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The water is flowing once again in Montrose.Kevin Chartres the chief administrative office

for the Village of Montrose, said the village has completed repairs after a water main break three weeks ago.

Although the Stage 3 water restrictions, which were enacted after the break, have been removed, the boil water advisory remains in effect.

Even though the water system is operating normally, new restrictions are in effect, including outdoor watering—excluding manual watering with cans or buckets—is prohibited between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.

Households are allowed to run one watering device at a time, including gardening hoses, underground systems and manual sprinklers. But underground sprinkling is only allowed between midnight to 4 a.m. and manual sprinkling is between 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. or 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.

The village recommends that turf is watered for no longer than 20 minutes in each zone and advises no watering at the end of every month.

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BY TIMOTHY SCHAFERTimes Staff

The ink has now dried on the new five-year agreement between the city’s largest employer and its employees.

On Friday Teck Trail Operations and locals 480 and 9705 of the United Steelworkers put final signatures on the new collective agreement for Trail operations after one month of negotia-tions that began in earnest April 30.

The agreement was ratified and commen-ces June 1, running through to May 31, 2017, replacing the three-year agreement that expired May 31.

Discussions between the union and the com-pany were very “positive and productive,” said Teck communications manager Carol Vanelli Worosz.

“A five-year term offers us a great deal of stability in terms of Trail Operations moving forward for the next five years,” she said. “It is a very busy time with two new projects hitting the ground last week with the No. 4 furnace and the acid plant starting up.”

The contract covers 1,180 people in Local 480 on the production and maintenance side, and 170 people in Local 9705 for the office and technical workers.

Doug Jones, president of United Steelworkers Local 480, was unavailable for comment at press time however, last week he said the tentative

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BY BREANNE MASSEYTimes Staff

Students from Rossland Secondary School had smiles that stretched from one ear to the other at their convocation on Friday.

Homework is no longer a serious concern and the free-dom to use milk crates as fur-niture will suddenly become a viable idea, but most par-ticipants were focused on the day instead of their future. Graduates shared a day full of activities before taking a step into the unknown.

A flurry of dresses from every colour of the rainbow poured into a grass-covered area for a class photograph, and the boys lined up in a row behind all of the girls. A

couple of graduates showed up late for the 3:30 p.m. photograph to start the day, but were happily welcomed by laughing peers.

Parents, faculty and friends gathering in a line facing the grads to collect photos of the teenagers they knew. But cameras continued snapping pictures of small groups of close friends and family mem-bers even after the gathering dispersed for the ceremony.

Guests sauntered through the busy hallways of RSS and looked at Bollywood-inspired decorations, ranging from brightly coloured fabric cur-tains to costumed-dancers as well as elephant cut-outs and portraits of graduates covered in henna.

The ceremony began with a trio of students singing O Canada, followed by opening announcements from school officials.

But the students were eager to hear from Joost Winckers, the art teacher, who gave them 10 tips to succeed after graduation.

“Follow your heart even if the people around you don’t know enough to help you suc-ceed,” he told them.

Every student looked engaged and watched him closely during the address, often laughing at his self-deprecating humor or adorn-ing their faces with smiles that reflected the bittersweet moments he shared.

Winckers encouraged

graduates to move forward in life with confidence, find activities they love and build healthy relationships with others.

The bottom line that both Winckers and valedictorian, Jessica Britton, shared was to love what you do and do what you love.

Several awards were pre-sented to students, includ-ing a three-year engineering scholarship.

The RSS class of 2012 had 44 students applauding for each other before wrapping up the ceremonies with a video about their lives by Camille Craig prior to the grand march and setting the stage for the annual prom.

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Saturday’s Smoke n’ Steel Cruszn the Columbia brought an eclectic variety of vehicles to Gyro Park including classics such as Terry Basran’s 1957 Mercury M-100. Watch for more photos in Tuesday’s Trail Times.

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From the top and clockwise; Students from Rossland Secondary School gathered outside for a photograph before convocation began; Brenna MacKay and Tommy Pitman enjoyed graduation together; From the left; John Van Gils, Leiam Grubisic and Logan Ross pause for a break between ceremonies; Front to back; Grade 7 students September Stefani, Madeline Grace-Wood and Aven Cosbey accentuated the Bollywood theme for some of their peers; From the left; Sydney Gomez, Christine Cook and Tierra Machek were blissful about graduation on Friday.

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As a result of the new deal, Teck will incur a one-time after-tax charge to earnings in the second quarter of approximately $34 million related to a signing bonus and enhancements to pension and post-retirement benefits.

The five-year deal follows on the heels of a “really successful bar-gaining in 2008” for the union’s now expired contract, after a three-month strike in 2005.

“It is a very exciting time at Teck Trail Operations to have the agree-

ment and to be moving forward with our new projects,” Vanelli Worosz said.

In late September, 2011, Teck announced they would invest $210 million to recycle end-of-life elec-tronic waste in Trail through the No. 4 furnace project, as well as construc-tion of a slag fuming furnace and set-tling furnace. The two furnaces will be situated at the southeast corner of the property, overlooking down-town and the Columbia River.

Around 500,000 man-hours of work will be involved in the No. 4 furnace project, meaning approxi-mately 200 construction jobs over two years when the project is com-plete in 2014.

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BY TIMOTHY SCHAFERTimes Staff

Two years ago the drudgery of high school academics was usurped by the excitement of its inherent extra cur-ricular activities for Samantha Anstey.

She couldn’t be bothered to focus on her studies when hav-ing fun and partying felt so much better — so she quit school.

When that life began to feel empty, she turned back to school to find an answer. Last Thursday at Trail Middle School the 19-year-old graduated high school from the Cooperative Education Centre with her Dogwood certificate in hand, four months after she began to re-apply herself with vig-our to studies that once seemed unbearably tedious.

She was one of 27 students, ranging in age from 18 to 55, in Trail who took the road less traveled for their Grade 12 certificate, and participated in a ceremony celebrating their achievement at the school in front of 130 people.

