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Conference seeks collaboration on Columbia River BY ART HARRISON Times Staff

For many of us the Columbia River is just that stretch of water that flows past Trail, but it is actually the fourth largest river in North America, at approximately 2,000 kilometres long. And while we tend to think of it as our river, perhaps because it begins in B.C., the drainage basin of the Columbia also encompasses seven U.S. states and covers about 420,000 square kms in total, roughly the size of France. So, while it may seem like a B.C. river, it is very much a part of a significant portion of the Pacific Northwest as well. This fall, the Columbia Basin Trust (CBT) and the Northwest Power and Conservation Council (NWPCC), will be holding a joint, cross-border conference to discuss strategies on how to collaborate on management of the whole Columbia River system. “It’s a timely discussion because both countries have had the opportunity to table

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their thoughts on renewing the Columbia River Treaty,” said Garry Merkel, former chair of the CBT and co-chair of the October conference. “Historically, the only thing coordinated was the flow of the river for flood control and power management. Things are different now and people have questions about the ecology, the fisheries. How do we meet all the needs of the river as a system?” Merkel said that this will be the fourth in a series of joint meetings coordinated by the two groups, the CBT representing the citizens of the Canadian portion of the Columbia Basin and the NWPCC, a somewhat similar organization but representing more broad, state government interests from the seven U.S. states in the basin. “People who live in the basin want to become more involved in how it is managed,” said Merkel. “What does our future look like? See CONFERENCE, Page 3

Local crafters unite under new cooperative Boutique event held this weekend helps launch venture BY VALERIE ROSSI Times Staff

Markets have given shoppers a glimpse into how locally made goods are made but a newly formed arts cooperative – Create It West – now plans on taking it a step further. Handmade crafters have joined forces under the Create It West banner to amp up the shop local culture and teach exclusive skills to the interested public.

The cooperative, led by quilters Krista McPhee and Tina Ihas and seamstress Lori Prest, looks to unite Greater Trail’s creative talent by connecting the general public to their work through upcoming skilled workshops and an informative blog. But before the needle hits the thread, the team is launching its intent through a handmade boutique event today and Saturday in Trail, where clothing for women and children, jewellery, pottery hand bags and soaps are just some of the items for sale. See PORTION, Page 3

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The sight of a helicopter hovering above West Trail with poles suspended beneath attracted some attention Wednesday afternoon. Fortis BC was in the process of airlifting transmission poles to a power line right-of-way on the mountainside for Teck. Fortis BC operates and maintains the transmission lines on behalf of Teck.

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Jeremy Brace has broken three of his five-year-old daughter’s mood rings since she’s been diagnosed with cancer but the East Trail resident says he will continue to wear her jewellery until she’s cured. Life has changed dramatically for him and his wife Amy Kotyk since Cadance was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, cancer of the white blood cells, in November and the family uprooted to Vancouver to be close to BC Children’s Hospital. The family has

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remission,” said Brace. “The next phase will be at least another four months, with Cadance having to be at the oncology clinic in Children’s a few times a week. “The doctor told us this phase will be more aggressive and hard on my little girl so a giant thank you to everyone who’s been pulling for her so far.” Supporters who are members of the Facebook group “Hope for Cadance” would have already received this message. The little girl’s fight hasn’t gone unnoticed by the community that has rallied behind her with well wishes and online donations, contributions to a Hope for Cadance Trust Fund at Kootenay Savings Credit Union and by buying into various fundraisers, including a New Year’s Eve benefit dinner. The money raised helps the family cover their mortgage and bills back home and the costs associated with staying in Vancouver. “I just want to say how proud I am to be from this town and how thankful I am because without what they’ve done I wouldn’t be able to take care of my kid,” Brace told the Times over coffee on a recent trip home. “Mom is her teddy bear but I’m the bad guy that keeps the boogie man away.” The family has been saving most of this money for rainy days but the future looks costly so Brace is now dealing with the reality of having to go back to work this summer. He plans on returning to his job with Hil-Tech Contracting but in the meantime is measuring his short-term options, which could include work on the Coast to stay close to his family.

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Trail’s Cadance Brace and her parents Jeremy Brace and Amy Kotyk are currently living in Vancouver, close to BC Children’s Hospital, so that Cadance can receive chemotherapy treatment. Below; Darrell Cross of Wolf’s Den Tattoo volunteered his time and skill to create this tattoo for his good friend Jeremy Brace. The image is a replica of Brace’s daughter’s name written in her printing.

“I’m grateful for the fact that (Hil-Tech) told me I have a job waiting when I come back,” he said. Brace was renovating his home last winter when he literally dropped what he was doing and left for Vancouver to station his family close to BC Children’s Hospital. The carpet to their house needs to be ripped out and replaced with new flooring, which has been donated by Russ and Pat Beauchamp of Maglio Building Centre. A few of his skilled buddies have since chipped in their time to get the job done. There’s over 100 days left of full on chemotherapy treat-

ment for Cadance before she enters the maintenance stage and returns home to her family and friends. “I told her that in life there are times when you’re worried, you’re scared and everybody is always telling you ‘don’t get mad,’” said Brace. “But you know what kiddo,” I said, “if you’re angry, get angry and if you have nowhere to direct it now, beat on me if you want.’” Donations can be made to the Hope for Cadance Trust Fund at Kootenay Savings or online at (www. gofundme.com/hope4cadance). For more information visit the Hope for Cadance Facebook page.

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Salmo group moves ahead with forestry management plan By Sheri Regnier Times Staff

There is growing sentiment that people should have more control over the resources in the place where they live. Last week, a local group working to establish a community forest in the Salmo watershed met with stakeholders and panelists schooled in the evolving branch of forestry that gives the community a voice in forest management and land-use decisions. “It’s not just The Salmo W a t e r s h e d about timber Community Forest harvest. The Initiative (SWCFI) values are much gathered more than 30 people under more diverse in one village roof and our structure.” landed a governance model meant Gerry Nellestijn to guide the group through the community forest licencing process. The goal is to form a non-profit society that will ultimately gain influence over the rugged forest area from Whitewater Ski Resort south to the Nelway border crossing, and east of Erie to Kootenay Lake and the Arrow boundary region. Provincially, a community forest is described as any forestry operation managed by local government, community group or First Nation for the benefit of the entire community. “The values that are expressed through community forestry are much greater than traditional forestry methods,” explained Salmo’s Gerry Nellestijn, a spearhead of the initiative. “It’s not just about timber harvest,” he said. “The values are much more diverse in our structure. For instance, community education, kids participating, non timber forest projects and recreational users will all take a role in looking after our forest.” Since the BC Ministry of Forests developed

a foundation for community forest agreements in 1998, almost 60 areas across B.C. including Kaslo, Harrop-Procter, Nakusp and Creston, are governed under this form of tenure, which is intended to provide new opportunities for community management of Crown forest land. Supporting new options in recreation, wildlife and watershed management are one facet to community forestry, developing local economy is another. Harvesting operations can provide a source of revenue under the watchful eye of community-based decision making, and timber rates and exact locations within the tenure can be set to meet locally determined objectives and interests. “Small businesses used to be in the smaller areas,” said Rollie Read, a Salmo resident and 40-year logger. “You didn’t have to be a millionaire to be involved in the bidding process,” he continued. “Now it costs huge amounts of money so it’s not really small business anymore but big forest companies backing the logging contracts.” In the last decade, only one local logging contractor was awarded a bidding contract in the area, according to Read. “The bidding is not fair right now,” he added. “The people who are doing the logging in this watershed aren’t even from this valley.” The Salmo community forest idea is meeting with mixed reviews from two local wood product companies that currently log in the West Kootenay. ATCO Wood Products has limited information about Salmo’s forest initiative, according to the company’ chief executive officer (CEO). “But I can offer this general comment based on our experience in the forest industry in BC,” said CEO Scott Weatherford. “The success of a community forest is strongly dependent on the right circumstances, See MIXED, Page 4

Conference aims to bring all parties together

FROM PAGE 1 “We need to look at the case studies that have been conducted and try to see our way forward. “It’s something we’ve been working towards between the two organizations.” The conference is intended to bring together experts and interested stakeholders representing state, provincial,

federal, tribal, and First Nations governments; power utilities, environmental groups, and citizen groups from both sides of the border to share information and build understanding on ecosystem management, international water governance, climate change, and energy, as well as provide updates and an opportunity for discussion on trans-

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boundary issues such as the Columbia River Treaty review process and efforts to restore and conserve salmon in the upper Columbia. “We ask a lot from this river: hydropower, irrigation, inland navigation, flood control, recreation and, at the same time, environmental conditions that support fish and wildlife, including threatened and endangered species,” Larry Cassidy, former chair of NWPCC and conference co-chair, said in a media release. “With the Northwest population growing, with

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the United States and Canada rethinking the future of the Columbia River Treaty, and with demands on the river increasing for fish benefits, this is a good time to look back at what the river has done for us and then think of what we want the river to do in the future.” The conference will be held Oct. 21 to the 23 at the Hilton Double Tree in Spokane, Washington. More information on the conference and accommodations can be found at http://columbiabasin-2014conference.org.

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Lori Prest of Be&Glad Studio has turned her east Trail home into a boutique for this weekend’s Shop West event. The sale today and Saturday will feature an array of locally hand-made goods.

