tried for the double, but only got the one red, leaving Horning a draw for three. “They are turning points, you get a couple of their rocks out of the house it’s always good for us,” said Freschi. Buchy was setting up for a big end in the ninth, when Freschi made a third straight double in as many ends to clear out two yellow stones. Horning then made a delicate hit and roll for shot, yet the unflappable Buchy came around and tapped the red rock back for two, to make it 6-5. Nevertheless, Horning was in perfect shape coming home with hammer. Buchy’s front end set it up well, placing rocks in the 12-foot and a couple long guards. However a Buchy raise was heavy leaving Horning covered and biting the button for shot. Horning put up a guard, leaving Buchy a difficult angle raise. He struck it thin giving Horning the victory. “Every time we play Tom (Buchy) it’s a good game, he has a great curling team,” added Freschi. “We’ve been tight all the time. Me and Dean (Horning) were talking about that, every time we played it’s been high-scoring games but the last two have been pretty low, but always great games against those guys.” The Horning rink beat Brian LeMoel’s Trail rink in the first draw 11-3, then took out Nichol 10-8 to send him to the A Event final which he lost to Buchy

5-4. Horning then played Tom Shypitka rink from Creston for the B Event to see who would play Buchy in the first playoff final. Horning outlasted Shypitka 9-7, sending the Creston rink to the C Event final against the Nichol rink. Nichol needed three in the eighth to take a 7-6 lead and two more in the tenth for the victory and the 9-7 win. Buchy however would spoil Nichol’s run, with a 7-2 victory in the page playoff, and will join the Horning rink in the provincial championship. Horning has been on a B.C. Championship team three times, two with Pat Ryan and once in 2005 skipping his own rink with Nelson’s Fred Thompson as third, Freschi second, Rob Nobert lead, and Grant Fines fifth. The team is hoping this year will see another return to the dance, as the Tim Horton’s Brier just happens to be hosted by Edmonton, the same city that held the 2005 Brier when Horning’s team finished in fifth spot just out of the playoffs with a 6-5 record. “In 2005 we’ve been to the brier, we’ve been in the provincials a few times after that and been close, but hopefully this year we put it together and get back. We got the team, and it’s in Edmonton again so maybe that’s a good luck charm,” added Freschi. The last B.C. Team to win the Brier was Greg McAulay’s team in 2000.

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learn from it. We know we’re capable of playing a lot better than that in the first two periods. That’s what we’re going to have to do the next time we play the U.S.” The U.S. outshot Canada 9-8. Norway captured the bronze medal with a 5-0 win over Japan.

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SEATTLE - Jason Bay took a glance at the Seattle Mariners’ 40-man roster and suddenly realized how unique he will be. He’s one of only two players on that current roster who was born in the 1970s. “I don’t feel like I’m that old, but I guess I am around here,” the 34-year-old Bay said Monday. While he may not exactly fit the Mariners’ model on relying on youth to rebuild, Bay could fill a significant need for Seattle next season. He was introduced on Monday after his oneyear contract with the Mariners was finalized over the weekend. Bay said he hopes a fresh start with the Mariners can put three

seasons of struggles mostly due to injuries - with the New York Mets in the past. “Wherever I ended up was going to be a fresh start and the chance to do it here in my backyard, so to speak, will be nice,” said Bay, who grew up in Trail and played college ball at Gonzaga. “That’s all I was looking for. It didn’t work out for whatever reason and it was kind of a mutual split. I want to start fresh and wipe the slate clean and that’s what I get to do here.” After signing a $66 million, four-year deal before the 2010 season, the three-time All-Star hit .234 in three injury-plagued seasons with 26 homers and 124 RBIs, including a .165 average with eight homers and 20 RBIs this year. Sidelined by concussions and rib injuries, he played just 288 games for the Mets. Bay’s contract with the Mets was terminated last month. It also made Bay a low-risk, potential high-reward deal for whoever he signed with. An All-Star in 2005, 2006 and 2009, Bay signed with the Mets after hitting .267 in his final season for Boston with career bests of 36 homers and 119 RBIs.

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“I got banged up a little bit. Not an excuse, just the reality and that didn’t help. I don’t think that was the No. 1 reason,” Bay said. “I just think I couldn’t really get on track. I was always stuck in one gear and I couldn’t get going.” Because of his injury history, the Mariners went to great lengths once an agreement was reached. Bay was examined by two team doctors and a neurosurgeon to make sure he was fully recovered from the concussion problems that lingered during his time with the Mets. Bay said he’s been fully engaged in his off-season workout program for the last six weeks. “I’ve gotten great reports on his winter program, what he’s doing right now being very prepared for the season,” Seattle general manager Jack Zduriencik said. “It just feels like the right thing to do.” Bay said he’ll take whatever role he can earn with Seattle, even if that means being in a platoon in the outfield. Manager Eric Wedge said if Bay can revert to the form he had in Boston and Pittsburgh, he could be exactly the right-handed bat the Mariners lineup needs.

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THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY - Taylor Chace scored the lone goal of the game to lead the United States to a 1-0 victory over Canada and win gold at the 2012 World Sledge Hockey Challenge on Saturday. The Americans employed a stifling defensive system

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THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA, Ont. - The CBC is considering creating a customer “loyalty” program as it bleeds revenues from the NHL lockout and struggles with deep federal budget cuts. The Crown corporation has formally asked qualified private-sector firms for information about how such a program might work to grab more viewers and listeners - and bring in more cash. The notice suggests the CBC is considering adding game-like challenges on its websites, offering reward points to keep people engaged with the broadcaster’s programming, an approach known in the retail business as “gamification.” The sparsely worded notice suggests CBC reward points could be cashed in for branded merchandise now offered through the corporation’s web-based cbcshop.ca, and through its three retail outlets in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. The initial proposal is for the CBC’s English services, with a possible expansion to broadcaster’s French-language arm. The corporation is asking for responses to its industry call for information by Jan. 25. The CBC “has a number of loyalty-like initiatives in production to support programming and to increase audience engagement, but many are short-lived around specific events,” says the notice. The proposal is “to gather best practices from best-of-class firms within the loyalty vertical to assess the opportunity for the Corporation to implement a comprehensive loyalty program.” The corporation is releasing details of the proposals only to qualified firms who step forward. “At this stage, it’s just a request for information where we’re looking to see whether or not setting up this kind of program is worth the investment,” CBC spokesman Chuck Thompson said in an emailed response to questions. “CBC is always looking for new opportunities to have a deeper level of engagement with our audience and new ways to raise revenue.”

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