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Blue skies and chirping birds are giving the feeling that spring is on the way in the Greater Trail area. The forecast for Trail shows more sunshine with a high of 9 C by Friday, and weekend rain with temperatures dropping slightly to 7 C. Two-year old Lincoln Zoet and Giselle Paakkunainen, 18 months, took advantage of the early thaw and dug into a play date at Gyro Park.

Better beware because bears are already waking up and raking through garbage cans in Trail neigh-bourhoods.

Activity has been reported in the Glenmerry area, including the sighting of a large black bear, confirms Sharon Wieder from Rossland/Trail Wildsafe BC.

“The warm weath-er definitely woke them up in those areas where there isn’t a lot of snow,” she explained. “We had that whole week when it was pretty mild, and it’s not un-usual for them to do that.”

Black bears typi-cally maintain fat reserves throughout winter, and Wieder says they generally don’t wake up in an aggressive pursuit of food.

Unfortunately for the animals, however, they’ll follow their noses to wherever a whiff of garbage is coming from.

“Behaviour-wise, they are not necessarily any different,” she said. “But definitely, this time of year, people don’t think about them being out and about and they aren’t as careful with keeping garbage se-cure - which really is the big problem.”

And, and easy food source spells trouble down the road for both homeowner and bear.

“People need to realize if they leave stuff out now, and the bear gets into the habit of it, they are going to around all summer long,” Wieder added. “They’ll just keep coming back, hoping to get more.”

Hopefully, early black bear sightings won’t por-tend another lethal year for the bruins.

Nine bears were destroyed in Rossland and 11 in Trail last year, compared to the previous year when none were killed in Rossland and two in Trail.

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Nearing $1.2 million, public transit is the second largest annual requisition for taxpayers in the East End Services (EES).

Elected officials from Rossland, Warfield, Trail, Montrose, Fruitvale, Area A and Area B, comprise the seven partici-pants, and the EES committee oversees re-

gional services, like public transit, within the municipalities and areas.

Those representatives are currently re-viewing the service’s revenue and expen-ditures as well as a proposed five-year financial plan for east end transit.

“And we await the results of the review being undertaken by BC Transit,” says Trail Mayor Mike Martin, the city’s EES director. “A process was started last fall

with some well-defined terms of refer-ence,” he added. “And we continue to explore every avenue to ensure the afford-ability and sustainability of the service.”

Broken down, the current property tax requisition from each community ranges from a half million to about $35,000, with those amounts growing to $600,000 and $42,000 by 2020, respectively.

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The CRA paperless push is ramping up in 2016.

Last year at this time, CRA began in-viting taxpayers to its website to set-up their “My Account”. If set-

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It’s a bit of a process to set up “My Account”. Allow about two weeks from start to finish since CRA mails you a passcode. Once you receive it, that’s when you actually log into “My Account” for the first time, and of course change the passcode.

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This means a CRA email will not contain detail, not ask for a direct reply, not have an attachment, and not have a link to “My Account”, a document, or a website. If a CRA email does include any of these items, it’s likely a scam. The CRA email will simply direct the taxpayer to log into their CRA “My Account” in order to read CRA’s cor-respondence.

Now it should be noted that despite the apparent all inclusive paperless push, at this time only a few types of correspondence are actually included in this plan. The rest still come via Canada Post. Having said this, CRA promises that almost all communication with taxpayers will become paperless, and this in-cludes payments to and

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In recent years CRA has been asking taxpay-ers to make payments to CRA electronically through on-line bank-ing or using CRA’s rela-tively new on-line “My Payment”.

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Attractants such as unse-cured refuse being left out-doors or receptacles placed curbside before garbage pick up are problems that each neighbourhood can tackle.

“I encourage people to talk to the homeowner, if they see garbage out,” Wieder said. “Let them know about the bears, and the whole neigh-bourhood should say, ‘Can you please take care of it.’”