Portion of profits for co-op launch FROM PAGE 1 Shop West will feature a handful of creations by Be&Glad, Something Sweet, Lil' Munkee, Birdsnest Design, Frances Moll Pottery, Soap at Home and H&J Lapidary, which will all be centre stage in Prest's East Trail home turned storefront. “We're moving everything out,” said Prest of Be&Glad Studio. “I think it's going to be good, I've had a really good response.” The seamstress is known for her unique silk-screened designs printed on a combination of natural and renewable resource fabrics. Prest produces patchwork clothing with water-based ink patterns and decorative flat-lock stitch. Though she said her designs have simplified, Prest still uses Japanese tie-dye and silk screening techniques to bring her art in motion to life. The launch is meant to fill a void, she said, pointing, to the fact that there hasn't been a local market since the winter. “It's a pretty sad time of year for selling,” she explained. “I've had people come and buy things but I

haven't had a market since before Christmas.” Local artists signed up for the event have agreed to donate 10 per cent of their profit to the launch of the co-op, which will help cover business start up as the costs of supplies for the first local workshop. Ihas is hoping the venture will lead her back to working for herself on some capacity. The owner of Trail's former Sugar Shack Quilting has been busy crafting handbags and her popular stuffed owls all while slinging a couple other jobs to make ends meet. “I think it will help sell (our) hand made goods but at the same time, I'm hoping it will boost the hand-made culture of this town because it doesn't really exist at the moment,” she said. “But there are a lot of people interested who just don't know where to go so we're hoping to kind of provide that.” Shop West runs Friday from 6:30-9:30 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 1430 Second Ave. in Trail.

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Province puts up $2 million for plan for second Okanagan Lake crossing By Wade Paterson Kelowna Capital News

The creation of a second bridge across Okanagan Lake may be decades away, but the province has taken a step toward that goal. Staff with the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure confirmed the province will spend $2 million over the next three years as part of a planning process for a potential second crossing of Okanagan Lake near Kelowna. “We are updating previous engineering work and will be initiating a transportation planning study of the Central Okanagan to understand and explore the transportation needs of the region,” stated an e-mail from the ministry. “Extensive community consultation is also planned to ensure we have a clear understanding of the needs, and options to meet them, to support such a large investment in the Okanagan.” The ministry added it is at the beginning of a long process as it explores what the project could look like. Last July Premier Christy Clark received cheers when she announced it is time to start planning a second Okanagan Lake crossing during a Westside-Kelowna byelection candidates debate. Clark told Capital News last December

that Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Todd Stone has already begun engagement with local mayors regarding the second crossing. “It is very early stages. I don’t expect that it will be done by the next election, but hopefully we’ll have some significant progress in the planning by then,” Clark said last December. West Kelowna Mayor Doug Findlater said the $2 million for planning is good news, but he said he wants considerations to extend further than just a second bridge. He spoke specifically about possible Highway 97 rerouting to bypass Peachland. “We think this has to be re-oriented a little bit, in order to look at a corridor plan related to the second crossing and a Peachland bypass. And where does it go: In or around West Kelowna? Because it has a lot of implications for this community,” said Findlater. “I’ve never…bought into the idea that it’s going to happen next year. This is long-term planning, but we do have to start thinking about the corridor.” When asked whether or not the $2 million for planning is related to the Peachland bypass, MOTI staff wrote: “The planning study will include a significant technical investigation as it examines potential route corridors and

engages the public in consultations on the future transportation needs of the Central Okanagan.” West Kelowna’s mayor also commented on the increasing number of overpasses being built west of William R. Bennett Bridge. Construction is currently underway on the Sneena Road overpass, the third interchange or overpass to be built in a two kilometre stretch over the last three years. Evelyn Lube, spokesperson for the project, said the Sneena Road overpass is necessary to fulfil a commitment between Westbank First Nation and the province for key accesses from the bridge to the Highway 97 and Boucherie Road intersection. But Findlater said “interchanges may very well be in the cards” for the Highway 97/Boucherie Road and Highway 97/Hudson Road intersections as well. He noted the District of West Kelowna has received an invitation from MOTI to talk regarding future plans for those intersections. “We have to look at the implications of that for our community…do we want to be a community of interchanges?” said Findlater. “At least we’ve been invited to the table.”

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Conservation officers seek help on elk poaching By Ashley Degraaf Cowichan News Leader Pictorial

Although elk poaching in the Cowichan Valley isn’t on the upswing, conservation officers still want the public to know the situation isn’t good. And they’d like the community’s help nabbing poachers. “It’s not good, but

it’s also not unusual,” conservation officer Mark Kissinger said Wednesday, following a press release issued by the Ministry of Environment looking for assistance in their investigation into illegal hunting of Roosevelt elk. “Throughout February and March, seven elk were found dead in various areas

of the valley,” said the release. “The elk were found on private land, mostly in areas where hunting is not permitted due to public safety concerns.” Kissinger said recent numbers are fairly consistent with previous years, but the intent of the release is simply making the public more aware of the situation.

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“The rash of elk killings is of concern to conservation officers who consider these acts a publicsafety issue, and a risk to the longterm health of the elk population,” said the release. The BC Wildlife Federation pays rewards up to $5,000 for information leading to the conviction of persons who have violated laws related to the protection of fish, wildlife or the environment.

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Mixed reaction to forest plan

FROM PAGE 3 forest location, and management principles coming together to create value for all of the involved stakeholders.” However, another local sawmill, planer and re-manufacturing plant has a mutual location with Salmo, and that company is against a community forest plan. Porcupine Wood Products, a family owned business, has been operating from its location between the village and Ymir on Highway 6 for 21 years, with 110 employees from Salmo, Fruitvale, Nelson, Trail and Castlegar, according to Craig Upper, the company’s general manager. “I am aware of a group of citizens from the Salmo area desiring to have a community forest licence agreement,” said Upper. “I do not support this endeavour.” Upper cites specific reasons why Porcupine is anti-community forest, including timber harvest constraints on Crown land with no un-allocated areas; and areas identified by the SWCFI are currently governed under B.C. Timber Sales with 20 per cent of annual timber harvest sold through an open auction method. Additionally, he said existing community forest license holders face significant challenges in management and forestry operations, resulting in an inability to harvest annual cuts and non-unanimous mandates on what it achievable with its licence cut. “One last point,” said Upper. “There have been cases where the desire of the community board was to decrease harvest level within their operating area,” he explained. “This is the most troubling issue for any sawmill operator.” Historically, the province’s lumber industry has been a hot button issue, but so far, “no one has gone broke,” said Nellestijn. “There is a lot of sensitivities when we break with tradition,” explained the longtime Salmo volunteer and environmentalist. “If you look at the shape of our environment I think everybody can recognize that there are declines,” he continued. “We need to start dealing with that at every level of our economy. We need that now, this is the time.” Probationary community forest agreements have been in place since 2004, and carry a five-year initial term. If successful, the agreement can be extended to carry a 25-99 year term and is replaceable every 10 years.

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National Suspended senator charged with assault THE CANADIAN PRESS GATINEAU, Que. - Suspended senator Patrick Brazeau has been charged with two counts of assault, uttering death threats, cocaine possession and breach of bail conditions. He arrived at the Gatineau, Que., courthouse in handcuffs Thursday morning after police responded to a 4 a.m. domestic violence incident. Brazeau wore a green shirt, black jacket and pants and dress shoes as he got out of a van. Gatineau police spokesman Pierre Lanthier said a 39-year-old man was arrested after a 911 phone call. “It was an altercation between a man and a woman,” he said. He said officers who went to the scene found that a violent confrontation had occurred on a patio in front of residence. A woman complained of being assaulted by the 39-year-old. Another man who was inside the house, complained he was assaulted and threatened. Brazeau already faces a number of legal problems. In February, the RCMP charged him with fraud and breach of trust in relation to his Senate expense claims. In another legal case, Brazeau is charged with assault and sexual assault, over an incident at his home in February 2013.

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Retailers win sign fight THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL, Que. - A judge has ruled that major retailers do not have to modify their commercial names to French to continue operating in Quebec. A Quebec Superior Court justice says businesses that have storefront signs with their trademark name in a language other than French do not contravene the French Language Charter. Several retailers took the province’s language watchdog to court after they were told to change their names or risk losing the right to do business in the province. The Office quebecois de la langue francaise wanted the companies to change their signs to either give themselves a generic French name or add a slogan or explanation that reflected what they sold. The businesses included Best Buy, Costco, Gap, Old Navy, Guess, Walmart, Toys “R” Us and Curves. Language watchdog Jean-Pierre Le Blanc says it’ll be up to the attorney general’s office to decide whether to appeal Wednesday’s ruling.

