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Jamie Fochuk makes a shot in Gyro Park on Wednesday as he trains for the upcoming national disc golf championships in Kamloops this summer. Along with Devon Gunn, the two regularly haunt the Blackjack course in Rossland for their weekly disc golf fix when the snows recede, but use Gyro in the winter.

B Y T I M E S S T A F FPicket lines will be

going up today at the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital but Interior Health said it won’t impact services.

The B.C. G o v e r n m e n t Employees’ Union announced earli-er this week that it will stage job action at various locations throughout the prov-ince involving almost 500 members.

In Trail, a total of 40 people are expected to take part in the action protesting gov-ernment cuts.

Picket lines are expected at the hospital from the Canadian Mental Health Association of the Kootenays and the Trail Family and Individual Resource Centre Society (FAIR) at 2079 Columbia Ave.

“Striking work-ers want to send a clear message to the BC government: stop putting the squeeze on family services and other commun-ity-based social ser-vices,” says BCGEU Community Social Services Chairperson Patsy Harmston in a press release. “Proper government fund-ing is needed for programs for vulner-able families and the workers who support them.

See JOB, Page 3

Pickets won’t

disrupt service, says IH

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

The swinging axe of school district cuts could be turned on itself through a process to consider reducing its number of trustees.

The board of trustees for School District 20 (Kootenay Columbia) voted in favour of setting up an ad hoc committee to explore the pos-sible reduction in trustee numbers, electoral areas, and the Ministry of Education requirements surround-ing each.

Trail trustee Mark Wilson said the motion that passed Monday night is yet another attempt at reducing the nine-member board, something the district has been try-

ing to do for 15 years.“We are in a district

that is losing enrol-ment ... and we have to keep cutting as a result,” he said. “I think we can advocate for lower numbers and still run a very efficient board,”

Wilson called the committee a proactive approach to reduce the number of trustees, since it needed ministry approval to do so.

Castlegar rural trustee Mickey Kinakin spoke against the motion.

“Although it seems innocuous,

I have stated it several times, this is a highly charged political action in its intent,” he said.

He pointed to the potential closure of two district schools—in Castlegar and Rossland—as matters that could divide the region and alienate the board in those com-munities.

“Put this aside. This is not the time to be dealing with this. Let’s deal with what is going to happen within our communities (with closures),” he said. “We need to deal with this at a more appropri-

ate time.”Wilson called for a reduction in

the number of trustees—from nine to seven or less—as well as a limit on the number of terms a trustee can serve, up to a maximum of three.

The ward system could also be replaced by an “at large” format.

Trail trustee Lorraine Manning said the issue has been revisited over the years and does require a fair bit of time and public consulta-tion.

In January 2010, a request that the board strike a committee to review trustee numbers and areas of representation did not pass.

See REDUCTION, Page 3

School district considers reduction in trustees“... we can’t go and ask people to take cuts and cuts to services when we aren’t prepared to do

that ourselves.”

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Help is on the way for those looking to get home.

Two thirds of the funding for the successful Getting to Home project has been secured after the city’s gov-ernance and operating com-mittee approved $15,000 for each of the next three years to continue the program.

Run by the Trail Skills Centre and Career Development Services, the purpose of the Getting to Home project is to assist people who are homeless, or at significant risk of home-lessness, secure and main-tain suitable housing.

With the Trail-based pilot project facing its one-time federal funding drying up at the end of March, Jan Morton, executive director of the Skills Centre, asked the city to consider sup-porting the project.

She said the city’s finan-

cial assistance would ensure at least some level of on-going assistance to those who are homeless.

“In addition to the immediate need to maintain at least some level of staff-ing after the federal fund-ing ends, we would seek to leverage the city’s contri-bution with funding from other sources,” she said in a letter to city council.

Although other fund-ing sources are yet to be confirmed, the centre has either begun or will soon begin discussions with other local municipalities, the Columbia Basin Trust, B.C. Housing, the Interior Health Authority, the Law Foundation, private cor-porations and individual donors.

The Skills Centre will also seek to work with the Lower Columbia Community Development Team Society’s attainable housing commit-

tee, as well as private land-lords to improve the avail-ability of safe, affordable rental housing in Trail.

Through outreach sup-port provided by two half-time housing facilitators and administrative support, the project helps individuals deal with barriers that make it difficult to secure appro-priate accommodation.

The housing facilitators also organize (and some-times advocate for) on-going supports which help vulner-able individuals maintain housing.

These supports vary but may include social, mental health, and finan-cial supports provided by the Ministry of Social Development, Mental Health and Addictions, Community Living B.C. and other agen-cies that help the individuals deal with chronic issues such as mental health, addictions and relationship abuse, all of

which contribute to housing instability.

