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Chiara Durfeld (left) and Chris Holt of Lakewood Landscape in Nelson, were in Trail’s Jubilee Park doing some spring pruning to the numer-ous rose bushes. The duo was doing the city circuit by also tending to rose bushes in Gyro Park and Shavers Bench.

THORNY SITUATION

A plan to limit motorized access in the Pend D’Oreille valley is shelved for the time being.

The Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resources has withdrawn from its Access Management Area (AMA) proposal, citing lack of time to build support and address key concerns.

Over the next 18 months, the ministry plans on revisiting the draft plan that will likely be part of an update to the spring 2018 edition of the B.C. Hunting and Trapping Synopsis.

“I think it’s great the ministry has given the com-munity more time for consultation,” said Area A director Ali Grieve. “I would like to see a subcom-mittee of all stakeholders that meet over the next few months to find a workable solution that pro-vides both wildlife protection, and an opportunity for some responsible recreation activity.”

Grieve was vocal about the proposal that rested in her jurisdiction. She was a voice for the people, who overall were not satisfied with the level of pub-lic consultation and felt the plan was being pushed through.

“Above all, I support any initiative that protects and restores habitat,” she adds. “At the same time, we all value our ability to play in our back yards.”

She stresses that it’s incumbent on anyone who sets foot into the Pend D’Oreille valley to act responsibly and be good stewards by reporting inappropriate actions to Report All Poachers and Polluters (RAPP) at 1-877-952-7277 or #7277 via cellphone.

The ministry still believes that the Pend D’Oreille valley requires a higher level of protection than is currently offered by existing legislation, and will continue to seek a permanent solution to the deg-radation of habitat in consultation with local users, stakeholders, and the public. In the interim, short-term measures will be considered where necessary to protect and restore habitat.

AMA discussion started when an increase in off-road vehicle use, and illegal trail building was noted as damaging the area, compromising wildlife habitat areas and promoting the spread of invasive plants throughout the valley. The former proposal looked to maintain access and hunting opportuni-ties on some main roads but restricted motorized access on secondary roads in hopes of reducing the impact on wildlife populations (ungulate popula-tions and species in danger), habitat, and sensitive ecosystems.

Safe to say there aren’t many teens who know how to churn butter these days.

But a group of local youth do, thanks to a former member, now culinary teacher, at the Columbia Youth Community

Development Centre (YCDC) located in East Trail.

The cooking program, yoga classes, arts projects, open mic nights and girls group are a hit with 20 to 40 teenagers depending upon the session, and opens connection with the community and healthy op-

portunities.“What we are really looking

at it is giving kids opportuni-ties to engage in things maybe they’ve never done before,” says Cindy Cropley.

“Many of the kids we talk-ed to are saying that they are bored, and they don’t have a

lot of money in the family, so their ability to access resources and going into some of the activities in the community is limited,” she added. “So we are really trying to get them at-tached to healthy activities that might become lifelong things.”

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Unlike 2015, there has been no shortage of snow at Red Mountain Resort in 2016. The two photos above were taken almost a year apart and show the drastic difference from one year to the next.

Cropley and Rob Merlino represented the YCDC board when they met with Trail council on Feb. 22, and gave an overview of the organiza-tion’s mandate as well as cur-rent programming, funding model and staffing needs.

“We try to create as diverse an amount of programs as we possibly can so we draw as wide variety of youth as we can,” she explained.

“What we do is try to find people in the community that can come and offer program-ming, and one of the things we are really happy with is promoting youth in the com-

munity who have skills sets, to come and share them.”

She described the well at-tended yoga classes that at one point, had a roomful of new-bies saying “namaste.”

“To have 11 boys doing yoga moves they had never done before, that was a major accomplishment,” Cropley chuckled. “She (the teacher) has a great engaging person-ality so again, that’s just re-ally trying to get the kids to reach out and try new things they might not be comfortable with.”

And reaching out is a key into connecting with youth, Cropley pointed out.

“If we look at resiliency re-search, a lot of the new trau-ma-based stuff coming in, says it’s relationships that mean ev-erything and for kids that can make a huge difference in the direction they take,” she ex-plained.

“Good, solid healthy adult relationships - so we are try-ing to really encourage that by having the community come in and share their skills.”

Operational funds are hard to come by, and generally not included in granting oppor-tunities, so the pair requested support from the city.

