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The new Riverfront Centre is going to be a little bit smaller after costs came in $3.7 million over budget. Based on a concept plan and budget developed in early 2014, the city took the matter of borrowing for a new library/museum to referendum last year. Overwhelmingly support was received during the November civic election, allowing Trail to take out a $6.3 million loan to construct the new facility. What a difference a year makes because the city’s current estimate nears $10 million. So to cut costs, and bring the project back into the realm of possibility, the city’s building committee opted to reduce the facility’s size by 2,000-square feet. “What exactly is going to be lost is very difficult to say at this point,” clarified Trail Mayor Mike Martin. “I know there is going to be a redesign of some stair access and things like that, but it’s too early to say more,” he added. “But the one commitment that we provided, and is understood through all of this, is it will not impact the services and the facility will be an exciting new feature for downtown Trail.” The project’s total expense now stands at $7.7 million. That’s after reducing the building’s footprint to 15,000-square feet, taking into account the net loan of $6.2 million, and factoring in $500,000 from Columbia Basin Trust. What’s left is a $974,000 overage that Martin maintains that will not further impact Trail taxpayers. Instead, council is tasked with managing the city’s capital works program to ensure the capital budget doesn’t blow up to accommodate the additional construction costs. That commitment will most likely take two or three years of planning and result in other capital projects being delayed. “Generally the capital budget runs a little over $2 million (annually),” explained Martin. “So one of the things discussed Monday afternoon was that during our 2016 capital budget deliberations, we will look at how we incorporate the $900,000 movCONTINUED ON PAGE 2
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Bright red poinsettias provide a colourful background at Ferraro Foods, and the plant is a popular purchase for shoppers in the downtown Trail store. But it’s likely most don’t know what makes poinsettias turn red, or it is actually the plant’s leaves that provide color through a process called photoperiodism. This process, in response to certain amounts of light or lack thereof, turns the leaves from green to red (or pink, white, and other shade variations). What most people mistake as flowers are, in fact specialized leaves, or bracts. The small yellow flowers are found in the center of the leaf branches. (pictured: Emilie Clarke, Ferraro Foods florist)
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Old St. Nick will be making his rounds this weekend with Trail, Rossland and Fruitvale on his radar. His first stop will be in Fruitvale Friday night for the village’s Jingle Down Main
event, where the community spirit is expected to be full to the brim. “Everybody is in an upbeat, Christmassy spirit,” said village Coun. Bert Kniss, who’s overseeing the event that runs from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Main Street will be closed
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SOAR PENSIONERS “TOONIExxxx BREAKFAST” Friday, Dec.4th Trail Legion Hall Breakfast: 9:30 Members $2.00 NON-MEMBERS $5.00 All pensioners are welcome to attend the 10:15 meeting. Gresley-Jones Veterinary Services has a doctor in the clinic all this week. (November 30 - December 4) Clinic hours are 1-4pm. Please call 250-364-0422 for more information. THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS Worldwide Candle Lighting Sunday, Dec.6th, 2pm Trail United Church Lounge 1300 Pine Ave. Light a candle for our children who have died “That Their Light May Always Shine” Family & Friends Welcome “We need not walk alone” TRAIL UNITED CHURCH U.C.W. holding Christmas Coffee Party @Knox Hall Sat.,Dec.5th, 10am-12noon Included bake/toonie tables. Admission by donation. Everybody welcome. Dance to Walter Crockett & Fun-Fiddlers Dec. 5/15 from 2 - 4pm at the Trail Senior Centre 925 Portland St. Call 250.364.0960 Trail Senior Citizens Branch #47 General Meeting & ELECTION OF OFFICERS for 2016 on Dec. 7/15 at 1:30 pm. at 925 Portland Street 2016 memberships on sale now for $15.00 Call 250.364.0960 or Darlene 250.368.9790. ARTISAN GRAND REOPENING & ANNUAL CHRISTMAS OPEN HOUSE Fri.& Sat., Dec.4&5 10am-5pm At Our NEW Location: 927 Spokane St. 250-364-5659 Treats, samples, Draw KICK OFF TO CHRISTMAS Sale At Lauener Bros. Jewellers is on Friday, Dec.4, 9:30am-8pm
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Christmas carols are selling like hotcakes at Glenmerry Elementary School. So far 110 people have donated $5 or more to have Grade 4 and Grade 5 students visit and sing a carol outside the home of a friend or family member. This is the second year the charitable fundraiser has been organized by teacher Mike Page. Last year, proceeds were donated to Kate’s Kitchen and this year, money raised will be spent on the school’s music program and a portion given to a local charity. The students have been selling carols at grocery stores in town, and in just one session sold 72 songs. Page says the fundraiser may have to stop selling early because it’s been hard to keep up with the demand but he is considering adding a day or two onto the Dec. 14 to Dec. 17 door-to-door schedule. Fifty students are part of the holiday cheer to neighbourhoods in Glenmerry, Miral Heights, Sunningdale, West Trail, Warfield, East Trail, Shavers Bench and Waneta. For information, to donate or to request a carol, email Page at mpage@sd20.bc.ca.
