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As major retailer Zellers con-tinues to wind down its oper-ations in Trail the quest for another business to fill the vac-uum mirrors the state of the retail industry in general, says the Waneta Plaza general man-ager.

Linda MacDermid said the 67,000-square-foot space will be vacated by Zellers March 16 but there are no suitors lining up right now to wed to the expanse of retail space.

“It’s not the time of year to be asking, because nothing happens in January and February, most major businesses are still looking at the fallout from Christmas,” she said. “It takes long for retail-ers to get over that post-Christ-mas slow down.”

The retail sector has been extremely challenging, not just in the Silver City but throughout the whole province, said Sandy Santori, the regional director of Lower Columbia Initiatives Centre (LCIC).

Any leads the LCIC has made on national outlets for the region have been met with statements of merging, downsizing or closing.

“Obviously that has to do with the overall economy right now,” he said. “A lot of major stores are downsizing in those mar-ginal type markets ... and most of the companies I have spoken to aren’t in the expansion mode at this time.”

The area is a bit more chal-lenged in the business realm, he added, as beyond the drain on local business from online pur-chasing, Trail’s close relation to the border is taxing.

He said it is encouraging to see some smaller new businesses opening in the downtown core.

“Small, but granted they are taking a risk and making an investment and they are

employing some people,” he said.Hopefully some of the 84

employees displaced by the clos-ure of the Zellers store in March.

Tiffany Bourre, Hudson’s Bay Company external communica-tions manager, said nothing is planned by the company after Zellers moves out of the space, even though it still holds the lease for a few more years.

“We don’t have any plans to announce additional locations that will operate beyond what we have announced already. So that store will definitely close,” she said. “The store is currently in liquidation so all inventory would be on sale.”

The mall will continue to look for a tenant in its massive end location, as well as a franchisee for a potential Mr. Mike’s restau-rant for the facility.

The Mr. Mike’s franchise wants to be in the mall at this point, said MacDermid, but they can’t find a person in the region to pick up the reins of the oper-ation.

“They know that Trail is just the place for them to be,” she said.

And Trail could just be the place for a new manufacturing plant. Two manufacturing plants looking to locate here feel the same way, said Santori, and the identity of one could be revealed at the end of the month

The dialogue and follow up meetings with a long established business looking to expand into the west are nearly over, he added.

“I can say Trail does meet their needs and they are under-going due diligence at this time,” he explained. “It is looking quite positive but no decision has been made.”

The proponents in the deal have asked for their identity to be kept confidential at this time, Santori said.

No new retailers stepping up to fill Zellers’ departure


The meter is still running on the city’s only cab company but it might not be for long.

Nearly one year after Champion Cabs had requested an increase to their rates, the company has had to make further changes to deal with the bleeding.

Company owner John Foglia said, although the rates for his fares have risen, the economy has “slid backwards” and the company has had to cut its hours of services.

Since the rate increase in February, the service has gone from operating 24 hours per day, seven days per week to 16 hours per day to now to putting cabs on the road for eight hours per day only on certain days.

There is no taxi ser-vice available at all after 7 p.m. from Monday to Wednesday in Trail,

With longer service available later in the week and on weekends.

“It’s getting worse and worse,” he said about the business situ-ation. “It’s not that it’s not enough (the rate increase), but there’s not enough volume to make it worthwhile.”

He said the company has had to keep cutting back and did not know how the situation could be improved. Although his company is up for sale, he said there was no danger of it closing right now, as long as it continued to break even.

However, he said the re-institution of the provincial sales tax

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The potentials storms of labour unrest in B.C. have been quelled with two separate union con-tracts finding approval in December.

Health care work-ers from 11 unions in the province voted 91 per cent in favour of a two-year contract.

They include assist-ants in X-ray depart-ments and phar-macies, trades and maintenance staff and administrative workers in various settings such as hos-pitals, long-term care facilities and health authority offices.

In early December brief job action by hospital pharmacists and medical imaging technicians impacted patient services at Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital.

The contract gives the 46,000 employees a three-per-cent wage hike and ensures a moratorium on lay-offs due to contracting out until March 2014, when the deal expires.

In mid-December-members of the Canadian Office and Professional Employees Union, local 378 (COPE 378) employed at BC Hydro voted to ratify their tentative agreement.

The agreement contains an overall four per cent wage lift, staggered throughout the two years of the collective agreement. The agreement affects three Trail-based B.C. Hydro employees and 12 in Castlegar. Trail service is covered by FortisBC. The agree-ment contains an overall four per cent wage lift.

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FROM PAGE 1could erode the bottom line this year and put the service in jeopardy once again.

Without demand, Champion Cabs went from having six operational vehicles in Trail and Castlegar to three but only had one on the road between the two communities for this past month.

In February Foglia threat-ened to close his company after requesting a 35 per cent rate

increase from the Passenger Transportation Board because rising minimum wage, high gas prices and growing insurance costs was driving him into debt to the tune of $22,000.

He was granted an accumu-lative hike to his service rates and decided to keep his busi-ness in motion.

Customers paid 10 per cent more ($3.45 instead of $3.15) for a start-up fee; 22 per cent more on travel time—$2.51 per

kilometre rather than $2.06—and three per cent more for wait time.

Trail Taxi began in the mid-1960s but when Foglia took over the company in 2000, he changed the name to Champion Cabs and later combined the service with Castlegar Taxi, which he bought six years ago.

He felt the two compan-ies would support each other enough to survive as the lone cab company.

Board granted company a rate hike

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Consider it a make work project.

With the end in sight for the Waneta Dam expan-sion project in early 2015, Columbia Power has turned to the public to get an idea of what to do next.

Columbia Power execu-tive director Jane Bird said the start of the Waneta pro-ject signalled the completion of the Crown company’s ori-ginal mandate—dating back 16 years ago—to develop three core power projects.

And with Waneta started, and the Brilliant expansion and the Arrow Lakes gen-erating station completed, a new plan needs to be developed for the commer-cial Crown corporation.

Bird said the five-year plan has to be accountable to the shareholders, the prov-ince of B.C and its people.

“As a company we have had to ask what is our strat-egy to take us through the next five years and beyond,” she told Trail city council in its last meeting of 2012.

“It tells us whether it makes sense to continue to invest in these projects like an Elko Dam, for example.”

The plan would show Columbia Power how to re-invest in hydroelectric power generation in the area, she added.

A plan would also allow Columbia Power to proceed to undertake feasibility work to assess the commercial and environmental viability of potential projects, deter-

mine the level of interest of possible partners, assemble human resources and under-take further consultation on specific projects.

As a result, Columbia Power embarked on a pub-lic consultation project to gather feedback and insight from the public.

Through a 12-page book-let, Columbia Power has invited feedback on its strat-egy.

It is available at libraries and community centres in Trail and Castlegar, as well as online at www.columbia-power.org/StrategicPlan.

Bird said the company intends to build on its strengths in the strategy and continue to develop and operate hydroelectric generation projects in the

Columbia Basin. “We intend to capital-

ize on our key strengths, including low overheads, hydro project management expertise—particularly in design/build contracts—strong support from local government, the community and First Nations, and our tradition of partnering: with BC Hydro, Columbia Basin Trust and Fortis,” she said.

Specifically, the strategy over the next five years for Columbia Power includes: finishing Waneta—safely, on time and on budget—rein-vesting income from exist-ing facilities in new hydro generation projects in the Columbia Basin, and con-tinue to use income to pay dividends to the province and to B.C. Taxpayers.

Columbia Power seeks public input

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It pays to shop around.

The City of Trail is moving to a new cel-lular service provider, saving them hundreds of dollars in the pro-cess.

City council agreed during their Nov. 26 general government committee meeting to a contract with Bell for the city’s cell phone services, mov-ing away from Telus, a provider the muni-cipal body had been with for several years.

According to a report from city staff, the city’s operations have become entirely dependent on cellular service.

