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BY ARNE PETRYSHENRossland News
Rossland is not interested in paying the City of Trail for the use of the Trail Aquatic Centre. That’s the message that the plebiscite vote, completed at the beginning of the July, gets across.
The vote was: “As a Rossland resi-dent and taxpayer I support council to make financial contributions through my property taxation for the use of the Trail Aquatic Centre.”
The vote was close, with 198 people saying they do support it and 225 saying no.
The plebiscite also tried to determine the support from Rossland for the use of the pool.
Of those, 215 said they intend to use
the Trail Aquatic Centre, and 256 said they don’t intend to.
At the moment, Rossland residents pay more to use the facility than residents from any other place.
That’s because Rossland and Trail can’t come to an agreement on the issue of how much Rossland should pay to subsidize the pool.
Rossland declined Trails offer and there have been no negotiations since.
Coun. Jill Spearn said it’s interesting looking at the numbers and the way to interpret them.
She noted that if the town had come out in full force, the vote would have been 50/50.
“It’s a little nebulous,” Spearn said. “The problem is we can’t have that con-
versation (with Trail) unless we pay what we’re going to pay.”
Coun. Kathy Moore said she is happy to receive the vote, though she noted that there were people around town saying they would boycott the vote. Moore said she couldn’t understand why they would do that, as then they aren’t counted at all. Fisher was also happy to receive the plebiscite.
“A vote is a vote,” he said. “Enough is enough. For us to be singled out... at the end of the day it’s about protecting turf.”
Fisher said he choses not to use the facility because of what Trail has done.
“I think it’s childish,” he said.Mayor Greg granstrom said the plebis-
cite is democracy in action, and the vote is on the ballots.
BY TIMOTHY SCHAFERTimes Staff
The region’s emer-gency operations centre was activated Thursday afternoon to deal with the rising levels of the Columbia River.
The move was predi-cated after BC Hydro announced that, due to heavy rainfall events above the Mica Dam, increased amounts of water needed to be released into the Columbia River.
BC Hydro began releasing approxi-mately 215,000 cubic feet per second from the Hugh Keenleyside Dam near Castlegar Thursday afternoon. This was up from the 204,000 cubic feet per second that BC Hydro had previously been releasing.
A BC Hydro release Thursday anticipated that the flow increase would result in a river level rise of approxi-mately one foot.
The duration for the increased release was expected to be about
one week, dependent on weather and rain fall, said Alan Stanley, director of environ-mental services for the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary.
See WATER, Page 2
BY BREANNE MASSEYTimes Staff
Although high water in the Columbia River is preventing the sewage treatment plant in Genelle’s Whispering Pines Trailer Park from working nor-mally, any septic system woes are completely fabricated, says one long-time resident.
The waterfront community’s trailer park—located roughly12 kilometres northeast of Trail—has been under flood watch by the region’s emer-gency program coordinator for more than one week.
After water from the Columbia River spilled over its banks last week, a terrible smell encom-passed the park, leaving residents to speculate whether the odour came from the river or the septic tank.
“We didn’t see any sewage, but there was a smell,” said Laura Blizard, a 10-year resident of Whispering Pines. “But it could be water at the bottom. If you came down here you wouldn’t see any sewage.”
According to Blizard, there is no risk or instance of sewage leaking into any of the trailers. The trailer park has its own sewage treatment plant and field—situated more than five feet above the water mark—and water is pulled from wells higher up near the entrance of the park.
In a number of places Dan Derby, deputy fire chief for the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary (RDKB), noticed erosion along the bank from the river around lower levels of the trailer park.
“There’s just no way (for sewage to leak),” Blizard said. “The river would have to rise an awful lot for that to happen.”
Last Thursday the owner of Whispering Pines, Barry Thoen, held a public meeting to address concerns about the rising water levels. At the time, he had no concerns about the septic field, which he indicated was five-feet above the water.
See HIGH, Page 2
Rossland votes ‘No’ to Trail Aquatic Centre funding
BREANNE MASSEY PHOTO
Paul Durkin from Lauener Bros. Jewellers Ltd. spent a steamy afternoon detailing jewellery and doing repairs.
BURNING RING OF FIRERiver rise prompts further response
Genelle sewage situation not
surfacing: resident
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Water from the Columbia River has been con-tained by a BC Hydro berm.
• River levels in Trail are reach-ing a point where the City of Trail is concerned that basements in the downtown area may take on water if river levels continue to rise Thursday. • As a result, the City of Trail is advising businesses to take precau-tions in the event of the potential for increasing river levels. • For any additional information, please contact the city at 250-364-0840, or log onto the City of Trail website www.trail.ca for further updates.
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THE CANADIAN PRESSGRAND FORKS - The
owners of a now-closed bed and breakfast in southern B.C. must pay more than $4,000 for refusing a room to a homosexual couple.
The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has ordered Susan and Les Molnar to compen-
sate Brian Thomas and Shaun Eadie for injury to dignity and self-respect after their res-ervation was cancelled at the Riverbend Bed and Breakfast in Grand Forks.
The Molnars admit-ted to accepting the res-ervation in June 2009, but cancelled it minutes
later, after confirming Thomas and Eadie are gay. According to the Molnars, such a lifestyle is contrary to their Christian beliefs and unacceptable in the business they oper-ated as a ministry, with some profits going to the local Mennonite church.
Gay couple wins human rights battle
FROM PAGE 1 Currently, Genelle is being pro-
tected by BC Hydro’s newly con-structed berm, an action that stems from the first damage recorded on 17th Avenue and Lower China Creek Road.
The newly constructed berm is expected to prevent further flooding on park homes, in addition to pro-tecting the roadways.
Blizard and her husband, John, own a trailer facing the river and watch for changes daily.
She explained that there was
about one foot of water, but it hadn’t impeded access to their home or flooded into it.
However, BC Hydro predicted that the high water levels could remain somewhat problematic until early August.
“I don’t think it will get anywhere near our trailer unless the dam breaks,” she said with a chuckle.
“There is no danger, people are still drinking their water and the health department has been out here to test the water. They were here again three or four days ago.”
High water levels remain
STEP LIVELY
FROM PAGE 1 It was the length of the time the river will
remain high that prompted the activation of the centre to coordinate response, Stanley noted in a release.
“The Columbia River is currently at near rec-ord high flows causing concerns with infrastruc-ture near the river and the increased release may worsen the situation,” he said.
It is estimated that the increased release will cause the Columbia River to rise by eight to 12 inches in Trail.
BC Hydro predicted, depending on inflows, that Columbia River flows at Birchbank could continue to climb to 225,000 cubic feet per second or higher by Sunday, July 22.
“Although this flow will still be below peak lev-els experienced before the Columbia River Treaty dams were constructed, these flows would be the highest flow recorded since the construction of the Columbia River Treaty storage dams,” a company advisory said Thursday.
RDKB Fire/Rescue personnel are going door to door in Whispering Pines Trailer Park and 17 Avenue in Genelle advising residents of the situa-tion and the need to move vehicles and equipment to higher ground.
For further information, contact Alan Stanley, RDKB public information officer, at 250-368-1648.
Water inflows will increase, predicts BC Hydro
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The Rossland Skatepark Society revealed the initial design for the city’s skatepark on Monday night. The meeting was not only an opportunity to get a glimpse of what the park will look like, but also an opportunity to get more input in on the design.
Robin Strachen, a member of the RSA board, said the meeting gave people a chance to provide feedback to the design-er, Spectrum Skatepark Creations, on how they felt the design was carried out from the orignial design intent.
“So generally the overall response has been very positive,” Strachan said. “We asked the folks that attended the meeting to answer four general questions pertaining to the design. The people that were at the meeting thought that the design fit very well with our original design intent and description that we gave to the designer.”
Strachan explained the process that brought the association and the skatepark to this point.
“It started with the public process to work through a selection of the sites, “ he said. “It went to council and they approved the approx. 15,000 sq. ft. on the southeast corner of the Emcon lot.”
They then started the public process to develop the design, as well as selecting the
designer to pursue it.“That was where we asked the commun-
ity to fill out a survey and tell us what they want to see in a skatepark and how they want it to integrate into the community,” he said.
From that survey they developed a design intent, which provided some direc-tion for the designer on the park. This is the last step before the final design.
“What we’re working towards now, is to approach council for their approval of the design as well moving forward with rezoning the Emcon lot from light industrial to a park space,” he said, adding that the approval will be for the general feel and look of the design. He said they will prob-ably need to further refine the design as they approach construction.
“Because of the nature of this very
unique design that we’ve put together for Rossland, there might be minor tweaks in that design,” he said.
Strachan said heard loud and clear that the people of Rossland wanted a unique park for the city. So they looked at the skateparks that are around and planned for the surrounding communities and tried to come up with something that is a compli-mentary fit.
“A big thing that we got from the com-munity is that they are looking for a good flowing park,” he said. “Survey results showed that approximately 70 per cent of the park should be a flow and transition and bowl section.”
The association has also tried to include the history behind the lot, like Rossland’s mining and railway heritage.
The skatepark also mixes a good amount of expert and beginner terrain. Up next, after council approval and rezoning of the lot, is the detailed engineering designs for the construction, as well as fundraising.
“We’re aiming for 2013 construction start to the park,” he said.
They are looking for anyone who can help them with things like excavation or in materials for the park, contributions which they would recognize.
For more info on the project go to www.skaterossland.com.
BY BREANNE MASSEYTimes Staff
The Rossland Mountain Market hasn’t been hindered by its new location.
The Columbia Avenue and Washington Street revitalization project forced the farmer’s market out of the location that it has been held in for the last three years, but moving up one block has had no impact on the turnout this year.
Many people in the community sought reprieve from the down-town construction project, so they came out to relax and mingle in the sunshine.
Roughly 20 vendors wedge a series of colourful tents between the old fire hall and St. Andrew’s United Church to sell arts and crafts, flowers, baking, fruits, vegetables, plants and preserves every Thursday. The market serves the community by provid-ing a unique place for locals to hangout and shop.
“In a nutshell, we do have lar-ger vendors that come from afar, but it’s the local vendors and arti-sans right here in Rossland that are the cornerstone of the mar-ket,” said Rachael Roussin, the event organizer. “People seem to come for the food, but we also have a lot of burgeoning local
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The Rossland Skatepark Association revealed the skatepark’s design this week and also asked for input back on what people think.
BY BREANNE MASSEYTimes Staff
The Village of Montrose approved a $30,000 cash injec-tion for the Community Hall Replacement project.
In their regular council meet-ing on Monday night, the village councillors reviewed bid propos-als from three contractors who were willing to accept a $5 mil-lion liability as part of the realities from a roof replacement on this project.
The Montrose Community Hall was built in 1990 and remains in tact, but three areas need to be repaired.
Council approved the expan-sion of the Community Hall Replacement project and hired RMG Roofing the contract.
It will include roof modifica-tions and an upgrade to the build-ing’s heating, ventilation, air con-ditioning and cooling unit.
The project repairs are expected to take about one week.
Sunshine at Rossland’s market trumps location
entrepreneurs.”The market sells everything
from plum dipping sauce to bak-ing, homemade vinegars, cup-cakes and more. Farmers from the Crescent Valley, Creston, Crawford Bay and Castlegar have registered this year, but each week the vend-ors vary.
