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Revenue generated by the Trail Municipal Airport has increased 44.1 per cent from last year even as the future of funding for expansion of the facility remains in question.

A report on the summary of current airport operations by man-ager Bryan Teasdale to the East End Services committee revealed an increase of almost $53,000 in revenue as of the end of September, up to $131,985 for the year.

Teasdale said the revenue was derived from a 35.4 per cent increase in ridership through the airport’s lone commercial carrier, Pacific Coastal.

That money will factor into the status quo budget that was recently requested for the service as man-agement with the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary awaits what, if any, directives will come forth in wake of the recently aborted airport facilities review.

“We did a status quo budget as a placeholder to maintain service lev-els and the tax requisition, but that could change based on the results of the service review,” Teasdale said.

On Nov. 22 the stakeholders in the service— including Rossland,

Trail, Montrose, Fruitvale and regional district areas A and B—voted unanimously to not remove anyone from the service, shut-ting down the process of a service review.

A service review was requested in the letter from Trail council solicit-ing the desire of the participants to remain in the service, as well as gauging support for future service enhancements to the facility.

However, Trail councillor Robert Cacchioni—who represents Trail on the committee—said, although no one expressed any interest in leaving the service, the question remained at what level of invest-ment were they willing to stay at.

“Yes, there is support for the airport, but it is at a very minimal rate,” he said. “And it does not appear from the discussion at the meeting we have a very committed group to move ahead with airport expansion.”

But the committee will eventu-ally have to make some hard deci-sions on expansion at the airport. Teasdale said the increase in rider-ship is coming at some cost as it is putting stress on the facility’s infrastructure.

There is a growing need for a new terminal building, he said, and either runway paving or expansion and paving of the existing stopways for aircraft.

See RUNWAY, Page 3

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

Hiking and cycling enthusiasts wanting to explore the woodlands around Trail had reason to cele-brate as the Kootenay Columbia Trails Society opened a new sec-tion of trail above Sunningdale this past Saturday.

The new trail, which will even-tually link the Sunningdale sec-tion with the Society’s Bluffs trail and Miral Heights trail overlooking Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital, is the first part of a two-year project providing a safe, high-level route that will

eventually cross approximately five kilometres of mountain terrain.

The trail access is on the water tower hill in upper Sunningdale. At this point the trail head is half-way up the hill at the hairpin cor-ner but will eventually be moved to the bottom of the hill where it meets Marianna Crescent.

At the trail opening ceremony, KCTS Director, Hal Harrison, thanked the LeRoi Community Foundation President Adam Monteith for the Foundation’s role as primary funder for this project.

See TRAIL, Page 2

Society opens new trail section

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Ashley Escott was busy getting the rack of skis ready in the Red Sports Rental Shop at Red Mountain Resort. Officials at the local resort confirmed on Wednesday that the ski lifts will be running on Saturday to launch the 2012-13 season. The Motherlode, Silverlode and Paradise chairs will be in operation allowing skiers to access the 140cm of alpine snow depth waiting to be carved up.

GET THOSE SKIS READYAirport revenue soars in 2012

However, more ridership putting stress on

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FROM PAGE 1“On behalf of the

KCTS, the commun-ity, and the fast-grow-ing number of trail users, I’d like to thank Adam and the LeRoi board for their gener-osity and vision,” said Harrison.

Monteith, already a frequent user of the Sunningdale trail, described his attrac-

tion to the new route.“It’s a great way to

get different views of the area you wouldn’t normally see, all up and down the valley, looking out over the city,” Monteith said. “The number of people on the trail at any one time is amazing and it’s just opened.

The new trail, which was also par-

tially funded by the Columbia Basin Trust’s Community Initiatives Program, gives users a chance to explore more aspects of the Columbia Valley and surrounding moun-tains and compliments the existing trail sys-tem surrounding Rossland.

“These trails pro-vide a different wood-land experience than the Rossland system, you get longer sight-lines and more of a transitional forest area, as opposed to Rossland’s sub-alpine coniferous forest,” said Harrison. “And the lower altitude means

these trails are clear sometimes five weeks earlier in the spring.”

Although there are any number of small walking paths in the Greater Trail area, the KCTS trails are by necessity taken much more seriously than your run-of-the-mill backwoods deer trail.

The trails are required to have land access agreements in place with property owners, in the case of the Sunningdale trail Teck Ltd., and have to be insured before they are opened for public use.

All the trails must be maintained on an

ongoing basis as well to make sure they can be used safely.

“These trails have to be built to a high-er standard,” said Harrison. “They have to stand up to heavy use and some of the extreme weather events we sometimes see in our area.”

As with all KCTS trails the new Sunningdale trail is designated for non-motorized use only.

“We aren’t trying to exclude anybody,” explained Harrison.

“But these trails wouldn’t stand up to motorized use. The construction and insurance costs would be vastly higher and we just can’t afford it.”

And there is a defin-ite indication that the trails around the valley are seeing considerable traffic.

The Society placed a mechanical counter on the Miral Heights trail that was capable of reading passing cycles. In a one-week period early last spring the counter registered over five hundred pass-es on the trail.

PHOTO BY ART HARRISON

L e R o i F o u n d a t i o n Chair, Adam M o n t e i t h , r e c e i v i n g thanks from KCTS Vice President, Hal Harrison, at the trail dedication with a num-ber of hiking enthusiasts.

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• Tonight, Rossland Sacred Heart Church will be hosting its Annual Advent Music Celebration at 7 p.m. Everyone is welcome to enjoy music and meditation. Hot Chocolate and cookies will follow in the Parish Hall.

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• Saturday, Warfield Community Hall, Pancake and Sausage Breakfast from 9-11 a.m. with Santa arriving about 10 a.m. Everyone welcome to enjoy holiday crafts, cookie deco-rating and more. For more infor-mation, call the Village Office 368-8202.

•Saturday, Fruitvale Memorial Hall, Pancake and sausage break-fast, and pictures with Santa from 9-11a.m. Small breakfast $3 and large breakfast $5. All proceeds donated to the Fruitvale Community Chest Food Hamper program. For more info, please call Kelly at 367-9319.

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Sherrie Brown at 368-5314•Sunday, The Village of

Warfield will be hosting their annual Senior Tea at the Warfield Community Hall from 1–3 p.m. Refreshments, entertain-ment and fun! The event is open to Warfield residents aged 55 or older. If you have lived in the Village for 50-years or more, we would like to recognize you with our special 50-year pin. Call the Village Office at 250-368-8202.

