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HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE AT TRAIL LIBRARY

Jeffrey Morris, 3, and his mom Amanda made their way from Warfield to the Trail library Saturday to take advantage of the Christmas crafts at the facility’s Holiday Open House. Jeff picked out what contents he wanted in his snow globe while his mom helped him with the glue gun. See more photos on Page 2.

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“What’s the rush?”Asked about 85 people

who showed up at a meeting Monday night on the pro-posed road closures in the Pend D’Oreille valley.

Many stood at the Charles Bailey Theatre with a reason they cared about the Pend D’Oreille, whether it was the mining community con-cerned for their livelihood or seniors who relied on motor-ized transportation to extract elk from the bush during hunting season.

Regardless, the majority of conversation rested on the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resources lack of proper public consultation and inadequate resources to best make its case on limit-ing motorized access in the valley.

“I’m sure everyone in the

room agrees that the preser-vation of our lands and wild-life is our top priority,” said Area A director Ali Grieve, who instead took the oppor-tunity to talk about the min-istry’s attempt at opening up dialogue on the draft plan that’s part of an update to the spring 2016 edition of the B.C. Hunting and Trapping Synopsis.

She pointed out that last night was the first pub-lic meeting, and another one after Christmas in the Fruitvale area should be scheduled to ensure more people can attend post-hol-iday season. She also shared frustration after attempting to follow a suggested link that didn’t point her to a prom-ised online forum where she could share her views.

From the ministry’s per-spective, a recent increase

Public requests better information on Pend D’Oreille

road closures

Choosing the final front page to feature for the Trail Times 120th an-niversary was no simple task. We’ve spent the year browsing through Silver City history that can only be captured through the stories of local news.

We began in January with the po-etic prose of the Trail Creek News, the paper’s first edition published on brown butcher paper in October, 1895.

From there, fragile pages of the century-old newspapers served as

a reminder of the city’s rich heritage and how Trail grew from a dusty stopover to the place it is today.

Most of all, the news-paper, which is stored in the Trail archives, docu-mented what was going on in the world over 120 years, as well as in small town B.C.

That leads to this final front page - when crowds gathered downtown for the lighting of the Olympic torch.The flame passed through Jan 24, 2010 alongside rock n’ roll Coca Cola buses filled with youth who

pumped up community spirit.

Armed Forces reservist Sharman Thomas carried the Olympic torch through downtown and onto the celebration stage, where he lit the community caul-

dron.More than 1,200 people gathered

that Sunday, including former Trail Mayor Dieter Bogs, Trail hockey Olympian Seth Martin, decathlon star Gerry Moro, then Minister of Education Margaret MacDiarmid (former Trail doctor), 92-year old Vicky Bisaro, and Richard Koo a

former Trail resident who travelled from Toronto to carry the flame on home turf.

“It’s a fitting finale to a year-long review,” said Trail Times editor Guy Bertrand. “It certainly gives you a sense of how far the newspaper and the city has come in 120 years – from those first stories in 1895 of a budding mining town to the 2010 front page celebrating Trail’s role in an international event.”

“Looking back at the front pages we showcased over the year, it’s been an incredible journey through time and one we hope to keep document-ing for the next 120 years.”

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A BC man who beat a Rossland senior to death in his own home 18 years ago, has been denied early parole.

Wayne MacMillan then a resident of Castlegar, was twice convicted of first degree murder in the brutal death of Edward Vertere, 90.

“He continues to downplay his responsibility for his actions in the murder of Mr. Vertere,” states B.C. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Kelleher in his ruling, denying MacMillan a faint-hope hearing in front of a jury. “The murder, coming after torture and a beating, is particularly egregious.”

MacMillan’s case began in the Rossland Court House following his 1998 arrest, but was subsequently moved to Vancouver following a viola-tion of a pre-trial publicity ban by a Vancouver newspaper that was ruled could affect the impartiality of a local jury.

After being convicted of murder in 2000 and sen-tenced to life without parole for 25 years, MacMillan was granted a new trial after the B.C. Appeal Court ruled that a scribbled note from a juror indicated jury members may have been confused about a key point of law when they found MacMillan guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Mr. Vertere.

He was re-tried and con-victed on Dec. 14, 2003, again sentenced to life without pa-role eligibility for 25 years.

MacMillan filed for earlier parole under what’s termed the faint-hope clause.

Under section 745.6 (faint-hope clause) of the Canadian Criminal Code, a statutory provision allows prisoners sentenced to life imprison-ment with a parole eligibility period of greater than 15 years, to apply for early parole once they have served 15 years.

Kelleher said that “generally

speaking” MacMillan has done well in custody.

“Although the application has explored other factors contributing to his offences, he continues to characterize the murder of Mr. Vertere and the manslaughter of Mr. Luis Martins as event arising out of self defence,” he wrote. “It is the totality of the evidence that results in this application being dismissed.”

The judge concluded MacMillan can apply for early parole in another five years if he continues to make “suf-ficient progress.”

MacMillan has an extensive record, with 22 convictions for criminal offences between 1979 and 2001, apart from the Vertere murder conviction – as well as a second homicide.

Two months after killing Vertere, MacMillan beat an Okanagan man to death. He was convicted of manslaughter in the death of Luis Martins. He met Martins in an Osoyoos

bar, beat him to death, then drove Martins’ truck into the mountains northeast of Osoyoos and disposed of the body in a wooded area.

MacMillan was arresting for killing Mr. Vertere and Mr. Martins during a police sting, according to Justice Kelleher’s Dec. 9 court documents. MacMillan entered into what he believed was a criminal or-ganization involving illegal ac-tivity, but it was in fact, a police undercover operation.

The police masqueraded as criminals, and in June 1998, MacMillan told an undercover officer that he had killed an old man in the man’s home in Rossland. He also told the of-ficer that he had gone for a ride in a man’s truck in Osoyoos and killed the man by caving in the man’s head using his hands and boots.

According to the parole eli-gibility report, MacMillan has been escorted on temporary

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The Trail library was a happening place this past weekend when the public was invited in for Christmas crafts and carols.

St. Michael’s choir (above) made quite the impression on this little girl Saturday, who was front and centre for Christmas caroling, which was followed up by a performance from Rachelle and Andrew Freeman.

