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Marissa Tod, a Grade 12 art student at J.L. Crowe Secondary, joined the ranks of past high school artists when a large mural she designed and painted was hung in the facility’s common area. The striking visual center’s around the famous words of American author Ray Bradbury, “Love what you do and do what you love.” The saying continues “Don’t listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.” Wise words to live by, Tod adds, “Some kids are scared to do what they love, but they should just go ahead anyway. I was scared to do that (her art piece) but I just went for it.”

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Due diligence has the regional district examin-ing two of the “3 R’s” (reduce, reuse, recycle) this year - recycling services and reuse centres (RC).

An assortment of challenges at Regional District of Kootenay Boundary (RDKB) landfills had re-gional directors asking staff to investigate alterna-tives such as moving MMBC (Multi Materials BC) recycle depots in Trail and Grand Forks, and to address the “Share Shed” (RCs) muddle at both locations.

After exploring the feasibility of transferring re-cycle depots from high traffic RDKB facilities, like the McKelvey Creek locale, to private or not-for-profit sectors, the board agreed with staff findings during the Thursday regional meeting.

Regional recycling services will stay put, for now.“The question that came from elected officials

was if it was possible for us to essentially shut down our recycling depot and move it to the private sec-tor,” explains John McLean, RDKB chief adminis-trative officer.

The incentives being cost reduction, clearing congestion at the landfill sites, and addressing staff-ing issues.

The RDKB received about $20,000 from MMBC last year for hosting the McKelvey Creek and Grand Forks landfill recycling depots, according to a re-port by Tim Dueck, coordinator for the solid waste program.

Dueck noted MMBC funding does not cover the cost of infrastructure or staffing required to adequately ensure a clean materials product.

Additionally, he reported conversations with various businesses and agencies in both cities revealed uncertainty about the business case of be-coming an MMBC host and safety concerns related to an increase of traffic in respective store fronts.

“The report came back and said, ‘No,’” McLean clarified. “So when it comes to the Trail recycling depot, the action was to do nothing,” he added. “Grand Forks was different - there were two. One at the fire hall and one and the landfill - and we shut down one at the fire hall (Feb. 1).”

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Erosion causing concern in Oasis

Oasis residents share more than a quiet neighbourhood.

Water drainage has long been a prob-lem for the community that rests on a mountainside and community members are now concerned that a culvert is not directing flow and water is travelling onto and underneath properties.

Neighbours along Hannah Drive gath-

ered at Trevor and Shari Young’s property Tuesday morning when Dan Derby, re-gional deputy fire chief, and Terry Martin, Kootenay Boundary Regional Fire Rescue chief, assessed the saturated property.

“Our house is really close to the bank, and there seems to be a lot of water pool-ing down there and I think it’s because there isn’t proper drainage from up above,” said Shari. “Our ground is eroding be-cause the water is not draining.”

The couple’s backyard has visibly sunk over the 11 years they’ve owned their home, but the dramatic increase in water

in the last year has the pair concerned for their home and safety of their children.

A large chunk of their lower property sloughed off the bank last year, prompting the Youngs to build retaining walls, which have slumped since. A further push to act now came just this week when a large willow tree in their backyard leaned to a 30-degree angle within 24 hours.

“At night we hear some pretty loud creaking and wake up and wonder what it is,” said Shari.

Trevor toured Martin and Derby

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around the property line, pointing to the soft ground and sunken tree. It was the first they had heard about the home, said Martin who was intrigued to learn that water flows and pools year round and said he’d like to get a geotechni-cal engineer to survey the property before an opinion is formed.

“It’s really beyond our scope,” added Derby, who planned to make some calls to Emergency Management BC that day.

There was no sense of relief after they left, Trevor admitted. But at least some more people are aware of their situ-ation. He pointed to a culvert off of Oasis Crescent that garnered attention from Greg Kinnear, road area man-ager for the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, who stopped in to take a closer look Tuesday morning. Kinnear did not provide comment on site and pointed to a media representative, who could not respond to inquiries via email by press time Tuesday.

At a glance, water flows off the mountain-side behind Oasis down a pipe and into a ditch and is said to continue from there into a cul-vert at the end of Oasis Crescent, where Jodie Lemieux has lived for 22 years.

