Cranbrook Daily Townsman, April 10, 2014

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St. Mary’s Band set for major vote

The proposed land code would see the band freed from one-third of the provisions in the Indian Act SALLY MACDONALD Townsman Staff

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Jaedon Descheneau, pictured in front of Medicine Hat Tigers goaltender Marek Langhamer, may have had a bit of snake bit luck in Wednesday night’s playoff match-up at Western Financial Place. But Levi Cable was spot on, scoring three goals in the Ice victory. The Ice go into tonight’s game in Cranbrook with a 2-1 series lead. See you tonight. And see Page 8 for a complete game wrap.

Members of ?aq’am (St. Mary’s band) will have a chance to control land use decisions on the reserve with a significant ratification vote next week.

From Monday, April 14 to Wednesday, April 16, eligible voters will head to the polls to vote yes or no for ?aq’am’s land code.

The land code will let the band govern its own lands and resources, without having to go through the federal ministry of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development.

Leeanna Rhodes, governance coordinator for the band, said that relatively simple land transfers become complex because of the communication between the two governments.

“Something that would take 20 minutes to do if we managed our own land is taking anywhere from three weeks to six months.”

The land act will also allow the band to make laws about management of the reserve’s lands and resources, such as a land use plan for zoning, similar to an official community plan.

See ?AQ’AM , Page 3

Referendum on fluoride set for November A R N E P E T RYS H E N Townsman Staff

The City of Cranbrook has confirmed that there will be a referendum question on fluoridation of the water supply on the municipal election ballot in November.

At the Monday, April 7, regular council meeting, Mayor Wayne Stetski said he was asked about the issue at the mayor’s brown bag lunch on March 19.

“The question came up on a referendum on fluoridation, and there will be a

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referendum question as part of the election next fall,” Stetski said during council.

On Wednesday, Mayor Stetski further elaborated on the topic, noting that a proposed referendum question would be brought before council for approval,

tentatively set for the May 12 meeting, but said there wasn’t anything more specific he could say about it.

“What we have confirmed is our interest in bringing this forward as a referendum question as part of the November 15, 2014

municipal election,” he said.

“The addition of fluoride to Cranbrook’s drinking water was originally approved by Cranbrook residents through a referendum several decades ago, so it makes sense to ask them if they want to continue the

practice or not into the future.

“I’m sure that there will be strong arguments on both sides of the question based on comments I’ve received from residents.”

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Cranbrook bookstores celebrated the first B.C. Book Day on Wednesday, April 9 with special displays highlighting local and regional writers. Pictured: Erin Dalton at Lotus Books (left) and Christy Haarstad at Pages Book Emporium.

?Aq’am prepares for significant land vote Continued from page 1

The band would be able to develop no trespassing laws, laws for land subdivisions and liabilities. But those laws will not pertain to oil and gas, uranium or radioactive minerals, fisheries, endangered species or migratory birds.

If the land act is ratified, it would also mean the band can pursue economic development opportunities a lot faster, Rhodes said.

“We would be able to do more economic development at the speed of business instead of waiting three years for the government to say yay or nay, you can have this business on your reserve.”

As an example, Rhodes said that the plant nursery on the reserve took three years to be approved by the federal ministry. ?aq’am has been working on the land act for the past two years, and it all leads up to next week’s ratification vote. In order for the land act to be

approved, 50 per cent plus one of votes must be in favour.

There are 278 members of ?aq’am, and Rhodes said they hope to have at least 130 members voting next week.

“Everyone is saying, this is reserve land, that means it’s our land. Well no, we don’t have the rights to manage reserve lands without the government’s consent.”

If ratified, the land act will allow the band to be clear of 34 provisions of the Indian Act – about one third of the act.

Currently across Canada, 45 bands have ratified a land code, nine bands failed to ratify the code, 22 bands, such as ?aq’am, are in the process of developing a land code, and 29 bands are set to start that process this year.

An open house about the ?aq’am (St. Mary’s Band) land code will be held today, Thursday, April 10 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the band hall for band members to find out more and ask questions.

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?aq’am (St. Mary’s Band) will be able to make decisions about land management on the reserve if its land act is ratified next week.

Firm confirms brick building restorable Arne Petryshen Townsman Staff

An engineering firm from Nelson completed a peripheral structural review of the old city garage building behind city hall and found that it is a suitable candidate for restoration.

Nelson Engineering Inc (NEI) performed the review as per request from Ken Haberman, one of the Cranbrook residents that spearheaded the movement to preserve the brick building. The report was included in the April 7 council package.

The building was originally slated for demolition last year, but that was put off after a

delegation of volunteers came forward hoping to restore it.

“So the good news is it looks like it can be restored, that’s the conclusion of the report,” Mayor Wayne Stetski said at the April 7 meeting.

Brad Nelson, an engineer from NEI, noted in the report that the structure is a suitable candidate for restorative purposes, but said that if preventative measures are not put in place to repair existing damage, further deterioration will make the costs for restoration prohibitive.

“It is the conclusion of this office that the existing brick garage building is in poor condition and requires remedial

repairs to both the roof framing system as well as the exterior brick walls,” Nelson said in the report. “These repairs should be completed as soon as possible in order to minimize future progressive deterioration of the garage.”

Nelson also noted that the building has little or no ability to resist wind or seismic forces that affect lateral loads. He recommended that a lateral load resisting system be included in the repairs.

Coun. Angus Davis was happy to see the report. He said it took him some time to see the spirit of the group but now is behind them.

“I support them 100 per

cent,” Davis said.

Coun. Diana J. Scott said she liked their spirit as well, but still didn’t support the restoration.

“I don’t see any cost associated with this. Of course a building can be restored, any building can be restored,” Scott said. “But what’s it going to cost and who’s going to pay for it?”

Coun. Bob Whetham said the group has made an application through the Communi-

ty Initiatives fund for $34,700.

Council received the report as information.

CAO Wayne Staudt said he passed the report onto the City’s engineering department. He is expecting a comprehensive report from the city’s building inspector, which will include input from the fire department and planning department.

NEI conducted the site review of the old city garage on Feb. 6, 2014.

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If you experienced flooding in your home in early March and insurance is not covering the damage costs, there is now a way to receive part of the cleanup costs from the government.

Residents of Cranbrook, Kimberley, ?aq’am (St. Mary’s Band), Canal Flats,

Fernie and the Regional District surrounding those communities are now eligible for Disaster Financial Assistance for the overland flooding of March.

The provincial government approved Disaster Financial Assistance for residents of these areas last week after the Regional District of East Kootenay

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filed an application.

Full-time residents and home owners, residential tenants, small business owners, farmers, charitable organizations and local government bodies, can fill out claim forms and submit them for a portion of the cleanup costs related to the flooding that are not covered by insurance.

Starting on March 6, parts of Cranbrook, Wasa, Fort Steele, Meadowbrook and Wardner experienced flooding after heavy snow gave way to warm temperatures and rain. Many homes in Cranbrook experienced flooding in the basement.

The Disaster Financial Assistance program is provincial and is available to full-time residents. To apply for funding: • Get a letter of claim denial from your insurance company.

• Download the DFA Program Guidelines

and Application Form (the link is below). Copies are also available at the RDEK office in Cranbrook.

• Document everything you possibly can related to your flooding.

If you took photos, provide as many as you can.

If you did not take photos during the flooding, but still can see evidence of the damage (for instance, high water marks on the drywall), take photos now.

• Keep receipts for any and all clean-up costs related to the flooding and resulting damage and repairs. If you did not keep receipts, see if you can go back and get copies. You will need receipts to be reimbursed.

• If your septic field was compromised by flooding, you will need to have it inspected by a qualified sewage practitioner. There is a cost for this service. Keep receipts as this may be a

claimable expense through DFA. • Submit your application to EMBC. Once they have received your application, they will contact you and make arrangements for an onsite visit with one of their evaluators. This is a Provincial program and you will work directly with them.

The deadline date to file an application is July 2, 2014.

When filling out the forms, it asks for the date of damage. Make sure you indicate a date between March 4-11, 2014 as this is the timeframe Disaster Financial Assistance has been approved for. If you don’t put these dates down, your claim will be refused.

For more information and to download an application form, visit http://embc.gov.bc.ca/ e m /d f a _cla i m s /d f a. html or phone 1-888257-4777.

Correction: ‘Cost of living in Cranbrook above minimum wage, council hears’: The article on the front page of the April 9 Townsman misstated that Darelyn Hutchinson was representing the Social Planning Society and the Living Wage Project and Poverty Reduction Initiative. Hutchinson was representing the Social Planning Society which initiated and completed the Living Wage Project in Cranbrook. She is not involved in the Poverty Reduction Initiative. Darcy Victor is a Family Consultant with the Poverty Reduction Initiative in Cranbrook which is part of the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD).

The article incorrectly stated that the project is run through MCFD. MCFD is not involved in the Living Wage Project.

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Threats, harassment trial to go ahead in Cranbrook

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A trial will go ahead in Cranbrook Supreme Court for a West Kootenay man who has been charged with threatening a Cranbrook prosecutor.

A date will be set for the trial of Darryl Bruce McDowell on May 5.

McDowell has been charged with uttering

threats to cause death or bodily harm, and criminal harassment.

The preliminary inquiry was held in Cranbrook Provincial Court on April 7, and Judge Meg Shaw handed down her decision on Wednesday, April 9.

While McDowell did not appear for the preliminary inquiry – the

contents of which are protected by a publication ban – he was in custody in Rossland on April 9 and appeared via video from the court house there.

Judge Shaw found that Crown prosecutor Robert Bruneau had called sufficient evidence for the case to be submitted to trial.

As Judge Shaw read her decision, McDowell called out to her, saying that she has no authority over him. Sheriffs were forced to shut off the microphone in the Rossland court room so McDowell did not interrupt proceedings, but he was still able to hear Judge Shaw’s decision.

Fluoride in the water supply will be on November ballot Continued from page 1 In March, back at the mayor’s brown bag lunch, Cranbrook resident Brian Kostiuk asked if it was true that the city has hired a contractor to deliver an education campaign to residents regarding fluoridated water. Kostiuk thought the contract ought to go out for bid.

Kostiuk feels that fluoride is unsafe and should not be in the drinking water.

Back in September 2012, Kostiuk and fellow resident Brad Brehm went before council as a delegation to ask that it reexamine the practice of adding fluoride to the municipal water supply.

Then in August 2013, Slocan resident Kevin Millership brought a class action lawsuit against the city seeking damages for dental

fluorosis. In 2003, Millership took the province to court seeking damages for fluorosis he developed as a child from drinking fluoridated water. The case established causation, according to documents, but the claims were barred by the Limitations Act, which limits the amount of time people are able to sue.

Millership had said he brought the case forward in Cranbrook because his daughter was going to be staying with family here and he didn’t want her drinking the fluoridated water.

In November 2013, the City of Cranbrook confirmed that it was in the process of settling the lawsuit with Millership.

At that time Millership told the Townsman that he had asked for the city to hold a referendum in November 2014, preceded by a

process of education and consultation.

The city wouldn’t comment on the settlement, other than confirming that it was taking place.

Cranbrook’s fluoridation program has been in place since 1967.

The city is one of only six municipalities that still adds fluoride to the water supply, the others are Sparwood, Prince George, Fort St. John, Prince Rupert and Terrace.

Millership recently filed a class action lawsuit similar to the one here against the City of Prince George. City of Prince George representatives confirmed to the Prince George Citizen that there would be a referendum there in November as well.

hearing in Rossland later on Wednesday, April 9. The results of that custody hearing were not available at time of print.

Last May, the B.C. Criminal Justice Branch

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ell, that’s that. Turns out even the Québecois had had enough of the Parti Québecois’s talk of turning that province into the Albania of North America. No disrespect to Albania meant (though, really, how could Albania take that phrase any way but disrespectfully?).

The dream of an insular nation, with backs turned to the rest of North America (the world, even), with fascistic language laws, with Catholicism as a state religion and other religions put down — well, that was just too much for the majority of even the French Canadians, who tend to be a cosmopolitan, worldly people for the most part.

As long as I’ve been politically aware, there has been that presence of a dream of an independent Quebec as part of the Canadian national consciousness. I agree with the new Quebec premier, the Liberal Philippe Couillard, that “ideas never die,” and that there will always be an independence-minded element in Quebec. But the ugly face the PQ recent put on that dream was massively rejected in Monday’s election.

And what do you know! The polls were right, for a change.

Now let us never speak of that again.

Still, it’s like something is missing. It’s like when I got those vestigial goat horns surgically removed from my head: There

was a sense of relief, both physically and mentally, and a feeling that things were normal again in my life. But there was also a sense of loss.