Seven-year-old Hayleigh Morris (right) from Warfield was among the kids that turned up to the Trail and District Public Library Saturday for its open house. Festive decorations formed the scene for do-it-yourself snow globes sealed shut with a cup for the top and plate for the base.

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absences for medical and family pur-poses, as well as private family visits. He married in 2013. When the mar-riage ended earlier this year, he did not disclose to his parole officer and he recently lost his job cutting fire-wood outside the gates.

“…Mr MacMillan’s response to su-pervision has been questionable up to the present time,” wrote a prison psychiatrist. “He has been secretive and areas that have bearing on his risk, and he has been dishonest when

challenged about his behaviours and choices.”

Under the faint-hope clause, of-fenders who committed their offence after December 2, 2011 are no longer eligible to apply for the faint hope clause. However, those convicted of offences that occurred prior to that date may still be eligible.

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Early parole request deniedA rash of thefts in Miral Heights has police

warning all residents to lock their car doors and remove all valuables.

“Thieves are active in the area,” says Sgt. Darren Oelke from the Greater Trail RCMP, fol-lowing three reports of items stolen from vehicles over the weekend. “Simply locking your vehicle will deter the vast majority of this type of theft.”

Late Friday night or early Saturday morning, one person or more, entered unlocked vehicles parked in the subdivision, taking change and items of value.

Police believe more vehicles were involved than were reported.

“Just before midnight on Friday, an observant resident in Warfield noticed three males get out of a pick up truck in her neighbourhood,” ex-plained Oelke. “They appear to be wearing head-lamps and ventured into the neighbours yard.”

The trio quickly departed after the resident yelled at them.

“Thieves are looking for a quick and easy way to make money,” Oelke said. “And unlocked ve-hicles are an easy target.”

Remove all items of value from your vehicle, he reiterated. “And keep it locked.”


Police remind people to lock their car doors after rash of thefts over the weekend

in off-road vehicle use and illegal trail build-ing has damaged the area, compromis-ing wildlife habitat areas and promoting the spread of invasive plants throughout the valley. The proposed Access Management Area (AMA) presented looks to maintain ac-cess and hunting op-portunities on some main roads but restrict motorized access on secondary roads to reduce the impact on wildlife populations, habitat, and sensitive ecosystems.

“Ungulate winter range is crucial for the West Kootenay because of deep snow packs and … the Pend D’Oreille has a lot of valuable ungulate winter range,” said Pat Stent, a wildlife biologist with Fish and Wildlife management. “It’s probably the high-est value winter range in the West Kootenay.”

The area also con-tains a high concen-tration of species at risk; he said, including yellow-breasted chat, western racer, rubber

boa, western skink, Lewis’ woodpecker and a common nighthawk.

There was genuine interest in preserv-ing the land for these species but the area marked for closure is vast in comparison, some pointed out.

“I went on the Internet and pulled off

maps for each of the species that are at risk,” said Chris Barlow, a Castlegar resident who grew up in Fruitvale. “Where they actu-ally fall in the Pend D’Oreille, almost every one of them are along the lower road, not in the area that you’re proposing.”

He suggested the map was “flawed” be-cause it didn’t tell the whole story. Ministry staff agreed to update the map with main points in case, includ-ing ungulate winter range and where the at-risk species live,

highlighted in a high-resolution image.

Barlow asked staff to take a step back and do the right thing: build a proper case with time and care, educate the public and find a solu-tion that people sup-port.

Many wondered why protection couldn’t be accomplished by re-turning the existing hunting seasons to what they used to be or creating a new limited entry hunting season for all ungulates and introducing specific road closures in sensi-tive habitat areas.

Forming a stake-holder committee was suggested but ministry staff struggled to find clear representation from various groups and felt that some or-ganization needed to happen locally.

The majority of peo-ple raised their hands when Bob Denny, president of Chamber of Mines, asked who would like to shut the proposal down com-pletely.

But whether this is an option at this time is unclear.

“Public interest and sustainable wildlife management are both taken into consider-ation when reviewing all regulation changes,” according to Greig Bethel, public affairs

officer and media rela-tions for the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations.

“As this proposed change is still under re-view, it would be inap-propriate for the minis-try to comment further at this time.”

A stakeholder meet-ing turned public in late October when John Urquhart Jr. leaked the closed meeting because he said the plan looked as though it was being pushed through behind closed doors.

The Trail Wildlife Association asked the ministry to host a meeting open to the public, following some backlash from its mem-bership and the general public who were look-ing for an opportunity to voice their concerns.

The public has until Dec. 31 to provide feed-back on the proposal via email at [email protected] or on the Angling, Hunting and Trapping Engagement website at apps.nrs. gov.bc.ca/pub/ahte/.

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The Charles Bailey Theatre wasn’t a full house Monday night when the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resources hosted a public meeting on proposed road closures in the Pend D’Oreille valley. About 85 people turned up to provide feedback.

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daughter Penny (Mike) of Nanaimo, sons Blair of Trail, and Stuart (Diana) of Silverton, daughter Cindy (Walt) of Quesnel. She is also survived by 14 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. She also leaves behind her one remaining sibling Mildred (Millie) Spence of the Minto House in Nakusp, who will be turning 100 years young in March. Betty was born in New Denver and raised in Annabelle. She obtained her RN at Victoria General, then returned to nurse at the Slocan Hospital. She met, married Gord and spent the rest of her life in Silverton. Betty was a true care giver and loved helping those in need. She was a true and good friend to those special few. Betty was a quiet lady that o� en kept to herself (in contrast to husband Gord). She could be counted on to help and support her community when asked. Betty loved her days cross country skiing with her close friends and could throw a good lead curling rock. She loved the beach in the summer and enjoyed describing to her grandchildren, her days of swimming across Slocan Lake. She would recite her old time songs and rhymes which the older grandkids still remember today. Betty was well known for her batches of bread, biscuits and baked beans. We will miss Mom, but knowing she is now at peace with Dad make our loss a little easier. Our sincere thanks and appreciation, go to the sta� at Minto House for all the loving care you gave our Mom. � ere will not be a memorial service. As an expression of sympathy donations can be made to the BC Children’s Hospital www.bcchildrens.cain her memory. Mom and Dad were lifelong supporters of this institution.