CBC budget shortfall forces layoffs

THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - The CBC is slashing 657 positions over two years and will no longer pursue broadcast rights to professional sports as it grapples with a massive budget shortfall. The public broadcaster announced a swath of cuts Thursday that will shave $130 million from its 20142015 budget and spur a new mandate “to reimagine itself” as the media landscape changes. CBC president Hubert Lacroix detailed the news at a town hall meeting for employees that outlined financial challenges including a softened advertising market, disappointing ratings for CBC-TV, “much lower-thanexpected” ad revenues from Espace musique and CBC Radio 2, and the loss of NHL broadcast rights to Rogers Media. “There’s no easy way to deliver news like this,” Lacroix said in prepared remarks that were posted online moments after his private address. “I know many of you are sad. I know there will be many questions. We will answer them straight up, both in our Q&A session today, in the meetings that will follow, and as things take shape over the coming days.” CBC News reports that 334 full-time jobs will come from English Services, saving roughly $82 million. The belt-tightening - which will incur onetime severance costs of $33.5 million - are geared to guiding the

“This becomes more and more a ‘Toronto Broadcasting Corporation’ – that’s really what is happening because they’re reducing their capacity to cover and the hours of local content that are live throughout the country.” Ian Morrison

corporation “towards a smaller, more nimble and more open public broadcaster,” Lacroix added. It will also mean coverage of “fewer events and fewer sports” - including less amateur sports and the cancellation of planned regional expansions. Nevertheless, Lacroix said CBC/ Radio-Canada will maintain its newsgathering capabilities in the regions and remain committed to “signature events of national importance such as the Olympics.” But only if they make money. “We will only broadcast events that allow us to break even,” he said in the statement. When it comes to professional sports, CBC said it can no longer compete with private rivals that have specialty channels and multiple media platforms. Meanwhile, CBCTV programming also took a hit from private DOLBY 7.1 SURROUND SOUND

rivals, with CBC noting its prime-time TV schedule “performed poorly in attracting 25-54-year-old viewers,” considered the most important demographic for advertisers. In combination with the softened ad market, that represented a $47-million hit to CBC’s revenue. The watchdog group Friends of Canadian Broadcasting was wary of such comments, and what it signals for the future of CBC. “That is code for we are behaving like a public broadcaster, we are delivering audiences to advertisers,” said spokesman Ian Morrison, who blames the money woes on reduced funding from the federal government. “That’s not the thing that a public broadcaster that is concerned with delivering programming to citizens would say.” Morrison also expressed concern over scaled-back regional

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PKP the answer to ending the separatist threat

he three-decadelong threat of Quebec separatism is badly wounded, but not yet dead. In fact, it appears only one man can finish off the beast. Pierre Karl Péladeau. All Canadians who want an end to these onagain, off-again divorce proceedings should be hoping that this wealthy media titan has the hubris to reach for the leadership of the shambled Parti Québécois. He, then, like General Custer, could lead his broken party into one final battle that will reduce it to an historic rump. It is unfair to saddle him with all the blame for the party’s historic battering at the polls; the controversial charter of values also hurt the PQ badly. But Péladeau clearly played a pivotal role in turning the voters of Quebec against the PQ. His cry for a sovereign Quebec when he was announced as the PQ’s “star” candidate alarmed voters who had chosen the

separatist party because it provided a viable alternative to the corruptiontainted Liberals. Suddenly, the Liberals didn’t look quite so intolerable. What a touch Péladeau had on the election. Polling firm Ipsos-Reid reported a drop of four points in PQ support immediately after he announced his candidacy, pumped his sovereigntist fist in the air and revived the hopes of hard-liners who wanted a referendum during the next term of government. As we all know, few Quebecers agreed. The PQ lost government and 24 seats. But there was much more to the story of why PKP – as he is known in business circles – was seen as the wrong man for this left-of-centre party. As many readers know, Péladeau is a media tycoon and was president and CEO of Québecor Inc., Groupe TVA and Québecor Média, which include the national Sun newspaper chain. As a business

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leader, he advocated hardright political positions and has a reputation as union-buster who repeatedly locked out unions in an ongoing campaign to bring organized labour to its knees. To say he was an odd fit for the labour-friendly PQ would be a gross understatement. “How can a party that once claimed to stick up for the rights of workers and students simultaneously uphold this corporate CEO as one of their star candidates?” wrote Montreal journalist Matthew Hays. I think there’s even

more to the story, however. What galls many of the people who worked for Péladeau – fellow newspaper hacks who I keep in touch with – is his tone-deaf approach to management. They say that business decisions involving his newspaper chain seemed at times to be illogical and arbitrary, and his manner authoritarian in the extreme. PKP has the right to run his businesses in any way he and his shareholders see fit. But if he brings the same approach to politics, the outcome will be highly predictable. Droves of boomer generation PQ supporters will turn their back on the party. Where will they go? They could find a new home in the hard-left Québec Solidaire, a new sovereigntist party that picked up three seats in the election. But that shift would only serve to fragment a movement that is already coming apart at the seams. And the QS has a long way to go. National Post

columnist Jonathan Kay described the organizational structure of the party as “one step removed from a 1970’s-era Sovietstyled “workers’ party.’” Among its eccentricities – the party is led, not by one person, but by a fourperson collective. All of this is good news for the Rest Of Canada. But it would be foolhardy to assume that the antiOttawa resentments the led to the founding of the PQ in the first place have disappeared, and we can all go back to sleep. The sovereigntist movement is back on its heels. The PQ party may choose a leader, in Péladeau, that will finish it off as a political force. Now, our federal leaders and indeed the people across Canada must find a way to make the majority of Quebecers believe in their hearts that they will always be better off as part of our federation. Doug Firby is Editorin-Chief and National Affairs columnist for Troy Media.

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Ukraine: How to avoid a war

n one hand, eastern Ukraine appears to be slipping out of the government’s control, as pro-Russian groups seize control of official buildings in big eastern cities like Donetsk and Luhansk and demand referendums on union with Russia. They almost certainly do not represent majority opinion in those cities, but the police stand aside and people who support Ukrainian unity are nervous about expressing their opinions in public. On the other hand, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, has just announced that the EU, the United States, Ukraine and Russia will all meet somewhere in Europe next week to discuss ways of “de-escalating the situation in Ukraine.” That will be the first time that Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, has agreed to meet with a representative of the Ukrainian government. So is this crisis heading for a resolution or an explosion? It still depends on whether Russian President Vladimir Putin thinks that the annexation of Crimea is enough compensation for the humiliation he suffered when his ally in Kiev, former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, was overthrown by a popular revolution. And clearly Putin hasn’t yet decided that himself. Rationality says take your winnings to the bank and quit the game while you’re ahead. Putin’s action has guaranteed that almost any imaginable Ukrainian government will be hostile for the foreseeable future, but the NATO countries will be willing to forget about Crimea after a while if he goes no further. Does he really want the United States, Germany, France and Britain as his enemies too? Yet the temptation is there. Putin’s agents are everywhere in eastern Ukraine, he has 40,000 troops ready to go at a moment’s notice just across the frontier, and all the Russian navy’s amphibious assault ships are now in the

Black Sea – he could grab the Ukrainian coast all the way west to Odessa at the same time. The Ukrainian army would fight, but could not hold out for more than a day or two, and NATO would not send troops. Why not do it?

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There are lots of good reasons not to. Putin would face a protracted guerilla war in Ukraine (he would call it “terrorism”, of course). He would find himself in a new Cold War that Russia would lose much faster than it lost the last one: it has only half the population of the old Soviet Union, and now depends heavily on Western markets for its modest prosperity. He would find new NATO military bases opening up in various countries on Russia’s borders that joined the alliance for safety’s sake, but have so far not allowed foreign (i.e. American or German) troops to be based permanently on their soil out of consideration for Russian anxieties. He really shouldn’t even consider grabbing Ukraine, but he is a man with a very big chip on his shoulder. So what sort of line should the Europeans, the Americans and the Ukrainians be taking with Russia next week? This is about hard power, so appeals to sweet reason are pointless. “Sanctions” are also irrelevant: this has now gone considerably beyond the point where gesture politics has any role to play. The economic and strategic prices that Russia would pay need to be big and they need

to be stated clearly. But at the same time, Russia’s own legitimate concerns have to be addressed, and the main one is its fear that Ukraine might some day join NATO. That requires a firm commitment that Ukraine will be strictly neutral, under international guarantee. Russia will also try to get a promise that Ukraine will be “federalised”, but that is none of its business and should be rejected. In the meantime, the shambolic Ukrainian provisional government needs to get a grip: not one of its leading figures has even visited the east since the revolution. In particular, it needs to take control of the police in the east (whose commanders were mostly Yukanovych’s placemen), and restore the chain of command from Kiev to the local municipalities. Then it will be relatively easy to take back the occupied government buildings without violence. Just stop all movement in or out, turn off the water, and wait. None of this stuff is rocket science, but it’s not being done, and so the situation gets steadily worse. Finally, money. Russia, under relatively competent authoritarian rule, has a GDP per capita of about $14,000. Ukraine, after a quartercentury of incompetent and sporadic authoritarian rule, has less than a third of that: $4,000 per head. It helps that Russia has a lot of oil and gas, but the contrast is huge, and Ukrainians are aware of it – especially in the east. Ukraine needs lots of money, in a hurry, to stay solvent while it holds an election (on 25 May) and sorts itself out politically. And if all that is done, then maybe Putin will settle for Crimea and put up with the prospect of having to live next door to a neutral but democratic Ukraine. Otherwise, it’s going to get quite ugly. Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Daffodil Month for the Canadian Cancer Society was officially launched in Fruitvale, with volunteer Phyllis Boates pinning Mayor Patricia Cecchini. Mayor Cecchini signed a proclamation declaring the month of April as the Canadian Cancer Society's Daffodil Month in Fruitvale. We ask people to buy and wear a yellow daffodil pin - to show their support for those living with cancer, to show them that they are not alone. It's a powerful symbol of hope - and it unites us all in the fight against cancer. Daffodil pins available for donation at the Kootenay Savings Credit Union in Fruitvale and Trail, Fruitvale Hall and various locations throughout Trail.

