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While the city has all its ducks in a row to tender a new bridge – other capital projects such as a new library and spruced up downtown have been temporarily put on hold.

The Riverfront Centre and third phase of downtown revitalization remain on the back burner pending construction of the pipe/pedestrian bridge this fall and its subsequent usage.

“We are in a holding pattern right now,” explained Coun. Robert Cacchioni, chair of the centre's building committee.

“Everything has been finalized, in terms of engineering, with the pipe bridge. There is so much to be done with that right now that we need to hold off on the Riverfront Centre.”

Trail council has two days of strategic planning this week to set timelines on the larger capital projects, said Cacchioni, adding that in his opinion, ground won't break for the new facility until 2016.

First, the city needs to study how the walking bridge will affect people accessing the downtown core.

“In reality, we are not going to be able to judge the traffic patterns until such time as you have that bridge in.” he explained. “We don’t know what's going to happen with people walking and biking two bridges again.”

Sidewalk extensions and additional parking near the bridge site may need to be developed, he noted.

“And we can't finalize a downtown plan until we see what impact the Riverfront Centre will have.”

He said a new building on Bay Street means 60,000 annual visits to the facility’s current Trail Memorial Centre locale will be redirected to the south end of town.

“Phase 3 of the downtown plan is delayed because it's such an expensive operation,” Cacchioni said. “Also, because those library visits will eventually be downtown, traffic flow will definitely be impacted.

“We don't know what that will look like.

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B Y L I Z B E V A NTimes Staff

Montrose council is doing its best to keep a rise in prop-erty taxes as low as possible by picking budget priorities for the 2015 spending plan.

Bryan Teasdale, village chief administrative officer (CAO), provided council members with a draft summary of spend-ing at the most recent council meeting on Monday night, giv-ing them a chance to make some decisions about what needs to stay in the budget and what can go.

“(The draft budget) was based on what we have already done, what the councillors want to do, things I know we need to do and some capital projects,” he said, adding that the draft made the assumption that Montrose property taxes would go up by three per cent.

“(After the budget summary was read) the only direction given to staff was to take a look and try and reduce that pro-posed three per cent increase as much as possible. I am try-ing to get that number down to around two and a half per

cent.”Within the draft budget,

there were some significant changes from last year, some numbers going way, way up, and others going down.

Capital projects spending got a big bump to the tune of nearly $200,000, or 250 per cent, but Teasdale says most of that money is going to be com-ing from water system reserve funds.

“We are looking at $175,000 just on reservoir roof struc-tural improvements,” he said. “(That $175,000) is funded

through general taxation, user fees and $120,000 of that from the current water system reserve funds. That is the big change from last year.”

The rest of the roof improve-ment budget will come from village user fees, which have already been collected for 2015, and general taxation.

Rounding out the capital spending draft are new valves, fire hydrant replacement, gen-eral water system upgrades and sanitary sewer system improvements.

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FROM PAGE 1Upgrades to Montrose

Community Hall, including new flooring and sound system, will cost the village about $30,000, but the money is coming from the Beaver Valley Recreation Fund.

The current draft isn’t set in stone, and Teasdale was careful to point out in his summary that there are still opportunities for the vil-lage to apply for grants to subsidize some of the projects, like a waste-water treatment plant communica-tions upgrade, which could cost the village around $30,000.

“We are looking at just some general capital spending for the wastewater treatment plant,” he said.

“If we don’t get a grant for the bigger picture that we are working on right now, then we can focus on the one-off stuff, and this gives us a little bit of money to take care of that.”

While most areas of Montrose’s

budget draft have seen a spending increase, the environmental health services section reflects a decrease in spending by 39 per cent, or $180,000.

Teasdale says that doesn’t mean that environmental health is being left behind.

“You have to look at the overall picture of the budget, not just the line items,” he said, adding that the shift is because of transferring pro-posed water storage projects to the capital projects fund.

“One section can go up $100,000, but then another section will go down $100,000 and it looks like a big deal, but it’s just money get-ting transferred around and how we account for things.”

After going through the draft budget, the next step for Teasdale and members of council is to pass a bylaw outlining any kind of prop-erty tax increase based on 2015 spending. He says that will be taken care of at the next council meeting.

Hall in line for upgrades

FROM PAGE 1“On top of that, we

have to look at what is going to happen in the library space in the Trail Memorial Centre, because that will also change things.”

Some of the con-cepts and options for the future projects will be considered during council’s cur-rent strategic ses-sions, he added.

New bridge con-struction is being funded through fed-eral gas tax dollars, meaning the cost won’t directly impact taxpayers.

However, there’s one shore-to-shore feature that will affect 2015 property taxes, and that’s the secondary water line.

Trail council approved to bump the capital budget by about $100,000 to $1.9 million during Tuesday’s governance meeting. The water line, which has been on the city’s books for a number of years, eats up $500,000 of this year’s capital plan.

That infrastruc-ture upgrade, plus other pricey projects that include $450,000 for a new roof at the Trail Aquatic and Leisure Centre and $250,000 for Bear Creek well repairs mean a hike in 2015 residential property taxes.

Last week, Trail

council agreed to increase the annual levy by 2.6 per cent, or $25 for the aver-age $182,000 home. That number only took into account the city’s operating budget.

After reviewing the capital budget Tuesday, council raised that amount to about 3.6 per cent, or $40 for the average homeowner.

“What this adjust-ment does,” says Trail Mayor Mike Martin. “Is set us on a path of improving the finan-cial situation of the city after some heavy demands over the last year.”

He explained that the airport pur-chase and downtown improvements pulled money from the city’s cash reserves, which doesn’t fit with sus-tainable long term planning.

“With taking this move, which we believe is affordable to the community, we believe we are taking a step in the direction of dealing with infrastructure requirements and also reducing the amount we pull from reserves,” Martin added.

“And as we move forward the situa-tion will continue to improve.”

Although the city hasn’t finalized the 2014 year-end, initial budget projections

indicate total con-solidated surplus and reserves would be $6.6 million at the end of 2014 as com-pared to $8.7 million at the end of 2013, confirmed David Perehudoff, Trail’s chief adminstrative officer.

While the majority of this year’s capital projects aren’t vis-ual, there is one that promises to be eye-catching.

The large yellow blocks at the 4-way stop on Bay Ave. and Farwell St. will be replaced with more pedestrian-friendly features.

Council agreed to a $35,000 makeover that includes benches and flower pots.

“We saw a picture of what this will look like, and it really is nice,” said Martin.

Council also ear-marked $190,000 to light up the Victoria Street Bridge, though the project cannot proceed until the organizing group of downtown Trail busi-ness associates raises the other half.

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Nelson city council backed off just a little this week in its attempt to fast track some changes in how regional recreation is funded.

At its meeting Monday it decided that rather than getting the recrea-tion commission to reimburse its annual payment of $184,000, that money will be held in abeyance until the city and the rest of the Regional District of Central Kootenay come to new arrangements regarding recreational funding.

Afterward, Area F regional direc-tor Tom Newell, who asked the city to reconsider its stance, conceded this represented a softening of the city’s approach, but said he is still “very disappointed.”

“I remain very concerned that the negotiations city council seems to think we are going to enter into are beginning with a hammer hanging over my head.”

Mayor Deb Kozak says the deci-sion was a step forward.

Council is taking a measured approach,” she said in an inter-view. “I think this is healthy. Let’s all come to the table and have the full conversation and understand each other’s positions and move forward. The usage patterns and the population have changed over time. We need to look at a real regional approach.”

This week’s decision by council must be approved by the regional district board.

The question is how much rural residents should pay to support recreational facilities in Nelson, and how a fair apportionment of those expenses should be decided.

In some rural areas, residents are taxed for those services (such as the pool, the ice rink, and the play-ing fields) through their property taxes, and in other areas they are not, even though their residents access and use those services.

