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The Columbia Gardens Winery hosted an open house on Tuesday evening to show-case the hard work owners Ben and Tersia De Jager have put into their winery and guest house since purchasing the property a year ago.

Tersia De Jager says she was delighted with the turn-out at the open house.

“I think it went great,” she said. “The people's reaction was really positive and we had a great evening.”

The renovations took almost a year, and the De Jager's made it to their dead-line with two days to spare.

“It is such a huge relief (to be finished),” she said. “We are just so grateful that we managed to get this done in the target that we set out.

We really wanted to do it in the first year and it is actu-ally pretty awesome because (Thursday) is our first anni-versary date.”

The renovations to the guest house included hang-ing original photographs, and decorating the house with up cycled items such as old doors, pallets and wrought iron.

“We used everything old and unconventional for a rus-tic, vintage ambience and a soft-toned pallet to create a romantic atmosphere,” wrote De Jager in a handout from the open house. “Old wooden doors became vanities and we turned pallets into kitchen-ettes and barn doors.”

The guest house is avail-able to rent for weddings, get-togethers, or just a night among the rows of grapes.

The open house was put

on in a partnership with The Trail and District Chamber of Commerce and De Jager says she couldn't ask for more from the local organization.

“I think it is only positive,” she said of her relationship with the chamber. “We only have great things to say about Norm and his office. They have a great attitude towards the winery and they recognize as us being a tourist destina-tion. The value that the win-ery has to Trail, they see that. It's great to work with them.”

Norm Casler, the executive director of the chamber, says the winery is a prime example of the goals the organization has set out for the business community in Trail.

“(The chamber) is an opportunity for businesses to get to know other businesses,” he said. “With the open house

(Tuesday), however many peo-ple were there, every one of those people will go and tell other people about what they experienced there.”

The chamber also has a hand in increasing the foot traffic to winery through their Visitor's Information Centre.

“In the case of the Columbia Gardens Winery, in terms of tourism, having a winery is good for our com-munity,” said Casler. “We have people that come into the visi-tor's centre (run by the cham-ber) and they say, 'What is there to do around here?' and we have a list of nearly 101 things to do. The winery is one of the top.”

For more info on the Columbia Gardens Winery, visit their website at www.cgwinery.com or call 367-7493.

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All that’s left is fine details to embellish the city for the 11th Annual BC Communities in Bloom (CiB) awards and conference next month.

Trail CiB volunteers and Silver City staff have been digging in behind-the-scenes for months to put some shine on the town for the three-day event that starts with a meet-and-greet Sept. 11.

“We are down to the fine tuning of decorat-ing and making sure we have volunteers line up because there is lots of work to do right until the end,” said CiB member Mary Martin.

The provincial CiB competition kicked off in July as judges travelled across BC to visit participating towns and cities for two days to view about 80 per cent of the growing com-munities.

Judges prepare a written report of each municipality and provide a bloom rat-ing which measures how the community improves from year to year.

And for the first time, Trail’s group is look-ing forward to sharing why and how Trail grew from an industrial town into an allur-ing city before the provincial winners are announced on the Saturday evening.

What Martin would most like to see hap-pen during the Trail, “Look at us now” cele-brations, is residents coming out in droves for a weekend of activities that includes an elegant affair in Jubilee Park, and tours of Teck, the city’s historic rock walls, and the Beaver Valley.

Friday night’s “White Night” in CiB’s recently completed Sissinghurst White Garden project is slated to be a sophisticated catered evening that will feature Columbia Gardens wines, Tony Ferraro’s jazz band and keynote speaker Greg Belland, Teck Trail’s operations manager.

“It’s going to be a glorious night in the White Garden,” said Martin. “We’d really like as many locals as possible and we’ll accom-modate everyone we can get.”

Scheduled the following day is a full roster of events beginning with an 8 a.m. registra-tion and an information session by Trail’s CiB chair Dan Rodlie and Larry Abenante, the city’s public works manager, about how to work together and combine resources, volun-teers and civic staff.

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Ben and Tersia De Jager hosted an open house at the Columbia Gardens Winery on Tuesday to show off the renovations to the guest house on the property. Above, Ben is serving up some of the fruits of their labour to guests who came to see the new guest house and take the tour. The De Jager's are celebrating the first anniversary of owning the winery.

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As a mechanic when you are out and about you inevitably hear the sound of a starter

cranking over an engine that is refusing to start. If you are at the lake it may be a boat engine. If you are in a parking lot it may be a car or truck.

In most cases a long crank-ing starter is being abused. The engine is probably not going to run and the extended time spent with the starter working is only serving one purpose. It will either wear out the starter or more for-tunately discharge the battery enough that the starter does not have to suffer any more abuse. That is until the inevit-able do-gooder offers a jump start.

If only we all could be a little more logical. If your engine was always starting on cue and now it is not, there is a problem. Continuing to crank the engine over with-out attempting some type of logical testing and diagnosis is really serving no purpose

but the inevitable demise of your starter and/or battery.

At this point I feel I must define the terms “cranking” and “starting” and “running”. They are often misunder-stood.

In order for your vehicle’s engine to start running it must be physically rotated by an outside force at a speed quick enough to allow com-bustion to take place. This is cranking and it is performed by an electromechanical device called a starter.

When you initiate the cranking process while turn-

ing the key, pushing a button, or pulling the cord (lawn-mower) you are attempting to start the engine. At a certain cranking speed combustion results when the air fuel mix-ture within the engine’s cylin-ders can self ignite (diesel) or ignite by spark (gasoline).

The ignition of the fuel/air mixture causes explosions within the engine that start it rotating on its own. Starting is the onset of combustion combined with the outside work of the pull cord or elec-tro mechanical starter. At this point the engine still requires outside force to keep turning.

As the engine reaches a point where it will continue to turn on its own power it is running. All is well. Understood? I hope.

So as you turn the key to the start position (push the button or pull the cord) you should hear cranking. If the battery and starter are good the cranking should be fast enough to start combustion. If the engine just cranks at

a normal speed longer than normal with no change in sound you have a problem that likely will not be solved by continuing in the cranking mode.

The engine is missing one of the prerequisites to initi-ate starting. These are the proper mixture of air and fuel compressed to a high enough pressure to be ignited by a spark (gasoline engine) or self ignited (diesel).

Instead of continuing to crank and crank and crank, stop and think. Do I have fuel in the tank (look at the gauge, unscrew the lid (lawnmow-er, motorcycle, weedeater))? Lift the hood. Is anything obvious in the way of let-ting air into the engine? What are the instrument warning lights telling me. Open up your owner’s manual. Is the immobilizer light blinking?

Yes, a little detective work is in order. I don’t want to have to sell you a starter and a battery before getting to the original problem.

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• Planning begins for Rossland’s Golden City Days slated for Sept. 5-7. Pick up a parade entry form at the Rossland Chamber of Commerce or email [email protected]. Plan to

build your outhouse and enter the outhouse races. Contact Mike at 362-5244 for info. Start collecting unwanted items for a c o m m u n -ity white e l e p h a n t sale on Sept. 7th. If your group would like to organize and host an interactive family-friend-ly event during the GCD weekend, contact Terry at [email protected].

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Savings Music in the Park presents Sarah Burton, a folk-rock, alternative country duo. Bring a lawn chair, toonie donation

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Trail Market on the E s p l a n a d e from 4-8 p.m. City of Trail and Trail

& District Chamber of Commerce present a spe-cial evening market. Live music, 50-plus vendors. Shop and stroll the river view in downtown Trail. Call 368-3144 for info.

• Aug. 21, KSCU Music in the Park presents Sunshine Drive, a rock-ing funky blues quintet.

• Aug. 24, Gyro Park 9 a.m. registration for 50th Anniversary of the Kidney Walk in Trail. 2.5K walk starts at 10 a.m. Contact [email protected] or 1.800.567.8112 ext. 228 to join a walk for one in ten Canadians with kid-ney disease.

• Aug. 28, KSCU Music in the Park presents the Old-Time Fiddlers with Walter Crockett.

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N e l s o N s t a rA 35-year-old woman

from Nelson and her 49-year-old partner are facing mul-tiple charges, accused of sell-ing bogus Shambhala Music Festival tickets.

The Nelson Police Department received a com-plaint Thursday from someone who paid $300 for what they thought were tickets, but when they got to the festival, they were informed they weren’t valid.

An investigation uncovered two further incidents of appar-ent fraud and resulted in the arrests. The pair have since been released on a promise to appear in court.

Falcone said while he has heard of other counterfeit tick-ets before, it’s the first time arrests have been made.

Festival organizers didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Meanwhile, RCMP Insp. Tom Roy reported no major incidents from the festival this weekend, calling it “relatively a non-event.”

“It’s been really good,” he said, noting that officers were still on site Tuesday. “Lots of drugs and liquor were seized going in and coming out, but I can’t think of one criminal offence.”

Roy also said while there were a few drug overdoses, they were dealt with at the medical tent. He wasn’t aware that anybody had been sent to hospital.

Police are still investigat-ing. Anyone with information is asked to call them at 250-354-3919.

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Last week, the Trail Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program received $800 in donations from local groups, but they always need more.

Corporal Martin Kooiman from the Nelson Drugs and Organized Crime Awareness Office says that the D.A.R.E. Program is invaluable to Grade 5 and 6 children, and it doesn't cost much to put in schools.

