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in hopes of nabbing fugitiveA Montrose man is taking a search

for a wanted man into his own hands in hopes of finding more out about the death of his daughter.

Mike Walsh is spreading the word of missing man Joel Hutchinson, who is currently wanted on British Columbia and Alberta-wide un-en-dorsed warrants of arrest for one count of breaching his conditions and two counts for failing to appear in Rossland court in April of last year.

The 30-year old is five foot 10, 146 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. Anyone with informa-tion on his whereabouts should con-tact Cst. Jason Zilkie or Sgt. Mike Wicentowich at the Trail detachment (250-364-2566).

“Joel Hutchinson may be armed and should be considered danger-

ous,” reports Sgt. Wicentowich of the Kootenay Boundary Regional General Investigation Section.

“Please do not approach him. Please report any sightings or his whereabouts to your local police de-tachment.”

Hutchinson fled the Trail area before his court date, in which he was facing several firearms-related charges that stem from an incident on July 20, 2014, on Faulkner Road near Fruitvale.

“This matter is still before the courts, and I unfortunately cannot provide any further detail about the specifics of the investigation,” adds Wicentowich.

Since this spring, the general in-vestigation section has been actively trying to locate Hutchinson through social media and so has Walsh, who

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A welder’s spark shines across the river as work continued on the pipe-pedestrian bridge in Trail. Wednesday’s wet snowfall didn’t slow down the pile driving crew who were working on the North Tower foundation piles.

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Plans for a skateboard park in Trail hit a bump this week when the city announced its application for the Canada 150 Community Infrastructure Program has been de-nied.

Trail’s other project considered, an expansion of the fitness centre at the Trail Aquatic and Leisure Centre, was also shut down.

“We are certainly very disappoint-ed that we weren’t successful,” said Trail Mayor Mike Martin. “We felt that the project met all perimeters of the program and it’s something that has been on the books for a consid-erable period of time and we’re just looking for a way to get it done.”

Trail submitted an application re-questing $350,000 for the estimated $700,000 project, with plans of pick-ing up $280,000 of the price tag that would have been rounded out by the Friends of the Trail Skate Park Society.

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Trail denied grant for skate parkCity to weigh its options during capital planning

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With the Liberal Government’s December bud-get a month old

and having received only first reading, should we prepare for possible changes in Canada’s tax policy? Here are some key items announced.

The big tax picture includes a tax rate reduction from 22 per cent to 20 per cent for those earning over $45,000 but less than $90,000. At the same time, those with earnings over $200,000 will see a new 33 per cent tax bracket. This income used to be taxed at 29 per cent.

The Family Tax Cut intro-duced by the Conservatives in 2014 should be eliminated and replaced with a revamped all inclusive child tax benefit. The Universal Child Care Benefit, Canada Child Tax Benefit and its national supplement should be rolled into an income tested

Child Benefit. Income tested meaning high income earning families won’t receive it – high income has not been clearly tested.

The Children’s Fitness and Arts Credits introduced by the Conservatives a few years back

should be elimi-nated, the Liberals arguing that these credits only benefit wealthy taxpayers.

While Student Tuition claims will remain intact, the accompany-ing Education Amounts calcu-lated on months of

full time or part time studies designed to help offset the cost of books and supplies should be eliminated.

The Liberals plan to shift the tax savings to the Student Grant Program to increase funds available.

Staying with education, a new Teacher School Supplies Credit has been put forward that will give teachers up to

a $150 tax credit for school items purchased out of their own pocket.

The Northern Allowance rate should increase by about 35 per cent for those living in a prescribed zone.

The Home Buyer’s Plan cur-rently open to first time home buyers should be extended to include people impacted by a sudden change in lifestyle or forced re-location – a vague descriptor at this time. This plan allows people to remove monies from their RRSP to purchase a home on the prem-ise that the funds will be repaid to their RRSP.

Changes to investment tax incentives include rolling back from $10,000 to $5,500 per year for investments into a Tax Free Savings Accounts, limit-ing the Exploration Expense Deduction, and enhancing tax policies surrounding green technology.

Organized labour and reg-istered charities should experi-ence favourable changes.

Small business should ex-

pect the previously announced tax rate reduction to be im-plemented, and there should be a broader definition of a Canadian Controlled Private Corporation for the small business deduction claim.

Finally, the Liberals prom-ised a two prong approach to the pursuit and collection of tax revenue.

On the one hand, the Liberals want to offer a soft-er gentler approach for those needing help in filing their tax return including easier and clearer tax information and in-structions, along with permis-sion to file paper returns.

