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“Without culture and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.” - Albert Camus
JIM CAMERON TANYA LAING GAHR YVETTE RELKOFF DAVE QUINN TRISH BARNES STEVEN LECHMANN BRAD SMILEY ROD WILSON TRAVIS PACHAL
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COHERE is about celebrating the creative spirit and passions that thrive in the Cranbrook region. Through lively, provocative, and visually stimulating pages, we seek to motivate readers to deepen their knowledge and appreciation of this community, and to explore and share in the complex variety of cultural expression in the Kootenays and abroad. Our team is made up of talented people who share a passion for art and creativity in all aspects of life. The magazine is based in Cranbrook, British Columbia. We publish four times a year: March, June, September and December.
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Wolfgang Besold
Story time with Bonnie Harvey
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Canadian Soldier Dave Peabody
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Foods for the season
48 hours to Film
All Hallow’s Eve Dave Ward
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Maus Creek trails
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Rising in the ranks of MoneySense’s Best Places to Live in Canada
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ranbrook is a good place to live. I certainly think so or I wouldn’t have been born here. But it’s always tempting to compare and contrast one’s hometown to other places. For the past eight years, MoneySense magazine has published rankings of the Best Places to Live in Canada. Each year, they add more cities and more criteria to their rankings. In 2010, when I first saw the list, Cranbrook ranked 138th out of 179, which was not dazzling. In 2011, Cranbrook had crept up three notches to 135th. The next year, our city ranked even higher: 97th out of 190. Then, this spring, we took a huge leap forward. Rank: 53rd out of 200. Great googly moogly! How did that happen? I mean, a lot of people put in a lot of effort every year to make the community a great place to be, but certainly the state of the city didn’t change THAT much in 12 months. How did Cranbrook sneak up to be among the top 30% of places to live in Canada?
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I think a few things occurred. The editors of MoneySense change the methodology somewhat for 2013 and they added a number of categories that may have shifted numbers in Cranbrook’s favour. Eleven new categories were added to the analysis, making a total of 33 ways in which cities could earn points. Categories are wide-ranging, from access to amenities to severity of crime to the number of people who walk or bike to work. Looking more closely at the numbers, Cranbrook ranks the highest in Canada for most number of doctors per 1,000 citizens. At 6.65 doctors per 1,000 citizens, we are far and away the city most endowed with docs. Given that Cranbrook has become the regional hub for medical care, I don’t think this number accurately reflects the doctor-tocitizen ratio. The health care catchement area for Cranbrook doctors contains a lot more people than the citizens of Cranbrook proper. So while I’ve always found medical care here to be excellent,
I still know folks who can’t find a primary care physician who isn’t over-booked. In the category of Days Without Rain, only 17 cities overall had fewer rain days than Cranbrook. We’re in the middle of the pack when it comes to Number of Days Above Zero Degree C. Nothing we can do to improve these. In categories such as Population Growth, Property Tax (as percentage of income) and the Number of People Who Bike or Walk to Work, Cranbrook’s numbers are neither great nor terrible. It certainly wouldn’t hurt if a few more people left their cars at home a few days a week. Our usage rate of public transportation is pretty low. The New Car category is interesting. Evidently, only 0.22% of Cranbrook citizens drive a new car. Still, that’s better than Victoria, which ranked the overall lowest at 0.07%. On the other hand, the lowest ranked city in the list, Lachute, Quebec, sports 1.01% of shiny new cars on its streets.
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Where Cranbrook doesn’t do well is Average House Price which, while nowhere near the $882,000 average price in Vancouver, is high, at $303,505. It seems we’ll shell out for our digs but not for our wheels. The Affordability of Housing in Cranbrook is also low in the rankings, likely because in contrast to other places, the Average Household Income is also low. Our Crime Severity Index is high. I think this is partially because, we are among the smallest of the small cities ranked and one murder cranks up the severity rank per capita. However, the top ranked place to live – Calgary – has an index nearly 35% less severe than Cranbrook’s. Our rank in a lot of these categories is difficult to change. The average income isn’t going to rocket skyward because we wish it so. But there are things we can work on. Where we rank among the lowest is Number of People Employed in Arts and Culture. This category includes recreation and sport. Here, the number is 1.2%. Poor last-place Lachute has 1.01%. In fact, 20
of the bottom 50 cities ranked had higher numbers of people employed in arts and culture than Cranbrook. Of the 52 cities ranked better than Cranbrook, only two had percentages lower than ours. I think this is an area where we could, as a city, create change. Cities with higher numbers of people employed in arts, culture, sports and recreation draw greater numbers of tourists. They also tend to draw and hold young families and retirees. It would take imagination, creativity, research and possibly some new infrastructure, but more artists and sports professionals could be lured here to live and work. I think it would be nice to nudge Cranbrook a little higher up the list. And it can’t just be done with great weather.
