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Students from J.L. Crowe’s drama class will be roaming downtown Trail tonight in Victorian dress as part of the Silver City Nites festivities.

B Y T I M E S S T A F FThe Christmas season will

light up Trail tonight for the annual Silver City Nites cele-bration downtown.

A parade, entertainment, games and hot chocolate all come together to bring citizens into the downtown core.

The Silver City Nites Candy Parade kicks things off at 6 p.m. The parade will include the Trail ambassa-dors, the ATV club, floats, horses and will culminate with Santa Claus getting the traditional Trail honour of riding on a fire truck.

The route begins by the former Eagles Hall on Bay Ave., and proceed to Farwell St., to Cedar Ave., and on to Eldorado St., before finishing by the Fortis building on the Esplanade.

Throughout the crowd and throughout the night,

students from J.L. Crowe will be dressed in Victorian-era clothes and add their inter-pretation to the evening.

Following the parade, activities will take place in an area on Cedar Ave. Featuring free hot chocolate and hot dogs served up by Local 480.

Two contests will be held for children – a gift wrapping race and blindfolded tree decorating.

Christmas carols will also

be performed by students from St. Michael’s School.

Citizens are invited to bring donations to the Salvation Army food bank. Everyone attending the fes-tivities will receive an entry for a turkey dinner draw and additional entries will be given to those bringing food bank donations.

A North Pole backdrop will be mounted on the CIBC Wood Gundy building at the

corner of Cedar Ave., and Eldorado St., for people wish-ing to pose for a photo with the backdrop.

Downtown businesses will be open late for holiday shop-pers looking for bargains.

Meanwhile, there will be free admission for children and students accompan-ied by an adult to the Trail Smoke Eaters game against the Langley Rivermen at the Cominco Arena.

B Y T I M O T H Y S C H A F E RTimes Staff

There may be no free lunch but there is free parking every Friday in downtown Trail this month.

A suggestion brought forth to Trail city council to help boost the downtown econ-omy has materialized in bylaw.

Council has agreed to provide free

parking in downtown Trail on Fridays for the month of December as a way of encouraging people to come downtown and do as much shopping as possible at local businesses, explained councillor Sean Mackinlay.

“That’s one of council’s main priorities, to make sure we have a viable and sustain-able downtown core,” he said.

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A high avalanche danger hangs over the West Kootenay Boundary backcountry as instabilities in the snow pack have been compromised by a recent dump of 70 centimetres of storm snow.

The Canadian Avalanche Centre (CAC) is warning skiers and snowboarders about a high avalanche risk across the region this week, with the danger easing somewhat from high to con-siderable as the week wears on.

Alpine areas are at the highest level of warn-ing, while areas in the tree line are rated at a considerable risk. The risk is moderate to low below the treeline.

“Instabilities may ... be triggered naturally or by the weight of a person,” said forecaster Peter Marshall in a briefing from the CAC.

He noted that “whumpfing,” shooting cracks and recent avalanches are all strong indicators of an unstable snowpack. Several natural and skier triggered slab avalanches up to size 2 were reported throughout the region last weekend.

See AVALANCHE, Page 3


Brief job action by hospital pharmacists and medical imaging technicians is expected to impact patient services at Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital today, says a spokesperson for Interior Health Authority.

Karl Hardt said Thursday that Health Science Professionals Bargaining Association (HSPBA) health science employees’ job action will affect the hospital’s operation Friday.

“There will be some impact (today),” he said, although he could not elaborate Thursday on what all would be affected.

Today, a 24-hour essential-service-only strike by medical imaging technologists, who per-form x-rays, CT and MRI scans, nuclear medi-cine tests and other imaging procedures was planned. Job action by members of the unions was expected to result in diagnostic tests, day surgery, or other procedures being delayed or rescheduled for some patients.

The IHA website said essential service staffing levels in these departments would ensure urgent and emergent services required by patients and families will continue to be provided.

The IHA was contacting patients affected by the job action to advise them of the disruption.

See EMERGENCY, Page 3

Region gets early avalanche warning

Job action will impact patient

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A short-term fix to the current aircraft fuelling system at the Trail Regional Airport has avoided a potential tangle with Transport Canada officials.

The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary airport manager Bryan

Teasdale said when the federal government’s Dangerous Goods Civil Aviation inspectors visited in early October they issued a notice of non compliance against the airport and advised upgrades to the delivery of its fuel-ling services.

The certification of the airport’s aircraft

fuelling system was at stake for its customers that included Pacific Coastal, plane char-ters, Medevac services and helicopters, said Teasdale, even though the revisions were considered “minor.”

The existing truck, a 1975 International, had not moved in years and it did not go off site. It was mostly a containment facil-ity but had not been inspected in some time and was found to be not suitable for fuel transportation.

“They were con-cerned with us mov-ing and transporting that truck off of site going to other places,” Teasdale said.

However, even though the airport does not actually transport any danger-ous goods—the fuel contractor Sequoia

Fuels transports them to the airport and they fill up the 3,000-gallon truck where it sat—they were required to replace the current fuel truck leased from Sequoia Fuels with a newer unit that met current Dangerous Goods regulations, he said.

“We had a chance to review and upgrade that fuel truck for the short term to make sure we were in com-pliance with the regu-lations if we were ever to move the truck,” Teasdale said. “Now we have a truck that has passed certifica-tion and insurance, is road worthy and can transport dangerous goods like jet fuel off the premises if we have to.”

He said there was never any danger to the passengers and

staff of Pacific Coastal with the old truck.

The newer 1988 ver-sion is fully inspected, certified and pressure tested. A new explosion proof electrical recep-tacle was installed for precautionary reasons.

Transport Canada also advised ensuring proper documentation was on site at the air-port. All of the docu-mentation was down at the RDKB offices.

The old truck was leased for $2,000 per year. The airport now pays $4,000 for the newer truck.

The long term solu-tion, however, isn’t so clear. Teasdale said the airport should ultim-ately have a card lock fuelling system at the airport, but it would need to be located near a new terminal build-ing and where the planes taxi to.

Airport makes quick fix to fuel concerns

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The union representing employees at two Elk Valley mines has filed a petition in the Supreme Court of British Columbia to try to stop Teck implementing a random drug and alcohol testing program.

The union said the program, brought in to effect on Monday, is unlawful and inconsistent with human rights privacy legislation. The parties are in arbitration, but according to the union there is no way to stop the program quickly without intervention from the court.

Teck said the new program will reduce injur-ies at work, but the union said this is unjusti-fied, since fatalities and injuries are low at open pit mines in B.C. They said that insurance rates for such mines, which are based in part on injury rates, are lower than those of lawn bowl-ing facilities.

The union representing employees at Teck’s open pit Elkview and Fording River mines filed the petition at the Vancouver courthouse on Nov. 28. The union said the drug and alco-hol testing program will randomly select all employees for mandatory screening. It will replace the company’s existing screening pro-cess, which only targets employees the com-pany has reasonable cause to test.

However Teck told The Free Press the ran-dom testing only applies to operations employ-ees, in other words, those working at the mine sites.

Teck siad that random testing is an effective deterrent to employees considering using alco-hol or drugs.

“One of our chief obligations is to pro-vide a safe workplace for our employees,” said Nic Milligan, Manager of Community and Governmental Affairs at Teck. “Evidence shows that drug and alcohol use is an issue based on pre-employee screening and also voluntary dis-closures by employees.”

Milligan said that 39 per cent of job appli-cants tested last year tested positive for various drugs of concern.

The union disagrees, saying the testing is an infringement of human rights, treating workers as if they are guilty until proven innocent.

“It is an invasion of privacy,” said Alex Hanson, President of United Steelworkers Local 9346 in Sparwood.

“How far will they go under the guise of safety? And why didn’t they implement this two years ago when coal prices were high? Why do they wait until coal prices have dropped and they don’t have as much work?

“This is a gross invasion and violation of a workers privacy, shows a blatant disregard for the sanctity of the workers person, and com-pletely obliterates the trust of the employer-employee relationship.”

