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A move is afoot to re-establish the city as a port of call for American travellers.

The Silver City could be back on the map as a watercraft transportation centre via a port of call motion now advancing through to the Columbia River Treaty negotiations.

If it passes, the motion would allow American boaters to once again travel up the Columbia River with relative ease, and increase tourism and give a boost to the Greater Trail economy as well as the Kootenay region.

The motion—put forth under the auspices of the Lower Columbia Community Development Team (LCCDT)—would restore trans boundary boat travel, both north and south, something that was lost nearly 15 years ago in the city when international border security was tightened.

Chair of LCCDT, Mike Martin, said the idea to restore the city’s former designation was rooted in a belief that it was a very constructive eco-nomic development initiative.

“It was a real opportunity to revisit something that was there years ago that will really improve cross border relations and also improve the utilization of a tremendous asset that we have by way of the Columbia River through tourism,” he said.

Martin said the LCCDT has had discus-sions at Lake Roosevelt forum in Spokane, Wash., the Canadian Columbia River Forum—a preparatory group of politicians and bureaucrats, both federal and provin-cial—and with people with the Columbia River Treaty just to see if there was any interest in the idea and to generate some constructive dialogue.

“And there is some interest on both sides of the border,” said. “But this won’t happen overnight and it will take a while, but unless we start the process we don’t know what else will create it.”

The Columbia River Treaty is an inter-national water management agreement between Canada and the United States. The treaty is unique—it is a treaty to man-age cross-boundary river flows where both signatory countries to the treaty share in the benefits resulting from the treaty.

LCCDT member Gord DeRosa said the

previous port of call was located on the riverbank at the end of the Esplanade’s seawall, where a large Canadian flag was painted. At the time, the port meant American travellers would report in like they would at any customs and immigra-tion office to get clearance.

People had to phone in and say they were coming in, and on the Canadian side

a customs officer was sent down from Paterson and they would inspect the boat and allow it to pass.

When the designation was lost, the move did not sit well with the Trail city coun-cil of the day, and the river was charted with navigational charts as a navigable inter-national water.

Council also had a port of call building designed—at a cost of around $350,000—and was to be located at Indian Eddy in Gyro Park.

“However, it would have been the responsibility of the city to build the facility, there would have been no federal assistance,” DeRosa recalled.

Trail council couldn’t see its way clear to do that, so the effort was abandoned.

Now a boat would have to be taken out of the water at

the border, delivered to Paterson border crossing for inspection, and then delivered back and put in the water.

“New security measures came in and made it impractical to get a boat across the border,” said DeRosa.

Opening up the border now would add to boating experiences if Americans could travel north, go through the lock on the Keenleyside Dam, venture up the Arrow Lakes, and, in certain seasons, continue on to Revelstoke.

Although it was too early to speculate, DeRosa saw the potential for commercial ventures springing up around the port of call building in Trail.

“When you talk about opportunities, that river is our biggest,” said DeRosa.

“The river used to be our number one (means of transportation), and we lost it.”

The LCCDT see itself as a catalyst to creating a port of call in Trail, said Martin, laying the early groundwork to first get some interest on the Canadian side of the border and then see if it can carry over into the U.S.

LCCDT puts out port of call proposal

“It’s a real opportunity

to revisit something that was there years

ago that will really improve

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tremendous asset that we have by way of the

Columbia River though tourism.”

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B y A r n e P e t r y s h e nRossland News

A cougar that had been spotted around Rossland was destroyed last week, after it attacked a local

dog.Ben Beetlestone,

the conservation offi-cer who responded to the call said he was following up on a com-plaint about a cougar

that attacked a dog on the night of Feb. 15.

“We were able to locate the cougar because it was seen again at about 8:30 in Rossland and the per-son phoned it in right away,” Beetlestone said, of the morning of Feb. 16. “I was in Rossland with a houndsman so we located it right away and could deal with this situation right away before somebody got hurt.”

Beetlestone said the cougar was still on the hunt in the residential part of Rossland where it was shot.

“We didn’t have to use the hounds,

because it hadn’t left town yet and we were able to find it hiding in a hedge in a backyard,” he said.

A cougar is strictly a carnivore, so he said that if it is hanging around a community it is hungry. The cougars that find themselves in that situation are gen-erally either young or sick cougars.

“They just are not able to survive, for whatever reason, in the wild, so they start hanging around resi-dential areas where they begin to pick off pets and stuff,” he said. “This one certainly was sick, the necropsy has not been done yet, so

I don’t know what was wrong with it.”

He said that a cou-gar is especially dan-gerous because in that state it would look at a child as prey, whereas a bear likely wouldn’t as long as it isn’t threatened.

“It’s very important that people call these issues in and we’ll make the determina-tion if it’s a normal behaviour or not and then take an appropri-ate course of action,” he said.

If you do spot a cou-gar or bear, report it to the Report All Poacher and Polluters toll free 1-877-952-7277 (RAPP).

A look bAck

The Trail Historical Society has kindly offered photos and stories related to the history of Trail.

March is tradition-ally the month when many hockey leagues have their annual play-offs and a provincial champion is declared on various levels. Prior to 1923, the BC senior hockey cham-pions were determined in a tournament at the Rossland Winter Carnival.

It is believed the first serious game of hockey as we know it in B.C. was played outdoors in Golden on January 23, 1895. The first ice rinks in BC were constructed in Sandon in 1893 and in Nelson in 1893-94, but there is no rec-ord of hockey being played in them at that time. By 1897, competitive hockey was being played in Rossland, Nelson, Sandon, and Kaslo. In January 1898, the first Rossland Winter Carnival took place and a hockey tourna-ment was organized, with the winner earn-ing the BC Champions

title. The Rossland Victorias defeated the Rossland senior team in the tournament, to become BC’s first sen-ior hockey champions.

The tournament became a huge suc-cess and teams from throughout the Kootenays, the Boundary, and the Okanagan applied to the Carnival’s organ-

izing committee to be included in the event. The winner of the Rossland Winter Carnival tournament continued to be rec-ognized as the BC Amateur hockey cham-pionship until 1917.

Throughout its his-tory, the tournament also included games involving junior and intermediate teams,

a ladies event, and a challenge event with teams from the Trail industrial league.

Rossland teams were declared cham-pions 9 times, Nelson 6 times and teams from Vernon, Phoenix, Greenwood, Fernie and Trail each won once. In 1919, the BC Amateur Hockey Association was formed and they

assumed responsibil-ity for organizing provincial hockey Championships from 1923 to today.

Pick up your copy “Trail Journal of Local History,” at the Trail Historical Society’s office in Trail City Hall, on the website www.trailhistory.com and at Crockett Books in Waneta Plaza.

B.C. hockey champs crowned at carnival

Photo courtesy of the trail historical society

Trail Hockey Team - Senior BC Champs. Back (L-R): James Buchanan [president], Alf Saunders, Herb Jackson, Paddy McDonough, Bob Schwartz, Tuffy Atkins, Bill Reese. Front: Mickey Mercer, Reg Sexsmith, Joe Vannatter, Scotty Fraser, Gibby McDonald, Buster Brown (mascot).

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For the second time in three days, a pair of lost snowboarders rescued from the back-country has Nelson Search and Rescue (NSAR) frustrated that the utterly unprepared keep tak-ing risks.

The latest snowboarders were reported mis-sing before midnight on Tuesday and after an extensive search were found Wednesday after-noon.

“These two gentlemen were completely unpre-pared. They had no pack, no food, no water, no snow-shoes — they just had what they were wearing and their snowboards. In my opinion, these two were very fortun-ate that we found them when we did,” said NSAR search manager Murray Springman.

Nelson RCMP received a call about the missing snowboard-ers, two males aged 30 and 40. They were reported overdue with their vehicle still in the Whitewater parking lot, but these were the only true clues at to their whereabouts.

“We cannot stress the importance of being properly prepared and leaving an accurate itinerary with friends or with family. These two never really told anyone where they were going,” said Springman.

Search and rescue was alerted and at first light started their search by helicopter, but visibility was poor limiting the area that could be searched. Avalanche risk being high, techni-cians were onboard to look for signs of an ava-lanche which could have buried the snowboard-ers. None were seen, neither were tracks.

Two ground teams were also deployed and at 1 p.m., the snowboarders were spotted sinking up to their waist in snow on the backside of Prospector Ridge in Qua Creek drainage.

“They were on snowboards. They did not have any snowshoes or means of transportation to get back up,” said Springman.

The pair were taken snowshoes and helped back up before taking them to Whitewater lodge for medical attention. They both had frostbite on their toes and one had frostbite on his right hand. Springman said the snowboarders hun-kered down overnight and should count them-selves lucky to come out of this experience with only minor injuries.

“When we got called I figured, it’s cold. It’s been snowing. The avalanche hazard is high,” he said. “With the father and son [earlier this week] we were fortunate that no one was hurt. I wondered if we would see a second time lucky as well — well thank heavens we did.”

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B y J i m H o l t zGrand Forks Gazette

The deer problem continues to plague Grand Forks city council.

At the Feb. 18 city council pri-mary committee meeting, the prob-lem came up again when a local resident remarked during question period that a neighbour fed deer daily on her property.

The resident claimed that a num-ber of deer, attracted to the feeding station, had been struck by cars.

Mayor Brian Taylor acknowledged that those who insist on feeding deer were indeed a problem.

At the moment, though the city has a bylaw prohibiting the feed-ing of deer, it carries no weight, Taylor said, and attempts by other Kootenay communities to enforce compliance through the courts has

proved extremely expensive to tax-payers.

“We know that some of these people who feed deer would love to have us try to take them to court, which would cost the taxpayer a massive amount of money and really achieve nothing but make a martyr out of the deer feeders.

“So the approach that the city is taking is that it is looking into tak-ing a graduated ticket system, which would allow it to put pressure on in situations like this.”

Taylor indicated that the city wished to find solutions that would prevent the kind of conflict between neighbours that the presence of the deer has caused.

“It is driving wedges between people in residential areas,” Taylor said.

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B y m a r v i n B e a t t yCastlegar News

Large drilling rigs began working in Castlegar’s Twin Rivers / Millennium Park Wednesday, as a $1.2 million improvement pro-ject moves ahead.

With the infusion of $400,000 in the form of a grant from the provincial Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development’ Community Recreation Program, construction of the source water well --which will feed three natural swimming ponds -- is underway.

“Drilling started today and construction is expected to be complete probably in July of this year,” said Chris Barlow, director of transporta-tion and civic works for the City of Castlegar.

“We’re going to be taking ground water and introducing it into the ponds and keeping a fresh supply of water into the ponds,” Barlow said.

The water will cascade between the ponds, each of which will vary in depth, before being reintroduced into the river. Sand will also be trucked in from a nearby site during landscap-ing and surround each of the three ponds. New walkways are also part of the project.

Barlow said yearly maintenance costs on the new development have not been projected as yet. One small cost will be monitoring the water quality.

“We’ll still be testing the water to make sure that there isn’t anything building up.”

