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Italian internment exhibit timely and relevant Steady stream of visitors view exhibit at Trail library as display soon to be headed back East SHERI REGNIER Trail Times

Given the events of today, the exhibit showing at the Trail and District Public Library is both timely and relevant, says Karen McDonnell.

“With the arrival of Syrian refugees and the war of words regarding the Muslim community, I think it is important to remember where we were and where we need to be,” explained McDonnell, vice chair of the library board. “Those are events we should never allow to be repeated. Education is key and that is one of the mandates of a library.”

Up to 20 people a day made a visit to Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Times: Italian Canadian Internment Experience since it opened in January. Most were from the West Kootenay, though visitors from Washington State, Hungary and Brazil signed the visitors’ log, all giving the exhibit a thumbs up.

“I remember leaving the hockey game one night and the number of people who were looking at the exhibit, as well as looking at the THS (Trail Historical Society) exhibits, was great,” said McDonnell.

“We were a bit worried about leaving it open all the time, but I think that definitely provided a

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unique situation for those visiting Trail for whatever reason,” she added. “It was a bit of work (bringing in the exhibit) but the learning experiences provided for all age levels was terrific.”

The vice chair acknowledges that even though decades have passed, the Italian Canadian internment experience still evokes raw memories that are best left to rest for some, including one local family.

But overall, the on-loan exhibit from the Toronto Columbus Centre generated a favourable community buzz and sometimes bridged the gap between young and older Greater Trail citizens.

“I think those that visited were pleased they had come, it was information and for most, an unknown piece of history,” McDonnell said.

“There were a number of school groups that viewed the exhibit and when the numbers required, Kathryn Foley (library director) and her staff helped with the students,” she added. “On at least one occasion Ray Tenisci came by to tell the students about his early life in Trail.”

Tenisci’s father, Fioravante (Fred) Tenisci was arrested and interned for three years at Petawawa before he returned to Trail, married and raised 10 children.

Another local person, Christine DeMarco, spoke with visiting community groups about the profound impact her grandfather’s internment had on the family, including the loss of cultural heritage.

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There’s no way into Fort Shepherd now that Teck has shut its gate to the motorized public.

The Trail Wildlife Association (TWA), which manages the property on behalf of the Land Conservancy of British Columbia, recently made the

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Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Times: Italian Canadian Internment Experience is on display outside the Trail and District Library until March 31. The exhibit showcases the experiences of Italian Canadians interned during the Second World War. Nelson retirees last Friday and includes a photo of DeMarco’s Hundreds of Italian Canadians, grandmother, is showing on the including seven men from Trail, shared her grandfather’s story.

“We did not grow up speaking Red Floor in the Trail Memorial were arrested and held in prison or remote camps during the Second Italian,” said DeMarco. “English Centre until March 31.

“Every time I come to see the World War but no interned Italian was our first language spoken in the home, Italian accents faded and exhibit I learn something new,” was ever charged or convicted of a many in our community changed said McDonnell. “There are always war-related crime.

For decades, little was known their names to sound more French new insights and little stories that about this dark period of Canadian or more English,” she explained. are shared.”

On June 10, 1940, RCMP and history. The primary reason being “This language suicide resulted in grandchildren who could no local authorities launched raids the interned men and their familonger communicate with their on certain homes labelled “fascist” lies chose to erase this episode of the Canadian government claimed their lives and not speak about it grandparents.”

The audio visual exhibit, which were threats to national security. privately or publicly. decision to close its gate to protect the conservancy lands and now Teck has followed suit.

“Teck allowed through-access on our land north of the conservancy lands as it is the only road access to the conservancy lands,” explained Catherine Adair, Teck community relations leader.

“In support of the Land Conservancy’s decision to close access to the conser-

vancy we have closed the access across the Teck lands.”

This hits close to home for Trail resident Darelyn Stuart, who is just one local who’s frequented the property for over 20 years. She is devastated that she can no longer spend time at Fort Shepherd quadding, visiting and enjoying the outdoors with her family.

“It hurts to know that it’s closed to all

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SUBMIT TED The Fruitvale Fire Fighters Non-Profit Society is hosting the seventh annual Beaver Valley Easter Egg Hunt being held at Haines Park in Fruitvale this Friday at 11 a.m.

There will be hot dogs, juice and hot chocolate by donation and over 7,000 chocolate eggs will cover the field for three different age categories: zero-to-three, four-to-seven, and eight-to-12.

There will be allergy friendly chocolate eggs for hunters who can exchange their gathered eggs for peanut-free chocolate and treats at one of the fire trucks.

Check out the Facebook group page, Fruitvale Fire Fighters Society for more details and information.

For those of you who are not familiar with the organization, The Fruitvale Fire Fighters Society is a non-profit that was officially created in August 2009. Fruitvale Fire Fighter Society members believe strongly in being active partners within the community.

Since January 2006, the group has been actively fundraising and supporting individuals and families throughout the Beaver Valley who are experiencing a crisis by donating close to $21,000 to help cover costs of such things as hotel, food, and transportation to Children’s Hospital in Vancouver or medical treatments in Kelowna or other medical facilities.

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Meanwhile Trail will also be hosting its Easter Egg Hunt on Friday at 11 a.m. at Gyro Park. There will be hotdogs and hamburgers available for purchase, hosted by the Trail Kiwanis Club. All proceeds go to the Canadian Tire JumpStart initiative. Coffee and hot chocolate also available.

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Stuart is rallying fellow outdoor enthusiasts to join her fight to keep the gate open Thursday, when a group plans to gather at the Teck gate at 4 p.m. to photograph the number of people who are saddened by the news.

She agrees management of the property needs to be tightened but feels this shouldn’t come at a cost to those who use it responsibly.

There is also a real upset from the motorized public who watch others on horseback or foot enjoy the grounds while they remain shut out.

“If we have more surveillance down there then maybe we can catch the people who are destroying the property,”

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she said. “And it’s not even young kids that are destroying the property, it’s people (adults) driving down there and throwing garbage on the land.”

For the most part, she said riders stick to the trails that have been there for years.