“It is the cheapest form of drug prevention information for kids,” he said. “I think it works out to be around $10 per child for ten hours of good drug awareness information, prevention messages, coping skills and resiliency skills. It helps build assets within your children and it teaches them to be confident in terms of their decision making. Plus, the biggest thing, is they get the t-shirts. I have a daughter who is 15 and still has her D.A.R.E. t-shirt.”

Locally, the program is taught by RCMP officers in nearly every school in the Greater Trail Area, with exception of the private and francophone schools.

“(Officer Sherry Bentley) has been doing the D.A.R.E. Program in Trail for five or six years and she has been

instrumental in raising the profile (of the program),” said Kooiman. “I have gotten lots of kudos from Fruitvale Elementary School where she teaches two classes and has graduation ceremonies that have been attended by may-ors and councillors. She also teaches in Trail and out in Warfield.”

The most recent donations came from the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Kiwanis Club, the Royal Canadian Legion and the local Lions Club, and Cpl. Kooiman says the society needs more fund-ing to keep the program mov-ing ahead full steam.

“A long time ago, the RCMP used to raise funds for the program,” he said, adding that the RCMP Commissioner a few years back didn't like the idea of officers solicit-ing for money. “We had to stop soliciting for funds and created a private society for the D.A.R.E. Program and we need the funds they collect to continue. The only thing (we had funded by the Federal government) was the books, but now those are funded by the society as well.”

To donate, visit canada-helps.org and search D.A.R.E. British Columbia to keep the program going.

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Downtown Trail’s incrEDIBLE Green Route is on the roster for guests to check out during the upcoming BC Communities in Bloom awards and conference. The 11th annual event kicks off Sept. 11 with a meet-and-greet, followed by an elegant affair in Jubilee Park Sept. 12 and a full day of activities throughout Trail on Sept. 13.

FROM PAGE 1Later, Sheila Adcock,

director of Career Development Services will discuss how people with disabilities and employment issues bene-fit from projects that also help the CiB program.

Gina Ironmonger will be on hand to talk about community gardens and how the downtown busi-ness woman launched Trail’s incrEDIBLE Green Route.

Key note speaker

Steven Hilts, Teck’s dir-ector of environmental legacies of Teck Metals Ltd. will explain how the green-up of Trail evolved over time, and the chal-lenges the communities faced.

The “Look at us Now” Tour, from 1:30 p.m. until 4:30 p.m., is a drive throughout the city to showcase Trail CiB highlights including the Colombo Piazza, murals, floral beds, Avenue of the Clans, adopt-a stairway project and historical buildings.

“The community has

been very supportive,” said Martin. “I would say the challenge now is to get in registration from throughout the prov-ince.”

Currently, 30 out-of-town registrations have been received, but Martin expects many more appli-cations within the next few weeks.

“We are not sure yet but we are certainly hoping for representa-tives from many com-munities throughout the province,” she explained. “Our encouragement is for other communities

to join this program because its great, its fun and it really makes a dif-ference.”

For information, con-tact city hall or visit trail.ca.

Following the confer-ence and awards dinner, Rodlie and his wife Lana Rodlie, are heading to Charlottetown, P.E.I. for the national CiB awards.

The Trail group hopes to win two outstand-ing achievement awards on the national level, one for Landscapes, the other for Community of Gardeners.

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THE CANADIAN PRESSCHASE - A First

Nations band in British Columbia has issued an eviction notice to the company that owns the Mount Polley tailings pond, which spilled millions of cubic metres of waste in the Cariboo region.

The Neskonlith are urging Imperial Metals Corp. (TSX:III) to

leave their land, which is in the Thompson Okanagan region, about 48 kilometres east of Kamloops near the village of Chase.

Imperial Metals is surveying a 211-square-kilometre area for zinc and lead for a project called the Ruddock Creek mine, which is unrelated to the Mount Polley mine.

The band issued a statement saying the group will not permit any mining develop-ment that would con-taminate water or destroy salmon habitat, as elders do not want the area poisoned.

The band says it opposes the Ruddock Creek Mine because Imperial Metals failed to protect First Nations

land when the Mount Polley tailings pond breached.

Imperial Metals did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The Neskonlith was not directly affected by the Mount Polley breach, but it is one of 17 bands that form the Secwepemc First Nation.

CowICHAN NEwS Halalt First

Nation’s chief and council remain the only band in Cowichan that hasn’t filed its annual wages with the feds, according to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

However, CTF’s Jordan Batmen reported Aug. 12 Cowichan Tribes lead-ers have filed their annual earnings, with William (Chip) Seymour making a total of $89,513.37 tax-free, which is equiva-lent to $124,000 in off-reserve earnings.

Bateman noted Tribes Councillor

William Seymour Jr. made a total of $82,424.41 tax-free. equivalent to $113,000 in off-reserve earnings.

The pair serves a population of 4,775, “of whom 2,455 live on the Cowichan reserve,” Bateman explains via email to the News Leader Pictorial.

Meanwhile, Tribes Chief Seymour’s release stresses his band did file its lead-ers’ salaries on time, refuting last week’s Leader story, stating Tribes and the Halalt hadn’t filed their earn-ings by the federal July 29 deadline.

“We’d like to clarify

Cowichan Tribes is not among the half of Aboriginal chiefs and councils who failed to file our annual salaries with the federal gov-ernment of Canada, contrary to what the article states.

“Our auditor stated chief and council were on time completing the financial state-ments, and signed them on July 29, 2014,” Seymour says.

Tribes state-ments could not be released to Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development on the same date, he says, “because two third-party confirmations

had not been received by that date.”

“Cowichan Tribes has always communi-cated its finances to membership. Originally, hard cop-ies were provided to membership, and now it is open to everyone electronically.”

Tribes’ auditor added communica-tion happened with AANDC’s funding ser-vices’ officer before July 29, and after, to advise statements would be issued a few days late, though chief and council approved those statements before the deadline, Seymour explains.

S u R R E y N o R T H D E l T A l E A D E ROne man is dead and his son has

been charged with his murder after a shooting in Newton on Tuesday.

On Aug. 12, police were called to a report of shots fired in the 14000-block of 60 Avenue at about 1:30 p.m.

When they arrived they found a 55-year-old Edward Allen Bezell dead at the scene.

His son, who shared the home with him, Ryan William

Beauchamp, 29, was arrested and has been charged with second-degree murder. Beauchamp is in custody and will appear in Surrey Provincial Court on Sept. 3.

It brings to 10 the number of murders so far this year, with one other homicide investigation of a death that’s currently classified as suspicious.

Anyone who has information is asked to call 1-877-551-4448 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SVANCOUVER - A tenacious

spell of hot, dry weather in British Columbia has painted a forest-protection map of the province a combination of bright red and dun brown, showing high or extreme fire danger ratings over much of B.C.

With one brief exception, the weather has remained unseasonably warm and dry starting in early July, said Navi Saini, a provincial fire informa-tion officer.

“Weather is the number one indicator for fire activity. It is hot and dry and we are expecting those conditions to continue,” she said, adding the brief forecast for rain in coastal areas probably would not be enough to bring down the prov-incial danger rating.

This season, hundreds of fires have stretched manpower thin and blown the provincial firefighting budget to bits.

The cost of fighting fires in the province has leaped to $177 million so far this season. The budget-conscious provincial government set aside just $63 million to fight the summer fires.

The largest fire burning in the province is the Chelaslie River fire estimated to be about

886 square kilometres, locat-ed near the boundary of the Northwest and Cariboo fire cen-tres.

More than 280 people are working on the massive fire along with 20 helicopters and 20 pieces of heavy equipment.

Saini said they’re only attacking the fire where they it’s needed, in a modified response.

“What that means is that we’re not actively suppressing the fire in areas where no values are being threatened.”

She said the Chelaslie fire is also responsible for a lot of smoke being reported in the northern and central part of B.C.

Numerous air quality advis-ories have been issued and with-drawn in the province because of fires around the province.

Dozens of people were placed on evacuation alert Tuesday after the Vowell Creek fire, in the Purcell Mountains in south-eastern B.C., spread to about four square kilometres in size.

The fire is getting close to a CMH Bobbie Burns Lodge used by hikers in the summer and alpine and heli-skiers in the winter.

Fire information officer Noelle Kekula said a few dozen vacationers are staying there and if the winds shift to the

west, the fire will go straight to the lodge.

Wildfire management crews are also doing their best to keep traffic flowing on Highway 20 near Alexis Creek in the cen-tral Interior as a wildfire flares nearby.

Cariboo Fire Centre informa-tion officer Sandra Wagner said flaggers were on the highway monitoring traffic flow through the only route linking the cen-tral coast community of Bella Coola to the rest of the prov-ince.

The highway was closed briefly Tuesday morning and could be closed again as the blaze near Bull Canyon has grown to six square kilometres since it was sparked on Monday.

Wagner said more aggressive activity is expected before rain and cooler weather could offer a reprieve later this week.

The dry conditions have prompted the neighbour-ing Northwest Fire Centre to announce campfire bans, effect-ive Tuesday in the Nadina and Bulkley fire zones and most of the Skeena fire zone. Campfire bans are in place in every dis-trict but Prince George.

The Wildfire Management Branch reports 113 large or potentially threatening wild-fires are burning across B.C.

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THE CANADIAN PRESSTORONTO - Mayor

Rob Ford’s brother issued a public apol-ogy to Toronto’s police chief Wednesday and retracted comments that prompted the city’s top cop to threat-en legal action - but it appeared his efforts weren’t accepted.

