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Photos of smiling students and instructors from many years past were displayed on dining hall tables in the Greater Trail Community Centre mid-week as retired Kootenay Columbia teachers gathered for a banquet lunch. The group meets four times a year. During the events, they study old school district photos that were plucked from storage in Castlegar, to identify who is in each picture, most dating back decades. Janice Androsoff (right) a former MacLean Elementary School teacher sits as president of the retired teachers association and Fran Deadmarsh a 30-year teacher retired for 13 years, were quick to identify a few of the subjects in photos that include group shots of staff and student athletic clubs.

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Removing the independence of our most vulnerable citizens should have the whole community outraged, says Sheila Adcock.

The Trail-based coordinator

for Career Development Services (CDS) was speaking about the province’s 2016 tabled budget - which put an end to a monthly $66 special transport subsidy and the $45 annual bus pass for Persons with Disabilities (PWD).

Granted those with a PWD

designation will receive a $77 per month increase to benefits effec-tive Sept. 1 - that amount will be greatly offset by the cost of public transportation.

In Trail, and throughout the West Kootenay, an adult pass for BC Transit is $50 per month or $90

for multi-zone use.“As service providers we are

pretty upset as the majority of the individuals we support with dis-abilities depend on their bus pass to increase their community in-clusion opportunities as well as

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Interior Health and ANKORS are responding to an increasing overdose trend with education and outreach.

There has been a gradual climb in opioid-drug (pain reliever) related overdose deaths over the last 24 months across the province, according to BC Coroner statistics, which has jump-started a province-wide conversation.

The Interior region is no exception. Fatal over-doses from illicit drugs leapt to 60 last year from 20 in 2008. Preliminary data for 2016 already reports 15 overdose deaths related to illicit drug use, and that’s significant, says Dr. Trevor Corneil, chief medical officer for Interior Health.

The spike is primarily found in big centres like Kamloops or Kelowna, he adds, but the region’s smaller communities are feeling the impact as well. Statistically, Trail and Nelson see anywhere from one-to-five overdose fatalities a year, but because the communities stay under five, and sometimes see none at all, they are not charted in the BC Coroner’s annual report.

“We certainly would like to get ahead of the problem, and we do that by educating the public and also providing resources through contracted agencies and harm reduction such as needle ex-changes and take-home Naloxone kits, as well as access to treatment through detox and other mo-dalities,” he said. “It’s important that communities know that a trend that occurs across a province, a region, a trend that doesn’t seem to be hitting any particular group - age, gender or otherwise - be interpreted as applicable to everybody.”

Overdoses are reported among frequent users as well as those who use for recreational purposes. The trending increase is not cut and dry, according to Dr. Corneil, but commonly involves opioids such

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Residents with a keen interest in the new pipeline/pedestrian bridge can watch the build from the comfort of their home since the city’s time-lapse camera is now live.

The camera snaps a picture every 30 minutes, collecting images of the construc-tion until its completion in December of this year.

The super-wide angle lens, set up about 800 feet downstream from the site, captures the project from afar, but the picture is mag-nified with a zoom-in tool located on the top left corner of the page.

There are several ways to access the cam-era. From a desktop, there is a direct link “Live Cam” from the city’s homepage to the camera site. Or, from a mobile device, ac-cess www.trail.ca and type “time lapse” in the “Search for” for field. The link is also posted on the city’s Facebook page and Twitter feed.

Andrea Jolly, Trail’s communications and events coordinator, said documenting and sharing a build of this magnitude was fitting since the support of the community and the region was instrumental in bringing the project to reality.

“The live camera is an opportunity for anyone to view the project,” she said. “It also creates a sense of excitement as construc-tion progresses.

“When we shared the camera link on Facebook, we received thousands of views and many shares,” she added. “We can see there is a lot of interest in the project.”

The images will be archived for the city’s record but also as a means of later compil-ing a time-lapse video that will show the construction from beginning to end in just a few short minutes.

Once completed, the video will be posted to the city’s YouTube page for viewing plea-sure for years to come.

“Time-lapse videos for large construction projects are quite fascinating, and we’d like this video to be part of our opening cer-emony of the bridge,” explained Jolly.

“We are still working through a few glitches, so we ask for everyone’s patience,” she added.

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Interested citizens can track the progress of the pipe-pedestrian bridge online through the City of Trail’s website. A camera is designed to take a photo every 30 minutes and provide a time-lapse for viewers. Visit the “Live Cam” on the city’s homepage.

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Four and a half months after a boating crash killed a Fruitvale man on Kootenay Lake, RCMP have not decided whether to recommend any charges.

“It is still under investigation,” said Creston Staff Sgt. Darryl Hammond, in whose detachment area the crash occurred.

“Unfortunately, these things take

quite a long time to go through. A lot of exhibits need to be processed.”

David Larry Dale Jamieson, 30, died after a boat struck the base of a steep rock face near Riondel on Oct. 11.

Police released few details at the time, except to say that he was one of four people on board and died at the scene while the other three were taken to hospital.

Police continue to investigate death of Fruitvale man on Kootenay Lake

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The traffi c lanes and pedestrian walkway on the eastbound (downstream) side of the Victoria Street Bridge will be closed from Monday, February 15th to Monday, February 29th. The closure will accommodate crews from Power Tech Electrical Ltd. who will be installing LED lights as part of the Victoria Street Bridge Lighting Project. The westbound (upstream) side of the bridge will be open for single-lane two-way traffi c and pedestrians.

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Music• Thursday, Charles Bailey Theatre,

7:30 p.m. The Lonely O – A Tribute to Roy Orbison. Group of experienced musicians pay tribute to the rock and roll pioneer, and true master of the romantic.

Other• Thursday, Trail

United Church, noon until 1 p.m. Communities in Faith Pastoral Charge, present Lenten Luncheon Series. Conversation focus “God’s Love / God’s Judgment.” Bring thoughts, questions and bag lunch. Speakers: March 3, Andrew Freeman, Warfield Community Church; March 10, Canon Neil Elliot, Anglican Church; March 17, Rev. Michael Hare Trail United Church.

• Friday, Muriel Griffiths Room, 7:30 p.m. E2 presents Grindstone Theatre’s 11 O’Clock Number. Edmonton’s best emerging talent bring improvised song, dance and comedy.

• Trail Memorial Centre, showing “Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Times: the Italian Canadian Internment Experience. Audio visual available dur-ing regular library hours, an exhibit of

artifacts and information detailing the lives of Italian-Canadian Aliens during the Second World War.

Film• Saturday, Royal Theatre, 9:55 a.m.

Met Opera Live in HD presents Manon Lescaut. The stage ignites when so-

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• Sunday, Royal Theatre, 4:30 p.m. Trail and District Arts Council, Sunday Cinema showing A Royal Night Out. Cloistered

away in Buckingham Palace, two prin-cesses peer out at the adoring crowd readying for the biggest party London has ever seen on V.E. Day, 1945.

Upcoming• March 12, Trail United Church,

10 a.m. until noon. U.C.W. holding St. Patrick’s Day coffee party in Knox Hall. Includes bake sale and toonie table. Admission by donation. All welcome.

