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Music programs in Cranbrook public schools were the beneficiaries of the popularity of the ongoing Locals Coffeehouse concert series. Lorraine Hagel, one of the organizers of Locals, presented music teachers from Mount Baker Secondary School and Parkland and Laurie Middle Schools with $500 each, last week in the Mount Baker Music Room. The dates for the rest of the Locals Coffeehouses, for the season, held at the Studio Stage Door on 11th Avenue South, are Jan. 17, March 21 and April 25. The January show is already sold out. Left to right: Evan Bueckert (MBSS), Lorraine Hagel, Stephanie Tischauer (Parkland) and Scott Martin (Laurie).
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Local program trains disabled skiers ARNE PETRYSHEN
At the end of January there will be a six-week program that teaches people with disabilities how to ski at the Kimberley ski hill. Allan Watson is an instructor with the Canadian Association of Disabled Skiers (CADS) and organized the program. Watson works with people with both physical and cognitive disabilities. He noted there is both Paralympic and Special Olympic training — they deal more with Paralympic skiers. “So people with MS,
or who don’t have function with their legs, or don’t have legs, or are missing legs or arms, or paraplegics,” Watson said. “We have the equipment to help them — either sit ski or what we call three track — one leg and two arms — and four track. Then we have the visually impaired skiers, so people with different levels of blindness. We teach them to ski as well.” He said they do deal with a bit of the Autism spectrum as well, but not as much with Downs Syndrome.
“We can do a little bit with that,” he said. Watson noted the former long-time director of the snow school in Kimberley was one of the key players in developing the CADS program in Canada. Watson himself grew up in Cranbrook, then moved away. About 10 years ago he moved back. He was teaching at the ski hill and moved into the CADS training and certification. “My wife has MS,” he said. “I learned how to do the sit ski with my wife. Since then I’ve
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Allan Watson instructs Grace Brulotte in the sit ski. Watson and other instructors will be putting on a program in late January which reaches those who are disabled to ski.
been doing my level 1, level 2 and level 3. I teach all of it.” The program to train disabled skiers used to be part of the ski school on a limited basis. “School groups would come up on the Wednesday and we’d take the kids out - the special needs kids — and that was kind of the end of it. We never had an ongoing program,” he said. “Other ski hills had an ongoing program. They’d have training sessions for six weeks or eight weeks and you’d learn how to do it on
your own over time. So after two or three seasons you could ski by yourself.” Two years ago Watson took the program out of the ski school and began work on it. He four that the program could be more affordable, and this year he decided he wanted to take it up another notch. “This year I’ve got probably five instructors and a few volunteers, so now we can actually have a real program,” he said.
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Work on new ICU progresses apace Submit ted
Progress continues on a new intensive care unit (ICU) and major electric upgrades to East Kootenay Regional Hospital. The new building structure is complete and work has moved to putting on the roof and constructing the exterior walls. Major equipment is on site, including two new diesel generators that will provide back-up power to the entire hospital in the event of a broader power outage in the community. The framing of the interior walls continues alongside the installation of the electrical, plumbing and heating services for the new ICU. The rebuilding of the corridor to link the new ICU to the rest of
the hospital will be a main focus going into 2015. Work will continue on site from approximately 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. throughout the winter and will steadily be more focused on the interior of the new structure. There will be periodic interruptions to normal traffic patterns during construction. Interior Health is working with the project contractor to minimize these impacts and appreciates the ongoing patience of local residents and visitors to the hospital as these major improvements to EKRH move forward. The approximate total project cost of the redevelopment project at EKRH is $20 million. Funding is provided by
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Artist’s conception of the interior of the new EKRH intensive care unit, now under contruction. the Province, Kootenay East Regional Hospital District and East Kootenay Foundation for Health, which is contributing towards the clinical equipment. The new ICU unit
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Skiing lessons for the disabled start in January Continued from page 1 They are all ready for the start date and just need the students. We’re hoping to start in the last week of January and run it for six weeks,” he said. “That will be it for the season.” The program is all
volunteer. They also received some special pricing from RCR to run the program on Sunday afternoons, which he said includes the lift ticket and rental gear. Watson said he started skiing when he was
five and has been involved in snow sports since. “As far as I know I’ve always skied,” he said. “We’re right now looking for students,” he said. They can come in, whatever disability doesn’t matter. If they
want to just come out and try it one time, I’m good with that too. If someone has done it before and just wants to come try it, we’re good with that as well.” To sign up or get more information call Watson at 250-426-6435.
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Regional District announces discretionary grants in aid For the Townsman
At the last meeting of the Board of the Regional District of East Kootenay, Dec. 12, the recipients of the RDEK’s Discretionary Grants in Aid (DGIA) were announced. • The Fernie Alpine Ski Team will receive $1000 from the Electoral Area A DGIA account for the Fernie Alpine Resort’s New Year’s Eve Fireworks display. • The Triangle Women’s Institute will receive $1500 from the Electoral Area B DGIA account to go towards the upgrading of their Pioneer Wall. The wall features photos of people who have lived in the Grasmere area in the past 150 years. • Gordon Terrace Elementary School in Cranbrook will receive $1600 from the Electoral Area C DGIA account to go toward a Libby Dam field trip for Grade 6 students. • Summit Community Services Society will receive $1000 from the Electoral Area C DGIA account and $1000 from the Electoral Area E DGIA account for the Police Based Victims Services Program. • The Wasa and District Lion’s Club will receive $500 from the Elec-
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toral Area E DGIA account for the purchase of a Medichair Walker. In addition, the Club will receive $2500 from the Area E DGIA account for the Family Winter Festival Day. • The Family Resource Centre will receive $1000 from the Electoral Area F DGIA account and $500 from the Electoral Area G DGIA account for the Prescription Contraceptive Subsidization Proposal. • The Panorama Mountain Freeride Club will receive $4000 from the Electoral Area F DGIA account and $500 from the Electoral Area G DGIA account for a laptop and race equipment for the Kootenay Freestyle Classic. • The Columbia Valley Chamber of Commerce will receive $3000 from the Electoral Area F DGIA account and $500 from the Electoral Area G DGIA account for renovations to the Chamber to create a business service centre. • SQx Danza will receive $500 from the Electoral Area G DGIA account to help cover expenses associated with its Interactive Dance Awareness Program.
