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Linda Worley ques-tions the fairness of paying almost $140,000 annually to Trail when only a handful of Area B residents actually use the city’s recreational facilities.
The regional director has a big decision to make on behalf of her 1,410 con-stituents before the current five-year agreement, which has property owners paying about $73 annually, ends in December.
Combined with public insight from a previous community meeting, the regional director says feed-back shows the majority of residents want to go with the reimbursement plan.
Her observation fol-lows an online survey on the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary website that was made public in July and closed Aug. 7.
Three questions were asked – should Area B enter into a new agreement; based on user statistics, should the dollar amount remain status quo or decreased; or should the Trail Resident Program (TRP) be scrapped entirely in favour of a reim-bursement model or user-pay system.
She was disappoint-ed with only fifteen respondents, but said the replies echo conversations and telephone calls Worley has already had with her constituents.
“The survey results were evenly split between reim-bursement, user pay and a rec deal with Trail,” she added. “But for far less than the previous amount being paid.”
Based on only 12 per cent of Area B residents accessing the TRP, Worley says the public was very clear that paying $702,000 toward the program since 2011 is considered “outra-geous.”
“Most voiced that they would rather user pay or go to reimbursement, rather than have the bal-ance of taxpayers in Lower Columbia/Old Glory (Area B) have to pay for them using the facilities,” she explained, noting Trail pro-vided the TRP numbers. “Having said that, I still feel it’s important to have that conversation with Trail to see if there is an appetite for a much lesser contribu-tion.”
Worley pointed out that the electoral area has many of its own recreational halls and parks to maintain as well as development of a trails system through-out the unincorporated communities of Genelle, Rivervale, Oasis, Casino, Blackjack, South Belt, Sheep Creek and Paterson.
“What we tax for in Area B’s parks and trails doesn’t just cover the recreation program with Trail,” she said. “That covers all the parks, trails and halls in
Area B. So I have to be very conscious of the taxpayer dollars when only 12 per cent are using Trail recrea-tional facilities.”
Area B Parks and Trails absorbs about 10 per cent of annual property taxes, and based on the average home assessed at $175,000, property owners pay $73 annually for the City of Trail rec agreement.
“I do think it’s important that I meet with (the city) to see what we can do,” Worley added. “I feel that a much lesser amount would be a more fiscally respon-sible use of the taxpayer monies.”
TRP expenses have been in the spotlight for a num-ber of years, and became a hot topic in 2014 fol-lowing Beaver Valley (BV) recreation’s decision to not renew an agreement with Trail.
Montrose, Fruitvale and Area A collectively paid about $1 million towards the TRP over five years. Aside from the program’s cost, talks between the par-ties stalled because of the unknown impact of Trail’s proposed boundary expan-sion on the area’s tax base.
After recent negotia-tions, BV recreation and Trail announced that a one-year agreement was reached July 31, with the three municipalities con-tributing $125,000 for the term.
Area B considers user pay for Trail facilities
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Swimming lessons at the Trail Aquatic and Leisure Centre are a popular activity covered under the Trail Resident Program (TRP). Pulling out of the TRP would have Area B resi-dents paying double the fees to access recreation in TALC, the Trail Memorial Centre,and the Willi Krause Fieldhouse as well as various ball parks and soccer fields.
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Buying an old village church and turning it into a mom-and-pop shop hasn’t been the peaceful venture Tina and Roger Larose hoped for.
“We’ve owned a house in Warfield for eight years now,” Tina said, addressing a roomful of Warfield resi-dents Tuesday evening. “We just love it here and want to retire here. We want to be part of the community, have our business contained in the church, and
make it nice to fit in with everything else that is here.”
The couple plans to develop the former St. Joseph’s Church into a retail site. First, they need to have the Lytton Street property, which has been vacant 15 years, rezoned into General Commercial (C2).
That means going through a pro-cess of amending the village’s bylaw – which included the public hear-ing prior to council’s decision on the change.
Too much traffic, no parking, and fear of the future was the general consen-sus among 30 residents who addressed Warfield council Tuesday night, voi-cing reasons why the politicians should refuse the Larose’s request.
“These are nice people and it seems like a nice business,” said one Forrest Drive resident. “That’s today. You, Mr Mayor, and members of your council have to think not just about today but the future,” he added.
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Maddy Fraser, Marci Brooks, Shayna Carmichael, Rachel Rosse and Lexie Browell were busy Wednesday selling cool drinks, fruit and vegetables by donation next to Montrose’s post office. The up-and-coming philanthropists were raising funds to subsidize the purchase of a wheelchair for Shayna and Rachel’s uncle, Dave Proban, who was paralyzed in a cycling accident near Victoria about a month ago.
“Strikes me that just about everyone in this room might think it’s a good idea today, but we fear the skunk down the road.”
At times, the open discus-sion veered to already existing businesses in the community, rather than focusing on the issue at hand.
“I’ve been dealing with a C2 business behind my house for about 15 years now,” said another Forrest Drive home-owner. “The Village of Warfield hasn’t held them accountable to the bylaws,” he continued. “If we zone this commercially we open ourselves up to what other commercial properties in the village look like. If we open it up and there is no bylaw enforcement then we are opening ourselves up to that disaster possibly moving further out.”
Mayor Ted Pahl pointed out that if the bylaw is amended, conditions exist on the prop-erty. For example, all com-
mercial activity is restricted to the alley side of the build-ing – meaning no signage or access to the future retail site would be permitted on Forrest Drive. He clarified that all commercial activity would be conducted on the portion of the property facing the alley, and all inventories would be stored inside the building dur-ing non-business hours.
“This is not going to be a
junk store,” reiterated Roger Larose. “It will be a liquidation store with the majority of stuff on the newer side. Junk will not be scattered everywhere, it will be clean and a nice place to walk into.”
Tina echoed her husband’s description of the business, which she said will include a woman’s boutique, select antiques, home decor and other specialty items.
“This represents our family,” she said. “It has been our goal for 10 years, so you will see flowers and a trimmed lawn, but no junk.”
Other comments suggested an increase in vehicles on Forrest Drive could put neigh-bourhood children in harms way and more cars in the lot’s back alley would further con-gest traffic and parking.
“I am opposed to more traf-fic and particularly the park-ing,” said another resident. “Lytton Street is a main artery to parts of Warfield and very heavy with traffic and lots (of traffic) from the gas station,”
he added. “And parking is pre-mium at all times.”
Realtor Ron Allibone was on hand to support the Larose’s bid for a rezoning.
“We’ve been trying hard to work on this deal for a long time and have something done with the church,” said Allibone. “If you could go in now you would see how bad the vacancy of the building is hurting the building.”
Any construction at the site would require permits, building inspectors, and plans include paving the property for designated parking, he explained.
“An empty building is not a healthy building,” Allibone continued. “Change is hard for everybody, but we’ve got a very nice couple here than want a chance to open a good busi-ness.”
Pahl brought the meeting to a close shortly after, say-ing council would review the public feedback and deliver a decision during the first meet-ing in September.
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A public hearing was held over a couple’s bid to pur-chase St. Joseph’s Church and convert the property into a retail space.
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“We did have a very successful reimburse-ment program in place but it was still difficult for some folks to put the money out front,” Ali Grieve, Area A director told the Trail Times that day. “This will make things much simpler for our residents and for all staff.”
Montrose Mayor Joe Danchuk agreed. “In Montrose it’ll be great for us. This will take away barriers,” he said, adding recrea-tion should be access-ible to everyone.
“It will make Trail facilities accessible for our seniors and our young families. And hopefully we can build on this for more col-
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involved in recreation discussions included Trail representatives Mayor Mike Martin, Councillors Kevin Jolly and Sandy Santori, along with BV Rec, composed of Mayor Patricia Cecchini (Fruitvale), Mayor Joe Danchuk (Montrose) and Director Grieve.
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One of the best features of Trail Market on the Esplanade is the enticing aroma of street fare.
