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HISTORICAL PULLOUT P. 4 As the Trail Times contin-ues to celebrate 120 years of reporting local news, we've donned white gloves and browsed through histori-cal newspapers, looking to highlight some of the City of Trail's landmark events.
BY SHERI REGNIERTimes Staff
Two million bones was a lot of money in 1954.
Looking back, that was quite a deal for the people of Trail and surrounding regions
because that was how much it cost to build the Trail-Tadanac Hospital, now the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital.
Opening the “gleaming” new building was so impor-tant that the Trail Daily Times published two front pages July 16 that year.
One with the usual front page stories describing world disasters (in this case a fire-works explosion in Maryland) and local commiseration like the drain of Trail-Tadanac tax dollars related to Trail
Memorial Centre operations.The other (turn to Page 4)
was the Trail Times Special Hospital Edition replete with detailed information prior
to the official July 17 his-torical event, and a picture of “happy” nurses (June Haynes, Jewel Mitchell, Beverly Crantz and Elsie McKeown) dressed in whites, traditional nurs-ing caps, and all bearing wide grins.
Construction for the new hospital in Trail, the first being at the corner of Victoria St. and Cedar Ave., was way-sided by the Second World War, according to the Times reporter.See CONSTRUCTION, Page 3
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There is a little slice of paradise tucked away on Dahlia Crescent in Glenmerry.
Buena Hughes' garden is a sensory delight woven together with whimsical ornaments and trash turned architectural treasure.
The Trail resident's hobby was given prop-er credit this month when she took home first place for beds and borders and overall best residential garden for this year's Trail Garden Contest.
Hughes admits she was surprised she won because in a state of panic she discovered her garden lacked blooms and she was adding colour the day before the judges arrived.
“I don't really want to compete.” she said. “I just want to do my garden, do my own thing, to make my own paradise so my hus-band (Raymond) and I can enjoy.”
Walking through Hughes' garden is like entering a fairytale book. Beds busting with colourful flowers are neatly bordered by river rocks, and potted plants line the property that flows from the front yard oasis to back-yard sanctuary.
Old dead stumps are given life with hang-ing ivy, succulents peak out around thorny pink roses, vines intertwine around dilapi-dated bed posts, the sound of waterfalls send you into a relaxing almost-hypnotic state and the scent of honey suckles mixed with grapes knock you off your feet.
It's OK, though, because Hughes has sev-eral places to sit down and take it all in.
Perhaps the biggest artistic statement can be found in her backyard, where she has created a garden fireplace, mantle and all, in
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TRAIL GARDEN CONTEST
Gardener’s story captured in
Glenmerry yard
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Buena Hughes took home first place for beds and borders and overall best residential garden for this year’s Trail Garden Contest. See more photos of the spectacular garden on Page 2.
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BEST RESIDENTIAL GARDENBuena/Raymond Hughes 3330 Dahlia Crescent
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1st Place EdiblePaul/Kip Tracanelli 190 Reservoir Road
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Buena/Raymond Hughes 3330 Dahlia Crescent
2nd Place Beds and Borders Alba/Mario Vellutini 2470 Albert Drive
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Children’s GardenEdwin and EvaLynn MorettiTaya CoxCharlie O’Hearn Stone
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FROM PAGE 1her so called living room. She carries on this outdoor living theme with a garden dining room and den that is warmed by antique lamps that hang overhead.
“In the afternoon I do the weeding and when I get bored, I sit down and my husband will come and give me a cup of tea,” she said, beaming as she sits on her outdoor couch amongst gardening books, candles, and, of course, potted plants.
Hughes has a pho-tographic memory and has drawn inspiration from her adventures abroad working in wealthy households.
Originally from the Philippines, Hughes set off on her first adventure as a nanny for a rich newspaper man in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
The family traveled and Hughes, though working, got to see the world.
Her next stint land-
ed her in Egypt where she worked as a cook for the British ambas-sador.
“Every afternoon after I worked inside the house, I used to look at the gar-dens and I was really inspired by all these beautiful flowers, that sort of thing stays in my memory,” she said.
She continued to find beauty around her when she picked up and moved to Montreal.
On a trip to Toronto to visit a friend, Hughes met her future husband Raymond and the two relocated to Manitoba before mov-ing to the Philippines, where they invested in a vegetable planta-tion. Just a few short years later, the pair came back to Canada but this time landing in Vancouver, where Hughes worked in a natural vitamin fac-tory.
“My husband said this is not the life,” she said, recalling the long hours and apartment.
The couple picked up and bought a home in Kelowna “before the area was really boom-ing” and got out when the market was hot, scoring a quaint home in Glenmerry.
Though travel will be reserved mostly in memory, Hughes is looking forward to a trip to Victoria, where she intends to see
Butchart Gardens for the first time.
This, however, is not the first time the artistic woman has been acknowledged in the garden contest. She has won various categorizes, including garden architecture and whimsical garden.
To her the contest is a chance to make connections with oth-ers who have a passion for digging into their yards, to share ideas and appreciate the beauty created.
Annette Gallatin, chair of the Trail Garden Contest, sees the joy and dedication in all participants.
“The gardeners in our city take advantage of the wonderful grow-ing climate in our part of the Kootenays, but it’s their passion, their absolute joy in tending to their growing plants that says so much about them,” she said. “We learn from each other, share tips and knowledge with each other, celebrate each other’s successes.”
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Buena Hughes has stretched the walls of her home with a backyard garden that touts a whim-sical “green” fireplace, living room and den. The creative spirit has a flair for taking someone else’s trash and turning it into treasure.
