Cranbrook Daily Townsman, December 18, 2013

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Members of Parkland Middle School Grade 7 Band warm up prior to the school’s Christmas concert at the Key City Theatre Monday, Dec. 16. The Grade 9 Band, the Grade 7 Band, the Grade 8 Band and the Grade 9 Concert Band all took the stage, each under the direction of Stephanie Tischauer. It’s school Christmas Concert season, the festive period of days before that long, lustrous Christmas vacation kicks in. (Friday, Dec. 20, is the last day of school; Monday, January 6, 2014, is the first day back.) Pictured above, left to right: Meagan Gourley, Selena Librechts, Ryleigh Bennison, Tianna Pelletier, Kylie Pocha, Parker Van Hestern.

Province proposes grizzly hunting around Kimberley

Hunting of grizzly bears was closed in the St. Mary River Valley in 2011.

After a summer of bear incidents around Kimberley, the B.C. government is seeking to allow grizzly hunting in the area next spring SALLY MACDONALD Townsman Staff

After a summer where Kimberley saw grizzly bears roaming through town, the B.C. government is proposing to re-open limited entry hunting for grizzly bears in the St. Mary River Valley.

It’s one of two areas in the East Kootenay – the other is around Fernie, Sparwood and Elkford – that could be reopened to grizzly hunting after a two-year sabbatical.

“The areas where resumed hunting is being proposed have stable to increasing grizzly populations that

can sustain a conservative hunt,” said Andrew Wilson, Director of B.C.’s Fish, Wildlife and Habitat Management Branch within the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations.

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The Cranbrook Bankers’ Association is very happy to announce that it raised $12, 083 at its annual Food Bank Auction. The association would like to thank all of the businesses who donated items, the volunteers and all who attended. Pictured, left to right: Doug Frioult (TD/CT), Sheila Maurer (CIBC), Michelle Kleindienst (BDC), Jackie Jensen (Cranbrook Food Bank), Maureen Foxworthy (RBC Royal Bank), Amara Goraya (ScotiaBank). Not in photo: Mary Quinn (BMO), Norann Brown (HSBC).

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On Christmas Eve, Santa Claus will take a break from his hectic holiday world delivery and travel schedule to tour the City of Cranbrook, courtesy of Cranbrook Fire and Emergency Services.

Cranbrook Fire & Emergency Services will tour Santa through the

city on Tuesday, December 24, 2013 beginning around 4 p.m.

The overall schedule is an educated estimate, but Cranbrook Fire and Emergency Services will do their very best to bring Santa into as many areas of the city as possible.

On behalf of Cranbrook Fire and Emer-

gency Services and the entire City of Cranbrook, have a safe and happy holiday season.

All the very best to you and yours for a very happy and healthy New Year!

2013 Santa Claus Christmas Eve city tour schedule • 4-5 p.m.: Steeples

School and Park Royal area • 5-6 p.m.: Fire Hall and Highlands School area • 6-7 p.m.: Kinsmen Park and Kootenay Orchards School area • 7-8 p.m.: 11th Ave-

nue to 14th Avenue, Gordon Terrace, Parkland School and T. M. Roberts School area • 8-9 p.m.: Gyro and Rotary Park areas • 9-9:30 p.m.: Slater Road and Echo Field Road areas

Obituary Harold William Young June 14, 1924 December 12, 2013

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Harold William Young passed away peacefully at the Kimberley Special Care Home at the age of 89.

He was born on June 14, 1924 in Breckenridge, Quebec; the 2nd of 6 children. He was predeceased by his wife Phyllis in 1998, a son Garth in 1963, and all of his siblings. He leaves his daughter Isabel (Don) Lester; his sons Glen (Helen) Young and Murray (Virginia) Young; 9 grandchildren, 11 great grandchildren and he died a week before the birth of his great, great, granddaughter.

His years in Kimberley were spent working for Cominco before his retirement in 1989. He was an active member of the Kimberley congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses. The family would like to thank the staff of the Kimberley Special Care Home for their ongoing care and support. A memorial service will be held at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses, 665 304th St. Marysville on Friday, December 20th at 7:00 p.m.

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The Grinch who stole Christmas Cranbrook residents are disappointed after Christmas decorations have been stolen from local yards in the past few weeks Sally MacDonald Townsman Staff

There seems to be a Grinch or Grinches at work in Cranbrook.

This month, there have been at least three incidents where Christmas decorations were stolen from Cranbrook yards, according to RCMP. It’s the first year there has been a pattern of such thefts: RCMP said there were no thefts of Christmas decorations in 2012 in Cranbrook or Kimberley.

The complaints started in early December when residents of Candy Cane Lane reported several decorations were stolen and others destroyed overnight on Dec. 1.

Police believe a small pickup truck is associated with that crime, possibly a Datsun with two youths.

Otherwise known as 25th Avenue South, Candy Cane Lane has been a popular spot to see Christmas lights in Cranbrook for decades.

Still, Candy Cane Lane remains decorated for the Christmas season, and residents continue to invite folks to enjoy the season by visiting the culdesac.

Meanwhile, RCMP have had reports of a replica Eiffel tower stolen from a yard on 16th Street South.

And early on Dec. 9, a three-foot wooden snowman was stolen from Mount Pyramid Crescent.

“The snowman was handmade and painted and has significant sentimental value to its owners,” said Cst. Katie Forgeron.

In another incident, 3A Street resident Debbie Sinclair found an ornamental deer missing from her front yard on Dec. 5.

“My deer got legs and walked off,” she said. “I knew its head could move, but I didn’t know its legs could.”

Despite looking around, Sinclair said there has been no sign of the decoration.

“At first I thought, maybe it’s just kids who moved it down the street but it hasn’t shown up,” she said.

She’s not sure what would lead someone to

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Cranbrook’s renowned Christmasy Candy Cane Lane was hit by decoration thieves earlier this month. steal Christmas decorations.

“I think it was mean spirited,” said Sinclair.

“It’s kind of sad but it hasn’t ruined my Christmas spirit.”

If anyone has infor-

mation about the theft of Christmas decorations in Cranbrook, please contact Cran-

brook RCMP at 250489-3471 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222TIPS (8477).

