Trail Daily Times, January 21, 2016

Giving your Christmas tree a second life is an eco-friendly way to support the 2016 grad class.

A couple dozen stu-dents from the J.L Crowe graduating class have volunteered to circle Trail neighbourhoods Saturday and Sunday to pick up Christmas trees left curbside and bring them to the city to re-cycle into mulch.

The Grade 12 class is paid $750 for the prick-ly work, but grad coun-cil president Michael Moon says the effort is more about community spirit than money.

“If anything this is more of a way to get involved with the com-munity and help out in that sense,” Moon told the Trail Times. “It’s a way of giving back, and a good way for students to get volunteer hours needed to graduate.”

Moon is referring to Grad Transitions, which is a Crowe program that began in 2007 that re-quires each student to complete at least 30 hours of community service and work expe-rience.

In fact, all B.C. sec-ondary school students enrolled in Grade 12 must complete the course to graduate.

Before trees hit the curb or a drop off point,

the class asks that all decorations, including tinsel and any plastic covers, be removed.

Students will pass through only once, so the city requests trees be placed in the usual re-fuse collection spot and not on private property.

The eight areas des-ignated as drop off sites are: Waneta Village Park, the Glenmerry un-derpass, Highway Drive at the public works yard, Butler Park, the “Y” in Sunningdale, West Trail at the bocce pits, Miral Heights Park and Stoney Creek Road in Tadanac.

This is the first year public works will tack-le the recycle job with the city chipper instead of diverting Christmas trees into the regional district’s mulcher at the McKelvey Creek Landfill.

It makes sense, says Public Works Manager Larry Abenante, be-cause groups like Trail Community in Bloom are free to pick up all the mulch they need (at no cost) during planting season.

The trees will be stored on an isolated piece of land at the Trail Regional Airport until winter work abates and crews have time to fire up the chipper.

The work will be completed at the airport and mulch stored at that site.

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Theory of a Deadman may have been unplugged but that didn’t stop the Canadian rock-ers from amping up the audi-ence and bringing down the house from first song to last.

The four-man group played Unplugged 15: Celebrating 15 Years of Theory of a Deadman to a packed house at the Charles Bailey Theatre Tuesday night. The smaller venue tour began in Duncan on Jan. 15 and ends in Manitoba next week.

“This is our first time in

Trail, B.C.,” frontman Tyler Connolly opened with. “We complain a lot that we don’t get to go see much every time we go do a Canadian tour, it’s always Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton…all the major cit-ies.

“We said, ‘Why don’t we stop in all the towns where all the real wonderful people are,’” he added to a cheering room. “Hopefully we’ll be welcomed back.”

Sounds were stripped down but energy wasn’t when the musicians switched out gui-tars and added percussive plus

keyboards to tunes from the band’s first album “Gasoline” to the latest offering titled “Savages.”

The Juno Award winners delivered their recognizable hard rock edge throughout the night and ended the show by drawing the crowd to its feet during an encore of soulful acoustics, finishing with “Bad Girlfriend.” The song hit the #1 spot on Canadian Hot 100 and carried the band to the top of the Mainstream Rock Chart in 2008.

Besides music, there was plenty of laughs when char-

ismatic Connolly shared hu-morous stories from 15 years touring across North America and Europe.

The band’s humble roots began with jam sessions in the basement of Connolly’s North Delta home.

After becoming the first act signed to 604 Records, a label created by Nickelback front-man Chad Kroeger, the group has spent considerable time working south of the border.

But Connolly proved he’s still a B.C. boy at heart, men-tioning his dad’s standby wad

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Theory of a Deadman brought their Canadian rocker roots to Trail for an unplugged performance in the Charles Bailey Theatre Tuesday night. Frontman Tyler Connolly and bandmates Dean Back, Dave Brenner and Joey Dandeneau are touring across the country this month celebrating the band’s 15-year history.

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Special tools not always the right fit

When it comes to s p e c i a l tools I

am glad my business is an independent one. I feel sorry for the ser-vice departments of any of the car dealerships. Every year new cars come on the market that require special tools to repair and maintain. The dealership usu-ally automatically gets shipped a whole raft of special tools and they have to pay for each and every one whether they use them or not.

Believe me many times those tools never come out of the box. The person who was in charge of having those tools made to do certain jobs did not even know if some of those jobs would ever need to be done.

In the lifetime of a

vehicle some things just never break or wear out.

Sometimes those special tools were poor-ly conceived. They just won’t do the job they were designed to do. The designer may not have realized how rusty the part would be when it came time to remove it. Many times an alter-nate method of removal must be used. In some cases removal without destroying the particu-lar component is next

to impossible. If the cost of the part is such that destructive removal is the best approach that is what will be done.

Your mechanic’s time is valuable. No use spending an hour re-moving a part that is only worth ten minutes of a labor charge when destructive removal is a mere thirty seconds.

When special tools are poorly contrived but the job they were de-signed for always needs to be done you can bet someone designed a better one.

Not having to buy the original tool and buying the improved version only is a benefit for the independent re-pair shop.

