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

Showing there is no “i” in teamwork, Warfield council and the City of Trail met for a second time and worked out a contract that will once again have villagers accessing the local library and sports facilities without paying double the fees.

Both sides came together Tuesday for a meet-ing at city hall, and negotiated an 18-month Trail Resident Program (TRP) agreement for Warfield to pay the city $90,000 towards the library and recreational services this year, and $45,900 for the first six months in 2015.

“Mayor and council are very pleased to have come to an interim agreement on recreation and culture funding,” said Warfield Mayor Bert Crockett in the city’s press release. “This is an example of the two councils working coopera-tively to provide services to their citizens.”

In the previous five-year agreement which ended Dec. 31 last year, Warfield had been pay-ing $107,000 to Trail: $32,500 for the Trail and District Public Library service and $74,500 for village residents to access the city’s recreational facilities and parks.

Following Crockett’s first tête-a-tête with Trail last week, he maintained that the village’s con-tribution into the regional services was not sustainable and the city’s accounting “formula” that derived the monetary amount needed some adjustment.

“Hopefully this will lead to a sub-regional inter-municipal agreement for the citizens of the Greater Trail area,” said Crockett.

The reduction of funds sits well with the city, and Trail council is relieved to have reached an agreement, according to Trail Mayor Dieter Bogs.

See TRP, Page 3

B Y A R T H A R R I S O NTimes Staff

While many areas of society are still engaged in the debate on whether or not e-cigarettes are an acceptable alternative to traditional tobacco products, J.L. Crowe Secondary has stepped up and announced that it has banned the electronic instruments from school property, as of Wednesday.

E-cigarettes, also known as electronic cigarettes or vapour-izers, are battery-powered devices that use a heating element to

turn any one of a variety of liquid solutions into a vapour, which

can be inhaled, similar to smok-ing cigarettes or cigars.

Earlier in the year, Greg Luterbach, superintendent of schools for School District 20, sent out a district-wide memo prohibiting the use of e-cigarettes on all district grounds, buildings, buses, and vehicles.

“I guess it’s definitely a con-cern, adolescents experiment and if a 13- year-old girl or boy is mak-ing a bad health choice we feel it’s our responsibility to discourage it,” Dave DeRosa, principal at JL

Crowe, said last week. “Our focus on it is as an educational health and safety concern. I understand there may have been good intent originally, to reduce harm, but there seems to be a proliferation of flavours targeted towards chil-dren. It entices them to engage in addictive behavior at an influ-ential age.”

The solutions used in the e-cigs can come in a wide variety of flavours and, most controver-sially, with varying amounts of nicotine, which can be inhaled as

a component of the vapour.They produce no actual smoke

and very little noticeable smell but can still give the appearance of an individual in the act of smoking a cigarette.

E-cigarettes are available online and in a number of loca-tions around the Greater Trail area.

“I knew it was coming,” said Simon Boka, co-owner of Sound West Audio Video Unlimited in Trail.

See REPORTS, Page 3

E-cigarettes banned from school district grounds

Warfield, Trail hammer out rec deal

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Former Miss Trail Cheyanne Friess has stepped out of the limelight in Trail but onto the provincial stage as one of seven candidates running in the British Columbia Ambassador Program.

The 18-year-old Trail resident is in the midst of planning fundraising events, volunteering, study-ing B.C. history and practicing her speech-es in preparation for the pageant held in Merritt Aug. 15 and 16 when three can-didates will be hon-oured with the title.

“It is a ton of work but I think the out-come is all worth it, and seeing how supportive and kind Trail can be is such a blessing,” she said. “I also wanted to run because I think it will offer me valuable life skills, especially on planning and organ-izing events and see-ing the true worth in volunteering.”

The B.C. program is open to young men or women between 17 and 24 years old who have held an ambas-sador or royal title in the province. The pro-gram promotes motiv-ation, self esteem and education with money fundraised awarded to candidates through bursaries. Program organizers also go after post-secondary scholarships at appro-priate schools based on studies of interest.

Much of the prep-aration is done at home before can-didates face a long week of training and rehearsal prior to the big show.

Candidates prove their commitment by fundraising and volunteering in their

community, writing and performing two speeches (one person-al and one on their city) and creating a table display that captures the import-ant aspects of their city with a creative twist. They are also quizzed on the his-tory of their province and of course take to the stage in an even-ing gown presenta-tion and impromptu question.

Some of this is old hat for Friess, who just completed her year as Miss Trail and passed the title off to this year's Miss Trail Ella Meyer at a pageant held during Silver City Days.

Nowadays she still represents Trail but

on the provincial stage, thanks to back-ing from the Knights of Pythias.

While she goes after the graduated title with poise and confidence, it wasn't that long ago that Friess found herself shy and lacking self assurance.

“My reign really cemented in my new confidence and helped me gain so many valu-able life skills and les-sons,” she said.

Pageants offer a glimpse of what these programs offer candi-dates, she said, not-ing her growth dur-ing her time firstly as Miss Italo Canadese.

She holds Michelle Epp, program coordinator, and

Bev Benson, pageant coordinator, partly responsible for her transformation and highly recommends young women get involved.

“Through history lessons, high heel training and lots of speech practice it was never a dull moment and people should know it helps shape girls and give them the confidence to tackle their goals and pursue their dreams,” she said.

“Behind the crown there is a girl who makes it sparkle.”

The community can get behind her by voting daily for the people's choice award by visiting www.bcam-bassador.com and

selecting “People's Choice 2014” on the left-hand side.

Friess will be at various events throughout Trail and asks residents to stop in and show their sup-port by taking a busi-ness card, donating or buying a T-shirt.

She intends to put any financial back-ing won through the program to good use when she pursues dental assisting with an eventual goal of further orthodontic studies at the College of the Rockies in Cranbrook.

To find out more about Friess and her journey, follow her on Facebook at www.facebook.com/BCAPCheyanneFriess

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Cheyanne Friess stepped down from her duty as Miss Trail this month when she passed the crown over to Ella Meyer.

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7:30 p.m. La Cafamore returns to perform string trios of Beethoven, Kodaly and Dvorak. Tickets $15 or $12 for students and seniors, at Bear Country Kitchen and at the door.

• Saturday, Fruitvale Memorial Hall at 9 a.m. auditions start for West Kootenay’s Best Singer. Top 20 auditions advance. Contests starts at 7 p.m. Tickets $5 at the Beaver Valley Bakery. Open to all ages living in West Kootenay/Boundary area. For info call Vern 250.428.0305.

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• Friday to Sunday, Beaver Valley May Days. Ball tourney at Haines Park, 3-on-3 street hockey, Saturday parade and more.

• Saturday, Trail United Church from 1-3 p.m. for Neighbourhood Grans to Grans Strawberry Tea. Tickets $4.

• Sunday, deadline to register for “Cookies and Cards,” The Friends of Trail Library invite you to an afternoon of bridge on May 29 form 1-3 p.m. at the Trail United Church. Tickets $10, fundraiser to sup-port current library programs. Call 364.1146.

• Monday, Kiro Wellness Centre, 1500 Columbia Ave. at 2 p.m. the West Kootenay Ostomy Support Group will meet. Guest will discuss chronic pain self management. For further info, please call 368.9827 or 365.6276. Please note date change because of holiday.

Gallery• Thursday, VISAC Gallery opens

Gary Drouin’s “A Trail of Street Photography” exhibition featuring urban landscapes, mostly down the streets of Trail and Rossland. Runs until June 18. Hours are Tuesday to Friday from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m., Thursdays until 6

p.m. Admission by donation. Call 364.1181 or visit visacgallery.com

• Saturday, VISAC Gallery 9 a.m, until noon. for monthly watercol-our pencil drawing workshops. Joe Horvath and Visac offer workshops the last Saturday of each month. Cost $25. Tools required: one HB pencil, one Staedtler eraser, and one 24 pack of watercolour pencils.

Upcoming• May 29, Trail United Church

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FROM PAGE 1“The biggest problem is a lack

of education, people see it as an ‘attack on our kids’ but it really isn’t. I do not sell nicotine products to anyone under 19. We sell the kits and parts but no nicotine.”

Boka maintains that e-cigarettes are an effective way for people who are already addicted to tobacco to quit smoking by using the elec-tronic version to eventually reduce their dependence on nicotine, the primary addictive substance in tobacco products.

“There is about an 80 per cent success rate with people using this product,” Boka said. “It won’t help if you don’t want to quit but it takes away the craving and it’s visual, when you see the vapour you feel like you’re smoking, it seems to work better but you only exhale steam. There’s a bias against smok-ing and people see it and think of smoking.”