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On opening day at Kicking Horse Mountain Resort in 2014, Trevor Hamre got into some trouble on a treed run be-tween Bubbly and Euphoria. The incident foreshadowed a much greater ordeal, one that could have cost him his life under dif-ferent circumstances.

The DayBecause of that experience, Hamre was

determined to avoid the area - it’s a run that he calls one of his favourites and a secret shared among locals - but perfect opening day conditions can make even the most experienced boarders and ski-ers make decisions they might otherwise avoid.

In 2014, Hamre got his board stuck under a log.

In 2015, his entire body found an empty pocket deep in the snow, his head completely buried and his legs and board above him.

TrappedAfter completing a pair of top to bot-

tom runs through Bowl Over, Hamre de-cided he’d go for one last lap, this time into Crystal Bowl. It was around 11 o’clock and he was riding alone, aiming to be home with his wife, Kuljit Jaswal, and their three year-old son Bruenor, by lunch time.

Partway down the run, Hamre’s board hit an underlying log and he went air-borne.

“I cartwheeled forward into the snow and instead of hitting the top level of snow...it was just lightly covered,” he re-called.

Multiple trees had fallen sideways, causing a build up of snow on the tree branches.

“When I hit the snow, it didn’t have any resistance. I went straight into this hole and slid right under two logs,” Hamre said.

His face smashed against one log and he quickly tasted blood, but his situation was far more severe than that.

Initially, it was a struggle just to breathe.“I was fully buried over my head. I was

literally pulling snow out of my mouth,” he said.

“I got pretty frantic, moved the snow off my face and it kept falling on my face, falling in my mouth.”

Fortunately the trees were perpendicu-lar to his chest and head and there was empty space to his right and left.

“I dug out my legs with my hands until I got to a point where I could see light along my left leg, and then I knew I had air. I really calmed down after that,” Hamre said.

Pinned under the logs, with snow crash-ing down to his stomach, chest and face every time he moved his board, Hamre soon realized there was nothing he could do to get himself out.

Buried againAfter about 30 minutes of being

trapped, Hamre had to fight for his life once again when a skier or snowboarder - oblivious to the situation happening a few feet below - sprayed snow into the hole, covering Hamre’s face with snow for the second time.

“Probably a foot and a half of snow fell into the hole and that was another really frantic moment,” he said.

He managed to remove the snow once again. By this time the empty space beside him was full and packed in with snow.

“For the rest of the day it was a big struggle on whether to even try to get out, because I was bringing more snow down near my face every time,” Hamre said.

The waitFor the next several hours all Hamre

could do was wait, hope, and scream for help, his situation becoming increasingly desperate as the afternoon wore on.

“Every three breaths I screamed, for five hours,” he said.

“My head was six feet under and I didn’t think anybody could hear me…I knew it was so muffled that it would have to be somebody really close.”

Having worked at the resort for five years, he also knew that ski patrollers wouldn’t sweep the area at the end of the day and that few skiers and snowboarders would be taking this run, which is in-bounds but not particularly well travelled.

“The only people that would have been in there are expert local skiers,” Hamre said.

He shivered, partly from fear and partly from the cold.

Acceptance“My plan was to stay alive as long as I

could but I really accepted that I wasn’t probably going to make it…I thought I was dead.”

Hamre thought about a lot of things while he was trapped. He thought about his family and wished that he had been teaching Bruenor how to ski that morn-

ing. He also reflected on life itself.He thought about “that whole commu-

nity versus individual dichotomy. From skiing on my own to enjoying life on my own versus with others. That went through my head constantly.”

He thought that it would be a re-affirm-ing action one way or the other, whether he saved himself or whether someone else saved him. If somebody else saved him, it would show him that he needed commu-nity and family in his life even more than he already believed.

RescueAt 4 p.m, just as his wife Kuljit Jaswal

was preparing to call the resort and alert them of her overdue husband, Hamre was rescued.

A Kicking Horse employee (who de-clined to be interviewed for this story) was snowboarding past when he stopped for a break and Hamre’s cries were, at long last, heard.

“I just kept yelling and then he re-sponded…I was so happy. I was elated.”

Ski patrollers were quickly called to the scene and after half an hour of digging, Hamre was finally free.

ReflectionHamre recognizes just how fortunate

he is to have survived his ordeal and ex-pressed his full gratitude for all who were involved in his rescue.

“In the end, I’m so happy. I was just so blessed. I didn’t despair in the hole, I had my wits about me. I didn’t cry. I was pretty accepting.”

The tears did flow later that day when Hamre was finally able to make it home to his family.

“That was pretty emotional,” he re-called.

As for snowboarding, Hamre says his experience won’t deter him but it will make him take extra precautions, espe-cially when thinking about skiing in trees.

He hopes that his tale will serve as a caution to the rest of the skiing and snow-boarding community.

“I just hope that people wear whistles, take cellphones, ride with buddies, these are the things that I did wrong,” Hamre said.

In the immediate future, Hamre says he plans to spend some time with his son at the resort and teach him how to ski.

“I’ll probably spend the whole weekend on the bunny hill, but I’m okay with that,” he laughed.

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OTTAWA - In Mike Duffy’s telling, his last months inside the Conservative caucus were a dev-astating series of betrayals and threats, designed to force him into admitting he had botched his Senate expenses.

If there is a crux to the senator’s testimony, which reached its sixth day on Tuesday, his ani-mated description of his dealings with Stephen Harper’s team in February 2013 is it.

“I knew they were building a scaffold and every-where I looked I saw people who were betraying me, leaking stuff to the media that wasn’t true,” Duffy told the court.

“I was all alone...”Duffy has pleaded not guilty to 31 charges of

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Duffy’s defence is that he was coerced into agreeing to the scheme by powerful Conservatives, including Wright and Harper. He said he made his case to the former prime minister after a February 2013 caucus meeting, arguing that telling the public he had made a mistake with his expenses would ruin his reputation.

“I know it seems unfair, I know you didn’t break the rules, but the rules are inexplicable to our base (of political support) and therefore you’re going to have to pay the money back,” Duffy says Harper told him.

