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After six decades almost anything will begin to slow down and show signs of age.

So a noteworthy update, estimated to cost up to $285,000, is planned for Montrose as the village readies to cel-ebrate its 60th birthday this year.

Though Family Fun Day festivities are still under wraps, council did talk water during Monday night’s meeting and ap-proved an $8,400 feasibility review for reservoir rehabilitation.

Structural upgrades are required for the village’s two welded steel water tanks: the lower reservoir was built in 1959 with a capacity of 455 cubic metres (m³); the upper 909 m³ reservoir has been in use since 1979.

Signs of deterioration are evident on the outside of the powder-coated tanks in-cluding cracks and rust on the upper tank.

Additionally, the village’s 2010 master water plan noted existing gaps between the floor and base of both tanks, the older reservoir is no longer level after years of

settlement, and excessive deflection on the roof of the upper tank doesn’t meet cur-rent building code requirements.

“Basically this proposal will get us to the next level with some predesign en-gineering services for the project,” ex-plained Chief Administrative Officer Bryan Teasdale. “It’s highly likely the proj-ect would proceed in the fall when water usage is as low as possible. But we need to get everything up and ready to go.”

Roof repairs were budgeted in 2015,

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Property taxes are based on what’s needed to operate a municipality - the annual bill isn’t solely based on property assessment.

That means landowners won’t see a lower prop-erty tax bill just because Trail land assessments have dropped up to $10,000.

“In general, assessed values may go down but the cost of operating the city doesn’t change,” explains Trail Mayor Mike Martin. “As a result of that, there is change to the mill rate.”

In fact, Trail council is now tackling a 2.36 per cent tax increase during its first round of budget review.

“We gave staff a directive a month ago to see what they could do to bring back a budget at less than 2.5 per cent, so they’ve actually been able to do that,” Martin said. “It’s a good starting point, but now we have to

go through all the details and the implications of that.”

The annual assessment roll is a tool that is used to distribute taxes between taxpayers and not necessarily to set the level of taxation or changes in taxes, says Ramaish Shah from the Kootenay Columbia region of BC Assessment.

“The assessment is used by the municipalities to apportion taxes across different property owners,” he told the Trail Times.“But any change in the level of taxation is up to the municipalities themselves.”

Although overall home assessments dropped throughout Trail, Shah confirmed the city’s assess-ment roll remained relatively stable at $1.106 bil-lion compared to $1.123 billion in 2015.

Market fluctuations are a major contributing factor to changes in assessment for the various categories that include residential, light and major industry, utility and commercial properties.

Ideally, the city likes to see real growth in the assessment roll, said David Perehudoff, Trail’s chief administrative officer. “In this regard, as costs increase, the current property tax base is required to absorb the costs,” he added. “There is no op-

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Aging water tanks to be repaired or replaced this year

“In general, assessed values

may go down but the cost of

operating the city doesn’t change.”

MAYOR MIKE MARTIN

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but work came to a standstill as the project’s true scope was realized.

“We initiated the project very briefly and found to suc-cessfully (repair) the lower reservoir we would have to take the tank off-line,” Teasdale noted. “We cannot do that and supply water to the village.”

Repair versus replacement also came into question due to the age of the water re-positories.

“Because we are looking at infrastructure, ages 37 and 57 respectively, the average lifes-pan is 60 years, so one res-ervoir is definitely reaching its optimal time,” continued Teasdale. “The question has come up, ‘Do we fix old in-frastructure to get more life’ or is it better to try to build a new tank which will provide better fire flow?”

A new federal program is available for potential grant

money, which could be lever-aged by village reserves, he added.

Council’s decision on moving forward is dependent upon the engineering report, which will assess the feasibil-ity and related costs of taking each reservoir out of service in addition to structural ex-penses.

The study will also out-line the cost and benefit of continued operations and maintenance of the existing reservoirs against the price to construct new tanks.

