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It was throwback Thursday for three Fruitvale moms who sat in J. L. Crowe Secondary School on Grade 8 move-in day reminiscing of their high school days.

Students buzzed around them, seeking out classrooms with sched-ules in hand or carrying a tower of books to settle in before school starts next week.

“I'm nervous for him, nervous and excited,” said Raina Witt, Chase's mom.

Witt was joined by Tammy Issel and Jozanne Sbitney, two other moms who were experiencing the same emotion as they waited for their children to get acquainted with their new school.

“On the way down here I was trying to give him the 'you know you've got to step it up, you know it will be hard but it will be OK' and I was almost starting to tear up a little bit,” added Witt. “I'm like, 'you'll be fine' meanwhile it's like, no, 'I'll be fine.'”

All 130 Grade 8 students were invited to walk the halls at Crowe Thursday on move-in day, an event held for those making the move-from elementary school.

“It's a nice relaxing atmosphere to get a sense of their schedules, where different classrooms are and what kind of time they'll need between classes to get to and from their locker,” said Crowe principal David DeRosa.

The four minutes allotted to get from one class to the next was an initial challenge for Grade 9 student Nicole Johnson, who was on hand Thursday to show her cousin the ropes.

“It was kind of scary at first but then when I got used to it, it was all better because I wasn't as scared of everyone,” she recalled.

Grade 8 Max Bentley isn't too worried because he knows a lot of the senior students though he admitted it will be an adjustment.

“There's kind of a lot more big-ger kids than littler kids like us,” he said.

“I remember going from the top

of the school in Grade 7 to now the bottom of the school in Grade 8.”

He and his buddies are mostly looking forward to iFun, an elec-tive where students learn a variety of information technology tools to help them solve problems.

Jessica Semenoff and Megan Heximer towered over other stu-dents, as they navigated their new school.

The former Rossland Secondary School students will be completing their final year at Crowe, a reality

that they've accepted.“I'm a bit better now but at

first I wasn't very happy about it because I like Rossland because you sort of know everyone in the school because it's so small,” said Heximer.

Crowe already welcomed its new Rossland students into the school last year but the move-in day is also for new students and attracted some senior students, too.

“The school is designed and built to accommodate 850 students,

we're currently sitting at 831, which was approximately the number of students we opened the school with in 2009, so yes, we are able to accommodate new students from Rossland and other communities,” added DeRosa.

“We have increased the number of tables available in the multipur-pose room for break periods, but not really much else.”

School is in session Tuesday, a half day for students to confirm their first semester schedule.

Students gear up for new year

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Grade 8 Georgia Merry added some personal touches to her locker Thursday during move-in day with her friends Taylor Thorimbert, Alexis Winters and Sydney Bruce by her side.

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Fifty years ago, residents of Trail cele-

brated the removal of the CPR tracks that ran along Rossland Avenue and diagonally into downtown Trail. By 1963, Cominco had little use for the down-

town right-of-way and as vehicular traffic was on the rise, usage of railway transportation was declining. The CPR began the con-struction of new facili-

ties on Cominco prop-erty in Tadanac and the downtown line was transferred into the ownership of Cominco. City Council had plans for urban redevelop-

ment in West Trail and the company provided the land to the city, who assured it would be repurposed appro-priately.

Among the City’s plans was the con-struction of a mod-ern principle highway along Rossland Avenue and Victoria Street, more specifically the approach to the newly- built bridge. Quoting Mayor Palyga at the spike-lifting ceremony on May 25, 1963: “This is the day and age of the automobile and the transport truck, and the requirements of such a day and age have to be met if we are not going to fall behind in our drive for a progressive reputa-tion.” It took a week to complete the track removal.

The initial tracks were laid in 1896 by Heinze as a narrow-gauge tramway that brought freight and passengers to and from Rossland. Later that year, the Columbia & Western Railway pur-chased the line and established a depot along the river down-town. Two years later, the CPR purchased the smelter property from Heinze, which includ-ed his railway inter-ests. The tramline was soon widened and the depot moved to Cedar Avenue at Farwell, which many will recall. The depot was even-tually demolished in 1965. Hopefully a reminder of a memor-able age in our trans-portation history, this story may also satisfy some curiosity as to why there are angled buildings along Pine Avenue.

Pick up a copy of the Trail Journal of Local History at the Trail Historical Society’s office in Trail City Hall, on the web-site www.trailhistory.com and at Crockett Books in the Waneta Plaza.

Photos courtesy trail historical society

Above; Crews work on lifting the CPR tracks from Downtown Trail, taken from the top of the KP Hall (Shopper’s Drug Mart), crews and equipment work along the Cedar Avenue cross-ing. Bottom right: CPR Vice President L.R. Smith (left) and Mayor Joseph Palyga pry loose the first spike in the ceremony marking the removal of the railway tracks from Rossland Avenue and the downtown area on May 25, 1963.

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Employees from the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure were hanging around the Victoria St. Bridge in Trail doing a structure assessment Thursday morning. The assessment will highlight any repairs need on the 52-year-old bridge.

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Regional Hospital (KBRH) Health Foundation's coffers are about to get “Thunderstruck,” tonight.

BC/DC, the Kootenay-born AC/DC tribute band, will be per-forming tonight at AMFord Plus for a tailgate party with 100 per cent of the proceeds heading to the KBRH foundation.

The AC/DC tribute band, which has performed for crowds from Ymir to Las Vegas churn-ing out classic renditions of the

Australian band's biggest hits, takes the stage from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Dan Ashman of AMFord said the idea for the event evolved after discussions with staff.

“We were talking about our year-end, get-together and it went from there.”

He said the idea grew from raising money for a charity to earmarking it for the KBRH Health Foundation's Critical Care Campaign.

“To have someone come out of the blue and be so enthusias-tic is fantastic,” said Lisa Pasin, director of Development, KBRH Health Foundation.

She explained the Critical Care Campaign is aiming to

raise $500,000 over the next two year with a goal to expand and upgrade equipment in the Intensive Care Unit, Emergency Room, and for the High Acuity Response Team at KBRH.

The next decision for AMFord party planners was what to do about entertainment and BC/DC was an immediate unanimous choice.

“They're one of the most pop-ular bands in the Kootenays,” said Ashman.

As part of the AMFord Tailgate Party, 75 truck parking spots have been reserved in the Waneta Plaza parking lot. Fans can bring their trucks to that area, set up their lawnchairs in the box and enjoy their own pri-

vate booth for the show.Ashman said the City of Trail

has helped out with a grant-in-aid by loaning bleachers to seat about 700 spectators. Local tow-ing companies offered to help by transportation the bleachers. Meanwhile, the mall was happy to get on board for a KBRH fundraiser by allocating parking spots.