“We’ve had sink holes in people’s driveways up here, foundations are sinking on homes here,” she said. “In the next couple weeks, I expect my backyard is going to be flooded and the house next door’s crawl space to be flooded.

“Everybody’s yard is toast out here.”

Kyle MacInnis grew up in Oasis and though he has since settled in Rivervale, he makes a point of speaking out

on behalf of his friends who are trying to get some improvements to drainage.

“They started letting the material pile up in (the ditch) and it de-composed, now once the water comes into contact with it it just ab-sorbs into the earth,” he explained. “If they had maintained the ditch, it would have been hard-er, compacted soil and it would have flowed to where it should be flow-ing.”

The neighbourhood has tried before to get

the culvert extended but invasive knapp weed has limited their fight.

MacInnis calls “bullshit.”

“You can ditch it out, truck the material to a site that’s licensed to hold that material,” he said. “But it all comes down to dollars, that’s all it is.”

Area B director Linda Worley has been aware of the drainage problem in Oasis for the over six years she’s represented the community.

“I’ve heard every explanation as to why

highways can’t proceed from it’s a secondary road to we don’t have money to the ground is too saturated, which every year they wait until the ground it too saturated and we phone and panic and they say it’s too saturated and we can’t do anything until it dries out,” she said. “This year is a little dif-ferent because it’s really sopping and I got a call from a lady on Hannah Drive who’s very con-cerned about her yard sloughing off and her house is in jeopardy.”

Though she can ad-vocate for change, she doesn’t have any juris-diction over the deci-sions or actions of the province on their lands. She contacted MLA Katrine Conroy, who was already informed and lobbying for some-thing to be done, and alerted the Emergency Operation Centre (EOC) in Trail, headed by Derby. She awaits a professional assessment of whether the bank is unstable, at which point the EOC will determine appropriate action.

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Above; Trevor Young (middle) shows Dan Derby and Terry Martin of the Kootenay Boundary Regional Fire Rescue, the satu-rated and eroded soil around his home in Oasis. Right; Shari Young looks down above the slumping retaining walls behind their home.

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Another quandary, the state of affairs at the regional landfill reuse centres, has yet to be resolved.

In a November re-port by Alan Stanley, general manager of environmental servic-es, the purpose of the sites is to support the reuse element of the “3 R’s” by diverting useful items from disposal; when customers drop off waste, they can place good items in the reuse centre at no charge, and another can pick up the items at no cost.

Some of the reuse is taken away, but most of it is cleared out by staff on a regular basis then

landfilled.Landfill workers

monitor the daily com-ings and goings but can-not keep track of every-one who passes through - especially during high traffic volume.

What’s happened over the years, Stanley says, is the diversion ef-ficacy has diminished as people use the ser-vice as a means to avoid tipping fees and drop of items with no reuse value - leaving staff to

clean up the junk.Another important

factor, is the RC is often a source of conflict be-tween staff and custom-ers.

Tempers have flared when people were told the item they want to drop off cannot go into the site.

“They’ve asked us to look at this,” McLean said.

“And (finding resolu-tion) is probably going to be a bit more prob-

lematic.”Reuse centres are lo-

cated in a number of regional districts across B.C. but diversion per-formance is marginal and many alternatives, such as Craigslist an Facebook pages, exist for divestment of used goods.

Stanley noted a 2015 forum amongst regional waste managers found the general consensus was consistent with the RDKB’s experience.

Reuse centres do not divert significant amounts of waste, the sites are difficult to monitor to ensure only appropriate items are left, some users can be characterized as diffi-cult, and staff at other regional locations are recommending clo-sures.

The matter will come before the Committee of the Whole on March 16 in the Trail board room.

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Volunteers from Rossland, Trail, Castlegar and Nelson gathered in the Canadian Cancer Society office in Trail last week to launch the 2016 Daffodil Campaign. A new Silver City fam-ily-friendly event, the Daffodil Dash, is slated for Gyro Park on April 24. Participants can walk or run a five or 10 kilometre dash and help communities raise money to fight cancer. For information on all of this year’s events, visit cancer.ca. (From left) Allison McCarthy, Southern Interior’s coordinator, annual giv-ing; volunteers Jenny Murray, Mary Hatlevik, Deborah Shergold, and Shirley Milne.

