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Hastings’ Kolby Buljevic gets mobbed by teammates after leading off the B.C. Little League championship game with a home run Saturday at Andy Bilesky Park. That hit would prove to be the winning run in Hastings’ 20-0 win over White Rock. Hastings now advances to the Canadian Little League championship in Edmonton next month. See story and more photos on Page 9.

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BY TIMOTHY SCHAFERTimes Staff

Cash is coming from the province to help rural areas like Trail retain its doctors, but just how that money will be

spent is still not known, said the former head of the area’s surgical department.

Dr. Andre De Greef said there was $10 million put aside in the new deal between the province and its doctors last week to address the prob-lem of retaining rural doctors,

but the details of that agree-ment have yet to be worked out.

He said doctors should know final results of the deal by mid October.

“The BC Medical Association sent out a memo on how (the fund) is yet to be

determined, how the money will be applied, and where it is going to go,” he said. “Nothing is definite at this stage.”

On July 23 the province’s doctors ratified a new four-year agreement expected to support efforts to recruit and

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BY TIMOTHY SCHAFERTimes Staff

The Greater Trail region is sorely lacking in the proper housing needed to move its econ-omy forward, according to a new attainable housing strategic plan.

The Lower Columbia Region Attainable Housing Strategic Plan is calling for region-al acknowledgement that proper housing is indelibly linked to future community econom-ic development and prosperity.

The year-long study—commissioned by the Lower Columbia Community Development Team through its attainable housing commit-tee—of the local housing market revealed a housing stock in disarray.

Greater Trail’s housing market has minimal diversity, aging infrastructure and is in poor con-dition, placing the region far behind the provincial aver-age and unable to meet the needs of its residents, as well as new people look-ing to relocate.

The report found the percentage of Greater Trail’s housing stock to be double the provin-cial average in age (over 40 years of age), and in poorer condition than the provincial average.

And, with a very high proportion of single-family dwell-ings there were not enough multi-family units, the

kind important for younger people entering the housing market as well as for seniors, available.

Although there is a sense there is lots of housing out there and it is cheap, it doesn’t meet the market’s needs, said the attainable housing committee’s chair, Jan Morton.

“So what is happening is because there are neighbouring communities that have housing at a price and better meets market demand, people may be getting jobs in our region but they are living elsewhere,” she pointed out.

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Housing stock• 65.8 per cent of the local housing stock is over 40 years old, compared to 31.2 per cent province-wide (43.8 per cent in Castlegar).• 90.4 per cent of the local housing stock is over 25 years old, compared to 61.9 per cent province-wide (75.6 per cent in Castlegar).• 55.2 per cent of the local housing stock requires only regular maintenance, compared to 67.7 per cent province-wide (57.5 per cent in Castlegar).• 34.1 per cent of the local housing stock requires minor repair, compared to 24.9 per cent province-wide (35.2 per cent in Castlegar).• 10.7 per cent of the local housing stock requires major repair, compared to 7.4 per cent province-wide (7.3 per cent in Castlegar).• 79.7 per cent of the local hous-ing stock are single detached family homes, compared to 49.2 per cent province-wide (77.4 per cent in Castlegar).

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A Vancouver Island police officer came to the rescue of a man who swerved and went down a 100-metre embankment last week.

Ian Craib was mak-ing his way past the Hannah Creek corner 14 km from Rossland on Highway 3B on a road bike, when he heard cries for help from the valley below.

“I was thinking that it could be a mountain biker when I heard somebody calling,” said Craib. He and a friend had been mountain biking the day before in the same area.

“When I did hear him, I slowed down and looked and when I saw the yaw marks (skid marks) and sort of the launch point, you could see the truck had gone off, it was at the mid-

point of the curve,”he said. “You couldn’t miss the skid marks, it was right there.”

He heard the man, an 86-year-old Greenwood resident, yelling from below.

“I tried to talk to him, but the man just kept yelling “help, help, help,” he said.

He couldn’t see any-thing at first. He put his bike down and after walking around, he saw the roof of the truck. He called to the man, finally getting voice contact.

Craib flagged down the next cars that drove by.

The second car, a physician out of Chilliwack, immedi-ately headed closer to Rossland, and cell reception range, to make the call to 911.

With help now on the way, Craib des-cended down the 100-

metre embankment to check on the victim.

“When I got down there he was kind of in and out,” he remem-bered. “The truck was completely collapsed on the roof and he had somehow man-aged to pull himself out through the win-dow onto the front of the truck. He was lying there in a really bad position, with stuff

(branches and twigs) sticking into him.”

The man was cov-ered in lacerations, as well as blood and dirt. Within 10 minutes, the doctor made his way down and the two of them comforted the man until the ambu-lance got there.

The elderly man was lucky to be alive, as the possibility of no one noticing was there.

“He was in a pos-ition, from what I could see, where if he had gone uncon-scious, nobody would have heard him and he could’ve been down there for a while,” he explained. “He was a pretty strong man to have climbed out (of the truck) at 86.”

Craib was relieved to find, upon his return to Vancouver Island, that the man was released from hospital soon after. Craib, who works for a municipal depart-ment on Vancouver Island, plans to move to Rossland in the future.

Trail and Greater District RCMP said that the man had swerved to avoid hitting a deer and in the process ended up losing control and going off the road.

The driver’s name hasn’t been released, because of an ongoing ICBC investigation.

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A Christina Lake man and his wife are dead after a tubing accident on the Kettle River on Saturday afternoon.

A resident of Scotland, who was visiting on holidays, is mis-sing and names have not been released.

“At 4:51 p.m. today (Saturday) our OCC (operation-al communications centre) in Kelowna received a emergency call from emergency health ser-

vices,” said Grand Forks RCMP’s Staff Sgt. Jim Harrison.

“Apparently a party of 13 people were tubing on the Kettle River when they were caught up in the current under the Trestle Bridge and three of the party of 13 went over the Cascade Falls.”

Harrison said that initial-ly they located the deceased Christina Lake male, who was born in 1937, and later found the body of his 71-year-old wife, in a pool between the two falls.

“Unfortunately search and rescue can’t get her out of there

tonight; with darkness it’s just way too risky. They’ll be com-ing in at first light on Sunday to extricate the body,” he said.

The aforementioned Grand Forks Search and Rescue and the Christina Lake Fire Department are assisting police with the search.

Harrison said that Swift Water techs and possibly an RCMP helicopter would be called in to aid with the search Sunday.

