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This year's Silver City Days may launch with some iffy weather today – but the stormy ride ends there, according to the local fore-caster.

“It doesn't look overly wet, but the system coming in is likely to produce a fair bit of wind and cooler temperatures,” said Ron Lakeman from the Castlegar weather office. “And there's def-initely a chance of showers or thunder showers on Wednesday.”

Blue skies are expected to return Thursday, along with windy periods and temperatures return-ing to a more typical 18 C.

The high pressure shift is pre-dicted to linger over the weekend, bringing sun and a warming trend with temperatures rising to 22 C, which is considered unseasonably warm for this time of year.

Mother's Day is calling for clear skies and temperatures up to 25 C.

With spring sprung and the city in bloom, it wasn't the usual April showers that brought May flowers this year.

According to Lakeman, the pat-tern that prevailed last month was more typical of May with only 50 per cent of the usual April precipi-tation.

“May typically has a few stretch-es of nice sunny and warm pat-terns,” he explained. “And that's the sort of pattern we had during April.”

Total precipitation rounded up at 30 millimetres (mm), but didn't near the driest April on record from 20 years ago, when only 13 mm of rain fell.

The dry conditions accompa-nied mostly sunny days with the coolest day, -4 C set on April 2 and the warmest, 28 C on April 28. The latter temperature neared but didn't break the warmest day in April, 28.2 C, which was set 35 years ago on April 27.

Two more record daily maxi-mums of 23.6 C, 26.5 C were set on April 20, and April 21 respec-tively.

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Crews from West Coast Amusements were setting up shop along the Esplanade in downtown Trail for this year’s Silver City Days. The midway and carnival is scheduled to kick off today from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. and continue through Sunday. The Festival Food Mall will also be open for business today from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Despite stormy start, forecast calls for sunny Silver City Days

PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER

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Montrose has com-pleted the reconsidera-tion and final adoption of the 2015 budget and property tax bylaws.

At Monday night's regular meeting, coun-cil members had the final reading for both the bylaws, following months of drafts, pub-lic consultations and working to reduce the tax increase as much as possible.

The tax bylaw passed with a 2.5 per cent jump, translating to a slight increase for the average village home-owner.

Along with the prop-erty tax increase, user fees have increased $11.00 per year across the board for all Montrose residents.

The dollar amount that village ratepayers will see on their next tax bill depends on the assessed value of their homes.

For a house assessed at $100,000, there will be a miniscule annual increase of $7.62.

Property taxes for a home assessed at around $200,000 will see an extra $15.00 on their next bill.

Homes that have been assessed at $300,000 will come with an increase of $22.37.

The property tax increase will net the village an extra $11,167 to spend within the municipality.

The tax increase started at three per cent, but village staff rearranged some expenditures and

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hand. In direct seat, one should

have the correct shape and a really good 15-count. The statement, “I had an opening hand so I had to bid” is often given as an explanation for a bad result. A hand with open-ing points including scattered values in the pre-empt suit should pass and wait to see if partner has the correct hand to balance. If partner can-

not balance then defense is the best option. This is a much better method than bid-ding and finding out it is not one’s hand through a penalty double.

There are two principles to bid-ding in a pre-emptive auction. The first is that after partner pre-empts, he has described his hand as one-suited and any double by partner must be penalty.

The second is that nobody pre-empts a pre-empt includ-ing the partner or opponents of the pre-empter. Action taken by anybody is a show of strength except a raise of the pre-empt suit which could be just fur-

thering the pre-empt.The bidding: East is quite

happy to make a diamond pre-empt with a total of two cards in the majors. He has a six-loser hand and at equal vulnerability, he would be down two playing doubled at the three-level for -300 which is less than what opponents can get for their game.

South has a massive hand and jumps to Four Spades. This is not a pre-emptive bid. It is a stronger bid than Three Spades and shows a self-suffi-cient suit.

The Play: West leads the Diamond Eight and East wins the Queen and South follows with the 7. East assumes South played his lowest

Diamond so he thinks that West also has the Two.

East does not want to set up Diamonds in the dummy and believes that South was not false-carding with the Diamond Seven. East exits his singleton Heart. Expecting a ruff with only a singleton trump may be wishful think-ing, but it is a safe exit and if partner has the ace or if declarer takes a Heart finesse, he will ruff with a stiff trump.

A short hand ruff for the defense almost always spells disaster for the declarer.

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It can cost nearly $150 for a Grade 7 student to buy all the supplies they need to be successful in school, and some families can't afford the expense.

Enter Skool-Aid – a chari-table program that helps stu-dents buy their school sup-plies when their parents can't spare the extra money. The program is currently accept-ing donations to supply students for the 2015-2016 school year.

Louise McEwan, a volun-teer with the organization, says the costs for school sup-plies are steadily on the rise, and Skool-Aid does what it can to help.

“The average cost for a Grade 1 student, if they come into Hall's Basics and get everything at retail price, would be over $77,” she said.

“For Grade 7, it can be over $140. There are new items that add to the cost as well. Some classes are required to buy USB sticks, or earbud headphones – things they didn't need a few years ago.”

One of the main goals of the year-round fundraiser is to help underprivileged stu-dents start school on equal footing with their peers.

“The program does more than give students the sup-plies,” said McEwan. “The feedback that we have been getting is that it really helps the kids feel included. They start out the school year with what their peers have and that does a lot to boost their self esteem, confidence, and we hope, make them excited about learning. We believe that education can lift people out of poverty.”

Skool-Aid outfitted 167 students from Rossland

through to Fruitvale for the 2015-2014 school year, but McEwan says there are always a couple more that need it.

