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Every penny counts for this year’s J.L. Crowe graduating class, even an extra nickel or two for that empty soda bottle.
Fundraising issues have hit the 2015 grad students and parents hard with the loss of a key money-making event and a late start to planning due to last year’s labour dispute.
“(The bottle drive) carries a lot more weight this year because we were unable to do the cruise lottery fundraiser,” explained Ella Meyer, co-secretary of the student grad council.
“We are doing the drive, we are going to do more bake sales at school, and the parents are putting on a barbecue and car wash at Home Hardware for us. We
are still short, but we want to make sure that we give the grads the best possible celebration that we can.”
Starting at 9 a.m. on Saturday, stu-dents and parents will be driving from Annable to Montrose collecting as many bottles as they can to help fund the Dry Grad, Memory Walk and prom for all 189 graduating students.
With the bottle drive and other small-er fundraisers, the council plans to make this year’s celebrations the best possible with limited resources, making up for the missing dollars.
“We want to have this year be as good, if not better, than previous years because we only get to do this once,” said Meyer, adding that students didn’t want the loss of the cruise lottery to slow them down.
The annual cruise lottery usual-ly raises around $5,000 for the high school’s grad class, and Angie Seifrit, chairperson of the grad parent council, says the group has already been frugal in their planning in anticipation of less
spending money. “We are moving along with the fes-
tivities and everything will still be hap-pening, it is just that the money is a bit tighter,” she said.
“There have been changes made already. We haven’t hired the same hypnotist we usually have and we haven’t hired the same DJ. We have made some cuts that way.”
Making the situation even more dif-ficult for grads, the annual Valentine’s Day Dance didn’t meet fundraising expectations, which Seifrit attributes to a much more expensive liquor license and limited raffle options. The dance has also customarily been the event where cruise lottery winners are picked.
Seifrit says there were a number of factors that led to the cancellation of the cruise lottery this year, including a late start to the school year and issues between Cruise Lottery, the company that facilitates the fundraiser, and B.C. Gaming.
See LABOUR, Page 3
Crowe grads scrambling to raise fundsSeveral factors have limited the Class of 2015’s ability to
generate more funds for graduation weekend
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Grad 2015 council co-presidents Vivian Huang (left) and Jennifer Chung get a head start on this weekend's bottle drive to raise money for graduation events. Students and parents are under some extra pressure this year with numerous fundraising setbacks including the cancellation of the cruise lottery, the teacher's strike and less revenue from the Valentine's Day Dance.
B Y S H E R I R E G N I E RTimes Staff
Cuts to public education keep coming - this year to the tune of almost $800,000 in School District 20 (SD20).
Early SD20 budget talks indicated a $590,000 shortfall, which already meant potential chops to teacher and counsellor positions, clerical jobs, the meals program, technology, transpor-tation and custodial staffing and supplies.
Facing a $200,000 directive from the prov-ince to clean up “administrative efficiencies” as part of a $29 million order to 60 districts, a local union president says it's time to stand up and make some noise.
Roger Smith, from the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 1285, is one of the region's stakeholders presenting to SD20 trustees this afternoon prior to the public con-sultation slated for April 15 in the Kootenay Columbia Learning Centre gym
Others addressing the board include repre-sentatives from the Kootenay-Columbia teach-ers' union and the district's parents advisory council (DPAC).
Smith has been closely involved with budget talks for five years.
He recalls being advised three years ago that by 2015/16, “things would turn around,” with the possibility of a slight surplus in SD20 fund-ing.
“That of course hasn't materialized,” said Smith, the union leader for school bus drivers, custodians, clericals, maintenance, tech and trades, education assistants, childcare and youth workers, and aboriginal education employees.
“I want an update of what they are looking at to cut from administrative costs,” he said. “But ultimately, I think it will come down to cutting CUPE jobs.”
Smith maintains that if school districts con-tinue to play the cards dealt by the ministry and achieving balanced budgets, then deeper cuts will continue to roll out year after year.
“What I'm saying to the trustees, is that you were voted by your constituents to advocate and fight for the best possible public education,” said Smith.
“How can that happen when you are accept-ing this bullying from the provincial govern-ment. That is what this is.”
See BOARD, Page 3
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On March 25, the Kootenay Robusters paddled their dragon boat into the waters of Christina Lake – the earliest launch so far in the 15-season history of the team. With only ten paddlers aboard, progress was a little slower than usual, but the group was able to make their way from Schulli’s resort, where the boat is stored over the winter, to Colville bay, where the Robusters are based for the summer. Although the Robusters were originally formed to support breast cancer survivors on their journey back to good health, all women are welcome to join. Without the associate paddlers, there wouldn’t be enough survivors to form a team. To learn more, and to find contact information, visit the website www.kootenayrobusters.com. The team is looking forward to the start of regular practices on Tuesday and Thursday evenings and Saturday mornings and would love to welcome new recruits.
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In this column, we see what hap-pens when the player seated dir-ectly after the weak two takes action when he should not.
The bidding: West has a hand that is almost too strong for a weak two. He actually has a perfect vulnerable weak two, with the required good suit qual-ity and with the upper end of strength.
He is not vul-nerable so he could have a lot less. However, his Spade short-ness spurs him on to an opening weak two.
North tells himself, “I have an open-
ing hand so I must bid.” East redoubles telling his partner he is strong and wishes to have a crack at punishing the opponents.
South bids Two Spades and East doubles. The vulnerability is perfect for letting the opponents play doubled.
If vulnerable, East would play Four Hearts because they would need to set the opponents too many tricks to make up for a vulnerable game.
The Play: South loses two Spades, two Hearts and three Clubs for down two and -500 points. West, if playing a Four-Heart contract, would lose two Diamonds and a Diamond ruff for
+420 points. The double paid off.North should have passed and East
would jump to Four Hearts, thus silen-cing any desire North had for entering the auction.
Had East passed and South had a suitable hand to balance, then North would have been quite happy to play the hand even with his poorly-shaped four-triple-three hand.
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FROM PAGE 1He suggests the board gather chutzpah and
take the option to say, ‘No, we are not putting in a balanced budget, you come and do it.’
“The more you accept it (cuts), the next year it will be more,” Smith said. “I’ve heard next year could be a minimum of $500,000 or possibly more. That’s speculation, but where can we keep cutting from,” he added. “I don’t see an end to this unless people take a stand.”
Although the province’s budget boasts a $110 million, or two per cent increase in education spending, it’s the fine print that left school dis-tricts and administrators in the lurch.
A ministry order mandated the province’s 60 school districts to cut $29 million in administra-tive efficiencies this year and $25 million in 2016.
The cuts are ongoing, which means the total “efficiencies” actually add up t0 $54 million next year.
While decisions haven’t been made, the board is in the beginning process to determine those areas to cut, said Darrel Ganzert, SD20 board chair. “At this point, we only have a list of possible areas to reduce,” he explained. “As a board we believe the potential cuts are to the bone.”
He says the additional $200,000 of “admin-istrative savings” mandated by the province are just another way to cut funding to public schools, when private schools are getting increased fund-ing.
Rebecca McDonnell, DPAC chair, says her members had a meeting planned Tuesday night to discuss the $590,000 operating deficit plus the additional educational administration cuts.
“I will feel in a better position to provide information at that point,” said McDonnell in a Tuesday email. “However, I can say that SD20 parents, just like many of those in the rest of the province, are extremely frustrated with the con-sistent under funding of the education system.”
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FROM PAGE 1“This year, because of the teachers’
strike, we were late getting started,” she said.
“Then, when I contacted the com-pany that does (the cruise lottery) with us, they were having difficulty with B.C. Gaming because they had changed the laws a little bit on what the wording has to look like on the lottery tickets. They were going back and forth, trying to satisfy the govern-ment’s conditions with these tickets. I had been in touch with them for at least three months, and we eventually had to give a cut off date. We couldn’t wait forever.”
A Cruise Lottery representative confirmed what Seifrit had to say and told the Times the company is still in
talks with the provincial government on how to rectify the issue, leav-ing J.L Crowe grad fundraisers little choice but to start looking at different options to fill their accounts before the celebrations in June.
