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“Kindness is one size fits all,” is the motto for this year’s Pink Shirt Day at J.L. Crowe Secondary School. The annual anti-bullying campaign targets schools, work places, homes and the Internet by sending the message that bullying won’t be tolerated on any day. The national event began in 2007 when David Shepherd and Travis Price of Nova Scotia organized a protest at their high school by wearing pink in support of a Grade 9 boy who was bullied for wearing a pink shirt. This simple act of kindness led to a movement that is celebrated each year.
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Trail council had a lot on its plate Monday as they ran through a laundry list of to-do’s that heavi-ly focused on family matters, com-munity services and finally, pets.
First up, the panel approved a $40,000 cash grant for the re-vamped Silver City Day celebra-tions in May.
Keith Smyth, operations
manager for “A Homecoming Celebration” festival slated May 4 to May 8, presented council members with an itemized budget for approval. By all accounts, the event is shaping up to be chock full of activities that highlight Trail culture, like the grape stomp and spaghetti feast, the return of the Sidewalk Cafe and Miss Trail pageant, Saturday’s firefighters’ parade and of course, an impres-
sive fireworks display later that night.
Besides the cash grant, which Coun. Sandy Santori expects will be offset by event revenue but may be somewhat dependent upon the weather, council approved use of the city’s facilities and equipment as required.
Another first and only 2016 event will be the official unveil-ing of the Victoria Street Bridge
lighting project. Council ap-proved a $5,920 plaque concept by the Downtown Opportunities and Action Committee, to rec-ognize those who donated to the downtown Trail enhancement, collectively adding up to almost $181,000. Council agreed an aes-thetically pleasing finishing touch was warranted for the high profile project which is currently being
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Family friendly washrooms a go
Council supported a Family Action Network (FAN) initia-tive by allocating two lobby washrooms at the Trail Aquatic and Leisure Centre as “Easy Peezy” family-friendly as well as the disabled washroom on the Red Floor of the Trail Memorial Centre. Total costs for the improvements, such as signage and change tables, is estimated to near $2,200. Lack of accessible public wash-rooms in the downtown has long been raised as a concern, FAN’s Easy Peezy logo directs parents/caregivers of young children to the washrooms designated as family-friendly.
Investigating skate park site
Council approved $21,000 for New Line Skateparks Inc. to conduct a site analysis, and develop a skate park concept with budget planning details at the proposed location near the Gyro Park boat launch. The work is a necessary precur-sor for staff to work towards the July intake for a recreation infrastructure grant through Columbia Basin Trust. New Line has remained in close contact with the municipal-ity and Friends of the Trail Skatepark Society over the years, cost breakdown includes $11,500 for the baseline scope of work and a $6,000 reserve for geotechnical data, if re-quired.
Garbage contract extended
Alpine Disposal and Recycling’s refuse collection contract was extended another three years. Based on 3,251 weekly pick ups and 71 litter containers, the term includes an annual two per cent in-crease, starting at $196,000 in 2016. Council considered the positive relationship between Alpine Disposal and the city over the last seven years, tak-ing into consideration the 2016 garbage rate was established based on a 5.4 per cent garbage collection contract rate.
Budget for Gyro Park concession passed
Council agreed to waive 20 per cent sales commission for Career Development Services’ (CDS) use of the Gyro Park concession. Additionally, the group reconsidered CDS’ ear-lier request for a $10,000 cash grant increase, but voted to maintain the current $20,000 grant parameter and forego percentage of sales instead, which equates to about $7,000 annually. Council is asking the organization to consider ad-justing hours of operation to offset the difference.
Temporary permit for pet crematory denied
Trail council denied an ap-plication for a temporary com-mercial use permit for 3230 Highway Drive in Glenmerry, which would allow operation of a pet crematorium at the site. Consideration was given to the building’s close proxim-ity to residential properties as well as strong opposition from the community, including 30 signatories on a counter pe-tition, and opposition letters written to the city.
Victim Assistance not a core service
Council unanimous-ly declined to support the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary’s requisition to in-crease the Greater Trail Victim Assistance Program. Trail pays almost $27,000 for the program’s current fixed req-uisition of $62,500. The pro-posed change would increase the city’s portion over $10,000. The request did not include adequate documentation such as caseloads, open or closed files and service demand.