Teck said the new program strikes “an appro-priate balance” between protection of privacy and improving the safety of all employees.

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Yan Labreque and son Noa were getting an appetizer of the snow conditions at Red Mountain last weekend. The duo took advantage of the quiet slopes to get in some early-season tobogganing. Things won’t be that quiet this weekend as the resort opens Saturday for the 2012-2013 season.

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FROM PAGE 1As of press time,

Hardt could not quote specific numbers of people contacted that would be affected by the job action.

There are no pick-et lines at this time and hospital emer-gency departments will remain open to see people with urgent medical conditions.

The first strike Thursday was to be by hospital pharmacists who perform essential services only from 9 a.m. to midnight. But there was no impact to patient services at KBRH based on the pharmacy job action, said Hardt.

Mediator Vince Ready was brought in Tuesday after nego-tiations that started in February failed to produce an agreement

between the Health Employers Association of B.C. and the HSPBA—representing a group of health sci-ence unions.

However, the HSPBA has not given any indication that it will be putting job action on hold while talks continue.

Hardt said the union has to give 72 hours notice for any further job action and the only notice the IHA has is for the two days in question.

“At this point this is what we have,” he said.

Any updates on job action are being listed on the IHA website under “Job Action.”

Reid Johnson, president of the lar-gest HSPBA union, the Health Sciences Association, said the

B.C. government’s “co-operative gains” bargaining mandate has not produced an employer wage offer, and the presence of a mediator alone isn’t enough to suspend strike action.

He said they tabled a proposal for a four

per cent wage increase over two years, with no benefit concessions.

“And that’s in line with the other public sector agree-ments that have been reached over the last few months under the government’s coopera-tive gains mandate,”

he said in a press release.

He said nuclear medicine and other technical specialties are among the high-est-skilled positions other than physicians, and there are chronic shortages of qualified staff.

FROM PAGE 1“Stick to simple terrain and be

aware of what is above you at all times,” he advised.

Up to 70 cm. of moist storm snow has fallen in the past several days, accompanied by generally moderate south-southwest winds, forming wind slabs in exposed leeward terrain.

A frontal system is expected to move through the West Kootenay Boundary this weekend bring-ing moderate snow, very strong winds and rising freezing levels. Unsettled and cooler conditions

are expected in the wake of this system.

For those who are still learn-ing to read the snow, in January, Rossland Search and Rescue is expected to stage their annual Avalanche Awareness Days on Red Mountain.

The snows had reached a critic-al level in the upper reaches of the West Kootenay on Wednesday. The Department of Highways closed the Kootenay Pass Summit in both directions for a 10-kilometre stretch because of avalanche con-trol.

Avalanche Awareness Day in January

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Columbia Power is sponsoring this year’s Jingle Express for Fruitvale’s Jingle Down Main on Saturday. Tickets for the popular train rides to Beaver Falls and back sold out quickly. From the left; Fruitvale Mayor Patricia Cecchini, Scott Weatherford – President Atco Wood Products, Bree Seabrook – Columbia Power Corporation

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B Y C L A I R E P A R A D I SArrow Lakes News

A 60-year-old Nakusp woman has been arrested just east of Grand Forks after being found with 8.4 kg (18 and a half pounds) of marijuana.

The constable on patrol noticed a vehicle driv-ing slightly erratically on Nov. 28. The officer stopped the car and checked the driver. When she smelled the recognizable odour of pot.

During the search of her vehicle, the Grand Forks RCMP discovered 8.4 kilograms of mari-juana packaged into smaller portions. The woman has been released on a promise to appear.

B Y C A S S A N D R A C H I NGrand Forks GazetteWork is underway

to connect Grand Forks to Christina Lake with develop-ment of the Cascade Kettle River Heritage Trail.

The goal of the Grand Forks Community Trails Society is to develop trails around the area and hopes to connect the 17.5 kilometres between Grand Forks to Christina Lake with an accessible trail as a part of the continu-ing Trans Canada Trail. The trail would also

cross through the Boothman’s Oxbow Provincial Park and the Gilpin Grasslands Provincial Park.

“The Grand Forks Trails Society is creat-ing a vision for the community,” explained Chris Moslin, chair of the Grand Forks Community Trails Society.

“It’s really a stretch of land that the com-munity knows really well because there’s a lot of history and a lot of folklore associated with this route.”

Broken into three stages, the first stage

starting from 68th Avenue has already begun with the help of Roxul, which has been updating its park-ing lot and the path behind their property.

“It’s all about the process; every process has a timeline, intake and rules,” Moslin said.

“With the construc-tion of Roxul’s parking lot and the leveling – (it’s) pretty commit-ted to developing that area. It looks all right now but in 20 years there will be bushes and plants and a real-

ly nice entrance and parkway off of 68th.”

The first stage, beginning at 68th Avenue will continue up until Nursery Trestle and is esti-mated to cost around $101, 640.

The second stage will continue from Nursery Trestle up through Gilpin Grasslands Provincial Park at the estimated cost of $1,029,900, and the final stage will be from the Gilpin area to Cascade Gorge Trestle at the estimated cost of $416,700.

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Women gather to protest against violence towards women in front of the Montreal courthouse on the 23rd anniversary of the Polytechnique massacre, where a lone gunman killed 14 women students at University of Montreal technical school, Thursday.

RAlly highlights Violence AgAinst women

T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SREGINA - A Saskatchewan man

had hoped to raise $50,000 for the Movember campaign for prostate cancer research and men’s mental health.

Reed Ludwig’s managers at work said they would shave their heads if he reached that goal.

Instead, Ludwig raised $96,321 - according to the website Movember.com, that’s more than any other

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The maintenance electrician says he never had a moustache before and jokes that his wife is looking forward to him shaving it off.

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SOTTAWA, Ont. - An Edmonton

man is the recipient of all the small change that visitors to Parliament Hill have tossed into the Centennial Flame fountain for the last year.

A House of Commons committee awarded $5,750 to Larry Pempeit, who will carry out a project docu-menting four people with disabil-ities “who have played a role in making Alberta a more inclusive society.”

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SOTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper has

issued an unexpected rebuke to his government’s own firearms advisory committee, rejecting its recommendations and suggesting the group’s membership may need revisiting.

Documents obtained by the Coalition for Gun Control reveal the committee advising Public Safety Minister Vic Toews wants some prohibited weapons, including hand guns and assault rifles, reclassified to make them more easily available.

The 14-member group is also pushing to make firearm licences good for at least 10 years, rather than the current five - a measure opposed by police who say the five-year renewals are a chance to weed out unstable gun owners.

Coming on the anniversary of Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique massacre - in which 14 young women died at the hands of a deranged gunman - the documents provided opposition MPs with new ammunition to fire at a gov-ernment that earlier this year repealed and destroyed the federal long-gun registry.

But even as gun enthusiasts cheered the

proposed reforms Thursday on online message boards, Harper was pouring cold water on the committee in the House of Commons.

“Let me be as clear as I can be,” the prime minister said in response to a question from NDP Leader Tom Mulcair.

“Prohibited weapons exist as a category under the law for essential reasons of public security. The government has absolutely no intention of weakening that category of protections.”

Harper stressed repeatedly that the recom-mendations contained in a March 2012 “memo-randum for the minister” are not government policy.

Harper rejects weapons recommendation


OPINION

Airport shouldn’t be allowed to languishThe apparent lack

of interest among local communities in upgrading the

Trail Airport is not as real as it may seem.

The members of the East End Services Committee recently rejected the sug-gestion that airport oper-ations be reviewed. The committee also oversees other Trail area services funded by the regional dis-trict such as fire protection, transit, cemeteries and the Community Centre/Selkirk College building.

The problem with the call to action on the air-port was that it came from City of Trail and it was pitched as a formal “service review.”

The view of the Silver City’s other partners in these services is that, based on experience, any such request by Trail is likely to be a manoeuvre by the city to pay a smaller share of the costs. Service reviews themselves are seen as long, drawn out affairs involving many meetings and consultants’ reports which result in no changes to the status quo, which many of the partners are satisfied with anyway.