• March 12, St. Andrew’s Anglican Church hall, 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. in-crEDIBLE trail presents Seedy Saturday. Seed swap, seed vendors, planting workshops, demonstrations and more. For info contact Gina at 231.8671 or email incredibletrail@gmail.com.

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employment,” Adcock emphasized.“If they lose the bus pass or transportation

subsidy then they will lose their indepen-dence, depending on others to drive them around,” she added. “We are also then con-cerned with their safety as the individuals on PWD are very vulnerable and having to take chances with asking for others for rides opens up all kinds of issues around community safety.”

Adcock joined Inclusion BC’s growing wave of opposition by getting word out about a change.org online petition to Premier Christy Clark and Minister Michelle Stilwell, titled, “Raise the rates, leave our bus pass alone.”

The petition has garnered 12,400 signa-tures to date.

BC disability benefit rates of $906 per month are among the lowest in the country, Inclusion BC states on the petition. The amount has increased only by $120 since 2001.

The government’s stance is the $77 month-ly increase provides fairness in the system and more choice for approximately 100,000 people currently on disability assistance.

The new even rates mean everyone on dis-ability will receive $983 per month, instead of how the system is set up now, which has clients with no transportation costs receiving $906, those with bus passes $958, and others with special transportation subsidies, $972.

The negative implications are already surfacing on the population CDS supports, Adcock counters.

“They are very upset and confused as to how this will affect them and the process they will have to follow,” she added. “Keep in mind, to qualify for PWD services, you have to prove it.”

First, the person must prove he, or she, has a severe medical, physical, learning, or mental health diagnosis, that will last beyond two years.

And, applicants must prove the condition affects their ability to complete daily living activities.

“This population is now expected to not only deal with these issues on a daily basis,” Adcock said. “But also a government that is taking away what little independence and self respect they may have left.”

Without an annual bus pass or special transport funding, grocery shopping will be affected and getting to physician appoint-ments, work or community events will be-come a challenge or opportunities missed, she reiterated.

“They will need to depend on others to drive them and if they don’t have family or friends able to take on that role, then they will not get their needs met,” she said. “Living on $906 per month is hard enough…so an increase is definitely warranted but not if it is clawed back to provide independence to this very vulnerable population.”

To read the petition visit inclusionbc.org. and click on the “Sign the petition” link.

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Karen McDonnell (right),vice-chair of the Trail and District Public Library, presented Lisa Vanness, Teacher-Librarian at Webster Elementary School, with a child-friendly non-fiction book in recognition of the contribution both the PAC and the Village of Warfield made towards the Ordinary Lives; Extraordinary Times exhibit showing at the Memorial Centre. The exhibit, showing on the Red Floor, runs until the end of March.

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February 24, 2016 at Silver Kettle Village, Grand Forks, B.C. She was born in Kirkfi eld, Ont. on

February 22, 1924 and later moved west with her family to settle on a farm near Drumheller, Alberta. Mom went on to attend the Holy Cross Hos-pital School of Nursing in Calgary, where she trained to become an RN. She worked as a surgery nurse until being offered a position at the Grand Forks Hospital in 1947. It was here that she met and fell in love with our Dad, Clare Redding. They married in 1949. After a short time in the Central Interior, they settled in Trail, B.C. to raise their two children.

In their retirement, they returned to Grand Forks and enjoyed many years of golfi ng, lawn bowl-ing, motor homing, and spending time with their children and grandchildren. Their greatest joy was wintering with their many friends in the Palm Spring area.

Mom was predeceased by Dad in the summer of 2010. She is survived by her sister, Melva (Ross) Pen-noyer of Calgary, and their family. She will be sorely missed by her son Gordon (Marci) Redding and their children, Allison (Darcy) and Marlese (Wes) and her daughter Diane (Timm) Williams and their children, Chase and Kayla.

Mom would always make us smile when she sat on the fl oor playing with her great grandchildren, Ava, Sophia, Devin and Juniper.

In lieu of fl owers, please consider making a dona-tion to The Auxiliary to the Boundary Hospital, Box 1074, Grand Forks, B.C., V0H 1H2. Mom was a mem-ber of and volunteered with the Hospital Auxiliary for many years.

At her request, we will have a Celebration of Life for Mom’s friends and relatives at the Omega Restaurant, Grand Forks, B.C. on April 16, 2016 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

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after a short stay in Rosewood Village. He leaves to mourn wife of 67 years, Emily, daughter Audrey Dye (Willie) of Williams Lake, grandson Kelly(Yolanda) Dye of Sun Peaks, and their two daughters Olivia and Ava, grandson Je� rey, (Andrea) Dye of Manila, Philippines and Vancouver, his sister Sandra Fedoruk of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and many nieces and nephews in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Michael was predeceased by four brothers and his son David Yakimchuk.Michael was born near Carpenter, Saskatchewan, and spent his childhood years on the family farm. He joined the army and served overseas during WWII, in England, Belgium and Holland. He returned from the war to Saskatoon for a short while. He moved to Trail in 1947, on recommendation from a friend, and found employment with the CM & S Company. Michael worked for Cominco until retirement in 1979. He and Emily were married on January 30, 1949. � ey spent many years at their home on Turner Street in Annabel, raising their family and enjoying lifelong friendships with their neighbors in that community. Michael was a lifetime member of the Knights of Pythias and was proud to have served a term as BC Grand Chancellor. He liked to spend time at the “cabin” on Kootenay Lake � shing or just enjoying the scenery and solitude. � e family would like to thank the sta� at Columbia View and Rosewood Village for their care over the last year and to Dr. Philips for Dad’s care over the last 36 years. � ere will be a graveside service and reception later in the spring. Jordan Wren of Alternatives Funeral and Cremation Services™ has been entrusted with arrangements.You are invited to leave a personal message of condolence at the family’s online register at www.myalternatives.ca

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as OxyContin or hero-in, which have become more mainstream.

“There was at one point in British Columbia a clear geog-raphy where we would see overdose deaths and that was in the ’90s in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver,” he explained. “But illic-it markets and specifi-cally opioids within the market are now a com-mon place everywhere, including some of the newer more potent

opioids such as hydro-morphone or fentanyl, so it has opened the door, so to speak, to substance users, those with addictions but also recreational users as well.”

Interior Health has followed the increas-ing overdose trend for some years but the rise in the past 24 months has been steadfast. Dr. Corneil said the surge could partly be attributed to the in-troduction of fentanyl into the illicit market, much like cheap manu-

factured heroin made its wave in Vancouver in 1993, or when crack cocaine became freely available in 1998.

“We think this (overdose trend) may be related to fentanyl, but we are not able to link the two,” he added. “But it is important everyone knows that two-thirds of deaths are due to other drug cocktails, so to speak, in particular, those cocktails that contain opiates,” he added.

Fentanyl is a potent, synthetic drug that is

commonly used in pre-procedures as a pain reliever. The opioid is approximately 80 to 100 times more potent than morphine and roughly 40 to 50 times more potent than phar-maceutical grade (100 per cent pure) heroin.