Coun. Lisa Pasin com-mented, in a time when pub-lic spending and property tax levels are a concern, further increases must be carefully evaluated.
While the value of the ser-vice is not in question, Coun. Robert Cacchioni said the pro-gram is not a core service, the city’s budget for protective services currently exceeds $2.1 million and the matter is an-other example of the province
downloading costs to munici-palities.
West Trail stink a public nuisance
Accumulated fecal matter on a Kitchener Street property had council issuing a Remedial Action Requirement, thereby giving the property owner up to 10 days to remove the feces or the work would be carried out and the expense charged to the owner. If unpaid by year end, the amount would be-come part of property taxes in arrears.
Over the past year, the Trail SPCA and city have monitored the property’s condition, in particular a deck, and repeated requests by both entities to re-move the defecated matter was not met with action.
A ticket was issued mid-November, and with the re-cent snow melt the deck re-quires immediate attention. The SPCA’s repeated attempts to contact the property owner have failed. In its current state, the condition of the deck can be considered so unclean that
it is offensive to the commu-nity, allowing the remedial action order pursuant to the Community Charter.
Off-street parking fees waived for new downtown
developmentJJKL Properties, owner of
1277 Cedar Ave. is renovat-ing the premises and combin-ing two of the six commercial units for use as a martial arts instruction centre. The city’s zoning bylaw requires 12 off-street parking spaces to be provided on the property in connection with the change of use, however those spaces cannot be accommodated on the property. Moving ahead with the project, the company would have to pay $36,000 to the city, a sum of $3,000 per parking spot in lieu of each of the off-street parking spaces required.
Council agreed to waive the entire amount and directed city staff to investigate poten-tial amendments to the zon-ing bylaw for off-street park-ing requirements and fees.
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Steven Harder (on ladder) of Interior Signs and Painting had crews working on changing out the signs in downtown Trail to show the new location of Trail Optical on Cedar Ave.
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According to police reports, on Feb. 17, the Trail and Greater District RCMP execut-ed a search warrant at a residence on Daniel St. in Trail.
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The period, which runs until March 4, allows a citizen to fill out nomination papers for the vacan-cy created when Councillor Tom Milne resigned from his position in January.
With three years remaining before the next civic election, Warfield is required to fill the seat by ac-clamation or through a byelection if more than one candidate steps forward.
Should a byelection be required, it would be held April 9 with advance polls on March 30 and April 6. For more information contact Allana Ferro, chief election officer, at 250-368-8202.
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Police are asking for the public’s help in lo-cating a stolen vehicle.
A red 1985 Toyota pickup, with B.C. li-cense plate KB 2134, was reported stolen from the Red Mountain Resort parking lot on Feb. 11.
Anyone with infor-mation on this vehicle is asked to contact the Trail and Greater District Detachment.
WHAT YOU SEE ...
Kathleen Pearson photo
Kathleen Pearson spotted an unusual character running down Aster Drive early Tuesday morning. The turkey was headed toward Glenmerry School for some reason, which is why Pearson dubs the photo,”Boy - is he lost!” adding the birds are usually clustered near the landfill, a far cry from her neighhourhood. If you have a recent photo you would like to share with our readers email it to [email protected].
School District 20 trustees passed an amended annual bud-get bylaw for the 2015- 2016 school year.
At its regular meeting on Monday in Castlegar, the board passed a budget of $42,208,388.
The midterm budget is bal-anced and takes into account changes to items that were bud-get estimations at the beginning of the year and now have become actual income or expenses.
The revised budget also in-cludes several grants received from the Ministry of Education
and revenue generated by shar-ing services with other districts.
Revised expenses included increases to principal and vice principal wages, additional ed-ucational assistant staffing and capital expenditures on portables for Glenmerry School in Trail.
Some of the expenses were funded out of one time surplus money.
“This one time surplus money that we used for ongoing ex-penses is what some people call a structural deficit,” explained Natalie Verigin, secretary-trea-surer for SD 20.“We have used one time money for ongoing ex-
penses that can’t be sustained with current budget money.”
Two non-instructional days added to school calendar
To follow up on direc-tions given by the Minister of Education, two additional non-instructional days to support curriculum implementation have been added to the SD20 school calendar. This will be followed up next year by the addition of one more non-instructional day.
