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The walls of the Eagles Hall in downtown Trail came crumbling down on Tuesday. The work will continue this week with much of the wood trucked to the dump while old concrete will be recycled for use at the location.

B Y T I M O T H Y S C H A F E RTimes Staff

Last call is pending on a service pro-viding free bus rides to New Year’s Eve revelers after “rowdy youth” surrounded a bus Jan. 1 in Rossland and started banging on it.

Coupled with “general bad behav-iour,” the actions prompted RCMP and the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary (RDKB)—who offers the ser-

vice in partnership with BC Transit—to review the free service, one-day service.

RDKB chief administrative officer John MacLean said the regional district has made everybody aware of the prob-lems stemming from the incident and concerns were raised.

But the matter won’t be officially addressed until RDKB board and sub-committee budgets are nailed down, pushing a decision back to the fall.

“We’re kind of caught in a quandary. The reason we run that service is so that drunk people don’t drive, and then drunk people act like drunk people,” he said.

“Clearly we are very troubled that people felt threatened, and there were people not of the rowdy nature that did not feel comfortable because of the rowdy nature of the other folks.”

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Future of free New Year’s Eve bus rides still pending


The bottom line will be the bottom line of a new committee struck last week to investigate revenue generation for School District 20.

Trail trustee Mark Wilson said if SD20 could find more money in the district, expand its “boundaries,” then the board could keep the axe still each year during budget deliberations.

“I think what we need to address is our lack of money. And that is what I think revenue gen-eration is all about,” he said.

The committee will identify and review cur-rent revenue generation efforts, and the revenue generating activities and commercialism policy, and make recommendations to the board’s policy committee. Wilson said revenue-generat-ing opportunities only supplement, not take the place of, provincial funding.

The committee will include three trust-ees, the superintendent of schools, secretary-treasurer, a principal/vice-principal, a CUPE representative, a KCTU representative, a DPAC representative, and three members of the public selected by the board.

“If you look at the committee suggested there are a lot of people from different areas and we could possibly come up with some revenue generation for our district within the next year,” said Wilson.

The guiding principles of revenue genera-tion include: fund raising not interfering with delivery of educational programs; curriculum development shall not be influenced or directed by private enterprise interests; and revenue gen-eration conforms to legal standards and must avoid controversial products or services.


Two divers braved cold water and strong currents of the Columbia River on Tuesday morning to find out what damage, if any, the highest runoff in 40 years had wrought on the Old Trail Bridge.

Using strong life lines and head-mounted cameras, divers from Castlegar’s Northern Underwater Systems inspected all three bridge piers underwater to provide video for City of Trail staff to give them an idea if the piers had suffered damage in the last year.

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If you think you’ve heard one argument between teens, you’ve heard them all.

Then you haven’t been to a high school debate lately.

A group of 160 students from across B.C. ranging from Grade 6 to Grade 12, gathered in Trail last weekend, to debate for the top spot to represent the province at the national cham-pionships in May.

In high school debates, the students are tasked with convincing their judge and mod-erators that their statements ring truer than those of their opponent.

However, the one topic not up for debate was the impressive speed, intelligence and wit displayed by the students as they competed in a battle of words and ideas towards their goal of winning the Law Foundation Cup 2013.

“Debating is an art that extends the learning process to develop powerful thinkers,” said Julia Mason, principal of St Michael’s Elementary.

“Countless hours contribute to sharpening the skills and talents of debate participants,” she said. “But most importantly, be proud for having the courage to stand up and address an evidential opinion.”

The morning debates consisted of a prepared topic on the resolution ‘Be it resolved that judges be elected,’” explained Marilyn Lunde, J.L. Crowe teacher and regional coordinator for the Debate and Speech Association of B.C.

The debates included four rounds of cross-examination style for the novice division (Grade 6-8) and two rounds of cross-examination for the junior and senior students.

Rossland Secondary (RSS) student, Rachel Aiken, was the top individual junior partici-pant, and will travel to Vancouver for the junior nationals later this spring, said Lunde.

RSS students, Bronwyn Moore and Aven Cosbey, placed ninth as a novice team, and 12th and 17th respectively, said Lunde. Additionally, RSS students Madeline Grace-Wood and Peyton Reed paired in the novice division and placed third overall and fourth and ninth individually.

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Clockwise from the top; The B.C. provincial debate championships brought students from across the province to Trail on the weekend Students discussed debate tac-tics in the hallway at the school. Crowe Grade 8 student, Sarah Grieve, volunteered her time-keeping skills. Jesse Bartsoff and Emily Dawson reviewed notes in preparation for their impromptu topic. West Point Grey Academy champs Jai Mathur and Jacob Reedijk debated with Bartsoff and Dawson. Lenelle Kutzner, Grade 11 student at Crowe, used her calm, moderator skills during the debate.

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FROM PAGE 1A decision will be made wheth-

er or not, or in what way, the service will be provided, probably early in the fall, MacLean added.

In early January Meribeth Burton, spokesperson for BC Transit, said approximately 200 drunk and rowdy youth sur-rounded a bus in Rossland around 1 a.m., giving rise to a call for RCMP.

There was a security officer on the bus, a safety measure imple-mented three years ago.

“In the last three years, there has been problems with intoxi-cated youth, on our buses (in Greater Trail),” she said at the time.

No charges were laid in the

incident since most of the youth had dispersed by the time police arrived.

Regional faresRegional fares won’t be com-

ing to Greater Trail until the summer.

The regional transit commit-tee dealing with the fusion of the region’s disparate bus ser-vices—including Trail, Rossland, Castlegar, the regional districts of Kootenay Boundary and Central Kootenay, and the City of Nelson—will be receiving and endorsing changes to the fare structure March 13.

The changes will be imple-mented likely in July, not April 1 as was reported in an earlier story in the Trail Times.

Regional transit fares will be unveiled in summer

B y S h e r i r e g n i e rTimes Staff

Mild February temperatures lead to March weather coming in more like a lamb than a lion.

According to Southeast Fire Centre weath-er services, the mean monthly temperature in February was 1.6 C milder than normal.

A record daily maximum temperature of 5.9 C was set on Feb. 6, and Feb. 15 saw the warmest day at 9.1 C during the mid-afternoon.

A cold snap on Feb. 18 resulted in the low-est temperature of the month at -7.2 C.

High pressure and the resulting sunshine or sunny periods allowed for near record maximum temperatures said the weather services in its monthly report.

As a result of an upper ridge of high pres-sure, the regional precipitation during the month was only 43 per cent of normal.

The total precipitation for the month (includes rain and snow) was recorded to be 25.7 mm.

The majority of the month’s total precipi-tation (more than 70 per cent) was due to a more active storm cycle during the final days of the month, said forecasters Ron Lakeman and Jesse Ellis in the press release.

Feb. 22 saw the greatest daily snowfall of 7 cm of wet snow.

Another 6.6 cm of snow followed during the night of Feb. 24 and morning of Feb. 25.

Red Mountain had good news for ski-ers as it reported 87 cm of new snowfall in February, according to the resort’s website, which maintained the base of the alpine snow depth at 235 cm.

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Two divers from Castlegar’s Northern Underwater Systems speak with City of Trail engineering technician Warren Proulx, right, after the Old Trail Bridge’s piers were inspected on Tuesday.