World travels helped fuel passion
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B y V a l e r i e r o s s iTimes Staff
John D'Arcangelo's phone has been ring-ing off the hook since his book A Trail to Remember hit the shelf.
The collection of historical stories about Trail, written by the people, sold out in just a few short days after it was released late last month. The successful run has prompted the retired Trail teacher to print another 300 cop-ies. He expects the next batch to arrive by the end of the month.
“It's been a wonderful experience,” he told the Trail Times. “I made a lot of new friends, I reacquainted with old friends and shared some great memories.”
Without grant money to back this order, the price of the book will be raised to $25 from $20. D'Arcangelo said last week that he has a list of 40 people awaiting a copy, Crockett Book looking for its second batch and interest from other potential sellers.
“The book has been a real community thing,” he added. “A lot of people made the book possible, especially the contributors; If they don't write the stories, there is no book.”
A passion to preserve Trail stories started when his dad gave him a video camera and suggested he interview Mike Bukna and Jimmy Morris.
But the appetite progressed when he set out to find the story behind locally naming the Columbia River's rapids “the Onions” and fur-ther grew when he uncovered more interesting stores while at it.
The book continued to present itself through various conversations over coffee with friends and finally the timing seemed right. After collecting 200 submissions, Sarah Benson, director of Trail Museum and Archives, and Trail Historical Society president Jamie Forbes
helped select 162.The break-even project was planted with
seed money from the Columbia Kootenay Culture Alliance ($4,000) and then further supported by $1,400 raised from community organizations and private businesses (Salsman Insurance Agency, the Colombo Lodge and the Trail Fiesta Italiana).
D'Arcangelo's new pastime hasn’t stopped. He is still collecting historical stories and pho-tos to preserve in the archives.
To share a story or to reserve a book, resi-dents are encouraged to contact him at 368-8986.
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Trail book gets second print
B y s h e r i r e g n i e rTimes Staff
There's millions of ways the new secondary powerhouse can effect the City of Trail's possible bound-ary expansion into regional district turf.
With construction now com-plete, Trail council is at a momen-tary standstill pending updated numbers on how the $900 million Waneta Dam expansion will impact growing city limits into Area A of the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary.
Before making another move, Coun. Sandy Santori announced at Monday night council that Urban Systems Ltd., the Nelson firm that provided previous boundary expan-sion data, was hired to scrutinize current financial impacts to both Trail and the regional district.
“I think council is following through with good diligence in regard to having this last look,” explained Trail Mayor Mike Martin post the council meeting.
“To make sure that all previ-ous financial analysis is still valid today.”
He clarified that Trail council is only partially informed being that the 2012 and 2013 Urban System statistical reports are based on data gathered well before completion of the Waneta Dam expansion.
“I think it's incumbent upon this council given the magnitude of this decision to make sure that all these elements are well understood in how they tie together,” he said refer-ring to the grant dollars FortisBC, Columbia Power Corporation and Columbia Basin Trust pay in lieu of taxes.
Another component current council will review is the partnering agreement between Trail and Teck
Ltd. following the boundary expan-sion announcement made public in May 2013.
“We've asked Urban Systems to look at that because the agreement had some major financial implica-tions,” he said. “One of them was a cap on Teck's taxation, which is the biggest factor.”
Additionally, council will review the company's proposal to contrib-ute $1 million upfront for economic development followed by $225,000 annually (indexed for inflation) for 20 years.
“We want to look at the whole picture,” said Martin. “Not just for the next few years but we ask what this is going to look like 20 years from now.”
While most local municipalities have maintained a relatively static assessment roll the past few years, Waneta expansion construction annually upped the regional dis-trict's assessment since the project began.
Last year the regional district's Area A assessment roll, according to a BC Assessment news release, increased $19 million, with a cur-rent value of $829 million com-pared to $810 million in 2014 and $786 million the year previous.
“It would not be in our best interest to proceed further with-out full awareness of the financial implications for the City of Trail and Area A,” Martin concluded, not-ing updated data is required before entering into mitigation with the regional district.
“We are proceeding with the analysis so we can make an informed decision – but let's first have a look at the whole picture.”
Updating the numbers will cost Trail about $18,000 and anticipated to be on city hall desks by early fall.
In the story “KAST Gets Big Funds From Feds” (Trail Times, July 14, Page 1) errone-ously called KAST the Kootenay Association of Science and Technology. The correct name is Kootenay Association for Science and Technology.
For The record
FROM PAGE 1The East Trail
bench site wasn’t purchased until 1948, but all it took was four years of plan-ning before Bennett & White construction broke ground on the facility.
Within two years, voilá - a modern 150-bed, four-storey hos-pital that remains fully operational today.
Said to solve over-crowding especially in acute care, the new building had capacity for future expansion of 50 additional beds and the heating plant, kitchen capacity and all other utility facili-ties were designed
with future expansion needs in mind, wrote the reporter. “Many startling architectur-al features will strike the eye of any persons visiting the hospital,” he explained under the headline, ‘Crowds Estimated At 2,000 Expected to Attend Ceremony’.
“The exterior colour scheme, a ray of brightness in Trail has serviceability as well as beauty,” he added. “It is guaran-teed to last for at least 10 years.”
Interesting facts are listed under “Hospital Sidelights and Highlights,” such as construc-tion involved 300,000
man hours of labour that cost $610,000 in wages over two years.
The provincial government paid two-thirds of the $2 million price tag and even covered the “big move” from old hos-pital to new.
From a cost-ing perspective, a 2014 West Kootenay Regional Hospital District report pegged the cost of a new hos-
pital at $400 million. Even 60 years ago
parking was a prob-lem as the writer stat-ed, “owing to limited parking space,” on the day of ceremony, only official cars were permitted on hospital hill.
