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Jumbo judicial review begins in Vancouver The Ktunaxa’s petition against the province’s approval of Jumbo Glacier Resort begins in Supreme Court today, Monday, January 6

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The East Kootenay Regional Hospital’s first baby of 2014 was born Friday, January 3, at 9:19 a.m. Ryden David Duthie came into the world at six pounds, 13 ounces. Parents are Renee and Chris Duthie of Elkford. Welcome to the world, Ryden David, and may your life be happy, healthy, prosperous and long.

Jumbo Glacier Resort is the subject of a court case that is expected to get underway today, Monday, Jan. 6.

The Ktunaxa Nation Council has petitioned for a judicial review that will determine whether the B.C. government acted appropriately when it approved a Master Development Agreement for Jumbo Glacier Resort in March 2012.

“We are seeking to have the province’s decision around the approval of the Master Development Agreement quashed, or at least reviewed,” said Ktunaxa

Nation Council Chair Kathryn Teneese.

The four-season ski resort has been approved by the B.C. government to begin construction on Jumbo Glacier, 55 kilometres west of Invermere.

The Ktunaxa calls this location Qat’muk, which has great spiritual significance for its people as the home of the grizzly bear spirit.

After the province approved Jumbo’s Master Development Agreement in 2012, the Ktunaxa felt the significance of Qat’muk had not been taken into account.

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Avalanche conditions high around Cranbrook TOW N S M A N S TA F F

A winter storm has created unstable avalanche conditions around Cranbrook and Kimberley.

An avalanche expert is warning people planning to hit backcountry

slopes in eastern British Columbia and western Alberta in the coming days to be extra careful.

Karl Klassen says a major storm tracking across the region could dump up to 50 centimetres of snow on

mountains and hills in some areas that are already covered by weak layers.

Klassen says avalanche forecasters are concerned that snowmobilers, skiers and snowboarders might be

lulled into a false sense of security after a few years of stable conditions.

“We are asking people to be a bit more cautious this year than they were last year,’’ Klassen, warning services man-

ager for the Canadian Avalanche Centre in Revelstoke, said Thursday.

“Take on smaller slopes that aren’t as complex, slopes that aren’t as steep.’’

The avalanche haz-

ard prompted the B.C. government to close a 45-kilometre stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway from Craigellachie to Revelstoke in both directions until at least Friday morning. Traffic was being diverted to

safer routes.

The Kootenay Pass on Highway 3 was closed part of Friday morning for snow removal and avalanche control.

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Symphony hosting a sultanic weekend to kick off Feburary Barry Coulter

The Symphony of the Kootenays will launch its new year and the month of February with a special couple of days featuring some special guests.

February 1 and 2 will be an exciting weekend for the Symphony, back from a year’s hiatus with two successful concerts already under its belt, and and a winter and spring of 2014 that bodes to be a big draw.

Saturday, February 1, will see a performance

by Juno Award nominess and two-time CFMA winners the Sultans of String. The Sultans are kicking off their own new year with the release of their high octane worldbeat-symphonic mash-up, “Symphony!” at the Key City Theatre on February 1.

And the Symphony of the Kootenays is joining them for this very special evening!

Known for dizzying roots music jams, poly-rhythms and revved up riffs, the Sultans of String sound can’t be pinned down — it’s Sable Island meets the Silk Road, with detours through the Gypsy-Jazz coffeehouses of Eastern Europe, next an East Coast Kitchen Party, then over to the majestic Arctic and the bustling markets of Lebanon.

Fiery violin dances with kinetic guitar while a funky bass lays down unstoppable grooves.

Throughout, acoustic strings meet with a sym-

Sultans of String perform with the Symphony of the Kootenays on Saturday, Feb. 1 phony of sound deepened by world rhythms that inspire whole audiences to get up and dance.

The band is led by Juno-nominated 6-string violinist Chris McKhool (Jesse Cook, Pavlo) who grew up in a Lebanese-Egyptian (Makhoul) house bursting with music and diversity. Growing up, Chris was fed a steady diet of delicious musicality alongside Middle Eastern cuisine and violin lessons.

When McKhool first heard founding guitarist Kevin Laliberté’s rumba rhythm, their musical synerg created Sultans of String’s signature sound – the intimate and playful relationship between violin and guitar.

From this foundation, the dynamic duo

has grown, featuring such musical friends as 2nd guitarist Eddie Paton, bass master Drew Birston, and Cuban percussionist Chendy Leon, as well as special guests such as folk pop darlings Dala, The Chieftains’ Paddy Moloney, ukulele giant James Hill, and others.

When McKhool first heard founding guitarist Kevin Laliberté’s rumba rhythm, their musical synergy created Sultans of String’s signature sound – the intimate and playful relationship between violin and guitar. From this rich foundation, the dynamic duo has grown, featuring such amazing musical friends as 2nd guitarist Eddie Paton (Robert Michaels), bass master Drew Birston (Chantal Kreviazuk, Amanda Martinez), and Cuban

Chris McKhool performs “Fiddle Fire” with the Symphony of the Kootenays Sunday, Feb. 2. percussionist Chendy Leon (Parachute Club, Alex Cuba), as well as special guests such as folk pop darlings Dala, The Chieftains’ Paddy Moloney, ukulele giant James Hill, and others.