What used to be a nearby gravel pit will aid in construction efforts and then become an off-leash dog park.

Barlow said the intent is to have slides and other interactive elements, so kids can slide between the ponds. The deepest pond is also expected to have a floating dock people can swim out to and relax on.

“We have a window of time to work this spring to build,” Barlow said. “We’re building a [earthen] dam between the ponds and the river which we will be working behind. The ponds will be lined with a clay liner to keep our water in and river water out.”

As for the prospect of flooding, such as what was experienced last year, he said water model-ling done to date suggests a “strong possibility the lower pond will flood, maybe every 10 years or less.” The area of the lower pond is a natural back eddy and flooding is not expected to cause any damage as long as the water comes up slowly and retreats slowly.

Other than flooding and cost concerns, Barlow said he hasn’t had to field many con-cerns from the public.

“We took input from the public and one thing they all identified was having a safe place to swim and interact with the river. The problem with our river is it goes up and down so much and there such a fast current. We do have an existing beach area but no guarantee what the water height will be, if its full of algae, or any-thing.”

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Principals, teachers and support staff are raising concerns about cuts to School District 43 spending, saying they could affect pro-fessional development, school maintenance, technology and the lucrative international education program.

For the second board meeting in a row, Coquitlam Teachers’ Association and CUPE representatives expressed fears that SD43 is taking money from schools instead of hacking finance, human resources and other adminis-trative budgets. The Coquitlam Principals’ and Vice-Principals’ Association, mean-while, is calling on the district to reinstate

principal positions in money-making programs such as Coquitlam Open Learning and inter-national education.

“We would like to see that income-gen-eration potential maxi-mized,” said CPVPA president Rob Foot, who said extra money from these programs enhances program-ming for schools.

Both the CTA and CUPE say they are wor-ried that $5 million in cuts approved by the board in an amended budget passed Tuesday won’t stop the bleed-ing and could result in further chopping to school budgets next year.

S u p e r i n t e n d e n t Tom Grant admitted the district has no certainty it will “hit

the nail” and won’t know until this sum-mer whether it met its budget target. Currently, the dis-trict is forecasting a $2.5-million deficit at the end of June, even with $5 million in cuts, and will have to pay back that money in future years.

He also said that figure could be larger or smaller.

“We’re hoping it will remain within that realm, we’re hoping it will be even less,” he said.

Although the dis-trict has admitted it erred in calculating enrolment — it was out by 223 students — and overestimated revenue while under-estimating expenses, it hasn’t been forth-coming in explaining

how this happened, said CUPE Local 561 president Dave Ginter, who’s doubtful SD43 will meet its target and can prevent the situa-tion from happening again.

“The difficulty in assessing the actual cost savings is com-plicated as there are no actual cost savings attached to each item,” he said. “Yet we are led to believe the total sav-ings will actually be $5 million.”

Tri-City public schools will have less money to spend on special equipment, programs and main-tenance after School District 43 passed an amended budget Tuesday night.

The board of edu-cation unanimously passed the budget

bylaw with $295.1 in spending and $5 mil-lion in cuts.

Some of the lar-gest chunks whittled from district spend-ing included $1.2 mil-lion repatriated from schools and $2 million in annual facilities grants that would nor-mally be spent on roof, painting, furnace and lighting upgrades.

Further cuts include: a reduction in a vice-principal position at Centennial secondary; supplies and professional sup-port for school sup-port initiatives; cuts to release time for pro-fessional development; and less money for stu-dents services.

The district plans to look for another $300,000 in as yet undisclosed cuts.

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Thousands of let-ters and packages are affected and Canada Post confirms the items will be delivered at least a day late, after the semi-trailer carry-ing the mail crashed near Hope.

The cab of the truck was pulled free of the wreckage soon after the Monday crash, but the 12-metre-long trailer, packed with mail, remained upside-down until Wednesday, teetering in the banks of the Coquihalla River.

The local president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers Bob Mitchell says Canada Post was warned that its decision to truck southern Interior mail to Vancouver for sort-ing - and then ship it back to Kamloops for distribution - would add unnecessary delays and risk for customers.

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Senate board of inter-nal economy has issued a report saying it has no issue with the housing allow-ances of all but three senators.

An investiga-tion was started last month after revela-tions that three long-time Ottawa residents in the upper cham-ber were improperly claiming allowances meant to compensate

senators who keep a secondary residence in the national capital region.

All 98 sitting sen-ators were asked for documentation by the internal commit-tee, which reviewed their driver’s licences, health cards and resi-dency information on their income tax returns.

As a result of the document checks, two senators, Dennis Patterson and Rod

Zimmer, were inter-viewed by the com-mittee but subse-quently cleared.

External audit-ors continue to look at the expenses of Conservative Sen. Mike Duffy, Liberal Mac Harb and Sen. Patrick Brazeau, who was turfed from the Conservative caucus this month on an unrelated criminal matter.

Auditors are also examining the trav-el expense claims of Conservative Sen. Pamela Wallin.

Duffy has volun-teered to repay his $ 2 2 , 0 0 0 - p e r- y e a r allowance; Wallin has not denied reports she has repaid a sub-stantial chunk of her travel expenses, which total $321,000 since September 2010.

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unlikely the Royal Canadian Navy will be able to buy compar-able replacements for its aging supply ships with the amount of money set aside by the Harper government, the parliamentary budget officer warned on Thursday.

The $2.6-billion joint support ship program is severely underfunded in light of escalating costs and all of the uncertainty associated with the design and required capabilities, Kevin Page warns in his latest report.

At least $4.13 bil-lion should be set aside, perhaps more, Page estimates.

The report uses the capabilities and dimen-sions of the existing two supply ships - HMCS Protecteur and HMCS Preserver - as the baseline to calcu-late what a replace-ment would cost in today’s terms.

The government is faced with two choices - either scale back the ship’s requirements, or put more money into the program.

“We think it’s a very, very low probability that they’ll get any-thing near the replace-ment of the Protecteur for anything like $2.6

(billion),” Page said.“If I had to guess,

this looks like a budget constraint. You make the requirements fit within the budget con-straint.”

Page’s latest report on military procure-ment could spell more political trouble for the Conservatives, who’ve been hammered over delays and cost over-runs in a series of mil-itary equipment pro-jects.

Nonetheless, Public Works Minister Rona Ambrose remained steadfast Thursday as she defended the gov-

ernment’s estimate and said appropriate safeguards have been put in place to ensure affordability.

“Let’s remember, these ships are in the design phase, but as we move forward we have the independent over-sight and expertise in place to protect taxpay-ers,” Ambrose told the House of Commons.

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‘Grillosconi’ win in Italy causes continued chaosThe winner of last

week’s election in Italy was a myth-ical beast called

“Grillosconi”. That is bad news for Italy, for the sin-gle European currency, the euro, and even for the future of the European Union. Not that “Grillosconi” will ever form a coherent govern-ment in Italy. The problem is that he – or rather, they – will prevent anybody else from doing that either.

The newer part of this hybrid beast is Beppe Grillo, a former stand-up comedian who is essen-tially an anti-politician. His blog boils with bile against Italy’s entire political class, and his public appearances are angry, foul-mouthed, arm-waving rants against the whole system.

Raging against Italy’s privileged, corrupt and dys-functional political class is a perfectly reasonable thing to do, but Grillo’s Five Star Movement, which in just a few years grew from noth-ing to take a quarter of the national vote in last Sunday’s election, has nothing useful to put in its place. Just “throw the bums out”, and the democratic power of the internet will solve all of Italy’s problems.

“We want to destroy

everything,” Grillo said in a recent interview with the BBC. “But not rebuild with the same old rubble. We have new ideas.” We have heard this sort of talk in Europe before, always from people who turned out to be totalitarians of some sort, whether Communist or fascist. It should not be necessary for Italy to go through all that again.

The older part of the beast is Silvio Berlusconi, the former cruise-ship crooner and billionaire media magnate (he’s the richest man in Italy) whose cynical populism has dom-inated Italian politics for the past 20 years. For more than half of that time he has been the prime minis-ter, and even when he’s out of power he dominates the political stage.

Berlusconi is 76 now, but he still manages to gen-erate constant sex scandals. (His “bunga bunga” parties are notorious, and he cur-rently faces charges in con-nection with an under-age prostitute.)

He has been fight-ing charges or appealing against convictions for cor-ruption for the whole time he has been in politics, and keeps changing the crim-inal law to avoid doing jail

time. Yet a large number of Italians go on voting for him.

Their devotion is even more inexplicable when you recall that Italy has been in steady econom-ic decline for most of Berlusconi’s two decades as the country’s dominant political figure. The Italian economy is smaller than it was twelve years ago, over a third of the under-25s are unemployed, and the state auditor estimates that 60 billion euros is stolen from the national budget by cor-rupt politicians every year.

So 29 per cent of Italians voted for Silvio Berlusconi’s party in the election last weekend, and 25 per cent voted for Beppe Grillo’s. More than half of Italy’s voters preferred some part of the “Grillosconi” mon-

ster to more serious pol-iticians who talked about fixing the economy, tack-ling the budget deficit, fighting organised crime, and reforming the coun-try’s badly broken justice system.

The result is polit-ical paralysis: no party or group of parties is able to form a stable government, and there will probably be another election within a year. (Only one Italian gov-ernment in the past seven decades has served out its full five-year term.)

But why should we believe that that will pro-duce a better outcome? Grillo confidently predicts that his Five Star Movement will win a majority next time round, and he may well be right.

Berlusconi promises to bring back the good old days with a wave of his magic wand: 4 million new jobs, tax cuts, and even refunds for taxes paid in the recent past. But you have to shut your eyes to the financial disaster that is engulfing Italy to believe that, and it will be even harder to do that a year from now.

Grillo promises salva-tion in a fantasy future where everything happens

on the web, but he’s really just getting the protest vote. Even he admits that “the (Five Star) Movement is a dream of what could happen in 20 or 30 years. Not now. Now, nothing will happen.” So why would anyone look to him for a solution to today’s pressing problems? Good question.

Meanwhile, the Italian economy continues to decay, and the government goes on spending money it does not have. One number says it all: about 70,000 Italian public officials are given cars with chauffeurs. (In Britain, the number is 300.) The risk grows that Italy will need a financial bail-out so massive that it causes a collapse of the euro.

Why so many Italians put up with this kind of thing passes understand-ing.

But so does the fact that so many of those who are infuriated by it turn to a clown like Grillo, who offers salvation in the form of a web-based direct democracy. The crisis will therefore continue indefin-itely.

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When I first heard of “run-of-river” I imagined a thousand little micro-turbines

in a mountain creek turning like pinwheels as the water flows by. That’s not quite right.

It’s more of a kinder, gent-ler version of bigger hydro power projects, but with none of the flooding of massive tracts of land.

Don Gamache of Innergex was my helpful guide as I was intro-duced to the technology at the Fitzimmons Creek power house. Sporting a mountain man beard, 4×4 truck and plenty of warm clothes, he’s the plant operator for this and two other nearby run-of-river projects.