“But when people go and rip up a creek, then it’s understandable, ” she added, “that’s when it’s time to put your foot down.”

Stuart has started a Facebook community forum, “Closing Fort Shepherd Info,” where many ideas and memorable stories are generating.

She suggests closing the gate over night and having someone patrol and document license plate numbers during the day.

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Use of the area by allterrain vehicles, motorbikes, and off-road trucks has increased considerably over the past decade.

Though there are signs warning motorists to stick to the main road, some people have ignored access boundaries, and it has resulted in trails, gullies and eroded land, dispersion of noxious weed species and disturbance to wildlife through human intrusion and noise.

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people jumped the gun and started trespassing three weeks early. There was evidence of mud bogging, burning donuts and other off-road damage mainly from trucks but also from quads and dirtbikes, according to Rick Fillmore, land use committee chair for TWA. When the last disturbance was witnessed pre-season, years of misuse were brought to a head.

The property that runs from the first gate down to the Waneta Border Crossing will remain closed until TWA secures grant funding to update its signage, surveillance and possibly a map to better manage the property. The organization would like the cooperation of all off-road vehicle clubs at this time.

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Cranbrook council eyeing deer cull permit TRE VOR CR AWLEY Cranbrook Townsman

The City of Cranbrook is pledging to continue it’s partnership with the province and the urban deer management advisory committee as it moves in to 2016, after receiving an annual urban deer management report for the 2015 calendar year on Monday evening.

The city is also continuing to monitor the urban deer population numbers and aggressive deer complaints within city limits and is not ruling out the possibility of another cull in the fall, according to councillor Tom Shypitka.

“As far as deer management is concerned with the City of Cranbrook, we’re allowed so many tools and we try to utilize those tools. We’ve been informed by the public that there is a problem in the city.

Some don’t agree, but most do, so the tools afforded by the province are limited.

One of them is culling, we’re actually going through a deer relocation project right now, which is seemingly successful; we don’t have all the data in, but when we do, we’ll make it public and let everybody know.”

Shypitka put a motion forward asking city staff to look at applying for another wildlife permit for the fall, to add another option for population management if the city so decides to carry out another cull in the future.

“As far as the motion I was putting forward today on another application for the deer cull—yes, I’d like to see an application go through,” Shypitka said, after the meeting. “Whether we act on it or not is up to us, I guess.

“I think it’s important that we use the tools that are afforded to us, because they might not be here forever; that’s what I’m hearing right now, is that culling might not be available in the future.

“We’ve got an issue, we got to take care of it.”

Councillor Isaac Hockley noted during the meeting that the discussion on applying for a wildlife permit should be held by the Urban Deer Management Committee first, before the city decides on pursuing the permit.

The Urban Deer Management annual report highlighted initiatives such as data monitoring, including deer counts and complaints, and a deer cull—carried out in late 2015—carried out by the city over the year.

The city culled 20 deer—13 mule deer and seven white-tail deer—from Dec. 1, 2015 to Jan. 13, 2016 using clover traps to trap the deer and a bolt gun to euthanize them. Total cost of the cull was $10,374, translating into $494 per animal and all the meat butchered locally and distributed to the food bank, Street Angels and the Salvation Army.

Snowboarder dies at Fernie Alpine Resort BRYN C AT TON Fernie Free Press

The Elk Valley RCMP have confirmed the death of a female snowboarder at Fernie Alpine Resort over the weekend.

On Mar. 20, around 1:30 p.m. the RCMP responded to a call from FAR that a female snowboarder and a male companion has been involved in an accident.

The incident occurred in a permanently closed area adjacent to the Polar Peak chair lift.

“The pair had entered into an area of

cliff bands and was attempting to traverse what was described as an impassable cliff face when both fell.

“The woman fell approximately 130 metres, and sustained fatal injuries.

Fernie Alpine Resort ski patrollers were alerted and attended the location and rescued the pair. Patrollers attended to the unresponsive female and provided first aid, she was then transported to the Fernie hospital where she was pronounced deceased. The man sustained a broken arm in the fall,” said the RCMP in a press release.

“Our thoughts and feelings go out to the family and friends to those that are involved. Without a doubt it is a tragedy,” said Resorts of the Canadian Rockies Senior Vice President of Products and Maintenance, Neil Jackson, to The Free Press.

While the BC Coroners Office has not released the identity of the snowboarder, the investigation has confirmed it to be a 20-year-old female from Alberta.

The RCMP told The Free Press they are continuing their investigation, but have ruled out foul play as a cause.

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Revival Boutique donated $1540 to three local non-profits on Monday as part of its community initiative inspired by the Margaret Mead quote, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; it’s the only thing that ever has.” Individuals who bring their clothes to Revival Boutique can choose to forgo payment and instead donate to one of three organizations.

Revival will then contribute 50 per cent from the sale of those clothes to either Trail Family & Individual Resource Centre Society (FAIR), the Rossland Youth Action Network (YAN) or Equine-Assisted Learning (EAL). Pictured here: Zabrina Nelson, owner of Revival Boutique, presents a cheque for $700 to Gail Lavery, executive director of FAIR.

Did you own or hold foreign property at any time in the year with a total cost of more than CAN $100,000?”

CRA would like to know.

This question has been on the T1 tax return since 1997 but until recently, didn’t appear important. About three years ago the government began to pay attention to taxpayers’ answers in order to ferret out tax revenue that perhaps it’s missing.

It’s the aggregate value of all the qualifying foreign assets that determines whether or not the $100,000 threshold is exceeded, and if exceeded, the answer is “yes” to the question.

This is not the reporting of income made outside of Canada.

Rather, form T1135 requires the disclosure of foreign owned assets, assets that may or may not be earning income.

