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More than $2 million has been allocated to upgrades at Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital (KBRH),

The regional hospital board, compromised of 30 directors representing the West Kootenay areas and municipalities, takes a look at a list of projects, during annual budget talks, that Interior Health deems prior-ity upgrades to keep region’s health facilities operating at an optimal level.

This year, the West Kootenay Regional Hospital District (RHD) board signed off on a list of 10 priority projects topping $3.5 million, with most of the funds targeting the regional hospital in Trail.

Upgrades at the KBRH includes the RHD respon-sible for 40 per cent of the bill, or almost $850,000.

The most significant KBRH project will be the completion of an airborne isolation room in the second floor Intensive Care Unit (ICU) totalling $660,000 and an additional $480,000 is budgeted to improve the hospital’s air conditioning system, telephone software, and radiology department upgrades.

The Trail facility was chosen for the airborne iso-lation room, which is a significant infection control upgrade, because it is the only local hospital with an ICU, a unit staffed with highly trained doctors and critical care nurses who specialize in caring for the patients with the most severe and life threatening ill-nesses and injuries.

With the emergence of new pathogens such as SARS and avian flu, the isolation room incorporates new standards of quarantine and can be modified to reflect setting-specific needs.

“The intensive care unit at Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital is the regional unit for the entire Kootenay Boundary,” said Ingrid Hampf, acute care area director. “So having this new isolation room will potentially benefit patients from across our region who need that specialized care.”

The project will retrofit an existing ICU patient room into an airborne isolation room, which is essen-tial at a regional hospital to adequately admit a patient that requires isolation to mitigate the risk of harmful airborne contaminants being transferred to patients and staff.

Regionally, the budget includes a $280,000 project to upgrade an outdated nurse call system in a Grand Forks extended care facility, and new sidewalks, curb-ing and parking lot replacement totalling $180,000 at Kootenay Lake Hospital in Nelson.

Additionally, a $948,429 global grant will be allo-cated in amounts ranging from $5,000 to $100,000 in all facilities for minor equipment upgrades.

With the local budget priorities in place, the next phase is for the regional district to formalize the agree-ment by establishing a bylaw that will be enacted in March.

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Times StaffWhile the recent snowfalls

have returned the area to look-ing like something of a winter wonderland, in most people's estimation this winter probably seems to be a very light year so far in terms of snow accumula-tion. Certainly skiers at local ski hills will probably be the first to declare that the season has been sub-standard from the per-spective of snow cover on their favourite runs.

However, local municipalities and utility companies have to take much more into considera-tion than just the esthetics of the season when considering the snowpack levels in the sur-rounding mountains.

“I've been in contact with BC Hydro and they've reported the snowpack is only slightly below average for this time of year,” said Gord DeRosa, Trail city councillor. “My own opin-ion is that we'll probably get the same amount of precipitation. Maybe not as snow but as rain in the spring.”

The difference between what people see in cities, towns, and ski resorts and the information supplied to utility companies and municipalities is where the measurements are taken by the River Forecast Centre (RFC), an arm of the B.C. Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations that is responsible for monitoring snow accumulation and stream levels in the province.

RFC maintains unmanned monitoring stations at key loca-tions in watersheds around the province at high elevations where precipitation through-out the colder months tends to accumulate as snowpack. In addition, manual snow surveys are taken eight times a year between January and June to verify the accuracy of the mon-itoring stations.

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Snow Day in Trail Wednesday’s snowfall brought different per-spective through Trail’s downtown. Left; A cute bichon called Chaine stares out the door at the falling snow from a warm vantage point in Steps Dance Studio. Below; Career Development Services employee, Kevin Murray, doesn’t mind the snowfall at all as it gives him a chance to get a workout shovelling crosswalks and clearing storm drains for the orga-nization’s snow removal contract with the City of Trail. Below left; Friends out for their lunch time stroll through the down-town, (from left) Cheryl Isernia and Regina Leslie, just can’t say enough about how they “enjoy” the fresh snowfall.

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FROM PAGE 1Of course considerations of snow

accumulation and runoff in the spring freshet tends to affect more than just the amount of drinking water available to communities, it also has a bearing on the produc-tion of the majority of the electri-city in the province.

“We look at snow across the province,” said Sabrina Locicero, stakeholder engagement advisor with community relations for BC Hydro. “We produce a monthly water supply forecast and balance it across our system to ensure we can provide reliable power genera-tion for our customers.”

BC Hydro employs a team of experts dealing in a variety of cli-mate related subjects to monitor the water supply system in the

province and how if affects reser-voir levels.

The utility company uses that information to determine its ability to generate power and inform the public if conditions may require people to conserve electricity in times of low water and high elec-tricity draw, such as in the dry, hot summer months when people are more likely to be running air con-ditioning systems.

“The Kootenay Columbia region appears near normal but slightly below average at this point and the one area in the province that currently has low snowpack is the Coastal region,” said Locicero. “We’ll look at the reports again in February. It’s a continuous process and the amounts can be quite vari-able throughout the year.”

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• Tonight, Local 480 Hall at 7:30 p.m. for the Trail Wildlife A s s o c i a t i o n ’ s annual general meeting. Guest speaker, Jakob Dulisse pre-sents Waneta Conservation of Reptiles at Risk. Call Terry at 364.1838 for info, or visit trail-wildlife.com

• Friday through Sunday at the Beaver Valley Arena. The Beaver Valley Skating Club hosts 115 figure skaters from the East and West Kootenays for the Kootenay Regional Championships. Events begin Fri. 4-8:15p.m., Sat. 8 a.m. to 7:40 p.m. and Sun. 9 a.m. to 2:25 p.m. For info call Dominic Verhelst at 367.0040

• Sunday, St. Michael’s School gym 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Everyone welcome for a Sundae Social. Free sundaes, live Christian band, student entertainment,

• Tickets on sale now for the Italo Canadese Society’s Primavera Banquet and Dance on Saturday Feb. 22nd at 419

Rossland Ave. in Trail. Cocktails 5:30 p.m. Five- course Italian din-ner 6 p.m. Live music of Time Trap Band. Tickets $33, only in advance by Feb. 15. Call Lina 368.5291 or Maria

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the J.L. Crowe Annual Variety Show, Feb. 13 at the Charles Bailey Theatre. A production by students, featuring students. Tickets $15, $12 with a student coupon at the box office.

• The West Kootenay Camera Club showing its First Annual Travelling Exhibition at Trail Coffee and Tea Co. on Cedar Ave. For more info, visit westkootenaycameraclub.com

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Call 364.1181 for info.Upcoming• Feb 11, Charles Bailey

Theatre the Trail Society of Performing Arts present Joe Sealy and his band. One of the country’s foremost gospel, blues and jazz singers, Jackie Richardson, tells the story of Africville, a small community located in Halifax which was ordered destroyed and the resi-dents evicted to build a bridge across the Bedford Basin.

• Feb. 14, Muriel Griffiths room at 7:30 p.m. Celebrate Valentine’s Day to the warm, sensuous sounds of JazzWest, featuring the Selkirk College vocal instructor Melody Diachin, saxophonist Clinton Swanson, guitarist Doug Stephenson and Rob Fahie on bass. Tickets $10 in advance at the box office, $15 at the door. Reserve tables for four or more, call 368.9669.