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Trail council opted to hire a project manager (PM) for the Riverfront Centre in October. The decision was part of lessons learned from the pipe/pedestrian bridge, another project that came in well above the estimated budget earlier this year. Dedicated to overseeing the facility’s design and construction, the PM’s role is to protect the interest of the
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certain building components relative to goal, which is a new integrated facility that rejuvenates the south end of town. The committee came to a consensus on building adjustments that would not impact the final library/museum space. A multi-purpose room and area for a kitchen were removed from the conceptual design as well as redundant staircase. The next phase is to hire an architect. “We certainly had some challenges with regard to our capital works moving forward,” Martin concluded. “We still have our layout done by the original architect, now we have to get to the details… during the final stage of design to see what can fit into the new footprint.”
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Brian Dale Levick Our hearts are broken and forever changed with the passing of our dear son, brother, uncle and friend Brian Dale Levick. Brian peacefully went to heaven on Saturday, November 21, 2015. Brian was born to Fin and Margret Levick on August 5, 1961 in Trail. He was a dream child for his parents, easy going and happy. Growing up in Trail with his brother Morley (Gail) Levick, sisters Shelley Levick, Brenda (Wayne) Moncrief, and Sheryl (Neil) Moon. Brian had an awesome childhood filled with memories of reading, music, travelling and Christina Lake. Later Brian became an outstanding Uncle to Mathew/Kody Moncrief, Samantha Levick, and David/Michael/Chelsea Moon. Brian was interwoven into a tight knit family that cherished their time with him. Brian was the son of a Trucker. This meant he learned early in life to work hard and work long hours without complaining. Brian was the third generation to operate Bryan’s Transfer. He started as a driver in the garbage truck, learned all he could about mechanics and later ran the crane. From an early age, Brian had a love of music that lead to the forming of numerous bands. He was well known in the music community for his soulful voice and multifaceted talents. Brian was a self taught musician with the ability to play any instrument he picked up. His passion was guitar from an early age but the harmonica, keyboard, mandolin worked in to his music as well. Brian’s songs had depth and meaning ... best days were spent writing for hours and creating new tunes. Brian was a friend to all and many. He will be fondly remembered as a companion who was never too busy to help you out of a jam or to talk, he would sympathize but make sure you didn’t get too egotistical. Brian your smile, kindness and music lives on forever in our hearts. A Celebration of Life will take place Sunday, December 6th at 2:00 pm in the Trail Legion Hall. Reverend Ken Siemens officiating. Jordan Wren of Alternatives Funeral and Cremation Services™ has been entrusted with the arrangements. As an expression of sympathy, donations may be made to Canadian Diabetes Association 1589 Sutherland Ave., Kelowna, V1Y 5Y7 or Heart and Stroke Foundation 200, 1212 W Broadway, Vancouver, V6H 3V2 You are invited to leave a personal message of condolence by visiting the family’s online register at www.myalternatives.ca
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Syria: The world’s first climate change refugees