“When you get older you finally have to real-ize you need certain things in your life,” she said after the ceremon-ies were done.

“I just wanted to do something with my life instead of sitting at home and doing noth-ing. It gave me way more determination, going away and com-ing back.”

But school won’t be ending for Anstey. She will now be going to college in fall in Vancouver for aesthet-ics and spa to begin building her career.

Under the Kootenay Columbia Learning Centre, the Cooperative Education Centre (CEC) offers a family-like environment for stu-dents that have found the program because they left high school and decided to come back, or felt that a trad-itional campus wasn’t working for them.

A lot of the 140 stu-dents at Trail Middle School — and a total of 200 across the school district itself — are in a position where they might have thought they wouldn’t ever be graduating high school, said Derek Zimmer, district coordinator for alternative educa-tion and one of the two teachers who work at the centre.

“You see that fear when they come in … and things haven’t worked out, and there is that fear that they won’t graduate,” he

said. “So this day is an amazing celebration for everyone, to see them get through this in whatever way they can.”

Using a more under-standing and nurturing format, the centre takes on students young and old with different learning capabilities. Though still providing a structured learning environment like J. L. Crowe or Rossland Secondary School, the co-op program accepts that it may take longer for students to com-plete their studies.

On Thursday, some students received a completion certificate, some earned an adult Dogwood, while some got through with a regu-lar Dogwood (Grade 12 matriculation). Two of the graduates were uni-versity prepared and will be looking to go on to post secondary, said Zimmer, and some are looking at opening up businesses or head into the trades.

One of those is Tom Eulenberg, an 18-year-old Trail resident who wasn’t inspired by the school system, but knew Grade 12 was something he had to complete.

It felt good to be done, he said on Thursday, but there was some doubt throughout

he would finish after he transferred to CEC three years ago.

“I knew I wanted to (graduate) but I felt like it was taking so long. I wanted to get on with other parts of life but still I wanted to get this done,” he said.

“It feels exciting

and a relief to get this done.”

With the help of the school’s teachers urging him on, making sure he attended class, Eulenberg has now set himself up for entrance into a trades appren-ticeship program later this year.

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Above: Tom Eulenberg accepts a Dogwood, Grade 12 graduation certificate from super-intendent of schools for School District 20, Greg Luterbach at Trail Middle School on Thursday for the Cooperative Education Centre’s graduation ceremony. Right: Tears were shed as students and teachers parted ways.

BY ARNE PETRYSHENRossland News

Rossland has set out to make it easier for communities in the region to start a heritage com-mission, by offering to act as a resource.

Jackie Drysdale, chair of the Rossland Heritage Commission, explained the possibilities to Regional District of Kootenay Boundary board members last week.

Currently the commission keeps a registry of heritage sites in Rossland, which includes over 30 buildings, such as the Miners’ Hall, built in 1898, and the Bank

of Montreal, built between 1898 and ‘99.

Drysdale said they are work-ing on a three year plan for the restoration of the Rossland Cemetery. She offered some steps to start to make heritage a priority in other communities.

First they need to seek out the support and leadership of local government, through an official community plan or coun-cil motion. They need to identify citizens who are willing to work voluntarily. She said there is also opportunity to use existing societies to help with this.

Next is to call on the prov-

incial heritage branch for help in evaluating your communities heritage.

Drysdale said that while a regional heritage commission is desirable as a way of seeing the common and unique themes of the heritage of our region, it would be premature at this time to go ahead add a new function to the regional district.

“You need to move forward at the local level first,” she said. “Let the goal be a regional herit-age commission made up of informed individuals of their own communities to then talk about the possible efficiencies.”

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Provincial officials and researchers from the University of British Columbia remove a net from a lagoon at Central Park after lowering the water level and catching a snakehead invasive predator fish in Burnaby, on Friday. Conservation officers say the fish, which was first spotted in May, meas-ured about two-thirds of a metre long and put up quite a fight before being caught and killed.

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FortisBC customers can expect to save 40 cents a month on their

electricity bills if the company gets the go-ahead to install 113,000 smart meters in the Southern Interior.

Bills won’t actually go down, but “will go up less than they would otherwise,” said Bob Gibney, a FortisBC senior manager who last month outlined the company’s smart-meter plans for the board of the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen (RDOS).

Smart meters are already on the way for customers of the City of Penticton’s electrical utility, but FortisBC, which serves outlying areas within the RDOS, has to first apply for per-mission from the B.C. Utilities Commission; its first such applica-tion was rejected in November 2008.

Gibney said the com-

pany has to replace 70 per cent of its old-style meters to meet modern standards regardless, and the new technol-ogy would also help the company pinpoint power outages and improve conservation programs. If approved, the $47 million retro-fit project would begin in 2013 and take two years to finish.

According to Gibney, each meter would transmit for about one minute per day, and its electromagnetic radia-tion would be “literal-ly thousands of times below” levels deemed unsafe by Health Canada.

Noting another common concern about smart meters, Gibney said his company has no interest in using the hourly data to see what its customers are doing

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meter readers would lose their jobs in the switch, although the project would create nine new high-tech positions and the com-pany would work with its union to transition displaced employees.

RDOS Director Allan Patton told Gibney he’s not concerned with the electromagnetic radia-tion from individual meters, but worries about the cumulative output in an apartment building with individ-ually-metered units.

Meanwhile, Director Tom Siddon said he doesn’t like the idea of the company’s infor-mation-capture plans: “You guys don’t have a right to come down my street and put up trans-mitters and receivers without my consent.”

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B.C.’s biggest public sector union says con-tract talks with the provincial government are deadlocked so it’s asking for a mediator, and it’s warning there will be a strike if medi-ation fails.

B.C. Government Employees Union President Darryl Walker says the two sides are still far apart on the main issues and he’s hoping a mediator can help narrow the differences.

The government has offered a three per cent

pay increase over two years, but the union is holding out for more, including a cost of liv-ing increase, saying its members haven’t had a raise in three years.

Walker says the union isn’t ready to walk away from the bargaining table yet

and wants to exhaust all options first, but he warns there will be a strike if mediation fails to produce a deal.