“Last year we wanted to do the repairs,” Mayor Joe Danchuk reiterated. “We went to isolate (the lower tank) and found we couldn’t do that and keep water to everybody in the village,” he added. “The key is we want to get this done sooner rath-er than later, but in no way have we made any decisions whether we are going to build a new tank or complete re-pairs.”

Previously, the village’s master water plan recom-mended a thorough inspec-tion of the Montrose reser-voirs to determine how wide-spread repairs would be.

Assessing reservoir storage needs based on fire flow anal-

ysis of village structures was another suggested action.

A follow up study of fire flow (the amount of water that should be available for municipal fire protection) concluded that existing stor-age volumes achieved the minimal required capacity to be a recognized system by the Fire Underwriters Survey (FUS).

Calculated fire flow re-quirements for various com-mercial buildings also re-flected existing reservoir vol-umes were deficient in rela-tion to municipal guidelines as well as the recommended FUS storage volume.

The Fire Underwriters or-ganization provides data on public fire protection for fire insurance statistical work and underwriting purposes of subscribing insurance companies. FUS subscribers represent approximately 85 percent of the private sector property and casualty insur-ers in Canada.

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A capital project in Montrose this year is to repair or replace the village’s two existing water tanks.

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Rosa Pollio was born in Venere, pr. L’Aquila, Italy on June 1st, 1934 and passed away peacefully with family by her side on January 16, 2016 in Burnaby, BC.She is predeceased by her husband of 61 years, Luigi.Rosa is survived by her children; Peter (Paula), Paul (Janet) and

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The lengthy budget process, which includes an operating increase of $280,000, began at Trail City Hall on Monday in the governance and operations committee meeting.

The three largest departments, public works, transportation, and recreation, absorb almost 50 per cent of the budget but have yet to be considered, Martin clarified.

“We haven’t tackled those yet,” he said. “So we have tough decisions to make with regard to services provided and how we can more ef-fectively deliver those.”

Property tax increas-es in Trail sat just above the country’s average inflation rate in 2015, at 2.46 per cent or $25.46 based on the average residential home val-ued then at $182,679.

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Buried among a spate of bad news announcements that the B.C. government re-leased over the Christmas

holidays was an update on a prov-ince-wide system for peer reviews of medical scans.

The system was to have been operational by 2014, but still isn’t in place at three of five health authori-ties and won’t be until mid-2016 at the earliest.

Its implementation is being overseen by the Physician Quality Assurance Steering Committee (PQASC), established in 2012 in response to Dr. Douglas Cochrane’s 2011 investigation into a series of botched CT scan readings.

While there’s a sense of import to the committee’s work, there doesn’t seem to be a sense of urgency.

In 2014, B.C.’s then-auditor general, Russ Jones, noted that PQASC’s “progress has been slow due to a variety of factors including the challenge of obtaining consen-sus with the many different entities involved, the significant cultural shift that is required to implement the initiatives, and the lack of clar-ity about roles and responsibilites.”

There was a toll to the CT scan-dal: three deaths, nine patients harmed and a second bout of stress for thousands of affected patients.

But that tally only takes into account the review period, as set out in the government’s terms of reference.

Unlike similar inquires in other provinces, the gov-ernment kept a tight rein on Cochrane’s investigation.

Four radiologists – out of 287 licensed in B.C. – were the focus and even then it was limited to part of their diagnostic work.

In the case of one radiologist 18 months of CT, x-rays and mammo-gram scans, in the case of another 16 months, another seven months, and one only three months.

Fourteen thousand scans were re-read in the investigation.

A similar investigation two-years earlier in Saskatchewan reviewed 70,000 studies of one radiologist going back three years.

Another investigation in New Brunswick at the same time re-viewed 30,000 tests performed by one radiologist going back to 2006.

Released 30-days after his ap-pointment, the first section of Cochrane’s two-part report was ac-companied by a news release head-lined: “Report finds all B.C. radi-ologists licensed appropriately.”

Which isn’t the same as practis-ing appropriately.

