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Sometimes things happen for a reason and if Tom McEwan had made some different choices after serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force in the Second World War, the Greater Trail area would have been much poorer for it.

Now, in recognition of his exten-sive volunteerism for the commun-ity, the 90 year-old has been named the Trail-Warfield Citizen of the Year for 2013,

When McEwan completed his degree in chemical engineering at the University of British Columbia in 1951 he had offers in other parts of Canada but he and his wife Edie, who passed away in 2008, chose to come to Trail instead.

“I had offers in Ontario in chem-ical engineering, that’s where the chemical guys were. But neither of our fathers were well at that time and we wanted to stay closer to Vancouver, where they were,” McEwan said. “Within a month or so of being here we had a lot of friends and we really loved it. It was a nice, family-oriented community and we decided to stay.”

And stay they did. McEwan went on to work for

Cominco Ltd. for 35 years, retir-ing in 1986. With his beloved wife, he raised six sons who went on to become a B.C. Supreme Court Justice, two successful lawyers, an economic development officer, an associate deputy minister with the provincial government, and the former Chief Executive Officer of Sobeys Canada.

At the same time of pursuing his own career and raising children, McEwan also threw himself into helping to build and support the community he had grown to love, volunteering in health care, sports, education, elder and youth care, and religion.

Over the years McEwan served as a member of the Spiritual Care Committee of the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital (KBRH), the Trail Regional Hospital Board, the original building com-mittee and member of the board of directors of Alpha House, the St. Michael’s Catholic School’s original building committee and board of directors, a member of the Board of Advisors and the Board of Governors of Notre Dame University in Nelson, a member of Toastmasters, president of the West Trail Little League, the United Way, the Trail Athletic Association, an assistant Scout Master, and the Trail-Warfield Stingrays swim club executive.

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Over 60 years of volunteer workTom McEwan named

Warfield-Trail Citizen of the Year for 2013

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Still an active community volunteer at 90, long-term Greater Trail resident, Tom McEwan says he was motivated to give back to the community over the years just because he liked being here and just felt he should contribute.

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An annual spring gathering of local creators and crafters will sup-port a new regional artist fund for the first time.

Blooming Creative, set for Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Riverbelle in Trail, will donate 10 per cent of its proceeds to the Kootenay Arts Scholarship Fund. Goods up for grabs includes every-thing from green cleaning prod-

ucts, locally created bamboo cloth-ing, healthy herbs and spice blends, cookware, handmade soaps, bags, children’s items and more.

“We enjoy putting the markets together and feel that any oppor-tunity to give back to a local group and support local entrepreneurs is a great reason to gather us all together,” said Rachel Jansen, who along with Erin Fance coordinates the event. “As a group of creative types, we have looked for something

creative to give back to and this fund has just been created by Steps Dance Company so it fits.”

The scholarship was created by Steps Dance Company as a means of giving back to the community by helping others pursue their passion for the arts. The 26-person dance troupe kickstarted fundraising last Thursday with a charity show called “We Love to Dance” at the Capital Theatre in Nelson.

Led by Steps Dance Centre

owner and artistic director Rhonda Michallik, the company is the long-est running youth (nine to 17 years old) dance troupe in the Kootenays and performs all disciplines of dance from tap, jazz, ballet, theatre styles, hip hop, body percussion and modern.

“We’re such a sports town that we just feel like there needs to be more support for the arts,” said Michallik.

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The 2014 World Hockey Championship begins on May 9th in Minsk, Belarus. Another year has come to reflect on the suc-cess of Trail hockey players on the World stage, not all wearing the Trail Smoke Eaters sweater. One such player is Bill Dimock, silver medal winner at the 1949 World Hockey Championship as a member of the Sudbury Wolves.

Bill was born in Trail in 1923 and is the son of Dick Dimock, coach and GM of the

Trail Smoke Eaters in the late 1920s. So how did Bill get from Trail to Sudbury and world hockey glory?

Bill enrolled in the University of Alberta in 1942, earning a degree in chemical engineering. In 1947, he obtained a job in Montreal and moved east. There he played senior hockey in Verdun, Quebec.

The Sudbury Wolves were to rep-resent Canada in the 1949 World Hockey Championship and invited Bill to try out for the team. He was selected, quit his job and left for Europe three days before Christmas. The team

played a gruelling exhibition schedule before travelling to Stockholm, Sweden for the World tournament, playing most games in outdoor rinks, including the World Championships.

Ten teams participat-ed in the tournament. In their first game Canada beat Denmark 47-0, still remembered as the most lopsided game in hockey his-tory. The Wolves fin-ished the tournament with a 2-1-1 record and claimed the silver medal. Czechoslovakia won the gold and the US won the bronze. Bill currently resides in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia.

Keep your eyes on this year’s tournament. Trail native Trevor Johnson is playing for the Italian National Team in Group A against hockey’s superpowers. Trevor is preserving a long standing Trail tradition

of competing for world hockey glory. We hope he is as successful as Bill Dimock was.

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The 1949 World Hockey Championship

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Trail resident, Bill Dimock in his Sudbury Wolves jersey in 1949.

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From page 1 Though the cause is quickly

gaining attention, Michallik said the company’s initial intention was to simply put any access funds raised throughout the year toward sup-porting a local cause.

“I think that in the future if it becomes successful and we see how it really affects the arts in our com-munity, they may feel that it’s something they want to pursue a little bit stronger,” she said. “It’s something that I think is going to blow up even bigger than we anticipated so that’s cool.”

The scholarship – which will go to a local artist, musician or dancer, in support of the pursuit of their passion – is planned to be presented to the applicant at the dance studio’s year-end show on June 1 at the Charles Bailey Theatre. The recipient will have an opportunity to display how the funds helped them on their path next April at a benefit show.

“I am a mom to one of the present company dancers and hope to see this scholarship fund succeed and grow to help support the growth and development of

local Kootenay art-ists of all genres,” said Jansen. “Finding your creative spirit and being supported in the process is a wonderful thing.”

This Saturday marks the fifth-annual Blooming Creative event, the

spring version of the popular win-ter Mistletoe Market. Both craft fairs choose one non-profit organ-ization to support, helping out various organizations in the past like the KBRH Health Foundation, Sanctuary, the Stroke Recovery Association of BC’s Trail branch, Special Olympics, La Nina Extreme Weather Shelter, the Gordie Steep Memorial Sick Children’s Fund, Kootenay Animal Assistance Program, Greater Trail Hospice Society and the BC Professional Fire Fighting Burn Fund.

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From page 1 “I just liked being here and felt I should give

back. Edie was the same way – family and com-munity oriented,” McEwan said. “I believe that part of the reason we’re here is to be concerned with others and do what we can to help.

“When we do that we honour the source of life, whether you call it God or Buddha or whatever you like.”

Tom has relinquished some of his respon-sibilities but still actively serves on the Board

of Directors of the Generation to Generation Society-Sanctuary, Trail Hospice Society, the KBRH Foundation, the Interior Health Medical Ethics Committee, a grief support group which he founded and facilitated, the Royal Canadian Legion, and the Knights of Columbus.

McEwan will receive the Citizen of the Year award May 6 at a public ceremony at the St. Michael’s gym at 7 p.m. in what is generally con-sidered to be the kick-off for the annual Silver City Days celebration.

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Warfield firefighters pitched in to help out with assembling fencing in the Trail Memorial Centre in preparation for Saturday’s 10th-annual Bull-A-Rama. The firefighters provide labour for the event and money is donated to the Warfield Fire Hall for improvements and equipment replacement.

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All the recent inter-community conflict between local municipal politicians surrounding community recreation agreements can poten-tially leave citizens of the area feel-ing somewhat left out of the loop while elected officials squabble.

To try to alleviate some of these feelings, the Trail mayor and coun-cil will be on hand Saturday at Waneta Plaza to answer questions and address concerns for any pass-ers-by who may be curious.

“We get quite a few people here and there asking questions,” said Mayor Dieter Bogs. “We just thought we’d get together a booth at the mall and try to answer some of them.”

Bogs and company will be on hand Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., taking questions from citizens

from around the area on recreation or whatever municipal subject they may want information about.

“I hope people from all around the Greater Trail come and ask ques-tions, not just the City of Trail,” Bogs said. “I just thought this would be better than another media release or editorial. I’ll make myself available and we’ll have some handouts.”

