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The city will be extra flashy during the revamped Silver City Days festivities this coming year.

The Victoria Street Bridge lighting project will go to tender this month after Trail council gave the go-ahead during Monday’s governance meeting.

Estimated to cost $510,000, the job was given pre-approval in the 2016 capital budget mostly re-lated to successful fundraising efforts and logistics - Trail’s revitalized May event is only five months away and the city has work permits from the min-istry in place.

“We want to start construction early next year to meet this key deadline of the end of April,” says Trail Mayor Mike Martin. “We want the light-ing to be installed and tested before Silver City Days and make the first lighting dur-ing Silver City Days.”

Lighting up the city’s main connec-tor was first intro-

duced to council two years ago by the Downtown Opportunities and Action Committee.

Trail’s former council agreed to fund the project 50 per cent, once the group raised $190,000, which at the time, was half the project’s cost.

Only one year into its Buy-a-Light campaign, in addition to a run of major sponsorships, the group is nearing that goal.

“The city made a commitment to the DOAC that should they be able to reach that funding level, the city would be prepared to fund the balance,” added Martin.

The current price tag exceeds the original esti-mate by $135,000.

For that reason, council’s vote to move ahead was not unanimous.

“Anytime we’ve had discussions I have always been opposed, based on the timing,” says Coun. Carol Dobie. “I have always said I am not against lighting the bridge, I’m against lighting the bridge right now.”

She reasons the city’s current major undertak-ings, the pipe bridge and new library museum,

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From the left; IH Board Chair Erwin Malzer, President and CEO Chris Mazurkewich, Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital Acute Health Services Director Jane Cusden and IH Board Director Pat Dooley chat with KBRH emergency department head and KB High Acuity Response Team medical director Dr. Jeff Hussey on Tuesday during a tour of the facility.

New Interior Health boss visits KBRHInterior Health’s new CEO Chris

Mazurkewich made a point of stopping in Trail Tuesday to speak with hospital staff and elected officials.

A tour of Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital gave him a real snap-shot of what infrastructure improve-ments need to be made, with the hos-pital’s Sustainability Project submission still pending.

The plan puts emergency, ambula-tory care and pharmacy at the centre of an upgrade to the regional hospital with Poplar Ridge residents potentially mov-ing to allow for reconfiguration.

“I don’t know if that’s the final resting point when I walk through the hospital,” he said. “I think that’s a good start, but we have to get it approved.”

Mazurkewich, who was appointed CEO in October, just finished speaking

with elected officials, updating them on the plan, or rather lack of one at this time.

Trail Mayor Mike Martin was among the group that was expecting some guidelines from the Ministry of Health on moving the project forward to the next stage of planning. But instead he found that the plan was sent back to Interior Health (IH) for the health authority to investigate whether they could fund the $40-million facelift. The conclusion was that IH could not do it solely at this time since several other projects are in the pipeline.

“There was clear recognition on the part of Interior Health staff that the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital is desperately in need of upgrades to the ambulatory care, emergency and phar-macy areas,” said Martin.

He had meetings last year at the hos-pital board level but also more recently in Vancouver in the fall, when there was

no indication that this project was not moving forward.

“It is so important to our community, and we feel a little bit let down,” said Martin, who was assured that IH does consider the improvement a priority but how it’s approached is the question.

Mazurkewich indicated that improv-ing the culture of a hospital can often be tied to infrastructure improvements, which also is a tool when recruiting professionals.

A doctor shortage is on his radar, and he is following closely to see how nurse practitioners working in the Interior can help alleviate primary care pressure.

“We’re seeing that there has been a well-documented physician shortage, plus the lifestyle changes with physi-cians as well, and so we’re seeing that in a number of communities,” he said. “It’s not just unique to Trail; it’s not unique to the Kootenay Boundary.”

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Trail council approves bridge lighting project

“We want the lighting to be installed and tested before

Silver City Days and make the first lighting during Silver

City Days.”MAYOR MIKE MARTIN

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Joe Mather climbs the stairs of Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital with a tin of festive popcorn in hand.

Spreading cheer to those who cared for him before and during his kidney transplant is an annual climb up the stairs to the inten-sive care unit, a trip he

could only make via el-evator before.

He and an entourage of survivors, their loved ones and volunteers with BC Transplant took part in Operation Popcorn Monday, spreading cheer in the ICU, the emergency room and a stop in the renal unit, where they spent many afternoons buying time until they received “that call.”

This week marks the 24th year of BC Transplant’s Operation Popcorn, an annual tradition where trans-plant recipients thank the people who make it possible for them to re-ceive a life-saving organ transplant.

The delivery was more than a treat for those who spent many years fighting for their lives at the Trail hos-pital.

“I had been on dialy-sis for a year and a half, and certainly anybody who has been on di-alysis knows it’s not a great place to be,” said Mather.

“Fortunately, I was on peritoneal dialysis so I was able to do it at home and at night and that gave me a lot of freedom. Nonetheless, when I got the call to get to Vancouver it was scary but it just changed my life overnight.”

The Castlegar resi-dent received a new kidney over four years

ago, just before Karen Fontaine, who he has come to know well since.

“I couldn’t digest food at all — I was dying,” said the Trail woman. “My organs were slowly dying off, so I ended up on dialy-sis. I was on it for eight months, and I got told ‘this is it’ just before Christmas. Then I got the call on December 9.”

Fontaine received a new kidney and pan-creas and a second chance at life. She has since devoted her time to spreading the word of organ donation in hopes of encouraging others to give the gift of life.