“We get pretty good coverage with referrals from schools, parents, and

the Family and Individual Resource Centre (FAIR) and more,” she said. “I am sure there are always going to be kids who needs this help, but fall through the cracks.

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Louise McEwan poses with the Skool-Aid window display at Hall's Basics recently. The charity helps students and families who can't afford school supplies. The goal is to give all stu-dents a good start to the school year. Donations are always welcomed.

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With any research project you are answering a question, says Brenda Hooper, a retired commu-nity health nurse who remains active in the home healthcare field.

During a three-year University of British Columbia (UBC) study that positioned Hooper in a new “nurse navigator” role for chronically ill seniors in Trail and Castlegar, the answer was clear.

“Yes, people with life limiting chronic illness do benefit from having a nurse navigator visit them on a regular basis for help,” she explained.

“So if that made a difference, the question is, “Can a volunteer be trained to be a navigator, with the back up of a nurse? So that's what we are working on now.”

The pilot program called Trail/Castlegar Augmented Response (TCARE) recently morphed into the new project that now includes participants and volun-teers living in Nelson.

Seven people from the three cities were trained to become healthcare navigators last week.

Volunteers with a medical background or experience work-ing with hospice, were selected for the three-day course that essentially has them taking over the role Hooper filled during the TCARE study.

Twice a month she would make home visits to answer questions about medical care,

resources in the community, as well as offering advice to families and caregivers.

That directive continues, but enables educated volunteers to help chronically ill seniors maintain better, healthier lives through their knowledge of avail-able health care resources and services.

Participants could be dealing with a range of long term ill-

nesses, including cancer, chronic lung diseases, heart failure, and other serious debilitating issues.

The role moves palliative care upstream and into the population with chronic illness, said Hooper.

“They are not palliative, they are struggling, when things start to get worse and they're having to go to the doctor a lot,” she explained. “Often it's in between first diagnosis and the end stag-

es when end-of-life care may be required.”

Hooper describes the stage of illness like,'Humpty Dumpty sit-ting on a wall.'

“Because they may go crash-ing down,” she said. “When I use those words with people they nod their heads.”

For those who feel they might be missing key pieces of informa-tion regarding their condition

and treatment, Hooper helps the person sift through complicated information they receive from physicians and other healthcare specialists.

“The new training program for specialized volunteers will help them assist in ways that were noted during the (nurse navigator's) time with that per-son,” she added.

Almost half the original 25 TCARE participants are part of the project's extension, and vol-unteer navigators are matched to each, much like hospice and bereavement programs.

The study is currently recruit-ing participants in Nelson. People interested in becoming volunteer navigators or who know an older adult who might benefit from navigator services can contact Hooper at [email protected].

Once the year-long pilot proj-ect is complete, researchers will have a curriculum and protocol for educating future rural vol-unteer healthcare navigators and a better understanding of the benefits of this role.

More than $210,000 in grants for this study has been received from the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, the Vancouver Foundation, and the Technology Evaluation in the Elderly. The project involves UBC Okanagan, Dalhousie University, the University of Alberta, Interior Health and several hospice orga-nizations.

Pilot program training volunteers to care for chronically ill

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UBC Okanagan Canada Research Chair Barb Pesut and Health Navigator Brenda Hooper look over a workbook created to help train volunteer health navigators to work with chronically ill seniors living in rural communities.

B y T i m e S S T a f fThe Bear Creek Well shut down has been extended

into summer.According to a press release from the City of

Trail, homes in Shavers Bench, Miral Heights and Glenmerry will continue to get their water from the city's water treatment plant.

The original plan was to have the Bear Creek Well fully up and running by April 30, but an unforeseen water main repair slowed down the project's progress, changing the end-date to sometime in mid-June.

As with the original notice of improvements at the well, city officials warn that there may be a chlorine odour coming from the tap water, and advise water-drinkers to leave some water in an open container overnight to get rid of the smell.

Residents in Waneta will begin to receive their water from the Bear Creek Well.

The project will result in “more efficient circula-tion of the city's water supply” and will up the Green Gables reservoir capacity from 65 per cent to 100 per cent.

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“We are just trying to do our best.”

The help also allows parents to spend the money elsewhere, on things like shoes and clothes for fast-growing students.

For the month of April, the program has been raising awareness for fundraising needs with a window display at Hall’s Basics, the local business that supports Skool-Aid.

“I can’t say enough about Hall’s Basics,” said

McEwan. “Their basement

turns into an assembly line of school supplies. They are so fantastic. We do the fundraising, but Hall’s does the packaging and the delivery to the schools. Because of them, our costs are 30 to 35 per cent below retail.”

One unique aspect of the Skool-Aid program is the lack of operating costs. All the fundrais-

ing is done by volunteers, and McEwan says every dollar raised goes to the supplies.

“The money goes directly to the students, which I think is wonder-ful,” she said.

“I would say every penny in donations goes to the kids.”

For more information, or to donate to Skool-Aid, contact McEwan at [email protected].

In Tuesday's Trail Times article, “Registration for Storm the Stairs now open,” to clarify, participants 14 to 17 years of age do not have to be accompanied by a parent or guardian as stated in the article – participants 14 to 17 must have a legal parent or guardian sign the confirmation and liability waiver to participate.

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Every dollar donated goes to students

FROM PAGE 1revenues, ending up with an increase of 2.5 per cent.

The $2,471,431 village spending plan was put together on short notice, but meets all the village’s needs, says Bryan Teasdale, chief administrative officer in Montrose.

