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City seeking loan increase for Riverfront Centre SHERI REGNIER Trail Times

Sarah Fiegler of Speedpro Signs began the downtown Trail company’s “We’ve got your back Fort Mac” fundraiser on Friday, and has already raised $300 to give to the Red Cross to provide relief to wildfire evacuees. Hard hat decals are $5 and bumper stickers $10, to order decals contact Trail Speedpro at 364.1653, or email sarah@ trailspeedpro.com. Decals will be available during Saturday’s inaugural farmers market on Cedar Avenue. See story on Page 3.

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Borrowing $1.6 million versus spending internal resources is Trail council’s preferred way to cover incremental costs of the Riverfront Centre.

City leaders made the decision during Monday night council, agreeing unanimously that taking the money from current reserves will only hurt residents in the long run.

“There is financial capacity to manage (this) within the capital plan,” Trail Mayor Mike Martin emphasized. “But if we do that it will take away from significant infrastructure refurbishments that we need to do over the next number of years, particularly with our roads and sidewalks.”

For the average homeowner that boils down to a $62 overall increase in 2017 property taxes to pay for construction and fittings like shelves, furniture and fixtures in the new integrated library/museum.

“This is a very firm commitment by council on this project and probably will be the last we make,” said Coun.

Robert Cacchioni. “The building committee is looking to build something for the next 50, 60, 70 years and moved to purchase the property next to it and it’s very fitting with the downtown plan…it’s not going to be a square box on the corner.”

Notably, there’s further to go before the city can actually increase its $6.3 million loan authorization bylaw to almost $8.4 million - the move is first subject to both provincial and local taxpayer approval.

After review and approval by the B.C. Inspector of Municipalities, the city must then twice publish its intent to increase borrowing through the Alternative Approval Process, giving Trail residents 30 days (from the

second ad) to gather 10 per cent of taxpayer signatures and petition the decision.

Only when the process passes elector assent can the city take out the loan for the Riverfront Centre construction, which currently nears $8.4 million, about $2 million over the original budget.

“Moving forward effectively with the loan authorization now spreads the loan capital over 25 years and will allow us to enlist some of the other pressing need within our community,” Martin added. “This is a very worthwhile step to take and secure what will be a real landmark in this community for years to come.”

Debenture debt is recommended as the funding source given that the payments are spread over a longer period of time and effectively matched with the use of the building, Chief Administrative Officer David Perehudoff clarified.

“Further, when considering inflation, the cost of repaying debt actually declines over time when considering the debt is based on present value dollars and the fixed debt payment is paid out based on future value dollars,” he explained. “Which in real terms when considering inflation, will decline.”

The current level of general capital funding from revenue that is available is $2,334,900, continued Perehudoff.

“Therefore, if the City had to fund the incremental cost of $1.596 million in 2017, it would represent the utilization of 68.34 per cent of total general capital moneys available from revenue,” he said. “This would have a significant and detrimental impact on the City’s capital plan not only in 2017 but going forward given that identified projects would need to be deferred and the City would therefore by playing “catch-up” for the foreseeable future.”

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Rossland News

Last Thursday morning found Eva Cameron working in the Jubilee Wetlands north of Rossland Summit School.

Cameron is a member of the Rossland Society for Environmental Action (RSEA) and one of the Rossland residents who has worked to restore the city’s wetlands. She updated the Rossland News on what Rosslanders can expect to see happen at the wetlands this year.

June will be a big month for the Jubilee Wetlands. With help from the City of Rossland, the RSEA will finish landscaping Jubilee. There will also be a foot bridge built over

one of the main ponds, and a ropeline fence will be put in to replace the makeshift fence that was speedily erected after a child ended up in the pond last winter. The fence will not only protect the kids, but will help protect vegetation along the edge of the pond from being squashed underfoot.

Students at RSS are also building two swallow boxes for Jubilee and another group of youth are working on two bat houses. Cameron was pleased to report that Jubilee has attracted a number of Pacific Chorus Frogs, who can be heard singing in the evening. More information on the species can be found at www.env.gov.bc.ca/wld/ frogwatch/publications/factsheets/

frogs/pacific-chorus.htm. Members of the RSEA have counted a number of mosquito predators living in the ponds and regularly monitor the ponds for mosquito eggs. So far the water bodies have not become a significant breeding ground for the tiny blood suckers.

The RSEA will also work with civic works to improve drainage in the Jubilee Wetlands over the summer.

The Centennial Wetlands project has received funding from BC Hydro and the Columbia Basin Trust, and work on re-routing the current trail around the wetland will hopefully commence in June.

The restoration of the Centennial Wetlands is planned for August.

Eva Cameron, member of the Rossland Society for Environmental Action, checked the Jubilee Wetlands ponds for mosquito eggs last Thursday morning.

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FortisBC warns of fraudulent calls SHERI REGNIER Trail Times

FortisBC is warning customers about a fraudster working the phone lines in Greater Trail.

A number of customers in the Trail area have been contacted by someone claiming to be from “FortisBC Hydro,” explains Corporate Communications Manager Michael Allison.

The caller threatens to disconnect service unless the customer makes an immediate bill payment.

Though the call can take a variety of forms, the person is most commonly instructed to use a prepaid credit card.

Don’t do it.

“FortisBC will not contact customers in any way, including by email, asking for their credit card numbers, social insurance or

similar personally identifiable information,” said Allison.

Clients can be certain they are speaking to a legitimate FortisBC customer service representative if they call the company using a number published on their statements or on our website, Allison emphasized.

Anyone receiving a suspicious phone call, is advised to gather as much

information as possible, such as the caller’s name, then hang up and call customer service toll free from the number printed on their utility statements or online at fortisbc.com/ callus.

Allison says FortisBC works closely with clients to address overdue accounts with the aim of continuing service — discontinuing service is considered only after at-

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tempts for payment are unsuccessful.

Before that action is taken, customers receive multiple notices including bill messages, automated and personal calls and mailed notices all in an effort to continue service. Additionally, the company offers a number of payment methods; customers can choose the payment method that is most convenient to them.

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If partner responded with five or a bad six points, he will either pass Two No Trump or bid a previously bid suit at the three-level.

Partner may choose to still go on, but New Minor Forcing is the only game-forcing bid.

Partner’s hand is so well defined that he will know if game is there, and if it is, he will either place the contract in a game or bid NMF. The New minor is just that, the minor partner did not bid. It asks partner to bid the unbid major with four-cards in it then without the unbid major, he then shows three cards in partner’s major. Having neither of those, he rebids his minor if it is five cards or longer otherwise he bids 3NT. The bidding: South opens his better (just longer not stronger) minor and North bids his four-card majors up the line. He skips the diamond suit unless he has six of them or a full opener. It is better to show a major right away in case the opponents pre-empt making it hard

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Former Teck VP named Mining Person of the Year SUBMITTED VANCOUVER- At its opening reception for B.C. Mining Week on Monday, the Mining Association of BC was honoured to present Robert G. Scott, former Senior Vice President of Zinc at Teck Resources Limited, as the 2015 Mining Person of the Year.

Held annually, B.C.’s Mining Week recognizes and celebrates the importance of this both historical and modern industry to British Columbians. In 2016, B.C.’s Mining Week runs from May 8 to May 14.

Close to 20 activities such as business luncheons, mine tours, Teck’s annual celebrity pie throw, and other community initiatives are being hosted across the province in areas including Kamloops, Vancouver, Elk Valley, Prince George,

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Mining Person of the Year award is presented as part of the B.C. Mining Week to publicly recognize an outstanding individual who has shown leadership in advancing and promoting the mining industry in British Columbia.

This year’s winner, Robert G. Scott, started as an engineer-in-training at Sullivan Mine in 1979 and has held progressively se-

nior roles since. He served as the Vice President of Base Metals, North America, Gold, and Operating Excellence, before becoming Teck’s Senior Vice President of Zinc in 2012.

His operational leadership was truly evident during the most recent industry downturn and in particular, in 2015. Under Rob’s guidance, Teck’s Trail Operations not only reduced their operating costs, but also set production records in zinc, silver and indium. Most importantly, he led his team to achieve these records while improving safety and sustainability.