• Feb. 15 Trail Memorial Centre gym for the J.L. Crowe Valentine’s Day Dinner and Dance. Cocktails 6 p.m. Dinner catered by Gord McMartin 7 p.m. Live band.

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B y T i m e s s T a f fA 31-year-old man was

arrested at a Trail residence last week and faces charges related to Possession of Child Pornography and Possession for the Purpose of Distribution.

Those charges were forwarded to crown counsel after police officers of the Crime Reduction Unit and Trail Detachment GIS Section executed a search war-rant on Jan. 23.

Police seized several com-puters at the residence. The Crime Reduction Unit in part-nership with the B.C. Integrated Exploitation (“ICE”) Unit iden-tified a male suspect during an investigation, which com-menced in the beginning of January.

The BC ICE unit is special-ized in investigating Internet facilitated offences against chil-dren.

The male was released on several conditions including not to have any contact with anyone under the age of 16 years.

He will be making his first

appearance in provincial court on March 6 in Rossland, BC.

RCMP said in its press release there is no evidence suggesting that any local children were involved in this investigation.

It added no further informa-tion will be released at this time.

The BC ICE unit encourages anyone with information about online child exploitation to help protect children by reporting their concerns to Cybertip.ca.

According to a police press release, Cybertip.ca’s mandate is to protect children from online exploitation by receiving and analysing tips from the pub-lic about illegal material and activities regarding the online exploitation of children. Any leads are then referred to the appropriate law enforcement agency and/or child welfare agency.

Cybertip.ca also provides the public with information and other resources such as sup-port and referral services to keep families safe while using the Internet.

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How a future library will look is anyone’s guess.

But in this digital age, a library might become less about lending a book and more about transmit-ting text through less traditional sources.

The Trail and District Public Library reports an exponential increase of tech-savvy users in the last few years, aided by the addition of 12 pub-lic access computers, along with the circu-lation of electronic materials increasing by 63 per cent.

As local library users become more familiar with digit-ized information, the modern way to access materials through e-readers could mean books, CDs and DVDs become an antiquated resource for future readers.

The current 5 , 0 0 0 - s q u a r e - f o o t

Trail facility is packed with countless tac-

tile resources, so in response to not just a lack of space, but to keep up with the times, the library has added 10 e-readers to its stock of portable devices, and tens of thousands of books to its electronic library.

The new e-readers hit community circu-lation in March, once target groups, includ-ing children ages 9-12 and seniors, are familiarized with the product through after school programs and library outreach.

“We were inter-ested in doing this for a while,” said Belinda Wilkinson, Trail’s library director. “Over three years we have worked to trans-form the library,” she explained, “And this really is an extension to our home library services and focuses on programming related to families.”

In addition to

almost 30,000 e-books available, the virtual world of over 5,000 magazines, called Zinio, will be available for download begin-ning March 1, giving users access to browse or read digital period-icals offline.

If card registrations are any indication the library is headed in the right direction, Wilkinson can back up the library’s increased digital access, because in 2013, there were 1,976 new cardholders, compared to 368 the year previous, and 412 in 2011.

“New members are a remarkable indi-cation we are doing something right,” she said.

Factors Wilkinson attributes to the explo-sion of users, include access to digital med-iums, increased pro-grams, minor “wel-

coming” renovations, and a happy and help-ful staff.

“Our focus is to build relationships and partnerships in the community so we can continue to expand the services that the com-munity wants us to offer,” she added.

An e-book reader, also called an e-reader, is a portable electronic device that is designed primarily for the pur-pose of reading digital e-books.

Some of the advan-tages for those who are shut in, have limited space or reside in a care facility, are light-ness and comfort of the e-reader, explained Wilkinson.

“Especially if there are physical con-straints that made holding or navigating a physical book impos-sible or uncomfort-able.”

The library’s e-readers are friendly to users with some visual impairment because the ability to adjust text size and font, could phase out the need to order large print textbooks.

“For older people the scalable font size and the (e-reader) abil-ity to remember the last page read is help-ful,” she continued. “Reading in bed, it is helpful to hold it close enough to read and change the pages by clicking a button or swiping the screen.”

The library is requesting a $471,000 budget from the city this year, with funds being allocated to additional senior tech-nology education pro-grams, and expanding youth and early child-hood projects includ-ing the introduction of e-readers.

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Colorado resident Mark Kennedy fell into a tree well - an area of deep and loose snow around the tree’s base - and suffocated Jan. 11, 2009 while skiing on a mountain near Blue River, B.C., about 580 kilometres northeast of Vancouver.

His widow, Elizabeth Ann Kennedy, launched a lawsuit against her hus-band’s ski partner, Adrian Coe of Britain, seeking compensation.

She argued Coe owned her husband a “duty of care,” and failed to notify the heli-skiing guides as soon as he knew Kennedy was missing. She claimed that failure meant rescue efforts were delayed.

Kennedy also argued Coe breached an express or implied contract between the two the day of the tragedy.

But B.C. Supreme Court Justice Barbara Fisher disagreed and sided with Coe in a ruling posted online Tuesday.

“I have concluded the action in neg-ligence must be dismissed on the basis that Mr. Coe did not owe a duty of care to Mr. Kennedy, and even if he did, he

met the standard of care in the circum-stances and was not negligent,” she said.

“I have also concluded that the action in contract must also be dismissed on the basis that the plaintiff failed to prove the existence of a contract, or that Mr. Coe breached any terms of a contract.”

Fisher said Kennedy voluntarily took part in a high-risk sport with full know-ledge of its risks, paid a third party to participate in the excursion and signed a waiver.

She said there was no basis to find Kennedy relied on Coe to do anything more than ski with him through the forest.

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Initial reports say the 21-year-old fell about 100 metres down a cliff in an

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The incident trig-gered a rescue effort that lasted for several hours and involved Revelstoke Search & Rescue, Revelstoke Mountain Resort patrol, the B.C. Ambulance Service and Revelstoke RCMP.

After locating the man, rescuers called for the BC Ambulance Service’s Kamloops-based critical care heli-copter, which landed next to waiting police and rescuers in a sta-ging ground in the Greeley area.

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Initial reports indi-cate the man was snowboarding on the northern face of Mt. Mackenzie, in an area outside the Revelstoke Mountain Resort boundary. That part of the mountain is characterized by sheer cliffs and unskiable terrain that starts not far from the boundary rope.

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Trudeau swept Liberal senators out of his party’s caucus Wednesday in a bid to show he’s serious about cleaning up the Senate.

The surprise move - announced moments after Trudeau person-ally informed the 32 Liberal senators they are now “formerly Liberal senators” - is aimed at reducing partisanship in the Senate and restoring its intended role as an independent cham-ber of sober second thought.

After the initial shock wore off, the senators emerged from the meeting declar-ing that they’d been “set free” and praising Trudeau for his bold, courageous move.

They immediately used their new free-dom to contradict Trudeau’s assertion that they can no longer designate themselves as “Liberal” senators. And they went further off script by suggesting the move actually won’t change much in the upper house.

“We have agreed that we will style our-selves as the Liberal Senate caucus,” said James Cowan, who added that he’ll con-tinue to lead the offi-cial Opposition in the Senate.