More than 900 grizzlies in the East Kootenay: biologist Continued from page 1

“If hunting or other grizzly mortality exceeds mortality estimates, the hunt can be reduced or even completely closed, as has been done previously.”

The government is proposing that next spring, limited entry hunting could be reopened in Management Units 4-20 – the St. Mary Valley and north to Skookumchuck – and 4-23 – in the Elk Valley – to allow the harvest of five grizzlies each year for three years. This target could be altered if more grizzlies are killed than the target, either through hunting or rail and road kills.

“Because we recognize inherent uncertainty in our population and harvest rate estimates, conservative mortality targets are used, as well as other important sources of information,” said Wilson.

Grizzly hunting in those areas was closed in 2011 because more bears – specifically female bears – had been killed than the province thought was necessary to maintain the population. The Fish and Wildlife Branch asks hunters to select male grizzlies.

Grizzly hunting remains permitted in other parts of the East Kootenay. In 2012, the province issued 3,716 tags across B.C., but only 250 grizzlies were harvested.

The Ministry based its proposal on a study of the grizzly bear population in the South Rockies published in September.

The ministry’s proposal comes after a year of increasing grizzly bear incidents around Kimberley.

In September, two juvenile grizzly bears spent a week roaming through Kimberley and Marysville. Conservation Officers were forced to kill one of the pair in Marysville and relocate the other bear up the St. Mary River Valley. The same month, a grizzly bear killed an elk on Lois Creek Trails in Kimberley.

Grizzlies were also spotted over the summer at Kimberley Alpine Resort, and long-time Wycliffe rancher Ray Van Steinburg reported grizzlies killing his cattle in September for the first time in his 63 years on the property.

In November 2012,

two Wycliffe residents were fortunate to survive an attack by a sow grizzly near LD Ranch Road after they startled the grizzly and her cubs feeding on a deer. Susan Bond and Peter Moody both suffered multiple lacerations, bites and puncture wounds to the head, arms, legs and torso.

Local Conservation Officers tracked the grizzly but determined the bear and her cubs had left the area so they did not feel it necessary to pursue the bears, a decision that Susan and Peter supported.

Meanwhile, in the Elk Valley, two men were attacked by a grizzly bear on Mount Proctor in July. The pair were hiking when attacked by a sow without knowing she was nearby. After first using bear spray, one of the men shot and injured the bear, which fled. They suffered wounds to the arms and legs.

In October, two hikers came across a sow and two cubs feeding on a moose on the Galloway trail. When the sow charged the hikers, one of the men shot and injured the bear. Trails in the area where closed

for a week.

Local wildlife ecologist Bob Jamieson, a resident of Ta Ta Creek, said all of these encounters with grizzlies indicate there is a healthy population in the Rocky Mountain Trench.

“We closed the fall grizzly bear hunting season back in the 1970s and it allowed these bears to recover and they’ve been managed very conservatively for 30 years now. And the population has recovered. It’s a huge success,” said Jamieson.

“Our dilemma here in the Kootenays is this: how do we balance maintaining a healthy bear population, including many bears living in the Trench, where they constitute a risk to people who live in the rural areas in the main valley?”

Jamieson has prepared a report, “Grizzly bear numbers in southern B.C., Alberta and northern Montana,” detailing the grizzly population in the region.

According to Jamieson’s report, there are now more than 900 grizzlies in the East Kootenay. In the Crown of the Continent region – in the Waterton and Flat-

head areas and northern Montana – there are an estimated 1,226 bears. In the Canadian Rockies there are an estimated 1,309 bears, and west of the Rocky Mountain Trench there are an estimated 1,767 bears, for a total of 4,302 bears.

“One of the pieces of the puzzle is that most people don’t realize just how many bears we have now. Grizzly bears are certainly not a species at risk anymore. We have a very healthy population that is producing an excess of bears that are moving into human occupied areas.

“If you don’t like hunting, you need to realize that by opposing hunting, you are not saving a bear’s life. It just means the Conservation Officers will have to shoot it instead of the hunter,” said Jamieson.

A former outfitter and rancher, Jamieson said that when he first moved to the East Kootenay 40 years ago, people would talk for a week if they saw a grizzly bear track.

“From my window I’m looking out at the Kootenay River and a month ago I had a grizzly bear feeding on a

dead horse right in my view. That’s very common now,” said Jamieson.

“I expect to carry a rifle or bear spray when I’m up the White River or up the St. Mary’s. But I don’t think it’s very good for bears or people if we have to grab a bear spray when we want out of the house to walk the dog.”

Jamieson supports the province’s proposal to reopen the grizzly bear hunt around Kimberley and in the Elk Valley to manage this population growth.

“That’s a hard sell with some people, especially with people who live in Victoria who can feel good about saving grizzly bears but don’t have to live with the consequences of having them in your backyard.”

You can read Jamieson’s report in full at www.dailytownsman. com.

A biologist for the Raincoast Conservation Foundation cautions there is a history of grizzlies being killed past the target in the Kootenays.

“The government has also identified this region as being one of particular conservation

concern given numerous other human-caused impacts, such as roads, development, and bear-human conflicts,” said Kyle Artelle, who is a PhD candidate at Simon Fraser University.

Artelle added that factors such as food shortage or habitat loss could be bringing grizzlies into communities, rather than overpopulation.

“Observing more bears in a given location does not necessarily mean that populations are increasing,” said Artelle. “Expanding the hunt in an area in which bears are experiencing considerable other stressors, and where repeated management failures have historically led to frequent and widespread overkills, is a management strategy based on neither caution nor on sound science.”

You can provide input on the B.C. government proposal to reopen grizzly bear hunting in parts of the East Kootenay before Friday, Dec. 20 at http:// a100.gov.bc.ca/pub/ ahte/hunting/re-opengrizzly-bear-leh-huntsmus-4-20-and-4-23.

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Council makes committee appointments Arne Petryshen Townsman Staff

Council approved appointments to various city committees and other organizations at the Dec. 9 regular meeting.

There were quite a few vacancies to fill in a number of committees and commissions.