The areas that contribute through taxation are Area F (the North Shore from Kokanee Park to Bonnington), the west part of Area E (Blewett), and Nelson.

Those who do not contribute include the Slocan Valley, Ymir, Tarrys/Pass Creek, the south shore of the lake, and the North Shore from Kokanee Park to Queens Bay.

In addition to the taxes Nelson residents pay toward recreation, the

city has been paying $184,000 per year to the recreation commission since 2006 following the expansion of its boundaries to include the Kootenay River dams so it could tax them.

Those funds were allocated to the community complex in exchange for rural areas E and F supporting the referendum to build the new arena and upgrade the fitness and aquatic centre at that time. The annual payment was written into a regional district bylaw.

There was also an agreement in 2001 that all rural areas would actively seek ways to more fairly share the costs of a number of other city services such as the library, the youth centre, the museum, playing fields, and the Civic Centre.

The recreation commission is an RDCK body that oversees regional recreation including the commun-ity complex. Its members in addi-tion to Newell are Area E represent-ative Ramona Faust (chair), Nelson mayor Deb Kozak, and Nelson councillors Valerie Warmington and Janice Morrison.

Last fall, in the face of large upcoming costs to renovate the aquatic centre, the recreation com-mission decided the recreation commission should reimburse the $184,000 to the city, and that the rural areas and Nelson would raise taxes to come up with that money instead.

The City of Nelson majority on the commission initiated this as a condition of the city’s contributing to the upcoming aquatic centre renovations. Another condition was that discussions get started on re-apportioning the cost of recreation more fairly among the rural areas that use the services.

Newell and Faust were not happy with the outcome and also objected to the process.

Earlier this month, Newell asked city council to reconsider its decision about the $184,000. In response, council directed its staff to come up with creative solu-tions. The proposed motion, which passed Monday, states that the City of Nelson will ask that the Nelson and District Community Complex service hold $184,000 in an NDCC reserve to be paid to the city in the event a full review on a new funding model for recreation isn’t realized by Sept. 30, 2016.

B y t r i s h a s h a n k sArrow Lakes News

Over the next few months, five of the eight salaried Interfor employees in Nakusp are being relocated to Castlegar. Larry Price, General Manager of Woodlands, spoke to the affected Nakusp employees in early March.

“Many of the employees received a promo-tion with a broader scope,” said the Interfor Regional General Manager for the Interior, Andrew Horahan.

The decision was made to blend Woodlands employees in Grand Forks, Castlegar, and Nakusp by centralizing them into a single Kootenay div-ision. Woodlands has committed to a $50 mil-lion expansion of the Castlegar manufacturing facilities.

“It was imperative that we move the positions

to capitalize so that we can have that con-stant focus in the region which will continue,” Horahan explained.

Three positions are staying in Nakusp. Horahan made sure to point out that Interfor will always have a presence in Nakusp and that harvesting in Woodlands is being centralized.

“Logging operations are not affected. The Nakusp area has always been very important and continues to be. (The move) does not negatively affect how we look at our harvesting, post har-vesting, and development in the area,” Horahan continued.

It’s not surprising that there are mixed emo-tions about the loss of five good jobs to this community. Horahan has committed to meet with mayor and council at their convenience to discuss the impact on the village.

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cial government is allowing Kitimat, B.C., residents to become pollution guinea pigs, said a lawyer for alum-inium smelter union work-ers who launched court action on Tuesday.

Court documents filed by Unifor Local 2301 claim the province permitted Rio Tinto Alcan Inc. to under-take its $3.3 billion smelter modernization in Kitimat without requiring the com-pany to take measures to reduce harmful sulphur dioxide emissions.

The petition seeks to set aside the govern-ment’s approval under the Environmental Management Act on the grounds of failure to consider expert advice on pollution-reduction meas-ures, including installing scrubbers to prevent adverse effects on human health.

“The Oct. 7, 2014 (approval) specified that Rio Tinto need not miti-gate risks to human health

arising from the increase in daily emissions of (sulphur dioxide) until 2019 and per-haps not even then,” stated the 19-page court petition.

Unifor’s lawyer Jason Gratl said sulphur dioxide causes respiratory and heart problems and daily emis-sions from the Kitimat smelter will increase from 27 tonnes to 42 tonnes.

The modernization pro-ject, set for completion later this spring, is estimated to increase the smelter’s cur-rent aluminum production capacity by more than 48 per cent to about 420,000 tonnes per year.

Gratl said the project includes several pollution-reduction measures, but despite reports about the harmful effects sulphur dioxide can have on people, Rio Tinto was permitted to complete the project with-out sulphur-dioxide scrub-bers.

“The approach taken in the Lower Mainland and the Kitimat air shed could

not be more diametric-ally opposed,” he said. “In Vancouver, a precaution-ary approach is taken that shows respect for human health. In Kitimat, the resi-dents appear to be used as guinea pigs to determine what the upper and lower end of sulphur dioxide emis-sions might be.”

The petition names the Ministry of Attorney General, Minister of Environment and Rio Tinto Alcan Inc. Neither Rio Tinto nor the B.C. government could not be immediately reached for comment.

Last July, the Environment Ministry released an independent, government-funded report that concluded with proper management Kitimat’s air, water, land and residents can handle prospective oil, gas and aluminum industry expansions in the area.

Environment Minister Mary Polak said then that as long as companies use world-leading emission

standards, sulphur and nitrogen oxide levels will be significantly reduced and industrial expansion can be managed.

She said the report found low environmental impacts associated with nitrogen dioxide levels, but some increased levels of sulphur dioxide soil contamination and the potential danger of acidification in seven of the area’s more than 300 lakes.

SkeenaWild Conservation Trust, an environmental organization concerned about wild salmon, released a report in the fall of 2013 that estimated three pro-posed Kitimat liquefied nat-ural gas plants will burn 2.5 times more natural gas than is consumed in Metro Vancouver annually.

Scientists and environ-mentalists have expressed concerns about the ability of emissions to disperse in the Kitimat area due to its location in a tunnel-like val-ley, near Douglas Channel, and off the north coast.

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The next BC Ferries fare increase of 3.9 per cent will go ahead as scheduled April 1, but increases will be capped at no more than 1.9 per cent for four years after that.

BC Ferry Commissioner Gord Macatee said Wednesday the recent sailing reductions and other cost cutting, lower fuel prices and positive ridership forecasts have allowed him to set the cap at about the rate of inflation for all routes from 2016 to 2020.

A lower dollar is expected to attract U.S. residents to B.C. while keeping more Canadian vacationers at home, with lower gasoline prices for travellers as well as ferry fuel costs, Macatee said. Conversion of ships to use liquefied natural gas will also reduce fuel costs.

Macatee cautioned that oil prices are vola-tile, and the forecasts are based on $65-a-bar-rel oil compared to about $50 today.

“Trying to predict fuel prices for the next five days is daunting,” Macatee said. “Our challenge is to predict it for the next five years.”

BC Ferries has cut administrative costs by $5 million since 2009, reduced executive pay by $1.2 million a year, reduced over-time and improved safety enough to lower WorkSafeBC premiums for employees.

BC Ferries CEO Mike Corrigan said he is pleased with the findings of a performance review by PriceWaterhouseCoopers that gave the corporation good marks for efficiency and the operation of BC Ferries Vacations. Food service revenue is approaching $50 million a year and a drop trailer service for truckers is also contributing to BC Ferries’ bottom line.

An overhaul of the ferry reservations system is also expected to improve ridership when it is implemented.

NDP ferries critic Claire Trevena said the optimistic forecasts are based on a two per cent increase in ridership, but to the average traveller, they mean further increases to an already high fare. She also cautioned that the 1.9 per cent cap is an average for the BC Ferries fleet, and some routes could see larger increases.

