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When the federal govern-ment rolls out new legislation that will end mom-and-pop pot farms and grow the med-ical marijuana industry into a commercially licensed busi-ness, local jurisdictions won’t have much say in the matter if the plants are rooted in B.C.’s Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR).

The current system of per-sonal use licences and desig-nated licences will be phased out in a few months, and new federal licences geared to large scale production and distri-bution facilities will be estab-lished under Health Canada’s Marijuana for Medical Purposes Regulation.

“Most of the lands that are zoned agricultural in the RDKB

are within the ALR,” explained Mark Andison, general manager of operations for the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary (RDKB).

“Local governments are not permitted to prohibit “farm use” in the ALR through their zoning regulations.”

Beginning April 1, medical marijuana production will be considered a farming crop, and along with related accessory uses such as the drying, pro-cessing and packaging of the product, permitted in the ALR.

Locally, the Central Kootenay’s regional district was first on board to endorse the changes when its board passed a resolution last May, confirming medical pot operations would be allowed in areas zoned agri-cultural or fall within the ALR.

But, according to Andison, no official resolution is required, because licensed med-ical pot production is permitted

by the province’s land statute under the Agricultural Land Commission Act, and local gov-ernments do not have any dis-cretion to prohibit that use even if they wanted to.

“There is no reason for the RDKB board to pass a resolu-tion,” he said. “In the RDKB, medical marijuana production is permitted as a form of agricul-ture and in various agricultural zones within in the region.”

However, part of the regional district’s ongoing review of its long range plans includes con-sulting with various rural com-munities to determine whether specific restrictions should be imposed upon this form of agri-culture.

Those restrictions may include regulatory provisions such as minimum setbacks from property lines, fencing require-ments, or requiring production to move indoors.

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Although the thermometer says it's cold enough and the calendar indicates that this season is indeed “winter,” some who relish the time of year of frosty breezes and drifting powder may be hesitant to celebrate at this point in this somewhat snow-deficit year.

But none of this discourages the orga-nizers and fans of Rossland's venerable 117 year-old winter celebration. As far as they are concerned, carnival is on.

“There are five keys to a successful Winter Carnival,” said Lisa Wegner, director of media for the Rossland Winter Carnival committee. “Sponsorship, volunteers, participants, spec-tators, and snow.”

While corporate and community sponsor-ship for the celebration is at a healthy level and the participants and spectators have never presented a problem, Wegner says the volunteer base is a little thin this year.

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The announcement was made Tuesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos,

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Ever had the desire to express yourself in writing with more than 144 characters but maybe weren't sure of your ability?

If that's the case then you might want to consider signing up for Selkirk College's first university level Arts and Sciences course to be offered in Trail in years when local author and Selkirk instructor, Almeda Glenn Miller, presents first year university, Creative Writing 100, at Selkirk's Trail cam-pus in February.

“We see Trail as being a community that would appreciate having these kinds of courses,” said David Feldman, chair of University Arts and Sciences for Selkirk. “The trick is finding out who wants what. This offering is kind of putting out a feeler.”

The first semester

course will give par-ticipants the opportu-nity to explore their own writing voice in fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction and will be presented in a workshop format with the other writers in the program and allow them to develop their writing skills.

“We held Creative Writing 100 and 101 in Nelson last year and it was hugely suc-cessful,” said Miller. “It's great to have the opportunity to have it in Trail.”

Writers will also have the chance to become more comfort-able with presenting their work, as well as learning how to give feedback to their class-mates.

“One of the goals of the course is to help people to learn to read more closely,” said Miller. “They can learn to read like writers, as opposed to reading like readers.”

As part of the program writers will be reading the work of contempo-rary Canadian poets, B.C., Canadian, and American authors as well as delving into some of the First Nations and South American writers.

“We'll be study-ing some of the rule breakers, the change makers,” Miller said. “But, of course, the main focus of the pro-gram is to write.”

The course starts Feb. 20, will be held Thursday nights from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. over 16 weeks and is open to writers of all ages.

As this is a universi-ty transfer level course it is recommended to have a Grade 12 level of English or permis-sion from the instruc-tor in order to have the best opportunity to enjoy and benefit from the program.

“This course may be of interest to high school students who have completed their studies early and are looking to gain some university level credits before going into col-lege in the fall,” said Miller. “And it could be something that a more mature writer would like to explore to fur-ther their skills. It's nice to have the mix of experience in a course like this because some-times the older people have more stories to tell.”

Anyone interest-ed in registering for this course can con-tact Rachel Walker at [email protected] or (250) 365-1233. For questions about course content or to inquire about permission from the instructor, contact Almeda Glenn Miller at [email protected] or (250) 365-1437.

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FROM PAGE 1“While local governments

may impose such restrictions, they may not prohibit the use outright,” he explained. “It is considered to be a bona fide farm use.”

Before applicants can advance a request to Health Canada for a commercial grow-er’s licence, they must first notify the local government about their intent to submit an application to the federal regu-lating body.

“We have no way of know-ing whether these will be con-sidered viable applications in the eyes of Health Canada,”

added Andison.To date, there are two appli-

cants within the RDKB with high hopes of using the ALR to commercially farm medical marijuana.

One is from the Rock Creek area and the other, from a rural area near Grand Forks.

Although, Trail hasn’t dis-cussed the new Health Canada regulations, the city may have to in the future, because an area on the outskirts of the city is zoned ALR.

“To my knowledge there is only a small area of land within our municipal bound-aries that is zoned ALR,” said

Michelle McIsaac, Trail’s cor-porate administrator. “If it were to come up, we would have to examine the new Health Canada regulations for produ-cers and consider how those requirements align with the city’s zoning bylaw.”

Trail’s ALR land is north of Sunningdale toward the city’s northerly boundary, according to McIsaac.

“That said, agricultural uses are presently permitted in the city’s rural holding zones,” she said. “(Those) properties are mostly large, unserviced prop-erties along the outer fringes of the community’s boundaries.”

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FROM PAGE 1areas this year, particularly people with Serving it Right certification for working at the Olaus Ice Palace,” she said. “Even if they can only commit to one or two hours it would really help.”

For the snow require-ment of the festival the City of Rossland has stepped up to the plate and is trucking in as much of the white stuff as is necessary to keep the entertainment and competi-tions going over the four days of the carnival.

“Even with a lack of snow Rossland is pretty resourceful at bringing it in,” Wegner said. “We’re really grateful that the city includes this as part of their budget for the celebra-tion. Some years it’s not as necessary but it’s great that they can help with that.”

Along with many of the annual favourites at the carni-val, the Friday night parade at 6:30 p.m., Saturday morning bobsled races starting at 9:30 a.m., and the Queen street rail jam all day, there is more live music than has been heard in previous years with enter-tainment Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at both Rafters lounge at Red Mountain and the Blizzard Music Festival at the Flying Steam Shovel, including several recording artists making their debut in the area.

In addition to this, popu-lar Fernie ski-groove folkies, Shred Kelly will be performing at the Olaus Ice Palace Friday evening and the Rossland Skatepark Association is presenting live music at the

Miners Hall Saturday night.An important new addi-

tion is the free shuttle service that will be running through-out the weekend between the Prestige Hotel and Red Mountain, providing a safe ride for celebrants between the ski hill and town centre.

For the younger set the world famous Slocan Valley ice sculpture team will be con-structing an ice slide in front of the Rossland Library, kids can get free hot dogs and hot chocolate at the Post-Parade Extravaganza Friday evening,

GT racing on Spokane Street Saturday, and a kids Carnival Sunday at the Lions camp-ground presented by the West Kootenay Snogoers.

“We’re trying to step it up a bit this year and there’s been great buy-in by many of the sponsors and participants,” said Wegner.

“We hope everybody comes out and joins us for the fun.”

For a look at the full sched-ule of activities or to volunteer to help out with the carnival go to www.rosslandwintercar-nival.com.

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Lisa Wegner, director of media for the Rossland Winter Carnival, says that the low snowpack won't stop any of the fun for the 117th Winter Carnival this weekend. In the background, City of Rossland works crews are hard at work importing snow to Queen Street preparing the course for Saturday's “Wild in the Street” snowboard and ski rail jam.

B y t i m e s s t A f fThe Trail & Greater District RCMP

responded to call just before 11 a.m. on Tuesday morning reporting a male in the area of Bay Ave. and Victoria St. of down-town Trail acting erratically yelling, waiving his hands and pointing a handgun.

Witnesses provided a description of the male and his last known direction of travel, which aided in the police immediately locat-ing the 35-year-old male near by.

Due to the nature of the call, a highrisk arrest was safely conducted and a subse-quent search of the male resulted in police locating a rock the shape of a handgun.

The male had been holding this rock in the same manner as someone holding a pistol, which had caused the witnesses reported it as such.

The male was taken to an area health facility for mental health assessment. Criminal charges are not being recom-mended in this situation.

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Metro Vancouver mayors need to agree on new road, bridge and transit projects so taxpayers know what the price tag will be when they vote in a referen-dum, Transportation Minister Todd Stone said Thursday.

That referendum will be imposed by

legislation the B.C. government will present in the spring session of the legis-lature, and will be held along with muni-cipal elections in November, Stone told reporters.

The TransLink mayors’ council met Wednesday and rejected Stone’s pro-posal that they raise more money from

property taxes to avoid the referendum that Premier Christy Clark promised in last year’s B.C. elec-tion campaign. That promise applies to any new “funding levers” so taxpayers have a say before they are imposed.

Stone said a refer-endum question can’t be developed until priorities for new projects are identi-fied and a total cost is determined. But the communities haven’t agreed.

“When you talk to the mayor of Vancouver, for example, the prior-ity is an extension of the Millennium Line down Broadway,” Stone said. “When you talk to the mayor of Surrey, the priority is [light rail transit] on

up to three lines in Surrey. Depending on any other commun-ity you talk to in the region, the priorities range from improve-ments to roads, bridg-es or increased bus frequency and cap-acity.”