The drug was first synthesized in 1960 and has grown in popularity as time has passed. As of 2012, fentanyl was the most widely used synthetic opioid in clinical prac-tice, with several new delivery methods in-

cluding a sublingual spray for cancer pa-tients.

Since 2015, Canada has seen widespread fentanyl overdoses, which have been fatal among a vast group of users from teens exper-imenting for the first time to frequent users.

Alex Sherstobitoff, Rise Up community engagement coor-dinator for Nelson’s ANKORS, said fentan-yl is here, and there is a 30 per cent increase in overdose death when fentanyl is taken.

“When we talk about fentanyl it’s a mixed bag,” he said, re-ferring to the form cre-ated and distributed by organized crime.

“They don’t have a scientist working on perfecting this drug, it’s just some schmo who’s working for an organized crime that’s mixing this drug, and it’s rudimentary,” he explained. “It’s not mixed properly so sometimes you can get a pill and there’s very little to nothing, and sometimes you can get a pill, and it’s extreme-ly potent and can kill somebody who’s been using drugs for years.”

While fentanyl is making headlines, Sherstobitoff doesn’t discount other opioids like heroin, which has made a come back in the West Kootenay. There is no concrete reason for the recent popularity, he adds, but one theory could be tied to a cut back on prescription opioids

and the need to fill that gap.

ANKORS best de-fense remains the Naloxone kit. The Take Home Naloxone pro-gram trains partici-pants to recognize and respond to an overdose situation through re-versal.

In such an event, the Narcan solution inject-ed restores breathing within two to five min-utes of administration and offers a life line while waiting for help to arrive.

The kits are avail-able at ANKORS, a non-profit society that serves the vulnerable living with and at the greatest risk of acquir-ing HIV, AIDS and or HCV, due to substance use, mental illness, sexual orientation, gender identity, race and ethnicity. But the kits can also be picked up by at-risk patients through the Trail and Castlegar emergency departments, after a short training session is delivered by a profes-sional.

Sherstobitoff said ANKORS alone has completed about 300 training sessions for overdose prevention, given out approximate-ly 110 Naloxone kits and has received feed-back on 18 reversals executed.

Though ANKORS relies mostly on anec-dotal evidence, he ac-knowledges a growing overdose trend in the region and is working toward making con-nections with other

agencies that serve the most vulnerable populations. He stands behind continued dia-logue on all facets of drug addiction from prevention to educa-tion, treatment, cor-rections, enforcement, and harm reduction.

Part of this conver-sation should stem to non-fatal overdoses, adds Dr. Corneil.

Though these are difficult to track be-cause they don’t always occur in hospital, he said there will be a focus on document-ing and collecting this data. Within the next six months, Interior Health will be imple-menting enhanced sur-veillance in its emer-gency rooms.

“We are looking at how predictive those flags are and our over-all risk score of over-dose deaths over time,” he said. “It will be an interesting endeavor that every health au-thority is undertaking to try and get a better handle on prevention.

“But when we see trends like this over years and then increas-ingly over months, we don’t need to do surveillance per se to know something is happening, and we need to get the infor-mation out there.”

Interior Health’s mental health and sub-stance use services can be reached by phone in Trail at 250-364-6262 or in Nelson at 250-505-7248. ANKORS in Nelson can be reached at 1-800-421-2437.

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Salmo elementary school would close and Salmo secondary would be reconfigured as a K-12 in the top-ranked option presented at a public meeting Tuesday.

The Kootenay Lake school district presented seven possibilities to the 35 or so people who turned out. Four involved closing Salmo elementary, including the top three.

The second-ranked alternative would see Salmo secondary become a K-9 and Grades 10 to 12 bussed to L.V. Rogers in Nelson. However, secretary-treasurer Kim Morris said that option “isn’t highly supported” by the community.

Morris added there does seem to be support for combining the elemen-tary and secondary schools provided space can added to the latter, which is the third option.

“If we were to get a new build or an addition is there a partner like a day-care society, library, or [government] ministry that is also looking for a new build that could partner with us? New builds are excellent opportunities for partnerships as usually more than one organization in a community is looking for capital for new or updated space.”

The fourth option would see Salmo elementary become a K-5 and Salmo secondary a 6-12. The fifth option would make the elementary school a K-4 and the secondary school a 5-12. (Presently Salmo elementary has K-6 and Salmo secondary Grades 7 to 12.)

The sixth option would turn Salmo secondary into a K-7, with Grades 8 to 12 bussed to L.V. Rogers. The last option involves creating a trades and apprenticeship program at Salmo sec-ondary to build enrolment.

Combining Salmo schools top reconfiguration option

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Interior Health will push ahead with contracting out laundry services at Kootenay Lake Hospital and several other larger centres, but con-tinue to do the job in-house at some smaller facilities.

The health authority an-nounced Tuesday that it has reached a 20-year agreement with Ecotex Healthcare Linen Service Inc. to provide the majority of linen and laundry services through a centralized Kelowna facility, supported by regional distribution centres.

“A clear case exists to pro-ceed with outsourcing laundry services at our major facilities,” board chair Erwin Malzer said in a news release. “With an an-ticipated savings of about $35 million over the life of the con-tract we will be able to increase our investment in facilities and equipment to support direct patient care, including neces-sary upgrades and expansions of our emergency departments and operating rooms.”

Hospitals in Kelowna, Penticton, Vernon, and Kamloops are affected in ad-dition to Nelson. A total of 93 full-time equivalent posi-tions will be lost, including 17 in Nelson. However, smaller laundries in Ashcroft, Lillooet, Golden, Princeton, 100 Mile House, and Williams Lake were spared the axe and will continue to be operated by Interior Health.

Ecotex is expected to take over laundry services by the summer of 2017. The com-pany is headquartered in Seattle but has an Abbotsford office, and has provided laun-

dry services for Vancouver Coastal Health, Fraser Health, Provincial Health Services, and Providence Health Care, as well as clients in Washington, Oregon, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. It is expected to build a new facility in Kelowna and hire about 90 people.

Interior Health insisted the move will have little impact on the carbon footprint of its laundry service, explaining that increased freight will be largely offset by a consolidated, more energy-efficient central-ized facility.

Malzer acknowledged that employees, who have cam-paigned to save their jobs — including at a rally Monday in Nelson — will be disappointed with the decision.

“While there will be job displacement within our sites, we believe the commitment by Ecotex to build a facility in the southern interior and hire residents from our region will offset some of the impact felt. We will also work with the Hospital Employees’ Union to support laundry employees as

they consider options for the future, whether that is through accessing vacancies or retrain-ing.”

The HEU, which represents the laundry workers, called the news “deeply disappointing.”

“Over the past year, there’s been a groundswell of public concern about the economic impact privatizing hospital laundry will have on Interior communities,” HEU secretary-business manager Jennifer Whiteside said in a news re-lease.

