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Monday night’s first substantial snowfall in the valley became Tuesday morning’s slush as a City of Trail worker cleared a pathway to the storm drain along Cedar Ave.
FROM SNOW TO SLUSH
B Y L I Z B E V A NTimes Staff
A local nurse is on her way to the epicentre of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Patrice Gordon, a Rossland resident and nurse practitioner in the Chilcotin, left for Ottawa last Thursday and is en route to the Kenema, Sierra Leone treatment centre as a member of the Emergency Response Unit with the Canadian Red Cross.
She will be sharing her knowledge and expertise in medicine to treat patients in a
place where 1,200 people have already died of the viral disease.
She is worried about the trip, but not about what awaits her in Africa.
Her concerns lie back at home in Rossland.
“I don't have any reservations (about the trip),” she said, adding that she will be spending Christmas in Africa with no snow and 40 C temperatures.
“My biggest concern is the worrying that my partner, my kids, and my family will be doing while I am gone. It is going
to be far harder for the ones that are left behind, than it is going to be for me who is going. My worry is around my family, my partner and my dog – they are going to miss me.”
The reason Gordon isn't worried about her time in West Africa? Training and education.
“I am fully confident that we will have everything we need to provide the care safely and I am fully confident in my own skills,” she said before hopping a flight to Ottawa for a Red Cross briefing.
“There is a lot of unknown, because I haven't been in an environment like this before, but right now, I am not terribly anxious.”
Gordon also has previous education dealing specifically with diseases in pov-erty.
“I have done a lot of research and I have a diploma in International Medicine and Public Health and a lot of that was diseases in poverty, which included viral hemor-rhagic fevers,” she said.
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B Y S H E R I R E G N I E RTimes Staff
The big yellow blocks on Bay Ave. will soon be gone – but not for good.
The canary-coloured barriers could be migrating up to Cedar Ave. or Pine Ave. at Farewell Street early next year as part of ongoing improvements to Trail's inner city infrastructure.
Pending further traffic studies, city council agreed, in theory, that four-way stops at those two junc-tions could enhance traffic flow through Trail's downtown core.
And when either of those inter-section projects launch, the yellow blocks are going with.
Although not visually attrac-tive, the concrete structures were installed at each sidewalk corner to simulate curb extensions, mark the traffic pattern change and improve safety for pedestrians.
“Regarding the blocks, every-body knows they were temporary,” said Coun. Eleanor Gattafoni Robinson. “With regards to move-ment of traffic on Bay Ave. and how successful it was, hopefully the next set of merchants will be a little more receptive.”
Although city staff recommend-ed Cedar Ave. as the next stop for the block configuration, Trail coun-cil delayed that suggestion after coming to a consensus on Monday, that traffic along Pine Ave. was more of an immediate concern.
“That's the one I have more trouble with,” said Trail Mayor Dieter Bogs, during his last gov-
ernance meeting. “People come off Victoria Street with a decent speed so I would rather see a review done there, first.”
Future considerations of where to move the barriers will be up to the next council including three new faces and the new mayor Mike Martin, all of whom will be sworn in at the Riverbelle Dec. 1.
However, one thing was set in stone, which is the permanent con-version of the Bay Ave. crossing into a four-way stop. Construction at that location will begin in the new year and expected to be com-plete by June.
Current council agreed to a $425,000 pre-budget approval for city staff to work on a detailed design at the location as part of making the necessary improve-ments that are consistent with the downtown plan.
Those upgrades include repair-ing disruptions to the existing underground conduit that's been in place since 1972, and streetscape enhancements such as construct-ing a meridian along Bay Ave.
“The only way this will change now is if the newly elected coun-cil decided for some reason to reconsider the decision and not provide necessary funding in the 2015 financial plan that is required to proceed,” confirmed David Perehudoff, Trail's chief adminis-trative officer.
Additionally, the yellow paint-line arcs on the Bay Ave. street cor-ners will be made into bump outs and hold some future greenery.
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Local nurse headed to epicentre of Ebola outbreak
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The first “Stuff the Bus” was a runaway success on Friday after Trail Transit Services, in partnership with Ferraro Foods, gathered over 5200 lbs of non-perishable food items and warm winter clothing to donate to the local Salvation Army. The church's Christmas kettle was on site for the day and garnered over $1,500 during the six-hour event. Pictured are Trevor Stach (left) Trail Transit Services general manager and Sharman Thomas, Trail Transit Services supervisor.
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B y L i z B e v a nTimes Staff
The Columbia Basin Trust (CBT) will be in Trail today as part of a tour around the basin, asking for residents to share their thoughts.
The Trust has been visiting communities since mid-September asking residents what they believe needs the most work and where they want to see money spent, in their commu-nities, and now it is Trail's turn to have a say.
From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., the Trust will be set up in the Trail Memorial Centre gym, ready to listen to any concerns, questions or sugges-tions from local residents. It is a drop-in after-noon event and anyone can come by to chat.
The gym will reopen at 4 p.m. for a sec-ond drop-in session, followed by a dinner and “facilitated conversation” at 5:30 p.m.
Everyone who presents a thought or an idea about where the CBT’s money should go will have their name entered in a draw for $1,000 to be donated to a non-profit or charitable organi-zation of the winner’s choice.
The ultimate goal for CBT is to create action plans based on the ideas and input they receive.
Neil Muth, CBT president and CEO, says gathering community input is vital to under-standing resident needs in many different areas.
“Economic development and diversification, agriculture and food security, ecosystem resto-ration and conservation and affordable housing – these are just some of the themes that have been highlighted (at previous meetings), and we look forward to continuing our engagement process to understand what is important to communities,” he wrote in a release.
CBT is currently in Phase One of a year-long plan, “Our Trust, Our Future”, and will have visited 19 communities before beginning Phase Two in the spring of 2015.
In March, the Trust will begin a second round of meetings and plan to have its action plans finished by next October.
The Trust will also be swinging by Rossland and Castlegar next week. In Rossland, CBT will be in town on Dec. 1 at the Miner's Hall for a drop-in session from 4 to 5:30 p.m., with din-ner and conversation afterwards.
On Dec. 3, CBT will be setting up in the Castlegar and District Community Complex from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 4 to 5:30 p.m. with a dinner to follow.
Those who can't make it to the scheduled input sessions have plenty of other opportuni-ties to let the CBT know what they think.
The Trust is encouraging local residents to have their own conversations with friends and family by emailing [email protected] to request a meeting kit, or to invite a CBT rep to come discuss the future of the basin.
The organization will also accept online input at ourtrustourfuture.cbt.org.
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FROM PAGE 3“That takes some of the
pressure away. I know more that I would have had I not done that area of study.”
The Red Cross and other non-governmental organi-zations currently working against the spread of Ebola in West Africa have instilled a bit of extra confidence in Gordon and the work she will be doing. Mostly because of the high-level safety precau-tions taken while treating infected patients.
“I think that the Public Health Agency in Canada, they are looking at this very scientifically and they are being really careful, as they should be,” she said. “It is important that it is taken seriously. The Red Cross has been superb about making sure that we are absolutely informed prior to going, as far as what we will be encoun-tering and what to expect when I come back.”
When Gordon does return to B.C., she wants to assure residents in the area that, by working with Interior Health and communicable disease officers, she will be taking every precaution.
“There hasn’t been a case in Canada and I don’t want to be the first,” she said. “If, heaven forbid, I contracted it, I would most definitely not want it to go any further than me.”
Regardless of infection, Gordon will be isolating her-self for three weeks once she gets home.
“I won’t be coming back straight to the heart of any community,” she said. “I won’t be going into huge groups of people and I won’t be going to my place of employ for 21 days. I am taking all pre-cautions. I can’t even travel
within B.C. when I am home. I am going to be in one place and if I want to travel, I have to discuss it with them even if I am going to be driving in my own truck.”
“Everyone should feel very safe because we are paying very close attention to these things,” she said.
When Gordon gets into the thick of it on the ground in Sierra Leone, she will be administering direct patient care to people infected with Ebola. Preparation training is taking place in Madrid before she makes the final flight to West Africa.
“There is no cure right now, so the treatment is
directed at symptoms,” she said.
“The symptoms are vast, so there is going to be a lot of providing intravenous fluids, pain medications and treating each of the specific symptoms, whether it is gas-trointestinal stuff like vomit-ing and diarrhea or bleeding.”
While treating patients, Gordon will be sealed into a water tight suit in extremely hot weather to prevent health care workers from contract-ing the hemorrhagic disease.
This includes a trained observer who watches the process of entering and exit-ing the isolation area, just to make sure no procedures are
missed or forgotten.“You are pretty much in a
roaster out there,” she said, adding that medical profes-sionals have limited time with patients every day because it is so hot.
“When you go into the iso-lation area where the infected patients are and decontam-inate when you come out, those steps have to be so meticulous.”
