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Teck Trail sets annual production
record in 2015
Refined operations in the new acid plant led Teck Trail to a record year of zinc and silver pro-duction, according to results released last week.
Fourth quarter zinc revenue more than doubled, totalling $39 million compared to $12 million in 2014.
That $27 million increase melds into Teck Trail Operation’s year end profit of $124 million, which is up 63 per cent, or $48 million, from 2014.
“Trail’s profit and revenue were improved due to operating cost management, strong production, and market factors,” says Catherine Adair, Teck community relations leader. “These strong results are significant achievements and support the ongo-ing sustainability of the region.”
The company’s fourth quarter report highlights an eight per cent increase in refined zinc, or 307,000 tonnes, and a record 23.5 million ounces of silver produced.
Other factors contributing to improved profits include a fourth quarter decline in operating costs compared to the previous year, and no additional costs related to a shutdown such as the temporary closure of the KIVCET furnace in 2014.
Overall operating costs were down $14 million from 2014’s $103 million fourth quarter and lead production was up 52 per cent since last year’s planned 35-day KIVCET furnace shutdown, which occurs once every three to four years.
Though Trail Operations was reported to be in the upswing, the company’s gross profit from zinc, before depreciation and amortization, declined by $35 million in the fourth quarter in comparison to 2014, according to Teck’s news release.
The substantially lower realized zinc price (mea-sured in U.S. dollars per pound), $0.75 compared to $1.04 in last year’s fourth quarter, was offset by the effect of the stronger American dollar and a higher sales volumes, partially due to the timing of Red Dog shipments.
The majority of fourth quarter capital expendi-
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About 30 people reached into their goody bags and pulled out funny glasses and moustaches before taking a break from their lunch for laughter yoga.
The laughter came natu-rally for the group that looked around at their peers, who were also sitting in on a lunch and learn on mental health, hosted by the Trail and District Chamber of Commerce in celebration of Chamber Week.
Laughter helps create a positive mental state to deal with negative situations and people, presenter Danné Mykietyn shared during Live, Love, Laugh and Play Everyday, which kicked off this week’s four-day series.
The owner of DandiLion Wellness Centre shared her passion for brain health, which began 20 years ago when her daughter Nika was diagnosed with epilepsy. That’s when she realized that many drugs used to control seizure activity were the same anti-psychotic medications used to treat mental illness, and she began to question whether the drugs prescribed were, in fact, the right well-ness path.
She was reacquainted with such prescribed drugs at 40 years old when she went through a difficult di-vorce and elevated stress met with hormonal imbalances and biochemical imbalances within her body fueled what was later discovered to be hypomanic.
In 2005, she moved back to her hometown of Trail and two years later opened a wellness spa in Rossland, which has since moved down
the hill to Trail. Her custom-ers come to escape everyday stresses with some of the services provided but also to learn about leading edge con-cepts in wellness, with brain health now at the centre of her business plan.
“Mental wellness in Canada is at an all-time low,” she told the group partici-pating in the first lunch and learn session held in the Teck Interpretive Centre this week. “Statistics Canada show that one in five Canadians are af-fected or have family mem-bers who are affected by brain health and mental well-ness issues.”
She believes that number is even higher when it comes to those under 35 years old, pointing to a “revolving door”
at the Daly Pavilion, a psy-chiatric facility at Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital.
Spurred by her own condition and those of her loved ones, Mykietyn began to research alternative op-tions for mental health. Her studies first brought her to American psychiatrist Daniel Amen and his SPECT im-aging methods of making neuropsychiatric diagnoses and creating individualizing treatment plans. She also dis-covered Dr. William Walsh, an international expert on advanced nutrient therapy, which is how brain changing nutrients (vitamins, minerals, amino acids) targeted to cor-rect biochemical imbalances can improve academic, be-haviour, depression, autism
and mental illness.Mykietyn spent many
years taking mind-numbing prescriptions before taking prescribed nutrient therapy. She is now an advocate for brain health and is hoping to convince others to try nutri-ent therapy, so much so that she is now the only place in Canada that offers biochemi-cal lab testing for advanced nutrient therapy. After a blood and urine analysis is taken, it’s determine what nu-trients are overabundant in a brain or what’s lacking, and a nutrient-based compound is made.
