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Jeffrey Morris, 3, and his mom Amanda made their way from Warfield to the Trail library Saturday to take advantage of the Christmas crafts at the facility’s Holiday Open House. Jeff picked out what contents he wanted in his snow globe while his mom helped him with the glue gun. See more photos on Page 2.

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Choosing the final front page to feature for the Trail Times 120th anniversary was no simple task. We’ve spent the year browsing through Silver City history that can only be captured through the stories of local news. We began in January with the poetic prose of the Trail Creek News, the paper’s first edition published on brown butcher paper in October, 1895. From there, fragile pages of the century-old newspapers served as

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a reminder of the city’s pumped up community N T T D T rich heritage and how spirit. Trail grew from a dusty Armed Forces reservist stopover to the place it Sharman Thomas carried is today. the Olympic torch through Most of all, the newsdowntown and onto the 1895 - 2015 paper, which is stored in celebration stage, where the Trail archives, docuhe lit the community caulmented what was going on in the dron. world over 120 years, as well as in More than 1,200 people gathered small town B.C. that Sunday, including former Trail That leads to this final front page Mayor Dieter Bogs, Trail hockey - when crowds gathered downtown Olympian Seth Martin, decathlon for the lighting of the Olympic star Gerry Moro, then Minister of torch.The flame passed through Jan Education Margaret MacDiarmid 24, 2010 alongside rock n’ roll Coca (former Trail doctor), 92-year old Cola buses filled with youth who Vicky Bisaro, and Richard Koo a TIM

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“What’s the rush?” Asked about 85 people who showed up at a meeting Monday night on the proposed road closures in the Pend D’Oreille valley. Many stood at the Charles Bailey Theatre with a reason they cared about the Pend D’Oreille, whether it was the mining community concerned for their livelihood or seniors who relied on motorized transportation to extract elk from the bush during hunting season. Regardless, the majority of conversation rested on the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resources lack of proper public consultation and inadequate resources to best make its case on limiting motorized access in the valley. “I’m sure everyone in the

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former Trail resident who travelled from Toronto to carry the flame on home turf. “It’s a fitting finale to a year-long review,” said Trail Times editor Guy Bertrand. “It certainly gives you a sense of how far the newspaper and the city has come in 120 years – from those first stories in 1895 of a budding mining town to the 2010 front page celebrating Trail’s role in an international event.” “Looking back at the front pages we showcased over the year, it’s been an incredible journey through time and one we hope to keep documenting for the next 120 years.” Contact the Times:

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A BC man who beat a Rossland senior to death in his own home 18 years ago, has been denied early parole. Wayne MacMillan then a resident of Castlegar, was twice convicted of first degree murder in the brutal death of Edward Vertere, 90. “He continues to downplay his responsibility for his actions in the murder of Mr. Vertere,” states B.C. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Kelleher in his ruling, denying MacMillan a faint-hope hearing in front of a jury. “The murder, coming after torture and a beating, is particularly egregious.” MacMillan’s case began in the Rossland Court House following his 1998 arrest, but was subsequently moved to Vancouver following a violation of a pre-trial publicity ban by a Vancouver newspaper that was ruled could affect the impartiality of a local jury.

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After being convicted of murder in 2000 and sentenced to life without parole for 25 years, MacMillan was granted a new trial after the B.C. Appeal Court ruled that a scribbled note from a juror indicated jury members may have been confused about a key point of law when they found MacMillan guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Mr. Vertere. He was re-tried and convicted on Dec. 14, 2003, again sentenced to life without parole eligibility for 25 years. MacMillan filed for earlier parole under what’s termed the faint-hope clause. Under section 745.6 (fainthope clause) of the Canadian Criminal Code, a statutory provision allows prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment with a parole eligibility period of greater than 15 years, to apply for early parole once they have served 15 years. Kelleher said that “generally

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Online feedback on proposal open until end of month CONTINUED FROM A1 in off-road vehicle use and illegal trail building has damaged the area, compromising wildlife habitat areas and promoting the spread of invasive plants throughout the valley. The proposed Access Management Area (AMA) presented looks to maintain access and hunting opportunities on some main roads but restrict motorized access on secondary roads to reduce the impact on wildlife populations, habitat, and sensitive ecosystems. “Ungulate winter range is crucial for the West Kootenay because of deep snow packs and … the Pend D’Oreille has a lot of valuable ungulate winter range,” said Pat Stent, a wildlife biologist with Fish and Wildlife management. “It’s probably the highest value winter range in the West Kootenay.” The area also contains a high concentration of species at risk; he said, including yellow-breasted chat, western racer, rubber

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The Charles Bailey Theatre wasn’t a full house Monday night when the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resources hosted a public meeting on proposed road closures in the Pend D’Oreille valley. About 85 people turned up to provide feedback. boa, western skink, Lewis’ woodpecker and a common nighthawk. There was genuine interest in preserving the land for these species but the area marked for closure is vast in comparison, some pointed out. “I went on the Internet and pulled off

maps for each of the species that are at risk,” said Chris Barlow, a Castlegar resident who grew up in Fruitvale. “Where they actually fall in the Pend D’Oreille, almost every one of them are along the lower road, not in the area that you’re proposing.”