From the second-part of his report, released six months later: “The radiologist was therefore

practising medicine beyond the scope al-lowed by his medical license.”

In January 2012, the radiologist – Dr. Mansukhlal Mavji Parmar – was reprimanded by the B.C. College of Physicians and Surgeons and or-dered to pay $2,000 in costs. He relin-quished his license

to practise in B.C.Another radiologist admitted

that he “lacked experience work-ing in a digital world” and hadn’t learned these skills prior to coming to Canada.

According to Cochrane, the College “was not aware of the de-ficiency in the radiologist’s basic education/experience.”

The four radiologists were not named in Cochrane’s report. Other provinces who undertook compa-rable investigations named names.

Since 2010, only two radiolo-gists have been reprimanded by the College: Parmar and Dr. Charles William Gervais, a member of the 1981 inaugural graduating class at St. George’s University School of Medicine in Grenada.

Before practising in B.C., he worked as a radiologist in Windsor, Ontario.

In 2014, he was reprimanded by

the College for practising “outside the scope of his recent experience by performing a limited number of CT studies during two short ap-pointments (in 2010).”

In B.C., the College only posts reprimands. Dr. Parmar’s was 242-words, Dr. Gervais’s 93-words.

A 2010 disciplinary action against a Saskatchewan radiolo-gist was accompanied by a 38-page competency hearing report and a six-page decision.

Four years after the fact, a restric-tion “not to practise CT without the prior consent of the College” was placed on Gervais’s license.

The same restriction was added to his Ontario license, information he didn’t share with the Arizona State Medical Board, where he’s licensed in allopathic medicine.

The Arizona board learned of the Ontario restriction from an action report generated by the Federation of State Medical Boards last year.

After a disciplinary finding this past August – which Gervais did not contest – the same restriction is now on his license in Arizona.

Today, he is licensed to prac-tise radiology at the B.C. Women’s Hospital in Vancouver.

As then-CEO of Vancouver Coastal, Dr. David Ostrow, said in 2011: “The ball was dropped in a whole bunch of places.”

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Five years ago this month, the “Arab Spring” got underway with the non-violent overthrow

of Tunisia’s long-ruling dicta-tor, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. He dared not order the army to open fire on the demonstra-tors (because it might not obey), he was running out of money, and eventually he flew off off to Saudi Arabia to seek asylum.

In an Arab world where satellite televi-sion broadcasts and social media had effectively destroyed the power of the cen-sors, practically everybody else spent the four weeks of civil protest in Tunisa tensely watching what the Tunisians were doing. When the Tunisian revolution-aries won, similar non-violent demonstrations demanding democracy immediately broke out in half a dozen other Arab countries.

It felt like huge change was on the way, because the world had got used to the idea that non-violent revolutions spread irresistibly, and usually win in the end. The ground-breaking “People Power” revolution in the Philippines in 1986, for ex-ample, was followed in the next three years in Asia by non-vio-lent democratisation in South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Bangladesh, and failed attempts at non-violent revolution in Burma and China.

Similarly in eastern Europe, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Communist regime in East Germany in 1989 was followed by non-violent de-mocratisation in all the Soviet-dominated “satellite” countries by the end of the year. The Soviet Union itself broke up in 1991, and some of its component parts also became democratic.

Non-violence was a magic

potion, and people assumed that it was bound to work in the Arab world too.

They were wrong. The non-violent movements demand-ing democracy spread just as fast, but their only lasting suc-cess was in Tunisia. Egypt and Bahrain are back under auto-cratic rule, and Yemen and Syria are both being devastated by civil wars and large-scale foreign

military interven-tion. Libya is also being torn by civil war (although the revolution there was never non-violent).

Islam is not i n c o m p a t i b l e with democracy. Indonesia, the most populous Muslim country, had a non-violent

democratic revolution in 1998 and continues to be a thriv-ing democracy today. Turkey has been democratic for de-cades, although Recep Tayyib Erdogan, the current president, is doing great damage to the country’s democratic institu-tions. Pakistan and Bangladesh are both democracies, although turbulent ones.