Coun. Doug Ford said he decided to take “the high road” two days after Chief Bill Blair filed a def-amation notice which demanded a public apology and retrac-tion in an agreed upon forum.

“I apologize to the chief and, he feels I’ve impugned his reputa-tion, by no means am I doing that and I retract my statement,” Ford told reporters at city hall. “We’re going to move forward with the business of the city.”

But Blair’s spokes-man said Ford’s retrac-

tion and apology was not being accepted because it did not meet terms that the council-lor and the police chief had agreed to earlier in the day.

“Councillor Ford called Chief Blair this morning to apologize. Chief Blair said that the councillor would have to send him the text of his public retraction and apology and the chief would send it to his lawyer,” Mark Pugash told The Canadian Press. “The Councillor agreed to that, we’ve heard noth-ing since.”

Pugash added that Blair’s notice of defam-ation was still in effect.

“The terms of the notice of defamation have not been met,” he said.

But Ford sug-gested his apparently impromptu public ges-tures would suffice.

“It will be up to

the chief if he wants to move forward with this,” Ford said. “But honestly, deep down, I don’t think the chief wants to move for-ward with it. He wants an apology that I am doing.”

Ford had sug-gested two weeks ago that Blair helped leak information that police were preparing to subpoena the mayor in an ongoing inves-tigation as “payback” - although he did not

elaborate on what he meant.

At the time, Blair said Ford was lying and warned he was prepared to take legal action.

The police chief made good on that threat after it appeared Ford was standing by what he said. The legal action was a per-sonal pursuit and did not involve taxpayer money, Blair’s spokes-man had said.

Ford said he “per-sonally called” Blair on Wednesday.

“I talked to him. I told him that I apolo-gize,” he said.

“The chief and I have had a good rela-tionship, I think, a very good relationship I told him, especially the first few years. It kind of went off the tracks last year, but again I reached out to him personally.”

The dispute stemmed from a Toronto Star report, published Aug.1, which cited sources saying police were pre-paring to subpoena the mayor to testify at a preliminary hearing for his friend Alexander (Sandro) Lisi, who is

facing drug and extor-tion charges.

Ford blamed the apparent leak on Blair, calling it politically motivated.

“When you tell the media there’s a sub-poena and don’t tell anyone else? That alone says it all right there. That says it all,” he had said at the time.“It’s disappoint-ing that the police chief, in my opinion, would condone this behaviour from his own department.”

Both the council-lor had his brother have publicly criti-cized Blair ever since a police investiga-tion last year turned up a video which appeared to show Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine.

At a news confer-ence last October, Blair had said he was dis-appointed at what the video showed.

The mayor, who later admitted to smoking crack cocaine in a “drunken stupor,” has publicly accused Blair of wasting tax-payers’ money with the investigation and challenged the chief to arrest and charge him.

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SKELOWNA, B.C. - The Wellie-wearing, social-

media-savvy robot that's been hitching a ride from Canadians is nearing the end of its Halifax-to-Victoria adventure.

Its creators say the last time it checked in, Hitchbot was passing through Kelowna, B.C., on its way to the Open Space art centre on Vancouver Island.

Hitchbot kicked off its more than 6,000-kilo-metre summer journey from Halifax more than two weeks ago.

Along the way the chatty robot has been camp-ing in New Brunswick, attended a First Nations powwow on Manitoulin Island in Ontario and even crashed a wedding in Golden, B.C.

It has kept track of its adventures on social media, where tens of thousands of fans follow its Twitter, Facebook and Instagram updates.

Hitchbot is the brainchild of a group of Ontario-based communications researchers.

The project is part of a study investigating trust between human beings and technology.

T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S STORONTO - Citing the “symbolic” nature

of the citizenship oath, Ontario’s top court has dismissed a constitutional challenge by three permanent residents who claim swearing allegiance to the Queen is discriminatory and unjust.

The trio had argued that the provision in the Citizenship Act that requires would-be citizens to swear to be “faithful and bear true allegiance to Queen Elizabeth the Second, Queen of Canada, her heirs and successors,” violates the Charts of Rights and Freedoms.

Ontario Court of Appeal Justice Karen Weiler ruled Wednesday that the appellants’ claims were based “on their misconception” of the meaning of the oath to the Queen as an individual.

“The oath to the Queen of Canada is an oath to our form of government, as symbolized by the Queen as the apex of our Canadian parlia-mentary system of constitutional monarchy,” Weiler wrote in her decision.

“Applying a purposive and progressive approach to the wording of the oath, with regard to its history in Canada and the evolu-tion of our country, leads to the conclusion that the oath is a symbolic commitment to be gov-erned as a democratic constitutional monarchy unless and until democratically changed.”

If the reference to the Queen in the oath were eliminated, or made optional, wrote Weiler, such a remedy would only be a super-ficial cure for the complaint.

“Because the Queen remains the head of our government, any oath that commits the would-be citizen to the principles of Canada’s govern-ment is implicitly an oath to the Queen.”

With its decision Wednesday, the court upheld a ruling issued last September by the Ontario Superior Court, which dismissed the claim, saying the provision is constitutional, even if it does violate free-speech rights.

The applicants are Irish-born Michael McAteer, Dror Bar-Natan from Israel and Jamaican-born Simone Topey.

Selwyn Pieters, one of the lawyers involved in the case, said the trio were expecting a dif-ferent outcome and will now seek leave to the Supreme Court of Canada.

“Many people who feel that the monarchy is an anti-democratic relic of the past con-scientiously object to taking such an oath and feel that it should suffice to take an oath to Canada.”

Oath to Queen backed by

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Hitchbot in B.C.

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he feels I’ve impugned his

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SOTTAWA - An error in the jobs

report issued last week by Statistics Canada has resulted in a freeze on new employment insurance claims.

A government official says the processing of new EI claims is being put on hold until the agency fixes the mistake.

On Tuesday, Statistics Canada said it found an error in its July Labour Force Survey, and that it would issue a revised report on Friday.

The Aug. 8 report said Canada created just 200 jobs in July and that 35,400 people had stopped looking for work. Prior to the release, econo-mists had predicted that 20,000 jobs

had been found during the month.The monthly jobs report is used

to determine regional unemploy-ment rates, which directly impact the number of weeks an unemployed person needs to have worked in order to qualify for EI benefits.

An official in Employment Minister Jason Kenney’s office, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the matter, said the freeze is not expected to add to the time it takes to process claims.

There is a minimum two week delay between the time someone applies for EI and when they receive benefits.

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OPINION

Your family’s largest expense may surprise youIf you asked aver-

age Canadian fam-ilies what their lar-gest expense is, many

would probably say hous-ing. And you can’t blame them. Mortgage and rental payments are a painful monthly reminder of how much we pay for this basic necessity.

But what if we told you that the average family’s largest expense is, in fact, taxes?

When we say taxes, we don’t just mean income taxes. We’re talking about all the taxes you pay to all levels of governments (fed-eral, provincial, and local).

This includes a combin-ation of both visible and hidden taxes - everything from income taxes, which are less than a third of the total, to payroll taxes, health taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, profit taxes, fuel taxes, vehicle taxes, import taxes, alcohol and tobacco taxes, and much

more.For 2013, we estimate

that the average Canadian family earned $77,381 in income and paid $32,369 in total taxes or 41.8 per cent of income (the average here includes single people). In the same year, just 36.1 per cent of the average family’s income went to food, cloth-ing, and shelter combined. Indeed, Canadian families spend more on taxes than the basic necessities of life.

But it wasn’t always this way.

Back in 1961 (the first year for which we have calculations), the average family earned approxi-mately $5,000 and paid a much smaller portion of its household income in taxes (33.5 per cent) while spending proportionately more on the basic necessi-ties (56.5 per cent).

In a recent report published by the Fraser Institute, we track the total tax bill of the aver-

age Canadian family from 1961 to 2013. Since 1961, we find that the total tax bill increased by 1,832 per cent, dwarfing increases in shelter costs (1,375 per cent), clothing (620 per cent), and food (546 per cent). Even after account-ing for inflation, which is the change in overall prices, the tax bill shot up 147 per cent over the per-iod.

Over the past five dec-ades, the total tax bill grew

much faster than the cost of basic necessities and now taxes eat up more income than any other sin-gle family expense.

With more money going to the government, the real-ity is that families have less to spend on things of their own choosing, whether it’s a new car, technological gadget, or family vacation. They also have less money available to save for retire-ment or their children’s education, or to use to pay down household debt.

While there’s no doubt that taxes help fund important government ser-vices, the real issue is the amount of taxes that gov-ernments take compared to what we get in return.

With almost 42 per cent of income going to taxes, Canadians should ask whether they get the best value for their tax dollars.

Are we paying too much, too little, or just the right amount? That’s up to you

and your family to decide.But to make an informed

assessment, you must have a complete understanding of all the taxes you pay. Unfortunately, it’s not so straightforward because the different levels of gov-ernment levy such a wide range of taxes - many of which are buried in con-sumer prices and hard to discern. Therein lies the value of our calculations.

Armed with this know-ledge, we can hold our gov-ernments more account-able for the resources they extract and continue a pub-lic debate about the overall tax burden, the amount and scope of government spending, and whether we’re getting our money’s worth.

Charles Lammam, Milagros Palacios, and Sean Speer are analysts at the Fraser Institute. The Canadian Consumer Tax Index 2014 is available at www.fraserinstitute.org

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Trail city council has denied me and all elec-torates in this city the right to vote for what we want. I think it is wrong and the only way I can see that that right be restored is by “voting No” to the new pedestrian bridge on Aug. 23.