Trail council agreed to pro-vide a $20,000 cash grant an-

nually for a three year term. The funding will offset op-erating expenses, and YCDC agreed to provide quarterly reports to the city.

Coun. Sandy Santori con-cluded by asking Cropley to consider talking with the YCDC board and youth to help out with Silver City Days.

“We are engaging a lot of groups to partake in the Homecoming Celebration,” Santori said. “It’s a good op-portunity for youth to engage with adults and other youth in the community. And it gives the group another chance to give back one more time by helping out.”

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Reaching out the key to connecting with youth

Repaving the Trail airport is a no-go this year after the city was denied federal funding through the Airport Capital Assistance Program (ACAP).

Airport manager Don Goulard received news from Transport Canada in late February that high demands for ACAP funding led to the Trail project not being ap-proved this cycle, but will be considered again in 2017.

Coun. Kevin Jolly, chair of the airport committee, con-firmed during Feb. 22 council that the city will resubmit next year. The city was requesting $4.2 million.

Two other big projects are underway at the airport, one nearing completion and the other still grounded.

A new gas tank system has been installed and await-ing final certification, but the Airport Terminal Building (ATB) project remains in the

planning stage.“Council discussed the

most recent iteration of the ATB during capital budget de-liberations and directed staff to prepare a report on how the city could fund an ATB on a phased basis,” Jolly explained. “We will be considering the pending report at an upcom-ing Airport Service Committee meeting to be scheduled in early April,” he added. “And the committee will then pro-vide council with a recommen-

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able to any Canadian airport that is not federally owned or operated, meets certification requirements, and offers year-round regularly scheduled commercial passenger service.

Depending on the number of passengers accessing the service annually, each eligible airport can qualify for up to 100 per cent funding on proj-ects that Transport Canada rates in priority.

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OTTAWA - The new Liberal govern-ment delivered a sunny ways budgetTuesday brimming with opti-mism and billion-dol-lar spending increases spread across a wide spectrum of society.

But the bold effort to spur economic growth after almost a decade of fiscal restraint will add more than $100 bil-lion to the federal debt over the next five years as Finance Minister Bill Morneau plunges Ottawa back into the red.

And like March sunshine in the fro-zen national capital, there’s concern that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s bright bud-get may not heat up the economy quite as much as the Liberals prom-ised it would.

“We act for the years and decades to come,” Morneau said in his maidenbudget speech in the House of Commons.

“We act for our chil-dren and our children’s children.”

There’s billions in new spending on in-frastructure, Aboriginal Peoples, and transfers to middle and lower income Canadians in a budget blueprint framed by Morneau in terms of Canada’s great post-war expansion of the last century.

“Confidence inspired investment,” Morneau said of those high-growth, post-war de-cades. “Investment in-

spired confidence.”The Liberals claim

their budget will create 100,000 jobs and boost national economic growth, as measured by gross domestic product, by half a percentage point per year - a huge increase on a $2 trillion economy.

The promised sunny future comes with an immediate fiscal chill.

The Liberals are pro-jecting a $29.4-billion deficit in 2016-17, fol-lowed by a $29-billion shortfall the following year and almost $23 bil-lion in 2018-19. Over the next five years, Tuesday’s budget shows $113.2 billion in red ink, including a $14.3 billion shortfall for 2020-21 - after the next scheduled federal election.

During last year’s campaign, the Liberals promised “modest defi-cits” of no more than $10 billion over the course of their man-date and to balance the books by 2019-20.

Times, it seems, have changed: The word “def-icit” appeared nowhere in Morneau’s budget speech, nor did “spend-ing.” “Investment,” on the other hand, regis-tered 22 times.

“Canadians gave them an inch and they’re taking miles,”

Conservative interim Leader Rona Ambrose said in a release, while calling the Liberal bud-get a “nightmare sce-nario for taxpayers.”

The relatively slim, 269-page budget is packed with spending promises for all and sundry on every page. The final Conservative budget of April 2015, by contrast, weighed in at 518 pages while ratchet-ing down spending in a government-wide effort to show an election-year surplus.

“I think budget 2016 runs the risk of over-reaching,” said Craig Alexander, vice-pres-ident of economic af-fairs at the C.D. Howe Institute.

“The reality is the amount of money they have to make an impact is relatively limited.”

It’s the central para-dox of the first Liberal budget: while plunging the country back into deficit, Liberal spend-ing is constrained by a worse-than-anticipated economy that forced the government to spread its election promis-es over a longer time frame.