While DeRosa acknowledges that while even some of the students are using the e-cigs to quit real cigarettes, an increase of reports of students using the devices in and around the school has led to the ban.

The health and safety memo in the school’s newsletter states that, “e-cigarettes observed on school property will be confiscated and turned into the office and the stu-

dent will be warned. “Parents will be contacted and

the e-cigarette will be turned over to the parent. Repeat offenses will result in further discipline and pos-sibly leading to suspension for defi-ance.”

DeRosa explains that one con-cern is where the devices are being used and another is possible shar-ing of the devices which could lead to younger students adopting the habit.

“Historically, in a population of 850 to 900 students we have 20 to 25 per cent are chronic users of tobacco products,” he said.

“We have had some senior stu-dents who are using them to quit and we tell them that it is their responsibility to not share them, to ensure that others are not using them for other reasons. Don’t have it out in school.

“We’re worried about normal-izing new behavior and a new prod-uct when we’re not really aware of the consequences over time and, at this point, there doesn’t seem to be any real control over the product. We provide supports and services through a child and youth care worker to meet with kids to sup-port them to quit.

“Kids need to know about what are the rules and what are the con-sequences and we just want to be clear about that.”

Reports of e-cigarettes use at school increased

Auditions for RLOP next weekFROM PAGE 1

“We’re satisfied with the agreement,” said Bogs in the city’s news release. “We recognize the toll this has taken on the public, in particular the sports organizations that rely heavily on Trail’s services.”

The city agreed to an overall reduction in fees to bridge the gap until this fall’s newly elected councils can review the matter and possibly reach a long-term agreement, he added.

To date, the village has paid about $13,000 to its residents who have accessed Trail facilities and library services under the dual-rate system.

The city acknowledged payments made under the Warfield reimbursement program and agreed to sub-tract the amount from this year’s contract, leaving the village owing Trail $77,000.

The agreement was in effect Wednesday, however before Warfield residents have their TRPs reinstated, one piece of ID will be required before registering for a program or upon arrival at the Trail Aquatic and Leisure Centre.

“It won’t be time-consuming,” said Trisha Davison, Trail’s parks and recreation director. “We just want to ensure our database information is correct and that all patrons are being well served.”

TRP cards will be reinstated

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While the CBS reality television version of “The Amazing Race” may have just wrapped up its season, that doesn’t mean that fans of the show have to wait until next year for the thrill, they can play the game at Beaver Valley May Days this year and actually win money, although not $1 million.

“It’s open to everybody from 12-years old to 112 so everything will be in walking distance, no driving will be involved,” said event organ-izer, Vickie Fitzpatrick. “It’ll be much like the TV version, it’ll depend on back-power, brain-power, and fun.”

Participants will start at Haines Park in Fruitvale at 2:30 p.m. Sunday and, using clues provided in sealed envelopes, proceed through a series of challenges set at various locations around the festival.

“The challenges are top secret,” said Fitzpatrick. “There will be four or five differ-ent events and the competitors will have to complete them in the proper way or they’ll have to go back and repeat them. They have to read the clues carefully to make sure they get them right.”

The various events will be judged by a crack team of discerning judges made up of Beaver Valley seniors specially recruited for the event.

Registration for the event will be open at Haines Park Saturday and Fitzpatrick is hoping to have as many as possible registered, the day before the event, to assist with the planning and coordination by knowing the numbers involved in the Sunday competition.

“It’s $5 per person to register and we’ll have two-person teams competing against each

other,” Fitzpatrick said. “First team across the line takes the money so there could be some stiff competition. It should be fun and funny for competitors and spectators.”

The Beaver Valley May Days weekend kicks off Friday with Ed Wilcox presented with the Citizen of the Year ceremony at 7 p.m. at the Beaver Valley Curling Club. The night will be capped off by the fireworks at dusk.

Saturday features the popular parade begin-ning at noon with an assortment of sporting events and musical entertainment throughout the day.

For a full schedule of events, visit www.beavervalleymaydays.com

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B y T . C u n n i n g h a m Nanaimo News Bulletin

With $9 million on the line, one Nanaimo city councillor believes the purchase of park-land should have gone to referendum.

Nanaimo city coun-cil announced last week it had inked a series of option agree-ments to acquire 89 hectares of parkland in Linley Valley.

The move was made in-camera and will see the city spend an esti-mated $9 million to acquire and develop five properties, includ-

ing two that will cost four times the assessed land value. The money is expected to come from reserves.

It’s a “big chunk” out of the city savings, according to Coun. Bill McKay, who says he would have liked to see the public weigh in on the decision in the upcoming election.

He also wonders why people aren’t more upset polit-icians chose to spend millions of dollars without community involvement.

“At the council

level we are constantly talking about trans-parency. At the public level they are con-stantly talking about involving them more in decision-making in the community and yet we just spent $9 million behind closed doors and … very few people are saying a word,” he said, adding he finds it odd.

“Everyone talks about participatory democracy and if that had been a pub-lic works building up on Labieux Road, this community would be

going absolutely crazy right now like they did with the annex.”

The decision to sign option agreements passed by a wide mar-gin at a closed meeting in early May, according to Mayor John Ruttan, who said McKay was the only person to vote against the move.

“I don’t know if we had the luxury of mak-ing a commitment and then waiting for a referendum,” he said, adding the city had been warned that land was being sold quickly.

The community also hired politicians to make some of these decisions, he said.

Nanaimo city offi-cials are scheduled to move forward on the acquisition of land in upcoming council meetings and amend the financial plan to cover the cost of the properties, the major-ity of which are above the assessed values. Hillside Avenue, a 47-hectare spread, has a $3.5-million price tag, which is more than four times the $792,000 the land was valued at this year.

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KELOWNA, B.C. - Radio-controlled planes appear destined to return to the skies above a rural area in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley after the prov-ince’s Appeal Court ruled in favour of a group of model-air-craft enthusiasts.

The District of Lake Country alleged members of the Kelowna Ogopogo Radio Controllers Association were violating a municipal zoning bylaw by flying their radio-controlled planes and helicopters from a plot of agricul-tural land north of Kelowna.

Last October, a B.C. Supreme Court judge sided with the dis-trict after concluding municipal bylaws that allow planes and heli-copters to use agricultural land don’t apply to model aircraft. The court issued an injunction ordering the club to stop.

But the B.C. Court of Appeal has overturned that decision, say-ing in a written decision released Tuesday that there’s nothing in the district’s bylaws that prevent radio-controlled aircraft on farm-land.

“There is no evidence to sug-gest the club’s recreational use of the property interferes with or disrupts its agricultural char-acter,” Justice Kathryn Neilson

wrote in the unanimous ruling.The club had an agreement

with a landowner to use a grassy airstrip to launch radio-con-trolled aircraft, which generated noise complaints from nearby chicken farmers, equestrians and residents.

At issue was a section of the dis-trict’s zoning bylaw that restricts land that is part of the province’s Agricultural Land Reserve. Aside from farming, the bylaw lists a number of activities that are per-mitted, including using the land as an “unpaved airstrip or helipad for use of an aircraft flying non-scheduled flights.”

The district argued the section of the bylaw was intended to allow farmers to use aircraft for agri-cultural purposes and was never meant to allow radio-controlled planes to buzz above farmland.

However, the Appeal Court said neither the bylaw nor provincial land regulations prevent non-agricultural aircraft from using farmland, so long as such activity doesn’t “disrupt or change the essential agricultural character of the land.”

The court ruled model planes are, in fact, covered by the “unpaved airstrip” exemption and overturned the decision ordering the club to ground their planes.

B y K R i S T i P a T T o nPenticton Western News

A Penticton woman is disgusted by a sense-less act of graffiti found on the back door of Cheers the Church.

“I was pretty horri-fied to see it actually because it is a hate crime,” said Rena Groot, a teacher at Penticton Christian School who attends Cheers the Church. “Maybe the person didn’t know that or realize all the stuff behind the statement they made on the wall.”

It was while out on a class walk last week that Groot and her stu-dents came across the graffiti with the words “burnt jew,” a star of David drawn with flames surrounding it and an arrow point-ing towards where the charred outline of a mattress remains.

Groot said she was

taken back when she walked by with her class to see the vandal-ism taken to another level with the graffiti.

“It was really sad. Immediately one of the kids noticed it and pointed it out because there was also some course language,” said Groot. “I have been to the Holocaust museum and have relatives of Jewish descent so this has a lot of meaning to me. I have heard of these types of actions in other parts of the world, but to see it in Penticton it is so chill-ing.”

