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When 7-Eleven shuts its doors in Trail on Friday, site owner Chevron confirms the gas will still be flowing from the pumps.

Adrien Byrne, media contact for Chevron, says the only 24-hour gas station in Trail will remain open to customers.

“At the beginning, we may reduce it for a few hours here and there, but it's likely, there will be a person on site 24 hours,” he said.

“We are going to keep the fuel operations running, but there may

be a day or two that we are not able to sell fuel, just based on logis-tics.”

Having a full time on-site employee at the station would allow customers to use all methods of payment to pay for gas rather than only using their debit or cred-it cards to pay directly at the pump after hours.

Those that want to grab a bag of chips and a pop after filling up the tank may be out of luck while negotiations between Chevron and potential store operators for the site are ongoing.

“I can't give a time frame for the convenience store to open, but there is a plan,” said Byrne.

“We are looking for another operator to manage the site going forward and we are in negotiations, but they haven't concluded yet and that operator would manage the convenience store and overall site.”

Byrne says there is also poten-tial for the new managing operator to purchase the site, but no mat-ter what, there will still be gas to pump.

“We might even reach an agreement where they would buy

[the site] off of us or anything in between,” he said. “It's all part of the discussion, but regardless, we will be selling fuel.”

Although the Chevron site has a convenience store in its future, Byrne says the timing would depend on condition of the site after 7-Eleven's lease is up at the end of the month, even if they leave earlier than June 30.

“When 7-Eleven move out, we would expect that the building would be left pretty empty,” he said.

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B Y S H E R I R E G N I E RTimes Staff

The answer from the regional district to the city is “No,” money from the airport sale cannot be used to build a skate park in Trail.

Following the city’s purchase of the local airstrip from the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary (RDKB) earlier this year, council requested Trail’s portion of the sale be allotted to the proposed Silver City skatepark.

The RDKB board has been in discussion about how to best utilize the funds, said chair Grace McGregor in a letter to Trail council, adding that sale proceeds must be placed in a capital reserve and used for capital projects that benefit the entire region.

Trail’s share of the $1.28 million airport pur-chase is about 26 per cent or $321,000, Coun. Robert Cacchioni told his fellow members dur-ing the June 9 regular meeting.

“The proposal right now is to take that money and use it on something that is going to be a region-wide initiative,” he explained. “Whatever we use it on will function for all 13 RDKB mem-bers,” Cacchioni said. “The skateboard park doesn’t meet the criteria because it will be specific to one small area.”

The regional district is currently reviewing its environmental services plans and considering using the airport funds for an organic waste diversion project that would benefit the entire district or putting the money aside in advance of a phase one closure of the McKelvey Creek landfill.

“The board has not identified any specific projects yet, but the two mentioned by Director Cacchioni are clearly in the discussion,”

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Before I get fully immersed in my work with the Trail Times, I feel as though I should introduce myself to the readers and residents of the area.

I am originally from Toronto, a hustling and bust-ling metropolis where every-one is on the go. I am used to hundreds of thousands of people pushing past each other to get on the subway during rush hour, or a round the block lineup at one of many Starbucks for a mor-ning latte.

I grew up there with my parents and a younger sister and life was never dull. There was always an art show to go to or a bunch of concerts to choose from.

When I made the decision to accept the job and move to Trail, it seemed like the perfect time in my life to pack my boyfriend and my cat into

the car and head west.One question I got from

friends and family was, “Why go so far?” My answer? “Why not?” I just did the same thing in a town that doesn’t seem nearly as welcoming and cultured compared to Trail.

I am a journalism school graduate who spent the last

year or so living in the win-tery north of Alberta honing the skills I learned in school at The Lac La Biche Post and Lac La Biche, let me tell you, is nothing like what I have seen of the Trail area so far. Two traffic lights and a two hour drive to the nearest Tim Horton’s. With a population of only 1,700 in the win-ter, Lac La Biche showed me a new definition of a small town.

In Toronto, and even in Lac La Biche, nobody knows what or where Trail is. As soon as I mentioned it was just south of Nelson, the crinkled brows of confusion transformed into looks and recognition and encourage-ment.

It wasn’t until we got to our fifth hotel stop in Lethbridge, Alta., did people smile with understanding.

Andrew, our waiter at a restaurant we stopped at for some dinner, said he was envious of our destination. Apparently he had friends and family who live in the area and was looking to head in the same direction in the near future. He wished us well and I dug into my pulled

pork sandwich with sweet potato fries.

I had been behind the wheel for a total of 48 hours when I pulled into the drive-way of my new home in Genelle. The second my feet hit the pavement, I took a deep breath of air and all of my muscles, tense from the drive, relaxed and immedi-ately felt at ease.

If the feeling I got from finally freeing myself from the confines of my SUV is any indication of how the next year is going to go, I am optimistic.

I can’t wait to immerse myself in the community of Trail and the surrounding areas – snapping photos and asking questions.

I am looking forward to getting to know the people who make up such a beauti-ful part of the country.

I also can’t wait to find out what I can offer the com-munity. I want to find my place in this community.

I can only keep my fingers crossed and do my best.

Liz Bevan can be reached at 250-364-1242 ext: 212, or by email reporter@trailtimes.ca.

New reporter joins Trail Times team

This is a hand that occurred on Monday afternoon at the Kootenay Jewel

Bridge club. The club is finished for the summer and will resume the second Monday in September at the newly renovated Warfield Hall.

The bidding: South opens one heart with his seven card suit because it is far too strong to pre-empt. West overcalls two clubs, and North could cuebid to show heart support and 10+

points, but she wants to tell part-ner about her six diamonds. Even in competition, two diamonds is forcing and prom-ises a rebid in addition to 10+ points. North knows they have at least a Golden eight-card fit in hearts so distribution is counted.

East jumps to five clubs, but it is too late because the opponents have exchanged enough information. South bids five diamonds and North corrects to five hearts. With a double fit and a void in opponent’s suit, South bids a slam. South could not use Blackwood with a void even if there had been room.

If South had a diamond void and King third of clubs instead of his actual hold-ing, he would not have ven-tured higher than game.

 The Lead: A lead through strength to weakness only

works occa-sionally on the opening lead. It is actually a good play by the LHO of dummy to lead into dummy’s weak suit especially if it is also his weak suit. This finds partner’s

strength positioned stra-tegically behind the declar-er.

On the opening lead, however, a blind lead of a side suit, bid and supported by the opponents, is very risky unless there is a ruff possibility.

To lead a singleton in opponents’ suit, one must have a trump entry and a way to get into partner’s hand to get a ruff. The open-ing leader could have length in opponents’ suit and try to give partner a ruff on the opening lead.

The lead of Queen from Queen Jack frozen in a suit

bid and supported by the opponents is so terrible a lead that it is actually bril-liant because declarer would never dream that the queen was not a singleton.  