For a look at the list, go to: www.moneysense.ca/property/ canadas-best-places-to-live-2013
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people, plants, animals, the earth, and the universe. These stories are said to come from creation ancestors who laid down the foundations for all of life—the laws of existence. First Nations oral traditions, such as those of the Ktunaxa, are a distinct way of knowing and are the means by which knowledge is reproduced, preserved, and transferred from generation to generation. Sharing stories is a dynamic, interactive engagement between the storyteller, the listener, and the culture through which It’s the latter role I want to talk about when these stories arise. I meet with Bonnie at the ?aq’am administration building. I’ve known Bonnie for more The Ktunaxa creation story describes the preparations for the newest inhabitants than ten years, and her passion when she tells a story is captivating. She’s performed of the earth—the First Nations people, or ʔaqǂsmaknik—by the spirit world’s great three times in local productions of Vagina chiefs, as well as the events that led to Monologues, and each time she held the audience in the palm of her hand and gently the creation and naming of the landmarks within the Ktunaxa territory. crushed them with her devastating vulnerability and righteous anger. More recently, “Going to the legends that define who we she sat in circle with several Ktunaxa elders are as Ktunaxa, and our creation story and storytellers for a day, sharing some that the animals were looking forward to of the traditional stories of the Ktunaxa as this day when the people were created— part of cultural research project. If I had for me this is so important,” says Bonnie. been impressed with Bonnie’s performances “The Creator told the animals that their before, I was blown away when I heard her job was to prepare the world for the peoshare one of the stories of her people. ple that were going to come. They were all excited and all the animals were going For 10,000-14,000 years the Ktunaxa First to share their gifts—their bodies and their People have lived in southeastern B.C., whole being—to assist the Creator in realnorthern Idaho, and northern Montana. izing his vision. They were all so proud That time frame, of course, is what anthropologists suggest; to the Ktunaxa, they have and honoured to be a part of that. There was no part of being vain—they were just existed in this area since time immemorial. The creation stories of the Ktunaxa are spir- proud to be a part of that. itual stories, connecting the people to other onnie Harvey is many things: proud Ktunaxa woman, mother, godmother, step-mother, auntie, great-auntie, sister, daughter, wife, president of ?aq’am Education Society, ?aq’am Lands and Resources assistant, Ktunaxa Nation Lands and Resource Agency stewardship assistant, Spirit of Community champion and tipi pole holder, cultural defender, advocate for Ktunaxa values and pride, powerful performer and storyteller.
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“So, for me, they gave up everything, without doubt. They gave it all to the Creator. So I honour that because it’s so beautiful that they would do that.” The creation story is part of a larger tapestry of stories that are interwoven throughout the central narrative. Many of these describe the formation of the land, while others provide lessons on how to live upon it and how to interact with all things—the earth and its elements, the creatures and plants that inhabit it, the people one will meet one’s life’s journey, and our responsibilities to those who came before and will follow behind. Traditionally, the creation stories could take three to six days to tell. The message of community, interconnection and sacrifice is one that Bonnie says empowers her and guides her in her work with ?aq’am and the Ktunaxa Nation. And she is filled with wonder, awe and gratitude when she hears an elder or another storyteller sharing the stories of her people and passing on the knowledge of their ancestors. “It’s not just the one person sharing the story,” says Bonnie. “Nobody has to share but the strength that person has is the strength of the people around them. We recognize the relationships that person has so they can be good students, good community members for themselves, for their parents, for their community, and for their ancestors.”
