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A trial project to translocate urban mule deer from four communities in the East Kootenay will begin later this winter.

Animal Alliance looking forward to relocation trial ARNE PETRYSHEN

Animal Alliance of Canada is one of the project partners in the upcoming recently announced mule deer relocation trial. A trial project to translocate urban mule deer from four communities in the East Kootenay will begin later this winter. Mule deer will be live-captured in Elkford, Cranbrook, Kimberley and Invermere, and transported to winter range areas in the East Kootenay where natural non-urban mule deer populations have been in decline for several years. Liz White, executive director of the organization, said they are looking forward to the project. “As you know, we’ve been part of opposing

the deer culls that occurred in Elkford, Kimberley, Cranbrook, Invermere… over the last few years,” White said, adding that when the government decided they would look at non-lethal alternatives, Animal Alliance agreed to participate. “So that’s what we’re doing in hopes that municipalities will begin looking at a variety of different non-lethal alternatives that I think will begin to help kind of deal with specific issues that culling clearly does not,” she said. “There are animals that they say are a problem, but there’s no guarantee that those animals are the ones being killed in the traps. It calls into question the efficacy of the culling.”

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Kim Bandet of Cranbrook is pictured aboard her new Harley Davidson 750 Street Motorcycle, down at Harley Davidson of the Kootenays on Friday afternoon, Dec. 24. Bandet was the second prize winner in Harley Davidson of the Kootenays’ annual raffle in support of Cranbrook and Kimberley Hospice Society. See more on Page 3. Brian Catinas of Victoria won third prize — a Harley Davidson bar table and chairs, and the first prize winning raffle ticket belonged to Herb and Gary Janzen of Wardner — who won the Harley Davidson Softail Deluxe.

Jumbo appeals B.C. decision Cites friendship between Minister Mary Polak, Ktunaxa Nation Chair Katherine Teneese C ANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER - Backers of a proposed ski resort say the decision by British Columbia’s environment minister to stymie the project was inappropriately affected by her friendship with one of the project’s most prominent critics. Jumbo Glacier Resort has filed documents in B.C. Supreme Court highlighting Environment Minister Mary Polak’s personal relationship

with Ktunaxa Nation chair Katherine Tenesse, a longtime opponent of the project. They allege this impacted her decision not to renew a lapsed environmental assessment certificate for the controversial proponent. The billion-dollar resort proposed for southeastern B.C. has been decades in the making and sparked fierce opposition from locals, First Nations and environmental

groups. Polak decided in June not to renew Jumbo’s certificate because she found the project hadn’t been substantially started within five years of the environmental approval being granted, as is required by law. But Jumbo’s submission appealing the minister’s decision blames the government for delays in construction, saying the province dragged its feet in granting a development

agreement. A spokesman for the Environment Ministry declined comment, saying it would be inappropriate to do so while the matter is before the courts. The year-round ski resort project would be located about 55 kilometres west of Invermere and is designed to span just over one square kilometre and boast a hotel with 6,250 beds.

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Harley raffle supports Hospice for third year Bar ry Co ulter

The Cranbrook Kimberley Hospice Society held its annual Harley Davidson raffle,on Thursday, Dec. 24, in conjunction with Harley Davidson of the Kootenays. Harley Davidson of the Kootenays on Cranbrook Street North was packed with ticket holders, store staff and Hospice Society members, as the mayors of Cranbrook and Kimberley — Lee Pratt and Don McCormick — and MLA Bill Bennett made the draw for the three prizes. Brian Catinus of Victoria won third prize — a Harley Davidson bar table and chairs. Kim Bandet of Cranbrook, who was on hand for the drawing, won second prize — a Harley Davidson Street 750. Herb and Gary Janzen of Wardner (who weren’t present) won the grand prize — a Softail Deluxe. Harley Davidson of the Kootenays has held

an annual raffle of their iconic motorcycles for years, to help support local charitable groups. For the past three years, the Cranbrook and Kimberley Hospice Society — which offers support services to individuals and their families who are dealing with death and dying — has been the agency. Prior to the draws, special presentations were made to Jeanne and Don Davidson, long time Hospice Society organizers, Society fundraising coodinator Karen Grant, and Holly Hehr, of Harley Davidson of the Kootenays, who has gotten behind the raffle and support of the Hospice Society. All in all, 2,500 raffle tickets were sold, 76 per cent of them in the last six weeks. The Cranbrook and Kimberley Hospice Society wanted to thank Harley Davidson of the Kootenays, the Harley Owners Group (HOG) and Bob Webb and Ken Betania, and ABC

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Jeanne and Don Davidson were recognized for their efforts on behalf of Cranbrook and Kimberley Hospice on Thursday, Dec. 24, prior to the annual Harley Davidson raffle in support fo the Society. Left to right: Kimberley Mayor Don McCormick, Jeanne Davidson, Don Davidson, MLA Bill Bennett, Cranbrook Mayor Lee Pratt. Restaurant and the Tamarack Centre, who

display the bikes leading up to the draw.