FROM PAGE 2In the junior cat-

egory, J.L. Crowe stu-dents Kyla Mears and Matthew McConnachie placed 28th in the team standings and 58th and 45th individually.

After lunch, J.L. Crowe senior debat-ers Jesse Bartsoff and Emily Dawson were given the impromptu afternoon topic, “This house will ban the publication of names of victims and uncon-victed defendants in

trial.”For the senior

debate, each partici-pant had eight minutes to speak, and then each team had a final sum-mary speech of four minutes. Bartsoff and Dawson had 45 min-utes to prepare their opposition argument before addressing a team from West Point Grey Academy.

The quick think-ing and speed of deliv-ery that outlined key points of proposition

(affirmative) by the team from West Point, proved challenging but was a great learn-ing experience, said Bartsoff.

“We were against the national cham-pions and provincial winners from last year,” he explained. “We lost to a great team.”

Bartsoff said that the competition was much tougher this year, and that he and Dawson placed 31 out

of 38 teams.Bartsoff was 51st

out of 78th individ-ually, while Dawson scored 63 of 78.

The top two teams faced off at the “grand final” which was held after dinner at the Columbo Lodge, said Lunde.

In the senior div-ision, Jai Mather and Jacob Reedijk, from West Point Grey Academy in Vancouver, took first place for a second year in a row.

Vancouver school repeats as senior champ

FROM PAGE 1The city has had the

piers inspected each year when it was open, said city engineering technician Warren Proulx, but stopped when the bridge was closed to traffic two years ago.

Because of the high river flows last year Proulx said he was concerned about the

condition of the piers under the water. So the city contracted the divers to record their condition to see if there was any scour-ing or damage to the piers.

“River flows were extremely high, the highest in 40 years,” he said. “And an old structure like this, we want to keep an eye on

it. But it’s not going to fall over, it is anchored on both sides.”

Any findings will be taken to city council if the bridge does need some repair.

“You can’t specu-late if that happens, but you have to be pre-pared if there is dam-age and find out what to do about it,” Proulx said.

The main threat lies with the sewer line crossing the bridge, an interceptor line for the regional sewer system.

If there was any-thing to go wrong with the piers, there could be a situation where that line could break and it would dis-rupt service and cre-ate a costly repair, said Proulx.

The current was extremely strong and after less than two hours 20 feet down underwater the divers were done for the day.

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A conservation offi-cer had to kill a cou-gar that had taken to a Summerland resi-dent’s deck to watch

over a domestic herd of goats.

“Humans share the Okanagan Valley with all manner of wildlife including predators. Cougars are masters of stealth and are rare-ly seen by humans,” said conservation offi-cer Bob Hamilton. “Unfortunately, this cougar crossed some behavioural bound-aries and had to be dealt with. It was def-initely a problem cou-gar.”

H a m i l t o n responded to the wild-life call on March 1. Homeowner Don Gemmell said he was surprised when he looked out his bed-room window to see the cougar casually sit-ting right below.

“I have never seen a cougar here in 25 years, but the con-servation officer called them ghost cats and I think that is a good explanation. With the colour of the cat and the way they are in general there is prob-ably more of them around here then we figure it is just that they blend in so well.”

It was about 8 a.m. when Gemmell heard the coyotes howl-ing, which he found strange because they are nocturnal, and the neighbours German Shepherd Caesar bark-ing incessantly at the house. Gemmell said he peaked out one side of his blinds and didn’t see anything, so glanced out the other side.

“Whoa there is a cat virtually right at my

feet. It is just sitting there like a tabby cat, very comfortable and looking right down at the Caesar,” said Gemmell, who called his neighbour to tell them to take in the dog fearing the cougar might attack it.

The conservation officer said a netropsy revealed the adult cou-gar had been feeding on domestic dogs and cats.

“It was an equiva-lent of a perch right up on the deck. I think Caeser is the hero of the story. He was try-ing to tell somebody that the cat was there and he was doing his job,” said Gemmell.

The cougar wasn’t dissuaded by the dog’s presence and didn’t move when the resi-dents tried to shoo it away. Eventually it took off running down the hill, past the goats and slammed into a deer fence.

An hour after the cougar ran off, con-servation officer Hamilton arrived.

He said he did not expect to find the cou-gar still on the prop-erty because “they are usually nocturnal and very secretive.” After seeing the photos of the cougar laying on the deck, Hamilton said the cat was dem-onstrating a danger-ous character trait of a lack of fear of humans.

Hamilton located the cougar when it sprang from behind a small bush only a few feet away. He then dis-patched the cat with his rifle.

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A cougar that got comfortable on a Summerland resident’s deck had to be killed by a conservation officer after it ‘crossed behavioural boundaries.’

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Cougar killed after getting too comfortable near home and livestock

t h e C o w i C h a n n e w s L e a d e rThe answer to the question

posed by the Cowichan Valley School District to the commun-ity of Lake Cowichan Saturday was inconclusive.

But the message delivered by the community was not: closing schools is not the answer.

“If school closures were the answer, we wouldn’t be in difficulty now,” said Diana Gunderson, referring to a ser-ies of school closures that have already hit the lake area.

In its bid to address a $3.7 million budget deficit and cope with declining enrollment the district is considering a num-ber of options. In a commun-ity meeting at Lake Cowichan Secondary School Saturday, officials presented two options that most directly affect the Cowichan Lake area.

In both cases, A.B. Greenwell Elementary school would be

closed. One option would move the Grade 5 students from Palsson to the middle school at Lake Cowichan Secondary School. The other would move grades 4 and 5 from Palsson to form a more extended middle school at LCSS.

According to the school dis-trict’s statistics, enrolment in the Cowichan Lake area has declined by 25 per cent in the past five years.

That didn’t seem to faze audience members, many who had come specifically to ask what had become of the school district’s promise for a new elementary school at the Lake.

“These are complex issues,” McKay told a crowd that was significantly smaller than the one that attended a similar meeting in December. “It’s not only a matter of increasing costs in the district, it’s a mat-ter of declining enrolment, and

we are funded according to the number of students we have enrolled.”

“You say the district will save $200,000 by closing down (A.B. Greenwell ) but that is noth-ing,” said Lake Cowichan busi-nessman Rod Peters. “That’s not enough to warrant closing down a school.”

Some were perplexed at how the school district could say it would be saving money by clos-ing down a school when Harper agreed that it would take a cer-tain amount of investment to make the proposed changes to both Palsson and LCSS work.

Tristan Renaud, a Grade 8 student at LCSS, said he agreed with the comments of parents who feel that having younger children in the middle school is not right, because they will inevitably be exposed to things older children do and say long before they need to be.

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

eral NDP says cuts to winter services at national parks are out of step with the man-date of Parks Canada to increase exposure to the country’s wil-derness.

But Environment Minister Peter Kent says the cuts make financial sense as very few people use the outdoor spaces in the winter months.

Parks Canada has stopped providing ser-vices like trail clear-ing or visitors centres in the winter as the result of a $29.2-mil-lion budget cut to the agency.

At some parks, vol-unteer groups or local governments have

helped pick up some of the slack, while at others there is no service at all - even though the parks are technically open.

NDP MP Anne Minh Thu Quach says the move runs counter to the Tory government’s pledge to create jobs, given that unpaid labour is now doing govern-ment work.

But Kent tells a House of Commons committee that the agency is doing its part like all others to reduce government spending, and that the cuts allow it to focus services when the most people are there.

