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Norm Laybourne rings the Salvation Army bell and mans the donation kettle with a discernible determination.

Standing in the hallway of the Waneta Mall four times per week, Laybourne positions himself unabashedly in the midst of the holiday traffic, ringing the bell, hoping to attract the attention of change-laden shoppers who might be convinced to lighten their load.

Laybourne has taken up the mantle as volunteer for the Army in their annual fundraising drive at Christmas time for the last 10 years, something he does not do begrudgingly: he’s paying back a debt.

Over 70 years ago Laybourne was a lad of 13, living on his parents farm near Ponteix, Sask. It was during the Second World War and his eldest brother, Vic, had been serving in the Canadian Army and was stationed overseas in Holland.

Norm still remembers the day his parents got a letter from the Department of Defence saying Vic was missing in action and was pre-sumed dead, his dog tag missing.

“But my mother said he was not missing, that he wasn’t dead,” Norm recalled.

“So she got ahold of the Salvation Army and they found him alive in the hospital in Holland with no identification.”

See SALVATION, Page 3

Kettle duty pays family debt


A new provincial cost sharing formula for reducing the threat of wildfires has not sparked the interest of the regional district.

Larry Gray, chair of the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary (RDKB) board of directors, said the new program does address some fund-ing concerns, but it does not go far enough to deal with the major issue facing governments like the RDKB.

Gray said the formula contains no provision for wildfire mitigation on private property and managed forest lands.

“And many of our communities are sur-rounded, almost exclu-sively, by privately held lands,” he said.

The new cost-shar-ing formula for oper-ational fuel reduction treatments means the province will pay 90 per cent of the project cost, with an annual cap of $400,000 for municipal-ities and an annual cap of $600,000 for regional districts.

The remaining 10 per cent of costs can

be an in-kind contribution (e.g. staff time) or a cash payment from the municipality or regional district making the application.

Previously, the initiative provided 90 per cent of the project funding up to $100,000 and 75 per cent of the remaining cost, up to a max-imum of $400,000 per year.

Gray was also adamant the regional district taxpayers should not have to pay any of the 10 per cent of the costs for mitigation on Crown land.

“We have some concern about that, that the property really belongs to the government,” he said. “Should the taxpayers be paying money to do the mitigation on Crown lands when they are really owned by the provincial government?”

Fuel management is the ongoing process of mitigating the risk of wildfire damage by reducing the amount of waste wood, tree nee-dles, brush and other flammable material that could “fuel” a grassland fire or forest fire.

The change through the Strategic Wildfire See TREATMENTS, Page 3

New provincial wildfire plan fails to douse concerns

Changes to strategic Wildfire Prevention Initiative take effect Jan. 1

“Should the taxpayers be

paying money to do the

mitigation on Crown lands

when they are really owned

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government?”LARRY GRAY

TIMOTHY SCHAFER PHOTO

Norm Laybourne rings the Salvation Army bell to help raise funds for the social service organization, as well as to repay a debt he feels he owes the Army.

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

The Village of Warfield council members agreed to support the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary (RDKB), carbon neutral project by kicking in $3,600 towards its 2012 carbon offset purchases.

The “Carbon Neutral Kootenays” report was met with mixed reviews at Monday’s council meeting.

“We had a presentation about the Darkwood Forest area, where they are doing some posi-tive carbon neutral studies, so instead of pay-ing the taxes to the government you can buy carbon credits locally,” said Warfield Mayor Bert Crockett.

The village received a provincial grant for $3,531, so the carbon offset payment is basically cost neutral, said Vince Morelli, chief adminis-trative officer for the village.

“We have to pay it, and that is that,” said Coun. John Crozier.

The money will go to the Nature Conservancy of Canada’s Darkwoods preservation project near Creston.

Carbon offsetting refers to paying others to remove carbon dioxide emitted from the atmosphere, for example by planting trees or by funding carbon projects that should lead to the prevention of future greenhouse gas emissions.

The report stated that local governments in the Kootenays spend about $11 million on energy and generate about 20,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions,

WARFIELD


Although the unemployment rate in the Kootenay region dropped in November, Statistics Canada has noted more people were looking for work in that month.

The national statistical agency set the unemployment for the region at 6.9 per cent in November, compared to 7.7 per cent in October, a drop of almost one full percentage point.

However, the news is far from rosy as the 2012 rate is up .5 per cent from the 6.4 per cent unemployment rate in November of 2011.

And even as unemployment drops the labour force grows and more people are looking for work. Around 1,200 more people were looking for work in November than in October.

Provincial unemployment was up slightly from last month, to 6.8 per cent from 6.7 per cent.

See HOURLY, Page 3

Council kicks in for carbon offsets

Jobless rate dips, job seekers grow

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While other West Kootenay areas await major changes to how transit is delivered, Greater Trail residents have had the benefit of the last eight months to enjoy their refine-ments, according to a B.C. Transit official at an open house in Trail last Thursday.

Regional tran-sit manager for B.C. Transit, Kevin Schubert, said Trail received two sig-nificant alterations in transit service in March, including extended daily and late evening service on Friday.

But as the final stop on the West Kootenay Transit Committee’s open house series on the make over for region-al transit, the Trail event last Thursday was to inform people of the plans and seek final input before the regional service goes fully operational in the spring of 2013.

Schubert said three more changes are yet to come in Trail as the service prepares to load: new times for transit to Nelson (for students in Selkirk College trades pro-grams), a new regional fare structure, and a new local zone that includes Castlegar.

The new regional fare structure means

people can travel easi-ly not just within Trail, but within the region, said Schubert.

“One fare means you can travel within the local zone, or one (regional) fare to hit the whole region,” he said. “So you don’t have to get complicat-ed about how much it will be from change to change.”

The committee has now created three zones for the entire region, including the Columbia zone—which melds Castlegar, Trail, Fruitvale, Rossland and the former Kootenay Boundary service—meaning people can

ride anywhere in the zone for one rate.