On the other hand, the Liberals propose to spend mil-lions of dollars to help Canada Revenue Agency aggressively pursue tax evaders.

Let’s see what happens.Ron Clarke has his MBA and

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wants to uncover more on his daughter Aysia Peters’ death.

The 17-year-old youth was “found to have life-threatening injuries and was transported by am-bulance to the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital in Trail” where she was pronounced dead, police reported. Hutchinson was taken into custody by police at that time for an unre-lated event.

Walsh is actively post-ing photos and infor-mation on Hutchinson via Facebook, where his cause has attracted wide-spread attention. As of Tuesday, his efforts had received 246,000 shares and 22,000 comments. He’s read each one.

“After my daughter died I said, ‘I don’t want this to happen to some-one else again,’” he told the Trail Times. “I’ve lost my daughter, my only child … if something can come out of this that’s

positive, that’s what I want.”

Walsh remembers Aysia as his innocent “little girl.” When she turned 17 years old, she moved out of her house and into hiding with Hutchinson.

“Like I told the po-lice, I don’t care who pulled the trigger, when my daughter came here three days prior to her

death, I didn’t even rec-ognize her,” he said.

She had lost about 40 pounds and was scared, he recalled.

“I looked at this girl, I looked at her and looked at her and thought who are you and I said, ‘Aysia … ? Give me a hug.’ She said, ‘don’t you touch me.’ I said, ‘I’m your dad,’ and she fell into my arms and broke into tears.”

She stayed with him for five hours that day before she wanted to go back to Hutchinson.

“The last time I saw her was in the hospital, and she was in the hos-pital bed with a bullet through her head,” he said. “That was the last time.”

The general investiga-tive section and Crime Reduction Unit, along with the Nelson Forensic Investigation Section, in-vestigated the cause of her death though noth-ing has been publicized at this time since the in-cident is still in the court system.

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Doreen Cronie passed away on January 6, 2016. Doreen is survived by her loving husband, Mervyn and her children Wendy Cronie, Barbara

Zetterberg, and Scott Cronie. Doreen was born on January 1, 1939 in Macleod, Alberta to Dora and Herb Jacobs. She was preceded in

death by her parents and sister Muriel. Doreen and Merv were high school sweethearts and married in 1959. � ey had a life together � lled with love, friendship and adventure. � e family was at her bedside until the end. � e family would like to extend their gratitude to the doctors, nurses and sta� on the third � oor of Swedish Issaquah. A private family service is planned. In lieu of � owers, donations can be made to the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital.

January 1, 1939 in Macleod, Alberta to Dora and Herb

death by her parents and sister Muriel. Doreen and Merv were high school sweethearts death by her parents and sister Muriel. Doreen and Merv were high school sweethearts

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The program asked that money be pegged for rehabilitation, reno-vation or expansion of existing infrastructure for public use, which convinced the city to abandon its plans of a new development on Rossland Avenue and refocus its efforts down at Gyro Park.

Now how the city comes up with the money and where this future park could be lo-cated is up in the air. The city has not met to deliberate on the news yet but Martin ensures that it will be addressed during capital planning in February.

Trail has a number of considerable expen-ditures this year and has to be cautious in its pri-orities moving forward, said Martin.

“Both the pedestrian/pipe bridge and library/museum exceeded the cost of the loan approval that we received during the two referendums,” he explained. “The de-cision to move forward with those projects re-quired us to take the ad-ditional funding out of the regular capital plan for the city.”

The city is also look-ing at the possibil-ity of a small air ter-minal building, which is a contingent part of grant funding sought for a runway upgrade. At the same time, Trail hopes to tap into some terminal fund-ing from the Ministry of Transportation ear-marked for rural air-ports.

Martin calls the bridge, library/museum and airport upgrades top priorities but that’s not say the skate park is not considered of value. But whether plans shift or even take shape this year will be decided next month when coun-cil weighs its options.

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The hearing date for city councillor Julia Butler has final-ly been set. Butler will have her day in court on Feb. 1 at 10 a.m. at the Vancouver Law Courts.

On that date, the B.C. Supreme Court is expected to decide whether or not Butler has to give up her position as

councillor for the City of Grand Forks.

The hearing was brought on by a petition from council to have Butler disqualified from office for being in breach of her oath of office.