“It’s important to take care of our brain because it controls every aspect of our lives,” she said, demonstrat-
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LUNCH AND LEARNS HIGHLIGHT CHAMBER WEEK
Brain health key to good health
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Kathleen Jackson checked out the sharp ridges of a fake skull during an informative lunch and learn on brain health, presented by mental health advocate Danné Mykietyn.
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tures, which totalled $69 mil-lion, were directed into the Trail plant.
Those include $19 million for upgrades to the smelter recycle building, $17 million for the groundwater treatment plant, and $13 million for vari-ous other projects.
Work place safety was an-other positive for the Trail plant last year.
“We set a record for safety performance including both Trail operations employees and contractors,” Adair added. “We are focused on continuous improvement and setting our sights on even better results in production, safety and envi-ronmental performance.”
Other report highlights in-clude the company’s $2.5 bil-lion gross profit (before de-preciation and amortization) compared to $2.9 billion in 2014; a fourth quarter loss of $143 million; and an $188 mil-lion annual adjusted profit at-tributable to shareholders, or $0.33 per share compared with $452 million, or $0.78 share in 2014. The fourth quarter loss attributable to shareholders was $459 million compared to last year’s $129 million fourth quarter profit.
As market prices continue to slide, due in part to an over-supply of certain commodities,
Teck remains focused on cost reduction, production targets, and reduced capital spending.
The report acknowledges the volatile oil market and de-cline in oil price as having a significant and positive effect on Teck’s operating costs as mining operations use a sub-stantial amount of diesel fuel.
The company’s Fort Hills oil sands property, for example, is expected to produce first oil by the fourth quarter of 2017 and achieve 90 per cent of its planned production capacity within 12 months.
“Consistent with our strat-egy to develop long-life assets, in order to be exposed to vari-ous commodity price cycles, we believe that Fort Hills will benefit from higher oil prices in the long term,” the company states.
Teck President and Chief Executive Officer Don Lindsay, said the company was pleased with 2015’s operating perfor-mance.
“Meeting our guidance, reducing our costs and rais-ing nearly $1 billion through two streaming transactions to strengthen our balance sheet,” he said in the quarterly report. “However, the commodity cycle continues to provide us with a very challenging envi-ronment such that our near-term priorities are to keep all of our operations cash flow
position, meet our commit-ment to Fort Hills with inter-nal sources of funds, evaluate options to further strengthen
our liquidity and maintain our strong financial position by ending the year without draw-ing on our lines of credit.”
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CEO happy with company’s performance
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Teck credits the new acid plant, which has been fully operational since late 2014, with improved production and electrical efficiency in the Trail plant’s zinc cell house.
‘Me’ time crucial to finding balance in lifeing how soft the tissue is by making an example of the three-pound organ in a bag using Gyro Park sand as one of the main ingredients.
Mykietyn shared her tools to staying happy and healthy, which include laughter yoga, journaling and a “smile file” made of notes and cards collected over the years. She touched on the importance of making “me” time to go for a walk, sleep, meditate or whatever it is that helps you find balance.
The lunch and learns are a chance for Trail and District Chamber of Commerce to promote personal and professional de-velopment, according to Audrey Lochrie, executive director.
“Chamber Week is a national recog-nized week to get out in the communi-ties (you serve) to show appreciation for members for one and to show folks who aren’t members sort of what we do here,” she explained.
There are 240 businesses, 111 in down-town Trail (from East Trail to the Gulch) alone, which are chamber members. The number has bumped up slightly since Rossland and Trail chambers amalgam-ated late last year.
Lochrie said the chamber is an advocate for business at the government level but is also dedicated to promoting business in various ways, including plugs through social media and cross promotion. The Trail Chamber’s main goal, however, is to increase its members’ customer base.
The chamber office, located above TD Canada Trust in Trail, also run the Trail Visitor Centre and makes numerous refer-rals daily.
Trail Chamber just secured its annual $68,000 funding from the city to continue to run this centre, which welcomed 2,700 visitors last year.
The greatest challenge continues to be the office location, but Lochie is pleased to announce grant funding has been secured
from Destination BC to set up “info on the go” at touch points in the Gulch and at the RV Park in Trail. The eye-catching info domes should helped direct visitors to key attractions in the area but also help them locate the chamber’s office.