Such things as funds

OBITUARIES & FUNERAL NOTICES

Robert Roy Birkenes

June 18, 1930 – March 12, 2016 It is with much sadness that the family announces Bob’s passing at the age of 85. Bob was born in Armada, Alberta. In the early 1950s he made his way to B.C. where he met his future wife Delphine, and was a loving husband for 61 years (a great team). And also greatly missed by his children Karen (Jagtar), Jo-Ann, Don, Laurie, and Richard; his grandchildren Shinder (Melvin), Alamjeet; great-

grandchildren Summer, Alaniya, and Monroe. He will be sadly missed and remembered by many nieces, extended family members, and friends throughout British Columbia, Alberta, New Brunswick, and the States. Predeceased by his parents – Herbert and Mary – and his siblings and their spouses; Ronnie (Maude), Len (Esther), Vic (Judy); nephew (Wayne); niece (Lynn) and many other relatives.

Bob was a long-time employee at Teck Cominco and an avid union member. This union involvement continued in his retirement years through his participation in the Steelworkers Organization of Active Retirees (SOAR).

Growing up as a farmer’s son, his love for the land became a part of him. This resulted – in his adult life – in hobbies such as gardening and beekeeping. The abundance of produce and honey was given away many times, and was in keeping with his generous nature. Giving back to the church, community, and helping wherever possible was a core part of his values. This included being actively involved with the Boy Scouts of Canada for 21 years.

Even before it became trendy, he was incorporating the 3Rs of reduce, reuse, and recycle into his daily life.

His motto for life was “Everything is impossible until someone does it”.

The words “can’t be done” weren’t part of his vocabulary.

The family is extremely grateful to Dr. Phillips (and his staff), Dr. Goel, the various specialists, the nurses, care aides, and support staff at KBR Hospital. Special thank you for the care provided by the 3rd Floor nurses and others during Bob’s palliative stay.

We are comforted by the visits by Pastor Ken Siemens both to Bob and family; and the kind words (spoken and written) plus visits by neighbours, friends, relatives, and church family. Our parents’ neighbours are a special bunch.

They always have each other’s backs.

Bob’s faith in the Lord has given us comfort that we will be together again. A service will be held at Trail Alliance Church at 3365 Laburnum Drive on July 16th at 10:30am. In lieu of flowers, please either donate to a charity of your choice or do a random act of kindness.

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Tax Tips & Pits deposited in foreign bank accounts, shares in foreign companies, interests in foreign trusts, foreign bonds, units in offshore mutual funds, real estate, including vacant land, and in some cases even artwork, jewelry and vehicles.

For cash type investments, the value is determined by the highest value anytime during the year, not on the last day of the year, so moving or removing funds prior to year end cannot be used to prevent the reporting.

For capital assets, the value is based on its original purchase cost plus improvements over time. The inclusion on the T1135 is not determined by the current market value.

Exceptions?

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Assets to operate a foreign business are exempt, as are personal property type assets strictly used for personal use.

Having said this, if vacation property purchased for more than $100,000 is rented, the Canadian owner must not have an expectation of profit. Rental revenue must only offset expenses associated with that property.

Otherwise, the property has to be declared on the T1135.

When it comes to joint ownership of an asset, the value is divided according to each person’s original investment.

So if an asset purchase was $250,000 with equal investment from both purchasers, both would report their $125,000 share on form T1135.

However, if one person had invested $200,000 that person would report $200,000 on form T1135 while the other person wouldn’t have to report their $50,000 investment since it’s under the $100,000.

And being married or living common-law doesn’t automatically split things 50/50. If both partners aren’t listed as owners, the value remains 100 per cent with the listed partner.

For example, if a $150,000 condo is purchased and only one partner is listed as the owner, the condo is reported by that partner.

But if both partners are listed as owners, then at $75,000 each, neither partner has to report the condo.

But remember, it’s the total value of all foreign assets.

And if the total value is over $100,000 but less than $250,000, a simplified method of reporting is offered on form T1135 … thankfully.

Finally, form T1135 foreign investment reporting is required not only of individuals, but also corporations.

Ron Clarke has his MBA and is a business owner in Trail, providing accounting and tax services. Email him at ron.clarke@JBSbiz.ca.

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Overcall on two spades

ast week, one got into a preempted auction with a weaker hand than normal because of an excellent long suit.

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This hand also occurred on Bridge Base Online and is another example of a weaker hand getting in to a pre-empted auction.

This hand is two-suited.

Good things may happen if one gets into the bidding. One usually bids aggressively with two-suited hands with fair-quality suits. Hence the expression, “Sixfive, come alive.”

The Bidding: South opens a vulnerable weak two in Hearts. The suit is a two-loser suit at the most, and the hand is the weakest in strength

that can be opened at this vulnerability.

West overcalls Two Spades hoping the sixth card will make up for the ratty Spade suit. A suit with the King is still worth a lead-direct bid at the very least.

North raise partner to game. Using the rule of 17, he really only needs 13 points of cover cards to make game because he has four trump. He has 15 points in cover cards, but not enough for slam even though it is very close. When partner pre-empts, side suit Queens and Jacks are usually not useful.

East raises to Four Spades. South passes because he has nothing new to say. One never tells the same story twice. If some of his points were in the opponent’s suit he would double because any points in Spades are better used on defense than offense.

North goes to Five Hearts because he has more than he has already shown. The Spade Ace will be useful because partner would not

have pre-empted with a void.

Opening Lead: South would have doubled Four Spades with Spade values so a Spade lead is safe. A Heart lead would also be fine.

A Diamond lead is not a good lead because of the tenace.

Result: Five Hearts makes for +650. Is Five Spades a good sacrifice? Yes, West will lose two Spades, one Heart, two Diamonds and no Clubs, but it will require two short hand ruffs and South will duck the Diamond Ten which will lose to the Queen.

If South rises with the Diamond Ace, West will lose one Diamond and could be down 300.

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Vets get federal cash, but critics wonder will it make life better

C ANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA - The new federal budget showers the country’s veterans with cash, but questions lingered Wednesday about the details and just how far the money would go towards improving the lives of former soldiers.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s fiscal plan delivers $5.6 billion - $3.7 billion booked in the current fiscal year - for better programs and services for the most critically injured former military members. The money will be spread out over decades, but federal accounting rules require all of it to be recorded now.

It raises the lumpsum disability award next year for wounds suffered in the line of duty to a maximum of $360,000 from the current $310,000 - a rate far below other countries such as Britain, where the payout is closer to $1 million.