“It was a tight dead-

line with staffing changes around here, but council had some really good dir-ection and I think we have a good budget moving for-ward,” he said. “We have a good plan for the next couple of years. We were tight on time, but council did a good job of going through everything.”

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SWAGENINGEN, Netherlands - It was 70 years

ago Tuesday that the guns fell nearly silent along the Canadian and British lines in Holland.

The war in northwestern Europe was almost over and Pte. Frank Graham, who’d fought with the Canadian 1st Division all through Sicily, Italy and Holland, found himself thunderstruck.

“When I heard they’d given up, I thought, no they don’t,” said Graham, 92. “I didn’t believe it to start with.”

The BBC had announced the ceasefire the night before, on May 4, 1945, yet Graham said he’d been disappointed by rumours before.

Seven decades on, Graham was part of a sentimental parade of veterans who rolled past a reviewing stand in vintage army vehicles outside of the hotel where the capitulation was made official.

As was evident on their faces, it was a bitter-sweet moment for the old soldiers in this tran-quil, leafy town as they mingled with actors dressed in the uniforms they used to wear and rode in trucks and jeeps they had once driven.

“Brings back a lot of memories,” said former corporal Al Stapleton, looking at an armoured reconnaissance car. He also served with the 1st Division, but as a signaller.

Scattered, heavy thunder showers threatened Tuesday’s parade and even cancelled a photo opportunity Prime Minister Stephen Harper had planned with the veterans, who had to scramble for cover.

It was far cry from the breezy, cold day in 1945 when Col.-Gen. Johannes Blaskowitz, com-mander of all German forces in the Netherlands and Denmark, showed up at the wrecked Hotel de Wereld.

Canadian Lt.-Gen. Charles Foulkes accepted the surrender in a simple signing ceremony, which was to be followed two days later by the more formal unconditional surrender of all German forces accepted by Allied supreme com-mander U.S. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower at Reims, France.

“I watched the tired, old Blaskowitz sitting across the dusty table from Gen. Foulkes and blinking like an owl as he agreed to every sur-render term,” Canadian Press war correspondent Ross Munro wrote in his post-war book, Gauntlet to Overlord.

Despite the general ceasefire on May 5, 1945 in the Canadian sector, troops continued to die for at least three more days and at least 12 casual-ties were recorded, said Canadian War Museum historian Jeff Noakes.

Unlike the First World War, where the last

direct fire casualty was recorded just before 11 o’clock on Nov. 11, it is tough to determine who - precisely - was the last soldier to die in Europe when the shooting stopped. The last Canadian to die in the Second World War was killed in the Pacific some months later.

Don Somerville, 92, a former sapper who served as a combat engineer, said everyone in his unit had an inkling the war was drawing to a close and nobody wanted to be the last to die.

After German dictator Adolf Hitler’s suicide, he says “everybody started shutting down then, hoping they could make it. You know?”

Somerville recalled, in vivid detail, the 9th Canadian Brigade assault across the Ems River to capture the town of Leer, Germany just a few days before the official surrender.

The brigade started on D-Day and survivors claimed Leer “was the worst assault they’d ever had,” said Somerville. “We knew there was ink-lings that the war might be over, but the infantry lost an awful lot of men in there. We lost eight or nine (combat engineers).”

The campaign in northwest Europe cost 79,774 Canadian casualties, of whom 21,478 were killed.

“Freedom would not be as we know it today without you,” Gen. Tom Middendorp, the Dutch chief of defence, said at the beginning of the parade. “We can’t repay you.”

The sentiment was echoed among the thou-sands who lined the street, some four deep along the sidewalks, waving small Canadian flags to cheer on the veterans.

One young couple in their 20s with a six-month-old baby surprised veteran Bert Reynolds by asking to have their picture taken with him.

Harper responded to the warm welcome.“I know I speak for all the Canadians here

- our esteemed veterans in particular - when I thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for the kindness you show us,” Harper said to his Dutch hosts at the parade. “It is so incredibly moving to visit the Netherlands and to see your tributes to our lost soldiers: a familiar Canadian name on a street here, on a bridge there, to see the love and care paid to their final resting places, to see the candles at Christmas at Holten, but, most of all, to see the honour and love you shower upon our veterans, in particular the veterans who have travelled so far to be with us today.”

Canada remembers 70 years after guns fell mostly silent

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Blake wrote the novel “Dances With Wolves” at the urging of his longtime friend, actor Kevin Costner. The novel was fairly unsuccessful but became a hit film after Costner asked Blake to adapt it into a movie.

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Solsberg says it was called an octopus furnace because of the amount of duct-work coming out of it.

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showing Monday by third parties that once struggled for slivers of Prince Edward Island’s vote is a warning to Tories and Liberals that gen-erations-old political loyalties are fading, say political commen-tators.

History professor Ian Dowbiggin of the University of Prince Edward Island says the gains made by the NDP and the Green party, which each won about 11 per cent of the popular vote, rep-resents a historic shift that won’t be easily erased.

“When you get over 20 per cent of the total number of votes, it’s got to reflect a changing of political allegiance, especially among young people,” he says.

“The people who were voting yesterday for the Greens and the NDP weren’t sim-ply old hippies with

pony tails voting their heart.”

The Liberals won their third straight majority under rook-ie premier Wade MacLauchlan, drop-ping from 20 seats to 18, while the Tories took eight seats and the Green party claimed its first seat in the legislature.

Dowbiggin says the Liberal win shows the electorate is comfort-able with the former university president, the province’s first openly gay premier.

He also says the Greens and NDP still face huge obstacles in fundraising, candi-date recruitment and a first-past-the-post system that works against parties that don’t have a strong chance of forming government.