Your mechanic prob-ably is the best tool cre-ator of any of tradesmen you are likely to en-counter. That same guy

who was saddled with making the dealer tools to fix the new cars prob-ably forgot a few. Your mechanic, when faced with the impossible, will always figure out a way. His job depends on it. Broken rusted bolts always present special tool challenges.

Modern technology has made a much bigger category of electronic tools that perform spe-cial tasks. Most of these tools deal with your ve-hicle’s network of com-puters. Thankfully most of the manufacturers comply with some stan-dards.

A basic computer and what is called a J2534 interface will typ-ically give any indepen-dent repair business the ability to diagnose and repair modern automo-biles. The equipment is not too costly but each

and every brand has its own software. The soft-ware comes at a cost though. Each brand sells subscriptions. Some are ridiculously expensive where others are super reasonable.

Using the manufac-turer’s tool is sometimes the only way to perform some repairs. Software might be required that no other tool makers have access to in order to program a replace-ment computer and set it up to work on your car.

Special tools are a big part of staying in the business of auto repair. The challenge is making sure you have the right tool when you need it.

Trail’s Ron Nutini is a licensed automotive technician and graduate of mechanical engineer-ing from UBC. E-mail: [email protected]

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Music• Friday, Music Of Vienna,

7:30 p.m. featuring Carolyn Cameron, violin and Dawna Kavanagh, piano. Proceeds to KBRH Health Foundation, ICU Air Isolation Room Campaign. RSVP Lisa Pasin at 364.3424 or email [email protected]. Admission complimentary with donation to KBRH Health Foundation.

Other• Tonight, Webster PAC

fundraiser Dining for Pride event, 11 a.m. until closing in the Tunnel Pub and 4 p.m. until closing in Benedict’s Steakhouse. Ten per cent of food sales will be donated to the “Building Pride: New Intermediate Playground Project.” Reservations recom-mended.

• Saturday, Trail Legion 5 p.m. cocktails for annual cel-ebration of the life and work of Robbie Burns. Dinner 6 p.m. Kate E. Shaw dancers, Trail Pipe Band and later dance to Party Party DJ Services.

Members and bona fide guests. For info and tickets call 364.1422.

• Monday, Castlegar Selkirk College campus, 7 p.m. the West Kootenay Naturalists will host Libby Ruljancich speaking on Edible Wild Plants. Room K10. Admission is free and everyone welcome. For more information call 250.365.5804.

•Tuesday, Warfield Community Hall, Jazzercise classes. 2:30-3:15 p.m. (children) and 5:45-6:45 p.m., adults. All proceeds for “Building Pride: New Intermediate Playground Project.” Kids $8 or two class-es for $12; adults $12 each. Contact [email protected] to register. Class also runs

Jan. 28.Film• Sunday, Royal Theatre 5

p.m. Sunday Cinema showing Meru. After suffering dramatic set backs three close friends, who are among the world’s best professional climbers, battle their complicated pasts, inner demons and nature’s harshest elements in an at-tempt to climb the Shark’s Fin on Mount Meru.

Gallery• VISAC Gallery in down-

town Trail showing “Puzzle Pieces,” by Andy Holmes and Martine Bedard. An explora-tion of the complexity of ex-istence. Hours are Tuesdays through Fridays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and until 6 p.m. on Thursdays. For more info call 364.1181 or contact [email protected].

Upcoming• Jan. 30, Royal Theatre, 9:55

a.m. for Turandot, Met Opera Live in HD. Nina Stemme, one of opera’s greatest dramatic so-pranos, takes on the title role of the proud princess of leg-endary China.

• Jan. 31, Royal Theatre, Dance in HD showing the Royal Ballet’s Rhapsody, the Two Pigeons.

• Feb. 11, Jazz at the Griff, 7:30 p.m. Melody Diachun, the Art of Romance. Singer and her band explore timeless songs of love and lust. Tony Ferraro on drums, saxophon-ist Clinton Swanson, guitarist Doug Stephenson and Steven Spielman, acoustic bass.

• March 17, Jazz at the Griff, 7:30 p.m. Clinton’s Retro-Swing Band. Smooth vocals and charismatic ukelele of Brian Kalbleisch, eclectic and slightly eccentric arrangements of old tunes, newer tunes and never-heard-before tunes.

• April 7, Jazz at the Griff, 7:30 p.m. Laura Landsberg Quartet, Nelson singer presents Duke Ellington’s timeless com-positions.

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of Canadian Tire cash and reminiscing, “where we were from there were only two things to do, play hockey or play in a band.”

He poked fun at his fashion faux pas of a handlebar moustache on the first album cover and $300 trendy dis-tressed jeans he only wore once.

Connolly was joined on stage by band members bassist Dean Back, gui-tarist Dave Brenner and drummer Joey Dandeneau and a special guest on key-boards.

Theory of a Deadman has earned a fan following and Trail proved to be no exception.

Longtime fans filled the theatre an-ticipating some of the band’s classics and new hits from the 2014 release “Savages.”

The group’s raw talent shone as au-dience members soaked up the per-formance, which many commented sounded better live than recorded.

Having the rock giants come to Trail is good news for the Charles Bailey Theatre, says theatre manager Nadine Tremblay.

