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Grade 11 student, Guy Vercillo, holds one of the seven ducklings who are making their new home at J.L Crowe Secondary School. The ducklings are part of a program to get students closer to nature. See story Page 2.

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

On paper, annual budgets appear black and white. But what the numbers really reflect are choices based on underlying philosophies of whomever is in power.

That’s very apparent after the three South Okanagan-West Kootenay (SOWK) MP candidates weighed in on the latest federal budget tabled by Finance Minister Joe Oliver Tuesday afternoon.

There’s a few highlights, regardless the party, that are positives for all Canadians, including extending compassionate care benefits from six weeks to six months and relaxing rules governing registered retirement income funds.

On matters like the absence of cli-mate change fund-ing versus billions earmarked for counter-terrorism efforts, or the bene-fits of income-split-ting and increases to tax free savings accounts, there’s a wide divide between SOWK politicians Richard Cannings,

NDP, the Liberal Party’s Connie Denesiuk and Conservative Marshall Neufeld.

“There is nothing in the budget for cli-mate change and that’s my big concern,” said Cannings, an Okanagan-based biologist. “To me, that’s shameful and embarrassing. We are the pariah of the world when it comes to action on climate change and have a big meeting in Paris later this year,” he said, referring to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. “We will be embarrassed again if this is all we have to report.”

The budget is short sighted with no vision, says Cannings, because billions are invested into oil and gas industries instead of renewable resources, which would create new jobs outside of northern Alberta.

“This budget is just throwing baubles and trinkets at voters to get them on their side, and to me that’s cynical.”

He says the focus on bumping up military spending such as a $360 million mission against ISIS, $293 million for police, border services and Canadian Security Intelligence Service plus another $118 million to fight cyber attacks, is misguided.

“Their initiatives on counter terrorism will only affect us in very negative ways, and we are very much fighting Bill C-51.

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B Y L I Z B E V A NTimes Staff

The Fruitvale recycling drop-off centre is closing down on April 27, leaving some homes in the area without a convenient place to drop off their recyclables.

Without the centrally located depot, residents liv-ing outside of the curbside pick-up area will have to travel into Trail to get rid of their plastic, glass, paper and more.

Multi Materials BC, the provincial body in charge of recycling, said it can't reveal the exact addresses around the Beaver Valley curbside pick-up boundaries, but to find out if your home is on the route, visit www.recy-clinginbc.ca/rdkb/ for a map and address search function.

Tim Dueck, solid waste management coordinator with the Regional District of the Kootenay Boundary, says the closure will end up sav-ing district taxpayers a sig-nificant amount of money.

“We have been paying for the cost of that depot which is in the neighbourhood of $100,000 per year,” he said.

“The cost of operating that depot involves a con-tracted hauler to collect materials a couple times a week, there is the cost of renting the land, grading and snow removal.

“The cost of operating the curbside collecting service is about $50,000.”

But now, with the closure of the depot, there are some homes that will be without curbside pick-up and with-out a local drop-off centre.

Area A resident, Stan Skoumal, currently uses the drop-off centre at Liberty Foods in Fruitvale several times a week.

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Fruitvale recycling depot set to close

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their side, and to me that’s cynical.”

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The J.L. Crowe Secondary School science lab is echoing with the pitter patter of little duck feet this week.

Last Friday, Crowe teacher Colin Adamson went to Quack Me Up! farm and hatchery in Winlaw to pick up seven different species of ducklings for Crowe students to track and study.

He says the project is all about getting high school stu-dents to better understand their surroundings.

“I wanted to bring something into the school that would connect the kids with nature,” he said, adding that the stu-dents were very excited at the news of baby animals on cam-pus and wanted to learn more. “The first day, the school was abuzz with seeing the ducklings. Then you get the questions and students are curious. There is a class that is weighing them and charting it and seeing how quickly they grow.”

It isn't just science classes that will be following the duck-lings to maturity. Art and home economics classes will also be learning through the ducks.

“Their eggs, and ducks lay eggs every day, will benefit the students and we will use them for cooking in home econom-ics,” he said. “The art classes have been painting a mural on a coop. It is pretty spectacular. Hopefully everyone can learn as much as they can.

“What kid doesn't like a baby duck? Or any baby animal. It has been so cool to watch tough guys in Grade 12 holding a duckling and loving it. It has been incredible. There are plenty of different classes involved and they all use the ducks differently.”

The week-old ducklings are currently indoors, but in a couple of short weeks, when they are old enough, they will be outside enjoying the sun and fresh air.

“In a week or two, they will be ready for integration into the garden,” said Adamson. “There is going to be a duck pond and an enclosure. They are living the duck life.”

The ducks will be a permanent fixture in the community garden run by Crowe students, and will even be back next September after their very own summer vacation at a farm.

Things are ‘ducky’ at the high schoolJ.L. Crowe students embrace duck project

Liz Bevan Photos

Above; seven ducklings that are getting acquainted with their temporary new home in a J.L. Crowe science lab. The ducks will eventually be moved outside to the community garden behind the school, where they will be studied and observed by the students. Below; Allie Caron, a Grade 11 student, gets cozy with one of the ducklings.

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The Fruitvale Recycling Depot near Liberty Foods will be closing next week as the regional district moves to curbside pick up.

FROM PAGE 1He lives outside the curb-

side pick-up zone, and is wondering how he will see savings if he has to trek to the landfill with his paper, glass, styrofoam and plastic when the depot closes.

“We go to drop garbage only a couple times a year because we try to recycle everything we can, but we go with our recycling (the drop-off centre) a couple of times a week,” he said, mention-ing that almost all the waste his home produces is either recycled or composted.

“For me to drive to the landfill and back would cost me around let’s say around $10 a trip. If I am going to do that around a couple times a month, it comes to

around $250 to $300 per year. They say that this will save RDKB taxpayers $50,000. I am spending $250 to $300 per year to go back and forth to the landfill. Where is my savings?”

Dueck says there are around 100 homes, includ-ing Skoumal’s, in the Beaver Valley area that aren’t serviced by pick-up contractor Alpine Disposal and Recycling, but those households would have already been making trips to the landfill with their gar-bage.

“We estimate that there are probably 100 homes or fewer in the Beaver Valley that don’t have curbside ser-vice,” he said.

“There is really no differ-ence now. Presumably, if they

live outside of the pick-up area, they are already pretty good at budgeting their trips to the landfill, but now, when they go, they would be taking their recycling with them as well.”

Last May, the regional dis-trict handed over the recy-cling program controls to Multi-Material BC (MMBC) for the Greater Trail area rather than run it themselves.

So why is the Fruitvale drop-off centre closing almost a year after the switch?

“When the transition (from RDKB-run recycling programs to MMBC admin-istration) happened in May 2014, our board of directors wanted it to be as smooth as possible, saying let’s retain existing service levels until

we can see how this all turns out,” said Dueck.

“Recently, we felt that nearly everybody who was previously using that depot still had access to a recycling program. Another thing is the issue with unstaffed depots. They have been abused for years. They have been mag-nets for materials that are not recyclable. And now, the regional district is no longer a player in this.”

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Early last July, there were com-plaints from some of the 29,00 annual users of the campground

and day-use area, concerning threats of violence, excessive alco-hol use, and “other unsafe activi-ties” coming from a small group of guests.

The complaints resulted in a temporary closure of the day-use area while property owners, BC Hydro, took a look at the situa-tion.