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Most of us assumed fi-nancial commentator Kevin O’Leary was considering a run for

the federal Tory leadership in 2017. Until he unexpectedly announced that he might run for the Liberals.

What’s going on? The ultimate political game of cat and mouse, with O’Leary pulling the strings.

This past weekend, O’Leary spoke at the Manning Centre con-ference in Ottawa. He discussed the Canadian economy, his frustra-tion with some politicians (includ-ing his favourite political punching bag, Alberta NDP Premier Rachel Notley), and claimed he would be Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s “worst nightmare.”

The largely right-leaning audi-ence would have therefore assumed O’Leary was simply going through the motions that most potential leadership candidates follow.

Until this happened.Not long after his speech con-

cluded, O’Leary conducted a TV in-terview with CBC News Network’s Reshmi Nair. He claimed to be a member of the “Canadian taxpayer party,” stating that “I don’t think the old political brands will matter in the next election.”

“I can choose which party to ac-tually run in,” O’Leary claimed, “be-

cause I think there will be a leadership race in the Liberal Party.”

That’s right. O’Leary, who every-one thought was a Tory, hasn’t ruled out running as a Liberal. (I guess he would be Morneau’s “worst nightmare” as a cau-cus member and not an opponent.)

The TV personality is, therefore, caustically attempting to do a bait-and-switch with political brands like “Tory” and “Liberal.” He’s try-ing to show that political ideas are more important than party labels, and will park his allegiance with the political outfit most open to this strategy.

Some people will be attracted to O’Leary’s rejection of the politics of old. Most will see through his smokescreen.

Like it or not, party labels and political brands serve an important function in democratic elections. While the politics of left and right are often blurred by parties and leaders, there’s a basic understand-ing of what individuals and groups stand for. The Tories, Liberals and NDP adjust their platforms from

time to time, and oc-casionally propose ideas and strategies that are ideological-ly inconsistent, but that’s how it typi-cally works.

Contrary to O’Leary’s belief, this understood politi-cal component isn’t going out of style with grassroots members. These are

the people who ultimately pick the party leaders. They rarely want to hear from candidates who condemn the very nature of political branding that they helped devise, build and promote.

If O’Leary wants to be taken seri-ously as a leadership candidate, he can’t just claim to be a “Canadian taxpayer party” member – and nothing else.

Therein lies the problem. O’Leary always wants to be the centre of at-tention in business, and believes he can do the same thing in politics. Hence, Canada’s political parties should make room for his ideas because they’re better, bolder and brighter.

Yeah, whatever.We all pay taxes, “Mr. Wonderful.”

Some of us don’t mind doing it, and

the vast majority hate it. Regardless, you’re going to have to fit your tax-payer ideology into a party philoso-phy and brand. It doesn’t work the other way around.

Meanwhile, O’Leary really doesn’t understand political strategy and communications.

Offering the oilpatch $1 million if Notley resigns is nothing more than a publicity stunt.

His refusal to learn French, and belief you can “speak jobs and the economy” and “win every election,” as he told the Manning Centre, doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of succeeding. Claiming Canadians have the “moral author-ity . . . to be peacekeepers” and would prefer this to being “war mongers,” as well as displaying little enthusiasm to participate in the fight against ISIS, as he did on CTV News Channel’s Power Play on Feb. 10, won’t win over most Tory supporters (although some Liberals might go for it).

That’s why it doesn’t mat-ter whether O’Leary is a Tory or Liberal. He’s not ready for prime time in Canadian politics, and it painfully shows.

Troy Media columnist and po-litical commentator Michael Taube was a speechwriter for former Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

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Canada’s food inflation rate remains at four per cent, yet there are en-couraging signs for the

consumer.Statistics Canada’s recent con-

sumer price index numbers, for example, show that the gap be-tween the general inflation rate and food inflation is shrinking – the general inflation rate now stands at two per cent, its highest point in nearly two years.

Also reassuring is that Canadians’ wages are increas-ing, at a rate of 2.8 per cent. That means an increased number of Canadian families can cope with higher food prices.