“Locals seem especially fond of big name acts and we have a farther reach-ing appeal when it comes to these acts as well.”

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A new program added to Columbia Basin Trust’s (CBT) granting cycle is wel-coming news for communities in the Basin.

Recreation Infrastructure Grants are of-fering $3 million per year over the next three years to help groups and organiza-tions with construction of new recreation projects or upgrades existing infrastructure.

The funds are earmarked for improve-

ments to structures and spaces like back country trail networks, swimming pools, ice rinks, curling arenas, sports fields and parks.

Groups can receive up to 70 per cent of project costs to a maximum of $500,000. CBT maintains investing in recreation en-courages residents to live active and healthy lifestyles, as well as supports tourism in the region.

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and physical activity are important to them both in terms of lifestyle and health,” says Neil Muth, CBT president and chief execu-tive officer. “We’re pleased we can quickly address their needs and wishes by acting on this priority. Substantial support like this will help create significant benefits in communities.”

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This week Canada’s Minister of Health, Dr. Jane Philpott, will meet with her

provincial and territorial counterparts in Vancouver. This is no ordinary get-to-gether. In his mandate let-ter to the Minister, Prime Minister Trudeau tasked Philpott with “engaging provinces and territories in the development of a new, multi-year Health Accord with long-term funding agreement.”

This is a distinct change in tone from the previous federal government, which refused to meet with prov-inces to negotiate a new agreement after the accord ran out in 2014.

The top-down approach by the Harper government was greeted with two dis-tinct reactions. There were those that saw the cancella-tion of the Health Accord as a step backward that would further reduce the federal portion of funding for health care, offloading costs to the provinces. Others criticized the past accord, billed as “a fix for a generation,” because it didn’t buy the intended

change. While progress was made on wait times for cer-tain services, other innova-tions in home care, primary care, prevention and health promotion, and the devel-opment of a national phar-maceutical strategy were not achieved in any meaningful way, with most of the in-creased funding getting ab-sorbed into regular health budgets.

Both of these perspectives hold merit.

There is a strong case to be made for a return to the original 50/50 funding ar-rangement, which is one of the key reasons the prov-inces signed on to Medicare in the first place but which has steadily been eroded in the decades since. There is

also a fair criticism that in-creased funding – from $124 billion in 2003 to $207 bil-lion in 2012 – should have been used more deliberately to attempt to achieve the intended change in system performance or health out-comes for Canadians.

So as the health ministers meet in Vancouver, how can they bend the curve toward a less costly and more effec-tive health care system? How can they ensure the funds invested this time around will buy real improvements in health?

Some of the directions for this can be found in the Prime Minister’s mandate let-ter to the Minister of Health, which included an exhorta-tion to “support the deliv-ery of more and better home care services.” Investment in quality home care has been shown to improve patient ex-perience while easing pres-sure on acute and long-term facilities.

The letter also encour-aged Minister Philpott to “encourage the adoption of new digital health technol-ogy.” If done right, electronic medical and health records

can greatly expand our ability to effectively treat individuals and the population.

A third major element de-scribed in the mandate letter was a call to “improve ac-cess to necessary prescrip-tion medications” by “joining with provincial and territori-al governments to buy drugs in bulk,” and “exploring the need for a national formu-lary.” This falls short of a na-tional pharmacare program, but does not close the door to the possibility.

Canada is the only na-tion with a universal health care system that doesn’t in-clude drug coverage; one in five Canadians reports being unable to afford to take necessary medications as prescribed. A national pharmacare program would eliminate that problem while saving Canadians approxi-mately $6 billion per year in excess costs. Half measures in this area will not achieve the desired savings or acces-sibility.

The directives from Trudeau to Philpott are help-ful, but there are two key in-gredients missing. The first is that the flow of health care

funds needs to be connected to clearly articulated goals. Indiscriminately increasing fund transfers with no ac-countability for how they will be used is a recipe for continually increasing costs without improving the qual-ity and accessibility of care.

The second is that all lev-els of government need to move toward a Health in All Policies approach that understands all areas of gov-ernment – policies affecting income, education, housing, food security, for example – impact health outcomes. Health care is the greatest cost driver in provincial gov-ernments, but it isn’t the area in which spending has the greatest impact on health – and it’s not where those costs can best be controlled.

The decisions emerging from this upcoming sum-mit could change the land-scape of health care policy in Canada.

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“I am not now, nor have I ever been, a mem-ber of the communist party.” We watched the

movie Trumbo this week and the phrase is fresh on my mind.

I was born in the McCarthy era, in 1954. The Korean War had just ended and the Cold War was beginning to heat up. I recall my conservative father commenting at dinner that if Richard Nixon won the American presidency we could end up in another world war (John F. Kennedy won by a narrow margin), and I have vague memories of the Cuban missile crisis. In the 1960s my in-terest in politics was tweaked, as much by American news than by Canadian issues. In high school the name Dalton Trumbo be-came familiar because we studied Johnny Got His Gun in English class.