The play: Declarer won the Ace of diamonds, drew trump and finessed East for the Jack of diamonds going down in a cold slam.

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More than 3,000 people in Cranbrook will be without a family doctor next month as five physicians are closing down their family practices this year.

Dr. Sheela Mistry and Dr. Rina Fourie at the Associate Medical Clinic will both close their prac-tice in July, leaving about 1,800 patients without a doctor.

Dr. Bob Cutler at the Green Clinic is retiring this summer, meaning his 1,400 patients will no longer have a doctor.

Dr. Stuart Macdonald at the F.W. Green Clinic switched from family practice to emergency medicine in March. His 1,000 patients were mostly covered by other doctors.

Dr. Helena Buchar at the Green Clinic is moving her prac-tice to Kimberley, and many of her patients will travel there to remain in her care.

“The more concerning cases where we are going to have a great deal of unattached patients are Dr. Cutler, Dr. Mistry and Dr. Fourie,” said Dr. James Heilman, an emergency physician at East Kootenay Regional Hospital.

“We have 3,200 people who currently have a family phys-ician, and who will not have a family physician come July when these three physicians are either leaving or retiring.”

It’s normal for doctors to leave for various reasons, he said.

“Dr. Mistry and Dr. Fourie are moving to be closer to their

family, which is completely understandable. Dr. Cutler has had a very long career and he has served our community for many, many years. He has just come to the end of his career. These dif-ferent things have combined to result in three family physicians leaving.

“People leaving communities is a normal part of business; the question is why are we having so much difficulty recruiting new people to replace them.”

Physicians who work in the Cranbrook hospital’s emergency department are concerned about the effect on health care in the community as people who no longer have a family doctor are forced to visit the emergency department whenever they

require medical attention.“Currently in the emergency

department, we see about 22,000 patient visits a year,” said Dr. Heilman. “If we have another 3,200 people who come to the emergency department on aver-age three times each, that could increase the amount of patient visits we are seeing in the emer-gency department by nearly 50 per cent.”

There is only one physician working at a time in the emer-gency department, he explained, aside from five hours a day when there is two.

“If your volumes increase by 50 per cent, one issue is that the space within the facility just isn’t set up to handle that,” said Dr. Heilman.

“The second issue is that it’s not just physicians, it’s also nurs-ing staff and unit clerks. There is not enough of any of these to handle a 50 per cent increase in patient volume.”

That will mean longer wait times, which means patients become frustrated, which has a negative effect on staff in the hospital, he explained.

“We within the emergency department do our best to see people as quickly and as safely as possible. The longer people wait, justifiably the more people get upset about the duration of the wait. If we do see our volumes increasing by 50 per cent, we will do the best we can to help people, but wait times could be substan-tially longer.”

FROM PAGE 1“It would take a while to

do renovations, so it won’t be immediate, but there is a plan. If they leave earlier than that, we can’t actually do anything on the site because they will still

have the lease. “We have to wait until the

lease expires.”The future of employees at

Trail’s 7-Eleven hasn’t been confirmed, but Laurie Smith, communications manager for

7-Eleven Canada says transfers could potentially be the next step.

“Where ever possible, we have been successful at transferring staff to other locations,” she said in an email reply.

Cranbrook to lose five family doctors at end of month

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FROM PAGE 1confirmed John MacLean, the regional district’s chief admin-istrative officer (CAO).

Another avenue for skate park funding is through Columbia Basin Trust (CBT), but that direction also recently hit a wall.

In 2012, the City of Trail earmarked over $10,000 to the skate park from CBT’s annual Community Initiatives grant program, however those funds had to be spent within one year, or one year after an approved extension.

“There was an extension to the Skate Park Society and I understand that one of the extensions of time has lapsed,” explained David Perehudoff, Trail’s CAO.

The money is returned to the city as part of next year’s CBT allocation, he continued.

“Council can choose to reallocate the money back into the group, allocate towards a different project or determine not to allocate all of the (CBT) funding until other funding for this project is finally secured.”

News of the RDKB decision is just one more letdown the Trail skate park committee has rolled through this year after approaching city council in February with an appeal for a more reasonable fundraising goal.

Two years ago, Trail council committed to funding one half of the estimated $550,000 cost

for the proposed skate park pro-ject once the group of volun-teers raised the first $275,000.

The struggling but resili-ent fundraisers asked the city to reduce that lofty goal to $100,000, but the request was declined by Trail council in February.

In March, the whole skate park initiative was put to bed for another year after Trail council bypassed the project in this year’s budget.

“Our committee is getting used to disappointments,” said park fundraiser Patrick Audet. “But the fact is we remain com-mitted to getting the skate park built at our site in the Gulch.”

A good turnout from the community in support of the skate park during May’s Silver City Days gave Audet and fellow fundraisers the bump they needed to keep going.

“We are not going to stop from continuing to push and seek funds to complete our goal,” he said. “The enthusiasm for all roller sports continues to give us the moral support for what we are trying to achieve.”

Elsewhere in the region, the Queen City celebrated the grand opening of the Nelson Outdoor Skate park on May 31.

The 15,000 square-foot facil-ity was completed following a $400,000 grant from the prov-ince’s community recreation program in 2011, CBT funds and ongoing community fund-raising.

Setbacks continue for Trail skate park

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Teachers from Fruitvale Elementary School sit on the picket line in solidarity with the British Columbia Teachers' Federation on the first day of full scale strike Tuesday. From the left; teachers Sarah Fayant, Michelle Priddy and Stephanie Mervyn hold signs demanding a 'fair deal' for teachers. See story Page 4.

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In contrast to the “take no prisoners” approach of a court battle, the less adversarial mediation process fosters better ongoing relationships during and after the break-up. That’s a big bene� t. Particularly where you have kids, it’s important for you and your ex to stay on speaking terms. You’ll both be involved in your children’s lives (and so with each other) for many years to come, and it’s important for the kids’

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Surprisingly, mediations very often succeed even if you and your ex seem miles apart at the start. Of course, neither of you will get everything you want, but chances are it’s the best way for you to each get many of the things most important to you individually.

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SVANCOUVER - The union

representing education-support workers in British Columbia’s public schools has ratified a new contract with the provincial gov-ernment.

The tentative deal between the BC Public School Employers’ Association and the CUPE K-12 Presidents’ Council was reached June 8.

The union says the contract will run for five years from July 1 until June 30, 2019 and will give members a wage increase of 5.5

per cent over five years.The deal will now form the

basis of agreements between CUPE locals and their school boards, and the union says those locals have until the end of November to rat-ify the contract and be included in the provincial framework.

CUPE represents more than 27,000 education-support workers in 59 locals and 53 school districts province-wide.

Its members work as education assistants, secretaries, custodians, IT workers, trades and mainten-ance workers and bus drivers.