This brings the total on non-instructional days in this year’s calendar to eight. The new dates are April 15 and May 19.
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Petty. One word that springs to mind after last week’s B.C. budget.
At best, it’s a lip service budget. Tweak here, tweak there, but devoid of any real purpose.
To be sure, some were tossed a chicken wing.
But you can almost hear the min-ions in the backroom: “just make sure it doesn’t cost us anything, the rubes will never catch on.”
Make believe money for the most hurting. One minute it’s there, then poof.
After the canned budgetary spin, there’s a host of other insights worth sharing from last week’s fiscal plan.
Since 2010/11 – Premier Christy Clark’s inheritance year – total gov-ernment revenue is up $7.4 billion or 18.15 per cent, nearly twice the rate of inflation. Average weekly earnings in B.C. are up 11.4 per cent.
In the “other revenue” category – things such as tuition fees and motor vehicle licences – the gov-ernment has pencilled in $3.4 bil-lion, an increase of $793 million over 2010/11 or $170 more per capita.
Six-years ago, B.C. Hydro coughed up $591 million. In 2016/17, $692 million or $52 more per household.
In 2001, the B.C. Liberal party promised to “stop the expansion of gambling that has increased gam-bling addiction and put new strains
on families.”That was back
when provincial rev-enue from the B.C. Lottery Corporation was $444 million. This year: $1.2 bil-lion.
In the white el-ephant department: the Transportation I n v e s t m e n t Corporation (TIC) continues to bleed red ink. TIC operates the Port Mann bridge and not par-ticularly well.
Its losses have overshot fore-casts by 67 per cent and now total $442 million. They’re estimated at a further $207 million for 2017 and 2018.
TIC’s debt stands at $3.4 billion, more than the government’s origi-nal $3 billion estimate for the entire Gateway plan.
Not all departments were left to scrounge petty cash.
In the political spin department, the Communications and Public Engagement Office’s budget is up 43.3 per cent over 2010/11 to $37.9 million
The office’s overall budget isn’t the only thing that’s gone up in the spin cycle. In 2010/11, Gordon Campbell’s press secretary made $80,153. Last year, Clark’s took home $108,655, a difference of 35.5 per cent.
Likely wasn’t a stress-free job in Campbell’s final year either.
The Ministry of Natural Gas Development is on track to spend-ing $2.58 bil-lion (2013/14 to 2018/19). Natural gas royalties are on track to bring in $1.65 billion over the same period.
Prosperity, B.C. is just around the bend.
On January 1, MSP premiums rose 4.1 per cent. In the first 9 months of 2015, the average hourly wage in B.C. fell 5.0 per cent.
Even with the government’s so-called premium relief, total MSP premium revenue is set to increase $124 million this year to $2.55 bil-lion.
Back in 2010/11, it brought in $1.79 billion.
B.C. may have some of Canada’s lowest tax burdens for high-income earners, not so much for the poor or middle-class.
According to the budget, a single individual earning $80,000 in B.C. pays $7,828 in provincial taxes. In Alberta, they would pay $8,106, Ontario ($12,354) and Quebec ($19,911).
A two-income family of four earning $30,000 in B.C. pays
$2,687. In Alberta, it would be $871, Ontario ($2,381) and Quebec ($650).
God help them if they get a $1 raise, because the full MSP hit will kick-in.
Like any government that just increased the budget for its com-munications’s office, it’s expected they’ll do inter-provincial tax com-parisons most favourable to their political spin. Other provinces do the same.
So let’s see how B.C. stacks up in Manitoba’s analysis. A single-parent earning $30,000 would have paid $802 in provincial taxes last year in B.C. In Alberta, they would have re-ceived $329 from the government, in Ontario paid $31 and in Quebec they’d get back $2,071.
A two-income family of five earn-ing $75,000 would have paid $4,409 in B.C., Alberta ($460), Ontario ($3,577) and Quebec ($7,161).
At least British Columbians can take comfort in the knowledge that there’s $100 million sitting doing nothing in B.C.’s newfangled Prosperity Fund.
Back in 2013, when the idea was announced, Clark’s advisor – Pamela Martin – tweeted: “what would you do with a trillion dol-lars? A Once-in-a-generation bo-nanza (sic).”