That said, buses were available to the public for a “nominal cost.”
For a full view, turn to Page 4.
Trail council seeking update on financial impact
of boundary extension
Construction involved ‘300,000 man hours’
B y s h e r i r e g n i e rTimes Staff
A new business owner in Trail is facing an unexpected repair bill fol-lowing a Sunday night robbery.
Tomatoes and Thyme Cafe owner Kandy Schroder says unknown cul-prits literally ripped off an outside wall in the back of her Old Waneta Road restaurant and left a mess behind before leaving.
“We were broken into last night,” Schroder said Monday, referring to her cafe located next to Columbia Valley Greenhouses. “It was an odd one. They came through the rear
wall and ripped out drywall and insulation. Then exited through a door. Strange.”
A small amount of cash was taken and Trail police are calling the break in a robbery, says Sgt. Darren Oelke.
Tomatoes and Thyme Cafe has only been open since early June.
“The repairs to the building had to be completed immediately,” she explained. “The mess they left inside was pretty bad, but nothing in the building was beyond repair.”
Anyone with information call the Trail RCMP at 364.2566 or Crime Stoppers 1.800.222.TIPS(8477).
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On behalf of the Trail Historical Society, I wish to express my appreciation to
the community for your support of John D’Arcangelo’s book, “A Trail To Remember”. The enthusiasm shown at the book launch during Festa Italiana’s Family Day at the Piazza Colombo was overwhelming. We are grateful to the Columbia Kootenay
Cultural Alliance, the Columbia Basin Trust, Leo Salsman, the Colombo Lodge, Trail Festa Italiana, and Hall Printing for their � nancial, in-kind, and moral support of this project, as well as all those who contributed their memories. Additionally, thanks to the Trail Times for their coverage of the publication. We hope everyone who has purchased a
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B Y J E F F N A G E LSurrey North Delta LeaderB.C.’s has a strong
appetite for marijuana reform with more than 70 per cent of respondents to a new poll urging either legalization or decrimin-alization.
The Insights West sur-vey found 67 per cent said they support outright legalization, 28 per cent opposed it and five per cent were undecided.
Support was slightly stronger among women, the under-35 age group and Vancouver Island residents, but at least 65 per cent back legalization in every region and within each age group.
“There’s a lot of support for this,” said Insights West vice-president Mario Canseco.
He said the results are a climb from about 55 per cent support in B.C. a decade ago, and follows legalization moves in U.S. states and a grow-ing number of B.C. public figures endorsing reform over the years.
A separate question asked respondents which pot reform option most closely fit their views.
Legalization was on top with 38 per cent, while 24 per cent said it should
be decriminalized, 27 per cent said it should only be available for medical purposes, and seven per cent want it to always be illegal.
Asked about the pros and cons of legalization, 87 per cent said taxing pot would generate useful revenues and more than three-quarters said can-nabis has legitimate med-ical and health benefits, existing dispensaries are a safer method of access than drug dealers, and that legalization would let police focus on other priorities. Sixty-seven per cent believed gang vio-lence tied to the illegal drug trade would decline.
Presented with a list of arguments against legal-ization, the top concern cited by 58 per cent was that it would result in more drug-impaired driv-ing.
Relatively few (35 per cent or less) agreed with concerns expressed by fed-eral Health Minister Rona Ambrose – that legaliza-tion would increase risks of mental illness such as schizophrenia in some users and lead to greater use among children and teens.
More than two-thirds of those polled endorsed
the City of Vancouver decision to regulate exist-ing medical marijuana dispensaries that sell pot illegally there rather than shut them down as Ambrose urged.
Canseco said the tough talk from Ambrose in recent weeks is like-ly aimed at buffing the Tories tough-on-crime reputation to hang onto Conservative votes else-where in Canada leading up to this fall’s federal election.
“I don’t think she was appealing to the B.C. vot-ers,” he said. “I think she was appealing to the hard core Conservative base in other parts of the country that don’t want to see this legalized.”
Health Canada last week announced it will now let approved com-mercial producers of med-ical marijuana make and sell cannabis oil – in addi-tion to dried bud – but not other edible products such as pot brownies and cookies.
That move followed a Supreme Court of Canada ruling in June that it is unconstitutional for the government to limit access to medical mari-juana to just the dried form.
Appetite for pot reform riding high: poll
T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SVANCOUVER - British
Columbia teachers have filed leave to appeal with the Supreme Court of Canada in an ongoing battle with the prov-ince over bargaining rights.
The B.C. Teachers Federation is asking the top court to recon-sider a B.C. Court of Appeal decision that ruled in the gov-ernment’s favour in April.
The appeal court found the government did not violate teachers’ charter rights when it imposed legislation in 2012 that removed their ability to bargain class size and composition.
Four of the five appeal judg-es said teachers were given a meaningful negotiation process through consultations and col-lective bargaining leading up to the legislation.
Union president Jim Iker vowed to seek a Supreme Court appeal immediately after the ruling was announced, and the organization filed the applica-tion in late June.
The province has yet to respond to the application and the Supreme Court will decide at a later date whether to hear the appeal.
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OPINION
A licence to be unfair to CanadiansSince winning a
majority in 2011, perhaps the most significant and
irreversible decision by the Harper government was its lopsided invest-ment deal with China.
Among other concerns, the Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA), ratified in 2014, is a license to be unfair to Canadians.
Imagine that your community opposes a Chinese investor’s project. The government supports the investor. Your com-munity manages to block the project after years of court battles. The Chinese investor then uses its new FIPA right to sue Canada for compensation.