To date, there have been 88 deceased donor cases at hospitals across the province that have provided the gift of life to 365 recipients.

Support for organ donation continues to increase as more British Colombians register

their decision on the organ donor registry that can be found at www.transplant.bc.ca. A recent partnership between BC Transplant and Service BC, allow-ing people to register at any of the 62 service locations, has led to a steady increase in regis-trations. So far this year, over 38,500 residents have registered their decision, bringing the total to about 961,300.

Trish Bosch, BC Transplant in-hospital coordinator for the Interior, said Operation Popcorn is a chance for caregivers to see their former patients living well.

Trail was only one of the teams across the province who visited 25 hospitals in B.C. and one in the Yukon.

“Somebody made that choice to give some-body else life and man you can’t even imagine the feeling that you get,” added Fontaine. “It’s a miracle.”

Organ recipients spread cheer with festive popcornOperation Popcorn is more than a

treat for those who’ve been given a second chance on life

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Kidney transplant recipient Joe Mather thanked staff of KBRH’s intensive care unit with a tin of popcorn. Mather was joined by other survivors and volunteers and staff with BC Transplant Monday during Operation Popcorn.

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The most vulnerable popula-tion of children and youth are again the centre of discussion at a board level since the school district has reinstated its at-risk committee.

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these through the allocation of CommunityLINKS funding.

The membership of the Children and Youth At-Risk Committee was downsized at the school board’s last regular meet-ing, where there was some back on forth on who should be in-volved in such sensitive, impor-tant discussion.

“There were probably 25 or 30 people who were invited to

those meetings (before) and after awhile not everybody was mak-ing it, so the thought was let’s scale down and invite people as we need them,” explained Darrel Ganzert, board chair.

Bill Ford, SD20’s assistant su-perintendent, reported that a new smaller group is back at the table holding focused meetings.

“In its previous format, the meetings were not very effec-

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“We’re always looking for peo-ple to engage with the school dis-trict, we can’t have it both ways,” he added.

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both came in well above budget, and unexpected costs could still surface.

“We don’t know if we are going to get any more surprises with the pedestrian bridge or library down the road,” she said.

“I just feel this is not the time to be spending money on some-thing I consider a real pretty. It’s the timing, if we had everything paid for and we were five or six years down the road and we have money to spend on the pretty (then maybe).”

The project is now shelf ready

and estimated to take about six weeks to complete during which time, lane closures will be re-quired.

So timing could still trip things up because the minis-try has further maintenance planned for the Victoria Street Bridge in 2016, including three joints that weren’t repaired dur-ing the fall’s structural work.

“As the Ministry of Transp or t at ion and Infrastructure (MOTI) will be doing maintenance on the bridge this spring, it was sug-gested by the MOTI that the bridge lighting installation and

MOTI’s spring maintenance work occur at the same time,” explained Andrea Jolly, Trail’s communications and events manager.

“In order to minimize lane closures. The city will need to work with the contractor to en-sure the timing works…this will be outlined in the Request for Proposal when it goes to tender.”

The Trail mayor went one step further during Monday night council.

“It is not hoped to have the bridge lighting for Silver City Days,” he said, smiling, “It will happen.”

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Installation hopefully timed with bridge work

What does stand out in Trail is the strong leadership by the family GPs and IH, he said, who’ve come together to help “dampen or mitigate” scenarios much like the pending closure of Selkirk Family Medicine, where many of the orphaned patients are finding a new clinic and family doctor due to col-laborative work in the medical community.

“I can’t solve it as the CEO; that’s my point,” he said, touch-ing on the changing landscape of the health-care system.

“It takes the community lead-ers, it takes community agen-cies, and it takes the physicians within a community,” he added.

“If we work together, we can come up with solutions.”

That’s where his job comes into play. He leads with an IH-wide scope but depends on the local people on the ground to come up with solutions for their hospital and community.

Following provincial guide-lines, he would like to alleviate pressure on the hospital by in-vesting in community programs like palliative care, home care, and mental health to treat pa-tients before they wind up in the emergency room.

“If you look at IH compared to other authorities, we spend the lowest percentage of our budget on mental health and substance abuse compared to other health authorities,” he said. “We know that we’re unde-serving that population …”

The Trail and Greater District

Detachment just presented its crime statistics to Trail council, noting an increase in “mental health act incidents” in the city up to 101 from 86 in the previ-ous year.

Mazurkewich said the health authority is creating an inter-nal plan that looks at how to improve health care service to mental health and substance users. But again this will change in each community served and has to get the go-ahead from the Ministry of Health.

He was joined by IH Board Chair Erwin Malzer on the tour that was a chance for Mazurkewich to reacquaint himself with sites in the area and hear firsthand what issue or success stories are happening locally.

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IRBID, Jordan - Mohammad Mnaahe, only a year old and not yet walking, crawls across the beige carpets in his family’s rented apartment about 30 kilometres from the Jordanian border with Syria.

As his brother Tamim sleeps on a yel-low and red mattress on the floor and another brother, Saif, is tucked in next to his father, Mohammad plays with a laminated plastic cer-tificate, oblivious to the value it holds for his family.

His parents, however, keep a close eye on it. To them, it represents their best hope of get-ting out of Jordan and to Canada - proof from the United Nations of their official status as refugees of the Syrian war.

Mohammad’s father, Mjdi, has been watch-ing for months as thou-sands of his fellow for-mer countrymen have fled Jordan and other countries in search of better lives.

“They are risking their lives through the sea to reach Europe,” he says. “But I get my chance from a phone call.”

