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Organizers of the Locals Coffeehouse series recently donated proceeds from the year to high school and middle school music programs, as well as Cranbrook Community Theatre, who are stewards of the Studio Stage Door building where the popular concert series is held. The music programs for Mount Baker Secondary School, Parkland Middle School, Laurie Middle School, and Cranbrook Community Theatre each received $500. Pictured in midst of the hubbub above are Lorraine Hagel, Mark Casey and Beth Crawley (representing Locals), Tanis Tomlin (CCT), Evan Bueckert (MBSS), David Pasivirta (LMS) and Stephanie Tischauer (PMS). See if you can pick them out! The next Locals Coffeehouse is set for February 6. Be there or be square.
TOP FLIGHT CURLING COMING?
Grand Slam decision expected in January International event will feature more than 60 professional teams, requiring use of both arenas TRE VOR CR AWLEY
Though nearly a year away, the planning process continues in the efforts to bring in a Grand Slam curling event to Cranbrook. The event, which will feature over 60 international professional curling teams in two separate tiers, will require the use of Western Financial Place and the Memorial Arena. An official with the Grand Slam of Curling tour will be in Cranbrook in January to gauge the ice plants in both facilities and a final decision will likely be announced at the end of that month, according to Todd Pellerin, who is the co-chair of the committee working to bring the event to Cranbrook. “If we’re not the city chosen, because whatever infrastructure is not in
place, then they’ll go to another town,” said Pellerin. “It’s ours to lose. We were guaranteed this a while back in a different format, but this is a much bigger format than what we were guaranteed, so if we don’t get this, then we’re probably not going to be in line for at least a couple years for something else.” The top tier of curlers will get underway at Western Financial Place, while the lower tier will use the Memorial Arena. “We’re not going to have a problem with Western Financial Place, what we’re worried about is the Memorial Arena, because the Tier 2 level is going to be potentially held in that facility,” Pellerin said.
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Family will need help after 12-year-old’s scoliosis surgery BARRY COULTER
The life of a young Cranbrook girl — a competitive gymnast — has changed dramatically since she was diagnosed with a severe case of Scoliosis. Merrit, 12, will be undergoing the first of two surgeries at the end of this month, and the intensive care required after this will put a great financial strain on the household. But the community can help! Scoliosis is a disorder that causes an abnormal curve in the spine. It can also cause curves to either side of the spine, which makes it twist like a corkscrew. Merrit’s mother Selena said that when Merrit was diagnosed, her spine was at 22 degrees, and went to 35 degrees in less than three months.
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Merrit, 12, a competitive gymnast, has been stricken with Scoliosis and requires extensive surgery and months of bed rest.
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Heavy rain expected over next two days Townsman Staff
A special weather bulletin has been issued for the Cranbrook/Kimberley area and the Elk Valley, as heavy rain is expect over the next few days. A Pacific frontal system will move into the British Columbia Interior on Tuesday bringing significant amounts of rain, with
the potential to bring up to 40 mm of precipitation. Drivers over Kootenay and Columbia high elevation passes are expected to experience a transition from snow to rain as freezing levels rise Tuesday. The rain will taper off late Wednesday as the system moves into Alberta.
The public is advised to monitor future forecasts and warnings as warnings may be required or extended. Please monitor the latest forecasts and warnings from Environment Canada at www. weather.gc.ca.
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Local artist Paul Reimer debuted his Ironology Art Exhibit last week at 1710 WorkSpace in downtown Cranbrook. Reimer, a local architectural blacksmith, has been commissioned for projects locally—such as the Spirit Tree by the Cranbrook clock tower and the Reconciliation Sculpture out at the Canadian Rockies International Airport—while other projects can be found across Canada and North America. The Ironology exhibit will be on display for the next month at the workspace and all art pieces are available for purchase.
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Key City Theatre is pleased to announce Selkirk Signs will be donating the use of a new Electronic Messaging Centre (EMC) to Key City Theatre. The New EMC replaces the existing sign board at the corner of 2nd Street and 14th Ave North. Hans Mehrle, president of Selkirk signs says of the donation: “We have been a
long-time supporter of the Key City Theatre and we feel quite fortunate to have a venue such as this in Cranbrook. We are proud to be part of the future success and growth of the Key City Theatre.” Galen Olstead, Managing Director of Key City Theatre remarks, “This is a major contribution to the theatre and will help us achieve a
higher, more professional standard. Information on upcoming performances will be displayed in a dynamic and visually appealing format. We anticipate that the EMC will be installed early in the new year.” Selkirk Signs is a full service Cranbrook com-
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pany that specializes in signage design, manufacturing, installation and maintenance. Key City Theatre is a 602 seat live performing arts venue serving Cranbrook and the East Kootenay region operated by the Key City Theatre Society.
