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Festa Italiana is inviting Trail residents to the Piazza Colombo on Saturday to celebrate family and “all things Italian.”

Gord Gattafoni of the Festa Italiana group says everyone is welcome and this year, the family day will be celebrating Italian culture, with a few other cultures thrown in the mix.

“We are going to have the Kootenay Dance Works, a jazz dance company, a pipe band with some dancers, the Katie Shaw Dancers, and some local ladies Kathy Manna and Neveah White, who is about seven years old and has a voice like a bird,” he said. “This is a multicul-tural thing going on here.”

The annual gathering was rebooted last year after a six-year break starting in 2006 and is running off the success of last year's "Una Giornata Alfresco," or "A Day Outdoors." Gattafoni says he got some great feedback after last year's event and hopes this year will be just as

successful.“Last year, we had a great time with

the Festa and we were very pleased with the turnout and the comments that were made afterwards,” he said. “We decided that it was time to resurrect it on a smaller scale and everyone can have fun with us.”

Although the Festa is about Italian culture, organizers say it is important to recognize the cultures that made Trail

what it is today. “The Italian culture has played a

very important role, along with other cultures of course, in the history of Trail and it's always nice for people to get together and celebrate the culture they were brought up with,” said Gattafoni. “We welcome everyone in the city to come and participate in our Festa and we just hope the sun is shining and we have a good time.”

The entertainment may be multicul-tural, but the food is going to be straight from the boot-shaped country. Cooking will start on Friday in anticipation of Saturday's event.

“There is going to be pasta, meat-balls, gelato and Italian baking,” said Gattafoni. “We are going be cooking pizzas on Friday and the meatballs too.”

The family day is sponsored by the Festa Italiana Committee with help from Trail Communities in Bloom and starts at 11 a.m. at the Piazza Colombo on Rossland Avenue in Trail. Events will come to a close around 3 p.m.

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Gigi and Lodi Forte of the Festa Italiana Committee hang a banner in preparation for this weekend's 'Family Day at Piazza Colombo.” The event runs from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the piazza on Saturday and will feature live music and entertainment with all the Italian food you can imagine including homemade pizzas, pasta and meatballs and some gelato for those with a sweet tooth.

Festa a celebration for all cultures“The Italian culture has played a very important

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history of Trail and it’s always nice for people

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were brought up with”

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A bump in taxes won’t be how the City of Trail pays for a new Columbia River cross-ing.

Instead, if Trail residents give the city the go-ahead to borrow $4.9 million on the Aug. 23 by a popular vote, millions will be paid off through a federal grant program called the Gas Tax Fund (GTF).

“At this time and if the referendum is approved, council’s plan is to use the annual gas tax payment to offset the cost of borrow-ing,” confirmed David Perehudoff, Trail’s chief administrative officer. “Thereby elim-inating any direct property tax impacts as a result of the project.”

The federal government collects about $5 billion per year in taxes on gasoline, diesel, and aviation fuel and approximately $1.6 bil-lion per year from GST revenues on gasoline and diesel.

These taxes go into general (federal) cof-fers to fund a range of programs including the GTF.

Designed in 2005, federal gas tax revenue provides provinces and territories twice-a-year funding to flow into municipalities to support local infrastructure projects.

In 2013, the federal government announced an economic action plan that indexed the GTF at two per cent annually until 2024, beginning with a new provincial Community Works Funds (CWF) agreement effective this year.

Since the program’s inception, Trail’s annual gas tax payment has increased from $115,000 to almost $342,000, and under the terms of a new agreement, will net the city $4.4 million in the next 10 years.

Most recently, Trail used $2.64 million from the GTF to pay for the construction of the Coleman Street Reservoir and currently retains about $350,000 in the city’s gas tax account.

“If the referendum fails, other eligible projects will be considered in the future as part of the city’s capital plan,” Perehudoff noted.

For the first nine years, the federal See COMMUNITY, Page 3

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The weather cooperated with sunshine and a slight breeze for this year’s Teddy Bear Picnic on Wednesday at Gyro Park.

With the sun shining, parents and kids made their way around the park, constructing bubble makers, fixing up sick teddy bears at the teddy bear hospital, getting their faces painted, listen-ing to live music and sitting down for story time.

There was even a clown handing out ballon bears and freezies to kids and parents. Concession was open for those that got a bit hungry.

Different community organizations set up tents around the park to educate attendees about different causes and groups, as well as giving out a few freebies such as reusable tote bags.

Left, Ella Phillips, dressed as a clown, hands out bear-shaped balloon animals. Above right, Mr. Mojo gets some kids to join in on a song. Bottom right, Donna Tremblay reads Each Peach Pear Plum to her son, Cameron, 2, in the storytelling tent at the picnic. Below, the scene at Gyro Park during the Picnic.

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With the recent media blitz surrounding reports of suspected dog deaths related to imported jerky treats, one Trail vet takes a more philo-sophical approach to feeding domestic pets.

“If you boil it right down, treats aren’t required,” said Doctor Brian Gresley-Jones from his East Trail office.

Dog food companies use marketing ploys to connect and convince pet owners that if they love their dog, then they’ll feed it unnecessary treats, maintains the long practising vet.

“You can give your pet all the love and affection it needs by means others than feeding a treat.

“It’s a whole marketing strategy if you break it right down.”

The “natural ingredient” advertising that pet com-panies use to pander to the dog loving public is another untruth, continued Gresley-Jones.

“They say the dog will love how it tastes,” he noted. “How can they make those claims when that same dog will go out on a trail and eat a dead mouse if it finds one.

“The taste and all of that is stroking our heart strings, not the animal’s.”

Instead, the veterinarian suggests dog owners pur-chase fresh knuckle bones from a local grocer, or con-sider dehydrating chicken or beef at home.

“To be on the safe side, until there is a definitive yes or no about imported jerky treats, I would personally avoid them,” said Gresley-

Jones. “And if you do feed treats to your animal, make sure to do your homework and don’t make the treat a primary part of the dog’s diet.”

Finally, he does not advo-cate for allowing animals to run off their leashes and out of the owner’s sight lines.

“The other message is that it’s a really nice idea to take your dog out for a walk and let it run off leash,” said Gresley-Jones. “But the minute he is out of your sight, you don’t know what the dog has done.”

Pets can become sick after drinking contaminated water from a puddle or from poking around at a dead animal.

“It’s just not safe to let them run free.”

He said it’s these variables that are impeding the regu-lating bodies from clearly identifying a link between purchased dog treats and other factors that could play into the pet’s illness.

If a pet owner choses to purchase treats, he maintains that thorough research into the product is required and that pets should never be overfed jerky treats.

“With the history of prod-ucts coming out of China, I would be leery to feed those to a pet,” said Gresley-Jones.

“And don’t buy into things like natural smoked pig hooves or bull bones because those are not natural prod-ucts that any domestic dog would eat.”

Pet owners should be aware that all treats are not a substitute for a balanced diet and should be only given to the animal occasionally.

“Buy a good quality dog food and the dog will do just fine. You don’t need to buy treats.”

According to the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council of Canada, a nation-al non-profit organization representing all facets of the Canadian pet industry, about half of all Canadian house-holds own some kind of pet, and Canadians dropped over $6 billion on them last year.