Christmas Eve day sees rash of accidents, incident of vandalism For the Townsman

On Thursday, Dec. 24, Cranbrook RCMP responded to eight motor vehicle collisions this date within Cranbrook city limits and on local highways. Road conditions were a contributing factor in all incidents but,

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speed and aggressive driving were factors in some as well. Several people were treated for minor injuries. Cranbrook RCMP urge the motoring public to slow down and prepare for hazardous road conditions at all times. Please give your-

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self more time to reach your destination and ensure your vehicle is equipped for Winter driving. Cranbrook RCMP are also looking for any information regarding three separate occurrences of spray painting that took place between 3 a.m. and

7 a.m. Thursday morning. The houses and Parkland School were victims of this vandalism. Anyone observing suspicious people or activity in around this time are asked to call the Cranbrook RCMP at 250-4893471.

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Animal Alliance keen on relocation trial Continued from page 1 White hopes the government will get on board with the alternative methods, as it is up to it to change the provincial regulations to allow alternatives to culling.

White said that the government agreeing to participate in the relocation pilot is a good indication that the government may be opening up to the idea. “This is a program

that requires engagement by government officials in terms of allowing use of effects on deer that would not ordinarily be allowed, like using drugs on them to tranquilize them and that kind of thing,” she

said, adding the provincial veterinarian also has to be involved. Animal Alliance is assisting in the purchase of radio collars for the relocation study. The collars will allow for the relocated to be

Public Consultation: Proposed Amendment of Official Community Plan The City of Cranbrook is proposing to amend the City’s Official Community Plan (OCP). On December 7, 2015, City Council gave First Reading to “City of Cranbrook Official Community Plan Amendment Bylaw No. 3843, 2015”. The proposed Official Community Plan (OCP) amendment will replace the current “Wildstone Neighbourhood Plan” with a new updated plan that reflects the revised vision for the development of the Wildstone neighbourhood area. Specifically, the new plan will: • Divide the lands into two separate subareas: 1. “Wildstone Subarea” for the areas surrounding the golf course and 2. Highlands Subarea for the lands lying west of Moir Park and provide development policy for each subarea. • Establish a new phasing strategy for the development through the use of development blocks and associated policies for each Subarea; • Establish minimum and maximum densities for each development block and for the development as a whole; • Establish ‘development districts’ which will guide the type of development for each of the existing and future development pods; • Establish a conceptual trail network for the development; • Remove the lands legally described as Parcel A (See 10856I) of DL 2869, KD Except Parts included in Plans 13711 & 13938 (lands between Echo Field Road and Wildstone) from the neighbourhood plan area.

monitored. That will allow the whole thing to be evaluated. White said it has been quite difficult dealing with the government on these issues in the past. “There has been over a period of time, resistance to alternatives,” she said, noting that Kimberley had applied a number of years ago to try hazing and got permission for a one-off trial. White said hazing has to happen in a much more planned and coordinated way to work effectively. She added it needs to be

Thinking about moving on. combined with other techniques, such as not

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allowing people to feed deer. “Most municipalities, Kimberley being the exception, have a bylaw but don’t enforce it,” she said. White also said that killing the deer doesn’t solve the issue of urban deer. “If you look at the numbers, I think they’ve had four culls and really the number of mule deer they’ve counted has not gone down substantially,” she said. “It just doesn’t work.” She noted Animal Alliance was disappointed that Cranbrook proceeded with a cull earlier in 2015. White said she will be coming to the area to observe the relocation. “It’s a whole coordinated thing and a whole bunch of people who haven’t really got along very well together in the past are all kind of working together, it’s kind of nice,” she said.