There are vary-ing levels of usage depending on the area of operation. Some employees are equipped with a basic phone for c o m m u n i c a t i o n from the field while others are equipped with Blackberry Smartphones for the purpose of retrieving emails and having other office applica-tions synced from the desktop to the phone.

The city has in excess of 30 devices operating at any given time, which include administration, pub-lic works, parks and recreation as well as several members of council.

Currently the city spends approximately $20,000 per year on cell phone and associ-ated wireless services.

In a review of cell phone service provid-ers and local vend-ors—including Bell Canada and Telus for service, Soundwest,

BV Communications and Rock Island Tape Centre for vendors—City of Trail informa-tion systems coordin-ator Duane Birnie initially found that Telus offered the best pricing and service choices.

Citing reliability and coverage as key considerations, Birnie said the city had been “very satisfied with the service and response coming from Telus as well as Rock Island.”

But a Nov. 22 report from Birnie turned up a miscommunication from the communica-tions company Telus and the quote was changed.

Through an analy-sis of city usage over a 10-month period—to estimate the costs of each offer—it was found Bell came in ahead by approxi-mately $90 per month after taxes. The Bell offer also had a better plan for text messa-ging.

“The City of Trail’s use of text messa-ging has been steadily increasing and Bell’s offer ensures less coverage charges ver-sus the Telus plan,” Birnie wrote.

As well, Bell offered the city a significant credit for changing from Telus, offering the city a net benefit of $1,785. Telus also came in $500 more in hardware costs over Bell.

Birnie warned council about issues of availability of replacement phones, hidden charges and service related issues, but said both compan-ies operated on the same physical infra-structure.

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CASTLEGAR – The Columbia Basin Trust (CBT) board of directors has wel-comed Greg Deck as its new board chair.

Deck replaces former chair Garry Merkel, who served as vice-chair from 1995 to 2006, then chair from 2006 to 2012.

Merkel was instrumental in the formation of CBT, first as part of the commit-tee that negotiated with the province for the establish-

ment of CBT, and then as a founding member of CBT’s board.

“On behalf of CBT’s Board and staff, I would like to thank Garry and acknow-ledge his many contribu-tions; his input and leader-ship over the course of 18 years has been invaluable,” said Greg Deck. “Garry’s impact on CBT-and through CBT, on the Columbia Basin-cannot be overemphasized.”

Deck, from Radium Hot

Springs, has been on the Board since CBT’s inception in 1995, serving as vice-chair from 2008 to the end of 2012. Nakusp’s Laurie Page, who joined the board in January 2012, is taking over as vice-chair.

“Greg helped found CBT and throughout the years has provided expert guid-ance and leadership to CBT, as well as to other local governments and organiza-tions,” said Merkel.

Rick Jensen joins the board from Cranbrook, where he is President and CEO of Panorama Mountain Village.

CBT’s 12-member board consists of qualified individ-uals appointed by the prov-incial government: six from among the nominees of the five regional districts and the Ktunaxa Nation Council and six others. All direc-tors must be residents of the Basin.

CBT name new board chairperson

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Columbia Basin Trust’s Board. Back row (left to right): Paul Peterson; Denise Birdstone; Garry Merkel, (retired); Laurie Page, Vice-Chair; Gord DeRosa; David Raven. Seated left (left to right): Cindy Gallinger; Andru McCracken; Am Naqvi; Kim Dean. Seated right (left to right): Greg Deck, Chair; Wendy Booth. Missing Rick Jensen.

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Provincial

Public Hearing (Second)

Elaine Kumar, Director of Corporate Administration

Regional District of Kootenay Boundary Revised Official Community Plan for Electoral Area ‘B’—Bylaw No. 1470, 2012

Monday, January 14, 2013 At 6:30 p.m.

RDKB Board Room 843 Rossland Avenue, Trail

What is the purpose of OCP Bylaw No. 1470, 2012? The revised Electoral Area ‘B’ Official Community Plan (OCP) will replace the current OCP that was adopted in 2001. The OCP contains objectives and policies to guide future de-velopment for Electoral Area ‘B’.

How do I get more information? A copy of the bylaw, the Board’s resolution delegating the public hearing to Linda Worley, along with supporting docu-ments is available for inspection at the RDKB office (843 Rossland Avenue, Trail) from now to the date of the Public Hearing between 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday and also on-line at www.rdkb.com.

250.368.9148

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Who will be at the Open House/Public Hearing? Director Linda Worley, who has been delegated by the RDKB Board of Directors to preside over the hearing, and RDKB staff.

How does the public hearing work? Those in attendance will be given the opportunity to speak. Alternatively written submissions can be submitted to the RDKB office until 4 p.m. on the day of the hearing, or at the hearing. All verbal and written submissions will become part of the public record. The RDKB Board cannot accept presenta-tions after the public hearing has closed.

HAVE YOUR SAY

Why is a second Public Hearing being held? Based on input received at the Public Hearing, an alteration to the bylaw was made that involves a land use change thereby requiring that a second Public Hearing be held.

Kootenay-ColumbiaSchool District #20

School District No. 20 (Kootenay-Columbia)

Notice of Public Forum Tuesday, January 15, 2013

6:30pm at Rossland Secondary School Gym 2390 Jubilee Street, Rossland

The Board is considering potential school closure and/or reconfiguration potentially impacting Rossland Secondary School, MacLean Elementary School and J. Lloyd Crowe Secondary School. The public forum will provide information and allow members of the public to provide input to the Board about the potentially effected Rossland and greater Trail area schools.

Background information about the various configurations and details about the opportunity to make written submissions can be found on the district website at www.sd20.bc.ca/facilities.

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SCOURTENAY, B.C.

- One woman is dead and a man is recover-ing after a bizarre inci-dent aboard a sailboat off the east coast of Vancouver Island.

Rescuers were called on Monday just after 3 p.m. when the listing nine-metre sailboat was spotted

aground on rocks near Union Bay, just south of Courtenay, B.C.

Air force search and rescue technicians from the base in near-by Comox were among the first on the scene.

They pulled a

44-year-old Courtenay man to safety and also located a 40 year-old Courtenay woman in waters near the grounded boat.

RCMP say the woman was rushed to St. Joseph’s Hospital

in Comox, but could not be revived.

Mounties and the coroner continue to investigate and police say the names of the victims have not been released, at the request of their families.

Police investigate death after boat runs aground

Auditor general out in MayB y T o m F l E T C H E R

Black PressVICTORIA – After

shaking up the B.C. government’s finan-cial affairs, Auditor General John Doyle will be replaced by a new financial watch-dog when his six-year term expires at the end of May.

Rules for the five-member MLA com-mittee that appoints auditors require them to maintain secrecy on who didn’t support

Doyle’s reappoint-ment, which required unanimous support. NDP leader Adrian Dix said it’s clear it was one or more B.C. Liberal MLAs who voted against Doyle’s reappointment.

“This is clearly a bad decision, not one that the NDP supports, not one that I support,” Dix said Monday.

Opposition MLAs cite Doyle’s reports criticizing the recent buildup of BC Hydro

debt and the state of B.C.’s forest inventory in the wake of a dev-astating pine beetle epidemic as likely rea-sons why Doyle wasn’t reappointed.

Doyle is also leading a court action seek-ing release of detailed defence lawyer billings for former ministerial aides Dave Basi and Bobby Virk, whose $6 million in legal costs were covered by the province after they pleaded guilty to breach of trust in the 2002 sale of BC Rail operations.

Dix called Monday for Premier Christy Clark to intervene and ask the MLA commit-tee to reconsider its decision to hire a new auditor. A spokesman for the premier quickly ruled that option out.

Ben Chin, Clark’s communications dir-ector, said Clark has maintained a policy of not interfering in legislative commit-tees, such as a cos-metic pesticide com-mittee that disagreed with her call for a ban.

“You can’t send the committee back to work because you don’t like the conclu-sion they reach,” Chin said.