Trail council’s bel-licose approach to intra-community relations bears some semblance to the

Israelis and Palest inians in its steadfast refusal to con-sider how the world looks from the other side. This approach was c r y s t a l l i z e d when a pre-vious coun-cil replaced councillor Gord DeRosa as its regional representa-tive, who was viewed as too conciliatory, with that noted diplomat Robert Cacchioni. I am unaware of any improvement in rela-tions as a result.

It would be a shame if the acrimony that has so coloured regional services in recent years led to the shelving of the airport mas-ter plan completed in 2011. The report called for staged improvements to the air-port based on usage growth and paid for largely by pas-sengers and grants from senior levels of govern-ment, as opposed to local taxes which pay most of the current costs.

Three scenarios for traffic at the airport are presented in the report: Low or shrinking based on aggressive marketing by carriers using the Castlegar Airport as well as other fac-tors; baseline or medium

growth similar to what has been experi-enced; and high growth resulting from a g g r e s s i v e marketing and a second air-line offering flights.

Only 15 months after

the document was issued, the airport has matched the medium, 10-year growth scenario as a result of Pacific Coastal adding an additional daily flight to and from Vancouver. Some of this could be a tem-porary blip resulting from dam construction, but the report notes that provin-cial forecasts for the Lower Columbia’s two major eco-nomic sectors, mining/metallurgy and health care call for continued modest growth and that Teck, 5N Plus (Firebird Electronics), KC Recycling and Toxco all have expansion plans underway or on the books.

The report calls for the 4,000-foot paved runway to be extended by 1,000 feet, which is as much as the existing property can accommodate. This would allow for greater operat-ing efficiency of the pas-senger planes currently using the airport, as well

as the DASHs favoured by Air Canada on its short hop routes.

Other improvements suggested include low-key improvements to naviga-tional aids and procedures to increase service reli-ability during the foggy months, better vehicle access and expanded park-ing, a new, larger terminal of 5,500-to-6,500 square feet to replace the limited facility now leased from the Trail Flying Club, and increased staffing that would ultimately replace the current volunteers.

The additional costs would be paid for by increasing parking fees and a $15 airport improve-ment fee levied on passengers,assuming that senior government grants covered two-thirds of the capital costs. The report projects a likely operat-ing surplus after seven-to-eight years, which would relieve local taxpayers from supporting the airport as they do currently.

One issue the report doesn’t directly address is the likelihood that extra fees will affect traffic. One of the attractions of the current regime is that it is cheap for passengers and for the airline, because of the taxpayer subsidy and limited services.

But if you add $30 in fees for a roundtrip ticket and higher costs for park-ing, you start to chip away at the current price advan-tage. This might be offset if additional destinations were added.

All of which would have been unnecessary or at least unlikely if Castlegar had been more aggressive in promoting its airport and breaking Air Canada’s monopoly. All it would had taken was the foresight to adopt an operating regime and possibly minimal facilities that would allow for non-secure flights such as those offered by Pacific Coastal.

Trail’s biggest com-parative advantage is that passengers don’t have to expend the extra time and energy needed to submit to the ludicrous security charade that now besets anyone using the main ter-minal at most airports. The shorter drive and slight-ly better reliability are attractive as well.

Now it’s up to the local politicians to forget about the debate over the service review and get back to the business of ensuring that Greater Trail has an airport that meets its needs.

Raymond Masleck is a retired Trail Times repor-ter.

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Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting dif-ferent results is the

definition of insanity. If the recent by-election results are any indication, then Canadian progressives are certifiable.

For all their talk of support for evidence-based policy-making, pro-gressive parties are overlooking a major piece of evidence: they can’t win elections with-out each other. That’s the lesson the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative parties learned in the early 2000’s, and it’s the lesson that the Liberal, NDP and Green parties will learn someday too, hopefully sooner than later. I say this as a non-partisan, progressive-leaning voter, deeply concerned about the direction our country is heading in under the current Conservative government.

While I respect differences in policy among progressive parties – things we should always discuss and debate – what I don’t understand is the need for ideological purity on a host of small issues, while we lose out on the big ones.

While progressives were arguing over excrement in Victoria (the city pumps its raw sewage into the ocean), the Conservatives shut down the section of the Department of

Oceans and Fisheries respon-sible for monitoring marine pollution – just one step in an unimpeded march against sci-ence. At this rate, there won’t be any evidence for progres-sives to argue over, let alone make policy on.

Most progres-sives can probably recite in unison the most egre-gious Conservative assaults on Canadian science and democracy over the past two years: Cancelling the long-form cen-sus, the omnibus crime bill, the fed-eral government’s

lawsuit against Vancouver’s supervised injection site, the gutting of the Fisheries Act and Canadian environmental laws, and the list goes on.

Pardon my language, but if we agree on these issues, why can’t we get our shit together enough to forge a new political alliance?

Let’s call it the Liberal Democratic Party of Canada. Progressives can and will argue about the name, and they can and will argue about the issues, but that’s what a political party does.

That’s what the Conservatives do. Their coali-tion includes Reformers and Progressive Conservatives, and many of them strongly dis-agree each other, but they also understand that in order to win on the big issues they have to swallow their ideological purity

and work together.Currently the Liberals and

the NDP are deluding them-selves into believing they can win on their own, while the Green Party is playing its role as a single-issue party a little too strongly (they actually need a larger progressive party in power to advance their issues).

The by-election results prove that divided, we fall. The Liberals were dismal in Durham and Victoria (ridings in the provinces they need to win in), and the NDP narrowly fought off a Green challenge in Victoria, while doing poorly in Durham, and barely registering in Calgary.

Together, a progressive coalition would have taken Victoria, Calgary Centre and given the Conservatives a run for their money in Durham (probably winning there too if residents actually felt that their votes would change govern-ment).

The next time someone from a so-called progressive political party asks me to sup-port a specific policy issue, I will respond with a question: What’s your policy on merging with other political parties?

If they respond negatively, so will I: Don’t waste my time.

Together we can accomplish so much more.

Troy Media columnist Andrew Frank is a pub-lic relations consultant and an instructor at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in the School of Business and the Environmental Protection Technology program.

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Liberal leadership hopeful Justin Trudeau got one thing right as he faced questions ear-lier this week about Canada’s recently scrapped gun registry.

Trudeau, considered by many to be the front-runner in the race for leader of his party, told reporters the gun registry was “deeply divisive for far too many people.” As a result, he called the registry, which was the creation of previous Liberal governments, a “failed policy” that isn’t worth bringing back. Let’s hope, if he is successful in winning his party’s trust, he sticks to his word.

Canada’s long-gun registry was one of our country’s silliest exercises in public safety and a costly one, too. It was rightfully put on the spike. The registry offered illusions of safety but provided no tangible benefits.

Canadians have long

accepted some controls on the possession and owner-ship of firearms are necessary and meaningful. Requiring those who want to own and use firarms to be licenced, for example, is a worthwhile meas-ure. Restricting or prohibiting the sale or owenership of some kids of firearms is another.

Requiring duck and deer hunters to register their sport-ing shotguns and rifles, how-ever, served no practical pur-pose and amounted to a sense-less bureaucratic exercise.

Proponents of the regis-try claimed it was useful for police officers required to attend domestic disputes or other kinds of disturbances in private homes. Knowing guns were there allowed them to approach situations differently, it was suggested. The fact is, officers never assumed guns were not present in a home simply because a bureau of

government said none were registered to occupants there. To the contrary, police accepted the possibility unregistered firearms might be present in a home and acted accordingly. To that end, the registry made no difference.

All the registry created was a new class of offences in Canada’s Criminal Code - “paper crimes” that had no impact on society of public safety and targetted otherwise law-abiding folk.

Trudeau is dancing around the gun registry issue now because he voted against scrap-ping it in April when Bill C-19 reached Parliament. And the registry remains a hot-button issue in Quebec, where resi-dents are still required to regis-ter their guns, thanks to the intervention of a judge there.

