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Library teams up with pre-teen centre for programs

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School dispute has groups offering activities BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff

The Trail and District Public Library has long been a fundamental building block and ongoing educational haven for children in the community. Beginning today, the date that should have been the first day of public school, the Silver City cornerstone of learning is partnering with the city’s preteen centre to offer a free morning program for children ages 5-12. From 9 a.m. until noon, staff and volunteers at the Trail site will be relocating to a larger space in the Sanctuary building on Bay Avenue for no cost programs that include story time, crafts, games, guest speakers and a healthy midmorning snack. The library board first began to toss around the idea of expanding fall youth programs after the teachers full scale strike began almost three months ago. “We understand there can be great hardship for some parents over the summer,” said Barbara Gibson, chair of the library board and Sanctuary. “The relief seems to come when the kids See CAMP, Page 3

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Sean Bacon of Dynamic Shift Consulting had members of the Trail Smoke Eaters “sugar cookie-ing,” another term for rolling in the sand, at the Gyro Park beach on Monday morning. The drills, which also saw the players jog up to the Warfield Pool for a running-in-water exercise, are preparing the players for the intensity, discipline and commitment needed for the upcoming BCHL season. See story and more photos on Page 11.

Ripe fruit draws bears into neighborhoods BY LIZ BEVAN Times Staff

It's that time of year again – the time of year where fruit trees are ripe, the colour of the leaves start to change and bears are getting ready to fatten up for winter hibernation. Sharon Weider from WildSafe BC says that with bears in the area looking for as much food as they can, the animals may enter residential and urban areas on their hunt. “They become more determined to find food sources,” she said.

“If people have fruit trees that they can’t pick or they just don’t want the fruit, we can have people come and pick the fruit for them.” SHARON WEIDER

“So often, what happens is if there isn't enough natural food for them, or if they happen to be cruising

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through an urban area and come across things like fruit trees or garbage, then they will absolutely take advantage of the opportunity.” Weider says that there are plenty of ways that residents can make sure bears stay off their property including picking ripened fruit from the yard, composting properly and not storing garbage outdoors. “The biggest thing is to not have anything around that the bears would be interested in eating,” she said. “A lot of people do canning

and food preparation for the winter, and so you often have stuff left over. If you are composting, mix things in so you have a layer of fresh stuff and then a good layer of dead stuff on top to help the microbes break everything down and it won't smell and attract bears.” Weider also suggests feeding pets indoors, cleaning the yard of bird seed, fruits and any garbage. Apple trees and other fruit trees can be hard to pick and WildSafe BC See QUIET, Page 3

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Friday night is movie night at Haley Park Kootenay Savings presents ‘The Lego Movie’ on threestorey screen By Liz Bevan Times Staff

The people of Trail need to get their lawn chairs, blankets and buttered popcorn ready for this year's edition of Movie in the Park. Since 2008, Kootenay Savings has hosted a Movie in the Park in Trail and Aron Burke, community liaison with the credit union, says it all began when they wanted to start up a community event. “It was to create a sense of community,” he said. “It was to create a community event that almost as a back-toschool thing for the kids too. It is always geared toward family and we always show a

family-friendly movie.” This year's movie is The Lego Movie, being shown on a three-storey tall screen, and Burke says there is something for everyone. “We keep it PG, or even G in most cases,” he said. “Although, The Lego Movie has some adult humour snuck in there.” The Movie in the Park isn't just a fun event for families in the area, it is also a chance for people to support local groups. “It is totally free for anyone and everyone to come, we just ask that everyone bring an item, or even better, bring a bag of donations of nonperishable food for the food bank,” said Burke. “People are always more than generous. Usually people show up with bags and bags of food. It is for the Salvation Army food bank in Trail.”

In past years, the Salvation Army has received hundreds of pounds of food. One year, the donations amounted to 1,600 lbs. “We have a pick up truck that we weigh before we have the food loaded in and then when we have the food in, so we have an idea of how much food comes in,” said Burke. “I know the Salvation Army always tells us that it is probably the biggest food drive they have every year.” Employment Services in Trail also makes a bit of money on movie night – the group runs the concession stand at Haley Park. The evening event runs rain or shine, and in previous years, has moved inside. Burke says the City of Trail anticipates Movie in the Park and Kootenay Savings is happy to deliver. “Since we have done it

in 2008, people have kind of expected it to happen on that Friday and they are waiting,” he said. “People love it. After we did the first one, people were always asking us when the next one was going to be. We knew we were on to something.” The movie will start as soon as the sky is dark enough to see the movie on the screen on Sept. 5 and Burke says that is usually around 7:30 p.m., but not to worry about getting a seat. “Haley Park is such a big park, people are out there well in advance of the movie starting,” he said. “But, the screen is so huge, that you can see and hear it from anywhere in the park.” For more information on Movie in the Park, call Aron Burke at 250-368-2683 or visit the Kootenay Savings Credit Union Facebook page.