Education support workers’ union ratifies latest deal T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S S

VANCOUVER - As teachers staged their first day of a full-scale strike in British Columbia, the prov-ince’s education min-ister said negotiations would resume only if the union comes to the table with a fully costed proposal.

Peter Fassbender said the government’s negotiator was ready to go back to the bar-gaining table with the B.C. Teachers

Federation on Tuesday afternoon.

“The BCTF has not put a fully costed, comprehensive pro-posal on the table. That’s what we’re wait-ing for, that’s what we need and negotiations can continue,” he said.

Both sides failed to reach an agreement on the weekend, leading to a full-scale walkout Tuesday.

Fassbender said both sides need to stop playing “the blame game,” but he also said teachers are demand-ing “at least two times more” than other pub-lic-sector unions that have settled contracts.

Picket lines went up Tuesday, with plac-ard-carrying teachers outside schools across B.C. In Victoria, high school counsellor Lorna Maximick said she was optimistic about an agreement but is now resolved to what could be a sum-mer-long strike.

“I don’t want to be here, standing on the street,” Maximick said

Tuesday. “It’s been a very angst(-filled) month or six weeks. I work with Grade 12s as well as other kids so I feel for that.

Many end-of-school events and ceremon-ies have been cancelled due to the labour woes that have built up since three weeks of rotating strikes began in May, with schools in each district closed for a day.

The government imposed a partial lockout in response and docked teachers’ pay cut by 10 per cent when their rotating strikes began.

“I think there’s an agenda here with the provincial govern-ment, and I don’t quite know what it is but I don’t feel very good about it,” Maximick said Tuesday on the picket line.

Educational assist-ants who work in class-rooms were also off the job, even though they are not on strike.

Cristina Carrasco, a CUPE member, is hon-

ouring teachers’ picket lines and says the strike has left assistants and many teachers unable wish students and fam-ilies a safe and happy summer.

“I’m missing the closure. We didn’t have enough time to say goodbye to the children and to thank parents, so it’s weird.”

In Delta, south of Vancouver, union president Jim Iker stood with picketing teachers and repeated complaints that all union proposals have been rejected by the government’s bar-gaining agent.

Such claims pro-duced a stern denial from chief govern-ment negotiator Peter Cameron, who accused Iker of misrepre-senting the facts.

Wages, class size, support for students and the hiring of spe-cialist teachers remain key issues in the strike that affects more than 40,000 teachers and about half a million students.

Teachers’ strike underway

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REGINA - Education Minister Don Morgan says the Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation and its members need to get on the same page for contract demands.

Morgan says it’s troubling that teachers have rejected a second offer that their union negotiated with the government.

“My own opinion at the present time, is I think they’ve got some work to do between themselves and their own membership,” Morgan said Tuesday.

“And probably they need to spend a bit of time just to sit down, work through what the process should be for themselves, so that they know when a contract gets entered into on a tentative basis that it’s likely going to be ratified.”

The proposed agreement included a wage increase of 7.3 per cent over four years, but 63 per cent of more than 13,000 teachers voted against it.

Federation president Colin Keess said Monday the deal was the best that could be reached at the bargaining table and the union is concerned that it wasn’t acceptable to teachers.

The federation said it will apply for con-ciliation.

Connie Bailey, a spokeswoman for the government bargaining committee, has said the offer was comparable to terms in other public sector agreements and would have kept Saskatchewan teachers competitive with other teachers in Western Canada.

Morgan said some of the things that con-cern teachers can’t be included in a contract, such as class size, curriculum and respect, but he hopes those issues can be worked out separately.

“Whether it’s possible to address those over the summer months or not, I don’t know. What we’d really like to do is get an agreement in place, so that funds can flow to teachers and we put the financial aspects behind. Then we move on with the other issues.”

Saskatchewan teachers have been without a contract since Aug. 31, 2013.

Morgan said there doesn’t appear to be an “appetite for job action” in Saskatchewan. But he also said teachers seem to be frustrated across Canada.

T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SOTTAWA - The fed-

eral government is giv-ing a conditional green light to Enbridge Inc.’s controversial $7-bil-lion Northern Gateway pipeline project between the Alberta oilsands and the B.C. coast.

A joint federal review panel recom-mended approval of the 1,177-kilometre pipeline in December, with 209 conditions; the Conservative gov-ernment has made it clear that finding new markets for Canadian oil is an economic pri-ority.

The federal govern-ment’s decision is con-tingent on Enbridge (TSX:ENB) satisfying all 209 of those con-ditions and embarking on more consultations with affected aborig-inal communities.

“Today constitutes another step in the process,” National Resources Minister Greg Rickford said in a news release.

“Moving forward, the proponent must demonstrate to the independent regulator, the NEB, how it will meet the 209 condi-tions.”

Enbridge must also apply for regulatory permits and author-izations from federal and provincial govern-ments, and Rickford

noted that many of the 209 conditions listed by the National Energy Board call for addition-al consultations with First Nations.

“The proponent clearly has more work to do in order to ful-fill the public commit-ment it has made to engage with Aboriginal groups and local com-munities along the route,” said Rickford.

The project, which would move an esti-mated 525,000 barrels of petroleum products each day, still faces pol-itical and legal challen-ges from various fronts in B.C., where oppos-ition to the project has grown as the decision drew near.

Those include a half dozen applications with the Federal Court for judicial review of the federal panel report recommending

approval. The Gitxaala and Coastal First Nations have already said they are prepar-ing broader lawsuits against either the fed-eral government, the company, or both.

“There are going to very substantial delays on actually moving on this project,” Werner Antweiler, who teach-es at the University of British Columbia’s business school, said in an interview Tuesday before Ottawa announced its deci-sion.

“If there are more delays, what does it mean to the profitabil-ity of the project?”

There are three major competing proposals: Kinder Morgan’s proposed expansion of its Trans Mountain pipeline to the Vancouver area, the Keystone XL line

proposed to the U.S. Gulf Coast and Trans Canada’s (TSX:TRP)

Energy East into Quebec and New Brunswick.

northern Gateway

Pipeline gets conditional approvalVANCOUVER - Some facts about the

Northern Gateway project, which the fed-eral government conditionally approved on Tuesday:

Cost: Estimated to be $7 billion, but that figure has been increasing.

Route: Twin pipelines would run 1,177 kilometres from Bruderheim, just outside Edmonton, to a tanker port in Kitimat, on the northern coast of B.C.

Oil: A westbound pipeline would carry up to 525,000 barrels a day of synbit, a blend of refined synthetic oil and bitumen, two types of dilbit and synthetic oil to Kitimat for export.

Condensate: A second pipeline heading east would carry 193,000 barrels per day of nat-ural gas condensate, which is used to dilute

the molasses-like bitumen to allow it to flow through pipelines.

Terminal: The Kitimat Marine Terminal would include two ship berths and 19 tanks to store oil and condensate. It would have the capacity to serve about 220 tankers per year.

