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Bryan Adams called it his “Bare Bones Tour” but the iconic Canadian musician brought a truckload of hits for his sold out show at Trail’s Charles Bailey Theatre on Monday night.

From his show opening “Run to You” to his encore-closing “Straight From the Heart,” the 54-year-old Adams struck every chord of memory in the audience with a string of his classic songs that kept the crowd enthralled.

Accompanied at times by pianist Gary Breit, Adams blended the powerful voice and guitar chops that propelled him to super stardom.

Breit proved a perfect addi-tion to Adams’ hard-driving style and added his personal ivory touch to such melod-ic classics as “Heaven” and “Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?”

The Grammy-winning musi-cian mixed in his foot stomp-ing favorites like “Cuts Like a Knife” and “Somebody” with his mega-hit collaborations “All for Love” and “I Finally Found Someone.” Although those hits were recorded with the likes of Barbara Streisand, Rod Stewart and Sting, none joined Adams in Trail despite the rocker’s longing looks to stage left for their potential entrance.

However, their presence wasn’t required as Adams pro-vided enough star power in the room thanks to his repertoire of worldwide hits.

There was also a connection between Adams, the storyteller, and the Home of Champions. He recalled playing in Trail in 1976 and opening for Trooper.

It was a chance for him to re-trace his career path, including opening gigs with Foreigner and Journey among others, and enjoying every opportunity along the way of his illustrious 30-plus year

careerIt was only fitting that dur-

ing a brief break in Adams’ non-stop 110-minute show a member of the audience shouted out “Thank you for coming to Trail,” which was followed by a rousing ovation from the appreciative audience who shared the same senti-ment.

The moment was indeed touching for any musi-cian and like a true show-man, Adams segued right into “B.C. Bound,” a takeoff on his “Alberta Bound” tune, cap-ping it off with a hearty “Trail bound,” much to the crowd’s

delight.It wasn’t the only moment

that brought the crowd to its feet with “Summer of 69” eliciting the biggest ovation of the show.

Staying true to the “Bare Bones” theme, Adams paid tribute to Kris Kristofferson with the timeless country bal-lad “Help Me Make it Through the Night,” as an ode to one of his favorite songwriters.

But this night belonged to Adams and his “trip down memory lane.” For the lucky people in the crowd on Monday, they got to take the trip with him.

Bryan Adams delivers for sold out show at Charles Bailey Theatre

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Bryan Adams took fans on an acoustic journey of his greatest hits during Monday’s show at the Charles Bailey Theatre.

B Y S H E R I R E G N I E R Times Staff

The news is good for the 656 homeowners living in Electoral Area B, because property taxes will actually decrease this year even though residents will be chipping in a little more for regional services.

Area B has almost 1,400 people living in the largely rural area that extends just north of Genelle to the Paulson Bridge, through Sheep Creek, Blackjack and Paterson to the U.S. Border and includes Oasis, Rivervale and Casino.

Those residents account for about 5 per cent of the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary (RDKB) tax base, and pay for regionally shared services such as fire and police, recreation, tran-sit, and solid waste management.

Based on the average assessed property value of $200,000 in Area B, a zone that covers 10 per cent of the district’s land base, a homeowner will pay about $930 compared to $960 last year.

Property taxes and issues specific to Area B were discussed

during the region’s annual town hall meeting last week when a cross section of a few dozen people met with RDKB represent-atives in the Oasis Community Hall.

Linda Worley, Area B dir-ector, was on hand to answer questions from the community Wednesday evening and John MacLean, RDKB’s chief adminis-trative officer (CAO), presented a background history of regional services and various projects that are up for approval in the 2014 budget.

“The budget is really about our priorities,” explained the CAO. “And what services you would like the RDKB to continue to deliver,” he said. “Or what you may not be interested in having anymore.”

Two big ticket items checked off the regional district’s duty list, in particular services that fell under the helm of East End Service (participants) from Rossland, Warfield, Trail, Montrose, Fruitvale, Area A and Area B, account for the latter’s three per cent tax drop.

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B Y S H E R I R E G N I E RTimes Staff

A year-long study of the Silver City and its abundance of history and culture has culminated in a golden master thesis by architect student Austin Hawkins.

Hawkins is showing his final design development of the city in the Trail Memorial Centre (TMC) tonight at 7:30 p.m. outside the library, and invites the commun-ity to view his display made from “beautiful materials recycled from the depths of the Trail Memorial Centre.”

The display includes deli-cate collages, drawings, photo-graphs and models that reflect his detailed research into Trail’s human history, landscape, min-ing, smelting and Italian culture.

“Photographing the entire Greater Trail area and researching

the use and transportation pat-terns of ore and metal, and study-ing those photographs helped me understand the essence of Trail,” said Hawkins. “My project develops and demonstrates tech-niques for finding the value in this cityscape and making choices about what to do with it in the future.”

The University of British Columbia student is in his third year of architectural studies and decided to make Trail and its struggle to revitalize, the centre of his thesis after visiting the city for a first-time look last January.

After months of intense design work and non-stop 12 to 14 hour days, Hawkins presented his redesign plan of the centre to architectural critics in Vancouver earlier this year.

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FROM PAGE 1“After all this, I feel the

essence of Trail is the study of layers and refinement and the deposition of new layers through process,” said Hawkins.

“This way of looking at the valley originated with miners in Rossland studying geological strata and betting their entire fortunes by staking mining claims,” he continued.

“These were daring people who looked for the value in lay-ers of landscape, and to revital-ize Trail, the people of this valley must again dare to look at the layers.”

Hawkins developed a design focus on the TMC after under-standing the facility’s relevance to the community with a schem-atic design and material strat-egy to regenerate the continuity between its prosperous past and the opportunities of the future.

“New variety as well as com-mon circulation and visual and physical connection to the city-scape would increase its use enormously,” he explained.