“Our location is the pits, and I don’t think that’s any secret,” said Lochrie. “By the time folks do get up here, they’re usu-ally angry, and the only reason they come up is to tell us how hard it is to find park-ing or how hard it was to find us.”
Chamber Week continues with the Canadian Cancer Society’s Mia Gardiner rounding out the remainder of this week’s info sessions (lunch included) with a presentation on Effective Delegation done Tuesday and plans of touching on Coaching for Performance Wednesday and Providing Feedback Thursday.
There may still be room and those interested should RSVP by phone (250-368-3144) or via email at [email protected]
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New homes worth up to $750,000 are ex-empt from B.C.’s prop-erty transfer tax under changes in the budget that take effect April 1.
Finance Minister Mike de Jong is rais-ing the exemption level from $475,000 on new homes, and expects to make up most of the revenue by increasing the tax rate from two to three per cent on the value of homes in excess of $2 million.
For resold homes, property purchase tax continues to apply at one per cent on the first $200,000 of value and two per cent on value between $200,000 and $2 million.
The tax has produced a windfall for the prov-ince and pushed home purchase costs even higher in the hot mar-ket for homes in some urban areas.
The exemption is only available to Canadian citizens and permanent residents, and the government is resuming tracking nationality of buyers, a practice stopped in 1998.
The upper limit to qualify for the home-owner grant is also in-creased from $1.1 mil-lion to $1.2 million for the 2016 property tax year.
Children exempted from MSP premiums
Medical Services Plan premiums are being charged only for adults starting in 2017,
and the qualifying in-come for reduced pre-miums is going up from $30,000 to $42,000 for single people.
The new system cre-ates a break for single parents, who will pay a single adult rate of $78 a month instead of the current rate of $150 charged for a family of three. A single senior or single parent with one child and an income of $45,000 may also be eligible for reduced pre-miums.
The changes will re-duce rates for an ad-ditional 335,000 people, and 45,000 more peo-ple will be exempted from paying as long as they are registered and qualify. But rates overall continue to rise. With a four per cent increase in personal rate this year and growing popula-tion, the government expects to collect more MSP each year of its three-year budget plan than with the current system.
B.C. is the only prov-ince that charges premi-ums for health services, and the NDP opposi-tion has called for them to be eliminated as a regressive tax. De Jong argues that MSP cov-ers only 14 per cent of a growing health care budget, and eliminat-ing it would amount to
hiding the cost in the general tax system.
Prosperity fund gets seed money
With liquefied natu-ral gas export proj-ects delayed, Premier Christy Clark’s promise of a “B.C. Prosperity Fund” has been launched with $100 million from the cur-rent budget surplus.
The fund was touted in the 2013 election as a way to pay off debt starting in 2017, and reduce or even elimi-nate B.C.’s sales tax with revenues from five LNG plants. But with a glut of oil and gas internation-ally, no major project is expected to be under construction by the 2017 election.
Including the fund in his 2016-17 bud-get, Finance Minister Mike de Jong said most people would agree with “the notion that we would take a mod-est amount of money out of our chequing ac-count and put it in our savings account.”
The finance minis-try expects a surplus of $377 million at the end of the current fiscal year and $264 million in the fiscal year that begins April 1.
The prosperity fund is restricted to a min-
imum 50 per cent to pay down debt, 25 per cent saved to earn inter-est and the rest avail-able to spend on health care, transportation and other government func-tions.
Disability benefits up $77 for some
Income assistance payments for people with disabilities are to increase up to $77 per month effective Sept. 1, but transit passes will no longer be covered.
Bus passes have only been provided for some regions of the province, an unfair situation for those who can’t take ad-vantage of transit, said Finance Minister Mike de Jong. The increase will be across the board and recipients can choose for themselves if they use it for transit or other needs.
The B.C. Liberal gov-ernment has resisted calls for an increase in the general social as-sistance rate, but has ended the clawback of child support payments to single parents.
Since 2012 B.C. has moved to encourage in-come assistance recipi-ents to work, allowing earnings up to $200 a month without losing benefits for those who file tax returns.