And there is also plenty of standing room to accommodate a crowd that Ashman hopes could reach 2,000 people.

Admission to the event is by donation with a minimum of $10 per person or $20 per family of four. Parking spots are $50 per truck, which includes five tickets to the event.

Popular Kootenay rockers BC/DC hit the stage in Trail tonight

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Kootenay East MLA Bill Bennett told Tuesday’s meeting at the Cranbrook Chamber of Commerce that the biggest issue facing rural B.C. at the moment is that its losing its representational power on the provincial level.

“I have come to believe over my years as MLA that legislation that only takes into account represen-tation by population as the only determining factor in constituency size across the country — but in particular here in British Columbia — is not adequate,” Bennett said.

He said he believes rural Canada has been losing its political power steadily over the past 20 years and will continue to lose it in the future as long as governments provin-cially and federally fail to take into account the geography of the con-stituency.

“I’m not addressing my com-ments to the federal side, because I think the issues are completely dif-ferent,” Bennett said. “We’re deal-ing with health care, we’re dealing with education, both post secondary and K-12, we’re dealing with social services, we’re dealing with forestry, mining, oil and gas, land use, water and a whole bunch of things.”

Bennett noted the last time there was a commission to look into prov-incial ridings, it found they would likely be reducing rural seats in the province.

“They talked at that time of doing away with two seats in the north, doing away with one seat in the Cariboo-Chilcotin-Lillooet area and doing away with one seat here in the Kootenays,” he said. “We managed to persuade them not to do away with those seats, but we picked up six more urban seats in the next go round.”

Bennett said this dissipated the rural power by way of increasing the urban seats.

“I can see a time in the future when we have so few seats in rural British Columbia that the decisions that affect us, mining, oil and gas, forestry, roads, wildlife manage-ment, are made by elected people who mean well, but most of them don’t live in rural areas, so they have a different perspective on all those issues.”

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Police have seized a massive arsenal of guns at a remote Chilcotin lake believed to have been destined for B.C. gangs.

A Tatla Lake man faces numerous firearms and weapons-related charges after a police raid that netted close to 200 firearms and tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition.

In early June the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of B.C. were tipped that the the 63-year-old man, a long-time resident of the community between Williams Lake and Bella Coola, was trafficking firearms and pro-hibited devices.

Officers say the man was allegedly selling assault-style semi-automatic rifles with over-capacity magazines, amongst other guns and weapons.

He was arrested at his home on the 16400

block of Highway 20 on Aug. 23. A search war-rant resulted in police finding and seizing 183 firearms of various makes, models, and cali-bres, along with tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition and prohibited devices such as over-capacity magazines.

CFSEU officials say some of the weapons have a street value of several thousand dollars and in all likelihood would have made their way into the hands of gang members and crim-inals around B.C.

“Many of these guns are capable of firing rounds that could pass through vehicles, doors, walls and even body armour,” CFSEU-BC spokesperson Sergeant Lindsey Houghton said.

“That is an unacceptable risk to the pub-lic and the police. While this seizure is not believed to be tied to gang activity at this time, it appears that these guns and ammunition were destined to be sold to the highest bidder and the fear was, had we not acted immediate-ly, that the guns could eventually make their way into the hands of violent criminals around British Columbia.”

Some of the weapons seized included AR-type rifles, SKS semi-automatic rifles and handguns.

“Guns like the ones seized are highly uncon-trollable and there is a significant risk for collateral damage should they be used by criminals,” said. Cpl. Frank Grosspietsch with the RCMP’s National Weapons Enforcement Support Team, who assisted in the investiga-tion.

Investigators are now attempting to deter-mine the origin of the guns and forensically examining each one.

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MER, Que. - Quebec Premier Pauline Marois has defended a pipeline project that would see Western Canadian oil pumped across her province.

Marois says the controversial Enbridge Inc. proposal to reverse the flow of one of its pipelines could be a boon for Quebec - par-ticularly since it would supply oil refineries in Montreal.

Speaking to repor-ters today, she said the Alberta crude would be cheaper than oil pur-chased from abroad.

Marois says her government will begin a formal exam-ination next month of Enbridge’s Line 9 proposal, to determine whether the project is in the interest of Quebecers or too big of a risk.

The Parti Quebecois premier says while the project faces oppos-ition from Quebec environmentalists, she

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But she acknow-ledges, however, that the controversial pro-ject has generated some debate within her party.

Enbridge wants to expand capacity on some pipes in the Great Lakes region and reverse the flow Line 9, which runs between Montreal and southern Ontario.

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In the past, Marois has shown an open-ness to the idea of per-mitting oilsands bitu-men to travel across her province.

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Telecommunications Workers Union and the United Steelworkers said Thursday they have reached a tentative agree-ment to merge.

“This is a merger about better bargaining power, about better service to members and about a strong voice for telecommuni-cation workers,” TWU national president Lee Riggs said in a statement.

The proposed combination will now be reviewed by the TWU national executive coun-cil and voted on by the union’s membership.

The TWU represents close to 13,000 employees at Telus, Shaw Communications and other companies, while the Steelworkers represents 225,000 workers.

The unions, which have been part of a strategic alliance since 2010, said the agreement includes strong commitments to support bargaining, mem-

bership education, legislative action and recruitment.

“Together we’ve built an innovative, flexible merger agreement that blends the best of both of our unions,” USW national director Ken Neumann said.

If approved, the combina-tion would be the second largest labour merger in Canada this year.

The Canadian Auto Workers and Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada are set to consummate their merger this weekend.

Unifor, the name of the com-bined CAW and CEP union, will hold its founding convention in Toronto.

The union will initially repre-sent more than 300,000 workers across roughly 20 sectors of the economy, primarily in manu-facturing, communications and transportation, as well as some public sector employees in the health, education and transit sectors.

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SG E O R G E T O W N ,

P.E.I. - Canadians see Justin Trudeau and Stephen Harper as polar opposites, a new poll suggests.

The Liberal leader is seen as the federal leader who most cares about Canadians and shares their values but is relatively inexperi-enced and weak on economic issues; the prime minister is seen as the most experi-enced leader and most capable economic manager, but less car-ing and less in tune with Canadians’ val-ues.

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair appears to be getting squeezed out of the equation, trail-ing both Trudeau and Harper in popular-ity and in leadership attributes, the poll suggests.

The Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey was released Thursday, just as federal Liberals were wrapping up a three-day cau-cus retreat in Prince

Edward Island, at which Trudeau played up his caring and shar-ing side but shunned offering any details of his economic policies.

At a wrap-up news conference, Trudeau said the biggest chal-lenge facing Liberals as the party builds toward the next elec-tion in 2015 is “con-vincing Canadians that politics can be a positive force in their lives ... free from the kind of cynicism that is all-encompassing in politics these days.”