In addition, tum-bling prices at the gas pumps help consum-ers deal with higher food prices. Since July 2015, gas prices have fallen by more than 24 per cent in many regions of the coun-try. Over the past six months, a family with one vehicle could have saved more than $300 on gas. Those savings would at least double for families with two cars. And that doesn’t include gains from lower heating costs.

During the same period, the average family would have paid about $170 more for food, com-pared to last year. So the current fuel-and-food expenditure ratio helps the average family.

But what are families doing with the balance of their energy savings?

Recent consumer surveys sug-gest that Canadians will use their

savings to renovate their homes, take well-deserved vacations or even save for retirement.

But the latest credit card data hint at something else. U.S. re-ports suggest that many families have increased their spending by going out to restaurants. It is believed that $3 in $10 saved at the pump is spent on out-of-household food consumption. In other words, fuel savings are fu-eling food consumption outside the home.

The same could be happen-ing in Canada, ac-cording to market-based data.

So despite high-er input costs for restaurant opera-tors, fast food and full-service alike, financial results have been robust, for the most part.

Market research can’t paint a perfectly clear pic-ture based on food purchasing trends. However, money never lies and when food expenditures themselves are examined, some trends tell another story.

Especially noteworthy are re-cent food retail sales numbers re-ported by StatsCan. While super-market and grocery store sales dropped by a whopping 1.7 per cent during the lucrative month of December, sales at special-ity and convenience stores were on the rise. The shift towards smaller-scale stores and time-saving food purchasing habits, which has been developing for some time, is being more clearly reflected in the data.

This suggests that an increas-ing number of Canadian con-sumers are willing to spend more when shopping for food. Major grocers, reacting to this seismic shift in recent years, have made a series of subtle yet significant strategic changes.

The average consumer’s gro-cery store visit is five minutes shorter than just two years ago. However, an increasing number of men are now active food shop-pers.

And 60 per cent of those men want to get their grocery shop-ping done as quickly as possible. So the number of minutes spent in stores is a metric that can be skewed in several ways.

An increasing number of con-sumers arrive at the grocery store with a pre-planned strategy: a clear intent to buy or not buy certain products. Smaller outlets and convenient stores certainly appeal to those who are pressed for time and know what they’re looking for.

Recent StatsCan numbers sug-gest we are witnessing the hyper fragmentation of food supply, driven by increasing demand-based pressures.

The Canadian economy is generating higher wages (with the exception of Alberta), a high-er inflation rate and more op-tions for the food shopper. And lower energy costs seem to are providing a boost for the food and hospitality industry. That’s good news for the economy as a whole.

Dr. Sylvain Charlebois is a Professor at the Food Institute at the University of Guelph.

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An editorial from the Toronto Star

If it was a work of fiction, it would be unbelievable. But it’s not. It’s a true story.

Robert Pickton, Canada’s most notorious serial killer, smuggled a hand-written book proclaiming his innocence out of prison and actually got it published.

Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says the Correctional Service of Canada is investigat-ing how that happened. Guards at the Kent Institution in British Columbia say they knew Pickton was writing a manuscript and told managers about it. But Goodale promises a review to find out how the document left the prison.

In fact, there was no way to stop Pickton from writing his story as he sees it, which was published as a paperback called Pickton: In His Own Words. Under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms no one can stop him from putting down his own ver-sion of the killings he was in-volved in -- no matter how odi-

ous. But no criminal, especially one found responsible for such heinous crimes, should be al-lowed to profit from his crimes.

That’s already illegal in some provinces, including Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia. But B.C. and other prov-inces have no such laws.

Premier Christy Clark, quite rightly, is scrambling for a way to stop Pickton from recouping any money from the sale of his book. She promises to pass legislation as quickly as possible.

But it shouldn’t take such a repugnant act for other prov-inces to take action. All those who don’t have laws preventing criminals from benefitting from their actions should adopt such measures before anything similar come up.

It doesn’t get any uglier than Pickton’s case. The one-time pig farmer was convicted in 2007 of second degree murder in the gruesome killings of six women and given a life sentence. Another 20 murder charges were stayed. And in a jail-house con-

fession, Pickton admitted to kill-ing 49 women.