But the old days of predictable swings of the majority of the 27 ridings on the Island from one major party to the other after two to three terms in

power are being chal-lenged.

The NDP’s share of the vote shot from 3.2 per cent in 2011, when they seldom attracted more than 200 vot-ers in most ridings, to almost winning a Charlottetown seat and quadrupling their overall support.

Green leader Peter Bevan-Brown swept to victory in the rid-ing of Kellys Cross-Cumberland, with his own total of 2,077 votes equalling two thirds of what the entire party was able to muster in the last election.

Don Desserud, a professor of pol-itical science at the University of Prince Edward Island, said he’s cautious about concluding the results will lead to further growth - but he was nonetheless impressed.

“It could be a step towards a his-toric change. What it shows is that there’s a

substantial number of voters on the Island who do two things: they don’t vote for the Liberals and the Conservatives, and they do vote,” he said.

Both Desserud and Dowbiggin say inter-est in the third parties may help explain an overall turnout of 86 per cent of voters, up significantly from the 76.5 per cent turnout in the last election.

Chief electoral officer Gary McLeod says in an email he’s unable to confirm the reasons for the increase at this time.

Dowbiggin says the results also demon-strated the failure of the Tories to capital-ize on public disen-chantment with the government of for-mer Liberal premier Robert Ghiz.

He says many vot-ers identified the Liberals with the provincial nom-inee program, which brought immigrants into the province if they invested in Island companies. In 2009, the auditor gen-eral released a report on conflict of inter-ests that were related to the program.

The professor says that issue, along with provincial financial woes, could have led to a breakthrough for Conservative Leader Rob Lantz.

Instead the party’s overall popular vote fell, and Lantz was unable to win his seat in Charlottetown. Dowbiggin said he doubts Lantz can stay on as leader of the party if he can’t win a seat in a byelection.

P.E.I. a sign that political landscape in flux: experts

T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SQuebec has tabled anti-tobacco legislation

targeting e-cigarettes and tightening rules governing smoking in public.

If it becomes law, Bill 44 would see the increasingly popular e-cigarette subject to the same rules as other tobacco products.

That means it will be forbidden to use e-cigarettes inside institutions and public buildings.

The province is also moving to ban smok-ing on bar and restaurant patios and cracking down on smoking in vehicles where minors 16 and under are present.

The bill was tabled by junior health minis-ter Lucie Charlebois.

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SREGINA - Northern Saskatchewan has the

highest crime rate in the country compared to other northern regions, according to a report by Statistics Canada.

The report says in 2013, police-reported crime rates in northern areas of provinces doubled the south, and crime rates in the ter-ritories were seven times higher.

In Saskatchewan, almost 55,000 crimes were reported per 100,000 people in the north, compared to just over 9,000 in the south.

Co-author of the report, Mary Allen, says some of the difference can be explained by higher rates of mischief and disturbing the peace in the north.

But she says many violent crimes such as assault are also more prevalent, while robbery and extortion stand out as two offences that occur at lower rates.

The report notes that Nunavut, northern Manitoba and the Northwest Territories also had high levels crime, followed by Yukon and northern Newfoundland and Labrador.

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OPINION

Federal election our big chance at electoral reform

In the last dozen years eight out of nine com-missions or citizen assemblies created by

governments in Canada have not only advocated getting rid of our first-past-the-post (FPTP) electoral system but have recom-mended adopting MMP, or mixed-member-propor-tional representation.

In the upcoming 2015 federal election Tom Mulcair is offering Canadians a chance to change the current sys-tem by electing an NDP government with a strong mandate to implement MMP.

The NDP is the only federal party that has con-sulted widely across the country to develop a clear way forward that is fully committed to bringing about electoral reform.

Here are just a few of the many things that are wrong with Canada’s cur-rent FPTP electoral sys-tem:

1) It promotes false majorities in the House

of Commons. There is no better example of this than Stephen Harper’s current Conservative majority government won with less than 40 per cent of the vote. And, because the Prime Minister has so much executive power embedded in the legis-lature, he has radically transformed our coun-try by ramming through numerous pieces of legis-lation that were opposed by 60 per cent of the elec-torate.

2) It exacerbates a false sense of regional differen-ces. For example, although a full third of Albertans marked their ballots in 2011 for other parties only Conservatives MPs were elected. This result creates an image that the entire province is mono-lithically Conservative which is clearly untrue.

3) There is a consist-ent under-representation of women in our system.

4) It exacerbates adver-sarialism and hyper-par-tisanship rather than co-

operation and comprom-ise in legislative activity and government policy.

5) The role of MPs is undermined because vot-ers have to choose, with one vote, the local repre-sentative they would like to have representing their constituency, the party they would like to see with the most seats in the House of Commons and, very often, which party leader they prefer.

All of these things, under a properly struc-tured proportional rep-resentation system, would be dealt with and result in a more balanced demo-

cratic system.Under the mixed mem-

ber proportional (MMP) system favoured by the NDP, voters’ preferences would be counted in two ways: a) voters will elect a single MP to represent their constituency as they have always done; and b) their votes will addition-ally count as part of the popular vote that deter-mines a proportionate seat total for each party in the House of Commons. By combining a propor-tional representation of parties in Parliament with the direct election of an MP in each constituency – a party receiving 40 per cent of the vote would gain only 40 per cent of the seats.

This is the system that is being used quite suc-cessfully in New Zealand, Scotland and in Germany. These jurisdictions are electing a higher percent-age of women and par-tisanship has decreased while civility, cooperation, and thoughtful debate

leading to better policies have become the norm. Because it is rare for any given party to get over 50 per cent of the popular vote (and thus over 50 per cent of the seats) cooper-ation with other parties has simply become a fact of life for any government.