The 7.5-megawatt power plant is right in the Whistler Blackcomb ski resort and it pro-duces enough power to cover the annual energy consump-tion of the site. Not too bad when you consider its 38 lifts, 17 restaurants, snow-making machines and other buildings and services.

Gamache has a patient, fatherly tone as he goes over how it works. It turns out that run-of-river doesn’t involve micro-propellers in streams at all. Not even close.

You divert a portion of a river, stream or creek that has a lot of elevation change, into a pipe called a penstock. You run that pipe several kilometers downhill to a power house where, with an assist from gravity, you use the force of the water to spin a tur-bine and generate electricity. At Fitzsimmons Creek there is a 250-meter elevation change and it travels 3.5 kilometres, which is enough to bring the water up to 350 psi.

Run-of-river is growing fast in British Columbia. There are

currently 52 different oper-ations totalling 858 megawatts in capacity with several more on the way. One of the bigger play-ers is Innergex, a Quebec-based company with 11 operational run-of-river projects in B.C.

“B.C. has all the elements you need in the equation for run-of-river. You benefit from Costal Mountains . . . you have tons of creeks, huge accumula-tions of rain and snow, which pro-vides the flow you need. It’s the per-fect topography, perfect climate, and there is huge

potential in British Columbia,” says Richard Blanchet, senior vice president for Innergex.

The big difference between these projects and the massive hydroelectric projects of old is scale and the lack of water storage. In conventional hydro projects, vast tracts of land are flooded in order for giant pro-jects to store huge amounts of water. Run-of-river projects are smaller and, without any storage, are at the mercy of the flow of river. This means more variability in the electricity out-put, but fewer environmental impacts.

Compared to a large hydro dam, the impacts tend to be much lower, and these projects produce nearly no greenhouse gas emissions. But no type of energy development is without impacts.

Perhaps the biggest potential impact is that these projects are typically constructed in remote, mountainous and ecologically-diverse areas. Roads must be cut, power lines strung and the aquatic environment between the top and bottom of the pro-ject can be affected.

In January, a report in the Toronto Globe and Mail found over 700 water-use and report-ing violations at 16 B.C. run-

of-river facilities in 2010 alone.“Just under half of the 749

violations dealt with improper water use, including increasing or decreasing water flow too quickly – also known as “ramp-ing” – which can strand or kill fish,” says the report.

Fitzsimmons Creek had 25 violations in 2010, the fifth highest. According to Bas Brusche of Innergex, rain-bow trout were not found in Fitzsimmons Creek until after construction started. The fix required changes.

“We redesigned the intakes, tagged all of the fish and now we have a five-year fish mon-itoring program,” says Bruche. By 2012 he says there were only three minor 0.4 per cent flow change violations and one was due to lighting.

This isn’t to say that run-of-river hydro is bad, but it is important to discuss its impacts. In a comparison of several common electricity generation technologies by the Ontario Power Authority, run-of-river was found to have the lowest environmental impact by far.

Run-of-river projects have also been developed in remote First Nations communities like the Douglas First Nation. The community now gets reliable electricity and the economic development opportunities that come with it.

Run-of-river starts to look pretty good if the alternative is diesel generators.

Planning and construction are underway for 67 more run-of-river projects in the province alone. The government of B.C. faces protests over its contro-versial Site C project, a mas-sive 1110 megawatt hydro dam in the Peace River area. Run-of-river offers a human scale, lower impact solution when it’s done well.

Troy Media columnist David Dodge is the host and produ-cer of Green Energy Futures, a multi-media series presented at www.greenenergyfutures.ca.

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Canada going backwards on info accessAn editorial from the

Hamilton SpectatorHow’s this for irony? The

Centre for Law and Democracy, partnering with the Spanish-based Access to Info Europe, recently rated Canada a dismal 55th in the world for upholding freedom of information. That puts us behind Colombia and Mongolia.

Not to worry, says Ottawa. The report is wrong, doesn’t use appropriate comparable factors and in fact the Harper government has a sterling rec-ord for openness.

So where’s the irony? It’s here: We only know what the

federal government said in its rebuttal thanks to Canadian Press having made an Access to Information request last September. It took from then until now just to find out the government’s response to its rating.

In other words, the report’s conclusion is pretty much validated by the government’s defensive and secretive reaction to that conclusion.

This country is regressing when it comes to Access to Information. And that regres-sion is speeding up under the Harper government, which is obsessive about information

command and control. It’s not healthy, it’s out-of-step with the rest of the progressive world, yet the government shows no signs of changing.

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(LOU) — It is with great sadness we announce the passing of Luciano (Lou) Chioccarello on January 20, 2013 at Crossroads Hospice in Port Moody, B.C. af-ter battling brain cancer with the utmost courage, grace and ac-ceptance. He is predeceased by his parents, Ida and Lionello Chioc-carello, uncle, Luigi Chioccarello and aunts, Imelda, Irene and Cater-ina Ruaro.

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Cliburn, the internationally celebrated pianist whose tri-umph at a 1958 Moscow com-petition helped thaw the Cold War and launched a spectacular career that made him the rare classical musician to enjoy rock star status, has died. He was 78.

Cliburn died early Wednesday at his Fort Worth home sur-rounded by loved ones follow-ing a battle with bone cancer, said his publicist and longtime friend Mary Lou Falcone.

Cliburn made what would be his last public appearance in September at the 50th anniversary of the prestigious piano competition named for him. Speaking to the audience in Fort Worth, he saluted the many past contestants, the orchestra and the city.

“Never forget: I love you all from the bottom of my heart, forever,” he said to a roaring standing ovation.

Cliburn skyrocketed to fame when he won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow at age 23 in 1958, six months after the Soviets’ launch of Sputnik embarrassed the U.S. and pro-pelled the world into the space age. He triumphantly returned to a New York City ticker tape parade - the first ever for a classical musician - and a Time magazine cover proclaimed him “The Texan Who Conquered Russia.”

But the win also proved the power of the arts, bringing unity in the midst of strong rivalry. Despite the tension between the nations, Cliburn became a hero to music-loving Soviets who clamoured to see him perform and Premier Nikita Khrushchev reportedly gave the go-ahead for the judges to honour a for-eigner: “Is Cliburn the best? Then give him first prize.”

In the years that followed, Cliburn’s popularity soared, and the young man from the small east Texas town of Kilgore sold out concerts, caused riots when spotted in public and even prompted an Elvis Presley fan club to change its name to his. His recording of the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 with Russian conductor

Kirill Kondrashin became the first classical album to reach platinum status.

Time magazine’s 1958 cover story quoted a friend as say-ing Cliburn could become “the first man in history to be a Horowitz, Liberace and Presley all rolled into one.”

Cliburn performed for roy-alty, heads of state in Europe, Asia and South America, and for every U.S. president since Harry Truman.

“Since we know that classical music is timeless and everlast-ing, it is precisely the eternal verities inherent in classical music that remain a spiritual beacon for people all over the world,” Cliburn once said.

But he also used his skill and fame to help other young musicians through the Van Cliburn International Music Competition.

Created by a group of Fort Worth teachers and citizens in 1962, the competition, held every four years, remains a pre-eminent showcase for the world’s top pianists. An amateur contest was added in 1999.

“It is a forum for young art-ists to celebrate the great works of the piano literature and an opportunity to expose their tal-ents to a wide-ranging inter-national audience,” Cliburn said during the 10th competition in 1997.

President George W. Bush presented Cliburn with the Presidential Medal of Freedom - the nation’s highest civilian honour - in 2003. In 2004, he received the Order of Friendship of the Russian Federation from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“I still have lots of friends in Russia,” Cliburn said at the

time. “It’s always a great pleas-ure to talk to older people in Russia, to hear their anecdotes.”

After the death of his father in 1974, Cliburn announced he would soon retire to spend more time with his ailing mother. He stopped touring in 1978.

He told The New York Times in 2008 that among other things, touring robbed him of the chance to enjoy opera and other musical performances. “I said to myself, ‘Life is too short.’ I was missing so much,” he said. After winning the competition, he added, “it was thrilling to be wanted. But it was pressure too.”

Cliburn emerged from his sabbatical in 1987, when he played at a state dinner at the White House during the histor-ic visit to Washington of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Gorbachev leapt from his seat to give the pianist a bear-hug and kisses on the cheeks.

The 13th Cliburn competi-tion, held in 2009, made his-tory when a blind pianist from Japan, Nobuyuki Tsujii, and a teenager from China, Haochen Zhang, both won gold med-als. They were the first winners from any Asian country, and Tsujii was the first blind pian-ist to win. And it was only the second time there were dual first place winners.

Cliburn was born Harvey Lavan Cliburn Jr. on July 12, 1934, in Shreveport, La., the son of oilman Harvey Cliburn Sr. and Rildia Bee O’Bryan Cliburn.

At age 3, he began studying piano with his mother, herself an accomplished pianist who had studied with a pupil of the great 19th century Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt.

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Internationally celebrated pianist Van Cliburn, whose triumph at a 1958 Moscow competition helped thaw the Cold War and launched a spectacular career that made him the rare classical musician to enjoy rock star status died early Wednesday at his Fort Worth home following a battle with bone cancer.

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Awards are back for a second year of cele-brating our home-grown talent.

Sponsored by the Nelson Brewing Company, and Black Press, the awards are currently accepting nominations for art-ists in every genre of music — from punk rock to folk bands and electronic producers. There’s also awards for the year’s best artist, album and song.

“If you’re making music in the Kootenays and you have an MP3 you can send us, we want to hear from you,” said Chad Hansen founder and president of the Kootenay Music Awards.

A panel of music industry profession-als will listen to every submission and short-list the top four or five entries in each of the 10 categories. Then it will be up to the public to decide with their online votes which artists deserve

the titles. The winners will be announced at an awards banquet at Nelson’s Spiritbar on May 10.

Hansen said the contest provides incredible exposure for the shortlisted artists.

“Last year, artists were getting 2,000

unique listens on the tracks up for awards,” he said. “It’s a really great opportunity for an up-and-comer or established artists alike to get exposed to new audiences in all of the communities in the Kootenays.”

Last year it was

Fernie’s Shred Kelly that went away with coveted title of Artist of the Year, while Nelson’s The Automation was named best new band.

Hansen can’t wait to see who will enter the competition this year.

“There’s so much

musical talent in the Kootenays,” he said. “There’s great bands just jamming in their basements or playing for the dinner crowd at local restaurants — we want to dig out those hidden gems.”

With the help of Black Press commun-ity papers, including the Trail Times, all the performers in the run-ning for an award will be in the spotlight.

“The reach of the awards has grown exponentially,” Hansen said. “We’ll be exposing people to artists from Golden to Grand Forks and all the commun-ities in between.”

To nominate your-self or someone else for a Kootenay Music Award, go to kootenay-musicawards.ca and click “nominate” in the page banner.