Council voted on May 25, 2015 to petition the court for a declaration of disqualifica-tion against Butler pursuant to sections 110 and 111 of the

Community Charter.In May 2015, the city’s law

firm (Young Anderson) found Butler in a direct pecuniary con-flict of interest regarding the water meter program.

It is expected that if the Supreme Court disqualifies Butler that the city would an-nounce an upcoming byelection to fill both her spot and the spot vacated by Michael Wirischagin.

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Canada has always had a soft spot for refugees who have shaped our nation’s history, fuelled its eco-

nomic growth, defined its social fabric and influenced its political direction.

This tradition began most sig-nificantly in 1783 with the arrival of United Empire Loyalists seek-ing safe haven from the American Revolution. About 33,000 settled in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, with another 2,000 to Prince Edward Island and 10,000 or so more to modern day Quebec and Ontario. They were followed in the 19th century by, among others, Poles, Ukrainians and Jews who fled from oppression and persecution and wound up build-ing Canada into the great nation it is today.

Canadians have long been known and recognized not only for humanitarian actions but also for understanding the pas-sion and value refugees bring. In 1986, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees con-ferred the Nansen Medal upon the people of Canada in recognition of that tradition which since the Second World War has welcomed

waves of refugees from Hungary, C z e c h o s l o v a k i a , Uganda, Chile, China and Vietnam, to say nothing of the many displaced Europeans who sought a better post war life here. The Syrians are but the most recent mani-festation and there is no reason to expect they will not, like those who came before, work hard to build a better life and a richer, stronger Canada.

In what has become the world’s largest humanitarian crisis in close to 70 years, more than four million people have fled Syria since the conflicts there began.

In 2015, more than one mil-lion crossed into Europe and Canada has committed to accept-ing 25,000, close to 7,000 of whom have already arrived, over the next few months.

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well nourished and part of healthy young families. They were elegantly dressed, articulate and had money. They doted on their children, buying them sweets, chocolate bars and pop.

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fleeing their war torn country in search of political stability and economic opportunity.

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The arrival of the latest wave of Syrians in the past few weeks is more than an act of collective Canadian compassion. It is an in-vestment - a tool for addressing our population challenges which in turn gives us the manpower necessary to fuel our economic growth.

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The arrival of Syrian refugees to Canada will be both a humani-tarian triumph and an economic lift off

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Ch a n c e l l o r Angela Merkel o p e n e d G e r m a n y ’s

doors to a million refugees and migrants last year – three times as many as the rest of the European Union put together. Critics in Germany predicted a popular backlash, and warned that even her own Christian Democratic Party (CDU) would turn against her.

In the case of the CDU, at least, they were dead wrong. At the par-ty’s annual congress on 15 December, Merkel’s speech – in which she did not retreat one inch from her frequent as-sertion that “we can do it” (accept and integrate the refugees) – got a ten-minute standing ovation that brought tears to her eyes.

Despite a dip in the opinion polls, she also still enjoys widespread popular support – or at least she did until the ugly events in the city of Cologne on New Year’s Eve.

In the crowds that gathered in front of Cologne’s railway sta-tion to celebrate the New Year, hundreds of young men in gangs began harassing and robbing German women. “All of a sud-den these men around us began groping us,” one victim told German television.

“They touched our behinds and grabbed between our legs. They touched us everywhere, so my girlfriend wanted to get out of the crowd. When I turned around one guy grabbed my bag and ripped it off my body.” There were 379 complaints to the police, 40 per cent of

which involved sexual assault, and two accusa-tions of rape.

Only thirty-one men were arrested in con-nection with these of-fences, a police failure that caused popular out-rage. But the incendiary fact – which the police at first declined to re-veal – was that 18 of the 31 men arrested were asylum-seekers, and all but five were Muslims. So there was a fire-storm of popular pro-test about the Cologne attacks (which also happened on a smaller scale in Stuttgart and Hamburg).

The German au-thorities did their best to contain the damage. The Cologne police chief,

Wolfgang Albers, was suspended for holding back information about the attacks, and in par-ticular about the origin of the suspects.

Chancellor Merkel felt obliged to prom-ise that she will change the law which says that asylum seekers can only be forcibly sent home

if they have been sen-tenced to at least three years in prison, and if their lives are not at risk in their home country.

The new law will say that migrants sentenced to any jail-time, or even put on probation, can be sent home no matter where they come from. It’s the least she could do politically, as the ex-treme anti-immigrant parties are already mak-ing a meal out of the Cologne events.

But what on earth made those young Muslim men, the ben-eficiaries of Germany’s generosity, think they could sexually attack young German women in public (and rob them while they were doing it)?