The other two zones—Slocan zone (Playmor Junction up to Slocan City) and the Kootenay zone, which includes Nelson—can be accessed by the all-zone or regional pass.

Prior to the change, people had to pay two top ups, paying as much as $5.50 to trav-el across the multiple service areas, and con-sult several different ride guides to figure out how to get there.

“We felt that was a detriment, especially for seniors, to trying to use the bus as well because it was compli-cated,” Schubert said.

“This is really now connecting everything else in the region. The intent is to encourage the regional travel ... and get the ridership to support further increases (in service).”

The local zone fare for Greater Trail stays at $2 but will include Castlegar, while the all zone fare is $3.50, down from $4.

The goal of the West Kootenay Transit Committee has been to develop a transit system for the area where someone can get on a bus in Trail and travel straight through to Castlegar, the Slocan Valley, Nakusp, or Nelson and all points between.

The West Kootenay Transit system incor-porates seven differ-ent regions currently operating nine dif-ferent systems into a single entity.

The advantage of the regional system is that pooling the transit resources of many smaller com-munities reduces the operational cost for all and provides greatly increased convenience for people.

TIMOTHY SCHAFER PHOTO

Trail Transit Services Inc. supervisor Sharman Thomas (left) explains the creation of an all-regional transit pass to a Selkirk College student last Thursday during B.C. Transit’s open house at the Greater Trail Community Centre.

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Voting opens Wednesday mor-ning for Rossland/Nelson’s third round of competition in the Ski Town Throwdown.

Organized by Powder maga-zine, the throwdown pits two ski towns against each other in a challenge to collect the most votes on Facebook in a two day period. The ski town with the most votes moves onto the next round, bringing it one step closer to being named the best ski town in North America.

Rossland/Nelson is now up against Colorado’s Crested Butte. A win in this round would advance the local hills into the semi-finals, which take place on December 17 and 18.

Besides Rossland/Nelson, the only other B.C. hill still in the

competition is Fernie. Round 3 voting for Fernie will also open Wednesday.

To cast your ballot for your favourite ski town, go to face-book.com/powdermag when vot-ing opens and click “Rossland/Nelson v. Crested Butte” in the page banner.

Voting will only open for two days — Wednesday and Thursday — and you can only vote once per IP address, per 24 hour per-iod (but if you get your first vote in early, you might be able to squeeze in a second one).

In Round 1, Rossland/Nelson (our two local ski hills have been grouped together for the purpose of the competition) beat Maine’s Sugaloaf ski hill 1,309 to 1,028.

Then, in Round 2, the local hills outpaced Montana’s Whitefish mountain 3,491 to 3,176.

Next round of voting for top ski town starts today

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Employees of Kootenay Insurance Services started Pledge Day 2012 by making a donation of $500 to the Digital Mammography campaign at KBRH. Lisa Pasin, Director of Development KBRH Health Foundation (far left) accepts this donation.

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FROM PAGE 1Prevention Initiative will be effective Jan. 1, 2013.

Operational fuel reduction treatments may include: removing dead trees; increasing the spacing between live trees; trimming back low-hanging tree branches; and remov-ing or burning off vegetation and wood debris that could pot-entially fuel a wildfire.

In October Gray said the money needed from RDKB taxpayers for wildfire prevention to reduce the amount of standing fuel in the forest surrounding

most West Kootenay and Boundary com-munities would be nearly $1.5 million. The amount of forest fuel mitigation neces-sary for the RDKB would be $6.1 million.

It was too steep of a price to be borne by a thin and already taxed tax base, Gray said. In June, 2011, the cost sharing formula, pre-viously funded entire-ly by the province’s Strategic Wildfire Prevention Initiative, but administered by UBCM, was changed to require municipalities to contribute 25 per cent of the cost fuel

management planning (over $100,000).

Gray said the RDKB held a meeting with Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations Minister Steve Thomson one month ago on what had become a huge problem and an insur-mountable cost for the district for forest fire mitigation.

With wildfire potential threatening every corner of the Kootenays, they asked the minister to come up with some solu-tions to the funding dilemma.

Although it was

not a positive recep-tion from the ministry it wasn’t an outright refusal to help, Gray said.

In an email in response to questions in June, ministry offi-cials admitted changes introduced over one year ago have created some challenges and have agreed to con-tinue to sit down with the affected parties to see if anything can be done to address con-cerns.

“We know there is more work going on here and that those issues will be addressed,” said Gray.

FROM PAGE 1At the time, the convoy Vic

was part of had been going across a dyke in Holland when the Germans ambushed, machine guns ripping the trucks. Vic dove into the river to save himself.

He lived in the water for quite a while, several nights, Norm said, and he ended up in a Holland hospital. That’s when

the Salvation Army found him and brought him back home.

However, Vic contracted pleurisy as a result of his ordeal and he didn’t live to be an old timer, said Norm. The injury caused cancer in his lungs and he died at 56.

But Norm was happy to have his brother for the 35 years he did.

“People say why do I go and

sit with the Salvation Army and donate my time? I’m paying a debt, my respect back for what they did for me,” he said.

The Salvation Army is still looking for volunteers to man their kettles this Christmas. People can donate to the Army at kettles located in the Waneta Mall, Ferraro Foods, the B.C. Liqour Store, Walmart and Shoppers Drug Mart.

Salvation Army helped find missing brother

Treatments include tree removal

FROM PAGE 1However, B.C. has Canada’s

fourth-lowest unemployment rate, trailing Western Canada counter-parts Alberta (4.2 per cent), Saskatchewan (4.5 per cent) and Manitoba (5.3 per cent).

Across the province there was a decline in employment, mainly in part-time positions.

In November gains were record-ed in professional, scientific and technical services (up 11,900 jobs), forestry, fishing, mining and gas extraction (up 8,900 jobs), infor-mation, culture and recreation (up 1,900 jobs) and education services (up1,400 jobs).

There have been 29,400 job

gains since November 2011, pla-cing B.C. fourth compared to other provinces.