Regional District of East Kootenay PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE BYLAW 2554 Bylaw Amendment - Wasa The Regional District of East Kootenay (RDEK) Board of Directors is considering an application by Donald and Penelope Roberts to amend the Electoral Area E Zoning & Floodplain Management Bylaw. If approved, the bylaw will amend the text of the R-1, Residential Zone to permit a minimum parcel area requirement of 1270 m2 on the subject property for a proposed subdivision creating two parcels. The subject property is located at 4828 and 4830 Elm Road in the Wasa area as shown on the attached map. Bylaw No. 2554 cited as “Regional District of East Kootenay – Electoral Area E Zoning & Floodplain Management Bylaw No. 2502, 2014 – Amendment Bylaw No. 4, 2014 (Wasa / Roberts)” will amend the text of the R-1, Residential Zone to permit a minimum parcel area requirement of 1270 m2 for a proposed two parcel subdivision of Strata Lots 1 and 2, District Lot 264, Kootenay District, Plan NES3166 only. A public hearing will be held at: Wasa Community Hall 6145 Wasa School Road Wasa, BC Tuesday, December 30, 2014 at 7:00 pm The Board has delegated the holding of this hearing to the Directors for Electoral Area E and the City of Kimberley. If you believe that your interest in property is affected by the proposed Bylaw, you may prior to the hearing: • inspect the Bylaw and supporting information at the RDEK office in Cranbrook from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Monday through Friday, excluding statutory holidays; • mail, fax or email written submissions to the addresses/numbers shown below; or • present written and/or verbal submissions at the hearing. Submissions cannot be accepted after the public hearing. All written submissions are public information pursuant to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. This notice is not an interpretation of the Bylaw. For more information, contact Jean Terpsma, Planning Technician, at 250-489-0314, toll free at 1-888-478-7335, or email jterpsma@rdek.bc.ca. 19 - 24th Avenue South, Cranbrook BC V1C 3H8 Ph: 250-489-2791 • 888-478-7335
College of the Rockies still offering tuition-free adult basic education Submit ted
In response to planned changes to program funding by the provincial government, College of the Rockies reassures students that they will continue to offer tuition-free adult basic education (ABE) for the January 2015 semester. The Province announced that starting January 1, 2015, public post-secondary institutions will no longer be mandated to offer adult upgrading courses, including English Language Training, tuition-free. Base funding was provided to the institutions to cover the costs of the delivery of these programs. “I assure all of our current and upcoming students that the ABE program will continue to be tuition-free for the January semester. Our current tuition fees were approved by the Board
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With ABE being offered at the Cranbrook, Creston, Invermere, Golden and Fernie campuses, this program has the potential to impact the lives of many individuals throughout the East Kootenay region. College of the Rockies’ student Candus Johnston, a single mother of two children and living with a permanent disability, came to the College to upgrade her grade 12 English. The support she received while in her ABE program gave her the confidence to continue her education. She is currently an honours student in the College’s Human Service Worker program and plans to go on to obtain a Bachelor of Social Work degree. “Adult basic education is critical programming that offers students the opportunity to transition back into the educational system and to prepare for further studies,” Chung continues. “Over the coming months we will evaluate how these funding changes may impact our ability to continue to offer this valuable program to our students tuition-free.” Students interested in adult basic education still have time to enroll for January, as many courses still have seats available. Learn more about College of the Rockies’ adult basic education programming at cotr.ca/ abe
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Hunters protest shift favouring non-residents Tom Fle tc h er Black Press
As B.C. hunters packed rooms to protest regulations giving guide-outfitters and their out-of-province clients a larger share of big-game permits, the provincial government argues that the shift is being exaggerated. The latest increase in the share of guide permits to hunt moose, grizzly bear and other restricted animals in limited-entry hunting areas of B.C. totals 618 “hunting opportunities” across the province per year, says a statement from the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations. Based on the success rate of hunts for different species, “this model represents a transfer of approximately 186 animals from residents to guides.” The B.C. Wildlife Federation’s estimate that the wild game allocation policy could result in 5,000 fewer hunting permits for resident hunters under limited entry hunting rules is “not accurate,” the ministry says. Forests Minister Steve Thomson said in
an interview he made the decision on the latest allocation after a long consultation where the BCWF and the Guide Outfitters Association of B.C. couldn’t agree. The decision was to provide certainty for guide businesses, but also took away guides’ rights to pool regional game allotments and hunt in vacant guiding territories. “There are arguments over the number, depending on which base you use, and I expect those arguments will continue,” Thomson said. “At the end of the day we all want the same thing, which is healthy wildlife populations.” BCWF hosted hunter meetings in Kelowna and Langley this week, and spokesman Jesse Zeman said hunters were lined up out the door in Langley. He said the latest changes are part of a longer-term shift going back more than a decade that has seen a loss of harvest share for resident hunters. B.C. hunters are concerned that the share reserved for guide-outfitters is now higher
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Harvest restrictions for guided hunting have been removed for bighorn sheep in the Kootenay region, after a decline caused by over-hunting. than anywhere else in North America. Under the latest policy, that share is 20 per cent for elk, 20 or 25 per cent for moose depending on the restricted region, 35 per cent for mountain goat, and 40 per cent for grizzly bears.
Open season areas for moose and other animals remain in the southern Interior and northeast, where anyone can buy a license and tag to hunt. Abundant species such as mule deer, whitetail deer and black bear
have no hunting quotas in any part of B.C. Zeman said for prized species such as Roosevelt elk on Vancouver Island, winning a resident tag in the lottery is rare enough to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. As hunter
numbers rebound, they increasingly face the choice to aim for another species, drive long distances to an unrestricted region, or hire a guide. The latest changes include returning Kootenay bighorn sheep to
a general open season for guided hunting. The restriction that only fullcurl rams can be hunted remains in place. Thomson said the population will be closely watched, and harvest limits returned if necessary. Zeman said the BCWF is concerned that this iconic Rocky Mountain trophy could once again be over-hunted. The popularity of hunting in B.C. continues to increase, from about 81,000 licences issued in 2003 to more than 100,000 last year, which means more resident hunters are losers in regional hunting lotteries. BCWF compiled statistics for moose, the most popular big-game target. Moose populations have declined in some areas while both applications from resident hunters and the share reserved for guides has risen. In 2005 there were 56,000 applications for moose, with only one out of five successful. By 2013, there were nearly 67,000 would-be resident moose hunters, 54,000 of whom were refused a moose tag.
B.C. wines to come to some grocery stores Jeff Nagel Black Press
The province’s latest liquor reform will make it easier for wine stores to relocate into grocery stores – provided they
offer only B.C. wines – but there’s no sign the government is rethinking its change to wholesale wine pricing that will sharply drive up the price of more expensive
bottles. Friday’s announcement by Justice Minister Suzanne Anton in Langley at Chaberton Estate Winery is being hailed by B.C. wineries be-
cause some supermarkets that can begin selling wine come April will be barred from stocking foreign wines. Under the change, existing VQA and inde-
Pricing change worries restaurants Jeff Nagel Black Press
A major concern for wine stores and B.C. restaurants is the change unveiled recently to the province’s wholesale pricing formula for wine that ends the discount advantage for independent wine stores. It may mean little change or even cheaper prices for wines that now cost $15 and under. But the final retail price of pricier bottles is expected to rise sharply come April, in both private and government stores, and in restaurants. Wine industry lawyer Mark Hicken has estimated wholesale prices in B.C. will rise 12 to 29 per cent on higher-end wines as a result of the change. He estimates a bottle that now
retails for $30 will be priced at $33 to $40 under the new model, and the price hikes could be 25 to 50 per cent on the most expensive bottles that now go for $100 and up. BC Restaurant and Foodservice Association president Ian Tostenson said restaurants must pay retail prices and usually charge their patrons double, so the price of a nicer bottle when having dinner out will soar, putting more pressure on an already struggling service industry. Tostensen said restaurants are bracing for 10 to 20 per cent wine price increases on bottles over $17 or $18. He hopes the province will realize it has made an error and correct the wholesale pricing formula.
