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have one this year,” he said. “(The money) will get re-invested in the The city’s cash cup runneth over, city’s operations. The city is in a posbut you won’t be receiving a cheque ition now that we can afford to do in the mail. more because we had a decent year An independent audit of city last year.” finances has shown the City of Trail This isn’t the first time the city sitting pretty with a $1.5 million has come out on the plus side of surplus, according to 2011 aud- the ledger. In fact, the City of Trail ited financial statehas been able to more ments done by Craig than balance the books “The city is in a Teindl of L. Soligos and position now that for several years now, Associates. said city chief adminwe can afford to The city was able istrative officer David to bring in more and do more because Perehudoff, but this is spend less in the last fisthe largest one in sevwe had a decent cal year, putting it in a eral years. year last year.” spot where it now has “We try to budget some spare cash to kick in such a way that we KEVIN JOLLY around. break even, but in this But it won’t be kickcase we are better in a ing the cash back to taxpayers, or number of areas so we generated a handing out a tax cut, said council- larger surplus than typical,” he said. lor Kevin Jolly, the chair of the city’s Although the city budgets to break general government and finance even, in this case the city did betcommittee. ter in a number of areas—including Instead, the city will be moving acceleration of the Small Community ahead with a few projects—including Grants payments from the provincial the Gateway phase of the Downtown government, meaning cash from preImprovement Plan—and creating a vious years was deferred to 2011. rainy day fund.

The glowing financial picture is The city does operate on a budget even brighter if audit practices of of conservatism and budgets for three years ago were applied, leaving potential expenditures that could out depreciation and amortization jeopardize the plan, but it often does of city assets. Three years ago the not work out that way, he said. current $1.66 million increase in net “It’s not common, in my opin- financial assets would show the city ion, that you should have a signifi- with a total surplus of $2.7 million.

See CITY, Page 3 cant surplus all of the time, but we

BY TIMOTHY SCHAFER Times Staff

City, union get deal

BY TIMOTHY SCHAFER Times Staff

Although the province has remained steadfast on a net zero negotiating policy for government worker contracts, the City of Trail is more compassionate.

The municipal government has handed over a new contract to its workers, giving them at least a cost of living increase of two per cent for the next three years.

On Friday it was announced the city and the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 2087—serving approximately 100

full and part-time unionized city workers—agreed on a three-year deal, replacing the previous contract that expired in February.

The new agreement provides annual pay increases of two per cent per year for each year of the contract, including “benefit enhancements and changes in contract language that provide greater clarification and certainty for both the city and the union moving forward,” said city chief administrative officer David Perehudoff.

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Joey Baker puts his athletic ability to another test as he spends the summer working maintenance around the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital. The former Trail Smoke Eater and now Portland Winterhawk of the Western Hockey League is spending the summer in his hometown while he trains for the coming season.

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The Beaver Valley Library held its first meeting of the 10-12-year-old Mad Scientists on Thursday. The theme last week was Wild Wild Life so as scientists they explored the world of biology and zoology and payed special attention to the phylum of Cnidaria, and even more specifically jellyfish, which they recreated with crafts. There’s more photos at beavervalleylibrarykids. blogspot.ca/

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ttention US citizens and dual What is the tax implication of this IRS citizenship residents living in plan?

Canada and having not filed US A release this week from Chartered tax returns. The Financial Consultant Tim Internal Revenue Service Affolter with the Affolter (IRS) of the United States Financial Group, states, “... it has recently announced an has been my experience that amnesty on tax filings. the great majority of US citIn 2011 the IRS izens living in Canada usuannounced its plan to ally do not actually owe addirequest of Canadian banks tional US tax ‌ due to the RON and other financial instituexemptions available under tions information on US the tax treaty between our citizens holding assets in two countries such that the Canada. This is clearly an tax paid in Canada is generTax Tips & Pits attempt to prevent US citally enough to satisfy the US izens from hiding taxable revenue. tax payable as well.â€?

Despite the uproar by taxpayers, lobbyAffolter goes on to say, “Along with ing by Canada’s financial institutions and the actual tax returns, there are certain diplomacy by Canada’s federal govern- “informationâ€? returns required such as ment, the US government has remained the listing of foreign bank accounts and entrenched in its battle to get its share elections such as the treatment of RRSPs of taxes. Until last week, the best this as tax-deferred retirement plans. Failing concerted effort coming from Canada to file [information returns] before the had succeeded in doing was to delay the deadline each year ‌ carries onerous implementation of the plan to 2014. automatic late filing penalties which As an aside, and to be fair to the US, could run into the thousands, or even quickly and quietly the mantra of most tens of thousands, of dollars. This credeveloped countries has become, “we ates a substantial disincentive to “catch want our share of our citizens’ income upâ€? for a US citizen who is currently nontaxesâ€?. compliant. Needless to say, then, the

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automatic disclosure to the IRS of a US citizen’s foreign bank holdings in 2014 will put them in a very scary situation.�

The “disincentive to file� reality appears to have reached the common sense branch of the IRS as it has just announced an amnesty for US or dual citizens living abroad who owe under $1,500 of US tax per year.

In these cases, the IRS states that, â€œâ€Ś [tax return] review will be expedited and the IRS will not assert penalties or pursue follow-up actions.â€? In addition, on the late election to treat an RRSP as a tax-deferred retirement plan, the IRS states there will be “ ‌ retroactive relief for failure to timely elect income deferral [on Canadian RRSP plans].â€?

These adjustments to the IRS taxation plan should give relief for most non-compliant US citizens living abroad.

However, this amnesty will likely not be in effect indefinitely so it is best to act sooner than later. The revamped plan can be found by following the links at www. irs.gov Ron Clarke has his MBA and is a business owner in Trail, providing accounting and tax services. Email him at ron.clarke@ JBSbiz.ca. To read previous Tax Tips & Pits columns visit www.JBSbiz.net.

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Fire ban issued in region

BY TIMOTHY SCHAFER Times Staff

You had better not keep the home fires burning for the next few months.

Despite all of the wet weather that has soaked the landscape of the West Kootenay, a recent spate of extreme hot weather has the Southeast Fire Centre raising the alarm.

As of Friday all open fires are prohibited within the Southeast

Fire Centre—that includes the lands around Trail—to help prevent human-caused wildfires and protect public safety.

The prohibition could last for over two months, according to fire information officer Karlie Shaughnessy.

“This prohibition covers all BC Parks, Crown and private lands, but does not apply within the boundaries of local govern-

ments that have forest fire prevention bylaws and are serviced by a fire department,” she said.

The prohibition includes the burning of any waste, slash or other material, the burning of stubble or grass, and the use of fireworks or burning barrels of any size.

The prohibition does not include campfires, gas or propane cooking stoves or briquettes.

City in good financial shape FROM PAGE 1 “What this means at the end of the day is the city is in a very, very healthy position,” said Teindl.