The Mnaahe family have been in the UN database since the win-ter of 2013, when Mjdi, now 32, sent his wife and their two older sons away from their home village in the province of Daar’a because fight-ing between the Syrian regime and opposition forces was intensifying.

He’d meant to join them as soon as they were settled in Irbid, a town among those host-ing some of the esti-mated 680,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan.

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heavy shelling and a building nearby was hit, covering him in shrap-nel and soot.

He left the village the very next day, taking a car to the Jordanian border, where he was detained overnight - possibly for no other reason than the border guard didn’t like his beard, he says.

He’s since shaved it off, one of many chang-es his family’s been through since they’ve become refugees - in-cluding the arrival of their third son.

But gone is his job as a private taxi driver be-cause in Jordan he can’t get a driver’s license. Also gone are most of his family’s possessions as they left with little more than their clothes. Their apartment is sparse; carpets from the UN’s refugee agency comprise part of the furniture.

When they arrived, he says, they were given some advice from neighbours who’d been in Jordan as refugees for years: buy new things. He said no, there was no point. They were just going to be there a few months and had no money, so they bought a few used items.

Two years later and they still have very little money, and now-broken belongings they can’t afford to fix.

“We feel lost,” he says. “There is no fu-ture here.”

When word begin to spread through Syrian refugees in this town that Canada was going to be taking in many thousands - and quickly - he says something told him he might be among them.

And then, two weeks ago, the call came. Would they be in-terested in moving to Canada, the UN asked him, possibly as early as

the end of the year?He said yes, and last

week, was among 900 people called to the UN’s office building in Amman to have his file reviewed for pos-sible submission to the Canadian government program.

He was there eight hours, he says - case number 698 - and after two 15-minute inter-views, was told to await another call.

That one came too - on Dec. 10, his en-tire family will go to the new Canadian process-ing centre at a Jordanian military exhibition fa-cility to fill out more paperwork, have their fingerprints and other biometric information taken, be interviewed by Canadian officials, and get a medical check or an appointment for a future one.

Once all that’s done, they’ll wait again.

Canada is now ac-tively reviewing thou-sands of cases being handed over from the UN to select 15,000 Syrian refugees whose settlement and other costs will be directly ab-sorbed by taxpayers.

A further 10,000 will be admitted via the pri-vate sponsorship sys-tem, the full 25,000 ex-pected to be in Canada by the end of February.

Mjdi’s wife Wezzam, 26, is largely silent as her husband tells their story, often fingering the sleeve of the blue sweater she wears un-derneath a long black robe.

She’s asked how she feels about a move to Canada. What her hus-band says is best for them is what she thinks is best, she says. Having the boys learn English and grow up with a bet-ter education - “it will be good.”

Mnaahe says if his family isn’t accepted to Canada, they’ll have to find another option.

But if it does work out, he’s ready to leave as soon as possible. There’s nothing to pack, no one to whom he needs to say goodbye.

“We can go as we are.”

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Chateau Manor in East Trail is awash with all things Christmas, including a dancing and singing Santa. For a little afternoon fun on Saturday, Sarah Salgado showed some fancy footwork along with Ole Saint Nick.

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Governor General calls arrival of Syrian refugees a ‘defining moment’ for Canada

THE C ANADIAN PRESSOTTAWA - Gov. Gen. David Johnston issued

a rallying cry Tuesday for Canadians to welcome refugees who are fleeing the conflict in Syria, calling Canada’s response to the crisis a “defining moment” for the country.

Johnston hosted a forum on refugees that in-cluded federal, provincial and municipal political leaders as well as heads of business organizations and aid groups, aimed at better co-ordinating ef-forts to deal with the impending influx of 25,000 refugees.

“This is a defining moment for Canada, a de-fining moment for all of us,” Johnston told the gathering.

“And it’s even more than that. It’s an opportu-nity ... to re-imagine how we take care of the most marginalized and vulnerable among us.”

Immigration Minister John McCallum told a morning panel at the forum that he’s concerned the current level of enthusiasm among Canadians for bringing in refugees will be lost if governments and aid organizations don’t properly communi-cate.

“There’s nothing that will turn the momentum off more than if people want to help, and they get no answer at the other end of the phone or they don’t know who to phone,” said McCallum.

“There is a momentum today. Whether there will be two weeks from today is something we can’t take for granted, and we have to work on.”

McCallum said one thing that must be a prior-ity is ensuring that Canadians know where to turn when they are offering to help out.

Johnston said he hopes Canadians will extend a “warm welcome” to the many Syrian refugees who will be arriving by the end of February, calling the crisis both a challenge and an opportunity.

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“We need to take advantage of this opportunity, not only to take care of this crisis, but to make sure that, on an ongoing basis, that Canada is ready to react to the many crises that are happening ... across the world,” he said.


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The Kootenay Lake school district’s call-out system for sub-stitute teachers is causing anxi-ety, missed work and numerous other problems according to five people who spoke out against it at Tuesday night’s school board meet-ing.

“The abso-lute inefficiency is calamitous,” art teacher Shannon Lanaway said. “Most teachers I’ve talked to feel like we should go back to the old system. Teachers on call are losing uncount-able days of work, and they’re going to work not knowing what they’re teaching, or where, or when.”

Lanaway recently received a call while teaching at W.E. Graham in Slocan that requested she teach in Salmo 15 minutes later — though the commute is more like an hour and a half.

“This system doesn’t under-stand geography,” she said. “This situation is sucking the life and love out of the role of being a teacher, and I’m speaking as an employee of 12 years.”