Prevention is a large part of the fight against Ebola in West Africa and although she won’t be involved in that aspect of treatment, Gordon says she understands how important it is and the sup-port it providespatients and the work she does.
“As you can imagine, when someone comes to the treat-ment centre and is admitted, you’ve got family members who are watching their loved one go into the isolation area where they can’t go and just figuring out what to do with kids who have a parent that is sick,” she said.
“There are just so many facets to it aside from the direct patient care. Everyone works together and does whatever they can to help everyone else.”
Being able to contrib-ute to the treatment of the Ebola virus is something that Gordon sees as a privilege.
“I know it sounds hokey, but it really is,” she laughed, adding that it feels good to know that she will be making a difference in people’s lives.
“I feel so fortunate to have anything to offer to help. There are so many bad things in the world that we can’t touch and we can’t have any affect on. It feels really good to know that there is some-thing I can do that will be helpful.”
Safety precautions instill confidence
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Patrice Gordon is heading to Sierra Leone to lend a hand with treating patients infected with Ebola. She will be in West Africa for four weeks dealing directly with patients. Gordon will miss her Rossland home including her Pyrenean Mastiff, Rico.
B y L i z B e v a nTimes Staff
On Monday evening, Trail’s mayor-elect, Mike Martin, was heard on the airwaves all the way in Europe chatting about the Silver City.
Jeremy Clarkson, the host of the British Broadcasting Corporation’s hit show “Top Gear,” was in the area filming for the car-based program when his flight out of Trail Regional
Airport was delayed by weather, leaving him stranded in the city for the afternoon.
The show receives 350 million viewers per week in 170 countries and when Clarkson posted on Twitter about his predicament, it lead BBC reporters to search for “Trail, B.C.,” on Google.
They found contact informa-tion for the newly elected mayor and reached out to him for an interview.
“A BBC reporter from London picked up on it from one of Clarkson’s tweets and I guess he somehow linked up to my elec-tion website,” said Martin the day after the interview.
Martin could be heard on BBC Radio chatting about what makes Trail a great place to live.
“We didn’t want (Clarkson) to make a negative comment about Trail,” he said, with a laugh. “We wanted to cut that off. He wasn’t
trying to slam Trail. They were just stuck here wondering what to do on a Sunday afternoon with a few hours to kill.”
Martin even had a bit of notice that the grounded flight could lead to more when he heard from a family friend that Clarkson was in town.
“It is incredible and really shows you the power of social media,” he said. “A friend of ours is in university in Calgary and
he phoned me around noon on Sunday and gave me a heads up. While I was trying to figure out where in Trail this guy might be, I got the email (from the BBC).”
Along with the on-air inter-view, Martin and Trail’s com-munications and event coordin-ator, Andrea Jolly, sent the BBC plenty of information and pic-tures of the city at its best.
The interview aired on BBC Radio at 5 p.m. on Monday night.
B y S h e r i r e g n i e rTimes Staff
After years of talk but no action locally, the City of Trail is walking down on a $2.3 million federal and provincial trail that could end with a second access road to the Trail hospital.
The long awaited project is eligible for funding under the renewed Canada and B.C. government's Small Communities Fund program, which supports infrastruc-ture improvements in municipalities with a population of less than 100,000 people.
Building another entry to the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital (KBRH) is the city's priority in light of the facility's multi-million dollar sustainability plan outlined by the district's hospital board last month.
“Council is well aware of this project that's been on the books for a number of years,” David Perehudoff, the city's chief administration officer explained to council during Monday's governance meeting.
“The city is currently in discussions with IHA as far as the $40 million improvement to the hospital,” he continued.
“And the city has been made very aware that it's integral that this project is approved, and that the city is on board with respect to the road.”
The second access road, which qualifies for the grant under the highways and major roads category, is proposed to start at the Goepel Street and Fourth Avenue intersec-tion and work its way up the face of the bank below the hospital, and continue to climb up the hill then around the ambu-lance centre before connecting with the northern portion of the existing Hospital Bench Road.
“Previously we've applied for this project and received considerable regional sup-port,” Perehudoff added. “Given that the KBRH project is approved, this is the city's number one priority and would hope for that same support.”
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Mayor-elect interviewed by BBC after TV host tweets about being in Trail
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Opposition MLAs have renewed their call for Advanced Education Minister Amrik Virk to be removed from cabinet, after releasing emails showing Virk took part in discussions about a hidden bonus for a uni-versity executive.
Virk was on the Kwantlen Polytechnic University board of governors in April 2011, when an offer was made to then-University of Regina dean of business Ann Lavack for the position of vice-president aca-demic (VPA) for Kwantlen.
Emails released by the NDP Monday show Virk, then an inspector with the Langley RCMP and a volunteer Kwantlen board member, par-ticipating in discussion to get around the B.C. salary guide-lines for the job.
NDP leader John Horgan said Monday the emails were
provided from a “whistleblow-er” at Kwantlen, who found printouts in a binder. Horgan said they contradict an internal investigation by an assistant deputy minister that deter-mined board members were not involved in decisions to pay executives more than provin-cial rules allowed.
The Kwantlen VPA salary was capped at $170,000, less than what Lavack was mak-ing in Regina. The emails dis-cuss adding $100,000 for mov-ing expenses and a $20,000 “research allowance.”
Virk confirmed Monday that he wrote in an April 2011 email from his RCMP account: “Given the low pay level of a VPA at Kwantlen and the difficulty in drawing candidates within the current pay scale, the research leave is one way to ‘top’ off the pay level.”
Virk said he had forgotten the email exchange, and it will
be forwarded to Rob Mingay, the government official who conducted the investigation.
Asked if he should remain in cabinet, with authority over post-secondary institutions, Virk said that is up to Premier Christy Clark.
The government’s Public Sector Employers’ Council (PSEC) set salary ranges for Levack’s position at $125,000 to $175,000. When Levack was hired in 2011, she received the maximum salary, plus a $20,000-a-year research allow-ance and a $50,000 “consulting fee” before starting work that was not reported to PSEC.
Kwantlen president Alan Davis also received extra pay-ments when he was hired ear-lier in 2011 that were not dis-closed to PSEC. Davis received a $50,000 consulting fee in addition to his $225,000 salary and $35,000 to relocate from New York state.
T h e c A N A D I A N P r e S SVANCOUVER - A controversial practice by the
Vancouver Aquarium has a new lease on life after a motion to ban the captive breeding of whales, dolphins and porpoises was defeated.
The Vancouver Park Board voted late Monday against ending the program allowing the cet-acean population to multiply naturally at the popular tourist attraction.
Members of the board instead decided to hold more consultations on proposed changes to the breeding bylaw, and to form an oversight com-mittee.
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This year’s flu shot may prove less effective than usual because the dominant virus now circulating has mutated signifi-cantly in the months since the vaccine was devised.
The H3N2 strain – one of three targeted in this year’s flu vac-cine – is thought to have changed its gen-etic makeup enough to possibly thwart the antibodies that the vaccine activates.
Dr. Danuta Skowronski, an epi-demiologist with the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, is still recom-mending the vaccine, particularly for the
elderly, the chronic-ally ill and those with compromised immune systems.
“It’s not a perfect match,” she said. “But for the high risk, even an imperfectly matched vaccine is going to give cross protection. And for some people it could be life-saving.”
She said the H3N2 strain tends to be par-ticularly nasty to the elderly and may bring a deadlier flu season than usual.
“We may see more hospitalizations or deaths this year,” Skowronski said.
She said it’s par-ticularly concerning that the flu has struck B.C. surprisingly early
this season, causing outbreaks in eight sen-iors’ care homes.
The vaccine was for-mulated last February because it takes six to eight months to pro-duce in large quanti-ties and the H3N2 virus is thought to have since mutated while circulating in the southern hemi-sphere.
Skowronski said it’s still not too late to get the shot and some pro-tection when flu activ-ity peaks in the weeks ahead, including any later surge of cases of influenza B, which tends to peak in March or April.
The vaccine also targets the influenza B and H1N1 viruses, but they’re considered less likely to cause illness this flu season.
People who get the flu shot often mis-takenly think any ill-ness they contract can’t be flu and some-times fail to get appro-priate treatment.
“It doesn’t make you invincible,” Skowronski said.
T h e N e l S o N S T A rNelson Commons is moving forward.The $26 million project of the Kootenay Country Store Cooperative,
will include a larger co-op store, 54 residential units, additional com-mercial spaces, underground and street level parking, and a commun-ity green space in a prime location in Nelson’s downtown core.
Over the next few weeks, Nelson residents can expect to see fencing go up around the old Extra Foods building, as hazardous material removal begins inside the building. Over the winter, the building itself will be demolished and the land prepared for excavation in February. Construction is slated to begin in the spring of 2015, with both com-mercial and residential occupancy in the summer of 2016.
