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Reassessments on BC Housing properties has local impact
BEAVER VALLEY AGE FRIENDLY CHRISTMAS LUNCH
It’s never fun when the tax man comes calling. And it’s particularly jarring in December when instead of a Christmas card, it’s a tax bill in the mail.
That’s what happened in Trail fol-lowing property value reassessments of two apartment complexes, one downtown and the other in East Trail.
Now the city owes $8,864 back to the government since the buildings were reassessed at the request of BC Housing.
Trail Mayor Mike Martin points
out lowering property values on BC Housing facilities is one more way the province is saving money on the backs of B.C. taxpayers.
“At no point have senior levels of government really looked at or provided local government or mu-nicipalities with any other avenues by which to increase revenue generation apart from property taxes,” Martin said. “So we are faced with either cutting services to make up for that shortfall or increasing taxes to other rate payers.”
He’s also disappointed with the tim-ing of the news from BC Assessment’s Kootenay Columbia Region.
“We operate a balanced budget based on all the information we had going into 2015,” he explained. “Then get this late notification that we now owe BC Housing $8,800,” he added. “And this is not just retroactive for 2015, it will affect revenue going for-ward because assessment rolls don’t usually change once fixed in place.”
And it’s not just the city impacted by lower re-assessed values.
The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary was hit with a $5,900 bill; the school district $6,200 and the re-gional hospital board, $615, following the reduction in value of the two Trail buildings.
“So it manifests itself in many other ways,” Martin told the Trail Times. “We are talking about it from a Trail perspective but the regional district and school will be faced with exactly the same situation - they will also have to find way to deal with this lower tax revenue. The impact is broader than Trail - it’s province-wide.”
There were approximately 500 properties owned or operated by BC Housing that under went review this year, confirmed Ranaish Shah from Kootenay Columbia’s Nelson-based offices.
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More than 200 seniors and community representatives gathered for an afternoon of great food and music during the Beaver Valley Age Friendly Christmas lunch held Tuesday in the Fruitvale Memorial Hall. Fruitvale Mayor Patricia Cecchini (above), community volunteers, staff and officers from the Greater Trail RCMP, served up caesar salad, chicken cordon bleu and all the fixings alongside Village of Fruitvale staff and council members.
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The Arlington Hotel was all dressed up and ready to welcome customers for Christmas in 1935.Photo courtesy of the Trail Historical Society
The Trail Historical Society has kindly of-fered photos and stories related to the history of Trail
In 1931, Trail folks didn’t seem to be suffering from the Depression as
much as people in other cities. The Trail Times posted a Christmas list of the town’s prominent people showing a much simpler set of priorities.
Christmas presents that Trail people want:Pete Levesque – anoth-er pig raffleElliott Crowe – more hockey wins, the right wayP.R. McDonald – better curlingMrs. F. E. Dockerill – more girl guidesHank Lauriente – an-other police dog.S.G. Blaylock – higher priced metalsMiss Rosamond Buchanan – a trip to ProctorJack Ryan – a fat cigarMrs. John Laurie – a recipe for Scotch short-breadDr. F.S. Eaton – no more diphtheriaCharles Newman – a light on the bridgeMrs. M. Emsley – more social affairsH. E. R. Bedford – a seven course dinner with all the trimmingsMonty Brothers – a button sewed onRay Topliss – a new moustacheMrs. H. S. Allen – a trip to CrestonCamille Lauriente – a new bowling alleyHarry White – grapesJim Schofield – a con-genial Nelson time-keeper for hockeyBruno LeRose – anoth-er candidate for mayorBill Euerby – an air-plane rideCharlie Bird – hot water installed
Trail’s Christmas wish list in 1931
Back in December 1902, this ad appeared in the paper. The years referenced would be 1883, 1894 and 1898.
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B – one bottle Gooderham & Worts rye, one Irish, one Vermouth, one sherry, one ale and one beer $3.80
C – one bottle ’98 Seagram’s, one G & W rye, one blackberry brandy, one claret, one stout, one beer $2.90
D – one bottle three-star brandy, one Scotch, one Tom gin, one sauterne, one claret and one beer - $4.30
E – one bottle white wheat, one ’83 rye, one port, one sherry, one ale, one beer - $3.00
F – one bottle Canadian Club, one Irish, one blackberry brandy, one stout, one ale, one beer - $3.15
G – one bottle Holland gin, G & W, special rye, one Scotch, one claret, one port, one beer - $3.90
H – one G&W rye, one Irish, one invalid port, one stout, one claret, one beer $3.45
I – one ’83 rye, one ‘89 rye, one ‘83 G & W, one ’84 G and W and one three-star brandy, one beer, $4.90
J – One Irish, one white wheat, one Tom gin, one scotch, one club, one beer - $4.90
The Family Liquor Store, Trail, B.C.Gooderham & Worts was eventually sold to
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About one quarter of those were appealed during the 2015 appeals pro-cess.
“As part of the review and working our way through those appeals, we realized many of these properties had restrictions in terms of the rent that could be charged,” he explained. “We hadn’t reflected that on the assessment rolls, so a decision was made to reflect those restrictions and the result is the values have changed.”
Market value for the two buildings would likely differ, he added.
“So that’s what we are reflecting at this point in time,” Shah clarified. “In some cases the restriction is registered on the title so even if that building sells to another person, the (rent) re-striction would still be in place.”