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Camp Cawabunga extended FROM PAGE 1 go back to school and they don’t have to worry. This year, they still have to worry.” The morning program will run during the teachers’ strike and continue as needed, explained Donna Tremblay, a children’s programmer at the library. “It wasn’t looking too good for the teachers, so we put this together on the fly,” she said. “But we’re going to do our best to hang out and have some fun.” This week’s activities include “getting to know you” bubble painting, story sharing, a visit from firefighters and Cpl Sheldon Arychuk and his service dog. Parents must first register their children for the free morning program at the library. For information, call 364.1731. In light of the school closures, Sanctuary has altered its hours and is offering pre-teen services from noon until 6 p.m. for children ages 8-12. The free program has a limit of 30, and due to licensing requirements, is only offered for young-

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sters in that specific age group. “We are especially there for parents who can’t be home when their kids get out of school,” Gibson noted. “Which is even more important now. We are open to kids who would normally be at Sanctuary and for those who attend the morning program as long as they are within the age group.” For more information, visit the centre’s website at sanctuarytrail. org. Another opportunity that offers, “something for everybody,” is the City of Trail’s extended programs for children ages 6-12 called Camp Cawabunga. Today until Friday is the first week of daytime camp for children that runs at Trail’s Gyro Park from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. The program is offered through the city’s Parks and Recreation department, for $35/day per child and has fun games, crafts and adventures in the works. For information or to register, contact 368.6484 or the Trail Aquatic and Leisure Centre at 364.0888.

Support cheques coming only after settlement reached By Sheri Regnier Times Staff

The government confirmed that for each school day lost during the strike, parents of public school students 12-years old and under can register for a $40 per child per day subsidy. But that money won’t be helpful during the strike because the Temporary Education Support for Parents (TESP) cheques won’t be issued until after the labour dispute ends. According to bcparentinfo.ca, parents and primary caregivers are eligible to register for TESP, but stipulates that cheques will only be processed within 30 days after the month that the labour disruption ends and in a single payment. While school doors will be physically open starting today (Tuesday), there will be no instruction for students, confirmed Greg Luterbach, the local school district superintendent in a Friday newsletter. Support staff will likely not cross the teachers’ picket lines, which leaves only non-union staff present at the district’s schools and sites. “As a result of the inability to ensure the safety and security of our students, I ask that parents keep all children home starting Sept. 2 until further notice,” wrote Luterbach.

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The Selkirk College campus in Trail is gearing up for its annual ‘get connected’ day for students at Jubilee Park, slated for Sept. 8. The event begins in the college, when from 9:30-11:30 a.m. instructors will be on hand for a meet-and-greet and campus tour. From 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. the college will host a barbeque and fun activities in Jubilee Park, alongside a welcome from the college president, student union and City of Trail. Susan Chew, the college’s Continuing Education coordinator and instructor Jennifer Cliff-Marks were on campus last week, finalizing this year’s curriculum and making sure everything is in working order before orientation day.

Quiet summer for bears in Greater Trail region

FROM PAGE 1 offers a free service called Harvest Rescue to help people keep their yards free of extra bear-attracting fruit. “If people have fruit trees that they can’t pick, or they just don’t want the fruit, we can have people come and pick the fruit for them,” she said, adding that the program is particularly beneficial to seniors who can’t get out and on a ladder. “It is a free service and it is really something that could help (with the bears).” Pickers usually keep the fruit, but fruit

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tree owners get some too, if they want it. The landfill in Trail also accepts unwanted fruit for a small fee. This past summer was a quiet one for bears in the Trail and Rossland areas and Weider says it is because natural food sources were abundant. “It’s been amazingly quiet this summer and I think that a big reason behind that is that the huckleberry crop has been so unbelievably good this year,” she said, adding that although it has been quiet, there were a couple of bear incidents in June.

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“We did have some trouble back in June with eight bears that had to be destroyed in Rossland and Trail. They were coming out of hibernation and when they were passing through town, they found garbage and bird food, so they stuck around. It got quiet once the huckleberries started to ripen.” Those eight bears were the only ones that needed to be destroyed in the area this year. Should someone find a bear in their yard, Weider says that the best thing to do

is scare it away. “Just kind of yell at them,” she said. “Some people will send their dogs out, but I don’t recommend that only because the dog isn’t something the bear needs to be scared of.” Putting up a temporary electric fence is another option that Weider says is extremely effective. For more information on how to prevent bears in your yard or how to get rid of them, visit wildsafebc.com or call Weider at 250-231-2751.

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Province’s feud with teachers dates back decades

THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER - All summer long, there’s been one overriding conversation amongst the hundredplus employees at a Vancouver financial firm who have schoolage children: British Columbia’s acrimonious teachers’ strike. Project analyst Robert Ford, with Credential Financial, has a 12-year-old daughter and six-yearold son who won’t be starting their school year this Tuesday, and he said the parents at his company all feel the same. “Fed up,” he said. “That’s it. No matter what, they want it done. Parents have actually devolved in their opinions to (picking) neither side. Just get ‘er done.” Fourteen weeks

have passed since B.C.’s more than 40,000 unionized teachers walked off the job in a rotating and then fullscale strike last June, ejecting half-a-million children from classes about two weeks before summer break. Just a day before the scheduled start of the fall session, there was no indication about when, how or to what extent the conflict will be resolved. On Saturday, a veteran mediator who spent three days attempting to jumpstart bargaining declared an impasse between the BC Teachers’ Federation and BC Public School Employers’ Association, the government’s bargaining agent. Lead negotiators for both sides acknowledged the new

term would be derailed indefinitely. Many parents and students say they’re holding B.C.’s politicians and the teachers’ union equally responsible. “I think it’s crazy. There’s no reason why it shouldn’t be (over). They’ve had lots and lots of time to negotiate and get a deal done. I don’t see why it takes over 16 months to get a contract in place,” said Victoria Barker, who recently graduated from Lord Tweedsmuir Secondary in Surrey. Now Barker, who concluded high school with less than 12-hours notice, is anxious about the potential impact of the delayed school start on her younger brother and peers in lower grades. The trigger for the