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It’s that time of year when everyone is ask-ing the question that makes even the most organized woman feel frazzled. “Are you ready for Christmas?” I am definitely not

ready for Christmas, materially or spiritually. When my children were young, I had dead-

lines for my Christmas preparations so that I would be ready. I rushed around as if the com-ing of Christmas depended on my ability to get things done.

Over the years, I have scaled back. I bake less and I buy less. While many people I know have also scaled back on the purchasing of gifts, Christmas shopping remains a national obsession.

The madness begins on Black Friday. According to market research-ers, the annual Black Friday shopping ritual is comparable to a military operation, with people strategically planning their shopping mission weeks in advance.

The Christmas season has become a time of excessive consumption. The excesses of the season, whether it’s credit card debt from over-spending, an expanded waistline from overeat-ing, or multiple hangovers from over imbibing, leave many people feeling less than satisfied when the New Year arrives.

Our material preparations play an import-ant role in Christmas. They help to define the festive season, demarcating Christmas from the rest of the year. Christmas is the only holiday I can think of that creates a widespread feeling of goodwill. The spirit of Christmas inspires gladness, generosity and greater civility among people.

When I think about the consumerism of Christmas, the words of the prophet Isaiah come to mind. Isaiah uses the metaphor of a banquet to describe God’s invitation to live a fuller, more satisfying life. Why, God asks, do you waste your money on things that cannot feed your soul? Why do you work for things that give you no satisfaction?

The Christmas shopping season coincides with the liturgical season of Advent. Advent is a time of spiritual preparation. It’s an appropriate time to replace bargain hunting with some soul searching.

Years ago, when the number of tasks I wanted to complete before Christmas began to overwhelm me, I had an insight. It was so obvious, yet it was something I had overlooked. Christmas day would come and go, regardless of the state of my preparations. Christmas did not depend on baking, or a pile of gifts under a beautifully decorated tree. The thing that mat-tered most was my ability to be present to my friends, my family, and my God. Although I still search for the perfect gifts, I have learned to buy less and do less so that I can give more.

In a curious twist, Christmas leads us towards another Friday. While Black Friday’s all con-suming focus is about filling up our lives with stuff, this Friday has a different focus. In the birth of the Christ child, Christmas points to Good Friday. Good Friday encourages us to become empty, so that we may live in the light-ness of heart that characterizes the Christmas spirit. Christmas is part of God’s strategic oper-ation for us.

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The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary (RDKB) Area D has plans to take responsibility of Saddle Lake.

A motion was passed at the last RDKB board of directors regular meet-ing in Grand Forks and RDKB Chief Administrative Officer John MacLean explained that Saddle Lake is a small man-made lake located in Electoral Area D, just west of the City of Grand Forks.

Constructed in 1923 by the Doukhobor community, the dam was created to supply irrigation water for agricultural purposes in the area.

“The lake is formed by spring water (there are no visible creeks or streams feeding the lake) being retained by a concrete dam,” he said. “From our con-versations with the Province of B.C., other than a few simple projects that will require some financial resources at the outset, what is needed the most is monitoring.”

MacLean noted there are costs and risks associated with taking responsibil-ity of the lake and dam, but there are services in place to take on the respon-sibility.

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RDKB Area D director Irene Perepolkin pointed out the trade is still in the very early stages.

“We’re still in the process now so the responsibilities of the regional district aren’t clear yet,” said Perepolkin, adding she hopes to maintain the current lake and keep it natural.

“We may add a couple of trails through there with a couple of tables and benches, but nothing has been decided as yet, We hope keep the lake as is for its natural and habitat values, as well as its heritage values.”

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B Y J I M B A I L E YTimes Sports Editor

The Trail Smoke Eaters are in a dogfight for a playoff spot, but led by forward Brent Baltus the team is finding it has the fire power to compete with any team in the BCHL.

Just barely half way through the season, and coming off a two-goal performance in a win against the league-leading Chilliwack Chiefs on Sunday, Baltus has already hit the 20-goal mark and is leading the league in goals, while tied for second in points with 35.

“It is kind of nice to have a breakout season in the BCHL because last year I definitely didn’t produce quite as much, so it is nice to contribute offensively,” said Baltus Wednesday.

Baltus has already surpassed his total output from last year, 14-16-30, and attributes his early success to renewed confidence.

“I put in a lot of work in the off season, but I think it is just a lot to do with confidence and hav-ing a bigger role on the team this year, with more ice time, and more responsibility, but I think confi-dence is the biggest thing.”

The Smokies coaching staff depend on the skilled winger to be a leader on and off the ice, and knows he is a reliable and product-ive asset in any situation whether it be the power play, penalty kill, or even strength.

“He’s been up there now (at the top of scoring race) for a few weeks, it’s not like it just happened recently,” said assistant coach Brent Heaven. “He’s been great all the time. He works hard and you know what you’re going to get out of him every night - without him we’d be a lot different team.”

His success has not gone unnoticed outside of the BCHL either. Last month the graduating forward also committed to play for the University of Alaska, Anchorage Seawolves in the NCAA Div. 1 hock-ey.

“I am really looking forward to next year, but we’ve got the rest of this year to focus on for now so we’ll see what happens,” said Baltus.

Just how special is Baltus?Trail has not had a top 10 scorer

since Massimo Provenzano won the scoring title in 1997 and not one 20-goal scorer in all of last year.

Not since Kyle Jones scored 54 goals in 2003-04 has there been a player as prolific with the puck as the 20-year-old Nanaimo native, and Jones finished 11th in scoring that year.

It would be a rare accomplish-ment for a Smoke Eater to finish the season at the top of the scor-ing race, but Baltus recognizes his individual success takes a back seat to the team’s.

“That would definitely be a bonus, but I think the main goal for us right now is to get into the play-offs, and whatever happens with the scoring race happens.”

Linemate Garrett McMullen is also producing, and is currently in the top 20 in league scoring, while Tyler Berkholtz and import Luke Sandler are contributing more and more as the season wears on. Sandler had a big four-point night against the Chiefs, and along with McMullen, the Smokies are on pace to have at least three 20-goal scor-ers this season.

But all engines have to keep firing if the Smokies are to move up the standings and secure a playoff spot in the tight Interior division.

“Any two games can change the standings. It’s tight and you can’t afford to give away points. The inter-divisional games, you’ve got to get those wins and try to get a bit of a cushion before we go into the Christmas break,” says Heaven.

The Smokies played Vernon Thursday night but scores were unavailable at press time. They face off against the Langley Rivermen tonight at the Cominco Arena at 7:30 p.m.

Hawks host GhostridersB Y J I M B A I L E Y

Times Sports EditorThe Beaver Valley Nitehawks look to keep

their five game winning streak going as they play a home-and-home with the Fernie Ghostriders this weekend.

The Hawks are coming off three big wins on the road last week against Kamloops, Revelstoke, and Chase, and need to keep racking up Ws if they are to catch the league-leading Nelson Leafs.

“We’re happy with the way the team is playing, but not only that we are really happy with the way the spirit of the team has come together,” said Hawks coach Terry Jones. “We’re getting lots of contribution from each guy and we’re competing like we should be competing.”

The Hawks have been plagued by injury as much as the Flu bug, yet were able to overcome the perils of the road on the weekend.

Fernie tops the Eddie Mountain Division and is led by 20-year-old forward Brandon Burge who is third in the league in scoring with 39 points. The Hawks have yet to play the Ghostriders in the 2012-13 season, but Fernie has a 16-6-1-2 record while the Hawks sport a 16-10-1-1, with only a point separating the two teams.

“It’s going to be exciting to parlay last week-end into this weekend, against a good rival, a good competitor,” added Jones. “Now that we’re playing good, solid hockey, we’re really looking forward to playing them this weekend.”

The puck drops tonight at the Beaver Valley Arena at 7:30 p.m.

REX HOTEL

The end of an era

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B Y J I M B A I L E YTimes Sports EditorIn sport as in life

all good things must come to an end, which is unfortunate, because for some, hockey is much more important than that.