Parties and politicians are much less prone to present extreme contrasts between themselves and other parties as a way to manoeuver for a single-party majority govern-ment come election time.

To elect an NDP gov-ernment and make fair elections a reality, voters of all political stripes will need to come together this one time using the current flawed system.

However, if we can beat the system in the 2015 election, 2019 will bring about the first truly demo-cratic and representative government in Canadian history.

Alex Atamanenko is the MP for BC Southern Interior

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Columbia River Revelstoke MLA Norm Macdonald deliv-ered a petition to the BC Legislature on Monday. The petition contained nearly 1,000 names of people who are concerned about the lack of mainten-ance on the highways in the East Kootenay, Macdonald said.

“I was pleased to present this petition on behalf of the people of the East Kootenay region who are very worried about the state of our highways,” said Macdonald. “I took this opportunity to bring this issue to the atten-tion of the Minister of Transportation, Todd Stone.”

The petition ori-ginated with the FaceBook Group Taking Back East Kootenay Highways, which was formed by local area residents dissatisfied with the maintenance in the past couple of winters.

The group began circulating the peti-tion last December

when highways were particularly treacher-ous after a storm.

At the time, Kootenay East MLA Bill Bennett also expressed concern about the state of the roads. Mr. Bennett was not available for com-ment on the petition.

So what happens now? Macdonald says the process is depend-ent on the Minister actually seeing the petition and right now there is no require-ment that would have him do so.

“We have proposed changes to the peti-tion process to require the Minister to see it. Right now there is no requirement for a formal response. But I directed it to the Minister of Transportation in the Legislature.”

Still a petition is a good tool, he says.

“A significant num-ber of people signed the petition and also wrote comments,” he said. “It’s one more tool pushing the gov-ernment to do the right thing.”

Macdonald says the state of winter roads is one of the biggest concerns raised in his office, and that he has raised the issue with the Minister and his staff many times.

“All politicians from this region have not only heard from

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The ads are springing up faster than pansies on the sunny side of the street on a warm spring day. It’s hard to escape Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s aggressive pre-election advertising blitz reminding us of all the wonder-ful things his Conservatives are doing with our tax dollars.

The govern-ment is pushing its Economic Action Plan, tricked out in Tory blue, like there’s no tomorrow. Everywhere, cheerful Canadian families and workers — well, cheerful actors, anyway — are shown to be benefitting from the federal budget and its voter-friendly largesse.

Voters are being invited to consider What does this mean for your family? and to apply for their share of the child-care benefits and other goodies. Meanwhile, ads tout-ing the military tie in with the government’s security and anti-terror agenda. The onslaught on TV, radio, bill-boards and social media is relentless.

It’s also shameless. This self-celebration on the pub-lic dime is generating some much-needed pushback. Tom Mulcair’s New Democrats and Justin Trudeau’s Liberals are complaining that the ads are unfairly partisan and wasteful. So are groups such as Democracy Watch and the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

In the short term the Conservative government is spending $13.5 million

through the finance depart-ment and tax agency flogging its budget, which featured “handouts to the wealthy,” as the NDP’s Nathan Cullen put it.

But that’s the tip of an iceberg. Tory ad blitzes have cost a whopping $750 million

since Harper came to office in 2006, or nearly $85 million a year.

And, for the record, the Liberals can’t claim the high ground when it come to waste-

ful spending on propaganda. Under Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin, they pumped $950 million into ads between 1998 and 2006, the NDP says, more than $100 million a year.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

As the Canadian Taxpayers Federation has argued, gov-ernments are huge advertisers and politicians shouldn’t be in a position to succumb to the temptation of abusing public dollars by torquing ads for partisan advantage.

It’s an affront to democ-racy and a waste of money. Instead, proposed govern-ment ads should be vetted by an independent third party before they go public.

The Conservatives famous-ly spent $2.5 million in 2013 promoting the Canada Jobs Grant, a program that didn’t even exist at the time.

That’s the sort of thing an independent vetting process would be expected to red-card.

The Liberals, to their credit, are calling on the government “to submit all advertising to a third-party review pro-cess before it is approved, to

ensure that it is an appropri-ate, proportional, and prudent expenditure of public funds.” Belated as their conversion to adult supervision may be, it’s the right approach.

Indeed, it has been work-ing in Ontario for more than a decade. Back in 2004 Dalton McGuinty’s Liberals gave the province’s auditor general the authority to vet and approve government ads before they are aired, published or distrib-uted, to make sure that they are non-partisan.

The ads “must not have a primary objective of fostering a positive impression of the governing party or a nega-tive impression of a person or entity critical of the govern-ment,” the provincial guide-lines stipulate.

The recent Conservative blitz has galvanized Democracy Watch to launch a letter-writing campaign call-ing on the federal auditor gen-eral to look into the matter, and to be given the authority to “stop future dishonest, par-tisan, wasteful ads.”

The sheer existence of a review process serves as a powerful brake on partisan-ship.

Ontario’s auditor reviewed 625 advertising items in 145 submissions in 2013-2014, and rejected just one 30-second TV spot out of con-cern that it “would have left viewers with the impression that Ontario’s manufacturing sector was booming as a result of government programs and activities in this area.”

That’s one tough standard. The federal Conservative government would be hard-pressed to explain how its cur-rent ad blitz meets that test. And that’s just the point. It doesn’t have to. It should.