The Corporation of the Village of Warfield 2014 GENERAL LOCAL ELECTIONS The 2014 General Local Election will take place on Saturday, November 15, 2014. Are you eligible to vote? If you are not sure, you can find out by calling the Village of Warfield Office at 250-368-8202. The Office is open 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Monday to Friday (excluding Holidays). Advance elector registrations will be accepted at the Village of Warfield office until Tuesday, September 23, 2014. With the exception of registrations on voting days, elector registrations will not be accepted during the period September 23 to November 15, 2014. ELECTOR QUALIFICIATIONS RESIDENT ELECTORS: • 18 years of age or older on general voting day; and • a Canadian citizen; and • a resident of British Columbia for at least 6 months immediately before the day of registration; and • a resident of the Village of Warfield voting area for at least 30 days immediately before the day of registration; • not disqualified under the Local Government Act or any other enactment from voting in an election or assent voting and not otherwise disqualified by law. NON-RESIDENT PROPERTY ELECTORS: • 18 years of age or older on general voting day; and • a Canadian citizen; and • a resident of British Columbia for at least 6 months immediately before the day of registration; and • a registered owner of real property in the Village of Warfield for at least 30 days immediately before the day of registration; and • not entitled to register as a resident elector; and • not disqualified under the Local Government Act or any other enactment from voting in an election or assent voting and not otherwise disqualified by law; and • if there is more than one registered owner of the property, only one of those individuals may, with the written consent of the majority of the owners, register as a non-resident property elector. LIST OF REGISTERED ELECTORS Beginning Tuesday, September 30, 2014 until the close of general voting for the election on November 15, 2014, a copy of the list of registered electors will be available for public inspection, at the Village of Warfield Office, 555 Schofield Highway, Warfield BC during regular office hours Monday to Friday, except statutory holidays. Before inspecting the list a person must sign a statement that they will no inspect the list or use the information included in the list for the purposes of Part 3 – electors and Elections of the Local Government Act. An elector may request that their address or other information about them be omitted from or obscured on the list of electors. OBJECTION TO REGISTRATION OF AN ELECTOR An objection to the registration of a person whose name appears on the list of registered electors may be made in accordance with the Local Government Act until 4:00 pm on Friday, October 10, 2014. An objection may only be made by a person entitled to be registered as an elector of the Village of Warfield and can only be made on the basis that a person whose name appears on the list of electors is not qualified to be registered as an elector of the Village of Warfield. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, please contact the following: Allana Ferro, Chief Election Officer at 368-8202

“There’s a history of struggle and conflict that is now in the DNA of both sides.” Tom Fleming

current dispute is usually identified by teachers as a unilateral blow to the collective bargaining process that occurred in 2002. That’s when Premier Christy Clark, who was then B.C.’s education minister, introduced legislation that stripped the union’s right to bargain class size and composition. B.C. Supreme Court has since ruled twice that the government’s actions were illegal, but inability to get closure on the case, which is under appeal by the government, remains a major sticking point. Wages, benefits and classroom conditions have been the other key obstacles. But today’s bitter standoff is actually

backloaded with more than four decades of labour strife in the province’s education sector, said a historian who has documented 140 years of the B.C. school system. Tom Fleming, who wrote the book “Worlds Apart” in 2011 and lead a Royal Commission on Education in 19871988, said there’s been more than 50 strikes and three lockouts since April 1987. “We’ve had this reputation of having very turbulent labour relations,” said Fleming, a University of Victoria professor emeritus. “There’s a history of struggle and conflict that is now in the DNA of both sides. The teachers are innately distrustful of government and government is innately distrustful of teachers.” Fleming said the province’s public schooling system was peaceful for a century up until 1972, run by a neutral civil service that ensured “nobody ever felt the rough hands of politicians on educational issues.”

But then school trustees began setting their sights on politics while a partisan union was built. A recession in the 1980s prompted “restraint” legislation that reduced the number of teachers and teaching assistants by about 2,000 positions, he said. With a general strike in B.C. appearing imminent, Fleming was appointed in 1987 to helm a commission to bring peace between the teachers and government. But even before the report was out, the government of the day for the first time granted teachers full-scope collective bargaining powers. “The BCTF stepped up and said, ‘Well, we are the true defenders of public education. We will speak for children, we will speak for parents, we will speak for schools,”’ Fleming said. “So now you’ve had since the ‘80s a battle for hearts and minds over control of school policy.” The union’s crusader mentality has brought the downfall of at least two provin-

cial governments, said Fleming, while adding no party has been left untouched. “They fought with everybody,” he said. “Maybe (the union and the government) like the particular dance they do every year. They’ve gotten used to doing business this way.” There’s only been one contract signed over nearly three decades without a blowout. The present-day dispute is the culmination of 40 years of battles clouding over the fact B.C. consistently ranks as an internationally top-performing school system, said Jerry Mussio, who spent much of 30 years in the education ministry as a senior bureaucrat. “You’ve got these excellent teachers,” said Mussio, who has since served as Canada’s representative in the development of the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment. “I think that they’ve been poorly served by both government and by their union.”

consultation running to Sept. 30 asks stakeholders for input on the options. One possibility to be explored is lower or higher penalties. According to a government discussion paper released Friday, B.C. penalties are stiffer than most other provinces. “Decreasing penalties would bring