Like the neon light that glowed for eight decades wel-coming weary players and thirsty patrons to the Rossland Avenue landmark, for over 30 years the Rex Hotel Red Army hockey team was a beacon of excellence in the Trail Commercial Hockey League.

After the Rex Hotel closed its doors in September, the hockey team officially folded last week. Symbolized by the retiring of Rex’s classic Blackhawk-coloured jerseys, the torch has been passed on to its new sponsor Kris Koshey of Allstar Maintenance Ltd. and its Red Wing colours.

“It’s the end of an era, for sure,” said Rex player Jim Maniago.

“I’m sure we were the longest running team in the league, I mean the Rex has been in the league as long as any-one can remember.”

Maniago is a vet-eran of 17 years skat-ing with the Rex Hotel; he remembers going to watch their games when he was a young hockey player, and returned to play with the team after graduat-

ing university.“The first eight

years I played we won six championships. Rex was always a strong team in the league so for sure there’s lots of championships and after-winning parties at the Rex – a lot of good memories.”

In the past, all the TCHL teams would head to the Rex for a cold one after the

game, says Maniago, but, with recent chan-ges to drinking and driving laws, the sport and its players have evolved and changed.

“It’s too bad because Moe (Regnier) has alway been a great sponsor. The team has been a fixture in that league forever, I am sure there is more Rex Hotel’s names on the cup than any other.”

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Kris Koshey ushers in a new era with the Allstar jersey in Trail Commercial Hockey League action, while Jim Maniago bids farewell to the iconic Rex sweater and logo. JIM BAILEY PHOTO

Trail’s Brent Baltus leads all goal scorers in the BCHL so far this sea-son with 20 goals.

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The ques-tion might be whether the NHL lockout is

actually good for soci-ety rather than a drag on the economy.

It may be hard for some to pick sides among the two com-batants, the NHLPA and the NHL, but is becoming easy to see that there are some winners in the socio-economic mix.

Junior Hockey and minor pro teams are almost uniform-ly reporting higher attendance at their games, and businesses that do not rely on NHL hockey are issu-ing similar comments on their revenue streams. There isn’t much doubt that other high level sports are also having improved ratings and attend-ance, chief among them soccer and curl-ing here, all because two decades of NHL squabbling have at least partly turned off former partisans.

We can expect that the world jun-ior championships, partly because of ros-ters enhanced by top class young players formerly unavailable because of pro com-

mittments, will attract a lot more eyeballs in North America despite the sleep deprivation European time zone scheduling will require.

So, there is some good for some, com-ing out of the NHL’s inability to figure out its business.

The main down-side, and that may be partly upside, too, of the NHL being AWOL (L being per-mission from fans) is that the sport will take a hit in its overall par-ticipation rates - rates already impacted by the cost to parents and communities of sup-porting young players and teams.

After all, if excel-ling through the ama-teur ranks is going to be a less likely ticket to fame and fortune in one sport, why wouldn’t parents who foot considerable bills for their charges to take part encour-age those charges to try different ventures towards that goal.

Hockey participa-tion rates have been shrinking for a while now, and if trouble appears always to be on the horizon for

the parents of aspir-ing stars in the sport it seems natural the shrinkage will accel-erate. With powers-that-be in the sport already at odds with medical science, and many parents, over the damage young bodies

and brains incur from the full contact game, the shrinkage might be serious.

Another downside for many Canadians will be that the reduced numbers of players working their way through minor levels will increase the taxpayer cost (subsidy) for ice facili-ties that are already closed more than they are open in many cit-ies and small towns. Those facilities cannot easily be re-purposed, nor can their main-tenance costs be much diminished.

It’s a mixed bag of outcomes, and there should be many mixed

emotions among spec-tators, but if the people seriously enriched by our national game can’t get their acts together, those of us who pay their way throughout their lives should begin consid-ering alternatives.

DAVE Thompson

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Lockout affects all hockey ranks

Lacrossephoto Vernon Morningstar

Trail’s Derek Davis has been ripping up the field lacrosse league in Kelowna this fall. The 16-year-old also competed at the 2012 Space Needle Shootout lacrosse tournament in Seattle last week with UBC Okanagan. Despite losing all four games, Davis was chosen player of the game in two of four matches, scor-ing two of the team’s four goals.

B y T i m E s s T A f fAll former Trail Smoke Eaters are

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The luncheon goes at noon on Dec. 22 at Cantons and will feature lots of laughs and great food.

The organizers are also opening the diner up to all the Smokies who played in the Savage Cup after the WIHL folded.

Over 70 attended last year’s function but there is room for more, says organ-izer and former Smokie Wayne Florko.

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Each day runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and drop off starts at 8:30 a.m. at the Trail Memorial Centre gym.

The swimming and skating is included in the price, and there will be a free pizza lunch available on the last day. Don’t miss out on an excellent time. These camps are Non-TRP exempt; cost is $108 for all five days, $88 for the second child, and $35 for individual days.

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I snooped on his computer and found the photo along with other highly flirtatious emails, one of them arranging to meet this woman during the day. Both of them made excuses, telling her boy-friend and our mutual friends that they had accidentally bumped into each other. Shortly after that, she broke up with her boyfriend while he was under-going chemotherapy.

I never told my husband that I knew

about their flirtation, as I wanted to see where it was headed. When my husband said maybe we should work on our marriage, we went for couples coun-seling. That’s when I brought it up, show-ing the counselor all of the photographs and emails I found.

My husband says he did nothing wrong, that I ruined a good friendship, and that he feels “violated” because I snooped on his computer. He has since changed all of his passwords. But he still wants to work on our marriage.

If he thinks he did nothing wrong, it makes me believe he

will do it again, and who knows where it will lead? How can I work on our marriage if he won’t acknowledge that his actions were more than “friendly”? -- In Limbo

Dear Limbo: Your counselor should be addressing these issues during your sessions. If that hasn’t happened, please go back and try again. Your husband needs to admit that his interest in this woman was inappropriate and put your marriage at risk. There are also trust and communi-cation issues. This is what counseling is for. The two of you have a lot of work to do, but it requires honesty all around.

Dear Annie: My aunt’s son is a drug addict. He has been in and out of jail and treatment centers, and she has not spoken to many of us over the years.

My aunt is plan-ning on coming to my grandmother’s home

for Christmas dinner and bringing her son. I do not feel comfort-able around my cousin. I think he is danger-ous. My relatives say it’s time for the family to heal, and I should forgive him. They are all willing to sit down with him because they think he is clean and drug-free. I don’t trust that he is, and I don’t want my children in his presence. What do you think? -- Niece

Dear Niece: You should protect your children from anyone who poses a danger. But you aren’t giving your cousin a chance to reintegrate himself into the family if he is, in fact, clean. We under-stand your reluctance to be around him, but addicts who are making a sincere effort need the emotional support of their families. How long has he claimed to be drug-free? Is there any evidence that he has relapsed? You might consider stop-ping by Grandma’s

house without your children to check on the situation and say hello, and then have your Christmas dinner elsewhere.

Dear Annie: This is for “North Carolina,” who does not appreci-ate his boss’s language.

Since the boss is willing to work on it, I suggest he place a “Fine Jar” on the table with a list of words and their cor-responding fines. Every time anyone says one of the words, he has to pay the fine. The money can go toward refresh-

ments at the next meet-ing or to charity.

This game makes light of the problem while reinforcing better behavior. It worked for me in a highly sensitive job where the boss had an enormous ego. -- Neighbor in Kentucky

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Executive DirectorIf you are someone who takes initiative, accepts guidance, and runs with a plan, someone who is organized, gets things done, and follows-up – then we want to talk to you. If you are someone who leads the team through attitude, action and appreciation – then we want to talk to you. This is a full time position having compensation congruent with the BC Chamber’s annual report on staff remuneration. Do you have:• The ability to follow directives and work with a Board• Strong leadership skills, interpersonal skills and

communications skills• Experience in marketing, sales and public relations• HR experience, accounting knowledge and computer

savvy• At least 3 years of direct involvement with not-for-profit

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Executive AssistantReporting to the Executive Director, you aid in achieving the Chamber’s mandate. Duties include general office tasks and administrative support, plus helping guests to the Visitor Information Center located at the Chamber office. If you are able to function independently in an ever-changing multi-tasking environment with the spotlight on customer service, we want to talk to you. Interpersonal skills - vital. Computer proficiency - essential. Experience with not-for-profits - beneficial.