He contrasted his commitment to trans-parency and openness with what he depicted as the Harper govern-ment’s tendency to “mislead Canadians, to spin its way out of problems, to hide from very serious moral and ethical lapses.”

“Canadians are will-ing to think the least of their politicians and we in the Liberal party need to, by work-ing with Canadians, by connecting with them, by demonstrating that

we trust Canadians, restore a modicum of trust for politicians. And that’s our big challenge.”

On that score, the poll suggests Trudeau is already striking a chord with Canadians.

Respondents gave him the highest approval rating, with 54 per cent saying they have a favourable impression of Trudeau, versus 31 per cent who have an unfavourable impression.

The rating for Harper was almost exactly reversed: 56 per cent unfavourable, 36 per cent favourable. Impressions of Mulcair were almost even-ly split, 36 per cent favourable, 30 per cent unfavourable.

Thirty-three per cent said Trudeau would make the best prime minister, com-

pared with 29 per cent for Harper and 14 per cent for Mulcair.

Asked which lead-er “shares your val-ues,” 33 per cent of respondents picked Trudeau, 24 per cent Harper and 17 per cent Mulcair.

Asked which leader “cares about people like you,” 32 per cent chose Trudeau, 21 per cent Harper and 17 per cent Mulcair.

Harper and Trudeau were tied on the ques-tion of who would best represent Canada on the world stage, with 32 per cent each. Only 14 per cent picked Mulcair.

But on questions about economic man-agement and fitness to govern, Trudeau lost the advantage to Harper.

Thirty-nine per cent chose Harper

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OPINION

The looming problems of big dataOver the past two

weeks we have seen the following computer system

crashes:– a three-hour network

shutdown on Aug. 22 that paralysed the NASDAQ stock exchange, crippled others, and caused a one-third drop in the daily total of shares traded on American exchanges;

– also on Aug. 22, a blackout of Apple’s iCloud that lasted for 11 hours for some customers;

– a trading glitch in the Goldman Sachs computer on Aug. 20 that resulted in a large number of erro-neous stock and options trades and cost the firm up to $100 million;

– a shutdown of Amazon’s North American retail site on Aug. 19 that lasted almost an hour and resulted in an estimated $2 million in lost sales;

– on Aug. 16, a four-minute global outage of Google’s services, includ-ing email, YouTube and its core search engine, that led to an 40 percent drop in global internet traffic;

And last month, in another part of the for-est, we had the director of the US National Security Agency, General Keith

Alexander, admitting that he still did not know exact-ly which files whistle-blow-er Edward Snowden had downloaded and taken with him when he fled the coun-try two months before.

Well, General Alexander didn’t exactly admit it; he just declined to say whether he knew, but that comes to the same thing. Two months after Snowden flew the coop, the NSA still doesn’t know how many more of their embarrassing secrets are out there wait-ing to be revealed.

This may explain some-thing quite puzzling that happened last week. A Brazilian citizen, David Miranda was changing planes in London when he was stopped by British police under the Terrorism Act, questioned for nine hours, and then released – but the police kept his computer, two pen drives, an external hard drive, and various other electronic items.

Miranda is the partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, who has been working on Snowden’s documents, but the police wouldn’t have gone to all that trouble just to harass him, particularly since their actions were probably

illegal: all their questions were about Snowden and the NSA files, not about terrorism. And why would they even bother to confis-cate Miranda’s electronics? Don’t they realize there are bound to be copies else-where?

It’s less puzzling if you assume that the NSA asked for the operation (of course it did), and that its goal was actually to find out just how much Snowden knows, and can prove. Maybe it found out, maybe it didn’t – but what it tells the rest of us is that the NSA is not really in control of its own data. If Snowden can take it away with him, so can others.

There are 850,000 poten-tial “others” – Americans with top secret clearance and access to the data – and some of them will not have

the same high motives as Snowden for stealing the data. In fact, the NSA even catches an average of one employee a year who has been using the system to track a lover or spouse they suspect is straying. God knows how many it doesn’t catch – but if its inability to figure out what Snowden took is any guide, probably a lot.

What the NSA has built is a system that is too big to monitor properly, let alone fully control.

The system’s official purposes are bad enough, but it cannot even know the full range of illegitim-ate private actions that it permits. And this is not a design flaw. It is inher-ent in the very size of the system and the number of people who have access to it. Which brings us back to NASDAQ, Apple, Goldman Sachs et. al.

If it can be done, it will be done. Algorithms will be written for automated trad-ing at speeds measured in fractions of a microsecond, and the competition will have to follow suit. It will become possible to store immense amounts of data in a virtual “cloud”, and the cloud will take shape. It will become theoretically pos-

sible to listen in on every conversation in the world, and the surveillance sys-tems to do it will be built.

Every step onward increases the scale and complexity of the systems, until they are too big and complex for any one person to understand.

They will run without supervision, for the most part, and when they fail (as they must from time to time) the failure will also be hard to understand. And if you give hundreds of thousands of people access to the system, your secrets will not stay secret for long.

The volume of date mov-ing on the internet and pri-vate networks is expanding very fast at the moment – from 6 gigabytes for each person on the planet this year to 16 gigabytes per person per year by 2017 – and system design is just not keeping up.

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But wealth has not been easy for Prince Alwaleed. For 25 years, according to an article about him in Forbes, he has been “lob-bying, cajoling and threatening when it comes to his net worth listing.” In 2006 he believed that Forbes had undervalued his worth by $7 billion. So he hounded the magazine’s researcher for days, pleading with him to change the evaluation. “What do you want?” he tearfully asked, while offering access to his Swiss banker. “Tell me what you need?”

What Prince Alwaleed needs is not wealth but status. The Forbes list of the global rich is his measure of “success” and “stature”. Or, as the American industrialist and billionaire H.L. Hunt once explained, “Money is just a way of keep-ing score”. This is why the ultra-rich aspire to get even richer. When they already have more money than they can pos-sibly spend in a lifetime, their wealth, as Monbiot insightfully explains, takes on the value of “prestige, power, purpose”.

This is why CEOs man-oeuvre hundreds of millions in compensation from cor-porations, banks and invest-ment companies, even when their leadership causes finan-cial losses. And this is why the ultra-rich lobby politicians to manipulate public policy, alter taxation regimes, hide their money in offshore accounts and pressure governments to design budgets for their benefit. The effect is a gradual dismant-ling of the social contract, the unspoken agreement of fairness that requires the wealth in a society to raise the wellbeing of everyone, not just a few. As the rich get richer and the

poor get poorer, the common understanding that once guar-anteed a judicious distribution of wealth throughout society is gradually being lost.