British Columbia in closer alignment with the average among the provinces,” it says, noting government must balance business hardship and the need for deterrence for public safety. A first offence for a B.C. liquor establishment typically means a one- to three-day suspension for overcrowding and 10 days or a $7,500 fine for selling to a minor (the first-offence maximum is $10,000 and 15 days for serving minors.) Alberta bars have a choice of paying a fine or serving a suspension – which is one of the ideas up for consideration – and most operators there choose the fine, which is typically $500 to $1,500 on a public safety first offence. Another issue is perceived unfairness of the current system for different business types. Food-primary outlets can keep on serving food during a suspension, while liquor-primary bars and retail stores must

close entirely. That raises the question of whether fines are a better option, the paper says. It adds the penalties must spur liquor violators to voluntary compliance and not be so low they’re merely treated as a cost of doing business. Fines or suspensions get more onerous with repeat offences, potentially leading to licence cancellations. But a second offence is only counted as such if it happens within 12 months of the first one – after a year the slate is clean. One option is to increase that period to two or three years, which would put more pressure on repeat offenders whose subsequent penalties would be more severe. Another question asks if repeat offences should be fines rather than suspensions. The consultation is in response to recommendations flowing from the liquor policy review headed by BC Liberal MLA John Yap.

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The province is contemplating changing how it punishes pubs, restaurants and liquor stores that violate liquor rules that ban over-serving and selling to minors. Business owners have asked government for a more flexible penalty system and a month-long online

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No homework this year THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL - Students at one Quebec school can expect to have a little more free time on their hands this year. An elementary school in the province’s Saguenay region has decided to ban homework in all classes from Grade 1 to Grade 6. Some 339 students at College de SaintAmbroise will take part in the one-year pilot project. Spokeswoman Marie-Eve Desrosiers says the Jonquiere School Board wants to see whether the ban will help improve scholastic outcomes. She says teachers will still be allowed to assign studying and reading work. The school won’t be the first to try such an experiment - a school in Barrie, Ont. introduced a similar ban in 2008.

Manitoba

Mussels still spreading THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG - Zebra mussels are spreading in Manitoba despite a unique experiment intended to stave off an invasion of the shellfish. Manitoba Conservation says the mussels have been discovered in at least six spots on Lake Winnipeg. They have also turned up again in the four harbours that were treated Briefs with potash this spring to kill them. Department staff say the mussels are reproducing outside the treated harbours and moving back in. The province says it’s stepping up monitoring efforts and will train a canine unit to sniff out the mussels on watercraft. It has also set up decontamination units at high-traffic harbours such as Gimli, Winnipeg Beach and Selkirk Park. The province had declared victory over zebra mussels in June after it doused the four infested harbours with liquid potash. The areas were sealed off and the potash injected into the water to eventually suffocating the mussels.

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Board backs ‘zero’ teacher THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON - An Alberta appeal board says the Edmonton Public School Board was unfair in suspending and firing teacher who gave out zeros to his students. Lynden Dorval was suspended in May 2012 and fired four months later for awarding zeros to students who did not hand in homework or take assigned tests. Dorval appealed to the Board of Reference and it has ruled that Dorval was treated unfairly in his dismissal. The appeal board has ordered that Dorval be paid his salary from the date of his dismissal and also that his pension be topped up. It also says it found no evidence of deliberate misconduct on Dorval’s part. Dorval says the ruling was a pleasant surprise. “The Board of Reference was very harsh on what the principal had done and how the superintendent had handled it so I was surprised at that, and also the no-zero, I was expecting virtually no comment on the correctness of the no-zero policy, I assumed that it would be strictly about the legality of what the school board did,” Dorval said. The school board has 30 days to file the appeal.

Canada talks tough on Ukraine but cuts billions from military THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA - Stephen Harper has been one of the toughest-talking leaders throughout the Ukraine crisis, yet newly released figures show National Defence is expected to face an even deeper budget hole in the coming year than previously anticipated. The ongoing reductions come as the prime minister is expected to resist pressure from allies at this week’s NATO summit to spend substantially more on the military. Annual spending on the military, when compared with 2011, is slated to shrink by a total of $2.7-billion in 2015, according to a briefing note prepared for the deputy defence minister. That would be almost $300-million more than earlier internal estimates, and roughly $600-million higher than the figure defence official acknowledged last fall when they rolled out the department’s renewal plan. In addition to planned cuts under the government’s strategic review, deficit reduction action plan, and wage restraint measures, defence is expected to face “other planning pressures,” according to a Sept. 16, 2013 memo.

Those pressures include, among other things, severance for laid off civilians at defence; the bill for the Harper government’s pledge to sustain newly trained Afghan forces; and the cost of operating the Public Works secretariat that is picking a replacement for the CF-18s. National Defence has repeatedly said that it - like other government departments - is expected to contribute towards the government’s drive towards a balanced budget next year. The issue of how much allies fork out for their militaries will be among the major closed-door topics when NATO leaders meet this week in Wales. Canada is under pressure - mostly from the United States and Britain - to dramatically increase its defence budget over the next 10 years to meet the NATO benchmark of two per cent of gross domestic product. According to the latest NATO figures, the Harper government spends one per cent of GDP on defence, just slightly ahead of financially-troubled Spain, the Slovak Republic, Hungary, Luxembourg, Lithuania, and Latvia. Only two nations surpass the benchmark