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anada has an opportunity to once again be known as a nation of small towns with big hearts greeting the world’s first “environmental refugees”. Get ready Canada for a reinvigoration of the Nanaimos, Medicine Hats, North Battlefords, Selkirks, Thunder Bays, Rimouskis, Monctons, Dartmouths, Summersides, and Ganders as choice destinations for displaced persons fleeing chaos around the world. Clearly, large segments of the global population are on the move, and some of them are being displaced by climate change. A sea of displaced walkers and boaters arc north-westward to Europe from northern Africa, Syria and Iraq. The U.S. leadership debates leading up to the primaries discuss the tens of thousands of Mexican nationals who are seeking an American haven. And a stream of youth from Central America are hitch-hiking up through Mexico to the Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California borders. There are 19.5 million refugees in the world today, according to Citizenship and Immigration. Their homelands are characterized as “war-torn countries,” and many are said to have experienced “unthink-
able horrors.” The Here, they found government weblittle work suited to site’s underlying their traditional skills; premise is that young men fell prey to political conflicts sectarian brain washcreate refugee ing. Their younger movements. brothers and sisters Only about have had nearly five 100,000 can be reyears of no (or infesettled each year, rior) schooling. Under MIKE and Canada has these conditions, carrecently been taking parents will act in ing about 10,000 their children’s best inTroy Media of those. As terests. of Sept. 15, Canada has resettled In Charles’ analysis, “We never 22,405 Iraqi refugees since 2009. deal with the underlying root cause We have resettled 2,563 Syrian refu- which regrettably is what we’re gees as of Oct. 5, but now we are doing to our natural environment. committing to resettle a further I mean the difficulties in 2008 with 25,000 by early 2016. This is a noble the financial crash - that was a goal. banking crisis. But we’re now facing As Canadians, we should be a real possibility of nature’s bank proud of our values of compassion going bust.” and fairness that underlie our acThe current cohort of Syrian tions of both refugee protection and and Iraqi refugees may be the first resettlement assistance. We should group of environmental refugees also be aware that the causes of to move to more hospitable climes refugee status are changing. in large numbers. If indeed they No less a humanitarian than are, the Canadian refugee system Prince Charles (Reuters: Nov. 23) is will inevitably have to be amended signalling that we should consider to deal with “environmentally torn that the Syrian civil war is caused countries,” whose inhospitable cliby climate change: to wit, a six-year mates have set the stage for mass drought that has dislocated farm- urban migration from rural villages ing families and forced them into and farms. cities like Aleppo, Damascus and To such populations, Canada ultimately Amman and Beirut. is a kind of Promised Land.
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Underpopulated, potentially benefitting agriculturally from the early stages of global warming, and predisposed to middle-power diplomacy and decency, Canada is the kind of country people everywhere would like to raise their children. Consider the choices a young Syrian family faces today in a Beiruti refugee camp, perhaps a repurposed concrete parking garage in the city’s core. To stay is to accept an uncertain fate at best, cooking dinners on an open fire and hoping for charity or marginal employment in the city’s street-side markets. Educational opportunities for children will be severely limited. To decide to move is to embrace hope of redemption in another system in another world. To such parents, Canada is the dream destination. Facing this uncertain world, Canada needs seriously to plan for a growing tide of refugees. Expensive real estate and a high cost of living will bar some traditional recipient cities like Vancouver and Toronto from playing a key role. It is time for the smaller, less costly regional centres to move to the fore. Troy Media Columnist Mike Robinson has been CEO of three Canadian NGOs: the Arctic Institute of North America, the Glenbow Museum, and the Bill Reid Gallery.
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B.C. may do a bit better in 2016 but ...