“Nigel will make the arrangements.”A few days later, he and Wright would have a

testy phone call about how Duffy should admit making a mistake and repay the expenses. The senator was continuing to dig in his heels - he felt he could prove he spent enough time on P.E.I., with other weeks spent on the road trying to raise sup-port for the Conservative party.

Duffy alleges that Wright warned him that a powerful, Conservative-dominated Senate com-mittee was poised to issue a report saying he wasn’t constitutionally eligible to sit in the Senate for P.E.I., because of his living arrangements.

“I realized that after everything that I had seen, everything that had been done to me, this seemed

like a very live option, that they wouldn’t hesitate to do this to me,” said Duffy.

“In my mind that night, I thought, this is it, I’m cooked, I’m cooked.”

When Duffy asked Wright to produce the analy-sis that said he had broken the rules, he said Wright became angry.

“He said, ‘if you keep defying the prime minis-ter, you’ll end up like Patrick Brazeau, out of the caucus and probably out of the Senate.’ And I said, ‘For what?”’ Duffy recounted, referring to Brazeau’s ouster a few weeks earlier following an assault charge.

“He said, ‘Listen to me, you’re defying the prime minister ... you’re going to do this.’ It was quite snarky.”

Wright testified in August that he had indeed pressured Duffy to repay his expenses, but that he had not raised the threat of expulsion from the Senate. On the contrary, Wright said he continually reassured Duffy that he was on a solid constitu-tional footing.

After the call with Wright, Duffy said he re-ceived more calls from Conservatives pressuring him to give in. Those conversations, combined with a new review of residency status partly triggered by then Conservative Senate leader Marjory LeBreton, caused Duffy to finally acquiesce.

“That was it. That was it. I had fought and I had fought and I had fought, and I tried every kind of resistance, but when they pulled that knife out and held it over my head, I felt I had no other choice,” Duffy said.

From there, negotiations began between Duffy’s lawyer, Wright and Harper’s lawyer. The Crown has alleged that Duffy made a number of demands around the repayment, including that he not be out of pocket for the expenses and that he be with-drawn from an independent audit by the firm Deloitte.

Duffy told the court that he never asked for money, that he told Wright he didn’t have any funds to see if that would finally make him abandon the scheme.

Instead, he said Wright told him that because he had spent so much time travelling and work-ing for the party, that the party would defray the repayment.

Wright ultimately wrote a cheque for $90,000 in late March 2013. It would emerge in the media two months later. Wright would leave the PMO, and Duffy would eventually be suspended from the Senate.

Duffy says he faced threats from Harper’s team over expenses

THE C ANADIAN PRESSTORONTO - Ontario’s premier made history

Tuesday simply by purchasing a six-pack of beer at a grocery store, something that hasn’t been legal in the province since Prohibition.

Kathleen Wynne, 62, smiled when she was asked for proof of age as she bought the beer at a Toronto Loblaws, starting the long-awaited rollout of beer sales in select grocery stores across the province.

“It’s nice to be carded,” she joked before an-nouncing that 58 grocery stores across Ontario can now legally sell beer. “Today the wait is over. Beer is here, in grocery stores, just in time for the holidays.”

The Liberal government aims to have six-packs of beer available at 58 grocery stores by the end of this month, and expand to 450 grocers, both large and small, by 2017. That’s about the same number of retail outlets as the Beer Store operates.

Newfoundland and Labrador sells beer in some corner stores and gas stations; in Quebec, beer is available on the shelves of grocery and convenience stores. New Brunswick sells a lim-ited selection of wines at some grocery stores, while Ontario sells Canadian wines at 300 Wine Rack locations, three-quarters of which are locat-ed in grocery stores but have separate checkouts.

The province is still examining ways to expand wine sales to more private stores, Wynne said.

“It is complex in terms of trade agreements,” she said. “We’re not backing off on it, but we do want to get it right.”

Making it more convenient to buy beer is all about making life easier for people who lead busy lives, said Wynne. The changes are also about fairness, she said, with at least 20 per cent of gro-cers’ shelf space for beer dedicated to products from small brewers “so that the province’s incred-ible craft brewers can continue to grow in a fair and efficient beer market.”

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The climate deal that almost 200 countries agreed to in Paris on Saturday was far better than most insiders

dared to hope even one month ago.The biggest emitters of green-

house gases, China and the United States, are finally on board. There is real money on the table to help poor countries cut their emissions and cope with warming. They have even adopted a target of holding the warming to only +1.5 degrees C, instead of the limit of +2 degrees that was the goal when the confer-ence opened.

So the thousands of delegates who spent two weeks dickering over the details of the deal in a drafty exhibition hall north of Paris felt fully justified in cheering and congratulating one another on a job well done. Given all that, it’s a pity that the deal won’t actually stop the warming.

The plus-two limit was always too high. It began as a scientif-ic estimate of when natural feed-backs, triggered by the warming that human beings had caused, take over and started driving the tem-perature much, much higher. It was actually quite a fuzzy number: at somewhere between +1.75 C and +2.25 C, the feedbacks will kick in and it will be Game Over.

So +2.0 C, for political purposes, became the limit. Beyond that, gov-ernments told us, we would have “dangerous warming”. Nonsense. We are having dangerous warming now – bigger storms, worse floods,

longer droughts – and we are only at +1.0 C.

At plus-two or thereabouts, what we get is catastrophe: runaway warming that can no longer be halted just by stop-ping human emis-sions of carbon di-oxide.

Nature will take over, and we will be trapped on a one-way escalator that is taking us up to +3, +4, +5, even +6 degrees. Hundreds of millions or even bil-lions of people would die as large parts of the planet ceased to be habitable by human beings.

If you don’t want to risk unleash-ing that, then you don’t want to go anywhere near +2, so the official adoption by the world’s govern-ments of +1.5 degrees as the never-exceed limit is a major step forward.

But note that they have only pledged “to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5C,” not to succeed. The hard-and-fast promise is still not to go past +2 – and there is not even any guarantee that that will be achieved.

In order to avoid a debacle like the one at the last climate summit in Copenhagen six years ago, no-body even tried to put enforceable limits on national carbon dioxide emissions this time. Each country was just invited to submit the emis-sion cuts that it is willing to make.

The sum of all those promised cuts (if the promises are kept) is what we will get by way of global emis-sion cuts in the next five years.