Value: The pipeline is estimated to be worth $300 billion in additional gross domestic prod-uct over 30 years. Governments are expected to net an estimated $80 billion in tax and royalty revenues over those three decades: $36 billion for Ottawa, $32 billion for Alberta and $6.7 billion for B.C. Saskatchewan would net an estimated $4 billion.

Jobs: The company says it would result in 3,000 new construction jobs in B.C. and 560 long-term jobs.

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OPINION

Want a middle class? Imitate Alberta and Saskatchewan

There has been much handwringing over the claimed dis-appearance of the

middle class. From a best-selling international tome to domestic tax-and-spend types who think higher taxes will create more mid-dle-income earners, there is no shortage of those who over-focus on redistribu-tion and underestimate the benefits of opportunity.

As an example of the benefits of opportun-ity, Alberta created 71,200 new jobs over the past 12 months while Saskatchewan saw a gain of 11,800 jobs. Compare that to a gain of 39,400 in Ontario (a province with a much larger popula-tion) and 10,300 new jobs in British Columbia. (The other six provinces lost jobs in the past year.)

As to why Alberta and Saskatchewan are doing so much better, the usual explanation is that Alberta (and Saskatchewan) lucked out because of their natural resources.

Except that dumb luck doesn’t explain it all. Holland, Singapore and Hong Kong have little in the way of natural resour-

ces and yet prosper while Nigeria and Russia extract a lot of oil but have very little in the way of a middle class.

At the national level, it is boring but important policy such as a stable cur-rency and domestic peace matter – as well as property rights, the rule of law, a lack of corruption, independent courts, smart but not over-burdensome regulation, an educated population, the size of government rela-tive to the economy, and tax policy – that lead to the creation of prosperity and the formation of the middle class.

I don’t have the space to discuss all such factors – any country or province can mess up a natural advantage – but let’s con-sider only one issue – tax rates – that can be easily compared across provinces and which has an effect upon wealth creation and thus opportunities and jobs.

Alberta has long had the lowest overall provincial tax burden. For example, a two-parent, one-income family with two kids and employment income of $75,000 pays $3,446 less in

total provincial taxes when compared with the same $75,000 couple in Ontario. The same family in Nova Scotia will pay $6,947 more in provincial taxes than if they lived in Alberta.

Alberta’s politicians have also generally and comparatively been smart on what might be called “opportunity policy.” Unlike Atlantic Canada, Quebec or Manitoba on taxes, or Ontario on power policy, or Quebec on exces-sive interference in almost every aspect of its econ-omy, Alberta has historic-ally not disadvantaged its entrepreneurs. That policy alone has led to wealth-creating opportunities and a cornucopia of new jobs, helping make Alberta the

most middle class-friendly province in Canada.

More proof of this comes from the Canada Revenue Agency. Compared with other provinces, Alberta has the smallest share of people (42.2 per cent) who report income of less than $30,000. Saskatchewan is next (47.4 per cent). The national average is 50.6 per cent, while Ontario’s is 50.1 per cent and Quebec’s is 53 per cent, while half or more tax filers in all other provinces have incomes of less than $30,000.

Now look at income between $30,000 and $100,000 and let’s assume that range as a proxy for the middle class. Fully 45.5 per cent of Albertans fall into that category. Again, only Saskatchewan (45.2 per cent) comes close to Alberta. Ontario has a smaller middle class (42.9 per cent) as does Quebec (42.7 per cent), with the national percentage at 42.9 per cent.

Newfoundland and Labrador has the small-est proportion here, with just 39.7 per cent of the population reporting an income between $30,000 and $100,000.

More dramatically, in Alberta 12.2 per cent of the population report incomes of over $100,000. That is almost double the propor-tion of all Canadians (6.6 per cent), higher than in Ontario (7 per cent) and starkly higher than Quebec where just 4.5 per cent of the population report taxable income above $100,000.

Or put another way, Alberta has less of its popu-lation in the very poorest income class and pro-portionately more in the middle- and high-income cohorts. And Alberta (and to a lesser degree Saskatchewan) performed this feat with massive in-migration from other prov-inces and from around the world.

Alberta is not perfect and has its own policy failures. But good overall provincial policy produces natural wealth creation. That, in turn, encourages job creation and explains why Alberta in particular is flourishing and does so with a burgeoning middle class.

Mark Milke is a Senior Fellow with the Fraser Institute.

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Proceeding with the deci-sion to sole source F-35 fighter jets for the Royal Canadian Air Force is

irresponsible and flies in the face of fiscal conservatism.

We are currently waiting for the results from a special panel of “experts” commissioned by the Harper government’s National Fighter Procurement Secretariat. The media is reporting it’s highly likely this panel will recom-mend the govern-ment proceed with its sole sourcing of the F-35, as recom-mended by DND to Public Works and Government Services Canada, a decision that was originally justified with that infamous 160-word memo that preceded a com-plete statement of “Canadian” operational requirements.

But the facts are that the F-35 is already seven years behind schedule and is many billions of dollars over budget. A report from the United States Director of Operational Test and Evaluation indicates sig-nificant technical problems with the aircraft’s software and other aircraft systems. To keep the project moving, several performance require-ments have been reduced to below the minimum acceptable as originally demanded by the Joint Operations Requirements Document.

A technical discussion on the performance merits of the F-35 contains a multitude of forward-looking statements by the manufacturer that time

has shown to be significantly less impressive than promised. There is a high probability that Harper’s “expert” panel continued to compare these forward-looking statements against competitor “unclassi-fied” information, which would yield the results the Harper government needed to vindi-cate its original sole source decision, a decision and process highly criticized by the Auditor

General. Like they say, garbage in gar-bage out.

The F-35 is the CF-18 replacement option that inte-

grates most poorly into our Canadian infrastructure. It is the only choice that comes with no guaranteed industrial regional benefits. The memo-randum of understanding Canada signed does not com-mit us to purchasing the air-craft, but does permit Canada to compete for work through-out the project as long as we pay more than $700 million to the manufacture over several phases.

So, where are we? Whether one denies the technical real-ities of the F-35 is irrelevant. The real question is: is it wise to contractually attach ourselves to a program of significant technical and financial risk? To conclude that if we don’t buy this troubled and costly F-35 that we will be shunned or excluded by our coalition partners is to believe that some of NATO’s biggest partners (France and Germany) will also be irrelevant since neither is

getting involved in this mess. The Harper government

initially tried to sell Canadians that the F-35 program would cost us $14.7 billion. Since then, the Parliamentary Budget Officer estimated a cost of near-ly $30 billon and a KPMG esti-mated $46 billion. The num-ber grew every time someone looked at it.

My opinion as a former CF-18 pilot and Operational Fleet Manager for the Canadian Forces is that infrastructure costs are woefully underesti-mated. Recently, the Rideau Institute released a paper by University of British Columbia Prof. Michael Byers who esti-mated a total program cost of $126 billion.