“This is the news we have been waiting for — we are looking for-ward to watching our new home rise up in the heart of Nelson,” said Marty Horswill, Nelson Commons condo owner.
“As purchasers of a condo at Nelson Commons we are excited to see the beginning of a project that will create new vitality in downtown Nelson,” agreed Dave and Cheryl Elliott.
“Nelson Commons will be the most significant project in the down-town core in the last 20 years”, said Kootenay Co-op President Jon Steinman.
“We are very aware that we have a responsibility to our 12,000 members and to our region to develop the land responsibly from a social, environmental and economic perspective.”
The project includes features like restricted resale units (to increase accessibility for home buyers entering the market), heat capture in the building, xeriscaping to reduce water use needs and many other features that reduce the store and building footprint.
“We’re so excited to be offering new services to the community in our new store,” said general manager Deirdrie Lang. “From a full ser-vice deli, teaching kitchen and community room to the aisle space and parking that our members have been patiently waiting for for years”.
The co-op members-owners contributed towards the new store dur-ing the co-op’s successful 2013 member loan campaign which raised $1.87 million, a North American record for a campaign of this kind.
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Ferries plans to con-vert its two largest ves-sels to liquefied nat-ural gas in an effort to save fuel costs after sinking $126 million into marine diesel fuel last year.
The company announced Tuesday that it has the BC Ferries commis-sioner’s approval to
upgrade the Swartz Bay-to-Tsawwassen route ships.
BC Ferries says it expects to save about $9.2 million annually by switching the two Spirit Class vessels to LNG because they account for 15 per cent of the fleet’s total fuel consumption.
It also has plans to build three dual-fuel vessels for the south-
ern Gulf Islands and the Powell River-to-Comox route, with completion set for 2017.
The company says all five vessels are set to be operational by 2018, with the Spirit of Vancouver Island upgrades expected
to be finished before those of the Spirit of British Columbia.
BC Ferries spokes-woman Deborah Marshall says the cost of the projects is not yet known and that contracts are expected to be awarded next year.
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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SOTTAWA - Many of
Canada’s battle-scarred veterans wait up to eight months to find out if they are eligible for long-term, mental-health disability bene-fits and the depart-ment responsible for their care has no idea if its treatment pro-grams are effective, the auditor general said Tuesday.
For a handful of those ex-soldiers, the cumbersome applica-tion process is only the beginning of a battle for care that can rage for years.
Michael Ferguson’s fall report takes Veterans Affairs Canada - and to a lesser extent, National Defence - to task for saddling psychologic-ally battered veterans with a dizzying array of paperwork and for making them wait an unnecessarily long time for help.
“The department doesn’t really seem to have spent time look-ing at the process from the point of view of the veteran,” Ferguson said. “And we think the department needs to put themselves in the shoes of the vet-erans who are trying to access these servi-ces, in order so they can understand the experience of trying to navigate through that whole process just to get an answer.”
The Harper govern-ment has tried in the last few days to get ahead of the scathing report by announcing an additional $200 mil-lion in funding over the next five years, much of which is to expand the depart-
ment’s system of oper-ational stress injury clinics, where soldiers can get a formal diag-nosis.
The auditor’s report did add that Veterans Affairs is doing a good job facilitating access to short-term rehabilitation services, something a spokes-woman for Veteran Affairs Minister Julian Fantino focused on, almost to exclusion of all else.
“Minister Fantino recommended that the auditor general review the mental health sup-ports in order to help improve our programs and services; we thank the auditor general for making construct-ive recommendations and we appreciate his finding that access to mental health support is timely,” said Ashlee Smith in an email.
Ferguson, at a news conference fol-lowing the tabling of his report, made a point of distinguish-ing between access to short- and long-term services.
“When you look at the longer-term pro-gram and that is the program where most of the veterans with men-tal needs are trying to access services; in that case this is where we said: You know what? This taking too long,” the auditor said.
Ferguson added: “They really need to improve.”
The NDP were quick to describe the government’s response as “cynical,” and it was left to Defence Minister Rob Nicholson to answer questions about the report because Fantino was
in Italy at ceremonies commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Second World War Italian campaign.
Nicholson defended Fantino’s absence, say-ing the trip is another way for the govern-ment to say “thank you” to those who’ve served.
He cited a list of improvements the gov-ernment has made to military mental health care, but acknow-
ledged more needs to be done.
“All of those rec-ommendations are accepted and we look forward to making sure these matters gets expedited,” he said.
But the NDP’s Malcolm Allen said the Conservatives cannot continue to stand up in the Commons and say they support the troops when Ferguson’s report systematically demonstrates that in
their “greatest hour of need, when they really need the supports” the department hasn’t been there.
Liberal veterans critic Frank Valeriote says the government has failed to uphold the country’s social
obligation to veterans.Wait times for
Veterans Affairs refer-rals at clinics across the country can reach up to three months, a delay that Ferguson says can “jeopardize” the stabilization and recovery of already fra-gile individuals.
The auditor wouldn’t go as far as to say lives were being put at risk, nor would he link the delays to last year’s cluster of suicides among serv-ing members.
The audit also catalogued additional delays veterans face in getting supporting medical records from National Defence.
It takes about four months for a veteran to assemble all the neces-sary paperwork and another four months for the department to make up its mind, the auditor says.
During the course of the audit, Veterans Affairs officials pushed back at against Ferguson’s staff, saying the delays do not pre-vent ex-soldiers from getting mental-health care and a majority of the applications are completed within a mandated time frame.
The audit also found
that almost a quarter of the 15,385 veterans who applied for long-term mental health benefits between 2006 and 2014 were denied.
Only a portion of those individuals - 1,295 - went on to challenge the decisions before the independent veterans appeals board in a process that took between six months and three years.
The audit, which looked at records between April 2006 and August 2014, lays out in stark terms what veterans have been complaining about for years and goes a long way towards explaining their increasing pub-lic frustration with the Conservative govern-ment, which counts them among its core constituency of voters.
For several years the government has trumpeted how it is removing red tape in the application pro-cess, but Ferguson’s review found the sys-tem is still too “com-plex and time-consum-ing” - unnecessarily so, in fact, because some of the information on injuries and circum-stances should already be contained in service records.
OTTAWA - Highlights from auditor general Michael Ferguson’s fall 2014 report, released Tuesday:
- Veterans Affairs is not providing veterans with timely access to mental health services; the disability benefits program has a complex and time-consuming application process and some vets are forced to wait as long as eight months to find out if they can receive benefits.
- Many veterans must endure long delays in obtaining medical and service records from National Defence and long wait times for mental health assessments.
- The Nutrition North program, which subsidizes the high cost of healthy food in northern communities, does not properly distribute subsidies or ensure savings are properly passed on to consumers.
- Nutrition North, which was intended to foster healthy eating, also subsidizes foods of dubious health value, such as ice cream, bacon and processed cheese spread.
- It’s impossible to fully assess the effectiveness of $13.9 billion in loans Canada and Ontario provided to Chrysler and GM’s Canadian subsidiaries in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis due to a lack of comprehensive reporting to Parliament.
- Library and Archives Canada doesn’t know which departmental records should either be disposed of or archived, and has a backlog of 98,000 boxes of material waiting to be archived - some of it dating back to 1890 - with no plan for how to deal with it.
- Canada’s national sex offender registry may not include some Canadians convicted of crimes abroad because the RCMP doesn’t have access to Foreign Affairs information on convicts released from prisons in other countries.
- Canada’s reverse-osmosis water purifiers, long a marquee element of the Canadian military’s disaster relief efforts, produced only 65 per cent of projected output in the wake of last year’s Typhoon Haiyan disas-ter in the Philippines, and only 73 per cent of that was ever distributed.
- The military’s Integrated Relocation Program, which compensates members when their work requires them to move, requires better over-sight and review.
Vets needing PTSD benefits face dizzying paperwork, says auditor
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OPINION
Education system failing to prepare students for jobs
The B.C. economy has been doing pretty well in the last couple of
months; especially if we look at what has been hap-pening to jobs.
While Statistics Canada’s labour force survey for October was expected to show a mar-ginal increase in jobs after a pretty strong September, that forecast was much too pessimistic. There were 35,400 more jobs in B.C. in October 2014 over the same month in 2013 and 4,600 more than in September this year.
Job growth was con-centrated in the private sector, and most of the new positions were full time. From September to October, full-time positions grew by 6,600, meaning that the number of part-time jobs actually declined. There were 9,400 fewer unemployed people looking for work in B.C. last month than a year earlier, even though a lar-ger share of population was in the labour force and actually working.
In Canada as a whole, there were 43,000 more
jobs in October than in September. An increase of only 5,000 had been anticipated. Year over year, jobs grew by 181,000. The national unemployment rate is now the lowest it has been in the last five years. Unlike in B.C., more of the new jobs across the coun-try were part time rather than full time. National job growth was concen-trated in the private sector and self-employment. The public sector and the nat-ural resources sector did not do well.