Sultans of Swing and the Symphony take the stage at the Key City Theatre on Saturday, Feb. 1, at 7:30 p.m. And the following afternoon, Sunday, Feb. 2, Chris McKhool returns to the KCT stage with the Symphony of the Kootenays for a performance of “Fiddle Fire!,” especially geared for the younger set.

Known as “Canada’s greatest eco-troubadour for young people”, McK-

hool gets children and families dancing, clapping, laughing and singing songs. Kids and their parents scat-sing, become a rhythm section and join McKhool on stage to play rare percussion instruments from around the world!

McKhool plays several musical styles; rumba flamenca, Gypsy-jazz, blues, classical, funk, world beat, and East Coast fiddling, supported his all-star band and a spectacular full Symphony Orchestra!

McKhool and the Symphony of the Kootenays perform “Fiddle Fire!” on Sunday, Feb. 2, at the Key City Theatre.

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Jumbo judicial review begins this week Continued from page 1

Performers on stage during the Ktunaxa Nation’s special event about Qat’muk in Cranbrook in November 2013. scheduled to fly out on Monday morning, so I’m going to be there, and hopefully there will be court.”

In a judicial review, the three parties – in this case, the Ktunaxa, the B.C. government, and Jumbo Glacier Resorts Ltd – prepare written affidavits that are presented to the court.

“Over the past while,

there has been an exchange of huge amounts of documentation that sets out what our respective arguments are,” said Teneese.

The Ktunaxa hope that East Kootenay residents who support their steps to protect Qat’muk will let them know.

“We know there is a

Local backcountry rated at high risk over weekend Continued from page 1 naturally, it is almost certainly going to happen if a skier or a snowmobile touches the wrong place on the wrong slope at the wrong time.’’

Around Cranbrook and Kimberley, most of the backcountry was rated at a high risk of avalanche over the weekend.

In the Purcells region, which covers west of Kimberley and north to Golden, the risk is high in the alpine and treeline, and considerable below treeline.

In the South Rockies – east of Kimberley and Cranbrook to the Alberta border, the risk is also high in the alpine and treeline, and considerable below treeline.

In the Kootenay Boundary region, which covers south of Cranbrook and over to the West Kootenay, the risk is considerable at alpine and treeline, and moderate below treeline.

High risk means there are very dangerous avalanche conditions. Travel in avalanche terrain is not recommended.

Klassen said people venturing out need to check local avalanche and weather conditions. They should also carry emergency equipment such as transceivers, probes and shovels and be properly trained in how to use them.

Being less aggressive on the slopes in such conditions could make all the difference, he suggested.

“We want to remind people that this year isn’t like last year or the year before. You need to be really doing your homework and ensure you are approaching slopes with caution to make sure you don’t trigger one of these weak layers that are hidden from view right now.’’

With files from Canadian Press

Ktunaxa held a special event attended by hundreds at the Key City Theatre, which explained the significance of Qat’muk through stories, singing and dancing.

“We certainly appreciated the numbers of

people who spoke out,” said Teneese.

“I’m hoping that we are going to be able to do further events like that, in terms of sharing our perspective of our homeland with our neighbours.

“It has opened a

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door to move down this road of sharing and teaching each other about this place that we all call home. It’s obviously something that is important to all of us.”

For more information on Qat’muk, visit www.qatmuk.com.

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There have been three serious avalanches in the Golden area in the past two weeks, including one on Dec. 20 that killed an Edmonton man who was snowboarding out of bounds at a ski resort.

In another avalanche Dec. 29, two of four people backcountry skiing near the Alberta boundary were injured, one of them seriously. The four were flown out of the area the next day by helicopter.

There was another avalanche in the area on Dec. 31 in which a person was seriously hurt.

Klassen said forecasters hope that the recent avalanches don’t mark the start of a trend this season.

“The layers of snow are just waiting for the wind and snow to overload them and cause avalanches,’’ he said.

“If it doesn’t happen

significant number of folks in the region – and probably outside of the region – who did not agree with the decision either,” said Teneese.

“Any kind of reflection of that, we would be most appreciative of.”

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“When we read their reasons for decision, we felt that they had not taken into consideration all of the information that we had provided with respect to our connection to the place and the connection to our spirituality,” said Teneese.

“We are asking the court to determine whether the decision that was taken by the province was indeed taken with full information.”

The judicial review is scheduled to commence on Monday in Vancouver Supreme Court and last for 10 days. However, Teneese said that as of Friday, the hearing had not been confirmed to be going ahead as scheduled because of a shortage of Supreme Court justices.

“We are proceeding as if it is, because that’s what we’ve been told,” said Teneese. “I’m

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Grizzly numbers or grizzly behavior?