Groot said she has noticed a rise in anti-Semetic crimes around the world, but never believed she would find it in Penticton, which she has always viewed as a safe place.

“I wouldn’t want to see something like that against any group

or person. I really don’t think it is fair and that is why I am standing up to speak about it. People in the Second World War that hid Jewish people weren’t afraid to stand up for what is right and some died for it. If they are willing to do that then I have to be willing to not care that my name is now out there and stand up for what is right here.”

Groot said she hopes that if someone is caught that it will turn into a learning lesson for them.

“We need people’s consciousness to be awakened. I’m not mad, I’m just dis-appointed. I hope we can teach whoever did this about what their actions truly mean. This could be a learn-ing lesson rather than a punishment and maybe they could clean

it up or do some com-munity service instead of community messing up,” said Groot.

RCMP confirmed they are dealing with a rash of graffiti recently but it has mostly been individuals tagging their nickname around the city.

It isn’t the first time they have seen degrad-ing remarks in spray paint, including at a cemetery and more recently in the sum-mer of 2012 when buildings, road signs and vehicles were painted with racist graffiti. Those individ-uals were caught and sentenced in court.

“People out there know who did this and we start getting calls and tips when it cross-es that threshold of taggers to something more serious,” said Sgt. Rick Dellebuur. “Depending on what was written or what they did, they could be charged with a hate crime and not just mischief.”

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B y P a u l h E n D E R S o nChilliwack Times

He may not count among the world’s dumbest criminals but a Chilliwack thief’s plan was none-too-well thought out.

A 19-year-old Chilliwack man was arrested inside a First Avenue convenience store in the early hours of Tuesday morning after he broke in and then couldn’t get out.

At approximately 3:20 a.m., Chilliwack RCMP responded to a business alarm at the supermarket at the corner of Broadway and First avenues. Police arrived to find the store ransacked.

They also noticed a small open-ing in the roof around the cash register. The front door to the busi-

ness had not been opened nor had any windows been broken.

The Chilliwack Fire Department was called in to assist to get police onto the roof. After dropping into the attic area of the business, police found the teenager stuck and unable to get out.

“It turns out that his entry plan was better thought out than his exit strategy,” explained Chilliwack RCMP spokesperson Cst. Tracy Wolbeck.

“After dropping through the roof he was unable to get out due to a double locking mechanism on the front door of the business. Police were on the ground as well as the roof and made any sort of escape a challenge.”

Thief breaks in but can’t get out

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S STORONTO - An Ontario judge has scold-

ed feuding neighbours for acting like chil-dren in a lawsuit centred on the dirty deeds of a dog in their ritzy pocket of Toronto.

The justice writes that the “high point” of the civil claim made by one set of home-owners against their counterparts across the street was a “poop and scoop” that was apparently dropped by the dog owner in the rival neighbours’ garbage can.

Evidence from a security camera of the dog urinating next to the bushes on the plaintiff’s lawn in the posh Forest Hill neighbourhood was also submitted - and, as Justice Ed Morgan writes, the case went “downhill from there.”

Court heard the beef stretched over sev-eral years and included complaints about the defendants parking their car in front of the plaintiffs’ house, standing and staring at the residence or walking by it with an audio recorder to catch conversations.

Morgan writes the defendants - a psych-iatrist and his wife - seemed to relish pick-ing at the “sensitivities” of their neighbours - an oil executive and his wife - even going so far as to pretend to snap pictures of their house.

But the judge dismissed those peeves as not being worthy of a legal dispute and writes that what the couples need “is a rather stern kindergarten teacher” and not an appearance in his Superior Court hear-ing room.

“There is no claim for pooping and scooping into the neighbour’s garbage can, and there is no claim for letting Rover water the neighbour’s hedge,” Morgan wrote in his ruling released Tuesday.

He scarcely concealed his distaste at the whole affair between two pairs of “educated professionals,” plaintiffs Paris and John Morland-Jones and defendants Gary and Audrey Taerk.

“Despite their many advantages in life, however, they are acting like children. And now that the matter has taken up an entire day in what is already a crowded motions court, they are doing so at the taxpayers’ expense.”

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SOTTAWA - No need

to wait any longer for the baby boom retire-ment shock to hit the economy - it’s already here, according to a new report on trends in Canada’s labour force.

In a fresh analy-sis on employment, Royal Bank economist Nathan Janzen notes that the steady decline in the so-called partici-pation rate continues even as the unemploy-ment rate drops.

The participation rate, a little reported number that tracks Canadians with jobs and those looking for jobs as a percentage of the working-age popu-lation, dipped to 66.1 per cent in the latest employment data for April, down from 66.5 per cent from a year ago and from 67.8 in February 2008.

The working age population is con-sidered anyone over age 15 years, with no upper limit.

It would be easy to jump to the conclusion that the steady decline means tens of thou-sands of Canadians are becoming too discour-aged to look for work and are just drop-ping out of the work force altogether, says Janzen.

But that would be wrong.

The most likely explanation is that many Canadians are dropping out of the workforce because they are retiring. And the trend is likely to become more notice-able going forward, Janzen said.

“This has long been expected,” he said, noting that in 2007 Statistics Canada pre-dicted the participa-tion rate could drop to the 58 per cent range

by 2013.“If you are wait-

ing for the participa-tion rate to turn as a sign of labour market strength you are going to be waiting for a long time.”

The best evidence that aging is the critical factor at play is the data on those Canadians who tell Statistics Canada each month that they are “not in the workforce” voluntarily.

From October 2008 to April 2014, that category has risen by more than a million, but most of those - 682,000 - were in the 65 years and older.

“This suggest that all of the decline in the Canadian participation rate since the 2008-09 recession can be explained by the aging

of the population and a resulting increase in retirements,” the report concludes.

The RBC analysis is good news in the sense that it suggests Canada official unemployment rate of 6.9 per cent is accurately reflect-ing the health of the labour market - slight-ly under the 10-year average but still about one percentage point above the pre-reces-sion level.

But it also has pot-entially negative impli-cations for govern-ments. Several studies, including from the Parliamentary Budget Officer, have found that immigration won’t be sufficient to fully compensate for the aging workforce, meaning governments will have fewer work-ers paying taxes and more costs associated with an aging popula-tion.

The squeeze will be particularly tight on provincial govern-ments that are respon-sible for health-care spending, especially since Ottawa has moved to protect its flank by tying health transfers to the growth in the nominal econ-omy.

The PBO has pro-jected slower labour force will limit eco-nomic growth to about 1.8 per cent in the next several decades, com-pared with 2.6 per cent for 1977 to 2011.

The aging issue has also been a prime justification used by the Harper govern-ment for changes to job training programs, as well as keeping the controversial tempor-ary foreign workers program, so as to meet what is feared to be a future skills shortage crisis.

Janzen is careful to caution that his report does not mean Canada’s labour mar-ket is fully recovered from the recession. The unemployment rate is still higher today than in 2008, more people are officially classi-fied as unemployed and the number who have been out of work 27 weeks or longer remains higher than before the slump.

But the data does show that 95 per cent of the increase in the number of Canadians not in the workforce today is because they self-report not wanting a job, mostly because they’ve retired.

Aging workers impact labour market: report“if you are waiting for the

participation rate to turn as a sign of labour market strength you are

going to be waiting for a long time.”

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Conservation effort not workingT H E C A N A D I A N P R E S S

EDMONTON - Some Alberta environ-mentalists say a national agreement between the forestry industry and conserva-tion groups isn’t work-ing in the province.

Keepers of the Athabasca and the Alberta Wilderness Association say log-

ging is still going on inside caribou habitat and in buffer zones set up to protect the ani-mals’ ranges.

In the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement, major forestry companies agreed to preserve for-

ests and environment-alists ended a boycott and media campaign against companies.

It applies to more than 73 million hec-tares of public forests.and has been called the world’s largest con-servation deal.

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OPINION

How Western Canada is changing the countryIt’s not your grand-

father’s Canada any more. Maybe not even your mother’s,

because the regional pat-terns that prevailed in the past no longer apply. Loleen Berdahl, Associate Professor of Political Studies at the University of Saskatchewan, and Roger Gibbins, former President and CEO of the Canada West Foundation, exam-ine the changes Canada has undergone in a new book called Looking West: Regional Transformation and the Future of Canada.

When Canada’s indus-trial economy began, its aim was primarily the development of a manu-facturing base in Quebec and Ontario through the use of protectionist tar-iffs. Companies, mainly American, set up factories in central Canada to get their products in over the tariff walls and to take advantage of the protected Canadian market where their goods could be sold at high prices.