“We have traditionally gotten at least $5,000 from the cruise lottery, so the grads have really been hustling to raise more money,” said Seifrit.
“We have done two Purdy’s choco-late sales, bake sales and now the bottle drive, but we are still short at least $3,000 to $6,000.”
The bottle drive is an important part of the class fundraising and raised around $700 in the past.
For those that want to donate their bottles, but don’t live in the areas where pick-up is happening, Meyer
says anyone is welcome to drop their bottles off at the depot on Rossland Avenue to help them out.
“You can just leave the bottles in a bag at the end of your driveway and we will come get them – no hassle,” she said. “
We will be going to Annable, Warfield, all of East and West Trail, Glenmerry, Shaver’s Bench, Miral Heights and all the way to Montrose. If you live somewhere where nobody is picking up bottles, you can just drop them off at the depot or across the street. We will have people there all day.”
The bottle pick-up runs from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and volunteers ask that bot-tles be placed out early in the morning before collection starts.
Second KBRH access hits roadblock
B y S h e r i r e g n i e rTimes Staff
Federal dollars through the New Building Canada Fund aren't going to build a secondary access road to the regional hospital, so Trail council is considering another avenue.
“The city has received an initial indication that the initial grant application misses the mark in terms of traffic volumes and most likely will not be advancing,” explained David Perehudoff, Trail's chief administrative officer.
He said once constructed, the new road must have 3,000 traffic movements per day.
“While this is achieved now, once the new road is built it will dilute the volume based on having two roads, such that the criteria for the new road will not be met,” he explained. “We anticipate being formally advised in the near future.”
With most area communities agreeing a second access road to Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital is required, the city is asking for letters of support in a grant application to the Gas Tax Strategic Priority Fund.
Labour dispute hampered start of grad planning
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Regional District of Kootenay BoundaryRevised Zoning Bylaw No. 1540 & Official Community Plan Amendment Bylaw No. 1553 for Electoral Area ‘B’/Lower Columbia-Old Glory
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How will this a�ect me?Several regulations and zones have been updated and revised. Individual property owners may want to see if any new or revised regulations apply to their land.
Who will be at the Open House/Public Hearing?Director Linda Worley, who has been delegated by the RDKB Board of Directors to preside over the hearing, members of the steering committee and RDKB sta�.
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Regional District of Kootenay BoundaryRevised Zoning Bylaw No. 1540 & Official Community Plan Amendment Bylaw No. 1553 for Electoral Area ‘B’/Lower Columbia-Old Glory
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The Okanagan’s trail network could expand with a new recreational corridor between Kelowna and Coldstream, after the Government of B.C. pledged $7.2 million toward the acquisition of a discontinued CN rail line, Premier Christy Clark announced today.
“There are few places in the world that have more to offer outdoor enthusiasts than the Okanagan,” said Premier Clark. “By put-ting an unused rail line to better use, con-necting communities as a cycling and walk-ing trail, there will be even more reasons to get outside.”
The provincial contribution supports the efforts of an inter-jurisdictional acquisition team including the City of Kelowna, the regional districts of Central Okanagan and North Okanagan, the districts of Coldstream and Lake Country, and the City of Vernon. The team has been working together to acquire the $22-million property from CN.
The provincial money is still contingent on an April 25 referendum to be held in Lake Country, to raise its portion of the money for the purchase.
Almost 50 kilometres of the discontinued rail line will be transformed into a new trail that will offer cycling, hiking and other rec-reational activities for British Columbians and visitors to the Okanagan.
“We believe in the plans that the City of Kelowna and its partners have for this dis-continued rail line and we think this project is a good investment for the local commun-ities,” said Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Todd Stone.
“Dedicating almost 50 kilometres of the rail corridor for cycling and walking purposes will increase opportunities for healthy living and tourism activities in communities along the corridor – something that supports our B.C. on the Move 10-year plan.”
This portion of the rail line was part of the Kelowna Pacific Railway, which ceased rail operations in July 2013. In September 2013, CN Rail began the formal process of discon-tinuing the remainder of the line. On Dec. 1, 2014, the City of Kelowna, on behalf of the inter-jurisdictional team, signed a negotiated sales and purchase agreement with CN for the discontinued portion of the line between Kelowna and Coldstream.
“The purchase of the rail corridor by local government on behalf of the current and future visitors and citizens of the Okanagan is an important capital priority,” said Minister of Agriculture and MLA for Kelowna-Lake Country Norm Letnick. “By making our intention clear to financially assist with the acquisition, I hope it will better inform resi-dents of Lake Country as they consider how they will vote on the upcoming referendum.”
The provincial funding commitment is contingent on the positive outcome of the April 25 plebiscite in the District of Lake Country. If approved, the acquisition of the line from CN will be completed on June 1.
“This investment in our community is in support of an important project – a corridor for recreational activity in this wonderful region,” said Minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations and MLA for Kelowna-Mission Steve Thomson. “Through the efforts and investment of the project partners, a new recreational trail will be a highlight for these communities along the corridor.”
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Drug-impaired drivers who roam the roads mostly undetected are a top traffic safety priority for B.C. police chiefs.
Their association wants the federal government to approve a roadside test-ing device that would make it easier for officers to arrest stoned and otherwise drugged drivers.
“Whether it’s marijuana or prescrip-tion drugs, there are people that are driving high and for a large part it goes undetected because we don’t have a really good tester and we don’t have many drug recognition experts,” said Transit Police chief Neil Dubord, who chairs the traffic committee of the B.C. Association of Chiefs of Police.
Officers can arrest and usually issue a 24-hour suspension to a driver who is seriously drug-impaired.
But in less obvious cases, police have little recourse unless an officer is avail-able who is highly trained in observing the signs of drug use.
There’s no device akin to a breath-
alyzer now in use in Canada to measure levels of cannabis or other drugs.
But Dubord said there are “amazing” mobile testing systems available in the U.S. that can detect 27 different drugs from a saliva swab.
He said federal approval of a roadside device is probably a couple of years away.
But he said it could allow not just criminal impairment charges but pot-entially the addition of drug use to B.C.’s system of automatic roadside sus-pensions and impoundments for drunk driving.
“With the proper tool, we may be able to get there as well,” Dubord said, adding accuracy of the testing technol-ogy would have to be assured.
The most recent study by research-ers, published by the B.C. Medical Journal, found 5.4 per cent of drivers randomly checked in roadside surveys in 2012 had cannabis in their systems, followed by 4.1 per cent with cocaine and 1.7 per cent with amphetamines.
Separate testing of drivers hospit-
alized with trauma injuries following crashes found 12.6 per cent were posi-tive for cannabis, with 7.3 per cent showing recent use.
“Cannabis slows reaction times, causes weaving, creates difficulty main-taining a constant speed, and predis-poses to distraction,” Dr. Jeff Brubacher wrote this month in the BCMJ.
Brubacher said research so far suggests acute cannabis use roughly doubles the risk of crashing, while more research is needed to understand the crash risk from prescription drugs as well as stimulants like cocaine and amphetamines.
The ongoing political debate over potential marijuana reform in Canada is also a factor driving the police chiefs’ agenda.
“If there’s decriminalization or legal-ization or whatever ends up happening, we want to make sure we have the tools as well to be able to manage that suc-cessfully,” Dubord said. “Because at the end of the day we want people on the roads to be safe.”
Drugged driver crackdown hinges on testing device
B y t o M f l e t c h e rBlack Press
Canada’s aboriginal land claims resolu-tion system has turned into an employment program for some of those involved, with “a conspicuous lack
of urgency in negotia-tions” and little com-mon ground after 10 or more years at most treaty tables.
That’s one con-clusion from federal advisor Doug Eyford, who spent six months
consulting on the state of treaty-making across Canada since aboriginal title was protected in Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The report focuses heavily on B.C., which
has 54 active treaty tables and only four agreements in the 22 years of the B.C. Treaty Commission.
Parts of Quebec, Labrador, Ontario, the north and most of B.C. never complet-ed early treaties that extinguished aborig-inal title and made way for settlement and development in the rest of Canada.
“At the current pace, treaty-making may continue for the rest of this century,” Eyford wrote.
