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The Ktunaxa Nation will host an omnibus bill information session on February 2 in Cranbrook ANNALEE GR ANT Townsman Staff
The Ktunaxa Nation is holding an information session for members to learn about the federal government’s omnibus Bill C-45 on February 2. The session will be led by Ktunaxa Nation member Rob Louie, a former member of the B.C. Law Association and a consultant on legal issues for the nation. He will be joined by Anna Natanik, a fellow Ktunaxa Nation member and law professor. Louie said it’s important for Ktunaxa Nation members to understand what the omnibus bill includes, because not all of it is negative. “The omnibus bill covers a number of legal areas,” Louie said. “There’s
different interests for different parties.” The session will cover six specific pieces of the large bill that will affect Ktunaxa Nation members directly. They are the Criminal Code amendment to address elder abuse, the First Nations Financial Transparency Act, land surrenders and referendums, the Family Homes on Reserves and Matrimonial Interests or Rights Act, First Nations Elections Act and safe drinking water. “They’re all important,” Louie, explained, but he said the amendments to safe drinking water will have a huge impact on the Ktunaxa Nation.
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Endangered fish face further hurdle An experiment downstream of Koocanusa has failed to coax Kootenay white sturgeon, reduced to just 1,000 fish, to spawn where their eggs can survive SALLY MACDONALD Townsman Staff
Scientists are still holding out hope for the endangered Kootenay white sturgeon after a three-year U.S. experiment failed to draw the fish upstream to where they could successfully spawn. The largest freshwater fish in North America, white sturgeon can grow to 12 feet in length and weigh up to 1,000 pounds in their 100-year life span. With an estimated 1,000 wild adult fish remaining, the Kootenay white sturgeon was listed as endangered in Canada in 2003, after nine years on the U.S. endangered list. Wild sturgeon are found in Mon-
tana, Idaho and B.C. and they spawn downstream of Montana’s Kootenai Falls and the Libby, Montana dam on Koocanusa reservoir. The fish, which don’t begin reproducing until about age 30, have been in decline since the 1950s. “Although they were potentially declining in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s, they were still reproducing, they just weren’t producing as large a year class. The last year class produced naturally was in 1974,” said Jason Flory, fish and wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Spokane, Washington.
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A Nelson-based rink headed by Cranbrook Skip Tom Shypitka is headed to the Seniors Provincial Curling Championships, after coming undefeated out of the Zone qualifying tournament held this weekend past at the Cranbrook Curling Club. Two men’s team and one women’s team are off to the provincial tournament in February, to be held in Trail. See more in Sports, page 8. Left to right: Bill King, Don Freschi, Fred Thomson and Tom Shypitka.
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Lawyer to explain omnibus significance Public invited to learn what the Idle No More protests are about Continued from page 1 The First Nations Financial Transparency Act will change the way chiefs and council operate. “Part of this act includes the legal requirement for chief and council to disclose their salary,” Louie said. Under the Family Homes on Reserves and Matrimonial Interests or Rights Act, spouses will have greater property rights. Under the current system, homes on reserves are generally owned by a male First Nations member and
ultimately the band itself. This becomes an issue in circumstances of relationship breakdown or the death of a partner. Perviously, women and children faced uncertainty when these situations rose as homes on reserves are exempt from some common-law rights under the Indian Act. The new act will change that to allow more rights for spouses, particularly non-native spouses. “In my professional opinion there are some positive changes to the
law, but there are some concerns,” Louie said. He cites the changes to elder abuse law under the Criminal Code as a positive that many can agree on. “How can you argue against something like that?” Louie said. The Idle No More protests sprung up in the wake of the C-45 omnibus bill. Louie said the protests have grown to be against the entire bill, and the information session will help Ktunaxa Nation members understand the complicated details that will impact them directly.
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After the terrible tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, people everywhere were trying to find a way to show their support to the community. Scentsy, a grassroots organization that promotes a line of wickless scented candles, fragrance products, warmers and Scentsy Buddies, a cuddly companion for children of all ages, sent out a call to its independent consultants in Canada and the U.S. to become involved. Taking up the challenge was local Cranbrook consultant Corie Brown who stopped into EKFH’s office to share her journey and to also bring a surprise. Corie explained: “In light of the horrible tragedy in Connecticut, Scentsy consultants came together to try to do something neat for the surviving students upon their arrival back at school after the holidays. Our goal was to have a Scentsy Buddy sitting on the desk of every student upon returning to school. With that in mind many Scentsy consultants started their own fundraiser to buy one, get one and then donate the buddies to two children at Sandy Hook Elemen-
“What I want to do is bring it back to the bread and butter of the omnibus legislation,” he said. “There are actually some positive measures.” The meeting will take place at the Ktunaxa Nation Council gymnasium on February 2 starting at 9:30 a.m. Lunch will be provided and transportation is being arranged. Register by January 25 by emailing Louie at rob-louie@hotmail.com. The session will begin as a lecture, then go to a round table discussion. Afterwards, Louie said he and Natanik are interested in hearing from the public how they should proceed. He expects the session to be the first of many meetings on the issue.
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Corie Brown (left), Scentsy consultant, delivers Scentsy Buddies to the EKFH’s Donna Grainger in support of kids at East Kootenay Regional Hospital Emergency Care and the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. tary.” The response was overwhelming with over 2,800 Scentsy Buddies being shipped to Sandy Hook. The enthusiasm didn’t stop there so when the school desks were full, the remaining Buddies were delivered to other kids living in the community. However, work didn’t stop there for Corie as she still received ongoing support from her clients. So even though the major drive from Scentsy completed at the end of December the desire to continue to help kids
brought her to another decision. She asked her head office and got instant approval to donate the remaining Scentsy Buddies to the East Kootenay Regional Hospital with all the financial proceeds from those gifts continuing to be sent to Sandy Hook. A win-win situation for both health care and a community in need. The Scentsy Buddies are being delivered by East Kootenay Foundation for Health for the EKRH Emergency Unit to be given out to a child in need.