Mike Blais, of Canadian Veterans Advocacy, said he remains unhappy, and will continue to describe it as the “chump-sum award,” a phrase he coined when the Conservatives were in power.

“It’s no better than a workers compensation settlement,” said Blais.

“I’ve said you can’t compare this to (cases involving) negligence

on the job site.”

He said the award should be equal to what a veteran would have received in a lifetime pension, which was the system until Parliament unanimously agreed in 2006 to overhaul the system and deliver pain and suffering settlements with lump-sum awards.

As a veteran injured in the 1990s, Blais receives a lifetime pension that he said will be greater than what soldiers wounded on the battlefield in Afghanistan receive.

“People like me who’ve been on the old Pension Act will make four times more in pain and suffering

than guys like Jody Mitic.”

Mitic, a former master corporal, lost both his legs in Kandahar in 2007 before going on to become an Ottawa city councillor, author and prominent veterans advocate.

“That’s not fair,” Blais said. “It is fundamentally wrong.”

The Liberals promised last year to either revert back to the previous pension-for-life system or provide soldiers a choice between that or the lump-sum option, but there was no sign of such changes in Tuesday’s budget.

Between what was announced Tuesday and the hundreds of millions of dollars

worth of changes introduced last year by the former Conservative government, an enormous sum of money is now being made available to ex-soldiers.

Veterans ombudsman Guy Parent said this is the time to start gathering data, focusing on outcomes and determining whether there’s been a meaningful impact on lives.

“We bring in new benefits (and) we improve the existing ones without necessarily looking at what the impact is on the overall situation on the families and the veterans themselves,” Parent said.

“Do we want veterans to live at the

poverty line, or is just above the poverty line good enough? I don’t think so because we owe them a debt that’s way above that.... We keep piling up things until there’s a lot of benefits there. But do they meet the needs?”

The treatment of veterans became a lightning-rod issue for the Harper government and a political embarassment for a party that prided it-

self on supporting the troops, particularly when a group of Afghan veterans launched a class-action lawsuit claiming discrimination with the new system.

The case has been on hold since last year when the Conservative government embarked on a series of changes meant to address the inequities and rebuild bridges with the veterans community.

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THE C ANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - A woman who pitched two cups of coffee at a man when he confronted her for parking in a handicapped parking spot outside a Tim Hortons has received a police warning after a video of the incident garnered international attention.

Toronto police spokesman Mark Pugash said Wednesday the videographer, Ryan Favro, had declined to press a criminal complaint but officers still paid a visit to the woman.

“We’ve cautioned her for assault and parking in a disabled spot, which is really what we can do under the circumstances,” Pugash said.

Pugash declined to name the woman.

Favro, in the interim, was trying to put the genie back in the Internet bottle.

In a Facebook posting, he explains why he removed his YouTube video - shot Monday - which has been viewed more than a million times and shared by tens of thousands.

“I don’t want to grind this woman into the ground,” Favro says. “There has to be a way for her to recover.”

The video, still widely available and posted by outlets across Canada and as far away as the U.K. and New Zealand, sparked howls of social media outrage, with many condemning her as

a “brat,” among other things.

Favro, however, said some of the comments directed at the woman, who appears to be in her 20s, went too far.

“Her behaviour and attitude may be unsavoury but that does not warrant the many comments being posted inciting real violence against her,” Favro said.

Repeated requests to interview the videographer went unanswered.

Regardless, Favro’s efforts to pull back the video demonstrated the difficulties of tamping down on a video gone viral.

“Unfortunately, once it’s on the Internet, it’s hard to take it down,” said his Facebook friend, Natasha Marie. “Yes, you can delete your video on YouTube, but this video has been posted on other news outlets.”

Laura Dixon, in a Facebook comment, said Favro was wrong to try to undo what he had done.

“If the guy was feeling remorse for publishing it, perhaps he should not have posted it online and just gone to the police,” Dixon wrote.

“I agree her language is appalling, she is lazy and inconsiderate, however, this will remain with her for the rest of her life... my father is handicapped and relies on those spaces as do millions of others.”

Online payback for girlfriend’s cheating costs Manitoba man time in jail

THE C ANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg man has been given 90 days in jail after admitting he posted nude photos of his ex-girlfriend on Facebook in revenge for cheating on him with a co-worker.

The man - who can’t be named to protect the victim’s identity - was sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty to publishing and distributing intimate images without the woman’s consent.

He admitted to posting three explicit photos of the woman to the co-worker’s Facebook page for up to two hours last March - just weeks after the Criminal Code offence came into force.

It’s not clear how many people may have seen them, or whether any copies of the images were made. The judge rejected the man’s bid for a conditional penalty that

would have allowed him to remain free in the community.

He will serve his sentence intermittently on weekends and will be placed on supervised probation, which includes a three-year ban on using the Internet, except for work purposes.

“Ultimately, the eventual harm here is unknown,” Crown prosecutor Nadine Vasas told court. “There was an understanding these (images) were to remain within the relationship.”

The woman previously told court she would often read about relationship “horror stories” on social media but never imagined she would become a victim following the end of her year-long relationship with the man.

“I never thought someone who once loved me could do something so degrad-

ing,” she said. “My life has been turned upside down. I’ve lost all self-respect.”

She described how several people have told her over the past year they “know me from somewhere” - which always leaves her feeling as if they must have seen the photos.

Defence lawyer Karl Gowenlock said the breakup left his client drowning his sorrows in alcohol and hard drugs, which led him to committing an act he instantly regretted.

“He feels genuine remorse and shame.

Prior to this, this is probably the last person anyone would expect to see coming before the courts,” he said.

Provincial court Judge Carena Roller said a strong message must be sent that this type of criminal behaviour will have serious consequences.

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Social media can make victims out of everyone

T

he recent Trail Times story regarding posting on Facebook is still very fresh in my mind and what started out as a warning about social media posts has taken on a life of its own.

Of the many sad parts of this story, the one that stands out is that how all parties have become victims in this instance.

