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Today marks the first opportunity for all Trail voters to have an official say in the matter of a second crossing over the Columbia River.
Voting booths are open from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. in the Trail Memorial Centre for advance voting on the city’s loan authorization bylaw that, if adopted, allows Trail to borrowed almost $5 million to build a 300-metre (1,000-foot) walkway upstream from the Old Trail Bridge.
Polling stations are
located in the McIntyre Room today and Aug. 20 for advance voting before general voting day on Aug. 23.
Trail residents who are eligible to vote but are not on the provincial voters list can register at the time of voting by producing two pieces of identification, one with a signature and proof of residency and identity, confirmed Chief Elections Officer, Michelle McIsaac.
The ballot question is specific and asks Trail elec-torates, “ Are you in favour of the City of Trail enacting
Bylaw No. 2775 authoriz-ing construction and bor-rowing of $4,916,000 so that the sewer pipe bridge proposed by the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary can also include a pedestrian walkway, water main line and fibre optic conduit?”
That’s a mouthful. But if the popular vote is ‘Yes” then the city can proceed to borrow sufficient funds to construct a footpath and hitch new utilities on a new pipeline in a joint venture with sewer part-ners in Regional District of Kootenay Boundary
(RDKB).If the majority of Trail
voters say ‘No’, then it’s back to the drawing board and a regression to the state-of-affairs when the walking bridge proposal first began in 2011, accord-ing to Trail Coun., RDKB director, and Acting Mayor Robert Cacchioni.
“If the referendum fails, then that’s it,” said Cacchioni. “It’s final. We (regional sewer commit-tee) will have to go back to where we were two years ago and explore the options we have already explored and dismissed.”
To date, about $500,000 in engineering costs have been invested into the aer-ial sewer option.
After years of back-and-forth between Rossland, Warfield and Trail, the regional sewer partners deemed this choice the most cost effective and environmentally respon-sible way to pump liquid waste across the Columbia River.
If the referendum fails, then an entirely new set of possibilities are in play, explained Cacchioni, add-ing that means a new agreement between the
three parties and Area B would have to be reached.
“This option is the one with the least risk,” he added. “All the other options have tremendous risks both environmentally and financially.”
The RDKB considered an aerial crossing option as its main focus moving forward in dealing with replacing the current regional sewer crossing on the Old Trail Bridge, said Bryan Teasdale, the regional district’s manager of infrastructure and sus-tainability.
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Voting for pedestrian bridge opens today
BY LIZ BEVANTimes Staff
The Trail and District Public Library hosted a guest speaker at its Kid's Summer Reading Club on Tuesday.
Karen Reader stopped by the library to help kids step out of their comfort zones with activities and stories.
“They (read) a book about a squirrel who is scared to leave his tree, and then he decides to leave in small baby steps,” said Reader, explaining that the story is meant to teach a lesson about venturing out into the unknown, but care-fully.
“The book is about pushing out of the comfort zone and facing some of your fears. You never know, when you do it in baby steps, what is out there.”
To start off the activity portion of the afternoon event, Reader gave everyone a picture card and kids were asked to
find the other partici-pant with the match-ing card, getting kids who may not normally partner up, together. Participants were
asked to learn each other's names and work together to find other cards depicting similar images.
This was just the
beginning of the les-son Reader was trying to teach.
“They are coopera-tive games that get you to step out of
your comfort zone,” she said. “Whether it is making eye con-tact or learning each other's names, we just try to play together.
We just want to play some games and get everyone involved by giving them tools to work together.”
The Summer
Reading Program at the library hosts weekly activities and for more information, give the library a call at 364-1731.
LIZ BEVAN PHOTO
Kids gathered at the Trail and District Public Library for an afternoon activity, part of the library's summer reading club. This week's activity explored getting out of your comfort zone and playing games with co-operation. Kids were challenged to make their way through the “chicken plucker” to get to the other side while working together and following instructions.
Summer reading class steps out of comfort zone
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This is a hand that occurred at the Rookie-Master game at the end of May. Whenever there is a fifth Thursday in a month, a rookie-master game is held at the Trail United Church at 7 p.m.
The bidding:South opens two No Trump
with a balanced 20 high card points. North has enough for game, and knows they have an eight-card or better heart fit, so he jumps to four dia-monds, a Texas transfer to four hearts.
Had North bid three dia-
monds and then jumped to four hearts, he would have been making a mild slam try. His hand is not that strong.
The Lead: Either the Jack of clubs or Jack of Diamonds should be led. Both leads will require deli-cate handling by the declar-er, but the top of the longer touching sequence should be led, the Jack of diamonds.
The play: With a club lead, declar-
er must win the ace and immediately lead trump. He will eventually need a dia-mond finesse to pitch a losing club.
With a diamond lead, the
Ace takes the King, and declar-er gets to draw-ing trump right away. A heart is played. West wins the Jack and exits a spade. Declarer wins the Ace and plays the Queen of Hearts. West wins and exits another spade which is ruffed in dummy. Declarer
plays the Ten of Hearts which West wins, West exits another spade which is ruffed in dummy and the last heart is drawn. Declarer cashes the Queen of diamonds and King of spades, pitching two losing clubs and claims.
This is an example of a forcing defense. The defend-ers want declarer to trump in the long trump hand, and the
declarer wants the defend-er to cash his trump. The defender does not want to help the declarer so he forces declarer to draw his trump because the declarer does not want the Seven of hearts to get a trick.
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Four dancers from Kate Shaw School of Highland Dance attended the annual Spokane Highland games last week. From left: Robyn Chadwick (novice), Cara Haggarty (premier), Anna Cooper (premier) and Megan Hunt all danced well and brought home many medals and trophies. Also at the games were events such as shortbread baking contests, Scottish Country dan-cing, and the caber toss. Next up for the dancers is the annual Calgary and Canmore Highland Games on Aug. 30 and 31.
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A girls weekend can unleash all kinds of shenanigans.
In three days, four gal pals are piling into a car and travelling to the coastal metropolis for a good time but also for a great cause.
The second annual Concrete Hero com-petition kicks off Sunday in downtown Vancouver, when over 1,000 participants will run, jump and climb their way through nine kilometres of obstacles to raise money for the BC Cancer Agency.
The Shotgun Sallies, a team of Greater Trail women, is ready for the event that anyone can be part of, because it isn’t designed just for extreme athletes or gym junkies.
The Sallies are long-time friends that are used to a little scuffle as all four are mem-bers of the Rossland Trail Roller Girls roller
derby team. Debbie Wallis, Stacy
Gach, Christin Davis and Jacki Dyment have been physically and
mentally preparing for the urban challenge since the spring, but over the next few days they could use some
community support to pump up their deter-mination and bump up their fundraising goal.
“The four of us
always have a great time together so we’re looking forward to the weekend and rais-ing money for a good
cause,” said Gach.A minimum of $400
has to be raised before they can get on the mark, set and go at the start of the race at 10 a.m. on Aug. 17 at the city’s Strathcona Park Oval Track.
Aside from the Cedar Avenue Salon pledging $250, the women have garnered funds for the 2014 Concrete Hero contest mostly through friends and family, but they still need a little more to meet their goal.
With Gach’s fath-er currently going through his own can-cer journey, and the disease prevalent in Wallis’s family, the women feel a person-al connection to the fundraiser and antici-pate a sense of accom-plishment once the finish line is crossed.
“I like a challenge and a goal,” said Gach. “We’ve been going to spin and working out since we found out about it on Facebook,” she explained. “At first I thought it would be a lot of fun, and then I found out it was a
fundraiser for cancer which gives me an extra push.”
Concrete Hero began last year in a city-wide movement to support the BC Cancer Foundation and improve the lives of people affected by cancer.
Money raised will support leading research and clinicians at the BC Cancer Agency whose search for new discoveries and improved treat-ment options impact patients and families in every community throughout the prov-ince and Canada, notes a Concrete Hero media release.
“It’s a good cause,” said Davis. “But we are really looking forward to the physical chal-lenge because once you do it, the elation you feel is just amaz-ing.”
To help the Shotgun Sallies reach or exceed their fundraising goal, drop by the down-town Trail salon, or visit the Cedar Avenue Salon & Esthetiques Facebook page.
Sheri regnier photo
A team of Greater Trail women, dubbed the Shotgun Sallies, are ready to take part in a nine kilo-metre challenge this Sunday in Vancouver. Since the spring (left to right) Stacy Gach, Debbie Wallis, and Christin Davis have been preparing to be a 2014 Concrete Hero, which is an obstacle race that tests competitors physical abilities while raising funds for the BC Cancer Agency.
Concrete heroes ready for action in battle against cancer
FROM PAGE 1 The regional district sewer committee author-
ized staff to proceed with the review of the pipe bridge crossing prior to the city’s advancement of the proposed pedestrian crossing, he explained.
Teasdale said the RDKB originally approached the City of Trail to review the possibility of part-nering on some type of multi-use crossing in this location.
“The city took us up on this offer in order to hopefully reduce their costs of any new crossing option in this location that we expect would be a benefit for the entire region.”
At this time, the pipe bridge crossing is con-sidered the best option for relocating the regional interceptor without causing major upgrades to the current Murray Park Lift Station, Teasdale continued, noting that because the pedestrian walkway is planned for the same area as a pipe bridge crossing future daily operations of that life station would not be adversely affected or modified.
“We are still gathering relevant information for completing this project,” continued Teasdale. “As costs have yet to be approved by either the RDKB Sewer Committee and the board of direc-tors.”
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B y S h e r i r e g n i e rTimes Staff
The Old Trail Bridge has surpassed its useful life and any further invest-ment in the structure would not be prudent, said David Perehudoff on behalf of Trail council.
Following a lead from a previous meeting with the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOT), Perehudoff, the city’s chief administrative officer, said Trail council is hoping to discuss the old bridge and the cost to take it down with MOT Minister Todd Stone next month.