The affected parks include Point Pelee

in southern Ontario, Riding Mountain in Manitoba, Prince Albert in Saskatchewan and Elk Island in Alberta.

Visitor numbers at parks have been on the decline for years, but the head of Parks Canada says he believes the tide is turning.

Alan Latourelle told MPs visits this past summer were up four per cent at parks and seven per cent at national historic sites.

Meanwhile, Kent says the government does want to find ways to encourage young and new Canadians to get outside more, pointing to the cre-ation of a new urban park just outside

Toronto as one ele-ment of that plan.

“It’s also a big part of Parks Canada’s very successful program, ‘Learn to Camp,”’ Kent told the com-mittee.

“Across the coun-try for the past couple of years, young people and their families - many new Canadians who associate tents most often with refu-gee circumstances - are encouraged to leave the urban centres where very often they first arrive in Canada and to experience the great Canadian outdoors.”

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BRANDON, Man. - A 73-year-old man convicted of driving impaired on his ride-on lawnmower on a Brandon, Man., street to get cigarettes has been sentenced to 150 days in jail.

Frank Wilhelm Mrkvicka, who has six previous impaired-driving convictions, has also been banned from driving for life.

Court heard Mrkvicka mistakenly believed impaired-driv-ing laws don’t apply to riding lawnmowers.

Crown lawyer Garry Rainnie says the accused man smelled of alcohol and was unsteady on his feet when police caught up to him last Sept. 3, after a wit-ness called about an impaired driver on the machine.

Mrkvicka faced a

minimum sentence of 120 days in jail, but Judge Shauna Hewitt-Michta opted for the extra time because of his previous convic-tions.

Hewitt-Michta told court the issue wasn’t what the offender was driving, but where he was driving the mower.

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SWASHINGTON - Less than a week

after the U.S. State Department all but dismissed the climate concerns dogging TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline, two high-profile Canadian politicians headed state-side on Tuesday to push once again for presidential approval of the con-troversial project.

The pipeline pitch from Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver con-tained a nugget of news for his American audience as he assured them that long-awaited federal regulations on Canada’s oil and gas sector were on the horizon.

“Canada is one of the only major suppliers of crude oil to the Gulf Coast taking concrete action to fight climate change with provin-cial - and soon to be federal - regu-latory requirements affecting its oil and gas sector,” he said in his pitch to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

“Once the federal regulations are in place, Canada will be one of a very few oil producers in the world with national binding regulations on its oil and gas sector.”

Oliver’s comments came short-ly after his cabinet colleague, Environment Minister Peter Kent, said the government is aiming to have those federal regulations ready by mid-year.

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall, meantime, began a four-day visit to the U.S. capital that includes meetings with several top officials, including Kerri-Ann Jones, an assistant secretary of state on inter-national environmental affairs, and Eric Cantor, majority leader of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Wall, too, will urge Americans to approve the pipeline. But he’ll also tout his province’s green initiatives, in particular its recent $1.4-billion investment in a clean-coal project in Estevan, Sask.

Canadian politicians push for pipeline


OPINION

Fortis hearings begin on wireless smart metersWhen it comes to

measuring our electricity use for the purposes

of billing, is it healthier, more secure, safer and more cost effective to opt for wired smart meters or for the wireless ones?

That is the question Fortis BC would prefer you wouldn’t spend much time thinking about, as it is not a choice the com-pany is prepared to give you anyway.

The BC Utilities Commission (BCUC) is currently considering a Fortis application to install the wireless ver-sion of the technology on every home in its service area. As has already hap-pened with BC Hydro’s roll-out of wireless smart meters, many people are strongly opposed and are organizing to try and stop them.

To get a little back-ground on what all the fuss is about, an interest-ing documentary to view is Resonance: Beings of

Frequency, which is freely available on the Internet.

The film lays out in an easily digestible for-mat the scientific and other compelling reasons we should better protect ourselves from the grow-ing amount of radiation being emitted through our increased use of mod-ern electrical and wire-less technologies. What is made clear in the film is that we are now immersed in an ocean of radiation that is many millions of times higher than what life on earth evolved with.

As yet the long-term impact and potential for harm is far from under-stood. Industry standards are based only on the ther-mal effects (i.e., if it heats tissue, as in a microwave oven) and do not con-sider the long-term non-thermal effects, which are more difficult to establish.

Although this is not an exhaustive list, radia-tion emitting equipment can include: radar (mil-itary, marine, aviation

and weather), cellphone towers, radio and TV broadcast antennas, WiFi hotspots, and citywide WiFi and Wi-Max anten-nas. Inside buildings and homes we might have cell-phones, cordless phones, wireless alarm systems, wireless baby monitors, wireless video games, wireless computers, iPads and now Smart Phones that can connect to wire-less internet or WiFi.

Ultimately, the plan is for wireless smart meters to monitor the use of elec-tricity, gas and water.

As part of this system, smart appliances like

fridges, stoves, wash-ers, dryers and toasters are now being designed to communicate wire-lessly with smart meters. It doesn’t take a lot of imagination to realize how much more radia-tion we will be adding to our living environment once all this technology is rolled out.

Easier to imagine, per-haps, is the amount of money that stands to be made and the business interests involved.

There is plenty of fod-der to fuel the many allegations of conflict of interest by industry and regulating bodies over the last 60 years, not least of which by the BC govern-ment, but that is perhaps the subject for a future column.

Two weeks, beginning on Monday, have been set aside by the BCUC for the oral hearing part of the process that will allow both sides in the controversial debate to cross examine each other.

These hearings will take place in Kelowna and are open to the public. Fortis has invited experts from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the International Commission on Non-ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) as well as the Committee on Man and Radiation (COMAR) to represent their arguments on pri-vacy and health issues. Interveners have put for-ward several independent scientists who will chal-lenge those arguments.

Considering that BC Hydro was exempted by the BC government from having to apply to the BC Utilities Commission for permission to install wire-less meters in its service area, it will be very inter-esting to see whether the Commission gives Fortis the go ahead with its application, especially in the face of so much con-troversy.

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Last week’s announce-ment by China’s Ministry of Finance that the country will intro-

duce a carbon tax, probably in the next two years, did not dom-inate the international head-lines. It was too vague about the timetable and the rate at which the tax would be levied, and fos-sil fuel lobbyists were quick to portray it as meaningless. But the Chinese are deadly serious about fighting global warming, because they are really scared.

A carbon tax, though deeply unpopular with the fossil fuel industries, is the easiest way to change the behaviour of the people and firms that burn those fuels: it just makes burning them more cost-ly. And if the tax is then returned to the consum-ers of energy through lower taxes, then it has no overall depressive effect on the econ-omy.

The Xinhua news agency did not say how big the tax in China would be, but it pointed to a three-year-old proposal by government experts that would have levied a 10-yuan ($1.60) per ton tax on carbon in 2012 and raised it to 50-yuan ($8) a ton by 2020. That is still far below the $80-per-ton tax that would really shrink China’s greenhouse gas emissions dras-tically, but at least it would establish the principle that the polluters must pay.

It’s a principle that has little appeal to U.S. President Barack Obama, who has explicitly promised not to propose a car-bon tax. He probably knows that it makes sense, but he has no intention of committing pol-itical suicide, the likely result of making such a proposal in the United States. But China is not suffering from political gridlock; if the regime wants something to happen, it can usually make it happen.