United Nations experts did the math, and concluded that these emission cuts fall far short of what is needed. If this is all that is done, then we are headed for at

least +2.7 degrees C – or rather, for a lot more, because of the feed-backs.

None of the negotiations at the Paris conference changed those numbers, or even tried to. So are we doomed to runaway warming? Not necessarily.

Most of the negotiators know that the cuts which are politically impossible now may become quite possible in five or ten years if the cost of renewable energy goes on dropping, if techniques like carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) become economically viable – and if people are sufficiently frightened by a climate that is getting wilder and less predictable by the year.

So there is a review process built into the treaty. Every five years, starting in 2018, there will be a “stock-taking” exercise in which ev-erybody’s progress in cutting their emissions will be reviewed, and everybody will be encouraged to increase their commitments and

speed up their cuts.Whether they will actually do

that depends on political, economic and technological factors that can-not yet be calculated, but fear is a great incentive, and there is no gov-ernment on the planet that is not frightened by the prospect of major climate change.

In fact, most of them would have gone a lot further in Paris if they were not nervous about getting too far ahead of public opinion at home.

Public opinion will eventually change, because there is going to be a very large amount of damage and suffering in the world as we move past +1.0 and head up towards +1.5. Will it change fast enough to allow governments to act decisively and in time? Nobody knows.

Will new green technologies sim-ply sweep the field, making fossil fuels uneconomic and government intervention unnecessary? Nobody knows that either, although many people pin their hopes on it.

We are not out of the woods yet, but we are probably heading in the right direction – and it would be right at this point to put in a good word for that much maligned or-ganisation, the United Nations.

It is the only arena in which global negotiations like this can be conducted, and its skills, traditions and people were indispensable in leading them to a more or less suc-cessful conclusion.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are pub-lished in 45 countries.

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My husband and I have the privilege of raising one of our grandchildren and this grand-child has been attending Saint Michael’s for the last three years. Although we are from the Beaver Valley, we felt it was worth the cost and any minor inconve-niences to have him enrolled at the school. Thriving among a large body of students was diffi-cult for him and the transition to a much smaller populated school made a huge positive impact on his learning and social develop-ment.

As I walk the halls of Saint Michael’s I am as always, deeply impressed by the spirit of rever-ence and peace I feel. Yet I have grown accustomed to these feel-ings as it has become common over the years. The advantage of

being an “older” parent, one who is old enough to be a parent to the teachers as well as the other younger parents, I am slowing down in life that is, taking time to “’smell the roses.”

I have come to learn that peace at St. Michaels’ is a year round commodity and as I sit back and observe I have discovered why. Although I am sure it has its own political challenges in running a safe environment for children, these remain undetectable.

But I cannot overlook the love I see and feel among the teachers for the students and also for each other. Not only do the teachers care for their own students but are well acquainted with each child that attends and shares equal attention with.

This school I am sure has its

full share of issues like any other school in our district, but what impresses me the most, is how these issues are addressed, truly one can see the true meaning of Christmas in the eyes of the chil-dren who go there, not only now but all year round.

Our grandson often takes for granted this wonderful opportu-nity, but I know someday he will look back with fond memories that will flood him with grati-tude.

One has to ask what makes the difference in the lives of these students, and perhaps the answer comes from another grade stu-dent whose poignant comment is placed on the wall among others, “I am a child of God.”

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An editorial from the New Glasgow News

The words of a good actor might well ring true in a movie. But that doesn’t necessarily translate into real life.

Some recent comments by Leonardo DiCaprio got two thumbs down among Albertans and on Twitter. Whether they gained a nod of approval from people elsewhere might depend on their knowledge of science and geography.

The Hollywood box office draw, in an issue of Vanity Fair, talked about the “terrifying” effects of climate change he’d observed while in Alberta film-ing the movie “The Revenant.” DiCaprio, who is well known as an environmentalist and phi-lanthropist, was quoted as tell-ing a film industry audience that while in Calgary, “there would be eight feet of snow and then all of a sudden a warm

gust of wind would come.” The snow would melt.

That might well be terrify-ing for someone apprehen-sive about the effects of cli-mate change. But people who remember their social stud-ies lessons from grade school will recall the phenomenon of Chinook winds. These warm winds from the mountains can indeed lick up a foot or more of snow in a day, and do so on a regular basis.

Needless to say, the actor was the subject of a bit of a roast, from scientists, Albertans and perhaps people farther afield.

The thing is, as an environ-mentalist, DiCaprio is quite right to be concerned about the causes of climate change and be passionate on the subject -- even if in this case he got some facts wrong.

But for others taking note -- perhaps fans, perhaps other

environmentalists -- this is a good illustration of the pitfalls of putting a lot of stock in the pronouncements of celebrities on a serious cause. In some cases they might be experts. But in the event that they aren’t, and they sound off in an erro-neous direction, an awful lot of people will hear the comments.

Climate change is no easy subject. Consider how many people believe that our harsh winter last year is sufficient indication that the earth isn’t steadily warming.

Hearing a discussion such as this one from DiCaprio would simply add to their ammuni-tion.

Unless otherwise assured that a celebrity really is up on a topic, it’s best to listen to the true experts. And to the ce-lebrities -- they might want to entertain more thought about their credibility.

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You & The Law®TYLEEN UNDERWOOD LAW OFFICE presents

Your boss gives you a large fi nancial gift. Can your spouse get their hands on it? Normally, no, but you could lose it or a chunk of it.

Our family law has rules for how your property (and debts) are to be divided if you and your spouse split up. For starters, family property (and debts) are to be shared equally – unless the court decides a split down the middle would be signifi cantly unfair.

But some things, like property you each owned before your relationship, and individual inheritances or gifts you get before you separate, don’t count as family property – they’re “excluded property,” which generally isn’t shared (though value increases during the relationship are).

Money or other assets “derived from” excluded property (say, money you get from selling your gift or inheritance) also typically don’t count as family property.

But how you deal with a gift or inheritance that was initially yours alone may (or may not) turn it into family property.

In one recent court case, Henry and Trudy (names changed) started living together in 2003, got married in 2004 and separated nine years later. They lived in Richmond and had three children together.