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As reported in the Bulletin/Townsman in December, the provincial government is proposing that a limited entry hunt for grizzly bears 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.

Townsman reporter Sally Macdonald spoke to local wildlife ecologist Bob Jamieson, who said that grizzly numbers are healthy in these areas.

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 Flathead 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,” Jamieson told the Townsman.

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

However, a local wildlife biologist, Dive Quinn, disagrees.

He says Jamieson makes some interesting points in his grizzly thesis, but perhaps simplifies grizzly conservation issues.

“As a biologist I have worked on grizzly studies and conservation efforts for over a decade, and have learned that, there are rarely simple conclusions to be made regarding wildlife population changes,” Quinn

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said. “While I wholeheartedly agree that grizzly sightings in the trench are way up, I am not sure that indicates that grizzly numbers are up.”

“We know from collar data that grizzlies do come down into the trench on their wanderings on a regular basis, but in the past they have passed through and returned to the mountains. So why are more bears using the trench more than in the past?”

Quinn believes one contributor may be the open season on cow elk.

“This hunt, combined with the new two-doe open season on whitetail, results in 400 plus elk and hundreds of deer gut piles (and who knows how many wounded elk and deer that die later) — all below 1,100 metres in the trench — right where grizzly sightings are on the rise. This is potentially a good reason for a grizzly to stick around longer in the

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Some ecologists and biologists disagree on the issue of a grizzly hunt. lower elevations it may have avoided in the past.”

In other words, it’s not an increase in bear numbers but a change

in bear behaviour.

Quinn also says that studies by noted experts such as Bruce MacLellan indicate that grizzly densities in the Flathead are declining, not rising.

“Does this mean that population dispersal is taking place, and we should begin to hunt them? Or does this mean that the habitat is changing? We need to ask experts like Dr. Maclellan and Dr. Micheal Proctor for insight into this, and not respond to more grizzly sightings with a ‘from the hip’ approach of increased hunting,” Quinn said.

Local conservation group Wildsight concurs.

Executive Director John Bergenske said in a statement that while it is true that grizzly bear numbers are recovering in this region, it is a simplistic misrepresentation to suggest that recovery is complete and that a hunt is necessary to avoid grizzly encounters with humans.

“Population numbers can easily give the false impression of an overabundance of bears roaming the region.

While approximately 900 grizzly bears do inhabit the Purcells and Rockies between the US border and Golden, these are sometimes broken into small isolated populations—particularly in the southern Purcells. Isolated populations are threatened with extinction. Fragmentation of populations remains a significant issue and there remains a dire need to create and maintain connectivity corridors with adjoining bear populations.

“Hunting will not make people safer.

There is no evidence to suggest that opening the hunt will address problem bears wandering near human habitation. We all need to become bear smart and take action on how we influence wildlife behaviour,” Bergenske said.

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by Gebhart and Sabine Pfeiffer will be held on Wednesday, January 15 at 7 p.m. at the College of the Rockies.

Discover the incredible sites of ancient Greece. Tour Athens to see the Acropolis, Hadrian’s Arch and Temple of Zeus.

Cross the Corinth Canal to the Peloponnesian Peninsula and visit the ruins of the ancient city of Corinth, Agamemnon’s Palace in Mycenae and the amphitheatre at Epidaurus.

Tread the ground where the first Olympics were held in Olympia and consult the oracle of Delphi. Visit Meteora to explore the impressive monasteries perched high on sandstone rocks above town.

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and visit ancient Ephesus, one of the seven churches of the Roman province of Asia. Cruise to various islands in the blue Aegean Sea, each with their unique history and beauty, like Crete, Rhodes, Mykonos and volcanic Santorini, before returning to Athens.

The GoGo Grannies raises funds to offer direct support to grand-

mothers in Africa through the Stephen Lewis Foundation.

Many grandmothers have lost their children and are now raising grandchildren under difficult circumstances.

The GoGo Grannies supports these heroes through financial means, education, and medical care.

Please visit the Stephen Lewis Foundation

website at www.stephenlewisfoundation. org/get-involved/grandmothers-campaign‎ to learn more about the grannies campaign.

If you have a lot of time or a little time, you can make a unique contribution to the group, which would love to welcome you. The next meeting is at 7 p.m. January 27 at the Superstore community room.

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Era of the cash-starved parties What’s Up? D

Michael Den Tandt

uring the just-passed season of giving and filial love, you may have observed that no potential giftee was more prominent in your in-box, hand figuratively extended, than your favourite political party. Their begging letters, once an occasional intrusion, are now ubiquitous. It’s as though they’re desperate, focused to the exclusion of all else on emptying your wallet. Surely a political party should have something beyond money – the greater good, say, or a just society – to warm the cockles of its heart?

Well, no. Not any more. Our political parties are cash-starved and ravenous for cash, around the clock, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Thanks to reforms begun by then-prime-minister Jean Chretien in 2004 and broadened by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in 2006 and 2011, we enjoy a wonderfully egalitarian political fundraising model – that isn’t working. In fact the system itself is helping make our politics meaner, dumber and more myopic than ever before.