Morton said the pilot pro-ject met with “exceptional” success and exceeded the original placement target of 28 individuals by March 31.

From mid-May to the end of December, 2012, the project has assessed and accepted into the project 60 adults who fit the project’s criteria (close to 90 per cent “residing” in the City of Trail) and assisted 37 adults (plus a total of 10 dependent children) to secure housing.

Of those 37, only three have required “re-housing” since the initial placement.

Connections for more housing were made with-in the community and an advisory committee was struck, made up of repre-sentatives of key agencies working with individuals who are often homeless or vulnerably housed.

See STRATEGIC, Page 3

Getting to Home project getting a boost

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• Friday, Senior’s dinner at the Fruitvale Memorial Hall. Cocktails at 5 p.m. dinner at 6 p.m. Buffet dinner catered by “Chef for Hire”. Dance to the Rusty Nails. Tickets $20 and available at the Village of Fruitvale and Village of Montrose offices. Call 367-9319 for more information.

• Saturday, Trail United Church at 10 a.m. until noon. U.C.W. Valentine’s coffee party and bake sale.

• Saturday, Cominco gym at 6 p.m. The 2013 J.L. Crowe grad class hosts the annual Valentine dinner, dance and fun night. Games, prizes and Italian dinner make for a great evening of fun and cheer. Cocktails and appetizers at 6 p.m., dinner at 7 p.m. Dance to the music of Emerson at 9 p.m. Tickets are $35 and available at Pharmasave in Trail and Fruitvale Pharmacy.

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• Feb. 16, the Italo-Canadese Society’s Valentine banquet and dance. Cocktails 5:30 Dinner 6:00, Tickets $32. Dance to the music of Timetrap. Advance tickets at 368-3268 or 368-5291. Door Prize Draw

• Feb 16, the Senior Citizens Centre will host a dance from 2-4 p.m. Admission $2. For more info contact 364-0960.

• Feb 16, Trail Legion at 5 p.m. for cocktails, dinner at 6 p.m. dancing starts at 8 p.m. Bring your valentine to din-ner and dance to the big band sound of The SwingSationS. Tickets $25 ea. Phone 231-6562 for info and tickets.

• Feb. 18, the Kiro Wellness Centre, 1500 Columbia Avenue at 1 p.m. The West Kootenay Ostomy Support Group will meet. For more info call 368-9827 or 365-6276. Guest speakers, please note: time change.

• Feb. 22 & 23, 7:30 PM RLOP presents “The Show must go on”, songs and scenes from past shows, celebrating 60 years of existence. $19 adult, $14 children 12 and under

•Friday March 1, the Trail United Church at 1:30 p.m. for the World Day of Prayer 2013. Everybody welcome. For more info call Gerie at 368-3984

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Kyle Snihur is ready to put his long-board moves to the test this weekend. On Saturday from 2-5 p.m. the cavernous space that was Liquidation World in downtown Trail, will be the scene of a skate jam, prize giveaways and live music from “Roy Has Fire”. The event is sponsored by the Trail SkatePark committee and Kootenay Skate Winter Series.

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FROM PAGE 2Morton said a Homelessness Action

Strategic Plan was also forthcoming.The program’s success is representative

of the Housing First movement taking place across the country, said Morton, where pro-viding supportive housing has become a key strategy for communities to address poverty and related health and social issues.

“And it includes revitalization of the neighbourhoods in which the homeless and vulnerably housed spend their time,” she said,

The money spent by the city will also save the community money. Morton pointed to a 2008 report issued by Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Applied Research in Mental Health and Addiction that the aver-age street homeless adult living with mental health or addictions in B.C. costs the public system in excess of $55,000 per year.

However, provision of adequate housing and support is estimated to reduce this cost to $37,000 per year as a result of reduced hospital and prison stays, Morton addd, and reduced incidents involving the police and other first responders.

Strategic plan in the works

FROM PAGE 1Castlegar trustee Jen Carter said the move to

reduce trustees was a bad one.“We need representation form every part of

this district,” she said. “We have such a large, far flung area ... that we need representation on this board from every area.”

“But we can’t go and ask people to take cuts and cuts to services when we aren’t prepared to do that ourselves,” Wilson said.

Carter said the move to cut two trustees would only save the board around $20,000 out of a $42.6 million budget.

The committee should have an answer com-ing back to the board for final approval and vot-ing by October.

Wilson wanted the board to be reduced to five trustees, elected at large, and suggested that system of education governance be ready to go in time for the next election.

Reduction would save little money

FROM PAGE 1This family services strike follows last week’s

strike by 3400 community living workers across British Columbia.

IH has been informed by the BCGEU that the job action will occur between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. today. Picketers may be outside the main entrance of hospital during this 12-hour period.