Regionally, Vancouver Island gained 2,000 positions, the Kootenays gained 1,700 positions and the Northeast gained 400 pos-itions.

According to the province, B.C.’s average hourly wage rate in November was up by 1.5 per cent compared with statistics from November 2011.

For B.C. youth under 25, employment increased by 1,700 positions and the average hourly wage in November was up by 6.1 per cent compared with November 2011.

Hourly wages up over last year

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

The night is dark-est just before the dawn.

And the night was darker and longer than usual for thou-sands of residents between Fruitvale and Salmo Sunday night.

Electricity winked out Sunday evening around 9:41 p.m. for around 5,000 people in the FortisBC ser-vice area.

After receiving a

call from several dusk doused residents of Salmo soon after, a FortisBC electrical crew was sent out to uncover the shadow shrouded mystery.

Electrical crews discovered a transmis-sion line that served customers between Salmo and Fruitvale had been disrupted due to a tree falling on it.

“Crews were then dispatched and were required to inspect the

line and ensure that everything was safe,” said FortisBC cor-porate communica-tions advisor Michael Allison on Tuesday.

To remove the tree, crews needed to shut off the portion of the power grid that served Fruitvale, which resulted in a tempor-ary outage to custom-ers in that area.

“Power was restored about 2:49 a.m. Monday mor-ning, said Allison.

Tree blamed for Sunday outage

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and District Teacher’s Union (PRDTU) unani-mously passed a sym-bolic motion of non-confidence stating the vote was held to defend the value of Prince Rupert teachers and to ensure educa-tion funding is spent on students and not the legal costs associ-ated with the ongoing labour dispute.

Prince Rupert union representatives said the unusual step was taken because of four years of a “tumul-tuous relationship” with the board.

“The level of dis-respect teachers have been shown the past four years is unpreced-ented in Prince Rupert. They have unsuccessfully tried to gut our collective agreement and it has cost them hundreds

of thousands of dol-lars in process; money that should have been spent on students,” Joanna Larson, head of the PRDTU, said.

Since June 2010, representatives from the PRDTU and the board have spent 17 days in arbitration/mediation due to grievances the teach-er’s union launched ranging from freedom of expression to con-tractual obligations.

Larson said these grievances costs approximately $10,000 a day, not including fees and expenses of the consultant.

“The costs continue to mount with seven more grievances set to go to arbitration, including two based on the right to freedom of expression.”

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in Prince Rupert got international attention earlier this year, with more than 2 million online posts surround-ing the topic.

“I don’t think there’s anyone that can look at [the Yertle the Turtle situation] on the face of it and think what our school district is doing is right,” Larson said.

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When it came to releasing a pair of recovering bald eagles back to nature Wednesday, ladies first was clearly not the way to go.

“So he has a chance to run,” explained Mindy Dick of the male.

Dick, a bird care and educa-tion instructor at OWL (Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society) in Delta, was among three people to rescue the pair last week from bushes just off of a walking trail in Crescent Park.

They were found Nov. 26 – inter-locked by the talons – by a woman who was out walking her dog. The male had one of the female’s talons through his neck; the female, weighing nearly a kilogram heav-ier, had a talon puncturing her left thigh. Both also had puncture wounds in their feet and bruising.

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Bev Day, founding director of OWL, said it’s unclear why the pair were scrapping, and likened the tussle to children fighting over a popsicle –“it’s the only analogy I can think of. Some of the character-istics are like spoiled kids.”

Dick, who carried the raptors out of the park said the two didn’t struggle through the process.

“They didn’t have much fight in them at all.”

Taken to the Delta facility, the otherwise healthy eagles were put on antibiotics for three days to stave off possible infection. They were released at the park Dec. 5, with the male given a 15-minute lead.

Dick described following the eagles through a rescue and release as extremely satisfying.

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Duncan is offering to meet this week with a northern Ontario chief who embarked on a hun-ger strike Tuesday out of frustration with the federal government.

Chief Theresa Spence of the remote Attawapiskat First Nation launched her protest with a vow to “die” unless the Conservative gov-ernment starts showing more respect to First Nations concerns and aboriginal treaties.

Spence wants the Crown, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and aboriginal leaders to work together to forge a new relationship.

An offer was extended last week to have Duncan’s parliamentary secretary visit Attawapiskat to ensure the reserve has what it needs to get through the winter, said Jan O’Driscoll, a spokesman for the minister.

“We continue to look forward to her response,” O’Driscoll said.

Duncan would also be prepared to meet Spence this week in Ottawa to discuss the state of her community, he added.

But the issues go well beyond Attawapiskat, Spence said in a statement.

The Harper government has embarked on an “aggressive, assimilatory legislative agenda” that flies in the face of the United Nations dec-laration on the rights of indigenous peoples, she complained.

And she accused Duncan’s office of mislead-ing the public about the social realities facing Canada’s First Nations.

Spence was at the centre of an international media storm last year because of a winter hous-ing crisis in her remote community.

She says she wants the federal government to withdraw recent legislation which she claims was forced on aboriginals. She also wants it to reverse its decision to cut funding to First Nation organizations and communities.

Thousands of protesters in cities across the country took to the streets Monday in what has been dubbed the Idle No More movement against what they say are unilateral actions by the Harper government.

They are angry over a number of bills before Parliament, including one that would force First

Nations to disclose their financial statements and the salaries of chiefs and councillors.

They are particularly upset with Bill C-45, the government’s omnibus budget legislation, which they say weakens environmental laws.

For Spence, the pain of watching her people suffer through a lack of housing and inadequate water supplies proved a tipping point.

“The treaty’s been violated (for) so many years and it’s time for the prime minister to hon-our it and respect our leaders,” said Spence, who is staying in a cabin on an island in the Ottawa River while she goes without food.

“I am willing to die for my people because the pain is too much and it’s time for the govern-ment to realize what it’s doing to us,” she said.

“I am not afraid to die. If that’s the journey for me to go, then I will go.”

