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Independent Investigations to look into police-involved shooting

CHRIS STEDILECastlegar News

Last Thursday night, at approximately 8 p.m., several members of the Castlegar RCMP and West Kootenay Traffic Services acted on a complaint re-garding an impaired driver in the Castlegar area.

The police did eventually locate the alleged im-paired driver, however, matters soon turned sour and the RCMP officer ultimately fired his service pistol at the suspect. Exact details are limited as of now, but officers have confirmed the driver was transported to hospital for treatment however did not survive his injuries. No one else was injured.

The B.C. Coroners Service said they were hoping to have more information for release by late Friday afternoon, but it was more likely that the informa-tion will come out on Monday. At press time no further information was available. Additionally, they confirmed that the deceased is not a youth.

The Independent Investigations Office of B.C. has taken over the investigation and is accompa-nied by a forensic specialist. The site has been pre-pared for their arrival.

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Mt. Polley panel delivers findingsDesign flaw led to

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C A RO LYN G R A N TBulletin Editor

The independent panel in-vestigating the Mount Polley tailings storage facility failure returned its findings Friday, January 30.

According to the Panel’s re-port: “The Panel concluded that the dominant contribu-tion to the failure resides in the design. The design did not take into account the com-plexity of the sub-glacial and pre-glacial geological envi-ronment associated with the perimeter embankment foun-dation. As a result, foundation

investigations and associated site characterization failed to identify a continuous GLU layer in the vicinity of the breach and to recognize that it was susceptible to undrained failure when subject to the stresses associated with the embankment.”

The panel determined that the strength and location of a layer of clay underneath the dam was not taken into ac-count in its original design. As a result, this layer became overstressed, causing the por-tion of the dam on top of that layer to collapse.

The report also indicated that the failure was triggered by construction of the down-stream rockfill zone at a steep slope. The Panel concluded that had the downstream

slope been flattened failure would have been avoided. The slope was in the process of being flattened to meet its ultimate design criteria at the time of the accident.

Minister of Energy Bill Bennett said the government will act immediately on key recommendations in the re-port and launch a code review to consider the other recom-mendations.

Immediate actions include the Chief Inspector of Mines requiring all operating mines with TSF dams to provide a letter by June 30, 2015, to con-firm whether foundation ma-terials similar to those at Mount Polley exist below any of their dams. This would not apply to closed facilities such as the Sullivan Mine tailings

in Kimberley, which recently passed a government-ordered inspection. You can see the entire inspection reports at www.gov.bc under Mineral Exploration and Mining, Dam Safety Inspections 2014.

All operating mines will also be required to establish independent tailings dam re-view boards.

“I am relieved to know the cause of the failure at Mount Polley and want to thank the panel for their important work. Now we can devote all of our energy to taking a lead-ership role in Canada and in-ternationally to learn from this and ensure it never hap-pens again.,” Bennett said.

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Four Selkirk students will be heading out on the experience of a lifetime from February 7th until the end of the school year as exchange students under the STS Scholarship program. Grade 12 students Bryn Oakley and Annie Bird will head to Sweden and Italy while grade 11 students Noah Ko and Tyra Joe will head to the Netherlands and France. All four students are excited to meet their homestay families, make new friends, and learn a new culture and language. In return, their families will host four student incoming students for second semester. Selkirk is excited to welcome those students and will be excited to hear about Bryn, Annie, Noah, and Tyra’s experience abroad.

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On January 30, 2015, at approximately 5:15 pm, members of Elk Val-ley and Cranbrook RCMP responded to a series of complaints on Highway 3 involving a black Honda Accord in-cluding one of a hit and run.

The driver of the Honda collided with a 2002 Toyota Camry in the Galloway area, and

fled the scene west-bound at a high rate of speed.

Cranbrook RCMP re-ceived numerous other complaints including speeds up to 160 km/hr and swerving into the oncoming traffic lane.

RCMP members were able to conduct a high risk arrest of the suspect without injury to suspect or officers

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The Ktunaxa Nation Council is inviting the public to come check out their new employ-ment and training ser-vice centre at the Ktu-naxa Nation Govern-ment building at an open house on Feb. 2.

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recently relocated from the St. Marys Band terri-tory and will be show-casing its new facility from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Monday.

“We have recently renovated our depart-ment and can now offer a range of self-serve re-sources to meet the

needs of clients who prefer to work inde-pendently on their job search,” wrote Jason An-drew, the Employment Assistance Officer, in an email.

Services offered at the employment and training service centre includes daily updated

Job Board within the Ktunaxa region as well as information for those seeking jobs in other areas, computers for ac-cess to internet-based applications and soft-ware training.

Other services in-clude a temporary job pool list for short or long

term employment as well as labour market information compiled from industry employ-ment partners.

“The Ktunaxa Nation Council Employment and Training works with both job ready clients as well as clients who are not job ready to engage

the Ktunaxa, First Na-tions and in some in-stances all Aboriginal people who reside with-in the Ktunaxa Tradi-tional Territory,” wrote Andrew. “KNC Employ-ment & Training uses an integrated approach to provide supports to cli-ents who are unem-

ployed or underem-ployed by assisting them in upgrading their skills, linking training needs to labour market demand.”

The public will be able to tour the centre, meet staff and learn about programs and have the chance to win some prizes.

Ktunaxa Nation Council hosting employment open houseThe Ktunaxa Nation’s employment and training service centre has been relocated to the Ktunaxa Nation Government building in Cranbrook.

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MarchC AROLYN GR ANT

Bulletin Editor

The BC Cancer Agency’s Screening Mammography Pro-gram will be bringing its mobile service to Kim-berley again in March.

The van will be parked at the Kimberley Health Centre from Marcy 10 to 12, 2015 and appointments are being accepted now.

Call 1-800-663-9203 to book an appoint-ment.

Climb every mountainKimberley man will climb

three mountains in three days to celebrate turning 50

C AROLYN GR ANTBulletin Editor

Turning 50 is a milestone and it’s usual-ly one of those birthdays that is marked in a special way.

Michael Meinig of Kimberley turned 50 this past November and when a couple of friends asked him how he would celebrate it, he sat down and really thought about it.

Meinig used to do a lot of climbing, be-fore family and work obligations began to take up a lot of time.

“I mulled it over,” he said. “And I thought I haven’t climbed a mountain in a long time.”

That idea grew and before he knew it,

Meinig had challenged himself to climb three mountains in three days, with each mountain dedicated to one charity.

“I’ve chosen Cranbrook Shelter, which helps women going through hard times, providing them with support and a place to stay; Children’s Wish because I have known children who have battled leuke-mia and they help to fulfill their wishes; and the Good Samaritan becasue they provide ongoing care to seniors and adults with development disabilities.”

Meinig has chosen three mountains in the Banff, Canmore area, Mt. Lady Mac-donald, Mt. Rundle and Ha Ling Peak. He chose these mountains because they are difficult but doable hikes (about 3,000 m total vertical elevation).

“I picked them mainly because of ac-cess, you can drive right to the base and then snowshoe up.”

That’s right, snowshoe. Meinig is not

waiting until summer, he hopes to do the climbs in March.

“I like snow,” he said.He has been training by snowshoeing

up North Star Mountain every morning, long before the lift starts to run.

“Don’t want to get in the way of the skiers,” he said.

Meinig’s goal is to raise $1000 for each of his designated charities. He has already surpassed that for the Children’s Wish Foundation (Mt. Rundle).

He has a number of sponsors from around town: Northstar Motors, Kootenay Mountain Works, RM Events, Kootenay Granite, Grizzly Mountain Events, Kim-berley Alpine Resort and Wolfpack Signs.

You can donate on Meinig’s website www.3for3.net. Links on the website go directly to the charity of your choice so the money goes directly to them.

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Michael Meinig plans to snowshoe up three mountains in three days to cele-brate his 50th birthday.

Meinig hanging off a mountain several years ago.

One of the peaks is the east side of Mt. Rundle near Canmore.


Kimberley Minor Hockey is getting some assistance from the City in a couple of ways.

Firstly two tourna-ments — the Kimberley Minor Hockey Novice Dynamiters tournament this coming weekend and the Kimberley Old Nitro’s Hockey Tourna-ment on February 14 and 15 — will receive 185 and 100 two for one pool passes.