These four countries alone ac-count for almost half the world’s Muslim. In the Arab world de-mocracy is a much scarcer com-modity, but it does exist, most notably in Tunisia itself.

Several other Arab countries, like Jordan and Morocco, have a significant democratic element in their politics, although the king retains much power.

So what went wrong with the “Arab Spring”? In the case of Bahrain, the problem was that the majority of the population is Shia, but the ruling family is Sunni and saw the democratic movement as an Iranian plot. Neighbouring Saudi Arabia saw it the same way, and sent the Saudi army in to crush the “plot”.

Yemen was a lost cause from the start, since there was al-

ready an incipient civil war in the country. Now it’s a full-scale war, with foreign military inter-vention by a Saudi-led coalition that includes half the countries in the Arab world, and the non-violent protestors are busy hid-ing from the bombs.

Syria was a hard case since the Ba’athist regime, in power for more than forty years, had accumulated a great many ene-mies. The Alawite (Shia) minor-ity who dominated the regime was terrified that they would suffer from revenge-taking if they lost power, and were will-ing to fight to the last ditch to keep power.

But it is also true that Turkey and Saudi Arabia, and later the United States as well, encour-aged an armed uprising in Syria that undercut the entire non-violent movement. It probably wouldn’t have succeeded any-way, but it really didn’t get tried. And in Egypt, the non-violent revolution actually won.

The victory didn’t last long. The Muslim Brotherhood won the election in 2012, and the urban, secular minority who had made the revolution pan-icked.

They asked the army to inter-vene, and the army was happy to oblige – so now the army runs the country again, after a massacre of non-violent Muslim Brotherhood protesters in 2013 that was probably worse that the slaugher on Tienanmen Square in 1989.

Egypt is by far the biggest country in the Arab world. If it had not thrown its democracy away, about a third of the world’s Arabs would be living in a de-mocracy today. It was very bad luck, but non-violent revolution is still a viable technique – and democracy is still just as suit-able for Arabs as it is for Poles, Peruvians or Pakistanis. It’s just going to take a little longer than we thought in 2011.

Gwynne Dyer is an indepen-dent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Four Red Mountain Racers will com-pete at the BC Winter Games in Penticton next month.

Rossland’s Kristof Panke, Hanna Schulze, and Sage Stefani, and Heiko Ihns from Castlegar all qualified for the Games at the Teck Kootenay Zone Race and BC Games qualifier at Red Mountain over the weekend.

“Everything went extremely well and [Sunday] was a little extra work with the snow falling, but it all came together nice-ly, and it was a very successful weekend for everyone,” Christine Andison, president of the Red Mountain Racers, told Black Press reporter Chelsea Novack.

Ihns skied to first place in five of his races against U14 competitors, while Panke claimed second place in the Giant Slalom runs on Friday, and third in the GS on Saturday and Slalom on Sunday.

Schulze, meanwhile, raced to third among 2002 racers in both of Friday’s

GS runs and was hoping that would be enough to qualify for the Games.

“I went there once for soccer already and it was a really fun experience, so I’m really excited to hopefully do it again,” Schulze said. Like many racers on Friday, Schulze felt the course started out soft, but said conditions improved by the second race.

“It was really, really soft, so my outside ski was going all over the place, so I didn’t feel that good, but the course definitely firmed up a little bit,” she said.

Stefani skied to a fourth and fifth among U14s in Friday’s GS races, and capped off a good weekend with fourth place finishes in the Slalom on Sunday.

The U14 skiers were the only ones eligible to qualify for the Winter Games, but other Red Mountain Racers also per-formed well in the Kootenay Zone Race.

Gavin Patterson captured first and third in the opening Giant Slalom races Friday, second and third on Saturday, and another gold medal performance on Sunday in the Slalom. Hugo Dalmalm had a pair of first place and second place finishes in the GS and a second and fourth place in the Slalom Sunday.