Bogs hopes he’ll be able to field questions on a range of topics, every-thing from the proposed library and museum, the new pedestrian/pipe-line bridge across the Columbia River, or ongoing revitalization work in the downtown core.

“I just wanted to interact with people rather than the media for a change,” he said from Cranbrook, where he is attending the B.C. Mayors’ Caucus this week. “I thought it was a bit more friendly option to personalize it a bit.”

Trail council takes rec questions at Waneta Plaza

t H e n e l s o n s t A rEvery year a nor-

mally pastoral 500-acre farm near Salmo transforms into a city of nearly 10,000 people. And while the vast majority are there to dance and enjoy the world-class music the Shambhala Music Festival has become famous for, you can only imagine how many staff it takes to pull off the event.

“We’re basically creating a tempor-ary city,” says Anna Bundschuh, who’s been with the festival since its inception. “Quite miraculously, we go from a staff of just over a dozen year-round employ-ees to 2,500. For four days every August, we actually create one of the biggest cities in the West Kootenays.”

Many of what’s called “the Shambhala Crew” come from the

local population in and around Nelson. In the past they’ve included professionals, con-tractors, students and retirees.

If you’ve wanted to check out the fes-tival, but aren’t ready to dive in as a guest, working or volunteer-ing at Shambhala is an incredible opportunity to participate in what has become one of the most well-respected and professionally run musical festivals in North America.

“I volunteered as a Shambhassador for Shambhala a few years ago and am vol-unteering again this year with another girl-friend who will also turn 60 this year,” said Karin Bagn, a Nelson-based attorney. “You may or may not like the music, but come and find out. Talk to young people, talk to old people. Meet and

mingle and dance with people from all around the world.”

On May 2 and 3 from noon to 3 p.m. outside the Old World Bakery on Nelson’s Baker Street, Shambhala staff will be hosting a job fair in conjunction with the Bridge Radio Station, accepting applications for both paid and volunteer positions: everything from food and bever-age to security, retail, environment, parking, medical care, and busi-ness admin. Basically, if you can think of the job, they’ve probably got it.

“We guarantee it will be one of the most fas-cinating work experi-ences of your life,” said Nicole Seaboyer of the Shambhala human resources team.

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FORT NELSON, B.C. - The mayor of Fort Nelson, B.C., has issued a public apology to provincial bureau-crats and gas industry officials expelled from a First Nations sum-mit on liquefied nat-ural gas, saying there is too much at stake for his community to keep silent.

Last week, the Fort Nelson First Nation asked both parties to leave its LNG summit over the province’s decision to change environment assess-ment rules for gas plants.

In an open letter, Bill Streeper, mayor of the Northern Rockies Regional Municipality, which includes Fort Nelson, said he under-stands the frustration of the aboriginal com-munity but calls the expulsion a “knee-jerk” reaction.

“This town is 100 per cent depending on the LNG and the gas industry for its exist-ence,” Streeper said in a telephone interview Thursday.

“We have no forest industry here. It has been shut down for over four years now. We don’t see any revitaliza-tion in the forest indus-try for the next four or five years. We’re a one-industry town.

“If LNG fails, this town will fail.”

Fort Nelson Chief Sharleen Gail asked the government and indus-try representatives to leave the summit after learning that the prov-ince had quietly revised environmental assess-ment rules to exempt so-called “sweet” gas from automatic environmental assess-ment.

Gail said her com-munity, at the heart of a potential natural gas boom, was deeply

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has said it wants to reset the relationship with First Nations as part of the LNG strat-egy, the province has acted in bad faith,” she said in a statement.

Gail was not avail-able for comment Thursday.

E n v i r o n m e n t Minister Mary Polak quickly reversed the decision after the Fort Nelson incident, say-ing government would consult with First Nations.

The broader com-munity is very sup-portive of the natural gas industry, Streeper said.

He also said he’s met with many First Nations communities who are fully support-ive of LNG and he’s concerned that one incident could divide support.

In the letter released Wednesday, Streeper called the expulsion “discrimina-tory exploitation” and apologized to those “booted” from the room.

He said the region welcomes the sustain-able economic oppor-tunity offered by shale gas extraction, which he says will benefit the entire region, includ-ing the Fort Nelson First Nation.


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T H e C A n A D I A n P r e S SPORT RENFREW, B.C. - As trees go,

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Douglas fir tree on Vancouver Island is officially the second-largest in Canada.

According to the B.C. Big Tree Registry run by the University of British Columbia, the tree stands 70.2 metres high, about as tall as an 18-storey build-

ing. It has a diameter of 3.91 metres - almost as long as a mid-sized car.

Dubbed “Big Lonely Doug” by those who found it, it takes 11.91 metres of tape to wrap round the base of the enormous evergreen and at the top, the tree’s canopy spreads 18.33 metres across.

Conservationists believe the tree near Port Renfrew, on southern Vancouver

Island, could be as much as 1,000 years old.

The country’s largest Douglas fir, located in the San Juan River Valley 20 kilometres east of Big Lonely Doug, stands 73.8 metres tall and has a cir-cumference of 13.28 metres.

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T H e C A n A D I A n P r e S SVANCOUVER - Mounties say they’re appalled

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Cpl. Robert McDonald says not only was the F430 sports car clocked at speeds 101 kilometres above the posted 80-kilometre limit, the 49-year-old was not travelling alone.

McDonald says a young child was in the seat beside him.

Both were OK but had to find another way home after the April 19 incident when the high-end race car was immediately impounded for seven days. The man was also handed a $483 ticket for excessive speed.

Officers say the case is even more unsettling because the driver knew he was stopped at the same Surrey intersection where two vehicles col-lided almost a year ago, killing six people.

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OTTAWA - Expensive house calls by plumb-ers can be nerve-rack-ing for homeowners, but this plumbing job in Canada’s high Arctic is one for the record books.

Broken water pumps at CFS Alert triggered an 11,000-kilometre house call this win-ter by an elite squad of navy divers from Halifax.

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TORONTO - The best way to secure retirement for more Canadians is with a third option for pen-sion plans, and not the way Ontario is approaching the prob-lem by expanding the Canada Pension Plan, says Kevin Sorenson, minister of state for finance, on Thursday.

The federal govern-ment wants to create a target-benefit plan, or shared-risk plan, as an alternative to defined-benefit plans, generally favoured by workers, and defined-

contribution plans, which are favoured by employers. It’s billing the new framework as a “sustainable and flexible” option, which will only be available for Crown corpora-tions and federally-regulated workers in the transportation, banking and telecom-munications sectors.

“We need to have a third option,” said Sorenson following the announcement during a speech at the Economic Club of Canada in Toronto.

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the defined-benefit plan there as a choice, we want the defined-contribution plan to be an option and we want the target-benefit plan to be an option.”

Ottawa calls the voluntary plan as an “innovative approach” that will allow employ-ers and employees to create targets, and adjust benefits and contributions to their needs in times of sur-plus or deficit, like the recent financial crisis that put many defined-benefit plans in jeop-ardy due to invest-ment shortfalls.

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OTTAWA - A new report by the C.D. Howe Institute is harshly critical of the federal government’s controversial tempor-ary foreign workers program, saying it has spurred joblessness in western Canada.

The study by C.D. Howe, a non-partisan public policy think-tank, points out that changes to the program enacted between 2002 and 2013 made it much easier for employers to hire temporary foreign workers.

The Conservative government has since tightened the regula-

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The program - ori-ginally designed to address shortages of

skilled workers, not to recruit menial labour - has ballooned from about 100,000 people in 2002 to as many as 338,000 now working across the country.

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Odd, outlandish and over the top donations to B.C. political partiesSo what does a

C o n s e r v a t i v e party senator from Ontario, the

Toronto Blue Jays, an Ontario public sector union and a part-owner of the Calgary Flames all have in common? If their cheque-book is any indication, they have a keen interest in B.C. politics.

Ontario Senator Nancy Ruth donated $5,000 to the B.C. Green party in 2013, the Blue Jays passed the mitt round the dugout to scrape up $300 for the B.C. Liberal party, CUPE Ontario gave $500 to the B.C. NDP and Allan Markin, part-owner of the Calgary Flames, gave $100,000 to the B.C. Liberals.