Your community would have no right of stand-ing – meaning a full right to participate – in the FIPA arbitration. That would be so even if the Chinese investor’s FIPA lawsuit smeared people in the community, even if it ended in an award that affected its reputation, or even if it led to a settle-ment in which the gov-
ernment agreed to change course and force the pro-ject through anyway.
Actually, your com-munity would not even have a right to know the Chinese investor’s lawsuit existed.
That is Canada now, brought to you by the FIPA. Corporate lawyers, sitting as FIPA arbitra-tors, can make decisions that affect individual Canadians without ever hearing from them.
This lack of fairness is a basic flaw in foreign investor protection treat-ies like the FIPA. The treaties use the lopsided process of investor-state arbitration to decide dis-putes that affect third par-ties and the public.
Yet they raise only for-eign investors, not other private parties, to the level of sovereign countries in international disputes. Only the foreign investor that brings the claim and the national government of the country that is sued can have full standing.
This process contra-dicts a basic rule of fair-ness. The rule is captured in the common law by
the maxim audi alteram partem, meaning the other side must be heard. It’s in Latin because it’s an old rule.
The risk of unfairness to Canadians under the FIPA is very real. Arbitrations under similar treaties clearly have affected par-ties other than foreign investors. Yet no one but the foreign investor and the government could seek full standing in the arbitration.
No one else had a legal right to access the record and to make full submis-sions, as a fair process must allow.
Tying the hands of others in this way may suit Chinese investors and the
federal government. For example, it might make it cheaper and easier for them to resolve their dis-pute, at the expense of an unrepresented party. But that should matter. Like in a court process, the process should allow all those who have an inter-est in the outcome to seek standing.
Promoters of investor-state arbitration some-times say that this unfair-ness was fixed by letting arbitrators give “friend of the court” status to par-ties other than the foreign investor and the federal government.
The FIPA allows for this limited option, say-ing that arbitrators “may accept written submis-sions” from a person or organization who “has a significant interest in the arbitration” so long as the submission “does not disrupt the proceedings and that neither disputing party is unduly burdened or unfairly prejudiced by it.”
This response is clearly inadequate. If someone has a significant interest in the outcome of a FIPA
arbitration, then he or she should be able to seek full standing to the extent of the interest. That is fair; the alternative – a pos-sible opportunity to make a written submission at the arbitrators’ discretion – is not.
It also should not mat-ter if a Canadian’s par-ticipation may “disrupt the proceedings,” as the FIPA says, or if it means a Chinese investor or the federal government is “unduly burdened.” These provisions in the FIPA are another way of saying the process is an exclusive system for foreign invest-ors, at the expense of any-one else who is affected by the dispute.
When he sought his majority in 2011, Stephen Harper did not promise to accept an investment deal with China that is unfair to Canadians. But he did it anyway.
Gus Van Harten is a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School and author of Sold Down the Yangtze: Canada’s Lopsided Investment Deal with China, published by Lorimer.
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The first two quarters of the year saw 135 single family dwellings sold in the City of Cranbrook, an increase of 16.4 per cent over last year.
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Vacancy rates in the City are down with CMHC’s spring report indicating a 1.8 per cent vacancy rate within apartments within the City.
“Demand and activity still remain strong going into July,” Wheeldon stated in a press release.
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The hardest word to sayIt’s hard to say sorry, but
it’s even harder to say you’re sorry for a genocide. The word just sticks in the
throats of those who should be saying it, as the Turks have been demonstrating for the past hundred years in the case of the Armenians of eastern Anatolia. And the Serbs have just shown themselves to be just as tongue-tied in the case of the Bosnian Muslims slaughtered at Srebrenica.
Saturday was the 20th anniver-sary of the mur-der of between 7,000 and 8,000 people when Srebrenica was taken by Bosnian Serb forces in 1995. The town’s population was swollen by refugees who had fled there to escape the “ethnic cleans-ing” that was being carried out against Muslims elsewhere in eastern Bosnia, because it was a United Nations-designated “safe area” defended by NATO troops. Or rather, not defended.
When the Bosnian Serbs, having surrounded Srebrenica for three years, finally moved to take it in July 1995, the UN and NATO commanders refused to use air strikes to stop them. And the Dutch troops who were there to protect the town decid-ed they’d rather live and let unarmed civilians die.
So all the Bosnian Muslim men and boys between the ages of 14 and 70 were loaded onto buses – the Dutch soldiers helped to separate them from the women and children – and driven up the road a few kilo-metres. Then they were shot by Serbian killing squads, and buried by bulldozers. It took four days to murder them all.
The crime has been been formally declared a genocide by the UN war crimes tribunal for former Yugoslavia. Both the Bosnian Serb president of the time, Radovan Karadzic, and the Serban military command-er at Srebrenica, General Ratko
Mladic, are awaiting verdicts in trials for directing genocide. You would think that even the Serbs cannot deny that it was a genocide, but you would be wrong.
There are certainly some Serbs, like journalist Dusan Masic, who are willing to call it what it is. His idea was to have 7,000 volunteers lie on the
ground before the National Assembly in Belgrade on Saturday, sym-bolising the a p p r o x i m a t e number of Muslim victims at Srebrenica. “On July 11, while the eyes of the whole world are on the kill-ing fields near
Srebrenica”, he said, “we want to send a different picture from Belgrade.”
“This will not be a story about the current regime, which has failed to define itself in relation to the crime that happened 20 years ago,” he con-tinued, “or about a place where you can still buy souvenirs with images of Karadzic and Mladic. It will be a story about...a better Serbia.” But the better Serbia has not actually arrived yet.
