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Celebrate with usevery month in 2015 as the Trail Times commemorates 120 years serving the

Greater Trail community with stories, shared memories and reprints of historic front pages

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The surge in home-based Internet usage could soon translate into dollars on your monthly util-ity bill – so users beware.

Streaming Netflix, Skyping with the grand-kids, chatting on Facebook, or downloading high definition games are popular past times that chomp up data on home service plans, which means overage charges are on the horizon.

While Telus doesn't currently enforce thresh-olds on home Internet packages in the Greater Trail area, the company is running a pilot pro-ject in Prince George for “select” customers that includes charges for usage exceeding their Internet plan's monthly data allowance.

“Telus is very cognizant that most people don't know how much data they are using,” said Shawn Hall, from Telus media relations. “So one of the things we are doing in this pilot project is putting how much people are using on the monthly bill so they have that information before any changes,” he explained. “But most customers find their usage is well within the threshold of their plan.”

Telus maintains that customers who use their Internet service for email or to share a few photos shouldn't pay as much as another who downloads hundreds of gigabytes for games or videos.

Additional usage charges begin in the zero-to-50 GB range at $5, and skyrocket to $75 for using 350 GB or more.

The pilot program is looking at a way that would be fair and equitable for charging for thresholds, Hall added.

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After four years in the making, the Waneta Dam expansion project is just a few months from comple-tion.

The $900 million-project began in January, 2011 and employed 400 workers daily at its peak during the course of construction.

Audrey Repin, director of stake-holder and external relations with the Columbia Power Corporation, says the last year has seen the completion of nearly all external aspects of construction.

Wednesday, the project took another step with synchronizing the turbine units with the trans-mission lines.

“It’s all part of moving forward towards our finishing date,” said Repin.

“We are heading into the final stretch and our goal is to have sub-stantial completion by this spring,” she said, adding that a more con-crete finishing date will be in place in a couple of months.

“Now, we are focusing on the inside. If you take a look at the site, you won't be able to see very

much. “Before, there was a lot of haul-

ing on the road and rock was being removed. Now, it is all about test-ing stop locks, assembly of various units and all the electrical and mechanical work inside the pow-erhouse.”

Now that the finishing touches are being put on the project, Repin says there are less workers on site, but planners are making sure to employ a high number of locals.

“A year ago, we were up to 400 workers on the project,” she said. “Now, we've got about 150 workers

on site and of those, around 77 per cent are from the local commu-nity. We have maintained that level throughout the project.”

Mark Miller, business agent at the Local 2300 Carpenter's Union in Castlegar, says at the height of construction, there were nearly 100 local carpenters employed daily.

“There were about 80 to 90 local carpenters on site a day,” he said. “For the Kootenays, that is huge. I have no stats for how many car-penters are in the Kootenays, but

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FROM PAGE 1my best guess, it was about one quarter of all the carpenters in the region.”

With construction moving to the electrical and the mechanical bits, there are less carpen-ters on the dam expansion, but Miller says that is the nature of the industry.

“There are very few now,” he said. “It is defi-nitely winding down, and that is the last power house in the area. It is too bad that is happen-ing, but it is what it is. It is construction – it comes and it goes.”

When the project is finished in the coming months, the turbines will be producing 335 megawatts of power, enough to provide clean energy to 60,000 homes annually, but first, the power has to have a way to leave the turbines.

“Once you build a powerhouse, you have to be able to send the power to (B.C. Hydro’s Selkirk sub station),” said Repin. “The 10-kilo-metre transmission line is complete and it has been energized without incident. Everything is going along as scheduled.”

Along with the transmission line, over the past year, the turbines were installed, the tunnel transitions, channelling water to and from the dam, were finished and the plugs blocking water from the Pend D’Oreille were removed, allowing the water to flow into the powerhouse.

Aside from the construction aspects, Repin says one thing Columbia Power didn’t antici-pate with the project was a boost to the Greater Trail Area economy to the tune of $210 million.

“There are a lot of workers who live in town, go buy a coffee, go buy a new couch, or a truck or a car, book a hotel, or go out for dinner,” she said. “There is a lot more activity in town as a result of this project. We didn’t expect that. Equal to that ($210 million) and more, is the amount of wages paid to the workers.”

One local business has felt the influx of money into the community – the Trail Motel in Glenmerry. Manager Sue McIntosh says the motel has been packed with workers from the Waneta Dam Expansion.

“It has been a great improvement (for busi-ness),” she said. “The rooms have been full of people for the last couple of years. We are the only place in the area with full kitchens and other amenities.”

Workers can stay at the hotel for years, with one crane operator renting a room for nearly three years. There is one Waneta Dam worker who has been booked into a room for two years and is still there.

When the construction project is over in a few months, McIntosh hopes rooms will stay booked at the motel.

“Of course, we are hoping that business con-tinues,” she said. “We get Teck people staying with us too.”

When the powerhouse is fully operational, there will be less than 10 people on site, and sometimes only one at a time.

“Following project completion, a small small team will be required for operations,” said Repin. “Other than regular planned mainte-nance where a larger team is required, an operational team would typically consist of less than 10 people who may also be providing operational expertise to other operating facili-ties in the area.”

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The Waneta Dam Expansion project is in its final months after four years in progress. Above: An aerial shot of the project with the new powerhouse below the dam. Right: The generator is being installed inside the powerhouse. The gener-ator sits above the turbines and produces the power to be sent to a sub sta-tion. Below: A close-up of the new powerhouse while outdoor construction was still going on.

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FROM PAGE 1Last year, Telus invested $2 mil-

lion in Trail for new fibre-optic infrastructure that significant-ly increased Internet speed and brought the company’s Optik TV to the area. Recently, the telecom-munications giant expanded the latter service on the Go app to allow customers to watch video on demand via their smartphones or tablets.

According to a 2014 Media Technology Monitor report, the concern for companies like Telus and Shaw Communications is not customers opting out of TV bundles in favour of online content, rather it’s the strain that streaming to second-screen devices is placing on Wi-Fi.

“The Internet really has become the dial tone in the household,” said

Hall. “Use is certainly increasing rapidly so Telus continues to invest billions a year to make sure we have the infrastructure needed to pro-vide customers with the Internet service they want.”

Shaw Communications upped regular monthly rates on all Internet plans January 1, with the company maintaining the price increase supports continued invest-ment in expanding the company’s fibre-optic infrastructure.

Shaw did not reply to questions from the Trail Times.

Rates of household access are highest in British Columbia and Alberta at 86 per cent, according to Statistics Canada’s most recent study (2012). About 60 per cent of connected households use wireless handhelds to browse the web, check email or watch videos and movies.

B y G r e G N e s t e r o f fNelson Star

Nelson city council wants more details before deciding whether to back the City of Trail’s application for federal money to build a second access route to Kootenay Boundary regional hospital.

Council received a letter Monday from Trail Mayor Mike Martin ask-ing for support for the project, which would see an alternate access road built to the hospital, on a bench above East Trail.

But while some councillors liked the idea, others had concerns.

“While there has not been an issue to date, the single road access creates some vulnerability for time-ly healthcare in the event of a road closure or serious congestion while handling a mass casualty event,” Martin wrote. “The single road also does not provide for the most effect-ive or efficient traffic movement for patients and staff day-to-day.”