In the city’s current year they had total amortization of assets of $3.3 million.

The audit gives an overall picture of how the city is running, looking at the city’s consolidated revenue by taking into account general operations, water and sewer operations, staff and capital funds, marrying it all together into one statement.

The city had consolidated revenues of $19,128,549, around $1.8 million over budget for the year.

On the other hand, consolidated expenditures were $17,606,440, approximately $3.21 million less than what the city had budgeted

for.

Looking deeper, if the city took all of its net financial assets—including cash receivables—and turned them into cash and paid off all of its bills (including long-term debt) it would end up with $2.7 million left over.

The equation does not include tangible capital assets and nonfinancial assets, said Teindl.

“So this means is the city is in a real liquid financial situation and that’s very, very good,” he said.

The city’s tangible capital assets are at $82.5 million. These are the assets the city physically owns, not financed by debt or lease.

“Because of the age of some of its infrastructure, some of the assets are completely depreciated and others aren’t,” said Teindl.

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A donation of $1,500 to the Digital Mammography campaign at the KBRH Health Foundation was made by the Fraternal Order of Eagles Auxiliary Trail #2838 members Faye Cook, Provincial Madame Trustee, Louise Yuris, President, and Sharon Radulovich, Junior Past President (left to right). Lisa Pasin, Director of Development KBRH Health Foundation accepts this donation. This donation was made in conjunction with both the local and provincial chapters of the Eagles Auxiliary.

New contract won’t hit taxpayers hard FROM PAGE 1 The move to offer the increases were viewed as “fair for both parties” and was within the city’s current cost structure, said Mayor Dieter Bogs.

“The new contract ensures cost stability enabling the

ongoing provision of high level service without taxpayers seeing a significant change to property taxes,” he said in a release.

The contract was formally ratified by a vote of 79 per cent on Thursday, one day after the CUPE bargaining committee

and city representatives signed a memorandum of agreement on Wednesday.

CUPE President Jean Poole said she was pleased the union was successful in securing job security for current full-time permanent employees.

Krestova residents wary about Celgar bio solids THE CANADIAN PRESS KRESTOVA, B.C. - Residents of the Slocan Valley town of Krestova want pulp mill waste that’s been trucked onto three properties to be removed over fears their ground water could be contaminated.

The Zellstoff Celgar pulp mill in neighbouring Castlegar is offering the so-called bio solids, which are created from wood waste, for free as a type of fertilizer that would otherwise be burned.

“I feel we’re just being used as a dump site,” said Nick Kootnikoff, whose well supplies water for eight properties and is within the 30-metre legal limit of an acreage containing the waste.

“If I knew what was in there I’d feel more comfortable, but from what I’ve heard it has sewage sludge in it,” he said. “I’m uncomfortable with sludge that has human waste in it.”

“We want it removed,” said Alan Anton, who lives a few hous-

es down from one property where the waste has gone.

“There is a community hall and day care centre downhill of this field.

“If our water got contaminated that is our only water source and we’re hooped for 25 years.”

Anton said there are three properties containing bio solids in the community of 150 people that was settled by Doukhobors and is about 20 kilometres from Nelson.

Jim McLaren, a retired Celgar employee who now arranges the distribution of bio solids for the company, said the material contains mainly wood fibres, mixed with 40 per cent surplus bacteria, which aid in breaking down the wood fibres, and 10 per cent lime, grit, gravel and waste water.

McLaren said waste water from the sewage treatment plant is deposited on piles of bio solids and it’s so safe that it’s also dumped in the Columbia River.

He said Celgar delivers the fertilizer-like bio solids to property owners after a lengthy application process with the Environment Ministry.

“We don’t think there is a biological risk to this material,” said McLaren, who doesn’t recommend people use the bio solids on land where food is grown.

He said 33 other properties in the Kootenay area contain the bio waste and that 27 applications for the material are pending with the Environment Ministry.

Krestova resident Joyce Van Bynen, who had 200 tonnes of bio solids applied to two acres in May, is sold on the product and said it helped revive her horse pasture within a short time.

The soil in the town is mainly sandy with little moisture retention and grows nothing but knapweed in the pastures. Van Bynen said that within two months of spreading the bio solids and grass

seed, she has about 10 centimetres of lush grass for her horses to eat.

“There is nothing but good from this product. It’s been tested seven ways from Sunday and has been proven to enhance the soil,” said Van Bynen, who also works for Celgar, as an environmental technologist.

The bio solids are within six metres of her well and Van Bynen said she drinks from the same aquifer as the rest of the community.

“I am quite confident with what is in this material and that it is benign,” she said, adding the bio solids have also been dumped on another property two kilometres from her own.

Before the bio solids are applied, the Environment Ministry requires Celgar to test the land and the bio solids for moisture content, trace metals such as arsenic, lead and mercury. It also tests for pathogens.

Chris Stroich of the Environment Ministry said there is no sewage sludge in the Celgar bio solids.

Trace metal values for bio solids delivered to Krestova “have been well below that specified in the ministry’s (Soil Amendment Code of Practice),” he said in an email.

However, Walter Popoff, regional director of Area H for the central Kootenay district, said “Krestova residents are right to be concerned. Basically, the residents are concerned for their health.”

The (Environment Ministry) tests that are done, in their opinion, are not sufficient enough to make them feel safe,“ he said. ”If this was being done beside me, this would be my concern also and I would want reassurance.“ “No amount (of bio solids) is safe as far as I’m concerned,” Kootnikoff said. “If it is so safe, why doesn’t Celgar bag and sell it?”

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Smoke drifting up from U.S. THE CANADIAN PRESS KAMLOOPS, B.C. - A fire information officer says haze from wildfires in the United States has made its way north and is now hanging over communities in southern British Columbia.

The U.S. National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, has reported that dozens of fires were burning earlier last week in nine western states, destroying 600 homes and killing six people.

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Fionna Tollovsen says the province’s Wildfire Management Branch has been receiving reports of haze from Kamloops, Merritt, Lillooet, Vancouver Island and even the Cariboo region.

She says a plane flew over areas between Williams Lake, Gold Bridge and Lillooet to ensure no wildfires were burning.

Tollovsen says officials then looked at satellite imagery and confirmed the source of the smoke.

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This year is shaping up to be a record year for sockeye salmon returning to the Okanagan river system, but numbers are not

going to be as high as they might have been.

“If it was the same production that we saw in previous years, we would be seeing probably more than a million sockeye com-

ing back,” said Howie Wright, a fisheries biologist with the Okanagan Nation Alliance, who have been leading the efforts to restore the Okanagan River salmon run.

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“I heard this explosion, looked over to see this aircraft burst into flames,” said Gord Molendyk, a spokesman for the Vernon North Okanagan RCMP, who was in the area at the time “There was fire, along the ground, right up to the aircraft.”