Before 1974, when the Election Expenses Act was passed, political funding in Canada was a free-for-all. The act introduced spending limits and requirements for disclosure. But until 2004, when the soon-to-retire Chretien had his Paulian conversion on the road to Damascus, individuals, corporations, unions and other organizations could all still donate. Many large corporations gave to both Liberals and Conservatives, hedging their bets. The New Democrats were propped up by the unions.

Chretien never intended for things to go

in the direction they’ve gone. His reform, Bill C-24, limited corporate and union donations to $1,000. Corporations without operations in Canada were banned from giving, as were Crown corporations. Individuals were limited to contributing $1,000 to any riding or candidate, up to a total of $5,000. Any donation of more than $200 had to be disclosed. But C-24 also introduced the $2-per-vote subsidy, for any political party that managed to garner two per cent or more of the popular vote.

In 2006, in the full blush of its early puritan zeal, the new Harper government slashed the total individual limit to $1,000, indexed to inflation, and banned corporate and union donations outright. In 2008 Harper famously moved to wipe out the per-vote subsidy, precipitating the coalition-prorogation crisis, but was forced to recant. Following his majority win in 2011 he pressed ahead, resulting in the system we have now – no corporate or union donations, no per-vote subsidy, a $1,200 individual annual limit and endless, cadging emails begging for your money.

Until very recently the Tories routinely trounced both the other two major parties in fundraising. In the first nine months of 2013 the governing party raised nearly $13 million, compared with just under $7 million for the Grits and $4.5 million for the NDP. All of which leads us to this past Christmas season, and the frenetic $2-million challenge between Liberal and Conservative fundraising teams. The top-line driver or “sell” for both was the calendar deadline for receiving the 75 per cent political-donation rebate for the 2013 tax year. The

subtext, for householders who are politically engaged, had to be the dawning horror that this is the new normal. Political parties will either stay in your face or they will go bankrupt.

But that may be the least of it. There are more fundamental consequences, as was first pointed out by Ken Whyte in last November’s issue of Maclean’s. The most obvious is that fractious, dumb, bitterly personal politics are no longer a matter of political preference; they’re embedded in the system. The Conservatives have established, most notably with the bonanza they made of the now-defunct federal long-gun registry, that an angry, frightened or resentful small donor is a generous small donor. The Liberals are having greater fundraising success now because they’re applying similar methods – micro-targeting, “action-based” messaging and deliberate stoking of the fear of Harper himself.

The bilious partisanship on Twitter is merely an effervescence of this emerging Canadian political culture.

At the root of it all, some simple questions emerge: Why should a corporation or a union not contribute in a limited way to a political party, if the sums and sources are rigorously disclosed? And who decided that a $1,200 individual limit is reasonable? Political finance reform was intended to remove the bagman from the process. Instead it has bequeathed to us a system that is dishonest, dysfunctional and ultimately harmful to our politics. It’s time for a review.

Michael Den Tandt is a columnist with Postmedia News

EU citizenship: The gold standard

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ew Year’s Eve is always loud in our part of London, but it quieted down after all the drunks eventually staggered off home — and to our astonishment, it stayed quiet all the next day. We waited and waited for the predicted hordes of Romanian and Bulgarian “benefit tourists” to throng our streets, stealing and begging and applying for Jobseekers’ Allowance (as the dole is now known). But they never showed up.

It’s enough to make you doubt the trustworthiness of the popular press. For months right-wing British politicians and their allies in the tabloid papers have been warning that on January 1st, when citizens of the Balkan countries that joined the European Union seven years ago finally got the right of free movement throughout the EU, Britain would be inundated by poor Romanians and Bulgarians.

The Conservative Party, which dominates Britain’s coalition government, rose to the occasion. Henceforward, the government announced, immigrants will be charged for emergency hospital treatment, and they will have to wait three months before applying for unemployment benefit.

Prime Minister David Cameron even suggested last month that the principle of free movement of EU citizens among the member countries should be changed to curb “mass populations movements” when new members join. It’s too late to impose that rule on Bulgarians and Romanians, who are already EU citizens, he

said, but while they are free to come to Britain and look for a job, “There is not freedom to come and claim.”

This is the “benefit tourism” notion: that poor eastern Europeans will move to the United Kingdom not to get a job, but to live off the state, claiming unemployment pay, social housing, and other benefits that should be reserved for honest British workers. Even Cameron has had to admit that there is no “quantitative evidence” that this phenomenon actually exists. Nevertheless, talks about it constantly Gwynne he as if it did.

But the whole thing is a Dyer charade, and Cameron’s “new” restrictions on immigrants don’t actually change anything.

In practice, new immigrants to Britain already had to wait three months before gaining access to unemployment benefits, and it is not legally possible for Britain to charge EU citizens for medical care.

The Conservative Party in Britain has just been churning out fake solutions to phantom problems.