Trail is applying to the New Building Canada Fund, although its letter didn’t indicate the overall cost of the project nor how much they are seeking. News reports have pegged the cost at $2.3 million. The city hopes to tender the project as early as this year, pending the acquisition of property.

Martin said the secondary access would complement Interior Health’s multi-million dollar plans to expand the hospital’s emergency, ambulatory care, and pharmacy departments. It would also allow an expanded parking area. Interior

Health has been on record since 2009 as supporting the project in principle.

Councillor Anna Purcell intro-duced a motion to support the request, seconded by councillor Bob Adams.

“Having a second access to the Trail hospital would help our com-munity in the sense that a lot of patients go to Trail in ambulances,” said Councillor Robin Cherbo. “If for some reason the single access is blocked, it could be a crisis.”

However, Councillor Michael Dailly said he opposed the request, suggesting that backing Trail’s application could jeopardize Nelson’s hopes of tapping the same fund for its Hall Street project: “I want to give us every shot at getting [the funding].”

Councillor Janice Morrison won-dered if Interior Health has pledged any financial help, and if any other local municipalities have been approached for support besides Nelson.

Mayor Deb Kozak said she spoke to Martin, but didn’t know the answers to those questions. She noted, however, that she would attend a regional hospital district meeting this month.

Kozak said she asked the hospital board chair Marguerite Rotvold if the secondary access route had been discussed at that level, but was told that while it has been raised, it is a City of Trail infrastructure project that the hospital district probably wouldn’t contribute to.

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• Saturday, Charles Bailey Theatre, 7:30 p.m. E2 Experiments in Entertainment presents Cromoli Brothers. Written and performed by Nelson's Lucas Meyers, sketch comedy, vaude-ville and musical theatre ranging from poignant and political to the absurd.

• Sunday, Rossland Miners Hall, doors open at 6:0 p.m., performances start at 7 p.m. for Joe Hill Coffee House. Members of the Rossland Light Opera Players cast of “Anne of Green Gables,”

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from the Met Opera for The Merry Widow. A rich widow, and her countrymen's attempt to keep her money in the principality by finding her the right husband. Grans to Grans on site sell-ing baked goodies. Money raised donates to the Stephen Lewis Foundation that supports African grandmothers raised their orphaned grandchil-dren due to HIV/AIDS.

• Sunday, Royal Theatre at 4:30 p.m. Sunday Cinema presents The Theory of Everything. Based on the memoir, Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen, the true story of the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, and his wife, Jane Wilde.

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Police continued to stand guard outside the empty home of a woman alleged to have murdered her daughter-in-law earlier this month in Penticton.

Roxanne Louie, 26, was reported missing Jan. 6, but the search was called off Monday when Mounties confirmed the arrests of a brother and sister in connection with her disappearance.

Grace Elinor Robotti, 65, has been charged with the second-degree murder of Louie at or near Penticton sometime between Jan. 3 and Jan. 5, according to court documents. Pier Louis Robotti, 61, has been charged with interfering with human remains and being an accessory after the fact to his sister, Grace.

Relatives previously told the Western News that Louie was stay-ing with Robotti prior to her pre-sumed disappearance early on Jan. 4, when she ostensibly left to meet up with unknown friends.

Neighbours said Grace lived alone in a well-kept trailer on a quiet cul-de-sac at the Caravilla Estates mobile-home park and was often seen minding a young boy, believed to be Louie’s three-year-

old son.Elsie Rudiger, who lives across

the street from the Robotti resi-dence, said police descended on the trailer Sunday and a car was towed from the driveway later that day.

“We’ve seen police coming and going, and all the neighbours have been curious as to what’s going on,” said Rudiger.

She said Grace mostly kept to herself, but is a member of the Caravilla Estates strata council.

Mounties maintained a pres-ence Tuesday outside Grace’s home, which was still behind police tape as a forensics team worked inside.

Penticton RCMP spokesman Sgt. Rick Dellebuur said it’s not unusual for officers to remain at a crime scene for days on end.

“It takes us time to get people if we need forensic analysts and things like that,” he said

Dellebuur confirmed Louie’s body was recovered Monday some-where other than the trailer, but he would not disclose the exact location because the investigation is ongoing with members of the Penticton General Investigation Section and the Southeast District Major Crimes Unit preparing for the Robottis’ next scheduled court appearance today.

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In March of 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earth-quake caused three of six nuclear reactors at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan to meltdown, resulting in the release of radioisotopes into the Pacific Ocean.

Models of ocean circulation and mix-ing have predicted North Pacific cur-rents will transport a contaminated plume to Canadian waters that, when present in elevated concentra-tions, could poten-tially cause environ-mental and public health concerns on Canada’s West and Arctic coasts.

While researchers have stated the impact to Canada isn’t like-ly to be significant, sufficient monitor-ing hasn’t been per-formed to adequately quantify the risks.

This is why Fukushima InFORM, a collaborative radia-tion monitoring network consisting of academic, gov-ernment and non-government organ-izations, along with citizen scientists, formed.

InFORM will gather data in order to determine the environmental risks

and will disseminate this information to the public so people can minimize expos-ure to potentially harmful levels of radiation.

Prince Rupert’s Cheryl Paavola, a science lab techni-cian and instruct-or at Northwest Community College, got involved with the network through Citizen Scientists, a volunteer group, leading sample col-lection duties in the community.

On Friday, Paavola and a group of volun-teers from Northwest Community College retrieved water sam-ples from the Yacht Club dock, a task that will be repeated indefinitely.

“The idea is to col-lect samples once a month roughly to monitor when the radiation from the Fukushima reactor meltdown hits the West Coast [and at what levels],” Paavola explained.

“We’re expecting the radiation to hit the coast sometime in 2015.”

After the samples have been collected they will be sent to the University of Victoria, which is part of the InFORM part-nership, to be tested. The results will be shared online.

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SToronto’s police

chief will not have to testify at a disciplinary hearing for the most senior officer charged over mass arrests made during the city’s G20 summit, a retired judge ruled Wednesday after finding that the top cop’s evidence would be irrelevant.

The proceeding is looking into the actions of Supt. David Fenton, who has pleaded not guilty to five Police Services Act charges stemming from two “kettling” incidents that occurred over the tumultuous 2010 sum-mit weekend.

When he took the stand in his own defence in mid December, Fenton told the hearing his superi-ors were fully aware of the manner in which he had ordered the arrests, which became the largest in Canadian peacetime history.

After hearing his statements, lawyers for complainants involved in the case had requested that Chief Bill Blair and retired deputy chief Tony Warr be called before the hearing to explain their involvement in Fenton’s decisions.

Counsel for Blair and Warr argued that the two senior offi-cers’ evidence would be irrelevant and that the police chief could not be compelled to appear.

Retired Ontario judge John Hamilton, who has been hearing the case, agreed with those arguments.

“I find that proced-ural fairness would be trampled upon if I were to allow deputy Warr or Chief Blair to be summoned to test-ify in this hearing,” Hamilton said as he delivered his decision on Wednesday.

A lawyer for the three complainants who had tried to have Blair and Warr sum-moned expressed

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“Supt. Fenton is the one who put their evidence, their con-duct, into evidence and that is directly rel-evant to the issues in the proceedings,” said Adrienne Lei

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S STORONTO - The Canadian distributor

for the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo says 1,500 copies of the latest issue - which features a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad on the cover - will be available in different parts of the country Friday.