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s we get ready to prime minister’s father, Pierre change our calendars, Trudeau, also pushing policies we reflect on the year that pounded the energy industhat has passed and try in the West. peer into the misty future. There are two possibilities Great is not a word that many that could help get western enwould use to describe 2015. In ergy to market. David Black has British Columbia, proposed an oil the economy refinery in the bumbled along, Kitimat area on doing slightly betthe northwest ter than Canada’s coast of British as a whole, which Columbia. No was held up by one has yet housing sales, banned tankers consumer sales carrying refined and some export oil products. ROSLYN sales boosted by Getting the crude Canada’s declining from Alberta dollar. Demand for to the coast is a Troy Media B.C.’s usual econchallenge if no omy supporting pipelines are to resources (forest products, min- be built. Black’s solution is transerals, energy) was tepid. porting the oil by rail. This should For 2016, most forecasters are give anti-pipeline environmenpredicting that the B.C. economy talists pause. Transporting petromay do a little bit better. Where leum by pipeline is relatively safe will that growth come from? and cheap. Transporting oil by It’s not coming from demand rail is both more costly and less for our traditional wood and safe. However, if the better altermining products or for energy. native is not available, use will be No booms in those sectors. made of the second best. Do not expect any pipelines A second possibility is to build in the B.C economy. The federal the suggested Energy East pipegovernment’s ban on crude oil line to move Alberta crude to tanker traffic on the West Coast the East Coast from which it will effectively kill the already could be exported in tankers. approved, if not loved, Enbridge This alternative would have the pipeline project. advantage of being able to deWith that and the United liver crude to central and eastStates nixing a pipeline south, ern Canada, reducing their dewestern Canada’s energy will pendence on imported energy; a face very limited markets and good step for Canada as a whole. the usual pattern of lower-thanHowever, neither Black’s proworld prices. posed refinery nor the Energy Crude oil tankers are only East pipeline are likely to get off banned on the West Coast. the ground in 2016 nor will the Eastern and central Canada will latter provide economic stimulus still be able to import crude in to British Columbia. tankers from the Middle East. There are infrastructure projOlder readers will remember our ects that could boost the B.C.
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economy. And it is possible that one LNG project will actually get started before the end of 2016, but is it likely? Prices for gas are low. World supply is increasing with ever more gas discoveries and countries that are hungrier to export and more laissez-faire about their operations are filling any demand. Questions over environmental impacts and First Nations territorial issues will affect not only LNG projects but also the Site C hydro project, delaying progress beyond 2016. Activities that could enhance the British Columbia economy in 2016 should they happen are the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the promised federal infrastructure spending. Several B.C. industries, including forestry and mining, stand to benefit from the better access to Asian markets that the TPP will provide. The question is whether the TPP will receive the required national approvals within the next calendar year, if at all. Infrastructure spending to boost the Canadian economy was a campaign promise that helped elect the federal government. Right now, we do not know what the projects will be, where they will be or even if they will be. Already, the Federal finance minister has started talking about timing, rebalancing and fiscal realities. Don’t hold your breath anticipating major federal projects in B.C. in the next 12 months. A future column will name some sectors of the B.C. economy that will prosper, offering jobs and incomes in 2016. Troy Media business columnist Roslyn Kunin is a consulting economist and speaker.
Canada needs plan to deal with increase in dementia
An editorial from the Toronto Star Health experts have been warning for years that Canada must face up to the growing crisis brought on by a rising tide of people afflicted with dementia. As the population ages, we will all be touched -- as patients, as caregivers, and as taxpayers. No country will be spared, but some will be better prepared than others. And it’s high time Canadian governments came together and developed a national strategy to deal with a crisis that will severely challenge both health care budgets and society as a whole. We can learn much from looking at the experience of a country that has aged faster than us and is already grappling with the issue we will face over the next couple of decades. In Japan, the world’s first “super-aged” nation, those over 65 already form a quarter of the population. The Japanese are training thousands of doctors on dealing
with dementia -- from making the right diagnosis to supporting caregivers. One city, on the outskirts of Kyoto, has dedicated itself to become a “dementiafriendly” community where people with the disease can live normally. Most importantly, as far back as 2000 the Japanese government introduced mandatory longterm care insurance. Everyone starting at age 40 must pay into a national insurance fund. When they turn 65 or are afflicted by an aging-related disease such as dementia, they can draw on a variety of support services -- from daycare to meal preparation. Since funding is guaranteed through the insurance plan, that has created a robust market for such services. It’s far from clear that such a plan could work in Canada. Social norms are very different in Japan, and our health care system is run by individual provinces. But it’s the type of big thinking that is badly needed -- but so far
sadly lacking -- in this country. The provinces haven’t yet put together an overall strategy for dealing with our aging population. They still struggle even to provide a bare minimum of home care. And yet just the cost of treating the 747,000 Canadians with dementia has already hit $33 billion a year and is rising fast. The Trudeau government should use some of its early goodwill to kick-start the process of developing a national plan to address the slow-motion crisis of dementia. Others are already leading the way.