“Privatizing a public, in-house hospital service that IHA admits is running effi-ciently doesn’t make sense. Not for the patients and surgical teams who rely on timely, ster-ile linens. Not for the people who do this vital work. And not for the communities that will be impacted by job loss.”

In November, Simon Fraser University economist Marvin Shaffer concluded Interior Health failed to establish a valid business case for privatiz-ing hospital laundry services, following his review of IHA internal documents obtained through freedom of informa-tion requests.

“It’s astounding to us that the IHA has demonstrated such disregard for the quality of service our members work so hard to provide, and the economic well-being of the communities in which they work,” Whiteside said.

Nelson-Creston MLA Michelle Mungall said she was surprised by the decision given the backlash to the proposal since it was announced. Over 12,000 people signed a petition tabled in the legislature last

year and Nelson city council was one of several municipali-ties who passed motions pro-testing the move.

“We just lost the most ef-ficient laundry in BC so the IHA can build a private facil-ity in Kelowna and have our sheets necessary for surgeries trucked back and forth over the Paulson Pass,” Mungall said. “I am so disappointed. It’s not a good outcome for the community, not good for the people, and not good for our health care system.”

While some Okanagan laundry employees might find work at the new facility, she doubted they would earn the same wages.

Mungall also said although the new facility isn’t expected to be operating until after the next provincial election, the 20-year contract will have to be honoured by the govern-ment of the day. “I don’t see a way around this. If other people do, I’m all ears.”

Although a decision was ini-tially expected in December, it was deferred for a few months after new Interior Health CEO Chris Mazurkewich ordered a review.

Donna Lommer, Interior Health’s chief financial officer, said in an interview that there wasn’t a strong business case for privatizing laundry at the smaller facilities due to the small volumes and additional freight involved.

Interior Health spends about $10 million a year to operate laundry services and believes about $10.5 million is needed over the next sev-eral years to replace equipment such as washing machines.

Nelson hospital laundry to be privatizedGREG NESTEROFF

Nelson Star

“We just lost the most efficient

laundry in B.C. so the IHA can build a private facility in Kelowna and have our sheets

necessary for sur-geries trucked back and forth over the

Paulson Pass”MLA MICHELLE MUNGALL

Margaret Trudeau will be the guest speaker at this year’s Find Your Divine events.

The mother of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will speak at the Castlegar and District Community Complex on Wednesday, April 6. The event is from 6:30 to 10 p.m.

“We’re very excited,” says organizer Karen Bennett. “She’s someone we’ve looked at for three years. It just felt like this is the right year.”

Trudeau will offer a personal per-spective on mental health. Since an-nouncing in 2006 that she suffers from bipolar disorder, she has advocated for ending the social stigma of men-tal illness and published a memoir, Changing My Mind. She is an honou-rary patron of the Canadian Mental Health Association.

“It’s something more and more peo-ple are willing to discuss,” Bennett said. “So it seems like good timing for

that topic. She’s led a pretty interesting and remarkable life.”

Trudeau has visited West Kootenay many times. Her family lent its sup-port to the fundraising campaign to build the new Kokanee Glacier cabin following the death of her son Michel in an avalanche in Kokanee Glacier Park in 1998.

This is the second year of Find Your Divine, an evening designed for women of all ages to enjoy a relaxed, fun environment with wine and ap-petizers while they peruse a variety of booths related to women’s interests.

Tickets are now on sale. They’re $40 until March 14 and $45 afterward, available at the Castlegar News and the Gift Box, as well as Bear Country Kitchen in Rossland.

The event always sells out, so if you’re interested, buy your ticket early.

Included is a glass of wine or beer, appetizers, plus lots of sponsor give-aways and draws.

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Sian Richards photoMargaret Trudeau will speak on mental illness during her appearance at Find Your Divine in Castlegar next month. Tickets are now on sale.

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Is it really politics or is it a real-ity show?

That’s the question I keep asking myself every time I

watch news of the U.S. Republican nomination campaign.

It was bad enough during our own federal election. There was se-curity standing guard to keep peo-ple out while the prime minister spoke. There was fear mongering on everything from kids smoking weed to women in hiqabs taking over our country. There was bickering over debates and refusals to participate.

There was everything we didn’t want in a democratic election. But somehow we survived.

I’m not so sure about south of the border.

Watching from afar often skew-ers the view but somehow there’s no denying the juvenile and inflam-matory demeanour of candidates vying to hold the highest office in the land.

There was a time when the old saying was “Anyone can grow up to be the president.”

Now “growing up” isn’t even a pre-requisite.

In fact, the quickest way to get voters’ attention isn’t to come up with some groundbreaking policy that everyone can support. Instead it’s to come up with the best sound bite insult that demeans your op-ponent, a segment of the population and, if you’re a real good politician, the media all in one fell swoop.

Setting the tone, of course, is the presumptive front-runner Donald

Trump.First of all for all

of Trump’s rheto-ric, and there’s lots, he has some valid points.

Companies that move out of the country and closed plants in the U.S. should face steep taxes when they try to turn around and sell the products back to U.S. con-sumers. Illegal immigration is an issue and needs to be addressed. The U.S. doesn’t need to intervene in every corner of the world until its own citizens are taken care of.

Those points are valid for any politician to make. And that’s what has generated most of his grassroots support.

However, Trump doesn’t deliver it with a style that any of us rec-ognize as civil. Instead, like an an-noying salesman, he has to go over the top.

And while going over the top with ideas on how to fix things isn’t necessarily a bad thing, his over-the-top vitriol when it comes to his opponents is what is really grabbing the headlines.

That not only hurts him (and I believe it will eventually) but it also damages the whole process of democracy.

Gone are the days of civil discus-sion on issues. Going toe-to-toe on points that matter to the daily lives

of people. Debates that allow both sides to present a fair argu-ment are over. Those types of discussions allow voters to make informed decisions on the direction of their country.

However, now it’s who can shout the loudest. Who can make the type of com-ment everyone will be talking about tomor-

row.The media has definitely played

a supporting role in all this. I think it’s simply because, at first, they couldn’t believe what they were hearing. But the public ate it up and the media kept feeding it to them and the cycle began to grow expo-nentially.

Now, not a day goes by without some kind of bizarre or insulting comment from a candidate. And if there isn’t one, then the media replays one from a few days before.

That steady diet has allowed to the U.S. voters to simply absorb it without batting an eye. I liken it to the violence in TV shows followed by the newscast that shows a mass shooting. As far as most people are concerned there’s not much differ-ence.

So when you turn from the drama and insults in a reality show to the Republican race, there isn’t much difference expect the participants in the reality show are younger and

better looking.Perhaps Americans have been

desensitized to the point that it doesn’t matter anymore. Perhaps calling someone a loser or a jerk or a liar is pretty much the standard now.

You’ll have as much success try-ing to be the voice of reason at a Jerry Springer Show as you would at a Republican debate.

But I have to ask myself, “When did this all go off the rails?”

Was it done slowly by the dirty tricks during Richard Nixon’s term? The double-speak from Bill Clinton during his affairs while in office? Maybe it was the strategy to plant stories during the George Bush campaign to discredit opponents. Or was it Sarah Palin’s over-the-top babble in the last election cycle?