The mayors rejected the idea that they raise the TransLink tax on property, currently at $235 for the aver-age Metro Vancouver home with increases capped at three per cent per year by prov-incial legislation.

They have proposed new funding sources including a vehicle levy, a small increase in regional sales tax and eventually some form of road pricing to replace the region’s patchwork of bridge tolls.

B y A l i s T A i r W A T e r sKelowna Capital News

Kelowna remains one of the least affordable places to buy a house in the world, accord-ing the latest Demographica International study of housing cost.

The study compared the median price of a house with the median gross household income in 360 cities in Canada, Australia, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, the U.K., and the U.S., as well as Hong Kong and Singapore.

It found that Kelowna ranks as the 316th least affordable city studied and 31st least afford-able of 33 cities looked at in Canada. All the cities included had metropolitan populations of over 100,000.

According to the study, it requires 5.9 times the median gross household income here to buy a house, a rating classified by Demographica as “severely

unaffordable.”In Canada, only Vancouver,

second overall world-wide to Hong Kong with a whopping 10.9 times the median gross household income required, and Victoria (6.9 times) have a higher “median multiples” to Kelowna, which is tied with the Fraser Valley at 5.9 times.

“Like Vancouver, house prices in these (other B.C.) markets have been driven extraordinar-ily higher relative to incomes by urban containment regula-tions,” says the report.

The report lists the median house price here at $372,200 and the median gross household income at $62,900.

Canada’s most affordable mar-ket in 2013 was Moncton, New Brunswick where it required just 2.3 times the median gross household income to buy a home, followed by Fredericton, New Brunswick (2.6 times) and Windsor, Ontario (2.7 times).

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B y m A r g A r e T s p e i r sTerrace Standard

A local homeless man has been ordered to pay a fine of $1.30

in addition to being sent to jail for causing a disturbance, thanks to a change in the law.

Clyde Doolan, 43,

was also given until February 2019 to pay the fine, believed to be one of the lowest assessed.

Doolan had been arrested Jan. 19 when he became belliger-ent and abusive after being taken to hospi-tal due to his level of intoxication, reported Terrace RCMP.

Earlier that day, police had been called after he passed out on the train tracks and was nearly hit by a train, which shut down the rail yard, said police.

Doolan’s sentence, which also includes 30 days in jail, was given by Judge Ronald Caryer in provincial court here Jan. 20.

The fine of $1.30 is

in two parts, $1 as part of the sentence and 30 cents, or 30 per cent of the fine, as an add on to pay for services for victims of crimes.

Up until last fall, the victim services fee surcharge could be waived if a judge felt it would cause undue hardship.

But federal legis-lation passed last fall in a bid to toughen sentencing provisions now makes imposition of the surcharge man-datory.

That same legisla-tion also doubled the value of the surcharge from 15 to 30 per cent of the original fine.

“The law is now the judge has no discre-tion to waive the vic-tim fine surcharge,”

said defence lawyer Timothy Klaassen.

“Given that Mr. Doolan is homeless and going off to jail, the judge found that the victim fine sur-charge should be as low as possible so the fine was $1 and the victim fine surcharge is then 30 cents,” said Klaassen.

“So Mr. Doolan has to pay $1.30.”

If no fine is imposed, the victim services fee surcharge is automatically $100 for a summary con-viction and $200 for an indictable offence conviction.

“The judge basic-ally wanted to show compassion to Mr. Doolan,” said Klaassen.

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federal government has offered the prov-inces and territories a new Canada Jobs Grant package as part of a “sensitive” third round of negotiations over the controver-sial proposal, says Employment Minister Jason Kenney.

The original propos-al, which came shortly after the last federal budget was introduced, was less than per-fect, Kenney acknow-ledged Thursday as he described a new offer that offers additional “flexibilities” to the provinces.

“I’m not suggesting the initial model that we proposed was ideal; to the contrary,” the minister said.

At the same time, however, he expressed frustration with the fact other levels of government have been balking at something that he considers to be a common sense plan.

The main idea behind the job grant scheme remains intact as the talks enter the latest phase, Kenney said: giving those who create jobs more say over how tax dollars are spent on training programs.

The Canada Jobs Grant model, first pro-posed by the Harper government in last year’s federal budget, was supposed to be in place by April, but sev-eral provinces objected because it would have

meant an overall cut to federal funding for job training.

Ontario Training Minister Brad Duguid said earlier this week that he remains opposed to the fact that Ottawa intends to finance its share of the program by reducing transfer payments to the provinces.

The original plan was to create a $15,000 grant that Canadians could use to receive training for a specific job opening.

Each grant was to be shared equally three ways among the federal and provincial governments and a sponsoring business.

Ottawa had initially hoped to pay for its share of the grants by cutting $300 million annually from trans-fers to the provinces for training. Another

component would have required the provinces to find an additional $300 million to pay for the matching share of the grants.

That requirement was waived in the last proposal to the prov-inces in late December.

Another stumbling block was a federal proposal to cut by more than half the $500-million Labour Market Agreements transfer that’s intend-ed to help people who normally don’t qualify for employment insur-ance.

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SL’ISLE-VERTE, Que. - Barely six months after

Canadians were shocked by the Lac-Megantic train disaster, another tiny Quebec town found itself waiting to learn how many people it had lost after fire ripped through a seniors’ residence Thursday.

And just like in Lac-Megantic, tragedy struck shortly after midnight.

The unsuspecting community this time was L’Isle-Verte, a town of only 1,500 people in Quebec’s scenic Lower St. Lawrence.

As firefighters doused the towering flames, grim-faced provincial police confirmed that three people were dead and another 30 were missing.

Many of the residents were over 85 and all but a handful had limited movement, being confined to wheelchairs and walkers.

The bitterly cold temperatures contrasted with the roaring flames that illuminated the night sky as firefighters poured gallons of water on the burning building.

As morning dawned and the fire was brought under control, the burned section of the facility resembled a macabre ice palace, with sheets of ice and thick icicles covering the structure.

Town official Ginette Caron said only five residents in the 52-unit centre were fully mobile.

“The rest were semi-autonomous, practically no longer autonomous,” Caron told a news con-ference. “Wheelchairs, walkers, people who can’t move around. People with Alzheimer’s, in the last stages of life.”

At least three people were injured, although the extent of their injuries was unclear.

Early Thursday afternoon, Quebec provincial police were encouraging relatives of the resi-dents to meet with them at a local school to help in their investigation. A local church had also been opened for those who wanted to pray.

A stricken Jacques Berube stood outside the residence as he pondered the fate of his missing 99-year-old mother, Adrienne Dube.

Berube, 70, tried to locate her at a hospital in nearby Riviere-du-Loup as well as at a school in L’Isle-Verte, where residents were initially taken.

Berube was getting ready to hear the worst about his mother, who is blind but still mobile.

“I went near the building; the corner where her room was is burned,” he said. “I’ll just have

to wait and see. I don’t like it. But I don’t have any choice. It’s just reality.”

Mario Michaud, who lives across the street from the building, said he witnessed the drama unfold shortly after midnight.

“I got up to go to the toilet and I saw smoke,” Michaud told local newspaper Info Dimanche.

“The fire had started on the second floor. I woke up my girlfriend and called 911. I saw the firefighters and they got to work.

“A woman on the second floor was shouting and she went out on to the balcony. Her son went to get a ladder but he couldn’t get to her. She burned to death.”

Local chief firefighter Yvon Charron called it “a night from hell.”

Provincial police Sgt. Ann Mathieu said the fact 30 people are missing does not necessarily mean they are all dead.

“Some people may have gone elsewhere and there may have been people staying with family,” Mathieu said.

She urged people who have any information on people considered missing to call police.

Quebec

Town reeling after seniors’ home fireT H E C A N A D I A N P R E S S

OTTAWA - Canada’s veterans ombudsman and the Royal Canadian Legion are calling on the Harper government to say once and for all whether it will retroactively compensate ex-soldiers whose pensions and benefits were unfairly clawed back.

Veterans Affairs Canada has been silent about whether it will fol-low National Defence and reimburse those whose earnings loss bene-fits, income supplements and war veterans allowance cheques were improperly docked.

In May 2012, Federal Court ruled the federal government was wrong to claw back the military pensions of injured soldiers by the amount of disability payments they received.

Former defence minister Peter MacKay ended the deduction and federal lawyers negotiated an $887-million retroactive settlement dat-ing back to 1976, when the process first started.

Former veterans minister Steven Blaney also ended the practice for programs in his department, but his successor has yet to open discussions about compensation for what was deducted prior to the decision.

Ottawa military lawyer Michel Drapeau has written to the new minister, Julian Fantino, on behalf of an ex-soldier whose earning-loss benefit cheque was deducted and says he’s prepared to launch legal action, perhaps even a class-action lawsuit.

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Canada’s green reputation has gone up in smokeCanada’s attempt to

bring some posi-tive environmental news to the World

Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, is so thin as to invite new ridicule on a federal government which has turned our country’s green record on its ear.

Things are so desperate that the country is brag-ging about a Global 100 “sustainability list” that includes 13 Canadian companies, including sev-eral energy firms that have been the focus of criti-cism from other quarters. Companies were ranked on relative energy and water consumption, carbon emis-sions, waste production and corporate governance. If ever there was a clear example of why the word sustainability is not equal to environmentalism, this is it.

The list, compiled by media company Corporate Knights, rates Tim Hortons – that model of environ-mental stewardship – as the highest of the Canadian honourees, at 22nd. I love Tims, but last I checked they still use disposable

cups. Resource companies that made the list include Teck Resources (41), Enbridge (75) and Encana (76), and oil sands oper-ators Cenovus (52) and Suncor (53).

Corporate Nights CEO Toby Heaps admitted the energy companies may be eyebrow-raisers, but argued they’re doing well relative to their international peers. Fair enough.