T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SVANCOUVER - Concerns south

of the border over oil tanker traf-fic from British Columbia have spurred a U.S. Coast Guard review of proposed increases in Canadian oil exports.

A legislative amendment pro-posed by Washington state Sen. Maria Cantwell and signed into law by President Barack Obama a couple of weeks ago gives the U.S. marine safety agency six months to conduct a risk assessment of the planned expansion of oil pipeline capacity to the West Coast.

While several proposed projects would see oil from the Alberta oil sands brought to the B.C. coast for export primarily to China, the legis-lation deals specifically with tanker traffic out of the Vancouver area.

“According to reports, Canada is poised to increase oil tanker traffic through the waters around the San Juan Islands and the Juan de Fuca by up to 300 per cent,” said a state-ment issued by Cantwell’s office.

“A supertanker oil spill near our shores would threaten Washington state’s thriving coastal economy and thousands of jobs,” the Democratic senator said in the statement. “This bill will provide crucial information for Washington coastal commun-ities by requiring a detailed risk analysis....”

The Coast Guard will study the risk of transporting oil via super-

tanker, tanker and barge through the Salish Sea waterways, which encompasses U.S. and Canadian territorial waters between southern Vancouver Island and the mainland. It includes Juan de Fuca Strait, the Strait of Georgia, Haro and Rosario Straits and Puget Sound.

In order for ships to arrive at port in Vancouver, they usually sail through U.S. waters next to a national marine sanctuary.

The Coast Guard will examine which rules and regulations apply to oil tankers heading to B.C. ports, as well as analyze the toxicity of what is referred to in the legisla-tion as “tar sands” oil - a deroga-tory moniker much opposed by the Canadian industry.

Cantwell said the diluted bitu-men that will form part of the Canadian oil exports are likely to require special cleanup technology, and the Coast Guard will also assess the spill response capability.

There are two major oil pipeline proposals currently on the table in British Columbia.

Calgary-based Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline would transport oil from the Edmonton area to a tanker port in Kitimat, on the north coast.

But the U.S. legislation appears to affect mainly Kinder Morgan’s proposal to expand the capacity of its existing oil pipeline from Alberta to the Vancouver area.

U.S. reviews proposed increase in B.C. tanker traffic

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SOTTAWA - Thanks to a single court deci-

sion, the federal government’s responsibilities for Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples have suddenly become a whole lot bigger.

After more than 13 years of legal wrangling, the Federal Court ruled on Tuesday that Metis and non-status Indians are indeed “Indians” under a section of the Constitution Act, and fall under federal jurisdiction.

The decision adds to the mounting pressure on Stephen Harper to rethink the way Ottawa deals with native populations, who are among the most impoverished in Canada.

The ruling helps to clarify the relationship between Ottawa and the more than 600,000 aboriginal people who are not affiliated with specific reserves and have essentially no access to First Nations programs, services and rights.

“This is huge and it ends the denial of aborig-inal birthrights that has existed for far too long among off-reserve Metis and non-status Indians,” said Betty Ann Lavallee, national chief of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples.

“Today is a very emotional day for me and a very hopeful day for all off-reserve aboriginal peoples.”

In his decision, Federal Court Judge Michael Phelan rejected the federal government’s attempts to maintain a narrow definition of who can be considered Indian. He waded through centuries of aboriginal history to look at defin-itions of who has been considered Indian in the past, and how they were treated - by native com-munities and by various levels of government.

The case for Canada’s 400,000 non-status Indians was more clear-cut than the case for the 200,000 Metis, but on balance, historical evidence weighs in favour of the Metis too, he wrote.

“The recognition of Metis and non-status Indian as Indians under section 91(24) should accord a further level of respect and reconcilia-tion by removing the constitutional uncertainty surrounding these groups,” Phelan writes.

While the decision does not go so far as to declare that the federal government has a fidu-ciary responsibility to the group, it says such duties would flow automatically now that their

standing has been clarified.“There is no dispute that the Crown has a

fiduciary relationship with aboriginal people both historically and pursuant to section 35 (of the Constitution),” Phelan writes.

However, he adds: “That duty is not an open-ended undefined obligation but must be focused on a specific interest.”

Legal experts expect the federal government to appeal the decision, partly because its implica-tions are major - and complicated.

If left to stand, the ruling would affect a wide range of provincial and federal policies, said Robert Janes, a Victoria lawyer who focuses on aboriginal issues but was not involved in the case.

Governments would now have a duty to consult with non-status Indians and Metis on changes to law and policy, he said. And they will have to revisit the scope of their social servi-ces, economic development and protections for aboriginals.

“This is going to require a lot of bureaucratic re-thinking and policy development, and it’s going to be years of figuring this out.”

Until now, he said, many non-status or Metis people have grown up in households where their half-brothers and half-sisters on reserves had access to hunting and fishing rights, or fund-ing for post-secondary education - services they themselves were denied because of their parent-age. Instead, they were told they were a provin-cial responsibility, only to have the provinces tell them they were the purview of the federal gov-ernment - leaving a growing number of people in a jurisdictional limbo.

The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples and sever-al Metis and non-status Indians took the federal government to court in 1999 alleging discrimin-ation because they are not considered “Indians” under a section of the Constitution Act.

Court clarifies status of Metis and non-status Indians

T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S STORONTO - A senior police offi-

cer responsible for two notorious “kettling” incidents at the infamous G20 summit in 2010 had his case put over for two months Tuesday to allow time for disclosure.

Supt. Mark Fenton faces five separate charges related to the inci-dents in which police boxed in and arrested numerous people in the downtown core.

Fenton, who was the major inci-dent commander at the time, is accused of making an illegal arrest, unlawful detention and harming the reputation of the police force.

He has pleaded not guilty and none of the allegations has been proven.

Speaking for the prosecution, lawyer Brendan van Niejenhuis asked Tuesday that the case be put over until March 4, saying the disclosure process was a “laborious process.”

According to the notice of hear-ing, the first incident occurred on Saturday June 26, 2010, hours after a small group of vandals rampaged through the downtown, smashing windows and setting police cruisers alight.

Fenton is alleged to have ordered officers to box in a “large group of civilians” on the Esplanade, arrest them for breaching the peace, and take the detainees to a notorious detention east-end centre set up for the summit.

“You gave and maintained these orders notwithstanding that you neither found those so con-tained committing a breach of the peace nor did you have reasonable grounds to believe that those so

contained had committed or were about to join in or resume a breach of the peace,” the charge states.

According to the allegations, Fenton directed those arrested to be held for 24 hours without assess-ing whether there were grounds to do so and “failed to monitor the status of the detentions.”

In the second incident, the fol-lowing afternoon, police kept scores of people - many who happened to be in the area for reasons unrelated to the G20 - standing for hours at a downtown intersection despite a torrential downpour.

Fenton gave the kettling orders just six minutes into assuming command that day.

He is alleged to have ordered those detained to be arrested for conspiracy to commit mischief or breach of the peace and taken to the detention centre without rea-sonable grounds to do so.

“You repeated and maintained these orders notwithstanding the onset of sustained, severe and inclement weather,” the charge states.

It was only when Chief Bill Blair intervened four hours later that those still kettled, soaked and shiv-ering in the cold, were released.

Van Niejenhuis also asked the case against Insp. Gary Meissner be put over for the same reason to the same date.

Meissner is charged for alleged-ly ordering officers to arrest five people at a University of Toronto early Sunday, June 27, and charge them with participating in an unlawful assembly, allegedly with-out doing anything to confirm the suspects had done anything illegal.

Misconduct case against G20 commander put over

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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper arrives with Thomas Boni Yayi, President of the Republic of Benin and Chairperson of the African Union to a press conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday. Harper says Canada is not looking at any military intervention in Mali. He says Canada will work diplomatically with western allies and African countries to seek a solution.