Thankfully, Amazon and Barnes & Noble, which had listed his book, have pulled it from their websites. The original publisher, Outskirts Press, won’t distribute it. Its president says staff had no idea it was Pickton’s work. They thought it was by Michael Chilldres, the California man whose name appears on the cover.

But other publishers and booksellers could potentially pick up the book now that it’s been released. Indeed, Chilldres says there are plans to have it published in French and Spanish. He also says any profits would be split between him and a friend, who spent time in prison with Picton. But who knows where the money would really end up?

Regardless, this loophole should have been closed long ago. Provinces that don’t have laws preventing criminals from profiting from their crimes need to slam the door shut immedi-ately.

Pickton should not profit from crimes

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BY JIM BAILEYTimes Sports Editor

The BC Winter Games wrapped up on Sunday in Penticton with local ath-letes bringing home plenty of hardware.

The Kootenay Zone 1 team took home 28 medals, including 10 gold, 12 silver, and 6 bronze at the three-day event that saw close to 1,700 athletes converge on the Okanagan city to com-pete in 17 sports.

Rossland’s Andrew Sibbald won silver in three-metre and bronze in one-metre boys div-ing, while Jasmine Drolet claimed bronze in Midget girls cross-country skiing. Salmo’s Haley Olinyk with guide Michaela Richens captured two gold med-als in para-interval start and para-interval sprint mixed standing skiing, and Kootenay Bay’s Jessica Rideout won silver in the same events with Sofeya Devji as her guide. Red Mountain Racer Heiko Ihns of Castlegar also cap-tured gold in the slalom and silver in Giant Slalom.

Sibbald trains at the Greater Trail Aquatic and Leisure Centre but once a month he travels to the Lower Mainland to practice

with the South Surrey White Rock Divers (SSWRD). His diving coach, Lisa Martin, was proud of the Rossland native’s accomplishments at the Games, and impressed with his commitment.

“Andrew is super ded-icated, most of my other kids wouldn’t do that,” Martin told Games reporter Sawyer Klassen. “He trains really hard by himself, we try to give him all the pointers we can while he’s up in Trail. He comes down once a month, learns some new dives and then goes back up there to perfect them.”

Sibbald’s hard work paid off as he exceeded his ex-pectations and broke the 200-point barrier in both his dives. Sibbald scored 200.3 points in 3-metre and 200.9 in the 1 metre to plant himself firmly among BC’s best young divers.

“It’s very exciting, be-cause coming into this competition there were a lot of pretty good divers that I haven’t dove with in a long time,” Sibbald said. “I was really worried, but getting second place was exciting.”

Meanwhile, at the Nickel Plate Nordic Centre, Richens guided Olinyk,

who is visually impaired, to victory in the five-kilome-tre para-category of cross-country skiing.

“(It’s) such a positive ex-perience, helping your best friend reach the finish line,” said Richens, who has been friends with Olinyk since Grade 3.

Things on the course went well, but Olinyk pointed out that there were more hills than they’re used to and the crowd was also a bit daunting.

“(There’s) such a huge audience and all of B.C. is watching,” Olinyk told Games reporter Emanuel Sequeira, noting that it was her first BC games.

It was cool to win, but it was great to see her friend have the experience, said Olinyk, who won gold with Canada at the International Blind Sports Association Games in Colorado Springs in goal ball last year.

“I’m glad I brought (Richens) with me so she could experience it.”

Fraser River’s Zone 4 team claimed top spot overall with 42 gold, 44 sil-ver, and 21 bronze for 107 total. Vancouver Coast was right behind them with a 105-medal haul: 35 gold, 27 silver, and 43 bronze.

Photos courtesy BC Winter Games

From photo left: Diving coach Lisa Martin and diver Andrew Sibbald are all smiles after winning silver and bronze at the BC Winter Games on the weekend, while (above) guide Michaela Richens celebrates double gold with Salmo para-skier Haley Olinyk (right).

BY TIMES STAFFRe/Max is going into the Trail

Commercial Hockey League playoffs with a head of steam following a pair of victories last week to end the regular season.

The Realtors outlasted Arlington 9-7 Sunday, after skating to an 8-6 win over Allstar Thursday night.