“It ranges throughout the season. We don’t have the exact
same vendors the same weeks the whole season—it ebbs and flows depending on who is in town,” Roussin said. “But it’s usually between 14 and 28 vendors.”
More than 300 people attended the sunny market on Queen Street and First Avenue last Thursday. It will continue running from 3-6 p.m. each Thursday until Thanksgiving weekend with the
simple rule of “make it, bake it or grow it.”
Other highlights of the market this year include artisan vendors selling original pieces of artwork—like felt hats, earrings or baby clothes—and live music.
For more information about the market visit www.rosslandfood.com or reserve a spot by e-mail at [email protected].
TRAIL MARKET EXPANDS ITS REACHThe Esplanade Market in Trail has gained popu-
larity, too.Already after only three market days, the Trail
District and Chamber of Commerce went from hosting 15 vendors to 30. According to Maggie Stayanovich, the executive director at the Trail and District Chamber of Commerce, more than 500 people attended the market on Esplanade and the numbers continue to grow.
“Technically, we’re not officially open until 10 a.m. so vendors have time to set up. But we’ve had a really consistent group of people that come down to check things out at 9:20 (a.m.),” Stayanovich said. “It’s really cool to watch.”
The Esplanade market runs every fortnight between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., and the increasing number of vendors has stretched the market from the corner of Spokane Street and the Esplanade into Jubilee Park. But there is still room for vendors to register if they wish.
In addition to the regular vendors, other developments have added character to the market:
a 15-year-old boy began busking on the street; a Grade 11 girl is selling handmade jewelry; and a 10-year-old girl is now selling handmade leather bookmarks and bracelets.
“Where else can you go and get a massage and a haircut, fruit and vegetables and some really unique stuff?” Stayanovich asked. “On the 29th of June, the produce fellow sold 400 pounds of cher-ries from the Okanagan in two hours—he didn’t even get a chance to unload his truck before people were coming over to his booth.”
The Trail and District Chamber of Commerce has nearly made their seed money back and can’t wait to continue with this popular initiative this summer.
The next market, taking place on July 27 between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on the Esplanade.
For more information about the market or to reserve a spot, contact Stayanovich at 250-368-3144 or e-mail [email protected]. Visit the Facebook page for photos and updates at https://www.face-book.com/pages/Trail-Chamber-of-Commerce.
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THE CANADIAN PRESSVANCOUVER - The
B.C. Court of Appeal has upheld a perjury conviction for Air India bomber Inderjit Singh Reyat, who received Canada’s longest per-
jury sentence. Reyat was handed a
nine-year prison term for lying repeatedly at the 2003 trial of two men charged with mass murder and conspiracy in the 1985 bombing.
Reyat was a Crown witness at the trial of Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, who were acquitted in the biggest case of avi-ation terrorism before U.S. 9-11 attacks.
THE CANADIAN PRESSVICTORIA - Independent
children’s representative Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond says a B.C. government program designed to improve informa-tion flow for child protection
cases isn’t doing its job.In a newly-released report,
Turpel-Lafond says the gov-ernment’s Integrated Case Management system is deeply flawed and needs immediate and dramatic improvements.
The new system was sup-posed to enable government child-protection workers to spend more time working dir-ectly with clients and less time on data entry.
The province’s child protec-
tion workers began using it in April.
Turpel-Lafond says prob-lems with the system compel her to publicly state it cannot adequately protect vulnerable children and families.
BY BILL GRAVELANDTHE CANADIAN PRESS
CRANBROOK, B.C. - Admitted child abduct-or Randall Hopley was fighting his emotions Thursday as he was forced to watch a video-taped meeting between himself and the father of his three-year-old victim.
Sitting with his head bowed down in a court-room in Cranbrook, B.C., Hopley struggled to hold back the tears as the video showed Paul Hebert telling Hopley that he forgave him for abducting Kienan and thanked him for his safe return.
“There was no sexual assault at all,” Hopley told him in the video interview, played on the second day of Hopley’s sentencing hearing.
Hebert asked Hopley if he was heterosexual or whether he only liked children.
“Oh yes. I pre-fer women,” replied Hopley. “Children, but not in a sexual way. It was nothing to do with sex.”
In the interview, Hopley is reminded about a previous inci-dent involving an assault on a young boy, but Hopley said he would never have done anything to someone as young as Kienan.
“That was in the past. I don’t want to go back there,” Hopley said softly. Hopley was convicted in 1985 of sexually assaulting a five-year-old boy
“If I hurt a three-year-old, I would just take myself out in the bush and shoot myself,” he continued.
“I believe you,” replied Hebert. “You took my son from me and I forgive you. Change yourself. Be a better person.”
Hopley, who turns
47 next week, has already pleaded guilty to abducting Kienan Hebert from the boy’s home in Sparwood, a southeastern B.C. town near the Alberta bound-ary, last September.
Kienan vanished from his bedroom in the middle of the night wearing Scooby Doo boxer shorts, prompt-ing police to launch a massive search.
The operation grew over several days, with police issuing an Amber Alert that was eventually expanded to include Alberta.
The boy was returned unharmed four days later and Hopley was arrested at a nearby Bible camp several days after that.
Hopley has con-sistently denied that he sexually assaulted Kienan. He insists he was looking for revenge against the justice system for what he says was a wrongful conviction in 2007.
An actual sentence isn’t expected to be handed down any time soon. The Crown has served notice that it wants to proceed with a harsher approach to Hopley, asking that Hopley be subjected to a 60-day psychi-atric assessment to determine whether he should be labelled a dangerous or long-term offender.
“It is merely a trig-ger to launch the appli-cation,” said Crown prosecutor Lynal Doerksen.
Doerksen said Hopley’s previous convictions for sexual assault, abduction and numerous break and enters satisfy the cri-teria for a dangerous offender application.
THE CANADIAN PRESSLANGLEY - People heading out to
eat in B.C. can now take along their own wine to certain restaurants.
Rich Coleman, the minister in charge of alcohol, says diners may have to pay a charge to have the wine served, and the option to bring you own bottle will only be available in restaurants that join the Bring Your Own Wine program.
But he says the change will allow people to pair their favourite wine with their favourite restaurant.
Some other provinces and coun-tries already allow people to bring their own wine into restaurants, with diners often having to pay what’s called a corkage fee to have the wine served. B.C. Restaurant and Food Service Association President Ian Tostenson says the new rules will give restaurants more flexibility and boost business. Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association vice-president Mark von Schellwitz says restaurant operators will welcome the option.
Diners can bring own wine to restaurants
‘Deeply flawed’ case management program must be revised says Turpel-Lafond
Reyat loses appeal on perjury conviction
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life alert for Banff, Yoho and Kootenay national parks, asking motorists to drive carefully and refrain from feeding animal on mountain park roads.
The organization warns that with record-breaking snowfall in the winter but a late spring melt, there are still plenty of wolves and black bears in valley bottoms in search of food. It means there’s an increased chance of motorists hitting the animals while driving on mountain roads.
Seven black bears have been killed on roads in Banff, Yoho and Kootenay national parks this year, with speed believed to have played a major role. There have been reports of visitors feeding wildlife in the mountain parks this spring and summer.
THE CANADIAN PRESSTORONTO - An unrepentant woman
who played an active part in the vandalism that rocked Toronto during the G20 summit two years ago has been given 11 months in jail.
The judge says Kelly Pflug-Back was
among dozens of protesters who used black bloc tactics in what he called a well-planned window-smashing rampage through down-town Toronto in June 2010 during the G20 summit.
Pflug-Back had pleaded guilty to seven counts of mischief and one of wearing a
disguise with criminal intent.Video and photographic evidence
showed Pflug-Back - clad in black and her face covered - taking a pole to store win-dows, a police cruiser and an ATM.
The defence had pressed for a condi-tional sentence, while the Crown urged the
judge to sentence Pflug-Back to up to two years.
The police crackdown as a result of the vandalism led to more than 1,100 arrests - many of innocent bystanders - resulting in charges against some of the officers involved.
THE CANADIAN PRESSOTTAWA - Canada
needs to take signifi-cant steps to broaden its energy export mar-kets and come to grips with the “new world order” if it is to truly capitalize on its natural resource wealth while preserving the environ-ment, a new Senate report suggests.
The report, com-piled over the last three years by a commit-tee of Canadian sen-ators, seeks to define an energy strategy for Canada with 13 prior-ities developed over three years of consul-tations.
The strategy is based on creating a clear and responsible path for Canadian energy development and a low-emissions economy - maximizing returns by broadening the global market for the country’s energy exports - while mini-mizing the environ-mental impact.
“Canada is today an energy powerhouse,” said Conservative Sen. David Angus.
“We’re in the cat-bird seat - we’re in this incredibly enviable position in Canada of being the global leader with all kinds of poten-tial to have a prosper-ous future, and great energy security.”
The report’s prior-ities include establish-ing greater collabora-tion between all levels of government - includ-ing the provinces, the territories, the federal government and First Nations communities - and modernizing and expanding electricity systems and oil and gas pipelines. The face of the international ener-gy sector is changing rapidly and dramatic-ally, with a sharp focus on clean, renewable energy, and Canada isn’t moving quickly enough to adapt to it, Angus warned.
BY SUNNY FREEMANTHE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO - Consumer debt growth was about 30 per cent lower in the second quarter than a year earlier - the biggest slowdown since before the recession, according to a consumer credit study released Thursday.
Equifax Canada’s quarterly consumer credit trends report found that consumer indebtedness, excluding mortgage debt, grew 3.1 per cent year-over-year in the second quarter, down from 4.4 per cent in the same period of 2011.
The study also found that high-interest credit card debt fell by 3.8 in the quarter and consumer bankruptcies were down 4.5 per cent from a year earlier. Meanwhile, bank loans and lines of credit showed very moderate growth compared to a year ago.
And while consumers continued to take on debt, it is encouraging that the rate of acceleration is moderating significantly, said Nadim Abdo, vice-president of consulting and analytical services at Equifax Canada.
“For the last couple of years we have seen almost double digit growth in some cases, it slowed down a bit last year, but we have never seen it slow down as much as we have (in the second quarter) prob-ably for the past five or six years,” he said.
The biggest increase in outstanding balances was for non-bank auto finance loans and leases, which grew by eight per cent from the second quarter of 2011.
Average bank term loans grew by 3.4 per cent, while lines of credit were up by just 0.5 per cent.
The 3.1 per cent rate of debt growth was also an improvement from the first quarter of this year, when non-mortgage debt grew by 3.4 per cent.
Most of the growth appeared to come from people’s existing credit rather than new accounts, another sign of improvement, Abdo added.
The agency’s credit seeking index - which meas-ures the velocity at which consumers are seeking new credit - suggested that consumer demand for
new credit is six per cent lower than it was before the 2008 financial crisis.
“We remain to be in a very low interest rate environment, so you might expect people to bor-row more but maybe they are listening to the Minister of Finance and other people who are encouraging them to deleverage,” Abdo said.
“We are seeing -not deleveraging - but certainly a significant slowdown in the growth rate of credit this quarter.”
Consumers have taken advantage of ultra low interest rates since the recession to heap on low-cost debt. The Bank of Canada decided earlier this week to keep its overnight lending rate - which affects prime rates at banks - at one per cent to stimulate a still fragile economy.