“I think they’re going to do some adjustments,” he said. “This is supposed to be a revenue-neutral exercise. Government doesn’t want to be seen to be putting prices up. So there seems to be a miscalculation somewhere.” In a statement emailed by her staff, Anton said the standardized wholesale price is to level the playing field for all liquor retailers and enable more competition. “Trying to guess what each individual retailer will charge per product at this point is complete speculation,” she said, predicting consumers will see little if any change for most products. Anton said the province is watching to ensure the new policies have no unintended consequences.
pendent wine stores can relocate or transfer their licence to an eligible grocery store as long as 100 per cent B.C. wine is sold. Those licence transfers won’t be limited by a rule that disallows new outlets if there’s an existing one within one kilometre. Liquor policy reform leader John Yap called it a “winning combination” to allow grocery shoppers to also buy B.C. wine and support the local industry. “The B.C. wine industry is entering into a new era of winemaking,” added Chaberton co-owner Eugene Kwan. The new model is different from the storewithin-a-store model in that it allows B.C. wine to be on regular grocery store shelves and shoppers would pay for it at designated registers staffed by trained employees who are at least 19.
Attorney General Suzanne Anton Anton said a limited number of new licences – she would not specify how many – will be made available to sell just B.C. wine in grocery stores. The extra licences will mean more competition for private wine stores that have already been critical of some of the province’s liquor reforms. Vancouver lawyer
Mark Hicken, who acts for wine industry clients, predicts there will be “no takers” on wine stores relocating under the new B.C.-only model because they would lose most of their international product lines. Hicken said the B.C.-only rule may violate Canada’s international trade agreements.
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or Premier Christy Clark, the decision to proceed with building Site C is one that will bear fruit over the next 100 years. “Long after this announcement today is over, long after my working days in this job are over, I believe that the people of our province will continue to prosper and continue to create wealth and opportunity,” she declared Tuesday. For Energy Minister Bill Bennett, the giant hydroelectric dam on the Peace River “will be the last of its kind,” here or anywhere else. “We don’t have any other shelf-ready Site Cs hanging around out there where you have a river already dammed up (by existing dams) and an opportunity to avail yourself of such a large reservoir.” For Site C proponent and BC Hydro CEO Jessica McDonald, “it was a day equally connected to our past as to our future.” Her point being that going back to the 1960s, the utility and the province flourished together on a multi-decade wave of hydroelectric power development that gave B.C. some of the cheapest electricity rates in North America. “A historic milestone,” said Susan Yurkovich, the Hydro executive vice-president who shepherded the project though a half-dozen years of scrutiny and controversy leading up to Tuesday’s announcement. Speaking of history, the audience included current Hydro board member Brad Bennett and the backdrop featured a photograph of his grandfather, former premier W.A.C. Bennett, who launched the province on the far-reaching era of dam construction. A 100-year undertaking. A multi-generational payoff. History in the making. Variations on those words cropped up repeatedly Tuesday as the Liberals rationalized Site C as a decision for the ages. Probably those considerations carried more weight at the cabinet table than the last-minute rationalizing of the budget
numbers, which saw the cost jump by better than 10 per cent — or almost $900 million — in the final week before the announcement. More, too, than the last-minute fiddle that reduced the estimated cost of a megawatt hour of electricity from Site C by about 25 per cent. The “saving” arose mainly from a government decision to reduce its annual take from Hydro in the form of dividends and water rentals, thereby leaving the utility with more money for its own purposes. Or, to put it another way, the Liberals transferred some of the financial burden from Hydro ratepayers to provincial taxpayers, who are mostly one and the same. That thumb-on-the-scales manoeuvre allowed the Liberals to argue that Site C would deliver power at a considerable advantage over indepenVaughn dent power projects. The previous Gordon Campbell-led Palmer Liberal government used to argue the opposite, that private power had multiple advantages over public power. But even as reporters were marvelling at the 180-degree ideological reversal among the Liberals, along came New Democratic Party leader John Horgan to confess that he saw some merit in private power, now that the Liberals were scorning it. Both positions are as debatable as the numbers on both sides. Site C won’t be up and running until 2024 at the earliest, by which time every current assumption about energy markets, inflation, interest rates, and power needs should have undergone multiple revisions. The Liberals gave themselves some margin for things to go wrong. The budget includes a combined $3.5 billion in allowances for contingencies, inflation, interest during construction and a project reserve. Still, you have to wonder about the cost of attracting a workforce in what could be fierce competition with other large resource projects. Plus there’s the potential escalation in the cost of materials and construction, particularly on a drawn-out
schedule with the possibility of further delays. First Nations pose what is likely to be the biggest obstacle to progress. Tuesday’s PowerPoint presentation quoted the favourable verdict from a recent federal-provincial report on efforts to consult First Nations and accommodate their interests. “There has been meaningful consultation with the potentially affected aboriginal groups (and) consultation has been carried out in good faith ... the process was appropriate and reasonable in the circumstances.” It did not quote the less encouraging verdict of the joint federal-provincial review of the project itself, which rebuked Hydro on that score: “The panel disagrees with BC Hydro and concludes that the project would likely cause significant adverse effect on fishing opportunities and practices for First Nations.” Ditto for hunting and trapping “and some of these effects cannot be mitigated.” If the panel is correct in its estimation — it was chaired by Harry Swain, a former federal deputy minister of Indian Affairs — then natives could have ample grounds for a court challenge and maybe a quasi-veto over Site C. Responding to a question on mitigation, Hydro CEO McDonald pledged to redouble efforts to reach agreements with the affected First Nations. As one of the architects of the new relationship with aboriginal people under the Campbell government, she’ll need all of her experience and the best of intentions to succeed. In order to give her some leeway to negotiate, the Liberals put off starting construction until next summer, a six-month extension. That, in turn, necessitated a $200-million boost to the budget, to cover off the additional cost in terms of inflation and interest. Now imagine if the project is tied up for many more months by court battles. B.C. might not have seen the last of the budget revisions. Vaughn Palmer is a columnist with the Vancouver Sun