The Trail and District Chamber of Commerce is looking to fill the following positions:

Apply for these positions before Monday, December 17 at noon, HR Committee Suite 200 – 1199 Bay Avenue, Trail, BC V1R 4A4

Alicia (Hill) and Jan Bigras of Lethbridge, Alberta are thrilled to announce the birth of their son

Nicholas Rolandon October 18,2012 weighing 8lbs, 6oz.

Proud grandparents are Carol & Larry Hill and Mario & Claudia Bigras. Proud great grandparents

are Lies Postmus and Angela Bigras

Spunky in natureLoyal and trueSharp in wit

How we miss you

Generous and lovingDedicated to usDevoted to Papa

Now together they rest

In Loving Memory of Teresa Picone

(nee Audia)May 20, 1915 - December 8, 2011

We Love You Always, NanaYou were beautiful at 20 and you still

are today!Love

Jim, your kids & allyour family and friends

Happy 80th BirthdayMary

MolnarDecember 10, 2012

PRODUCT SUPPORT MANAGER We have a position available for a Product Support Manager in our Castlegar location. This position will be responsible to grow and manage the service-related business, particularly through increased customer sales and maintaining proper staffing levels. This position will also manage the parts department operations including supervision of parts staff.

Previous leadership experience in a heavy equipment service and/or parts department is a definite asset. Brandt Tractor is the world’s largest privately held John Deere Construction & Forestry Equipment dealer and a Platinum member of the Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies Program. Find out more about our exciting career opportunities at www.brandtjobs.com or by calling (306) 791-8923. Email resume indicating position title and location to [email protected] or fax (306) 791-5986.

Emcon Services Inc.Position Available

Certified H/D Mechanic for the Castlegar/Trail Area to start immediately. Good fabricating & welding skills given

preference. For information on qualifications and applications email

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In MemoriamIn Memoriam

Career Opportunities

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In Memoriam

Jim Lennox

March 1st, 1947 to December 9th, 2011

A year has passed You are always in our hearts and thoughts

We love you and miss you always

Debbie, Jimmy, Chantelle,

Ava, Emmy Kayla & Dustin

In Loving Memory of

Maggie BradfordDecember 7, 1995

Mom, we all miss you very much every day

of our lives.You are forever in our

prayers.Nana, thank you for

my Dad.Love always,your family

In Loving MemoryPatricia Ann Randall

Dec 9, 1947~Nov 23, 2001Gone but never forgotten.

Love, Sonya, Robert, Rhylah, Reigha and Rannde Wyatt

XXOO

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In Memoriam

Reggie Massey

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Sales RepresentativeWith an exciting new product line and beautifully renovated facilities, Kalawsky Chevrolet Buick GMC is looking for a capable, personable and motivated Sales Representative to join its sales team. We’re a family-owned and operated General Motors dealership with over 20 years of experience providing quality automotive products and exceptional service to our customers.

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EMCON SERVICES INC., Road and Bridge Maintenance Contractor in the Castlegar, Rossland, Trail and Fruitvale Areas are looking for professional drivers for part time employment for the upcoming winter season. Qualifications for these positions are:• BC driver’s license (minimum Class 3/Air)• Proven on highway trucking experience• Experience driving tandem axle vehicles and experience

on a variety of transmissions including 13 speed.

Qualified applicants are invited to submit application along with a photocopy of driver’s license, a driver’s abstract and references to substantiate driving experience to:

Emcon Services Inc.6150 2nd Street

Grand Forks, BC V0H 1H4Or Fax (250) 442-2677

Seasonal Truck Drivers Needed

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references and current driver’s license abstract to:Fred Underwood, Champion Chevrolet2880 Highway Drive, Trail BC V1R 2T3

[email protected] phone calls please.

Trail BC 25679

Wayne DeWitt ext 25Mario Berno ext 27Dawn Rosin ext 24

Tom Gawryletz ext 26Keith DeWitt ext 30

Thea Stayanovich ext 28Joy DeMelo ext 29

Denise Marchi ext 21

1148 Bay Ave, Trail 250.368.5000

All Pro Realty Ltd.

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Glenmerry$244,000

MLS#K216322

REDUCED

East Trail$269,000

MLS#K213978

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Fruitvale$299,500

MLS#K211947

Columbia Heights$169,000

MLS#K216662

NEW LISTING

Fruitvale$229,000

MLS#K217096

NEW LISTING

Glenmerry$184,500

MLS#217062

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Warfi eld$74,900

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Fruitvale$119,000

MLS#K216999

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Waneta$265,000

MLS#K216835

Fruitvale$175,000

MLS#K214142

REDUCED

Sunningdale$229,000

MLS#K216457

REDUCED

Fruitvale$497,000

MLS#K210739

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Trail$59,000

MLS#K3900170

TURN KEY!

Rossland$79,900

MLS#K212681

2 BEDROOMS

2 BATHROOMS

Rossland$89,900

MLS#K212706

MOUNTAIN

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Trail$189,900

MLS#K214650

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Waneta$650,000

MLS#K206376

HOBBY FARM

Montrose$319,900

MLS#K210554

Fruitvale$314,000

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DUPLEX

Salmo$299,900

MLS#K216851

WATERFRONT

Trail$385,000

MLS#K216412

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Daytime Cook &

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An Alberta Construction Com-pany is hiring Dozer and Exca-vator Operators. Preference will be given to operators that are experienced in oilfi eld road and lease construction. Lodg-ing and meals provided. The work is in the vicinity of Edson, Alberta. Alcohol & Drug testing required. Call Contour Con-struction at 780-723-5051.

Call for Casual Employment:

The Kootenay Society for Community Living seeks

casual employees to work in the West Kootenay. Casual employees provide service for persons with develop-ment disabilities and/or

spectrum disorder in residential settings and in the community. For more

information please visit our website at

www.ksclcastlegar.net. To apply please either email

your resume to [email protected] or fax to

250-365-5679

CLASS 1 driver wanted for steady run from Trail to Van-couver. Must have Super B experience, minimum 2 years. Contact Darcy@250-231-7328

Passionate about print Commercial print company seeking experienced team

members. All positions considered; top compensation

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Employment

Help Wanted

Customized EmploymentCoordinator

The Kootenay Society for Community Living seeks

a permanent full-time Customized Employment Coordinator to work in the West Kootenay. Under the direction of the Executive Director, the Customized Employment Coordinator

provides customized employment services for

persons with development disabilities and/or other

spectrum disorders with an 80% target placement rate. For more details please visit

our website at www.ksclcastlegar.net.

To apply please either email your resume to

[email protected] or fax to 250-365-5679

This posting closes on December 10, 2012

HOME SHARE PROVIDER The Kootenay Society for

Community Living supports individuals with

developmental disabilities and/or spectrum disorders. We currently have opening

for Home Share Providers to share their home and

provide support to individuals in the West

Kootenay.Your qualifi cations include experience working

with individuals with development disabilities and the desire to provide a safe and welcoming home that

offers individuals the opportunity for inclusion.