In the Cranbrook in Motion Committee council appointed Patricia Whalen as a representative of School District No. 5; Corporal Barry Graham as a representative of the

RCMP; Ingrid Brakop as a non-voting member representing ICBC; John Darula as a representative of Cranbrook Transit; Kareen Peters as a representative of the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure.

For the Urban Deer Management Advisory Committee, council appointed Irene Teske as a representative for the Ministry of Environment.

Council appointed Chris Johns to the Wellness and Heritage Com-

mittee as a representative of School District No. 5; Yvonne Nelson as a representative of College of the Rockies; Jenny Humphrey as a representative of the Cranbrook & District Arts Council; Sandy Zeznik as a representative of the Key City Theatre.

All of those positions are for a one-year term expiring December 2014.

There were also public-at-large positions appointed.

There were three ap-

Summer job program taking applications

Arne Petryshen Townsman Staff

Employers can now apply for funding for the Canada Summer Jobs 2014 program from the federal government.

Kootenay Columbia MP David Wilks said the funding will create thousands of job opportunities for students across the country.

Wilks was speaking on behalf of Jason Kenney, Minister of Employment and Social Development and Minister for Multiculturalism. The government is creating jobs, economic growth and long-term prosperity, Wilks said.

“Through Canada Summer Jobs, we are helping students get the skills and training they need for jobs now and in the future,” Wilks said. “We encourage employers to

apply for funding and create jobs that will not only benefit students but communities and local economies as well.”

The program is meant to help students gain the skills and experience to help them succeed in both present and future endeavours, while also earning money for the next school year.

This year, the application period for employers to get Canada Summer Jobs funding has changed.

Applications are now available at servicecanada.gc.ca/csj and must be submitted by Jan. 31, 2014.

Wilks said the new timelines mean successful employers will be notified sooner and have more time to recruit students.

Funding is available to not-for-profit organizations, public-sec-

tor employers and small businesses. Jobs in the program are open to youths between the ages of 15 and 30, who are fulltime students and intend to return to school in the fall.

Every year, Canada Summer Jobs provides $107.5 million across all 308 federal constituencies to create student employment.

Since 2007, the program has helped over 260,000 students.

Canada Summer Jobs 2014 is expected to create approximately 35,000 jobs, while helping employers address skills shortages.

Canada Summer Jobs is part of the Government, Youth Employment Strategy.

Wilks said by investing in youth they are helping contribute to Canada’s economic growth and long-term prosperity.

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pointments made to the Advisory Planning Commission, one for the Board of Variance, one for the Cranbrook in Motion Committee, six for the Cranbrook Public Library Board, two for the Environment and Utilities Committee, one for the Urban Deer Management Advisory Committee, one for the Wellness and Heritage Committee.

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year terms.

Council also decided on council appointments at the meeting.

The appointments are for statutory, select and standing city committees, as well as appointment to other organizations and regional appointments.

Coun.

Denise Pallesen and Coun. Bob Whetham were appointed to the Advisory Planning Commission as non-voting members.

Coun. Pallesen and

Coun. Gerry Warner were appointed as representatives of council on the Cranbrook in Motion Committee.

Coun. Angus Davis was appointed as the representative of council to the Cranbrook Public Library Board.

Council appointed Mayor Wayne Stetski to represent council on the Economic Development Committee.

Council appointed Coun. Sharon Cross, Coun. Davis and Coun.

Warner as representatives of Council to the Environment and Utilities Committee.

Coun. Cross and Coun. Davis were appointed to the Family and Community Services Committee.

Mayor Stetski will represent council on the Highway 3/95 Revitalization Committee.

Davis and Whetham were appointed to the Urban Deer Management Advisory Committee.

Premier looks back on 2013 Tom Fletcher

After a whirlwind year that started with a come-from-behind election win, Premier Christy Clark sat down with me for the traditional year-end interview in her Victoria office. Here are excerpts from that discussion. A longer version with video can be found under the Opinion tab of this newspaper’s website.

TF: Premier, you surprised a few people this year. What surprised you the most about 2013?

PCC: I guess it was the disconnect between the pollsters and the pundits, and the public.

I did have a sense all the time that the citizens were thinking something different in the run-up to the election campaign. I wondered, am I missing something here, or are they missing something? And I guess it turned out that it wasn’t me that was missing something.

TF: The liquefied natural gas export project is going to use a lot of natural gas, especially in the early years. Will B.C.’s greenhouse gas reduction targets [20 per cent reduction by 2020, 80 per cent by 2050] have to be changed?

PCC: I don’t have a clear answer on that yet.

We are working with the companies on exactly how we are going to structure their environmental commitments and costs, and their electricity costs versus using gas, the total royalty tax regime. We’re looking at that as one package.

However that turns

B.C. Premier Christy Clark. out, though, this opportunity to export natural gas to Asia is the single biggest opportunity we have ever had as a province to reduce greenhouse gas emissions around the world.

In shipping this to China, we are going to help them wean themselves off some of the dirtiest coal anybody’s burning anywhere in the world.

TF: If B.C. is going to get credit for displacing coal use in Asia, shouldn’t B.C.’s coal exports, even though it’s metallurgical coal, count in our greenhouse gas total as well?

PCC: I know that the academics and pundits are going to get all mired in competing sets of numbers and studies.

For me, we have a chance to do good for the world, and we’re going to take it.

TF: On oil pipelines, your agreement in November with Alberta Premier Alison Redford involves B.C. supporting her effort for a national energy strategy. What do you see it doing in the future?

PCC: The big idea that she’s trying to pursue with that is a strategy that will connect us east to west in energy.

Energy grids are much better connected north to south than they are east to west. So she’s trying to pursue a pan-Canadian strategy for the exchange of energy, whether that’s hydroelectricity or natural gas or whatever it is.

We haven’t been intimately involved with it until recently, so we’ll see where it goes.

TF: There’s a perception out there, fuelled by the opposition, that you campaigned against oil pipelines and now

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you’re turning the tanker around, as it were, to be in support of them.

What do you say to that?

PCC: It’s typical of the other guys to reinterpret and misquote.

That’s what they do.

They’re in opposition.

What I said was, we have five conditions that must be met in order for heavy oil to be considered to go ahead in British Columbia. That has not changed.