Combined, the value of the Trail buildings fell almost $2.2 million since the previous assessment.
The first is Silver City Gardens, located on Columbia Avenue, which is owned by Canadian Mental Health. Assessed at almost $2.8 million in 2014, the property value is now $1.2 million. The other is Jubilee Place on Bay Ave. Listed as provincial rental housing, the 35-unit complex is cur-rently assessed at $901,000, which is $526,000 less than last year.
“The BC Housing Authority is the organization that raised the issue and sought relief through appeals that were launched,” said David Perehudoff, Trail’s chief administrative officer. “Assessments were adjusted in 2015 so they will get a refund of property taxes paid this year and the lower assess-ment will be used going forward,” he added. “In total (for 2015) the proper-ties will realize property tax relief in the amount of $21,767.”
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An exhibit especially poi-gnant to the Italian history in Trail is on it’s way to the public library next month.
Hundreds of Italian Canadians, including seven men from Trail, were taken from their homes, separat-ed from their families, and held in prison or remote camps during World War ll.
The Canadian govern-ment claimed they were threats to national security, fearing many had ties to fascist Italian organizations. Some were released within a few months, and others remained in custody up to five years.
Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Times: Italian Canadian Internment Experience will be on loan from the Columbus Centre of Toronto at the local li-brary from Jan. 11 to March 31.
Trail is the only western city to date, to showcase the display, and it is expected to draw local interest as well as spectators from afar.
After Winnipeg
pulled out from displaying the exhibit earlier this year, costs to ship all its parts to Trail increased to $7,835, less a $2,250 grant from the Columbus Centre.
The display is coming no matter what, says Barbara Gibson, chair of the Trail and District Public Library board.
Its value far outweighs associated costs to get the exhibit, which measures 22 feet by 75 feet, to the city, she added.
But the group could use some help from the public to help cover the balance of $5,585 for shipping.
So far, the Warfield Parent Advisory Council has donated $500 towards the cost, Gibson confirmed.
In November, Trail coun-cil authorized rental-free use of the Red Floor as well as city staff and re-sources to help with set up
and dismantling the display which includes personal accounts from those who lived through World War ll as enemy aliens and the im-pact on wives and children left behind.
Anyone interested in contributing can forward donations to the library, care of the Italian Exhibit.
During the 1940s, 31,000 Italian Canadians were des-ignated as enemy aliens.
Not much is known about four of the Trail men, listed as: Ermando Cecconi; Eugenio Della Lana; Augusto Secco; and Vito Di Pompilio. However, Silvio Romano, Ennio Vittorio Fabri, and Fioravante Tenisci were sent to Kananaskis then Petawawa with the latter, interred three years.
Approximately 600 were interned in remote camps after they were fingerprint-ed, photographed and or-dered to report monthly to the police.
Exhibit showcasing Italian Canadian internment during WWll coming to Trail Donations to cover shipping costs
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Two Italian Canadians walking through an internment camp.
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We go to extreme lengths to avoid the religious aspects of Christmas in the public sphere. Christian be-liefs about Christmas might offend
someone in our secular and multicultural society, so we ignore its religious side. The reluctance to mention the origins of this much-loved holiday permeates early childhood learning programs and public schools. Although I support the neutrality of religion in public institutions, there are, in my view, some good reasons to introduce children to the Christmas story.
My children were on the cusp of a shift in society’s approach to the celebra-tion of Christmas. Nativity scenes, for example, were not uncommon in public spaces, and on the per-sonal level, many families still attended a church ser-vice on Christmas Day. In the classroom, a babe in a manger and three kings co-existed with Santa Claus and Frosty the Snowman. While the secular themes of Christmas had begun to dominate, most schools still included at least a couple of religious carols in their annual Christmas concerts.
My grandchildren are the unlucky beneficiaries of the legacy of this shift. At an early childhood literacy program that I attend with my two-year old grand daughter, the leaders have been very careful to avoid the religious side of Christmas, restricting songs and stories to its secular manifestations.
Yet, the story of Christmas has a lot to offer our children. It is beautiful in both its simplicity and message. As long as educators present it in a neutral manner, we should not be afraid of introducing it to our children.
Lynn Proulx, a veteran early childhood educator, thinks that the story of the nativity resonates at a deep level with children. Children feel sad when no one will help Mary and Joseph; then they feel happy when Jesus is born. The story, said Proulx, provides an excellent opportunity to teach empathy and to help children learn the values of kindness, helping and sharing.
Of course, there are other stories that teach these same values, and that have nothing to do with re-ligion. However, the story of the nativity is part of our collective patrimony. Our country’s roots go back to the Judeo-Christian tradition. This tradi-tion has shaped our culture, values, social institu-tions and judicial system. Our heritage includes centuries of religious art, music and literature that drew inspiration from a babe in a manger. Exposure to this cultural canon makes for a well-rounded education and a better understanding of our self as a nation.
Our children intuit the universality of the Christmas message. It is summed up in the very first Christmas greeting, “peace on earth and good-will towards men”. It is in the air and in our greet-ings to one another over the holiday season, which inspires us to act with greater generosity. While everyone does not believe in “the reason for the season”, there is something transcendent about Christmas.
It is shortsighted to restrict children (and our-selves) to a candy cane diet of Christmas cute-ness. There are meat and potatoes on the table, too. The religious side of Christmas deserves a place alongside the magic of Santa. Knowledge of the Christmas story, with its universal message of goodwill towards all people, could be in the best interest of a secular and multicultural society.