The benefits of the improving labour mar-ket were not only spread unevenly across the differ-ent industry sectors, they were also very unbalanced across age groups. Fully 100 per cent of the net new jobs went to those in their prime working years, 25 to 54 years old, leaving us with the on-going and serious problem of youth unemployment. The under 25 unemploy-ment rate at 12.6 per cent remains stubbornly high, about double the rate for older adults.
Stephen Poloz, Governor of the Bank of
Canada, has suggested that the stereotypical unem-ployed adult living in the basement of his parents’ house should work for free to fill out his resume. That idea has since been shot down because, while in the past volunteering or taking unpaid intern-ships was more likely to be a foot in the door to paid work, now, unfortu-nately, too many have been taking advantage of this free labour, replacing one volunteer or intern with another rather than creating a paid position. Further, many unem-ployed young people can-not afford to work for free and may not have a family that has a house with a basement that they can
stay in.Canada shares the
intractable problem of youth unemployment with many other countries. One seemingly obvious solution of having our educational system better prepare students – usually in trades and technology – for the realities of today’s economy often faces ser-ious opposition, including the predictable response that education should not be focused on the crass prospects of earning a living but should pro-vide wisdom and culture. Unfortunately, wisdom and culture by themselves do not a meal make and most of us do need to earn a living.
The educational sys-tem also needs to focus on the structure of work. In the 20th century most people earned their living working for governments and large organizations. The latest labour force data show that this pat-tern is changing. Public sector jobs are declining. Self-employment is grow-ing, as is the private sec-tor. And, in Canada, 98 per cent of all businesses
that hire anybody at all are defined as small, with fewer than 100 employees. This percentage does not take into account all those who work on their own behalf without any hired help.
Does our educational system prepare people for this new reality? Does it even tell them it exists? Or does it consider that it is getting students job ready by teaching them how to prepare the kind of resume aimed at organ-izations large enough to have specialized human resource departments?
Rather than working for free or trying to find the kinds of jobs that are disappearing, unemployed people should be asking themselves what good or service they can supply that someone is willing and able to pay for.
Ideally, the educational system will have encour-aged them to ask that question and helped them to answer it.
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Denise Eaglesham StewartDenise passed away peace-fully at Columbia View Lodge on November 19, 2014 at the age of 90. Denise was the only child to Mary Louise and Robert Stewart. Born in Kenora, Ontario in the mid ‘20s Denise travelled the tracks with her father who worked with CP Rail until they landed in the Kootenays in the late ‘30s. Denise completed her high school education in Nelson. She found schooling again in the secretarial � eld and landed a job with CM&S at the time; now known better as Teck. She enjoyed a quiet, simple life. Denise had a real so� spot for animals and during her life made a home to many stray cats. Denise is survived by her � rst cousin Joy Sales and extended family of Ontario and leaves behind dear friends Keith and Gale Smyth and family of Trail. At her request there will be no funeral service. Cremation has taken place. Jordan Wren of Alternatives Funeral and Cremation Services™ has been entrusted with arrangements. As an expression of sympathy, donations may be made in Denise’s name to the Trail SPCA at 7700 3B Hwy, Trail, BC, V1R 4X2 or online at www.spca.bc.ca
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BURNABY, B.C. - An 84-year-old retired librarian says she’s willing to violate a court injunction and go to jail as she and other anti-pipeline protesters take a stand against fossil fuels by interfering with survey work in Burnaby, B.C.
Barbara Grant joined activists near Burnaby Mountain on Tuesday to demon-strate against Kinder Morgan’s proposed plan to nearly triple its pipeline capacity to transport Alberta oil to British Columbia.
Grant said she has the support of her three children and three grandchildren, some of whom have joined the protest as crews drilled two bore holes into Burnaby Mountain before a decision on the project by the National Energy Board.
“They believe, as I do, that this pipe-line must be stopped,” Grant said of her family’s views on the Trans Mountain pipe-line project, noting crews were working on public land.
“I believe that this pipeline is a very, very bad idea,” she said. “It goes against practical-
ly everything I believe in. And I feel that the National Energy Board process by which the Kinder Morgan cause is being advanced is totally undemocratic.”
Grant said protest-ers had gathered about a 10-minute walk from the site where crews were doing survey work and that she may cross a no-go line on the mountain later Tuesday.
She said the risk of being arrested would be worth it to make a point against the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline.
“That is a possibil-ity I have to face,” she said.
“For one thing, there’s the extremely important issue of fos-sil fuels and climate change,” she said.
When it comes to the transportation of oil, B.C. is taking all the environmental risks, she added, rais-ing concerns about increased tanker traf-fic and the threat of an oil spill.
“The financial benefit is all for Kinder Morgan and those who have money invested in the oilsands. But there’s very, very lit-tle benefit to B.C.,” Grant said. “B.C. is
just being used as an area through which the oil has to be piped in order to send it to Asia.”
The National Energy Board announced Tuesday that it will launch a tour early next year in an effort to strengthen pipeline safety.
Peter Watson, the federal regulatory agency’s chairman, said board members and staff will visit every province and the North to hear Canadians’ views on how it can improve its pipeline safety pro-gram and they will issue a report by early 2016.
The Trans Mountain expansion proposal has triggered protests from several groups, including Burnaby Residents Opposed to Kinder Morgan Expansion, or BROKE, though Grant said she’s not part of any group.
Some First Nations have also expressed anger over Kinder Morgan’s $5.4-billion
plan to expand the existing line linking Alberta oilsands to the company’s tanker ter-minal on Port Metro Vancouver.
On Monday, a First Nation elder told an NEB hearing in Victoria that the pro-posal threatens trad-itional hunting, food sources and archeo-logical sites.
Simon Smith said his band, the Tsartlip people of southern Vancouver Island, sup-port protesters against
the survey work on Burnaby Mountain.
At least 78 people have been arrested since last week, and most of them have been charged with civil contempt.
A B.C. Supreme Court judge has already dismissed an application by the City of Burnaby for an injunction against sur-vey crews on Burnaby Mountain, Kinder Morgan’s preferred route for its Trans Mountain pipeline.
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I do not live in Trail but feel I have to comment on Dave Thompson’s editorial of Nov. 21 (“Hawks host Ghostriders in a telling weekend tilt,” Trail Times, Nov. 21).
I have used the Trail Memorial Center for many years and many activities. I have always been amazed at all the activities and
uses of the TMC. I have done every-
thing from playing hockey on the small ice, dog obedi-ence, volleyball, concerts,and dances in the gym, to watch-ing both the Senior and Junior Smoke Eaters and other events in the Cominco Arena. The changes to the Victoria Street
entrances are positive steps forward. I am sure many accidents have been avoided by removing the access from Victoria to the front of Cominco Arena.
I am talking about both the turning lane at the bridge and cars stopped in front of the TMC. The railing in front of the Cominco
Arena adds safety and gives the entrance a finished look.
The access to down-town is no more com-plicated than it ever was. There is addi-tional parking put in on Cedar Avenue in front of the Trail Times building in case Dave missed this. Is parking only a problem when you can not park at the
front door of the busi-ness? Since the mall went in about thirty five years ago park-ing has rarely been an issue downtown.
My pet peeve is why everything is geared for the car.
With proper plan-ning a section of the downtown core could be an open air plaza. Check out
Kimberley’s Plaza and see how nice it is not to fight traffic. The neat thing with Trail’s compact core the open air market could move about, giving all busi-nesses a chance to try this out.
With the Victoria Street upgrades, the walking bridge and the new library complex I think Trail is on the
right path. Following this line
of thought, if the will to cooperate on recrea-tion among our local politicians is real, this will bring more visitors to town.
So all you naysayers get out of the twenti-eth century and move into the twenty first.
Gerald ParkerMontrose
Changes to Trail Memorial Centre entrance are positive
As a life-long resident (and business owner) in Trail, there are times that I feel a letter to our local paper is an absolute necessity.
This is one of those times. On a daily basis there are
things that I will do and things that I won’t do depending on the time of year.
When I wasn’t watching, we slid (slid being the optimum word here) into winter and winter in Trail can be beauti-ful with one glaring exception. The streets are dangerous to the average walker and down-right life threatening if that walker happens to be a senior.
I am betting that you would like me to get to the point of this letter so here it is - I have
a challenge to our new–old city council. I would like all of them to go for a walk on our streets around 5–6 p.m. and then do a report on what they find.
I did this very thing on Saturday night. Two of my very close friends and I decided to attend the Metis Christmas dinner that night and since all three of us were already down-town, we decided to walk.
Big mistake – huge mistake. We are all in the senior-ish range and it took us more than 20 minutes to walk from the corner of Cedar Avenue to the United Church annex.