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The intersection of Highway 22 and Highway 3B on Rossland Avenue was torn up this week as the second leg of downtown improvements continued at the gateway to the Gulch. Sierra Landscaping is the primary con-tractor during Phase 2 upgrades that include new irrigation systems, fresh top soil and replanting city land with sustainable flora, grasses and trees.

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FROM PAGE 1funds could only be used for infra-structure improvements to drink-ing water and wastewater systems, solid waste management, com-munity energy systems, public transit, local roads and capacity building.

Over the last several years, Warfield has used the GTF for sani-tary sewer upgrades, and Montrose constructed a new chlorination facility with $200,000 from its gas tax reserves.

“We have used CWF money for debenture payments before,” said Montrose CAO Kevin Chartres, adding that debts can only be paid with GTF if the project meets the eligibility criteria.

“We have used about $6,500

for 2014 expenditures to finalize our road upgrade and maintenance plan,” he explained. “The majority of our 2014 funds, $85,000, are going into a Community Works Fund (Gas Tax) reserve.”

In April, the government expanded GTF categories to pro-vide municipalities further flexibil-ity when choosing how to invest the money.

Now the list of eligible pro-jects includes upgrades to local and regional airports, infrastructure that reduces or eliminates long-term impacts and risks associated with natural disasters, broadband connectivity, recreational facilities or networks, tourism and ama-teur sport infrastructure excluding facilities such as arenas.

The Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM) administers the gas tax funds under contract with the provincial government, and then each municipality enters into an agreement with the UBCM.

Civic year end reports are submitted back to the UBCM for review before the statements are forwarded to the province and finally to the federal government.

“Senior levels of government want to ensure these funds are being used in accordance with the intended purpose,” explained Perehudoff. “And providing tan-gible benefits in terms of projects including specifying if they would not have been possible to accom-plish in the absence of receiving these funds.”

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SVANCOUVER -

Summer school could be the next casualty of British Columbia’s teachers strike, with the union promis-ing to continue its walkout if a deal isn’t reached by Monday.

B.C.’s more than 40,000 teachers launched a full-scale strike last week, but the union had yet to say what effect the

walkout would have on summer school. The province wants remedial summer school to be declared an essential service.

“If the government does not come forward with new funding to reach a fair settlement by June 30, teachers will be prepared to extend the strike into summer and picket summer school,” B.C. Teachers’ Federation president Jim Iker told a news conference Wednesday.

“It will be up to school districts to decide whether they cancel summer school or not.”

A day earlier, the B.C. Public School Employers’ Association, which negotiates on behalf of the government, applied to the B.C. Labour Relations Board to add remed-ial summer school to an essential services order. Remedial pro-grams are for students who have failed a high school course.

The employers’ association also wants year-round schools and education pro-grams in youth jails and health-care facili-ties declared essential services. Year-round schools, which have been closed along with the rest of the prov-ince’s schools since last Monday, have classes scheduled until

the end of July.Iker said the union

has yet to make a deci-sion about year-round schools or program-ming in jails or health-care facilities.

The labour rela-tions board had not yet set a hearing date for the essential servi-ces’ application.

Iker repeated the union’s position that a mediator should be brought in to help the two sides reach a deal.

The union planned to meet with a gov-ernment-appointed negotiator Wednesday afternoon to make the case for a medi-ator and discuss how negotiations would proceed.

Iker accused the government of “pour-ing cold water” on the idea of a mediator.

“We see it as the only way to bridge the gap between the two sides,” he said.

The teachers began their provincewide walkout after several weeks of rotating,

one-day-a-week strikes across the province. Before that, the teach-ers stopped doing a number of administra-tive tasks.

The employers’ association responded to the rotating strikes by announcing a partial lockout that docked teachers pay by 10 per cent. A full lockout had been scheduled to start Wednesday at high schools and at all schools on Friday.

The employer said the lockout would not stretch into the sum-mer, effectively leaving it up to the union to decide whether teach-ers’ would be in class-rooms in July.

On Wednesday, high school teach-ers wore placards that said Locked Out, rather than On Strike, though the distinction was symbolic.

The main issues in the dispute have been wages and issues relat-ed to teaching condi-tions, such as class sizes and the number of specialists available for students with dis-abilities.

The government contends that the teachers’ proposal for wages and other bene-fits would amount to an increase 14.5 per cent.

The union, on the other hand, has said its offer is for an eight per cent wage increase,

and it has argued that the two sides are rela-tively close on the issue of pay.

The province’s cur-rent proposal includes a signing bonus of $1,200 if a deal is reached by Monday. The teachers’ union has asked for $5,000 signing bonus.

Meanwhile, the province’s Education Ministry said it has spent about a third of its $80,000 communi-cations budget for the strike.

Ministry spokes-man Scott Sutherland said the money has paid for a Facebook ad and full-cover ad that appeared on a free local daily newspaper in Vancouver.

“We certainly don’t expect to spend that amount,” Sutherland said, referring to the $80,000 budget.

Summer school could be next casualty

B y R I C H A R D R o l k EVernon Morning StarThe site of a pro-

posed new ice sheet is known, but now the money is needed.

The Greater Vernon Advisory Committee decided Wednesday that a replacement to the Civic Arena ice sheet should be built at the north end of Kal Tire Place. In a November referen-dum, residents will be asked to borrow up to $13 million for the 400-seat facility.

“We’re not a Cadillac. This is a good quality Honda or Toyota,” said Doug Ross, the City of Vernon’s recreation services director.

It’s believed twin-ning Kal Tire Place will generate operational facilities and create a destination for sports-related events and other activities.

Upgrading 80-year-old Civic Arena was investigated, but con-sultants suggest it could cost $10.8 mil-lion to renovate and operate the facility for more than 10 years, and that figure could jump t $13.9 million if a NHL-sized ice sheet is installed.

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S STORONTO - A shortage of skilled

workers will be one of Canada’s great-est future economic challenges, Employment Minister Jason Kenney told a skills summit Wednesday.

The conference held in Toronto brought together stakeholders to dis-cuss the labour market, employee train-ing and those under-represented in the labour force.

It’s necessary that an “informed national discussion” take place about the condition of Canada’s labour market, in order to address future skills gaps, Kenney said.

“We can acknowledge that we have inadequate labour market information and we need to do a fundamentally bet-ter job of getting granular information by region and industry,” he said.

Skills shortages are looming in specific sectors, he added, but it’s not a market-wide issue. The construction, mining and petroleum sectors are exam-ples of industries that will face serious shortages of skilled workers over the next decade, he said.

Skills Canada has estimated that one million skilled trade workers will be needed by 2020, Kenney pointed out.

“We know we have these huge invest-ments and opportunities, particularly in a huge swath of northern Canada, through the massive multibillion-dollar investments in the extractive industries that will require tens if not hundreds of

thousands of skilled workers who are not currently available,” Kenney said.

Stephen Cryne, head of the Canadian Employee Relocation Council, said dis-cussions about skills shortages are often short-sighted.

“We’re competing on the global stage for talent. It’s needed to drive our econ-omy forward,” he said, adding that shift-ing demographics, the globalization of trade and new technologies are world-wide concerns.