The union repre-sents 25,000 govern-ment workers who voted 82 per cent in favour of job action last month.

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House B.C., say police.RCMP Const. Lesley

Smith said the incident took place around 3:45 p.m. Saturday, and the occupants have now been treated in hospital for non-life threaten-ing injuries and been released.

Jackie McDonald told a Kamloops radio station that she was outside her place of work when she saw the plane hit some wires across the highway, smash into a sign, lose a wing and skid across a parking lot into a build-ing.

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Opposition politicians throwing hundreds of amendments at the Conservatives’ omni-bus budget bill are set to find out which ones are going to stick.

What could be a marathon week in the House of Commons begins Monday with the Speaker expected to decide how over 1000 changes pro-posed to Bill C-38, the government’s budget implementation bill, will be dealt with in the House.

The 400-plus pages of legislation amends some 70 laws, including the process for environ-mental assessment and the rules around Old Age Security and Employment Insurance.

The government argues all legislation contained within the

bill is to the economic benefit of the country, but critics say jamming so many major changes into a single bill means they aren’t getting the scrutiny they require.

But with a Conservative majority, the bill is set to pass, so all the Opposition parties have pulled procedural rabbits of their hats. The New Democrats and the Liberals gave notice of over 1000 amend-ments seeking to delete various clauses of the bill. Technically, a vote is required on each one, which could keep the Commons sitting around the clock for days.

“The content is flawed in many respects and they just want to bulldoze through the whole process,” said NDP deputy finance critic Guy Caron.

Both parties had

also suggested changes at the committee study-ing the bill but those were rejected by the Tories.

Today, the Liberals will try anew, asking for elements relating to fisheries, environ-mental assessment, EI and old age secur-ity removed and intro-duced as separate legis-lation.

Meanwhile, since neither the Bloc Quebecois nor the Green Party had the ability to propose chan-ges at committee, they have put forward their own suggestions in the Commons.

The Bloc wants 22 changes, while the

Green Party is propos-ing 320 amendments.

Green Party leader, and lone MP, Elizabeth May said her changes seek to respect the intent of the bill while at the same time remove some of its more egre-gious elements.

“They are in fact serious efforts to revise C-38 in a way that, if my amendments were accepted, the govern-ment’s purpose would be met but environ-mental protection...would be preserved,” she said.

To what extent the amendments will bog down the Commons is in the hands of Speaker Andrew Scheer.

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People downstream of an oil pipeline breach in west central Alberta are worried but hopeful the spill won’t seriously damage the Red Deer River they depend on for water and recrea-tion.

Andrew Van Oosten and his friends were hoping to go fishing Saturday but were told by Alberta Environment officials to stay away from the water.

“I was going to go fishing but they said, ‘No, you’re not allowed,”’ he said as huddled with his friends underneath a tarp at his campsite near the Gleniffer res-ervoir.

“You are not allowed to go near the water because it (oil) is wash-ing up on shore.”

Out on the lake that provides the water sup-

ply for the City of Red Deer and other com-munities downstream from Thursday’s spill, crews were busy spread-ing booms across the surface to skim away any sour crude.

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OPINION

Rio+20: How bad could it really get?The forthcoming

United Nations Conference on S u s t a i n a b l e

Development in Rio de Janeiro (Rio+20) on 20-22 June has brought out the usual warnings of environ-mental doom. They have been greeted with the usual indifference: after all, there are seven billion of us now, and we’re all still eating. What could possibly go wrong?

The UN Environment Program published its five-yearly Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-5) saying that significant progress has been made on only four of ninety environmental goals that were adopted at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. “If current patterns of pro-duction and consumption of natural resources prevail,” warned UNEP head Achim Steiner, “then governments will preside over unpreced-ented levels of damage and degradation.” Yawn.

Meanwhile, a team of respected scientists warn that life on Earth may be on the way to an irreversible “tipping point”. Sure. Heard that one before, too.

Last week one of the world’s two leading sci-entific journals, “Nature”, published a paper, “Approaching a state shift in

Earth’s biosphere,” pointing out that more than 40% of the Earth’s land is already used for human needs. With the human population set to grow by a further two billion by 2050, that figure could soon exceed 50%.

“It really will be a new world, biologically, at that point,” said the paper’s lead author, Prof. Anthony Barnofsky of the University of California, Berkeley. But Barnofsky doesn’t go into the details of what kind of new world it might be. Scientists hardly ever do in public, for fear of being seen as panic-mongers. Besides, it’s a relatively new hypoth-esis, but it’s a pretty con-vincing one, and it should be more widely understood. Here’s how bad it could get.

The scientific consensus is that we are still on track for 3 degrees C of warming (5 degrees F) by 2100, but that’s just warming caused by human greenhouse-gas emissions. The problem is that +3 degrees is well past the point where the major feedbacks kick in: natural phenomena triggered by our warming, like melting permafrost and the loss of Arctic sea-ice cover, that will add to the heating and that we cannot turn off.

The trigger is actually around 2 degrees C (3.5

degrees F) higher average global temperature. After that we lose control of the process: ending our own carbon-dioxide emissions would no longer be enough to stop the warming. We may end up trapped on an escalator heading up to +6 degrees C (+10.5 degrees F), with no way of getting off. And +6 degrees C gives you the mass extinction.

There have been five mass extinctions in the past 500 million years, when 50 percent or more of the species then existing on the Earth vanished, but until recently the only people tak-ing any interest in this were paleontologists, not climate scientists. They did wonder what had caused the extinc-tions, but the best answer they could come up was “cli-mate change”. It wasn’t a very good answer.

Why would a warmer or colder planet kill off all those species? The warming was caused by massive volcanic eruptions dumping huge quantities of carbon diox-ide in the atmosphere for tens of thousands of years. But it was very gradual and the animals and plants had plenty of time to migrate to climatic zones that still suited them. (That’s exact-ly what happened more recently in the Ice Age, as the glaciers repeatedly cov-ered whole continents and then retreated again.)