However, Mark Carney, the central bank gov-ernor has issued repeated warnings that the plan comes with a consequence that could spell eco-nomic trouble in times ahead. The most over-stretched consumers could find themselves sunk if interest rates rise.
With household debt at an all-time high above 150 per cent of income, the Bank of Canada has declared it the number one domestic risk to the economy.
Carney said Wednesday that government stimu-lus and household consumption backed by low interest rates had sustained the recovery so far, but there are limits to that approach.
“We’re seeing the limits on the household debt side which is why various measures are being taken,” he said, referring to the most recent move toward tighter mortgage and lending rules.
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B.C. Family Day will cost B.C. familiesBY NIELS VELDHUIS AND
AMELA KARABEGOVICThe Fraser Institute
As we approach what would have been the 100th birth-day of Nobel Prize
winning economist Milton Friedman, I am reminded of his common sense thinking. “There is no such thing as a free lunch,” he once fam-ously remarked.
The same could be said of B.C. Premier Christy Clark’s Family Day, the statutory holiday that will come into effect just a few months before British Columbians go to the polls in 2013.
Someone will have to foot the bill. And unfortu-nately, it will be the very people the holiday is sup-posed to help: ordinary BC families.
Before discussing the new holiday, it is important to acknowledge that British Columbians already enjoy
nine statutory holidays per year.
Only Saskatchewan has more with 10. At the other end of the scale, Nova Scotians receive five statu-tory holidays.
Add the minimum two week vacation entitle-ment spelled out in B.C.’s Employment Standards Act and British Columbians enjoy at least 19 days off a year; most receive even more.
After five years, an employee is legally entitled to three weeks of vacation.
In addition, British Columbians are also entitled to five days of unpaid family leave to care for a worker’s immediate family.
Adding another statutory holiday is not only unneces-sary, but also costly.
Businesses that close on Family Day lose a full pro-duction day but their annual wage bill remains the same,
since workers given the day off must be paid an average day’s pay.
With lower revenues and no offsetting reduction in costs, owners, consumers, and employees end up foot-ing the bill.
Consumers will pay if the costs are passed along in the form of higher prices. This, however, is increasingly unlikely, given competitive markets for most goods and services.
Employees bear the burden if the businesses invest less in machinery, equipment, and new tech-nologies that make work-ers more productive or offer lower wage increases in the future.
Then there are busi-ness owners who will be burdened by the new statu-tory holiday in addition to the recession and slow growing economy, the HST/PST fiasco, and significantly
higher minimum wages the Clark government recently imposed.
For small and medium businesses, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) estimates that B.C. Family Day will cost $42 million. Add large businesses and the costs increase significantly.
Finally, let’s not forget average B.C. families who, as taxpayers, will fork over tens of millions of dollars to provide the extra paid day off for 359,000 provincial and municipal public sector workers (or two and a half times regular pay if they work on Family Day), who by the way already receive significantly higher benefits than comparable workers in the private sector.
Of course there are those who say the new statutory holiday will improve the economy since families will spend money on recreation-
al activities and/or enter-tainment on their extra day off.
To be sure, businesses that remain open on Family Day might see increased demand for their goods and services but their wage costs will also increase as they are forced to pay workers two and a half times their regular pay.
More importantly, increased spending by fam-ilies on their day off might mean less spending at other times throughout the year.
Family Day might change the timing and location of spending but not the total amount families actually spend throughout the year.
The bottom line is, statu-tory holidays aren’t free. Taxpayers, workers, and business end up footing the bill.
Niels Veldhuis and Amela Karabegovic are economists at the Fraser Institute.
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To the Editor:On July 12 a letter was
written by Catharine Kintoff of Rossland regarding assisted suicide. I’d like to give an alter-native point of view.
When I heard the news I thought “Thank God.” She makes a reference to God in her letter. He has nothing to do with it.
In 1998 my 86-year-old father suffered a stroke and then several more. He was con-scious briefly for the time he was in hospital.
He and my mother had both agreed that neither of them wanted extraordinary measures taken to prolong their life. He was in the hospital for three weeks. However, the last week of his life the hospital withdrew
all fluids. So, basically, my father man-
aged to survive for a week of being starved to death, curled up in a fetal position. How humane is this?
If there had been a shot available I would have given it to him myself. This new law is not about people killing people. It’s about love and respect. It’s a choice I would like to have myself.
The same as it is my choice whether to have an abortion or not. It’s my body. If I’m in extreme pain and there is no hope for a recovery it’s no one else’s business if I choose to enlist aid to take my own life.
How arrogant of people to pass their own religious beliefs and judgements onto someone
else. I absolutely do not believe that 550 adults and children are being “euthanized” every year in Holland without their permission or consent. That’s murder.
These people have given spe-cific instructions regarding their life and how to end it. Imagine the horror of a parent who has to decide that their child would be better off dead but as we all know it is often the case.
It certainly must be ironclad so it could never be abused. Surely someone can come up with a legal form so no abuse can happen.
Hopefully, Canada will look into what is available in Holland and go from there.
I say it’s about time. Grace Williams, Rossland
To the Editor:I am sitting down, almost hitting the floor
wondering how our City of Trail thinks that giv-ing a bid for computers to a Nelson business is staying local?
This bid was not a little bid either. Yes, they gave a very tiny bid out for the monitors to a local business, but that was only five per cent of the bid.
I shake my head wondering why the City of Trail would do this. The City of Trail should be, first and foremost, the ones paving the way to supporting our local businesses in Trail.
But then I think, “Oh, that’s right, City of Trail would rather pay $400,000 for City in Bloom than support our younger generation or our local businesses. And let’s pretend we don’t have issues with teens getting into trouble because we have
nothing for them to do that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg.”
I think it’s time for every citizen of Trail to start phoning our Mayor Dieter Bogs and city council-lors and ask them the question: “Why are they letting our community become a ghost town and why they are choosing to buy outside of Trail?”
Just take a drive downtown and see how quiet the downtown is unless you’re a bank, medical clinic or grocery store. Last time I checked, Dieter Bogs was mayor of Trail, not Nelson.
Start dialing, emailing or faxing the city with the question: “Why should they spend our tax dollars in another jurisdiction?”
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Sherri Peters, Trail
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customers surveyed in an annual poll are less satisfied with their financial institutions than they were a year ago, at least partly due to the rising fees they’re being charged.
The survey from J.D. Power and Associates, released Thursday, found that the per-centage of customers who say they will “definitely” reuse their bank in the future, declined by four percentage points since a year ago.
And the number of respon-dents who said they would “defi-nitely” recommend their bank dropped five percentage points from last year.
At least part of the rising dis-content was tied to a greater
number of customers who have been slapped with higher fees, with 27 per cent of respondents saying their charges went up this year, compared with 17 per cent in 2011.
“Not only are customers frus-trated with changes to their fee structure, but many are also con-fused by the changes, leading to the lower satisfaction,” said Lubo Li, senior director of finan-cial services at J.D. Power.
Many of the respondents also said they had a lower overall opinion of the reliability and financial stability of their banks.
Satisfaction with online bank-ing slid eight percentage points over last year, mostly due to problems navigating websites, and a lack of some services.
The weaker impression
of online services comes even as more Canadians log on to manage their finances. The survey said online banking has increased to 86 per cent, up six percentage points, and surpass-ing branch usage. At the same time, twice as many people used their mobile phones for banking compared to last year, rising to eight per cent.
However, customers said they were happy with financial advisers at the banks, though this is the first time the survey asked people about them.
The highest ranked of the big five Canadian banks was TD Bank.
The annual J.D. Power sur-vey polled 12,000 Canadians who use either banks or credit unions.
Canadians less satisfied with their banks: survey
Euthanasia: It’s about time
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TORONTO - This year’s Emmy Award nominations rep-resent something of a Canuck callback.
Yes, many of the Canadian honorees could be forgiven for feeling a sense of deja vu as nominations were announced on Thursday.
There was Michael J. Fox nabbing his second consecu-tive nomination for outstanding guest actor in a drama series for his recurring role on “The Good Wife.” The Edmonton-born actor also earned a guest-actor nod for his appearance on “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”
Similarly, Brampton, Ont., funnyman Will Arnett claimed his fourth nod for outstanding guest actor in a comedy ser-ies for his performance as the conniving Devin Banks on “30 Rock.”
The Emmy echo for Canadians extended even further.
Veteran Toronto-born voice actor Maurice LaMarche received a second straight out-standing voice-over perform-ance nomination for playing a cluster of wacky characters on the sci-fi satire “Futurama” (he won the category last year), while the unstoppable Canadian teen series “Degrassi” is once again up for outstanding chil-dren’s program, a year after receiving its inaugural nomina-tion. And Toronto-born “SNL” sage Lorne Michaels received his
latest in a long, long line of writ-ing nods.
Another repeat nominee was London, Ont., composer Trevor Morris, who’s up for outstanding music composition for a series (original dramatic score) for the historical drama “The Borgias.” He won an Emmy for that same score last year, and also hauled home an award back in 2007 for the main-title music to “The Tudors.”
Canadian Ted Mann, who once won an Emmy for penning “NYPD Blue,” is up again for outstanding writing for a mini-series, movie or dramatic spe-cial for the History hit “Hatfields & McCoys,” and Edmonton’s Stacey Tookey earned her third straight nomination for out-standing choreography for her work on Fox’s “So You Think You Can Dance.”
But for many, being nomin-ated for a major award simply doesn’t get old.
“We were definitely excited last year - I guess we sort of thought that was our time, they acknowledged this Canadian show for the work we’d done,” said “Degrassi” star, produ-cer and writer Stefan Brogren in a telephone interview on Thursday.
“But it turns out they want us to come by again, which is fantastic.”
Of course, there were Canadian first-time nominees as well. Calgary-reared “Mad Men” scribe Semi Chellas is up for
her first Emmy for outstanding writing for a drama series. She’s nominated alongside the moody period drama’s creator Matthew Weiner for the jaw-dropping episode “The Other Woman,” in which Pete asked Joan to sleep with a client to land a Jaguar account.
And Montrealer Shira Lazar nabbed her inaugural nod for outstanding creative achieve-ment in interactive media for her online talk show “What’s Trending With Shira Lazar?”
“Degrassi,” meanwhile, landed its second nomination after submitting the episode “Extraordinary Machine,” which found the bipolar Eli refusing his medication with disastrous results. Last year, the show earned its nod after showcasing an episode depicting the plight of transgendered teen Adam.
Brogren said it’s the hon-est way in which the show has tackled difficult subject mat-ter that might have caught the attention of Emmy voters.
“Our show tries very hard to maintain a certain reality when it comes to what teens are going through,” said Brogren, the 40-year-old who has portrayed Snake in the “Degrassi” fran-chise since the 1980s.
“I think it connects with a lot of kids because this is what they’re going through.... We’re always trying to find the stories that we know are out there, but they might not be necessarily be out there in the mainstream.”
BY LOIS ABRAHAMTHE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO - Watch out, Tim Hortons and Starbucks.
The coffee industry’s push to sell machines that make single-serve specialty brews have upped the amount of java Canadians are drinking at home.