So why is China getting out

in front of the parade with its planned carbon tax? No doubt it gives China some leverage in international climate change negotiations, letting it demand that other countries make the same commitment. But why does it care so much that those negotiations should succeed? Does it know something that the rest of us don’t?

Three or four years ago, while interviewing the head of a think-tank in a major coun-

try, I was told something that has shaped my interpretation of Chinese policy ever since. If it is true, it explains why the Chinese regime is so frightened of cli-mate change.

My inform-ant told me that his organization had been given a contract by the

World Bank to figure out how much food production his coun-try will lose when the average global temperature has risen by 2 degrees C (3.5 degrees F). (On current trends, that will prob-ably happen around 25 years from now.) Similar contracts had been given to think-tanks in all the other major coun-tries, he said – but the results have never been published.

The main impact of climate change on human welfare in the short and medium term will be on the food supply. The rule of thumb the experts use is that total world food production will drop by 10 per cent for every degree Celsius of warming, but the percentage losses will vary widely from one country to another.

The director told me the amount of food his own coun-try would lose, which was bad enough – and then mentioned that China, according to the report on that country, would lose a terrifying 38 per cent of its food production at +2 degrees C. The reports were not circulated, but a summary had apparently been posted on the Chinese think-tank’s web-

site for a few hours by a rogue researcher before being taken down.

The World Bank has never published these reports or even admitted their existence, but it is all too plausible that the gov-ernments in question insisted that they be kept confidential. They would not have wanted these numbers to be made pub-lic. And there are good reasons to suspect that this story is true.

Who would have commis-sioned these contracts? The likeliest answer is Sir Robert Watson, a British scientist who was the Director of the Environment Department at the World Bank at the same time that he was the Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

George Bush’s administra-tion had Watson ousted as chair of the IPCC in 2002, but he stayed at the World Bank, where he is now Chief Scientist and Senior Advisor on Sustainable Development. (He has also been Chief Scientific Adviser to the British Government’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs for the past six years.)

He would have had both the motive and the opportunity to put those contracts out, but he would not have had the clout to get the reports published. When I asked him about it a few years ago, he neither confirmed nor denied their existence. But if the report on China actually said that the country will lose 38 per cent of its food produc-tion when the average global temperature reaches 2 degrees C higher, it would explain why the regime is so scared.

No country that lost almost two-fifths of its food production could avoid huge social and pol-itical upheavals. No regime that was held responsible for such a catastrophe would survive. If the Chinese regime thinks that is what awaits it down the road, no wonder it is thinking of bringing in a carbon tax.

Gwynne Dyer is an independ-ent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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- President Hugo Chavez was a fighter. The former paratroop commander and fiery populist waged continual battle for his socialist ideals and out-smarted his rivals time and again, defeating a coup attempt, winning re-election three times and using his country’s vast oil wealth to his pol-itical advantage.

A self-described “sub-versive,” Chavez fash-ioned himself after the 19th Century independ-ence leader Simon Bolivar and renamed his country the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

He called himself a “humble soldier” in a battle for socialism and against U.S. hegemony. He thrived on confron-tation with Washington and his political oppon-ents at home, and used those conflicts to rally his followers.

Almost the only adversary it seemed he couldn’t beat was cancer.

During more than 14 years in office, his leftist politics and gran-diose style polarized Venezuelans. The barrel-chested leader electrified crowds with his booming voice, and won admira-tion among the poor with government social programs and a folksy, nationalistic style.

Before his struggle with cancer, he appeared on television almost daily, frequently speak-ing for hours and break-ing into song or philo-sophical discourse. He often wore the bright red of his United Socialist Party of Venezuela, or the fatigues and red beret of his army days.

The rest of the world watched as the country with the world’s biggest proven oil reserves took a turn to the left under its unconventional leader, who considered himself above all else a revolutionary.

“I’m still a subver-sive,” the president told The Associated Press in a 2007 interview, recalling his days as a rebel soldier. “I think the entire world

has to be subverted.”Chavez was a mas-

ter communicator and savvy political strategist, and managed to turn his struggle against can-cer into a rallying cry, until the illness finally defeated him.

He died Tuesday in Caracas after his pro-longed illness.

From the start, Chavez billed himself as the heir of Simon Bolivar, who led much of South America to independence. He often spoke beneath a portrait of Bolivar and presented replicas of the liber-ator’s sword to allies. He built a soaring mau-soleum in Caracas to house the remains of “El Libertador.”

Chavez also was inspired by his mentor

Fidel Castro and took on the Cuban leader’s role as Washington’s chief antagonist in the Western Hemisphere after the ailing Castro turned over the presi-dency to his brother Raul in 2006. Like Castro, Chavez vilified U.S.-style capitalism while form-ing alliances throughout Latin America and with distant powers such as Russia, China and Iran.

Supporters eagerly raised Chavez to the pantheon of revolu-tionary legends ran-ging from Castro to Argentine-born rebel Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Chavez nurtured that cult of personality, and even as he stayed out of sight for long stretches fighting cancer, his out-sized image appeared on

buildings and billboard throughout Venezuela.

In the battles Chavez waged at home and abroad, he captivated his base by championing his country’s poor.

“This is the path: the hard, long path, filled with doubts, filled with errors, filled with bit-terness, but this is the path,” Chavez told his backers in 2011. “The path is this: socialism.”

He invested Venezuela’s oil wealth into social programs including state-run food markets, cash bene-fits for poor families, free health clinics and education programs. Chavez also organized poor neighbourhoods into community coun-cils that aided his party’s political machine.

Official statistics showed poverty rates declined from 50 per cent at the beginning of Chavez’s first term in 1999 to 32 per cent in the second half of 2011.

Chavez carried his in-your-face style to the world stage as well. In a 2006 speech to the U.N. General Assembly, he called President George W. Bush the devil, say-ing the podium reeked of sulfur after the U.S. president’s address.

At a summit in 2007, he repeatedly called Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar a fas-cist, prompting Spain’s King Juan Carlos to snap at Chavez, “Why don’t you shut up?”

Critics saw Chavez as a typical Latin American caudillo, a strongman who ruled through force of personality and showed disdain for democratic rules. Chavez concentrated power in his hands as his allies dominated the congress and justices seen as doing his bidding controlled the Supreme Court.

While Chavez trum-peted plans for com-munes and an egalitar-ian society, his rhetoric regularly conflicted with reality. Despite govern-ment seizures of com-panies and farmland, the balance between Venezuela’s public and private sectors changed little during his presi-dency. And even as the poor saw their incomes rise, those gains were blunted while the coun-try’s currency weakened amid the economic con-trols he imposed.

Nonetheless, Chavez maintained a core of supporters who stayed loyal to their “comand-ante” until the end.

“Chavez masterfully exploits the disenchant-ment of people who feel excluded ... and he feeds on controversy when-ever he can,” Cristina Marcano and Alberto Barrera Tyszka wrote in their book “Hugo Chavez: The Definitive Biography of Venezuela’s Controversial President.”

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Clockwise: The Big Game Trophy Association held its big game banquet Saturday at the Cominco Gym, with junior (middle) and senior (top) winners taking home awards for the highest scored trophies. Jason Langman, accompanied by son Carter, 3, and daughter Kaitlyn, 6, took the Championship Cup honours for his Commander trophy elk, while Jordanna Jones gets a better view of the festivities from Blaine Sbitney, and Terry Hanik, left, presents Gary Gawryletz of Teck Metals with the Pat Archibald trophy.