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•Annual Rotary Club of Trail Carolfest at Charles Bailey Theatre on Dec 12 at 7 p.m. Trail Maple Leaf Band begins at 7 p.m. Choir begins at 7:30 p.m. Six choirs will be performing. Admission by donation of an item for the food bank.

On December 12 at 7 p.m. at the Trail United Church there will be a free event called Getting To Know Dementia. This intro-ductory session reviews informa-tion about Alzheimer?s disease and other dementias, and the challenges of receiving a diagno-sis. Participants will learn about the different types of support

available throughout the demen-tia journey, and how to begin planning for the future. People with a diagnosis of dementia, care partners and family mem-bers are all invited to attend.

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FROM PAGE 1“Our main concern is for the terminal

building, and just how busy it is and how packed it is in the winter time,” Teasdale said.

The Trail Flying Club is also seeing some “pressures” on their end having to maintain the building.

Cacchioni said the city is still in favour of moving ahead with the airport in terms of its master plan and expanding, disregarding the advice of the Airport Economic Assessment Report handed down in October.

“(The report) recommends a more cautious approach and we don’t believe that to be true,” he said. “We support the airport master plan that was developed.”

RDKB chief administrative officer John MacLean said the economic assessment report did not factor into the decision by the com-mittee members on Nov. 22. The respective members did not want to withdraw from any part of the service nor did they want to make any changes.

“So it’s full speed ahead but it’s full speed ahead with the participants taking a look at the two reports we have: the master plan and the economic impact analysis,” he said.

The committee will now have to make some determination as to where they want to invest funds and at what level.

However, the results of the economic assessment stated future decisions of expan-sion at the airport should be balanced with the minimal economic impact the airport holds.

For Cacchioni, the next battleground will be over the runway.

“We’re just hoping the expanded scope of paving that was turned down earlier we will be able to go ahead with ... when (the Department of Highways) does Highway 22 in April.”

Runway paving next on wish list

B y T i m o T h y S c h a f e rTimes Staff

A handful of Greater Trail BC Hydro employ-ees could have a new contract this year after being without one since April.

On Monday the Canadian Office and Professional Employees Union, Local 378 (COPE378) and BC Hydro announced they reached a tentative agreement that includes wage increases and an increase to benefits.

The agreement is subject to ratification by COPE 378’s members—including three Trail-based employees and 12 in Castlegar—with BC Hydro. Trail service is covered by FortisBC.

The tentative agreement contains an overall four per cent wage lift, staggered throughout the two years of the collective agreement. The col-lective agreement covers April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2014. The union’s bargaining committee is recommending ratification to its members.

Highlights of the tentative agreement also include benefit increases such as expansion of immediate family to bereavement language and favourable changes to length of service

The ratification vote will be held by mail-in ballot.

COPE 378 represents nearly 2,000 inside technical, professional and administrative work-ers at BC Hydro. The union and the employer have been bargaining since April 2012.

On Monday COPE 378 also announced the Insurance Corporation of BC—including employees at the Trail Claims Centre—ratified a four-year agreement with the Corporation.

The previous agreement expired March 31, 2010. The new agreement will cover June 1, 2010 to June 30, 2014. Wage increases are one per cent annually for the life of the contract.

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VICTORIA – The partners in the Burns Lake sawmill destroyed in a fatal fire in January have accepted the conditions for rebuilding the mill.

To the community’s relief, the announce-ment comes despite last week’s decision by WorkSafeBC to refer their fire investigations at Babine Forest Products in Burns Lake and a later fire at Lakeland Mills in Prince George, to Crown counsel for possible char-ges. Two workers died and 42 others injured in the two fires, which WorkSafeBC con-cluded were caused by dust explosions.

“I’m very pleased with the decision,” said Nechako Lakes MLA John Rustad, who joined officials in Burns Lake Tuesday for the announcement.

He said it delivers on a promise made by Premier Christy Clark when she visited the community in the hours after disaster struck.

Steve Zika, CEO of Oregon-based Hampton Affiliates, and Albert Gerow, CEO of Burns Lake Native Development Corp., announced in September that they would rebuild if an agreement could be reached with the B.C. government to supply enough timber in the wake of the pine beetle epidemic.

Rustad chaired the committee that reviewed the timber supply and determined it could support existing mills in the region and a reconstructed Babine sawmill.

The deal also depended on re-inventory of areas affected by pine beetle, after the epi-demic has run its course.

B y J e F F N a g e lSurrey North Delta LeaderThe province has granted

a one-year reprieve from its directive that health workers wear a mask this flu season if they refuse to be vaccinated.

Those who don’t comply won’t be disciplined, dep-uty health minister Graham Whitmarsh said in a Nov. 30 letter to health authorities.

Enforcement that was to begin Dec. 1 is on hold while the ministry carries out more consultation with unions and other affected staff to help determine how best to fully implement the flu control policy, he said.

Provincial Health Officer Dr. Perry Kendall gave the needle-or-mask order this summer, citing an inadequate flu immunization rate of less than 50 per cent among B.C. health care workers despite free shots and much encour-agement.

But unions denounced the policy as a privacy violation, saying the threat of disci-pline to compel unvaccinated workers to wear masks would have forced them to disclose their decision not to get a flu shot.

Those who did get vac-cinated were expected to wear badges or pins to assure

patients they were immun-ized.

Health Sciences Association of B.C. president Reid Johnson said the union encourages its members to be vaccinated but defends their right to choose.

“If they choose not to be vaccinated for any number of factors – including experi-ences with bad side effects to vaccines and fundamental, philosophical, or religious objections to vaccination – that is their right,” he said.

Rather than enforcing a season-long order to mask up, he said, that step can be taken during an actual flu

outrbreak, along with other long-standing options such as relocating staff or having them stay home.

Hospital Employees’ Union spokesperson Margi Blamey said some members questioned the research on the benefits of vaccination, while others refuse to have foreign substances put in their bodies or considered it a human right to make their own decision.

Despite the controversy, more health workers did roll up their sleeves. According to Kendall, more than 60 per cent of full-time health work-ers are now vaccinated.

Province backs down on flu shot edict

B y m a r T h a W i c h e T TSalmon Arm ObserverThe future of debts

owed to businesses who provided products and services to the Sturgis North event in Salmon Arm in 2011 still remains to be seen.