Who knew folk outside B.C. cared so much?

All of this is gleaned from that annual rite of spring: the financial filings of B.C.’s political parties. Each April, B.C.’s regis-tered political parties file their annual reports, offer-ing a glimpse at how the parties are funded and how they spend that money.

Most donors to B.C.’s main political parties can be lumped into a few broad categories.

There’s the ‘boy that’s not a shock’ donor group, donations such as the B.C. Federation of Labour’s $110,401 to the B.C. NDP or the BCGEU ‘s $421,802. Although, it may shock a few that the BCTF didn’t give to the NDP in 2013. It’s a long-standing prac-tice of the BCTF not to donate to political parties of any stripe.

There’s the ‘what ever were they thinking when they signed that cheque’ donor. Like the $10,000 donation that Toronto-based Postmedia, owner of the Vancouver Sun and Province, made to the Liberals.

Then there’s the ‘we’ve got money to burn’ donor crowd.

West Fraser Mills gave $99,495 to the Liberals and $500 to the NDP. West Fraser was one of two for-estry companies recently caught cutting healthy timber meant for future harvests when they were supposed to be harvesting dead and dying pine.

The company could have faced a hefty fine, but after assuring the minister in the strongest of all possible terms that it would never

ever happen again, scout’s honour, they walked away with a slap on the wrist, as did the other company involved – Jimmy Pattison’s Canfor.

Calgary-based Burnco Rock Products donated $34,000 to the Liberals, bringing their eight year running total to $219,700.

Presumably with a sharp eye on the polls – and after years of giving exclusive-ly to the Liberals – they finally found some moola for the NDP. But talk about cutting it close. With just a week to spare before vot-ing day, Burnco cut two cheques to the NDP total-ling $12,500.

Burnco has big plans for a large scale gravel mine at

McNab Creek at the north-ern end of Howe Sound. If it gets the green light, it’ll crush and process gravel 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

And even though it’s hard at work trying to meet the 209 conditions of the Joint Review Panel, Northern Gateway Pipelines still found time to cut seven cheques totalling $23,050 to the Liberals.

The New Car Dealers Association of B.C. gave $180,000 to the Liberals, bringing their nine year benevolence to $1,061,527. Coincidentally, the only major tax change that sur-vived the transition from the HST to the PST was the 12 per cent sales tax on vehicles sold privately, as in not from a dealer’s lot.

RCI Capital gave $6,000 to the Liberals. That’s the company that once had a subsidiary that Premier Christy Clark was once chair of but according to her never once worked for and was never paid for not doing any of that work.

The Great Canadian Gaming Corporation gave $24,080 to the NDP, but not so much as a poker chip to the Liberals.

That may be the result

of the Liberals choosing not to accept money from gambling companies – at least directly. However, owners are a different mat-ter. Prince George resident John S. Major gave $60,000 to the Liberals last year, bringing his six year total to $269,390. That’s a lot of chips. Major owns the Treasure Cove Casino.

Who knew that profes-sional sports teams were political junkies as well? In addition to the Blue Jays, the Vancouver Giants gave the B.C. Liberals $300, the Vancouver Whitecaps gave $2,500 and the BC Lions forked out $13,150. No doubt about who they were cheering for.

And who was the fairest – or most generous – leader of them all in 2013? John Cummins hands down. He gave the B.C. Conservatives $8,260. Adrian Dix gave the NDP $1,775 and Jane Sterk gave the B.C. Greens $645.

Christy Clark? Well her name doesn’t actually appear on the list of donors who gave the Liberals more than $250 in 2013.

Dermod Travis is the executive director of IntegrityBC. www.integ-ritybc.ca

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We feel compelled to com-ment on the recently released information about the down-town revitalization project.

If we had a visitor’s cen-tre/chamber of commerce stop in one of the empty gas sta-tion locations (or some other ground level location), instead of in an upstairs office where there is no convenient parking, the ‘pillars’ (aka pigeon roosts) would be unnecessary. They

are useless. The friendly people at the centre could tell people all about downtown (and the rest of our beautiful city). Now the latest brainwave is to con-vert the intersection of Bay and Farwell to a four-way stop.

This is one of the busiest intersections for pedestrians with a bank, credit union and clinic nearby.

Never, have I heard of a light-controlled intersection

being changed (down-graded) to a four-way chaos stop! It is usually the reverse order. It is an insane idea.

The idea of having some permanent plantings instead of the wasteful annual plant-ings is good. It will be great to have some of both.

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Poor old Tony Blair is con-demned to spend the rest

of his life trying to jus-tify his decision to help George Bush invade Iraq. He was at it again recently, insisting that the threat of Islamist extremism is the great problem of the 21st century. Western countries, he said, must put aside their differences with Russia and China in order to “cooperate” in the fight against rad-ical Islam.

President Barack Obama, however, is tending to his real pri-ority in world affairs: deciding whether the US-China relationship will be one of cooper-ation or conflict. Not that that is the stated purpose of his current Asian tour. Officially he is discussing a free-trade deal, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, with three countries that have already joined the negotia-tions (Japan, Malaysia and the Philippines) and one that prob-ably soon will (South Korea).

It’s a very big deal. The twelve countries on the Pacific Rim that are currently in the negotiation – Canada, the United States, Mexico, Peru and Chile on the eastern side, Japan, Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand on the western side –

account for nearly 60% of global GDP and over a quarter of world trade. But there is an elephant in the room (or rather, not in the room): China.

China is the second-largest econ-omy in the world and trades extensively with almost every member of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) – but it is not part of the negotiations, or at least not yet. If it is kept out permanently, many consequences will follow.

Keeping China out of this planned free-trade area, the biggest in the world, is eco-nomically attractive to the current mem-bers, and especially to the United States and Japan: the TPP would give US and Japanese companies preferential access to Asia’s markets. But the real motive driving the deal is strategic: they are all worried about what happens when China’s military strength matches its economic power.

The Chinese regime insists that it has no

expansionist ambi-tions, but it has alien-ated most of its neigh-bours by pushing hard on its extensive claims to islands in the East China Sea (the dis-pute with Japan over the Senkaku/Diayoyu Islands) and to seabed rights in the South China Sea (where it has disputes with Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines). They all want to nail down US support, includ-ing military backing, if those disputes flare into open conflict.

That is not to say that a great-power military confrontation in Asia is imminent, let alone that China is really expansionist. What drives the pro-cess, as usual, is more likely to be the threat that each side sees in the power of the other.

Asked in a recent BBC interview about President Obama’s decision to shift US naval forces from an equal division between Atlantic and Pacific to a 60:40 ratio in favour of the Pacific, retired Major-General Xu Guangyu, former vice-president of the People’s Liberation Army Defense Institute, replied: “How would (the Americans) like it if we took 60 percent of our forces and sailed up and down in front of their doorstep?”

Former US Assistant Secretary of State Philip J. Crowley was

expressing essentially the same sentiment when, commenting on Obama’s trip, he said that “Many trad-itional allies...value a strong US presence in the region to balance against an assertive China.”

In other words, it doesn’t take evil inten-tions to produce a tragedy. In any case, it’s not likely to hap-pen soon. The point for the moment is that the strategic balance in Asia is what the US cares about most, not the Middle East or even Russia.

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The real strategic game is now in the Asia-Pacific region.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journal-ist whose articles are published in 45 coun-tries.

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Good friends and kindergarten classmates, Noah Thirsk and Owen McCarthy, wanted to share their birthday celebration with their classmate Cadance Brace. The boys’ moms planned for a toonie party in lieu of presents in which they decided to donate some of their birthday money to the Hope for Cadance fund. Classmates and friends of Cadance were very generous with their toonies, knowing that some would be donated to bring some joy to their fellow kindergarten friend. Noah and Owen will be sending a cheque to Cadance and her family for $170 and are requesting that sweet little Cadance buys herself something special to brighten her day. Cadance Brace is a five-year-old Trail girl who is battling Lekuemia at BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver. Donations can be made to the Hope for Cadance Trust Fund at Kootenay Savings or online at (www.gofundme.com/hope4c-adance). For more information visit the Hope for Cadance Facebook page.

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After two terms on Rossland City Councillor, Kathy Wallace has resigned. She admits that being City Councillor is a challenging position and has chosen to resign due to a per-sonal decisions that will take her out of the province.