Put another way, the federal deficit balloons by almost $25 billion in 2016-17, yet new bud-getary measures are

costed at only $11.57 billion. New spending the following year is forecast at $14.9 billion.

“The challenge the government has faced is how do you actually de-liver on as many of your election promises as you can, but with a binding fiscal constraint?” said Alexander.

New Democrats, who campaigned five months ago on a bal-anced budgetplatform, accused the big-spend-ing Liberals of being cheap.

“Families across Canada are worried about their jobs and struggling to make ends meet, but today’s budget told them they would have to wait longer for help,” said NDP Leader Tom Mulcair.

Over the last three years, federal spending was held to an average 0.4 per cent increase per year, said Mary Webb, senior economist at Scotiabank. The next three years show aver-age increases of 6.3 per cent.

“How do you close this gap here?” Webb wondered, short of tax increases or sharp cuts down the road.

The budget promises a slew of studies and commissions to develop more innovative eco-

nomic policy, presum-ably with future price tags on top of the many funding announce-ments in the current budget.

These include:- $8.4 billion over

five years to help in-digenous communities, including $2 billion on water and wastewater systems in First Nations and $2.6 billion over five years for primary and secondary educa-tion on reserves.

- $10 billion more over two years for a new Canada child benefit, absorbing and replacing both the Canada child tax benefit and the uni-versal child care benefit.

- $6.6 billion over two years for infrastructure, less than the $10 billion promised in the Liberal election platform.

- $3.4 billion over five years to increase the guaranteed income sup-plement top-up benefit for single seniors, and restore the old age secu-rity eligibility age to 65 from 67.

- $2 billion over three years for a new strate-gic investment fund for infrastructure improve-ments at colleges and universities.

- $2 billion over two years for a low-carbon economy fund, begin-ning in 2017-18.

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The precise origins of the “lipstick on a pig” apho-rism are unclear. Some say it arose first in a January

1980 edition of the much-read Quad-City Herald, in Brewster, Washington (pop., 2,730), where one wag observed therein that “you can clean up a pig, put a ribbon on it’s [sic] tail, spray it with perfume, but it is still a pig.” Indeed, its piggi-ness is inviolate. No argument here.

Others insist that the actual phrase came shortly after, when The Washington Post famously quoted a San Francisco KNBR-AM radio host who – when commenting on a plan to fix up Candlestick Park for the Giants – decreed: “That would be like putting lipstick on a pig.”

A political cliché was born!After that, political folks would

end up saying it all the time. Barack Obama and John McCain both said it about each other, in 2008 presidential campaign. At least five political books were written with “lipstick on a pig” in the title. And, most ominously, Dick Cheney declared that it was his “favou-rite line.” (That’s almost as bad as being a Liberal, and enthusiasti-cally welcoming warmonger Henry Kissinger to a state dinner for you, and . . . oh, never mind.)

I have elected to append the “lipstick on a pig” cliché – which I personally consider vulgar and impolite, but oc-casionally apt – to Justin Trudeau’s latest Friday after-noon special, the ap-pointment of seven new Senators by a panel of people he appointed. The ap-pointees’ appointees.

It was in all the papers, along with glowing descriptions of the esteemed Canadians who have the thankless task, or the task-less thanks, of napping in the Red Chamber until the ripe old age of 75. There, they will receive the min-imum annual salary of $132,300; at least $161,200 to maintain an of-fice; $22,000 a year if they live more than 100 kilometres from Ottawa, as Mike Duffy knows too well; some $11,100 on top of their regular pay, for sitting on a committee; and many thousands more if they are lucky enough to become the Senate Speaker, or a Senate house leader, or what have you.

Nice work if you can get it, etc. Each of those seven Canadians –

including the head of Trudeau’s transi-tion team, so we can probably count him as a Liberal – will now doubtlessly shuffle up to a micro-phone somewhere, and earnestly pledge to serve their fellow Canadians without regard to partisan af-filiation, without fear or favour or grubby

political considerations, blah blah blah. They will say all the usual stuff, which have heard a million times before. And, in some cases (because, admittedly, there are not a few current Senators who are re-spectable and decent folks, focused on the public good) they may well end up telling the truth.

But the Senate of Canada is still – after all of Justin Trudeau’s efforts to affix lipstick to it – a pig. It is a disgrace. It is an anti-democratic abomination, and it should be abol-ished, not maintained. Kill it, now.