Chief vows to ‘die’ if necessaryattawapiskat leader on hunger strike out of frustration with government

T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SOTTAWA - A new report from

Canada’s budget watchdog suggests the country’s federal public ser-vants have enjoyed a pretty good decade or so.

The paper from the Parliamentary Budget Officer shows the aver-age public servant costs taxpayers $114,100 a year in total compensa-tion.

What’s more, the PBO says com-pensation in the federal service has outpaced inflation and that of other employees - both in business and other levels of government - over the last 13 years.

“Total compensation (per full-time employee) in the federal work-force outpaced not only CPI (infla-tion), but also that of the Canadian business sector and provinces and territories over the study period,” the report states.

Although the government has recently announced new restraint measures that will cut the number of public servants, the PBO esti-mates that average compensation for salaries and benefits will reach $129,800 in the next three years.

Canadian Taxpayers Federation federal director Gregory Thomas

said he found some of the num-bers “staggering,” particularly since average household income growth is in the neighbourhood of one per cent.

“This government has been in office for six years, you wonder when are they are going to get serious about controlling payroll costs,” he said.

“They’re controlling head count, they are not taking the big tough steps of confronting govern-ment employee unions and telling them they are making too much money.”

The report points out that the 13-year period of growth comes after an earlier decade, between 1990-91 and 1998-99, when both personnel expenses and number of employees declined as a result of budget cutbacks.

Since then, however, the pub-lic service has more than made up for lost time and has reached new heights in terms of number of workers and compensation.

Between 1999 and 2012, person-nel costs per employee rose by an average 5.1 per cent annually, more than twice the 2.1 per cent average annual inflation rate.

PBO says average federal employee costs taxpayers $114,100 a year

T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SSAINT JOHN, N.B. - Federal Natural

Resources Minister Joe Oliver visited Canada’s largest oil refinery Tuesday in a bid to build support behind a proposal to ship Alberta crude to Eastern Canada.

Oliver was in the New Brunswick port city of Saint John, where he toured the Irving Oil refinery and later touted the economic bene-fits the development could bring to Atlantic Canada at a business luncheon.

He said as the United States increases its own oil and gas production, it’s vital for Canada to diversify its oil export markets - and the west-to-east pipeline would help.

“If we do not take heed of warnings and diversify our markets for energy by building infrastructure like pipelines, then our resour-

ces will be stranded and we will lose jobs and businesses in Canada,” Oliver told the Saint John Board of Trade.

Last month, Premier Alison Redford of Alberta and Quebec Premier Pauline Marois agreed to set up working groups to examine the economic benefits and environmental risks of pumping Albertan crude through Quebec.

The idea has also received the backing of the premiers of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Manitoba. And this past weekend, former premier Frank McKenna wrote an opinion piece for newspapers in New Brunswick also expressing his support.

The boosterism is somewhat at odds with the clash over the Northern Gateway pro-ject being proposed for Alberta and British Columbia.

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A Maritime province union is a non-starter

Imagine that you have a pile of money and several kids. Some of those kids work hard

and are quite self-suffi-cient. Some of them, on the other hand, just never quite seem able to look after themselves.

Because you’re rich and you believe all your kids deserve a similar standard of living, you pay the ne’er-do-wells a good allowance accompanied by lots of well-meaning admonitions to try and harder and make something of themselves.

But you get this sneak-ing feeling that, far from using that money sensibly to become self-sufficient, these problem children are just going through the motions to placate you but aren’t actually doing much. In fact, their appe-tite for their allowance only increases with time and you worry that your money may be making the problem worse.

What to do?You could tell them to

cut their expenses by mov-ing in together, paying only one rent instead of sev-eral, sharing the phone and light bill and groceries.

But what if the prob-lem isn’t the inefficiency in how they spend the allow-

ance, but rather the allow-ance itself?

If the allowance is what encourages the children to live large, because they can do it at your expense, wouldn’t it be more effect-ive to cut the allowance and make them decide how to make the most of the income that’s left, and per-haps even earn more of their own money to make up the shortfall?

These thoughts came to me when I learned recently that several good friends in the Senate have been trying to revive the idea of Maritime Union as the solution to that region’s perennial economic under-performance.

Surely, people like the good senators reason, the region is over-governed when the 1.7 million people in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and PEI have three premiers, cabinets, court systems, legislatures, capitals and so forth and 13 million Ontarians make do with only one of each of those things.

Far be it from me to disagree that the region is over-governed. I lived there for over 20 years, and I saw its insatiable appetite for government boondoggles up close.

The problem is that Maritime Union is a non-solution to those problems, and is guaranteed to take huge effort (including a constitutional amendment whose success would be far from assured) while holding out the very real prospect of making matters worse, not better.

Consider the evidence that has been gathered over the years from study after study of the closest equiva-lent of Maritime Union: municipal amalgamations.

The results of those studies are unequivocal. Amalgamations, far from saving money, drive up costs, partly due to the universal tendency in such circumstances to level costs up to the highest level among the pre-exist-ing units. Those costs are never levelled down.

In any case, the reality is actually that the costs of the things that Unionists bang on about – extra pre-miers, legislatures, deputy ministers and judges – are quite small beer in the grand scheme of things. People get excited about them because of their sym-bolic value, but their cost is actually tiny relative to the size of government overall.

What really costs money is the total number of civil servants and how much you pay them.

And a single Maritime province would likely have just as many teachers and nurses and civil servants actually delivering servi-ces at the same pay as at present – unless we change the incentives they operate under.

Now back to the idea of cutting the allowance (i.e. transfers from Ottawa) as a way to get these provinces to change their behaviour for the better.

The evidence is that this would have a far big-ger impact than Union, and would be much easier to achieve. Ottawa can do it, and it doesn’t require constitutional amend-ments or agreement from powerful interests, like French-speaking New

Brunswickers, who have zero interest in being a much smaller minority in a much larger province.

The Maritimes would no longer be able to pass along to federal taxpayers the costs of too many civil servants at too high salar-ies (relative to local pay).