In 2012, a McKinsey Global Institute report estimated that by 2020, the global economy could see 90 to 95 million more low-skill workers than employers will need, Cryne said.

He added that this projection high-lights the need to compete for workers on an international level, and increase the mobility of workers within Canada.

“How do we get companies to tap into talent across from across Canada? How do we get (workers) to move from areas with pockets of high unemployment?” he said.

Kenney noted that skills shortages are propelled by the inability to attract youth into the trades.

Countrywide, there are 13 different apprenticeship programs with specific rules and requirements, he said.

“Greater harmonization of that regime would make it easier for young apprentices to complete their training and give them the mobility to go where the jobs are,” Kenney said.

He added that stakeholders need to de-stigmatize the trades and encourage young workers to enter skilled voca-tions.

The minister cited countries such as Germany and the United Kingdom as places where apprenticeship programs offer youth better employment options, calling the programs “radically better.”

He said the Canadian debate over apprenticeship programs has led to a mischaracterization of certain European systems, whereby youth are streamlined into trades from a young age. But he said the programs have now become more “permeable.”

In Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Denmark, Kenney said, about two-thirds of young high school students at the age of 16 enrol in paid apprenticeship programs and graduate at 19 “unencum-bered by debt.”

“(They are) graduating with a certifi-cate that is considered to have the same social and economic value as a univer-sity degree,” he said.

Young Canadians present a paradox, said Kenney. They are among the most educated in the developed world, but have an unemployment rate of 13.4 per cent, nearly double the general unemployment rate.

“It’s unacceptable,” he said.The conference comes less than a

week after Kenney announced a myriad of changes to the controversial tempor-ary foreign workers program.

T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SWHITEHORSE - Yukon residents are at the

top in Canada when it comes to tippling alcohol, according to the latest statistics.

The territory has led the per-capita consump-tion of alcohol survey ever since the figures were gathered starting back in 1950, said Gary Brown of the Yukon Bureau of Statistics.

However, Brown said the numbers have to be looked at with caution because of the influence tourists may have on the annual results.

Based on the territory’s population, the aver-age Yukoner aged 15 and over spent $1,332 on booze from April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2013, the bureau said.

People in Newfoundland-Labrador were in second place, shelling out $981 during the same period, while those in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut came landed in the third spot, spending $954. The lowest average consumption, at $631, was recorded in New Brunswick. The Canadian average was $734.

Of the $1,332 spent by Yukoners, $647 went toward beer, $403 was spent on hard liquor and $282 was dropped on wine, according to the statistics.

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OPINION

Protectionists’ attitudes unfounded in today’s world

Ever since Berkshire Hathaway Energy announced it would buy Calgary-

based AltaLink Ltd. (an electricity transmission company with 12,000 kilo-metres of power lines), the predictable protectionist sentiment has ramped up.

While the deal is worth $3.2 billion for AltaLink’s current owner, Montreal-based SNC-Lavalin, some are urging the federal gov-ernment to quash the pro-posed sale because:

• some Albertans are apparently paranoid about electricity exports;

• an American com-pany would “reap the bene-fits,” according to Alberta NDP Leader Brian Mason;

• Buffett and his company are presumably motivated by profit and/or are only loyal to the United States, and;

• electricity lines are “critical infrastructure” – a “lifeline,” according to Wildrose utilities critic Joe Anglin;

None of the justifica-tions withstand even a cur-sory analysis.

The paranoid protec-tionists will always be obsessed about exports, whether oil, lumber, elec-tricity or water. If govern-ments listened to them, we’d be back in the Great

Depression, when many countries imposed barriers to trade and investment, and exported little except comparisons on which country was the most poor.

Where a company is headquarters – whether in Montreal, Omaha or Calgary – is largely irrel-evant. Shareholders of such companies, after all, only make a buck by fulfilling customer needs and not, in this case, by turning the lights off.

As to being “critical”, transmission lines are not alone: forestry, agriculture, oil and gas, railways, auto-motive and aerospace com-panies and their products are also critical – to feed Canadians, keep us from freezing in winter, or to fight a war (automotive assembly plants can be con-verted to produce tanks).

But no matter how critical such elements of an economy are, it is hard-ly an argument to block foreign investment from Americans, Australians and other allies historic-ally friendly to Canada. While there are occasions when foreign ownership restrictions are necessary – preventing Iran and North Korea from buying up uranium, for example – do opponents of the AltaLink deal really fear the

83-year-old Buffett and his 90-year old partner, Charlie Munger, will one day invade Canada . . . from Omaha?

The anti-foreigner, anti-foreign investment tack is counter-productive because Canada was built on for-eign investment, including the fur trade four centur-ies ago and the oil patch and automotive sectors last century and newer indus-tries now. Besides, accord-ing to Statistics Canada foreign money already has a significant presence in Canada: In mining ($20.8 billion); finance and insur-ance ($94.5 billion); man-agement of companies and enterprises ($116.2 bil-lion); oil and gas extrac-tion ($107.2 billion); or the mother of all foreign investments: manufactur-ing ($209.3 billion).

And when some Canadians get touchy about foreign investment, they forget that what they

recommend for the for-eign goose could cook the Canadian gander. Plenty of Canadian cash is invested outside of Canada (and comes from mutual funds, Canada Pension Plan money, union retirement plans and other Canadian investors).

Outside of Canada, Canadians have invest-ments in oil and gas extrac-tion ($49.8 billion); mining ($66.3 billion); manufac-turing ($72.7 billion); man-agement of companies and enterprises ($101.5 billion) and finance and insurance ($312.9 billion).

In total, Canadians have more investment outside of Canada ($779 billion) than do foreigners here ($686 billion). That, by the way, includes the utility sec-tor, where in 2013, foreign money in Canadian util-ities was worth $5.7 bil-lion, compared to the $18.8 billion of Canadian cash invested abroad in other countries’ utilities.

This point is critical. Canadians are net export-ers of capital, profit from it, and always lose when global trade and invest-ment barriers rise instead of fall. Foreign invest-ment – whether in Canada by “foreigners” or by Canadians elsewhere – provides new capital that

domestic investors either don’t have or won’t provide. Moreover, investor money bulks up existing industries or creates new ones. And investors often bring new expertise to the country in which they operate. (As an example, Canadian bank-ers could teach Europe and America about not over-doing it on risk).

Finally, investment cre-ates jobs. Existing share-holders also profit when outside investors place a higher value on the com-pany than domestic firms do, which explains why some domestic compan-ies complain about foreign investors: without money from abroad, Canadian-based companies (albeit also ones with sharehold-ers from the world over, it should be remembered) could pick up companies on the cheap, to the detri-ment of existing sharehold-ers.

Foreign investment is a win-win-win-win prop-osition for countries, con-sumers, the economy and shareholders. The only losers? Companies which dislike competition – or people who think Warren Buffett poses an existential threat to Alberta.

Mark Milke is a Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute.

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“The Polish-American alli-ance is worthless, even harmful, as it gives Poland a false sense of security.

It’s bullshit.” – Polish Foreign Minister Radoslav Sikorski, secretly taped in early 2014. Discuss. Use only one side of the paper.