They were not pro-fessional thieves, and I very much doubt that they would sexually attack young Muslim women in public if they were back home. I suspect that they were mostly village boys who still believe the popu-lar Middle Eastern ste-reotypes about good

Muslim girls whom you must not harass, and “loose” Western women who are fair game for sexual assault.

I once lived in Istanbul for a while with my wife and two little boys, and we had the same experience as most other Westerners: when my wife was out with me or with the children, she was treat-ed with respect.

When she was out alone, she was the tar-get of constant sexual harassment.

At least once a day, as young men passed her in the crowded streets, she would sud-denly experience the full frontal grab – and if she protested, they would simply laugh at her. So I taught her what a Turkish woman would say if the same thing happened, and it

did help. She still got molested, but when she rebuked the attackers in Turkish they were over-whelmed with shame and panic, and disap-peared into the crowd as fast as possible.

This was back when Istanbul only had three million people (it now has 14 million), but already my Turkish friends were moaning about how their city was being “villager-ised” by people migrating from the countryside. Even Turkish women who looked too “Western” were being harassed, and they blamed the ex-villagers.

When you take in a million refugees, more than half of them from the Middle East, you may expect them to include a few religious fanatics who may be or become terrorists. They

will also include a con-siderably larger number of ignorant hicks who think that it is not a crime or a disgrace to attack non-Muslim girls sexually.

No good deed goes entirely unpunished, and this is part of the price Germany will pay for its generosity. It’s not an unbearable price, even if it involves one or two more Islamist terrorist attacks than would otherwise have occurred – and in a couple of years most of the young Muslim men who attacked women in Cologne will have fig-ured out that being free, as German women are, does not mean being immoral or freely avail-able.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are pub-lished in 45 countries.

Refugees, sexual harassment and Angela Merkel

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An editorial from the Halifax Chronicle-Herald

Federal Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale is an old hand at putting out fires. His resume goes back to the Chretien and Martin governments as a troubleshooter sent in to handle problem files.

But an early Ottawa fire of 2016 -- one that really needs a blast of common sense -- is burning in Mr. Goodale’s own department.

Some innocent Canadians who share a name with someone officially deemed a travel secu-rity risk are repeatedly running into delays and special screening when they try to board a flight. And there doesn’t appear to be any process for permanently get-ting them off the so-called no-fly list.

This problem of “false posi-tives” climbed past the absurd reading on the altimeter last week when the family of a six-year-old Markham, Ont., boy went pub-lic with their frustration over the number of times that young Syed Adam Ahmed’s name has triggered special screening at air-ports.

The latest incident was on Dec. 31, when Syed and his fa-ther Sulemaan, both avid Habs fans, had to get special clearance for a flight to Boston to watch the New Year’s Day Winter Classic match between the Montreal Canadiens and Boston Bruins.

But the family has been encoun-tering this problem since Syed was a toddler.

Since the Ahmed family spoke out on social media, other fami-lies have come forward, too. They have similar stories of children -- some as young as six and 10 weeks -- subjected to screening, and even fingerprinting and reti-nal scans, because their names were flagged from the Passenger Protect Program list.

They all complain, as well, of the nightmare of trying to fix such errors and get off the list if you’re an innocent party.

The Passenger Protect Recourse Office will accept an application to remove you from the list only if you have been de-nied transportation and “have re-ceived a written direction when attempting to obtain a boarding pass.”

Merely experiencing or facing a lifetime of delays and special screening isn’t deemed intrusion enough on an innocent person’s freedom and dignity to warrant the government providing actual recourse and fixing the mistake.

To his credit, Mr. Goodale said last week he is investigating the problem raised by the Ahmeds and will look for solutions. This will be part of the government’s commitment to fix “problem ele-ments” of the Harper govern-ment’s anti-terrorism law.

For starters, officials are re-

minding carriers that “additional security screening validation is not required for individuals under the age of 18.” But why haven’t carriers and security per-sonnel been following this rule? Is there some buck-passing going on here?

Mr. Goodale also says his de-partment is “exploring” possible amendments to regulations to “help differentiate individuals who have similar or the same names as individuals listed under the Passenger Protect Program.”

Alert lists are a necessary se-curity measure in air travel. But clearly our security databases are in dire need of more built-in in-telligence. A system that doesn’t immediately distinguish between an infant and an adult terror sus-pect with the same name doesn’t inspire much confidence as a se-curity tool or as a reasonable way to protect people from needless interference. And no system de-serves a pass from fixing mis-takes that hurt the innocent.