A witnesses at the scene reported seeing people recover-ing a body from the water and performing CPR.

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‘Unique circumstances’ for rural doctorsFROM PAGE 1

retain physicians, while also improving access to specialists and care in rural and remote com-munities.

Through the province’s com-mittee on rural issues, it was iden-tified that doctors working in rural and remote communities faced “unique circumstances compared to their urban colleagues.”

As a result, $10 million will be made available in the new agree-ment to enhance physician servi-ces in rural and remote commun-ity in places like Trail and Nelson.

“This money will support the delivery of stable community prac-tices and emergency room servi-ces as well as support ongoing training and skill development for physicians and locum coverage during vacancies,” read a release from the Ministry of Health.

It could be welcome news for such areas as the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital’s anesthesiology department, a five-person department that has been functioning at reduced levels for

several months while the hospital struggled to fill vacant positions.

Interior Health Authority (IHA) has been recruiting to get as many as two positions filled at various points in the last year.

KBRH has had some success with locums—people coming in for a short period of time—while other physicians have come in to explore the situation.

The total provincial agreement was valued at approximately $100 million over two years, $49 mil-lion for the first year and $51 mil-lion for the second year—a 1.5 per cent increase in each year accord-ing to the province.

Funding for the first two years of the agreement includes $14 million to respond to recruitment and retention issues for doctors on service or salary contracts, and $10 million to enhance the supply and stability of doctors in rural and remote communities as well as access to emergency care.

As well, there will be $10 million to address difficulties in recruiting and retaining specialists.

FROM PAGE 1“Then they are pay-

ing taxes elsewhere and are sending their kids to school elsewhere.”

The report, released last September, covered the entire Greater Trail region, from Rossland to Warfield and Trail, and up the Beaver Valley to Montrose and Fruitvale, as well as the regional district’s area A and B.

But the strategic plan, published in April, is now being toured about the region to get buy-in from local governments. In early September it will make its final stop with Trail and Warfield’s coun-cils.

The report high-lighted an increased need for seniors’ housing—both market housing and subsidized housing—and modern-izing homes currently owned by seniors. By 2021, 25.5 per cent of Greater Trail’s popula-tion will be seniors.

There was also an identified need to address affordable rental housing for people who were low income because of the significant number of people—40.1 per cent of rental households—in the region with that core housing need.

Morton said there was also a group of

individuals that they refer to as homeless, or chronically hard to house, that needed dir-ect housing support.

It’s not a simple fix, Morton explained, but will instead be a whole

bunch of small fixes that will gradually move the stock in line with the market demand.

To get there, Greater Trail governments need to begin to implement policies now that shift

the housing into a con-dition that reflects what the demand is, the stra-tegic plan noted.

That starts with amending official com-munity plans, build-ing into it the kind of housing mixes neces-sary to cover the needs, and backing it up with bylaw, policy and decision making, said Morton.

Government policy also has to overcome the stigma of multi-family housing: People’s refusal to accept such developments in their neighbourhoods.

“There has to be courage of decision making,” said Morton. “If we are looking to the future and the long term prosperity of our region, we need to make some of those courageous decisions.”

Once the strategic plan is delivered in September, there may be a housing society set up to guide the con-tinuation of the process in the region over the next 10 years.

The society would monitor trends, have housing information available for both com-munity organizations and private sector inter-ests as they consider various developments, and address housing for special population groups.

Report covers Greater Trail areaTHE HOUSING FOUNDATION

A disturbing pattern in the local economy gave rise to the need for the report and the resultant strategic plan.

The Lower Columbia Community Development Team (LCCDT) had been hear-ing from Greater Trail employers in 2008 that, as they were offering jobs to people (filling in workforce gaps due to the loss of retiring baby boomers) many were turning them down because of housing.

Those that weren’t accepting the positions being offered were asked why, and the theme that “we are not finding the housing we are looking for” came up repeatedly, said Morton.

As well, the LCDDT heard informally that people were getting jobs in the Greater Trail region but living elsewhere. And there were major challenges for low income and growing issues of homelessness.

“All of that converged and really informed the LCCDT that what they needed was a com-mittee to look at this and develop a plan of action,” said Morton.

The need gave rise to the attainable housing committee one year ago, and spawned a report and a strategic plan to put in front of the local municipal leaders for review.

This is now the critical stage, said Morton, since it will require the region to speak with a one voice on a common, critical issue.

“We really need to be looking at housing as a regional system because there are going to be times where a solution will be found in Fruitvale, and another solution in Rossland or another in Trail,” she said.

“But we need to look at the region as a whole as we address these housing demands.”

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About 30 cubic metres of rock fell onto Highway 23 North near Mica Hill near Revelstoke last Thursday, including this massive boulder. The rock fall cut off the highway for a brief period, but crews were soon able to get a one-lane bypass open. They then called for a bigger piece of equip-ment to help them deal with this giant boulder. A B.C. transportation ministry spokesperson said there were no injuries in the incident.

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disgraced former RCMP corporal who first catapulted into the public eye after Robert Dziekanski’s Taser-related death in Vancouver is not getting jail time for an unrelated conviction stemming from a fatal crash.

Benjamin (Monty) Robinson was sentenced to a one-year conditional term on Friday for attempting to block the police investigation of the October 2008 collision that killed a 21-year-old motorcyclist.

It means the 42-year-old will serve only one month under house arrest.

Robinson made the choice to use his knowledge learned as a police officer to mislead investigators, Janice Dillon said in her decision.

Robinson resigned from the RCMP last week on the same day a Crown lawyer asked for his imprisonment.

Robinson has been cited as an example of the bad apples the force has been unable to fire. B.C. has taken repeated hits for cases over recent years in which Mounties have been discredited or remain accused of wrongdoing.

The highest profile case was Dziekanski’s death in 2007, where the Polish immigrant was stunned

repeatedly with a Taser after he picked up a stapler at Vancouver’s airport. Robinson was the senior of four officers at the scene.

Family members of victim Orion Hutchinson were not happy with the court decision.

“That sentence just felt like he’s being grounded,” his mother Judith Hutchinson said angrily outside the New Westminister courthouse. “It doesn’t feel like a sentence to me, it feels like that’s not enough.”

Robinson was driving a vehicle that struck and killed Orion Hutchinson in an intersection of the Vancouver suburb of Delta, B.C., four years ago.