Another tactic is to con-tact the city’s bylaw enforce-ment officer.

“Garbage is not sup-posed to be put out before the morning of pickup,” she reiterated. “If it’s out on the street the night before, let the bylaw officer know. Because if it’s not taken care of, the bear will return.”

Specifically, Trail’s gar-bage bylaw states all con-tainers must be placed next to the lane or the boulevard

or at a place designated by the public works manager no earlier than 5 a.m. but before 8 a.m. on the day of collec-tion indicated by the city.

According to Wildsafe BC’s year-end report, 2015 saw the largest increase in bear activity since 2013, and the highest number of bears destroyed since 2010.

The unusually dry season led to failure of the natural berry crops, especially huck-leberries.

Abundant urban fruit trees brought bears back into town by mid-summer, which is about a month earlier than normal.

Fruit trees came very close to garbage as the main source of conflict last year, provok-ing discussion in local social media about who is responsi-ble for bears being destroyed due to mismanaged fruit as well as unsecured garbage.

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Specifically, the pro-posed 2016 number for Trail stands at $498,000; Area A, $204,000; Rossland, $190,000; Area B, $116,000; Fruitvale $63,000; Warfield $52,000; and Montrose $35,000.

So news the prov-ince is kicking in $324 million in operating contributions to BC Transit over the next three years could be a positive for rural com-munities - though it’s too early to know how the funding will impact local service or if it will trickle down to taxpay-er pocketbooks.

The new funding will be directed to BC Transit operating costs, meaning more service hours, new routes, im-proved HandyDART services and more fre-quent buses, accord-ing to the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure’s Friday news release.

“We recognize the importance of afford-able transit in B.C. communities,” Minister Todd Stone said in the release. “Which is

why our government has increased funding, and also provided BC Transit and its partners with maximum flexibil-ity to use this money as efficiently as possi-ble over the next three years.”

He acknowledged the upcoming Crown review of BC Transit, and said local govern-ments, BC Transit and the ministry are work-ing to identify savings and third-party rev-enue sources.

Between now and 2017, the B.C. govern-ment will provide $106 million in operating funds; $108 million in 2017-18 and $110 mil-lion in 2018-19.

Additionally, the ministry has committed another $110 million for BC Transit capital investments over the next three years, add-ing to its annual $1 mil-

lion investment toward projects on highways and roads such as bus shelters and wheelchair pads.

Locally, a potential capital project recently came to the forefront, that being the possibil-ity of improving or re-locating the main bus exchange on Cedar Avenue.

Lack of amenities, poor lighting, inad-equate signage and scanty shelter are rea-sons local transit has long championed the idea of moving the main bus location else-where.

Improvements are limited because the aging Eaton’s build-ing is privately owned, which impedes the op-portunity to upgrade the property with signs and awnings.

Notably, talks about relocation are prelimi-

nary. Additionally, the West Kootenay Transit Committee has yet to seriously engage with Trail, who must be a key member of the dis-cussion as the city will ultimately have to agree to any change.

Though resolution is far down the line, the proposal is on the city’s radar.

Trail Mayor Mike Martin forwarded a petition from residents opposed to the move, to the EES during the Jan. 12 regional meeting.

“It is very early on in the review process being undertaken by BC Transit to explore improvements to the effectiveness and effi-ciency of public trans-portation services in the West Kootenay area,” Martin told the Trail Times.

He ensured com-munity input would be

brought forward and considered during de-liberations between the regional committee and BC Transit.

“We appreciated get-ting this feedback from a valued community group who rely heavily on the transit service,” Martin said. “From what I have heard there is strong support with regard to improving the transit exchange area and in order to do that, the transit exchange may need to be relo-cated.”

Any suggested modi-fications or relocation of the transit exchange will involve Trail city council,” he reiterated.

“In the meantime, we need to allow for BC Transit to under-take their work towards bringing alternatives to improving the efficien-cy of the transit service.”

