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Some were in favour, some against, but mostly, people wanted to hear more about the naturaliza-tion of Centennial Park.
A steady stream of visitors dropped by the aquatic cen-tre Tuesday afternoon to catch a glimpse of the conceptual design and ask questions about the pro-posed plan to rebuild the grassy hillside and lower bench in Glenmerry into a modern green design.
Rob Fershau, a landscape archi-tect with MMM Group, cautions the idea is still in its infancy, but the pilot project involves three basic principles that hit all marks of sustainable development.
“If you can find a balance with three things in what you are creat-ing – economic, environmental, and social – then chances are it is sustainable,” Fershau explained.
“Right now this is a concept showing what's possible and explains the rationale behind it.”Water conservation was the impe-tus when talks first began between MMM Group and the city.
Current water usage to irri-gate the eight-acre lawn area is a staggering 1.32 million gallons of water each week, which equates to two olympic-sized swimming pools.
“So that was the driver of this project to start,” said Fershau. “And from an economic standpoint, the cost for mostly summer mainte-
nance is $52,000,” he pointed out. “So it's a no-brainer to say we
can, with this pilot project, reduce water usage and mowing dramati-cally for a space that is not well used.”
Possibilities were soon realized that reacclimatization could bring a neighbourhood connector of walking trails with an educational wetland and meadows for indig-enous plants and wildlife.
Collaboration with John Howes, Trail's engineering technician, the school district and the city's beautification committee further supported the goal of building a stronger community through fun-damental concepts of park natural-ization.
See TOBOGGAN, Page 2
B Y V A L E R I E R O S S ITimes Staff
Selkirk Family Medicine is working diligently at find-ing new doctors for outgoing patients, pending its closure set for just a month away.
When the news broke of the facility regretfully shut-ting down due to a prompt exit of Dr. Trudi Toews, there were upwards of 1,000 people who didn't have a medical plan.
But the medical commun-ity has since pulled together to find a solution for more than half of these individuals and continues to pull efforts to complete the task.
The Kootenay Boundary Division of Family Practice (Divisions), which repre-sents all the doctors across the 14 communities in the Kootenay Boundary region, continues to support the clinic during this time of transition.
“It's really amazing how the clinics and the family doctors in the larger Trail area have really stepped up and looked at the patient panels and said 'You know
what, we have to make room,'” said clinical lead Julius Halaschek-Wiener Wednesday.
He reports that approxi-mately 500 patients from the surrounding areas – Rossland, Fruitvale, Salmo, and Castlegar – have been accepted at existing facili-ties in their home commun-ities. And those from Trail in “absolute need”-- moms and babies, the frail and elderly, those with mental health challenges and the complex/chronic patient population – were given priority place-ment. But the remaining “healthy” Trail people are still awaiting answers.
“Doctors at the Selkirk clinic have gone through their patient list and looked at the complexity of patients and determined who in their patient panels would be a priority,” Halaschek-Wiener confirmed. “There are still a number of healthy patients in the second category to be placed.”
A standardized referral process has been established to ensure a smooth transi-tion is done with care and confidentiality. After clin-ics indicated the number of patients they were willing to accept, Selkirk then prepared and sent out referral lists. Then Selkirk contacted those who were referred, advising them of the transfer oppor-tunity and instructing them to contact the receiving clin-ic to register as a new patient or to set up an appointment.
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Centennial Park plans draw interest
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Rob Fershau described the proposed Centennial Park Naturalization project to a steady stream of people who dropped by the city's open house on Tuesday. Fershau is manager of landscape architecture, infrastructure and environment at MMM Group. The Kelowna-based firm has worked with Trail on downtown revitalization initia-tives and now, the park's proposed re-design. Naturalization is an alternative landscape management tech-nique, with an end goal of maintaining and increasing the health of parks, by reducing long term maintenance.
Some patients finding new
doctor pending clinic closure
“It’s really amazing how the
clinics and the family doctors in
the larger Trail area have really
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Fruitvale council voiced its con-cerns over a proposal that restricts motorized access in the Pend D'Oreille at Monday night's council meeting.
Coun. Steve Morissette put a motion on the table to make it publicly clear that the village doesn't support the Access Management Area (AMA) plan until full public consultation has been undertaken, and a study is done on the impacts of wildlife and potential limi-tations to recreational users.
Council voted unanimously in favour of his motion.
“I think everybody has to have their voice heard and work together on a solution that accommodates the wild-life and the people that want to enjoy the outdoors,” he said.
Coun. James Ellison shed light on a recent stakeholders meeting where representatives from the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource outlined suggested road closures on a map.
“This is a big issue, and we need to get in front of it,” said Ellison, noting that the land is a major attractant and locals and visitors frequenting it often support Fruitvale's downtown business en route.
An AMA is considered an area of land that has its access regulated. The area is closed to motorized vehicles (walking and horses still allowed) with specific roads left open.
VILLAGE SET TO CLEAR DOWNTOWN SIDEWALKS
THIS WINTERSnow season is just around the cor-
ner, and the village is planning for a clean, safe downtown.
Fruitvale is notifying businesses that it will be taking care of the major snow removal on village sidewalks.
Council is backing the pilot proj-ect that is estimated to cost an extra $3,000 to the snow clearing budget; it was decided at Monday night’s regular council meeting.