How peculiar. Could it be that after more than 40 years of Quebec separatists grumbling about us, and us grumbling about them, we will need Barry something to replace it that it’s gone?

Coulter now Could it be that we Canadians have become habituated — nay, addicted! — to constitutional wrangling? I think so. It’s what we’ve become good at.

So let me offer this solution, a methadone treatment to the heroin addiction of our constitutional preoccupation. Let us revive that old chestnut debate about the East Kootenay separating from British Columbia and becoming part of the province of Alberta.

Our list of grievances is long. It is not dissimilar to Quebec’s grievances against the rest of Canada, or B.C.’s grievances against the far-off government in Ottawa, for that matter. For starters, there’s the fact that nearby Alberta pays no sales tax and we in B.C. do. There’s the fact that no one is quite sure in Victoria or Vancouver what time zone we’re in, our how long it takes to get from there to here (our time zones are separated by many, many hours. It takes days and days to get from

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there to here). The fact that much of our “proximity to sources of livelihood” is mostly in an easterly or northeasterly direction (mines and oilpatch).

Geographically, even though we’re separated from Alberta by a major mountain range (the Rockies), we’re also separated from B.C. by a major mountain range (the Purcells). In fact, the East Kootenay is separated from the rest of the world by major mountain ranges. So what difference does it make?

And compared with the trip to Victoria, a trip to Edmonton seems like a short hop.

Now I personally am not advocating a union with Alberta, really. It’s just that we need to keep our haggling over constitutional matters going, for our own sense of Canadian self. And to change the borders of provinces requires a change to the constitution. And we do have all those lawyers …

One more item on this matter, which one could argue for or against: By adding a large chunk of southeastern B.C. to Alberta, the shape of Alberta becomes suspiciously similar to Saskatchewan, Canada’s rectangle. My Canada includes both Quebec and Williams Lake. But I’ve always felt Canada needed more geometric simplicity in its map. After all, two rectangles are better than one.

Barry Coulter is the Editor of the Cranbrook Daily Townsman

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Bonfire of the Vanities: Part II

What Wolfe couldn’t have known was Tom Wolfe was uneasy, he didn’t that the year Warner Brothers purchased show it. After his 1987 novel ‘The Bonfire of the Vanities’ skyrocketed the rights to his book, the studio was being to bestsellerdom, he knew Hollywood run by Medici princes. While not actual would soon be calling, and he wasn’t look- Medici royalty, this was the name the executives at Warner were known by. In her ing forward to it. book ‘The Devil’s Candy,’ The 56-year-old jourJulie Salamon quotes direcnalist had been absolutely tor Brian De Palma as he shocked with what the film “laughingly referred to the industry had done a deexecutives as Medici princcade earlier to his 1979 BOOKNOTES es, because they seemed to book ‘The Right Stuff.’ He liked the movie; it just had Mike Selby think of themselves as the bravest, the most intellecnothing to do with his tual, the most invincible.” book. Yet when his agent told him Warner Brothers was offering DePalma ended up directing ‘The Bonfire $750,000 for the rights to ‘Bonfire,’ he saw of the Vanities,’ so perhaps he shouldn’t have been laughing so hard. no choice but to accept.

DePalma would also end up shoulder“The great thing about selling a book to the movies is that no one blames the au- ing most of the blame for the film’s failure, thor,” Wolfe would famously say when the which is probably unfair. Of all the obstafilm opened at Christmas in 1990. And no cles he had to overcome (overflowing budone did, even though the movie was a co- gets, difficult cast members, Medicis breathing down his neck) the biggest one lossal failure.

Wolfe had taken his book’s title from was the book itself.

The work is a complex 700-page novel the historic “bonfire of the vanities”— an action brought about by a Florentine monk made up of a series of ongoing vignettes who set ablaze his fellow citizens’ earthly about New York, peppered with some of indulgences. He had also denounced the the most unlikeable characters in modern Medici family, who probably weren’t too fiction. There is no overriding spine to upset when the monk’s own followers got connect many of the characters, most of who espouse a subtle yet extremely ugly tired of him and had him killed. racism. The book’s main character is ex-

tremely unsympathetic — a coarse and wealthy stockbroker who causes a young man’s death by leaving the scene of a hit and run, only because he didn’t want his wife to find out he was cheating on her.

(The casting of Tom Hanks in this role is simply bizarre; he is the last actor audiences would believe as despicable.)

DePalma also found himself barred from filming in and around New York, as Wolfe’s book had insulted the very people who could grant DePalma access. Warner Brothers had to launch a lawsuit to say that being prevented from filming outside a New York courthouse was unlawful.

Despite all these hurdles, De Palma did finish the film, and it opened during Christmas week in 1990. The reviews were not pretty, ranging from the kindly “misfire” and “unfunny” to the harsher “gross,” “stench,” “one big zero” and Joel Siegel’s “You’ve got to be a genius to make a movie this bad.” ‘Bonfire’ cost $50 million to make and only made $15 million in return. It was one of the worst financial failures in Hollywood’s history. Careers were lost, people were fired, and the Warner Medicis quietly left the studio.

Postscript: released on videocassette in April of 1991, ‘The Bonfire of the Vanities’ became the number one rented title for the entire year.

It happened this week in Cranbrook Week April 6 - 12

Dave Humphrey Items compiled from the archived newspapers held at the Cranbrook Museum and Archives

1889 In the Hospital ... The St. Eugene hospital, under the charge of Sister Superior Melitine, with four Sister assistants, contained on Sunday 17 patients. Under the watchful care of the sisters, aided by Steward Clopotkoff, it is hardly necessary to add the patients receive every needful attention.

Moyie … A fresh meat famine is also reported in the city by the lake, and, as an old prospector puts it, the only meat available for food purposes is “pig bosom”. Nor is mankind also the only one short of “grub” in Moyie, as horses are suffering from a lack of hay and oats. .

The Brickyard ... Mr. James H. McMullin, of Balfour, mention of whom was made by The Herald of two weeks ago in connection with the establishment of a brickyard in Cranbrook, has returned and selected his ground. His family w ill soon arrive. In the meantime Mr. McMullin has secured help and is getting in a supply of wood, as much is necessary in the manufacture of brick.

Daily Stage Line ... With the advent of navigation on the Kootenay a daily stage line will be established from Cranbrook to Fort Steele or Wardner, whichever town from time to time may be the terminal point of the principal steamers of the

transportation lines. This will give Cranbrook a mail at least five days out of the week, and also largely stimulate travel and investment in this direction. Southeast Kootenay is surely in for great advancement the present year.

Road Upgrade … Gold Commissioner Armstrong has signified his intention of soon putting the road from Cranbrook to the St. Eugene Mission in first-class order; an improvement much needed, especially that part of it across the slough, near town.

Cranbrook Post Office ...

There is now no doubt but within a short time this town will be the happy possessor of the much-needed post office.

Post office Inspector Fletcher was recently at Fort Steele, has since went down the river, but will soon return, when in all probability the details will be arranged, and, it is reported, Mr. Durick, of the well-known general merchandise firm of Carlin & Durick, appointed postmaster. There is also a probability that this firm will establish a store at this point.

The popular route to East Kootenay! … The large and commodious Steamers North Star and J.D. Farrell; Capacity; one hundred passengers and one hundred and fifty tons freight each. Will open the navigation season on the Kootenay River from Jennings, Montana for a points in East Kootenay about April 20 th. For passenger and freight rates address the company’s agent at Jennings, Montana, or the Fort Steele Mercantile Co. Fort

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Steele, or Wardner.

1900 Has not been seen for 10 days … A little more than n week ago W. C. McClellan left his shack at his tie camp in Jaffray, about 28 miles east of here, on the C. N. R., struck out into the bush and has not been seen since, although diligent search has been made for him in the surrounding timber and mountains by a score or more of men who were working for him. Government officials have also been notified, but all efforts to trace the missing man have so far proved unavailing.

He has disappeared as completely as has W. W. Barker, who was engaged at the North Star mines installing the aerial tram.

Masonic Lodge Instituted ... On Saturday evening last, the Cranbrook Masonic Lodge U. D., was instituted by V. W. Bro. W, I. Quinlan, G. S. assisted by W. Bro. Byers, of Nelson. A large number of members were present from Fort Steele and other points. The new lodge with a large membership and every prospect of success and prosperity. Light refreshments were served by the ladies after the business of the evening was finished.

Alone, sick and helpless ...

That was the condition in which William Woods was found in a shack near the old sawmill site of the Cranbrook Lumbering Co., this week. He had been in this condition three days. Officer Morris was notified of the fact, took a wagon and went to his relief.

Woods was suffering from inflammatory rheumatism, and one of his legs was swollen two or three times its normal size.

He was removed, with great difficulty, as the gentlest torch inflicted the most excruciating pain, and taken to the government hospital at Fort Steele.

Pieper Is Responsible ...

Pieper & Currie, the paperhangers, aren’t paperhangers alone, as they are doing some very neat sign writing about town. Mr. Pieper is the manipulator of the brush, and does it in a manner unexcelled in their palmiest days by Raphael or Rubens, Get Painting … Cranbrook’s population is composed of energetic, enterprising business men, progressive and fully up with the times; the working people, in their sphere, are not one whit behind the business and professional men; a man who has traveled much, especially in newly populated regions will observe this condition of affairs at a glance, needing no information on the subject. This being the case it is a source of wonderment to the Herald why so few of the residences— many of them quite handsome— are unpainted. In addition to increasing the sightliness of the buildings, it is a good business proposition to paint a new building.

Clean Shave … W. R. Stone, the barber, has removed his shop from the Cranbrook Hotel to the room formerly occupied

by Leask, the tailor, and now has one of the most convenient shaving parlours in town.

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April 9. Kimberley Garden Club April program: Basic Garden Design.

Selkirk High School Library 7-9 pm. New members welcome. For more info: Nola: 250-427-0527.

BC Government Retired Employees Assoc, Rky Mtn Br., will be holding their luncheon meeting at Days Inn, Sam Steele Room, Cranbrook on April 9th at 12 noon. Guest Speaker RCMP Constable Louis Saule will be speaking on fraud. Info: Jack Hogan 250-426-2335.

Kindergarten immunizations are available for children between the ages of 4 and 6 years at the Cranbrook Health Unit. For an appointment call 250 420-2207. Clinic dates are: Friday April 11, Monday April 14, Thursday May 15 “Ignited Joy Spring Conference” House of Hope 629-6th ST. NW, April 11-12 Friday 7pm and Saturday 9:30am, 2pm, 7pm. Speakers: Steve and Wendy Backlund and Team from Redding California.

Register online at www.ihopecranbrook.ca. Contact Info: 250-4213784 or cranbrookhouseofhope@gmail.com Bigfoot Running Club Annual Pass the Chili Run! Sunday April 13, 2014. Knox Presbyterian Church 2100 3rd st south. Registration opens at 3:00pm. Race start: 3:30pm. Distance: 8 km. Come enjoy a run and dinner! Fee includes race and dinner. For more info www. bigfootrunning.ca The Cranbrook Health Care Auxiliary will be holding their General Meeting on 14 April 2014 at 2:30 pm in the Hospital Cafeteria. All members are invited to attend.

Federal Superannuates Meeting, Tuesday April 15th, 12:00 noon at Heritage Inn, Cranbrook. Please phone Skip 426-3679 2014 FREE FAMILY SWIM Wednesday, April 16th, 6:00-7:00pm is sponsored by Kimberley Healthcare Auxiliary. Persons 18 years & younger must be accompanied by an adult.

Prostate Cancer Support Group, Wed April 16, 7 pm, meeting at the Heritage Inn to hear a talk by Glenda Standeven, author of “What Men Won’t Talk About . . And Women Need to Know” about her husband’s prostate cancer. We need to be sure there is enough space for us so please RSVP to Kevin 427-3322 or Dennis 489-5249.

Learn about advanced care planning, choose what healthcare you want and don’t want even when you can’t speak for yourself.

Learn how by attending an information session presented by the Cranbrook Kimberley Hospice Society at the Cranbrook Health Unit 1700 – 4th st. S. On wed apr 16th from 7 to 9 pm. INFO: 250417-2019 toll free 855-417-2019 or go to www.Ckhospice.Com

ONGOING Cranbrook Branch of the Stroke Recovery Association of BC. Meetings are from 10:00am-1:00pm the 2nd and 4th Wed. in the lower level of the Senior Citizen’s Hall, 125-17th St. S. Bring bag lunch. Tootie Gripich, 426-3994.

Cranbrook Phoenix Toastmasters meet every Thursday, noon -1:00 Heritage Inn. Toastmasters teaches communication & leadership skills. Roberta 250-489-0174. 1911.toastmastersclubs.org.