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Back in the 1960s and ’70s, being old and being poor were pretty well synony-mous. The generation that

started their families during the Great Depression and then endured the sacrifices of the Second World War simply had no chance to build savings to last through retirement.

The nation had only recently created the Canada Pension Plan, and as that generation’s grandchil-dren, the baby boomers, entered adulthood, it became clear more would be needed to address poverty among seniors.

By the early 1970s, more than one in three seniors was living in poverty. The Canada Pension Plan was never intended to be a full living income, but a huge portion of older people had little else. So Canada created the Old Age Security/Guaranteed Income Supplement programs.

And the poverty rate for seniors dropped like a stone.

By 1995, barely 3.9 per cent of seniors lived below Canada’s arbi-trary measure of the low-income cutoff, which was the policy-level definition of poverty. At that time, child poverty, by the same arbitrary measure, was around 18 or 19 per cent — and has sadly remained that way ever since.

For most people, retirement looked like it would be at least workable, if not comfortably rich.

Meanwhile, in the working lives of the boomers, a myriad of schemes were in-vented to encourage people to save for re-tirement. But it’s clear the incentives we in-vented — registered savings plans (RSPs), a growth in company pension plans, tax-free savings accounts (TFSAs) and the in-troduction of pooled pension plans for people without company plans, plus an explosion in the value of home ownership — haven’t worked well at all.

From that low point in 1995, poverty levels for seniors have crept back up to 11.1 per cent, says a report released last week by the Broadbent Institute.

And the future looks worse, not better, says the institute’s report.

Less than half of boomers re-ally saved anything at all during their working lives. Despite living through an age of prosperity, with all the incentive and advice they had, many have saved virtually nothing. What were they thinking?

The Broadbent Institute doesn’t answer that question, but it does report some sad statistics on the profligacy of this generation.

Less than half of people aged 55 to 64 who are employed have

a company pension plan as part of the wage packet. Private savings? Less than a quarter of Canadians contrib-ute each year to an RSP. Fewer than one in five Canadian boomers have sav-ings that would last at least three years. Even if you account for the equity in

people’s homes, we’re told most seniors have less than five years’ worth of assets saved.

Of existing retirees, a demo-graphic that grows annually as a result of a new wave of retiring boomers, the average income for seniors falls about $5,600 below a median income of $20,000 a year.

How could this have happened?One explanation is to look at

the rising curve of income inequal-ity. Are boomers really the rich-est generation that ever lived? The top two-tenths of wealthy people is firmly post-war. That’s where the money is.

Last Thursday, the Globe and Mail published a special section on estate planning for that group. Gotta plan for who gets the cottage, the summer home or the winter es-cape when the boomer parents die.

Except that a large part of that de-mographic earned less than $50,000

a year all their working lives. The Broadbent report says they hold something like $250 in savings. In the group that earned $50,000 to $100,000 a year, the average savings is around $21,000.

Go to any online retirement planner and it will likely tell you that you need a million or so in the bank to retire in the manner most people say they expect. That’s quite the gap from reality.

Two generations after 1973 and the same problem looms, with the same response suggested. Boost the Guaranteed Income Supplement to something closer to a living income, says our new Liberal government. That notion is supported by the Broadbent Institute report.

Only this time, instead of tax-ing the rising incomes of boomers to pay for it, we’ll be taxing the stagnant and falling incomes of mil-lennials.

Because God forbid we should tax the incomes of wealthy baby boomers, or the incomes of the boomers who actually did save dili-gently for retirement.

The common-sense response — save for the future — applies no more to individuals than to govern-ments. Only a few individuals — and very few governments — seem to have that kind of sense.

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Trevor and Lorena are inter-national performers and have over 20 international awards for their work. The Trail Lions Club would like to thank everyone who supported us by attending this amazing show and everyone who was willing to help sponsor the performance with their kind

donations, thus enabling those families facing difficult financial times to bring their children free of charge.