All of us have heard the argu-ments for the Senate. That it is a chamber of sober second thought. That it improves legislation emanat-ing in the House. That its reports and resolutions are unsullied by

politics.But we don’t care. WE DON’T

CARE. If the Senate of Canada were stuffed to its ermine walls with cloned replicas of Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi, Plato, Nelson Mandela, Mozart, Kahlil Gibran, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, Socrates, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks – and, on civic holidays, apparitions of the Buddha, Moses, Mohamed and Christ – it would still be this: a body of un-elected persons, however eminent, wielding real power.

It would therefore be illegitimate. It would be illicit. In a supposedly modern democracy, it would be unlawful, even.

Most of us, out here in the real world, don’t have expense allowanc-es and living allowances and “travel points.” We aren’t guaranteed a job until age 75. We therefore don’t give a sweet damn about how impressive are the CVs of those who won the Mother of All Lotteries on Friday. We don’t give a sh*t, actually.

You can put lipstick on a pig, Prime Minister. But it is still – then, now and forever more – a pig.

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A British journalist compared the huge American delegation (800-1,200 people)

that is accompanying President Barack Obama on his first visit to Havana to Japanese soldiers stumbling out of the jungle to discover that the war ended a generation ago. And the Rolling Stones, who are staging a free concert for half a million people in the Cuban capital on Friday, explained that Obama was their opening act.

The US embas-sy in Havana has already reopened, but only the US Congress can end the 55-year-old American trade embargo against Cuba. Under Republican control Congress is not going to do that, so this visit is really just a social call. Indeed, it was scheduled to coincide with spring break in US schools so the Obamas could bring their daughters along.

Yet no journalist watching all this can resist speculating about whether this opening portends great political changes in Cuba, maybe even the eventual end of the long dictatorship of the Castro brothers and the Cuban Communist Party. Least of all me, as I have been speculating about that in public, at intervals, for most of my adult life.

I never went to Cuba dur-ing the “heroic” years when the leadership lived in permanent fear of American invasion or subversion, and most Cubans really were ready to fight to defend the revolution. My first visit was in the mid-1980s, when the bloom was already off the

revolutionary rose.Most of Latin America was

living under brutal US-backed military dictatorships at the time, and the Cuban dictator-ship seemed to me almost gentle by comparison. It didn’t even kill people much. But Cubans, unable to travel and aware that the regime’s propaganda usually lied, were in a stroppy mood.

If you spoke even a little Spanish, they unloaded their discontent on you.

So I went home and pre-dicted that the regime, if not on its last legs, was at least in its last decade. This did not come to pass on schedule, but when I next went

to Cuba, in 1994, it certainly looked imminent. The collapse of the old Soviet Union had cut off all the subsidies that had kept the Cuban economy afloat despite the American embargo and its own huge inefficiencies.

During the “Special Period in Time of Peace,” which lasted through most of the 1990s, no-body starved, but almost every-body went hungry and the aver-age Cuban lost 9 kg (20 lbs) in body weight. Social order broke down, with crime rampant and desperate young people open-ly selling their bodies in the streets.

So I went home and predicted the imminent collapse of the re-gime again. Communist regimes in Europe whose people were quite well-fed had been falling to non-violent democratic revo-lutions with scarcely any resis-tance in the past few years, so it seemed implausible that this

ageing, ramshackle dictatorship would last much longer either.

Wrong again. But when Fidel Castro retired after 42 years and handed power to his brother Raul in 2008, Western embassies in Havana (minus the United States, of course) arranged for various “experts” from their countries to visit Cuba and ex-plain how things were done in a real democracy – which they fully expected that Cuba would shortly become.

I was asked to go along as an alleged expert in media and civ-il-military affairs, to tell Cuban journalists and military officers how they should operate in a democracy. It was a well-meant but ridiculous initiative, but I went anyway because it gave me unprecedented access at a very interesting time.

And I came back convinced once again that a democratic transformation was really im-minent, because most of those I was speaking to expected it themselves. Few of them, even in the armed forces, feared for their jobs, and most of them thought that change would be for the better.

But fast forward another eight years, and very little has changed. Raul Castro says he will retire in 2018 (when he will be only 86), but a new gen-eration of Communist leaders is already being promoted into key positions.

In fact, I now think that the regime will probably sur-vive until and unless the US Congress finally ends the em-bargo and exposes Cuba to the full force of international capi-talism. Of course, I have been wrong in the past.