Only $999 billion, 900 million more to find out.
Dermod Travis is the executive director of IntegrityBC.
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May I, through the Trail Times, express a “thank you” to the Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy for the iPad for Seniors class held a the Rossland Library.
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There are limits to how far the United States and other democ-racies should go in demanding that Apple and other high tech companies give police the ability to break into their customers’ smartphones, tablets and other devices by getting around en-cryption technology.
And those limits are being sorely tested in the epic tussle between Apple and the Federal Bureau of Investigation over a California judge’s order that re-quires Apple to help the FBI hack into the iPhone of a dead ter-rorist.
It’s a dangerous precedent without benefit of authoriza-tion from the U.S. Congress that could see national security and law enforcement riding rough-shod over privacy rights. And it may well spill over into Canada, encouraging police in this coun-try to adopt similar tactics.
As recently as four months ago, President Barack Obama was of the firm -- and principled -- view that Apple and other companies should not be forced to provide the government with wholesale “back door” access to their source code and encryption keys that could leave millions of Americans vulnerable if the soft-ware fell into the wrong hands. But that abruptly changed in the wake of the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif., that left 14 dead. The White House, feeling
the political heat in an election year, has chosen to put the bite on Apple, bruising civil rights in the process.
To its credit, Apple is fight-ing back to protect its corpo-rate interests and its customers’ rights. As Apple chief executive Timothy Cook says, “people have a basic right to privacy” that is under attack from “dangerous” government overreach.
After co-operating with the FBI to the extent that it can with-out compromising customer privacy, Apple is challenging a federal court order requiring it to create new software that would let the FBI break into the iPhone used by Syed Farook, one of the San Bernardino shooters, and troll through its contents looking for messages, data and pictures that may shed light on the at-tackers’ motives and possible ac-complices.
The White House now says the FBI has its “full support” in the investigation. This legal wrangle may yet end up in the U.S. Supreme Court.
If so, Americans can only hope that the court sides with the tangible privacy rights of mil-lions of iPhone users over the FBI’s desire to go through a dead terrorist’s phone.
What the FBI is asking Apple to do is breach the duty of trust it has in the digital age to keep customer information safe from hackers, criminals and identity thieves.
Specifically, the court order requires Apple to create new software that would bypass a security feature on the older iPhone5C that causes it to erase its data if 10 incorrect passwords are entered. The FBI wants to generate an unlimited number of passwords until it finds the one that works, then fish through the contents.
“The government has asked us for something we simply do not have, and something we con-sider too dangerous to create … a backdoor to the iPhone,” Cook says.
“The government suggests this tool could only be used once, on one phone,” he says. “But that’s simply not true. Once created, the technique could be used over and over again, on any number of devices.”
And there’s “no way to guar-antee” that the back door soft-ware would remain in the hands of Apple, the FBI or any other innocent actor. It could fall into the hands of hackers, cyber-criminals, hostile foreign actors and terrorists, putting millions of customers at risk of identity theft, fraud or worse.
“We believe it would be in the best interest of everyone to step back and consider the implica-tions,” Cook says.
He’s right. A single FBI terror probe is fast becoming the pre-text for a chilling, wholesale ex-pansion of the surveillance state. That should worry us all.
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The Beaver Valley Skating Club hosted the Kootenay Region Skating Championship, and took home the Barclay Trophy as the event’s top team for the third year in a row. Skaters include Jocelyn Derksen, Jordyn Ferguson, Bree Fitzpatrick, Payton Fowler, Yvonne Gregory, Jennifer Hartmann, Emma Leslie, Jillian Leslie, Isabella Louwe, Sophie Louwe, Annelise Morrison, Jasmine Needham, Elise Obal, Lena Obal, Juliet Partridge, Brenna Paulsen, Claire Sibbald, Breanna Tomilin, Taryn Verhelst, and Eileen Zheng. Missing were Ava David, Serena Deadmarsh, Aiko Kreuzer, and Nathan Kreuzer.
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Close to 100 skaters from the East and West Kootenays hit the ice in Fruitvale last week as the Beaver Valley Skating Club (BVSC) hosted the 2016 Kootenay Region Championships.
“With 96 registered skat-ers competing from the Kootenays, the event was a huge success,” said event chair Mandy Paulsen.