This year there's a new mouth-watering scent wafting through Jubilee Park – fresh popcorn drenched in real but-ter, served with a whole bunch of serviettes on the side.
But it's the story behind the buttery treat that's the reel attention-grabber.
Old movie reels and metal letters for an old marquee are just a few of the hidden trea-sures Lisa and Jason Milne dis-covered after buying the Royal Theatre six years ago.
There was one diamond in the rough, in particular, that really popped out from the shadows.
“One of the things we came across after we took possession was this old Cretors Popcorn Machine,” said Lisa. “In a way it was sad to find something so crucial to a movie theatre, just left all dusty and broken in the
crawl space.”The pair hauled the vintage
machine into the light and gave it a good once-over. The broken kettle, lack of doors, dings and scratches had the Milnes skepti-cal the classic popper could be refurbished.
Realizing a new model would run about $8,000 but unable to warrant the stiff price to ship it off for repair, the relic was once again placed in storage.
“We didn't really have the right reason to justify the expense as our counter space couldn't even accommodate two working popcorn machines,” said Milne.
When the City of Trail began Trail Market on the Esplanade three years ago, the Milnes knew this was the place to restore the popper to its place of glory.
“When the market idea was hatched, Jason and I knew it was time to send it off to be refurbished,” explained Lisa.
They'd met with reps from Cretors during movie theatre conferences and trade shows over the years and talked about
fixing up the popper.“They said they could do it,
but wouldn't know exactly what needed to be fixed until it was shipped to them,” she added.
So off went the machine to Cretors in Chicago last summer, and after eight months the pop-per was up and running.
After adding their unique branding and having a cart custom built, the Milne's have been rolling out their popcorn at local events.
“It's been great at the market and popcorn sales have been steady,” Lisa added. “People have been excited to see us there and we often hear, 'Oh, this is movie popcorn – it's the best!'”
They'll be at Trail Market on the Esplanade Friday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m., and Lisa suggests shoppers pop by to try a tub.
“Of course we only use real butter and popcorn is popped fresh,” she said. “As for the other secret ingredients that makes our popcorn so sought after, you'll have to buy a tub and see!”
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cow and a motorcycle. A motorcycle was
in the fast lane, east bound passing a slow-er moving vehicle when he struck the cow on the roadway. The motorcycle driv-er, a 58 year old man from Cranbrook was
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Marilyn Steacy, of Balfour, BC, passed away on Saturday, August 8, 2015, at her home, with her family by her side. Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, on June 8, 1939, Marilyn grew up in a farmhouse near Pense.
Education was important to Marilyn. Her lifelong support of the U of S Huskies was the result of her degree in Home Economics and her husband, Ted, whom Marilyn met at the University of Saskatchewan. A� er teaching in Regina, California and BC, Marilyn returned to the U of S for a Masters in Education Psychology. � is led to twelve years of counseling at Walter Murray Collegiate in Saskatoon. A� er retirement, Marilyn went back to school again to complete a program in � eological Education from the University of the South.
Marilyn raised three children with Edward (Ted) Steacy in Rossland, Pine Point, Kimberley, Calgary, Sydney AU, and Saskatoon. She is survived by her husband, Ted; her daughters, Jill (David Ames), Leanne (Kevin DeBiasio) and son Michael (Dorothy Wong) and nine grandchildren. She took great pride in the home she built with Ted on their property in Balfour, BC, and invited many people to share it with them through their years of retirement.
Marilyn was a gatherer of friends and family. She kept them all connected by phone calls and invitations for co� ee and mu� ns at their beautiful lake house. We laughed, loved, walked, swam, skied, hiked, talked and prayed together. She provided an example of generosity, a keen interest in others, and shown what true grace looks like in the face of adversity.
A life-long Anglican, Marilyn was devoted to the Saint Michaels and All Angels Anglican Church in Balfour. In lieu of � owers, donations to the Ladies Guild would be appreciated.
A Celebration of Life for Marilyn will be held at the Covenant Church in Balfour, BC, on Saturday, August 15, 2015, at 11:00 am. A reception will follow.
Funeral arrangements are under the direction of � ompson Funeral Service. Online condolence may be expressed at www.thompsonfs.ca
Marilyn SteacyJune 8, 1939 – Aug 8, 2015
of Trail, passed away on August 7, 2015 at the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital after a lengthy illness. She was born on September 1, 1933 in Trail.
Emilie is survived by her children; Chris, Glenn, Eric and Rose (Chris), as well as her grandchildren; Samantha and April.
Friends are invited to celebrate Emilie’s life on Friday, August 14, 2015 from 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm at her residence at 1356 Second Avenue, Trail. Bill Clark of Alternatives Funeral and Cremation Services™ has been entrusted with arrangements.
As an expression of sympathy, donations in Emilie’s name may be made to a charity of your choice.
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Jean Clark EcclesOn August 10th, 2015, Jean Clark Eccles passed away at the age of 98 after a wonderful life, with family around her. Jean was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and spent her teenage and early adult years in West Vancouver where she met and married her beloved husband, Tom Eccles. Jean and Tom moved to Rossland, BC in 1946, where they raised their two children, Beverly and Ross. After the passing of Tom, Jean returned to West Vancouver in 1998, where she resided until her death.Jean was a loving and devoted wife, parent and grandparent who always put her family’s needs before her own. She was a passionate gardener, an accomplished bowler and renowned walker who covered 3-4 km of the West Vancouver sea wall almost every day until she was well into her 90’s.Jean is survived by her daughter Beverly O’Neill (Rob) and son Ross Eccles (Anne), six grandchildren (Taryn [Garrett], Tim, Dan, Aaron, Sean and Justin [Kelly]) and 2 great-grandchildren (Trinity and Arianna). A family celebration of life will be held for Jean at a future date.In lieu of � owers, donations can be forwarded to the Lions Gate Hospital Foundation, whose skilled and caring team made Jean’s � nal hours as comfortable as possible.
the age of 98 after a wonderful
passed away peacefully on Monday, August 10, 2015 at age 93 in Castlegar, BC. She was most recently a resident of
Talarico Place. Amelia was born October 10,
1921 in San Quirino, Italy. Her family immigrated to Canada when
she was just four years old. She married Eugene Pro� li in Trail on January 5, 1942 during the war, staying with her in-laws until Gene went into the army and while he was stationed at the coast. She was a wonderful cook and credited her mother-in-law with teaching her everything she knew about cooking. � ey raised their seven children in Rossland and Grand Forks.Amelia was a loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother and she always looked forward to the large ‘Pro� li gatherings’. Her grandchildren have many fond memories of summer holidays spent in Grand Forks with plenty of picnics, � shing, swimming and wonderful meals. Amelia enjoyed the outdoors and huckleberry picking and creek � shing were two of her favourite activities. She loved to tell everyone about the big � sh she caught in Eholt Creek. In later years, she enjoyed playing crib and bingo with her friends at the seniors’ center. Amelia is survived by her seven children; Gene (Anna), Ken (Susan), Linda (Bruce), Anita, Rick (Shannon), Bev (Huw deceased), and Gary (Amanda), 17 grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband Eugene in 1989.A Funeral Service will take place at 10:30 am on Saturday, August 15th at St. Rita’s Catholic Church, 513 7th Avenue, Castlegar, BC with Father David John, Celebrant. Al Grywacheski of Alternatives Funeral and Cremation Services™ has been entrusted with arrangments.Interment will take place in Grand Forks at a later date.Memorial donation gifts may be made to the charity of your choice.� e family would like to thank Dr. Keith Merritt for his compassionate care and resident visits as well as the nursing sta� at Talarico Place, especially the recreation sta� Amber and Kelly who treated mom as family. You are invited to leave a personal message of condolence at the family’s online register at www.myalternatives.ca
Amelia Pro� li
1921 in San Quirino, Italy. Her
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Bruce Carriere of the Lone Wolves along with Tracy Goldthorpe and Ian McLeod of the West Kootenay Road Runners present $1,085 to Betty Anne Marino of KidSport Greater Trail. On May 23, the clubs held a Memorial Ride for Conrad Wostradowski and Joe Matteucci who recently passed away.