Serbia’s interior minister, Nebojsa Stefanovic, didn’t like the picture Masic wanted to send. When right-wing groups threatened to disrupt the demonstration last Thursday, Stefanovic banned it in order to guarantee “peace and security in the whole of Serbia.” And the Serbian government had already asked Russia to veto a UN Security Council resolution describing the Srebrenica mas-sacre as a “genocide”.
Russia was happy to oblige, and vetoed it on Wednesday. Maybe Moscow was just sucking up to the Serbs, whom it would like to steer away from their current ambition to join the European Union – but maybe President Vladimir Putin was also thinking that he didn’t want any precedent for some
future attempt to describe what he did during the second Chechen war in 1999-2002 as a genocide.
Words matter. Serbia’s Prime Minister Aleksandr Vucic, who seems to have changed his mind about Srebrenica since his early days in Serbian politics, still cannot bring himself to use the word “genocide” when he talks about it.
Back in 1995, Vucic was a radical nationalist who declared in the Serbian National Assembly, only a few days after the Srebrenica massacre, that “If you kill one Serb, we will kill 100 Muslims.” By 2010, however, he was saying that a “horrible crime was committed in Srebrenica.”
Vucic even traveled to Srebrenica on Saturday to take part in the commemoration of the events of 20 years ago, a brave gesture for a Serbian prime minister who must con-tend with an electorate most of whom do not want to admit that Serbs did anything especially wrong. But he still doesn’t dare say the word “genocide”. The voters would never forgive him.
Most Serbs would acknow-ledge that their side did some bad things during the Balkan wars of the 90s, but they would add that every side did. They will not accept the use of the word “genocide” – whereas that is the one word Bosnian Muslims have to hear before they can believe that the Serbs have finally grasped the nature and scale of their crime.
That’s why, when Vucic was at Srebrenica paying his respects in the cemetery, some Bosnian Muslims started throw-ing stones at him. His glasses were broken, and his security detail had to hustle him away.
It was a stupid, shameful act, and the Bosnian Muslim authorities have apologised for it. But like the Turks and the Armenians, the Serbs and their neighbours will never really be reconciled until the Serbs say the magic word.
Gwynne Dyer is an independ-ent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.
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The Trail AA Orioles nailed down a berth to the Washington State American Legion district playoffs on Monday with a sweep of Rogers Pirates at Butler Park.
One week ago the Orioles were just over half way through their season with a playoff spot still in question, but six days later the team has played four double-headers and nailed down a berth to the district playoffs in Spokane after reeling off five wins in six games to go to 9-3 on the season.
“Our older guys really did step up,” said coach Kyle Mace following Monday’s double-header. “They really took the team under their wing, and made things happen. They’d been there before so they knew what it took and they pushed us. In the dugout our older guys were on our young-er guys making sure they were doing things the right way, hustling, and that’s what leadership is about.”
After splitting with Asotin last Wednesday, Trail took two from Mt. Spokane on Saturday in a pivotal series, and need-ed two wins Monday night against Rogers to guarantee at least a third-place finish in the tight National League division.
With their top guns on the mound, the AA Orioles soared to a pair of 11-5 and 7-1 vic-tories over the Pirates.
“Asotin and Mt. Spokane were huge,” said Mace. “We showed up and laid an egg in the first game against Asotin, but we had a really good come-back (7-6) win, and then in Mt. Spokane we just showed up and were ready to go, and we let them have it pretty good.”
The O’s swept Mt. Spokane with 5-1 and 7-4 victories before returning home to clinch a playoff spot, as the top three teams in their division advance to districts.
“Winning those types of games sets you up for playing better competition, sets you up for the playoffs and hope-fully the state championships. That’s our goal.”
In the opening match of Monday’s doubleheader, the
AA Orioles trailed Rogers 4-2 in the top of the fourth inning, but Trail would reply with three runs in the bottom half to take a 5-4 lead.
The Pirates would tie it in the fifth, but Trail ral-lied in the sixth. Austin Tambellini and Tyler Atkinson both singled to lead off the inning, and Nathan Soukeroff and Derek Green followed with back-to-back doubles to spark a six-run out-burst on their way to the 11-5 victory.
Tambellini got the win on the mound for the O’s while Gagnier went 3-for-4 with a double and two runs scored. Soukeroff was 2-for-3 with a double.
For Soukeroff, who was part of the 2013 West Kootenay Diamondback team that went to districts and fell one game short of making it to the State finals, a return to the playoffs is satisfying.
“It’s unreal, it’s great,
couldn’t feel better,” said Soukeroff. “We knew we had a good team, but we just play our hearts out and we’ll see
what we can do.”The Castlegar native
is also poised to attend the Prairie Baseball Academy (PBA) in Lethbridge, a stepping stone to NCAA uni-versities. Local play-ers like Chris Kissock (Lewis-Clark State), Kyle Paulson (Bryan College) and Joey Underwood (Bryan College) attended PBA and all went on to play
college ball in the U.S., and Soukeroff says he hopes for a similar result.
In the nightcap, the score would remain 0-0 until the fourth when Orioles pitcher Brendan Makay helped out his own cause by belting a double to right-centre to lead off the inning. Austin Tambellini would score Makay after a sharply hit ball to centre was misplayed by the fielder. A walk to Soukeroff, would bring up Bradley Ross whose single
to right scored Tambellini on what proved to be the win-ning run. Casey Harrison would walk to load the bases and Reese Tambellini would deliver a single to score both Soukeroff and Ross to give the O’s a 4-0 lead.