Sponsoring shows like this helps the Trail Lions Club with the services they provide their community – both locally and internationally.

Lions Clubs International fund projects that help eliminate blindness throughout the world, are there at times of crisis, through the Lions International Foundation, funding of disaster relief, and support of programs aimed at improving the lives of those less fortunate.

Locally we have been able to

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All the money raised through public projects, goes back to the community – that is our man-date.

If anyone is interested in be-coming a Lion, they should con-tact a member, we would wel-come all those that are interested in joining our organization.

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They won’t go away. Rumours, exaggerations and outright lies about how Canada treats refu-gees better than Canadian citi-zens continue to circulate. They are bound to increase now that the Liberal government has made good on its election promise to restore interim health benefits to refugees and refugee claimants.

These claims are false. Consider the one that says the government spends more on ref-ugees than retirees.

It’s not even close. Some government-assisted

refugees get about $800 in their first year in Canada. It’s a one-time payment. They don’t qualify for social assistance until they are permanent residents. Privately sponsored refugees aren’t eligible for social assistance at all.

Single older Canadians with the lowest incomes get a minimum of $1,300 through Old Age Security pensions and Guaranteed Income Supplements.

What about the benefits re-stored by the Trudeau govern-

ment? The Conservative gov-ernment cut refugee health-care benefits three years ago, based on the argument that the cuts would deter bogus refugees from coming to Canada and also save money. The Federal Court ruled the cutbacks were unconstitu-tional and ordered the benefits restored. The government in-stead appealed the court deci-sion.

Before 2012, refugee claim-ants saw health-care costs cov-ered pending acceptance of their application. That will again be the case as of April. Predictably, the decision has led to a wave of new claims that refugees get bet-ter health benefits than average Canadians.

Again, not true. The restored coverage will

include hospital and physician services. Supplemental benefits like vision, urgent dental care and prescription drugs will be covered to the extent those ser-vices are provided by provinces to people who receive social as-sistance.

Cutting those benefits was not only inhumane, it was counter-

productive. Refugees with diabe-tes didn’t get the care they need-ed. Children didn’t get proper health and dental care. Students didn’t get any vision care. Some women didn’t get important pre-natal care. In many cases the lack of that proactive intervention led to more expensive interventions.

The government has gone fur-ther and expanded a program to cover services for refugees who have been identified for re-settlement before they arrive in Canada.

They will get vaccinations before they leave, for example, which is being applauded by the medical community because that measure reduces the risk of pub-lic health problems.

None of this will stop the ig-norant and xenophobic among us from spreading rumours and lies about refugees. Sometimes the purveyors don’t know any better, sometimes they are simply bigoted.

But it’s important that those of us who know better counter the fiction with facts, hopefully mixed with compassion and un-derstanding.

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Music• Friday, Muriel

Griffiths Room, 7:30 p.m. Award winning Celtic artist Laura Smith performs. Fiddles

and guitars carry the Maritime-based singer’s spirited vocals and po-etic melodies.

• Saturday, Trail Seniors Centre, 2-4 p.m.

Dance to music of Reg Bozzer. Admission $2, refreshments. Entrance on Portland Street. All welcome. For info call Darlene McIsaac,

364.0960 or 368.9790.Other• Thursday, Trail

United Church, noon until 1 p.m. Communities in Faith

Pastoral Charge, pres-ent Lenten Luncheon Series. Conversation focus “God’s Love / God’s Judgment.” Bring thoughts, questions and

bag lunch. Speakers: Feb. 25, Pastor Shaun Romano, Gateway Christian Life Centre; March 3, Andrew Freeman, Warfield Community Church; March 10, Canon Neil Elliot, Anglican Church; March 17, Rev. Michael Hare Trail United Church.

• Trail Memorial Centre, showing “Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Times: the Italian Canadian Internment Experience. Audio visual available during regular library hours, an exhibit of ar-tifacts and information detailing the lives of Italian-Canadian Aliens during the Second World War.