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Clockwise from top: Trail Track and Field Club athletes were all smiles on a sunny Saturday for the start of the Legion Track meet at Haley Park. Ayla Ferguson races to gold in the 60-m hurdles, while Sage Stefani lands one of her four gold medals in the long jump. The meet saw 15 teams from across the Kootenays, Boundary, and Shushwap includ-ing Revelstoke’s Erin Behncke launching the javelin and Jaffray Elementary’s Wyatt Dudley who just missed the record in the boys high jump.

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

The 14th Royal Canadian Legion Track Meet shot out of the starting blocks at Haley Park in Warfield on Saturday under breezy but sunny skies that saw almost 40 records fall.

Fifteen teams and 130 ath-letes from the East and West Kootenay, Boundary, and Okanagan-Shushwap com-peted in the annual event, including 15 competitors from the Trail Track and Field Club (TTFC).

“Even the (TTFC) kids that didn’t set records, almost all of them had personal bests, and they’re young, so I thought they did very well,” said TTFC coach Dan Horan.

Other than the TTFC, few athletes competed from

Greater Trail schools despite invitations. However, teams from as far away as Salmon Arm, Revelstoke, Fernie, Elkford, and Christina Lake filled out the field.

Trail Track and Field Club Results:

In nine-year-old girls Ella Phillips-Frisk won three gold in 60-m dash, 60-m hurdles, and long jump while setting a meet record in hurdles at 12.8 seconds. She also cap-tured silver in 100-m dash and shot put.

Kaitlyn Parsons won bronze in 60-m dash and 60-m hurdles while Sara Parsons took gold in shot put.

Rhys Drezdoff led 10-year-old girls winning gold in shot put, 60 and 100-m dash, silver in long jump, and a bronze in high jump. Ayla

Ferguson picked up gold in 60-m hurdles, long jump and high jump while taking home silver in the 60 and 100-m sprints. Sentri denBiessen claimed two silver in shot put and 600-m run, and three bronze medals in 60-m dash and hurdles, and long jump.

Sadie Joyce cleaned up in the 11-year-old division win-ning four gold medals while setting track records in every event including the 60-m dash in 9.1 seconds, 100-m dash in 14.7 seconds, the high jump 1.26-m., and long jump, 3.99 metres. Jendaya Shields won gold in the discus, set-ting a new meet record with a toss of 14.63-metres, and silver in 60-m dash, while Maya Amantea claimed gold in the 60-m hurdles, three silver medals in 100-m dash,

long jump, and discus, and bronze in the 60-m sprint.

Ava Farias was the other Trail Track Club record setter winning gold in 80-m hurdles with a meet record of 15.6 seconds. Farias also won gold in 100-m sprint, shot put, and long jump, and silver in the 300-m sprint.

Sage Stefani had a num-ber of great performances in 13-year-old girls taking home four gold medals in the 80-m hurdles, high jump, long jump, and shot put.

In 14-15-year-old girls, Jordan Amantea won silver in 80-m hurdles. In boys 10-year-old, Xavier Laird from Glenmerry Elementary won gold in 600-m run and shot put, and three silver medals in 60-m dash, 100-m dash, and long jump.

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B y G r e G S a k a k i Nanaimo News Bulletin

The Nanaimo Clippers are for sale.The owners of the city’s junior A hockey club

decided last month to look into selling the team. Ken Wagner, Clippers governor, said the decision was made collectively by the ownership group at the end of the B.C. Hockey League season.

“It’s been 10 great years, but it’s different interests and different reasons why we’re selling the club,” he said. “Someone local should have that opportunity to take the bull by the horns and have as much fun as we have.”

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

The Beaver Valley Nitehawks coaching staff put potential Hawks through their paces this weekend at the Nitehawks annual spring camp at the Beaver Valley Arena.

About 40 young skaters took to the ice for three days of scrimmaging, practices, and a fit-ness seminar in hopes of impressing coaches Terry Jones, Kevin Limbert, and Jim Ingram.

“It went really well,” said Limbert, Nitehawks assistant coach. “There was a lot of local talent. We had some of our vets and our alumni come back and step up the pace and show the way for the younger players. But we had some good local talent and some good out-of-town talent, it was a great pace.”

With five vets graduating this season, the Nitehawks would like to see as many players as possible return to next year’s squad, but the out-look is still uncertain.

“It’s pretty up in the air, there’s only actually two or three that are 100 percent sure coming back, and the rest are pursuing junior A oppor-tunities.”

Hawks players like Ross Armour and Spencer MacLean are reported to have already signed with junior A teams, while others like Hawks lead-ing scorer Mitch Foyle continues to weigh his options.

“There’s quite a few where we could see you back, but also quite a few that we shouldn’t see back but we would definitely be okay if you did . . . but there’s no reason why he (Mitch) shouldn’t be playing junior A, he’s phenomenal.”

As for prospective Nitehawks, local players that impressed the coaching staff include Evan Gorman, Blake Sidoni, Christian Macasso, and the Ghiradosi twins to name just a few.

This weekend the Nitehawks continue their search for future Hawks as they travel to Cochrane for their Alberta camp.

In recent years the Hawks have tapped the Alberta pipeline for a number of quality players, most notably goaltender Brett Clarke, the 2014 Keystone Cup MVP and Trail Smoke Eater goalie last season. In addition, Taylor Stafford, McKoy Hauk, Jace Weegar, Lyle Frank, Tyler Hartman, Devin Nemes, Michael and Allan Pruss, Jack Vergouven, and Tyler Leicht all helped the team to the KIJHL Kootenay Conference final this year.

“Obviously we’re looking to put the best prod-uct on the ice, and if it comes down to a close decision, obviously you have to go with a local kid, because it just makes sense for so many reasons and we do want to develop local talent,” said Limbert. “But it ebbs and flows, some years are stronger than others and the years when it’s a bit thin you got to go out of town and find that crop that’s going to get you where you got to go.”