The anti-immigrant voters Cameron is pandering to will not change their minds when the predicted tidal wave of Balkan immigrants does not happen, nor will he change his story. He will simply claim that it was his emergency measures that stopped it. But this tempest in a teapot highlights the sheer power of the principle of free movement within the European Union. It is what makes EU citizenship the gold standard in terms of passports.

Like the United States and the Canadi-

an province of Quebec, several EU countries offer fast-track residence permits to foreigners who will invest a large sum in the local economy: from $400,000 in Greece to $15 million in the United Kingdom. But they still actually have to live in the country in question for up to five years before getting their citizenship and passport, and the average jet-setter wants more for his money.

Last November Malta, the smallest EU member, announced a programme that skips the residence requirement and simply sells Maltese passports to “high-value” individuals who are willing to pay the government 650,000 euros ($885,000). It’s a quite reasonable price for a passport that confers the right to live and work almost anywhere in Europe and also offers a visa waiver for travel to the United States.

There was an outcry by offended Maltese patriots, but they were mollified when Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s government raised the price to 1.15 million euros ($1.6 million) a few days ago.

So now we know the real value of an EU passport.

Any EU passport – Portuguese, Latvian, Irish, whatever – gives its holder the right to live anywhere, work anywhere, set up a business anywhere in a community of 28 countries with a total population of more than 500 million people. It is the principle of free movement that makes it so valuable, and no amount of protest by “Little Englanders” on the right of British politics is going to change that.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist based in London

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UPCOMING 2014 FREE FAMILY SWIM Wednesday, Jan. 15th, 6:00-7:00pm is sponsored by Knights of Columbus. Persons 18 years & younger must be accompanied by an adult.

Abreast in the Rockies Dragonboat Assoc. Meeting Monday Jan. 13, 2014 at 7:00 pm, Mount Baker School Library. Interested paddlers welcome.

Thurs 16th Jan 7-9pm; To Tell A Story; This exhibition explores the Ktunaxa tradition of story-telling by artists from Mount Baker Secondary School and artists Marissa Phillips. Cranbrook and District Arts Council, 104 135 10th Ave South, CBK. info: 250426-4223 “Holy Spirit Encounter” Sunday Evening January 19th, 7pm.

Speakers: Darrell and Sondra White from Redding California; facilitate Inner Healing and Sozo Ministries and train teams to do the same at the Bethel Transformation Center. All are welcome!

Free will offering taken. House of Hope Cranbrook, 629 -6th St NW Info: jeff.crozier69@shaw.ca or 250-421-3784 THE PACEMAKERS; JANUARY 18th, at the Cranbrook Seniors HALL, 2nd St. S. at 7 pm. Refreshments served. Open JAM, January 25, 1:30 pm. Updates: Flo 250. 489.2720.

Jan 11th – 31st Artists Marissa Phillips and the students of Mount Baker Secondary display a joint art exhibition exploring the Ktunaxa tradition of story-telling through media and performance. Open Tue - Fri 11am – 5pm and Saturdays 10am – 2pm.Cranbrook and District Arts Council, 104 135 10th Ave South, CBK. info: 250-426-4223 Join the 4th Annual Slopes for Hope event in Kimberley, BC; Inviting Nordic skiers, Alpine skiers, snowboarders and all people who love to play in the snow to join the fight against cancer as we take it to the slopes Saturday, Feb. 8th, 9:00 am – 4:00pm. Transportation to Kimberley Nordic Club provided 9:45 am – 3:15 pm by Simply Kimberley. Register Now Individually or Teams up to 4 people - slopesforhope.ca.

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Close call for Planet Earth Not only do we rarely know in advance Phew, that was close.

Just before 2013 turned to 2014, astron- when an asteroid is coming our way, but omers spotted an asteroid heading right at on the few occasions we have been aware, us. The Mount Lemmon Survey in Arizona there has been only a day to prepare.

That is not enough time for Bruce Willis spotted the asteroid at about 11:20 Mounand Ben Affleck to get in a spaceship and tain Time on Dec. 31.

A calculation showed that while the as- fly into the asteroid to save humanity. Let alone all the funny business teroid was faint – 150,000 that went on in Armagedtimes smaller than a star don before the space cowyou can see with the naked boys actually left Earth. eye – it was coming right at The asteroid that exus.

Sally ploded over Russia last year A day later, the Minor Plant Electronic Circular MacDonald – bursting ear drums, shattering glass and scaring the said the asteroid would bejesus out of thousands of have hit the atmosphere at Russians and those of us who watched about 10 p.m. on January 1.

Astronomer Phil Plait at Slate, who dash cam video of the asteroid’s close call shared this startling news, said the asteroid – was a complete surprise to scientists. probably burned up over the Atlantic, NASA said they found out about it the somewhere between South America and same way the rest of the world did – when Africa. It was likely about the size of a car, terrified Russians began posting video and small enough to disintegrate when it came photos to social media.

So it’s not that asteroids slipping into into contact with the atmosphere.