Dr. Christopher Ragan, a professor of macroeconomics at McGill University for 24 years, has some helpful comments to make on this subject. The logic of microeconomics that applies to individuals, he wrote in the

Globe and Mail on July 16, does not apply to the macroeconom-ics that oper-ate at national scales. So the argument that fiscal restraint can be econom-ically beneficial to indebted gov-ernments is fal-lacious. Fiscal restraint works

for individuals because their reduction in expenditures is the only variable in their calcula-tion for austerity. Everything else in their lives remains the same: their income, job stabil-ity, assets and personal circum-stances.

“But the same logic does not apply for a government or for the economy as a whole,” Dr. Ragan wrotes. Government austerity affects the “circular flow of income and expendi-ture.” Removing spending from the economy alters many other influential factors. Reducing salaries, firing scientists, chop-ping research, retiring civil servants, cutting public works spending, shrinking employ-ment insurance benefits, and the entire economy constricts. The “multiplier” effect cas-cades throughout the society. Decreased employment, fewer sales, slowing growth and less economic activity shrinks the taxation which is the govern-ment’s income. A reduction in this income can increase debt and raise the unfavour-able debt-to-GDP ratio when the amount of money in the economy goes down faster than the debt. Austerity at the macroeconomic level can invite a disastrous downward spiral of even more austerity.

Government austerity creates other problems. As unemployment goes up, more people become poor. This increases crime rates, social problems and health costs. Thus the price of maintaining a civil society rises. Since the adverse effects of austerity on

low-income people are dis-proportionally higher than on high-income people, this accel-erates the already widening gap between the wealthy and the poor, a trend that increases social tension and civic unrest.

This widening gap between the wealthy and the poor pre-sents more problems. Since the wealthy can’t spend all their money, they have to invest it. Large amounts of available cap-ital invites borrowers. And the more money available for bor-rowing, the lower the interest rates — and the greater the incentive to borrow. This is the genesis of the growing debt crisis, an economic predica-ment which threatens to create cycles of boom and bust, adds to economic and social instabil-ity, and creates the conditions which further increase the gap between the wealthy and the poor.

The attention of poor people is inclined to be fixed on the present. They are dealing with the reality of survival, with paycheque-to-paycheque eco-nomic concerns, and the daily domestic challenges they are barely able to meet. Don’t expect them to be thinking about global warming, melting Arctic ice, ocean acidification or the future climate of the planet. Don’t expect them to willingly pay a carbon tax to reduce greenhouse gas emis-sions. Don’t expect them to sup-port higher electricity bills for solar, wind or other renewable energies. Don’t expect them to worry about conservation efforts or endangered species when their priorities are their own survival and security. The fact that economic recessions drive down the public’s sup-port for environmental issues is no coincidence. Neither is it a coincidence that the shrink-ing of the middle class and the growing gap between the wealthy and the poor has the same depressing effect.

Even if a few ultra-rich were to contribute vast sums of their money to environmental caus-es — Prince Alwaleed probably wouldn’t — their generosity would have little effect if the attention of the rising ranks of the poor is only focused on day-to-day survival. Without some semblance of balance in the ecology of wealth, everyone loses.

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Just out of Jericho, Bartimaeus sits by the road. Hearing Jesus and the crowd he calls out: “Jesus,

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they could be sued by gay couples, are changing their bylaws to reflect their view that the Bible allows only marriage between one man and one woman.

Although there have been lawsuits against wedding industry businesses that refuse to serve gay couples, attorneys promoting the bylaw changes say they don’t know of any lawsuits against churches.

Critics say the changes are unnecessary, but some churches fear that it’s only a matter of time before one of them is sued.

In a June decision, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a provision of the federal Defence of Marriage Act that defined marriage as between a man and a woman for purposes of federal law.

A second decision was more technical but essentially ushered in legal gay marriage in California.

`Ì thought marriage was always between one man and one woman, but the Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision said no,’’ said Gregory S. Erwin, an attorney for the Louisiana Baptist Convention, an association of Southern Baptist churches and one several groups advising churches to change their bylaws. `Ì think it’s better to be prepared because the law is changing. America is changing.’’

Kevin Snider is an attorney with the Pacific Justice Institute, a non-profit legal defence group that specializes in conservative Christian issues. His organization released a model marriage policy a few years ago in response to a statewide gay marriage fight in California. Snider said some religious leaders have been threatened with lawsuits for declining to perform same-sex wedding ceremonies.

Dean Inserra, head pastor of the 1,000-mem-ber City Church Tallahassee, based in Florida, said he does not want to be alarmist, but his church is looking into how best to address the issue.

Inserra said he already has had to say no to gay friends who wanted him to perform a wed-ding ceremony.

``We have some gay couples that attend our church. What happens when they ask us to do their wedding?’’ Inserra said. ``What happens when we say no? Is it going to be treated like a civil rights thing?’’

Critics, including some gay Christian leaders, argue that the changes amount to a solution looking for a problem.

``They seem to be under the impression that there is this huge movement with the goal of forcing them to perform ceremonies that violate their freedom of religion,’’ said Justin Lee, executive director of the Gay Christian Network, a non-profit that provides support for gay Christians and their friends and families and encourages churches to be more welcoming.

`Ìf anyone tried to force a church to perform a ceremony against their will, I would be the first person to stand up in that church’s defence.’’

Thirteen states and the District of Columbia now recognize gay marriage.

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As many as 46 per cent of boomers sur-veyed weren’t con-fident they had suffi-cient savings to retire, almost double the 20 per cent who felt that way in 2006, before the economy went into a deep recession and interest rates fell to historic lows.

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That figure relates to how much they spend, however, and doesn’t include what portion of their post-retirement income would come from the Canada Pension Plan or Old Age Security.

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If a family gets CPP and OAS at an aver-age rate of 75 per cent, that would amount to $28,000 a year and make up a significant chunk of the income.

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“Each family should look at the retirement projections for them.”

Buttigieg agrees that not all responses in the BMO survey were based on hard numbers, saying some people would have been answering based on a figure they felt they should aim for rather than a real tar-get.

As a result, 71 per cent expected to take on a part-time job to earn extra income after they retire, while 44 per cent said they will sell off collectibles, antiques or possessions they no longer use.

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To kick off the weekend events, the Time Capsule Project Sealing Ceremony will be taking place on the front lawn of the Rossland Library on Friday.

At 7 p.m. at the Miners Hall, you will be treated to an even-ing of fantastic live music at the Evening of Entertainment Extravaganza.

Local talent such as Norm Worsfold, Tim Bourchier and The Vultures, Grant Mara's Wishes, Don Birtch, Dawn Graham, Les Carter, Kyla Hanna, and Kootenay Jack will be taking to the stage. Nelson’s hot Balkan 5 piece brass

band, Oxygen Orkestar, will close out the even-ing. And, of course, an evening of music wouldn’t be complete

without the Golden City Fiddlers, who will be opening the even-ing.