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B.C., Idaho hatcheries keep sturgeon going Continued from page 1 In 2008, biologists began spilling up to 35,000 cubic feet of water from Libby Dam into the Kootenay River each spring, timed to coincide with the sturgeon’s urge to spawn. The idea was to mimic the spring freshet the sturgeon experienced before construction of the dam began in 1965 under the Columbia River Treaty. “The intent was to coax the sturgeon to migrate upstream to spawn,” said Flory. After three years of spill tests, including two with naturally high spring freshets, Flory said, “it doesn’t look like we achieved the intended results.” Instead of spawning upstream of Bonners Ferry in a cobble and gravel-bottomed stretch of the river, which is believed to be the most suitable, the sturgeon are still primarily spawning with little success in silt-filled gravel downstream of Bonners Ferry. “The sturgeon are spawning; it’s just getting them to spawn in
the right spots,” said Flory. Biologists will continue their work to encourage the sturgeon to reproduce naturally, he went on, although the next step hasn’t yet been determined. “We haven’t figured that out yet,” said Flory. “We are working with our other partners and we are going to sit down and figure out what to do. We still have the volume of sturgeon water that we work with every year.” He added that they have not yet decided whether to continue spilling water from the dam each spring. But the white sturgeon still have a future, thanks to a hatchery in Bonners Ferry, operated by the Kootenai Tribe of Idaho. Since 1991, the hatchery has produced about 200,000 white sturgeon which are then released into the Kootenay River downstream of Bonners Ferry. Each year, some of those young fish are released into Kootenay Lake in the West Kootenay.
In 2012, approximately 2,300 juvenile sturgeon were released in a special event in Creston, attended by First Nations members and elders, as well as members of the public. Kootenay white sturgeon are important both culturally and for sustenance to the Ktunaxa Nation. Last December, the Kootenai Tribe was given the green light to expand the existing Bonners Ferry hatchery, and build a new hatchery about 16 kilometres upstream where the Kootenay River and Moyie River meet. “The next generation of sturgeon will be entirely from the hatch-
About 200,000 juvenile white sturgeon have been produced from the Bonners Ferry hatchery and released into the Kootenay River to boost the endangered species. ery,” said Sue Ireland, director of the Kootenai Tribe of Idaho’s Fish and Wildlife Program. Each year since 1998, some fertilized sturgeon eggs spawned in Idaho are brought to the Kootenay Trout Hatchery
near Fort Steele. They are cultured there for about a year before being released into Kootenay Lake. Thanks to the hatcheries’ work, Flory said there is still hope for the Kootenay white stur-
geon. “We do have the hatchery program, which is always going to provide the next generation of fish. We also have some habitat restoration work that the tribe is implementing.
Those are targeted towards providing better spawning conditions for the sturgeon. And we still have some things we can try with the flows, to see if they work. So we are still hopeful,” he said.
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The lucky winners of a raffle by the Kootenay Harley Owners Group (HOG) picked up their prizes at Harley-Davidson of the Kootenays in Cranbrook on Friday, January 11. The raffle was limited to 3,000 tickets, raising money for Muscular Dystrophy Canada. Hersh Segal (left) won first prize of a $24,000 2013 “Switchback” Harley-Davidson, which will be displayed at the Prestige, where Segal works. Sean Murphy (right) won a $10,000 2013 “Sportster” Harley-Davidson. Irene Kutzner, standing, won a Harley-Davidson pub table and chair set. The prizes were presented by Wayne Schell, standing at right, director of the Kootenay HOG chapter.
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RCMP raises close to $6,000 for local sports Cpl. Chris Ne wel Kimberley RCMP
On Sept, 15, 2012, the Kimberley RCMP and Speedwatch held their annual charity golf tournament at Kimberley Golf Course. More than $5800 was raised, thanks to participants and businesses in the community. In December the funds were distributed to a number of sports organizations in Kimberly. Seven local clubs received between $400 and $900. These included: Kimberley Minor Hockey, to allow persons to have better access to their programs; McKim School, to facilitate a grade 4 and 5 swim program; Northstar Figure Skaters, to assist in purchasing a theatrical curtain; Kimberley Minor Baseball and Kimberley Soccer Association, to
purchase a line marker for the fields; Kimberley Jackrabbit Ski program, to purchase training equipment; Kimberley Seahorse Swim program, to assist with the purchase of training equipment. A grant of $1250 was given to the Kimberley Ambulance Society’s Memorial Education Fund. This is in recognition of the two ambulance attendants, Kim Weitzel and Shawn Currier, who tragically lost their lives in 2006 while on duty. The funds will go towards paramedics who wish to further their career in the medical field. In addition, a public swim session was paid for to promote physical fitness and family fun in the community. The tournament saw a record number of golfers (110) this year.
The Kimberley RCMP/Speedwatch Golf Tournament had another successful year, allowing them to dispurse almost $6,000 to community groups. Pictured above: back row, left to right: Cpl. Todd Preston, Frank Ackerman (Jackrabbits Ski program), Dave Bird (baseball), Andy Gray (soccer), Donna Newel (Northstar figure skating); front row: Nancy Ricketts, Amber Pasula (Kimberley Ambulance Society Memorial Education Fund), Sharon Gendall (Speedwatch coordinator), and Viveka Johnson (McKim School). But this endeavour would not have been possible without the
generous support of community businesses. Thank you!
Bowling alley break-in suspect caught in the act by police Townsman Staff
At 3:20 a.m. on January 11, police were called to the Regalane Bowling in Kimberley after an alert resident heard a crashing sound. Upon attendance, police located and arrested a 23-year-old male from Cranbrook.
The witness heard a crash and called police. She was able to update police and direct them to the subject. He was caught inside the business, but at another door. Damage to the doors was valued over $700 but nothing was taken thanks to the quick action
from the caller. The bowling alley is located on Archibald Street in Kimberley. The subject has been released and will attend court in March. Police appreciate the efforts of citizens who call when they observe suspicious activity.
Cranbrook, Sparwood police nab senior citzen selling cocaine Townsman Staff
Police have arrested a 64-yearold Sparwood man for trafficking cocaine. A joint drug operation between the Elk Valley and Cranbrook-Kimberley RCMP resulted in the seizure of sizeable amount of cocaine and cash after police searched a Sparwood home earli-
er this week. On January 4, 2013, officers from the Elk Valley RCMP and Cranbrook RCMP drug section executed a search warrant at a home in the 6000 block of Lower Elk Valley Road, Sparwood. As a result of the search, investigators seized over two ounces of
cocaine, along with weapons, drug trafficking paraphernalia and a little more than $16,000 in cash. A 64-year-old Sparwood man was taken into custody and will be facing various charges including possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking.