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Nirvana, Hall & Oates among inductees THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK - Nirvana, which changed music and fashion in the 1990s with the punk rockinspired grunge sound, is joining the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in a class with Kiss, Peter Gabriel and Hall & Oates. Linda Ronstadt, the singer formerly known as Cat Stevens and Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band are also being inducted at a ceremony scheduled Thursday night in Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. Nirvana is being inducted in its first year of eligibility. The trio’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” hit like a thunderclap upon its 1991 release, briefly making the Pacific Northwest rock’s hottest scene before the band ended abruptly with singer Kurt Cobain’s suicide in 1994. Kiss, the band with elaborate makeup that Save on

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THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA - Jim Flaherty, the former finance minister who took the country from surplus to huge, recession-spawned deficits and back to within an eyelash of a surplus, died suddenly Thursday. His death left MPs on all sides of the political spectrum shocked and tearful. The jocular, wise-cracking Flaherty, who until mid-March had been the Harper government’s only finance minister, was 64. He earned an international reputation as a cautious, conservative steward of the public purse who was respected as the man who steered Canada safely through the rapids of the international recession. The United States’ new ambassador to Canada said Flaherty was well-liked on both sides of the border. “His leadership and integrity earned him the respect and admiration of Canadians and Americans,” Bruce Heyman said in a statement. “His public service, to Ontario and to all of Canada, made an enormous positive difference in the lives of people. His spirit, undaunted good cheer, and great love of life are an example to all of us.” Flaherty took the Finance portfolio when Prime Minister Stephen Harper formed his first government and held it through four elections, cabinet changes, world economic shocks and a bout with a rare skin disease that put him on steroids. The condition, however, was not thought to be life-threatening and the cause of death was not immediately announced. His death came as a shock. A shaken Harper called him a colleague and partner. Some of his fellow Tory MPs wept at the news. Political foes offered praise. NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, who was prepared to savage Conservatives for perceived flaws in budget after budget, squeezed his eyes against tears as he recalled Flaherty’s “pleasant demeanour and strength of character.” Flaherty was a stocky leprechaun with a twinkling eye in a wide Irish face. He had a seemingly bottomless wardrobe of green neck ties, a crooked grin and a quirky sense of humour that took the edge off his parliamentary barbs. After his maiden speech in the House of Commons, he was replying to questions when the Speaker urged him to keep his answers short. “I assure you, Mr. Speaker, that I am always short, but I will also try to be brief,” he replied to chuckles from all around.

James Michael Flaherty, Jim to all, was born in Lachine, Que., on Dec. 30, 1949. After attending Bishop Whelan High School and Loyola High School in Montreal he earned a BA at Princeton University and a law degree from York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School. He was a founding partner of the law firm Flaherty Dow Elliott before entering politics in 1990, when he ran and lost provincially in the riding of Durham Centre. He ran again in 1995, and won a seat in the legislature. Flaherty twice sought the Ontario Conservative leadership unsuccessfully. He sought to succeed Harris in 2002, but lost to Eves, his predecessor as finance minister. In 2006, Flaherty jumped to federal politics. He won in WhitbyOshawa as the Tories former their first minority government. As Finance minister, Flaherty never saw a tax that couldn’t be cut down a bit. In 2006 he chopped a percentage point to drop the GST to six per cent. He shaved off another percentage point in 2008. Flaherty’s budgets kept coming up with ways for people to reduce their taxes. In 2007, he introduced the Registered Disability Savings Plan to help Canadians with disabilities and their families save. One of Flaherty’s triplet sons has a mental disability and the minister wept openly in announcing the plan. The next year he brought in the Tax-Free Savings Account, which allows people to earn tax-free investment income. There were also targeted tax cuts to help everyone from truckers to people buying sports equipment. He raised the basic personal deduction to get more low-income people off the tax rolls entirely, cut a point from the lowest personal tax rate and raised the upper limits of the two lowest tax brackets. In his 2013 budget, he boasted that the average family of four was saving $3,220 in taxes compared with their bill in 2006. While he was a strong fiscal conservative, Flaherty wasn’t afraid to plunge into deficit to stave off the effects of the 2009 recessions. He took the balanced budgets of the Liberal years deep into the red as he pumped money to support infrastructure projects and keep the economy from stalling. He pledged, however, to get the books in balance in time for the federal election expected in 2015. He was within an eyelash of doing that with his last budget in February.

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‘Archie’ to die in next issue THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES - Not even Archie Andrews is immortal in the world of comics. Archie Comics announced this week that the famous comic book character will heroically sacrifice himself while saving the life of a friend in a July installment of “Life with Archie,” a comic book series that tells the story of grown-up ren-

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gave him all the wrong answers. And, I didn’t tell him the camper was way too heavy for the truck to be safe. He also asked for a vehicle history report. I pulled the CarProof report out. I mean, I had nothing to hide. He asked me what “rebuilt*” meant. I told him that, because of the small accident, the transmission needed to be rebuilt. Oh, but I’d altered the sections detailing the amount of damage. Judging from his English skills, I’m sure he didn’t understand the difference. At least he was trying. He got an “A” for effort. I hope he figures out that the truck and camper would be unsafe on the road when he gets it fully loaded with passengers, fuel and gear. Good thing I have my “no returns” policy! Yes, I know what you’re all thinking. This is the lowest of the low. But you have to understand. I was slightly manic about this whole thing. At this point, I would do anything to make a sale and get myself another wallet full of cash.

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Luck has nothing to do with it, only hard work, dedication, and a passion for his canine companions has vaulted a Rossland resident into one of Canada’s top skijors. Dana Luck has competed in skijoring, a combination of skate skiing and dog sled-racing, for three years and following last season was ranked number 1 in Canada and seventh in North America by the International Sled Dog Racing Association (ISDRA). “For me the best aspect of the sport is by far the amazing relationship and bond with my dogs,” said Luck. “Skijoring is amazing because as the musher I try and work as hard as my dogs and we are truly a team together.” The 33-year-old Courtenay native moved to Rossland to work with Big Red Cat Skiing in 2003 after completing the Ski Resort Operations and Management program at Selkirk College in Nelson. But his first sojourn into skijoring came as a result of a dog-sled tour with Salmo’s Al Magaw and Spirit of the North Kennels. “I went on the tour with the hope of learning to run a dog team and teaching my pet dogs how to skijor,” said Luck. “However it turned into so much more. It was an amazing experience and I ended up building a great friendship with Al, who like most mushers loves sharing his passion for the sport.” In his first race, Luck hitched his golden retriever and malamute to the harness, and was immediately hooked. In his second year, he raced with two Siberian huskey mixes from Quebec, and has since expanded his kennel, and improved every year. “That season I started to meet more mushers at races and ended up with the opportunity to adopt a couple of Alaskan huskies from another racer. Alaskan huskies are generally a mix of huskies and other breeds that are generally faster than traditional huskies.” The Alaskans he races now have greyhound and German short-hair pointer in their bloodlines, built for speed and distance. This past winter Luck had an opportunity to head north to Grand Prairie to be a full-time dog handler and race full time. “I quit my job and headed off racing for the winter. It was an amazing experience and I had the

By Times Staff Undoubtedly, Connor and Kellen Jones would rather be in Philadelphia playing in the Frozen Four NCAA championship tournament this week. Instead, the Montrose twins and Quinnipiac Bobcat seniors flew south, after signing amateur contracts with the Edmonton Oilers’ American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate the Oklahoma City Barons. The Barons are in the West Division of the AHL, and play their home games at the Cox Convention Center, in Oklahoma City, Okla. The team is in the midst of tight playoff race, and currently sit in third in their division and seventh in the Conference where the top eight advance to the Calder Cup playoffs. The twins helped Oklahoma to a pair of wins, 1-0 and 6-4, against Charlotte last weekend, and will lace them up for the remaining five games of the season. According to the Barons’ website, the Joneses have also signed AHL standard player contracts for the 2014-15 sea-

son. Kellen was selected in the seventh round (202nd overall) by the Edmonton Oilers in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft. He appeared in 40 games as a senior, scoring 42 points with 18 goals and 24 assists. He had a plus-12 rating and became the 21st player in Quinnipiac’s Division I history to reach the 100-point mark, after finishing his career with 54 goals and 71 assists for a total of 125 points in 157 games played. Connor appeared in 40 games as a senior and had 38 points with 15 goals and 23 assists. He also posted a +15 plus-minus rating. He became the 20th player in Quinnipiac’s Division I history to reach the 100-point mark, and 34th all-time, after finishing his career with 49 goals and 80 assists for a total of 129 points in 156 games played. The brothers were each nominated for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award as seniors. They were named the team’s Co-Most Valuable Players as sophomores.

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Rossland’s Dana Luck competing in a skijoring race earlier this year. opportunity to race some of the fastest dogs in Canada not only in skijoring but I also raced four-dog, six-dog, and 10-dog teams.” Luck however focuses primarily on skijoring four-to-six mile sprint races with two dogs. Last season Luck competed in three ISDRA sanctioned races, and others in which he had five podium finishes. The biggest challenge for Luck is the expense of maintaining a small kennel and travelling up to 1,000 kilometres to compete in events in Northern B.C. and Alberta. “Most mushers will tell you that it is an addiction. It can be hard to

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find others who will share or even understand the passion associated with racing dogs.” Nevertheless, he will continue building his kennel from four dogs to six or eight, and improve his skate-skiing technique, in hopes of becoming one of the top skijors in North America. “In 2017, the IFSS World championships will be in North America again and I hope to be competing there,” added Luck. “I have some very fast dogs already, but the better my skiing technique the easier it is for my dogs and the faster we will work together.”