Coffee drinkers average two cups per day and two-thirds of them are brewing some their drinks at home, said Robert Carter, executive director of foodservice at the NPD Group, on Thursday.
The new report “What’s Brewing in the Canadian Coffee Market: A Consumer Perspective” suggests auto-drip coffeemakers are still dominant for in-home, morning preparation but single-serve machines are being revved up in the afternoons, evenings and later at night. Over a quarter of Canadian coffee drinkers (27 per cent) said they sip cof-fee at home more than they did last year, and the same percentage stated they now con-sume the beverage less when they’re out.
“The main driver is the innovation, conven-ience and ease of use of single-serve, in-home brewing systems,” Carter said, particular-ly now that there are higher-quality brands available, like those made by Starbucks and Timothy’s, for use in machines made by such companies as Keurig or Tassimo.
“We know overall consumers are motiv-ated by convenience. The easier you make it, the more consum-ers will do something,” he said. “Fifty-seven per cent of all our res-taurant visits are off-premise through the drive-thru in Canada so convenience is one of the key drivers and those coffee-pod machines are so con-
Watch out, Tim Hortons: Canadians getting hooked on single-serve coffee machines
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Robert Carter is shown in a handout photo. Innovations in the coffee industry with machines that make single-serve specialty brews have upped the amount of java Canadians are drink-ing at home, research by NPD Group shows.
venient and simple to use at home.”
Coffee shops are not in hot water yet, how-ever. Canadians still love to go out for cof-fee, especially to quick-serve restaurants in the morning for a cup of joe and a breakfast sandwich. Over the last year there were 1.7 billion servings of cof-fee consumed in these restaurants, a three per cent increase over the year before. In fact, Canadians quaff more coffee outside of home per capita than any other country except Italy, Carter said.
“With some of the burger guys getting into the coffee game they’re stealing share from some of the other players in the market and that’s driving some of the volume of coffee consumption,” Carter said. “I think there is definitely some switch-ing going on. The upscaling within some of the operators, like the McDonald’s with the McCafes, is driving some of the increased consumption.”
Brewed cups are
where the coffee shops are mostly cashing in. When Canadians visit their local coffee houses, 80 per cent buy a quick brew rather than an espresso or an espresso-based bev-erage. Specialty hot espresso-type bever-ages are more popular during the morning and afternoon break per-iods, Carter said, add-ing there were 390 mil-lion servings sold last year, an eight per cent growth over the previ-ous year.
The consumption of iced, slushy-type coffee beverages is the indus-try’s fastest-growing category, Carter said. Last year there were 161 million servings consumed through quick-service outlets, a 15 per cent increase over the year before. The research showed that iced coffee is twice as likely to be consumed on the weekend than during the week.
NPD tracks purchase behaviour in the out-of-home foodservice seg-ment through a panel of 100,000 consumers online.
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Program pilot, which began its successful run in February, is being offered again this fall to Basin-based businesses and organizations.
School Works provides an $8 per hour wage subsidy to encourage small busi-nesses and non-profit, First Nation and pub-lic sector organizations in the Basin to provide part-time employment for full-time high school and post-secondary students in the Basin during the school year.
“We are provid-ing $600,000 toward wage subsidies for Basin organizations to increase the availabil-
ity of jobs for students,” said Sabrina Curtis, CBT Director, Planning and Development.
College of the Rockies delivered the pilot and will continue to work in partnership with CBT to administer the program this fall.
“We are excited to continue collaborating with CBT after a very successful first run. The School Works Program has had such a posi-tive impact on busi-nesses throughout the Columbia Basin; we are thrilled to be a part of it,” Tracey Whiting, Manager of Contract Training and Business Development at College of the Rockies.
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BY CRAIG LINDSAYCastlegar News
Every year, dozens of RCMP officers trade in their cop uniforms and patrol cars for lycra and pedal bikes as they undertake the gruelling Cops for Kids bike ride through the Kootenays and the Okanagan.
For those wondering where all the money goes that the officers col-lect can look no further as two local West Kootenay boys received equip-ment to aid with their mobility.
“Cops for Kids are committed to assisting children that are in medical, physical or traumatic crisis,” said Cst. Rob Gardner of the Castlegar RCMP detachment.
“We tirelessly work to raise funds to continue our ongoing support to
the children in the communities that we serve.
Cops for Kids are devoted to help-ing little hearts … in our commun-ity.”
On July 10, local Cops for Kids rid-ers Const. Gardner and Const. Wally Bursey presented Cody Archambeault of Winlaw with a hand trike at the Castlegar RCMP detachment.
“The trike is a specialized bike that will give Cody a chance to get out and ride,” said Const. Gardner.
The two also presented Ernie Hansell from Fruitvale with a Pacer Gate Trainer.
This year’s Cops for Kids bike ride starts in Kelowna on Sept. 7. Anyone wishing to donate, please visit www.copsforkids.org.
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Ernie Hansell of Fruitvale received a Pacer Gate Trainer from the Cops for Kids on Tuesday. With Ernie are (from left) RCMP officers Wally Bursey and Rob Gardner, sister Honey and mom Jenny.Increasing student employment
Columbia Basin Trust continues School Works Program this fall
June, 64 businesses throughout the Basin hired students part-time with the support of the School Works Program, including South Slocan’s Dig Garden Centre.
“Having a stu-dent work with us has allowed us to focus on building our business by hiring additional plant specialists,” said Lori Loran, co-owner of the new West Kootenay business.
“Our student, Andrew, is a self-starter
who takes initiative. He is learning from the plant specialists here and we think getting great job experience.”
The fall application intake for the School Works Program will begin on a first-come first-served basis on August 14.
Check www.cbt.org/schoolworks for more information.
To learn more about CBT programs and initiatives, visit www.cbt.org or call 1.800.505.8998.
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My Brothers?My brother Kenneth – aged 22 - drowned in the Thompson River in 1988. I cannot begin to tell you how that changed me. Nothing like it did my parents, or my sister, or our youngest brother, 21 years old at the time. They were close. Kenneth and I were just beginning to know each other as adults. As the oldest by 8 years, I had a lot of tyranny and bad example to live down and make up for. Never got much of a chance to do so. I still see him a lot though. Sometimes in memory, sometimes in my nephews, sometimes in my son.
And sometimes, sometimes in a stranger.
The one about the age he’d be now, had he lived. Suffering a mind that’s bent and twisted all around itself. Bound up in a world almost entirely his own. In and out of jail, feared by many, a wandering, homeless man without family or friend. Convinced he’s a step or two away from the unimaginable wealth his former family and friends have conspired to keep from him. Convinced his ship will arrive, with horns and whistles, bells and streamers flying. All for him.
Another a few years younger, Kenneth at thirty five or so. Father of innumerable children, but not allowed to see them. Bad influence, criminal record, gets nasty when he’s drinking. Locked away from society when he sells illicit substances to get the funds he needs for food and drink and substances to abuse himself. Substances that take away the pain, dull the edge, purchase some collegiality. Substances he owes money for, steals to buy. In jail again.
It costs hundreds of thousands of dollars each year to keep them in prison. Yet they are released almost entirely on
their own recognizance.
Into community shelters, or low rent apartments. Into cultures of substance abuse and theft to pay for it.
Into a world without a driver’s license because ICBC wants $1800.00 cash to replace the car you totalled when you stole it and drove it to destruction without a license. When you were young.
Living on what they are given by social welfare, what they might glean from low wage jobs, labouring under the burden of poverty and foodbanks, of substandard housing, of threat from those who want pay for the drugs. Living on under the table wages.
With so much ‘help’ available from a social system that would rather build prisons than support those they deem undeserving, the wonder is not that they soon break a law, steal some stuff, harm another and return to jail. The wonder is that it takes so long.
“for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.”
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I would be exaggerating if I called it “hate mail,” but a recent email from a male reader (not a local, in case you’re wondering) was
definitely on the nasty side. The reader was emailing me in response to
a column I had written. After quoting from The Bible, the writer of the email commanded me to give up my opinions.
I appreciate reader feedback, even when a reader disagrees with my position. Hearing different opinions makes me think. Generally, when readers contact me, they are interested in sharing ideas in a respectful manner. They know what I think from reading my column, and I get to know what they think from reading their emails.
A respectful exchange of ideas promotes conversation. Through conversation, we moder-ate our attitudes, and reevaluate our opinions. Through conversation, we develop a broader understanding of issues, of the world, and of our place in it.
The media often invites us to “join the con-versation”; we can post our thoughts online, and comment on the opinions of others. Frequently, in these online “conversations”, people express intoler-ance for the opinions of others, and com-ments are sarcastic and insulting. The public discourse that social media seeks to encour-age often ends up being little more than people spouting off in an attempt to foist their views on others.
If I learned anything from raising teenagers, the quickest way to shut down conversation is to claim moral superiority on a position, and adopt a “my way or the highway” attitude. This style of communication effectively limits intellectual, emotional, and spiritual growth.
Meaningful conversation requires that we remain open to worldviews, beliefs and opinions that differ from our own. When we are willing to listen and consider different points of view, conversation promotes individual growth, and fosters the advancement of human society.
An example of what I consider to be a good conversation took place earlier this year at Oxford University. Oxford hosted a debate between Richard Dawkins, often described as the world’s most famous atheist, and Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury. Given the strength of their convictions, and the disparity between their beliefs, I expected to see a political style debate. I expected a contest, and a winner.
My expectations never materialized. The event was a conversation, not a debate. Notably absent from the demeanor of the participants was any sense of moral superiority. Both seemed aware of their own limitations, and the limita-tions of human understanding when confronted with the secrets of science, and the mysteries of faith. The men were willing to learn from each other. The result was an intellectually and spiritually stimulating conversation that came to its conclusion all too quickly.
The best conversations continue long after the participants have gone home, and the room has fallen silent. Unlike online conversations where comments are closed, and unlike emails that can be quickly deleted, we archive ideas from good conversations in our mind. The best conversa-tions aid us in our quest for understanding and meaning; they influence us in ways that sarcasm, intolerance, and nastiness never will.
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All Stars poised
for B.C.’s
BY JIM BAILEYTimes Sports Editor
The year of planning, renovating, organizing, and practicing is finally at its end, now execution is key.
The B.C. Little League Major baseball champion-ship has arrived in Trail and organizers, coaches and players are primed and ready for the week long event.
Thanks to volunteers, the City of Trail, and local con-tractors, Andy Bilesky Park received an extensive makeover and is all set for the biggest baseball event in Trail this sum-mer.
The 11-12 year old Trail All Stars have gone 18-2 since forming early last month, including 15-5 and 17-7 wins on Tuesday against Bonners Ferry in their first games at the newly renovated park.
The kids are ready, said head coach D. J. Ashman, and a positive attitude per-vades the Trail dugout as they look for-ward to a tough week of baseball against B.C.’s best.
“I’m feeling very optimistic,” he said. “But I’m trying to keep my bar not too high so I don’t get disappointed. But I have to be honest, I definitely think we have a really good shot too.”
After coming off consecutive tourna-ment wins and a 16-game win streak, Trail’s record shows a team that’s dialed in and confident.
“Based on our play, and the kids that we have are very experienced - their heads are in it and that’s the biggest thing.”
The team has only one 11-year-old, and enjoy a veteran presence past teams lacked. The All Stars also possess certain intangible qualities that can’t be taught, but must be experienced through team building and just plain having fun.