“Who knows

what’s going to hap-pen,” remarked Brad Handel, owner of Techlectric in Salmon Arm, who is still owed about $60,000.

He made the com-ment following a recent meeting of about 15 creditors with Joan Hansen of

Sturgis North and a bookkeeper.

“Everybody agreed it would be 10 per cent of ticket sales,” Handel said.

He added ticket sales were to begin at the end of November but he hasn’t seen evi-dence of that yet.

Sturgis North announced the event will be held Aug. 22 to 25, 2013 at Silvery Beach on Little Shuswap Lake near Squilax.

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

Parti Quebecois gov-ernment has tabled language legislation that appears far milder than what the party campaigned on.

The legislation will not extend language restrictions to post-secondary institutions, as the PQ promised in the recent election campaign. Nor will it extend them to busi-nesses with more than 10 employees.

“We have tabled legislation that is bal-anced, and respon-sible,” said Diane De Courcy, the minister responsible for the bill tabled Wednesday.

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duce French-language requirements for com-panies with more than 25 employees - which is a lower threshhold than the traditional level of 50 employees.

It also says compan-ies would not be able to require people to speak a language other than French, unless the job specifically required it. It offers a complaints mechanism to people who believe their right to work in French is affected.

De Courcy said it’s “unacceptable” that Quebec goes out of its way to attract immi-grants from French-speaking countries, promising them that they can work in French, and that once

they arrive some are stunned to discover that they can’t find jobs until they take English lessons.

The government was to hold a news conference to explain, in greater detail, the 36-page bill.

The minority gov-ernment had been hinting for weeks that its language legislation would be weaker than what it campaigned on because, with well under half the seats in the legislature, the PQ would have been immediately blocked by the opposition if it presented its originally planned bill.

A nationalist push for a new language law has emerged in recent

years amid a steady drumbeat of news reports about Montreal companies forcing all employees to hold meetings in English because a minority can’t speak French.

The PQ picked up on the theme in its election campaign, and promised to bar access to post-second-ary English college to non-anglophones. It also raised the pros-pect of applying the language law to family businesses, by say-ing its new bill would affect companies with 11 or more employees.

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SDRUMMONDVILLE, Que. - The

mother of three dead Quebec chil-dren was charged Wednesday with three counts of first-degree murder.

Sonia Blanchette, 33, was arraigned in Drummondville three days after the children were found at her home.

Blanchette will undergo an evaluation to determine whether she is fit to face criminal charges. Her next court appearance is sched-uled for Dec. 14.

She appeared unsteady and dazed as she shuffled into the courtroom, not making eye contact.

When she arrived at the court-house in the back of an unmarked police cruiser, she kept her head

low and her hood up.Blanchette did not say a word

during her arraignment.The children’s father, Patrick

Desautels, sat in the front row, sur-rounded by family. He did not say a word before entering or after leav-ing the courtroom.

Provincial police began ques-tioning Blanchette following her release from hospital earlier on Wednesday.

The children’s funeral will be held in Acton Vale on Saturday.

Police have not yet confirmed how Anais, 2, Loic, 4, and Laurelie, 5, died.

They were found dead at Blanchette’s home in Drummondville on Sunday.

Royal Canadian Legion steps up over rejected burial claims for veterans

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Canadian Legion, once counted on by the government to be the voice of reason among veterans groups, is striking a more defiant tone and demanding federal officials address the issue of burial expenses for poor and homeless ex-soldiers.

A major annual conference among veterans groups is set to get underway in Charlottetown on Thursday, but the Last Post Fund - and the fact it has rejected two-thirds of applications since 2006 - is not on the official agenda drawn up by Veterans Affairs.

Brad White, an ex-army officer and the

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OPINION

Separatist dreams live on around the world

In other parts of the world, separatist movements are usu-ally violent (e.g.

Kashmir, Sri Lanka, the various Kurdish revolts) and they sometimes suc-ceed (South Sudan, Eritrea, East Timor). Whereas in the prosperous, democrat-ic countries of the West, they are generally peaceful, frivolous, and unsuccess-ful.

A case in point is the vari-ous separatist movements in the European Union. Scotland will be holding a vote on independence from Britain in 2014, and both Catalonia and the Basque country in Spain have just elected nationalist govern-ments that promise to hold referendums on independ-ence. But it will probably never happen.

The Scots, the Catalans and the Basques tend to see themselves as victims, but nobody else does. They are self-governing in most matters except defence and foreign affairs, they have their own budgets, and they maintain separ-ate education systems and cultural institutions.

What really drives the separatism is emotion, which is why popular support for it is so soft.

Rectifying the historic defeat of (insert name of centuries-old lost bat-tle here) by declaring independence in the here-and-now has great emo-tional appeal, but most people put their economic interests first. Nationalist leaders therefore always promise that independ-ence will change nothing important on the economic front.

The way they do this in both Scotland and the sep-aratist regions of Spain is by insisting that member-ship in the European Union would pass automatically to the successor state. The opponents of secession, however, argue that there’s nothing automatic about it.

The arguments are not just directed at the home audience. Last month, when Scotland’s First Minister, Alex Salmond, agreed the terms for the 2014 referen-dum with the British gov-ernment, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo promptly declared that an independ-ent Scotland would NOT automatically be an EU member, and that any one of the 27 EU member states (like Spain, for example) could veto it.

This was furiously dis-puted by Alex Salmond, who knew that his chances of winning the 2014 refer-endum were nil if the Scots believed that they were vot-ing to leave the EU.

For months he insisted that he had sought the opinion of his government’s law officers, who had con-firmed that Scotland would inherit EU membership automatically, and would not even have to adopt the euro. Alas, he was lying.

Late last month, it became known that Salmond had not actually asked for the law officers’ opinion at all. Now he has been forced by public opin-ion to pop the question – and he may not like the answer.

An even bigger defeat for Salmond came in his nego-

tiations with British prime minister David Cameron, where he had to agree that the referendum would ask a simple yes-or-no ques-tion: in or out?

This goes against the instincts of all separatist leaders, who prefer a fuzzy, feel-good question that doesn’t mention the fright-ening word “independ-ence” at all.

The most famous for-mulation of this question was in the 1995 Quebec referendum on secession from Canada: “Do you agree that Quebec should become sovereign after having made a formal offer to Canada for a new eco-nomic and political part-nership within the scope of the bill respecting the future of Quebec and of the agreement signed on June 12, 1995?” Not exactly clear, is it?