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This $15,000 donation from the Trail Hospital Auxiliary completed their $60,000 pledge to the Urology Campaign. Lisa Pasin, director of development KBRH Health Foundation, accepts this donation and thanks the auxiliary for their hard work and dedication.
Teck Trail Operations supported Light Up the Hospitals Pledge Day with a $5,000 contri-bution to the regional Urology Campaign and radio advertising spon-sorship. Community Engagement Leader, Carol Vanelli Worosz presents this donation to Carol Schlender, sec-retary, and Mike Conci, director, of the KBRH Health Foundation Board (left to right).
Tim Horton’s Smile Cookie Campaign raised $1,680 for the KBRH Health Foundation’s Urology Campaign. Brandon and Sarah Byers, Trail Tim Hortons owners, presented their dona-tion to KBRH Health Foundation Board sec-retary Carol Schlender (far left) and director Joanne McQuary (far right).
A total of $7,000 was donated by the United Steel Workers Local 480 to support the Gordy Steep Memorial Sick Children’s Fund. Chris Walker, treasurer (left) and Norm Murdoch, financial secretary (right) present the cheque to Arleen Gallo and Debbie Martin, KBRH Health Foundation Board directors. The Gordy Steep Sick Children’s Fund assists families with expenses when they are travelling to receive advanced care for their sick children.
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Ask someone how they are, and often the response is “busy, very busy!” I am guilty of the same
response. What is everyone doing that we are all so busy? These days, however, I am trying to be more intentional, and take the time to reflect on what I have to be thankful for. These are today’s thoughts:
I feel very lucky to live in the Lower Columbias. There are many opportunities to enjoy this region, if you choose to participate … and I do! Dust off your skis and snow shoes, and head up to Champion Lakes Cross Country Ski Trails. A day pass is only $5. Forty dollars gets you a season’s pass for a single user, and for $90, you can get a season’s pass for the whole fam-ily! Take a lunch and head into the main cabin on the lake, build a fire and enjoy the view. You will find yourself right in the middle of a Christmas Card – check it out! I am grateful for this opportunity.
Staff from the Regional District Kootenay Boundary and the Kootenay Boundary Regional Fire Service are working together to gather Firefighting memorabilia for a newly constructed display case in the lobby of the main office at 843 Rossland Avenue. It is a trib-ute to our local firefighters both past and present. We were able to begin our display with a number of items from the collection of the late Allan Shutek. Al was an avid col-lector of firefighting memorabilia,
and dedicated many years as a volun-teer with Company No. 2 in Warfield. We wanted to share the historic memo-rabilia with you, so, please, come and check it out! Maybe you have something you would like to donate? At the same time, you will also be able to admire the art of a couple from Trail’s Home of Champions: Valen and Velenka Fanderlik. Some of their work was recently donated by Dan McGauley on behalf of his par-ents, and is proudly displayed here at the RDKB – you are welcome to stop by to view the Fanderlik art-work during regular office hours. For these things, I am grateful.
Our RDKB Emergency Operations Center (EOC) was acti-vated in support of the Rock Creek fire on August 13th, and it stayed at a Level 3 Activation for 22 days. At its busiest, there were 21 dedicated staff members in the EOC dealing with the ongoing wildfires from Rock Creek through to Big Sheep Creek. This was a talented team of professionals, both from private and public sectors, who came to-gether to manage the fires that hit our region. Due to the dedication and commitment of the staff in the EOC, a number of procedures were put to the test, resulting in new
best practices that are now being shared around the Province. There were many h e a r t - w r e n c h i n g tales shared after the fires, and other sto-ries about acts of per-severance, bravery and compassion. To all of those who par-ticipated - I say thank you! I am grateful for your time and com-mitment.
Recently, the Beaver Valley Recreation Committee called a pub-lic meeting on the development of trails within the Valley. While we already enjoy several fantastic trails (Antennae Trail, Mazocchi Trail, Beaver Valley Family Park Trail, and the Old Orchard Trail), we needed to check in with residents to find out what their visions and ideas for future trail development are. Stewart Spooner from Kootenay Columbia Trails Society led a group discussion among 18 volunteers, considering new options for the Valley. One generous resident at the meeting offered access to his lands for trail development, where the summit would provide a breathtak-ing view of our Valley. Contact the Beaver Valley Arena (PH. # 367-9319) if you would like to join the Trails Development group. For all of this, I say; thank you! I am grate-ful for the beauty that surrounds us, and the interest and commitment
from locals.My final gratitude for today is for
the “Jingle Down Main” event, spon-sored by the Village of Fruitvale. Friday evening was a warm and sparkly night, with good food, good cheer, and good music! Saturday morning, I hopped on the “Jingle Express” with my Mom and two granddaughters after having break-fast with Santa. There was a great turnout by residents and commu-nity clubs for all the events. A huge thank-you to several businesses and organizations who partner to make these events the success they have become. Check out Jingle Down Main in Fruitvale one year! You will be grateful for the opportunity to participate in one of the many great events offered here in the Lower Columbias.
I am grateful for my family, my friends, my health, laughter, good food and clean water. I am thank-ful for my dog and the horses, the wild turkeys, and for the privilege of working and living here. Thank you, and Happy Holidays!