Of course, such positive news seems modest to the regular thrashing Stephen Harper’s Conservatives are subjected to back home, on everything from its alleged overly cozy relationship with Alberta’s oil patch to its climate change dither-ing and – most devastat-ingly – defiance of the now-dead Kyoto Protocol.

It’s a long fall from the leadership role Canada was cast in among industrial-ized nations when Jean Chretien’s Liberal govern-ment signed the Kyoto Protocol 15 years ago. It committed the country to the ambitious goal of reducing emissions by 6 per cent below 1990 lev-els by 2012. In fairness,

Harper’s gang never once said they bought into that deal, and when they had the chance to kill Canada’s commitments they did so with dispatch.

It has since committed to a much more modest objective of getting emis-sions 17 per cent below 2005 levels by 2020 – the same targets set by U.S. President Barack Obama.

But even with that, Green Party leader Elizabeth May recently noted Canada has no federal plan to regu-late oil sands emissions and the provinces are all over the map with their own “patchwork” of strategies. It makes that 2020 target seem as unrealistic as the old Kyoto plan.

Canada’s noble green record preceded the Kyoto gesture by at least 10 years. In 1988, Canada hosted the first-ever international sci-entific conference on cli-mate change, Our Changing Atmosphere: Implications for Global Security, which concluded, “Humanity is conducting an unintended, uncontrolled, globally per-vasive experiment, whose ultimate consequences are second only to global nuclear war.”

The rhetoric may seem a bit alarmist these days, but Canadians who have experi-enced weather extremes this year might agree the general sentiment has been validated.

Until this week’s sus-tainability report, the rank-ings have been mostly grim on the green front. A year ago this week, one of our country’s more cautious think tanks, the Conference Board of Canada, issued a withering report on environmental perform-ance, ranking 17 countries based on 14 indicators ran-ging from air quality to biodiversity.

The best Canada could

do on that score card was an overall grade of C, pla-cing it 15th out of the 17 countries surveyed. Only the U.S. and Australia were ranked lower.

The Conference Board accused Canada of tak-ing a low-key response to environmental challenges. In one example, the report noted that Canadians threw out more trash per capita than any of their counter-parts in the report – double the rate in Japan. The country also did poorly on energy intensity.

There’s a point at which the government of Canada might be better off forget-ting about spinning medi-ocre green-washing and just admit that the environ-ment is not a key priority. As Neil Young learned dur-ing his anti-oil sands tour, claiming noble purpose can open you up to greater scrutiny and accusations of hypocrisy.

Better never to have made a claim of sainthood. Just ask the Rob Ford, “mon”.

Doug Firby is Editor-in-Chief and National Affairs columnist for Troy Media.

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I am a third year nursing students at UBC-Okanagan and writing in regards to the grow-ing amount of flavoured tobac-co products available today.

With National Non-Smoking week upon us, I feel it is import-ant to address this concern specifically because of the way these products are being mar-keted towards youth.

When you hear the flavours cherry, pear, apple, chocolate, etc., tobacco products prob-ably don’t immediately come to mind, but nowadays these flavours and many more are available in a wide variety of tobacco products.

Elaborate colourful pack-aging is used to make products much more enticing. With our research it’s become very clear just how obvious the tobacco industry gears the marketing of these products to youth.

Flavours help to mask the taste of tobacco and to make smoking more appealing. Young people are more likely to try smoking if something tastes like, say, a candy apple.

Products are also available individually at a price for less than a toonie, so youth can easily afford them. Parental awareness is crucial, as many parents may not even recog-nize a tobacco product in their child’s bag, because they look so similar to makeup, markers and candy products.

Research shows that smok-

ing rates are decreasing which means the tobacco companies are losing money.

So, to make up for losses they have invested billions of dollars in products to get youth hooked, as it is a well-known fact that young people are most likely to take up smok-ing, become addicted and then continue to smoke throughout adulthood.

When the federal govern-ment’s Bill C-32 was passed in 2009, it made it illegal for tobacco products under the weight of 1.4g and with a filter to be flavoured.

So what did the tobacco companies do? They sim-ply increased the weight and removed the filter in some products to get around this law.

Statistics show that 61 per cent of all youth age 15-19 who smoke are using flavoured tobacco such as menthols, smokeless tobacco, or little cigars know as cigarillos.

As a nursing student this is extremely concerning. I see the devastating effects smoking has on people. Lung cancer alone causes more deaths than breast, colorectal, and prostate can-cer combined as approximately 50 per cent of those diagnosed with lung cancer will die from it.

I comfort families whose loved one has just been diag-nosed with terminal lung can-cer, and sit with the terrified

patient who can’t breathe due to his loss of lung function from years of smoking.

A large majority of the patients I care for, who have other serious health problems such as cardiac disease, stroke, and lung disease are or were previously smokers. Many of these health issues could poten-tially be prevented by quitting or by never having smoked in the first place.

I would like to see a ban on all flavoured tobacco products. Tobacco companies are target-ing youth, capitalizing on their susceptibility to peer pressure, and using flavoured, dynamic products to make them more appealing and trendy.

I feel our government has a responsibility to protect the health of our youth and ban these flavoured products. I know the truth; I see it and no matter what flavour it comes in, continued use of these products kills and causes serious health issues that consume exhausted health care dollars.

I feel that if these flavoured, “starter” tobacco products were no longer available, young people would be less inclined to try them, thereby reducing risk of addiction and ultimately decreasing the rates of adult smokers and the harmful com-plications caused by long-term smoking.

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It’s a disturbing concept, although, post-Eric Snowden, not a completely foreign one. While you sit at home, watch-ing the pages scroll by on the Internet, the Internet may well be watching you.

And not the way you think. You might not be concerned, for example, about the U.S. National Security Agency troll-ing through your metadata to see if there’s a combina-tion of language, frequency of contacts and sources of those contacts that might mark you as a potential terrorist. “Watch away,” you might say, “I’ve got nothing worth hiding.”

Well, this week, Canada’s privacy commissioner took aim at a different web sampler, and a different kind of sampling.

The privacy commissioner was interested in Google after a very specific complaint came to light. A man complained to the commissioner after going on Google to search for infor-mation about a device used to help with sleep apnea, a medical condition that causes interrupted breathing in people while they sleep.

What the man noticed was

that, after his searches, adver-tisements for similar devices started to crop up on other websites he visited.

The concept is known as tar-geted advertising: essentially, once Google knows what you’re interested in, it matches those interests with advertisers and products you might be consid-ering buying.

Problem is, that also means sorting customers and identify-ing them based on medical con-ditions - something that should be considered to be the kind of information protected by pri-vacy legislation.

Think, also, about the immediate backlash there would be to that kind of mar-keting of private information. After all, you might not want advertisers to know you were suffering from erectile dysfunc-tion, a sexually transmitted dis-ease, hemorrhoids or any other of a number of embarrassing medical issues.

And if your insurer can’t share that kind of information, why on Earth should a web-based search engine be able to?

That’s exactly the conclu-sion the federal privacy com-missioner came to - while at the same time arguing the way

the Internet functions makes it hard to separate personal tastes from private information.

“If an organization as sophisticated as Google had difficulty ensuring compliance with its privacy policy, surely others have the same challen-ges,” interim privacy commis-sioner Chantal Bernier told The Globe and Mail on Wednesday. “The operational challenges are inherent to online behavioural advertising. There is an ambi-guity, and a necessity to define what is sensitive information - and how do you monitor bil-lions of ads?”

The simple answer? Industries that use targeted advertising are going to have to find a way, or else leave them-selves open to complaints and, potentially, legal action.

For the common web user, though, the most important thing to remember is that your computer is a two-way interface - and, as philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once famously wrote, “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you.”

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Janet ObergIt is with great sadness that we

announce the passing of our beloved wife,

mother, grandmother, great grandmother,

& friend on January 21, 2014.

Janet was predeceased by her husband Sam Oberg. Janet will forever be remembered

and missed by sons Steve (Diana) MacKay, Phil (Fran) MacKay, Rob (Shannon) MacKay, Sam (Barb) Oberg, daughters Joey (DJ) Jones,

Verna Oberg, Diana (Doug) Murray, Christie Hill (nee MacKay), &

Myrna (Jamie) Clark (nee MacKay).Janet had numerous grandchildren and

great-grandchildren whom she cherished. Janet was born in February 25, 1933 in

Lethbridge, Alberta. When she married Sam, they spent many years at Kootenay Lake

camping and fishing. They also enjoying their friends at the Royal Canadian Legion in Trail.After being on her own Janet then rejoined the Mormom Church where whe has found peace.

A Memorial Service will be held Saturday, January 25

1:00 pm, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints

Schofield Highway (beside Police Station)

Janet was predeceased by her husbandSam Oberg. Janet will forever be remembered and missed by sons Steve (Diana) MacKay,

Phil (Fran) MacKay, Rob (Shannon)MacKay,Sam (Barb) Oberg, daughters Joey (DJ) Jones,

Verna Oberg, Diana (Doug) Murray,Christie Hill (nee MacKay), &

Myrna (Jamie) Clark (nee MacKay).Janet had numerous grandchildren and

great-grandchildren whom she cherished.Janet was born in February 25, 1933 in

Lethbridge, Alberta. When she married Sam,they spent many years at Kootenay Lake

camping and fishing. They also enjoying theirfriends at the Royal Canadian Legion in Trail.After being on her own Janet then rejoined theMormon Church where she has found peace.

A Memorial Service will be heldSaturday, January 25

3:00 pm, at theChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

off Hwy 3B (beside Police Station)

Janet ObergIt is with great sadness that we

announce the passing of our beloved wife,

mother, grandmother,great grandmother,

& friend onJanuary 21, 2014.

OLIVER, CAROL LOUISE – Carol was born September 25, 1939 in Trail, BC. She was the beloved wife of Dennis for 52 years and devoted mother to her 3 sons: Rick, Joe, Dave, and their families. She was a very special grandmother and great grandmother who cherished all of her family members, relatives and friends - as well her cats, Kali and Sheba.