Thomas Abenante scored four times, and added an assist while Graham Proulx netted a natural hat trick in the second period to pace the team to the victory over the Big A.

Arlington took an early 2-0 lead on goals from Kris Davis and Pat Iannone but tallies from Justin Bedin and Abenante tied it at two. Iannone put the ‘A’ back up 3-2 with three minutes to play in the opening frame, however, late period tallies by Abenante and Dyne Parker gave Re/Max the 4-3 lead head-ing into the middle frame.

Three straight goals by Proulx in a 10-minute span launched Re/Max into a 7-3 lead and Abenante increased it to 8-3 before Arlington pulled them back to earth. Iannone scored his third on the night at the 11:00 mark, followed by a goal from Kelly Shipit to cut the lead to 8-5 with 8:12 remaining in the second. Nathan Ehman netted his second of the year to pull the ‘A’ within two, and in the third frame, Jeremy Robinson counted his fifth point of the night to make it an 8-7 game with 4:34 to play. However, that was as close as Arlington would get, as Abenante netted an insurance goal with one minute to play.

Despite the loss the three goals and two assists for Iannone gives him his third consecutive scoring title with 59 goals, 52 assists and 111 points. His line-mate Robinson finished second with 23 goals and 83 points, while former three-time scoring champion Proulx finished third with 36 goals and 53 points.

In the other game Sunday, Gericks Eric Hill scored with 29 seconds re-maining for a 4-3 victory over the regu-lar season champion OK Tire. The goal was Hill’s third on the night and 15th of the season. Gord Aiken tallied the other marker for the sportsmen, while Justin Adrian, Joel Graf, and Shane Drake replied for the Tire.

Gericks, however, finishes out of the playoffs, one point behind Arlington who also lost to OK Tire on Thursday 9-4, while Re/Max skated to an 8-6 victory over Allstar thanks to an epic seven-goal performance from Proulx.

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BY TIMES CONTRIBUTORThe rocks were curling hard last week in Trail

Retirees curling. On a day that saw the rocks curl about seven

feet, it was team Dan Horan up by three after seven ends over team Serge Pasquali. With that much curl, guards were difficult to position, but team Pasquali managed to hide a couple of rocks behind cover. Team Horan limited the damage to two in eight for the 7–6 win and a share of top spot.

In a low scoring game between team Forrest Drinnan and Kevin Oliver the turning point was in the sixth end. Guido Babuin, skipping the team Oliver, made a fantastic raise for one against a couple of Drinnan counters. Make the final 6–5 for Oliver.

In a see-saw battle between Alvin Caron and Murray Walsh it came down to the eighth end. Walsh with advantage of last rock could not capital-ized, as Caron stole a single for the win, 6–5 and hand Walsh his first loss.

Team Ernie Brown faced off against team Clare Coleman on a sheet of ice that provided great curl and speed. Team Brown took advantage in the fourth end to come away with a five ender. Coleman went on the offence but gave up steals of one in the fifth and sixth for a 10-2 Brown victory.

Team Pat Burke battled the Primo Secco four-some in a low scoring game. It came down to the last rock, tied after seven and Burke with hammer. A simple draw to the 4 foot gave Burke the win, 5–4, and a share of the penthouse with Walsh and Horan.

A tight game between teams Harvey Handley and Brett Rakuson was broken open in the seventh end. A steal of three in seven gave Rakuson a four point lead. Handley could only manage a pair in eight, make the final 7–5 Rakuson.

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TEAM GP W L T PTSOK Tire 32 20 7 5 45Re/Max 33 15 13 5 35Allstar 32 9 11 11 29Arlington 32 11 17 4 26Gericks 32 10 17 5 25

Top 20 ScorersPLAYER TEAM G A PtsP. Iannone Arl 59 52 111J. Robinson Arl 23 60 83G Proulx Re/Max 36 17 53S Drake OK Tire 13 39 52E MacKay OK Tire 21 29 50C Clare Gericks 21 22 43D Parker Re/Max 19 24 43S Morrisseau Allstar 15 28 43A. Jenner Allstar 24 16 40T. Abenante Re/Max 17 22 39T. Palmer OK Tire 21 17 38M. Broyd Arl 18 17 35J. Adrian OK Tire 26 8 34P. Barclay Re/Max 13 21 34D. Hill Re/Max 12 19 31K. Davis Arlington 11 20 31J. Baker Arlington 15 14 29K. MacKay OK Tire 12 16 28W. Sidoni Allstar 10 18 28T. Drake Gericks 8 20 28