He added that sen-ators remain friends with elected Liberal MPs and will continue

to talk to them and share their values.

“I think not a lot will change,” Cowan said.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper jumped on that during question period, call-ing it “the understate-ment of the year.”

Told that Trudeau was referring to them publicly as “formerly Liberal senators,” Cowan said, to nods of approval from his colleagues gathered around him: “I’m not a former Liberal. I’m a Liberal. And I’m a Liberal senator.”

Pierre Poilievre, the minister responsible for democratic reform, dismissed Trudeau’s gambit as “a smoke-screen” designed to “distance himself” from potentially dam-aging news in an impending interim report by the auditor general.

The spending watchdog is examining each senators’ expens-es in the wake of a scandal over allegedly fraudulent expense claims that has rocked the upper chamber for more than a year.

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair noted that Trudeau voted against an NDP motion last October which called on both the Liberals and Conservatives to cut their senators’ loose. He, too, sug-gested the loom-ing auditor generals’

report might have something to do with Trudeau’s change of heart.

However, Trudeau denied the imminent report had any bearing on his decision. And a spokesman for aud-itor general Michael Ferguson said no one has seen a draft of the interim report.

Trudeau insisted his move was predi-cated on his belief that extreme patronage and partisanship are at the root of the Senate expenses scandal.

“The Senate is broken and needs to be fixed,” he told a news conference on Parliament Hill.

Making Liberal sen-ators independent of the party’s parliament-ary caucus is a first, concrete step towards reducing partisan-ship, Trudeau argued as he challenged Prime Minister Stephen Harper to similarly free the 57 Conservative senators.

“If the Senate serves a purpose at all, it is to act as a check on the extraordinary power of the prime minister and his office, especially in a majority govern-ment,” Trudeau said.

“The party structure in the Senate interferes with this responsibility. Taken together with patronage (appoint-ments), partisanship within the Senate is a powerful, negative force. It reinforces the

prime minister’s power instead of checking it.”

If elected prime minister, Trudeau said he’d go further. He’d appoint only independ-ent senators after employing an open, transparent process, with public input, for nominating worthy candidates - much the way recipients of the Order of Canada are chosen.

Mulcair said Trudeau doesn’t go far enough.

“Obviously it’s a step in the right dir-ection, but why stop there? Why stop at 32? We want to get rid of the Senate altogether.”

Trudeau said aboli-tion is “either delib-erately and cynically misleading or empty and foolish,” given that it would require “the most significant amendment to the Constitution since the creation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms” in 1982.

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OTTAWA - Densely populated urban centres in the country’s largest cities will be the last to lose their door-to-door deliv-ery service, Canada Post said Wednesday.

The postal service said the older neigh-bourhoods and smaller lots in urban cores present different challenges for locating community mailboxes than suburban areas.

So, Canada Post says it will leave the majority of those areas until the final stage of its plan to phase out door-to-door mail delivery.

“The postal service will take the neces-sary time to understand their unique needs and find solutions that work for these neighbourhoods,” Canada Post said in a statement.

The postal service also said it was work-ing to address the needs of seniors and disabled Canadians.

“Canada Post is developing alterna-tive approaches for people with signifi-cant mobility challenges, who lack viable alternatives and upon whom delivery to a community mailbox would impose an unacceptable hardship,” it said.

The post office was widely criticized when it announced its plan to phase out home delivery late last year. Under the plan, mail for those who currently receive door-to-door service will be delivered to communal neighbourhood “superboxes.”

About one-third of Canadian house-holds receive their mail at their door. The rest pick up their mail at a central loca-tion, like an apartment lobby or commun-ity mailbox, or rural mailboxes.

The federal Crown corporation has said it hopes to realize up to $900 million a year under the plan to replace home deliv-ery with community mail boxes and by raising postal rates and cutting thousands of jobs.

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Trudeau’s Senate move better than the status quoIn a week where the

B.C. government was accused of “provok-ing a teachers’ strike”

and the federal govern-ment blasted for treating war veterans with disdain, it was a breath of fresh air when Liberal leader Justin Trudeau actually announced something that has Canadians thinking this is how a government should act.

Ever since the Senate scandal began, and years after patronage appoint-ments were part and parcel for loyalty to the ruling party, there hasn’t been one leader with enough cour-age to say, “We have to make immediate changes.”

Scandals, backroom deals, suspensions and RCMP investigations haven’t been enough for the ruling party to even answer a question on the course of events let alone take any decisive action.

However, Wednesday morning Trudeau changed that perception when he announced all 32 Liberal senators will sit as independents.

No longer will they be considered members of the party’s “inner circle.” No

longer will they weigh in on party policies or leader-ship reviews.

It’s not perfect but, for beleaguered Canadians who have lost faith in the polit-ical system, it’s something.

Even former Reform leader Preston Manning called the move a step in the right direction.

True to form, the Tories sent its pit bull Pierre Polievre to lash out at Trudeau calling it a “smokescreen.” His job, as always, is to denounce any-thing anyone says unless it comes from the mouth of a Conservative.

“The removal of sen-ators from a weekly caucus meeting does not change the fundamental problem with the Senate, which is that it is unelected and unaccountable,” Poilievre said.

However, I beg to differ.If the Senate is supposed

to be a “chamber of sober second thought,” then why are senators affiliated with any party to begin with?

If they are truly independent of Parliament, why do senators tend to vote along party lines?

There was much hoop-la made when a couple

of Conservative senators voted against suspending the trio of Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin and Patrick Brazeau. It raised eyebrows because senators don’t usu-ally vote against anything their party proposes.

This is what they call “sober second thought?”

Trudeau may very well be pitching to the many dis-appointed Canadians who see how terrible and cor-rupt things have become in our nation’s government.

But his point is one that should be embraced by all parties.

The problem is no party would ever applaud a move by another. If only they had thought of it first.

The Senate has become a joke. The last round of

appointments by Harper included Tory candidates who failed to win their ridings. Despite being rejected by voters as their representative, Harper gave them an even bigger role in deciding what rules the entire country

It’s certainly isn’t the first time politicians have used the Senate inappro-priately. Brian Mulroney famously stacked the Senate with eight sudden appointments in 1990 to ensure his coveted GST had enough votes in the Upper Chamber.

Which brings us back to the problem with patron-age appointments.

The Senate is suppos-ed to be a balance to the party in power yet when the Senate is loaded with people loyal to the party in power is there really any balance?

Some Liberal senators are in favour of the move and others are already voi-cing their concern.

Here are unelected people given a golden job, great pay, great pension with virtually guaranteed job security (as long as they follow the rules). Some are complaining that their

expense accounts will be slashed. Really? That’s the concern?

Aren’t we in the Senate mess due to the way some senators abused their expense accounts?

The complaining sen-ators are always free to give up their jobs. I guess if they faced that prospect then many of them would suddenly use some sober second thought to their own stance.

Granted the Supreme Court is still reviewing any major change to the Senate. But right now, that chamber is under a huge cloud. So Trudeau did what a leader should do. He thought about what change he could invoke without the need to pay a bevy of lawyers and tie up court time.

It may not be perfect, it may not be as altruistic as he claims but at the end of the day he did something.