That referendum was very close, but in 2000 the Canadian federal govern-ment passed a law gener-ally known as the “Clarity Act”.

It said that negotiations between the federal gov-ernment and any province on secession should only follow “a clear expression of the will of the popula-tion of a province that the

province cease to be part of Canada.”

This requirement would not be met, it added, if the referendum question “merely focuses on a man-date to negotiate without soliciting a direct expres-sion of the will of the popu-lation of that province on (independence),” or if the question “envisages other possibilities..., such as eco-nomic or political arrange-ments with Canada, that obscure a direct expression of the will of the population on (secession).”

This law drastically reduces the likelihood that the separatists could win any future referendum in Quebec, and it’s obviously what David Cameron had in mind in his negotia-tions with Salmond on the Scottish referendum.

As for Catalonia and Euskara, the national par-liament in Madrid must approve of any referendum on separation, and the cur-rent Spanish government has made it abundantly clear that it has no inten-tion of doing that.

So it’s mostly just hot air and hurt feelings, really.

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through winter to eat fresh produce year-round. And it provides economic benefits to farmers who grow that food. That could change as oil, the world’s main transport fuel, becomes increasingly scarce, hard to obtain and costly, but we’ll be trading with other nations for the foreseeable future.

Because countries often have differing political and economic systems, agree-ments are needed to pro-tect those invested in trade. Canada has signed numer-ous deals, from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to sev-eral Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreements (FIPA), and is subject to the rules of global trade bodies, such as the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favour the interests of business over cit-izens.

With Canada set to sign a 31-year trade deal with China, a repressive and undemocrat-ic country with state-owned corporations, we need to be cautious.

Should we sign agreements if they subject our workers to unfair competition from lower-paid employees from investor nations, hinder our ability to protect the environ-ment or give foreign compan-ies and governments exces-sive control over local poli-cies and valuable resources?

Under some agreements, basics like protecting the air, water and land we all need for survival can become difficult and expensive.

One recent case could put Canada on the hook for $250 million. Quebec has put a hold on fracking pending a study into the environmental impacts of blasting massive amounts of water, sand and chemicals into the ground to

fracture rock and release gas deposits.

A U.S. resource company plans to sue Canada under Chapter 11 of NAFTA, claim-ing compensation for the moratorium’s damage to its drilling interests. Similar disputes have already cost Canada millions of dollars.

Ontario also wants assur-ances that fracking is safe

before it allows the practice. That province is facing

costs and hurdles because of another conflict between trade and environment. Japan and the European Union filed a complaint with the WTO, claiming a requirement under the Ontario Green Energy Act that wind and solar projects must use a set percentage of local materials is unfair.

Many of the problems arise because of an invest-or-state arbitration mech-anism, which is included in NAFTA, as well as the pro-posed Canada-China FIPA, Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement and Trans-Pacific Partnership. It allows foreign investors to bring claims before outside arbitrators if they believe their economic interests are being harmed by a nation’s actions or policies. So eco-nomics trump national inter-ests.

This has caused many countries, including Australia, South Africa, India and several in Latin America, to avoid signing deals that include the investor-state

arbitration mechanism. In Australia’s case, the country recognized the pitfalls when tobacco companies, includ-ing Philip Morris, attempted to claim damages under a bilateral investment treaty after the federal government introduced a science-based law requiring cigarettes to be sold in plain, unappealing packages.

According to Australian National University law pro-fessor Thomas Faunce, Philip Morris then lobbied the U.S. government to include a similar mechanism in a new trade agreement it was nego-tiating with Australia.

In an article for Troy Media, Faunce wrote that, with such a mechanism, the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes “would, in effect, become the final arbitrators on major Australian public policy questions concerning mineral royalties, fossil fuel and renewable energy, water, telecommunications, bank-ing, agriculture and power.”

The 31-year trade agree-ment between Canada and China is worrisome, with its 15-year opt-out clause (com-pared to just six months for NAFTA), but the inclusion of the mechanism in other agreements is also cause for concern.

At the very least, we could be on the hook for millions or billions of dollars if our environmental, health, labour or other policies were deemed to harm the interests of those investing in or trading with Canada.

The government’s desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn’t give away too much. We must tell our elected rep-resentatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals.

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woman who was listed as the world’s oldest person died Tuesday in a Georgia nursing home at age 116.

Besse Cooper died peacefully Tuesday after-noon in Monroe, accord-ing to her son Sidney Cooper. Monroe is about 45 miles (72 kilometres) east of Atlanta.

Cooper said his mother had been ill recently with a stomach virus, then felt better on Monday. On Tuesday he said she had her hair set and watched a Christmas video, but later had trouble breathing. She was put on oxygen in her room and died there about 2 p.m., Cooper said.

Besse Cooper was declared the world’s old-est person in January 2011.

“It’s a sad day for me,” said Robert Young,

Guinness senior consult-ant for gerontology. He recalls meeting Cooper when she was 111.

“At that age she was doing really well, she was able to read books,” Young said.

Last year on Cooper’s 115th birthday, she cele-brated with friends and relatives, enjoyed two small slivers of birthday cake and was serenaded by a musician from Nashville who sang “Tennessee Waltz.”

Sidney Cooper said his family will likely hold a funeral for his mother later this week.

The title of world’s old-est person now belongs to 115-year-old Dina Manfredini, of Johnston, Iowa, Young said.

The oldest known per-son of all time was Jeanne Calment, a 122 years old French woman.

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SMONTREAL - So what exactly does an astronaut

bring with him on a visit to the International Space Station that could last up to six months?

If you’re Chris Hadfield, a newly minted wedding band is at the top of the list. When he blasts off on Dec. 19, the Canadian astronaut will have the ring as a constant reminder of his wife Helene.

The 53-year-old Hadfield said in an interview from Russia on Wednesday that he and Helene decided he should take something small and light given that space aboard the Soyuz capsule is limited.

“Something that can remind you on a daily basis, something that is both personal and also that is not just a collector’s item,” he told The Canadian Press.

“We thought about jewelry, earrings and a neck-lace, but it just seemed to make sense - so I’m flying a ring for my wife.”

The couple will celebrate its 31st wedding anniver-sary four days after Hadfield soars into space aboard a Russian spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

The veteran astronaut is also taking up a watch belonging to his 26 year-old daughter Kristin.