Ali Grieve is the Area A director of the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary. Community Comment is an opportunity for elected officials from our local municipalities to up-date citizens in the region on the events, plans and progress in their re-spective communities. Every Friday, the Trail Times will present, on a rotating basis, a submission from councils, school trustees or regional district directors.
Take time to be thankful this season
ALI GRIEVECommunity Comment
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I think that history will judge the current mess in the Middle East as having been exacerbated by the United
States’ response to the airplane attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001. While there is no question the horrors of that day were intended to induce terror, the U.S. government had a choice to respond to the devastation as a crime or an act of war. It is hardly a surprise that a government that included the likes of Dick Cheney and Karl Rove chose the latter.
The response was not surpris-ing, but nor was it unprecedented. Americans like their wars, even if they don’t involve attacks on Third World islands and other inferior opponents. Successive administrations have declared “wars” on crime, pov-erty, drugs and other flavours of the day, even appointing “czars” (an odd choice for a title if there ever was one) to lead various crusades.
If the choice to craft a war-like response to the 9-11 events was predictable, the details weren’t. Invading Iraq and Afghanistan, two crappy examples of nation-hood to be sure, might have had an appeal but neither mission had a direct connection to the terrorist attacks. Saudi Arabian nationals were at the controls and their financing almost cer-tainly came from their home country, but Saudi Arabia gets the same free pass as Israel from the U.S. Both countries seem to have carte blanche to behave badly without threat of retalia-tion from their buddies across
the Atlantic.By labelling the air attacks an
act of war, the U.S. (and its allies) gave instant credibility to all the misfits and miscreants who see no future in building their own countries up, and so seek to tear others down. Being classed as warriors instead of crooks played right into their hands, giving them a cachet amongst their own and elevating the fear of citizens
around the world.As radicals in
largely impover-ished countries work to recruit others to their cause of disman-tling the western world, their pros-pects improve d r a m a t i c a l l y when they pro-mote their actions as a call to war. It wouldn’t be as
fashionable to join up with a bunch of seedy criminals as it is go to war and fight for a cause in the name of Islam.
As brighter minds than me have pointed out recently, Islam is not the problem democracies have to be concerned with. Most major religions have been used over the course of history as an excuse to kill others. Christianity is no exception.
If the choice had been to re-spond to terrorism as criminal activity, the buildup that led to ISIS might not have come so eas-ily. If there really is some kind of sick belief that blowing up oneself and others creates a path to the hereafter, it doesn’t seem likely that it would have become so widespread if we in the west viewed them as criminals.
At every step of the way since 9-11, the western response has rewarded the radicals. They want
to be seen as martyrs and they want us to be anti-Islam. It feeds their own pathetic worldview and tells them that they are on the right path.
We did, after all, fall hook, line and sinker for the rhetoric of our own leaders when we were told about “weapons of mass destruc-tion” (as if nuclear arms don’t qualify) and some actually be-lieved George W. Bush’s assertion that Iraqis would greet invading troops with bouquets of flowers as we worked to “win their hearts and minds”.
So now we have this roving state we call ISIS, in which ter-rorists commit unspeakable crimes (yes, crimes) against what we mistakenly believe to be their own people on a mission that re-ally has no goal other than to dis-rupt and create havoc. Heck, if I was living in squalor and misery with no hope for a better future, it wouldn’t take much to rouse me to a level of hatred against those whose lives are luxurious by comparison, and not devoid of hope.
The saddest evidence that our own “war on terror” has back-fired is in the response by those who decry taking in refugees, claiming it puts us at risk of the ne’er-do-wells who blow things and people up in the name of Allah.
The same knuckleheads who think that free trade is OK even if it reduces a signatory country’s own sovereignty suddenly get all huffy and paranoid about people who fear for their own lives in ways we cannot even imagine.
Game and set to the terrorists. We are going to have to get a lot smarter, and not meaner, if we want to have any hope of win-ning the match.
Lorne Eckersley is the publisher of the Creston Valley Advance.
It’s time to declare a war on ... war
LORNE ECKERSLEY
This is the Life
THE C ANADIAN PRESSOTTAWA - The interim
leader of the Conservative party says Donald Trump may be running to be the presiden-tial candidate for the American right but his views aren’t wel-come in Canada’s right.
Rona Ambrose says she doesn’t even consider Trump’s views to be on the political spectrum, calling them over the top and ridiculous.
Trump, who is running to be the presidential nominee for the Republican party, has called for a temporary ban on Muslim immigration to the U.S., a policy that polls suggest is supported by a majority of Republicans.
Ambrose says she’s glad there’s not that kind of dis-course happening in Canadian politics, though she acknowl-edges there have been recent
acts of intolerance towards Canadian Muslims.
But she says if views like Trump’s are to be found among Canadians, those opin-ions aren’t welcome in the Conservative party.
The Conservatives have yet to decide when they’ll pick a permanent replacement to lead their party but expect to release rules about how that contest will roll out in January.
No room for Trump’s politics in Conservative party, says interim leader
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SPORTSSmoke Eaters bite back, beat Vipers
JIM BAILEYTimes Sports Editor
Trail Smoke Eaters forward Kyle Star scored the winner, breaking a 3-3 tie early in the third period to lift the Smoke Eaters to within a point of the Vernon Vipers for the final playoff spot in the BCHL’s Interior division with a thrill-ing 6-3 victory Wednesday at the Cominco Arena.