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Community groups preparing for renovations at Rossland Miners’ Hall
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The Miners’ Hall will be closed for renovations beginning in February leaving com-
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and will keep the hall closed for a year. The first focuses on the building’s envelope and includes replacing the siding and roofing.
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support the renovation. The Rossland Council for Arts and Culture (RCAC) is behind the remodel of the attic and has been working with the City of Rossland to get funding. The attic will be home to a new green room for performers and a multi-purpose space where groups could hold smaller performances or classes. The city itself has been trying to figure out where it will hold its recreation programs once the hall is closed. “Recreation has been in discussions with the principal of [Rossland Summit School] to try to find space for recreation programs in there,” said Stacey Lightbourne, city planner. “The city has asked [School District] 20 for the use of the Annex for the [Gold Fever] Follies.” But as of yet nothing has been finalized. The RCAC is also looking for space to keep its programming going while the hall is closed. “We’re going to try to come up with some creative solutions to try to keep the performances going,” said Theshini Naicker, vicepresident of the RCAC. “One of the options I guess would be to partner with some of the businesses. We haven’t done any ground work yet, but I do have some ideas around that.” One event has already found a new home. The Joe Hill Coffee House will move to the Legion while the Miners’ Hall is closed. Before the Miners’ Hall shuts its doors the RCAC will host a New Year’s Eve fundraiser to raise money for the attic renovation. The last RCAC performance will be on Jan. 22 when the Remi Bolduc Jazz Ensemble performs a tribute to Dave Brubeck. The Rossland Mountain Market also uses the Miners’ Hall for its indoor winter markets. Given that the hall is closing at the beginning of February, the final two markets for the season will be held on Saturday, Dec. 19 and Saturday, Jan. 30.
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Santa joins parades in Rossland and Trail CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 uled departures sold out. The community spirit continues at the Beaver Valley Arena that evening, where the public is invited to Skate with the Nitehawks from 2:45 p.m. to 4 p.m. Hopefully, Santa Claus will have enough gusto for the festivities that follow in Rossland during Rekindle the Spirit of Christmas. The annual event also supports local business with holiday shopping taking centre stage and food playing a supporting role. Golden City Lions Club will be serving up sausages, hot chocolate, hot cider and coffee in Henry LeFevre Square with a fire pit to warm the cold. Bring the entire family and get into the yuletide spirit with a Santa parade and photos, tree lighting, carolers and the opening of four new art galleries si-
multaneously, notes organizer Rossland Tourism. The festive event also features art and live music at the Rouge Art Gallery in the old Bank of Montreal building. Kristi Calder, marketing manager for Tourism Rossland, said the art contribution this year stems from Christy GritchenHolden of Alley Cat Glass Works annual open house that has coincided with Rekindle for some years. This year has turned into somewhat of an “art walk,” she said, assuring that returning favourites are still the foundation of the festival. “Rekindle is an annual event to kick off the Christmas shopping season in downtown Rossland, so all the shops get their windows decorated in time for the event and the downtown Christmas tree, right outside of Ferraros, is lit up,” she said.