• Thursday, Royal Theatre, 7 p.m. National Theatre Live in HD presents As You Like It. Shakespeare’s glori-ous comedy of love and change. With her father the Duke banished and in exile, Rosalind and her cousin Celia leave their lives in the court behind them and jour-ney into the Forest of Arden.

• Sunday, Royal Theatre 4:30 p.m. Trail Arts council presents Sunday Cinema show-ing The Lady in the Van. Based on the true story of Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who “temporar-ily” parked her van in writer Alan Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.

Upcoming• March 3, Charles

Bailey Theatre, 7:30 p.m. The Lonely O – A Tribute to Roy Orbison. Group of experienced musicians pay tribute to the rock and roll pio-neer, and true master of the romantic.

• March, 4, Muriel Griffiths Room, 7:30 p.m. E2 presents Grindstone Theatre’s 11 O’Clock Number. Edmonton’s best emerg-ing talent bring impro-vised song, dance and comedy.

• March 12, Trail United Church, 10 a.m. until noon. U.C.W. holding St. Patrick’s Day coffee party in Knox Hall. Includes bake sale and toonie table. Admission by donation. All welcome.

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The Trail Smoke Eaters refuse to go gentle into that good night, and kept their playoff hearts still beat-ing Tuesday at the Cominco Arena with a character 3-2 win over the Salmon Arm Silverbacks.

Harlan Orr scored the winner midway through the third peri-od to keep the Smokies in playoff contention in the Interior division standings, as the Vernon Vipers came back to beat the Surrey Eagles 3-2 in the second overtime Tuesday night to stay one point ahead of Trail (48 points), while the idle Merritt Centennials drop one point behind.

“I’m just trying to soak it all in,”said Smoke Eaters interim coach Curtis Toneff. “It’s not really about what I’m doing or what we’re doing as coaches, it’s about these guys that are starting to believe here. It’s pretty cool, and if we get a little help from Wenatchee here Friday, it will be bumping on Saturday.”

The Smoke Eaters need the Wenatchee Wild to beat Vernon on Friday in order to still have a playoff chance in their final game against the Vipers on Saturday at the Cominco Arena. To advance, they’ll also need the Cents to drop one of their two remaining games against Wenatchee and Penticton.

Since the dismissal of former coach and GM Nick Deschenes, the team has rallied, rolling off three straight wins, including a dramatic 5-4 overtime victory in Salmon Arm Saturday to stay in contention after a tough January.

“For whatever reason, they’re having fun again I think,” said Toneff. “And if you’re not having fun when you’re playing this game, there’s no point in playing it.”

With the game tied 2-2 in the third, the teams traded chances early but a penalty to Salmon Arm gave Trail an opportunity. Kienan Scott worked the puck back to the point, and with Harlan Orr and Connor Brown-Maloski creat-ing havoc in front of netminder Brandon Kegler, Orr tipped a shot by defenceman Evan MacEachern that somehow eluded the mass of humanity to make it 3-2 with 11:11 on the clock.

“In the second intermission we felt good,” said Toneff. “It was a

good spot to be at 2-2. We just took it shift by shift and got kind of a greasy one from a 20-year-old guy, and Bailey shut the door and had a great game.”

Scott opened the scoring for Trail on the power play, taking a pass from Bennett Morrison down low, and firing a laser from the right boards under the cross bar at 11:19 for his 24th goal of the season. Four minutes later, Nick Halloran sent Max Newton and Jake Kauppila in on a 2-on-1. Kauppila went hard to the net and Newton sent a perfect pass across the crease and onto his stick for a 2-0 lead. It was Kauppila’s 16th tally of the season and fifth goal in three games.

“Me, Newton, and Halloran are

actually working really well togeth-er, and I’m the benefactor of some good passing from those two, and I just try to get into spots where they can give it to me,” said Kauppila, a Bentley University commit.