During September’s annual Union of British
Columbia Municipalities conference in Whistler, the city will seek further advice on how to tie in a grant for the new walking bridge, dependent upon the Aug. referendum, to free up capital to deal with the old bridge.
Tearing down the cen-tury-old structure is esti-mated to exceed $5 million, which presently is a direct cost for Trail taxpayers.
Legislation precludes the city from borrowing to demolish the bridge, explained Perehudoff, add-ing that the term of deben-ture must be linked to the useful life of the asset.
“In this respect there would not be an asset remaining,” he said. “And this would seemingly elim-inate borrowing as a poten-tial funding structure.”
Any funding coming from the province would be dependent on the referen-dum succeeding, he added.
“Given that it fits well with many current programs and objectives pertaining to mobility and options that ultimately reduce green-house gas emissions.”
Following a May counter-petition that sunk the city’s plan to borrow almost $5 million for the foot bridge through the Alternative Approval Process, Trail council directed staff to bump up the project’s visi-bility in the community.
“Costs for production of information was minimal,” said Perehudoff. “In relation to the overall cost of a new structure and has no direct impact on the final capital cost.”
He said given the confu-
sion associated with people signing the original peti-tion, Trail council con-sidered publishing accur-ate information a priority, “so people could make an informed decision when vot-ing.”
According to the Acting Mayor of Trail, Robert Cacchioni, council con-tinues to hear that many people signed the petition because they were advised that doing so would support restoration of the old bridge.
“The bridge is not repair-able within the reasonable confines the city would be willing to spend on a limit-ed-life project,” he said.
“The city would have to borrow millions with no help from the provincial or federal government. So just to make a driving loop, we’d be paying it off for 30 years.”
City seeks funds to tear down old bridgeTime to cross that bridge Trail council will look
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Urban event raises funds to
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Farm markets are multiplying around the province, helped by a program to improve food prepara-tion skills.
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The B.C. government has expanded its pro-gram to offer coupons worth $15 a week for farm market produce to pregnant women, seniors and low-income families who take a nutrition course.
Health Minister Terry Lake announced on the weekend that an additional $750,000 has been added to the program for its third year of province-wide operation, in addition to $4 mil-lion provided in 2012 and 2013.
The program runs July through October, as harvest comes off local farms. It is administered by the B.C. Association of Farmers’ Markets.
Participants take a free nutrition and skills program that includes cooking, canning and preserving, and are issued weekly coupons that can be used like cash at participating farm mar-kets to buy locally grown fruit, vegetables, meat, eggs, dairy products, nuts and herbs.
The program is expanded this year to include additional farm markets in Maple Ridge, White Rock, Clearwater, Salmon Arm, Lytton, Fort St.
John, Terrace, Whistler, Nanaimo, Qualicum Beach, Port Alberni and Victoria. A total of 49 markets around the province take part, teamed with local social service agencies that offer the courses.
Lake said the program helps people make a transition to a healthier diet that lessen their risk for chronic diseases, while increasing the customer base for local farmers who sell directly to the public.
The nutrition coupon program began as a pilot in 2007, funded by the social services min-istry. Its goal for this year is to support 10,000 people.
Other participating farm markets and com-munity service agencies are in Abbotsford, Burnaby, Coquitlam, Langley, Mission, New Westminster, Port Coquitlam, Surrey, 100 Mile House, Armstrong, Cranbrook, Kamloops, Kelowna, Penticton, Nelson, Revelstoke, Vernon, Hazelton, Houston, Prince George, Quesnel, Smithers, Courtenay, Duncan and Salt Spring Island.
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- Canada’s self-styled “Prince of Pot” returned to a raucous welcome from sup-porters Tuesday after serving his U.S. sen-tence for selling mari-juana seeds, vowing to continue his activism even if it means more arrests.
Loud cheers and large clouds of pot smoke arose as Marc Emery, 56, arrived
in this border city after completing his five-year sentence for selling marijuana seeds from Canada to American customers.
Emery hugged his wife Jodie Emery, who wants to run in next year’s federal elec-tion for the Liberals - Leader Justin Trudeau supports legalizing marijuana - then launched into a long, pro-Liberal speech peppered with prison
anecdotes.“I do believe that
they are sincere that they will legalize mari-juana,” Emery said.
“I know it’s the most uncool thing in the world to have to say, especially to young people, that voting is the answer, but it is. It absolutely is.”
Legalization of marijuana - which Emery said should include expunging the record of every-one ever convicted of a related offence - is the only issue in the next election that can have a “profound impact” on Canadians’ lives, he said.
“Critics say, ‘Well, Canadians are interest-ed in far more import-ant things,”’ Emery said. “I say, ‘What? What are you interest-ed in? The economy? The environment? Health care? You can’t do anything about that by voting. No vote’s going to change that.”
Emery acknow-ledged that he has a lot of work ahead, as many people in the “cannabis culture” don’t often vote, but he called it an “underesti-mated voting block,” with a lot of potential power.
“If we can get this Liberal majority gov-ernment next year we’ll never need to go to the polls to make marijuana legal ever again,” he said.
‘Prince of Pot’ released
Mount Polley Mine
Water ban lifted in Quesnel areaT h e c A N A D I A N P r e S S
LIKELY, B.C. - Health officials in B.C. have lifted most of a water ban that was put in place following a massive mine tailings spill, while also declar-ing fish from the area are safe to eat.
More than 300 people were ordered not to drink or bathe in water from nearby lakes and rivers after the tailings dam at the Mount Polley gold and copper mine failed last week.
Subsequent test-ing has found water in Quesnel Lake and Quesnel River are within guidelines for human and aquatic health.
The water ban was partially lifted last week in areas that included the nearby town of Likely, but it remained in effect for as many as 200 people over the weekend.
Dr. Trevor Corneil of the Interior Health Authority says the ban has now been almost entirely lifted, except for areas closest to the mine, which are rela-tively uninhabited.
Corneil also says the health authority has no evidence that any toxins would have affected fish, and he says he can confidently say fish caught out-side the current water restriction areas are safe to eat.
The tailings liquid initially released from the impoundment moved very quickly through the system and was diluted great-ly by the water in the lake, the Quesnel River and ultimately the Fraser River.
As such, fish expos-ure was limited and not long enough for uptake into tissues. Combined with the fact that the water in
Quesnel Lake meets drinking water guide-lines, it is unlikely there will have been any short-term effects on fish in Quesnel Lake or downstream as a result of this event.
The only reported dead fish is a rainbow trout.
It was brought to the ministry’s atten-tion on Aug. 6, follow-ing the public meeting in Likely. It was col-lected by researchers with the University of Northern BC.
Ministry of Environment boat crews have been on the water since Aug. 4, and they have not found nor received any other dead fish.
If any dead salmon are found in the Fraser River it is likely a result of temperature effects and not contamina-tion from the tailings pond breach. This is not unexpected due to
the summer climate in the region.
Based on this information, IH and its Regional Medical Health Officer are confident any fish caught for human con-sumption beyond the immediate sediment deposit zone are safe to eat. This includes fish from the unaffected area of Quesnel Lake, the Quesnel River, and the Fraser River.
At the request of First Nations, FNHA are supporting salmon sampling on an interim basis. Collection of sal-mon will be coordin-ated with First Nation fisheries departments. A two-to-three day turnaround time is anticipated following the arrival to the lab. More information on salmon sampling will be posted at: http://www.fnha.ca/about/news-and-events/news/mount-polley-mine.
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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S STORONTO -
Toronto’s police chief has filed a defamation notice against Mayor Rob Ford’s brother for comments the city councillor made ear-lier this month.
Doug Ford sug-gested two weeks ago that Chief Bill Blair helped leak informa-tion that police were preparing to sub-poena the mayor in an ongoing investigation as “payback,” although he declined to elabor-ate on what he meant.
At the time, Blair said Ford was lying and warned he was prepared to take legal
action.Toronto police
spokesman Mark Pugash said the def-amation notice was handed to the council-lor on Monday night.
“What the notice specifies is a public retraction and apology in a forum to be agreed (upon) beforehand by Chief Blair,” he said. “There’s no mention of money at all in the document.”
Pugash added that the legal action is being pursued by Blair personally, and doesn’t involve taxpayer money.
“The next step is with the councillor,”
Pugash said.Doug Ford said
Tuesday that the issue was with his lawyers and refused to dir-ectly answer ques-tions about whether he would apologize to Blair.
“There is no lawsuit as far as I know,” he said.
The councillor also criticized Pugash’s role as a spokesperson for Blair’s “private issues.”
At a news confer-ence at his campaign headquarters, Mayor Ford said he couldn’t comment on the mat-ter.
“The issue is between the chief and
my brother,” he said.“I’ve said what I had
to say about the chief. I wish him the best of luck, I want to thank him for his service and that’s all I can say,” Rob Ford said, although he added he was “baffled” that the media found out about the notice of defamation so soon after it was served to his brother.
On Aug. 1, the Toronto Star cited sources saying police were preparing to sub-poena the mayor to testify at a preliminary hearing for his friend Alessandro (Sandro) Lisi, who is facing drug and extortion charges.
Doug Ford blamed the apparent leak on Blair, calling it politic-ally motivated.
T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S STORONTO - Using untested Ebola
treatments to help quell the current unprecedented outbreak in West Africa is ethical, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
But the Geneva-based global health agency said countries that use experi-mental treatments have a moral obligation to collect data on those who are treated so the world can learn what works against Ebola - and which treatments to stop using, if any turn out to be unsafe.
The statement came following a day-long meeting Monday of an expert panel the WHO convened to advise it on the thorny ethical issues of using experiment-al drugs in this outbreak. It was com-prised of ethicists - including University of Toronto professor Dr. Ross Upshur - a representative of a patient advocacy group and others.