T H E A S S O C I A T E D P R E S SCHARLOTTE, N.C.
- Buddy Baker, who won the 1980 Daytona 500 and at 6-foot-6 was NASCAR’s “Gentle Giant,” died Monday. He was 74.
Baker died after a brief battle with lung cancer, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio said. Baker left his job as co-host of “The Late Shift” for the station last month when he announced he had a “huge” inoperable lung tumour.
“Do not shed a tear. Give a smile when you say my name. I’m not saying goodbye. Just talk to you later,” Baker said in his final radio appearance.
Baker rode for more than 30 years and was honoured as one of NASCAR’s 50 great-est drivers in 1998. He was the first driver to exceed 200 mph on a closed course. The milestone came in 1970 at Talladega Superspeedway, where he won four times.
Born Elzie Wylie Baker Jr., Baker was the son of two-time champion and NASCAR Hall of Famer Buck Baker. He made his Cup Series debut in 1959 and ran his final race in 1992.
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Gas prices remain stubbornly high in B.C. despite the slide in crude oil prices, and motorists are feeling gouged.
Gasoline is down only slightly from $1.40 a litre a year ago, while crude has plunged more than 50 per cent from around $98 a barrel to less than $44 in early August.
But petroleum industry analysts say it all boils down to supply and demand. Crude oil accounts for less than half of the end cost of a litre of gasoline, with govern-ment taxes and refining charges the other big factors.
“I wish there was a simple explanation,” said Jason Parent of the Kent Marketing Group. “There isn’t much of a relationship on a day-to-day basis between crude oil and retail gasoline.”
Expecting gas to move in lockstep with crude oil is somewhat akin to expecting house prices to follow lumber prices, with-out recognizing scarce land or an influx of buyers might have an influence.
Parent said crude and gas prices can go in different directions for different reasons, and gas prices in B.C. can diverge from what other Canadians pay.
Most of the difference between B.C. prices and the rest of the country is explained by the higher 17-cent-a-litre TransLink tax in Metro Vancouver as well as B.C.’s carbon tax.
Motorists are paying just over $1 in Alberta, a few cents more in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and $1.10 to $1.20 in most of Eastern Canada.
But even after taxes are factored out, Vancouver prices are 5 to 15 cents a litre higher than most other cities across Canada.
The reason, Parent said, is that Vancouver-
area prices follow those along the U.S. west coast, where the wholesale gas supply has been constricted by refinery problems in California, driving prices up.
“Wholesale prices have been high there relative to the rest of the U.S. for a month now,” Parent said.
Some gasoline comes to B.C. through the Kinder Morgan pipeline, but the rest comes from Washington State or other U.S. refineries.
If prices were sharply higher in Vancouver than cities to the south, Parent said, gas would flow back to the U.S. – resulting in shortages here – or wouldn’t be shipped north in the first place.
Another “huge” factor behind why Canadians in general aren’t yet seeing much relief at the pumps is the drop in the loonie over the past year.
Crude and wholesale gas are priced in U.S. dollars, so Canadians are pay-ing with a devalued currency that simply doesn’t go as far as it did a year ago.
So who is profiting from the persis-tently high pump prices?
“Right now, refiners are the big
winners,” Parent said. They’re running close to capacity, demand
is up because of lower gas prices and there-fore refiners can charge more than usual. If crude oil prices get even cheaper – poten-tially as sanctions against Iran end and more oil pours onto the world market – there’s no guarantee gas prices will follow because of the refining constraints in North America.
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BURNABY, B.C. - A python spotted in a Metro Vancouver conservation area is a long way from its native African home.
City of Burnaby staff saw the snake curled up on a road on Burnaby Mountain near Simon Fraser University around noon on Monday, said Dave Ellenwood, the city’s director of Parks, Recreation and Cultural.
Not knowing whether the unusual brown and black reptile was native to the area, workers snapped a picture and took it to a local group that res-cues wild animals, which determined the snake is definitely not from B.C.
In fact, the snake - which was less than a metre long - is a ball python, a nonvenomous constrictor.
“What we generally do is we try and consult people who know more than we do about these sort of things,” Ellenwood explained. “And that’s when they got the informa-tion that it was an exotic pet. They speculate that somebody probably
dumped it in the park.”Staff returned to the park to cap-
ture the snake, but it had slithered into the bushes and couldn’t be found.
It’s rare that the Burnaby staff see such pets in parks, but it has hap-pened before, Ellenwood says.
“Irresponsible people will think it’s a good idea to take an exotic pet and dump it off in an open space, a green space, thinking it would be better off for it.”
Abandoned pets are an ongoing problem for animal welfare organizations, b ut exotic pets such as snakes come with their own issues, says Yolanda Brooks, spokeswoman for the Wildlife Rescue Association.
“They obviously get too big for a person or they live for a long time and then they just send them to the habitat that they think will be good for them,” she said.
“Just chucking it out and hoping it will fend for itself is not good for the native species, it’s not good for your pet.”
People should think carefully about owning exotic pets such as pythons because they take a lot of specialized care, Brooks added.
“While owning a dog or a cat is a big commitment, having an exotic pet is an even bigger commitment.”
The python likely won’t survive very long on Burnaby Mountain because of the cold weather, terrain and predators, Brooks said.
However she said the snake could also present problems for some native animals while it’s around.
Ellenwood said staff from both the Burnaby SPCA and the city continued to look for the python Tuesday, and warned park users to keep an eye out for the stealthy reptile.
Stealthy snake on the loose in Vancouver conservation area
t h e C a N a D i a N P r e s sVANCOUVER - The City of
Vancouver is fighting back as it battles plans by Canadian Pacific Railway (TSX:CP) to resurrect train traffic on a rail spur cutting through some of the city’s priciest neighbourhoods.
In a release, Vancouver calls on the Canadian Transportation Agency to
issue an order overruling CPR’s removal of the Arbutus Corridor from a list of lines due to be mothballed.
Vancouver also wants the agency to order the railway to make an offer to sell the 11-kilometre corridor at its 2004 net salvage value, which is the after-tax value of the land, minus clean-up costs.
Vancouver and CPR have
been arguing over the future of the land since trains stopped running on the tracks 15 years ago.
Mayor Gregor Robertson has accused the railway of bullying, alleging the com-pany rejected the city’s fair market offer to buy the land before tearing up community gardens planted beside the rails, and it’s now proceed-
ing with plans to reactivate cargo trains.
In January, a B.C. Supreme Court judge dis-missed Vancouver’s applica-tion for an injunction halt-ing CPR’s removal of the gardens, but also found the city has raised legitimate questions about whether the railway has abandoned the land.
City seeks Transportation Agency clout in railway battle
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The search for other intelligent life in the galaxy ‘looks good’
One by one, the empty boxes in the Drake Equation are being filled in
with actual numbers, and it’s looking good. So good that Yuri Milner is spend-ing $100 million of his own money over the next ten years to fund the search for non-human civilisations orbiting other stars. But it’s a pity that the Philae lander from the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission didn’t have more time to look for life on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
Yuri Milner is a Silicon Valley billionaire who was working on a PhD in theoretical physics at the Russian Academy of Sciences before he moved to the United States and got rich. His money will buy thousands of hours of radio-telescope time each year to look for radio transmissions from other star systems.
This represents at least a tenfold increase in the amount of work being done on finding intelligent life elsewhere in the gal-axy, and Yuri Milner is no fool. Why does he think
it’s worth spending this money now?
Probably because the Drake Equation is finally coming into its own. It has seven terms, and American astronomer Frank Drake could not give a value to any of them when he first wrote it in 1961. It was just a formula that would let us estimate the num-ber of civilisations in the Milky Way galaxy when the relevant data eventually became available.
To fill in the first three terms, we needed to know how many stars there are in the galaxy, how many of them have planets, and how many of those plan-ets are in the “habitable zone” where liquid water can exist.