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CONTINUED FROM A2 absences for medical and family purposes, as well as private family visits. He married in 2013. When the marriage ended earlier this year, he did not disclose to his parole officer and he recently lost his job cutting firewood outside the gates. “…Mr MacMillan’s response to supervision has been questionable up to the present time,” wrote a prison psychiatrist. “He has been secretive and areas that have bearing on his risk, and he has been dishonest when

challenged about his behaviours and choices.” Under the faint-hope clause, offenders who committed their offence after December 2, 2011 are no longer eligible to apply for the faint hope clause. However, those convicted of offences that occurred prior to that date may still be eligible. Part of the rational for the clause, was to lower the risk to prison guards from murderers serving life with little hope of release, and nothing to lose from unleashing violence.

He suggested the map was “flawed” because it didn’t tell the whole story. Ministry staff agreed to update the map with main points in case, including ungulate winter range and where the at-risk species live,

highlighted in a highresolution image. Barlow asked staff to take a step back and do the right thing: build a proper case with time and care, educate the public and find a solution that people support.

Many wondered why protection couldn’t be accomplished by returning the existing hunting seasons to what they used to be or creating a new limited entry hunting season for all ungulates and introducing specific road closures in sensitive habitat areas. Forming a stakeholder committee was suggested but ministry staff struggled to find clear representation from various groups and felt that some organization needed to happen locally. The majority of people raised their hands when Bob Denny, president of Chamber of Mines, asked who would like to shut the proposal down completely. But whether this is an option at this time is unclear. “Public interest and sustainable wildlife management are both taken into consideration when reviewing all regulation changes,” according to Greig Bethel, public affairs

officer and media relations for the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations. “As this proposed change is still under review, it would be inappropriate for the ministry to comment further at this time.” A stakeholder meeting turned public in late October when John Urquhart Jr. leaked the closed meeting because he said the plan looked as though it was being pushed through behind closed doors. The Trail Wildlife Association asked the ministry to host a meeting open to the public, following some backlash from its membership and the general public who were looking for an opportunity to voice their concerns. The public has until Dec. 31 to provide feedback on the proposal via email at fishandwildlife.kootenay@gov. bc.ca or on the Angling, Hunting and Trapping Engagement website at apps.nrs. gov.bc.ca/ pub/ahte/.

Police remind people to lock their car doors after rash of thefts over the weekend SHERI REGNIER Trail Times

A rash of thefts in Miral Heights has police warning all residents to lock their car doors and remove all valuables. “Thieves are active in the area,” says Sgt. Darren Oelke from the Greater Trail RCMP, following three reports of items stolen from vehicles over the weekend. “Simply locking your vehicle will deter the vast majority of this type of theft.” Late Friday night or early Saturday morning, one person or more, entered unlocked vehicles parked in the subdivision, taking change and items of value.

Police believe more vehicles were involved than were reported. “Just before midnight on Friday, an observant resident in Warfield noticed three males get out of a pick up truck in her neighbourhood,” explained Oelke. “They appear to be wearing headlamps and ventured into the neighbours yard.” The trio quickly departed after the resident yelled at them. “Thieves are looking for a quick and easy way to make money,” Oelke said. “And unlocked vehicles are an easy target.” Remove all items of value from your vehicle, he reiterated. “And keep it locked.”

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On opening day at Kicking Horse Mountain Resort in 2014, Trevor Hamre got into some trouble on a treed run between Bubbly and Euphoria. The incident foreshadowed a much greater ordeal, one that could have cost him his life under different circumstances. The Day Because of that experience, Hamre was determined to avoid the area - it’s a run that he calls one of his favourites and a secret shared among locals - but perfect opening day conditions can make even the most experienced boarders and skiers make decisions they might otherwise avoid. In 2014, Hamre got his board stuck under a log. In 2015, his entire body found an empty pocket deep in the snow, his head completely buried and his legs and board above him. Trapped After completing a pair of top to bottom runs through Bowl Over, Hamre decided he’d go for one last lap, this time into Crystal Bowl. It was around 11 o’clock and he was riding alone, aiming to be home with his wife, Kuljit Jaswal, and their three year-old son Bruenor, by lunch time. Partway down the run, Hamre’s board hit an underlying log and he went airborne. “I cartwheeled forward into the snow and instead of hitting the top level of snow...it was just lightly covered,” he recalled. Multiple trees had fallen sideways, causing a build up of snow on the tree branches. “When I hit the snow, it didn’t have any resistance. I went straight into this hole and slid right under two logs,” Hamre said. His face smashed against one log and he quickly tasted blood, but his situation was far more severe than that. Initially, it was a struggle just to breathe. “I was fully buried over my head. I was literally pulling snow out of my mouth,” he said. “I got pretty frantic, moved the snow off my face and it kept falling on my face, falling in my mouth.” Fortunately the trees were perpendicular to his chest and head and there was empty space to his right and left.