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Supporting Our ChildrenLittle actions make a big difference. Our little actions can change lives. These are the conclusions of the Search institute in its research on what kids need to succeed. They have identified 40 different “Assets” which will give kids who have them the ability to succeed in life, to make good choices and resist negative influences. The 40 Assets they talk about are all simple things that many people take for granted. They are things like kids being at the center of their family life, parents caring, learning being valued. At the most basic level, these Assets are the resources we all need to succeed.And the 40 Assets are not just the responsibility of family and school. They are the responsibility of all of us, the whole community. They explicitly include support and friendship from adults outside the child’s family; neighbours who monitor the child’s behaviour; and involvement in a religious community.I heard about the 40 Assets this week because

of a seminar being held by SD20 at Trail Middle School on Wednesday 6th March (3:30 – 5:30). It immediately struck me how these relate to the “5 marks of Mission” which the Anglican church (and others) are committed to. The work of supporting our children is part of the work of building the kingdom of God. Caring for kids is doing what Jesus told us to do – “Love your neighbour...... “The seminar is open to all and will be a great introduction to this important topic. But more important is this:Make or Take any opportunity for positive engagement with young peopleIt can be as simple as challenging inappropriate behaviour, or as complex as supporting a child’s learning. We have to stop being afraid to engage with the children of our community. They need us. Christ commands us. Our little actions will change their lives.Neil ElliotSt Andrew’s Anglican Church

My hairstylist asked me what I thought about the pope’s resignation. A lively discussion ensued.

Speculation and rumor have been companions to the resignation of Benedict XVI. While Benedict said he was resigning due to a loss of “strength in mind and body”, many believe that the cascade of scandal during his pontificate influenced his decision. Others think that the Curia (the cardinals who help govern the Church) forced Benedict out. Some queried the pontiff’s motives, arguing that with his resignation Benedict would be positioned to influence the selection of his suc-cessor.

Benedict’s resig-nation interests me for reasons other than the intrigue filtering down from the Vatican through the media. The text of his announcement takes us beyond innuendo to an essential truth of human experience – our mortality. At some point, the aging process summons us to recog-nize our diminishments, and begin the process of detachment.

Benedict stated, “both strength of mind and body” have “deteriorated in me to the extend that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me.” There is a compelling wisdom in this honest admission of decline; beyond the admission, there is the example of resigning one’s self to the realities of aging.

In a culture that worships at the altars of youthfulness and physical vitality, it is no small matter to recognize and accept one’s decline. We take measures, like coloring our graying hair, to conceal the visible signs of aging. We balk at using a cane, and refuse to surrender our driver’s license long past the point of prudence. We express our fear of cognitive impairment, laugh-ing at lame jokes about “senior’s moments”. We do not want to admit, let alone accept, our diminishments.

This resignation also points to a process of detaching one’s self from worldly things. At the pinnacle of clerical success, with the privileges of a head of state, and the status of a celebrity, Benedict relinquishes some of the most sought after signs of success in the world - power, authority, privilege and fame. In our consum-er society, where the accumulation of wealth, material possessions and the good opinion of others has become a virtue, this resignation reminds us that we go out of the world the same way we came into it – with nothing.

In stating his wish to serve the Church “through a life dedicated to prayer”, Benedict moves from an active lifestyle to a more passive, yet no less vital, way of being. While the move-ment from action to passion accompanies pro-found change at any stage in life, at an advanced age it helps us to reflect on our mortality, and to prepare for our dying.

My intention in this column has not been to venerate or defend Benedict XVI. While I have not been a fan of the conservative direction of the Church under this pontiff, and the scandals grieve me, Benedict’s resignation resonates with truth, and deserves my respect. Whether or not the speculation and rumor have any basis, the truth, symbolized in this resignation, is that eventually we have to accept our graying hair.

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Young athletic prodigies don’t come around very often. It’s rarer still to find such an athlete emerge in Greater Trail, and not perhaps where you’d expect him or her to excel - on a field or hockey rink - but in a pool.

Not even a teenager yet, Dylan Kormendy is a shy but precocious nine-year-old boy who just happens to be one of the best swimmers in the world for his age. The Fruitvale native is by all accounts at the very onset of what is shaping up to be a brilliant competitive swimming career.

“He is the greatest natural talent I have come across in my entire career and also has an uncanny work ethic,” said Greater Trail Swim Club coach Cody Flegel who swam for the national team and the University of Victoria.

Dylan will be swimming with the Greater Trail Swim Club (GTSC) at the SwimBC AAA SC age group champion-ships in Victoria this weekend and is beginning to draw attention from swim-ming pools across North America and abroad, as he continues to set records and win medals against much older swimmers.

Indeed, Dylan will be making history as the youngest swimmer to compete at the meet.

“Triple A’s is comprised of the best 750 swimmers in B.C. and he (Dylan) is the only nine year old in the entire meet,” explained Flegel. “His category is for 11 and under. Almost all of the kids he will be racing against will be at least 11 with a very few 10 year olds who are soon turning 11.”

After winning three gold and two silver at the B.C. Summer Swimming Association provincials in August, Kormendy took his craft to the next level, join-ing the Greater Trail Swim team, a newly formed win-ter club, under the tutelage of coach Flegel.

The club trains exten-sively, just coming off a grueling two weeks where they swam 120 kilometres (4,800 laps) to increase endurance, then trained lightly for two weeks to renew their strength before entering the AAA meet.

It’s what sets Dylan apart from other swimmers. He has excellent training habits, picture-perfect technique, and phenomenal stamina for his age.

“A lot of these kids are physically bigger and stronger so for the shorter races it’s tough because they can muscle it, but in the longer ones his technique is so good and he trains so hard, his conditioning, he is able to beat them,” said Flegel.

The strategy and training has paid off as Dylan knocked 10 seconds off many of his longer swims since last season,

and achieves personal bests almost every time he enters the pool.

“All we think about is two things: try to go best times, and try to stick to our race plan,” said Flegel. “So we’ve decided as long as we can go a bit faster than last time than we’ll get better and better, but you can’t control what other people do, so that’s what makes him so good. He’d rather swim a good race than win.”

Kormendy and most of the GTSC team qualified for the AAA meet based on perform-ances at four SwimCanada meets: the KAJ Fall Classic, MJB Law Classic, Penticton Ironman Pentathlon, and the KAJ Snowfest in Kamloops last month.

Dylan not only qualified for seven of the U11 age group races, he laid down the best times in Canada for his age

in seven events, two of which were also world-best marks. His 400 Individual Medley time was almost 20 seconds faster than the next best swim in Canada.

“There has been great athletes out of Trail, the Home of Champions . . . so as great as some of them are, I don’t know how many you can say were number one in the country, and I know you can’t say they were number one in the entire world,” said Flegel.

Dylan doesn’t mind the fact that most of his fellow competitors are older, taller, and perhaps stronger, he says he thrives on the competition, the training, and as his coach stresses - having fun.

“Sometimes he races up and races older people and sometimes he’ll race

his own age so he can just have fun,” added Flegel. “We’re just trying to take it day-by-day, and meet-by-meet and just have lots of fun.”

Dylan looks to qualify for the nation-als in Montreal this summer and has been invited to Australia to train with Canadian breaststroke champion and former two-time Olympian Morgan Knabe in August, followed by a meet against the best 10-year-old swimmers in the world.

In the long term, the young swim-ming phenom has his sights already set on the 2020 Olympics, and by then who knows? Michael Phelps’ record of eight gold medals in one Olympics just might be in jeopardy.

JIM BAILEY PHOTO

Greater Trail Swim Club’s Dylan Kormendy has taken the swim world by storm as he gets set to compete with the club at the Swim B.C. AAA SC age group champion-ship in Victoria this weekend.

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Greater Trail Swim ClubDylan Kormendy

Performance rankingsSwim PB NationalEvent Time Ranking200 free 2:41.6 3800 free 12:17.44 150 back 38.41 4100 back 1:22.13 2200 back 2:57.43 350 breast 43.6 1100 breast 1:33.2 1 200 breast 3:15.55 150 fly 38.12 4100 fly 1:23.65 2200 fly 3:18.02 1100 IM 1:26.25 2200 IM 2:55.78 1400 IM 6:19.23 1

HIGH SCHOOL CURLING

Crowe drops first match

B Y T I M E S C O N T R I B U T O RThe newly formed

Rossland Trail Roller Girls will make their first appearance in Trail on Saturday at the Trail Memorial Centre during the Trail Smoke Eaters game.

The puck drops at 7:30 p.m., but the local roller derby team will be geared up when the doors open at 6:45, displaying their new team logo and creat-ing awareness of what is arguably, the fast-est growing women’s sport in the world.

The Rossland Trail team is comprised of the former Gnarlie’s Angels from Rossland and the Bad News Betties from Trail.

The team plays in the West Kootenay Roller Derby League, competing against Salmo’s Babes of Brutality, the Killjoys from Nelson, the Valley Vendettas from Slocan and Castlegar’s Dam City Rollers.

Roller Derby is a full

contact women’s sport played by two teams of five, roller skating around an oval track. Each game or “bout” is divided into 2 minute segments in which each team selects a “jammer”, whose role is to score points by passing members of the opposition.

Playing offense and defence simultan-eously, the remaining players on the track try help their jam-mer through the pack while preventing the opposing jammer from scoring.

Modern Roller Derby is honest, hard hitting action, mak-ing it a fully legitim-ate sport under con-sideration for the 2020 Olympics.

The Rossland Trail Roller Girls season opener is on Apr. 13 at the Rossland Arena against the Nelson KillJoys. Go to face-book.com/rtrollergirls to stay up-to-date on the action.

B Y T I M E S S T A F FThe J. L. Crowe high school curling team lost

its first match at the provincial curling cham-pionship Thursday, coming up short against Smithers Secondary 7-4 at the Kamloops Curling Club.

Smithers jumped out to a 3-1 lead with a steal in the fifth end, but the Crowe team made up of skip Kelvin Harper, third Justion Umpherville, second Tyler Simpson, and lead Nathan McFadden, scored three in the sixth to take a 4-3 lead. However, the Smithers foursome replied scoring a devastating four points in the seventh for a 7-4 win.

Crowe also played Valleyview Secondary School Thursday afternoon, and Frances Kelsey Secondary Thursday evening but scores were unavailable at press time. The team will play seven games between now and Saturday with the school with the best record being crowned provincial champion.

On the high school girls side, Alysha Buchy’s Kimberley rink gave up two in the final end to lose a crushing 7-6 decision to Mount Elizabeth Secondary out of Kamloops.

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Pride Gym’s Nahum Colwell won gold in the U12 Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Okanagan Winter Classic in the non-Gi event, and won silver (above) with Gi. Nahum’s brother, 10-year-old Isaiah (above right), also made the podium winning bronze in the U12. The Classic hosted over 300 competi-tors from Alberta and B.C. The Colwells will be competing in the Tiger Balm International Competition in Vancouver on Mar. 15 to qualify for the worlds in Ireland.