Once in the hands of unscrupulous commentators, the Wild West mentality kicks in that focuses on “shoot first, ask questions later.”

It doesn’t work in real life and it certainly doesn’t work on social media.

The fact that everyone became a victim in this scenario isn’t one that is lost in the newsroom or in society in general.

Yet the sordid situation appears to arise every day.

On Wednesday a video of a Toronto woman tossing a coffee at a man for asking her why she parked in the handicap parking spot, despite no apparent disability, went viral.

Needless to say the comment section ran amuck until someone wrote that the woman must now feel terrible reading all the horrible comments that people had for her.

Again, no one The thought of comes out clean anything going onwhen you step into line without the the realm of social obligatory negative media. comments is virIs there an easy tually impossible answer? There never nowadays. is when the area is as There couldn’t uncontrolled as the be a better examWorld Wide Web. ple of a story we We can talk until wrote at Christmas GUY we’re blue in the face time about poabout responsibly lice officers and using this technothe Canadian Tire Times in Trail logical tool but in owner opening his the end, it reverts to the old issue doors so the cops could get a few of drinking and driving. There will toys for kids they had removed always be a few idiots who will try from a home on Christmas Eve. it without thinking of the conseIt didn’t take long for the vitquences. riol to start spewing with people The only difference with social questioning why the police had media is that there isn’t just one the nerve to remove children from drunk on the road but a billion a home on Christmas Eve. Or acpeople using this highway. cusing the cops of over-stepping I’m not going to wade into the their authority to ruin a family’s local issue. I’ll leave that up to the Christmas. people that continue to comment Most rational people would unonline to share their thoughts derstand the police were doing about commenting online. their job and went above and beYou can see how the circle never yond the call of duty to make ends.

Christmas a little more pleasant You can blame the media, you for some children. can blame the police, you can But that doesn’t matter on social blame anyone you want but that’s media. Rational and clear thoughts all it is – blaming. are too often derided. So what’s the

BERTRAND

point?

While I never post online comments, because (a) who cares? And (b) I couldn’t be bothered unless it was to wish someone a Happy Birthday; I do read some of the comments.

I learned something new last week called Godwin’s Law. Basically it asserts that in this day and age almost any conversation on social media will denigrate to the point where someone or something will be compared to Hitler or Nazis.

That’s how low the discourse has become online between commentators. It’s so prevalent that someone can actually track the tone and it will inevitably end up with name calling as a perverse way to make a point.

I applaud the CBC’s move to make people more accountable for their online commenting but perhaps it won’t be long before everyone follows the path set out by some major newspapers which have disabled commenting altogether.

It’s sad that something called “social media” has become so antisocial.

Guy Bertrand is the managing editor of the Trail Times

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Facebook episode highlights real issue I am writing about the recent public smearing of an individual who was “trying to enjoy a cup of coffee” at McDonalds. I am particularly annoyed with the police in their handling of the situation because we, as a society, are bombarded daily by reports of women seeking help for victimization issues, and they are routinely disregarded by police.

However, in this current situation, not only did the police take the time to deal with the complaint, but they engaged the media to help protect the man’s interests.

So countless women are left unassisted with no respite sometimes for years, but this man, inconvenienced for less than a week, has received high levels of police assistance.

Some things to note: 1 in 3 girls, ages 2 to 18 are sexually harassed/assaulted/abused (reported cases only); adding in unreported cases, the number is higher still, and for years… no decades… no centuries, females who try to defend themselves through “socially acceptable” means have been shamed, blamed, discredited, ignored, etc.

There even used to be a medi-

cal condition called “female hysteria” often invoked in such cases to have women committed so they could not defend themselves. And let’s not forget the Salem Witch Trials, also exploited to silence thousands, if not millions, of women.

Now, there is finally a way for women to speak out “unassisted” and maybe it is not a gentle tool, but it is up to men to present in society as absolutely above reproach lest they get caught in the same web that has ensnared women for centuries. It worked in Egypt to end a violent dictatorship, so why not use it to end violence against women.

These girls were uncomfortable for a very real reason and they do not have to justify their actions at all.

There should not have been any feedback from police whatsoever to help this man in the same way that women get no help from police to deal with harassment. I imagine those girls go to McDonald’s and other places often, but I doubt they take pictures of men and post them every time and every place they go. Something was different about this incident.

Of course, I don’t know what happened as I was not there, but we as a society should not be naive about the pervasiveness of this problem.

Perhaps this man was victimized, perhaps not, but if he truly is innocent, then he should feel good that he helped to empower two young women who felt unsafe and perhaps he has unwittingly helped to prevent a future assault from happening to a young girl somewhere. Perhaps this situation will make other “real” pedophiles/abusers think twice.

This type of exploitation will never cease to exist until the veil of secrecy is torn off.

At the very least, the level of service provided by police should be equal for both genders. In fact, it should be heavily weighted to the needs of females since females are victimized far more often than men. And for those who would say I’d feel differently if it happened to me, I want to point out that a few years ago, I, too, was unjustly slandered via social media and I have not died from it.

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Add retirement to the discussion agenda

An editorial from the Hamilton Spectator Thanks to the still relatively new and activist government in Ottawa, Canadians are having overdue serious discussions on a number of subjects. Physicianassisted death. Decriminalization and legalization of marijuana.

Gender equity in politics and business. Canada’s role in world conflict.

That’s plenty, but there’s another big, serious discussion we need to have. Retirement.

The most significant thing about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s announcement last week was not that he will reverse the Conservative decision to raise Old Age Security eligibility from 65 to 67. That’s important.

It was an ideological decision made by Stephen Harper without consultation and due consideration.

But it wasn’t scheduled to kick in until 2023. And while most recipients in these uncertain times appreciate their monthly OAS cheque, it’s $570.52 a month, or a bit more than $6,800 a year.

That amount isn’t going to make or break most retirement plans.

When added to maximum CPP benefits -- $1,092.50 monthly -that equals an annual income of just under $20,000.