Hospital operations are continuing as usual, including scheduled appointments and emer-gency services.

Job action follows last week’s protest


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• Parents of children who turn 5 years old between January 1, 2013 and December 31, 2013 may register their child during the week of February 18 to 22, 2013 in Kindergarten to enter school in September, 2013. Parents are asked to bring with them their child’s birth certificate and BC Care Card.

• The District offers full day, every day Kindergarten.• Should you require clarification or additional information

please contact the Principal of your catchment area school. Should you wish to enrol your child in a non-catchment area school, you will need to register with your catchment area school as well as completing a transfer form which is available at all schools.

• A parent of the child may defer the enrolment of his or her child until September 1, 2014. Parents are welcome to consult with district staff if they are considering deferring registration for one year. Please contact Bill Ford, Director of Instruction, at 250-368-2230 at the Board Office.

~ English Kindergarten Registration ~Parents wishing to enrol their child in English Kindergarten for September 2013 are asked to register their child in their catchment area school during regular school hours.

~ Russian Kindergarten Registration ~Parents wishing to enrol their child in Russian Kindergarten for September 2013 are asked to please contact Kere MacGregor, Principal of Castlegar Primary School, at 250-365-5744 for specific Russian registration procedures.

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Chilliwack has received awards for having some of the best tasting drinking water in Canada.

But Fraser Health spokesman Marcus Lem brought the news Tuesday that the city’s drink-ing water system will eventually have to be chlorinated.

The medical health officer for Fraser Health East remarked to Chilliwack council Monday that although he would personally take a sip of the local water, he wouldn’t let his daughter drink it.

Three incidents of e.coli contamination have been reported in Chilliwack’s water system in the last five years, said Lem.

If it was just one time, Dr. Lem added, he wouldn’t be as concerned.

As a result, new conditions will be required for the city’s drinking water permit, namely that a secondary disinfectant, chlorine, will be added to the now chemical-free water.

“Protecting public health and our resources are top priorities, but council is concerned about how adding a disinfectant such as chlor-ine, could affect the quality of our award-win-ning water,” said Mayor Sharon Gaetz.

In 1997 and 1999, Chilliwack won awards from the Canadian Water Resource Association for the “best drinking water in Canada.”

B y T o m f l e T c h e rBlack Press

B.C. voters have had enough of bags of cash, instant party member-ships, and corporate and union donations influencing their prov-incial affairs, say three of B.C.’s independent MLAs.

Cariboo North MLA Bob Simpson,

Delta South MLA Vicki Huntington and Abbotsford South MLA John van Dongen are calling for reforms to party financing and a meaningful role for backbench MLAs.

And they want the changes made in the brief legislative ses-sion that begins next week.

“People want MLAs to represent their con-stituents, not special interests or party lead-ers,” said Simpson, who was kicked out of the NDP caucus in 2010 for criticizing then-leader Carole James.

The MLAs are also calling for B.C.’s sched-uled election date to be switched to the fall, so the May 14 vote will be the last one conducted with the provincial budget an un-audited political document.

Simpson noted that one of the B.C. Liberal

members supporting Premier Christy Clark’s leadership bid turned out to be a cat, and NDP leader Adrian Dix won his leadership contest with the help of bulk memberships delivered at the voting deadline along with bags of cash to cover the $10 NDP member-ship fee.

Huntington, the only MLA elected as an independent in 2009, said B.C. is one of the last places in Canada that still allows pol-itical donations from corporate and union

sources. She said B.C. should

also ban donations from non-residents, to prevent Alberta “oil barons” and other outside sources from influencing the vote.

Van Dongen, who quit the B.C. Liberals and later the B.C. Conservatives, said he was able to speak out about the cost to small business from the new Family Day holiday. NDP and B.C. Liberal members didn’t have that freedom because their leaders supported it, he said.

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B y D i a n e S T r a n D B e r gTri-City News

School District 43 may be closer to clos-ing the gap on a projected deficit for the 2012/2013 school year.

Board of Education chair Melissa Hyndes confirmed Tuesday night that the deficit may now be closer to $5.5 million than the ori-ginal projection of $7.5 million presented at the Jan. 15 board meeting.

Meanwhile, the district has hired retired Okanagan-Skaha secretary treasurer Frank Roger to stick-handle finances until some-one can be found to fill the post that was vacated when Rick Humphrey resigned, cit-ing personal and medical reasons.

SD43 has pledged to make $5.5 million in non-staff cuts to bring spending under con-trol by the end of June. However, it still has to pass an amended budget by Feb. 26 and the School Act requires that it be balanced, assistant secretary treasurer Chris Nicolls told the board.