While the statement may clear the way for additional use of experimental Ebola products, it made no reference to the fact that there are barely any supplies of any
of them in stock. Making clinical grade experimental drugs is costly and in the early stages of drug development compan-ies generally only make small batches.
A case in point: ZMapp, the product given to two American relief workers who contracted Ebola in Liberia. On Monday afternoon the company developing it, LeafBio of San Diego, Calif., said it had exhausted its supply of the product, com-ponents of which were created at Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg.
It has been reported that a treat-ment course was obtained for an infected Spanish priest who was taken to Madrid for care. The priest, Miguel Pajares, 75, died Tuesday. The hospital where he was treated would not reveal if he had been given ZMapp before he died, the New York Times reported.
It was also revealed Tuesday that sev-eral doses - three, by the WHO’s estimate - were sent to Liberia at that country’s request. Experts have said it will take three or four months for another small batch of
ZMapp to be made.Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny, the WHO’s
assistant director-general for health sys-tems and innovation, acknowledged dur-ing a news conference that for the time being supplies are tight.
Kieny said it is important not to cre-ate false hope that substantial quantities of experiment drugs and vaccines can be rushed to the affected countries now.
For now containment efforts will have to be the tried-and-true standards of Ebola control, she suggested: isolating cases, finding and monitoring their contacts for signs of infection and protecting the health-care workers tending to the sick. She and others have noted, though, that those approaches aren’t working as well with this outbreak as they have in previ-ous ones.
Kieny was asked if the distribution of the scarce doses of ZMapp had been fair - a question likely to be raised every time an experimental drug or vaccine is deployed in this outbreak.
With such small numbers of doses
available, there could be no fair way to distribute the medicine, she replied.
The WHO will reconvene the panel, drawing in other experts as well, before the end of the month to work on additional questions about the ethical use of avail-able drugs and vaccines and how to ensure that when they are used their efficacy is monitored.
In the meantime, attention will undoubtedly turn to two Canadian-made Ebola countermeasures: a drug called TKM-Ebola made by Tekmira Pharmaceuticals of Burnaby and an experimental Ebola vaccine designed by scientists at the Public Health Agency of Canada.
Tekmira has said it would be willing to allow its drug to be used in the outbreak, though it has not revealed how many doses it has in hand and how long it would take to make more.
The West African Ebola outbreak cur-rently involves four countries - Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria - and has claimed at least 1,013 lives since early March.
T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SOTTAWA - Statistics Canada says it made
an error in formulating its July jobs numbers.The federal agency says the source of the
error has been identified and corrected, and updated July job estimates will be released on Friday.
A week ago, Statistics Canada reported that a measly 200 jobs had been created in July, a number that fell spectacularly short of expectations.
Economists had expected that the econ-omy would bounce back from an unexpected decline of 9,400 jobs in June, and add as many as 20,000 new jobs the following month.
Instead, Statcan reported that the number of full-time jobs fell by 59,700 while part-time jobs increased by 60,000 - figures it now sug-gests were faulty.
Statistics Canada says it takes the error “very seriously” and is launching a review of its data verification methods. The results of the review will be published as soon as they’re available.
The news comes as Finance Minister Joe Oliver meets with guests at a two-day sum-mer retreat in Wakefield, Que., over the next two days to discuss the Canadian economy, with job creation one of several items on the agenda.
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OPINION
Why municipalities have a right to be annoyed
Canada is an urban nation with over 80 per cent of its population living
in cities or towns. At the dawn of Confederation, the urban rural split was exactly the opposite, with just over 80 per cent of the population in rural areas.
Today, not only is Canada mainly urban but 40 per cent of its popula-tion live in just four urban areas – Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Calgary. The 10 biggest CMAs account for nearly 60 per cent of Canada’s population, with cities like Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver larger than many provinces when it comes to both population and economic output.
Despite their demo-graphic and economic clout, municipalities in Canada feel hard done by and lacking in the resour-ces needed to tackle vital infrastructure such as roads, sewers and water. The infrastructure report cards put out by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities maintain that, after years of neglect,
a significant proportion of municipal infrastructure is ranked as either “fair” or “very poor”. Catastrophic weather events increasing-ly have put this infrastruc-ture under strain.
It’s not just about more money: the 2013 Report on the State of Canada’s Cities and com-munities also argues that part of the problem lies in the Canadian division of powers. The Federation of Canadian Municipalities has called for explicit rec-ognition by the federal gov-ernment of the role of cities through a tangible political framework.
Municipalities are cor-rect when they lament that they have an infer-ior position to the federal and provincial govern-ments when it comes to their participation in the Canadian tax and expendi-ture system. However, this is a function of the con-stitution, which does not even recognize them as a separate tier of government but simply regards them as creatures of the provinces. Making cities an equal partner in Confederation
will require constitutional change, which is a lot of hard work.
Canada’s cities would probably be happy with more money rather than decades of constitutional wrangling. Yet the evidence suggests that local govern-ment in Canada has been doing reasonably well when it comes to both revenue and expenditure growth. According to the Federal Fiscal Reference Tables, over the period 2000 to 2012, total government revenue grew 45 per cent while total government expenditure in Canada grew by 67 per cent. Federal revenue grew 26 per cent, provincial/terri-torial revenue grew 61 per
cent and local government revenue grew by a surpris-ing 74 per cent. Meanwhile, federal spending grew by 50 per cent, provincial/ter-ritorial spending by 86 per cent and local government spending by 77 per cent.
Why are municipalities annoyed despite their rev-enue and spending growth? A much larger proportion of municipal spending is funded by grant revenue as opposed to the provinces. For example, grants from the federal government account for about 20 per cent of provincial/territor-ial government revenues. As for local governments in Canada, they receive nearly 50 per cent of their total revenues in the form of grants – mainly from their respective provincial gov-ernments.
Municipalities have rela-tively fewer tools for own-source revenue generation. Aside from property taxa-tion and user fees, muni-cipalities are dependent on the kindness of other levels of government for a large chunk of their spending, putting them in a position of constant supplication.
More irritating is that since 2010 total grant revenues for local gov-ernments have declined and own-source revenue growth has slowed. Overall, total local government rev-enues in Canada fell from $148.9 billion in 2010 to $146.7 billion in 2012. Yet, over the period 2010 to 2012, federal government revenues grew from $231.9 to $253.4 billion while total provincial-territorial revenues have grown from $348.9 to $372.2 billion.
However, while total provincial-territorial rev-enue grew, their own grant revenue was down from $74.8 billion in 2010 to $72.6 billion in 2012. Meanwhile, local gov-ernment grant revenue between 2010 and 2012 fell from $72.6 to $68.6 billion. Despite their overall rev-enue growth, the provinces seemed to have passed their own transfer reduc-tions directly down to the municipalities. Needless to say, the municipalities are annoyed.
Livio Di Matteo is Professor of Economics at Lakehead University.
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After half a century of sta-sis, there are big new strategic realities in the Middle East, but people
are having trouble getting their heads around them. Take the United States, for example. Hillary Clinton, the Secretary of State in President Obama’s first administration, is still lamenting her former boss’s fail-ure to send more military help to the “moderate” rebels in Syria.
“The failure to do that left a big vacuum, which the jihadists have now filled,” Clinton told Atlantic magazine recently. She’s actual-ly claiming that early and lav-ish military aid to the right people would have overthrown Syria’s dictator, Bashar al-Assad, while freezing the al-Qaeda/ISIS jihadis out. If only.
Clinton travels a lot, but she never really leaves the Washington bubble. There are intelligence officials there who would gladly explain to her that almost all the desirable weap-onry sent to the “moderates” in Syria ends up in the hands of the jihadis, who either buy it or just take it, but she wouldn’t listen. It falls outside the “consensus”.
Yet that really is how ISIS acquires most of its heavy weapons. The most striking case of that was in early June, when the Iraqi army, having spent $41.6 billion in the past three years on training its troops and equipping them with American heavy weapons, ran away from Mosul and northern Iraq and handed a good quarter of them over to ISIS.
In fact, that’s the weapon-ry that is now enabling ISIS to conquer further territory in eastern Syria and in Iraqi
Kurdistan. Which, in turn, is why Barack Obama has now authorised air strikes in Iraq to stop ISIS troops from overrun-ning Irbil, the Kurdish capital.
But Obama has not yet dropped the other shoe. A LOT of people have not dropped their other shoes yet. They all know that the whole strategic e n v i r o n m e n t has changed. They realise that may require new policies and even new allies. Changing hors-es in midstream
is always a tricky business, so the realignments are only slowly getting underway, but you can see where they are going to go.
The proclamation of the “Islamic State” in eastern Syria and northernwestern Iraq has huge implications for every country in the Middle East, but for most of the great pow-ers – Russia, the United States, China, India, Britain, France and Germany – it is almost the ONLY thing they still care about in the region. They all have Muslim minorities of their own, and they all want the Islamic State stopped, or at the very least isolated, contained and quarantined.
That means that both the Syrian and Iraqi governments must survive, and they will prob-ably get enough outside help to do so (although it will take time for the US and the major European powers to switch sides and openly back Assad). The army of the Iraqi Kurds might hold its own against the Islamic State if it had better weapons, so it will get them (although Baghdad will not welcome a more powerful Kurdish army).
Containing the Islamic State
to the north will be a simpler task, because Iran and Turkey are very big, well organised states whose populations are relatively invulnerable to the ISIS brand of Sunni fundamen-talism. But to the south of the Islamic State is Saudi Arabia, and that is a country that faces some tough decisions.
The Wahhabi strand of Sunni Islam which is Saudi Arabia’s official religion is very close to the beliefs of the jihadis who now rule the Islamic State to their north. Much of their financial support and even their weapons have come from Saudi Arabia. But the rulers of that kingdom would be extremely unwise to assume that the jihadis regard Saudi Arabia’s current political arrangements as legitimate, or that gratitude would restrain them.