Teacher Sara Simonet echoed Lanaway’s concerns, as did Nelson District Teachers’ Association president Paul Boscariol, teacher Kathy Couch and Creston Valley Teachers’ Association treasurer Doug Kunzelman.

Simonet noted she’s worked in places such as California and

Minnesota with bet-ter systems.

“You’re already filled with anxiety when you’re at a new school and have a new job, and then it’s something else if you have no idea where you’re sup-posed to go or what you’re supposed to do,” she said.

Simonet reported that she’s received

call-outs with almost no infor-mation in them, and inaccurate times and dates.

Kunzelman said the problem is affecting “our most vulnerable teachers.”

“They can’t live on cancella-tions. They can’t live on a [teach-er on call] salary, so they have other jobs. This affects more than just their [teacher on call] work. I think it’s important for the trustees to hear this.”

Boscariol said the district is

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According to Boscariol, the district is “disenfranchising a good portion of the teaching population.” They also haven’t been invited to participate in non-instructional days to learn about the new curriculum.

He encouraged the board to petition the education ministry for more funding.

“We’re urging the board to connect with other school boards and to press the ministry to loosen the purse strings to provide funding for all teachers to participate in the outlay of this K-9 curriculum.”

Board chair Lenora Trenaman told those who spoke that they’re “well aware” of the situation but little could be done.

“We can visit this again,” she said.

Superintendent Jeff Jones en-couraged the teachers to meet and talk directly with support staff.

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The flume rehab project, which was scheduled to be finished by the end of October, is now look-ing at an end of December finish.

Further to that delay, the contractor, CopCan, has submitted a letter to city hall detailing delay costs of $187,019.

Earlier this month, City CAO Scott Sommerville said that the City was not inclined to pay those costs.

The City has opted to go to the negotiation process outlined in the Phase II contract to settle the request for additional funds.

Earlier this year, when there was a danger of the project not proceeding, a price of $2,882,560 was negotiated with the contractor for the com-pletion of the flume rehab.

The latest update on flume work was delivered to Council at their regular meeting on Nov. 23.

The report noted that the upstream side of the project was done except for the water still being on bypass, which will remain in place until the downstream side is finished as well.

Downstream the drop structure (waterfall) and the work on the Wallinger Pond is complete The existing concrete flume structure has been removed and the new concrete flume work is un-derway. Concrete for that was poured last week.

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Rossland held a candlelight climate vigil attended by 200 people complete with speakers, music and a peti-tion to leaders to address climate change and transition to renewable energy before the start of the Paris UN climate summit. The group was part over 900 people in the communities of Rossland, Castlegar and Nelson that held climate rallies on Sunday. The event was organized by the West Kootenay EcoSociety.

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Oliver Tickell, web-site editor of the British magazine The Ecologist, wondered

whether the ISIS attacks in Paris were motivated by a desire to un-dermine the UN climate summit opening next week, the 21st in the series of Conferences of Parties meetings - COP21 for short.

Reducing oil production, one of the goals of COP21, would not serve the interests of ISIS “which makes $500 million a year from oil sales - together with other oil producers.” In short, “is ISIS Inc. defending its corporate interest?” Or, more boldly, does a “coinci-dence of interests” mean that ISIS is just doing the dirty wet-work for OPEC? Tickell was concerned that world leaders might be “dis-tracted from questions of climate” and waste time discussing terror-ism instead.

Tickell may be an obsessed cli-mate alarmist, but he is not alone.

American economist Paul Krugman raised the same issue in the pages of The New York Times. He even quoted alarmist-in-chief Barack Obama, according to whom climate change, not terror-ism, is “the greatest threat” to hu-

manity. Apparently the president has said so on 23 occa-sions.

COP21 also de-scribes itself with apocalyptic superla-tives.

This event, we are informed, is the “last chance” for nations to act on global warming. It is the “last effective opportunity” to pro-tect “the poor and the vulnerable” from climate change “that gravely endangers their lives.”

Ever since COP6 in Bonn in 2001 there have been nearly a dozen announcements that this year, whatever year it happened to be, was the last chance.

Some perspective on what’s going on here comes, interest-ingly enough, from ISIS, another purveyor of an apocalyptic ideol-ogy. Its version holds that, after suffering great losses, led by the prophet Isa (Arabic for Jesus) ISIS will defeat the Crusaders at Dabiq, in Syria, and conquer the world.

By this logic the attacks in Paris were designed to provoke the

French to declare war, which they did, and thus bring about the end times sooner.

For those long-ing to do God’s work, right now, right here, the ap-peal of apocalyptic messages is great. The early battle-field success of ISIS added to its appeal. If the end is nigh,

it hardly matters if infidels accuse you of terrorism and atrocity.

Such an understanding requires believers to ignore the common-sense reality that the rest of hu-manity grasps.

It may be exciting for marginal-ized persons to find meaning in the slaughter of infidels but even-tually the infidels respond. In the French example, turning the ISIS “capital,” Raqqa, into rubble was the result.

This is obviously not the end of ISIS but it certainly made their real life, as distinct from their apocalyptic fantasies, more dif-ficult.

Examples of other apocalyptic

movements, from the European middle ages to the present, show the same pattern. Dramatic ex-citement is followed by painful disillusionment because the struc-ture of reality does not conform to apocalyptic expectations.

Which brings us back to COP21 and the latest last chance for hu-manity.

Here, reality is even more in contradiction to the fantasies of the alarmists. Since February, 1997, about a third of human influence on climate since the in-dustrial revolution has occurred.

For the past 225 months, for 18 years and nine months, no change has occurred in monthly global mean surface temperature.

The notorious Pause goes on. And it goes on no matter what the delegates to COP21, or the computer models programmed to run hot, say.