The Smoke Eaters scored five power-play goals on 11 chances and one shorthanded marker in a physical match that saw over 50 minutes in penal-ties, and at least two injured Smokies leave the game.
“There was a lot of different elements to the game tonight,” said Smoke Eater coach and GM Nick Deschenes. “There was physicality and there was some adversity, and I think we responded really well. We have a pretty character group.”
Star’s ninth goal of the sea-son came on the power play 4:25 into the third, when Mitch Stapley and Kale Howarth worked the puck to Star in the left circle and the Langley native sniped the top corner on Viper goalie Andrew Shortridge to give the Smokies a 4-3 lead.
“Whenever we play Vernon, we have a playoff mentality, and for us it was a four-point night, we knew it was going to be hard, and we had to be pre-pared for whatever was going to happen in the game,” said Trail captain Evan MacEachern.
Kienan Scott opened the scoring when Max Newton corralled the puck in his own end and lifted a pass over the Vernon defencemen to a streaking Scott who out-raced the Vernon defender and beat Shortridge with a deke to give the Smokies a 1-0 advantage at 13:27 of the first period.
The Smoke Eaters contin-ued to press and after Colton McCarthy took a slashing pen-alty, Jake Kauppila deflected in a Star point shot to put Trail up by two heading to the second frame.
“We’re starting to dig in and
not get pushed around,” said Deschenes. “I like where we are at right now, we’re not a team of superstars but we definitely play as a five-man unit when we’re out there and we get a lot done.”
Trail outshot the Vipers 17-11 in the period, but the Vipers responded in the sec-ond.
Just 49 seconds into the period, Joe Sacco finished a 2-on-1 banging in the re-bound, after Trail goalie Bailey MacBurnie made a great pad save off McCarthy. However, the Smokies went on the power play again, and after some slick puck movement, Connor Brown-Maloski moved into the slot and ripped a Ross Armour pass under the glove of Shortridge to restore the two goal lead at 15:02.
Vernon answered when Odeen Tufto lifted a rebound over a sprawling MacBurnie 11:28 into the period, and Jimmy Lambert tied it on the power play on a goal-mouth frenzy that saw the Trail goalie stop two point blank shots be-fore Lambert beat him on the
third try to make it 3-3 with just over five minutes to play in the middle stanza. Vernon outshot the Smokies 12-10 in the period.
The Smokies didn’t take long to regain the lead in the third period with Star’s goal less than five minutes in.
Things began to unravel for the Vipers as the undisciplined penalties began to pile up. Ben Butcher took a tripping penalty at 13:45, and while the Smokies evened it after a non-call on a hit to Jake Kauppila prompt-ed a helmet toss onto the ice from the Smokie’s bench and a bench minor, Vernon again went down another man when Odeen Tufto took a cross-checking penalty at 12: 41.
Fifteen seconds later, Nick Halloran made it 5-3 taking a pass from Brown-Maloski at the hash mark and wiring it top corner.
Moments later, Trail na-tive Riley Brandt caught Kale Howarth cutting to the inside, and was penalized for a blow to the head, and also a fight-ing major after MacEachern jumped in to defend his team-
mate. Howarth lay motionless on the ice for over a minute, but was eventually helped off. His probable concussion followed hard on the heels of another hit against the boards that sent John Laurito to the dressing room with a likely shoulder injury earlier in the period.
“We just have to keep going, we might be a little banged up here we’ll just have to see, but whenever we get a team here at home we have to feel confident that we can win from top to bottom,” said Deschenes. “It’s a tough trip to come out here.”
Despite the injuries, Trail wasn’t finished. Harlan Orr made a pretty play to get the puck to Scott in front who scored his second of the game and 17th of the season to round out the scoring at 11:09 mark. It was the Penticton native’s fifth goal in six games, over which Trail has won five of six.
“He (Scott) was concussed and it took a little while, and you never know when a player gets hurt like that when the dust settles and when they get
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Vernon Vipers goalie Andrew Shortridge stops Trail Smoke Eater forward Harlan Orr on the door step but the Smokies would get to the Viper goalie, scoring five power-play goals on their way to a 6-3 victory.
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confident again,” added the Smokie coach. “In the last 10 games he’s really come on and is probably one of the hot-test players, goal-wise, in the league.”
MacBurnie is another big reason the Smokies are winning, as he stopped 33 of 36 shots and was named the third star of the game, and has been a star in five of the last six. MacEachern was the game’s second star, and Scott earned first star honours. Shortridge
blocked 30-of-36 shots, as the Vipers went 1-for-7 on the power play. Kauppila also had a strong game for the Smokies with a goal and two assists.
The Smoke Eaters sit one point behind the Vipers for the fourth and final playoff spot in the Interior division, but enjoy three games in hand. Trail faces off against the Salmon Arm Silverbacks at the Cominco Arena tonight then travels to Merritt on Saturday to face the
Centennials in two cru-cial division games.
“With Salmon Arm they’re a team that’s ahead of us and we have to steal some of those games if we’re going to make it to a playoff spot,” said MacEachern. “That’s a game we really have to win, as well as Merritt. It’s a big push for us and we have to keep riding this wave of wins.”
The Smokies– Silverbacks game goes at 7:30 p.m. at the Cominco Arena.