“Right now, the TMC is a labyrinth, it only needs reorgan-ization. It is a gold mine, but a gold mine is nothing without a refinery.”

Finally, Hawkins suggests that Trail should not consid-er constructing new buildings, rather the city needs to look at how existing buildings can be better used.

“Trail currently has a number of buildings in south downtown that currently act as cold spon-ges for social energy,” he said.

“Their emptiness is a barrier to Trail’s livelihood. Heritage is not found in perfect shape, it is developed by the consistent care of current buildings until they become old, and the care and maintenance devoted to them becomes obvious.”

Focus is on Trail Memorial Centre

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After a year-long journey in studying Trail and the city’s struggle to regenerate, architect student Austin Hawkins is presenting a visual display of his design work tonight in the Trail Memorial Centre at 7:30 p.m.

FROM PAGE 1The first, was the end-

ing of three-year agreement with the Lower Columbia Initiatives Corporation (LCIC) last spring, which is a Trail-based economic development service that Area B contributed $20,000 annually to focus on region-al business incentives.

“We won’t be taxing for the LCIC service this year,” said MacLean. “We are using surplus and they have a mandate to make a case and show us what they can do.”

In addition, Area B tax-payers are off the hook to pay almost $10,000 annu-ally for regional airport ser-vice after the RDKB sold the local airstrip to the City of Trail earlier this month.

“Up until four days ago this was a regional service,” said MacLean at the Feb. 19 town hall gathering.

He confirmed that the $1.28 million deal add funds to administration reserves, and “now that it is sold there is no taxation this year.”

MacLean explained that available services in the regional district vary annually, but will account for a $1.1 million budget increase this year; a hike that property tax requisi-tion is expected to cover.

“In 2014 there is a fairly significant increase I can tell you for a fact,” he continued. “There is a $400,000 increase related to a fire service we took over in Grand Forks,” said MacLean. “Things like that happen but the regional

ditrict must say how those costs are going to be shared and what the requisition limit is, which is called a tax cap.”

Specific to the Area B tax base, once the final budget is adopted March 20, an additional $8,700 will be owing to the regional dis-trict to share costs of the BC municipal election sched-uled for Nov. 15.

Additionally, the recrea-tion commission budget increased almost $8,200 related to this year’s operat-ing costs, although future contributions to regional recreation will be studied

when Area B’s agreement with the City of Trail draws to a close later this year.

Aside from regional cost-sharing, a small population of residents living in Oasis and Rivervale pay sub-regional taxes for sewer and water services.

A significant project the RDKB is bringing to the board for this week, is the proposed installation of an automated chlorination sys-tem in Rivervale.

“The source water (Rivervale) is both a well and a service that during the spring the freshet caus-es issues with turbidity,”

explained MacLean. “What we are doing is putting in automated systems so we can monitor water as it comes in and adjust chlor-ine levels accordingly.”

MacLean closed with dis-cussion about the RDKB’s solid waste management plan that is currently being updated to include a focus on recycling kitchen waste.

“If we can remove those organics from our waste stream the extension on our landfills is staggering,” he said.

“I can promise you, with-out a shadow of a doubt, siting a new landfill is the last thing any of us want to do anywhere in the regional district. It’s horrible and pits neighbour against neighbour.”

The evening rounded out with the gallery question-ing Director Worley about issues ranging from the pos-sibility of a second access road in Rivervale, emer-gency planning related to rail lines running through Area B communities, and insufficient repair of local roads and highways.

“I have been in constant contact with the depart-ment of highways and with CPR in Calgary in regard to two sites that are very vul-nerable,” confirmed Worley.

“Which is Rivervale with only one access and China Creek where sloughing is happening very close to the edge of the rail,” she con-tinued.

“I keep pecking away at it and I will not give up until I get an answer and plans for action.”

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Linda Worley (left) Area B director was on hand for the region’s annual town hall meeting last week, and answered questions from the gallery ranging from railway safety con-cerns, derelict vehicles left on Genelle roadways and future street and highway repairs.

‘No’ on Sculpture Walk

Members of Trail council turned down a proposal from the Trail and District Arts Council to part-ner with the Castlegar Sculpture

Walk to purchase or lease public art. Instead, other options will be explored to add sculp-tures that are unique to Trail and fit into the city’s current display of public art works.

“The original plan when we (repre-sentatives from Trail, Castlegar and Nelson) first approached Columbia Basin Trust for funding, was that each community

should be different,” explained Trail Mayor Dieter Bogs, during Monday’s governance meeting. “The concept was that people would spend three days in our West Kootenay region. I don’t think a little of Castlegar should be in Trail or Trail in Castlegar, our drawing cards should be different.”

• People can look forward to exploring “IncrEDIBLE” Trail when venturing through downtown Trail and the Gulch this summer, after Trail council fully endorsed a program presented by a committee from Community in Bloom, that will have over 30 downtown businesses growing herbs and vegetables instead of flowers in their storefronts this year. Residents will be invited to pick fresh produce (free) from the green route through town.

• Graduating students can start sharp-ening their pencils to apply for a city schol-arship after council approved two $600 awards, one in memory of Neil Paolone for a J.L.Crowe student, and the other for a Cooperative Education Program graduate.

• City politicians will receive a two per cent stipend increase after council amended its indemnity bylaw to raise their allotment to almost $15,000 and the mayor’s to just over $28,000 this year.

• With the Trail Regional Airport under city ownership, council reviewed parking fees and approved a rate increase from $4 per day to $5; and $10 per week to $15 with staff directed to fine tune a proposed $25 fine for parking violations.

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Sicamous RCMP have arrested and charged a 32-year-old Enderby man fol-lowing a police chase early Sunday morning involving a stolen truck, trailer and the two snowmobiles it was hauling. The vehicle had been stolen

from a motel parking lot in Revelstoke just hours earlier.