He was returning with his two young children from a Halloween party, where he had consumed five beers earlier in the night. After the crash, the off-duty officer left the scene to bring his two children home. While there, he gulped two shots of vodka that he later claimed was aimed at calming his nerves.

Dillon found the move was actually a deliberate act to mislead the crash investigation, noting the veteran’s extensive RCMP training had taught him that drinking booze afterwards could potentially mask the alcohol he drank earlier in the night.

THE CANADIAN PRESSV A N C O U V E R

- Lawyers for the Insurance Corporation of B.C. have argued that employees who have altered the com-pany’s email signature as part of a labour dispute could be con-sidered to be pressuring clients into supporting the union to have their claims adjusted fairly.

ICBC was in B.C Supreme Court Friday asking for an injunction that would stop more than 1,000 employees from sending out emails with an unauthorized pro-union message.

As part of an ongoing job action, the employees changed the bottom line in their work account emails to messages such as “We work, you drive; we both deserve better.”

Almost 20,000 emails have been sent with that sort of senti-ment, and the corpora-tion’s lawyers argue the tactic has hurt the insurer’s brand.

ICBC lawyer Geoffrey Litherland told the hearing in Vancouver employees were sticking words into the corporation’s mouth.

“This is not a job action the way a lock-out or strike would be. It is more of an attempt to garner sympathy for the cause,” he said.

“Freedom of expres-sion does not include union rights over employer’s property.”

But a lawyer for the union contends the case should be dealt with by the Labour Relations Board, because the messages are a form of union job action.

Jessica Burke, who represents the Canadian Office and Professional Employees Union local 378, told court the email signa-tures are no different than picketing or leaf-leting.

“(The case) clear-ly arises out of the

employer-employee relationship, which is governed by the col-lective agreement,” she said.

The union also argued ICBC has no proof its members are confusing clients or making them feel pres-sured to support the union, calling the sug-gestion “speculation.”

A judge reserved his judgment on the mat-ter.

The union and ICBC have been trying to reach a new collective agreement since 2010.

Union members passed a strike vote with 87 per cent sup-port last month, but B.C.’s labour board ruled they couldn’t stage a full-scale walk-out.

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- Whale watchers off Newfoundland call them Mutt and Jeff. For two seasons now, this rare pair of humpback whales of remarkably similar size, behaviour and friendliness has left locals and tourists awestruck.

“They’re just as much people watch-ing as we are whale watching,” said Steve Lake, a crew member for Iceberg/Cetacean Quest Ocean Tours in St. John’s, N.L.

The two whales have been known to swim right up to the side of the boat, slapping their huge pectoral fins and waving their tails.

“People are blown away by it, absolutely,” Lake said. “They can’t seem to figure out how they’re doing it or how we’re getting them to do it. They seem to think that we’re feed-ing them or giving them some sort of treat, but they’re just doing it for their own pleasure.

“Every time one does one thing, the other one tries to up him a little bit.”

Lake said the playful whales, recognizable by their tails and white markings, are never seen apart.

“We think they’re sort of twins. It’s very rare for humpbacks to have twins but it’s pos-sible.”

Newfoundland is one of the best places in the world to see hump-backs as they arrive each summer to feast

on small fish and crus-taceans such as caplin, krill and mackerel.

Cetacean refers to the large marine mam-mals that can be seen off the island including humpbacks, massive fin whales, smaller minke whales and dolphins. Killer whales are also sometimes seen.

Capt. Barry Rogers can never promise tourists a glimpse of Mutt and Jeff because every boat trip is dif-ferent as the grace-ful beasts cruise the waters between St. John’s, Cape Spear and beyond. But he said it’s an unforgettable experience for those who see them.

In 15 years of whale watching tours, he has never seen their equal.

“The most thrill-ing thing is when they gravitate right towards the boat,” he said. “I mean, it’s almost like they’re people watch-

ing. They come around the boat and look at every individual and eyeball them and come a lot of times and just practically greet them. It’s amazing.”

Humpbacks are baleen whales with a filter-feeder system in their mouths that sep-arates small fish and crustaceans from water as they feed. They can grow to lengths of about 18 metres and weigh up to 50 tonnes.

Sean Todd is direc-tor of Allied Whale, the College of the Atlantic’s marine mam-mal research group in Bar Harbor, Maine.

He knows of no documented case of humpback twins to have survived in the wild. On the rare occa-sion of a twin preg-nancy, it’s unlikely both siblings would survive because of their sheer size, he said in an inter-view.

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THE CANADIAN PRESSWINNIPEG - A 19-year-old man has been

arrested and accused of pointing a laser light at the crew of the Winnipeg Police Service heli-copter.

The helicopter was helping patrol officers break up a bonfire party on the banks of the Assiniboine River in Omand Park just before midnight Wednesday.

Constable Eric Hofley says that’s when a green laser light was repeatedly flashed at the helicopter.

The pilot was forced to take evasive action to ensure no one on board was harmed.

Hofley says the pointing of laser light beams

at the helicopter flight crew is potentially dan-gerous.

He says it’s the fourth such incident since AIR1 went into service on Feb. 1, 2011.

“Youth tend to not think properly about what the outcome might be,” of flashing a laser point-er at the helicopter crew, Hofley said.

Hofley said the 19-year-old man was released on a promise to appear.

He did not have information on what charges he is facing, but added that in the past, similar incidents resulted in charges of assault with a weapon and charges under the Aeronautics Act of projecting a bright light source at an aircraft.

Canadian economy dodging global woesTHE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA - Canada appears to be successful-ly dodging much of the economic flak currently circling the globe, having more than halved the federal deficit for the first two months of the current fiscal year.

The federal government rang up a small deficit during the April-May period, spending $832 million more than it collected in revenue, Finance Canada reported Friday in its Fiscal Monitor report.

The two-month deficit - $19 million in April, $813 million in May - is a significant improve-ment over the $2 billion reported during the same period a year ago.

Revenues in April and May were five per cent higher than a year earlier, with both corporate tax and GST revenues rising 9.3 per cent.

On the other side of the ledger, program expenses were up 3.4 per cent from the previ-ous year, mainly due to higher transfer pay-ments - an expenditure Finance Minister Jim Flaherty appears to have in his sights, much to the chagrin of Canada’s premiers.

On the final day of the Council of the Federation meeting in Halifax, Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger warned that Flaherty’s new formula will cut nearly $36 billion in health transfers to the provinces over the next decade if it’s allowed to stand.