P U B L I C H E A R I NG N O T I C E Public Notice is hereby given that the Municipal Council of the Corporation of the City of Cranbrook proposes to adopt “City of Cranbrook Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 3762, 2013”. The proposed amendment will change several sections of the “City of Cranbrook Zoning Bylaw No. 3737, 2012”. The purpose of the amendment is to clarify or define permissible uses within applicable zones, update definitions, and revise or add a number of general zoning regulations. It is proposed to add “pre-school” to the Group Day Care definition in order to group similar uses and clarify the potential locations where a “pre-school” use may occur. New provisions are added to Part 4 General Regulations requiring the consolidation of parcels where two or more parcels are required to accommodate a development. In addition, a provision is added to Part 4 General Regulations enabling the use of up to six shipping containers or cargo containers for storage purposes in the M-3 - Heavy Industrial and Transportation Zone and the P-3 - Public Utility Zone only. Minor typographical errors (number or zone references) are corrected within the C-1 Community Commercial Zone and the C-3 - Neighbourhood Commercial Zone. “Gasoline service station and gas bar” are added to the C-2 - Highway Commercial Zone as permissible uses to clarify and reflect those uses within the C-2 zone. “City of Cranbrook Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 3762, 2013” may be inspected between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays, up until January 21, 2012, inclusive, as posted on the bulletin board in the foyer at City Hall or in the office of the Municipal Clerk. The Public Hearing will commence in the City Hall Council Chamber, 40 – 10th Avenue South at 6:00 p.m. on January 21, 2013. All persons who believe that their interest in property is affected by the proposed Bylaw Amendment may submit written presentations to the City of Cranbrook prior to the date of the Hearing and they may also submit written and/or verbal presentations at the Hearing, thereby allowing all persons an opportunity to be heard on this matter. SUBMISSIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED AFTER THE PUBLIC HEARING. Municipal Clerk
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Aboriginal parlay was critical first step MICHAEL DEN TANDT Postmedia News
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he fractious, chaotic parlay between aboriginal leaders and the government of Canada looks, at first blush, to have been another in a long string of failures on this file. Anyone who watched events unfold in Ottawa Friday could be forgiven for concluding this cake is baked, or unbaked, if for no other reason than that far too many aboriginal “leaders” can’t take yes for an answer. At times it was like a Seinfeld episode, writ large: All the vanity, self-delusion and foolishness of the human condition on cruel display. Manitoba chiefs, one moment angrily blocking access to Stephen Harper’s offices in the Langevin Block, the next angrily pounding on the door to be allowed in, apparently oblivious to the fact that they’d already been invited, which was the whole point of the exercise. Madness. And yet, there was method to it - not just the businesslike, nuts-and-bolts contingent of 20-plus chiefs from a majority of provinces who eventually talked turkey with the prime minister, the Indian Affairs minister and various staffers, but also the bellowing, drumming, chanting, weeping, speechifying, sloganeering and chest-beating in the streets. For what better way to force the government’s attention to the rational voices in the aboriginal leadership - including National Chief Shawn Atleo and Quebec Cree Grand Chief Matthew Coon-Come - than to hold the conversation against a backdrop of general nuttiness? If ever the Harper government needed an incentive to give Atleo tangible wins, in order to bolster his
position vis-a-vis the radicals nipping at his heels, Friday’s spectacle provided it. The irony is that, possibly for the first time in the past 150 years, the government of Canada really requires no such incentive. It was Jim Prentice, a former Indian Affairs, Industry and Environment minister and one of the ablest administrators to have served in Harper’s cabinet, who warned last fall that Western resource development, in particular pipeline construction, would grind to a halt unless aboriginals were brought onside. That’s because there is a “duty to consult,” enshrined in law, confirmed by Supreme Court rulings, that requires the government of Canada to formally consult with aboriginals on resource developments, not only on or near reserves, but within the scope of their traditional territories - in other words, practically everywhere. ‚ This means that Canada’s 600-odd aboriginal bands hold a de facto veto on much of the Harper government’s vaunted $650 billion in pending resource development and extraction. Never mind blocking the roads: The courts got there first. Resource development forms the core of the Harper government’s economic and political strategy. Indeed, in their first year of majority power the Conservatives revealed an almost monomaniacal obsession with easing resource extraction for purposes of bolstering future economic growth. So the chess board looks as follows, from the government’s point of view: A tiny, dispossessed and legitimately unhappy minority of the population - the fewer than 500,000 aboriginal Canadians who
live on reserves, which tend to be remote, northern and western, where the richest resource bodies lie - hold the power, depending on how they make their next moves, to indefinitely stonewall the economic aspirations of the majority of 34 million. That’s setting aside the spectre of insurgent actions against remote resource infrastructure, in the event the aboriginal population is further radicalized, and the only slightly less alarming prospect of blockades on the Trans-Canada highway, which could devolve into another Oka crisis. Such scenarios lie just around the corner, should this go bad. This explains why Stephen Harper, who has in the past had a yen for striking the jugular when opposed, has not done so this time. Instead he has offered one concession after another, to his credit. But therein lies the great emerging risk: Not that the Conservatives will be intransigent, but that they will lose their rational interlocutors on the aboriginal side. If Atleo, Coon-Come and their supporters are swept aside by hotheads; or if threats to block major transportation corridors are borne out, events could soon spiral out of control - with aboriginal Canadians the ultimate losers. For no amount of cleareyed goodwill in government, or elsewhere for that matter, will hold in the face of a paralyzed Highway 401. The popular backlash would be fierce, and that would dictate reactionary political choices. In other words, appearances aside, Friday was no failure. It was a difficult but vital first step. Get used to hearing about such partial victories. The search for solutions is real - and it is just beginning.