The Iranian-US rapproche-ment will continue, and the issue of Iran’s alleged nucle-ar weapons ambitions will be settled amicably despite Israel’s protests. Indeed, Israel may come under irresistible US pressure to stop whacking the Palestinians or the Lebanese Shias every couple of years, stop the settlement programme, and get on with the two-state deal. Washington would very much like Israel to stop alienating the people it needs as allies
Further afield, General Sisi’s new regime in Egypt can count on strong American support, and may even be encouraged by Washington to intervene mil-itarily in Libya and shut down the Islamist militias there. Tunisia will be the only remain-ing flower of the “Arab Spring”, although there has also been a certain amount of progress in Morocco. But in the heartland of the Arab world, war will flourish and democracy will not.
Gwynne Dyer is an independ-ent journalist whose articles on world affairs are published in 45 countries.
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stalk Robin Williams, tempting him when he was weak and taunting him when he least expected it.
“It waits,” he told “Good Morning America” in 2006. “It lays in wait for the time when you think, ‘It’s fine now, I’m OK.’ Then, the next thing you know, it’s not OK. Then you realize, ‘Where am I? I didn’t realize I was in Cleveland.”’
Williams, the comic whirlwind known for his hilarious stream-of-conscious-ness ramblings, was found dead Monday after the 63-year-old hung himself in his San Francisco Bay Area home and finally silenced the demons that relentlessly targeted him.
On film, he played everything from a genie to a psychiatrist. In life, he battled periodic bouts of substance abuse and depression, opening up about them to journalists with self-deprecating wit and making his struggles fuel for his comedy.
“Cocaine for me was a place to hide. Most people get hyper on coke. It slowed me down,” he told People in 1988.
One of his first wake-up calls was in 1982 when fellow comedian John Belushi died of a fatal drug overdose. Williams briefly partied with the “Saturday Night Live” star the night he died and his friend’s passing coupled with impending fatherhood forced the comedian to quit cocaine and alcohol cold turkey.
“The Belushi tragedy was frighten-ing,” Williams told People. “His death
scared a whole group of show-business people. It caused a big exodus from drugs. And for me, there was the baby coming. I knew I couldn’t be a father and live that sort of life.”
Sobriety lasted 20 years. Then the taunts became overwhelming again.
The Oscar winner spent several weeks in the Canadian city of Winnipeg in the spring of 2004 filming “The Big White,” playing an Alaskan travel agent nearing bankruptcy. He told The Guardian in 2010 he felt lonely and overworked.
“I was in a small town where it’s not the edge of the world, but you can see it from there, and then I thought: drink-ing. I just thought, ‘Hey, maybe drink-ing will help.’ Because I felt alone and afraid,” he told the newspaper. “And you think, oh, this will ease the fear. And it doesn’t.”
He told Parade magazine in 2013 that his relapse after two decades of sobriety was frighteningly simple.
“One day I walked into a store and saw a little bottle of Jack Daniel’s. And then that voice -I call it the ‘lower power’ - goes, ‘Hey. Just a taste. Just one.’ I drank it, and there was that brief moment of ‘Oh, I’m OK!’ But it escalated so quickly. Within a week I was buying so many bottles I sounded like a wind chime walking down the street.”
A family intervention - “It was not an intervention so much as an ultimatum,” he told Parade - convinced him to seek alcohol abuse treatment at Oregon’s
Hazelden Springbrook centre in 2006.He later told The New York Times
that he hadn’t confronted the under-lying issues at the root of his addiction.
“There was still, in the background, this voice, like, ‘Psst,”’ he told the news-paper. “So when I relapsed, I went back hard. The one thing I hadn’t dealt with was, how honest do you want to live?”
Williams continued his recovery by attending weekly AA meetings. But his second marriage, to film producer Marsha Garces, ended in 2008 - largely because of his drinking, even though by then he was sober.
“You know, I was shameful, and you do stuff that causes disgust, and that’s hard to recover from. You can say, ‘I forgive you’ and all that stuff, but it’s not the same as recovering from it.”
Recently, a new bout of depression prompted the actor to enter rehab. His publicist, Mara Buxbaum, said at the time that Williams made the decision because he needed to recharge after working for 18 months straight.
On Monday, the struggle finally ended.
Amid the flurry of messages on social media after Williams’ death was a simple one from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and had been ret-weeted more than 290,000 times by Tuesday afternoon. It was an image of the big blue genie from “Aladdin,” which Williams so memorable voiced in 1992.
“Genie, you’re free,” the tweet said.
T H E A S S O C I A T E D P R E S SLOS ANGELES - Shakespearean actor and
soap opera star Charles Keating has died at the age of 72.
Keating’s son, Sean Keating, says the actor died Friday in his Connecticut home after a three-year battle with lung cancer.
Sean Keating said Monday that his London-born father considered himself a theatre actor first but was amused by his celebrity for soap operas including “Another World.”
Charles Keating played the villainous Carl Hutchins from 1991 to 1999 on the NBC ser-ies, winning a Daytime Emmy in 1996.
Besides his stage work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and other groups, Keating worked steadily on British and U.S. TV, and in film. His credits include TV’s “Brideshead Revisited” and the movie “The Thomas Crown Affair.”
Keating’s survivors include his wife, Mary, sons Sean and James, and six grandchildren.
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T H E A S S O C I A T E D P R E S SLOS ANGELES - The popularity of
“Sharknado” may have had a splash-over effect on Discovery Channel’s Shark Week, which the channel said debuted with its highest-rated night ever in 27 years of tele-casts.
More than 3.6 million prime-time viewers tuned in Sunday for a line-up that included “Air Jaws: Fins of Fury,” according to Nielsen company figures Tuesday.
Viewers’ appetites appear to have been whetted by SyFy’s July airing of the campy “Sharknado 2: The Second One” - or maybe it’s the other way around, Discovery Channel president and general manager Eileen Neill said.
Shark Week has been posting record num-bers the last few years, said O’Neill, adding, “it’s fair to say that the success of Shark Week may have inspired SyFy to get in on the shark frenzy, and happy to see the shark celebra-tion getting bigger.”
Shark Week enjoyed a social media bounce as well, with two of its Sunday shows making Nielsen’s top 10 list of the most-tweeted about programs for the week of Aug. 4-10.
Live programming continued to prove a top summer TV attraction, with three episodes of “America’s Got Talent” ranking among the most-watched shows, while coun-try music was a draw with the CMA Music Festival
CBS averaged 5.8 million viewers for the week in prime time. NBC averaged 4.7 million, ABC had 4.3 million, Univision had 3.3 million, Fox had 2.3 million, Telemundo had 1.2 million and ION Television had 1.2 million.
Among cable networks, USA averaged 2 million viewers in prime time, followed by TNT with 1.9 million and Disney Channel with 1.8 million. Fox News Channel had 1.8 million and History 1.7 million.
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Kootenay Savings marketing team members presented a $15,000 cheque for the KBRH Golf Tournament to Lisa Pasin, Director of Development KBRH Health Foundation. July’s Golf Classic, with Kootenay Savings as the signature sponsor, raised $27,000 for the Critical Care Campaign. The Critical Care Campaign is now 85% to quota with $425.000 raised.
T H E A S S O C I A T E D P R E S SSmoothies are a nutritious way
to stir things up in the kitchen, especially if the ingredients come from your garden.
Few drinks are as refreshing as fresh or frozen fruits and syrups mixed with milk and yogurt. Many people also add greens.
“Follow the harvest and work with whatever is ripening,” said Nan Chase, who with DeNeice Guest wrote the new “Drink the Harvest” (Storey Publishing). “We get into canning. The starting point is with the juices.”
Smoothies are easy to make. All that’s required is a blender, some liquid (milk, juices or water), ice cubes (or ice cream), yogurt, fruits and greens.
Strawberries, blueberries, peaches and blackberries are great smoothie ingredients because they have a long shelf life when pre-served, Chase said.
“We can use them any time of year,” she said. “Syrups are a big component of what you can do with the juices.”
You gain a lot from a little when blending syrups into smoothies, Chase said.
“We find that you get a signifi-cant amount of concentrated fla-vour and you don’t need an 8-ounce glass. Just a quarter cup can provide the necessary (daily) nutrient load
for fruit.’ ‘Some suggestions from Colorado
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- Boost the amount of dietary fiber by leaving on the fruit skins (except bananas).
- Nuts and seeds, along with nut and seed butters (like peanut butter), contribute protein, fiber, antioxidants, nutrients and heart-healthy unsaturated fats.
- Try green smoothies for var-iety. You can use raw, leafy garden vegetables like kale, spinach, collard greens and Swiss chard. Avocados, parsley, fennel, broccoli, carrots, radishes or celery can be added to fruit smoothies for an enriched nat-ural sweetness.
- Go organic with your gardening and wash all produce thoroughly to help prevent food-borne illnesses.
“Use whatever is in your herb garden,” Chase said. “Bay leaf and basil can infuse drinks (when boiled down) with a smoky flavour. They give drinks just a little depth with-out being overpowering.”
If you don’t have a garden, try a farmer’s market for fresh ingredi-ents, or do some foraging outdoors.
“You can come home with a lot of different kinds of produce if you take a container along while hik-ing,” Chase said. “We actually like prickly pear cactus juice.”
Plant-based smoothies, a popular and refreshing choice
THE ASSOCIATED PRESSNAPA, Calif. - It’s a
warm day in the Napa Valley and the sum-mer sun that turns the region’s plump grapes into prized cabernet sauvignon is beating down on the Odette Estate winery.
But inside the win-ery’s production facil-ity, temperatures are pleasant - with nary a whisper of air condi-tioning.
The reason is Odette Estate’s innovative roof, which combines 8,500 square feet of planted, living roof with 2,500 square feet of solar pan-
els.“It’s really cool work-
ing underneath some-thing you know is help-ing the environment and not impacting it in a negative way,” says Christian Oggenfuss, director of marketing for Odette Estate. “I’m pretty proud, actually, that this spot right now is greener than it was when we started.”