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The reconnection to stories is helping the Nation to recover from the trauma of the residential school system and other acts of colonization. The creation story, which defines so clearly the geography of the Ktunaxa territory, tells the Ktunaxa that this land was prepared for them by the Creator. And it reminds them, when it comes time to negotiate treaty rights and responsibilities, that the Ktunaxa have been here since time immemorial, and with that comes great responsibility to the land and to those who dwell within it—people, plants, animals and landforms alike. “The creation story tells us that we will be few in numbers,” says Bonnie. “We will be few but we will be strong and we will be here forever.” The stories are meant to be shared, Bonnie reminds me, and invites non-Aboriginal
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Cultural touchstones such as creation stories are important ways in which traditional knowledge is shared, and this knowledge is threatened within numerous Aboriginal cultures, including the Ktunaxa. One of the destructive practices of the residential school system was forbidding outward demonstrations of culture, which included language and traditional stories. In the storytelling circle I visited, many elders told of how their forbidden stories were whispered late at night rather than shared openly as they had been for many millennia. Others discussed how knowledge of the stories was essential to Ktunaxa identity.
people to learn more about the traditional territory where they live. “When there are stories that people are fortunate to hear, and they have questions— ask,” says Bonnie. “Ask. That’s the idea of the grandparents sharing those stories and legends with the children, their roots,
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so they can teach them. Ask somebody, because maybe that child asking the storyteller may awaken something that enriches the listener and the legend sharer. And share what you’re feeling with the person sharing the story. This is important to the continual life form of the oral storytelling tradition.”
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o I get the call on a beautiful, warm August evening. It’s Dave. “Hey Jim,” he says. “Wondered when you’d like to get together to do the interview?” “What are you doing now?’ ask I. “I’m sitting in my boat on Moyie Lake checking out the sunset and listening to [jazz legend] Gil Evans,” he replies. “Nice work if you can get,” I think to myself, and let him carry on with the job. Dave drops by the next evening dressed pretty much as usual: work shirt, coveralls and work boots. All very well used; cement à la mode. It’s obvious he’s been working. The occasional sunset on the lake aside, he works a lot. He builds things. He builds incredibly nice houses and incredibly nice furniture and once, an incredibly cool outdoor hockey rink, complete with boards and benches and night lights. And, if you happen to catch him on the right evening, when he’s chucked off the work clothes, put down his hammer, and picked up his horn, then David Ward will build music right in front of your ears; note by note, line by flowing line. He will build a long moment in time, let it hang seductively and then move on. Dave builds houses and Dave builds music and, thankfully, for those requiring his services, he’s stellar at both. Dave is a big man. Shoulders a mile wide, large enough to pack the lumber or carry the band or help out anyone who needs it, a tradition passed on through the generations of his family. His great-grandfather Arthur built the family home on Baker Hill in 1907. His grandfather Jack, proprietor of Modern Electric, wired countless homes and businesses and wired the family to the sound of music. He played in local
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orchestras, for dances and concerts and theatre. Dave’s father John, a trombone player, passed along an eclectic love of swing music, woodworking and construction. He enlisted Dave in the local long-running big swing band “Sounds of the 40’s.” It was a good outfit and Dave, at age 14, slid into the lead trumpet chair as easily as he formed friendships with the old-timers of the group, devoted musicians to whom he gives much credit. Within a year of high school graduation, Dave found himself in Toronto’s Humber College music programme studying jazz. Between classes in ear training, music theory and so on, and private lessons with top-notch teachers, he formed long-time relationships with what have become some of the best players in Canada. To finance his three years at college he inserted a year of playing on a cruise ship for Royal Caribbean International. He played in an onboard jazz quintet featuring a Dutch drummer, a Polish bass player, a Colombian pianist and a Quebecois tenor sax player, all nearly twice his age. “A great learning experience,” says Dave. “The musicians had it pretty darn good.” Aside from playing three or four hours a day in various shipboard venues he played in numerous exotic ports from Jamaica to the Bahamas to Mexico. Following his graduation from Humber, Dave signed on for another year aboard ship, this time traveling from Brazil to the African coast to Spain, Greece, France and ports in between. Highlight? “The whole thing was one big highlight,” he responds. “Good times, good music, good people.” He returned to Canada and put in a few
years working as a construction contractor, both locally and at the Coast, and he now appears to have settled into a comfortable day job/night job combination here in Cranbrook. Is there any connection between building houses and playing modern jazz? “To me, they’re more or less the same thing,” answers Dave. “You work your way up, solving problems as you go. It’s all the same kind of skills: here’s the foundation, what can I build on it and what will it look like when it’s through?” Dave’s distinct trumpet sound flows effortlessly between hard-edged and sublime, with a uniqueness bred of diverse influences from Woody Shaw to Roy Hargrove, combined with his own creativity and desire to become the best player he can be. His composing, on both trumpet and piano, has produced an impressive body of work. From such songs as the languid Me and My Old Man and My Old Man’s Lady, to the tender Nectar, or the hard-driving Blues for Heidi – written for the owner of the Cranbrook Heid Out Restaurant and Brewhouse (where he and his quartet, littlejazz Orchestra, may be found playing on a regular basis) – his compositions cover the jazz/fusion/ blues spectrum. He spent part of this summer working out with Hornography, a West Kootenay instrumental group, in preparation for their main-stage per-
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formance at the Vancouver Jazz Festival playing to a crowd of fifteen thousand or so. “It was a fabulous experience being up on the same stage that I’ve seen so many great players,” Dave says. Immediate plans for the future include his upcoming wedding to well-known local bass player and jazz accomplice Janice Nicli and, with that in mind, he thanks me for my time, bangs back the beverage and heads off to work on their new house. Whether he’s high on a roof, high on a riff or on the sweet and low in a boat on the lake, to Dave it’s all nice work if you can get it and David plainly can.