No, the most significant thing Trudeau said was that we need to have a serious discussion about retirement. Harper’s decision to raise the eligibility age took place in the absence of that discussion, which is one reason it was so distasteful. The Conservative equation on this, which Trudeau rightly calls “simplistic,” was that since people are living longer and are generally in better health, many would like to continue to work. (Aside from anything else, this doesn’t factor in the number of people who would like to retire but cannot afford to, one of the reasons the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan is needed and welcome.)

But this is a much bigger discussion than simply age of eligibility for OAS, CPP or any other benefit. It’s about the kind of society we want.

The widely-held view that

people should work longer if they want to is a good example.

What does that say about Canada’s stubborn and worsening youth unemployment problem?

Joblessness among young workers is double the rate for adults. Ontario’s jobless rate for workers 15 to 24 is 17 per cent, higher than the national provincial youth average of 14 per cent or so. In some sectors -- teaching comes to mind -- older workers remaining or returning to the workplace is one reason young workers are being shut out.

We’re not advocating a return to mandatory retirement.

But surely we need a balanced discussion that considers broad ramifications, and not just for older workers and retirees. The future for young workers is equally critical, especially since they are the key to economic sustainability.

It’s complicated, but this discussion needs to take place and soon, before more decisions are made without considering the bigger picture.

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It was a long-time coming, but Re/Max defeated the Arlington 5-4 in the Trail Commercial Hockey League final last week to win the championship.

Re/Max captures TCHL title

BY TIMES STAFF Following years of futility, Re/Max finally raised the Trail Commercial Hockey League’s championship trophy last week by skating to a thrilling 5-4 victory over Arlington.

Re/Max needed three games to oust Allstar in the first-to-four-points semifinal series, while Arlington dispatched regular season champs OK Tire in two straight, setting up the one game winner-takes-all final.

Re/Max’s Graham Proulx led the realtors with two goals and two assists including setting up Thomas Abenante’s game winning goal with 5:10 left to play in the third period to clinch the championship.

The goal looked like the insurance marker as Re/Max took a 5-3 lead with time winding down in the third period, but Arlington scored one more in the final minute just to make things interesting.

The back-and-forth match saw the Big A jump out to an early lead when TCHL leading scorer Pat Iannone beat Chris McIsaac on a pretty set up from Joey

Baker at 18:45 mark of the first period.

But Re/Max struck back 65 seconds later on a Paul Barclay goal, then struck again a minute and 40 seconds later. Proulx finished a nice passing play from Riley Deadmarsh and Devyn Hill, and wired one by Arlington goalie, Eric Volpatti, for his first on the night to take a 2-1 lead.

Not to be outdone, the Arlington’s persistence paid off as Matt Proulx tied the game, sending it even into the second period. With chances by both teams thwarted time and again by McIsaac and Volpatti, the realtors finally broke through to take the lead with 1:30 to play in the middle frame, when Graham Proulx converted an Abenante and Hill set up to make it 3-2.

In the final stanza, the Arlington again replied when Baker took a Jeremy Robinson pass and tied the game at three at the 19:18 mark.

Re/Max’s Dyne Parker, however, put his team back on top at 15:56 with assists going to Abenante and

Graham Proulx.

The Arlington had a golden opportunity to tie it when Abenante was sent off for holding midway through the period, but a strident penalty kill and solid goaltending foiled the ‘A’s’ opportunity.

After Abenante put the realtors up 5-3, the ‘A’ pulled their goalie, and Robinson fired one by McIsaac on an Iannone set up with just under a minute left to bring the Arlington within one.

Re/Max weathered a late storm by the A’s top line in the dying seconds, and celebrated a very satisfying and welldeserved victory.

The realtors had been snakebitten in the TCHL final the past five years losing to Allstar last season, Arlington in the 2014 final, and OK Tire in the 2013, 2012, and 2011 final matches.

Re/Max’s Graham Proulx was awarded the playoff MVP. Regular season MVP went to Pat Iannone, with Best Goalie honours going to Rocky Dixon of OK Tire, while Re/Max’s Dallas Stanton took home Best Defenceman.

The quest for the Bill Heichert Memorial Trophy came down to the wire with the Alvin Caron rink taking on the Ernie Brown foursome in the Trail Mens Retirees Curling championship match at the Trail Curling Club on Friday.

But preceding the big game, the playdowns of the four session winners for the chance to play for the championship trophy had to be determined and it was Ernie Brown versus Dan Horan, and Tom Hall taking on Alvin Caron.

Team Brown set an aggressive tone for the game with a steal of four in the first end against team Horan. Team Horan rebounded quickly taking three in the second. The turning point of the game came in the third end, when Brown scored three. With Brown in full-defence mode neither team could score more than a single. Make the final 10-4 for team Ernie Brown.

In a tight, well curled game between team Tom Hall and Alvin Caron, the turning point was the

fourth end. With Caron sitting three, Tom was a little heavy on a tap back that did not curl. Alvin made a nice draw to the eightfoot for four. Team Caron, up one coming home with hammer, did not have to throw the last rock, winning the game 8-6.

In Friday’s final match, strong play from the Caron team forced Brown to a nice hit and stick against three in the first. In the second end, Caron was a bit heavy on a draw for three and scored only two. After a few clean ends, they mixed it up in the sixth. Mel Johnson, team Brown’s third, made a perfect come around freeze on the button that turned out to be the steal point.

In the seventh, a nice hit and roll behind cover by Caron forced Brown to a light weight takeout that did not curl enough and only scared shot rock, giving Alvin a draw for two.

Going into the eighth end with the score Caron 5 and Brown 4 with hammer it was anyone’s game.

The pressure of the game start-

ed to show on everyone. Johnson attempted to remove an opposition guard, but it jammed one of his own stones. Dan Ashman just missed a cross house double.

After a hit and stick for Caron, Brown had a hit to sit one, but his soft takeout over curled and just grazed shot rock.

With nowhere to hide Caron tried to split the house and sit two, but came up short of the house. Brown chose to draw and needed full eight foot or better to force another end, however, he came up just short of the rings. Make the final 6-4 for team Caron.