“I dug out my legs with my hands until I got to a point where I could see light along my left leg, and then I knew I had air. I really calmed down after that,” Hamre said. Pinned under the logs, with snow crashing down to his stomach, chest and face every time he moved his board, Hamre soon realized there was nothing he could do to get himself out. Buried again After about 30 minutes of being trapped, Hamre had to fight for his life once again when a skier or snowboarder oblivious to the situation happening a few feet below - sprayed snow into the hole, covering Hamre’s face with snow for the second time. “Probably a foot and a half of snow fell into the hole and that was another really frantic moment,” he said. He managed to remove the snow once again. By this time the empty space beside him was full and packed in with snow. “For the rest of the day it was a big struggle on whether to even try to get out, because I was bringing more snow down near my face every time,” Hamre said. The wait For the next several hours all Hamre could do was wait, hope, and scream for help, his situation becoming increasingly desperate as the afternoon wore on. “Every three breaths I screamed, for five hours,” he said. “My head was six feet under and I didn’t think anybody could hear me…I knew it was so muffled that it would have to be somebody really close.” Having worked at the resort for five years, he also knew that ski patrollers wouldn’t sweep the area at the end of the day and that few skiers and snowboarders would be taking this run, which is inbounds but not particularly well travelled. “The only people that would have been in there are expert local skiers,” Hamre said. He shivered, partly from fear and partly from the cold. Acceptance “My plan was to stay alive as long as I could but I really accepted that I wasn’t probably going to make it…I thought I was dead.” Hamre thought about a lot of things while he was trapped. He thought about his family and wished that he had been teaching Bruenor how to ski that morn-

ing. He also reflected on life itself. He thought about “that whole community versus individual dichotomy. From skiing on my own to enjoying life on my own versus with others. That went through my head constantly.” He thought that it would be a re-affirming action one way or the other, whether he saved himself or whether someone else saved him. If somebody else saved him, it would show him that he needed community and family in his life even more than he already believed. Rescue At 4 p.m, just as his wife Kuljit Jaswal was preparing to call the resort and alert them of her overdue husband, Hamre was rescued. A Kicking Horse employee (who declined to be interviewed for this story) was snowboarding past when he stopped for a break and Hamre’s cries were, at long last, heard. “I just kept yelling and then he responded…I was so happy. I was elated.” Ski patrollers were quickly called to the scene and after half an hour of digging, Hamre was finally free. Reflection Hamre recognizes just how fortunate he is to have survived his ordeal and expressed his full gratitude for all who were involved in his rescue. “In the end, I’m so happy. I was just so blessed. I didn’t despair in the hole, I had my wits about me. I didn’t cry. I was pretty accepting.” The tears did flow later that day when Hamre was finally able to make it home to his family. “That was pretty emotional,” he recalled. As for snowboarding, Hamre says his experience won’t deter him but it will make him take extra precautions, especially when thinking about skiing in trees. He hopes that his tale will serve as a caution to the rest of the skiing and snowboarding community. “I just hope that people wear whistles, take cellphones, ride with buddies, these are the things that I did wrong,” Hamre said. In the immediate future, Hamre says he plans to spend some time with his son at the resort and teach him how to ski. “I’ll probably spend the whole weekend on the bunny hill, but I’m okay with that,” he laughed.

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Duffy says he faced threats from Harper’s team over expenses