Odette Estate, which opened recently, is part of a small but blos-soming trend of green-roofed wineries.
In Sonoma County, next door to the Napa Valley, Hamel Family
Wines has a living roof on top of its produc-tion facility, part of a 124-acre property with panoramic views of the Sonoma Valley. In Oregon wine country, the Sokol Blosser win-ery has a green-roofed tasting room.
Further afield, there are wineries with green roofs in New Zealand, including Mt. Difficulty winery in New Zealand’s Central Otago growing region, near Queenstown. And Antinori Chianti Classico Cellars in Italy’s Tuscany region has grape vines grow-
ing on its roof, which is built into a hillside. The cellars took seven years to create, and were designed with the goals of having a low environmental impact and saving energy.
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C O M O X – C h a r l o t t e Soukeroff, a Trail Sea Cadet has been selected for the two-week General Training course at Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) Quadra Cadet Summer Training Centre.
Charlotte is a member of the Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps Kootenay in Trail and just flew into the beautiful Comox Valley last week.
She will spend her days sail-ing, playing music, and learning various skills from all the cours-es offered at HMCS Quadra.
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NELSON – As part of British Columbia’s Skills for Jobs Blueprint, Selkirk College will receive funding for an additional 54 training spaces to increase access and help reduce waitlists for trades critical to the liquefied natural gas (LNG) and other industries.
The allocation is part of the $6.8 million announced earlier this week to create 1,424 founda-tion and apprenticeship seats at 14 public post-secondary institutions throughout British Columbia.
Selkirk College will receive a total of $245,000 including $214,000 for the additional seats that will be available to students as early as this September and $31,000 in operating and equip-ment funding to support delivery of training programs.
“We really appreciate this sup-port from government to expand our training seats for reward-ing career pathways that are in demand and in programs that stu-dents want,” says Selkirk College President Angus Graeme. “We will be able to address a number of our waitlists and prepare students sooner for some excellent job opportunities in BC.”
Selkirk College’s trades pro-grams take place at Nelson’s Silver King Campus. Additional seats include 18 welder foundation seats, 16 electrician foundation seats and
20 carpenter apprenticeship seats. The provincial government
announced an initial $6.6-million for critical trades seats as part of BC’s Skills for Jobs Blueprint. Funding allocations are based on the most recent labour market data, on consultations with insti-tutions, the Industry Training Authority, and the province’s Labour Market Priorities Board, and current waitlists, institutions’ capacity to add training seats.
“We promised to increase access to critical trades training seats for in-demand jobs and we are delivering on our commitment to ensure we have a skilled work-force,” says Advanced Education Minister Amrik Virk. “Throughout British Columbia, we are re-engin-eering education and training to turn learners into earners.”
A million job openings are expected in BC by 2022, with about 43 per cent requiring college edu-cation or apprenticeship training. BC’s Skills for Jobs Blueprint lays out a comprehensive action plan to re-engineer education and train-ing so British Columbia students and workers have the skills to be first-in-line for jobs in a growing economy.
More information on BC’s Skills for Jobs Blueprint is available at the provincial government’s web-site: www.workbc.ca/skills
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The Welding Program at Nelson’s Silver King Campus will have addition-al seats in the coming year after the provincial government announced enhanced funding for programs in order address projected shortfalls in trades.
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B Y T I M E S S T A F FThe Nelson Cyswog’n’Fun triathlon was a sunny suc-
cess last week, attracting enthusiastic athletes from all across the country, but it was Greater Trail athletes that rose to the top.
Rossland’s Dallas Cain claimed first place overall in the Olympic distance category, while his better half Rita raced to first in women’s 30-39, and Carol Currie of Trail won in the women’s 50-59 category. The fastest Sprint Distance team was Team Speed of Trail, which consisted Mike and Jackson Konkin that beat their rivals by almost 15 minutes with a time of 1:05:11.
The race began at Lakeside Park at 8 a.m., and was broken down into two categories: Sprint Distance and Olympic Distance.
The shorter race consisted of 500-metre swim, 22-kilo-metre cycle and a 5-km run, while the long course was nearly double that, with a 1.5 km swim, 39 km cycle and 10 km run with individual and team categories.
In the Olympic Distance category, Cain raced to first with a time of 2:03:12 and Sarah MacArthur of Calgary
was the fastest woman, finishing at 2:08:54.In the Men 20-29 category, Kyle Moore of Calgary
came first with a time of 2:04:30, almost forty minutes faster than his closest competition. In the Men 30-39 category, Cain took the top spot. In the Men 40-49 cat-egory, Scott Tremblay won with a time of 2:03:49. In the Men 50-59 category, Alex Seal of Salmon Arm won with a finishing time of 2:20:45. Mal Finch of Vancouver won the Men 60-69 category at 2:44:14, beating out local favourite Con Diamond who finished at 2:50:53.
In the Women 30-39 category Jaclyn Dexter of Nelson won the top sport at 2:23:45, while Neufeld took the top spot in the Women 40-49 category at 2:19:43,.
The Olympic Distance team competition consisted of 15 teams consisting of two or three members.
Two Peas and a Veep, a team made up of Nelsonites Alexander Kalabis, Ron Sherman and John Francis, came first with a time of 2:16:02. Calgary team the Sore Boozers finished second at 2:24:34 and Family Fun, a Nelson team consisting of Hannah, John and Dylan Devris, came third.
In the Sprint Distance competition, Trent Renshaw of Sydney placed first with a time of 1:04:36. The fastest woman in the Sprint Distance competition was Dannica Stevenson-Wade of Kelowna at 1:15:04.
In the Women 18-29 category, Sarah Berrett of Calgary won with a time of 1:20:52. In the Women 30-39 category, Rita Cain of Rossland came first with a time of 1:24:50. Stevenson-Wade won the Women 40-49 cat-egory. In the Women 50-59 category, Kelly Waterfield of Nakusp finished first at 1:23:17. In the Women 60+ cat-egory, Judy Lloyd of Nelson won with a time of 1:37:05.
In the Men 18-29 category, Sean Funk of Cypress County came first at 1:05:56. Renshaw won the Men 30-39 category. Michael Hoher of Nelson won the Men 40-49 category with a time of 1:23:15. In the Men 50-59 category, Michael Godfrey of Calgary won with a time of 1:11:54. David Lloyd of Kelowna came first in the Men 60+ category with a time of 1:21:38.
Second in the Spring Distance team event went to the Timberwolves at 1:19:16 and Three Gals Go at 1:32:10.
-with files from the Nelson Star
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Champions Hockey school coach Terry Jones leads his charges through the week-long workout that includes lots of ice time, dryland training, video analysis, and most of all fun. The hockey school has grown into a popu-lar summer program for young skaters and an effective means of preparation and conditioning for players bound for the Trail Smoke Eaters, Beaver Valley Nitehawks and College hockey.
CHAMPIONS IN THE MAKING
N E L S O N S T A RWorld Cup veteran Jay DeMerit is in Nelson
for a Whitecaps training camp and Nelson Youth Soccer regional coach Brett Adams couldn’t be more thrilled.
“Jay is a great role model. He’s always been the captain on every team he’s ever been on, and that tells you something about his character,” Adams said.
When DeMerit approached the Whitecaps to see if he could participate in the camp, they jumped at the chance. Adams said DeMerit has been transitioning into an ambassadorial role upon retirement, and is passionate about develop-ing the game in Canada.
“It’s important to say not only that Jay’s com-ing, he’s coming because he’s genuinely inter-ested. He’s been to another camp and he wants to know what’s going on in the area,” Adams said.
“He’ll be interacting with the kids. He’ll come around and meet the players, the coaches. The aim is to pull each session to a stand-still at one point to have a Q and A.”
DeMerit’s improbable rise to success was recently documented in Rise and Shine: The Jay DeMerit Story. The film tells the story of how DeMerit didn’t originally make the MLS draft in the U.S., then moved to England to play in a non-professional league.
“Then he gets a call from a professional team in England called Watford,” said Adams. “They offered him a try out and he took it with both hands.”
DeMerit’s career peak was competing in the 2010 World Cup.
“If you talk to the kids in our program, they were all gripped and engaged by the World Cup that just was on. To meet someone who played in the USA Men’s national team at the World Cup is truly an unbelievable opportunity,” he said.
The camp runs Tuesday to Thursday. For more info visit whitecapsfc.com/youth/programs/camps or call Adams at 777-2173.
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GP W L T PF PA Pt Toronto 6 2 4 0 141 154 4 Hamilton 6 1 5 0 129 155 2 Montreal 6 1 5 0 98 177 2 Ottawa 6 1 5 0 111 189 2
West Division GP W L T PF PA Pt Calgary 6 5 1 0 161 94 10 Edmonton 6 5 1 0 163 107 10 Winnipeg 7 5 2 0 185 163 10 B.C. 7 4 3 0 163 145 8 Sask 6 4 2 0 157 124 8 Week 7
Tuesday’s results N/AWinnipeg at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.
Week 8Friday’s games
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Sunday, August 17B.C. at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.