The West and Atlantic Canada were treated as colonies of central Canada. They were to pro-vide the resources and raw materials Ontario and

Quebec needed, while, given the tariff barriers, being forced to buy expen-sive central Canadian manufactured goods, even though they did not share in the jobs that manufac-turing created.

This narrow-minded perspective – as exempli-fied by a senior Ottawa bureaucrat who not long ago referred to an Inner Canada and an Outer Canada (no priz-es for guessing which is which) – still prevails, even though trade within Canada is now freer and its regional economies more integrated,

But that’s changing because of new global eco-nomic realities.

First, manufacturing, unless very highly auto-mated, has moved from central Canada and other industrialized countries to mainly Asian nations with their lower labour costs.

Second, trade and eco-nomic growth are thriving around the Pacific Ocean while stagnating around the Atlantic.

Third, the world is teeming with cheap manu-factured goods, while resources are become

scarcer. This had led, according

to Berdahl and Gibbins, to a shift in the balance of economic power in Canada.

B .C . , A lberta , Saskatchewan and Manitoba now generate as much of Canada’s output as Ontario, and almost double Quebec’s contri-bution. The four western provinces have 31 per cent of the population, which is also growing faster in the West than the rest of Canada. And except-ing Toronto, the most ethnically-diverse cities in Canada are all in the West; Immigrants have recognized for a long time where the action is in Canada.

And much of that action centres on the Pacific.

Canada’s non-U.S. inter-national trade and invest-ment are now Asian rather European and about 70 per cent of Canada’s Asian trade originates in the West. Most Asian invest-ment in Canada is also in the West, attracted by its resources and facilitated by the people of Asian ori-gin in our diverse popula-tion.

Turning from recent immigrants to those who have been here the long-est, two out of three First Nation people in Canada are in the West. Their numbers are not large, but Aboriginals make up 10 per cent of Saskatchewan’s population and 5 per cent of British Columbia’s.

They are important because many are locat-ed in areas that are low in population and rich in resources and also because, unlike the rest of the Canadian population, they have a young demo-graphic with more people entering the working years than leaving them.

Corporations, espe-cially in resources and outside the urban areas, are looking to the young Aboriginal population to supply their labour force.

Finally, in what is sweet irony for many western Canadians, three out of the four ‘have’ provinces are in western Canada and the fourth is Newfoundland. Quebec and now even Ontario have become ‘poor cousin’ recipients of interprovincial equal-ization payments, from the wealthy provinces in “Outer Canada.”

This shifting bal-ance means Canada and all its regions must start answering some very important questions.

1) How can we take advantage of the strength of our western- and resource-based growth?

2) Where do we find the adaptability and flex-ibility to meet changing demands for resources and shifting markets?

3) Finally, and what can the West do to help the ‘have-not’ provinces in Inner Canada escape the 20th century manufactur-ing model and rejoin the prosperity of the rest of the country?

Troy Media BC’s Business columnist Roslyn Kunin is a consult-ing economist and speak-er and can be reached at www.rkunin.com.

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It’s not something we do lightly but, after 16 months at the bargaining table and still a long way off from a fair deal, teachers across B.C. will begin rotating strikes on Monday, May 26 to May 29, 2014.

Teachers in our school dis-trict will be on the picket lines on Tuesday, May 27th.

All extra-curricular, volun-tary activities and field trips will not be proceeding on Tuesday or on any days that teachers may be on the picket lines.

The rotating strikes will begin on Monday, May 26 and continue May 27, 28, and 29. All school districts will be impacted on one of those days. All schools will be open on Friday, May 30.

Any extension of the rotating job action will depend on events at the bargaining table. The rotating closures are part of a two-stage strike plan voted on by teachers in March. During that vote, teachers gave their bargaining team an overwhelm-ing mandate to begin low-level job action and escalate to rotat-ing strikes if meaningful prog-ress was not made in negotia-tions. In all, 29,300 teachers cast ballots—89 per cent voted in favour of the two-stage job action plan.

We have been at the bar-gaining table for 16 months, and the provincial govern-ment and the BC Public School

Employers’ Association still refuse to offer any improve-ments to class size, class com-position, and other important learning conditions for stu-dents.

B.C.’s per student funding is $1,000 less than the national average. It’s not fair to your kids, our students. The B.C. government has to begin rein-vesting in our kids and their future.

On top of that the employer’s wage demands are unfair after teachers have been legislated two years of zeroes. Last week we were hopeful when we saw the government and BCPSEA put out an olive branch by back-ing off the unrealistic 10-year term.

But then the employer announced a series of threats around wage rollbacks, lock-outs, and attempts to divide teachers, parents, and students.

Government is trying to ignore the B.C. Supreme Court. Teachers have twice won the right to negotiate our working conditions, which are also stu-dents’ learning conditions, in B.C. Supreme Court. The con-stitutional rights of teachers can’t be swept under the carpet.

And the fundamental rights of all children to a quality pub-lic education should also be respected.

We expect government to

bring new funding to the table to make those much-needed improvements happen.

Kids matter, teachers care! As teachers, we do not want to be taking job action.

We care deeply about our students, and many of us are parents too. We empathize with parents who have to re-work their schedules, and that is why we have taken the unusual step of giving between six and 10 days’ notice in advance.

But we are firmly convinced that we need to take a strong stand now to convince Christy Clark’s government to reinvest in B.C.’s students. It is time for government to make educa-tion a funding priority.

If this government is serious about labour peace they should offer teachers a fair deal and show some good faith. We will remain at the bargaining table. There are six days left before the first schools shut down.

We are appealing to par-ents and concerned citizens to please join with us in encour-aging Christy Clark and Peter Fassbender to move off of their unreasonable demands, and empower BCPSEA to negotiate a fair deal for teachers and bet-ter support for kids.

Andrew M. DavidoffPresident

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SOTTAWA - The Canadian

Civil Liberties Association is challenging the constitutional-ity of a federal privacy law that allows private companies to disclose personal information to the government without a warrant.

The challenge comes amid revelations that telecommuni-cations service providers have been disclosing private cus-tomer information to govern-ment agencies on a broad scale.

In its application to the Ontario Superior Court, the association says law enforce-ment may have a need for some personal information, but the current law is too broad and should be struck down.

The association says the consequences of allowing gov-ernment to access and share personal information without the person’s knowledge or con-sent can be very serious and violate fundamental constitu-tional rights. Involving private companies adds complications, the association said.

“Non-state actors are play-ing an increasingly large role in providing law enforcement and government agencies with information they request,” said Sukanya Pillay, the associa-tion’s general counsel.

“The current scheme is completely lacking in trans-parency and is inadequate in terms of accountability mech-anisms.”

The court filing also said the law allows government agen-cies to share information with foreign governments in some cases.

“When the requesting gov-ernment agency has shared information with a foreign jurisdiction, Canada effectively loses control over the infor-mation, its use and further disclosure, increasing the risk of serious and adverse conse-quences.”

The association seeks to have the offending parts of the law, known as the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, struck down as violations of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

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MCIVOR, FIORINA MAFALDA “FRISCO” –

Born Sep-tember 5, 1926 in Michel, BC. Deceased May 17, 2014 in Kimberley, BC. P r e d e c e a s e d by Donald, her husband of 54 years, parents Andrea and Mildred Gian-francesco, brother Elio Gian-francesco, sister Norma Porcel-lato, brother Giglio (Cheech) Gianfrancesco and sister Dorothy (Dottie) Hewlett.

Survived by daughter Donna, son Gene (Cheryl), son Chris, grandsons Jacob and Daniel and by numerous nieces and nephews.

There will be no service by re-quest of the deceased. No � owers, please. In memory, donations to a charity of your choice would be appreciated.

***DUPUIS, DANIEL (MICKEY)

– Mickey passed away peacefully on May 17, 2014 at Castleview Care Home, at the age of 82. He was born in Combermere, Ontario on June 20, 1931.

Survived by his wife Jeanne of 48 years, son Daniel (Rose-ann) of Powell River, step-daughter Deborah Ranson (Tom Zirk), brother-in-law Jack Maunu and nephew Jesse all of Merrit; grandchildren Lucas, Andy, Kate-lyn and Brandon as well as num-erous nieces, nephews and many great friends.

Mickey loved anything out-doors: hunting, � shing, � ying, gol� ng, prospecting and garden-ing.

Cremation has taken place; there will not be a service at this time. Gwen Ziprick of Alterna-tives Funeral and Cremation Ser-vices has been entrusted with the arrangements. You are invited to leave a personal message of con-dolence by visiting the family’s register at www.myalternatives.ca

***MALLINSON, RICHARD

(DICK) – passed away peacefully on Monday, May 19th, 2014. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland on December 19th, 1930.