THE C ANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA - In Mike Duffy’s telling, his last months inside the Conservative caucus were a devastating series of betrayals and threats, designed to force him into admitting he had botched his Senate expenses. If there is a crux to the senator’s testimony, which reached its sixth day on Tuesday, his animated description of his dealings with Stephen Harper’s team in February 2013 is it. “I knew they were building a scaffold and everywhere I looked I saw people who were betraying me, leaking stuff to the media that wasn’t true,” Duffy told the court. “I was all alone...” Duffy has pleaded not guilty to 31 charges of fraud, breach of trust and bribery. Some of the charges have to do with his filing living expenses for time spent in his longtime home in the Ottawa area, on the premise his primary residence was in Prince Edward Island. The bribery charge relates to the allegation that he was a participant in a scheme to have Harper’s one-time chief of staff Nigel Wright secretly repay $90,000 in expenses, while Duffy told the public he had done so. Duffy’s defence is that he was coerced into agreeing to the scheme by powerful Conservatives, including Wright and Harper. He said he made his case to the former prime minister after a February 2013 caucus meeting, arguing that telling the public he had made a mistake with his expenses would ruin his reputation. “I know it seems unfair, I know you didn’t break the rules, but the rules are inexplicable to our base (of political support) and therefore you’re going to have to pay the money back,” Duffy says Harper told him. “Nigel will make the arrangements.” A few days later, he and Wright would have a testy phone call about how Duffy should admit making a mistake and repay the expenses. The senator was continuing to dig in his heels - he felt he could prove he spent enough time on P.E.I., with other weeks spent on the road trying to raise support for the Conservative party. Duffy alleges that Wright warned him that a powerful, Conservative-dominated Senate committee was poised to issue a report saying he wasn’t constitutionally eligible to sit in the Senate for P.E.I., because of his living arrangements. “I realized that after everything that I had seen, everything that had been done to me, this seemed

like a very live option, that they wouldn’t hesitate to do this to me,” said Duffy. “In my mind that night, I thought, this is it, I’m cooked, I’m cooked.” When Duffy asked Wright to produce the analysis that said he had broken the rules, he said Wright became angry. “He said, ‘if you keep defying the prime minister, you’ll end up like Patrick Brazeau, out of the caucus and probably out of the Senate.’ And I said, ‘For what?”’ Duffy recounted, referring to Brazeau’s ouster a few weeks earlier following an assault charge. “He said, ‘Listen to me, you’re defying the prime minister ... you’re going to do this.’ It was quite snarky.” Wright testified in August that he had indeed pressured Duffy to repay his expenses, but that he had not raised the threat of expulsion from the Senate. On the contrary, Wright said he continually reassured Duffy that he was on a solid constitutional footing. After the call with Wright, Duffy said he received more calls from Conservatives pressuring him to give in. Those conversations, combined with a new review of residency status partly triggered by then Conservative Senate leader Marjory LeBreton, caused Duffy to finally acquiesce. “That was it. That was it. I had fought and I had fought and I had fought, and I tried every kind of resistance, but when they pulled that knife out and held it over my head, I felt I had no other choice,” Duffy said. From there, negotiations began between Duffy’s lawyer, Wright and Harper’s lawyer. The Crown has alleged that Duffy made a number of demands around the repayment, including that he not be out of pocket for the expenses and that he be withdrawn from an independent audit by the firm Deloitte. Duffy told the court that he never asked for money, that he told Wright he didn’t have any funds to see if that would finally make him abandon the scheme. Instead, he said Wright told him that because he had spent so much time travelling and working for the party, that the party would defray the repayment. Wright ultimately wrote a cheque for $90,000 in late March 2013. It would emerge in the media two months later. Wright would leave the PMO, and Duffy would eventually be suspended from the Senate.

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Premier makes history by buying beer at grocery store THE C ANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - Ontario’s premier made history Tuesday simply by purchasing a six-pack of beer at a grocery store, something that hasn’t been legal in the province since Prohibition. Kathleen Wynne, 62, smiled when she was asked for proof of age as she bought the beer at a Toronto Loblaws, starting the long-awaited rollout of beer sales in select grocery stores across the province. “It’s nice to be carded,” she joked before announcing that 58 grocery stores across Ontario can now legally sell beer. “Today the wait is over. Beer is here, in grocery stores, just in time for the holidays.” The Liberal government aims to have sixpacks of beer available at 58 grocery stores by the end of this month, and expand to 450 grocers, both large and small, by 2017. That’s about the same number of retail outlets as the Beer Store operates.

Newfoundland and Labrador sells beer in some corner stores and gas stations; in Quebec, beer is available on the shelves of grocery and convenience stores. New Brunswick sells a limited selection of wines at some grocery stores, while Ontario sells Canadian wines at 300 Wine Rack locations, three-quarters of which are located in grocery stores but have separate checkouts. The province is still examining ways to expand wine sales to more private stores, Wynne said. “It is complex in terms of trade agreements,” she said. “We’re not backing off on it, but we do want to get it right.” Making it more convenient to buy beer is all about making life easier for people who lead busy lives, said Wynne. The changes are also about fairness, she said, with at least 20 per cent of grocers’ shelf space for beer dedicated to products from small brewers “so that the province’s incredible craft brewers can continue to grow in a fair and efficient beer market.”