Samantha Gaul from Rossland com-peted in U16 Ladies and raced to first place in Friday’s and Saturday’s races. Her sister Freesia Gaul also competed over the weekend in the U12 category, her best fin-ish a third in Friday’s second race.

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Four Red Mountain Racers, including Heiko Ihns, qualified for the BC Winter Games.

Red Mountain Racers qualify for Winter Games

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Black Jack skier Julien Locke raced to gold at the Junior and U23 World Trials in Thunder Bay on the weekend, and will travel to Romania for the World U23 Championship in February.

Golden moment for Black Jack skier

BY JIM BAILEYTimes Sports Editor

Black Jack skier Julien Locke booked his ticket to the U23 World Championships in Romania after racing to gold at the Haywood NorAm World Junior and U23 Ski Trials in Thunder Bay, Ont., Friday.

Locke earned a spot on the U23 World championship ski team with an incredible per-formance in the 1.3-ki-lometre sprint. The 22-year-old Nelson na-tive raced to first in all three of the heats, be-fore blazing to a three-second win over run-ner-up Patrick Stewart-Jones of Nakkertock Ski Team in the final.

“It was just good to see him execute each start perfectly,” said Black Jack Ski coach David Wood. “That’s perhaps been the big challenge. He’s been fast enough, but this time,

tactically, he did every-thing perfectly.”

Locke won the Senior Mens final in a time of 2:25.87, blowing away the field by almost three seconds. Runner-up, Stewart-Jones, finished in 2:28.81, while Big Thunder skier, Angus Foster, of Thunder Bay came third in 2:29.81.

Locke finished his qualifying heat in 2:32.47 and got pro-gressively faster as the day wore on, finishing first in the semifinal in 2:30.11, before taking close to five seconds off that time in the final.

“That all bodes well for the World cham-pionship,” says Wood, who has watched Locke improve steadily all sea-son. After a slow start, Locke raced to bronze at the U.S. National Ski championship earlier this month, and Wood says his performance in Thunder Bay was one of his best.

“Mostly refining his tactics and psychology around executing (has helped). Physically I think it’s his best year, but he’s putting it to-gether, and that in the past has been the chal-

lenge.”Locke has moved on

to Ottawa, where he will train and compete, as he prepares for the U23 World Championship in Rasnov, Romania. The Black Jack coach

believes a top 12 fin-ish at the World Championship would be an excellent result.

“His goal is to fin-ish in the first 12 and that can open doors for

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him in the national pro-gram, and that is do-able. If he can keep his shape like it is now, and execute like he is, it’s completely doable.”

Unfortunately for Black Jack skiers Colin Ferrie and David Palmer, Sunday’s 30-km skiathlon race was cancelled due to cold weather and was not rescheduled. Last year Ferrie earned a spot on the U23 World team following podium fin-ishes in the skiathlon and 15-km skate, and Palmer was keen on improving on his third place finish among U23 racers in the 15-km race.

“Thunder Bay is

cold, but we ended up losing one race which was a bad thing for the other guys, Palmer and Ferrie. For them to lose the distance skating race that kind of shot them down,” added Wood. “It never, ever did get close to race temperatures.”

Despite delaying the starts Sunday, with temperatures hovering around the -20C mark, organizers were forced to cancel the races.

Nevertheless, the win for Locke is yet an-other in a long list of Black Jack success sto-ries. Palmer competed for Canada in the FIS Junior World cham-pionship in the Czech Republic in 2013, and Geoffrey Richards earned a spot on the ju-

nior team for the World Junior and U23 cham-pionship in 2012 in Turkey. With Ferrie and Locke advancing to the World U23 ski champi-onships in consecutive years, the good results are a testament to the quality of the Black Jack skiers and their coach.

“Every year one of us goes, so that speaks well for the program,” a humble Wood added.

Joining Locke on the U23 men’s team is Scott Hill from Thunder Bay, Alexis Dumas from Skibec, Soo Finnish skier Jack Carlyle, and Big Thunder’s Foster.