The annual pan-cake breakfast will be held at the Rossland Firehall on Saturday morning. Don’t forget to visit the Fall Fair after the parade on Saturday.

The Petting Zoo will be outside on Spokane St. and the inflatable fun park in the Rossland Arena parking lot.

The parade will loop around Jubilee Park, down St. Paul St., across 2nd Avenue, and end at Nickleplate Park.

Saturday after-noon's Sour Dough Alley Stage entertain-ment includes the Trail Pipe Band, Golden City Fiddlers, Les Carter, Kootenay Jack, and the well-known band, No Excuse, featuring Karli Harrison. The after-noon's entertainment will finish with a set from Paul Dasti's trio, No Fine Print.

The Outhouse Races will feature teams who will push, pull, and run around their home-built contraption to the finish line. Gather at the edge of the arena parking lot near 2nd

Avenue to witness the revival of this old-time traditional contest.

The Slo-pitch Tournament will run all weekend at various Rossland ballparks.

In the former Emcon lot, skate-boarders will gather to take part in the KSS Miner Threat Jam, and young bikers will enjoy the games, bike-decor-ating, and fun races.

Continuing with the sports activities, check out The Golden City Grind on Sunday.

Sunday’s activities on the MacLean School grounds feature a Mini Bocce Tournament, community White Elephant Sale, Stake Your Claim children’s “dig for gold” event, burgers, hot dogs, and music by the Rossland Radio Co-op.

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The Trail Smoke Eaters couldn’t hold an early lead against the Penticton Vees in presea-son BCHL action on Wednesday at the South Okanagan Event Centre in Penticton, falling to the Vees 3-1.

Tyson Wittala scored his second goal in as many nights, jumping on a giveaway behind the Vees’ net and deking rookie goalie Hunter Miska to give the Smokies a 1-0 first-period lead.

The Smokies started off strong, holding a 6-0 lead in shots in the opening 17 minutes of the first period. But the Vees finished strong in the final three minutes outshooting the Smokies 7-0, and carrying that momentum into the second period.

Vees veteran Cody DePourcq evened the score early in the middle frame. On their third power-play, DePourcq finished off a nice give-and-go by skating out from the corner and putting a wrist-shot over Todd’s glove at 5:46.

In the third, the Vees went ahead on another power-play, as Matt Serratore put the finishing touches on a pretty passing play down low. Josh Blanchard made a slick cross-ice pass under the stick of Braden Pears to Serratore at the far post, who deposited it deftly into the opened net.

Anthony Conti added an insurance marker picking up the puck in the neutral zone, and streaking down the right-wing before making a power-move to the crease and tucking the puck past a sprawled Todd at the seven-minute mark.

The Vees outshot the Smokies 29-23. Cody

DePourcq and Matt Serratore each picked up a goal and an assist.

The Vees went 2-5 on the power-play, while the Smokies were 0-5. The Smoke Eaters fin-ish their preseason games tonight in Merritt against the Centennials.

The Smoke Eaters open their season at the Bauer Showcase in Chilliwack Sept. 6 against Langley and Sept. 8 versus Cowichan Valley.

Trail’s first home game goes Sept. 13 at 7:30 p.m. against the Penticton Vees.

Smoke Signals:A new face was in the lineup Tuesday

against the Selkirk Colleg Saints. The Smoke Eaters acquired Curtis Toneff, a 20-year-old defenceman from the Winkler Flyers of the Manitoba Junior Hockey League for future considerations on Monday.

Toneff is a veteran D-man playing 118 games for four different teams in the BCHL (Westside Warriors and Alberni Valley Bulldogs), Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (Battleford North Stars), and the Flyers of the MJHL. Last season was his most productive scoring four goals and adding 24 assists for 28 points in 56 games.

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Huska signs extensionB y W a r r e n H e n d e r s o n

Kelowna Capital NewsThe professional

relationship that began more than a decade ago between Trail native Ryan Huska and the Kelowna Rockets is far from over.

The Western Hockey League club this week signed the 38-year-old head coach to a three-year contract exten-sion, potentially keeping Huska on board through to the end of the 2016-17 season.

“We’re thrilled to have Ryan signed long-term,” said Rockets president and GM Bruce Hamilton. “We under-stand and we encourage his goals to move along and advance his career. This ensures that he’s going to be in Kelowna as long as he’s coaching in the WHL.”

Huska, who joined the Rockets in 2002-03 as an assistant coach, insists there is no better situation at this stage of his career than the one that exists in Kelowna.

“I feel like this is a wonderful place to work, to work with the people that we have here is second to none,” said Huska. “I think the WHL, and our team in particu-lar, is a great place to learn and improve as a coach. Even after this long, you learn some-thing every night. There is no better organiza-tion in junior hockey or family (Hamilton) to work for.”

After spending six

seasons as an assistant coach and helping the Rockets to a Memorial Cup title in 2004, Huska took over the head coaching duties for the 2007-08 season.

Success was quick to follow as he guided Kelowna to the WHL title in 2009 and a berth in the Memorial Cup championship in Rimouski.

The Rockets haven’t posted a losing record or missed the playoffs during Huska’s six-year tenure, compiling on overall regular season mark of 246-153-33.

In 2012-13 under Huska, the club estab-lished a club record with 52 regular season vic-tories en route to the B.C. Division title.

In addition to a posi-tive working environ-ment, Huska pointed to the club’s depth, talent and future potential as another key factor in his decision to add time to his contract.

“You look at our group and we’re excited

about this year and the next few years down the road, too,” he said. “We all want to win here and we feel like we’ve built our way up to a pos-ition where we can take a run at a championship or two. It’s an exciting time to be involved with this team.”

Based both on his experience and past rec-ord of success, Huska is already a strong candidate to make the jump to the professional ranks.

And while that goal remains on the table over the long-term, Huska is more than content to focus on his major junior career, at least for the foreseeable future.

“We do this job to try and make our way to the NHL, just like the play-ers do. Having said that, you can always learn a lot and improve in the CHL and the WHL,” said Huska, a father of three. “My family also loves it here, so that was a fac-tor, too.”

In Huska, Bruce Hamilton said the Rockets are getting not only a strong coach, but a positive influence for the entire organization.

“What Ryan brings is more than just coach-ing,” said Hamilton. “He’s a quality person and he has surrounded himself with a qual-ity coaching staff that are working their way to being in position to move up as coaches.”

Huska and the Rockets continue train-ing camp this week at Prospera Place with practices Thursday and Friday.

Kelowna will open up the WHL exhibition season this weekend, hosting the Kamloops Blazers on Friday night and playing in Vancouver on Saturday.