Local taxpayers would face the real costs of the excesses of their politicians and they’d start to demand real efficiencies to get the cost of government more in line with what the local economy can bear.

Remember the econo-mist’s golden rule: subsid-ize something and you’ll get more of it. Ottawa sub-sidizes government in the Maritimes, ergo there is more of it than is really needed.

Union isn’t the answer; the effort required would be gargantuan and the likely results meagre at best. Cut their allowance: Maritimers will sort out the rest.

Brian Lee Crowley (twit-ter.com/brianleecrowley) is the Managing Director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, an independent non-partisan public policy think tank in Ottawa: http://www.macdonald-laurier.ca.

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Why is it that diluted bitu-men delivered by pipeline from East to West brings out the envirocranks to screech “tar sands goo” and “environmental Armageddon”?

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Alberta Premier Alison Redford, always on the lookout to find markets for Alberta oil, is playing footsie with separa-tist Quebec Premier Pauline Marois to move the liquid gold across several provinces to Quebec (and further to New

Brunswick) to be refined.“Clickety-click, Barba-

trick”. Magically, there is no hyped fear of environmental spills over a much greater dis-tance.

Meanwhile, with the help of the protest movement (of which both the BC and federal NDP are an active part), British Columbians might lose out on jobs and the building of a super port in Kitimat.

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ment, to cut the cheques mak-ing up the shortfall.

Also, just where is B.C. NDP Adrian Dix in all of this? On the one hand, he supports twinning an existing pipe-line from the oil sands to the port of Vancouver but not to the port of Kitimat. On the other, he wants to hold yet another environmental review after the federal review panel finishes its work on the pro-posed Northern Gateway pipe-line. It’s like watching a ping pong match from the sidelines - ganip, ganop, ganip, ganop.

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Quebec is in the grip of a full-blown crisis over munici-pal corruption, its infrastruc-ture is falling apart, and its health system is nothing to boast about. So how does the Parti Quebecois government of Pauline Marois mark its first three months in office? By reviving the old bogeyman of language, naturally.

Marois’ language minister, Diane de Courcy, introduced a “new Bill 101” this week to combat the imaginary “prob-lem” of an excess of English in public spaces. Too many shopkeepers, it turns out, are welcoming customers with a cheery “Bonjour - Hi!” instead of using a strictly unilingual greeting. And too many employ-ers are requiring fluency in both French and English when they post job openings. “It is disturbing to note that many French-speaking newcomers must take English courses if they hope to find work,” De Courcy lamented.

Sadly, from the minister’s point of view, the provincial government is so strapped that

“it is not possible” to hire a corps of language inspectors to enforce the new, stricter rules on businesses with 25 employ-ees or more (the old limit was 50). Instead, she wants all cit-izens to act as “sentinels of language” and snitch on store owners and small business people who don’t follow lan-guage regulations.

The best that can be said about the PQ’s new language law is that it’s not as bad as it could have been. When the party was campaigning for re-election in September, Marois shamelessly played the ethnic card by fan-ning baseless fears that French is losing ground. She proposed imposing language laws on tiny businesses with as few as 10 employees. She even wanted to ban students who gradu-ate from French high schools from attending English junior colleges. The biggest critics of that idea were francophones, who know the value of acquir-ing fluent English in today’s job market.

Now the PQ finds itself with just a minority mandate and has had to water down its lin-guistic ambitions. So Bill 101’s

complicated “francization” rules will apply to slightly lar-ger businesses with at least 25 workers. And French high school grads won’t be barred from English colleges. Instead, the colleges will have to give priority to English-speakers before offering any leftover spots to French applicants.

No one knows quite how that will work. Worse, the new law amends Quebec’s Charter of Rights to give priority to “the importance of its common language” over other rights, such as protection against dis-crimination based on language. Don Macpherson, a columnist with The Gazette of Montreal, writes that it “continues a trend of tipping the balance in the charter for purely political reasons, toward `values’ popu-lar with the majority and away from minority rights.”

The Marois government’s first 100 days have been a far-cical parade of policy retreats, missteps and shameless back-tracking. Its latest foray into needless language meddling shows how much worse it could have been if voters had trusted it with a majority.

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The Kelowna Rockets take part in a shoot around at the home of the Trail Smoke Eaters on Monday. Led by head coach and former Trail resident Ryan Huska, the team skated through a brisk workout before heading off for a tour of Teck and an Italian dinner at the Colander prior to starting a six-game road trip to Alberta.

Rockets’ Huska returns to home iceBY JIM BAILEY

Times Sports EditorThe Trail Memorial Centre welcomed

a group of unexpected visitors as for-mer Trail resident Ryan Huska and the Western Hockey League’s Kelowna Rockets took to the Cominco Arena ice for a workout Monday afternoon.

With the Rockets scheduled to play in Cranbrook against the Kootenay Ice Tuesday night, the former Trail minor hockey star decided to make a detour through the Silver City and enjoy a workout, before taking the players on a tour of Teck, and dinner at the Colander.

Huska, the head coach of the Rockets, was born in Cranbrook but moved to Trail at an early age and progressed through the minor hockey ranks until he graduated to junior.

“I grew up here,” said Huska. “My dad was transferred here when I was four years old, with the RCMP, and I left when I was 16 to go play junior in Kamloops, so this is kind of home for me.”

Huska went on to win three Memorial Cup rings as a player with the Kamloops Blazers, and added a fourth as an assistant coach in 2004 with the Rockets. With a fist full of

rings, Huska is one of the most decor-ated Memorial Cup champions in the history of the WHL, and is looking to nab his fifth this season.

The personable coach was happy to return to the confines of the Cominco Arena, to reminisce and give his players the opportunity to experience some of its rich history.

“This building has (changed), there are a lot of things that are different

here, not just the paint,” said Huska. “You can tell they’ve put a lot of work into it over the years and it’s nice they are able to keep it the way it is.”