Carol was predeceased by her parents Edna Louise Firkins (1985) and Whitney (Joe) Fir-kins (1989).

Carol passed peacefully at home at the age of 74 on January 19, 2014 after a 14 year cour-ageous battle with Melanoma. Carol’s family would like to pass along a “thank you” to all of the medical staffs at KGH, VJH, the Inter-ior Cancer Centre, Vernon Hospice House and Noric House for their exceptional care. A spe-cial thank you to Dr. Govender, Dr. Rao, and Dr, Philp - all of whom went above and beyond in their care.

A celebration of Carol’s life will take place at 11:00 a.m., Saturday, January 25, 2014 at Pleasant Valley Funeral Home in Vernon, BC. In lieu of � owers, donations may be made to the BC Cancer Society, 399 Royal Avenue, Ke-lowna, B.C. V1Y 5L3.

Arrangements have been entrusted to Pleas-ant Valley Funeral Home, 4303 P. V. Road, Ver-non, B.C. V1T 4M4 - Phone: 250 542 4333. Condolences may be offered at www.pleas-antvalleyfh.com

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Wickenheiser doesn’t put much stock in the flag-bearer’s curse.

The women’s hock-ey star, who will carry the Maple Leaf into the opening cere-monies of the Sochi Olympics, says the idea that she and her teammates could be under any more pres-sure is absurd.

After all, they play a sport that many in

Canada consider reli-gion. So any sort of cosmic jinx pales in comparison to the weight of an entire country’s expecta-tions for the women’s team to win a fourth straight gold medal in Sochi.

“I think there’s just too much empha-sis to put on that,” Wickenheiser said Thursday via confer-ence call from Austria. “The pressure that we

feel is the pressure that always comes with playing hockey as a Canadian hockey player, whether you’re male or female.

“The country expects a gold medal. Whether I carry the flag or not, I’m pretty sure our team doesn’t feel any extra added incentive that there’s more pressure to perform, because we already feel that already.”

Not all athletes see it that way. Diver Alexandre Despatie felt it would be a dis-traction and said he’d decline any offer to carry the flag at the 2012 London Games.

Kayaker Adam van Koeverden carried the flag at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and finished a disappoint-ing eighth in the 1,000 metres - although he did win a silver medal in the 500.

Moguls skier Jean-Luc Brassard blamed his disappointing per-formance at the 1998 Nagano Olympics on being the flag-bearer a day earlier.

W i c k e n h e i s e r and her teammates hope the same thing doesn’t happen to them. Hockey Canada says the women will march in the Feb. 7 opening ceremonies despite playing their first game the fol-lowing night versus Switzerland.

Brassard, the assist-ant chef de mission for the Sochi team, was on the panel that selected Wickenheiser along with chef de mis-sion Steve Podborski, assistant chef France St. Louis and one

athlete representa-tive. Hockey Canada nominated her for the honour.

“Throughout her successful career, this Canadian ath-lete has demonstrat-ed true Canadian grit, patriotism and sportsmanship,” said Podborski, adding that Wickenheiser will lead the Canadian team with “the utmost pride and class.”

Wickenheiser is embracing the oppor-tunity to put her sport centre stage.

“What I think it does is it shines a very positive light on the sport of women’s hockey and just on our sport in general for the world to see,” said the 35-year-old forward. “That’s a great responsibility and expectation that every nation in the world has to carry in and I think should really embrace.”

The Shaunavon, Sask., native, who is at a pre-Olym-pic camp in Austria and wasn’t able to attend the announce-ment Thursday on Parliament Hill, will be making her fifth Winter Olympics.

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ment acted appropriately when approving the Jumbo Glacier Resort will likely take months. The trial part of the judicial review put forth by the Ktunaxa Nation Council wrapped up on Jan. 17

Kathryn Teneese, chair of the Ktunaxa Nation Council, said they are now await-ing a decision on the review.

The Ktunaxa Nation isn’t sure how long that will take, as there is a lot of informa-tion for the judge to wade through.

“Obviously we’re hoping the sooner the better,” she said.

“Then we can determine what our next steps will be.”

Teneese said lawyers for the Ktunaxa Nation advised that it could be months before a decision is reached.

The Ktunaxa Nation petitioned for a judicial review of whether the B.C. govern-ment acted appropriately when it approved the Master Development Agreement for Jumbo Glacier Resort back in March 2012.

The court case began earlier this month, on Jan. 6. The three parties involved – the Ktunaxa, the B.C. government and Glacier Resorts Ltd – were asked to pre-pare written affidavits that were presented in court.

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Changes made for ungraded lumberB Y G R E G N E S T E R O F F

Nelson StarSmall sawmills in

the Regional District of Central Kootenay are poised to benefit from changes to the way ungraded lumber is handled.

Several local mills without qualified graders on staff want to sell unstamped, ungraded lumber for construction but have been prevented from doing so under the BC Building Code.

However, in a memo, development services manager Sangita Sudan said the regional district has the power to come up with “alternative solu-tions” — in this case allowing ungraded lumber as a building material so long as the mills “gain and dem-onstrate proficiency in lumber grading.”

This can be achieved through a certificate or diploma avail-able through Selkirk College, and the board agreed last week a dip-

loma is sufficient.Buyers of ungraded

lumber would also be supplied with a letter explaining quantity, species, grade, and moisture content, and a copy would be kept on file with any build-ing permit application.

“I’m ecstatic about [the decision],” said Nakusp mayor Karen Hamling, whose com-munity has been hard hit by industry job losses in recent years, but still has sev-eral small mills, each employing a handful of people.

“Had the regional district not provided this option, those mills would have had to shut down. So they’ve been lobbying quite heavily and are very happy with it.”

Hamling said the issue was first brought to her attention about six months ago. She added ungraded lum-ber is often equally strong as graded lum-ber, but until now if it wasn’t stamped, it

wasn’t considered acceptable.

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Local members of the Sinixt First Nation and supporters are maintaining a low-key blockade on a Pass Creek logging road to assert what they say is their right to consultation and cultural preservation.

“It’s been pretty diplo-matic,” said Dennis Zarelli, communications liaison with the Sinixt, of their interactions with a log-ging contractor on Mount

Sentinel forest service road. “Everybody’s been really good at hearing things out.”

He said their beef is not with the contractor, but with BC Timber Sales, which awarded a license to Porcupine Wood Products of Salmo to build 1.8 kilo-meters of road and har-vest 15,250 square meters of timber. “We realize this is causing hardships, but we’re not responsible for that,” Zarelli said. “The

government is respon-sible for making sure First Nations consultations have been addressed.”

He called the area “archaeologically sensi-tive,” with “a lot of undocu-mented sites beneficial to everybody.”

Zarelli, Marilyn James, and a few others have vis-ited the site daily over the last week and a half and prevented contractor A.F. Timber Co. from getting through.

Porcupine woodlands manager Bill Kestell said road building had started but logging was not yet underway when the protest took them by surprise. The company plans to apply for an injunction, but it’s unclear when it might be heard.

“It’s frustrating,” said Kestell, who has visited the site several times. “They admit their fight is not with us, but we’re the ones who can’t go to work. The local

contractor depends on log-ging to earn a living, but there’s nothing they can do. The people seem pretty intent on staying there.”

Kestell said the standoff will have an effect on wood volumes at local mills if it’s not resolved soon.

The Ministry of Forests said BC Timber Sales did not directly consult the Sinixt, who aren’t officially recognized by the provin-cial government (see relat-ed story below), but they

had the same opportunity to comment on the license as other members of the public.

BC Timber Sales did, however, consult with other recognized First Nations who have territor-ial claims in the area, much to Zarelli’s frustration.

Castlegar RCMP visited the site at the company’s request, but did not inter-vene. “We talked to them. It’s quiet and very polite,” said Sgt. Laurel Mathew.

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Six areas in the Regional District of Central Kootenay now want to withdraw from a catch-all environ-mental service estab-lished four years ago.

The sustainability service was meant to deal with things like energy conservation and reducing green-house gas emissions. However, Nelson refused to join and now four other muni-cipalities — Salmo, New Denver, Nakusp, and Castlegar — as well as two electoral areas around Creston have served notice they want out, citing con-cerns about the ser-vice’s scope and what benefit they receive.

The Star canvassed directors for those areas for their specif-ic reasons. Among those who responded, Castlegar mayor Lawrence Chernoff said he was worried about duplication of services and delivery of different services than

first anticipated.Salmo mayor Ann

Henderson similarly said her council decid-ed the service was no use to them and was straying from its ori-ginal intent.

“The amount con-tributed was going to increase. As well there was a large surplus,” she said.

New Denver mayor Ann Bunka also said the service does little for her community and if other participants drop out, it will either cost more or provide less.

Rural Creston direc-tor John Kettle, who chairs the board, said he opposes the current service because it has become “a dumping ground for special pro-jects that circumvent in my opinion guide-lines for an established service area.”

Kettle added Nelson’s absence was problematic. “If it is going to be a board service we need all of the board on board,” he said.

Not everyone agrees with that assessment, however. East Shore director Gary Jackman said the service has sev-eral elements that only apply to certain areas, such as the Kootenay Lake Partnership and community wildfire protection.

“We should at least examine what’s com-mon and critical to a group of areas if they want to hang on to this,” he said. “Other areas may not want

to be involved for five years. If later they want to come back in, that’s a separate discussion.”

Under the bylaw it takes two years for a participant to with-draw but things may come to a head sooner.

Chief administrator Brian Carruthers said before any decisions are made, staff will present an overview on Jan. 29 of the service’s history, intent and purpose, along with its financial status and the

implications of dissolv-ing it.

“There has been some misunderstand-ing as to the types of projects being funded,” he said.

“The service was intended to be fairly broad when it was first established.”

Carruthers said it is already a challenge to run the service with one municipality not participating, and diluting it further will cause problems.