The Rockets home opener is Sept. 21.

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Trail’s Scotiabank generously contributed $5,000 to the Beaver Valley Nitehawks of the KIJHL as a result of its 50/50 draw promotions night last season.

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Think of it this way, it could be worse, and in a few days it

will be. School will start,

putting hundreds more vehicles on downtown so-called throughways. One likes to assume there was a traffic manage-ment plan in place before the downtown project was begun, but, it does not seem to have been well thought out - vehicles are blocked from lanes they are apparently allowed to drive in and nobody knows when or where access to downtown is available because there is no signage and the traf-fic controllers blend in to the basic environ-ment, just for starters.

Having no idea how to get into the Memorial Center even to pass on the weekly magazines I donate to the library I refuse to pay $50 to join, I gave the game Tuesday night a pass and, depending on the street situation, may delay my first game glimpse of the 2013/14 Smoke Eaters until Halloween or there-abouts.

Said Smokies are 1-1 in exhibition to date and have a couple of local kids I expect to shine at the Junior A level this season, but that may not be enough incentive to get me to traverse the Victoria Street maze.

Like many locals, I am averse to long walks on hard surfaces - they cause serious leg pain - and even more averse to nego-tiating a minefield, or apparent one, without

a map and guide per-son.

I want the Smokies to be economically viable, so am hope-ful enough fans will be able to get to the games to make the team some money. I just don’t want to put in the amount of work that seems to be required to be among them, for now.

• Most people, I am sure, are already bored with the topic of Sochi and the Olympic hockey tournament. The ridiculous sight of NHL players prac-tising without pads or skates, because it is all about the money - as are all things Olympic - coupled with non-sensical responses to the hard bigotry of Russian law from some sides and out-right support of that bigotry from others has led my attitude from mildly interested on behalf of the less-wealthy athletes look-ing for a place to shine to one of disdain for the whole enterprise.

The Olympic movement cannot be flushed soon enough to suit me.

There has to be a better way for us to allow committed pur-suers of excellence in poorly-remuner-ated sports to have a moment in the sun.

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The NFL has reached a tentative US$765 mil-lion settlement over concuss ion-re lated brain injuries among

its 18,000 former play-ers, agreeing to com-pensate sufferers, pay for medical exams and underwrite research.

The agreement, which is subject to approval by a federal judge, was announced Thursday after months of court-ordered medi-ation. It came just days before the start of the 2013 season.

More than 4,500 former athletes - some suffering from demen-tia, depression or Alzheimer’s that they blamed on repeated blows to the head - have sued the NFL since the first case was filed in Philadelphia in 2011.

They accused the league of concealing the long-term dangers of concussions and rushing injured play-ers back onto the field, while glorifying and profiting from the kind of bone-jarring hits that make for spec-tacular highlight-reel footage.

Under the settle-ment, individual pay-outs would be capped at $5 million for men with Alzheimer’s dis-ease; $4 million for those diagnosed after their deaths with a brain condition called chronic traumatic encephalopathy; and $3 million for players with dementia, said lead plaintiffs’ lawyer Christopher Seeger.

The NFL has insisted that safety has always been a top pri-ority, and in settling the thousands of cases it admitted no wrong-doing. The NFL said Commissioner Roger Goodell told pro foot-ball’s lawyers to “do the right thing for the game and the men who played it.”

The plaintiffs include Hall of Famer Tony Dorsett, Super Bowl-winning quarter-back Jim McMahon and the family of Pro Bowl selection Junior Seau, who committed suicide last year.

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Dear Annie: My grandchildren are 6 and 3. My brother has a step-grandson, also age 6, from his wife’s daughter.

Two years ago, at my eldest grandchild’s birthday party, my brother and his wife brought this step-grandson along. He was not invited because he is an unruly child. He has a mild form of autism. Then his grandmother became upset when my daugh-ter didn’t provide a goody bag for him. My daughter had made enough only for those kids who were invited. My brother’s wife then said, “Make sure to have enough for next year.”

The following year, my daughter, a kind person, prepared an extra goody bag, even though the boy was not invited. He showed up anyway. This year, when my granddaugh-ter had her birthday party, she did not invite any extended family

members in order to avoid having this boy in attendance.

The younger child’s birthday is coming up. Is there any way to stop my brother and his wife from bringing this 6-year-old with them? We know the boy has problems, and we’ve tried the “open arms” approach, but it always backfires. The boy acts out and ruins the party for the rest of the chil-dren. Any advice? -- Not Unsympathetic

Dear Not: We under-stand that you don’t want a disruptive child coming to these par-ties uninvited. But a 6-year-old boy on the autism spectrum can be a handful, and his

grandmother undoubt-edly doesn’t want him excluded from family functions. The boy is 6. It will take some time before he can learn to socialize in a more acceptable man-ner. We know it’s ask-ing a lot for you to be accommodating, but please try. Perhaps your daughter would consider having a party for her child’s friends, followed later by a cake-and-ice-cream celebration for family members. The family will tolerate the boy’s behavior better, and the schedule of events will allow the boy to arrive after the other children have left.

Dear Annie: My par-ents have decided that for their 40th wed-ding anniversary, they should have a profes-sional photo taken of all of their children and grandchildren. That’s fine. But Mom also insists that we all wear blue jeans and white sweatshirts. I said no. I’d be happy to wear

a suit and tie, but no white sweatshirt. I do not look good in white and don’t want to end up in “Awkward Family Photos.”

Mom calls me day and night begging, badgering and asking why I can’t swallow my so-called dignity and “just grin and bear it.” My father moans about how families do things to make each other happy. My par-ents and I have always had a stormy relation-ship. I am 30 years old and don’t want to take orders from them. If I tell them to give up, they will be disappoint-ed. How do I get them to leave me alone? -- Unwilling Son

Dear Unwilling: Your parents have a point about going along for the sake of family harmony. After all, it’s their 40th anni-versary, and this is a gift to them. You all sound amazingly pig-headed, but there is no reason for such a fuss over a white sweat-

shirt. Be conciliatory rather than stubborn. Enlist the help of a sibling. Ask your folks to work with you on a compromise. Maybe a beige sweatshirt would do the trick. Or you could all wear holiday scarves to add color. See what you can come

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Reporting to the Manager, Human Resources & Corporate Services, the Receptionist/Administrative Assistant will be responsible for providing a wide range of reception and administrative duties to support the operations of the corporation. The successful candidate will provide general reception duties such as greeting visitors and answering phones, as well as administrative support to the department and other areas in the organization.

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GRAVEYARD F/T POSITION Opened for responsible adult. Apply with resume to manager @ Tim Horton’s, Trail, Tues-Sat. 9-5.