“There [finance ministry] guidance to us is that we should submit an amended budget as that is part of the School Act, and the rea-son for the balanced budget further is that until a deficit is actually realized … and such that because it’s projected at this moment in time they encouraged to take steps that are necessary reasonable and appropriate to achieve a balance budget,” Nicolls said.

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WILTSHIRE, JACQUELINE (JACKIE) MARIANNE — May 2, 1928 – February 4, 2013 Aged 84

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

eral government needs to launch a comprehen-sive review of its tar-iff policy to help bridge a yawning price gap between Canadian and American retail prices, a Senate committee said Wednesday.

After studying the issue for eight months, the Senate finance com-mittee said tariffs on consumer imports are not the only, or even major, reason for the price differential, but they are a significant factor and one that gov-ernment can do some-thing about.

The senators noted that Canada still has an 18 per cent tariff on hockey pants even though it could find no manufacturer still pro-ducing them in Canada.

And the problem is compounded depending on when the tariff is applied in the supply chain - by the time it gets to the consumer, the duty could have multiplied two or three times.

“We’re not saying get rid of all tariffs, we’re saying study this and determine if they are appropriate and in most cases they are not,” said

Joseph Day, the chair-man of the committee.

Prior to the report’s release, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, who asked the com-mittee to look into the issue in the first place, said the government has “been looking at our tariff situation carefully, particularly with respect to consumer goods in Canada, to see what we could do.”

But he also noted that tariffs bring in needed revenues for the govern-ment. According to the report, they brought in $3.6 billion in 2010-11.

The long-awaited report makes clear that there is no one reason - or fix - for the price dif-ferential leading tens of thousands of Canadians to cross the border to stock up on clothes, alcohol, food, books, household supplies and even car tires.

Economies of scale, the bigger U.S. mar-ket, higher input costs - particularly transpor-tation costs - and so-called country pricing, whereby manufacturers and suppliers charge Canadians retailers a higher price for band-name items than U.S. counterparts, all con-

tribute to the phenom-enon.

The report contains some head-scratchers. A Lexus assembled in Cambridge, Ont. sells for $44,950 in Canada, but for only $40,950 in the U.S. A Toyota made in Woodstock, Ont. costs more in the southwest-ern Ontario community than in Honolulu. Books are routinely cheaper in the U.S. by up to 40 per cent with some titles.

As Senator Larry Smith put it: “Canadians consumers are feeling ripped off. When the Canadian dollar is at parity with the United States, Canadian con-sumers notice that prices here are typically higher.”

But that does not necessarily mean Canadians are being gouged. And it does not mean the government can make a major con-tribution to fix the prob-lem, the senators say.

The report points out that 90 per cent of goods enter Canada duty-free, meaning even if all tariffs are elimin-ated, prices would drop on only a minority of goods.

The senators did not look into the impact of

Canadian supply man-agement policies on agricultural products, another source of differ-ences in items such as milk and cheese.

Bank of Montreal economist Doug Porter, who has been comparing prices since 2007 when the loonie eclipsed the U.S. currency for a time, said as long as the two currencies are at parity, Canadian shoppers will be at a disadvantage.

In part, he said, it’s because the loonie is overvalued by about 10 per cent. Another is the structural differ-ences between the two markets - one large, the other small and spread out.

“There is not a single reason that explains the price gap and because of that it can’t be fixed, certainly not by policy-makers,” he said.

On Wednesday, the loonie closed up 0.07 of a cent to 100.45 cents US.

The senators said some of the fault lies with shoppers. Canadians are not price-savvy enough, and don’t bargain enough, they said, but they believe with the advent of online shop-ping, that will change.

The report makes three other recommen-dations to help close the price gap:

- Canada and the U.S. should integrate safety standards and regula-tions as much as pos-sible because any dif-ference usually results in higher costs for the smaller market.

- Ottawa should look at raising the threshold of “de minimis” fees on low-value shipments into Canada from the current $20. The U.S. threshold is $200.

- And lastly, it says the government should explore reducing the 10 per cent mark-up Canadian distributors can add to the list price of American books.

Tariffs source of U.S.-Canada price gap: senators


OPINION

Governments play a role in promoting income inequity

In its Global Risks 2013 report, The World Economic Forum (WEF) identi-

fied income disparity as one of the world’s great-est risks. Statistics Canada reports that the income gap between the top 1 per cent of Canadians and everyone else continues to widen to alarming levels. The WEF warns that the widening gap can lead to negative consequences for all of us. We should be concerned about this problem both locally and abroad.

The new Statistics Canada data and WEF report comes on the heels of the Occupy movement and the Arab Spring, both of which started with pro-tests about economic dis-parity. The consequences of poverty and lack of oppor-tunity have also been raised by Canadian first nations communities in the Idle No More protests.