B Y J I M B A I L E YTimes Sports Editor

The Big Game Trophy Association had another wildly successful night at its 56th Big Game Awards banquet Saturday at the Cominco Arena.

The evening attracted over 300 wildlife and outdoor enthusiasts, and honoured hunters and conservation groups for their success in the field the past season.

Most notably, the Trail Wildlife Association honoured Teck Metals with the Pat Archibald Trophy, given to an individual, group, or company that works to protect, enhance, and promote the environment for the benefit of present and future generations.

Teck donated $1 million towards the purchase of the Ft. Shepherd Land Conservancy,

and an additional $400,000 to the environment fund to enhance wildlife in the Conservancy.

Teck has also been an invalu-able corporate citizen planting approximately 1-million tree seedlings, and financing the Columbia River greening pro-ject completed in 2009.

In the junior hunter cat-egory, Garrett Angerelli took home the Championship plaque for his first-place 17 14/16th black bear, while Brett Mengler was a double-award winner for his cougar (12 7/16th) and typ-ical (117) whitetail deer.

Cam Sbitney’s non-typical whitetail wowed the crowd and garnered top prize with an incredible 140 5/8th, and Mat Thomas received first place for his typical mule deer, 115 1/8th.

Tyson Angerilli received top

honours for his mountain goat scoring 40 3/8th, while his wild turkey came in at 36 1/4. Perry S. Thompson won the largest bison award with a 90.

Junior anglers were also rec-ognized this year, with Kyle Bartsoff netting the largest bull trout award with a 15-pound, nine-ounce lunker, while Rory Bond picked up the largest lake rainbow, weighing in at 15-pounds four ounces, and Collin Beetlestone captured first prize in the river rainbow category for a very respectable two-pound 10-once rainbow.

In the senior category, Jason Langman claimed the Championship Cup and the Commander trophy for the highest non-typical elk with one of the highest scoring ani-mals on the trophy at 373 1/8th.

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B Y T I M E S S T A F FThe Beaver Valley

Nitehawks claimed Game 1 in the Neil Murdoch division final against the Castlegar Rebels Monday night with a hard fought 3-2 victory.

The Nitehawks Ryan Edwards scored the winning goal mid-way through the third after Castlegar’s Diego Bartlett was sent off for high sticking.

Edwards took a pass from Connor Brown-Maloski and fired it by Jordan Gluck, giving him five goals and 10 assists to lead all play-off scorers.

As expected, the game was a hard-hit-ting, tight-checking affair, with both teams tentative in the early going.

Castlegar would

get on the board first when Bartlett netted his third goal of the playoffs to put the Rebels up 1-0 less than two-minutes in.

The Hawks’ Michael Bell tied the game at 6:06, converting a set up from Jordan Magico, and Brandon Butlin

It remained 1-1 for most of the mid-dle frame until Riley Brandt took a pass from Magico and snapped one by Gluck with just 20 seconds to play in the period to give the Hawks a 2-1 lead.

Edwards goal would make it 3-1, but the Rebels replied two minutes later when Darren Medeiros wristed a quick shot from the right circle by Hawks netminder

Zach Perehudoff. The Hawks shut

the Rebels down after that, played disciplined hockey, and despite a pulled goalie and late-game pressure, were able to hang on for the victory.

The Nitehawks out-shot the Rebels 25-19 in the game, and went 1-for-5 on the power play, but more import-antly their penalty kill was a perfect 5-for-5 on the night.

The Hawks played the Rebels in Castlegar again last night, but the result was unavail-able at press time.

Game 3 goes at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Beaver Valley Arena.

The Fernie Ghostriders play the Golden Rockets in the Eddie Mountain div-ision final.

B Y T I M E S S T A F FThe semifinal round of the Trail

Commercial League playoffs has come down to a one game affair as both series - OK Tire vs Firebird and Re/Max vs Allstar - are deadlocked at a game apiece.

The top-seeded OK Tire had a relatively easy time of it in their opening game of the best-of-three-series downing Firebird 7-1 Thursday. However, the Bird would not go quietly, as they rallied for a 3-0 victory on Sunday to force the deciding game.

Formidable defenceman Mike Boisvert pitched in offensively, net-ting the winner for the Firebird with 1:42 remaining in the first per-iod. Eric Hill would add an insur-ance marker midway through the second to make it 2-0, and Craig Clair rounded out the scoring with 1:39 to play.

Firebird’s Mike Kooznetsoff was stellar between the pipes, earning the shutout and sending the ser-ies to the deciding game Thursday night at the Cominco Arena.

In OK Tire’s Game 1 win, Darrin Williams scored twice and added two assists to lead the Tire, while Shaun Venturini had a three-point night with a goal and two assists en route to the 7-1 drubbing.

In the second vs third seed ser-ies, Allstar Maintenance thumped Re/Max in their opening match Thursday, 10-3, but the number-two-seed realtors bounced back with a 5-2 victory on Sunday.

Former Smoke Eater goalie turned player, Paul Barclay, would net the winner firing a Gabe Gaudet pass by Tim Wiley to make it 3-2 midway through the second period.

Jason Vecchio opened the scor-ing for Re/Max on a nice individual effort at 15:18 of the first, but Allstar would tie it at 6:08 when Kelly Sidoni and Mark Hutchinson combined to set up Wayne Salekin to make it 1-1.

Vecchio responded again, this time taking a perfect pass from Danny Rioux and blasting it by Wiley to give Re/Max a 2-1 lead. Allstar responded when Layne Stopanski netted his third goal of the series to even it at two heading into the middle frame, but that’s as close as they would get.

Following Barclay’s winner, Rioux would get a power-play mark-er to make it 4-2, and Graham Proulx would ice it with an empty netter with eight seconds remain-ing.

In Allstar’s 10-3 Game 1 win, Jim Maniago went on a scoring spree, netting four goals and an assist, including the game winner, to propel the former Rex Red Army team to victory. The Allstars jumped out to a 5-0 first period lead and kept the pressure on in the second, as Stopanski pitched in with a six-point night on two goals and four assists, while Dan Divito added five helpers for Allstar.

The deciding games go Thursday, when OK Tire and Firebird face off at 7:15 p.m. and Re/Max and Allstar go head-to-head at 8:30 p.m. The TCHL championship game is sched-uled for Mar. 14 at 7:15 p.m.

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went to Dawn Dalla Lana for her prize-winning northern moose that measured in at 186.

Bernie Kosiansic took home the black bear trophy for his 18 11/16th bear, while Adam Colussi’s 21 4/16th grizzly won the top award in that category. Jesse Mengler scored top typical elk honours with a 332 1/8th tally, as well as getting the top-scoring cougar at 14 9/16th. Charlie Farn also grabbed two top categories

with his typical whitetail, 138 7/8th and wolf, 15 3/16th.

Other winners included: Marty Thomas typical mule deer, 167 1/4; Dennis Venturini, non-typical mule deer, 182 1/2; Brian Jack, Kootenay moose, 141; Timothy Adrian, stones sheep, 156 1/8th; Dwayne D’Andrea, turkey, 40 1/4; Mike Bond, out of province white-tail, 152 3/8; and Jeff Bond for his 21 pound, three ounce rainbow trout.