Huska’s also led the Rockets to a WHL championship and second place finish at the Memorial Cup in 2009 and looks to continue the success this sea-son. The Rockets currently are second in the B.C. Conference of the Western division with an 18-9-1-1 record, trail-ing league-leading Kamloops.

“We had a tough start to the year where 11 of our first 16 were on the road, but I thought our players did a good job of coming together early on, and right now we’re doing a good job of playing together as a team.”

The Rockets have won 12 in a row at home, but will continue their six-game road trip from Cranbrook through Alberta this week with games against the Lethbridge Broncos, Medicine Hat Tigers, and Red Deer Rebels before returning home Sunday after a tilt with the Calgary Hitmen.

Huska is in his sixth season as head coach of Kelowna, and the past two years was also assistant coach for Team Canada at the World Junior Hockey Championships where he won silver and bronze medals.

B Y T I M E S S T A F FThree Glenmerry Bowl junior bowlers have

rolled their way to the provincials after taking gold at the Zone E qualifying tournament last week.

All gold medal winners automatically qualify for the singles event at the B.C. championship in Kelowna/Vernon in March.

Trail’s Brice Paugh won the junior boys gold after throwing a combined five-game score of 968, while team mate Mitchell Isenor claimed silver with a 924.

In the senior girls category, Kennady Keraiff held off a charging Tyler Burt from Cranbrook by tossing the highest total of the tournament, an impressive 1,188 for the gold, while Burt came in second at 1,187, and Katy Fowler of Glenmerry Bowl picked up bronze.

Meanwhile, Jacob Plett of Trail pulled out the victory with a 1,158 total in senior boys, to beat silver medalist from Castle Bowl, Axel Wood, and bronze medalist, Devon Fulton of Glenmerry Bowl.

Ryan Huska was happy to take his Kelowna Rockets on a tour of the Silver City.

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Trail Smoke Eater captain Garrett McMullen has been leading by example all season, but his excep-tional contribution last week was recog-nized by the BCHL in awarding the 20-year-old forward with Player of the Week honours.

McMullen was named first star in both of Trail’s overtime victories last week, scoring the winner in a 2-1 win at Vernon Thursday, then add-ing two goals in the Smokies’ 6-5, come-from-behind vic-tory over Langley on Friday. The Rochester, N.Y. native sits 14th in the BCHL in scoring with 14 goals and 30 points.

Smokies defense-man Braden Pears was given an honourable mention for the week-ly award. The 19 year-old set up McMullen’s winner against the

Vipers and scored the overtime goal against the Rivermen. Since joining the Smoke Eaters in late September, Pears has scored 4 goals and 19 points, and sits sev-enth among BCHL defensemen in scoring this season.

The Smokies are on the road in West Kelowna Friday, but return home to begin a three-game, pre-holiday home-stand Saturday against Vernon at 7:30 p.m.

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B Y T I M E S S T A F FThe Greater Trail

Bantam AA team came up just short on the weekend, as the Penticton Vees took home top honours at the GTMHA Bantam tournament.

The hosts went 2-and-1 in the round robin, opening the tournament with a 7-4 win over Castlegar Friday, then tak-ing out Spokane 4-1 Saturday. However, a surprising Penticton Vees Bantam team shut out Trail 4-0 Saturday night.

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Bantams have had the Vees number this sea-son, winning 2-of-3 in Okanagan Mainland Amateur Hockey Association play, including 6-2 and 5-3 wins last month, but the Vees set the stage for this weekend with a 4-2 win over the Bantam Smoke Eaters in Penticton last week.

With the round robin loss, the second-seeded GTMHA Tier 2 Bantams took on last year’s tourna-ment champion West Kelowna Warriors in the semifinal Sunday

morning. Greater Trail

played solid two-way hockey and skated with the Warriors to a 2-2 tie in regulation. However, the Warriors scored on a fortun-ate bounce in sudden death overtime period to head to the final against Penticton.

The Warriors were heavy favourites, but Vees goalie Shane Farkas stoned the West Kelowna attack in backstopping Penticton to a 4-0 win Sunday afternoon.

After a 0-0 first per-iod, the Vees got on the board on the power play when Simon Snyman wristed home what proved to be the winning goal at 17:04 in the second per-iod. Michael McLean added an insurance marker before the period was out, and the Vees counted two more in the third to ice it.

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B Y T I M E S C O R R E S P O N D E N T The Tyson and

Siddall game lived up to expectations as the two top teams battled for Trail Men’s Retiree curling supremacy.

The lead changed hands four times in the game and was tied 7-7 heading into the final end.

The Siddall four-some with hammer, kept a path to the

button open, but the Tyson team managed to hide two rocks in the eight foot.

With last rock in the eighth, and 60 people looking on, Siddall needed a piece of the four foot for the win. The sweepers jumped on it, but try as they might the rock came up just short and Tyson stole two for the 9 - 7 win.

After a brief time on the disabled list, Primo Secco rejoined and skipped his team to victory in Men’s Retiree curling.

Team Wyton gave the Secco rink all that they could handle. With the score tied 5-5 after seven ends, the Secco foursome had hammer coming home, and made no mistake, scoring two for the 7-5 victory.

In a lopsided game the Handley rink led the McKerracker rink 5-1 after just four ends. Down but not out, the McKerracker team scored four in the fifth to tie the game, then went on to steal in the sixth, seventh and eighth ends. When the fog cleared, the final was 11-5 McKerracker.

The Stewart versus Hall game was a true display of the holiday season with both skips giving each other points all night. The biggest gift, however, came in the fourth end. With the Hall team sitting three, Stewart needed a hit-and-roll toward centre to count one. The rock stayed out and only chipped the Hall rock past the pin, giving Hall three for an even-tual 6-5 victory.

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Lakers to 100 Mile House, with the new fran-chise dubbed the Wranglers.

Andy Oakes, president of the Okanagan Hockey School which owns the Lakers, said he’s positive about the sale.

“I think the community of 100 Mile House is a quality community for the KIJHL,” said Oakes.“We have enjoyed having the Lakers, but it was time to move on.”