An officer on a late night patrol in Sicamous set up spe-cifically to target sled thefts noticed the truck on the move eastbound at about 3:20 a.m. on Sunday.

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over, the truck sped off, eventually taking a dead-end side road where it slid into a ditch.

The man fled, but was tracked by a police dog to a near-by property where he was found hiding in a motorhome.

Sgt. Dave Dubnyk of the Sicamous RCMP

detachment said the man “is known to the police.”

The truck and trail-ers were registered to an owner from Saskatchewan. Dubnyk said the interven-tion was the result of a police strategy that focused on informa-tion-sharing between local RCMP detach-ments and beefed up late-night patrols.

In the Sicamous area, police are target-ing any vehicles haul-ing snowmobiles in the hours between sunset and sunrise.

“Everybody gets checked,” Dubnyk said, adding the response from the sledding community has been positive.

He estimated police have checked “hun-dreds” of trucks and trailers in the initiative this snow season and will continue until the snow melts.

Dubnyk said it was his feeling the indi-vidual was delivering the sled to someone else, and didn’t feel he was directly involved in chopping up sleds. He added that RCMP criminal analysts con-tinue to investigate.

“That’s part of our investigation for sure,” Dubnyk said. “We are looking to determine where this particular sled and trailer were going.”

Dubnyk vowed con-tinued enforcement this season, includ-ing the ongoing bait sled initiative. So far, police haven’t had any attempted thefts of the bait sled unit – a surveillance equipped trailer designed to lure in and catch thieves. It’s modelled after the bait car program.

Police remind snowmobile owners to take precautions like parking your vehicle in a well-lit place, using wheel locks, using alarms and disabling your vehicle’s motor.

The identity of the man and the exact charges against him will likely be revealed when court authorities release the Salmon Arm court docket on Feb. 25.

Sicamous RCMP are seeking charges of breach of probation, theft of a motor vehicle over $5,000 and pos-session of stolen prop-erty over $5,000.

Despite ongoing security partnerships between Revelstoke police and snowmobile stakeholders like snowmobile organiza-tions and accommoda-tion providers, snow-mobile thefts have continued to trouble the community. The expensive machines are often stolen along with valuable trucks and trailers.

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Surveillance video is in police hands after an armed bank robbery occurred at the Salmo branch of Kootenay Savings Credit Union just before closing Tuesday afternoon.

The Salmo RCMP detachment responded to a bank robbery alarm from the Main Street branch of Kootenay Savings Credit Union (KSCU) at approxi-mately 4:50 p.m. on Monday, confirmed Cpl. Debbie Postnikoff in a Tuesday news release.

Officers from Salmo, Nelson and Trail were called to the scene after a male sus-pect brandished a gun then fled on foot with an undisclosed amount of cash.

The armed robber was not apprehended and no arrests have yet been made, said Postnikoff.

No customers were in the bank during the heist and no one was injured.

However, the five KSCU employees were shaken by the gun-wielding intrud-er, and spent the following morning debriefing with a professional trauma counsellor, confirmed Dean Civitarese, the bank’s risk management manager.

“We do provide robbery training,” said Civitarese. “Our employees followed everything to a ‘T’ as they are trained to do, but we do ensure counselling after the fact.”

Employees were given the option of returning home post-counselling, but everyone was feeling okay, and the bank opened for ‘business as usual’ by noon, he added.

“We do have continual monitoring by recording equipment,” Civitarese con-firmed. “And it is all part of the investiga-tion now.”

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“For teachers, our only recourse in response to the unfair and unreasonable pro-posals at this point of time is to apply pres-sure through a strike vote,” he told reporters.

Iker said he believes it is “very, very likely” that the strike vote will be passed, though he added that any job action will not include immediate school closures, or impact extra curricular activities, report cards or com-munication with parents.

The court case involved provincial legisla-tion that retroactively removed contract pro-visions on class size and composition from the collective agreement and banned them from future negotiations.

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B.C. Premier Christy Clark and Education Minister Peter Fassbender have consistently denied that they tried to goad teachers into a job action. Last week, a government lawyer asked the B.C. Court of Appeal to suspend the ruling until an appeal is heard later this year.

Fassbender said Tuesday he is disappoint-ed about the strike vote.

He refused to specify what was discussed at recent contract talks, but he said the prov-ince is working hard to reach a negotiated settlement with teachers.

The vote is expected to take place from March 4 to March 6.

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families have become wealthier during the past several years, with net worth ris-ing despite the well-documented growth in household debt and the set-back from the recession, a new Statistics Canada study shows.

In a report that takes a long view on the state of Canadian finances, the agency finds that the 2012 medium net worth among family units - of two or more per-sons - has risen 44.5 per cent since 2005 to $243,800, and almost 80 per cent from 1999.

Those family units have also accumulated more debt, a total of $1.3 trillion in 2012, of which about $1 tril-lion is mortgage debt, up 41.6 per cent from 2005. All figures are in inflation-adjusted dollars.

Bank of Montreal economist Doug Porter

said the data show that while household debt remains a vulnerability for the economy as a whole, Canadians fam-ilies’ overall finances are generally in good shape.

“The standout is the tremendous growth in net worth over the 13-year period. It works out to aver-age annual increases of better than five per cent, which is quite impressive,” he said.

“To me the bigger picture is that assets remain about seven times the size of debt.”

Porter said that doesn’t mean house-hold debt is a non-issue, but said its big-gest impact on the economy will be to act as a check on con-sumer spending going forward.

Overall, total family assets in Canada rose to $9.4 trillion in 2012, with the value of fam-ilies’ principle home representing one third of the total assets.

Pension assets, includ-ing employer plans and private pension plans, made up 30 per cent of the total, while other real estate holdings - rental properties, cot-tages, timeshares and commercial properties - represent almost 10 per cent.