NEW BEAVER VALLEY SENIORS' GYM BUZZING
WITH REGULAR USERSSeniors are taking advantage of a
new free workout facility in the base-ment of the Fruitvale Memorial Centre.
Beaver Valley residents who identify as seniors or "middlers" are lining up to grab a swipe card, according to chief administrative officer Lila Cresswell.
The village office has issued 243 passes for 279 people, with some choosing to share one with their part-ner, she noted at Monday night's regu-lar council meeting.
Council is discussing the possibil-ity of getting local seniors trained in assisting other users on the workout equipment, which includes a rowing machine, a couple of treadmills, ellip-ticals, and a stationary bike.
In the meantime, the village would like to schedule the second “workout with your doc” after a successful run a few weeks back. Beaver Valley Clinic was on board with heart monitor-ing and blood pressure checks during the interactive activity, which also included physiotherapist Kirby Epp of Valhalla Physiotherapy showing seniors how to properly lift weights.
The Gym went from idea to reality when the village received a $25,000 seniors' grant from the government this spring and was backed by other local contributors.
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Fruitvale Mayor Patricia Cecchini traveled to Grand Forks four times last month to sit in on regional discussion.
The one-hour meeting met with a long drive on both ends will halt come next year when the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary board of direc-tors starts its video conferencing pilot project.
Come January, officials on this end of the region will meet in Trail and connect to those closer to the Grand Forks area via video conference.
“Sometimes you're there for an hour meeting, so you're driving all the way there for an hour and driving all the way back,” she told village council Monday night.
“With the winter roads, it's crazy.”
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Council takes stand against Pend D’Oreille proposal
Toboggan area would be preserved and improvedFROM PAGE 1
“Environmentally, it’s quite evident when you naturalize some-thing, you are going to get a lot more flora and fauna and cut down greenhouse gases from lawnmowers,” said Fershau, mentioning public perception that a natural environment
would introduce mos-quitoes.
“That’s one of the challenges is the per-ception that in creat-ing a wetland there are mosquitoes,” he explained. “And in a healthy wetland, there are mosquitos - but there’s also many other little creatures
that come along. When done properly, and we’ve done so many of these now, mosquitoes are not an issue.”
Achieving water reduction mandates and supporting a healthy habitat are positives, says Fershau.
But he maintains the social aspect is the foremost advantage of naturalizing space.
“I think the best part is the social ben-efits that people might
not think about,” he continued. “Imagine a park where you now have a direct loop from the elementary school (Glenmerry Elementary) in a 1.5 kilometre walk. There’s a proven connec-tion between health benefits and nature,” Fershau added. “I’ve done a lot of research on that, and studies show reduced anger, reduced stress and better attention in kids after a 20 minute walk.”
While many com-ments were favour-able, Fershau acknowl-edged some Glenmerry homeowners voiced concern the park’s popular toboggan run would be lost.
“We would keep the toboggan area,” he concluded. “Although
I think there are ways to improve it and make it safer. But this is just conceptual right now, people want to know exactly what it’s going to be, but we are not there yet.”
Howes and Larry Abenante from Trail public works attended the gathering. Both observed mixed reac-tions, but said the overall consensus wel-comed the idea of nat-uralizing Centennial Park.
“They’ve looked at and said, ‘hey, this is a neat idea,’” said Howes. “This is one of the things we have to really take a look at in all our parks, to develop some sort of policy that prioritizes level of treatment each park gets for mowing and irrigation.”
“I think the best part is the social
benefit that people might
not think about.”
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Paul suddenly passed away on October 25, 2015 in Montrose, BC. Paul is survived by his loving wife and partner Delores of 55 years. He also leaves behind 2 brothers
and 2 sisters in the Lower mainland and 1 brother and 2 sisters in Manitoba, as well as many nieces and nephews across Canada. He was predeceased by 3 brothers. Paul was a Teacher in Trail for 27 years. He enjoyed hunting, but his favourite pastime was fi shing on Kootenay Lake. Paul was also a pilot for 25 years of a Cessna 160 plane. Paul and Delores spent winter months in warm and sunny Laughlin, Nevada and summers on Protection Island in Nanaimo, BC. Thank you to our family physician Dr. Phillips for his care over the years. Thank you to Jordan Wren and Gwen Ziprick of Alternative Funeral and Cremation Services for their support and guidance. A special thank you to the fi rst responders for their care and attention to our family. For those who wish, a donation to the BC Children’s Hospital Foundation or Canadian Cancer Society in Paul’s memory would be greatly appreciated.Cremation has taken place and a private family service has been held.
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OPINION
No ifs or ands, tossing a butt is litteringI’m not about to rail
against smokers. I’ve got nothing against that habit as long as
it doesn’t interfere with my breathing or my meal.
I’m not against smok-ing. There are many worse vices out there and I even enjoy the odd smoke when having a beer or sitting out on a nice evening.
But what bothers me are the butts – no ifs or ands about it.
Everyday, whether it’s in front of the Trail Memorial Centre or walk-ing the streets downtown or crossing the bridge I see the remnants of someone smoking.
I don’t really get it.Almost daily I see people
who wouldn’t normally toss a candy wrapper or a Kleenex on the side-walk calmly and without remorse flick their butt on to the sidewalk or the street and walk away.