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COP21: Plenty of cheering and fearing

he climate deal that almost 200 countries agreed to in Paris on Saturday was far better than most insiders dared to hope even one month ago. The biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, China and the United States, are finally on board. There is real money on the table to help poor countries cut their emissions and cope with warming. They have even adopted a target of holding the warming to only +1.5 degrees C, instead of the limit of +2 degrees that was the goal when the conference opened. So the thousands of delegates who spent two weeks dickering over the details of the deal in a drafty exhibition hall north of Paris felt fully justified in cheering and congratulating one another on a job well done. Given all that, it’s a pity that the deal won’t actually stop the warming. The plus-two limit was always too high. It began as a scientific estimate of when natural feedbacks, triggered by the warming that human beings had caused, take over and started driving the temperature much, much higher. It was actually quite a fuzzy number: at somewhere between +1.75 C and +2.25 C, the feedbacks will kick in and it will be Game Over. So +2.0 C, for political purposes, became the limit. Beyond that, governments told us, we would have “dangerous warming”. Nonsense. We are having dangerous warming now – bigger storms, worse floods,

longer droughts – The sum of all those and we are only at promised cuts (if the +1.0 C. promises are kept) is At plus-two or what we will get by thereabouts, what way of global emiswe get is catastrophe: sion cuts in the next runaway warming five years. that can no longer be United Nations halted just by stopexperts did the math, GWYNNE ping human emisand concluded that sions of carbon dithese emission cuts oxide. fall far short of what Nature will take is needed. If this is World Affairs over, and we will be all that is done, then trapped on a onewe are headed for at way escalator that is taking us up least +2.7 degrees C – or rather, to +3, +4, +5, even +6 degrees. for a lot more, because of the feedHundreds of millions or even bil- backs. lions of people would die as large None of the negotiations at the parts of the planet ceased to be Paris conference changed those habitable by human beings. numbers, or even tried to. So are If you don’t want to risk unleash- we doomed to runaway warming? ing that, then you don’t want to go Not necessarily. anywhere near +2, so the official Most of the negotiators know adoption by the world’s govern- that the cuts which are politically ments of +1.5 degrees as the never- impossible now may become quite exceed limit is a major step forward. possible in five or ten years if the But note that they have only cost of renewable energy goes on pledged “to pursue efforts to limit dropping, if techniques like carbon the temperature increase to 1.5C,” capture and sequestration (CCS) not to succeed. The hard-and-fast become economically viable – and promise is still not to go past +2 – if people are sufficiently frightened and there is not even any guarantee by a climate that is getting wilder that that will be achieved. and less predictable by the year. In order to avoid a debacle like So there is a review process built the one at the last climate summit into the treaty. Every five years, in Copenhagen six years ago, no- starting in 2018, there will be a body even tried to put enforceable “stock-taking” exercise in which evlimits on national carbon dioxide erybody’s progress in cutting their emissions this time. Each country emissions will be reviewed, and was just invited to submit the emis- everybody will be encouraged to sion cuts that it is willing to make. increase their commitments and

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speed up their cuts. Whether they will actually do that depends on political, economic and technological factors that cannot yet be calculated, but fear is a great incentive, and there is no government on the planet that is not frightened by the prospect of major climate change. In fact, most of them would have gone a lot further in Paris if they were not nervous about getting too far ahead of public opinion at home. Public opinion will eventually change, because there is going to be a very large amount of damage and suffering in the world as we move past +1.0 and head up towards +1.5. Will it change fast enough to allow governments to act decisively and in time? Nobody knows. Will new green technologies simply sweep the field, making fossil fuels uneconomic and government intervention unnecessary? Nobody knows that either, although many people pin their hopes on it. We are not out of the woods yet, but we are probably heading in the right direction – and it would be right at this point to put in a good word for that much maligned organisation, the United Nations. It is the only arena in which global negotiations like this can be conducted, and its skills, traditions and people were indispensable in leading them to a more or less successful conclusion. Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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My husband and I have the privilege of raising one of our grandchildren and this grandchild has been attending Saint Michael’s for the last three years. Although we are from the Beaver Valley, we felt it was worth the cost and any minor inconveniences to have him enrolled at the school. Thriving among a large body of students was difficult for him and the transition to a much smaller populated school made a huge positive impact on his learning and social development. As I walk the halls of Saint Michael’s I am as always, deeply impressed by the spirit of reverence and peace I feel. Yet I have grown accustomed to these feelings as it has become common over the years. The advantage of

being an “older” parent, one who is old enough to be a parent to the teachers as well as the other younger parents, I am slowing down in life that is, taking time to “’smell the roses.” I have come to learn that peace at St. Michaels’ is a year round commodity and as I sit back and observe I have discovered why. Although I am sure it has its own political challenges in running a safe environment for children, these remain undetectable. But I cannot overlook the love I see and feel among the teachers for the students and also for each other. Not only do the teachers care for their own students but are well acquainted with each child that attends and shares equal attention with. This school I am sure has its

full share of issues like any other school in our district, but what impresses me the most, is how these issues are addressed, truly one can see the true meaning of Christmas in the eyes of the children who go there, not only now but all year round. Our grandson often takes for granted this wonderful opportunity, but I know someday he will look back with fond memories that will flood him with gratitude. One has to ask what makes the difference in the lives of these students, and perhaps the answer comes from another grade student whose poignant comment is placed on the wall among others, “I am a child of God.” Vanita Sims Beaver Falls