The five conditions remain in place. As of today, none of them have been met. The only thing that is different today, from before the election, is that now I no longer stand alone in supporting the five conditions. I have one other premier supporting me, and that’s Alison Redford.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

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Cranbrook deer

I live in Willowbrook Estates, a gated community that has mostly elderly residents. These seniors are afraid to go for walks, especially if they are walking with their dogs. People should realize that a buck in the rut or a doe with young can be very aggressive, no matter how cute they look.

Deer, as with all wildlife, will find the easiest food source where they have no predators. City living is the ideal place.

Comments in the paper tell us to remove the food source. Deer are browsers.

They will eat most everything, from what they like best to that they do not like but will eat to survive. It doesn’t make sense to try and remove the food source. It would mean all flowering shrubs, cedars, flowers, roses, lawns and vegetable gardens are removed.

I disagree with the biologist who said when deer culls are done, it creates room for deer to move in from outside.

Most of the deer, if not all, have been bred and born in town in the last 13 years that I have lived here. They will continue to do this and multiply every year. These deer have lost their survival instincts; to challenge a lap dog in town is not the same as a wolf or a cougar in the bush.

The deer born outside of town have survival instincts and have no desire or need to come into town.

A letter to the editor claims they have seen only four deer in town in the last year (?). Today, I removed 13 deer from our complex. This is almost a daily occurrence.

We are told complaints are down. I wonder why.

It is useless to complain to City Council, the COs or any government agency, as no one takes responsibility and nothing is done. The deer are doing thousands of dollars damage in our complex and will one day injure an elderly resident.

Rod Speidel Cranbrook

Oncology

I am a recently diagnosed cancer patient receiving chemo treatments in Cranbrook. As grateful as I am for the facility being close to my home town of Kimberley, I do find that the small Oncology Department within the Cranbrook hospital is no longer able to adequately sustain the growing number of patients being served.

A patient-centred environment of care is one that provides for patient privacy.

The current department is in such a small space that often patient comfort and confidentiality are compromised.

Since the doctor’s office is usually occupied, another area or room needs to be provided where sensitive conversations can occur.

As well, the one and only bathroom is forced to double as a storage closet for office supplies, cleaning products, and various other items. Manoeuvring an IV stand in and out has its challenges.

There are times when there are no available chairs in the waiting room and

patients are forced to stand in the cluttered main hallway of the third floor amongst the other items that are being stored there.

Spaces for appropriate patient care and supply storage are desperately needed.

This being stated, I would like to sincerely thank the wonderful staff of this department who are kind and caring professionals.

Val Ferguson Kimberley

Light Up tour

I would like to commend the City of Cranbrook and the Lions Club for one of the best Light-Up tours on which I have been (and I have been on many). Sadly, it was a poor turn-out, mostly because of the weather and the treacherous roads. In my complex (Terra Lee), there were only four at the gate, waiting for the bus. Our driver did come in and drive around looking for others, but of course no one knew that would happen, so four was the total.

The tour was well planned, but unfortunately we were not able to see the Foraie House (the old Elks Hall), because of the road. I must mention how helpful the Lions were in helping us in and out of the Hall.

However, it was a most enjoyable evening.

Margaret Jakobsen Cranbrook

Hospital parking

There is a dreadful shortage of parking at the East Kootenay Regional Hospital.

Anyone who has visited during peak hours or had tests knows this. Indeed, patients are unable to attend for critical tests through Diagnostic Imaging because of these shortages.

Any day of the week, 24th Avenue is lined with parked vehicles as far as the fire hall.

When the Canadian Aviation Authority ruled that the helicopter port needed to be expanded it was done at the expense of parking spaces.

Apparently the City has bylaws regulating such things. I am not sure that the hospital grounds have been surveyed to ensure they are in compliance.

After years of lobbying, we finally hear that Interior Health will be building a proper ICU to compliment the other services at the EKRH. With this, they are required to add additional parking spaces.

They have asked for a variance on this requirement. That is to say, they don’t want to do it.

Certainly there are only two extra beds, but anybody who has had friends or family in ICU knows that they require the help not only of the hospital and all the health care workers, but also of any friends and family who wish to visit. It is part of getting better.

Two extra beds also means more staff, not only nurses but also the support staff.

In their application they state that unoc-

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cupied service areas (mechanical and electrical rooms) do not generate traffic.

This is not true. Who do you think maintains these rooms?

For years we have known there was a shortage of parking at EKRH. In the last two years this has gone critical. The situation will be aggravated by the addition of our long awaited ICU. City Council should not issue a variance. Instead, they should prove that the hospital is providing the beds mandated by our bylaws, now and into the future.

We have a beautiful ambulatory care unit, a superb Diagnostic Imaging Department, generous OR facilities, and we look forward to having a first class ICU. Parking is part of the package. Interior Health should not be allowed to cut corners on this. The request for variance should be denied.

Annette Wong Cranbrook

Kimberley cull

I am writing to express an opinion on the deer cull.

I keep reading that a relocation of these deer cannot be done. I asked a member of the deer committee why not, and was told that studies had shown this to be the case.

Tonight I read in the paper that the BCSPA is saying that it can’t be done because of stress and low survival rate. I don’t remember it ever being tried here, to come up with those results.

I know we have a problem in and out of town. Lots of deer in town and very few out of town, so to me it makes sense to replenish our deer herd out of town. Yes, there will be deer that will die to predation and get eaten with little going to waste. I’m wondering if people would sooner go this route by giving it a try with the next 30 deer. Even if half live you give them a chance to give our outside deer a jump start.

I have spoken to a wildlife contractor who has a lot of experience with transplants. He feels that 15 deer could be moved at a time without drugging them.

He feels that stress would not be a big factor when moving them but does feel deer would be lost to predation. He also feels that the deer would adapt to predators and there would be survivors.

Back to the BCSPCA, I’m left to wonder what they thought of the caribou transplant to this area that didn’t turn out so well. The same contractor told me that he didn’t think it was going to work before it happened.

These deer here would not be subject to nets,drugs, and a very long move. Take them to Premier Ridge, only a short move, and see what happens. I really think this is another option to a big problem. I have got to believe it would be cheaper also.