Eyford presented his report last week
to Bernard Valcourt, Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development. With a federal election set for this fall, Valcourt said the months to come will require more dis-cussions with prov-inces and First Nations on Eyford’s recom-mendations for a “new direction” in settling historic disputes.
The report’s release comes a week after the B.C. government can-celled the appointment of former cabinet min-ister George Abbott to head the B.C. Treaty Commission.
Feds seeks new aboriginal claims system
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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SOTTAWA - Attending a friend’s funeral.
Taking a shopping trip to buy a puppy. Making sure he was on hand for the birth of his grandchild.
There was nothing wrong with Mike Duffy doing any of those things - except for one major problem, the crown argued Tuesday during the opening act of the year’s most eagerly awaited political legal drama.
“He bills it back to the Senate,” deputy Crown attorney Mark Holmes said as he kicked off the case against Duffy, the tele-vision personality-turned-Conservative-senator whose disputed expense claims have rocked the government.
The suspended senator, who faces 31 counts of fraud, breach of trust and brib-ery, delivered his plea after the court clerk read the charges into the record.
“I am not guilty, Your Honour,” Duffy, clad in a dark suit adorned with a white pocket square, told Ontario Justice Charles Vaillancourt in a clear, steady voice.
Over the course of the next 40 min-utes, Holmes laid out why the prosecu-tion believes Duffy is, in fact, guilty of defrauding the public purse by deliberately manipulating the financial policies of the
Senate in order to charge taxpayers for personal business, or else simply hiding his activities from Senate scrutiny.
“Apart from the policies, there is some-thing more fundamental at play and I think it can be reduced to two propos-itions,” Holmes said.
“One, you can’t steal from your employ-er; and two, you can’t abuse your position of authority to unjustly enrich yourself.”
The Crown intends to prove, Holmes said, that in a number of instances where Duffy filed expenses on the grounds he was conducting Senate business, he was actually on a trip for personal reasons.
Those travel expenses were just one of four different chapters of charges laid out by the Crown.
Holmes also laid out the Crown’s case with regard to $82,000 worth of living expenses Duffy filed for a secondary resi-dence in the national capital region, the issue that first sparked the Senate scandal back in late 2012.
Duffy declared in Senate paperwork that his primary residence was in Prince Edward Island, the province for which he was appointed to serve by Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
The problem with that, Holmes said,
is that Duffy didn’t really live in P.E.I. - at least not by any “common sense” interpretation of what “primary residence” means. Instead, Duffy continued to live in the same home in Kanata, Ont., outside Ottawa, that he and his wife had owned for five years prior to his appointment.
During his own statement, Duffy’s law-yer Donald Bayne did his best to refute Holmes, saying any notion of “common sense” has no application when it comes to interpreting the Senate’s rules and statutes - none of which his client violated.
As regards travel, Duffy might have vis-ited family from time to time, but he was always doing Senate business, Bayne said.
Duffy and Bayne have argued in the past that there are no explicit rules that say what constitutes a primary or second-ary residence, nor are there any guidelines as to how many days one has to spend in a primary home.
But there’s also a broader question, albeit one not being addressed by the court, Holmes added.
“From our perspective, Sen. Duffy is probably ineligible to sit in the Senate as a representative of Prince Edward Island,” Holmes said.
“He was constitutionally eligible had
he been appointed from the province of Ontario, but that isn’t what happened.”
The prime minister has maintained throughout the Duffy saga that the senator was eligible to represent P.E.I.
While police investigators have raised questions about the former broadcaster’s living and travel expense claims while he was a sitting senator, the credibility of the Conservative Party of Canada and some key players in the Prime Minister’s Office is also likely to be dragged into the spotlight.
At the centre of the bribery allegation is Nigel Wright, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s former chief of staff.
Wright resigned after a media report revealed he provided a $90,000 cheque used to repay the living expenses that Duffy had claimed since being appointed by Harper. The Mounties have said there was no evidence to support criminal char-ges against Wright, who has always main-tained he was acting in the public interest and that his only goal was to “secure the repayment of taxpayer funds.”
Aside from bribery, Duffy faces one count each of fraud on the government and breach of trust related to the $90,000 payment.
T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SAlberta Premier Jim
Prentice has called a provincial election for May 5.
“Tough choices need to be made and our province needs a realistic plan to the immediate challenges that we face and also for the long term,” Prentice told support-ers at a news confer-ence Tuesday.
“I am asking Albertans for a man-date to implement the changes that this prov-ince needs so badly.”
The campaign will play out against the backdrop of an Alberta economy in flux.
The collapse in the
price of oil, the prov-ince’s main income source, is expected to cause a $5-billion defi-cit this year.
Prentice introduced a “share-the-pain” budget in late March, with a long-term plan to diversify the econ-omy. Prices are sud-denly higher for alcohol, tobacco and gasoline and Albertans have found themselves paying more for camp-ing and marriages licences, death certifi-cates and health care. The wealthy will also pay more income tax.
But while Prentice has said everyone must help fix Alberta’s cracked fiscal founda-
tion, he has not raised oil royalties or changed corporate taxes. Doing that, he said, could harm the economic recovery.
Albertans had been expecting to vote early next year, since the province has a fixed-elections law, but Prentice - who has the right to call an elec-tion any time - said he needs a mandate to implement his plan to get off the boom-and-bust budgeting cycle.
In most provinces, a party going to the people during challen-ging economic times would face a tough sell. But this is Alberta. The Progressive
Conservatives held 70 of the 87 seats in the legislature when the house rose for spring break.
They are hoping to form their party’s 13th consecutive major-ity government since 1971.
This is Prentice’s
first time on the prov-incial hustings. The 58-year-old former fed-eral cabinet minister slid into the premier’s chair last September, replacing Alison Redford, who resigned a year ago amid rev-elations of profligate spending.
Albertans heading to the polls on May 5
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OPINION
BC Ferries could learn from Vancouver Airport Authority
The people of British Columbia are unhappy will the governance of the
B.C. Ferry Corporation as fares increase and service declines. But another B.C. transportation company shows what can be done with a little entrepreneur-ial spirit.
The ferry services it provides are considered an essential part of the highway system of British Columbia. However, the ferry services were moved out of the transportation ministry into a crown cor-poration and then, in 2002, into a privately held cor-poration.
Making the ferries pri-vate meant that the gov-ernment of B.C. no longer had the $1.3 billion of debt owed by the ferry corpora-tion on its books. It would not have to worry about how to pay for the $3.1 billion of capital mainten-ance and improvements that are upcoming, nor would it have to deal with the annual losses the ferry operations generate.
But BC Ferries have some worries: insufficient revenue to cover direct costs, capital costs and
debts. The corporation has been dealing with this by raising fares in the hopes of increasing revenues and by reducing service in the hopes of lowering costs. These methods have not worked.
Higher fares and less service have reduced ferry ridership, put downward pressure on revenue and generated anger and antag-onism from those who live, work or just want to travel in the ferry dependent loca-tions in British Columbia. From 2003 and 2012, rider-ship has declined by 11 per cent at a time when other means of travel were increasing by amounts of up to 68 per cent.
A Union of B.C. Municipalities report has estimated that high ferry fares and reduced ridership has cost the B.C. economy more than $2 billion in gross domestic product.
In 2016, there will be new caps on how fast ferry fares can grow. The amount of the maximum ferry fare increase is not yet known, but pressure from the ferry-using public is already mounting, not only against any further increase but for fare reduc-
tions. The B.C. government has budgeted for a subsidy of $177 million.
The federal government does provide a subsidy to B.C. ferries, but the sub-sidies it provides for ferries in Atlantic Canada are 350 times what they offer B.C. on a per-passenger basis. The East Coast subsidies originate in promises made at the time of Confederation but similar promises made around that time for sub-sidized B.C. ferry service from Victoria to Olympia and San Francisco are not being honoured today. Nor does any increase seem likely.
The Vancouver Airport Authority provides an example of a successful, privately-operated trans-
portation business. YVR won an award as the best North American Airport five years in a row and is the only airport in North America to be listed in the global top 10.
It does not seek gov-ernment subsidies even though it is competing against heavily-subsidized airports like the one in nearby Bellingham, Wash. Rather than asking for gov-ernment money, it pays more than half a billion dollars to the various levels of government.