For once a politician has heard the complaints from the citizens and acted.

How honourable he acted is in the eye of the beholder.

Guy Bertrand is the managing editor of the Trail Times

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It has taken a little longer than it did after the 1848 revolutions in Europe, but on the third anniver-

sary of the Egyptian revolu-tion we can definitely say that the “Arab Spring” is finished. The popular, mostly non-violent revolutions that tried to overthrow the single-party dictatorships and absolute monarchies of the Arab world had their moments of glory, but the party is over and the bosses are back.

People in the Middle East hate having their tri-umphs and tra-gedies treated as a second-hand version of European his-tory, but the parallels with Europe in 1848 are hard to resist.

The Arab tyrants had been in power for just as long, the revolutions were fuelled by the same mixture of demo-cratic idealism and frustrated nationalism, and once again the trigger for the revolutions (if you had to highlight just one factor) was soaring food prices.

In many places the Arab revolutionaries had startling-ly quick successes at first – Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen – just like the French, German, and Italian revolutionaries did in Europe’s “Springtime of the Peoples”. For a time it looked like everything would change. Then came the counter-revo-lutions and it all fell apart, leaving only a few countries permanently changed for the better – like Denmark then, or Tunisia in today’s Arab world.

The disheartening paral-lels are particularly strong between Egypt, by far the biggest country in the Arab world, and France, which was Europe’s most important and populous country in 1848.

In both cases, the revo-lutions at first brought free media, civil rights and free elections, but also a great deal of social turmoil and dis-orientation.

In both France and Egypt the newly enfranchised mass-es then elected presidents whose background alarmed

much of the population: a nephew of Napoleon in one case, a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in the other. And here the stories diverge for a time – but the ending, alas, does not.

In France, President Louis Napoleon launched a coup against his own presidency, and re-emerged in 1852 as Emperor Napoleon III. It had been a turbulent few years, and by then a large major-ity of the French were will-

ing to vote for him because he represented authority, sta-bility and trad-ition. They threw away their own dem-ocracy.

In Egypt last year, the army allied itself with former r e v o l u t i o n -aries to over-

throw the elected president, Mohamed Morsi – and within a few months, after an elec-tion which will genuinely represent the wish of most Egyptians to trade their new democracy for authority, stability and tradition, Field Marshal Abdel Fatah al-Sisi will duly assume the presi-dency.

The counter-revolution is as popular in Egypt now as it was in France then.

And if you fear that this analogy is really relevant, then here’s the worst of it. After the defeat of the 1848 revolutions, there were no further democratic revolu-tions in Europe for twenty years. If that timetable were also to apply to the Arab world, then the next round of democratic revolutions would only be due around 2035. But it probably doesn’t apply.

There is one key differ-ence between the European revolutions of 1848 and the Arab revolutions of 2011. The 1848 revolutions were violent explosions of popular anger that succeeded in hours or days, while those of 2010-11 were largely non-violent, more calculated struggles that took much longer to win. Non-violent revolutions give millions of people time to think about why they are tak-ing these risks and what they

hope to get out of it.They may still lose focus,

take wrong turns, even throw all their gains away. Mistakes are human, and so is failure. But once people have partici-pated in a non-violent revo-lution they are permanently politicised, and in the long run they are quite likely to remember what they came for.

The most promising can-didate to succeed Gene Sharp as the world author-ity on non-violent revolu-tions is Erica Chernoweth, a young American academ-ic who co-wrote the study “Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Non-Violent Conflict” with diplo-mat Maria Stephan.

A lot of their book is about why non-violent revolution succeeds or fails, but most interesting of all are their statistics about HOW OFTEN it succeeds.

Their headline statistic is that violent revolution-ary struggles succeed in overthrowing an oppressive regime only 30 percent of the time, whereas non-violent campaigns succeed almost 60 percent of the time. By that standard, the Arab world is certainly under-performing.

There have been only two relative successes among the Arab countries, Tunisia and Morocco (where the change came so quickly that hardly anybody noticed).

There were two no-score draws: Yemen and Jordan. And there were three abject failures: Bahrain, Egypt and Syria, the latter ending up in a full-scale civil war. (Libya doesn’t count, as it was a vio-lent revolution with large for-eign participation right from the start.)

So far, not so good.But the most relevant sta-

tistic from Chernoweth and Stephan’s work for the future of the Arab world is this: “Holding all other variables constant, the average coun-try with a failed non-violent campaign has over a 35 per-cent chance of becoming a democracy five years after a conflict’s end.” The game isn’t over yet.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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With sad and heavy hearts the family of Bud Milliard announce his

passing. After a short, but courageous, fi nal battle with cancer Bud left us peacefully

in the early morning hours of December 18, 2013 surrounded by family, at Duff erin Place, Nanaimo, B. C. Born in Kenora, Ont., Bud was predeceased by his parents - Alfred (Feb. 1936) and Janet (May 1947), three sisters – Joyce Portman (Sept. 1986), Shirley Olson-Dargel (Feb. 2005) and Pauline Anderson (Oct. 2009), as well as many aunts, uncles and cousins.Left to mourn are his loving wife of 60 years, � elma; his children, Janet (Brian) McQuarrie, Gerry (Kathy Gall) Milliard, Deb Nieman and Jamie (Phil) Gensey; grandchildren and great-grandchildren - Ryann (Matt) McQuarrie-Salik, Ashton, Valley and Sloane, Scott (Amanda) Nieman and Linus, Cassandra (John Tchao) Nieman and Cadence, and Chris, Tim and Gloria Gensey; plus numerous nieces and nephews.As a young man, Bud worked at the paper-mill in Kenora and dam building in Saskatchewan before joining the Navy in 1950. After leaving the Navy in 1955, Bud worked in logging and at the sawmill in Hope, B. C. before returning to Kenora in 1956 where he worked in the bush, drove bus, worked at the Legion and various other jobs. In 1964 the family moved to Castlegar, B. C. where Bud was fi rst employed at the Celgar sawmill, then at the Legion, in construction, and fi nally at the Cominco smelter in Trail from which he retired in 1992. In 1993 Bud and � elma moved to Reston, Man. to be closer to extended family members, but returned to B. C. once again in 2006 where they settled in Nanaimo. Bud was larger than life. He was a proud and protective man with a heart as big as all outdoors. We’ll miss his laughter, sense of humour, love of music, appreciation of people, his lifelong pursuit of knowledge, his generous spirit, and his all-encompassing love of family. Dad was most relaxed when he was camping and on the water. Papa was a consummate storyteller and never backed down from a good discussion. One of his favourite sayings was “I may not always be right, but I’m never wrong.” His grandchildren and great- grandchildren brought a new energy and sense of joy to his life.He will be greatly missed and never forgotten.

See you later Dad.No service by request. In lieu of fl owers, donations can be made to the Canadian Cancer Society, Kidney Foundation or the charity of your choice.

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Legendary American folk singer Pete Seeger, who died Monday at 94, had sev-eral West Kootenay connections.

While it’s unclear if the guitar and banjo-picking social activist ever actual-ly visited this area, a persistent rumour has him performing at some sort of labour benefit in Trail in the 1940s. One woman claimed to have recorded the concert, but the tape has not been unearthed.