The Canadian Orthopaedic Foundation invites anyone expecting bone and joint surgery to make contact with local volunteers for peer support. The free Ortho Connect program helps to ease the fear, stress and anxiety that go along with surgery and help patients prepare. 1-800-461-3639 ext 4, and ask for Lauralee.

TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) non profit weight loss support group meets EVERY Thursday at 5:00 pm at the Sr Citizen’s Centre, (downstairs) 125 17th Ave S, Cranbrook. Drop in, have fun while losing weight gradually. This Chapter has won an annual B.C. Provincial Award for “BEST AVG WEIGHT LOSS PER MEMBER”. Info: Marie 250 417 2642 SPECIAL GOSPEL SERVICES: Each Sunday from March 9 to March 30, 2014, from 3:00 - 4:00 PM Mountain Time. Girl Guides of Canada Hall, 1421 - 2nd St S Cranbrook. Contact: (250) 426-4791.

Help Big Brothers Big Sisters of Cranbrook: One way you can help is by donating to our “Blue Bin” located outside to the left of Wal- Mart. This bin is there for any clothing items or soft items.

(250)489-3111 or email us at @bigbrothersbigsisters.ca Science Fair 2014: Represent the Kootenays in the Canada Wide Science Fair in Windsor, Ontario. Friday, April 11– Competitive Fair for students Grade 7-12. Saturday April 12 – Non-competitive Fair for students K-6. Where: College of the Rockies. Volunteers needed for both days: www.ekrsf.ca Facebook at: Ekscience Fair School Days Art Exhibition, CDAC Office and Gallery 135 10th Ave S., Tues-Fri 11-5pm, Saturday 10-2pm, 250-426-4223, cdac@ shaw.ca, www.cranbrookanddistrictartscouncil.com Dance/Practice: every Saturday. Practice from 7 to 8 PM, dancing until 11 PM. Dance With Me Cranbrook Studio, 206-14 A 13th Street, South, behind Safeway.

Volunteers are needed to assist staff with childminding while parents attend programs at the Kimberley Early Learning Center.

Come play!! Weekly or monthly for 2 hours. Diana 250427-0716 CRANBROOK QUILTERS’ GUILD hold their meetings every 2nd & 4th Tuesday of each month at 7:15pm upstairs in the Seniors’ Hall, 12517th Ave. S. Everyone welcome. Info: Donna at 250-426-7136.

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WESTERN HOCKEY LEAGUE

Ice give Tigers cool reception with 3-1 win TRE VOR CR AWLEY Sports Editor

The Kootenay Ice weren’t having any problems with their TV reception, but they still called upon the cable guy anyways on Wednesday night.

And boy, did he deliver.

Levi Cable posted his first career hat trick, scoring all three goals in a 3-1 win over the Tigers, lifting Kootenay to a 2-1 series lead in the second round of the WHL post season.

Kootenay hosts Game Four on Thursday night at Western Financial Place.

“I’m feeling really good right now,” said Cable. “Got those three goals which is nice, a first time for me, so feeling pretty good right now.”

Despite getting beat on the shot clock, the Ice had a steady presence in net with Mackenzie Skapski, who made 39 saves for the win. Marek Langhamer gave up the three goals with 27 saves for Medicine Hat. Reinhart and Rinat Valiev both collected a pair of assists, while

Zach McPhee also posted an helper for the Ice. Curtis Valk responded with the lone goal for the Tigers.

The once-scorching hot Ice powerplay was scoreless in four chances with the man-advantage, and have yet to capitalize against Medicine Hat this series.

Kootenay didn’t give anything either on Wednesday night, killing off all three Tigers powerplays.

In a shift from the goal-fest that made up the Calgary Hitmen affair, the Tigers and the Ice have settled down for a protracted series, with Skapski and Langhamer both taking centre stage.

“You saw last series it was a little different,” said Skapski. “It was more of a scoring competition between both teams and me and Chris Driedger kind of struggled.

“Now, it’s a different series and I have more responsibility to keep the puck out of the net and keep my team in it.”

Both goaltenders factored into a scoreless first period.

Skapski made a big

EXPRESSION OF INTEREST 2014 TRAIL BUILDING PROJECTS The Kimberley Trails Society is inviting qualified persons to submit expressions of interest for the following trail building projects:

Moe’s Canyon Trail Connector – Mountain Bike / Hiking Trail in the Kimberley Nordic Centre Approximate Length: 750 meters Brief Description: Natural surface intended for hikers and intermediate level bicyclists with a narrow bed trail width. Trail will connect the Kimberley Nordic Centre parking lot to Moe’s Canyon Trail. Construction of a pedestrian bridge over Trickle Creek is required. This project remains subject to obtaining all approvals.

Thunder Turkey – Mountain Bike / Hiking Trail near Horse Barn Valley Approximate Length: 2.5 kilometers Brief Description: Natural surface trail intended for hikers and intermediate level bicyclists with a narrow trail bed width. Trail will connect with Shapeshifter Trail with Summer Trail and Coral Route. This project is funded and required approvals have been obtained.

Round the Mountain – Re-Route to Single Track Approximate Length: 2 kilometers Brief Description: Natural surface trail intended for hikers and intermediate level bicyclists with a narrow trail bed width. Trail will join the existing RTM single track. This project remains subject to funding and obtaining all approvals.

The above listed projects are expected to be completed Summer 2014. All trails to be constructed to IMBA standards. To obtain a more detailed information package, send an email to info@ kimberleytrails.org on or before April 30, 2014, 4:30 (local time).

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Kootenay Ice forward Levi Cable (right) celebrates his first goal in a 3-1 win over the Medicine Hat Tigers in Game Three on Wedesdnay night at Western Financial Place. save early off an odd man rush, while Langhamer flashed the leather to deny Reinhart after he split the defence and gained the zone.

More chances for the Tigers came early in the second period after the Ice struggled to move the puck out of their own zone.

But the momentum shifted and Kootenay started getting opportunities; their best on a powerplay with a redirection that pinged off the cross bar. Jaedon Descheneau also came within a few inches of stuffing the puck past Langhamer on a breakaway.

However, Cable

made good on his first goal off a sharp angle shot from the corner that somehow snuck by the post to give the Ice a 1-0 lead halfway through the period.

Trevor Cox had a chance to even it up on a partial breakaway, but Skapski made another big save to keep a 1-0 lead after 40 minutes.

“I think you saw it last series as well, there were a lot of odd-man rushes and we kind of struggled in that department even though we were really good offensively,” said Skapski.

“This series, obviously there’s a lot of odd-man rushes, but we’re touching up back there and we’re looking pretty solid back there.”

Each side searched for another goal in the final period, and it was the Tigers team captain who found the equalizer, chipping in a loose puck off a rebound over the shoulder of the Ice goaltender.

With the Ice powerplay struggling, may as well give shorthanded opportunities a shot, since they’ve already scored once on the penalty kill.

And that’s exactly what happened.

Reinhart broke down the wing on a two-on-one and chipped a pass to Cable, who whacked a bouncing puck past Langhamer for the go-ahead goal.

“That was a nice pass from Sammy there,” said Cable. “Just lucky enough to get a stick on it, got a good bounce and it went in.”

Reinhart appeared to score after splitting the defence and putting a shot on goal, which Langhamer initially saved, but a Tigers defenceman shoved the Ice captain into the goaltender, which set off a big scrum after the ref waved off the goal.

Cable finished off his performance with an empty net goal with 49 seconds left in the game after Reinhart dished him another feed in the neutral zone.

Kootenay has won twice in the series without the big guns of Reinhart, Descheneau, Zach Franko or Luke Philp scoring.

“Sammy, Desch, Franko, Phil—they’ve been there for us all year and in the first round of playoffs, so it’s nice that we’re finally helping them out, especially in this series when they need us,” said Cable.

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No shortage of GM candidates for new Canucks president

T

he Aquilini family didn’t even wait for the Vancouver Canucks’ season to end to fire Mike Gillis, the president of hockey operations and general manager.

Francesco Aquilini swung the axe on Tuesday, relieving Gillis of his duties after six years with the team, then installed a franchise legend into the chair on Wednesday, unveiling Trevor Linden as the new team president at a press conference.

Gillis held both jobs, but for now, it seems as if both will be separated, with Linden taking the top hockey operations job while overseeing the general manager and head coach.

Linden, a native of Medicine Hat, won the Memorial Cup twice with the Tigers, his hometown junior team, before getting drafted 2nd overall in 1988 and going on to a 20-year NHL career—17 of which were spent in Vancouver.

He has served as the president of the NHL players association, getting elected in 1998, and had a successful career as a business owner following his hockey career with a chain of Club 16 fitness centres in the Lower Mainland.

Despite his relative youth at 43, Linden believes he is ready for the challenge of serving as hockey operations president in a hockey-mad market.

“I’m passionate about the Canucks and I want to win – just like our fans,” Linden said in a press release. “I believe in this team and share the organization’s commitment to excellence on and off of the ice. I am looking forward to getting started – getting to know everyone in the organization, and working together to win the Stanley Cup for this great city and province.”

His first order of business is evaluating the organization, and that involves everybody—the management and coaching staff as well as the players.

That process will dictate what changes come in the offseason.

While Linden is doing that evaluation, he is also going to be searching for a general manager. He didn’t name any names, but said he’s got a profile in mind for what he wants in his GM and will have one in place by the NHL Draft in June.

Aquilini has promised Linden full autonomy to make any and all decisions related to hockey operations so the new president will get to hand-pick his new GM. There are no shortages of viable candidates out there.

Laurence Gilman Canucks assistant GM Gilman will get a good look due to his history with the team and his work with Mike Gillis. Gilman has developed a reputation as a capologist—someone who can navigate the complex contract issues of a post-salary cap league. Even though he never played hockey at a professional level, Gilman has been in the NHL for many years in management positions, first with the Winnipeg Jets and Phoenix Coyotes.

Bob Nicholson Hockey Canada CEO Bob Nicholson has been president and CEO of Hockey Canada since 1998 overseeing national teams that have won 66 medals—41 of which were gold—in international hockey tournaments. Nicholson recently announced he was stepping down after 15 years in the job. He’s been involved with the organization through it’s change from the Canadian Amateur Hockey AssociaTrevor tion and is originally from Penticton, B.C. Crawley In his press conference announcing his resignation a week ago, Nicholson mentioned that he wanted to spend more time with his family. Good thing Penticton is only a few hours drive from Vancouver…

Markus Naslund retired Vancouver Canucks player Like Linden, Naslund is a former captain of the Vancouver Canucks who, like Linden, is revered in the city. Naslund came to to the franchise in a trade with the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1996 and went on to earn the franchise record in goals after 12 seasons with the club. Following his NHL career, he returned to Sweden and eventually picked up the job of managing Modo, the same club where he played played professionally before coming to North America. Naslund recently resigned from his duties with Modo, so one can maybe read in between the lines there.

Jim Benning retired Vancouver Canucks player Jim Benning’s name has also be bandied about by Big Media. He is a former NHL defenceman, spending nine seasons in the NHL, four of which were in Vancouver. Following his playing days, Benning served as a scout for the Ducks and the Sabres. He joined the Boston Bruins in 2006 as an assis-

tant GM, winning the Stanley Cup with the team in 2011.

Other GM candidates [who may not get as much scrutiny from the media] include:

Rob Ford Mayor of Toronto Hear me out. Here’s a guy who has gotten into all kinds of trouble—legal trouble, personal trouble, political trouble— yet nothing seems to stick to him. Smoking crack? Drunken stupors? Incoherent ranting? Nothing seems to deter this guy. Once the Canucks ran into troubled waters at the turn of the new year, fans started to call for Mike Gillis’ head and Aquilini didn’t hesitate to accommodate them. If Ford was GM, he’d find a way to evade the consequences of any questionable decisions, no matter what substance he was under the influence of. Plus he’s the best mayor Toronto’s ever had.

Billy Beane GM of the Oakland Athletics Billy Beane currently serves as the GM of the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball, who was portrayed by Brad Pitt in the movie Moneyball. Beane pioneered statistical analysis, namely the sabermetric model, to identify and evaluate the strengths of his players. Advanced analytics is starting to take off with the NHL as teams are now tracking Corsi (Corsi equals shot attempts for minus shot attempts against) Fenwick (same as Corsi, but doesn’t count blocked shots) and PDO. The Canucks could hire Beane and he could, in turn, train an army of stats nerds to scour the world for the best free agent talent that got passed over in NHL drafts. Kind of like what Mike Gillis did. After all, when it comes to the numbers, baseball can’t be that different from hockey.

Trevor Crawley Daily Townsman Sports Editor I would officially like to throw my name into the hat for the Canucks GM job. I don’t have any professional hockey or management experience, but I have watched a lot of NHL games, which should count for something. As an armchair critic, I feel like my judgement is certainly more educated than some of those that have been involved with the NHL for many years. It would be a bold move on Linden’s part, but I feel I can bring an outsider’s perspective and an ability to think outside the box. Heck, I can even think inside the box if that’s what’s needed.