YVR sees itself as a pri-vate, profit maximizing company, but its profits are not distributed to share-holders. Rather, they are used to pay for more and better airport services and the infrastructure needed to ensure the Vancouver airport is one of the best in the world.
When extra revenue is needed, YVR does not raise fees; instead, it looks for related business opportun-ities that can generate a profit.
One such subsidiary business is the Vantage Airport Group which improves, manages and operates airports in Canada
and around the world. YVR has turned the air-
port from a government subsidized necessity to a booming export industry for B.C. and Canada. As YVR improves, it has more to offer an expanding group of clients.
The Airport Passport Control (APC) machines, for example, are time-sav-ing machines conceived of at YVR to reduce airport bottlenecks. Developed in B.C., they are in demand in airports around the world. This is but one example of how an entrepreneur-ial attitude has made the Vancouver airport a global success.
The BC ferry company can become more entre-preneurial and less depend-ent on subsidies and self-defeating fare increases by answering one question: What goods and/or services can I provide that people are willing and able to pay for? Then it too might start winning prizes as one of the best in the world.
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If you noticed a motorhome covered in portraits it’s because the driver, a pho-tographer, was out and about looking for local subjects for an ambitious project.
Tim Van Horn, a native of Red Deer, is six years into what was originally a one-year project of creating a mosaic of por-traits of Canadians across the country.
He’s photographed people coast to coast to coast and everywhere in between as he builds this mosaic, which he plans to unveil in time for Canada’s 150th anniversary in 2017.
“We need something to celebrate that birthday,” Van Horn said. “It’s a perfect opportunity to bring us all together, to have a moment and pause and look and reflect upon who we are, what our values are, what do we need to change in our lives to make the country a better place.
“This mosaic will act as this catalyst, this beautiful portrait of who we are to bring us together to reflect upon what’s important.”
Van Horn—yes, a distant relative of the same William Van Horne, despite the difference in spelling—was inspired by his childhood experiences of growing up in the military and being constantly on the move. Growing up, he’d see photos in National Geographic and he wanted to be a cameraman and go on exotic adventures.
“I’ve taken my sense of duty and mar-ried it to my artistic and my humani-tarian streak and feel like I need to do something good in my country, to bring something back to the people and say, ‘Here, this is what I’ve contributed and
this is what we are’,” Van Horn said.“This is my creative tour of duty.”Van Horn spent last week in Cranbrook
photographing subjects on Baker St. before heading up to Kimberley, Invermere and Golden. He’ll spend the next three months in B.C. before head-ing up to the Yukon and down into the prairies before ending up in Ontario for the fall federal election.
When he gets to a new community, sometime it’s as simple as going to a busy intersection to ask passersby if he can take their portrait.
“With each person I photograph, it instills the need to do this and it gets
stronger and stronger and I see all these characters and cast of characters coming together and completing this story,” Van Horn said.
To date, he’s photographed 40,000 Canadians.
His vision is to tour the country once again in 2017 with a bus that will encompass his entire project.
“In 2017, I will set out across the land with a bus that’s completely high-tech and multi-media and it will go across the country for a whole year and stop at your kid’s school, you’ll see it on main street and it will emit this beautiful story about who we are,” Van Horn said.
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Tim Van Horn stands beside his motorhome that is covered in portraits of Canadians from across the country. Van Horn recently passed through Cranbrook and the East Kootenays as he continues work on his portrait mosaic project for Canada’s 150 anniversary. For more information, visit his website at: www.candianmosaic.ca
T H e a S S o C I a T e D P r e S SRALEIGH, N.C. - Prolific character actor
James Best, best known for playing the giggling and inept Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane on “The Dukes of Hazzard,” has died. He was 88.
His wife of 29 years, Dorothy Best, said that Best died Monday night in hospice care in Hickory from complications of pneumonia.
Best starred on the television series that ran from 1979 to 1985. He was the lawman futilely chasing the Duke boys, often in the company of his droopy-faced basset hound Flash. Best employed a battery of catch phrases in the role, as well as memorable laugh that was comically villainous.
“I acted the part as good as I could,” Best told The Charlotte Observer in a 2009 interview. “Rosco, let’s face it, was a charmer. It was a fun thing.”
During a wide-ranging career of several decades, he also acted in movies including “The Caine Mutiny” and “Rolling Thunder,” and he appeared on television shows including “Gunsmoke” and “The Andy Griffith Show.”
“I was fortunate enough to call him my friend since the day he walked on the set of ‘Gunsmoke’ back in the early ‘60s,” actor Burt Reynolds said in a statement. “Onset or off, behind the scenes, in front of a class or just as a friend, his name was so fitting because he was truly the ‘best’ at whatever he did. My heart is heavy, and I miss him deeply.”
Best was an acting teacher who helped sev-eral future Hollywood stars learn how to appear more natural on camera.
“I learned more about acting in front of a camera from Jimmie Best in an afternoon than from anyone else in a year,” said Dukes of Hazzard co-star John Schneider, who played Bo Duke. “When asked to cry on camera, he would say, ‘Sure thing . which eye?’ I’m forever thank-ful to have cut my teeth in the company of such a fine man.”
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T H e a S S o C I a T e D P r e S SLOS ANGELES - Stan Freberg, the writer and
comedian who lampooned American life in “The United States of America” and other landmark comedy albums and was hailed as the father of the funny commercial, has died at age 88.
Freberg’s wife, Hunter, says the humorist died Tuesday at the UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica.
Although his face may not have been as rec-ognizable as other comedians, Freberg’s influ-ence was arguably as great, if not more so. That was thanks in part to a huge body of work that influenced generations. Assembled over 70 years, it encompassed radio and television shows, com-edy albums, advertising jingles and nightclub performances.
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Sheri Regnier, Jeanine Margoreeth, Kevin Macintyre, Dave Dykstra, Jim Bailey, Michelle Bedford, Lonnie Hart and Guy Bertrand) are celebrating its 120th
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The source of prosperity of the
Trail Creek county is, of course, its
magnificent ore bodies, according
the first edition of the Trail Creek
News. “Our interests at present
lie centred in and about the noble
structure that is rising foot by foot
on the brow of the hill overhanging
the beautiful town of Trail and of
its growth and magnitude we now
write,” noted the paper's writer and
editor W.F. Thompson on the inau-
gural front page.
The day was Saturday, Oct. 19,
1895 when Volume No. 1 of The
Trail Creek News was hot off the
presses. Under the headline, “This Means
You! When You Patronize the News
You Help Trail Grow,” Thompson
writes that it is now in order for
every citizen of Trail to subscribe
for the home newspaper, The Trail
Creek News, and “the times are
right for such a movement, the
price is right and if the News of
today is not all right, we will make
it right in future issues.”
The price was said to be “cheap”
at $2 per year, and the News office
would be found open all day long
and far into the night, and future
readers were expected to hand in
their subscription at once, so they
would not miss one issue of the
Trail newspaper. “If you want the
news, you must read the News,”
Thompson proclaimed almost 12
decades ago.While there's no silver or gold
commemoration for more than a
century of news reporting, the Trail
Times staff decided an honorary pat
on the back is deserving to all the
people who have typed, pressed,
written, delivered, or simply read
their way into the 120-year history
of the Silver City's only surviving
newspaper.Over the course of the year, we
will actively seek stories from peo-
ple in the Greater Trail commu-
nity such as long time subscribers,
past paper carriers and retired office
workers, who have memories to
share about how the Trail Times has
impacted their lives.See EARLY, Page 3
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An editorial from the Winnipeg Free Press
Come hell or high water, Prime Minister Stephen Harper will balance the books when he delivers the budget April 21.
It will be balanced whether it makes sense or not because it’s not a normal budget, pos-sibly not even a real budget.
It’s an election budget, load-ed with billions of dollars in boutique tax credits and money for veterans and families.
Some $400 million will also be spent in the next fiscal year to wage war on terrorists in Syria and Iraq, which will also be a major part of Mr. Harper’s election playbook.
The central campaign issue for Mr. Harper, however, will be only he can be trusted to man-age the economy, save jobs, provide tax relief and balance the books.