Our studies did not refer to, as best as I can recall, Trumbo’s suc-cess as a writer of screenplays or his status as one of the Hollywood Ten, or Billy’s Blacklist. Or that he spent nearly a year in jail for being found in contempt of Congress for his unwilling-ness to kowtow to HUAC, the House Un-American Activities Committee, which made Senator Joe McCarthy a household name and Trumbo an anathema in the film business.

Trumbo, the movie, is more than just a terrific film featur-ing the remarkable actor Bryan Cranston (of Breaking Bad fame). It should serve as a cau-tionary tale in a time that looks more like the 1950s politically than we care to acknowledge. With Donald Trump’s bombastic presidential run focusing on a distrust of foreigners, primarily Mexicans and Muslims, and a

promise to build walls along U.S. borders, it would do us well to wonder if history is once again repeating itself.

The Iron Curtain seems like a distant memory, the Berlin Wall having been toppled in the 1980s and Ronald Reagan having been declared winner — game, set and match — over the dreaded com-munists. But Trump and other Republican candidates are seem-ing to find traction in the idea of creating American walls, figura-tive and literal, without instill-ing a whole lot of fear among a people who should be as tired of living their privileged lives in fear as Canadians showed them-selves to be in last year’s federal election.

Dalton Trumbo’s story is fas-cinating. After having some suc-cess with Johnny Got His Gun, a brilliant and disturbing anti-war tale, he went on to become one of Hollywood’s most success-ful screenwriters. He joined the communist party in 1943, be-lieving that isolationism was the answer for the U.S. In 1946, in an article he wrote titled “The Red Menace”, he said that Russians were justified in fearing the ex-pansion of American power.

“If I were a Russian... I would be alarmed, and I would petition my government to take measures at once against what would seem an almost certain blow aimed at my existence. This is how it must appear in Russia today,” he wrote.

Once the blacklist took hold and Trumbo appeared to be out of business, he began writing under pseudonyms, finding pro-ducers who were more interested in making money than in Cold War politics. He wrote 30 scripts from his home in Mexico City, where he moved his family after serving his jail sentence. Two of his scripts, for The Brave One and Roman Holiday, would go on to win Academy Awards for writing. He received screen cred-it for neither at the time.

“There are many angry, greedy people in the world and they seem to be breeding in record num-bers,” Trumbo says in his name-sake movie.

The angry people who com-prised HUAC slowly began to lose their power, if not legitimacy (the committee still existed until 1975, but the angry people now hold the majority in Congress) and Otto Preminger and Kirk Douglas refused to hide Trumbo’s name in the 1960 movies Exodus and Spartacus. (I am sure there must be a master’s thesis somewhere that explores the fact that both those movies end in the letters US. If there isn’t, there should be.)

As the Republican lunatics race down a path that could lead to a new cold war (if we’re lucky) or world war (if we aren’t), Trumbo serves an entertaining and infor-mative warning. If only sufficient numbers are listening, we might have some cause for hope.

Lorne Eckersley is the publisher of the Creston Valley Advance.

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Hollywood history plays out well in ‘Trumbo’ film

Troy MediaSo just 62 people own as much wealth as the bot-

tom half of all humanity put together. That number decreases every year, but it’s like we’re waiting for the point where it’s only one person who is as rich as half of humanity before we’ll be impressed.

Either we’re becoming jaded by constant reports of income inequality, or we’re not paying attention because we’re being asked to draw the wrong con-clusions. Probably both.

International charity Oxfam releases a report on global wealth inequality every January. This year’s report just happens to come right before the rich and powerful gather at Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum.

It is true, the share of global wealth is concen-trating in ever-greater extent on the top percentile of people. In 2010, it took 388 people to amass as much wealth as the bottom 50 per cent of people in the world, according to Oxfam. That dropped to 177 people in 2011, then 159 in 2012, plummeting to 92 in 2013, and in the global economic struggles beginning in 2014, a slight drop to 80. Now, it’s 62. A sidebar to the Oxfam report tells us that five Canadians hold the equivalent wealth of the bot-tom 30 per cent of all Canadians. That’s more than 11 million people.

Greg Neiman is a freelance editor, columnist and blogger living in Red Deer, Alta. Greg is also included in Troy Media’s Unlimited Access subscription plan.

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After 22 years behind the bench of the Quinnipiac University Bobcats, coach Rand Pecknold is certain of one thing: he never knows how a team is going to come together, until it comes together.

Pecknold has taken a fledgling Div. 2 school, with an enrolment of slightly over 5,000 stu-dents, and made it the top-ranked NCAA Division 1 hockey team in the nation. With just one loss in 25 games this season, the 19-1-4 Bobcats were officially ranked number 1 this week by the USCHO and USA Today polls.

“I knew we were going to be good this year, but did I think we were going to be number 1 in the country? No I did not,” Pecknold told the Trail Times on Tuesday.

Quinnipiac started off the season at number 18, but climbed the ranks with every win, culminating in a 5-4 victory over num-ber-5 ranked Harvard at Madison Square Gardens in New York last week.

“I definitely thought we’d have a good team, we lost some really good play-ers last year, but it’s been a nice year, and a lot of our success is that we’ve had some guys that have blossomed, including obvi-ously, Travis St. Denis, a Trail kid.”