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Spirit Rock climbers do well in Calgary For the Townsman
On November 27, the Spirit Rock Climbing Team went to Calgary, Alberta, for a climbing competition at the Calgary Climbing Center. The seven team members and their coach had a great time and everyone did very well, especially considering it was their first time competing for most of them. This competition was part of the Tour De Bloc Climbing Comps — a national series of bouldering climbing competitions. The Spirit Rock Climbing Team will be competing next at the Cube in Nelson on December 13. Team member pl acement:
• Anna Belle Smiley, Female Youth C —16th • Logan Robison, Male Youth D — 10th • TJ Foley Male, Youth C 1st • Jake Ferguson, Male Male Youth D — 3rd • Moses Janzen, Male Youth C — 6th • Max Brine, MaleYouth C — 9th • Everett Olafson, Youth A — 18th
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Logan Robison on the wall.
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“Normally this event is held in a twin-rink type of facility but because of the proximity between Western Financial Place and the Memorial, they’re willing to consider that.” Pellerin is anticipating a huge tourism draw to Cranbrook for the event, which will attract spectators, in addition to over 60 curling teams, coaches, support staff and media coverage from Sportsnet that will include over 18 broadcast hours. “As far as we know, we’re on board, the curling club is on board and has agreed to provide the lions share of the guarantee on the tickets and the city on the smaller share,” Pellerin said. Professional curlers who have competed in the Grand Slam of Curling in the past include heavy hitters such as Kevin Koe, Glenn Howard, Brad Gushue, Rachel Homan, Val Sweeting and Jennifer Jones.
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Along with this, Merrit’s ribcage is rotating, putting pressure on her heart and lungs. The girl is in chronic pain everyday, and breathing with difficulty. She wears a backbrace everyday for 18 to 24 hours, since her diagnosis in 2013. “Her everyday life has changed so much,” said Selena. “Over the last year and a half we have made many trips to the Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary — as many as three times a month. This cost has become financially impossible for our family, from gas, hotels, food, brace fees, and daily living like rent and groceries.” Merrit is booked for surgery December 31, 2015 — that’s how she’ll spend her 13th birthday (she will undergo her second surgery when she is 18). The surgery will involve removing three ribs from both sides of her ribcage, and inserting metal rods from her lower back to the bottom of her neck, as well as metal rods from her hips to her remaining lowest rib. She will then be on bed rest for for upwards of four months, and she will need full-time care. Her mother Selena will be the one taking this on, so she herself will be unable to work. “I have ot ake the next four months off work, to give Merrit round the clock care when we return from Children’s Hospital. We are forever grateful for any donations. It would be much easier to have the financial stress lifted so we could concentrate
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An x-ray showing the curvature in Merrit’s spine caused by Scoliosis on the most important thing — Merrit’s health.” A GoFundMe account to help the family out has been set up at www.gofundme.com/5892cupd. “Even though Merrit is in pain every day, she still puts forth the effort to wear a smile. She’s a very determined young
lady. She is still a ray of sunshine, even though most of her days consist of a heating pad and painkillers for her back and hips. “No child should every have to endure this pain.”