Other questions remain, however. How many “habitable” plan-ets will actually have life on them? On how many of those planets will an intelligent species appear? How many of those intel-ligent species will build civilisations that use elec-tromagnetic communica-tions? And how long, on average, would those high-
tech civilisations last?We don’t yet know the
answers to any of those
questions, but we do know that organic compounds are common even in inter-stellar space, and that they are continuously raining on our own planet. So the standard assumption is that they somehow combined on Earth to form the first single-celled creatures, and evolution did the rest.
But if it were easy for those organic compounds to combine into complex microbes and viruses, then you would expect it to have happened here a number of times. There would be several or many unrelated genetic lineages on Earth
– and there aren’t. All life here has a common ances-tor.
So it must be very rare for life to develop spontan-eously. If it actually hap-pened here, it would mean that we are a miracle, and pretty much alone in the galaxy. But maybe the mir-acle happened on another of those 144 billion planets, billions of years ago, and life been spreading through the galaxy ever since – not as alien beings on starships, but as microbes and viruses on meteorites and comets.
This is the “panspermia” hypothesis, first proposed by astronomers Sir Fred Hoyle and Dr Chandra Wickramasinghe in 1974. Dissatisfied with the notion that Earth was unique, they suggested that not only organic compounds but actual microbes and virus-es could travel through interstellar space, dormant but still viable in the liquid water that they suspected was present in the interior of many comets.
It sounds weird, but it is just as plausible as the rival hypothesis of an independ-ent origin of life on Earth.
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was the first-ever opportunity to see if this hypothesis holds water (so to speak). The Philae lander did detect sixteen different organic mol-ecules as it bounced along the comet’s surface, but it ended up in the shadows without power to pursue its investigations further.
Pity, but there’ll be another comet along in a while. And if it turns out that Hoyle and Wickramasinghe were right, then most of those 144 billion planets will have life on them. The history of evolution on earth tends always to great-er complexity, so a fair pro-portion of them would have intelligent life on them.
How many of them have high-tech civilisations on them at the moment, of course, depends on how long the average techno-logical civilisation sur-vives. Our own hi-tech civilisation has survived, so far, for about one centur`y.
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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
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the first edition of the Trail Creek
News. “Our interests at present
lie centred in and about the noble
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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
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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.”
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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
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decades ago.While there's no silver or gold
commemoration for more than a
century of news reporting, the Trail
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Who would choose the inconvenience and hardships of life without conventional electrical power? An increasing number of people are feeling forced to make this very difficult decision.
When the only options given by Fortis is a radio on or radio off smart meter, which both have associated adverse health effects, the choice between damaging or a little less damaging is hard-ly a choice.
Highlighted in various media out-lets, Fortis claims they have made “… ongoing attempts” and that “[people who have had their power cut] are customers we have been working with.” However, if that were true, a reason-able alternative such as the option to con-tinue having electri-city measured with an analog meter, which has no health, fire or privacy risks, should have been a choice.
Instead, Fortis wielded its power of corporate monopoly over the welfare of its customers and hired Exponent Inc., whose past clients include tobacco, asbestos and PCB’s, to represent
them at the BC Utilities Commission hear-ings. That Fortis chose Exponent, a ‘product defense’ company with a reputation of ‘skew-ing science’ is indica-tive of the substantial evidence of harm that needed to be coun-tered and quashed. So why did the Utilities Commission turn a blind eye to the testi-mony of independent research scientists and medical experts?
Ultimately it is all about money in which all levels of govern-ment may also stand to gain from poten-tial future revenue streams. According to Myles Keogh, Director of Grants and Research at the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, “The data is going to be worth a lot more than the commodity that is being consumed to generate the data.”
When Fortis says “we want to be clear that we have met all of our legal and regu-latory requirements,” this means that their smart meter emissions fall within Health Canada Safety Code 6 guidelines. The inad-equacy of Safety Code 6 to protect Canadians
from wireless radia-tion is well recognized within the scientific and medical commun-ities as indicated by these headlines:
-Canadian Medical Association Journal reports Health Canada’s Wireless Limits are “A Disaster to Public Health”
-Cell Phones and WiFi are a “Serious Public Health Issue,” according to Canadian Parliamentary Report 2015
-Pediatric Autism Specialist Calls For Smart Meter Moratorium
-Public Health Physician Warns of Smart Meter Dangers, Stresses Need For Analog Option
-“The Evidence is Irrefutable” Smart Meters Correlate with Adverse Health Effects - The American Academy of Environmental Medicine
-Scientists ‘can’t all be quacks,’ as RDOS calls for moratorium on Smart Meters
Why would our government ignore obvious health risks of wireless technology in general and wire-less smart meters in particular?
The revenue from
wireless broadband sales is lucrative. For example: “Federal government raises $5.3 billion from tele-com firms that bid on licenses,” up from $4.3 billion raised in 2008. It is easy to see why they ignore the cost of smart meters as recognized in a recent US Supreme Court decision that concluded that “A cost-benefit analy-sis (of smart meters) should include health, safety, and privacy issues” and concluded that “any disadvan-tage could be termed a cost . . . including, for instance, harms that regulation might do to human health or the environment”.
We are just one B.C. family of an increas-ing number of B.C. residents who are cur-rently experiencing the duress of feeling forced to accept a smart meter or bear the hardship of having their electricity cut off.
We appeal to Fortis and our governments and agencies to restore their credibility and the public trust by offering the reasonable safe choice of an ana-log meter option.
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It’s bad enough that the Conservative government has rebuffed every call from the provinces to bolster Canadians’ retirement security by expand-ing the Canada Pension Plan. It’s much worse that it is actively trying to torpedo attempts by Ontario to set up its own pension plan to fill the widening gap in what many need for a decent retirement.
Ottawa doesn’t have to approve of Ontario’s efforts to strengthen retirement secur-ity for middle-income workers. It may even find the Wynne government’s plans objection-able.
But to go out of its way to strangle the nascent Ontario Retirement Pension Plan (ORPP) in its cradle is a cal-culated slap in the face to the province.
No wonder the two govern-
ments have dropped the gloves in the opening days of the federal election campaign, with Wynne openly calling for the defeat of the Conservatives. And no won-der the premier is pressing ahead by announcing more details of how she plans to phase in the ORPP, starting in January 2017.
It’s far from certain that the new plan will ever see the light of day, or even be needed if the Harper Conservatives are turfed from office on Oct. 19.
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Sensei Scott Hutcheson of Beaver Valley Chito Ryu Karate joined MP Alex Atamanenko and senseis from across B.C. at Kohan Gardens and Nikkei Internment Memorial in New Denver on Saturday to honour the founder of the National Karate Association of Canada, Sensei Masami Tsuruoka, in a special memorial ceremony.
Sensei Tsuruoka was the sem-inal figure in the birth and evolu-tion of karate in Canada. Born in Cumberland, B.C., his Japanese heritage would also make him a victim of one of Canada’s worst assaults on its citizens in its 148-year history.
During World War II, Tsuruoka and his family had all their posses-sions seized by the federal govern-ment and were moved to Tashimi and then to the Rosebery intern-ment camp near New Denver. In all, some 27,000 Japanese-Canadians had their property appropriated, then were detained for years in camps without charge or trial, while others were deported to Japan. The internment began in 1942 and, in some areas, lasted until 1949, four years after the war ended.
“As Canadian citizens we have to say never again,” said Atamanenko at the ceremony. “A group of people because of their race or beliefs have all their possessions taken away, and get sent somewhere to survive, never
again.”Tsuruoka wanted to make one
last visit to New Denver on the shores of Slocan Lake and the place of his family’s internment, but died in October of last year.
Thanks to a grant from Columbia Basin Trust, Hutchinson, in honour of Sensei Tsuruoka, planned the memorial and karate clinic, with an invite to local dignitaries, Senseis Gord Kirschner (head of Tsuruoko Ryu) and Rick Penner (KBC’s Referee Executive Director), and karate practitioners to attend and pay their respects and gratitude.