“It gives me great pleasure to recognize Rob as the 2015 Mining Person of the Year for his exemplary contributions to an industry so vital to British Columbia,” said Karina Briño, President and CEO

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of the Mining Association of B.C. “Over his 35 years, his leadership and guidance has led to a safer and more sustainable mining industry in British Columbia, something we can all be proud to celebrate.”

“B.C. is blessed with vast mineral reserves, but without the hard work of those in the mining industry our province would not benefit from its mineral wealth,” said Bill Bennett, B.C’s Minister of Energy and Mines. “This mining week we recognize those who have led by exampleadvancing and promoting the mining industry in B.C. and in turn supporting the many communities who benefit from B.C.’s vibrant mining sector. We applaud the commitment of those who have had a hand in making B.C.’s mining industry what it is today.”

We’ve got your back Fort Mac. That’s the message locals are sending to fellow Albertans along with donated dollars for Canadian Red Cross wildfire relief.

Over the weekend Sarah Fiegler from Trail Speedpro Signs raised $300 offering “We’ve got your back Fort Mac” hard hat decals and bumper stickers for a $5 and $10 donation respectively.

She’s quick to say most would donate to the cause even without a sticker to show, but having one is a sign of solidarity for our neighbours to the east.

Decals are available at the downtown Trail business now, and will be available during Trail’s incrEDIBLE Farmers Market on Cedar Avenue this Saturday from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. Fiegler, originally from Alberta, also purchased hair product gifts from a local salon and will sell tickets before raffling off the packages later that day.

Speedpro’s Fort Mac campaign adds to another sweet fundraiser slated for the city’s inaugural farmers market - Kay Bouma from Kreative Cupcakes is donating 200 of her fancy treats, hosting Cupcakes for Alberta! that day, with all proceeds going to Red Cross emergency support.

A minimum $3 donation is requested for a very vanilla or triple chocolate cupcake, or customers can pre-order cupcakes by the dozen for $36. For more information, email Bouma at kkaybouma@ gmail.com.

Bouma will again host the (hashtag) #AlbertaStrong cupcake

fundraiser at the second farmers market on May 28.

The displacement of more than 80,000 people and the impact of wildfire hit home Monday night during Trail council.

“I suggest that somehow the City of Trail come forward and provide some support, what we see there is absolutely incredible,” said Mayor Mike Martin.

“I ask staff to have a look at what other communities are doing and bring forward something for consideration in regard to financial support.”

Secondly, Coun. Kevin

Jolly requested Martin as a regional director, investigate ways to publicly convey the local emergency preparedness plan.

“Specifically wildfire preparedness for our region,” said Jolly. “And as our RDKB representative, bringing forward the issue and hopefully getting support and incentive to put an awareness plan in place for our local communities as we head into wildfire season in our area.”

Council agreed to both requests, with Martin mentioning the latter could provide an effective educational opportunity.

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Wednesday, May 11, 2016 Trail Times

PEOPLE HOME OF CHAMPIONS INDUCTEES

The Home of Champions Program inducted nine champions to its monument last Thursday in a ceremony in downtown Trail during Silver City Days. Back row, from the left; Andrew Kenyon (for Graham Kenyon), Colleen Yee Atkinson (for Ryan Huska), Gail and Mark Heslop (for Fred Heslop), Aaron Santesso, Joe Cecchini, Terry Jones (Coach) and Mike Morissette (Ass’t Coach) 2013-14 BV Nitehwaks.

Front row: Kimberly Joines, Joe Zanussi, Don Freschi

Cancer survivor becomes volunteer to help others SUBMITTED Trail’s Sherry Hand was 47 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Even though she was supported by family, she felt alone and craved someone to talk to who had faced the same diagnosis.

“I was very fearful of my upcoming surgery and the following chemotherapy and radiation,” says Sherry. “I had family, yes, but I wanted to hear from someone who had survived.”

The oncology department at the local hospital had a poster up about CancerConnection – a peer support program offered by the Canadian Cancer Society that connects people living with cancer with trained volunteers who have faced similar diagnoses. The volunteers provide hope, offer encouragement and share ideas for coping – all from their unique perspective as someone who’s been there.

Sherry made the call and was quickly connected with another woman who had survived and provided her with com-

fort, support and perhaps most importantly, made her feel as though she could become a survivor herself.

Four years ago, Sherry became a CancerConnection volunteer and since then has connected with 22 women from across Canada, seeing most of them through to the end of their treatments.

“I have experienced many emotions while talking with clients throughout their treatments and it isn’t always easy, but the satisfaction of knowing that I can help in some way outweighs any difficult aspects of this volunteer position,” explains Sherry.

Prog rams li ke CancerConnection would not be possible without generous donations from the public through events like Relay For Life.

The West Kootenay Relay For Life is taking place Saturday, June 18 at Kinnaird Park in Castlegar. Offering a new six-hour timeframe (5-11 p.m.), the event has already attracted a num-

ber of teams. The theme for this year’s Relay is “Send cancer on a permanent vacation” and participants are invited to “come as their favourite destination” in this family event that now encompasses all of the communities in the region. The celebration will include entertainment from music students of Supercats Studio and local favourite, RUKUS. “Relay For Life is an inspiring event that brings together the community to celebrate survivors who are or have battled cancer and also provides an opportunity to reflect and remember loved ones who’ve lost their fight,” says Valerie Rossi, West Kootenay Annual Giving Coordinator. “The common goal is evident from the moment survivors take their inaugural victory lap to the emotional luminary ceremony that follows.”

It’s not too late to get a team together or sign up individually to raise funds through Relay, which has been the society’s signature event over the years. To register, visit

relayforlife.ca and search “Castlegar.”

With an event goal set for almost $35,000, Rossi said the regional committee is challenging members of the community to take part in a challenge.

“We are looking for seven teams to sign up in seven days, from May 11-18,” she said. “At the end of the week, all teams registered for the event will be included in a draw for a prize.

“The West Kootenay is home to many people who are committed to making a difference and Relay is a great cause to get behind.”

Donations to Relay For Life make it possible for the Canadian Cancer Society to invest in cancer research, lead crucial cancer prevention initiatives and deliver caring practical and personal support to people living with cancer.

With the help of fundraising initiatives like West Kootenay Relay For Life, the Canadian Cancer Society’s regional office in Trail provides a number of supportive avenues.

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matches an individual with a volunteer who has lived through a similar cancer experience, including the type of cancer and the course of treatment, while the office, located at Suite 15, 825 Spokane St., also carries wigs for individuals who’ve lost their hair

through chemotherapy treatment.

The Canadian Cancer Society is a national community-based organization of volunteers whose mission is the eradication of cancer and the enhancement of the quality of life for people living with cancer. Last

year, the Society funded more than $46 million in leading-edge research projects across the country. Read more: www. cancer.ca To volunteer or find out more about forming a Relay team, contact Rossi at vrossi@ bc.cancer.ca

Judy Marie Peck A After a long and courageous battle with cancer, Judy Marie Peck trekked heavenward on the 4th off M She was 57 years old..

May. Judy was a wonderful daughter to her parents Bob and Marie Peck, and provided every opportunity she could for her son Riley - whom she loved and adored.

Judy was an icon and a legend around rivers and ski slopes in both Canada and the US, using her outdoor skills to guide adventurers down rivers on rafts or over snow covered mountains on skis. Though born and raised in California, she loved all that Rossland, BC and Leavenworth, Washington provided for experiencing life’s adventure to its fullest.

How someone with such a small stature could have such a huge heart is a mystery, yet Judy loved everyone around her in a big way, and always wished the very best for everyone she came in contact with. Indeed, her energy and enthusiasm, along with her constant care and concern for others’ well-being, were absolutely awe-inspiring.

Judy is survived by not only the two people she loved most--Riley, and her mom, Marie--but also by a vast group of family and friends who grieve the huge gap of joy and energy that Judy provided in their lives. While there is a gigantic vacant spot left in the hearts of those who grieve the loss of Judy, undoubtedly everyone rejoices in knowing that she is now exploring and capitalizing on every inch of heaven’s grandeur, enjoying the total recharging she has been provided in the adventure-filled spaces of her eternal home with her Lord and Master Guide.