These protests all have one thing in common: they offer little on how to go forward. However, they do highlight the fact that something must be done about the negative conse-quences of growing income disparity. It’s time to start

conversations about how to approach the problem from a different ethic.

Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz points out that “93 per cent of results of eco-nomic growth in the U.S. since 2010 has gone to the top 1 per cent of society. The median income of the worker in the country is lower by one-third when compared to levels pre-vailing in 1968.” There is little compelling evidence to suggest these figures are substantially different in other developed nations, such as Canada.

Stiglitz writes in his book, The Price of Inequality, that we have built a society that views those with large incomes as more deserving in an “achievement” model of income determination. However, income deter-mination is not as simple as creating the conditions for hard work. There are far more forces at play, and “. . . inequality is, to a large extent, the result of government policies that shape and direct the forces of technology and mar-kets and broader societal forces.”

Stiglitz argues that

inequality is avoidable and that relying on the “achievement” myth to fix everything is far too sim-plistic. “An economic and political system that does not deliver for most cit-izens is one that is not sustainable in the long run. Eventually, faith in democracy and the market economy will erode, and the legitimacy of existing institutions and arrange-ments will be called into question.”

The protests of disen-franchised groups and international reports underscore the same point: accepting it as inevitable that many people should work in jobs that do not sustain a household or family while a small elite solidifies its gains is short

sighted.Greater income inequal-

ity breaks apart societies by polarizing its citizens into groups that increas-ingly distrust one another. We have ample evidence that leaving large groups of people in poverty escalates costs in health, criminal justice, and other public systems. It is far cheaper for all of us to ensure that economic disparity is not widened by our public poli-cies

The answer to income disparity is not simply to suggest that people work harder and longer without assessing the range of policy opportunities available to us. As Alan Greenspan told the U.S. Congress in 2009, overreliance on a particular ideology clouds our judge-ment when evaluating eco-nomic policy effects. We must initiate discussions about the economy itself as a public interest rather than just an aggregation of private interests.

Stiglitz points out that emphasizing growth and economic health includes a concerted effort to ensure that those most disenfran-chised among us also gain from societal involvement.

We should heed the warn-ings of the World Economic Forum and learn from the ideological mistakes of the past. Capitalism and free markets have led to unprecedented standards of living for very large num-bers of people, but we must take tremendous care that the economy continues to truly serve all people well.

If we believe in a just society, then this ought to be reflected in how we gov-ern ourselves. The economy should not only equalize opportunity but also pro-vide a minimally equitable benefit. It should not sim-ply maximize opportunism for a few.

Meaningful public dis-cussions regarding “how the economy is a pub-lic interest” may help to change our notions of what is just, what is equitable, and how to get there. If we want to mitigate the risks the WEF, Stiglitz, and others have identified, then perhaps it is time to think differently about the nature and role of the economy.

Kelly Ernst is senior program director with the Calgary-based Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership.

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Times Sports EditorThe Trail Smoke Eaters

kept its playoff hopes alive Tuesday with a crucial 5-3 win over the Salmon Arm SilverBacks.

It wasn’t the prettiest game the Smoke Eaters played this season, but despite being out-shot, the team showed a ton of heart in finding a way to gut out the victory.

“Our first 10-minutes was horrible, and our last 20 was horrible in our eyes,” said Trail coach and GM Bill Birks. “That was probably our worst segments of games, but our last 15 games we’ve been playing pretty good. Todd played really well . . . and to hang on was good.”

Trail netminder Adam Todd stole the show, out-playing an uncharacterically shaky Adam Clarke in the Backs’ net. The 18 year old stopped 31 shots and earned a first-star nod, thanks in part to 13 saves in the final period - a few of the scintillating var-iety when Salmon Arm, down 4-3, pressed hard at the end.

Clarke, one of the top-ranked goalies in the BCHL, stopped just 21 of 26 shots,

and while making some qual-ity saves, also let in a couple of the soft variety.

Smokies leading scorer Brent Baltus netted the win-ner with nine seconds remain-ing in the second period after a tremendous feed from cap-tain Garrett McMullen. With time winding down in the period, McMullen lifted the puck at centre ice over the defender’s head. The lob set-tled down perfectly on the stick of a streaking Baltus, who made no mistake on the breakaway beating Clarke five-hole to give the Smokies a 4-2 lead.

McMullen then tangled with Salmon Arm’s Alex Gillies, going toe-toe and gar-nering two-thirds of a Gordie Howe hat trick on one play.

“I’m not a huge fighter, so that doesn’t happen very often, but it’s great having Baltsy back,” said McMullen. “Me and him have a great chemistry, and we’ve been playing good for almost a year and a little bit now, so we definitely know when each other are out there, and its great having him back in the lineup.”