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Obama and San Bernardino What’s Up? O n Sunday President Barack Obama spoke about a mass shooting in the United States for the 17th time in the past seven years. (There have actually been 335 mass shootings in the United States already this year, but he only does the big ones.) But this time Obama spoke from the Oval Office. He’s only done that twice before, about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the end of combat operations in Iraq, both in 2010. The shooting in California killed 14 people and wounded 21, so it wasn’t even the biggest mass killing of his administration, but it got special treatment because it was a terrorist attack. He needed to do that because you just have to say the word “terrorist” to send many Americans into a flat panic, and many American politicians into spasms of oratory overkill. A representative example was New Jersey Governor and would-be Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie, who said: “We need to come to grips with the idea that we are in the midst of the next world war.” The next world war? The last world war killed at least 40 million people. The next one — the Third World War that we were waiting for when I was growing up — would have killed hundreds of millions, even if it didn’t cause a nuclear winter and kill billions. With due respect to the victims, the 16 dead in San Bernardino do not add up to a new world war. Neither do the 130 French (and a few foreigners) killed with guns and suicide bombs in Paris last month, nor the 224 Russians on the plane brought down over Egypt by a bomb at the end of October. Even in Europe, Islamist terrorism kills at the most hundreds per year; in America, it
kills almost nobody. Before this week, only 16 Americans had been killed on home soil by Islamist terrorists in the past 14 years (13 soldiers killed by US Army psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan at Fort Hood, Texas in 2009, and three killed at the Boston Marathon in 2013). That’s an average (including the San Bernardino deaths) of two people per year killed in the United States by Muslim Gwynne terrorists. . So why didn’t Barack Dyer Obama finish his speech by pointing out that Americans are 170 times more likely to drown in the bath than to be killed by Islamist terrorists? Because no public figure in the United States is allowed to say that the terrorist threat is very small in the West generally, and utterly minuscule if you actually live in the United States. You’re not allowed to say it because more than 6,000 American soldiers have been killed in two foreign wars that were justified by the 9/11 attacks (although Obama was bold enough to say plainly in his speech that those wars actually served the Islamists’ purposes). And you’re not allowed to say it because almost 3,000 Americans died on 9/11: that single attack 15 years ago has permanently defined the scale of the terrorist threat in American minds, even though the likelihood that a comparable attack could be mounted today is extremely small. (In 2001, nobody was looking out for such an attack; now they are.) On the one hand, we have a trillion-dollar “war on terror” defended by a US military and security establishment that has grown fat on the proceeds. On the other hand, we have a very small terrorist threat to the “homeland” against which, for the
most part, that establishment’s efforts are irrelevant because the attackers are homegrown, self-radicalised lone wolves. None of the three “Islamist” attacks over the past fourteen years was planned from abroad. All were carried out by US citizens or permanent residents. None of those people, so far as is known, was even in contact with organisations like al-Qaeda or Islamic State (although Tashfeen Malik pledged her allegiance to the latter on her Facebook page on her way to the massacre at the Inland Regional Centre in San Bernardino). The Islamist extremists pose an existential threat to Syria and Iraq. They are a serious threat to the other Arab countries, and a rather more distant problem for other Muslim countries. For Western, Asian and African countries that do not have large Muslim populations, they are merely a strategic nuisance. If any of those outside powers want to fight the Islamists on home ground (like the NATO countries and Russia, who are all now bombing Islamic State targets in Syria), then by all means do so. You might save the Syrians from a very unpleasant fate. But don’t imagine that this is necessary for your own defence. Conversely, don’t worry that the bombing will cause terrorist attacks on you at home. Those attacks will happen no matter what the United States (to pick an example at random) is doing or not doing abroad. And a country that can blithely ignore 63 shooting attacks in its schools since the beginning of this year can manage to live with a small Islamist attack every few years too. Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist published in 45 countries.
At the Cranbrook Public Library