For the longer term, Macatee said he has asked BC Ferries to evaluate savings to be had by consolidating the three ferry ter-minals at Nanaimo and three on Saltspring Island.

Ferry fare hikes to be capped at 1.9 per cent

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A 50 per cent increase in bridge rehabilitation and 1,000 km of highway repaving each year are included in a 10-year transportation plan

released Tuesday by B.C. Transportation Minister Todd Stone.

The plan also includes $24 million over three years to pay a provincial share of community airport improvements and an

$18 million fund for bike lanes and cycling trails.

A province-wide trucking strategy is also included in the plan, which restates several projects pre-viously announced

by the government. They include work on a replacement for the Massey tunnel under the Fraser River in South Delta, planning for a second bridge across Okanagan Lake at Kelowna, and con-version of BC Ferries vessels to use liquefied natural gas fuel.

Overall the plan includes $800 million over three years to upgrade existing infra-structure and nearly $1 billion toward expansion of major highways.

With an eye to an aging as well as grow-ing population, dis-abled access projects are to include access-ible washrooms and curbs at highway rest areas and wheelchair accessible taxis in communities around B.C.

NDP transportation critic Claire Trevena called the 10-year plan “insulting to the people of B.C.,” with only three years of funding promised and most of the improvements already announced.

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Stephen Harper says he intends to ask Parliament next week to extend and expand Canada’s participation in the war against Islamic extremists in Iraq.

And Harper isn’t ruling out that the expan-sion could include engagement in Syria.

Last fall, Parliament approved Canada’s participation in air strikes against Islamic State forces in Iraq for six months and time is running out.

“Next week it is the government’s plan to move forward with a request for Parliament for extension and expansion of the mission,” Harper said Wednesday after a trade-related announcement in Mississauga, Ont.

Sources have previously told The Canadian Press that an extension would likely involve a commitment of more than six months, in part so it doesn’t expire during the fall elec-tion campaign.

The motion approved by Parliament last fall limited Canada’s involvement to the campaign in Iraq, with the government say-ing at the time that in order to participate in air strikes in Syria, there would have to be an explicit invitation on the part of the Syrian government.

“The current authorization laid open the possibility of going to Syria although we have not done that,” Harper said.

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Toronto jury says it has unanimously reached a verdict for one of two men accused in an alleged terror plot to derail a passenger train travel-ling from New York to Toronto.

However, the 12-member jury says it is at an impasse on some of the counts against the co-accused in the case and has asked for guidance from the judge.

Raed Jaser and Chiheb Esseghaier were arrested in 2013 following an investi-gation into the alleged plot that involved an

undercover FBI agent.Both men are

charged with two counts of conspiracy and two counts of par-ticipating in or con-tributing to a terrorist group.

Esseghaier is also facing a fifth terror-related charge.

The jury was care-ful not to reveal which of the two men it had reached a unanimous verdict for, and also did not reveal how many charges it was unable to come to a

decision on.Justice Michael

Code, who has been presiding over the case, asked the jury to “please try once again to reach a verdict.”

“This is a time for each of you to reflect further on the evi-dence to see whether, by carefully consid-ering the various pos-itions and listening to each other, you can come to an agreement and render a unani-mous verdict,” he said.

The trial heard

hours of secretly recorded conversa-tions between Jaser, Esseghaier and the undercover FBI agent in which they discussed plans to allegedly create a hole in a railway bridge out-side Toronto to derail a passenger train and cause the deaths of scores of people.

Jaser eventually dropped out of the alleged plot while Esseghaier continued to pursue it.

Crown prosecu-

tors have argued the two men made up an alleged terrorist group operating in Canada, and suggested the jury find both men guilty based on the “over-whelming” evidence against them.

Esseghaier did not defend himself at his trial but did give the jury a written closing statement in which he offered his “sincere advice” to the panel, urging them to apply the Qur’an to every aspect of their life.

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analysis of three oil-producing heavy hit-ters suggests Alberta isn’t socking away enough money from oil royalties.

The Calgary Chamber of Commerce says there would be an extra $150 billion in the Heritage Savings Trust Fund if Alberta put aside resource taxes the way Norway does.

The study also looked at the royal-ties approach taken by Alaska.

Norway puts 100 per cent of its royalties into savings and Alaska saves 25 per cent.

Unlike Alberta, Norway does not use its oil revenue to fund operating and capital spending.

Justin Smith, the chamber’s director of policy, says it’s some-thing that needs to be considered as the gov-ernment works on a 10-year financial plan to get off the boom-bust roller coaster.

The Heritage Savings Trust Fund was created in the 1970s by premier Peter Lougheed’s govern-

ment with a goal to set aside 30 per cent of oil royalties.

Alberta’s most recent fiscal update indicated the fund is expected to reach $19 billion by the end of the fiscal year.

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Province not saving enough of royalties: study

Jury reaches verdict on alleged terror plot

T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SOTTAWA - Canadians will

likely never know precise-ly why Justin Trudeau has decided to permanently expel two MPs from the Liberal fold over allegations of sexual misconduct.

The findings of an independent investigation into the accusations, upon which the Liberal leader based his decision, will not be made public.

Nor will Trudeau go into detail Thursday, when he’s expected to publicly confirm the expulsion of Montreal MP Massimo Pacetti and Newfoundland MP Scott Andrews.

Insiders say Trudeau’s hands are tied by promises of strict confidentiality that

were made to everyone who agreed to participate in the investigation, conducted by Toronto lawyer Cynthia Petersen at Trudeau’s behest.

But the continued shroud over the matter will doubt-less fuel lingering questions about the fairness of a pro-cess that has traumatized two female New Democrat complainants and destroyed the reputations and careers of two Liberal men.

Pacetti announced Wednesday that he’s decided to jump before he’s effectively pushed out of politics.

While he continued to maintain his innocence, he said the furor over the allega-tions has taken a toll on both his family and his ability to represent his Montreal con-

stituents.Consequently, he said he

won’t seek re-election.Pacetti’s announce-

ment came on the same day Trudeau informed him and Andrews that they will be permanently booted from the Liberal caucus and won’t be allowed to run as Liberals in the coming campaign.

“Being a member of Parliament is an extraordin-ary experience and a privil-ege, but there comes a time in every person’s life when they need to take stock of what is best for the people they care about,” Pacetti said.

Trudeau had intended to speak privately to Andrews and Pacetti on Wednesday, before making a public state-ment Thursday, insiders said.

But the news leaked.Andrews said he was

“astounded” to learn his fate through the media. He said he co-operated fully with the investigation and had waiting since Friday for a promised copy of Petersen’s executive summary before the matter became public.

Andrews said he was “disappointed to learn that unscrupulous, unnamed sources have chosen to com-municate through the media rather than respect the pro-cess and those affected by it.”

Trudeau suspended the pair last November from the caucus after a female New Democrat complained dir-ectly to him that Pacetti had allegedly had sex with her without her explicit consent.

Reasons for expulsion of Liberal MPs remain secret


OPINION

How long should a life sentence be?The Conservative

government under Stephen Harper is indicating it

intends to enter the next federal election running on a “tough on crime/pub-lic safety” program, first with their controversial anti-terrorism bill and now with amendments to the Criminal Code to change the mandatory senten-cing guidelines for serious crimes.

The crimes they want to punish more severely cer-tainly seem to be deserving of very long prison senten-ces: kidnapping or forcible confinement, terrorism, the killing of police or cor-rections officers, or first degree murders found to be of a particularly “brutal” nature.

Currently, “life” imprisonment in Canada, the strongest penalty that can be imposed by law, is 25 years without parole. If the Conservatives get their way, those convicted of “repulsive” and “heinous” crimes can be locked up for significantly longer than that. The new bill would also allow, in circumstances where perpetrators killed than one person, for the sentences to be imposed

consecutively, taking every life cut short into account. This would make our sys-tem closer to the American one, where terrorists, ser-ial killers, and other major criminals receive sentences of 200 years or more.