The truth is the govern-ment has no idea what the F-35 program will cost Canada. But since the F-35 cannot deliver the capability it promised on time and on budget, the time has come to seriously evaluate other alternatives.

A new statement of oper-ational requirements focused on our defence priorities is a great place to start. A competi-tion of demonstrated perform-ance, industrial benefit and price gets a ticket to the dance. If we have the courage to think for ourselves, alternatives to the F-35 exist. We cannot afford to get this wrong.

Maj Stephen Fuhr (retired) is a former CF-18 pilot and Operation Fleet Manager. He is also a former business owner and is a board member of the Liberal Party of Canada for Kelowna-Lake Country.

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TORONTO – While 39 per cent of Canada’s baby boomer generation agree retirement planning should begin when people enter the workplace, only 9 per cent actually thought about their retirement when they entered the workforce.

Other key findings in a new Scotiabank study, The Retirement Landscape - A Focus on the Baby Boomer, include:

• Nearly one-third (31per cent) of boomers don’t know what percentage of pre-retirement income they’ll need,

and just over one-quarter (28 per cent) will be carrying some form of debt into their retire-ment;

• Working in retirement is common among boomers, with 40 per cent of retirees working past retirement, 84 per cent of which are working part-time;

• Among those boomers not yet retired, 15 per cent plan to never stop working;

• The top reasons retir-ees are working in retirement are to remain mentally active 76

per cent; for social interaction 61 per cent; followed by finan-cial necessity 39 per cent;

• More than half of boomers who haven’t retired yet (55 per cent) agreed that “not having enough money saved up to retire comfortably” could result in delays in when they decide to retire; and

Boomers’ top triggers to start thinking about retirement are when they have enough money (42 per cent), when their pen-sion begins (16 per cent), and health reasons (10 per cent).

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Carmel Baird says she’s really no different from any other working mom.

The Edmonton mother lives on a ranch full of kids and grandkids, a menagerie of dogs, horses and chickens, and her hunting enthusi-ast husband Dave. Oh, and she deliv-ers messages from the spirit world.

“I think we’re just a normal, average family, but I happen to talk to dead people. That seems really odd, but it’s true,” Baird says with a laugh.

Her unique connection to the afterlife is the focus of a new real-ity series, “Mom’s a Medium.” Premiering on CMT Canada on Friday, the show follows Baird as she communicates with the beyond and brings grieving families closure - all while juggling a busy family life of her own.

Baird says she has suffered from severe anxiety her entire life, which sometimes forced her to remain housebound for days. About five years ago, she realized that the cause of her panic was being inun-dated by voices of the dead.

“I did not want to be a medium. I did not sign up for this and say, ‘I want to be a medium.’ It was not ever what I thought I would be doing with my life,” she says.

“But I was suffering with panic and anxiety, and if I give the messa-ges to people, and I use this ability, my panic and anxiety is less. I don’t have to medicate. I don’t have to do any of those things. So I think there has to be a reason why I have this.”

The messages she says she receives are not always voices, but can be thoughts or visions. For example, she describes one reading in which a little girl’s spirit pointed to a frying pan and mimed making smiley-face pancakes - a weekend

tradition in that family’s home.She says she knows skeptics will

doubt her abilities or even her san-ity - her own husband thought she was “nuts” at first. Asked whether she is simply exploiting people who are grieving and desperate to hear from their loved ones, Baird says no.

“Here’s what I think exploiting is. If I were to walk up to someone who didn’t ask me for a reading and just started dumping it on them, that’s wrong. You would never, ever see me do it on the show,” she says.

“But if someone’s willing to come to me and say, ‘Can you connect? Can you give me something?’ Then I’m going to give you everything I can.”

During the recent interview Baird delivered messages to a Canadian Press reporter from deceased family members that were at times eerily significant and, at other times, com-pletely inexplicable. In all, about two-thirds of her suggestions hit the mark.

The psychic reading relied on a lot of give-and-take - for example, Baird would say that she was hear-ing a name that starts with an “M,” or that she felt “distance” between two people, and it was up to the reporter to fill in the gaps. Still, she managed to piece together a signifi-cant family event.

Baird says she feels she brings closure to both spirits and to people in mourning. She adds she believes that everyone has the ability to speak to spirits but that our egos have suppressed that skill.

“I believe we all have this. I think we are all privileged to communi-cate with the other side,” she says.

“I think we all have intuition. The same voice when you’re driving the road that says, ‘Go home, you left the stove on,’ that’s the same voice that tells me ‘Uncle Harry’s here.’ I teach people that.”

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T H E A S S O C I A T E D P R E S SLOS ANGELES - Mayor Eric

Garcetti used the F-bomb in declar-ing it a big day for LA, bring-ing 19,000 hockey fans to their feet, lighting up the Twitterverse in delight and, oh yeah, leaving some folks scratching their heads, wondering just what the heck the normally soft-spoken elected offi-cial was thinking.

Having shed his pinstriped suit of choice for a hockey jersey Monday, Garcetti stepped in front of the TV cameras and a full house at Staples Center, where the Los Angeles Kings had won hockey’s Stanley Cup championship.

“There are two rules in politics,” Garcetti told those celebrating the victory. “They say never ever be pictured with a drink in your hand.

And never ever swear.Then he added dramatically:

“But this is a big f---ing day. Way to go, guys.”

Within minutes, Garcetti’s remarks were trending on Twitter and appearing uncensored on YouTube, just as Fox Sports West was apologizing for letting them get on the air.

Appearing on “Jimmy Kimmel

Live” later Monday, Garcetti got a loud round of cheers when Kimmel told him “I enjoyed your perform-ance at the rally today.”

Garcetti replied, “I got a little ahead of myself. But you’ve got to remember, we didn’t win at lawn bowling, we won in hockey.”

The mayor added, “Kids out there do not say what your mayor said today.”

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WASHINGTON - Ralph Lauren’s love for the American flag and American style earned him high honours Tuesday from the Smithsonian Institution, celebrating his five decades in fashion.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton helped present the James Smithson Bicentennial Medal to the designer at the National Museum of American History following a naturalization ceremony for 15 new U.S. cit-izens. The award also marks the 200th anniversary of the actual flag that inspired the national anthem.

Clinton noted that Lauren, 74, is the son of immigrants from Belarus who grew up in the Bronx, New York.

“Now surely Ralph and his family ... could not have imagined, or maybe they could have when they landed in the Bronx, that their lives would be the embodiment of the American dream,” Clinton said.

Clinton wore a pantsuit to Tuesday’s event that was Lauren’s first-ever custom-designed outfit for her, includ-ing a cobalt-blue structured silk jacket.

Clinton and Lauren first joined forces in 1998, when she was first lady, to raise

money for the Smithsonian to preserve the original “Star-Spangled Banner” flag that inspired the national anthem, along with other historic arti-facts, through Clinton’s Save America’s Treasures program. Lauren donated $10 million to help restore the flag and another $3 million to support the preservation program.