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ew this week is the Blu-ray and DVD release of ‘Selma.’ For all of its flaws (Oprah’s polarizing presence, a mostly British cast, and the producers inability to secure the rights to Martin Luther King’s actual speeches), Selma remains a cinematic marvel — expertly telling the story of Martin Luther King’s dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1964. Readers of all ages can be inspired by Daniel Lipkowitz latest book ‘LEGO Awesome Ideas.’ Preschool Story Time is this Wednesday at 11:00 am, 1:15 pm, & 6:30 pm, and Toddler Story Time is 10:00 and 11:00 am. Both will be all about Mittens FOOD FOR FINES: For the entire month of December, the Library will be accepting donations of nonperishable food as payment for overdue fines. One item will be worth one dollar of fines. Any canned or boxed nonperishable food items will be accepted. All donations will be delivered to the food bank throughout the holiday season. This is a great way to get rid of those pesky overdue fines while helping others in need. FREE one-on-one tech training session for those of you who want to enhance your current computing skills. We cover many topics including Basic Tablet usage, Basic
Computer usage, Windows 10 training, Window 8 + 8.1 training, Window 7 training, Microsoft Suit training, Library E book training, and much more. To register, please contact the Library at (250) 426-4063, or sign up at the front desk. Tablet training has returned. Anyone interested in learning about basic Mike Selby tablet usage, including internet, email, e-books, and accessing resources and invited to attend any of the upcoming free classes. Sessions begin this Sunday, October 11th from 3 to 4 pm at the Library. On display this month is Kathy Simon’s wonderful and festive Christmas ornaments. Our new website is up and running at: www.cranbrookpubliclibrary.ca There is much more than this happening at the Library. Please check out our Facebook pages and our new website for more information and updates. Adult Newly Acquired British Columbia & Yukon Gold – Donald Waite (971.102) The Total Dirt Rider Manual – Pete Peterson The Great Blackfoot Treaties – Hugh A. Dempsey After Auschwitz – Eva Schloss Gut – Giulia Enders After The Sands – Gordon Laxer
If Someone Says You Complete Me, Run – Whoopi Goldberg Dark Matter and Dinosaurs – Lisa Randall Proteinaholic – Garth Davis Franklin’s Lost Ship – John Geiger Don’t Panic: ISIS, Terror & Today’s Middle East – Gwynne Dyer Little House Living – Merissa Alink Deal – Bill Kreutzmann (bio) The Outsider – Frederick Forsyth (bio) Fiction Captive – Claudine Dumont Clear by Fire – Joshua Hood The Pharaoh’s Secret – Clive Cussle The Promise of Home – Darcie Chan Us – David Nicholls Jade Dragon Mountain – Elsa Hart The Sparrow Sisters – Ellen Herrick Season of Salt and Honey – Hannah Tunnicliffe The Italian Wife – Kate Furnivall Stars of Fortune – Nora Roberts Wishes for Christmas – Fern Michaels Above the Waterfall – Ron Rash Mystery The Hangman’s Song – James Oswald Lord of the Wings – Donna Andrews The Zig Zag Girl – Elly Griffiths Tricky Twenty Two – Janet Evanovich (e-book) The Guilty – David Baldacchi All Dressed in White – Mary Higgins Clark
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UPCOMING
Highlands Winter Market at Highlands Elementary School, 3300 7th Street S, Cranbrook. December 7th, 6-8:30 pm. Lots of great vendors, take home product, raffles, silent auction items and bake table with all proceeds going to Highlands PAC. Kimberley United Church Women’s Candlelight Service and Potluck Supper – Thursday, Dec 8th at 5:00pm. Bring your own cutlery & plates. For more information or a ride call 250-427-2428. By Dec. 9th: CBAL- Kimberley Community Literacy’s Annual Book Drive. We need “Gently Used Books” for the Food Bank Christmas Hampers. Please drop off donated books (for all ages) in the boxes at Overwaitea Store, Mark Creek Market Store, Public Library or the Schools. British Columbia Government Retired Employees Association, Rocky Mountain Branch, will be holding their Christmas luncheon meeting at the Heritage Inn on December 9th, 2015 at 12 noon. Our guest speaker will be the great man from the North Pole Santa Claus! For further information contact Ronald Kerr, 250-432-0002. CRANBROOK UNITED CHURCH invites you to our 10th Annual COOKIE WALK, Saturday, Dec. 12th, 12 pm -2 pm. Price per box provided; regular size $10. New this year is a Large size $15. Join us at 2 – 12th Avenue South. Doors open at 11:30 am. Annual Minkha Sweater Sale, Saturday December 12, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Anglican Church Hall, 46-13 Ave S. Cranbrook. All proceeds from the sweaters are going back to the Minkha Women in Bolivia and those of the scarves to refugee project. Info: Anne Beurskens at 250-489-4528. Old Fashioned Christmas Pageant and Carol Sing. If you would like your child to participate in the pageant on Sunday, Dec. 13th, 2015, at 6:30 pm at Marysville Community Church, phone 250-427-7099 or 250-499-1017 ASAP for info and registration. Kimberley Aquatic Centre FREE FAMILY SWIM: Wednesday, Dec. 16, 6:00-7:00pm is sponsored by Kootenay Insurance Services & Kootenay Savings Credit Union. Persons 18 years & younger must be accompanied by an adult.