100 Mile House president and Nelson native Tom Bachynski and his group is confident they will be a solid franchise.

The Leaf alumnus said 100 Mile House hasn’t had a junior B team since the Blazer club competed in the Cariboo Hockey League 30 years ago and there is a hunger in the com-munity.

“It’s been a long run for us,” he said. “Christmas has come early. It’s the best gift we could have ever asked for. It was a pretty emotional night last night. It’s great for our community.”

Bachynski is part of a group that built the South Cariboo Recreation Centre nine years ago specifically to host a junior B team.

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Dear Annie: My hus-band and I have been married for 20 years. We have two boys, and the oldest is non-verbal autistic. “Austin” can write, and he wears a talking device around his neck. He likes to shop and enjoys eat-ing different things. But it makes me sad and angry when people stare at us.

I have had stran-gers tell me I shouldn’t take Austin out of the house, that I’m a bad parent if I don’t do a gluten-free diet and various other pieces of unwelcome advice. I know some people think we somehow caused this to happen, but we didn’t ask for this, and people need to realize what a mir-acle it is to have a child who is developmentally normal. We have one of each, and I feel blessed to say that.

Our society doesn’t offer enough support to families that are differ-ent. Our youngest son tries to make friends,

and no one calls back. I have reached out to neighbors, and noth-ing happens. Support groups have meetings that are often held at times that don’t work for me, and worse, if you have different opinions about what causes autism, you are ignored. I will not give up hope that things can change, because we have come so far. Thanks for letting me vent. -- Sunshine

Dear Sunshine: This must be so dif-ficult for you. There is no excuse for people who are rude enough to criticize your par-enting or have the nerve to suggest that the boy be confined

to the home. Ignore them. Professionals don’t know what caus-es autism. Some chil-dren respond to diet-ary changes, but not all. And we know that many people continue to believe that autism is a result of childhood vaccines, even though the original “research” is now considered questionable at best.

We understand how much parents want to protect their children and, in some cases, are looking to place blame. If the support groups in your area are not your cup of tea, please try the Autism Society of America (autism-society.org) or Autism Speaks (autismspeaks.org) for more oppor-tunities to connect, perhaps online.

Dear Annie: May I make another sugges-tion for holiday gifts for teachers?

When I worked in the counseling office at a high school, my most treasured gifts were the thank-you notes writ-

ten either by the par-ents or the students. Mugs, scented candles and school-themed note pads can pile up in the closet, but those notes I will keep for-ever. Knowing your efforts are appreciated is priceless. -- Mrs. G.

Dear Mrs. G: Thank you for giving our read-ers a gift idea that costs nothing and brings so much satisfaction. Teachers have often told us how meaningful these notes are. Please, readers, if a teacher has meant something spe-cial to you, let him or her know. It’s one of the nicest gifts you can give.

Dear Annie: I could not disagree more with your comments to “Enough,” who said he would not date a woman he was not physically attracted to. You said this was a superficial reason, but his choice.

I agree that it is his choice, but superficial? Not at all. I have been there. I ended a rela-

tionship because I was not attracted to him “that way.” Hearing that he was shopping for an engagement ring didn’t change my mind. My family asked how I’d feel if he turned out to be my only option, and I said

that was no reason to be with someone. Two weeks later, my now-husband asked me out. -- History Lesson

Dear History: You are confusing attrac-tion with superficial-ity. It’s understand-able not to continue

to date someone you aren’t attracted to. But “Enough” refused to even meet women who didn’t match his cri-teria for beauty. This is superficial -- meaning the surface appearance is more important than what’s inside.

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in your sign all year is taking place. Take a realistic look in the mirror and ask yourself what you can do to create a better impression in your world. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Are you in touch with the values that guide you? Do you think about them much? Today’s new Moon is the per-fect day to ponder this.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Your friends influence your mind, which influences your decisions -- hence your life. Are you happy with your friends? If you want to have more friends, be friendly! PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Give some thought to your attitude toward the author-ity figures in your life. The New Moon today is a good time to think about how you

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B y A n n A l e e G r A n tCranbrook TownsmanHe wasn’t your

average customer, but for Clyde the owl, his visit to Just 4 Pets two weeks ago saved his life.

The pet store wel-comed in an injured Great Horned Owl a few weeks ago and helped re-home it with a local raptor special-ist until he can be released back into the wild.

Brian Walker, a sales associate with 20-years experience with birds of prey, said staff became curious when a customer had a strange request.

“A customer came in, he was looking to buy some mice,” Walker said.

While the request itself isn’t strange with reptile owners, the inquisitive staff asked what the rodents were for, and discovered the customer had found a Great Horned Owl on the side of the highway between Wycliffe and Cranbrook and was looking to get him a snack.

Luckily for Clyde, Walker was working that day and offered to take a look at the injured raptor. He determined it was a younger male owl that had most likely been struck by a vehicle. He said it’s not uncom-mon for younger owls to be injured in that way.

“There’s a huge mortality rate in their first year,” Walker said. “They’re young, they’re inexperienced.”

In an owl’s first year of life their job is to reach a healthy body weight by hunting for small animals. Great Horned Owls will eat almost any small prey, from mice to small birds to rabbits.

“All birds of prey are fairly opportunis-tic,” Walker said.

Clyde was under-weight and missing an eye when he was found, but generally in good health. He had no broken wings.

“He was in fairly good shape,” Walker said.

The bird was taken into the care of Just 4 Pets until a local raptor specialist took over. Walker said he will be rehabilitated

and released if pos-sible.

It’s not uncommon for concerned cus-tomers to reach out to Cranbrook’s many pet stores when they come across an animal injured in the wild.

“We get quite a few people coming to us with wild animals,” Walker said.

In his experience, Walker said he’s had about a half a dozen injured owls brought to him in the past 20

years.But while picking

up an injured ani-mal may seem like the right thing to do, Walker said wildlife is best left where it belongs – in the wild. In fact, it is illegal to keep a wild animal as a pet.