Seeger did record a 1962 song by Malvina Reynolds called Do as the Doukhobors Do, although it went unreleased until a 2000 boxset called The Best of Broadside.

In the 1950s, he belonged to a popu-lar New York folk quartet called The Weavers. One of his bandmates, Ronnie Gilbert, lived in the Slocan Valley in the 1970s and ‘80s, where she was a found-ing member of Theatre Energy. (She returned to the area in 2006 for the Our Way Home reunion in Brilliant.)

Seeger was also friends with the Bockners of Argenta.

“My Dad went to the University of

Toronto and saw Seeger in a concert there around 1947 and just loved him,” Rick Bockner recalls from his home on Cortes Island, where he is a musician and woodworker. “Their politics were very similar.”

Rick’s parents, Lou and Phyllis, were Canadians but lived in St. Louis, where Lou was a social worker. He ran a chil-dren’s summer camp in the Ozarks that used Seeger’s music and helped organize concerts while Seeger was blacklisted during the McCarthy era.

Seeger became part of the Bockner home whenever he passed through St. Louis and was one of Rick’s first musical influences, providing him with his first informal guitar lessons at age five.

Later, when Rick wanted to buy a 12-string guitar, Seeger gave him advice. “We grew up on his music,” Rick says. “He was a huge influence on our house-hold.”

Rick’s sister Deb, who lives in Argenta, recalls Seeger “laying down for a nap in the back bedroom before a concert. We put on a record of his. I remember him coming out very angry because we were playing a record he didn’t like!”

Younger brother Peter, who lives in Nelson, was named after Seeger.

Lou Bockner died when his children were young, but the family stayed in touch with Seeger, who Rick last saw in an elevator in 1992.

“I had a chance to tell him how much he meant to me musically and he asked how my mom was doing — she kept in touch with him too, and we’d get a card every year. He was quiet for a minute and said ‘Seems like another lifetime.’ For both of us, it had been a long time.”

(Bockner’s mother was better known in Argenta as Phyllis Margolin, a noted painter.)

Bockner, who lived in this area off and on between 1961 and 1982, is plan-ning a tribute show to Seeger on Cortes Island’s community radio station.

He said Seeger had his finger on every social movement in North America since the 1930s, from civil rights to environmentalism.

“For every major political downer of the last 50 years, there’s been a Pete Seeger song to address it. I’m very grateful to him. He was a real mentor of mine.”

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t H e C A N A D I A N P r e s sWASHINGTON - It looks like another

major political hot potato has just landed on President Barack Obama’s desk: what to do about Justin Bieber.

That’s because a petition on the White House website about the controversy-prone Canadian pop star has crossed the crucial threshold of 100,000 signatures, compelling the White House to craft a formal reply.

The petition topic is: “Deport Justin Bieber and revoke his green card.”

It was posted last week after Bieber’s arrest in Miami following a drag-racing inci-dent, which came on the heels of a police raid on his house where one of Bieber’s friends was arrested for cocaine possession.

The number of signatures zoomed to more than 101,000 early Wednesday, reach-ing more than 106,000 by midday.

One immigration lawyer, however, is taking the question of deporting Bieber very seriously, producing a 2,400-word legal analysis of the pop star’s legal status.

His conclusions? The U.S. president can’t and won’t do anything about it.

“Although the existence (and success) of this online petition is certainly amus-ing, even when an official response is pub-lished, it is unlikely to satisfy the petition’s supporters,” writes Winnipeg-born Henry Chang, who has practised law in both coun-tries.

“This is because the White House does not have any real authority to deport an individual that it deems undesirable.”

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t H e A s s o C I A t e D P r e s sNASHVILLE - The

Musicians Hall of Fame inducted 12 new members across the genres, includ-ing bluesman Buddy Guy, British rock guitarist Peter Frampton and pedal steel player and country singer Barbara Mandrell.

Also inducted dur-ing Tuesday’s ceremony in Nashville were Randy Bachman from The Guess Who and Bachman Turner Overdrive, country musician

Jimmy Capps, bass guitarist Will Lee, rhythm guitarist Corki Casey O’Dell and coun-try guitarist Velma Smith. Posthumous inductions went to Stevie Ray Vaughan, along with his band Double Trouble, and pedal steel guitarist Ben Keith.

The Musicians Hall of Fame also gave their first Iconic Riff Award posthu-mously to Roy Orbison for his guitar work on “Pretty Woman,” and their first Industry Icon Award to Mike

Curb, the founder of Curb Records. Performers for the awards show included Neil Young, Duane Eddy, Brenda Lee, The Oak Ridge Boys and Chris Isaak. This was the first induction since the Musicians Hall of Fame moved to its new permanent museum location inside Nashville’s Municipal Auditorium.

“I don’t like the word ‘rock star’ or ‘super star,”’ said Bachman after the induc-tion ceremony. “I am a gui-tar player, a songwriter who

got lucky because I stayed at it and didn’t give up, long enough that people noticed me.”

Barbara Mandrell, who was the first artist to win the CMA Entertainer Of The Year for two consecutive years, said learning how to play the steel guitar and the saxophone helped to launch her career while still a teenager.

“It opened the doors for me, ‘cause there weren’t a lot of little girls playing steel guitar,” Mandrell said.

A dozen inducted into Musicians Hall of Fame

t H e A s s o C I A t e D P r e s sLOS ANGELES - Former

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Tom Sherak has died after a 12-year battle with prostate cancer. He was 68.

A film marketing and distribu-tion executive, Sherak died Tuesday surrounded by family at his home in Calabasas, Calif.

“Tom is a true hero in our lives who has a star on the sidewalk and wings to fly,” the Sherak family said in a statement released by the academy.

Sherak received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame just hours before his death but he was too ill to attend.

Sherak, who served as the head of the academy from 2009-2012, spent 17 years at 20th Century Fox, where he became the domestic film

group chairman. He also was an executive at Revolution Studios and Paramount Pictures.

Sherak worked on such block-busters as “Titanic,” ”Die Hard,“ ”Wall Street,“ ”Independence Day“ and ”Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace.“

Last fall, Sherak was appointed Los Angeles film czar to help bring runaway production back to the city. He was also responsible for completing a deal for the academy’s new film museum with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The museum is tentatively set to open in 2017.

A champion of change, Sherak expanded the number of best pic-ture Oscar nominees from five to 10 and was instrumental in bringing in younger academy members and making the group more diverse.

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report maintains that some 86 per cent of Canadian families will find nothing to be gained from the Conservative govern-ment’s long-promised plan to allow some of them to split their income for tax pur-poses.

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says it looked at the potential impact of income split-ting in three scenarios: on pensions, for those families with children under 18 and for all families across the board.

The left-leaning think tank says the impact in all three cases is very unequal, while the cost to Canadian governments would be substantial.

Senior economist David Macdonald says income-splitting for families with minor children would cost Ottawa $3 billion in lost revenue and another $1.9 billion provincially.

Macdonald says

it wouldn’t help the middle class either, since the top third of Canada’s richest fam-ilies would receive $3 of every $4 spent on income splitting.

Macdonald says seven out of ten senior families get no bene-fit at all from pension income splitting, while the richest 10 per cent of senior families receive more than the bottom 70 per cent combined.