ONGOING Quilters meet in Kimberley on the 2nd Monday at Centennial Hall at 7:00 PM and the 4th Monday for sewing sessions in the United Church Hall at 10 Boundary Street. Hey Kimberley! We need you as Big Brothers and Big Sisters. One hour a week. YOU can make a difference in a Child’s life that will last a life time. Info: 250-499-3111. Canadian Cancer Society- if you have spare time and would like to volunteer, interested applicants can call 250-426-8916, drop by our office at #19-9th Avenue S, Cranbrook or go to www. cancervolunteer.ca and register as a volunteer. Mark Creek Lions meet 1st and 3rd Wednesdays at the Kimbrook. Meet & Greet from 6:00-6:30pm, supper 6:30-7:00, meeting 7:008:00pm. Contact 250-427-5612 or 250-427-7496. New members welcome – men and ladies! The Cellar Thrift Store Open Mon. to Sat., noon to 4:30 p.m. Our revenues support local programs and outreach programs of Cranbrook United Church. Baker Lane Entry at 2 – 12th Ave. S. Cranbrook, B. C. Donations of new or gently used items welcome. The Cranbrook Quilter’s Guild meet on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of every month, September - June, 7.15 p.m. at the Cranbrook Senior Citizens Hall, 125-17th Ave South. Interested??? Call Jennifer at 250426-6045. We’re on Facebook and www.cranbrookquiltersguild.ca. Cranbrook Community Tennis Association welcomes all citizens to play or learn to play. Call Neil 250-489-8107, Cathy 250-464-1903. Enjoy Painting? Join ArtGroup 75, Fridays 1pm-4pm, Sept. June. Seniors Hall, Cranbrook. 125. 17th Ave. S. Cranbrook Phoenix Toastmasters meet every Thursday, noon -1:00 Heritage Inn. Toastmasters teaches communication & leadership skills. Roberta 250-489-0174. 1911.toastmastersclubs.org. Royal Canadian Legion Branch 24; Friday Meat Draw: 4:30-6:30, Saturday Meat Draw: 3:30-5:30. Cranbrook Writer’s Group meet on the 4th Monday of the month at the Arts Council. Engage in writing exercises, constructive critiques & share in information on upcoming literary events & contests. Cbk and District Arts Council, 104, 135-10th Ave S, CBK. info: 250-4264223 www.cranbrookanddistrictartscouncil.com 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. BINGO at the Kimberley Elks – Mondays, 6:30 start. All welcome. Do you have the desire to stop eating compulsively? Overeaters Anonymous (a 12-Step Program) meets Mondays, from 7-8pm at Cranbrook United Church, 2-12th St. S., downstairs. Contact: cranbrookoa@hotmail.com TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) non profit weight loss support group meets EVERY Thursday at 5:00 pm, at 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 Place your notice in your “What’s Up?” Community Calendar FREE of charge. This column is intended for the use of clubs and non-profit organizations to publicize their coming events — provided the following requirements are met: • Notices will be accepted two weeks prior to the event. • All notices must be emailed, faxed or dropped off in person. No telephone calls please. • NOTICES SHOULD NOT EXCEED 30 WORDS. • Only one notice per week from any one club or non-profit organization. • All notices must be received by the Thursday prior to publication. • There is no guarantee of publication. Notices will run subject to space limitations.
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griculture Minister Norm Letnick has released the latest update to the B.C. Liberal government’s “strategic growth plan” for farm and food products. After reporting a record $12.3 billion in total agriculture and agri-food sales in B.C. for 2014, the latest plan sets a new goal of increasing it to $15 billion by 2020. It’s a mostly a status quo plan, continuing current marketing efforts and encouraging higher-value production of a wider range of products. The ministry intends to hire its first expert in food and beverage production. It’s a reflection of the fact that fully 70 per cent of that $12.3 billion comes from food and beverage processing. This continues the government’s push to improve economic viability of farms by allowing more food product manufacturing and sales on Agricultural Land Reserve property. Letnick says another key strategy is to improve access to irrigation. B.C. has 20,000 farm operations, a number that’s holding steady even as the average age of farmers increases. Opposition MLAs formed their own agriculture committee to tour the province over the past year, chaired by NDP agriculture critic Lana Popham and independent Delta South MLA Vicki Huntington. Their report speaks to some of the issues not