Submitted Ex-Beaver Valley Nitehawk Danny Vlanich will join former teammate Ryan Edwards and cousin Jamie Vlanich on the Selkirk College Saints next season. The Saints announced a playing commitment from the Trail native on Wednesday that Vlanich will attend Selkirk College and compete for the Saints beginning in the 201415 B.C. Intercollegiate Hockey League season. Vlanich is a six-foot-five, 215-pound blueliner who joins the Saints from the British Columbia Hockey League’s Surrey Eagles. The 20-year old suited up in 29 games for Surrey this season, picking up four assists and 21 penalty minutes. He also spent the 2011/12 season in the BCHL with the Langley Rivermen,

scoring once and totaling seven points and 57 minutes in penalties in 40 regular season games. “Danny is a big, strong defenceman who moves the puck well and can contribute all over the ice,” says Saints head coach Jeff Dubois. “He adds a physical presence for us on the blueline but will also fit in well with the up-tempo style we count on from our defencemen.” The Trail product has also suited up in 105 games over parts of four seasons with Beaver Valley. His career totals with the Nitehawks include 16 goals and 36 assists along with 235 penalty minutes. “I feel that it’s a step in the right direction for me to come to a winning organization both scholastically and athletically,” says Vlanich.

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Mother’s Unite Garage Sale goes on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Trail Memorial Centre Gym; a giant indoor sale for all items suitable for children from newborns to 12-year-olds. A great deal for all. On Good Friday, Apr. 18 come on out

to Gyro Park for the Annual Easter Egg Hunt at 11 a.m. Bring your Easter basket and keep a lookout for the Easter bunny. Hot dogs and hamburgers will also be sold by the Trail Kiwanis Club. All proceeds go to the Canadian Tire JumpStart initiative.

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hen Bob Nicholson retired as head of Hockey Canada, there was praise from all over the top-end guys in hockey for the success he has had - all referring to Team Canada wins in major tournaments like the Olympics, junior and other age-group international championships. All of that was true, of course. It was the culmination of Nicholson’s strategy to skew hockey in this country towards elite play, even year-round play for the most apparently gifted players at very young ages. That strategy has mostly worked. The other side to the story is that actual. “play,” has almost gone

out of hockey on Nicholson’s watch. Enrollment numbers for basic hockey - house leagues in the main - have dropped and are dropping because kids and parents do not see hockey, the national sport most of us grew up to love, as any fun. Hockey has also come to be seen as too dangerous for the limited enjoyment the focus on elite players affords to kids of “ordinary” talent. Pair that with the cost of play and it is easy to see, not far down the road, participation in that national sport dwindling to a point where only those whose parents who foresee, rightly or wrongly, a lucrative career coming out of their childrens’ participation in the game will put in the copious amounts of time and money required for that participation to take place. Yeah, I know, lot of, “participation,”s in that last bit. That is because that is what the game used to be about, particularly at minor levels - allowing any and every kid to

enjoy playing hockey. For a lot of those who operate hockey and reap the financial rewards of that operation - that is not a top-of-mind issue, it is barely on the radar. As long as there are enough elite players to staff the pro junior teams of the CHL, that will suffice for them. Other countries, some with rising participation from among the masses, will help in that regard, too. The view that Canada sits atop, for the most part, the hockey world has some validity. The rising view here that hockey as it is done in Canada these days is no fun and too expensive for many is also valid. Both are Nicholson’s legacy. As with politicians and other influential figures, it is sometimes only history (our future) that tells the whole tale of their impact. In a couple of decades we will know the impact of the views of Nicholson and his colleagues on our most important sport. Honestly, I am less than hopeful in that regard.

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A cap gun taught me the meaning of joy

aster is my favorite religious holiday. I like it more than Christmas, and I like Christmas a lot. As a child, I thought that the Easter morning egg hunt was as exciting as finding presents under the tree. In some ways, Easter morning was even better than Christmas morning. Christmas involved an element of doubt that was absent from Easter. Unlike Santa, who was a bit intimidating with his list of naughty and nice children, the Easter Bunny was a happy-go-lucky character that dropped eggs indiscriminately. One Easter stands out vividly in my memory. My sisters and I always received a small gift with our Easter baskets. The gifts were simple things, like a slinky, a yo-yo or a matchbox car, and because they louise were unexpected, they were a delightful surprise. Everyday Theology That particular Easter morning, as was the custom in our home, four beautiful baskets were lined up on the kitchen counter. I took a quick look at my basket, and my heart leaped for joy; I thought I had died and gone to heaven. There in my basket was a cap gun and a cowboy hat with a red whistle. I was incredulous because despite incessantly begging for a cap gun for weeks, my parents had steadfastly refused to purchase one. I was chomping at the bit to try out my cap gun, but we had to go to Mass. Fortunately, I had a new Easter outfit; my pride in wearing it lessened the agony of waiting until after Mass before I could run around the neighborhood, blowing my whistle and shooting off my cap gun. As soon as we got home, I shucked my pretty, feminine Easter bonnet for the cowboy hat, strapped the holster and gun around the waist of my dress, and bolted out the door, my little sister in pursuit, to test the whistle and gun. Before long, we were fighting over whose turn it was to shoot off the caps; my mother called us in, and I had to put my marvelous cap gun away, although I wore the hat in protest until we sat down for brunch. It may seem odd that my fondest memory of the Easters of my childhood revolves around a cap gun. There were, after all, a host of meaningful, annual traditions that characterized my family’s celebration of Easter, and while they are fixed in my memory, none of them evoke that blissful moment when I spotted my cap gun. My parents’ Easter gift to me was perfect and that day my joy was complete. That Easter morning, the mysteries of heaven and the realities of human existence came together for me in a cap gun and a cowboy hat. Those two simple toys were symbols of a love that had nothing to do with being naughty or nice. The joy that I experienced that Easter morning was a moment of grace when I was in the presence of God’s perfect love, and not even a spat with my little sister could diminish my happiness nor tarnish its memory. Trail, BC resident Louise McEwan is a freelance religion writer with degrees in English and Theology. She has a background in education and faith formation. Her blog is www. faithcolouredglasses.blogspot.com. Contact her at mcewan.lou@gmail.com .

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Susanna Scripture quotations are from the RSV unless otherwise noted. “The two elders used to see her every day, going in and walking about, and they began to desire her” (Dan. 13:8). This is the story of Susanna and the two elders who passionately lusted after her for her beauty. When she refused to lie with them, they falsely accused her of lying with a young man, and condemned her to death. We see here the harm that this passion can cause if it is not properly controlled by marriage or in a celibate life consecrated to God and lived in an all-male or all-female community of celibates who support and built one another up in their ideal of a life completely dedicated to God. The harm that this passion can cause if not properly controlled is that it divides our heart so that we are no longer dedicated to God alone with all our heart, with a heart undivided in our love for God. These two elders were most likely widowers and so had the wonderful opportunity to live as celibates at this stage of their life. They could at last now be fully dedicated to God in a more radical, literal, and complete way than they could before as married men. But their passion for Susanna misled them. They did not try to control it, but rather let it increase and grow until it destroyed them, and they were condemned to death. “They began to desire her. And they perverted their minds and turned away their eyes from looking to Heaven or remembering righteous judgments. Both were overwhelmed with passion for her” (Dan. 13:8-10). This passion stained their celibacy so that they were no longer focused only on God with a pure and undivided love. Their hearts were now divided to the point that they planned to commit adultery with her, or, if she refused, condemn her to death. St. Paul presents the ideal of celibate love, saying: “The unmarried man is anxious about the affairs of the Lord, how to please the Lord; but the married man is anxious about worldly affairs, how to please his wife, and his interests are divided. And the unmarried woman or girl is anxious about the affairs of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit; but the married woman is anxious about worldly affairs, how to please her husband” (1 Cor. 7:3234). Although these two elders had now finally arrived at a very beautiful point of their life as elders, widowers, and celibates, completely dedicated to the Lord with undivided hearts, not even divided as they formerly were when they had wives, they did not make use of this blessed time of their life, but rather squandered it. They should have cherished this stage of their life and protected it in suitable, reasonable, and prudent ways, guarding their heart and reserving it for the Lord alone by living a chaste way of life. But rather than guarding and reserving their hearts for the Lord, they let Susanna’s beauty divide their hearts and lead them down an evil path to their destruction. Today also celibates need to guard their heart and adopt a way of life that will protect it. They should live in singlesex all-male (or all-female) communities where they eat together as a community and spend their lives together. In this way they build up and strengthen one another in their ideal of a pure and undivided love for the Lord alone with all the love of their heart. Those celibates who want to live together in mixed communities of men and women are, like these two elders, playing with fire and submitting themselves to great danger. © Copyright 2007-2009 Rev. Steven Scherrer www.DailyBiblicalSermons.com.