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After finishing third overall in regular season league play, the Greater Trail Atom A Smokies went into Spokane and fought their way through the round robin and semis to play for a league championship. They ended up defeating the number-one ranked Spokane Jr. Chiefs 5-3 in a thrilling back and forth final.

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Brad Gushue looks across Rexall Place, the Newfoundland and Labrador skip sees familiar faces playing for opposing teams at the Canadian men’s curling championship.

Three former team-mates are wearing the colours of other provinces at the Tim Hortons Brier.

“My goal is to come here and play every team with an ex-team-mate,” Gushue says dryly.

Manitoba lead Mark Nichols was Gushue’s third at eight previ-ous Canadian cham-pionships and at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, where together they won Canada’s first gold medal in men’s curl-ing.

Gushue and defending champion Glenn Howard remain undefeated at the Brier.

Gushue moved to 6-0 with a 6-3 win over B.C.’s Andrew Bilesky, (0-4), while Howard’s Ontario team improve to 5-0 after beat-ing Jamie Koe of the Territories 7-4.

Alberta’s Kevin Martin suffered his fourth loss, falling 6-5 to New Brunswick’s James Grattan.

Manitoba’s Jeff Stoughton, Northern Ontario’s Brad Jacobs and Quebec Jean-Michel Menard were all tied for third at 4-1.

T h r e e - t i m e Canadian champion Stoughton earned a 9-2 win over Eddie MacKenzie of Prince Edward Island, and the Territories and New Brunswick were tied

at 3-3.Gushue meets

Nichols, his long-time teammate, today when Newfoundland takes on Manitoba in Draw 11 at 6:30 p.m. Pacific Time.

Northern Ontario third Ryan Fry played both second and vice for Gushue four times at the Brier, most recently last year in Saskatoon. Saskatchewan second Chris Schille was Gushue’s teammate at the 2007 and 2008 Canadian champion-ships.

It’s becoming com-mon for players to move across the coun-try to join a team they believe will advance their curling careers.

Fry, from Winnipeg, is representing his third different prov-ince at the Canadian championship. He was also Manitoba’s third in 2007. Schille, from Barrhead, Alta., is a former Alberta provin-cial junior champion.

Gushue is philo-sophical about the coming and going of teammates. He expects

a relocation to the extreme eastern end of the country isn’t necessarily permanent.

“I have the rap of going through a lot of teammates, but I’m trying to bring guys down from across the country,” Gushue says. “They’re uprooting and moving away from family and friends. They enjoy it down there, but they’re away from their families. It’s not something that’s going to be long term. It might be, but in realistic terms, it’s probably only some-thing they’re willing to do for a few years.”

Nichols, however, is different. After tak-ing a winter off from curling in 2011-12, the Labrador City native moved to Winnipeg to join Stoughton’s team, even though Gushue had spoken to Nichols about a possible return to his team.

“I just wanted something different, a completely different game, a different pos-ition,” Nichols says. “I just wasn’t interested in going back.”

CANADIAN MEN’S CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP

Gushue faces former teammates

VANCOUVER – With the 2013 season in full swing, Canadian riders have once again stolen the spotlight on the world stage.

Going in to the last month of com-petitions, Snowboard Canada looks forward to seeing its athletes on top of the podiums.

Ongoing this week,

the IPC para-snow-board Sochi test event will feature the newly added discipline at the next Paralympic games, with some of Canada’s finest ath-letes, Tyler Mosher from Whistler and Ian Lockey from Rossland leading the way. Mosher, who came in second place at the

inaugural IPC World Cup in Laandgraaf, NED and Lockey, who finished in second place at the last IPC NorAm competition, are definitely ones to watch coming in to the Sochi test event, pre-sented one year away from the 2014 Sochi Winter Paralympic Games.

The Canadian alp-ine and snowboard-cross team will be in Arosa, Switzerland next weekend for a stop of the FIS World Cup.

Québec’s ath-letes in parallel giant slalom, Caroline Calvé from Lachine, Ariane Lavigne from Montréal, and Jasey-

Jay Anderson from Lac-Supérieur, will be on the radar with strong results this year. Calvé made her way on to the podium twice this year and Lavigne showed she was a contender, pla-cing third at the Sochi test event last month.

Olympic cham-pion Anderson is in full gear, and ready to climb the step of a world cup podium one year prior to the next Olympiads.

Our snowboard-cross team has never looked so strong, with Dominique Maltais from Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, QC and Maëlle Ricker from Squamish, setting the standard in snow-boardcross racing, and Chris Robanske from North Vancouver, winning the Blue Mountain FIS World Cup in early February.

The Canadian Snowboard Freestyle championships returns to Canada Olympic Park in Calgary this month, showcasing a week of freestyle action.

SNOWBOARD CANADA

Rossland IPC boarder one to watch

Leisure

Dear Annie: My boyfriend’s parents are truly wonderful people, but they have taught their son to rely solely on them. He is in his 50s, and they still pay his bills and give him loans, often for “toys” rather than something necessary. I am self-sufficient. I borrow money from no one, pay my bills and am on a limited budget.

I knew my boy-friend was rather self-centered before we moved in together. We discuss nothing about our household, but he talks to his parents about our finances. When they tell him to do something, he complies, even if I am against it.

This is causing problems in our rela-tionship. I am afraid my only option is to leave. I love him, but I feel I could never measure up to his par-ents, and they will keep him a little boy forever. Our relationship needs to move to the next level, but it is impos-

sible with them hang-ing on for dear life. -- Frustrated

Dear Frustrated: A man in his 50s who still expects his par-ents to pay his bills and buy him toys is not a responsible adult, and we cannot promise he ever will be. Unless you can convince him or his parents that their indulgence is not in his best interests, you will be fighting an uphill battle. Sorry.

Dear Annie: I am a recovering meth addict. I’ve been clean for more than five years. However, dur-ing my druggie days, I was pregnant five times. I miscarried all of the babies due to my addiction. I am very

ashamed of my past. Every day, I live with the guilt of what I did to my innocent unborn children.

In the past five years, God has blessed me with two wonder-ful sons, whom I love more than anything. But how do I deal with the guilt? I have tried talking to friends and family, but I’m judged a lot. It’s eating away at me. -- W.

Dear W.: Please speak to someone who can be impartial about your past and help you deal with your guilt in a way that allows you to forgive yourself. Your doctor can refer you to a counselor, or you could contact any graduate school coun-seling department, medical school psych-ology department, United Way, the YMCA, the Samaritan Institute (samaritaninstitute.org) and the Abraham Low Self-Help Systems at lowselfhelpsystems.org.

Dear Annie: “K” complained about

a neighbor child she fears is “a ticking time bomb.” My son fits nearly every category of her profile. He has difficulty in public and prefers to be by him-self. He shows a great interest in guns and has few friends, and we had to move him to a different school because “he didn’t fit in.” This does not make him a potential risk.

My son struggles every day with epi-lepsy, along with the side effects of several medications. Children his age can be brutal to those who are dif-ferent. He withdraws to protect himself. We moved him to a dif-ferent school because his old one would not provide the resour-ces he needs. Now he can maintain a decent grade point with teach-ers he respects and likes. His interest in guns is no differ-ent from that of other 15-year-old boys in our area, and more import-antly, our son has no access to guns. He has

a healthy respect for their power.