The publication of Radoslav Sikorski’s comments in the Polish weekly magazine Wprost will not help his bid to become the European Union’s foreign policy chief, but there are senior foreign policy offi-cials elsewhere who might be tempted to make similar remarks (though perhaps not in alcohol-fuelled con-versations in well-known restaurants where they might be overheard). And there are those in Washington who are saying the same thing.

Some, like former Vice-President Dick Cheney – “The policies of the last six years have left America diminished and weakened. Our enemies no longer fear us. Our allies no longer trust us” – are so discredited by their own past blunders that they can be eas-ily dismissed. But some of America’s overseas friends and allies also are quietly dismayed by President Barack Obama’s clear reluctance to send in the troops, or at least the drones.

Sikorski’s angry remarks can be explained by the date when they were made. It was before the Ukrainian revolu-tion succeeded in overthrow-ing the pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych, and before the United States responded to Russia’s annexation of Crimea by imposing sanctions on Russian leaders and sending reinforcements to NATO coun-tries in Eastern Europe. He would presumably sing a differ-ent song now.

Iraq’s Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, however, is undoubt-edly now talking much like Sikorski did last winter. After

all the horrors that the US inva-sion inflicted on Iraq in 2003-11, Maliki must feel that he has a right to expect American military help when things start to fall apart at home. But he doesn’t get it.

Maliki might get US military help if Washington believed that the survival of his regime was a “core national interest” of the United States, as Obama put it in a speech at West Point Military Academy last month,

but even then it would be help in carefully measured amounts. Which is to say, no American troops fighting on the ground.

Well, all right, Obama did send 300 American troops back to Iraq last week, but they

are being sent only to train and advise Iraqi troops, not to kill and get killed. He might con-sider using some drones and cruise missiles too, if Maliki agrees to step aside for some-one less divisive – but it would only be a token gesture even then.

This is because President Obama knows two very import-ant things. The first is that the American public simply will not stand for another large US mil-itary intervention in the Middle East. The other is that neither Iraq, nor indeed even Ukraine, is a “core national interest” of the United States.

“Since World War II, some of our most costly mistakes came not from our restraint, but from our willingness to rush into military adventures without thinking through the consequences,” said Obama at West Point, and he has no intention of doing the same thing. Does that mean that the United States has become a “worthless ally”? No, but it does mean that it may not always be a “faithful friend”.

The distinction is import-ant. An alliance like NATO or the US-Japanese alliance is a formal commitment to fight in

support of another country in certain stated circumstances. However, very few wars that the United States has fought in the past fifty years were of that kind. They were “wars of choice”, fought in places where the United States had no legal obligation to fight.

Back when American power seemed irresistible and American wealth inexhaustible, Washington repeatedly sent US troops into wars that had only the sketchiest relationship with any definable American nation-al interest. From Vietnam to Iraq, it literally did not count the cost. But it does now, and only actual allies can count on the United States showing up when it’s needed.

How do you get to be an ally of the United States? By being a country whose independence, borders, and/or political orien-tation are seen by Washington as truly vital American inter-ests. The one exception to this rule is Israel, whose hold on America is more sentimental than strategic, but for every-body else there is a very high threshold.

Poland actually crosses that threshold, because Russia, the country that obsesses the Poles, remains a major American security concern as well. Ukraine, on the other hand, lies beyond NATO’s security fron-tier, and not many NATO mem-bers would be willing to fight a war with Russia to save it, so Ukraine is not an ally. And Iraq is definitely not an ally.

Despite the general US obsession with the “terrorist threat”, Obama may actually realise how little the outcome of the current turmoil in Iraq really matters to American security, and Iraq’s oil, post-fracking, is not even a con-sideration any more. No core American national interests here. So the U.S. cavalry will not be riding over the hill to the rescue.

Gwynne Dyer is an independ-ent journalist whose articles on world affairs are published in 45 countries.

Thank you Terry Hanik for your rendition on the Old Bridge a week or so ago (Walking bridge a step in the right direction, Trail Times, June 13)

However, when the time arrives to remove the sewer line off the Old Bridge there

will be a front end loader – a 2-ton truck – probably a service vehicle and about six workers for a few days from one end of the bridge to another removing the old sewer line.

When they are all done and the weight removed, the Old Bridge will still be there stand-

ing proud and strong.The Old Bridge should be

open now to vehicles and people for about another 20 years or until we can afford to build a new bridge.

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T H E A S S O C I A T E D P R E S SNEW YORK - Eli Wallach,

the raspy-voiced character actor who starred in dozens of movies and Broadway plays over a remarkable and enduring career and earned film immor-tality as a conniving, quick-on-the-draw bandit in the classic Western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” has died. He was 98.

The actor’s son, Peter Wallach, confirmed Wednesday that his father passed away Tuesday evening in New York from natural causes.

“The best way to honour him is to put on one of his movies,” he said. “Put on ‘Baby Doll’ or ‘Magnificent Seven.’ Those live forever.”

Wallach and his wife, Anne Jackson, were a formidable duo on the stage, appearing in several plays dating back to the 1940s. He won a Tony Award for his supporting role in Tennessee Williams’ “The Rose Tattoo” in 1951, was an original member of the Actors Studio, and was still starring in films well into his 90s.

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bered for his role as Tuco in “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.” In the Sergio Leone spa-ghetti Western, Clint Eastwood (The Good), Lee Van Cleef (The Bad) and Wallach (The Ugly) attempt to outwit and out shoot each other in pursuit of a trove of gold coins buried in a Civil War cemetery.

Wallach played a menacing, yet lovable, outlaw who had committed every crime in the book: “murder, armed rob-bery ... inciting prostitution, kidnapping, extortion ... rape” as the executioner intoned in one famous scene before Tuco escaped a hanging.

The movie - with a haunting score by Ennio Morricone - was the third film in a trilogy that included “Fistful of Dollars” and “For a Few Dollars More,” and influenced a generation of filmmakers. Wallach’s character had several memorable lines, including, “When you have to shoot, shoot, don’t talk,” after being confronted by a rival gun-slinger.

“Everywhere I go, someone will recognize me from ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’

and start whistling the theme song,” he said in a 2003 inter-view.

Wallach also starred in the steamy “Baby Doll” (1956), “The Magnificent Seven” (1960), “The Misfits” (1961), an Arthur Miller-written film that starred Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable, “Lord Jim” (1964) with Peter O’Toole and “The Godfather III” (1990), in which he played a murderous mobster who dies after eating poisoned cannoli.

Though he never won an Oscar, Wallach was awarded an honorary Academy Award in 2010, hailing him as “the quintessential chameleon.”

“I’ve played more bandits, thieves, killers, war lords, molesters and Mafiosi that you could shake a stick at,” said Wallach. “As a civilian, I col-lect antique clocks, tell endless stories of my days as a medic in World War II, watch every ten-nis match, live for my family, daily mail, run the dishwasher, take pictures of faces in the bark of trees.”

“I don’t act to live,” he said. “I live to act.”

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Behavioural ecolo-gist Valeria (vul-ARIA’) Vergara is going to Cunningham Inlet, on Summerset Island about 800 kilo-metres north of the Arctic Circle, to study the sounds belugas make in the wild.