“In situations such as this, the first thing we need to remind people of is that all wildlife is considered protected under the Wildlife Act, and it is

against the law to have wildlife in your posses-sion without a proper permit,” Walker said.

He admits it’s nat-ural for humans to want to help out an injured animal, and if one is found, there are things that can be done.

“In order to do this safely and legally, there are a few things to keep in mind,” Walker said. “First off, many young animals which may appear to be orphaned

or abandoned are usu-ally perfectly fine.

“Deer and other large animals often leave their young for extended periods of time, but will always be nearby. You should never approach a young wild animal which appears to be on its own, as this may provoke the mother into coming out of hiding and possibly even attack you.”

If you come across an injured animal, the best thing to do is con-tact the proper author-ities to deal with the situation.

“Your best bet is to continue observ-ing the animal from a distance, and report its condition and loca-tion to your local Fish and Wildlife branch or Conservation Officer,” Walker said. “They will either be able to send a trained expert to deal with the situation, or can advise you of any certified wildlife rehab programs in your area.”

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Injured owl on the road to recovery

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Clyde the owl is now recovering with a local raptor specialist and will hopefully be released back into the wild after his ordeal.

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2160 Queen Street, Rossland $240,000.

Prime development opportunity! This beautiful, fl at 90’ x 142’ lot is located close to Rossland’s downtown core.

Zoned R-3I - Multiple Family Residential, this property is ideally suited to 4 townhouses or a 7 unit apartment

building. Beautiful mountain and city views.

Call Mary A (250) 521-0525

#306 – 880 Wordsworth Ave,Warfi eld

$86,5002 bdrm. clean updated condo - looking for carefree living - with small down

payment your mortgage payments would be under $400 a month - check this out as it would be a great investment and

lifestyle - call for a viewing.Call Mark (250) 231-5591

#7-1007 Olaus Way, Rossland $325,000

This 4 bedroom townhouse style Copper Chalet condo has ski in access and lifts

just a short walk away. Open plan design with 3 bedrooms (including a large

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1773 Noran Street, Trail $84,900

Great opportunity to own a nice 2 bdrm home in East Trail - with small down

payment your monthly mortgage would be under $400 - call now for a viewing - home is vacant and you could be in by

Christmas.Call Mark (250) 231-5591

801 – 21st Street, Castlegar

$299,000Need space? 4800 sq ft house built

in1992; double garage, huge workshop, bachelor suite! Needs some TLC.

Excellent opportunity!Call Tonnie (250)-365-9665

98 Birch Avenue, Fruitvale $289,000

Immaculate 8 years young 3 bdrm/3 bath home with open fl oor plan & main fl oor laundry! Yard is fenced and easy maintenance, a sundeck in back and double garage with aggregate stone

driveway in front. Great package! Call Terry 250-231-1101

1672 Stang Road, Fruitvale $329,000

4 bdrm home on 2.6 acres with open fl oor plan, hardwood fl oors, formal dining

room, and a sunroom! A pool, sauna and fi rebox makes for great outdoor

entertaining! All this plus 1500 sq. ft. of shop and garage!

Call Terry 250-231-1101

300 Kootenay Avenue, Tadanac $238,000

This 4 bdrm charming character home has had major upgrades in wiring and insulation. The open fl oor plan takes

full advantage of the beautiful lighting, and the gracious living room features a

gorgeous fi replace, high ceilings and lots of space and light. Call now!

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

Lot 2, Highway 3B, Ross Spur $250,000

Fantastic opportunity- 29 subdividable acres for your dream home, hobby farm or to hold as an investment. Treed with

large level building sites and plenty of privacy. Electricity and telephone available at property line. Call your

REALTOR® today to view this opportunity.Call Art (250) 368-8818

NEW PRICE

1327 - 3rd Avenue, Trail $209,500

Close to Hospital, School, City Park. Covered parking, nice home

438 – 3rd Avenue, Rivervale $229,500

Quiet location, updated and modern. Super family home.

NEW LISTING

2061 McLeod Avenue, Rossland $347,000

Substantially renovated home with gorgeous master bdrm, brand new

kitchen with granite counter tops, wood stove, new windows and wiring, large 10x30 south facing deck. All this on a 0 .20 acre lot with a veggie garden and

plenty of room for all the kids toys.Call Christine (250) 512-7653

2472 Railway Street, Rossland $254,900

Bright, cozy 3 bdrm home with amazing southern views. This home comes with

additional land located across Railway St that can be used to build a garage and possible suite above. Hardwood fl oors, tons of sunlight and open kitchen and

dining area. This home should be on your viewing list!

Call Christine (250) 512-7653

309 – 12th Avenue, Genelle $269,000

Immaculate Rancher with over 2500 sq. ft. of space on the main fl oor! Tastefully

renovated offering 3 bdrms, hobby room, offi ce, huge living room, large master

with en-suite, above ground pool and hot tub, carport, and RV parking on 0.95 fl at

acres. This is a fantastic package!Call Tonnie (250)-365-9665

NEW PRICE

2320 McBride Street, Trail $355,000

Plenty of living space here for the whole family! 4 bdrms, 3 baths, open concept,

walk out basement, laminate fl oors, double carport, deck, large rooms,

and great view! At this price it will be gone soon so don’t hesitate! Call your

REALTOR® now!Call Tonnie (250)-365-9665

NEW LISTING

3727 Woodland Drive, Trail$269,000

Very well kept, bright and sunny 4bdrm home with corner fi replace, large rec

room, and workshop area. New roofi ng in spring 2012, underground sprinkling,

central air and perfect location. Call your REALTOR® to view.

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

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Trail Lions club donated $500 to the two Trail food banks and the ham-per fund of the Salvation Army. On hand to accept the donation were Patti Flack, Coordinator for the Anglican church food bank, Eleanor Harper, Coordinator, United Church food bank and Linda Ratke, Manager, Kate’s Kitchen, Salvation Army food bank.

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