Molendyk was supposed to be attending a wedding nearby early Saturday afternoon when he saw the aftermath of the accident.

He said the plane took off from the airport, hit the tops of two trees that were no more than eight metres

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RCMP and the coroner look through the burnt wreckage of a twin engine plane crash at Marshall Field in Vernon, Saturday. Moments after taking off into the bright, sunny skies of Okanagan Valley, the plane clipped two trees and slammed into a sports field, killing the two people onboard. high and flew over the edge of the field, before slamming into the ground and bursting into flames.

Molendyk said nobody on the ground was hurt.

The RCMP said in a release late Saturday night that the pilot was from Kelowna and that he was 59 years old. His passenger was described only as

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about where the plane had been headed.

Wilkie said he had to fly over the scene a second time before he could tell that a plane had crashed, and he suspects an engine may have failed.

“I suspect that it all happened so quickly for those fellows that they wouldn’t know, they wouldn’t have chance to respond, do anything, they’d just kind of grit their teeth and that’s it,” he said.

Emergency personnel were able to put out the fire but the two people aboard the aircraft died at the scene, Molendyk said.

The weather at the time of the crash was sunny and dry, he said.

The wreckage of the aircraft has been removed from the crash site and police are asking anyone who may have seen or heard the crash to contact them.

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As the President of the United Steelworkers Local 480, on behalf of the bargaining committee, I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who helped us get through bargaining this past May/June.

A special thanks to the partners of our bargaining committee members Lori deMedeiros, Laurel Moore, Kelly Walker, Denise Menin, Cheryl Curlew and my wife Colleen, without their support bargaining would be very difficult. Our Contact Action Team, who help coordinate information and also give moral support to us through this process, thank you all. To Steve Como, who lead the CATeam, Gord Menelaws and Ray Nelson, who aided Steve through bargaining. To Norm Murdoch, Travis Fontaine and Derm Jackman for their help throughout the ratification process, Rick Fontaine our Financial Secretary, for his support as always and of course our administration Assistant, Jo-Lynne Bignell for the great job she continues to do for us.

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being 55 years old and from the Port Moody area. No names were released.

Bill Wilkie, vicepresident of the Vernon Flying Club, was flying at the time of the crash and witnessed the aftermath of the tragedy from high above the scene.

“All I saw was this big plume of black smoke going up, oh, probably 500 feet and big, you know, flames at the bottom, bright yellow flames at the bottom,” he said. “So you couldn’t tell where the flames were coming from.”

The victims, who had just filled up their aircraft with gas, weren’t members of the local flying club, said Wilkie, noting he doesn’t believe they were associated with skydivers who were in the area, either.

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NATIONAL STAMPEDE PARADE

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Alberta Premier Alison Redford, right, rides a horse during the Calgary Stampede parade in Calgary, Friday. The parade featured 700 horses, 26 marching bands and 12 street sweeping trucks to clean horse droppings. This is the 100th anniversary of the Stampede which runs for 10 days featuring rodeo action, chuckwagon races, a midway, agricultural exhibits and live stock competitions.

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Vandals strike dinosaur fossils THE CANADIAN PRESS GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. - Paleontologists were thrilled when they found the fossilized remains of a duck-billed dinosaur in northwestern Alberta last month.

But joy turned quickly to despair when they returned to the site near the Red Willow River a few days ago and found that vandals had smashed the Hadrosaur skeleton to pieces.

The Pipestone Creek Dinosaur Initiative says the fossil was discovered by paleontologist Phil Bell and

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Tremor rocks ‘The Rock’ HAPPY VALLEYGOOSE BAY, N.L. Newfoundland and Labrador was hit with a 4.4 magnitude earthquake Sunday morning.

A seismologist with Natural Resources Canada says the magnitude isn’t large enough to cause destruction, but it is significantly more than most earthquakes in the region.

He says the earthquake hit around 8:13 a.m. local time along the Quebec-Labrador border, just south of Happy Valley-Goose Bay. Natural Resources Canada says the last time an earthquake of this size hit the province was 50 years ago.

a University of Alberta team on June 15.

They partially prepared it for removal, then reburied it for protection until it could be fully removed later this month.

Bell returned to the site on Thursday and found the specimen which was about one meter long and 80 centimetres wide - had been destroyed. “We still know very little about the dinosaurs that existed up here so every skeleton is crucial,� Bell said in a statement. “Each bone is irreplaceable.�

RCMP say they are investigating but don’t have any suspects.

They say a number of fossils had either been removed or destroyed at the site.

The group says it is at least the fourth act of fossil poaching and vandalism in the region in the last month and a half.

At Pipestone Creek Park in the region, a bone bed has been harmed, and in late May, a Plexiglas cover protecting and showcasing several fossilized bones was smashed.

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The group says the University of Alberta and the Royal Tyrell Museum are also helping in the case.

The group says it is illegal to alter, mark or damage palaeontological resources under the Historical Resources Act. Offenders may face up to $40,000 in fines or a year in prison.

OTTAWA - A blitz

by Canada Revenue Agency auditors on an unfortunate group of waiters and waitresses in one Ontario community has exposed “very surprising� amounts of unreported tips and gratuities.

The pilot project targeted 145 servers working in just four restaurants in St. Catharines, Ont., a blue-collar city on the Niagara Peninsula, south of Toronto.

Auditors reviewed two years’ worth of income and found that every individual had hidden some portion of their tips from the taxman, with about half reporting no tips whatsoever.

In the end, the blitz flushed out $1.7 million in unreported tips and gratuities - almost $12,000 for each person. “Industry insiders often tell servers that they only need to report 10 per cent of their ... wages as tip income,� says an internal report on the project. “Our results indicate that tips are more likely to be 100 per cent to 200 per cent of ... wages. In essence, they

are only reporting five per cent to 10 per cent of earned tips/gratuities.�

The auditors conclude: “The amount of unreported income was very surprising.�

The Canadian Press obtained a heavily censored copy of the 2010 report under the Access to Information Act, after an 18-month delay by

the Canada Revenue Agency that violated legislated deadlines.

The St. Catharines’ blitz was among dozens of pilot projects across the country that targeted the underground economy, estimated to be worth as much as $36 billion in 2008, according to a Statistics Canada study prepared for the revenue agency.

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niversity of The recent Rio+20 conference on sustainable development, which ended in, according to one participant, “epic failure,” did produce one bit of good news. It is now easier for governments to ignore the whole thing.

The original Rio Earth Summit document claimed that fossil-fuel-induced global warming would end human civilization. It led to a number of treaties, declarations and agreements, including the now-repudiated Kyoto Protocol.

With Rio+20, global warming was replaced with what Financial Post columnist Terence Corcoran called “ideologically toxic material” typical of “UN proceduralism.”