Since she is going to a remote area with neither telephone nor Internet access for an extended per-iod of time, a leave of absence did not seem reasonable.

In the future she hopes to see diversity on the council so that every voice in the com-munity will be repre-sented. She explains that the compensation is too low to attract

people to these chal-lenging positions. Young families often cannot afford to have one parent staying at home and that volun-teer positions cannot be afforded.

“The next election is for four terms instead of three, it will be interesting to see who

puts their name up for that,” says Wallace. “It is a constant balancing act to please as many different groups in the community as pos-sible.”

When asked about her favourite success-ful project during her time on council she says that it was the

infrastructure project on Columbia Avenue.

She explains that it doesn’t just make the town centre look more appealing but the most significant improve-ments lay under-ground.

“It was a crucial upgrade on the infra-structure,” she added.

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T H e C A n A d i A n P r e s sTORONTO - It took

a collapse in her home office resulting from exhaustion and lack of sleep for Arianna Huffington to truly wake up.

As she worked relentlessly to build her rapidly expand-ing media company, that fall on a spring morning in 2007 left Huffington with a broken cheekbone, an eye injury and a renewed resolve to re-examine her life.

Yet long before the incident, Huffington acknowledged there were other key moments that should have put her “sleep-deprived, burnt out-fuelled existence into perspective.” The loss of her first child that was stillborn. A breast cancer scare. Her divorce.

In her new book “Thrive” (Harmony Books), Huffington proposes what she describes a “Third Metric” for redefin-ing success, one that extends beyond the pursuit of money and power. The co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group touts

the importance of self-care, citing well-being, wisdom, won-der and giving among the pillars of the Third Metric.

Huffington dedicat-ed “Thrive” to her late mother, Elli, whom she saw as a true embodi-ment of the Third Metric, reinforced with anecdotes of the spirited matriarch woven throughout the book.

“My mother was somebody who always lived life with an open heart, making connec-tions with people, not multi-tasking, all of the things that domin-ate our lives now were things that she realized were not going to lead to a life of meaning and purpose,” Huffington said in an interview in Toronto.

“Unfortunately, our minds often want to take us in the past, judging what we’ve done often, this voice that we all have in our heads that I call the obnoxious roommate living in our head that puts us down, judges us constantly, ques-tions our dreams, or our mind wants to take us in the future worry-ing, being anxious

about what’s going to happen.”

In addition to tout-ing the benefits of meditation, the self-described “sleep evan-gelist” recognized the importance of getting sufficient shut-eye after her collapse and started to read about the scientific value of sleep.

“It’s really a mir-acle drug. It affects our health and well-being, our mental clarity, our capacity for joy,” said Huffington, who over time has gone from getting four to five hours of sleep a night to between seven and eight.

At the end of each section of “Thrive” she offers tips on small steps readers can take immediately to start charting a course to wellness. Among them: aiming to get 30 more minutes of sleep a night.

She has also estab-lished her own wind-down routine which encompasses turn-ing off all her devices - which includes an iPhone and four BlackBerrys - and pla-cing them outside of the bedroom.

“We have to recog-nize that we are addict-ed to our smartphones and the impact that that has on being able to connect deeply with the people we love.”

During her most recent Christmas vacation spent with her ex-husband Michael and daughters Christina and Isabella, Huffington had a week of a digital detox.

“It was wonderful to have a meal without Instagramming it, to watch a sunset without Instagramming it, and to have conversations with my children when they would say some-thing funny I wouldn’t feel the temptation to tweet it.

“And I just felt so recharged when I got back.”

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survey of seeding intentions for the upcoming growing season shows soybeans continue to be the crop of choice for many pro-ducers.

It also says farmers are cutting back on how much wheat, corn for grain and barley they plant.

The survey between March 24 and March 31 asked 11,500 farmers what grain, oilseeds and specialty crops they plan to sow this season.

Doug Chorney, president of Keystone Agriculture Producers in Manitoba, isn’t surprised at the results.

He says prices for wheat, corn

and barley have dropped, so it’s natural producers would plant less of those crops.

But the market for soybeans has been fairly strong and farm-ers have been getting good prices.

“People are gravitating towards the crops that give them the best potential returns,” Chorney said Thursday.

The survey says land planted with soybeans could reach another record in 2014, which would mark the sixth consecutive year of his-toric highs. Canadian farmers reported that they expect to seed 5.3 million acres - an increase of 16.5 per cent from 2013.

The biggest drop from last year is expected with barley. Seeding is

expected to decline 10.9 per cent to 6.3 million acres.

Spring planting could be

delayed in several areas. The Statistics Canada report points out that many regions of the country had a longer winter than anticipated.

Manitoba experienced a particularly harsh cold sea-son.

“We are definitely not going to be early anywhere in Manitoba with field operations this spring. That’s a concern when ... the sooner the better is typically the rule of thumb,” Chorney said.

“We’re still in the northeastern part of the province dealing with a lot of snow cover and that’s going to delay seeding operations by the next three weeks for sure.”

In Saskatchewan, farmers in some parts of the province are facing wet conditions. Leonard Blocka, who grows wheat, barley, canola and oats on his farm out-side Prince Albert, said he usually gets into his fields at the begin-ning of May.

“But I think this year, with what is predicted, we may be pushed back.”

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cooling-off period has been called in the fight between the makers of Sriracha hot sauce and the Southern California city that says its air is too spicy to bear.

The Irwindale City Council delayed a decision for two weeks Wednesday night on declaring the Sriracha plant a public nuis-ance.

About 100 support-ers of the hot sauce, including Huy Fong Foods owner David Tran, rallied outside City Hall before the meeting.

Irwindale’s city attorney requested the delay, saying he’s in settlement talks with attorneys for the company, which has made the popular sauce since 1980. The Irwindale plant was opened two years ago.

Earlier this month, council members ten-tatively but unani-mously voted that the plant was a nuisance.

If the council had finalized its vote Wednesday, Huy Fong would have had 90 days to stop releasing the spicy emanations that neighbours say are burning their eyes and throats.

An attorney for Huy Fong told the coun-cil that the company plans to have a filtra-tion system in place by June 1.

“Why do you hate me, why do you want

to shut me down?” Tran said to the five-member council.

Mayor Mark Breceda, who brought a half-empty bottle of Sriracha sauce to the meeting, said the city doesn’t want to shut the factory down.

“It was never this council’s goal,” Breceda said. “No one

wants you here more, Mr. Tran and Huy Fong Foods, than the City Council.”

Breceda said he was confident the city could reach a settlement with Tran before the coun-cil’s next meeting on May 7, the Pasadena Star-News reported.

Tran called the deci-sion disappointing and

has opened his factory doors to lawmakers.

Privately held Huy Fong Foods was found-ed and is still owned by Vietnamese immigrant David Tran. He began making the fiery sauce, named for a city in Thailand, in a bucket at his home in 1980 and saw his business take off from there.

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“people are gravitating towards the crops that

give them the best potential returns.”

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New Golf family offers quality at the right priceThe new seventh generation VW Golf arrives later this spring with a 2015 model designation.I have already had a chance to drive three examples of the new edition in Europe so I can offer you a sneak peek at what this very popular VW has going for it before it arrives here. The all-new car might look like the previous Golf but it is built on a platform that is shared across the VW group and represents a massive investment for the German manufacturer. This new platform, called MQB, enables the engineers to build all kinds of new products, be they bigger, smaller, wider or taller. What went into the design of the Golf represents a big step forward for Volkswagen as the latest model is 100kg lighter than the outgoing car but it is bigger, stiffer and safer than before. LooksIt could be argued that the new Golf looks too much like the older model but interacting with this new product quickly displays a level of refinement and finish that might be found in an upmarket Audi product. (This MQB platform is shared with the all-new Audi A3). Starting at $18,995, the base Golf is priced right in the heart of the compact market but this car sports a fully independent suspension, direct injection turbocharged engine and more power than much of the competition, at 170hp. The Golf GTI is my personal favourite due to the bad-boy looks, bigger wheels and improved engine and suspension. It starts at $27,995. The hot-hatch Golf R will arrive about a year after

the Golf and GTI and will come in at roughly the same price as the last R, right around $40,000 but fully loaded.InsideThe upside to having a slightly bigger platform is interior space and the cabin of the latest Golf does feel bigger, especially side-to-side. The centre console is wider and the dash is fitted with all-new switches and dials. Once again, the feel and look is almost Audi quality. Having a chance to drive the base car all the way up to the Golf R showed just how good the base car is. The only difference is the sportier seats

and splashier trim on the more expensive cars, but the overall design is the same from car to car and all exemplify the simple, yet elegant approach VW takes with all its interiors. DriveGone is the old 2.5-litre. 5-cylinder, replaced by an all-new 1.8-litre turbocharged 4-cylinder base engine. This engine too produces 170 but is more efficient, responsive and features state of the art technology. In the compact set, this kind of technology is unheard of at the roughly $19,000 asking price. Taking it up a notch is the legendary Golf GTI, now with 210hp from a new 2.0-litre turbocharged 4-cylinder. I had a shot driving this last year in Austria and I can say without question, this combination is fantastic. The Golf R is the ultimate Golf with roughly 300hp and an all wheel drive system. The same system is used in the all-new Audi S3 but this car comes fully loaded and will be roughly $4,000 less than the starting price of

the S3. A smart shopper might want to wait for the R over the S.