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W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Baltimore 68 50 .576 - - 7-3 Toronto 63 57 .525 6 2 3-7 New York 61 57 .517 7 3 6-4 Tampa 58 60 .492 10 6 5-5 Boston 52 65 .444 15.5 11.5 4-6
Central Division
W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Kansas 64 53 .547 - - 9-1 Detroit 63 53 .543 1/2 - 4-6 Cleveland 59 59 .500 5 1/2 5 6-4 Chicago 56 63 .471 9 8 1/2 3-7 Minnesota 53 64 .453 11 10 1/2 5-5
West Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Oakland 72 46 .610 - - 6-4 Los Ang 68 49 .581 3 1/2 - 4-6 Seattle 63 55 .534 9 1 7-3 Houston 49 70 .412 23.5 15.5 5-5 Texas 46 72 .390 26 18 3-7
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W L Pct GB WCGB L10Wash 63 53 .543 - - 5-5Atlanta 60 58 .508 4 2 1/2 2-8Miami 58 60 .492 6 4 1/2 5-5New York 57 62 .479 7 1/2 6 5-5Philadelph 53 66 .445 11.5 10 5-5
Central Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10Milwauk 66 53 .555 - - 6-4Pittsburgh 63 55 .534 2 1/2 - 6-4St. Louis 62 55 .530 3 - 5-5Cincinnati 60 58 .508 5 1/2 2 1/2 6-4Chicago 50 67 .427 15 12 5-5
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quarterback Kevin Glenn is the CFL’s offensive player of the week for Week 7 after his aerial assault helped the Lions to a
win over Hamilton.Glenn threw for 407
yards and a touchdown and ran for another score as the Lions beat the Tiger-Cats 36-29 Friday.
Glenn is currently second in the league with 1,797 passing yards and has eight passing touchdowns this season.
He reached the 400-yard mark for the sev-enth time in his career.
In other awards, Saskatchewan defen-sive end John Chick won the defensive play-er of the week award while Roughriders teammate Jerome Messam was named top Canadian.
Ticats returner
Brandon Banks took special teams honours.
Chick recorded a career-high three sacks in the Roughriders’ 23-17 road victory over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Thursday.
This is Chick’s second player of the week award this sea-son. He was also named defensive player of the month for July.
Messam took over running back duties in the second quarter of the game and rushed for 126 yards on 19 carries.
The Toronto native was heavily relied upon late in the fourth to run the clock for the Roughriders.
Banks returned a Ricky Schmitt punt 97 yards for a touchdown in the Ticats’ loss to B.C.
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Peyton relaxed heading into seasonTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. - Peyton Manning seems to be having a lot more fun this summer.
He’s still grinding through training camp like always but he’s also showing a loosey-goosey side that he rarely flashed in Indy or in his first two seasons in Denver.
One morning, he’s doing a dorky dance to “Rocky Top” during stretch time at Broncos head-quarters - dancing like nobody’s watching even though he knows everybody is.
Another day he’s taking snaps from Brandon Stokley’s 10-year-old boy on the side during spe-cial teams drills.
Or letting his twin toddlers tackle him after a practice at Sports Authority Field.
His latest let-your-hair-down moment came when the Broncos blared “Football Fantasy Football” on the loudspeakers an hour after his latest rap video with brother Eli came out. He played right along with the razzing, swaying and strutting while limbering up.
Left guard Orlando Franklin, who made a cameo appearance along with Louis Vasquez and Ryan Clady as Peyton’s posse, called Eli Manning the better rapper.
Either way, “I don’t think Jay-Z and Kanye West have anything to worry about, let’s put it that way,” Peyton Manning said Tuesday.
Asked if the gaudy chain around his neck in the video was his own, Manning said, “That was a prop. Eli brought his own (bling). It was very disturbing that he had it in his wardrobe. Mine were all props. Not sure on the offence linemen. I think Clady and Vasquez and Orlando had some props as well.
“We had a good time. We were down in New Orleans. And of course, Eli and I, any chance we have to be together it’s enjoyable. But Eli had three of his offensive linemen as well, so you can imagine how many laughs were taking place kind of in between takes,” Manning said.
“Orlando has been on me for a while to get him into a commercial,” Manning added. “So, I thought those guys did a good job. They looked the part, looked tough there. And like I said, we had a lot of laughs.”
That seems to be a theme for Manning this summer.
Entering his third year in Denver, there is no longer any mystery about his health like there was in 2012 when he was coming off a year’s sabbatical following neck fusion surgery that led to his tear-ful departure from Indy.
He’s thrown 100 touchdown passes and gone 28-8, including the playoffs, since trading the blue and white horse shoe on the side of his helmet for the orange-mane mustang.
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You & The LawTYLEEN UNDERWOOD LAW OFFICE presents
BUSTED FOR POT POSSESSION? You’ve heard that in Colorado and Washington State just south of the border, voters approved legalization of marijuana even for recreational (not just medical) use in 2012.
We in Canada lag behind these U.S. neighbours when it comes to “soft drugs” like marijuana. Sure, there’s been talk about letting police just issue a ticket to someone found in possession of a bit of pot, say 28 or 30 grams. But that would be a far cry from “legalizing” possession. And even that small step, which would make simple possession a minor infraction, hasn’t been taken.
In fact, simple possession of even a tiny amount of pot is still not just illegal – it’s a crime in Canada (some medical exceptions apart). A � rst offence can lead to a maximum � ne of $1,000 and a maximum jail term of six months. Penalties increase for repeat offenders.
And there are stiffer sentences if you’re charged with possession for the purposes of traf� cking, or with traf� cking (basically, selling the stuff).
Of all the provinces in Canada, British Columbia – famous for its “B.C. Bud” – has one of the highest rates of charging people with possession.
Now, you’re not likely to be hit with the maximum penalties if convicted of simple possession for the � rst time. But there are still nasty consequences.
For one thing, a conviction results in a criminal record. This may have to be disclosed on employment applications, so can hurt your ability to get a job. Also, you may afterwards not be able to get into many countries, particularly
the U.S., because of travel restrictions. In short, a small baggie of the stuff, maybe just a friendly gift, can end up causing you a long-lasting hangover.
So what’s possession, anyway? Basically, based on what police � nd (and what you say), the police must prove that you had the stuff on you, like in your pockets or purse, or that it was under your control (like in your car’s glove box) – and that you knew what it was. So you can be in possession of marijuana even if you don’t own the stuff. Police also have to prove in court what the substance was, usually by a test report.
But even if you’re caught with some pot, you have some fundamental rights to due process in Canada that may help you avoid conviction.
You have the right to remain silent – so don’t blab your way into a confession. And you have the right to be protected against unreasonable search and seizure. So if police come to your house with a search warrant (basically, a judge-approved authorization to search your house) for something else, and they come across your small stash, the court may not allow that into evidence – it all depends. The court may also look closely at the information used by police to get a judge to approve the search warrant in the � rst place.
Probably the best thing you can do for yourself if busted for pot possession (or worse) is to exercise your right to call a lawyer at the � rst possible opportunity – and follow her advice!
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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SVANCOUVER - A stack of overlap-
ping land claims by First Nations is a “cancer” within British Columbia’s treaty process, says a prominent provincial chief spearheading a court challenge of the decades-old method of negotiating aboriginal rights and title in the province.
The seven-members Okanagan Nation Alliance has filed filed a civil claim in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver disputing the B.C. Treaty Process, and centres it legal action around an agreement between the province and Ktunaxa Nation Council.
The incremental treaty agree-ment was signed in March 2013 and gives the Cranbrook, B.C., nation and its adjoining bands 242 hectares of land in the West Kootenay. The deal is the first stage of forging a broader treaty.
But the alliance argues the major-ity of nine parcels of property being signed over actually falls within its own members’ traditional territory.
Alliance chairman and Grand Chief Stewart Phillip argues a “fundamentally flawed” B.C. Treaty Process is hampering fair resolution of the dispute.
“This process has been around now for approximately 23 years. It has cost billions of dollars with very little result,” Phillip said in an inter-view on Monday.
Phillip said he believes the gov-ernment is signing so many of these incremental agreements because of the criticism around the glacial pace of treaty talks.
“The overlap issue is the cancer of the B.C. Treaty Process.”
British Columbia is the only province that didn’t sign agree-ments with its First Nations in the 1800s. There are only a couple mod-ern-day treaties.
The process for negotiating aboriginal land rights was estab-lished in 1992 by agreement of the province, the federal government and the First Nations Summit.
Those efforts created the B.C. Treaty Commission, an independent body devised to facilitate the treaty negotiations.
The lawsuit seeks a declaration by the provincial government, under the minister of aboriginal relations, that it failed to consult with the alliance before unilaterally moving
ahead with the Ktunaxa deal. It’s also seeking an injunction stopping the province from taking further steps to transfer the lands, known as the Wensley Bench.
A spokesman for the province declined comment on the lawsuit, but noted the goal of instituting incremental agreements is to speed up the process.
A request for comment by the Ktunaxa nation was not immedi-ately returned.
The alliance contends the land signed away includes village sites, hunting grounds and other cultural heritage sites important to its own members.
The legal action was filed after the group attempted for more than a year to resolve the issue with the province directly, Phillip said.
He said many swaths of land are in dispute across the province, but it’s only when a claimant group is at the point of signing off on an agree-ment that it triggers the concern of the adjacent community.
“It’s like your neighbour talking ad nauseam about what they want to do in terms of improving their property,” he said, “And you don’t really pay much attention to it until the guy starts knocking your fence down and encroaching on half of your property to complete his reno-vation of his house.”
B.C. Treaty Chief Commissioner Sophie Pierre declined to comment on the suit because the case is tar-geting the province.
But the commission will always encourage First Nations to work out protocols on shared territory, she said.
“This business about running off to court every time we run into an obstacle, I mean, eventually we have to sit down and figure it out amongst ourselves,” she said. “That’s been the position of the Treaty Commission since day one, and that’s always going to be our position.”
Another overlapping treaty agree-ment that’s caused a stir in recent weeks has occurred near Terrace, B.C.
The Gitxsan First Nation threat-ened evictions of the railway, forest-ers and fishermen in a dispute over land it claims, but was handed to two neighbouring First Nations in a treaty agreement.
Nathan Plaa received a doc-torate in medicine at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver in May, follow-ing completion of an hon-ours degree in biotechnol-ogy. Nathan is grateful for and thanks all his teachers along the way, from Cook Avenue Elementary School, to Rossland Secondary, and Selkirk College. Nathan began a five-year resi-dency program in diagnos-tic imaging in July at UBC. Proud parents are Dr. Steven Plaa and Kathleen Plaa.