Not everyone saw it as good news, however. It was a Greenpeace spokesperson who lamented the “epic failure” of the conference. And even before it opened, Francis Kissing and Peter Singer criticized the Brazilians in the Washington Post for serving organic foods, including meat. Apparently UN delegates are partial to osso buco. The authors were

appalled because cattle raised organically produce more methane than “their less-well-treated brothers and sisters.” The solution, as Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change chairman Rajendra Pachauri has long advocated, is vegetarianism.

To date, alas, only the EU has tried to set a quota for gas emissions from flatulent, belching cows.

Someone should draw this grave matter to the attention of NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair, so the next time he opens his mouth about Alberta, he can insult the cattle industry, too.

In contrast to such silliness, Peter Kent, Canada’s Environment minister, announced that the government was “very happy, very satisfied” with the final document produced at the conference, chiefly because of “what’s not in it.” Specifically, he said, there are no “unrealistic, inappropriate binding commitments” to “instant confections.” In fact, real news from South America focused more on the impeachment of the president of Paraguay than saving the world.

The main reason for this stunning return to common

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sense is that greenie alarmism has become boring and passe. Worse for the alarmists, the evidence has tipped decisively against them.

Remember that iconic and touching picture of polar bears apparently stranded on an iceberg?

They were disappearing because Arctic ice was melting. But since 2007, low levels of ice cover have rebounded to a 30-year average, and according to Dirkus Gissing, director of wildlife management for Nunavut, at around 25,000 head, northerners are enjoying the highest polar bear population ever.

We also know, as Australian paleoclimatologist Bob Carter pointed out to audiences across the country in May, that cli-

mate change takes place on geological time scales, not decades. Thus, the instrumental temperature record, which is little over a halfcentury old, is incapable of indicating any measurable trend.

The word has also leaked out that computer models rest on assumptions that are simply untenable.

Ross McKitrick, who helped expose the famous hockeystick fraud that purported to show an amazing rise in global temperatures over the past few decades, has shown in a series of papers that climate data provide as useful an explanation of temperature fluctuations as a random numbers table.

That is: none. Likewise, Henrik Svensmark, a physicist at the Centre for Sun-Climate Research in Denmark, has added to his work showing that various sunspot cycles influence global temperatures and offers compelling arguments that exploding stars have the same effect.

Canadians have also connected the political dots: U.S.-based charities fund B.C.-based environmentalists. This has nothing to do with the malarkey about helping a spirit bear, what-

ever that is, or fishing in the rainforest, to say nothing about preserving the ways of Indians in the Chilcotin.

It’s all about preventing Alberta oil from reaching any market but the U.S., which means cheaper fuel for Americans.

All this evidence has produced recantations. Most famously, James Lovelock years ago predicted that global warming would mean that “billions of us would die” and a few “breeding pairs” would survive only in the Arctic – presumably to be hunted by polar bears.

Last April, he admitted he was wrong and offered an insightful observation: “the green religion is now taking over the Christian religion.”

This explains why the Christ the Redeemer statue atop Corcovado Mountain above Rio was bathed in green light for the duration of Rio+20. Christopher Monckton said it looked “like a giant jelly bean.”

What a perfect end to two decades of nonsense: misguided alarmism over organic osso buco has turned into a green jelly bean farce.

Barry Cooper is a political science professor at the University of Calgary.

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New rates designed to encourage conservation A letter was published recently raising questions about FortisBC’s residential electricity rates. I am writing today to provide some information on FortisBC’s new residential conservation rate.

On July 1, FortisBC introduced a new residential conservation rate for its electricity customers. This means customers are being charged a rate that is lower than the old flat rate for the first block of electricity they use

in a billing period and a higher rate for any electricity used above that amount.

FortisBC was directed by the BC Utilities Commission to apply for and implement this type of rate because it is designed to encourage conservation and to incent customers to use less electricity.

This new rate structure applies to FortisBC residential electricity customers, and a majority of our customers, about 75 per cent, including about 40 per

cent of electric heat users, will actually see a decrease on their bills because of this new rate structure. The residential conservation rate is revenue neutral, meaning FortisBC will collect the same amount of revenue as it did under the old flat rate.

While a residential conservation rate is new for FortisBC electricity customers, this type of rate is used by BC Hydro in areas where natural gas is provided

by FortisBC or Pacific Northern Gas.

For people with electricity as their primary heat source, FortisBC has created a new program to help with electricity use called Reduce Your Use. I’d ask that anyone interested in learning more about this program, please visit fortisbc. com/reduce your use or if you would like to learn more about the residential conservation rate, visit fortisbc. com/rcr.

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Spare the rod, skip the mental disorder An editorial from the Prince George Citizen Not so long ago, a parent publicly administering a healthy swat on their child was met with nods of approval from witnessing adults.

Parenting needed to be done with a firm hand and it served so many functions. It was a punishment for misbehaviour while also a deterrent for future misdeeds. A well-placed smack also reminded children of who held the power in the family.

Parenting is not a democracy and respect should be born from fear, not admiration.

Fists, open hands, belts, rulers, soup ladles, books and boots were all suitable equipment to deliver parenting justice on a child that needed to be brought in line. Not just parents but teachers and priests were also not just allowed, but encouraged, to dish out physical punishment as part of good child rearing.

A couple of generations later and a parent seen yelling at their child in a public place is met with glares, not against the child but the parent. And if that parent has the audacity to apply an open hand to their child’s backside in public, someone might call the cops.

The changing view of spanking is part of the broader evolution of childhood. Childhood, as we know it today, didn’t exist until the 20th century.

For most of recorded history, children were non-entities in society, with no unique culture of their own. Unless they belonged to the ruling class, children in most world cultures

were put to work as soon as possible and educated only to the extent that they needed to be to do a good job.

Even in the Victorian era and the early 20th century, children were seen as adults in training.

Escaping childhood as quickly as possible was socially desirable and “behaving like a child� was an insult with bite.

As the industrial revolution developed and the bulk of the population moved to cities, childhood started to take shape.

Rather than taught to take over farming the family plot or become a farmer’s wife, children had to be educated for longer to work in an increasingly technological economy that now needed engineers, accountants, lawyers and bankers.

The rise of consumerism was the single biggest contributor to the modern concept of childhood.

Children once played with whatever was lying around the house and these were their toys.

Consumerism allowed parents to set aside specific items and call them toys. Once kids had their own things, then they had their own rooms, their own identities and the culture of childhood rapidly developed.

In a society that now reveres children and childhood, mild physical punishment of children is still legal in Canada but now there is now a study that shows spanking can be linked with mental disorders in adults. The authors of the study were quick to stress that this is no necessarily a causal relationship.

The question that researchers asked were what long-term harm

comes from spanking, reflecting the now-commonly held view of spanking. If they had asked what good comes from spanking and found that mild and irregular spanking helps kids become responsible adults, their study would likely be rejected as nonsense.