The enthusiasm starts with coaches Ashman, Jason Startup, and Mike Boisvert who engage the players and parents in
activities that promotes team bonding; such as a talent show and ‘Fear the Beard’ of Boisvert who has resigned himself to growing a patchwork of struggling whis-kers until the team loses.
“It’s a lot of fun,” said Startup who joined the coaching staff this year. “It’s a big commitment, but the kids are great and really working hard, I love it.”
Ashman can’t say enough about the support he has from his coaches, another element that makes this team special.
“I’m very happy with our knowledg-able coaching staff,” said Ashman. “I mean between us we’ve got all facets of the game covered. It’s the best overall coaching staff I’ve had in a long time.”
Five veteran players from last year’s All Stars lead the squad; Derek Green, Jon Ballarin, Brendan Makay, Ross St. Jean and Kian Johnstone will be counted on for their experience. Trail also enjoys a deep starting rotation with six reliable pitchers that can go at any time. Good defence and even better hitting should make the host team a threat.
Yet in spite of recent success, the prov-incial tournament is a different season and the team will need to make adjust-ments this week.
“Our strategy has to change because we’re basically going from Cal Ripken rules to Little League rules. Pitch counts . . . you can only throw 20 pitches every game, so in a tournament like ours with
no days off in between, we have to be really smart on how we use them,” said Ashman.
Pitchers can throw up to 20 pitches per game without having to take a days rest, but depending on how many pitches a hurler throws over that amount, deter-mines a one to four day rest period.
“You have to make sure you have your best pitching left over to get you through the semis and into the final, so it becomes a really hard thing to think about, but it is that important.”
The All Stars play what could be their two toughest opponents right away.
They open Saturday at 1:30 p.m. against White Rock who eliminated Langley, last year’s Canadian champion, and play Hastings, the 2009 national champs, on Sunday at 10 a.m.
Hastings is the only other returning team from last year’s provincial tourna-ment where Trail finished the round robin with a 2-4 record.
Dunbar, Forest Hills, and Beacon Hill round out the teams.
The winner advances to the Canadian Championship in Edmonton Aug. 4 and from there to Williamsport for the Little League World Series.
Event organizers are pleased with the volunteer turnout but can always use more, said co-chair Shannon Morris Ballarin. To volunteer go to www.trail-littleleague.ca.
“I’ve spent most of my life golf-ing, the rest I’ve just wasted.” –Author Unknown
Golf balls may all look the same, but the real differences lie beneath the surface.
The golf ball is the one thing we all need to play, but with all the makes and models it’s hard to say what sets one golf ball apart from another aside from the number of dimples.
Balls are made from one piece up to five layers and each com-
pany has its lower-end basic ball up to the higher-end golf ball. Each generally makes a distance ball and a spin ball. The distance ball has less spin so it will fly straighter. The spin ball has more spin for around the green, but it will also increase your hook or slice because the ball is made to spin even if it is not what you intended when you struck it.
TaylorMade and Titleist, for example, make balls with four and five layers. The ProV 1X by Titleist will fly lower and spin less with your driver and fair-way woods. The Penta 5 from TaylorMade also will fly lower
and spin less. With both balls, the harder you hit it the less it spins and the softer you hit it the more it spins. So with your wedges and short irons you get maximum spin and control, but with the driver, the ball gives you maximum distance.
Stop by Birchbank Golf Course and check out Christmas in July, the biggest sale of the year in the Pro shop. We are also offering a “Beat the Heat” special - $30 for golf and a power cart after 2 p.m. from Thursday to Monday.
Dennis Bradley is a CPGA Class A Professional and the club pro at the Birchbank Golf Course.
Golf tips
with Dennis Bradley
TRAIL ORIOLES
BY JIM BAILEYTimes Sports Editor
One of the best teams in the Northwest is coming to Trail to tangle with the AM Ford Trail Orioles this weekend.
The Seattle Studs make their way to Butler Park on Saturday to play a three-game series with the Orioles.
The O’s Pacific International League (PIL) rival leads the league with a 12-2 record and won the Kamloops International baseball tournament last week for the third year in a row, and sixth time in the past seven years.
It is the first meeting between the Studs and O’s this season and manager/coach Jim Maniago says, “They are probably the best team that will have played here in a long time.”
But it doesn’t mean the O’s won’t give the Studs a game. The Orioles currently own a three game winning streak and have been playing arguably their best ball of the season.
“The way we have been playing lately, I think we’ll be fine,” said Maniago. “The last couple weeks we’ve started to put things together. We’re building, which what our plan was right from the start to build towards the end of the year.”
Last week Trail trounced the Vernon Diamondbacks to guarantee its spot in the Western Canadian Championship in Winnipeg next month, and the games against Seattle this weekend should be a good challenge to prepare them for the provincial baseball championship in Prince George Aug. 4-6.
Scott Rhynold will likely get the start in the opening match, with Kellen Jones and Darrin Kissock taking the mound for the following two games.
Game times are 5 and 7 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. Sunday.
SUBMITTED PHOTO
The Trail Major All Stars are looking ahead to Saturday and their first game as they host the prov-incial Little League championship at Andy Bilesky Park this week. See page 12 for schedule.
O’s host Studs
LITTLE LEAGUE
Minor hopes dashed
Trail welcomes teams for the
B.C. Little League Championship
BY TIMES STAFFThe Trail Minor All Stars had their hopes
dashed Thursday at the B.C. championship in North Van as they lost to Layritz 11-1.
Coupled with an 8-2 loss to Coquitlam Wednesday, Trail’s record now sits at 1-4 and eliminates the team from playoff contention.
“We missed opportunities. We lost to a team today that was beatable. We just can’t seem to get out of the first inning and it all unravels from there,” said Trail coach Chris Elwood.
Do better balls make a difference
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B.C. LITTLE LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP
B.C. Little League Major ChampionshipAll Games at Andy Bilesky Park
Saturday 9 a.m. D5-Forest Hills vs D1-Dunbar 12:30 p.m. Opening Ceremonies 1:30 p.m. Trail All Stars (Host) vs D3-White Rock 5:30 p.m. D6-Hastings vs D7-Beacon Hill
Sunday 10 a.m. Trail All Stars (Host) vs D6-Hastings 1:30 p.m. D7-Beacon Hill vs D5-Forest Hills 5:00 p.m. D1-Dunbar vs D3-White Rock
Monday 10 a.m. D3-White Rock vs D7-Beacon Hill 1:30 p.m. D5-Forest Hills vs D6-Hastings 5:00 p.m. Trail All Stars (Host) vs D1-Dunbar
Tuesday 10 a.m. D6-Hastings vs D3-White Rock 1:30 p.m. D7-Beacon Hill vs D1-Dunbar 5:00 p.m. Trail All Stars (Host) vs D5-Forest Hills
Wednesday 10 a.m. D1-Dunbar vs D6-Hastings 1:30 p.m. D3-White Rock vs D5-Forest Hills 5 p.m. Trail All Stars (Host) vs D7-Beacon Hill
Thursday Rain out make-up day.
Friday July 27Noon 1st Place vs 4th Place 3:30 p.m. 2nd Place vs 3rd Place
Saturday Noon Championship Game
Meet your Trail Little League All Stars
19. Derek Green Coach Mike Boisvert Head coach D. J. Ashman
Coach Jason Startup
16. Bradley Ross
15. Brendan Makay
18. Colton Miracle
11. Dawson Denbiesen
9. Jon Ballarin 12. Kian Johnston 4. Nolan Piche 20. Quin Hall
17. Reece Tambellini
8. Ross St. Jean
7. Trevor Vancamp
Last week was pretty good to the Trail Orioles.
They earned a split with the highly regarded San Diego Stars, a good omen for their chances at the Grand Forks International at which the Stars are always a contender, then swept the Vernon Diamondbacks, secur-ing an opportunity to defend their Western Canadian Championship in the process.
They will find out this weekend whether they are as good as that short stint indi-cates.
The Seattle Studs, even more a perennial powerhouse than the Stars, will hit Butler Park this weekend (Saturday at 5 and 7 p.m., Sunday at 11 a.m.)
The Stars are really good. The Studs have, in terms of semi-pro baseball, been awe-some for awhile.
Just in the past month, Seattle has won its third s t r a i g h t K e l o w n a Invitational cash tournament and the Kamloops Invitational as well.
The Studs are almost always in the final four at GFI, and have won that tournament’s top prize, often against teams full of former big league and
high minor league stand-outs, more than once.
The Studs are a Greater Seattle plus all-star aggre-gate, mostly current and recently for-mer collegiate and minor pro players.
There are three 30-year-
olds on roster and a 27-year-old, the rest are 25 and under, and they simply play very good ball.
This will be the first com-petition between the Orioles and the Studs this season, and promises to be eye-opening
for locals. You can eat, drink (maybe
more than soft drinks) and be very entertained.
So why wouldn’t you go? Well, one reason might be
that this is the eve of the B.C. Little League Major champion-ship, being hosted by Trail just a few kilometers from Butler Park.
The West Kootenay All Star team plays Saturday after-noon and Sunday morning (breakfast and a ball game) at Andy Bilesky Park, before early evening games (dinner and a ball game) Monday-Wednesday.
As my old friend Jerry, who announced the beginnings of the GFI, when it wasn’t so glamorous, used to say, “Come on out - and bring a friend.”
DAVE THOMPSON
Sports ‘n’ Things
Trail baseball bonanza on tap
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WARFIELD RECREATION
Drop in for fun in sun at playground program
The Warfield Summer Playground Program is into its third week and would like to invite children ages 6 – 12 years to come to see what Heather and Lindsay have planned for the day.
This Playground Program runs Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. – noon at the Village Square Park (behind the Warfield Community Park). Drop-in cost: $2 per child.
The sun is hot and shining; the water in the Warfield Pool is refresh-ing and sparkling; just so enticing that you won’t want to miss out on the special fun day that has been planned for Saturday from 1-3 p.m.
The Pool Staff have some fun activities planned for their Hawaiian Day event. See you there, ALOHA.
Have you signed your child up for swim lessons yet? Choose a con-venient time and call the pool to register. The next group of Regular
lessons will be: July 31 – Aug. 10; Aug. 20-30. The next group of “Themed” Lessons will be held Aug. 13-17. Lesson cost are: 30-min-utes Red Cross - $30; 45-minutes Red Cross - $35; Themed - $55.00 (which includes 2 – 30-minute les-sons, crafts, and snack).
What a great summer job to be a Lifeguard at the Warfield Pool. Have you ever thought about becoming a Lifeguard?
Ask the Pool Staff about the cours-es that will be offered to achieve this goal. The Advanced Lifesaving course, i.e. Bronze Medallion and Bronze Cross may be offered depending on the public interest. Contact the pool for more informa-tion.
Need somewhere to go to cele-brate a birthday, team wind-up, or just a get together with family or friends? The Warfield Pool is avail-able to rent either before or after public swim hours. For more infor-mation, please call the Warfield Pool at 368-5111.
Plan next summer bash at Warfield Pool
THE ASSOCIATED PRESSPHILADELPHIA -
Shea Weber is on the brink of becoming the dominant blueline force the Philadelphia Flyers desperately need.