It will be quite a juggling act, particularly since some of the assumptions going into the budget are considered dubious.
Finance Minister Joe Oliver, for example, is building his financial blueprint on future economic forecasts, including the anticipated price of oil.
The Bank of Canada has warned it is too risky for a government to base its budget on the forecast price of oil. The central bank relies on the cur-rent price, which it has found is more reliable in making eco-nomic forecasts. It’s not known what price scenario will guide Mr. Oliver, but even a small
error could throw off his pro-jections.
There’s always a risk eco-nomic conditions will change after a budget is written, but the gamble is even greater today because of uncertainty over the direction of oil.
Mr. Harper’s central chal-lenge April 21 -- and during the election campaign -- will be to convince Canadians his budget is real and not smoke and mirrors.
The budget will not include a stimulus package because the government says econom-ic conditions do not warrant one. The economy is stable, with moderate growth, but the global economy is sluggish and a recession in the near future is still considered a possibility.
The government has already announced or implemented most of its tax-cut measures, so it remains to be seen if there will be anything new for Canadians when the budget is tabled.
There is no shortage of demands: everything from a national child-care plan and a drug-care program to more cash for provinces struggling to operate their beleaguered health-care systems.
A critical issue that has not been adequately addressed by any federal government, how-ever, is the national infrastruc-ture deficit, which is estimated at $123 billion and growing by $2 billion a year. In Winnipeg, the tab is estimated at more
than $7 billion to replace or repair the city’s aging roads, bridges, community clubs and waste and waterworks. The fig-ure doesn’t include the enor-mous sums needed to com-plete the city’s plans for rapid transit.
The Harper government is investing $14 billion in infra-structure over 10 years, in addition to $2 billion it distrib-utes annually to cities from the gas tax.
It’s pathetically inadequate, however.
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities recently asked Ottawa to invest $1 billion a year in public transit, which should be easy enough for a government that has cut taxes by billions of dollars.
Winnipeg’s share of that amount, by the way, would be less than $40 million, which shows a billion dollars doesn’t go very far in a country that has ignored its infrastructure for decades.
If the Harper government wants to make a difference, it needs to step up its game in cities, which are the coun-try’s main engines of economic growth.
The April 21 budget, how-ever, is an election budget. That means there will be a few treats sprinkled here and there, as well as the appear-ance of sound fiscal manage-ment.
Bold and visionary will have to wait -- again.
A balanced budget by any means
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TORONTO — A new survey of Canadians found almost 20 per cent of respondents didn’t put aside a dime in 2014 and a further 40 per cent felt they were not saving enough.
This year’s household savings report from BMO Financial Group says 31 per cent of respondents had a fixed savings plan in place that included monthly contributions.
That was a significant increase from the previous year when only 26 per cent reported implementing such a plan.
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The Champion Lakes Golf Course opened its driving range on Tuesday and is slated to open the nine-hole course on April 13.
B y T i m e s s T a f fGolf season will be in full swing by this time next week.Thanks to the warm temperatures and dry conditions, the entire roster of local golf courses
will be open for play by April 15.The Champion Lake Golf Club became the most recent to open its gates. The club’s driving
range was open for business on Tuesday and the nine-hole course is expected to be ready for play on April 13.
Meanwhile, the Redstone Resort golf course is gearing up to open its entire course on April 15, roughly two weeks ahead of its usual early-May opening.
The club expects to have its entire operation from driving range to all 18 holes ready for play.Also new this year at Redstone is the arrival of a golf professional. Edwin MacDonald, for-
merly an assistant at the Cranbrook Golf Club, will assume the duties of managing the pro shop as well as giving lessons and promoting the sport.
Several other courses are already busy.The Birchbank golf course was well ahead of the pack when it opened the driving range on
Feb. 28 much to the delight of eager golfers.The Castlegar Golf Club opened its driving range on March 12 and had all 18 holes open for
play on Good Friday.The Salmo Golf Course also opened its doors on Good Friday.The Par 3 Little Bear Golf Course in Castlegar was open to golfers on March 28.
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Campbell River downs Kimberley to win Cyclone Taylor
B C L o C a L N e w sMISSION—It certainly hap-
pened in dramatic fashion, but one way or another, the Campbell River Storm claimed the 2015 Cyclone Taylor Cup with a 6-5 victory over the Kimberley Dynamiters Monday at the Mission Leisure Centre.
“It’s surreal. It’s hard to explain. These kids deserve everything they get,” said Lee Stone, Storm head coach and general manager. “They show up at the rink every day, they’re in the gym four times a week. I’m speechless. These kids are amazing. These kids are going to be a part of my life for the rest of my life. It’s so special.
“It’s an electric feeling.”For the Storm, this is the first
Cyclone Taylor Cup championship since 1998-99, and second in fran-chise history.
Defenceman Trevor Bottomley scored the game-winning goal on a third-period power play and dan-gerous Dane Feeney was named player of the game for his team.
“It’s unbelievable. We’ve got such a great group here and we worked so hard to get to this point,” Feeney said. “We worked for every little bit. It just feels so rewarding.”
Dynamiters captain Jason Richter was named the tourna-ment’s Most Outstanding Player, while goaltender Tyson Brouwer was named the Tournament’s Most Inspirational Player.
The Storm opened the scor-ing 5:45 into the first period as defenceman Nathan Browne sent a power-play point shot past Brouwer for a 1-0 lead.
The see-saw battle continued until the Storm gradually pulled away with a seemingly comfortable 6-3 lead late in the third period.
But the Dynamiters weren’t ready to conceded anything yet.
“We knew we had to keep going,” Richter said.
“Just keep going, boys. That’s pretty much all that was said.”
With 2:20 remaining on the clock and Brouwer at the bench for the extra attacker, Jared Marchi sent a backdoor feed onto the tape of Richter, who converted on the play to make it a 6-4 game.
With time ticking down, Jordan Busch sent a seeing-eye point shot towards Michel and found the back of the net to make it a 6-5 game with 45 seconds to play.
“That explains us in a nutshell,” said Dynamiters head coach Jerry Bancks. “Nobody quit. Nobody gave up. I always call us a resilient group. When you stop to think about the amount of hockey we’ve
had to play in the last 46 days, it’s pretty incredible to do what we did.
“I am so proud of this group. And I’m so proud of the KIJHL…To get within one goal here and everything else is pretty amazing. You don’t do it without character.”
But that was as much as the Nitros were able to muster, as the Storm held out through a tense final 45 seconds to claim the 2015 Cyclone Taylor Cup.
“We knew they weren’t going to go away,” Stone said. “I don’t know if I expected them to make it close like that, but we’ve been dramatic all year. We wanted to give our fans a show I guess.
“The word resiliency — we’ve battled back from lots of things. We’re missing Tyler Welsh — who’s one of our best players and not in the tournament. Costain’s out today. Zack Sanderson’s out. We had nine regular forwards in our lineup tonight. But guys just kept stepping up everywhere. That’s what sums up our team. It was never the same guy. It was always a different player. That’s the real true calling for a great team.”
Michel made 20 saves for his third win of the tournament, while Brouwer turned aside 16 Campbell River shots.
For the Kimberley Dynamiters, their season comes to a close after bringing home Kimberley’s first KIJHL championship since the Kimberley Knights won it all in 1980. ‘
The Storm ran the table at the 2015 Cyclone Taylor Cup, doubling the North Vancouver Wolf Pack 6-3 (Friday) before edging the Dynamiters 5-4 in double overtime (Saturday). The Storm wrapped up round-robin play with a nail-biting 3-2 win over the host Mission City Outlaws (Sunday) before claiming the title against Kimberley.
Next, the Storm carry on to the Keystone Cup — Western Canada’s Junior B championship — April 16 to 19 in Cold Lake, Alta. Campbell River reached the final and finished second in the Keystone in 2006, when it hosted the tourney.
“It’s motivation — the Vancouver Island League has never won the Keystone Cup,” Stone said. “This is a chance for us to make history and that’s the plan.
“The minute we came together at training camp this year it wasn’t just a VI title, it wasn’t just a Cyclone Taylor title. We wanted to win everything. Now, it’s get back to work. Take a couple days to enjoy this but right back to work and get ready for Cold Lake.”