Council, based on a non-scientific survey, (note – did not include rehabilitation of old bridge) decided for all of us that they are going to build a pedestrian bridge. They first tried to do it by slipping it through the Alternative Approval Process.

Fortunately, 1,200+ people signed a petition for the right to a vote (thank you). And this was not the first petition this council faced in the last year. Any council that has faced two petitions in one year indicates that they have lost touch with the electorate and should step back and take stock. But no, what did they do?

They acted like a bunch of loud and arrogant schoolyard bullies and tried to discredit and intimidate the people who stood up for democ-racy. One even made statements that indicated that he did not even understand what democracy was all about. And they are “our” elected officials – shame, shame on you.

And now what do we get bombarded with – a super expensive “sell the new pedestrian bridge campaign.”

How much is this campaign costing? Newspaper advertising, TV advertising, glossy brochures. Plus, all the staff time for writing brochures, newspaper ads, social media and let-ters, appearing on television ads and social media. Wow! If it is such a good deal, ask yourself – why the “big sell”? Oh, I forgot, in case of an emer-gency, there will be a four track. Holy cow – I’m impressed. How many people will that transport? Two – one sitting and one lying down.

My personal opinion is that this bridge is very short-sighted and we should have a full bridge (pedestrian/biking/driving). However, we, as cit-izens should have the right to vote on:

(1) No bridge(2) New pedestrian bridge(3) Rehabilitation of Old Bridge including

new piers(4) New Driving/Pedestrain/Biking Bridge.For them to tell us that all discussion is off

the table and this is our only option is outright wrong. Have our politicians forgotten who they are serving?

Thus, I think we need to stand up and “vote No” so we can tell the city council what we, together, and by democratic vote, want.

Dina EspositoTrail

Why I am voting ‘No’

Sheri Regnier’s article “Benches honour loved ones” in the Aug. 8, Trail Times prompts me to make some comments on the benches program in Trail.

I often stop to read the plaques on the benches I pass while walking or riding my bike around town and I take a moment to think about the person or persons recognized there. So, in general, I support the program.

But when there becomes row

on row of benches, their place-ment begins to feel more like a graveyard and I fear that we are reaching that point in Trail.

I’d like to suggest that we need more commemora-tive benches (benches mark-ing events or acknowledging groups and clubs who have con-tributed and are contributing to our community). The bench at the end of the Miral Heights Trail, acknowledging Katimavik volunteers, comes to mind.

Personally, I have purchased a bench acknowledging the places and people (some are gone and some remain) who enriched my life in this com-munity and I often stop and think about them and the events that brought us togeth-er. Hopefully others do, too.

And the one I love most in life, I think about her, too, while we are both still alive.

Glenn WallaceTrail

Excess of benches gives one pause

How much do you know about our Canadian medical system? Have you heard of Dr. Brian Day? Do you know what he is trying to do? I believe that all Canadians need to be aware of what is happening in our medicare system.

This doctor is trying to change the way medi-cine is practised in Canada, making it more like what exists in the United States.

According to the B.C. Health Coalition, the defining principle at the heart of Canadian medicine is that health care is provided accord-ing to patients’ needs, not their ability to pay. He believes this is unconstitutional. His challenge to this will be heard in the B.C. Supreme Court on Sept. 8 of this year. Although this challenge is launched in B.C., it has the potential to bring U.S.-style medical care to all of our country.

Evidence shows that the system Dr. Day is seeking would lead to less care and poorer health for average Canadians. There is no evidence that private, for-profit care results in better health care - not anywhere in the world.

According to the B.C. Health Coalition there is evidence that Dr. Day’s Cambie Surgery Centre has had patients unlawfully extra-billed $491,654

in just 30 days. In one case, a patient was billed $7,215 for services that would have cost $1,288 in the B.C. health care system. Auditors also found over $66,000 in overlapping claims, evi-dence that suggests double dipping for the same service. Would this become the norm for the kind of care he proposes?

We’ve heard of the difficulties many patients in the U.S. face when they are seeking health care. Some lose life savings or their homes in order to pay for their health care costs. Some may even be refused care.

I know our health care system has its prob-lems and that we need to solve those to be more efficient. Doing that makes sense. Adopting a pri-vate, for-profit system like Dr. Day advocates is NOT the answer. It will create greater problems for a large part of our population.

We cannot allow a for-profit health care system which provides care for those who have money to become the norm in our country. As citizens who care deeply we need to let our polit-icians and law-makers know how we feel.

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SQUEBEC - Quebec

superstar Celine Dion is suspending all of her show business activ-ities - including her lucrative Las Vegas residency - to focus on her family and the ail-ing health of husband Rene Angelil.

Angelil had surgery last December to have a cancerous tumour removed.

Dion released a statement Wednesday saying it has been a “difficult and stressful time” trying to fight the disease while rais-ing three young chil-dren and balancing her singing career.

She has also been grappling with inflam-mation in her throat muscles, the statement said, and hasn’t been able to perform her scheduled Las Vegas

shows since July 29.All of her perform-

ances at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace have been cancelled until further notice. She will also scrap her tour of Asia, scheduled for the fall.

“I want to devote every ounce of my strength and energy to my husband’s heal-ing, and to do so, it’s important for me to dedicate this time to him and to our chil-dren,” the 46-year-old singer said in a release.

“I also want to apologize to all my fans everywhere, for inconveniencing them, and I thank them so much for their love and support.”

In an email to The Canadian Press, a Caesars Palace spokes-person wished Rene a “speedy recovery.”

“We are saddened that she has had to cancel her scheduled performances at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace,” read the state-ment.

“Our thoughts are with them and their family and we look for-ward to Celine’s return. Caesars Entertainment is working with AEG Live on potential other bookings for the Colosseum, but it is too early at this time to comment on any specific possibilities.”

Angelil discovered Dion when she was 12 years old and has closely shepherded her lengthy career. But in June, it was announced that she’d enlisted a new man-ager - Quebecor execu-tive Aldo Giampaolo, a “longtime close friend” of the couple.

Dion’s most recent album, 2013’s “Loved Me Back to Life,” topped the chart in Canada before reach-ing platinum certifica-tion four times over.

The lush Colosseum at Caesars Palace was built specifically for Dion, opening March 25, 2003 - the first night of Dion’s first residency (the evening was commemorated with a CBS TV special).

That show, “A New Day...” ran for nearly five years. In March 2011, she debuted a new show, simply titled “Celine,” which she planned to perform through 2019.

The new show was chosen by USA Today as among the best in Las Vegas, and it’s a major draw for Caesars. Pollstar reported that her average show in

2013 brought in more than $657,000 in rev-enue, while Billboard ranked her as the 23rd highest-earning figure in music in 2013 after she reportedly reeled in $11.8 million for her 60 Vegas perform-ances.

According to num-bers provided by Caesars, more than 3.5 million people have bought tickets to see Dion’s 928 per-formances since 2003, amounting to stagger-ing gross ticket sales of $508 million.

In July, Dion said at a Montreal news con-ference that her hus-band was doing “really well.”

“He’s working really hard on his health and he’s being a dad at the house, which I’m real-ly happy about.”

T H E A S S O C I A T E D P R E S SCelebrity colleagues and friends of

Lauren Bacall shared their reactions to her death Tuesday at age 89:

- “Betty Bacall; not only was she part of my father’s past but she was a mag-nificent part of my own life, and a huge influence on me. I’m so glad that in the last few years when I was living in New York City, I was able to live across the street from the Dakota and visit with her. Her spirit was undiminished and her beauty will live on forever. Now she’s back with Bogie.” - Angelica Huston, in

a statement.- “What a terrible loss for us all. First,

Robin (Williams), who was a genius, and now Lauren. It was my privilege to have known her, to have acted with her, and to have directed her. And, most of all, to have had her as a wise and loving friend.” - Barbra Streisand, in a statement.

- “She was a great, uplifting lady who was full of talent and fun. I feel fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with her. I will miss her dearly.” - James Caan, in a statement.

- “She was a great friend to my family

and especially to me. We all loved her, as she was one of a kind. I’ll miss her very much.” - Liza Minnelli, in a statement.

- “I had the amazing opportunity to work with Lauren Bacall in the movie ‘Diamonds.’ She was one of a kind.” - Jenny McCarthy, on Twitter.

- “Lauren Bacall’s life is a life to be celebrated. I am told her last perform-ance was on ‘Family Guy.’ For that, we are forever honoured and privileged. Thank you, Lauren, for teaching us all how to whistle.” - Seth MacFarlane, in a statement.

Brazilian presidential candidate in plane crash

T H E A S S O C I A T E D P R E S SSAO PAULO, Brazil - Brazilian presidential

candidate Eduardo Campos died Wednesday when the small plane that was carrying him and several campaign officials plunged into a residential neighbourhood in the port city of Santos, a City Hall official there said.

All seven people aboard the plane, includ-ing a campaign photographer and camera-man, a press advisor, as well as two pilots, died in the crash, City Hall press officer Patricia Fagueiro told The Associated Press.

In a statement on her official blog, Rousseff declared three days of official mourning in honour of Campos and said she would sus-pend her campaign during that time. “All of Brazil is in mourning,” the statement said. “We have lost a great Brazilian.”

Polls show Campos, the scion of a pol-itical family from the northeastern state of Pernambuco, was running in third place, trailing far behind Rousseff and another political rival. But his Brazilian Socialist Party ticket was widely regarded as among the best-placed to challenge Rousseff and her popular Workers Party, thanks largely to his running mate, the popular former Environment Minister Marina Silva, who joined Campos after she was prevented from running herself.