Selinger slammed Ottawa for imposing the funding scheme without consulting the prov-incial and territorial leaders, some of whom have long complained that the federal govern-

ment is taking a unilateral approach to policy development.

Flaherty’s plan to change the calculation for health transfers would take effect in 2014. In December, he announced a plan to increase health transfer payments by six per cent annu-ally until 2017.

From there, transfers would be tied to the rate of economic growth and inflation - cur-rently estimated to be about four per cent - but wouldn’t fall below three per cent.

Under that scheme, the premiers predict they’ll see $36 billion less in federal transfers from 2014 to 2024.

Selinger said the new scheme reduces Ottawa’s contribution to the health-care costs of provinces and territories to less than 20 per cent.

For the 2011-2012 fiscal year as a whole, Ottawa has reported a preliminary deficit of $23.5 billion, but that figure is likely to be adjusted.

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OPINION

Enslaved by taxes? Not necessarilyOne of the best tax-

avoidance tactics in the late Roman Empire was to sell

yourself into slavery. You didn’t really have to work as somebody’s slave, of course – it was more like rock star Hotblack Desiato being “dead for a year for tax rea-sons” in Douglas Adams’s wondrous confection “The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” – but with the legal status of slave, you were exempt from taxation.

Nowadays the legal manipulations used to avoid taxation are less dramatic, but they are spectacularly effective. James Henry, for-mer chief economist at busi-ness consultancy McKinsey and a member of the board of directors of Tax Justice Network, has just pub-lished a report, “The Price of Offshore Revisited”, that estimates the amount of wealth hidden in tax havens by the super-rich at a min-imum of $21 trillion: i.e. $21,000,000,000,000.

It might be as much as $32 trillion, he adds, but greater precision is impos-sible when the whole point of holding money overseas is to keep it secret. Henry came up with this range of numbers by sifting through data from the Bank for International Settlements,

the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and private sector analysts – and it does not even include yachts, mansions, art works and other forms of wealth held overseas.

It doesn’t matter. The point is that it’s a very large amount of money: equal to the annual Gross Domestic Product of both the United States and Japan. Some of it is the laundered pro-ceeds of crime, and much of it is money stolen from national budgets by corrupt national elites (an estimated $306 billion from Nigeria, $798 billion from Russia, $1,189 billion from China), but most is deposited by the respectable super-rich of the West.

Henry’s report, published in “The Observer” two weeks ago, calculates that almost half of the minimum esti-mate of $21 trillion is owned by just 92,000 people, some of whom pay no tax at all. A number of very small places (Liechtenstein, Cayman Islands, Jersey) and a few larger countries like Switzerland make a good living by providing these secret tax shelters, and work very hard to protect their clients from exposure.

Back home, the “high net-worth individuals” also enjoy the services of “a high-

ly paid, industrious bevy of professional enablers in the private banking, legal, accounting, and investment industries,” said Henry. We always sort of knew about it; now we know the scale.

Information of this sort is dangerous. It annoys those who merely work for a sal-ary or an hourly wage, and whose taxes have to fill the gap created by the defection of the super-rich. It might even destabilize the estab-lished social order. But the British government, at least, knows how to deal with that sort of thing.

Less than forty-eight hours after Henry’s revela-tions, British politician David Gauke, one of the Treasury ministers, went public with the assertion that the lower orders cheat on their taxes just as much as the rich. “Getting a discount with

your plumber by paying cash in hand is something that is a big cost to the Revenue and means others must pay more in tax,” he said.

Well, yes. Paying cash to a tradesman to get a discount (knowing that he will then not report this income to the tax authorities) is something that many people reading this article will have done. It is tax avoidance – and since there are a great many more of us than there are of the super-rich, these little pri-vate deals do add up to a ser-ious loss of tax revenue. Let him who always insists on a receipt cast the first stone.

David Gauke was almost philosophical about it. “Tax avoidance is not a recent problem,” he said. “In the fourth century AD, the Roman Emperor Valens had to make it illegal for individ-uals to sell themselves into slavery to avoid tax. And while this particular ruse seems to have fallen out of fashion, there will always be some who seek to shirk their civic duty.”

But it’s clear enough to ordinary people that ultra-rich people who avoid taxes on vast sums of money by employing expensive experts to hide their wealth overseas fall into a different category from the electrician who wants to be paid in cash.

And hard-pressed govern-ments, desperate for more revenue, are beginning to go after the tax havens.

Britain has made a deal with the Swiss authorities in which UK residents with undeclared assets in Swiss banks can make a one-off payment to the British Treasury of between 21 and 41 percent on their total assets, clear the slate, and remain anonymous. The Swiss will then levy a with-holding tax of 27-48 percent on future money going into those accounts, which will also go to Britain.

Germany has negotiated a similar deal, although it is still awaiting ratification by the Bundestag (parlia-ment). The US government has taken a different tack, demanding that Swiss banks hand over information on thousands of undeclared accounts held by American citizens. The heat is defin-itely on, and yet....

Yet while all this was going on, the amount of wealth that is managed by the top ten private banks, most of it held overseas in secret accounts, has more than doubled in the past five years.

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The Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission, BC office in Vancouver, will be add-ing six new federal ridings in BC. There will have to be some adjustments made to BC ridings in order to accommodate six new federal seats or MPs.

The Trail Daily Times has carried messages from the current federal NDP MP Alex Atamenenko and his support-ers. For the most part, they want the status quo or just keep the Kootenays together.

They have fear-mongered on a number of levels; one being that “we” would be better rep-resented in Ottawa, as a West and East Kootenay community.

Really?The West Kootenay has been

so neglected, an alliance with Penticton offers a fresh perspec-tive and opportunity.

Here’s my take on the pro-posed changes: Montrose and Fruitvale should stay with Castlegar, Trail, Slocan, Grand Forks, Midway, Osoyoos, Oliver and Penticton.

Nelson and Kaslo should be added to Revelstoke and

Cranbrook.Unlike the federal NDP MP

and his supporters, I have no problem working with fellow citizens in Penticton.

If the main constituency office were located there, I would ask for a sub office in Trail or Castlegar.

There is no guarantee from where the next MP hails. He or she could be from any city, town or rural area within the new ridings.

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The federal Conservatives are never shy about patting their own backs, but they moved with an indecent haste this week to claim credit for Canada’s falling crime rate.