Council agreed that these passes were a ges-ture of goodwill and at-tracting visitors to the Aquatic Centre was good advertising, al-though it was noted that the majority of these passes are not used when handed out.

The second gift from the City is a little larger After a plea from Coun-cillor Albert Hoglund Council voted to cover all ice time (a $4000 in-

kind value) for the up-coming Pee Wee Tier 4 championships in March.

In a memo Manager of Parks and Recreation Dave Clarke informed Council that the City had offered a 50 per cent reduction in ice fees, which had been agreed upon by Minor Hockey but Hoglund argued for a 100 per cent reduc-tion.

Hoglund argued that the economic benefit of the tournament — a once in 20 years event he said — would prove worth it.

Coun. Kent Goodwin did have some concerns about the way the pro-posal was brought for-ward as an independent grant request. The City is in the midst of trying to prepare a policy for these grant requests. However, Goodwin said he was inclined to sup-port the request.

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Kimberley City Council is once again pondering whether or not to proclaim. Many municipalities will declare a day or a week in aid of a special cause. The most recent request came from the Kimberley and District Heritage Society who want the City to proclaim February 16 as Heritage Day.

Kimberley Council had passed a motion in 2000 that they would no longer proclaim any days or weeks, the reasoning being that there were many of these requests and you had to either grant them all or say no to them all. The City at the time opted to say no.

“There are some you’d like and some you don’t,” said Coun. Albert Hoglund.

Coun. Sandra Roberts noted that the museum can promote Heritage Day in any event.

Mayor Don McCormick said this policy was something the City should discuss further.

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ATTENTION: BUILDING CONTRACTORS IN THE EAST KOOTENAY

If you are involved with the following trades in the construction industry: framing, heating/cooling, plumbing, electrical, insulation -- this is important information for you.

Building of� cials with the City of Cranbrook and the Regional District of the East Kootenay (RDEK) invite you to attend an evening forum to review the new BC Building Code changes that came into effect December 19, 2014.

These changes to be reviewed include but are not limited to:

• Change to insulation requirements

• Change to air barrier/vapour barrier details

• Change to HVAC and Service Water heating requirements

• Change to heating and air conditioning systems

• Change to radon mitigation requirements

• Change to window regulations

The Forum will take place in Cranbrook on Wednesday February 11, 2015 from 6:30pm – 8:30pm at the Manual Training School, located at 1212 2nd Street North next to the Cranbrook Public Library.

There will be a short presentation followed by an opportunity to ask questions of the local building inspectors from the City of Cranbrook and the RDEK. Light refreshments will be served.

Arne PetryshenTownsman Staff

A recent report that looks at the health of B.C. youth shows improvements when it comes to injuries and substance abuse for students in the East Kootenay region.

The report is released every two years by the McCreary Cen-tre Society.

“There’s been a steady de-cline in substance use,” said Dean Nicholson, executive di-rector at East Kootenay Addic-tion Services Society. “The num-ber of youth reporting using al-cohol has dropped. The number of youth reporting using mari-juana has dropped. And the other drugs that youth get tested for have dropped or are at such low levels that they are stable. No substance that was looked at had increased.”

The East Kootenay Addiction Services Society also does a sur-vey, and this was the first year that both surveys came out in the same year.

“McCreary and I worked to-gether on comparing our sur-veys,” Nicholson said. “It was nice to see that our results really mirrored what McCreary was seeing. Across Canada there has been a general decline in sub-stance use.”

He said it is difficult to say

whether it is just a trend that we’re going through culturally or real change.

“There’s been — certainly in the province and I think nation-ally — an attempt to shift the way substance use prevention is done — away from a fear-based scare tactic kind of thing to hav-ing it be much more about accu-rate information and discussion with the target group.”

He said engaging the target group in discussions has been positive in his experience.

“I think there’s been a ten-dency to say, especially with ad-olescents, drugs use, substance use is a problem period, without defining what do we mean by a problem and why is it a prob-lem.”

For instance, he said that if someone is coming to meet with students and their assumption is students shouldn’t be using any substances or any substance use indicates a problem, then right away it’s going to be hard for them to engage with the kids.”

He said one of the reasons for that is that the kids will recog-nize that there is substance use amongst their peers and for many of them are not experienc-ing problems.“I think we’re rec-ognizing that a more helpful goal is to honestly engage with kids about what their experience is,”

he said. “And come from a posi-tion of honest knowledge bro-kers and encouraging discus-sion.”

The study found that al-though local students were more likely than their peers across the province to have tried tobacco, alcohol or marijuana, there were local decreases in the percentag-es who had done so.

“There has been a big empha-sis on reducing tobacco use. That’s been a 20 year project or more, and we’ve seen a de-crease,” he said. “Also in B.C. we have some of the toughest drink-ing driving laws, so I think there’s been a message of safety and in some cases there are going to be harsh penalties from a legal per-spective around the safety as-pect, not necessarily around whether using is right or wrong.”

In the past year, the study found a third of students were injured seriously enough to re-quire medical attention. This percentage was higher than the rate across BC for both males (37 per cent vs. 30 per cent provin-cially) and females (29 per cent vs. 24 per cent provincially). However, this was a local de-crease, from 43 per cent in 2003 and 38 per cent in 2008.

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The regular monthly meeting of the Kimberley Nature Park Society, chaired by Kent Goodwin, was held at McKim School on Thursday January 29. A large number of items were discussed. Revisions were made to the Organized Events and Activity Screening Policy, including a proposal to increase the permitted number of large competitive events to 4 in winter, 4 in summer. A new event, a 24 hour ultramarathon was approved, after lengthy discussion, for the weekend of August 22-23; this event will draw competitors from Alberta and the USA as well as a few hardy locals.

Report shows steady decline in substance abuse in local youth

From Page 1Columbia River Revelstoke

MLA Norm Macdonald, who is also the Energy and Mines crit-ic, has several issues with the findings.

“The structure of the em-bankment at the Mount Polley tailings storage facility that failed uses the same basic ele-ments found in every earth-filled dam or retaining wall,” he said.,

“BC Hydro has structures using this technology in use at Mica, parts of Revelstoke, and WAC Bennett to name a few. The failure of those structures would be so catastrophic that their integrity supersedes all other factors.

“At Mount Polley the tailings facility was allowed by the gov-ernment to hold too much water which caused the mas-sive damage but not the retain-ing wall failure according to the report. The report says the re-taining wall was built up from the original design at too steep an angle. This design modifica-tion was allowed by the govern-

ment, as the government had allowed increased mining that produced more water and tail-ings than the original design of the retaining facility could han-dle. The water problem was first identified in 2010 but an-other arm of the government did not allow release of water for those four years.

“Just prior to the collapse of the retaining wall this August there was a belated order that the steepness of the height en-hanced retaining wall be re-duced by putting more material to reduce the slope and by ex-panding a buttress to the base of the area of the place where the retaining wall failed.

“All other parts of the wall had been buttressed but I was told by workers in Likely that there were cost factors that had prevented the buttressing and slope reduction work from being done.

“This panel said essentially at mine sites cost or economic factors can *compromise* safe-ty and that unlike BC Hydro dams the structures are not

built with a zero chance of fail-ure regime. The panel says safety of structures must come first and failure of structures must be completely unaccept-able. There remains an incredi-ble amount yet to know. The panel said visual inspections would not have helped here but it leaves a tremendous amount of the oversight of these facili-ties and the quality of compli-ance still to be understood.

“The government says they have two remaining investiga-tions going on.

“Both are the government investigating themselves and a major donor. I have seen enough of those in the past ten years to have little faith they will get to the bottom of things. For Bill Bennett and the BC Lib-erals, limiting political damage trumps the more crucial envi-ronmental and safety consider-ations. If this government and this minister put the public in-terest first, Bennett would have stepped aside months ago.”

Report says design flaw led to failure

27 per cent of East Kootenay girls and 19 per cent of boys reported a mental health condition

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TRAIL, BC - Based on 2014 financial re-sults, Kootenay Savings Board of Directors has declared a 1.25 per cent patronage and share dividend. The dividend will see $665,000 dis-tributed to the credit union’s member-owners, bringing the total dollars shared through the Member Rewards Program to $69.4 million since it was introduced in 1992.