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Special Olympics Trail is sending a strong group of ath-letes to compete in the 2014 Canadian Special Olympics Canada Summer Games at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver July 8-12.

Trail’s Sherry Altrogge and coach Colin Berdusco will be joining the Team BC’s swimming contingent, while Neil Emery and Bob Lattanzio with coach Alan Prough will compete in Bocce, and Al Cummings from Castlegar with coach Ben Postmus will tee off against Canada’s best Special Olympic golfers at the UBC course.

Altrogge led the Kootenay Zone at the Special Olympic B.C. Summer Games last July swimming to five gold med-als and a silver and will dedicate these Games to her Aunt Cecil Rupert (nee Boilard) who passed away in April after a four year battle with cancer.

Emery and Lattanzio were also golden at the B.C. Games winning in the team Bocce event, while Cummings picked up a silver in golf, just missing the gold by one stroke. For Emery this will be his second national championships hav-ing competed in Edmonton in 1989 in floor hockey.

“The ‘Team BC - Team Domination’ philosophy has been an added incentive for the host team,” said Special O coach Postmus in an email. “We’re hoping to get a jump on all other provinces with the home-field advantage.”

The Trail squad will join 1,700 other athletes from all the provinces as well as the Yukon and NWT, in what is projected to be the largest national games yet.

Team B.C. will have close to 280 athletes competing, 70 coaches, and 14 mission staff. Supporting these athletes will be 1,100 volunteers in 11 sports.

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Perhaps the most appealing aspect of sport is its ability to bring out the very best in people. Unfortunately,

it can also bring out the very worst.

With the spotlight firmly fixed on the FIFA World Cup, soccer fans have enjoyed a bit of both. We’ve seen exciting and inspir-ing play from the upstart Costa Ricans who managed to oust for-mer Cup champions Italy and England from the group of death, to the dramatic Greek victory over the Ivory Coast in extra time on Tuesday that hurled them into the Group of 16.

Contrast that to the Suarez biting incident and the English fans who refused to leave the stands after a dour 0-0 draw with Costa Rica, and competition on the whole seems at once inspiring and absurd, an ongoing tension between the ridiculous and the sublime.

However, one event manages to transcend the more coarse ele-ments of this sporting paradox, that embraces participation and good sportsmanship over com-petitiveness and cheap play. It

supports a higher ideal and pro-claims no winners, and it is one of the most challen-ging events on the planet – the Tough Mudder.

The Mudder is a 20 kilometre mil-itary-style obstacle course devised by the British Forces to test mental as well as physical strength. Obstacles often play on common human fears, such as fire, water, electricity and heights.

I have written about others who have done the Mudder, like Fruitvale’s Russell Patterson who qualified and participated in the World’s Toughest Mudder, and Pride Gym’s Corey Colwell who has helped more than a few locals complete the event.

Yet, I never seriously contem-plated taking part until my broth-er-in-law, Mitch, on some bleak winter’s day in January, suggested we do the Whistler Tough Mudder on June 21 (this past Saturday).

I surprisingly agreed, and we

then recruited two more similarly gul-lible friends to join us.

Well, it took longer than I anticipated to get motivated, but by April I was run-ning fairly regu-larly, having found an ideal trail that followed a gas line from the Salmo Ski Hill to Erie Lake,

a scenic if not torturous run of steeps, runoffs, rivers, and mud that I thought might simulate the Whistler terrain.

In the end, it did prove helpful, because the course on Saturday was all up and down, beginning with a three kilometre run to the first obstacle, the ‘Arctic Enema,’ which was a C-can full of water and ice, and barriers that you had to swim under before emerging a walking Popsicle.

It didn’t get any better after that, more hills, more obstacles that ranged from scaling 12-foot walls, to crawling under razor wire, running more hills,

ascending the ladder to hell, scur-rying through mud and water-filled tunnels, clamoring over inclined walls, more hills, more obstacles, and still more hills, all with the panorama of the white-crested mountains looming in the distance. It was beautiful.

I started bleeding from my shins and elbows after the razor-wire crawl 5-k in, and pulled my groin at about 13-K. Yet, the kilometres ticked away. Helped and encouraged by teammates and strangers alike, we overcame the ensuing obstacles and kept a steady pace, until my teammate’s calves seized up close to the half-way mark. But he didn’t stop, he was slowed, yet, amazingly he kept going, never gave up despite the pain.

After 16-k they tried to kill us; as we ran, walked, and eventually almost crawled up an agonizingly steep hill about the height and slope of Red Mountain.

But we made it, and we finished as we started, running together just as fast as we could through a hanging forest of electric wires that sent a spear of pain through you with each and every contact,

before bursting over the finish line into a host of volunteers, that would hand you a beer, adorn your head with the laurel of the coveted Mudder head band, take a photo, and deliver a high five. And as you stood there with your Mudder team, your friends, your beer, you felt like you had indeed accomplished something special.

Somewhere along the way I realized how much fun I was hav-ing despite the difficulty. Maybe the Mudder’s not for everyone, but it’s the challenge that counts. Doing something everyday that gives you a sense of satisfaction is important for your physical and mental health. Start small, try a short run, go for a bike ride, hike the antennae trail, or walk around Champion Lakes.

The Tough Mudder seemed an intimidating prospect until I heard that a good family friend, at age 79, was cycling from Sicamous to Whitehorse, Yukon, a distance of exactly 2,278 kilo-metres, for no other reason than he wanted to see if he could do it.

So get active, eventually, it may lead to bigger and muddier things.

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TBD Final 2:30 p.m.

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“We couldn’t pro-vide the level of support for the athletes if the community didn’t buy in,” said Postmus. “So whether it’s the radio and paper guys come to play floor hockey or the ski hill providing the ski passes, or the golf course guys giving us seasons passes. To put a dollar figure on all that stuff we just couldn’t do it. Without the com-munity support, we just couldn’t do it.”

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Dear Annie: My hus-band had an affair for three years. I had no idea this was going on until he told me and filed for divorce.

We have two teenage children, and I haven’t talked very much with them about the situa-tion. I’ve never men-tioned his girlfriend. I don’t even know whether he is still see-ing the woman.

My daughter, who is 18, told me that she’s been asked by others whether one of us cheated and that’s why we are divorcing. I skirted the question and asked how she replied to this, and she said, “I told them it was none of their business.” She never asked me outright whether this is what happened in our case, so I didn’t tell her.

I don’t know wheth-er or not I should say anything. Should I tell them to ask their father? After all, it’s not really my information to share. What happens if it comes up later and

Dad decides to bring his girlfriend to a fam-ily event? That would devastate me. I think it would be good to have all of the information out in the open before that happens.

My daughter has a great deal of disdain for people who cheat on their spouses, and I don’t want to hurt the excellent relationship she now has with her father. The two of them have become very close since we separated, and I’m glad about that. Part of me wants to tell my children now and get it out of the way. I don’t want my daugh-ter to think I’m giv-ing her information in order to “get her on my

side.” But I also don’t want her to be angry with me for withhold-ing information that other family members know about. What do you say? -- Worrier

Dear Worrier: If your daughter asks directly whether one of you cheated, you should be honest without sound-ing bitter. But it seems as though she may not actually want to know. If her fears are con-firmed, she may feel forced to distance her-self from Dad. Should she find out later from other relatives and blame you for with-holding the informa-tion, simply tell her that you didn’t want to damage the close rela-tionship she had with her father, which is a commendable stance to take. We think she will forgive you.