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As I put away Christmas decorations and weaned of chocolate I reflected on the holiday season of 2012. Family and friends came and went, snow stayed fluffy and I had the opportunity to witness the kind Kimberley community. On December 26 Kimberley hosted a free community dinner at Centennial Hall. While this event was not a first, it was a return of a gathering that had recently lost its core funding. Last year there was no dinner. This year we had an evening of great food, conversation and music. Thanks to the staff at Caldwell Agencies who saw the value of the Community Christmas dinner. With three weeks until dinnertime, they went into action. Support came from: Anita and Merv Haney, Axis, Alison Walker family, Des McKay, Driscoll family and the Ta Ta Creek boys, East Kootenay Addiction Services Society, Hospital Auxiliary, Husky food, Joanne Mather, Ken Jonsson, City of Kimberley, Mark Creek Market, Rotary, Sullivan Pub and many other individuals. A hot turkey and ham dinner was created, served as well as delivered to those
who could not get to the hall. There was music by the Ta Ta Creek boys and a spontaneous choir sang while we affirmed, this is a great place to be. This community event started with the heartfelt generous intentions of a few and grew with all whom shared the great night. There are now plans to have more community meals. That’s why I love Kimberley. Alison Ko Kimberley
Jumbo debate It’s nice to see the rookie NDP candidate dip her toe into the political waters with her letter “Jumbo, here and now.” I can certainly understand why she would want to take the focus off the record of the NDP when they were government, but she fails absolutely to deal with the fabrication told by her colleague from Nelson, NDP MLA Mungall. Mungall stood in front of the people of Cranbrook at Rotary Park, with rookie candidate Blissett beside her, and said with a straight face, the NDP have opposed the project
for 20 years. Bill Bennett’s obvious point in proving that this statement is false, is that the NDP cannot be trusted. Ms. Blissett is unable to provide a defense to this accurate criticism by Bennett, so she skips right over it and insists that we should forget about the past. I for one will not forget what the NDP did to the East Kootenay when they were in government: high taxes, lower take home pay and an exodus of people and businesses to Alberta. And by the way, the BC Liberal government voluntarily chose to have a referendum on the HST because they knew and admitted they blew the implementation. They then accepted the will of the people in the referendum and are rolling back the HST on April 1. To suggest that the decision to hold a referendum and then follow the will of the people, is somehow against “the will of the people”, is a very strange position for the rookie candidate to take. She may want to question the spin doctors at the coast who perhaps wrote her letter. Doug Williamson Cranbrook
Syria: No end in sight
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he most frustrating part of covering the Lebanese civil war (1975-90) was that after a while there was nothing left to say. Syria is starting to feel just the
same. It’s horrible, but atrocities are a daily event in all civil wars. It’s not going to stop any time soon, but you can only say that so many times before people get bored and move on. Except for the people who actually live near Syria’s borders, the audience for “news” about Syria has already moved on. Consider, for example, last week’s exhaustive study by the United Nations Human Rights Commission concluding that 60,000 Syrians have been killed in the civil war since March, 2011. That’s considerably higher than the previous estimates of deaths in the war, which were running around 40,000, and the UNHRC hoped that this new number would finally galvanise the rest of the world into action, but it changed nothing. The UNHRC’s interns worked hard at the job, tabulating and cross-referencing the names of the dead, but it didn’t have the desired effect. It never does: all numbers bigger than a couple of dozen just translate as “many” in the average person’s imagination. Last month’s “news” was that the Russians were on the brink of abandoning their Syrian ally, President Bashar al-Assad, which would surely bring about his rapid downfall. “One must look the facts in the face,” said Mikhail Bogdanov, Russia’s deputy foreign minister and Middle Eastern envoy. “Unfortunately, the victory of the Syrian opposition cannot be ruled out.” The world’s media, desperate for a different angle on the story, tried to build a new narrative on that: the Russians will stop defending the Syrian regime, and the United Nations Security Council, no longer paralysed by a Russian veto, will autho-
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rise foreign intervention, and perhaps years from now, Syria foreign troops (whose? don’t will indeed be ruined. ask!) will go in and stop the So why doesn’t everybody fighting. else “do something about it”? However, Bogdanov did not Because what “everybody else” actually say that a rebel victory really means is “somebody was desirable. On the conelse, but not me.” trary, he said that it would not No government is going to happen for a long time, if ever, order its soldiers to risk their and that such a victory would lives in a military intervention ruin Syria. abroad unless it has reasonThen the spokesman of the able confidence that their sacGwynne Dyer Russian foreign ministry, Alexrifice will not be futile. That ander Lukashevich, anassurance is simply not availnounced that the media had simply mis- able to governments that might contemunderstood Bogdanov: “We have not plate intervention in Syria. changed our position, and we will not It’s a quarter-century since the first dicchange it.” tatorial regimes were overthrown by Nobody else is going to change their non-violent revolutions, and the remainposition either, including all those Western ing ones have all had time to study the governments that have no intention what- phenomenon. ever of committing their troops to the SyriThey have unanimously and quite coran civil war, but use the Russian veto as an rectly concluded that their best chance of excuse for their inaction. survival is to push the protesters into vioYou can’t blame them: if they sent their lence. In a civil war, everybody is in the armies into that meat-grinder, some of wrong, and the side with the greatest their young soldiers would die. Maybe ability to inflict violence (the regime) may quite a lot of them. win. And so to this week’s piece of theatre: a Some regimes, like the Communists in widely touted speech in Damascus in eastern Europe or the apartheid regime in which President al-Assad would propose a South Africa, decided that they would not way to end the conflict peacefully. impose a civil war on the country even if He did no such thing, of course, instead the alternative was losing power. declaring his eternal refusal to negotiate Others, like the Egyptian regime two with the “terrorists” who are fighting his years ago, could not trust the army to fight army. He will only talk to the “puppet-mas- a civil war on their behalf. ters” (an unholy alliance, he claims, beBut the senior commanders of the Syritween Israel, Western governments and an army are almost all Alawites, and they al-Qaeda), not to the puppets. were actually willing to fight a civil war Well, what did you expect? He and his rather than surrender power. Alawite sect are convinced that they must Now they have their war, and it will go go on ruling Syria or face destruction. on for a long time. By the end, there may He’s not actually losing the war, either. not even be a unified Syrian state any Syrians are deeply divided by sect and eth- more. And no outside force is going to stop nicity and class, and enough of those it. groups are on Assad’s side that he can probably hold out for a very long time. Gwynne Dyer is a London-based indeBy the time he finally loses (or wins), pendent journalist.
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Ice tame Tigers, fall to Chiefs Kootenay extends win streak to seven before Spokane spoils the run in Washington state
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Nick Schmidt and Taylor Verboom come up big for the Avalanche on a block on Saturday.
Mixed weekend for Avalanche TRE VOR CR AWLEY Sports Editor
It was a mixed weekend of results for the Avalanche, as the men split their set with the Camosun College Chargers, while the ladies were defeated in both matches. Volleyball action took over the gymnasium at the College of the Rockies on Friday night, and the men’s Avs came out successful with a 3-1 match victory, while the women were blanked 3-0. Despite losing the first set, the men’s Avs roared back, winning the next three for the win, including a tight 26-24 in the third set. “We seemed to really control the match,” said men’s Avs head coach Steve Kamps. “It was one of the best, if not the best, blocking matches of the year and we were able to pass the ball really well and as a result, we got Dave and Taylor balls in
the middle on our offence and they both had a really strong night for us.” Saturday was a different story for the men, which struggled with a shorter bench due to an injury and sickness, according to Kamps. Part of the troubles could also be attributed to his players taking an individual approach to the match in an effort to replicate the success from the night before, Kamps added. “It just seemed like we were all trying to win the match on every swing and everybody was trying to do too much as individuals rather than playing as a team,” said Kamps. The women put up a better fight in their second match, coming within two points of winning the first set, but the Chargers prevailed and won the following two for the sweep.