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REGIONAL West Kootenay transit to get increase for 2017 Amount of new funds is unknown BILL METCALFE Nelson Star

The provincial government has changed its mind — in a good way, transit advocates might say.

It’s decided to give $12.7-million to BC transit systems over three years starting in 2017, backtracking from a three-year moratorium on such funding announced last year.

How much the West Kootenay will get is unknown, but over the past year the regional transit committee has received requests, from citizens and local politicians, for improvements or enhancements to the following routes: Nelson-Castlegar, Nelson-Slocan, North Shore, Blewett, Nakusp-Nelson health connection, Kaslo-Nelson health connection, Salmo-Nelson health connection, Kaslo-Trail health connection, and the reinstatement of the Perrier/Ymir Rd. service.

The transit committee consists of elected representatives from the regional districts of Kootenay Boundary and Central Kootenay (see member list below). BC Transit, a provincial crown agency responsible for coordinating the delivery of public transportation in BC outside of Vancouver, operates 83 transit systems across the province.

According to the RDCK’s Randy Matheson, the decision-making process is as follows: 1. The transit committee gives its wish-list to BC Transit. That’s already done, and the list is outlined above.

2. BC Transit assigns an estimated cost to each item, along with an estimated local tax increase required to fund it, and sends the list back to the committee.

This has also already been done. Matheson said the estimated tax increases for the various requests range from 1.5 per cent to nine per cent, depending on many

factors including whether it would be necessary to purchase a new bus.

3. The transit committee will prioritize the list by deciding what it wants to pay for and what the greatest transit needs are, and send it back to BC Transit by mid-June.

4. BC Transit decides which changes can be implemented by 2017.

The transit enhancements would potentially involve a tax increase for residents because all transit costs in BC are split 50-50 between BC Transit and local governments, who fund their half through fare revenues and taxation.

Matheson says it is impossible to predict how much the West Kootenay will get.

“BC Transit may come back and say you can’t have any of it, or they might say you can have it all,” he says. “It depends on how many transit hours they have available, and how many areas [across BC] want to expand.”

In 2013, BC transit and the local transit committee amalgamated nine transit systems in the West Kootenay into three, in which all fares and schedules from Kaslo to Trail and within each municipality were coordinated.

Asked this week for recent ridership stats for the West Kootenay and whether they have increased since the amalgamation of routes, BC Transit’s Daniel Pizarro said “We will be providing ridership stats to local governments in the near future at which time they will be made available publicly. I can tell you there have been increases in all three systems in the West Kootenay since the service integration.”

The members of the regional transit committee are Castlegar mayor Lawrence Chernoff (chair), Nelson mayor Deb Kozak, Salmo mayor Stephen White, Silverton councillor Leah Main, Nelson councillor Valerie Warmington, Fruitvale mayor Patricia Cecchini, Montrose mayor Joe Danchuk, and RDKB Area B director Linda Worley.

RDEK asks for Jumbo voting seat delay STEVE HUBRECHT Columbia Valley Pioneer

The Regional District of East Kootenay is asking the province to push back the time when Jumbo Glacier Mountain resort municipality is scheduled to take a seat at the board table to January 2020.

Furthermore, the board is encouraging the government to link a voting RDEK seat for Jumbo municipality to a minimum permanent population and assessment value.

The motion was initially put forward by Invermere mayor Gerry Taft, where it was first defeated, then amended, defeated again, then amended once more and passed.

The motion references Jumbo council’s request — made about a month ago — to similarly push the timetable for joining the RDEK board back three years from January 2017 (which is when it’s scheduled to join).

“It was kind of confusing, but basically what got passed was to send

a letter saying we support Jumbo council’s request to not have a voting seat until at least 2020,” Taft told said. “The last amendment was to also ask that the municipality have a base level population and assessment before getting a voting seat.

We didn’t specify what that base line should be.”

The motion also references a 2009 RDEK directors’ resolution requesting the province not give the Jumbo municipality (which at that time did not exist) a seat at the RDEK until it had a permanent population.

Part of Taft’s initial motion, voted down, was to “restrict or prevent Jumbo Glacier Mountain Resort Municipality from having a seat, voting or non voting, on the RDEK board until such time as they are a democratically elected council representing a permanent population.”

The second version of the motion, also voted down, sought to encourage the province “to develop and communicate a sunset clause or winding up provision for Jumbo

Glacier Mountain resort municipality if a permanent population, large enough for local government elections, is not achieved within a reasonable number of years.”

The final version of motion was passed by a wide margin.

“When I initially brought this up, Jumbo council had not yet written to the province (requesting the amendment to the letters patent), so nobody was doing anything about it and that January 2017 deadline was starting to loom,” said Taft.

“Now with Jumbo council asking for a delay [from 2017 to 2020], I’ll be surprised if the province doesn’t consider the request. But I don’t know if they will go further than that.”

Taft added that he understands Jumbo already technically has a nonvoting seat on the RDEK board, but mayor Greg Deck has told them he won’t attend meetings, even in nonvoting capacity, unless the mountain resort municipality is directly affected.

RDKB seeks mussel inspection station CRAIG LINDSAY Grand Forks Gazette

The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary (RDKB) held its regular meeting of the board of directors on April 21 at the board office in Grand Forks.

The directors voted to

direct staff to forward a letter to the Ministry of Environment inquiring why a permanent mussel inspection station was not installed in the Boundary. The letter is to also request the ministry to install an inspection station in Christina Lake.

Grace McGregor,

RDKB board chair and Area C/Christina Lake director, said she was surprised when the ministry announced the mussel inspection stations and the Boundary was left out.

“It’s two things: how come we were left out? and that we really feel

how it’s very, very important for our area because we have a lot of rivers, lakes and waterways,” she said. “Christina Lake relies on tourism. It would certainly be all over if we ended up with a mussel issue. I was concerned the minute I saw we weren’t on the list.”

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Who’s afraid of Donald Trump? The establishment

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ou have to hand it to Donald Trump – he’s done the seemingly impossible. The presumptive Republican nominee for the U.S. presidency has united the right and the left in outrage against his candidacy.

What’s so scary about Trump?

Respected Canadian columnist Terence Corcoran is fearful that a Trump presidency would signal the end of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

He is shocked that “Nobody seems to care that Trump is threatening to blow up an international trade order.”

Business leaders are beginning to be alarmed.

Jayson Myers, head of the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters association, is concerned that his U.S. colleagues are – only now – awakening to the possibility that a future Republican president could overturn the entire global trading system with disastrous results.

But free traders aren’t the only ones lining up to kick Trump. His impressive list of critics range across the political spectrum, from Bernie Sanders on the far left to right-wing champion Rand Paul, who claims the Tea Party has been “hijacked and hoodwinked” by Trump.

With this remarkable array of detractors, what explains Trump’s popularity?

It’s increasingly clear that the failure of establishment candidates to address or deal with serious problems has opened the door for Trump and his prejudices.

The American public is tuning out a do-nothing Congress. The contempt is universal but directed at Republicans in particular, since their only goals seem to be to obstruct the business of government, demonize their political opposition, and ignore the growing anguish and frustration of the public.

In contrast to the constant refrain of obstructionist political double-talk, Trump entered the Republican nomination contest wild-eyed and angry. He’s loose lipped and unafraid to tackle tough issues like immigration (he said he would build a

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wall along the U.S.-Mexican border), terrorism (he’d ban Muslims from entering the country) and global chaos (he’d limit military interventions unless U.S. national interests were at stake).

Pundits of all political strips disagree vehemently with his solutions, but establishment politicians won’t even begin to address these serious subjects.

The public increasingly wants to know why not?

Perhaps Trump’s most effective ace in the hole is the economy. A growing number of Americans feel that their country is falling behind – and, importantly, they’ve lost faith in the establishment’s willingness to protect their interests.

It was a Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, who famously said a republic is government “of the people, by the people, for the people.” Regrettably, a lot of Americans now believe that the U.S. is government of the privileged, by the privileged, for the privileged.

It doesn’t take a Harvard economist to see that while the stock market is rising and multinational businesses are prospering, the average American wage earner is suffering a loss of purchasing power

and lifestyle. They’re more than willing to blame the establishment for betraying them and their future.