What’s frightening is not this asteroid Earth’s orbit are a rare occurrence. It hapitself – it posed no great threat to us – but pens all the time. Sooner or later, one of that it was only the second time ever that them is going to be a serious problem, and scientists have known in advance when an we will probably only have a day to deal with it. asteroid is heading right at us.

We are pretty smart, humankind. We In the other case, the asteroid burned know things. Things like what happened to up over Africa in 2008.

Both times, we had about a day’s notice. the dinosaurs. The dinosaurs that were wiped out after an enormous asteroid hit And there’s the terrifying thing.

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Earth.

I like to think we are smarter than T-Rex, smarter even than those super creepy velociraptors in Jurassic Park.

So why don’t we have a plan to deal with the threat of an asteroid collision?

Phil Plait tells us that NASA and the B612 Foundation are trying to get better at detecting asteroids.

The B612 Foundation is a San Francisco-based non-profit started in 2002 by astronauts Ed Lu and Rusty Schweickart who, after seeing how fragile Earth looks from space, decided to launch their own mission to protect the little blue planet from asteroids.

Some very smart people working with B612 have developed several plans to deflect an asteroid, and are now working on ways to detect dangerous asteroids in time to deflect them.

B612 wants to build, launch and operate a deep space telescope with an infrared lens to watch for asteroids. Now they just need funding.

To find out more about B612, visit www. b612foundation.org.

You can read Phil Plait’s column at www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy. html.

Sally MacDonald is a reporter at the Cranbrook Daily Townsman

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WESTERN HOCKEY LEAGUE

Ice heat up for wins over Broncos, Tigers TRE VOR CR AWLEY Sports Editor

Winning isn’t everything, but it feels pretty good.

The Kootenay Ice picked up a pair of victories during home action this weekend, beating the Broncos 3-1 on Friday and surviving the Tigers 4-3 on Sunday.

The latter win was especially sweet in the home barn, as Kootenay previously lost 5-2 in Medicine Hat on Thursday evening.

The Medicine Hat loss, plus a defeat by Calgary earlier in the week, were games that assistant coach Jay Henderson was not happy with, blaming poor efforts for the end results.

The players addressed their performances in a team meeting before heading into the weekend, according to Tim Bozon.

“We had a long meeting,” Bozon said.

“After the game against Calgary, we didn’t play the game we wanted to play. We came into Medicine Hat and we were not ready to play again.”

That meeting trans-

lated into a better showing over the last two games, more so against Swift Current, which Henderson was pleased to see.

“Finally, I thought we outplayed them, I felt like we deserved to win that game, I liked the way we came out and responded well after a poor performance,” Henderson said.

“Tonight [Sunday], again, it wasn’t the ideal game, but we found a way to win and that’s what good teams do.”

Kootenay came to play against Swift Current, as Bozon scored a pair of goals and Wyatt Hoflin made 21 saves on the road to victory.

Graham Black opened the scoring for Swift Current before Austin Vetterl poked the puck across the line in a scramble to answer back for Kootenay.

Bozon sniped the game-winner from the slot in the third period, and scored an empty net goal, after Vetterl gave him a gift during a two-on-none rush towards an empty crease.

“I wanted to score and I see Boz there and

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Kootenay Ice forward Austin Vetterl takes the puck through the neutral zone during WHL action against the Swift Current Broncos on Friday night at Western Financial Place. thought maybe I better just pass it in case I do miss the open net,” laughed Vetterl.

“I put it on Boz’s stick—just sharing the love I guess.”

Despite surrendering an early goal, Kootenay came out with some fire and tied it up before

the first period ended.

Swift Current put on some pressure in the middle frame before Kootenay dominated at the end of the contest.

“We haven’t had a big first period in a while, so it’s always good to get the momentum early in the game,”

said Bozon. “When you press and get lots of scoring chances in the first period, it gives you a lot of confidence throughout the rest of the game and that’s why we did pretty good tonight.”

After a day of rest, Kootenay faced the Ti-

gers again—this time on home ice—and survived a late push to win 4-3 on the back of a brilliant 51-save performance from goaltender Mackenzie Skapski.

Despite being outshot by a 2-1 margin in the first period, the two teams were tied up at 2-2.

Jaedon Descheneau opened the scoring, taking advantage of a turnover while all alone in front of the Tigers net and pulling a nifty deke to stuff the puck past goaltender Daniel Wapple.

However, Tommy Vannelli scored a powerplay goal and Chad Labelle notched a maker a minute apart to secure a one-goal lead.

Jon Martin evened it up before the period ended, snapping a shot from the slot top shelf over Wapple on a feed from Landon Peel.

Descheneau pulled the Ice ahead in the middle frame, scoring a carbon-copy of his first goal after another turnover right in front of Wapple.

“We went hard on the forecheck and their D coughed up some

pucks for us and luckily it came out to me and it was just me and Wapple and I put ‘em in,” said Descheneau.