I admit that impulse control is not his strong point, but we work with him to learn what is appropriate. If you get to know him, you will find a nice kid with a good sense of humor, a passion for

history and genuine empathy. He doesn’t like to see others being mistreated, because he knows how it feels.

Thank you, Annie, for saying, “We also hope you can be his friend.” That’s what my son wants more than anything in the world:

someone to accept him for who he is. -- A Father Who Knows

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

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For Thursday, March 7, 2013 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) You feel a bit out-of-control today. Information about your private life is out in public for everyone to see, especially bosses, parents and authority figures. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) This is a poor day to make travel plans or important deci-sions regarding publishing, the media, medicine and the law. Just fill your data bank. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Although you’re focused on shared property, inheritances, taxes, debt, mortgages and insurance matters, don’t sign important papers today. Wait until tomorrow afternoon. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Today is unpredictable. You might feel like others expect too much of you. If you please yourself, at least you’ll please more than half of everyone else.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Expect delays, silly mistakes and inefficiency at work today. Lost paperwork and misunder-standings about budgets and equipment support are likely. Just grin and bear it. VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) This is a creative day for you, because you find it easy to think outside-of-the-box. It’s also a classic day to just goof off. Enjoy playful activi-ties with children. Take it easy. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) This is a good day to cocoon at home. You feel the urge to relax and hide with a good book, junk food and your favorite game or TV program. SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Today is full of false starts. You might even leave the house several times before you remember everything. Do not trust communication with others, because misunder-standings are rife.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) This is a poor day to make major expenditures. In fact, it’s a poor day to shop for any-thing other than food. Pull in your reins. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) This is a goofy day, plain and simple. The Moon is in your sign today; however, it is free-floating, like a helium balloon that is sailing loose in the sky. Just go with the flow.

Avoid important decisions and expenditures. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) You want to hide some-where today. It’s not that you don’t feel social; it’s more that you feel the need to take a breather. (Just take time for yourself.) PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) This is a great day to schmooze with others in a casual, easygoing way. In par-

ticular, you’ll enjoy the com-pany of females. But avoid promises and commitments. YOU BORN TODAY You are conceptual. You have a highly creative mind and seek ways to give it concrete forma-tion. Others are aware that you live in your imagination, even when your ideas turn out to be very practical. Because of this impulse, you’re very private. In your year ahead, you will study or learn something valuable. Your rewards soon will follow.

Birthdate of: Peter Sarsgaard, actor; Wanda Sykes, comedian/actress; Maurice Ravel, composer. (c) 2013 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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WILLIAM (BILL) KALESNIKOFF

June 12, 1948 to March 6, 1983Gone but not forgotten

Liz

JOB SUMMARY

The Board of Directors of Nelson Community Services Centre is seeking an Executive Director for our non-profit agency. The Executive Director is responsible for overall program management and staff accountability as well as community development and growth of the agency.

We are looking for a qualified professional who will be a leader for our team of 23 full and part time employees and 9 Board Members. This is a challenging and rewarding position with responsibility for a wide range of counselling, support and community programs.

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

• Masters level education in social work or related field• A minimum of 3 years non-profit management experience.• Demonstrated experience and competence with financial

administration, human resource management in a unionized setting, contract management, program and fund development.

This is a full time position with salary commensurate with education and experience beginning July 2013.

To review a detailed job description, go to www.ncsc.kics.bc.ca. Further inquiries may be directed to Lena Horswill, retiring Executive Director, at 250-352-3504 Ext: 223

Submit resume and cover letter to:Attention: Julia Bennett Chair of Recruitment and Hiring Committee #201 – 518 Lake Street Nelson, BC V1L 4C6

Or e-mail to: [email protected]

Closing Date: Friday, March 29th, 2013

CAREER OPPORTUNITYEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Call Today! 250-364-1413 ext 206

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Summer Student –Engineering Technologist

Columbia Power Corporation currently has a job oppor-tunity at the Waneta Expansion Project (WAX) Site Office near Trail for an Engineering or Technologist Summer Student. This position will provide support to the Owner’s Representative’s WAX Site team from May - August 2013. Applicants for this position must be enrolled in a post- secondary program in an Engineering or Technical disci-pline, and plan to return to school in September 2013. In this position, the successful candidate will gain exposure to and experience in a variety of areas including project management, construction terminology and documenta-tion, contract administration, and research.

Job duties will include construction-related research projects, assisting team members in the development of projects, supporting the document submittal review process and implementing systems for tracking various project documents. This position will also provide support at the Project Viewing Area and will interact with the public in a positive and professional manner. You will be a self-starter, flexible, able to work indepen-dently or in a team, and have experience using Mi-crosoft Office Suite, working with the public and have a valid driver’s license. The successful candidate will acquire valuable practical knowledge under senior engineering / project management supervision with various technologi-cal aspects of Hydro Power Plant construction.

Please submit cover letter & resume to:[email protected] by March 8th, 2013

Please refer to Job #1304 when submitting your application.

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Happy 16th Birthday, Jessica Happy 80th Birthday Mom, the rst born in Trail in 1931 Love from Al, Kim, Chelsea, Craig, Alyssa, Bob, Sandra, Tyler & RyanThe New Year’s Baby in the early sixties is now turning the Big 50! Happy Birthday Bob! Love from all the family.Happy 50th Carol Secco Join us for a surprise party No gifts please!Please Join us in Celebrating Rosemarie (Mosie) Mandoli’s 80th Birthday! Family & friends are invited. Best wishes only.Lordy Lordy, the Newe nally turns forty! A very special 75th Birthday to Jo Bailey Love from family and friendsHappy Birthday Irene Smyth Mom, Grandma, GG. Wishing you much joy and happiness on your 80th birthday Love from our hearts Your FamilyIt’s Hallowe’en and her 50th Birthday! Come & wish Janet LaRocque at Bank of Montreal a Spooktacular 50th Birthday, Fredi, October 29, 2010 Happy 60th Birthday Henry Ralph Love All Your FamilyHappy 40th Birthday Jamie! August 15, 1970 Love, your family

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A single unspayedcat can produce470,000 offspringin just sevenyears. Sadly,most of them end

up abandoned at BC SPCA shelters orcondemned to a grim life on thestreets. Be responsible - don’t litter.