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Holiday cheers Dynamiters get past Ghostriders before break
Taylor Rocc a Sports Editor
It took four tries, but after three tight games, the Kimberley Dynamiters were finally able to get past the Fernie Ghostriders Saturday night, earning a 4-2 victory heading into a brief holiday break. “It’s unreal. It’s a nice feeling,” said Kimberley Dynamiters defenceman and alternate captain Jordan Busch following the win. “There was a good crowd out tonight. It was the perfect time to do it. It’s a nice little Christmas gift for all of us. It was a nice job to get [the Ghostriders] tonight and we’re just looking forward to when we get back to play them again.” Busch took care of business as both ends of the rink Saturday night. In his own end, the 19-year-old native of Edmonton was able to limit the Ghostriders high-octane group of forwards as only Joel Burgess found enough time and space to beat Nitros goaltender Tyson Brouwer. Busch was key in blanking Fernie’s leading scorer Doan Smith and a strong supporting cast including Cole Keebler, Justin Peers and Aaron Neufeld. “He has a very high hockey IQ,” Kimberley Dynamiters head coach Jerry Bancks said of Busch. “He sees the ice really well. “His ability to see the ice, calm things down and make nice little subtle passes out of our end, to me, he’s the best in the league at it.” The steady defenceman also kickstarted the Kimberley attack in the first period, tying the game 1-1 with a heavy blast from the point that
eluded Ghostriders goaltender Jeff Orser. “[The puck] came off the boards and I knew we had guys going to the net,” Busch said. “I put ‘er on net and I put it in a good place.” After Brady Revie and Burgess exchanged second-period markers, Alex Rosolowsky took a pass from below the goal line and put another high puck past Orser to give the hosts a 3-2 lead they wouldn’t relinquish. “We’ve got a younger team, a younger group of guys and we’re getting better,” Bancks. “We’re starting to learn to play to win, to play for each other a little bit better. That’s the thing you hope for. “You gamble, when you go young, that it’s going to bite you in the butt. But if we’ve got character kids, they get better. You can work them really hard. We’ve got a group of kids that aren’t afraid to work really hard. We were short [Saturday] and it didn’t really catch us. In the third period, I thought we out skated them. That’s a testament to character as well.” The Nitros dressed 16 skaters against the Ghostriders, two short of the maximum allowance of 18. Recently acquired forward Lincoln Lane (illness) joined forwards Marco Campanella (upper body), Sawyer Hunt (upper body), Jordan Roy (collar bone), and defencemen Jonas Gordon (upper body) and Tristan Pagura (upper body) in the sick bay. The Ghostriders iced a full lineup, but were without regulars Derek Georgopoulos (lower body), captain Dylan
Robertson (suspended) and defenceman Matthew Pronchuk (healthy scratch). Despite being short bodies, the Dynamiters held off the Ghostriders in the third period. California kid Keenan Haase provided the insurance goal 52 seconds into the final period, using a bit of home-ice advantage to his benefit. Cruising across the Fernie blue line, the hulking import used the ever-active end wall as his set-up man, firing a pass to himself off the boards, before snapping the puck through the five-hole of Orser. The unassisted goal gave the Dynamiters a 4-2 lead and that was all she wrote. Between the pipes, Brouwer was steady as usual, knocking aside 23 pucks for his 16th win of the campaign. At the other end, Orser was victimized four times on 26 tries. Burgess registered both goals for the Ghostriders. Forward Sam Plaquin earned helpers on both for a two-point night. The win moves the Dynamiters to 18-12-1-3 (40 points) and within three points of the second-place Golden Rockets (19-13-0-5). The loss drops the Eddie Mountain Division-leading Ghostriders to 24-5-1-2 (51 points). “If you get hung up on wins and losses, you can get a little bit discouraged,” Bancks said. “You’ve just got to stick with it and keep playing our game. It’s nice to come out on the good side and you have to learn how to win. That’s an important skill -- to believe that you can win.
Sara Moulton Photo/Fernie Free Press
Kimberley Dynamiters defenceman Jordan Busch (#10) took care of business at both ends of the rink Saturday night to help lead the Nitros to a 4-2 victory over the Fernie Ghostriders. “That’s what Fernie’s been good at it. They’ve done that to us the first few times. They know how to do it [win]. We’re learning how to do it.” The Nitros head home for an abbreviated holiday break, before returning to host the Ghostriders Sunday, Dec. 28 (6 p.m.) at the Kimberley Civic Centre. The two teams go right back to it the next night (Monday, Dec. 29 at 7:30 p.m.) in Fernie. “Spend some time with family back home, friends, get away from the hockey a little bit and enjoy the company of your family and friends,” Busch said of his plans for the reprieve from the rink. “We come back and everybody is excited again to see each other. We’ve got a great group of guys. Everybody wants to get back out on the ice.” With six regulars out of the lineup and many others sporting bumps and bruises, or fighting illness, the break
Russian ruble threatens livelihood of KHL James Ellingworth Associated Press
MOSCOW - The Russia-based Kontinental Hockey League saw itself as the oil-rich rival to the NHL, offering a tempting alternative to playing in North America. As the league planned to expand as far as Brit-
ain, the money on offer even attracted Russian stars like Ilya Kovalchuk who walked out on a lucrative NHL deal to return home. Then came the crash of the ruble this week. The ruble had been sliding against the dollar for most of the year
against the backdrop of low oil prices and economic sanctions against Russia, but went into freefall Monday and Tuesday. Following a slight recovery, it has still lost almost half of its value against the dollar this year. With KHL rules stipu-
lating ruble-only contracts, that’s bad news for U.S., Canadian and European imports on the rosters of the league’s 22 teams. Russia’s economic woes are starting to spread into neighbouring nations like Belarus and Kazakhstan.
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couldn’t come at a better time for Bancks’ crew. “These guys need to go home and get healthy,” Bancks said. “So many of them have either had a bug, or they’ve got a bug coming. That’s my biggest thing. Go and have some good times with family and friends, but take care of themselves. “It’s hectic. And I push these kids hard… They got worn down.
They need to go and get rested up as best they can. Hopefully all their mothers spoil the heck out of them. They’ll maybe put on two or three pounds, but I’ll take care of that first practice and away we go.” With Saturday’s win, the Ghostriders lead the eight-game season series between the two teams with a record of 2-1-1-0. After closing
December with a homeand-home series, the Nitros and Ghostriders meet Friday, Jan. 9 in Fernie before closing their season series Friday, Feb. 6 in Kimberley. “We’ve got to play our game. We’ve got to play smart. We can’t play individually,” Busch said. “We have to play with the systems, play disciplined and if we play our game, we should be fine.”