Leaders meet


OPINION

Rich and famous seeking the Russian solutionIt’s as if Paul Newman

and Jane Fonda had fled the US in pro-test at something or

other – they were always protesting – and sought Russian citizenship instead. Americans would be surprised, but would they really care? It’s a free country, as they say.

Whereas the French are quite cross about the decision of Oscar-winning actor Gerard Depardieu, who received Russian cit-izenship at the hands of President Vladimir Putin personally last Saturday. A taxi driver in Paris went on at me about it for the whole ride yesterday. (Talking to taxi drivers is how we jour-nalists keep our fingers on the pulse of the nation.)

After 42 years of starring in French films, Depardieu had acquired the status of “national treasure” in the eyes of the public, but he clearly does not recipro-cate their loyalty and pride. And hard on the heels of Depardieu’s defection comes the news that actress Brigitte Bardot, France’s leading sex symbol for the generation who are now drawing their pensions, is also threatening to give up her French citizenship and go Russian.

Depardieu, who was described by director

Marguerite Duras as “a big, beautiful runaway truck of a man,” is much larger than life – about the size of a baby whale, in fact. He is over the top in every sense: 180 films and TV credits, 17 motorbike accidents, five or six bottles of wine a day by his own reckoning.

He reckons he has paid 145 million euros ($190 million) in taxes since he started work at 14, and he doesn’t want to pay any more.

France’s Socialist gov-ernment is bringing in a new 75 per cent tax rate for people earning more than one million euros ($1.3 million) per year, and so Depardieu is leaving.

Initially he was just moving to Belgium, to a village 800 metres from the French border that already hosts a number of other super-rich tax exiles, but then French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said that his decision was “shabby and unpatriotic.” At this point, the truck ran away again. Belgium was no longer far enough.

When the outraged actor declared that he would ask for Russian citizenship, Putin (who knows how to play to the gallery) announced that he could have it at once. By the weekend it was a done

deal. “I adore your country, Russia, your people, your history, your writers,” the actor burbled. “...Russia is a country of great democ-racy.”

It is also a country with a 13 per cent flat tax rate, and Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin crowed on Twitter: “In the West, they are not well acquainted with our tax system. When they find out, we can expect a mass migration of rich Europeans into Russia.” He had barely finished tweet-ing when another French celebrity said she was also thinking of moving to Russia.

It wasn’t high taxes that obsessed Brigitte Bardot, however; it was animal rights. She was protesting a court order Friday in Lyon ordering that two circus elephants that have been suffering from tuberculosis

since 2010 be put down. “If those in power are coward-ly and impudent enough to kill the elephants,” she raged, “then I will ask for Russian nationality to get out of this country which has become nothing more than an animal cemetery.”

It’s always wise, when threatening to flounce out, to make sure first that they really want you to stay, and in BB’s case that may not actually be the case. She is better known to the present generation not as a sex symbol but as a crazy old lady who believes Muslims are “destroying our coun-try” and has been convicted five times for incitement to racial hatred. Some people (including my cab driver) think the Russians would be welcome to her.

But elephants aside, going Russian opens up a huge new opportunity for avoiding burdensome taxa-tion.

All those American mil-lionaires who have been condemned by recent events to live under the rule of that foreign-born Muslim Communist, Barack Obama, and pay an appalling 39.6 per cent tax on the portion of their annual earnings that exceeds $400,000, have an alternative at last.

They can do exactly what

they have been telling any-body who complains about the gulf between the rich and the poor in America to do for decades: they can go to Russia.

The only problem is that they will actually have to live there for six months of the year to qualify for the 13 per cent Russian tax rate.

Well, actually, there is another problem. Some Russians may not welcome them with open arms. Even the arrival of Depardieu, who is world-famous in Russia as a result of act-ing in several high-profile Franco-Russian co-produc-tions and appearing in tele-vision ads for credit cards from the Sovietski Bank, is being greeted with mixed feelings.

Fellow celebrity Tina Kandelaki, the celebrated host of the celebrity talk show “Details” for the past 11 years, has no reserva-tions about him at all: he can stay in her apartment.

“Let’s not divide up Depardieu,” she tweeted. “Simply give him to me.” But a less starry-eyed observer replied: “Haven’t we got enough alcoholics?”

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The horrific school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut

sparked a continent-wide dis-cussion about school safety. This renewed interest in secur-ity is understandable, since everyone wants students to be safe at school. Unfortunately , common sense seems to be in short supply as many proposed measures are not particularly help-ful.

For example, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty reacted to the Newtown massacre with a hasty pledge to implement a “locked-door policy” in all elementary schools. Along with requir-ing schools to lock their front doors when classes are in ses-sion, McGuinty’s government will spend $10 million to make sure all schools come equipped with security cameras, buzzers, and locking doors.

However, turning schools into miniature fortresses will not guarantee student safe-ty. The front doors at Sandy Hook Elementary were already locked – the killer simply shot through the front door and forced his way into the build-ing. Short of turning every school into Fort Knox, it is nearly impossible to keep out a madman intent on inflicting damage.

Any public place, whether a movie theatre, shopping mall, church, or school is a possible target for someone determined to harm as many people as pos-sible. No amount of planning can make any of these loca-tions absolutely secure against intruders. The public needs to guard against politicians overreacting to tragedies that, fortunately, remain extremely rare, particularly in Canada. The last thing we need is to turn our schools into virtual garrisons.

There are more immediate safety concerns. Rather than obsessing about the remote possibility of deranged gunmen entering schools, administra-tors should instead focus their attention on student discipline. Cracking down on bullying,

m a i n t a i n i n g orderly class-rooms, and pre-venting physic-al altercations in the hallways are the types of things on which all school administrators should focus, which would have an effect-ive impact on safety. Students

have the right to a safe and orderly learning environment.

Sadly, when it comes to stu-dent discipline, schools often veer into one of two extremes, neither of which is particu-larly helpful. At one end, some school districts implement dra-conian zero-tolerance policies that remove all discretion from students, teachers and princi-pals. While zero-tolerance poli-cies may look good on paper, they often lead to absurd disci-plinary actions.

For example, a public school in Maryland recently sus-pended a six-year-old boy for pointing his finger at another student and saying “Pow.” It is unlikely that his fellow stu-dents feel much safer knowing their school is cracking down on dangerous finger guns!

Other zero-tolerance absurdities abound in the pub-lic school system. Students have been suspended for things ranging from bringing a butter knife to school to drawing a picture of a gun. These inci-dents demonstrate how zero-tolerance removes the ability of teachers and principals to use their professional judgment and leads to ridiculous deci-sions that make a mockery of the rules.

At the opposite extreme, some schools bend over

backwards to accommodate troublemakers, even those who persistently disrupt the learn-ing environment of others. Progressive educators often place so much emphasis on keeping troublemakers with their peers that they refuse to punish students who repeat-edly disregard the most basic rules.

Alfie Kohn, a regular speaker at teacher professional develop-ment sessions, is a key propon-ent of this soft approach. In Kohn’s view, schools should be fully egalitarian communities where rewards and punish-ments for students are nonex-istent. According to Kohn, behaviour problems in schools disappear when teachers pro-vide students with engaging lessons.

However, Kohn’s permissive idealism is based on a hope-lessly naive understanding of human nature. Some students intentionally choose to disrupt class, bully their classmates, and destroy property, regard-less of the quality of instruc-tion they receive. Teachers who fail to enforce clear boundaries from the outset often end up with unruly classrooms.

In order to provide safer set-tings and more stable learning environments, schools must avoid the equally misguided extremes of zero tolerance policies and permissive ideal-ism. Rather, school adminis-trators should set and enforce clear standards of behaviour for all students, and do so in a way that allows teachers to use their professional judgment.

While no school can devise a foolproof plan to protect against every outside violent attack, all schools can and should establish effectively safe and orderly environment learn-ing for their students. When it comes to school discipline, common sense is needed now more than ever.