Gran Fondo registration opens up Tre vor Cr awley Sports Editor

Though the Kootenay Rockies Gran Fondo is six months away, registration has begun with 500 spots up for grabs, according to Glenn Dobie, the event chairman.

A few changes have been made for this year in the aftermath of last year’s inaugural event, as Dobie and his team of organizers work to grow and enhance the rider experience.

“We looked at last year at what went well and then we looked at what we could do to make it more of a festival, fun experience for the cyclists,” said Dobie.

There will be a team spirit award sponsored by the Heidout Brew Pub for the bestdressed and most enthusiastic. The Pedal and Tap Restaurant in Kimberley has sponsored the King and

Queen of the Hill award, which will be handed out to the cyclists who climb the steep 1.5-kilometre stretch just outside Fort Steele the fastest.

Included with registration is a continental breakfast, and cyclists can also purchase rider kits—which include a jersey, shorts, socks and caps—on the event website.

Anyone who registers before June 30th will be entered into a draw to win two free flights from Pacific Coastal Airlines. Registration will continue right up till the end of August with a 500-rider cap.

“We’re cautiously optimistic that we’ll get close to that,” said Dobie. “Registration is open and we already have registration coming in from Whistler, Calgary, Canmore, Langley and local.

“It’s early, so they’re just starting to come in, but I think that will start to change pretty quickly.”

The Gran Fondo, which is billed as a ride, not a race, is also a non-profit event, with money going towards maintenance of the North Star Rails to

Trails and the Paint the Train project at the Canadian Museum of Rail Travel.

“We hear people who cycled last year— they were really pleased to hear it was non-profit,” added Dobie.

Not only has the event attracted riders locally and abroad, but

sponsorship support from the area has been huge, Dobie noted.

The event will require roughly 125 volunteers, and anyone who is interested in helping out can check out the Gran Fondo website. Registration is also available online at: www.krgf.ca

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Young guns in the fore at Masters

Rockets book ticket to WHL conference finals

Paul Ne wberry Associated Press

ROCKETS 5 OIL KINGS 2 SEATTLE - Rockets goaltender Jordon Cooke made 45 saves as Kelowna completed its four-game sweep over the Seattle Thunderbirds with a 5-2 victory in second-round Western Hockey League playoff action Wednesday.

Damon Severson, Nick Merkley and Marek Tvrdon had a goal and an assist apiece for the Rockets, who advance to the Western Conference final to take on either Portland or Victoria. Cole Linaker and Tyson Baillie also scored.

Seattle’s Ethan Bear opened the scoring on the power play at 14:22 of the first period. Sam McKechnie had the other Thunderbirds goal.

Taran Kozun stopped 42 shots in the losing effort.

WHEAT KINGS OIL KINGS

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BRANDON, Man. - Richard Nejezchleb scored two goals and assisted on another, and Jordan Papirny made 49 saves as Brandon staved off elimination with a win over Edmonton.

John Quenneville had a goal and an assist, and Tim McGauley and Jens Meilleur also scored for the Wheat Kings, who trail the series 3-1.

Cody Corbett and Luke Bertolucci replied for the Oil Kings, who outshot the Wheat Kings 51-31.

Edmonton’s Tristan Jarry made 26 saves in the loss.

Canadian Press

AUGUSTA, Ga. - Jordan Spieth speaks with reverence when hanging out with the greats of the game at Augusta National.

It’s always “Mr. Watson” this, “Mr. Crenshaw” that.

But, in his first trip to the Masters, Spieth feels he’s got as good a chance as anyone to capture a green jacket.

That’s the way it is with these kids today.

They’re not very patient.

A new wave of 20-somethings is taking golf by storm, eager to make their mark and not at all beaten down by the aura of Tiger Woods, who hasn’t won a major championship since 2008 and isn’t even at Augusta this week as he recovers from the latest in a series of injuries.

Nine players under the age of 30 have won PGA Tour events since the official start of the season last fall, including a pair of

victories by brash 23-year-old Patrick Reed.

That list doesn’t even include perhaps the best of the youngsters: Rory McIlroy, already a two-time major champion at age 24, and Spieth, who last summer became the youngest Tour winner since the Depression before he even celebrated his 20th birthday.

“It helps me when I’m on the course when I can see younger and younger guys winning golf tournaments,” Spieth said. “I believe that it doesn’t take as much experience as maybe guys would have thought five years ago, six years ago.”

Arnold Palmer is certainly impressed with a group that also includes Webb Simpson, Dustin Johnson, Jason Day, Harris English, Chris Kirk, Scott Stallings, Russell Henley and Chesson Hadley.

“I’ve been watching these young guys,” Palmer said Tuesday, “and it’s amazing how they hit the golf ball, how well they play. I’ve

never ceased to be pleased and surprised to see the physical conditioning that these young people are coming with, to see their ability, to see how they play the game.

“I look at them and you think about a 23, 22, 25-year-old, and you see the shots they are hitting and how far they are hitting the golf ball, I’m startled, surprised and pleased.”

Spieth credits players such as Woods and Phil Mickelson for inspiring this new generation - and not just in the United States. Look at someone such as Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama, who turned pro a year ago and, before the season was done, had tied for sixth at the British Open.

He’s only 22, and getting ready for his first Masters as a paid player.

“Everybody in the field has a chance to win it,” said Matsuyama, who was the low amateur at the 2011 Masters. “I feel like I’m one of those, too, that has a chance.”

Lawrie homers as Blue Jays defeat Astros 7-3 Gregory Strong Canadian Press

TORONTO - When Blue Jays starter Brandon Morrow is on his game, his stuff can be electric and will often leave opposing hitters handcuffed.

He displayed that dominant form in a solid

six-inning performance Wednesday night as Toronto defeated the Houston Astros 7-3 at Rogers Centre.

Morrow struck out nine batters as the Blue Jays (5-4) locked up their first series win of the young season and moved over the .500 mark in the

process. The veteran right-hander was hitting the high 90’s with his fastball and retired the first nine batters in order, fanning six along the way.

“He was throwing the crap out of the ball ... he was using all of his pitches really (well) and he

gave us a real shot to win the game,” said Toronto catcher Dioner Navarro.

The Blue Jays staked Morrow to an early tworun lead and gave him a 5-0 cushion after five innings. The Astros battled back with three runs in the sixth before Brett Lawrie of Langley, B.C.,

provided some insurance with a two-run shot an inning later for his first homer of the season.

“They stung us there and battled back and got within reaching distance there, so it was good to put us back on top and put it out of reach later in the game,” Lawrie said.

YOUR CITY WORKING FOR YOU! Thursday, April 10th, 2014 FREE COMMUNITY SPONSORED FAMILY SWIM – SATURDAY APRIL 19, 2014 The Cranbrook Aquatic Centre is hosting another community sponsored family swim on Saturday April 19, 2014 from 12pm to 1pm. It will be free for families to swim at this event, compliments of KD Electric. Are you or your business interested in sponsoring a family swim? Please contact our Aquatics Coordinator at 250-4890224.

2014 PARCEL TAX ROLL REVIEW WATER AND SEWER FRONTAGE TAX ROLLS The Corporation of the City of Cranbrook has completed improvements to the water and sewer systems that are to be supported in part by a frontage tax levy imposed under the following bylaws: A. Water Frontage Tax Amendment Bylaw No. 3675, 2009 B. Sewer Frontage Tax Amendment Bylaw No. 3736, 2011 Notices were sent the week of March 31, 2014, to each property owner where a change in frontage has occurred. These notices will state the actual and taxable frontage for the property and the frontage tax rates for 2014.

The Parcel Tax Roll Review Panel will be held on the 28th day of April 2014, at 3:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber at City Hall, 40 - 10th Avenue South, Cranbrook, BC, for the purpose of hearing complaints to:

REMINDERS...

Monday April 28 – Regular Council Meeting @ 6pm Monday May 12 – Regular Council Meeting @ 6pm

A. The names of owners of parcels of land B. The actual frontage of parcels of land

LIVING WITH URBAN DEER – AVAILABLE NOW! A public education campaign about ‘Living with Urban Deer’ is one of several recommendations made by the Urban Deer Management Advisory Committee and endorsed by City Council. This brochure is designed to help ensure public safety by reducing the potential of dangerous encounters with urban deer. Pick up your copy at City Hall or download one from our website today!

ZONING BYLAW The Zoning Bylaw is a regulatory document that contains specific regulations for the use, development and subdivision of land. Any use of or development on a parcel must be in compliance with the regulations contained in the Zoning Bylaw. Visit our website and click on ‘Bylaws’ for more on all of our City bylaws.

2013 SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY BUILDER AWARD The City of Cranbrook is accepting applications for the Sustainable Community Builder Award given annually to an individual, group, club, agency or society that has contributed to the social, arts/ cultural, economic and/or environmental sustainability of Cranbrook.

Send Applications to: Cranbrook City Hall, Attention: Bernice Reed (reed@cranbrook.ca) 40 – 10th Avenue South Cranbrook, BC V1C 2M8 Deadline for applications is Wednesday April 30, 2014 See www.cranbrook.ca or www.cranbrookcf.ca for award eligibility and applications.

City Hall will be closed Good Friday and Easter Monday, in order for our staff to spend time with their families. City Hall will reopen at usual at 8:30am on Tuesday April 22.

C. The taxable frontage of parcels of land A complaint shall not be heard unless notice of the complaint has been made in writing to the office of the Collector prior to 4:30 p.m. on the 25th day of April, 2014. For more information please call City Hall at 250-426-4211.

Watch the latest

Cranbrook City Council meeting when you want. Visit www.cranbrook.ca

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Student travellers visit London, Paris, Italy Alyssa Grocut t and Ms. Jakobsen

The Mount Baker/ Tri-School Travel Club returned to Cranbrook after a jam-packed 12day tour of London, Paris and Italy.

Twenty-nine people travelled together from Cranbrook to Calgary on March 15, flying directly to London, England.

There we took in the sights and found ourselves in the middle of the St. Patrick’s Day celebrations in Leicester Square. We filled our two days with tourist destinations, including a visit to the British Museum, Platform 9 3/4s, and an evening performance of the musical “Wicked.”

Early the next day, we were off on the Eurostar train through the Chunnel to Paris, France.

Again, we found ourselves busy visiting the sights from morning until night. Two of the many highlights included our climb to the midpoint of the Eiffel Tower, and our visit to see the Mona Lisa in the Louvre.

On March 20, the group boarded an overnight train which took us to Milan, Italy. A tour bus was waiting for us at 6 a.m., and we were off to Florence, home of Michelangelo’s David. Florence afforded us some shopping time which we all enjoyed.

The next day we headed to Rome. There we toured the Vatican and the amazing Sistine Chapel. The following morning we headed to the ruins of Pompeii, and then to the beautiful seaside resort of Sorren-

to. Once again we were able to do some quality shopping, picking up souvenirs for friends and family.

Getting up early as usual, we were off to the beautiful Isle of Capri.

Seasickness aside, we had a nice tour of the island and then returned to the mainland to catch the bus to Rome for our final night.

It was an incredible, hectic tour, but each of us will remember those famous sights, and perhaps will one day return to spend a little more quality time in the places we often only imagine experiencing in real life.

Check the Mount Baker website for our next spring break travel plans.

Submitted by Alyssa Grocutt and Ms. Jakobsen

The Mount Baker/Tri-School Travel Club in the architectural midst of their recent European adventure.

PUBLIC NOTICE BC • CANADA BC • www.Kimberley.ca

STREET SWEEPING PROGRAM Please be advised that the City of Kimberley will commence street sweeping activities throughout the months of April and May. To ensure that sand and gravel are adequately removed from City streets residents, property owners and businesses are encouraged to sweep sand and gravel from sidewalks into street gutters in advance of the City’s Street Sweeping Program getting underway.

If you have any questions regarding this notice please contact the Operations & Environment Services Department at 250-427-9660.

Thank you for your co-operation.

PUBLIC NOTICE BC • CANADA BC • www.Kimberley.ca

STATUTORY HOLIDAY Good Friday, April 18, 2014 and Easter Monday, April 21, 2014 are Statutory Holidays for City Employees.

Waste that would have been picked up on Friday, April 18/14 will be picked up on Thursday, April 17, 2014.

Operations & Environment Services (250) 427-9660

Not sure about the whole

digital NOW thing? is the time to get with it!

On-Line Advertising – call your advertising representative today.