Whatever is done there will be opposition. I favour trying to move them at least once.

Randy Wallach Kimberley

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Kootenay Christian Academy Elementary drama production is entitled Miracle at Midnight, Dec. 18 at 7:00 pm. Everyone is invited to attend. Kootenay Christian Academy, 1200 Kootenay St N. Monetary donations accepted at the door for Christmas dinner hampers. Info: Alissa @ 250- 426-0166 or kcacademy.ca The Royal Stewart Highland Dancers present our annual Charity Christmas Recital, “A Highland Christmas”, Friday, Dec 20, 7:00 pm. Royal Alexandra Hall (Railway Museum). Admission by donation to the Cranbrook Salvation Army. Info: Jane at 250427-8757 or info@rshd.ca SOCIAL DANCE ~ to the music of “CHAPPARAL’ (Dec 21) at the Cranbrook Seniors HALL, 2nd St. S. at 7 pm. Drop in Saturday, JAN. 25th at 1:30, for the next ‘Ice-Cream Social’ and OPEN JAM. Updates 250.489.2720.

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The North Korean purge

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urges in Communist states have rarely stopped with the execution of one senior Party member, especially when he has been tortured into “confessing” at his show trial that he was planning to stage a coup using “high-ranking military officers” and other close allies.

“I didn’t fix the definite time for the coup,” Chang Song-thaek, the former number two in the hierarchy of the world’s last totalitarian state, said at his trial. “But it was my intention to concentrate (my allies in) my department and in all the economic organs in the cabinet and become premier when the economy goes totally bankrupt and the state is on the verge of collapse.”

It’s most unlikely that Chang was really planning a coup, but all of his suspected allies and associates in his own department and other parts of the government, plus any senior military officers suspected of less than total loyalty to Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un, are in grave danger.

Only two of Chang’s aides have been killed so far, but hundreds or thousands of other people thought to be linked to him may suffer the same fate.

This is unquestionably the biggest internal crisis in North Korea since the early years of Kim Il-sung, the founder of the regime and grandfather of the current dictator. Challengers to the Kim family’s monopoly of power have often been killed, but this is the first public show trial in North Korea since 1958.

It’s also the first time that the regime has publicly admitted that there are rival factions in the senior ranks of the Workers’ (Communist) Party. It’s hard to believe that this will not be followed by a wider bloodbath among the leading cadres along the lines of Stalin’s purges in the

former Soviet Union and Mao Zedong’s in China. It’s harder to understand what is driving the current upheaval, but some plausible guesses are possible.

When Kim Jong-il, the father of the current ruler, was dying, he chose Chang as the man who would ensure a smooth transfer of power to his son.

(He was married to the Gwynne elder Kim’s sister, and was therefore presumably loyal Dyer to the family.) Chang acted as chief adviser to Kim Jong-un, who was only 28 and quite inexperienced when he inherited the leadership in 2011, and Chang’s manner sometimes seemed quite overbearing.

At the same time, he was the principal advocate within the regime for an economic opening on the Chinese model to rescue North Korea from its crushing poverty. To achieve that goal, he first had to wrest control of the country’s leading industries from the military, whose enterprises account for a third of the entire economy. This naturally made him an enemy in the eyes of the military establishment.

So we can speculate that Kim Jong-un, as he gained confidence in his own abilities, grew increasingly hostile to the dominating influence of Chang, who was more than twice his age. He would need allies before he moved against Chang, and many military officers were glad to oblige.

On this reading of events Kim wants to get rid not only of Chang but of the entire generation of older military and civilian leaders who secretly regard him as an upstart. His objective would be to replace them wholesale with younger men who owe their positions directly to him. Or maybe something else is at the root of all this turmoil: we simply don’t know.

What we do know is that there is great turmoil in North Korea, a nuclear-armed

country with the fifth-biggest army in the world. Most people assume that at some point in the future the regime will collapse, and some well-informed people worry that the collapse could come quite suddenly and quite soon. Interestingly, almost nobody wants that to happen.

Most North Koreans don’t want it to happen despite the dreadful conditions they live in, because a lifetime of propaganda has convinced them that South Koreans (and everybody else) lives in even worse conditions than the citizens of the Workers’ Paradise.

Most South Koreans don’t want it to happen because they would then have the duty of rescuing 24 million North Koreans from dire poverty. In theory they want unification, but there are only 50 million South Koreans to bear the burden, and it would take a generation of sacrifice to accomplish that task.

Neither North Korea’s Chinese neighbours nor South Korea’s American allies want it to happen, because the collapse of the Pyongyang regime could bring them into direct conflict. As a recent study by the Rand Corporation pointed out, it would cause a race between Chinese troops and South Korean and American troops to take control of North Korea’s territory.

The Chinese would be determined to keep American troops away from their own border with North Korea. The South Koreans and their American allies would feel compelled to go to the aid of a North Korean population that was probably facing starvation by then. And both sides would be racing to gain control of North Korea’s nuclear weapons before something terrible happened.

In such circumstances, a collision between Chinese and South Korean/American forces is all too easy to imagine. Kim Jong-un is a very nasty piece of work, but a lot of people are praying for his survival.

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Canes storm back to defeat Ice Lethbridge claws back into the game to force a shootout after Kootenay surrenders an early lead TRE VOR CR AWLEY Sports Editor

In sports, the mantra goes that any given team can win on any given night.

That was the case on Tuesday night, as the Ice surrendered an early lead to fall 5-4 in a shootout against the Lethbridge Hurricanes.

The ‘Canes, limping into Western Financial Place with the worst record in the CHL, forced a shootout after refusing to lay down and quit when facing an early deficit in the first period.

Reid Duke was the shootout hero for the ‘Canes, beating Kootenay Ice goaltender Mackenzie Skapski through the five-hole in the third round to give Lethbridge their sixth win in the last 38 games.

For ‘Canes assistant coach Brad Lukowich, it was his first WHL victory in his hometown.

“We got off to a slow start, obviously,” said Lukowich, a local product and former NHLer who has transitioned into coaching. “That’s kind of the way we’ve been. We gotta focus on our starts—we give ev-

erybody a head start and we’re always battling back, but you gotta give our guys credit, they didn’t fold.”