This festive spirit will be shared in Trail Saturday at Silver City Nite, with Santa’s Candy Parade at 4 p.m. as the main attractant. “We recently received word from the North Pole that Mrs. Claus will be joining Mr. Claus in the parade this year,” said Andrea Jolly, Trail’s communications and events coordinator.“She is new to the event and is looking forward to a warm welcome here in Trail.” The parade caps off a day of fun activities in Trail that start with the Trail & District Chamber of Commerce’s first Trail Indoor Winter Market of the season from noon-4 p.m. The Trail Ambassadors will be on site downstairs from noon-3 p.m. for crafts and face painting. Outside, on the corner of Bay and Spokane, Trail firefighters will be hosting a marshmallow roast and Local 480 will be serving up a hot food fundraiser.
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TIMES STAFF But for a span of two minutes and five seconds in the second period, the Trail Smoke Eaters played a closer game than the score indicates against the West Kelowna Warriors, falling 7-3 at Royal LePage Place on Tuesday. The Warriors jumped out to a 2-0 lead, as Kylar Hope buried one off a bounce off the end wall less than a minute in. Then with 3:33 remaining in the period, Connor Sodergren beat Smokie starter Linden Marshall on a quick shot from the slot as the Warriors outshot the Smoke Eaters 16-8. But a wild start to the second period blew the game wide open, as the teams combined for five
goals in 2:05 of action. The Warriors scored 31 seconds apart at 4:33 and 5:04 as Liam Blackburn beat Marshall from a sharp angle, before Sodergren tallied his fifth of the season as he muscled one past the Trail goalie to make it 4-0 and chase Marshall from the net. Trail responded 12 seconds later, as Nick Halloran cut the lead to 4-1, finishing a pretty passing play from Connor Brown-Maloski and Nii Noi Tetteh. However, West Kelowna extended their lead 44 seconds after the Halloran goal, as Kyle Marino sent a knuckle-puck past Bailey MacBurnie, and 38 seconds after that, it was Hope’s second off
a 2-on-1 that put the Warriors ahead 6-1. The collapse belies a more evenly played period of hockey where the Warriors outshot the Smoke Eaters 14-13. The Smoke Eaters scored twice in the third period on goals from Connor Brown-Maloski and Halloran’s second of the night on a shorthanded effort, before Blackburn’s second goal gave the Warriors the 7-3 win. The 17-10-0-2 Warriors outshot Trail 13-12 in the third and 43-33 on the night. Trail will return to the Cominco Arena looking for points as they host the Alberni Valley Bulldogs on Friday at 7:30 p.m. and Wenatchee on Saturday.
Allstar deflates Tire
BY TIMES STAFF Allstar took the air out of OK Tire in Trail Commercial Hockey League action on Saturday with an 8-3 thumping, while Arlington kept Gericks from playing catch up with a 3-2 victory. Allstar moved within two points of the front-running Tire thanks to a winning goal from former Brooks Bandit Colton Semenok and a fourpoint night from Castlegar native Scott Morrisseau. Semenok scored at the 20:05 mark of the second period, converting a Morrisseau pass to give Allstar a 4-2 lead, and one they wouldn’t relinquish. OK Tire’s Evan Mackay opened the scoring five minutes into the first period, but a pair of goals from Walker Sidoni put Allstar up 2-1 at 8:06. Chris Kissock notched his third of the season to draw the Tire even at the seven minute mark, but Allstar would erupt for five unanswered goals from Morriseau, two from Semenok, and singles from Derek Steep, and Jarret Conway to give the Tire a 7-2 lead. Troy Palmer replied for the Tire with a minute to play in the middle frame, while Tristan Read rounded out the scoring for Allstar, and Cody Deadmarsh earned the win in net.