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Allan and Michael Pruss demonstrate their skill with the golf club and hockey stick at the Beaver Valley Arena on Thursday, as the twins committed to play both hockey and golf with the University of Jamestown last month.

Pruss twins commit to JamestownJIM BAILEY

Times Sports Editor

Beaver Valley Nitehawks for-wards Allan and Michael Pruss are skilled players on the ice, but what might come as a surprise to many is that off the ice, the twins are veritable wizards on the golf course.

Their two-sport passion paid off last month when the identical-duo signed a commitment to the University of Jamestown in North Dakota to play both hockey and golf for the U of J Jimmies next season.

“We are very proud of their achievements of attaining schol-arships to Jamestown, and it is a true testament to their character, work ethic, grit, and talent,” said Nitehawk coach and GM Terry Jones. “They have totally bought in to what our team is about, and are fantastic ambassadors of our community in every way.”

As Junior B players, gaining a commitment to play college hock-ey was once rare, but it is becom-ing more common as the competi-tive field continues to grow. The Nitehawks graduated a number of players to the college ranks in re-cent years, such as Andrew Miller to the University of Oklahoma, Ryan Edwards, Arie Postmus, and Danny Vlanich to Selkirk College, and Archie McKinnon and Chris

Derochie to Adrian College in Michigan.

So in October, when Jamestown coach, Dean Stork, offered the 19-year-old twins scholarships to play hockey, they couldn’t pass it up.

“We took a little time and thought about it, looked at the school and did some research, but all in all, it had everything we were looking forward to go to school, so we figured it was a great opportunity,” said Allan.

The Red Deer natives added a spark to the Beaver Valley lineup after joining the club last sea-son, and have taken off offensively this year with Michael netting 30 points in 39 games and Allan with 28 in 34 matches. The brothers remind Jones of another set of twins that once played for the Nitehawks.

“Coaching the Pruss boys, they are a lot like my boys (Kellen and Connor) in how competitive they are, especially with each other, but also how distinctively different they are,” said Jones. “They really work hard on the details of the game, and for smaller guys, they play the game ‘big’.”

During the summer, Michael and Allan work at the River Bend Golf Course in Red Deer and tee off in a number of junior and amateur tournaments in Alberta, so combining the two sports at

college seemed like a good idea.“Originally it was just for hock-

ey, but we contacted the golf coach, and let him know a bit about our-selves and our golf games, and he was happy to welcome us aboard,” said Michael.

“We played some national and provincial tournaments, and won a few junior tournaments along the way, and also worked at a golf course so we spend plenty of hours practicing and working with professionals,” added Allan.

Both are scratch golfers, and the “Boys from the Bend’s” facility for trick golf shots is impressive, and fast gaining a following on YouTube and Instagram, where they’ve posted videos displaying their considerable prowess with a golf club. One example, has Allan chipping it into the air from behind his brother and Michael sending it into the stratosphere with a swat out of mid-air with his driver.

“Some of the guys we work with at the course, in our spare time we’ll run a little trick shot ac-count, and we have close to 1,000 followers on Instagram,” explains Michael.

As for the Jimmies’ hockey team, it will play its inaugural sea-son starting in September, 2016, in Division 1 of the American Collegiate Hockey Association.

BY TIMES CORRESPONDENT Corvus Construction, skipped

by Deane Horning, started the New Year in the Kootenay Savings Super League right where they left off, cruising to victory on Thursday at the Trail Curling Club.

Corvus was in tough with Team Fines, as skip Ken drew to the pot in the first and fourth ends for singles, then stole the fifth to tie the game at 3-3. Ken drew to the four-foot again in the sixth, but Deane made a perfect come around tap for two, then stole the seventh, eighth and ninth ends for

a 9-3 Corvus win.Bill vanYzerloo’s team was play-

ing shorthanded against a fired up Team Beauchamp. Skip Bill was missing that second sweeper, as draws in the third and fourth ends came up short or rubbed a guard, lending to a 4-0 Beauchamp lead. Van Yzerloo got on the board in the fifth, but Beauchamp came right back when skip Russ made an easy double take-out for a big three. Dutchy tried to close the gap with deuces in the sev-enth and eighth ends, only to see Beauchamp take one in the ninth,

JIM BAILEYTimes Sports Editor

The Trail Smoke Eaters look for their first win in four games when they travel to Prince George to play the Spruce Kings tonight in BCHL action, before making a stop in West Kelowna on Friday.