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Hydro, ICBC, MSP fees up in 2016 What’s Up? To m F l e tc h e r Black Press

Medical Services Plan premiums, electricity bills and vehicle insurance rates are up in 2016, reviving criticism of the B.C. government’s constant boast about keeping taxes low. MSP premiums rise from $144 to $150 as of Jan. 1, for a family of three earning more than $30,000 a year. For a single person in the same income group, the rate goes from $72 to $75, with lower rates for lower incomes down to $22,000 a year, where premiums drop to zero. B.C. is now the only province in Canada with a health care fee, and it has risen about 40 per cent since 2010. Premier Christy Clark has defended the fee as a signal to citizens about the enormous cost of providing health care.

BC Hydro rates have been politically dictated since Clark and Energy Minister Bill Bennett intervened to cap rate increases in 2013. Hydro rates jumped six per cent after the 2013 election, and are capped at no more than four per cent for 2015 and 2016, after which Bennett has promised to return rate-setting authority to the independent B.C. Utilities Commission (BCUC). Insurance Corporation of B.C. basic vehicle insurance went up by 5.5 per cent on Nov. 1, an increase still subject to review by the BCUC. That works out to an increase of $3.70 per month added for the average driver. ICBC had proposed the maximum 6.7 per cent increase to cover increasing costs of personal injury claims and fraud, but the province gave it permission for a one-

time transfer of $450 million from its optional insurance business to subsidize the basic rate. In a year-end interview, NDP leader John Horgan stopped short of promising to eliminate MSP premiums, but he called it a “regressive tax” that would be part of a broad review of B.C. taxation fairness if he wins the 2017 election. The Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation says people who benefit from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s promised middle-class tax cut will see most of those savings eaten up by provincial and municipal tax increases. Trudeau vowed to reduce the federal income tax bracket between $45,282 and $90,563 from 22 per cent to 20.5 per cent, and increase the rate for income over $200,000 from 29 to 33 per cent. The change

would provide up to $2,000 in tax relief for middle-income earners, with dual-income households benefiting most, CTF federal director Aaron Wudrick says. Municipal taxes are expected to increase across the province in 2016, with local councils preparing to set budgets for the new fiscal year that starts April 1. Port Alberni has proposed a seven per cent increase, and the CTF says it hasn’t found any B.C. municipalities yet that propose to freeze or lower property tax rates. With the rapid rise in property prices continuing in parts of the Lower Mainland, the B.C. Assessment Authority sent out 37,000 letters in December, warning single-family homeowners to brace for a big jump in their assessed value.

Twenty Questions Answered

The Cranbrook Daily Townsman and Kimberley Daily Bulletin, in our ongoing mission to reflect the community, are pleased to present “20 Questions,” answered by those individuals who make our community great — which is everybody. This week, Lee Tengum, a local software developer, who runs http://7am.ca—a software development company—and is a part of 1710 WorkSpace. 1. If you could bring anything to the East Kootenay that isn’t already here, what would you bring and why? Waterslides, and I’m not talking some fun little “roundy-bout”, I’m talking the kind that is scary enough to keep the P in pool. 2. Least favourite Cranbrook/Kimberley street Northbound 95A 3. Favourite Cranbrook/Kimberley Street Southbound 95A 4. If you were to become Cranbrook urban wildlife, would you rather be a deer or a skunk? Unless I make really poor decisions in life I’m going to assume that this is a hypothetical question, in which case I must reply with, both. Ideally I’d be the size and antlers of the deer along with the fur coat and the ability to stand on my front hooves from the skunk. It would be truly terrifying. 5. If the East Kootenay should become its own country, where should the capital be? I think our bigger issues would be all the events that lead to us becoming our own country. I think it’s more likely that we’d end up encased in a dome like the Simpsons movie due to something happening to our deer, possibly attributed to a radioactive cross breading with skunks. 6. One person, living or dead, you’d like to have an alcoholic beverage with? My recently deceased grandmother, whisky with water, you never know when you’re visit will be the last. Go hug your loved ones, right now, read the rest of this later. 7. Should the million-gallon swimming pool that was buried in Baker Park be exhumed and put back into action? Absolutely, we have no great swimming venue where people can socialize and cool down outdoors. This should probably be major campaign issue in the next election and if someone wants to make it happen, they’ve

Lee Tengum got my vote. 8. What’s a great new idea for Cranbrook/Kimberley tourism? So there are these things, they’re shaped like a tube (open and enclosed), that are positioned at great heights and have water flowing through them. What you can do is enter these tubes, assisted by stored potential energy accelerated towards a catchment at the bottom all the while screaming in joy. They’re called waterslides and we need them. Need. 9. Favourite Cranbrook/Kimberley historical figure. Chippy, the former mall mascot of the Cranbrook Mall. If you’ve seen Chippy lately, please let me know. 10. Have you ever been in a hockey fight? If yes, describe. I’m Canadian. What kind of question is that? 11. Sports car or pickup truck? Sports car, but with a lift kit for practical reasons, I live on 11th. 12. Favourite season of the year and why? No one likes winter. We poorly divided the continent, East / West is far better than North / South