So there is a connection be-tween the ISIS attack on Paris and COP21, but it is not what Tickell and the alarmists think. Both are characterized by the non-recogni-tion of reality.

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The key fact is that the Russian plane, by Turkey’s own admis-sion, was in Turkish air-

space for precisely seventeen sec-onds. That’s a little less time than it takes to read this paragraph aloud. The Turks shot it down anyway – and their allies publicly backed them, as loyal allies must.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg declared: “We stand in solidarity with Turkey and support the territorial integri-ty of our NATO ally, Turkey.” President Barack Obama called his Turkish coun-terpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to assure him that the United States supported Turkey’s right to defend its sover-eignty. But pri-vately, they must have been cursing Erdogan. They know what he’s up to.

This is the first time in more than fifty years that a NATO plane has shot down a Russian plane, and it happened in very suspicious circumstances.

Even if Turkish radar data is to be believed, the two Russian SU-24s only crossed the bottom of a very narrow appendix of Turkish territory that dangles down into Syria. As Russian President Vladimir Putin said: “Our pilots, planes did not threaten Turkish territory in any way. ” What harm could they have done in seventeen seconds?

Moreover, the two Turkish F-16s that brought one of the Russian planes down had only seventeen seconds to get into position to fire their air-to-air missiles over Turkish territory. It would have been hard to do, in that confined space, without crossing into Syrian territory themselves.

According to the Russian radar data, it was the Turkish planes that crossed into Syrian territory. In this version of the story, the Russian planes were following a well-established

route just south of the Turkish border, probably turning into a bomb run against Syrian rebels in Latakia province. How strange that there was a Turkish TV crew in northern Syria, positioned just right to film the incident. (The Russsian plane crashed 4 km. inside Syria.)

Either way, it seems quite clear that President Erdogan really wanted to shoot down a Russian aircraft, and that the Turkish pi-lots were under orders to do so if they could find even the slightest pretext. So why would Erdogan

want to do that?President Putin

said bitterly that Erdogan and his colleagues were “accomplices of terrorists”. That’s hard to deny: Erdogan is so eager to see Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad over-thrown that he left the Turkish-Syrian border

open for four years so that re-cruits and supplies could reach the Syrian rebel groups, notably including Islamic State (IS).

Putin also observed that “We have long been recording the movement of a large amount of oil and petroleum products to Turkey from IS-occupied territo-ries. This explains the significant funding the terrorists are receiv-ing.”

Black-market oil is Islamic State’s largest source of revenue, and almost all of it goes to Turkey – which could not happen with-out the Turkish government’s ac-tive connivance. And when the Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda’s affili-ate in Syria, was driving Assad’s forces back in northwestern Syria last spring, Turkey jammed the Syrian army’s telecommunica-tions to help the rebels win.

Erdogan is utterly determined that Assad must go, and he doesn’t really care if Assad’s suc-cessors are Islamist extremists. But he also wants to ensure that there is no new Kurdish state on Turkey’s southern border.

That is a problem for him, be-cause that state already exists in embryo. It is called Rojava, a ter-ritory that the Syrian Kurds have carved out in the far north of the country along the Turkish bor-der, mainly by fighting Islamic State. Indeed, the Syrian Kurds are the US-led coalition’s only ef-fective ally on the ground against IS.

When Erdogan committed the Turkish air force to the Syrian war in July, he explained it to the United States as a decision to fight against Islamic State, but in fact Turkey has made only a token handful of strikes against IS. Almost all Erdogan’s bombs have actually fallen on the Turkish Kurds of the PKK (who had been observing a ceasefire with the Turkish government for the past four years), and above all on the Syrian Kurds

Erdogan has two goals: to en-sure the destruction of Assad’s regime, and to prevent the cre-ation of a new Kurdish state in Syria. He was making some progress on both objectives – and then along came the Russians in September and saved the Syrian army from defeat, at least for the moment.

Worse yet, Putin’s strategy turns out to quite pragmatic, and even rather attractive to the United States despite all the ritual anti-Russian propaganda emitted by Washington. Putin wants a ceasefire in Syria that will leave everybody where they are now – except Islamic State, which they can all then concentrate on de-stroying.

This strategy is now making some headway in the Vienna ceasefire talks, but it is utterly abhorrent to Erdogan because it would leave Assad in power in Damascus, and give the Syrian Kurds time to consolidate their new state. How can he derail this Russian-led project?

Well, he could shoot down a Russian plane, and try to get a confrontation going between Russia and NATO.

Gwynne Dyer is an indepen-dent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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The Beaver Valley Skating Club (BVSC) held its annu-al lap-a-thon and simulated competition at the Beaver Valley Arena on Friday.

Close to 50 young skaters circled the ice doing lap after lap to raise funds for the club, which has seen its numbers grow again this year.

Following the lap-a-thon, Star skaters participated in the simulated competition under the watchful eye of coach Liz Iannone and local judges to prepare for the West Kootenay Invitational figure skating competition in Castlegar this weekend.

The simulation will see beginner and novice figure skaters perform the various elements with the evaluators offering constructive advice on how to improve each skate.

The scenario has also prov-en a good way to get rid of the pre-skate jitters, and to make sure skaters are familiar with protocol and ready when it comes time to perform.

Skaters will compete in free-skate, interpretive, elements, and dance at the Castlegar Rec Complex at the event, which starts Friday and goes until Sunday. Over 100 skaters are expected to compete from B.V., Castlegar, Rossland, Invermere, Cranbrook, Elkford, Fernie, Kimberley, Sparwood, and Vernon.