No sooner had Statistics Canada reported that police-reported crime levels in the country had fallen to their low-est levels in 40 years than a bragging Public Safety Minister Vic Toews elbowed the statisti-cians off the national stage and attributed this positive trend to the Conservatives’ trademark get-tough-on-crime agenda.

There are a number of facts that make this claim nonsensi-cal - and prove the folly of try-ing to change complex patterns involving millions of people with simple slogans and facile policies.

First, while the Conservatives have been in office for only six years, the crime rate has been steadily dropping since 1991, and this of course includes years in which the Conservatives whipped up fears that the nation was awash in violence and illegal activity. They simply can’t take full credit for a down-ward slide in crime that began 15 years before they came to power.

Second, there is no solid line connecting specific Conservative anti-crime mea-sures, such as mandatory mini-

mum sentences for certain offences, to the drop in crime. Do they think their relatively new sentencing laws have so quickly deterred would-be criminals from stepping on the wrong side of the law?

If so, the Conservatives delude themselves and any-one gullible enough to believe them.

Indeed, one of the most obvious reasons for the declin-ing crime rate is something that neither politicians, police, courts nor social workers can claim credit for, and that is shifting demographics.

Since most violent crimes are committed by young males, Canada’s experience over the past four decades is at least partly explainable by the post-war baby boom.

In the years when there was a proportionately higher num-ber of young baby-boom men in Canada, the country experi-enced soaring rates for many kinds of crime, especially vio-lent ones. At least one happy consequence of our aging nation is that there are rela-tively fewer young men prone to acting out.

Where everyone can agree with the federal government, however, is that the overwhelm-ing message of the latest crime figures is reassuring. There were 110,000 fewer crimes reported to police in 2011 than the year before. And the sever-

ity of crime index, a tool used to measure the extent of serious crime in Canada, plummeted by six per cent.

Does this mean we have crime licked in this country? Absolutely not. One of the most intelligent responses to the lat-est crime numbers came from Christianne Sadeler, executive director of the Waterloo Region Crime Prevention Council. Rather than being sidetracked by the question of whether or not we are safer, Sadeler sug-gests we should dig deep into the numbers, examine trends and specific problem areas and determine “what they tell us about our enforcement needs and our long-term prevention needs.”

For example, the number of impaired driving incidents increased last year for the fourth time in five years. And the number of sexual offences against children increased by three per cent as child pornog-raphy incidents rose by a stag-gering 40 per cent.

A massive hiring of more police or pumping new cash into social programs might do noth-ing to change all this. Instead, we need carefully devised strat-egies to tackle specific problem areas.

This isn’t the time to declare an all-out war on crime, what-ever the Conservatives say. We need to pick our battles careful-ly and fight them one by one.

I feel compelled to write and congratulate whoever is responsible for: creating the stone wall and planters on the Esplanade; the beautiful flow-ers in the planters; and the positioning of the market.

I parked my car and walked from the Medical Building along the Esplanade to the market last Friday and was very pleasantly surprised. Indeed I was quite envious of the market stall holders work-ing in such an idyllic setting with the soothing sounds of the river as a back drop.

Needless to say there was a very happy atmosphere in the market area. Hopefully the word will spread and the stalls increase. If this is just the start of the downtown beauti-fication project I look forward to seeing more and sincerely hope the downtown business community will be supportive.

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Reg was a true gentle-man who lived a dignified life with quiet strength and consideration for everyone around him. He served our country with the Canadian Army in WWII and in 1945, took leave from active duty to marry his greatest love, Freda. They were married for 45 years until her death in 1990. Reg is also predeceased by his broth-ers Harold, Raymond and Roy. He is survived by his sister Connie (Sechelt, BC), his daugh-ter Carol (Jason) (Trail) and his son Richard (Maureen), also of Trail, and their children Cindy, Heather (Scott), Trevor (Kelly) and Tim. In 1999, our Papa became known as Big Papa, when the first of his five great-grandchildren were born (Ellie followed by Leo, Samuel, Evan and Nolan).

To us, his family, there is no finer man than Reg. We’ll miss him with all our hearts, but also celebrate his freedom and his reunion with Freda.

Our family extends heartfelt thanks to Judy Millar, Trail Home Support and the Columbia View Lodge, whose staff became friendly, fam-iliar faces and provided an exceptional level of care to Papa. A special thanks goes to our friend Shayne Brandt who cared for Papa at CVL. We were thankful for each and every shift you worked with Reg.

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Isabella Tonn of Edmonton started recovering from a rare form of cancer, she got to make a wish.

“If you could have anything you want in the whole wide world, what would it be?” her father, Ryan, asked her earlier this year.

The beautiful blond girl with big blue eyes briefly considered asking to meet Justin Bieber. But he was old news. She thought about wishing for a trip, but she’d already been to Walt Disney World with her family. Then she thought about doing something for others.

“Oh, I’d love to go to an orphanage and hold babies,” she decided. Her family tried to tempt her with other ideas, but she couldn’t be swayed.

The international Make-A-Wish foun-dation has granted about 250,000 wishes to children with life-threatening illnesses. In Canada, the charity grants about one wish a day. But spokeswoman Amber Benders says it’s unusual for sick kids to dream of doing volunteer work.

In the United States, there have been a few reports of selfless Make-A-Wish dreams. One teenage boy recently asked for lights and bleachers for his high school football stadium. Another teen wanted a donation sent to another charity, Doctors Without Borders.

“The whole point of a wish is for the child to pick what would give them ultim-ate happiness, hope, strength and joy,”

Benders says. “For Isabella, that’s volun-teering at an orphanage and we think that’s amazing.”

So the foundation is helping Isabella, her parents, and younger sister collect donations of clothes and toys before send-ing them off for a week to work at an orphanage in Baja California, Mexico. They arrive in Vicente Guerrero next month.

Her grandparents and an uncle were so inspired by her dream they have decided pay their own way so they can volunteer at the orphanage, too.

Ryan Tonn says his eldest girl has always been a generous and thoughtful child, although the family has not done much volunteer or charity work before. He and his wife, Sheila, had previously talked with their two girls about adopting an orphan from a foreign country.

But they put the idea on hold when Isabella got sick. Tonn says he wrapped his arms around Isabella one morning in February 2011 and felt a golf ball-sized lump near her left shoulder blade.

After six months of tests, she was diag-nosed with NLP Hodgkin lymphoma, a blood cancer affecting the lymph nodes.

The girl had just watched a grand-parent die of colorectal cancer and she knew having cancer meant she might also die, says Tonn. But doctors have told the family the cancer was caught early and her prognosis is excellent. Isabella had surgery and hasn’t yet needed further treatment.