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B y C r a i g L i n d s a yGrand Forks GazetteA recent CBC story

is garnering a lot of attention in Grand Forks. The story fea-tures an interview with a local resident who is questioning the decision of the City to re-hire Doug Allin as CAO, after paying out his severance package.

Donald Pharand said he was stunned when he heard about Allin’s rehiring and he filed a Freedom of Information request to find out exactly what happened.

“I’m upset that the city is spending all this money—the $192,000 payout at the end of the year and then the rehiring,” said Pharand. “That the city hired him back, it’s like: what’s going on here?”

Pharand said that the story has not been covered much by the media but now that the information is coming out in a press release after an FOI request, he’s left wondering.

“It answered some of the questions that people wondered,” he said about the release. “Now it’s coming out. It’s like the optics aren’t very good.”

Allin had been CAO for almost two years when he and the pre-vious council agreed that he would leave the organization.

According to the Dec. 31, 2013 Statement of Financial Information (SOFI) report, Allin made $142,995.04 in 2013.

The severance agreement between the city and Allin stated that he would be compensated for one year of salary and benefits for a total of $191,321.10. The actual payout to Allin was $115,577.30.

The contract fur-ther outlined that Allin would act as a consult-ant to the city for a period of six months.

Allin’s current con-tract with the city is for three years at $133,000 in annual wages. The contract includes five weeks of vacation and a contribution from Allin of 400 hours of overtime to offset the severance package.

Pharand said there must have been a problem with Allin for council to relieve him.

“We don’t know what the problem was

but there definitely some serious prob-lem and then they bring him back,” said Pharand. “I don’t buy that he’s the best quali-fied and that he’s the only one who could’ve done this. The optics aren’t good. I don’t have the wherewithal to ask the questions. That’s why we are try-ing to get the attorney general in here.”

Pharand also took exception to the fact that Allin was retained as a consultant even after he was relieved of his duties as city CAO.

“Doug Allin is sit-ting pretty,” he said. “It’s all a lark. It doesn’t mean anything. Why would you let him walk out with the cell phone and computer? He’s got access to every-thing going on in the city. There’s something really wrong here. It’s really stinky.”

Mayor Frank Konrad said that the termination was not shrouded in secrecy as some members of the public have stated. He also said there is no issue.

“If citizens have concerns they should come forward and express them. Council made a decision that I feel as mayor was a good decision.”

Konrad said it is unlikely the City could have done better in its search for a new CAO.

“Mr. Allin is familiar with the City,” he said. “He’s experienced in his field barring none. I don’t know why people would come forward now and upset the apple cart—all it’s going to do is create more scarring in this municipality.”

Konrad said the City has had so many controversial issues recently that it is sure to affect the efforts to attract new businesses to town.

“Would you feel like going to a din-ner party where the husband and wife are fighting?” he said. “No, of course not. You would leave because it’s uncomfortable. We are discouraging businesses from com-ing here because they

deem Grand Forks as a controversial city, which causes no good for anyone.”

As for the decision by the last council regarding Allin’s leav-ing the City, Konrad said he cannot com-ment on the issue because he was not present.

At the regular coun-cil meeting on Monday, councillor Chris Hammet brought up her concern about the CBC interview during her report.

“I’m totally dis-mayed that this is still an issue and that there are still some people out there who con-tinue to try to expose a conspiracy that doesn’t exist,” she said.

Hammett said she was very disappointed

when she learned that the previous council had met with Allin and agreed on a mutual termination within a week of the election.

“The behaviour of a minority of residents and non-residents over the installation of water meters was appalling such that bullying, intimida-tion, harassment and threats were directed towards Mr. Allin and his family,” she said. “WorkSafeBC would not tolerate such behaviour in the work place and our previous council agreed that they could not force someone to work in an unsafe environment.”

Sarah Winton, dep-uty corporate officer/communications for Grand Forks, said that

people need to realized that the number of complaints about the termination, severance and re-hiring of Allin are minimal.

She also added that retaining Allin as a consultant after his contract was termin-ated was important to the City for continuity.

“As the CAO he was working on a lot of projects that staff weren’t,” she said. “Higher level projects that were part of the strategic priorities of council. Other staff didn’t know anything about them. It was really important that he provided some con-sulting and provide the background informa-tion for staff that had to pick up where he left off.”

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Rehiring city CAO causes stir in community

T h e n e L s o n s T a rTaxpayers in the Regional District of Central

Kootenay will probably be on the hook for rural recycling for at least another three years. At least that’s the length of contract for depot service in a request for proposals the RDCK is finalizing. The present contracts expire in June.

While the district hoped to sign on with industry stewardship group Multi-Material BC, resource recovery manager Mike Morrison says it doesn’t look like it’s going to happen soon.

“We expected back when we were denied entry into the program last year that there would be a possibility of joining in 2015, but MMBC has informed us that is not the case,” he told 103.5 Juice FM. “We figure that three years is probably a realistic window for intake.”

Morrison said they still intend to eventu-ally have all of their rural recycling handled by MMBC. The cost of rural recycling in the RDCK, including 27 depots, has been pegged at just under $1 million annually.

Allen Langdon, MMBC’s managing director, said the organization presently has over 1,000 member producers and serves over 120 muni-cipalities and electoral areas through a mix of curbside pickup and depots. It also has a waiting list of another 70 collectors — a mix of muni-cipalities, regional districts, and private sector depots — hoping to sign up.

However, many producers remain hold-outs to the program for a variety of reasons. Consequently, MMBC can’t yet afford to expand its services.

“We continue to work with the Ministry of Environment, who are enforcing the regulations and trying to bring them into compliance,” Langdon said. “As we start to add more compan-ies, we’ll be able to add more communities. Our ultimate objective is to have a consistent pro-

gram across the province.”Although Langdon wasn’t sure of an exact

timeline, he noted they recently launched a depot in Terrace. MMBC also took on household recycling in Langley and began providing curb-side pickup in Revelstoke at the start of the year. Langdon said deciding priority areas for further expansion depends on a range of factors, but those that don’t already have a lot of service are higher up the list.

Presently MMBC provides curbside pick-up in Nelson, Castlegar, Kaslo, and Nakusp, but collec-tion rates in the latter two villages haven’t been as high as hoped because the RDCK still operates parallel depots intended to serve rural residents.

“With the curbside program people have to get used to putting material out at a certain time every two weeks, whereas the depots are open every day and have long established patterns of using them,” Morrison said.

Langdon called Nakusp and Kaslo “unique situations,” explaining that in most areas MMBC serves, the depots provide a place to drop off materials that curbside does not collect, such as styrofoam, glass, or plastic film.

“The communities where we have both curb-side and depots is actually a very good model,” he said. “It provides access to a broader range of materials and depots serve areas outside the municipalities.”

The RDCK was initially hesitant to join MMBC for fear that it could mean a substantially reduced number of rural depots because MMBC insists they be staffed, whereas many of the RDCK’s are not.

Langdon said that requirement is because their analysis shows unmanned depots have high contamination rates and “you end up picking up as much garbage as recycling,” which makes the recyclables less valuable.

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us safer, we really don’t need it, because we have good anti-terrorist legislation that was brought in after 9/11.”

Liberal Denesiuk says the budget is a cosmetic balance at the expense of long term plan-ning for most Canadians.

“In my view it doesn’t meet the pressing needs that I have found as I’ve listened to people throughout our riding,” she said.