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EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GAy-N.Y. Rangers 79 51 21 7 109 244 185x-Montreal 80 48 22 10 106 213 183x-Tampa Bay 80 48 24 8 104 255 206x-Washington 80 44 25 11 99 237 199N.Y. Islanders 79 46 27 6 98 241 219Boston 79 41 25 13 95 209 201Pittsburgh 79 42 26 11 95 215 203Detroit 79 41 25 13 95 227 215Ottawa 79 40 26 13 93 228 211Florida 80 36 29 15 87 199 219Columbus 79 39 35 5 83 222 244Philadelphia 79 32 29 18 82 208 224New Jersey 79 32 34 13 77 174 205Carolina 79 29 39 11 69 183 220Toronto 80 30 43 7 67 208 253Buffalo 80 23 49 8 54 159 268
WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GAy-Anaheim 80 50 23 7 107 234 221x-St. Louis 79 49 23 7 105 242 197x-Nashville 79 47 22 10 104 227 197Vancouver 80 46 29 5 97 231 217x-Chicago 79 48 25 6 102 225 182Calgary 79 43 29 7 93 234 208Minnesota 79 44 27 8 96 223 194Winnipeg 79 41 26 12 94 224 208Los Angeles 79 39 25 15 93 213 197Dallas 80 39 31 10 88 253 259San Jose 80 39 32 9 87 224 227Colorado 79 36 31 12 84 212 223Edmonton 79 23 43 13 59 188 272Arizona 79 24 47 8 56 167 262x-clinched playoff spoty-clinched division
EASTERN CONFERENCE East Division
Brandon (1) vs. Edmonton (4)(Brandon wins series 4-1)
*****Regina (2) vs. Swift Current (3)(Regina wins series 4-0)
*****Central Division
Calgary (1) vs. Kootenay (4)(Calgary wins series 4-3)Monday, Apr. 6Calgary 6 Kootenay 2
*****Medicine Hat (2) vs. Red Deer (3)(Medicine Hat wins series 4-1)
*****WESTERN CONFERENCE
B.C. Division Kelowna (1) vs. Tri-City (4)(Kelowna wins series 4-0)
*****Victoria (2) vs. Prince George (3)(Victoria wins series 4-1)
*****U.S. Division
Everett (1) vs. Spokane (4)(Everett leads series 3-2)Saturday, Apr. 4Spokane 4 Everett 3 (OT)Tuesday, Apr. 7Everett at Spokane N/A
*****Portland (2) vs. Seattle (3)(Portland leads series 3-2)Saturday, Apr. 4Portland 5 Seattle 3Tuesday, Apr. 7Portland at Seattle N/A
PGA StatisticsThrough April 5
FedExCup Season Points1, Jimmy Walker, 1,650.000. 2, Jordan Spieth, 1,408.917. 3, J.B. Holmes, 1,233.333. 4, Patrick Reed, 1,126.000. 5, Bubba Watson, 1,087.833. 6, Dustin Johnson, 1,005.000. 7, Charley
Hoffman, 948.250. 8, Robert Streb, 902.733. 9, Jason Day, 899.500. 10, Brandt Snedeker, 890.820.Scoring Average1, Henrik Stenson, 69.301. 2, Bubba Watson, 69.368. 3, Jordan Spieth, 69.509. 4 , Dustin Johnson, 69.596. 5, Ryan Palmer, 69.656. 6, Jimmy Walker, 69.714. 7, Webb Simpson, 69.766. 8, Brooks Koepka, 69.901. 9, Jason Day, 69.966. 10, Harris English, 69.981.Driving Distance1, Dustin Johnson, 318.8. 2, Bubba Watson, 309.0. 3, Tony Finau, 308.7. 4, Brooks Koepka, 307.8. 5, Charlie Beljan, 307.5. 6, Ryan Palmer, 306.1. 7, J.B. Holmes, 305.3. 8, Patrick Rodgers, 305.2. 9, Jason Day, 305.1. 10, Gary Woodland, 305.0.Driving Accuracy Percentage1, Francesco Molinari, 76.75%. 2, David Toms, 76.67%. 3, Steven Alker, 75.73%. 4, Heath Slocum, 72.46%. 5, Jim Furyk, 72.00%. 6, Tim Clark, 71.78%. 7, Colt Knost, 71.70%. 8, Justin Hicks, 70.47%. 9, Chez Reavie, 70.36%. 10, Jason Bohn, 70.25%.Greens in Regulation Percentage1, Stewart Cink, 73.36%. 2, Henrik Stenson, 72.92%. 3 (tie), Jason Day and Jim Herman, 72.22%. 5, Lucas Glover, 71.39%. 6, Bill Lunde, 71.33%. 7, Johnson Wagner, 71.30%. 8, Ben Martin, 71.25%. 9, Louis Oosthuizen, 71.11%. 10, Will Wilcox, 70.96%.Birdie Average1, Jimmy Walker, 4.70. 2 (tie), Vaughn Taylor and Jason Day, 4.63. 4, J.B. Holmes, 4.38. 5, Dustin Johnson, 4.35. 6, Jordan Spieth, 4.32. 7, Bubba Watson, 4.25. 8, Webb Simpson, 4.23. 9, Tim Clark, 4.21. 10, Shawn Stefani, 4.17.Eagles (Holes per)1, Louis Oosthuizen, 57.6. 2, Bubba Watson, 60.0. 3, Brooks Koepka, 69.4. 4, Hideki Matsuyama, 73.8. 5, Lee Westwood, 78.0. 6, Jarrod Lyle, 85.5. 7, Aaron Baddeley, 87.4. 8, James Hahn, 90.0. 9, Paul Casey, 93.0. 10, 2 tied with 96.0.Sand Save Percentage1, Matt Kuchar, 69.23%. 2, Brendon Todd, 68.66%. 3, Chad Collins, 68.57%. 4, Jason Day, 68.18%. 5, Chris Kirk, 67.65%. 6, Luke Donald, 67.27%. 7, Padraig Harrington, 66.10%. 8, Patrick Reed, 66.00%. 9, Kevin Na, 65.71%. 10, John Daly, 65.63%.
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Tiger Woods stood on the seventh green at Augusta National, legs crossed and propped up on his putter, as a V-shaped line of mow-ers headed back down the fairway like a flock of geese.
He seemed intrigued by this rou-tine bit of mainten-ance, staring at those whirring machines for the longest time.
Then again, Woods is rarely on the course at this time of day for a practice round, with the sun setting and
many of the patrons already headed for home.
Yep, these are unusual times for the four-time Masters champion.
“The game is better when Tiger Woods is around,” said old pal Mark O’Meara, who joined Woods to play nine holes late Monday afternoon.
Woods normally practices early in the morning at Augusta, but his surprise appearance showed just how much has changed - and hasn’t changed - since he
stepped away from the game in early February after some dismal per-formances, saying he wouldn’t return until he was ready to con-tend again.
This was the first chance for the public to check out the state of his game, and it was hard to get a read on whether he can actual-ly making a run at his 15th major champion-ship.
There were some brilliant shots. There were some ugly shots. Sometimes, they came one after the other, like the dicey downhill putt from the fringe at No. 9 that rolled 40 feet past the cup. Of course, he knocked the comebacker right in the hole for would have been a brilliant par save if they had actually been keeping score.
They won’t start doing that until Thursday. In the meantime, Woods was encouraged.
“It’s been a pro-cess,” he said, “but I’m on the good side now.”
Woods insisted that his decision to play at Augusta, announced late last week and without so much as a warm-up tournament, is not a sign that he’s downright desperate to break a nearly seven-year drought since his last major win, that at age 39 he realizes he’s running out of chances to catch Jack Nicklaus’
record 18 champion-ships.
“It’s just progres-sion,” Woods said. “I felt like I had to get my game into a spot where I felt I could compete to win a golf tourna-ment, and it’s finally there.”
That remains to be seen. O’Meara, a big fan but a bit more of an unbiased observer, said there’s still work to do for Woods to regain his place as the game’s most dominant player. Much of it is mental, and no one - not even Woods - knows how he’ll react when he’s actually writing a score on his card.