“Income splitting creates a tax loophole big enough to drive a Rolls Royce through,” Macdonald says in a statement. “It’s pitched as a program for the middle class but in reality it’s an expensive tax gift for the rich.”

The report estimates that pension income splitting - which was implemented in 2007 - will cost about $1.7 bil-lion in 2015. Income-splitting to all families would cost about $11.8 billion, it said.

University of Calgary economist Jack Mintz has argued that the current tax system is unfair because it penalizes single-earner families with higher tax rates than those faced by couples bringing hope the same amount of

total pay.But he said reforms

should also recognize that single-earner fam-ilies have some advan-tages that dual earners do not, such as more unpaid time spent rais-ing children and tak-ing care of the home.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has promised to balance the books and post a surplus in 2015, just before Canadians go to the polls. The money would help them deliv-er on previous cam-paign promises, such as partial income split-ting for families.

They pitched the idea in the 2011 fed-eral election campaign, saying they would allow individuals to transfer up to $50,000 to a spouse as long as they had at least one dependent child under 18.

However, since the measure would cost billions every year in foregone tax revenue, the Conservatives said they would not imple-ment the measures until the federal deficit

was eliminated.Any surplus money

would be better spent providing universal child care or help lift seniors out of poverty, Macdonald said.

“Income split-ting is a policy choice that would purposely exacerbate already high income inequal-

ity in Canada,” he said.“This is inequality

by design, not by acci-dent.”

Others say income-splitting makes a lot of sense, as long as it is accompanied by other measures so that the benefits would be shared by all kinds of families.

CASTLEGAR –Alex Atamanenko, MP BC Southern Interior, is sponsoring a public tax information session for Canadians con-sidered to be “U.S. persons.”

A panel of immigration and cross-border tax experts will address issues related to U.S. tax and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).

The event will be held Feb. 11 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Fireside Inn in Castlegar.

The Canadian government is in nego-tiations with the Americans on an Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) to impose U. S. tax legislation (FATCA) on Canadian financial institutions. The agree-ment may require Canadian banks and other financial institutions to disclose information on accounts held by “U.S. persons” to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. Negotiations are being conducted in secret and raise con-cerns that the IGA could potentially violate Canadian privacy laws. Furthermore, the misinformation and secrecy around FATCA is causing a great deal of public anxiety.

“Canadians fear for the security of their personal banking information and the secur-ity of their savings”, said Atamanenko. “It is my hope that by providing my constituents with professionals who can offer advice and address their questions and concerns, we may alleviate some of the anxiety and give them the means to make informed deci-sions”, added Atamanenko.

Murray Rankin, Official Opposition critic for National Revenue, expressed concern at the prospect of a foreign nation uni-laterally imposing obligations on Canadian banks. “The Canadian government has a responsibility to protect Canada’s tax base, and while we understand the United States’ desire to protect their own tax base, this should not come at the cost of the rights of individuals residing in our own country.”

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The modern day tool kit requires smaller strong tools (we all know there is not a lot of space under the hood for working), a multimeter and a scan tool. Modern day repairs place considerably more emphasis on Ohm’s Law i.e. there is a lot of electricity/elec-tronics involved. They also require a little computerized intervention from that afore-mentioned scan tool.

Many people curse that lit-tle orange engine light I have written about many times, only because it seems like it is always on for something (another arti-cle for that subject). In real-ity that little orange light is your friend. You never had a little light to guide you through dark when you were working on your seventies’ muscle car.

Take a choke problem. Yes, you may remember the days of the carburetor and the manual choke which then begat the automatic choke which begat the electrically assisted auto-matic choke. Yes, those were

better days…..not. The choke was there to

essentially mechanically reduce airflow and increase fuel flow when starting and running a cold engine. Cold engines need

more fuel mixed with air to start and run. As the engine warms up the fuel to air ratio must be reduced. With a manual choke the driver was in charge of balancing the air fuel mixture. The automatic choke took away that level of con-trol. You old timers might equate it to my lamenting the replace-

ment of manual transmissions with automatics.

So your seventies behemoth won’t start when it gets below zero. What did you do? Is the choke working? Open the hood, remove the air cleaner. Look at the flap on the top up the car-buretor. Is it closed? Does the choke open partially while the engine is cranking over? Is the engine over choked or under choked? Pry it open with a stick (seventies MacGyver). Try start-ing it. Will it start now? You may know the drill.

Step into the twenty first century. Out to start your fuel sipping compact car in the cold. It cranks over fine but won’t start. What to do? Connect up your scan tool. Read the codes. No codes. Check the sensor inputs to the engine computer.

The modern day choke is much simpler. It is an electrical sensor that reads engine temperature directly from the coolant. Let’s see, the outside temperature is zero. My scan tool reports that the engine thinks it is minus thirty degrees (too much choke). Modern day MacGyver thinks. This vehicle has both an outside air temperature sensor and an engine coolant temper-ature sensor. The outside air temperature sensor reads zero as it should. Lift the hood. Find the coolant temperature sensor and disconnect it. The engine computer recognizes the mis-sing information, turns on the check engine light and seeks the input of the second best choke information from the outside air temperature sensor. The engine starts on the first try.

Modern day MacGyver think-ing gets you out of a jam. A choke is a choke be it the sev-enties version or the two thou-sands version.

In our pursuit of the non polluting automobile the engine performance control system has become fairly com-plex. With complexity has come redundancy. There are many backup strategies that keep an engine running. Sometimes the modern day MacGyver can force a backup strategy to get you home to your favorite mech-anic.

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B y J i m B a i l e yTimes Sports EditorA surging Creston

Valley Thunder Cats took full advantage of a severely deplet-ed Beaver Valley Nitehawks line up on Tuesday at the Beaver Valley Arena, as the Cats clawed their way to a 7-3 victory.

The Nitehawks were short six players and one coach when they stepped onto the ice versus the Cats, and after an undisciplined start by B.V., Creston would erupt for five second-period goals on their way to an 11th straight win.

“They have a good team, they skate well, they work hard, there was no secret to what they were going to bring,” said Hawks assistant coach Kevin Limbert. “We had guys out of the line up, but we were more con-cerned with the effort we got from the guys in the line up, and the effort just wasn’t there tonight.”

Due to injury or illness the Nitehawks were without lead-ing scorer Ryan Edwards, captain Archie McKinnon, Russell Mortlock, Jacob Boyzuk, Kyle Hope, and goalie Greyson Sharpe, and would insert affiliate players Mitch Titus, Spencer McLean, and goaltender Carson Schamerhorn into the

line up to take up the slack.

But it would be all Thunder Cats on this night.

“I thought we played pretty good,” said Thunder Cats’ coach Josh Hepditch. “We had a game plan coming in here, we knew they’d come with a lot of pressure, so we just tried to use our speed and for the most part we executed pretty well.”

Forward Brandon Formosa would score the winning goal on the power play at 12:45 of the second period to

make it 4-1.

Colby Livingstone worked the puck down low to Tyler Podgorenko who blasted a shot on goal.

Hawks’ goalie Brett Clark made a quick pad save but the rebound went right to Formosa who banged it in and chased Clark from the Hawks net in favour of AP Schamerhorn.