Weber signed a stag-gering offer sheet with the Philadelphia Flyers and the restricted free agent could be a week away from bolting the Nashville Predators. A person with knowledge of the decision says the Flyers signed Weber to a 14-year offer sheet worth $110 million.
The person spoke to The Associated Press on Thursday on condition of anonym-ity because the Flyers hadn’t announced terms of the offer.
Flyers general man-ager Paul Holmgren confirmed early Thursday that the Flyers did sign Weber to an offer sheet. He gave no further details.
The Predators issued a statement late Thursday morning confirming they had received the Flyers’ offer sheet, which gives the team seven days to make a decision on matching the deal or letting the defenceman go.
“We have stated previously that, should a team enter into an offer sheet with Shea, our intention would be to match and retain Shea,” Predators gener-al manager David Poile said. “Our ownership has provided us with the necessary resources to build a Stanley Cup-winning team. Due to the complexity of the offer sheet, we will take the appropriate time to review and evaluate it, and all of its ramifica-tions, in order to make the best decision for the Predators in both the short and long-term.”
Weber, 26, is the
Predators’ captain and played on a $7.5 mil-lion arbitrator’s award last season. He had 19 goals and 49 points along the way.
Nashville already lost free-agent defence-man Ryan Suter to Minnesota this sum-
mer, and losing Weber would be an unexpect-ed blow to a defence-first team that had 104 points last season, took the No. 4 seed in the Western Conference and advanced to the second round of the playoffs.
(AP PHOTO/JOE HOWELL)
Reports say the Philadelphia Flyers have signed Nashville Predators captain Shea Weber to a 14-year offer sheet worth more than $100 million.
Flyers stalk Predator
NHL
SCOREBOARDFastball
WOMEN’S WORLD FASTPITCH CHAMPIONSHIPAt Whitehorse
All Times EasternGroup A
GP W L PctU.S. 6 6 0 1.000China 6 5 1 .833Netherlands 6 4 2 .667Puerto Rico 6 3 3 .500Czech Rep. 6 2 4 .333Venezuela 6 2 4 .333Argentina 6 1 5 .167South Africa 6 1 5 .167
Group B GP W L PctJapan 6 6 0 1.000Canada 6 5 1 .833
Australia 6 4 2 .667Italy 6 3 3 .500Britain 6 2 4 .333New Zealand 6 2 4 .333Taiwan 6 2 4 .333Mexico 6 0 6 .000
Thursday’s games(Unavailable at press time)
Taiwan vs. New Zealand, 2 p.m.Czech Republic vs. South Africa,
2:30 p.m.Australia vs. Britain, 4:30 p.m.
Argentina vs. U.S., 5 p.m.Mexico vs. Japan, 7 p.m.
Puerto Rico vs. Netherlands, 7:30 p.m.
China vs. Venezuela, 9:30 p.m.Canada vs. Italy, 10 p.m.
End round robin
BaseballPacific International League
StandingsTeam GP W L PT PCT GBSeattle 14 12 2 24 .857 -Langley 17 13 4 26 .765 .5Everett 15 11 4 22 .733 1.5Nortwst 16 10 6 20 .625 3Kamloops12 5 7 10 .417 6Burnaby 10 4 6 8 .4 6Kelowna 9 3 6 6 .333 6.5Coquit 8 2 6 4 .25 7Trail 11 2 9 4 .182 8.5Nanaimo 14 1 13 2 .071 11
GamesAt Butler Park
Seattle Studs vs Trail OriolesSaturday at 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Sunday at 11 a.m.
British OpenLytham St. Annes, England
Purse: $7.75 millionYardage: 7,086; Par: 70 (34-36)
First RoundAdam Scott 32-32-64Paul Lawrie 32-33-65Zach Johnson 32-33-65Nicolas Colsaerts 31-34-65Brandt Snedeker 32-34-66Ernie Els 33-34-67Bubba Watson 31-36-67Graeme McDowell 31-36-67Tiger Woods 30-37-67Toshinori Muto 31-36-67Rory McIlroy 32-35-67Steve Stricker 32-35-67Peter Hanson 32-35-67Jamie Donaldson 35-33-68
THE ASSOCIATED PRESSMADRID, Spain -
Defending champion Rafael Nadal pulled out of the London Olympics on Thursday with an undisclosed injury, leaving the ten-nis competition with-out one of its lead-ing stars and robbing Spain’s team of its flag-bearer for the opening ceremony.
Nadal won the French Open for a rec-ord seventh time this
year but has struggled with left knee prob-lems at times during the season. Shortly after winning his 11th Grand Slam title at Roland Garros, he lost to 100th-ranked Lukas Rosol in the second round at Wimbledon.
Nadal has not played since. The third-ranked Nadal said Thursday he wasn’t in condition to compete at the Olympic tennis tournament - which
also will be held at Wimbledon.
“This is one of the saddest moments of my career,” Nadal said in a statement. “I have to think about my companions, I can’t be selfish and I have to think of what’s best for Spanish sport, especially tennis and Spanish players, and give fellow sports-men with better prep-aration the chance to compete.”
TENNIS
Nadal withdraws
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REGIONALTrail Daily Times Friday, July 20, 2012 www.trailtimes.ca A15
Summer is here
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vehicle. But what happens
when you get back to your
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the window shattered, the door
forced and items are missing.
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by car insurance and what
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While your car insurance
covers many things, it usually
does not extend to loss of
your personal contents in the
car. In addition to losing your
personal property, a break-in
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and expense of fixing damages
such as broken window
glass, typical with a break-in.
If you claim against your car
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your deductibles may not
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Goods such as cameras,
sporting equipment and
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You would be required to make
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Typical deductibles on car
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Searchers did not return to Johnsons Landing on Thursday after the BC Coroners service concluded the first phase of the recovery operation on Wednesday night.
After six full days of searching on the deb-ris field the remains of two victims have been found and the other two are still missing.
“When we took over the recovery effort on Sunday and I travelled to the site, I said that our first job would be assessing the site and determine the possibility for suc-cessful recovery of vic-tims,” said chief cor-oner Lisa Lapointe on Wednesday.
“The conclusion of today’s search and the end of the first phase, it’s now time to reassess that situation.
“The search began in the areas where we believed we had the best chance to recover victims and that was near the foundations of the homes that were destroyed in the slide.
“By doing this our highly skilled search teams were able to recover two of the victims. Further work in those areas has no resulted in positive results.”
The BC coroners ser-vice had been working with the Heavy Urban Search and Rescue
MEGAN COLE PHOTO
Two victims are still unaccounted for in the landslide that devastated Johnsons Landing last week.
Johnsons Landing recovery suspended
team from Vancouver, local search and res-cue and the RCMP to search the areas around Valentine Webber’s home and the home of Petra Frehse, who is still missing.
The remains of a male believed to be Webber were found Sunday near the foun-dation of his home and on Monday afternoon the body of a young woman believed to be Rachel or Diana Webber was also recovered near the home.
“The areas near the foundations are only a miniscule part of the whole debris field, which covers a total of 83 acres,” said
Lapointe. “This is a huge area,
and that is why we need to step back now and consider our options in terms of recovery of the other two victims and whether there is are realistic possibility that others will be found in this area.”
Lapointe said she couldn’t give a specific time frame on when the next phase of the oper-ation would begin but emphasized they need to balance the effort to find the other victims with the safety of those working on the land-slide.
“We’re also very cognizant of the safety of the searchers,” she
explained.“The area remains
unstable. It is very dan-gerous. We do have a number of significant safety precautions in place to ensure the safety of those who have been searching on the hill and we have been very, very fortun-ate that we have not had an incident which I think speaks highly of the professionalism of those involved in this recovery effort, but the slide area remains unstable and is danger-ous.”
While officials reassess the operation, Lapointe said because of the size of the debris field they will consider
that they may never locate the other two victims.
“I think we have to consider that there is potential that we may never locate the two other victims,” she said.
“We will try to make a determination as to the most likely areas where we may find more victims and we
will make some assess-ment as to how we may recover them safely.
“But of course, there are no guarantees. We might excavate several tons more earth and never find them. Will we excavate the whole site? I don’t think that’s going to happen. We have 83 acres of slide area.”
Lapointe and other
officials asking that the public not come to Johnsons Landing to see the landslide that devastated the com-munity last week.
“I want to stress to those who live in the community or to those who are may be inter-ested in viewing the slide, the area is highly unstable and very, very dangerous,” she said.
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BY ARNE PETRYSHENRossland News
Residents celebrated success in the Rossland Energy Diet Thursday, as the officials gathered in front of a crowd at the mountain market.
There was ice cream for everyone and a plaque for the city, which cele-brates the completion and success of the first Energy Diet.
Steven Ashe, chair of the sustain-ability commission, said responsibil-ity for the diet’s success has to go not only to those that sponsored it, but to those who participated.
“The real thanks has to go to those who participated in Rossland and retrofitted their home, kept out the cold and lowered their total energy use,” Ashe said.
“They’re going to save money, they’re going to improve the value of their home and they’re going to reduce their impact on the environ-ment. Not only that, but the invest-ments that were made over this last while, were made in Rossland.”
He also wanted to celebrate those who made the energy diet pos-sible: FortisBC, the City of Rossland, Columbia Basin Trust, the Nelson and District Credit Union and the Sustainability Commission.
“Saving energy makes sense,” he added.
Katrine Conroy wanted to con-gratulate FortisBC on their foresight to put the diet together, adding that Rossland deserves a lot of credit as well with its energy savings.
“I think this was a great initiative that you undertook and that you did such substantial success,” Conroy said. “I think that it’s something other communities in the area should also take up and hopefully it’s something that we can carry on.”
Mayor Greg Granstrom said the energy diet was a huge success.
“More than a million kilowatts in electricity half way through and have more than $1.5 million invested in the community is a real win/win.”
The preliminary results show that residents have reduced their annual energy use by more than 2,220 gigajoules of natural gas and 1,478,000 kilowatt hours of elec-tricity, by making energy efficient renovations to existing homes and small businesses.
Carol Suhan, manager of FortisBC PowerSense Services, said that Ashe had initially called her with the idea three years ago.
“He said, ‘Carol, we need some help here in Rossland and we want you to help us. We know that Rossland uses more energy than the average houses in British Columbia because of the older housing stock and the mountainous climate, so we want to change all that,’” Suhan explained, adding that at the time FortisBC was busy with other pro-jects.
Ashe came back with support from the Columbia Basin Trust early last year. At the time the federal gov-ernment released the ecoENERGY rebate program, she said.
They had a really short timeframe for the upgrades and so six months ago they launched the program.
Participants received a free initial energy assessment, help connecting with local qualified contractors to do the retrofit work and guidance in capitalizing on the LiveSmart BC Efficiency Incentive Program and the former Federal ecoENERGY incen-tive programs.
The results for the diet are not complete yet, because people have until the end of the year to make the renovations and qualify for the rebates. As of now, Suhan said 125 people have made significant improvements to their homes.
“Right now we have 11 per cent of the people, who accessed the rebates,” she said. “The normal suc-cess rate for this sort of program is one to two per cent for LiveSmart. We have 11 per cent, and we think by the end of the year it will be 15.”
The original program target was to reach 100 homes, and more than double signed up for an energy assessment (257 in total).