discussed by the government. One of those is foreign purchase of farmland, a matter subject to regulation in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba but not B.C. Properties have also been purchased to grow hay for export to Asia, and Huntington says she continues to hear of costly farmland in Delta and Surrey being bought at prices long-estabBC VIEWS lished farm families can’t afTom ford. We’ve seen a British food Fletcher and drug conglomerate buy up B.C. Interior farms to plant trees for carbon offsets, a project that was wound down after local protests. Popham and Huntington are calling for a systematic inventory of foreign purchases, to determine if regulation is needed here as climate change shifts growing patterns. Popham argues that with California enduring years of drought, B.C. can’t continue to depend on imports for more than half its food. “We have countries that are actively seeking food producing land, because their countries are having difficulties producing under drought conditions,” Popham said. “So before we know it, our farmland could be bought up by other countries that are actively and smartly trying to ensure their own food security.” Neither Letnick nor the opposition MLAs could produce results from the gov-
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ernment’s decision to split the Agricultural Land Reserve into two zones, with more latitude for non-farm activities outside the southwest and Okanagan. But we’re starting to see signs of the new system of regional Agricultural Land Commission panels working with local governments. The Langley Times reports that the Township of Langley quietly signed a deal with the ALC in July to allow development of farmland near the Aldergrove border crossing and Langley airport. The agreement says there is a need for a “defensible and durable urban/ALR edge.” If you think everyone loves farming, you’ve likely never lived on this “urban/ALR edge.” The latest example is on Vancouver Island, where urban neighbours are protesting an established farmer’s decision to clear a forested property for hay growing. The farmer has been forced to erect a chain-link fence to keep out trespassers who have decided the property is a park that they can use when they like. The mayors of Saanich and View Royal seem more concerned with appeasing urban complainers than protecting the right to farm. They are being pressed to buy up idle ALR land to soothe urban voters repelled by logging and farming. Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Email: tfletcher@ blackpress.ca Twitter: @tomfletcherbc
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Dynamiters double Leafs despite disappointing effort Kimberley Dynamiters extend winning streak to four games in KIJHL action Friday night at the Civic Centre
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It’s a luxury for any hockey team to be able to play poorly but still find a way to win. If you were to ask Kimberley Dynamiters head coach Jerry Bancks, that’s exactly what he saw Friday night as his squad (22-30-3) doubled up the Nelson Leafs (13-15-01) by a 4-2 margin in KIJHL action at the Kimberley Civic Centre. “It’s nice when you’re good enough that you can play, in my opinion, not well and still win the game,” Bancks said Friday. “We had too many passengers. I don’t think we were skating like we needed to. I don’t think we forechecked like we needed to. [The Leafs] gave us a good lesson of a good, hard forecheck. “[Our team] wanted it easy. It’s never going to be easy. We’re the defending champions.” After battling to a 1-1 draw through 40 minutes of play the Leafs put that good, hard forecheck on display early in the third period as Blair Andrews converted on yeoman’s work below the goal line from Bren-
dan Smith and Jordan Davie. Andrews’ tally, which came 7:07 into the final period, gave the visitors a 2-1 lead. Dynamiters forward Keenan Haase must have been paying attention from the bench as he watched the Leafs get the edge, because he found a way to tie the game 2-2 only 19 seconds later. “That was the first time all night we had our first two forecheckers skate full speed,” Bancks said of the Haase tally. “It led to a goal. It’s nice we got that goal and bounced back, but it’s sad to think it was that late in the game before we actually had that happen.” From there, captain Jason Richter did what he does best, turning a couple Nelson defenders into pretzels before skating in alone and burning Leafs goaltender Patrick Ostermann for what went on to stand as the game-winning tally. “We came out hard in the third period,” Richter said Friday. “Our first and second periods weren’t too
good. We came out a little slow, but good teams find a way to win and that’s what we did.” Trevor Van Steinburg put the game on ice with 2:39 to play as he put the finishing touches on a beautiful tic-tac-toe passing sequence featuring Eric Buckley and Haase. Haase, the big California kid, rounded out his night with first-star recognition after posting a goal and two assists. “[In] the third period, we kind of regrouped and settled ourselves down, got back to the basics and played our game,” said Haase, the native of Mission Viejo, Calif., Friday night. “We can’t drop to [the opposition] level. We saw the score from the [Leafs’] last game and they had lost 9-0. When we see that, we want an easy game and we come in thinking we’ll run the board, get goals and then go home. But it’s not like that. We’ve got to put in a full 60 [-minute effort].” Nitros defenceman Jordan Busch opened the scoring in the first period with Leafs de-