He married his sweetheart Josie in 1951. Their daughter Josie was born in Scotland also. In 1956, Dick got itchy feet and went to South Africa to � nd work

as an electrician. Once he did, he sent for his wife and daugh-ter who travelled 21 days by ship from Glasgow to Africa. Af-ter staying in South Africa for 6 years, where his two sons Richard and Jack were born, he then moved his family to Zambia (at the time, it was known as North-ern Rhodesia). In 1966, he moved his family back to Glasgow for a short period of time. Not quite done moving around, he brought his family to Trail in June, 1966. He loved Trail and had � nally found “the place” to stay forever.

Dick loved camping in his m o t o r h o m e at his favour-ite place Evan C a m p g r o u n d with his friends and relatives.

Dick was proud of his 6 g r a n d d a u g h -ters, but espe-cially his great-grandson Logan who was the love of his life. He leaves behind his devoted wife Josie, his son Jack (Ella) and their children Amber and Britt-nay (Jordan) and their son Lo-gan; his son Richard (Susan), and his daughter Josie (Denis). He is also survived by his best friends, sister-in-law Margaret (Bob) Mc-Carthy.

Dick was predeceased by his parents Henry and Margaret, his sister Pat and brother-in-law Jack Hopkins.

The family would like to thank the staff of Rosewood Village and Dr. Hii for the wonderful care Dick received.

A Memorial Service will be held on Monday, May 26, 2014 at 11:00 am at “Carberry’s Chapel” with Reverend Ken Siemens of� -ciating. Bill Clark of Alternatives Funeral and Cremation Servi-ces™ has been entrusted with ar-rangements.

You are invited to leave a per-sonal message of condolence at the family’s online register at www.myalternatives.ca

***BATH, ALBERT – Passed

December 29, 2013. A Celebra-tion of Life will be held for Bert on Saturday, May 31, 2014 from 1pm-4pm at the Bath/Stephen-son residence at 600 5th St, Montrose. Everyone is wel-come! Please dress according to weather and bring chairs if possible.

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T H E A S S O C I A T E D P R E S SWASHINGTON - Akhil

Rekulapelli has his life mapped out. The 14-year-old wants to attend Stanford University and become a doctor, probably a surgeon.

But he knows it will be a while before he achieves any-thing as satisfying as his vic-tory Wednesday in the National Geographic Bee, which came after a close call last year and a lifelong interest in nations, cit-ies, cultures and history.

“I probably want to be the head of a department at a hos-pital, try to graduate at the top of my class, but I think, right now, this is probably the biggest accomplishment I’ll ever achieve in probably 20, 30 years,” said Akhil, an eighth-grader from Sterling, Virginia. “It’ll be a while.”

Akhil outlasted nine other finalists and answered all three questions correctly in a one-on-one showdown with his young-est rival, 11-year-old Ameya Mujumdar, of Tampa, Florida.

The decisive question: What African country is building a new capital called Oyala in the rain forest, 65 miles east of the current capital, Bala? The answer: Equatorial Guinea.

Akhil receives a $50,000 scholarship, a trip to the Galapagos Islands with his family and a lifetime member-ship in the National Geographic

Society. The winning schol-arship was doubled from last year thanks to a donation from “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek, who stepped down a year ago as host of the bee. Broadcast jour-nalist Soledad O’Brien hosted this year.

Ameya, the runner-up, wowed the crowd on a tiebreak-er question when he was able to recall the Earth’s precise diam-eter at the equator - 7,926 miles. He gets a $25,000 scholarship. Tuvya Bergson-Michelson, of Hillsborough, California, was third and receives a $10,000 scholarship, and Pranit Nanda, of Aurora, Colorado, was fourth and wins $1,000 in cash.

The finals will be broadcast Thursday evening on National Geographic Channel and Nat Geo WILD.

Akhil’s father, Prasad Rekulapelli, said his son showed an early affinity for maps - he was able to put together a puz-zle of the United States at 18 months old.

But after he fell short at the Virginia state bee as a sixth-grader, his parents sought out the services of a coach, Kumar Nandur, who has offered free tutoring to numerous bee con-testants, including the 2010 champion.

“He gives me tips and tricks, like how do you stay focused onstage, what are the questions they’re going to ask you,” Akhil

said.Akhil finished fourth in last

year’s bee - a lucky result, since the top three finishers are ineli-gible to return. This year, he was determined to bring home the prize.

“Definitely felt a lot of pres-sure,” he said. “I’ve done some-thing I’ve been wanting to do my whole entire life, and I’m so happy it’s actually come to reality now.”

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Wars: Episode VII” director J.J. Abrams is giving fans a shot at a cameo in the film that’s set to be released next year.

Disney, Lucasfilm and Bad Robot have teamed up for a campaign to raise funds for UNICEF.

Abrams announced the initiative in a video from the set of the movie in Abu Dhabi.

For every $10 donation at Omaze.com/StarWars, contributors will become eligible to appear in the film when it shoots in London.


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Baseball fans should make a point of getting out to Butler Park this week-end to cheer on the Trail AM Ford Orioles as they open their season with a four-game tilt against the Kelowna Jays at Butler Park – their next home game won’t be until July.

The Orioles senior men’s baseball team is coming off a successful 2013 cam-paign with a third-place finish at the Canada Day Kelowna Blast tournament, and a top-four placing at the B.C. Senior Men’s Baseball championship in Victoria last August, and are looking for even better results this summer.

“We’re going to be a little short-handed to start, with guys late getting back to town, but I think once everything comes together for the tournaments we have pretty much everyone back from last year so we should be pretty solid,” said Orioles player-coach Jim Maniago.

Against the Jays this weekend, the Orioles will be without a number of starters including Connor and Kellen Jones, Joey Underwood, and pitchers Darrin Kissock and Scott Rhynold whose status is uncertain due to work commitments. Trail will likely go with south-paws Scott Davidson and Dallas Calvin on the mound in the opening games with Kyle Mace, rookie Austin Tambellini and right-hander Joel Graf seeing some action over the four games.

The Orioles will face a Jays’ team that always hits well, and may be deceptively deep at pitching, depending on who they bring.

“I don’t think they’ll be as young as they have been the last couple of years,” he added. “I think they’ll use a few older guys like we do, but they’ll be good.”

Trail embarks on its fourth season in the Pacific International League (PIL), however, their opponent Jays have decided to sit out this season.

“They pulled out of the PIL this year,” said Maniago. “There’s lots of league issues but they’re just taking a year to regroup . . . We stuck it out to ensure we get some

games, but we’ll see about next year for us as well.”

Due to difficult PIL scheduling and convincing West Coast teams to travel to Trail, the Orioles will not play a game at Butler Park until July 5-6 when they face the Vernon Diamondbacks. Yet, they get busy after that with home-tilts against Cranbrook Bandits July 10-11, and the Northwest Honkers July 18-19, the only visit from a PIL team.

Still, it is not without its benefits, says Maniago.

The O’s will play a dozen games in the six-team league against some of the best baseball players in the Pacific Northwest. Comprised pri-marily of college players and ex-pros, PIL teams include the Kamloops Sun Devils, Burnaby Bulldogs, Seattle Studs, Everett Merchants, and the Honkers.

While the Orioles fin-ished in eighth place in 2013, their primary goal this season is to compete in every league game, but to focus on the Grand Forks International and provincial tournaments.

“The (PIL) results don’t matter as much, as long as we’re playing well and building towards the tour-naments,” said Maniago. “Those are the really important games for us . . . and that’s why we’re in the league, because it raises our level of play.”

The O’s will be the act-ing host team at the Grand Forks International baseball tournament June 25-30 in Grand Forks where $54,000 in prize money including a $20,000 first place cheque awaits the winner.

After that, they will play their full-slate of home-games in July leading up to the provincials Aug. 1-4 in Trail, where the O’s would like nothing better to regain the B.C. title they won in Kelowna back in 2008 than at home.

“Hopefully we’ll put on a decent showing at the GFI, then when the Honkers come that will be a big week-end - four games a couple weeks before provincials . . . It’s always nice knowing you’re going to be at home.”

Trail plays two double-headers against Kelowna on Saturday at 4 p.m. and 6 p.m., and on Sunday at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

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Birchbank Golf Course pro Dennis Bradley (left) helps out a local golfer at the Club’s Demo Days event on Wednesday afternnoon, while golfers try out the latest clubs and accessories from golfs leading manufacturers: Nike, Adams, Taylor Made, and Titleist.