“Of course safety is import-ant to all of Canada but they are going about it the wrong way.”

She said the Harper govern-ment has created much hype based on promoting fear, which places the Prime Minister as a “tough leader.”

“It takes a lot more skill to be diplomatic and intelligent that it does to poke at bears,” Denesiuk continued. “I think people, espe-cially young people in our coun-try, want to see Canada return to a nation that brokers peace.”

Conservative candidate Marshall Neufeld, says the budget discussion will resonate well with people in the riding, and he looks

forward to talking about it and more, as he knocks on West Kootenay doors.

“I really like that national defence is being increased to $11.8 billion over 10 years,” he said. “It’s still two years away, but the military can use the increase for whatever procurements are their priorities.”

While he acknowledged the lack of funding for climate change action, Neufeld referred to $252 million in environment-al initiatives the Conservatives committed in the 2014 budget.

Another contentious issue between SOWK candidates is income splitting, which is a tax incentive that was revealed prior to the budget.

Income splitting is designed to shift income from a taxpayer pay-ing a high rate of tax to another taxpayer within the family unit paying tax at a lower rate.

Cannings says only top income earners, or 15 per cent of Canadians will benefit from the

plan that he notes will cost the rest of the country $2.5 bil-lion each year.

“The point is, the more you make the better the benefit,” said Cannings. “It disproportionately benefits wealthy Canadians and that means the rest of us

are paying for that down the line.”

Denesiuk went one step fur-ther, saying the Liberals will reverse the $2 billion income splitting incentive and instead, invest the funds in infrastruc-ture.

“So that translates to jobs in the South Okanagan-West Kootenay riding, and getting goods to and from the market,” she added.

Neufeld, on the other hand, says the “introduction of the family tax cut,” isn’t about how much a person earns, it’s about levelling tax brackets for those with children.

“I feel it’s disingenuous this only benefits the wealthy because

there is a $50,000 ceiling,” he explained.

“It’s not how much you are earning, it’s fair to most people as long as the couples are in differ-ent income tax brackets.”

Another change Neufeld main-tains could be beneficial to many, is the increased annual contribu-tion to tax free savings accounts from $5,500 to $10,000.

“This depends on the individ-ual and plans made with a finan-cial advisor,” he explained. “But tax free savings can be a better vehicle for saving for retirement versus RRSPs. Plenty of people use this as a good option for savings, and that’s why it was increased.”

Denesiuk and Cannings oppose the tax break, saying that only wealthy people will benefit.

“Very few can afford to put aside $10,000,” said Cannings. “We need to put more money into the hands of the middle class people so they will spend money in Trail, Penticton and the rest of the country,” he continued.

“Tax breaks to the wealthy are put in the bank or used for another vacation to Paris or the

Grand Caymans. It’s not going to benefit Canada at all because to get the economy going we need money to be spent in our country.”

According to Denesiuk, the Liberal Party of Canada is not revealing its platform just yet, but she said the middle class and infrastructure spending will be “front and centre.”

Current NDP MP Alex Atamanenko, said he was dis-appointed but not surprised by the Conservative government’s continuing tax breaks for big cor-porations and Canada’s wealthi-est few.

“This budget has nothing that will assist the middle class who are the driving force of our econ-omy,” he stated in a Tuesday news release.

“Nor does it assist those fall-ing below the poverty line. It is disheartening to know that very little has been done to help those in need. Instead, this government has deemed it more important to maintain the wealth and income inequality it has established over the last decade on the backs of the middle class.”

Tory candidate eager to talk budget with constituents

Trudeau to reveal economic plank now that fiscal landscape clearT H E C A N A D I A N P R E S S

OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau is starting to show some of his eco-nomic cards now that the Conservative gov-ernment has laid its election hand on the table.

The Liberal leader says he’d reverse the Tories’ plan to almost double the maximum amount Canadians can sock away in their tax-free savings accounts.

And he’s promising that the Liberals would balance next year’s budget should they win this fall’s election.

Trudeau disclosed those two details Tuesday, moments after the Conservatives laid out their econom-ic and fiscal blueprint in the Harper govern-ment’s 11th federal budget, its last before the election scheduled for October.

He revealed another on Wednesday: he’d keep the Conservatives’ plan to cut the 11 per

cent small business tax rate by two points over four years. However, he said a Liberal gov-ernment would look at a different way of implementing the cut so that it wouldn’t wind up benefiting pri-marily the wealthy, as many economists have predicted will happen.

Until now, Trudeau has offered sparse details - like promises to scrap the govern-ment’s income-split-ting measure and to roll back the age of eligibility for old age security to 65 from 67 - while steadily resisting pressure to reveal plat-form proposals before the fall campaign.

With the fiscal lay of the land now clear, he hinted broadly Wednesday that he’ll be more forthcoming soon about Liberal economic policy.

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair has been steadily unveiling plat-form planks since last

summer, including plans for a national $15-a-day child care program, reinstate-ment of a $15-per-hour federal minimum wage and promises to hike corporate taxes and cut small business taxes.

In the absence of firm Liberal propos-als, Trudeau has been criticized for failing to demonstrate he’s got the policy chops to manage the country’s economy.

Trudeau said Liberals are committed to helping those who need it most, not pad-ding the purses of the wealthiest Canadians, as he accused the Conservatives of doing.

Indeed, he said Liberals are crafting all their policy through that lens: ensuring each measure will

“help the people who need the help and not, as this budget does, the people who don’t need the help.”

Among Liberal priorities, Trudeau cited investments in infrastructure, post-

secondary education, affordable housing, as well as “fiscal meas-ures” aimed at the middle class.

Both Trudeau and Mulcair maintain that boosting the max-imum yearly contri-

bution to TFSAs to $10,000 will benefit only the wealthy. They make the same argu-ment about the $2-bil-lion Tory plan to allow couples to split their income for tax pur-poses.

Experts have esti-mated that the income-splitting measure will benefit the wealthiest 15 per cent of taxpay-ers.

Both the Liberals and NDP have prom-ised to scrap it.

“Plenty of people use (TFSA) as

a good option for savings, and that’s why it was

increased.”MarshaLL NeufeLd


OPINION

Hard lessons from municipal electionsLocal elections

across B.C. were supposed to be buried and done

with last November, but some of the fallout from a few races is still coming home to roost and there’s a few lessons to learn from it.

The top ones? Local elections are a perilous time to be a chief admin-istrative officer (CAO), the passing the buck saga continues unabated and whoever knew that basic math could be so difficult.

If B.C. has a hunting season on CAOs, it falls in the 12-week window following local elections. Since November, at least eight councils have bid adieu to their CAOs. They include: Prince George, Salmo, Rossland and Mission.

Some of the departures have been relatively has-sle-free, but costly. Others just leave you shaking your head in amazement.

Take Grand Forks, where the incoming coun-cil fired the CAO, Doug Allin, last December, cost-ing ratepayers $200,000 in severance.

In February, after reviewing more than 40 candidates, Grand Forks hired a new CAO – Doug Allin – at a salary of $133,000. Magnanimously, he agreed to give up some banked overtime.

Logan Lake has hired a new CAO to step in for the interim CAO who stepped in after the last CAO left who had been hired to replace the retiring CAO. All that in two years.

In Colwood, the city has hired an interim CAO, Gary Nason, to replace the fired CAO who had only been hired 11 months ear-lier to replace the then interim CAO, Chris Pease, who had been hired after Colwood split with its for-mer CAO, Ross McPhee, who had been hired in 2011 to replace the retir-ing CAO, Chris Pease.