Lauren is known for designs that have defined American fashion and for his patriotic uniforms for U.S. Olympic athletes. He got his start sell-ing ties from a drawer at the Empire State Building. Now Ralph Lauren Corp. has 25,000 employees worldwide.

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Inspired by the play of World Cup footballers, Kootenay South Youth Soccer Association (KSYSA) teams kicked it up a notch in regional play-offs advancing four teams to the prov-incial championships.

The KSYSA Storm’s U13, U14, and U16 boys teams all won their qualify-ing matches against various Kootenay counterparts to punch their tickets to the Provincial B Cup Championship in Richmond July 3-6, while the Girls U18 advanced unopposed and will trav-el to Chilliwack the same weekend.

The U16 team rolled over Creston with a decisive 11-0 victory at Mazzochi Park in Fruitvale on Saturday. Backstopped by goalie Mike Isernia, striker Blake Sidoni netted a hat trick, while Eli Voykin, Mason Todevic, and Matt Liszt all scored a pair of goals to send the team to its second straight provincial tournament. The Storm, formerly known as the Bighorns, will look to improve on their top-three fin-ish in last year’s championship.

“They worked hard all year for this,” said U16 coach Neil Moon after the vic-tory. “We came third at the provincials last year so we really stepped it up this year.”

While a few tournaments the team had planned to attend were cancelled, Moon is happy with the team’s prog-ress and confident that tournaments in Kalispell, Lethbridge, and Nelson have adequately prepared the U16s for the always tough Island and Lower Mainland competition.

“I think the experience we gained last year and the hunger we have this year, I think we’ll be competitive for the provincials again.”

The Storm/Bighorns beat Terrace in last year’s bronze-medal game after defeating Victoria and Quesnel and falling to eventual champion New Westminster by one goal in the round robin matches. Moon hopes for better this year.

“We’ll be happy with a good effort, but it would sure be nice for the Kootenays to win,” he added. “I don’t think the Kootenays has won one in any age division for about 20 years.”

The U13 boys meanwhile netted back-to-back shutouts with a 6-0 win over Cranbrook and a 5-0 victory ver-sus Nelson to advance to the provin-cials. The U14 Storm advanced after defeating Nelson in a pair of 1-0 games in Nelson on the weekend.

Top row: Coach Carlo Masini, Noah Kilby Liam Harder, Andrew Voykin, Manager Jim Kilby, Cam Cosbey, Logan Tanguay. Bottom row L-R Noah Lunn, Corbin Degeorgio, Michel Hjelkrem, Nicholas Fitchet, Tyler Reid, Mattias Hoffman, Owen Rielly, Reid Bellamy, Nathan Masini, Cameron Cosbey, Front row Goalies Issac Tebulte and Aden Goertzen.

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Back from left: Coach Rob Fogal, Darren McBee, Josh Fogal, Julian Jinjoe, Brandon Costa, Kody Babakaiff, Aiden Jenner, Spencer Zappavigna, Jake Pottle. Front: Michael Schlender, Alex Sukra, Garret Ciarullo, Keenan Crossman, Noah Larocque, Ben Fogal.

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Head coach Neil Moon, assistant coach Ken Nutini, manager Dominic Isernia. Players include Devon Dunkley, Akira Engelbrecht, Nicholas Fantin, Dennis Grinblats, Michael Isernia, Jordan Kniert, Quenton Lavorato, Mathew Liszt, Malcolm MacLeod, Michael Moon, Sawyer Murdoch, Kevin Nutini, Rowen Stevens, Bryden Tache, Keeghan Tingley, Mason Todevic, Eli Voykin, and Tristan Jinjoe.

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The Trail Stingrays were the consummate hosts at the Trail Aquatic Centre on the weekend as they placed second overall with some great performances in the pool.

“We swam very well in our home meet,” said Stingrays coach Samme Beatson. “The personal best times were too numerous to count with some swimmers taking up to 45 seconds off in an individual event.”

With a large contingent, Castlegar was the top team with 618 points, while Trail placed second with 15 fewer swimmers than the Castlegar team. This gives the Stingrays an average of 20 points per swimmer; the equivalent of placing second in all four events.

Nicole Merry and Diego Greenwood captured silver in Div 5 Girls and Boys respectively. Josie Dunham placed third overall in Girls Div. 1, while Reid Dunham placed third in Div. 4. Josh Ballarin swam to bronze in Boys Division 5, Elijah Grebe came second in Div. 6.

All of the coaches also placed this weekend with Jennifer Chung nabbing second in the open category, and Maddie Green coming third, while head coach Beatson claimed silver in Div 8. Chung, a former Times student reporter, set two meet records, smashing the previous 200 Individual Medley record of 3:18:92 by over 30 seconds with a time of 2:44:78. She also eclipsed the 100-m breaststroke previous best with a 1:24:03 swim.

Rookie racers Marco Santano, Savana Causey, Sienna Shields-Strong and Nate Shields-Strong swam in their first home meet and all swam exceptionally well, added Beatson.

Next up for the Stingrays is a swim meet in Creston this weekend followed by the Colville, Wash. meet the following weekend.

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B y T i m e s s T a f fThe Trail Orioles

single-A baseball team dropped a pair of close games on the weekend at Butler Park.

The Orioles played a double-header against Mead on Saturday looking for its first victory of the season. However, a 17-11 loss in the opener followed by a 5-4 late-inning victory in the second half of the double header leaves the O’s with an 0-4 record in the ‘A’ Washington State American Legion baseball league.

In the first match Trail rebounded from a 7-1 deficit, scoring

eight runs in the third inning to go ahead 9-7. However, Mead struck back in the fifth with six runs of their own to take a 13-10 lead before closing it out with four runs in the sixth.