Or is it all of the above?The slow erosion of civil dis-

course among politicians has been sliding into the mud for years. And Canada has not been immune. Not by a long shot.

So my big concern is when does the current U.S. style become part of the campaign strategy in Canada?

You might be quick to say “Never.”

But then again when you have a character from the TV show “The Apprentice” nearing the top job in the U.S. and a character from the TV show “Dragon’s Den” eyeing a similar run in Canada, it could be sooner than you think.

Guy Bertrand is the managing editor of the Trail Times

How low can they go in U.S. politics?

GUY BERTRAND

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That the Conference Board of Canada came out with a new report outlining the impacts as-sociated with 30 million tonnes per annum [30mmtpa] LNG in British Columbia. [$6.9 billion in spending and 65,000 jobs an-nually nationally].

I would like to highlight that this is currently a totally unre-alistic scenario! Assuming the average production of a single LNG Terminal is 5mmtpa, the 30mmtpa means 6 new termi-nals! However …

• The Pembina Institute has recently stated that with-out implementing the Climate Leadership Team’s [created by the BC government] recommen-dations, any significant LNG de-velopment makes the province’s legal GHG reduction targets un-achievable.

• Clean Energy Canada re-cently concluded renewable power will quite possibly be-come cheaper than the LNG sales prices needed to justify the cost of LNG investments. This is

a significant investment risk—before including carbon pollu-tion costs.

• Several countries have LNG terminals that have just come on line or will be soon. There will be a global glut of LNG and low prices will follow.

• Demand for LNG is decreas-ing in countries like Japan which is re investing in safer nuclear.

To me, investing heavily in LNG is nonsense.

Mike GeislerBonnington, B.C.

Investing in LNG is a lot of hot air

It’s been four months since the Conservative Party was tossed from office. How many old wounds can there

be left to lick, tempting as that indulgence is for partisans on the right and left?

The reality is, Canadians chose to end the mandate of Stephen Harper’s government for a variety of rea-sons. They threw out the bums they knew for the fresh-faced young man they didn’t. They felt sudden disgust at Conservative desperation tac-tics late in the campaign. They likely reacted, too, against 10 years of hard-nosed “govern-ment can’t” messaging from the very government that ran up large deficits proving, in fact, that government could.

The “this is what we aren’t going to do for you” approach remains viable for only so long. At some point, politics de-mands a coherent vision of a better life and better future for citizens.

If conservatives hope to re-gain a Conservative govern-ment, we observe from our neutral corner, frank conver-sation is required about how the movement will renew itself. There must be courage to oust ideological shibboleths and re-place them with a well-rounded agenda that captures the imagi-nation of the Canadian elector-ate.

First up must be recogniz-ing what Canadians mean by limited government. Saying “government should not” is as simplistic as saying “govern-ment should” if nothing else follows. It requires more than raw arithmetic about mere size of government. It requires qual-

itative as well as quantitative balancing.

What gov-ernment does, it should do well, so sufficient resources must be dedicated to those tasks. Efficiency? Yes. But staff nose counts are not an absolute

good. Fewer bureaucrats in critical departments can actual-ly do far more harm than good. When conservatives make valid arguments about limiting gov-ernment’s role, they must iden-tify institutions that can fill the need. They must craft policies to ensure necessary institutions are properly equipped to serve the public good.

It’s also time to get past fe-tishizing gross domestic prod-uct economics. An economy is more than GDP just as a job is more than a paycheque. An inherent moral compass within our economic system shows clearly that some dollars are spent more prudently than oth-ers. Legalizing drugs and pros-titution, and counting their ex-change as GDP, might make the economy look healthier. It can also tear apart our social fabric.

Conservatives must distinguish between strong arguments for a market economy and the trans-formation of Canada into a market society.

Across the spectrum of the right, it is time to stop leaving compassion and caring to the left. Rethinking charity, ensur-ing effective capacity for so-cial institutions, and finding authentically caring ways in which fewer rely on the state are all high-priority policy areas.

Bootstraps long ago went the way of buggy whips and bustles – so should the phrase “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” as a pseudo-prescription for Canadians in need.

If there is anywhere that arro-gant individualist phrase needs to be overcome by conserva-tives, it is with regard to the environment. Conservation, of course, has the same root as conservatism. By the very na-ture of its commitment to stew-ardship, a conservative move-ment must advocate for careful tending of the elemental world. Conservatives should be as ap-palled by rapacious waste of earth, water, air and resources as failures of government thrift.

These are, obviously, but a few of the conversations that need to begin. There is time for them to play out by the next election. There is, though, not a moment to lose in acrimony or longing.

Michael Van Pelt is the presi-dent and Ray Pennings is the ex-ecutive vice-president of Cardus, a Canadian think tank engaged in renewal of North American social architecture.

Canadian Conservatives need to regain their focus

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ideological shibboleths and

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Canadian electorate”

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First edition of “Matchpoints” and on page 218 of his recent Second edition, he states that when a pre-empt has been raised to one under opponents’ game and opponents go to game, “a pre-emptor who has been raised is allowed to violate his usual oath of silence and join in with a double or bid if his hand is exceptionally defensively or offensively (respectively) oriented for his pre-empt.”

The Bidding: East makes a not vulnerable

weak two bid. The suit is a two-loser suit no mat-ter what and the hand is very short in the majors. This is a perfect weak two bid with little defense.

South bids Three Hearts. Is this a further pre-empt? No, absolutely not. One does not pre-empt a pre-empt and one certainly does not cooperate with a pre-empting opponent.

South is showing a very strong suit and a hand that has around four losers. It is stronger than bidding Two Hearts.

West ups the ante and bids Four Diamonds. He probably should have four-card support, but he has three-card support and a void. Furthermore, his three Kings look very useful.

North asks for keycards and East raise his own pre-empt in an attempt to disrupt Blackwood. Yes, North and South will use D0P1, but Five Diamonds still takes away the Queen-ask. Furthermore, his hand is very offensively ori-ented and he suspects partner is short in Hearts.

South doubles for the first step which is zero or three keycards.

He passes for the second step, one or four keycards and he bids Five Hearts for the third step, two keycards without the Queen. Finally, he bids Five Spades for the fourth and last step, two keycards with the Queen of trump. Here the first step is fitting.

In an uncontested auction, North and South should be able to get to Seven Hearts, but in this contested auction they settle for a small slam. West has too much possible defense to save (to make a sacrifice) at the seven level.

The play: Declarer wins the opening Diamond lead, cashes the Club Ace and ruffs a Club. He cashes the Spade Ace because when East cannot overruff the dummy, he will discard his only Spade. Declarer then ruffs a Diamond and ruffs another Club. He ruffs the last diamond and then ruffs the last Club with the Ace. He ruffs a Spade back to his hand and draws trump. He makes Seven for +1460.

Pre-empter disrupts Blackwood

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The CBCT is a self-guided tour showcas-ing local arts, culture and heritage offered at no charge to the general public. “Arts” includes visual, writ-ten, performing, media and inter-arts. Participating as a venue allows you to re-ally connect with lo-cals, develop a wider audience, educate the public about what you do, market your activi-ties, and attract visitors to your community.