Kimberley Dynamiters Scoring Summary SaturDay, Dec. 20
Fernie GhoStriDerS 2 at Kimberley DynamiterS 4
First Period 1. FER - J. Burgess, (E. Reid, S. Plaquin), 14:12 2. KIM - J. Busch, (J. Richter, B. Saretsky), 0:21 Second Period 3. KIM - B. Revie, (J. Busch), 13:00 4. FER - J. Burgess, (S. Plaquin), 11:58 (PP) 5. KIM - A. Rosolowsky, (J. Wallace, A. Hancherow), 10:08 Third Period 6. KIM - K. Haase, (unassisted), 19:08 Shots 1 2 3 T Fernie 10 4 11 25 Kimberley 10 8 8 26 Goaltenders Saves Mins SV% FER - Jeff Orser 22/26 58:00 0.846 KIM - Tyson Brouwer 23/25 60:00 0.920 Power plays Fernie 1/4 (25.0%); Kimberley 0/2 (0.0%) Attendance: 633
Upcoming Games
Dec. 28 vs. Fernie Dec. 29 at Fernie Jan. 2 at Columbia Valley Jan. 3 vs. Columbia Valley Jan. 9 at Fernie Jan. 10 at Golden Jan. 13 vs. Creston Valley Jan. 16 at Osoyoos Jan. 17 at Norh Okanagan Jan. 23 vs. Columbia Valley Jan. 27 at Columbia Valley Jan. 30 at Creston Valley Jan. 31 at Columbia Valley
Goaltending Statistics Player Tyson Brouwer Liam McBain
W L OT/L SO GAA 16 5 3 1 2.60 2 6 0 0 3.96
SP 0.904 0.861
Scoring Statistics
Player Jason Richter Lincoln Lane Jordan Busch Coy Prevost Eric Buckley Jared Marchi Braden Saretsky Keenan Haase Jesse Wallace Marco Campanella Austin Hancherow Alex Rosolowsky Jonas Gordon Sawyer Hunt
GP 34 30 33 33 31 34 26 33 34 30 31 29 25 27 Trevor Van Steinburg 33 Jordan Roy 10 James Jowsey 30 Charles Dagostin 31 Tyler Kinnon 28 Brady Revie 23 Rory Mallard 25 James Rota (AP) 2 Tristan Pagura 2 Jacob Bromley (AP) 1 Korbyn Chabot (AP) 1 Tyler Van Steinburg (AP) 1
G 26 7 5 9 8 10 6 11 8 7 4 9 2 3 2 4 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
A 16 24 23 19 17 12 16 8 9 8 10 3 9 7 8 4 6 3 3 0 2 1 0 0 0 0
PTS 42 31 28 27 25 22 22 19 17 15 14 12 11 10 10 8 7 3 3 2 2 1 0 0 0 0
PIM 8 30 9 23 80 49 57 14 6 28 8 2 18 6 8 8 2 25 45 32 8 0 0 0 0 0
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Domi, Duclair & Reinhart shine as Canada falls to Russia Stephen Whyno Canadian Press
TORONTO - The top line of Max Domi, Sam Reinhart and Anthony Duclair showed off some flashes of brilliance as Canada’s world junior team dominated the play against Russia in its first exhibition game Friday night. A 2-1 overtime loss was the end result, but outshooting Russia 53-20 left Canada’s players and coaches feeling good about this first impression. Nothing was better than the play of the first line. “We built some instant chemistry,” said Duclair, who was robbed of two goals by Russian goaltender Ilya Sorokin. “It goes back to the summer camp, I think Max, Sam and I have some pretty good friendship off the ice and I think it translates well on the ice as well.” Canada made its final cuts less than two hours after the game, releasing forwards Michael Dal Colle, Jason Dickinson and Rourke Chartier along with defenceman Haydn Fleury. All that’s left is the 22-man roster, which includes Curtis Lazar from the Ottawa Senators. “We came to the conclusion that it was time to get our team together,” coach Benoit Groulx said. “With the addition of Curtis yesterday, we feel that we’re all set to announce our team. That’s why we decided
to make the decision tonight.” Sorokin was the star of the exhibition game with his 52 saves. Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds forward Sergey Tolchinsky scored for Russia in regulation when Reinhart knocked the puck into his own net, and Alexander Sharov had the overtime winner. But the result wasn’t as important to Groulx as the process. “I thought we skated well, we pushed the pace, we did a lot of good things with and without the puck,” Groulx said. “Obviously we had our chances, their goalie was phenomenal, but for a first game for us, we’re quite happy with the effort and the chances we had.” Duclair and Domi had some of the best chances. Domi, son of former Toronto Maple Leafs star Tie, set up defenceman Josh Morrissey for Canada’s only goal of the game. “We had a lot of grade-A scoring chances,” Domi said. “Sometimes that happens, you run into a hot goalie. But you’ve just got to be a little bit more resilient and we should be fine.” Canadian goaltender Zach Fucale blamed himself for not squeezing the puck on Russia’s power-play goal that went in off Reinhart. But Groulx said Fucale played well in making 18 saves. Fucale was starting
on the same day he was traded in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League from the Halifax Mooseheads to the Quebec Remparts. “Sometimes days like that happen,” Fucale said. “You’ve just got to zone everything out and make sure you’re ready to play.” Fucale said the whole team was ready to play, and with a strong start one of the priorities, it’s hard not to be satisfied. “We were expecting to score a little more for the number of shots we put on the goal,” centre Frederik Gauthier said. “The goalie was really good. But in general our performance, I think, was pretty good. Our coach is happy and I think we’re happy about our performance, too.” Canada travelled to Ottawa to play its next exhibition game Sunday at Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa against Sweden. That game is expected to feature Canada’s real lineup. Forwards Lazar, Connor McDavid, Nic Petan and and defenceman Joe Hicketts were held out of Friday night’s game against Russia. Results were unavailable at press time. After playing Sweden, Canada will face Switzerland in its final exhibition tune-up Tuesday at Bell Centre in Montreal. The tournament gets under way Boxing Day when Canada goes up against Slovakia.
Russian ruble crisis threatens KHL Continued from page 8
Players have already started to rebel. Revealing he had not been paid for three months at Russian club Yugra Khanty-Mansiisk, except small amounts to buy food, forward Ilari Melart told the Ilta Sanomat newspaper in his native Finland he was not “in Siberia for charity.” For the first time since the league was founded in 2008, KHL management has been forced to deny the league could collapse. “The league’s financial situation is stable and we’re looking calmly at the current economic
situation. The season will be finished as planned,” league president Dmitry Chernyshenko told media after meeting with club heads Thursday. He dismissed rumours the league could enforce acrossthe-board pay cuts . Chernyshenko did suggest some clubs could be removed from the league if they lacked the money to function. Smaller KHL teams like Yugra depend on the generosity of benefactors in Russian regional government and staterun companies. Delays in paying players have
been common in recent years, but have reportedly increased this season as government budgets come under strain and Russian state oil and gas companies struggle with low prices for products. Without subsidies, many clubs could become financially unstable. Compared to players’ wages, income from ticket sales and TV rights is typically far from enough to keep a club viable. Despite posting league-record crowds last season and reaching the KHL’s Gagarin Cup finals, Czech team Lev Prague withdrew for financial reasons in July.
Matthew Murnaghan Photo/Hockey Canada Images
Kootenay Ice captain Sam Reinhart, pictured during summer orientation camp, hit the ice with Team Canada Friday and Sunday for pre-tournament competition ahead of the 2015 IIHF World Junior Championship. Canada fell to Russia in overtime Friday night.