By Times sTaffRossland native

Braden McKay went tee-to-tee with B.C.’s best golfers on the weekend at the Maple Leaf Junior Golf Tour’s world qualifier.

The 16-year-old J. L. Crowe student

finished in 14th spot after shooting a 12-over-par 156 in the two-day tour-nament at Pagoda Ridge Golf Course in Langley on the weekend.

In Saturday’s round McKay fin-ished just two shots back of the eventual winner Alex Francois who

opened with a 2-over 74, but caught fire in the second round scoring a 4-under-par 68 to take the Juvenile title with a score of 142. The Burnaby native was the only juvenile golfer to break 70 on the day, birdie-ing three holes, and dropping an eagle on the par-4 13th to

beat out Alex Park (74,76) of Vancouver by four strokes.

McKay opened with a 76 and shot an 80 on Sunday to close out the tour-nament, birdieing the final hole to end on a positive note.

Alysha Lau, 14, of Richmond took home the Junior Girls title with an

eight-stroke vic-tory over Sara Lawrence (146) of Duvall, Wash. Callum Davison, 13, of Duncan won the Bantam Boys with a 139, and Tyler Roope nailed down the win in the Junior Boys with a 142 and a four-shot win over Scott Lemon of Winnipeg.

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Luke Bertolucci and the rest of the Edmonton Oil Kings have their backs to the wall after suffering a devastat-ing loss in double overtime to the Val-d’Or Foreurs on Tuesday.

The Foreurs made it to the Memorial Cup semifinal thanks to their workhorse goaltender and their ability to hang around like a bad cold.

The Foreurs were outshot 50-33 by the Edmonton Oil Kings and trailed twice in regulation, yet pulled out a

4-3 win in double overtime Tuesday. Centre Anthony Richard ended the marathon at Budweiser Gardens by scoring on a breakaway at 1:15 in the second overtime.

It was the second time in this tournament the opposition put 50 shots on goaltender Antoine Bibeau and Val-d’Or emerged with a one-goal victory.

The host London Knights and Guelph Storm concluded the prelim-inary round yesterday in a clash of OHL rivals, but scores were unavail-

able at press time. Depending on the outcome of the game, the Oil Kings will have a rematch with the Foreurs on Friday or take on the Knights in a tiebreaker Thursday to advance to the semifinal.

“I thought we deserved a better fate,” Oil Kings head coach Derek Laxdal said. “We have to respond and be more resilient.”

The Oil Kings lost in a tiebreaker to the host and eventual champion Shawinigan Cataractes at the 2012 Memorial Cup.

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ScoreboardHockey

World Hockey Championshipin Minsk, Belarus

Standings after Preliminary RoundGroup A

GP W OW OL L Ptx-Canada 7 5 1 1 0 18x-Sweden 7 5 1 1 0 18x-Czech Rep. 7 2 2 2 1 12x-France 7 2 2 1 2 11Slovakia 7 3 0 1 3 10Norway 7 2 0 1 4 7Denmark 7 1 1 0 5 5Italy 7 1 0 0 6 3 Group B GP W OW OL L Pt x-Russia 7 7 0 0 0 21x-U.S. 7 4 1 0 2 14x-Belarus 7 4 0 0 3 12x-Finland 7 3 1 0 3 11Switzerland 7 3 0 1 3 10Latvia 7 3 0 0 3 9

Germany 7 1 1 0 5 5Kazakhstan 7 0 0 2 5 2

Tuesday’s resultsCanada 3 Norway 2U.S. 5 Germany 4

Slovakia 4 Dnmark 3Switzerland 3 Latvia 2

Czech Republic 5 Finland 4 (OT)Russia 2 Belarus 1

End of Preliminary RoundPLAYOFF ROUND

Today’s gamesQuarter-finals

U.S. vs. Czech Republic, 9 a.m.Russia vs. France, 10 a.m.

Canada vs. Finland, 1 p.m.Sweden vs. Belarus, 2 p.m.

Saturday’s gamesSemifinals

Quarter-final winners, 7:45 & 11:45 a.m.Sunday’s games

Bronze Medal GameSemifinal losers, 9:30 a.m.

Gold Medal GameSemifinal winners, 2 p.m.

Scoring Leaders. GP G A Pts Viktor Tikhonov, Rus 7 7 7 14Antoine Roussel, Fra 7 6 5 11Sergei Plotnikov, Rus 7 5 6 11Michel Miklik, Svk 7 4 7 11Johnny Gaudreau, U.S. 7 2 8 10Stephane da Costa, Fra 7 6 3 9Joel Ward, Cda 7 6 3 9Alex Ovechkin, Rus 6 3 6 9Seth Jones, U.S. 7 2 7 9Cody Hodgson, Cda 7 6 2 8Mikhail Grabovski, Blr 6 4 4 8Joakim Lindstrom, Swe 6 4 4 8Sergei Kostitsyn, Blr 7 4 4 8Tomas Tatar, Svk 7 4 4 8P. E. Bellemare, Fra 6 3 5 8Danis Zaripov, Rus 7 2 6 8Linus Klasen, Swe 7 2 6 8Linus Olimb, Nor 7 1 7 8Jaromir Jagr, Cze 7 4 3 7Tyler Johnson, U.S. 7 4 3 7Craig Smith, U.S. 7 3 4 7Petri Kontiola, Fin 7 3 4 7Oscar Moller, Swe 7 2 5 7Roman Josi, Sui 7 1 6 7

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smile when pressed on his opposition to expand-ing the NFL playoffs by two teams.

“Teams can go from 9-7 to the Super Bowl, as we’ve seen,” said Mara, knowing full well his team did just that to win the 2011 title. “Can they do it from 7-9 or 8-8? I don’t know. You tell me.”

They might get the chance to try, because it is clear that the league is going to increase the number of playoff qualifiers to 14, almost cer-tainly for the 2015 season.

Sure, the extra two spots could wind up going to teams like last season’s Arizona Cardinals, who missed out at 10-6. But they also could fall into the laps of a .500 squad - Pittsburgh would have gotten the extra berth in the AFC if it existed in 2013. Or worse, a repeat of what Seattle achieved in 2010, albeit as a division winner, with a 7-9 record.

Commissioner Roger Goodell supports two more wild-card teams. So do most owners, although the league is proceeding cautiously by delaying until October an actual vote.

The TV partners will love the idea of more playoff games, and the prospect of playing both of the additional wild cards in prime time is a juicy one. Indeed, those games could wind up being on a broadcast outlet not yet affiliated with the NFL, such as Turner.

Given the records the NFL has been setting on television lately, from the regular season to the post-season to the draft, there’s no reason to believe it won’t receive the same $100 million for each additional playoff game ESPN is paying to get in on the party next January.

“I do believe it will be approved for the 2015

season,” Goodell said. “We want to see how it will impact in a positive way from a competitive standpoint. Will it create more excitement, more races toward the end of the season? Who will ultimately qualify for the playoffs?”

The new setup won’t put much more strain, if any, on the post-season schedule. It also would make having the best record in the conference even more valuable: Only that team will get a first-round bye.

Right there, Goodell’s league could have plenty “more excitement” down the stretch.

With three wild-card games, the NFL could fill up the first weekend in January from early after-noon until midnight. Or, as Mara mentioned, one of the games figures to land on Monday night.

Goodell said the NFL wants to see how its concentration of games on Thursday night works out this year before proceeding with more playoff teams. That’s understandable, but the main rea-son for delaying the inevitable is that the players’ union has to sign off on the expansion.

Considering the added revenue that would accompany two more wild-card games, would the NFLPA really balk? Goodell said he spoke with union boss DeMaurice Smith two weeks ago and didn’t get any pushback.

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Garden underwent a recent $1 bil-lion transformation, and yet it will have another completely different feeling once the New York Rangers hit the ice in the Eastern Conference finals.

Gone will be the fear of impend-ing doom that enveloped the club during its second-round comeback against Pittsburgh. Missing will be the nerves that any goal or loss could mean the end of the season.

Suddenly, the Rangers are the front-runners against the Montreal Canadiens, and their fans now have the chance to celebrate the ride with them.

“Having fan support is obvious-ly huge,” Rangers coach Alain Vigneault said. “Unconditional love, it’s something that’s really beneficial to a team.”

New York is riding a five-game winning streak, but four of those victories came on the road - two in Pittsburgh when the Rangers erased a 3-1 series deficit, and the first two in this matchup with Montreal.

The Rangers will skate at the Garden on Thursday night with a series lead for the first time since Game 2 of the first round against Philadelphia 15 games ago.