“On my first flight I flew a watch from my first son, on my second flight I flew a watch from my other son and so on this one, I’m flying a watch for my daughter that she chose,” he said.

Hadfield’s first space trip was in November 1995 when he visited the Russian Space Station Mir. His second voyage was a visit to the International Space Station in April 2001, when he also performed two space walks.

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er and pianist Dave Brubeck, whose pioneering style in pieces such as “Take Five” caught listeners’ ears with exotic, challenging rhythms, has died. He was 91.

Brubeck, who lived in Wilton, died Wednesday morning at Norwalk Hospital of heart failure after being stricken while on his way to a cardiol-ogy appointment with his son Darius, said his manager Russell Gloyd. Brubeck would have turned 92 on Thursday.

Brubeck had a career that spanned almost all American jazz since World War II. He formed The Dave Brubeck Quartet in 1951 and was the first modern jazz musician to be pictured on the cover of Time magazine - on Nov. 8, 1954 - and he helped define the swinging, smoky rhythms of 1950s and ‘60s club jazz.

George Wein, a jazz pianist and founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, had known Brubeck since he first worked in Wein’s club in Boston in 1952.

“No one else played like Dave Brubeck,” he said. “No one had the approach to the music that he did. That approach communicated.”

Brubeck “represented the best that we can have in jazz,” he added. “The

quality of his persona helped every other jazz musician.”

The seminal album “Time Out,” released by the quartet in 1959, was the first ever million-selling jazz LP, and is still among the bestselling jazz albums of all time. It opens with “Blue Rondo a la Turk” in 9/8 time - nine beats to the measure instead of the customary two, three or four beats.

A piano-and-saxophone whirlwind based loosely on a Mozart piece, “Blue Rondo” eventually intercuts between Brubeck’s piano and a more trad-itional 4/4 jazz rhythm.

The album also features “Take Five” - in 5/4 time - which became the Quartet’s signature theme and even made the Billboard singles chart in 1961. It was composed by Brubeck’s longtime saxophonist, Paul Desmond.

“When you start out with goals - mine were to play polytonally and polyrhythmically - you never exhaust that,” Brubeck told The Associated Press in 1995.

“I started doing that in the 1940s. It’s still a challenge to discover what can be done with just those two ele-ments.”

After service in World War II and study at Mills College in Oakland, Calif., Brubeck formed an octet including Desmond on alto sax and Dave van Kreidt on tenor, Cal Tjader

on drums and Bill Smith on clarinet. The group played Brubeck origin-als and standards by other compos-ers, including some early experimen-tation in unusual time signatures. Their groundbreaking album “Dave Brubeck Octet” was recorded in 1946.

The group evolved into the Quartet, which played colleges and universi-ties. The Quartet’s first album, “Jazz at Oberlin,” was recorded live at Oberlin College in Ohio in 1953.

Ten years later, Joe Morello on drums and Eugene Wright on bass joined with Brubeck and Desmond to produce “Time Out.”

In later years Brubeck composed music for operas, ballet, even a con-temporary Mass.

In 1988, he played for Mikhail Gorbachev, at a dinner in Moscow that then-President Ronald Reagan hosted for the Soviet leader.

“I can’t understand Russian, but I can understand body language,” said Brubeck, after seeing the general sec-retary tapping his foot.

Brubeck and his wife, Iola, had five sons and a daughter.

Four of his sons - Chris on trom-bone and electric bass, Dan on drums, Darius on keyboards and Matthew on cello - played with the London Symphony Orchestra in a birthday tribute to Brubeck in December 2000.

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“We’ve always had bishops here who have recognized the need to be out where people are,” says Paul Schratz, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of Vancouver.

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While the Trail Smoke Eaters enjoy a rare Saturday night off, it doesn’t mean the Cominco Arena will be idle, as Greater Trail Minor Hockey hosts its Bantam AA hockey tournament on the weekend.

Eight teams from B.C., Alberta and Washington will descend on the Cominco and Rossland Arenas for the annual tour-nament that routinely attracts junior and university scouts to see some of the best Bantam players.

Teams will be split into two pools with Pool A featuring the host Trail up against Penticton, Castlegar, and Spokane, while Pool B consists of Calgary, Nelson, Kelowna, and Westside.

Many players will graduate from these teams looking to move into the junior ranks.

“There’s a lot of good skilled players,”

said coach Terry Jones of the KIJHL’s Beaver Valley Nitehawks.

“They’re a good young group. It’s the way the development is, it starts with the young kids and hopefully they grow up and want to be Smokies and Nitehawks, that’s a good thing.”

Play begins Friday at noon with Trail opening up against Castlegar at the Cominco Arena.

Following the round robin, playoffs go Sunday with the tournament final scheduled for 12:30 p.m.

Westside is the defending champion, beating Trail in last years final 7-3. However, the 9-4-1 Greater Trail AA Bantams can be considered favourites as the team currently leads the Okanagan Mainline Hockey Association Tier 2 standings with 19 points, two points up on Penticton and three on Westside.

See scoreboard on page 12 for com-plete schedule.

B Y T I M E S C O N T R I B U T O RA surging Team Fines looked to

swamp Team Albo in Kootenay Savings Super League curling action last week.

Team Albo buffeted the Fines storm early as skip Darrin Albo made two double take-outs in the second and fourth ends for threes to go up 6-2.

Skip Ken Fines answered with his own double take-out for three in the third and after Fines was forced to take one again in the fifth, he stole a single in the sixth, then made a game-changing shot with his last rock in the seventh.

Without last rock and facing five Albo stones, Fines made a perfect hit

and roll from the edge of the 12 foot to the back of the four foot, laying shot stone buried behind a wall of granite. When Albo couldn’t find a path to follow him in, Fines stole another, deflating the Albo team, and eventually winning 9-7.

The Nichol and Ferguson rinks went at it, but an absent Myron Nichol and third Garry Beaudry didn’t help Team Nichol.

Ferguson seized an early advantage stealing two in the first two ends on his way to a 6-2 lead after six. He stole three more in the ninth for a 9-2 win.

Meanwhile, Team Schmidt exacted revenge on a shorthanded Maglio

Mens squad from an earlier loss. Skip Desiree Schmidt made a deli-

cate tap back in the second end to lay three, then a double take-out to sit two in the fourth, before stealing the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth ends for a comfortable 12-3 thrashing.