Zak Zborosky rang a shot off the post and in while rushing the zone and firing over the glove of Wapple on a sharp-angle shot for a two-goal lead five minutes into the third period.

However, Jacob Doty made it an interesting game in the latter half of the frame, jamming the puck under Skapski during a scramble in front of the crease.

With an empty net and six attackers buzzing, Kootenay was able to weather the storm at the end and earn the win, despite being outshot 54-20.

“That’s way too much work for any goalie. Fifty-four shots on net, that’s should never happen, and obviously he’s a good goalie and we’re lucky to have him tonight,” said Henderson.

Kootenay gets a brief break before heading to Lethbridge for a midweek contest against the Hurricanes on Wednesday.

Nitros roll through tough schedule

Canada Finn-ished at World Juniors

Dynamiters pick up two wins after playing three games in three nights

Russia captures bronze with 2-1 win over national team

TRE VOR CR AWLEY Sports Editor

The Nitros picked up four of six possible points this weekend in triple-header action.

With three games in as many nights, the Dynamiters fell to the Leafs in Nelson, before beating the Ghostriders in overtime in Fernie and edging the 100 Mile House Wranglers on home ice.

Kimberley has a slight lead on Fernie for second place in the Eddie Mountain Division, while the Thunder Cats are still in first place by a five-point margin.

On Friday in Nelson, all the scoring took place in the second period, as Jason Richter opened the floodgates for the Nitros before the Leafs answered back with three straight goals for a 3-1 win.

Damel St. Pierre and Troy Petrick scored two minutes apart, and Jamie Vlanich posted a shorthanded effort as Leafs goaltender Brad Rebagliati shut the door the rest of the game.

Tyson Brouwer manned the crease for the Dynamiters, making 24 saves in defeat.

Heading into Fernie on Saturday, Eric Buckley was the overtime hero, scoring at 4:41 to lift the Nitros to a 3-2 victory.

It was their first meeting since a Dec. 29th meeting at the Kimberley Civic Centre that ended with a few injuries and a 7-3 Nitro win.

Bryce Perpelitz had a pair of goals—one that came late in the game to force overtime, while Joel Burgess and Matt MacDonald provided offence for Fernie.

Dynamiters goaltender Jeremy Mousseau picked up the win with 27 saves.

The two teams traded goals in the first period from Perpelitz and Burgess, before MacDonald put Fernie up in the middle frame.

Perpelitz scored a powerplay goal in the third to force the extra frame.

Special teams was a factor, as

the Perpelitz’s first goal also came with the man-advantage, while Kimberley’s penalty kill shut out Fernie in seven powerplay opportunities.

A pair of quick goals a minute apart in the second period was enough to give Kimberley the 2-1 win in a Sunday afternoon meeting with the Wranglers.

Buckley and call-up Brandon Becker struck 60 seconds apart in the second period after a scoreless first frame for a twogoal lead.

Henry Hart scored late in the affair to make it a little interesting, but Mousseau and the rest of the Nitros were able to hold on for the win.

The Kimberley goaltender earned his second win of the weekend with a 21 save performance.

Kimberley hits the road next weekend for a rematch in 100 Mile House before heading to Kamloops for a meeting with the Storm.

BILL BEACON Canadian Press

MALMO, Sweden There is hope for next year’s team, but that didn’t make it easier for the Canadian players that left the world junior championship without a medal for a second year in a row.

A bid for a first gold medal in five years had died with a 5-1 loss to Finland in the semifinals, and a 2-1 loss to Russia in the bronze medal game on Sunday left captain Scott Laughton and his teammates in a gloomy mood.

“When you put on this crest and try to represent your country and can’t even bring a medal back to Canada to the people who’ve been cheering for you, and have 4,000 fans

come down here, it’s heartbreaking,” said Laughton.

Mikhail Grigorenko got a lucky goal off Mathew Dumba’s skate and Eduard Gimatov wired a shot to the top corner in the first period, but Canada could only answer with defenceman Josh Morrissey’s first of the tournament midway through the third period against sharp Russian goalie Andrei Vasilevski.

It was the second year in a row Canada lost a bronze medal game to Russia after a 6-5 setback last year in the Russian city of Ufa. And it marked the first time Canada has gone without a medal at this event in consecutive years since it happened

three years in a row from 1979 to 1981.

The support was there from the start from hundreds of redand-white clad Canadian fans who went to Sweden to cheer on a team that turned out to be too young, too unlucky and perhaps not talented enough to win this year’s tournament.

But next year may be different when it is held in Montreal and Toronto.

Finland ended up capturing the gold medal in a 3-2 OT decision over Sweden, with Buffalo Sabres defenceman Rasmus Ristolainen notching the game-winner.