The BVSC is also get-ting primed for its special Christmas performance called “Once Upon a December.” Show time will be Friday, Dec. 18, 5:30 to 7 p.m. Admission is $5, children under five are free.

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The Beaver Valley Skating Club had close to 50 of its skaters participate in its annual fundraiser and lap-a-thon on Friday at the Beaver Valley Arena, followed by a simulated competition to prepare for the upcoming West Kootenay Invitational skating competition in Castlegar this weekend.

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Junior Hockey’s Dec. 1 deadline for carded players came and went with little activity, but the Trail Smoke Eaters did make one move on Monday acquiring former Vernon Viper forward Blaine Caton.

The 18-year-old Vernon native played eight games with the North Okanagan Knights of the Kootenay International Hockey League to start the season, then moved on to the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League’s Humboldt Broncos where he played just four games due to injury and registered an assist.

“He’s an all around solid, good two-way centerman,” said Smoke Eater coach Nick Deschenes. “He played a limited role last season with Vernon as a 17-year-old … and we’ve been looking for that 13th forward here for a little while, and I think he’s going to be a good fit.”

Caton played in 48 games with the Vipers last season, tallying four goals and eight points. He played in 44 games as a 16-year-old forward with the Knights in 2013-14 collecting 24 points in his first year of junior.

“He’s a ‘97 so there’s still lots of room for him to develop and grow his game,” added Deschenes.

BCHL teams are allowed to carry 35 cards to start the season, but the number must be reduced to 30 on Oct. 1, with the Dec. 1 deadline requiring teams to pare down to 25. The Smoke Eaters are set now with Caton filling out their 22-man roster.

“Unless it’s a major upgrade for us, I don’t think we’ll be moving any players for the sake of moving them.”

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now focusing on their next swim meet in Kelowna in January where swimmers hope to qualify for either the AAA or AA Provincial Swim Championships.

Anyone interested in joining the TRAX Swim Club please email: [email protected]

TRAX SWIMMING BY TIMES STAFFLocal Trail players and former Smoke Eaters led

their teams to victories in NCAA Division 1 hockey on the weekend.

Fifteen games into the season and the Quinnipiac University Bobcats have yet to lose. Quinnipiac swept a home-and-home series with the University of Massachusetts to push its record to 13-0-2 with Trail native and former Smoke Eater Scott Davidson scoring the only goal for the Bobcats in a 1-0 vic-tory over the University of Massachusetts (UM) on Saturday in ECAC division hockey. Davidson has three goals and five points in 14 games in his fresh-man year with the Cats.

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The day before, Trail’s Travis St. Denis con-tributed two helpers in a 4-1 victory over UM. St. Denis is second in Quinnipiac scoring with eight goals and 16 points, while Trail’s Craig Martin has two assists in seven games for the Bobcats which lead their division and are ranked Number 3 in the nation.

The 15 game unbeaten streak is the longest since 2012-13 when Montrose natives Connor and Kellen Jones led the Bobcats to 21 straight games without a loss, and a spot in the NCAA champion-ship final.

Meanwhile, at Michigan Tech Trail’s Jake Lucchini and former Smoke Eater Brent Baltus helped the 17th ranked Huskies to a pair of wins over the University of Alaska Aces on the weekend in WCHA action. On Friday, Lucchini set up the winning goal in a 4-1 victory over Alaska, while Baltus netted his fourth of the season in a 3-1 vic-tory on Saturday. Lucchini, a freshman, has one goal and four assists for the 9-4-1 Huskies, while Baltus, in his junior year, is 4-2-6.


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Quinnipiac unbeaten

Santa Claus coming to town

BY TIMES CORRESPONDENTIt was another week of exciting games in

the Kootenay Savings Super League. With Deanne Horning away, regular

third Brittany Horbul, with help from sister Leanne Palmer sparing, stepped up to skip Corvus Construction against Team Heather Nichol.

Team Nichol got on the board with a two in the first, but Corvus roared back with three straight deuces to take the early 6-2 lead. Skip Heather made a delicate come-around tap for three in the fifth to close the gap. Then after each team scored singles, Nichol stole the eighth to tie the game.

Corvus was forced to take one in the ninth, then watched as Nichols draw in the 10th to tie racked on a guard, allowing

Corvus to escape with a 9-7 win. Team Umpherville faced off against

Team Fines. Skip Ken made an open hit for three in the fourth to grab a 4-3 lead. The game was tied at 5 after seven ends when the pendulum swung in Umphervilles fa-vour.

Fines last rock in the eighth over-curled, leaving skip Justin a free draw for three, then a Fines double raise attempt in the ninth under curled, giving Umpherville a steal of two and a 10-5 win.

Team Bill vanYzerloo was up against an undermanned Team Darrom Albo, as Skip Darrin and third Dennis were out of town. Regular second Courtney Schmidt took over the reigns, and didn’t look out of place after a perfect come around tap for three in the third tied the game. The teams traded

singles before one end did in Team Albo. Staring at four buried van Yzerloo stones in the sixth, Courtney attempted a long double raise that over-curled, followed by Dutchy just kicking away his last stone, as there was no way into the house.

Courtney made a nice draw for two in the eighth after van Yzerloo had stolen the seventh, but had had enough, giving VanYzerloo a 10-6 win.

Team Myron Nichol and Team Beauchamp played a classic game to start, forcing each other to take singles in the first four ends. The fifth was a nightmare for Beauchamp, as Nichol stole a huge 5, then things went from bad to worse as Nichol stole the sixth and seventh ends also, for a tale of two different games and a unforseen 11-2 drubbing.