Perceptions (and misperceptions) are now more important than facts. In a recent article, Corcoran listed a catalogue of Trump misrepresentations: “His claims on U.S. trade deterioration are wrong. His repeated charge that the U.S. has lost employment due to free trade deals is grossly misleading and, on a net basis, inaccurate. His claim to be able to bring back manufacturing jobs from abroad cannot possibly be fulfilled.”

None of this seems to matter. The number of Trump supporters continues to grow and – shockingly – an increasing number of Sanders’ younger supporters are moving to Trump, unwilling to throw their support behind Democrat front-runner Hillary Clinton because they perceive her to be compromised by Wall Street and other big business interests.

Who’s afraid of Donald Trump? The establishment.

In reality, ‘free’ trade was never about advancing the welfare of nations; it’s focused on creating cost savings for multinational corporations and protecting the interests of investors. Instead of raising the living conditions and wages of all workers to western standards, ‘free’ trade has done the reverse, initiating a scramble to the bottom for wages and working conditions.

The establishment has had its way for 40 years, relying on reflex support from the public for free markets and an investor-friendly globalization agenda, and using its money to buy whatever votes are needed to maintain the status quo.

Trump has thrown a political grenade into the establishment camp and, whatever happens in November, he’s riding a wave of populist anger that could shake the foundations of the global order.

Troy Media columnist Robert McGarvey is an economic historian and co-founder of the Genuine Wealth Institute, an Alberta-based think tank dedicated to helping businesses, communities and nations build communities of wellbeing.

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Daffodil Dash more than just a success To say that the first Daffodil Dash co-ordinated by the Trail Cancer Society was a success is the epitome of an understatement. I was very lucky to be part of this organization which enabled me to spread awareness of Childhood Cancer. I, too, was unaware and ignorant of the number of children and families who have to face an intolerable and sometimes an unsuccessful battle with cancer. I fight alongside of my granddaughter, Natasha Rose Gould. Her mission is to spread awareness of the high number of children who fight the battle against Cancer. It is the second leading cause of death of children, and the leading cause of disease related death.

Our team was and is registered with the local cancer society as NRG – Go For Gold. We blew our goal of $5,000 out of the water!!

Thanks to the many people on

our team and those that donated to our NRG team. All monies raised under our banner went to Childhood Cancer Research. And we thank all who supported us and the many friends who constantly pray for Natasha and all the other children and families who have been touched with this insidious disease.

I cannot convey how our team feels. “ Awesome” is a word I have constantly used and another is “Thank you”…both which are very inadequate. There are too many people to thank individually, but one lady comes to mind is Joyce Cook……what a marvelous and hard working person to have on our team. Joyce was one of the key people who made our team so successful and inspired the rest of us to keep up!

I am overwhelmed by the elementary schools in and sur-

rounding Trail. St. Michaels, Fruitvale, Glenmerry, Warfield and Rossland all took part in their own “mini dash”. Each school was individually organized by their hardworking staff and the end result was absolutely AWESOME! Kindergarten to Grades seven and eight participated and raised a total of $12,116.90! Thank you students, teachers, and support staff!

Donations contributed to Team NRG - Go for Gold is $21,786.80 with donations still coming. An overall total of $39,000 was raised in the first annual Daffodil Dash held in Trail. That’s a pretty high bench mark for next year but I am positive we will accomplish that and more.

Again, on behalf of Team NRG, my sincere and heartfelt thanks!

Lynn Gould Trail

Dr. Daly brought awareness to mental health This is my personal opinion on the feature “How the Daly Pavilion got its name” (Trail Times April 29).

I first met Dr. Daly on the even of Feb. 25, 1970 at the Greyhound bus depot in downtown Trail. He was waiting to receive and take me to the Nurses’ Residence (now the parking lot).

I was hired to work at the newly-renovated laboratory as a clinical biochemist (medical laboratory technologist).

I was touched by his friendliness, genuine care and concern and kindness.

He was so excited to find out that I was trained and worked in the well-known Christian Medical College Hospital (CMCH) after my graduation from university. Dr. Daly visited the CMCH during his visit to India and had many stories to share.

Rev. Tingly, a Presbyterian minister in Vancouver, was a friend of my uncle, Dr. Inbam, who was General Secretary of India and Ceylon Bible Society

at that time. At his request, Rev. Tingly contacted Dr. Daly to take care of me on my arrival. It is a small world after all.

After depositing me safely at the Residence, he promised to look me up at the Lab. He made frequent visits to the Lab during the first few weeks to enquire about my welfare.

I had the pleasure of meeting his very charming wife and dining with his family in Sunningdale.

He always had stories to share about his visit to my hometown and the hospital where I worked.

I have only praises for Dr. Daly for his leadership role in bringing awareness to improve public understanding of mental health and psychiatric care in the 1970s.

It is very fitting tribute indeed to honour Dr. Daly, who paved a way for the future development of psychiatric care.

Shantha Martin Trail

Fire unites, defines us

An editorial from the Halifax ChronicleHerald The Fort McMurray fire, in which tens of thousands of people lost their homes and two people lost their lives, has created a series of haunting images.

Charred swing sets with missing seats, neighbourhoods reduced to twisted metal and darkened concrete, an armada of cars creeping through a smouldering city — each of these images is a powerful symbol of the fire’s destructive force.

Thousands of Fort McMurray residents who first escaped to the north last Tuesday and Wednesday had to flee before the fire a second time on Friday and Saturday.

They were escorted southward by RCMP officers, down Highway 63

along and through Fort McMurray itself, along the only escape route available to them.

The Fort McMurray fire, which all but emptied a city of 80,000 people, will create its own diaspora.

Some people will never return. They will find jobs in Edmonton or retire in Glace Bay or Burgeo or return to families in Vancouver or Montreal, or find work in Miramichi City or Toronto.

At the same time, many thousands of people will also return to Fort McMurray, the centre of the oil sands industry and a magnet for job seekers.

It will continue to attract migrants from all parts of the nation and all corners of the globe.

It will again be home to thousands. It will be a place where people

build houses, enrol kids in schools, join churches, and do everything else that makes a city a community.

Indeed, the steely determination to keep “Fort Mac” alive can be seen in the efforts of the firefighters, emergency service workers and others who remained behind.

Together, they kept the hospital and the airport intact. Through their effort, many residences and neighbourhoods were saved the worst ravages of the fire, and the water filtration system was restored by Friday.

The fire still burns and grows, and the situation in northern Alberta is still fluid and still dangerous, as Alberta Premier Rachel Notley stated.

But after 80,000 people were evacuated with

so few injuries and only two fatalities, Canadians can have some confidence that Fort Mac will reinvent itself.

It helps as well that so many Canadians have donated money, time, prayers — and spare beds and food — to the relief and recovery effort.

As Canada’s greatest literary scholar, Northrop Frye, argued decades ago, this is a nation in which people act together in the face of a climate and a wilderness that can be hostile and dangerous.

We don’t conquer the wilds, but we do survive.

We rebuild houses and we rebuild communities.

It is an article of faith and of national will, then, that Fort Mac will be rebuilt, just as Saint John survived the great fire of 1877 and Halifax was restored after the massive explosion of 1917.

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WHAT YOU SEE …

Junior Dragons take the stage at Kootenay championships in Trail

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TRAIL - Students from all over the Kootenays took the stage to compete in the Junior Dragons’ Den championship held at the Charles Bailey Theatre Saturday night, as part of Trail’s Silver City Days celebration.

The event saw the winners from the East and West Kootenay regional competitions face off for $9,000 in cash prizes, in a fast paced, fully interactive and entertaining live show format.

Competing in three different divisions, Junior (Grades 8-10), Senior (Grades 11-12) and College/ University, competitors had two minutes to pitch to the judges, following the airing of a short promotional video which had been produced for the competition, highlighting their business or business concept.

“The championship show was fantastic,” stated Don Freschi, general manager at CFDC Greater Trail.

“The students were very composed and practiced, and really man-

aged the pressure of being on stage, in front of a live audience, exceptionally well,” stated Freschi.

The Junior Dragons Den Championship is the crowning achievement for the winners of the three regional qualifying competitions throughout the East and West Kootenay, which make up the Junior Dragons Den student business competition series.