B y T i m e s C o n T r i B u T o r A stunning and highly improbable comeback

highlighted Men’s Retiree curling action at the Trail Curling Club Monday.

Brett Rakuson jumped out of the hack to a 7-1 lead after three ends over the front-running Frank Jorgensen rink, but what looked to be a blowout turned into a slow burn.

Jorgenson scored a big five in the fourth end to make a game of it 7-6, then played a tight game down to the last rock, when he made his final shot to win the game 10-9.

Cal McKerracher faced Lefty Gould in a game that featured a busy house in almost every end. It also came down to the final stone in the last end, and McKerracher made his final shot, a tap back on Lefty’s shot rock to sit two and win the game 8-6.

Primo Secco and Serge Pasquali faced off in a one-sided game for the first three ends. With the Secco rink up by six, the Pasquali rink faced an uphill battle, but over the next three ends they scored five to narrow the gap to one.

In the seventh end the Secco foursome scored four to jump to a commanding five point lead. It was then a matter of running the Pasquali rink

out of rocks to make the final 10 - 6.The Dan Horan team broke the tie with a steal

of four in the sixth against the Coke Koyanagi rink. Koyanagi pressed but could not duplicate Horan’s steal, as he was run out in the ninth with the score 9 - 4 for Horan.

Up 3-2, the Cliff Tyson side scored three in the fourth and stole singles in the fifth and sixth ends to take a commanding 8-2 lead over the Clare Coleman foursome to coast to an 8-4 victory. After winning the first two draws Tyson finds himself in unfamiliar territory picking up just his second win in seven games.

Harvey Handley stole singles in the first and second ends against the Tom Hall foursome, but Hall replied with a score of three to jump ahead. The Hall side counted four in the fifth, then stole two in the sixth to take a commanding 9-3 lead on their way to cementing a 9 -5 victory.

Curling

Jorgenson mounts epic comeback

C a n a d i a n P r e s sEDMONTON: One of the

most experienced and accom-plished fields in the history of the Canadian Men’s Curling Championship opens play on Saturday at Rexall Place in Edmonton in the 2013 Tim Hortons Brier.

Olympic champions, world champions and Canadian champions are part of the field that will battle for the right to wear the Maple Leaf at the 2013 Ford World Men’s Curling Championship, beginning on Mar. 30 in Victoria.

Heading the field will be hometown favourite Kevin Martin and his team from the Saville Centre. Joined by teammates third John Morris, second Marc Kennedy and lead Ben Hebert — the same team that captured gold at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver — Martin will be chasing his-tory, seeking to become the first skip to win five Brier titles

(he currently shares the record of four with Randy Ferbey and Ernie Richardson) in addition to becoming the first skip to win Brier titles in three differ-ent decades.

But Martin will be pushed hard on home ice. Also in the field is defending Brier and world champion Glenn Howard of Ontario, who’ll be making his record 15th Brier appear-ance; he’d shared the record of 14 with his older brother Russ. Howard, third Wayne Middaugh, second Brent Laing and lead Craig Savill, from the Coldwater and District Curling Club, will be trying to earn back-to-back Brier titles for Ontario for the first time in that province’s history.

Also in the field is 2011 Brier and world champion Jeff Stoughton of Winnipeg, who is representing Manitoba for the 10th time. Stoughton, third Jon Mead and second Reid Carruthers are back from that

2011 team, while lead Mark Nichols is making his Brier debut for Manitoba, although he’s hardly a rookie.

Gushue, the 2006 Olympic gold-medallist, is back for his 10th trip to the Brier with his team from St. John’s, while 2006 Brier champion Jean-Michel Ménard of Quebec is another experienced skip who’ll contend for a spot in the four-team playoff round with his Saint-Romuald quartet.

The field is rounded out by B.C.’s Andrew Bilesky of New Westminster, Saskatchewan’s Brock Virtue, Northern Ontario’s Brad Jacobs, Nova Scotia’s Paul Flemming, New Brunswick’s James Grattan, Prince Edward Island’s Eddie MacKenzie and the Northwest Territories/Yukon’s Jamie Koe.

The opening draw of the 2013 Tim Hortons Brier is set for 12:30 p.m. PT on Saturday.

Go to www.curling.ca for draw information.

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sports A14 www.trailtimes.ca Friday, March 1, 2013 Trail Times

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THE 29TH ANNUAL Black Jack Loppet

The 29th Annual Black Jack Loppet is coming up on Saturday March 2nd, 2013 in Rossland. It’s a free technique (skating) cross-country ski event with distances from 10 km to 30 km for adults and shorter for the younger participants. Check out the new team category where teams of 3 will ski 10 km at the same time and fi nish together. Come and enjoy all of the festivities, food and fun while having a great ski!

See the Black Jack Ski Club website skiblackjack.ca for more information and details on how to register.

SATURDAY March 2, 2013Rossland

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Young free-throw shooters from across the region stepped up to the foul line at the Knights of Columbus’ Free Throw championship Saturday. The top shooters were (from left) Wyatt Soukeroff, 13, J.L. Crowe, Melanie Simister, 12, St. Michaels, Macy Verigin, 10, Fruitvale, Hannah Kroeker, 13, Rossland, Megan Stanley, 11, Rossland, Connor Berno, 10, St. Michael’s, Antonio Pasqualotto, 11, St. Michael’s, Conner Seib, 12, St. Michael’s, and Bill Hanlon K of C youth director.

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Happy St. David’s Day! to all with Welsh blood

and those who care about them.

Saturday night was among the most excit-ing nights at Cominco Arena in a very long time, and the roar resulting from the overtime winner for Trail was the loudest noise at a local hockey game - despite the sparse crowd - in equally as long.

And yet, this Saturday has the potential to be a more exciting night in and around the Home of Champions

Depending on the results from Friday, there may be two intense and pressure-packed games in the area.

The Beaver Valley Nitehawks might be playing a game seven playoff tilt against fierce rival Nelson Leafs at the Hawks’ Nest at the same time that the Trail Smoke Eaters continue fighting for their post-season lives against the Penticton Vees, who are themselves in a battle for first place in the interior division, at Cominco Arena.

So, forget the crumbling Canucks and get out to a local rink and have some fun. If the Nitehawks/Leafs series is over, make your way to downtown Trail - where the Smokies have been put-ting on a good show for a couple of weeks now.

The permutations and potenti-alities within the fourth-place fight between Trail and Salmon Arm are myriad.

If the Silverbacks produce eight

points from their five final games, they win. That is highly unlikely given Salmon Arm’s rough road sched-ule. If the Smokies can get four points out of their last three games - which is possible - they could, against all odds and prognos-tications, get into a playoff round in

which recent results suggest they would have a chance at success.

If, ands, and buts, I know, but bumpy rides are the most enter-taining. Even relatively poor sea-sons, like the Smokies’ this year, can turn on small things.

Consider this: in mid-Janu-ary the Smoke Eaters played the Silverbacks in a home and home everyone knew could be crucial and picked up a single point to Salmon Arm’s four in losing in regulation and overtime. A split, even the extra overtime point Trail did not get, would have seen the Smokies in very good position right now, with a standings lead and the first tiebreaker sewn up. Just one point gained by Trail and lost by Salmon Arm that weekend may end up making all the difference at the end of a six-plus month season.

But, that season may still be there to be salvaged with a bit of luck and the Smoke Eaters have been so much fun to watch of late it will be a bummer if it all ends Mar. 10.

So much fun, in fact, that they deserve a good turnout Saturday night, however dire their post-sea-son chances.

DAVE Thompson

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T h E A s s o C I A T E D p R E s sSAN FRANCISCO - Alex

Smith quietly stayed behind the scenes after losing his job and watched from the sideline as San Francisco returned to the Super Bowl for the first time in 18 years. Yet the No. 1 overall draft pick from 2005 did make one thing known: The veteran quarterback still con-siders himself a starter.

And he hoped to get that chance again. Now, he appears to have it.

The Kansas City Chiefs have agreed to acquire Smith from the 49ers in the first major acquisition since Andy Reid took over as the team’s new coach in early January, a person with knowledge of the trade told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

The person spoke on con-dition of anonymity because the deal cannot become offi-cial until March 12, when the NFL’s new business year begins. Another person familiar with the swap said the 49ers will get a second-round pick in April’s draft, No. 34 overall, and a con-ditional pick in the 2014 draft.

After spending his first eight up-and-down years with the 49ers, Smith will get a welcome new start. The Chiefs will get the proven play-call-er they hope can help turn things around under a new coach much the way Smith did under Jim Harbaugh in San Francisco.

“You never know when your opportunity’s going to come,” Smith said late in the season. “The good ones are ready when

they do come.”The Chiefs have gone this

route before, acquiring Joe Montana from the 49ers nearly 20 years ago, in April 1993, after he won four Super Bowls but gave way to Steve Young - San Francisco’s quarterback of the future.

Not so different from Smith’s situation last season behind second-year QB Colin Kaepernick.

Moving Smith was hardly unexpected. He realized it once Kaepernick emerged as a capable starter over the sea-son’s final two months, and Smith all but said goodbye with his first pro team when he played briefly in the regular-season finale against Arizona to cheers of “Let’s Go, Alex!” and “Alex! Alex!” from the crowd.

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Dear Annie: I was just 18 years old when a routine doctor’s visit exposed off-the-chart high blood pressure and landed me in the emergency room. As a carefree teen in my first year of college, I felt healthy and assumed it couldn’t possibly be anything more than a little stress. Even the ER doctor took a look at me and said he was sure there couldn’t be anything wrong. Imagine the shock when the blood tests showed I had stage-four kidney disease. I was dangerously close to needing dialysis or a kidney transplant, but I had no clue that I’d been suffering from a silent killer.

Kidney disease often goes undetected because symptoms may not appear until the kidneys are actually failing. One in three American adults is at risk due to high blood pressure or diabetes, two of the leading causes. The good news is that early detection

and proper treatment can slow the progress.

My battle with kid-ney disease has turned me into a fitness guru and an advocate for kidney patients. I now do something active every day. By following a careful diet and work-ing closely with my doctors to manage my high blood pressure, I have been able to pre-vent further damage. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle and positive attitude can affect your medical prognosis in the best possible way. I can attest to it.

Will you please encourage your read-ers to get their kid-neys checked? March is National Kidney Month and March 14th

is World Kidney Day. The National Kidney Foundation is urging Americans to learn about risk factors and get their kidneys checked with a simple urine and blood test. For more informa-tion on these tests and staying healthy, and for a schedule of free kidney health screen-ings across the coun-try, please suggest that your readers visit the National Kidney Foundation at kidney.org. -- Leslie Field, Bradbury, Calif.

Dear Leslie Field: Thank you for reminding our read-ers how important it is to get regular check-ups to make sure their systems are running smoothly. More than 26 million Americans have kidney disease, and most don’t know it. People often don’t consider their kidney health, yet it can make a tremendous differ-ence in the quality of one’s life. We hope our readers will check the National Kidney

Foundation website for more information.