The Bobcats’ connec-tion to Trail started with Connor and Kellen Jones when they committed and went to Quinnipiac in 2010. Three years later, in 2013, the Bobcats received their first number 1 rank-ing on Feb. 11 and went on to play in the Frozen Four and the NCAA Div. 1 championship match.

Since then, with the help from the twin’s father, three more Trail products have joined the Quinnipiac line up.

“Terry Jones, has been

instrumental in helping us,” said Pecknold. “He’s been great for us, a huge supporter of our program, and obviously Conner and Kellen are two of the best players we’ve ever had. We’re very happy with the Trail connection. Saint’s (St. Denis) having a great year and Scott Davidson and Craig Martin are doing a really good job too as freshman for us.”

St. Denis joined the team in 2012-13. After three good campaigns, he was named the assistant captain this season, and leads the team in scoring with 12 goals and 28 points, earn-ing his 100th NCAA point earlier this month.

“He’s been fantastic, he’s been one of our best play-ers. His first three years he was a very good player for us, and now he’s an elite player,” said Pecknold. “He’s a quiet leader but he competes hard, and that’s his main strength is his competitiveness. He’s hav-ing a great year all around.”

Two more Smoke Eater alumni, Davidson and Martin, joined the Cats this year, giving Quinnipiac

three Trail products and a dozen recruits from the BCHL on its roster.

As freshman, Martin and Davidson have been used sparingly at times, but Pecknold says their futures look bright.

“They are going to be very good players for us, we like both of them and they’re both working hard and both really good hock-ey players, and good char-acter kids.”

And when it comes to recruiting players, char-acter goes a long way for Pecknold and assistant coaches Reid Cashman and Bill Riga. Competing for talent against much larger NCAA schools is a difficult prospect, but Quinnipiac has found a formula that has kept them competitive.

“We try to get guys like Tyson Jost (Penticton Vees top draft prospect), but we just didn’t get him,” laughed Pecknold. “We want talent, and talent is important, but we want character kids. We want competitiveness and really competitive players are the kids that usually excel within our culture.”

Quinnipiac doesn’t

mind spending time de-veloping players either, and taking undersized or fourth-line prospects and turning them into top-line skaters is something the coaches have been doing for years.

“Bill Riga and Reid Cashman do a great job finding kids that kind of fit our style of play, that fit our identity, and I think once we get them we do a really good job of developing the talent that we have.

“Just on our team now, we have a bunch of guys that we thought would be fourth line guys, or maybe a sixth defenceman and all of a sudden now they’re on our first power play and our second defenceman, and we do that over and over again.”

The Bobcats work hard off the ice as well with a team grade point aver-age of 3.4, and 21 play-ers with 3.0 GPA or better, it is one of the highest in the country. The culture of development, character, and accountability is pay-ing dividends for players and coaches alike, mak-ing the small University in Hamden, Conn. not only number 1 on the ice, but in the hearts of its fans as well.

As for a repeat of the 2013 visit to the Frozen Four NCAA champion-ship, Pecknold is hopeful, although he is cautious about putting too much pressure on this year’s squad.

“I don’t think this ver-sion is as good as that one but they keep proving me wrong so maybe they are,” he added. “It’s a little dif-ferent, this version. Again we just keep overachiev-ing, but if you keep doing that then maybe you’re not overachieving, maybe this is what we’re suppose to do.”

Pecknold boasts a ca-reer record of 433-261-80 and currently ranks sixth among all active NCAA Div. I coaches.

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League playoffs started this past week with a mix of upsets and close calls.

The eighth seeded Justin Umpherville foursome was at-tempting to be David versus a Goliath Corvus Construction team skipped by Deane Horning. The young guns were in tight, leading 3-2 after three

ends, but Horning made a per-fect come around tap for two in the fourth, then stole the fifth for a 5-3 advantage. Neither team could manage to manu-facture more than one the rest of the way, with Corvus leading 7-5 in the 10th, before run-ning Umpherville out of rocks to preserve the close win.

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The Trail Smoke Eaters will look to halt their current los-ing skid when they face one of the league’s top teams in the Chilliwack Chiefs tonight at the Cominco Arena.

“For us to be successful, we need everyone going,” said as-sistant coach Craig Clare. “This far into the season, you can’t use that as an excuse. We be-lieve this team is capable of getting into the playoffs, and we have to get rid of this slide and move on to the next game.”

The Chiefs meanwhile have been red hot having won six of their last seven games, which included a 2-1 double over-time victory over Trail Jan. 9 in Chilliwack. Trail is 11-9 at home this season while the Chiefs are 9-6-2-1 on the road.

Trail’s tough stretch of six straight losses was compound-ed by injuries and the loss of defenceman Ryan Swanson.

Swanson left the team and returned home earlier this week due to personal reasons. His exit comes at a very bad time, with the Smokies missing Jake Kauppila, Ross Armour, and Kyle Star who are out with in-jury until at least next weekend.

Even more unfortunate, Swanson’s departure comes after the Jan. 10 CJHL trade deadline and the Jan. 15 USJHL deadline, so the Smokies can-not fill his card or make a trade even if they wanted to.