Take celebrity soap box for what it is

An editorial from the New Glasgow News The words of a good actor might well ring true in a movie. But that doesn’t necessarily translate into real life. Some recent comments by Leonardo DiCaprio got two thumbs down among Albertans and on Twitter. Whether they gained a nod of approval from people elsewhere might depend on their knowledge of science and geography. The Hollywood box office draw, in an issue of Vanity Fair, talked about the “terrifying” effects of climate change he’d observed while in Alberta filming the movie “The Revenant.” DiCaprio, who is well known as an environmentalist and philanthropist, was quoted as telling a film industry audience that while in Calgary, “there would be eight feet of snow and then all of a sudden a warm

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BY TIMES CONTRIBUTOR The Kootenay Savings Super League saw a slew of tremendous tactical games hit the ice at the Trail Curling Club this past week. Team Bill van Yzerloo battled Team Myron Nichol down to the last rock. After holding Nichol to one in the first, van Yzerloo grabbed the only deuce in the game in the

second, then stole the third. Facing three opposition stones, Nichol calmly drew to the pot in the fourth. Control in the game swung Nichols way in the fifth when skip van Yzerloo’s short last rock tap for two over-curled, giving Nichol a steal to tie the game at three. The teams traded singles for the next four ends to be tied up coming home. Team Nichol didn’t have to throw their final CONTINUED PAGE 15

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Johnson celebrates second cup title JIM BAILEY Trail Times

Trail native Trevor Johnson led HC Valpellice Bulldogs to the Coppa Italia hockey championship on Sunday with a 4-3 victory over Val Pusteria. The 33-year-old former Trail Smoke Eater led all Valpellice defencemen in scoring and was tied for third overall with a goal and five assists as the Bulldogs went undefeated through the four-game tournament. Italian born Marco Pozzi scored with 3:48 remaining in regulation to break a 1-1 tie and lift the Bulldogs to its second Coppa Italia win in three years. Aleksandr Petrov, from Estonia, scored an empty net goal with 22 seconds left to make it 3-1. It was the second cup win for Johnson as the team captain of a Valpellice team that last won the Coppa in 2013. The Bulldogs beat last year’s champion and Italian League leaders SV Renon 4-3 in the semifinal on Saturday to advance to Sunday’s finale. Valpellice advanced to the four-team playoff after winning a two-game series against Fassa Falcons with a 5-4 win and 4-4 tie. Johnson leads Valpellice in scoring this season with 17 points in 21 games. The Bulldogs play The Valpellice Bulldogs and in the Series A captain Trevor Johnson won league in Italy. the Coppe Italia on Sunday.

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The Alberni Bulldogs halted the Trail Smoke Eaters four-game win streak with a 4-2 victory on Monday in Port Alberni, but the Smokies still took four of six points on the successful road trip.

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Two-out-of-three ain’t bad especially on a pro-longed road trip that saw the Trail Smoke Eaters win the first two games before falling to the Alberni Valley Bulldogs in a rescheduled Monday match. Smoke Eater players and coaches spent many more hours on the Smokies’ bus than usual for a Vancouver Island road trip. High winds shut down ferries from Powell River to Comox following their Friday night game against the Kings, so the bus journeyed back to Horseshoe Bay in North Vancouver and waited in line at the ferry terminal. Unfortunately, a crossing seemed hopeless, and the team was forced to postpone its Saturday game in Alberni to Monday and spend the night in North Van. “What a brutal trip,” said Smoke Eater Nick Deschenes. “We basically waited for about four or five hours then decided to just get into a hotel. We did some bowling and hung

out, and probably felt better in Cowichan (on Sunday) than we would have normally having played two games.” The Smokies beat Powell River 4-2 Friday and trounced the Cowichan Valley Capitals 7-3 Sunday, but fell to a tough Alberni Valley Bulldogs team 4-2 on Monday. “Every time we go into Port Alberni, they must have the game of the year every time we go there,” said Deschenes. “The second period, they were not a last place team, I mean they outshot us 16-2.” Incredibly, it was the Smoke Eaters that scored the only goal of the period to tie the game at 1-1 heading into the third. Nick Halloran netted his 15th goal of the season on a pretty passing play from Ross Armour and Connor BrownMaloski, but Alberni would finally solve Smokie goalie Bailey MacBurnie in the third period after outshooting Trail 23-11 through two. “Bailey MacBurnie was the one reason, but we were close down one goal. I think things