For some reason, an Abbott and Costello skit comes to mind.

Meanwhile, in Saanich, incoming mayor Richard Atwell single-handedly boxed council into firing the district’s CAO Paul Murray in December. Cost? $480,000.

None of this is a recent

phenomenon either.When Larry Campbell

took over as mayor of Vancouver, 10 severance agreements were signed within a year, some with up to 14 months in sever-ance. When Sam Sullivan took over, nine agree-ments, some up to nine months in severance. And when Gregor Robertson took over, seven agree-ments, some up to 20 months in severance.

Then there’s the lit-tle routine that seems to be going on again between the Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development and Elections B.C.

It goes like this: “No, I’m terribly sorry but you’ll have to call Elections

B.C. about that,” which is promptly followed on the second call by “No, regrettably, you’ll have to call the ministry on that.”

Recent reforms to legislation governing local elections were meant to put some teeth into the law and bring an end to passing the buck between various government agen-cies.

Politicians aren’t boy scouts. The honour code isn’t going to work. One agency needs to step-up and enforce the law.

The third lesson? City halls need to learn how to count.

According to esti-mates by the commun-ities that comprise Metro Vancouver, there were 1.68 million eligible vot-ers in the region last November. According to Elections BC, there are 1.55 million registered voters. Bit of a difference.

One would expect a drop-off between eligible voters (those who have the right to vote) and regis-tered voters (those on the list), but not 8.5 per cent. You also wouldn’t expect the number of registered

voters to be higher than the number of eligible voters, yet it was in seven of Metro Vancouver’s 23 communities.

What’s the impact of a bad count? In New Westminster, the turnout was reported to be 28.4 per cent last November. It was actually 32 per cent.

Currently, local coun-cils can choose one of three ways to build a vot-ers list: voters register when they vote, conduct their own enumeration or use B.C.’s permanent vot-ers list.

The transit and transportation plebis-cite underway in Metro Vancouver makes a com-pelling case for munici-palities to use the perma-nent list. Permanently.

And before anyone in Metro Vancouver gets their knickers in a knot over the difference between eli-gible and registered vot-ers, Elections B.C. has it right, but it doesn’t instill much confidence when city halls can have it so wrong.

Dermod Travis is the executive director of IntegrityBC.

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I cannot believe the mentality at Trail City Hall.

Adults and kids continue to cross the Old Bridge day after day and City Hall says “Don’t do it.”

Why, why, why?One of my acquaintances says you should see

some of the bridges in the Philippines.

They would love to have a bridge of the qual-ity of our Old Bridge over there.

Let the West Trail kids cross the bridge to go to the Aquatic Centre.

Spend a little money on the bridge and keep it there.

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Old Bridge still getting used

Budget 2015 spends more on grandma’s medical care and income security, while

asking grandma to contribute less to paying for these bene-fits. It may sound like a rever-ent thing to do for one’s elders. But it is a blow to generational equity.

The Canada Health Transfer reaches $34 bil-lion in 2015, up $2 billion from the previous year. Nearly 50 cents of every healthcare dollar goes to the 15 per cent of the population age 65+. Old Age Security is also up $2 billion, now at $45.7 billion.

Simultaneously, the Conservative government increased the contribution limit for Tax Free Savings Accounts. TFSAs are primarily used by older, affluent citizens. Canadians age 60+ are three to five times more likely to max out their TFSAs compared to those aged 18 to 49. TFSAs then shelter the deposited invest-ments from further taxation no matter how well investments pay off. Plus, budget 2015 cut another $167.5 million per year in taxes for affluent seniors by changing rules governing Registered Retirement Income Funds.

This pattern might be okay if the evidence showed that our aging population had prepaid for its medical care as it has prepaid much of its Canada and Quebec public pensions.

Unfortunately, a new study about population aging, gen-erational equity and the middle class shows it hasn’t. Spending on medical care for citizens aged 65+ is up $32 billion annually compared to 1976 (when measured as a share of our economy). But govern-ments haven’t raised any addi-

tional revenue to pay for this extra spending.

I want my 70-year-old mom and 99-year-old grandmother to have the medical care they need.

They want to pay their fair share. They know they have personal respon-sibility to do so. Otherwise, they leave the bills to their kids and grandchildren, or leave less in government cof-fers to adapt to new challenges facing their off-spring.

This prob-lem is already playing out. Total government spending on family time, cash and services along with grade school and postsecondary is down around $15 billion annually compared to 1976. This spending is down even though twice as many young people now attend post-secondary, and the demand for family time and child care services has skyrocketed along with the proportion of young women in the workforce.

But wait. Hasn’t the gov-ernment been calling this the Family Tax Cut budget? Doesn’t this benefit younger genera-tions?

When we examine total federal spending in 2015 on Elderly benefits, Employment Insurance, Children’s Benefits, the Canada Health Transfer and the Canada Social Transfer, the government allocates approxi-mately $11,000 per person age 65+, compared to around $2,000 per person under age 45.

The Conservative income splitting plan did little to influence this distribution. Although the goal of promoting parental time with kids is laud-able, income splitting helps just 38 per cent of families with children. The maximum bene-

fit is $2,000/year. Only well-off one-earner couples will save the maximum. Most will save $1,000 or less at a cost to tax-payers of $2 billion annually.

Since few benefit from income splitting, the Prime Minister Stephen Harper also increased the universal child care benefit by $60/month for children under 18. This change will not yet bring federal spend-ing on income supports for families with children back to the level it was when today’s aging population enjoyed the universal Family Allowance program while raising their children.

Nor does the Prime Minister’s plan build child care spaces, or bring their cost down from above university tuition levels. This is a prob-lem, because affordable child care is a major missing piece of our social policy puzzle along with the loss of parental time at home compared to the past. Both problems are now much greater for younger Canadians in their prime child rearing years since their full-time earn-ings are down thousands of dol-lars compared to 1976, while housing prices are up hundreds of thousands.

That’s why younger genera-tions need a lobby.

In anticipation of the budget, the Canadian Association of Retired Persons organized pub-lic demonstrations in support of TFSA increases and medical care spending, among other issues. Their organizing con-tributes to a world of politics that responds accordingly. So long as the aging population has a strong lobby, younger generations deserve one too. When younger generations don’t organize, the world of politics doesn’t work for all generations.

Dr. Paul Kershaw is a policy professor in the UBC School of Population Health, and Founder of Generation Squeeze (gensqueeze.ca).

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The group’s four priority areas are health and wellness education for seniors, seniors’ transit, a driv-ing course for seniors, and advocacy/com-munication.

The goal is to make available to Kootenay seniors the advocacy of a united front. The association’s pur-pose is to reach out to Kootenay seniors and, according to their press release, “assist them in all their chosen endeavours, and to promote local

seniors to participate in their local seniors associations.

“Together we are stronger and more effective in dealing with our local issues and can give our sen-iors the impact of thousand of members working toward simi-lar goals.”

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T h e a s s o C I a T e D P r e s sNEW YORK - People magazine has named

Sandra Bullock as the “World’s Most Beautiful Woman” for 2015.

The 50-year-old actress, who voices a super-villain in the upcoming movie “Minions,” tops the magazine’s list, announced Wednesday.