Townsman: 250-426-5201 Bulletin: 250-427-5333

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2014 SPRING RESIDENTIAL CLEAN-UP

The City of Kimberley will be conducting a Spring Clean-Up Campaign beginning MAY 5, 2014 for Residential Customers only. See schedule below for your area. Call the Operations Desk at 250-427-9660 or e-mail operations@kimberley.ca if you have questions.

What will NOT be picked up: X Trees and branches larger than 6” X Construction Refuse/Rocks or Dirt X Fridges, freezers or air conditioners X Oil or used oil filters X Vehicles X Tires X Special Wastes as defined by the Ministry of Environment

YARD WASTE MEANS: WASTE FROM GARDENING OR HORTICULTURAL ACTIVITIES AND INCLUDES GRASS, LEAVES, PLANTS, SOD AND TREE, HEDGE CLIPPINGS. ALL YARD WASTE WILL BE DELIVERED TO THE GREEN WASTE SITE AT THE KIMBERLEY TRANSFER STATION.

RESIDENTS MUST: ENSURE THAT ALL YARD WASTE, EXCLUDING BRANCHES, THAT IS SET OUT FOR COLLECTION IS PACKAGED IN PLASTIC GARBAGE BAGS.

SCHEDULE ROUTE II

Wednesday Week of May 5

ROUTE I

Tuesday

ROUTE IV Friday

ROUTE III Thursday

Week of May 12 Week of May 19 Week of May 26

SCHEDULES - Refer to your regular Waste Collection (Garbage) Day to determine your route. Yard waste must be at your pick-up location by 7:00 a.m. on the first day of your collection week. One pass will be made through each neighbourhood during the pick up week.

THE SERVICE IS LIMITED TO - 1 (One) PICK-UP PER HOUSEHOLD WITH A MAXIMUM VOLUME OF ONE 1/2 TON PICK-UP TRUCK LOAD AND SUBJECT TO ALL REFUSE FOR DISPOSAL BEING TAGGED OR OTHERWISE MARKED AND VISIBLY SEPARATED FROM RESIDENTIAL GARBAGE THEN PLACED AT YOUR REGULAR PICK-UP PLACE. SMALL BRANCHES (6” and under) TO BE TIED OR SECURED IN BUNDLES. RECYCLING: The Kimberley Transfer Station is operated by the Regional District of East Kootenay. For information call 1-800-478-7335 or go to their website at www.rdek.bc.ca

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Saturday’s choir festival a community event International Choral Festival features Friday reception at CMRT, 7 choirs from B.C. and U.S. Barry Coulter

There’s a lot of buzz around this weekend’s International Choral Festival, to be held Saturday, April 12, at the Alliance Church in Cranbrook.

The event is hosted by the Bissett Singers, and they will be joined by choirs from throughout B.C. and Washington: the Appleaires women’s choir and Apollo Club men’s choir from Wenatchee, Washington; the Washington Camerata Club from Yakima, Washington; the Washington Village Voices from Leavenworth, Washington; the Naramata Community Choir from Naramata,

B.C., and the Trail Harmony Choir.

Jim Abbott, one of the organizers, says an opening reception on Friday at the Canadian Museum of Rail Travel, from 8:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. also bodes to be a great event.

“We’ll be having a beer tasting from the Heid Out, and a wine tasting from Wynnwood Cellars in Creston, as well as a cash wine and beer bar. There’ll be live music, and tours of a few of the train sets for our visitors. So it’s going to be quite a celebration.”

Cranbrook’s Bisset Singers, who have been members of the festival for six years, were invit-

ed to host the festival in 2014. As hosts, the Bisset Singers were able to invite another choir to join the festival. They choose the Cranbrook Elementary Schools Mass Choir.

“It gives the kids an opportunity — certainly at their age — to be able to sing with a mass choir, particularly with the choirs coming in from west of us,” Abbott said. “I think it will be a very memorable event for them.

“I went to all of the elementary schools in Cranbrook, and spoke with all the principals who were universally supportive and encouraging, and their teach-

SCHOOL DISTRICT 5 IS INVITING ALL THREE YEAR OLDS TO SCHOOL!

SALLY MACDONALD PHOTO

Chuck Bissett rehearses the Bissett Singers in advance of the International Choral Festival, to be held Saturday, April 12, at the Alliance Church in Cranbrook. ers have been diligent in working on this. And this means parents’ involvement too.

“So it’s very much a community event.”

All festival performances are held at the

Alliance Church. The afternoon matinee performance is from 2:30 to 5 p.m. The evening performance is 7 p.m. until 9:30 p.m.

“The thing that’s going to be different,

and exciting, is that we’re going to have the adult mass choir seated at the back of the auditorium, and the kids will be at the front on risers at the front of the church. So they will ac-

tually be singing back and forth to each other.

It’s going to be quite spectacular.”

About 650 tickets will be available for each performance, and are on sale at Lotus Books.

Ready, Set, Learn is an initiative that recognizes that families need positive connections with the school system and community agencies that provide relevant resources and information. All public elementary schools in Southeast Kootenay School District will be offering an opportunity for all three year olds to come to their neighbourhood school (children born in 2011 who have turned three by the date of the RSL event). This event is a partnership between the province, the district, and the early childhood teachers in Cranbrook, Fernie, Sparwood, Jaffray, and Elkford.

Ready, Set, Learn will include opportunities such as a tour of the school, a visit to the kindergarten classroom, activities, refreshments, displays or presentations by school children.

Parents and caregivers will receive helpful tips for supporting their preschooler’s learning and development. They will also be provided with information about local services available. Each child will receive a learning kit.

Four year olds, those children who will be entering kindergarten in September 2014, will be invited to Kindergarten Orientation in their neighborhood school.

Cranbrook Schools April 9 April 14 April 15 April 23 April 24 April 25 April 30

Amy Woodland Elementary Pinewood Elementary Highlands Elementary Steeples Elementary Gordon Terrace Elementary T. M. Roberts Elementary Kootenay Orchards Elementary

1:00 - 2:00 pm 9:30 - 10:30 am 1:00 - 2:15 pm 10:00 - 11:00 am 9:00 - 10:00 am 10:30 - 11:30 am 9:00 - 10:00 am

Elk Valley/South Country Schools April 23 April 24 April 24 April 30

Isabella Dicken Elementary Rocky Mountain Elementary F. J. Mitchell Elementary Jaffray Elementary Jr. Sec.

9:30 - 10:30 am 9:00 - 10:00 am & 12:30 - 1:30 pm 1:00 - 2:00 pm 12:40 - 1:40 pm

Early Learning Fairs April 23 Elk Valley @ Isabella Dicken Elem. (Fernie) April 25 Cranbrook @ T. M. Roberts Elem.

9:00 am - 12:00 pm 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Barry Coulter photo

Teaching learning English, as it turns out, is quite easy. Even for a rather simple young soul like Ellard Sims (Mitchell Graw, centre) and his buddy Cletas (Harrison Ford, right). And the Simpleton foreigner Charlie (Jeff Cooper, left) is finding it easy to pick up, too. All this is too the bemusement of the Reverend David Lee (Sean Swinwood), who happens across this instructional scene in “The Foreigner.”

The Cranbrook Community Theatre comedy is playing Thursday, Friday and Saturday — April 10 through 12, and Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday — April 16 through 19, at the Studio Stage Door in Cranbrook.

The Cranbrook Food Bank needs your help.

Drop boxes at Safeway and Save On Foods Food Bank office 104-8th Ave. S. • 250-426-7664 (from 10am-3pm)

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Blues rock vixens returning to blast the Byng Ferdy Bell and

“Our biggest news is that we’ve made an album since we were last in Cranbrook!” This from Jody Peck, the blues-rock enchantress who (under her nomde-plume Miss Quincy) fronts her band The Showdown as its fiery guitarist-vocalist.

“One of the great things about being a touring band is that we get to road-test our songs, night after night, and the songs we were playing at the Byng last winter are now on our new album!”

Miss Quincy and the Showdown have stood out from Vancouver’s hipster mishmash through solid musicianship and genuine rolling-sweat onstage power; along with artists such as Rich Hope and Matt Rogers, Miss Quincy proves that mainstream names like the Black Keys (or Joan Jett) have not cornered the market on punchy, rootsy riff-rock. And she

intends to prove herself once again onstage at the legendary Byng Roadhouse for the upcoming Full Moon Fever Party on Tuesday April 15.

Since 2009, Miss Quincy has blasted her way out of her Northern B.C. origins with no less than 100,000 km of worldwide touring to her credit. With her trusty sidekicks in the Showdown smashing the drums and slapping at the upright bass, the band is currently touring in support of their third album “Roadside Recovery,” which stands as a perfect sonic document to their explosive live show...a live show which now moves beyond their classic power-trio lineup and includes a keyboardist.

“Adding Christie Rose to our touring line up has been really great,” Peck said. “The addition of keyboards adds a new texture and layer to the sound, but her harmonies are what

Hard-rocking Miss Quincy is back to the Byng in Cranbrook on April 15. really take our show to new level.”

Miss Quincy has their work cut out for them for the rest of 2014.

“We’re doing our album release in Western Canada this month, and then heading over to Ontario and Quebec for

some shows. After the summer we’ll be doing our annual European tour, and then this coming winter we’ll be doing

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our first Australian tour.

We’re just focusing on getting the new record out there.”

With all this continu-

ous globe-trotting rocknroll hullabaloo, Peck still has no qualms about torching up small town stages with the Miss Quincy inferno.

“I’ll always like playing small towns. Don’t tell the big cities, but I like playing small towns best. I’ve spent the last five years touring every small town in Western Canada, and many of the people that come out to our shows have become friends. It’s a little reunion, everywhere we go. And for all you inspired up-and-comers who hunger for the road? Just get out there and start learning.

There’s only one way to get road-miles under your belt...and that’s to drive them.

“Touring is the only way to learn the fine art of playing a dirty bar.”

Miss Quincy and the Showdown rock your world at the legendary Byng Roadhouse (21 Cranbrook St. South) Tuesday April 15, showtime 8 p.m.

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NATIONAL VOLUNTEER WEEK

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From Loss to Inspiration

BY TESSA

DERKSEN OF KELOWNA

During national Volunteer week (April 6-12, 2014) it seems like an appropriate time to celebrate the special people who give of themselves so fully to their community for something they believe in. Liana Shaw is one of those people.

Liana has just won a Community Volunteer Leadership Award from the Canadian Cancer Society for her gracious efforts and growing success in leading the Slopes for Hope event in Kimberly.

She says the Canadian Cancer Society was a huge support to her family when her mother passed away from leukemia, leaving her dad with four kids ranging from ages two to eight.

There are so many Liana had been searchthings in life that are ing for a way to give simply out of our control back and the Slopes for – the weather, the econ- Hope event is a perfect omy, and often, a cancer fit. diagnosis. But what is She says people in Kimin our realm of personal berley, including herself, control is how we react enjoy playing in the to these changes that snow – and, everyone are imposed upon us. has a story; everybody We can decide – as has been touched by Liana Shaw did –to find cancer. She believes meaning in a devastatthese two factors coning, life-changing event tribute to the popularity and to take back some of the event in Kimberpersonal power from ley. that incredibly greedy disease we call cancer.

My path crossed Liana’s when I had the opportunity to thank her for organizing Slopes for Hope, a Kimberley-based independent fundraising event. People come together to ski and snowboard the vertical height of Mount Everest in one day while raising funds to fight cancer.

The Kimberley Dynamiters

Liana joined the event three years ago and has chaired the volunteer organizing committee for the last two years. Last year, Liana and her committee raised $22,000 and this February they raised a record-breaking $40,000 with close to 100 participants.

would like to thank their many volunteers, board members, billets and fans who help make this organization a great success.

MANY THANKS TO ALL! Thank you to all the volunteers.

You strengthen our community.

But I believe there may be one more reason this event is so popular – Liana has taken the loss of her mother and turned it into something truly inspirational – an event where she can share her passion for all-thingssnow-related, and her desire to give back, while creating a community of support for those touched by cancer. She’s truly amazing.

So what’s next for the Slopes for Hope Kimberley event?

Liana says the possibilities are endless – we

to the amazing volunteers we have at our library!

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can include so much more than a simple alpine event. Why just descend the mountain, why not ascend too?

Next year we could include snowshoeing

and Nordic, kind of a ‘choose your challenge’ option.

And with that, Liana is off and running again.

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Thank You to our volunteers and donators in our wonderful community!

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Thank you to our dedicated volunteers!

With your help we are leading cancer prevention initiatives, funding outstanding cancer research, and delivering trusted information and compassionate support to those fighting cancer.

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Business Excellence Awards to be held April 20.

The lovely St. Eugene Golf Resort and Casino was the host venue for the Chamber’s annual Business Excellence Awards being held on Saturday, April 5th.The award program highlighted members of the business community in a number of different categories.