Profit sharing dividends are calculated based on the amount of interest earned on deposits and the amount of interest paid on loans. To make the most of their share, mem-ber-owners are entitled to withdraw up to 20 per cent in cash, and can invest the remainder in an RRSP, earning them a tax credit.

“The current economic environment has created financial challenges for many, howev-er our commitment to the health of our com-munities has not wavered,” explained Presi-dent and CEO Brent Tremblay. “That we are able to once again pay a profit sharing divi-dend, which sees our profits stay here in the

Kootenays, is a testament to the devotion of our employees and the loyalty of our member-ship.”

The Member Rewards Program is just one example of Kootenay Savings community commitment. Last year alone the credit union, along with the Kootenay Savings Community Foundation, helped fund numerous commu-nity projects, programs and initiatives across the Kootenays, awarding over $383,000 in do-nations, sponsorships, grants, fundraising events and youth achievement and education awards.

“We are confident that our local ownership, local decision-making and local knowledge will help us ensure the region continues to grow and flourish,” shared Board Chair Forrest Drinnan. “Like our members, we’re dedicated to working hard to help build thriving com-munities and look forward to sharing in a prosperous and profitable future with them.”

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From page 1The suspect a

30-year-old male from Cranbrook, was brought back to Cranbrook De-tachment and he subse-quently provided sam-ples in excess of 200 mg of alcohol per 100 ml of blood, or almost three times the legal limit.

Cranbrook RCMP are proposing charges of dangerous driving, im-paired operation of a motor vehicle and fail to remain at the scene of an accident.

If anyone witnessed the suspects driving be-haviour, please call the Cranbrook RCMP.

From page 1More than one in five students

experienced a concussion in the past year (26 per cent of males vs. 17 per cent of females). Mirroring what was seen provincially, 16 per cent of youth who had a concus-sion had not accessed needed medical help.

There are concerns raised about mental health aspect.

Mental health results showed that 27 per cent of East Kootenay

girls and 19 per cent of boys report-ed a mental health condition. Those include Depression, ADHD or Anxiety Disorder. The study found that girls were also more likely than boys to have deliberate-ly harmed themselves in the past year, and to have seriously thought about and attempted suicide.

A copy of the report “Easy Koo-tenay: Results of the 2013 BC Ado-lescent Health Survey” can be ob-tained at www.mcs.bc.ca.

ArrestReport shows steady decline in substance abuse in local youth;

mental health concerns

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2015

The tailings dam at the Mount Polley mine was “doomed to fail” and the remedies that could have prevented

the reckoning were undertaken “too little and too late.”

Such was the depressing, persuasive con-clusion of the trio of experts appointed to review last Au-gust’s breach of the dam — an environmental catastro-phe that need not have hap-pened at all.

The root cause of the failure, they determined, was literally at the root of the dam: an underlying deposit of glacial till that was never fully mapped nor properly understood. We only know about it now be-cause of the forensic engineering work that was part of their review.

But if that were the whole story, their re-port would not be as troubling as it is. For authors Norbert Morgenstern, Dirk van Zyl and Steven Vick — all experts in engineering — painted a far from flattering portrait of the Mount Polley operation and the constant raising of the dam that preceded the breach.

“Dam-raising proceeded incrementally, one year at a time, driven by impoundment storage requirements for only the next year ahead,” they write. “More reactive than antic-ipatory, there was little in the way of long-term planning or execution.”

Those requirements were dictated not only by the volume of waste rock but the need to store the vast amount of water used to pro-cess the ore. Moreover, the storage demands began to put pressure on the design of the dam itself.

“The design was caught between the ris-ing water and the mine plan, between the imperative of raising the dam and the scarcity of materials for building it. Something had to give and the result was over-steepened dam slopes, deferred buttressing, and the seeming-ly ad hoc nature of dam expansion that so often ended up constructing something dif-

ferent from what had originally been de-signed.”

Something had to give and something did.The report details a “tortuous, incremen-

tal” process that eventually produced an em-bankment, almost 40 metres high, with no supporting buttress and a steep slope of the

kind “reserved exclusively for rock fill dams on solid rock foundations.”

Except the foundation for that section of the dam, far from being solid rock, was a kind of glacial till that would firmly support the growing

weight of the dam until the moment it didn’t. As happened shortly after 1 a.m. last Aug. 4.

In a what-if coda, the report details how an engineering plan, submitted just eight days before the dam failure, would have added a supporting buttress in the middle of the sec-tion that breached. “Had it been in place, the failure would have been averted,” they write. “The final, fateful instance of too little, too late.”

Not all of the shortcomings identified in the report contributed directly to the failure. Still, the experts were dismayed about the adoption of “design criteria that left little mar-gin for error” and safety standards that “made it harder to gauge just how closely dam rais-ing was approaching the edge of the cliff.”

More site visits by government inspectors wouldn’t have helped because the flaw was under the base of the dam, detectable only by the kind of engineering work brought to bear by the review panel: “By definition, no amount of inspection can uncover a hidden flaw.”

But the panel did recommend best prac-tices to reduce the risk in future, starting with an in-depth examination of other tailings dams to see if there are any heretofore unde-tected flaws lurking in their foundations.

The government accepted that recom-mendation, along with a call for third-party reviews of tailings dams, and a full-blown re-view of construction guidelines, including

key considerations like steepness of slopes.The most controversial recommendation

was also the one that would change the indus-try the most, arising as it did from a concern about the amount of water that was allowed to build up behind the Mount Polley dam.

In the four years leading up to the failure, there was a 10-fold increase in the amount of water impounded with the tailings. The water didn’t cause the breach but ensured that when it happened, the volume of material spilled was greater and travelled further than if the dam impounded tailings alone.

Hence their call for the province to phase out storing water and tailings together behind dams. “Only this can provide the kind of fail-safe redundancy that prevents releases no matter what,” they wrote.

Options include separate treatment and filtration of water, draining and compacting of tailings, and dry storage below ground. They cited the filtered tailings technology adopted by the Greens Creek silver mine in the Alaska panhandle.

For those who might decry that option as more costly, the report says: “Cost estimates for conventional tailings dams do not include the risk costs, either direct or indirect, with failure potential.” Point taken, given that the tab for the Mount Polley cleanup has been estimated at $200 million.

Based on current statistics, the report says the province can expect two tailings dam failures every 10 years, six every 30 years.

“The panel does not accept the concept of a tolerable failure rate for tailings dams. To do so, no matter how small, would institutional-ize failure,” they wrote, building toward the most powerful observation in their report.

“First Nations will not accept this, the public will not permit it, government will not allow it, and the mining industry will not survive it.”

Enough said. Get on with it.

Vaughn Palmer is a columnist with the Vancouver Sun

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Letters to the editorColumbia river treatyTom Fletcher’s article on the Columbia

River Treaty, “U.S. Ripping off Canada on Water,” is a wakeup call; however Mr. Fletcher did not mention Forestry. Mog, a retired forester quickly pointed out BC’s biggest loss was forestry and jobs, along with other huge losses identified by Mr. Fletcher.

Regarding the last words in the article “Your move Uncle Sam”; Uncle Sam has the goose that laid the golden egg and the golden egg — why would he move? The US installed six power generators in the Grand Coulee Dam alone as soon as the treaty was signed.

In six years the US paid Canada:• 2007-2008 — 246 million• 2008-2009 — 231 million• 2009-2010 — 168 million• 2010-2011 — 136 million• 2011-2012 — 110 million• 2012-2013 — 89 millionNow is the US producing 1/3 the power?

How about flood control and other bene-fits they receive? Prior to the treaty, flood-ing occurred annually from the Canadian border to the Pacific Ocean in the US. Flooding in Canada was miniscule in com-parison. For example: Calgary flood dam-age was 6 ∏ billion and still counting, yet BC received only 89 million in 2012-2013. Flood damage savings in the US would be

astronomical some years plus all the other benefits resulting from stable water levels.

What should BC do?1. Notify the US we are terminating the

agreement immediately and willing to re-negotiate.

2. Christie Clark should appoint a nego-tiating team responsible for the treaty only ? hopefully a Danny Williams would be in charge. The treaty is the most important issue facing our province.