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tells me, and it is affecting my peace of mind. I have considered moving just to get out of this small community where everyone knows everybody else. I want to punch her every time I run into her. Should I tell my husband how I feel? We have spoken about the past so many times that neither of us wants to bring it up again. He knows how much he hurt me. -- Dazed and Confused Dear Dazed: Trust is difficult to regain, and it is made more complicated when your husband lives near the Other Woman. It is important that your husband be completely

known for 35 years, did not greet or acknowledge our presence. He was cold and absolutely rude. They sat at our table and had nothing to say. While the bridesmaids gave speeches, they occupied themselves with their cellphones. We felt unwelcome. The bride barely looked our way and didn’t give us a chance to congratulate her, although the groom briefly greeted us. I want to tell my cousin how rude her husband was, but I’m not sure how to approach her. How do we handle this? -- N.J. Dear N.J.: You are making a lot of assumptions about your cousin’s behavior. We think her stress and her husband’s coldness had nothing to do with you. More likely, their behavior was a result of wedding stress (and possibly the bride). And remember that sitting with the groom’s parents is a great honor. If they wanted to insult

you, they would have seated you much farther away. Unless they do other things that are deliberately rude, please say nothing. Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Boondoggled in Boise,” whose father refused to let the granddaughter

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the coins the way he wants, and the brothers get to keep them in the family. -- Know About Difficult Relatives Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column.

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transparent in all of his dealings. Can you check his phone or email whenever you worry he is slipping back into old habits? If he hides things from you, you have cause for concern. But otherwise, please try to put your concerns in perspective. And don’t feel squeamish about discussing your worries with your husband, as long as you don’t make accusations that put him on the defensive. If necessary, go back for counseling and work on this. Dear Annie: My cousin’s son recently married. Aside from my cousin’s immediate family, there were only a few family members invited to the wedding. It wasn’t a small wedding. There were at least 200 guests. The problem is the way my cousin and her husband acted toward us. My cousin seemed upset all evening. She was fairly cordial, but acted stressed. Her husband, whom we’ve

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Dear Annie: Four years ago, I caught my husband lying and cheating in an emotional affair (he says there was never any sex). He and this same woman had been cheating for 10 years. She is married with grown children. She never told her husband what she did, so she has gotten away with it. We went to counseling, and it seems that my husband is on the straight and narrow. I love him dearly. We’ve been married for 25 years, have three wonderful children and get along wonderfully. The problem is, I am always worried that he is still doing things behind my back with this woman. He swears up and down that he has no contact with her. He claims he caught her lying and doesn’t even want her as a friend. But I know he has forgiven her for lying at least three times before. I honestly do not believe what he

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YourByhoroscope Francis Drake For Saturday, April 12, 2014 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) You are tempted to make decisions about your health or maybe your job today; however, it is a poor day to do so. Just get more information and wait until tomorrow to decide. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) This is a wonderfully creative day! You are in touch with your muse. Enjoy the arts, movies, film, social occasions, sports and playful times with children. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You might want to hide or cocoon at home today. Conversation with a female relative could be frank and disclosing. Nevertheless, avoid making commitments or important decisions. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Discussions with siblings, relatives and neighbors will be enjoyable today. People

feel open to sharing ideas and information. However, this is a poor day to volunteer or agree to anything. LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Try to avoid important financial decisions today. This is a poor day for major expenditures, especially in the afternoon. Keep your money, and spend it tomorrow. VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) You feel emotional about something today. However, this is a good day to entertain others and go along for the ride without having any responsibilities (if you can swing that). LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) This is the perfect day to just tread water and go with the flow. Make no commitments. Volunteer for nothing. Avoid major decisions. (You get the picture.) SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Conversations with a

female acquaintance or a close female friend will be enjoyable today because you won’t hold back. People are ready to divulge things in a frank, honest manner. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Be careful today. Personal details about your private life might be made public. This could catch you off guard. Above all, do not overreact. Be cool.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Don’t let someone talk you into something today, especially involving politics, religion, medicine or the law. Be skeptical! Sleep on any important decision until tomorrow. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) This is a poor day to divide anything or discuss how to share jointly held property. Just get more

information, and postpone your decision until tomorrow. PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Others will want you to cooperate with them today, and you can. But do not agree to anything important. Sign nothing. Volunteer for nothing. It’s best to just listen. YOU BORN TODAY You are diplomatic because you sense what’s going on

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around you and you are socially aware. You are interested in current events and love to express your own opinions. You also are happy to be the center of attention. This year, a major change might take place. It is a time of expansion and promotion. Get ready to test your wings! Birthdate of: Andy Garcia, actor/director; Tom Clancy, author; Saoirse Ronan, actress.

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The family of the late WALTER MUNNINGS wishes to extend a heartfelt thank you to all neighbours & friends for their kind words, visits, frequent phone calls, cards of sympathy, flowers & food in remembrance of Walter. Your compassion gave much strength during this difficult time. Again a special thank you to Doctors, Gosh, Scotland & Cochrane; ambulance crew, emergency room staff, 2nd & 3rd floor staff, Greg Rollins of Hospital Respiratory Services & the Independent Respiratory Service staff in Castlegar. Even though Walter’s stay was short the care & compassion will never be forgotten. It was all very appreciated more than words could say. Judy Munnings & Family

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has an IMMEDIATE opening for a full time clerical support staff member. Excellent computer skills are required. Previous medical office experience and EMR an asset. Duties include all scanning, faxing, confirming appointments, support to the medical office assistants and numerous behind the scenes duties. This is an extremely busy multi-doctor medical clinic, the successful applicant will be working in a very busy front office and must be able to multi task, be very organized and efficient. Excellent telephone skills are a MUST. Starting salary is $13.50. Please fax resume to 250-365-0347 or drop off at 1101 3rd Street. No phone calls please. Only successful applicants will be notified.

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Senior Accountant 2 Year Term Zellstoff Celgar, North America’s newest and largest single line softwood kraft pulp mill, located in Castlegar, BC, is looking for a Senior Accountant for a challenging and dynamic position. Zellstoff Celgar is one of three world-class mills owned by Mercer International. We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, excellent growth opportunity, and relocation assistance. Reporting to the Controller, the ideal candidate is comfortable in a leadership position where they will: • Ensure the successful daily operation of the accounting department • Supervise accounts payable staff • Provide cash management; accurate and timely cash forecasting; debt management • Provide, analyse, and interpret information for Mill Managers • Prepare and distribute financial statements • Reconcile various GL accounts, record accruals, prepare journal entries for financial statements, and ensure approvals The ideal candidate will possess: • A professional accounting designation, or nearing completion of designation • 3 – 5 years senior accounting experience • Multi-currency experience • Excellent verbal and written communication skills and demonstrated Microsoft Office abilities If you are looking for a challenging and rewarding career opportunity and a competitive compensation package with one the Kootenay’s top employers, please send your resume by April 30, 2014 to: Carla Marshall carla@marshallandassociates.ca (250) 513-0044

The Trail & District Public Library is seeking qualified individuals to fill one part-time and one full-time position as Circulation Clerk. Applicants must have a flexible work schedule. Qualifications and expectations are outlined in the job description, which is available at the library. Salary and benefits are in accordance with the CUPE Local 2087 Collective Agreement. Interested applicants are invited to submit their resume along with a cover letter and three references to: Belinda Wilkinson, Library Director Trail & District Public Library 1051 Victoria Street, Trail, BC V1R 3T3 or by email to director@traillibrary.com Applications will be received up to 1 p.m., Friday, April 25, 2014. We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

career opportunity Vice President, Capital Projects Reference Number 1405

Reporting to the President & CEO, the Vice President, Capital Projects will have leadership responsibility for the implementation and delivery of hydroelectric power projects and will oversee the design-build construction of these projects as the Owner’s Representative. Responsibilities include providing expert input into the negotiation, analysis and completion of design-build contracts, applications, licenses and other approval requirements for new power projects and overseeing the construction of these projects. The successful candidate will have a University Degree, with a Professional Engineering Designation and at least 10+ years of progressive experience in directing and managing design and construction of major power projects, preferably in the field of hydropower generation and distribution. Qualified applicants interested in joining a dynamic team are encouraged to visit the Careers section of our website at www.columbiapower.org for the detailed job description. Closing date for this position is May 2, 2014. Please refer to Job #1405 when submitting your application.