“Confidence is a crazy thing in the game of golf,” O’Meara said. “It can take years and year and years to gain confidence. Then, you make one, two or three bad shots, and that confidence is gone.”
Despite his strug-gles, Woods still casts a one-of-a-kind aura over the home of the Masters. While many fans had already left by the time he arrived at the course, word quickly spread among those who remained. In short order, there were several thousand patrons trailing Woods and O’Meara around the front nine.
“Come on, Tiger!” one of them shout-ed after a dead-on approach shot into No. 7.
Woods and O’Meara used to be regular prac-tice partners, but they grew apart when the 58-year-old O’Meara transitioned onto the senior tour. Perhaps hoping that a rekin-dled friendship might help turn around his game, Woods sent a text Monday morning asking if O’Meara wanted to play in the afternoon.
He jumped at the chance.
“I care about him,” O’Meara said. “I wish we could spend more time together. We don’t see each other that much anymore.”
It was like they’d never been apart. There were plenty of smiles, a few more ser-ious discussions about swings and such, and O’Meara’s subtle attempts to boost Woods’ mental state.
After finishing up at No. 9, they embraced in a warm hug behind the green.
“His confidence is coming back,” O’Meara said, “but it’s not going to come back over-night.”
When Woods tees it up Thursday, he’ll face the inevitable compari-sons to the Tiger of old. Some things never change.
“There will be a lot of pressure,” O’Meara said. “All eyes will be on him. I hope for Tiger, and the game of golf, that he plays well.”
Woods still the most compelling story at the Masters
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sixth-grade boy from suburban Chicago completed a near-perfect bracket predicting the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, finishing in a tie for first in ESPN’s massive annual contest.
Sam Holtz said ESPN officials told him that is he ineligible to claim the top prize - a $20,000 gift card and a trip to the Maui Invitational basketball tournament - because he’s 12 years old. ESPN requires participants to be at least
18.“I’m irritated,” Holtz told the
Daily Herald. “Yes, I’m still proud of my accomplishment, but I’m not happy with the decision.”
The tournament includes 67 games and Holtz missed only six. He was perfect picking games played in the Sweet 16, Elite Eight and Final Four. Out of 11.5 million who entered a bracket on ESPN’s website, Sam finished tied for first with 1,830 points after Duke beat Wisconsin 68-63 in Monday’s cham-pionship game.
Youngster can’t claim prize despite tying for first in ESPN bracket challenge
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Dear Annie: I have a close acquaintance who is a fitness instructor at the health club where I often work out. Two years ago, I saw her at a local peace parade and got very worked up over something she wrote on the signs she was wearing. I became so crazed over it that I forgot myself and said some awful things about her. I also stopped going to her work-out classes for a month and deleted her Facebook pages. Then I found out her husband had had a stroke the day of the parade.
I realized how hideous my behavior had been. I returned to her work-out class and intended to apologize profusely to her, but she wasn’t there that day. When she finally came back, I told her I’d been praying for her and her husband.
Sometimes it seems she has forgiven me and every-thing is the same between us, but on other days, I’m not so sure. I apologized to her, in a general way, in a holiday greeting card, not mentioning the parade. I’ve lost countless hours
of sleep crying from guilt, shame and regret. I’ve finally decided I have to do something. Please print this so she can see it and we can talk about it. -- Distraught
Dear Distraught: Printing this in the paper and hoping she sees it is a copout. You need to put your spine in place and talk to her directly, no matter how hard it is. A semi-apology in a holiday greet-ing card doesn’t count, and telling her you will pray for her is kind, but insuffi-cient.
Ask your friend whether she is available for coffee, or find some other time when neither of you is rushed and you can speak privately. Here’s what you say: “I know it’s been a while, but I need to tell
you how sorry I am for my behavior at the parade and afterward. I don’t know what came over me. I value our friendship a great deal, and I am hoping you can forgive me.” Whatever hap-pens after that, at least you will know you truly tried to make it right.
Dear Annie: “Grandma” has every right to be con-cerned about her stepson’s nearly 3-year-old child who barely speaks. She should follow her instincts and strongly encourage that the girl be assessed by a speech therapist. The lack of expressive language could also be a sign of autism.
While the suggestions to spend more time inter-acting with the child are great, professional inter-vention might be neces-sary. It is deplorable that the pediatrician has not caught this, as early inter-vention can change the tra-jectory of a child’s life.
As a special education teacher over the past 10 years, I’ve seen the terrible repercussions caused by the lack of early interven-tion and the overworked school systems that regu-
larly miss identifying these needs. -- Concerned Special Ed Teacher
Dear Teacher: Several readers pointed out that the lack of speech could be a sign of autism. Others told us that their kids didn’t speak much at that age and turned out just fine. There’s no way for us to know
what’s going on, but we absolutely concur that the child should be evaluated by a speech therapist to find out. Unfortunately, that is Dad’s call, and he seems disinclined to do anything. If “Grandma” can take her, wonderful. If not, talking and reading to this little girl could be a godsend.
Annie’s Mailbox is writ-ten by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to [email protected], or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.
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For Thursday, April 9, 2015 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Yet again, you’re keen to express yourself with gusto! You will be very convinc-ing today, because you’re putting everything you have into whatever you have to say. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) This is a powerful day for all kinds of research and dig-ging for secrets or answers. You refuse to be held back by anything; you want to find what you’re looking for. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Conversations with friends or people in groups will be lively today because you are so enthusiastic. Someone will make a helpful sugges-tion that will affect your future goals. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) You will be persuasive and powerful in discus-sions with parents, bosses
and VIPs today. People are impressed with you because it’s obvious that you are 100 percent behind your words. LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Big travel plans excite you! This is a great day to pursue further studies or explore opportunities in publishing, the media, med-icine and the law. VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) You will vehemently defend your best interests in discussions about inheri-tances, shared property and insurance issues. You are not afraid to stand up for yourself today. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Discussions with part-ners and close friends will be lively and dynamic today. For some reason, you seem to attract powerful people to you today! SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) You’re so keen to make
improvements on your job and talk to co-workers that your enthusiasm knows no bounds today. This is why everyone is listening to you! SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Your creative skills are tops today. Enjoy the arts, sports events, playful excursions, activities with children and romantic get-togethers. This is a party day for you!
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) A family member has strong opinions about something today. This is a good time to start redeco-rating projects or repairs at home, because you are so pumped about your plans. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Your ability to commu-nicate with others is fan-tastic today. That’s why this is a strong day for those of
you who write, sell, market, teach, act or drive for a liv-ing. PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) You’re full of great mon-eymaking ideas today. Share these ideas with others, or at least write them down -- later, you will be glad you did. YOU BORN TODAY You are outspoken and direct about what you want. You are a realistic doer who can
make a good living. This year you will face a major decision. Save your money in the first half of the year and cut down on overhead expenses, because this will help you later in the year. Your integrity and patience will be tested. Birth date of: Kristen Stewart, actress; Leighton Meester, actress; Jay Baruchel, actor. (c) 2015 King Features Syndicate, Inc.
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1934 Fourth Ave, RosslandUpdated home, Large yard for outdoor living
$315,000
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8106 DeVito Dr, TrailImmaculate duplex, non-strata, 3 Bedroom
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Fruitvale $285,000Rob Burrus 250-231-4420
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Trail $215,000Rob Burrus 250-231-4420
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with Solarium
Fruitvale $239,000Rob Burrus 250-231-4420
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Fruitvale $319,000Rob Burrus 250-231-4420
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Trail $499,000Jack McConnachie 250.368.5222
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Trail $189,900Nathan Kotyk 250.231.9484
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Kelowna
Vernon
Penticton
Kamloops
Castlegar/Cranbrook/Nelson
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AndresCar Audio
PENTICTON101-2601 Skaha Lake Rd.
493-3800(250)
VERNON200-3107 - 48th Ave.
542-3000(250)
ANDRES WIRELESSCherry Lane Mall
(250) 493-4566
KELOWNA2153 Springfield Road
860-2600(250)
WEST KELOWNA#200 - 2180 Elk Rd.
707-2600(250)
CASTLEGAR200-1965 Columbia Ave.