There had to be a more convincing kill mechanism than that, and the paleon-tologists found one when they discovered that a giant asteroid struck the planet 65 million years ago, just at the time when the dino-saurs died out in the most recent of the great extinc-tions. So they went looking for evidence of huge aster-oid strikes at the time of the other extinction events. They found none.

What they discovered was that there was indeed major warming at the time of all the other extinc-tions – and that the warm-ing had radically changed the oceans. The currents that carry oxygen-rich cold water down to the depths shifted so that they were

bringing down oxygen-poor warm water instead, and gradually the depths of the oceans became anoxic: the deep waters no longer had any oxygen.

When that happens, the sulfur bacteria that normally live in the silt (because oxygen is poison to them) come out of hid-ing and begin to multiply. Eventually they rise all the way to the surface over the whole ocean, killing all the oxygen-breathing life. The ocean also starts emitting enormous amounts of lethal hydrogen sulfide gas that destroy the ozone layer and directly poison land-dwell-ing species. This has hap-pened many times in the Earth’s history.

Don’t let it worry you. We’ll all be safely dead long before it could happen again: the earliest possible date for a mass extinction, assuming that the theory is right and that we continue down our present track with emissions, would be well into the next century.

The only problem is that things like this tend to become inevitable long before they actually hap-pen. Tick, tock.

Gwynne Dyer is a London-based independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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I am shocked that the Trail Daily Times is in the business of publishing “he said, she said” drama (“Two dogs deemed danger-ous,” Trail Times June 7.)

I find it lacking in taste that not once did you state in there that the Trail Daily Times tried to talked to the owners of the dogs regarding what hap-pened. Not once did it state in this same arti-cle that the Times had contacted the SPCA to confirm these allega-tions. That’s because these things never hap-pened.

I am the owner of these so-called “dan-gerous” dogs. I find it

offensive that this lady completely fabricated this story to make her seem like a poor little victim.

Not once was a kid ever the focus of an attack, the grey dog was only near her old-est child for the simple fact that he was hold-ing the leash to their dog.

These so called dan-gerous dogs are around children everyday including my two-year-old daughter. Not once have any of my animals shown any aggression to my children, our friends’ children, or any children at that!

I would not own dogs like this if they were a risk to my chil-

dren or the children of anyone else in our neighborhood – bot-tom line!

Yes there was an altercation between my grey “dangerous” dog and her dog.

No we did not stick around to find out if her dog was okay for two reasons; Her and her son telling us sorry wasn’t good enough, the verbal attack towards us , and I per-sonally was focused on getting my dog in the yard.

My dog is 11 months old and obviously has some learning to do. Saturday he left to a dog boarding school if you will, to be social-ized with other dogs

and to get some exten-sive training!

So for her to try and portray us as being uncaring owners is completely unaccept-able and false. We are obviously taking the responsible steps to make sure this type of dog-on-dog aggression doesn’t happen again.

In closing I have been at the SPCA all day going over this arti-cle and their investiga-tion, they never once declared any of my dogs dangerous, Nor were they contacted by the Trail Daily Times to confirm any of these allegations. The file has since been closed.

Jeremy BrownMontrose

An editorial from the Kamloops Daily News

Even Thomas Mulcair knows that oilsands is much more than a dirty word.

The federal New Democratic Party leader attracted scorn from politicians across the West for complaining that Alberta’s rich resource is responsible for artificial-ly inflating the value of the Canadian dollar, thus hurting the nation’s manufacturing sector - an economic affliction known as Dutch disease.

Mulcair got some support for this controversial thesis this week from the Pembina Institute, which concluded that, indeed, Canada is suffer-ing from a type of Dutch dis-ease it dubbed oilsands fever, “a strain that is beginning to create clear winners and los-ers in Canada’s economy.”

But what’s so different about this state of affairs? Canada’s economy has always been a topsy-turvy study of opposites. Boom in the East, bust in the West. Boom in the West, bust in the East.

Now that the West is enjoy-ing some well-deserved pros-

perity due to the price of its natural resources, the East is feeling the pinch due to a sluggish manufacturing sec-tor. But is the slowdown due to a relatively strong Canadian dollar or is it because North America’s economy has been caught up in global financial turmoil?

Likely the latter.There’s no denying that

Alberta’s oilsands have made the province the envy of other provincial finance ministers, but the truth is that the ben-efits of the resource are felt nationwide.

According to the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, more than $200 billion in capital investment will be made in Alberta’s oil-sands over the next 25 years. And for every $1 invested, about $8 in economic activity is generated, with one-third of that outside Alberta.

Mulcair’s broadside against Alberta and his subsequent highly publicized visit to Fort McMurray succeeded in gar-nering national media atten-tion (maybe that was the plan in the first place), but it also

served to focus the spotlight on the giant energy projects and how they’re developed.

He admits that he’s not nec-essarily against the oilsands, but simply wants to ensure they’re exploited in an envi-ronmentally sensitive way.

Well, who doesn’t?There’s no denying that oil

is a dirty business, whether it comes from a well on the Prairies, gouged from the earth in northern Alberta or pumped from a platform in the Atlantic. Nobody wants to hurt the environment, but at the same time, you’d be hard-pressed to find anybody who would say no to a cheque that came courtesy of the oil industry.

The much-maligned oil-sands are good for Alberta, but there’s no question that they’re good for Canada, too.

And it’s the job of govern-ment to ensure they’re devel-oped with environmental sen-sitivity and with careful con-sideration for the planet.

Contrary to what Mulcair might have you believe, that’s not politics, it’s just common sense.

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She is predeceased by her fi rst husband Albert Marsh, second husband Dave Exner and grand-daughter Rhonda. She is survived by her chil-dren Len and Barbara (Doug), grandchildren Rich, Bill (Cheri), Kyle and Jesse as well as four great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.

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Loving father, uncle and friend quietly passed away on June 2nd, 2012.

Gord, as he was known to most, a re-tired businessman from Rossland, spent the majority of his life in the Rossland / Trail community. He was an avid golfer, enthusiastic fi sherman, and spent many hours in his retirement enjoying both.