Michael Zwaagstra is a research fellow with the Frontier Centre (fcpp.org) and a Manitoba high school teacher.

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Jean was born June 14, 1926 in Nelson, BC. Jean became a teacher and taught plus substituted in Fruitvale from 1946 to 1967.

Jean married Austin Olson in 1947 and resided in Fruitvale until 1967, the family then moved to Ke-lowna and later to Win� eld, BC. Mom loved playing cards right up until recently. In her younger years she loved reading, gardening, preserving, needle point, knitting and ceramics. In the 1970’s, Mom started up J&J Ceramics in Win� eld with her eldest son, Jim. One of mom’s dreams was to trace the genealogy on both sides of the family. This was accomplished by contacting many relatives in Canada and USA plus a trip to Europe.

Jean was predeceased by her hus-band Austin in 2008, parents Violet and Jimmy Duck, sister-in-laws Anne & Pat Olson, brother-in-laws Elburn Olson, Peter Heathcote and great niece Katie Hanik. Jean is survived by her sons: Jim (Lumby), Russ (Lor-rie) (Rivervale), and Stan (Surrey); grandsons: Mark and Shawn; Sister Marie Heathcote (Vancouver) and her family, brother Jack (Helen) (Coquit-lam) and their family; brother-in-law Ken Olson (Fruitvale) and his family, Dolly Olson (Fruitvale), and Elburn’s family (California & Washington); and her dear friend June Hall (Grand Forks).

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Drive, Trail, BC VlR 4X9The family extends a very special

thank you to the Rosewood staff for their love and compassion towards Jean for the past 2 years. Also thank you to the volunteer musicians and singers who donate their time to Rosewood recreation - mom loved the music and sometimes wouldn’t give the program material up.

The family wishes to thank Dr. Gwen Campbell and the staff at Trail Regional Hospital for their gentle care given to mom.

At a later date, a private family graveyard service will be held in Ke-lowna where Mom will rest with her love and devoted husband Austin. God Bless you mom, rest in peace.

***DOHERTY, JULIE ANNE —

passed away Saturday, January 5, 2013 at the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital at the age of 51 after a battle

with cancer.She will be sadly

missed but never forgotten by her husband of 34 years Bernie Doherty, her three children Mi-chelle (James) Gib-son, Ryan (Janice) Doherty, Kyle (Am-ber) Doherty and her loving grandchil-dren Braeden Adie, Nathen Doherty, Chevelle Ross Doherty, her parents Verna and Jack Finlay, mother-in-law Frances Doherty, as well as her sisters Gloria (Ian) DeWitt, Bonnie (Gordon) Tjader and numerous aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

A Memorial Service will be held at the Trail Alliance Church in Glen-merry on Monday, January 14, 2013 at 11:00 am with Reverend Ken Sie-mens, Celebrant. Al Grywacheski of Alternatives Funeral and Cremation Services™ has been entrusted with arrangements.

As an expression of sympathy, do-nations may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society at 908 Rossland Av-enue Trail, BC V1R 3N6 or online at www.cancer.ca

***RASMUSSEN, PAUL FREDEBO

— of Fruitvale, passed away peaceful-ly at the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital on January 5, 2013. He was sur-rounded by his lov-ing family.

Paul was born in Hammer, Den-mark on December 11, 1935. He made Canada his home in 1959 and met his wife Sina at the Viking Sports Club in Calgary in the spring of ‘61. While Paul spent his life working in construction, his focus was always on building and strengthening his family, which was his greatest joy and deepest treasure.

Paul is survived by Sina, his loving wife of 51 years, their children: June (Darcy) Samulak, Jan (Carol) Rasmus-sen, Cindy (Charles) Christopher, Kim (Richard) Deane, Paul (Toni) Rasmus-sen, and his precious grandchildren: Tom, Claire, Paula, Ben, Jake, Julia, Kara, Graham, Stefany and Ian as well as his siblings in Denmark: Kirsten, Ruth, Bodil and Mogens. He was pre-deceased by his siblings in Denmark: Erhardt, Arne, and Else.

A Memorial Service will be held at “Carberry’s Chapel” 1298 Pine Av-enue, Trail on Saturday, January 12, 2013 at 2:00 pm with Pastor Bryan Henry of� ciating. Al Grywacheski of Alternatives Funeral and Cremation Services™ has been entrusted with arrangements.

A heartfelt thank you to the staff at

the KBRH and visiting clergy: Pastor Henry and Majors Wilf and Heather Harbin for all their loving support.

As an expression of sympathy, do-nations in Paul’s name may be made to the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital Foundation (Family Room) at 1200 Hospital Bench, Trail, BC V1R 4M1 or online at www.kbrhhealth-foundation.ca

You are invited to leave a personal message of condolence at the family’s online register at www.myalterna-tives.ca

***MCQUARRIE, JAMES NEIL —

Sunrise April 15, 1920. Sunset January 2, 2013

James Neil Mc-Quarrie of Trail BC passed away on Jan. 2, 2013 in the arms of his loving children.

Dad was born April 15, 1920 in Oak Lake, Manitoba.

He is survived by children; Robert McQuarrie (Elsa), Colleen McQuarrie (Keith Halbauer), Donna Ferguson (Robert), sister Peggy Peel, sister Jean McQuarrie, brother Dan McQuarrie (Laura).

Dad is also survived by grandchil-dren; Dustin Zimmerman, Chelsea Rota (Lance), Joshua Halbauer, Reb-ecca Pepin (Andy), Joseph Ferguson, Jessica McQuarrie, James McQuarrie and numerous nieces and nephews. Predeceased by his beloved wife Mary, brother Kenneth, father John, mother Agnes, sister Gwen, and brother Mur-ray.

Dad enlisted in the army in 1939 and served overseas in WW 2. After the war he worked for the Ontario Forest Service and then reenlisted with the army until his discharge in 1968. In 1969 he went to work for the BC Forest Service in Nelson until his retirement in 1984.

He was very active throughout his retirement. He loved the outdoors, hunting, dogs, skeet shooting and � sh-ing.

The family is extremely grateful to the staff of Rosewood Village who have cared for him like family for the last ten years.

Dad, we will miss your sense of hu-mor and love and support. You will al-ways be our hero, forever in our hearts. Rest in Peace.

Cremation has taken place. Service to follow in the spring in Oak Lake, Manitoba.

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Inuit artist Kenojuak Ashevak whose work became a worldwide icon of the Canadian Arctic has died.

T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SCAPE DORSET, Nunavut - An artist whose

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Kenojuak Ashevak, believed to be the last liv-ing link to the birth of Inuit printmaking, died Tuesday at her home in Cape Dorset, Nunavut, at the age of 85.

Over a career that spanned more than 50 years, Ashevak’s bold, harmonious images of Arctic animals and lives became calling cards for Canadian art around the world. Her image “The Enchanted Owl” was used on a 1970 post-age stamp.

By the time of her death, the Ashevak was a member of the Order of Canada, the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and Canada’s Walk of Fame. She held several honorary degrees and was the subject of biographies and film docu-mentaries.

Born in 1927 in a traditional camp on south Baffin Island, she lived life on the land before moving to the tiny community of Cape Dorset. There, in 1958, she encountered James Houston, a government administrator who was encour-aging Inuit to make art as a way of earning money. Houston noticed an interesting design that Ashevak had created on a sealskin bag - a rabbit thinking about eating seaweed, she explained.

“Rabbit Eating Seaweed” was Ashevak’s first print, part of a debut exhibition of Inuit graphics. The young woman from the remote Canadian North was an immediate success, said Christine Lalonde, an expert in Inuit art with the National Gallery of Canada.

Ashevak herself was matter of fact about her working methods.

“When I started drawing my artwork, I was just given a pencil and I started to draw,” she said in a 2008 video. “For drawing animals, or something like that, it’s not really coming from the animals but from how I feel.”