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Smokies ride wave of wins
JIM BAILEYTimes Sports Editor
The Beaver Valley Nitehawks finish on the road before Christmas break as they travel to Grand Forks to face the Border Bruins tonight and Fernie on Saturday to play the Ghostriders.
The Nitehawks have yet to lose in the month of December, but will face a Border Bruins team that has had their number of late, winning three straight against the Hawks.
“We play to win, es-pecially in our own di-
vision,” said Hawks as-sistant coach Bill Birks. “Friday is a big game in Grand Forks, they’ve kind of had our number and we have to turn the table on them. They’ve been unreal this year, definitely improved.”
The 14-16-0-1 Border Bruins have made huge strides this year and are currently in third place in the Neil Murdoch division, but are on a three-game slide after losses to Nelson, Golden, and Columbia Valley last week.
The Bruins also suf-fered a major setback on Saturday against Columbia Valley when a melee broke out in the third period involving the Bruins’ top scoring
forwards Dylan Haney and Jordan Robertson. Both were ejected with less than two minutes remaining for fighting, given game miscon-ducts, and will miss to-night’s match up against the Nitehawks.
The Nitehawks will face a former team-mate in Nelson native Coleton Dawson who was released at the Dec. 1 deadline, but was picked up by Fernie last week.
The 18-9-0-3 Ghostriders are tied for second in the Eddie Mountain division of the Kootenay Conference and are coming off a pair of convincing wins over Golden and Spokane last weekend.
Their only loss in the past eight games was a 4-3 overtime setback to the Castlegar Rebels on Dec. 5. The Hawks will also have to neutralize the league’s top scorer in Cole Keebler who has 24 goals and 48 points in 30 games.
Beaver Valley seems to be settling in now having finally settled its goaltending tan-dem, and getting Sam Swanson back from in-jury.
The addition of goal-tender Tallon Kramer has solidified the back end, and with the re-turn of Kyle Hope, Ryan Neil, and Lyle Frank im-minent, the future looks bright for the surging Hawks.
B.V. Nitehawks hit the road before break
A fair turn-out, for a Wednesday, for the Smoke
Eaters fifth win in six games. And those that came out, other than a few Vernon fans, left the building happy.
The result was huge for the Smokies play-off hopes, moving the team within a point of the Vipers, over whom they have three games in hand, and whom they play a couple of more times, including the final game of the regu-lar season in Cominco Arena.
A tougher test comes tonight, and two points from the game against Salmon Arm are still a desirable goal. The Silverbacks are 2-0 against the Smoke Eaters and have out-scored the locals, 11-5, but, one hopes, that was then.
Underscoring the dif-ficulty tonight, however,
is the fact that Salmon Arm is the only team in the BCHL with a posi-tive record against the n u m b e r one team in Canada, the Pent ic ton V e e s , a g a i n s t whom they have taken five points (two wins and an over-time loss), so far this season.
Not long ago Cowichan Valley trounced Trail in Trail - then the Smokies re-turned the favour on the island during their last trip. There is then, hope, especially given the surge from Trail’s special teams (five goals on the power play and one shorthanded Wednesday to go with a usually competent pen-alty kill).
Trail is playing bet-ter, much better in fact,
than they were two months ago, the last time their opponent was
Salmon Arm. The team is getting bal-anced of-fence and strong goal-tending.
But, (you knew there was one, right?) lots
of things need to be cleaned up about the Smokies approach.
Two of Vernon’s goals Wednesday were the re-sult of simply dimbulb back passes in their own end which landed on Vernon sticks - even though Trail had full control of the puck and there were safer options available. It is nice to see the team playing with more confidence, but here is hoping hard that that doesn’t overflow into cockiness/slop-piness. The individual skills on the roster are
not sufficient to a game of fancy-schmantzy at-tempts to outfox oppo-nents, most of whom can match the Smokies on the skill meter.
And there is still the matter of shot selection and offensive position-ing. That part of Trail’s game has improved, a lot, but there are still too many times in a game where puck car-riers skate away from the prime scoring area towards a back corner or potential shooters pass the puck from op-timum areas to lower chance ones. Or as a friend, and very long term Smoke Eater sup-porter, said recently, “I have never seen a team pass up so many good opportunities in favour of bad ones.”
Fix that, and encour-age players joining the rush to get into shoot-ing areas and NOT FINISH UP BY GOING BEHIND THE NET
FOR NO REASON WHEN THEIR PUCK CARRIER HAS CONTROL AND IS LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO PASS TO, and the current good form could con-tinue indefinitely.
More hope than ever that the Smokies can achieve a playoff spot for the first time in a while, and tonight should indicate how far they have come in the past month. A fast start - the Smoke Eaters are way more succcessful when they score first - and a continuation of the recent high energy play could do the trick.
A win tonight, when Smoke Eater fans are taking up their last op-portunity to grab sou-venirs and such, would send the team and its fans happily into the Christmas break, re-gardless of the result in Merritt tomorrow.
See you there.
DAVE THOMPSON
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Smokies playoff poised but not perfect
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Dear Annie: Is it appropriate or even normal for a husband to always ask who I am on the phone with or who just texted me? Or to stand behind me while I’m reading my email, unabashedly reading over my shoulder?
I don’t have anything to hide, but I find this behavior intrusive and an-noying. Sometimes, he will even ask for details about certain parts of my conversation. I don’t dare refuse to answer for fear he will think I’m try-ing to conceal something. He has a quick temper and becomes defensive and angry if I question him. I hate conflict, so I just answer his ques-tions to avoid his outbursts.