He was born in Rossland, July 18,1930, to Ernest G. and Ingrid Atkinson. After earning a trade with Cominco, he spent time working in Trail, Kimberly and Spo-kane before settling into the insurance business and eventually setting up shop in Rossland, where he worked until he re-tired in the late eighties.

Gord is survived by his two sons, Campbell of Spokane Washington, and Dan of Kelowna, his niece, Gail Dudley of Christina Lake, his nephew Ron Parker of Rossland and his former wife, Maggie At-kinson of Spokane.

Any who knew Gord will tell of his gruff demeanor, but know that inside he had a soft heart and great sense of humour. Gord will be deeply missed by all who knew him. He spent the last year of his life at Columbia View Lodge and many thanks go the those staff members that came to be his extended family and fi lled his fi nal days with care.

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THE CANADIAN PRESSTORONTO - A woman who came to

symbolize the horrors of the Vietnam War said she thought she would “die of hatred” after the bombing that left her scarred for life.

Though she eventually learned to for-give those behind the attack - and the brutal conflict that spurred it - Kim Phuc Phan Thi vowed she would never forget the terrible consequences of war.

That she survived the raid was “an accident of history,” she said on the 40th anniversary of the photo that made her famous.

“A moment captured on film turned one child’s atrocity into a story of hope and survival,” she told friends and relatives gathered in Toronto on Friday to mark the occasion.

“But I’ll never forget my two cousins who were killed in that napalm fire and I’ll never forget the millions of innocent victims who live their lives with the daily threat of violence and war,” she said.

Kim Phuc was only nine years old when

she was photographed fleeing a napalm strike on her village in South Vietnam on June 8, 1972.

The image of her running naked down a road captured worldwide attention and later won a Pulitzer Prize.

Recovering from the physical and emo-

tional wounds she suffered took years, Kim Phuc said, thanking the journalists, nurses, doctors and loved ones who came to her aid in the decades since the bombing.

“In order to be really free, I had to learn to forgive,” she said in an emotional speech punctuated by tears.

“It was the hardest work of my life, but I did it.”

The woman who garnered worldwide fame said there was a time that she “want-ed to hide from that photograph,” which the Vietnamese government long used against her.

But she grew to embrace the spotlight as a tool to improve the world around her, particularly children in volatile situations like the one she escaped.

Kim Phuc and her husband came to Canada in 1992 and now live in the Toronto area.

Five years after landing in her adoptive country, she founded the Kim Foundation International, which provides free medical assistance to children who are victims of war and terrorism.

(AP PHOTO/ANDRE PENNER)

People participate in a Gay Pride Parade in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sunday.

THE NELSON STARA new school gymnasium in Winnipeg will be named

after Nelson Search and Rescue volunteer Sheilah Sweatman.

The Queenston School gym committee and Winnipeg school division jointly announced Friday that the facil-ity, expected to open this September, will honour Sweatman, who died on a volunteer mission in the summer of 2011.

“Sheilah grew up in River Heights and was an outstanding student, athlete, artist and community volunteer dedicated to serving others,” said Colleen McFadden, chair of the gym committee.

“Naming the gym in Sheilah’s honour will provide our students and young people with inspirational mes-sages of community service and living life to the full-est.”

Queenston School was built in 1931 but lacks adequate gym space. The new 5,150 square foot gym will serve both student and community needs.

Sweatman’s father Wynn said the family was moved by the tribute.

“We are very pleased that Sheilah has been recog-nized in this way,” he said. “She was a fabulous young lady, strong in mind and spirit.”

He added his daughter was a “wonderful athlete, amazing snow boarder, cyclist, hiker, swimmer and dog sledder.”

The gym naming is the latest of several posthumous honours: Central Okanagan Search and Rescue named its new jet boat after Sweatman last summer, and a cairn is expected to be constructed in her memory at the North Shore hall out of stones contributed from each of the province’s search and rescue groups.

Sweatman, 29, drowned June 29, 2011 trying to recover a submerged vehicle in the Goat River near Creston.

SHEILAH SWEATMAN

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Associated Press photographer Nick Ut (right) is pictured with Kim Phuc Phan Thi ahead of a tribute dinner in Toronto on Friday. Ut shot an iconic photo of Phan Thi in 1972 after the Vietnamese village Trang Bang suffered a napalm attack.

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Doug O’Neill gave his horse three friendly slaps on the flank, removed his saddle, and I’ll Have Another was led out of the Belmont Park winner’s circle into retirement.

I’ll Have Another never got a chance to try for a Triple Crown in the Belmont Stakes

on Saturday after an injured tendon forced the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner to be scratched and then retired on the eve of the race.

About a half hour before the Belmont, the Canadian-owned colt’s handlers led I’ll Have Another from the paddock, through the tunnel and into

the winner’s circle. The crowd cheered for the few minutes, and jockey Mario Gutierrez climbed aboard for a few quick pictures.

He jumped off, O’Neill took off the colt’s saddle, and I’ll Have Another was led back to his barn.

“I wish I can be unsaddling him in the winner’s circle after a win,” O’Neill said. “He was a once in a life-time, heroic horse. We love the horses, we love this extraordinary sport and it’s an honour to be part of it.”

I’ll Have Another was originally set to lead the post parade onto the track before the Belmont, but that planned changed early Saturday after con-cerns the horse might become too agitated.

“We felt that this would be a fitting ceremonial retirement for an incredible race-horse,” O’Neill said. “There are many fans who travelled from near and far to see I’ll Have Another today,

and we wanted to give them a chance to help us send him off to retirement.”

The colt won’t lead the Belmont horses to the starting gate with jockey Mario Gutierrez aboard as previously planned.

“He’ll be my hero forever,” said Gutierrez, who called Vancouver his second home after arriving as an appren-tice at Hastings Park in 2008. “What I’ll Have Another did for me is so amazing. He brought happiness to my life.”