There is nothing conclusive on either side to show that spanking is good or bad, or no spanking is good or bad. Some say the problem with kids today could be solved if they tasted the back of mom and dad’s hand a little (or a lot) more often while others say it’s that taste that is the cause of so many personal problems today.

The advice many parents now give (and get) about spanking boils down to “don’t spank them when you’re angry.� That advice is shorthand for “don’t hit your kids at all� because only a sadist would strike a child for reasons other than anger. Once you’re calm about the situation, it’s best to use what happened as a teaching experience.

Hitting your child only demonstrates that you can’t control your own emotions and you need to hit someone or something when things don’t go your way.

The rise of individual rights in Canada and the U.S. keeps the rights of parents, as adults, to discipline their children in the way they believe is best, unless that spanking is abusive.

Instead of worrying about when spanking becomes abuse, it’s best to just get rid of spanking all together, not out of reverence for children, but because it’s bad behavior for adults.

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PEOPLE OBITUARIES MCKEE/TREMBLAY (NEE BOURASSA), DORIS — August 14, 1922 – July 2, 2012.

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our mother, grandmother, and great grandmother Doris McKee. Doris was born in Lafleche, SK. to Lorenzo and Nelle Bourassa (nee Blood).

She is survived by her sister Theresa Stanley of Winnipeg, MB; her children Jake Tremblay (Monique), Leah Todd (Stu), Adele Tremblay and Melanie Tremblay; and by her grandchildren Catherine Peltier (Stephane), Kelly Todd and Eric Tremblay (Camille); and great grandchildren Margaux, Sacha, Emeric, Etienne and Samuel. She was predeceased by her infant son Trevor, brothers Warren and Omar Bourassa, husbands Edward Tremblay and Neil McKee, and granddaughter Kim Todd.

Doris was educated at Castlemore School near Lafleche, then at Business College in Regina, SK. She moved to Trail in 1941 to join her fiancé and lived in Trail for the rest of her life. As a busy young mother and homemaker, she completed her ARCT music degree and enjoyed teaching conservatory piano for many years. She was employed with Cominco and retired in 1987. She was an active member of the local Music Teachers Association, and of OLPH Catholic Women’s League.

The family would like to thank the staff of Poplar Ridge and Rosewood Village for their wonderful care.

A Mass of Christian Burial will take place at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic church at 2012, 3rd Ave. East Trail on Friday, July 13th at 10:30 am with Father Matthieu Gombo Yange Ofm Cap as celebrant, followed by internment at Mountain View Cemetery. Cremation has taken place.

Gwen Ziprick of Alternatives Funeral and Cremation Services™ has been entrusted with arrangements.

As an expression of sympathy, donations may be made to the Greater Trail Hospice Society located at Kiro Wellness Center, 1500 Columbia Ave, TRAIL, BC, V1R 1J9.

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COL. TAMMY HARRIS

Woman takes over reins of largest base THE CANADIAN PRESS Col. Tammy Harris never felt that being a woman held her back when it came to moving up the ranks in the military.

Now, that attitude appears to have paid off as Harris was sworn in as the first female base commander at CFB Borden on Friday, assuming responsibility for Canada’s largest training base.

“I can honestly say, throughout my career, that I’ve never experienced any barriers because I’ve been a woman,” she said in an interview with The Canadian Press.

“I’ve always been able to do what I’ve wanted to do based on my own skills and abilities, and the challenges that I’ve put on myself.”

Her career has taken her to Germany, Afghanistan and a number of Canadian provinces, and throughout Harris said she always felt free to pursue any goals she set for herself.

The base she now holds command over - located about 100 kilometres north of Toronto - trains an average of 15,000 military personnel each year. It also employs about 3,250 members of the military and around 1,500 civilians.

As she takes command, the 45-year-old emphasizes that accomplishments aren’t about being male or female.

Drive and passion are what get people where they want to go, in her view.

“Whatever your goals are, the opportunity is there to achieve them if you so desire,”

Young rider sets out on 16,000km journey Cowboy leaves Calgary for two-year trip to Brazil

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CALGARY - A Canadian cowboy hoped to join the ranks of the long riders as he rode out of Calgary on Sunday for an epic journey to his birthplace in Brazil.

Filipe Masetti Leite, 25, who immigrated to Canada when he was a teenager, intends to spend the next two years riding his two horses, “Bruiser” and “Frenchie,” through 12 countries in North, Central and South America.

Leite is expected to eventu-

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES - Ernest Borgnine, the beefy screen star known for blustery, often villainous roles, but who won the best-actor Oscar for playing against type as a lovesick butcher in “Marty” in 1955, died Sunday. He was 95.

Television fans loved Borgnine as the scheming Navy officer in the sitcom “McHale’s Navy.”

Borgnine was also known as the heavy who beats up Frank Sinatra in “From Here to Eternity” and one of the thugs who menaces Spencer Tracy in “Bad Day at Block Rock.”

she said. “Gender does not really play into the equation.”

This isn’t the first major appointment for Harris. She was also the first woman in the country to hold the position of wing commander in Gander, N.L., one of the country’s busiest search and rescue areas.

Her goals in her new post include continuing on with the Forces’ efforts to promote bilingualism, so that all courses in the military can be offered in both French and English.

Harris also wants to focus on the infrastructure at CFB Borden during her two year tenure at the base, to be sure it’s adequate for future members of the military.

The stepmother of three daughters also said she wants to modernize the training practices in place now, so that new recruits can spend as much time with their families as possible while still learning what it means to be in the military.

THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO - SGT. PAUL MACGREGOR, CFSTG IMAGERY The native of Annapolis Valley, N.S., started with the Col. Tammy Harris is the new base commander of CFB Borden, military in 1987.

Canada’s largest military training base.

It wasn’t for another two years that women were given to all. the word to describe herself. the right to take part in com“It’s a goal of mine to make But she added that she’s “an bat. Harris was in Europe at sure that everybody under- advocate for women having the time, but she said anything stands the opportunity, wheth- the choice” and thinks more that grants women choice is a er they be male or female, so young women’s stories need good thing. they know the types of things to be told.

However, despite the fact you can do in the Canadian “I would describe myself as that the military is still a male- Forces,” she said. someone who always looks for dominated field made up of “Do I go out and specif- the positive in any situation, only about 15 per cent women, ically recruit young women? someone who thinks that your Harris said it’s not necessarily No. I make sure the message limitations are put on by yourone of her priorities to specif- is the same to the youth of self,” she said. ically recruit young women.

Canada.”

“Your imagination limits Instead, she wants to focus Asked if she’s a feminist, you. If you can see yourself on making the military appeal Harris said she wouldn’t use doing it, you can.”

ally cover about 16,000 kilometres and reach his final destination in 2014.

“My mom is very worried obviously. She says she’s going to have to take some sedatives for the next two years to try and sleep at night,” Leite told reporters just outside the city’s Stampede grounds.