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You badly want to move back to Ontario with the kids, where you were raised and the rest of your large family lives. Your husband objects, leading to your marriage breaking up. Like you have all along, you both co-parent the kids in the roughly two years it takes for your divorce to be sorted out.

Should you be able to move with the kids?

Our B.C. appeal court recently re-visited this thorny “mobility” question.

Hong Kong-born Cindy (names changed) came to Toronto with her Chinese family when she was four. She moved to Vancouver in 1998 after becoming a vet, and met her future husband Todd the following year. In 2000 she joined him in Victoria where he lived and worked, and they got married in 2002.

They had two children, Adam and Ellen, but after some nine and a half years of marriage, they split up over Cindy’s wish to move the family to Toronto. Cindy went

to court for a divorce and permission to move with the kids.

The key question in these mobility cases is always whether a move would be in the best interests of the children. The court looked at the various factors that have to be balanced to decide this. It stressed that each family situation needs

to be treated individually.

Here, both children had an excellent relationship with Cindy and Todd, who were loving parents, and wanted to stay with both. A psychological evaluation

suggested what was best for the children going forward was both parents continuing to look after them, either in Victoria or in Toronto (if both parents moved there).

Cindy argued that her moving and taking the kids was best for them – they could be closer to her extended family and bene� t from more exposure to their Chinese cultural heritage.

But the court decided that, in the particular circumstances here, it was more important that Cindy and Todd continue to co-parent the kids.

One signi� cant element was that Adam had fallen ill at 18 months and developed learning and other dif� culties. He was diagnosed as hyper-active with attention de� cits and also had non-speci� c communication disorder. But with a special individual education plan in school, he was making progress and could now just meet his minimum grade level standards. He was well-liked by his classmates. The disruption of moving him to a whole new environment would set him back more than other kids.

Also, Cindy could pursue her work equally well in Toronto or Victoria, but Todd couldn’t. He had worked his way up in one company over 20 years and now held an executive position there, though he didn’t have corresponding academic credentials. Unlike Cindy, if he moved to Toronto to be near the kids, a similar position was likely out of reach, so he might not be able to provide as well for the kids.

The court concluded that being co-parented in Victoria was best for the children in this case.

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With the NHL club slumping badly in the past six weeks, the team’s fan base is reeling and offering suggestions on how to stop its historic free fall.

“We need scorers, we need big scorers,” Matthew Messier, 21, said Tuesday as he minded the ticket booth at a downtown ice rink. “They need a real star - pay the price for a young guy who can score goals.”

After starting the year at 9-0 - a team record from the beginning of a season - and trailing for only 2:57 in that stretch, the Canadiens have been plummet-ing since losing all-world goaltender Carey Price for a second time on Noav. 25.

On Dec. 1, the team had a 19-4-3 record. Since Dec. 2, the Canadiens have managed nine points out of a possible 40, last in the league during that time.

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Dear Annie: You must know that for every letter that you get, you only hear half of the story. I read the letter from “Wife on the Outside,” who said her husband talks to his mother negatively about her. I hope that my wife reads that and follows your advice to go to counseling.

I am a loving husband and father, and tired of accusations of disloyal-ty. I love my wife. When my mother asks me how she’s doing and my answer is, “She is very unhappy,” I am not being disloyal. I am being truthful. But my wife doesn’t like it.

My wife drinks a lot of wine in the evening. When she is no longer sober, she becomes nasty to the point where she is unbearable. She refused to go for counseling, so I went alone. My counselor recom-mended that I attend Al-Anon, and I plan to go back soon.

My wife does not consider her-self an alcoholic. If there is any way you can help convince her to get counseling, I would be very grate-ful. -- Suffering Husband

Dear Suffering: Your wife didn’t write to us, and we are unlikely to convince her of any-thing, since she is un-willing to admit she has a problem. Our advice is for you: First, please stop telling your mother that your wife is unhap-py. While we know that Mom can be a source of support, your marital problems are not really her busi-ness. If your wife considers it “dis-loyal,” then you must stop confid-ing in Mom. If you need to talk to someone, go back to your coun-selor. Second, we hope you will return to Al-Anon meetings and learn the limits of what you can do in this situation and how you can help yourself cope. Living with someone who abuses alcohol can be both difficult and exhausting. We’ll be thinking of you.