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The Trail Smoke Eaters hope to ground the Surrey Eagles tonight at the Cominco Arena just like they did a week ago in a 5-3 win over the Eagles in Surrey.

Surrey, last year’s BCHL cham-pion, hasn’t exactly been lighting it up this year, going 18-25-1-1, but thanks to the Chilliwack Chiefs’ 10-31-1-3 record, the Eagles will make the postseason in fourth spot in the Mainland division.

While Trail is out of the playoff picture, they are playing motivated and inspired hockey of late. Despite having just one of a possible five 20-year-old players in the lineup in Dustin Nikkel, the youth movement has caught on and paid modest but surprising dividends.

“It’s creating habits, changing a mindset, changing a culture, it takes time and I mean nothing happens over night, but I feel like right now we have a group that is buying in and playing for each other,”said Smoke Eater coach Nick Deschenes.

After suffering a close 3-2 loss to the Vees at home on Jan. 11., Trail beat Surrey Friday, and took the league-leading Langley Rivermen to overtime before surrendering the win. They then fell to Coquitlam Sunday with a severely depleted lineup, icing just 12 regulars and two APs, because of injury.

“I was pretty happy with the effort,” said Deschenes. “We defin-itely faced some adversity with a few injuries, so we had a shorter lineup, but I think there are players now that are rising to the challenge and are taking advantage of the oppor-tunity that’s here.”

The Smoke Eaters have 11 of their final 13 games against div-ision opponents, with three versus the Vees, Vernon Vipers, and West Kelowna Warriors, and two against Merritt. Unfortunately, they have

no games remaining against the team that knocked them out of last year’s playoffs, the Salmon Arm SilverBacks, but they can make it difficult on the rest of the div-ision. With just two points separat-ing fourth and fifth place, and the Penticton Vees clinging to top spot by just four points, Trail is in a pos-ition to play spoiler.

The Smokies travel to Penticton on Saturday to play the Vees who have not won a game since their 3-2 win against Trail. The Vees three consecutive losses have come at the hands of division rivals Merritt, W. Kelowna, and Salmon Arm. The Smokies will look to extend that streak to four.

“It’s David versus Goliath . . . we’re trying to get better, so we want to push the pace, and play our game. We’re not going to get in a defensive shell and stop skating, we want to improve, and play the style of game we want to play regardless of the opponent or the age of the players we have and I think that’s a huge advantage.”

The Smokies played the div-ision-leaders tight in their last two games, effectively shutting down a potent offence led by Brad McLure, Nic Peirog, and blue-liner Brett Beauvais who leads all defencemen in the league in scoring.

“With a healthy lineup and a young hungry team, there’s no rea-son why we can’t skate at least stride-for-stride with these better teams and, with that, you can elim-inate time and space and control talent levels to some extent,” added Deschenes.

The Smokies, however, are still hurting and will be without team leading scorer Jesse Knowler, and newcomers Braden Cross, and Jakson Elynuik. The team will again supplement their lineup with local affiliate players.

Game time tonight is at 7:30 p.m. at the Cominco Arena.

B y T i m e s s T a f fGreater Trail minor

hockey’s Midget AA Smoke Eaters will host its annual tour-nament this weekend at the Cominco Arena.

The Tier 2 Smokies welcome teams from Castlegar, Kelowna, West Kelowna, and Spokane with round-robin play beginning Friday and going until

Sunday.Trail plays two

games Friday tak-ing on the Castlegar AA Rebels at noon and their Okanagan Mainline hockey rivals West Kelowna AA Warriors at 4:30 p.m.

On Saturday, Trail takes to the ice for an 8:30 a.m. tilt against the Spokane Midget Chiefs, and will finish

off the round-robin with a game against Kelowna AA Rockets at 6:30 p.m.

The winner of the round robin gets a bye straight to the final with the playoff round starting at 7:30 a.m. and the final going at noon on Sunday.

All games are played at the Cominco Arena.

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Special Olympic Roadrunners floor hockey coach, Ben Postmus, talks strategy in an exhibition game against the Greater Trail RCMP. The games played with various community groups prepared the team for a big tournament victory in Abbotsford last week.

B y T i m e s s T a f fIt’s all about preparation,

and thanks to Greater Trail organizations and local hockey teams, the Trail Roadrunner floor hockey team won the Special Olympics floor hockey tournament in Abbotsford last week.

The Roadrunners captured the “C” title going undefeated throughout the tournament in their first major competition

of 2014. After early victories over

Richmond, 5-1, and Chilliwack, 4-0, Goaltender Gary Bjorgan led the roadrunners into the final where they faced the Chilliwack squad and downed them 7-5 in a very exciting tilt.

James Potter led the way netting seven goals in the tournament and Jake Miller, Bob Lattanzio, Stuart Hawton each scored twice. Kayleigh Postmus, Joey Ward and Gene Laroque all had five assists each.

The team regularly plays

and practices with the Beaver Valley Nitehawks, as well as goes head-to-head in exhib-ition matches against the Trail RCMP, Fruitvale Elementary School teachers, Fruitvale Firefighters, EZ Rock, and other organizations.

Up next for the Roadrunners is a match in Grand Forks this week and the regional qualifiers at the end of March at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, where the team will vie for a spot in the 2015 BC Special Olympics Winter Games in Kamloops.

AA Midgets host tournamentBy Times sTaff

The Beaver Valley Nitehawks will try to keep a firm grip on top spot in the KIJHL with a win over the Golden Rockets tonight at the B.V. Arena.

The Rockets have fizzled for much of the sea-son, plummeting to the basement in the Eddie Mountain division after finishing second last sea-son and winning the division title. Nevertheless, they have been hot of late, taking 4-of-5 including victories over rivals Fernie and Columbia Valley.

The Nitehawks, meanwhile, have been cruis-

ing along with four straight wins and victories in 14 of their last 15, soaring to top spot in the Neil Murdoch division and a share of the KIJHL lead with the Kamloops Storm.

The Nitehawks have the most potent power play in the league by far, purring along at an almost 30 percent clip, after the Hawks scored seven times on 18 tries in three games last week-end. The next best is the Kelowna Chiefs at 25.4 per cent success rate.

The game goes tonight at the Hawks Nest at 7:30 p.m.

Nitehawks look to defuse Golden Rockets

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Levels can change unexpectedly due to weather or other conditions. For more information or to sign-up for unusual lake levels notifications by phone or email, visit www.fortisbc.com or call 1-866-436-7847.

Skate with the Beaver Valley Nitehawks this Saturday from 2:45 to 4 p.m. Get a chance to meet and skate with all the players and get auto-graphed photos of your favourite Nitehawk.

Learn to skate activities. Bring the children to the B.V. Arena on Feb. 7 from 6-7:45 p.m. and have a fun skate instructed by the Beaver Valley Skating Club.

Call Kelly at 367-9319 for more info.

b.v. rec

One has to give the Smoke Eaters cred-it. The team

has been in the wil-derness, roster-wise, performance-wise and and standings-wise, not to mention audi-ence size-wize, for almost this full season, but they have not quit.

Not what’s left of a once-promising ros-ter, not what’s left of a coaching/training staff - for which fans had high hopes as late as September - not any-body involved in the team through this mega-struggling sea-son.

There is no other way to explain recent on-ice performances, including a rela-tively successful road

swing, in which the Smokies won, lost in overtime, and finally succumbed to regu-lation defeat, with a diminished number of available troops for every game.

Trail opened the trip with a strong, winning effort against a Surrey Eagles team still well in the hunt for a playoff spot, using 18 skaters. Twenty-four hours later, the Smokies battled one of the top Junior A teams in Canada, which was coming off a full week of rest, into overtime, with 17 skaters.

About 16 hours later, Trail competed to a one-goal deficit after 20 minutes before fall-ing, 7-2, to another

contending team, with just 14 skaters, which included only five regular defensemen. They were outshot just 35-30 in that contest.

It all says a lot for the effort put forth, and at least a little for the potential in the young lineup and cur-rent coaching regime.

It has been a dispir-iting year for Smokie

fans, especially com-ing off a promis-ing end to 2012/13, but next-year coun-try might be a bet-ter place. The Smoke Eaters have played entertaining and often competitive hockey in 2014 and everyone involved deserves a little praise for main-taining that kind of effort during a season

that was a washout, in terms of contending, long ago.

• I hope you are still switching on to your by-now bookmarked Hobey Baker page and voting for (noth-ing against Kellen here, but time to be strategic and add to Connor’s much higher total) Connor Jones to move on in the selec-

tion stage. I hope, too, that all

of the Trail baseball community, to which the boys have contrib-uted so much time and skill, is in that voting mix.

• No other local games in the mix, so please consider heading to Castlegar, dressed in red and white if you have it, and supporting Castlegar’s Hockeyville pursuit next Saturday. Giving the fire marshall fits on behalf of bringing the Kootenays its second bit of recognition, and Castlegar a bit of cash for its hockey efforts, could be fun.

Skate with ‘Hawks

DAVE Thompson

Sports ‘n’ things

Smoke Eaters fighting to finishT h E C A n A D I A n p R E s s

OTTAWA - Women’s hockey star Hayley Wickenheiser has been named Canada’s flag-bear-er for the Sochi Olympics.

The Canadian Olympic Committee announced the news Thursday morning on Twitter. Wickenheiser was with the nation-al women’s team in Europe and unable to attend the formal announcement on Parliament Hill.

Wickenheiser is Canada’s biggest women’s hockey star and a pioneer of

the game. She will be making her fifth Olympic appearance.

Hockey Canada said the women’s players will march in the Feb. 7 opening ceremonies despite playing their open-ing game the fol-lowing night versus Switzerland.

Wickenheiser read the athletes’ oath in the opening ceremon-ies at the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver. Women’s hockey player Danielle Goyette carried the flag into the opening ceremonies in 2006 in Turin, Italy.