“It just feels right. We’re a family that move on instinct, we move on feeling and if it felt wrong I wouldn’t do it.”

Leite’s family returned to Sao Paolo, Brazil, seven years ago and will meet him at the end of his journey.

The young cowboy, who has a journalism degree from Ryerson University in

Toronto, intends to document his travels.

“Today I set out on what I believe will be one of the most epic journeys of the 21st century,” said Leite, who is travelling alone, with just his two horses for company.

“The whole point of this trip is to point out what’s going on in Latin America - the illegal drug war. There’s a lot of innocent people dying down there so I feel if something does happen to me it will help bring light to something that is so hypocritical.”

He intends to camp between rides and depend on the kindness of strangers - farmers and ranchers along

the way - who won’t mind him and his two equine friends spending a night or two.

Leite realizes a journey as long as his will be difficult for both the horses and himself.

“We only ride, on average, 30 kilometres a day, only four to five days a week, there’s a lot of resting time. If one of the horses is sore, we wait. If the horse is sore beyond a month, we trailer him ahead and ride the other one until he is feeling better.”

The inspiration for the trip is based on a similar quest in 1925 by Aime Tschiffely, a Swiss schoolteacher who rode 16,000 kilometres alone from Buenos Aires to New York.

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The Trail Jays catcher Tanner Johnson catches this Legacy player at the plate as the Jays went on to win the game 6-5. The Jays finished the tournament with 3 wins and 2 losses in the American Legion Wood Bat Classic in Spokane last week.

Jays find wins in wood-bat event

BY JIM BAILEY Times Sports Editor

The Trail AAA Jays played inspired baseball on the weekend, even without their pitching ace and leading batter Dallas Calvin.

The Jays won three of five at the American Legion Wood Bat Classic in Spokane last week, and with a 3-1 record in the round-robin were tied for a wild-card spot for the playoff round.

Unfortunately, the playoff spots were decided by run-differential and the Jays came up just short.

“There were only two wild cards, and it came down to a run differential and we missed it by three runs,” said Jays coach Nick Combo.

The deciding factor proved to be a heart-breaking loss to the Kennewick Bandits. The Jays were leading 5-4 in the bottom of the seventh and headed for their third straight win, but the Bandits loaded the bases with two out.

The next batter ripped a double to centre field to score two and steal the game 6-5.

“We were just a couple pitches from being in the playoffs,” said Combo. “I am very proud of our guys this weekend. It was a huge turn around for us as far as the way we’ve been playing.”

Josh Blank went 2 for 2 with a stolen base and Jake Lucchini and Scott Robertson both hit 2 for 4.

The Jays were without Calvin who was picked up by the senior men’s Langley Blaze team for a tour of

southern California, and the Wally Kincaid Memorial tournament. Calvin leads the Jays in hitting with a .418 average and five homers, is 1-3 with a 2.43 ERA on the mound, and has 28 strikeouts.

“We missed his arm pitching,” said Combo. “Towards the end we were starting to run out of arms, as far as fresh arms go, so that really hurt us. . . but our team really stepped up and hit well despite Dallas being out of the lineup.”

In their first match the Jays shutout the Billings Royals 3-0 on the strength of Scotty Davidson’s complete game, four-hit gem. Davidson struck out nine and gave up no walks, as the Jays scored all three of their runs in the second inning.

The Jays then faced Grand Legacy and held a tenuous 5-4 lead in the sixth when the Legacy pushed a run over to tie the game at five.

However, the Jays came right back, scoring one in the bottom half of the inning to regain the lead.

Jordan Roblin came on in relief for Scott Robertson and ended the Legacy’s hopes by striking out one and setting them down in order for the save.

Robertson nabbed the win, going six strong innings while giving up five runs on seven hits, three walks and two strikeouts. Davidson was 2 for 4 at the plate with one stolen base.

After the loss to Kennewick, Trail bounced right back in the following

match on Thursday, erupting for four runs in the second and fifth innings to cruise to a 10-2 victory over the Whitefish Glacier Twins.

Nursing a broken finger, Tyrus Jocko threw five innings of one-hit ball, striking out six while walking just two batters. Robertson led the way at the plate, going 3 for 3 with two RBIs, while Davidson went 2 for 3 with a pair of doubles, a stolen base and a run batted in.

Despite not making the playoffs, the Jays played one more match against their North Idaho nemesis, the Coeur d’Alene Lumbermen on Friday.

In an exciting game, the Lumbermen jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the first inning and the Jays replied in the second. The loggers took the lead in the fourth, but the birds weren’t finished.

In the top of seven, Trail rallied and tied the game to send it into extra innings. However, in the bottom of the ninth with two out, an error and a bases-loaded walk would help CdA push the winning run over for a 3-2 victory.

Tanner Johnson pitched eight strong innings for the Jays, giving up five hits and two runs, while walking two batters.

Tanner Rotschy went 2 for 4 at the plate with an RBI. The Jays next home game goes Saturday with a doubleheader against Cranbrook Bandits at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

The San Diego Barona Stars and the AM Ford Trail Orioles will get it on tonight and Tuesday after management confirmed Friday that the team was on its way.

The Stars manager/owner Mickey Deutschman was reportedly cleared for travel on Friday after a health ailment forced the team to cancel a scheduled four-game weekend set.

“We were going to play them over the weekend, starting tonight (Friday), but our other non-league games before the tournament fell through,” Deutschman told the East County Sports.

“That meant we would have four days off before the Kamloops Tournament, which would have been expensive for us to just sit there.

“Fortunately, the folks with the Trail Orioles were nice enough to move the games to accommodate us.

That just goes to show you the type of hospitality you find in Canada.”

The Orioles will have their work cut out for them, as the semi-pro team won another

trip to the National Baseball Congress World Series last week, going undefeated in the Western Regional Playdowns, and are perennial favourites at the GFI. “For us to win our pitchers need to throw strikes and keep the ball down, we need to play solid defense and score some runs,” said the Orioles’ Jim Maniago.

“It sounds simple but we haven’t put it together this year. If we limit the amount of runs we give away we’ll give ourselves a chance.”

Following the Trail series, the Stars will play three round-robin games to open the 40th annual Kamloops International Baseball Tournament.

The Stars open play against the Thurston County Senators on Thursday. The other preliminary ball games are against the national power Seattle Studs, then the Kelowna Jays before “money round” play over the weekend.

The Orioles are 2-8 in Pacific International League play and will seek to defend their Western Canadian title in Winnipeg in August.

Game times at Butler Park are 7 p.m. tonight and Tuesday.

B.C. WOMEN’S AMATEUR GOLF

Wong sets record

BY TIMES STAFF

Richmond’s Christine Wong set a course record on her way to her second British Columbia Women’s Amateur title at Christina Lake Golf Club on Saturday.

