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

A recent decision by the Village of Salmo to tender out its garbage contract has resulted in a community backlash against Mayor Ann Henderson and her council.

The loss of the well-established Salmo Garbage Services has sparked ire in the com-munity and raised questions about the process of tendering out the contract.

Mayor Henderson began Tuesday night’s council with an address to 30 Salmo residents who packed the hall to support Salmo Garbage Services, the local company which has delivered the service for 25 years but lost the contract to Alpine Contracting earlier this month.

“While it is good to see so many citizens interested in the business of council,” she said. “There has to be a degree of decorum, and pub-lic time after the meeting is a courtesy.”

Henderson reminded the residents that interruptions would not be tolerated, and only current agenda items, which didn’t include the garbage contract, would be addressed during public discussion.

During the tense hour-long council meeting, the elephant in the room, the dissolution of the Salmo Garbage Services contract, was opened up for discussion after Coun. Jennifer Peel went on record during her report to address the matter.

“The contract was tendered out because it came to an end,” she said.

“Moving forward the contract that was awarded was, in my opinion, in the best inter-est of the community,” adding, “it will save our community copious amounts of money.”

Heated questions and comments from the public countered Coun. Peel’s statement during the public discussion period.

“I would strongly suggest looking into some-way to fix this,” said one Salmo resident.

“We support our local people and businesses and bringing in an outside business, well is that really good for our community?” he questioned.

Another resident commented that he has never seen rates decrease and the fallout of council’s decision will hit the village in January.

“Whether the process of tender was fair I can’t say but working in a municipality for 18 years, I have never seen a rates decrease.”

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

Local Salvation Army soup kitchen, Kate’s Kitchen, serves up lunches for dozens of less fortunate citizens of Trail every week but after a weekend appli-ance failure the menu will be consider-ably more limited for some time.

The breakdown of a meat freezer at the well-known local charity over the weekend caused the loss of almost $1,000 worth of meat and milk products and has volunteers hoping for a timely donation.

“It probably went out on Friday but

it was such an old freezer it’s probably not surprising,” said Kate’s Kitchen vol-unteer, Linda Radtke. “We came in on Monday and it was so hot in the building and everything was floating in about a foot of water.”

Radtke said the broken appliance was one of a number of freezers used by the kitchen that are all of about the same vintage but unfortunately was the one that held the food of the highest value and most damaged by thawing.

“If it had been the bread freezer it wouldn’t have been so much of a problem,” Radtke said. “As it is, we did

get some milk in (Tuesday) but meat is going to be slim for awhile. We’re hoping to claim it on insurance but the adjusters are away so I don’t know yet.”

Radtke says the charity is hoping someone will be able to donate another freezer eventually to help them out but that they would really hope that any replacement might be a bit more up to date and reliable than their remaining appliances.

Anyone willing to make a timely donation of a freezer or meat to Kate’s Kitchen can contact Radtke at (250) 364-0445.

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B y A r t H A r r i s o nTime Staff

While controversy still swirls around the issue of whether or not smart meters present a health haz-ard, FortisBC has received approval to proceed with its Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) project.

Although the utility company says it needs time to review the approval by the B.C Utilities Commission before moving ahead with the project, in a recent media release they cite a belief that, “...advanced meters are an accur-ate, reliable and safe way to deliver energy.”

In addition, the company says the new meters will provide economic benefits and safety improvements for utility workers, first responders, and the general public.

“The customer can expect oper-ational savings because we would be saving money by not requiring meter readers,”said Neal Pobran, cor-

porate communications manager for FortisBC.

“There would also be increased sav-ings because the loss from electricity theft would be reduced, which custom-ers currently have to cover.

“The new meters are more diffi-cult to tamper with which would also reduce dangerous wiring practices involved in electricity theft.”

In June, the Osoyoos Indian Band announced a decision to ban the instal-lation of the new meters on homes and businesses on reserve land and local opposition arose when the company initially announced its application to install the meters in 2012.

“Since we began the application pro-cess last July we have heard some con-cerns from customers,” said Pobran.

“If we have to work with them to address some of those concerns then we could install the new meters with the radio function turned off. Right now we’re looking through the

decision’s parameters about what that would look like.”

FortisBC is expected to make its decision on whether or not to proceed with the installations within the next month.

“This is a large project and will take considerable resources,” said Pobram.

“We would be performing upgrades to hardware and software in 2013, getting the new meters out to custom-ers in 2014, and hopefully finish in 2015.”

The AMI project would only affect FortisBC electrical customers, total-ling 130,000 homes and businesses stretching from Princeton in the west, through the Okanagan and West Kootenay, to Creston in the east, cov-ering a considerable portion of the Southern Interior region of B.C.

More information on the Advanced Metering Infrastructure project can be found on the company’s website at http://www.fortisbc.com.

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featured at Kootenay Savings Music in the Park this week with the performance of the trio Picture the Ocean.

The music of guitarist Jessee Dee, singer Jacquie B. and drum-mer Matt Blackie was described by one reviewer as “cool mid-tempo classic pop tunes that should appeal to a wide range of listeners.”

The Edmonton group is on a tour of British Columbia that includes dates in Kelowna and Vancouver, and will perform at Gyro Park in Trail tonight at 7 p.m.

Picture the Ocean is a new

name for an established group on Edmonton music scene which was chosen for the release of their latest album of the same name.

“Picture the Ocean is a collec-tion of songs/stories which have developed in the last year of hard touring together,” said Dee.

“Picture the Ocean is everything you want it to be and everything you never knew could be. It’s an instruction to put your thoughts somewhere else. It’s subjective. It’s different for everybody. No one pic-tures it quite the same.”

Music in the Park is supported by Kootenay Savings Credit Union and Teck. Admission is by donation.

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• Sunday, Free Trail skate-board and all wheel event, Cominco Arena. Noon until 2:30 p.m. All ages and abilities wel-come.

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• Thursday, Gyro Park at 7 p.m. Kootenay Savings Music in the Park presents Picture the Ocean.

Upcoming• August 14,

Rossland Historical Museum from 3-7 p.m. Do you know where the wild things are? A number of interactive displays on local and non-local species. Barbeque, marshmallow roast and stories. All ages welcome. Call Michele or Joyce, 362-7722 or email [email protected]

• August 25, Kidney Foundation of Canada Kidney Walk, Gyro Park.

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FROM PAGE 1“I am glad this

issue came up because otherwise it would sit and fester in the com-munity,” said Salmo resident Stephen White, who regularly attends council meet-ings.

“A tendering pro-cess that is open ended and vague and discussed in-camera is not appropriate.

“If the discus-sion was held in an open meeting and up for debate, all these people wouldn’t be

here tonight,” he said.People will con-

tinue to be hurt and angry in the com-munity if you con-tinue to just say ‘No” and not discuss the process of the ten-der in the open, he added.

“I am sorry if it upset people but feel it is within our rights to protect the people of this community and give them the best opportunity mov-ing forward and that is it,” said Coun. Peel.

Three bids are

posted on the vil-lage’s bulletin board which stipulate ser-vice to 471 dwellings for 50 weeks: Alpine Contracting $64,998; Waste Management $43,332; and Salmo Garbage Services $84,780.