“It was a privilege to fulfill his dying wish,” said Hutcheson. “I felt it was an obligation to do it, and I’m sure his family and stu-dents will greatly appreciate the gesture.”
In 1945, after the end of World War II, Tsuruoka and his father
left B.C. for Japan and at age 17 he began the study of Chito-ryu karate under Dr. Tsuyoshi Chitose. He received his first degree black belt at age 20 and after continuing his study and receiving his third degree black belt, moved back to Canada in 1956.
When Tsuruoka began study-ing with Chitose, karate was at the point where two eras crossed: the old ways of Okinawa and the new ways of post-war Japan. Tsuruoka was one of the first students of the group that was to reshape modern karate.
Sensei Tsuruoka went on to establish the National Karate Association of Canada (Karate Canada), serving as its first presi-dent. He opened the first kar-ate school at the University of Toronto in 1962, and initiated the first karate competition in Canada, the Canadian Open Karate
Championship, in the same year. In 1973 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the Pan-American Karate Union elected Tsuruoka first vice-presi-dent, and he was awarded Order of Ontario in 1999.
His contribution to martial arts in Canada is unparalleled, but he also influenced a number of American practitioners. Tsuruoka was the referee in Chuck Norris’ World Championship match in 1969, and Bruce Lee wrote Tsuruoka to ask advice about North American culture and teaching before achieving legend-ary status on the big screen.
In the still garden of Kohan with the waters of Slocan Lake and the Valhalla Mountains looming in the background, Penner couldn’t help but observe, “Historic and moving in such a serene place.”
Atamanenko, a fourth Dan black belt in Shotokan karate, paid homage to Sensei Tsuruoka’s legacy, and thanks to those in attendance, it’s one that continues to thrive today.
“He forgave Canada for what it did to him and his family and he came back and accomplished all this,” said Atamanenko. “A lot of us wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for him and we have to recognize that. He was an innovator and he survived.”
In 1986 Prime Minister Brian Mulroney offered an apology and compensation of $25,000 to those Japanese-Canadians dispossessed and imprisoned during the War.
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Karate masters from across B.C. gathered at the Kohan Gardens and Nikkei Internment Memorial in New Denver on Saturday to honour Sensei Masami Tsuruoka, the father of karate in Canada, and a former prisoner at the Japanese internment camp in Rosebery in the Slocan Valley.
Sensei Scott Hutchinson (far right) organized the memorial cere-mony paying tribute to Sensei Tsuruoka.
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If you love the outdoors, cycling, and would like to help those in need, it’s time to regis-ter for the 10th annual Pedal Along a Rail Trail (P.A.R.T 10) which travels on the Columbia and Western Railway on Saturday.
The 64 km route takes mountain bikers along the old Canadian Pacific rail line from the Paulson Detour Road to the Celgar mill parking lot near Castlegar. It is an incredibly scenic four-to-five hour ride with trestles, tunnels, and spectacular views from high above Arrow Lake.
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Pastor Jim Reimer, of Kootenay Christian Fellowship said ride is “absolutely phe-nomenal,” praising the scen-ery, as well as the historical memorial to Doukhobor leader Peter (Lordly) Verigin who was among nine people killed when the train he was riding mys-teriously blew up in 1924.
There are four tunnels — the largest of which is curved and at nearly one kilometre long leaves people in complete darkness.
“It’s worth it just for that,” said Reimer. “Just to see the engineering. They started dig-ging the tunnel on either side and managed to meet in the middle.”
Reimer has participated in the ride several times and emphasizes that it’s a ride, not a race.
“We want to people to enjoy the ride,” he said.
The first seven kilometres is a gentle uphill with a friendly 2.5 per cent grade and after that, it’s all downhill. Riders are treated to a healthy meal at the end.
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That’s what football fans will see when the Patriots play the Green Bay Packers tonight in their exhibition opener.
With a four-game suspension loom-ing over quarterback Tom Brady, coach Bill Belichick will have to decide which is more important: Getting his backup prepared for a possible stint as the starter, or show-ing his support for the suspended Super Bowl MVP.
No surprise: Belichick hasn’t said anything about his plans. So when the
teams take the field, the Packers and the rest of the NFL will learn for the first time how the defending champions plan to handle the potential absence of their star.
“I don’t know who we’re going to see,” Packers linebacker Clay Matthews said. “You prepare as if their best players are going to play whether it’s the preseason or not. ... We’ll see what deci-sion they go in with. But we’re preparing for all of their starters and hopefully put in a good showing.”
Brady was sus-pended four regular-season games because the NFL said he was “at least generally aware” of a scheme to provide improperly inflated footballs for the AFC champion-ship game against the Indianapolis Colts. He
appealed all the way to federal court, and that’s where he was on Wednesday when his teammates were at Gillette Stadium before their final walk-through.
That alone might give Belichick reason to keep Brady out of the game; he’s missed the preseason opener four times since taking over as starter, including last year, and he’s skipped at least one exhibition game in six of the past seven seasons.
The suspension does not affect Brady’s ability
to participate in train-ing camp or play in the exhibition games, but resting him would give Belichick a chance to get Garoppolo some snaps with the first team. The second-year second-stringer played in six games as a rookie last season, most of it in garbage time, com-pleting 19 of 27 passes with one touchdown and no interceptions after he was drafted in the second round out of Eastern Illinois.
The Patriots also signed former Arizona Cardinals quarter-back Ryan Lindley this week after Matt Flynn couldn’t pass his physical.
Lindley, a sixth-round pick from San Diego State, played in nine games over two seasons with the Cardinals, completing 50.8 per cent of his passes and throwing
two touchdowns and 11 interceptions.
He also started last year’s 27-16 playoff loss to Carolina, completing 16 of 28 passes for 82 yards with one TD and two interceptions.
“It’s another arm,” Belichick said.
The Packers are more settled at quarter-back, with Aaron Rodgers - like Brady, a two-time NFL MVP - needing only as many snaps as necessary to get him ready for the season. Second-stringer Scott Tolzien is followed on the depth chart by Brett Hundley and Matt Blanchard.
“We want to see the guys run the huddle and manage the team,” general manager Ted Thompson said. “I think that’s a huge part of playing that position, is managing the chaos.”
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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SSURREY, B.C. - The B.C. Lions’ defence
isn’t used to getting criticized.After years of dominant performances,
the Lions’s defensive unit has faltered in 2015. It occupied the CFL’s basement in passing and rushing yards allowed heading into their tilt with the surging Edmonton Eskimos last week.
The stats sheet doesn’t read much bet-ter now, but one half of football showed that the Lions can still get it done.
Down 23-10 at the break, B.C. held Edmonton off the scoreboard over the final 30 minutes in what would turn out to be a 26-23 victory. It was a result that improved the Lions to 3-3 on the season and at least temporarily halted the questions about their inability to stop opponents through the air and on the ground.
“We heard about how bad our defence was,” Lions linebacker Solomon Elimimian said this week. “Guys know what’s going
on. It was a personal challenge. It was a challenge to us to prove the critics wrong.”
The Eskimos, who came in having won four straight, managed just 139 yards of offence in the second half against a team that had given up nearly 425 yards per game coming in.
Adam Bighill, who leads the CFL with 46 tackles, said a Lions’ defence that has a number of younger players trying to find their footing in the league finally stepped up after weeks of frustration and near misses.
“It wasn’t so much the adjustments as it was playing sound, fundamental football,” said the linebacker. “Everyone had to do their job. You turn on the tape and you watch it, everybody was taking turns mak-ing plays, as they should. That was really the difference. Moving forward that’s what we need to do.”
Lions quarterback Travis Lulay said it was nice to see the defence step up and
give the team a chance, especially when B.C.’s offence was struggling to get first downs for long stretches of the second half against Edmonton before a late surge to get the win.