Even during the height of the wildfire season this summer I was amazed to see people, adults, simply flick their still-burning butt out on to the street as they headed back to work or on their merry way.
While the fire dan-ger may be minimal on a downtown street, it amazes me that people appear to believe it’s not some form of littering.
Even as a once-and-awhile smoker, I at least have the habit of keeping that butt in my pocket and waiting until there is a trash bin nearby to dis-card it.
At the Trail Times we’ve written a lot about people dumping their garbage in remote areas and the city’s battle to hold them accountable.
However, cigarette butts might be one of the city’s biggest garbage problems.
Complaints about the mess they leave on side-walks, the plugged up drains and the butts find-ing their way into the water run-off, are just some of the litany of issues that smolder from cigarette waste.
As I stated at the outset, I’m not out to ban smok-ing. All I’m asking is for the smoker to treat their ciga-rette butts like any piece of garbage and find a proper place to dispose of it.
Smokers don’t throw
their empty packages on to the sidewalk or the plastic wrappings. So why should another portion be treated any differently?
I was prompted to write this column after reading a piece about the City of Nanaimo and its plan to tackle discarded cigarette butts.
Under the heading “Keep Nanaimo Clean,” the city is giving away 200 pocket ashtrays to people around town.
“Cigarette butts are the largest portion of the litter that we collect,” Charlotte Davis, the city’s manager of recycling and sanitation, told the CBC.
“Sometimes with it
being such a small piece of litter, people don’t even classify it as litter,” said Davis, “But it’s all litter and it’s all the same stuff and it’s bad for the environ-ment and our city.”
It’s a simple yet great solution.
The pocket ashtrays have the city’s emblem as well as the campaign slogan and are basically a little plastic pouch that fits neatly into any pocket.
It’s one of those little things that can make a big difference.
Even in Trail, it could work on so many levels.
It’s not just a city issue, companies who have employees that smoke probably make a habit of reminding everyone of the dangers of smoking – that’s been drilled into our heads for decades now.
However, accepting that some people enjoy smok-ing is a fact of life and, frankly, their right.
But littering, which has also been drilled into our heads for decades, is bad for everyone and every-thing.
Those same compan-ies that promote a healthy
lifestyle for its employees should also promote a healthy environment too.
There’s enough little trinkets companies pro-duce – from key chains to pens to hats – that incorporating pocket ash-trays into its list of items shouldn’t be too much of a leap.
Even if you don’t use it as an ashtray, the little pouch will find a purpose. Just look at the ashtray in most vehicles and how it has become a change holder.
It’s such a simple solu-tion and I believe the people who toss their butts don’t intentionally mean to harm the environment. They’ve just been conditioned to not even think of it as litter as Davis explained.
With the disappearance of many public ashtrays, I believe many smokers would be happy to rethink what they do with their butts.
And overall it seems like such a small invest-ment that could make a big impact.
Guy Bertrand is the managing editor of the Trail Times
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From the Trail Creek News in 1895 to the Trail Times in 2015, the venerable local newspaper and its staff (from the left; Liz Bevan, Shannon McIlmoyle,
Sheri Regnier, Jeanine Margoreeth, Kevin Macintyre, Dave Dykstra, Jim Bailey, Michelle Bedford, Lonnie Hart and Guy Bertrand) are celebrating its 120th
anniversary in 2015.
Newspaper grows from humble beginnings in 1895B Y S H E R I R E G N I E R
Times Staff
The source of prosperity of the
Trail Creek county is, of course, its
magnificent ore bodies, according
the first edition of the Trail Creek
News. “Our interests at present
lie centred in and about the noble
structure that is rising foot by foot
on the brow of the hill overhanging
the beautiful town of Trail and of
its growth and magnitude we now
write,” noted the paper's writer and
editor W.F. Thompson on the inau-
gural front page.
The day was Saturday, Oct. 19,
1895 when Volume No. 1 of The
Trail Creek News was hot off the
presses. Under the headline, “This Means
You! When You Patronize the News
You Help Trail Grow,” Thompson
writes that it is now in order for
every citizen of Trail to subscribe
for the home newspaper, The Trail
Creek News, and “the times are
right for such a movement, the
price is right and if the News of
today is not all right, we will make
it right in future issues.”
The price was said to be “cheap”
at $2 per year, and the News office
would be found open all day long
and far into the night, and future
readers were expected to hand in
their subscription at once, so they
would not miss one issue of the
Trail newspaper. “If you want the
news, you must read the News,”
Thompson proclaimed almost 12
decades ago.While there's no silver or gold
commemoration for more than a
century of news reporting, the Trail
Times staff decided an honorary pat
on the back is deserving to all the
people who have typed, pressed,
written, delivered, or simply read
their way into the 120-year history
of the Silver City's only surviving
newspaper.Over the course of the year, we
will actively seek stories from peo-
ple in the Greater Trail commu-
nity such as long time subscribers,
past paper carriers and retired office
workers, who have memories to
share about how the Trail Times has
impacted their lives.See EARLY, Page 3
Celebrating 120 years
Look for our next historical spread on
Wednesday, Nov 18
It’s easy to define the American strategy in Syria, although it is more of a wish-list than
an actual strategy. It is “con-tainment” of the nightmarish Islamic State (IS) that now controls eastern Syria and western Iraq, together with the overthrow of the brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad and its replacement by “moderate” rebel forces. But what is the Russian strategy?