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Control burn underway in SlocanNElSoN STAR
Crews battling the forest fire above Slocan Park will fight fire with fire today, using controlled burns to stabilize their lines.
Information officer Julie Castonguay said the teardrop-shaped fire has three flanks, the lowest of which, closest to the community, has been sur-rounded by a hose line.
“Today, weather permitting, they will be doing a little bit of controlled burn to bring the fire snug to their line,” she said. “It will straighten their control line.”
Castonguay said “small fin-gers” of unburned timbers, pos-sibly 50 meters long, would be burned off, which will result
in increased smoke and poten-tial flames, but the stressed that the community shouldn’t be concerned: “It’s fine, totally planned. There will be a lot of action, but all controlled.”
In addition, another 30 fire-fighters are being added to the 60 who are already on the hill-side, working the fire’s periph-ery.
Castonguay said since the bottom has been secured or is being worked on, they will now focus on the upper segment, closer to the ridge line.
Nine helipads have now been completed, meaning crews no longer have to hike in 2 km to access the fire, which “helps tremendously,” Castonguay said.
All efforts are by hand, with no heavy machinery.
The fire is still listed as 120 hectares with no containment.
“It’s pretty much the same size, burning itself off with minor changes on the edges, but noth-ing major,” said Castonguay, who reported “slow but positive progress.”
A change in the weather today may or may not help things, she added.
“Less heat is good, but they’re talking about thunderstorms, which could bring wind, so it’s a toss-up.”
An evacuation alert issued a week ago remains in effect for 47 homes.
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Dear Annie: How do you get help for a friend who appears to be drift-ing into dementia?
“Marjorie” and I have known each other for more than 20 years, and we have lunch every two weeks. When we first met, Marjorie was bright, energetic and involved in many activities. She is now in her mid-60s.
Two years ago, she suffered a couple of mini-strokes. At first, there were no obvious changes, but as time goes on, it has become more and more diffi-cult to converse with her. She speaks in non sequiturs, has great dif-ficulty finding the right word to express herself and often uses inap-propriate phrases. She frequently misunder-stands what I am say-ing and responds oddly. She now has consider-able difficulty dealing with calculating the amount of her lunch check tip.
We have a friend whose wife has
advanced dementia and is now confined to a care facility. He believes Marjorie is exhibiting the same symptoms. Marjorie seems com-pletely unaware of how she has changed, and I am concerned that she needs help. It also alarms me that Marjorie is still driving and could injure her-self or others. I am con-cerned that the work-men she hires to help around her house are taking advantage of her by charging excessive amounts for their ser-vices. If her funds are drained, she will have to substantially reduce her standard of living.
Annie, I am one of Marjorie’s closest
friends, and yet I’m reluctant to say any-thing to her about this. I don’t want to hurt her. How do you tell someone she is losing her mind? -- Concerned Friend
Dear Concerned: You don’t. You tell her you are worried about her and ask whether she’s had a medi-cal checkup recently. Marjorie’s problem may not be dementia, but she won’t know until she checks. (Sometimes, some-thing as treatable as a urinary tract infection can mimic dementia.) If Marjorie has fam-ily, please notify them about her deteriorating mental state and sug-gest they accompany her to the doctor. You also can contact the Alzheimer’s Association (alz.org) helpline at 1-800-272-3900.
Dear Annie: In your reply to “At a Loss for Words,” I was surprised you called a grand-mother narcissistic because she didn’t want
to attend her grandchil-dren’s college gradua-tions, even though she spoils other grandchil-dren. There could be a lot of reasons why Grandma made this choice. She may think graduations are bor-ing when she has to sit for hours waiting for a 10-second walk across the stage while people in the audience hoot and holler obnoxiously. Maybe she would’ve had to travel to these events and didn’t want to. And did these grandchildren write thank-you notes for the gifts Grandma gave them over the years?
Grandma’s love lan-guage might be gifts, while the daughter’s is quality time, and sit-ting through a gradua-tion is not quality any-thing. Chances are the daughter is more hurt than the graduates. She needs to grow up and stop the woe-is-me attitude. -- A Grandma Who Hates Graduations
Dear Grandma: Grandparents don’t
attend their grandkids’ events because they are exciting. They go to show their support. If a graduation is “too boring” to be support-ive, then Grandma is putting herself first. But we agree about the thank-you notes.
Dear Annie: “Salem,
Oregon” asked how to get her family to stop giving her Christmas gifts. For several years, I wanted that, too, but my family wouldn’t agree.
Last year, I sent everyone an email telling them I would accept only handmade
gifts or a notice of a gift to charity (mon-etary or that they vol-unteered). One planted a tree in my name, and I received a card from a charity when another helped with a special project. I plan to do the same thing this year. -- Feeling Great
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For Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) This is an accident-prone day for your sign, so pay attention to everything you say and do. At the very least, your daily routine will be interrupted. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) You feel restless today. To counteract this, stay at home if you can. Home decorating projects or just relaxing at home will appeal. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) A female friend might say or do something that surprises you today. Who knew? Or perhaps, you will meet someone who is a real character. You will be amazed by something. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) A parent, boss, teacher or someone in a position of authority will do something that you least expect today.
Don’t overreact. Don’t quit your day job. LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Travel plans will be can-celed, delayed or resched-uled today. Ditto for plans with higher education, col-leges and universities. Just try to go with the flow. (You have no choice.) VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Make friends with your bank account, because unusual things might hap-pen to your finances as they relate to debt, shared prop-erty, taxes and inheritances. Make sure you know what’s happening. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Relations with part-ners and close friends will undergo a few speed bumps today. Patience is your only recourse. SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Computer crashes, power outages, fire drills, canceled meetings and staff shortages
are just some reasons your work day could be inter-rupted today. Allow extra time for wiggle room. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) This is an accident-prone day for your kids; therefore, parents must be vigilant! Keep your eyes open, and know where they are at all times. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Small appliances might
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1148 Bay Ave, Trail 250.368.5000All Pro Realty Ltd.
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Contact Our RealtorsWayne DeWitt........... ext 25
cell: 250-368-1617Mario Berno ..............ext 27
cell: 250.368.1027Tom Gawryletz .........ext 26
cell: 250.368.1436Dawn Rosin ...............ext 24
cell: 250.231.1765Thea Stayanovich .....ext 28
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Waneta$369,900
MLS#2399031
GREAT
DUPLEX
Rossland$329,000
MLS#2397015
NEW KITCHEN
& BATH
Trail$159,900
MLS#2398210
NEW PRICE
Trail$185,000
MLS#2398665
SPECTACULAR
VIEW
East Trail
Fruitvale$289,500
MLS#2211947
DOUBLE
GARAGE
Warfi eld$319,000
MLS#2397360
REDUCED
Waneta Village$110,000
MLS#2394307
DUPLEX
BUILDING LOTS
Annable$169,500
MLS#2398114
NEW PRICE
Trail$290,000
MLS#2398210
SUPER LOT
Glenmerry$342,000
MLS#2398405
MINT
East Trail$169,000
MLS#2395777
GREAT
LOCATION
Trail$148,500
MLS#2399902
NEW LISTING
East Trail$129,900
MLS#2399121
CLOSE TO
HOSPITAL
Rossland$299,000
MLS#2399393
FANTASTIC
YARD
Fruitvale$299,900
MLS#2397286
GREAT SHAPE
Salmo$199,500
MLS#2398692
NEW PRICE
Salmo$269,900
MLS#2397445
NEW
INCLUDES GST
Salmo$359,900
MLS#2398594
NEW PRICE
Montrose$459,000
MLS#2399120
EXECUTIVE
HOME
Trail$129,900
MLS#2399453
NEW ROOF
Glenmerry$199,000
MLS#2396283
NEW PRICE
Trail$149,000
MLS#2397175
SOLD
Glenmerry$245,000
MLS#239820
EXCELLENT
LOCATION
Miral Hights$429,000
MLS#2397718
NEW PRICE
Trail$179,000
MLS#2399952
Redstone$839,900
MLS#2393760
CUSTOM
BUILT
Trail$89,900
MLS#2398249
NEW PRICE
Trail$160,000
MLS#2399060
Glenmerry$270,000
MLS#2390953
GARAGE
Waneta$339,500
MLS#2394130
Montrose$69,000
MLS#2392393
VIEW LOT
East Trail$129,000
MLS#2399958
NEW LISTING
STRATA
DOUBLE LOT
NEW LISTING
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Rentals
Apt/Condo for RentTRAIL, spacious 1&2bdrm. apartment. Adult building, per-fect for seniors/ professionals. Cozy, clean, quiet, com-fortable. Must See. 250-368-1312
WANETA MANOR
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W.TRAIL, 2Bdrm. in 4-plex., enclosed parking. $575./mo. 250-551-1106
Duplex / 4 Plex1000sqf 2bdrm/2bath duplex for rent in Montrose. Close to bus stop, dble-pane windows, heat-pump, D/W, NP/NS. $850/month. Ph 604-374-0121
Mobile Homes & Pads
14 WIDE 2bd. trailer w/addi-tions on 1acre. Avail. Sept.15. $800. plus utilities. References required. 250-693-2107
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Rentals
Homes for RentE.TRAIL, 2bdrm., full base-ment, F/S, W/D, N/S, N/P. $850./mo. 250-365-9306, 250-365-5003
E.TRAIL, 2bdrm., full base-ment, F/S, W/D, N/S, N/P. $850./mo. 250-365-9306, 250-365-5003LOOKING for respectable, re-sponsible single parent or couple to rent my Edgewood acreage. 2 beds, both with en suites. Carport. Must be handy,keep large yard/have own tools/ equipment. Ref/credit check/DD required. Min 6/mo lease. Pets Neg. N/S $800/mo. Available Sept 1. 250-309-0949TRAIL, 2BD. cozy, character house in Lower Warfi eld. Ref. $700./mo. 208-267-7580TRAIL, 2BD., N/S, N/P. Available immediately. 250-367-7558TRAIL, 2bdrm., full basement, garage, nice view. F/S, W/D, N/S, N/P. $850. 250-365-5003TRAIL, 2bdrm., full basement, garage, nice view. F/S, W/D, N/S, N/P. $850. 250-365-5003
TRAIL, 3bdrm. f/s, w/d, base-ment, fenced yard, quiet neighbourhood. 250-364-1129
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Cars - Domestic2009 CHEVY Aveo 5spd. standard, 4dr hatchback, black exterior, grey interior. 74,000kms. $4,500. 250-608-3247 [email protected]
Trucks & Vans06 Dodge Caravan 115,000 kms only. Like new, mainta-nance records, no accidents. $6500obo. Call 250-367-6614.