Commenting on being selected for this year’s cover, Bullock says she just laughed when she heard about the honour. “No, really. I just said, ‘That’s ridiculous,”’ she tells the magazine. “I’ve told no one.”

Bullock, who won an Oscar for “The Blind Side,” says she’s found beauty in her role as mother to her 5-year-old son, Louis.

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T h e a s s o C I a T e D P r e s sHARTFORD, Conn. - Mary Doyle

Keefe, the model for Norman Rockwell’s iconic 1943 Rosie the Riveter painting that symbolized the millions of American women who went to work on the home front during World War II, has died. She was 92.

Keefe died Tuesday in Simsbury, Connecticut, after a brief illness, said her daughter, Mary Ellen Keefe.

Keefe grew up in Arlington, Vermont, where she met Rockwell - who lived in West Arlington - and posed for his painting when she was a 19-year-old telephone oper-ator. The painting was on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post on May 29, 1943.

Although Keefe was petite, Rockwell’s Rosie the Riveter had large arms, hands and shoulders.

The painting shows the red-haired Rosie in blue jean work overalls sitting down, with a sand-wich in her left hand, her right arm atop a lunchbox with the name “Rosie” on it, a rivet gun on her lap and her feet resting on a copy of Adolf Hitler’s manifesto “Mein Kampf.” The entire background is a waving American flag.

Rockwell wanted Rosie to show

strength and modeled her body on Michelangelo’s Isaiah, which is on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

Keefe, who never riveted herself, was paid $5 for each of two mor-nings she posed for Rockwell and his photographer, Gene Pelham, whose pictures Rockwell used when he painted.

“You sit there and he takes all these pictures,” Keefe told The Associated Press in 2002. “They called me again to come back because he wanted me in a blue shirt and asked if I could wear penny loafers.”

Twenty-four years after she posed, Rockwell sent her a let-ter calling her the most beautiful woman he’d ever seen and apolo-gizing for the hefty body in the painting.

“I did have to make you into a sort of a giant,” he wrote.

The Rosie painting - not to be confused with a poster by a Pittsburgh artist depicting a woman flexing her arm under the words “We Can Do It” - would later be used in a nationwide effort to sell war bonds.

The painting is now part of the permanent collection at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas.

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T h e C a N a D I a N P r e s sMONTREAL - The mayor of Saguenay, Que.,

says it’s his city’s affordability, fresh air and low crime rate that make his citizens the most satis-fied in the country.

The town of 150,000 located about 200 kilo-metres north of Quebec City topped Statistics Canada’s life-satisfaction survey, the results of which were released Monday.

And it’s not just Sagueneens who seem to love their lives. Five Quebec cities made the top 10, with Trois-Rivieres in second place and Quebec City fifth. St. John’s, N.L., was third and the greater Sudbury area came in fourth.

Vancouver was the city with the lowest life-satisfaction score in Canada.

“It’s cheaper here,” Saguenay Mayor Jean Tremblay said in an interview. “You can park anywhere and it’s free, you can bike anywhere. We just feel more free here than in a big city.”

He said a household in Saguenay pays, on average, about $600 a year less in annual taxes than other comparatively sized cities in Quebec.

Statistics Canada says its researchers col-lected data from nine surveys conducted between 2009 and 2013 that included the same question: “Using a scale of 0 to 10, where 0 means ‘very dissatisfied’ and 10 means ‘very satisfied’, how do you feel about your life as a whole right now?”

Aneta Bonikowska, an analyst with the federal agency, says the nine surveys contain data from a total of almost 340,000 respondents, which is a “fairly robust sample.”

Statistics Canada collected data from as many as 1,000 respondents in even the smallest Canadian towns and cities, which she said makes the survey reasonable and reliable.

The study has limits, however.While the survey accounted for differences in

the age of respondents as well as other socio-eco-nomic factors that could influence life satisfac-tion, Bonikowska said the survey doesn’t explain “the extent to which economic and social factors explain variations across communities.”

That means Stats Can can let Canadians know who is most satisfied but can’t quite explain why certain Canadians are more satisfied than others.

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Frantic action filled Pople Park on Tuesday as over 100 mini-soccer players from Trail Youth Soccer kicked off the soccer season. The sport continues to grow as Kootenay South Youth Soccer reported over 1,150 kids registered to play this season.

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Times Sports EditorTrail’s Pople Park was overrun by

young soccer players Tuesday, as Trail Youth Soccer kicked off another fun, if not frenetic, season.

More than 200 parents and their young soccer minions descended on Pople Park for the opening day of soccer practice in what could best be described as an exercise in organized chaos.

With over 100 kids buzzing about and soccer balls whizzing this-way-and-that, utter confusion was somehow abated by the patient shouts and whistles of the volunteer parent-coaches as they ran the young players through two one hour practices and mini-matches on five modified fields.

For Trail Youth Soccer director, Chantal Filion, the task of organizing so many youngsters into 20 cohesive units can be challenging and starts long before the kids hit the field.

“We need to organize teams, coaches, lining the fields, so I have Mark Buckley who has it all surveyed, so he helps me and surveys the field, and getting the equipment ready, and ordering the shirts,” said Filion. “And yesterday, on my birthday, I had to pump up 100 soc-cer balls.”

The numbers for mini soccer and the Kootenay South Youth Soccer Association (KSYSA) continue to grow as 178 players from age 5 to 10 regis-tered for mini soccer, approximately 250 for 11-18 Youth, and 1,150 altogether in the KSYSA that covers Greater Trail and Castlegar.

“That’s a lot,” said KSYSA director Sid Compston. “This is the most I’ve ever seen here (at Pople). When I think about it, when my son was U11, and he’s now going to be 24, we ended up with 78 kids playing, now there’s 100 more and the (Trail) population is shrinking.”

Mini-soccer now boasts 10 U8 teams, six U6 teams, and four U10 teams, and if not for lack of availability could likely run four nights at the park.

“Our registration is up,” said Filion. “We had so many numbers, we had to move our U8s to the U10 time because we didn’t have enough fields.”

Youth soccer depends largely on par-ents to volunteer as coaches and despite the increase in numbers, Filion says that with a little guidance from KSYSA, parents have stepped up and filled any coaching voids.

“This is our best year, I’d say, for coaching,” said Filion, who has been organizing mini soccer for three years.

“We have a lot of people that are vol-unteering. We did do something a little different this year, we provided a little package, a binder, with lesson plans for each day, because we found that a lot of parents, that was what they struggled with, they didn’t know what to do.”

The guide outlines drills and strat-egies for each practice, and includes rules, policies, and guidelines for coach-es and players.

Keeping the coaches knowledgeable and happy isn’t a bad policy either, and something that will only benefit the kids and future volunteers - an important reason why interest in soccer continues to grow in Trail.

“If it wasn’t for volunteers like Chantal and her dedication over the last few years this wouldn’t be happening,” said Compston. “She’s the coordinator-director and she’s found people to help out, like she has every year, she’s on top of it . . . There is some organized chaos to it, but she’s found volunteers to help her through that.”

Pople Park is home to mini soccer on Tuesday’s and Thursday’s from 5-6 p.m. for U6 and U8 and 6-7 p.m. for U8 and U10, which play at Pople’s parks from now until the end of June.

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B Y J I M B A I L E YTimes Sports EditorThe Greater Trail AA

Orioles baseball team opened their season in a familiar setting but unfamiliar circum-stances on Wednesday.