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One of the last things any-one would ever imagine the B.C. government doing is adopting an old
NDP program, but that’s exactly what Energy and Mines minister Bill Bennett did this month when he announced a five-year, $300 mil-lion hydro bill deferment plan for 13 mines owned by six companies.
There’s a price to pay when B.C. Hydro becomes a political tool: the interests of ratepayers can take a backseat to political interests.
Three of the six companies in Bennett’s deal were highlighted in a December Financial Post article, “Debt risks mount as Canada’s base metal miners sink deep in the hole.”
One could argue that the head-line alone justifies Bennett’s move, except there’s no guarantee that B.C. Hydro will ever be repaid.
Last year, Deutsche Bank ana-lyst Jorge Beristain said one of the six companies – Colorado-based Thompson Creek Metals – is “quickly approaching an end-game” with debts of $832 million US.
According to the Financial Post, Teck Resources “has more than US$3.5 billion of debt coming due between 2017 and 2023 and lost its investment-grade credit rating last year.”
Taseko Mines, “has more than $260 million of senior notes coming due in 2019, while a US$30-million secured loan matures this May.”
Imperial Metals owns three of
the 13 mines, includ-ing Mount Polley. Its controlling share-holder – Murray Edwards – has a net worth of $2.69 bil-lion.
The B.C. Liberal party has done well from them. From 2005 to 2014, the six companies donated $2.8 million to the party.
B.C. Hydro’s contractual obliga-tions with private power producers have ballooned to $56.2 billion.
It’s the gift that keeps on giving for everyone involved, except rate-payers.
In a 2008 call for independent power projects, 75 proponents registered with B.C. Hydro. They signed agreements with 18 of the proponents in 2010.
From July 1, 2008 to September 30, 2010 – when B.C. Hydro was making its decisions – 14 pro-ponents donated $268,461 to the Liberals. One donated $1,000 to the NDP. Ten of the 14 were successful.
Their before and after donations are interesting.
For the 10 successful propo-nents, their donations doubled from $112,801 (January 2005 to June 2008) to $229,471.
After the deals were done, they settled back again. Seven donated $112,345 to the Liberals (2010 to
2014).In 2008, the B.C.
Mining Association re-ceived a $295,188 grant from the Northern Development Initiative Trust (NDIT) to start making the business case for the Northwest Transmission Line.
NDIT’s Highway 37 Power Line Coalition has 22 private sector
partners.Excluding companies in
Bennett’s deferral program, inde-pendent power producers and those identified by B.C. Hydro as “po-tential future mines,” 13 of the 22 donated $962,220 to the Liberals.
There are the nine potential fu-ture mines that one day may con-nect to the line.
Excluding donations from Imperial Metals and Teck who have interests in three of them, the most generous companies were Goldcorp at $795,700, the Lundin Group ($112,145) and Copper Fox Metals ($93,130).
One of the founding directors of Copper Fox Metals is Hector Mackay-Dunn, who co-chaired the B.C. Liberal’s 2009 election prepara-tion efforts.
MacKay-Dunn is affectionately known in some party circles as Hector the Collector for his prow-ess at political fundraising.
In all, nine of the companies have
donated $1 million to the Liberals and $18,050 to the NDP.
And at the same time the gov-ernment was imposing hydro rate increases on schools and hospitals in 2014, Bennett announced a $100 million B.C. Hydro initiative for pulp and paper producers to “sup-port investments in more energy efficient equipment.”
The forest industry has donat-ed more than $4.2 million to the Liberals.
Add all the donations of the in-terested parties up and it totals more than $9.8 million for the Liberals ($417,185 for the NDP).
Guess who gets saddled with the bill?
B.C. Hydro’s contractual obliga-tions stand at $59.7 billion, not in-cluding their debt which has grown from $6.8 billion in 2004 to $16.7 billion last year.
They’ve had to borrow $3.2 bil-lion just to turn around and give it to the B.C. government as divi-dends.
In 2014, Hydro-Quebec cut a dividend cheque of $2.5 billion for the Quebec government. They didn’t have to borrow money to cover the cheque.
Hydro-Quebec’s rates are the second lowest in Canada. From 2007 to 2015, its cumulative rate increase was 17.1. In B.C., it was 63.2 per cent.
Dermod Travis is the executive director of IntegrityBC.