“Criticism is part of the game and those guys heard some things,” said Lulay. “To their credit they just kept playing, slug-ging hard. If we were to ask them what they did differently between the first half and the second half, it wasn’t magic, it wasn’t a bunch of different calls, it was just purely focus and execution.
“Those guys buckled down and found a way to get it done.”
There was also plenty of talk about the Eskimos’ No. 1-ranked defence, which came into Vancouver having surrendered just one touch-down over its last three games. The Lions said they used as motivation.
“They’re doing something that basically I’m used to doing,” B.C.
defensive back Ryan Phillips said. “That’s the style of football and the style of defence I’m used to playing here. We wanted to make sure we matched their intensity.”
B.C. travels to Hamilton on Saturday to take on the Tiger-Cats (4-2), a club that has scored 31, 34 and 38 points during its current three-game winning streak and is undefeated at Tim Hortons Field since it opened last season.
The Lions know two quarters won’t necessarily change the course of a season, but the steps taken in the comeback vic-tory over Edmonton that stopped a two-game slide were encouraging.
B.C. Lions defence showing signs of life
B y T I m E S S T A f fKimberley native Jared du
Toit failed to make the cut at the 2015 Canadian Men’s Amateur Golf Championship.
Heavy rain poured down in the Toronto area Monday, lead-ing to the suspension of first-round action at both Lambton Golf and Country Club and Weston Golf and Country Club before du Toit was able to tee up.
The former Selkirk Secondary School student and recent transfer to Arizona State University finally hit the links at Lambton Tuesday morning, rolling to an opening-round 72 to sit 1-over par after 18 holes. However, a bogie on the 18th
hole in du Toit’s second round on the Weston course would drop him to a 4-over par 76, and 5-over total to leave him one shot beyond the cut line.
Du Toit carded a 37 on the front nine, but bogeyed three of the first five holes on the back nine to put him behind the veritable eight ball. A birdie on 16 would lift him back into cut contention, until the bogey on the final hole sunk his chances.
Billy Kennedy from Alpharetta, Gerogia leads all competitors at -10 after shoot-ing a 3-under 69 on Wednesday, followed by Australian Ben Eccles at 9-under. The top B.C. shooter, Stuart Macdonald, fired the low round of the day
at -5 to put him in a tie for fifth place at 4-under par.
Du Toit won his way into the 2015 Canadian Men’s Amateur Golf Championship by claim-ing the title at the 2015 B.C. Men’s Amateur Championship in Oliver earlier this summer.
The winner of the 2015 Canadian Men’s Amateur Championship receives exemp-tion into the 2015 USGA Men’s Amateur Championship (Aug. 17 to 23 in Olympia Fields, Ill.) as well as the 2016 RBC Canadian Open.
The Canadian Men’s Amateur Championship is more than a century old, having been first contested in 1895 at the Ottawa Golf Club.
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Kimberley golfer, du Toit, misses cut
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2015 Parapan Am Medal Standings
TORONTO - Medal stand-ings at the 2015 Parapan Am Games (ranked by total gold
medals won): Nation G S B
TotalBrazil 63 41 46 150Canada 28 35 31 94United States 25 30 27 82Mexico 23 23 24 70Colombia 17 24 17 58Argentina 12 15 16 43Cuba 10 10 8 28Venezuela 6 9 11 26Chile 3 2 4 9Jamaica 1 2 0 3Ecuador 1 0 3 4Uruguay 1 0 0 1Costa Rica 0 0 2 2Nicaragua 0 0 2 2Puerto Rico 0 0 2 2Dom Republic 0 0 1 1
NFLPre-season gamesThursday, Aug. 13
New Orleans at Baltimore, 7:30 p.m.
Green Bay at New England, 7:30 p.m.
N.Y. Jets at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.Miami at Chicago, 8 p.m.
Washington at Cleveland, 8 p.m.
Dallas at San Diego, 10 p.m.Friday, Aug. 14
Carolina at Buffalo, 7 p.m.Tennessee at Atlanta, 7 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Jacksonville, 7:30 p.m.
N.Y. Giants at Cincinnati, 7:30 p.m.
Denver at Seattle, 10 p.m.St. Louis at Oakland, 10 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 15Tampa Bay at Minnesota, 8
p.m.San Francisco at Houston,
8 p.m.Kansas City at Arizona, 9 p.m.
Sunday, Aug. 16Indianapolis at Philadelphia,
1 p.m.Thursday, Aug. 20
Detroit at Washington, 7:30 p.m.
Buffalo at Cleveland, 8 p.m.
BaseballAmerican League
East Division W L Pct GBNew York 61 50 0.55 -Toronto 62 52 0.544 .5Baltimore 57 55 0.509 4.5Tampa Bay 57 56 0.504 5Boston 50 63 0.442 12 Central Division W L Pct GBKansas City 68 44 0.607 -Minnesota 56 56 0.5 12Detroit 54 59 .478 14.5Chicago 53 58 0.477 14.5Cleveland 52 59 0.468 15.5
West Division W L Pct GBHouston 61 53 0.535 -Los Angeles 59 53 0.527 1Texas 55 56 0.495 4.5Seattle 53 61 0.465 8Oakland 51 63 0.447 10
Today’s GamesOakland (S.Gray 12-4) at
Toronto (Buehrle 12-5), 12:37 p.m.
Texas (Ch.Gonzalez 2-4) at Minnesota (E.Santana 2-3),
1:10 p.m.N.Y. Yankees (Eovaldi 11-2) at
Cleveland (Bauer 9-8), 7 pmL.A. Angels (Richards 11-9) at Kansas City (Guthrie 8-7),
8:10 p.m.Friday’s Games
Chicago Cubs at Chicago White Sox, 4:10 p.m.
Oakland at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees at Toronto, 7:07 p.m.
Seattle at Boston, 7:10 p.m.Tampa Bay at Texas, 8:05
p.m.Cleveland at Minn, 8:10 p.m.Detroit at Houston, 8:10 p.m.L.A. Angels at KC, 8:10 p.m.
Batting R H Pct.Fielder Tex 55 139 .327Kipnis Cle 66 132 .326NCruz Sea 63 140 .324Hosmer KC 67 131 .317LCain KC 73 121 .316Brantley Cle 48 124 .316Bogaerts Bos 52 130 .313JIglesias Det 34 105 .303Trout LAA 78 122 .301Altuve Hou 59 130 .3
Home Runs: N.Cruz, Seattle, 34; Trout, Los Angeles, 33; CDavis, Baltimore, 31; Donaldson, Toronto, 31; Runs Batted In: CDavis, Baltimore, 83; Donaldson, Toronto, 83; National League
East Division W L Pct GBNew York 61 52 0.54 -Washington 58 54 0.518 2.5Atlanta 51 62 0.451 10Miami 45 68 0.398 16Philadelphia 45 69 0.395 16.5
Central Division W L Pct GBSt. Louis 72 40 0.643 -Pittsburgh 65 45 0.591 6Chicago 63 48 0.568 8.5Cincinnati 49 62 0.441 22.5Milwaukee 48 66 0.421 25
West Division
W L Pct GBLos Angeles 63 50 0.558 -San Fran 60 52 0.536 2.5Arizona 56 56 0.5 6.5San Diego 54 60 0.474 9.5Colorado 47 64 0.423 15
Today’s GamesColorado (E.Butler 3-9) at
N.Y. Mets (Syndergaard 6-6), 12:10 p.m.
Milwaukee (Cravy 0-3) at Chicago Cubs (Lester 7-8),
2:20 p.m.Pittsburgh (Liriano 7-6) at St. Louis (Lynn 9-6), 7:15 p.m.Cincinnati (Sampson 1-1)
at L.A. Dodgers (Latos 4-8), 10:10 p.m.
Washington (Strasburg 6-5) at San Francisco (Vogelsong
7-8), 10:15 p.m.Friday’s Games
Chicago Cubs at Chicago White Sox, 4:10 p.m.
Pittsburgh at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.