365-6455(250)
NELSONChahko Mika Mall
352-7258(250)
CRANBROOK101 Kootenay St. North
426-8927(250)
TELUS KIOSK
KELOWNA2153 Springfield Road
860-2600(250)
WEST KELOWNA#200 - 2180 Elk Rd.
707-2600(250)
100 MileHouse
KELOWNA2153 Springfield Road
860-2600(250)
PENTICTON101-2601 Skaha Lake Rd.
493-3800(250)
VERNON200-3107 - 48th Ave.
542-3000(250)
WEST KELOWNA#200 - 2180 Elk Rd.
707-2600(250)
ANDRES CAR AUDIO1881 Harvey Avenue
(250) 860-1975
KELOWNA CAR AUDIO1881 Harvey Avenue
(250) 860-1975
KAMLOOPS CAR AUDIO154 Victoria Str
(250) 314-9944
WEST KELOWNA#200 - 2180 Elk Rd.
707-2600(250)
PENTICTON101-2601 Skaha Lake Rd.
493-3800(250)
VERNON200-3107 - 48th Ave.
542-3000(250)
WilliamsLake KELOWNA
2153 Springfield Road860-2600(250)
KAMLOOPS745 Notre Dame Drive
851-8700(250)
PRINCE GEORGE2591A Vance Rd.
563-4447(250)
WILLIAMS AKE299 Oliver Str.
398-8522(250)
L 100 MILE OUSE916 Alpine Ave.
395-4015(250)
H
KAMLOOPS745 Notre Dame Drive
851-8700(250)
ANDRES WIRELESSAberdeen Mall(250) 377-8880
ANDRES WIRELESS215 - 450 Lansdowne Mall
(250) 377-8007
ANDRES CAR AUDIO154 Victoria Str
(250) 314-9944
ANDRES BUSINESS300 St. Paul Str.
(250) 377-3773
PRINCE GEORGE2591A Vance Rd.
563-4447(250)
KAMLOOPS745 Notre Dame Drive
851-8700(250)
VERNON200-3107 - 48th Ave.
542-3000(250)
WILLIAMS AKE299 Oliver Str.
398-8522(250)
L 100 MILE OUSE916 Alpine Ave.
395-4015(250)
H
KAMLOOPS745 Notre Dame Drive
851-8700(250)
PRINCE GEORGE2591A Vance Rd.
563-4447(250)
100 MILE OUSE916 Alpine Ave.
395-4015(250)
H WILLIAMS AKE299 Oliver Str.
398-8522(250)
L
VERNON200-3107 - 48th Ave.
542-3000(250)
ANDRES WIRELESSVilliage Green Mall
(250) 542-1496
KELOWNA2153 Springfield Road
860-2600(250)
WEST KELOWNA#200 - 2180 Elk Rd.
707-2600(250)
KAMLOOPS745 Notre Dame Drive
851-8700(250)
VERNON200-3107 - 48th Ave.
542-3000(250)
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Trail 2 bdrm house ........ $750/mo plus utilities, NS
Trail 2 bdrm Upper Duplex ....$800/mo plus utilities, NS NP
Rossland 4 bdrm house ........ $900/mo plus utilities, NS
We have excellent tenants waiting for rentals in
Glenmerry, Sunningdale and East Trail.
Call today if you need your property professionally
managed! Terry Alton 250-231-1101
Tonnie Stewart (250) 365-9665
RENTALS
414 2nd Ave., Rivervale$149,900
This bright cheery home features upgraded, kitchen, bathrooms, fl ooring, roof, wiring, plumbing,
most windows, tastefully decorated, beautiful decks and low maintenance
landscaping, and garage. Such a fabulous little package! Call now!!
Call Deanne (250) 231-0153
1823 Kootenay Ave, Rossland
$180,000Here’s your chance to get into the
Real Estate market. Affordable home situated on a large 60x100
lot with fruit trees and garden. 2 bdrms and a full walk-out
basement. Plenty of parking for all the toys. Bright and sunny
Call Christine (250) 512-7653
1274 Paquette Drive, Trail$529,000
Seller motivated! Ultimate executive rancher! Like new 3 bed/3 bath home with open fl oor plan custom kitchen,
fi replace, 3-car garage and much more!! Call your REALTOR® today!
The seller says get it SOLD!
Call Deanne (250) 231-0153
4717 Erie Ross Spur Rd., Ross Spur
$117,000Fantastic 6.5 acre lot - approx. 1.5
km down Ross Spur Rd. - lot is fully treed with Southern exposure
- benched hillside for building sites - well has been developed.
Call Art (250) 368-8818
NEW LISTING
242 Currie St., Warfi eld$173,000
One family home offering 3 bdrms, large living and dining rooms and spacious
kitchen. Basement is basically unfi nished, but does have a large room, ready to fi nish as a rec room, storage area and garage. Call or text your REALTOR® for
your personal viewing.
Call Mary M (250) 231-0264
NEW LISTING
745 Dickens St., Warfi eld$199,500
Beautifully upgraded. You will love the kitchen, lots of storage, stainless steel
appliances, and wood fl ooring. The charming dining room has french doors to large deck. Living room and dining rooms
also have wood fl ooring.
Call Mary M (250) 231-0264
1492 Kootenay Ave, Rossland$180,000
Nicely renovated home! Everything has been done in the last few years including roof, furnace, kitchen, bathroom, insulation,
appliances and paint. Call today.
Call Christine (250) 512-7653
NEW LISTINGNEW LISTING
308 Kootenay Avenue, Tadanac $299,000
4 bdrm home with circular driveway. Large windows, fi replace, library and sun-room. The yard is stunning and
private. Call for your personal viewing.Call Mary M (250) 231-0264
1090 Highway 3B, Montrose$159,900
Wow - a super family home - 3 plus bdrms and 2 full baths - this very clean - modern fl oor plan - vaulted ceilings and updated home is a great
buy. New furnace, roof, vinyl siding, paint and fl ooring. Call today.
Call Mark (250) 231-5591
1216 Columbia Ave, Trail$199,000
This home is in a great location. Enjoy the low maintenance yard
and large deck. This home has had extensive upgrades including new deluxe kitchen and bathroom and many mechanical upgrades too.
Call today!
Call Richard (250) 368-7897
2498 & 2506 Hwy 3B, Fruitvale Rural$285,000
2 Bdrm and 3 Brdm Duplex on 25 subdividable non-ALR acres just outside of Fruitvale! Water
license in place on Cowlin Creek dedicated for Residential and Farm use. If you’re looking for acreage,
put this on your viewing list.Call Terry 250-231-1101
705 - 10th Ave., Montrose$198,000
Affordable 3 bdrm 2 bath package! Situated on a fl at, fully fenced 75x100 with double detached
carport! This package has a lot to offer. Come see it today.
Call Tonnie (250) 365-9665
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NEW PRICE
TRAIL – On March 28, the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, Trail Wildlife Association and ATV/BC, together with other local stake-holder groups, organized an infor-mation session about motorized access on the conservation proper-ties in the Pend d’Oreille Valley.
The core message for users of motorized vehicles (such as ATVs and dirt bikes), was to stick to exist-ing roads only.
The Off Road Vehicle (ORV) damage of grasslands and open for-est habitat, as well as mud-bogging in sensitive wetlands, the removal of wildlife trees, and littering, have all had a negative impact on the area.
Other groups involved in Saturday’s awareness day included
BCWF Wilderness Watch, Salmo Seniors ATV Club, Village of Fruitvale, West Kootenay ATV Club, Beaver Mountain Snowmobile Association, and the Fish and Wildlife Compensation Program.
These stakeholder groups, and many others, have been working together to try and ensure that the conservation properties remain open for public access while the rich wildlife habitat values remain intact.
The conservation properties, set aside to compensate for the con-struction of Seven Mile Dam built in the 1970s, stretch from the dam to the Salmo River on the north side of the Pend d’Oreille River.
A map of the Conservation Properties can be obtained by emailing [email protected].
Clubs rally around Pend d’Oreille Off-Road Awareness session
Submitted photoS
Above, Don Frew shows a map of consservation properties to the public. Left; some of the info signs to alert off-road enthusiasts.