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Classifieds Employment Help Wanted Full Times Sales Representative. Andre’s Electronic Experts in Castlegar is looking to grow their sales force. Looking for individuals with sales experience and knowledge of cellular/ electronic and appliances. Full time salary/commission with potential wage to be $40,000 - $75,000 plus benefits. Drop off resumes to 200 - 1965 Columbia Ave Castlegar. or email jim.d@andres1.com PHARMACY ASSISTANT, PT Experience an asset. Send resumes to: Box 566 C/O Trail Times, 1163 Cedar Avenue, Trail, BC V1R 4B8 by April 11, 2014. **WANTED** NEWSPAPER CARRIERS TRAIL TIMES Excellent Exercise Fun for All Ages Call Today Start Earning Money Tomorrow Circulation Department 250-364-1413 Ext. 206 For more Information

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Sales SEEKING self-starters to join our team placing Point of Sale displays for mobile accessories into retail stores. Consignment sale: retailer never pays until goods have sold. You get $70 for each placement and 14% of refills. Exp. selling into retail is good. You need a car. scott@retailpop.ca

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EFA with CPR C: Apr 17 Conﬁned Space: Apr 22 Spanish for Travelers (Fruitvale): Apr 23 Red Cross Instructor ReCertiﬁcation: Apr 26 FoodSafe : Apr 26 MS Word Level I: Apr 28 To Register, please call Nella at 250.364.5770

Financial Services GET BACK ON TRACK! Bad credit? Bills? Unemployed? Need Money? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Acceptance Corp. Member BBB. 1-877-987-1420 www.pioneerwest.com

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Fri, April 11 4PM-6PM 635 Shakespeare St $ Warfield 194,900 Rhonda MLS# 2393875

Fri, April 11 4PM-6PM 670 Shakespeare St $ Warfield 129,000 Nathan MLS# 2391999

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Trades, Technical Mi-tec Millwork & Cabinetry has an opportunity for a qualified Shop Foreman. Minimum 5 years’ experience supervising a team of 5 or more cabinet makers. Please email shop@mi-tec.com for further details

SHAVERS BENCH 2164 7th Ave. Tons of good stuff. Fri. Apr.11 3-7pm Sat. Apr.12: 8am - 1pm

Collectors Currently Buying: Coin Collections, Antiques, Native Art, Old Silver, Paintings, Jewellery etc. We Deal with Estates 250-499-0251

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HAY FOR SALE small square $160/ton 250-428-4316

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Food Products BUTCHER SHOP

BC INSPECTED GRADED AA OR BETTER LOCALLY GROWN NATURAL BEEF Hormone Free Grass Fed/Grain Finished $100 Packages Available Quarters/Halves $2.95/lb Hanging Weight Extra Lean Hamburger Available TARZWELL FARMS 250-428-4316 Creston

2 good condition all season tires 195-70/14 - $40/pr New Condition wood coffee table 48” x 24” $75

Rossland 349,900

Marie-Claude

MLS#

2395423

1 Bdrm Furnished

42” LG LED “Smart” TV, new, still in box. 250-3643056 Affordable Steel Shipping Containers for sale/rent 20’ & 40’ Kootenay Containers Castlegar 250-365-3014

Rossland 124,900

Marie-Claude

HOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available. 1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com/ newspaper?

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2393618

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Rossland $ 59,900

Rossland $ 69,900

Marie-Claude

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2393621

Marie-Claude

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2395154

2 Bed Hom + Suite

SCREENED TOP Soil, $30. per yard. Delivery available. 250-367-9308

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Rossland 279,900

Rossland 179,900

Marie-Claude

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2395816

Marie-Claude

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Trail 109,900 MLS#

2214582

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Rhonda

Warfield 149,000

MLS#

2395554

Executive

Salmo 294,000 MLS#

Montrose 495,000

2396380

Rhonda

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MLS#

2393112

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Career Opportunities

Rhonda

Castlegar Operation

International Forest Products Limited (Interfor) is a growth-oriented lumber company with operations in Canada and the United States. The Company has annual production capacity of 2.6 billion board feet and offers one of the most diverse lines of lumber products to customers around the world. For more information about Interfor, visit our website at www.interfor.com.

MLS#

Rob

Fruitvale 139,900

2394479

Rhonda

1 Acre

Invest your future with one of the world’s largest lumber companies

CERTIFIED MILLWRIGHT

Trail 49,900

MLS#

Fruitvale 204,000

2393772

Rhonda

MLS#

2392778

5.1 Acres

Renata 249,000 MLS#

2215536

Rob

Renata 235,500 MLS#

2215924

Rob

Trail 135,000 MLS#

2393731

Gorgeous Ya

A great career opportunity for a certified Millwright, this person will be responsible for maintaining, repairing, installing and modifying all sawmill/planer related equipment to maximize uptime, quality and production. We are looking for candidates with the following skills and experience: • Commitment to a safe workplace • Team-oriented with good interpersonal skills • Strong work ethic and ability to work in a fast-paced production environment • Previous experience in the wood products industry would be an asset To express interest in this opportunity, please apply online at www.interfor.com/careers by April 21st, 2014. We appreciate the interest of all applicants, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. All applicants offered a position must successfully complete a pre-employment background check.

Rob

Genelle 319,900 MLS#

Fruitvale 164,900

2393958

Rob

MLS#

Rossland 399,000

2393806

Rob

MLS#

2392108

Nathan Kotyk 250-231-9484

Rob Burrus 250-231-4420

Rhonda van Tent 250-231-7575

Marie Claude Germain 250-512-1153

Jack McConnachie 250-368-5222

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FRUITVALE, 3.5 usable acres with 3 bdrm. house. Owner built. 250-367-6331 LOWER ROSSLAND, Easy highway access. 2bdrm., 2bath, s/s appliances, gas fireplace, new furnace, large deck and carport. $270,000. OBO. Call 250-362-9541 MONTROSE, 5BDRM. Fully fenced & landscaped. $415,000. 250-367-2131

Ermalinda Apartments, Glenmerry. Adults only. N/P, N/S. 1-2 bdrms. Ph. 250.364.1922

W.TRAIL, 1bdrm. plus, semienclosed balcony. 1Blk. Downtown. $595./mo. 250-368-6076

Rentals Rent To Own Rent to Own If you have a small down payment I have a nice home for you. Less then perfect credit OK call Jessica @ 250 505-7420

Apt/Condo for Rent Bella Vista, Shavers Bench Townhomes. N/S, N/P. 2-3 bdrms. Phone 250.364.1822 DOWNTOWN TRAIL, renovated 1bdrm. character apt, quiet adult building, coin-op laundry, non-smoking. 250-226-6886. TRAIL, 1BDRM, Low income. 250-368-1822

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Francesco Estates, Glenmerry. Adults only. N/P, N/S, 1-3 bdrms. Phone 250.368.6761. Glenmerry 2bdrm. apt. F/S Heat included. $750./mo. 250368-5908 TRAIL: 1 bdrm suite, shared W/D, utils inc, $575/m Ken: 250-442-2632 ken.dodds@yahoo.ca Grand Forks Realty Ltd. TRAIL, 3BD. Bright, clean, spacious, in quiet bldg. W/D. S.exposure w/deck, off-street parking. N/S. $795. 250-2294600.sombrio86@hotmail.com TRAIL, Rossland Ave. 1bdrm w/d f/s, n/s n/p. $550/mo. Avail. Immed. 250-368-1361 TRAIL, spacious 1&2bdrm. apartment. Adult building, perfect for seniors/ professionals. Cozy, clean, quiet, comfortable. Must See. 250-3681312

Homes for Rent E.TRAIL, 3bd, 2bth, renovated, yard, storage. $1100. Avail.May 1st. 250-512-1153 TRAIL, 1bd. furn. w/extra storage room, new appls. clean, $550. May1. 250-368-9558 TRAIL, nice 3 bdrm house with small maintenance free yard in gulch, fridge/stove, w/d. $765/month + util. Phone 1-780-919-6848. WARFIELD, 3BD. $925.mo. 250-512-1814

Shared Accommodation TRAIL, 1 Bdrm $395/month, near shopping & bus, quiet person. Share kitchen, dishes, utilities, 2bths. 250-368-6075

W.TRAIL, 1bdrm., fenced yard, suitable for dog. $595., 1 block to Downtown Trail. 250368-6076

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1987 Dodge Dakota, reg cab, long box, auto, V6, one owner, 169,000km, very clean, canopy, 2 wheel drive, $1,800/obo. 250-442-0122 or 250-4931807. Grand Forks

Estate Sale: 2013 Ford 150 Super Crew LWB, 4wd xtr. 1991 5th wheel, 28ft Citation Supreme. All in good shape. 250-442-8900.

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Cars - Domestic 2004 Rendezvous V6 traction control, 195,000 km locally driven, reasonable offers considered, $4,200 250-365-3119

Transportation

2007 SUZUKI Swift Plus Hatchback, 142,000kms. Great car. 250-368-5645

2005 FORD Silver Mustang Convertible, one owner, never winter driven, excellent condition, has 4L, V6 manual transmission. 61,000kms. Asking $10,900. 250-364-2752

2002 24.5’ Cougar Fifth Wheel with slide.a Great Shape. $9,500. OBO. 250.367.9175.