It is now a month since Russian planes began bomb-ing both Islamic State forces and the “moderate” rebels. For every Russian bomb that has fallen on IS troops ten have fallen on the “moder-ates”, because it’s the latter groups that have made most of the big advances against the Assad regime since last spring. The regime’s troops have now taken some terri-tory back, but they lack the strength to reconquer all of Syria. So what next?
Russia never fights without a strategy, but in this case it was made up in a hurry. Moscow was not planning a military intervention in Syria until last July, when the offi-cer in charge of Iran’s military aid to Assad, General Qassem Soleimani, flew to Moscow to warn President Vladimir Putin that the Syrian army was on the brink of collapse.
Soleimani knew this because he was hearing it dir-ectly from the Iranian military advisers who are serving with Syrian army units.
After four years of war the Syrian army was down to half its pre-war strength, deser-tions and draft-dodging were
going up, and morale was sinking fast.
Neither Iran nor Russia wanted to see extremist jihadi forces take over all of Syria, and both countries under-stood that the so-called “mod-erate” rebels barely exist. The dominant group in the “Army of Conquest” that has taken over northwestern Syria is the Nusra Front, a clone of Islamic State that broke away from it in 2013 as part of a turf battle. The Nusra Front is not “moderates”; it is the Syrian franchise of al-Qaeda.
If Assad’s regime were to collapse, Islamic State and the Nusra Front would end up ruling all of Syria, so some-thing had to be done fast. That something was Russian air support for the Syrian army. But air strikes are not a strat-egy, just a stop-gap measure.
Russian air power has stopped the rebel advance for now, but a strategy needs a clear final goal.
That cannot be an Assad victory and the reunification of Syria under his regime; the Russians know that his army is too weak and fragile after four years of war to aspire to that.
So it has to be some kind of diplomatic deal, and the signs are emerging of what Russia has in mind.
Putin insists that he will not accept the partition of Syria between the Assad regime (which still controls most of so-called “useful Syria”), Islamic State in the northeast, and another Islamist mini-state run by the Nusra Front in the northwest. But that par-tition has already happened on the ground, and a ceasefire would freeze it without any-body having to admit that it is permanent.
The United States can-not take the lead in brok-ering a ceasefire because it is still formally committed to the overthrow of the Assad regime. (That is why it goes on pushing the fiction that there is a meaningful “mod-erate” opposition among the Syrian rebels.) The US is fur-ther constrained by the fact that its main Muslim allies in the region, Turkey and Saudi
Arabia, are determined to see Assad fall, come what may.
Now that the Russians have stopped the rebel advance, a ceasefire becomes theoretic-ally possible.
That’s why US Secretary of State John Kerry agreed to meet with Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, in Vienna last Friday.
Even Turkey and Saudi Arabia showed up at the meet-ing before it ended, and a new session is planned for this Friday where even more coun-tries may show up.
It is possible that a cease-fire may eventually emerge from this process, and Lavrov claims that he can deliver Assad’s agreement to it. So let’s leap ahead and consider what Syria would look like in this best possible scenario. It still wouldn’t be very pretty.
Assad would keep control of all Syria’s big cities except Aleppo (which is in ruins), and would rule almost two-thirds of the population. Islamic State would go on control-ling eastern Syria (and west-ern Iraq), and would continue cutting heads off and crucify-ing people in the usual way. The Nusra Front would rule over the northwest with its allies, and impose a somewhat less extreme form of Islamist rule there.
There probably would not be a complete cease-fire, because Islamic State is unlikely to agree to it, but at least the killing would stop in the rest of Syria – and every-body else could concentrate on attacking Islamic State, if they felt so inclined. That’s as good as it might get.
If there is no ceasefire deal, the Russians will go on sup-porting Assad for a while, but they have no intention of taking large casualties them-selves. No other outside play-er – the US, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, you name it – is will-ing to commit ground troops to the battle against Islamic State either. So in the end, the jihadis may conquer Syria anyway.
Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.
Russian strategy in Syria
GWYNNE DYER
World Affairs
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FROM PAGE 1“There is an
understanding in the family doctor com-munity in Trail and
outside of Trail that those in need, need to find a new primary care home first,” H a l a s c h e k - W i e n e r
explained. “Though they have higher needs and may fre-quent the practice more often, these are
the ones that need the care more than others, and that’s why everybody agreed to that process and real-
ly stepped up to make that work.”
In some com-munities, the added patient population is
startling. Rossland’s two clinics are col-lectively accepting 150 new patients; Fruitvale’s only clinic
is taking on 145 new people; Castlegar’s three facilities will be the new home for 140 patients; and Salmo is acquiring another 14.
“I think the result of this process will be that all the clinics will really be filled to the maximum capacity, and I think that’s why we need to plan for a more long-term solu-tion to increase the overall capacity for primary health care in the region,” he added.
That said, Trail and area family doctors did a careful review of patient lists to deter-mine capacity for new patients, with their current patients in mind. Some clinics are bringing on more administrative sup-port to optimally han-dle the handover of large patient numbers and their health rec-ords, and some are re-arranging schedules and practice hours.
While clinics squeeze in patients, there is a continued focus on recruitment (with a few potential candidates interested in the Trail area) and an intensified conver-sation on increasing local primary care capacity.