• The Trail Curling Club plays hosts this weekend to the Mens Region 1 and 2 Provincial Qualifier. Local teams led by Deane Horning, Myron Nichol and Brian Lemoel will be in contention for the two provincial spots against the likes of East Kootenay Teams Buchy and Shypitka among others.

First draw is 2 p.m. Friday, with final qualifying on Sunday.

HOCKEY

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Rossland’s Wannes Lupens looks to rebound off a North Port player in Trail Mens’ Basketball League action Monday. The TMBL got back into the swing of things last month with a four-team league playing every Monday night at the Rossland Secondary School gym.

T H E A S S O C I A T E D P R E S SNASHVILLE - A per-

son familiar with the deal tells The Associated Press that free agent outfielder Jason Bay has reached a one-year contract with the Seattle Mariners.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity Wednesday because there was no announcement by the team. Reportedly, the deal is pending a Bay

physical.The 34-year-old Bay is

hoping to resurrect his career with the Mariners after three disappointing and injury-plagued sea-sons with the New York Mets.

Last month, Bay and the Mets agreed to termin-ate his contract with one guaranteed year remain-ing on his $66 million, four-year contract. The

agreement let the Mets spread out the $21 million they still owed him.

Bay hit .165 with eight home runs and 20 RBIs last season. He was slowed by concussions and rib injuries while with the Mets and played only 288 games in three years with them.

Bay grew up in Trail and went to Gonzaga University in Spokane.

BASEBALL

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B Y T I M E S S T A F FIn Trail Commercial Hockey League action the

Arlington Hotel took down the league-leading Re/Max Sunday in a convincing 6-1 win, while OK Tire and Firebird skated to a 5-5 draw.

Defenceman Al McMartin blasted home the winning goal with 1:20 remaining in the first per-iod to give the Big A a 2-1 lead over the realtors.

After league-leading scorer Graham Proulx put Re/Max on the board at 11:11, the Arlington scored six unanswered goals to cruise to the vic-tory.

The elusive Kelly Shipit started the scoring for the Arlington converting an Eric Laithwaite pass for his first of two on the night.

After McMartin made it 2-1, Mike Broyd notched his first of the season, before Shipit added his second to make it 4-1.

Jeremy Robinson and Daryl Zol rounded out the scoring for Arlington as former Beaver Valley Nitehawk fortress Eric Volpatti picked up his seventh win in goal.

The cellar-dwelling Firebird refused to be run over by the second-place OK Tire Sunday, com-ing back from deficits all night in order to finally earn a tie.

Down 3-0 and 4-2 in the first period, the Bird’s would tie it at 4-4 when Gord Aiken made a great individual effort to tally his first goal of the season with three minutes to go in the second period.

The Tire’s Al Berglund made it 5-4 at the end of the second, but Firebird’s Mike Turner would tie it with 3:33 remaining in the final frame.

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Friday GamesAt Cominco Arena

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It continues this evening in Vernon before Trail returns home for the first time in two weeks tomorrow for a date with the Langley Rivermen.

Trail enters tonight’s game a point back of both the Vipers and Salmon Arm Silverbacks for the fourth and final playoff spot in the Interior, and visit the North Okanagan buoyed by the fact that their last trip ended in an away win in Vernon for the first time in more than four years.

The Smokies are coming off a comeback win against the BCHL’s top dogs in Chilliwack on Sunday in a game that saw Illinois import Luke Sandler take control with his first BCHL hat-trick.

Brent Baltus became the first BCHL player to hit the 20-goal mark this season with a pair against the Chiefs as Trail won despite being without captain Garrett McMullen, who was sidelined with the flu.

The Vipers are, like last year, underachieving and barring a shakeup could end the season on the outside of the playoff picture for the second season in a row. The team jettisoned forwards Landon Robin and Mitch Van Teeling (to Powell River and Manitoba respectively) at the Dec. 1 roster cutdown deadline, and will be without Trail’s Craig Martin tonight as he nurses a broken ankle.

Friday’s matchup with Langley provides plenty of intrigue, too. It was just over a month ago the Smokies shipped out holdout forward Tanner Clarkson to the Rivermen for 18-year-old blue-liner Valik Chichkin, and it’s also safe to say Trail won the deal in convincing fashion. Chichkin has 8 points in 13 games since joining the Smoke Eaters, while Langley released Clarkson outright last week. The Rivermen come to the Interior sitting last in the Mainland division, but are hopeful a youth movement that sees the likes of ex-Castlegar Rebel defenseman Tanner Johnson joining the club full-time will pay dividends.

Sunday’s victory proves that Trail can skate with, and can beat any team in the league on any given night. With two winnable matchups on tap for this weekend, the biggest question remains whether this Smoke Eaters group can harness that ability and generate consistent results. If they can, a return to post-season play could very well be in the cards in three months’ time.

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Dear Annie: My incredible husband of two years has a 4-year-old daughter with his ex-wife. I have actively helped raise “Christie” since she was barely a year.

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But lately, Christie has been questioning my relationship with her father, saying the reason her mommy and daddy are not together is because of me. When I ask her to do something she doesn’t want to do, she

says her mommy says she doesn’t have to lis-ten to me because I am not her mother. Even worse, she’s been told that when my husband and I have a baby of our own, Daddy won’t love her as much as the new baby.

Christie is obvious-ly too young to draw these conclusions on her own, so Mom is giving her these impressions or tell-ing her these things outright. I don’t know why any mother would want to hurt her child this way, but I worry it is going to cause Christie to resent me. How can we handle this? -- Stepmom in the Middle

Dear Stepmom: Many courts now rec-ognize parental aliena-tion. Suggest that your husband speak to his lawyer about this pos-sibility. In the mean-time, when Christie is with you, do your best to counter the negative brainwash-ing. Let her know how much you love her and always will; that a new baby means she will be more important than ever, and the new baby will need a big sister; that everyone in the household has chores to do, and you want her to learn to be a big girl. As she gets older, she will recognize her mother’s bitterness, so please don’t play into that drama.

Dear Annie: I am a recent widow in my mid-70s. I decided after the death of my husband a couple of years ago that I would live out my life alone.