For the third year in a row, the BVSC took home the Barclay Trophy that goes to the team with the most points, while the Rossland Skating Club captured the award for the Most Sportsmanlike Club.
“They (Rossland Skating Club) had a lot of fun cheering on all the skaters, especially during the elements competi-tion,” said Paulsen. “The pom-poms and shakers were even out.”
Local mealists include: Claire Sibbald from BVSC cap-tured gold in Star 5 Freeskate, while in the Sr. Bronze Ladies Freeskate, BVSC’s skat-ers swept the category with Brenna Paulsen winning gold, Yvonne Gregory silver and Taryn Verhelst bronze. Serena Deadmarsh claimed silver in the Jr. Silver Ladies Freeskate.
In Gold Interpretive Verhelst topped the podium, while in Bronze interpretive, Brenna Paulsen won her sec-ond gold, while BVSC’s Jillian
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In Gold Solo Dance Verhelst won gold, and Breanna Tomilin silver. In Sr. Silver Solo Dance, Paulsen claimed another gold, Gregory captured silver and Rossland’s Erin Flood gold, while in the Sr. Bronze Solo Dance Brian Chan of Rossland came first, Leslie of BVSC sec-ond and Flood third.
In the Jr. Bronze Solo Dance category Rossland’s Elle Bellendine took home gold, and Bree Fitzpatrick from BVSC claimed silver.
Jillian Leslie took first place in Intro Elements Group 1, with Fitzpatrick coming sec-
ond, and Aiko Kreuzer of BVSC third. In Intro Elements Group 2, Rossland’s Morgan Corkill captured gold, while Chan claimed bronze in Intro Elements Group 3.
Paulsen claimed first place in Elements 2, with Sibbald placing third, and in the Elements 3 category Verhelst won bronze.
“The Beaver Valley Skating Club would like to thank the many local sponsors and vol-unteers that made the event possible,” said Mandy Paulsen. “Congratulations to all the skaters who competed over the weekend. The West Kootenays are well represented.”
Qualifying skaters will com-pete at the Super Series Final in Kelowna March 4-6.
BV Skating Club takes top prize at Regionals
JIM BAILEYTimes Sports EditorThe Black Jack Ski
Team returned from the Haywood NorAm Western Canadian Ski Championship in Prince George with great re-sults including a golden
sweep by Black Jack skier Remi Drolet.
The Rossland native’s versatility was on display at the Otway Nordic Centre as Drolet led the Black Jack ski team, cap-turing three gold medals in three events on the
weekend.The 15-year-old
dominated in Friday’s 3.75 kilometre free skate taking first place with a time of eight min-utes 45.9 seconds to finish over 40 seconds ahead of Ian Oliphant of
Sovereign Lake. Drolet followed
that up with an explo-sive sprint on Saturday finishing the icy 0.8 km course in a time of 1:51.07 for first place, 6.76 seconds ahead of Konrad Van Varseveld
of Larch Hills Nordic, and third place finisher Ian Williams of West Kelowna’s Telemark ski club.
He capped off his great performance with his third gold medal on Sunday, winning the
10-km classic in 28:33.0, beating out Cole Turner of Williams Lake, and Ross Lamon from Strathcona who finished third.
Other highlights in-cluded a fourth place finish by Jasmine Drolet in the mid-distance free skate, and Michaela McLean came in seventh and Sage Robine eighth in Junior Girls, while Sophie Edney placed 10th in Juvenile Girls
In Saturday’s Classic Sprint, Michaela McLean finished sev-enth in Junior Girls and
Chiaki Yamamoto came eighth in Open Women. Daniel Merlo was eighth in Junior Men, while in Open Men Colin Ferrie placed fifth, Scott Fraser came eighth and David Palmer 10th.
In Sunday’s 20-k Classic Distance Mass Start David Palmer broke away from the pack with five of Canada’s top skiers but faded in the end to fin-ish fifth. Evan Palmer-Charrette of Thunder Bay won it in a time of 53:11.6, beating out teammate Andy Shields
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by one-tenth of a sec-ond. Patrick Stewart-Jones claimed third, while Black Jack’s Colin Ferrie placed 10th. Chiaki Yamamoto came seventh in Open womens 15-k Classic, Jasmine Drolet just missed the podium capturing fourth in Midget Girls and Sage Robine came seventh in Junior Girls classic.