He says the Make-A-Wish foundation first contacted the family when she was diagnosed but they were reluctant to accept. “There’s so many kids that have it so much worse.”

They revisited the idea again this year, about the same time they also restarted the adoption process.

Tonn says Isabella may have gotten her orphanage idea from all the adoption talk. She decided her wish would be to visit an orphanage about the same time the family learned they would be getting two-year-old twins from an orphanage in Haiti.

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Ten-year-old Isabella Tonn is recover-ing from a rare form of cancer and was given a wish from the Make-A-Wish foundation. The Edmonton girl’s wish is to volunteer at an orphanage. Isabella and her family are packing up dona-tions of clothes and toys and heading to an orphanage in Mexico early next month.

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESSOLYMPIA, Wash. - Amazon.com founder Jeff

Bezos waded into a developing corporate culture war over gay marriage Friday with a $2.5 mil-lion donation to keep same-sex unions legal in Washington state, becoming the latest in a list of high-profile executives to take public stands on a hot U.S. election issue.

Bezos joins Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and companies like Starbucks Inc. and Nike Inc. with support to the campaign to uphold Washington’s law. Gay rights advocates say the activism sends a strong message.

“Companies are a bellwether of what is in the mainstream,” said Marc Solomon, the national campaign manager for Freedom to Marry. “When you have some of the mainstays of corporate leadership stand up, that’s important. It sends a powerful message.”

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Hastings (top) left little doubt as to who the best team was in the B.C. Little League Championship at Andy Bilesky Park on Sunday with a 20-0 win over White Rock. Clockwise from batter: Hastings’ Nicholas Williams pounds this ball while Kolby Buljevic rounds the bases after leading off with a homer that proved to be the winning run. Sentri Denbiessen and Grace Cotton cool off in front of the mister, while Steven Ross cashes in a foul ball. The tournament couldn’t have run without the gals in Bob’s Kitchen and a full force of volunteers, and support from business and the community.

BY JIM BAILEYTimes Sports Editor

Despite the Trail All stars coming up short on the ball field, the 2012 B.C. Little League championships was indeed a victory for the community of Trail.

Events like the B.C. Little League Championship don’t get off the ground without a dedicated core of volunteers. The true test of whether an event soars to success or crashes and burns often depends on the committee’s ability to recruit more volunteers.

The Host committee, with co-chairs Shannon Morris Ballarin and Russ Green,

mobilized a small army of happy helpers that put in hours of work from selling 50/50 tickets, to working the concession, grounds keeping or score keeping.

“It was a beautiful week,” said Green. “The weather cooperated . . . lots of people came out, lots of people that use to play came out. It was a nice turn out. We had lots of volunteers, you know - more hands make light work.”

Local businesses, the City of Trail, and a variety of service clubs contributed over $200,000 in funds and the host commit-tee, with other volunteers, devoted hun-dreds of hours of work into getting the

field prepared, and the event on track.The success of the recent event bodes

well as Trail looks to host the 9-10 B.C. Little League provincials in 2014 and possibly a Canadian Championship down the road.

“I’m pretty sure the B.C. Little League president has seen and the other asso-ciations that were here have seen that we’re capable of holding a provincial tournament, and I’m pretty sure they’ve seen the support we’ve had from the businesses, the community, and the fan support, that we’re capable of holding a national event too,” added Green.

Hastings blasts White Rock

BY JIM BAILEYTimes Sports Editor

After a round robin loss to White Rock, Hastings came into the final of the B.C. Little League base-ball championship seeking retribution.

District 6 Hastings blanked Dunbar 8-0 in the semifinal Friday at Andy Bilesky Park and White Rock was in a close 3-2 game with Beacon Hill until blowing it open in the top of the sixth to win 21-3 in its semi to set up the rematch.

With all eyes expecting a similar round-robin thriller in Saturday’s finale, Hastings had other plans as they pounded the ball relentlessly on their way to a 20-0 victory.

“Our bats just exploded,” said Hastings man-ager Vito Bordignon. “From batting practice this morning you could see we were just on. You could see we were focused and ready to play today.”

Hastings scored runs at will all week outscor-ing opponents 100-12. Only White Rock was able to reign in their prodigious bats, as they beat Hastings 7-6 in the round robin, scoring the win-ning run in the bottom of the sixth inning and securing the first-place seed. The final outcome then, was a surprise to the District 6 team.

“I expected a better game from our team for sure, but I didn’t expect this kind of outcome, because White Rock is such a strong organization. But I mean we were just on, we kind of demoral-ized them that first inning and they couldn’t catch up.”

Hastings’ normally light-hitting lead-off hitter Kolby Buljevic set the tone immediately, hitting his first of two home runs as he airmailed a 1-0 pitch over the fence in deep centre field to make it 1-0.

“I hit as many (home runs) today almost in my career,” said Buljevic. “We were ready for this game, and waiting almost all our lives for this, and we just showed up and got lucky a bit I guess.”

Cez Paguio capped off the first inning with a three-run dinger as the Vancouver-Burnaby squad took a commanding 9-0 lead.

District six banged out 22 hits in the game as Paguio went 3-for-3 with four RBIs, while Steve Moretto was 3-for-4 with a double, and tourna-ment leading hitter, batting .727 (16-for-22) with four home runs and 16 RBIs.

“My dad always drills into my head “approach, approach, approach,” said Moretto. “I was hitting pretty well this week, I was picking the ball right out of the pitchers hand.”

Throughout the game Hasting pitcher Cole Dalla-Zana kept the White Rock batters off bal-ance, changing speeds and bringing the heat when needed. The left hander threw 59 pitches, giving up a mere two hits and striking out eight on his way to the shut-out win. Dalla-Zana finished the tournament leading every pitching category with three wins, 18 strikeouts, and a 1.27 ERA.

“Unbelievable game,” Bordignon said of Dalla-Zana. “We were worried about him and weren’t sure how his arm was feeling but he came out this morning and was ready to go – It was a wonderful performance.”

Hastings now heads to the Canadian Championship in Edmonton next week, a very confident crew after such a dominating perform-ance. The team last won the national title in 2009 and the manager noted similarities.

“The bats we displayed today were phenom-enal, but very similar (to 2009), and I guess you need that type of team to get through the B.C. championship, because the B.C. championship is the most difficult challenge we’re going to face.”