Silva’s press adviser said that she was on the way to Santos, but it was not immediately clear whether she would assume Campos’ spot as the party’s presidential candidate. Under Brazilian law, in the event of a candi-date’s death, the party has 10 days to decide on a substitute.

Pundits were already predicting that Campos’ death could complicate the presi-dential race for Rousseff.

Campos, 49, was married and the father of five children, the youngest of whom was born in January.

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Dion suspends Vegas residency and tour

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Bouchard started his championship Scrabble game Wednesday with the word “zilch” and finished with the opposite - the $10,000 prize and title of national Scrabble champion.

The 24-year-old player from Portland, Oregon, beat 29-year-old Jason Li of Montreal in the final round of the five-day 25th National Scrabble Championships played at the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center.

The tournament’s second seed, Bassett-Bouchard said he knew luck was with him when he drew a wild-card blank tile and an “s” on his first seven-tile rack. He led for most of the match, winning by a score of 477-350.

“I was playing catch-up right to the end,” said Li, the 18th seed, who had the letters to play an obscure but potentially high-scoring word but didn’t see it, creating a buzz among experienced onlookers.

“He’s going to be kicking him-self for missing ‘gramarye,”’ tourna-ment director John Chew said after the play.

Chew, co-president of the North American Scrabble Players Association, the event’s sponsor, called Li’s presence in the final round the biggest surprise in the tournament, which saw an emer-ging group of younger players edge out the old guard.

Tournament favourite and five-time champion Nigel Richards, 47, - described by one competitor as the

Michael Jordan of the game - fin-ished a surprising 16th.

“All these younger players are avid online players,” said Will Anderson, 29, trying to explain the success of the tournament’s 20-somethings at an old-fashioned board game.

“These guys have all played thou-sands of games on the Internet to hone their skills and meet each other before they’ve ever met in person,” Anderson said. The Croton-on-Hudson player finished fifth in Buffalo after placing third last year.

The final game saw Bassett-Bouchard and Li head-to-head at a white-linen-draped table while a tournament representative live-tweeted their every move. Although it was just one of dozens of games taking place inside the cavernous meeting room, the muffled clat-tering of tiles as players shook and drew from cloth drawstring bags was virtually the only sound.

The winning board contained the words florigen, trooz, venerate, con-tuse and barf.

Bassett-Bouchard said his win seemed imminent when Li played “jug,” giving him room on the board to spell “docents” and pull further ahead.

“From that point on,” he said, “it was going to be pretty hard for me to lose.”

The tournament began days after the announcement that 5,000 new words had been added to “The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary,” however they can’t be used until next year’s event.

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On May 21, 2014, a stunning looking cat was brought into the Trail Regional BCSPCA. She was a 2 year old female long haired Seal Point Siamese, who was found in an abandoned basement with her two kittens. Neanea is a particular female, who needs a little time to warm up to you before she will accept gentle pets. She would do best in a quieter home where she will be given the space she needs to build her confidence.To adopt Neanea, contact the Trail Regional BCSPCA at 368-5910 or [email protected]

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- “90210” star Jason Priestley and singer Jann Arden put their tastebuds to the test Wednesday afternoon as judges of Tim Hortons Duelling Doughnuts competition.

The pair - along with celebrity baker Anna Olson and TV personality Ben Mulroney - sampled eight confections cooked up by contest finalists.

The creations - chosen from 76,000 entries - included a red velvet con-coction and a breakfast-inspired doughnut com-plete with maple syrup.

Contestants dreamed up their sweet treats online, so today was the first time they’d seen them brought to life by Tim Hortons chefs.

In addition to showing their pitch video to judg-es, finalists sang, danced and even did handstands in efforts to win over the panel.

Four finalists will be announced Monday. The winner will be awarded $10,000 and experience the pride of seeing their

doughnuts sold at Tim Hortons.

Priestley made dough-nut headlines last year after an appearance on TV’s “How I Met Your Mother.” In a fake documentary, the Los Angeles-based actor claimed he had invented “The Priestley,” a straw-berry-vanilla doughnut with a chocolate Timbit nestled inside.

Tim Hortons then cre-ated a batch of the fiction-al pastry, and the contest followed soon after.

The finalists are:- Isabelle Scantland

Lebel of Gatineau, Que., creator of The Pistachio & White Chocolate

- Judd Mah of Edmonton, creator of The Lumberjack

- Nikola Kostic of Toronto, creator of The Big Canadian Red

- Lauren Armstrong of Toronto, creator of The Lemmy Tell Ya About Cheesecake

- Jennifer Brown of Glencoe, Ont., creator of The Love Reese’s To Pieces

- Danny Hawtin of Waterdown, Ont., creator of The Cookie Jar

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There is still no agreement between the City of Castlegar and CUPE Local 2262.

As a way of further stating their case, Castlegar city work-ers showed up in force at Monday night’s city council meeting. The workers were accompan-ied by CUPE Communications Representative, Murray Bush.

Leaflets handed out by the union stated, “Our goal is not to disrupt services but to press city hall to bargain in good faith for a fair and reasonable collective agreement.”

Local CUPE President Leford Lafayette stated, “We want to get out to residents that we do not want to strike. Contact mayor and council and ask them to look at giving our workers a fair collective agreement.”

Mr. Lafayette stated the out-standing issues were contract-ing out, management doing bargaining unit work and some concessions. He said, “I am not attaching a timeline. There are some time limits; we have to set 72 hour strike notice before too long. But we are hoping the employer will get back to the table.”

According to Lafayette the CUPE Local 2262 is “…willing and ready to return to the table for meaningful talks at any time and we look forward to hearing

from your bargaining commit-tee.”

The city would like to see the union respect the fact that it is funded by the taxpayers and has a responsibility to them.

Cast legar ’s Chief Administrative Officer, John Malcolm, stated in a press release, “Our strong financial standing is a result of years of prudent budgeting and spend-ing by council and staff and a reflection of the priorities and direction offered by the people of Castlegar. Our cur-rent offer balances the priorities of taxpayers with the needs of employees for a fair and reason-able contract.”

If the employer’s final offer

is accepted, it will mean the city works will have received a 22.25 per cent wage increase since 2008. The final offer includes a retroactive 5.75 per cent wage increase over four years, increases to extended health benefits, the optical plan and meal allowances. Also included are improvements to vacation and banked time carry-over, grievance handling and labour-management relations. Details of the city’s final offer can be found at www.castlegar.ca/strike.

The city has offered reassur-ance that in the case of a strike, all city facilities including city hall, civic works, the fire hall and RCMP will remain open.

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SMONTREAL - The Canadian jun-

ior women’s soccer team is gaining momentum at the women’s under-20 World Cup.

A 1-0 victory over North Korea on Tuesday night has put Canada into the quarter-finals feeling good about itself, even if their next opponent will be the powerhouse Germans.

“We were relentless,” said Janine Beckie, who was camped at the far post to put in Nichelle Prince’s pass in the 65th minute for the game’s only goal. “It feels amazing. We’re moving on.”

Canada finished second in Group A and plays the Germans, who were first in Group B, on Saturday in Edmonton.

Despite the loss, North Korea finished first in their four-team group on goal differential and will play the United States on Saturday in Toronto.

The Canadians needed the win

to stay ahead of Ghana, which beat Finland 2-1 in Moncton, N.B. to tie the host country’s 2-1 record. But the Africans were eliminated on goals for and against.

Canada, which opened with a 1-0 loss to Ghana, looked dead in the water when it fell behind 2-0 to Finland last Saturday, but Beckie scored to ignite a three-goal second half rally.

Then she scored the game-win-ner against the toughest opponent in the group.

Penetrating the tight North Korean defence had been a struggle all night as the visitors, who needed only a draw to clinch first place, allowed little space anywhere near the 18-yard box.

North Korea coach Hwang Yong Bong said that since his team was all-but guaranteed to advance, he wanted them to conserve energy for the next match. He had scoring star Ri Un Sim start on the bench because she had an injury.

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Whether it was coincidence or cosmic syn-chronicity, Dylan Maine won the 70th annual Rossland Trail Open at the Birchbank Golf Course on Sunday, the same day Rory McIlroy hoisted the Wannamaker Cup after winning the PGA Championship, and two years removed since both players won those very same tournaments on the same day in 2012.

The Rossland-Trail Open championship was Maine’s third title, while it was McIlroy’s second Wannamaker, but the Spokane golfer won this one in convincing fashion after shooting a three-day-total of 8-under par 208.

Defending champion Dan Dupuis looked like he was determined to repeat, taking the lead on the first day with a 2-under 70, followed by Rossland’s Taylor and Braden McKay who shot identical rounds of 71. Main carded a pedestrian round of 74 Friday, but caught fire on Saturday scoring an incredible round of 8-under 64, that included six birdies on the back nine for a 30, to take the lead. He would finish with a 2-under 70 on Sunday for the victory.

Dupuis, a Trail native, would falter in the final two days with rounds of 75 and 78, to finish at 7-over 223.

Trail’s Ray St. Jean finished strong with a 69 on Sunday good for a second place tie with Scotland golfer Finley Young who was runner up for the second year in a row shooting 214 over three days.

Jeff Papilion took low gross in the Seniors Division with a 221, beating Fruitvale’s Brad Harding by five strokes.

Over 100 golfers teed off for the tournament, and Birchbank Golf Professional Dennis Bradley was very happy with the turnout.