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1148 Bay Ave, Trail 250.368.5000

All Pro Realty Ltd.

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Glenmerry$239,000

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GREAT PRICE

Trail$134,500

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Fruitvale$449,000

MLS#2389490

Fruitvale$346,500

MLS#2391027

Fruitvale$139,000

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Glenmerry$239,000

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Fruitvale$149,500

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Trail$185,000

MLS#2392498

Salmo$279,900

MLS#2392605

Glenmerry$229,000

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Trail$315,000

MLS#2392320

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Waneta$459,000

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Trail$160,000

MLS#2389136

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Fruitvale$449,000

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MLS#2391653

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Trail$277,500

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Montrose$189,900

MLS#2390130

Warfi eld$239,000

MLS#2391795

Waneta Village$219,000

MLS#2390994

Trail$149,000

MLS#2390004

2 HOUSES

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Warfi eld$74,900

MLS#2392271

Sunningdale$195,000

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Household ServicesA-1 FURNACE & Air Duct Cleaning. Complete Fur-nace/Air Duct Systems cleaned & sterilized. Locally owned & operated. 1-800-565-0355 (Free estimates)

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Misc. for SaleADJUSTABLE ELECTRIC bed, similar to hospital bed. New mattress; bookcase; headboard. Good cond. $300. OBO. 250-364-1967 before 9pm

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Jack McConnachie250-368-5222

Fred Behrens250-368-1268

Rob Burrus250-231-4420

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1252 Bay Avenue, Trail (250) 368-52221993 Columbia Ave, Rossland (250) 362-5200

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Rossland $329,900Situated on a gorgeous corner lot this charming family

home has it all! You will love the wood fl oors and the heri-tage features throughout and specially the newly renovated kitchen. Only a short walk to town and schools this one is a

must see!Marie Claude 250-512-1153

MLS# 2390386

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Trail $255,500Fred Behrens 250-368-1268

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Warfi eld $54,900Rob Burrus 250-231-4420

MLS# 2392110

Trail $50,000Nathan Kotyk 250-231-9484

MLS# 2391600Trail $149,900

Nathan Kotyk 250-231-9484

MLS# 2391999

Beaver Falls $299,500Nathan Kotyk 250-231-9484

MLS# 2392333

Warfi eld $226,900Patty Leclerc-Zanet 250-231-4490

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Trail $349,000Patty Leclerc-Zanet 250-231-4490

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Robson $275,000Rob Burrus 250-231-4420

MLS# 2391457Trail $119,900

Rhonda van Tent 250-231-7575

MLS# 2391883Trail $225,000


MLS# 2217833Trail $221,000


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Rossland $189,900Marie Claude 250-512-1153

MLS# 2390913Trail $179,900

Fred Behrens 250-368-1268

MLS# 2390566

Rossland $327,000 Rob Burrus 250-231-4420

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Trail $249,900Patty Leclerc-Zanet 250-231-4490

MLS# 2391504

Trail $119,000Fred Behrens 250-368-1268

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Rossland $339,900Marie Claude 250-512-1153

MLS# 2390923

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Real Estate

For Sale By OwnerChristina Lake level entry3 bed, 3 bath House: full

daylight basement: .5 acre. Open concept, vaulted ceilings

country kitchen with pantryGarage, extra parking, easy access. Extras, quality, move

in ready. 250-365-5582

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HOUSE IN ROSSLAND WANTED ASAP before the

SNOW FLIES!!!To Rent or Buy for earliest

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Reasonable pricing for Sale. or can commit to Long term lease of 1 yr, 3-4 bedroom with yard & garden space. Upper Rossland preferred. We are a family with be-haved outdoor dog & cat. Professional couple with

steady income and children. Please call 250-362-7681

evenings & weekends. 250-231-2174 daytime. Monika

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Rent To OwnSunningdale, 3 bdrm, 2 bath, 5 appl, must be employed. For more info call Ron 250-505-3453

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Apt/Condo for Rent2BR Apt Upper Warfi eld. Ground level, lots of updates. $725/month. N/S N/P. 250-512-8097

Bella Vista, Shavers Bench Townhomes. N/S, N/P. 2-3 bdrms. Phone 250.364.1822

Ermalinda Apartments, Glen-merry. Adults only. N/P, N/S. 1-2 bdrms. Ph. 250.364.1922

E.Trail small house 1bd. with parking. W.Trail 1bd. f/s, 250-368-3239

Francesco Estates, Glenmer-ry. Adults only. N/P, N/S, 1-3 bdrms. Phone 250.368.6761.

GLENVIEW APTS. Large, Quiet 1bd. apt. available. 250-368-8391, 250-367-9456

Montrose 3 brm, W/D, newly reno, must have ref. NS $800/month 250-231-6651

ROSSLAND, 2bd. F/S, W/D. N/S, N/P. Covered carport. 250-362-9473

ROSSLAND, Downtown, apt and rooms for rent, short-term/ long-term. 250-231-8015

Sunningdale:2bdrm corner unit,TV cable & heat included & free use of washer and dry-er. $750/mo. 250-368-3055

SUNNINGDALE, spacious, bright 1bd, perfect for couple/ senior, n/p,n/s. 778-515-1512 250-368-5695

TRAIL, 2 Bdrm condo, eleva-tor, fridge, stove, laundry room, 1 parking stall, NS, NP $750 incl. elec. & heat 250-364-3978

WARFIELD 2bd condo totally renovated 250-362-7716

W.Trail. 2-bd. main fl oor. f/s,w/d,d/w, heat pump $750./mo. plus utilities. Avail. immediately. 250-368-1015

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Duplex / 4 Plex1000 sf 2 bedroom/2 bathroom apartment for rent in Mon-trose. Close to bus stop, dou-ble pane windows, heat pump, dishwasher. $900/mo. Call 604-374-0121

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SHOREACRES: very clean double wide mobile home, 2 bedrooms, F/S, W/D, AC, sun-room, storage shed, covered front porch. NP/NS. Best suit-ed for 1 or 2 quiet persons. Avail Sept. 1st. $800/mth plus utilities. Call 250-359-7274.