Louis-Philip Vermeersch, director of sales for LMPI, says that’s up from the 100 issues that are usually delivered for distri-bution each week.

But he says the increased production likely won’t be enough to meet demand for the issue from those Canadians who want to see the latest copy of a magazine at the centre of an international tragedy.

Charlie Hebdo is usually only available in Quebec and one store in Toronto, but Vermeersch says distribution will be more widespread this time.

Copies will be available at five Toronto stores, one in New Brunswick, one in Nova Scotia and a handful in Vancouver in addi-tion to its usual Quebec-based retailers.

The five Toronto stores include Gateway newsstands at Yonge and St. Clair and at BCE Place, Presse Internationale stores on Bloor St. and Queen St., and at an International News outlet on Front St.

Last week, two gunmen stormed the Charlie Hebdo headquarters in Paris, killing 12 people.

The irreverent publication had faced repeated threats for depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. Many Muslims believe all images of the Prophet are blasphemous.

Surviving Charlie Hebdo staff held a press conference in Paris on Tuesday to showcase the cover of the coming issue. It depicts a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad weeping and holding a sign reading “I am Charlie” with the words “All is forgiven” above him.

The latest issue also skewers other reli-gions and features a double-page spread illustrating Sunday’s march in Paris that drew more than a million people to con-demn terrorism.

“For the past week, Charlie, an athe-ist newspaper, has achieved more miracles than all the saints and prophets combined,” reads the lead editorial in the new issue. “The one we are most proud of is that you have in your hands the newspaper that we always made.”

Charlie Hebdo’s publisher has indicat-ed that it’s increasing production of this week’s issue to an unprecedented three mil-lion copies worldwide, but Vermeersch said there is no guarantee any of the additional copies will make there way to Canada.

“This is just supply to meet domestic demand in France,” Vermeersch said in a telephone interview. “We are trying to get another run, but we have no confirmation whatsoever at the moment.”

Vermeersch said he expects the magazine to be on newsstands by noon on Friday.

The attack on the magazine marked the beginning of three days of terror that saw 17 people killed in separate incidents.

The three gunmen responsible, all of whom claimed ties to Islamic extremists in the Middle East, were killed by security forces.

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LePage says the price of a Canadian home is expected to rise by a relatively modest 2.9 per cent on average in 2015 as price apprecia-tion slows across the country.

Toronto is expected to lead the pack when it comes to price increases this year, with the realtor saying the average home price in Canada’s largest city is forecast to rise by 4.5 per cent, although that would be well behind last year’s pace.

Vancouver is expected to see the second-biggest average jump in prices, up 2.8 per cent, followed by a 2.4 per cent gain in Calgary, 0.6 per cent in Montreal and 0.5 per cent in Halifax among several of the major centres surveyed across the country.

The realtor says eco-nomic factors, includ-ing the plummeting

price of oil, are likely to cause home prices to grow at a slower pace, particularly in Western Canada.

In 2014, prices for detached bungalows rose the most, up 6.7 on average across the country in the fourth quarter compared with a year earlier, followed by an average six per cent gain for two-stor-ey homes and 4.5 per cent for condos.

Edmonton’s condo market saw the big-gest increase, shooting up 12.2 per cent to an average of $250,953 per unit. Prices in Calgary also ballooned, with standard condos shooting up 9.1 per cent year-over-year to an average of $311,644 in the latest quarter.

In Toronto, prices of detached bungalows increased by 11.6 per cent from a year ago to an average of $647,535, while prices of two-storey homes advanced 8.6 per cent to an aver-

age of $745,062.In Vancouver, the

average price of a detached bungalow and of a two-storey home each grew by more than seven per cent, to an average of $1,124,642 and $1,233.182 respect-ively.

Home prices remained relatively flat in Winnipeg and softened in Regina, where the average price of two-storey homes dropped 6.8 per cent year-over-year to $345,000.

Royal LePage pre-dicts that prices will continue to accelerate rapidly in Toronto in 2015 for a variety of reasons, among them a surge in demand for Ontario’s exports thanks to the lower loonie and the robust economy south of the border.

Labour market trends and unsatis-fied demand from prospective homebuy-

ers who were outbid in 2014 will also fuel higher home prices in the Toronto area.

Meanwhile, the sharp decline in the price of oil will slow the growth in home prices in Western Canada, according to the report.

Royal LePage says a potential interest rate hike and possible changes to mortgage rules by the federal government could also

pose risks to the coun-try’s real estate sector if they materialize.

“Ultimately the biggest threat to the Canadian housing market is a decline in consumer confi-dence, which could result from worsened employment prospects or decreased purchas-ing power, be it real or perceived,” president and chief executive Phil Soper said in a statement.

Oil prices expected to impact real estate

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OPINION

‘Je ne suis pas Charlie’ (I am not Charlie)

A week of unspeak-able violence has passed in Paris, and among the many

innocent victims lays that canon of modern liberal society, ‘free’ speech.

The slaughter in the newsroom of France’s satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was an act of murder, certainly. But it was also an act of terror, designed to intimidate non-believers everywhere from taking the Prophet’s name or image in vain.

Outraged Westerners see this kind of violent censorship as a gross viola-tion of established ‘rights’ because, in the liberal West, freedom of speech is prized, often guaranteed in national Constitutions.

The First Amendment to the United States Constitution, for example, ensures the freedom of ‘expression’. The Constitution explicitly instructs ‘Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech’.

In Canada, freedom of speech is a Fundamental Freedom, guaranteed under Section 2 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

In response to the vio-lence in Paris, legions of Canadians and other con-cerned citizens around the

world are proclaiming ‘Je suis Charlie’ in solidarity with the murdered satir-ists.

Salman Rushdie, for one, rushed to the defence of ‘freedom’: “I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity”.

This is all very well, but the same people who defend the right to offend Muslims would never dream of offending the sensibilities of, say . . . women.

Even liberal Canada is quick to stifle free speech if it’s in defense of females against violent comments from men.

The University of Dalhousie is censoring and demonizing 13 fourth-year (male) dental students for expressing demean-ing comments about their female classmates on a (private) Facebook group called “Class of DDS 2015 Gentlemen.”

I do not defend the male students, whose comments go well beyond the trad-itional ‘toilet’ humor so common in medical stu-dent lore. They engaged in violent and intimidating comments and deserve to be sanctioned.

But the fact remains

that, behind all the Western rhetoric, we’re not 100 per cent committed to ‘free-dom of speech’. We’re in favour of ‘free’ speech if it promotes and defends lib-erty but opposed to ‘free’ speech where it stifles the liberty of identifiable groups.

The important point is: words and images are powerful. They can be used to inspire hatred, encour-age acts of violence and pass as barriers to action by the less powerful against the more powerful.

While Westerners may be fond of ‘free’ speech where it tweaks the noses of the powerful, it’s quite a different matter with fun-damentalist Islam.

Tweaking the nose of the powerful in Saudi Arabia will get you flogged. Consider the young Saudi blogger and activist Raif

Badawi, who was recently sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes (50 lashes in the public square every Friday for 20 weeks) for opening an online pub-lic debate forum called “Free Saudi Liberals.”

There is a power-ful streak of intoler-ance in Islam. But that’s not the whole story. Few Westerners appreciate the complex history of Islam or the all-out civil war that rages inside Islamic culture today.

During its Golden Age, Islam was much different from the modern version. In the past, Islam had lev-els of arts, religious and cultural tolerance, scien-tific achievement and com-mercial sophistication that rival anything the West has accomplished since.