For those who owned their homes, the median reported value of the residence was $300,000, up 46.6 per cent from 2005 and 83.2 per cent from 1999.

The report also found large dispar-ities in net worth depending on age, the nature of the family unit, and regions of the country.

For instance, medi-an net worth was high-est for families where the person with the highest income was 55 to 64 years old in 2012. For that group it came in at $533,600, more than double for the overall population.

British Columbia

reported the high-est family median net worth at $344,000, more than double fam-ilies in Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island that came in at $167,900 and $150,300 respectively.

And lone parent families had the lowest median net worth of only $37,000.

In terms of inequal-ity, the report found that the wealthiest 20 per cent of family units accounted for 67.4 per cent of the total national net worth, although that

was slightly lower than the 69.2 per cent the top quintile possessed in 2005.

The lowest quintile - the poorest 20 per cent of families - had a small negative net worth, meaning that as a group they had more debts than assets.

That segment saw its family median net worth drop from about $1,300 in 1999 to $1,100 in 2012. By contrast, the top quintile saw its family median net worth rise from $981,400 in 2005 to $1.38 million in 2012.

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Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says it may be time to look at shipping grain south through the United States instead of east and west to Canadian ports.

Wall says the U.S. transportation system isn’t perfect, but he says it hasn’t had as much trouble as the Canadian system in getting a bumper crop to market.

The premier says there seems to be greater competition in the U.S. and a greater capacity to handle the grain.

Saskatchewan said Monday that it wants the federal government to oversee negotiations between grain and rail

companies about clear-ing a backlog that has left a record crop is sit-ting in bins across the Prairies.

G r a i n - h a n d l i n g companies have told the province that it may be well into 2015 before the backlog is cleared.

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OPINION

Time for national dialogue on things that matterEvery week the

same tedious litany of political sub-terfuge prevails:

abrupt rudeness to veterans who dare to oppose cuts in services; Elections Act amendments that make it harder for the poor, First Nations and youth to vote; smears of public servants who accept contractual benefits at the end of long careers of public service; income splitting proposals for couples who manifest the targeted income and job choice characteristics (traditional stay-at-home moms and high income dads) of the Conservative ‘base:’ the closure of a few more federal science librar-ies; the CRA ‘attack’ aud-iting of a few more environ-mental NGOs, the endlessly expensive and repetitive Canada Action Plan sign-age on our roadways; the continued focus on the pol-itical capture of niche seg-ments of our polity rather than serving the broader citizens’ interest.

Has it really come to this: that Canadians deserve a federal government that avoids the obvious, defends the indefensible, and places unchallengeable precepts before rational thought,

critical thinking and major-ity rule? What does it take to stimulate the national debate on the really big issues: climate change, the impacts of the aging Boomer demographic on healthcare and the ongoing affordability and sustain-ability of Medicare, and the future economic com-petitiveness of Canada in a world progressively work-ing towards a lower carbon future fed by new energy sources? Can we really sol-dier on with a 20th century mentality in a 2014 world?

How much longer can the citizens tolerate the parliamentary focus on what is essentially trivia, as the world bears the stress of unparalleled heat waves; steadily rising insurance costs for the impacts of aseasonal, atypical weath-er; steadily rising geriatric healthcare treatment and housing costs; continu-ally postponed retirement plans; and the disappear-ance of a middle class manufacturing sector in countries where it once thrived? How much long-er will citizens tolerate a wealth imbalance that has created a globalized plutoc-racy with oligarchic tastes and pretensions of public

rule? When will this bizarre disconnect with reality end?

Arguably the refocus-ing of our public mind on climate change, healthcare and the post-carbon econ-omy will not occur until proportional representa-tion is legislated or/and a majority coalition is formed in the Canadian Parliament. Unfortunately for the real majority, the best indication of future behaviour, when the pol-itical constants remain unchanged, is past behav-iour. Therefore it is safe to assume that, until the old constants are removed, the Conservatives will con-tinue to cater to their ‘base niches,’ and tend to their plurality-majority inter-ests in order to achieve re-

election in 2015. The price those of us who are not Conservative voters (other-wise known as the majority of Canadian citizens) will pay is continued aggrava-tion due to the denial of our interests, and a growing cynicism about the values of public life and those who conduct it. We can usefully remember what Winston Churchill used to say in similar circumstances dec-ades ago: “Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried.”

Given the situation we find ourselves in, I think our best recourse is to advocate for rationality over Revelation, and mor-ality over nihilism. All of us in the Canadian majority, in countless thousands of small acts every day, have the opportunity to advance the national dialogue on the issues that really count, with people who really lis-ten.

We need to challenge the status quo, and assume that change is possible. Not all of this activity, or indeed any of it, needs to be overtly political right now. The dis-course on climate change, healthcare and the post-carbon world can occur

anywhere. It is already hap-pening in schools, colleges and universities – places that champion rational-ity and critical thinking. It is naturally occurring in NGOs, and indeed through-out civil society.

In my experience the not-for-profit boards that I sit on are well engaged in the dialogue. The recent spate of Conservative com-mentary about the un-Canadian motivations of environmentalists and First Nations’ rights activists has served to waken people up to what can happen when basic freedoms are taken for granted. Like muscles, freedoms work best when they are exercised.

They atrophy when they are neglected. We should thank the Harper govern-ment for questioning our rights to think critically, and to give voice to values that run counter to cor-poratism. In fact, we should encourage them to keep up the critique.

Troy Media columnist Mike Robinson has lived half of his life in Alberta and half in B.C. In Calgary he worked for eight years in the oil patch, 14 in aca-demia, and eight years as a cultural CEO.