Dear Annie: Now that I’m part of the over-50 crowd, I’m finding it increasingly difficult to read the expiration dates on goods, even with my reading glasses on. Particularly trouble-some are the expira-tion dates that are at the bottom of a white box where the numbers are indented and also in white.

The manufactur-ers would do us baby boomers a great favor by marking the expira-tion dates in an easy-to-read location, pref-erably in black ink with larger letters and numbers. If we can see them, we will replace them more read-ily when they expire, which would be a boon for business, as well. -- Maryanne

Dear Maryanne: You’ve made an excel-lent argument, and we hope it wins over the product manufactur-ers. We’re on your side.

Dear Annie:

“Faithful Wife” said her husband of 44 years was showing some intense behaviors around an old flame, spending $12,000 on a facelift and accusing his wife of lesbianism.

If these behaviors are a continuation or exacerbation of old

behaviors, I am right with you on your advice. But if they are changes from a man who used to be rea-sonably “normal,” then I would suspect fron-totemporal dementia, of which these sorts of socially disruptive dis-inhibitions are classic

symptoms. -- MA, LSA Annie’s Mailbox

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For Saturday, March 2, 2013 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Things seem to be intense today. Don’t worry. In part this is because you might draw intense people to you, or intense circumstances. You also might be concerned about shared property. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Personal relationships are your primary focus today, because the Moon is direct-ly opposite from you. These people seem very important. Conflicts can be emotional -- well, who is surprised? GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Guard against feeling too critical of others today, because it’s easy to fall into this trap. It even might be subconscious. Remember that we all put our pants on one leg at a time. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) This is a romantic day for you. Relationships with oth-ers, especially females, might

be important. You feel espe-cially nurturing toward others. LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Seek out private time at home if you can, because you need to contemplate your navel. Childhood memories are at hand. Discussions with a female relative could be sig-nificant. VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) When talking to others today, you don’t want super-ficial chitchat. You’re more concerned with a gut level of communication. You want the straight goods. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) It’s easy to identify with what you own and even with what you earn today. You’ll also find enjoyment by being surround-ed by the familiar things that you own. SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Today the Moon is in your sign, which makes you a bit more emotional than usual. It’s quite all right to be con-

cerned about yourself. You’re allowed. (It’s only two days every month.) SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Work alone or behind the scenes today, and you will feel best. In a way, you feel like hiding -- not because you’re antisocial, but because you need some quiet time. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Female friends will be sup-portive and helpful today.

Share your hopes and dreams for the future with others to see what their feedback is. It might help you. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Private aspects of your per-sonal life might be made pub-lic today. In fact, bosses and VIPs could be privy to this information. Be careful. PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Try to do something differ-ent today, because you want

adventure and you also want to learn something new. You need a change of scenery. Shake it up a little. YOU BORN TODAY You have an unswerving loyalty to loved ones and whatever your passion is. You also have an amazing imagination. When you are working on an impor-tant project, you are totally focused on it. You’re extremely persistent and adhere strongly to your own value system. You’re not a quitter. Your year

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Located in the West Kootenay of southeastern BC, 450employees of Zellstoff Celgar Limited Partnership (‘Celgar’)produce over 1400 tonnes of Bleached Kraft pulp per day.Our mill is a World Class state of the art facility and we continue to make significant capital investments to maintain that standing!We are 1 of 3 Pulp Mills owned by Mercer International Inc.We are Castlegar’s leading employer and are committed tomaintaining our responsible position within the community andbeing our customers’ preferred supplier of choice.

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Th e family of the lateLeslie Barta

would like to express our sincere thanks and appreciation for all your acts of kindness and

condolence during our time of sorrow. Th ank you for all your comforting words, hugs, phone calls,

emails, cards, fl oral and fruit baskets and memorial donations.

Special thanks to Dr. Behrens, Dr. McCoid and all other doctors, nurses, paramedics and health care

staff who cared for Dad through the years; the members of the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch #11 for their tremendous resp ect for Dad during his membership and funeral service; Neil Jarvie and Keith Edmondson for their participation in the service; the Legion Ladies Auxiliary

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staff at Alternatives Funeral and Cremation Services; and thank you to all who came

and paid their resp ects to our Dad and celebrated his life with us. Your kindness and generosity is much appreciated and will never be

forgott en.Th e Barta and Geick families

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Proud grandparents are Bepi & Silvia Bertuzzi of Trail and Hal & Marion Kumka of Trail.

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FruitvaleRoute 380 26 papers Galloway Rd, Green Rd, Mill RdRoute 369 22 papers Birch Ave, Johnson Rd, Redwood DrRoute 375 8 papers Green Rd & Lodden RdRoute 378 28 papers Columbia Gardens Rd, Martin St, Mollar Rd, Old Salmo Rd, Trest DrRoute 382 13 papers Debruin Rd & Staats RdRoute 381 9 papers Coughlin RdRoute 370 22 papers 2nd St, Hwy 3B, Hillcrest, Mountain St

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GENERAL MANAGERCommunity Futures East Kootenay in Cranbrook, BC has an opportunity for an established business professional to further their career as General Manager. The GM is responsible for the broad roles of Community Futures, including the management of the loans portfolio, overseeing the effective administration and delivery of the various programs offered, and promoting economic development within the East Kootenay region of BC.CFEK offers a competitive salary and full benefit package. For more information about this rewarding position, see the full job description on our website: www.cfek.ca.The deadline for applications is March 11, 2013.

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

Tom Gawryletz ext 26Keith DeWitt ext 30

Thea Stayanovich ext 28Joy DeMelo ext 29

Denise Marchi ext 21

1148 Bay Ave, Trail 250.368.5000

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Warfi eld$74,900

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Fruitvale$259,900

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East Trail$159,000

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Fruitvale$49,900

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Warfi eld$588,000

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Trail$159,000

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Salmo$239,500

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BUILDING LOTS

Montrose$185,000

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Glenmerry$299,000

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Fruitvale$299,500

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Waneta$479,000

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Waneta$575,000

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Sunningdale$299,500

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Employment

Help Wanted

Motivated & Enthusiastic Certifi ed Dental Assistant Required for busy practice.

Experience an asset. Resumes accepted:

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Trades, TechnicalFITTER/FABRICATOR

Maple Ridge shop req. full time Fitter/Fabricator with specifi c pressure vessel/heat exchanger experience. Can interpret shop dwgs is well versed in layout, fi tting and tacking of pressure vessel tube and shell heat exchangers & tanks w/minimum supervision.

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Financial ServicesGET BACK ON TRACK! Bad credit? Bills? Unemployed? Need Money? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Acceptance Corp. Member BBB. 1-877-987-1420.

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The JBS TAX PrepChallenge to H&R clientsBring this:1. Your H&R 2011 tax return2. Your H&R paid invoice3. Your 2012 tax slipsGet this:1. Your 2012 tax prep done2. 10% off LAST year’s costOffer to March 15. No other discounts.JBS BUSINESS SERVICES778 Rossland Ave, Trail“next to the Rex” 250.364.2235

Garden & LawnKootenay Outdoor Living*Aerating, Lawn Dethatching, Pruning*Spring Tune-up*Tool Rentals*Gravel & Landscape Supplies2910 Highway Drive, Trail250-368-5552

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

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Feed & HayHAY FOR SALE

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LivestockFAMILY MILK COW for sale; very gentle; only 4 years old. Good quality Hereford/Angus bull 2 1/2 yrs old. 250-428-6264

Merchandise for Sale

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A-STEEL SHIPPING DRYSTORAGE CONTAINERS

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

OAK DINING SET w/6 chairs, buffet and hutch. $600. OBO; Exercise bike; 2000 Honda Accord, 67K. 250-368-8815

SMALL two inch Gold Dredge $550 as is. Concentrating bowl for fi ne gold $75. Mercury re-tort pot $75. 250-357-2087.

SNOWBLOWER, 24”, 2stage,portable air conditioner, large computer desk with fi le draw-ers. Ph. 250-368-3933

TWO TICKETS to “Smokey Robinson” @ Northern Quest Casino, March 10th, 7:30pm. Ph 250-364-1671

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WANTED IN ROSSLAND:HOUSE or CONDO

To Rent or Buy for June 1st. Can commit to Long term

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Apt/Condo for RentEDGEWATER APTS. in Glen-merry, 3bd. heat incl. F/S. $875./mo. 250-368-5908

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Rob Burrus250-231-4420

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Marie Claude Germain250-512-1153

1252 Bay Avenue, Trail (250) 368-52221993 Columbia Ave Rossland, BC (250) 362-5200

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Warfield $227,000Fred Behrens 250-368-1268

MLS# K204952

Solid Home

Warfield $78,500Fred Behrens 250-368-1268

MLS# K215860

Priced Right

Rossland $399,000Marie Claude 250-512-1153

MLS# K216903

New

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MLS# K218240

New

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Warfield $199,900Rhonda van Tent 250-231-7575

MLS# K218271

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Salmo $134,000Rhonda van Tent 250-231-7575

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Warfield $62,900Rob Burrus 250-231-4420

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1BDR COMFORTABLE SHOREACRES COT-TAGE: Suitable for 1 person, ns/np, available immediately, $550/mo. +utilities. 2 BDR GROUND FLOOR, TRAIL: Updated, quiet, $650/mo. +utilities, Seniors Discount, close to downtown. BRAN2 BDR WALKOUT BASEMENT SUITE, CASTLEGAR: 1 yr old, 5 appliances, galley maple kitchen, laminate throughout, $900/mo. +utilities. Jan. 15 or Feb. 1, ns/np, references required. D NEW RIVERVIEW HOUSE: Granite, timber, cedar, WINTER SPECIAL $299,000. , 2 BDR HOUSE WITH GARAGE: 75x110’ lot, zoned commercial, 2 blocks from downtown Kaslo, $199,000. Call 250-353-2595.906 CEDAR AVE, SALMO: 3bdr, 1.5 bathrooms, double wide modular, 60x120 lot, paved driveway, 2 car carport, f/s, w/d included, natural gas furnace, central air, storage shed, partially fenced yard, $140,000.FAMILY REUNIONS. 50 acre ranch in Southern Oregon. Sleeps 26, all in beds. Check VRBO.com Listing #. Fish/hike/raft/hunt. Near Crater Lake. GRANDVIEW HOUSING STRATA DUPLEX: 105-4200 Grandview Dr, Castlegar. To view contact Elmer Verigin

Real EstateSOUTH CASTLEGAR, $159,000: Cozy, renovated, 2bdr house, large lot, f/s, w/d, woodstove/electric, carport, deck, 24hrs to view. *MORTGAGES - GOOD OR BAD CREDIT: Purchases/Renances, 100% Financing, Debt consolidations, Construction, renos, Private Funds. Rates as low as 2.20% oac. Call Krista, 2652SQ.FT. EXECUTIVE HOME: Overlooking the Columbia River on a quiet street in Castlegar. Priced to sell at $349,000. BRAND NEW RIVERVIEW HOUSE: Granite, timber, cedar, WINTER SPECIAL $299,000. , ESTATE SALE: Cozy 4 bdr, 2 bath, Panabode home on approximately 1 acre in Kaslo, excellent condition, very clean and sound, 2 sunrooms, 2 pellet stoves, main oor laundry, paved driveway, walk out basement, $219,000. FSBO, 2BDR 1.5 BATH, ON HALF ACRE, WINLAW: Near all amenities, for more info