Muslim merchants of the Fatimid Caliphate (909 – 1171), for example, had unprecedented indi-vidual freedom and many of the free market incen-tives, banking facilities, corporate institutions and bookkeeping practices that today underpin modern capitalism.

As the West rose to global prominence, it borrowed many of these Islamic achievements, including the ‘corpora-tion’, fractional reserve

banking, double-entry bookkeeping and Arabic numerals (to name a few) to establish capitalism in the West. More importantly – through Islamic schol-ars – the West rediscovered the philosophy of the great Aristotle – in the original Greek.

Today, Islam is fighting for its very soul; launched in pitched battles between its historic progressive nature and a stifling funda-mentalist version of Islam rooted in superstition, vio-lence and hatred of out-siders.

Defaming the Prophet is offensive to all Muslims. But when done by Westerners, it strengthens the hand of the hardline fundamentalists opposed to Islam rediscovering its pro-gressive past.

When I proclaim ‘Je ne suis pas Charlie’ (I am not Charlie) it is to strengthen the hand of progressive Islamic forces, so they may win the battle of hearts and minds, and reign victorious over superstition and fear.

Robert McGarvey is an economic historian and co-founder of the Genuine Wealth Institute, an Alberta-based think tank dedicated to helping busi-nesses, communities and nations built communities of wellbeing.

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With travel costs doubling and sal-ary expenses up by more than 15 per

cent since 2009-10, it’s time to rein-in some of the free-spending ways of some staff at the B.C. legislature, according to IntegrityBC.

In 2013-14, the clerk of the B.C. legislature, Craig James, saw his salary increase by more than $30,000. James now earns $289,984 or at least $61,184 more than the clerk of the House of Commons, Audrey O’Brien and $70,587 more than the clerk of the Ontario legislature, Deborah Deller.

James’s deputy Kathleen Ryan-Lloyd has seen her salary steadily rise from $116,979 in 2009-10, as a committee clerk, to $199,682 last year as dep-uty clerk. Ryan-Lloyd earns at least $26,382 more than the deputy clerk of the House of

Commons.B.C.’s sergeant-at-arms

Gary Lenz took home $175,474 in 2013-14, at least $2,000 more than Kevin Vickers, the sergeant-at-arms of the House of Commons.

“Something is amiss when the B.C. legis-lature is one of the provincial legislatures that meets the least and, yet, its three highest paid staff earn more than their counterparts in Ottawa,” said I n t e g r i t y B C executive dir-ector Dermod Travis.

James also topped off the list of frequent flyers at the legislature, racking up $71,873 in travel expenses in 2013-14, more than any other employee in the B.C. govern-ment. Ben Chin, the premier’s executive director of com-munications, was in eighth place at $51,554.

James’ travel expenses last year worked out to a week-

ly average of $1,382. In the last five years, he’s claimed $277,000 in travel expenses.

Together, James, Ryan-Lloyd and Lenz billed $114,016 in travel expenses for 2013-14, roughly a quarter of the total travel expenses for staff at the legislature.

In 2013, B.C.’s auditor general disclosed that secret, tax-free benefits of $660,000 had been paid out in 2012 to four legislative staff in what the auditor general termed “unusual compensation arrangements.” James con-firmed to “The Province” that he was one of the four employ-ees, but did not disclose how much he had received.

As acting chief electoral offi-cer, James rewrote the travel policy at Elections B.C. so that his wife could accompany him to the 2010 Commonwealth Parliamentary conference in Kenya at the expense of tax-payers.

The policy has since reverted to the one in place before James rewrote it.

Dermod Travis is the exec-utive director of IntegrityBC. www.integritybc.ca

Time to clip some wings and trim some salaries at B.C. legislature

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An editorial from the Halifax Chronicle-Herald

As a former navigator with Canada’s aging Sea King heli-copter fleet, Erin O’Toole knows that staying the course to reach a goal is not always about the skill of the navigator.

First there’s the weather. Then there’s the rest of the team — and how effectively the powers that be support the mis-sion, equipment and staff.

The new Veterans Affairs Canada minister can duck bad weather but bad publicity and even worse policy decisions have been hallmarks of the department under the leader-ship of outgoing minister Julian Fantino.

And veterans’ groups are justifiably wary of a personable and no doubt well intentioned new minister who might not have the support of the pow-ers that be — Prime Minister Stephen Harper — to redress veterans’ legitimate complaints.

To be fair, Mr. Fantino did not preside over all the changes that have so incensed a cohort of nation’s former sailors, sol-diers and airforce personnel that they’ve signed on to bring down the Conservatives in the federal election set for October.

Among the most unfair is the New Veterans Charter imple-mented in 2006 that replaced lifetime financial support with lump-sum payments. Payments are now paid out over time but are far lower than those paid to earlier vets or even Canadians injured on the job.

Another big irritant is the government’s opposition to a class-action lawsuit over the charter by Afghanistan vets. Government lawyers are deny-ing Canada’s long-honoured legal obligation to look after Forces personnel who have served the nation in peace or in war.

Then there’s the depart-ment’s failure to spend more than $1 billion of budgeted funds since 2006 as it slashed staff and closed offices that served veterans.

Fantino announced new mental health services money that, it turns out, won’t be spent for decades. Critics point to a system that leaves the most severely injured vets in poverty after age 65 and pays substan-dard benefits to many wounded ex-soldiers.

A prominent lawyer, Mr. O’Toole is better equipped than the former Toronto police chief

to handle veterans and family members with complaints or requests for help.

Last January, Mr. Fantino let a delegation of unhappy vets, including Cape Breton veter-ans’ advocate Ron Clarke, lan-guish in a small room before chastising one for shaking his finger at him, then walking away.

Canadian voters are far from homogenous but there is broad consensus across party lines that veterans should be respected and supported finan-cially and that the Harper gov-ernment has failed them.

The Conservatives are hold-ing their own in the polls, but that could quickly change dur-ing an election campaign if dis-enchanted veterans can bring voters into their ABC — Anyone But Conservative — campaign.

So Mr. O’Toole, a lawyer who helped found a veterans’ aid group called True Patriot Love Foundation, must sharply turn government policy to free up funds to redress these wrongs or resign himself to the pos-sibility that a group of organ-ized veterans could ensure that his tenure as the minister of Veterans Affairs Canada will be short-lived, indeed.