3. Negotiate annual set payments. Al-lowing the US to reduce payments the past six years speaks for itself.

If an agreement is not reached notify the US that not one foot of Canadian soil is to be flooded when the time is up. An ex-ample is the Libby Dam. Three Marinas should be compensated for losses as per taxes paid. Also release all water not re-quired by BC Hydro keeping flood control commitments. Get the water control valves back to Canada.

As stated earlier: It’s time to wake up.

M. ScodellaroCranbrook

Canada’s recent warsI was very surprised at Mr. Stetski’s re-

cent letter regarding Canada and the world. He obviously has a poor memory or perhaps just a convenient one.

He mentions “Mr. Harper’s wars”. Let’s take a look at this for a second.

In 1999, Mr. Chretien’s Liberal govern-ment committed us to participating in a bombing campaign against Serbia over the Kosovo situation. This involved 18 CF18 fighter/bombers and the Armed Forces were especially proud that they had done 10 per cent of the allied bombing missions.

Now let’s look at Afghanistan (the big one). Mr. Chretien’s Liberal government first committed our troops there in 2002 and two years later committed them to the full combat role.

Whose wars, Mr. Stetski?Perhaps he is thinking of our present

role in Iraq. This involves six CF18 fighter/bombers and a handful of ground advisers.

In my fairly long life I have never felt the evil that this group who is overrunning that part of our world represents.

Maybe we should be increasing our in-volvement.

Incidentally, less than three months ago, we returned from a trip to Europe. We proudly wore our maple leaf pins and were treated just as warmly as when we first went years ago.

I would think someone of Mr. Stetski’s stature would be better informed, wouldn’t you?

Neil MathesonCranbrook

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‘The real level’Dominant Draisaitl, Kelowna Rockets soar over Ice

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Kootenay Ice captain Sam Reinhart (right) battles with Kelowna Rockets star Leon Draisaitl (left) Saturday night. Draisaitl tallied a goal and an assist to fuel the Rockets to a 5-1 victory.

Taylor rocc aSports Editor

Fuelled by Leon Draisaitl, the Kelowna Rockets put on a display of speed and skill, show-ing why they’re the most dominating team in the Western Hockey League with a 5-1 triumph over the Kootenay Ice Satur-day night.

“They’re a really good team. They’re the best team in the league and one of the best teams in the CHL,” said Kootenay Ice forward Tim Bozon Saturday night. “That’s major ju-nior hockey. That’s the WHL. That’s the real level. Lots of guys on our team were not ready for that.

“No excuses. They came right away and we were not ready because we don’t move our feet. We were scared with the puck.”

The Rockets came out flying to start the game.

Rourke Chartier, the WHL’s leading goal-scorer, ignited a four-goal opening peri-od for Kelowna with his 41st goal in his 44th game of the campaign.

Chartier’s tally came on a two-on-one, short-handed break. The San Jose Sharks prospect took a pass from 20-year-old Tyrell Goul-bourne before deposit-ing it past a helpless Wyatt Hoflin.

From there, it was Leon Draisaitl’s turn to shine as the third-over-all selection of the Ed-monton Oilers shed light on why his pro club saw fit to keep him in northern Alberta for 37

games to start the sea-son.

Using his 6-foot-1, 210-pound frame to his advantage, the native of Cologne, Germany, set up Cole Martin’s game-winning goal in

the first period, before providing the only nec-essary insurance mark-er a couple shifts later.

“It popped out to the blue-line and Riley Sta-del made a nice play,” Draisaitl said, recount-ing his seventh goal of the season. “He passed it to me in front, I was by myself and just kind of put it in. It was a really nice play by Stadz.”

Draisaitl made a cou-ple subtle moves with the puck before sliding it under Hoflin, who was once again left to fend for himself.

That made it 3-0 for the visitors 12:41 into the first period. By the time the opening 20 minutes were through, Gage Quinney added another for the Rockets.

Tyler King sent a late power-play tally past Kelowna keeper Jackson

Whistle to get the Ice on the board, but the hosts still trailed 4-1 at the first break.

“We just have four lines that can roll,” Drai-saitl said. “We can play with four lines and we shouldn’t be scared to get scored on. We have four lines that can score at the same time, at the same level. Our depth is really good.”

Dillon Dube potted the final goal of the night late in the second period to make it 5-1 for the Rockets.

Hoflin made 24 stops for the Ice, while Whis-tle made 25 saves at the other end to earn his 30th victory of the sea-son.

Draisaitl’s two-point performance earned him the first-star selec-tion.

With seven goals and 17 points through 11 games since being re-turned to the Western Hockey League from the NHL’s Edmonton Oilers, Draisaitl is showing lit-tle indication of feeling out of place, though he admitted the game isn’t quite what he had be-come accustomed to at the NHL level.

“It’s a different game,” Draisaitl said. “It took me a little while to get adjusted to it.

“The challenge is night in and night out, to still play my game even though I have two guys on me all over the ice wherever I go. I’m basically getting shad-owed a lot of the time.”

The Oilers returned their 2014 first-round draft choice to the WHL and the Prince Albert Raiders Jan. 4, after which he was promptly dealt to the Kelowna Rockets Jan. 6 in ex-change for forward Kris Schmidli, defenceman Dalton Yorke and three WHL Bantam Draft picks.

“We talked and there’s obviously lots of things I have to do bet-ter -- skating, ‘D’ zone and just my overall skill,” Draisaitl said of his con-versations with Oilers brass before joining the Rockets. “Just try to be as complete of a player as I possibly can.

“Even though you get shadowed, or guys are

on you all the time, I’m just trying to keep play-ing my game and not get frustrated.”

As long as Draisaitl and his new team con-tinue to succeed -- the Rockets are the WHL’s top club at 39-8-3-1 -- there will be little for the dominant Deutschland dangler to be frustrated about.

Despite Saturday’s setback, the Ice did manage to get two points Friday night in a 4-3 overtime victory against the Regina Pats, even though they took the hard road to get there.

The win was the 700th in Kootenay Ice franchise history, dating all the way back to the 1996-97 season when the franchise was locat-ed in Edmonton.

After opening up a 3-0 advantage on the Pats in the second peri-od, the Ice allowed the visitors to score three consecutive goals, in-cluding two in a span of 31 seconds in the third period, forcing over-time.

“It shows we have good character,” said Kootenay Ice forward Matt Alfaro Friday night. “We’re willing to fight back even though we blew a lead like that. It’s a good challenge for the team and it’s a good team win.”

The good team win required overtime to come to fruition, with defenceman Rinat Va-liev playing the role of hero.

“I just go to the net. Sam [Reinhart] shoot

and I tipped it,” Valiev said Friday night. “There was rebound for me and I’m lucky to score.”

After facing the Rock-ets, Valiev and the Ice don’t get a break from the cream of the crop in the WHL as the Bran-don Wheat Kings -- the top club in the Eastern Conference at 37-9-3-2 -- visit Western Finan-cial Place for back-to-back games Friday and Saturday (Feb. 6 and 7).

“It’s going to be ex-

actly the same thing against Brandon,” Bozon said. “They play fast and physical. Our young guys have to wake up and everybody else, too. The veterans have to lead the way.

“This is the WHL. This is the real level. Brandon is the real level. Lots of guys were maybe surprised by the level [Saturday against the Kelowna Rockets]. But it’s the end of January, early February -- we’re

coming close to the playoffs. Everybody is fighting playoff spots. This is the real level.”

Notes: The Kootenay Ice skated with seven defencemen and 11 for-wards Saturday night as D Tanner Lishchynsky (ill), F Jon Martin (un-disclosed), F Austin Wellsby and D Tanner Faith (shoulder, four to six months) were out of the lineup…Ice F Sam Reinhart had a 10-game point streak snapped...