Critics of the bill, like the NDP justice critic Francois Boivin, say that the new laws are unneces-sary. Under the current Dangerous Offender status, criminals judged to be continuing threats to pub-lic safety can be held for indefinite terms of deten-tion. This was the designa-tion under which Clifford Olson was held until he died of cancer in 2011 and under which Paul Bernardo will never be a free man. Other critics say that the new legislation will increase the burden on an already overcrowded prison system, reducing the safety of inmates and corrections officers unless more pris-ons are built, an additional expense to a government trying to slash its budget.

Let’s disregard the obvious vote-baiting nature of the legislation (it’s always easy to whip up ani-mus against criminals). Is it just? The question is an important one that has to

do with the purpose of pun-ishment: do we lock people up to rehabilitate them or is the purpose of punish-ment retribution?

If we want to return people to society, under the broad assumption there is something wrong with them and that some amount of counselling, therapy, and moral per-suasion can fix them, then extremely long life senten-ces do not seem in order. If the purpose is retribu-tion, balancing a moral debt the criminal accrues through their crime, then it’s hard to argue against lengthy life sentences for major crimes, especially if the death penalty is not an option.

Rehabilitation is an attractive option – it feels

more merciful and sensi-tive than locking people up and throwing away the key. Its proponents argue that crime is primarily a social disease, a maladjustment due to bad upbringing, poverty, or some internal chemical imbalance. This, they believe, can be cor-rected and the offender returned to society as a fully functioning and con-tributing citizen.

The problem with rehabilitative theories is that they do not respect the autonomy of the criminal. They treat him as a symp-tom rather than as a per-son, an effect rather than a cause of his own actions. Once you start to treat people as inanimate beings, animated by “society” or “poverty” or some other sociological phantom, it’s not very far to start looking at their effects on society in purely economic terms, the way one judges a part of a machine.

If it costs X dollars to reform a criminal (note our assumption, and that of the reformer’s, that rehabilita-tion is possible) and the criminal can be expected to contribute only X, say 10,000 dollars, why both-er rehabilitating them? It

would seem to be easier just to eliminate them, removing their cost to soci-ety, rather than expensively reforming them.

Retribution, on the other hand, respects the criminal as a person. You have done wrong, we say through our laws and insti-tutions, and have to pay it back. The price is being removed from society and all the benefits it brings. Perhaps it requires being removed for the rest of your life, but it still treats them as the origin and source of their actions.

My support for retribu-tive punishment, however, doesn’t mean that I sup-port the Conservative’s proposed changes to sen-tencing. Such extra pun-ishment will only strain a system that is already overburdened. It would be better by far to lessen the burden by loosening sentences for nonviolent crimes like drug possession than increasing the pun-ishment of certain classes of crime.

Michael Flood is a marketing writer and communications con-sultant. He holds an MA in Philosophy from the University of Alberta.

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Sheri Regnier, Jeanine Margoreeth, Kevin Macintyre, Dave Dykstra, Jim Bailey, Michelle Bedford, Lonnie Hart and Guy Bertrand) are celebrating its 120th

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The source of prosperity of the

Trail Creek county is, of course, its

magnificent ore bodies, according

the first edition of the Trail Creek

News. “Our interests at present

lie centred in and about the noble

structure that is rising foot by foot

on the brow of the hill overhanging

the beautiful town of Trail and of

its growth and magnitude we now

write,” noted the paper's writer and

editor W.F. Thompson on the inau-

gural front page.

The day was Saturday, Oct. 19,

1895 when Volume No. 1 of The

Trail Creek News was hot off the

presses. Under the headline, “This Means

You! When You Patronize the News

You Help Trail Grow,” Thompson

writes that it is now in order for

every citizen of Trail to subscribe

for the home newspaper, The Trail

Creek News, and “the times are

right for such a movement, the

price is right and if the News of

today is not all right, we will make

it right in future issues.”

The price was said to be “cheap”

at $2 per year, and the News office

would be found open all day long

and far into the night, and future

readers were expected to hand in

their subscription at once, so they

would not miss one issue of the

Trail newspaper. “If you want the

news, you must read the News,”

Thompson proclaimed almost 12

decades ago.While there's no silver or gold

commemoration for more than a

century of news reporting, the Trail

Times staff decided an honorary pat

on the back is deserving to all the

people who have typed, pressed,

written, delivered, or simply read

their way into the 120-year history

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will actively seek stories from peo-

ple in the Greater Trail commu-

nity such as long time subscribers,

past paper carriers and retired office

workers, who have memories to

share about how the Trail Times has

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We waste a lot of food; tons of it, in fact. Indeed, some stud-ies suggest that the

overall cost of food waste in our country exceeds $100 billion annually. In response, Loblaw has decided to take action.

The company now sells bags of “Naturally Imperfect” apples and potatoes in select gro-cery stores across Ontario and Quebec, which may cost up to 30 per cent less than more aes-thetically pleas-ing fruits and vegetables. These bags will be sold at No Frills, Great Canadian Super Store and Maxi, stores where food price sensitivity is a more prominent concern.

Many have applauded the move, and rightly so. Some chains around the world have successfully launched similar campaigns, promoting inglorious fruits and veggies. Loblaw’s position-ing with these products is a refreshing change that argu-ably comes at a time when the market genuinely needs it.

The company clearly felt that to be prime movers was key, as food waste has become a topical issue of late. As food prices have risen significantly with inflation over the last sev-eral years, there has been a concurrent rise in interest of how food supply chains actually work. Questions surrounding the shrinking packaging, farm-ing production practices and pricing strategies were increas-ingly broached, with one topic of particular concern: food waste.

Food retailers are respon-sible for 10 per cent of the food waste our systems generate. The worst culprits, however,

are the consumers themselves, who are responsible for more than 47 per cent of overall waste. Likely overwhelmed by a sense of powerlessness, this dis-turbing statistic left consumers wondering what they could do to positively contribute to the decline in food waste.

Consequently, Loblaw’s strategy is not just about giv-ing “imperfect” fruits and vegetables greater attention; it

also empowers consumers to repurpose food and to create an implicit con-nection between them and the realities of, and the relationship between, farm-ing and big box stores. Even at 30 per cent off, the food indus-try as a whole

is still profiting more from these products that would have otherwise ended up as food processing ingredients, fertil-izer, animal feed, or simply just wasted matter. Economically, everyone wins.

More importantly, as less than 2 per cent of Canadians live on farms, the rural-urban divide significantly affects how the other 98 per cent perceives the role of food in their every-day lives. Food shows on tele-vision, celebrity chefs, and the desire to purchase the best-looking produce for our buck has gradually created more focus on mere aesthetics. Even though we are hardwired to pick the bold and the beautiful, nature is anything but perfect.

In other parts of the world, selling malformed and imper-fect food is not at all unusual. In Europe or in Asia, where farming and food consumption are often more highly inter-twined, and rules are more relaxed, consumers are more

accustomed to buying “normal-looking” fruits and vegetables in stores and at markets.

Based on the success of past campaigns around the world, there will be a demand for Loblaw’s “Naturally Imperfect” products. Supply, however, will remain a challenge. Farming is a price-taking business that relies heavily on contractual commitments from buyers. As a result, farmers will always go with the best price. So Loblaw’s incremental rollout is not surprising. Over time, with increased competition, these promotions may become more than occasional.

Loblaw’s forward-looking strategy empowers consumers to respond substantially to a problem most of us are just not able to see. Food waste is a supply chain-wide challenge, and providing lower graded fruits and vegetables with a new channel option is welcome news.

Among the larger players in the food distribution land-scape, Loblaw is now Canada’s pioneer in honoring the horti-cultural misfits. It certainly possesses the buying power to dictate what it wants to sell. It wouldn’t be a surprise if other chains follow suit, should they have equal access to some of nature’s alleged “defects”.