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Born May 27, 1931 and passed away, peacefully on January 11, 2015 surrounded by his loving family. Fernando was born in Livramento, Sao Miguel Acores to Joao and

Teresa daMota. He grew up in Sao Rocque where he met the love of his life Lidia DeFrias. In 1969 they immigrated to Trail with their three children. Fernando was a loving father, grandfather and great grandfather. His family was his life and there was no greater joy for him than being surrounded by his loved ones. Fernando was predeceased by his parents, Joao and Teresa daMota, his wife Lidia of 49 years, their three infant children, his son in law Raimundo Carreiro, his brother Valdemar Mota, his brothers in law, Hum-berto and Joao, his sisters in law Belmira, Virgolina, Maria da Luz and their spouses. He is survived by his children John (Christine) Mota, Adriana (Raimundo) Carreiro and Bill (Aneeda) Mota. His grandchildren Kathy (Dave) Mota, Teresa (Nelson) Sousa, Stephen ( Jessica) Mota, Selena Taylor, Raymond Carreiro, Jes-se, Teagan and Reece Mota. His great grandchildren Jake DaRosa, Kaiden and Rylan Sousa, Jayden and Aaliyah Mota, Alivia and Paisley Taylor. His sister Zelia DeOliveira, sister in law Maria Mota and many nieces and nephews Fernando worked at the sawmill in Castlegar for 25 years. He was a proud member of the St. Rita’s Cath-olic Church and the Portuguese Social Centre. Apart from his family some of his other great passions were making his home made wine, assisting others with their building projects and most of all, his bountiful garden which he was known for his great produce of which he shared with his family and friends. As an expression of sympathy, donations may be made to the St. Rita Church building fund, 513 7th Ave, Castlegar, BC V1N 1R3 , BC Cancer Society or a charity of one’s choice.Arrangements are in care of Castlegar Funeral Chapel. Prayers will be recited on � ursday January 15, 2015 7:00 PM at St. Rita’s Catholic Church, 513 7th Ave, Castlegar, BC. Mass of Christian burial will be held Friday January 16th, 2015 at 10:30 AM. � e family would like to express their gratitude for the wonderful care that their dad received from Dr. LaRocque, Dr Campbell and all the sta� at Rosewood Village in Trail. We are truly grateful.

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It is with great sadness we announce the sudden passing of John

Sinal on January 12th, 2015. “Big John” was born

in Trail on May 22nd 1943.

He will be dearly missed by his partner Louann Lenarduzzi; his son Darin (Stacey); grandaughters Ainsley and Bryn; Louann’s son Jason Despins; and Maxy. He will also be missed by Willy Wilson and family; Terry Smith and family; Gerri Tullikopf and family.

John’s early employment started at local service stations where he developed his love of cars. Soon a� er, he joined Cominco and � ent over 30 years working in the Lead Re� nery before his retirement in 1997. In retirement, John could be found in his garage rebuilding Mustangs, boats, snow blowers and lawnmowers. John � ent his winters in the rink enjoying all levels of hockey, e� ecially the Jr. A Smoke Eaters. His summers were � ent at Christina Lake (Swanks and Kingsley’s Campground) with family and friends. � e last 5 years he devoted his time to � lling the role of #1 Grandpa, driving, babysi� ing and watching his granddaughters in ALL their a� ivities.

John was predeceased by his parents Joseph and Maria, his sisters Mary Wilson and Adela Hodgson, and his brother Joseph Sinal.

A casual gathering of family and friends in John’s memory for sharing of stories will take place on Saturday, January 17, 2015 from 1:00pm -3:00pm at Local 480 Union Hall. Bill Clark of Alternatives Funeral and Cremation Services™ has been entrusted with arrangements.

Should family and friends wish, donations in John’s memory can be made to the Greater Trail Minor Hockey Association and/or the Trail Jr. A Smoke Eaters Hockey Club.

You are invited to leave a personal message of condolence at the family’s online register at www.myalternatives.ca.

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SEDMONTON - Friends who play lottery

together, win together.Ian Graham of Winnipeg and Gerard Millar

of Edmonton are celebrating after they won $1 million in the Dec. 17 Lotto 6-49 draw.

Millar bought the ticket in Edmonton and it exactly matched the winning selection for that date’s guaranteed prize draw.

The men have known each other for more than two decades and although they now live in different provinces, they’ve remained friends and continued playing the lottery together.

Millar estimates they’ve played Lotto 6-49 together for 21 years.

Both declined to give media interviews.

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Beaver Valley shares the helping had with Trail area as Major Harbin of the Salvation Army accepts a cheque from Lion mem-bers Paul Terness, Danielle Beattie and John Nakken. Donations are made possible with thanks to all our Bingo play-ers who support the Lions Bingo every Wednesday at the Fruitvale Hall.

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Calif. - A pair of Americans on Wednesday completed what had long been considered the world’s most difficult rock climb, using only their hands and feet to con-quer a 3,000-foot vertical wall on El Capitan, the forbidding granite pedestal in Yosemite National Park that has beckoned adventurers for more than half a century.

Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson became the first to “free-climb” the rock formation’s Dawn Wall, a feat that many had con-sidered impossible. They used ropes and safety harnesses to catch them in case of a fall, but relied entirely on their own strength and dexter-ity to ascend by grasping cracks as thin as razor blades and as small as dimes.

The effort took weeks, as the two dealt with constant falls and injur-ies. But their success completes a years-long dream that bordered on obsession for the men.

The trek up the world’s largest granite monolith began Dec. 27. Caldwell and Jorgeson lived on the wall itself. They ate and slept in tents fastened to the rock thousands of feet above the ground and bat-tled painful cuts to their fingertips much of the way.

Free-climbers do not pull them-selves up with cables or use chisels to carve out handholds. Instead, they climb inch by inch, wedg-ing their fingertips and feet into tiny crevices or gripping sharp, thin projections of rock. In photo-graphs, the two appeared at times like Spider-Man, with arms and legs splayed across the pale rock that has been described as smooth as a

bedroom wall.Both men needed to take rest

days to wait for their skin to heal. They used tape and even superglue to help with the process. At one point, Caldwell set an alarm to wake him every few hours to apply a spe-cial lotion to his throbbing hands.

They also took physical punish-ment when their grip would slip, pitching them into long, swinging falls that left them bouncing off the rock face. The tumbles, which they called “taking a whipper,” ended in startling jolts from their safety ropes.

Caldwell and Jorgeson had help from a team of supporters who brought food and supplies and shot video of the adventure.

The 36-year-old Caldwell and 30-year-old Jorgeson ate canned peaches and occasionally sipped whiskey. They watched their urine evaporate into thin, dry air and handed toilet sacks, called “wag bags,” to helpers who disposed of them.

No one, however, had ever made it to the 3,000-foot summit in one continuous free-climb - until now.

The pioneering ascent comes as a result of five years of training and failed attempts for both Caldwell and Jorgeson. They only got about a third of the way up in 2010 when they were turned back by storms. A year later, Jorgeson fell and broke an ankle in another attempt. Since then, each has spent time on the big, blank rock practicing and map-ping out strategy.

On this try, as the world watched and followed on Facebook and Twitter, Jorgeson was stalled by a lower section that took 11 attempts over the course of seven days.

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Senior curlers honour Lifely

B Y J I M B A I L E YTimes Sports EditorIn recognition of

a longtime Fruitvale resident’s commit-ment to the sport, the B.V. Seniors Curling Club honoured Phil Lifely on Wednesday with a lifetime achievement award and membership in the club.

Lifely turns 90 this month, yet, still hits the hack twice a week at the Beaver Valley Curling Club to play in the seniors curling

league. “If you’re going to

say anything about this man, this man’s energy, enthusiasm, and wit put a lot of us to shame,” said sen-ior club president Bud Lind. “He’s an amaz-ing individual. When he comes to curl you can be sure he’ll be out there throw-ing rocks before the game, and he is 90 years old.”

Lifely first picked up a curling broom almost 20 years ago at

the tender age of 71, and has enjoyed every minute of his time with the club and the men who gather to curl and socialize.

“I think to start off, the way this bunch treats you when you come in here, you are welcome to the club; that’s my fondest memory,” said Lifely smiling. “They look at you and they call you names, but they don’t mean it.”