Dear Annie: My hus-band and I recently received an invitation from “Debbie” to a cocktail party celebrat-ing her high school graduation. We don’t

know Debbie, but her grandmother used to work for our business.

We aren’t sure how to respond. Normally a gift is expected, yet we don’t feel it’s appro-priate, being that we have never met her and don’t know her parents, either. Is it appropriate to just send a card? Do we just ignore the invi-tation? -- Questioning Con-grad-ulations

Dear Questioning: Please don’t ignore an invitation to any event where the hostess may be counting heads to ensure sufficient food and drink. But you are not obligated to give a graduation gift to someone so distantly connected. A card of congratulations is per-fectly appropriate and more than enough.

Dear Annie: I read your column every day and have felt the pain of so many parents whose children are estranged. When my wife and I separated a decade ago, my daughter refused to communicate with

me. Birthday cards and gifts were returned unopened.

I finally received a terse reply to an email, saying she does not want anything more to do with me. She will not tell me her reasons. She also won’t tell her mother or brother so

they could pass the information on to me.

This has been hurt-ful, but I have accepted her decision. I honestly believe the children who treat their parents or grandparents this way are the losers. I am now happily remarried to a wonderful woman

and have two great stepdaughters who love me very much. My life is wonderful. -- A Happy Old Man

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For Friday, June 27, 2014 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Keep your shirt on today (which is tough to do if you need to get something off your chest). Family dis-agreements are likely. Avoid these power struggles if pos-sible. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) This is an accident-prone day, because you might feel upset. An accident doesn’t have to happen, but you will have to keep your cool. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Keep an eye on your money scene today, because something unexpected might occur. Stay in touch with your bank account. Guard your possessions against loss or theft. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Today the Moon is in your sign at odds with unpredict-able Uranus and Pluto. This is a sure indication of argu-ments and power struggles

with others. Tread carefully. LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) It’s hard to feel calm today. In the pit of your stomach you might feel ner-vous. Just keep your eyes open and be aware of what is happening around you, especially to avoid an acci-dent. VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) You might meet someone who is bizarre and domi-neering today. Avoid this person if you can. Or per-haps someone you know will do something that shocks you. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Power struggles with authority figures are likely today. However, they will not do you any good. Run away if you can, because they could get nasty. SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) This is an accident-prone day for your sign. Pay atten-tion to everything you say

and do. Avoid controversial subjects like politics, reli-gion and racial issues when talking to others. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) You might be surprised about news regarding inheritances, taxes, debt or something to do with shared property. Stay light on your feet and be ready to act. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Quarrels with partners

and close friends might erupt today because people are easily upset. In addi-tion, bizarre happenings can throw things into chaos. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Your work routine will be interrupted today because of computer crashes, equip-ment breakdowns, canceled meetings or staff shortages. Allow extra time so you have wiggle room to deal with this.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Parents should be vigi-lant about their kids today, because this is an accident-prone day for them. It’s also a rocky day for romance. Batten down the hatches and stay calm. YOU BORN TODAY You are determined and focused. You have willpower and determination, which allows you to overcome tough odds or obstacles in your way.

You are protective of fam-ily and loved ones, and also convincing and persuasive! This year ahead is a test for you. It’s a time of growth. Work to build or construct something, but avoid major changes. Do not act yet. Birthdate of: J.J. Abrams, writer/director; Isabelle Adjani, actress; Catherine Cookson, author. (c) 2014 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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Apt/Condos for SaleTWO bedroom, two bathroom condo for sale, within 100 feet of Lakeside Park in Nelson. This lovely setting overlooks the kiddies playground at the park. It is completely wheel-chair accessible, no stairs. It is 1300 square feet of living space plus a sundeck. It in-cludes all appliances, plus a gas fi replace, and a jet tub. It has natural gas forced air heating and gas hot water. It includes a covered carport for one vehicle plus an extra stor-age locker. The address is 829 Nelson Avenue, and the main entrance is on the south side of the building. The asking price is $350,000 and we wel-come offers. Call 250-509-0961 for a viewing.

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BY OWNER 3563 Hwy. Dr., Trail, 4br, 2bth, very close to school. Immaculate in and out. Must See. Pond, ug sprinkling & appliances. By appointment only. 250-231-1243Montrose Large Family Home. 1 Acre View Property. Main fl oor totally renovated. Trades considered. Call 250-368-3773

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Apt/Condo for RentBella Vista, Shavers Bench Townhomes. N/S, N/P. 2-3 bdrms. Phone 250.364.1822Ermalinda Apartments, Glen-merry. Adults only. N/P, N/S. 1-2 bdrms. Ph. 250.364.1922E.TRAIL, 2BDRM Gyro park, heat, hot water & cable incl. $650/mo. 250-362-3316Francesco Estates, Glenmer-ry. Adults only. N/P, N/S, 1-3 bdrms. Phone 250.368.6761.Glenmerry 1bdrm. apt. F/S Heat included. N/S. $600./mo. 250-368-5908

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1st Trail Real Estate

1252 Bay Avenue, Trail 250.368.5222 1993 Columbia Ave, Rossland 250.362.5200WWW.COLDWELLBANKERTRAIL.COM

Nathan Kotyk 250-231-9484

Rhonda van Tent 250-231-7575

Jack McConnachie 250-368-5222

Rob Burrus 250-231-4420

Marie Claude Germain 250-512-1153

Rossland $320,000

Marie-Claude MLS# 2395423

Rossland $119,900

Marie-Claude MLS# 2393618

Rossland $998,000

Marie-Claude MLS# 2398548

Trail $119,000

Marie-Claude MLS# 2393499

Rossland $199,900

Marie-Claude MLS# 2395984

Rossland $OLD

Marie-Claude MLS# 2390913

Warfield $144,900

Nathan MLS# 2395554

Warfield $OLD

Nathan MLS# 2391999

Fruitvale $199,000

Nathan MLS# 2392778

Rossland $299,000

Rhonda MLS# 2397764

Salmo $289,500

Rhonda MLS# 2396380

Salmo $169,000

Rhonda MLS# 2396385

Warfield $219,000

Rhonda MLS# 2389662

Warfield $189,900

Rhonda MLS#

Trail $569,000

Rhonda MLS# 2397459

Fruitvale $164,900

Rob MLS# 2393806

Fruitvale $399,000

Rob MLS# 2397558

Renata $235,500

Rob MLS# 2215924

Fruitvale $229,500

Rob MLS# 2396677

Trail $135,500

Rob MLS# 2393731

Montrose $158,900

Rob MLS# 2397280

SOLD3.7 AcresNew Kitchen &

Move in Ready

New Listing

300 Acres Sub-dividable2 Bdrm Top Floor,

Corner UnitNew Price

House & Acreage

SOLD

Lots of upgradesIncome Producer

Quick Possession All Updates DoneBeautiful

Executive Home

5.1 Acres

10 Acres

Completely

Renovated

New Price

New Price

Real Estate

Apt/Condos for SaleTWO bedroom, two bathroom condo for sale, within 100 feet of Lakeside Park in Nelson. This lovely setting overlooks the kiddies playground at the park. It is completely wheel-chair accessible, no stairs. It is 1300 square feet of living space plus a sundeck. It in-cludes all appliances, plus a gas fi replace, and a jet tub. It has natural gas forced air heating and gas hot water. It includes a covered carport for one vehicle plus an extra stor-age locker. The address is 829 Nelson Avenue, and the main entrance is on the south side of the building. The asking price is $350,000 and we wel-come offers. Call 250-509-0961 for a viewing.