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B Y J I M B A I L E YTimes Sports EditorIt may not be the

Garden, but a Boston native has found a new home in a Hawks Nest deep in the wilds of British Columbia.

U.S. import and Boston native Dan Holland joined the Beaver Valley Nitehawks Nov. 27 and since then the Hawks have lost just twice in 16 games, includ-ing taking two of three games this weekend.

“I love it,” said Holland. “It’s so much different (than Boston). I’m use to the city, this is like the countryside, it’s awe-some out here.”

With nine goals and 12 assists, the 19-year-old forward has helped the Hawks move up the standings, from 10-points out of first to just two.

After dropping a 3-1 decision to Kimberley Friday night, Beaver Valley responded with an offensive outburst in back-to-back wins over the Kimberley Dynamiters, 5-1, Saturday, and the Revelstoke Grizzlies, 8-2, Sunday.

Both Holland and stalwart veteran

defenceman Derek Lashuk had a goal and two assists to lead the Nitehawks to a thrash-ing of the Grizzlies.

“Even when he’s off, he’s still the hardest working guy out there, he just skates and skates and skates,” said assistant coach Kevin Limbert. “I love watch-ing that kid play, just the effort and intensity . . . he earns a lot of respect that way.”

After setting up Connor Brown-Maloski’s goal to open the scoring, Holland scored on a breakaway in the third period and also set up AP Sam Swanson of Fruitvale to put the Hawks up 5-1.

It was Swanson’s first goal as a Nitehawk in just his second game.

“For an AP, he showed a lot of con-fidence and poise out there,” said Limbert.

Coincidentally or not, since Holland joined the team and was put on a line with Dallas Calvin, and Brown-Maloski, the trio has been one of the most devastating lines in the KIJHL.

“I couldn’t ask for more, they’re great

linemates,” said Holland. “Dallas sees the ice so well, shoots the puck like anything. I just stand in front of the net, screen the goalie, the puck goes by my head, always in the net, a real accurate shooter, and CBM sees the ice really well, he is one of the best passers out there.”

The line has net-ted 77 points in those 16 games, including an amazing 34 points for Calvin, who in his past 13 matches has 18 goals and 16 assists, including two goals against Revelstoke and a three-point night (2G, 1A) against Kimberley.

The Hawks are currently tied with Castlegar and are two points behind Nelson that leads the

league with 55 points, but both Nelson and Castlegar have two games in hand.

With only 12 games remaining in the regular season for the Hawks, a push for first is definitely in the cards.

The Smokies play Castlegar and Nelson two more times in the regular season schedule, in addi-tion to five division games remaining with Spokane and one with Grand Forks.

The Hawks would prefer to overtake Nelson and finish first in the Neil Murdoch division, and most likely play Spokane in the first round rath-er than Castlegar or Nelson.

“At the end of the day all we can do is control what we can control,” said assist-ant coach Kevin Limbert. “But if you finish second or third it makes for a longer road.”

Though still impacted by injur-ies, with five players sitting out Sunday’s game, and the trade deadline looming on Thursday, coach Terry Jones says there may

be some movement, but that he was happy with the team and would prefer to stand pat, if possible.

The Nitehawks next home game goes Sunday at 1 p.m. against the Grand Forks Border Bruins.

KIJHL notes:Nelson recently made some moves to shore up both ends of the ice.

After losing Colton McCarthy to the WHL Moose Jaw Warriors last month, Mathew Naka also went down with a broken ankle sustained in an off-ice injury.

The Leafs acquired 18-year-old forward Connor Gross from the Grand Forks Border Bruins who has 20 goals and 17 assists on the season to give them some more punch heading down the stretch.

The Leafs also sent goalie Cody Boekman to the Columbia Valley Rockies, and picked up veteran puck-stopper Markus Beesley from the Kamloops Storm. Beesley is a 20-year-old goalie who has an 11-19-2 record, with a 3.36 GAA and a solid .914 save percentage this season.

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Greater Trail Bantam AA Smoke Eaters goalie Brandon Youngson follows the bouncing puck Sunday, as Trail rebounded in the second game of a two-game tilt against Salmon Arm on the weekend. After dropping the opening game 2-1 Saturday, the team bounced back with a 6-2 victory Sunday at the Cominco Arena.

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Black Jack skier bound for Worlds

B Y T I M E S S T A F FBlack Jack junior men’s cross-country skier

David Palmer took a giant stride forward as he qualified for the Canadian Junior National ski team last weekend.

Palmer skied to second in the 15-kilometre free ski at the Haywood-NorAm U23 Trials at the Nordic Ski Centre in Thunder Bay, Ont., Sunday.

Palmer completed the three-lap course in 38 minutes, 45.7 seconds, 24.3 seconds back of winner Raphael Couturier of Quebec, and 16 seconds in front of bronze medalist Ezekial Williams from the Nakketok Nordique club in Quebec.

“It was a good series for the club,” said Black Jack ski coach Dave Wood. “David (Palmer) was really good . . . There were guys looking good that came into the trials that came up short, but I think that he kept focused on task very well and delivered on his strengths, and came out in the end.”

With the finish, Palmer qualifies for the Canadian Junior team that travels to the Czech Republic for the FIS Nordic World Junior cham-pionship, from Jan. 20-27.

Another Black Jack junior men’s skier Julien Locke narrowly missed qualifying for the Worlds with a fourth-place finish in the 1.4-km classic sprint and a 13th place finish in the 15-km free ski.

“Julien was really good too, he was fourth ranked but it was a really closely fought sprint,” said Wood. “It was inches from first to fourth.”

Black Jack’s Geoffrey Richards who now trains in Whistler placed 11th overall in senior men’s 15-km free ski, while Rossland’s Rebecca Reid who trains in Canmore also competed, fin-ishing 12th in the senior women’s 10 km free ski and 16th in the 1.2-km classic sprint.

It’s the first trip for Palmer to an internation-al event like the World Junior championships, where he will compete in a number of events including the 10-km free ski, the sprint, a ski-athlon that combines both free-ski and classic techniques, and a 4x5-km. relay.

“A top 20 would be good, but it’s difficult when you’ve never raced internationally, you don’t know what to expect,” added Wood.

But the Black Jack coach is happy with the progress of the 19-year-old skier this season, as they look forward to a B.C. Cup race in Kelowna this weekend.

The Junior World Ski Championships are attended by 650 participants from 35 countries of four continents. Each country may register four athletes.

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Retirees ready for spielB Y T I M E S C O N T R I B U T O R

In Trail Retiree Men’s Curling action last week the Cal McKerracker rink completed an unlikely comeback over the Dan Horan four-some, as teams are in fine-tuning mode for their upcoming bonspiel this weekend.

Horan’s team scored three in the second, then stole another one in the third to take an early 4-1 lead. However, back-to-back deuce’s for McKerracker vaulted them into the lead. All tied up at six going into the last end, Cal under pressure drew into the rings for the 7 - 6 win.

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Interior Division GP W L T OL GF GA PtPenticton 37 24 10 0 3 123 89 51Merritt 34 21 11 1 1 114 89 44WKelowna 35 14 11 2 8 122 100 38Salm Arm 36 16 15 2 3 89 103 37Trail 39 16 22 0 1 115 171 33Vernon 36 12 17 0 7 88 112 31

Island Division GP W L T OL GF GA PtVictoria 36 24 9 0 3 122 96 51Nanaimo 35 19 14 0 2 106 106 40Alberni 36 17 13 1 5 115 123 40Powell R. 38 15 17 2 4 104 107 36Cowichan 33 9 20 1 3 93 116 22

Mainland Division GP W L T OL GF GA PtChilliwack 35 22 11 1 1 118 93 46Surrey 35 21 10 1 3 109 94 46Pr George 36 18 12 1 5 104 110 42Langley 35 15 14 1 5 124 122 36Coquitlam 36 16 19 1 0 104 119 33

Note: Two points for a win, one for a tieWednesday’s games

Coquitlam at Surrey, 7 p.m.Trail at Vernon, 7 p.m.