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www.allprorealty.ca All Pro Realty Ltd. 1148 Bay Ave, Trail 250.368.5000 www.facebook.com/allprorealtyltdtrailbc

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East Trail $169,000 W NE

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Warfield $299,000

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Ross Spur $329,900

Glenmerry $270,000

East Trail $179,000

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Glenmerry $225,000

Glenmerry $299,000

MLS#2395296

Warfield $219,500

Waneta $159,000 W NE

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Shavers Bench $299,900

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Rossland $250,000

Fruitvale $188,600 W NE

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Glenmerry $165,000

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Montrose $229,500

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Sunningdale $169,900

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Warfield $289,000 OT EL CR A 4.7

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Sunningdale $179,000

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Sunningdale $239,900

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Genelle $58,000 D CE DU RE

Sunningdale $125,000

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Glemerry $279,000

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MLS#2396264

MLS#2395777

Fruitvale $379,000 W NE

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East Trail $89,900 W NE

Columbia Heights $154,900

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MLS#2394115

Trail $129,900

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Fruitvale $109,000

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Fruitvale $235,000

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Fruitvale $459,000

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Fred Behrens ............ext 31 cell: 250.368.1268 Keith DeWitt .............ext 30 cell: 250.231.8187 Denise Marchi ..........ext 21 cell: 250.368.1112 Joy DeMelo ...............ext 29 cell: 250.368.1960

Trail Times Friday, April 11, 2014 www.trailtimes.ca A23

REgional Cranbrook

Fluoride on ballot

Slocan Valley

No compensation for Lemon Creek spill

By Arne Petryshen

By Greg Nesteroff

The City of Cranbrook has confirmed that there will be a referendum question on fluoridation of the water supply on the municipal election ballot in November. At the Monday regular council meeting, Mayor Wayne Stetski said he was asked about the issue at the mayor’s brown bag lunch on March 19. “The question came up on a referendum on fluoridation, and there will be a referendum question as part of the election next fall,” Stetski said during council. On Wednesday, Mayor Stetski further elaborated on the topic, noting that a proposed referendum question would be brought before council for approval, tentatively set for the May 12 meeting, but said there wasn’t anything more specific he could say about it. “What we have confirmed is our interest in bringing this forward as a referendum question as part of the November 15, 2014 municipal election,” he said. “The addition of fluoride to Cranbrook’s drinking water was originally approved by Cranbrook residents through a referendum several decades ago, so it makes sense to ask them if they want to continue the practice or not into the future. “I’m sure that there will be strong arguments on both sides of the question based on comments I’ve received from residents.” Cranbrook’s fluoridation program has been in place since 1967. The city is one of only six B.C. municipalities that still adds fluoride to the water supply.

More than eight months after a tanker truck spilled jet fuel into Lemon Creek, BC’s environment minister says no compensation is forthcoming from government for affected residents. “We actually would not have the authority nor the ability to do anything more than recoup our reasonable response and cleanup costs,” Mary Polak said in response to questions from Kootenay West MLA Katrine Conroy during debate Tuesday. “We don’t have the authority or the ability to collect in terms of compensation or, in fact, to provide compensation. It’s not within our authority to do so.” Conroy said Slocan Valley residents are still feeling the aftermath of the spill, which saw 33,000 litres of fuel pour into the creek and then flow into the Slocan and Kootenay rivers. Some people lost their livelihoods and others are still feeling health effects, she said. “I think it would be appropriate for the ministry to consider some kind of compensation,” she told

Cranbrook Townsman

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Polak. “It might be a novel concept, but it might also be something the minister would like to think on if they’re saying they can protect the coast of British Columbia from oil spills.” When Conroy initially posed her question, Polak replied that due to a class-action lawsuit filed last year by a resident, she couldn’t predict when everything would be resolved: “I think, sadly, it probably will take a significant amount of time.” The suit names the province, the helicopter company that required the fuel to respond to a forest fire, and the transport company, Calgarybased Executive Flight Centre. Conroy also asked if Polak saw any conflict in the company evaluating the environmental impact of the spill, SNC-Lavalin, being paid by Executive Flight Centre. However, Polak said she couldn’t comment because of the legal action. Conroy further asked if SNCLavalin would use baseline data for fish populations compiled by the Slocan River Streamkeepers. “I understand it’s been offered to the ministry as well as SNC-Lavalin and

that offer hasn’t been accepted,” she said. “It is there, it’s available.” Polak said she couldn’t speak for the company but ministry staff, who approved the company’s environmental monitoring plan, would welcome the information. Conroy asked if the government has learned any lessons from the spill and would develop a response protocol for rural areas to speed up response to such incidents. She called the delay in starting containment efforts at Lemon Creek “a bit of a disaster.” “[Residents are] hoping the minister will commit to some kind of spill protocol so that things can be dealt with much more efficiently, people can get the help they need quickly, the cleanup can happen quickly and people know who’s responsible for what,” Conroy said. Polak replied that any such incident is followed by “fairly extensive debriefing” to determine if anything can be improved. However, “At this stage, that has had to remain an internal debrief, and when the legal wranglings are over, we’ll be able to extend that more broadly.”

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Friday, April 11, 2014 Trail Times

local Builders at Redstone Art Harrison Photo

Now that the snow is gone construction workers from G. Hardy Construction are hard at work above the first hole fairway at Redstone Resort clearing land building a new home in the everexpanding housing development around the golf course.

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KOOTENAY HOMES INC.

1358 Cedar Avenue, Trail • 250.368.8818 www.kootenayhomes.com www.century21.ca 1360 - 2nd Avenue, Trail

$199,000

Interior completely new since 2006. This charmer offers level access, 2 bdrms, 1 bath, unfinished basement, fully fenced and landscaped yard with underground sprinklers, dog run, as well as a carport. This little gem will go quickly! Don’t wait call now!

SOLD 3554 Mayflower Road, Krestova

$319,000

5255 Highway 6, Winlaw 10.13 lightly treed acres is mostly flat and close to Winlaw. Good options for building sites; power, well and water license in place.

Conveniently located on a no-thru street, great rental property!

$121,000

Well cared-for mobile home with several upgrades including roof, laminate flooring and a cozy pellet stove. The 2.51 acre level parcel is mostly fenced with a guest cottage, a garden with greenhouse, chicken coop and storage shed. 40’ x 24’ shop with new woodstove. Call today.

Call Tonnie (250) 365-9665

Call Terry A. (250) 231-1101

530 Turner Street, Warfield

$89,000

1922 Meadowlark Drive, Fruitvale

$265,000

Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

647 Victoria Street, Trail

5 bdrms & 2.5 baths. This wonderful family home features many recent upgrades. The large back deck is great for entertaining right off the newly updated kitchen. Family friendly neighborhood and just minutes to downtown Fruitvale.

Mechanical and plumbing updated, newer panel and wiring, newer furnace, windows, and hot water tank. Get into the market today!

Call Jodi (250) 231-2331

$119,000

360 - 2nd Avenue, Rivervale

$389,000

2207 Columbia Avenue, Rossland

$139,000

This home boasts wood fireplace, 3 bdrms, kitchen with eating area, large 18x18 deck and tiered yard. Off street parking, a new fence, 35x145 yard and quick possession complete this package. Call Christine (250) 512-7653

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112 - 4th Street, Salmo

$109,000

$289,000

Excellent investment opportunity as a rental property, or locate your business here and live upstairs. Each level has its own energy efficient Heat Pump. Retail and Residential space in a great location. This is an opportunity you don’t want to miss. Call your REALTOR® today for your personal viewing.

Call Christine (250) 512-7653

Call Art (250) 368-8818

368 Austad Lane, Trail

Great opportunity to start a new business or move an existing one! Fantastic central location, lots of windows, hardwood floors and tons of character. Fully finished 1 bdrm, basement suite with lots of light and a little covered sundeck. Call your realtor for details!

Perfection! This gorgeous home built in 2009 has it all, 3 bdrms 4 baths, 9 foot ceilings, granite counter tops, hard wood, man cave, double garage and so much more!! All this and situated on a beautifully landscaped, private lot close to all amenities. You must see to believe! Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

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910 Tamarack Crescent, Genelle

8412 Theatre Road, Trail

$449,000

$370,000 745 - 10th Avenue, Montrose #312 - 880 Wordsworth Avenue, Warfield

$69,000

Very modern fully furnished 1 bdrm/ 1 bath condo has been totally updated - new windows-sliding door - paint - flooring - this could be your new condo - quick possession is possible - book your viewing and get ready for a maintenance free lifestyle. Call Mark (250) 231-5591

$260,000

This home is immaculate inside and out. There is no work to do. Gorgeous hardwood floors, 3 bdrms on main, open kitchen and dinning rooms. Lower level is finished with great rec room, bdrm, bath and laundry. Call for your personal viewing. Call Richard (250) 368-7897

Full package: 3 bdrm 2 bath on main, plus 1 bdrm 1 bath self-contained inlaw suite. 14x14 shop and 2 car garage, great storage and fully landscaped .51 acre flat lot.

Cell: 250-365-9665

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tonniestewart@shaw.ca www.kootenayhomes.com

Deanne Lockhart ext 41 Cell: 250-231-0153

deannelockhart@shaw.ca www.kootenayhomes.com

Christine Albo

Cell: 250-512-7653

ext 39

christine.albo@century21.ca www.kootenayhomes.com

Art Forrest

ext 42 c21art@telus.net www.kootenayhomes.com

Mary Martin

Cell: 250-231-0264

ext 28

mary.martin@century21.ca www.kootenayhomes.com

Terry Alton

Cell: 250-231-1101

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

Call Tonnie (250) 365-9665

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

Newer 4 bdrm home on 0.87 acre private lot. This home offers private entrance, open floor plan, beautiful kitchen and gorgeous gas fireplace with antique mantle. Also included is a large (22x28) insulated shop. Call now!

ext 48

terryalton@shaw.ca www.kootenayhomes.com

Jodi Beamish

Cell: 250-231-2331

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jodi.beamish@century21.ca www.kootenayhomes.com

Mark Wilson

Cell: 250-231-5591

ext 30

mark.wilson@century21.ca www.kootenayhomes.com

Richard Daoust

Cell: 250-368-7897

ext 24

richard.daoust@century21.ca www.kootenayhomes.com

8327 Highway 3B, Trail

$519,000

Stunning package! This home features Brazilian Cherry hardwood floors, a great floor plan, and amazing mountain views. The home is well maintained and filled with light. The yard is completely private and features an in ground swimming pool! Call Mary M (250) 231-0264