13. As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? A Triceratops. 14. If you could tell a visitor to the East Kootenay anything, what would you say? We’re more than just fast food and motels, we have an amazing ______ and soon to have waterslides! 15. Have you ever had an encounter with wildlife in the East Kootenay? If yes, describe in a sentence. You’ll never believe this, but once I saw a Cheetah riding a baby elephant through the forest. Craziest thing. 16. Is a hot dog a sandwich? Why? I’m not sure, on one hand a sandwich can be just a piece of bread and a slice of sad deli meat and that qualifies. On the other hand, a hot dog is far too regal to be insultingly categorized with the aformentioned “sandwich”, or maybe that should be called a “Sadwich”. Personally, I prefer a hotdog with everything over a sandwich any day, except a proper grilled cheese, which is also too regal to be a sandwich. That however is another debate of it’s own. 17. Favourite movie of all time? Why? Snatch. Guy Ritchie is one of those amazing directors that can tell a story like no other. Once you watch it, you’ll see that it’s one of the greatest movies of all times. Just, be mindful when you ask the clerk or a friend if they have it. 18. Are you tempted to feed the deer on a cold day, even though you know it’s wrong? (Sung) “It’s the circle of life and it moves us all...” 19. Can you name one significant date in Cranbrook/Kimberley history? June 30th, 1982 20. Favourite time of day to fly out of the Canadian Rockies International Airport? Mornings, usually my flights out of here mean a connection in Calgary or Vancouver with one or two more connections. Flying out in the morning decreases the possibility of having a 4+ hour layover in some far flung airport over night.

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Kimberley Aquatic Centre FREE FAMILY SWIM: Wednesday, Dec. 30, 6:00-7:00pm is sponsored by Hospital Employees Union, Kimberley Local. Persons 18 years & younger must be accompanied by an adult. Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour Sponsored by Wildsight at Key City Theatre, Saturday, January 2 at 7:30 pm. Tickets $30 online or at Key City Theatre box office. New reserved seating. Know someone who is a literacy champion in Cranbrook or Area C? Nominate them as Cranbrook’s 2015 Literacy Champion. Nominations close January 20th and the winner announced January 27th at the Family Literacy Day celebrations. For more info call Katherine 250-420-7596 or khough@cbal.org or on Facebook: Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy Cranbrook. Adult or Senior? Want to learn or improve your computer skills? CBAL Cranbrook offers a 6 week introductory computer course starting Jan 29th. Pre-registration a must. Call Katherine 250-417-2896, space is limited.

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Afghanistan: Going Down If the Taliban were not so busy fighting the rival Islamic State jihadis who began operating in Afghanistan early this year, they might now be within reach of overthrowing the Afghan government that the Western powers left behind when they pulled out most of their troops last year. Even with that distraction, the Taliban are doing pretty well. On Monday, Dec. 21, a Taliban suicide-bomber on a motorcycle managed to kill six American soldiers who were patrolling the perimeter of Bagram air base near Kabul. On the same day Taliban fighters took almost complete control of Sangin in Helmand province, a town that over 100 British troops died to defend in 2006-10. As Major Richard Streatfield, a British officer who fought at Sangin, told the BBC: “I won’t deny, on a personal level, it does make you wonder — was it worth it? Because if the people we were trying to free Afghanistan from are now able to just take it back within two years, that shows that something went badly wrong at the operational and strategic level.” It was probably a mistake to invade Afghanistan in the first place. Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terrorists could have been dealt with without invading an entire country, and there was never any evidence that the Taliban government of the day knew about his 9/11 attacks on the United States in advance. Having invaded the country, it was a mistake not to hand it over to a tough regime made up of warlords from the major ethnic groups and get out before the presence of over a hundred thousand foreign troops gave the Taliban a second wind. Trying to create a Western-style liberal democracy in Afghanistan was even more naive than the previous Soviet project to