Goaltending Leaders W L T GA GAAR Dickson 14 6 5 83 3.32Kooznetsoff 8 14 5 112 4.15C.McIsaac 11 11 5 122 4.52CDeadmarsh 8 10 9 129 4.78EVolpatti 10 16 3 177 6.1

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Dear Annie: One of my wife’s siblings insists that everyone re-move their shoes upon entering her home. This makes me feel like I am welcome only so long as I don’t get their precious house dirty.

My wife and I were recently invited to her sister’s house for a family party. When I didn’t take off my perfectly clean shoes, she looked me in the eye and told me to remove my shoes or not to bother coming in. She said, “We are zero tolerance on that.” I turned and left without saying a word.

Last week, we went to another party at a different sister’s home. She met us at the door with a big smile. “Keep your shoes on if you want, but wipe your feet if they are dirty.” We had a good time. I felt welcomed.

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Dear Annie: My husband and I are in our early 30s and come from middle-class families. We both

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When people ask what kind of mortgage rate we have or which bank we are using, what’s the best way to respond? We don’t want

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Mary Amantea

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Bill Craig

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Art Forrest

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Christine Albo

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Dave Thoss

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2153 LeRoi Avenue, Rossland

$259,000Bright living, hardwood fl oors and a renovated

kitchen. Call today.

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2214 Columbia Avenue, Rossland

$318,5003 bdrm Rossland home

with loads of charm and character.

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2043 Park Street, Rossland

$155,000Great value in

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2031 McLeod Avenue, Rossland

$205,000This home

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320 Murray Drive, Warfi eld

$199,000Charming 4 bdrm

Warfi eld home on a quiet dead-end street.

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1340 Brewster Street, Trail

$219,900This renovated Shavers

Bench home offers a great open fl oor plan.

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966 Upper China Creek Road, Genelle$166,900

4 bdrm rancher on 2 acres. It doesn’t get

better than this.

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GLENVIEW APTS. Spacious,quiet 1&2 bdrm. apts. Avail. Mar.1st. 250-368-8391

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PENTICTON101-2601 Skaha Lake Rd.

493-3800(250)

VERNON200-3107 - 48th Ave.

542-3000(250)

ANDRES WIRELESSCherry Lane Mall

(250) 493-4566

KELOWNA2153 Springfield Road

860-2600(250)

WEST KELOWNA#200 - 2180 Elk Rd.

707-2600(250)

CASTLEGAR200-1965 Columbia Ave.

365-6455(250)

NELSONChahko Mika Mall

352-7258(250)

CRANBROOK101 Kootenay St. North

426-8927(250)

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ANDRES CAR AUDIO1881 Harvey Avenue

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KELOWNA CAR AUDIO1881 Harvey Avenue

(250) 860-1975

KAMLOOPS CAR AUDIO154 Victoria Str

(250) 314-9944


707-2600(250)


493-3800(250)


542-3000(250)

WilliamsLake KELOWNA

2153 Springfield Road860-2600(250)

KAMLOOPS745 Notre Dame Drive

851-8700(250)

PRINCE GEORGE2591A Vance Rd.

563-4447(250)

WILLIAMS AKE299 Oliver Str.

398-8522(250)

L 100 MILE OUSE916 Alpine Ave.

395-4015(250)

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851-8700(250)

ANDRES WIRELESSAberdeen Mall(250) 377-8880

ANDRES WIRELESS215 - 450 Lansdowne Mall

(250) 377-8007

ANDRES CAR AUDIO154 Victoria Str

(250) 314-9944

ANDRES BUSINESS300 St. Paul Str.

(250) 377-3773


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398-8522(250)

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395-4015(250)

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563-4447(250)

100 MILE OUSE916 Alpine Ave.

395-4015(250)

H WILLIAMS AKE299 Oliver Str.

398-8522(250)

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542-3000(250)

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(250) 542-1496


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