The energy efficient measures that participants completed will help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 338 tonnes annually and have injected an estimated $1.5 mil-lion into the local economy. These preliminary results are for 135 of the 257 participating homes, so even more losses are expected. Remaining participants have until March 31, 2013 to renovate and apply for grants through LiveSmart B.C.
Energy diet in Rossland declared a success
ARNE PETRYSHEN PHOTO
Carol Suhan, manager of FortisBC PowerSense Services and Rossland’s mayor, Greg Granstrom, hold up a plaque celebrating the success of the Rossland Energy Diet.
BY JOE FRIESPenticton Western News
Despite a Conservative stranglehold on the Okanagan that can make for dull elec-tions, the 2015 vote could get a shot of excitement if ridings are redrawn as suggested by the B.C. Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission.
The commission joined this week with others across Canada to release once-a-decade propos-als that adjust the political map to ensure fair representation by population.
B.C. was preordained to get six new seats, five of which the commission recommended be placed in the Lower Mainland, and the sixth on Vancouver Island. And while population growth in the Southern Interior doesn’t warrant one of those new seats, the commission con-cluded, it does warrant redraw-ing some boundaries. That’s
where things get interesting.Penticton, currently in the
Okanagan-Coquihalla riding held by Conservative Dan Albas, would be shaved off and replaced by downtown Kelowna. The new riding, called Central Okanagan-Coquihalla, would still include Peachland, West Kelowna, Summerland and Merritt, but also extend south to the U.S. border to gobble up Princeton.
Right now, Princeton is included in the western portion of the B.C. Southern Interior riding held by the NDP’s Alex Atamanenko. The new riding, called South Okanagan-West Kootenay, would only extend as far west as Keremeos, but also adopt Penticton. Its eastern flank would be retracted to drop Nelson, which would be shuffled to an adjacent riding.
Therein lies the rub, accord-ing to Wolf Depner, a polit-ical science instructor at UBC-
Okanagan.Nelson is a left-leaning
stronghold for the NDP, while Penticton favours the Conservatives, Depner said. So the new South Okanagan-West Kootenay riding would likely swing to the Tories.
Atamanenko “will be in for a tough race,” if he runs there, said Depner, a former journalist.
For Albas, the election itself would probably be a cake walk, Depner continued, but getting the party’s nomination in Central Okanagan-Coquihalla could be a different story if he has to con-tend with strong Conservative candidates from Kelowna.
It’s also possible that Albas and Atamanenko could square off for the South Okanagan-West Kootenay seat.
“That would be a very fascin-ating race,” Depner said. “That would be the strongest challenge that Dan Albas would face.”
Atamanenko prepares for fight
LEISURE
Dear Annie: I’ve been seeing “Bud” for a year. He lives in a trailer park and has a 23-year-old daughter who is on Bud’s checking account and charge cards. This girl insists that her mother (Bud’s ex-wife) spend weekends at the trailer, so Bud spends those weekends at my house. He will not tell his daughter no.
This has put some stress on our relation-ship. His daughter often buys things for her mother, and Bud pays the bills. I find this a little strange. Bud doesn’t understand my objections. He has no interest in saving for our future together.
My friends say that Bud is using me because I have a nice house. If I were to marry him, I would make him sign a pre-nup, because otherwise he would give away everything I have. Am I being naive about our relation-ship? -- Can’t Take It Anymore
Dear Can’t Take
It: You’re not naive. You understand what’s going on. But you don’t seem to accept your limitations when it comes to changing the situation. A pre-nup won’t solve your prob-lem. Bud is going to continue to pay for his daughter’s bills. He will continue to acquiesce to her requests, including having her mother stay at his place. And you will continue to be mis-erable playing second fiddle to his daughter. Your decision is how best to respond to this.
Dear Annie: My husband is one of five sons. His parents recently passed away, and he is the execu-tor of the estate and is
in the process of sell-ing their home. He got several estimates and selected the Realtor he felt would do the best job. One brother tried to get my hus-band to pick a friend, but my husband was not impressed with her. Another has been really nasty, telling my husband he should try harder to get more money from the sale.
My husband’s niece would like to buy the house. She made a rea-sonable offer, and my husband was happy to keep the house in the family. He called a family meeting, but only two broth-ers showed up, one of whom was the niece’s father. He said my husband should get the house appraised in case it was worth more money.
When my husband pointed out that the niece might not be able to afford the house if it’s priced any higher, her father said this is a business deal and to
get as much money as possible.
This is upsetting my husband, who would love to sell to his niece. The two brothers already have stopped speaking to him, and before this is all over, the family may fall apart completely. What is your take? -- All in the Family
Dear Family: When parents die, there is often fallout between siblings over money. But many times the real issue is the per-ception that one sib-ling was loved more than another. We suspect your husband was named executor because his parents thought he was the best choice to handle such things, which may also be the reason why he is getting so much resist-ance from his brothers. If the niece is offering a fair price for the house and your husband wants to sell to her, he should do so.
Dear Annie: “Sterling, Mass.” said,
“Type 1 diabetes is an epidemic, and people with the disease aren’t going to wait to eat.” She should have said “Type 2.”
The CDC predicts that one out of every three people will have Type 2 diabetes by
2050. This form of dia-betes is caused from a mixture of things, including heredity, eat-ing and exercise habits. People with Type 2 dia-betes may or may not use insulin.
Fast-acting insulins can begin to work in 10
to 15 minutes, so the person needs to start eating fairly soon after injecting. Others might be able to inject the insulin up to 30 min-utes before the meal. -- Advanced Diabetes Nurse Specialist/Educator, Transcultural
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SOLUTION FOR YESTERDAY’S SUDOKU
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Pre-nup won’t solve boyfriend’s support of daughter
LEISURE
For Saturday, July 21, 2012 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) This is a wonderful, social day! Enjoy discussions with siblings, neighbors and friends. Spontaneous meet-ings with others will delight and amaze you. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Business and commerce are favored hugely today! Look for ways to boost your income or to drive a better bargain. Opportunities for self-employment also might appear. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You can make positive changes in your life today as well as changes in your immediate environment, because you’re attracted to new ideas. In addition, the chance to do so might fall in your lap! CANCER (June 21 to July 22) The unexpected endorse-ment of others or some kind
of secret support could be very reassuring to you today. Something behind the scenes suddenly is potentially very beneficial. LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Your involvement with a group probably will be sponta-neous and unexpected today. Perhaps this meeting takes an unexpected direction. Or perhaps a fresh perspective from others will change your goals. Who knows? VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Something unexpected might promote your good name among your peers today. You can really benefit in some way. Work-related travel also might spontane-ously come your way. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Surprise travel plans or plans connected with pub-lishing, the media, higher education, medicine and the law will delight you today. This is a wonderful day, full
of unexpected opportunities for you. (But you will have to act fast.) SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Gifts, goodies and favors from others can come to you today. This is a great day to settle disputes about shared property. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Relations with partners and close friends are warm but full of a few surprises.
You might hear from an ex-partner or someone else out of the blue. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Wonderful job opportu-nities are possible for you today. However, this window of opportunity will be brief, so be prepared to act quickly. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Accept invitations to party, because this is a fun, playful, romantic day! Enjoy sports,
the arts and playful times with children. If you can take a mini-vacation today, do so. PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Entertain at home today, because family events spon-taneously will become excit-ing and enjoyable. Surprise guests might drop by as well. This also is an excellent day for real-estate opportunities. YOU BORN TODAY Your strong opinions can get you into trouble, but you don’t
mind because you’re a fine debater, plus you love playing devil’s advocate. You want to lead an exciting life, which is why you always seek out action and adventure. You’re very comfortable in the public eye. Your coming year will be very social and friendly, and will bless all relationships. Birthdate of: Ernest Hemingway, author/Nobel laureate; Robin Williams, actor/comedian; Marshall McLuhan, author/futurist.
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YOUR HOROSCOPEBy Francis Drake
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In Memory
Michael Cristian VenturiniMay 28, 1984 - July 21, 1993
We think of you every day and miss you more than words can say.
Life has never been the same without you.
Just getting through the day, Sometimes is all we can do.
We love you now and forever.Mom, Shaun, Nono & family
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Trail $169,000Fred Behrens 250-368-1268
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Rossland $304,900Gerry McCasky 250-231-0900
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Pend d’OreleAttention horse lovers! This 20 acres is all fenced & ready. The home has 4 bdrms, 2 baths & room for all your family.$549,000
Trail4 bdrm, 2 bath Sunningdale home on a nice sized private lot with newer furnace, roof & windows.$239,000
REDUCED CastlegarSpacious 4 bdrm, 2 bath home with newer kitchen, spacious living & dining areas, fully
nished basement & many updates. Close to all amenities.$234,500
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MontroseBeautiful custom kitchen, 5 bdrms, 3 baths, views, NG
replace, covered parking, all on 2.79 acres. What are you waiting for?$314,900
MontroseRelax, all the work is done on this 3 bdrm, 2 bath home. Newer kitchen & roof, beautiful HW oors, NG replace, covered decks & more!$319,900
TrailBrand new home built to perfection! HW oors, ceramic tile, covered patio, huge kitchen, 3 bed, 3 bath. Move in ready!$269,900
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East TrailSuper home in a super location. Walk to everything! Newer siding, roof,
ooring, furnace and A/C. Call today.$159,000
NEW PRICE FruitvaleGreat 2 bdrm half duplex in Fruitvale with a full walk out basement and a single carport.$189,500
GOOD
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FruitvaleBeautiful custom home has 5 bdrms, 3 levels, country kitchen and wrap-around deck on a picturesque 3.4 acre lot.$369,900
MINT
CONDITION FruitvaleA great family home on a super lot in a super location near school & parks. 0.28 acres, large wrokshop with Beaver Creek nearby.$239,000
GREAT LOT FruitvaleA great starter home on a nice lot in Fruitvale. Good parking, 3 bedrooms an main oor and a large rec room and 2nd bath down.$199,000
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LOCATION
FruitvaleFive bedroom house on one acre in Fruitvale. New paint and ooring throughout. Good suite potential and parking. On village water!$209,900
1 ACRE GlenmerryBeautiful 3 bedroom home plus a loft on a huge 105x100 lot on the riverbank in Glenmerry. Fantastic views!$365,000
RIVER VIEWS FruitvaleBeautiful 9.86 acre parcel on Columbia Gardens Road. 3+ bdrm, 2 bath home with large shop & stunning views across the valley & Beaver Creek meandering along the back of the property.$289,000
REDUCED Park SidingOwn your own piece of privacy. Small 3 bedroom home on 1 acre, located 10 minutes outside of Fruitvale.$149,000
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Beaver FallsBeautiful 6.37 acre parcel on the edge of Montrose with large 4 bdrm home. Gorgeous property with tons of privacy.$389,900
SUPER
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Columbia HeightsA great starter home with fantastic views of the Columbia river. Good value here!$79,000
VIEWS
East TrailA character home on a choice lot, only steps from Gyro Park. This home brings back the charm of yesteryear.$279,000
CHARMING
TrailSolid 4 bed, 2 bath home, absolutely spotless! Detached 2-car garage plus off street parking, located on no-thru road.$169,900
NEW PRICE!