RentalsROBSON (CASTLEGAR) RIVER FRONT: 1 bdr, semi-furnished private suite, $650/mo. utilities included. WEST TRAIL APARTMENTS: 1bdr & 2bdr, ns, shared laundry, newly renovated, rent negotiable. 1 BDR NEWLY RENOVATED: Riverfront, basement suite, downtown Castlegar, f/s, w/d, dw, ns/np, $700/mo. +utilities (or furnished & serviced, $1600/mo.), available Mar. 1. Stacey

1 BDR WITH DEN: Lots of light in quiet house, laundry/utilities included, South-end, Castlegar, $650/mo.1BDR BASEMENT APARTMENT, CASTLEGAR: Ns/np, available Feb. 1, $550/mo. utilities included. 1BDR COMFORTABLE SHOREACRES COT-TAGE: Suitable for 1 person, ns/np, available immediately, $550/mo. +utilities. 2 BDR GROUND FLOOR, TRAIL: Updated, quiet, $650/mo. +utilities, Seniors Discount, close to downtown. 2 BDR WALKOUT BASEMENT SUITE, CASTLEGAR: 1 yr old, 5 appliances, galley maple kitchen, laminate throughout, $900/mo. +utilities. Jan. 15 or Feb. 1, ns/np, references required.

For Sale By Owner2-3 BDR HOUSE,YMIR: F/s, w/d, dw, wood/electric heat, hi-speed/satTV, Feb.1, $800/mo.+utilities.2BDR BASEMENT SUITE, CASTLEGAR: W/d, np, references, $650/mo. +utilities. 2ND AVE, TRAIL: 1bdr suite, ns, quiet working adult, laundry, garage, utilities included, available now, $750/mo. 3 BDR HOUSE: On 2nd, Trail, close to Gyro, available Jan. 1st, ns, $800/mo.+negotiable. 3 BDR ROSSLAND HOME: All appliances, replace, enclosed garage, $950/mo. 3BDR MOBILE, KRESTOVA: On acreage, wood & electric, w/d, ns/np. 3BDR TOWNHOUSE, GLENMERRY: Clean, appliances, furnished, laminate oors, carport, rec room, municipal parking in rear, $1000/mo. +utilities. 6 MILE, NORTH SHORE, NELSON: 2 bdr, for mature adults, ns/np, $900/mo. +utilities, references. BACHELOR SUITE IN BALFOUR: All utilities included $600/mo. BEAUTIFUL 4BDR, THRUMS: Acreage, 2.5 baths, ns/np, references required, mature/responsible, Jan. 1, $1500/mo. +utilities. CASTLEGAR 1 BDR +DEN BASEMENT SUITE: Walk-out, on bus route, ns/np, $675/mo. inclusive. CASTLEGAR AREA 2 BDR MOBILE: Ns/np, $800/mo. +utilities. CUTE 3BDR FURNISHED TRAIL HOME: C/w dishes, cookware, bedding, BBQ, zero maintenance yard, ++); $1400/mo. includes 5 high end appliances, utilities, wireless internet, HDPVR, ns/np, references required, available immediately.FOR RENT ON THE EDGE OF KASLO: Small cozy log cabin. Quiet, peaceful, setting suitable for quiet, ns/np, suited for single, responsible person, $600/mo. +utilities. FURNISHED 2 BDR HOME, SOUTH CASTLE-GAR: Now available, $850/mo. +utilities.

KASLO, BRIGHT 3BDR 1.5 BATH: F/s, w/d hookups, close to hospital/school, covered deck, internet/cable included, $850/mo. LARGE 1 BDR UPPER DUPLEX, HERITAGE APARTMENT, NELSON: Near downtown, ns, w/d, hardwood oors, clawfoot tub, covered deck, full sunlight, $900/mo.+utilities, available now, references required.LOVELY NELSON APARTMENTS AVAILABLE! Some rent controlled, including water & hydro, references required. NELSON, 3BDR, 2BATH HOME: Airy, close to all amenities, absolutely ns/np, reference required, $1250/mo. +utilities.ROBSON 3BDR HOUSE: Very clean, big yard, near school, church, bus stop, f/s, ns/np, refer-ences, $1150/mo. 250-365-2920(msg).ROSEMONT BACHELOR SUITE: Available Feb. 1, ns/np, $650/mo., includes utilities, cable & internet. SLOCAN MOTEL APARTMENTS, $500-$750, fully-furnished, large kitchen units, manager onsite. SMALL 2 BDR HOME, DOWNTOWN CASTLE-GAR: Ns/np, w/d, f/s, $825/mo. +utilities, SOUTH CASTLEGAR: Furnished 1bdr +ofce home, available immediately, $800/mo. +utilities. THRUMS: 3 bdr apartment, $850/mo. +utilities.

Homes For RentUPPER KASLO, COZY 1 BDR CABIN: Furnished, beautiful view, ns/np, responsible single adult, reference.S. CASTLEGAR 2BDR BASEMENT SUITE: Newly renovated, ns, pets on approval, laundry, references, $725/mo. utilities +internet included. 1BDR BASEMENT SUITE, OOTISCHENIA: Quiet single, No pets or smoking, w/d, $600/mo. including utilities, D.D.-$300. 1 BDR APT: Balfour, fully-furnished/equipped, lake & mtn view, sun deck, ns/np, $695/mo. inclusive. 1 BDR SUITE, DOWNTOWN CASTLEGAR: Ns/np, references required, $625/mo. utilities included. 1BDR APARTMENT, DOWNTOWN CASTLEGAR: Heat/hydro included, ns, references, $675/mo. 1BDR BASEMENT SUITE, CASTLEGAR: Private entrance, backyard, available Feb. 1, shared laundry, ns/np, references. 2 BDR BASEMENT SUITE: Very large & clean, gorgeous lake view, 15 mins from Castlegar, ns/np, $750/mo. includes electric. Travis, 2 BDR MOBILE HOME, 6-MILE, NELSON: Available immediately, ns/np, references, $950/mo., includes utilities. 2-3 BDR DUPLEX, SALMO: Available immediately, np, f/s, w/d hookups, $700/mo. +utilities.

2BDR APARTMENT, CASTLEGAR: Bright, spacious, f/s, laundry, close to amenities, nsnp, $725/mo. +utilities. 2BDR HOUSE ON 5 ACRES: 5 minutes south of Kaslo. Looking for responsible, cleatenant(s), $650/mo. +utilities. 250-354-16983 BDR HOUSE, NELSON: Newly refurbisheperfect for family, close to schools, $1500/mo. Contact Colleen or Nick, 250-229-2333 or 250-229-4771.3 BDR MAIN FLOOR HOUSE, CASTLEGARNice, updated, 5 appliances, double garage$950/mo. +utilities. 250-365-5896.3BDR HOUSE, NEWLY RENOVATED: Withlarge yard, Slocan City, available Jan. 1, $90mo. +utilities. 250-365-7574.3BDR MOBILE: In Sunny Bridgeview CrescOotischenia, close to all amenities/college, $750/mo. +utilities. 250-365-3733.3BDR, 2BATH, ROSSLAND: Spacious Heritage home, hardwood oors, large privayard, available Feb. 1. 250-368-1066.AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY: Newly renovatefully furnished 1 bdr, 1 bath basement suite,centrally located in Castlegar, close to storeshops and bus routes, 1 car parking availabcable and internet included, ns/np, $750/moincluding utilities. 250-365-6772.BALFOUR WATERFRONT: 1 bdr apartmentall utilities included, laundry, Jan. 1, semi-furnished $625/mo. 604-315-5632/604926-7362 [email protected], SUNNY, QUIET BACHELOR SUITE: In family home, private entrance, newly renovated, ns/np, $595 utilities includ250-365-1465.CASTLEGAR 1BDR PLUS DEN: Available immediately, on bus route, w/d, garage, separate entrance, ns/np, $700/mo., utilitiesincluded. 250-229-5703.COZY TRAILER: In quiet nature setting, 15 minutes west of Nelson, in friendly commun$390/mo. includes heat & electric. Sorry, nodogs. 250-359-8280.DOWNTOWN CASTLEGAR: Renovated 3bapartment, laundry, ns/np, quiet couple/famiavailable immediately, $1150/mo., utilities included. Rent negotiable. 250-365-4914 (leave msg).FRUITVALE, 2BDR: Remodeled, w/d, $595/mo. 250-367-9676.GLADE 2BDR HOUSE PLUS WORKSHOPNewly renovated, on riverfront acreage, $1150/mo. +utilities. 778-962-0044, [email protected] 1 BDR SUITE: 5 minutes from Nels$1000/mo. utilities included (+extras). 250-84767. Available Feb.1.LARGE 4BDR HOUSE ON ACREAGE, SLOCAN VALLEY: Bright, hardwood oors, woodstove, large kitchen, garden, private/qu$990/mo. 250-355-0035.LOWER KASLO: Nice, clean 1bdr suite in heritage four-plex, close to beach, 2 decks,

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For Sunday, March 3, 2013 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) This is a loosey-goosey day, and although you might want to discuss shared prop-erty, inheritances and such, don’t do it. Nothing will come of it. Just coast. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) This can be a playful day dealing with friends and partners if you keep mat-ters light. Avoid important discussions, and certainly

avoid important decisions or making promises to others. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Shortages, delays and minor mistakes on the job are likely today. This could be frustrating. On the other hand, it’s easy to think out-side-the-box. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) This is an extremely creative day for artists or anyone involved in a cre-ative project -- the theater,

screenwriting, arts and crafts, writing or working with children. Enjoy your day. LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) You’ll enjoy puttering around your home today. Do whatever makes you feel like you’re getting better organized, but really, you’re just marking time. It’s one of those days. Relax. VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Conversations with oth-

ers will be all over the map today, and they might be fun. Just remember that anything said today is not to be taken seriously until tomorrow. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Be very careful with your finances today. This is a poor day for making major expenditures or shopping for anything other than food. In addition, avoid important decisions. SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) You feel like a helium bal-loon floating freely today, which is why you’re not quite sure what to do. No worries. Just go with the flow, but avoid major expen-ditures or important deci-sions.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Quiet time in contempla-tion or solitary work will please you today. Don’t expect too much of yourself or others. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) A discussion with a female might be unusually frank and candid. People are inclined to let their guard down today. Listen with care. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Guard against making some goofy mistakes that other people (especially bosses and VIPs) will be aware of. Nobody wants bad press, even you. PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) You have strong feelings of wanting to escape from

all this today. That’s OK. Do something different. Be a tourist in your own city. But don’t spend money on anything other than food. However, you might learn something quite fascinat-ing. YOU BORN TODAY You are a visionary and can eas-ily imagine what it is that you want to achieve because you are both imaginative and practical. You’re very private, but you like to lend your efforts to social causes that make the world a better place. You’re a great plan-ner and are very involved in whatever you do. In the year ahead, an important choice will arise. Choose wisely. Birthdate of: Miranda Richardson, actress; Tyler Florence, TV chef; Alexander Graham Bell, inventor/teacher.