build a modern, secular, “socialist” oneparty state in the country. The 19th-century British army and the 20th-century Russian army could both have told them: it has always been easy to invade Afghanistan, but it has always been hard for foreign troops to stay there more than a couple of years. And having made those mistakes, it was another mistake to pull almost all the foreign troops out before the Afghan governGwynne ment’s army was up to holding the Taliban off. If, Dyer indeed, it can ever be brought up to that level. The parlous state of the Afghan National Army and the sheer fecklessness of President Ashraf Ghani’s government was highlighted by last weekend’s desperate plea by Helmand’s deputy governor Mohammad Jan Rasulyar for supplies and reinforcements for the troops holding Sangin. It’s not just that the army had neglected the plight of those soldiers. It’s the fact that Rasulyar had to resort to posting his plea on Facebook to get the government’s attention. Part of the problem is that the government and the army high command are profoundly corrupt. For example, up to a quarter of the army’s troops are “ghost soldiers” who only exist on paper, so that officers can draw their pay. The worse problem is that President Ghani, a former senior official at the World Bank, only won last year’s election by massive fraud. Conflicts with the aggrieved losers have left the government paralysed: twenty months after the election, there is still not even a permanent defence minister. Morever, Ghani believes that a decisive military victory over the Taliban is impos-

sible. This is probably correct — but he is therefore committed to cultivating close ties with Pakistan in the hope that Inter-Services Intelligence, the Pakistani equivalent of the CIA, will deliver the Taliban to the table for peace talks. (Most Afghans believe that ISI controls the Taliban.) But Ghani is wrong on two counts. The Taliban have no reason to agree to a power-sharing peace settlement, since they can still hope for an outright military victory. And Pakistan doesn’t really control the Taliban, although it gives them a safe haven and can manipulate them to a limited extent. There were preliminary peace talks early this year, but there has been nothing since July. The Afghan army would be collapsing a good deal faster if so much of the Taliban’s attention were not focused on fighting off the challenge from Islamic State. (It has killed at least a thousand IS fighters this year.) But the Taliban still managed to seize the city of Kunduz in the north for a week in September, and now Sangin in the southwest is going. We are seeing the usual short-term responses in the West. President Obama has halted the withdrawal of most of the remaining 9,800 US troops in the country (which was scheduled for the end of this year), and Britain has ordered ten of the 450 troops it still has in Afghanistan back to Sangin. But that won’t make much difference, and there is no chance whatever that the NATO countries will build their troop strength in Afghanistan back up to the level — around 140,000 — where it was five years ago. The Afghans are on their own now, and they will be lucky if they end up back under the rule of the Taliban rather than in the clutches of Islamic State. Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist published in 45 countries.

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Hitmen send Ice to 13th consecutive defeat Holiday break provides breather for Kootenay Ice, but no spark big enough to snap season-long skid game-planning around the big, experienced defence corps of Calgary. “They’re big, they’re lanky, they like to step up and be aggressive. That means there’s space behind them. Putting a puck on the net is never a bad play. The chances we had were from loose pucks, shots off the walls. But we’ve still got some guys that think they’ve got a better idea of how to stickhandle through a Kanzig or a Harmsworth. You’re not going to do it.” At the other end, Hoflin steered aside 29 of the 33 shots he faced. The Ice (6-29-2-0) and Hitmen (23-13-1-1) were right back at it Monday, with the rematch slated for 7 p.m. at the Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary. Results from Monday were unavailable prior to press time. See the Townsman for an update this week.

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good shift,” Pierce said. “Then they score a soft one. Hof knows he’s got to have that. That one really hurt us.” Hitmen left winger Carsen Twarynski cruised over the blueline sending a long-range shot, seemingly harmless, towards the Ice net. A soft thud at the back of the cage sucked the wind out of the building and the Ice bench as the 18-year-old Twarynski scored his 10th of the season to give the visitors a 3-0 edge, effectively eliminating any momentum that had been mustered by the Ice. The wound had salt thrown in it during the final five minutes of the second period. Hitmen left winger Taylor Sanheim used speed through the neutral zone, executing a smooth outside-in deke to twist Ice defenceman Dylan Overdyk into a knot. Burning by the bewildered Overdyk, Sanheim cruised in alone and beat Hoflin to complete the scoring, giving the Hitmen a 4-0 lead. The 18-year-old Amundrud was called upon to make some big stops as the Ice tried to get something going during the final 20 minutes, but there was nothing doing as the native of Melfort, Sask., made 27 saves to record his first shutout as a member of the Calgary Hitmen. Amundrud’s steady performance was helped along by a Hitmen blueline that didn’t seem hampered much by the absence of Travis Sanheim, who is off representing Team Canada at the World Junior Hockey Championship. Jake Bean was an active presence, jumping into the play to create a handful of offensive opportunities, all while taking care of business at his own end of the rink. The 17-year-old Calgary native finished the night with one assist and a plus-3 rating. A big, experienced overage pairing of Keegan Kanzig and captain Colby Harmsworth left no room to operate for the Ice offense. “You have to put the puck where the ice is and the ice is in behind them,” Pierce said of