“We don’t have any more roster spots,” said coach Nick Deschenes. “The ruling is de-

signed to prevent players from jumping around to teams at this point. So basically we’re down to six ‘D’.”

Swanson has played two years for the Smoke Eaters but as a 20-year-old player, he didn’t quite meet expectations, with three goals and 15 assists and 55 PIM in 44 matches this season.

In any case, the Smoke Eaters have to treat it like losing a player to injury as they get set to host Chilliwack and Vernon this week.

“When it’s all done we can look back and micro-analyze everything,” said Deschenes. “But because of what’s at stake, we have to move forward … Whenever you have injuries, you can have a tendency to let up, but we have to really attack, and take advantage. We’re at home, and we play well at home, we’re comfortable here, and we should be able to get some wins here down the stretch.”

Trail’s playoff fortunes de-pend on their results the next five weeks. With 14 games re-maining, Trail plays 13 against Interior division rivals includ-ing a must-win match against Vernon on Saturday. The Smokies trail the Vipers by two points.

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stealing singles in the fourth, sixth, seventh and eighth ends for a 7-3 win.

The sixth seeded Team Fines squared off against third seed Team Myron Nicol, with both rinks playing cautiously to start. Fines was up 2-1 after three, then 3-2 after five. Nichols had something going in the sixth, before third Craig Fines ran a cross-ice double, lead-ing to holding Nichol to a single. The game tilted in favour of Fines in the seventh, when skip Ken made two per-fect draws that Myron couldn’t chip out, end-ing in a huge four ender. Nichol got one back in the eighth, but Fines blanked the ninth and ran Nichol out of rocks for an 8-5 upset.

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Darrin Albo and fourth seed Team Russ Beauchamp played a high scoring, back and forth affair. Albo struck early with two deuces, before Russ did the same with two deuces of his own. Albo was forced to take one in the fifth to regain a slim 5-4 lead, before Beauchamp manufactured a three spot to grab his first lead. Not to be outdone, Albo answered with a 3 of his own. The teams then traded deuces, and

the lead again, to have Beauchamp one down, coming home without.

Russ tried his magi-cal best, attempting an angle raise double take-out to lay two, with his last rock, but only managed to knock one of Albo’s buried stones off the four foot, for an entertaining 11-9 Albo win.

All teams are back on the ice tonight at 7 p.m. at the Trail Curling Club. The finals will go on Jan. 28 at 7 p.m.

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

Luigi (Diane), her six grandchildren, her sister Eva and brother Tony and numerous nieces and nephews.Rosa enjoyed her work at Luigi’s Soup and Sandwich where she loved to welcome everyone into the store. She was famous for her minestrone and was a fantastic cookie maker and no one will be able to duplicate her recipes.A Visitation will take place on � ursday, January 21, 2016 from 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm in “Carberry’s Chapel” at 1298 Pine Avenue, Trail. A Mass of Christian Burial will take place on Friday, January 22, 2016 at 10:30 am at Holy Trinity Catholic Parish, 2012 3rd Avenue, Trail with Father Bart van Roijen, Celebrant. Gwen Ziprick of Alternatives Funeral and Cremation Services™ has been entrusted with arrangements. As an expression of sympathy, donations may be made in Rosa’s name to the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital Health Foundation at 1200 Hospital Bench, Trail, BC, V1R 4M1 or online at www.kbrhhealthfoundation.caYou are welcome to leave a personal message of condolence by visiting the family’s page at www.myalternatives.ca“Mom, you will truly be missed.”

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Janet Kathleen Neumann, beloved wife, mother,

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Jan was born in Lac La Biche, Alberta to Margret and Ernest Brooks. She married her husband Herb Neumann on May 20, 1967 in Rossland, BC. Before long they began their family and devoted their life to their 3 beautiful children. � e family later moved from Rossland to Castlegar where they made their family home. Jan was a stay at home mom until her children were older and in school, she then went back to school and completed the Long-term Care Aide Course. Jan then worked for Castlegar Home Support for 17 ½ years, where she was an active union member and an advocate for the elderly. Jan devoted her life to her family and friends. Coaching and assisting in her children’s so� ball and baseball, as well as being a dedicated hockey mom were important moments in Jan’s life. Jan was involved in the local 581 Air Cadets Squadron, a member of Pythian Sisters and the Castlegar Legion Ladies Auxillary.

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She is survived by her daughters Deanna(Will), Darla, and son Brent(Kim), grandchildren Jordyn, London and Rowen, as well as her brothers, Jim (Bessie), Reginald (Joyce), Alvin (Sonia), and her sister, Linda (Ernie) and their families.

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on February 7, 1955 to Thomas and Margaret Gresley-Jones.

After moves from Rossland and Port Alberni, Brian graduated high school in Whitehorse, Yukon where he met the love of his life Vicki. Brian went on to obtain his Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of British Columbia and his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. Together, Vicki and Brian settled in Rossland where they raised their two sons.

Brian is loved and remembered by his wife, Vicki Voth; sons, Adam (Melissa) and Ben (Ashley); grandchildren, Owen and William; brother, Dan (Pat); a loving extended Gresley-Jones family; and, a network of wonderful friends. He is prede-ceased by his parents.