At the end of June, Salmo released its annual financial statements and 2013 objectives and per-formance measures.

Included was a goal to provide affordable garbage collection by putting out the gar-

bage contract to ten-der; and succession planning for a new chief administrative officer (CAO).

So far, both object-ives have been met, and last night the new village CAO who begins Aug 6, Bob Payette, was on hand as an observer during the meeting.

“Its good to see a large presence out for council,” said Payette.

“Obviously there are some issues on the table but we will get through them.”

Residents question contract process

Cranbrook

b y S a l l y m a c d o n a l dCranbrook Townsman

One month after torren-tial rains devastated the East Kootenay, many backcountry roads in the region remain closed as government staff scramble to plan expensive repairs.

Dave Rebagliatti, an engin-eer with the Rocky Mountain Forest District, said that close to 30 bridges in the district were lost in the flood, and many roads have a lot of dam-age.

“Most of the other ones are pretty severely impacted so it’s not a simple fix,” said Rebagliatti. “It’s a pretty big impact.”

He said that the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations will con-sider reassigning funding that was set for another purpose. Emergency Management BC may allot funding to reim-burse the ministry’s work, but

that could be some time com-ing.

Kootenay East MLA Bill Bennett said he understands the importance of backcountry roads to his constituents.

“I certainly recognize how important getting into the backcountry is to my constitu-ents because I use those same roads,” said Bennett.

“We all must realize that the recent flood damage to roads and bridges is unpreced-ented. A complete repair will cost millions of dollars.”

Rebagliatti said the min-istry has yet to settle on a priority list for fixing forestry roads.

“We haven’t nailed down which ones are high priority. I would say the Whiteswan area is one of the high priority ones because there is equipment trapped in there and it has been cut off completely.”

Closer to Cranbrook, the popular Fisher Peak trail is cut off by a washout on Mause Creek Forest Service Road. But that road won’t be one of

the first fixed, Rebagliatti said.“Mause Creek is a pretty low

priority because there is one hike up there and it’s a fairly significant event up there. We would have to have a geo-tech look at that and make sure whatever we do to fix it is safe.

“It’s an expensive fix for the amount you get out of it.”

Bennett said that the min-istry is necessarily focusing on roads that access active log-ging operations.

“I have met with (the min-istry) right after the floods and with forest companies, both of which have rights and obliga-tions around resource roads. I support their priority to repair roads first that are associat-ed with logging and forestry jobs.”

But Bennett is advocating for roads with a high recrea-tional value as well, he went on.

“I have also made it known to both government and indus-try that resource roads import-ant to recreation, trapping and guide outfitting should be

Million-dollar fix for back roadsJune’s heavy rainfall leaves big repair bills

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t H e c a n a d i a n P R e S SNELSON, B.C. - A man who beat a 13 year old

into unconsciousness, causing the boy double vision years after the assault, has been ordered to pay more than $30,000 in damages.

But that’s not as much as the man’s friend paid after he agreed to a settlement out of court involving the same assault.

Daniel Bolen had earlier pleaded guilty to a charge of aggravated assault after he beat the boy near Nelson in July 2004.

Court heard the boy, Dylan Plishka-Humphreys, was with a friend who had fired a ball bearing from a slingshot at Bolen’s window, shattering it and enraging the man.

Bolen punched Dylan repeatedly in the head and face, hospitalizing him for 2 1/2 days, while Bolen’s friend, James Ricard, threatened the boy.

The judge assessed damages of just over $84,000 but because Ricard had already settled for $50,000, Bolen must pay the rest - $34,250 - as well as court costs.

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SVANCOUVER - City councillors have voted in

favour of spending at least $6 million of taxpay-ers’ money on a new bike-share program.

The program has been in the works for five years and will launch in early 2014 when 250 bikes will be distributed through 24 stations.

By the spring of 2014, 1,500 bikes will be dis-tributed through 150 stations.

Critics of the program have raised concerns about whether it’s safe enough for casual users.

The city must also address a B.C. law that requires cyclists to use helmets

B y W A N D A C H o WBurnaby News LeaderBurnaby city hall

wants to utilize a rare-ly-used provision to force the clean-up of a house belonging to a hoarder.

The house made headlines last January after the owner, a man in his 70s, had to be rescued after being trapped under a pile of clutter for days. At the time, police said the man’s belongings was piled floor to ceiling in every room on both floors of the house. Firefighters had to break down the door and cut him free from the mess with a chain-saw.

After leaving hos-pital following that ordeal, the man was placed in an assist-ed-living facility in Burnaby, according to a city staff report.

Then on July 2, Burnaby Fire Department again had to rescue him from the house after he was found trapped inside.

On Monday, Burnaby council was to consider a city staff request that the house be declared to be unsafe and a nuis-ance, and to require

the owner to remove the clutter inside “to make the residence safe for the occupant, attending emergency personnel and other persons entering the building,” the report said.

If the owner doesn’t have it cleaned up within 30 days after receiving the notice, the city could do the work and recover the costs from the owner.

While municipal-ities are generally limited to mandating the clean-up of yards under their unsightly premises bylaws, in this case the city is turning to enforce-ment tools avail-able to it under the Community Charter.

“We don’t use this provision unless abso-lutely forced to do so,” said Denise Jorgenson, Burnaby’s director of finance, the depart-ment which handles licencing issues.

“It’s not a com-mon thing we would do, just in extreme circumstances which this is,” she said.

On Jan. 14, Burnaby RCMP were called after being noti-fied that the property owner had not been seen for three days.

After managing to speak to the man, offi-cers called Burnaby Fire Department which dispatched three units and nine firefighters.

“It then took fire personnel over two hours to complete the rescue due to compli-cations from the shift-ing debris,” the report said.

In the July 2 inci-dent, four fire units and 12 firefight-ers responded and again found the man trapped under debris. It took over one-and-a-half hours to rescue him that time due to the large amount of materials complicat-ing their efforts.

City staff did a clean-up of the home’s yard on Feb. 19. It took three days and involved seven city staff, as well as an excavator, three dump trucks. The cost of the work, which was charged to the owner, was $12,500.

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Years after a woman died as a result of a medication mix-up at an Okanagan hospital, an Interior Health Authority audit found there still exists a “moderate to high risk” to patients at its facilities.

Brenda Gaida, 40, was admitted to Vernon Jubilee Hospital in July 2007 for treatment of a skin condi-tion for which she received a drug called methotrexate. Her health deteriorated and she died three months later at an Alberta hospital.

Her family claimed the cause of death was “metho-trexate brain toxicity” due to excessive doses she received at VJH, according to a B.C. Supreme Court ruling issued this month, which confirmed a $440,000 judgment against Interior Health, the hospital and four doctors.

The defendants admit-ted the drug was mistakenly given to Gaida daily rather than weekly.

Issues with medication

management arise frequent-ly.

In 2011 alone, Interior Health reported 5,306 “medi-cation related events” to a provincial database that tracks adverse events, near-misses and hazards, accord-ing to an internal audit report completed Dec. 24, 2012, and obtained by the Western News through a freedom of information request.