- the U.S. and Britain. Others, such as France, Germany, Norway and Italy, come close. Some allies, such as the Dutch, have begun to rethink planned defence cuts, especially in light of last week’s military action by Russian troops in eastern Ukraine, which Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird described as an “invasion.” Harper himself has left little doubt on where he believes events of the last eight months in eastern Europe belong in the grand sweep of history. “When a major power acts in a way that is so clearly aggressive, militaristic and imperialistic, this represents a significant threat to the peace and stability of the world and it’s time we all recognized the depth and the seriousness of that threat,” the prime minister said at a hastily arranged photo-op with the ambassadors of Ukraine, Estonia, Poland and Latvia on April 14. “But as I say, the most important thing we need to do is to rally all of our allies throughout the western world and throughout the greater global community to understand that peace and stability is being threatened here in a

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Bleak summer for coastal ferry remake

here was an uproar in the B.C. legislature this spring when Transportation Minister Todd Stone went ahead with $19 million in cuts to low-usage coastal ferry routes. The plan had been laid out in detail before last year’s election. It targeted sailings where ridership was in the low teens or even single digits. On some sailings the Transport Canadamandated crew outnumbered the passengers. Despite the cries of doom, most of the sailing reductions have been managed – with one glaring exception. The Discovery Coast Circle Tour route saw its ferry from Port Hardy to Bella Coola replaced, using the smallest vessel in the BC Ferries fleet, the opendecked Nimpkish. This move wasn’t a direct response to low usage,

a chronic issue with some of the minor route sailings along the coast. It was to avoid ordering a replacement for the Queen of Chilliwack, which sailed directly between Port Hardy and Bella Coola. This summer the first leg was consolidated with the Northern Expedition, the vessel that replaced the doomed Queen of the North on the Inside Passage run up to Prince Rupert. At Bella Bella, after a layover of a couple of hours, the Nimpkish took over with space for 16 standard vehicles on its deck and a midnight arrival time in Bella Coola. The direct route had been mainly used by European tourists, who sailed from the Lower Mainland to Victoria, drove the length of the Island, ferried to Bella Coola and drove through the rugged Chilcotin to

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Williams Lake and back down south to complete the circle tour. The new route incorporated stops in remote outposts Ocean Falls and Shearwater, making it even longer. Warnings came early. “That’s where 90 per cent of the [BC Ferries] money is being lost, on the milk runs, and that’s the part they are keeping,” Petrus Rykes, a tourism operator at Anahim Lake for 40 years, said in March. “The part they’ve

cancelled was at 70 per cent capacity, the second highest of all the fleet routes.” Reports of a bad slump have come to pass. The changes meant bookings couldn’t be made until April, too late for most international travelers. A survey by Bella Coola Valley Tourism in mid-summer found most operators losing business, from 10 to 90 per cent. A bus tour of Canadian seniors heading west from Williams Lake was terminated after 14 years. One tourism operator on Highway 20 is considering closing down. Stone and his family took the new route themselves in early August, with the minister offering sunny reports on his blog. Stone summed up his experience this way: “At the end of the day, my assessment is that the Nimpkish is a good tourism product if tourists are

made fully aware as to the type of service it provides. If correct expectations are set, I believe the Nimpkish can be marketed as a valuable tourism component of the Discovery Coast Circle Tour. “The decision to do this rests squarely on the shoulders of the tourism industry and tourism operators who need to decide whether or not they want this service to work, to grow and to be viable in order to capture a share of the thousands of international tourists looking for exactly the kind of adventure the Nimpkish provides.” Got that, Discovery Coast tourism folks? If this milk run doesn’t work next year, it will be your fault. Heck, the Nimpkish has free snacks and drinks for your 10-hour voyage, much of it in the dark. Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

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THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - The Royal Canadian Mint has unveiled four limited-edition Superman coins following the success of last year’s seven-coin series. Inspired by DC Comics’ iconic Superman book covers, the new coins bring to life one of the word’s greatest pop culture heroes in brilliant colours. The coins were unveiled Friday by federal House leader Peter Van Loan at FAN Expo Canada in Toronto. Van Loan was quick to point out the Man of Steel’s Canadian roots, saying Superman’s cocreator was Joe Shuster of Toronto. Three of the new coins have been minted in silver, with face values of $10, $15 and $20 and the(MJHP TZY \JJPQ^ Ć^JWX fourth in gold with a face value of $100.

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK - Rachel Maddow’s top producer at MSNBC is the new man in charge on the daytime talk show “The View.” ABC announced Thursday that Bill Wolff is the new executive producer of “The View,” which begins a new season on Sept. 15. ABC’s release did not mention the show’s inventor, Barbara Walters, who had said when she retired from an on-air role last spring that she would continue working at the show behind the scenes.

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Increase distracted driving fines not ICBC rates ICBC wants to raise its rates again. The costs of injured people are on the rise, even more than drunken driving incidents. This isn’t caused so much because of all of BC drivers that drive defensively but for the careless drivers that can’t seem to concentrate on driving and prefer to be a telephone oper-

ator while driving, and speeding through red lights, because everyone is in a hurry. So everyone gets to pay more for someone else’s faults. But I guess it is easier to paint us all with the same brush rather than to discriminate to those that are actually raising these rates. It would be too much work

for ICBC to raise the fines of cell phone use on the roads to cover these higher costs. A higher fine of some substantial amount would probably end a lot of this nonsense. How good is that though. You do something illegal and get everyone else to pay. Brent Laface Trail