Do not even ask me how long it took us to mince back to our starting point after the
dinner was over. That may be a totally different letter.
Before you give me the old line about it being up to the individual business owners to take care of their own part of the sidewalks, I already know that and have a big bag of ice melt dedicated to be thrown at my patch of sidewalk.
With all the attention being given to the revitalization of the downtown core, the first thing we must do is make it safe for the people who actual-ly still walk downtown.
To finish this letter may I add that I not only work down-town but I live downtown as well.
Linda GrandboisTrail
Slippery sidewalks a hazard downtown
An editorial from the Hamilton Spectator
It is unacceptable that rail-way companies are permitted to keep their emergency response plans from the public.
Railroads are ubiquitous across Canada. Tracks cut through communities, hug residential areas, cross busy streets. Those tracks carry dan-gerous goods every day, provid-ing the paths for rail cars filled with cargo that has the poten-tial to lead to emergencies.
Rail cars carry substances such as crude oil, methanol, radioactive materials and sul-phuric acid. Yes, tanker cars are clearly marked with a four-digit number identifying the substances inside. But there is no forewarning of what is com-ing through.
As well, dangerous goods are increasingly moved by rail. In 2009, for example, only 144 car-loads of crude oil were shipped on trains in Canada; by last
year, that had risen to almost 128,000 carloads.
Late last year, Transport Canada issued new rules that require railroads to provide municipal emergency respond-ers with historical data on dangerous goods with the goal of improving emergency plan-ning. But officials receiving this information are forbidden from releasing it to the public.
That requirement for secrecy on the part of local officials is problematic — why are resi-dents kept so out of the loop about the goods that are pass-ing through their communities, perhaps behind their houses? Of greater concern, though, is that the data is historical; local officials do not have access to real-time information about the materials contained in rail cars passing through munici-palities over the course of this day. That, in our view, is a big problem if something goes wrong, as it did with such disas-
trous results in Lac-Mégantic.Recently, a Toronto rail safe-
ty community group asked CN and CP for information about emergency response plans, insurance coverage, worst-case scenarios and track mainten-ance. Neither company agreed to share such information with members of the public. A CP Rail representative emailed the group, writing that the infor-mation would not be shared for “safety, security and proprietary reasons.” Another CP spokes-person told our sister paper that the emergency response plan is many thousands of pages of complex information and is “not relevant and palat-able to (someone) sitting at the dinner table.”
Perhaps Joe and Jane Public would not understand all the complexities. But if they are not permitted to try to understand, how can they — and the rest of us — have confidence in such a plan?
Railway date needed for public safety
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The Beaver Valley Skating Club (BVSC) is getting prepped for a new season as it takes to the ice Friday for it’s annual lap-a-thon and simulated competition at the Beaver Valley Arena.
The lap-a-thon is a fund-raiser to help the team with expenses and the simulated competition will prepare fig-ure skaters for the up-coming East Kootenay Invitational in Cranbrook next weekend.
Coach Liz Iannone says she wants to make the simu-lated competition as close to the real thing as they can pos-sibly get, and has recruited three judges/evaluators in Jan Westbury, Linda Walker, and Myrna Reichmuth.
“We’ll even have a podium on the ice, and award (skat-ers) chocolate medals at the end of the competition.”
The simulation will see beginner and novice figure skaters perform the various elements with the evaluators offering constructive advice on how to improve each skate.
The scenario has also proven a good way to get rid of the pre-skate jitters, and to make sure skaters are familiar with protocol and ready when it comes time to compete.
Rossland will host the West Kootenay Invitational Jan. 9-11, and the Kootenay championship will be held in Fernie Jan. 30 to Feb. 1.
This year the club boasts
65 skaters ranging in age from as young as three to adults. Skaters start with pre-Can Skate lessons, mov-ing through the Can Skate program into the Rising Star and Star programs. The numbers are a healthy boost from last year, and keeps the BVSC’s three coaches and 12 program assistants busy but engaged, and enjoying every minute.
“It’s awesome,” says Iannone. “It’s a lot of work, but it’s great to see so many kids out.”
The lap-a-thon goes Friday at the Beaver Valley Arena starting at 4 p.m. with the simulated competition going at 5 p.m. The public is invited to come out and support the BVSC.
Red Mountain
B y T i m e s s T a f fWith plenty of snow coming in the
forecast, resident skiers can get an early taste of powder as Red Mountain opens its T-bar slope to the public this Friday and Saturday evenings only, in advance of its December opening date.
The T-bar will transport shredders up the slope for night skiing from 6-9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday with costs $5 for juniors and seniors, $10 adults, and $25 for family of four.
Thanks to the $1.5 million invest-
ment in the state of the art snow-making system the hill already has a good base and skiers from Whitewater, Washington State, and Red Mountain Racers have been taking advantage of the Legacy Training Centre and hitting the gates for more than a week now.
With the investment, Legacy has provided coverage of up to two GS and six Slalom lanes on the Racer Pitch (T-bar), and upper sections of the Back Trail for its inaugural year.
Red is scheduled to open Dec. 13.
B y T i m e s s T a f fTrail native Travis St. Denis
of the Quinnipiac University Bobcats was named Player of the Week in the NCAA ECAC division last week.
St. Denis netted a hat trick, scoring all three goals for the Bobcats in a 3-1 victory over RPI on Nov. 15. He also scored the game-winner the previ-ous night in the last minute of play for a 4-3 win over Union, the defending national champions. The pair of game-winners for the Trail product are two of six goals he’s scored so far this season and he’s fourth in team scoring with eight points.
“It was kind of just one of those games where I was in the right position at the right time, and you don’t always have those games so it was nice,” St. Denis told Inside ECAC Hockey last week. “It’s definitely nice to get the hat trick but overall a better feel-ing getting the win.”
St. Denis played three years for the Trail Smoke Eaters before moving on to Penticton where he helped the Vees to the 2011 RBC Cup.
He was awarded Quinipiac’s rookie of the year in his fresh-man campaign in 2011-12, and has been named to the
NCAA All-Academic Team in each of his first two seasons.
The Bobcats went to the NCAA Frozen Four champion-ship game two years ago but lost to Yale in the final.
St. Denis said the transi-tion to playing in Quinnipiac was made much easier with Montrose natives Connor and Kellen Jones already playing in Hamden with the Bobcats when he committed.
Over two seasons his pro-duction continues to improve. He almost doubled his fresh-man point total, 15, with 28 points in his sophomore year. However, with the graduation of the Jones’ twins, St. Denis will look to play even a bigger offensive role for the Bobcats in his third year.
“Confidence is a huge thing, and coming in as a jun-ior I knew I had to step up my game, and we lost a couple of key big players from last year. So I took it upon myself to work hard and train hard . . . and it’s gone real well so far, and I’m enjoying my junior year.”
In 203 BCHL games, 149 of them with the Smoke Eaters, St. Denis notched 99 goals and 127 assists for 226 points.
The Bobcats are currently tops in the ECAC with an
8-3-1 record overall and rank 14th in the nation.
NCAA bites:Michigan Tech, with for-
mer Smoke Eater Brent Baltus, fell to number six after topping the national polls last week. The Huskies, at 10-2-0, dropped a pair of one-goal games to Minnesota State on the weekend, making way for 8-1-1 Boston University to rise to the top following wins over Maine, 3-2, and Connecticut, 5-2.
In Women’s Div. 1 hock-ey, defenceman Daniella Matteucci is having one of her most productive years scor-ing a goal and adding four assists with the University of Clarkson Knights which are ranked number 6 in the nation with a 10-4-1 record. The Knights are looking to repeat as NCAA champions this season.
Meanwhile in Div. III hockey, St. Norberts Green Knights are ranked number 1 in the USCHO polls, with former Smoke Eaters Cullen Bradshaw second on the team in scoring with three goals and five assists in seven games, and Erik Cooper with a goal and five points.
See more on NCAA hockey at uscho.com.
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St. Denis nets ECAC PoW
Jim Bailey photo
Red Mountain, Whitewater, and Washington State ski racers got a jump on the ski season and were out in force on Saturday, as the Legacy Training Centre opened earlier this month thanks to the new snow-making system. The T-bar run will be open to the public Friday and Saturday for night-skiing.