Gwynne Dyer is an indepen-dent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

Obama’s visit to Havana

This past Saturday March 19th, people around the world turned lights out for and hour in a rather silly display of ac-knowledging their belief in human caused climate change.

It has been reported that Justin Trudeau and his wife “celebrated” Earth Hour by burning a log on an open fire. Burning wood produces twice

as many carbon emissions as natural gas.

Millions of people switched off their lights while billions of people in developing nations wish they had lights!

We should celebrate Earth Hour by embracing innova-tion, technology, and progress. Sitting in the dark for an hour doesn’t bring anyone out of

poverty. Access to reliable en-ergy does.

Nuclear technologies and transitionning to nuclear fusion is the required energy strategy if we wish to enhance human-kind’s standard of living and dignity and to truly protect our earth’s bioshpere.

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Ryan Edwards (below) celebrates after scoring the winning goal to lead the Selkirk College Saints to their fourth consecutive BCIHL championship on Saturday with a 2-1 victory over Trinity Western at the Castlegar Rec Complex.

BY BOB HALLTimes Contributor

The Selkirk College Saints captured their fourth straight British Columbia Intercollegiate Hockey League (BCIHL) championship on Saturday night with a 2-1 victory over the Trinity Western University Spartans before a packed house at the Castlegar and District Recreation Complex.

More than 800 hockey fans packed the Castlegar arena to watch the Saints clinch the best-of-three final series and put the wraps on a magical season.

“It’s a pretty special feeling to win in front of a crowd like this,” said Saints’ forward and Trail na-tive Ryan Edwards who scored the game winning goal midway through the third period, and earned his second Player of the Week nod from the BCIHL, for tallying five points and earning first star in both games of the BCIHL final.

Needing a win to stay alive, the Spartans came out strong in the first period. BCIHL Goaltender of the Year James Prigione made several key saves to keep the game tied at zeroes after 20 minutes. The third-year goaltender continued his strong play early in the second period at which point the Spartans had the edge in shots.

Late in the second period,

Edwards was hooked on a break-away by Jeremy McIntosh. On the ensuing powerplay, Alex Milligan buried a Jamie Vlanich pass to give the Saints a 1-0 lead and bring the raucous crowd to its feet.

The Saints threw 20 shots at Spartans’ goaltender Silas Matthys in the middle period, but only came away with a 1-0 lead after 40 minutes.

Five minutes into the third period, TWU forward Dirk de Waal worked his way out of the corner and beat Prigione high over the blocker side to tie the game. The Spartans kept the pressure on, but Prigione and the Saints defence were up to the task.

Midway through the final

period, the Saints’ scoring line of Edwards, Dallas Calvin and Ryon Sookro came through when it mattered most. Calvin fed Sookro, who got a pass off to Edwards and the team’s leading scorer in the post-season buried the opportunity.

“That has to be right up there as far as goals,” said Edwards, who has notched plenty in his career. “It’s a good feeling to score a goal like that in a game like this.”

The Spartans didn’t quit and came hard in the final minutes, but the Saints held on for their fourth straight provincial cham-pionship.

The Saints set up Saturday’s championship victory with a dominant 5-1 win in the series opener on Friday night. Edwards had four assists, Calvin notched a pair of goals with Ashton McLeod, Sookro and Vlanich providing the rest of the offence.

The Saints had 43 shots on the TWU net in what turned out to be a romp for the home side.

The Saints were led offensive-ly in the playoffs by four play-ers who grew up playing minor hockey in the West Kootenay. Trail natives Edwards, Calvin, and Vlanich and Sookro from the Slocan Valley, all took their first strides in minor hock-ey programs in the Trail and Nelson areas.

Saints roll to fourth straight BCIHL title

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JIM BAILEYTimes Sports Editor

Finishing in the final four is a great accom-plishment in any league, however, the Beaver Valley Nitehawks play-ers didn’t find much solace in dropping the KIJHL’s best-of-seven Kootenay Conference final series in five games to the Kimberley Dynamiters on Monday.

For the second year in a row, the Nitehawks fell to the Dynamiters in Game 5 of the Conference final fol-lowing a 3-1 loss in Kimberley.

“Losing is tough, but it’s made easier when you lose to a real good hockey team,” Hawks coach and GM Terry Jones told Cranbrook Townsman reporter Taylor Rocca following Game 5. “These guys (Kimberley) are de-termined to go a long ways. I wish them well.”