The unpleasantness of food waste will be more visible than ever in grocery stores, and that’s a good thing. As we try to find ways to feed ourselves sustainably, giving consum-ers a chance to buy a previ-ously underappreciated potato or apple is a step in the right direction.

Making savings, while buy-ing nutritious products, makes nature even better for all of us.

Dr. Sylvain Charlebois is Professor of Food Distribution and Policy at the University of Guelph’s College of Business and Economics.

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Tell an ethnic group they’re not allowed to wear their kilts and many in this region could relate to it. In fact, we relive the memory year after year in kir-kin’ o’ the tartan ceremonies.

Depending on your back-ground, however, it might be a little harder to comprehend the storm being created by Canadian politicians around women of some Muslim back-grounds and face-covering veils.

But trust our Canadian lead-ers to take a sensitive cultural issue and make it all about political mud-slinging.

The Conservatives are up in arms about a court ruling that struck down a law banning Muslim women from wearing a

face-covering niqab while tak-ing the oath of citizenship.

From his side, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau has criticized the government on this and other issues, such as proposed legislation aimed at rooting out terrorists, saying its members are deliberately stoking fear and prejudice against Muslim Canadians.

It boils down to an unfortu-nate case of bickering – over visible cultural features.

Canadians had already heard elements of this argument from Quebec, where the government wanted to ban overt religious symbols. While the province’s aim appears to be removal of religious statements in the pub-lic sector, it has been inter-preted as an unwelcoming sign by some in the Muslim com-

munity.Harper’s response to criti-

cism is to call the practice of a woman covering her face a lack of openness, rooted in a culture that is anti-women.

True, it will strike many of us as a feature of a male-dom-inated, paternalistic society. On the other hand, telling the women they can’t wear a niqab won’t solve that. It might in fact result in less freedom of movement for those women if the males in their community insist they can’t be seen in pub-lic without the covering.

There’s no easy answer to this, but Trudeau does get man-age to get in the ironic jab about a government claiming to liberate people from oppres-sion by telling them what they aren’t allowed to wear.

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T H E A S S O C I A T E D P R E S SMCLEAN, Va. - A judge says a

96-year-old woman whose late-life marriage to a 95-year-old beau was widely publicized should be returned to her longtime northern Virginia home after the musician Cher promised to pay to fix it up.

In a court deposition, Cher said she was inspired last year when she a saw news story about Edith Hill and her newlywed husband, Eddie Harrison.

Hill and Harrison were separ-ated after their marriage became embroiled in a court dispute over whether Hill had the mental cap-acity to marry her companion. Court records indicate that Hill suf-fers from mild dementia.

Harrison died in December, just weeks after Hill was taken away to Florida on the recommendation of a court-appointed guardian, but a custody dispute continued over who should care for Hill and where she should live.

Cher said she will help pay for needed upgrades to Hill’s family home in Alexandria. And earlier this month, a judge ordered that Hill should return to Alexandria once repairs are complete.

“Mom’s coming home!” said Hill’s daughter, Rebecca Wright, of Annandale, in a phone interview Tuesday. Wright had been the big-gest supporter of Hill and Harrison’s marriage.

In December, a court-appointed guardian for Hill, Jessica Niesen, had Hill moved to Florida to live with another daughter. Harrison stayed in Virginia. Later that month, Harrison died.

“He actually gave his life to this effort,” Wright said of Harrison and his battle to have his union with Hill recognized and to live with his wife. Wright said he was heartbroken when Hill was moved to Florida and gloomy about his prospects of ever seeing her again. The two had been companions for more than a decade before they married.

The custody case over Hill remains ongoing, despite the judge’s order that Hill be returned to Alexandria.

Wright says Alexandria is the best place for her mother, and the place that her mother says she wants to spend the rest of her days - her church is here, along with her home and other places she loves.

“She says she wants to see her guitar boys,” Wright said, a refer-ence to a Falls Church honkytonk where she would go dancing with Harrison.

It was footage of Hill and Harrison dancing on a TV news report that caught Cher’s eye, according to Wright. The pair’s unconventional marriage made national news last year following an Associated Press article on the couple - not only were they 95 and 96 when they got mar-ried, but the interracial aspect of their marriage was noteworthy. Hill is black and Harrison was white.

Cher said she would pay to fix up the Alexandria home to make sure it’s properly equipped for a 96-year-old. She also offered to help pay medical expenses. Financial issues played a large factor in determin-ing where Hill would live, since one option to pay for her care would have been to sell the home.

T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SVancouver celebrated St.

Patrick’s day this year with a special tribute to former Canucks coach and Canadian hockey icon Pat Quinn.

Throngs of green and blue-clad fans cheered outside Rogers Arena in downtown Vancouver for the unveiling of Pat Quinn Way on Tuesday.

Quinn died in Vancouver last November. He was 71.

The former NHL defenceman and longtime executive coached the Vancouver Canucks to the 1994 Stanley Cup final.

He also led Team Canada to

gold at the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, the country’s first men’s hockey gold medal in 50 years.

“We think about the num-bers of games Pat won and that’s part of it, but the reason we’re here today is because Pat Quinn cared about people,” said former Canucks player Trevor Linden, who became the team’s president of hockey operations last year.

“He loved his players. He loved his community.”

There was also an on-ice ceremony prior to game between the Canucks and

Flyers inside Rogers Arena that included Quinn’s family and a number of hockey greats.

Among the tributes on St. Patrick’s Day to the man known as “The Big Irishman” was a pipe band, as well as a rendition of the song “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling” sung by Canucks anthem singer Mark Donnelly.

The notables from the hockey world in attendance to honour Quinn were Linden, Bobby Clarke, Markus Naslund, Pavel Bure, Kirk McLean, Stan Smyl, Orland Kurtenbach, Rick Ley, Cliff Fletcher and Bob Nicholson.

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Helen James (centre) from the Columbia Phoenix Players presenting a cheque ($1,699) to Gail Lavery, ED, Trail FAIR Centre Society. Also in the photo are some of the members of the Vagina Monologues cast as well as a WINS Transition House staff. The much appreciated (and needed) funds will go to the WINS Transition House, a Trail FAIR program, which provides a safe shelter for women (and their children) who are leaving abusive relationships. The donation came from ticket sales for the Vagina Monologues performances in Trail and Rossland in mid-February

Columbia Phoenix Players donate to Wins and Fair Cher commits to helping woman, 96, return

home, inspired by her late-blooming romance

Pat Quinn

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SKINDERSLEY, Sask. - A woman from

Kindersley, Sask., is the province’s latest lotto millionaire.

Patricia Desjarlais says she was driving home from a trip to Calgary when she decided to stop at a gas station and check her Western Lotto Max ticket.

She says it turned out to be a “wonderful” four-hour drive.

Desjarlais says she has been playing the same

seven numbers since she picked them out of a frequency chart in a Luck Magazine 30 years ago.

She doesn’t have any immediate plans for the money and say she plans to keep up her two part-time jobs as a school bus driver and a courier.

She also says she’ll keep playing her lucky numbers.

“I’ll probably never have to buy a lottery ticket again, and I will still play,” she says. “I can’t stop. It’s something I do, and I will always do it.”

Lotto player finally wins big after 30 years

T H E A S S O C I A T E D P R E S SNEW YORK - Pharrell

Williams, fond of high hats and fabulous shoes, will be honoured as a fashion icon by the Council of Fashion Designers of America.

The singer, songwriter and record producer was singled out for the Fashion Icon Award, to be bestowed June 1 at Lincoln Center, as somebody whose indi-vidual style has made a signifi-cant impact on popular culture on an international scale.

“If cool was a person, it would be Pharrell, not just for his looks and sense of style but for his kindness and openness.

I cannot imagine anyone not seduced by him,” said Diane von Furstenberg, president of the CFDA, in a statement released Wednesday.