Trail would score three more runs in the fifth to take a 7-0 lead before the Pirates counted their only run in the bottom half of the inning.
Makay went five strong innings, giving up one run on four hits, and striking out four. Reese Tambellini went 2-for-3 at the plate, while Makay was 2-for-4 with a double.
“The boys really worked today, it’s great for them,” said Mace. “None of them have been to playoffs except (Austin) Tambellini, Soukeroff, and Atkinson, so it will be a great experience for them.”
The AA Orioles also played their final two games of the season against West Valley on Tuesday night in Spokane but scores were unavailable at press time. The Orioles will begin the district playoffs on Thursday in Spokane.
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trail aa orioles second baseman ross st. Jean turns the first of two double plays on Monday, with the assist to shortstop tyler atkinson (left), as the aa orioles clinched a playoff spot with 11-5 and 7-1 victories over the rogers Pirates at Butler Park in WsaL Baseball League action.
B y T i m e s s T a f fThe Trail Stingrays
swim team returned from another highly successful meet this weekend across the border in Colville Wash.
Every Stingray swimmer in attend-ance swam personal-best times, taking off up to 22 seconds, while winning four medals at Colville’s outdoor pool swim meet.
Juliana Zhou placed third in Division 4 girls, while Junior Coach Diego Greenwood claimed first in Div. 5 boys. Kayla Fraser captured third in the open category, and Coach Samme Beatson placed second in Div. 8.
Greenwood also
beat the Colville meet record in the 50 backstroke race with his personal best time of 31.48 seconds.
Lea Boiridy-Graves swam in the “Guts and Glory” 400 Individual Medley event at the end of the meet and impressed everyone with her fantastic swimming and stam-ina. She finished the event in 8:56.5.
Congratulations to Jaxzen Marion and Ripley Shubert for outstanding perform-ances in their first swim meet ever.
The team placed seventh overall with 771 team points.
The Stingrays next meet goes in Castlegar this week-end.
B y T i m e s s T a f fThe Trail Minor Orioles went 1-2 in their
first three matches at the 9/10 Little League B.C. Championship in Vancouver.
Jericho Baseball hosts this year’s Little League championship that began Saturday at Carnarvon Park.
Trail played the opening match of the tournament falling to White Rock 14-4 on Saturday, before bouncing back with a thrill-ing 3-1 win over Beacon Hill on Sunday.
However, on Monday the Minor Orioles would drop a match to Highlands 10-2, to sit at 1-2 half-way through the tournament.
As of press time on Tuesday, Little Mountain, 2-0, and White Rock, 3-0, remained undefeat-ed. Trail played Hastings on Tuesday but the score was unavailable. The Minor O’s will play host Jericho on Wednesday and after a day off on Thursday, will face Little Mountain Friday.
The top four teams will make the playoffs with the semifinals going at noon and 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, and the championship game at noon Sunday.
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You & The LawTYLEEN UNDERWOOD LAW OFFICE presents
Child support obligations aren’t always clear, especially if there are unusual circumstances. The B.C. Court of Appeal recently dealt with such a case.
The court considered the child support obligations for Peter (all names changed here), a pleasant 24-year-old man with a mental disability. Peter couldn’t make basic decisions for himself and likely would never be able to live independently. His life expectancy was normal, and he would need support for the rest of his life.
Peter’s parents, Mark and Linda, had divorced in 1995. They initially shared joint custody and guardianship of Peter, fi ve years old at the time, but in late 1996, they agreed that Mark would have sole custody. Since Mark’s business took him to the United States a great deal, he also agreed to pay Linda (who earned only a modest income at the time) $300 a month in child support. This was essentially to enable her to travel to the U.S. for visits with Peter, which she did frequently over the years.
By the time of the court hearing over child support, however, both Linda and Mark were very well-off fi nancially.
Linda had married a venture capitalist in 1998 and enjoyed an affl uent lifestyle. She didn’t work, and details of her current income were sketchy (she got some money from a company her husband was involved with). Before her fi rst marriage to Mark, she had earned roughly $20,000 a year as a charter airline employee, and in the initial court documents in this case, she said she earned $20,000 annually, though later said it
was less.
Mark, 68 and retired, owned a mostly U.S. real estate portfolio worth $11 million (in addition to a substantial inheritance)and earned some $168,000 a year.
Their son Peter had some signifi cant assets himself, partly from an inheritance from his grandmother and partly from a trust fund, though that fund could only be accessed if the Public Trustee agreed. Peter also got some monthly government assistance.
Due to the substantial change in Linda’s fi nancial circumstances and her no longer having any fi nancial diffi culties in exercising access, the lower court decided Mark didn’t have to pay Linda any arrears dating from 2008 or make any further child support payments to her.
But Mark also wanted his ex-wife to help pay for the ongoing support of their son.
The Court of Appeal emphasized that, even though Mark could well afford to support Peter alone, Linda was also responsible for Peter’s support – it’s fundamental that both parents have an obligation to support a child like Peter, who was likely to outlive his parents.
It was Linda’s voluntary choice not to work, observed the appeal court. So it said Linda should be treated as earning $20,000 annually. Using this income fi gure and the child support guidelines, the appeal court ordered Linda to pay Mark $174 a month toward Peter’s child support.
Each case is unique and depends on its own facts and circumstances. If you’re involved in a diffi cult family law situation, consult your lawyer for help.