kind of unravelled a little bit, had the circumstances been different and it wasn’t our third (game) on that road trip, we might have had a little more pep.” Dominic Thom opened the scoring at 8:52 of the first period with assists going to former Smoke Eater Rhett Wilcox and Quinn Syrydiuk. Halloran tied it with 7:30 left in the second but a pair of third-period goals from Liam Conrad two minutes apart gave the Bulldogs a 3-1 lead. “I think because the goals came fairly quickly the previous games, but they were making it pretty hard for us to get in the scoring areas, that kind of frustrated our guys early, and we just couldn’t get any traction.” Smokies captain Evan MacEachern sailed a shot in from the point that eluded a screened Brody Clayes in the Alberni net to cut the lead to one with eight minutes remaining, but an empty netter from Syrydiuk with 42 seconds left on the clock iced it for the dogs.

“There was a couple things we’d like to have fixed,” said Bulldogs assistant coach Adam Hayduk following the game. “I think two breakaways that we gave up, but other than that the coaching staff will be pretty happy with that effort.” Wilcox added his second assist of the game in what was his first game with the Bulldogs after coming over in a trade from Cowichan Valley on Sunday. “I think Rhett’s going to fit in pretty well here, he is a hard working player, pretty smart, and a pretty good debut,” said Hayduk. The loss ends the Smoke Eaters four game win streak, but Trail will get right back on the ice tonight against the Vernon Vipers at the Cominco Arena. A Smokie win can tie the Vipers for the final playoff spot, coupled with a Vernon loss to Penticton Tuesday night (score unavailable), and Trail will have three games in hand on Vernon. “We want to be the best team CONTINUED ON PAGE 15

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All Times Pacific Interior Division G W L T OL Pt Penticton 33 29 3 1 0 59 Salmon 32 20 8 2 2 44 WKelowna 34 19 13 0 2 40 Vernon 35 15 18 0 2 32 Trail 33 15 18 0 0 30 Merritt 35 10 23 0 2 22 Island Division G W L T OL Pt Nanaimo 34 22 11 0 1 45 Powell R 31 18 12 0 1 37 Cowichan 33 16 12 2 3 37 Victoria 36 13 19 0 4 30 Alberni 33 13 17 2 1 29 Mainland Division G W L T OL Pt Chilliwack 32 22 6 1 3 48 Wenatche 34 20 9 3 2 45

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Bridget Kivell (left) and Janice Nightingale of the Smokettes women’s hockey team generously donated funds to Linda Sahl on behalf of the United Church food bank in Trail.

Umpherville pushes Horning to final rock

CONTINUED FROM A14 stone when van Yzerloo’s last rock came up an inch short for a close 6-5 Nichol win. After their mid-season win streak, Team Albo has gone into a funk. Team Beauchamp was the latest opposition to take advantage, led by lead Marnie Matthews and second Grant Gariepy, hammering Team Albo 9-1 after ends. Team Umpherville and Team Corvus Construction played a classic clean game with plenty of take-outs. Skip Deane Horning’s perfect double take-out for two in the first, followed by

Umpherville’s blanking the next three ends, before being forced to take one in the fifth with a nice draw to the four foot and a 2-1 Corvus lead. Umpherville blanked the seventh after Corvus took one in the sixth, before Umpherville made an awesome double-raise run-back to take one in the eighth. Umpherville tied the game in the ninth after Horning’s hit and roll slid too far, then was lying three in the 10th, but Horning deftly drew to the four foot for an exciting 4-3 Corvus win. Team Heather Nichol and Team Fines waged a back and

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forth affair with each other and the ice. Team Fines was up early, 4-2 after three, before Team Nichol scored the next four ends to be in control 7-4 after seven ends. A disastrous eighth led to a huge five-ender for Team Fines, but skip Heather was unfazed, scrounging one back in the ninth, then was laying three in the 10th when Fines came to throw his last rock. The rock settled at the back of the eight foot for a Nichol steal of one, and a fitting 9-9 tie. The teams play this Thursday before breaking over the Holidays and resume Jan. 7.

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CONTINUED FROM A14 possible at the end of the year and right now we’re trending in the right direction,” said Deschenes. “Collectively and as individuals we keep getting better, and I’d like to think the buy-in is pretty high right now, so we just have to keep working and see what happens.” The 15-18-0-2 Vipers have two wins and three losses in December, while the Smokies have gone 4-2 to close the gap. Smoke Eaters goalie MacBurnie has been stellar in net, stopping 35 shots on Monday, including several spectacular saves to keep the game close. He will likely be relied

on again on Wednesday in neutralizing the snakes. “They play an aggressive style, but I really think in the last couple games we’ve proven that we really have a lot of fight in this group, and I think it’s going to be a good game,” said Deschenes. The Smoke Eater players raised and donated $300 to the Salvation Army Food Hamper Drive, which will also be accepting donations of perishable food items at the door tonight. The Smoke Eaters are hoping for a big crowd for the Vipers game and have cut admission to $5 across the board. The puck drop goes at 7:30 p.m.