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For this titan of the Establishment, markets today are “living in the post-financial candy land”

Admittedly the financial world is still suffering ‘Shock and Awe’ at Facebook’s acqui-sition of WhatsApp – a new mobile tex-ting App. Mark Zuckerberg paid $19 billion for a digital company with no (pro-prietary) intel-lectual property, almost unlimited competition and – remarkably – an anti-profit business model.

None of this makes any sense to traditionalists. The inven-tory of the lost is formidable; neither the legions of business journalists, nor technology specialists, nor the financial guru’s resident in major invest-ment banks have the foggi-est idea what’s going on. They find themselves (once again) in a market where they have no ability to pick the winners and have no rational basis for valuations.

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For Silicon Valley it’s all about owning connections in the digital universe. WhatsApps has almost half as many users as Facebook itself and is growing its user base rapidly. Facebook (itself a dubious proposition to many traditionalists) has laid down the digital gauntlet. The ‘value is in the network’: own the network first, and find a way to profit from those con-nections later.

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sive challenges for peoples who have not experi-enced this scale of change for centuries.

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Contrast this model with the traditional Factory Model of production. In a factory, costs are impacted by scarcity of labor and materials, market penetration models are limited by the constraints of physical distribution systems needed

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Batty’s secret: identify the (intangible) assets and analyze them separately from the com-pany they’re contained within. The assets should be valued on a Highest and Best Use basis which captures their full ‘Enterprise’ potential and not on the (much lower) ‘histor-ical cost’ basis. Understanding the full global potential of the assets and valuing them accordingly is in the best inter-ests of technology developers, investors and the market.

Mastering intangible assets with all their strengths and weaknesses is the true revolu-tion that, once appreciated, will bring order and sensibility back to the market and – maybe, just maybe - help prevent another major financial disaster.

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Born in Edmonton, Alberta, John arrived in Trail in August 1929 when he was just � ve months old. The Mail-eys lived brie� y in East Trail before moving to the Gulch, where John made many life-long friends. When the Maileys relocated to East Trail in 1937, 1553 Third Avenue became the family home until John married his sweetheart, Doris Moxham, and moved right next door!

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John is predeceased by his parents John “Paddy” and Norah, sisters Martha Jones, Maggie Bradford and Nora Horne, broth-ers Danny and Jimmy, son Glenn and grandson Cale Caputo. He is survived by his wife Doris, children Patti (Al Caputo) Terry, Diane (John Shannon), daughter-in-law Sheila Mailey, Merrill (Don Zentner), Allen, Warren (Jimi Galvao), 11 grand-children and 19 great-grandchildren. He

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In a rematch of the last two Trail Men’s Basketball League finals, Rossland finally found their winning touch, as they dropped Mota Automotive 76-62 in an exciting and physic-al match up at the Rossland Secondary School on Monday.

Mota was looking to three-peat as TMBL champions, but a styngy defence, clutch free-throw shooting, some magic from beyond the arc, and gritty play down under sealed the victory and championship for Rossland.

“We always have good games with these guys,” said Rossland forward Blaine Benner. “It gets

physical and intense, but after-wards we all meet up and sit down and have a cold beer. We’re all friends, it’s just a real-ly good rivalry.”

The game was tight from the opening tip off, until Rossland broke open a 17-15 game to go on a 12-0 run midway through the first half. Mota would chip away at the lead, drawing with-in five points late in the game, making it 67-62 with just under two minutes to play. However, Wannes Luppens would nail a short jumper, and follow that up with a denial of Stephen Mota’s drive to the hoop, then sink a couple clutch free throws to nail it down for Rossland.

Todd Martin had the hot

hand on the night, hitting two crucial three-pointers in the second half, and pouring in 16 points to lead all Rossland shooters, while Luppens count-ed 15 points.

As time wound down, Mota was forced to foul and hope for a miss, but Rossland would hit nine of 14 from the foul-line to ice it.

Mota counted 11 points for the Trail team including two from beyond the arc, while Dylan Fitzpatrick scored 10.

Kevin Jangula threw down 12 points for Rossland while Benner netted 11 and TMBL Most Valuable Player of the season, Gent Harrison scored eight.

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Rossland defeated Mota Automotive 72-62 in Trail Men’s Basketball League final Monday at the Rossland Secondary School. Left: Todd Martin, 22, led the Golden City hoopsters with 16 points while League MVP Gent Harrison, 21, was a force at both ends of the court. The championship team includes from left: Blaine Benner, Jason Zwall, Harrison, Wannes Luppens, Chris Bowman, Kevin Jangula, Martin, and Chris Markling.

B y T i m e s s T a f fRossland athletes

led the way for the Zone 1 Kootenay Team, which finished in seventh place at the B.C. Winter Games last weekend.

The Kootenay con-tingent won a total of 24 medals (7 gold, 9 silver, 8 bronze) at the Games, that saw about 2,000 athletes, coaches, and support staff visit Mission and surrounding areas for the three-day event.

Rossland cross-country skier Remi Drolet won two of those gold in individ-ual start and individ-

ual sprint in Midget Boys at Whistler on Saturday. Michaela McLean just missed the podium finishing fourth in the individ-ual start and seventh in the sprint.

Kaysa Panska meanwhile flew to sil-ver in alpine skiing’s Giant Slalom and bronze in Slalom at Hemlock Mountain. Figure skater Jacob Verhelst also just missed a medal with a fourth place finish in the Men’s Pre-novice short program and free skate.

The Kootenay female hockey repre-

sentative finished in seventh overall after dropping an 8-0 deci-sion to eventual Zone 3 gold-medalist in Fraser Valley. They skated to a close 3-1 loss to Zone 8 Cariboo North-East, Saturday, before rolling over Zone 7 North West 5-1 in their final game Sunday.

Fraser Valley topped the medal standings with 30 gold, 33 silver, and 41 bronze, followed by Vancouver-Squamish, Zone 5, with 33-26-22, and Thompson-Okanagan, Zone 2, with 18-24-26.