The Smokies looked tenta-

tive out of the gate, and the Backs’ Steven Iacobellis made them pay, snapping a quick cross-ice pass from Brayden Sherbinin over a sprawling Todd 4:17 into the first.

“It was a slow start on our part, I don’t know what it was all about because we were pretty pumped for this game,” said McMullen. “We had a nice little break, maybe it was the nine days between games, we got caught a little slow-footed out there.”

However, the Smokies would awaken when Mitch Foyle pounced on a Luke Sandler rebound and buried it to tie it at 1-1 heading into the second.

Adam Wheeldon gave the Smokies a jump with a crushing hit, then a knuckle exchange with Ryan Schwalbe six-minutes in, but it was a 5-on-3 penalty kill midway through the second, which really swung the momentum in Trail’s favour.

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Salmon Arm defenceman Shane Hannah replied, pick-ing up a give away at 17:04 and blasting a shot from the slot by the Courtenay native to cut the lead to one.

Baltus’ goal restored the two-goal cushion, but things looked dire right from the start of the third. Foyle took a hooking penalty 26 seconds in and 10 seconds later Sherbinin jammed home a loose puck past Todd to make it 4-3.

Salmon Arm pressed and the Smokies looked baffled at times trying to clear the puck from their end, but Todd stood tall robbing point-blank attempts from Gillies and Iacobellis late in the game. With Clarke pulled for an extra attacker, Todd would foil the Backs one more time making a great glove save, before McMullen gift wrapped an empty netter for Baltus with 20 seconds remaining.

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B Y T I M E S S T A F FThe Selkirk College Saints’ wave of success

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Wood led all BCIHL scorers last week with four goals and seven points, and helped the Saints to a 5-4 overtime win against Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops and a 5-2 victory over Simon Fraser University on home ice in Castlegar.

Wood leads the BCIHL in goals and points with 19 and 37 respectively. Linemate and Trail native Logan Proulx sits third with 30 points, while Selkirk blueliner Kam Crawford leads all BCIHL defencemen with 20 points.

The Saints look to complete a five-game regu-lar season sweep of the University of Victoria, while inching closer to the team’s first BCIHL regular season title on Saturday, when the defending league champions visit the Castlegar Rec Complex.

Selkirk is five points clear of second-place SFU and needs seven points from their seven remaining games in order to clinch top spot and home-ice advantage through the postseason.

“UVic is coming off a big win last weekend (7-0 over Trinity Western) and they’re obviously in the middle of a big playoff race,” says Selkirk head coach Jeff Dubois. “They always compete and bring a complete effort, and they’ve given us some of our toughest games this season.”

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Interior Division GP W L T OL PtPenticton 45 31 11 0 3 65Merritt 43 25 13 2 3 55W Kelow 43 20 12 3 8 51Sal Arm 46 21 19 2 4 48Trail 48 21 25 0 2 44Vernon 45 15 22 1 7 38 Island Division GP W L T OL PtVictoria 46 31 9 0 6 68Nanaimo 44 25 17 0 2 52

Alberni 44 22 16 1 5 50Powell R 49 18 22 2 7 45Cowichan 42 10 28 1 3 24

Mainland Division GP W L T OL PtSurrey 45 28 12 2 3 61Chilliwack 45 27 16 1 1 56P.George 45 21 16 1 7 50Langley 43 18 19 1 5 42Coquitlam 47 18 28 1 0 37

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Vernon 2 Merritt 2

Victoria 7 Powell River 4Langley 7 Coquitlam 1

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Prince George at Surrey, 7 p.m.

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now just four points back of Salmon Arm for the fourth and final playoff spot in the Interior division with eight games remain-ing.

While the SilverBacks enjoy two games in hand, the Smokie players are confident they will be in the post season pic-

ture. “It’s not even a ques-

tion in that room over there,” said McMullen. “It’s not if, it’s when. We’re just going to approach it one game at a time, one win at a time, that’s how we’re doing it.”

The Smoke Eaters play Alberni Valley Bulldogs on Friday at the Cominco Arena at 7:30 p.m.

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toward a BCHL play-off berth, and could be peaking at just the right time.

Tuesday’s 5-3 win over Salmon Arm was Trail’s third victory in four games, and the Smokies have now taken seven points from their last five games after a slow start to the New Year.

Make no mistake, the club’s playoff for-

tunes hang in the bal-ance with Salmon Arm still holding the upper hand.

But with the orange and black mostly healthy, receiving solid, effective goal-tending and getting timely goals up and down the roster, Trail seems determined to push the SilverBacks to their limit down the stretch.

Another aspect of Trail’s recent success is the team’s ability to respond to physical play. Adam Wheeldon’s check on SilverBacks defenseman Brendan Kennedy in the second period was just the spark the Smokies needed to break a 1-1 tie Tuesday, and a cursory glance over this team’s 48-game resume shows Trail typically wins hockey games when they out-hit other teams.