For more details please visit our website at

www.ksclcastlegar.net. To apply, please forward

your resume either by email to [email protected] or by fax 250-365-5679

Required for an Alberta Trucking Company. One Class 1 Driver. Must have a mini-mum of 5 years experience pulling low boys and driving off road. Candidate must be able to pass a drug test and be will-ing to relocate to Edson, Al-berta. Fax resumes to: 780-725-4430

Seeking : Part Time Casual experienced Skid Steer opera-tor for Red Rob’s ( Rossland) snow removal seasonal con-tract. Brand new Case skid-steer provided and some hand shoveling required. Hourly rate to be determined on expe-rience and availability. If inter-ested please contact : Chris @ 250-505-4836

Employment

Help WantedST.MICHAEL’S Catholic School invites applications for the positions of: Substitute Educational Assistant and Substitute Teachers. Start Date: Immediately. Application Deadline: December 15, 2012. Contact Julia Mason @250-368-6151. View posting details on www.cisnd.ca (Employment page)

SYSCO Kelowna is currently seeking an experienced CLASS 1 DRIVER to shuttle from Castlegar to Kelowna four shifts a week from 3pm to 3am. Sysco offers highly com-petitive pay, bonuses and full benefi ts, if this sound like a ca-reer for you, submit your re-sume and driver abstract to [email protected]

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Employment

Medical/Dental

Certifi ed Dental Assistant Full time opportunity. Available immediately.

Good communication and clinical skills a priority.

Call Dr. Williams 250-489-4731 or email

[email protected]

Services

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E.TRAIL EAGLESHall Rental AvailableCatering/ Kitchen on RequestInquiries: Kim 250-364-2646or Gloria 250-368-3707

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Trail $129,900Fred Behrens 250-368-1268

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Fred Behrens 250-368-1268

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Solid Home

Trail $259,900Patty Leclerc-Zanet 250-231-4490

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Salmo $139,000Rhonda van Tent 250-231-7575

MLS# K216341

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Trail $189,000Rob Burrus 250-231-4420

MLS# K216327Trail $169,000

Rob Burrus 250-231-4420

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Trail $148,000Fred Behrens 250-368-1268

MLS# K210399

3 Garages

Warfi eld $227,000Fred Behrens 250-368-1268

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Rossland $449,000Marie Claude 250-512-1153

MLS# K216903

2011

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Happy Valley


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Fruitvale $264,900Rhonda van Tent 250-231-7575

MLS# K216202

Warfi eld $62,900Rob Burrus 250-231-4420

MLS# K216938

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Trail $479,000Jack McConnachie 250-368-5222

MLS# K215685

Waterfront

Montrose $324,000Patty Leclerc-Zanet 250-231-4490

MLS# K216882

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MLS# K211391

Great

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Trail $49,000Rhonda van Tent 250-231-7575

MLS# K216339

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RED MT.

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NEW LISTING

New Price

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Services

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

Misc ServicesDIRTBUSTERS Carpet clean-ing, area rugs, fl ood work, fur-nace & air duct cleaning, 250-364-1484, 250-364-0145

MOVING / Junk Removal 250-231-8529

PLUMBING REPAIRS, Sewer backups, Video Camera In-spection. 24hr Emergency Service. 250-231-8529

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Pets & Livestock

Feed & HayAlfalfa, alfalfa mix or straight grass (small square bales) in Lister. Call Jay or Trish at 250-428-9755

Merchandise for Sale

Food Products

BUTCHER SHOPBC INSPECTED

GRADED AA OR BETTERLOCALLY GROWNNATURAL BEEF

Hormone FreeGrass Fed/Grain Finished$100 Packages Available

Quarters/Halves$2.50/lb Hanging WeightExtra Lean Hamburger

$4.00/lbTARZWELL FARMS

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Heavy Duty Machinery

A- STEEL SHIPPING STORAGE CONTAINERS /

Bridges / EquipmentWheel loaders JD 644E & 544A / 63’ & 90’ Stiff boom 5th wheel crane trucks/Excavators EX200-5 & 892D-LC / Small forklifts / F350 C/C “Cabs”20’40’45’53’ New/ Used/ Damaged /Containers Semi Trailers for Hiway & Storage-Call 24 Hrs 1-866-528-7108 Delivery BC and AB www.rtccontainer.com

Misc. for SaleFILING CABINET, Legal size, metal 3 drawer with many hanging fi les. $40. OBO. Ph. 250-367-9693

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Misc. for SaleHOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available. 1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com/news-paper?

Limited Release forChristmas - West Kootenay Boundary Country regional

pictorial map poster byrenowned artist Jean Louis

Rheault. $25 + HST. Available at the Nelson, Trail & Castlegar Visitor Centres & Gallery 2 in Grand Forks

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Apt/Condo for RentFrancesco Estates, Glenmer-ry. Adults only. N/P, N/S, 1-3 bdrms. Phone 250.368.6761.

FRUITVALE, D/T, 1bd. ns/np, coin laundry. Avail. Dec.4. Call/text 604-788-8509

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TRAIL, 1412 Bay Ave. 2bd. for professionals. N/S, N/P. Util.incl. 250-231-0495

TRAIL, spacious 2bdrm. apartment. Adult building, per-fect for seniors/ professionals. Cozy, clean, quiet, com-fortable. Must See. 250-368-1312

TRAIL, upper Warfi eld, clean, tidy 2 bedroom condo, free parking, elevator, coin laundry, $750. includes utilities, available now. 250-364-3978

WANETA MANOR 2bd $610, NS,NP, Senior oriented, un-derground parking 250-368-8423

W. Trail. 1 bdrm executive suite. Reno’d, furnished, F/S, W/D, HW fl rs, clw ft tub/shower. $900./mo. Incl elec, heat, basic cable, wifi , linens, dishes, small yard. NP, NS, ref. req. 250.304.2781.

Duplex / 4 PlexFRUITVALE 3bdrm., quiet, includes heat. $750. Please leave msg. @250-364-0053.

Misc for RentGLENMERRY, small, new, single garage. Remote door, lights. $100./mo.250-368-6075

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Homes for RentE.TRAIL, 2bdrm. house, no bsmt. Pets ok. $850./mo. Near Safeway. 250-368-6076.E.TRAIL, 3BD. No Pets. Appli-ances incl. $800./mo. Avail. immediately. 250-364-1551Lower Rossland 3 Bedroom house with garage, large yard + deck. Available for ski sea-son or long term . Furnished or unfurnished 250-362-2105

SUNNINGDALE, 2-BDRM. 1142 Marianna Crescent. $700. n/s, n/p 250-551-2582

TRAIL, 3BD., newly renovat-ed. $950./mo. N/S, N/P. Avail. immed. 250-367-7558

Trail. Needs fi xing. Ideal for handyman that can repair. 250.364.5677.

Trail. Spacious 2 bdrm, reno-vated, near hospital, F/S, W/D. $850/mo. 250.521.0105

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For Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) No matter how sympa-thetic you feel toward others, be careful today. You might be tempted to give away the farm. Remember: True gener-osity is giving what is needed. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) This is a lovely day for important discussions with partners and close friends because people feel mutually sympathetic to each other. That’s why it will be easy to reach an agreement. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Co-workers and people connected with your job will be surprisingly supportive today. Accept this, and offer your own support to them in return. What goes around comes around. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Romance is very sweet and affectionate today. Your ideal-ism is aroused, which means you might put someone up on a pedestal. (It’s probably temporary, but it’s kinda fun.)

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Discussions with female relatives will be gentle and affectionate today. Someone might need you to listen. It’s a small thing, yet so important, isn’t it? VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Because your imagination is heightened today, this is a great day for those of you who are working in creative fields. Nevertheless, imagination is important in many areas of life. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Be careful about major expenditures today, because you might be tempted by lux-ury and elegance. Why not give things a sober second thought? SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Today you feel kindhearted to everyone you meet. They, in turn, will be friendly to you because generally, the atti-tude of one person triggers the same in another.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) There is a difference between self-sacrifice and martyrdom. Don’t be a doormat for oth-ers if you’re concerned about their misfortunes. Stay strong so that you can help them. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Your connection with a female authority figure will help you today. This person feels sympathetic to your needs and could promote something that benefits you financially in the future. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) People view you as being sympathetic and helpful today. This is never a bad thing because kindness is the most important quality. In fact, it’s a wonderful thing to cultivate. PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Because your appreciation of beauty is heightened today, visit beautiful places! Go to parks, art galleries, gorgeous architectural buildings and museums.