And the winners were: Junior division (Grade 8-10) 1st- Will Watt, Firestove, Stanley Humphries Secondary 2nd place- Speedy Spouts, Bruno Hambalek, Mount Baker Secondary, Cranbrook 3rd place – Avadrone, Aaron Finke and Peter Grant, J.L. Crowe, Trail Senior Division (Grade 11-12) 1st place - EZ Light Tinder Blocks, Sam Zerrath, Cailan McQuair, Brianna McCoy, Bill Gao, Nakusp Secondary, Nakusp

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2nd place - Simply Fresh Bath & Body products, Vanessa Ford, Stanley Humphries Secondary, Castlegar 3rd place - Rolly blade TriFlasher, Rennee Goodman, Abby Boswell, Cameron Olsen, Bryce Friedenberger, Nakusp Secondary, Nakusp College/ University Division Black Dust Apparel, Nathan Staplin, College of the Rockies, Cranbrook Maxwell Nicholson, Craft Crate, University of Victoria, from Grand Forks Jesse Chan- Stay Wrapped Guitar Products, Selkirk College, Nelson The prize money awarded to the winners must be used to expand an existing business, launch a new business, or go toward tuition for post secondary education.

For more information on Junior Dragons’ Den please visit www.juniordragonsden.com FB - Junior Dragons Den on FB

KINESIOLOGY

Tasia (Anastasia) Aitken recently graduated with a BScN from the University of Victoria through Castlegar Selkirk College’s nursing program. She is the daughter of Julie (Truant) & Michael Aitken of Warfield. Tasia graduated from JL Crowe in 2011. She is pursuing her interest in psychiatric nursing. She resides and works in Trail.

Jourdyne Mason, daughter of Melanie and Tim Banga of Warfield, has graduated from the University of Calgary with a Bachelor’s Degree in Kinesiology. Jourdyne, a 2012 J.L. Crowe grad, will continue her postgraduate education in Toronto at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College – a four-year Doctor of Chiropractic Program. Jourdyne wishes to express a big thank you to her high school teacher, Mr. Terry Jones, who encouraged her to believe in herself and to trust that she could do anything if she worked hard enough for it.

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Survey for people in residential care SUBMITTED Victoria – B.C. Seniors Advocate Isobel Mackenzie announced Monday the launch of a province-wide survey of 27,000 residents living in 303 publicly-subsidized care facilities in BC. “For the first time in this province we are going to every care facility and we are asking every resident and their most frequent visitor, a number of questions about their quality of life in the care facility,” said Mackenzie.

The survey will explore a range of questions on privacy, food, safety and security, comfort, respect and responsiveness of staff, personal relationships, medications and

activities in the facility.

Residents will be interviewed in-person and their most frequent visitor, who is usually a family member, will be sent a mail-out survey.

“Through this comprehensive and standardized approach we will be able to learn from the people who call residential care their home what impacts their quality of life and whether we are meeting their needs,” said Mackenzie.

The survey and its methodology were designed through a 14month consultative process involving key stakeholders including facilities, health authorities, family members, union representatives, community groups and

academic experts from across Canada. A cornerstone of the survey will be the involvement of trained volunteers.

“I have been inspired by the many generous British Columbians who want to ensure our frail seniors receive the best of care and have volunteered to assist us with this survey so far,” said Mackenzie.

“Sometimes it is a university student with an interest in seniors’ care, other times it is retired health care professionals, and other times interested members of the community. I am inviting volunteers from all over the province, from diverse backgrounds, to take part in this very important process. We also welcome people who

speak languages other than English.”

A website has been developed for survey volunteers www.surveybcseniors.org Volunteers can apply online or by calling the Office of the Seniors Advocate office at 1.877.952.3181.

Volunteers will be screened and if suitable will participate in a oneday training session and will be asked for a commitment of at least 30 hours over the survey period.

Each volunteer will be assigned to a facility and will be responsible for surveying a certain number of residents in that facility.

Administrative support will be provided.

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LIFESTYLE

Please

Drive Safe on our roads

THE END OF FESTIVITIES

Don’t Drive Drowsy Driving while you are tired is as dangerous as driving drunk.

Rest up before you hit the road.

A City of Trail worker begins removing the colourful pennants hanging over the streets of downtown Trail which were put up for Silver City Days.

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Dogs, cats may show way to better treatments for human cancers CANADIAN PRESS GUELPH, Ont. - Cujo romps around the room, seemingly unaware he is missing a front leg, before snuggling in for a caress and reaching up to bestow a canine kiss on his owner Valeria Martinez.

Being a dog, the nine-year-old Rottweiler is also unaware he is part of a series of cuttingedge studies that researchers at the Ontario Veterinary College in Guelph, Ont., hope might one day help humans with the same kind of cancer that led to his amputation.

“Good boy. Good boy, baby,” Martinez coos as Cujo rolls on his back, then rights himself to continue his three-legged perambulation around the visitors’ room at the OVC’s Mona Campbell Centre for Animal Cancer.

It was here that the canine had his right front leg surgically removed in December after a painful lump in the limb was diagnosed as osteosarcoma, the same type of bone cancer that affected Terry Fox and ended his Marathon of Hope when the malignancy recurred in his lungs. The 22-year-old died in June 1981.

Osteosarcoma in dogs is almost identical to the disease that occurs in teens and young adults, with a similar progression. But canines are 10 times more likely to develop the cancer than humans.

“Just like in people, osteosarcoma in dogs is a highly metastatic disease, meaning it comes back,” says Dr. Paul Woods, a veterinary medical oncologist at the OVC, which is part of the University of Guelph.

In dogs, osteosarcoma occurs most often in large breeds like mastiffs, greyhounds and wolfhounds, although smaller dogs can develop the disease. Standard treatment includes amputating the affected limb, then treating the pet with chemotherapy.

“We do chemotherapy similar to chemotherapy they use in people, and the idea is we’re trying to delay or prevent recurrence of this metastatic disease,” Woods explains.

He concedes, however, that the regimen typically only extends the animal’s life, with most eventually succumbing to the cancer.

But as part of a multicentre trial headed by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Guelph researchers are testing a drug called rapamycin, which they hope might stop the bone cancer from recurring.

About 160 dogs will be included in the eight- to 12-month study being conducted

by the NIH’s Comparative Oncology Trials Consortium at about 20 U.S. sites along with Guelph, with funding from the Morris Animal Foundation, an international non-profit organization that supports veterinary research.

All the animals will get standard care for their cancer, then half will be randomized to receive rapamycin. The drug is used to prevent organ rejection in transplant patients but is being repurposed as a potential anti-cancer medication.

One of those getting the drug is Cujo.

When Martinez first brought her pet to the centre from her home in Barrie, Ont., she was “looking for a miracle” but worried how Cujo would fare with a missing limb.

Three weeks after the operation, Cujo “started to live normally,” she says. While he can no longer manage the daily three-kilometre walks the pair took before he lost his leg, he can run and play in the backyard, “no problem.”

Following the operation, Cujo underwent four rounds of chemotherapy, which Martinez says didn’t seem to bother him beyond being tired the first day of treatment.

The pet is now being monitored to see if his cancer is being held at bay.

“What we’re wondering is will that delay or at best stop the metastatic disease from coming back,” says Woods. “Hopefully it will help dogs, but it may also translate to helping people as well.”

That’s also the goal of another OVC osteosarcoma research project, this one in the lab of viral immunologist Byram Bridle.

With a $450,000 grant from the Terry Fox Foundation, Bridle is laying the groundwork for a three-year study that will test two novel virusbased therapies in dogs with the bone cancer.

One uses a non-disease-causing “oncolytic” virus that has been engineered to target and destroy osteosarcoma cells without harming surrounding healthy cells. The second is a virus-based vaccine that boosts and harnesses the power of the immune system in a bid to wipe out the cancer cells - delivering a one-two punch against the tumour.

“So the concept here is the oncolytic virus will get in and quickly replicate and destroy a lot of the cancer cells, debulking the tumour, and then this overwhelming immune response will come in as a second wave and hopefully kill the remaining cancer cells,” says Bridle, who as a child was inspired by Fox and chose the study of cancer as a career path.