THE CANADIAN PRESSLOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Kings have

entered uncharted territory.After a quick cross-contintent trip to New

Jersey and back, their task remains the same: win one game and sip from the Stanley Cup. However, with Saturday’s 2-1 loss to the Devils, they find themselves facing a Game 6 for the first time all playoffs.

And the Los Angeles players know they best not blow a third opportunity to finish off the Devils.

“I’m pissed off,” Kings forward Justin Williams, a standout in this series, said after Game 5. “A lot of guys in that room are pissed off.”

It likely made for a quiet flight back home. The Kings were sched-uled to have a meeting at their El Segundo, Calif., practice facility on Sunday in preparation for tonight’s Game 6 at Staples Center.

New Jersey elected to skate Sunday after mak-ing the 3,900-kilometre trip to California.

Everyone involved in the series is plenty aware of what’s at stake now.

“They’re going to award the Stanley Cup to somebody here in the next two games,” said Devils coach Pete DeBoer. “There’s only two games left in a season where both teams are going on 110 games. So this is probably right where you want to be.”

The mood has certainly shifted since the Kings won the opening three games of the Stanley Cup and appeared to be heading for a sweep.

“We don’t want any distractions,” said defence-man Drew Doughty on Sunday.

“I think a lot of us before Game 4 were dis-tracted with family members and friends, the Cup coming in the building. A lot of things we have to put aside. Family always comes first for everyone, but at this point of the year the team has to come first.

“We’re a family in the room and on the ice.”There has been very little to separate the teams

and veteran Devils goaltender Martin Brodeur had solid outings in Games 4 and 5 to get his squad back in the series.

Some significant history will be made no mat-ter who raises the trophy.

Los Angeles is after its first title in 45 years while the Devils are seeking to become the first team since the 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs to erase a 3-0 deficit in the Stanley Cup.

A key factor to watch in Game 6 is who scores first. In a series where goals have been extremely tough to come by, the team who takes the first lead has won five in a row.

“The only way to really look at it in the series is the first goal,” said Kings coach Darryl Sutter.

“Whoever scores the first goal, that’s the way it’s been. We scored the first goal in the first three. That tells you just really how close it is.”

Both teams trying to

write historyKings look for first title tonight,

Devils aim to complete comeback

“The only way to look at it in

the series is the first goal.

Whoever scores the first goal,

that’s the way it’s been.”

DARRYL SUTTER

THE ASSOCIATED PRESSNEW YORK - Union Rags nipped Paynter at

the wire in a photo finish to win the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, beating a field without Triple Crown hopeful I’ll Have Another who was retired with an injury.

The finish was another thriller in the final leg of the Triple Crown, and hard luck trainer Bob Baffert was on the losing end each time.

Canadian-owned I’ll Have Another used two stirring stretch drives to beat Baffert’s Bodemeister in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness. In the 1 1/2-mile Belmont, it was Union Rags who provided the thrills.

A crowd of 85,811 cheered as the horses battled down the stretch, and Union Rags bare-ly caught the front-runner at the end.

Union Rags, trained by Michael Matz, fin-ished a disappointing seventh in the Derby and skipped the Preakness.

Union Rags wins

I’ll Have Another forced to retire

(AP PHOTO/MIKE GROLL)

I’ll Have Another is led to the winner\’s circle by groom Ignocenzio Diaz and Benjamin Perez for a retirement ceremony at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y., on Saturday.

BELMONT STAKES

TIMOTHY SCHAFER PHOTO

This Mead Panthers’ batter couldn’t get a piece of the ball during Game 2 action of the Spokane American Legion double-header between the West Kootenay Diamondbacks and Mead at Butler Park on Sunday. Mead won the prolonged first game 11-5. Results of the second match were unavailable a press time.

SWING AND A MISS

SPORTS

SCOREBOARDNHL

All Times EasternFOURTH ROUNDStanley Cup Final

(Best-of-7)New Jersey (E6) vs. Los

Angeles (W8)(Los Angeles leads series 3-2)

Tonight’s GameNew Jersey at Los Angeles, 8

p.m.Wednesday, June 13

x-Los Angeles at New Jersey, 8 p.m.

x - If necessary.*****

PREVIOUS RESULTSWednesday, May 30

Los Angeles 2 New Jersey 1 (OT)Saturday, June 2

Los Angeles 2 New Jersey 1 (OT)Monday, June 4

Los Angeles 4 New Jersey 0Wednesday, June 6

New Jersey 3 Los Angeles 1Saturday, June 9

New Jersey 2 Los Angeles 1

Leading scorers GP G A PtsAnze Kopitar, LA 19 8 11 19Ilya Kovalchuk, NJ 22 8 11 19Claude Giroux, Phi 10 8 9 17Dustin Brown, LA 19 7 10 17Zach Parise, NJ 23 8 7 15Brad Richards, NYR 20 6 9 15Justin Williams, LA 19 4 11 15Travis Zajac, NJ 23 7 7 14Drew Doughty, LA 19 4 10 14Bryce Salvador, NJ 23 4 10 14

NBAAll Times Eastern

THIRD ROUNDConference Finals

(Best-of-7)

EASTERN CONFERENCEMiami (2) vs. Boston (4)

(Miami wins series 4-3)Saturday Result

Miami 101 Boston 88*****

WESTERN CONFERENCESan Antonio (1) vs. Oklahoma

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Wednesday ResultOklahoma City 107 S. Antonio 99

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NBA Finals(Best-of-7)

Oklahoma City (W2) vs. MiamiTuesday, June 12

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Central Division W L Pct GBChicago 33 27 .550 -Cleveland 31 27 .534 1Detroit 27 32 .458 5 1/2Kansas City 24 34 .414 8Minnesota 24 35 .407 8 1/2

West Division W L Pct GBTexas 34 26 .567 -Los Angeles 31 29 .517 3Seattle 27 34 .443 7 1/2Oakland 26 34 .433 8

NATIONAL LEAGUEEast Division

W L Pct GBWashington 35 23 .603 -Atlanta 34 26 .567 2New York 32 29 .525 4 1/2Miami 31 29 .517 5Philadelphia 29 33 .468 8