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20 minutes of play. Ice forward Austin Gray was saddled with an interference minor only 2:05 into regulation, giving a high-powered Hitmen squad an early opportunity on the man advantage. The rookie forward had barely found his seat in the penalty box as only 10 seconds elapsed before Hitmen forward Jakob Stukel drove the puck from below the goal line, walking alone in front to tuck a power-play effort past Ice goaltender Wyatt Hoflin. Stukel’s effort, his 20th goal of the campaign, stood as the game-winning tally. While an early marker created a hole in the opening moments of the game, albeit a small one, it was a late first-period dagger that really struck the Ice in the first 20 minutes of play. As the Ice attempted to break out of the defensive zone, a turnover in the left face-off circle landed on the stick of Hitmen pivot Jordy Stallard with the final minute of regulation furiously winding down. The 18-year-old native of Brandon, Man., deftly shifted gears from back check to attack, skating in on Hoflin before roofing a nifty backhand shot over the shoulder of the overage goaltender for a 2-0 Hitmen lead. The final goal of the first period came with only 33 seconds remaining in the period. The Hitmen did the rest of their damage in the second period and it was debilitating. With the game still 2-0, Ice centre Matt Alfaro took a long stretch pass in alone, unable to lift the puck over the outstretched leg of Hitmen goaltender Nik Amundrud, who was tested in difficult fashion for the first time on the evening. Following up on the play, Jesse Zaharichuk sent a close range zinger toward the Hitmen net, but Amundrud was there to make a second consecutive shorthanded save of significance. Moments later, that burst from the Ice was all but gone. “At 2-0 we had the chances shorthanded and then another real

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CHARLIE is an amazing, lively, loving German Shepherd/King Shepherd. He is just over 1 year old and is crate trained and knows sit and stay. Charlie enjoys long walks but does need some leash training. He is an intelligent boy and will enjoy learning. Charlie will excel in a very active household who have lots of time to devote to exercise, training and love.

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East Kootenay SPCA honoured as 2015 Branch of the Year East Kootenay SPCA honoured at annual BC SPCA Awards Ceremony The BC SPCA’s East Kootenay Branch in Cranbrook was honoured as Branch of the Year at the BC SPCA’s 120th Annual General Meeting in Richmond on May 2, 205. “Since taking over 18 months ago, manager Brenna Baker has led the branch in a transformation that is nothing short of remarkable,” says Lorie Chortyk, general manager of community relations for the BC SPCA.

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TANK is a handsome big boy. He is a Blue Nose Pitbull and is 5yrs old. He loves people and is like a big teddy bear, but has not been socialized very much with other animals. We will be working on this in the shelter. He walks extremely well on a leash but will need a strong handler. Tank needs regular exercise and lots of love. He will make a wonderful companion.

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“While the branch used to have one of the lowest live release rates in the province due to massive pet overpopulation in the region, the East Kootenay branch now boasts a 94 per cent live release rate — a truly incredible achievement.” Chortyk says the East Kootenay staff and volunteers go above and beyond in everything they do, which is reﬂected in the amazing results seen at the branch. “They truly deserve to be honoured as our 2015 BC SPCA Branch of the year.”

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I need a home DJANGO is a year and a half old plott hound cross. He has lots of energy and would need daily exercise. He has been introduced to hunting but doesn’t have much interest in the chase. Djando is good with most other dogs but hasn’t been introduced with cats. He is happy to meet everyone as long as your willing to give him lots of love! 22-10th Ave. S., Cranbrook, BC 250-489-1729 www.thepawshop.ca thepawshop@hotmail.com

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DIESEL is a 4 year old neutered male. He is a German Shepherd cross. Diesel is a wonderful gentle boy who is looking for a home where he can have lots of attention and exercise. He has a strong prey drive so will need to be walked on a leash and have a fenced yard. He likes people and other dogs. If you think he could fit into your family please come and visit him at the shelter. 125A Slater Rd., Cranbrook, BC 250 417-0477 • 877 411 0477 www.bridgeinteriors.com

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