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Nothing good lasts forever as things went full circle for the Kootenay Ice. The Cranbrook-based WHL club had their win streak extended to seven games with a win over the Medicine Hat Tigers on Friday, but their good luck ended right back where it started with a road loss against the Spokane Chiefs on Saturday.
“They got a couple breaks on a couple goals off us, but at the same time, they played hard, so it was a good, good test for us.” Ryan McGill After the fallout from the trade deadline settled, Kootenay also named Joey Leach as the new captain, taking the mantle from his predecessor, Drew Czerwonka, who retired from Ice at the beginning of the season. After the 3 p.m. trade deadline, general manager Jeff Chynoweth also picked up Landon Peel, a 18-year-old defenceman who played 19 games with the Regina Pats last season and spent this year in the MJHL. The Ice now play 19 of their remaining 29
scheduled games on the road as they begin to push for a playoff spot, lagging eight points behind the Tigers, who occupy eighth place. It was a shootout at the OK Corral on Friday at Western Financial Place, as Sam Reinhart and Brock Montgomery each posted a hat trick to lead the Ice to a 7-5 victory over the Tigers. “Once in a while you gotta win 7-5 in this league, especially against that team,” said Ice head coach Ryan McGill. “They score a lot of goals and you know what, it was a good test for us, we knew that they would come and we knew that after the first period, even when we were up 3-1, that there was still a lot of hockey to play. “They got a couple breaks on a couple goals that went off of us, but at the same time, they played hard and it was a good, good test for us.” Kootenay ended the first frame with a 3-1 lead, but lost it in the second period as the Tigers caught up and briefly pulled ahead, before the Ice caught up and regained a one-goal lead at 5-4. Though Medicine Hat tied it up in the third, Montgomery broke it to complete his hat trick, and Reinhart posted the empty netter to complete his trio of goals. Reinhart got things going less than two min-
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Kootenay Ice forward Sam Reinhart celebrates after a goal is scored against the Medicine Hat Tigers on Friday during WHL action at Western Financial Place. utes into the game, off a seemingly innocent-looking shot that snuck by Tigers tender Cam Lanigan on the far side. Luke Philp doubled the lead ten minutes later, getting one hand on a shot from Austin Vetterl that was enough to lift the puck over Lanigan’s pad. Reinhart got his second of the game by capitalizing on a rebound from a point shot by Leach just over a minute after Philp’s marker. However, the Tigers responded by the end of the frame, when Logan McVeigh centred the puck into the slot that went off Tanner Muth’s skate and into the net. Boston Leier scored on a three-on-one rush
into the zone in the second period to bring the Tigers within a goal. Former Ice player Elgin Pearce then caught fire and notched a quick pair to put Medicine Hat in the lead 4-3. Ice goaltender Mackenzie Skapski was then replaced by Wyatt Hoflin, who went on to win his first career WHL game. “We had a great start, and that was huge, but the only negative I think we can take away from the game, would be that we let Slapper [Skapski] dry a little bit,” said Montgomery. “We hung him out to dry a little bit, I think. He got pulled and I don’t think that was his fault; I think the onus on that one is on the players, that’s on all
of us. “He’s been playing great lately, stopping lots of pucks, made some huge saves before that.” Montgomery eventually got his first goal of the game by tipping a shot from Leach to tie things back up again. Kootenay’s overage forward followed up with another goal on an odd-man rush, beating Lanigan after Levi Cable fed him a cross-ice pass. Kootenay went into the third leading 5-4 but the Tigers tied it up again when they got another goal that went off a Kootenay defenceman’s skate and deflected into the net.
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Ice give captaincy to veteran defenceman TRE VOR CR AWLEY Sports Editor
Joey Leach has been named captain of the Kootenay Ice last Friday after the trade deadline passed the evening before, picking up the role for the remainder of the season. Leach, who has worn an alternate mantle for most of the season, picks up from former captain Drew Czerwonka, who held the responsibility before his premature retirement in October. Jagger Dirk, a 19-year-
old defenceman, will take up Leach’s alternate role to lead alongside Brock Montgomery and Sam Reinhart, who wear the other letters. “Leadership is important on any team and it comes from within,” said Ice general manager Jeff Chynoweth. “When you have a young team, it is even more important to have players that know what it takes to win and develop that winning culture. “All four players wearing letters were a part of
Joey Leach our 2011 championship team and understand the standard of excellence we strive to accomplish.” Leach, for his part, is happy to fill the role, as he’s had three captains
to learn from over his career with the Ice. “You got to be a leader on and off the ice,” said Leach. “They’ve [management] trusted me with that. I’ve watched three great captains in Czerwonka, McNabb and Sylvester before me, so I’ve had a few while I’ve been here and they’ve showed me the way to be a positive leader.” Ice head coach Ryan McGill notes that showing up everyday to work hard in practice and
games are Leach’s biggest qualities. “Sometimes, it’s not always pretty, but his heart and mind are in the right place and when you have a guy who leads by example like that, that’s all we want,” said McGill. “We don’t need anybody to stand up in the middle of the dressing room with speeches, we just want everybody to fall in line with the work ethic and intelligent play, and that’s what he does.”