Kijhl playoff preview

B y J i m B a i l e yTimes Sports Editor

It’s the start of the long journey to the Cyclone Taylor Cup for the Beaver Valley Nitehawks tonight at the B.V. Arena.

The second seed Nitehawks take on the third place Castlegar Rebels, while Nelson Leafs will tangle with the Spokane Braves in the first round of the Neil Murdoch division championship.

The Hawks are stacked with tal-ented and physical forwards, but also own the least goals against in the league, 143, a tribute to a strong defence, and the most con-sistent goaltending tandem in the league in Brett Clark, who also has most wins of any goalie on the sea-son, 33, and Grayson Sharpe.

With an 8-0 record against the Rebels this season, the Hawks should emerge from this series rela-tively unscathed, but the defending KIJHL champion is always a tough playoff team and could surprise the Nitehawks in one or two match-es. Odds are on B.V. to sweep the Rebels or win it in five.

As for the Leafs, who have already booked their spot as hosts in the Cyclone Taylor, the seren-dipitous departure of Jamie Vlanich and Travis Wellman from Castlegar to Nelson last summer has garnered the regular-season division champs two of the top three scorers in the KIJHL, while robbing the Rebels of much-needed offence.

Spokane has taken giant strides forward this year and managed to

take Nelson to overtime in three of their games, winning one, with 5-of-8 matches decided by one goal. This has the makings of an upset special, but the Leafs should emerge in six or less.

In the Eddie Mountain division, the Creston Valley Thunder Cats will have an easy time of it with the Columbia Valley Rockies. The Cats finished 43 points ahead of the Rockies and scored 125 more goals, and average of roughly 2.5 more goals per game. With four play-ers in the top-15 in league scoring including the league’s second lead-ing scorer in Jesse Collins, the Cats have a huge advantage offensively, and are stacked on defence, posting the highest goal differential in the league at plus-121. Columbia mean-while has the second worse goal differential at minus-73 and you’ll have to scroll down to 41st spot before you find the Rockies highest point-getter in Ryan Henderson. Cats in four.

In the other playoff series, fam-iliar foes Fernie Ghostriders and Kimberley Dynamiters play what could be the most interesting ser-ies of the lot. Kimberley finished six points up on Fernie for second spot thanks to a four game win-ning streak to end the season, and enjoyed a 6-2 edge in head-to-head matches with the Ghostriders.

Fernie struggled down the stretch, and the Ghostriders will likley disappear from the playoffs in six games.

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Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GABoston 57 37 16 4 78 176 125Tampa Bay 58 33 20 5 71 168 145Montreal 59 32 21 6 70 148 142Toronto 60 32 22 6 70 178 182Detroit 58 26 20 12 64 151 163Ottawa 59 26 22 11 63 169 191Florida 58 22 29 7 51 139 183Buffalo 57 15 34 8 38 110 172

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAPittsburgh 58 40 15 3 83 186 138N.Y. Rangers 59 32 24 3 67 155 146Philadelphia 59 30 23 6 66 162 167Columbus 58 29 24 5 63 170 161Washington 59 27 23 9 63 171 175Carolina 57 26 22 9 61 144 158New Jersey 59 24 22 13 61 135 146N.Y. Islanders 60 22 30 8 52 164 200

WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GASt. Louis 57 39 12 6 84 196 135Chicago 60 35 11 14 84 207 163Colorado 58 37 16 5 79 174 153Minnesota 59 31 21 7 69 145 147

Dallas 58 27 21 10 64 164 164Winnipeg 60 28 26 6 62 168 175Nashville 59 25 24 10 60 146 180

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAAnaheim 60 41 14 5 87 196 147San Jose 59 37 16 6 80 175 142Los Angeles 59 31 22 6 68 139 128Phoenix 58 27 21 10 64 163 169Vancouver 60 27 24 9 63 146 160Calgary 58 22 29 7 51 137 179Edmonton 60 20 33 7 47 153 199

Today’s GamesBoston at Buffalo, 7:30 p.m.

Detroit at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.Los Angeles at Colorado, 10 p.m.

St. Louis at Vancouver, 10:30 p.m.Thursday’s Games

Columbus at New Jersey, 7 p.m.Toronto at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.Chicago at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.San Jose at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Montreal at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.Detroit at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.

Washington at Florida, 7:30 p.m.Tampa Bay at Nashville, 8 p.m.

Phoenix at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.Carolina at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Calgary, 9:30 p.m.Minnesota at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m.


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Shushwap Conference the matchups will see KIJHL regualr season champion Kamloops Storm take on the Sicamous Eagles, and the Chase Heat face the 100-Mile House Wranglers in the Doug Birks division. In the Okanagan division, the top-seed Summerland Steam play the North Okanagan Knights and the Kelowna Chiefs take on last year’s Okanagan Conference champs the Osoyoos Coyotes.

The Hawks-Rebels go tonight and Thursday at 7 p.m. at the B.V. Arena and moves to Castlegar for Game 3 on Friday at 7 p.m.

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With generous support from Aaron Burke (front row middle) and a Kootenay Savings Community Foundations grant, Greater Trail Special Olympics outfitted a new snowshoe team that competed in the Winter Sports Fest in Kelowna earlier this month. Over 170 athletes and 100 coaches participated in the event at Crystal Mountain. Fruitvale’s Kayleigh Postmus quaified for the Kamloops 2015 Special Olympic Winter Games by finishing first in the 200 metre snowshoe and fourth in the 50 and 100, as did William Thatcher, first in Men’s 200 metre and third in 400 metre, while Jake Miller came first in the 400 and third in the 200. Richard Warner came fifth in the M2 100 and fourth in the 200-m.

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The Trail Smoke Eaters host the hot-test team in the BCHL tonight when they take on the Vernon Vipers at the Cominco Arena.