Divisions met with Interior Health, all general practition-ers and community leaders recently to discuss creative ways of expanding patient lists at existing facili-ties, encouraging part-time physicians to make the leap to full-time work and the need of working through the patient list with priority given to the vulnerable and more complex files. The roundtable dis-cussion also circled back to a new “team-based” primary care approach.
“One entity doesn’t have the solution here,” Halaschek-Wiener explained. “It’s a very complex scenario, and that’s why we need every-body involved to move this forward and we have the buy-in from all these different stakeholders to build a sustainable plan.”
Trail is not the only place dealing with clinic closures, he added; It’s, unfortu-nately, happening in other communities across the province.
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B Y J I M B A I L E YTimes Sports EditorThe Trail connec-
tion led the way on the weekend as the Selkirk College Saints cruised to a 5-0 shut out of Simon Fraser University Clansmen on Saturday at the Castlegar Community Complex.
Ryan Edwards had five assists and was named the game’s first star, while linemates Jamie Vlanich scored once and had two help-ers, and Dallas Calvin added a goal and an assist to his league-leading total.
The three Trail minor hockey gradu-ates lead the team in scoring with Calvin’s 10 goals and five assists topping the BC International Hockey
League. Edwards is not far behind with 12 points, and Vlanich in the top-five with two goals and eight points.
The team’s first shut-out win also launches the Saints into sole posses-sion of first place in the BCIHL with a 4-2 record, two points up on SFU and Trinity Western University.
Nelson Hurry gave the Saints a 1-0 lead
midway through the first period on a setup from Edwards and Vlanich. The opening frame was a defensive struggle that saw only nine shots on net, five for Selkirk and four for SFU.
The Saints broke it open in the second frame with Dane Feeney netting a power play goal 55 seconds in. Former Beaver Valley Nitehawks’
defencemen combined to make it 3-0 when Danny Vlanich wired home a pass from Fruitale’s Arie Postmus at 13:53.
Edwards and Calvin then set up Jamie Vlanich with just 45 seconds to play in the middle frame to give the Saints a command-ing 4-0 lead, while out-shooting the Clan 14-4 in the period.
See SAINTS, Page 8
BOB HALL PHOTO
The line of Ryan Edwards, Jamie Vlanich, and Dallas Calvin, all from Trail, contributed 10 points, including five assists from Edwards, in a 5-0 shut out of Simon Fraser University on Saturday in Castlegar.
Saints shut out
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BY TIMES STAFFOK Tire grabbed the outright
lead in the Trail Commercial Hockey League with a 5-3 vic-tory over the Arlington last week, while Allstar and Re/Max couldn’t solve anything, skating to a 3-3 draw.
The Tire scored three goals in the third period including the winner from Shane Drake with 2:44 to play to put the Tire in top spot in the TCHL with a 4-1-1 record.
Drake notched his third of the season on a pretty set up from Troy Palmer and Kyle Boutin, beating Big A’s vener-able netminder Eric Volpatti for a 4-2 lead.
The game was scoreless until late in the first period when Al McMartin converted a set up from a quick and creative Matt Proulx to put Arlington up 1-0. The Tire evened things up 55 seconds into the middle frame when Justin Adrian scored his
third of the season with the assist going to Joel Graf.
However, just over three minutes later, Luke McLean wired a pass from Pat Iannone to give the A a 2-1 lead.
But the lead disappeared at the 6:40 mark of the second per-iod when Palmer tied it, blasting a Kelly MacKay offering to rec-ord his first goal of the season.
Then, just 11 seconds into the third, Peter Sheets gave OK Tire its first lead of the game, and two minutes later Drake would net the winner. Graf added an insurance marker for the Tire with 74 seconds remain-ing, while Dave Como netted one more for the Arlington with 44 seconds left, as the Big A fell to 2-4 on the season.
In the only other tilt of the week, Allstar salvaged a point against Re/Max when Tim Boucher scored with 1:19 left on the clock to tie Re/Max 3-3.
Allstar jumped out to a 1-0
lead on Scott Morrisseau’s sev-enth goal of the season, but Re/Max replied when former Smoke Eater goalie Paul Barclay beat Cody Deadmarsh in the Allstar net to tie it at 12:09 of the first period.
Re/Max’s Justin Bedin scored a pretty goal on a solo effort to put his team up 2-1 with 9:13 to play, but Scott Davis would draw the Allstar even once more, wir-ing one by Chris McIsaac at 19:48 of the second. The game would stay even, until the 6:29 mark of the third when Dyne Parker finished off a nice pass from Barclay to give Re/Max a short-lived 3-2 lead.
The TCHL’s next action goes tonight when OK Tire takes on Arlington at 7:15 p.m. and Gericks faces Allstar at 8:30 p.m. at the Cominco Arena. Sunday games will see OK Tire face off against Gericks at 2:15 p.m. and Re/Max versus Arlington at 3:30 p.m.
OK Tire rises to top of TCHL standings
B Y J I M B A I L E YTimes Sports Editor
The Trail Retiree Men’s Curling Club will be getting two more sheets of ice thanks to a request from the Trail Curling Association (TCA).
Trail City Council voted for the proposal at the Oct. 20 council meeting, after cost-cutting meas-ures had removed two sheets of ice prior to the 2014-15 season, leaving six of eight sheets to curl on.