Horbul skips Corvus to close win over Nichol

THE C ANADIAN PRESSOTTAWA - Curling Canada

has followed the lead of the World Curling Federation in banning controversial broom heads for the 2015-16 season.

Olympic gold medallists Brad Jacobs, Brad Gushue, Jennifer Jones and former world cham-pion Glenn Howard were among 50 Canadian and international teams who signed a statement in October, saying their teams will not sweep with broom heads that have “directional fabric.”

Coarse material on the broom heads creates a sandpaper effect on the ice, and with it sweep-ers have been able to manipulate the rock’s trajectory in ways they never could before.

Fearing that throwing accu-racy and athleticism would be diminished, the curlers said they want to protect “the integrity of the game” in refusing to use the brush heads.

The athletes’ decision to po-lice themselves had the sport’s governing bodies scrambling to come up with policies and guide-lines for brush head technology.

The WCF instituted an in-terim moratorium on the

broom heads at the Pacific-Asia Championships earlier this month and then extended the ban to all events this season.

Curling Canada followed suit by announcing Friday the same ban at domestic curling cham-pionships, including the Canada Cup of Curling which opens Wednesday in Grand Prairie, Alta.

Only brushes and brush heads sold retail to the public will be allowed on the ice and they can’t be modified by the curler.

Brush head fabric embossed, sealed, textured or modified from its original woven form is not allowed, and neither is plas-tic, fibreglass, wood or Teflon inserts between the outer fabric and internal cushioning in the broom head.

“If a player is found to be using a brush that is not allowed on the field of play under this moratorium, the offending team will forfeit that game,” Curling Canada said in statement Friday.

Curling Canada won’t require enforcement on inserts at provin-cial and territorial playdowns “if the competition in question does not have access to an appropri-

Curling Canada scuttles controversial broom headsSCOREBOARD

HockeyBCHL StandingsAll Times Pacific

(Not including Tuesday games)Interior Division

G W L T OL PtPenticton 28 26 2 0 0 52Salmon Arm 27 18 6 2 1 39West Kelowna 28 16 10 0 2 34Vernon 30 13 15 0 2 28Trail 27 11 16 0 0 22Merritt 30 9 19 0 2 20

Island Division G W L T OL PtNanaimo 28 17 10 0 1 35Powell River 27 16 10 0 1 33Cowichan 28 14 10 1 3 32Victoria 30 11 16 0 3 25Alberni Valley 27 10 15 1 1 22

Mainland Division G W L T OL PtChilliwack 27 18 6 1 2 39Wenatchee 28 16 8 2 2 36Langley 29 17 12 0 0 34Coquitlam 27 11 12 1 3 26Prince George 30 7 21 0 2 16Surrey 27 5 22 0 0 10

Tuesday’s results (Unavailable)Nanaimo at Victoria, 7 p.m.

Trail at West Kelowna, 7 p.m.Today’s games

Vernon at Coquitlam, 7 p.m. Merritt at Penticton, 7 p.m.

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

Surrey at Wenatchee, 7:05 p.m.

FootballNational Football League

StandingsAMERICAN CONFERENCE

East W L T PctNew England 10 1 0 0.909

N.Y. Jets 6 5 0 0.545Buffalo 5 6 0 0.455Miami 4 7 0 0.364

South W L T PctIndianapolis 6 5 0 0.545Houston 6 5 0 0.545Jacksonville 4 7 0 0.364Tennessee 2 9 0 0.182

North W L T PctCincinnati 9 2 0 0.818Pittsburgh 6 5 0 0.545Baltimore 4 7 0 0.364Cleveland 2 9 0 0.182

West W L T PctDenver 9 2 0 0.818Kansas City 6 5 0 0.545Oakland 5 6 0 0.455San Diego 3 8 0 0.273

NATIONAL CONFERENCEEast

W L T PctWashington 5 6 0 0.455N.Y. Giants 5 6 0 0.455Philadelphia 4 7 0 0.364Dallas 3 8 0 0.273

South W L T PctCarolina 11 0 0 1Atlanta 6 5 0 0.545Tampa Bay 5 6 0 0.455New Orleans 4 7 0 0.364

North W L T PctMinnesota 8 3 0 0.727Green Bay 7 4 0 0.636Chicago 5 6 0 0.455Detroit 4 7 0 0.364

West W L T PctArizona 9 2 0 0.818Seattle 6 5 0 0.545St. Louis 4 7 0 0.364San Francisco 3 8 0 0.273

Breakfast with Santa is served on Saturday from 9-11 a.m. at the Fruitvale Memorial Hall. Bring the kids for pictures with Santa and enjoy a pancake, egg, and sausage breakfast cooked by the Fruitvale Firemen and served by the Beaver Valley Nitehawks. Small breakfast $3 and large breakfast $5. All proceeds will be donated to the Fruitvale Community Chest to help with Food Hampers in the Valley.

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Christmas Class for Cooking without Mom (ages 9-14) is on Tuesday, Dec. 8 from 2:45-4:45 p.m. at Fruitvale Hall Kitchen. Cost is $27.

Kids Time with Sticks and Pucks for children aged 3-8. Nets and pucks are provided. Helmet is required. Toonie drop in at skate shop. Time is 6-6:45 p.m. on Dec. 11 (before Friday Nitehawk game) and 6:30-7:30 p.m. on Sundays Dec. 6, 13, 20 and 1:30-2:30 p.m. on Dec. 21, 22, 23, 31.

Birthday Parties can be booked during any pub-lic skating session for $50. Cost includes up to 12 kids ($2.50 for each additional child), skate rentals, birthday party room and insurance.