Houses For Sale

House for Sale Sunningdale, Trail

Reasonably priced in a very desirable area.

Property has a nice private backyard with a garden

area for the green thumb. Super neighbours in an

area of both young fam-ilies and retirees. Nearby park, wonderful walking trails, and just steps from

public transit. Newly refinished wood flooring

in all three bedrooms and the living room. Gas furnace for cost effective

winter heating and an oversized carport for the car. Laundry downstairs in partial basement. Low maintenance metal roof and vinyl siding both in

good condition.$195,000

250-498-7585 cell250-498-3519 res

SUNNINGDALELarge, 2 bdrm condo

• refinished hardwood floors

• New kitchen• New bathroom• New fridge & stove• Enclosed deck• Furnished$119,000250.368.3055

BY OWNER 3563 Hwy. Dr., Trail, 4br, 2bth, very close to school. Immaculate in and out. Must See. Pond, ug sprinkling & appliances. By appointment only. 250-231-1243Montrose Large Family Home. 1 Acre View Property. Main fl oor totally renovated. Trades considered. Call 250-368-3773

Rentals

Apt/Condo for RentBella Vista, Shavers Bench Townhomes. N/S, N/P. 2-3 bdrms. Phone 250.364.1822Ermalinda Apartments, Glen-merry. Adults only. N/P, N/S. 1-2 bdrms. Ph. 250.364.1922E.TRAIL, 2BDRM Gyro park, heat, hot water & cable incl. $650/mo. 250-362-3316Francesco Estates, Glenmer-ry. Adults only. N/P, N/S, 1-3 bdrms. Phone 250.368.6761.Glenmerry 1bdrm. apt. F/S Heat included. N/S. $600./mo. 250-368-5908

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Classifieds

Trail Times Thursday, June 26, 2014 www.trailtimes.ca A15

1148 Bay Ave, Trail 250.368.5000All Pro Realty Ltd.

www.facebook.com/allprorealtyltdtrailbc www.allprorealty.ca

Contact Our RealtorsWayne DeWitt........... ext 25

cell: 250-368-1617Mario Berno ..............ext 27

cell: 250.368.1027Tom Gawryletz .........ext 26

cell: 250.368.1436Dawn Rosin ...............ext 24

cell: 250.231.1765Thea Stayanovich .....ext 28

cell: 250.231.1661

Fred Behrens ............ext 31cell: 250.368.1268

Keith DeWitt .............ext 30cell: 250.231.8187

Denise Marchi ..........ext 21cell: 250.368.1112

Joy DeMelo ...............ext 29cell: 250.368.1960

Salmo$356,000

MLS#

NEW LISTING

Rossland$219,500

MLS#2395832

PRICE

REDUCED

Glenmerry$214,000

MLS#2396283

GARDENERS

DELIGHT

Trail$185,000

MLS#2398665

NEW LISTING

Trail $350,000

MLS#2397318 & 2397319

BUSINESS &

BUILDING

Waneta Village$239,000

MLS#2397976

STRATA

Trail$439,900

MLS#2397006

MIRAL

HEIGHTS

Fruitvale$209,000

MLS#2398238

NEW LISTING

Salmo$88,900

MLS#2398081

3.17 ACRES

Trail$119,900

MLS#2395073

BIGGER THAN

IT LOOKS

Glenmerry$279,000

MLS#2398745

NEW LISTING

Sunningdale$259,000

MLS#2395606

BACKS ONTO

PARK

Trail$159,900

MLS#2215964

VIEW

Salmo$223,000

MLS#2398692

HOUSE &

SHOP

Fruitvale$330,000

MLS#2397581

NEW LISTING

Shavers Bench$135,000

MLS#2396626

GREAT

STARTER

Montrose$359,000

MLS#

NEW LISTING

Warfi eld$100,000

MLS#2394155

2 SERVICED

LOTS

Salmo$328,500

MLS#2398403

2 HOMES ON

4.99 ACRES

Redstone$839,900

MLS#2393760

GOLF COURSE

LIVING

Sunningdale$290,000

MLS#2398133

NEW LISTING

East Trail$257,000

MLS#2398569

LARGER

CORNER LOT

Fri. June 27 • 11am - 1pm516 Baker Ave, Salmo

$279,900

MLS# 2397445

OPEN HOUSE

Sat. June 28 • 1 - 3pm425 9th Ave, Montrose

$229,000

MLS# 2396761

OPEN HOUSE

Sat. June 28 • 11am - 1pm380 Laurier Dr, Warfi eld

$249,000

MLS#2395213

OPEN HOUSE

Sat. June 28 • 1:30 - 3:30pm470 10th Ave, Montrose

$199,000

MLS#2398328

OPEN HOUSE

East Trail

MLS#2394025

SOLD

Fruitvale$289,500

MLS#2211947

REDUCED

Fruitvale

MLS#2215146

SOLD

Fruitvale$256,000

MLS#2398657

NEW LISTING

Warfi eld$239,500

MLS#2398824

GOOD VALUE

Annable$179,500

MLS#2398114

MINT

Rentals

Apt/Condo for RentGlenmerry 2bdrm. apt. F/S Heat included. N/S. $750./mo. 250-368-5908

GLENVIEW APTS. Spacious, quiet 2 bdrm. apts. available. $650./mo. 250-368-8391

Sunningdale 3bdrm apart-ment ground fl oor, no steps, private entrance. Cable & heat incl. Free use of W/D. Available July 1. Walk out to lawn, very private. Call 250-368-3055

TRAIL: 1 bdrm suite close to downtown Shared washer and dryer $575 utilities inc.

Ken: 250-442-2632ken.dodds@yahoo.ca

Grand Forks Realty Ltd.

TRAIL, 1bd. suite, private en-trance, covered parking, pri-vate yard w/river view. F/S, W/D. $600./mo. incl.util., cable, wi-fi . N/S. 250-368-8207 after 6:00pm.

TRAIL, 2bdrm. Close to: town, bus stop, park, partially fur-nished. 250-364-1129

TRAIL, 2BDRM. Glenmerry. Newly reno’d, perfect for sen-ior, no stairs. N/P. Utilities in-cluded. 250-368-1312.