Brian and his family would like to send a heartfelt thank you to all of those who cared for him in both the Kelowna General Hospital and the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital. Thank you to all of the family and friends for your unwaver-ing support, kindness and generosity.

As an expression of sympathy, donations in memory of Brian may be made to the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital Foundation (Greatest Need). An informal open house will be held in Brian’s honour on Saturday, January 23 from 12:30 to 3:00 p.m. at the Rossland Miners’ Hall.

Brian had a passion for his family, golf, wood carving and caring for animals. He touched so many lives in the commu-nity and his family welcomes stories about him to share with his grandchildren. Please share your stories by dropping off a letter or sending an email to [email protected]. You are also invited to leave a personal message of condolence at the family’s online register at www.myalternatives.ca.

JILLIAN TR AINORArrow Lakes News

The weather may have been frightful, but that didn’t stop people from coming out to take part in the annual Gord Roberts Memorial Blue Knuckle Derby.

People came from all over the Kootenays, the Okanagan, even Alberta, in order to take part in the event.

The derby was origi-nally created by Gord Roberts and his wife Tracey, out of their store, Blue Jay Sport and Marine.

“When we had our store here in Nakusp, and you always had tourism in the sum-mer time,” said Tracey.

“Gord thought we needed to do some-thing in the winter, so the Blue Knuckle Derby came about.”

Gord passed away suddenly about five years ago, and Tracey was contacted to see if it was okay to bring the derby back in his memory.

About 125 tickets were sold for the event this year. Some fisher-men take part every year, others got to expe-rience the derby for the first time.

“I’d never heard of it until this year,” said Joseph Taylor. “My buddy Shea fishes out here all the time, he’s got family here. We decided to come out here, do

some fishing, and just get away.”

The fishermen enjoy the fact that the derby brings people into the community.

“It brings money into the community, it brings out community spirit, and it’s great fishing,” said Shea Mollerude.

In total, $850 was raised, with all the pro-ceeds going toward the Gord Roberts Memorial Bursary.

“Gord always said that education was very important, and always told our kids that they needed to get an educa-tion,” said Tracey. She said the village helps the Roberts family with the derby, so the family is helping somebody with their education.

Organizing the event takes a lot of time.

“It’s worked on all year, getting prizes, getting sponsors, and we now have the Gord Roberts Memorial Bursary, so we have to try and find ways to raise money for that as well,” said Ashley Schmidt, Gord and Tracey’s daughter. “It’s a year-long event, pretty much.”

The weigh-in for the fish takes place at the Roberts’ former store.

This year’s first place winner was Jesse Martin, who pulled in a 15 lb. 2 oz. dolly on Saturday. Second prize went to Ben Tober, who pulled in an 11 lb. 8 oz dolly. Third place went to Brent Vickery, with an 11 lb. 4 oz. dolly.

Rain, sleet, snow, the derby prevails

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Fishermen return to shore after taking part in the annual Blue Knuckle Derby.


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Dear Annie: I am a healthy, ac-tive, 68-year-old divorced man, still employed and productive. About a year ago, I met “Caroline,” a pleas-ant, generous, compatible woman, and have since enjoyed her com-pany on a regular basis. We spent Christmas together in Europe. It was lovely.

Unfortunately, there is one prob-lem that drives me crazy: Caroline is a compulsive talker. It doesn’t mat-ter if we’re in a movie theater, we’re watching a TV show or I’m trying to read the newspaper. She just starts yakking in my ear. I try to ignore it, but she goes right on. She doesn’t get the hint that I’m not interested in chatting at that precise moment.

How do I tell her nicely to shut up for a while? -- Patient But Tired

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show together. Can we talk when it’s over?” If she persists, you might ask her to see her doctor to have her hearing checked. Later, when you have some peaceful time together, tell her how much you enjoy just spending quiet time in her company and how nice it is that the silence is comfortable. This will help reinforce the behavior you want. But make sure to pay at-tention to her when you are, in fact, having a conversation. Some people chatter endlessly because they feel that their words are being ignored.

Dear Annie: You published that silly cost of the 12 days of Christmas and once again, eight maids a milk-ing were being paid $58 -- mini-mum wage for the past three years.

This is so wrong! I milked cows on a dairy farm for 15 years, and let me tell you, it is a skilled occupa-tion. I went to milking school. And it pays more than minimum wage. I was paid $12 when the federal mini-mum wage was $5.60. And what

about the cost of those cows? Why isn’t that included? A dairy cow

costs at least $1,500, so eight of them -- one for each maid -- would be $12,000. However, if the gift-giver bought the cows, he would have to hire at least one

milkmaid full time. This should be corrected. -- Anne in Pennsylvania

Dear Anne: We truly enjoyed your letter. We rarely hear from someone who worked as a milk-maid. And of course, how much the milkmaids receive each day would depend on how many hours they worked. Also, nothing in the song indicates that the gift-giver included cows. Only the maids-a-milking. Since the song was first published in 1780, we assume the recipient already had cows.

The figures we printed came from the PNC Bank (originally the Provident National Bank in Philadelphia), which calculates maids-a-milking as unskilled labor,

and thus they are paid minimum wage. We will be happy to pass along your claim that they are skilled labor and therefore entitled to more money.