The B.V. Seniors Curling Club is one

of the most successful in the West and East Kootenays comprised of 20 teams that play two games a week, although most of the retired curlers show up almost every mor-ning during the week for a coffee and lively if not colourful con-versation.

The B.V. senior’s club was first organ-ized when the facil-ity was built in 1986, and started with four teams, which soon grew to over 20.

Yet, in the almost 30 years the club has been in existence this is the first lifetime achievement honour awarded.

As for the youth-ful 90-year-old curler, Lifely says he expects to keep playing indefinitely:

“It just depends on how long these guys stick around.”

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The Beaver Valley Seniors Curling Club marked Fruitvale resident Phil Lifely’s 90th birthday with a lifetime achievement award and member-ship. The longtime resident has been playing the game for almost 20 years, and was the first to receive such an hon-our.

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B Y T I M E S S T A F FThe playoff race just got tighter

in Trail Commercial Hockey League action as OK Tire moved into a tie for third spot, thanks to a big win by Gericks over Arlington on Sunday.

Fifth-place Gericks took advan-tage of a short-handed Arlington squad scoring four times in the first period on their way to a 10-4 drub-bing of the Big A. With the win and with a game in hand, Gericks moves to within six points of Arlington and OK Tire who are tied for third with 21 points. The Tire moved into a tie with Arlington thanks to a forfeit by Re/Max Sunday and a close 5-4 vic-tory over the ‘A’ on Thursday. The top four teams make the playoffs, and with only 11 games remaining in the regular season for Gericks every point becomes crucial.

Gerick’s forward Craig Clair struck for seven points on Sunday, netting the hat trick and adding four assists to lead the team to its sixth victory of the season. Clair and linemate Gord Aiken each netted two in the first perod, while the Big A’s Kris Davis had a four-goal night, replying twice in the first period to send the game to the middle frame with Gericks leading 4-2.

Defenceman Mike Boisvert put the G-Men up 6-2 with a pair of his own markers, before Davis answered with 12 minutes remain-ing in the second. Curtis Wabelin would net his fifth goal of the sea-son on a pretty pass from Adam McNeil to make it 7-3, and Clair would convert an Al Berglund set up, scoring his 19th goal of the season and 40th point to move into fourth overall in league scoring.

Davis rounded out the scor-ing for the Arlington and Wabelin would collect a pair of helpers on goals from Mike Turner and Nathan Stanton in the third period for the 10-4 victory.

It was a much closer game for the Arlington on Thursday, but the result was the same as they dropped a 5-4 match to OK Tire. The Big A would take a 4-3 lead into the third period, but Darrin Williams would notch his second of the night and 11th of the season one minute in to tie it at 4-4, and Kelly MacKay net-ted the winner converting a Darrin Kissock and Troy Palmer passing play for the victory.

Palmer had three assissts for OK Tire in the win while Williams scored twice and added an assist. Pat Iannone tallied the hat trick for Arlington scoring his league-leading 30th goal, while the slight but elusive Matt Proulx picked up three assists in the losing cause.

A goaltenders duel between Re/Max’s Chris McIsaac and All Star netminder Cody Deadmarsh fur-ther highlighted the parity in the league as the two top teams battled to a 1-1 draw. A first period goal by Luke Russell stood up until the three-minute mark of the third per-iod when Mark Hutchinson took a Scott Morrison pass and beat goalie McIsaac to tie the game and main-tain All Star’s three-point lead.

TCHL action continues tonight at the Cominco Arena when OK Tire faces off against All Star at 7:15 p.m. and Re/Max takes on Gericks at 8:30 p.m. On Sunday, Re/Max plays Arlington at 2:15 p.m. and Gericks faces Allstar at 3:30 p.m.

B Y T I M E S S T A F FGreater Trail Minor Hockey

Association will host its annual Pee Wee Tier 2 and Tier 3 tournament on the weekend.

In all 10 teams will participate, with the Tier 2 Pee Wee Smoke Eaters facing off against the Boise Junior Steelheads, Castlegar Tier 2 Pee Wees, Penticton Pee Wee Vees, Kimberley Dynamiters, and the Salmon Arm Silvertips.

The GTMHA Tier 2 Pee Wee team plays in the Okanagan Mainline Amateur Hockey Association and currently hold down third spot with a 9-7-0 record. The Tier 2 Smokies split a pair of games on the week-

end beating Kelowna Saturday 3-2, before dropping a 3-2 match to West Kelowna on Sunday.

The GTMHA Tier 3 team, mean-while, will host the Cranbrook Kings, the Creston Chiefs, and Elk Valley.

The games begin at 1:45 p.m. on Friday when the Tier 2 Smoke Eaters play Kimberley at the Rossland Arena, and the Tier 3 Smoke Eaters play Creston at the Cominco Arena at 2:15 p.m.

Games will go all day Saturday, with the playoffs starting at 7:30 a.m. Sunday and both finals going at noon for Tier 2 in Trail and the Tier 3 final in Rossland.

Pee Wee tournament on tap

Gericks upsets Big A

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ScoreboardHockey

BCHLAll Times Pacific

Interior Division GP W L T OL GF GA PtPenticton 41 32 6 2 1 161 77 67Vernon 40 26 11 1 2 153 113 55WKelowna 41 21 15 0 5 145 147 47Merritt 38 21 15 0 2 136 142 44Salm Arm 39 17 14 3 5 130 123 42Trail 39 14 23 0 2 137 154 30 Island Division GP W L T OL GF GA PtNanaimo 40 28 11 0 1 166 109 57Powell R 42 20 14 0 8 151 151 48Victoria 41 18 13 1 9 148 153 46Alberni 38 19 15 1 3 145 127 42Cowichan 43 16 25 1 1 127 173 34

Mainland Division GP W L T OL GF GA PtLangley 42 22 15 1 4 147 130 49Chilliwack 39 23 14 1 1 133 121 48P.G. 40 18 18 0 4 126 144 40Coquitlam 42 15 22 1 4 147 174 35Surrey 41 7 31 0 3 103 217 17

Wednesday’s results N/ALangley at Merritt, 7 p.m.

Tuesday’s resultsCowichan Valley 6 Victoria 5 (OT)

Today’s gamesSalmon Arm at Prince George, 7 p.m.

Friday’s gamesAlberni Valley at Cowichan Valley, 7 p.m.

West Kelowna at Vernon, 7 p.m.Powell River at Coquitlam, 7 p.m.

Victoria at Chilliwack, 7 p.m.Langley at Surrey, 7:11 p.m.Nanaimo at Trail, 7:30 p.m.Penticton at Merritt, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday’s gamesCoquitlam at Vernon, 6 p.m.

Victoria at Prince George, 7 p.m.Surrey at Chilliwack, 7 p.m.

Powell River at West Kelowna, 7 p.m.Nanaimo at Salmon Arm, 7 p.m.

Cowichan Valley at Alberni Valley, 7 p.m.Penticton at Trail, 7:30 p.m.