Central Division W L Pct GBCincinnati 32 26 .552 -Pittsburgh 32 27 .542 1/2St. Louis 31 29 .517 2

Milwaukee 27 32 .458 5 1/2Houston 26 34 .433 7Chicago 20 40 .333 13

West Division W L Pct GBLos Angeles 38 22 .633 -San Francisco 34 26 .567 4Arizona 29 30 .492 8 1/2Colorado 24 34 .414 13San Diego 20 40 .333 18Monday’s GamesWashington (E.Jackson 2-3) at Toronto (Morrow 7-3), 7:07 p.m.Boston (Beckett 4-6) at Miami (Jo.Johnson 3-4), 7:10 p.m.N.Y. Yankees (Nova 7-2) at Atlanta (Delgado 4-5), 7:10 p.m.L.A. Angels (Richards 1-0) at L.A. Dodgers (Capuano 8-2), 10 p.m.

Auto RacingMONTREAL - Past winners of the Canadian Grand Prix (with year, driver, country and team):Formula One Series2012 - Lewis Hamilton, England, McLaren2011 - Jenson Button, Britain, McLaren-Mercedes2010 - Lewis Hamilton, England, McLaren2009 - Race Not Held.2008 - Robert Kubica, Poland, BMW Sauber2007 - Lewis Hamilton, Britain, McLaren-Mercedes2006 - Fernando Alonso, Spain, Renault

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weeks before this season even started, LeBron James and Kevin Durant were competing against each other.

Hell Week, they called it, a four-day series of grueling work-outs.

Starting Tuesday, they’ll meet again. They’ll call that the NBA finals.

Neither was play-ing at the level they are now when James invited Durant to work out with him dur-ing the NBA lockout in his hometown of Akron, Ohio. Now as James tries to win his first ring, fittingly, it’s Durant in his way.

“It’s only right. It’s only right,” James said. “We look forward to the challenge. It’s going

to be a big test for us.”James played at a

rarely seen level in the Eastern Conference finals against the Boston Celtics. According to STATS LLC, James became the first player since Shaquille O’Neal in the 2000 finals to have six 30-point games in a playoff series. In the one contest where James didn’t score 30, he finished with 29 in Game 4, fouling out in overtime.

His series averages against the Celtics: 33.6 points and 11 rebounds per game on 53 per cent shoot-ing. He had five games with at least 30 points and 10 rebounds in the entire regular season - then did it five times in the series against Boston alone.

“He was absolutely brilliant this series, and we all know it,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “He’s playing at an historic level during the playoffs, driving us with his will.”

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LEISURE

Dear Annie: Please help me. My husband, whom I love very much, is addicted to pain pills. It’s been more than a year. He says he takes them to maintain his energy levels for his long 12-hour days, but, Annie, he still takes the pills on his days off. When he tries to stop, he goes through with-drawal symptoms.

Not only am I con-cerned for his health, but it’s putting stress on our budget. He spends at least $100 a week on these pills. I’ve tried everything I can think of to get him to stop, but nothing works. Rehab is not an option because we don’t have the money and insur-ance won’t cover it.

I love my husband very much, but this is affecting our marriage, and he’s ignoring it. -- Distraught Wife

Dear Distraught: Your husband isn’t try-ing to wreck his mar-riage. He is an addict, and addicts do what-ever is necessary to sup-

port their habit. He will need to gradually taper off the medication until he no longer suffers withdrawal symptoms.

We assume your husband has some kind of prescription for these pills that needs to be refilled regularly. Call and alert your hus-band’s doctor (and pos-sibly local pharmacies) that he is abusing the pills. And please contact Families Anonymous (familiesanonymous.org) at 1-800-736-9805 and Nar-Anon (nar-anon.org) at 1-800-477-6291 for assistance and support.

Dear Annie: I have two questions concern-ing proper etiquette. When wedding invita-

tions are sent out, isn’t it proper for there to be postage affixed to the reply envelope? Also, I attended a wedding reception in December and didn’t receive a thank-you note until June. What is the prop-er timeframe for send-ing thank-you notes out after a wedding? -- Curious in Florida

Dear Curious: Thank-you notes should be written as soon as possible, and preferably within three months. However, many read-ers would be grateful to receive one altogether, no matter how late.

As for stamps, please understand that back in the Stone Age, invita-tions were hand-deliv-ered without response cards of any kind. Guests were expected to supply their own stationery for replies. However, since few people have per-sonal stationery these days and invitations are rarely hand-delivered, hosts have included response cards, usually stamped, in order to

facilitate a timely RSVP from guests who other-wise aren’t always cour-teous enough to reply. Do they have to? No. But it certainly makes it more likely that they will get a response.

Dear Annie: This is in response to “I Am So Sad,” whose husband is a bully. Please tell her that there is life beyond her horrible marriage.

I lived with a bully for 23 years. In order to preserve my sanity, I filed for divorce. I had to walk away from every-thing: family, friends, church and home. I had been active in my church, but when my ex claimed he “found God,” he became bud-dies with our priest. He told everyone I had lost my mind and convinced friends, family members and even my boss to beg me to take him back.

In my tiny apart-ment with little to my name, I realized for the first time in years that I could breathe without worrying how he would berate me when he

walked in the door. No one deserves to be treat-ed like that. It’s hard to find the strength to walk out, but I don’t know any woman who doesn’t feel better off after leav-ing an emotionally abu-sive situation. “Sad” will find another church

community that will embrace her. She’ll real-ize who her real friends are. She’ll still be a good person.

I’ve been divorced for seven years and have since gone to school and earned both my bachelor’s and master’s

degrees. I’ve made new friends and enjoy my children and grandchil-dren. I’ve even dated some interesting men. I wish “Sad” luck and the courage to get through this difficult time. -- Free To Be Me

TODAY’S CROSSWORD

SOLUTION FOR YESTERDAY’S SUDOKU

Sudoku is a number-plac-ing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with several given numbers. The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so that each row, each col-umn and each 3x3 box contains the same num-ber only once. The diffi-culty level of the Conceptis Sudoku increases from Monday to Friday.