For Kootenay, it was a game of missed opportunities, according to assistant coach Jay Henderson.

“We gave away the game tonight. I didn’t like the way we played, we had way to many turnovers” Henderson said, who is taking charge of the team with bench boss Ryan McGill on staff with Team Canada at the World Junior Championships. “…We played right into their cards and our biggest thing was we wanted our guys to be focused on here and not elsewhere looking forward to holidays.

“We asked for three periods, we got the first period, which I thought was OK, but after that, we gave it away.”

Kootenay got offence on a pair of goals from Luke Philp, while Tim Bozon and Kyle O’Connor lit the goal lamp as well. Lethbridge replied with Duke, Riley Sheen, Kolten Olynek, and Giorgio Estephan.

Wyatt Hoflin initially got the start, but surrendered three goals in 10 shots before Skapski went in for relief, turning away 23 pucks.

Corbin Boes picked up the win for Lethbridge with 31 saves.

Less than three minutes into the game, Kootenay doubled up on Lethbridge on goals from Philp and O’Connor. With the ‘Canes looking dazed and unorganized, head coach Drake Berehowsky called a important time-out.

“It was a well-timed time-out by Drake, brought the guys in, settled them down, got them back to business and then we went out and clawed our way back in,” said Lukowich.

Sheen beat Hoflin above the glove in the

top right corner while entering the zone, but Philp restored the twogoal Ice lead less than 30 seconds later.

Olynek took out the trash in front of the crease and Duke cut in to the middle on a powerplay and scored to even it up at 3-3 after 20 minutes.

Bozon was turned away by the post on a shot, but eventually got his goal late in the middle frame to give the Ice a one-goal lead. Kootenay also had four straight powerplays over that time—one of which was a two-man advantage for 52 seconds.

However, they couldn’t score.

“Special teams can win and lose you games, and I thought we were fortunate to get one point tonight,” said Henderson.

Estephan knotted the game back up at the halfway mark of the final period off a quick shot during an offensive zone face-off, which eventually forced overtime.

Landon Cross had the most dangerous-looking chance for

the Ice when he pinched into the slot from the blue line and swung at a loose puck, but Boes made the save.

Philp, Bozon and Jaedon Descheneau were all turned away by Bozon in the shootout, while Skapski made saves on Sheen and Tyler Wong before being beat by Duke.

Again, the Ice had a short bench with injuries to Jagger Dirk, Ryan Chynoweth, Tanner Faith, and Rinat Valiev, while Sam Reinhart is away at the World Juniors.

NOTES: Former Lethbridge Hurricanes head coach Mike Dyck was on the bench with Henderson, and has been with the team for the last three games.

Dyck was hired earlier this year to assist Henderson during McGill’s absence at the World Junior tournament.

Kimberley native Coy Prevost made his WHL debut in Saskatoon with the Blades on Tuesday night. Prevost was called up from the Kootenay Ice in the B.C. Major Midget League.

CALGARY - With less than two months to go until the Sochi Olympics, Kevin Dineen will have to hit the ground running as the new head coach of the Canadian women’s hockey team.

Dineen was named to the post Tuesday, just a few days after Dan Church’s surprise resignation. Dineen was signed for the remainder of the season and will guide the defending champions at the Feb. 7-23 Winter Games.

It’s the first international coaching job for Dineen, who served as head coach of the NHL’s Florida Panthers for parts of three seasons until he was fired last month. He previously served as head coach of the AHL’s Portland Pirates for six seasons (2005-11).

Dineen, a 50-year-old who was born in Quebec City and raised in Toronto, also played in 1,188 NHL regular-season games, scoring 355 goals and adding 405 assists.

He succeeds Church, who unexpectedly stepped down last week. Church said he felt there was a lack of confidence in his ability to coach Canada to a gold medal at the Games.

Assistants Lisa Haley and Danielle Goyette handled the coaching duties in Canada’s 5-1 loss to the archrival United States in an exhibition game last Thursday in Calgary. The two women’s hockey powers meet again Friday in an exhibition game in Grand Forks, N.D. Canadian Press

Strong Canadian luge team heads to Sochi seeking first Olympic medal

CALGARY - World Championship and World Cup medallist Alex Gough and two-time Olympian Sam Edney will lead a promising Canadian luge team into the Sochi Games with the goal of bringing home the country’s first Olympic medal in the sport.

The Canadian Luge Association officially named seven athletes to the 2014 Olympic team Tuesday.

Edney, will lead teenagers John Fennell and Mitchel Malyk into their first Games in men’s singles.

Tristan Walker and Justin Snith will represent Canada in doubles, while Gough, will be joined by Kimberley McRae in women’s singles.

Arianne Jones and Jordan Smith will race off in Calgary on Wednesday and Thursday for the final women’s spot.

Gough snapped Germany’s 13-year, 105-race winning streak when she became the first Canadian to win a World Cup luge race in 2011.

Gough has since become the first to Canadian to win multiple World Championship and World Cup medals.

Canada has competed in luge at every Olympic Games since Grenoble 1968, but has yet to medal. They hope to contend in all discipline sin Sochi, including the new luge relay event.

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Tonight: Mosey on home.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Your morning provides an insight that energizes communication. You’ll want to clear up a problem before you have a collision of wills. How you perceive someone could change as a result. Understand how controlling an individual is. Tonight: Don’t cut off communication.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You might not be aware of all the assets you possess. An unpredictable person could make you feel as if a mini-revolution is about to begin. Try to suppress the drama king or queen within yourself. Your clarity counts.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) No one can squelch your energy, regardless of how hard others might try. Your flexibility comes from the strength of your feelings and from your ability to process them. A loved one could display a need for more control.

Tonight: Count on your lucky rabbit’s foot.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Take your time and consider your options if you witness someone acting unusal. Question how much you are coloring the moment with a bias before taking action. Be willing to adapt your schedule to the moment. Tonight: Listen to your inner voice.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Know that you can’t manipulate someone to do what you want. It might look like you will succeed for a short period of time, but just wait for the rebellion that is likely to ensue.