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may), she should back off from giv- had anticipated. ing advice and simply transfer her More than half of my male friends professional skills toward the care got divorced when their wives were of the baby, who will benefit from in their late 50s, and sometimes the being loved by someone who obvi- wife initiated the divorce. I have ously has a great deal to give. not had sex with my wife in years. Dear Annie: I keep reading let- Please don’t advise counseling or ters from women who are concerned hormones. The women don’t believe that their husbands of many years anything is wrong, and they are juslook at porn, go to strip tifiably reluctant to take clubs or have affairs. That drugs that have serious sounds awful. But guess side effects. what can happen after So, ladies, decide 25 years of marriage? which is better: Men Husbands look forward viewing porn and masto the last 25 years of turbating (which the their lives with their lovmedical community ing wives, and all of a agrees is healthy for Marcy Sugar & sudden, the wives act as men who aren’t having Kathy Mitchell though they don’t like sex with their partners) their husbands anymore. or getting a divorce beAll affection stops and some wives cause the husbands are starved for even announce that there will be no affection and sex. There are two more sex ever. sides to every story. -- S. We men wonder what is going on Dear S.: You have made a valid and then realize that this is meno- point that a lot of women will not pause. So now, the last 25 years are like. But women who have lost their not going to be nearly as good as we libido often don’t understand why

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Trail Times Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Good treats, bad treats

Not everyone agrees which people food is good for dogs and which can harm them, such as garlic, raw eggs and bones, for example. If you have questions about ny specific food for your pet, ask a veterinarian. Some of the BAD ones: - Avocado - Alcohol - Candy and gum - Chocolate - Coffee and other caffeine products - Fat trimmings - Grapes and raisins - Macadamia nuts especially, but also other kinds of nuts - Milk and other dairy products, including ice cream - Onions - Raw or undercooked meat and fish - Salt, including salty things such as chips or pretzels - Sugary foods and drinks - The stems, leaves, peel, fruit and seeds of citrus plants, apple seeds, the pits of plums, peaches and nectarines - Yeast dough Some of the GOOD ones: - Cooked white or brown rice and pasta - Slices of apples, oranges, bananas and seedless watermelon - Snacks of carrot sticks, green beans, cucumber slices or zucchini slices, corn (cut off the cob), chopped broccoli, asparagus, cauliflower, hard winter squash - Thoroughly cooked lean meats (avoid fatty bacon) - Unsalted, smooth peanut butter - Unsweetened applesauce

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Set tails wagging with healthy and tasty treats

C ANADIAN PRESS LONDON, Ont. - For Susan Dimma healthy homemade food treats are a perfect way to show her five-year-old golden retriever how much she cares. Dimma, owner of Garnishes Personal Chef Services caters to people in her job but

works hard at home to ensure that her dog Gryphon eats food he both likes and is good for him. That means none of the traditional human holiday indulgences. But he will have some special homemade cookies for Christmas. “Commercial dog

treats contain preservatives, colouring and chemicals you can’t pronounce. My treats have oatmeal, canola oil, oat flour, chicken broth. I do put shredded cheese in one treat, but it’s not enough to hurt him. “Peanut butter and (cooked) eggs are good for their coats. Other

treats I make have parsley in them, so it’s also good for their breath.” Dimma says anyone thinking of making dog treats should first “do their homework and find out what’s good and what’s not.” Dairy products can cause digestive problems for some dogs and

raw meat may contain harmful bacteria. If her dog does become ill - “he licks everything on our walks” - Dimma makes him a mixture of cooked lean ground beef and rice, “which he loves,” and feeds him about 125 millilitres (half a cup) every three hours.

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Christmas Bird Count under way The annual Christmas Bird Count (CBC) — the longest-running Citizen Science survey in the world — will take place from December 14, 2015, to January 5, 2016. Families and students, birders and scientists, armed with binoculars, bird guides and checklists go out on an annual mission — often before dawn to count the birds. From feeder-watchers and field observers to count compilers and regional editors, everyone who takes part in the Christmas Bird Count does it for love of birds and with the knowledge that their efforts are making a difference for science and bird conservation. You are invited to join these local counts.

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WHAT YOU SEE ... Jacob Mack photo

Jacob Mack captured another creation on the bluffs overlooking Trail from the flagpole lookout above the hospital. If you have a photo you wish to share with our readers email it to editor@ trailtimes.ca.

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