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How much will walking bridge cost Rossland? It appears that in the recent referendum about 27 per cent of Trail’s eligible voters voted in favour of a combined pedestrian/pipe-bridge. It also appears that 64 per cent didn’t bother to vote at all, maybe because they had been told by their council that it would not cost them anything in additional taxes… so why bother. But what about the taxpayers in Rossland and Warfield who, so far, have had no say in this issue? My primary concern as a resident of Rossland is how much a pedestrian bridge in Trail will cost Rossland taxpayers. Trail council based the referendum on an assumption that the RDKB partners in the sewage treatment system (Trail, Rossland and Warfield) will contribute about $7.4 million towards the $12.5 million

estimated for the pedestrian / pipe-bridge. To the best of my knowledge, this has never been agreed to by the Rossland and Warfield representatives to the RDKB sewerage committee. The Trail councillor who chairs the committee, cancelled the August meeting without consultation thus depriving the Rossland and Warfield representatives of the opportunity to discuss the cost of the various crossing options ahead of the Trail referendum. According to recently published numbers, the lowest cost estimate for getting sewage across the river is $2.7 million to hang a new sewage pipeline from the Victoria Street Bridge. The estimated cost of the other options is approximately $3.4 million for trench and backfill under the river, $7.4 million for

a stand-alone pipe bridge and $12.5 million for a combined pedestrian/pipe-bridge. It appears to me that the only obligation the taxpayers of Rossland and Warfield have is to pay their fair share of the lowest cost, technically feasible option….the Victoria Street bridge crossing. The question is …. Why did Trail City Council assume that Rossland taxpayers would be willing to pay an additional $1.17 million and Warfield taxpayers an additional $572,000 to subsidize a pedestrian bridge for the City of Trail …. without discussion? Perhaps we now need a referendum in Rossland and Warfield on this issue so that citizens of those communities can have their say! Ken Holmes Rossland

Labour movement redefining role

THE CANADIAN PRESS Labour Day celebrations across Canada this year come at a time when organized labour is in the midst of redefining its role in the workforce as a decline in the manufacturing industry and the rise of contract and part-time workers has challenged its traditional focus. Nelson Wiseman, director of Canadian studies at the University of Toronto, said that the significance of the holiday fails to resonate with many people outside the labour movement. “Once upon a time, people were marching in the streets because they wanted to cut down the (workday) and a lot of people were involved in industry that was there, like manufacturing, but now it’s not the case,” says Wiseman. “People don’t perceive that (unionized) workers are underpaid or unduly exploited, even though many of them may not be making huge amounts,” he adds. “People have more sympathy for you if you’re flipping burgers at McDonald’s.” The principle aims of the first-wave labour movement universal health care, welfare, the public education system - are now well-established in Canadian society. Outside of

their collective bargaining obligations, Wiseman says, unions have been relegated to serving the role of watchdog. The types of jobs new to the economy fall out of the traditional purview of unions: temporary service industry jobs and knowledge sector jobs and, in particular, the high-tech sector with a highly mobile workforce that has largely has evaded unionization. Economic headwinds have forced unions to re-evaluate their brand and their purpose in an economy where steady employment is precarious. “We recognize that are there are some challenges and we have to grow the labour movement because the economy itself is not the economy of the 50s, the 60s, and the 70s,” says Hassan Yussuff, president of the Canadian Labour Congress. “In that regard we have to orient ourselves to the new workforce,” adds Yussuff, who says that the union’s effectiveness in negotiating pensions and better wages has been tested in recent years by governments and private sector employers. “Nevertheless, I think we have a lot to celebrate. All of those good salaries and wages that our members make are

spent in their communities and contribute to a successful and growing economy.” In its first year of existence, Unifor - formed on Labour Day weekend 2013 by the merger of the Canadian Auto Workers and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers union introduced new ways to bring workers from traditionally nonunionized jobs into the fold. Notably among them, was the Canadian Freelance Union, which represents self-employed media professionals. It’s also moved to solidify its community chapters program for unemployed former Unifor members, providing access to similar health insurance plans. “We’ve had to do things differently as it relates to outreach,” Dias said. “Our union very much plays a huge role in the community.”

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Woman’s public plea for assisted suicide spurs debate THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER - Gillian Bennett’s family scattered her ashes this weekend, in a quiet ritual shared by those she loved. She was, after all, an intensely private person, her daughter said. But the 83-year-old grandmother’s heart wrenching and public goodbye before taking her own life two weeks ago cast what she felt was a necessary spotlight on her life, her death and the country’s laws around assisted suicide. “I will take my life today around noon. It is time,” she began. Facing the ravages of dementia, Bennett made her way to a favoured spot near her home on Bowen Island, just off the coast near Vancouver, and took a lethal dose of barbiturates. Jonathan, her husband of 57 years, was by her side. “There comes a time, in the progress of dementia, when one is no longer competent to guide one’s own affairs. I want out before the day when I can no longer assess my situation, or take action to bring my life to an end,” she wrote in the fourpage letter posted online by her son after her death - as per her request. In it, she set out her options as she saw them: a “mindless body” in need of constant care, possibly from her family, or life in a care facility, or suicide. “Ethically, this seems to me the right thing to do,” she wrote of the last option. A trained psychotherapist, Bennett eloquently laid out her analysis of illness and death. She calculated the cost of her care as high as $75,000 and chastised the post-war social welfare state as a “generational Ponzi scheme.” Bennett’s daughter, Sara Fox, said her family has been inundated since www.deadatnoon.com went online. More than 800 people have emailed - all but two of them offering support. “I think for all of us it feels pretty amazing that my little old mom has this triumph,” she said. “She stuck to her guns, she insisted and look. I guess she was just right, people did have some kind of need to talk about these issues and she’s given them a push.” Bennett told her family of her plans but did not allow them to take part. It is a crime

in Canada to assist in a suicide. In her final hours, she wouldn’t allow her husband to drag a mattress to the spot she had chosen to die, worried even that could cause him trouble. “That pretty much broke his heart, that he couldn’t help her with that. She was pretty frail herself,” Fox said.