Auditors assessed eight of the region’s largest acute care sites and found just 56 per cent compliance with “stan-dard practices and policy,” and identified “multiple opportunities for substantial improvement,” according to the report.

“In Internal Audit’s opin-ion, there exists a moder-ate to high risk of signifi-cant patient harm associated with the current medication management practices as observed in selected medical surgical inpatient units.”

The report lists some breaches auditors uncovered, including:

— medication carts, some of which contained controlled substances, left unattended in many hallways

— six of eight sites did not waste narcotics according to policy, and some staff asked others to witness narcotics wastage after the fact

— patient ID and allergy bands at all sites were not checked prior to administra-tion of medication

— at all sites, medications were poured into cups and not labelled, nor were syr-inges, with the exception of those that were pre-labelled by the manufacturer

The audit cited six fac-tors as the main causes of staff’s non-adherence to policy, such as stress from a heavy workload, distractions and interruptions, plus facil-ity shortcomings like space limitations and technology failures.

Twelve recommenda-tions for improvement are contained in the report, and Interior Health chief nursing officer Heather Cook said all

are “completed or well under-way at this point.”

Cook was unable, how-ever, to quantify how much those measures have reduced patient risk.

“I couldn’t even begin to identify (that). I think that anytime medications are involved, it’s never a low risk,” she said.

The audit determined staff at Penticton Regional Hospital met just 54 per cent of practice standards, the third-lowest score among four regional hospitals.

The best was East Kootenay Regional Hospital in Cranbrook, which scored 61 per cent.

South Okanagan General Hospital in Oliver was ranked separately and singled out for praise, since it employs tech-nology not used elsewhere that helped it reach 73 per cent compliance.

That technology includes computerized entry of phys-icians’ orders and a barcode system that ensures the right drugs go to the right patients.

Audit turns up problems at Okanagan hospitals

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SGIMLI, Man. - The owner of a lodge that has been housing flood

evacuees since the spring of 2011 says the federal Aboriginal Affairs Department has finally sent him a cheque for the $2.6 million he was owed.

Mike Bruneau of the Misty Lake Lodge had threatened to close the facility if he wasn’t paid.

He now says he is prepared to keep the lodge open, but only if representatives of the Manitoba Association of Native Firefighters leave people at the hotel alone.

Bruneau and MANFF have been involved in a lengthy dispute over unpaid bills and over his accusations that the agency has squandered the $78 million it was given by Ottawa to cover evacuation costs.

The agency is being audited by Ottawa and has been relieved of responsibility for evacuees from the Lake St. Martin First Nation.

The federal and provincial governments have asked the Red Cross to take over.

T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SEDMONTON - Call it a cup of coffee karma.Staff at a downtown Edmonton Tim Hortons were having an

ordinary day Monday until a young man in his mid-to-late 20s walked in, ordered a large double-double and a Boston cream doughnut, and posed a question.

“He asked the cashier, ‘how many coffees do you sell in a day?’ ” said store manager Joanne Averion.

Then he asked her to ring in 500 large coffees.

“The manager asked him if he was going to drink all those coffees or was he going to give it to someone?” Averion recalled. “He said, ‘you have to give it to the next 500 custom-ers.’ ”

The motive for the random act of caffeinated kindness isn’t known; Averion said staff questioned the young man, but he didn’t say much and left quickly after paying the $859 bill with his debit card.

She said it took until 8 a.m. Tuesday morning to give out the 500 free coffees.

Customers were understandably thrilled when told their coffee was free. Averion said some wondered why and others wouldn’t believe it until they saw the receipt. Staff have also been busily theor-izing on the reason for the gesture.

“We were thinking maybe he was so blessed that he wanted to share his blessing, or maybe he won the lotto or something,” Averion said.

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SMONCTON, N.B. - Two surfers say they have rode a tidal bore for

29 kilometres over a two-hour stretch along the Petitcodiac River in New Brunswick.

Colin Whitbread and J.J. Wessels of California were greeted by crowds of people along Moncton’s waterfront as they came to shore.

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SOTTAWA - An inter-

nal document suggests Ottawa is preparing to push ahead with key features of its contro-versial skills-training initiative, despite prov-incial opposition and calls for flexibility.

The nine-page fed-eral document, sent to at least one prov-ince, appears to retain all the elements of the Canada Job Grant pro-posal set out in the March budget.

The document claims it builds on consultations with “stakeholder groups” in May and June, and says Ottawa is “looking to discuss the detailed design” of the program with the provinces.

“As soon as pos-sible, the Government of Canada will arrange a bilateral meeting to discuss the elements of the proposal in more detail and initiate negotiations toward new agreements as quickly as possible to ensure they are in place by April 1, 2014,” says the draft docu-ment, obtained by The Canadian Press.

The document also makes one clear demand of the prov-inces and territories - that they give the fed-eral government credit for the program once it is in place.

“P/Ts will be expected to ... pub-licly acknowledge the Government of Canada’s contribution,

including the Canada Job Grant.”

The Harper gov-ernment made the $900-million Canada Job Grant the centre-piece of its March budget.

The finance minis-ter argued that funda-mental changes were required in provin-cially run job-training programs because many employers were having difficulty find-ing workers with the right skills.

Despite the criti-cism, and with no program in place, the government spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on TV ads extolling the merits of the program.

The opposition NDP has accused the gov-ernment of adopting a “divide and conquer” strategy, quoting a media report that the document was sent to a few western provinces, which are more likely to be sympathetic, but not others.

The objective of the initiative is to match training with avail-able jobs by offering a grant of up to $15,000 to employers for train-ing for each employee, with the cost shared equally between Ottawa, the province or territory, and the employer.

But the provinces immediately objected to federal intrusion into provincial juris-diction. Provinces are also balking at Ottawa

forcing them to put up $300 million from their own budgets while it was also with-drawing $300 million in transfers from exist-ing training programs - a double cash wham-my for fiscally chal-lenged provinces.

As well, they objected to the idea being dropped on them without prior consultation. Canada’s premiers have pledged to fight the initiative as currently drafted. At the very least, they are demanding that Ottawa allow for a fully compensated opt-out clause and that it jet-tison the requirement for provincial finan-cing.

A report from the Caledon Institute of Social Policy also criticized the federal approach, noting that it calls on provinces to “cancel their own ground-tested pro-grams and then to expect them to find substantial new fund-ing from their own budgets to pay for an untested new federal program in an area of provincial jurisdic-tion.”

The institute called the program “deeply flawed public policy

(that is) likely to deliv-er inferior results,” noting that large com-panies are likely to take both the federal and provincial grants for training they would have done in any case.

The Canadian Federation of Independent Business has concerns that small firms will be unable to take advan-tage of the program.

A spokeswoman for Jason Kenney, who last week was appointed the new minister for employment and social development, said Ottawa would discuss implementation with the provinces over the summer and fall.

The document sug-gests any flexibility would need to take place within the broad parameters already outlined in the budget.

Ottawa is offering to renew its $500-mil-lion Labour Market Agreements with the provinces and territor-ies for four years, start-ing next April, it says.