Dear Annie: I read your column every day, and I’ve been finding

myself feeling sorrier and sorrier for women in their 40s and 50s. So many letters are about men who can’t anymore and women who don’t want to anymore. The message seems to be that sex has to end the minute a woman hits menopause. And that’s absolutely not true!

Last week, I had lunch with two women who have been my friends since high school. We are all in our early 70s, and every one of us agreed: Sex has been better in the last 15 years than ever before. We’re not working now, so we can stay in bed and cuddle for hours if we want. There are no kids at home, so we can “take a nap” with our honeys without the slightest embarrassment. If we need lubrication, we use it. If there’s more petting than fireworks, then we cel-ebrate petting -- but we all have delighted in recent fireworks, too.

Come on, women! So our bod-ies don’t look as awesome as they used to. So our sweethearts are a bit flabby. If two people love each other, they should still enjoy giving and taking pleasure. And, take it from us three women, you’ll look years younger with that glow in

your cheeks and that sparkle in your eyes. -- Three Sexy Old Broads in Vermont

Dear Vermont: Whatever they are putting in the water up there, you ought to bottle it. Bless you for pointing out that loving someone makes the effort worthwhile.

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FruitvaleRoute 358 14 papers Cole St, Kootenay Ave North, Mountain St and Short St.Route 362 20 papers 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Evergreen Ave Route 363 12 papers Casemore Rd, Tamarac AveRoute 370 15 papers 2nd St, 3rd St, Hillcrest Ave, Moutain St.Route 375 12 papers Green Rd & Lodden RdRoute 379 18 papers Cole St, Nelson AveRoute 380 23 papers Galloway Rd, Mill RdRoute 381 7 papers Coughlin RdRoute 382 7 papers Debruin Rd & Staats Rd

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JOB POSTINGEmployment Services Lead

(Maternity Leave Replacement)

The Skills Centre/Inside Job Consulting Ltd.The Greater Trail Community Skills Centre is seeking an individual to lead the Employment Services team in the delivery of the Employment Program of BC (EPBC).

This full time, temporary position offers the opportunity to work with a team-oriented organization, to live and work in a friendly community with great lifestyle opportunities and a competitive wage and benefi t package.

Principal responsibilities:Key responsibilities include staff training and supervision, management of systems supporting service delivery, case load, quality insurance and key performance measures as well as input on other complementary employment services that are or could be delivered by the Skills Centre or its subsidiary, Inside Job Consulting.

Preferred qualifi cations:Demonstrated knowledge of employment services delivery, an undergraduate degree in a relevant fi eld such as Human Services or Education and/or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

For a more detailed job description and an overview of the organization’s strategic priorities, contact [email protected]. For more information about The Skills Centre, go to our website at www.communityskillscentre.com and for more information about the community as whole, go to www.workwestkootenay.ca.

Submit your resume by January 29, 2016:Employment Services Contract ManagerThe Skills Centre#123-1290 EsplanadeTrail, B.C. V1R [email protected]

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Thanks to the public’s sup-port of their weekly bingo games at the Fruitvale Memorial Hall, the Beaver Valley Lions were pleased to present donations of $1,500 to the Salvation Army and the Fruitvale Food Bank. Above; Debra and John Tandy accept the cheque on behalf of the Salvation Army with Lion members Paul Terness, president, John Nakken, Helen Underwood and Bev Thompson. Below; Representatives from the Fruitvale Food Bank accept their donation from Lions President Paul Terness and members Bev Thompson, Helen Underwood and Norm Mikalishen

CHARITIES WIN THANKS TO B.V.

LIONS BINGO

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