The Silverbacks came out fly-ing in the second and Bailey MacBurnie almost single-handed-ly thwarted their attack, stopping Josh Laframboise on a breakaway one minute into the period, and Taro Hirose on another breakaway just minutes later. The Backs fi-nally broke through when Carson Bolduc was sent in all alone and wired a shot over the glove of MacBurnie to cut the lead to one with 5:25 remaining. Eighty sec-

onds later Laframboise collected his own rebound and slid it under the Trail goalie to tie it. But after Kauppila was sent off for hooking, MacBurnie bounced back, making several big saves on the Salmon Arm power play to keep it tied heading into the third.

“We knew they were going to come hard in the second period, we challenged our guys to be good in the second, but Salmon Arm had more push,” said Toneff.

The Smokies hung on in the third, getting more key saves from MacBurnie, but also keeping Salmon Arm’s chances to the pe-rimeter and neutralizing the Backs speed and aggressive play.

The character finish was high-lighted by 18-year-old Smokie for-ward Kale Howarth going toe-to-toe with six-foot-three, 205-pound forward Nick Hutchison with 44 seconds left on the clock.

MacBurnie stopped 48 shots and was named the game’s first star, with Kauppila taking second star honours and Kegler third star for Salmon Arm with 36 saves on the night.

“It was huge,” said Kauppila. “We knew that our lives were on the line here, and it was do or die, and it has been for a while now, so we had to play to our advantage, and we went up and they came back but I thought our guys really stuck with it.”

Trail’s final home game goes Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Cominco Arena, and depending on the re-sults from the Vernon-Wenatchee game Friday and Merritt’s final two contests, the Smoke Eaters could still be playing for a playoff spot.

Jim Bailey photo

The Trail Smoke Eaters Harlan Orr, 4, tips the puck past a crowd of Salmon Arm Silverbacks and Trail’s Connor Brown-Maloski to score the winning third-period goal in a 3-2 victory over the ‘Backs on Tuesday at the Cominco Arena.

JIM BAILEYTimes Sports Editor

The Beaver Valley Nitehawks escaped with a Game 1 win over the Nelson Leafs on Tuesday in the KIJHL’s Neil Murdoch division semi-final.

The top-seeded Nitehawks jumped out to a 4-1 lead in the first period, then held on as the Leafs comeback fell short in a 7-5 B.V. victory.

“I thought our first period was as good as hockey as we’ve played,” said Nitehawk coach and GM Terry

Jones. “The second was worse and the third was terrible. So we got the ‘W’ and that’s what we’re looking for this time of the year. We’ll figure out a better way to do it tomorrow.”

Dylan Heppler’s second goal of the game at 6:43 of the third period proved to be the winner, when the Nitehawk forward banged in a re-bound for a 6-4 lead.

The game was marked by con-troversy, as two Nelson goals were waved off by the official, despite emphatic protests from Leafs play-ers that the puck crossed the line.

Nelson forward Jordan Davie, who was on the ice for the second appar-ent goal, swore it was in.

“Me and Sokol were hugging,” Davie told Nelson Star reporter Tyler Harper. “It hit the back of the net and it went so fast, it came back out. It was underneath the goalie and the linesman and the ref both figured that it never went in.”

Leafs head coach Mario DiBella also thought his team was robbed, saying he could see from the bench that both goals were good.

“What do you say when your team

battles back from a 3-0 deficit, fights through the adversity, scores and doesn’t get rewarded?”

The Nitehawks went up 3-0 in the first five minutes on goals from Jace Weegar, Blake Sidoni, and Kyle Hope. That chased starter Josh Williams from the net in place of Patrick Ostermann, and while the Leafs’ Nicholas Ketola got one back at 3:28, Tyler Hartman’s power play marker with less than two minutes remaining in the period made it 4-1 Hawks as they outshot the Leafs 21-12.