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Post second-ary educa-tion doesn’t come cheap.

Fortunately Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has some favourable tax policy to help mitigate the financial sting.

Tuition paid is reported on form T2202a, as is the number of months of part-time and full-time school that cal-endar year.

There is a book allowance of $20/m or $65/m based on part-time or full-time schooling, respect-ively.

Although this stan-dard flat rate may not seem fair considering the wide variance in cost of textbooks for different programs, at least there is no need to retain receipts for books and supplies.

There is also an allowable deduction for months at school of $120/m part-time and $400 full-time, even if income is earned during these

months. However, if edu-

cation grants were paid during these months, this deduc-tion is not allowed. This flat rate attempts to acknowledge the cost of living for a student regardless of where he or she lives, even at home – appar-ently fairness is not the priority. Again, no receipts have to be used to support this deduction so making the claim is simpli-fied.

If a student has earned income dur-ing the year and

consequently has tax liability, the student has to use a portion of the non-refundable tax credit to reduce current tax liability to zero. The remainder of the claim is carried forward to a point in time that income

warrants its use. Over the years this

can become a sub-stantial value.

If a student does not have tax liability in any particular year, the student still must file the tuition, edu-cation and textbook claim. It is not pos-sible to save up the T2202a claims from a number of years and make one single claim later.

If a student hasn’t filed personal tax returns in the past, the claim is not for-feited. A T1 adjust-ment can be filed for

each year missed.Another reason for

a student to file every year is that up to $5,000 can be trans-ferred to a parent or grandparent using Schedule 11, but only for the year in which the education expens-es were incurred. In other words, amounts carried forward by the student cannot be transferred in future years to a parent – a fact often overlooked by parents.

Before allowing a transfer, CRA not only requires the student to file a return and

make the claim, but also CRA requires the student to first use as much of the credit as it takes to reduce his or her tax liability to zero.

In addition, stu-dents can claim interest on govern-ment student loans. An official statement will be issued to the student. By the way, this does not include interest on a personal loan or line of credit.

As well, there may be cause to claim moving, childcare, and public tran-sit expenses. These

expenses however, are not included in the amount that can be transferred to a par-ent.

In the end, despite an education claim adding up to a sub-stantial deduction, it still may only repre-sent a fraction of the true cost.

Ron Clarke has his MBA and is a busi-ness owner in Trail, providing account-ing and tax services. Email him at ron.c larke@JBSbiz .ca . To read previous Tax Tips & Pits columns visit www.JBSbiz.net.

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For Monday, March 4, 2013 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) You have an overall feeling of good will toward others today, especially siblings, neighbors and relatives. Actually, this is a great way to start off your week. Enjoy! TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Dealings with groups could improve your financial situ-ation in some way. Perhaps someone has a tip for you, or this person will introduce you to an important contact. Enjoy talking to others. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You make a great impression on bosses, parents and VIPs today; however, don’t promise more than you can deliver. (Which you’ll be tempted to do.) Just rest on your laurels. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Travel plans look exciting. Even matters related to pub-lishing, the media, medicine, the law and higher educa-tion are promising. (Fingers crossed.)

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Others might be generous to you, or in turn, you might go overboard being generous to someone else. Be careful, because you could be playing with shared wealth. (You’ll have to answer to someone.) VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) This is a wonderfully social day. Get out and schmooze with others. Take time to enjoy close friends and partners. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) There is a general feel-good attitude at work today, which makes everything easy for you and others. It’s a nice way to start off your week. Just don’t bite off more than you can chew. SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) A playful, flirtatious day for Scorpios! This is a great day for sports events, the arts and working with children. (However, lucky Scorpios are on vacation.) SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Real-estate ventures might be

favorable today. Nevertheless, be careful you don’t pay too much for something. You’ll also enjoy shopping for home and family today. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) It’s easy to be full of positive thoughts today, because you feel enthusiastic about life. You know that there’s a light at the end of the tunnel and it’s not a train. (Whew.) AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) This can be a favorable day for business and commerce, but it’s tricky. You could overesti-mate something. Nevertheless, the gods are with you. PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) If shopping today, don’t buy unnecessary things, because you might be tempted to blow a wad. Guard against these impulses. Nevertheless, it’s a feel-good day, and you can have fun. YOU BORN TODAY Your independence matters, because you want to live your life the way you want, whether work-ing in isolation or with others. You can party hard or be com-

pletely happy by yourself, but you are always goal-oriented. You are skilled at establishing homes and structures, and in the coming year, you will work hard to build or construct something important to you. Birthdate of: Catherine O’Hara, actress; Patsy Kensit, actress; Khaled Hosseini, author.

For Wednesday, March 6, 2013 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) This is a marvelous day to do research or behind-the-scenes planning. Whatever you do will bring you increased support from others or will help you settle disputes about shared property. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Discussions with someone older, wiser or more experi-enced can benefit you today. In fact, for some of you, these discussions will impact your life beliefs. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) This is an excellent day to make a proposal to an author-ity figure (boss, teacher, parent or the police). You’ll be careful and realistic -- and won’t over-look details. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) This is a fantastic day for study, whether it’s technical information or philosophical studies. It’s a good time to fin-

ish writing a big project. You might shift your belief about something. LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Use today’s energy to wrap up loose details regarding inheritances, wills, estates, taxes, debt and insurance mat-ters. Focus on shared property. You’ll get a lot done! VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Discussions with partners and close friends can be won-derfully productive today. This is a great day to finish old busi-ness. It’s also a good day for closure. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Because your mind is focused and patient enough to deal with details, you can handle routine work today. Furthermore, you have the endurance to finish whatever you begin. SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) You’ll make great headway today in discussions about the care and education of children. Similarly, work related to the entertainment world, the hos-pitality industry and the world of sports will be productive. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Family discussions about home repairs or repairs to family relationships will be productive today. People are patient and willing to listen. However, your primary focus is on practical results.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) This is a great day for mental work, especially mental work that is boring or tedious. Today you have the patience for this. (And your concentration is excellent.) AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Budget plans and cost-cut-ting discussions will prove to be profitable today. You want to get the most bang for your buck. If shopping, you want practical, long-lasting items. PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Romance with someone of a different age might be taking place for some of you. Or you might be attracted to someone in a position of authority today. YOU BORN TODAY You are forcefully, passionately attracted to beauty, which is why you are often irresist-ibly drawn to something. You value sensuality in terms of texture, sound, touch, taste and smell. However, generally you are easygoing and casual. Privately, you will devote your life and even sacrifice a lot for your ideals. Your year ahead will be highly social and will benefit all relationships. Birthdate of: Michelangelo, poet/architect; Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet; Tom Arnold, actor/comedian. (c) 2013 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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Stop bullying was the message through-out Greater Trail on Wednesday for Pink Shirt Day in B.C. Above and clockwise; Students at Fruitvale Elementary gath-ered in the schoolyard to spell out the day’s slogan (video shot by Tim Baldwin posted at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XazAwTrM9yY). Employees at Ferraro Foods, the after-school program at the Beaver Valley Library, staff from Trail Transit Services and the Trail Times all donned shirts to show their support while students at J. L. Crowe Secondary signed an anti-bullying pledge


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Plenty of living space here for the whole family! 4 bdrms, 3 baths, open concept,

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#101-1800 Kirkup Avenue, Rossland

$149,000Don’t waste time on mundane tasks such as yard care, shoveling and maintenance.

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3397 Laurel Crescent, Trail $154,900

Great price for a Glenmerry townhouse,in good condition. Quick possessionpossible. Easy care living with small

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2304 – 11th Avenue, Castlegar $229,000

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

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9043 Highway 6, Salmo $185,900

4 bdrm 2 bath family home in Sunny Salmo! On .46 fl at acre, fully fenced,

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956 Spokane Street, Trail

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3727 Woodland Drive, Trail$255,000

Very well kept, bright and sunny 4bdrm home with corner fi replace, large rec

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695 Highway 22, Rossland $565,000

This 5500 sq.ft. 5 bed / 4 bath home with full southern exposure is situated on a 20 acre fenced parcel just 5 miles south of Rossland. Ideal site for a B&B with spacious living areas, generously sized bedrooms, custom built kitchen,

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1970 Monte Christo Street, Rossland

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for 4 vehicles and a new sundeck.Call Mary A (250) 521-0525

Lot 2, Highway 3B, Ross Spur $250,000

Fantastic opportunity- 29 subdividable acres for your dream home, hobby farm or to hold as an investment. Treed with

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REALTOR® today to view this opportunity.Call Art (250) 368-8818

2063 Washington Street, Rossland

$45,000Your chance to own a well established

boutique book store in the heart of downtown Rossland. This amazing price of $45k includes assets and good will.

Inventory sold separatelyCall Christine (250) 512-7653

#A-1003 Creekside Terrace, Rossland

$370,000Spectacular 4 bdrm 3 bath townhome located at Red Mountain, open fl oor

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2119 Daniel Street, Trail $69,000

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683 Binns Street, Trail $59,900

Great house. Solidly built and ready to renovate. Why rent? Be inspired.

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7740 Crema Drive, Trail $269,900

Immaculate 1/2 duplex with gorgeous kitchen, great fl ooring throughout, gas fi replace and spacious rooms.

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Panorama Mountain Village is mopping up after a large fire tore through a lodge at the ski hill near Invermere early Wednesday.

A fire started around 1 a.m. on the top floor of 1000 Peaks Lodge at Panorama.

There were people staying in the five-storey complex at the time, but all managed to evacuate to Panorama’s Great Hall.

Between 10 and 12 units in the lodge were destroyed in the fire,

according to Jim Miller, Columbia Valley Rural Fire and Rescue Service Chief.

“The top floor of the complex has been destroyed by the fire,” said Miller.

“There is also some fire damage to the fourth floor and the rest of the building has sustained extensive water damage.”

Due to the collapsed roof and water damage throughout the lodge, firefighters can no longer safely enter the complex.

“We will be back on site

(Thursday) to re-evaluate the dam-age and determine whether access is possible,” said Miller.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.

“This is a large building and this could have become a much larger fire if it weren’t for the swift response and hard work of the fire-fighters on scene,” said Miller.

It is the second condo fire at Panorama Mountain Village in five years. In June 2008, 16 condos were destroyed in a huge blaze at the Horsethief complex.

Fire destroys Panorama condos

PHOTO BY DAN WALTON

The 1000 Peaks Lodge at Panorama suffered extensive damage after an early morning fire on Wednesday.

trail daily times, march 01, 2013

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