Kootenay Ice Scoring SummariesFrIday, Jan. 30

regIna PatS 3 at Kootenay Ice 4 (ot)

First Period - No scoringSecond Period 1. KTN - M. Alfaro, (7) (T. King, J. Descheneau), 15:192. KTN - S. Reinhart, (12) (T. Murray, C. Fleury), 15:583. KTN - A. Vetterl, (8) (T. King, M. Alfaro), 17:44 (PP)4. REG - B. Christoffer, (16) (C. Hobbs), 18:51Third Period 5. REG - A. Wagner, (14) (C. Hobbs, B. Christoffer), 13:306. REG - P. Padakin, (16) (S. Steel, T. Cooper), 14:01Overtime7. KTN - R. Valiev, (7) (S. Reinhart, L. Philp), 3:27Shots 1 2 3 OT TRegina Pats 7 6 14 0 27Kootenay Ice 10 17 13 3 43Goaltenders Saves Mins SV%REG - Daniel Wapple 39/43 63:27 0.907KTN - Wyatt Hoflin 24/27 63:27 0.889Power playsRegina Pats 0/1 (00.0%)Kootenay Ice 1/2 (50.0%)Three Stars: 1) L. Philp (KTN); 2) B. Christoffer (REG); 3) M. Alfaro (KTN)Attendance: 2,152

Saturday, Jan. 31

Kelowna rocKetS 5 at Kootenay Ice 1

First Period 1. KEL - R. Chartier, (41) (T. Goulbourne), 5:22 (SH)2. KEL - C. Martin, (3) (L. Draisaitl, J. Morrissey), 9:133. KEL - L. Draisaitl, (7) (R. Stadel, J. Kirkland), 12:414. KEL - G. Quinney, (13) (R. Stadel, T. Baillie), 15:165. KTN - T. King, (8) (V. Loschiavo, L. Cable), 19:50 (PP)Second Period 6. KEL - D. Dube, (11) (T. Baillie), 17:20Third Period - No scoringShots 1 2 3 TKelowna Rockets 11 8 10 29Kootenay Ice 9 5 12 26

Goaltenders Saves Mins SV%KEL - Jackson Whistle 25/26 60:00 0.962KTN - Wyatt Hoflin 24/29 60:00 0.828Power playsKelowna Rockets 0/2 (00.0%)Kootenay Ice 1/5 (20.0%)Three Stars: 1) L. Draisaitl (KEL); 2) M. Bowey (KEL); 3) J. Descheneau (KTN)Attendance: 2,505

Upcoming GamesFeb. 6 vs. BrandonFeb. 7 vs. BrandonFeb. 11 vs. Medicine HatFeb. 13 vs. Moose JawFeb. 15 vs. SaskatoonFeb. 17 at LethbridgeFeb. 20 vs. Edmonton

Scoring StatisticsPlayer GP G A PTS PIM Jaedon Descheneau 50 24 35 59 50 Luke Philp 51 22 35 57 14Tim Bozon 37 20 23 43 10Sam Reinhart 27 12 29 41 16Levi Cable 49 22 17 39 6Zak Zborosky 52 15 17 32 14Rinat Valiev 33 7 25 32 35Tyler King 48 8 18 26 27Matt Alfaro 52 7 16 23 24Austin Vetterl 52 8 13 21 50Jon Martin 36 6 12 18 60Troy Murray 52 2 12 14 20Ryan Chynoweth 52 4 8 12 30Cale Fleury 51 1 10 11 4River Beattie 46 4 3 7 29Bryan Allbee 43 3 4 7 12Tanner Lishchynsky 15 0 7 7 6Vince Loschiavo 40 3 3 6 8Tanner Faith 19 1 5 6 29Lenny Hackman 42 1 2 3 0Dylan Overdyk 28 0 3 3 11Wyatt Hoflin 48 0 2 2 2Austin Wellsby 32 1 0 1 9

Goaltending StatisticsPlayer W L OT/SL SO GAA SPWyatt Hoflin 26 20 1 2 3.31 0.898 Keelan Williams 1 4 0 0 5.11 0.854

“They’re the best team in the league and one of the best teams in the CHL.

That’s major junior hockey. That’s the

WHL. That’s the real level. Lots of guys on

our team were not ready for that.”

Tim Bozon of the Kootenay Ice


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Buried by BearcatsTaylor rocca PhoTo

Avalanche outsider hitter Curtis Stockton (#12) gets airborne before unleashing a blast on the Columbia Bible College Bearcats Saturday afternoon. Stockton and the Avs went on to lose to the Bearcats in straight sets on Saturday. Including a five-sets loss Friday, the Avalanche have lost seven consecutive matches.

As for the Lady Avs, they cruised to a pair of straight-sets sweeps of the Bearcats to improve to 9-9 on the season. Get the full story in Wednesday’s Townsman.

Patriots crowned world champions

Tom Brady leads New England to Super Bowl title

Howard UlmanAssociated Press

GLENDALE, Ariz. - Another big comeback for the New England Pa-triots. And, finally, an-other championship.

A superstar quarter-back who attacks adver-sity like an overmatched cornerback erased a 10-point deficit. Then an undrafted rookie from an unheralded school preserved it with an in-terception in the end zone with 20 seconds left.

That unlikely duo of Tom Brady and Mal-colm Butler made the biggest plays in the final minutes of the season, and the Patriots de-throned the Seattle Sea-hawks with a 28-24 win in the Super Bowl on Sunday night, New En-gland’s first champion-ship in a decade.

“Every team has a journey and a lot of peo-ple lost faith in us early,” Brady said after winning his third Super Bowl MVP award, “but we held strong, we held to-gether and it’s a great feeling.”

The doubters emerged when the Pa-triots fell to 2-2 with a 41-14 loss at Kansas City. Then they won their next seven games.

Fans despaired when they trailed the Balti-more Ravens in the AFC divisional game then be-came the first team in

NFL playoff history to overcome two 14-point deficits. They won 35-31.

But no one gave up on the Patriots sideline after the Seahawks scored on four consecu-tive possessions to take a 24-14 lead with just under five minutes left in the third quarter.

“We never lost faith. We never stopped be-lieving,” defensive tackle Vince Wilfork said.

The 11-year veteran who clogs the middle won his first title since his rookie season in 2004. That was the Patri-ots’ third championship in four years.

But in the next nine seasons, they lost their only two Super Bowl ap-pearances, both to the New York Giants and both on come-from-be-hind touchdowns in the final minutes.

“We’ve been on the other end of this twice now,” Brady said, “being ahead late and not being able to make the plays to win. And, this time, we made the plays to win. Just awesome.”

Butler is new to all this, a lightly regarded cornerback from West Alabama who played in 11 regular-season games with no interceptions. But like the Patriots, he overcame adversity.

“I always said that I could play in this league,” Butler said. “It doesn’t matter where you come from. It’s what you do

when you get here.”He fits in. Brady was

drafted in the sixth round. Wide receiver Ju-lian Edelman was taken in the seventh. Running back LeGarrette Blount started as an undrafted rookie.

“There’s a lot of guys that have their stories on this team,” Edelman said. “I guess we’re just a team of misfits.”

When it counted most, the fit was just fine.

Brady’s 4-yard touch-down pass to Danny Amendola cut the lead to 24-21 with 7:55 left in the game. Then Brady completed all eight of his passes on the win-ning drive, capped by a 3-yarder to Edelman with 2:02 remaining.

Then the Seahawks drove to a second-and-goal at the Patriots 1. But rather than hand the ball to Marshawn Lynch, who rushed for 102 yards and one touchdown, Russell Wil-son threw toward Ricar-do Lockette, cutting in from the right. Butler picked off the pass.

“I knew it was going to happen,” Butler said. “I didn’t know how I knew, but I knew.”

Maybe it’s because the Patriots never give up, no matter how bleak the outlook.

“As long as we have (Brady) on our team,” Blount said, “we have a chance.”

Terrific Tom Brady named Super Bowl MVPHoward FendricH

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GLENDALE, Ariz. - As a kid, years before he became a pretty good quarterback in his own right, Tom Brady idol-ized Joe Montana.

Now, at age 37, Brady owns just as many Super Bowl championships - and just as many Super Bowl MVP awards - as the Pro Football Hall of Famer.

And no QB in history has more.

Brady completed 37 of 50 passes for 328 yards with four touch-down passes, each to a different receiver, in-

cluding an 8-for-8, 65-yard bit of perfection on the drive that led to the go-ahead score with about 2 minutes left Sunday night. That per-formance, and a victo-ry-clinching intercep-tion by rookie corner-back Malcolm Butler, lifted the New England Patriots to a 28-24 comeback victory over the defending champi-on Seattle Seahawks in a Super Bowl with a slow start and a “Whoa!” fin-ish.