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With a win, Gericks would have moved into a tie with the Big A on Sunday, but three first-period goals and a solid performance from A’s netminder Eric Volpatti gave Arlington a four-point cushion over the last place Cycle. TCHL leading scorer, Pat Iannone, scored twice and assisted on Al McMartin’s goal to propel the Arlington into a 3-0 lead. Gericks made it 3-1 at the 6:00 mark of the second period on a goal from Mike Boisvert, and Curtis Wabelin cut the lead to one with 1:53 to play in the third, but Gericks couldn’t find the equalizer. Iannone now leads all TCHL scorers with 19 goals and 42 points in 12 games. On Thursday, the same two teams played to a 5-5 tie, with Craig Claire scoring the tying goal and his second of the night with just 4:06 remaining in regulation. In the other match, the 7-3-2 OK Tire beat Re/Max 4-1 with Peter Sheets, Evan MacKay, Joel Graf, and Justin Adrian tallying for the Tire, while Derrick Simister replied for Re/Max. TCHL action resumes tonight at the Cominco Arena with Allstar facing Re/Max at 7:15 p.m. and OK Tire playing Gericks at 8:30 p.m. On Sunday, Arlington vs Re/Max at 2:15 and Gericks faces Allstar at 3:30 p.m.
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The Special Olympics BC-Trail organizer and coach Ben Postmus puts the Roadrunners through a workout at the KCLC gym. SOBC-Trail received a grant this week from the province to help make its Snow Sport Winter Festival in Rossland, Feb. 5-7, a success.
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Community, Sport and Cultural Development Minister Peter Fassbender announced that a wide range of sporting events, including the Special Olympic BC-Trail’s (SOBC-Trail) Snow Sport Winter Festival, will benefit from over $175,000 in provincial grants. SOBC-Trail will receive just over $2,400 of the funds as they get set to host the SOBC Winter Festival from Feb. 5-7. The annual event features Special Olympic athletes from across B.C. competing in downhill skiing and snowshoeing events, which will make its first visit to Red Mountain and Black Jack Cross Country Ski Club this year. “It’s Winter Fest and we’re bringing in the top Special Olympic alpine skiers and snowshoers in the province,” said SOBC-Trail organizer and coach Ben Postmus. “We went over there two years ago to Crystal Mountain to scope it out to see if we could host it, and it was a no brainer. I mean Red Mountain is famous for its races.” SOBC-Trail has recruited the assistance of the Red Mountain Racers and Black Jack skiers to help in the organization and tim-
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ing of the races that will see close to 140 athletes, coaches, and support staff visit Rossland for the three-day event. “It’s a good warm up for all the athletes that are going to the Special Olympic Canada Winter Games in Newfoundland in March,” added Postmus. Trail has two athletes attending the games. Montrose native William Thatcher will compete in snowshoeing while Trail’s Jake Miller will play on the BC floor hockey team. This round of funding from Hosting BC will be shared by 45 groups in 24 communities throughout the province. In addition to Winter Fest, events include the Panorama Coupe NorAm Cup Series - an alpine skiing event in Invermere, the Western National Championships for water polo in Surrey, and the Provincial Championships for wheelchair basketball in Kamloops. The grants range from $1,000 to $10,000 and are administered by viaSport, the Government of British Columbia’s lead agency for the development and promotion of sport and physical activity in the province. “The Hosting BC grant program encourages communities to host tournaments and champion-
ships that provide a positive boost to the economy and help train volunteers for future events,” said Fassbender. “These organizations also do a great job of showcasing our B.C. athletes at home and promoting a healthy and active lifestyle for all residents.” Since 2004, Hosting BC has invested more than $5 million in community-based sporting events, building B.C.’s reputation as a major sport-hosting destination. Event hosting stimulates economic activity and generates revenues that help support local businesses and jobs in B.C.’s local communities. “ViaSport is proud to see a range of sporting events, from local tournaments to international championships, continue to select British Columbia as their preferred sport hosting destination,” said Sheila Bouman, CEO of viaSport in a release. “The Hosting BC grant program helps provincial community and sport organizations uphold B.C.’s reputation as a world-class destination for exceptional sporting events.” The Government of British Columbia has provided more than $1 billion to support sport in B.C. since 2001, including over $50 million in 2014-15.