The AA Orioles play in the Washington State American Legion AA Baseball League in Spokane, but, this year will get a jump on the competition by play-ing in the Trail Youth Baseball’s XBL Senior league at Butler Park.

“That’s new,” said AA Orioles assistant coach Dallas Calvin. “We got in there just to use it as an extra 20 games, and have some of the younger guys playing at a bit of a higher level, and see-ing some harder pitch-ing, and get ready for the (Legion) season.”

About 30 players, age 17 and under, showed up for the try-outs at Butler Park earlier this month, and among the returnees from last year’s team include Tyler Atkinson, Derek Green, Nathan Soukeroff, Colton Miracle, Austin and Reece Tambellini, Brendan Makay, Ross St. Jean, and Casey Harrison, while new recruits are Joel Aubert, Daniel Gagnier, and 13-year-old Austin Cox. Alison Schroder, Justin Coombes and Kian Johnston will see action on their dual roster.

“The team looks good,” said Calvin. “We got a lot of guys com-ing back that were with us last year, and a few guys coming up that played with the single-A guys last year, but we’re looking like it

should be a good sea-son.”

Last year the AA Orioles finished tied for fifth at 7-7 in the Federal League, but Calvin expects the experience of returning players and strong fun-damentals should push them up the standings, and hopefully into the district playoffs.

“I’d say we have good pitching and hit-ting, I think the thing we’ll work on the most is our defence.”

The AA Orioles will start the American Legion season at the end of May with most of the matches on weekends, and will compete in the XBL Men’s division during the week.

The XBL should provide good practice for the AA team with the Grand Forks Blues and the Trail Pirates, Tigers, Expos, and Indians rounding out the division.

“You just got to come out ready to learn and have fun. There is a lot of stuff to be learned, and a lot of coaching moments, and as long as everyone is willing to do that we should be fine.”

Trail is hoping to host a tournament in June, and will par-ticipate in the Wood Bat Tournament in Spokane in July.

Ron and Kyle Mace will return as coaches, with Kyle Paulson and Calvin assisting.

To see more on the Trail AA Orioles visit their Facebook page.

Trail played the Tigers in their opening match Wednesday but the score was unavail-able at press time.

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NHL PlayoffsTuesday, April 21

Detroit 3, Tampa Bay 0, Detroit leads series 2-1

Washington 2, N.Y. Islanders 1, OT, series tied 2-2

Chicago 3, Nashville 2, 3OT, Chicago leads series 3-1Calgary 3, Vancouver 1,

Calgary leads series 3-1Wednesday, N/A

Montreal at Ottawa, 7 p.m.N.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh,

7 p.m.St. Louis at Minnesota, 9:30

p.m.Anaheim at Winnipeg, 9:30

p.m.Thursday, April 23

Tampa Bay at Detroit, 7 p.m.NY Islanders at Washington,

7 p.m.Chicago at Nashville, 9:30 p.m.Calgary at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

Friday, April 24x-Ottawa at Montreal, 7 p.m.Pittsburgh at N.Y. Rangers,

7 p.m.x-Winnipeg at Anaheim, 10

p.m.Minnesota at St. Louis, TBA

BaseballAmerican League

East Division W L Pct GBBoston 9 5 .643 -Baltimore 7 7 .5 2New York 7 7 .5 2Toronto 7 7 .5 2Tampa Bay 6 8 .429 3 Central Division W L Pct GBDetroit 11 3 .786 -Kansas City 11 3 .786 -Chicago 6 8 .429 5Cleveland 5 9 .357 6Minnesota 5 9 .357 6

West Division W L Pct GBHouston 8 6 .571 -Oakland 7 8 .467 1.5Los Angeles 6 8 .429 2Texas 6 8 .429 2Seattle 5 9 .357 3

Today’s GamesN.Y. Yankees at Detroit , 1:08

p.m.Oakland at L.A. Angels,

7:05 p.m.Baltimore at Toronto, 7:07 p.m.

Boston at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.

Kansas City at Chicago White Sox 8:10 p.m.

National League East Division W L Pct GBNew York 11 3 .786 -Atlanta 8 5 .615 2.5Washington 7 7 .5 4Philadelphia 5 9 .357 6Miami 3 11 .214 8

Central Division W L Pct GBSt. Louis 8 4 .667 -Chicago 8 5 .615 .5Cincinnati 7 7 .5 2Pittsburgh 6 8 .429 3Milwaukee 2 12 .143 7 West Division W L Pct GBLos Angeles 9 4 .692 -San Diego 10 5 .667 -Arizona 7 7 .5 2.5Colorado 7 7 .5 2.5San Fran 5 10 .333 5Texas 6 8 .429 2Seattle 5 9 .357 3

Today’s GamesChicago Cubs at Pittsburgh

12:35 p.m.Miami at Philadelphia, 1:05

p.m.Atlanta at N.Y. Mets 1:10 p.m.Cincinnati at Milwaukee, 1:40

p.m.San Diego at Colorado, 3:10

p.m.L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco,

3:45 p.m.St. Louis at Wash, 4:05 p.m.


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BIRCHBANK LADIES

SUBMITTED PHOTO

The Birchbank Ladies Opening was held last week. Despite the cool windy temperatures, 38 brave ladies completed 18 holes. Format for the Opening was “Throw the Dice” game using no handicaps. Winners (from left) were Brenda O’Donaughy, Carolyn Caron, Louise Dewdney and Joan Allegretto.

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

With the Vancouver Canucks’ season on the line, head coach Willie Desjardins has decided on his starting goalie for tonight’s must-win Game 5 against the Calgary Flames.

That doesn’t mean he’s willing to share the information.

The Canucks prac-tised at Rogers Arena on Wednesday after-noon a day after a 3-1 loss in Calgary put them down 3-1 in their Western Conference

quarter-final with the Flames.

Eddie Lack played the first four games of the series, but allowed three goals on seven shots in Game 4 before getting the hook in favour of veteran Ryan Miller, who stopped all

15 shots he faced.Miller signed on

to be Vancouver’s No. 1 goalie in the sum-mer and held the job until he suffered a knee injury at the end of February.

Lack carried the load the rest of the way and has played in 25 of Vancouver’s last 27 games. Miller’s only action before Wednesday’s was a start in the regular-season finale.

Meanwhile, the Canucks announced forward Alexandre Burrows is done for the series after he left the morning skate prior to Game 4 and was taken to hospital.

Canuck’s coach mum on starting goalie

Leisure

Dear Annie: Last week, our son came home from high school and told us that a boy at his school had killed himself. The boy had been a friend of his since the fifth grade.

The school had a moment of silence over the public address system, but never mentioned the boy’s name. Most of the details about the suicide are nonexistent, although there are a few things mentioned on a web-site asking for help paying for funeral costs. Students who didn’t know the suicide victim are guessing it was caused by bullying. Our son says that’s not true. Some students are even saying the fund requests are a scam.

We haven’t heard any-thing about whether the school is offering grief counseling. We’ve talked to our son about the trag-edy and are trying our best to help him. Because the students have no infor-mation, they are making wild guesses and placing uninformed posts on social media. My question is why is this tragedy so secret? Should the school do more? -- Sad Mom

Dear Sad: Sometimes, the school is ill-equipped to deal with such tragedies and does nothing, which tends to create a whirlwind of misinformation. Also, the administration may fear that mentioning the details would create copycat sui-cides. But the details do not need airing. The acknowl-edgement of mourning, however, is important.