But by the fourth year, 60 per cent of that transfer will go to the implementation of the Canada Job Grant, leaving only $200 mil-lion to be run as the provinces see fit.

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Trudeau’s visit offers hope for forgotten votersYou can look at

Monday’s visit by Justin Trudeau through several

prisms.For some, the thought

of a politician parading his family on a whistle-stop of western towns might be a brutal way to spend your summer holiday.

For others, he might be seen as yet another polit-ician eager to shake every hand and smile for every camera if it nets him some votes in the next election.

On the other hand, I prefer to see the positive side of the visit.

How often has a polit-ical leader made a point of visiting a riding that his party hasn’t had a hope in winning in decades?

How refreshing to see a political leader cast aside political stripes and simply visit Canadians in the less-populated centres.

There’s no doubt Trudeau brings political charisma where ever he goes. And I guess that can be a curse or a bless-ing, especially with such a famous last name.

And that might be the last bit of luggage he’s carrying around.

My father was never a big Pierre Trudeau fan although he was a pretty staunch Liberal supporter.

But my dad was also a farmer and Trudeau butted heads with the agricultur-al community often during his days in power.

That might have began when Trudeau uttered his infamous “farmers are professional complainers,” quote in the late seventies.

I think after that my father always had res-ervations about Pierre Trudeau’s legacy, not unlike many Westerners from that era.

But those prejudices aren’t evident with the next generation of Trudeau.

What I took from Monday’s visit was much more than simple cam-paigning.

Finally a party leader has the moral fortitude to visit a riding where their party isn’t even on the map let alone close to winning.

Finally a party leader who says every corner of Canada is important whether they support a Liberal candidate or not.

Finally, a politician who is trying to break an old pattern of politicking

that usually relied upon $500-a-plate dinners to feed the party coffers with-out taking a moment to see if the citizens of the region, who don’t have $500, have anything to say.

When Barack Obama was first elected in the U.S. he said he was every-one’s president, not just a president for the ones who voted for him.

In Canada, the opposite seems to hold court.

Even a B.C. MP told his constituents during the last federal election that they have a better chance of getting what they need if they vote for the party in power. In other words if you don’t vote for the right party, you’re out of luck.

I’m tired of that atti-tude and as a Canadian taxpayer I deserve better.

There is no reason to shun parts of the coun-try simply because it won’t produce election wins.

There’s no reason to favour one area over another on the basis of its support for a specific polit-ical party.

And there’s no reason to take an adversarial role when it comes to working with departments, which are entrusted in keeping the country operating safe and sound.

So as far as I’m con-cerned Justin Trudeau’s visit provided a glimmer of hope for our political system.

Granted his visit was also tinge with sadness in a place where he lost his brother. And perhaps that was the obvious crux of his goal to stop in the West Kootenay.

But it was also an opportunity to introduce himself to the population on a personal level.

It doesn’t mean I’m sup-porting the Liberals but it does mean I respect what their leader is trying to do.

Whether you support

him or not, how often does a leader of any political party stop in our area?

Heck we didn’t even get to see the candidates for our own provincial leader-ship during the recent campaign.

Christy Clark wasn’t going to waste her time in a solid NDP riding and Adrian Dix had no reason to visit a riding that was already locked up.

What does that say about the democratic pro-cess?

The old mentality of ‘with us or against us,” needs to be changed because of the lasting damage it inflicts not only on the citizens but on the entire political process.

So you can remain jaded about the polit-ical/paparazzi hoopla sur-rounding the unproven Trudeau or you can open the door to the possibility that maybe somebody in Ottawa is finally getting the message.

If you want to represent Canada you need to get out there and meet Canadians – all of them.

Guy Bertrand is the managing editor of the Trail Times

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New Chef and new menuFresh food made from scratchAs it happens, I was in

Detroit this month. I went to see the art and the architecture,

domains in which Detroit is still one of the richest cities in the United States. It’s broken, and it’s broke, and now it’s offi-cially bankrupt too. But bank-ruptcy is actually a device for escaping from unpayable debt.

All over the world, Detroit’s bankruptcy is being used as an excuse to pore over what’s some-times called “ruin porn”: pictures of the rotting, empty houses that still stand and the proud skyscrapers that have already been torn down. There’s even a self-guided tour of “the ruins of Detroit” available on the inter-net: people take a melancholy pleasure in contemplating the calamitous fall of a once-great city.

Two-thirds of Detroit’s popu-lation have fled in the past fifty years, but there were specific reasons why Detroit fell into decline, and there are also rea-sons to believe that it could flourish again – not as a major manufacturing centre, perhaps, but “major manufacturing centres” probably don’t have a bright long-term future any-where. There are other ways to flourish, and Detroit has some valuable resources.

The events that triggered the city’s decline are well known. Large numbers of African-Americans from the southern states migrated to Detroit to meet the demand for factory workers during and after the Second World War.

Being mostly unskilled, they started in the worst jobs – and even after they had acquired the skills, they stayed in low-

paying jobs because of racial prejudice.

Spurned by the unions and victimised by a racist police force, they eventually rioted in the summer of 1967. Brutal policing made matters worse and hundreds were killed, but the worst consequence was the fear that the violence engen-dered. The great majority of the

whites just left left town

The big auto-mobile compan-ies also took fright, and the new car plants were built elsewhere. As the jobs dis-appeared and the population dropped, the tax base fell even faster, for most of the people

left behind in the city were poor or unemployed African-Americans. The city could no longer afford to provide good police or medical services, so even more people left.

This vicious circle has last-ed half a century, exacerbated by much corruption and mal-administration. This month’s declaration of bankruptcy is a brutal measure, for much of the debt being repudiated is the pensions of city employees, but it may give the city’s govern-ment enough leeway to begin rebuilding public services. If they are restored, much else could follow.

Let me explain what brought me to Detroit early this month. We were doing what we dubbed the “Rust Belt Art and Architecture Tour”: driving from Buffalo to Cleveland and then to Detroit, ending up in Chicago.

All these cities took a terrible beating as the industries they were built on died or moved overseas (except Chicago, which is “too big to fail”). But

three generations ago, when they were the industrial heart-land of the United States, they were very rich – at just the right time.

The first decades of the 20th century were the heyday of art deco, the most beautiful archi-tectural style of the modern era. That was also the period when newly rich captains of industry could scoop up bucket-loads of new European and American art: impressionist, expression-ist, abstract, the lot – and they lived mostly in what are now the Rust Belt cities.

So they put up dozens of art deco towers: the Guaranty Building in downtown Detroit is my candidate for the world’s most beautiful office building. They filled their homes with best of modern art – and, in the end, donated most of it to the local art galleries. Even in Detroit, where so much has been lost, more than half of those buildings are still there. So is all of the art.

Other cities would kill for these assets. In a post-indus-trial economy where people have more choice about where they live, they are assets that can actually attract population – especially since, in Detroit’s case, the people who left didn’t go far. Most of them are still out there in the suburbs that surround Detroit.