Top 20 Scoring LeadersPlayer Team GM G A PtCorey Mackin Coquitlam 42 37 32 69Brett Supinski Coquitlam 42 29 28 57J.Lukosevicius Powell River 41 25 30 55Liam Blackburn W.Kelowna 41 14 41 55J. Pritchard Powell R 41 23 31 54Dane Gibson Victoria 39 16 38 54Gage Torrel Langley 41 19 29 48Liam Coughlin Vernon 39 16 32 48Kurt Keats Powell River 36 26 21 47C. Zuccarini Trail 39 24 23 47Jake Lucchini Trail 39 18 28 46Kevan Kilistoff Langley 41 18 28 46J. Luedtke P. G. 40 14 32 46Brett Gruber Victoria 41 26 19 45Liam Finlay Vernon 37 17 28 45Garrett Forster Victoria 41 16 28 44Brendan Taylor Nanaimo 40 20 23 43Jason Cotton W.Kelowna 41 20 23 43Kurt Gosselin Alberni 31 12 31 43Cole Maier Nanaimo 40 20 22 42

Trail Pee Wee Tier 2 and 3 tournamentFriday’s Games

ARENA Time HOME AWAYRossland 1:45 - 3:45 GTMHA T2 KimberleyTrail 2:15 - 4 :15 GTMHA T3 CrestonRossland 4:00 - 6:00 Boise PentictonTrail 4:30 - 6:30 Cranbrook Elk ValleyRossland 6:15 - 8:15 Salmon Arm Castlegar Saturday’s Games Trail 7:30 - 9:30 GTMHA T2 Salmon ArmRossland 8:00 - 10:00 Elk Valley CrestonB. V. 8:00 - 10:00 Boise KimberleyTrail 9:45 - 11:45 Castlegar PentictonRossland 10:15 - 12:15 Cranbrook GTMHA T3Trail 12:00 - 2:00 Boise Salmon ArmTrail 2:15 - 4:15 Kimberley PentictonRossland 2:15 - 4:15 GTMHA T3 Elk ValleyTrail 4:30 - 6:30 GTMHA T2 CastlegarRossland 4:30 - 6:30 Cranbrook Creston

Sunday’s GamesTrail 7:30 - 9:30 1st A T2 2nd B T2Rossland 7:30 - 9:30 2nd A T2 1st B T2Trail 9:45 - 11:45 3rd A T2 3rd B T2Rossland 9:45 - 11:45 T3 3rd T3 4thTrail noon- 2 p.m. Tier 2 FinalRossland 12:00 - 2:00 Tier 3 Final

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B y T i m e s C o n T r i B u T o rTeam Murray Walsh

remained undefeated in the third session of

Trail Retirees Curling action with a win over the Pat Fennell rink.

Walsh blasted out of

the gate against team Fennell, scoring six in the second end. Team Fennell persisted and closed the gap over the next five ends. They pushed hard in the sev-enth end to tie, how-ever, they gave up a steal of three to Walsh, in an eventual 10–6 loss.

Team Pasquali broke open a tight game with the Clair Coleman rink stealing in ends five and six to take a 6-3 lead. Team Coleman stormed back with three in seven, and forced Pasquali to attempt a difficult double take-out in eight. Just missing the double, Serge gave up two, making the final 8–6 for Coleman.

Team Brett Rakuson stayed perfect, facing team Harvey Handley and the first two ends saw the two teams execute every shot. A freeze here, a hit-and-roll there left the score tied at four after two ends. The next six ends both teams came back to earth, some hits,

some misses. When the ice chips settled team Rakuson took the game 10-6.

Team Ernie Brown also went to 2-and-0, getting off to a fast start against team Tom Hall scoring four in the first end. Trading one’s over the next few ends, team Hall tried a triple take out in the seventh end for a big score, but gave up two. Make the final 8-3 for Brown.

On a very keen sheet, team Primo Secco roared out to an eight point advan-tage after four ends over team Jim Stewart. Team Stewart found the right weight in the fifth end but could not generate a big end, fall-ing to Secco 11-5.

In a game that start-ed with a blank first end team Dan Horan battled against team Forrest Drinnan. Key shots made by both teams limited the scor-ing in every end. In a nail bitter over eight ends it was team Horan coming out ahead 6-5.

T h e n e l s o n s T a rNelson native

Dryden Hunt, who has been with the Regina Pats for four years, was traded to the Medicine Hat Tigers last week amidst a successful sea-son that has seen the left winger rack up 51 points.

“It’s obviously a sur-prise. It’s tough to leave somewhere you’ve been for four years. I’ve built a lot of relationships, and it’s tough to say goodbye to my friends, my billets. But I’m pretty excited to be in Medicine Hat, and

we’re going to make the long run this year,” said the 19-year-old.

Hunt moved from the third best team in the eastern conference to the second best. Medicine Hat is also the top-ranked team in the tough central division.

Hunt said he’s thrilled to be play-ing alongside Trevor Cox and Cole Sanford, the top scorers in the league.

“Any time you play with skilled players like that, it’s easy on your game,” he said.

He said the transi-

tion has been a little surreal.

“It was weird the first day to walk into the dressing room and see a new jersey hang-ing there in my locker,” he said.

Hunt’s new team has been on a hot steak since the trade, winning two of three games. The most recent one in Kelowna saw them beat the Rockets, who are currently top team in the country, 5 to 3.

Hunt said he’s excit-ed to meet his new bil-lets and teammates. His teammate and close

friend Kyle Burroughs, who played with him on the Pats, came over in the same trade.

Hunt said he antici-pates he’ll have a prominent place in the Tigers’ lineup.

“Medicine Hat’s one of the smaller teams, and I’m one of the big-ger forwards. So I’ll bring a different type of game. I’m strong on the puck down low, and this team’s obviously fast and buzzing all over the ice, but I’m a player who wants to take the puck to the net,” he said.

Nelson native becomes a TigerWHl

T h e a s s o C i a T e D P r e s sORCHARD PARK, N.Y. - New

team. Same old brash and bold Rex Ryan.

The Buffalo Bills’ new coach opened his inaugural news conference with the team Wednesday by tapping the microphone and saying: “Is this thing on? Because it’s getting ready to be on.”

Outlining his objectives, Ryan said the job is his last chance to prove himself.

He vowed to build the Bills into “a bully” and said he has an additional chip on his shoulder

after being fired by the New York Jets. Ryan maintained the New England Patriots - not the Jets - remain as the AFC East team he wants to beat the most.

Though he stopped short of guaranteeing Buffalo winning a Super Bowl, Ryan did “guaran-tee” winning a championship as being his sole pursuit.

“We’re not afraid of it,” Ryan said. “My message to the players is get ready. We’re going to be playing games in January and so forth. We’re going to build a bully and we’re going to see if you want to play with us for 60

minutes.”The entertaining, provoca-

tive front comes as the Bills search for relevance. Though coming off a 9-7 season, which matched Buffalo’s best finish in 10 years, the team still missed the playoffs to extend the NFL’s longest active drought to 15 seasons.

Ryan spent the previous six seasons with the Jets, where he had a 50-52 record, includ-ing 4-2 in the playoffs. He was fired along with general man-ager John Idzik following a 4-12 finish.

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Leisure

Dear Annie: My boy-friend and I are in our 60s and have known each other since high school. We reconnect-ed five years ago, and for the past 18 months, we’ve been living together.

At first, my boy-friend was loving and sweet and promised all sorts of dreams for our future. But after sever-al months, he changed. He became distant, sometimes even cruel in his actions. I begged him to tell me if there was another woman, but he always denied it, in spite of rumors and the fact that things just seemed off.

The problem is, even after all this time, I still have moments when I’m convinced he had a fling with a certain woman, and I can’t get over it. He still denies it, and I am confused and hurt. But when I ask, he will respond by withdrawing from me for months.