The Nitehawks will look back to a pair of leads they let slip away in the final minutes that radically changed the landscape of the unfold-ing series.

“We just couldn’t finish Games 2 and 3, and it was a lack of good defensive play with break downs that just can’t happen, and good teams don’t make those breakdowns, good teams capitalize on those breakdowns,” said Jones. “We broke down against a good team when the pressure was on and that’s unfor-tunate.”

Jason Richter notched the game- and series-clinching marker early in the third period on the power play, redi-recting a Jordan Busch point shot through the five-hole to give the Dynamiters a 2-1 lead 2:32 into the final frame.

“It’s their first power-play goal of the series and it turns out to be the series winner.” Jones said. “It’s ironic, when we did such a great job on all our kills, that that one loses it for us.”

Until Richter’s game winner, the Nitehawks were perfect on the penalty kill and went an incredible 19-for-20.

The Dynamiters jumped out to a 1-0 first period lead. After a clean face-off win to the glove side of Hawks goalie Tallon Kramer, the puck came to Tyler Van Steinburg, who wasted no time send-ing a quick wrist shot from the point and past Kramer’s glove 7:18 into

the period.Allan Pruss tied it

1-1 on a power play 5:40 into the second period. Brouwer made the initial save, but the frozen rubber found a hole and slowly trickled up and over the Nitros netminder before roll-ing over the goal line to even the score after 40 minutes.

“I thought we had a great second and not only did we tie it up, we had a lot of great op-portunities to get that lead,” said Jones. “We knew they were going to have a push going into the third.”

After Richter put the Nitros up, Franco

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“For both the local players and the out of town guys, we all feel the community sup-port,” Calvin said after Saturday’s win when asked about the lead-ership of local play-ers. “It’s great to win a championship with a dressing room of guys who come from all dif-ferent backgrounds.”

Brent Heaven took over as the Saints’ head

coach this past summer. After Saturday’s game, the bench boss said it took a group effort to make more hockey his-tory at the Castlegar arena.

“We had some ups and downs this year, but overall from start to fin-ish I think we showed people that we deserved the championship this year,” said Heaven. “It’s a long season and we accomplished what we

set out to do. I couldn’t be prouder of the boys and obviously the staff that helped make it hap-pen. This doesn’t hap-pen without everybody working together.

“It’s a great accom-plishment. Four in a row doesn’t happen very often and we are very honoured to be part of an exclusive group. We’re going to enjoy this and then get ready for a fifth.”


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Colapaolo added an insurance marker with 7:51 remaining when he burst past the Nitehawks defenceman and slid the puck low past Kramer for a 3-1 lead.

“Any time you beat Beaver Valley, you’ve accomplished something special,” said Jerry Bancks, head coach of the Kimberley Dynamiters. “I have a lot of respect for their coaching staff. Jonesy has been there a long time and they’ve got a winning tradition… A winning tradition brings good players. We beat a good team.”

The Nitehawks will add another KIJHL Neil Murdoch division banner to the rafters, and while the team came up short in its run for the league title, Jones is proud of what the Hawks accomplished in the 2015-16 season.

“We’ve had guys just come miles this year and we’re a development team and we do have a successful season every year it seems like. For us, anything short of getting a league title is dis-appointing but that’s what we shoot for, it’s what we strive for, we’ve done it seven times and we work hard to do it.

“As a coaching staff I’m proud of my guys for how hard they work and proud of my players for what they contribute and their commitment but it’s tough to lose and tough to digest … I have such great character kids and that makes losing tough.”

The Dynamiters will face the 100-Mile House Wranglers for the KIJHL championship after 100-MH defeated the Summerland Steam 3-1 on Monday to advance to the final. The KIJHL final starts Saturday in Kimberley.

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Red Mountain Racer September Stefani finished off her ski-cross season in style last week in Fernie, capturing two silver medals and taking first in overall points in the Matrix Western Canadian Ski Cross Series.

Finland vs. South Korea.Draw 13, 4 p.m.

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Stefani brought home two silver med-als from the final competition of the Matrix Western Ski Cross Series last week in Fernie.

Stefani has been a Red Mountain Racer since 2010, but this was her first year competing in all three of the Western Ski Cross competitions, and the 16 year old wrapped up her sea-son by winning silver in both Open Women ski cross events.