After the awarding of the Bill Heichert Memorial Trophy to team Alvin Caron, a special Life Time Membership Trophy was awarded to Cliff Tyson. Tyson has been the Secretary Treasurer for 20-plus years, and with his wife and daughter in attendance for the banquet, Cliff was speechless after the standing ovation.

Hope to see you all next year, Good Curling.

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The Alvin Caron rink won the prestigious Bill Heichert Memorial trophy, the symbol of Trail Retirees curling supremacy with a 6-4 victory over the Ernie Brown rink last week. From left : President Cal McKerracher, Mrs. Hatti Heichert, Skip Alvin Caron, Third Dan Ashman, Second Lorne Babcock, Lead Rick Georgetti, and fifth man Brian Powell.

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Results of the TRAIL MENS CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP

Kotyk rink peaks at right time

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The Rob Vandermeer rink won the Beaver Valley Mens Curling Club championship on Saturday defeating the Jason Avis rink in the final. From left: Mike Walker, Jason Avis, Rob Vandermeer, and Eric Hawkins.

CHAMPION LAKES GOLF

Early opening for Champion

BY JIM BAILEY Times Sports Editor

The Champion Lakes Golf and Country Club will set a record for its earliest opening when golfers tee off on Saturday.

Despite a heavy snowfall this winter, warm weather in February and March has the 9-hole championship course ready for play three weeks prior to its expected opening date in April.

“The course looks really good,” said General Manager and Club

Professional Kevin Nesbitt. “All the greens look great. All the snow is basically gone, just a little bit on three and a little patch on five, but nothing on the greens or tees.”

Like the Birchbank Golf Course in Trail, the winter was kind to the Fruitvale course and players will have all regulation tees and greens in play.

Morning frost will mean tee off times will likely go between 10 and 11 a.m. on a first-come-first-serve basis and no tee-times booked until the weather is more predictable.

But the spring thaw means deals on pricing as well, with 25 per cent off for early season golfers. Players can practice up for Saturday by hitting the driving range, which opened on Wednesday.

“It’s open about three weeks early, I think it’s the earliest we’ve ever had, it’s usually open between Apr. 10 and 15,” said Nesbitt. “The weather next week is suppose to be really good too, so we’re in great shape.”

For more info, call Champion Lakes Golf Club at 367-7001.

BY TIMES CONTRIBUTOR The 2015-16 Trail Mens Curling League wound up this past Saturday at the Trail Curling Club with the Club Championship final followed by the all day Hams n Bacon ‘Spiel.

The 10-team double round-robin regular season, plus two exchange nights with the Rossland Mens Club, was dominated by the Brian Lemoel rink, who managed only one loss and a tie threw the long season, to sit atop the standings with 33 points. Brian was supported by third Rick Brown, second Alfie Semenoff and lead Dave Kendrick.

Coming in a respectable second was the Les Lepine Rink, with Alvin Caron third, Bill van Beek second and Terry Bublitz lead.

The Club Championship Final had the Lemoel rink pitted against the Larry

Kotyk rink. Lemoel stepped out to the early lead, but the Kotyk rink, with Pat Burke third, Dave Muir second and lead Randy Workman, who always seems to peak in March, roared back to be three up coming home, running Team Lemoel out of rocks and winning their fourth Club Championship in the last five years.

In the Hams N Bacon ‘Spiel, the Les Lepine rink was first in the A followed by the Ron Johnston rink, while on the B side, the Larry Kotyk rink came out on top, with the Ken Lunde rink took second.

A big thank-you to Grant Gariepy for doing all the lunch and dinner cooking on Saturday.

See everyone back in the Curling Rink next fall, with the Kootenay Savings Super League starting in September, while all other Trail Curling Leagues start in October. New Curlers always welcome.

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Scripture quotations are from the RSV unless otherwise noted.

“You know nothing at all; you do not understand that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation should not perish” (John 11:50).

This is the prophecy of Caiaphas, the high priest, but he intended it in a different sense. He meant to say that it is better that Jesus be put to death so that he does not continue to stir up the people, which will cause the Romans to come and destroy the nation.

But without realizing it, Caiaphas spoke the truth about Jesus, and the evangelist points this out, saying, “He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation, and not for the nation only, but to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad” (John 11:51-52).

This is what we are celebrating now, the Paschal Mystery of Jesus Christ, his death to save not only the Jews, but the entire world.

“He will save his people from their sins” (Matt. 1:21), said the angel to St. Joseph before Jesus was born. But, as John points out today and will repeat again in his first letter, Jesus will not only save his own people but the whole world from their sins: “He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world” (1 John 2:2 NKJV). St. Paul said it quite simply and clearly: “Christ died for our sins” (1 Cor. 5:3).

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begins this evening with first Vespers of Palm Sunday. Yet the Paschal Mystery, the death of Christ to save us from our sins, is something that we celebrate not only at this time of year but all the time, for it is the center of our faith. Our faith is a faith of salvation, of redemption from sin and from the depressing suffering of guilt. By the sacrifice of Christ on the cross God liberates us from this suffering and gives us a new life in the light, with all our sins forgiven and our crippling, debilitating sense of guilt removed from us.

This is not something of only once in a lifetime, but rather it is a daily affair, for every day we fall into new sins, and every day we feel guilty and depressed because of our new sins, even small ones, even sins of thought. So every day we have to come to Christ anew and beg him with faith to forgive, justify, and save us from our sins. And he does this for us by his grace, through our faith, because of his death on the cross to make reparation for our sins, without any work of our own, “for we hold that a man is justified by faith apart from works of law” (Rom. 3:28). “For no human being will be justified in his sight by works of the law” (Rom. 3:20).

Jesus Christ “gave himself for our sins” (Gal. 1:4). He “gave himself as a ransom for all” (1 Tim. 2:6). In him we find freedom from that which enslaves and darkens our spirit, namely sin and the sadness of guilt.

But now Christ has, by his death, saved us, that is, he has given us a new life in the light so that we might live from now on for him who died for us to save us. “One has died for all; therefore all have died. And he died for all, that those who live might live no longer for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised” (2 Cor. 5:14-15). So we should live from now on for him who died for us to free us from sin and guilt and give us a new life in the light with him.