What’s good for the B.C. Liberals may not be good for B.C. Hydro
DERMOD TRAVIS
Integrity BC
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I would like to thank the peo-ple of Trail for welcoming myself and my family into your commu-nity over the past two years and three months. It has been a great experience. I’ve had the opportu-nity/challenge of coaching one of the most historic organizations in Canadian hockey history. From your dreary winters, where the sun seems to disappear, to your scorching hot summer days, it has been a truly gratifying ex-perience.
I am proud to have helped reconnect the Trail Smoke Eaters with Trail minor hockey. Our players have been active in men-toring and supporting our local minor hockey teams over the past two seasons. Although it wasn’t perfect, lots of credit to the players and support staff for making this possible as I’m sure it has positively impacted many young players.
The Reading Program that
was in place when I arrived con-tinued to be a great program allowing our players to interact with local elementary students.
The establishment of the Booster Club over the past two seasons, largely a group of local parents along with the support of the community has been able to raise significant funds to help enhance the player experience in Trail. Their efforts must be recognized.
I am proud of the camps we ran to benefit our local play-ers. They were affordable and helped to develop and support local talent. During my time as head coach 14 future and cur-rent Division I players have worn the Trail Smoke Eater jersey, three Division III players and six Canadian college players. With a few more on the horizon. As difficult as the Interior Division was, we maintained a 23-19-3 re-cord against the rest of the league
in my two full years behind the bench. Its no secret what our challenge was trying to get into a playoff position.
I would like to finally thank the executive and volunteers for giving me the opportunity to coach the Trail Smoke Eaters. Without their efforts and sac-rifices I don’t have a job. I truly wished, sacrificed and worked for a better outcome.
Trail, you must now look forward and ask some difficult but necessary questions. Are the Trail Smoke Eaters an integral part of the community? Does the team serve as a beacon to the rest of the province and hockey world? Is the strong history and passion for hockey the founda-tion of your community?
If so, more needs to be done at all levels to keep this smoke stack lit.
Nick DeschenesTrail
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It’s looking a lot less likely that goals set out by the fed-eral government will be achieved through “moderate” deficit spending. That’s been the feeling for some time now, but with a persistently sluggish economy it comes down to a choice of either substantial red ink or reassessing the agenda.
Last week, the National Bank provided some new numbers, saying that deficits could total $90 billion over the next four years as the Liberals tackle pledg-es along with regular business.
The bank forecasts the federal government could be looking at a potential drop of $50 bil-lion in anticipated revenue over four years due to slack economic growth. Tack that on to the $10 billion per year the government said it would inject into infra-structure projects in the hope of
boosting activity.Granted, the slack economic
performance was well underway long before the Liberals came to office. The country was al-ready headed towards a financial deficit due to the plunge in oil prices and lower revenues from resources, although the former Conservative government quite predictably did not acknowledge the bad news.
But what’s next? Let’s not think for a moment that Canadians who might have been able to live with so-called moderate deficits will be OK with something more than twice the amount of annual red ink -- considering a current overall federal debt approaching $616 billion.
In addition to extra spending on infrastructure, the Liberals set out a number of other social and environmental goals -- laudable one could argue -- such as fight-ing climate change, and making
much-needed improvements in First Nations communities.
Add this to the plate: the four Atlantic premiers are let-ting Ottawa know the status quo in funding from the feds just isn’t enough to help a region especially facing economic chal-lenges: too few jobs and popula-tions with a higher proportion of seniors than elsewhere.
But the reality is, most of the other provinces are sitting on hard times too and will be look-ing for increased help.
The federal government needs to acknowledge the reality of these economic forecasts now. The accompanying work will be to reassess the goals and -- tough as it may be -- prioritize. As well, a lesson’s there for the learning. We know about promises and elections, but better to pull the rabbits out of the hat as you see the economy and revenue im-proving.
Reassessing goals shouldn’t be put off
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Patterson is well on her way to re-alizing her dream of joining the world’s elite downhill skiers follow-ing her podium finishes at the FIS Alpine races in Kimberley earlier this month.
In just her second season on the International Ski Federation (FIS) circuit, the Rossland native captured gold in the Super-G at the Kimberley Alpine Resort, and followed that up with two silver medals in Super-G and Downhill, and fourth and fifth place finishes in the downhill and slalom.