The games bring to an end a series of five road tilts, where so far Trail has managed to grab just one point in a three-game swing to the Mainland last week.

“At some point, everyone has to elevate their games a little bit,” said Smoke Eater coach Nick Deschenes. “We didn’t make any moves at the deadline and you know teams around us found ways to add and get a little bit better.”

Trail needs a win against the Spruce Kings, a team that traded former Smoke Eater Brian Basilico, 20, and Jake Lebrun, 20, to beef up an already formidable West Kelowna Warriors team, in exchange for 18-year-old Tanner Campbell and futures on Jan. 7.

Campbell paid dividends imme-diately for P.G. scoring six goals in an identical road trip to the Lower Mainland, where Prince George took three points in a 2-2 tie with Surrey, a 4-3 win over Coquitlam, and a 7-3 loss to Chilliwack.

The 10-29-2-1 Spruce Kings are mired in fifth place in the Mainland division well out of contention for a playoff spot, while Trail is tied with the Vernon Vipers for fourth place with two games in hand, and play-offs very much in the picture.

Following the Smoke Eaters re-turn early Monday morning from the Mainland, the team had little time to prepare for the three games this week, as the bus left Wednesday for today’s match in Prince George.

“We’re going to look at the video and that will be our main teaching tool through the week, to see where we’re at,” said Deschenes. “That and the mental side, the prepara-tion side, and the desire side. The focal point when we started to turn things around was: what’s our prob-lem here? We can have great games against great teams and then we drop off. And any athlete at any age has to battle that, which is being consistent.”

The Warrriors helped out the Smokies on Tuesday with a 5-2 win over Vernon, but Trail has yet to beat the Warriors this season, losing all three contests.

Trail returns to the Cominco Arena on Sunday to play the 22-17-2-0 Powell River Kings, that are cur-rently in third place in the Island di-vision. With the end of the road trip, Trail will enjoy home ice for much of the remainder of the season.

“The positives are that after the next two games, we’re going to have 10 home games versus five away games, so if we can keep this thing tight and come up with some points this weekend, statistically we play a lot better at home, so it will put us in a good position. We want to control our destiny and that’s the main thing.”

The puck drop on Sunday is 3 p.m. versus Powell River.

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“We are the first class of hockey players to come in, probably mostly all freshman, so it’s going to be a young team, and we’ll have lots to learn, but as the coach said, ‘We are going to be pretty competitive in years to come,’” said Michael.

Jamestown will compete as an Independent in NAIA hockey, with 58 teams competing in seven different conferences.

“Obviously this shows what Jamestown thinks of Kootenay International Hockey League players, and goes to show the caliber of the league,” said Allan.

Other ACHA Div. 1 schools include Minot State, Iowa State, and Midland University in Nebraska, the University of Alabama, University of Arizona, University of Arkansas, University of Colorado, Colorado State University, University of Illinois, and the University of Oklahoma.

“Thanks to the Nitehawks, our families, our bil-let families, teammates, and friends for making this possible,” added Michael.

The Pruss brothers plan to study business ad-ministration at U of J.

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then run them out of rocks for an 8-5 win.Team Myron Nichol had their A game going

against Team Albo, whose regular third Dennis Schlender stepped up to skip for an ailing Darrin Albo.

Both teams scored with their hammer advantage throughout the game, with Nichol holding a slight 4-3 lead after four ends. Dennis’s last rock guard in the fifth, overcurled, leaving skip Myron an open hit for four. Facing another four buried stones in the sixth, Schlender made an exquisite draw through a tiny port, bumping Nichols shot stone back just enough to lie one.

Nichol seemed to have complete control with an-other deuce in the seventh, but Team Albo wouldn’t roll over, putting up a huge four ender of their own. Nichol countered with a double take-out to lay three in the ninth, then ran Team Albo out of rocks for an exciting 11-8 victory.

Team Umpherville were unavailable for their game with Team Heather Nichol, as they were on their way to Salmon Arm to compete in the Mens Open Qualifier.

This ends the regular season portion of this year’s Kootenay Saving Super League schedule. Playoffs start tonight at the Trail Curling Club at 7 p.m. See Scoreboard for standings.

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Two-sport twins

Season wraps, playoffs begin

BY TIMES STAFFTwo Kootenay teams will compete at the

Canadian Direct Insurance 2016 B.C. Men’s Curling Championships set to kick off in Nelson next month.