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Curling centre hosts senior provincial zone playdowns Tre vor Cr awley Sports Editor
Local curler Tom Shypitka and his team have won the right to represent the Kootenay region at the provincial senior tournament in Trail in February. Shypitka, who calls Cranbrook home, skipped a team comprised of Fred Thomson, Don Freschi and Bill King, who curl in other communities across the East and West Kootenay. Joining Shypitka in representing the Kootenays is another team skipped by Myron Nichol, who represents the Castlegar Curling Club, which captured the second available qualifier spot. Along with the men, two women’s teams battled it out for a single spot to the women’s provincial event, with
Teresa Hiram and her team winning two out of three draws to earn the qualifier. Shypitka beat Nichol 11-2 in their first draw, and followed up with a 6-5 decision over a team skipped by Ken McHargue that included fellow Cranbrookian Gerry Kent. That win put Shypitka in the draw where the winner took a qualifier and his team came out victorious at the end in a tense 10-8 win over a team skipped by Ralph Will out of Creston. “Experience, I think that’s our biggest card,” said Shypitka, on what gave his team the edge over the three day qualifying event. “Me and Fred and Don have all played at a high level and Bill is an excellent curler as well.” Nichol had a longer
road to the qualifier, after losing the initial meeting with Shyptika at 11-2. His team followed up with three consecutive wins that put him in the second qualifier draw against Ralph Will, and his team came out with their fourth win to clinch the spot. On the women’s side, Harim and her team earned back to back wins over a team skipped by Deb de Tremaudan to earn the right to represent the Kootenays at the senior women’s provincial tournament. “The girls just shot great,” said Harim. “Couldn’t have been happier with them. The ice was amazing. The whole event was really well done. “…As long as everyone is shooting, you do well.”
Nitros suffer a pair of losses Tre vor Cr awley Sports Editor
The Nitros fizzled on the road this weekend, dropping an 8-2 decision in Invermere to the Rockies on Friday and losing a 3-1 game to the Rockets in Golden on Saturday. The Rockies rode a 3-0 lead after the first period and never looked back as the Nitros struggled to contain Columbia Valley’s offence. Josh Haley, Jerome Thorne and Brendan Burge lit the goal lamp in the first period as the Rockies outshot the Nitros 17-6. Columbia Valley kept it going in the second period, with a goal from
Ryan Henderson on the man advantage, before Jacob Boyczuk responded shortly afterwards for Kimberley. Racey Red Crow piled on for Columbia Valley’s fifth goal with two minutes to go in the frame. Stephen Pratt made it 6-1 after the halfway mark for the Rockies, but Jason Richter managed to get Kimberley’s second goal just over a minute later. But the Rockies weren’t done, as Haley and Henderson both scored their second goals of the game. Saturday was a better effort, as the Nitros and Rockets went scoreless in the first frame, before
Golden notched a power play marker from Jacob Bergeron in the middle period. The Rockets added an early goal in the final frame from Josh Jewell, before Taylor McDowell responded with a powerplay goal. However, Golden sealed up the win with an empty netter from Blake Roney with a second left on the clock. Goaltender Jeremy Mousseau took the loss in the crease for the Nitros in both games. Kimberley is back at it on Tuesday for a midweek game and rematch against the Columbia Valley Rockies on home ice.
Road will be a big test for Ice Continued from page 8 However, Montgomery put Kootenay back in the lead when he drove to the net from the sideboards and waited out Lanigan as he crossed the crease to chip the puck in. Reinhart added the token empty netter to complete his hat trick in the final minute. Special teams was the success story of the night, as Kootenay’s powerplay capitalized three times in their five opportunities. The Ice rolled in to Spokane on Saturday to put their streak on the line, but lost 4-2 after
being unable to recover from a pair of goals by the Chiefs in the first period. Mitch Holmberg and Brenden Kichton gave the Chiefs an early lead before Jaedon Descheneau answered for the Ice in the second period. Holmberg restored the two goal lead after the halfway mark, but Philp put the Ice back within a goal late in the frame. Dylan Walchuk added Spokane’s fourth goal at the midway point of the final period, as his team kept the Ice at bay
and held on for the win. McGill chalked up the loss to the fact that all four lines weren’t firing during the game. “The fourth goal was a bad goal and it took the wind out of our sails,” said McGill, “and we were tired, because we had to play with two lines in the second period. “We just had too many passengers.” Kootenay is now on a four game road swing through Saskatchewan where they will play Saskatoon, Prince Albert, Regina and Moose Jaw for four games in five nights.
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Teresa Hiram’s Grand Forks-based rink is off to the provincial championships, to be held in Trail in February, after winning the zone qualifying tournament at the Cranbrook Curling Club this weekend past. Left to right: Cindy Pattapice, Rose Beauchamp, Lee Bedard, Teresa Hiram.
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Cat famous for weight loss finds new home C ANADIAN PRESS
FREDERICTON — A frisky New Brunswick feline whose weight loss journey garnered international attention and helped raised thousands of dollars for a local animal shelter has found a new home. Tiny, a loveable grey house cat with piercing green eyes, was adopted by his foster mother Nancy Garon on Saturday, one year after the astoundingly large feline was found inside a box outside the Fredericton SPCA. At the time, he weighed 13.7 kilograms. He’s now 7.5 kilograms. LeeAnn Haggerty, the SPCA’s education co-ordinator, said Tiny donned one of his signature bow ties for the big day — a custom crystal-studded black velvet piece. “It was a special day,’’ said Haggerty on Sunday from Fredericton. “It was a nice way for us to
celebrate what we’ve all accomplished over the last year.’’ Since last January, Tiny has been diligently working to shed the pounds. He was put on a high protein, low carbohydrate meal plan — dubbed the “catkins’’ diet — of three cans of wet food and a quarter cup of dry food per day. He also exercises for at least 15 minutes. Tiny was weighed weekly, photos and details of which were posted on a Facebook page called Tiny’s Weight Loss Challenge that has nearly 4,800 friends. His weight loss drew the attention of national and international media — including CNN and People magazine’s website — as people across the world tracked his progress. “I think it was shocking to everybody just how far his story has gone,’’ said Haggerty. “We’ve received messages from all over the United States, the U.K., Australia
— all over the world really.’’ Haggerty said Tiny will continue to work as an ambassador for the SPCA, raising awareness about pet health and the importance of adoption. He’s a happy, energetic cat that loves chasing laser pointers and being taunted by a feather wand. “He loves to play,’’ said Haggerty. “As he started to lose the weight, he definitely had more endurance and more energy and could play more.’’ Although he’s part of the feline family, Haggerty said she thinks a lot of people see themselves in Tiny. “We can all relate to weight issues,’’ said Haggerty, noting the timing of Tiny’s arrival at the shelter coincided with the season of new year resolution-making. “I think we all have something that we can relate to in Tiny’s story.’’
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Tiny, a loveable grey house cat, was adopted by his foster mother on Saturday, one year after he was found inside a box outside the Fredericton SPCA. At the time, he weighed 13.7 kilograms. He’s now 7.5 kilograms.