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Great Lakes wolves kept on US endangered list John Flesher ASSOCIATED PRESS
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - A federal judge on Friday threw out an Obama administration decision to remove grey wolves in the western Great Lakes region from the endangered species list - a decision that will ban further wolf hunting and trapping in three states. The order affects wolves in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, where the combined population is estimated at around 3,700. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service dropped federal protections from those wolves in 2012 and handed over management to the states. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington, D.C., ruled Friday the removal was “arbitrary and capricious” and violated the federal Endangered Species Act. Unless overturned, her decision will block the states from scheduling additional hunting and trapping seasons for the predators. All three have had at least one hunting season since protections were lifted, while Minnesota and Wisconsin also have allowed trapping. More than 1,500 Great Lakes wolves have been killed, said Jonathan Lov-
vorn, senior vice-president of the Humane Society of the United States, one of several groups whose lawsuit prompted Howell’s ruling. “We are pleased that the court has recognized that the basis for the delisting decision was flawed, and would stop wolf recovery in its tracks,” Lovvorn said. Fish and Wildlife Service spokesman Gavin Shire said the agency was disappointed and would confer with the U.S. Department of Justice and the states about whether to appeal. “The science clearly shows that wolves are recovered in the Great Lakes region, and we believe the Great Lakes states have clearly demonstrated their ability to effectively manage their wolf populations,” Shire said. “This is a significant step backward.” State officials acknowledged being caught by surprise and said they would study the judge’s 111page opinion before deciding what to do next. “It’s an unusual turn of events,” said Tom Landwehr, Minnesota’s natural resources commissioner. The ruling is the latest twist in more than a decade of court battles over the grey wolf, which has made a strong recovery after
Canadian man shot by U.S. border guards C ANADIAN PRESS
DETROIT - The U.S. border agency says a Canadian man was shot after allegedly pointing a handgun at guards at the Ambassador Bridge crossing between Windsor, Ont., and Detroit. U.S. Customs and Border Protection says in a statement the man stopped his car before the U.S. inspection booth around 3 a.m. Sunday and starting walking towards border officers while waving a gun. It says the officers ordered him to drop the weapon but that he then pointed it in the officers’ direction, prompting them to open fire. The agency says the man, who it hasn’t been identified, was treated and released from hospital before being taken into custody. It says the man has had “previous encounters” with Canadian law enforcement. The statement says border and Department of Homeland Security officials are investigating along with Detroit police. Spokesman Kris Grogan says no additional information will be released at this time. Windsor police say the man was seen waving a handgun in the parking lot of a local McDonald’s some 20 minutes before the incident at the border crossing. They say that when police arrived he was ordered to drop the weapon but refused, and then pointed the gun at officers, who were not aware of what was happening as they were busy dealing with passersby behind the man. According to the police statement, the man then told officers “Why haven’t you shot me yet?” and that officers tried to talk him down. Police say the man then got back into his SUV and drove off before officers could get back to their cruisers.
being shot, poisoned and trapped into near-extermination in the lower 48 states in the last century. Only a remnant pocket in northern Minnesota remained when the species was added to the federal endangered list in 1974. The wolf is now well-established in the western Great Lakes and in the Northern Rockies, where the minimum population is estimated at around 1,700. Animal protection advocates repeatedly have sued over federal efforts to drop federal protections in both regions, arguing that the wolf’s situation remains precarious. Meanwhile, ranchers and farmers complain of heavy financial losses from wolf attacks on livestock. A judge in September restored endangered status to wolves in Wyoming, although those in Montana and Idaho remain off the list. The Fish and Wildlife Service is nearing a final decision on whether to lift protections across the remainder of the lower 48 states, except for a fledgling population of Mexican grey wolves in the desert Southwest. In her opinion, Howell acknowledged the issue inspires passions on all sides but said the
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A U.S. judge through our a decision to remove grey wolves in the western Great Lakes region from the endangered species list. administration’s “practical policy reasons” for its action in the Great Lakes region don’t trump the requirements
of the federal law, which “offers the broadest possible protections for endangered species by design.”
NYC subways slowly upgrading from 1930s technology ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York City’s subways - the biggest U.S. mass transit network - serve more than 6 million daily riders who depend largely on a signal system that dates back to the Great Depression of the 1930s. Antiquated electro-mechanics with thousands of moving parts are still critical to operations. Dispatchers still monitor most trains from 24-hour underground “towers,” and they still put pencil to paper to track their progress. That eight-decade-old system is slowly being replaced by 21st-century digital technology that allows up to twice as many trains to safely travel closer together. But there’s a big caveat: It could take at least 20 years for the city’s 700 miles (1,127 kilometres) of tracks to be fully computerized. Of the subway system’s almost two dozen major lines, just one, the L linking Manhattan and Brooklyn, currently oper-
ates on new, computerized, automated signals. And the modernization of the No. 7 line from Manhattan to Queens has begun, to be completed by 2017. So, for at least the foreseeable future, New York subway riders can expect the snags, weekend shutdowns and overcrowding they have become accustomed to. “We’re at the physical limits of what the original technology can carry,” acknowledges Adam Lisberg, spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority that New York City Transit’s subways. But he says safety is not being sacrificed. “This stuff is old, but it works - it works really well,” he says, his voice rising above the roar of a 400-ton train passing through a Greenwich Village station. Much of New York’s subways continue to operate with the equipment from the 1930s, kept running by a maintenance team that’s forced to fabricate re-
placement parts long out of production. Wynton Habersham, the MTA’s chief of signals and track operations, recently led an Associated Press reporter and photographer on a walking tour through some of the 22 control “towers” - as the dispatcher spaces are called, though they’re buried deep beneath the streets. In the cramped, worn-out Greenwich Village tower, MTA workers monitor light boards that show train locations and movement. The dispatchers answer phone calls and listen to two-way radio reports while keeping an eye on each train’s progress. A massive cabinet is arrayed with levers to move switches through a warren of electrical connections to relays that were cutting-edge technology at the same time as the Hindenburg airship. Hidden from straphangers, these are the guts of the urban transit network that guide sub-
way traffic through nearly 500 stations. Behind a door off a platform on Manhattan’s West Side at 14th Street is the system’s single gleaming, high-tech operation. It allows about two dozen L trains to move each hour in both directions - compared to about 15 with the old mechanics - on a route that takes an average of 37 minutes. Amid peeling paint, rusty stairs and old-fashioned metal cabinets is a labyrinth of digitalized panels and switches that automatically relay signals in the tunnels, tracing both direction and speed without human help. In case of an emergency, however, the computerized controls can be manually overridden by operators in the cab of each train. The updating has allowed more cars to be added to the L line, which has become one of the city’s most crowded thanks to growth in Brooklyn’s hip Williamsburg neighbourhood.
Missing dog recovered by owner had been dyed to deceive ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN JACINTO, Calif. - Coco, a reddish-brown pit bull with white markings, went missing from her Southern California home on Thanksgiving. Nearly a month later, she was found and reunited with her owners - but she was a different colour. Riverside County animal services officials made the match
when they scanned a stray, black dog for an implanted microchip and found she was listed as an 8-month-old reddish-brown pit bull adopted in October from a San Jacinto shelter, the Press-Enterprise reported (http://bit.ly/1JxnzqH ). Officials believe Coco was stolen and dyed in an act of deception to make it harder for owners Christopher Ingrassi
and Heather Lowry to find her, said Riverside County Field and Shelter Deputy Director Frank Corvino. Officials believe the dog escaped from the thief’s property. “The dye job is not very good,” Corvino said in a statement. “But it would work if someone’s looking for their missing, reddish-brown dog.”