At the time, six sheets accommo-dated the number of teams in the various Trail curling clubs, but with the addition of two more teams, from 12 to 14, to the Men’s Retirees Club, the TCA requested the other sheets be reinstalled, so that rather than hold two draws, the retirees club can now ice all the teams at the same time.
“As a result of the additional sheets of ice, the camaraderie of the club will increase and the work of the icemaker of the club will
decrease,” said retiree spokesman Tom Hall in a an email. “It will also allow more teams to enter the annual retiree bonspiel, up from 24 to 30.”
The addition is not without its costs, as outlined by Deputy Director of Parks and Recreation, Robert Baker, in his staff report to City Council.
Trail Parks and Rec (TPR) esti-mates an increase of up to $5,000 per year to run the extra sheets, in addition to costs related to reattach-ing pipes and adding brine.
TPR reduced its annual budget by almost $13,000 in expectation of a decrease in electricity costs and ice paint relating to the reduced num-ber of sheets at the Trail Curling Club.
City Council agreed to extra funding of up to $10,000 to cover cost overruns in reinstating the extra ice. The sheets are expected to be completed sometime this month.
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SCOREBOARDNFL
All Times ESTAMERICAN CONFERENCE
East W L T PctNew England 7 0 0 1N.Y. Jets 4 3 0 0.571Buffalo 3 4 0 0.429Miami 3 4 0 0.429South W L T PctIndianapolis 3 5 0 0.375Houston 3 5 0 0.375Jacksonville 2 5 0 0.286Tennessee 1 6 0 0.143North W L T PctCincinnati 7 0 0 1Pittsburgh 4 4 0 0.5Cleveland 2 6 0 0.25Baltimore 2 6 0 0.25West W L T PctDenver 7 0 0 1Oakland 4 3 0 0.571Kansas City 3 5 0 0.375San Diego 2 6 0 0.25
NATIONAL CONFERENCEEast
W L T PctN.Y. Giants 4 4 0 0.5Washington 3 4 0 0.429Philadelphia 3 4 0 0.429Dallas 2 5 0 0.286
South W L T PctCarolina 7 0 0 1Atlanta 6 2 0 0.75New Orleans 4 4 0 0.5Tampa Bay 3 4 0 0.429
North W L T PctGreen Bay 6 1 0 0.857Minnesota 5 2 0 0.714Chicago 2 5 0 0.286Detroit 1 7 0 0.125
West W L T PctArizona 6 2 0 0.75St. Louis 4 3 0 0.571Seattle 4 4 0 0.5San Francisco 2 6 0 0.25
Thursday, Nov. 5Cleveland at Cincinnati,
8:25 p.m.Sunday, Nov. 8
Tennessee at New Orleans, 1 p.m.
St. Louis at Minnesota, 1 p.m.Green Bay at Carolina, 1 p.m.Washington at New England,
1 p.m.Miami at Buffalo, 1 p.m.
Jacksonville at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.Oakland at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.
Atlanta at San Francisco,
4:05 p.m.N.Y. Giants at Tampa Bay,
4:05 p.m.Denver at Indianapolis,
4:25 p.m.Philadelphia at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
Open: Arizona, Baltimore, Detroit, Houston, Kansas City,
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Chicago at San Diego, 8:30 p.m.
HockeyTrail Commercial Hockey
League G W L T PtOK Tire 6 4 1 1 9Allstar 7 3 2 2 8Re/Max 7 2 3 2 6Gericks 6 2 3 1 5Arlington 6 2 4 0 4
TCHL Leading Scorers G A Pts Pat Iannone 9 11 20J Robinson 4 12 16Craig Clare 7 7 14S Morrisseau 7 5 12Kris Davis 5 4 9Paul Barclay 3 6 9Kieran Hill 3 6 9Andrew Jenner 6 2 8Mike Broyd 5 3 8Graham Proulx 5 3 8Travis Drake 1 7 8Steve Simister 1 7 8Dyne Parker 3 4 7Jason Vecchio 3 4 7Justin Adrian 3 3 6Evan MacKay 3 3 6Jarret Conway 3 3 6Jason Proulx 3 3 6Al McMartin 2 4 6Justin Bedin 2 4 6
CurlingTRAIL RETIREES CLUB
STANDINGS1st DRAW 2015/16 SEASON
As of - NOV. 2 Pts W L TSECCO 10 5 1 0CARON 8 4 2 0WALSH 8 4 2 0BROWN 8 4 2 0HALL 8 4 2 0DRINNAN 8 4 2 0COLEMAN 7 3 2 1HANDLEY 6 3 3 0RAKUSON 6 3 3 0PASQUALI 6 3 3 0HORAN 6 3 3 0OLIVER 2 1 5 0WYTON 1 0 5 1STEWART 0 0 6 0
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F R O M P A G E 7 SFU pushed back in the third but
James Prigone blocked all 15 shots, and Calvin finished the scoring at 6:49 beating former Trail Smoke Eater Lyndon Stanwood in net for the Clan. Stanwood played parts of two seasons with the Smokies from 2011-13, winning 22 of 70 games with a .403 goals against average.
The Saints outshot the Clansmen 32-23 with Prigone taking second star, and Hurry third star honours for his two-point night.
The Saints play their final two home games of 2015 this week-end against the University of Victoria and will celebrate with a Fan Appreciation Night and Parent Weekend.