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MLS# K214881

Solid Home

Trail $259,900Patty Leclerc-Zanet 250-231-4490

MLS# K215314Trail $225,000

Patty Leclerc-Zanet 250-231-4490

MLS# K216074

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Location

Salmo $139,000Rhonda van Tent 250-231-7575

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Trail $189,000Rob Burrus 250-231-4420

MLS# K216327Trail $169,000

Rob Burrus 250-231-4420

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Trail $148,000Fred Behrens 250-368-1268

MLS# K210399

3 Garages

Warfi eld $227,000Fred Behrens 250-368-1268

MLS# K204952

Rossland $449,000Marie Claude 250-512-1153

MLS# K216903

2011

Construction


MLS# K213602

Happy Valley


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Fruitvale $264,900Rhonda van Tent 250-231-7575

MLS# K216202

Warfi eld $62,900Rob Burrus 250-231-4420

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Trail $479,000Jack McConnachie 250-368-5222

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Montrose $324,000Patty Leclerc-Zanet 250-231-4490

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Rossland $359,900Patty Leclerc-Zanet 250-231-4490

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Trail $49,000Rhonda van Tent 250-231-7575

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Rossland $297,000Rob Burrus 250-231-4420

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FruitvaleRoute 380 26 papers Galloway Rd, Green Rd, Mill RdRoute 369 22 papers Birch Ave, Johnson Rd, Redwood DrRoute 375 8 papers Green Rd & Lodden RdRoute 378 28 papers Columbia Gardens Rd, Martin St, Mollar Rd, Old Salmo Rd, Trest DrRoute 382 13 papers Debruin Rd & Staats RdRoute 381 9 papers Coughlin RdRoute 370 22 papers 2nd St, Hwy 3B, Hillcrest, Mountain St

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GenelleRoute 302 8 papers 12th Ave, 15th AveRoute 303 15 papers 12th Ave, 2nd St, Grandview Pl

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MontroseRoute 341 27 papers 10th Ave, 8th Ave, 9th AveRoute 342 11 papers 3rd St & 7th AveRoute 348 21 papers 12th Ave, Christie Rd

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Misc. for SaleFILING CABINET, Legal size,metal 3 drawer with many hanging fi les. $40. OBO. Ph. 250-367-9693

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Apt/Condo for RentBella Vista, Shavers Bench Townhomes. N/S, N/P. 2-3 bdrms. Phone 250.364.1822Ermalinda Apartments, Glen-merry. Adults only. N/P, N/S. 1-2 bdrms. Ph. 250.364.1922E.Trail 1bd, f/s, coin-op laun-dry. 250-368-3239Francesco Estates, Glenmer-ry. Adults only. N/P, N/S, 1-3 bdrms. Phone 250.368.6761.FRUITVALE, D/T, 1bd. ns/np,coin laundry. Avail. Dec.4. Call/text 604-788-8509ROSSLAND 2bd, clean, quiet, w/d, f/s, N/P, N/S, 250-362-9473

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East Trail$269,000

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MLS#K216851

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Trail$385,000

MLS#K216412

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Trail$575,000

MLS#K215427

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Fruitvale$349,000

MLS#K216293

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Apt/Condo for RentTRAIL, spacious 2bdrm. apartment. Adult building, per-fect for seniors/ professionals. Cozy, clean, quiet, com-fortable. Must See. 250-368-1312WANETA MANOR 2bd $610, NS,NP, Senior oriented, un-derground parking 250-368-8423

Duplex / 4 PlexFRUITVALE 3bdrm., quiet, includes heat. $750. Please leave msg. @250-364-0053.

Misc for RentGLENMERRY, small, new, single garage. Remote door, lights. $100./mo.250-368-6075

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TRAIL, 3BD., newly renovat-ed. $950./mo. N/S, N/P. Avail. immed. 250-367-7558Trail. Needs fi xing. Ideal for handyman that can repair. 250.364.5677.Trail. Spacious 2 bdrm, reno-vated, near hospital, F/S, W/D. $850/mo. 250.521.0105

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Candy Parade6-6:30pm

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B y N i c o l e T r i g gInvermere Valley EchoAs the Government

of Canada proceeds with its decision to privatize the hot pools in the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks, a fight-back committee is forming to defeat the mandate and keep the hot pools in public hands.

“The union opposes commercialization of the hot pool enterprise unit and we believe that Parks employ-ees should be main-taining those services. That’s what Canadians expect.

They don’t expect that service to be com-mercialized or priva-tized in any way shape or form. And there will be an awareness cam-paign to contest that,” Kevin King told The Valley Echo. King is

the Union of National Employees Public Service Alliance of Canada regional vice-president and repre-sents Parks Canada workers.

“We’ll have the beginnings of a cam-paign probably after the Christmas season in the New Year,”

A page on the Public Service Alliance of Canada Prairie Region website called ‘Don’t Sell Our Hot Springs’ urges people to take action by writing to their local Member of Parliament and demanding the hot pools remain in the public domain. King said the commit-tee is deciding on an independent domain name that they’ll be ready to launch in 2013.

“We can perform

those services at cost for the net benefit of Canadian and inter-national visitors to the hot springs and in a manner that’s consist-ent with fair value to the average Canadian taxpayer,” said King. “For a private enter-prise to take it over, perhaps even one owned by American interests, and then describe the hot pools as an elite experi-ence with elite dollars would really take away from the attraction that the Canadian pub-lic has with this iconic national treasure.

“The hot pools were not designed to be a wholly profit-making venture.”

Earlier this year in May when the federal government announced its plans to privatize all three hot

pools — the Radium Hot Springs pool as well as the Banff Upper Hot Springs and the Miette Hot Springs in Jasper — 42 pool employees were noti-fied their positions

may be subject to workforce adjustment and May 2013 was set as the target date for the transfer with a Request for Proposals (RFP) due out in six to eight months.

Invermere

Hot pools privatization protest gathers steam

B y c a r o l y N g r a N TKimberley Bulletin

Several communities are waiting for a result from the lawsuit launched against the District of Invermere by the Invermere Deer Protection Society (IDPS).

Penticton City Council decided in November to postpone their planned cull until there is a result in the court case. Cranbrook and Kimberley will also wait to see what the courts decide when the case goes to trial in January.

The case is complex, but the issue appears to be whether the District of Invermere consulted properly with its residents before beginning a cull last February. That cull only took 20 animals before a court injunction stopped it.

Last May, a Supreme Court of British Columbia judge ruled in favour of the IDPS, meaning they were free to continue with their suit to challenge the DOI Urban Deer Management Program. While the District argued there was no reason to continue the lawsuit as their cull permit had already expired, the judge did not agree.