Smoke Eaters down Silverbacks, heighten playoff hopes

Hawks hold

on for Game 1 victory

CONTINUED ON A8

Trail wins three in a row

But the Leafs came out strong in the sec-ond. Affiliate player Riley Swiscoski jumped into the offensive zone and wired a snapshot by Hawks goalie Brett Clark to make it 4-2 at 17:41 of the middle frame.

Heppler scored his first of the playoff firing it top shelf with 3:06 to play but Matthew Sokol made it 5-3 before the period was out.

The Leafs Brendan Smith made it interest-ing, drawing the Leafs to within one at 7:45, but Heppler’s goal proved the winner.

Nelson pulled their goalie with two min-utes left to play and the move paid off when Rayce Miller jammed in the puck on a scramble in front of the Hawks net with 1:28 remain-ing, but Hope iced it for the Hawks scoring into an empty net for the 7-5 victory.

Heppler and Hope each scored twice for B.V. and Kiellan Olson had three assists in the winning cause. The Hawks outshot the Leafs 49-43 and went 2-for-4 on the power play while Nelson was 0-for-4.

Game 2 of the divi-sion semifinals went Wednesday at the Hawks Nest but scores were unavailable at press time.

The Hawks travel to Nelson on Friday and Saturday for Games 3 and 4 at 7 p.m. at the Nelson and District Rec Complex.


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SPORTS

CONTINUED FROM A7

Heppler, Hope lead

Hawks over Leafs

BY TIMES STAFFFollowing an impressive 6-3 win

over Allstar on Thursday, Gericks Sports relinquished its quest for a play-off spot on Sunday, as OK Tire rolled to a 7-0 victory over the sportsmen and clinched the Trail Commercial Hockey League regular season title.

While OK Tire celebrated its first season title since 2013, the loss ruined Gericks shot at the playoffs, and left them sitting three points back of fourth place Arlington with just one game to play.

The Tires’ Troy Palmer netted a hat trick and an assist to pace the team to its 19th win of the season. Rockey Dickson picked up the shut out, while Justin Adrian scored twice and added an assist, and Evan McKay and Peter Sheets rounded out the scoring. Shane Drake pitched in with three helpers and leads OK Tire in scoring with 12 goals and 49 points.

Meanwhile, Allstar and Re/Max skated to a 4-4 draw on Sunday, in what could be a preview of one of the playoff match ups with just two points separating the teams.

Re/Max opened the scoring, but Allstar took a 2-1 lead on goals from Derek Steep and Kelly Sidoni late in the first period. Steep made it 3-1 Allstar at the 12 minute mark, but cue the comeback.

Graham Proulx’s second goal of the game at 8:55 of the middle stanza drew the realtors to within one, and tallies by Dyne Parker and Devyn Hill before the period was out put Re/Max up 4-3 heading into the third.

However, veteran defenceman Sidoni netted his second of the night and sixth of the season, burying a setup from D-partner Brady Glover to tie it with just 2:50 remaining on the clock. Glover had three assists for Allstar, while Hill managed a four point game

for Re/Max. Arlington can catch

Allstar for the third seed

if it wins its final two games of the season, starting with a match against OK Tire tonight and ending on Sunday with a tilt against Re/Max. However, Allstar will have to lose its final game against Re/Max for them to tumble to fourth.

In the Big A’s lone game last week, Pat Iannone scored six times and added an assist to lead the A over Re/Max 8-6. Amazingly, the seven-point outing wasn’t the most tallied in the match as Jeremy Robinson assisted on every sin-gle Arlington goal including the winner scored by Daryl Zol with 6:27 left in the second period. Joey Baker rounded out the scoring for the Arlington, while Justin Bedin, Paul Barclay, Thomas Abenante (2), Jason Vecchio, and Dyne Parker scored for Re/Max.