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Wagner said the operations of the Clippers are status quo. The team is work-ing on sponsorships and marketing just like any other off-sea-son and Wagner said the recruiting budget is the same as previous years.

“If we don’t sell the club, nothing’s going to change,” he said. “We’ve just made it public now, to say, hey, if there’s anybody local, or anybody out there that has an inter-est, this is the best way to get it out there.”

He said it’s too early to tell what sort of interest there will be from potential buy-ers. The club is worth whatever someone’s prepared to pay for it, Wagner said.

“Anybody who buys

a hockey club, they’re not doing it to turn a profit,” he said. “A successful club breaks even and develops kids and wins champion-ships.”

Wagner said he and the other owners have considered themselves stewards of the hockey team, part of the chain of the Clippers’ 42-year history, and are now looking to pass it along. Whoever takes over the club, he said, will inherit a strong program with renewed community support.

“We’re only going to talk to people that

we know are two things – they’re in a position financially to buy the club, and the second thing is people that are in the position financially to support the club,” Wagner said.

“The worst thing you’d want to do is blow up the program by selling it to an owner that gets caught up in the moment.

“You’ve got to have someone who can sus-tain the losses when it’s not so good, but you’ve also got to have someone that is doing it for the right rea-sons.”

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TAMPA, Fla. - P.K. Subban and the Montreal Canadiens can see the light despite the 2-0 series hole they’ve dug themselves into against the Tampa Bay Lightning.

“Whenever you come to Florida and you get a little bit of sunshine, everyone seems to smile a little bit more,” Subban said Tuesday. “We’re optimistic at this point.

“We’re not pessimistic, I’ll tell you that right now. We’re one win away from being back in the series.”

The Canadiens’ confidence comes from their five-on-five play in the series, knowing if they can stay out of the penalty box they’re bound to have more success than they did in Game 2. But their biggest reason to believe they can get back in this second-round series is goaltender Carey Price, who so many times this season has carried the Habs on his shoulders.

The good news for Montreal is Price sounded almost as upbeat as Subban ahead of Game 3 tonight.

“I feel great,” Price said. “I’m doing what I’ve been doing my whole life.”

Struggles against the Lightning aside - a 3.47 goals-against aver-age and .906 save percentage in the regular season and eight goals on 59 shots so far in the playoffs - Price has shown often this season the ability to single-handedly will Montreal to

victories.The Vezina and Hart Trophy final-

ist shook off a 6-2 loss Sunday and insisted his focus is on Game 3 alone.

“It’s all in your mindset,” Price said. “Regardless of good perform-ances or bad performances, for me it’s a pretty simple equation. It’s been working all season, so I don’t see a reason to change it now.”

Price is 12-4-4 with two days between games this season. That’s the situation he’s facing again with the pressure at its highest point.

“It just lets you physically recover a little bit,” Price said. “Obviously the playoffs are a grind, you’re playing every second day. Mentally it’s taxing so being able to step away from the rink for a day and having a practice day to kind of fine-tune a few things is definitely beneficial.”

Price may have some adjustments to make given that Tampa Bay has had the most sustained success against him this year. Lightning cen-tre Tyler Johnson, who has a league-best seven goals in the playoffs, said they’ve taken advantage of second and third opportunities and made Price go east-west in his crease often.

Others didn’t want to give away the secret or jinx how well they’ve done against Price.

“You try not to look too much into it, I guess, and think about it,” winger Ryan Callahan said. “He’s an unbelievable goaltender.”

Habs look for turn around

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Dear Annie: My wife and I have been married for 30 years. Before we met, I coerced a woman into having sex. I did not use physical force, but she did not give consent. By today’s standards, this was, I think, a clear case of date rape.

I have never told any-one about this, and there is little chance that we will ever encounter this woman. So my wife will never find out. Do I owe it to her to tell her? I believe that to do so could cause serious harm to our marriage. -- Anonymous and Conflicted

Dear Anonymous: Society is much more sensitive these days (and rightly so) to instances of sex without consent, e.g., when the woman is drunk or when someone in a position of authority takes advantage of a subordinate. We are glad that this has been bothering you for 30 years. It shows that you have remorse.

Ideally, you would tell your wife and have her support when you volun-tarily go to the police, but you don’t seem likely to do that. You can discuss

this with your clergyper-son or a therapist, although depending on the particu-lars of the date rape and the state in which it happened, there may be mandatory reporting laws, as well as no statute of limitations on the crime. (For informa-tion on these laws, contact RAINN at rainn.org, or see a lawyer.) A therapist also could help you decide how to broach the subject with your wife.

Is there a way to apolo-gize to the victim? This can be more healing than you know, for both of you. You might also contribute to an organization for rape vic-tims. These things don’t at all make up for what you did, but they are a step in the right direction and bet-ter than doing nothing.

Dear Annie: You’ve printed several letters about bridal showers and baby showers and other occasions where gifts are given.

Let me ask these young women who expect their family members to give gifts for every one of these events: Do you ever give your grandparents a birth-day present? Do you ever send the great-aunts a Christmas card? When your uncle is ill, do you send flowers or a get-well card?

Life is not about how many gifts you can get. These young men and women should count the number of gifts they have received from their grand-parents, aunts, uncles and other close friends and family members since their high school graduations and then consider what they have given in return. -- Tired of the Gimme Generation

Dear Tired: Amen. Too often the recipients of lar-gesse think the gravy train only runs in one direction and they don’t need to show similar consideration to an older generation. But what

relative wouldn’t be thrilled to get a birthday card from a great-niece or a holiday card from a grandchild without prompting?