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The Birchbank Ladies held their Sweepstakes Tournament last week with 50 golfers from Balfour, Granite Pointe, Champion Lakes, Castlegar, Redstone and, Christina Lake participating. With Sweepstakes trophies and flight prizes as well as a $5,000 hole-in-one prize, two golfers came in with a score of 84, forcing a sudden death playoff. Mary-Ann Gaschnitz of Balfour and Wanda Flack of Christina Lake teed off again in what proved to be a short-lived playoff with Gaschnitz winning on the first playoff hole. Gaschnitz (left) was presented with the overall low gross trophy, while Flack was runner-up low gross. Valerie Horkoff (right) of Christina Lake shot a 93 to give her a net 62 for the low-net trophy. Denise Gausdal of Birchbank was the runner-up low net with 63. Flight A: Susan Kim, Birchbank, low gross, 86; Ruth O’Bryan, Granite Pointe, low net 74 (by retrogression); Flight B: Shirley Wolbaum, Granite Pointe, low gross, 89 (by retrogression); Cathie McLaren, Granite Pointe, low net 68; Flight C: Corinne Scheldrup, Granite Pointe, low gross 94 (by retrogression); Beth Robinson, Birchbank, low net. 67; Flight D: Linda King, Castlegar, low gross, 104; Pat Gagne, Birchbank, low net 70.
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Spieth was practicing a shot he hopes he won’t need this week, banging a few wedges off the wall on the famous Road Hole in the fading sun at this, the birthplace of golf.
Dead tired after winning yet again in Iowa before flying all night to get here for what could be a defin-ing moment in golf, Spieth was still intent on having a bit of fun.
“Who wants this?” he yelled out, signing a ball and then tossing it left-handed toward the 50 or so fans still around Monday night.
It caused a bit of a frenzy, but just for a moment. There weren’t many fans around, and those who were seemed as if they were still trying to figure out this young Texan who has the golf world buzzing.
They’re not alone. Those in a sport that has been fixated for the better part of two decades on Tiger Woods are still trying to decipher Spieth themselves.
What they do know is that he’s 21, and in the midst of greatest the stretch of golf anyone has seen since Woods burst on the scene and trans-formed the sleepy game into must-see TV.
Forget the fact that part of the Woods mystique was that he was a rare player of colour in a mostly lily-white game. Woods caused more of a stir by doing other things no one had ever seen before, thrilling fans with his booming drives and winning with clutch putts punctuated by his signature fist pump.
Spieth is no Tiger Woods. Doesn’t try to be, though they do share the same habit of talking angrily to themselves during a round.
He doesn’t overwhelm a crowd with his presence, doesn’t intimidate
other players while wearing a red shirt on Sunday. In a game domin-ated by Woods and the power hitters who followed, he’s not even in the same neighbourhood as the big boys with a driver in his hand.
What Spieth does do is win. This year he’s done it on the biggest stages in golf, grabbing a green jacket at the Masters and following it with a win a few weeks back at the U.S. Open. Add in a British Open and PGA Championship title, and he would be the first player to win the Grand Slam in a calendar year.
He largely does it on his own terms, taking the title at the John Deere Classic on Sunday when others suggested he might be better served by leaving early for Scotland to dis-cover the many vagaries of the oldest course in golf.
But Spieth has a confidence that borders on swagger and, much like Woods in his prime, a belief that his best is better than yours no matter where you tee it up.
“He beats you properly,” former U.S. Open champion Geoff Ogilvy said. “He beats you with better golf. He doesn’t beat you because he hits it further. Tiger’s intimidation was that he always did something amazing. Jordan - don’t get me wrong, his body of work is amazing - but he doesn’t beat you with a crazy par, or a crazy chip-in from the back of the 14th at Muirfield (Village). He just beats you because he’s better.”
Just how much better Spieth real-ly is, only time will tell. His career is in its infancy still, and it’s way too early to crown him as the next great player, way too soon to begin talking about whether he - and not Woods - will be the one who finally takes down the record of 18 major titles held by Jack Nicklaus.
Spieth’s talent wins outbritish open
F I E l D H O C k E y C A n A D AThere really is no place like
home. Just ask the Canadian Women’s Field Hockey Team, which opened the 2015 Pan American Games with a 12-1 win over the Dominican Republic Monday at the Pan Am Fields in Toronto.
The Canadians didn’t dis-appoint the home fans who came out in numbers, as team captain Kate Gillis and Stephanie Norlander scored three goals a piece in the rout, while Rossland native Thea Culley scored once in her team leading 136th Cap.
“I think it kind of flushes the
cobwebs a bit,” says Gillis who is from Kingston, Ont. “It gives us that first opportunity to get used to the pitch, get used to who we’re playing in front of.”
Understandably, the Canadians were a bit tentative to start but it wasn’t long before they began to dominate.
In the tenth minute, Norlander, who is playing in her first major multispot games, got Canada on the board and she was able to pounce on a ball in close and beat keeper Cindy de la Rosa.
A minute after Norlander opened the scoring, Gillis got her first of the game in similar
fashion, before Karli Johansen scored on a penalty stroke in the fourteenth minute.
The Canadians were not comfortable with a 3-0 lead after one quarter, scoring another three in the second and taking a 6-1 stranglehold into halftime.
Canada added six more goals in the second half.
Both Norlander and Gillis scored for their hat tricks, while Culley rounded out the scoring for Canadians.
It will be a whole different ball game come Wednesday when the Canadian women face the tournament’s top ranked team, Argentina at 4 p.m. PT.
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Dear Annie: The real estate agent who sold me my home nine years ago period-ically phones my house, ask-ing whether I plan on sell-ing, and offering his assist-ance. We have a courteous, professional relationship. I never had a problem with him or his company.