“It was really fun because that was the first time I actually went to all three ski crosses,” she said. “I usually just go to one, and it was just nice to see people over and over again that I’d met at the first one, and saw at the second one, and really got to know

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Dear Annie: This evening, I went to the local YMCA to swim. When I was through, I showered, as I always do, since I go back to work after-ward. Near the end of the shower, I removed my swimsuit and found a boy of about 8 looking through the curtain at me. I yelled at him and he stopped, but a few seconds later, a woman (I think it was his grand-mother) looked in, too. I told her I’d like just a few more minutes, and I’ll admit, my tone wasn’t that friendly. I got out of the shower and locker room as fast as I could.

Annie, that boy was too old to be in the women’s locker room. My question is, was I out of line for showering in the nude in a public locker room? This particular show-er had four nozzles, so I assume other people would feel free to share the space, even if the curtain was closed. But both the boy and the older woman were not showering. They were just peeking in. That strikes me as rude.

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Dear Not: These “group showers” are in-tended for multiple peo-ple to use simultaneously in order to save time and money. However, no one should be peeking in just to see what’s going on, and you are right that an 8-year-old boy is too old to be checking out the women’s locker room. (We have no explanation for Grandma, other than perhaps re-sponding to something her grand-son said about the showers.)

You should register a complaint with the facility. There are likely rules regarding the age of opposite-sex children using the locker rooms, and you should ask that they be enforced. If they do not have any restrictions, you should find a place to swim that affords you the privacy you require.

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cause her more-neglect-ed stepsister would feel left out.

Having grown up in a crazy family with full siblings, stepsiblings and half siblings, things like

this were a challenge. My dad liked to spoil the three of us who were his biological kids, but my stepdad was more practical. He and my mother both tried hard to keep our house-hold “equal,” so my full siblings and I left some of our stuff at my father’s. It was good for us, as it taught us to always be considerate of how oth-ers felt. My grandparents made all the siblings feel welcome in their homes.

I am thankful for all of my par-ents and grandparents, and blessed to be brought up in a loving family. Most people marvel at my parents’ ability to get along and even social-ize not only with each other, but

also with my father’s second wife, his current wife (married 30 years) and my stepdad (married 40 years).

We are all grown now, some of us with kids of our own, and we are all still part of one big messed up, crazy family. -- Happy Child

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CLASSIFIEDSTrail Times Wednesday, March 23, 2016 www.trailtimes.ca A11

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY given to the electors of the Village of Warfield that a by-election by voting is necessary to elect a Councillor, and that the persons nominated as candidates and for whom votes will be received are:

COUNCILLOR – ONE (1) to be elected

Surname Usual Names Residential Address or Jurisdiction CAPUTO Nicole 735 Shakespeare Street, Warfield BCCROZIER John 678 Schofield Highway, Warfield BCJANSEN Brad 135 Oxford Road, Warfield BCPARKINSON Arlene 790 Shakespeare Street, Warfield BC

VOTING DATES AND LOCATION

GENERAL VOTING will be open to qualified electors of the Village of Warfield on:Saturday, April 9, 2016

between the hours of 8:00 am and 8:00 pmat the following location:

Village of Warfield - Council Chambers555 Schofield Highway, Warfield BC

ADVANCE VOTING will be available to qualified electors as follows:

Wednesday, March 30, 2016- and –

Wednesday, April 6, 20168:00 am to 8:00 pm

Village of Warfield - Municipal Office555 Schofield Highway, Warfield BC

ELECTOR REGISTRATION

If you are not on the list of electors, you may register at the time of voting by completing the required application form available at the voting place. To register you must meet the following qualifications: • 18 years of age or older on general voting day • Canadian citizen • resident of BC for at least 6 months immediately preceding the day of registration • resident of OR registered owner of real property in the Village of Warfield for at least

30 days immediately preceding the day of registration, and • not disqualified by the Local Government Act or any other enactment from voting in

an election or otherwise disqualified by law.

To register, resident electors must produce 2 pieces of identification (at least one with a signature). Picture identification is not necessary. The identification must prove both residency and identity.

To register, non-resident property electors must produce 2 pieces of identification (at least one with a signature) to prove identity, proof that they are entitled to register in relation to the property, and, if there is more than one owner of the property, written consent from the other property owners.