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BCHLAll Times PacificInterior Division
GP W L T OL PtPenticton 26 22 3 0 1 45WKelowna 24 13 6 0 5 31Vernon 23 13 7 1 2 29Merritt 25 14 10 0 1 29Trail 23 11 11 0 1 23Sal Arm 25 8 10 2 5 23 Island Division GP W L T OL PtNanaimo 25 17 8 0 0 34Alberni 24 14 7 1 2 31Powell R 24 12 7 0 5 29Victoria 24 11 9 0 4 26Cowichan 24 5 18 0 1 11
Mainland Division G W L T OLPtChilliwack 24 15 8 0 1 31Pr George 26 14 10 0 2 30Langley 25 12 9 1 3 28Coquitlam 27 9 13 1 4 23Surrey 23 3 17 0 3 9
Football National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE
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W L T PctPhiladelphia 8 3 0 .727Dallas 8 3 0 .727N.Y. Giants 3 8 0 .273Washington 3 8 0 .273
South W L T PctNew Orleans 4 6 0 0.4Atlanta 4 7 0 .364Carolina 3 7 1 .318Tampa Bay 2 9 0 .182
North W L T PctGreen Bay 8 3 0 .727Detroit 7 4 0 .636Chicago 5 6 0 .455Minnesota 4 7 0 .364
West W L T PctArizona 9 2 0 .818Seattle 7 4 0 .636San Francisco 7 4 0 .636St. Louis 4 7 0 .364
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Buffalo 38, N.Y. Jets 3Baltimore 34 New Orleans 27
Thursday, Nov. 27Chicago at Detroit, 12:30 p.m.
Phila at Dallas, 4:30 p.m.Seattle at San Fran, 8:30 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 30Tennessee at Houston, 1 p.m.Oakland at St. Louis, 1 p.m.
Carolina at Minnesota, 1 p.m.Wash at Indianapolis, 1 p.m.Cleveland at Buffalo, 1 p.m.
San Diego at Baltimore, 1 p.m.Giants at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.Cincinnati at Tampa, 1 p.m.New Orleans at Pitts 1 p.m.Arizona at Atlanta, 4:05 p.m.
New Eng at Green Bay, 4:25 p.m.Denver at KC, 8:30 p.m.
Monday, Dec. 1Miami at N.Y. Jets, 8:30 p.m.
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SUBMITTEDOn a beautiful summer
day in June 2013, Carol Enns experienced devastating injuries in a motor vehicle accident involving a drunk driver north of Colville, WA.
Enns was a long-time member of the Smokette’s
women’s hockey team, and living the physically active life that so many of us enjoy in the Kootenays.
In February, the Smokette’s held their annual Rossland Round-Up Charitable Hockey tournament. To support our teammate, the Smokette’s
focused on Carol as our main recipient of charitable funds from the tournament.
On Oct. 30, the team pre-sented Carol with a cheque for $4426.00. The Smokette’s would like to thank their dir-ect sponsors: Teck Metals, Nelson and District Credit
Union, and Kootenay Savings Credit Union, along with all the local businesses in Rossland and Trail that pro-vided donations for door priz-es and raffles, and helped the Smokette’s make a difference in our community again this year. w
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The Smokettes women’s hockey team rallied behind its member Carol Enns, after she was injured in an accident in June 2013, and raised over $4,400 thanks to sponsors and raffles during their February tournament.
Trail hockey team and community come together for Enns
THE ASSOCIATED PRESSSAN FRANCISCO -
From his three-homer game in the 2012 World Series to that lasting image of his arms in the air celebrating another Giants cham-pionship last month, Pablo Sandoval made quite a mark in San Francisco.
Now, fans are stunned that he’s really leaving. Right after he said he’d love to retire in a Giants uniform, no less.
Kung Fu Panda is moving about as far away as he could go, to the American League and an East Coast team hoping to duplicate San Francisco’s recent run of success.
Sandoval and the Boston Red Sox have agreed to a multi-year contract, and the
switch-hitting third baseman informed the Giants on Monday he will be taking his servi-ces elsewhere.
“Got the call. He is going to the Red Sox,” Giants assistant general manager Bobby Evans said.
Sandoval, the 2012 World Series MVP, had pondered an offer from the Giants worth about $95 million over five years, Evans said. San Francisco might have taken it up closer to $100 million. That’s comparable to what Sandoval is expected to receive from the Red Sox.
The slugger is expected to be formally introduced Tuesday in Boston.
What’s next for Evans and Giants gen-eral manager Brian
Sabean is unclear, given there’s hardly a panda-sized pool of available third basemen.
The Giants are like-ly to show interest in free agent third base-man Chase Headley. They also are expected to enter the race for Cuban outfielder Yasmany Tomas.
In addition, a per-son with knowledge of the arrangements says free agent left-hander Jon Lester has plans to meet with the San Francisco Giants next week.
San Francisco has need for a front-line starting pitcher and was expected to get busy in the free agent market after losing
slugging third baseman Pablo Sandoval to the Boston Red Sox.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity Tuesday because there was no authorization to publicly disclose the meeting.
Lester was dealt by the Red Sox to the Oakland Athletics at the trade deadline in July and helped the A’s reach the playoffs for the third straight year before a 9-8, 12-inning loss to Kansas City in the one-game wild card. General manager Billy Beane said after the season he didn’t think his club would have made it that far without Lester.
Right-hander Matt
Cain is recovering from elbow surgery and righty Ryan Vogelsong is a free agent.
Sabean said when the season ended that Sandoval was the No. 1 priority before any-thing else got done to build the 2015 roster.
Losing Sandoval stings, and will for a while - even if he was ready for a change and new challenge after seven major league sea-sons with the Giants.
The burly switch-hitter was beloved in the Bay Area, where fans sported panda hats in his honour - includ-ing a quartet of over-sized heads during the franchise’s latest cham-pionship run.
BASEBALL
Panda packs bags for Boston, Giants court Lester
T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SVANCOUVER - The Vancouver
Canucks have acquired defenceman Andrey Pedan from the New York Islanders in exchange for centre Alexandre Mallet and a third round pick in 2016.
Pedan, a six-foot-four, 210-pound Moscow native, has played six games with the American Hockey League’s Bridgeport Sound Tigers this sea-son, recording three assists and 51 penalty minutes.
He played for Russia at the 2011 at the world junior championship, earning two points and recording 25 penalty minutes in six games.
The 21-year-old was originally selected by the New York Islanders in the third round, 63rd overall, of the 2011 NHL draft.
Mallet, a 6-2, 200-pound Montreal native, has four goals, seven assists and 20 penalty minutes for the ECHL’s Kalamazoo Wings this sea-son.
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Dear Annie: My boy-friend, “Darrin,” and I have been seeing each other for five years. I love him and feel loved by him. He is affection-ate and a great listener. I have grown children who are free to pop in and out of my house whenever they please. We also have many extended family get-togethers throughout the year.
Darrin will ask me about my kids and sib-lings and seem inter-ested when I talk about them. But he doesn’t seem eager to make them part of his life. He says he doesn’t like big groups, so he rarely goes with me to family get-togethers. He also doesn’t like to come over when my kids are here and makes no effort to get to know them. When I invite him, he makes up excuses for why he can’t come.
My kids think Darrin is distant and doesn’t care about them. Will he be like this if we
marry and live in the same house? Is this something that can be worked through? -- Wishing for More Involvement
Dear Wishing: You need to discuss this directly with Darrin. Tell him you find his lack of interest in your family upsetting and want to know why he doesn’t care to get to know them better. Your children (not to men-tion your siblings) are important to you, and should the relationship progress, you want to be certain he will not alienate your family. Keep in mind, however, that not all people are close to the children and relatives of their
significant others. This doesn’t have to be a deal-breaker. What counts is that he not interfere with the level of attachment that you want.
Dear Annie: “Need Some Guidance” said her friend is educated and intelligent, but mispronounces some words. You are right that it is difficult to correct a grownup’s pronunciation, but I believe it is still worth-while. After all, the objective is to help a friend be seen by others in the best possible light.
Many years ago, I was in the habit of using the word “irregard-less.” My employer helped educate me. She casually said, “You know, you have such a good command of the English language, it surprises me when you say ‘irregardless.’” She then enlightened me about it not being a proper word, and I will always be grateful she did. -- Know Better
NowDear Know: Several
readers weighed in on this. Read on:
From Florence, Ky.: As a child, most of my friends and family said “liberry” instead of “library.” During my senior year in college, I was walking with a good friend and said, “Do you want to go into the liberry?” She slammed her books onto the concrete sidewalk and said, “It’s LIBRARY! It has an ‘a’ and an ‘r.’ Say it!” I smiled and said it cor-rectly. She had never raised her voice before. I laugh every time I think of the word and say it correctly now.
Simi Valley, Calif.: There are people who were taught to read by memorization and don’t understand that letters have specific sounds. Phonics helps.
New York: As a speech language path-ologist, I address these issues all the time. It may not be a reflec-tion of education and
intelligence, but rather a learning disability.
Boston: My hus-band has always mis-pronounced words. He once saw a speech ther-apist, but it didn’t help. I often wonder whether he has a slight form of dyslexia. No matter. We’ve been married
for 50 years, and he’s a great person.
Pittsburgh, Pa.: In parts of southwest-ern Pennsylvania, we say “pitcher” for “pic-ture.” We also “redd” up a room, which dates back to an Elizabethan English term related to the word “ready,”
referring to removing stones from a field. I have traveled through many American small towns and love hearing the accents and word usages that are unique to specific regions.