The Vipers have won five games in a row including a 4-3 win over the Penticton Vees on Saturday, after clinching a playoff spot in a 3-2 victory over Salmon Arm on Friday.

Who they face in Round-1 of the play-offs is still to be deter-mined with the Vees and West Kelowna Warriors tied for top spot.

The fourth seed will likely be the Merritt Centennials who hold a five point lead over Salmon Arm.

Trail will fin-ish the season on a positive note, as the organization will hon-our long-time public address announcer Tiger Milburn in a ceremony before the game Friday against the West Kelowna Warriors. Milburn has been on the mic for the Smokies for 50 years so come early and show your appre-ciation for Tiger.

The puck drops against Vernon tonight at 7:30 p.m.

bcHlPlease keep your walkways clear this winter.Our hardworking carriers thank you!

Leisure

Dear Annie: I am a young man looking for a girlfriend. I have liked this young lady for seven years -- since high school. Our relation-ship has been on the friend side, although I have shown her that I like her.

Recently, she started to talk to another young man who has quite a history with girls. He has cheated on the last two of his three girl-friends. I am fine if she dates someone else, but I am concerned that she will end up hurt if she sets her sights on this particular guy.

I do not mind if we don’t date, but our friendship is in jeop-ardy. We used to talk every day during lunch, but now she is talk-ing to another “friend” and ignores me. She told me that she wants our friendship to con-tinue, but she is the one destroying it. I am confused. How do I pre-serve this friendship? -- Concerned Friend

Dear Concerned: Is

your friend aware of this guy’s history? You can express your con-cern, but then please back off. She is appar-ently willing to be hurt, and if you try to pro-tect her too much, she may end the friendship altogether. You’ve been carrying a torch for this young woman for many years, and she has yet to return your affections. We think it’s time you broadened your circle. This one-sided friend-ship is not healthy for you.

Dear Annie: It’s happened again. I’ve left another nail salon because the technician working on me began talking to other mani-curists in their lan-

guage. Am I wrong to find this practice rude? If I am paying for their time, shouldn’t their focus be on me and not on what I assume is idle gossip? One technician even took glances at the TV while using the sanding file on me.

I worked for a large company and taught new hires overseas. We asked them not to con-verse in their language in front of customers. I guess my question is: Should I say some-thing? To them or to the owner? Or should I simply accept that this is the norm in nail salons? -- Spokane

Dear Spokane: This is not a personal con-versation where two people are talking in a foreign language and ignoring you. That would be rude. At a nail salon, however, as long as the service is being performed satisfacto-rily, it doesn’t matter what language they are speaking or to whom. Of course, if they are so distracted that the

professional quality of their work suffers, this is cause for com-plaint. You should first ask the technician to focus on the services being provided, and if that doesn’t help, notify management.

Dear Annie: Please post my response to “Miserable Forever.” I, too, was married to an abusive man for 30 years.

Dear Miserable: Ask your local women’s shelter for assistance in exiting the home, follow-up shelter and counseling. The coun-seling is a must. We don’t realize how much of ourselves we lose during an abusive rela-tionship. We go from living to existing, and it took a long time to get there. You can’t go from existing to liv-ing again overnight. It takes time and support. Give yourself the time to heal. You are worth it.

The legal matters are important, but they are secondary to get-

ting yourself into a safe and healing environ-ment. It took me two years to get back on my feet and obtain my divorce. It’s been three years since I vacated the marriage, and I am just now learning who I am. No one can take the steps for you

or make the problem go away. Don’t let fear of the future rob you of the life that is wait-ing. -- Been There and Survived

Dear Been There: Thank you for your testimonial. We know it will give courage to “Miserable” and others

like her.To our Baha’i read-

ers: Happy Ayyam-i-Ha. Annie’s Mailbox

is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers col-umn. Please email your questions to [email protected].

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For Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Discussions with friends, especially in groups, are important today. Perhaps this is because you are in contact with old friends and people from your past. Sometimes this is a reality check. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Personal details about your private life might be made public today, especially in the eyes of bosses, parents and VIPs. Quite likely, this is about something from your past. (Fingers crossed.) GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You want change, adventure and a chance to learn some-thing new! That’s why you’d like to visit someplace you’ve never been before. Vary your daily routine. Shake it up a little. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Discussions about shared property, taxes, debt, inheri-tances and insurance matters

can clear away old business today. Just keep at it, and you will make some headway. LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Your interactions with ex-partners might be emotion-al today. Don’t take things personally. Remember that nobody’s perfect, even a Leo (as hard as that might be to believe). VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Do what you can to get better organized today. Talk to others, especially about old business and things that have been dragging on that might annoy you. Clear away as much as you can. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) This is a playful, creative day for you! Enjoy sports events, fun times with children, mov-ies, the theater and social occasions. Be happy. SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Family discussions will be productive today. In particu-lar, you can tackle old prob-

lems and decide what to do, once and for all. Get a female relative onboard. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) You’re eager to learn some-thing new today. This is why you will enjoy short trips or a chance to read and study something. You’ll also enjoy meeting new faces and seeing new places. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Watch your money and cash

flow today, because something unpredictable might occur. It’s natural for you to feel pro-tective about what you own. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) The Moon is in your sign today, lined up with retrograde Mercury. This means you might feel emotional when talking to people from your past. That’s perfectly normal. PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Secrets might come up

today. This is an excellent day to do research of any kind, or to search for answers and solu-tions. YOU BORN TODAY You know how to get people’s attention; in fact, you can mesmerize others. You under-stand how the world works and what makes people tick. You’re interested in a huge variety of subjects -- every-thing! You need the freedom to explore what you want in this life. Something you’ve

been involved with for nine years will end or diminish this year in order to make room for something new. Birthdate of: Elizabeth Taylor, actress; Donal Logue, actor; Ralph Nader, author/activist. (c) 2014 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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Amanda Todd and Rehtaeh Parsons are sadly well-known to many Canadians. Both teens committed suicide after years of bullying at the hands of classmates. On Feb. 26, Canadians will recognize Pink Shirt Day, a day devoted to

preventing bullying and helping children and teens who are being victimized.