Friday’s gamesPenticton at Surrey, 7 p.m.

Victoria at Alberni Valley, 7 p.m.Powell River at West Kelowna, 7 p.m.Prince George at Chilliwack, 7 p.m.

Merritt at Coquitlam, 7 p.m.Cowichan Valley at Nanaimo, 7 p.m.

Salmon Arm at Trail, 7:30 p.m.Saturday, Jan. 12

Nanaimo at Cowichan Valley, 7 p.m.Prince George at Coquitlam, 7 p.m.

Powell River at Vernon, 7 p.m.Penticton at Langley, 7:15 p.m.Chilliwack at Victoria, 7:15 p.m.

West Kelowna at Trail, 7:30 p.m.

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FROM PAGE 9In another tight

game, Tom Hall’s rink faced Jim Stewart’s team.

The Hall rink jumped out to an early lead until the fifth end but the Stewart team rallied for four points to tie the game. Deadlocked coming home, the Hall team with hammer had to execute a double for the win, but the Stewart rock hung on for the steal and a 9 – 8 victory.

The Robin Siddall rink faced Lefty Gould, and it was a tight game through three ends.

The keen ice fooled both teams, deep guards, and out the back draws were com-mon. The Siddall rink then found the magic, taking three in the fourth end, and steal-ing two in the fifth on its way to a 13-4 drub-bing.

Cliff Tyson, winner of the first two ses-sions, faced Primo Secco in an age old battle. After a slow start the Secco team came on strong. Skip Primo Secco was uncon-scious, with much credit to his sweepers, he didn’t miss a draw all game as the Secco

team went onto a 10 - 3 final.

In a game for the ages, or at least one that took that long. Clair Coleman faced Serge Pasquali.

In a back-and-forth game, that saw lots of rocks in play, it came down to the final end. The Pasquali team was ahead by one, with the Coleman team holding hammer.

Coleman had to make a double take-out on his last shot for the win. With the rest of the teams already behind the glass, he executed the double perfectly to make the final score 7-6.

The Trail Retiree Men’s annual bonspiel goes this weekend, with 30 teams vying for top spot.

Spectators are always welcome, the action begins at 8:30 a.m. each morning and continues to 5 p.m.

Stewart steals victory T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SNEW YORK - If NHL players are to continue

participating in the Olympics, it’s going to involve a delicate political dance.

The issue was not resolved as part of the ten-tative collective bargaining agreement reached by the NHL and NHL Players’ Association early Sunday morning and will now need to be ham-mered out between those parties and two others with strong ties to Rene Fasel - the International Ice Hockey Federation, of which Fasel is presi-dent, and the International Olympic Committee, of which he is an influential member.

It’s been clear for some time the NHL is seek-ing to receive more of a direct benefit for closing its doors every four years in February and hand-ing over its most important assets.

The tension was evident when NHL commis-sioner Gary Bettman and Fasel held a joint press conference at the 2010 Vancouver Games and Bettman lamented being nothing more than an “invited guest” at the Olympics with no say in how the event was run.

Fasel has stepped lightly around the issue ever since and acknowledged to The Canadian Press on Tuesday that he’s prepared to start addressing some of the NHL’s concerns soon.

“Once the CBA is ratified and there has been some cooling-down period, we will sit together with the IOC, the NHL and NHLPA to find solutions how to make sure that Sochi 2014 becomes the fifth consecutive best-on-best Olympic event,” said Fasel. “As I have always pointed (out) whenever asked questions about NHL players’ participation, our doors are always open and I am confident that we will find ways - like we did in Nagano, Salt Lake City, Turin and

Vancouver - to stage this event on the biggest sporting stage there is.”

The NHL is expected to continue making a big international push over the course of its new CBA, as evidenced by an article devoted to that topic in the document. Not only does it include a clause saying every team in the league has to make at least one international trip before the deal expires in 2022, but there is also a section covering “new international business ventures.”

That is the only place where Olympic partici-pation is mentioned, which is unusual since the Games have not been a money-making venture for the league. Essentially, the NHL has provided the players while the IOC reaped the financial benefits.

Now the NHL is looking to get a little more out of that relationship. According to sources, the changes it is expected to seek range from smaller issues such as access to tickets, hotels and better hospitality for team owners to larger things like sponsor recognition and a loosening of the IOC’s notoriously strict guidelines on images, video and media.

This is where it could get tricky for Fasel, who heads up the IOC’s winter sports commit-tee and is rumoured to be interested in running for that organization’s presidency later in the year. He would obviously love to see the NHLers return, but at what cost? And if the IOC was to loosen some of its rules for the NHL, what kind of trickle-down effect might that have for pro tennis and basketball players?

Another highly interested party in the pro-cess is Hockey Canada president Bob Nicholson, who recently became a vice-president with the IIHF. He’s also expected to be included in meet-ings regarding the future of NHLers and the Olympics, which could start at some point in the next few weeks.

“This is so important for all of us - Hockey Canada, the IIHF, the NHL - to grow our brands and more importantly to grow hockey,” said Nicholson.

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The boy has no relationship with his father and is very fond of me, as I am of him. The problem is that he’s a mama’s boy. I think he is jealous of me. He competes for his mother’s attention and goes so far as to crawl into bed with us in the morning in order to snuggle with her. When we sit on the sofa, he joins us and places his mother’s arm around his neck as if to say, “Hey, what about me?”

I’ve tried to ignore this behavior, but it is starting to wear on me. My girlfriend sees nothing wrong with it, saying they have always been close and it’s always been just the two of them. But I think this isn’t quite right. I want her son to grow up a bit.

I raised three

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Dear Contest: Many boys at 13 are still children, and the cuddling with Mommy is not indicative of an aberration. However, this is also a time when Mom should be setting sensible boundaries and gently discouraging too much intimacy. Some boys can confuse their love for Mom

with their developing sexual feelings. Please approach this carefully. Suggest that the two of you talk to the boy’s pediatrician about appropriate behavior, and make sure your girlfriend understands that her son’s long-term best interests must take precedence. For information and assistance, we suggest the National Stepfamily Resource Center at stepfamilies.info.

Dear Annie: I married a wonderful widower nine months ago. We are both in our 60s, and he treats me like a queen.

“Vern’s” previous marriage of 34 years was a great one. When we married, he had lots of photos of his late wife. He thoughtfully removed them, but what upsets me is that he put a lot of them, including their wedding picture, in his home office where he spends 40 hours a week. Worse, the centerpiece of his bookshelves is

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In a situation like this, I wonder whether the giver is begging for attention. The gift was unsolicited.

It almost seems as if the nieces are saying, “No, thanks, I’d rather do this myself.” I have been the recipient of unasked-for gifts, and they almost always come with strings attached. -- No Strings for Me

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Route 369 22 papers Birch Ave, Johnson Rd, Redwood Dr

Route 375 8 papers Green Rd & Lodden Rd

Route 378 28 papers Columbia Gardens Rd, Mar-tin St, Mollar Rd, Old Salmo Rd, Trest Dr

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Route 381 9 papers Coughlin Rd

Route 370 22 papers 2nd St, Hwy 3B, Hillcrest, Mountain St

BlueberryRoute 308 6 papers 100 St to 104 St

CastlegarRoute 311 6 papers 9th Ave & Southridge DrRoute 312 15 papers 10th & 9th Ave

Route 314 12 papers 4th, 5th, & 6th Ave

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GenelleRoute 302 8 papers 12th Ave, 15th AveRoute 303 15 papers 12th Ave, 2nd St, Grand-view Pl

RosslandRoute 403 12 papers Cook Ave, Irwin Ave, St Paul & Thompson AveRoute 406 15 papers Cooke Ave & Kootenay AveRoute 414 18 papers Thompson Ave, Victoria AveRoute 416 10 papers 3rd Ave, 6th Ave, Elmore St, Paul SRoute 420 17 papers 1st, 3rd Kootenay Ave, Leroi AveRoute 421 9 papers Davis & Spokane St

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After waking up last Saturday morning to a brilliant blue sky, I couldn’t help but jump

out of bed and go for a back-country ski up at the pass and absorb that bluebird day up at the top of Crowe!