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Seeds put us in touch with goodness

“

Look, Granny. Basil sprouting!” exclaimed my granddaughter as she took me to see the tiny seedlings on the table. Earlier, we had wandered around looking for sprouting things.

We marveled at tulips poking through the leaf mulch and the blossoms of the hellebore Lenten Rose. The hellebore is the first thing to bloom in my garden and I am always tickled when it blooms before Easter.

A few days later, my husband and I took our granddaughter to Seedy Saturday, a nationwide movement that promotes the cultivation and preservation of heirloom and endangered varieties of LOUISE food crops.

Our local event had a kids’ planting table, Everyday Theology and before our granddaughter planted her bean seed, she cradled it in her tiny hand as if she were in the presence of something holy.

I have a healthy respect for seeds. Coming from an Italian background, I grew up with a vegetable garden. It was a riot of plants that produced abundant crops, many of which my father planted from the seeds he saved annually.

From seed to table, crunchy carrots, juicy tomatoes, meaty roman beans, tender lettuce and bitter radicchio tantalized (or tortured) my taste buds and nourished my body.

I used to wonder why my father kept seeds when it would have been simpler and tidier to buy them.

But, keeping seeds was a symbolic way to stay connected with the land that my father’s family had farmed for generations in the old country. The seeds kept us rooted.

I shared some of this with Mohawk seed keeper Terrylynn Brant, who sees an intimate connection between the seed, ancestors and land. From an early age, she was mindful of the importance of keeping the seeds of her ancestors, some of which, she told me, go back to time immemorial.

For Brant, a seed is a sacred thing and a metaphor for our innate dignity and goodness. The Creator, she said, has given seeds an inherent responsibility “to continue who they are and what they are” and the seed will always do its best to honor that responsibility.

Brant applies this concept to people. “The Creator sent us here as beautiful, perfect beings. He intended us to grow beautiful, to be compassionate with our fellow man, to share everything we have, to love one another. And yet, we are the ones who mess that up…We should look at the seed, and we should be reminded every time we hold it in our hands what is pure, what is good, what is right.”

There is a genius to a seed that we miss when we lose contact with the soil and our food source.

Sowing a seed, nurturing its growth, and plucking its fruit off the vine does more than feed our bodies; it nourishes our spirit.

When we wonder at basil sprouting or feel our heart leap up at the blooming of a Lenten Rose, we touch the goodness inherent in our selves and intuit the possibility for our own transformation and that of the world.

Trail BC resident Louise McEwan is a freelance writer with degrees in English and Theology.

Her blog is www.faithcolouredglasses.blogspot.com.

Contact her at mcewan.lou@gmail.com

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whether or not to comply. It is not ing thigh-high stockings. your decision, so please Some guys (like stop tormenting yourme) have varicose veins. self. They can block her My doctor told me to if they choose, and you wear hose that support can ask them to do so, my health issues and albut it’s up to them. ways asks if I’m wearing If Donna is calling them when I see him. your house, phoning There are companies your husband at work, that specialize in such sending constant emails hosiery. My wife is an Marcy Sugar & or otherwise harassing RN and she supports my Kathy Mitchell you or your in-laws, wearing the hose, even that would put her in openly with shorts in the the category of “stalker.” If she is summer. simply a thorn in your side because I do not make a point to tell anyshe refuses to let go, we feel sorry one unless asked. And the truth is, for her. What a disappointment her most people nowadays couldn’t care life must be for her to cling so te- less unless you make a point to be naciously to a past that didn’t work noticed. Those hose are especially out. Your in-laws would be doing helpful if you stand on concrete or her a favor to recommend that she any kind of flooring for long shifts, get some therapy so she can have a like I do. Why can’t men be comfortbetter life. able at their jobs or anywhere else?

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Dear Annie: My husband’s high school sweetheart (from 30 years ago) refuses to let go of the past and move on. “Donna” tried to get my husband to cheat on his first wife, and he declined. She also tried to get him to have a fling with her while we were dating, and again, he refused her advances.

Donna continues to maintain contact with my husband’s siblings and his mother on Facebook by “liking” their photos and such, but has blocked both of us from seeing any of her interactions with them.

My husband would like her to respect his space and leave his family alone. I don’t think she meets the definition of a stalker. She’s just annoying. How can we get her to move into the present and let go of that part of her past that included my husband’s family? -- Time to Move On Dear Time: It sounds like this is beyond your control. If Donna wants to have contact with your in-laws, it is up to them to decide

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GLENMERRY, #8-3080 Highway Dr. (Trail Motel-Mobile Home Park) Fri. & Sat., Mar.25 & 26, 9am-12noon.

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

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Community Futures Greater Trail is a dynamic, volunteer board-driven organization looking to increase its Board of Directors. Interested individuals should be regionally-minded with experience in one or more of the following areas: commercial lending, accounting, business management, community economic development, significant entrepreneurial experience. Previous volunteer experience and/or board participation is considered an asset.

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Furnished 2-bdrm apt upper Warfield. $1000 incl cable, internet, utilities, local phone. Corner, leafy outlook.

Available April 1. Short or long term. 250-521-0820

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Francesco Estates, Glenmerry,spacious 1-3bdrms. Adults only (45+). Secure building w/elevator. N/S, N/P. Ph. 250368-6761

$143,000

This Fruitvale home is packed with value! With 2 bdrms, 3 sheds, workshop and covered parking, it should be on your list!

966 Upper China Creek, Genelle

$154,900

4 bdrm rancher on 2 acres. It doesn’t get better than this.

1615 Nevada Street, Rossland

$187,000

Updated and efficient 3 bdrm Rossland home.

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$199,900

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$319,000+GST

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$264,900

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$399,000

GENELLE MLS#2412219

$204,900

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$419,900

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$284,500

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SOLD FRUITVALE MLS#2398238

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Mario Berno 250-368-1027

$155,900

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Tom Gawryletz 250-368-5000

$257,000

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Keith DeWitt 250-231-8187

$488,000

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Denise Marchi 250-368-1112

$200,000

Joy DeMelo 250-368-1960