Coming off her third-round course record seven-under 65, Wong closed out her impressive victory with a twounder-par 70, 274 total (70-69-65-70-274), the lowest the Championship has seen since it went to a four-round format back in 2006. The previous record was a 275 total held by Kira Meixner in 2008.

Trail’s Kate Weir finished in 40th place after carding an 84 and an 86 on the final two days for a 335 total.

Fruitvale’s Wanda Flack finished 16th overall in the Women’s Mid-Amateur, but placed a very respectable 10th spot in the Women’s Net championship, Kelowna’s Kyla Inaba and defending champion Christine Proteau went to a three-hole playoff to decide the MidAmateur champion.

After missing a three-foot putt for the win on the second playoff hole, Inaba redeemed herself on the next one as she dropped a three-footer for par to Proteau’s bogey.

Shelley Stouffer of Nanoose Bay won the Master-40 title and finished third overall in the Mid-Amateur.

Wong, a member at Quilchena Golf and Country Club, staved off unrelenting pressure at the onset by Soo-Bin Kim of Port Coquitlam who just wouldn’t give up on the title.

“Soo-Bin is an excellent player, a clutch player and was able to get a few birdies and narrow my lead, which made me even more nervous,” said Wong. “I had to tell myself that I still had a lead at that point.”

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VANCOUVER - Roberto Luongo has tipped his hand.

The Canucks all-star goaltender discussed the possibility of leaving Vancouver during a radio interview on Friday, especially the spectre of moving to the rival Chicago Blackhawks.

Luongo was originally scheduled to be on Vancouver’s 99.3 the Fox to speak about his participation in the World Series of Poker.

However, the discussion shifted to hockey and where he might play next season since the Canucks signed backup goalie Cory Schneider to a three-year deal worth US$12 million on June 28.

“I think it’s really time to move on,” said Luongo after being asked if he could insist on staying in Vancouver. “I don’t think either one of us ... either I demanded a trade or (Canucks general manager Mike Gillis) suggested a trade.

“It was a mutual understanding that it was time for Cory to take over.”

The Canucks acquired Luongo in a trade with the Florida Panthers in 2006. He has 339 career wins in the NHL with 60 shutouts, a 2.52 goals-

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Since arriving in British Columbia, Luongo has led Vancouver to the playoffs five times. The Canucks have also won the President’s Trophy for the league’s best regular season record the past two years.

He has 32 wins in 61 playoff appearances with a 2.53 GAA and a .916 saves percentage.

When host Jeff O’Neil asked if there was “any chance in Hell” he’d play for Vancouver this fall, Luongo stayed ambivalent.

“I would never say never. You never know,” said the 33-yearold Montreal native. “But I think we all know what’s going on.

We’ve all seen what’s developed.

At the end of the day, I think it’s time to move on. And I’m OK with that. I had a great six years in Vancouver. It’s a really wonderful city. I really enjoyed my time there.

“Unfortunately, I was not able to bring a Stanley Cup there.

Probably my biggest regret. But it’ll be remembered for six great years.”

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Vancouver was the top seed in the Western Conference, with the eventual Stanley Cup champion Kings the No. 8 seed.

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Luongo was asked Friday about how he learned that Schneider was being signed to the lucrative contract.

“Nobody called me, but I think that was to be expected.

We’ve all seen what he’s done in Vancouver the last couple of years,” said Luongo. “He’s a tremendous talent. The main thing that I like about him is that he’s a got a great head on his shoulders.

“He’s a player that’s going to be able to handle the job and handle the market with that pressure. He’s going to be a star in this league, there’s no question about that, and he’s going to probably win a few Vezinas.”

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Each of my children plays a sport (sometimes two) in addition to school plays and recitals. This adds up to multiple events every week. If my parents find out that my sister or I neglected to invite them to something, we get the cold shoulder, and our father won’t talk to us for weeks.

Annie, the parents of our children’s classmates have become our friends. They comprise our social group, and I simply don’t want my parents to butt into this part of our lives. My folks crave conversation, but don’t have the best social skills. They are retired, have no friends, aren’t involved in anything and create their schedule around their grandchildren’s

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events, saying they “need to be there for them.” But our children truly don’t care whether their grandparents are there. They like to see them in the audience on occasion, but otherwise find their constant presence intrusive.

Please don’t tell me to encourage my parents to seek out new friends and get involved in other things. It’s too late for that. And they do not respond well to suggestions from their children. If they truly want to be a part of their grandchildren’s lives, I wish they would spend time with them instead of watching from the bleachers. We’d love it if they would introduce

the kids to experiences they might not otherwise have, teach them something and share memories with them.

Is there anything we can do? -- Frustrated in the Midwest Dear Midwest: Tell your parents what you told us -- that you want them to spend individual time with the kids, creating memories that will last forever. Offer some suggestions. But please don’t banish them from your children’s school and sports events. These things provide structure and purpose for your parents. There is no need to be embarrassed by their social skills. Your friends understand.

Dear Annie: My brother-in-law has been living with us for nine months. He’s been unemployed for a year. “Ralph” does some work around the house and uses his food stamps for many of his meals, but he’s hit the end of his unemployment benefits. Ralph

will not take just any job. In fact, he turned one down, saying it was too hard for him at his age. He’s 61. He simply wants to wait until he’s 62 and then retire.

How do we get him to move out? Ralph won’t even go for free medical care. He hasn’t paid us anything for his upkeep and ignores our message to find a job or go on welfare. He is draining our extra funds. We don’t want him on the street, but we’d like him to be more independent. Any suggestions? -- Peeved and Had Enough Dear Peeved: Ralph apparently believes he’s so close to retirement that he is entitled to sponge off of others until he gets there. Are there any other family members or friends who might take him in and give you a break?

Unless your husband makes it clear to his brother that he can no longer stay rent-free at your home, this will continue, with no guar-

antee that he will suddenly move out when he’s 62. Talk to your husband and decide what type of deadline you are willing to give, and stick to it.

Dear Annie: “An Independent Wife” said a previous writer

should not expect her husband to call every night when he’s out of town on business.

Instead, she should find her own interests to keep her occupied.

My husband travels, too, and unfailingly calls me every

night. I am thankful to be married to a man who believes our relationship is important enough to warrant a daily call, if only to tell me he loves me and to “hug my pillow” for him. -- Virginia

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By Francis Drake For Tuesday, July 10, 2012 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) It’s easy to be impatient today. Therefore, acknowledge this and cool your jets.

Not only will you feel better, so will everyone else.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) You might get more done working behind the scenes or working alone today. Don’t push the river, and don’t expect too much. Just get busy and finish what you have to do.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) A conversation with a female acquaintance could be significant today, but you also might feel competitive with this person. Don’t get caught up playing the “I am right” game.

Who really cares?

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) You should be aware that aspects of your private life are going to be made public today, especially in the eyes of

bosses, parents and teachers.