Henry had been with his employer company since 1997. About two years before he and Trudy separated, he got a large $2 million sum as an inheritance gift from the company’s principal when that wealthy businessman passed away.

Henry was a director of more than 30 companies related to his employer company.

Concerned about his risk as a company director should things go south with any of these companies, he put their Richmond family home in Trudy’s name alone for creditor protection. He agreed in court that this home was family property.

Trudy wanted to move from Richmond to Vancouver. So late 2011 (while still together), the couple used the bulk of Henry’s $2 million inheritance to buy land in Vancouver for a future home. Henry also put that land in Trudy’s name alone, and they started building.

When the couple separated in early 2013, only the new foundation had been constructed. To avoid a $500,000 loss, they completed construction although they were separated. They then sold the Vancouver house essentially at cost, avoiding a loss.

Henry argued the $2 million he’d been gifted, mostly used for the new Vancouver property (and the $2 million from its sale) were excluded property, so shouldn’t be split. But the court decided that when he put the land in Trudy’s name, making it her property for creditor protection, that was a gift to her. It turned the land into family property, so the sale money had to be shared.

Several recent cases have come to different conclusions about what happens after a separation to “excluded property” (or its sale proceeds) transferred between spouses.

This is a tricky area, so see a good family lawyer about who gets what after you and your ex separate.

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(250) 352-6638Written by Janice and George Mucalov, LL.B.s with contribution by TYLEEN UNDERWOOD LAW OFFICE. This column provides information

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In Standard American, one makes a major limit raise with

four-card support most of the time, while in Two-Over-One, a major limit raise promises four-card support all of the time.

The logic behind this is that sometimes it is better to explore secondary fits at the two-level before re-moving that level of bidding, but it is also very important to tell partner one has four-card support.

The bidding: South,

with 14 HCP’s, opens One Spade, and North, with 10-12 points and four Spades, jumps to Three Spades. South accepts the invitation with 14 or more and

bids Four Spades.The Play: West leads

the Heart Queen, top of a three-card honour sequence.

Declarer wins the Ace and cashes a top Spade. When West drops the Queen, declarer goes to the Heart King and fi-nesses East for the Jack. West could have Queen Jack frozen, but an avoidance play is necessary. East can-not be allowed in and play a Club. Letting East to gain the lead must be avoided until the Diamond finesse

is tried. The Spade Ten wins, and declarer draws East’s last trump.

The law of Restricted Choice sup-ports that declarer play. West played the Spade Queen because he was restricted to do so. He did not have the Jack. The law is just another way to say touching honours are usually split.

Declarer then runs the Diamond Ten through, and it holds. He then plays to the

Diamond Queen and pitches a Club on the Ace. He leads up to the Club King and loses two Clubs for +450. If East holds the Diamond King, the contract is doomed be-cause it would be hard for East to play any-thing but a Club.

If declarer loses to East’s Spade Jack, he will be down, losing a Spade and three Clubs. If West has the Spade Queen-Jack frozen, de-clarer will make +420.

The logic behind the major limit raise

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Johnson celebrates second cup title

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Trail native Trevor Johnson led HC Valpellice Bulldogs to the Coppa Italia hockey championship on Sunday with a 4-3 victory over Val Pusteria.

The 33-year-old former Trail Smoke Eater led all Valpellice defencemen in scoring and was tied for third overall with a goal and five assists as the Bulldogs went undefeated through the four-game tournament.

Italian born Marco Pozzi scored with 3:48 re-maining in regulation to break a 1-1 tie and lift the Bulldogs to its second Coppa Italia win in three years. Aleksandr Petrov, from Estonia, scored an empty net goal with 22 seconds left to make it 3-1. It was the second cup win for Johnson as the team captain of a Valpellice team that last won the Coppa in 2013.

The Bulldogs beat last year’s champion and Italian League lead-ers SV Renon 4-3 in the semifinal on Saturday to advance to Sunday’s finale. Valpellice advanced to the four-team playoff after win-ning a two-game series against Fassa Falcons with a 5-4 win and 4-4 tie.

Johnson leads Valpellice in scoring this season with 17 points in 21 games. The Bulldogs play in the Series A league in Italy.

Alberni Bulldogs end Smoke Eaters win streakTwo-out-of-three ain’t bad -

especially on a pro-longed road trip that saw the Trail Smoke Eaters win the first two games before falling to the Alberni Valley Bulldogs in a resched-uled Monday match.

Smoke Eater players and coaches spent many more hours on the Smokies’ bus than usual for a Vancouver Island road trip. High winds shut down ferries from Powell River to Comox follow-ing their Friday night game against the Kings, so the bus journeyed back to Horseshoe Bay in North Vancouver and waited in line at the ferry ter-minal. Unfortunately, a cross-ing seemed hopeless, and the team was forced to postpone its Saturday game in Alberni to Monday and spend the night in North Van.

“What a brutal trip,” said Smoke Eater Nick Deschenes. “We basically waited for about four or five hours then decided to just get into a hotel. We did some bowling and hung

out, and probably felt better in Cowichan (on Sunday) than we would have normally having played two games.”

The Smokies beat Powell River 4-2 Friday and trounced the Cowichan Valley Capitals 7-3 Sunday, but fell to a tough Alberni Valley Bulldogs team 4-2 on Monday.

“Every time we go into Port Alberni, they must have the game of the year every time we go there,” said Deschenes. “The second period, they were not a last place team, I mean they outshot us 16-2.”

Incredibly, it was the Smoke Eaters that scored the only goal of the period to tie the game at 1-1 heading into the third. Nick Halloran netted his 15th goal of the season on a pretty passing play from Ross Armour and Connor Brown-Maloski, but Alberni would fi-nally solve Smokie goalie Bailey MacBurnie in the third period after outshooting Trail 23-11 through two.

“Bailey MacBurnie was the one reason, but we were close down one goal. I think things

kind of unravelled a little bit, had the circumstances been different and it wasn’t our third (game) on that road trip, we might have had a little more pep.”

Dominic Thom opened the scoring at 8:52 of the first peri-od with assists going to former Smoke Eater Rhett Wilcox and Quinn Syrydiuk. Halloran tied it with 7:30 left in the second but a pair of third-period goals from Liam Conrad two min-utes apart gave the Bulldogs a 3-1 lead.