In the second match, the Spokane team went up 4-1 in

the third inning. Yet, the persistent Orioles

would chip away at the lead, scoring one in

the fourth and tying it at four in the sixth

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FIFA World CupGROUP A

GP W L T PtBrazil 2 1 0 1 4Mexico 2 1 0 1 4Cameroon 1 0 1 0 0Croatia 1 0 1 0 0

GROUP B GP W L T PtNetherlands 1 1 0 0 3Chile 1 1 0 0 3Australia 1 0 1 0 0Spain 1 0 1 0 0

GROUP C GP W L T PtColombia 1 1 0 0 3Ivory Coast 1 1 0 0 3Japan 1 0 1 0 0Greece 1 0 1 0 0

GROUP D GP W L T PtCosta Rica 1 1 0 0 3Italy 1 1 0 0 3England 1 0 1 0 0Uruguay 1 0 1 0 0

GROUP E GP W L T PtFrance 1 1 0 0 3Switzerland 1 1 0 0 3Ecuador 1 0 1 0 0Honduras 1 0 1 0 0

GROUP F GP W L T PtArgentina 1 1 0 0 3Nigeria 1 0 0 1 1Iran 1 0 0 1 1Bosnia-Herz 1 0 1 0 0

GROUP G GP W L T PtGermany 1 1 0 0 3United States 1 1 0 0 3Ghana 1 0 1 0 0Portugal 1 0 1 0 0

GROUP H GP W L T PtBelgium 1 1 0 0 3South Korea 0 0 0 0 0Russia 0 0 0 0 0Algeria 1 0 1 0 0 Results

Thursday, June 12Brazil 3 Croatia 1Friday, June 13

Mexico 1 Cameroon 0

Spain 1 Netherlands 5Chile 3 Australia 1Saturday, June 14

Colombia 3 Greece 0Uruguay 1 Costa Rica 3

England 1 Italy 2Ivory Coast 2 Japan 1

Sunday, June 15Switzerland 2 Ecuador 1

France 3 Honduras 0Argentina 2 Bosnia-

Herzegovina 1Monday, June 16

Germany 4 Portugal 0Iran 0 Nigeria 0

Ghana 1 United States 2Tuesday, June 17Belgium 2 Algeria 1Brazil 0 Mexico 0

S Korea at Russia, 6 p.m. N/AToday’s Games

Netherlands at Australia, 12 p.m.

Chile at Spain, 3 p.m.Croatia at Cameroon, 6 p.m.

At CuritibaRussia vs. Algeria, 4 p.m.

At Sao PauloBelgium vs. S Korea, 4 p.m.

GolfWorld Golf Ranking

Through June 15 1. Adam Scott AUS 9.242. Henrik Stenson SWE 8.013. Bubba Watson USA 7.284. Tiger Woods USA 7.075. Matt Kuchar USA 7.066. Rory McIlroy NIR 6.877. Jason Day AUS 6.798. Sergio Garcia ESP 6.089. Jordan Spieth USA 5.9410. Justin Rose ENG 5.9311. Martin Kaymer GER 5.5512. Jim Furyk USA 5.513. Phil Mickelson USA 5.4314. H Matsuyama JPN 5.0915. Dustin Johnson USA 5.0816. Zach Johnson USA 5.0617. Jimmy Walker USA 4.3818. Steve Stricker USA 4.3519. Jason Dufner USA 4.2620. Luke Donald ENG 4.1921. Vic Dubuisson FRA 4.1222. G McDowell NIR 4.1123. Keegan Bradley USA 4.0824. C Schwartzel SAF 4.0425. Ian Poulter ENG 3.9126. Thomas Bjorn DEN 3.8927. Rickie Fowler USA 3.8328. M.A. Jimenez ESP 3.729. Patrick Reed USA 3.6930. Lee Westwood ENG 3.52

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The Trail Steelers fast-ball team won gold at the Vernon Summer Classic U14 Girls Softball Tournament earlier this month going undefeated with a 6-0 record. The team will also host the West Kootenay year end tournament this weekend at Haley Park in Warfield. Back row: Katie Dann, Tessy Brandt, Clarice Tuai, Kira Konkin, and Elle Mayer. Front from: Halle McKinnon, Megan Caron, Alyssa Piva, and Carollynn Ballarin.

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SVANCOUVER - David

Booth has been placed on unconditional waiv-ers by the Canucks for the purpose of buying him out.

If Booth clears waiv-ers, Vancouver can use a compliance buyout on the 29-year-old for-ward. Booth had one year left on his con-tract at a salary of US$4.75 million and a salary-cap hit of $4.25 million.

The Detroit native had nine goals and 10 assists in 66 games this past season. Injuries limited him to 12 games in the 2012-’13 campaign.

Like other

unrestricted free agents, Booth can talk to other teams begin-ning June 25 and sign a new deal July 1.

Buying out Booth is another change for the Canucks, who traded Roberto Luongo and fired general manager Mike Gillis and coach John Tortorella earlier this spring.

The team has since hired Trevor Linden as president and Jim Benning as General manager.

More moves are expected, including the hiring of a new coach.

Along with Booth, Ville Leino was also placed on waivers Tuesday as the Buffalo Sabres intend to use a compliance buyout to get out of the final three years of his con-tract.

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FROM PAGE 9It was a good effort by the home team against

second place Mead, which is 6-2 in the WSALB North division. Last season the single-A team lost their opening six games before winning 10 of their last 12 to finish in second place.

The ‘A’ Orioles next games go Sunday at Butler Park against Mt. Spokane at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.

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Dear Annie: My husband calls me the “Throwaway Queen.” I have gotten into hot water for not asking before I trashed some-thing. Now I think I’ve made a huge mistake.

My husband is now far into dementia. We are thinking of mov-ing, so I started clean-ing out storage bins. I threw away two items of my husband’s that had been in those bins for years. Last week, his son came over to help clear out some things and specifically asked for the items I tossed. They apparently were of sentimental value to him.

I acted as if I hadn’t a clue what he was talk-ing about, but I feel so guilty and ashamed. This is a burden on my conscience, and I don’t know what to do. I don’t want to keep lying to him, but I’m afraid of confessing. What should I do? -- Stepmom in California

Dear California: Imagine the reaction

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Dear Annie: Yesterday, I attended my son’s much antici-pated college gradua-tion from a very cele-

brated institution. Despite our hefty investment in educa-tion, what were we treated to? Graduates in cutoff shorts and flip-flops and mortar-boards with raunchy slogans written on them. Many graduates reeked of alcohol and were still visibly under the influence.

The behavior of the audience when they handed out degrees was startling: air horns, wolf whistles, bel-lowing, screaming and other inappropriate responses. What should have been a respectful, dignified celebration was tarnished by the too common behavior of a rock concert.

I am in my late 40s and am not a prude. But I feel such formal events, which ought to warrant a respect-ful and courteous audience, have instead disintegrated into chaos. So, please tell your readers: If you are going to a gradua-tion this spring, please

set a good example for your children and others. Don’t holler. Don’t stand on your seat and scream. Don’t bring air horns, cow-bells or whistles. Stand and applaud respect-fully. Offer your sup-port before and after the ceremony. Please don’t diminish the suc-cess and accomplish-ment of the graduates with your ill-conceived and unappreciated con-duct.

Graduates: Dress and act your role as accomplished academ-ics. Save the beachwear for another day. Stand tall and accept the congratulations due. Everyone will be appre-ciative, especially your family. -- A Graduate’s Mom

Dear Mom: Good advice, and we hope at least some in the crowd will pay atten-tion. People get excit-ed. In some places, commencement exer-cises have become rau-cous free-for-alls. The school should make an

announcement to the graduates beforehand, and to the audience prior to the ceremony, explaining what type of behavior is expected.

Dear Annie: “Somewhere in the USA” was considering not returning to a res-taurant where a group

of senior men made audibly insulting com-ments about other cus-tomers.