An Evening of Excellence expands the scope of recognition of members of the business community for their achievements and their impact on the local business economy.

The Evening of Excellence is successful due to the collaboration and hard work of our sponsors and our team. Sincere thanks to our Gold Sponsors North Star and Spring Honda and to our Silver Sponsor, Western Financial Group.

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Hosts for the event will be Kyla Cornish and Darcy Kennedy.

Linda Birch is the creative talent behind the decorations of the venue.

Entertainment featured the popular Canadian Crossfire.

It truly is “An Evening of Excellence.

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New short form request for proposals makes it easier for small business to sell to government.

VICTORIA - The Government of B.C. has officially launched its two-page, short-form request for proposals (SRFP) making it easier

for small businesses to sell to government.

The shorter form will be used for government opportunities valued at

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A licensed Home Inspector will inspect and document the condition, and end of life of the essential components of a house.

Roofing: Is the roof covering at the end of its life? Is the roof leaking, or likely to leak around chimneys, vents, skylights, valleys and flashings?

Exterior: In what conditions are the siding, windows, doors, decks, steps, and hand rails?

Are safety standards met? Are there signs of water penetration or damage from poor lot grading?

Interior: In what condition are walls, floors, ceilings, handrails, insulation and vapor barriers?

Plumbing: What is the condition of the plumbing? Is there enough water flow and pressure; proper venting of the plumbing fixtures? Is there evidence of leaks? How old is the water tank?

Structure: Is there any evidence of structural failure? Are there sags, bowing, leaning, cracks in the foundation walls and floors? Of utmost importance, are there subtle signs of water penetration that may contribute to deterioration of the building?

HVAC Systems: What are the type, age, and condition of the furnace and air conditioning components, filters and ducts? What is the expected life span of these crucial components?

Electrical: What condition and type of wiring is in the house? Is the electrical system properly grounded? Does the electrical panel and wiring meet safety codes? Your insurance company will want to know.

Attic & Crawl Spaces: What is the type and thickness of insulation used in the attic and walls? What is the insulation ‘R Value’ of the roof and walls? This will affect your heating costs. What kind of attic/roof venting is used; is there evidence of leaks or condensation?

This is only a partial list to consider when buying a home. There is plenty more to inspect.

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New cont’d request forms from previous page nesses sell to government. As small business continues to be a key economic driver in B.C., it’s important that government work to provide opportunities that will help businesses grow long term.”

Andrew Wilkinson, Minister of Technology, Innovation and Citizens’ Services “This new two-page smart form is making it much easier for small businesses to apply for government opportunities.

“By simplifying the application and making it less time consuming for people to complete process, we are making it easier for small businesses to do business with government and creating long-term growth opportunities for businesses throughout the province.”

John Winter, president and CEO, BC Chamber of Commerce “The small businesses throughout B.C. and our members in particular will be delighted to learn of the measures the Province is taking to enable more B.C. businesses to take advantage of and participate in the extensive procurement opportunities that exist.

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businesses throughout the province to establish a list of priorities to make B.C. the most businessfriendly jurisdiction in Canada. The six Accord principles guide the manner in which government interacts with and considers the interests of the small business community.

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Chamber Directors and staff said a sad farewell to Marilyn Christensen this week.

Marilyn has served as our Business Energy Advisor for the LiveSmart program for the last three years. The Province’s LiveSmart BC: Small Business Program ended March 31st.

Marilyn will continue to live in the area so, it’s not a good bye, and it’s wishing you continued success and thanks Marilyn for all you brought to our Chamber.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2014

SPRING HONDA GIVES A TASTE OF CRANBROOK For a number of years, Spring Honda has been generously sponsoring the scrumptious talents of area food specialists who proudly present their creations to hungry crowds during Cranbrook’s largest festival, Sam Steele Days. The “Taste of Cranbrook” event takes up a good portion of the Central Fairgrounds at Rotary Park. It’s a great opportunity for exposure for restaurateurs and caterers to showcase their talents.

The experience is equally great for all who attend the Sam Steele Days festival. Taste buds get to sample quite a variety of cuisine while being entertained by some of our area’s best local dancers and musicians performing on the Spirit Square Stage at the Community Talent Showcase, Saturday, June 21st from 11:30am to 4:30pm.

The Sam Steele Society is encouraging all vendors to do something creative with their menu or a special dish to acknowledge the 50 year milestone of Cranbrook’s largest community festival. Appetites are sure to be delighted!

Spring Honda, a Cranbrook automobile dealership that won two 2013 Business Excellence Awards for customer service excellence and business person(s) of the year , will also have a few new models on site for attendees to look over.

Vendor applications are available on the official Sam Steele Days website www.samsteeledays.org For more information on this and other events contact the Sam Steele Society at (250) 426-4161 or email info@samsteeledays.org This year the Sam Steele Days festival will kick off on Thursday, June 19th and run until Sunday, June 22nd.

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Federal Ukraine, and odds on a new cold war Two things were clear after US Secretary of State John Kerry’s four hours of talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Paris last week. One was that the United States accepts that nothing can be done about Russia’s annexation of Crimea. Kerry continues to describe Russia’s action as “illegal and illegitimate”, but Crimea was not even mentioned in the communique released to the public.

The other is that the transformation of Ukraine into a neutral, federal state is now firmly on the table. Kerry repeatedly voiced the mantra that there must be “no decisions about Ukraine without Ukraine,” but he also agreed with Lavrov that the subjects that need to be discussed include rights for national minorities, language rights, the disarmament of irregular forces and a constitutional reform that would make Ukraine a federal state.

By “rights for national minorities” and “language rights” he meant a special political status for Ukraine’s 17 percent ethnic Russian minority and maybe even for the much larger number of

Kiev might not be able to reject American pressure to accept these concessions in its current gravely weakened state.

Gwynne If all this makes John Kerry sound like a latter-day Neville Dyer Chamberlain appeasing Ukrainians – probably 40-45 Moscow, well, maybe he is. percent – who speak Russian But that’s not clear yet.

Maybe the United States is on a daily basis. Moscow is asserting its right to intervene getting ready to sell Ukraine in Ukraine’s internal affairs to down the river, or maybe “protect” these minorities, Kerry is just giving sweet reaand Kerry is at least willing to son a try before the gloves come off. Likewise, maybe talk about it.

By talking about “federal- the Russians are really planising” Ukraine, Kerry was im- ning to turn Ukraine into a plicitly accepting that the satellite – or maybe they just Russian demand for a radical want to make it formally neudecentralisation of the coun- tral. And how awful would try (which could give that be?

There is nothing wrong pro-Russian governments in some eastern Ukrainian with trying to stop this thing said Lavrov, “we propose this all regions would have an provinces a veto on decisions from turning into a new Cold and we are sure there is no equal voice – including the in Kiev) is a legitimate topic War. Since NATO has no in- other way.” That could be a eastern regions where there tention of offering Ukraine deal-killer, especially since are many Russians, and for negotiation.

It’s no wonder that a satis- membership, formal neutral- Moscow is starting to insist 40,000 Russian troops poised fied Sergei Lavrov called the ity could be a sensible way that the constitutional chan- just across the border. And, talks “very very constructive”, out of the current crisis so ges and a referendum on said Lavrov, the regions or that the Ukrainian foreign long as it does not preclude them be completed BEFORE should have more power ministry spokesperson said closer trade and travel ties the national election in over, among other things, forRussia was demanding with the European Union. Ukraine that is currently eign trade, cultural ties abroad, and relations with “Ukraine’s full capitulation, But the Russians are also scheduled for 25 May. These changes would be neighbouring states, includits split and the destruction of pushing hard for a “federdecided not by the Ukrainian ing Russia.

Ukrainian statehood.” And al- alised” Ukraine.

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mantling of the Ukrainian state, and it’s hard to see how even John Kerry and President Barack Obama can support that. Meanwhile, the level of panic is rising in the eastern European members of NATO, and especially in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, which also have Russian minorities and border directly on the Russian Federation.

Vladimir Putin, fresh from his Crimean victory, is seriously overplaying his hand.

Poland and the three Baltic states are now pushing for permanent NATO military bases on their territory, something the alliance has avoided since they joined in order not to antagonise Moscow. A confidential NATO paper leaked to Der Spiegel even talks about boosting military cooperation with Moldova, Armenia and Azerbaijan, all former Soviet republics.

The odds on a new Cold War have gone up quite a lot in the past week.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Elk Valley Water Quality Plan Consultation Open Houses Teck is working with communities, First Nations and governments to create an Elk Valley Water Quality Plan that will maintain the health of the watershed and support continued, sustainable mining in the Elk Valley.

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Fernie Senior Citizen’s Drop-In Centre 562 3rd Avenue April 22, 2014 5:00–8:00 p.m.

The objective of the Elk Valley Water Quality Plan is to address water quality concerns associated with mining activity in the Elkford Community Conference Centre watershed, including selenium. The process to develop the (large meeting room) plan includes several public consultation periods, the first of 750 Fording Drive which took place in fall 2013. The second consultation period April 23, 2014 will take place from April 9–30, 2014.

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Consultation materials, including an online feedback form, will be available at www.teck.com/ElkValley on April 9.

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Marijuana ‘virtually legal’ in Nelson, pot tourism website says Greg Nesteroff Nelson Star

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Nelson Police Department is seeking the public’s help in locating Jade Giesen, 47, who was last seen April 6.

Police seek public’s help to find missing Nelson woman Nelson Star

Nelson Police Department is seeking the public’s help in locating a missing Nelson woman.

Jade Giesen, 47 was last seen April 6 at 10:15 a.m. walking on a trail at Central School on Stanley Street.

The woman, who owns Isis Essentials and Exotica is familiar with and regularly visits parks, beaches and wooded areas around

the community. Nelson police are continuing to search for Giesen, Caucasian, 5 ‘4” and 115 lbs with blond thick dreadlocked hair.

She was last seen wearing a waist length green coat, an oversided purse over her shoulder covered in white goat hair., pants and blue runners.

Anyone seeing Giesen is asked to contact police immediately at 250-354-3919.

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A website devoted to marijuana tourism claims pot is “virtually legal” in Nelson, although its editor admits the page is “pretty outdated” and the city’s police chief disagrees with most of it.

Creston RCMP Staff Sgt. Bob Gollan recently referred to webehigh.org in a quarterly report to town council. He said they find pot in just about every vehicle they stop and noted the website rated Creston at 4.5 and Nelson at five on a scale where one is “very illegal” and five is “virtually legal.”

They are the only Kootenay communities profiled on the site.

A related blog contains articles like “Top 10 Marijuana travel destinations 2014” (Canada comes in at No. 8) and “Five useful tips for finding weed while on vacation.”

The Nelson page is dated August 2012, like most entries on the site, but appears to contain much older information.

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A pot tourism website says marijuana is all but legal in Nelson, but the police chief disagrees. background on Canada’s marijuana laws through the early 2000s, it states: “Law enforcement: Some cops will take your stash to smoke it, others just want to bust you. Public smoking is more or less okay if you’re not dumb about it.

“Where to buy marijuana in Nelson: You can ask around Baker Street. This should be mentioned … there is a head shop that will SELL you weed directly if you are 19 or over and have your ID … For legal reason[s] get to Nelson and find the shop name yourselves, everyone knows it.”

But if that’s a refer-

ence to the Holy Smoke Culture Shop, it’s been out of business for several years.

Nelson police chief Wayne Holland refuted many or most of the article’s assertions, including the central premise that marijuana is practically legal here.

The same year the review was posted, the Star published a story noting more than twice as many possession charges had been laid in Nelson in recent years compared to a decade earlier and the per capita rate was much higher than the rest of the country.

“We are by no means a ‘virtually legal’ city,” Holland said, although

he added the police department prides itself on marijuana enforcement strategies and policies that deal with each incident individually.

Immediate enforcement is only be applied when there is “blatantly egregious conduct,” a connection to organized crime, or a chronic offender.

“Discretion is something our officers rely on and exercise very wisely, given the ‘pro-usage’ attitudes on marijuana that are especially prevalent in Nelson and the Kootenay region,” Holland said.

He said the notion local officers would steal drugs and consume them was “offensive” and “likely confirms the author has imbibed too much of his/her own stash and/or is extremely ill-informed with regards to the standards associated with the hir-

ing of police officers in this country.”

He also said the statement some police “just want to bust you” is “ridiculous” because officers are already busy with more important things and the work required to run someone in for a minor drug offence isn’t “palatable or practical.”

He noted most police chiefs are advocating for a ticketing process in simple possession cases, similar to traffic and liquor offences, which require no arrest and result in no criminal record.

“Overall, I’d suggest the site is doing a bad job of providing information on this issue,” Holland said. “I have a feeling they are being extremely general and unsophisticated in their opinions.”