“It was a great event,” he said. “The play-ers got three days of golf, meals and tee prizes. Everything was great and (we) did a lot of work to make sure that everything ran smoothly.

Everyone was happy.”The tournament attracted golfers from all over

and Bradley says he hopes it added a bit of a boost to the local economy.

“It brings 120 people to the area,” he said. “We had about 40 players from Spokane, some from Kelowna, and eight from Calgary. Hopefully it brought some revenue to the community.”

The prizes were handed out on Sunday after-noon, but Bradley and other organizers are already looking towards next August.

“We are already planning for the same week-end next year,” he said.

70th Rossland Trail Birchbank OpenAt the Birchbank Golf Course

Overall Low Gross Dylan Maine 208Overall Low Net Montie Yockey 209

Flight #1Low Gross Low Net1.Ray St. Jean 214 1st. Braden McKay 2141.Finley Young 214 2nd Brett McLean 2153rd Brad Jones 216 3rd Derrick Simister 216

Flight #21. Tom Maine 232 1. Bruce McKay 2102nd Dave Stadler 235 2nd Dave Rugg 2183rd Dustin Howard 237 3rd Dale Reiberger 219

Flight #31.Rob McKay 248 LN Andy Dupruis 2122nd Mike Becker 256 2nd Dave Perehudoff 2163rd Jim Clarkson 260 3rd Dave Kingset 219

Seniors DivisionOverall Low Gross Jeff Papilion 221Overall Low Net Dan Horan 203

Flight #11. Brad Harding 227 1. Paul Troseth 2102nd Ty Langton 232 2nd Jerry Boyd 2143rd Doug Koffinkee 233 3rd Dave Muir 216

Flight #21. Dennis Stach 246 LN Tom McLean 2082nd Bud Nameck 257 2nd LeRoy Huestis 2153rd Bob Menin 258 3rd Gary Hunter 216

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Two years since his last Rossland Trail Open title, Dylan Maine returned to win his third championship at Birchbank on Sunday.

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S a s k a t c h e w a n ' s Baseball Hall of Fame is honouring one of Trail's residents for a baseball game he played in 1957.

Wallace “Wally” Pruden pitched a per-fect game with the Lashburn Linnets in the 1957 provincial Little League tourna-ment in Fox Valley, Saskatchewan and led to the Linnets' second consecutive provincial title. Before the 1956 tournament, Lashburn hadn't seen a provin-cial win since 1909 when a boxer brought home the provincial championships.

According to a press release from the Hall of Fame, only three players handled the ball in the whole game – Pruden, the catcher and the first baseman.

“Facing only 18 batters in six innings, giving up no runs, no hits, and striking out 13 batters, this was a history record,” read

the release.Not only was the

Trail firefighter a star pitcher, he wasn't too bad when he was up to the plate to bat, either.

“Provincial playoff batting averages rec-ord Pruden playing 12 games, at bat 31 times with 10 home runs, 38 runs batted in and a batting average of .645,” said the press release.

Pruden is being awarded a spot in the hall of fame for his

baseball talent on Aug. 16 in the individual player category.

“When the going got tough and he and the team were under pressure, Wally remained cool and came through for the team,” said the press release. “Wally was a very level headed, calm and polite young man which was carried over to his ball playing. He played third base, but he was (strong) to the team as a pitcher.”

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Wally Pruden will be inducted into the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday.

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SPIESTANY, Slovakia

- With first place in Group B of the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Cup sealed, Canada’s under-18 men’s hockey team didn’t let up against host Slovakia 5-1 on Wednesday.

Canada got goals from Ethan Bear, Lawson Crouse, Mitchell Marner, Travis Konecny and Tyler Soy and stayed healthy going into Friday’s semifinal with the United States.

“I thought we did a lot of little things

well,” coach Jody Hull said. “It’s a tough game to play know-ing that you’ve already clinched first place, but I think we accepted the challenge and kept things very simple in our game plan.”

In getting through pool play undefeated, Canada outscored opponents 15-3. One of the keys to getting through the Slovakia game was scoring early, which Bear did 5:20 in.

“It’s just a differ-ent game,” Hull said. “It was three games in

three nights for our guys, and they played hard the first couple nights. That’s always difficult. I thought that we were able to manage ice time very well and get everyone into the game.”

Soy, who scored Canada’s fifth goal of the game, said play-ers tried not to think about nothing being on the line.

“As a team we didn’t want to take the night off or not go as hard as we can,” he said. “We just want to keep building with what we’ve already started and treat it as if it was just any other game and go hard.”

Next up is the U.S., which has won two of its three games so far at the tournament. Hull said his team has a good chemistry going, and Soy hopes that continues to show on the ice in the semi-final round.

“I can’t wait,” Soy said. “I feel like the U.S. and Canada have made a pretty big rivalry in the past couple years and I’m really excited for us moving forward.”

The medal games are set for Saturday. Canada has won this tournament six years in a row, and 18 of the past 23 times since it began in 1991.

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PITTSFORD, N.Y. - Cristie Kerr knows the LPGA Championship is going to feel different, not only because it’s staged at a new golf course.

The LPGA announced in May that the tourna-ment was getting a new name, two big partners, a lot more exposure and a change in venue outside New York City.

Hello KPMG. Goodbye Wegmans Food Markets, and goodbye to the greater Rochester area in upstate New York, a staunch supporter of women’s golf since the tournament began in 1977.

Rest assured a few tears will be shed.“I’m definitely

sad if it is (the last time),” said Kerr, who won the 2010 LPGA Championship at Locust Hill Country Club. “They knew they weren’t going to get major status forever. All the players on the tour were hoping they would remain. It’s one of the best tourna-ments on tour, even if they weren’t a major.”

Next year’s tourna-ment will be called the Women’s PGA Championship. It will be the first women’s major run by the PGA of America and staged at Westchester Country Club in the northern suburbs of New York City. It will be televised on NBC during the weekend, only the second time a tour event has been on network television.

Wegmans has been a sponsor of the tour-nament for more than three decades and became title spon-sor in 1997 when the event needed one to

survive. In 2009, Wegmans increased its financial commitment and brought the championship to Rochester.

But higher purses and other factors will effect-ively double the cost for title sponsorship, too much for the supermarket chain to consider. The purse will increase in 2015 to $3.5 million, up from $2.25 million this year.

There are several Canadians in the field. They include Rebecca Lee-Bentham of Toronto, Alena Sharp of Hamilton, Sue Kim of Langley, B.C., and Jennifer Kirby of Paris, Ont.

The tournament was played at Locust Hill for 37 years. The final LPGA Championship begins Thursday at nearby Monroe Golf Club for the last time under its old name. The plan is to move it around the country.

“The ball’s in our ballpark,” LPGA Commissioner Michael Whan said. “We just have to find the next hero.”

A return to Rochester in the future is some-thing both sides seem to want.

“It would be strange for me to say we’re not going to be back in Rochester long-term,” Whan said. “I’ve seen it happen. Rochester has just become part of our fabric. This is where we belong. You almost took it for granted that we’d be in Rochester every year.

“We need to find somebody who says Rochester is important to us, so that we can make it import-ant to them.”

Inbee Park won last year in dramatic fashion at Locust Hill, with players having to play 36 holes on Sunday because of a first-round post-ponement due to rain. Park nearly squandered a one-shot lead with a final-round 75 that included bogeys on three of her last five holes. But when Catriona Matthew forced a playoff with a final-round 68, Park rallied with a 20-foot birdie on the third playoff hole to win her second straight major.

U.S. players have won the first three majors this year: Lexi Thompson took the Kraft Nabisco Championship; Michelle Wie won the U.S. Women’s Open; and Mo Martin surged to victory in the final round at the Ricoh Women’s British Open. The last time the first three majors in the LPGA were won by American players was in 1999, and not since 1992 have Americans won them all.

Wie already is out of contention for this one. She’ll miss the LPGA Championship because of an injury to her right index finger.

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESSATHENS - In an obscure corner of a park sits

a forlorn reminder that, 10 years ago, Athens hosted the 2004 Summer Olympics. The crum-bling miniature theatre is inscribed with the words “glory, wealth, wisdom, victory, triumph, hero, labour” - and it is where visiting Olympic officials planted an olive sapling that would bear their names for posterity.

Once a symbol of pomp, the marble theatre is now an emblem of pointless waste in a venture that left a mixed legacy: a brand-new subway, airport and other vital infrastructure that signifi-cantly improved everyday life in a city of 4 mil-lion, set against scores of decrepit sports venues built in a mad rush to meet dead-lines - with little thought for post-Olympic use.

As Greece groans under a cruel economic depression, questions linger of whether the Athens Games were too ambitious an undertaking for a weak economy. While economists agree it would be unfair to blame the meltdown on the 17-day Games, the post-Olympic era is seen as a decade of lost opportunities - including failure to significantly boost the country’s sporting culture. It’s a lesson to which Brazil may pay heed, as it races to complete pro-jects ahead of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

“We didn’t take advantage of this dynamic that we got in 2004,” said former Olympic weightlift-ing champion Pyrros Dimas, a Greek sporting hero turned Socialist member of Parliament. “We simply made the biggest mistake in our his-tory: We switched off, locked up the stadiums, let them fall to pieces, and everything finished there.”

“We spent a lot of money for some pro-jects (that) are shut and rotting,” said Dimas, who won his last Olympic medal in an Athens arena now reinvented as a lecture and confer-ence venue. “There were projects that should have cost 2 and 3 million (euros) and suddenly became so big that they cost 13 and 14 million. There was no control.”