You’ll want to present a case for following your suggestion.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Forget about having a steady, scheduled day. The unexpected blows its winds in your direction, no matter how hard you try to dodge it. Once you can identify with someone, you will understand his or her actions.

Tonight: Someone might think that you are being aloof.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Your strength comes from detaching when the unexpected occurs around a loved one. Initiate discussions on an individual level. Someone will radiate once he or she is back on his or her feet. This person can’t seem to thank you enough. Tonight: Relax over dinner, then talk.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Others continue to run with the ball, which allows you to have more time for last-min-

ute holiday details. You value tradition, so when a new idea or untried recipe comes your way, you might nix it. Newness adds excitement, though. Go for it! Tonight: Go along with a suggestion.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Recognize that you must deal with the more boring yet important aspects of your life.

Temptations will point to fun happenings, but say “no” for now. At the end of the day, you will feel great about what you have done. Tonight: Get some R and R -- you’re going to need it.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You might wonder why someone always seems to trigger you. Decide to be impervious to this person’s actions. Maintain a sense of humor. This person simply expresses a mischievous quality every so often. Tonight: Find the mistletoe, then find the apple of your eye.

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by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar Dear Annie: I just finished watching a piece on the news about young people assaulting others and calling it a game. It seems they walk up to unsuspecting people and throw the hardest punch they can to the face in an effort to knock someone out.

In one instance, a man was hit so hard, he fell face first to the curb and fractured his skull. He died, and the person who hit him was charged with manslaughter. The kids being interviewed were all laughing about it, as if it were some sort of party. They said it was a macho thing, to prove how tough or strong you are.

The sad part is that they are raised as if their actions have no consequences. Parents, teach your children better before it’s too late. -- Worried Adult Dear Adult: It’s sad to see a world where children think assault is a sport, where the constant media barrage publicizes and glamorizes violence, and where these immature teens either don’t understand the consequences of their actions or think prison is simply another badge of toughness. We doubt they would find this activity so much “fun” if the victim were someone they cared about.

We’ve forgotten how to be civilized to one another, nor do we value it. Parents not only need to teach compassion and responsibility to their children, but they have the added burden of combating the multiple pernicious influences around them. It’s hard to raise kids these days, and we commend those parents who manage to do it well.

Dear Annie: I have a friend who often asks: “What’s happening?” But when I attempt to tell her, she rudely interrupts and says, “I don’t want to hear about it!” It doesn’t matter what the subject is. She even interrupts for others, saying, “She doesn’t want to hear about it!” She also cuts me off mid-sentence and mockingly finishes my thoughts for me.

Attempting to carry on a conversation with her is hurtful and exasperating, and I find her to be extremely rude.

However, if the conversation centers on her, it can go on forever. Also, if she is trying to impress people, no matter how boring the conversation, she hangs on their every word.

I have to deal with this “conversation bully” often. How am I supposed to handle her? -Sharp Stick in the Ear Dear Sharp: You are already aware that your friend is self-centered and only interested in conversation that is somehow beneficial to her. When she asks, “What’s happening?” she doesn’t really want to know.

It’s simply her way of saying hello. Here are your options: You can tell your friend how rude and upsetting this is and ask her to be more considerate; you can restrict your conversation to topics that stroke her ego; you can find other friends.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Furious and Concerned,” whose physician cousin often treats and gives medication to family members.

The Medical Board of California does not prohibit physicians from treating family members, but does require that any prescribing of medications (and giving samples is indeed prescribing) be accompanied by an appropriate history and physical examination. It also requires that adequate medical records be kept of the treatment, the same as for any other patient. In California, the actions described would put that physician at risk of losing his license for unprofessional conduct.

I don’t know what state this cousin lives in, but “Furious” should advise her relatives to stop asking him for free medical care. We all receive such requests, and they are often difficult to refuse. She also could send the physician a copy of this reply, as he may be unaware that his actions are putting his license at risk. -- Concerned MD in California Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. To find out more about Annie’s Mailbox and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

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Christmas theatre; New Year’s Eve for families CAROLYN GRANT entertainment@ dailytownsman.com

$44 respectively after December 31. All individual tickets will be available for $12 for the festival. The January 9, 2014 film will be: Enough Said – starring the late James Gandolfini and Julia Louis Dreyfus. Sponsor Alpine Toyota.

Every Christmas Story Ever Told

Fort Steele Heritage town is proud to present Every Christmas Story Ever Told (and then some), a family friendly comedy, mashing up every Christmas story you ever saw.

You’ll see Frosty, Rudolph, Elves, George Baily, Scrooge, Bumble and many more characters. Staring Brent Gill, Dana Doucette, and Peter Schalk, this play is running at the Wildhorse Theatre: December 19, 20, 21, 26, 27 and 28 at 7:30 p.m. Also December 21, 22, 28, 29 at 2 p.m. Tickets $15 each, $13 for members, $5 for children 12 and under.

Tickets available at Fort Steele, phone 250-4176000, The Choice in Cranbrook and Snowdrift Café in Kimberley.

Cranbrook Public Library

This month the display in the Cranbrook Library display case is beautiful needlework and needlework tools

by Bev Gregr.

Bird Counts

East Kootenay Christmas Bird Counts – all participants are welcome. Come for the day or observe and count birds at your feeders. Your community contacts are: Cranbrook: Saturday, December 28 – Greg Ross – 250-4892566 Elkford: Sunday, December 29 – Ulrike Sliworsky – 250-865-7744 Kimberley: Saturday, January 4 – Dianne Cooper – 250-427-1921

Fort Steele in December

Sleigh rides and skating every Sunday in December at Fort Steele Heritage Town, weather permitting.

On the Sundays before Christmas, Father Christmas will be waiting for you at the Lambi House to pose for pictures. Pets are welcome and there will be complimentary hot apple cider and cookies to enjoy while you visit.

The Know It All Friday, Dec. 20 Living Nativity

The Jaffray LDS Chapel presents a living outdoor nativity with live donkey, sheep, youth actors and music from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Hot chocolate and Christmas goodies will be served. 7 p.m. Christmas carolling in the chapel after the nativity.