If she decides not to return, she should tell the manager or owner the reason. The owners need to know whether they are los-ing business because

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Rob MLS# 2397558

Frutivale $229,500

Rob MLS# 2396677

Montrose $169,000

Rob MLS# 2397280

Rossland $333,000

Marie-Claude MLS# 2395423

House & Acreage

Rossland $119,900

Marie-Claude MLS# 2393618

2 Bdrm Top Floor,

Corner Unit

Rossland $998,000

Marie-Claude MLS# 2398348

NEW LISTING

293.5 Acres

Sub dividable

Trail $119,000

Marie-Claude MLS# 2393499

New Kitchen &

Move in Ready

Rossland $199,900

Marie-Claude MLS# 2395984

3.7 Acres

Rossland $OLD

Marie-Claude MLS# 2390913

SOLD

5.1 Acres

10 Acres

Warfield $OLD

Nathan MLS# 2391999

Warfield$149,000

Nathan MLS# 2395554

Trail $179,000

Rhonda MLS# 2397878

Fruitvale $259,000

Rhonda MLS# 2398108

Fruitvale $279,000

Rhonda MLS# 2398110

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ROSSLAND, 3 new 2 bed-room, 1 bathroom modular homes in Rossland Paradise MHP, from $64,900. includes net GST. Rick 250-254-7997, Kim 250-512-1222.

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Apt/Condo for RentBella Vista, Shavers Bench Townhomes. N/S, N/P. 2-3 bdrms. Phone 250.364.1822Ermalinda Apartments, Glen-merry. Adults only. N/P, N/S. 1-2 bdrms. Ph. 250.364.1922E.TRAIL, 2BDRM Gyro park, heat, hot water & cable incl. $650/mo. 250-362-3316Francesco Estates, Glenmer-ry. Adults only. N/P, N/S, 1-3 bdrms. Phone 250.368.6761.Glenmerry 1bdrm. apt. F/S Heat included. $600./mo. 250-368-5908Glenmerry 2bdrm. apt. F/S Heat included. $750./mo. 250-368-5908GLENVIEW APTS. Spacious, quiet 2 bdrm. apts. available. $650./mo. 250-368-8391Sunningdale 3bdrm apart-ment ground fl oor, no steps, private entrance. Cable & heat incl. Free use of W/D. Available July 1. Walk out to lawn, very private. Call 250-368-3055TRAIL, 2BDRM. Glenmerry. Newly reno’d, perfect for sen-ior, no stairs. N/P. Utilities in-cluded. 250-368-1312.TRAIL, spacious 1&2bdrm. apartment. Adult building, per-fect for seniors/ professionals. Cozy, clean, quiet, com-fortable. Must See. 250-368-1312WARFIELD 2bd condo totally renovated 250-362-7716

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Terry Alton250-231-1101terryalton@shaw.ca

Mark Wilson250-231-5591mark.wilson@century21.ca

Tonnie Stewart250-365-9665tonniestewart@shaw.ca

Jodi Beamish250-231-2331jodi.beamish@century21.ca

Mary Martin250-231-0264mary.martin@century21.ca

Richard Daoust250-368-7897richard.daoust@century21.ca

Mary Amantea250-521-0525mamantea@telus.net

Bill Craig250-231-2710bill.craig@century21.ca

Deanne Lockhart250-231-0153deannelockhart@shaw.ca

Art Forrest250-368-8818c21art@telus.net

Christine Albo250-512-7653christine.albo@century21.ca

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Dan PowellChristina Lake250-442-6413powelldanielk@gmail.com

KOOTENAY HOMES INC.1358 Cedar Avenue, Trail • 250.368.8818

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710 Redstone Drive, Rossland $425,000

Brand new spacious home a few steps from walking and x-country trails and Redstone golf course. This 4 bdrm, 3 bath home features 2 car garage with ample storage area, rec room spacious

living area. Call your REALTOR® for more information or a personal tour.

Call Richard (250) 368-7897

328 Murray Drive, Warfi eld $89,000

Plenty of potential but needs some TLC. Home features new laminate, sun porch, dining room, 2 bdrms and a gas

fi replace. Take a look today! Call Christine (250) 512-7653

NEW LISTING

2200 Highway 3B, Fruitvale

$289,0004 bdrm Fruitvale home

on 4 acres!Call Terry 250-231-1101

760 Shakespeare Street, Warfi eld

$179,000Beautifully renovated! New insulation,

drywall, fl ooring, trim, kitchen, electrical and plumbing. Quick possession

available!Call Christine (250) 512-7653

NEW LISTING

305 - 7th Avenue, Castlegar

$195,000Located close to all schools, shopping, night life, library, medical and dental

offi ces, this Castlegar home has many upgrades. Large, fl at double lot, garage, new windows, A/C, this is a great home!

Call Tonnie (250) 365-9665

NEW PRICE

910 Tamarack Cres, Genelle $370,000

4 bdrm 3 bath, A/C, U/G sprinklers, gorgeous landscaping, double garage, shop, huge rec room, spacious master

with 4 pc ensuite, gas f/p. Roof in 2006, level entrance, main fl oor laundry. Wow.

This is a fabulous home!Call Tonnie (250) 365-9665

GENELLE GEM

1643 McQuarrie Street, Trail $109,000

A snug little house with newer fl ooringand paint on main and new carpet and

drywall in the basement. ExcellentLocation.

Call Jodi (250) 231-2331

NEW LISTING

303 McAnnaly Street, Trail $124,900

3 Bdrm / 2 bath. Updated mechanical, insulation, interior walls, roof

and fl ooring. Newer appliances and laundry on the main.

Call Jodi (250) 231-2331

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1274 Paquette Drive, Trail $539,000

Ultimate executive rancher ! Like new 3 bed/3 bath home with open

fl oor plan custom kitchen, fi replace, 3-car garage and much more!!

Call your REALTOR® today!Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

NEW LISTING

966 Upper China Creek Road, Genelle

$269,000This 4 bed/1 bath home offers privacy and 2 acres! Many upgrades! (wiring,

plumbing, heating, roof, fencing, landscaping). Call your REALTOR® now

to view.Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

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OPEN HOUSESaturday June 21 11am-1pm

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103 Ritchie Avenue, Tadanac $349,000

4 bdrm 3 bath home with lots of bright living space. Good parking with double garage on an expansive fl at lot. Call

for your personal viewing.

308 Kootenay Avenue, Tadanac $329,000

4 bdrm home with circular driveway. Large windows, fi replace, library and sun-room. The yard is stunning and

private. Call for your personal viewing.

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Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

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1211 Primrose Street, Trail $189,000

Every corner of this house is redone

including all wiring, plumbing, windows and roof. Tastefully

decorated with all kinds of charming features.

Low maintenance yard and outdoor amenities.

Call Mark (250) 231-5591

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