The CBCT allows visitors to meet the participants “behind the scenes” and allows them to visit artists’ studios that may not regularly be open to the public, purchase works directly from the artists, visit art galleries, museums and cultural centres to view special inter-pretive displays, ar-chives, demonstrations or performances. It is also a chance for them to meet the people be-hind the scenes that are such a vital part of our local culture.

Full colour tour di-rectories will be avail-able free of charge to the public as a guide to visit your location. Signage, posters and postcards are provided to promote your par-ticipation.

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Although not in the Basin, the communi-ties of Grand Forks and Christina Lake are again invited to par-ticipate this year.

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Saints hockey team put a lock on the regular season title on the weekend with a pair of wins on the road in BC Intercollegiate Hockey League (BCIHL) action.

The Saints marched to victory with a convincing 5-0 victory over Simon Fraser University on Friday, before mounting an impressive come-from-behind 6-3 win over the Trinity Western University Spartans on Saturday.

The Saints went into the weekend games trailing SFU by one point, but the two victories put Selkirk up by three points with one game to play as they clinch home ice for the Mar. 11 playoff start and begin their quest for an unprecedented fourth consecutive BCIHL championship.

“When we started the regular season, first place was the ultimate goal be-

cause playing before the tremendous support we re-ceive in Castlegar is huge benefit in the playoffs,” Saints head coach Brent Heaven told Selkirk com-munications rep Bob Hall. “The boys came into this weekend determined to return home with a pair of wins. The entire team played great in both games and the two wins were well deserved.”

In Friday’s match, after a scoreless first frame, the Saints erupted for three goals in the second period to take a commanding lead into the third. Trail native Ryan Edwards finished a pretty passing play with Jamie Vlanich to score what proved to be the winning goal at 18:01, then former Trail Smoke Eater Dallas Calvin tallied his 18th of the season midway through the period, before Tanner Lenting made it 3-0 on an Edwards assist.

James Prigione earned the shut out, stopping

22 shots, while Steve Pantazopoulos and Troy Maclise netted the final two markers into an empty net as SFU struggled to find momentum.

Calvin was named the games first star, with Edwards and Pantazopoulos taking sec-ond and third star honours.

“Simon Fraser has been playing some great hockey this season and they are a very good team,” says Heaven. “We’ve had our struggles in their arena, so to see the team play that well against a top-notch team was very rewarding.”

On Saturday, the Saints found themselves down 3-1 heading, but a spir-ited come back lifted the team to the 6-3 victory over TWU. Tylor Branzsen scored twice for the Saints including the winning goal 1:09 into the third period to give the Saints a 4-3 lead. Edwards and Calvin each had two assists on the night, while Dane Feeney,

Pantazopoulos, Derek Georgopoulos, and Alex Milligan netted the other goals for the Saints.

Selkirk outshot the Spartans 43-22 with Brett Huber collecting the win in net, and Branzsen earning the game’s first star.

“Fighting adversity and staying composed when you are behind is vital when it comes to playoffs,” says Heaven. “That was a great comeback and what makes it even more encouraging is that every player contrib-uted in an important way to ensure it happened. It was a great way to clinch first overall.”

The Saints wrap up the regular season on Saturday night against the Eastern Washington University Eagles at the Castlegar Rec Complex at 7 p.m. Playoffs start on Mar. 11 when Selkirk will host the University of Victoria Vikings, with the best-of-three series starting Friday at 7 p.m.

WARRIORS ON ICE

Jim Bailey photo

The Greater Trail Minor Hockey Senior Novice Warriors may have lost the battle to Cranbrook’s Kal Tire team, but they won the prize taking the Timbits shootout at the GTMHA Novice tournament in Beaver Valley on the weekend. Twenty Junior and Senior Novice teams from around the Kootenays competed in the fun tournament. See more colour photos at trailtimes.ca.

Culley scores top award

JIM BAILEYTrail Times

Rossland native Thea Culley was honoured last week with the Top Goal Scorer award for the Women’s National Field Hockey team at Field Hockey Canada’s awards event in Vancouver.

The veteran Culley generated ample of-fence from her for-ward position scoring eight goals on the sea-son, was co-captain for the National Team and a leader both on and off the field. The Rossland Secondary School graduate has played more matches, 145 Caps, than any other mem-ber, and, in 2015, she led Team Canada to a bronze medal at the Pan Am Games in Toronto, its first since 1999, and a berth in the World League Semifinal in Valencia, Spain.

“I was pretty shocked to win the award which is really funny because it is the only award that can be worked out ahead of time,” Culley said in an email to the Times.

The 30-year-old was named to Team Canada again this year, and will begin the season with a trip to New Zealand

where the team will compete in the Hawke’s Bay Cup from Apr. 2-10.

The eight-team tourna-ment features five of the top women’s field hockey teams in the world: Australia (World

No.3), New Zealand (No.4), China (No.5), Korea (No.9), and Japan (No.10). India (No.13), Ireland (No.15), and Canada (No.19) round out the eight.

“Besides us and Ireland, all the other teams competing there are going to the 2016 Olympics so it should be a really fan-tastic experience play-

ing such high caliber teams all in succession.”

Prior to the Hawke’s Bay tournament, the Canadian women will play two test matches against the New Zealand Blacksticks women Mar. 27-28.

Brienne Stairs was named MVP of the women’s team, while David Carter took MVP honours for the men, and Stephanie Norlander claimed Junior Player of the Year award as well as sharing top goal scorer with Culley.

FIELD HOCKEY

THEA CULLEY

Border Bruins bounce Rebels

JIM BAILEYTimes Sports Editor

The Grand Forks Border Bruins pulled off a substantial upset in the first round of the KIJHL playoffs, ousting the second-seeded Castlegar Rebels in six games in the Neil Murdoch division semifinal.

After splitting the first four games, the Bruins defeated the Rebels in Castlegar, 3-1, in Game 5, and returned home to clinch the series with a 6-1 drubbing on Tuesday.

The game was tied 1-1

through two periods on goals from Bruins forward Austin Dean and Rebels’ Jesse Reeds, but Grand Forks erupted for five goals in the final frame to put an exclamation point in what had been a close series prior to Game 6.

Bryson Yee netted the win-ner less than five minutes into the third, converting a set up from Garret Brisbois and Tyler Fyfe, and just 48 seconds later Shayne Pluto added an insur-ance marker to make it 3-1 Grand Forks.

The result was not a com-

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plete surprise, as a rejuvenated Grand Forks team had beaten Castlegar in 2-of-3 of their matches in the last month of the season.

After Garret Brisbois put the Bruins up 4-1 at 11:49, Castlegar lost their cool as Matthew Lambert instigated a fight with Ryland Smaha-Muir to give the Border Bruins a man advantage, and Logan Casavant would make them pay, scoring a power-play marker for the Bruins to put the game out of reach. Dean netted his fourth of the playoffs and sec-ond of the night into the empty net for the 6-1 victory.