This was not Brady at his best throughout. He threw two interceptions, including one deep in Seattle territory in the

first quarter, and anoth-er in the third that led to points for the Seahawks.

That’s part of why the Patriots trailed 24-14 in the fourth quarter, be-fore Brady got the come-back going.

“It wasn’t the way we drew it up. Certainly, throwing a couple of picks didn’t help,” said Brady, who broke Pey-ton Manning’s Super Bowl record of 34 com-pletions set last year. “It was a lot of mental toughness. Our team has had it all year. We never doubted each other, so that’s what it took. That was a great football team we beat.

I’m just so happy for our team.”

And to think, back in late September, folks were writing off Brady, saying his best days were long behind him, especially right after a 41-14 loss at Kansas City that dropped the Patri-ots to 2-2.

“Every team has a journey,” Brady said Sunday, “and a lot of people lost faith in us early. But we held strong. We held together.”

Decades ago, sitting in his family’s sea-son-ticket seats at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park while growing up, Brady would wear a No.

16 jersey, just like Mon-tana, and cheer for his favourite player’s team.

Brady did a fairly good impression of Joe Cool against Seattle.

He connected with Danny Amendola for a 4-yard touchdown with about 8 minutes left. That gave Brady 12 TD passes in Super Bowls, breaking Montana’s mark. Then, with 2:02 to go, Brady hit Julian Edelman from 3 yards for TD toss No. 13 in Super Bowls - and, more importantly, the lead.

“Tom’s the best ever,” Edelman said.

Brady turned to New England’s sideline,

pointed, then raised his right fist, his white jer-sey stained green from the turf.

Only after Butler grabbed Russell Wilson’s pass from the 1-yard line in the final half-minute could Brady really begin to celebrate, leaping up and down on the side-line and embracing coach Bill Belichick.

Now Brady, Montana and Terry Bradshaw of the Pittsburgh Steelers are the only starting quarterbacks to earn four Super Bowl rings.

At the outset of Brady’s career after being a sixth-round draft pick, he and Beli-

chick combined to win three championships in a four-year span, in the 2002, 2004 and 2005 Super Bowls. Brady was the MVP in the first two of those.

But Sunday’s victory ended a decade title drought, after losses in the big games in 2008 and 2012, both times against the New York Gi-ants.

“Well, it’s been a long journey. I’ve been at it for 15 years and we’ve had a couple of tough losses in this game,” Brady said. “This one came down to the end, and this time, we made the plays.”

Seattle DB Lane leaves with injury; replacement tagged for two TDsBoB BaUm

Associated Press

GLENDALE, Ariz. - Long before the miracle catch, improbable inter-ception and the rest of what made this a wild Super Bowl, Seattle cor-nerback Jeremy Lane made a big play, then

went down with a grue-some arm injury.

It would turn out to be an injury that had a devastating effect on the Seahawks in their 28-24 loss to New England.

The Patriots immedi-ately went after Lane’s replacement, Tharold Simon, and beat him

again and again and again.

Two of Tom Brady’s touchdowns were thrown to receivers that were being defended by Simon - to Brandon LaFell and Julian Edel-man

Lane’s first career in-terception came in the

end zone to halt a first-quarter Patriots scoring threat.

As he returned the pick, he fell awkwardly on his arm as he was knocked out of bounds, bending it at an angle that is hard to watch on replays.

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January 23, 2015 BACKGROUNDER

Truth about the Harvest Allocation Policy There is significant misinformation about the way wildlife is managed in British Columbia (BC). This backgrounder attempts to clear up the incorrect information and provide an explanation of the way wildlife is managed in the province. The Ministry’s decision on December 10, 2014 was the result of 10 years of exhaustive discussions between the BC Wildlife Federation (BCWF), the Guide Outfitters Association of British Columbia (GOABC), and the provincial government. Including talks with a neutral facilitator to help resolve this longstanding dispute. The Ministry made a balanced decision and neither party was completely satisfied. However, it is an improvement on the previous policy and provides increased certainty for allocated species. Putting this decision into legislation will finally close this matter. How do other jurisdictions allocate hunting opportunity between residents and non-residents? Wildlife managers use a variety of tools to manage and allocate the harvest of big game animals. These tools include laws, regulations, licences, tags, and lottery systems. Most jurisdictions allocate hunting opportunity

Sheep Skeena Residents 64% 66 91% Guides 36% 7 9%

Grizzly bear Kootenay Residents 74% 320 97% Guides 26% 11 3%

Grizzly bear Peace Residents 64% 378 91% Guides 36% 39 9%

This decision will provide “…non-resident hunters the best deal in North America” Some jurisdictions have a lower percentage of tag sales to non-residents than BC, while some have higher. In BC, the average share for the guide outfitting industry is 12% - consistent with neighbouring jurisdictions.

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January 23, 2015 BACKGROUNDER

Truth about the Harvest Allocation Policy There is significant misinformation about the way wildlife is managed in British Columbia (BC). This backgrounder attempts to clear up the incorrect information and provide an explanation of the way wildlife is managed in the province. The Ministry’s decision on December 10, 2014 was the result of 10 years of exhaustive discussions between the BC Wildlife Federation (BCWF), the Guide Outfitters Association of British Columbia (GOABC), and the provincial government. Including talks with a neutral facilitator to help resolve this longstanding dispute. The Ministry made a balanced decision and neither party was completely satisfied. However, it is an improvement on the previous policy and provides increased certainty for allocated species. Putting this decision into legislation will finally close this matter. How do other jurisdictions allocate hunting opportunity between residents and non-residents? Wildlife managers use a variety of tools to manage and allocate the harvest of big game animals. These tools include laws, regulations, licences, tags, and lottery systems. Most jurisdictions allocate hunting opportunity based on the available species tags for residents and non-residents. These are examples of the true splits of allocated hunts in BC:

SPECIES REGION GROUP ALLOCATION TAGS ISSUED TAGS-TO-TAGS Moose Omineca Residents 80% 2,902 88% Guides 20% 382 12%

Moose Skeena Residents 75% 1222 80% Guides 25% 300 20%

Moose Cariboo Residents 77% 2,447 98% Guides 23% 155 2%

Moose Kootenay Residents 81% 537 92% Guides 19% 44 8%

Roosevelt elk Island Residents 87% 175 93% Guides 13% 14 7%

Goat Thompson Residents 71% 165 92% Guides 29% 15 8%

Sheep Skeena Residents 64% 66 91%

This decision will provide “…non-resident hunters the best deal in North America” Some jurisdictions have a lower percentage of tag sales to non-residents than BC, while some have higher. In BC, the average share for the guide outfitting industry is 12% - consistent with neighbouring jurisdictions.

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There is significant misinformation about the way wildlife is managed in British Columbia (BC). This backgrounder attempts to clear up the incorrect infor-mation and provide an explanation of the way wildlife is managed in the province.

The Government’s decision on December 10, 2014 was the result of 10 years of exhaustive discussions between the BC Wildlife Federation, the Guide Outfitters Association of British Co-lumbia (GOABC), and the provincial government. Including talks with a neutral facilitator to help resolve this longstanding dispute. The Ministry made a balanced decision and neither party was satisfied. If the government is considering changing their decision based misinformation and a few radicals that want to destroy the guide outfitting industry, we will be extremely disappointed.

How do other jurisdictions allocate hunting opportunity between residents and non-residents?Wildlife managers use a variety of tools to manage and allocate the harvest of big game animals. These tools include laws, regulations, licences, tags, and lottery systems. Most jurisdictions allocate hunting opportunity based on the available species tags for residents and non-residents. These are examples of the true splits of allocated hunts in BC:

This decision will provide “…non-res-ident hunters the best deal in North America”FALSE. Some jurisdictions have a lower percentage of tag sales to non-residents than BC, while some have higher. In BC, the average share for the guide outfitting industry is 12% - consistent with neighbouring jurisdictions.

Have hunting opportunities for the

resident recreational hunters been reduced?NO. Overall the new Harvest Alloca-tion Policy provides significant increased opportunity for resident recreational hunters. Most hunts in BC are managed through general open season, tags pur-chased over-the-counter. This decision has no effect on these hunts.