Team Canada forward Anthony Mantha was named to the tournament All-Star team.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Zero in on what you want during the morning. Don’t hesitate. You might need to consider how you’d like to proceed with a different matter in the afternoon. Consider your options carefully and discuss them with someone you often brainstorm with. Tonight: Not to be found.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Your directness is more desirable than you think. Stay in touch with your goals as discussions ensue. You can identify with others. As a result, you could lose your ability to stay centered. Do not allow this to happen. Tonight: In the middle of the action.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) You might want to hear the other side of an argument. Though you still might not agree with what is being said, you could see a way of incorporating two ideas that seem in opposition but actually have the same basis. Tonight: Till the wee hours.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) A close associate might have a lot to share. Encourage this person to express his or her intuitive sense more often. You will be able to understand an issue in a new way because of what is shared with you. Proceed accordingly. Tonight: Make plans for the near future.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Rethink a personal decision, especially if someone close to you offers a new insight. Do nothing to damage the situation, and if possible, give yourself some breathing room. Put this decision on hold for now. Tonight: Have an important discussion first.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Touch base with a family member who has a very different perspective from you about a domestic matter. Recognize what is happening with a loved one, as he or she might want you to be more involved with an important project. Tonight: Forget tomorrow. Enjoy today!

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You could see a situation in a much more relatable and viable way than you had in the past.

Recognize the change in your perspective, and explain it in a conversation with one of the parties involved. This will help ease communication between you. Tonight: Hang out.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) When handling your finances, it would be wise to make a decision regarding your limits.

What is important to you? The holidays could have wreaked havoc on your budget. Take this opportunity to recalibrate your spending. Tonight: Make a favorite meal.

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by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar Dear Annie: My brother and his wife recently stayed with us for nine months. He did some part-time work every now and then. His wife refused to find a job and mostly stayed home.

My wife and I work long hours. We also then had to do the grocery shopping, cooking and taking care of our kids afterward.

During this time, my brother and his wife never spent a penny on food or anything else. We politely said that we think it is time for them to find their own place and move out. A few hours later, they left screaming and shouting at us. We were speechless.

My brother says we are cheap because we asked them to leave. What do I tell him?

Please help. -- Cheap Brother Dear Brother: Listen closely: You did nothing wrong. Your brother and his wife are first-class freeloaders. They took advantage of your generosity, making no effort to contribute to their upkeep. They would have allowed you to support them financially for the rest of their lives. They are angry because they couldn’t bamboozle you longer than nine months, which is plenty long enough.

People who take advantage of others are always the first to cry “foul” when things don’t go their way.

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Dear Annie: I’m still angry about something. The day after Thanksgiving was trash pickup in my neighborhood. Lo and behold, sticking out of my trash container was a Christmas card from my recycling collector, complete with his name and address.

Two days later, I found the same type of card tucked into my newspaper from our carrier.

This one included a mailing envelope. The next week, it was the garbage man.

I know we should remember these people during the holidays, and I have no problem showing my appreciation. But it’s long past Christmas, and I have yet to hear any of them say “thank you” to me. Shouldn’t they?

How hard is it to write the words “thank you” on the same type of card that they managed to give me in search of a tip?

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NOTICE To: Terry Grant Hauser Kathleen Hauser and The Late Ester Lush 100-4086 Standard Hill Rd. Cranbrook, BC V1C 7B5 1970 Glendale Mobile Home Register# 017383 Georgian Properties Ltd. 102 -4086 Standard Hill Rd. Cranbrook , BC V1C 7B5 The above mentioned mobile home and contents will be disposed of 30 days from the date of this notice.

Georgian Properties Ltd.

DAILY TOWNSMAN / DAILY BULLETIN

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Tuesday, January 7

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With 20x you’ll earn 20 reward miles for every $20 you spend!** Example Spend

$80 $160 $240

Base Offer

Bonus Offer

x 20 x 20 x 20

Total Reward Miles

= 80 = 160 = 240

4 reward miles 8 reward miles 12 reward miles The more you spend the more you earn!

*With Club Card and Air Miles Collector Card. Minimum $35.00 purchase required. Purchase must be made in single transaction. See Customer Service for details. **Earn 19 Bonus AIR MILES® reward miles and 1 Base reward mile for every $20 spent on eligible groceries. Prices effective at all British Columbia Safeway stores Tuesday, January 7, 2014 only. We reserve the right to limit sales to retail quantities. Some items may not be available at all stores. All items while stocks last. Actual items may vary slightly fro m illustrations. Some illustrations are serving suggestions only. Advertised prices do not include GST. ®™ Trademarks of AIR MILES International Trading B.V. Used under license by LoyaltyOne, Co and Safeway. Extreme Specials are prices that are so low they are limited to a one time purchase to Safeway Club Card Members within a household. Each household can purchase the limited items one time during the effective dates. A household is defined by all Safeway Club Cards that are linked by the same address and phone number. Each household can purchase the EXTREME SPECIALS during the specified advertisement dates. For purchases over the household limits, regular pricing applies to overlimit purchases. On BUY ONE GET ONE FREE items, both items must be purchased. Lowest priced item is then free. Online and in-store prices, discounts, and offers may differ.

JANUARY 7

TUESDAY

Prices in this ad good Tuesday, January 7, 2014 only