Lawsuit opens window into the life of crime writer Patricia Cornwell Denise L avoie Associated Press
BOSTON — For more than two decades, crime writer Patricia Cornwell has famously dramatized the life of a fictional medical examiner in her bestselling books. Now, she has her own personal drama unfolding in federal court. Cornwell, a wildly successful author through her novels about Dr. Kay Scarpetta, is suing her former financial management firm and business manager for negligence and breach of contract, claiming they cost her and her company millions in investment losses and unaccounted for revenues during their 4 1/2-year relationship. The Boston trial has opened a window into the life of the intensely private Cornwell, who has had to listen from the front row of the courtroom while a lawyer for the management firm described her spending habits for the jury: $40,000 a month for an apartment in New York City, $5 million for a private jet service, $11 million to buy properties in Concord, Mass. Cornwell’s spouse, Staci Gruber, a neuroscientist who is an assistant psychiatry professor at Harvard Medical School, spent much of
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In this 2005 file photo, author Patricia Cornwell poses in her home in New York. the first week of the trial on the witness stand testifying about the couple’s relationship with Anchin, Block & Anchin LLP, a New York accounting and wealth management firm, and Evan Snapper, a former principal in the firm. Cornwell fired the firm after discovering in July 2009 that the net worth of her and her company, despite having eight-figure earnings per year during the previous four years, was a little under $13 million, the equivalent of only one year’s net income. She also claims in the lawsuit that Anchin had borrowed several million dollars, including
mortgages for property and a loan for the purchase of a helicopter, and had lost millions by moving her from a conservative investment strategy to high-risk without her permission. Cornwell, 56, says problems caused by Anchin and Snapper were so distracting that they caused her to miss a book deadline and cost her $15 million in non-recoverable advances and commissions. Lawyers for Anchin and Snapper deny Cornwell’s claims. During opening statements at the trial, attorney James Campbell described Cornwell as
“a demanding client’’ who “tends to push off responsibility and assign blame when things go off track.’’ “I do what I do when and how I do it,’’ she allegedly wrote in an email to Snapper read by Campbell to the jury. Anchin and Snapper claim there is no money missing from Cornwell’s accounts, that any investment losses were caused by the financial and housing crisis at the time, and that the fees they charged her were reasonable for the services they provided, including everything from business management to bringing Cornwell’s clothes to the tailor to arranging care for her mother. “Where did the money go? Ms. Cornwell and Dr. Gruber spent the money,’’ Campbell said. “You have to consider the large lifestyles involved, the spending habits, impulsive buying.’’ Cornwell, who is expected to testify during the trial, says in the lawsuit that Anchin borrowed money in her name for real estate investments ventures without telling her. She said she also found checks written for expenses she never authorized, including a $5,000 check for a bat mitzvah gift to Snapper’s daugh-
ter from Cornwell. Cornwell said one of Anchin’s primary functions in 2006 was to ensure that locations were arranged where she could write without distraction while her home was undergoing reconstruction. She said Snapper leased a series of expensive apartments, including one at Trump Tower in New York, that she had to leave long before leases expired because of construction, privacy or other issues. In the lawsuit, Cornwell openly acknowledges her struggles with bipolar disorder, an illness she said has contributed to her belief that she needs other people to manage her business affairs and investments. “This case is, at is core, about trust,’’ her lawyer, Joan Lukey, told the jury. “There is no amount of money that is enough to properly compensate her for what Anchin, Block and Anchin did.’’ Cornwell, a former newspaper reporter, also worked for the chief medical examiner’s office in Virginia before her first novel in the Scarpetta series was published in the early 1990s. During the course of her career, she has sold more than 100 million books.
The future of outdoor hockey Skating rinks kept cool artificially Benjamin Shingler Canadian Press
MONTREAL — An extended January thaw in parts of Quebec and Ontario has put a major dent in the outdoor hockey season. But an increasing number of municipalities, responding to fluctuating temperatures, are now using artificial refrigeration to keep their skating rinks frozen through the winter months. Unseasonably mild weather and rain over the past few days in Montreal has turned the city’s outdoor rinks to slush. The only ones with a hope of remaining operational are equipped with cooling systems below the ice, including several built with the help of a local charity. “We wanted to make sure we could maximize the use of the rinks,’’ Genevieve Paquette, executive director of the Montreal Canadiens Children’s Foundation, said of the decision to use artificially-cooled ice. Some warmer cities, like Toronto, have been using cooling systems for years. More than 50 of the city’s outdoor rinks are compressor cooled, which makes it possible for them to operate in a range of weather conditions. Ottawa also opened
an artificial outdoor skating rink last year with the help of their own NHL team, the Senators. The technology may become essential to extending Canada’s favourite winter pastime. A study released last March said that outdoor hockey is being threatened by climate change. The study, co-authored by a McGill University professor Lawrence Mysak, said that ice rinks were opening later over and closing earlier in the year. The hardest hit regions are the Prairies, southeastern British Columbia, southern Ontario and Quebec, according to the study. Francois Bilodeau, whose Sherbrooke, Que.-based company specializes in skating rink cooling systems, said interest in the technology continues to grow. In recent years, LeProhon Group has set up temporary skating rinks for festivals like the winter carnival in Quebec City. It has also installed low-budget cooling systems for rinks in northern Quebec, New Brunswick and Nunavut, where indoor community rinks that once relied on sub-zero temperatures now require an air cooling system.