One time, my best friend confided something highly personal to me and specifically asked me not to tell anyone. When I refused to disclose this information to my husband, he got very angry, arguing that spouses shouldn’t keep secrets from one an-other. I don’t feel it’s wrong to keep a confidence that has absolutely noth-ing to do with him. He did not agree,
and I ended up telling him a less-detailed version of our conversation. But I was upset that he pressured me until I conceded.
My husband doesn’t automatically report his conversations to me, and I don’t expect him to. Am I too private or is he too nosy? -- Nothing to Hide but My Annoyance
Dear Nothing: He’s way too nosy. Confidences between friends or family members do not have to be shared as long as they don’t involve the spouse or the mar-riage. Saying that you were on the phone with “Myrtle” is sufficient in-formation.
Some spouses tell each other every detail of every conversation, but that is up to them. In your case, your husband is badgering and pres-suring you for additional informa-tion. Either he doesn’t trust you, or he needs to control you. (It’s also possible he is guilty of doing things
that he doesn’t want you to know about, and this is why he is overly concerned with your phone conversa-tions and emails.) What concerns us the most is that you feel you must constantly appease him because of his anger is-sues. Tell him to knock it off before he turns into a full-fledged bully and the marriage is in serious
trouble. If he refuses, or if you believe his anger is dangerous or more than you can handle, contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline (thehot-line.org) at 1-800-799-SAFE.
Dear Annie: My wife and I are having a disagreement about how to sign cards and notes. Does the man’s name come first or does the woman’s?
I have always put my name first, but lately she says that her name should be first. So should it be “Tim and Marlene”? Or is it “Marlene and Tim?” -- Your Opinion, Please
Dear Tim: Your wife is right. Etiquette says the woman’s name comes first in all cases except where the signature is “Mr. and Mrs. John Smith” or some variation. Of course, not everyone cares, in which case, sign your names however you choose.
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Th e love a heart holds dear;
Fond memories linger every day,
Remembrance keeps him near.
Love Mary, Danny & Marilyn, Ronny & Leanne,
Karen and families.
In loving memory of Fred CaputoDecember 20, 2010
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We the family of the late
Bill Kabatoff would like to thank everyone for the
overwhelming love & support we received during this difficult time.
Thanks for all the baked goodies, flowers, cards & phone calls. Thanks to Marcie, Lorna & the Russian singers, Dr. Neil & the staff @ KBRH.
Thanks to all our extended family & friends & Jordan Wren, Alternative Funeral Services. An extra special thank you to our neighbours: Lindsey & Jan, Wendy & lan, John & Kathy,
Maryann & Denny, John & Jill, Marge & Alex, & all my compassionate
friends. Love from the Kabatoff, the Dupas
& the Kidd families.In memory of
Arthur SchultzOctober 23, 1915 - December 20, 2004
Your smiling way and pleasant faceAre a pleasure to recall ;
You had a kindly word for each, And died beloved by all .
Some day we hope to meet you,Some day, we know not when,
To clasp your hand in the bett er land,Never to part again.
Love from Bett y, Emil, Rita and families.
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call WINS Transition House 250-364-1543
Lost & FoundFOUND: 1 Christmas earring December 14 @ Safeway, Trail. Claim @ Trail Times.
FOUND: 2 Keys: 1 vehicle key on Pine Ave.; 1 other key with numbered yellow tag in the Gulch. Also found outside Gerick Cycle a SD & SIM card. To claim, send email [email protected]
LOST: BMW chrome rim around headlight, outside Pharmasave, downtown Trail on December 15th. Please call 250-368-3096.
LOST: yellow gold wedding band and solitaire engage-ment ring from the Trail Safe-way women’s washroom after 1:15pm Sunday, December 6th. Diamond secured with 4 low-set split claws. Reward for return. Phone 250-368-6791
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a, Fusio
n/ 2015
: Edge,
Flex; 20
16: Edg
e, Expe
dition/
2015: Tr
ansit Co
nnect; 2
016: E-S
eries Cu
taway, T
ransit,
F-250 Ga
s Engine
, F-350 t
o F-450
(exclud
ing Cha
ssis Cab
s) Gas E
ngine/2
015: Ta
urus (e
xcludin
g SE); 2
016: Tra
nsit Con
nect, F-
350 to F
-550 Cha
ssis Cab
s/ 2015
: E-Serie
s Cutaw
ay, Tran
sit/ 201
5: F-150
Regula
r Cab (e
xcludin
g XL 4x2
) 5.0L; 2
016: F-1
50 Regu
lar Cab (
excludi
ng XL 4x
2)/ 201
6: F-250
Diesel
Engine,
F-350 t
o F-45
0 (exclu
ding Ch
assis Ca
bs) Die
sel Eng
ine/ 201
5: F-150
SuperCr
ew 4x4
; 2016:
F-150 Su
perCab
and Sup
erCrew
/ 2015: F
iesta, F
usion, E
xplorer,
Escape/
2015: F
-350 to F
-550 Cha
ssis Cab
s / 2015
: F-150 S
uperCab
/ 2015: E
xpediti
on / 201
5: F-250
Gas Eng
ine, F-3
50 to F-
450 (ex
cluding
Chassis
Cabs) G
as Engin
e/ 2015
: F-250 D
iesel En
gine, F-3
50 to F-
450 (ex
cluding
Chassis
Cabs) D
iesel En
gine -- a
ll stripp
ed chas
sis, F-15
0 Rapto
r, Mediu
m Truck
, Mustan
g Shelby
and 50t
h Annive
rsary ex
cluded.