One area, however, he found closer to the mark was the site’s suggestion that the price of marijuana in Nelson is “$20 to $30, usually $25 per 1/8 [ounce], $40 to $50 per 1/4 [ounce]. $100 to $150 per ounce.”

Holland said that’s “not too far off,” but the amounts are a “a bit low.”

Philip McMillan of the Nelson Cannabis Compassion Club said the prices “seem about right on the low end. On the high end they are a bit off.”

He also said that regardless of the community’s tolerance for marijuana, “I don’t recommend smoking in public, even in Nelson. It’s a bit of a crap shoot.”

— With files from Brian Lawrence, Creston Valley Advance

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RCMP and native women’s association partner for hitchhiking poster Martina Perry The Northern View

A new safety poster is aiming to educate those who continue to hitchhike despite the dangers.

The RCMP and the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) have partnered for a hitchhiking safety poster campaign in response to incidents of missing and murdered aboriginal women and girls. The goal of the campaign is to raise awareness about the potential dangers of hitchhiking while encouraging certain safety measures.

The posters have safety tips for those who do choose to hitchhike, like letting someone know where you are going and when you ex-

pect to get there, carrying a mobile phone and identification, using heavily travelled roads and taking note of the description of anyone who offers a ride.

RCMP say the poster is designed to increase awareness of safety measures for individuals who choose to hitchhike, and isn’t meant to encourage it.

“The poster does not encourage hitchhiking but is designed to increase the awareness of safety measures for individuals who do hitchhike,” the RCMP said in a statement, noting that the act of hitchhiking itself is not a criminal code offence.

“This poster campaign speaks to the RCMP’s dedication to keeping individuals safe

B.C. asks school districts to chip in for capital projects Neil Corbe t t Maple Ridge News

The education ministry wants B.C. school districts to help pay for half of capital projects.

New schools and other construction have traditionally been funded 100 per cent by Victoria.

Education Minister Peter Fassbender said this week that he would like to see school districts pitch in to help the province fund capital projects, such as seismic upgrading, if they have extra cash.

As boards plead poor, Fassbender clarified that there are some in B.C. carrying a surplus: Vancouver has $23 million, Surrey $20 million and Victoria $17 million.

In Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows, the district used most of its reserves last year to cover funding shortfalls in its operating expenses, and there is less than $2 million left.

“We don’t have any reserves anymore, so there’s nothing to claw back,” said trustee Ken Clarkson. “We’ve re-

duced our’s every year, to cover the budget deficit.”

He noted that when the province negotiated a salary increase with CUPE, but failed to provide boards with additional funding, it was contingency funds that made up the difference.

Clarkson believes his contemporaries from around the province will be irked by this latest government initiative.

“This is not acceptable to boards,” he said.

“This is government taking whatever autonomy boards do have, away.”

He said school boards are increasingly having their authority eroded.

Payroll centralization is another ministry initiative that could affect boards.

“You’ve got a school board there, but you’re gutting everything they do,” said Clarkson.

Fassbender said whether or not a capital project receives Victoria’s approval will not be linked to a board’s ability to provide funds.

in communities throughout Canada, and to the Native Women’s Association of Canada ongoing work to prevent violence and increase the safety of aboriginal women and girls.”

Skeena-Bulkey Valley MP Nathan Cullen appreciates the effort.

“Anything that helps keep people safe on the highway, from affordable transportation to safety tips and more patrolling by the RCMP, I’m going to be all in favour of,” said Cullen.

“It’s just not safe on the highway and hasn’t been for a long time. We don’t want to see any more missing or murdered aboriginal women, and women in general.”

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) You refuse to accept “no” as an answer right now. You will find a way of using a problem to pave your way to a goal. What seems to be an obstacle will vanish given creative brainstorming. Tonight: Make sure to get some exercise.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) You might not want to budge in the morning or even in the afternoon. If you can, take a day off or try to work from home.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) Be aware of your finances, and make a decision that allows greater flow for you. This ease might come from saying “no” to some risk-taking or overindulgence. Postpone a talk until late afternoon or tomorrow if you can. Tonight: Go hang out with a friend.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You’ll enter any situation with a positive attitude, despite the fact that a personal matter might weigh you down. You know that the issue will resolve itself given some time. Resist pushing, and let it go for now.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You will feel as if you are on hold most of the day. You might wonder what would be the best way to proceed with a key project. You’ll sense a loosening up -- if not today, in the near future. You could be a lot tenser than you realize. Tonight: Leave today behind you.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You’ll dive headfirst into a project with the ability to complete it within a certain time frame.

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by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar Dear Annie: My husband and I live in Minnesota. His 78-year-old stepbrother lives by himself in Florida. “Horace” has a part-time job and goes to church regularly, but otherwise sticks to himself. He has only a nodding acquaintance with the neighbors.

We are his only family. We are the ones who initiate phone calls and send cards on holidays. He never calls us. We used to email, but he stopped using his computer. Horace is healthy, but I worry so much about what will happen to him when his health declines.

He has no one nearby who can help. If he became incapacitated or died suddenly, we’d be completely in the dark as to how to proceed with his financial affairs. He did give us a copy of his living will, and we know where his burial plot is, but that’s it.

My husband and his brother both think there’s no sense in worrying about things until they happen. But by then, it will be too late. I don’t know how to approach Horace about making plans for the inevitable. I once asked him to consider moving to Minnesota, but he didn’t respond, and besides, I doubt he’d actually come back to the cold after all this time. My husband won’t be retiring for another eight years, so it’s not as if we can take off and visit whenever. Where can we turn for help? -- Losing Sleep in Minnesota Dear Losing: You are kind to worry about Horace and smart to plan ahead, but there’s only so much you can do without his cooperation. Ask Horace whether he’d mind if you spoke to his neighbors to get their phone numbers and email addresses so you can contact them if he becomes unreachable.

Perhaps Horace would allow you to make a copy of his house key in case of emergency.

Visit his church and find out whether there is a program to check on the members who live alone. Also suggest to Horace that he leave financial information with his banker or lawyer. And should Horace become ill or require care, you could contact Eldercare Locator (1-800-677-1116; eldercare.gov) or ask about hiring a geriatric care manager (caremanager.org) to handle the details.

Dear Annie: Can I make a suggestion for people who are downsizing or for any other reason don’t want to keep old items around?

Please tell them to consider photographing these things. That way, they still have a visual record but can discard the actual item. They also can scan these photographs and keep digital records.

This works particularly well if the items are pictures. They can simply scan them into their computer and give copies to as many people as might be interested. The photos can be printed out if you want or put into digital photo frames. I love watching pictures of my past pop up and cycle through on these frames. And getting rid of clutter was an added benefit. -- Getting Organized for Retirement Dear Organized: Folks often think they need to keep originals of everything, but unless your items are historically valuable and worth professional preservation, those family photographs will fade and old letters will disintegrate. Keeping digitized records is a good idea, although people should create a backup copy (whether on a flash drive, CD or cloud).

Dear Annie: I have a different take on “Tears in Vermont,” the couple whose son was a recovering addict and had moved away with his girlfriend and wanted no contact with his parents. “Tears” said their son lived with them until he was 30. It sounds as if the parents are enablers and may have been part of the problem.

It’s no coincidence that after moving away, he’s turned his life around. If they truly love that son and have a choice between estranged and clean, or in contact but an addict, they should be happy with estrangement. -- Seen It Before 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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Obituaries THANE, Ian Dr. Ian Thane (Doc T), Wycliffe. B.C passed away on Saturday April 5th, 2014 age 70 years. A loving Father and mentor to Vincent, Devon and Dennis.

He will be missed by many throughout the valley.

Previously deceased by parents Norman and Molly Thane, survived by brother David Thane, and Ianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sons.

Ian graduated from University of Saskatchewan in the spring of 1976. He put himself through University as a skilled farrier and cowboying in various parts of western Canada and Montana. He opened his veterinary practice in Cranbrook in 1976 out of his home, later moving to 30th Ave. North, Cranbrook. After settling in Wycliffe on Booth Creek Ranch he built his dream home. Worded by many as the best veterinarian this valley has ever had.

Dad was never a man to turn down someone in need.

Always alright with making a trade. Taking pride in helping someone that needed his services, money or not. Dad cared for this community and believed that you should leave a place better than when you arrived, he lived by this. The last three years dad enjoyed a new adventure building his retirement escape on the Baja beaches of Mexico, as he had always talked about.

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Blanche is survived by her two daughters, Candis (Derek) and Glennis (Wayne) as well as her grandchildren; Jayson (Carrie), Leanne (Daren), Adelene, Kaleb and three great grandchildren.

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Kwan continued to insist she had no knowledge of the inappropriate spending outlined in audits of the Portland Hotel Society, except for trips to Europe and Disneyland that she participated in.

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a couple of the youths had gotten off the bus when it stopped. Another bystander saw a tree come crashing down towards one of the girls.

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Housing Minister Rich Coleman has said a new “professional” board will continue to examine society expenses, and if any potential fraud is discovered, it would be referred to Vancouver Police.

The society, which operates a string of hotels in Vancouver’s downtown east side and a supervised injection site for drug addicts, set up companies to do maintenance, pest control and other services.

Coleman said those arrangements are being

The Canada Revenue Agency has temporarily shut down public access to its online services in response to a possible Internet security breach, throwing a wrench into the plans of many Canadians to file their income taxes online and raising privacy concerns.

The so-called ‘Heartbleed’ bug is thought to have potentially given hackers access to millions of passwords, credit card numbers and other information at several major websites, including the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), Yahoo, Tumblr and Flickr.

The CRA said it has cut off online access to its EFILE, NETFILE, My Account, My Business

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The CRA called its action a “preventative measure” to safeguard the integrity of its data and said its first priority is ensuring confidentiality of taxpayer information.

The Heartbleed vulnerability, which went undetected for two years, affects web browsing using supposedly secure, encrypted connections where the browser displays a closed padlock.

The CRA is also promising “consideration” to taxpayers who can’t meet their requirement to file their income taxes by the end of April.

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Thursday, APRIL 10, 2014

NEWS

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Former Parks Canada bosses fight proposal for hotel at Maligne Lake near Jasper Bob Weber Canadian Press

EDMONTON — Parks Canada should reject a plan to build a hotel on the shore of one of the most scenic lakes in the country’s national parks, say three former senior staff.

An open letter released Wednesday says allowing a private developer to build a 66-room hotel and 15 tent cabins at Maligne Lake in Jasper National Park would violate well-established policy and open the doors to similar projects that would degrade the wilderness experience.

“The Canadian people, Jasper and other national park ecosystems and Parks CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward Canada have nothing to gain A hiker takes in the snow covered mountains surrounding Maligne Lake in Jasper and plenty to lose if this de- National Park on June 22, 2002. Three former Parks Canada bosses are criticizing a plan to velopment is approved,’’ says build a hotel on the shore of one of Canada’s most scenic lakes. the letter to federal Environment Minister Leona Agluk- second-largest glacier-fed called Maligne Tours has of- boathouse, add a restaurant lake. Its 22-kilometre length is fered boat excursions on the and lounge and offer interkaq.

The missive is signed by ringed with spectacular peaks lake along with other ser- pretive activities. Maligne Nikita Lopoukhine, a former and its shores are home to vices such as a cafeteria and Tours says those attractions would increase the lake’s apdirector general of Parks grizzly bears and caribou. A a store.

In 2012, Maligne Tours peal to urban youth and to Canada; Stephen Woodley, view of the lake’s Spirit Island the agency’s former chief was featured on the old $5 submitted a proposal to new Canadians — two Parks Canada to upgrade groups Parks Canada is keen ecosystem scientist; and bill. to reach.

About 2,000 people a day those facilities.

Kevin Van Tighem, former The upgrades would also In addition to the hotel Banff National Park superin- visit Maligne’s aquamarine and tent cabins, the compa- bolster the company’s botwaters in high season. tendent.

For decades, a company ny wants to restore a historic tom line. It says demand for Maligne Lake is the world’s

boat tours has fallen by about half since 2005.

“Maligne Lake is an authentic Canadian heritage destination which will be sustained as a pristine place offering the best heritage and adventure experiences in Canada,’’ says the company’s proposal.

Lopoukhine said he and his colleagues have no objections to much of the company’s plan. But allowing hundreds of guests and staff to remain at Maligne overnight will inevitably lead to conflicts, he warned.

“At night, they’re looking for something to do. There’s a likelihood of them going off to various locations and disturbing the wildlife.’’

Worse, he said, would be the precedent of allowing major new development in a relatively untouched area, despite a 2007 Parks Canada policy forbidding new overnight accommodation outside parks communities.