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Check on state resources to help support child
Dear Annie: My granddaughter, “Tara,” is 27 and a single mother of a 4-year-old daughter. I have been the child’s caregiver since birth, and we are very close. When Tara lost her job, we allowed her to move in, with the understanding that she would get another job and pay us rent that we would put aside for a down payment on her own place. But it’s been seven months and she hasn’t showed much interest in finding a job. Tara doesn’t contribute anything for the household, nor does she offer to help much around the house. She gets $50 a month in support money from her deadbeat ex, which she uses for cigarettes and gas. We have set several deadlines for Tara to leave, but we know that she would end up living in her car or on someone’s sofa. I am worried about the child. I have threatened to ask for custody, but my husband and I are almost 70 and on a fixed income. I don’t really want to raise another child.
I feel trapped in my own home, child. Your state or county may have and it’s causing conflict in my mar- specific resources in your area, and riage. I don’t trust Tara’s you can check with judgment. I’m afraid if your local Department we ask her to leave, she on Aging. will take the child and Dear Annie: I Marcy Sugar we will never see either read “Drained and & Kathy Mitchell of them again. They may Frustrated,” and wantnot even survive. We have ed you to know that tried counseling, but it didn’t help. Medicare pays for most of a 100-day What can we do? -- Anguished nursing home visit if you have had Grandmother a qualifying three-day hospital stay. Dear Grandmother: You keep Otherwise, once someone’s money setting boundaries that you are un- runs out, the family should contact willing to enforce and Tara knows the local social services office and it. However, your fears are not com- ask about Medicaid. Many nursing pletely unfounded, so we under- homes will accept a patient even if stand why you feel trapped. Where the application is in process. are Tara’s parents? Could they conPeople many times consider tribute to her care? Are there other themselves a “failure” because they family members who would take couldn’t take care of a loved one. But her in on a temporary basis in order nursing facilities have many things to give you a “vacation”? to offer their residents, along with You are doing a wonderful thing support for the family. To “Drained to raise this 4-year-old in a stable and Frustrated”: Don’t expect your environment. While there are lim- mother to be happy with your deciits on motivating Tara, most states sion. But you can have a life beyond provide help for raising a young caregiving, and your mother will be
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Thursday, December 3, 2015 Trail Times
SPORTS GTMHA SENIOR NOVICE SUCCESS
The Greater Trail Home of Champions Society Is seeking to honour
Champions of Greater Trail
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If Yes, consider nominating them for recognition on the Home of Champions monument. Nomination criteria and forms are available at
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The Greater Trail Minor Hockey Association’s Senior Novice Warriors travelled to Osoyoos for their first big tournament of the season, and came away with a win, a tie, and two losses, but, more importantly, had a great time playing in what was the first away tournament for many of the players.
Skips take a break in Retiree curling
Myths & realities:
Girls and gangs ▾ MYTH: As a gangsters girlfriend or wife you’ll have everything you want: Reality: Even gangsters’ girlfriends and wives are the target of violence and retribution, with women associated in some way to gangsters murdered, some in front of their children.Over the past several years there have been a number of women associated in some way to gangsters murdered, some in front of their children.
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SUBMIT TED It was skips day off as Trail Retirees took to the ice at the Trail Curling Club Monday. With the skips sitting out on the five-man teams, and Mel Johnson leading the Ernie Brown team against team Serge Pasquali, Mel employed the give up one and score many philosophy to lead 8-3 after seven ends. He then ran the Pasquali side out of rocks in the eighth for the win.
Team Forrest Drinnan played a good opening end, but could only score one against the Alvin Caron foursome. Team Caron poured it on scoring five in the next three ends. Team Drinnan staunched the flow with a single in the fifth, but waved the white flag after seven ends with the score 9-2. Team Dan Horan went toe-to-toe with the Wayne Wyton foursome. In a well played
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game by both sides big ends were impossible to set up. It came down to a draw to the four foot on the last rock to secure the tie for team Horan. Make the final 6–6. Two ends got away from the Murray Walsh foursome. Team Jim Stewart scored five in the third and stole three in the fourth to salt away a 10–3 victory. ‘But for two ends’, could be heard from the Walsh table after the game. It was a short day for the Brett Rakuson rink facing the team Clare Coleman. Coleman ahead five to one after four, stole a five spot in the fifth, then two in the sixth. The Rakuson side packed it in at that point, make the final 12–1 for Coleman.
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