The city of Detroit’s popula-tion has fallen from 2 million to 700,000 over the past fifty years, but the metropolitan area’s population has stayed stable at around four and a half million for all of that time. The job, really, is to bridge the devastated middle ring of low-income Detroit housing and reconnect the outer suburbs with the city centre. Detroit can rise again. It just takes the right strategy.

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An editorial from the Amherst Daily NewsPolitics and money go hand-in-hand in so

many ways it makes the average head spin like a gambling wheel.

There’s the obvious connection: paying taxes and hoping elected people do right by us, with no sleight of hand. Here’s another one to pon-der: the apparently murky world of public sup-port for political parties.

Canada’s riding associations, as reported recently by Elections Canada, have a fair bit of cash tucked away in their war chests. Of the three main parties, the Conservatives are the most well off, with a combined total of $18.3 million in 2012, according to an article from The Canadian Press. The Liberals follow with a total of $6.3 million, ahead of the NDP at $2.3 million.

Fair game, and may the wealthiest party win and all that but, indirectly, the figures also serve as a reminder of a recent change to a means by which parties derived public funding. After the majority win in 2011 by the Conservatives - the champions in fundraising

- they moved to eliminate the per-vote subsidy to parties. It represented something under $2 per ballot cast, split proportionally to how the vote went.

The argument was that people shouldn’t be subsidizing a political party unwillingly.

It was hard to follow that reasoning, though, since the way it was divvied up, each voter could figure their buck-75 went to their party of choice.

The other side of the coin is how political donations work.

Someone helping a party is eligible for an income tax credit. If you hand $100 to a party, and are entitled to a bit of a tax break, a govern-ment needs to make up the difference somehow for the general revenues they need. Essentially, that means for every donation to a party that’s eligible for a tax credit, the country’s taxpayers are subsidizing.

There is no easy way around this, obviously. Political advertising and tour buses aren’t free. But the idea that you get the government you paid for becomes a more troublesome thought.

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FREED, BRIAN — was born in Trail in 1949 and passed away peacefully on July 22, 2013 at home.

Brian is predeceased by his par-ents Mel and Becky. He is survived by his loyal companion and spouse of 22 years, Cathy Tomljenovic, his brother John and sister Anabelle.

Brian was a movie buff and thoroughly enjoyed watch-ing movies with his dog Gra-cie. He was especially fond of his grandkids Olivia, Zac, and Shaela.

He wants us all to know he has gone to meet his close bud-dies for coffee.

At Brian’s request there will not be a service. Gwen Ziprick of Alternatives Funeral and Cremation Services™ has been entrusted with arrangements.

As an expression of sympa-thy, donations to the SPCA at 7700 Hwy 3B

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Trail, passed away peacefully at her home on July 23, 2013 at the age of 89.

Gina was born August 11, 1923 in San Quirino, Por-denone, Italy. She was the 2nd oldest of four chil-dren born to Maria (nee B o m b e n ) and Giovan-ni De Pel-legrin.

Gina emi-grated with her family about 1931 to stay with family in Trail, BC. She left school early to work at the Star Bakery to help support and establish her family.

She met her husband Eli-gio at the Star Bakery and they married in 1943 just before he left for England with the Can-adian Army. She raised 3 chil-dren and managed and main-tained 2 apartment houses for 30 years.

Mom and Dad bought a lot in 1955 at Christina Lake and built the cabin the next year. The whole extended family met and enjoyed many sum-mers there and will continue to enjoy their great retreat.

Gina is survived by her sis-ter Olympia McNaughton and her brother Bob De Pellegrin, her three children; Wayne (El-len), Barbara (Jerry), Robert (Sylvia), her grandchildren; Leanne (Hap), Andrea, Kris-teen (Jason), Trevor (Julia), Jacquelyn and Stephanie, her great-grandchildren; Isabella, Simone, Sebastian, Jackson, Blake, Alyssa and many nieces and nephews.

Gina was an active member of the Sisters of Colombo and the Catholic Women’s League and convened many teas over the years.

A Mass of Christian Bur-ial will be held on Saturday, July 27, 2013 at 10:00 am at St. Anthony’s Catholic Church with Father Jim McHugh, Cele-brant. Jordan Wren of Alterna-tives Funeral and Cremation Services™ has been entrusted with arrangements.

As an expression of sympa-thy, donations in Gina’s name may be made to the Kootenay Boundary Regional Health Foundation at 1200 Hospital Bench, Trail, BC V1R 4M1 or online at www.kbrhealthfoun-dation.ca

***EVANS, ANDREW LEE —

Andy, as his friends knew him, has left us at the young age of 28. Andrew was born on March 19, 1985 in Trail B.C. On July 10, 2013, after an unfortunate whirlwind of events, the unruly Columbia River took his life. Andrew was a down-to-earth, loving guy who never lost his inner child. He loved going on adventures with his family and friends. He loved spending time up in the Pend d’ Oreille where he and the family spent most of their early years together tak-ing advantage of everything the area had to offer.

Andrew will be deeply missed and remain in our hearts for-ever. He leaves behind his par-ents Dobie Evans and Laurie McCarthy, Tammy Evans and Lee Guenard, sister Alisha Evans and nephew Keydon; his grandparents Donna Evans and Mervin and Ann Neil; his girl-friend Sam Sakuluk, along with many aunts, uncles and cous-ins on the Neil and Evans side.

He is predeceased by his be-loved grandfather Larry Jack Evans.

May you rest in peace, our little boy, your spirit is free to go wherever you wish.

A celebration of Andrew’s life is being planned and will be announced at a later date.

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SLONDON - His Royal Highness

has a name.The new prince has been named

George Alexander Louis, royal officials said Wednesday, ending speculation over what moniker Prince William and his wife, Kate, would pick for their first child.

Kensington Palace said roy-als are “delighted to announce” their son’s name, adding that the 2-day-old baby and third-in-line to the throne will be known as “His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge.”

Noble names are steeped in his-tory, which explains why thousands of bets rolled in to British book-makers for the name George, the name of six previous British kings. The moniker evokes the steadfast-ness of the Queen’s father, George VI, who rallied the nation during the Second World War.

Meaning farmer or earth work-er, George was the 12th most popu-lar name for boys born in England and Wales in 2011. St. George, a 4th-century Christian martyr, is the patron saint of England.

The name Louis could be a trib-ute to Lord Louis Mountbatten, the

Duke of Edinburgh’s uncle and the last British Viceroy of India before independence in 1947. William’s father, Prince Charles, was close with Mountbatten, who was assas-sinated by the Irish Republican Army in 1979.

The announcement from Prince William and Kate - just two days after the baby’s birth - was quick, by royal standards.

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh took a month before settling on the name Charles for the Prince of Wales. Diana, Princess of Wales, and Prince Charles took a week before settling on William’s four names.

For now, the littlest royal is expected to stay out of the spot-light after making his first “public appearance” in the arms of his parents on Tuesday.

After leaving the hospital, William and Kate introduced their son Wednesday to his great-grand-mother, the Queen, who was keen to see the baby before she starts her annual summer vacation in Scotland later this week.

Then the young family headed to see Kate’s parents in their village near London.