Trail“Like New” 1/2 duplex in Waneta Village - beautifully
nished on 2 levels.
$254,000
NEW LISTING War eldSolid character home in upper War eld - lots of upgrades, good sized rooms and at yard.$165,000
NEW LISTING MontroseCharming three bedroom home located on a corner lot with lots of upgrades.
$199,900
FruitvaleGreat family home close to elementary school! 3 beds, 2 baths, rec room, lots of storage, fenced yard, attached 2-car garage. It has it all!$369,000
NEW PRICE!
Miral Heights‘Better than new’ describes this 4 bdrm quality home on an unbelievable lot in Miral Heights. Beautiful
nishing throughout!$449,000
QUALITY
PLUS
FruitvaleThis amazing home is on 4.5 acres, yet it’s just a short walk to town.
$479,900
Trail2 for 1! For this price, you have to look! Main house if 4 bdrm, 2 bath, un nished basement, updated plumbing, wiring & furnace. Plus a second mortgage helper!$199,900
NEW LISTING RosslandClose to schools! This 4 bdrm main oor living home with garage is a great starter. Un nished basement to nish to your liking.$219,000
GREAT
LOCATION
OPEN HOUSE
Saturday, July 2111am - 1pm
624 Scho eld Hwy.War eld
Owners want it SOLD!$215,900
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FRANCESCO ESTATES& ERMALINDA APARTMENTS
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Misc. WantedI would like to Buy
HuckleberriesPlease phone 250-357-2402
leave messagePAYING CASH for old furni-ture, antiques, collectables and articles of value. Please phone Pat Hogan 250-368-9190, 250-352-6822
Sporting GoodsAlmost new EHBC folding electric bike 350 motor lithium battery $500. 352-7616
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Apt/Condos for SaleProfessional looking for 1 Bedroom apartment in
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Call Arne at250-584-9691
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Real Estate
For Sale By OwnerTrail. 3000+ sq.ft. home. 3 bdrm. Large living room, in-law suite, sunroom, large work-shop, double-car garage, fenced yard w/ river view. $197,000 fi rm. Contact Faith @ 250.365.0405
Waterfront home. 2 bdrm, 2 bath. $249,000. Condo on Ar-row Lake by Castlegar with marina & boat launch. Call 250.231.7182
Houses For SaleGENEROUS SRI INCEN-TIVES & now government grants for fi rst time buyers! SRI Homes and Lake Country are offering unbelievable dis-counts. Lake Country Modular Homes, located next to SRI’s Winfi eld factory, offers custom designs, factory tours, expert advice & service and the best price! Call Don Purdie toll free at 1-866-766-2214. www.LCMhomes.com
ROSSLAND brand new 4 bed-rooms 2.5 bathrooms 2 car garage hardwood fl oor no car-peting only $150 per s. feet. 250-362-7716 or rossland-builder.com
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Lots1/2 ACRE fully serviced lot in quiet, newer sub division in Salmo, BC. - NOT located on the fl ood plain, meaning you can build a basement. - Cus-tom made home plans de-signed specifi cally for the lot available as well if interested. Call Lynnette @ Century21 Mountainview Realty For more info 1-877-304-7952
FRUITVALE, level lot, 40ft. x 140ft., backs on park. $49,000. 250-368-6076
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Apt/Condo for RentGLENMERRY, 2bdrm, n/p, n/s. References. Available Aug.1st. 250-364-2786
GLENMERRY Townhouse 3bd F/S W/D N/P $950 Avail Aug 15 250.368.1019
ROSSLAND 2bd, newly reno-vated, carport, NS, NP, 250.362.9473
TRAIL, 1-BDRM, fully fur-nished. Single occupancy. Satellite & internet. N/S, N/P. $600.+util. 250-368-4665.
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Apt/Condo for RentTRAIL, spacious 2bdrm. apartment. Adult building, per-fect for seniors/ professionals. Cozy, clean, quiet, com-fortable. Must See. 250-368-1312
WANETA MANOR: 3bd, $760 NS, NP, Senior oriented, 250.368.8423
Homes for RentCHARMING 3 bedroom 1 bath home in Convienent downtown Trail location, Bring your ideas and make this house your home! MLS #K213619, Call Lynnette @ Century 21 Moun-tainview Realty Today 1-877-304-7952
Rossland-Furnished Rentals: nightly, weekly, monthly:visit MountainTownProperties.ca or 250-368-7556
Suites, LowerNEW 2 bdrm bright bsmt suite. New appliances incl laundry. 604-828-1978 [email protected]
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For Sunday, July 22, 2012 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Enjoy arts and crafts, sports, playful activities with chil-dren or anything that has to do with show business and the entertainment world. It’s a fun, social day. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) You have the energy and vigor to tackle home repairs today. Similarly, you’ll be very eager to discuss some-thing with a family member. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You’re unusually persua-sive today! This is why you’ll have no trouble getting your point across and encouraging others to jump on your band-wagon. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Trust your moneymaking ideas today, because you’re enthusiastic about something. You also might want to repair something you own. LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) This will be a very talk-ative day for you, and, in fact,
your chatty nature likely will continue until September. (Wow.) You are really out there flying your colors! VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) This is an excellent time for research, because you have lots of mental energy to tack-le any problem. You’ll know exactly where to look to go for the jugular. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Enjoy the company of oth-ers today, especially groups. Your enthusiasm for what-ever is going on will attract others to you because they love your energy. SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Talk to bosses, parents, teachers and VIPs today. Share your ideas with them, because they’ll be impressed. You sound like you’ve done your homework and you know what you’re talking about. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Travel anywhere today, because you want adventure and you also want to learn
something new. If you can’t travel, then be a tourist in your own town or talk to peo-ple from other backgrounds. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) It’s easy to ignore bor-ing, red-tape stuff, isn’t it? Fortunately, today you have the mental energy to tackle these issues, especially any-thing to do with banking, taxes, debt and paying bills. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) This is an excellent day to explain your views to a part-ner or close friend because you want intellectual stimu-lation and spirited conversa-tion. (It’s a good day to sign documents.) PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) You’re unusually attentive to detail today, which is why this is a great day to do any kind of mental work. You feel there is practical work to be done. YOU BORN TODAY You’re courageous in facing a life that is often full of ups and downs. You are straightfor-ward and not afraid of chal-
lenges. You’re also competi-tive and at times foolhardy. You are unusually strong and persevering in your ability to overcome adversity. People are inspired by your strength. In the coming year, you will study or learn something that is valuable. Birthdate of: A.J. Cook, actress; Willem Dafoe, actor; Rose Kennedy, political matri-arch.
For Monday, July 23, 2012 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) The next six weeks will be playful and adventurous. Slip away on a vacation. Romance, love affairs, sports and pleasure are tops on your menu. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Your focus now turns to home, family and domestic matters for the next month or so. Discussions with a parent could be significant. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) A busy six weeks ahead! Just accept the fact that the pace of your days is accelerat-ing. Enjoy short trips, running errands and reading and writ-ing. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) In the next month, you’ll think more about your values. You’ll wonder what really matters, as well as how to boost your income.
LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) For the next month, the Sun is in your sign, which means it’s your turn to recharge your batteries for the rest of the year. Expect to attract people and favorable circumstances. VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Play it low-key by working alone or behind the scenes in the next month. Use this time to strategize what you want your new year (birthday to birthday) to be. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Your popularity will increase in the next six weeks. Accept all invitations. Join clubs and groups. Make new friends and reconnect with old ones. SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) This is the only time all year when the Sun is trav-eling across the top of your chart, acting like a spotlight on you. Because this light is flattering, others will ask you to do something special. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Travel anywhere if you can during the next six weeks, because you’re eager for adventure and hungry to learn something new. You need a change of scenery. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) You’ll be intense and pas-sionate during the next six weeks. This bodes well for intimate romance, but it also could indicate disputes about
shared property. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Try to get more sleep in the next six weeks. The Sun is your source of energy, and it is as far away from you as it gets all year. PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) You want to turn over a new leaf. Since you’re on this self-improvement kick, do what-ever you can to improve your health and get better orga-nized at work and at home. YOU BORN TODAY You are thoughtful, caring and com-passionate. You also are a tra-ditionalist who is often uncer-tain about your life direction. You love history and study, especially anything where you can investigate mysteries. Your sensitive nature requires you to build a shell to deal with your world. Your year ahead might be one of the most powerful years of your life. Dream big! Birthdate of: Daniel Radcliffe, actor; Woody Harrelson, actor; Stephanie March, actress. (c) 2012 King Features Syndicate, Inc.
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GARDENING
Yes, I’m one of those annoy-ing people who, after only four or five days of the hot
weather, says “enough already.” Thirteen years back in the
Kootenays should be enough time to acclimatize, maybe it’s my age creeping up on me, but the heat is bringing out the flowers, especially the lilies and that’s a real treat.
As I’ve mentioned, I don’t do many per-ennials anymore because of the extra work involved and have only brought my very favourites with me. Lilies made the cut. They have such an exotic look, it’s not uncommon for people to think they are difficult to grow. Most, in fact, are very low mainten-ance. Their colour range spans the whole floral spectrum with
the exception of blue.I let the garden centres do the
initial growing but if gardeners want to start with bulbs, they should be planted in early fall or very early spring; plant the bulbs with the pointed end up at a
depth three times the length of the bulb - generally about six inches deep.
All lilies pre-fer to have their roots kept moist and cool in soil that is well-drained. They are heavy feeders and benefit from
a top dressing of compost with bone meal worked around them every spring.
Once the flowers are finished, allow the stems to die down nat-urally. This will help feed the bulbs again for the coming sea-
son. All lilies should be divided every five years (in the fall).
Otherwise they will start to produce many thin non-flower-ing stalks. Dig up the plant, sep-arate the bulblets from the main bulb and immediately replant them 10 inches apart, the roots will die if they dry out.
Asiatic lilies are the easiest to grow, hardy to zone 2 and quite disease-resistant. They have out-ward facing flowers that bloom in early summer and will do well in sun, part-sun, or light shade. Mine started to bloom about a week ago.
A mature Asiatic lily has about 10 to 15 flower stalks and will spread more than Orientals. The heights very according to varieties. The most recent lily additions to my garden have been Asiatic ‘Trumpet’ lilies. Their blooms are magnificently huge!
Oriental lilies are every bit
as beautiful as Asiatic and offer the bonus of fragrance. While the refer-ence books indicate that they are only hardy to Zone 5, I’ve seen them successfully grown in Rossland, in a sheltered, sunny location. Their heights also vary with variety.
Orientals bloom in late summer and need full sun. To ensure ’cool feet’, I plant them to grow up behind and between perennials such as day-lilies and ornamental grass.
My favourite oriental is the white Casa Blanca; again it has the huge
blooms I love and offers fragrance that is ‘other worldly’. When cut-ting the flowers for bouquets, always leave at least one third of the stalk behind so the bulb still has a way of getting energy. Lilies are very long lasting cut flowers. A word of cau-tion, though—be careful of the sta-mens—the stain left on cloths is hard to remove.
There aren’t many flowers more spectacular. Any gardener who plants a lily will become ‘hooked’ on this showy perennial.
PATTY PATTY SIDDALL SIDDALL
Ground Rules in Gardening
Trumpeter lilies.
Lilies: no flower more spectacular