Anthony Galliart was solid in

net for the Bruins stopping 29 shots, while the Rebels Logan Sawka made 19 saves in the los-ing cause.

The Border Bruins now take on a rested Beaver Valley Nitehawks team that swept the Nelson Leafs in four games.

The Hawks won the season se-ries against Grand Forks 4-3, but the Bruins have given the Hawks problems this season winning three in a row in November, all by 3-2 scores.

Nitehawks coach Terry Jones said he would have liked to seen the Bruins-Rebels series go seven games, but has no preference when it came to his opponent for the Neil Murdoch division

championship series.“We know that they (Grand

Forks) are a tough team, very competitive, and having to play them, it’s going to be tough,” said Jones.

In the Eddie Mountain divi-sion, the Kimberley Dynamiters defeated the Fernie Ghostriders four games to one, and will face the Creston Valley Thundercats who swept the Columbia Valley Rockies, 4-0.

The Nitehawks open their se-ries Friday night at the Hawks Nest against Grand Forks with the puck drop at 7:30 p.m. and Game 2 going Saturday at the same time and same place.

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Trail junior curlers Eban Sirges (left) and Connor Baziw (right) along with team-mates Quinn Helgeson and nine year old Stephanie Blades made up one of a dozen teams that competed in the Trail Curling Club’s Junior Invitational Bonspiel last week. The event had plenty of support from local fans who turned out to watch, and organizers even convinced parents to pick up a broom and play against the two Intermediate teams.

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BY TIMES STAFFThe Quinnipiac

Bobcats, the Number 1 team in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Poll for the ninth con-secutive week, clinched the ECAC title on the weekend with a pair of Ivy League victories over Brown and Yale.

The Bobcats won their second straight Cleary Cup that goes to the regular season conference champion, and found themselves as the unanimous top pick in the nation after garnering all 34 first-place votes.

Quinnipiac rolled to a pair of 4-1 wins defeating Brown on Friday to clinch the Cup before defeating No. 7 Yale on Saturday to finish with 27 wins, two losses, and seven ties on the season.

Trail natives and former Smoke Eaters Travis St. Denis, Scott Davidson, and Craig Martin all play for the Bobcats as they start

their run to the NCAA championship Frozen Four.

St. Denis, as senior in his fourth year at Quinnipiac, finished second in team scor-ing with 18 goals and 20 assists behind Sam Anas with 43 points. Davidson picked up a goal and an assist in

his final two games to record five goals and 11 points in 33 games this season, while Martin added two assists in 13 games in his freshman campaign.

The Bobcats will have this weekend off with a bye for the first round of the ECAC Hockey Championship

T o u r n a m e n t . Quinnipiac will host a best-of-three quarter-finals series on Mar. 11-13 at High Point Solutions Arena at the TD Bank Sports Center.

The Bobcats are also ranked No. 1 in the USCHO.com Division I Poll as well as the PairWise Rankings.

SCOREBOARDHockey

National Hockey LeagueAll Times EST

EASTERN CONFERENCE G W L OT Pts GF GAWashington 62 46 12 4 96 205 144Florida 63 36 19 8 80 174 148N.Y. Rangers 63 37 20 6 80 180 159Tampa Bay 63 37 22 4 78 175 151Boston 64 35 23 6 76 197 176N.Y. Islanders 61 34 20 7 75 174 151Detroit 63 32 20 11 75 161 163Pittsburgh 62 32 22 8 72 167 160Philadelphia 62 29 22 11 69 157 168Carolina 65 29 26 10 68 158 174New Jersey 64 30 27 7 67 140 156Ottawa 64 30 27 7 67 188 200Montreal 63 30 28 5 65 173 175Columbus 64 26 30 8 60 167 196Buffalo 64 25 31 8 58 148 172Toronto 61 21 30 10 52 147 182

WESTERN CONFERENCE G W L OT Pts GF GAChicago 64 39 20 5 83 180 153Los Angeles 62 37 21 4 78 165 143Dallas 65 38 20 7 83 209 189

Anaheim 61 34 19 8 76 153 144St. Louis 66 37 20 9 83 166 162San Jose 62 34 22 6 74 188 167Nashville 64 32 21 11 75 172 161Minnesota 64 29 25 10 68 170 162Colorado 65 32 29 4 68 175 187Vancouver 62 24 26 12 60 150 178Arizona 63 27 30 6 60 168 198Winnipeg 62 26 32 4 56 161 186Calgary 63 26 33 4 56 170 197Edmonton 65 24 34 7 55 158 194

Thursday’s GamesChicago at Boston, 7 p.m.Calgary at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.N.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.Minnesota at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.Tampa Bay at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.New Jersey at Nashville, 8 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.Florida at Colorado, 9 p.m.Anaheim at Arizona, 9 p.m.

San Jose at Vancouver, 10 p.m.Montreal at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

Friday’s GamesN.Y. Rangers at Washington, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Columbus, 7 p.m.

New Jersey at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

NHL Scoring Leaders G A Pts Patrick Kane, Chi 36 49 85Jamie Benn, Dal 32 39 71Tyler Seguin, Dal 32 36 68Erik Karlsson, Ott 11 57 68Evgeny Kuznetsov, Wash 20 45 65Johnny Gaudreau, Cgy 24 39 63Joe Pavelski, SJ 29 32 61Sidney Crosby, Pgh 25 35 60Joe Thornton, SJ 15 45 60Alex Ovechkin, Wash 40 18 58Nicklas Backstrom, Wash 17 41 58Artemi Panarin, Chi 22 35 57Blake Wheeler, Wpg 18 39 57Vladimir Tarasenko, StL 30 25 55Patrice Bergeron, Bos 24 30 54Daniel Sedin, Vcr 24 30 54Brent Burns, SJ 21 33 54Taylor Hall, Edm 20 34 54Claude Giroux, Pha 17 37 54Anze Kopitar, LA 18 35 53John Klingberg, Dal 10 43 53Steven Stamkos, TB 28 23 51Evgeni Malkin, Pgh 24 27 51Ryan Getzlaf, Ana 9 42 51

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On the evening of Feb. 24, the Trail Guides held a World Thinking Day banquet for all of the Trail Guiding units (Sparks, Brownies, Guides, and Pathfinders).There was a total of 57 girls and 10 leaders in attendance. World Thinking Day marks the birthdays of Lord and Lady Baden Powell who founded Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. The goal of the day is to ask members to think about their fellow Guide sisters and brothers around the world with a theme in mind. This year’s theme was “Connect,” which the local guides did by hosting a joint banquet for all the units in the region. Guides and Scouts around the world have been celebrating World Thinking Day since 1926, and the local Guiding unit was happy to be able to carry on the celebration within their community.

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New cable ferries for West Kootenay will be built in Nakusp, the BC government has announced.

Waterbridge Steel has been award-ed a $27.9-million contract to design and build four new cable ferries for Harrop, Glade, Arrow Park, as well as Adams Lake.

The existing vessels have reached the end of their working life, the Ministry of Transportation said.