Homes for Rent3 Bedroom house on acreage just east of the Town of Grand Forks. Available October 1st. $900 per month plus utilities. Contact Brent or Brenda at 604-987-4294 or 778-960-4294. Email: [email protected]

Small 1 bdrm cabin in Nelson w/beautiful lake view, recent reno, new kitchen, windows etc... great for N/S, maturesingle or couple with N/P,

$850/mo heat, power & water included. Avail Oct 1stPhone 250-551-3336

TRAIL, 2BD., newly renovat-ed. N/S, N/P. Avail. immed. 250-367-7558

TRAIL, 3 bedroom 1 bath-room, minutes to Gyro Park and Columbia River. 4 appli-ances, fenced yard, covered patio, parking, NS, pet nego-tiable, $1,000. + utilities. 250-364-3978

TRAIL, 4bdrm, 2bath, full basement, appliances incl., close to school, private back yard, carport, NS, pets nego-tiable. 250-368-3142

TRAIL, 5BD. Glenmerry. $1,400./mo. plus utilities. Avail. Sept.1st. 250-960-9758

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Homes for RentTRAIL, 4 b/r home, 1 newly renovated bathrm, central A/C, f/s/w/d, ns np, full basement, rv carport, close to Aquatic Centre, 1534 4th Ave, $1200 + utilities. 250-364-3978Trail, quiet adult building, walk to downtown , coin op laundry reno’d units, heat & hot water included. N/S Only. 1 bdrm avail. immediately $515. 2 bdrm avail. Aug 15th $595. 1 bdrm avail. Sept 1st $515 Call 250-226-6886

Want to Rent1 OR 2bd. house or apt. with limited stairs, preferably in E.Trail for senior citizen with small pet. 250-364-2441

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KOOTENAY HOMES INC.1358 Cedar Avenue, Trail 250.368.8818

www.kootenayhomes.comwww.century21.ca

The Local Experts™

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WE CAN SELL YOUR HOME. NOBODY HAS THE RESOURCES WE DO! Jodi Beamish ext 51Cell: [email protected]

Construction starts September 2013!!

Redstone Introduces The Newest Design... “The Craftsman” $395,000

20 Hillside Drive, Trail$179,900

Open concept, 2 bdrms, offi ce, a/c, u/g sprinklers, garage AND carport, workshop

& rec room! Upgrades: kitchen, bath, windows and brand new stainless steel

appliances! This is quite a package!Call Tonnie (250) 365-9665

1952 McLeod Avenue, Rossland $310,000

Immaculate 3 bdrm, 2 bath home with many upgrades including a bathroom

with a walk in tile shower, heated fl oors and sleek lines. Fully fi nished rec room, workshop, and private fenced yard. This home has used every square inch wisely to make the fl ow and space feel much

bigger than it is.Call Christine (250) 512-7653

NEW PRICE

1120 Warren Street, Trail $113,600

Great rental package! Upstairs suite features laminate fl ooring, 2 bedrooms, bright and airy feel, and a great view! Downstairs suite is a compact 1 bdrm.

Also includes a vacant 120 x 100 lot with off-street parking! Both suites current

rent totals $1050.Call Terry 250-231-1101

NEW LISTING

2189 Columbia Avenue, Trail $146,500

Easy care lot! 3 bdrm 2 bath home is clean and move in ready. All mechanically

upgraded within last 10 years. Large rec room, plenty of storage, covered

porch, and cozy family room! Perfect for someone who wants a no-mow-zone

yard and the benefi t of a tranquil setting.Call Terry 250-231-1101

1B-1001 Mountain View Road, Rossland

$289,000Beautiful 3 bdrm, 3 bath condo comes

fully furnished. Features covered parking, hot tub, 3 decks, and granite

countertops. Quick possession possible. Call now!

Call Christine (250) 512-7653

NEW LISTING

NEW LISTING

409 Rossland Avenue, Trail $169,900

A lot of house - 3 fl oors of living - 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms - only 13 years old - looking for a family that

requires room - This is it! - asking price is $179,900 just above assessed value -

seller is motivated. Great location.Call Mark (250) 231-5591

840 Forrest Drive, Warfi eld

$285,000 5 beds, 2.5 baths. This home is sure

to please with its great Warfi eld location and beautiful fenced yard with a deck. Features a large two car car-port and

daylight basement with plenty of space for your family.

Call Jodi 250-231-2331

269 Railway Lane, Trail $157,000

Value Here - 4 bdrm. - 2 bthrm home with modern

decor - this family home has 2200 sq. ft. of living space - fi nished on both fl oors -

call for your viewing.Call Mark (250) 231-5591

FAMILY HOME

2320 McBride Street, Trail $335,000

Plenty of living space here for the whole family! 4 bdrms, 3 baths, open concept,

walk out basement, laminate fl oors, double carport, deck, large rooms, and great view! At this price it will be gone

soon so don’t hesitate! Call your REALTOR® now!

Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

NEW PRICE

2133 Daniel Street, Trail $139,900

This charming home offers so many benefi ts for a great price. You will notice the great character of this home with old

style charm. The kitchen has amazing views of the Columbia River. The lower

level features separate in-law suite. Good parking with double carport.

Call today.Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

1922 Meadowlark Drive, Fruitvale

$279,9005 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. Family friendly neighborhood and just minutes to

downtown Fruitvale.Call Jodi 250-231-2331

16A Redstone Drive, Rossland

$395,000includes GST

Currently under construction. This spacious contemporary style 3 bdrm home has lots to offer to the active

family. Featuring an open fl oor plan with spacious covered front deck and amazing

views!Call Richard (250) 368-7897

MAKE AN OFFER

1025 Regan Crescent, Trail $259,000

Immaculate 3 bdrm, 2 bath home in Sunningdale! Sit in your fl at, fully fenced back yard on your large deck and enjoy

the relaxation! New kitchen, new fl ooring, renovated on both levels, newer roof,

carport, and huge family room! Don’t wait this is a beauty!

Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

3397 Laurel Crescent, Trail $149,900

Great price for a Glenmerry townhouse, in good condition. Quick possession

possible. Easy care living with small yard, the backyard is fenced and has a small

patio. These townhouses have acharm about them and offer 3 bdrms,

11/2 baths.Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

Ron & Darlene Your Local Home Team

635 - 10th Avenue, Montrose$314,500

Dive into this deal. Fabulous 4 bedroom2.5 bath family home in mint condition.Forget the travelling to the lake – your

back yard is an oasis. Stunning in groundpool, patio, and deck.

3341 Southridge Drive, Castlegar $639,000.

Over 4,600 sq ft of living space plus a 3 car garage. Grand open kitchen,

formal and informal dining areas, tranquil sitting room, king sized master bdrm

and en-suite plus guest bed. This home is impossible to describe in full and

should be a must see for your complete consideration. Book a private showing

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Ron 368-1162 Darlene 231-0527

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With 3 fl exible options available:• 2 separate garages with a large 29 x 12

workshop• Single garage and a large rec room with 4 piece bath and room for a man/woman cave• Single garage with added full 1 bdrm suite*

* Additional cost of $13,000 for this option

Home also includes: • 1,590 sq. ft. of tastefully finished living

space• Wide open kitchen, dining, living space

• Master bedroom with walk-in-closet and 5 piece ensuite

• 2 spacious bedrooms with 4 piece bath on 2nd floor

• Spacious covered deck

SOLD

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