Arizona at Atlanta, 7:35 p.m.Philadelphia at Milwaukee,
8:10 p.m.Miami at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m.San Diego at Colorado, 8:40
p.m.Cincinnati at L.A. Dodgers,
10:10 p.m.Washington at San Francisco,
10:15 p.m.
BATTING R H BAGoldschmidt,Ari 72 133 .337Harper, WAS 77 120 .333Posey, S-F 57 127 .332Parra, MIL 53 106 .328Gordon, MIA 50 136 .326LeMahieu, Col 62 127 .318Pollock, ARI 76 131 .311Escobar, WAS 51 121 .311Panik, S-F 56 116 .309Duffy, S-F 48 111 .304
T H E A S S O C I A T E D P R E S SSHEBOYGAN, Wis. - The bunker
is gone, and Dustin Johnson has moved on.
But in returning to Whistling Straits for the PGA Championship, Johnson faced questions one more time about his infamous error in the sand on the final hole that cost him a spot in a playoff in the 2010 championship.
For the most part, Johnson has shrugged off the queries and mem-ories. He delivered a couple humor-ous zingers Wednesday, and said he only thinks about the mistake when asked.
“I mean, so, I don’t know how many times that is,” he told repor-ters.
A smiling Johnson added: “This year I don’t have to worry about it because - there’s a grandstand there. Thank you PGA. I appreciate that.”
And yes, he does know the rules now about the countless bunkers at the links-style course.
“I haven’t looked at them but I don’t need to. After what happened, I’m pretty sure I know what’s going on,” he said, drawing more laughs.
This was serious business five years ago. Zach Johnson, who had a neighbouring locker, recalled this week consoling his upset colleague afterward.
Dustin Johnson had been assessed a two-shot penalty on the final hole
after grounding his 4-iron in the sand to the right of the fairway, not aware he was in a bunker. He had a one-shot lead when he teed off from the 18th hole.
Johnson missed a 7-foot par putt to slip into a playoff with Martin Kaymer and Bubba Watson- until he learned he had let his club touch the sand during his pre-shot routine. The two added shots dropped him to fifth.
Kaymer beat Watson in the play-off for the Wanamaker Trophy that year, though in a way, it’s a foot-note to the drama that surrounded Johnson.
“Well first of all I need to say it’s a little sad that every time ... we talk about the PGA Championship here it’s like that Dustin threw it away,” Kaymer said. “Of course, if (he) would have made the putts on 18 and if he would have not gotten the penalty stroke, he would have won the tournament.”
The confusion over the bunker was understandable. Johnson has recounted how he saw fans standing there, with a Gatorade bottle and beer can in the bunker.
But at Whistling Straits all sandy areas are considered bunkers, even if they’re outside or near the ropes. The PGA said it has posted notices this year, just like it did in 2010, along with notifying players before they arrived at the course.
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Small businesses, non-prof-it and First Nations organiza-tions and public bodies in the Basin may apply. Co-op and practicum student positions are also eligible.
South Slocan’s Drop Designs is one of the organizations that has participated.
“The program allowed us to complete a large number of projects that we don’t have resources for,” said owner Myla Jillings. “It is a very large bene-fit for our company.”
Kootenay R iver Kampground, near Castlegar, was also able to take advan-
tage of the program throughout the school year.
“It enabled us to extend our hours and have a park attend-ant on duty to greet guests and provide tourists with directions and information,” said owner Mike Giesler.
“We would not have been able to hire this position with-out this subsidy.”
For the first time, the pro-gram will also provide an $8/hour wage subsidy for first-level apprenticeship positions in the construction electrician, car-pentry, heavy duty mechanic and automotive service techni-cian programs.
“Through this subsidy, Basin employers will be able hire first-
level apprentices and the appren-tices will gain access to local training,” said Lisa Kilpatrick, Columbia Basin Trust Senior Manager, Delivery of Benefits.
“If this year works well, we hope to continue to provide this support for apprentices into the future,” she said.
“We are very pleased to be working with the Trust to deliv-er the School Works Program again this year – our third year in a row,” added Tracey Whiting, Manager, Continuing Education and Contract Training at College of the Rockies. “It is exciting to see so many business owners accessing this funding oppor-tunity.”
For more information on School Works and to down-load the application form, visit cbt.org/schoolworks2015, email [email protected] or call 1.877.489.2687 ext. 3584. Applications will be available on August 13, 2015.
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TORONTO - In April, Rich Terfry authored a revealing Facebook post that prompted a range of reactions: concern, curiosity and anger. But he just felt relief.
He wrote then that he had “destroyed every important relationship in (his) life by cheating and lying,” including his marriage. The CBC radio host and artist otherwise known as Buck 65 went on for four apologetic, self-loathing para-graphs, pleading for help and insisting he wasn’t the person his fans thought he was.
He went on to delete the post, but he insists now that the confession wasn’t some impul-sive, dark-night-of-the-soul mistake.
“Definitely not a great moment that I was in when I wrote it, but it wasn’t complete-ly the product of the heat of the moment - ‘cause I thought about it,” he said in Toronto this week.
“I have this thing that I’m ashamed of, and it just kind of keeps getting in the way. And it’s heavy, and I’m ... tired of
carrying it around.“So I just put it out there,”
he added. “‘I blew it. My mar-riage was my fault. I cheated on my wife, and I feel terrible about it. And I need help with this, and I just really want to be a better person.’
“The response was over-whelmingly positive. Not to say that there weren’t some negative consequences to it as well - that was hard for a few people to hear, I think.”
Why air his failings so pub-licly, then? Well, he explains, he didn’t want to give himself the option of lying about his past later.
“It was kind of bonkers,” he said, smiling slyly. “I can admit it.”
He actually considers the Facebook post and last year’s album “Neverlove” to be com-panion pieces - and with his new semi-memoir, “Wicked and Weird: The Amazing Tales of Buck 65,” he has closed the trilogy.
Out this week, the work of “autofiction” blurs reality with Terfry’s rich imagination, embel-lishing tales of his tumultuous upbringing in rural Nova Scotia,
his flirtation with a profes-sional baseball career, and his Radiohead-assisted ascent as an alt-hip-hop eccentric.
He figures the book contains roughly a 60:40 ratio of real-to-imagined material. While shock-ing anecdotes about Terfry’s being jailed in Russia or hugged by a nude Pamela Anderson after the 2006 Junos might defy belief, he says everything in the book contains a kernel of truth. (Of Anderson, he smiles: “I’m guessing she would remember the night like I remember it.”)
His mother is a far less frivo-lous subject. He writes that she was abusive, that she taught him to loathe himself and that “she hated (him) until the day she died.”
Since his mother’s death in 1999, Terfry has only publicly probed their relationship on the song “Ice” from 2001’s “Man Overboard.” Even privately, he hadn’t necessarily dug this deep-ly.
“The figure of my mom has always loomed large in my life,” he said. “This was the first time I really explored the whole thing. I just felt compelled to sort through all my stuff.”
Revealing new Buck 65 book probes career, divorce
t h E a S S O c i a t E D P R E S SNEW YORK - Johnny Depp
is set to perform live with Alice Cooper and Joe Perry as the music-al group Hollywood Vampires.
The band on Wednesday announced shows scheduled for Sept. 16 and 17 at The Roxy in West Hollywood, California. Tickets go on sale Friday.
The trio is based off Cooper’s 1970s drinking club, the Hollywood Vampires, which included John Lennon, Harry Nilsson and Micky Dolenz.
The group will release a self-titled album Sept. 11 that includes collaborations with Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl, Joe Walsh, Slash, Brian Johnson and others. Depp plays guitar throughout the album and sings background on some of the tracks.
Proceeds from the album will benefit MusiCares, which provides financial and personal assistance to musicians.
Hollywood Vampires also will perform at Brazil’s Rock in Rio on Sept. 24.
Johnny Depp to perform shows with Alice Cooper, Joe Perry
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NEW YORK - Laura Prepon’s giv-ing away the cliffhanger from the third season finale of “Orange is the New Black” - or is she?