Simple I know,

but food for thought ahead of what should be another physic-al matchup Friday against the Alberni Valley Bulldogs.

No doubt Trail will look for redemp-tion Friday against Alberni, who col-lected a 5-4 victory on Vancouver Island Jan. 26 in a game the Smokies controlled. Trail outshot the Bulldogs 41-26 on the night, had two goals disallowed and found themselves unable to find an equalizer on a full seven minutes of third-period power-play time.

The Bulldogs bring a quick forward group and hulking defense corps that includes for-mer Smoke Eater Eric Walker, who will make his first visit back to Cominco Arena since last suiting up for Trail in 2010-11.

The upside to a light

February schedule is Trail can enjoy extra time between games to heal tired bodies, as evidenced by a nine-day layoff last week.

With only five more games this month, head coach Bill Birks and his staff can pre-pare his charges for each individual oppon-ent; a luxury that at times this season he couldn’t benefit from.

The downside, though, is that every shift this team plays is sure to be scrutin-ized, given that only 24 more periods of regular-season hockey remain. The pressure is on, no doubt, and while Tuesday’s win might have felt great for the Smoke Eater players, it became ancient history Wednesday morning.

Chris Wahl is the play-by-play voice of the Trail Smoke Eaters, go to off-the-wahl.blogspot.ca

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B y T i m e s s T a f f The Rossland Secondary School Royals girls

basketball team continued its dominance of area schools with its fourth consecutive tournament victory this season.

The Royals swept their way to the final with a 58 – 41 victory over Sparwood before crush-ing Creston 72 – 39. In the final, RSS made a particularly bold statement with a decisive 85-39 spanking of Sparwood and their 17th win in a

row this season.Unfortunately, that streak would come to end

on the weekend at the single-A schools provincial seeding tournament in Princeton. The top five teams from the province attended, and in their first match the Royals took on Princeton, falling to the number-four ranked team 72-45.

But the RSS squad would regroup, defeating the fifth-ranked Fernie team 81-66, and follow that up with a 65-48 victory over Fort St. John.

RSS will host the zone playdowns Feb. 22-23.

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Dear Annie: I’m a teenager, and my friend told me he’s having sui-cidal thoughts. His dad is really hard on him, and I suspect he’s ver-bally abusive, as well.

He made me prom-ise never to tell anyone and said he wouldn’t actually go through with these thoughts. But I don’t know what to do. Would it ruin him if I told someone? And who would I tell? I don’t want to make his home life even worse, and he might deny it if I mention it. Please help me. -- Scared to Death

Dear Scared: One should always take threats of suicide seri-ously. Your friend con-fided in you because he needed to talk about it, and you can encour-age him to discuss his feelings. Your compas-sion and support may help him resolve some issues and realize that whatever situation he is in doesn’t have to be permanent.

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following through (get-ting prepared, giving things away), please talk to your parents, school counselor, a sympathetic teacher, your minister or any responsible adult, and urge your friend to seek professional help through the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK.

Dear Annie: I am a grandmother in my 60s. I was excited to learn about Facebook and start conversing with friends and rela-tives. I love seeing all of their pictures and videos and reading their statuses and com-ments. I always make comments and give compliments on their

pictures, etc. But is it wrong for

me to be hurt and resentful when some of them completely ignore me in return? It is mainly the rela-tives who do this. These are the same people to whom I have sent checks in hard times and for every occasion, and it bothers me when I see that they com-ment to other friends, but act like I don’t exist.

I hate to say any-thing to them, because they would resent me for it, but it hurts my feelings, and I don’t understand their behavior. They act as if it would cost them long-distance money to respond to me.

I believe you can find out a lot about people by friending them on Facebook. You discover which ones are really interested in you and which ones simply like to post pictures of themselves. It is so self-centered. What should I do? -- Hurt in Virginia

Dear Hurt: Please don’t mistake Facebook

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Dear Annie: This is about the letter from “A Long-Term Care Employee,” who urges family members to bring new clothing to residents in nursing homes.

In the past five years, my husband has been in three dif-ferent nursing homes for rehab after a stroke and numerous falls.

You learn not to bring “good” clothes because they disappear. Even with every article iden-tified with a name tag, a hamper to put dirty clothes in and instruc-tions that “family will do laundry,” the clothes go missing.

I visited my hus-

band daily. Finding his missing clothes was an ongoing problem in each nursing home. I visited the lost and found department in one facility, and the amount of clothing there could have outfit-ted every one of the 102 residents. Please don’t

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B Y J I M H O L T ZGrand Forks Gazette

The City of Grand Forks will be spending $270,000 for work to prevent any further erosion of the slag pile on Granby Road.