Houses For Sale

Rentals

Apt/Condo for RentTRAIL, spacious 1&2bdrm. apartment. Adult building, per-fect for seniors/ professionals. Cozy, clean, quiet, com-fortable. Must See. 250-368-1312

WARFIELD APARTMENTS. 1&2-bdrm, N/S, N/P. Long term tenants. 250-368-5888

Homes for Rent3 Bed, 2 Bath - W. Trail For Rent - $1100/m + util. - com-pletely renovated - contact + pics on www.cebahomes.com

Want to RentPROFESSIONAL COUPLE seeking 4-5 bedroom well maintained executive home. Trail/ Rossland/ Castlegar. 250-362-5867

Houses For Sale

Transportation

Auto Financing

Houses For Sale

Transportation

Auto Financing

Cars - DomesticClean 2008 Honda Civic good cond. Only 41,000kms. Never driven in winter. 250-364-1669

Houses For Sale

Legal

Legal NoticesNOTICE OF DISPOSALName of the Tenant: Jerry Weston Davis, deceased.In the Matter of Part 6 of the Manufactured Home Park Tenancy Regulation B.C. Reg. 481/2003Description of the property to be disposed of: Manufactured Home # 034506, 1975 Bendix Model # LeaderAddress of the Manufactured Home Site: 102, 12th Avenue, Genelle, British Columbia V0G 1G0Name and Address of the Landlord: Crockett’s Alamo Mobile Home Park Ltd., 102, 12th Avenue, Genelle, British Columbia V0G 1G0

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Terry Alton250-231-1101terryalton@shaw.ca

Mark Wilson250-231-5591mark.wilson@century21.ca

Tonnie Stewart250-365-9665tonniestewart@shaw.ca

Jodi Beamish250-231-2331jodi.beamish@century21.ca

Mary Martin250-231-0264mary.martin@century21.ca

Richard Daoust250-368-7897richard.daoust@century21.ca

Mary Amantea250-521-0525mamantea@telus.net

Bill Craig250-231-2710bill.craig@century21.ca

Deanne Lockhart250-231-0153deannelockhart@shaw.ca

Art Forrest250-368-8818c21art@telus.net

Christine Albo250-512-7653christine.albo@century21.ca

Dave Thoss250-231-4522dave.thoss@century21.ca

Dan PowellChristina Lake250-442-6413powelldanielk@gmail.com

KOOTENAY HOMES INC.1358 Cedar Avenue, Trail • 250.368.8818

www.kootenayhomes.com www.century21.caThe Local Experts™

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3401 Highway Drive, Trail $199,000

Great value 3 bdrm/ 2 bath Glenmerry home! Grand living room natural light. Original hardwood fl oors, a functional

kitchen, a large rec room, and all kinds of closet space.

Call Terry 250-231-1101

3892 Dogwood Drive, Trail $299,000

Immaculate and professionally renovated Glenmerry house 3 bdrm/3

bath split-level home with several upgrades. Great layout for entertaining!

Ready to move in and enjoy!Call Terry 250-231-1101

910 Tamarack Cres, Genelle $370,000

4 bdrm 3 bath, A/C, U/G sprinklers, gorgeous landscaping, double garage, shop, huge rec room, spacious master

with 4 pc ensuite, gas f/p. Roof in 2006, level entrance, main fl oor laundry. Wow.

This is a fabulous home!Call Tonnie (250) 365-9665

613 Forrest Drive, Warfi eld$205,000

This 3 bdrm, 2 bath home features hardwood fl oors, updated kitchen, and

numerous upgrades, including windows, roof, furnace, hot water tank, and electrical.

All you have to do is move in and enjoy.

Call Jodi 250-231-2331

1922 Meadowlark Drive, Fruitvale

$265,0005 bdrms & 2.5 baths. This wonderful family home features many recent

upgrades. The large back deck is great for entertaining right off the newly

updated kitchen. Call Jodi (250) 231-2331

83 Perdue Street, Trail $169,000

This immaculate gem offers 3 bdrms, 2 full baths, beautifully decorated with modern spacious kitchen and

bathrooms, wood fl oors, high ceilings, large living room and updated windows

and doors. Move right in and enjoyCall Deanne (250) 231-0153

1553 Diamond Street, Trail$149,000

Panoramic views and privacy await with approx. 700 sq. ft. of decks overlooking the Columbia River. Many upgrades including wiring, plumbing, roof, heating and central air, two bathrooms, 3 bdrms, and family

room. Call now!!Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

Lot 2 Mann Road, Rossland $183,000

One of the best building lots available at Red Mountain and priced to sell! Located

on the corner of Mann Rd. and Talbot Rd. with spectacular 360 degree views and yet only 3 minutes to downtown

Rossland.Call Christine (250) 512-7653

Erie - Ross Spur Road, Fruitvale $117,000

6.5 acres. Good building sites. Southern exposure. Drilled Well. Treed. Great

price. Call today to view.Call Art (250) 368-8818

NEW PRICE

SOLD SOLD

30 Skands Road, Christina Lake $329,000

Impeccably maintained home on 3/4 acre lot. Open fl oor plan 3 Bdrm with large covered deck. High quality appliances. Heat pump is only 1 1/2

yrs. old. Attached garage plus 24’ x 32’ detached workshop.

302 Ritchie Avenue, Tadanac $399,000

This graceful and spacious home offers beautiful “heritage”

characteristics including hardwood fl oors, French doors, charming den, and

large rooms. Master bedroom offers huge en suite with jetted tub and lots of closet space. Open and bright kitchen

with large, sunny eating area and patio doors to deck.

930 Schofi eld Highway, Warfi eld$169,900

You have to see this home to appreciate it. New main waterline, new sewer line, upgraded plumbing, upgraded electrical,

drywall and insulation upgrades, and much more. Close to all local amenities.

Come check it out today.

745 Dickens Street, Warfi eld$199,500

Beautifully upgraded. You will love the kitchen, lots of storage, stainless steel

appliances, and wood fl ooring. The charming dining room has french doors to large deck. Living room and dining rooms

also have wood fl ooring

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

CHRISTINA LAKE TADANAC RIVERVIEW

WARFIELD CHARMERS

1950 1st Avenue, Rossland $269,000

Very well cared for duplex located in the heart of downtown Rossland. Perfect for a family looking for extra revenue to help

pay the mortgage or as an investment opportunity.

Call Christine (250) 512-7653

NEW LISTING

SOLD

BRING OFFERS

1665 Maida Road, Christina Lake

$99,000Excellent retreat -fantastic fl at comer

lot - ideal building site or place to locate your trailer or fi fth wheel- water -septic

- power are all done!

269 Railway Lane, Trail $147,900

Great solid family home - 4 plus bdrms - 1.5 baths - 2 kitchens - located close to downtown Trail - modern décor with updates - Call your REALTOR® for your

viewing.Call Mark (250) 231-5591

9480 Station Road, Trail $599,000

Excellent spacious home situated in a park like surrounding with gardens and fruit trees. The shop, barn,

fenced dog run with kennel, provide numerous opportunities to get away

from the everyday challenges. There is ample space to handle several

horses as well. Call today!Call Richard (250) 368-7897

Sheri regnier photo

The VISAC Gallery is show-ing 189 photographs from The West Kootenay Camera Club’s 24th annual photo show until July 2. Seasoned Rossland photographer Ross Scott was working on finish-ing touches before Tuesday night’s opening at the down-town Trail venue. This is the last exhibit before the gal-lery closes its doors for the summer months. Next up will be a September showcase of Ingrid (Baker) deJong, a well known painter with ties to the West Kootenay area.

West Kootenay Camera Club on display at VisaC