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British girl killed by gunman in Jamaica David McFadden Associated Press
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A British schoolgirl visiting relatives in a rural village in northern Jamaica was fatally shot when a lone gunman opened fire on a group of family members as they gathered at a roadside shop, officials said Sunday. Imani Green, 8, of Balham in south London, was standing inside a clapboard grocery store and bar with Jamaican relatives Friday evening when a gunman wearing a hoodie shot the child in the head and shoulder before also shooting and wounding three adult members of her family. The high command of Jamaica’s police force said Sunday that Imani was “mercilessly slaugh-
tered in front of family members in a hail of bullets as gangsters sought to exact revenge on their rivals’’ in the normally quiet Red Dirt district of Duncans in Trelawny parish. The roadside business where the shooting occurred is apparently owned by a female relative of the slain girl. There have been no arrests. The girl died from her injuries while undergoing treatment at a hospital in nearby Falmouth, a historic coastal town that is home to the tourism-dependent Caribbean island’s newest cruise ship port. The three adults were listed in stable condition. The British Foreign & Commonwealth Office said it was providing consular assistance to the
family and working with Jamaican authorities. James Mortimer, a press officer with the British agency, said Imani’s relatives were “very distressed’’ and “appealing for privacy.’’ Imani, her mother and sister had planned on visiting relatives in Jamaica until the end of the month. Janella Parmer, the slain child’s sister, told the BBC that she found her young sibling in a pool of blood after hearing gunshots outside. “I picked her up off the ground and realized she was still breathing. I flagged down a car and they drove us to hospital. The rest is history,’’ the BBC quoted Parmer as saying. Jamaican Security Minister Peter Bunting said the “senseless kill-
ing of a young, innocent child must outrage all well-thinking Jamaicans.’’ The island’s government said the Falmouth police are conducting an “extensive investigation into the matter and will expend every effort to ensure that the perpetrator is apprehended and brought to justice.’’ There has been a heavy police presence in Duncans since the shooting. Neighbours said they were shocked by the slaying of the child in a generally peaceful district where many people farm for a living or commute to jobs in Falmouth or Montego Bay. Pastors decried the violence during weekend church services. “It is so, so sad. And for this to happen in
Duncans is just hard to believe. This is maybe the second shooting here that I can remember,’’ said resident Elaine R. Duncan. Sadiq Khan, a British lawmaker who represents the schoolgirl’s south London area in the British Parliament, tweeted Sunday that he was “devastated’’ to learn of the killing. There were 1,087 homicides last year on the island of some 2.8 million people. It was the lowest number of killings in nine years in Jamaica, but authorities acknowledge that the island’s rate of violent crime is still unacceptably high. Most of Jamaica’s violence takes place in rough slums, with tourist resorts largely crimefree.
A month after massacre, Newtown considers what to do with school Dave Collins Associated Press
NEWTOWN, Conn. — Talk about Sandy Hook Elementary School is turning from last month’s massacre to the future, with differing opinions on whether students and staff should ever return to the building where a gunman killed 20 students and six educators. Some Newtown residents say the school should be demolished and a memorial built on the property in honour of those killed Dec. 14. Others believe the school should be renovated and the areas where the killings occurred removed. That’s what happened at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, after the 1999 mass shooting there. Those appear to be the two prevailing proposals as the community begins discussing the school’s fate. A public meeting on the building’s future drew about 200 people to Newtown High School on Sunday afternoon, with another meeting set for Friday. Town officials also are planning private meetings with the victims’ families to get their input. Sunday’s meeting was an emotional gathering with many speaking in favour of keeping the school. Although opinions were mixed, most agreed that the Sandy Hook children and teachers should stay together. They’ve been moved to a school building about seven miles (11 kilometres) away in a neighbouring town that has been renamed
Sandy Hook Elementary School. “I have two children who had everything taken from them,’’ said Audrey Bart, who has two children at Sandy Hook who weren’t injured in the shooting. “The Sandy Hook Elementary School is their school. It is not the world’s school. It is not Newtown’s school. We cannot pretend it never happened, but I am not prepared to ask my children to run and hide. You can’t take away their school.’’ But fellow Sandy Hook parent Stephanie Carson said she couldn’t imagine ever sending her son back to the building. “I know there are children who were there who want to go back,’’ Carson said. “But the reality is, I’ve been to the new school where the kids are now, and we have to be so careful just walking through the halls. They are still so scared.’’ Mergim Bajraliu, a senior at Newtown High School, attended Sandy Hook, and his sister is a fourth-grader there. He said the school should stay as it is, and a memorial for the victims should be built there. “We have our best childhood memories at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and I don’t believe that one psychopath — who I refuse to name — should get away with taking away any more than he did on Dec. 14,’’ he said. Police said Adam Lanza, 20, killed his mother at the home they shared in Newtown before opening fire with a semiauto-
Tributes have been paid to a British girl shot dead in Jamaica. Imani Green, eight, from south London, was described as a ‘happy, playful’ child.
Thousands protest Russia’s ban on American adoptions Lynn Berry Associated Press
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A child sits on a Newtown bus leaving the new Sandy Hook Elementary School on the first day of classes in Monroe, Conn., Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. matic rifle at the school and killing himself as police arrived. Residents of towns where mass shootings occurred have grappled with the same dilemma. Some have renovated, some have demolished. Columbine High School, where two student gunmen killed 12 schoolmates and a teacher, reopened several months afterward. Crews removed the library, where most of the victims died, and replaced it with an atrium. On an island in Norway where 69 people — more than half of them teenagers attending summer camp — were killed by a gunman in 2011, extensive remodeling is planned. The main building, a cafeteria where 13 of the victims died, will be torn down. Virginia Tech converted a
classroom building where a student gunman killed 30 people in 2007 into a peace studies and violence prevention centre. A community in Pennsylvania tore down the West Nickel Mines Amish School and built a new school a few hundred yards away after a gunman killed five girls there in 2006. Newtown First Selectwoman E. Patricia Llodra said that in addition to the community meetings, the town is planning private gatherings with the victims’ families to talk about the school’s future. She said the aim is to finalize by March. “I think we have to start that conversation now,’’ Llodra said. “It will take many, many months to do any kind of school project. We have very big decisions ahead of us. The goal is to bring our students home as soon as we can.’’
MOSCOW — Thousands of people marched through Moscow on Sunday to protest Russia’s new law banning Americans from adopting Russian children. Shouting “shame on the scum,’’ protesters carried posters of President Vladimir Putin and members of Russia’s parliament who overwhelmingly voted for the law last month. Outrage over the adoption ban has breathed some life into the dispirited anti-Kremlin opposition movement, whose protests against Putin and his government have flagged. Sunday’s protest was led by the same array of opposition leaders who spoke a year ago to tens of thousands of people demanding free elections and an end to Putin’s 12 years in power. One poster on Sunday said: “Parliament deputies to orphanages, Putin to an old people’s home.’’ The adoption ban was retaliation for a new U.S. law targeting Russians accused of human rights abuses. It also addresses long-brewing resentment in Russia over the 60,000 Russian children who have been adopted by Americans in the past two decades. Those opposed to the law say its main victims are not Americans but the Russian orphans, including some with disabilities, who otherwise would get new families in the United States. They also accuse Putin’s government of stoking anti-American sentiments in Russian society in an effort to solidify support. Opponents of the ban have been portrayed as unpatriotic citizens eager to “export’’ Russia’s children. Just ahead of the weekend protest, Putin’s spokesman sought to ease anger over the adoption ban by announcing that some of the dozens of adoptions already under way could go forward, allowing children who have already bonded with American adoptive parents to leave the country.
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