This decision will result in “…5,000 fewer hunting licence sales for BC residents” FALSE. Most of the species tags are sold over-the-counter. Last year the top 5 tags were:

1. Mule deer – 81,596 tags (over-the-counter purchase) 2. Whitetail deer – 52,346 tags (over-the-counter purchase) 3. Moose – 39,049 tags (draw and over-the-counter purchase) 4. Elk – 24,748 tags (over-the-counter purchase) 5. Black bear – 21,836 tags (over-the-counter purchase)

“…the Wildlife Harvest Allocation Policy which gives a larger share of hunting permits to BC guide outfitters and a smaller share of hunting permits to BC resident hunters”FALSE. Resident recreational hunters have approximately 88% of the opportu-nity for allocated hunts, in addition to the general open season opportunity - tags purchased over-the-counter. These hunts are not affected by the Harvest Allocation Policy.

“Foreign hunters have decreased, while the resident hunters have increased”TRUE. With the implementation of this new Harvest Allocation Policy in 2007 (and other economic factors) the number of non-resident licence sales has

decreased from 6,387 in 2005/2006 to 4,491 in 2013/2014. Over the same period, the resident hunting licences have increased from 85,633 to 102,113. The abolishment of the Long Gun Registry and the Hunter Recruitment and Retention Strategy are working to increase resident recreational hunters. Unfortu-nately, this increase in resident recreation-al hunters has put additional strain on an old draw system and is the cause of much frustration.

“Foreign hunters do not spend money in rural communities”FALSE. Guide outfitting is the founder of the tourism industry in BC and an important contributor to rural econo-mies. The guide outfitting industry brings $120 million of new money each year to the province. The average guided client spends $27,000 on their hunting

expedition – very high value; low volume tourists. Almost all of this revenue is spent in BC on labour, improvements, infrastructure, equipment, supplies, services, and taxes. ‘New money’ benefits all British Columbians including the non-hunting public.

“Why did the GOABC not want to fully implement the policy they agreed to in 2007?” The GOABC supported the intent and guiding principles of the new Harvest Al-location Policy. As the financial impacts became apparent, the GOABC asked for an independent impact assessment. Economists and other experts confirmed that the loss of flexibility (success rates, regional allocation, and access to vacant areas) created significant unintended financial impacts to the industry. While there is some relief in the December 10,

2014 decision, the GOABC expects the policy will still negatively impact the industry $3-4 million per year.

Government estimates this decision will be a change of 110 animals to the guides. Will this save the guide outfitting industry?NO. Over the past 10 years we are down about 30% from the new Harvest Allocation Policy and the small increase from the December decision of 3.5% will provide little relief for our members. There are many small family businesses that will still have significant financial hardship because of the new Harvest Allocation Policy.

We will be extremely disappointed if gov-ernment is considering changes to their December decision based on misinforma-tion and a few radical views.

The truth. The facts.The Truth about the Harvest Allocation Policy

SPECIES REGION GROUP ALLOCATION TAGS ISSUED TAGS-TO-TAGS

Moose Omineca Residents 80% 2,902 88%

Guides 20% 382 12%

Moose Skeena Residents 75% 1222 80%

Guides 25% 300 20%

Moose Cariboo Residents 77% 2,447 98%

Guides 23% 155 2%

Moose Kootenay Residents 81% 537 92%

Guides 19% 44 8%

Roosevelt elk Island Residents 87% 175 93%

Guides 13% 14 7%

Goat Thompson Residents 71% 165 92%

Guides 29% 15 8%

Grizzly bear Omineca Residents 64% 1529 98%

Guides 36% 26 2%

Grizzly bear Kootenay Residents 74% 320 97%

Guides 26% 11 3%

Grizzly bear Peace Residents 64% 378 91%

Guides 36% 39 9%


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“Since we released our wholesale pricing model in November, we’ve heard concerns from the industry about the pricing structure for wines over $20 a bottle,” Justice Minister Su-zanne Anton said Fri-day. “We are reducing the mark-up for this cat-egory – levelling out the wholesale price for wines that would have been impacted.”

A major concern for wine stores and B.C. restaurants was the change to the province’s wholesale pricing for-mula for wine that ends the discount advantage

for independent wine stores.

It meant little change or even cheaper prices for wines that now cost $15 and under. But the final retail price of prici-er bottles was expected to rise sharply starting in April, in both private and government stores, and in restaurants.

B.C. Restaurant and Foodservice Association president Ian Tostenson said restaurants must pay retail prices and usually charge their pa-trons double, so the price of a premium bot-tle when having dinner out would have jumped 10 to 20 per cent.

The change to a sin-gle wholesale price for every product takes ef-fect April 1, the same date B.C. is permitting

private or government liquor sales in separated spaces inside grocery stores. Another change to allow only B.C. wines to be sold directly from grocery shelves has at-tracted a U.S. challenge under the North Ameri-can Free Trade Agree-ment.

Currently the Liquor Distribution Branch, the government monopoly wholesaler, sells prod-ucts to government stores at cost and sets a minimum price for all retailers. The wholesale price for private retail stores is 16 per cent less than the government re-tail price, rural agency stores pay 12 per cent less, and stores that sell only B.C. wine get a 30 per cent discount.fletch-er_new_win_tax

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Wineries and restaurants pushed back on the plan to increase the tax rate on wines retailing for $20 a bottle or more.

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Street corners were crammed and side-walks spilled over with hunters who travelled from across B.C. to pro-test outside Premier Christy Clark’s office in West Kelowna against new quotas they say will choke their access to hunting permits.

An estimated 1,200 adults and children, some dressed in cam-ouflage, marched through downtown West Kelowna on Satur-day in a peaceful call to arms against a pro-posed reallocation that gives a larger share of permits to guiding out-fitters and their foreign clients.

“People are fired up. I have never seen hunt-ers this worked up about an issue ever,” said Sean Richardson, president of the Oceola Fish and Game Club in Lake Country. “We know that if ... we lose this allocation battle, the next thing that’s going to change is regu-lation.

“We’re digging in.”The B.C. Wildlife

Federation predicts the changes to B.C.’s har-vest-allocation policy could eliminate 5,000 hunting permits for provincial residents.

The changes estab-lish fixed proportions for category A game

species, allocating visit-ing hunters 40 per cent of the annual allowable harvest of grizzly bears, up to 25 per cent of the allowable moose har-vest and 35 per cent of the allowable mountain goat harvest.

The policy gives more permits to for-eigners than ever. Yet resident hunters out-number the foreign hunters by 102,000 to 4,500 based on last year’s license sales, said Richardson, who helped organize the rally.

Brook Mudrie, a fa-ther of two in Vernon, says wildlife needs to be protected.

“I don’t want to see foreign trophy hunters come in here and pay a fee to take a head, in-stead of a B.C. family who feeds their family off these animals. It’s ri-diculous.”

Forests Minister Steve Thomson, MLA for Kelowna-Mission, argues the current allo-cation policy has caused some guides to lose business.

The changes allow them new opportuni-ties to succeed.

The number of resi-dent hunters buying li-censes each year has risen 20 per cent in the last decade while for-eign-hunter sales have declined by 30 per cent, Richardson said. The

guides should be changing their business model, he said, not re-lying on government to prop up their industry.

“It’s coming on the backs of residents. I don’t know that giving more animals to the guides is really going to help their failing busi-ness model.”

Many guiding outfits are owned by foreign companies, which di-verts taxes from Cana-da. Someone who pays $30,000 to bag a moun-tain sheep in B.C. typi-cally flies in a private jet to where he’s hunting, harvests the animal and leaves, Richardson said.

More than 500 pro-testers dropped off per-sonal letters to the pre-mier at her constituen-cy office.

“We know she’s got them. She’s going to have to start respond-ing to us,” Richardson said.

Andrew Farnsworth, 29, drove from Langley with two friends to join the rally. He spent two weeks on a moun-tain-goat hunt this year in the Kootenays, a week on a mule-deer hunt near Clinton and weekends in the fall going for bear or deer.

“It’s important to protect our hunting rights,” he said. “We’re losing them. We’re try-ing to fight to get them back.”