Last year’s recipient was Rihanna, who wore a see-through dress to collect her award. Johnny Depp, Lady Gaga, Iman, Kate Moss and Nicole Kidman are among past winners.

In addition to music, Pharrell co-founded the clothing brands Billionaire Boys Club and Ice Cream Footwear. He has a New York City boutique and has co-designed jewelry and eyeglasses for Louis Vuitton.

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While one player does not a team make, goaltender Tyson Brouwer proved to be the decid-ing factor as the Kimberley Dynamiters netminder stopped 46 of 47 shots in a 5-1 victory over the Beaver Valley Nitehawks on Tuesday to win the KIJHL Kootenay Conference champion-ship.

“It feels great, just great,” said Kimberley coach Jerry Bancks. “Anytime you beat a Terry Jones coached team you have a good team.”

The win for Kimberley marks its first Kootenay Conference title in 35 years, while for the Nitehawks, it was their first series loss in two years, after marching through the KIJHL playoffs on their way to their coronation as Western Canadian Keystone Cup champions in 2014.

“When you reflect (on the year), it sure doesn’t feel good right now, and I think we left a lot on the table, and for the players on our team, you have to feel for those players that really played with their hearts,” said Beaver Valley coach and GM Terry Jones. “We just didn’t play 60 complete minutes and that’s what it takes to win playoff games.”

The Nitehawks Game 5 ser-ies loss was a particularly tough

one to swallow for a B.V. team that had outplayed and outshot the Dynamiters throughout most of their Kootenay Conference matches, but a combination of great goaltending and shot-blocking from Dynamite forwards and defence stifled the Hawks’ offence.

“There was 40 shots, but there was probably 30 blocked shots, and I give the other team credit for committing to blocking those shots, and putting their body out there,” said Jones. “For us, we had two shots that weren’t blocked that went into the net. That’s the difference between winning and

losing.”Tyler Kinnon scored the win-

ning goal with 3:54 to go in the first period, with a shot from the blue line that sailed through a mass of bodies before finding the back of the net. It was Kinnon’s first goal of the playoffs, and the series-winning tally couldn’t have

come at a better time for the 19-year-old defenceman.

The Nitehawks outshot the Dynamiters 20-7 in the first but trailed 2-0 after Coy Prevost opened the scoring on the power play barely two minutes in, when the puck took a bad bounce off the back boards right to Prevost who batted it in at the side of the net.

Jacob Boyczuk would get the Hawks within one on his wrister from the top of the slot midway through the second period, but B.V. wouldn’t beat Bouwer again despite outshooting Kimberley 40-17 through two periods.

“B.V. Is one heck of a team,” said Brouwer. “It definitely wasn’t easy, but I felt we did a great job of getting on them early in their rink, winning the first two games was key.”

And emerging from the first two periods with the lead seemed to spark the Dynamiters as Braden Saretsky netted another power-play goal in identical fash-ion, on a long point shot that eluded screened Hawks goalie Carson Shamerhorn less than 90 seconds into the third.

Trevor Van Steinburg would make it 4-1, on a breakaway deke with 5:28 remaining, as Kimberley’s confidence grew as time wound down.

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Kimberley Dynamiters goalie Tyson Brouwer blocks this deflection by Nitehawks Braydon Horcoff, as the Dynamite goalie stymied the Hawks attack in a 5-1 victory Tuesday to claim the Kootenay Conference title in five games.

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

The Greater Trail Midget Tier 2 Smoke Eaters advanced to the provincial final with a 3-0 victory over the Smithers Storm on Tuesday afternoon at the Cominco Arena.

“I thought we brought our work ethic,” said Trail coach Brian Youngson. “Any time we work hard as a group we’ve had success. I didn’t envision a 3-0 success but I thought that was just a byproduct of everyone just wanting it that bad and doing what it took to make it happen.”

Trail captain Mitch Titus scored the winner and Cole Gallo earned the shutout as the Midget Smoke Eaters finished off an incredible run through the round robin with the semifinal win over the Storm.

AP Tyler Ghiradosi fed Titus at the top of the crease and the Trail native banged it by the Smithers goalie with a fraction of a second left on the clock in the first per-iod to give Trail a 1-0 lead, as the Smoke Eaters played a tight defensive match, neutralizing the Storm’s attack.

“We got some big saves (from Gallo),” said Youngson. “He didn’t have to be amazing all game, but when he had to make some big saves, he made some big saves, and I thought defensively as a group we played really well.”

Gallo came up big on a breakaway mid-way through the second period, then on the penalty kill he calmly made a glorious glove save on a point-blank blast from the low slot. The Smoke Eaters had their share of opportunities as well, as Titus rang one off the post on a second-period power play, but it wasn’t until the 14:12 mark of the third period, when he carried the puck down the right wing and sent a perfect pass to Devin Ghiradosi in front who redirected it by Smithers tender Owen Sikkes to make it 2-0.

Smithers would suffer a blow to their comeback attempt when Liam Dodd took a four minute penalty for a hit-to-the head with 3:37 remaining, and Nathan McKay would ice it scoring into an empty net with Chris Colquhoun assisting.

Trail’s road to the playoff round took an

unbelievable turn on Tuesday. The Kelowna Midget Rockets, the odds

on favourite coming into the tournament, were unbeaten going into the last day of the round robin but a 5-3 loss to North Delta early Tuesday, and a stunning 3-2 upset by Williams Lake over the Rockets in the afternoon matchup set the stage for a must-win Trail game against North Delta Tuesday night.

“Anytime you have success in tourna-ments like this, sometimes especially if you’re a bit of an underdog, you need to have the stars align, and I think Williams Lake playing spoiler for us definitely helped.”

In the final game of the round robin, the 2-1-1 Trail needed to win outright against North Delta, as a tie would put the Smokies out of a playoff position. So with the game tied 3-3 in the final minute of the third period, the Smoke Eater coach pulled his goalie, and Trail’s Ryan Neil would net the winner with 12 seconds left on the clock, to give the now 3-1-1 Smoke Eaters the best record in Pool B and a

berth into Wednesday’s semifinal. “That’s a special one,” added Youngson.

“I think no matter what happens with the outcome this evening, I think that’s a game the guys will remember for a really long time.”

North Delta, Kelowna, and Williams Lake would finish with identical 2-0-2 records but Delta would advance due to its head-to-head victories over both teams, and play number-one seed New Westminster in the other semifinal Tuesday morning.

In an epic match up, New West was trailing Delta 4-2 in the third period, but would score early then tie it with less than a minute remaining. The game would take two overtimes before Jordan Smith of New Westminster scored at 3:12 to win it and send them to the final.

The Midget Tier 2 final game between Trail and New Westminster was played Tuesday night at 8 p.m. but the result was unavailable at press time.

See Friday’s Trail Times for more on the provincial Midget championship, and Page 10 for Bantam results.

Nitehawks fall to Mountain division Dynamiters

Midget Smoke Eaters win berth in provincial final

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ing championship, from March 14-22 (all times Eastern):

ROUND ROBINCountry (Skip) W LSwitzerland (Paetz) 8 1Canada (Jones) 7 2China (S.Liu) 6 3Russia (Sidorova) 6 3Scotland (Muirhead) 6 3Japan (Ogasawara) 5 4Sweden (Prytz) 5 4Germany (Driendl) 4 5U.S. (Sormunen) 3 6Denmark (L.Neilsen) 2 7Finland (Puustinen) 2 7Norway (Skaslien) 0 9

Wednesday’s resultsDraw 13

Switzerland 6 Norway 5 (extra end)China 9 Japan 6

Russia 8 Germany 2U.S. 7 Sweden 6

Draw 14Switzerland 7 Canada 6Scotland 7 Germany 5

U.S. 8 Finland 4China 10 Denmark 3

Draw 15 N/AU.S. vs. Denmark

Germany vs. CanadaFinland vs. China

Switzerland vs. ScotlandTuesday’s results

Draw 10Canada 10 U.S. 2

Switzerland 8 Finland 7China 7 Scotland 5

Denmark 9 Germany 7Draw 11

Canada 8 Denmark 7Russia 7 Japan 3

Sweden 8 Norway 5Scotland 8 Finland 3

Draw 12Canada 9 Norway 3

Sweden 12 Finland 4Scotland 9 Russia 5Japan 7 Denmark 4Thursday’s games

Draw 16, 1 a.m.Japan vs. Canada; Denmark vs. Norway; Scotland vs. Sweden;

Russia vs. Finland.Draw 17, 6 a.m.