The latest government estimate sets the final cost of the Games at 8.5 billion euros, double the original budget but a drop in the ocean of the country’s subsequent 320 billion-euro debt, which spun out of control after 2008. Former organizing committee chief Gianna Angelopoulos has commissioned the first independent survey of the Olympics’ overall economic effect. It will aim to weigh Olympic overspend and waste against a possible boost to the crucial tourism industry - arrivals have almost doubled since 2004, from 11.7 to 20.1 million - foreign invest-ment and employment.

“The Olympics were very important in increasing the brand awareness ... of Greece,” said economist Theodore Krintas, managing dir-ector of Attica Wealth Management. “But we did, very, very limited things on a follow-up basis.”

Andrew Zimbalist, a U.S. economist who studies the financial impact of major sporting events, said past experience shows that hosting the Olympics does not generally promote eco-nomic development: “At the end of the day, the main benefit to be had seems to be a feel-good experience that the people in the host city or the host country have,” said Zimbalist, a professor of economics at Smith College. “But that’s a fleet-ing experience, not something that endures.

“Why couldn’t Athens have simply invested ... in development and transportation and com-

munications and infrastructure, and not hosted the Olympics?”

The cost of hosting the Olympics and ensur-ing a city is not left with white elephants is a key issue facing the International Olympic Committee and new president Thomas Bach. Scared off by the record $51 billion price tag associated with the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, several Western European cities declining to bid or dropped out of the race for the 2022 Winter Games.

Reducing the cost and focusing on long-term sustainability is part of Bach’s “Olympic Agenda 2020,” a package of reforms that will be voted on at a special meeting in Monaco in December.

In Greece, few of the sport-ing venues - mostly purpose-built permanent structures - have seen regular post-Olympic use. The badminton venue is a successful concert hall, but the empty table-tennis and gymnastics stadium is up for sale, and the beach volley-ball centre has been rarely used and was recently looted.

Most venues are padlocked.The seaside site of Athens’

old airport hosted half a dozen venues. Politicians have dithered for a decade over how to use the sprawling plot - meaning facili-ties have simply been left to rot.

Lengths of large tubing lie near abandoned run-ways. Decommissioned jumbo jets sit near where planners once dreamed of building a water amusement park. This year, private investors won a tender to develop the entire area into a residential, commercial, hotel and leisure cen-tre, in a 7 billion-euro investment.

Greek Olympic Committee head Spyros Capralos, a senior member of the 2004 organ-izing committee, said the state of the sporting venues “puts our country to shame.” The former swimming champion and two-time Olympic water polo competitor blames bureaucracy and lack of foresight.

“Nobody was thinking what would happen the next day,” he said. “Many of the sports facili-ties were constructed just to be constructed ... and nobody thought that they required a lot of money for maintenance after the Olympic Games.”

In their haste to meet implacable construc-tion deadlines, government officials didn’t even secure proper planning permits for several venues, including the elegant crown on the main Olympic Stadium - a steel canopy by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.

Greece’s sports ministry says it has finally rectified the permits oversight, which until now hindered necessary repairs and maintenance, and funding has been found to conserve the roof.

Overall, Capralos insisted, the Games were a boost for Greece, mainly due to non-sports infra-structure pegged to the Games that otherwise might never have materialized.

“It saddens me that public opinion has come to believe the Athens Olympic Games were not successful,” he said. “They were very much so, both from the sports aspect and through projects that gave life to Athens - tourism has increased, there is a modern airport, roads, the metro, phones work properly and when it’s very hot the power system doesn’t collapse.”

Capralos believes the legacy of the stadiums can still be salvaged.

“Simply, someone must do whatever is needed for the venues to be taken over by the private sector - because I don’t think the state can be a very good entrepreneur or venue manager.”

Crumbling venues part of Greece’s Olympic legacy

T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SWASHINGTON - The United

States is planning an internation-al effort to whisk displaced people to safety in Iraq, and it appears there may be a supporting role for Canada.

The U.S. says it’s in discussions with several countries including Canada about helping Yazidis, Iraqi Christians, and other people who have become displaced by the advance of Islamist fighters.

At a White House brief-ing Wednesday, deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said the U.S. was taking up offers to help those who are under threat from the al-Qaida splinter group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

“We have offers of support from a number of allies like France, Australia, Canada,” Rhodes said.

“We’ll be in discussions with them about what they can do both as it relates to helping the Yazidi population ... but also, more broadly, helping bring relief to the displaced persons in north-ern Iraq, which includes not just Yazidis but an enormous num-ber of Iraqi Christians and others who have been driven from their homes by ISIL.”

It’s expected that most coun-tries would play a humanitarian-

assistance role while the U.S. weighs options for a military mis-sion to help move tens of thou-sands of people away from the area.

Last weekend, Canada prom-ised $5 million in aid for Iraqis, with nearly half the money going to international groups like the Red Cross and the rest set to be spent following consultation with allies.

The U.S. has stepped up its Iraqi engagement in recent days, after thousands became stranded on a mountain, facing starvation and the threat of being killed by Islamist rebels.

The U.S. has launched about seven airstrikes in the region and is now preparing a more elabor-ate mission, the details of which Rhodes said should become clear within days. He said U.S. military analysts were assessing different possible operations.

Rhodes was adamant about one thing: U.S. President Barack Obama, who removed U.S. com-bat troops from Iraq three years ago, would not be sending them back in.

The president has repeatedly promised not to send in combat troops, and has spoken public-ly about his concerns about so-called mission creep.

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Dear Annie: My dad passed away three years ago. He was one of my best friends, and we shared a love of classic automobiles.

The day Dad died, I chose to stay at work rather than go to the hospital. I run a busi-ness, and if I don’t work, I don’t get paid. That evening, when I tried to console my mother, she asked, “Where were you?” She refused to look at me, so I left.

To my mother and her side of the family, it seems I am always doing the wrong thing. It was Dad who encour-aged me to go my own way. My sister and her husband took over the sale of my mother’s house. I didn’t ask for anything. However, I do know classic car restorers and offered to help with the sale of my father’s cars when Mother said she wanted to get rid of them.

When I found a potential buyer for one last month, Mother informed me that she

had given the car to my sister as a thank-you for all the work she and her husband had done for her during the sale of her home. Supposedly, they are “restoring” the car and plan to keep it in the family. No one bothered to tell me. I was angry and upset.

My friends all agree that my mother was wrong to give the car to my sister without tell-ing me. I can no lon-ger trust any of them, so either I let it go or cut ties. Who knows what else they’ve kept from me? If they truly cared about me, they would include me in family decisions. I was working on becoming closer to make up for

our estrangement after Dad died, but now I feel betrayed. I am tired of paying for a debt I do not owe. -- Missing Dad

Dear Missing: You seem to be in com-plete opposition to your family. They say “left,” and you say “purple.” Perception means a great deal. When you stayed at work instead of being at your father’s side, your family inter-preted that to mean you didn’t care. When your mother then gave you the cold shoulder, you should have apologized instead of leaving. From her perspective, if you don’t care, why should she give you the cars to restore? And you believe that because you and Dad shared a love of those cars, she should have given you a voice in the decision.

You aren’t com-municating in the same language, and your anger is clouding the issue. Before the estrangement becomes permanent, please see whether you can work

on this. Ask Mom to go with you for counseling. We hope she will so you both can express your-selves with a mediator present to translate.

Dear Annie: I have fibromyalgia and other medical problems and need counseling for depression. I am on dis-ability, so my income is limited, and I am unable to drive. I was wondering whether you could help me. -- J.

Dear J.: Please try one of these organizations: the National Fibromyalgia Association (fmaware.org); the American Chronic Pain Association (theacpa.org); United Way, YMCA and YWCA; the Samaritan Institute (samaritaninstitute.org); and Recovery International at lowself-helpsystems.org. You also can find low-cost or free counseling through your local hospitals and university psychology and graduate-school counseling depart-ments.

Dear Annie: A while back, “Given Up Hope Out East” wrote that she was 50 years old and obese. She said she was happy and not going to diet anymore. It’s been months, and I haven’t been able to get her out of my mind. She needs to get busy and lose it

before she gets older. I’m 75 and mor-

bidly obese and cer-tainly wish I’d gotten it under control when I was 50. It gets 10 times harder every year to lose weight. I’ve lost 30 pounds in the past six months, but it’s really hard. I still have almost

200 pounds to go. Tell her to get with it! -- Getting There

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers col-umn. Please email your questions to [email protected].

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For Friday, Aug. 15, 2014 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) You feel passionate about everything today, includ-ing romance. If you have to defend your own best inter-ests regarding shared prop-erty, you will. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) You can hold your own in conversations with others today. You will do this suc-cessfully, even if you attract powerful people to you. “Trust the force, Luke.” GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You can get an enormous amount done at work today, because you will be relentless and persevering in your tasks. You intend to work until you finish the job. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) This is a powerful day for those of you in competitive sports. Nevertheless, all of you can use today’s energy to make strides in the entertain-ment world, the hospitality

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the Pied Piper, because people will follow you and dance to your tune. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) You are relentless in your drive to achieve something today. Fortunately, your efforts will pay off! Don’t give up until you have what you want. PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) This is a good day to make travel plans, because you will

override any objections and obstacles. Similarly, you will be successful in dealing with publishing, media, medicine and the law. YOU BORN TODAY You are a born leader. People respect you. You are kind, affectionate and warm, and you need positive acknowl-edgment and admiration from others. Save your money during the first half of the year ahead. Cut down on overhead expenses. Your

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Here we are again, another year is done;

Our lives go on without youAnd we miss you deeply, our son!Fourteen years have slipped away,

a lifetime in our minds;It truly feels like forever,

Time is not always so kind!