I believe he did have an affair and never got

over her and that’s why we have so little inti-macy now. I have been praying and am seeing a counselor, but I can’t seem to let it go com-pletely. Is there some-thing wrong with me? Or is my intuition tell-ing me that he deceived me and is continuing to lie about it? All my friends say either to let it go or to end it, but I don’t want to leave him, and I have no control over my thoughts and feelings. Please help. -- Louise in Louisville

Dear Louise: Actually, you do have some control over those thoughts and feelings, but it takes effort and willingness. Your intuition is telling

you that your boyfriend is not being completely honest, and you have become fixated on knowing something that he probably will never tell you. And it could be that there is nothing to tell. Because you wish to stay with him, please talk to your counselor about how to forgive him, and then do the necessary work to get there.

Dear Annie: I would like to write a note to all smokers: News flash. You smell like a dirty ashtray. Always. You try to be nice and go outside to have your cigarette, but when you come back in, you still smell like an ashtray. You smoke in your car so you can have your cigarette before you arrive at your desti-nation, but when you walk into the room, you still smell. Your clothes reek of smoke -- always. No amount of perfume covers it up.

Just thought you’d like to know. I know I’m tired of smelling

you. -- A NonsmokerDear Nonsmoker:

Although what you say is true, it is not so simple. Most smok-ers are well aware of the lingering odor, not to mention the yel-lowing teeth and nails, frequent cough, and looming lung cancer. The downside has been well-documented and -publicized. But smok-ing is highly addictive. For some, giving it up is nearly impossible, no matter how much effort they put into try-ing. Though smoking in the car or outside the office is not ideal, it is better than nothing.

Dear Annie: I’d like to offer a more positive response to all those mothers who complain about their daughters-in-law.

My son is married to a wonderful woman. She is a great mother to their two children and stepmother to his daughter. I love this woman with all of my heart. I am always wel-come in their home as

they are in mine. I can have the grandchildren whenever I want. When their daughter was born, my daughter-in-law gave me the most wonderful gift: She allowed me to be in the delivery room for the birth. What a pre-cious woman my son

married.I called her “daugh-

ter,” because to me, that is what she is. My own mother-in-law was not very kind to me, and I vowed I would be different. Sometimes it takes a little work, and sometimes your son marries an angel.

-- Mother-in-Law of an Angel

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@com-cast.net.

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For Friday, Jan. 16, 2015 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Things might look bleak today, because people are easily despondent. In par-ticular, you might be dis-couraged about future trav-el plans or ideas related to politics and religion. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) This is a poor day to discuss how to divide some-thing or share an inheri-tance, because you will like-ly lose. Basically, the odds are against you. Someone might choose to deny you what you want. GEMINI (June 21 to July 22) Play it low key today, and do not ask authority figures for favors or permission. People are more focused on why things cannot be done instead of why they can be done. Yes, negative think-ing. LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Although you might be

involved in disputes about shared property, debt, inheritances or something that has to do with other people’s resources -- post-pone these discussions until Saturday. Right now, every-thing is sticky and tough. VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Ironically, this is a play-ful time for you. You want to have fun! But today, an authority figure might rain on your parade. (Stay in the shadows.) LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) This is one of those days where everything at work is just hard. But we all have these days. In fact, it’s days like this that make you rec-ognize good days! SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Financial matters will not go your way today, so don’t even try to go there. Just bide your time, because tim-ing is everything, especially when it comes to money. SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Saturn in your sign is at odds with fiery Mars today. This ain’t easy for anyone. Be patient with family mem-bers. If someone is upset, don’t take the bait. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Don’t be pushy in conver-sations with others, because they will be pushy back! This is a poor day to chal-lenge anyone older, more experienced or in a position

of authority. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) You will have to work hard for your money today. If you have new moneymak-ing ideas, today is not the day to run them up the flagpole. Instead, wait until Saturday or Monday. PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Life is just tough today. But this is nothing you can’t handle. Just go with the

flow and keep a low profile. You might need to encour-age a friend. YOU BORN TODAY You are diligent, hardworking and always do your home-work. You see the fulfilment and joy of a job well done. You are realistic about your endeavors. Go slowly this year. There is something important to learn. The first half of this year will seem slow, but soon, your efforts of the past six years will

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You’re out in backcountry ski-ing, standing at the top of your line, ready to drop in. The danger rating is considerable so you ease into the slope, placing a big ski cut to see how the snowpack reacts.

Boom! A small slab avalanche releases below you. You watch it slide away, heart pumping, thank-ful you didn’t get caught. A look at the fracture line shows it likely released on that December 17 surface hoar layer the avalanche bulletin warned about.

You whip out your smart phone, turn it on, take a picture, fire up your Avalanche Canada app and within moments you’re sending in a report to the new Mountain Information Network — a web-based tool introduced this season by Avalanche Canada to help backcountry users share information.

“We’ve created a database and mobile app and web app that people can use to input data from the field that they see, very simi-lar to the way professionals do it,” said Karl Klassen, the public avalanche warning service man-ager for Avalanche Canada. “It’s not as in depth or as detailed as a pro system, but it’s more or less the same idea — try to mine the data from the public that’s out in

the mountains every day.”The Mountain Information

Network has existed in different forms in previous years.

The new program still allows for users to upload photos and a text description of what they experienced, but it also features drop-down menus that allow users to describe the snow, ava-lanche and weather conditions they witnessed.

“The platform is much more stable and robust than it was

before. The database is much more complete,” said Klassen.

Inputting information to the network is fairly simple. You can do so on your phone using the Avalanche Canada app, or online at avalanche.ca.

The program allows you to give a title to the report and set the date and time. If you’re input-ting from the field, it can find your location, otherwise you can pinpoint it on a map. There’s also drop-down menus allowing you

to select riding and avalanche conditions.

Under the former, you can indicate snow quality (powder, heavy, wet, wind affected, etc…), what kind of

slopes you rode (alpine, cut blocks, open trees, steep slopes, etc…) and what slopes you avoided. You can also select from several weather options such as cloudy, cold, foggy, stormy, sunny.

A second set of menus lets

you describe the avalanche con-ditions: were their slabs? Did you hear any whumphing? Was there any new snow, wind loading or rising temperatures?

The information is then uploaded to the network, where it is displayed on avalanche.ca. Other users can view your report by clicking on the blue dot.

“Hopefully everybody makes better decisions with that infor-mation,” said Klassen.

The network is still in its initial stages. There are plans in the future to make it even more robust, so a highly-trained recreationist or professional can input more detailed snowpack information, said Klassen.

Avalanche Canada is currently seeking funding to move into the next phase. About $190,000 was spent developing the current app, said Klassen.

“The long-term plan is to build it out into a much more detailed system that allows people to exchange information right down to temperature and wind, avalanche observations, measure-ments of avalanche, snowpack information,” said Klassen.

“Eventually, the long, long term is to build a trip planning tool that allows people to put information together and use the app to make better decisions right in the field where they are.”

Avalanche Canada launches Mountain Information Network

— image credit: avalanche canada website

The Mountain Information Network can be accessed using the Avalanche Canada mobile app or website.

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2074 Butte Street, Rossland$379,000

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435 10th Avenue, Montrose$229,000

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1399 3rd Avenue, Trail $129,000

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Guy Bertrand photo

The peak of Red Mountain sits above the clouds that have kept the valley out of the sunshine this week.

Sunny Summit