The Black Jack ski-ers helped BC take back the Western Canadian title from Alberta amassing 8,510 points. Alberta was second with 4,883. Yukon, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and NWT finished in that order.
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The Saints skated to a 4-3 win over SFU at the Castlegar Rec Centre on Friday, before dropping a 3-2 game in an overtime shoot out on Saturday. The Saints trail the Clan by a single point for top spot in the BCIHL standings, and will face SFU and Trinity Western to close out the season this weekend.
Selkirk College held a 2-1 lead right down to the final 37 seconds when Mathew Berry-Lamontagna beat James Prigione to tie the game and send it to overtime.
However, the extra frames solved nothing and after the Saints’ Dallas Calvin and SFU’s Jono Ceci missed on their opening shots, Selkirk’s Dane Feeney would also be stymied by SFU
goalie Jordan Liem. The clan’s Berry-Lamontagna then made the Saints pay beating Prigione for the win, as Tylor Branzsen missed on the Saints final attempt.
Selkirk jumped out to a 2-0 first pe-riod lead on goals from Arie Postmus, and Branzsen. But Graham Smerek drew the Clan within one on a power play goal with less than two minutes left in the middle frame, before Berry Lamontanga tied it.
Each goalie faced 31 shots on the night and were game stars.
In Friday’s match, the Saints scored four times in the second period, to take a 4-1 lead, then hold in the third for the 4-3 victory.
Alex Milligan, Marcel Fuchs, Branzsen, and Ryan Sookro scored for the Saints, while Michael Sandor, Berry-Lamontagna, and Ceci for the Clan.
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Dear Annie: I’ve been seeing a very nice man for more than a year. We are both in our late 50s and divorced. He is affectionate and kind, and I love him quite a lot. He doesn’t have any of the obvious problems -- money, drugs or alcohol, but one thing bothers me a lot. He likes to wear women’s thigh-high stockings.
He started wearing the stock-ings near the end of his previous marriage. His ex wouldn’t wear them, so he decided to try them himself and ended up liking them a lot. He says they give him a lot of pleasure and make him feel sexy. He was upfront about it early in our relationship, and I said I didn’t think it would be a problem. He likes wearing them around the house and in public under his pants. He doesn’t want his friends and co-workers to know. He’s not a cross-dresser or anything like that. It’s just the stockings.
The problem is, I haven’t been able to accept it as well as I thought
I could. I wear the stockings for him, which pleases him a lot, but he still wants to wear them, too. He agreed to put them on only once a week until I adjusted, but now he says he’s getting frustrated. I’m resisting. I’ve told him I don’t see this as very manly behavior. He says he feels a need to express his feminine side. I don’t want to lose him, but I’m not sure how to deal with this. Can you help me? -- Thigh High in Confusion
Dear Confusion: If your boy-friend derives sexual satisfaction from wearing women’s stockings, he is a cross-dresser, even though he may not wear the whole ensem-ble. We are glad he was upfront about it, but you need to educate yourself on the subject, so you can decide how tolerant you can be. Cross-dressing does not mean that your boyfriend is gay (most cross-dressers are not) or that he plans to change his sexual identity
(not likely). The stockings may be as far as it ever goes. Check out
tri-ess.org for infor-mation and support -- and please don’t judge the book by its cover. He’s still the man you fell for.
Dear Annie: I’d like to weigh in on the letter from “Wondering in Pennsylvania,” who asked how to have a surprise wedding as part of a picnic.
My husband and I had a sur-prise wedding in the large back-yard of a home we had just pur-chased. We sent invitations invit-ing everyone to a picnic, claiming that we were recently married. The invitations were artist-drawn, and we specified that the recipients’ presence was all that was required, which took everyone off the hook of bringing gifts or food. We hired a caterer, parking attendants, a cleanup crew and an officiant, and did all of the decorating ourselves.
It was a huge hit, and people
still mention how lovely it was. Even my mother didn’t know there was going to be an actual wedding until the last minute. That was 29 years ago. Tell “Wondering” that it can be done. -- A.
Dear A.: We like that you han-dled all of the details on your own
and didn’t expect the guests to bring their own food. Bravo.
Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your ques-tions to [email protected]
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shaw.ca
Mary Martin
Richard Daoust
250-368-7897richard.daoust@
century21.ca
Mary Amantea
250-521-0525mamantea@
telus.net
Bill Craig
250-231-2710bill.craig@
century21.ca
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250-231-0153deanneslessor@
gmail.com
Art Forrest
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Dave Thoss
Dan Powell Christina Lake
250-442-6413powelldanielk@
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Jody Audia
2531 Columbia Avenue, Rossland
$269,000Beautiful 3 bdrm heritage
home with upgrades.
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2074 Butte Street, Rossland
$340,000Lots of character
in this great family home.
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1490 Tulip Street, Trail$255,000This charming
Glenmerry home is in a great location!
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903 Scott Street, Warfi eld
$199,0003 bdrm home with friendly layout and
recent updates.
100 Eton Road, Warfi eld
$239,000Well maintained
Warfi eld home located on a quiet cul-de-sac.
490 Austad Lane, Trail$129,000
Columbia Heights Duplex with
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1614-1616 Knight Street, Trail$339,000
Well maintained 4-plex on over an
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JOIN THE MOVEMENT AGAINSTBULLYING ON FEBRUARY 24
AM Ford.comin Glenmerry and at Waneta Plaza
BULLYINGSTOPS HERE!
Stand up for others. Stand up for yourself
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BULLYING
STOPSHERE!
Recognizing cyberbullyingBefore social media became so prevalent, instances of bullying were somewhat easy to recognize. However, with a good majority of children now engaged in digital networking and social media, bul-lying may not end with the ringing of the school bell, and evidence of bullying may not be so readily apparent.According to Cyberbullying statis-tics from the i-SAFE foundation, more than half of adolescents and teens have been bullied online, and about the same number have engaged in cyber-bullying. More than 80 percent of teens use a mobile phone regularly, making it the most popular form of technology and a common medium for repeated cyberbullying.Cyberbullying takes place through electronic technology and di� ers from traditional forms of bullying. Cyberbully-ing can occur via text messag-ing, blogging, updates to social media sites and/or phone conver-sations. What makes cyberbullying more di� cult to detect and remedy than traditional bullying is that sometimes this type of bullying is veiled in secrecy.� ose who engage in cyberbullying can create aliases and accounts under false names, allowing them to covertly engage in bullying be-havior. As a result, tracking down bullies can be challenging.Although cyberbullying is on the rise, there are some things that parents and children can do to
help put a stop to such unfortunate instances.* Parents who feel their child is not emotionally ready for the respon-sibility of a digital device can hold back on purchasing a smartphone or choose one with very limited features. Some schools set strict limits on phone usage at school, and children who go only from school to home and vice versa may not have the need for an “emer-gency phone” that can open up a
window for trouble.* Adolescents
and teens should
feel com-
fortable talking with
their parents without the fear of reprimand. Otherwise, they may hide instances of cyberbullying or not know
how to broach sensitive topics like
bullying. Parents can engage in conversation with their children often and stress that the doors of communication are always open.* Teens should be made aware that cyberbullying is a very real occur-rence and is not just other kids “having fun” or “joking.” If behavior is repetitive and hurtful, it should be made public and addressed.* Parents can monitor and limit their children’s personal accounts. Some smartphone and tablet applications can be mirrored on the main account, enabling par-
ents to see incoming text or video messages. * A laptop or desktop computer should be placed in a shared space so that usage can be monitored. Parents can restrict tablet or smartphone usage to public areas.* When online, children should be advised not to share personal infor-mation. Social media sites may be used by bullies to gather sensitive information about a person that can be used against them at a later time. Children should be urged to keep passwords secret and to never give information such as birthdays, phone numbers and addresses to people who aren’t close friends. Friend lists should be restricted to only those people students interact with frequently to minimize the chance for bullying or other inap-propriate behavior.* Teens who have been bullied can keep evidence of the bullying and may bene� t from talking with a counselor. Cyberbullying is a growing concern for educators and parents and has far-reaching implications. Getting smart about this phenomenon can help staunch new cases of online bullying.
Pink Shirt Day is Wednesday Feb 24th
Adults should remain diligent in monitoring what kids are doing online. Bullying can take place through digital devices, such as mobile phones.