I still hadn’t had enough of that sunshine, so, I went for a cross-country ski on Sunday afternoon up at Paulson!!!!!! I felt like I had been sunshine starved for a few weeks!!!! It’s hard to look forward to winter if you don’t like the snow sports and are affected by the grey low-hanging clouds and the Kootenay fog. However, if you can’t get outside there is an effective solu-tion.

Seasonal Affectie Disorder (SAD) is seasonal problem that affects about 2-5% of Canadians and is 8x more common in women especially in their 20’s and 30’s. The number of people over 65 suffering from this disor-der is lower, with the rate begin-ning to decline around 50 years old.

The severity and symptoms

vary from person to person, however, the most common symptoms are:

• Low mood, decreased interest in normally pleasur-able activities

• Decreased con-centration

• Over-sleeping (often an increase of 4 hrs or more each day)

Low energy and lack of drive/motiva-tion/feeling “blah”

• Intense craving for carbohy-drates and sweets

• Weight gain• Withdrawl from social con-

tacts• Sensitive to barometric

pressure • Increased hormonal prob-

lems due to the altered chemical balance

Here are some ways you can minimize the effects of low light days.

1. Get outside at lunch for at least 20 minutes to maximize

light into the retina. Most of the time, it is good to refrain from wearing sunglasses, since the intensity of sunlight at this time of year is minimal and we need to get the sunlight to hit the back of the retina to form the proper hor-mones for mood stability. NOTE:

Contacts are all U-V protected, so, you never get full spectrum light to the retina with contacts. Therefore, you should try and wear regular glasses when going out for a walk at lunch.

2. Replace reading lamp lights or lights where you spend sig-nificant time with full spectrum lights and try to be under these for at least 1 hour/day reading or spending time. They can be bought at any hardware store and are called Reveal lights and are a purplish-blue colour. This

helps to give you the amount of natural light you need at this time of year.

3. Use a SAD light that has a specific range of light wave-lengths. These are usually a bright light box fitted with high-intensity light bulbs using either full spectrum or white light. Usually ½ hour of exposure per day will do the trick! I find the Litebook works the best.

A recent study that used light therapy in the workplace, so that the participants received mor-ning or afternoon light, showed all experienced a significant reduction in lows and improved positive mood, energy, alertness and productivity.

Adequate light is vital to healthy living especially when it comes to maintaining our body’s circadian rhythms. This internal clock controls numer-ous functions from hormone levels to sleep and wake cycles. Proper amounts of light keep this rhythm balanced. Light is utilized by the body by turning it into electrical impulses by the eye. These travel along the optic

nerve to the brain, which trigger the release of the mood alter-ing hormone serotonin and other chemical messengers.

Light therapy has been used effectively for over 20 years. Studies have shown that even after only a week of daily ses-sions, symptoms improve signifi-cantly. Light not only increas-es the mood-elevating levels of serotonin, but, also reduces the daytime levels of melatonin which promotes sleep.

These increased levels of neurotransmitters contributes to increased energy, better moods and a reduction in carbohydrate cravings.

It can also minimize PMS, chronic anxiety and panic attacks, severe jet lag and for some eating disorders.

So, try these steps if you feel you just don’t have the energy you feel you want at this time of year. If you still feel you’re not feeling where you should be,

Dr. Brenda Gill is a natu-ropath in Rossland. For an appointment with Dr. Gill call 250-362-5035

How to minimize Seasonal Affective Disorder

DR. BRENDA GILL

On the Way to Wellness

B Y I N T E R I O R H E A L T H A U T H O R I T YNorovirus season has begun early this year

with the arrival of a new strain. Since October 2012 there have been high-

er than expected requests for gastroenteritis (stomach-related virus) outbreak laboratory testing as well as higher norovirus positive test results when compared to this time in 2011. This has been observed not only in B.C. but worldwide.

A report from the Public Health Microbiology and Reference Laboratory on norovirus includ-ing the new strain is summarized in the latest issue of Laboratory Trends.

The main symptoms of norovirus include sudden onset of nausea, cramping, chills, fever, vomiting and diarrhea that usually last for one to two days.

Norovirus is very contagious so if you think you have it, stay home from work or school, especially if you are in settings like child care, health care and food handling. Clean up any vomit or diarrhea spills with a bleach solution.

The best ways to prevent the spread of noro-virus are to clean your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, particularly before eating or preparing shared food, and to stay home when sick.

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Canadian women should start being routinely screened for cervical cancer at a later age than previ-ously recommended and do it less frequent-ly than has been the norm until now, new national guidelines recommend.

The guidance sug-gests cervical can-cer screening should begin at age 25 and continue until age 69, at three year inter-vals. For years, women were advised to get an annual Pap smear, though in recent years a number of coun-tries have lengthened the intervals between tests.

The guidelines are issued by the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care, a federally funded group that advises doctors on what should be part of routine preventive care for their patients. The recommendations were drawn up for the task force by a working group that analyzed the medical literature to determine the best approach.

“Every three years will do the job. Doing it every year doesn’t really add very much (protection) but it adds

a lot of inconvenience and some harm,” said Dr. James Dickinson, who chaired the work-ing group and is a pro-fessor of family medi-cine at the University of Calgary.

The guidelines were published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

In the decades since doctors began to look for pre-cancerous

cells on the cervix using a test devised by Greek doctor Georgios Papanicolaou, rates of invasive cervical can-cer and deaths to the disease have plum-meted. The Canadian Cancer Society esti-mated that in 2012, 1,350 Canadian women were diag-nosed with cervical cancer and 390 died from the disease.

CERVICAL CANCER

Screening should start after 25: panel New Norovirus strain found in B.C.


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1025 Regan Crescent, Trail $259,000

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2368 Irwin Avenue, Rossland $239,000

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B y S a m V a n S c h i eNelson Star

Four backcountry snow-boarders who were lost in Hummingbird pass Saturday managed to find their way to safety after spending the night out-doors.

The group of men in their late-20s and early-30s, including one local from Ymir and others from Kelowna, Calgary and Edmonton, had planned to hike along evening ridge Saturday and return to

Ymir by dinner time.The partner of the local

man contacted RCMP around midnight to report the men missing. She had driven up Whitewater Road and found the men’s vehicle still in the parking lot.

Nelson Search and Rescue were notified and two of their members spent the night out on Whitewater Road driving back and forth with their sirens and lights on in attempt to attract the snow boarders towards the road.

Meanwhile, a search was co-ordinated through the night to commence at first light. Around 7 a.m., 23 Search and Rescue mem-bers from Nelson and South Columbia units started looking for the missing men.

“We didn’t have much to go on in terms of where to look,” explained search manager Scott Spencer. “Their plan was go out along evening ridge and decide where to go once they got there.”

The men hadn’t packed to spend the night, but were warmly dressed and pre-pared for day outdoors.

Searchers spent three hours looking for the men, checking in places where skiers typically get lost in that area. Then, at about 10 a.m. one of the missing snowboarders showed up at the search base — he and his party had safely made it out of the backcountry on their own.

“They had gone ahead with their original plan of

skiing Evening Ridge, but in the thick cloud cover has become disoriented,” Spencer explained.

They meant to snow-board towards Whitewater Road, but instead went into the Selous Creek basin. They snowshoed until dusk looking for the road. Around 5:30 p.m. they decided to dig in for the night and built a fire to keep warm.

In the morning they con-tinued walking and eventu-ally made it to Highway 6, near Cottonwood Lake.

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boarders unscathed

after night

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