“It doesn’t lead to more deaths but it could lead to less suffering.” Sara Fox

In her letter, Bennett lamented the law. “This is all much tougher than it need be on Jonathan, and I wish he did not have to be alone with his wife’s corpse,” she wrote. “Today, now, I go cheerfully and so thankfully into that good night. Jonathan, the courageous, the faithful, the true and the gentle, surrounds me with company. I need no more.” Bennett’s is not the first public plea for change. A year ago Dr. Donald Low, who guided Toronto through the 2003 SARS crisis, made a videotaped plea in favour of physician-assisted suicide prior to his death from a brain tumour. This summer Kim Teske, a 52-year-old with Huntington’s disease, invited the Globe and Mail to document her death by wilful starvation and in March, Toronto lawyer Edward Hung, 62, issued a public appeal before he flew to Switzerland to end his life. Hung had ALS. Next month, the Supreme Court of Canada will hear appeals in a case involving two B.C. women who challenged the country’s law against euthanasia. Two years ago, a B.C. Supreme Court judge ruled in favour of Gloria Taylor and found that the existing law was unconstitutional. The judge delayed the ruling for a year to allow the federal government to rewrite the legislation, but granted Taylor an exemption so she could seek assisted death. Taylor didn’t use that exemption, but died of an infection in 2012. In 2010, Lee Carter took her mother, Kay, to Switzerland - at her request - for a physician-

assisted suicide. Carter, 89, was confined to a wheelchair and in chronic pain due to spinal stenosis. Lee Carter joined the B.C. case that will go the country’s highest court. Assisted suicide is permitted in several European countries, including Switzerland and the Netherlands, and in five U.S. states, including Washington and Oregon. In June, Quebec became the first jurisdiction in Canada to allow euthanasia. That legislation has already been challenged in court. Lawyer Hugh Sher will represent the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition at the Supreme Court of Canada hearing in October. The group will also apply for intervener status in a court challenge to Quebec’s legislation. “There’s obviously a lot of compelling, sympathetic personal narratives relative to these issues,” Sher said. “But they don’t ultimately address the fundamental public policy question, and that is: based on existing practices and based on other regimes - it is not possible to implement a series of safeguards that would effectively prevent abuse and the death and killing of vulnerable and at-risk people.” Neither the government, the courts nor the health-care system can be trusted with the power to take a person’s life, said Gerald Chipeur, council for the Christian Legal Fellowship, which is also an intervener in the high court case. He pointed to the thousands of involuntary sterilizations performed under Alberta’s shameful Sterlization Act, which remained in place until 1972. Right-to-die laws give doctors too much power, Sher said. “It’s cold comfort to offer death as a response to suffering and indignity from a society that overwhelmingly considers disabled lives to be dominated by suffering and indignity,” he said. But Fox believes the right to die can be legislated in a thoughtful and effective manner. “Certainly, assisted suicide doesn’t lead to more deaths. We’re all going to die anyway,” she said. “It doesn’t lead to more deaths but it could lead to less suffering.”

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Grand Chancellor to visit Trail this week

Submitted TRAIL – Roger Murray, Grand Chancellor of the Fraternal Order, Knights of Pythias of British Columbia, will make an official visit to Trail Range Lodge #23, Trail, on Thursday, when the Lodge meets in Regular Convention. Members will gather for a meet and greet time during a supper prior to the meeting, at the Colander Restaurant. Chancellor Commander Preston Steel will preside over the business meeting during which Grand Lodge Honors will be extended to Murray in recognition of his official capacity in the 150-year-old Fraternal Order. Murray has just started a busy tour of visitations to the various B.C. lodges with six in the Interior and four on Vancouver Island, discussing plans and endeavours in inter-lodge workings with various charities and community good-will programs, along with working and programs of the Grand Lodge. Born and raised in Penticton, Murray went on to a career with the Canadian Coast Guard and served as a flight service specialist before returning to Penticton with employment at the Penticton Airport for 23 years before retirement. Promoting a program of "Challenge", he is Challenging the membership to stretch their commitment to the Order with carrying out concerns for additional membership, workings in the communities in support of charities and goodwill. The distinguishing principles of the Knights of Pythias are Friendship, Charity and Benevolence. The Order does not seek to shape any man's Creed. Pythianism is the practical application of religious and charitable principles to every day life. Trail Lodge has an impressive record of service by its member with Grand Lodge dedications. During the meeting Murray will be joined with Grand Lodge Officers of Ivan Johnston, grand treasurer; Dan Stubs, grand secretary and PGC Jack Balfour, grand outer guard. Other Brothers who have served as Grand Chancellors include: Noble Bins, 1902; J. A. MacKinnon, 1929; John Balfour, 1939; H. Simpson, 1950; G. R. Balfour, 1958; Jack Balfour, 1980; Mike Yakimchuk, 1987; Ivan Johnson, 2007; Philip Stubbs, 2013 and Dan Stubbs, 2009. Trail Lodge seeks the interest for membership of the male populace from all walks of work and professions, regardless of race, color or religion. Any person interested in seeking information about the Fraternal Order, are urged to contact any of the local members.