Deliver
y allow
ances a
re not c
ombin
able w
ith any
fleet co
nsumer
incent
ives.^U
ntil Jan
uary 4,
2016, le
ase a n
ew 201
6: Fusio
n for up
to 3
6 mont
hs, or a
2016: E
scape fo
r up to 4
8 mont
hs, and
get 0%
APR lea
se finan
cing on
approve
d credit
(OAC) f
rom For
d Credit
Canada
Limited
. Not al
l buyers
will qu
alify fo
r the lo
west AP
R payme
nt. Lea
se a mo
del wit
h a valu
e of $30
,000 at
0% APR
for up
to 36/4
8 mont
hs with
an optio
nal buy
out of $
13,200/
$10,80
0 and $0
down or
equival
ent tra
de in, m
onthly
paymen
t is $46
6.67/ $4
00.00,
total le
ase obl
igation
is $16,8
00.12/$
19.200.
00, int
erest co
st of lea
sing is $
0 or 0%
APR. Ad
ditiona
l payme
nts requ
ired for
PPSA (R
DPRM fo
r Quebe
c), regis
tration
, securit
y depos
it, NSF f
ees (wh
ere app
licable)
, excess
wear an
d tear, a
nd late
fees. So
me con
ditions
and mil
eage re
strictio
ns appl
y. Excess
kilomet
rage cha
rges are
12¢per
km for
Fiesta,
Focus,
C-MAX,
Fusion
and Esc
ape; 16
¢per km
for E-S
eries, M
ustang,
Taurus,
Taurus-
X, Edge
, Flex, E
xplorer,
F-Series
, MKS, M
KX, MKZ
, MKT an
d Trans
it Conne
ct; 20¢p
er km f
or Expe
dition a
nd Navig
ator, pl
us appl
icable ta
xes. Exc
ess kilo
metrage
charges
subject
to chan
ge, see
your loc
al deale
r for de
tails. A
ll prices
are bas
ed on M
anufact
urer’s S
uggeste
d Retail
Price. ≠
Offer o
nly vali
d from
Novem
ber 3, 2
015 to J
anuary
4, 2016
(the “O
ffer Per
iod”) t
o reside
nt Cana
dians wi
th an el
igible C
ostco
member
ship on
or befo
re Octob
er 31, 20
15. Recei
ve $1,00
0 towar
ds the p
urchase
or leas
e of a n
ew 201
5/2016
Ford (e
xcludin
g Fiesta
, Focus,
C-MAX,
GT350,
GT500,
F-150 Ra
ptor, 50
th Anni
versary
Edition
Mustan
g, Musta
ng Shelb
y 350/3
50R and
Mediu
m Truck
) mode
l (each a
n “Eligib
le Vehic
le”). Lim
it one (
1) offer
per eac
h Eligib
le Vehic
le purch
ase or l
ease, u
p to a m
aximum
of two
(2) sep
arate El
igible V
ehicle sa
les per C
ostco M
embersh
ip Num
ber. Off
er is tra
nsferab
le to per
sons do
miciled
with an
eligible
Costco
member.
Applica
ble taxe
s calcul
ated bef
ore CAD
$1,000 o
ffer is d
educted
. ®: Reg
istered
tradema
rk of Pr
ice Cost
co Inte
rnation
al, Inc.
used un
der lice
nse. † R
ememb
er that
even ad
vanced
techno
logy can
not ove
rcome th
e laws o
f physic
s. It’s al
ways po
ssible to
lose co
ntrol of
a vehic
le due t
o inapp
ropriat
e driver
input f
or the c
onditio
ns. ‡F-S
eries is
the bes
t-sellin
g picku
p truck
in Cana
da for 4
9 years
in a row
based o
n Canad
ian Veh
icle Ma
nufactu
rers’ As
sociatio
n statis
tical sa
les repo
rt up to
2014 ye
ar end.
©2015
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anada I
nc. “Sir
iusXM”,
the Siri
usXM lo
go, cha
nnel na
mes and
logos a
re trad
emarks
of Siriu
sXM Rad
io Inc. a
nd are u
sed und
er licen
ce.©201
5 Ford M
otor Co
mpany
of Cana
da, Lim
ited. All
rights re
served.
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REGIONAL
Grace McGregor, Regional District of Kootenay Boundary representative for Area C/Christina Lake, was once again voted in as board chair for the organization.
The vote took place on Dec. 10 at the regional district (RDKB) board room in Trail. Roly Russell, Area D/Rural Grand Forks representative, was voted in as vice-chair.
“It was our inaugural meet-ing for the regional district,” said McGregor. “This is really
good. I can work very well with Roly, so I’m extremely happy with him being vice-chair. I think that speaks to what we’ve got in the Boundary.”
The appointment as board chair is McGregor’s third and she is very pleased. “I’m very honoured to be chair of the
board again. “We’ve done some really
good things. I also want to congratulate Roly.”
As the inaugural meeting of the year, the new directors were sworn in—no changes locally as the respective Greater Trail mayors remain on the board.
CR AIG LINDSAYGrand Forks GazetteMcGregor
re-elected as RDKB chair