Olympics

Flag bearer named


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Trail & District Churches

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1139 Pine Avenue (250) 368-6066 Reverends Gavin and Meridyth Robertson

10am Sunday Worship and Sunday School

Saint Francis is said to have told his followers, paraphrasing our Lord, to preach the gospel everywhere you go, with words if necessary. While this is probably a misattribution, the

sentiment is certainly worth bearing in mind. That is, should we not preach the gospel with our actions as much as with our words? In-deed, when deeds and words are not in har-

mony, people mistrust the words and consider the “preacher” to be a hypocrite. We should

be as concerned with our actions as with our words, at least insofar as we hold ourselves up as moral exemplars. And most of us are called

to be moral exemplars, whether we want this role or not. If you are a parent, you are expected to be a moral example to your chil-dren. Most professions are expected to set an example; we expect preachers, teachers, doc-tors, pharmacists, bankers, and even athletes to adhere to a high moral code. Just to be a

decent human being we must adhere to a high moral code of conduct. So, we should preach the gospel everywhere we go with good moral

actions, and don’t worry about the words.

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250-687-1777

Saturday ServiceSabbath School9:30-10:45am

Church 11:00-12:00 Vegetarian potluck

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8320 Highway 3BTrail, opposite Walmart

250-364-1201 Pastor Rev. Shane McIntyre

Affiliated with the PAOC

SUNDAY SERVICES 10AM

Special Guest Speaker Ian Green

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10AM & 6:30PMFurther Info

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Weekly Snr & Jnr Youth Programs

Mom’s Time OutPrism Weight Loss ProgramWeekly Connect Groups

Fri. Kidz ZoneSunday Children’s Program

Sun – Infants NurseryBus Pickup

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St. Andrew’s Anglican Church1347 Pine Avenue, Trail 250-368-5581

Sunday, January 26`th

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8 a.m. BCP Communion10 a.m. Family Eucharist (with Children’s Program)

3365 Laburnum DriveTrail, BC V1R 2S8Ph: (250) 368-9516

[email protected]

Sunday Morning 2 Worship Services 9:00am & 10:45am

Prayer First begins at 10:10am.

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Pastoral ChargeTrail United Church

1300 Pine Avenue, Trail Worship at 11am

St. Andrew’s United Church

2110 1st Ave, Rossland Worship 9am

Beaver Valley United Church

1917 Columbia Gardens Rd, Fruitvale

Worship at 11am

Salmo United Church 304 Main St, Salmo

Worship 9am

For Information Phone 250-368-3225or visit: www.cifpc.ca

CATHOLICCHURCH

All Masses will now be held atHoly Trinity Parish Church2012 3rd Avenue, Trail 250-368-6677

Mass Times Saturday Evening 7:00pm

Sunday Morning 8:30am and 10:30am

Confessions by Appointment

Pastor: Rev. Jim McHugh [email protected]

www.holytrinityparish.vpweb.ca

“And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with

ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.” 2 Corinthians 3:3

The Annual General meeting of Holy Trinity Council of the Catholic Woman’s League was held Jan. 7.

Opening prayer: Teresa Mandoli; Minutes 2013 AGM were approved as circulated; Treasurer’s report: Paulette Ainsley, Rick Georgetti will do the annual audit; The following members will continue into their second term as fol-lows: (term will end Dec.31, 2014);President: Teresa Mandoli; Organization (President elect); Marjorie Nutini; Secretary: Grace DeBiasio; Treasurer: Paulette Ainsley; Standing Committee; Chair persons ; Spiritual: Ruth Guercio and Maria Burkholder; Community Life: Bunny Dallas; Christian Family Life: Marlise Gattafoni; Communications: Elizabeth Cytra; Legislation and Resolutions: Connie Makse; Parish Activities: Linda Zol and Lorna Perri; Education and Health: Mary Billingsley and Selma Nutini.

Legislation and Resolution report: Connie Makse, Legislation: Two main issues mon-itored and addressed by petitions and letter writing were gender selection, abortion and euthanasia; Resolutions: 3 current resolutions have been presented and explained at meet-ings. Individual members were encouraged to expand the League’s work beyond the Parish level and to follow up with letters and actions that reflect on our faith

President Teresa Mandoli, I applaud each and every one of you for your support and hard work to do the many good works in our Church and community throughout the 2013 year. The Holy Trinity CWL has also been in the public’s eye at the World Day of Prayer, hosting the Citizen of the Year event and our Parish Tea, just to name a few. We are a great example of our Mission Statement: to paraphrase “………rooted in gospel values calling its members to holiness through service to the people of God”.

The next Annual General meeting will be held on Tuesday, January 6, 2015.

Following the Annual General Meeting and refreshments, President Teresa Mandoli began the regular meeting with the League prayer.

Christian Family Life: Marlise Gattafoni read an article from the KC magazine about the Indispensable Gift of Women.

Community Life: Bunny Dallas thanked members for donations to Marty’s Dream. The 1 percent donation to Development and Peace was explained.

Education and health: Mary Billingsley, At the February meeting Diana Ferguson will give a short presentation about heart and stroke issues and the use of a defibrillator

Resolutions and Legislation: Connie Makse, Connie reported on a chart to catalogue letter/emails sent to government and will also record if responses are received; Legislation: Supreme Court of Canada struck down prostitution laws. Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) and Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) have spoken out to oppose despite rul-ing. Members were asked to write to Justice Minister Mackay asking to introduce a new law that will combat prostitution in a charter com-pliant way: Address: Justice Minister MacKay, 28 Wellington St. Ottawa, Ont. K1A0H8, email: [email protected]

Parish Activities: Lorna Perri; reported on success of the Warfield senior tea.

Past president: Sandra Stajduhar, com-mended members for the group unity and encouraged growing spiritually individually as well and as a group.

Other: Mary Pettigrew. Read article about Pope Francis

Executive meeting –Tuesday, Jan. 28; Next General meeting - Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014.

Closing prayer: Prayer to St. Francis led by Connie Makse.

CWL

Holy Trinity Council AGM report

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Dear Annie: I was married for 21 years, until my wife decided to call it quits. It’s been four years since the divorce. She is now dating someone from work. I suspect this co-worker is the reason she left me, but I truly do not care anymore and have moved on with my life.

For the past two years, I have been dat-ing “Lois.” We don’t live together. We both have teenage children and don’t think liv-ing together is a good idea. But, Annie, every morning I ask myself: Should I stay, or should I go? I am 49 and Lois is 42. We often argue about stupid things. She quickly gets over these spats, but I don’t.

So, tell me: How do I know whether it’s love or just compan-ionship? -- Need Advice

Dear Need: If every morning you ques-tion whether you should stick around, the answer is no, you shouldn’t. You don’t

mention that you love Lois or even enjoy her company. You seem to fight often in ways that disturb you. Being with someone who doesn’t make you happy is not the solution to loneli-ness.

Dear Annie: My par-ents divorced after 15 years of marriage. My father remarried and passed away in 2004. My mother married a man and divorced him after 18 years. He, too, has passed away.

My mother believes that my aunts, uncles and cousins on my father’s side are still her relatives because they are related to me. She says she is still the aunt to my cousins on

that side of the family. My brother adds to this dilemma by bring-ing Mom to some of these family gatherings where my paternal aunts ignore her and my cousins ask why she is there. She seems hurt by this.

So is Mom still a part of my dad’s family? She has nieces from her second marriage, but she has never included me in those gatherings, and I don’t even know them. Are these unknown cous-ins relatives to me? -- Child in the Middle

Dear Child: Your mother is related only insofar as the relatives want her to be. If she was “aunt” to your cousins for 15 years, they may still think of her this way. However, it sounds as if they are not interested in being related any longer, in which case, they don’t have to be. The same goes for your step-cousins. Unless you are suddenly interested in getting to know them

better, you do not need to consider yourself related.

Dear Annie: I’m writing in response to “Heart Full of Joy in Pennsylvania,” who divorced her cheating husband after 35 years and finally found hap-piness.

I’ve been married for 36 years, and my husband has lived a secret life the entire time. I’ve known about it, but turned my head and kept up a good front so the children could have a happy childhood. Now the kids are grown, and I’ve decided I cannot live the lie anymore. I told the children that their dad has been unfaithful, but I didn’t disclose the details that he has been living “on the down low,” having casual sex with men at public parks and going to swingers clubs.

My kids are hurt, and feel that their happy childhood was a lie. I often wonder if I am being selfish. After

all, the marriage isn’t horrible, but it isn’t a true marriage. My counselor says the kids will come around even-tually and will realize that I am much hap-pier now that I’m out of my dysfunctional marriage.

I just want to say

that “Heart Full of Joy” has given me hope. Though I’m not inter-ested in finding some-one else right now, per-haps there is a man out there who will cher-ish me, honor me and truly love me. -- Tired of Living the Lie

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For Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Don’t be discouraged if someone older, especially in a group, is critical of your ideas. This is par for the course today. Wait a few days, and this all will be his-tory. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Someone will oppose you today if you present your ideas, especially to a boss or an authority figure. Unless it’s very important, post-pone your suggestions for another day. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You can study diligently today, because this is a good day for heavy mental work. Your standards are high and your faculties are sharp. Zowie! CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Because you have excel-lent powers of concentra-tion and you’re not in the

mood to fool around, this is a good day to take care of red-tape details. Focus on banking, taxes, debt, inheri-tances and insurance mat-ters. LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Discussions with others might be stilted and stand-offish today. People are afraid of making mistakes, and they also are afraid of being rejected. VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) This is a poor day to run something new by oth-ers. However, if you work alone, you can make a lot of headway because you are disciplined and motivated. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Work is your first prior-ity today, not having fun. Children might be an extra responsibility. Just accept this. It goes with the terri-tory. SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Family discussions might

discourage you because someone older, probably male, might put a damper on things. If possible, post-pone these discussions for another day. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) It’s easy to fall into worry mode today. Instead, use the same energy to work at rou-tine mental tasks, because you will do well at this. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19)

Your finances might dis-courage you today. This is one of those days where you feel your glass is half-empty instead of half-full. (Where did the money go?) AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) This is actually a good day for mental work or anything that requires disciplined thinking. Nevertheless, you might feel cut off or alone. Don’t dwell on this.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Your confidence is shaken by something today. Perhaps someone said something critical, or perhaps your own thoughts are making you second-guess every-thing. Don’t worry; this feel-ing is gone by tomorrow. YOU BORN TODAY You have a fine mind and many talents. People find you interesting to talk to because you are imagina-

tive, observant and full of original ideas. Personally, you have high standards and ideals that you place upon yourself and others, which can lead to disap-pointment at times. The year ahead is particularly social and inviting. All your relationships will improve in a lovely way. Birthdate of: Mia Kirshner, actress; Michael Trevino, actor; Alicia Keys, singer.