“The student athletes who com-pete for the Saints come from near
and far,” Selkirk College Athletics Coordinator Kim Verigin told Selkirk media rep Bob Hall. “We are looking forward to welcoming the families of the new and veteran players on the team.
“A hockey team is like a family and everybody involved are import-ant components of that extended unit.”
Parents will have an opportunity to tour the Castlegar Campus and meet some of the people involved in the education aspect of their sons’ post-secondary experience.
The puck drop goes at 7 p.m. for both games this weekend. The Saints hit the road for four straight and will not return to the Castlegar arena until Jan. 8 when they take part in an exhibition set with North Dakota’s Williston State.
Secco mounts come-from-behind victory
Saints prepare for Vikes
BY TIMES CORRESPONDENTThe Primo Secco team
stayed on top of the Trail Retirees curling standings last week with a come-from-behind win over Harvey Handley’s rink.
Behind 4-2 after three ends it was the Secco foursome that caught on to the ice before the Handley rink. Trusting that the ice would swing, the Secco side put up the next seven points and coasted to a 9–6 victory.
Alvin Caron dominated the first half of the game against Clare Coleman’s foursome, leading 6-1. Down but not out the Coleman side was sit-ting four with one Caron rock to come. A killer hit and roll to the side of the button under cover cut the end to a single point, and Coleman could not overcome the deficit.
Team Murray Walsh played a steady game against team Ernie Brown. Team Brown’s only luck was bad luck. That
combination led to a 7–0 win after six ends. After the game Ernie refused to blame his new shoes for the loss.
Team Tom Hall held the lead 6-3 over team Forrest Drinnan going into the eighth end. Drinnan was left with an almost impossible triple take-out for the win. Making ‘only’ a double takeout left him with a single and a 6-4 loss.
In a close, back and fourth game it was a steal of two in the seventh end for Serge
Pasquali’s rink against the Wayne Wyton foursome that sealed the deal. In the eighth end the Wyton side was run out of rocks to make the final 8–4 for Pasquali.
The Dan Horan team took five in the sixth end to take a 9-5 lead over the Jim Stewart foursome. A steal of one for Horan did not dampen the Stewart side as they had a shot at a comeback in the eighth but could only score three. Horan 10 – Stewart 8.
TODAY’S CROSSWORD
ACROSS1 “48 Hrs.” lead6 Steel-mill refuse10 Low-lying clouds14 Fundamental fact15 Rinse16 She, in Seville17 Minor dents18 Straw in the wind19 Warden’s fear20 -- fixe21 I nterplanetary
explorer (2 wds.)23 Governments
delight in it (2 wds.)
25 Bred, as rabbits26 Road-atlas abbr.27 Preacher-like29 Thick soup32 Skier’s bump33 Win at rummy36 FitzGerald’s poet37 Metric pounds38 Leaf juncture39 Popular shift
40 Advise against41 November stone42 Glass squares43 Building site44 Squire around47 They always get
whacked51 Flip (2 wds.)54 Clump of grass55 River source56 Irene of “Fame”57 Leg bone58 Woodworking
tool59 Clingy fabric60 Nonreactive61 Not e’en once62 Omigosh!63 Say yes
DOWN1 Lowest ebb2 Nitrous --
(laughing gas)3 Like a tablet4 Side by side
5 911 responder6 It’s not on the
level7 Sand mandala
builder8 With, to monsieur9 Ready to share10 -- wheel11 Hodgepodges12 Library fixture13 Jaded21 Dangerous job22 Rudd or
McCartney24 Blow away27 Ends of the earth28 Horror-film servant29 Bean hull30 Thurman of
“Gattaca”31 Moonbeam32 Trifling amount33 DDE’s party34 Wyo. neighbor35 Pierre’s nose37 Home of
Mammoth Cave38 Scoring music40 Pub missile41 Coal measure
42 Weigh carefully43 Embroider,
maybe44 Fictional Frome45 Type of jacket46 Fad47 -- tectonics
48 Edible root49 Like a house --50 Say explicitly52 Rajah’s consort53 Game-show prize57 -- Maria
LEISURE
Dear Annie: I have been taking care of my mother since I was 17 and she was disabled from a car accident and unable to work. I am now 47, and Mom is 72. Her health is getting worse, so my husband and I recently moved her in with us. My husband and I both work full time. I have caregivers who come in during the day when we are at work, and we take care of her at night.
Annie, I’m so tired. My husband and I can’t go anywhere overnight. Our sex life has gone downhill, because we are both so exhausted. Mom has become mean and com-bative, which makes our lives mis-erable. She doesn’t sleep much at night, which means neither do I. There are no other family members around to help.
I have tried to find a skilled nurs-ing facility or other assisted living place, but am having a hard time finding one that she can afford. I want her somewhere safe, but I also want my life back. I know this
sounds awful of me. Any sugges-tions would be helpful. -- Drained and Frustrated
Dear Drained: Being a full-time caregiver is a tiring job, and you’ve been at it for most of your life. It is perfectly natural that you are exhausted and ready to find another place for Mom to live.
Most nursing homes will accept Medicare when Mom’s money runs out. Please call the Eldercare Locator at 1-800-677-1116 for information about the available resources in your area. But first ask about resources for respite care for yourself. You deserve it.