The Nitehawks were in penalty trouble throughout the game giving the Cats eight power-play opportun-ities, on which they scored twice. Unlike the Hawks, who spent almost a period in the sin bin, Creston maintained their com-posure and were able to neutralize an ailing Nitehawk attack.

“We looked over at their line up and knew they were mis-sing some key guys, so we just wanted to push the pace,” said Hepditch. “We’ve had to learn the hard way, we have had our share of undisciplined pen-alties and we’ve kind of learned from it. Everybody’s been on that side of he eight ball before too, you’re losing, you get frus-trated, it gets tough, we just tried to play with respect for the full game and I think that’s what we did.”

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Creston Valley Thunder Cats forward Colby Livingstone blasts a puck into the open net to help lift the Cats to a 7-3 victory over the Beaver Valley Nitehawks Tuesday at the B.V. Arena.

Thunder Cats pounce on Nitehawks

By Times sTaffThe Merritt Centennials continued

their playoff charge with a convincing 8-1 victory over the Trail Smoke Eaters Tuesday night in Merritt.

The Centennials’ Diego Cugliatta netted a hat trick including the even-tual winning goal at 9:16 of the opening period, as Merritt, who is 3-1-1 in their last five games, pulled within one point of Salmon Arm for the final Interior division playoff spot.

The Cents jumped out to a 5-0 lead on a pair of goals from Scott Patterson, Cugliatta, Gavin Gould, and a short-

handed tally from Adam Tracey, before Trail’s Zane Shwartz put the Smokies on the board at 18:12 of the second period.

Another shorthanded goal from Cuglietta one minute into the third frame made it 6-1 and Rhett Wilcox and Cuglietta would round out the scoring for the Cents.

Trail goalie Dustin Nikkel stopped 27 of 33 shots before AP Nate Rabbit came on in relief at 17:09 of the third and blocked 6-of-8.

The race for the final Interior div-ision playoff spot is shaping up to be another exciting finish. With 12 games

remaining, Merritt sits in fifth spot, a point behind the SilverBacks and four back of Vernon with the Cents enjoying a game-in-hand on the Vipes. Merritt’s final three games of the season include two versus Salmon Arm and their final match against Vernon.

The Smoke Eaters meanwhile travel to Vernon Friday to take on the Vipers, and return to Cominco Arena Saturday for another tilt with the Centennials at 7:30 p.m.

With 9-of-10 games remaining against Interior division opponents Trail will look to make a difference.

Centennials making playoff move

By Times ConTriBuTorRellish Transport

led by skip Deane Horning won its sixth consecutive Kootenay Savings Super League title last week against a familiar foe.

This season’s Super League concluded with an A-event final that pitted the top two regular season teams in a three-hour mara-thon, that appropri-ately went down to the last rock.

Team Rob Ferguson with third Brian Lemoel, second Joey Ferguson and Markus Partridge as lead, struck early against Rellish stealing one in the first, then two more in the second to jump into a 3-0 lead.

Rellish, who would play without third Don Freschi, was skipped by Deane Horning with third Kevin Nesbitt, second Richard Faunt, and lead Justin Umpherville filling in. Horning struck back in the third, drawing for one, before tying the game with a steal of two in the fourth.

The next three ends were carefully played, with both teams for-cing the other to take singles with their hammer advantage.

The TSN turning point came in the eighth, with Ferguson leading 5-4, and one already buried, skip Rob played a fantas-tic delicate raise tap to the four-foot to lay two guarded stones.

But Horning coun-tered with the shot of the game, making an angle-raise double takeout to count two, and Rellish Transport’s first lead of the game.

Team Ferguson could only manage a single in the ninth, and tried every-thing to steal the last end. Unfortunately, their last rock guard overcurled, leaving Horning a take-out pick to win the game 8-6.

Rellish Transport Services sported an amazing 15-1-1 record in Kootenay Savings Super League this season, and after the game, second Richard Faunt was candid about the team’s suc-cess.

“It’s easier when you have someone like Deane skipping. He is curling probably the best I’ve ever seen him curl.”

The other three games didn’t go past the eighth end. In the B final, and the battle of the skip spouses, Myron Nichol and his West Kootenay Mechanical team took home the brag-ging rights with a 9-3 victory over Heather Nichol and her Maglio Ladies rink.

In one C Consolation game, Team Fines pounded Team Albo 9-4, while the other saw Brost Autoworx get the best of Maglio Mens 7-3.

A big thank-you to Kootenay Savings Credit Union for again sponsoring the league.

See photo on Page 12.

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Eddie Mountain Division GP W L T OL PtCreston 42 32 10 0 0 64Fernie 43 21 16 0 6 48Kimberly 45 23 21 1 0 47Columbia45 11 25 3 6 31Golden 44 13 27 1 3 30

Neil Murdoch Division GP W L T OL PtB.V. 44 33 8 1 2 69Nelson 44 32 8 1 3 68

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FROM PAGE 11 The Hawks opened the scoring when Sheldon

Hubbard whacked a third try past Cats’ goalie Kyle Michalovsky 30 seconds after the opening faceoff.

However, Colby Livingstone replied with a power-play goal wiring a cross-ice pass from Cats leading scorer Jesse Collins into an open net at 15:58 of the first.

The Cats started their five-goal splurge three minutes into the second frame when Carson Cartwright wristed one by Clark. Then 27 seconds later Connor Kidd added his first of two on the night, before Formosa fired home the winner.

Dallas Calvin would cut the lead to two, when he grabbed a loose puck off the faceoff and fired it through the pads of Michalovsky. But the Cats would restore the three-goal cushion on a Trevor Hanna marker, and Kidd would make it 6-2 con-verting a rebound off a Cartwright blast at 1:48 of the second.

Marcel Fuchs would make it 7-2 early in the

third, and midway through the period Calvin would notch his second of the night to give him 35 goals on the season, and move him into a tie for fifth with Edwards in league scoring with 71 points.

The Nitehawks directed 40 shots on the Creston goal, while the Cats fired 53 shots at Clark and Schamerhorn in the Hawks net for the statement win.

“It was big for us,” said Hepditch. “We’ve been playing well and we knew these guys were going to be good. I think they have a good chance of winning, so we wanted to use it as a measuring stick for us and I think we answered the bell.”

Creston and Beaver Valley remain atop their respective divisions, with the Hawks holding a tenuous one-point edge on the Nelson Leafs, while the Cats own a 16-point cushion over Fernie in the Eddie Murdoch division.

The Nitehawks next travel to Fernie to take on the Ghostriders on Friday at 7:30 p.m.

Nitehawk Notes:Due to work and personal commitments,

Jeremy Cominotto stepped down as assistant coach of the Beaver Valley Nitehawks last week.

“We are going to miss him a lot,” said Limbert. “He brings a lot to the table as far as experience, and we’re a family, we’re a tight knit group, and it’s hard to see him go, but he had some tough choices and it wasn’t very easy for him. He had things outside that he had to take care of and we are sad to see him go but we wish him the best.”

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From left: The Rellish Transport Service’s rink comprised of skip Deane Horning, Kevin Nesbitt, Richard Faunt, and Justin Umpherville won the Kootenay Savings Super League curling title in a marathon match against the Rob Ferguson rink. Missing is third Don Freschi.