Verdict

This new Golf family is set to take on some very established players in the compact segment. With a hatchback design, this car has always been a more practical design than sedans like the Honda Civic or Toyota Corolla. With superb road manners, advanced engines and German engineering, the starting price looks like a winner. A big reason for this is the Golf is assembled in Mexico and these cars come into Canada without duty, (Thanks NAFTA) so VW added more content and kept the price low. The good news for diesel lovers is that the TDI en-gine will be available right out of the gate and now represents about 50 percent of Golf sales. This engine too has been modified to make it as fuel efficient as possible. All told, the Golf is more polished car than much of the competition and offers a trim level and price for all types of buyers, from basic to flat-out performance.

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continued from page 11 can expect more of a luxury ride than they might have enjoyed in the outgoing ver-sion – heated and cooled front seats will impress those upfront. The trend in this segment to in-clude huge sunroofs

continues here.Under the hood, Nissan stays with the trusty 3.5-litre six-cylinder power-plant matched to a continuously variable transmission. Expect to see the Murano in the showrooms at the tail end of the year.

Before moving on, the Nissan Sport Sedan Concept should be men-tioned as it offers a clue to what the new Maxima might resemble. And boy, is it a looker despite the horrible orange colour of the show

car! It too features a panoramic roof stretching almost from the windshield to the rear window. A production model version is expected later in the year, which suggests the L.A. show might benefit from that timetable.Any new Toyota Camry is an instant hit, especially in North America where it’s been the best selling car for 12 years. Despite that, the Japanese manu-facturer launched an all-new 2015 model, just three years after introducing a re-design.It incorporates design touches now

appearing in sibling models, including a deeper grille that more resembles an upmarket Lexus. Interior materials are upgraded and a large central display matches the design trend of its competi-tors. Two trims are added; a sporty XSE with some luxury touches and a Hybrid SE. Toyota sticks with its 2.5-litre, four-cylinder, and 3.5-litre, six-cylinder engines plus its Hy-brid Synergy Drive.Hyundai would like to put a serious dent in the Toyota Camry success story with its own mid-size sedan – the redesigned Sonata. It’s likely the introduction of a sharp looking So-nata in 2011 helped prompt Toyota into taking a serious look

at upping the ante in the Camry. Other competitors have also risen to the challenge. Now the seventh-generation, newly styled, sharper looking 2015 Sonata raises the bar again with improved ride and handling plus advanced driver as-sistance and safety equipment. Unlike the Camry, the Sonata stays with purely four-cylinder engines. Standard is a 2.4-litre power plant and a turbo-charged 2.0L four is an option.The one domestic manufacturer that did show up with something more exciting than the rest was Jeep, which introduced the com-pact Renegade. It is the iconic brand’s first foray into the

small SUV segment.Its funky looks and fuel efficiency should make it an urban dweller hit but it also boasts best-in-class off-road ca-pability, which may just bring in buyers from the growing outdoor adventure seekers.Two engine choices: a 2.4-litre Tiger-shark engine with MultiAir2 paired to the segment’s first nine-speed auto-matic transmission, or a 1.4-litre MultiAir Turbo engine with six-speed manual transmission.Prices for all of the above closer to launch when pencils have been sharpened and each figure out how they can under-cut [email protected]

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“I’d knocked off 200,000 km. Hopefully, she’s too naïve to notice”

I surprised my family with a trip to Hawaii. They didn’t have a clue how I paid for it. But they thought I was the best dad in the world. While we were away, I bought a car on eBay. It had over 350,000 km on it. No one will want to buy this piece of junk, I thought.Unless. I could just lower the mileage on it a little bit. And it won’t hurt anybody, right?One problem – I had no idea how to change an odometer*. But as it turns out, it’s much easier than I’d expected. With an odometer tool, I changed the reading to 164,500 km. Still a lot, but less than half the real clicks. My ad: “Minivan – old but in great condition! Only 164,500kms - it sat in my garage for the last 5 years. Must sell. If you’re looking for an older, but reliable and safe vehicle, call my cell and we’ll negotiate.”Looking back, I realized I’d knocked almost 200,000 km off the vehicle. But I shined it up and put some newer used tires on it so they wouldn’t give away its true condition.Will this get me in trouble? I wondered. I wasn’t doing anything wrong, really – this just gives me a chance to make some more money on the vehicle. I got a phone call from a young single mom who could only afford an older vehicle. We decided to meet at her son’s school. As I was showing her the car, I noticed the carpet, the door handles and the pedals kind of gave away its true condition. Hopefully she’s too naïve to notice, I thought.

Forty minutes later, our exchange was complete. I probably made an extra $2,000 because of the odometer! If I’d only done this to all the other cars I sold!Suddenly, my mind began processing the implications. That minivan was pretty much at the end of its life. That young mom is expecting the vehicle to last her for a few more years. At best, I see it lasting one more.Parts will start failing, calling for expensive repairs. I’m certain she doesn’t have the money for that. All I’m hoping is that it doesn’t break down on the highway. Maybe there was a reason I never did it before. Maybe, just maybe, I had a conscience up until now.

*Odometer: The law allows an odometer to be replaced when broken, but the repair must be recorded and the true mileage needs to be disclosed. CarProof and ICBC vehicle history reports can reveal more about how far a vehicle has really traveled. Even AirCare, where available, can help. And Walt is wrong; altering an odometer is a crime.

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BY VALERIE ROSSITimes Staff

The chamber is enticing not only visitors but also locals to “Explore Your Trail” this year with a new official community guide available now.

The glossy maga-zine, a partnership between the Trail & District Chamber of Commerce and Trail Times, is a great resource for both locals and tourists. In addition to its local distribution, the guide is being distributed to visitor centres within B.C. and elsewhere in the Kootenays, Okanagan and north-ern United States.

Chamber execu-tive director Norm Casler is pleased that the guide is making its rounds locally.

“I think for every-one who lives around here it will be a good reminder of just how amazing our com-munity is,” he said. “We have found that so many of us locals tend to take things for granted and we seem to forget about all the great things about Greater Trail (Trail, Warfield, Rossland, Montrose, Fruitvale, electoral Area A and

Area B).”The 2014 guide

offers editorial content that covers what to see and do, the history, local trails to hit up and an events calendar.

It also provides a comprehensive list of accommodation and food and beverage facilities packaged in a colourful spread of pictures that depict the beauty of the area.

“We wanted to get everything into one guide this year, rath-er than handing out a handful of different brochures every time a visitor or local came in,” said Casler, who added what better way to get the job done than to join forces with a company that knows how to print and move product.

Black Press, which publishes the Trail Times, produces over 150 newspapers in Alberta, Washington, Ohio and Hawaii, with the majority published in British Columbia.

Chuck Bennett, Group Publisher for Black Press in the Kootenays, said work-ing together with the chamber was a great fit for both organiza-tions.

“Working with

Norm and his team was a really great experience,” said Bennett. “We are real-ly proud of this guide and proud of what we were able to accom-plish with this part-nership.