“What kills these animals is when some of the (cancer) cells migrate to other parts of the body,” he says. But because the experimental viruses distribute throughout the body, “we don’t need to know where these tumour cells are - the viruses can seek them out and find them.”

Researchers are in the process of producing clinical batches of the therapies for the trial, which is expected to enrol at least 45 dogs and last about two years once regulatory approval is granted.

“If we can show that the experimental therapy is better … it will allow us to design an optimal therapy to test in human patients,” says Bridle, who is working with collaborators at McMaster University and the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute.

A trial using a similar approach is already underway for cats with the feline version of breast cancer, and researchers hope the results may point to a new way to treat some forms of the disease in humans.

The study is funded by the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, the first time the charitable organization has invested in research involving companion animals, says Bridle, who is working on the project with Woods and Brian Lichty of McMaster.

So far, 12 cats have been treated with immunotherapy designed to target feline mammary carcinoma, which typically occurs in older animals that have not been spayed.

Among them is Tabby, a stray adopted 13 years ago by Millie Daley of Hamilton, who also has one of her kittens.

When her local vet discovered Tabby had mammary cancer, Daley turned to the OVC, which agreed to take her pet into the immunotherapy trial.

Over a period of weeks, the cat received one of the vaccines, the tumour was surgically removed and then the second vaccine was administered.

“She had no reaction to either of the vaccines, she just sailed through them,” says Daley, who has brought Tabby in for a followup appointment. “She runs around the house, she has more energy now than she had before all this started.

“It’s a triple win all the way around. She’s getting excellent care and I win because I’m not going bankrupt … and down the road it may even help me or other humans to deal with breast cancer in another way that’s less invasive and may (have) a better result.”

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SILVER CITY DAYS 3-ON-3 CHAMPIONS The Silver City Days 3-on-3 ball-hockey tournament saw 121 players and 23 teams take to the asphalt on Saturday. When the dust settled, Team Williams (below) won the Sr. Novice Division, the Street Sweepers took the Jr. Novice, Team Dominici won the Pee Wee division, and the Muffinators captured the Atom title.

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The Trail Smoke Eaters are prospecting new territory as the team announced it will run a summer identification camp in Coeur d’Alene in July.

The Idaho camp hits the ice at the Coeur d’Alene Hockey Academy July 8-10 and will give Trail coaching staff an opportunity to identify potential Smokies.

Smoke Eaters interim coach Curtis Toneff expects the camp to attract United States Hockey League players and provide another player resource for both the Academy and the Smoke Eaters.

“A lot of our prospects are coming from that league (USHL), and we know the guy we partnered with that runs the academy, (Rob Dumas) and we just threw it out there and it helps both of our programs and it’s kind of an untouched area.”

The camp will see local players like Ross Armour and Jeremy Lucchini attend along with recent commit Ryan Murphy, but Smokies coaching staff will be looking for another Charlie Zuccharini, Nick Halloran, or Bailey MacBurnie, all graduates of US prep school hockey.

“We saw a lot of Spokane kids and their (Academy) guys at our camp so the better players we can get in their door, the more it helps us out in the long run,” said Toneff.

The Couer d’Alene Hockey Academy is equivalent to Major Midget and plays in the 12-team Canadian Sport School Hockey League that includes the Edge School for Athletics out of Calgary, Pursuit of Excellence Academy in Kelowna and Penticton’s Okanagan Hockey Academy.

Similarly, the Major Midget Kootenay Ice’s move to the High Performance Hockey Academy at J. L. Crowe will also provide more talent for the Smoke Eaters.

“A lot of players are excited about the change and coming to Trail,” said Toneff. “We all feel it’s the right move for the kids and the program. Nothing against where it was, it’s just that something wasn’t clicking for the past few years.

It’s tough when you are in a smaller market, we have so many junior B programs around, you want to have a good midget program around as well.”

The Major Midget Ice held its first camp in Nelson on the weekend and committed to a dozen players. One of the more significant steps in the process is centralizing the team and improving its compete level in BC Hockey’s Major Midget League. Toneff and Smokies assistant Craig Clair helped out at the camp in Nelson and likes the prospect of having the team close by.

“I think Trail is a great place for it, with the good school we have, and they’ll get on the ice with the school academy, we have Elevate fitness now, so they’ll have three places to work out at with our gym, Elevate, and Performance Fitness, all within walking distance of the school and rink.

I thought it was a no-brainer and it’s looking good so far.”

Toneff is on the road for the Smokies, traveling to Vancouver and Edmonton to attend showcase camps this week.

Smoke Signals: Smoke Eaters forward Kyle Star committed to the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minn last week. The St. Scholastica Saints play in the North Division of the Northern Collegiate Hockey Association (NCHA), a NCAA Div. III association. Star split the 2015/16 season between the Surrey Eagles and Smoke Eaters and in 40 games the Langley native tallied 12 goals and 15 assists for 27 points.

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Coach Cominotto returns to B.V. JIM BAILEY Trail Times

The Beaver Valley Nitehawks added another crucial element to its team last week, naming Jeremy Cominotto to its coaching staff.

“It’s pretty good news for the Nitehawks,” said coach and GM Terry Jones. “He is going to be cocoach with Bill (Birks) and myself, so yes it’s huge.”

Cominotto rejoins the Nitehawks for the 2015-16 season after taking a two-and-a-half year hiatus due to work and family committments. Cominotto joined the coaching staff as an assistant to Craig Mohr back in September, 2007 and was behind the bench until his departure in January, 2014. The time away from the rink was a necessary break for the Fruitvale resident, but he is eager to get back to work.

“The kids are getting older, and I know they’re still interested in sports and hockey, I thought it would be a good atmosphere for the boys to be around,” said Cominotto. “I have a little bit of experience there, and I’m tak-

ing on a little bit different role so there will be a learning curve but it should be fun.”

Cominotto will take over offensive coaching duties, a departure from his former role as defensive coach.

With Jones also handling the GM duties for the Major Midget Ice, the suggestion about freeing up time for the Hawks coach and GM to devote to the Midget Ice was quickly rebutted by Cominotto.

“He (Jones) is adamant about it maybe taking a little more time early on, but he doesn’t intend to step down, he doesn’t intend to be away from the Nitehawks at all,” said Cominotto. “I think having Terry there as the backbone, and the director is vital. Billy did a great job on the bench last year running the ‘D’ but I think not having that third guy on the bench didn’t really allow for anyone to watch the game, and it made it more difficult to adjust as the game went on.”

With the departure of co-coach Kevin Limbert mid-season last year, Jones and Birks shared duties

behind the bench, winning the Neil Murdoch division title. But during the KIJHL final against the Kimberley Dynamiters in March, the intensity and pace may have exposed the short-handed coaching situation, as the Nitehawks fell in five games.

“He (Jones) mentioned to me, he was having a little trouble getting his matchups and adjusting through the game when tension was high, and while he was trying to put people out on the ice. And it does take a lot, so (hopefully) I can alleviate some of that pressure, and having Terry around, I mean there is no way he’s not going to be.”

The return of Cominotto alongside former Trail Smoke Eater coach Birks will provide an experienced and perhaps unlikely tandem given their history, but one that will be a definite benefit to the team, says Cominotto.

“Bill’s a great guy, he’s a great hockey guy. I know the players really liked him, so I don’t think I’ll have any trouble fitting in with him or the rest of the coaching staff.”

The 33-year-old has spent most of his hockey life playing or coachng in Greater Trail.

After playing his minor hockey in the area, he suited up for the Nitehawks from 1999-2003 winning a pair of KIJHL championships and a Cyclone Taylor Cup, and celebrated another league championship in 2011 as a coach. So despite the odd skate with a local men’s rec team, a return to the rink is something that Cominotto has been looking forward to.

“I really had a tough time going to (Nitehawks) games,” he said.

“In that span of two years, I’d only been to four or five games. You go down and talk to the coaching staff between periods or after the game and your watching, you get frustrated. You see guys taking liberties on your former team and you don’t like it; the referee makes a poor call and you don’t like it, and you end up yelling. So I just figured, you know what, if I’m going to yell it might as well be where he can hear me, and get on the bench.