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Smokies taking the gruelling path to success Military drills part of preparation for upcoming season BY LIZ BEVAN Times Staff

Rolling around in the sand may not seem like preparation for a hockey season, but that is part of the greater goal for the Trail Smoke Eaters this week. Drill Sergeant and owner of Dynamic Shift Consulting, Sean Bacon, has been busy running the new Smoke Eaters roster into the ground with two days of gruelling exercise and drills. Bacon works with sports teams all over the province, teaching metal endurance and pushing limits, but this job holds special importance and a personal connection. “I used to live here,” he said between drills Monday. “I am a local boy. Most of my career has taken me all over the world, but to come back here (is great). I don't have a vested interest in too many teams that I train, but this one is my mom's favourite team.” Over two days, the former military police officer and teacher has had the Smoke Eaters running, jumping, swimming and getting dirty, all to teach the players that they can push past the mental limits they have set for themselves. Pushing them physically is just a means to push them mentally. “It is giving them intentional adversity, giving them something to struggle through and giving them constructive conflict,” he said. “The physical side is only a vehicle for the mental side. When you are dealing with athletes, you have to raise the bar and take them out of their comfort zone.” While enduring two days of military style drills may not seem suited for a hockey team, Bacon says it fits perfectly. “You have to admit, the program seems a bit daunting,” he said. “But, once the players start to see that it is transferable onto the ice, that third period grit comes out. You can be uncomfortable and tired, but still want to win.” One of the many drills the boys on the team went through is called Operation Get Sandy where players turn into “sugar cookies” by covering themselves in as much sand as possible.

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“The goal is to be comfortable by being uncomfortable,” said Bacon. “They run into the water, fully submerge themselves, come out of the water, run onto the beach and roll around in the sand. They they are helping their buddies get more sandy. What people don't realize is that the physical aspect of getting in the water, going under, and then getting dirty over and over again, wears your mind down. It's awful, I am not going to lie. I've done it.” The idea behind the drill is to teach the players that certain attitudes can hold you back. “If you embrace it, you take ownership of it and all of a sudden, your entire attitude changes,” said Bacon. “It sucks, but you have to embrace the suck. It forces you to understand that you can push beyond certain limitations.” The program also teaches teamwork between players and one way Bacon fosters that concept is to have the team pull a fire truck together. “We are going to be doing that at the end of the day (today),” he said. “After a full day (of drills), it is the dessert. It is to show that together, they can achieve the seemingly impossible.” Smoke Eaters head coach Nick Deschenes has worked with Bacon before in Grand Forks and says that he was impressed with the results. “I was put in touch with

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(Bacon) a year ago in Grand Forks,” he said. “I really enjoyed the experience and I decided to continue. It teaches leadership, accountability and teamwork.” Deschenes says turning to a former military-man seemed logical because Bacon had made a career of pushing mental limits. “The military has it down to a science,” he said. “For the players, this experience is so valuable and unique. It is also great for the team to hear from a different voice.” As head coach, Deschenes doesn't just sit on the bench and watch, he has to continue the work started during the program.

“My hard work is going to be having to try and maintain what they are learning and accomplishing over the couple of days and taking it into the season,” he said. Bacon says that although the main focus of the program is getting the players to push their mental limits, it is also to show the community of Trail how hard the team is working to pull out a winning season on the ice. “You want the team to go through the crucible and come out the other side stronger and we want the community to rally behind them,” he said. “If the community sees what they are

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Mule deer are also facing restrictions, as any buck season is being replaced with a four-point buck season that will end on Nov. 10th. The change comes after meeting with hunters around the region to create a mule deer management plan. “There was some concerns from some people about low buck ratios in some areas, so that was the main reason for switching the season for mule deer,” said Szkorupa. Overall, the regional mule deer population is in decline, and biologists haven’t figured out why. “It’s different in different areas, but overall, populations are down from a year ago. We’re actually just about to start on a big research project, putting radio collars out on mule deer and trying to understand the reasons behind the decline,” she said. Outside of hunting for ungulates, there have been changes to the cougar season, which has been lengthened due to population increases, while a female quota has been removed.

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES - The intergalactic misfits of “Guardians of the Galaxy” are the summer’s boxoffice superheroes. Marvel’s cosmic romp topped the Labor Day box office with a three-day take of $22 million - its third time in first place since its release five weeks ago, according to studio estimates Monday. With North American ticket sales of more than $280 million so far, “Guardians” is also the summer’s - and the year’s - top-grossing film to date. Still, summer box-office totals are down almost 15 per cent from last year, said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for boxoffice tracker Rentrak. “This is the lowest summer since 2006 in terms of revenue,” he said. “Before ‘Guardians,’ we were sitting on a 20 per cent deficit compared to last year.” “Transformers: Age of Extinction,” which opened in late June, also boosted the summer box office with $1 billion in global ticket sales. “Maleficent” was also a hit, bringing in more than $230 million domestically. “This was never expected to be a record-breaking summer,” Dergarabedian said, “but it maybe came in under expectations.” The World Cup may have distracted moviegoers, he said. Also, the death of Paul Walker caused the seventh installment of “Fast & Furious” - which could have added $200 million to the summer box office - to be postponed until next year. Last summer broke box-office records with the success of “Iron Man 3,” ”Star Trek,“ ”The Heat“ and ”Despicable Me 2.“ Next summer is expected to shatter records again with hotly anticipated releases including ”Star Wars,“ ”Avengers: Age of Ultron“ and Pixar’s ”Inside Out.“ “Summer of 2014 is a transitional summer between two record-breaking years,” Dergarabedian said. The top movies over the lacklustre Labor Day holiday were the same as the previous weekend. Paramount’s “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” followed “Guardians” with $15.7 million, while Warner Bros.’ young-adult drama, “If I Stay” took third place with $11.6 million.

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