“I think because the goals came fairly quickly the previ-ous games, but they were mak-ing it pretty hard for us to get in the scoring areas, that kind of frustrated our guys early, and we just couldn’t get any trac-tion.”

Smokies captain Evan MacEachern sailed a shot in from the point that eluded a screened Brody Clayes in the Alberni net to cut the lead to one with eight minutes remain-ing, but an empty netter from Syrydiuk with 42 seconds left on the clock iced it for the dogs.

“There was a couple things we’d like to have fixed,” said Bulldogs assistant coach Adam Hayduk following the game. “I think two breakaways that we gave up, but other than that the coaching staff will be pretty happy with that effort.”

Wilcox added his second as-sist of the game in what was his first game with the Bulldogs after coming over in a trade from Cowichan Valley on Sunday.

“I think Rhett’s going to fit in pretty well here, he is a hard working player, pretty smart, and a pretty good debut,” said Hayduk.

The loss ends the Smoke Eaters four game win streak, but Trail will get right back on the ice tonight against the Vernon Vipers at the Cominco Arena. A Smokie win can tie the Vipers for the final playoff spot, coupled with a Vernon loss to Penticton Tuesday night (score unavailable), and Trail will have three games in hand on Vernon.

“We want to be the best team

Jim Bailey photo

The Alberni Bulldogs halted the Trail Smoke Eaters four-game win streak with a 4-2 victory on Monday in Port Alberni, but the Smokies still took four of six points on the successful road trip.

CONTINUED ON PAGE 15

JIM BAILEYTimes Sports Editor

BY TIMES CONTRIBUTOR

The Kootenay Savings Super League saw a slew of tremen-dous tactical games hit the ice at the Trail Curling Club this past week.

Team Bill van Yzerloo battled Team Myron Nichol down to the last rock. After holding Nichol to one in the first, van Yzerloo grabbed the only deuce in the game in the

second, then stole the third. Facing three op-position stones, Nichol calmly drew to the pot in the fourth. Control in the game swung Nichols way in the fifth when skip van Yzerloo’s short last rock tap for two over-curled, giv-ing Nichol a steal to tie the game at three. The teams traded singles for the next four ends to be tied up coming home. Team Nichol didn’t have to throw their final

The Valpellice Bulldogs and captain Trevor Johnson won the Coppe Italia on Sunday.

Nichol outlasts van Yzerloo

SUPER LEAGUE

COPPA ITALIA

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possible at the end of the year and right now we’re trending in the right direc-tion,” said Deschenes. “Collectively and as individuals we keep getting better, and I’d like to think the buy-in is pretty high right now, so we just have to keep working and see what happens.”

The 15-18-0-2 Vipers have two wins and three losses in December, while the Smokies have gone 4-2 to close the gap. Smoke Eaters goalie MacBurnie has been stellar in net, stopping 35 shots on Monday, includ-ing several spectacular saves to keep the game close. He will likely be relied

on again on Wednesday in neutral-izing the snakes.

“They play an aggressive style, but I really think in the last couple games we’ve proven that we really have a lot of fight in this group, and I think it’s going to be a good game,” said Deschenes.

The Smoke Eater players raised and donated $300 to the Salvation Army Food Hamper Drive, which will also be accepting donations of perishable food items at the door tonight. The Smoke Eaters are hoping for a big crowd for the Vipers game and have cut admission to $5 across the board. The puck drop goes at 7:30 p.m.


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CONTINUED FROM A14stone when van Yzerloo’s last rock came up an inch short for a close 6-5 Nichol win.

After their mid-season win streak, Team Albo has gone into a funk. Team Beauchamp was the latest opposition to take advantage, led by lead Marnie Matthews and second Grant Gariepy, hammering Team Albo 9-1 after ends.

Team Umpherville and Team Corvus Construction played a classic clean game with plenty of take-outs. Skip Deane Horning’s perfect double take-out for two in the first, followed by

Umpherville’s blanking the next three ends, before being forced to take one in the fifth with a nice draw to the four foot and a 2-1 Corvus lead. Umpherville blanked the seventh after Corvus took one in the sixth, before Umpherville made an awesome double-raise run-back to take one in the eighth. Umpherville tied the game in the ninth after Horning’s hit and roll slid too far, then was lying three in the 10th, but Horning deftly drew to the four foot for an exciting 4-3 Corvus win.

Team Heather Nichol and Team Fines waged a back and

forth affair with each other and the ice. Team Fines was up early, 4-2 after three, before Team Nichol scored the next four ends to be in control 7-4 after seven ends. A disastrous eighth led to a huge five-ender for Team Fines, but skip Heather was unfazed, scrounging one back in the ninth, then was laying three in the 10th when Fines came to throw his last rock. The rock settled at the back of the eight foot for a Nichol steal of one, and a fitting 9-9 tie.

The teams play this Thursday before breaking over the Holidays and resume Jan. 7.

CONTINUED FROM A14

SMOKETTES HELP OUT

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Bridget Kivell (left) and Janice Nightingale of the Smokettes women’s hockey team generously donated funds to Linda Sahl on behalf of the United Church food bank in Trail.

Smokies help out Food Hamper Umpherville pushes Horning to final rock

SCOREBOARD Hockey

BCHL All Times Pacific

Interior Division G W L T OL PtPenticton 33 29 3 1 0 59Salmon 32 20 8 2 2 44WKelowna 34 19 13 0 2 40Vernon 35 15 18 0 2 32Trail 33 15 18 0 0 30Merritt 35 10 23 0 2 22

Island Division G W L T OL PtNanaimo 34 22 11 0 1 45Powell R 31 18 12 0 1 37Cowichan 33 16 12 2 3 37Victoria 36 13 19 0 4 30Alberni 33 13 17 2 1 29

Mainland Division G W L T OL PtChilliwack 32 22 6 1 3 48Wenatche 34 20 9 3 2 45

Langley 32 18 13 1 0 37Coquitlam 34 14 15 1 4 33P.G. 34 8 24 0 2 18Surrey 33 5 27 1 0 11

Tuesday’s resultsPenticton at Vernon, 7 p.m.

N/AMonday’s results

Alberni Valley 4 Trail 2 Today’s Games

Vernon at Trail 7:30 p.m.