“If you can do it there, in a very pristine area with significant wildlife resources at risk, then what’s to prevent someone else to argue at another park that (their proposal) is no worse than the Maligne Lake approval?’’

Nor does Lopoukhine believe hotels would do much to expand the reach of the parks.

“What we’re looking for is an opportunity for people to experience nature, not a high-end hotel room.’’

The letter quotes a recent survey that found 99 per cent of those asked were already satisfied with their visit to Maligne Lake.

Parks Canada has held public hearings on the proposal, which is highly controversial in the nearby town of Jasper.

A report the agency issued last month suggested it is at least receptive to the idea.

“At a very preliminary level, and subject to further analysis, redeveloping an existing lodge to include overnight accommodations would not be expected to raise important concerns for impairing ecological integrity,’’ says the report.

Neither Parks Canada nor Maligne Tours was available to answer questions.

Parks Canada is expected to make a decision soon. Any development would be subject to an environmental assessment.

Man goes on stabbing spree after Calgary police say thieves target being fired at Toronto office Diana Mehta Canadian Press

TORONTO — A man working at a human resources company went on a stabbing spree Wednesday after being told he would lose his job, injuring four co-workers, police said Wednesday.

The incident took place around 9:30 a.m. at the fifthfloor offices of Ceridian, a U.S.based payroll and human resources company.

“He was being fired and I guess then he proceeded to get involved in stabbing some of his bosses and some other employees,’’ Det. Daniel Darnbrough told The Canadian Press.

Police identified the man as Chuang Li. Ceridian would only describe the man as a “former employee.’’

“This is a very difficult time.

The entire Ceridian family is shocked and deeply saddened by this incident,’’ the company said in a statement. “All four employees are being treated by medical experts at area hospitals.’’

CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

Toronto police stand outside an office building in the city’s north end following a stabbing.

Police said the suspect — who was arrested at the scene — used a “sharp instrument... possibly a knife’’ before those around him were able to hold him down.

“I believe the employees eventually subdued him until the police got here,’’ Darnbrough told reporters outside

the building in the city’s north end.

Police said a 32-year-old woman and three men between the ages of 35 and 45 were injured. The woman and one of the men were in “very serious condition,’’ Darnbrough said.

The suspect was not injured

in the incident.

Footage from outside the office building showed a bespectacled man wearing a striped blue office shirt and dark jeans being led into a police cruiser.

“We still have a lot of forensic evidence to gather here,’’ Darnbrough said.“It’s an ongoing investigation.’’

Steve Paraskevopoulos, who worked on the fourth floor of the building, recalls hearing a commotion coming from above.

“It was kind of a stampede kind of sound,’’ he said.

“It was an odd thing, we have thick slab concrete floors, you never hear a thing from somebody above you unless there’s construction.’’

Shortly after, Paraskevopoulos and a few co-workers headed down to the ground floor to get coffee and ran into one of the building’s security guards who told them “something serious’’ was going on.

It was at that point that Paraskevopoulos saw the victims, who were smeared with noticeable traces of blood.

supermarket meat C ANADIAN PRESS

CALGARY — Police say a man accused in a high-speed dangerous drive through Calgary may be involved in a meat theft ring.

Superstore called police on Monday afternoon about a man who allegedly stole meat.

Instead of pulling over, a vehicle sped off, heading the wrong way down busy roads before eventually crashing into a fence.

Police investigators say supermarket meat is a prime target for thieves, and a sophisticated crime ring is being fuelled by rising food costs.

It’s enough of a problem that police have a dedicated unit working to stop the trend.

Const. Lara Sampson says the stolen food is often exchanged for as little as 30 cents on the dollar, or for drugs, and some makes its way into restaurants.

“We have them being sold out of the back of vehicles, we have them kept in dirty old garages,’’ Sampson said.

“They are cross-contaminated with drugs, because typically people stealing are usually people directed by somebody else to go do the shopping.

“It is very common in Calgary right now.’’

She says thieves also perceive big chain grocery retailers as an easy target, as they’re not deterred by staff.

Gary Neil Firth, who is 49, is facing numerous charges.

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1470 Albert Road

300 - 5th Ave. S.

Acreage within city limits. This home has close to 1400 Sq.Ft. on the main floor and substantially renovated in the mid 1990’s.

Nestled onto a level 3.862 acres with good views of the mountains. This property has subdivision potential within the city. Open style floor plan with 3 beds. Single attached garage.

Immaculate 2 bed 2 bath manufactured home on its own land close to Elizabeth Lake & T.M. Roberts School. This home has an open concept floor plan with vaulted ceilings.

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Executive 3+1 bed, 3.5 bath home in preferred highlands area. This immaculate home has significant updates in the past 3 years. Spacious kitchen with centre island and adjoining eating area. Formal dining room. Natural gas fireplace in living room. Large master with 4pc. ensuite and walk-in closet. Within walking distance to Highland School, Community forest & Idlewild Park.

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Detached workshop, chicken coop, barn with water.

Large fourplex with up and down suites and gross revenue of $42,000/year. Upper units feature three beds and one bath. Lower units feature two beds and one bath. Each side has a shared laundry. These units have seen a good level of renovations and have been well maintained with good rental history. Close proximity to the downtown core.

Two storey semi-detached home with custom quality in mind. This 3 bed, 2 bath home is conveniently located within walking distance to shopping and civic amenities. Gourmet kitchen with granite counters, open concept to dining room & living room. Single attached garage. Fully fenced and landscaped yard.

221 - 9th Ave. S.

3048 Westview Road

$499,900

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$289,900

2205 Southview Court

#204, 1004 - 23rd Ave. N.

6248 Cartwright St.

3117 6th St. S.

Two storey home in quiet residential culde-sac with good level of upgrades in the 1990’s. This 3 bed, 2 bath home has good curb appeal due to size of home and estate lot. Vaulted ceilings. Beautiful mountain views. 12x14 covered deck. Double attached garage.

Two storey unit in Kootenay Place just blocks from shopping, community forest medical facilities & schools. Updated paints throughout both floors & nestled into one of the quieter areas of the development with green space & trees all around.

WARDNER. Set in the quiet community of Wardner is this 1300 sq. ft. home on .345 acres with views of the Steeples & Lake Koocanusa. This home features 3 beds, original hardwood flooring, doors from kitchen to back, covered wrap around deck plus shop/garage and guest cabin.

Family home in great residential neighborhood backing onto Highlands School greenbelt.

Custom designed 4 bed, 2 bath home with vaulted ceilings, open design including a country kitchen and family room. Fully finished basement. Double attached garage.

One and a half storey 2 bed, 2.5 bath home on double lot in central location close to downtown.

Spacious living room with wood burning fireplace and sliders to yard.

Adjoining dining room. Sunroom off kitchen.

Double carport in back.

Executive two storey home on estate lot with custom finish and quality throughout; located minutes from city limits. This luxury home features 6 beds and 3 baths. Gourmet country kitchen. Spacious master with custom ensuite. Fully finished basement. Triple attached garage. 18x36 inground pool.

793 Silver Creek Road

Lot 13 Westview Rd.

3900 Read Road

31 - 21st Ave. S.

Over 3.5 acres of land in the lower section of Silver Springs. 2 bedroom well maintained manufactured home on sono tubes with cellar area. Lands are in a picturesque setting amongst the hills with several other building spots available.

1.977 acre lot in Westview subdivision. This pie shaped lot is within walking distance to crown land. Enjoy recreational opportunities within steps of your front door. Located 7kms from city limits. Beautiful mountain views from many sides of this property. Come and build your dream home.

Home & acreage offered at a great price located just minutes from city limits. Spacious 3 bed, 1 bath home on 2.86 acres. Home features ample entertaining space. Property is fenced with additional outbuildings including a barn.

Central location with this well designed spacious home on a large lot in quiet residential neighborhood. Upgrades include: siding, windows, roof, interior décor. 1600 Sq. Ft on the main floor with 3+1 beds and 2.5 baths. The basement of this home has seen many upgrades as well. Large covered patio.

Manicured lot. Paved drive.

1425 - 20th St. S.

140 - 2100-13th St. S.

2809 2A St. S.

Exceptional southview home features 2+1 beds, 3 baths with high ceilings and great design. Hardwood and tile floors. Wood burning fireplace in family room. Huge kitchen with breakfast nook. Extra large double attached garage. Fully fenced yard.

Spacious custom designed home in gated community. This custom built 4 bed, 3 bath home features over 1400 Sq.Ft. on the main floor with fully finished basement. Beautiful hardwood floors, ng fireplace in living room, open design concept, large partially covered deck. Double attached garage.

3+1 bed, 3 bath home in quiet residential neighborhood; close to Cranbrook Golf Course. Wood cabinetry and centre island in kitchen. Wood burning fireplace in living room. Large rec room downstairs. Large deck overlooking back yard. Paved drive.

Fully fenced yard.

$399,900

$219,000

$399,900

$157,900

6268 Poplar Road

1320 19th St. S.

125’ of waterfront along Wasa Lake with two dwellings and a detached garage. This property is ideal for a family purchase to enjoy 1.42 acres with ample accommodations and facilities. Private beach and majestic mountain views.

3 bed, 2 bath home in preferred Southview neighborhood. Large kitchen with oak cabinetry and adjoining eating area. Doors in kitchen lead to covered deck. Spacious living room with laminate flooring. Upstairs has three good sized bedrooms. Large rec room. Attached carport.

$639,900

6148 Wolf Creek Road

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116-2515-12th St. N.

192 River Drive

2982 Westview Road

1817 Cranbrook St. N.

4825 - 38th Ave. S.

3 bed, 1.5 bath rancher in quiet residential neighborhood. This home has spacious living room with natural gas fireplace. Kitchen has oak cabinetry and adjoining eating area.

16x22 detached garage. 12x16 wired and heated studio. Paved drive.

2 bed, 1 bath unit in Forest Park Estates with updates. This unit is in immaculate condition and was formerly owner occupied. Newer flooring and custom interior decorating.

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Stunning 2+1 bed, 3 bath home with quality workmanship throughout. Backing onto St. Mary’s River and overlooking stunning Shadow Mountain Golf Course. Open concept home features vaulted ceilings and beautiful hardwood & tiled floors. Double attached garage.

Privacy, tranquility and quality abound in this 4 bed, 4 bath home on 2.5 acres in Westview Estates. Conveniently located minutes from town this acreage has walking paths to crown land. Chalet style open floor plan with gourmet kitchen. Attached and detached garages.

The old Cranbrook Motorsports building features an original 3960 Sq.Ft. retail operation on 100’ of highway frontage.

Contracted in the early 1960 with concrete block and stucco exterior. The back section contains a 36x104 warehouse and addition with 3 loading bays. Ideal highway location.

Log home on 3.45 acres in Gold Creek with additional 528 Sq.Ft. guest house with full perimeter basement. Scenic views of the Steeples mountains.

Property has been set up for equestrian use with fencing, x-fencing and a riding arena. Home has open concepts living area with 2+1 beds and 2 baths. Guest house has 1 bed, 1 bath. Additional workshop under the guest house. RV Parking

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1925 3rd St. S.

$284,900

300 Mission Cres.

Well maintained and remodeled manufactured home on its own lot. This 3 bed, 1 bath home is ideally situated within Georgian Heights and backs onto private undeveloped lands. The lot is one of the largest pie shaped lots and large side yard; perfect for kids to play. Large storage shed with partial tool shop on the property as well.

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$149,900

317 - 27th Ave. S.

Fully renovated 1986 semi-detached home features over 1000 Sq.Ft. on the main floor with 2+ 1 beds and 2 baths. Newer country kitchen, large dining room and spacious living room. Fully finished basement. Located in the Highlands/Pinecrest area. Excellent family neighborhood within walking distance to golf course, schools and many amenities.

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$684,900

$689,900

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2444 McLeary Cres.

Immaculate 3 bedroom home close to downtown plus other amenities. Spacious living room, hardwood floors, beautiful galley kitchen with adjoining eating area. Covered verandah off front, fully fenced & landscaped back yard. Alley access.

Split 3 level home in central location on quiet residential street. This home has appealing design with bedrooms on the top level and living room, dining room and kitchen on the main level. Double attached garage, underground sprinklers and convenient location close to schools, parks and shopping.

$204,900

D L O S $234,900

$625,000

Spacious 3+2 bed, 3 bath home on 5 acres in Gold Creek. Spacious living room and dining room with sliders leading to large 12x27 covered deck. 12x18 detached shop.

24x26 attached garage. This home has been extremely well maintained with only one owner.

$579,900

$429,900

Renovated bungalow with lots of upgrades with double detached garage. Centrally located near Laurie Middle School. Bright floor plan with upgrades to flooring, paint, roof, electrical and furnace. Natural gas fireplace in LR. Country kitchen.

$249,900