Spoiler alert: Prepon’s character Alex Vause is returning to the Netflix series next season. But beyond that, well, fans will just need to hop on board the streaming train when the fourth season hits in 2016.
“We can’t really say too much,” a
said Tuesday at a New York screening of the season finale. “She’s dealing with a lot this year.”
The drug-dealing Litchfield Penitentiary inmate and complicated lover of the show’s lead character Piper Chapman (played by Taylor Schilling), is last seen facing down a drug business associate in the third season’s finale. It’s unknown whether Vause will make it out alive or if she is going to portray herself in the show’s many flashbacks.
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Dear Annie: I have four siblings. One of my sisters thinks she has a right to invite herself to our homes, join us for dinner and attend other functions, whether we invite her or not. It’s like she thinks we are joined at the hip.
For example, “Ginny” will call and ask, “Where are we going for dinner tonight?” I am tempted to reply, “I don’t know where you’re going, but I have my own plans.” However, Ginny is overly sensitive and none of us wants to hurt her feelings.
Worse, Ginny is very nosy. She will come to my house (uninvited, of course) and read my mail. She also asks questions about things that are none of her business. But, Annie, Ginny has many good qualities. She has a big heart and a generous spirit and is always willing to help. I have considered buying her an etiquette book that should cover such things, but my other siblings don’t think this is a good idea. We all love her dearly, but her poor
manners are driving us crazy. Any suggestions? -- No Name, Please
Dear No Name: Ginny may not under-stand that she is ignor-ing boundaries and behaving inappropriate-ly, a sign that she may be on the autism spectrum. Or, she may simply be lonely and clingy, and her siblings are her entire social life.
You would be doing Ginny a favor by gently explaining these things. Say that you love her to pieces, but occasionally, you have plans that don’t include family members. When she asks an inappropriate question, you are not obligated to respond. Put your mail where she cannot get to it. Suggest that she look into organizations and activities that will interest her and provide a wider circle of friends and a more active social life. She sounds like she needs guidance. Please help her out.
Dear Annie: I recently rode on
the New York State Thruway. My toll was $2.25. I gave the toll col-lector, who appeared to be a recent high school graduate, a $5 bill plus a quarter. I saw him count out three quarters, and when I saw that he was going for some singles, I said, “I want three sin-gles, please.” All of a sud-
den, it dawned him how this worked and I heard him say, “Ohhh!”
What are the schools teaching these kids? I knew this when I was in the fourth grade. -- K.
Dear K.: Schools still teach mathematics, but we aren’t sure they teach the variables of counting out change. And since most people now use credit cards, debit cards or electronic pay options on their cellphones (and cashiers use regis-ters that tell them what the change should be), we aren’t sure a toll col-lector fresh out of high school would come across this type of calculation
often enough for it to be automatic. But we’d bet if you saw this same kid in a year, he wouldn’t have any problem at all.
Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers
column. Please email your ques-tions to [email protected], or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/AskAnnies.
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Bob (Harold Robert) Hammondof Kimberley/Cranbrook passed away in his 100th year on Friday, July 31. Born in St. Anne de Bellevue, QC on April 22, 1916 to Harold and Georgina, he was the second of 4 children. His early years in Ottawa were filled with sports, clubs, and many outdoor adventures – summers spent biking, swimming, paddling and sailing his canoe and winters spent downhill and X-country skiing and skating. From an early age he had a passionate desire to learn about, put together, and then become competent in an endless array of interests including Boy Scouts of Canada, where he earned every skill badge they had from knot tying, to starting a fire without matches, to knitting. After high school, he was off to Queens University and subsequently graduated with honours and a degree in mining engineering. During this time, he continued competitive downhill and X-country skiing and added to his already notable medal collection. He was appointed captain of the basketball team though he could never figure out why and would laughingly say, “I really wasn’t very good!”
After graduating in 1942, his adventurous spirit lead him to the far north in the Yukon where he worked and co-ordinated crews of prospectors in remote locations including both the mighty Nahanni and Pelly River Valleys. Many of his lively and animated renditions were recounted from this incredible chapter in his life – some hilarious and some riveting like his mid-winter crash landing in an old bush plane way back in the wilds, with no form of communication, finally walking out after many harrowing days. One of his best stories was of spending part of a bitterly cold winter in Yellowknife (instead of in his remote prospecting camp’s walled tent), where it seems evening visits to the hospital for cocoa became a regular occurrence----hmmm! Appears a very pretty young nurse from Saskatchewan had the right recipe and after a fun and eventful courtship, Elsie Anna Biensch and he were married in Wetaskiwin, AB on September 26, 1946. Soon after, they moved to Kimberley where kids Rick & Sally were born. In 1952, the north beckoned again and Tulsequah, BC, a remote Cominco mining settlement about 90km NE of Juneau, Alaska, became home. Five years later, the family returned to Kimberley for many happy and fun years filled with outdoor activities especially skiing, camping and fishing. With his 3 hunting buddies, many mountains and “secret” valleys were climbed and scoured in search of the elusive Rocky Mountain bighorn ram.
At Cominco, he became immersed in developing a new alternate to dynamite for blasting – ammonium nitrate. For 5 years, there were many long days, skipped lunches, and late evenings developing the prills for different detonation speeds. Success finally came so blasters could blow a specific area with a much safer and more predictable outcome at a fraction of the cost of dynamite. In the early ‘60’s he was also instrumental in developing an underground circular cone shaped raise borer which was up to 10 times faster and much safer. During this time he researched and implemented major improvements to underground ventilation. He travelled a lot sharing developmental information with counterparts in the US and Scandinavia. Soon after, he got a new label - Superintendent of Research & Technical Development for the Mines Division of Cominco and he’d say as he laughed, “Big title, lots of work, little pay”.
In the late 1960’s, as empty nesters, Bob and Elsie spent over 20 years in the West Kootenays of BC between Riondel and Tadanac (Trail) where they had many active retirement years mountaineering, camping, tending their fruit trees, and gardening in the summers as well as both alpine and X-country skiing in the mild winters. Bob was community-minded and volunteered on Boards of ski clubs and wildlife organizations. Some of his fondest memories were of The Old Guys, his X-country ski buddies. Known as “Hi-Ball Bob”, he and “Ol Trapper” Griffiths, “Sniff the Roses” Willey Dorey, “Never Wait” McKay, “The Red Bearded Guy” McKerracher, and “The Convert” Forrest, built a whole series of wonderful trails and cabins in the Nancy Greene Lake area near Rossland. His love of downhill skiing in powder snow with blue skies overhead endured and at the ripe age of 69, he skied just over 1 million vertical feet in one season.
Bob and Elsie moved back to Kimberley in 1990 where Rick, his wife Daphne, and their sons Dana and Benson relocated soon after. Daughter Sally was fairly close by in the Slocan Valley during the summers. Bob’s two grandsons were now one of his main focuses, sharing many outdoor experiences and stories with them.
Bob was an engaging, enthusiastic and sometimes theatrical story teller, quick to laugh and joke, with an impressive and colourful vocabulary. He lived life to the fullest. He cherished Elsie (his wife of 68 years, deceased 2014) and loved his family. At 99, after his heart had beat over 3 billion times, it finally wore out. He often said, “Gee I’ve been fortunate. I’ve had a wonderful life”.
His surviving family remembering him are son Rick & his wife Daphne in Kimberley, grandsons Dana in Whitehorse and Benson in Calgary, daughter Sally & her husband Randy in the Slocan Valley, granddaughter Karen and great grandson Dylan in Ottawa.
Should you wish, a donation to the Kootenay Wildlife Heritage Fund, PO Box 100, Kimberley, BC, V1A 2Y5 would be welcomed. Please add: “In memory of Bob Hammond”.
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Redevelopment of the Chevron station was a one-man job Tuesday right around lunch time. The new owners, Parkland Fuel Corporation, are replacing the underground fuel tanks and then commencing with interior renovations to the convenience store, whihc will be converted to a Town Pantry.