Dear Annie: A good friend of mine has a very rude daughter. “Susie” got married two years ago and I attended the ceremony and gave her a monetary gift. She never thanked me. Within months, Susie dumped the husband and immedi-ately got pregnant by another man. She had a baby shower, which I
attended, and I gave her a nice gift. Again, no thank-you note.
Susie is getting married for the second time and I am invit-
ed to the wedding. I have no desire to give her yet another gift that will be completely ignored and unappreci-ated. What do you say? Do I have to give her
something? -- Thank-You’s Still Appreciated
Dear Thank-You’s: If you attend the wedding, you are under an obligation to give a gift, although it doesn’t need to be as generous as the first one. If you do not receive any thank-you note in three to six months, it is perfectly OK to call Susie and ask whether the gift was received. You’d be surprised how often such things are lost or mis-placed, especially when the gifts are brought to the wedding instead of sent to the bride’s home. This includes cards with money inside. And thank-you notes can also go
astray.Of course, if Susie did receive
the gift and is simply too rude to have sent an acknowledgment of any kind, she deserves to squirm a little when you ask her about it.
Annie’s Mailbox is written by
Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your ques-tions to [email protected], or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.
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Village of Montrose Offi ce From 9:00 am Tuesday, December 1, 2015565 11th Avenue ToMontrose, BC V0G 1P0 4:00 pm Friday, December 11, 2015 Excluding statutory holidays and weekends
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Members of a Royal Canadian Legion com-mittee once ruled whether the organ-ization’s trademarked poppy should adorn an umbrella now among the items sold through its online store.
After first ruling
out the umbrella, Bill Maxwell says that deci-sion didn’t stick.
“At one time it was not deemed to be appropriate,” Maxwell, secretary of the poppy and remem-brance committee at Dominion Command in Ottawa, said in an interview Tuesday.
“Time passes and approaches change and now we do have, I think, a very nice poppy umbrella.”
A symbol honouring Canada’s war dead since 1921, the poppy has been reimagined in the last two years on clothing, as jewelry and even on tote bags
and headstones as an important marketing tool for the Legion.
The red flower immortalized in this country by war poet John McCrae’s In Flanders Fields is trademarked in Canada by the Legion, which in 2013 includ-ed the poppy as part of a rebranding of the organization.
A poppy logo is now part of the Legion’s public face and poppy-themed products ran-ging from throw blan-kets to candles and mittens can be bought online.
Maxwell said the idea was to update the image of the legion as more than a place to socialize, given that it runs a number of assistance programs for veterans and youth.
“We didn’t have a consistent branding that was contempor-ary,” he said, adding that his commit-tee evaluates every proposed use of the poppy image for mar-keting with an eye on respectful uses of the
well-known flower as a symbol of remem-brance.
The money raised by the online store helps fund the operations of legion branches and is separate from the annual poppy appeal campaign that runs through the remem-brance period between Oct. 30 and Nov. 11.
“We’ve always had some poppy-related products and that will continue to expand,” Maxwell said. “It’s a very popular item and it has an appeal to Canadians.”
Though it is ever-evolving, Maxwell said the Canadian store’s use of the poppy is modest when com-pared to what’s offered by the Royal British Legion, which he described as a “major marketing machine.”
“We certainly haven’t made the decision as the Royal British Legion has to commercialize with a whole range of prod-ucts,” said Maxwell. “We are trying to keep them to a level where
they are attached to commemoration and remembrance.”
The traditional poppy campaign has also expanded over time to include poppy stickers and a more permanent pin that can be worn at any time of the year for commemorative events.
Maxwell said the popularity of the poppy saw the campaign take in $16.5 million last year. He said those funds are kept in trust and used for a wide range of support pro-grams, from fund-ing housing and care facilities for veterans to purchasing medical equipment and main-taining memorials.
“The main concern is that the poppy is used respectfully and as a symbol of remem-brance,” said Maxwell.
That’s a senti-ment that’s important to 85-year-old Peter Melkert of Halifax, a legion member who has been selling pop-pies for 33 years, including the last 18 at the same grocery store in the city’s south end.
Melkert is a Dutch immigrant, who at 16 was saved from starvation when Canadian soldiers lib-erated his home city of Rotterdam.
He said he met a Canadian soldier who thrust some raisins into his hand - a mem-ory he will never for-get.
“I look forward to it every year to be here for a week put-ting poppies on,” said Melkert. “It’s a small price to pay for what they (Canadians) did to liberate my country.”
Poppy important marketing and remembrance symbol for Royal Canadian Legion
WEARING A POPPYFive things to know about poppy protocol
recommended by the Royal Canadian Legion:- Traditionally the poppy is worn during
the Remembrance period, which is the last Friday in October to the end of the day on Nov. 11.
- Poppies can also be worn at other com-memorative events throughout the year, such as the Battle of the Atlantic and the Battle of Britain. It can also be worn by colour parties on parade or by members attending funeral services for veterans or ordinary members of the legion.
- The poppy should be worn with respect on the left breast close to the heart.
- Other than the traditional poppy associ-ated with Remembrance Day, the legion has a lapel poppy pin made of metal with the words “We Remember” on a bottom banner. A poppy sticker suitable to wear on clothing is also available.
- The lapel poppy should be removed fol-lowing the end of Remembrance Day.
(SOURCE: Royal Canadian Legion poppy manual)