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SQUEBEC - Paul

McCartney paid tribute to victims of the Lac-Megantic tragedy Tuesday night, offer-ing free concert tickets and dedicating a song to surviv-ors at a concert.

The pop legend received his longest ovation of the concert on Quebec City’s historic Plains of Abraham upon playing “Let It Be.”

The song came with a special greeting from McCartney, delivered in French, to the people of Lac-Megantic. About 1,000 people from the community had been given free tickets to the show, two weeks after a train disaster killed dozens of its residents.

“I would like to dedicate this song to the people of Lac-Megantic,” McCartney said in English, before con-tinuing in French and add-ing, “I dedicate this song to you.”

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Muay Thai fighting is a thrilling spectacle but few would pursue it with the courage and determination that a pair of Kootenay natives have for the past 10 years in their quest to make it to the top of their sport.

Charles Aaron Bisset and Francis Pettit took two very contrasting paths to the top of the Muay Thai fighting scene, yet both started and trained together at Trail’s Pride Gym with Glen Kalesniko as their trainer. Bisset went on to win the National Muay Thai Canadian title, the North American Muay Thai champion-ship, and most recently the World Kickboxing Association’s cruiser weight title.

Pettit moved to Thailand in 2006, where she trained and soon met “Boom” Thanit Watthanaya, a Thai fighter who, with the help of Pettit, is now preparing for the WBC Muay Thai International Challenge title fight in North Bergen, N.J. on Sept. 7.

Part one of the two part series will feature Bisset’s travels from an isolated farm in the Ghost Valley of the Valhallas to the bright lights of L.A., while part two, in Friday’s Trail Times, will focus on Pettit’s and Watthanaya’s journey to make it to the top.

Charles Aaron Bissett grew up on a farm near Retalick in the Ghost Valley of the Valhallas. The son of two opera teachers, his life was a steady diet of Wagner and Verdi, training horses, and working the farm all without the convenience of electricity.

He started kickboxing when he was 12-years-old at Trail’s Pride Gym and went on to fight eight bouts, his first at age 15 against a 32-year-old opponent.

His life on a working farm prepared the 26 year old for his next wild ride.

Bisset, who was ranked fourth in Canada at the time, moved away and began working as a cowboy when he was 17. He toiled on some of the biggest ranches in North America includ-ing Douglas Lake Ranch in the Okanagan, and spent time as a hunting guide in the Northwest Territories.

““That (cowboying) is one thing i wanted to do,” said Bissett. “I was always involved with horses and always loved fighting, and I was always involved with the arts and always wanted to act. There’s always those three things . . . But behind all that I always wanted to get into some more training and always wanted to get into act-ing.”

So after a stint cowboying in the U.S., he picked up and moved to Los Angeles to pursue with conviction his next two goals, acting and fighting.

Bisset found a gym almost immediately, and through a series of good fortune met and trained with some of the biggest names in the UFC, including K1 and UFC Dutch fighter Anthony Hardonk who taught him the vos or Dutch style of kickboxing. He spent a few months training in Holland to further sharpen his technique, and eventually, Bisset hooked up with his favourite

fighter growing up - Rob Kaman.“He’s a living legend, so he doesn’t really train

with a lot of people, but then he saw me train in the gym one day and then we started working together every day. He became my trainer, my mentor, and we’ve been together for almost two years now.”

Since then Bisset has fought 20 fights, going 16-4 with nine KOs. He’s won the Canadian and North American titles, and claimed the World Kickboxing Association’s Cruiser Weight title from British and Europen champion David Wright in Medicine Hat in April. He also recently received news that he is to fight in Glory 10 in Los Angeles, Sept. 28, an event that could generate vital exposure for the fighter.

“This past couple weeks I’ve been introduced to Jerome Le Banner, and growing up he was another one of my heroes,” said Bisset. “He’s a big K1 fighter . . . he’s fighting in a promotion called Glory and going to be the main event, and I just got put on the undercard. So it’s pretty much the biggest, most elite kickboxing event in the world . . . you’re going to be seeing a lot of the best fighters in the world, so you’re going to be seen by a lot of big guys.”

Not only has his fighting career taken off, Bisset is also making strides in front of the cam-era with acting roles in commercials, independ-ent films, and a recent co-starring role in a feature starring Beau Bridges and Kris Kristofferson.

It’s a delicate balance in a very competitive market, living in L.A. and pursuing fighting and acting with equal passion, but Bisset is not pre-pared to give up one or the other.

“It’s hectic,” Bisset says. “It’s not easy because I get up, I train people, I’m a personal trainer, I work for Fabresio Werdum, but then I’m in acting classes 10 hours a week. I have rehearsals sev-eral hours a day, I train two times a day five days a week. It never stops and sometimes you get overwhelmed but I am a student of the fight game, I am a student of acting . . . this is what people have to do to become champions in life or anything; you have to push, push, push.”

Balancing a busy acting, training, and fighting schedule is difficult, but determina-tion and hard work continue to be keys to Bisset’s success and good fortune, and being a nice guy doesn’t hurt either. One thing he’ll never forget, he says, is his humble beginnings at Pride Gym and the love of the sport ingrained in him early.

“I want to give Glen (Kalesniko) a lot of credit too. He has one of the best gyms in Canada and Trail and the Kootenays are lucky to have him. He really dedicates a lot of his time and energy to develop just not fighters but strong and confi-dent individuals.”

After Glory, Bisset, who also picked up a spon-sorship from Sammy Hagar’s Beach Bar Rum, will next fight against 49-bout-veteran Danny “Boy” Bennett in November.

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Muay Thai fighters Charles Aaron Bisset and “Boom” Thanit Watthanaya, husband of Trail native Francis Pettit, worked out at Pride Gym on the weekend. Watthanaya will fight for the WBC Muay Thai International Challenge title in New Jersey Sept. 7, while Bisset is just coming off winning a World Kickboxing Association cruiser weight title in Medicine Hat in April.

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by Jim baileyTimes Sports EditorIt has been a bleak

B.C. Little League championship for the Trail Little League All Stars, but despite suffering two more losses the team is looking on the bright side.

Trail lost to Dunbar 9-5 on Tuesday even-ing and were shut out by Beacon Hill 6-0 Wednesday, however coach D.J. Ashman knew from the start it wasn’t going to be easy for the young team.

“Our youth is basically showing up,” says Ashman. “Our hits aren’t as strong as these other teams, because they have all these older kids. But our defence played a lot better today, and we pitched a lot better today . . . so overall I am pretty happy.”

Beacon Hill chipped away at the All Stars scoring two in the first and two in the second, before adding singles in the third and fifth innings.

The Hill limit-ed the All Stars to just four hits, while Brendan Vulcano went the distance for Trail giving up six runs on eight hits, two walks and a strikeout.

Vulcano continues to rip the ball, how-ever, going 2-for-3 in the game and raising his average to .538.

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FROM PAGE 9Against Dunbar the team fell into a 5-0 hole

early. Trail rallied for three runs in the fifth to make it 7-5 but the District one team would reply by scoring two more in the bottom of the fifth to seal it.

Bradley Ross had a good game at the plate going 3-for-4 while smashing out two doubles.