Tonight’s game between Arlington and OK Tire hits Cominco ice at 7:15 p.m. with Re/Max and Allstar facing off at 8:30 p.m. The TCHL wraps up its regular season Sunday when OK Tire plays Gericks at 2:15 p.m. and Re/Max takes on the Big A at 3:30 p.m.

OK Tire takes TCHL season title SCOREBOARDCurling

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GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. - Standings Wednesday following Draw 11

ROUND ROBINTeam (Skip) W LAlberta (Carey) 7 1Northern Ont. (McCarville) 5 2Canada (Jones) 4 2Saskatchewan (Campbell) 5 3Nova Scotia (Brothers) 5 3Quebec (Larouche) 4 3Manitoba (Einarson) 3 3Ontario (Hanna) 3 3P.E.I. (Burt) 2 4Nfld. & Labrador (Curtis) 2 6B.C. (Thompson) 1 6New Brunswick (Robichaud) 1 6

Wednesday’s resultsDraw 11

Alberta 6 Quebec 4Newfoundland & Labrador 10 B.C. 7

Nova Scotia 8 New Brunswick 7Saskatchewan 6 Northern Ontario 5

Draw 12Manitoba vs. Alberta

Newfoundland & Labrador vs. OntarioNova Scotia vs. CanadaSaskatchewan vs. P.E.I.

Draw 13B.C. vs. P.E.I.

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LEISURE

Dear Annie: I’ve been married for 32 years to “Conrad,” and we have two terrific adult sons. My mother-in-law will be 87 soon, and Conrad is her only child. I have never had a good relationship with her in spite of all my efforts. She chose not to attend our wedding reception because it was hosted by her late ex-husband’s second wife. Instead, she told us that she stayed home, drank champagne and “cried all night.” She has a long history of making snide remarks when no-body is there to witness them.

My husband and I are in Maui for a month. Prior to our departure, I provided a list of all contact infor-mation for family members, physi-cians, dentists, etc., and clipped it to a magnet on her refrigerator.

While we’ve been gone, her condo has developed a basement leak. My husband and I have been on the phone with her daily re-garding insurance, repair work, etc. During one call, she commented that she had no one to phone while

we were away. My husband re-minded her that she can call our sons, who live nearby, and she replied, “No, your wife told me not to bother them.” This was a com-plete lie. He told her that I would never say that, but she insisted that I had. My first reaction was to call her out on it, but I want my husband with me as a witness when I talk to her.

I want to be sure I am courteous when we see her. But how do I get her to stop lying? -- Annoyed DIL

Dear Annoyed: If Mom is still looking to discredit you after 32 years, it isn’t likely to change. We would also add that, as she gets older, some of this behavior may get worse. You and your husband need to politely, firmly and repeatedly correct Mom whenever she does this, so she knows she isn’t fooling anyone. Write it down, if necessary, so that when you are vacationing, there is a record. Also inform other family members of any instructions

you have given Mom. You will be less aggravated knowing that oth-

ers are aware of what’s going on.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “The Ones Left Behind,” who said that she and her husband raised

her three kids with no help from their birth father. Now that the kids are grown, the bio-dad is back in the picture and the kids are hungry for his attention. She feels they are leaving her in the dust.

I was like her children. At one point, I felt I needed to establish a relationship with my father so that I could be at peace. I did it for my own well-being and hoped my mother would understand, but she was upset and hurt. She took that anger to her grave. It saddens me to think about it.

Please tell “Left Behind” that a relationship with their father is probably very healing for her chil-dren. It has nothing to do with her.

If she can joyfully support them in this effort, it would be the greatest gift she could give. -- Been There

Dear Been: Thank you for pre-senting the other side. We hope “Left Behind” sees this and under-stands.

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difficult time. Your kindness is greatly appreciated.A very warm and special thank you to Father Bart van Roijen for making the Prayer Service and Funeral Mass a very special celebration of dad’s life and to the Holy Trinity Parish choir,

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