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Service AdvisorCastlegar Toyota immediately seeks an energetic, customer-focused service advisor who is great with people and can handle numerous demands in a professional and courteous manner.

Duties in this fast-paced position include scheduling maintenance and repair work, providing estimates, selling service and parts as required, coordinating technicians and embracing administrative tasks. Strong telephone and computer skills are essential.

Our standards are high because our customers deserve superb treatment. As a result, we offer excellent benefi ts, bonuses, competitive pay and a positive working environment. This is a full-time position. Please send you cover letter and resume to:

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If you have a deep interest in automobiles and enjoying sharing your passion with others in a genuinely helpful manner, then maybe this position is for you. We provide the kind of training and support to help you succeed, and our compensation and benefi ts packages rank among the best anywhere.

Sales experience is helpful but not necessary. Good communication and computer skills along with a willingness to learn and constantly improve are far better indicators of potential success.Please send your cover letter and resume to:

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Castlegar Hyundai requires a full-time Product Consultant who shares our enthusiasm for selling our highly rated vehicles. Automotive experience is not required, as training is provided, but skill and comfort with customers is vital. You must enjoy helping people. You must also be con dent, motivated, well groomed and professional. Our standards are high, but this is a golden opportunity for a rewarding, long-term career in our local area. Please send your cover letter and resume to: Keith KalawskyPresident & General Manager713 - 17th StreetCastlegar, BC V1N 1J1Fax: 250-365-5376Email: [email protected]

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Automotive Service Technician Are you thinking about taking your automotive career to the next level? If you are, then you’ll appreciate working with us. Castlegar Toyota requires an experienced licensed technician to service all makes and models in our modern and fully equipped facility.

Our dealership is focused on hiring and retaining the best. As such, we offer market-leading pay and benefi ts, paid training opportunities, a supportive team and the opportunity to advance.

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Please send your resume and cover letter to:

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The School District is seeking applications from qualified persons for the On-Call List in the following area:

Bus Drivers:• Valid Class 2 driver’s license with Air endorsement• Valid Survival First Aid Certificate• Annual medical examination to be completed each

September

General Qualifications:• Grade 12 or equivalent• Valid WHMIS Certificate• Valid Class 5 Driver’s License

For full position details including qualifications please refer to the Careers with SD20 section of our website at www.sd20.bc.ca.Salary will be in accordance with CUPE Local 1285 Collective Agreement.

Completed district applications (available on the district web site or at our office) should be

sent to Mrs. Marcy VanKoughnett, Director of Human Resources, School District #20 (Kootenay-Columbia), 2001 Third Ave, Trail, B. C. V1R 1R6 (Fax: 250-364-2470). Please submit electronic applications to: [email protected]. It is understood that applicants agree to confidential reference checks of all previous employers.

We appreciate your interest but regret that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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cell: 250.231.1661

Fred Behrens ............ext 31cell: 250.368.1268

Keith DeWitt .............ext 30cell: 250.231.8187

Denise Marchi ..........ext 21cell: 250.368.1112

Joy DeMelo ...............ext 29cell: 250.368.1960

Sat. Jan. 25 • 11am - 1pm7141 Wright Way, Waneta Village

$349,000

MLS#2394130

OPEN HOUSE

SOLD SOLD

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Employment

Help WantedBUSY OPTOMETRY Clinic looking for PartTime/ FullTime Optometric Assistant to start immediately. We are seeking a motivated, dependable, detail oriented individual with excel-lent customer service skills to join our team. Computer and/or medical knowledge would be an asset. Please re-ply to Box 564 C/O Trail Times, 1163 Cedar Ave., Trail, BC V1R 4B8

MECHANIC HDExperience an assetHydraulics/Electrical &

computer experience an asset.Will be working on a verity of Equipment, plus fi eld work.

Contact Kevin atTrowelex, Castlegar

250-365-3315 or [email protected]

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Employment

Help WantedNorm’s Auto Refi nishing, Terrace, BC. High production, ICBC Accredited body shop requires a LICENSED AUTO-MOTIVE PAINTER. Competi-tive wages, excellent benefi ts. fax: 250-635-3081 or email: [email protected] Attn: Mel Rundell, ManagerPROCESS OPERATOR want-ed for recycling plant. Must be mature & reliable. Full-time, shiftwork. Forklift ticket, fi rst aid and WHMIS preferred. Mail resumes to: PO Box 398, Trail, BC V1R 4L7

**WANTED**NEWSPAPER CARRIERS

TRAIL TIMESExcellent ExerciseFun for All Ages

Call Today -Start Earning Money

TomorrowCirculation Department250-364-1413 Ext. 206For more Information

Ofce SupportRECEPTIONIST wanted for busy tax preparation fi rm. Full time position until May 1st. Bring resume no later than Feb 3rd to 810 Vernon St, Nel-son.

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Employment

Trades, TechnicalJOURNEYMAN HEAVY

DUTY MECHANICSFort McMurray & Leduc AlbertaGladiator Equipment Ltd. has immediate positions for Journeyman Heavy Duty, off road Certifi ed Mechanics for work in Fort McMurray and Le-duc, Alberta. Excellent wages and benefi ts.

www.gladiatorequipment.comfax 1-780-986-7051.

[email protected]

Marine TechnicianPrimary duties include maint. troubleshooting & repair of diesel & gas marine engines. Knowledgeable in vessel electrical systems. Must have own tools and a valid drivers license.

Compensation BasedOn Experience.

Please forward resume to vancouveroutboard@

telus.net

Services

Financial ServicesGET BACK ON TRACK! Bad credit? Bills? Unemployed? Need Money? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Acceptance Corp. Member BBB.

1-877-987-1420 www.pioneerwest.com

Hairstylists

The Cutting Edge Hairand Tanning Studio in

Creston BC is now offering Hot Head hair extensions. A full set, cut to shape your new look and styled $450. Every 8 weeks extension

replacement $70. Call us at 250-428-3488 to book your

consultation.It’s worth the drive

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Services

ContractorsDRAGON CONTRACTINGMy family has been in the Kootenays for over 100 years! We are the experts in concrete and wall structures. We are also one of the few certifi ed Al-lan block installers! We also do decks, pergolas, kitchen & bath renos, driveways, fencing and Korblock walls to engi-neering specifi cations. Give us a call for a free estimate. Bulk price aggregate and delivery! WCB / Insured. You can count on us to get the job done right! Just ask our many many hap-py customers!Darrin 250-231-3644

Drywall

No Job Too Small

Ph: [email protected]

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Services

Household ServicesA-1 FURNACE & Air Duct Cleaning. Complete Fur-nace/Air Duct Systems cleaned & sterilized. Locally owned & operated. 1-800-565-0355 (Free estimates)

Pets & Livestock

Feed & Hay

HAY FOR SALE small square

$160/ton250-428-4316

Contractors

We’re on the net at www.bcclassifi ed.com

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Merchandise for Sale

Food Products

BUTCHER SHOPBC INSPECTED

GRADED AA OR BETTERLOCALLY GROWNNATURAL BEEF

Hormone FreeGrass Fed/Grain Finished$100 Packages Available

Quarters/Halves$2.95/lb Hanging WeightExtra Lean Hamburger

AvailableTARZWELL FARMS

250-428-4316 Creston

Firewood/FuelDRY LARCH/FIR, split anddelivered, FULL cord. $240. 250-367-9538

Contractors

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Classifieds


Nathan Kotyk

250-231-9484

Rhonda van Tent

250-231-7575

RobBurrus

250-231-4420

Marie Claude Germain

250-512-1153

1st TrailReal Estate

1252 Bay Avenue, Trail 250.368.5222 1993 Columbia Ave, Rossland 250.362.5200WWW.COLDWELLBANKERTRAIL.COM

Friday, Jan 24 starting at 4:30pm670 Shakespeare St, Warfi eld

$129,000

Rossland $189,900

Marie Claude MLS# 2390913

Rossland $199,900


Trail $125,000


Trail $109,900

Nathan MLS# 2214582

Warfi eld $239,000

Nathan MLS# 2389662

Fruitvale $149,900

Nathan MLS# 2393772

Fruitvale $214,000

Rhonda MLS# 2392778

Fruitvale $139,000

Rhonda MLS# 2393449

Genelle $319,900

Rhonda MLS# 2393958

Warfi eld $54,900

Rob MLS# 2392110

Trail $135,000

Rob MLS# 2393731

Rossland $399,000

Rob MLS# 2392110

MLS # 2391999

2 bedroom

Sunningdale Condo

New Price

A fantastic 3 level home in Warfi eld. Close to golf, skiing, mountain biking and more. Some updates and minor repairs required a great place to

start a family and call home.Nathan Kotyk 250-231-9484

OPEN HOUSE

Merchandise for Sale

Misc. for SaleAffordable Steel Shipping

Containers for sale/rent 20’ & 40’ Kootenay Containers

Castlegar 250-365-3014HOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available. 1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com/newspaper?Lg glass dinning table, sm & lg computer desks, china cabi-net, 4 leatherette chairs & plow tractor. 250-442-2999

Stunning Diamondengagement ring princess cut

set with gold and palladium. Diamond is nearly fl awless and colorless. Appraised at

$4100,selling for $2500, OBO. Papers included. Call or text

250 777-1779

Misc. WantedPrivate Coin Collector BuyingCollections, Estates, OlympicGold & Silver Coins, Bills etc. Confi dential 250-499-0251

Real Estate

Houses For Sale2005 SRI Double Wide

MODULAR HOME24x44 in Triangle Gardens. 45 years and up. Vaulted

ceiling, open plan, bay win-dow, 3 bdrm, 2 bath, pantry, low maintenance, gas heat,

air conditioning, 5 appl’s, UGS, landscaped, covered

deck & carport, other features, must see.