We’re still chuckling. Thank you so much for writing. You made our day.

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Real Estate

Houses For Sale

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1223 Primrose Street, Trail

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Bella Vista, Shavers Bench Townhomes. N/S, N/P. 2-3 bdrms. Phone 250-364-1822

Ermalinda Estates, Glenmer-ry, spacious 1-2bdrms. Adults only. Secure building w/eleva-tor. N/S, N/P. Ph.250-364-1922

E.Trail. Parkside Apartments. Spacious, quiet, clean, secure, senior oriented, large 1bdrm., Call 250-368-7897.

Francesco Estates, Glenmer-ry,spacious 1-3bdrms. Adults only (45+). Secure building w/elevator. N/S, N/P. Ph. 250-368-6761

Glenmerry, 2bd. apt. Friendly, quiet secure bldg. Heat incl.n/p,n/s.250-368-5287

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TRAIL, 1BDRM. Glenmerry. N/P. Utilities included. 250-368-1312.

TRAIL, 1bd. Ross. Ave., w/d/f/s. ns/np. $600./mo. utilities inc. 250-368-1361

WARFIELD 2bd condo totally renovated 250-362-7716

W.TRAIL, 1bd. plus, semi-en-closed balcony. 1Blk. to Down-town, $575./mo. 250-368-6076

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1358 Cedar Avenue, Trail • 250.368.8818www.kootenayhomes.com www.century21.caCheck us out on Facebook! facebook.com/KootenayHomesKootenay Homes Inc.

Mark Wilson

250-231-5591 [email protected]

Terry Alton

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shaw.ca

Tonnie Stewart

250-365-9665tonniestewart@

shaw.ca

Mary Martin

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Richard Daoust

250-368-7897richard.daoust@

century21.ca

Mary Amantea

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Bill Craig

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Dan Powell Christina Lake

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Jody Audia

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1576 Pine Avenue, Trail$139,000

Well preserved heritage home close to town and beautifully renovated!

NEW LISTING

3390 Lilac Crescent, Trail

$159,000Excellent value in this 3

bdrm, 2 bath home.

NEW LISTING

490 Austad Lane, Trail$129,000

Columbia Heights Duplex with lots of parking.

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#109-4320 Red Mountain Rd, Rossland

$329,000Ground level 3 bdrm condo in Slalom Creek building.

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2148 Monte Christo Street, Rossland

$169,000Cute and well kept

Rossland home.

NEW PRICE

44 Haig Street, Warfi eld

$127,9003bdrm, 2 bath home on a private 0.27 acre lot! This one is packed with value.

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1615 Nevada Street, Rossland

$197,000Updated and effi cient 3 bdrm Rossland home.

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Wayne DeWittcell: 250-368-1617

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Contact Our Realtors

FRUITVALEMLS#2407988 $325,000plus GST

BRAND NEW CONSTRUCTION

COLUMBIA HEIGHTSMLS#2409558 $109,900

MOVE-IN-READY

GLENMERRYMLS#2409792 $199,900

RENOVATED


REDUCED

WARFIELDMLS#2409200 $218,000

MUST SEE

WARFIELDMLS#2405262 $188,800

3 BED, 2 BATH

EAST TRAILMLS#2409916 $222,500

NEW LISTING

ANNABLEMLS#2406082 $99,000

REAL GOOD VALUE


SENIOR SPECIAL

FRUITVALEMLS#2398238 $179,900

HUGE LOT, LOTS OF ROOM

TRAIL MLS#2404270

$119,900 - $124,000

BUILD YOUR DREAM HOME

TRAILMLS#2405349 $179,900

2 HOUSES ON ONE LOT

ROSS SPURMLS#2409877 $385,000

NEW LISTING

205 10TH AVE, MONTROSEMLS#2408968 $189,900

OPEN HOUSESaturday, Jan. 23 • 10am - 12noon

3388 LAUREL CRES, GLENMERRYMLS#2409372 $179,000

OPEN HOUSESaturday, Jan. 23 • 1pm - 3pm

Friday January 29

presents live music 8 - 10 pm with “NO EXCUSE”

COVER CHARGE $5 (Bring 2 pcs of ID)

9 pm LED Light Show Extravaganza including

LED hoop, poi, staff and juggling!

Saturday January 30

Olaus’ Ice Palace live music with

“JOHN LEE’S HOOKER” and “THE WET SECRETS”

Advanced tickets recommended and

available at RossVegas.

COVER CHARGE $10 (Bring 2 pcs of ID)

OlausIce

Palace

Ice Palace Events

Friday January 29”

(Bring 2 pcs of ID)

9 pm LED Light Show Extravaganza including

ROSSLAND

WINTER CARNIVALLOCAL

Sheri Regnier photo

Celebrating Italian days was the theme this week for the community’s youngest members of the Trail and District Public Library. The little ones were captivated as they learned the story of The Princess and the Pizza. Darcee O’Hearn (left) leads the Creative ABCs! program that introduces books, vocabulary and narrative skills to children ages 3 to 5.

TASTEFUL TALE

Trail Daily Times, January 21, 2016

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