The winner of the Canadian Little League championship travels to Williamsport, Mass. for the Little League World Series next month.

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THE CANADIAN PRESSLONDON - Canada won’t have to wait an entire

week for its first medal of the London Olympics, and you could hear the relief in Mark Tewksbury’s voice.

Canada’s chef de mission was on hand to watch Emilie Heymans and Jennifer Abel win bronze in the women’s three-metre synchronized diving event Sunday, putting Canada on the board on just the second day of full competition.

It was a historic medal for Heymans, who became the first female diver and first Canadian summer Olympian in history to win a medal in four straight Olympic Games.

The result takes some of the pressure off a Canadian Olympic team looking for a fast start in London and a top-12 finish overall.

Canada didn’t win a medal until the eighth day of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and had just one medal through the first seven days of the 2004 Athens Games.

“A medal, I think, just adds that extra little bit of energy,” Tewksbury said at a news conference Sunday. “It takes a little bit of pressure off and it adds a little bit of excitement. And everybody gets to see it. We can actually have a medal in the Canadian part of the Olympic village and see what they look like and hold it in our hands.”

PITT MEADOWS-Team Canada Development Squad member Riley Fleming of Airdrie, Alta. claimed the 110th BC Amateur Championship at Swan-e-set Bay Resort and Country Club, on Sunday, becoming the first non-British Columbian to capture the title since Fred Couples in 1979.

Coincidentally, Couples won the Senior British Open yesterday, just prior to Fleming taking the B.C. amateur title.

Playing on a special exemption into the Championship, the recent Sunlife Financial Alberta Men’s Amateur champion went two-for-two on provincial championships, coming from behind to have his name etched on the Bostock Trophy as champion.

Fleming started the day one-stroke back of Victoria’s Kevin Carrigan who has gunning for a wire-to-wire victory at the difficult Swan-e-set Bay Resort and Country Club.

Unfortunately for Carrigan, it was not to be as he got off to a poor start on the second hole, carding a bogey and bringing him into a tie with Fleming.

While Carrigan was going the wrong way on the leaderboard, Fleming continued to excel, making a second-straight birdie on the par 4, 388-yard 17th after an incredible approach shot that released just past the hole.

“I was really only trying to get that putt close,” said Fleming of his 20-foot downhiller. “I definitely wasn’t trying to make it.”

Fleming’s four-round -8, 280 total gave him a three-shot cushion over Coquitlam’s Brian Jung at -5. Carrigan would finish the Championship at -2.

GOLF

Albertan wins B.C. Amateur

LEISURE

Dear Annie: My husband spends too much time on the Internet and then gets upset when I say so. Several months ago, I caught him talking to a woman online, and I’m worried it’s happening again. In spite of my suspicions, however, when I’ve checked his activity, I see nothing. (I realize he could be deleting things.)

Last night, we went out for dinner, and we weren’t in the door five minutes before he was standing in the bedroom with his tab-let in his hands check-ing his email. When I tell him I’d like him to spend more time with me instead of his com-puter, he gets angry. What can I do? -- My Husband Doesn’t Listen to Me

Dear Listen to Me: Are you objecting because your husband is addicted to his com-puter or because you think he is using it to cheat? Our concern is that he becomes angry

when you broach the subject. This defen-siveness is a way to protect his behavior. If you simply want more of his attention, first determine whether you are being too clingy, and then find effective ways to distract him. However, if you simply don’t trust him, that is a more serious issue, and we recommend counseling -- with or without him.

Dear Annie: I used to have a lot of friends, and then I went through a major depression. I tried not to lean on them too much, but I did need to talk. I was universally abandoned. I was no longer fun. I was too frightened and

depressed to go out. I couldn’t listen end-lessly to their problems anymore. I wanted them to listen to mine. But I was careful not to suck the life out of them. In fact, some friends never knew I was depressed.

So, here I am with 350 Facebook friends from high school, col-lege, work and church. Yet none of them calls. I saw these same people through mul-tiple calamities. They will respond if I con-tact them, but that’s it. They are happy to like my Facebook status or comment on a photo, but no one invites me anywhere.

When I was at rock bottom, I often contem-plated suicide. I sought help and got medica-tion and counseling and am better. I’m sure if I died, these same people would show up at my funeral and say wonderful things about me.

If anyone sees them-selves in this, please

check out your roster of friends and show some friendliness. I sure could use some. -- Lost in the City

Dear Lost: We suspect that when you went through an extended period of stay-ing home, your friends developed the habit of enjoying themselves without you. You’ve made great steps in recovery, but might not be high on their list of social contacts. And please remember that 350 Facebook “friends” do not equal one or two real-life supportive friends.

You will need to make the next several moves, inviting people to go out to dinner, a movie, an art exhibit, a fashion show, what-ever appeals to you. Once they remember how much they enjoy your company, things will improve. And if these friends continue to be distant, it’s time to find some new ones.

Dear Annie: I’d like to weigh in about hav-

ing flowers at funerals. My mother was ada-mant on this subject. She always told me that if I couldn’t bring her flowers when was alive, she sure didn’t want them when she was dead. So my brother and I gave her

flowers whenever we could.

At her funeral, we had a single red rose on her casket. It was her favorite flower. I’m sure the people attending the service thought we were being cheap, but I felt we kept to her

wishes. I’m sorry about the florist’s loss of income, but my moth-er’s preferences were much more important. -- Chattaroy, Wash.

TODAY’S CROSSWORD

SOLUTION FOR YESTERDAY’S SUDOKU

Sudoku is a number-plac-ing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with several given numbers. The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so that each row, each col-umn and each 3x3 box contains the same num-ber only once. The diffi-culty level of the Conceptis Sudoku increases from Monday to Friday.