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Fruitvale$299,000
Rhonda MLS# 2399752
1st Trail Real Estate
1252 Bay Avenue, Trail 250.368.5222 1993 Columbia Ave, Rossland 250.362.5200WWW.COLDWELLBANKERTRAIL.COM
Nathan Kotyk 250-231-9484
Rhonda van Tent 250-231-7575
Jack McConnachie 250-368-5222
Rob Burrus 250-231-4420
Marie Claude Germain 250-512-1153
Rossland $299,900
Marie-Claude MLS# 2395423
Trail $OLD
Marie-Claude MLS# 2393499
Trail $194,900
Rhonda MLS# 2399317
Rossland $199,900
Marie-Claude MLS# 2395984
Rossland $998,000
Marie-Claude MLS# 2398348
Rossland $59,900
Marie-Claude MLS# 2395154
Rossland $294,000
Rhonda MLS# 2397764
Trail$169,000
Rhonda MLS# 2397878
Fruitvale $139,900
Rob MLS# 2393806
Renata $235,500
Rob MLS# 2215924
Trail $134,000
Rob MLS# 2397114
Fruitvale $399,000
Rob MLS# 2397558
Fruitvale $229,500
Rob MLS# 2396677
Trail$549,000
Rhonda MLS# 2397469
New Price!
$OLD!
292.5 acres
Sub dividable
1 Bdrm Furnished
5.1 Acres
10 Acres
Rossland $OLD!
Marie-Claude MLS# 2393618
$OLD!
Warfield$189,900
Rhonda MLS# 2393875
Montrose$158,900
Rob MLS# 2397280
3.7 Acres
Warfield$144,900
Nathan MLS# 2395554
Triplex
Trail$105,000
Nathan MLS# 2397107
New Price!
Fruitvale$259,000
Nathan MLS# 2398108
Private
Huge GarageMany Upgrades New Price!
New Price!
Updated Double Lot
Upgraded New Price! HUGE LOT!
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707-2600(250)
100 MileHouse
KELOWNA2153 Springfield Road
860-2600(250)
PENTICTON101-2601 Skaha Lake Rd.
493-3800(250)
VERNON200-3107 - 48th Ave.
542-3000(250)
WEST KELOWNA#200 - 2180 Elk Rd.
707-2600(250)
ANDRES CAR AUDIO1881 Harvey Avenue
(250) 860-1975
KELOWNA CAR AUDIO1881 Harvey Avenue
(250) 860-1975
KAMLOOPS CAR AUDIO154 Victoria Str
(250) 314-9944
WEST KELOWNA#200 - 2180 Elk Rd.
707-2600(250)
PENTICTON101-2601 Skaha Lake Rd.
493-3800(250)
VERNON200-3107 - 48th Ave.
542-3000(250)
WilliamsLake KELOWNA
2153 Springfield Road860-2600(250)
KAMLOOPS745 Notre Dame Drive
851-8700(250)
PRINCE GEORGE2591A Vance Rd.
563-4447(250)
WILLIAMS AKE299 Oliver Str.
398-8522(250)
L 100 MILE OUSE916 Alpine Ave.
395-4015(250)
H
KAMLOOPS745 Notre Dame Drive
851-8700(250)
ANDRES WIRELESSAberdeen Mall(250) 377-8880
ANDRES WIRELESS215 - 450 Lansdowne Mall
(250) 377-8007
ANDRES CAR AUDIO154 Victoria Str
(250) 314-9944
ANDRES BUSINESS300 St. Paul Str.
(250) 377-3773
PRINCE GEORGE2591A Vance Rd.
563-4447(250)
KAMLOOPS745 Notre Dame Drive
851-8700(250)
VERNON200-3107 - 48th Ave.
542-3000(250)
WILLIAMS AKE299 Oliver Str.
398-8522(250)
L 100 MILE OUSE916 Alpine Ave.
395-4015(250)
H
KAMLOOPS745 Notre Dame Drive
851-8700(250)
PRINCE GEORGE2591A Vance Rd.
563-4447(250)
100 MILE OUSE916 Alpine Ave.
395-4015(250)
H WILLIAMS AKE299 Oliver Str.
398-8522(250)
L
VERNON200-3107 - 48th Ave.
542-3000(250)
ANDRES WIRELESSVilliage Green Mall
(250) 542-1496
KELOWNA2153 Springfield Road
860-2600(250)
WEST KELOWNA#200 - 2180 Elk Rd.
707-2600(250)
KAMLOOPS745 Notre Dame Drive
851-8700(250)
VERNON200-3107 - 48th Ave.
542-3000(250)
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A20 www.trailtimes.ca Wednesday, August 13, 2014 Trail Times
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KOOTENAY HOMES INC.1358 Cedar Avenue, Trail • 250.368.8818
www.kootenayhomes.com www.century21.caThe Local Experts™
CASTLEGAR CORNER
Call Tonnie (250) 365-9665 or Terry (250) 231-1101
WE CAN SELL YOUR HOME.
NOBODY HAS THE RESOURCES WE DO!
1211 Primrose Street, Trail $189,000
WOW- super clean and modern
3 bdrm/2 bath corner unit
townhouse with central air-Fully
fenced back yard that is completely
landscaped-covered patio for
entertainment and relaxation
-carport and paved driveway - many
new updates.Call Mark
(250) 231-5591
BRING OFFERS
QUICK POSSESSION
640 Shelley Street, Warfi eld$217,000
Well maintained 3 bdrm family home with lots of upgrades! Bright sun room,
amazing views, new fl ooring, paint, trim, railing, electrical and windows. Call your
realtor today to view!Call Christine (250) 512-7653
BRING US AN OFFER
613 Forrest Drive, Warfi eld$205,000
This 2 bed/2 bath home features hardwood fl oors, generously sized bedrooms and an updated kitchen.
Numerous upgrades, including windows, roof, furnace, hot water tank, and electrical.
All you have to do is move in and enjoy.
Call Jodi (250) 231-2331
1922 Meadowlark Dr., Fruitvale $259,000
5 bdrms & 2.5 baths. This wonderful family home features many recent
upgrades. The large back deck is great for entertaining right off the newly
updated kitchen. Call Jodi (250) 231-2331
83 Perdue Street, Trail $159,000
This immaculate gem offers 3 bdrms, 2 full baths, beautifully decorated with modern spacious kitchen and
bathrooms, wood fl oors, high ceilings, large living room and updated windows
and doors. Move right in and enjoyCall Deanne (250) 231-0153
Lot 2, Redstone Drive, Rossland $399,000
Brand new spacious home at an affordable price. This 3 bdrm home
has enclosed parking for up to 4 cars and the inside fi nishes include granite top kitchen counters and hardwood
fl oors. Call your REALTOR® for more information or a personal tour.
Call Richard (250) 368-7897
NEW PRICE
1428 Columbia Avenue, Trail$212,500
Well maintained and updated, this 4 bdrm home has open fl oor plan, updated kitchen and fl ooring. Huge garage, large deck and river views complete the package. Come
take a look today.
Call Mary M (250) 231-0264
1059 Tamarac Avenue, Trail$335,000
Opportunity knocks! 2 houses and 2 duplexes located downtown. With a few updates, these properties would make excellent rental properties. Call your
REALTOR® for your personal viewing.
Call Mary M (250) 231-0264
1553 Diamond Street, Trail$149,000
Panoramic views and privacy await with approx. 700 sq. ft. of decks overlooking the Columbia River. Many upgrades including wiring, plumbing, roof, heating and central air, two bathrooms, 3 bdrms, and family
room. Call now!!Call Deanne (250) 231-0153
NEW PRICE
2705 Columbia-Kootenay Road, Rossland
$670,000Overlooking Happy Valley, this extensively updated home has so much character and charm. Spectacular views, bright kitchen, private sundeck and fi replace. All this on 1.13 acres. Price includes a separate 2
acre parcel too. Call now!
Call Mary M (250) 231-0264
2207 Columbia Ave, Rossland $289,000
Great opportunity to start a new business or move an existing one! Fantastic central location, lots of
windows, hardwood fl oors and tons of character. Fully fi nished 1 bdrm,
basement suite with lots of light and a little covered sundeck. Call your realtor
for details!Call Christine (250) 512-7653
1463 Bay Ave, Downtown TrailFor Lease
Updated and very clean space in downtown core. Security system, air
conditioned, and great access to bring in large items. In an area of long standing
businesses with good foot traffi c.Call Art (250) 368-8818
SOLD SOLD SOLD
600 Centre AvenueCastlegar
$174,900
305 7th AvenueCastlegar
$195,000
2704 10th AvenueCastlegar
$279,900
OPPORTUNITY
KNOCKS!
what you see . . .
Geraldine Steven sent the Times a couple different looks at an Orb Weaver spider or the Cat-faced Spider, Araneus gemmoides. The markings on this spider’s abdomen are thought to resem-ble a cat’s face, complete with bumps that look like ears. It is a fairly large spider, about 20mm, or almost the size of a quarter. Its habit of building its large orb webs inside barns and out-buildings, and near light sources causes an inordinate number of human encounters, but is com-pletely harmless. If you have an interesting photo please send to [email protected].