If you have older rela-tives or friends and have never thought about send-ing them a card or a gift or making a phone call on their special days, please

remember all of the consid-erate things they have done for you over the years, and ask yourself how you could express similar kindness.

Annie’s Mailbox is writ-ten by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime edi-tors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmail-

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For Thursday, May 7, 2015 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) In the next two weeks, you will enjoy redecorat-ing where you live. This is a good window of time to entertain at home. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) You will have an excel-lent way with words in the next two weeks, because Venus will sweeten your speech. What a good time for sales, writing, acting and teaching! GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You might see ways to boost your salary in the next few weeks. Unfortunately, you also will see many ways to spend money on beautiful things! You win some; you lose some. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) The next few weeks are the perfect time for you to shop for wardrobe items.

This is because you feel gracious and comfortable in your own skin. Also, you like what you see in the mirror. LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Secret love affairs might take place for some of you in the next few weeks. Others will relish moments of solitude in beautiful surroundings. VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) A friendship with some-one from another culture or a different country might blossom for some of you. Others will find that you seem to be involved with artistic, creative peo-ple more than usual. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) You might develop a crush on your boss or someone in a position of authority. Expect some-one to ask for your cre-ative input in areas like design, layout, furniture arrangement, whatever.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Travel for pleasure will appeal to you in the next few weeks. Go anywhere if you possibly can arrange this. Bon voyage! SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Gifts, goodies and favors from others will come to you this week and next, so keep your pockets open. Romantic intimacy will be sweet and passionate.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Your ability to relate to those who are closest to you is excellent in the next few weeks. Use this time to patch up misunderstand-ings. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Many of you will get a raise or praise on the job this week or next. Continue to work hard and respect high standards, because this

will pay off for you. PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Romance, love affairs, vacations, playful times with children and the arts will flourish in the next few weeks. Grab every oppor-tunity to party and enjoy yourself. YOU BORN TODAY You have class. You are dignified and attractive. You enjoy beauty, especially music. You are generous to oth-

ers and often are devoted to a cause. Your willingness to help others will benefit you this year, because your success lies with others. Therefore, make friends and join clubs and organiza-tions. Help others, because you will be helping yourself. Birthdate of: Alexander Ludwig, actor; Aidy Bryant, actress; Johannes Brahms, composer; Kevin Macintyre, skeptic and champion wal-rus wrangler.

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#4-1008 Olaus Way, Rossland

$309,000Beautiful ground fl oor condo with 3 bdrms and2 baths. Hardwood

fl oors, gas fi replace, open concept with gorgeous woodwork, granite

counter tops, underground parking, tennis courts, hot tub and much, much more. Great price for this

package!

Call Christine (250) 512-7653

NEW LISTING

SUMMER FUN

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

1823 Kootenay Ave, Rossland

$180,000Here’s your chance to get into the

Real Estate market. Affordable home situated on a large 60x100

lot with fruit trees and garden. 2 bdrms and a full walk-out

basement. Plenty of parking for all the toys. Bright and sunny

Call Christine (250) 512-7653

#28 - 150 Tamarac Ave, Fruitvale$63,900

Upgraded unit in sought after Mobile Home Park. Vaulted

ceiling, open plan, skylights, 2 bdrm 2 bath, extremely

affordable living here. Call today for list of upgrades!

Call Tonnie (250) 365-9665

138 Reservoir Road, Trail$125,000

Exceptional value in a great starter home or revenue property with

2 bdrms up and a basement suite down. Hardwood fl oors, new

carpets, kitchen and bath, doors & windows. You need to check

this one out!

Call Terry 250-231-1101

3249 Lilac Crescent, Trail $255,000

Everything 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 PRICE

NEW PRICE

1477 - 2nd Avenue, Trail$149,000

Sweet little package with mechanical upgrades. Newer heat pump, furnace, wiring, plumbing, windows roof....the list goes on.

Just move in and enjoy. Call today.

Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

NEW PRICE

3802 Dogwood Drive, Trail$249,000

Bordering on park area and close to the school, this rancher features

lots of windows, 3 bdrms on main, huge rec room, single car

garage and carport area. Put your decorating ideas to work and you will have an amazing house in a

great location.

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

NEW LISTING

3379 Laurel Crescent, Trail$169,000

Fresh, bright, cheery, and immaculate! Low maintenance

living with 3 bdrms and 1.5 baths. Updated fl ooring, appliances, kitchen, most windows, paint,

landscaping, central air, large deck and more. Call your REALTOR®

now!!

Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

NEW LISTING

CASTLEGAR

250-304-2700 Castlegar at Columbia and 44th

Monday- Friday 9am-6pmSaturday 9am - 5pm | Sunday Noon - 5pm

60% OFF

The West Kootenay Wolf Pack Lacrosse Team (ages 5-16) will be holding a

BBQ, Bottle Drive & Bake Sale

SHSS Dry Grad

CAR WASH

Candian Cancer Society with Relay

for Life

tent sale

Our original price on clearance items

in the tent

TAKE UP TO

CONTINUES!THIS SATURDAY

THIS SATURDAY

THIS SATURDAY

Brenda Haley pHotos

Brenda Haley shared photos of her trip last week along the old rail bed that serves as part of the Trans Canada Trail between Castlegar and Christina Lake. Her viewpoints were above Lower Arrow Lake featuring train tunnels and the Farr Creek Bridge (top left), directly across from Syringa Creek Provincial Park. If you have recent photos you would like to share with our reader email them to [email protected].

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