“So, yeah, I did miss it.”

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WARREN HENDERSON Kelowna Capital News

The Colombo Lodge’s 12th Annual AM Ford Bocce Classic was an unmitigated success that saw a full complement of 48 teams take to the Trail Curling Club over three days during the Silver City Days weekend. The winners from left are: the Men’s C team of Dyne Parker and Mike Page; Ladies C winners, Marnie Parker and Jocelyn DeBiasio; Men’s A winners Guido Babuin and Mario Favaro; Ladies A winners Lauren Zanier and Jordan Zanier; Men’s B winners Sergio Peloso and Leo Ganzini; and Ladies B winners Sherry Altrogge and Kayleigh Postmus.

NHL: Game 7 for Western Conference playoffs ASSOCIATED PRESS NASHVILLE - Viktor Arvidsson scored 2:03 into overtime, and the Nashville Predators forced a deciding seventh game for their second straight series by beating the San Jose Sharks 4-3 on Monday night.

Arvidsson jumped the puck between three Sharks and skated up the left side before throwing a backhand past goaltender Martin Jones.

No road team has won yet in this second-round series, and the franchise that had never forced a Game 7 until this postseason will play in its second straight with

a berth in the Western Conference final on the line. The Predators also earned their first two-day break between playoff games this post-season with Game 7 on Thursday night in San Jose.

Colin Wilson, Ryan Johansen and Roman Josi also scored for Nashville.

Logan Couture scored a power-play goal in the third for San Jose, and Chris Tierney had two goals in the first period.

STARS 3, BLUES 2 ST. LOUIS (AP) - Rookie Mattias Janmark ignited a three-goal first period and Kari Lehtonen made 35 saves for Dallas, which forced Game 7 with a victory over

St. Louis.

Vernon Fiddler and Jason Spezza also scored for Dallas, which reclaimed home ice for the deciding game on Wednesday night despite getting outshot 37-14 with the Blues dominating the last two periods.

Alexander Steen and Patrik Berglund scored for St. Louis.

Home ice has meant little, given the road team has won three in a row and four of six in the series.

Blues goalie Brian Elliott, who had played well throughout the post-season, was replaced with the Stars leading 3-0 on just seven shots at 16:49 of the first.

Whitecaps encouraged by win CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Whitecaps know they’re still very much a work in progress.

The Major League Soccer club defeated the rival Portland Timbers 2-1 at home on Saturday despite trailing at halftime in what was by far Vancouver’s best performance of 2016.

The Whitecaps (4-5-2) directed 26 shots towards Portland’s goal and played with a spirit that head coach Carl Robinson had been demanding as he tried to shake his team out of a disappointing 1-3-2 run.

With the Chicago Fire (1-2-4) up next at B.C. Place Stadium on Wednesday, Vancouver is hoping for more of the same.

“We’re looking better. I don’t think we’re done,” said Whitecaps goalkeeper David Ousted. “We constantly need to

be better … I’ll always be one of the guys who says the work’s never done.”

Vancouver hustled to every ball against the Timbers. A late defensive play from captain and offensive catalyst Pedro Morales to deny Portland a possible tying goal stood as a perfect example of the commitment Robinson wants to see game in, game out.

“I require that from every single player, whether you’re the goalkeeper or the captain of the team,” said the Welshman. “The work rate was there. The quality takes care of itself. You can’t just turn up and expect to be a good team. You’ve got to put the hard work in.”

And Robinson made it clear he expects that effort level all the time, not just against the reigning MLS Cup champions, who also just happened to be the team that bounced the Whitecaps from the 2015

playoffs.

“The standard is set now from Saturday’s game, but we’ve got to maintain that,” said Robinson.

“It’s about consistency. The teams that are most successful in this league are very consistent, and we’ve got to start striving for that as well.”

Whitecaps midfielder Christian Bolanos - a veteran of two World Cups for Costa Rica who joined the club in the off-season - had his best game in a Vancouver uniform against Portland, scoring his third goal in as many outings.

“In my position I try to make good chances for the strikers, I try to score goals,” he said. “I’m very happy to score goals, but for me the more important thing is to win the game, to get the three points.”

The Whitecaps are in the middle of another stretch of three games in eight days that

will see them visit Toronto FC on Saturday. They went 1-1-1 over an identical period at the end of last month.

The Fire, meanwhile, have suited up for the fewest games of any team in MLS (seven) and will be playing for just the third time since the middle of April.

“They’ve had a lot of rest and haven’t played for nearly two weeks,” said Robinson. “They’ll be ready to go, but we’ve got to make sure we concentrate on ourselves.”

Ousted, one of the Whitecaps’ leaders who has been vocal about the team’s lack of focus at times early this season, said he hopes the result over the weekend demonstrated to his teammates what it will take to be successful.

“I think we know the recipe,” he said. “We showed hard work, that we were a team and that everybody wanted to sacrifice.”

The West Kelowna Warriors have already claimed two of Canadian junior A hockey’s more coveted titles.

The third and most sought after trophy of all now awaits them in Lloydminster, Alta./Sask.

The Warriors will take on the host Bobcats Saturday night in the opening game of the RBC Cup national junior A hockey championship.

“This is what you play all year for,” said Warriors head coach and GM Rylan Ferster. “We’re excited… privileged and honoured to be in this position. It’s great to be in this final class of teams.”

The Warriors—the Fred Page Cup and Western Canada Cup champs—will be joined by the host team, along with the Alberta Junior Hockey League’s Brooks Bandits, and Ontario’s Carleton Place Canadians and Trenton Golden Hawks in the five-team round robin event.

The BCHL champs secured their place at the RBC Cup by winning the organization’s first ever western regional title on Saturday in Estevan, Sask., defeating Brooks 6-0 in the final.

Now 29 games into the post season, Ferster said the stakes are higher than ever but, in many ways, it’s just business as usual for his Warriors.

“It’s May, but it feels like could as easily be October,” said Ferster, whose team is staying in Saskatoon until Thursday. “When you’re going through the journey, you just keep playing, you stick with the day-to-day routine so, in that way, it feels the same.

“When you do lose, it’s like a big punch in the face, an empty feeling,” he added, …but until that happens, we’ll keep doing what we’re doing, and hopefully that leads to something really good at the end of it all.”

Still, Ferster doesn’t underestimate the gravity of what his team has already accomplished and credits the players for carrying the load.

Ferster said chemistry and team unity, as much as anything, has been responsible for the Warriors’ success to date.

“We haven’t had an easy road, we’ve had four rounds of war and the guys have done a great job all the way through it,” Ferster said. “This is such a good, fun group of kids. They’re engaging people, they care about what they’re doing and they care about each other. We have great leadership and chemistry and that’s been so important.”

After Saturday’s game, the Warriors will play Brooks on Sunday, Carleton Place on Tuesday, and Trenton on Wednesday.

The semi-finals are set for Saturday, May 21, with the RBC Cup championship game set for Sunday, May 22 at 3 p.m Pacific time.

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B.C. wolf kill to continue next winter TOM FLETCHER Black Press

Endangered caribou herds in the Kootenays and South Peace region have continued to decline as the B.C. government assesses the second year of its wolf removal project.

Nine wolves were killed by hunting and trapping in the South Selkirk Mountains this winter, while wolves took two caribou out of a herd that was down to 18 animals at last count.

Forests ministry staff will try to shoot 24 wolves from helicopters before the snow melts in the South Selkirks. Six of the remaining caribou have been fitted with radio collars to track them.

Four caribou herds in the South Peace targeted for wolf control have also declined, to about 170 animals in the Quintette, Moberley, Scott and Kennedy Siding herds. Ministry staff have documented that about one third of losses in the South Peace are from wolves, where there are seven herds, one down to a single bull.

Working with Treaty 8 First Nations, the ministry’s goal is to shoot from 120 to 160 wolves in the South Peace this year. The Graham herd, the largest in the South Peace and the province at about 700 animals, is being monitored for its survival without protection from wolves.

Forests Minister Steve

Thomson said the program will continue next winter, along with a project to capture and pen pregnant female caribou in the South Selkirks to keep newborn calves from being killed by wolves.