Hundreds of hunters protest reduced access to permits

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2015

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by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar

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Garfield By Jim Davis

Hagar the Horrible By Dick Browne

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Excitement surrounds the morn-ing. You’ll get past an immediate hassle with ease. Meeting times will need to be confirmed. If you think someone’s remark seems out of whack, just repeat back what you thought you heard. Tonight: Act as if it were Friday night. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) You will want to straighten out a situation that involves a headstrong friend or loved one. This person might seem to be quite closed off, but in reality, he or she probably just wants to get past the present misunder-standing. Take your time, rather than push. Tonight: Mosey on home. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Share more of what ails you. A partner or loved one might seem distant and difficult. The unexpected is likely to affect a meeting and/or an interaction with this person. Avoid making any judgments, and try stating your point in a different way.

Tonight: At a favorite spot. CANCER (June 21-July 22) You might want to be more aware of your spending and your budget. You could feel as if your finances are out of whack. Worry less, and stay centered. You are likely to experience a certain amount of boredom in your daily routine. Change it! Tonight: Pay bills first. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You will be in the position to convince someone that the less exciting option would be best. Misunderstandings could lurk, and you might choose to see a situation a lot differently from how those around you see it. Confirm important statements. Tonight: Be spontaneous. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Assume a low profile, even if someone tries to shock you out of complacency. You’ll need to observe rather than react. Ask yourself what would be best to do in order to move forward. You are much more together than you ever thought possible. Tonight: Get some R and R. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

You could be stuck on the wrong side of a problem. As you try to resolve the issue, others might seem bent on creating uproar. If you try to intervene, you probably will find yourself in the middle of an argument. Ride the winds of fate. Tonight: Hang with friends. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Be willing to stand up and as-sume your role in a particularly difficult situation. You might not want all the attention on you, but it seems to be inevita-ble. Your role is dominant, and others will want to learn how to lead in the way in which you do. Tonight: Let it all hang out. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You’ll be full of unexpected news. Though you might not react as you used to, you still will have a strong response. Be aware of others’ confusion. You know what is workable and what is not. Try to convey what you know to those around you. Tonight: Surf the Web. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Deal with a partner or associate directly. In fact, the response you

receive could be totally different than if you were to discuss the same issue with someone else there. Take advantage of a qui-et moment. Be willing to state the same point several different ways. Tonight: Togetherness. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You might have mixed feelings and be overly serious, especially after a morning surprise. Noth-ing is as it seems and all is sub-ject to change. Remain open to various ideas and you will head down the right path. Tonight: Confusion reigns. Maintain a sense of humor. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You could be somewhat fixated on your schedule and on what you must accomplish. You will have a surprising change occur at some point throughout the day. You might want to rethink a decision with more care. Verify what you are hearing. Tonight: Squeeze in some exercise. BORN TODAY Novelist James Joyce (1882), novelist Ayn Rand (1905), model Christie Brinkley (1954)

Dear Annie: I am close to my parents, and my husband and I love to visit them when we’re in town. We always stay in their home, not only because it is convenient for us, but because I know my mother would be upset if we didn’t. The problem is my sister and her children. While we are at my parents’ house, she drops the kids off each morning, and they stay until nearly midnight (even on school nights). My sister does not work outside the home. She simply wants the time for herself. One of the children plays a video game, loudly, all hours of the day. He screams obscenities at the TV and will not respond to our kind insistence that he turn down the volume. I have tried gently broaching this topic with my mother, to no avail. We have trouble falling asleep at night, as we have to listen to the sound of gunfire and obscenities from the guest room. Is there a kind way to tell my mother that we would like to have child-free time without the grandchildren present? Is this overstepping our role as houseguests? -- Just Want Peace and Quiet Dear Peace and Quiet: You are not overstepping to want a good night’s sleep, but you have no say over Mom’s rules, such as they are. We are sure Mom loves having you, but she is not likely to make waves with your sister, who lives closer and with whom she needs to have a good relationship. You will lose that battle. Tell your mother you understand why she indulges the grandchildren, but from now on, you will spend at least one or two nights at a hotel in order to rest and will visit her during the day. Please be nice about it. Mom has enough aggravation. We feel sorry for her and especially for those kids, who are growing up with so little parental guidance. Your sister could benefit from some parenting classes, but it is unlikely that she will take advice from you. Dear Annie: My husband and I have been married for 19 years. We have no children together, but we each have children from previous marriages. From Day One of our marriage, he made it clear he did not want to pay for Christmas, birthdays, weddings, etc., on my side, which was fine. I’ve taken care of my side, and he’s done his. We are now at an age where we need to put our affairs in order. He wants each child to get the same amount from our estate. I disagree. I want the amount to be divided in half, and each half then divided between the children on each side. We have not been arguing about this. We just haven’t taken care of the arrangements. I will agree to whatever you say. -- Taking Care of Business Dear Business: Generally, we believe all children should be treated equally when dividing an estate, because otherwise, there is rancor between the children. However, if you brought vastly unequal assets into the marriage and the children were not raised together, the situation is different. Please discuss these issues with an estate attorney, who will help you sort through the possibilities and reach a decision that satisfies both of you. Dear Annie: “Tired and Disgusted Other Half” wrote that her husband is disrespectful and puts her down in front of their children and friends. She said she’s been married too long to leave. Your response was good, but I was married to such a man. He refused to understand what the problem was and would not go for counseling, because I was the one with the problem. There are men who will not benefit from counseling, nor will their wives or their relationships. I suspect it’s a high percentage of older men. I was married for 32 years, and I stayed too long. -- California Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to [email protected], or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. To find out more about Annie’s Mailbox and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.COPYRIGHT 2015 CREATORS.COM

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Jacob Goodman1929 - 2015

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Jacob Goodman on Monday, January 26, 2015 in Cranbrook, BC.

Jake was born on May 30, 1929 in Champion, AB to Jacob and Pauline Goodman. He was the youngest of five children. Our dad was a member of

the East Kootenay Shrine Club #4 in Cranbrook and was very proud of his affiliation. Dad loved to play golf and after his retirement from Goodman Diesel he learned to fly ultra light planes.

Jake was predeceased by his parents, three brothers and one sister: William, Ronald, Elizabeth and Samuel. He is survived by his children Donna-Leigh, Lori (Paul), Doug, Richard and Anniel (John); four grandchildren Kirstie, Farran, Kevin and Michael; and his partner Dawn.

A special thank you to the staff at the East Kootenay Regional Hospital, especially Dr. Shilhan, who were so kind to our dad and our family during this difficult time.

Dad left this world on his own terms and can now finally breathe with ease.

As per Jake’s wishes, there will be no memorial service.Arrangements entrusted to McPherson Funeral Service.

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It is with great sadness that we announce that Sharon Whitehead has passed away on January 28, 2015 with her family by her side at Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital after a long courageous battle with cancer. She will be dearly missed by her husband Jim; daughters Holly (Ian) Gourlie, Valerie (John) Gallo, and her much loved grandchildren Adam Whitehead, Kayla Gourlie (Harley Palmer), Amy Gourlie and Cole and Bodie Gallo; her sisters Lorraine (Lorne) Hart, Lynn (Jerry) Horsley, Caroline Aiken (George Beaton) and brothers Ralph (Lynn) Masear, Larry (Adele) McDiramid, Lyle (Shirley) McDiramid as well as many nieces, nephews, and cousins. Sharon was predeceased by her mother Marion McDiramid and her father Raymond Masear and her son Shawn Whitehead. Cooking and baking were Sharon’s favorite hobbies and many were lucky to sample her projects. She loved playing games and laughing until she cried. She loved Disneyland and Hawaii and she and Jim took their family on many memorable holidays. Anyone that knew Sharon would know how generous and caring she was. She touched many lives and will be missed immensely. Sharon’s circle of friends was large and loving. We will be holding an open house to celebrate her life at the Montrose Hall (490 9thAve Montrose, BC) on Monday, February 2, 2015 from 12 – 2pm. In lieu of fl owers donations may be made to the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital Heath Foundation (Oncology) at 1200 Hospital Bench,

Trail, BC, V1R 4M1 or online at www.kbrhhealthfoundation.caYou are invited to leave a personal message

of condolence at the family’s online register at www.myalternatives.ca

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