Friday, Dec. 20 Charity Recital

The Royal Stewart Highland Dancers present “A Highland Christmas” Friday, December 20, 7 p.m. at Royal Alexandra Hall (Canadian Museum of Rail Travel).

Admission by donation to the Cranbrook Salvation Army. For more information contact Jane at 250-427-8757 or info@rshd.ca.

Saturday, Dec. 21 Social Dance

Dance to the music of “CHAPPARAL’ (December 21) at the Cranbrook Seniors Hall, 2nd St. S. at 7 p.m. Drop in Saturday, Jan. 25 at 1:30, for the next ‘Ice-Cream Social’ and open jam.

Updates 250-489-2720.

Rockies Film Series

Festival Gold and Silver gift passes are once again available at Lotus Books just in time for the Christmas season.

You may purchase a Gold pass for $80 or a Silver pass for $40 for festival movies screening at our 17th annual Rockies Film Festival March 6 – 8, 2014. You must exchange these for actual movie tickets when they go on sale in February for 8 or 4 different films. Regular Gold and Silver passes will be priced at $88 and

New Year’s Eve

Colonel’s Hockey Team and Abreast in the Rockies host a celebration at Colombo Lodge.

Dance to Steel Wheels. $30 a ticket, at North Star GM or Players Bench, or call Len at 250-426-7092.

The Kimberley Nordic Club offers a candlelight ski this New Year’s Eve.

New Year’s Eve Ski

Candlelight Ski takes place between 7- 10 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 31 at the Kimberley Nordic Centre. All ages are welcome and encouraged to participate. Admission is by donation (cash, appies/treats) with proceeds supporting the KNC junior ski programs. If you have not experienced the New Year’s Eve Candlelight Ski be sure to take in this fantastic community event this year. For more information please contact Kim Miller at 09coreykim@telus. net or Bill Green at wggreen6@gmail.com.

Family First Night at Western Financial Place on New Year’s Eve, fun for the whole family.

Tuesday, Dec. 31 Family First Night in Cranbrook

Community Connections Society of Southeast BC proudly presents Family First Night Cranbrook — Countdown to a Cause, taking place at Western Financial Place and the Cranbrook Curling Rink. In its inaugural year, Family First Night Cranbrook will feature open swimming, open skating, facepainting, “The Photo Booth”, dancing (compliments of Just Music), storytime, crafts, carnival games, live entertainment and food. This event will be provided for residents and their guests to enjoy, for a minimal cost ($5/person, maximum of $25 per family and three and under free) thanks in part to the generous donations from sponsoring businesses and

Sleigh rides at Fort Steele every Sunday in December. organizations. Tickets can be purchased at Leisure Services in Western Financial Place. For more information, please contact Kim (250-426-2976) or Patricia (250-426-2542).

Tuesday, Dec. 31 Family New Year’s Eve Celebration

Come celebrate New Year’s Eve at Kimberley Alpine Resort. Enjoy an awesome fireworks display at 9 p.m. There will be a family Skating Party 7-10 p.m. featuring a DJ spinning tunes. Come early for night skiing and get glow sticks

(while supplies last) and celebrate with glow skiing. There will be an organized glow stick run at 8:30 p.m. There will be a fire by the rink to keep warm and snacks and hot chocolate will be available. For dinner reservations at Montana’s call 250-427-1600.

Saturday, Jan. 4 Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour

Saturday, January 4, 2014 at 7:30 p.m. at Key City Theatre. Tickets $25.

Sponsored by Wildsight.

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Past life karma

Hello Wendy: I would like to know if I am with the right man for me. My feeling is that we are together because of our past karma and maybe I need to suck it up. I waiver between staying and leaving but I have feelings of guilt. I know it’s a useless feeling but I can’t help myself.

Could you shed some light on this for me?

I’d also like to know if we will sell our house in the New Year. I believe that all that happens is for the greater good but when you are down it’s hard to see that.

Me Myself

Dear Me Myself: Yes, I agree that all that happens in one’s life, though difficult as it may seem, is for the greater good for the self and those around them if the lessons are learned. If the lessons are not then one lives in unhappiness with the self and those around them are unhappy as well.

We don’t feel that you should just “suck it up”, as you say. This type of attitude breeds a fatalistic outcome of not learning what you need to learn. It also makes one sound like a victim in most cases.

We can’t tell you if you are with the right man for you — that is your decision to make.

The reason why we can’t tell you this is because we are not here to judge you; we are here to help you. However, we can tell you that you are correct and you were together in past lives.

You did not have good past lives together; it’s something like this one in that you have trust issues with each other and there is definitely some jealousy that you have with each other as well. This jealousy which is partly fear that you have with each other then transfers into a power struggle of the who’s right and who’s wrong scenario. I asked my guide if you really want to leave your husband and he answered a definite no. Sometimes, when two people have karmic debt with each other, they learn the lessons and then the relationship breaks up;

and both parties are emotionally neutral and the karma is ended. However, if the energy is strong and

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the two individuals are willing to learn and understand their lessons then the relationship can become stronger and the individuals have a good, happy friendship and mate for as long as they are on this plane. The karma is then ended in this case as well on a happy note not to be repeated in the next lifetime between the two persons.

In your case, you have not had good past lives as I mentioned and one or the other ends up getting terribly hurt and feels unhappy lifetime after lifetime. This means you torment each other lifetime after lifetime until you resolve the karma. So one of your learning lessons is that you are not really unhappy because of your husband.

You are unhappy inside of yourself because you are not doing and being who you really want to be. This loss of identity has nothing to do with your husband; it has to do with you feeling unfulfilled. Of course, you know as well as I do that you need to do some work on yourself, but you procrastinate and you just don’t want to do what you need to do. To a degree as well, we feel that you do not have a plan on how you can go about helping yourself. This is necessary if you want to learn your lessons. Get a plan, get educated, change your attitude and the way you think when it comes to the relationship with your husband. If you need some help with this let me know and we can do a session together if you wish. Learn the lessons and the result is freedom of the self and contentment within.

You will sell your house in the first part of 2014. We feel you need to do some extra work on the back end or side of the house if you want near or around the price you are asking.

Wendy