China vs. Russia; Sweden vs. Switzerland; Norway vs. U.S.; Japan

vs. Germany.End of round robin

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Saturday’s gamesSemifinal, 4 a.m.

Bronze Medal Game, 8 p.m.Sunday’s game

Gold Medal Game, 2 a.m.

HockeyBCHL

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Penticton leads series 2-1Chilliwack 4 Prince George 3Chilliwack sweeps series 4-0

Powell River 2 Nanaimo 1Series tied 2-2

Wednesday Game N/APenticton at Vernon

Today’s Games Powell River at Nanaimo 7 p.m.

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Bancks. “Their forechecks slowed down about the mid-way point, and we could cope with it better . . . if we can get to the third period we’re looking pretty good.”

The Hawks would pull their goalie, but the Dynamiters defence held, and Kimberley’s Keenan Haase fired the dagger into the empty net with 25 seconds to play in regulation.

“I felt like our last period was the worst period of the series, and when you look at the game tonight it started off with a lack of discipline and the lack of discipline killed us in the end,” said Jones. “Three power play goals against really put us behind the eight-ball, and makes us change the strategy and structure of the game, and it’s just not the way we wanted to play.”

B.V. outshot the Dynamiters 47-28 on the night, but could not solve Brouwer who stopped 182 of 195 Nitehawk shots in the five matches, compared to 123 SOG for the Dynamiters. The Lethbridge native picked up 12 wins in 14 playoff games, stopping 401 of 423 shots for a 1.52 goals against average and a stunning .948 save percent-age.

“I just take it minute by minute,” said Brouwer. “Jerry has a great motto – don’t get too high, don’t get too low – and you just worry about the next shift, so I try to keep that in my mind. I don’t really look into the future, I just worry about the next shot, and that helps.”

The next shot for Brouwer will come from the Kamloops Storm who dispatched the regular sea-son champion Osoyoos Coyotes in five games with a 2-1 win Tuesday. The series starts in Kimberley on Friday.

Brouwer shines in series triumph

B y T i m e s s T a f fThe Trail Midget Tier 2 Smoke Eaters aren’t the

only team that played in the B.C. Championshp final on Wednesday as the Bantam Tier 2 Smoke Eaters went head-to-head in the final against Vancouver in Cranbrook Wednesday night.

The Bantam Smokies beat West Kelowna 4-1 Wednesday morning in the semifinal to advance. The team dropped their final round-robin game

to Prince George 5-3. However, the Tier 2 Smokies already had their playoff berth wrapped up with a pair of wins that included a 7-5 victory over Vancouver.

In Tuesday’s match against West K., Trail jumped out to a 3-0 first period lead on goals from Bodie Gallo, Ethan Jang, and Tom McConnachie. The teams would exchange tallies in the second period with Brad Ross scoring for Trail, before a scoreless third period decided it for the Smoke Eaters.

Vancouver beat the North Shore Winter Club 4-1 in the other semifinal to advance to the final against Trail.

In Castlegar, the Bantam Female Wildcats defeated South Island 2-0 on Tuesday to give themselves new life, but the 4-1 Surrey Female Eagles, and 4-1 Richmond Ravens secured the top two spots and played in Wednesday’s final.

Hammond sets record paceT H e C a N a D i a N P R e s s

BOCA RATON, Fla. - Andrew Hammond is doing some-thing no goaltender has done in the NHL since the 1930s. Still, Ottawa Senators general manager Bryan Murray has seen a couple of goalies on streaks similar to the brilliant run the “Hamburglar” is on: John Vanbiesbrouck and Jean-Sebastien Giguere.

Vanbiesbrouck carried the Florida Panthers to the Stanley Cup final in 1996, and Giguere got the Anaheim Mighty Ducks one victory from the Cup in 2003.

“They got on a roll and nobody could beat them,” said Murray, who was the GM of those teams.

Hammond, a former Vernon Viper, is on one heck of a roll right now. He has an 11-0-1 record with a 1.35 goals-against average and .956 save percentage as the Senators have improbably joined the playoff race. He’s the first goalie to allow two or fewer goals in first 12 starts since Frank Brimsek in 1938-39.

Vanbiesbrouck had a 2.25 GAA and .932 save percentage in his run, and Giguere had a 1.97 GAA and .922 save percentage in his, which ended with the Conn Smythe trophy as playoff MVP.

The play of Erik Karlsson, among others, has improved, but the 27-year-old Hammond is the big reason the Senators can even think playoffs. They host the Boston Bruins, who they’re chasing, Thursday night at Canadian Tire Centre.

If Hammond keeps this up, people might fondly recall this stretch like Murray does Vanbiesbrouck and Giguere.

“I remember Vanbiesbrouck, we would go into Pittsburgh for Game 7 in the Eastern Conference finals and they had Ronny Francis and Mario Lemieux and (Jaromir) Jagr - all the big stars - and he wouldn’t let anything in,” Murray said Wednesday at the NHL general managers meeting. “In Anaheim when J-S played, we went into Detroit, they got 50-some shots the first night, 40-some the second night and we win both games and we win four straight. It was only because of goaltend-ing.”

Playoffs are a different animal than even late in the regular season. Still, Hammond is giv-ing Ottawa a chance every time he’s in net.

“If you have a great goaltend-er, you can have a pretty good hockey team if the guys just play regularly,” Murray said.

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Dear Annie: My dad was a proud veteran of WWII. When he died 20 years ago, he willed his medals to my brother “Jim” and the Bible he carried during the war to my brother “Ray.” Eventually, Ray gave the Bible to Jim. My mother also gave other army memorabilia to Jim, thinking it should all be together.

Jim recently informed me that when he dies, he’s passing on all of Dad’s things to “Margret,” his second wife. Margret met my father only once. Jim has no children, but the rest of us do. Several of my nieces and neph-ews have a keen inter-est in their ancestry and would love to own these war mementos.

I suggested to Jim that he consider pass-ing on Dad’s things to the next generation, but was forcefully told they were going to Margret. I realize that these items belong to Jim now, and he can do what he wishes with them, but

I’m extremely upset that such precious memora-bilia will end up being lost to us forever. I can’t speak to Jim further about this. Margret was also shocked by Jim’s reaction, but he has for-bidden her to talk to us about it.

None of us lives near-by, and we cannot see Jim in person. I haven’t shared this information with other family mem-bers yet and would hate to involve my mother, because it would upset her. I guess all I can do is hope that Margret will do the right thing and give these items to Dad’s grandchildren when Jim dies. Do you have any other suggestions? -- The Oldest Sibling

Dear Sibling: Has Jim had a falling out with the family? Does he expect his nieces and nephews to contact him more often? Does he feel obligated or pressured to leave all of his belong-ings, including Dad’s things, to Margret?

We would first sug-gest that the nieces and nephews get to know their uncle a bit better. Jim may feel estranged from or neglected by his family. A warmer, closer relationship would ben-efit everyone. You also should stay friendly with Margret, because she may well be the final arbiter of your father’s things. We agree that it would be a shame for them to end up with strangers.

Dear Annie: I am married to an amazing man who is caring and supportive. The prob-lem? His breath.