Allana FerroChief Election Officer

The Corporation of theVillage of Warfield

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Terry Alton

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Tonnie Stewart

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Mary Martin

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Richard Daoust

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Mary Amantea

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Bill Craig

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Art Forrest

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MontroseRoute 340 23 papers 10th Ave, 7th St, 8th St

Route 341 24 papers 10th Ave, 8th Ave, 9th Ave

Route 344 15 papers 10th Ave, 11th Ave, 6th St

Route 345 12 papers 10th Ave, 9th Ave

Route 346 27 papers 8th, 9th & 10th Ave

Route 348 19 papers 12th Ave, Christie Rd

GenelleRoute 303 15 papers 12th Ave, 2nd St, GrandviewRoute 304 13 papers 12th & 14th Ave

East TrailRoute 100 26 papers Columbia Ave, McQuarrie St

Route 103 37 papers 2nd, Columbia Ave

Route 104 17 papers 3rd Ave, 4th Ave, Circle St

Route 110 20 papers 3rd Ave, 4th Ave, Goelel St, Taylor St

Route 118 18 papers 3rd Ave, 4th Ave, Main St, Mclean St, McQuarrie St

GlenmerryRoute 179 29 papers Balsam St & Laburnum Dr

Route 184 30 papers Daphne St, Laburnum

PAPER CARRIERS WANTEDExcellent exercise, fun for all ages.

Rossland CARRIERS

NEEDED FOR ROUTES IN ALL AREAS

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Garden & LawnM.Olson’s Yardcare, de-thatching, aerating, fertilizing. 250-368-5488, 250-364-0075

SPRING CLEANUP, Pruning, dethatching, aerating, land-scaping. Certifi ed Landscape Horticulturalist. Call Geoff to book 250-231-5692.

Merchandise for Sale

Garage SalesGLENMERRY, 3494 Carna-tion Drive, Sat. & Sun., Mar.26 & 27, 9:00am-3:00pm. Large Moving Sale: going from a 3 bedroom house to an apt. Fur-niture, tools, garden items, household items, camping, boating and more!

Heavy Duty Machinery

FNA-Steel Shipping Storage Containers. Used 20’40’45’53’ insulated containers. All sizes in stock. Prices starting under $2,000. Modifi cations possible doors, windows, walls etc., as offi ce or living workshop etc., Ph Toll free 24 hours 1-866-528-7108 or 1-778-298-3192 8am-5pm. Delivery BC and AB www.rtccontainer.com

Buying Bullion, silver & gold coins, bars, ingots, collectors coins, coin collections, antique money plus ANYTHING GOLD or SILVER. Todd’s Coins 1-250-864-3521

Buying Coin Collections of any size.We collect CAN & US Coins, bills, Silver, Gold. Local couple also deal with Estates, Jewellery, Sterling, Antiques+ Chad & Crissy 250-499-0251. We can make House Calls!

Rentals

Apt/Condo for RentBella Vista, Shavers Bench Townhomes. N/S, N/P. 2-3 bdrms. Phone 250-364-1822

Ermalinda Estates, Glenmer-ry, spacious 1-2bdrms. Adults only. Secure building w/eleva-tor. N/S, N/P. Ph.250-364-1922

E. Trail. 2 bedroom. F/S, W/D. 250.368.3239.

Francesco Estates, Glenmer-ry,spacious 1-3bdrms. Adults only (45+). Secure building w/elevator. N/S, N/P. Ph. 250-368-6761

Furnished 2-bdrm apt -upper Warfi eld. $1000 incl ca-ble, internet, utilities, localphone. Corner, leafy outlook.Available April 1. Short or longterm. 250-521-0820

Glenmerry, 2bd. apt. Friendly, quiet secure bldg. Heat incl.n/p,n/s.250-368-5287

Help Wanted Help WantedHelp Wanted

Houses For Sale Houses For Sale Houses For SaleHouses For Sale Houses For SaleHouses For Sale Houses For Sale

Glenmerry 2bdrm. apt. F/S Heat included. $695./mo. 250-368-5908

GLENVIEW APTS. Spacious, quiet 1 bdrm. apt. 250-368-8391

TRAIL, 1BDRM. Glenmerry. N/P. Utilities included. 250-368-1312.

TRAIL, 1bd. Ross. Ave., w/d/f/s. ns/np. $600./mo. utilities inc. 250-368-1361

W.TRAIL, 1BD. Apt. Available now. $650./mo. incl. utilities. Furnished. 250-364-5678

Homes for RentW.TRAIL, 3BD., 1 full bath, W/D, D/W. No smoking, Pets negotiable. 250-231-1430

Financial Services Misc. Wanted Apt/Condo for Rent Apt/Condo for Rent Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices

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