The team has kept a good attitude through-out says, Ashman, and is treating it as a valuable experience in preparation for next year.

“Everybody knows it’s going to be tough, and nobody’s expecting us to do anything, but everybody is commenting on our team being a little bit scrappy and that they’re into the game.”

In other matches Tuesday White Rock rolled over Beacon Hill 13-2, while Hastings shut out Forest Hills 4-0.

The All Stars play Forest Hills in its final game of the provincial tournament today at noon.

Allstars stay positive

THE CANADIAN PRESSMONTREAL - These are

strange days for the Montreal Alouettes and Edmonton Eskimos.

A decade ago, they were the cream of the Canadian Football League crop, meeting each other in three Grey Cup games in a four-year span from 2002 to 2005.

Now, they are last in their respective divisions, both with 1-3 records.

Both will be under pressure to win when the Eskimos and Alouettes meet Thursday night at Percival Molson Stadium, even if neither side will call it a must-win game only five weeks into the season.

“We’ve been hearing a lot of buzz from people thinking this is a win-or-die game and it’s not,” said Montreal defensive end John Bowman. “It’s Game 5, and we’ll approach it with that mentality.

“We can’t make it bigger than it is because we’ve still got 13 games to play.”

Edmonton coach Kavis Reed added that “we haven’t played a third of the season yet and the

biggest focus is to get the two points.”

It may be bigger than that for Montreal, where there has been speculation that a fourth loss in a row could lead to the firing of new coach Dan Hawkins, or his offensive co-ordinator Mike Miller, or both.

The Alouettes’ offence, which is stacked with talent and led by CFL all-time pass-ing leader Anthony Calvillo, has shown only brief moments of effectiveness as it struggles with a system devised by coach-es with no previous Canadian football experience.

When asked if the team would be playing to save the coaches’ jobs, Calvillo said: “We’re just trying to get back on a winning schedule. The coaches put together a great game plan and it’s up to us to go out and execute it. For us, we just want to get back on the winning track, period.”

However, he noted that two men with extensive CFL experience, adviser to the head coach Doug Berry and offen-sive quality control coach Ryan Dinwiddie, a former quarter-

back, were now involved in devising plays.

The Alouettes sprang to a 24-0 first-quarter lead in Calgary last week, but were held to three points the rest of the way in a 38-27 loss. They uncharacteristically put up only a total of 25 points in their two previous games.

Calvillo has four first-class receivers, but only S.J. Green is having a good start with 18 catches for 307 yards and three touchdowns.

Veteran Arland Bruce was been fine, but Jamel Richardson, who led the CFL with 1,777 yards only two seasons ago, has been held to only 127 yards in four games. Brandon London has been invisible.

“l continue to run the plays that are called,” said Calvillo. “I’ve joked that it’s up to our offensive co-ordinator to make sure everybody stays happy.

“It’s a challenge because we have a lot of weapons. It would help if we could stay on the field and be more consistent. Then everybody’s going to get their share of opportunities.”

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The Greater Trail Stingrays swim club dis-played their C o m m u n i t y Spirit in spades by going on a garbage pick-ing blitz of downtown Trail on Saturday as a way of say-ing thank you to Trail citizens and business for their support.

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Dear Annie: I am a woman and am deep-ly attracted to a good friend, also female. We have begun watch-ing a racy TV show together at my home, and it’s becoming very uncomfortable for me to watch it with her. I find myself wonder-ing whether I should instead offer to loan her the DVDs so she can watch them on her own. If so, do I need to explain why?

She has told me over the course of our friendship that she is eschewing roman-tic relationships until she is in a healthier frame of mind, which I support, and that she plans to move in six months or so. I have a young son and am not interested in a tem-porary entanglement. I do not want to alien-ate my friend and am wondering what course of action is least likely to put a crimp in our friendship. -- Crushing

Dear Crushing: Is it possible that your

friend is interested in you romantically? If you think that might be the case, you should tell her that you are attracted to her and see what happens. However, if that is too emotionally fright-ening and you fear it will end the friendship, you need to stop these incendiary “dates” in whatever way removes the intimacy from your get-togethers.

Offer her the DVDs and say that you are tired of watching this show. You could sug-gest an alternate TV program that is less racy or invite more people over so it’s not only the two of you. You could meet at a

local coffee shop or res-taurant to chat. You do not have to bare your soul to her if it makes you uncomfortable, but it means you must stop putting yourself in this compromising position.

Dear Annie: My fath-er recently informed me of some dark family history that happened years ago. I already felt disconnected from his side of the family, but now I feel ashamed to be a part of these secrets and dishonor-able behavior.

I am considering changing my surname. I suspect my father will be angry that I’m giving up the family name, and I realize that my name doesn’t necessarily reflect on me, but going through life connected to those bad things seems like a worse option. What do you think? -- Shady Family Business

Dear Shady: Unless your family name is particularly recogniz-able, it is unlikely that

anyone will connect you to these dark deeds. However, if you wish to change your name as a protest against your father’s family, that is up to you. But be pre-pared for his reaction and willing to face the consequences.

Dear Annie: “Doing It Myself” asked for advice about his moth-er, who has dementia. She wanted to stay in her home.

I am a retired Adult Protective Services social worker whose job was to investigate adult abuse, neglect and exploitation. I can-not tell you how many times I investigated a report in the home and knew as soon as I saw the caregiver that the person had a history of violence.

I have told my children that I want to remain in my own home only if I can rec-ognize it as my own and the information I give them is reliable. (Dementia patients often report thievery

or abuse when it does not exist.) Otherwise, I want to be in a nurs-ing home. There is a much greater chance that abuse or neglect will be witnessed in a nursing facility.

When the patient’s family hires a care-giver, it is important

that they go through a licensed reliable service that screens their employees. They should never look through the classified ads for an individual to care for a loved one. -- Been There

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For Friday, July 26, 2013ARIES(March 21 to April 19)This morning, you might

have unrealistic expecta-tions of co-workers. Later you’ll get the support you need with supplies, equip-ment, money, budget alloca-tions and advice.

TAURUS(April 20 to May 20)You have high hopes for

romance, sports events or social occasions. Later today, someone older and wiser can help you make these dreams a reality.

GEMINI(May 21 to June 20)Family members are

sympathetic to you today. Fortunately, later in the day, you see ways to make practi-cal changes that will last for a long time in the future.

CANCER(June 21 to July 22)Wishes that might be pie-

in-the-sky early in the day appear doable later in the day. Perhaps this is because you know how to take a

new approach to things or modify them.

LEO(July 23 to Aug. 22)Financial decisions are

tricky today. Early in the day, you might not have all the facts. Advice from some-one older and more experi-enced will change this later in the day.

VIRGO(Aug. 23 to Sept. 22)Relations with others

might be unrealistic this morning. Because of this, you could feel disappoint-ed. Later in the day, every-thing seems to gel perfectly because practical advice smoothes troubled waters.

LIBRA(Sept. 23 to Oct. 22)Wait until later in the

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SCORPIO(Oct. 23 to Nov. 21)If you are disappointed

today, especially this morn-

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SAGITTARIUS(Nov. 22 to Dec. 21)A crush on your boss or

someone in authority might grip you this morning. Later, someone older and wiser will cast a new light on things.