The results are impressive consid-ering the 17-year-old skier competes against racers who spend all year race training on snow, while she spends most of her summers dry-land training.
“Up to now my days on snow dur-ing the off season have been limited to short camps at Mount Hood, un-like many of my peers who have been able to afford trips to places such as Chile, Europe, and Colorado,” says
Patterson. “This summer with the BC team taught me a lot about heavy lifting and how to work hard in all of my dry-land. Although, even without the ideal amount of days on snow preseason, I have found success in racing.”
Patterson will compete in the U18 Canadian National Alpine Championships in Collingwood, Ont. Feb. 23-26. The Rossland na-tive hopes to one day crack the line up of the Canadian Alpine ski team and follow in the footsteps of Nancy Greene, Lindsay Roberts, Kerrin Lee Gartner, and other Kootenay skiers.
“Someday I want to be on the Canadian Alpine Team and race the Cortina Downhill (in Italy),” said Patterson. “Red Mountain is my home. Growing up as a ski racer in this small town has taught me every-thing I know … I have been fortu-nate to make dozens of close friends in almost every province, and even other countries.”
Support Soleil in her training plan by helping her achieve her goals at www.gofundme.com/f42hymjn.
Snow sport success for Trail athletesJIM BAILEY
Times Sports EditorWith fantastic snow condi-
tions up at Red Mountain and Black Jack this winter, it was the perfect time for Special Olympics BC (SOBC) Trail to host its first Snow Sports Winter Festival ear-lier this month.
“We had great support,” coach and event organizer Ben Postmus told the Rossland News. “Both courses were excellent; the weather, couldn’t ask for anything better. Red Mountain Resort did a fabulous job of supporting us, letting us run races on their hill, same with Black Jack Ski Club.”
The event welcomed about 70 athletes and coaches from as far away as Campbell River, who competed in alpine skiing events at Red and snowshoeing races at the Black Jack Ski club on Saturday, followed by a banquet and dance at the Prestige in the evening.
And once the races conclud-ed, SOBC-Trail athletes shone brightly, mounting the podium in almost every event.
In snowshoeing, Kayleigh Postmus raced to first place fin-ishes in the 50-metre and 100-metre sprints, and a silver in the 400-m, in what was a last minute entry for the Fruitvale native, while Patricia Sota took second
place in the 50, third in the 200 and fourth in the 100.
“I’m proud of what I’ve done,” said Kayleigh. “It was hard work and I want to thank my coaches — Luke, Jarod, Debbie and especially Ben — for training me … to get this far.”
Will Thatcher captured gold in the Male 02 400-m sprint, took home second-place honours in the Male 01-100-m sprint and 800-m, and third in the 200m.
Jake Miller won silver in the Male 200-m and the Male 400-m snowshoe races, and fourth in the 100. Both Thatcher and Miller will compete in the Canada Special Olympic Winter Games in Corner Brook, Nfld next month, with Thatcher compet-ing in snowshoeing and Miller in floor hockey. The 2016 Special Olympics Canada Winter Games is a qualifying event for athletes to represent Canada at the 2017 Special Olympics Winter Games in Austria.
Meanwhile, Jordan McPhee took third in the Male 02 100-m sprint and fourth in the 200-m, while the Times’ star carrier, Eugene LaRoque, finished fourth in the 200-m and fifth in the 100-m and 400-m sprints.
In the Alpine events at Red, Stewart Babakaiff claimed gold in the Male Novice Slalom and
silver in the Giant Slalom (GS), while Female Novice racer Serena Lapointe flew down the hill to capture silver in the GS and bronze in the slalom, while Sophia Santano won silver in the slalom and bronze in the GS.
In the Male Intermediate cat-egory Tim McTeer and Stuart Hawton raced to sixth and sev-enth place in the GS and fifth and sixth in the slalom respec-tively.
But the experience was a spe-cial one for the athletes, who all gave credit to their coaches and volunteers for making the event possible.
“Thanks to Kurt (Kutcher) and Darrel (Frye) and all the other coaches from skiing for coaching us,” said skier McTeer.
“[And] Ben,” added Lapointe.