Waterbridge also built the new MV Columbia in Nakusp, which now plies between Galena Bay and Shelter Bay on Upper Arrow Lake. Harbour Cruises Ltd. of Vancouver was the other company shortlisted to bid on the project.

“Everyone at Waterbridge Steel and its sister companies are very excited by this new project,” said Waterbridge Group president and CEO John Harding. “These new cable ferries are important for everyone who relies on our inland ferry service. It’s also particularly good news for employees in our operations division, who will soon have new ferries to operate.”

The new ferries that will serve Glade, Harrop and Arrow Park, will be larger and able to carry more ve-hicles than the existing ferries, with capacity increased to handle com-mercial vehicles at full highway loads.

The new Glade ferry will be able to

hold nine vehicles, compared to the present eight, while the new Harrop ferry will be able to hold 24, com-pared to the present 18.

The current Harrop ferry, built in 1949, operates on demand 24 hours a day while the Glade ferry, built in 1948, takes a break between 2:20 and 5 a.m. The Arrow Park ferry, 22 km south of Nakusp, can carry 24 vehicles. It operates on demand from 5 a.m. to 9:20 p.m. with a break be-tween 12:15 and 2:15 p.m.

Each of the three ferry crossings takes about five minutes.

In addition, while the ferries are docked during off-peak hours, power will be supplied by on-board batteries. This will reduce noise at the terminal, and lower the vessels’ greenhouse gas emissions.It’s expected the first of the new vessels will be delivered in early 2017, with all new vessels scheduled to be in service by the end of 2019.

The project will generate employ-ment for approximately 30 people over four years, with the majority of work taking place in Nakusp.

“The contract is exciting news for our community,” Nakusp mayor Karen Hamling said in a news-re-lease. “Four new cable ferries will be built right here in Nakusp, and our local shops and services will benefit from the good-paying jobs created by this project.”

New cable ferries to built in Nakusp

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LEISURE

Dear Annie: I am a very lov-ing mother of two adult daughters. “Jane” has a child with her ex and another with her current husband. “Cindy” is married with one child and one on the way.

At first, things with Jane were great. We helped them furnish their house with all new appli-ances, and also helped financially when they asked. Three years ago, we had a falling out and now Jane doesn’t call, text, email, nothing. When we see each other in public, she is civil, but otherwise, treats me as if as if I were dead. We are not allowed to see our grandchildren, although our ex-son-in-law allows us to see the one grandchild when he has visitation.

Cindy, who also receives finan-cial help when she asks, lets me see my grandchild only once a month for four hours. She sometimes al-lows me to Skype, but no more than once a week, if I’m lucky. When she had a miscarriage a few years ago, I tried my very best to console her,

but she wouldn’t let me near her for two weeks. Others were allowed to be there, but not her own mother. She won’t let me talk to her about her current pregnancy.

I want to be a part of their lives, but we can’t get past this silence. I have offered to pay for counseling, but they refuse. I have asked, begged and pleaded for one-on-one time, to no avail. What hurts the most is that I don’t even know why they are angry with me. Any advice would be so gratefully appreciated. -- A Loving, Crushed Mother

Dear Mother: Your daughters may not be angry. They may be trying to create some space between your life and theirs, and don’t know how to do it in a more loving fashion. Or their husbands may have objected to your presence. And if your daugh-ters are close, they may be feeding

on each other’s grievances. It will do you no good to keep

pounding at this. Back off. You also can stop loaning them money if you choose. You don’t owe it to them and it obviously doesn’t influence their level of affection. Enjoy the time you do get to spend with the grandchildren, and fill

your hours with other activities that bring you pleasure. Counseling for yourself may help you accept this, and we hope your daughters will come to appreciate you again soon.

Dear Annie: You’ve printed several let-ters from parents and grandparents complain-

ing that they never receive a thank-you note.

My mother-in-law was also dis-appointed that one of her grand-sons never acknowledged the checks she sent for birthdays and Christmas. To change the situation,

she sent a card mentioning the en-closed check, but she didn’t actually enclose it. The grandson promptly called to thank her, and also to say that she’d apparently forgotten to put the check in the envelope. -- J.

Dear J.: Your mother-in-law sounds like a very clever woman.

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Sometimes I feel like I have beat this subject to death but the

subject comes up again

and again. That little orange light! We auto mechanics all have cus-tomers that continue to drive with that light on.

Some have resorted to a piece of black tape. Maybe others have re-sorted to a bulbectomy (removed the bulb).

That little orange light, the one that is a picture of an engine, or the words check engine, or the Greek symbol for lambda. That is the one I am talking about. When that light stays on or turns on when you are driving there is a problem with the way your vehicle is running. It is no longer running optimally. It needs to be fixed!

If the light is not flashing while driving and your vehicle seems to be performing okay you do not have to stop driving the vehicle or bring it directly to your mechanic but it is time to set up an appoint-ment. That light may be the only clue that something is up but it is a clue. Your vehicle may still start and run flaw-lessly in your opinion and the problem may be trivial. Unfortunately the same light that is signally a trivial prob-lem is also used to signal a more serious problem. How do you know when a problem

has changed from trivial to serious? You don’t.

That light can turn on for vir-tually hundreds of reasons. Once you have de-cided to ignore it, how do you know when one trivial reason has turned into one trivial reason and one serious malfunction? See what I mean?

Some might say light on or off the ve-hicle runs the same. Yes, that might be true. Unfortunately or for-tunately modern day computerized electron-ic control systems can run your car relatively smoothly when all is not well.

Auto manufactur-ers seek to meet fuel economy targets, per-formance targets, and emission targets with as inexpensive control systems as possible. The gains each year are at the level of single per-centage points or even

fractions of a percentage point.

One ex-ample. In the early nineties most port fuel injected vehicles (one fuel injec-tor for each cylinder) in-

jected fuel once per en-gine revolution. All the injectors were opened at the same time. For all intents and purposes these vehicles ran per-fectly. The late nineties ushered in sequential port fuel injection. Now each injector would be turned on just before the cylinder it feeds was about to suck in the air and fuel it needed. At light loads this method saved some fuel and reduced emissions and produced more power. Implementation of se-quential fuel injection required a few more sensors and some soft-ware work. The man-ufacturers felt it was worthwhile.

One of the key sen-

sors to sequential fuel injection on most ve-hicles is a camshaft position sensor. It is used combined with a crankshaft position sen-sor to exactly determine which cylinder is suck-ing in air and when. The fuel from the injec-tor for that cylinder can be injected right when it is needed.

When that camshaft position sensor fails your engine won’t quit running. It likely will not skip a beat. Instead of sequential injection your engine will switch to batch firing (all injec-tors open at the same time). Efficiency will go down, emissions will go up. A malfunction code will set in the engine computer system. The check engine light will be signaled to turn on.

The light is already on for some more trivial problem. Now you have two problems without even knowing it. The second one is wasting some of your money. Wouldn’t you like to know?

Revisiting the popular ‘Check Engine’ light dilema

RON NUTINI

Mechanically Speaking