“It’s a good feeling, but we know we’ve accomplished nothing yet,” forward Martin St. Louis said. “We’re trying to prepare for a Montreal team that’s going to come out with a lot of energy. We know that. This is a big game for everybody. We know where the series is, and it’s a big opportunity for us.”

Nothing is a guarantee, but to take a 3-0 series lead would set the

Rangers up for their first trip to the Stanley Cup finals since 1994.

Since New York fell way behind Pittsburgh with a dispirited home loss in Game 4, the Rangers have been playing with a sense of despera-tion. It didn’t reset once they elimin-ated the Penguins, and so far they have shown no signs they will let the Canadiens recover.

“I feel every game is a must-win in the playoffs,” St. Louis said. “You go into every game understanding what can happen with a loss and what can happen with a win. It’s a lot of momentum shifting, a buildup in the playoffs, and you want to make sure you keep it as long as you can.”

The Canadiens’ mindset is to regroup and play the kind of road game the Rangers did by jumping on them.

Montreal is still dealing with the loss of No. 1 goalie Carey Price, who was knocked out of the series by injury in the opener, but now is trying to rally around third-stringer Dustin Tokarski. The inexperienced goalie, who has played in only 11 career NHL games, got the sur-prise nod by coach Michel Therrien in Game 2 over regular backup Peter Budaj and was tabbed again Wednesday to start in Game 3.

Struggled forward Thomas Vanek was dropped to the fourth line in practice on Wednesday alongside Danny Briere and Brandon Prust in another potential shake-up.

“Don’t read too much, OK?” Therrien said. “They might change tomorrow.”

Whatever the lineup looks like, the Canadiens have adopted a motto of no excuses as the series shifts to New York.

NHl Playoffs

Habs: no excuses

T H E A S S O C I A T E D P R E S SFORT WORTH,

Texas - Adam Scott admittedly down-played the world ranking the last few months. Now he’s No. 1.

Scott says he might have been try-ing to take pressure off himself and think about playing golf.

“All the play-ing I did added up

to this anyway. It’s just the way the sys-tem works,” he said. “Sure, it would have been awesome to win a tournament and jump to No. 1 like some guys have. ... But hopefully I can get on and try to win a tournament this week.”

After a week at home in the Bahamas, Scott finally overtook

injured Tiger Woods at the top.

Scott plays as No. 1 for the first time when he tees off today at the Colonial.

Scott is grouped for the first two days at Hogan’s Alley with two-time Colonial champion Zach Johnson and Jimmy Walker, No. 1 in the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup standings.

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For the first time, Active Healthy Kids Canada is using its annual Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth

to see how Canadians measure up to kids in 14 other countries.

The findings were released Tuesday at the first-ever Global Summit on the Physical Activity of Children being held in Toronto.

Canadian chil-dren and youth were assigned a “D minus” grade for overall

physical activity levels.Canada trailed near

the back of the inter-national pack along with Australia, Ireland and the U.S. - who were also each assigned a D minus - while Scotland received an “F.”

Mozambique and New Zealand topped the list for overall physical activity lev-els with each country assigned a “B” grade.

The report found that 84 per cent of Canadian three-to-four-year-olds met early years guidelines of at least 180 minutes of daily physical activ-ity at any intensity. But it was a far more grim picture for older children, with only seven per cent of five- to 11-year-olds and four per cent of 12- to 17-year-olds in Canada meeting recommended guidelines of 60 min-utes of moderate to vigorous activity daily.

Walking quickly, skating and bike riding are examples of mod-erate activities, while running, basketball and soccer are exam-ples of vigorous activ-ities.

Canada also trails behind the bulk of the

global pack in the cat-egory of active trans-portation, assigned a “D,” with the report revealing 62 per cent of parents said their five- to 17-year-olds were always driven to and from school.

The country’s kids earned a failing grade for sedentary behaviours, which involve little physical movement and a low expenditure of energy. Canadian kids aged three to four spent 5.8 hours a day being sed-entary. That number spiked to 7.6 hours for five- to 11-year-olds, while 12- to 17-year-olds spent 9.3 hours a day being sedentary.

However, Canada ranked third with a “C plus” for organized sport participation behind New Zealand and Australia, with 75 per cent of five- to 19-year-olds in Canada participating in organ-ized physical activities or sport.

The results come despite findings that there are ample places for kids to break a sweat, with 95 per cent of Canadian parents reporting local avail-ability of parks and

outdoor spaces and 94 reporting local avail-ability of public facili-ties and programs for physical activity like pools, arenas and leagues.

The vast majority of Canadian students have regular access to a gym (95 per cent), playing fields (91 per cent) and areas with playground equipment (73 per cent) during school hours.

Despite the pres-ence of established policies, places and programs designed to help kids get moving, the report pointed to what it described as a “culture of conven-ience” to account for why many Canadian kids aren’t more active.

“Our country values efficiency - doing more in less time - which may be at direct odds with promoting chil-dren’s health,” a por-tion of the short-form report reads.

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Alice recently went through a divorce. I babysat a lot during that time, but she never showed any apprecia-tion. Alice blames me for everything bad that has ever happened to her, because I divorced her father. So I feel guilty and agree to babysit all the time. Of course, their father moved away without saying goodbye to any of the kids and was out of their lives for seven years, leaving me with two teenagers and a 9-year-old to raise on my own. He never paid a drop of child sup-port.

I am remarried, and my husband and I like

to have the weekends to ourselves. We would love it if Alice brought the kids over for a visit and stayed. But she drops them at the front door and speeds away. She is often gone for hours. She doesn’t answer her cellphone when I call to ask when she’s coming back. The kids run out to her car, and she zips off.

Alice never phones just to talk, only to ask me to babysit. If I don’t answer, she drives over and pounds on my door. I’m afraid to sit on the porch for fear she will show up and ask me to babysit. All of the children are now reunited with their father. Why doesn’t

Alice ask him to baby-sit once in a while? -- Hiding Out in Indiana

Dear Hiding Out: You need to be more assertive with Alice. Tell her that you’d like her to visit once in a while instead of using you as a drop-off ser-vice. Also say that you love the kids, but can-not babysit so much. Be sure she knows you mean it. It’s OK to say no, even if it makes her angry. If you want to work out some type of payment, that’s between the two of you, but don’t be afraid to bring it up.

Dear Annie: I am an 87-year-old widower and am appalled at the number of letters in your column about bickering between parents, children, sib-lings, grandparents, friends, husbands and wives.

I wish I could share some of the love I am blessed to experience. After my wife of 52 years died, I went out late at night to clear

snow from the church parking lot. Upon returning, there were four messages on my answering machine, and my granddaugh-ter was calling to say her father was on his way to check on me -- a 40-mile round trip. So for the past 15 years, they have called every night, no matter where they are.

My son-in-law uses a week of his vacation to drive 1,500 miles to check on my 90-year-old sister. And he drives 80 miles on Sundays to get me to church. My granddaughters take me to the doc-tor, and my nephew and his wife often take me to dinner. My wife’s family includes me in their get-togethers. My son calls daily, and my grandson fills in when his family is out of town.

We reap what we sow. Love is like an echo: What you do or say will return to you. -- A Blessed Grandpaw

Dear Grandpaw: It

warms our hearts to know how close and loving your family is. We wish everyone were so cherished. Thank you.

Dear Annie: This is for “Grimacing in Sarasota, Fla.” and all the toilet hoverers: Use a piece of toilet

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quiet surprise. LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) It will please you now to work behind the scenes to secure your home, real estate and family. You want a warm feeling in your tummy about your private life. VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) When dealing with friends or people in a group, you will inspire confidence. You have big ideas, but you also show that you are ground-ed and practical in the real world. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) This is a good time to solidify your reputation among your peers. You deserve the kudos, the praise and admiration you get now. You earned it. SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) This is a solid day to make travel plans or study some-thing related to politics, reli-gion, philosophy or any deep subject. You have a balanced

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cal way. Someone will tell you how to do what it is you want to do. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Job opportunities look excellent now. Finally, you can swing things to be just the way you hoped they would be. Bravo! PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) This is a good day to make vacation plans. It’s also a good day to enjoy playful

times with children, explore the arts or enjoy sports events. YOU BORN TODAY You are attractive and flamboy-ant. Your presence makes a statement. You are ener-getic and hardworking, and you particularly love chil-dren and often work on their behalf. You are skilled both in the arts and in science. This year might be one of the most powerful years of your life. It’s a time of

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NEW LISTING

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Rossland$224,900

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Balfour$125,000

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Trail$150,000

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

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Rhonda van Tent 250-231-7575

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Fri, May 23 STARTING AT 4PMSat, May 24 STARTING AT 11AM670 Shakespeare StWarfield $125,000

Nathan MLS# 2391999

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Renata $249,000

Rob MLS# 2215536

Fruitvale$399,000

Rob MLS# 2397558

Renata $235,500

Rob MLS# 2215924

Fruitvale $229,500

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Trail $135,000

Rob MLS# 2393731

Montrose$169,000

Rob MLS# 2397280

Trail$219,000

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1 Acre 5.1 Acres

Rossland$199,900

Marie Claude MLS# 2395984

Rossland$315,000

Rhonda MLS# 2397764

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Trail$569,000

Rhonda MLS# 2397469

Salmo$294,000

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Rhonda MLS# 2396385

Trail$119,000


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Rossland$OLD


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ROSSLAND, 3 new 2 bed-room, 1 bathroom modular homes in Rossland Paradise MHP, from $64,900. includes net GST. Rick 250-254-7997, Kim 250-512-1222.