“We produce a lot of

visitor’s guides across the province, includ-ing Nelson, Castlegar, Grand Forks and Greenwood, so when this opportunity sur-faced we knew that with the chamber we could collaborate to produce a real quality

magazine. We think that is exactly what we have done here.”

A copy can be picked up at the Trail Visitor Centre (above TD Canada Trust at 200-199 Bay Ave.) or viewed online at www.trailchamber.bc.ca.

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B y T i m e s s T a f fRossland’s Thea Culley will once again lead

Field Hockey Canada’s Women’s National Team into competition in 2014 and into 2015.

Culley and 15 other athletes were considered ready for international competition and will look to help Canada succeed at major tourna-ments this year.

“The National Team has been refined and refocused ahead of our preparation for two key benchmark events in 2014: the Commonwealth Games in July and the World League series in September,” says Canadian Women’s National Team head coach Ian Rutledge.

“The squad is large enough to continue to build depth and maintain healthy competition

for positions, while at the same time allowing us the much needed time to drill down into our team and individual performances.”

While players on the National Team squad will make up the majority of rosters for future competition, members of the Senior and Junior Development squads also will be considered based on their progress in training and compe-tition, and for development opportunities.

A refined roster has also been named for a series of test matches to be played in the United Kingdom versus the England and Wales National Teams from Apr. 27 to May 7.

The roster for the team to compete at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland in July will be named in June.

B y J i m B a i l e yTimes Sports Editor

Trail runner Mike Hendriks joined close to 40,000 other par-ticipants in one of the world’s biggest events on Sunday, as he legged out a personal best time in the Boston Marathon.

Hendriks completed the 26.2-mile marathon in a time of two hours, 53 minutes and 43 seconds, a personal best for the 31-year-old Fortis worker.

“I wouldn’t have traded it for anything especially this year,” said Hendriks. “It was always my plan to qualify for 2014 . . . but then the bombings happened and it really doubled my resolve to get out there and do it.”

Bombings at the 2013 Boston Marathon, in which Fruitvale runner Heather Johnson com-peted, killed three people and injured close to 300. While Hendriks was mindful of a poten-

tial threat, he was not too con-cerned about running in 2014.

“I wasn’t worried,” said Hendriks. “I mean you always wonder what could happen . . . but I think the city was out in full force, and they were keen to show that this isn’t going to keep them down or the whole sport of running really. It was great, the energy was just incredible.”

Hendriks ran his first mara-thon just two years ago in Vancouver where he just missed qualifying for Boston. However, a year of training later, he qualified for Boston after completing the 2013 BMO Vancouver Marathon last May in 3:01, four minutes to spare for the 3:05 qualifying time. He finished the race in 17th place out of close to 500 runners in his category.

But the Fortis worker didn’t start out like most competitive runners, spending years training

in track or long-distance run-ning, or building stamina with triathlon groups like Greater Trail’s High Altitude Triathlon Club.

Hendriks mapped out his own plan.

“I have a 16-week training

plan that I just kind of got off the web that I thought it was going to be a good one, and I’ve used that two, three years in a row, and it’s served me well.”

To run in Boston was a unique opportunity for the Trail native, and while the support and atmos-phere was electric as millions lined the route that started in Hopkinton, New England, and ended near John Hancock Tower in Copley Square in Boston, the sheer volume of runners and spectators was overwhelming.

“It was great, I think saying there were a million people along the course would be probably conservative,” said Hendriks. “There’s probably a lot of people that draw energy off that kind of crowd, but living in Trail, and having my quiet, serene environ-ment, I actually found it a little bit distracting.”

Running a marathon any-

where is not a walk in the park, and hitting the proverbial wall is inevitable says Hendriks.

“Thirty kilometres is kind of the mark when people hit the wall. But I went over the 30-K mark, and went ‘Okay, I’m not doing too bad here.’”

Hendriks finished in the top five per cent of participants, an incredible accomplishment con-sidering his relatively brief run-ning history.

It was an unforgettable experi-ence for the Trail native, and while he will continue running marathons, with his soon to be son or daughter on the way, a return to Boston will have to wait.

“I would like to do it again sometime, but for now I’m happy to go back to my small events like Creston, and Vancouver is always a fun one to knock off in a weekend.”

Jim Bailey photos

Beaver Valley businesses celebrated Beaver Valley Nitehawks Day on Thursday recognizing the teams unprecedented success this season that culminated in the Western Canada Keystone Cup last week. Clockwise from top left: Karson McNinch brings a tray of muffins for the morning coffee crew at Valley Bakery and Coffee House, while Nitehawk season ticket holder Christine Bartsoff gets full service from Petro Canada’s Mary Fussell. Fruitvale Pub’s Angie Zoobkoff and diehard fan Dennis Young enjoy a cool one in the Hawks Nest, and Western Financial group’s Carolyn Hamilton, Amy Veysey and Ashley Jmaeff all donned a jersey for the big day, as did Magaw Motors’ Jason DeRosa who helps out Matt Magaw with an oil change. The Village also celebrated the Nitehawks season with a tribute at the Fruitvale Memorial Hall last night.

B y T i m e s s T a f fIf the weather

cooperates, Trail Little League will start swing-ing for the fences this Saturday at Andy Bilesky Park.

After a big push ear-lier in the year, where the League sent out letters to the schools in an effort to recruit more players, estab-lished a higher profile in the community, and embarked on a social

media blitz, enrolment grew this year by about 20 per cent.

Little League Major division will increase to two teams from one last season, while the Minor division will see three teams take to the diamond, up from two. Trail Minor Baseball also signed up four Rookie League teams and 22 Blast Ball kids to make it one of the best enrolment, 105 kids, in

recent years.The day will start

with a Minor division game going at 10 a.m. followed by a Major division game going at noon, that will see long-time volunteers Barb and Neil Craig throw-ing out the first pitch before the match.

Minor league teams will conclude the day with a game at 2 p.m. all at Andy Bilesky Park on Saturday.

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Trail’s Mike Hendriks was able to cross another one off his bucket list after running in the Boston Marathon on Sunday.

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There is a certain wow factor in the results produced by the Keystone Cup cham-

pion Beaver Valley Nitehawks, the first edition of that always excellent team to take the Western Canadian-plus junior B crown.

This year’s team is argu-ably not the most talent-laden group to carry the Nitehawks’ colours, nor is it the most experienced, and it is among the youngest of the squads that have gone into the play-offs with a chance of success.

But, somehow, once they got past the Nelson Leafs, this team crushed everyone in its path to add a banner not seen before to the collection in the Hawks’ nest.

Crushed, as in taking six straight convincing wins and outscoring its five opponents, 32-5, at the Keystone event. Along the way Beaver Valley dominated the second best team, host Abbotsford (which lost only to the Nitehawks), 13-3.

It’s a major, remarkable, singular achievement for a team that has achieved much over the years, and I hope a lot of you got out to the valley to celebrate their feats yesterday.

• As a side note, junior B leagues need to get much,

much better at running web sites, especially schedules and game reports. C’mon Man, reporting on the highlight event of the season was awful.

Just one of many things - every penalty at the Keystone Cup, including misconducts and coincident minors, some-how counted in the box score as a power play. Beaver Valley’s extra man attack wasn’t great, but it was far better than the 11 per cent efficiency it was credited with in Abbotsford (closer to 20 per cent, in fact).

• This season’s playoff results should, in a perfect world, re-ignite the debate the KIJHL had 25 years ago about the age limits in junior B hockey. At that time most of the local teams made an effort to make the junior B segment a U-20 endeavour, both to return it closer to the juvenile (U-19) level it was intended to replace from minor hockey and to emphasize the point that 21 year olds still playing at the third tier of (non-college) hockey

should really be encouraged to move on to a less hockey-centric, more career-oriented, life focus.

It wasn’t and isn’t, the old days, when the so-called, “Hockey Bums,” denied big time o p p o r t u n i t y

by a six-team NHL peopled with tyrannical owners using tyrannical rules, were itiner-ant workers who eventually made permanent some of the employment and business options they were afforded in trade for their hockey talents.

Then, and now, it is about allowing, even forcing young men who are very, very, unlikely to make a life out of playing hockey to move towards some endeavour that will make them a life.

Even a junior B schedule can make it very difficult for a young man to give much focus to scholastic, trade or other life opportunities, and filling rosters with players entering their third decade

limits playing opportunities for the younger players to experience the higher compe-tition they require to improve and assess their potential - for which the junior B segment was instituted.