Our sex life isn’t as good as it could be because I can barely kiss him. He complains that I’m not interested enough, but obviously,

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Dear Annie: Can I add one final word

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I don’t understand her thinking. Just because you are mar-ried doesn’t mean you are attached at the hip.

She should just go by herself. I was married to a wonderful man who didn’t want to travel, so I went without him. He was very happy to stay home and was so glad to see me when I got back. -- Happy Wanderer

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Trail’s Future is Bright!Victoria Street Buy-a-Light Fundraising Campaign

• Showcase a Feature Landmark • Celebrate our City & Community Spirit • Enhance the Esplanade •• Create more Excitement & Energy around the Downtown Core • Reconnect Downtown with the Columbia River •

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Light-up our Bridge for only $200/light!The Downtown Opportunities & Action Committee (DOAC) is well on their to reaching their $190,000 fundraising goal. Show your support too! Buy-a-Light after March 2nd for $200* and you will receive formal sponsor recognition at the west entrance of the Victoria Street Bridge.

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If you are starting to think that the car that you currently own and maintain has cost you noth-ing in maintenance other than oil

and filters and gas then you are likely not doing all the maintenance that it needs.

Many of you are now driving vehicles that tell you when your car needs service. In many cases that may only be once a year. If that means only one trip to the quick lube once a year I would recommend not keeping that vehicle for too long. Listening to the car salesman on the radio might be just the thing to do. It is time to buy some-thing new. Again!

Cost effective ownership? I don’t think so. You do get to drive a new car more often though.

I make my living maintaining and repairing vehicles. So my opinion does have some bias.

It is very easy to miss some of the bigger maintenance items on that once a year pilgrimage to the jiffy lube at the mall.

Your vehicle is doing just fine and other than your monthly payment to “name of manufacturer”, Finance Canada maintenance costs have been next to nothing. Thank goodness because that payment is about all that your finances can handle.

Well, what maintenance items could you be missing? Open your owner manual and take a look.

Let’s say you drive a late model 2008 Ford half ton pickup truck with a small V8 engine and an automatic

transmission. It is now seven years old and has 150,000 kilometres.

The maintenance sched-ule has a lot of information in it. Some of the informa-tion applies to you and some does not.

Many mainten-ance items are different depending on how you use your vehicle. Do you use your vehicle to tow? Do you take it off road? Are all your trips short?

Essentially, are you going to apply the normal

service schedule or the severe service schedule?

Looking closely at the list there is no service that requires only fresh oil and a filter. A multipoint inspection must always take place. Fluid levels, tire pressures and condition, exhaust system, lights, battery, the list goes on. It is fairly substantial.

There is a monthly inspection cat-egory. It includes things like tire pres-sure and condition, your engine oil level and your windshield washer fluid level.

There is a way more comprehensive

six-month inspection that includes some lubrication items that are often forgotten.

Lubricate all hinges, external door locks, and latches. Lubricate door weather strips.

One very important item often for-gotten is cleaning all the drain holes that allow the water to run out. If you park under leafy trees you may have already experienced a wet interior from backed up cowl drains (under the windshield).

Every second time the oil and filter is changed you should also be getting a full brake inspection and that is more than just peeking into the wheels with a flashlight. The wheels must come off.

Six years have gone buy. You need fresh coolant. When 144,000 kilo-metres have gone by. Time for some spark plugs.

Did the automatic transmission get new fluid and a filter at 100,000 kilo-metres?

The list of maintenance items is daunting and they take time to do properly.

Sure, many of them will slip through the cracks and or be ignored without immediate consequences.

The consequences are costly though. I see the results frequently.

Trail’s Ron Nutini is a licensed automotive technician and graduate of mechanical engineering from UBC. E-mail: [email protected]

Maintenance list is worth following

ron nutini

Mechanically speaking


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685 Forrest Dr., Warfi eld$159,000

SOLID HOME! 2 bdrm 1 bath cozy Warfi eld home walking distance to Webster Elementary. Bright living room, upgraded windows, large rec room, ample storage and a workshop. Fenced, level lot, u/g

sprinklers and a covered carport!

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NEW PRICE

NEW PRICE

Trail2 bdrm renovated upper suite

..............................$800/mo

2 bdrm renovated upper suite

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Great rentals available now!

If you have a property you would like professionally managed, call to set up

an appointment.

Terry Alton 250-231-1101Tonnie Stewart (250) 365-9665

FOR RENT

102 Kootenay Avenue, Tadanac$289,000

This well maintained home sits on a large corner lot and offers lots of space!

Big windows, gas fi replace and large deck. 3 bdrms on main and 1 down.

Large rec. room and workshop on lower level. Covered parking for up to

5 vehicles and open parking for a RV. This is a great package for the price.

Call or text to view.Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

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#16 - 891 Monte Vista Drive, Rossland

$85,0002009 single wide manufactured home situated in quiet Paradise Mountain park. Stainless steel appliances, dark wood kitchen

cabinets, 2 full baths, bright and sunny living room, storage shed,

patio area and parking.

Call Christine (250) 512-7653

3569 Highway Drive, Trail $230,000

This home has had many upgrades including furnace, electrical, windows, stainless steel appliances and newer roof. Three bdrms on the main with a

partially fi nished basement. Very close to the school. Call your REALTOR®

today for a viewing!

Call Christine (250) 512-7653

NEW LISTING

572 Spokane Street, Trail$45,000

Good rental or starter home with 4 bdrms, country kitchen, rec. room, single carport, and view

deck. Plumbing in basement for a second bathroom. Located an easy fi ve minute walk to town.

Call Art (250) 368-8818

439 Rossland Ave, Trail$68,000

Small and compact this home offers the perfect place for a single or

couple at a very affordable price. Many upgrades include a newer

kitchen, upgraded bathroom, some wiring and plumbing, air conditioning and more! Call now before it’s gone!

Call Tonnie (250) 365-9665

414 2nd Ave., Rivervale$149,900

This bright cheery home features upgraded, kitchen, bathrooms, fl ooring, roof, wiring, plumbing,

most windows, tastefully decorated, beautiful decks and low maintenance landscaping,

and garage. Such a fabulous little package! Call now!!

Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

536 Portia Crescent, Trail$319,000

Don’t miss out on this, like new, beautifully renovated 3 bed

room family home in popular Sunningdale on a dead end street.

In like new condition

Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

2031 Daniel Street, Trail $134,900

Text should read: WOW!!!! - Comfortable 2 bdrm/2 bath home - this home requires some TLC but you will have a great home with newer furnace/updated plumbing and wiring and the most amazing water

views. Call today!Call Mark (250) 231-5591

817 Whitetail Dr., Rossland$1,100,000

Custom-built, high-end timber frame home at Redstone. Features high ceilings, timber frame accents, huge windows, and amazing views. The kitchen is gorgeous,

the decks are amazing and the bathrooms are deluxe! Call your REALTOR® for your

personal viewing.

Call Richard (250) 368-7897

770 Tennyson Ave., Warfi eld$229,000

Warfi eld Charmer! This 3 bedroom home offers lots of space and main fl oor laundry.

Central air-conditioning and electric fi replace add to comfort. Great parking

with paved driveway and double carport. Low maintenance exterior with vinyl siding,

steel roof, low maintenance yard. Quick possession possible.

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

3249 Lilac Crescent, Trail

$259,000Everything has been done! New kitchen, fl ooring and

fi nished basement. This home has 3 bdrms and 1.5 baths and

is in immaculate condition. All you need to do is move in

and enjoy. Call for your viewing today!

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

NEW LISTING

Liz Bevan Photo

The Butler Park tennis courts are back in action thanks to the warm temperatures. City staff recently put the nets up on the tennis and pickleball courts. Hendrik Mendes of Trail got in a casual game of tennis against his friend Cohen on the courts last week.

Me and My shadow

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