Photo: Derek Trussler
Rossland’s Soleil Patterson raced to gold at the recent FIS Alpine ski races in Kimberley earlier this month and will compete in the U18 Alpine Nationals in Ontario at the end of the month.
Chelsea Novak photos
Jake Miller (pin 56) and Eugene LaRoque (52) got a strong start in a qualifying run for the Male 200-m snow-shoe sprint, while Serena Lapointe (above) bursts out of the gate in the downhill.
Patterson podiums at FIS race
SOBC-TRAIL
Grand Slam of Curling coming to Cranbrook
JIM BAILEYTrail Times
CRANBROOK TOWNSMANThe Grand Slam of Curling is of-
ficially coming to Cranbrook.The announcement was made by
Sportsnet on Monday morning, just days after the contract was signed between the City of Cranbrook on Friday.
The event — The Grand Slam of Curling Tour Challenge — will fea-ture 60 world men and womens teams
playing in two tiers that will com-pete at Western Financial Place and the Memorial Arena from Nov. 8-13, 2016.
Todd Pellerin, one of the organizers of the committee that has been work-ing to bring the event to Cranbrook, told the Daily Townsman that every-one is excited to bring the event to Cranbrook.
“It is the biggest thing in curling,” CONTINUED ON A7
Pellerin said.The event will be broken down
in to 15 men and 15 women’s teams in Tier One—the top level of com-petition. The same format will be duplicated for the Tier 2, which will feature curlers that aren’t quite at the elite level.
Pellerin singled out city staff such as Paul Heywood, events and marking manager, along with Chris New, the director of leisure services, along with Mayor Lee Pratt and Councillor Tom Shypitka for their work in landing the event.
“Mayor Lee Pratt was probably the tipping point that got us this big event, because with him coming with me on
the tour when Sportsnet came to visit in January, it really showed a commit-ment from the City that Cranbrook is willing and able to offer a world class event in our community, so his in-volvement, and Tom Shypitka as well, really solidified it,” Pellerin said.
For his part, Pratt noted that the event will be a good showcase for the city and be good for business.
“I was definitely on side with it,” Pratt said. “I think it can be a huge economic driver for the city without question. Plus the fact that it’s world curling, it gives us the opportunity to showcase our community to the world, so I think it’s great that they’ve decided to go ahead with it and we’re certainly behind it 100 per cent.”
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You & The Law®TYLEEN UNDERWOOD LAW OFFICE presents
Getting a pre-nup? It could be tossed out if it’s too unfair. A recent case illustrates:
Frank and Claudia (names changed) started dating in Calgary in August, 2003. In October, Frank moved to Sicamous, B.C., where he bought a house. Next April, Claudia left her job and family in Calgary and moved to Sicamous to live with him.
Engaged but never married, Frank and Claudia lived together as a common-law couple for some eight years. They had a fairly traditional relationship (no kids though), with Frank working and Claudia running the household.
Unfortunately their relationship deteriorated and they split up in 2012. They went to court over how their property (and debts) should be divided up, and about post-separation � nancial support for Claudia.
Our Family Law Act treats common-law couples like Frank and Claudia as spouses (though not of� cially married), so far as support and property division are concerned.
Frank told the court he and Claudia had agreed on how these things would be handled if they split up. He said they had a written pre-nup type agreement that he and Claudia had signed in December, 2004, early on in their relationship. But Claudia asked the court to “set aside” (ignore or disregard) that agreement.
The court looked at how the agreement came about, whether Claudia and Frank really understood it, and how it worked.
It turned out the agreement was Frank’s idea (written by his sister) and Claudia had little choice but to sign it. She had given up her job in Calgary to move and live with
Frank at his request. If she didn’t sign, she’d have to move back to Calgary and start over, an unattractive option. Claudia didn’t really understand the document very well (neither
did Frank).
With this sort of agreement, courts look at whether it was fair and appropriate not only at the time it was signed but also at the time of separation, said the court. And the way this agreement actually worked after Frank and Claudia broke up was very one-sided.
One example: the agreement said that if they separated, neither Frank nor Claudia would need to support each other � nancially afterwards. But Frank had a long-standing, better-paying job as a trucker, which continued after he and Claudia split up, while Claudia had given up her work in Calgary to go live with him. After they split, she needed support, he didn’t.