Therefore, conduct yourself accordingly.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Try to do something different today, because you’re yearning for a little adventure. By all means, travel somewhere if you can. Go someplace you’ve never been before.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Set aside some time today to take care of red-tape details concerning inheritances, wills, taxes, debt or insurance matters. Get some of this stuff out of the way.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) You have to compromise with others today, because the Moon is opposite your sign.

That’s just how it works. Go more than halfway to keep everyone happy (including you).

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) You have the urge to get better organized. Wonderful!

When you’re better organized, your life flows more smoothly because things are easier and your mind is clearer.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Take some time out today to play. Enjoy parties, sports, playful times with children or expressing yourself through the arts. It’s good to balance your work with some fun.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Discussions with a parent

or a female relative could be significant today. Some of you will want to cocoon at home if you can.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) You feel you have something you want to say today.

You don’t want to just chat about superficial topics, you want to speak from the heart.

Hopefully, someone will listen.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Pay attention to your cash flow and earnings situation.

Figure out exactly how much you have and how much you owe. Don’t be casual about how you handle your money.

YOU BORN TODAY Generally, many of you have a quiet personality. Most perceive you as conservative, modest and reflective. You are intelligent and do not hesitate to voice your opinions, but

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Legal Notices

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PROPOSED ZONING BYLAW

City of Trail AMENDMENT BYLAW NO. 2734, 2012 TAKE NOTICE a Public Hearing will be held on Monday, July 16, 2012 commencing at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers in City Hall, 1394 Pine Avenue, Trail, BC with respect to Zoning Bylaw Amendment Bylaw No. 2734, 2012. The purpose of the Public Hearing is to give all persons who deem their interest in property affected by the proposed bylaw an opportunity to be heard on matters contained therein.

The intent of Bylaw No. 2734 is to amend the Zoning Bylaw and rezone the property located at 8195 Old Waneta Road, legally described as Lot A, Plan 4681, Township 8A, K.D. (shown in crosshatch below) from Service Commercial Zone C7 to Service Commercial Zone C7C to allow an eating establishment as a permitted use on the property.

ZCH BMO China Equity ........................ 11.12 BMO Bank of Montreal........................... 57.03 BNS Bank of Nova Scotia....................... 52.85 BCE BCE Inc ............................................... 42.37 CM CIBC...................................................... 71.95 CU Canadian Utilities .............................. 67.50 CFP Canfor.................................................. 11.99 ENB Enbridge Inc ...................................... 40.25 ECA EnCana Cp ........................................ 20.48 FTT Finning Intl Inc ................................... 23.57 FTS Fortis Inc .............................................. 32.53 VNP 5N Plus Inc ...........................................2.30 HSE Husky Energy Inc ............................. 25.61

MBT Manitoba Telephone....................... 33.43 NA National Bank of Canada ............... 73.80 NBD Norbord Inc .................................... 13.50 OCX Onex Corp ..................................... 39.47 RY Royal Bank of Canada ....................... 52.78 ST Sherrit International ..............................4.93 TEK.B Teck Resources Ltd. ................... 31.92 T Telus ............................................................ 62.61 TD Toronto Dominion ............................ 79.50 TRP TransCanada Cp ............................... 43.23 VXX Ipath S&P 500 Vix ........................... 14.53

Norrep Inc.................................................... 11.34

AGF Trad Balanced Fund............................5.73

London Gold Spot ..................................1584.1 Silver .............................................................27.060

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Monday, July 9, 2012 Trail Daily Times

REGIONAL GRADUATES

CRANBROOK

Predators cut down caribou numbers

BY SALLY MACDONALD Cranbrook Townsman

SUBMITTED PHOTO

Kelly Kosheiff graduated from the University of Alberta with a degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS).

He was the recipient of the Alberta Dental Association and College Gold medal for the highest clinical and academic achievement and the American Academy of Oral Maxillofacial Surgeons award. The Crowe grad, son of Ed and Colleen Koshieff of Trail, commenced a General Practice Residency at the U of A Hospital in Edmonton.

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Melissa Mailey graduated from the University of British Columbia Okanagan with a Bachelor of Science in nursing. The Crowe grad is the daughter of Larry and Diane Mailey of Trail. Melissa is currently working on a specialty surgical unit at the Kelowna General Hospital. She will begin the Critical Care nursing program through BCIT in the fall.

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This 2-3 bdrm home is very well maintained, has a great, fenced yard with large covered patio and good parking.

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Central air and underground sprinkling.

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$219,000 Great value in this 3 bedroom plus den, 2 bath home featuring laminate/ceramic 4 bdrm/2 bath property on 0.46 acre lot. tile, new windows, furnace with central air, Top and bottom are currently rented. This single car garage. Ideal home for starter, property includes - 200 amp service - newer investment or downsizing. windows, upgraded plumbing - single garage Low maintenance yard.

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$225,000

TRAIL TREASURE... This amazing 3 bdrm character home is privately situated, yet a short walk to town. Great oak flooring, main floor laundry, large dining and living room with custom fireplace. The views are gorgeous. Low maintenance yard and covered parking.

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above 1,400 metres or 4,500 feet in elevation - are the ones that have been lost to predators. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The animals that were taken by predators with one exception have all been preyed upon in low elevation areas that would not be considered suitable caribou habitat,â&#x20AC;? said Gordon.

One caribou died in an accident; it fell through a sheet of ice and couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t scramble out.

Four were killed by cougars.

One was killed by wolves after walking across the valley floor and into the Rocky Mountains.

Two made it into Montana, but were taken by wolves after one broke its leg.

Three died of unknown causes; the project team are waiting for the results of autopsies underway at the University of Calgary.

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Eleven of the 19 mountain caribou relocated to the Purcell Mountains west of Cranbrook have now died. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the result we were hoping for. We have had some significant mortalities,â&#x20AC;? said Steve Gordon, project manager of the Purcells South Mountain Caribou Herd Augmentation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all deeply saddened by the loss of these animals.â&#x20AC;?

The endangered animals were brought from Dease Lake in northern B.C. in March in an attempt by the provincial government to revive a dwindling herd in the backcountry between the East and West Kootenay.

There are less than 1,700 mountain caribou in existence.

The Purcells South herd had around 15 animals before the

transplant.

To boost the local herd, 20 mountain caribou (17 females, three males) were taken from a healthy herd on the Tahltan First Nation, fitted with GPS radio collars then brought down to the Kootenays in specially designed animal trailers.

One female caribou died on route.

But as soon as they were released, the transplanted caribou began to explore. Some of the animals split off and wandered out of the mountains in groups of two or three. GPS signals picked up the caribou in Fort Steele, Mayook, Moyie and Skookumchuck. Some made it all the way to Montana, swimming across Koocanusa Reservoir three times to get there.

Sadly, the caribou that left their natural habitat - which is

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