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LEISURE

For Tuesday, July 31, 2012 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) This is a wonderful day to sit down with others, especially siblings, relatives and neighbors, to make seri-ous plans about the future. Everyone is in a practical and friendly frame of mind. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) This is an excellent day for business and commerce. You have a realistic approach to how you earn money and how you spend it. You want practical future security. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) This is a lovely day. You feel comfortable and secure, and yet, at the same time, you’re prepared to work steadily for whatever you want, with a practical eye to the future. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Research of any kind will go well today. You have the patience and concentration necessary to be successful in

looking for what you want. LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Discussions with someone older or more experienced than you will benefit you today. By all means, work with others to learn some-thing or get advice. VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Bosses, parents, teach-ers and VIPs are impressed with you today. You look like you’ve done your home-work. You look like you’re prepared. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) This is an excellent day to make long-range plans for future travel. It’s also a good day to study anything or to have serious discussions about politics, philosophy and religion. SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Take some time to look at red-tape details concern-ing inheritances, taxes, debt and such. You’re in the right

frame of mind to address these issues. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Relationships with oth-ers will be sober and serious today; however, they’ll be realistic. New relations that begin will be steady and they could involve a difference of class or education. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) You’re willing to work hard today because you want

results. You don’t need to be pampered and you don’t need a lot of praise, because you’re just interested in get-ting the job done. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) This is a good day for parents and teachers to sit down and discuss the care and education of their chil-dren. Everyone involved is seeking realistic goals.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Discussions with a par-ent or an older relative could benefit you today. You also might want to make attrac-tive, long-lasting improve-ments at home. YOU BORN TODAY You have a deep interest in the philosophical ramifications of life. You’re intrigued by the interactions of society and people. You’re fascinat-ed by stories of persecution,

tyranny and courage, and you want to communicate and share your ideas. You are practical and realistic, and a very hard worker. Look for opportunities to study or learn something important in the coming year. Birthdate of: J.K. Rowling, author; Wesley Snipes, actor; Victoria Azarenka, tennis player. (c) 2012 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

TUNDRA

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YOUR HOROSCOPEBy Francis Drake

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The Service Contracts Specialist will be responsible for creating competitive bid documentation and developing related agreements for various program operations and support services. Also responsible for developing policies and procedures for all procurement activities and facili-tates the development and issuance of all service contracts.

The ideal candidate will have a university degree in business administration, engineering, economics or law. Preferably with a Supply Chain Management Professional (SCMP) designation or equivalent and a minimum 5—10 years of progressively responsible contracting experience in the construction industry. A good knowledge of contract law, analysis, practices, procedures and drafting of legal documents is expected. Demonstrated negotia-tion skills and ability to effectively apply analytical tools, concepts and methods is also a requirement.

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Montrose $495,000 Patty Leclerc-Zanet 250-231-4490

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

MLS# K214846

New Listing

Fruitvale $409,000 Rob Burrus 250-231-4420

MLS# K213040

Christina Lake $1,500,000 Rob Burrus 250-231-4420

MLS# K213216

Trail $123,500 Rob Burrus 250-231-4420

MLS# K214620

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Listing

Fruitvale $330,000 Rob Burrus 250-231-4420

MLS# K205510

Trail $449,900 Patty Leclerc-Zanet 250-231-4490

MLS# K212192

New Price

Beaver Falls $329,900 Patty Leclerc-Zanet 250-231-4490

MLS# K210797

New Price

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Montrose $395,000

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Fruitvale $267,000

MLS# K212336host: Rhonda

Sat, Aug 4, 12:00 - 2:00pm 8392 Theatre Road

Trail $265,000

MLS# K212989host: Patty

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NEW LISTING

329 Wilson Road, Fruitvale $189,900

Excellent opportunity to own 10 acres with a 3 bdrm 2 bath house and 16x32 shop. House

needs work but you can’t go wrong at this price! Act fast!

Call Tonnie (250)-365-9665

NEW LISTING

1672 Stang Road, Fruitvale $349,000

4 bdrm home on 2.6 acres with open floor plan, hardwood floors, formal dining room, and a sunroom! A pool, sauna and firebox makes for great outdoor entertaining! All this plus 1500 sq. ft. of shop and garage!

Call Terry 250-231-1101

NEW LISTING

675 Shakespeare Street, Warfield

$174,000Beautifully maintained upper Warfield home

with a sunny dining area addition. One bedroom on the main floor, two upstairs and

another in the basement that could easily be a rec room. Nice yard with a patio for

summer dining. Garage & a large workshop below.

Call Mary A (250) 521-0525

1175 & 1185 Green Ave, Trail $279,000

2 houses! Both are in beautiful condition and completely finished inside and out.

Plenty of parking too. These would be great revenue properties or combination home and

mortgage helper.Call Darlene (250) 231-0527 or Ron (250) 368-1162

#7–2205 Rockland Avenue, Trail $235,000

Adult oriented 1/2 duplex, corner unit, beautifully landscaped. This duplex features open floor plan , 9’ ceilings,

main floor laundry, well maintained, low maintenance fees include yard and snow

maintenance. Call now!

1200 2nd Ave & 1352 Taylor St.Trail

$189,000Opportunity is knocking! Not only do you

buy a cute and cozy 2 bdrm home, but at this amazing price you also purchase a separate approx 250 sq. ft. building. This building is

perfect for a home based business, a studio, a shop or whatever needs you may have.

Call now!Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

898 Schofield Highway, Warfield$131,700

Great location to live in and rent out suite or use as a rental property. The single family home has a full suite in lower level. The

upper floor is clean and ready to move in or rent out. Updated flooring and paint, great

covered parking. This is a great opportunity, move in and have a lot of your mortgage

paid for you.Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

565 Rossland Avenue, Trail $155,000

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

windows, electrical and roofing. A terrific home at a great price.

Call Mary M (250) 231-0264

1912 Hummingbird Dr, Fruitvale $399,500

Built in 2008 this 4 bdrm, 3 bath home boasts vaulted ceilings, fireplace and

loads of sunlight. Enjoy the bright spacious walkout basement with covered

deck, large family room/hobby room, and access to the double garage. All this situated on a quiet street on a very large

flat lot.Call Deanne (250) 231-0153

1745 Kitchener Ave, Rossland$259,000

Great 4 bdrm family home on 0.24 acres. Large walk out basement with a bright rec

room and wood stove. The living room boasts awesome mountain views and a gas fireplace. Lots of parking for all the

toys. Call your REALTOR(R) today to view this home!

Call Christine (250) 512-7653

3245 Lilac Crescent, Trail$209,900

Located on one of Trail’s most beautiful blocks, this home offers 3 bdrms, huge

living room, hardwood floors, and a family/recreation room downstairs. Property offers a back yard with plenty of room for the children

to run and play together with a mature garden area.

Call Art (250) 368-8818

628 Turner Street, Warfield $114,900

Features include upgraded wiring & electrical-newer furnace-paint-flooring-light fixtures-windows-fenced backyard with new deck-large covered porch all on a quiet dead end street. Basement

is ready for your ideas. Priced right and waiting for new owners.

Call Mark (250) 231-5591