250-442-8676

Revenue PropertyCastlegar 6-plex plus

commercial space for sale Income $5150/mth, Close to

Tim Hortons & shopping asking $495,000 Cap rate 9%

Call James 250-608-3930

Rentals

Apt/Condo for RentBella Vista, Shavers Bench Townhomes. N/S, N/P. 2-3 bdrms. Phone 250.364.1822

Castlegar 2 Bdrm Apt 900 sq ft. F/S, D/W, laundry on site, grassed fenced yard

one parking stall per apt. Clean bright and quiet. Ground

level N/S, N/P $725/mth + utilities,250-365-5070

leave msgErmalinda Apartments, Glen-merry. Adults only. N/P, N/S. 1-2 bdrms. Ph. 250.364.1922Francesco Estates, Glenmer-ry. Adults only. N/P, N/S, 1-3 bdrms. Phone 250.368.6761.Glenmerry 2bdrm. apt. F/S Heat included. $750./mo. Avail. Feb.1st. 250-368-5908Glenmerry 3bdrm. F/S $850/mo. Heat included. Avail. Feb.1st. 250-368-5908Grand Forks: Lg 2 bdrm, 1.5 bath, 5 app’s, private 400 sq ft deck. N/S, N/P. $750/m + util. Avail March 1st.250-442-7808.TRAIL, 1BDRM. Glenmerry. N/P. Utilities included. 250-368-1312.TRAIL, spacious 1&2bdrm. apartment. Adult building, per-fect for seniors/ professionals. Cozy, clean, quiet, com-fortable. Must See. 250-368-1312

Homes for Rent3 bed House, East Trail. Close to Safeway. $900/month + Utilities. Phone; 250-231-3343

Shared Accommodation

TRAIL, 1 Bdrm $395/month, near shopping & bus, seekingquiet person 250-368-6075

Suites, LowerCastlegar 2 Bdrm main fl oor

Suite bright & roomy, F/S off street parking, N/S, small

pet ok $950/mth incl all utilities, Avail Feb 1st

250-365-7440 leave msgCASTLEGAR (Ootischenia)1.5 Bdrm, Basement Suite

N/S newly reno, Pets? 250-365-1545

Rentals

Want to RentMONTROSE, FRUITVALE home (with washer/dryer) for small family with 9yr old son. 250-367-7419, 250-368-6075

Transportation

Auto Financing

Cars - Domestic2001 Subaru Impreza, 4dr hatch back, 2.2Lt., auto, 4 wheel dr, brand new ice & snow tires, 230,000km, $4,300/obo. 250-442-0122 or 250-493-1807.2002 Oldsmobile Alero, 4cy, 5sp manual, 2 dr coop, 107,000 original km, runs and looks like new. Car is in Grand Forks. Driven daily. $3,599. 250-442-0122 / 250-493-1807.

2005 Cadillac SRX-V. All wheel drive wagon.

V8 Auto, ultra view sunroof, heated leather, fully loaded. No accidents or rust, original paint, never smoked in, new brakes,wheel bearings, snow tires on factory rims (real dub

wheels w/ summer tires),bearings. Only 102,000 kms!

$58,000 replacement cost, 1st $12,950 takes!!! No GST!

352-3942 Nelson, BC

Recreational/Sale1992 Cardinal 27ft. 5th wheel w/pullout, in very good condi-tion, inside stored, new awn-ing, water heater and pump. $7,300/obo. 250-442-3224

Snowmobiles2010 Arctic Cat M8 HCR

Snowmobile with only 1700 miles, runs great, very good

condition. $7,900 OBOTo view 250-365-3495 or

250-365-3190

Legal

Legal NoticesNotice to CreditorsIn the Estate of Nick JohnDenisoff, Deceased, late of Glade, BC who diedDecember 26, 2013.TAKE NOTICE that allpersons having claims upon the estate of the above named must fi le with theundersigned Executor by the 30th day of January, 2014 a full statement of their claims and of securities held by them.Neil Denisoff2340 Upper Glade RoadCastlegar, BC, V1N 4R5

Legal

TendersBIDS ARE invited for lawn mowing and weeding of fl ower beds. This will be a two year contract from May, 2014 to October, 2015 for Waneta Vil-lage. It will consist of full lawn care, including mowing, de-thatching, aerating, fertilizing and spraying for weed control. All bidders must have Work Safe to apply. Written bids will be received until 3:00pm, Feb-ruary 21, 2014. For more de-tails please phone 250-364-2608 or email [email protected] Village StrataBox 96, Trail, BC V1R 2Y8

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please visitwww.kootenayhomes.com

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The Local Experts™

Tonnie Stewart ext 33Cell: [email protected]

Deanne Lockhart ext 41Cell: [email protected]

Mark Wilson ext 30Cell: [email protected]

Mary Martin ext 28Cell: [email protected]

Richard Daoust ext 24Cell: [email protected] www.kootenayhomes.com

Terry Alton ext 48Cell: [email protected]

Christine Albo ext 39Cell: [email protected]

Art Forrest ext [email protected]

WE CAN SELL YOUR HOME. NOBODY HAS THE RESOURCES WE DO!

Jodi Beamish ext 51Cell: [email protected]

NEW LISTING

3873 Woodland Drive, Trail $285,000

Immaculate one owner home with 5 bdrms, 2.5 baths, in-law suite in the basement, large carport, family room and lovely street appeal. This is a gem and priced to sell!

Call Deanne 250-231-0153

3471 Marigold Drive, Trail $264,900

Lovely family home in Glenmerry with many upgrades such as plumbing,

wiring, drywall insulation, fl ooring and windows. Enjoy the open fl oor plan

and fabulous covered deck. Call your REALTOR® now before its gone!!Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

82 Walnut Avenue, Fruitvale $234,500

3+ bdrm 2.5 bath in a family oriented Fruitvale neighbourhood. Fully fi nished basement, fenced, fl at yard, upgraded

kitchen, lots of room for the whole gang. Fantastic value here!

Call Tonnie (250) 365-9665

112 - 4th Street, Salmo $109,000

Excellent investment opportunity as a rental property, or locate your business here and live upstairs. Each level has its own energy effi cient Heat Pump. Retail

and Residential space in a great location. This is an opportunity you don’t want to

miss. Call your REALTOR® today for your personal viewing.

Call Art (250) 368-8818

1205 Green Avenue, Trail

$145,0005 bedroom/2 bath home with new kitchen and

awesome views!Call Jodi 250-231-2331

2266 - 6th Avenue, Trail $159,000

4 bdrm home on a quiet street! Home offers good sized kitchen, large shop (20 x 22), low maintenance exterior and fl at fenced lot. Quick possession possible.

Call today!Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

1120 Warren Street, Trail $109,000

Great rental package! Upstairs suite features laminate fl ooring, 2 bedrooms, bright and airy feel, and a great view! Downstairs suite is a compact 1 bdrm.

Also includes a vacant 120 x 100 lot with off-street parking! Both suites current

rent totals $1050.Call Terry 250-231-1101

1360 - 2nd Avenue, Trail $199,000

Interior completely new since 2006. This charmer offers level access, 2

bdrms, 1 bath, unfi nished basement, fully fenced and landscaped yard with underground sprinklers, dog run, as

well as a carport. This little gem will go quickly! Don’t wait call now!

Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

1922 Meadowlark Drive, Fruitvale $265,000

5 bdrms & 2.5 baths. This wonderful family home features many recent upgrades. The large back deck is great for entertaining right off the

newly updated kitchen. Family friendly neighborhood and just minutes to

downtown Fruitvale.Call Jodi (250) 231-2331

8412 Theatre Road, Trail $449,000

Newer 4 bdrm home on 0.87 acre private lot. This home offers private entrance, open fl oor plan, beautiful

kitchen and gorgeous gas fi replace with antique mantle. Also included is a large

(22x28) insulated shop. Call now!Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

710 Redstone Drive, Rossland $425,000

Brand new spacious home a few steps from walking and x-country trails and Redstone golf course. This 4 bdrm, 3 bath home features 2 car garage with ample storage area, rec room spacious

living area. Call your REALTOR® for more information or a personal tour.

Call Richard (250) 368-7897

5255 Highway 6, Winlaw

$89,00010.13 lightly treed acres is mostly fl at and close to Winlaw. Good options for building sites; power, well and water

license in place.Call Tonnie (250) 365-9665

OPEN HOUSESaturday Jan 25 10am-12pm

NEW LISTING

1887 Spokane Street, Rossland $184,000

from 10:30am - 12pm

2183 St. Paul Street, Rossland $210,000

from 12:30 - 2pm

1602 Kootenay Avenue, Rossland $239,000

from 2:30 - 4pm

NEW PRICE

NEW PRICE

Call Christine (250) 512-7653

OPEN HOUSES Sat, January 25

NEW LISTING

304 Austad Lane, Trail $69,900

GREAT character 2 bdrm home in Columbia Heights - solid home - newer roof - tile, laminate fl ooring - upgraded

plumbing - terraced lot with private patio - Great investment!

1163 Birch Ave, Trail $64,900

Solid 2 bedroom home with 1 bedroom suite in basement. This home requires

some TLC but is well priced below assessment. Great investment!

Call your REALTOR® for a viewing.

Call Mark (250) 231-5591

INVESTMENT PROPERTIES

OPEN HOUSESaturday January 25 1-3pm

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