National Hockey LeagueAll Times EST

G W L OT PtWash 29 21 6 2 44Montreal 31 20 8 3 43Islanders 31 18 8 5 41Detroit 31 16 9 6 38NYRangers 31 18 9 4 40Ottawa 31 16 10 5 37Boston 29 16 9 4 36New Jersey 30 15 11 4 34

Pittsburgh 29 15 11 3 33Tampa 31 15 13 3 33Florida 30 14 12 4 32Phila 30 12 12 6 30Buffalo 31 13 15 3 29Carolina 30 12 14 4 28Toronto 28 10 13 5 25Columbus 32 11 18 3 25

WESTERN CONFERENCE G W L OT PtsDallas 30 22 6 2 46L.A. 30 19 9 2 40Chicago 31 17 10 4 38Arizona 30 14 14 2 30St. Louis 31 17 10 4 38Edmonton 31 14 15 2 30Minnesota 28 15 7 6 36Nashville 30 15 10 5 35Winnipeg 30 14 14 2 30Vancouver 31 11 12 8 30San Jose 29 14 14 1 29Colorado 31 14 16 1 29

Calgary 29 13 14 2 28Anaheim 29 11 13 5 27

Wednesday’s GamesOttawa at Washington, 7 p.m.Pittsburgh at Boston, 8 p.m.

Thursday’s GamesAnaheim at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

Florida at New Jersey, 7 p.m.Vancouver at Philadelph, 7

p.m.San Jose at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.Los Angeles at Montreal, 7:30

p.m.Nashville at St. Louis, 8 p.m.N.Y. Rangers at Minnesota,

8 p.m.Edmonton at Chicago, 8:30

p.m.Calgary at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.N.Y. Islanders at Colorado,

9 p.m.Columbus at Arizona, 9 p.m.


ACROSS1 Browser’s delight5 Distress acutely9 Built-up14 Feverish chill15 All, in combos16 Brain surgeon’s

prefix17 Farm structure18 Beethoven was

born there19 Majestic wader20 Advice22 Of various sorts24 Up -- -- (stumped)26 Pa Cartwright27 Red wine30 Puts out the fire35 Ibsen’s -- Gabler36 Luncheon salad37 “She Loves You”

refrain38 Left Bank pal39 Sage, in India42 Hail, to Caesar

43 Energize45 Timber wolf46 Rented a U-Haul48 Worth it50 A f f e c t i o n a t e

gesture51 On the -- vive52 S p i r a l - h o r n e d

antelope54 Woke up58 By oneself62 Pelts63 C y r u s ’ re a l m ,

today65 Point the finger at66 R u n - - ( g o

against)67 Rake68 Indigo dye69 -- Haute, Ind.70 Warm greeting71 Past the deadline

DOWN1 Not fem.

2 E x c h a n g e premium

3 Humdinger4 N i m o y o r

Bernstein5 Mr. Redford6 Soap plant7 TV news source8 Gentle9 Odd10 Furniture style11 Laird’s accent12 “Iliad” deity13 Memo21 Prepare clams23 S t e e l g i r d e r

(hyph.)25 Even-tempered27 Grain husks28 Monkey’s cousin29 Toodle-oo!31 Golden Rule word32 Fling33 Icicle sites34 Loses one’s coat36 You, once40 Michae l Ca ine

role41 Fridge maker44 Cordial

47 Sort of number49 Fracas50 Film festival city53 Maui feasts54 At the drop of

-- --55 Crawling with

56 Nose stimulus57 Quaint weapon59 Elcar or Wynter60 Be like uranium61 R e m o v e f r o m

text64 Vive le --!

TODAY’S CROSSWORD

LEISURE

Dear Annie: My wife’s niece has a 3-year-old child whom we love dear-ly. We help take care of this child and pay for a great deal of the baby’s care.

The problem is, my wife fre-quently offers advice to her niece. The niece cusses her out, and my wife ends up in tears. But my wife insists she has to keep doing this in order to help the baby.

I disagree with her logic. I told her she is simply repeating the same pattern over and over, setting her-self up for misery. This niece is not a nice person. She treats her own mother (my wife’s sister) poorly.

Her crying is disturbing to me. My wife is a social worker and says that she helps strangers, so why can’t she help her own family? -- Stop Already

Dear Stop: She can’t help her own family because she is not objec-tive enough. She also believes her background will somehow give her more authority over her niece, when it obviously does not. Unless your wife enjoys being a martyr (and she

may), she should back off from giv-ing advice and simply transfer her professional skills toward the care of the baby, who will benefit from being loved by someone who obvi-ously has a great deal to give.

Dear Annie: I keep reading let-ters from women who are concerned that their husbands of many years look at porn, go to strip clubs or have affairs. That sounds awful. But guess what can happen after 25 years of marriage? Husbands look forward to the last 25 years of their lives with their lov-ing wives, and all of a sudden, the wives act as though they don’t like their husbands anymore. All affection stops and some wives even announce that there will be no more sex ever.

We men wonder what is going on and then realize that this is meno-pause. So now, the last 25 years are not going to be nearly as good as we

had anticipated. More than half of my male friends

got divorced when their wives were in their late 50s, and sometimes the wife initiated the divorce. I have not had sex with my wife in years. Please don’t advise counseling or hormones. The women don’t believe anything is wrong, and they are jus-

tifiably reluctant to take drugs that have serious side effects.

So, ladies, decide which is better: Men viewing porn and mas-turbating (which the medical community agrees is healthy for men who aren’t having sex with their partners) or getting a divorce be-

cause the husbands are starved for affection and sex. There are two sides to every story. -- S.

Dear S.: You have made a valid point that a lot of women will not like. But women who have lost their libido often don’t understand why

their husbands aren’t equally unin-terested, and sometimes, they don’t care enough to make any effort to maintain this part of their relation-ship. This risks the marriage. Most men need the affection and com-fort that intimacy provides and are not only bewildered by this turn of

events, but also hurt and sometimes resentful. Those who turn to mas-turbation via porn are excoriated. This should not be a zero-sum game. Both husbands and wives need to be educated about these changes and understand how to best handle them within their own marriages.

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TODAY’S SUDOKU

Wife should focus efforts on baby, not niece

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