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I think it is safe for me to declare spring has arrived. Admittedly it

has been tenuous as always. I kept look-ing up at Granite Mountain thinking I could still be skiing if I was the skin and skis type. I am saving that for retirement, I think.

For many, spring is car show season. Many of us will attend a car show this sea-son.

Some of us will show our cars this season.

For some of you who were intending to show cars this sea-son procrastination, lack of funds or some other turn of events has gotten in the way of having your car ready to show.

I must admit I enjoy attending car shows especially local ones. It is interest-ing to see what cool vehicles occupy gar-ages in our surround-ing locales.

I am always amazed at some of the vehi-

cles that people have that I did not even know about.

In my pre and early teenage years I was faithful to the Spokane “Auto Boat and Speed Show” lured by the fast talking advertising feed from our local cable channels. In my younger years I could easily peruse the myr-iad of strange show car concoctions on display and marvel at the shiny chrome.

Chrome was every-where. Tires were wide and without tread. The bottom of the vehicles were

centimetres from the ground.

My interests in mechanics and later engineering spoiled my intrigue with the Auto Boat and Speed Show.

Most of those show cars were just that “Show Cars” not go cars. Most of those cars actually would not even run and if they did they could not even drive down the road.

There was no prac-tical engineering involved. They were simply designs with a wow factor.

I then turned to attending new car shows.

Every year in early spring the automobile manufacturers would gather together their new cars and show them.

Either Spokane or Vancouver were my venues depending on my current address. I could see the vehicles I was reading about in Car and Driver and Road and Track in the

flesh. In particular I could hopefully sit in and look under the hood of the sports car I was going to buy when I got my first real job.

I could spend hours checking out the offerings of all the manufacturers. More than likely the vehi-cles at the show would have the “full load” (salesman speak).

I was always there to see the high per-formance models.

Gradually, my work as an auto mechanic quenched my desire for the latest and greatest.

Many times the latest is far from the greatest.

Sometimes the engineering is flawed. Sometimes the imple-mentation is flawed.

Now I look at show cars with a different approach. I like modi-fied cars.

Those modifica-tions have to be well engineered. In the end the modification must make some-

thing better, stronger or faster.

Just better look-ing won’t cut it in my

book.Trail’s Ron Nutini

is a licensed automo-tive technician and

graduate of mechani-cal engineering from UBC. E-mail: [email protected]

Springtime means arrival of car show season

ron nutini

Mechanically speaking

t H E A S S o C i A t E D P r E S SINDIANAPOLIS -

From under the sun at Indianapolis Motor Speedway to under the lights at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Kurt Busch was the busiest driver in motorsports this weekend.

His frequent flier miles are piling up in his quest to complete a racing feat known as “The Double.”

On Sunday, he’ll try to race in the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 on the same day - all 1,100 arduous miles.

It’s two different styles of racing in two different cars, and if he succeeds, he’ll show he’s one of the most talented drivers.

But to do it, he’ll be flying back and forth between both venues all week and the day of the race with little time to spare.

Busch will be the fourth driver to attempt the feat. Just one - Tony Stewart, considered one of the most proficient drivers - has completed both.

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Christine Albo ext 39Cell: [email protected]

Art Forrest ext [email protected]

WE CAN SELL YOUR HOME. NOBODY HAS THE RESOURCES WE DO!Mark Wilson ext 30Cell: [email protected]

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

Jodi Beamish ext 51Cell: [email protected]

KOOTENAY HOMES INC.1358 Cedar Avenue, Trail • 250.368.8818

www.kootenayhomes.com www.century21.caThe Local Experts™

NEW PRICE

NEW PRICE

NEW LISTING

Call Mark (250) 231-5591

2069 6th Avenue, Trail $177,000SUPER 2 bdrm updated home in Shavers Bench on a fenced private fl at lot (50’ x 100’). Fully landscaped with large patio. Newer insulated double garage with alley

access. This very well cared for home needs to be seen. Call for your viewing today!

NEW PRICE

2302 Happy Valley Rd, Rossland $999,000

Stunning home and property! Located on over 6 acres of prime land, this

meticulously designed and built home offers mature landscaping, open, sunny fl oor plan and views from every window. Inground swimming pool, 6 stall barn, the

list goes on. Call today! Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

340 Grandview Place, Genelle

$879,000Live the dream! This gorgeous custom-built home features stunning views and quality workmanship. Gourmet kitchen,

3 bdrms with master suite, gas fireplace and an open floor-plan with oodles of

windows. You have to see it to believe it! Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

Thinking of

moving? Call me

for a FREE market

evaluation today!Call Art

(250) 368-8818

1887 Spokane Street, Rossland $174,000

This home has had many upgrades including new fl ooring, windows,

bathroom, paint and front porch. Newer gas furnace and roof. Lots of privacy

on this, .13 acre lot with plenty of trees surrounding it and a large wood deck.

Call your REALTOR® today.Call Christine (250) 512-7653

1901 Butte Street, Rossland $199,000

The most amazing views! Turn of the century home with 3 bedrooms, updated plumbing, roof, siding and furnace. Close

to schools and downtown. Call today!Call Christine (250) 512-7653

OPEN HOUSESaturday, May 24 11am - 1pm

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

910 Tamarack Cres, Genelle $370,000

Quality built 3 bdrm/2 bath home with 1 bdrm/1 bath self contained inlaw suite

on 0.51 acres. Vaulted ceiling, skylights, oak kitchen, covered deck, newer roof, workshop and double garage. The list goes on. It doesn’t get much better

than this!Call Tonnie (250) 365-9665

#18 3969 Broadwater Road, Robson

$76,900Good value in a desirable location.

Open concept with 2 bdrms and 2 bath. Bright kitchen, workshop, deck.Call Terry A. (250) 231-1101

232 Simonds Street, Warfi eld $155,000

No neighbours on both sides! This 2 bdrm, 1 bath house features large

covered deck, enclosed porch and bright above grade basement. Call today!

Call Jodi (250) 231-2331

2704 10th Ave, Castlegar $279,900

Custom-built 4 bdrm home with attached 2 car garage on a 1.6 acres

Vaulted ceilings, hardwood fl oors. Excellent condition on the exterior, the

inside needs some TLC. This one should be on your viewing list!

Call Terry 250-231-1101

85 Forsythia Drive,Fruitvale

$289,000Wonderfully updated home

with 4 beds, 2.5 baths,new roof and more.

Call Jodi (250) 231-2331

NEW PRICE

531 Turner Street, Warfi eld $169,000

Built in 2009, this compact charmer is perfect for single, couple or empty nesters that want

modern open concept, low maintenance living. Home features vaulted ceilings, heated

garage, private yard and comes with New Home Warranty. Call now before its gone.

Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

NEW PRICE

83 Perdue Street, Trail $169,000

This immaculate gem offers 3 bdrms, 2 full baths, beautifully decorated with

modern spacious kitchen and bathrooms, wood fl oors, high ceilings, large living

room and updated windows and doors. Move right in and enjoy!

Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

2705 Columbia-Kootenay Road, Rossland

$670,000This is a treasure overlooking Happy Valley. The

home has been extensively upgraded and renovated very carefully to preserve and enhance the character and charm. The views are spectacular. Bright sunny

kitchen with private sundeck and wood fi replace. Home is sitting on a 1.13 acre property and price

includes separate 2.00 acre parcel. Call your REALTOR® for your personal viewing.

NEW LISTING

OPEN HOUSESaturday May 24 12-2pm

OPEN HOUSESaturday May 24 11am-1pm

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