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For Thursday, Nov. 27, 2014 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) You will enjoy talk-ing to a female friend or acquaintance today. In fact, you might make travel plans with this per-son or learn something new and different about another culture. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Personal details about your private life might be made public today, espe-cially in the eyes of some-one in authority. Fear not, because you look good! In fact, someone might reward you. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) This is a lovely day to schmooze with partners and close friends. Enjoy the company of others, because your interactions will ben-efit you. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) A female colleague at
work might help you today, or at least make you feel bet-ter in some way. You might get the equipment you need or more support for what you want to do. LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Because the Moon is opposite your sign today, you have to compromise with others and be coopera-tive. This is no biggie. You are a master at this if you choose to be. VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) People will compliment you at work today, and quite possibly give you something or help you in a specific way. In addition, a female might help you at home. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) This is a lovely, play-ful day. Enjoy sports events, social occasions, the arts, romantic outings and play-ful times with children. SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) A conversation with a
female family member could be significant today. Whatever happens will benefit you and please you in some way. You might make your home look more attractive. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Enjoy talking to oth-ers today, especially sib-lings, relatives and neigh-bors. Look for ways to make money from your words, because this is possible.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) If shopping today, you will like to buy goodies for yourself and loved ones. However, you might see a way to promote your earn-ings or make a little money on the side. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Things will go your way today, because Lady Luck is with you. Why not ask the universe for a favor?
PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) You will enjoy cocooning at home today and being among familiar surround-ings. Do whatever you can to pamper yourself so that you feel happy and cozy at home. YOU BORN TODAY You love children, and you value and respect fam-ily. Personally, you are fast-moving and quick-thinking. You can exert
tremendous energy when you want something. This year something you’ve been involved with for about nine years will end or diminish in order to make room for something new. Take it easy and learn to serve others. This is a good year to travel. Birthdate of: Jimi Hendrix, guitarist; Caroline Kennedy, lawyer/diplomat; Bruce Lee, martial-arts master. (c) 2014 King Features Syndicate, Inc.
Your horoscopeBy Francis Drake
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MLS#2399518
GREAT VALUE
Fruitvale$256,000
MLS#2398657
GREAT
PARKING
Trail$145,000
MLS#2401562
GREAT VALUE
East Trail$169,500
MLS#2401481
CHARMING
Trail$79,900
MLS#2398249
Sunningdale$219,900
MLS#2401685
GREAT VALUE
Sunningdale$229,500
MLS#2400474
NEW PRICE
Fruitvale$339,000
MLS#2401444
BRAND NEW
Fruitvale$415,000
MLS#2400193
OVER 3
ACRES
Sat. Nov. 29 • 11am - 1pm7141 Wright Way, Waneta Village
$329,000
MLS#2394130
OPEN HOUSE
SOLD
Sat. Nov. 29 • 1:30 - 3pm7741 Crema Dr, Waneta Village
$239,000
MLS#2397976
OPEN HOUSENEW PRICE
Fruitvale$164,500
MLS#2399412
GOOD PRICE
Trail$154,900
MLS#2398210
REDUCED
FIXER UPPER
GREAT
LOCATION
Waneta$399,000
MLS#2397152
SOLID HOME
RIVER VIEW
Fruitvale$199,000
MLS#2400616
Sunningdale$269,000
MLS#2400708
GREAT
LOCATION
“It’s YOUR move. You want it handled with care”
Dawn Rosin realtor®[email protected]
1201 Columbia Avenue, Trail$169,500
Location, Location, Location! This home is located close to hospital, shopping, schools
and Gyro Park.
120 Mountain Side Dr, Fruitvale$299,900
The perfect place to enjoy your golden years. Over 2400sq ft of
carefree living in Mountain Side Life Lease Villas.
1585 Green Road Fruitvale$326,500
Country living close to town. Large 4 bedroom, 3 bath family
home on a 1 acre view lot.
#15 500 16th Avenue, Genelle$49,900
This 3 bedroom home is located in the riverside Whispering Pines park. Enjoy fi shing, hiking and the
river only steps away.
Medical/DentalKWAKIUTL
BAND COUNCILseeking full-time
Community Health Nurse in Port Hardy. Email:
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or to apply by Dec. 14th, or fax (250) 949-6066.
SalesDIRECT B2B Sales Agents needed throughout BC selling to retail busi-nesses only. Requires presenting and securing contracts. Manage-ment positions available if you wish to take over a territory. Nothing to buy, we pay you. Forward your re-sume and cover letter [email protected]
Trades, TechnicalTHE Clusko Group immediately re-quires Short Log Trucks for opera-tions in the 100 Mile / Canim Lake area for hauls to Canfor, Vavenby. Top rates and safe trip times. Pri-ority will be given to “Safe Oriented” operators. Phone 250-392-2001 or 250-302-1004 Email:[email protected]
Education/Tutoring
To Register, please call Nella at 250.364.5770
OFA Level I: Dec 2
Avalanche Skills Training: Level I: Dec 11
CPR C & Recertification: Dec 13
OFA Level I: Dec 13
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Financial ServicesGET BACK ON TRACK! Bad credit? Bills? Unemployed? Need Money? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Acceptance Corp. Member BBB.
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TAX FREE MONEYis available, if you are a homeowner, today! We can easily approve you by phone. 1st, 2nd or 3rd mort-gage money is available right now. Rates start at Prime. Equity counts. We don’t rely on credit, age or income.
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Painting & Decorating
REASONABLE QUOTES. Great local references. Have your house looking nice before the holidays. 250-921-5599
Heavy Duty Machinery
A-STEEL SHIPPING DRY STORAGE CONTAINERS
Used 20’40’45’53’ and insulated containers all
sizes in stock. Trades are welcome.
40’Containers under $2500!DMG 40’ containers under $2,000 each. Also JD 544 & 644 wheel Loaders & 20,000 lb CAT forklift.
Wanted to buy 300 size hydraulic excavator.
Ph Toll free 1-866-528-7108 Delivery BC and AB
www.rtccontainer.com
Misc. for SaleSNOW BLOWER, 27”/90 used only twice, $800. cash; Lawn-mower used only once. $220. cash. Ph.250-368-9835
Misc. WantedPrivate Coin Collector BuyingCollections, Accumulations,Olympic Gold & Silver Coins +Chad: 250-499-0251. Local.
Musical Instruments
MIDNIGHT MADNESS!1 NIGHT ONLY!Thursday, Nov 27th
6 pm to MidnightBay Avenue Music1364 Bay Ave, Trail
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1st Trail Real Estate
1252 Bay Avenue, Trail 250.368.5222 1993 Columbia Ave, Rossland 250.362.5200WWW.COLDWELLBANKERTRAIL.COM
Fri. Nov. 28 4:30 - 6:00pm1680 Tolmie St
Trail $169,000Rhonda 250.231.7575
OPEN HOUSE
Fri. Nov. 28 starts 4:30pm1697 Tolmie St
Trail $138,500Nathan 250.231.9484
OPEN HOUSE
Trail $98,000Nathan 250.231.9484
Trail $134,000Nathan 250.231.9484
Fruitvale $319,000Rob 250.231.4420
5 Bedrooms
Rossland $299,900Marie-Claude 250.512.1153
House & Acreage
Fruitvale $219,500Rob 250.231.4420
Bring Offers
Rossland $OLDMarie-Claude 250.512.1153
SOLD
Fruitvale $399,000Rob 250.231.4420
10 Acres
Trail $164,000Rhonda 250.231.7575
Fruitvale $195,000Rhonda 250.231.7575
Rossland $49,900Marie-Claude 250.512.1153
New Listing
New Listing
New Listing
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$20,000 Reduction
NoticeSECTION 37 MANUFACTURED HOME PARK
TENANCY REGULATION
NOTICE TO: Christopher John Albert Green c/o Jeff Green, #14 Edward Street, Kamloops, BC, V2B 4G1
PROPERTY TO BE SOLD: 1973 Bendix Homes Manufactured
Home Registered as M.H. No. 074195
MANUFACTURED HOME SITE WHERE BEING STORED/ADDRESS OF MANUFACTURED HOME: Site 1, Cedars Park
3171 Highway 3B Fruitvale, British Columbia
NAME/ADDRESS OF LANDLORD: Angela Darlene Schulze, Executor
of the Estate of Ernst Erich August Schulze 3175 Hwy 3B East, Fruitvale, British Columbia
TAKE NOTICE that the Landlord will dispose of the above described Manufactured Home unless the person(s) being notified takes possession of the property, establishes a right to possession of it or makes an application to the Court to establish such a right within 30 days from the date this Notice is served on the above named Tenant or his successors and assigns.DATED at the City of Castlegar, this Province of British Columbia this 3rd day of November, 2014.