Kimberley’s Tom Buchy rink features Castlegar’s Dean Horning as third, Dave Toffolo second and Darren Will lead, while Creston’s Chris Ducharme rink brings third Josh Firman, second Jim Stewart and lead Jim Macaulay to the event.

The remaining three teams were finalized this past weekend in Salmon Arm. Two Vancouver Island teams, Team Montgomery and Team Jackson qualified, and will be joined by Team House from Richmond to complete the field.

The event will feature 16 men’s teams vying for their chance to represent B.C. at the Tim Hortons Brier in Ottawa.

Ten teams that had previously qualified at re-gional playdowns in December, include: Team Cotter, from Kelowna/Vernon, earned a trip back to provincials as the defending champions, along with the top two CTRS (Canadian Team Ranking System) points winners, Team Joanisse and Team Geall both from Royal City Curling Club.

The teams that qualified in regional play-downs include Team Buchy, Team Ducharme, Team Richard, from Kelowna Curling Club, Team Longworth, from Vernon Curling Club, Team Craig, from Victoria Curling Centre, Team Dangerfield, from Victoria Curling Centre, Team Johnson, from Royal City Curling Club, Team Martyn, from Royal City Curling Club, Team Schneider, from Vancouver Curling Club and Team Wenzek, from Langley/Royal City Curling Clubs.

This year’s Championship, which will be tele-vised on Sportsnet, takes place at Nelson Curling Centre from February 10-14.

For ticket information, and to find out more about the event, visit http://cdimens2016.curlbc.ca/.

SCOREBOARDCurling

Kootenay Savings Super League

Final Regular Season Standings

Team PtsCorvus Construction 26B vanYzerloo 19M Nichol 18R Beauchamp 16D Albo 11K Fines 9H Nichol 7J Umpherville 6

HockeyBCHL

Wednesday’s results N/A Wenatchee at Penticton, 7 p.m.

Tuesday’s resultsVictoria 7 Cowichan Valley 1West Kelowna 5 Vernon 2

Thursday’s gamesTrail at Prince George, 7 p.m.

Friday’s gamesLangley at Coquitlam, 7 p.m.Alberni Valley at Cowichan

Valley, 7 p.m.Victoria at P. G., 7 p.m.

Vernon at Salmon Arm, 7 p.m.Powell River at Surrey, 7 p.m.Trail at West Kelowna, 7 p.m.Nanaimo at Wenatchee, 7:05

p.m.Penticton at Merritt, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday’s gamesNanaimo at Langley, 6 p.m.Powell River at Penticton, 6

p.m.Cowichan at Alberni 7 p.m.

Victoria at Chilliwack, 7 p.m.W Kelowna at Salmon Arm,

7 p.m.Merritt at Wenatchee, 7:05

p.m.Sunday, January 17

Nanaimo at Coquitlam, 2 p.m.Powell River at Trail, 3 p.m.

Victoria at Surrey, 4 p.m.Tuesday, January 19

Merritt at Salmon Arm, 7 p.m.

NFLDivisional PlayoffsSaturday, Jan. 16

K.C. at New England, 4:35Green Bay at Arizona, 8:15

p.m. Sunday, Jan. 17

Seattle at Carolina, 1:05 p.m. Pittsburgh at Denver, 4:30 p.m. Conference Championships

Sunday, Jan. 24AFC, 3:05 p.m. (CBS)NFC, 6:40 p.m. (FOX)Pro Bowl At Honolulu

Sunday, Jan. 317 p.m. (ESPN)Super Bowl

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Music• Tonight, 7:30 p.m.

Jazz at the Griff. The Clinton Swanson Jazz Trio. Original compo-sitions and arrange-ments. Rob Fahie on acoustic bass, drum-mer Steven Parish join

Swanson on tenor sax.• Sunday, 7 p.m. Joe

Hill Coffee House at the Rossland Legion at 2081 Washington St. Performers: Dawn Graham, Michael Gifford, Stevo, Bert Kniss, Peter Reed, Marti Daniel, Peter Pi. Doors open at 6 p.m. Admission $3, free for children and students.

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Other• Saturday, Seniors

Centre in downtown Trail, Portland St. entrance, 2-4 p.m. dance to live band, All Aboard. All welcome, admission $2.

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Sunday Cinema pres-ents Trumbo. The suc-cessful career of 1940s screenwriter Dalton Trumbo comes to a crushing end when he and other Hollywood figures are blacklisted for their political be-liefs.