Animal Services spokesman John Welsh said Coco shouldn’t suffer any long-term consequences from the dye. Lowry said she was shocked when she learned what had happened to Coco. “I didn’t think someone would go as far as to dying a dog’s fur to keep them,” she told animal control officials, according to the statement.
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US reviewing whether to return North Korea to list of state sponsors of terrorism Associated Press
HONOLULU - President Barack Obama says the United States is reviewing whether to put North Korea back on its list of state sponsors of terrorism as Washington decides how to respond to what he calls an “act of cybervandalism,” not one of war, against a movie company. Sony Pictures Entertainment, which said it cancelled the theatrical release of “The Interview” after distributors refused to show it, pledged to find a way to get the film out. “How it’s going to be distributed, I don’t think anybody knows quite yet,” a Sony lawyer said. The comedy involves a plot to assassinate North Korea’s leader. Obama is promising to respond “proportionately” to an attack that law enforcement blames on North Korea. “We’re not going to be intimidated by some cyberhackers,” he said. The president said the U.S. would examine the facts to determine whether North Korea should land back on the terrorism sponsors list. “We’re going to review those through a process that’s already in place,” Obama told CNN’s “State of the Union” in an interview broadcast Sunday. “I’ll wait to review what the findings are.” While raising the possibility of a terrorism designation, Obama also asserted, “I don’t think it was an act of war. I think it was an act of cybervandalism that was very costly, very expensive. We take it very seriously.” Obama’s description drew immediate scorn from two Republicans who are longtime critics of his foreign policy. “It is a new form of warfare, and we have to counter with that form of warfare with a bet-
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The U.S. is considering putting North Korea back on a list of state sponsors of terrorism. ter form of warfare,” said Arizona Sen. John McCain. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina called it “an act of terrorism” and favoured reimposing sanctions and adding North Korea to the terrorism list. The U.S. needs to “make is so hard on the North Koreans that they don’t want to do this in the future.” North Korea spent two decades on the list until the Bush administration removed it in 2008 during nuclear negotiations. Only Iran, Sudan, Syria and Cuba remain on the list, which triggers sanctions that limit U.S. aid, defence exports and certain financial transactions. But adding North Korea back could be difficult. To meet the criteria, the State Department must determine that a country has repeatedly supported acts of international terrorism, a definition that traditionally has referred to violent, physical attacks rather than hacking.
North Korea threatened to strike back at the United States if Obama retaliated, the National Defence Commission said in a statement carried by the country’s official Korean Central News Agency. The statement offered no details of a possible response. The U.S. is asking China for help as it considers how to respond to the hack. A senior Obama administration official says the U.S. and China have shared information about the attack and that Washington has asked for Beijing’s co-operation. The official was not authorized to comment by name and spoke on condition of anonymity. China wields considerable leverage over North Korea, but Obama has accused China of carrying out cyberthefts, too. In the CNN interview, taped Friday in Washington before Obama left to vacation in Hawaii, Obama renewed his criticism of Sony’s decision to
shelve “The Interview,” despite the company’s insistence that its hand was forced after movie theatres refused to show it. Obama suggested he might have been able to help address the problem if given the chance. “You know, had they talked to me directly about this decision, I might have called the movie theatre chains and distributors and asked them what that story was,” he said. Sony’s CEO has disputed that the company never reached out, saying he spoke to a senior White House adviser about the situation before Sony announced the decision. White House officials said Sony did discuss cybersecurity with the federal government, but that the White House was never consulted on the decision not to distribute the film. “Sometimes this is a matter of setting a tone and being very clear that we’re not going to be intimidated by some, you know, cyberhackers,” Obama said. “And I expect all of us to remember that and operate on that basis going forward.” David Boies, a Sony lawyer, said “The Interview” is “going to be distributed, and what Sony has been trying to do is to get the picture out to the public,” while protecting the rights of company employers and moviegoers. Boies said theatres “quite understandably” decided not to show the film as scheduled because of the threats. “You can’t release a movie unless you have a distribution channel,” he said. North Korea has denied hacking the studio, and on Saturday proposed a joint investigation with the U.S. to determine the true culprit. The White House rejected the idea and said it was confident North Korea was responsible.
Two NYPD officers fatally shot by gunman Associated Press
NEW YORK - The warning came just moments too late: A man who had shot his ex-girlfriend a few hours earlier had travelled to New York City and vowed online to shoot two “pigs” in retaliation for the police chokehold death of Eric Garner. Minutes before a wanted poster for Ismaaiyl Brinsley arrived in the NYPD’s Real Time Crime Center, he ambushed two officers in their patrol car in broad daylight, fatally shooting them before killing himself inside a subway station. Brinsley, 28, wrote on an Instagram account before Saturday’s shootings: “I’m putting wings on pigs today. They take 1 of ours, let’s take 2 of theirs,” two city officials with direct knowledge of the case confirmed for The Associated Press. He used
the hashtags Shootthepolice RIPErivGardner (sic) RIPMikeBrown - references to the two police-involved deaths of blacks that have sparked racially charged protests across the country. The officials, a senior city official and a law enforcement official, were not authorized to speak publicly on the topic and spoke on condition of anonymity. Police said Brinsley approached the passenger window of a marked police car and opened fire, striking Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu in the head. Brinsley was black; the officers were Asian and Hispanic, police said. The officers were on special patrol doing crime reduction work in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. “They were, quite simply, as-
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Two NYPD officers were killed by a lone gunman on Saturday. sassinated - targeted for their uniform,” said Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, who looked pale and shaken at a hospital news conference. The sudden and extraordinary violence stunned the city, prompted a response from a vacationing President Barack Obama and escalated weeks of
simmering ill will between police and their critics following grand jury decisions not to indict officers in the deaths of Garner in New York and Michael Brown in Missouri. The New York police union head declared there’s “blood on the hands” of protesters and the city’s mayor.