fenceman Kyle Chernenkoff serving a cross-checking minor. Unleashing a heavy shot from the point, the 20-year-old native of Edmonton found a hole in the armour of Ostermann, squeezing the puck through the seven-hole for a 1-0 Kimberley lead. Leafs defenceman Kyle Chernenkoff made his third trip penalty box in the second period. As the minor to the Nelson blue-liner expired, Nitros forward-turned-defenceman Trey Doell was sentenced for interference to give the Leafs their first man advantage of the evening. On the ensuing power play, Leafs defenceman Austin Anselmo pounced on a rebound in front of the net, popping it past a helpless Tyson Brouwer to tie the game 1-1 with 13:34 to go in the middle period. Midway through the period, Kimberley newcomer Brendon Benson blocked a point shot off the top of his skate and limped to the bench in visible discomfort. After making a short return to
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Dynamiters forward Eric Buckley (#12) gives Leafs goaltender Patrick Ostermann (#1) a bit of a snow shower Friday night at the Kimberley Civic Centre. The Nitros went on to double the Leafs 4-2 in KIJHL action. the ice late in the period, Benson once again limped off in the dying seconds and made his way straight to the Dynamiters dressing room. Benson toughed it out for the rest of the night, finishing his Dynamiters debut with two assists. “It was a credit to him that he came back and kept playing,” Bancks said of Benson. “He took a really good
Ice set to wrap B.C. Division slog in Prince George Season-long road trip ends Tuesday evening as Ice face Cougars
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When the Kootenay Ice bus rolled into Prince George Sunday, it had already covered more than 2,000 km of highway since it first left Cranbrook last Monday. A road that started as a long one has seemingly gotten longer and longer with each passing day, as the Ice have gone winless since leaving Cranbrook. With only one game remaining on a season-long five-game road trip through the WHL’s B.C. Division, the comforts of home are drawing near, but head coach Luke Pierce doesn’t want that reality to draw attention away from the task at hand -- Tuedsay’s tilt with the Cougars. “For us, as a group right now, I certainly hope [the players] aren’t looking past it and looking forward to getting
home, the same as I hope they’re not looking back and seeing we’ve lost seven [games] in a row,” Pierce said. “Every day is another opportunity to be better. There’s no point looking back in the past on what’s gone on. It’s a new day. But you can’t look forward into the future either and wait for this [streak] to end. You have to make it end and work your way through it. “It’s a real big game for us Tuesday and regardless of that outcome, Saturday [at home against the Swift Current Broncos] will be a real big game again. We’re in that one-day-at-a-time mode right now. “It’s no different than when you’re fighting for your lives in a playoff race at the end of the year -- you’re just one day at a time.” Putting an end to a
season-long seven-game losing skid will be a tall task Tuesday in Cariboo Country as the Cougars (17-9-1-1) pose a serious challenge for an Ice squad (6-23-2-0) that is both road weary -- having played four games in five nights to open the trip -- and battered. When the Ice departed Cranbrook, they were without the services of forwards Luke Philp, Jaedon Descheneau, Shane Allan, Zak Zborosky and River Beattie. While Allan returned to the lineup upon the completion of his four-game suspension, centre Dylan Stewart was then lost to a head injury Saturday night in Victoria. Defenceman Tyler King also remains unavailable as he rehabs following off-season knee surgery. The hope is the host Cougars will have bus legs of their own after
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WHL Regular Season: Game 32 8:00 p.m. (MT) - CN Centre LAST MEETING: KTN 2 at PGC 3 (Sept. 12, 2015 - preseason) ICE vs. COUGARS 6-23-2-0 RECORD 17-9-1-1 Sixth (Central) DIVISION Third (B.C.) 12th (Eastern) CONF. Third (Western) 58 GF 90 128 GA 80 22nd (11.8%) PP 15th (17.8%) 21st (76.6%) PK Sixth (82.9%) L. Philp (13-16-29) TOP SCORER J. Gabrielle (16-12-28) W. Hoflin (3.78 GAA) TOP GOALIE T. Edmonds (1.98 GAA) 5-1 L at VIC (Dec. 5) LAST GAME 6-5 W at VAN (Dec. 6) L7 STREAK W5 Dec. 12 vs. SCB NEXT GAME Dec. 11 at POR
having returned home following a two-game trek that took them to Everett before a Sunday match in Vancouver. “We’ve got a real tough opponent who plays a real physical style that’s aggressive,” Pierce said. “They’re at home and also playing real good hockey right now.” The road wasn’t un-
friendly to the Cougars as they shutout the Silvertips 3-0 Friday before edging the Giants 6-5 . In all, the Cougars have rattled off five wins in a row since being knocked down by the Kamloops Blazers Nov. 27. Puck drop between the Ice and Cougars is slated for 8 p.m. (Mountain).