For some people, bullying hits very close to home. Tad Milmine, now an RCMP consta-ble, is one of them.

As a child, Milmine was bullied relent-lessly by classmates and locked in the basement

by his stepmother every day for 12 years. His father, an alcoholic, never tried to help him, even when Milmine’s stepmother verbally abused him.

“I always held out hope that one day an

adult would see that I was in the basement and perhaps ‘rescue’ or ‘save’ me,” he says. “No one ever came.”

At 17, Milmine ran away from home and cut all ties with his father and stepmother. Still, he struggled with being extremely introverted and emotional. While he had dreamed of being a police o� cer for much of his life, he didn’t feel con� dent enough to act on that dream. At 33, he � nally felt able to take that step and do what he loved after encour-agement from an o� cer he met while playing baseball.

“I never acted on my dream because I truly believed it was just a dream,” he says. “I thought that dreams weren’t meant to be achieved.”

Milmine was moved by the 2011 suicide of Ontario teen Jamie Hubley, who killed him-

self after years of bul-lying for being gay and a � gure skater, to start Bullying Ends Here, a website that tells Hubley’s story as well as his own. Milmine has travelled all over Canada and the U.S. speaking to students and encourag-ing them to contact him if they need help. In the presentations, he shares his own story and that of Hubley, and tells the students that he understands what it’s like to be an outcast, and that he too is gay, just like Hubley. He shares this information to point out that he is no di� erent than the people listening to him in the audience.

“I never let my sexu-ality stand in the way of living out a dream,” Milmine says. “I never let the negativity while growing up stand in my way.”

Milmine’s presenta-tions are done on his own time and with his own money.

“I always wanted to ‘help’ people and today I am lucky enough to be in that position,” says Milmine. “Youth need to know that nobody can help them if they don’t speak up. You have to share, have to ask for help. Give us a chance to help.”

Sixty-four per cent of Canadian children have been bullied at school at some point, according to the Pink Shirt Day campaign, and 40 per cent of Canadian employees are bullied at the workplace on a

weekly basis.“Pink

Shirt Day gets people talking,” Milmine says. “People are talk-ing about it lead-ing up to it, and on the day itself. You’re going to talk about why you’re wearing a pink shirt that day, and youth are re-minded of the resources available to them.”

Pink Shirt Day was started in Nova Scotia by two teenage boys who, after seeing anoth-er male student bullied for wearing a pink shirt, decided to gather their friends and all wear pink to school. CKNW AM 980 was inspired by their action, and since 2007 has raised over $650,000 for anti-bul-lying programs in B.C. through the sale of their pink shirts. You can purchase your own shirt at London Drugs or online. � is year’s cam-paign is being presented by Coast Capital Sav-ings, with Black Press as a media partner.

For more informa-tion about Pink Shirt Day, visit www.pink-shirtday.ca. Milmine’s website can be found at www.bullyingendshere.ca.

weekly basis.“Pink

Shirt Day gets people talking,” Milmine says. “People are talk-ing about it lead-ing up to it, and on the day itself. You’re going to talk about why you’re wearing a pink shirt that day, and youth are re-minded of the resources

Wednesday, Feb. 26

Better than a thousand hollowwords, is one word that brings peace.

There is nothingto fear except fear itself.

You do not need anyone’s permissionto be your true self.

Remember always — that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Courage is fire. Bullying is smoke Courage is fire.

Bullying is smoke

Better than a thousand hollow

words, is one word that brings peace.

You do not need anyone’s permission to be your true self.

You do not need anyone’s permission to be your true self.

Stand up for others. Stand up for yourself.

Stand up for others. Stand up for yourself.

Remember always - that you not only have

the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Better than a thousand hollow

words, is one word that brings peace.

Remember always - that you not only have

the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

There is nothing to fear...

except fear itself.There is nothing

to fear......except

fear itself

A proud community

and Pink Shirt Day

supporter

3010 Highway Drive | Trail PH [email protected]| www.acklandsgrainger.com

Putting a stop to bullying on Pink Shirt Day…

Tad Milmine

PINKSHIRTDAY.CA Wednesday, February 26/14

Join the cause and buy a pink shirt at pinkshirtday.ca

or at London DrugsKatrine Conroy, MLA Kootenay West • 250-304-2783

[email protected]

Bullying Stops Here.A proud supporter of Pink Shirt Day and anti bullying

Stand up for others. Stand up for yourself

TRAIL

8130 Old Waneta Road, Trail • 250-364-1311

The website and smartphone app Ask.fm is a social-

networking site where people can ask other users

questions. It’s extremely popular with pre-teens

and teens, but recently it has become well-known

for facilitating cyber-bullying instead. It has been

referenced in several suicide cases around the world

as part of the bullying the victim experienced that led

to their suicide.

The biggest issue with Ask.fm is that questions

can be submitted anonymously, and content is not

monitored, so abuse of the service can be rampant

with no repercussions to the user. Even if someone

is blocked, that person can still view profi les and

see other interactions, and privacy settings cannot

be increased as they can on Facebook and Twitter.

According to RCMP Const. Tad Milmine, the Latvia-

based website also sends daily spam with messages

suggesting users kill themselves and calling them

ugly, among others, with no name attached.

Parents are urged to monitor all social media accounts

and talk to their children about their online activities in

an effort to prevent cyberbullying, and remember that

the terms of service of Facebook, Twitter and Ask.fm

require users to be at least 13.

The dangers of Ask.fm


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