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Toronto man ordered to pay $1.5 million in credit card scheme
FARGO, N.D. - Prosecutors described a Toronto man’s massive credit card fraud scheme as hightech bank robbery - stealing the identities of 38,000 people in order to bilk dozens of banks. So when he was convicted of mail fraud in February 2011, the federal government began the arduous task of figuring out just how much each victim was owed. Years later, following the government’s petition to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a federal judge ordered Adekunle Adetiloye to pay about $1.5 million in restitution and forfeiture. Adetiloye is appealing the Dec. 8 judgment. “To be fair to everybody, the losses in this case are uncommon,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Nick Chase said Thursday. “It’s a hard case in many ways to prove up. There’s just not a lot of law out there on any of this. It’s a little uncharted.” What isn’t clear, Chase said, is whether anyone will see the restitution payments. Adetiloye’s lawyer wouldn’t comment on his client’s financial situation. Adetiloye’s 18-year prison sentence, issued in January 2012, capped a lengthy international investigation into fake debt-collection agencies. Bank officials, investigators and prosecutors called it one of the most complex schemes perpetrated in the financial industry. It took nearly eight years to investigate and litigate, including the restitution debate. The case wound up in North Dakota because U.S. Bank, one of the victims, is based in Fargo. U.S. District Judge Ralph Erickson in March 2012 set both restitution and forfeiture at just $1,700, saying the government did not provide enough “specificity and reliability” to support a larger award. Canadian Press
Police say 3-year-old boy abandoned at Surrey bus stop
SURREY, B.C. - RCMP are recommending charges against a man who they say struck a threeyear-old boy in the face and abandoned him at a bus stop in Surrey, B.C. Staff Sgt. Joe Johal says police are recommending charges of assault and child abandonment. Johal says the man is a Surrey resident who is related to the child but would not confirm he is the boy’s father. The suspect has been released from police custody with conditions and is scheduled to appear in court. Johal thanked witnesses who contacted police on Saturday morning about the incident as well as those who circulated a photo of the boy on social media. Callers reported the boy was struck in the face and pushed by a man who then got on a bus, leaving the boy behind. “A lot of people called and (there were) a lot of tips, and even the arrest that took place was due to a tip from a citizen who observed and called us,” said Johal in an interview on Sunday. He said police were able to identify the suspect and get him in custody within a few hours. Workers at a nearby liquor store and others cared for the boy until police arrived, Johal said. The boy has since been reunited with his mother. The Ministry of Children and Family Development was involved Saturday and will keep the file open, said Johal. He said the investigation continues and police are still looking to speak with additional witnesses. Canadian Press
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Obituaries Anna Linardic September 28, 1932 December 18, 2014 Anna Linardic (nee Prendivoj) passed away peacefully at home surrounded by her loved ones on December 18, 2014 after the quick onset of leukaemia.
Anna was born September 28, 1 9 3 2 i n G l av o t o k , K r k , Yugoslavia, now Croatia. She arrived In Canada in 1957, married her fiancé Ivan Linardic on January 25, 1958 and started a family in Cranbrook. Anna’s life revolved around family, friendship and faith. She touched many lives with her kindness, compassion and generosity. She is survived by her children, Margaret (Vancouver), John, George, Diane (Syd Willicome) and David (Angela), her grandchildren, Parker and Kimberley Willicome (all in Cranbrook), her sisters Lucy Zec (New York) and Dragica Grubic (New Jersey), cousins Kathy & Cyril Goosney (Cranbrook) and their family, along with numerous cousins, nephews and nieces in Canada, USA and Croatia. Anna was predeceased by her husband Ivan Linardic (1923-2001), siblings Nikola (Chicago), Dinka and Zvonko (Croatia). Anna had a great love of gardening. This was apparent to everyone who knew her. All envied her green thumb and her vegetables were first up in the neighbourhood every year. Anna was a phenomenal cook and always ensured that no one ever left her table hungry. She volunteered tirelessly with her church and was an active member of St. Anne’s Sewing Circle, contributing her sewing, knitting and crafting skills. She was generous with her time and was quick to offer a hand whenever needed. She was a beautiful human being. Prayers at 7 p.m. on Monday, December 22, 2014 at McPherson’s Funeral Services, 2200 2nd Street South, Cranbrook, B.C. A funeral mass will be held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday December 23, 2014 at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 39 10th Avenue South, Cranbrook, B.C. Burial to follow at the Cranbrook Cemetery. Donations may be made in Anna’s memory to the local charity of your choice. We have stories to retell, We have pictures in our minds, We have love in our hearts. We can say good-bye to you with tears in our eyes, But we will never, ever forget you.
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Dick was born on August 25, 1927 in Regina, Saskatchewan. He grew up exploring Waskana creek, delivering newspapers to the Legislative Assembly, building all sorts of childhood contraptions in his backyard, bicycling about town, and playing hockey on the neighbourhood rink. He leaves behind his loving wife of almost 63 years Orphee Williams (nee Ashe), 3 daughters Richeal (Ralph) Tweten, Corrine (Rodney) Jerke and Ashelyn (Derek) Redman, son Edwin (Norma) Williams, dearest friend Penny (Colm) Covenden, 14 grandchildren, and 6 great grandchildren. He was predeceased by his father Edwin Williams, his mother Gertrude Williams (nee McKay), and his sister Helen (Bill) Ford. Dick obtained his Bachelor’s and Law degree from the University of Saskatchewan. A guiding force in his life was the love of nature: after seeing the Rocky Mountains while surveying as a student he decided that upon graduation he would journey west and live in their shadow. He articled with the late Fred M. Pritchard in Taber and then moved to Lethbridge in 1954 and joined the Firm of Davidson and Davidson. In 1957, the firm took the name of Davidson and Williams. Dick was a dedicated lawyer who was honoured to be of service to others. He also loved his time away from the office, spending weekends and holidays at his cabin in Montana or elsewhere in the Rockies. His partners kidded him about planning for his retirement in the mountains the day he started his practice. Dick was an active member of the community serving as the first chairman of the Lethbridge Community College Foundation and participating in many leadership roles in the Rotary Club. Dick and Orphee were avid hunters and horseback riders. His first year of retirement was devoted to raising two beautiful colts and living full time at their cabin in BC. They remained living there happily for 24 years. He was thrilled to report that he was able to go for a walk every day with one of his beloved dogs or cats tagging along, constantly on the look out for a white tail buck, a cow elk, a good tree to take for firewood, or signs of the hummingbirds returning in the spring. In the past three years Dick and Orphee lived at Garden View Lodge in Kimberly but still drove to their cabin each weekend to be closer to nature. Dick was known for his quick sense of humor and it was rare that he did not have a story or joke to pass along. He never lost his ability to make others smile, even as he courageously orchestrated his final days after three years of battling cancer. His modesty, strength of character, and determination were truly remarkable and inspired many. The family is very appreciative of the staff at Garden View, and at the Cranbrook Oncology (Cancer) Unit, as well as Dr. Lange in Kimberley and Dr. Benke in Lethbridge for their dedication, and thoughtful and passionate care over the past three years. Dick will be remembered for his smile, twinkling eyes and his love of everything in nature. In lieu of flowers the family would appreciate donations to the Cancer Society or a Wildlife charity of your choice. A celebration of his life will take place in the summer among the things that inspired him most-family, mountains, wildlife and all things in nature. Arrangements entrusted to McPherson Funeral Service. Condolences for the family can be offered at: www.mcphersonfh.com
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Christmas Church Services Come and Remember the Saviour’s Birth With Us
Christmas Eve Candlelight Services 6:00 pm & 9:00 pm 6:30 pm 8:00 pm 8:00 pm 9:00 pm -
Cranbrook @ Mt Zion, 920-11th St. S. Kimberley @ Holy Cross, 106 Howard Elkford @ Immanuel, 2700 Balmer Fernie @ Trinity, 691 - 4th Ave. Invermere @ St. Peter’s, 110 - 7th Ave.
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7:00 pm Candlelight Family Service 10:00 pm Communion Service All are welcomed. December 24th – the First Baptist Church will be hosting Wednesday morning breakfast here at the United Church from 8:30 to 10:00 am CrAnbrook United ChUrCh Baker Street & 12th Avenue South
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