Back in that day, the idea was torpedoed by the main-land/island groups, with help from one rebel East Kootenay owner (who now has a KIJHL division named after him but then had strong 19 year-old group prepared to return for another season).

This year’s Cyclone Taylor and Keystone results, which show a young team dominat-ing teams icing seven and eight 20-plus players, maybe, by now, proves the point.

When 21 year-olds cannot compete with mainly 18 and 19 year-olds at the junior B level, they should see the writ-ing on the wall about their futures. If they cannot read it, the adults who operate the system need to give them guidance, and a little push in an appropriate direction.

It is supposed to be about the kids, at least for the most part. I guess we will see about that.

DAVE Thompson

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Keeping Junior B age appropriate

Breaking Boards, Breaking chains

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Close to 25 Heart and Soul Tae Kwon Do martial art-ists put on a d e m o n s t r a -tion of board breaking at the Waneta Mall last week, in a fundraising effort to help stop modern-day slavery and to help victims of oppression.

T h E A s s o C I A T E D p R E s sST. LOUIS - One more game, and the Chicago

Blackhawks will have linchpin defenceman Brent Seabrook back in the lineup.

The St. Louis Blues aren’t certain when cap-tain David Backes, the player on the receiving end of the head-jarring hit that landed Seabrook a three-game suspension, will be ready.

Coach Ken Hitchcock said from a selfish stand-point it would be unfair if Seabrook returned before Backes to a white-knuckle first-round playoff series tied at two games apiece heading into Game 5 Friday night. Backes was not among a handful on the ice for an optional practice Thursday and Hitchcock was tight-lipped about his status.

“He’s not skating today so read what you want from that,” Hitchcock said. “He’s not around, he’s not skating, so we’ll see tomorrow.

“Hopefully, he’s able to get back before Seabrook or by Seabrook’s time, so it doesn’t turn into a little bit of an advantage for Chicago.”

The Blackhawks have won two straight, mounting their bid for a repeat Stanley Cup. They took the day off for travel, confident they can beat the Blues on the road.

“I think the odds are in our favour right now,” forward Andrew Shaw said. “The last two games have been huge for us. We had a good push, the push we needed.”

Fruitvale native Barrett Jackman and the rest of the Blues still have home-ice advantage in a series that couldn’t be closer. Three games were decided in overtime and Game 3 was a one-goal affair before the Blackhawks added an empty-netter.

“Nobody’s panicking,” Blues defenceman Jay Bouwmeester said. “We’re not in a bad spot.”

Both teams have gotten solid goaltending and shown an ability to push back when the oppon-ent appears to have momentum. The Blues came from behind late to win twice, capitalizing on Seabrook’s major and game misconduct in Game 2 and the Blackhawks rebounded after squan-dering a 2-0 lead in Game 4.

Hitchcock and Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville, two of the most experienced hands in the NHL, seem to be enjoying themselves while matching wits.

“It’s fun to be a part of it and it’s fun to be coaching it because every shift matters and every line change matters,” Hitchcock said.

“I think when you don’t like the way things are going, you don’t mind mixing it up a little bit,” Quenneville said. “This series has been so close, so tight, last night may have been the first time we really tweaked the lines a little bit more.”

The St. Louis Blues and Chicago Blackhawks series resumes tonight at St. Louis’ Scottrade Centre at 7 p.m.

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I find it interesting to see the resurgence of the comic super heroes. They quickly don their special suits, displaying their super powers and save humanity from evil villains.

Deep down, we all want to know there’s someone there to keep us safe. The remarkable thing is that God has already sent us a Superman, His Son, in a suit of human flesh. Death and gloom hung over us, but Jesus broke through with supernatural resurrection life and power making it possible for us to overcome the evil one.

We don’t have to look for the batman light, or the cape crusader; anyone who looks in faith to Christ, can experience his overcoming resurrection power. Wherever life finds you this Easter, the one and only true Superman, Jesus-Christ, is there for you.

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When equal-ity and reli-gious rights butt heads,

as in the controversy over the proposed law school at Trinity Western University, Canadians need thoughtful analysis and informed debate, not knee jerk reac-tions. The recent deci-sion of the Law Society of BC to approve the proposed Faculty of Law at TWU provides a principled approach to a thorny problem.

Although the pro-posed law school at the privately funded Christian university has received approval from the BC Ministry of Advanced Education, the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, and various provin-cial and territorial law societies, there remains consider-able opposition to it. At issue is a clause in TWU’s “Community Covenant Agreement” that reads, “Further, according to the Bible, sexual intimacy is reserved for marriage between one man and one woman…”

The Community Covenant Agreement at TWU is a roadmap for personal and com-munity conduct. It is rooted in the faith of the community and based on the univer-sity’s belief that the Bible is “the divinely inspired, authoritative guide for personal and community life”.

There can be no doubt that the trad-itional view of marriage and sexuality expressed in the Community Covenant is a sincerely held religious belief, and in keeping with its beliefs, the university requires a level of sex-ual restraint from all its members, regard-less of sexual orienta-tion. Nevertheless, the implications of the clause discriminate against the enrollment of LGBT persons, and have called into ques-tion the university’s ability to properly train individuals, who, as lawyers, must swear an oath to uphold the rights and freedoms of

all people.Because of this

clause, the proposed Faculty of Law at TWU raises complex ques-tions about religious freedom, freedom of association and equal-ity.

As the deliberations of the Law Society of BC make clear, there are no easy answers when the rights of two disparate groups con-flict. Because rights and freedoms are not absolute, it is some-times necessary to balance them against each other. In the bal-ancing act, there are no clear winners, as the Law Society debate illustrates; TWU did not come out smelling like a rose even though the Benchers voted in its favour.

Whether we agree or disagree with the decision to approve a faith-based law school at an institution that covenants with its stu-dents to uphold a trad-itional view of sexuality, the process of respect-ful and informed debate can help us more comprehensively grasp nuanced issues, and can lead us to a more compassionate understanding of those whose beliefs, lifestyles, and identities differ from our own. We can-not “live and let live” only when the manner of living falls into line with our worldview. To do so runs the risk of swapping one form of intolerance for another.

Trail resident Louise McEwan is a freelance religion writer with degrees in English and Theology. She has a background in educa-tion and faith forma-tion. Her blog is www.faithcolouredglasses.blogspot.com.

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Dear Annie: I am a high school student. Last year, “Ellie” invited me to her 16th birthday party, and after that, we became inseparable best friends. She was wonderful and support-ive.

Lately, we have grown more and more distant. A few weeks ago, Ellie’s family had a crisis, and we took up a collection to help. I didn’t want Ellie to feel like a charity case and wanted her to see that the collec-tion was due to com-passion. She seemed thankful, but now she spends time with other friends and rarely with me. She says she is too busy to hang out and won’t answer most of my texts. But I see her Facebook posts, and she tags other friends. The funny thing is, when I tell her about things I’ve done with others, she becomes jealous.

How do I bring old Ellie back? I have other friends, but she and

I used to be so close, and it’s sad to see our friendship wither. I don’t want to lose her as a friend, but I also don’t want to appear desperate. Any advice for me? -- Chicago Student

Dear Student: Ellie’s distancing may have nothing to do with the collection for her fam-ily. It is not unusual for high school friend-ships to change. Try talking to her. Say that you miss the closeness you once had, and ask how to warm things up again. But understand that Ellie may simply feel that a different crowd is more to her liking at this point in time. And if that is the

case, you will simply need to let her go.

Dear Annie: When my stepmother died, my husband and I took Dad to live with us. Dad was 90, used a walker and could not be left alone for more than a few hours. He died at home three years later.

During this time, I expected we’d get offers of help from my two sisters, but it didn’t happen. When I asked my oldest sister to postpone her sum-mer trip and stay with Dad so my husband and I could attend our daughter’s col-lege graduation, she refused. There were other occasions when I had to beg for help and was turned down. In three years, my sister took care of Dad for all of six weeks. My other sister stayed with Dad once for three days.

I realize I should have had this discus-sion with my sisters when I first took Dad to live with me. Instead, I am filled with resent-

ment, and our sibling relationship has suf-fered.