YOU BORN TODAY You are dramatic, powerful and roman-tic. Your imagination and sense of theatricality create a world in which you fiercely protect your loved ones. No matter what your job, you fantasize about achieving bold exploits. Personally, you are private and very sensitive. In the year ahead, something you’ve been involved with for about nine years will end or diminish to make room for something new. Birthdate of: Dame Judi Dench, actress; Jesse Metcalfe, actor; John Cassavetes, actor/filmmaker. For Monday, Dec. 10, 2012 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) You can rely on an increas-ing optimism building in your life for the next eight months. Count on this. Your glass is going to be half-full! TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Continue to look for ways to boost your income, because they exist. Many of you also are shopping for major pur-chases that really please you. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Once every 12 years, each sign gets a burst of good for-tune, and now it’s your turn. Be aware of this. Acknowledge this to yourself. Make the most of it! CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Your spiritual world is

enhanced now. This is why you find yourself exploring subjects that you used to dismiss. LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) It’s appropriate to enter-tain bigger goals than you ever dreamt you would before. You’re thinking bigger because you have bigger hopes for yourself! (Everything starts with a thought.) VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Continue to look for ways to boost your reputation among your peers, because they exist. This is the year to put your name up in lights! LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Travel opportunities abound this year. Similarly, opportu-nities to explore avenues in publishing, the media, medi-cine and the law are excellent. You’re broadening your hori-zons! SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) The chances for others to help you now are better than they have been in more than a decade. The next eight months are the perfect time to ask for a loan or get a mort-gage. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) In the coming year, partner-ships will benefit you. Those of you who begin new partner-ships will likely hook up with someone older or richer.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Your chances to improve your job or get a better job in the coming year are the best they have been in more than a decade. Now is the time to move if this is what you want to do. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Romance, love affairs, the arts, sports and playful times with children are tops on the menu for you in the next eight months. Life is just a blur of pleasure. (Naturally, one has to work, too.) PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Your home life will continue to improve for the next eight months. Not only will family life be happier and more grati-fying, real-estate opportuni-ties will be excellent. YOU BORN TODAY You are a gentle soul who finds gratifying rewards in serving others. You are poetic, sensi-tive and spiritual. Your beliefs matter to you. You don’t eas-ily march to the drumbeat of society. You are a sympathet-ic, understanding leader who is always appreciative. Your year ahead is the beginning of fresh, exciting new cycle. Open any door! Birthdate of: Emmanuelle Chriqui, actress; Emily Dickinson, poet; Kenneth Branagh, actor. (c) 2012 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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For Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Be careful you don’t fall for someone selling snake oil today. Your idealism is aroused, and strange and unusual concepts and philos-ophies might appeal to you. Beware. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) This is a poor day to make important decisions about

shared property, inheritanc-es, insurance matters, taxes and debt. Be on your guard, because it’s as if you have Vaseline on your lens. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You might feel let down by a partner or close friend today. However, the question to ask yourself is, Were your expectations realistic? And remember that unexpressed expectations almost always lead to disappointment.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Clarify everything at work today, because confusion and misunderstandings are rampant. Don’t be quick to assume someone is being dis-honest. This might not be the case. LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Parents should be extra vigilant with their children today, because accidents related to poison, chemicals

and bad food are possible. Make sure you know where your kids are. VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Family discussions will be circular and confusing today. You might feel sympathetic toward someone and then discover this person is just crying crocodile tears. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Try to be clear in all your communications with others today, especially siblings and neighbors. People are quick to jump to conclusions that probably are wrong. SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) This is a poor day for mak-ing important financial deci-sions or discussions about earnings or major purchases. Your facts might be wrong, or someone could be string-

ing you along. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Your optimism could cloud your judgment today. By longing for “pie in the sky,” you make it tougher to deal with the real world. Don’t withhold information from others. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) It will please you to work alone or behind the scenes today, because you feel pri-vate and not ready to share. You don’t really trust people today. (This could be a good thing.) AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) If you’re uncomfortable with how things are unfold-ing in a group situation, just leave. Trust your instincts, because there’s a lot of decep-tion floating around today.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) In discussions with parents, bosses, teachers and VIPs, be very clear about what is expected of you. Likewise, be very clear about what you expect from them. YOU BORN TODAY Your strong sense of purpose car-ries you through difficul-ties and high points so that you can achieve your goals. Essentially, you’re serious. Because your focus is steady, others are influenced by you. This is often why you end up in a position of authority or responsibility. You have strong ethics. In your year ahead, partnerships and close friendships will be your pri-mary focus. Birthdate of: Jim Harrison, novelist/poet; Rider Strong, actor/filmmaker; Hailee Steinfeld, actress.

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302 Ritchie Avenue, Tadanac

$419,000This graceful and spacious home offers

beautiful “heritage” characteristics including hardwood fl oors, French

doors, charming den, and wood burning fi replace. The large, fl at lot is accented by gorgeous trees and amazing views. Call your REALTOR® for an appointment

to view.Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

565 Rossland Avenue, Trail $155,000

Charming “heritage-style” home. This 3 bdrm, 1.5 bath home features oak in-laid fl oors, wood-burning fi replace and tons of charm. Upgrades include numerous

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Small and compact this home offers the perfect place for a single or couple at

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2069 - 6th Avenue, Trail $170,000

Great 2 bdrm home located on a fully fenced 50x100 fl at lot with an insulated

double garage. New fl ooring, tons of light, large patio area with lots of privacy. Full basement with cold storage, dining room with built in window bench. Plenty of fruit trees and a veggie garden complete this

package.Call Christine (250) 512-7653

615 Shakespeare Street, Warfi eld $219,000

3 bed, 3 bath home with loads of character, hardwood fl oors, updated kitchen, newly fi nished bathrooms.

Lots of upgrades. Call your REALTOR® today to view it!

Call Christine (250) 512-7653

628 Turner Street, Warfi eld $114,900

Great 2bdrm/1 bth home located on a fl at dead end street - many mechanical upgrades - 3 fl oors to this home - main

fl oor has been all updated - Home is vacant and ready for quick possession - call for a viewing - get in this house for

Christmas.Call Mark (250) 231-5591

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Old Waneta Road

5,000 sq. ft. shop with 18 ft ceiling, in fl oor heating, offi ce space, lunch room, washroom and shower. Large truck doors at each end. Excellent

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695 Highway 22, Rossland $565,000

This 5500 sq.ft. 5 bed / 4 bath home with full southern exposure is situated on a

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#508C-4320 Red Mountain Road, Rossland

$425,000 Slalom Creek! This 1791 sq.ft. 3 bdrm, 3 bath + den + loft, ski-in/ski-out condo at the base of Red is large enough to be a comfortable permanent residence for

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and underground parking.Call Mary A (250) 521-0525

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1002 – 8th Street, Castlegar $245,000

Great family home in central location! 4 level split design on a huge corner lot features 4 bdrms/3 baths, master bedroom with ensuite, new laminate fl ooring, huge wrap-around sundeck

and private patio area. A double garage, room to park an RV and all your extras with bonus storage area under deck.

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2304 – 11th Avenue, Castlegar $229,000

Solid 3 bdrm home with mountain views. Features include bright & functional

kitchen, large covered sundeck, easy maintenance yard. See it today!

2517 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar

$220,0003 bdrm/2 bath house with main fl oor laundry & plenty of storage! A 2 car

garage and lots of room to park your rv, extra vehicles or toys! Nice fl at lot is just under 1/2 acre with fruit trees and room

for a garden. Just replaced roof Sept., 2012!

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#2 Redstone Drive, Rossland $385,000

Another brand new home at Redstone! Call me to fi nd out what’s coming next!

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J.L. Crowe Secondary’s Grad 2013 committee hosted a Grad Skate at the Kids’ Rink at the Cominco Arena on Wednesday night. Participants were asked to bring donations for the local food banks, which resulted in boxes of donations for Greater Trail’s needy. The com-mittee also raised funds for its graduation cele-bration with the sale of juice and home-made treats.

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