CAPRICORN(Dec. 22 to Jan. 19)Relations with a partner

or a close friend might dis-appoint you this morning. Don’t worry; later in the day, you see practical ways to join forces.

AQUARIUS(Jan. 20 to Feb. 18)Feelings of sympathy make

you want to help someone or give something, yet you feel unsure. Later you will see how to properly help someone.

PISCES(Feb. 19 to March 20)Advice from someone

older or more experienced will help you make travel plans or explore opportu-nities in higher education. Wait until later in the day to make sure you know what you’re doing.

YOU BORN TODAY You have a strong personality and make a strong impression on others. You’re dynamic, dramatic and original. You

freely speak your mind and often have outrageous viewpoints. Nevertheless, you are influential because others admire your ideas and talents. You’re also not afraid to take a chance because, by nature, you’re a gambler. This year, an important choice will arise. Choose wisely.

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Homes for RentHOUSE for rent in the Shavers Bench neighbourhood of Trail. 3 levels with 2 baths, 4 beds, rec room, a small easy mainte-nance yard, covered parking for 2, plus small garage. $1200/mo plus utilities available immediately. Small pets ok with approval. Looking for responsible tenants for 9-12 month lease with good references and qualifi cations. Email Keith at [email protected] 3BDRM, w/d,n/s,n/p,$1000 plus utilities, avail. Aug 1. 250-367-7927

TownhousesEdgewater Townhouse in Glenmerry, 3bd, 1.5Bth.,f/s, $850./mo. 250-368-5908

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Recreational/Sale1984 CLASS “A” Motorhome 454 engine, many extras, fi ne condition, remarkably well kept. $7,500. 250-367-7485

Trucks & Vans2007 Chev Express 3500 1 ton 15 passenger van for sale; excellent shape; low mileage; runs great; loaded. $18,950,OBO

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2003 Four Winns Fish & Ski

Freedom 180 F/S, fully serviced 4.3L

VOLVO PENTA engine, removable side windows for

more fi shing room, tilt steering, removable seats

with interchanging seat posts, rear entry ladder, front control for rear leg trim,

full cover with anti pooling poles,

electric motor off bow for fi shing,

custom matched trailer, Bimini top.

This is really a great boat!! $15,000 obo.

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KOOTENAY HOMES INC.1358 Cedar Avenue, Trail 250.368.8818

www.kootenayhomes.comwww.century21.ca

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WE CAN SELL YOUR HOME. NOBODY HAS THE RESOURCES WE DO! Jodi Beamish ext 51Cell: [email protected]

1602 Kootenay Avenue, Rossland

$449,000If you are looking for space, this is it! 3 bdrms, 2 baths situated on a 60x100

corner lot. Home offers a covered deck, single car garage, bamboo fl oors,

massive mud room for all your toys and a large basement space for storage. Nothing to do but move in! Call your

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

NEW LISTING

Thinking of

moving? Call me

for a FREE market

evaluation today!Call Art

(250) 368-8818

2314 Thompson Avenue, Rossland

$229,0003 bdrm 2 bath family home featuring

fi replace, hardwood fl oors and hot tub. Nice patio area and fl ower gardens.

Come check it out!Call Christine (250) 512-7653

16A Redstone Drive, Rossland

$395,000includes GST

Currently under construction. This spa-cious contemporary style 3 bdrm home

has lots to offer to the active family. Fea-turing an open fl oor plan with spacious covered front deck and amazing views!

Call Richard (250) 368-7897

2024 – 8th Avenue, Trail $155,000

4 bdrm, 2 bath home on a quiet street , close to high school, shopping and on a bus route! Features include a covered patio, private sundeck. detached garage, plenty of parking, a bright, sunny dining

room. Call for a viewing now!Call Terry 250-231-1101

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948 Glover Road, Trail $99,000

Remember when you said: “I should have invested in Trail when...”? This up/

down duplex (2 & 1 bdrm suites) with good tenants waits for you. Solid, close to town and good parking options. Very low

vacancy rate. Invest in Trail today!Call Tonnie (250) 365-9665

20 Hillside Drive, Trail$179,900

Open concept, 2 bdrms, offi ce, a/c, u/g sprinklers, garage AND carport, workshop

& rec room! Upgrades: kitchen, bath, windows and brand new stainless steel

appliances! This is quite a package!Call Tonnie (250) 365-9665

NEW PRICE

840 Forrest Drive, Warfi eld

$295,000 5 beds, 2 baths. Lovely family home on a nice street. Features a bright, daylight basement and fully fenced

backyard with a deck. Call today to view.

Call Jodi 250-231-2331

310 Sylvia Crescent, Trail $249,000

Tranquility awaits! You will love the open feel of this 3 bdrm , 1.5 bath home with

beautiful new gourmet kitchen, refi nished hardwood fl oors, and tons of upgrades.

Call today!Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

1638 Cedar Avenue, Trail$179,000

Owned by the same family since 1948, this character home is close to town and features large rooms, custom fi replace,

gorgeous views and much more. Extensive wiring and plumbing upgrades.

Call today for your personal viewing.Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

1922 Meadowlark Drive, Fruitvale

$289,9005 bdrms & 3 baths. Great family

home featuring recent updates to kitchen, deck and new gutters. Across the street from a park and minutes to

downtown Fruitvale.Call Jodi

250-231-2331

NEW PRICE

1734 Noran Street, Trail $219,000

Spacious 4 bedroom, 2 bath, character home Over 2900 sq ft of space with

newer windows, upgraded plumbing and electrical panel. There is plenty of parking

accessed through the back alley. Relax and/or entertain outside under the large

covered patio. This is a very special home! Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

8412 Theatre Road, Trail

$449,000Newer 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

2470 Colin Crescent,

Trail $479,000The perfect big

family home located in Miral Heights. 4200

sq.ft. completely fi nished, 5

bdrms and 3 baths, 3 gas fi replaces,

vaulted ceilings, and many more

features. Call for your

viewing! Call Mark

(250) 231-5591

Ron & Darlene Your Local Home Team

39 Hazelwood Drive, Trail$232,000

Great Sunningdale location. Great family home. Great price. 3

bedroom 2 bathroom home. Exceptionally well built. Oak fl oors, fi replace, large dining area, patio and double garage.Call Ron and Darlene for a personal viewing of this fi ne character home.

1648 Columbia Avenue, Trail$169,000

Quaint, tidy, low maintenance package! This home offers spectacular views, 2

bdrms, large modernized bathroom and kitchen. New furnace, 16 inch insulation

in attic, new windows, and lots of storage are added features. This one is worth

a look!

Ron 368-1162 Darlene 231-0527

We Sell Great Homes!

NEW LISTING

3397 Laurel Crescent, Trail $149,900

Great price for a Glenmerry townhouse, in good condition. Quick possession possible. Easy care living with small yard, the backyard

is fenced and has a small patio. These townhouses have acharm about them and offer 3 bdrms, 11/2 baths.

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

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Trail Daily Times, July 25, 2013