Hawks ailing line up comes up shortBeaver Valley Recreation is get-ting active with Zumba Kids on Mondays at the Fruitvale Hall for children aged four to six from 3-3:30 p.m. and ages seven to 11 at 3:45-4:30 p.m.

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and closest friendships. The realization of this might dawn on you today. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) You are entering a time of harvest, which is why things are looking great. You can improve your job this year or get a promotion. Many of you will get praise and acco-lades for your achievements. PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Plan for a vacation,

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Nelson Search and Rescue helped pull an injured snow-mobiler out of the forest at Kootenay Pass this past week-end.

A man in his mid-20s had been riding along the south shore of Monk Lake with four others on snowmobiles, at about 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, when he was thrown from his machine and fell badly, suffering what appeared to be a spinal cord injury. Two rid-ers went to get help while the others stayed with the injured man, administering what first aid they could.

By the time Search and Rescue received the call, at about 4:30 p.m., it was too late to get a helicopter or any sort of air transport to the scene, so the evacuation had to be done by land.

Creston Search and Rescue members, who managed the search with a half dozen volun-teers on site, also brought in a team of five from Nelson SAR, who have extensive experience working in avalanche terrain, and two from South Columbia SAR, as additional backup.

They also contacted the Creston Snowmobile Club and managed to get seven people on snowmobiles to bring rescu-ers out to the scene, about 20 kilometres from the trailhead off Highway 3A.

Fortunately, the avalanche risk was low, which allowed the rescuers to go into what can sometimes be dangerous ter-rain at night.

“By time we reached the subject, his two companions had decided to take the risk and move him down from lake, [about 10 kilometres] to Maryland Creek Forest Service Road,” Nelson search manager Scott Spencer explained.

When his team arrived, Spencer said, they found the injured man very cold and shiv-ering.

“We re-warmed him, did our assessment, and packaged him properly for spine injury [and] onto a rescue toboggan.”

They had originally planned to care for the man through the night and get him airlifted out at first light. But because he was now much closer to the trailhead, the rescuers decided to continue moving him out.

“It was fairly arduous,” said

Spencer. “There was a lot of steep

terrain that challenged the snow machines. We had to do some hand pulling and skiing down on some of the steeper slopes to maintain control of the toboggan.”

The injured man was in good spirits throughout the ordeal, keeping up a conversation with rescuers, Spencer said.

At about 1:30 a.m. Sunday morning, the team reached the highway, where an ambulance was waiting to bring the man to the Trail hospital.

According to Spencer, Search and Rescue regularly helps extract injured people from the backcountry. But it’s usually a much simpler process because they can get in by air.

“If we’d received the call even just a half hour sooner, we might have been able to get in by air and had him out right away,” he said, adding that a satellite phone or SPOT per-sonal tracker can be valuable tools in the backcountry if you need to call for help.

“If you’re going to go out in the backcountry, be prepared for anything to happen and have a plan if it does.”

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302 Ritchie Avenue, Tadanac $419,000

This graceful and spacious home offers beautiful “heritage” characteristics including hardwood fl oors, French doors, charming den, and large rooms. Master bedroom offers huge en suite with

jetted tub and lots of closet space. Open and bright kitchen with large, sunny eating area and patio doors to deck.

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

1205 Green Avenue, Trail

$145,0005 bedroom/2 bath home with new kitchen and

awesome views!Call Jodi 250-231-2331

3873 Woodland Drive, Trail $285,000

Immaculate one owner home with 5 bdrms, 2.5 baths, in-law suite in the

basement, large carport, family room and lovely street appeal. This is a gem and

priced to sell!Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

NEW LISTING

1500 Highway 3B, Fruitvale $229,000

This home offers 3+ bdrms and excellent fl oor plan. Main fl oor features hardwood fl oors, large living room with fi replace.

Re-shingled in 2009, garage and carport. Basement has good rec room and

workshop area. All this on 0.81 acres. This is a desirable package. Call today.

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

NEW PRICE

85 Forsythia Drive, Fruitvale

$310,000Wonderfully updated home with 4 beds,

2.5 baths, new roof and more.Call Jodi

250-231-2331

1734 Noran Street, Trail $209,000

Spacious 4 bedroom, 2 bath, character home Over 2900 sq ft of space with

newer windows, upgraded plumbing and electrical panel. There is plenty of parking

accessed through the back alley. Relax and/or entertain outside under the large

covered patio. This is a very special home! Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

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7780 Crema Drive, Trail $199,000

This 1/2 duplex is an end unit with 2 bdrms, large storage area and open fl oor plan. One fl oor living with crawl

space for extra storage. This is a beautiful home ready for you to move

in, put your feet up and relax. Yard maintenance is done by the strata.

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

NEW LISTING

2207 Columbia Avenue, Rossland

$289,000Great 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

NEW LISTING

112 - 4th Street, Salmo $109,000

Excellent investment opportunity as a rental property, or locate your business here and live upstairs. Each level has its own energy effi cient Heat Pump. Retail

and Residential space in a great location. This is an opportunity you don’t want to

miss. Call your REALTOR® today for your personal viewing.

Call Art (250) 368-8818

1741 - 3rd Avenue, Rossland $449,000

This 4 plex is a must see! Immaculate 4-2 bdrm units that have been

impeccably maintained and renovated. Each unit is approx. 950 sq ft, separately metered, have washers/dryers, hot water

tanks and all appliances. 4 covered parking spaces with storage lockers,

large .21 acre lot, brand new roof over carports and newer roof on the building.

Great rental income! Call Christine (250) 512-7653

328 - 2nd Avenue, Rivervale $79,900

This 3 bedroom house is located in nice location in Quiet Rivervale. The home is vacant & is in need of some T.L.C. But has the space and is adjacent to well

kept homes on either side so with some effort & upgrades you will have a winner.

Call Richard (250) 368-7897

NEW PRICE

3554 Mayfl ower Road, Krestova $399,000

Well cared-for mobile home with several upgrades including roof, laminate fl ooring

and a cozy pellet stove. The 2.51 acre level parcel is mostly fenced with a guest

cottage, a garden with greenhouse, chicken coop and storage shed. 40’ x 24’

shop with new woodstove. Call today.Call Terry A. (250) 231-1101

956 Spokane Street, Trail

$159,900 Commercial / Residential - excellent

investment opportunity here! Long term tenants in place - just take over the

income stream!Call Tonnie (250) 365-9665

910 Tamarack Crescent, Genelle

$370,000Full package: 3 bdrm 2 bath on main,

plus 1 bdrm 1 bath self-contained inlaw suite. 14x14 shop and 2 car garage,

great storage and fully landscaped .51 acre fl at lot.

Call Tonnie (250) 365-9665

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NEW LISTING

#312 - 880 Wordsworth Avenue, Warfi eld

$78,500Modern 1 bdrm/1 bath condo has been

totally updated and is ready to move in and enjoy. Book your viewing.

315 - 880 Wordsworth Avenue, Warfi eld

$74,900Mortgage payments are less than rent

on this modern 2 bdrm. condo - call your REALTOR® for your viewing.

Call Mark (250) 231-5591

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