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368.9827 or 365. 6276.Upcoming• Jan. 21, Webster

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• Jan. 26, Warfield Community Hall, Jazzercise classes. 2:30-3:15 p.m. (children)

and 5:45-6:45 p.m., adults. All proceeds for “Building Pride: New Intermediate Playground Project.” Kids $8 or two class-es for $12; adults $12 each. Contact [email protected] to register. Class also runs Jan. 28.

• Jan. 30, Royal Theatre, 9:55 a.m. for Turandto, Met Opera Live in HD.

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in the Lower Columbia

The Charles Bailey Theatre has be-come a popular stopping point for renown Canadian artists of late.

Bryan Adams, Gordon Lightfoot and Colin James have all made well-received stops in Trail in the last few years.

And next week another nationally ac-claimed group will arrive in the Home of Champions when Theory of a Deadman (TOAD) performs on Tuesday in Trail.

Although TOAD is known for its hard-rocking, grunge style of music, which earned the band a Juno Award in 2003 as new group of the year, the sounds coming

out of the Charles Bailey Theatre will have a much more subdued effect as the group strips down many of its most popular songs in an acoustic concert.

Unplugged 15 presents TOAD at its most basic yet soulful level. “The acoustic tour gives us an opportunity to play a lot of songs that don’t really go over well in a rock club kind of atmosphere,” bassist Dean Back told the Trail Times. “The bare bones of songs all start with an acoustic guitar.”

The band, featuring Black, lead singer Tyler Connolly, guitarist Dave Brenner and drummer Joey Dandeneau, is taking a trip down memory lane with their acoustic tour of small venues across the country.For more on Theory of a Deadman see this week’s edition of the West Kootenay Advertiser.

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LEISURE

Dear Annie: My wife and I have been married for 30 years and we’ve had the same problem all of that time. She doesn’t have an outside job, but she doesn’t do much around the house, either. She doesn’t clean and rarely cooks. It is always up to me to tidy up. I am forever picking up stuff, clearing piles of papers and eating mostly store-bought meals.

After a day at work, I would like to relax a bit. But I cannot tolerate this type of messy, dirty atmosphere. It upsets me and I lose my temper. This has been going on for our en-tire marriage and nothing changes. When I raise my voice, I am blamed for having a temper and made out to be the bad guy, and around and around we go. What can I do? -- Going Mad in Canada

Dear Mad: This type of issue should be addressed early in a mar-riage, before the behavior comes entrenched and resentment builds. After 30 years of enabling, you are delusional if you expect your wife to suddenly turn into a housekeeper.

Losing your temper obviously isn’t working. Instead, find ways to cope. Can you hire cleaning help so that the house stays mostly tidy? We also recom-mend that you stop mak-ing an issue of it. Instead, say nothing. Cook your own meals, clean your own dishes, wash your own clothes, and if your wife ob-jects, tell her as sweetly as possible that she is welcome to do the same.

Dear Annie: “Heartbroken in California” needs to run for her life. No amount of counseling is going to help a guy who doesn’t see that his kids are tyrants.

I married a man who has a rude teenage daughter. This kid can flip a switch. She is nasty to me and then becomes a little angel the second my husband walks in the door. When I come home from work, she won’t even acknowledge me. Of course, I am not allowed to say anything about her rude behavior, or question his constant spoiling of this ungrate-

ful brat. Tell “Heartbroken” to get out

while she can. Moving in won’t fix anything. We tried counseling until we fi-nally began addressing her awful behavior and she whined that she didn’t want to go. We couldn’t force her, so we

got nowhere and now I just deal with it.

I have tried to be nice, but it doesn’t work. My husband won’t do anything about it, because he doesn’t see it. My best response now is to just ignore her, as sad as that sounds. -- Frustrated in Oregon

Dear Oregon: It’s too bad that your stepdaughter has chosen to ruin what could be a solid mother-daughter relationship, and that your husband prefers to keep his blinders on. We hope the daughter grows up enough to be tolerable and that your husband’s other qualities make up for the frustration.

Several readers suggested that

“Heartbroken” surreptitiously re-cord her stepdaughter’s bullying and then play it back for the husband. That might open his eyes, but we aren’t convinced that it will change his attitude toward his child.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar,

longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your ques-tions to [email protected], or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/AskAnnies.

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Dec. 19, 1975

Eda Rizzotti

who passed away January 14, 1988

Johnny Rizzotti

July 22, 1928 - January 14, 2013.

We have only a memory to cherish

our whole life through; but the

sweetness will live forever, as

we treasure the memory of you.

Riga, Kay and families.

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