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William (Bill) KalesniKoff

June 12, 1948 to March 6, 1983Gone but not forgotten

Liz


1st Trail Real Estate

Jack McConnachie250-368-5222

Fred Behrens250-368-1268

Rob Burrus250-231-4420

Patty Leclerc-Zanet 250-231-4490

Rhonda van Tent250-231-7575

Nathan Kotyk250.231.9484

Marie Claude Germain250-512-1153

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

www.coldwellbankertrail.com

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

MLS# K204952

Solid Home

Trail $99,000Fred Behrens 250-368-1268

MLS# K218384

New Listing

Genelle $339,000Patty Leclerc-Zanet 250-231-4490

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Acreage

Montrose $324,000Patty Leclerc-Zanet 250-231-4490

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Valley

Views

Trail $144,900Rhonda van Tent 250-231-7575

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Trail $179,000Rob Burrus 250-231-4420

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Potential

Galore

Rossland $345,000Patty Leclerc-Zanet 250-231-4490

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New

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Trail $259,900Patty Leclerc-Zanet 250-231-4490

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Spectacular

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Trail 229,900Rhonda van Tent 250-231-7575

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Opportunity

Trail $249,900Rhonda van Tent 250-231-7575

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4 Plex

Fruitvale $199,000Rob Burrus 250-231-4420

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Rossland $199,000Marie Claude 250-512-1153

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Fruitvale $254,900Rhonda van Tent 250-231-7575

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Great

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Rossland $297,000Rob Burrus 250-231-4420

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OPEN HOUSE

Host: Nathan MLS# K218271Saturday, Mar. 9, 1 - 3pm

956 ThackerayWarfield $199,900

TAKE NOTICE a Public Hearing will be held on Monday, March 11, 2013 commencing at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers in City Hall, 1394 Pine Avenue, Trail, BC with respect to Zoning Bylaw Amendment Bylaw No. 2751, 2013. The purpose of the Public Hearing is to give all persons who deem their interest in property affected by the proposed bylaw an opportunity to be heard on matters contained therein.The intent of Bylaw No. 2751 is to rezone the property located at 1614 Knight Street, legally described as Lot A, Plan 12330, Township 7A, K.D. (shown in crosshatch below) from Single Family Residential Zone R1 to Three and Four Family Residential Zone R4 to allow the four-plex residential dwelling, as constructed, as a permitted use on the property.

A copy of the proposed bylaw may be inspected at Trail City Hall between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday.Michelle McIsaac Corporate Administrator

City of Trail

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGPROPOSED ZONING BYLAW

AMENDMENT BYLAW NO. 2751, 2013

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Real Estate

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TRAIL, 1-BDRM, furnished; downtown; references required; $475. 250-512-2503

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UPPER WARFIELD, 2bd. apt. $700./mo. +util. avail. now. 250-231-3538

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Homes for RentE.TRAIL, 2bd. near Safeway, fenced yard. $800./mo +utilities. 250-362-3316

E.TRAIL, 4bdrm., garage, fi re-place, 4-appls. $900./mo. 250-521-0294 after 5pm.

FRUITVALE, A-frame chalet at Park Siding. $475./mo. plus utilities. Avail. immed. S/F. Ap-proved pets. 250-367-7042

TRAIL, 3BD., newly renovat-ed. N/S, N/P. Avail. immed. 250-367-7558

W.TRAIL, 2bd, 1bth, w/d inc., river view, partially fenced yard, long term tenant, ref.req. Children OK, N/P. $675.+util. Avail. Mar.1st. 250-367-0028

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3901 Carnation Drive, Trail $279,000

4 bdrm, 2.5 bath family home in Glenmerry. Private fenced back yard. Close to school. Double car garage/

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Brand new 3bdrm, 2 bath home with spacious living area and modern kitchen.

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1002 – 8th Street, Castlegar $245,000

Great family home in central location! 4 bdrms/3 baths, master bedroom with

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private patio area, several fruit trees and a garden. A double garage & room to

park an RV. See it today!Call Terry 250-231-1101

1569 – 3rd Avenue, Trail $189,000

3 bdrm, 1 bath home on fully fenced lot. Exposed hardwood fl ooring underneath the main fl oor carpet. Some windows have been replaced, the roof has been replaced recently, the hot water tank is newer and the electrical panel has been upgraded. Radiant heat keeps the home toasty warm and is perfect for anyone

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214 Binns Street, Trail $139,900

Perfect starter home featuring 2 bdrms on the main, gleaming hardwood fl oors,

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9128 Station Road, Trail $399,000

10 acres of gorgeous land located in an area of vineyards and winery. This

property is perfect for livestock, horses, gardens, or hobby farm. Home features inlaid oak fl ooring, huge windows, open

fl oor plan and 3 bedrooms. Several outbuildings including barn, heated

(24x40) shop and greenhouse. Call now! Call Richard (250) 368-7897

2302 Happy Valley Road, Rossland

$999,000Reduced from $1,325,000. Located on over 6 acres of prime land, this spacious

and meticulously designed and built home offers gorgeous landscaping, open,

sunny fl oor plan and views from every window. The list goes on. Call today.

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2485 LeRoi Avenue, Rossland$174,000

This sunny 2 bedroom home sits on a great 60 x 100 corner lot with great

views. Over 1200 sq.ft. on the main fl oor. Lots of windows, great garden potential

and covered parking. Call Mary A (250) 521-0525

1550 Victoria Avenue, Rossland $364,900

Now priced over $34,000 BELOW as-sessed value!! This beautifully renovated bright and sunny 4 bdrm/ 3 bath contem-porary family home features new stucco,

new mudroom entry with heated tile fl oors, large bedrooms, open plan living

areas and amazing views.Call Mary A (250) 521-0525

1025 Regan Crescent, Trail $259,000

You’ll love the modern design and beautiful renovations of this Sunningdale family home! 3 bdrms, 2 full baths, huge family room, loads of light through large recently replaced windows, newer roof,

spacious fl at fenced yard and much more!! Don’t wait! Call your REALTOR®

today before it’s gone!Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

531 Turner Street, Warfi eld $189,000

Built in 2009, this compact charmer is perfect for single, couple or empty

nesters that want modern open concept, low maintenance living. Home features vaulted ceilings, heated garage, private

yard and comes with New Home Warranty. Call now before its gone.

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1151 Marianna Crescent, Trail $242,000

3 bdrm home in Sunningdale! Features large living room, country kitchen, huge family/room, and workshop. Single car garage and enough room for a couple more vehicles on the paved driveway.

Make certain to have this home on your viewing list.

Call Art (250) 368-8818

2061 McLeod Avenue, Rossland $336,000

Over $125k in renovations! Gorgeous master bdrm with amazing south views, brand new kitchen with granite counter

tops, wood stove, and new windows. All this on a 0.2 acre lot close to the

biking and hiking trails. Call Christine (250) 512-7653

#305-1510 Nickleplate Road, Rossland

$104,000Quick possession available! Bright south facing 1 bdrm condo with new fl ooring,

amazing southern views and great sun exposure. The building has shared laundry, fi tness room, games room and

sauna. Call your REALTOR® today!Call Christine (250) 512-7653

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

Rossland may soon be allowing dogs downtown.

Last week, council asked city administration to put together an amendment to the Animal Control Bylaw that will allow dogs to be brought downtown.

The move follows a committee of the whole in February, which council members recommended attended dogs be allowed to

be walked downtown. The committee also

recommended that bylaw enforcement be increased once the bylaw is amended, as well as a fee structure for fines which will be applied cumulatively per dog, per offence, without resetting on a yearly basis.

A motion for city staff to talk with the Rossland Chamber of Commerce to determine which businesses owners would allow dogs to

be tied up behind their busi-ness, was defeated.

The committee recom-mended that the bylaw also be amended to prohibit dogs from being tied up down-town.

The committee deferred any decisions on a possible smoking regulation bylaw, which could prohibit smok-ing in public places, until after Interior Health makes a presentation in front of council on April 8.

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City considers allowing dogs downtown Submitted photo

Rossland Health Care Auxiliary members Joanne Cremer, secre-tary Lindsey Premier, vice president Linda Cant, and president Sharon Hansen (right to left) present a $15,304 donation to Lisa Pasin (far left), director of development KBRH Health Foundation. This fiscal year, the Rossland Health Care Auxiliary has donated almost $80,000 to the KBRH Foundation.

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