IDPS lawyer Rebeka Breder said in an interview that the judge agreed with her argument that the lawsuit was not a moot issue. However, there was another reason the judge had stated, which Breder felt was espe-cially important.

“If I were to take anything away from this decision, one of the reasons that he decided not to dismiss [the lawsuit] is because he found that the issues that we’re dealing with have much broader implications in B.C. when it comes to animal control,” Breder said.

“I think that’s key, because there aren’t any precedents right now in B.C. dealing with how much public consultation, if any, is required in animal control matters.”

Meanwhile other communities have not quite reached the point of deciding a cull is necessary. The latest deer counts in Grand Forks have shown a reduction in numbers from the previous years.

Communities awaiting results

from deer cull case


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KOOTENAY HOMES INC.1358 Cedar Avenue, Trail • 250.368.8818

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

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

302 Ritchie Avenue, Tadanac

$419,000This graceful and spacious home offers

beautiful “heritage” characteristics including hardwood fl oors, French

doors, charming den, and wood burning fi replace. The large, fl at lot is accented by gorgeous trees and amazing views. Call your REALTOR® for an appointment

to view.Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

565 Rossland Avenue, Trail $155,000

Charming “heritage-style” home. This 3 bdrm, 1.5 bath home features oak in-laid fl oors, wood-burning fi replace and tons of charm. Upgrades include numerous

windows, electrical and roofi ng. A terrifi c home at a great price.

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

#101-1800 Kirkup Avenue, Rossland

$159,000Don’t waste time on mundane tasks such as yard care, shoveling and maintenance.

This building has had many upgrades and this unit has been beautifully

renovated with an open, modern kitchen, upgraded bathroom, tile, carpets, and

fresh paint. Just move in and play! Call your REALTOR® now to view.

Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

NEW LISTING


Small and compact this home offers the perfect place for a single or couple at

a very affordable price. Many upgrades include a newer kitchen, upgraded

bathroom, some wiring and plumbing, air conditioning and more! Call now before

it’s gone!Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

2069 - 6th Avenue, Trail $170,000

Great 2 bdrm home located on a fully fenced 50x100 fl at lot with an insulated

double garage. New fl ooring, tons of light, large patio area with lots of privacy. Full basement with cold storage, dining room with built in window bench. Plenty of fruit trees and a veggie garden complete this

package.Call Christine (250) 512-7653

615 Shakespeare Street, Warfi eld $219,000

3 bed, 3 bath home with loads of character, hardwood fl oors, updated kitchen, newly fi nished bathrooms.

Lots of upgrades. Call your REALTOR® today to view it!

Call Christine (250) 512-7653

628 Turner Street, Warfi eld $114,900

Great 2bdrm/1 bth home located on a fl at dead end street - many mechanical upgrades - 3 fl oors to this home - main

fl oor has been all updated - Home is vacant and ready for quick possession - call for a viewing - get in this house for

Christmas.Call Mark (250) 231-5591

Commercial Lease

Old Waneta Road

5,000 sq. ft. shop with 18 ft ceiling, in fl oor heating, offi ce space, lunch room, washroom and shower. Large truck doors at each end. Excellent

condition and very clean. Good highway exposure and access. C7

zoning allows a wide scope of uses.Call Art (250) 368-8818


Super deal - home is 14 years young - it has 4 bdrms. and 3 bthrms - great fl oor plan - 3 fl oors of living - owner wants

to sell so book your viewing of this great home.

Call Mark (250) 231-5591

NEW PRICE

695 Highway 22, Rossland $565,000

This 5500 sq.ft. 5 bed / 4 bath home with full southern exposure is situated on a

20 acre fenced parcel just 5 miles south of Rossland. Ideal site for a B&B with spacious living areas, generously sized bedrooms, custom built kitchen, large workshop in the basement and tons of

storage.Call Mary A (250) 521-0525

#508C-4320 Red Mountain Road, Rossland

$425,000 Slalom Creek! This 1791 sq.ft. 3 bdrm, 3 bath + den + loft, ski-in/ski-out condo at the base of Red is large enough to be a comfortable permanent residence for

an active family. Building features a gym, cinema, rec room, lockers, an elevator

and underground parking.Call Mary A (250) 521-0525

NEW LISTING

1002 – 8th Street, Castlegar $245,000

Great family home in central location! 4 level split design on a huge corner lot features 4 bdrms/3 baths, master bedroom with ensuite, new laminate fl ooring, huge wrap-around sundeck

and private patio area. A double garage, room to park an RV and all your extras with bonus storage area under deck.

See it today!

2304 – 11th Avenue, Castlegar $229,000

Solid 3 bdrm home with mountain views. Features include bright & functional

kitchen, large covered sundeck, easy maintenance yard. See it today!

2517 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar

$220,0003 bdrm/2 bath house with main fl oor laundry & plenty of storage! A 2 car

garage and lots of room to park your rv, extra vehicles or toys! Nice fl at lot is just under 1/2 acre with fruit trees and room

for a garden. Just replaced roof Sept., 2012!

CASTLEGAR CORNER

#2 Redstone Drive, Rossland $385,000

Another brand new home at Redstone! Call me to fi nd out what’s coming next!

Call Richard (250) 368-7897

SOLD

Ron & Darlene Your Local Home Team

$195,000 $229,000Ron 368-1162

Darlene 231-0527

Go Commercial!

1537 Bay Avenue, Trail

1932 Main Street, Fruitvale

Call Terry 250-231-1101 or Call Tonnie (250) 365-9665

B y T i m e s s T a f fIf you thought it was tough to

get tickets to see Paul McCartney in Vancouver think again.

Tickets for the popular Santa’s train for this Saturday’s Jingle Down Main in Fruitvale sold out mere hours after going on sale.

The demand for tickets prompt-ed officials to contact the Trail Times to explain to readers that there are no tickets left for the

three rides scheduled for this Saturday.

But even though the train leaves the station without you, there are still plenty of events to take in on Saturday.

From a morning pancake break-fast to a family movie to music and entertainment and street vendors and store deals in the evening, the Christmas atmosphere will be abundant in the valley.

Fruitvale

Train tickets sold out

Guy Bertrand photo

If you can’t catch a ride on the real thing Saturday in Fruitvale, Trail’s Waneta Plaza is once again showcasing the talents of the Golden City Railway Modellers including this Christmas-themed set.

little locomotive

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