The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (afsp.org) offers a Toolkit for Schools, and you should mention this to the administration. The foundation is also an excel-lent resource for anyone dealing with suicide, and you will find information there that will help you talk to your son about his friend.

Dear Annie: I would like to thank “B” for bringing attention to the telephone scammers who have been plaguing America.

I also would like to bring to your readers’ attention to a scam perpetrated by people claiming to be from the IRS. I have received three calls from these peo-ple. The “official” recorded message is totally bogus. The caller threatened me with arrest for ignoring the calls. They instructed me to call a 202 area code, but it’s a private Washington, D.C., number, not the IRS. I have worked for a federal agency and know how things work. Please be aware of the fol-lowing:

1. The IRS does not initi-ate contact by telephone. They use certified mail.

2. Legitimate govern-ment agencies have an 800 number.

3. The IRS will not arrest anyone over the phone. If an arrest is required, it will be after lengthy legal pro-cesses have been exhausted. You’ll know about it. Police agencies need a bona fide warrant to arrest people.

4. If you receive such a

call, report it to the IRS at [email protected]. Also notify your local police. -- Knows Better

Dear Knows: Thank you for your expert advice. Calls pretending to be from the IRS can be particularly frightening for people who are so eager to cooperate that they give out personal

financial information over the phone. Please, folks, be careful.

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For Friday, April 24, 2015 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Small appliances might break down today, or minor breakages could occur; for some reason, your home routine is interrupted. Cross your fingers and hope for the best. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Be careful today, because this is a mildly accident-prone day for you. Think before you speak and act. Keep your eyes peeled. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You might find money today or you might lose money. Guard your posses-sions against loss or theft. Something unexpected could impact your assets. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Today the Moon is in your sign at odds with unpredictable Uranus. This is why you feel at loose ends and distracted. Don’t worry,

because this influence is gone by tomorrow. LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) You might feel unsettled today and not sure of what to do next. Don’t worry; this is just par for the course for many of us. It’s that kinda day. VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) A falling out with a female acquaintance might occur today. If you sense this will happen, give this person a wide berth. Run the other direction. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) This is a poor day to ask authority figures (includ-ing parents) for anything. Relations with these people are dicey! Keep a low pro-file. SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Travel plans will be inter-rupted, changed or canceled today. Likewise, schedules related to higher educa-tion also might be changed.

Allow extra time for wiggle room with whatever you are doing. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Make friends with your bank account today so that you know what’s happen-ing. Something having to do with shared property and debt could be an unpleasant surprise. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Be patient with female

friends and partners today, because arguments might erupt. This is a fleeting influence, so just play it cool. Patience is your best friend. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Computer crashes, staff shortages and cancelled meetings at work might be some reasons that your day goes sideways in a New York minute. This is a brief plan-etary influence. No worries.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Parents should be extra vigilant, because this is a mildly accident-prone day for their kids. Romantic plans, sports events and fun, social occasions might also be canceled. Boo hoo. YOU BORN TODAY You like to guide people. To do this, you sometimes share your impressions with oth-ers. Family is important because you are a nurtur-

er. Something you’ve been involved with for about nine years will end or diminish in order to make room for something new. This is a gentle year where you will learn to serve others. This is also a good year to travel. Birthdate of: Kelly Clarkson, singer; Rory McCann, actor; Sue Grafton, author. (c) 2015 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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In Loving Memory of Cathy Caputo

Sadly missed but not

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forever in our hearts.

Love from Mom, Louis

& Brenda

In Loving Memory ofLonnie

Michael Plasko

November 14, 1955- April 23, 2007

If tears could build a stairway

and memories a lane,

I’d walk right up to Heavenand bring you

home again

With love,Wendy, Tracy, Denis, Mom, Todd, Amy, Caylee, Sandra, Lisa, Gord, Gianna, Daryl,

and Boo-Boo

Columbia Power is currently recruiting for two summer student positions:

Reference Number 1505

Reference Number 1506

To view the job descriptions for these positions visit the Careers section of columbiapower.org. Closing date for these positions is Friday, April 24, 2015.

Please be sure to reference the job number you are applying for when submitting your application.

career opportunity

CASUAL GENERAL LABOURERPublic Works Department

POSITION SUMMARY:Th e Village of Montrose is currently recruiting for a Casual General Labourer to join our team of professionals in the Public Works Department. Th is position will work on an intermittent basis, on-call and as required.Th e successful applicant will have sound knowledge of the methods, materials, tools and equipment applicable to the various functional areas of construction and maintenance work. You must have suffi cient physical strength, stamina and coordination to permit the performance of heavy manual outdoor work in all weather conditions.Exercising some independent judgment and initiative, you will be responsible for:• Performing the duties of helper and general labourer

related to assisting with construction, maintenance and operation activities of the Village.

• Operating fl eet vehicles to transport materials and tools to/from job sites.

• Performing other related work as required.It is essential for you to possess a valid class 5 BC driver’s license with air brake endorsement an asset,WHMIS, have completed Grade 12 (or equivalent) and have some experience in general construction and maintenance work.Th e rate of pay for this position is $24.37/hr. Th e terms and conditions of employment are in accordance with the CUPE Collective Agreement, plus additional compensation in lieu of vacation and benefi ts as specifi ed in the Employment Standards Act.Qualifi ed applicants should send their resume, cover letter and drivers abstract by 12:00pm Monday April 27, 2015 to: Attn: Chief Administrative Offi cerVillage of MontrosePO Box 510MONTROSE, BC V0G 1P0Or e-mailed to: [email protected] e Village wishes to thank all applicants for their interest but will only contact those under consideration for the position.

Corporation of theVILLAGE OF MONTROSE

Happy 55th Anniversary

Betty and Sam Cahoon

Congratulations from your loving family

2015 SUMMER STUDENT EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Th e Village of Montrose is accepting resumes for a Summer Student position. Th e work will entail outside labour including, but not limited to, park maintenance, grass cutting, garbage pickup and painting. A minimum valid Class 7 driver’s licence is required. To be eligible for this position, the applicant must be a college or university student with declared intention of returning to school in the fall. Th e position is a CUPE Local 2087 position.Term of employment is May 11 – August 14. Please submit your resume and cover letter to:Village of Montrose, PO Box 510, MONTROSE, BC V0G 1P0 or by email at [email protected]. Closing date: May 1, 2015.


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2015 - 2019Take Notice, that pursuant to Section 166 of the Community Charter, the Council for the Village of Montrose will be holding a public consultation session prior to the adoption of Bylaw #721 – Montrose Financial Plan 2015-2019. Th e consultation will take place on May 4, 2015 at 6:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers located at 565 11th Avenue, Montrose, B.C.

2015 PARCEL TAX ROLL

Take Notice, that pursuant to Section 208 of the Community Charter, the Village of Montrose will have the 2015 Parcel Tax Roll available for public inspection at the Village Offi ce, 565 11th Avenue, Montrose, BC. Th e roll may be inspected during regular offi ce hours – 8:30 am – Noon and 1:00 pm – 4:30 pm.A person who owns a parcel included on the parcel tax roll may request that the roll be amended respecting to the following matters:

• Th ere is an error or omission respecting a name or address on the parcel tax roll;

• Th ere is an error or omission respecting the taxable area;

• Th ere is an error or omission respecting the inclusion of the parcel;

• An exemption has been improperly allowed or disallowed.