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TODAY’S CROSSWORD

LEISURE

Dear Annie: Please help settle a dispute between my wife and me. I have been an avid golf player for the past 20 years. After every Sunday game, I come home and wash the golf balls in the kitchen sink. We live in a very modest house, and other than the bath-room, the kitchen has the only other sink.

I refuse to wash my golf balls in the bathroom because I use the same sink to brush my teeth. For what feels like forever now, my wife has argued that the kitchen is no place to wash things from the out-side world. While I understand that it may not be the most ideal place, it is really the only option I have.

My wife has now reached the point where she doesn’t even want me to play golf on Sunday any-more. I really love golfing and would hate to see it come to this. How should I approach this with my wife? -- Between a Golf Ball and a Hard Place

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don’t belong in the kitchen sink. You may object to washing them where you brush your teeth, but it’s hardly an improvement to wash them where you prepare your food.

If you want to con-tinue golfing without annoying your wife, we recommend a compro-mise. Many golf courses have ball-cleaning ma-chines. If so, use them. If not, when you get home, soak them in a bucket of hot water. (A golfer we know first throws in a tablet of denture cleaner to really get the grit out.) It’s a small inconvenience to you, and it will make your wife happy.

Dear Annie: I’ve been travel-ing a lot, but now I’m home for a couple of months. Right before I left for my last trip, I met “Alec” and we clicked immediately. The problem is, we come from very dif-ferent cultures and are looking for

different things from a relationship. Alec also is dealing with various personal issues that I don’t want to take on.

Since I’ve been home, I’ve seen Alec twice. I know I’m lead-ing him on, but self-ishly I don’t want to stop seeing him. We always have such an amazing time together. I’ve never had this sort of relationship.

Should I just go with it and enjoy a new and

exciting experience, or should I put an end to our budding relationship before one of us gets hurt? -- On the Fence

Dear Fence: As long as you are honest, you are not leading him on. Make sure Alec knows that you don’t anticipate the relationship lasting for the long haul. That way, if he still wants to continue see-ing you, it’s up to him. You cannot avoid someone getting hurt in spite

of your upfront warnings. But keep in mind that some of

the most unexpected relationships can turn into long-term, loving commitments. If the things that are “amazing” with Alec include good conversations, shared values, a similar sense of humor, warmth

and affection, they could make up for cultural differences and other issues. Only time will tell.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to [email protected].

SOLUTION FOR PREVIOUS SUDOKU

Sudoku is a number-placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with several

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TODAY’S SUDOKU

Use ball cleaner at golf course, not kitchen sink

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• Trail Indoor Winter Market, 900 Spokane StNoon - 4pm, hosted by the Trail & District Chamber of Commerce. Additional markets Sat, Dec 12th & Sat, Dec 19th

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A division of

This was a hand that occurred at the Rookie Master game

on the fifth Thursday evening of October.

The bidding: South opens his two-suited hand, One Heart. North

bids her four-card Spade suit and South rebids Two Clubs. North could bid Two Notrump showing 10 to 12 HCP’s and stop-pers in the unbid suit. However, that would promise two Hearts,

and she does not have any holdings to protect on the opening lead.

B e c a u s e of the Heart misfit, North should pro-

ceed with cau-tion. If North bids Two No Trump, South will rebid Three Hearts say-ing, “I know you have a doubleton so

let’s play it here. In No Trump, the Heart suit is next to useless. At least in Three Hearts, South will likely get a couple of Diamond ruffs and the defenders will real-ize too late that they should draw trump.

When South rebids

Two Clubs, he wants to hear North take a pick between his two suits and not run to No Trump because of a misfit. No Trump is difficult to play with a misfit, and Three No Trump will likely need at least 27 HCP’s to make with misfits.

North cannot rebid Two No Trump with a stiff Heart and can show her 11 HCP’s with a raise to Three Clubs. South passes.

The Play: West has a natural lead of the Diamond Queen.

Some players live and die by the expres-sion: “See finesse, take finesse.” That is not al-ways a correct strategy. Declarer will cash the top two Diamonds and ruff a Diamond. He will cash the top two Clubs and notice that the Nine in dummy becomes a

top Club. He plays to the Spade Ace and ruffs the last Diamond, cash-es the Spade King and loses a Heart.

Dummy will ruff the second round of Hearts and draw the last trump with the 9. Declarer will make ten tricks los-ing one Heart and two Spades.

Notes: A less desir-able alternate line of play is to never draw trump and cross-ruff the hand losing a Heart and two or three Clubs.

A Spade opening lead will allow 11 tricks to be made.

Mexico, not no-trump, is a good destination

WARREN WATSON

Play Bridge

Nov. 191/2 Jean Fischer and Glor ia Hopland / Dot Dore and Bert PengellyNov. 181. Mollie Palmason and Mary Forrest2. Ross Bates and Warren Watson3. Gloria Hopland and Jean Paolone4. Myrna Baulne and Donna WiwcharNov. 121. Ross Bates and Warren Watson2. Sara Oakley and Roxy Piette3 . Jack and Mar y Hamann

4. Jean Fischer and Stan GreenwoodNov. 51. Ross Bates and Warren Watson2. Jean Fischer and Gloria Hopland3. Rosalie Howard and Bert van DelftNov. 41. Roxy Piette and Sara Oakley2. Mar y and Jack Hamann3. Dot Dore and Ross Bates4. Jean Fischer and Howie Ross5. Pat Davidoff and Warren Watson

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Trail Daily Times, December 02, 2015