one on the foot, right on the tongue, which is the worst place to get hit. “Up until then, I thought he was one of the best players on the ice and showed us what he’s got — good poise on the power play, a great shot. He’ll be a big asset.” Brouwer made 17 saves for the Dynamiters to earn his KIJHL-leading 17th win of the season. At the other end of
the rink, Ostermann was good on 26 of 30 shots for the Leafs. Next up, the Dynamiters head to Creston for a mid-week match up with the Thunder Cats on Wednesday evening. Notes: On the other side, former Dynamiters defenceman Zach Morey made his return to Kimberley as a member of the Nelson Leafs. Morey was dealt to Nelson Tuesday night…
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First Period 1. KIM - J. Busch, (T. Doell, K. Haase), 8:08 (PP) Second Period 2. NEL - A. Anselmo, (T. Garcia, J. Davie), 6:26 (PP) Third Period 3. NEL - B. Andrews, (B. Smith, J. Davie), 7:07 4. KIM - K. Haase, (E. Buckley, B. Benson), 7:26 5. KIM - J. Richter, (J. Marchi, B. Benson), 13:09 6. KIM - Tr. Van Steinburg, (E. Buckley, K. Haase), 17:21 Shots 1 2 3 T Nelson Leafs 4 8 7 19 Kimberley Dynamiters 7 9 14 30 Goaltenders Saves Mins SV% NEL - Patrick Ostermann 26/30 60:00 0.867 KIM - Tyson Brouwer 17/19 60:00 0.895 Power plays - NEL - 1/5 (20.0%); KIM - 1/6 (16.7%) Montana’s Cookhouse Three Stars 1) F Keenan Haase, Kimberley Dynamiters (1G, 2A); 2) F Trevor Van Steinburg, Kimberley Dynamiters (1G); 3) F Jordan Davie, Nelson Leafs (2A) Attendance: 466 (Kimberley Civic Centre)
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The purpose of this Pest Management Plan (PMP) No. 514-0007-16/21 is to reduce overall mosquito annoyance in Kimberley by limiting larval development using an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approach to control. The PMP focuses on larval mosquito control initiatives which use public education, physical site modification, biological and biorational controls that reduce larval mosquito populations and conserve or enhance natural mosquito predators wherever possible, including the use of non-persistent, bacterial larvicides.
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The proposed duration of the PMP is from 12 May 2016 to 11 May 2021. Larvicide products proposed for use include Vectobac 200G, which contains the natural-occurring soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis, (PCP #18158) and VectoLex CG (PCP # 28008) made with the bacterium Bacillus sphaericus. Both of these products provide species-specific control of mosquito larvae and are non-toxic to other organisms including fish, birds, wildlife, man and domestic animals. This Pest Management Plan replaces the previously approved 5 year PMP which expires 12 May 2016. Mosquito larvae require stagnant or non-flowing waters, temporary or permanent, to develop. When physical alterations (draining, filling) are neither practical or desireable, developing larvae will be treated using VectoBac or VectoLex larvicides. Total area for larvicide treatment is not to exceed 225 hectares of public lands in each year of the PMP. Applications of Vectobac 200G and VectoLex CG will be made using aerial (helicopter) and ground-based, hand-broadcast or back pack applicator methods. All applications will be conducted within, and immediately adjacent to, the City of Kimberley. This Pest Management Plan is being prepared for the City of Kimberley by D.G. Regan and Associates Ltd., an environmental services firm, with extensive experience in pest management plan development and local mosquito control operations. Information on proposed treatment areas, annual mosquito control program operations and this PMP are available to the public by request through D.G. Regan and Associates Ltd. 20619 – 91A Avenue, Langley, BC, V1M 2X2, (604) 881-4565, Facsimile (866) 759-5902, or email, dgra@telus.net. A person wishing to contribute information regarding a proposed treatment site, relevant to the development of this Pest Management Plan, may send copies of the information to D.G. Regan and Associates Ltd. (agents for the City of Kimberley) at the contact addresses above within 30 days of the publication of this notice. The identity of any respondents and the contents of anything submitted in response to this notice and application will become part of the public record.
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NEWS
How to harvest a Christmas tree Bl ack Press
Free use permits to cut a Christmas tree on Crown land are available from forest district and FrontCounterBC offices in most areas of the
province. Local district offices can identify areas of Crown where one tree may be legally cut for personal use. Permits are not available for the
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Permits to cut a live tree from Crown land are available in most areas of the province.
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COMMUNITY MAKES YOU. YOU MAKE YOUR COMMUNITY. In 2015 East Kootenay Adaptive Snowsports received a grant from the Cranbrook and District Community Foundation to support its purchase of stand-up outriggers and a snow-wing for disabled skiers, ages 5 and up. The new adaptive equipment makes sliding on snow accessible to everyone, and helps ensure every person has the opportunity to live at their fullest potential and enjoy the recreational opportunities this region offers year-round.
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Chilliwack and South Island forest districts due to population density and tree demand. The ministry’s Christmas tree website at www.for.gov.bc.ca/ mof/xmastrees.htm has links to offices that offer tree permits for designated areas, with online permits avail-
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