Another example: the agreement said that, post-split, they would each keep what they’d brought into the relationship. So Frank alone would get to keep the house he’d bought in Sicamous (including its increase in value over the years), even though Claudia’s money had also gone into it later. And Frank continued to live there post-split, while Claudia had to rent a basement suite in Calgary.
The court set the agreement aside because it took advantage of Claudia’s vulnerability, wasn’t adequately understood, and was signi� cantly unfair to Claudia.
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TODAY’S CROSSWORD
LEISURE
Dear Annie: My wife of 44 years and I have two adopted children. Our son was perfect -- no trouble, a college diploma, a good job, etc. We bought him a car at 16, and another when he graduated college. We helped with the furniture for his first apartment. We loaned him the down payment on his house and he paid us back.
Our daughter, however, was a challenge. She abused drugs, had no interest in school, ran away, had multiple out-of-wedlock pregnan-cies, couldn’t hold a job and ended up in jail for shoplifting. Over the years, we spent thousands of dollars on counseling, purchased multiple apartments of furniture when she was trying to get re-established, and have given her a dozen cars so that she could get to her job interviews. Fortunately, she seems to have fi-nally turned the corner and has been married several years to a guy who treats her and her children well.
In an effort to equalize the dis-proportional amount spent on the
daughter, we specified in our will that our son would get 60 percent of our estate, putting 40 percent in a trust, so our daughter would get the in-terest and the rest would go to her children at her death. She still doesn’t work, and I am concerned that she would go through a lump sum inheritance in short order.
That split seemed reasonable when we made our wills 15 years ago, but my business has contin-ued to grow and today that split would result in one child receiving $2.4 million more than the other. I don’t want a rift between siblings and I don’t particularly want to be remembered by one as a Grinch. Any suggestions on a split that is a little closer to fair? -- Your Opinion Please
Dear Opinion: We know you spent more on your daughter, but children’s expenses rarely end up being equal, so the split now seems as though you are punishing her for
past mistakes. And her money is in a trust, so it is essentially going to
your grandchildren. Too many people
think of wills as a way to punish or reward their relatives. Please don’t. The amount is generous enough that
neither child is going to suffer. We also recommend you discuss these things with your son and daughter in advance, so that there are no un-pleasant surprises.
Dear Annie: “Stressed on the Line” said her mother has hearing problems, among other things. For a long time, I refused the idea of hear-ing aids, and my husband and chil-dren were insistent. Well, I finally broke down and got them. I have to say, they are wonderful. I can hear again, and as a big plus, they are so small that very few people notice them, even though I have short hair.
I hope their mother will get hearing aids. She will wonder why she waited so long. -- Happy in
WisconsinDear Happy: Good for you.
Often, people refuse hearing aids for reasons of vanity, which is ri-diculous since they now offer ones that are barely noticeable. However, a more justifiable reason is the cost. We hope folks will consider them
to be an investment in their fu-ture physical, emotional and mental health.
Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to [email protected].
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Sudoku is a number-placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with several
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TODAY’S SUDOKU
Inheritence should not reward or punish kids
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JOEL TANSEYGolden Star
School’s out forever.That lyric from the Alice Cooper anthem has
never been truer for residents of Field, who were told last week that their elementary school will be closed for good at the end of June.
Declining enrolment figures were at the root of the closure, as Field Elementary School had just three students this year and was only scheduled to have a single student next year. The Rocky Mountain School District’s next smallest school is Martin Morigeau Elementary in Canal Flats with a student population over 50.
Field Elementary School had previously sur-vived a series of closures in the district and was on a list of schools slated for potential closures as early as 2002.
A continued decline in enrolment finally made the school unsustainable.
The decision to close the school came on Feb. 9 after a series of public consultations between Rocky Mountain School District 6 and the Village of Field.
“As far as Field goes, located in a national park, we are a service centre for tourists. I think the one thing that the school has always brought to the community is that it does make it a community,” said Craig Chapman, chair of the Field Community Council.
District Superintendent Paul Carriere chaired the public consultation meetings and felt that, while the eventual decision to close was difficult for locals, Field villagers understood that it was inevi-table and that it was impossible to keep the school open with just one student. He was quick to praise the community for their understanding.
Three-student school in Field to close