Angela Darlene Schulze,Executor of the Estate of Ernst Erich August Schulze
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WANETA MANORSuites
Avail NowPlease call
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Bella 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, 1&2bdrm. apts. F/S, Coin-op laundry available. 250-368-3239Francesco 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. 250-368-5908Glenmerry 2bdrm. apt. F/S Heat included. N/S. $750./mo. 250-368-5908PARKSIDE APARTMENTS. Large 1bdrm., insuite laundry, AC, secure quiet building. Call Richard 250-368-7897TRAIL, 1BD. character apt., reno’d, non-smoking adult building, coin-op laundry, close to Downtown. $525./mo. includes heat. 250-226-6886TRAIL, 2BDRM. Glenmerry. Newly reno’d, perfect for sen-ior, no stairs. N/P. Utilities in-cluded. 250-368-1312.TRAIL, 3BD. Bright, clean, spacious, in quiet bldg. W/D. S.exposure w/deck, off-street parking. N/S. $835./mo. Avail. Nov28.Call/text 503-302-5428TRAIL, Bachelor suite. Friend-ly, quiet secure bldg. Heat incl. N/P, N/S. 250-368-5287WARFIELD, 1BD. F/S. Coin laundry, storage. Secure bldg. N/S, N/P. $625. util.incl. 778-239-1843
WARFIELD, 1bdrm. apt. N/S, N/P. Avail. immed. $550./mo. + utilities. 250-229-4149
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Apt/Condo for RentW.TRAIL 2-BDRM.. $725. N/S, N/P. F/S. Laundry.250-367-7919
W.TRAIL, 2Bdrm. in 4-plex., enclosed parking. $580./mo. 250-551-1106
Duplex / 4 Plex1000sqf 2bdrm/2bath duplex for rent in Montrose. Close to bus stop, dble-pane windows, heat-pump, D/W, NP/NS. $850/month. Ph 604-374-0121
E.TRAIL, newly renovated 3bd. duplex, close to Safeway, no pets. $700./mo utilities not included. 250-368-8361 after 12noon or 1-403-993-3279 any time.
Mobile Homes & Pads
FRUITVALE, 1790 Barrett Dr. Modular home pad for rent in clean 55+ park. 250-503-1626
SALMO, 916 Airport Road. Modular home pads for rent in nice park. Call 250-357-9328
Homes for RentE. TRAIL 2/3 bed, $850 + utilities. Near Safeway & Aquatic center. N/S, n/p. 250-231-3343
E.TRAIL, 2BD., newly reno-vated, F/S, W/D, Air.cond., off street parking. $850./mo. + utilities. N/S, N/P. References required. 250-368-9692
Shavers Bench! 4 Bedroom, full basement, F/S, N/S, N/P. $900/month. 250-364-1551
TRAIL, 3bdrm. f/s, w/d, base-ment, fenced yard, quiet area. 250-231-1125 / 250-364-1129 Transportation
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KOOTENAY HOMES INC.1358 Cedar Avenue, Trail • 250.368.8818
www.kootenayhomes.com www.century21.caThe Local Experts™
WE CAN SELL YOUR HOME.
NOBODY HAS THE RESOURCES WE DO!
4206 Ross Spur Road, Ross Spur$1,200,000
PRIVATE RETREAT! This spectacular home is located 25 acres of healthy treed property with Beaver Creek running through. The home has
over 4200 square feet of fi nished space, with high ceilings, hardwood fl oors, deluxe kitchen and views
galore! You have to see it to believe it!
Call Mary M (250) 231-0264
1402 Bay Avenue, Trail$259,000
Commercial / residential building with long term tenants already
in place. Great revenue stream. Call today for details!
Call Terry (250) 231-1101
425 8th Avenue, Montrose$329,000
Extremely quiet location with privacy.Beautifully upgraded including,
kitchen, living room, dining room, familyroom, 2 full baths, 3 bdrms and than
800 sq ft of decks! Double carport andheated work shop!
Call Deanne (250) 231-0153
3590 Aster Drive, Trail$350,000
One-owner custom built home. This home is a classic, with interesting
architecture, quality construction and prime location. 4 bdrms, 2 baths, large rec room, workshop and lots of great
storage. The roof is brand new, central air-conditioning, u/g sprinkling. On
nearly 1/3 of an acre at the end of a cul-de-sac.
Call Mary M (250) 231-0264
#28 - 150 Tamarac Ave, Fruitvale$69,000
Upgraded unit in sought after Mobile Home Park. Vaulted ceiling, open plan,
skylights, 2 bdrm 2 bath, extremely affordable living here. Call today for list
of upgrades!Call Tonnie (250) 365-9665
966 Upper China Creek Road, Genelle
$259,000This 4 bed/1 bath home offers
privacy and 2 acres! Many upgrades! (wiring, plumbing, heating, roof, fencing, landscaping). Call your
REALTOR® now to view.Call Deanne (250) 231-0153
441 Whitman Way, Warfi eld$575,000
Gorgeous custom built home with high quality fi nishings, fantastic kitchen, open
fl oor plan and beautifully landscaped yard. Great parking with huge garage and workshop area. An excellent family home with room for everyone. Come
see it today!Call Mary M (250) 231-0264
490 Austad Lane, Trail $159,000
Duplex with excellent parking and fl at, fenced yard! Great investment property
or live in one side while the other becomes a mortgage helper.Call Terry (250) 231-1101
817 Whitetail Drive, 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
1912 Hummingbird Drive, Fruitvale
$354,900 Built in 2008 - this 4
bdrm/3 bath home still feels brand new. Vaulted
ceilings and lots of sunlight throughout-open
fl oor plan with lovely hardwood fl oors. Double garage and fenced yard.
Move in and enjoy.Call Mark
(250) 231-5591
2459 2nd Ave, Rossland$299,000
Nicely renovated 3bdrm home with walk-out basement, large landscaped lot, 13x41 garage, huge private deck, and 2 fi replaces.
Tons of storage and a workshop area complete this package.
Call Christine (250) 512-7653
730 Binns Street, Trail $128,000
Filled with character! Original hardwood fl oors and wood trim,
updated electrical, country kitchen and remodeled bathroom. Single car garage
and plenty of off street parking. This home is move in ready. Call Art (250) 368-8818
730 Binns Street, Trail
SOLD
1762 First Street, Fruitvale$189,900
Beautiful views, well landscaped yard and 5 bdrm on a quiet cul-d-sac. Attention all Buyers - Take advantage of the Sellers VTB program. Call your
REALTOR® for details.. Call Jodi (250) 231-2331
1643 McQuarrie Street, Trail$109,000
A snug little house with newer fl ooring and paint on main and new carpet and
drywall in the basement. Excellent location.
Call Jodi (250) 231-2331
NEW PRICE
OPEN HOUSESaturday, November 29 11am - 1pm
NEW PRICE
452 Whitman Way, Warfi eld$359,900
Don’t wait for an OPEN HOUSE – this Emerald Ridge 1/2 duplex is a pleasure to show at your convenience!! Vaulted
ceilings, open kitchen with granite countertops and lots of space for a
family but a perfect layout for seniors.Call Mary A (250) 521-0525
REDUCED
#305 - 1510 Nickleplate Road, Rossland
$99,000Bright south facing 1 bdrm condo with
new fl ooring, amazing southern views and great sun exposure.
The building has shared laundry, fi tness room, games room and sauna.
Call your REALTOR® today!Call Christine (250) 512-7653
Sm a l l a n d grand s l a m
forces are i m p o r t a n t tools one can eventu-ally add to one’s arsenal. These bids have been covered in past columns, and they simply ask partner to choose a slam based on his trump honour cards.
Five No Trump is the grand s l a m force and asks part-ner to bid Seven with two of the top three t r u m p honours
and to bid Six with one.Why is Roman
Keycard Blackwood not used to find out
about all the keycards? One may only need to know about the trump suit. If this is the case, why risk the response to Blackwood being doubled for a lead?
Furthermore, Roman Keycard Blackwood is not used when one has a void or any time one needs to know which Ace and not the num-ber of Aces. Therefore, any time just the qual-ity of the trump suit is required, one may
choose to use a slam force.
The bidding: The hands are identical to those of the last col-umn, but the method to bid a grand slam is different. When North finds out about South’s Heart sihngleton or void, all he needs to know is the qual-ity of the trump suit. Therefore, he jumps to Five No Trump.
The Lead: The King of Clubs. From the auc-
tion, it is not apparent there is a club void. The lead of the King is very important because if partner gets the lead, the Queen may be cashed for the setting trick.
The play: Declarer ruffs the opening lead, keeping the Ace for later. This is often a very useful technique so that the Ace will be a stopper once trump are gone.
Result: Seven Spades making for +1510.
Adding slam forces to your arsenal
warren watson
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