Many of your read-ers will someday be the caregiver of an elderly parent. Please remind them to have “the con-versation” with their family before they make my mistake. I am seeing a therapist to help me work through my resentment, but I have a long way to go. -- Just Venting

Dear Venting: Our condolences on this entire situation. You are right that these arrangements should be hashed out in advance, knowing that some children are unwilling or unable to be caregivers. We hope readers in this situation will check out eldercare.gov or the Family Caregiver Alliance (caregiver.org) for information on respite care.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Disappointed Dad,” whose children accused him of being cheap.

Your older readers might remember that cans of scouring pow-ders used to come with six little holes on the lid that you punched out yourself. My mother only punched out three. Later, the same brand came out with the holes already

opened, with a little plastic adhesive circle covering them. Mom would carefully tear off only half of the circle.

Years later, I was teasing her about this, and she gave me a level look and said, “I put you through college, didn’t I?” She had me

there! -- A Graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime edi-tors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to [email protected].

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For Saturday, April 26, 2014 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) You have an inventive, imaginative mind today when it comes to ideas about raising money. This could be about making money on the side or perhaps getting a different job. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) You feel sympathetic toward others today. You even might feel zoned into their headspace, almost as if you can read their minds. (This is interesting.) GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Mysterious subjects inter-est you today, especially UFOs, ghosts or paranormal activities. You might not believe in this, but you’re a bit intrigued. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Someone might need to cry on your shoulder today, or perhaps you want to confide in someone else. Either way,

private, confidential conversa-tions will take place between you and someone else. LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Someone in a position of authority might inspire you today. You might wish that you could be like him or her. Be careful, because you prob-ably have Vaseline on your lens. VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Your appreciation of beauty is heightened today, which is why you will enjoy museums, art galleries, parks and beauti-ful buildings. Give yourself a chance to do this. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Discussions about shared property or the values of oth-ers are not solid today. It is as if conversations are more about wishful thinking than about solid facts. Caution! SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Today, people are in touch with their fantasies, which is why you might want to share

your dreams with someone close to you. Or perhaps someone will confide in you. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) You will be sympathetic and tenderhearted to a co-worker or someone related to your job who needs to discuss his or her troubles. Sometimes all someone needs is a sympathetic ear. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) This is a wonderfully cre-

ative day for those of you involved in artistic projects. It’s also a romantic day, but in an unrealistic, idealistic way. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Make a list of all the things you wish you could do to improve where you live. You start from perfection, then just scale back until you get to what is doable. PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Don’t be worried if you

spend a lot of time daydream-ing and woolgathering today. It’s just that kind of day. Plus, you have a fantastic imagina-tion! YOU BORN TODAY The world needs more people like you. You are inventive and creative, especially with establishing new systems and ways of doing things. On top of that, you have a strong desire to serve. Although you are independent, you also can work well with others.

Exciting news! This year is the beginning of a fresh new cycle for you. Open any door! Birthdate of: Giancarlo Esposito, actor; Stana Katic, actress; Jet Li, actor/martial artist. (c) 2014 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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“CONGRATULATIONS”Mom & Dad

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“LA VITA BELLA”

Antonio and Maria De Laurentiis celebrated 60 years of marriage on March 1st, 2014. A wonderful

reception was held at the Trail Colombo Lodge with close friends and family on April 17th, 2014. Thank

you everyone for all the lovely cards & gifts.

The family of the lateJerry Marchi

wishes to say thank you to the many people who have helped us through this heartbreaking

time. To Andrew Borsato and the Fruitvale first responders, ambulance attendants, 911 operator and Constable Greebe - thank you for your compassion and understanding. Thank you to Jordan and Gwen at Alternatives who helped us with arrangements. Thank you to Alisa at the City of Trail for all her help. We would like to thank Dr. Blair Stanley and the staff at Waneta Primary Care Clinic who looked after Jerry for so many years. To everyone who sent cards, baking, meat trays, fruit trays, flowers, phone calls, emails, gifts and who came to visit - thank you for your support and generosity. Thank you to everyone who came and celebrated Jerry’s life with us and a huge thank you to the KSCU ladies who looked after the luncheon. A special thank you to Jeff DeRosa for the beautiful banner made in Jerry’s honour. We couldn’t have gotten through it without all of you. We are so grateful for all your kind words and prayers. As we move forward with our lives and begin the difficult journey ahead, we are thankful for the continued support, love and understanding from our close friends and many relatives. The greatest laugh on Earth has moved to the heavens, but we will carry it in our hearts forever.Sincerely,Kendra, Meagan Slubowski & family, Jennifer Irons & family, Amy Conci & family and Bert & Isabella Wiens

In Loving Memory of Margie GallamoreFebruary 15, 1945 - April 21, 2013

The moment that you diedMy heart was torn in two,

One side filled with heartache,The other died with you.

I often lie awake at night,When the world is fast asleep,

And take a walk down memory lane,With tears upon my cheeks.

Remembering you is easy,I do it every day,

But missing you is heartacheThat never goes away.

I hold you tightly within my heartAnd there you will remain

Until the joyous day arrives,That we will meet again.

Love alwaysYour Twin & Rob

The family of the late

Velia Civitaresewould like to extend their sincere gratitude to family and friends for their phone calls, visits,

baking, fruit trays, emails and memorial donations. The staff in both Emergency and 3rd Medical

were exceptional.Thanks to Dr. Aiken and staff at Riverside Family

Medicine, special thanks to Carlina White for her kindness to Mom over the years, thanks to Linda

Seib and staff at Shoppers Drug Mart for their excellent service.

Thank you to Father Jim for the graveside service and to the CWL ladies Bunny, Linda and Sandy for

putting on a lovely luncheon. Thank you to Al Grywacheski and staff of

Alternatives Funeral and Cremation Services for their guidance and support.

Debbie, Kayla and families

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Rhonda van Tent 250-231-7575

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Trail $119,000

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Fruitvale $199,000

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Renata $249,000

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Genelle $319,900

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$195,000

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$379,000

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$279,900

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$289,000

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CASTLEGAR – Selkirk College Forest Technology Program students deep-ened their understanding of British Columbia’s diverse terrain with a trip to the west coast of Vancouver Island earlier this month.

The annual field trip included 16 second-year students who spent a week hiking and exploring eco-systems outside the West Kootenay terrain, where the program is based.

“The coast and the interior are really different in terms of forest practi-ces, forest operations and the ecology,” says Selkirk College Forest Technology Instructor Jesper Nielsen. “BC is such a huge prov-ince and once these stu-dents are registered tech-nologists they could end up practicing anywhere so going from the interior to the coast can be like going to a different country.”

Nielsen and fellow instructor Carol Andrews polled students at the Castlegar-based program to see where they wanted to spend the important week. The consensus was to head west.

“They had shown an interest in seeing big trees because those old growth trees on the coast are not something you see the equivalent of in the inter-ior,” says Nielsen. “Those

sites and ecosystems were important so we planned part of the trip on the West Coast Trail.”

Students and instruct-ors hiked 20 km of the West Coast Trail one day. They also did other hikes near Tofino, viewed an Island Timberlands operation, reviewed a First Nations tenure, and visited a shake and shingle mill in Surrey on the way back home.”

The trip was largely

funded by the students’ own hard work. Students were tasked with cutting and selling a logging truck load of firewood donated by Interfor’s Nakusp oper-ation. They also performed a variety of fieldwork for the Nakusp and Area Community Forest.

With the second year students in the two-year program now prepared to graduate and head off in all different directions, Nielsen

says the trip is likely to be a highlight of the school year.

“In some ways we wish we could do it earlier in the year, but logistically it’s not feasible to do that,” says Nielsen.

“But after the trip every-body is a lot closer. You get to know a lot more about people when you go on a road trip. It’s actually a very small industry once you are part of it so these kinds of bonds will be lasting.”

Selkirk College students gain valuable experience

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Selkirk College Forest Technology Program students took a road trip to the west coast of Vancouver Island earlier this month to hike and explore ecosystems outside the West Kootenay.


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A drop in the tem-perature overnight resulted in a rare late April snowfall in Rossland Thursday, which set back some golfers’ schedules at Redstone Resort. Rest assured, the white stuff should disappear quickly and the duf-fers should be able to get back to their game in short order.

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