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#204-1800 Kirkup Avenue, Rossland

$129,000Bright, sunny 2 bdrm condo located on

the 2nd floor with fantastic southern views! This condo comes fully furnished ready to move in with quick possession

available. This building has had extensive renovations including new siding, decks,

windows and patio doors.Call Christine (250) 512-7653

730 Binns Street, Trail $149,900

There’s character everywhere! Updated electrical, hardwood floors, large living/

dining rooms, huge country kitchen, private yard, plenty of parking... the list

goes on. This one is a must see! Call Art (250) 368-8818

1665 Maida Road, Christina Lake $109,000

Bring offers! Beautiful level corner lot with all services in a great neighborhood - Christina

Lake the jewel of the southern interior - offers year round recreation - this is your chance to

build your dream retreat ! Call Mark (250) 231-5591

NEW LISTING

1280 Birch Avenue, Trail $189,000

Large 4bdrm family home with wood burning fireplace, large kitchen, updated

plumbing and electrical, and low maintenance yard! If you are looking for an affordable family home, this may be

it! Call now Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

NEW LISTING

36 Moller Road, Fruitvale $369,000

Elegant family home loaded with mechanical upgrades and gorgeous

features on .38 acres. Call Tonnie (250)-365-9665

385 – 8th Avenue, Montrose$324,000

This custom-built home is located on one of the most beautiful lots in the area. The

yard offers almost 360 degree view of Montrose and incredible privacy. Home offers vaulted ceilings, 2-3 bdrms, huge windows, and 2 fireplaces. Huge work-

shop, double carport, 2 private patios and 1 sundeck. This one has it all.

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

NEW PRICE

1672 Stang Road, Fruitvale $399,000

4 bdrm home on 2.6 acres with open floor plan, hardwood floors, formal dining room, and a sunroom! A pool, sauna and firebox makes for great outdoor entertaining! All this plus 1500 sq. ft. of shop and garage!

Call Terry 250-231-1101

NEW LISTING

3955 Red Mountain Road, Rossland $330,000

Dropped from $439,900! View 1.4 acres with subdivision potential. This home has

great views from every window, large open living and dining rooms, 2 bdrms on main and 1 down. You will love the huge deck in summer and the cozy wood stove

in winter.Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

Call Mary A (250) 521-0525

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Saturday June 16 11am-1pmOPEN HOUSESaturday June 16 12-2pm

2322 – 2nd Avenue, Rossland $289,900

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2111 – 4th Avenue, Rossland $219,000

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2260 Ralph Road, Fruitval $214,500

This home offers 4 bdrms, spacious rec room, 200 amp service, security system, cozy wood fireplace, underground sprinklers,

a/c, and 20X24 (shop/garage). All this on a 0.97 acre lot!.

NEW LISTING

460 Forrest Drive, Warfield. $359,000

Fantastic 3+ bdrm family home on a large .45 acre lot. Modern design & decor, open floor concept and vaulted ceilings. Gas fireplace, oak kitchen, private deck and yard and so

much more. Call now!

NEW LISTING

Call Darlene (250) 231-0527 or Ron (250) 368-1162 Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

Wed, June 13th 3:30-5:30pm901 Scott Street, Warfield

$219,000

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Thurs June 14th 3:30-530pm1739 First Street, Fruitvale

$269,000

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As the summer entertainment season quickly approaches,

for those running their own business there are ample opportunities to engage clients or cus-

tomers outside of the office, shop or store.

It is often appropri-ate to pay for the cost of this entertainment – golfing, boating, fish-ing, BBQing – for both you and your client or customer. A friendly tax reminder: only 50 per cent of this cost is a legit-imate business expense as CRA assumes there is personal benefit that must be accounted for.

If it’s a foursome of golfers, still only 50 per cent can be expensed, not 75 per cent even though you are only a quarter of the four-some - some people like to argue that only their portion of the total participants should be removed, but CRA says no. Only 50 per cent of the entertainment

and food costs can be claimed as an expense.

The enter-taining of prospective clients also qualifies as a legit expense, but again, only 50 per cent of it. It should be noted though, what traditionally is defined as entertainment expense is actually sometimes deemed a business input and therefore a 100 per cent expense in the eyes of CRA.

If food or entertain-ment is required to carry on normal busi-ness activity, CRA will allow 100 per cent of the expense to be claimed. For example, a meal

would be required dur-ing a daylong w o r k s h o p and the par-ticipants (cli-ents) would expect to be fed especially given a short

break or remote loca-tion. In fact, two or three meals could qual-ify.

The regulation reads “… where expenses are incurred for food, beverages or entertain-ment provided for, or in expectation of, com-pensation in the ordin-ary course of a busi-ness carried on by that person of providing the food, beverages or entertainment for com-pensation.”

A business tax tip:

is there any activity or alternative presenta-tion mode you can do or offer as a business owner that would allow you to concurrently con-duct business and enter-tain your clients, and therefore write off 100 per cent of the expense? Just a thought.

Then there are those experiences for a small business owner when the entertainment doesn’t involve his or her clients. Instead, the business owner is a client of some other business he’s engaged and in actual fact is hav-ing to pay for his or her own entertainment and food as a cost of his or her participating.

The typical example of this involves conven-tions when the entrance

fee includes food and entertainment.

Only half of the por-tion of the food and entertainment cost can be expensed, and if the figure is not iden-tifiable in the conven-tion fee, $50 per day is the CRA assumed entertainment and food cost, so only $25 can be claimed as an expense. In other words, for each day of participation at a convention, $25 of the convention fee (if it includes food and entertainment) is non-deductible. When con-vention fees can range into the thousands, can you say nickel and dime-ing?

Ron Clarke providing accounting and tax ser-vices. Email him at ron.clarke@JBSbiz.ca

No free lunch when it comes to claiming expenses

RON RON CLARKE CLARKE

Tax Tips & Pits