Forever in our hearts, Love Mom & Dad

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Homes for RentLOOKING for respectable, re-sponsible single parent or couple to rent my Edgewood acreage. 2 beds, both with en suites. Carport. Must be handy, keep large yard/have own tools/ equipment. Ref/credit check/DD required. Min 6/mo lease. Pets Neg. N/S $800/mo. Available Sept 1. 250-309-0949

TRAIL, 2BD. cozy, character house in Lower Warfi eld. Ref. $700./mo. 208-267-7580

TRAIL, 2BD., N/S, N/P. Available immediately. 250-367-7558

TRAIL, 2bdrm., full basement, garage, nice view. F/S, W/D, N/S, N/P. $850. 250-365-5003

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s; steel doors; Windows & Doors,

OREST PRODUCTS: tainably harvested rs, decking, siding, g and a wide variety custom cut to order.

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CUBAN CIGARS: Vegas Robaina Clasicos. Relax in style. NIKON CAMERA & LENS: Digital D200 camera w/auto-focus lens, 28-70mm, 1 WINTER TIRE: P225/75R15, like new $50; 3 Ford 15” car rims, $30; Craftsman 7” Skill saw, like new, $45; 2 pair rawhide snowshoes, $100/ea. .14’x24’ PREFAB GARAGE: Reduced price of $5000. View at Stanley Humphries Secondary School, Castlegar. 20’ CONTAINER: In Ootischenia, $2200 obo. 250-37 OLD HARDY BOYS BOOKS, $25; 4 English Hunting scenes, $30; replica broadsword and samurai sword, $30 ea; 3 South Pacic style masks, $45/all. BAMBOO: Bamboo sheets, blankets, duvet covers, towels, socks, bathrobes, etc. Mother Natures, downtown Castlegar, BIKE SHOCKS, seat posts, seats, SPDs, Sierra Designs tent (was $500), sell $150; printer, $40; PH meter, $20; Kuny carpenter suspenders, new, $10; 14” LCD TV with wallmount, $40; 50gal waterbarrels, $20ea. COIL TOP ELECTRIC RANGE: Older light almond colour, good condition and working order, $50. CUSTOM DRAPERY & BLINDS: Your fabric or mine, sewing and alterations. Curtains by Marg, DS LITE: w/assorted games, headphones, case, charger, $60; Gamecube w/assorted games & accessories, $40. 2FISCHER SKIS: 170cm, Rossignol bindings & poles, used 6 times, $200; used vinyl soft, approx. 120+linear.ft., $50; Edelbrock 750 carb, as new, $200. FUTON: Steel frame, double spring mattress, perfect condition, paid over $500, asking $200. 250-362-2269.

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1148 Bay Ave, Trail 250.368.5000All Pro Realty Ltd.

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Contact Our RealtorsWayne DeWitt........... ext 25

cell: 250-368-1617Mario Berno ..............ext 27

cell: 250.368.1027Tom Gawryletz .........ext 26

cell: 250.368.1436Dawn Rosin ...............ext 24

cell: 250.231.1765Thea Stayanovich .....ext 28

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Denise Marchi ..........ext 21cell: 250.368.1112

Joy DeMelo ...............ext 29cell: 250.368.1960

Waneta$369,900

MLS#2399031

GREAT

DUPLEX

Rossland$329,000

MLS#2397015

NEW KITCHEN

& BATH

Trail$159,900

MLS#2398210

NEW PRICE

Trail$185,000

MLS#2398665

SPECTACULAR

VIEW

East Trail

Fruitvale$289,500

MLS#2211947

DOUBLE

GARAGE

Warfi eld$319,000

MLS#2397360

REDUCED

Waneta Village$110,000

MLS#2394307

DUPLEX

BUILDING LOTS

Annable$169,500

MLS#2398114

NEW PRICE

Trail$290,000

MLS#2398210

SUPER LOT

Glenmerry$342,000

MLS#2398405

MINT

East Trail$169,000

MLS#2395777

GREAT

LOCATION

Trail$148,500

MLS#2399902

NEW LISTING

East Trail$129,900

MLS#2399121

CLOSE TO

HOSPITAL

Rossland$299,000

MLS#2399393

FANTASTIC

YARD

Fruitvale$299,900

MLS#2397286

GREAT SHAPE

Salmo$199,500

MLS#2398692

NEW PRICE

Salmo$269,900

MLS#2397445

NEW

INCLUDES GST

Salmo$359,900

MLS#2398594

NEW PRICE

Montrose$459,000

MLS#2399120

EXECUTIVE

HOME

Trail$129,900

MLS#2399453

NEW ROOF

Glenmerry$199,000

MLS#2396283

NEW PRICE

Trail$149,000

MLS#2397175

SOLD

Glenmerry$245,000

MLS#239820

EXCELLENT

LOCATION

Miral Hights$429,000

MLS#2397718

NEW PRICE

Trail$179,000

MLS#2399952

Redstone$839,900

MLS#2393760

CUSTOM

BUILT

Trail$89,900

MLS#2398249

NEW PRICE

Trail$160,000

MLS#2399060

Glenmerry$270,000

MLS#2390953

GARAGE

Waneta$339,500

MLS#2394130

Montrose$69,000

MLS#2392393

VIEW LOT

East Trail$129,000

MLS#2399958

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1211 Primrose Street, Trail $189,000

WOW- super clean and modern

3 bdrm/2 bath corner unit

townhouse with central air-Fully

fenced back yard that is completely

landscaped-covered patio for

entertainment and relaxation

-carport and paved driveway - many

new updates.Call Mark

(250) 231-5591

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640 Shelley Street, Warfi eld$217,000

Well maintained 3 bdrm family home with lots of upgrades! Bright sun room,

amazing views, new fl ooring, paint, trim, railing, electrical and windows. Call your

realtor today to view!Call Christine (250) 512-7653

BRING US AN OFFER

613 Forrest Drive, Warfi eld$205,000

This 2 bed/2 bath home features hardwood fl oors, generously sized bedrooms and an updated kitchen.

Numerous upgrades, including windows, roof, furnace, hot water tank, and electrical.

All you have to do is move in and enjoy.

Call Jodi (250) 231-2331

1922 Meadowlark Dr., Fruitvale $259,000

5 bdrms & 2.5 baths. This wonderful family home features many recent

upgrades. The large back deck is great for entertaining right off the newly

updated kitchen. Call Jodi (250) 231-2331

83 Perdue Street, Trail $159,000

This immaculate gem offers 3 bdrms, 2 full baths, beautifully decorated with modern spacious kitchen and

bathrooms, wood fl oors, high ceilings, large living room and updated windows

and doors. Move right in and enjoyCall Deanne (250) 231-0153

Lot 2, Redstone Drive, Rossland $399,000

Brand new spacious home at an affordable price. This 3 bdrm home

has enclosed parking for up to 4 cars and the inside fi nishes include granite top kitchen counters and hardwood

fl oors. Call your REALTOR® for more information or a personal tour.

Call Richard (250) 368-7897

NEW PRICE

1428 Columbia Avenue, Trail$212,500

Well maintained and updated, this 4 bdrm home has open fl oor plan, updated kitchen and fl ooring. Huge garage, large deck and river views complete the package. Come

take a look today.

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

1059 Tamarac Avenue, Trail$335,000

Opportunity knocks! 2 houses and 2 duplexes located downtown. With a few updates, these properties would make excellent rental properties. Call your

REALTOR® for your personal viewing.

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

1553 Diamond Street, Trail$149,000

Panoramic views and privacy await with approx. 700 sq. ft. of decks overlooking the Columbia River. Many upgrades including wiring, plumbing, roof, heating and central air, two bathrooms, 3 bdrms, and family

room. Call now!!Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

NEW PRICE

2705 Columbia-Kootenay Road, Rossland

$670,000Overlooking Happy Valley, this extensively updated home has so much character and charm. Spectacular views, bright kitchen, private sundeck and fi replace. All this on 1.13 acres. Price includes a separate 2

acre parcel too. Call now!

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

2207 Columbia Ave, Rossland $289,000

Great opportunity to start a new business or move an existing one! Fantastic central location, lots of

windows, hardwood fl oors and tons of character. Fully fi nished 1 bdrm,

basement suite with lots of light and a little covered sundeck. Call your realtor

for details!Call Christine (250) 512-7653

1463 Bay Ave, Downtown TrailFor Lease

Updated and very clean space in downtown core. Security system, air

conditioned, and great access to bring in large items. In an area of long standing

businesses with good foot traffi c.Call Art (250) 368-8818

SOLD SOLD SOLD

600 Centre AvenueCastlegar

$174,900

305 7th AvenueCastlegar

$195,000

2704 10th AvenueCastlegar

$279,900

OPPORTUNITY

KNOCKS!

The Waved Sphinx

Jean and Brian Wiley sent in this photo of a creeping and colourful caterpillar they came across in their Montrose yard. Known as the Waved Sphinx or Ceratomia undulosa, a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is appar-ently uncommon in B.C. and more widespread east of the Rockies and in particular in southern Alberta. If you have a unique or interesting photo you’d like to share with Times readers email to [email protected].

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