“They’re getting increased survival rates for the calves from the maternal penning, with lots of partners in support in that program,” Thomson said.

The recovery plan for the South Selkirk population includes protecting 2.2 million hectares or 95 per cent of the best caribou habitat from logging and road-building.

The South Peace recovery plan includes 400,000 hectares, about 90 per cent of the high-elevation winter caribou habitat in the region.

Mountain caribou in the South Selkirk range are in danger of local extinction. Larger herds of northern caribou in the Peace region are also declining in numbers.

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Distracted driving fines, points increase CP Rail looking to move crews from Revelstoke to Golden TOM FLETCHER Black Press

A first offence for checking your phone while driving will cost B.C. drivers $543 when new penalties take effect June 1.

The fine for distracted driving goes up from $167 to $368, and drivers will also be assessed four penalty points, triggering another $175 charge.

The combination results in a total penalty of $888 for a second offence within a year of the first.

Public Safety Minister Mike Morris said the new penal-

ties put B.C. near the top of distracted driving fines for Canadian provinces.

Two tickets in a year will also trigger an automatic review by the Superintendent of Motor Vehicles that could result in licence suspension.

Public consultation over the past year found support for a tougher approach.

“A lot of the input that we had indicated even higher penalties than that,” Morris said.

Tr ans p or t at i on Minister Todd Stone said the public awareness campaigns

have not convinced enough people of the dangers of trying to use mobile phones or other devices without hands-free services.

“Imagine trying to drive the length of a football field while you’re blindfolded,” Stone said.

Central Saanich Police Chief Les Sylven, president of the B.C. Association of Chiefs of Police, reminded drivers that being at a stop light or stuck in a traffic jam does not mean the distracted driving penalties don’t apply.

NDP public safety critic Mike Farnworth said the government

didn’t need to take a year to increase one of the lowest distracted driving penalty systems in the country, and giving the superintendent discretion over multiple repeat offenders doesn’t send a clear enough message.

“Frankly, I think that if you get more than three in the course of the year, there should be no ‘may’ about it, you will lose your licence,” Farnworth said.

Distracted and inattentive driving was a factor in the deaths of 66 people and injuries to 630 in B.C. in 2014.

ALEX COOPER Revelstoke Review

CP Rail is looking at moving workers from Revelstoke to Golden in order to create an extended coal train run that would eliminate crew changes in Revelstoke.

“It is the company’s intent to operate coal trains in extended service runs (ESR) between Kamloops, B.C., and Golden, B.C., without the need to change crews at Revelstoke, B.C.,” wrote Chris Clark, the assistant director of labour relations for CP Rail in a letter to Teamsters Canada Rail Conference union leadership.

The move would involve establishing a new home terminal in Golden dedicated to running coal trains to and from Kamloops. It’s a 350 kilometre run.

The letter says the change would go into effect on June 20, 2016, though the exact start date could be pushed back if the Teamsters choose to fight the move.

It says no jobs would be lost, but does not say how many positions would be moved to Golden as a result of the change.

Greg Edwards, the Teamster’s general chairman for locomotive engineers in Western Canada, the union still has lots of

questions about CP Rail’s proposal and he is still waiting for many details from CP as to what the changes might mean.

“This notice falls completely short of the requirements in our collective agreement provisions for making any type of material change in working conditions,” he told the Review, adding that the timelines set out by CP Rail are “unrealistic.”

He said they would be issuing a letter in response and that letter would be made public.

Sources tell the Review a trip from Golden to Kamloops would take at least 10 hours, however it can sometimes take that long just to make the journey through the mountains.

Engineers and conductors are allowed to work up to 12 hours per shift.

The letter says the change is designed to eliminate a crew change point for coal trains, along with the associated expenses. Right now, coal trains travel from the Cranrbook area to Golden, where crews from Revelstoke take over the trains and drive them here. In Revelstoke, a new crew gets on and drives the trains onwards to Kamloops, where another crew change takes place.

The move would also speed up transit time through the mountain corridor, CP Rail says.

In January, Transport Canada reprimanded CP Rail for fatigue issues on extended service runs from Kamloops to Vancouver.

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Cards of Thanks

Cards of Thanks

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1915 Robin St, Fruitvale Saturday May 14, 2016 1:30am – 3:30pm 4 Bdrms, 3 Bath, Rec Room + Den Updated Kitchen, Bamboo Floors, Private Large yard $

309,500

Thank you from the family of

Red Ius

The family of Red Ius wishes to extend many thank you’s to family and friends for their support shown to us during the recent loss of our brother and uncle. The many gifts of food, baking, cards, flowers and memorial donations were greatly appreciated. A special thank you to Father Bart, CWL, the Holy Trinity Parish, the Knights of Columbus and Colombo Lodge for their participation. Our thanks to the staff at Rosewood Village. Also much appreciation to Al Grywacheski and staff at Alternatives Funeral and Cremation Services™ for their compassionate help with the details.

ING IST L W NE

1681 Leroi Ave, Rossland

2 Bdrms, 1 Baths, Sunroom, Work shop Single attached Garage

$

189,000

7958 Birchwood Dr, Trail 3 Bdrms, 3 Baths, Fabulous Kitchen Double Attached Garage

Do you have a passion for Economic Development?

Do You Want to Make a Difference?

The Lower Columbia Initiatives Corporation (LCIC) is adding new Directors to our Team to help set direction and measure the impacts and outcomes of initiatives.

Interested?

We are looking for a few creative, energetic business professionals with a strong desire to contribute to the economic future of our Region!

E-mail info@lcic.ca by May 27, 2016

For more information about the LCIC visit www.lcic.ca

409,000

ING IST L W NE

3351 Dahlia Cres, Trail Popular Glenmerry, 3 Bdrms, 2 Baths Many modern updates

$

ICE PR

1105 Christie Road, Montrose 3 Bed, 2 1/2 Bath Home Workshop, Double Car Garage

$

329,500

ING IST L W NE

E RIC WP E N

$

W NE

259,000

950 Byron Ave, Warfield 2 Bdrms, 1 Updated Bath Fully Fenced Yard with Deck

$

139,900

ING IST L W NE

1840 Daniel St, Trail 2Bdrms, 2 Baths River views Heritage Character

$

89,000

Let Our Experience Move You.

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Wednesday, May 11, 2016 Trail Times

LOCAL WHAT YOU SEE …

Lores Currah had a great view of Saturday’s Silver City Days fireworks with the newly-illuminated Victoria St. Bridge in the foreground. If you have a recent photo you would like to share with our readers email it to editor@trailtimes.ca Lores Currah photo

www.allprorealty.ca All Pro Realty Ltd. 1148 Bay Ave, Trail 250.368.5000 www.facebook.com/allprorealtyltdtrailbc

TOTALLY UPDATED

GREAT FAMILY HOME

MIRAL HEIGHTS

$395,000

MLS#2408340

NEW LISTING

MIRAL HEIGHTS MLS#2410057

$324,500

SOLID SUNNINGDALE HOME

TRAIL MLS#2412579

$384,500

NEW LISTING

GLENMERRY MLS#2413067

$180,000

Wayne DeWitt 250-368-1617

BIGGER THEN IT LOOKS!

WARFIELD

NEW LISTING

$299,900

WANETA MLS#2413318

$379,000

MONTROSE MLS#2403431

Mario Berno

$249,000

Tom Gawryletz 250-368-5000

MLS#2412221

$294,500

$307,000

Thea Hanson 250-231-1661

GLENMERRY

FRUITVALE MLS#2413347

$369,500

TRAIL MLS#2413531

Keith DeWitt 250-231-8187

$80,000

FEELS LIKE MOM’S HOUSE

MONTROSE MLS#2406722

$324,900

MLS#2409316

2 VACANT LOTS

NEW LISTING

MONTROSE MLS#2404573

DOUBLE GARAGE!

FRUITVALE

NEW LISTING

MOVE IN READY

SOLD

250-368-1027

$284,500

MLS#2412692

SUNNINGDALE MLS#2413188

FAMILY HOME, HUGE SHOP

$195,000

EAST TRAIL MLS#2411328

Denise Marchi 250-368-1112

$179,000

Joy DeMelo 250-368-1960