A request must be received by 4:00 pm, April 30, 2015 to be considered for the 2015 tax year. Bryan TeasdaleAdministratorTh is is the fi rst of two notices.


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Houses For SaleUPPER ROSSLAND, older 2bdrm., priced for quick sale, as is, all furniture included, full basement, large garage with pit. $145,000. 250-362-5518

Bella Vista, Shavers Bench Townhomes. N/S, N/P. 2-3 bdrms. Phone 250-364-1822

Ermalinda Estates, Glenmer-ry, spacious 1-2bdrms. Adults only. Secure building w/eleva-tor. N/S, N/P. Ongoing im-provements. Ph.250-364-1922

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Francesco Estates, Glenmer-ry,spacious 1-3bdrms. Adults only (45+). Secure building w/elevator. N/S, N/P. Ongoing improvements. Ph. 250-368-6761

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FRUITVALE, large 1bdrm. suite close to town, F/S, Laun-dry on site. Covered parking. $650./mo. + utilities. NS,NP. 250-367-7919

Glenmerry 2bdrm. apt. F/S Heat included. N/S. $775./mo. 250-368-5908

ROSSLAND, bach. & 1bd. apt. Golden City Manor. Over 55. N/S. N/P. Subsidized. 250-362-5030, 250-231-9777

TRAIL, 2bd. apt. Friendly, quiet secure bldg. Heat incl. N/P, N/S. 250-368-5287

TRAIL, 2BD. apt. Furn. or un-furn.; with or without utilities, f/s/w. N/S, N/P. Close to downtown & bus stop. $650./mo. ++. Avail. May1st. 250-367-9939

W.TRAIL 2-bdrm. main fl oor. f/s,w/d,d/w, central a/c. $700./mo. + util. 250-368-1015

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SHOP/ WAREHOUSE, 4300 sq.ft. Ample outside space. Good access. 250-368-1312

Homes for RentFRUITVALE Guest House, on 12 acres, very small one bed-room. $500./mo. utilities incl. 250-367-0277

GLENMERRY, close to hospi-tal, 3bdrm., 2bth., 2 car gar-age, all appliances. $1,285./mo. + util. Avail. May. 604-263-2600, 604-992-6659

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TownhousesGLENMERRY, reno’d 3bd., 1.5bths., 5 appls. N/S, N/P. Avail.Jun.1st. 250-365-3401

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2015 marks Korpack’s 68th year in business. The locally family owned and operated company was opened in March of 1947 by Antonio Ferraro and his two sons, Ed and Elmo. As the years have gone by, a lot has changed and for the past 20 years, Korpack has been run by Ed’s sons, Tony and Ed and their right hand man, Adam Montonen.

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Mark Wilson250-231-5591 [email protected]

Terry Alton250-231-1101 [email protected]

Tonnie Stewart250-365-9665 [email protected]

Mary Martin250-231-0264 [email protected]

Richard Daoust250-368-7897 [email protected]

Mary Amantea250-521-0525 [email protected]

Bill Craig250-231-2710 [email protected]

Deanne Lockhart250-231-0153 [email protected]

Art Forrest250-368-8818 [email protected]

Christine Albo250-512-7653 [email protected]

Dave Thoss250-231-4522 [email protected]

Dan Powell Christina Lake250-442-6413 [email protected]

Are you interested in learning about potential residential

development in Trail? We want your feedback!

Visit: www.surveymonkey.com/s/KTVGQC8 and take our 5 minute survey.

We want to hear from YOU!

801 Glen Drive, Trail $199,000

Solid Sunningdale 4 bdrm 2 bath home on large fenced

lot. Quiet family oriented neighbourhood. Good

value here!

Call Terry 250-231-1101

1450 - 5th Avenue, Trail$205,000

Just move in - everything has been done for you! Elegant, tasteful, open concept, and very energy effi cient 3 bdrm, 2 bath home. There is a lot going on in this

package!

Call Tonnie (250) 365-9665

NEW LISTING

1210 Primrose Street, Trail$178,000

Enjoy the carefree life in this low maintenance town home. Tastefully

decorated, well maintained, featuring 3 bdrms, 1.5 baths, with newer windows, air conditioning, fenced yard and carport. Excellent

value! Call now to view!

Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

1477 - 2nd Avenue, Trail$155,000

Top quality updates! This sweet little package is perfect! All the mechanical upgrades have been done to perfection. Newer heat

pump, furnace, wiring, plumbing, windows, roof, fl oors, counter tops, back splash, fence and landscaping.

All you have to do is move in and put any personal touches you’d like.

Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

NEW PRICE

1216 Columbia Ave, Trail$199,000

This home is in a great location. Enjoy the low maintenance yard

and large deck. This home has had extensive upgrades including new deluxe kitchen and bathroom and many mechanical upgrades too.

Call today!

Call Richard (250) 368-7897

1577 Pine Avenue, Trail$289,000

Brand new 3 bdrm home and the GST is included! Amazing views, 2 decks and nicely decorated.

Hardi plank siding, a triple carport and asphalt roof. Quick possession

available.

Call Christine (250) 512-7653

NEW LISTING

550 Schofi eld Highway, Warfi eld

$199,000Bright and sunny 3 bdrm family home with new hot water tank,

windows, furnace, carpeting, paint and siding. Call today!

Call Christine (250) 512-7653

NEW LISTING

745 Dickens St., Warfi eld$199,500

Beautifully upgraded. You will love the kitchen, lots of storage, stainless steel appliances, and wood fl ooring. The charming

dining room has french doors to large deck. Living room and dining

rooms also have wood fl ooring.

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

572 Spokane Street, Trail

$45,000Good rental or starter home with

4 bdrms, country kitchen, rec. room, single carport, and view deck. Plumbing in basement for a

second bathroom. Located an easy fi ve minute walk to town.

Call Art (250) 368-8818

770 Tennyson Ave., Warfi eld$219,000

Warfi eld Charmer! This 3 bedroom home offers lots of space and

main fl oor laundry. Central air-conditioning and electric

fi replace add to comfort. Great parking with paved driveway and double carport. Low maintenance

exterior with vinyl siding, steel roof, low maintenance yard. Quick

possession possible.

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

NEW PRICE

1450 Webster Road, Fruitvale $339,000

10 acres of incredible privacy and stunning views. This home is very

spacious, great as a large family home or use the self-contained main in-law

suite separately. Vaulted ceilings, wood stove and large deck. 4 bdrms on upper level and 2 bedrooms down. Call your REALTOR® for your personal viewing.

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

NEW LISTING

OPEN HOUSESat, April 25 12-2pm 388 Austad Lane

$750/moWe have excellent tenants

waiting for rentals in Glenmerry, Sunningdale

and East Trail.

Call today if you need your property professionally

managed!

Terry Alton 250-231-1101

Tonnie Stewart (250) 365-9665

RENTALS

1912 Hummingbird

Drive, Fruitvale $349,900

Built in 2008 - this 4 bdrm /3 bath home still feels

brand new. Vaulted ceilings and lots of

sunlight throughout-open fl oor plan with

lovely hardwood fl oors. Double

garage and fenced yard. Move in and

enjoy.

Call Mark (250) 231-5591

SOLD

OPEN HOUSESat, April 25 11am-12:30pm

OPEN HOUSESat, April 25 1-2:30pm

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Jim Bailey photos

Trail Youth Soccer’s mini-soccer division kicked off Tuesday night at Pople Park.

Trail Daily Times, April 23, 2015

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