The decision came after erosion was discovered in the pile in an area beneath which Overton Creek was believed to flow.

The money, taken from the city’s slag sales reserve fund, was approved by council to pay for professional geotechnical evaluation of the affected area through monitoring of move-ment in the slag pile, and for redirecting Overton Creek to a closed culvert running along Granby road, exiting into the Granby River south of the pile.

“The diversion of the creek

is a permanent diversion,” Grand Forks CAO Doug Allin said. “We don’t know if that is the final solution to addressing the problem. According to the geotech, that is one of his rec-ommendations, and the most imminent one because the creek will be flowing beneath the slag pile (during spring runoff).”

The final design is being planned now, Allin said, and will be approved, tendered and implemented before spring.

“As soon as we’ve completed this (diversion) project, we’re going to be setting up monitor-ing on the slag pile to monitor the movements, if there are any movements,” Allin said.

He said that there have been conversations with some of the

residents of the flats opposite the slag concerning any danger posed by the slag pile and the city’s response to the situation. He added that there is no ser-ious concern.

“One of the things we need to keep in mind is that the slag has been sitting there since the early 1900s and that with things that have been sitting there for that long a time, there is going to be some movement, but we think we understand the order of magnitude and will make sure that it is not going to create a bad situation of us.”

The city has requested that Fire Chief Dale Heriot and his staff draw up a contingency plan in case the slag pile should move enough to partially block the Granby River.

GRAND FORKS

City invests cash to prevent slag pile erosion

CASTLEGAR – BC Southern Interior MP Alex Atamanenko issued a press release expressing his disappointed that the federal Electoral Boundaries Commission’s report does not reflect the majority of submissions at last fall’s public hearings in BC’s rural ridings.

The final Commission report divides the current riding of BC Southern Interior between a newly created riding, South Okanagan - West Kootenay, and the eastern rid-ing of Kootenay-Columbia.

The communities of Nelson, Kaslo and Salmo will become part of Kootenay-Columbia. Castlegar, Trail, Grand Forks, Nakusp and the Slocan Valley join Osoyoos and Penticton in South Okanagan-West Kootenay.

The communities of Keremeos and Princeton have been added to a third Okanagan riding.

“This report goes against the submissions of an overwhelming majority of people who provided feedback at the Commission’s pub-lic hearings”, said Atamanenko. “We heard the message loud and clear that Nelson, Salmo and Kaslo did not want to be separated from Castlegar and Trail, but that is exactly what the Commission has done.”

In a recently released op-ed

piece Dan Albas, Conservative MP for Okanagan- Coquihalla, also criticizes the Commission’s report. According to Albas, the Commission based the redistribution solely on numbers and did not consider geo-graphic accessibility or equity of representation when redefining rural riding boundaries.

For constituents living in the Slocan Valley an MP’s office in Penticton (5 hours away) is never easily accessible. Winter driving conditions on mountain passes will curtail MP visits to the West Kootenay area.

A similar accessibility problem exists in the Kootenay-Columbia. “I agree with Dan”, added Atamanenko. “What may work on paper does not translate to the reality on the ground.”

The Commission has added sig-nificantly more mountainous area to the already challenging size of Kootenay-Columbia. Equitable access to the MP will be impossible in this large territory.

Atamanenko and other MPs have 30 days in which to register their objection and signify their inten-tion to appear before the parlia-mentary procedures committee.

The Member for BC Southern Interior is slated to appear before the Committee in early March.

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Lieutenant (Lt.) James Hossack, commanding officer of City of Trail 531 Royal Canadian Air Cadets, is awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal on Jan. 30 at a ceremony at the Trail Armory. The medal was presented by Lieutenant-Colonel A.G. Moreau, com-manding officer 39 Combat Engineer Regiment.

B y D a n W a l t o nInvermere Valley Echo

Lake Windermere’s world record for hosting the largest and widest outdoor skating rink will likely have to wait at least one more winter.

Because of less-than-ideal weather conditions, the organizations work-ing to break the record will probably wait until next winter before regis-tering the 17.3-kilometre Whiteway with Guinness World Records.

“What we ran into this year is a really bad freeze,” said DOI councillor Justin Atterbury. “You kind of get a

freeze, and then some mild weather, and then you get a freeze right away again with some snow in the mean-time; so if you go out there, it’s really bumpy, it’s almost like there are speed bumps everywhere and there are a lot of ripples and that’s the kind of thing we can’t get out; Mother Nature has to get it out for us, and it’s not doing it for us this year.”

Currently, Winnipeg holds the rec-ord for having the longest skating rink at 8.5 km, defeating the previous record of Ottawa’s Rideau Canal of 7.8 km in 2008.

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Trail Daily Times, February 07, 2013