Recently, I was a guest at a large customer apprecia-tion event sponsored by this real estate company. I sat quietly by myself. One of the company’s main employees ridiculed me loudly, mak-ing a spectacle of me, point-ing me out to others, mak-ing fun of my looks and my hair. I am a neat, clean, conservative senior citizen. She even walked past me and laughed loudly in my face. I had never met this woman before. I was so hor-rified that I said nothing and left.
I do plan on selling my home. However, after my horrific treatment at the “customer appreciation” event, I will not be using that real estate company. If my former real estate agent asks me why I have list-ed my home with another company, what should I tell
him? No number of pro-motional events will ever bring back a customer who has been so terribly mis-treated by an employee. -- Ridiculed in Rapid City
Dear Ridiculed: We can-not imagine any company allowing an employee to behave like this in front of potential clients. Was she drunk? Are you certain she worked there? Did others notice?
Please don’t wait until the real estate agent con-tacts you. Call him or his company and report this incident. Explain exactly what happened and give as many details as possible. They need to know that this woman is out of control and is costing them business.
Dear Annie: A few months ago, my niece announced
her wedding date for next summer. She selected the wedding dress and the venue and put down deposits.
The couple recently decided they cannot live apart and had a small civil ceremony with only their parents present. They have announced that they will still have the full wedding next year for the rest of their family and friends.
While we have not seen any invitations yet (it’s early), we are not sure how to handle a gift for a wed-ding that is a year after the actual ceremony. I would prefer to send the couple a gift now to help them start their married life together, but I wouldn’t then send a second gift in a year.
I’m also not sure I will attend the second wedding, since it’s so long after the fact. It seems inappropriate. Tell me, Annie, is this how weddings are done these days? -- Confused Family Member
Dear Confused: No. Most weddings are still done in a more traditional fash-ion, although, we admit, there seem to be many more variations these days.
Nonetheless, if invited, you are obligated only for one wedding gift, whether you send it now or later. (Either is fine.) And please don’t judge the couple so harshly by not attending the second wedding. Think of it instead as a big party to celebrate their marital bliss and enjoy yourself.
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location! Beautiful views and sun exposure. This lot can be
accessed via City alley way and has municipal water nearby.
Priced to sell!Call Deanne (250) 231-0153
3470 Carnation Drive, Trail$239,500
Wow! Move in ready. This 4 bdrm, 2 bath home is in fantastic condition with all of the right updates. Excellent fl oor plan and downstairs
completed. Flat fenced yard and covered patio all add up to make this an excellent home. Call today!
Call Mark (250) 231-5591
817 Whitetail Dr., Rossland$1,100,000
Custom-built, high-end timber frame home at Redstone. Features high ceilings, timber frame accents, huge windows, and amazing views. The kitchen is gorgeous, the decks are amazing and the bathrooms are
deluxe! Call your REALTOR® for your personal viewing.
Call Richard (250) 368-7897
NEW LISTING
1490 Tulip Street, Trail$269,000
Character, location and charm! Inlaid hardwood fl ooring, coved
ceilings and fi replace. Home features 3 bdrms, large windows,
central air and u/g sprinkling.This is a great home.
Call Mary M (250) 231-0264
1473 Brown Street, Trail$92,500
Great price for this home overlooking the Columbia River.
Large living room with hardwood fl oors, spacious kitchen and 2 bdrm on main fl oor. Basement is unfi nished and lots of room
for development. Make sure this house is on your viewing list
Call Mary M (250) 231-0264
NEW PRICE
1911 McCormick Road, Salmo
$120,000180 acres above the Pend
D’Oreille ReservoirCall Terry 250-231-1101
1926 Martin St, Fruitvale$209,000
3 bdrm, 1 bath, fenced yard, large rec room, upgraded kitchen, windows & roof
reshingled in 2014!Call Tonnie (250) 365-9665
2531 Columbia Avenue, Rossland
$279,000Heritage home with some
beautiful original features. 3 bdrms, 2 baths, 2 fi replaces,
french doors, upgraded wiring, windows, kitchen and bathroom.
Call Christine (250) 512-7653
NEW LISTINGTRAIL
1415 Tamarac3 bdrm 1 bath w/ basement
$850 / mo plus utils NP / NS1410 Tamarac
2+ bdrm 1 bath full house $875 / mo plus utils NP / NS
PET FRIENDLY! 388 Austad 2 bdrm 1 bath w/ basement
$750 / mo plus utils NP / NS1850A Topping St
2 bdrm 1 bath upper suite $750 / mo plus utils NP / NSCall today if you need your
property professionally managed! Terry Alton 250-231-1101
Tonnie Stewart (250) 365-9665
RENTALS
350 Schofi eld Hwy, Warfi eld
$259,000Charm, space and great price make
this home a special place for your family. There are 4 bdrms,
2 baths with big windows, wood-burning fi replace and main fl oor laundry. Good parking with garage and off-street
driveway.
117 Ritchie Avenue, Tadanac
$449,000With over 2000
sq. ft. on one level, this home offers
total privacy and has a beautiful gated
courtyard. Features include wood burning fi replace, “high-end” kitchen and
expansive back yard. Come take a look.
Call Mary M (250) 231-0264
SOLD
9173 Station Road, Trail$335,900
Horses! Gardens! Workshop! Country Space! 4 acre residential property with pool, 3 bay garage
and shop. Come take a look today!
Call Mary M (250) 231-0264
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Melanie Oberg has graduated from the University of British Columbia Okanagan with a Bachelor of Arts degree with honours. She has been offered a scholarship and a teacher’s position at the University of Victoria where she will be pursuing her Master’s Degree in English.
Bachelor of arts