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f you have a woman standing in her brand-new custom kitchen with tears running down her cheeks, you know you have made her dream come true,” says Wolfgang Besold. Besold’s approach is that of an artist, he even planned to study at the Academy of Arts back home in Germany. When clients have done their homework and come to him with sketches and drawings of what they want, he begins to visualize the project. Since he designs the kitchens, he has the freedom to truly customize, such as building countertops of verying heights for people of taller or or shorter stature. For instance, once he had a client who asked for a drawer with a specific height for her favourite flour container. He was pleased to build it. When Besold first sought contracts as a cabinet maker he already had a considerable reputation because of his work at the Bauernhaus Restaurant in Kimberley. In 1989, Besold was business partners with Tony Schwarzenberger. The duo successfully completed the huge task of shipping the Bauernhaus buiding from near Munich in Bavaria, southern Germany to Kimberley. Every beam was numbered, it was taken apart and sent on a long journey via Hamburg, New York, then Seattle, Vancouver and finally, Kimberley. Once in Kimberley, the partners and their spouses worked
around the clock to reassemble the old farmhouse. The beams were laid out in a schoolyard and sorted, and the building was put back together again. Although it was originally built more than 350 years ago, it did not qualify as a heritage building because the 1905 owner had enlarged the windows. This meant it was no longer protected under heritage laws and could therefore leave Germany. In May the farmhouse arrived and by December thepartners and their spouses were running a fine dining restaurant at 280 Norton Avenue in Kimberley. But after four years Besold left the business. He says he was not cut out to be a waiter. “I was the “worst waiter Canada has ever seen!” Kimberley has changed dramatically since his days as a waiter in the 1990s. Besold has several tattoos and they seem to echo hip urban culture and green values. Twenty-five years ago European food products were not available in Kimberley and had to be ordered from Calgary. Today, we have the Pedal and Tap Restaurant and Lounge, which signals a shift in local culture. Young people demand environmentally conscious products, including eco-friendly homes and furniture. From solar panels to low flow toilets and high efficiency appliances, they express their values through consumer choices, even if it means accepting a higher price point.
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bamboo, alder, birch and walnut. He even mixes wood types, making door panels and inlay strips out of different kinds of wood.
while working as a waiter at the Bauernhaus influences the excellent customer service Besold gives his clients. He says, “I’m all theirs
His shop is the place where his cabinets are born. He designed it himself and it covers 2500 square feet. There is a lot of space around each machine to make room for handling large sheets of plywood and lumber. His first step is to cut the sheet of plywood. For each cabinet there are multiple cutting lists representing the different steps. He says that a kitchen is a multiple of those small parts and pieces. Then those pieces are assembled like a puzzle. He sands all cabinets by hand and finally finishes them in the spray room.
when I’m with a customer.” His clients trust him and he reassures them that he is reachable by phone, even at midnight. He makes kitchens from scratch for a niche market and says in terms of quality and pricing, “If you want me to compete against Home Depot, I’m not your guy.”
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He also specializes in custom made furniture. A local dentist, hired him to make a rocking chair for his wife with her initial engraved in it. Another fabulous project was a cabinet which opens up as a wet bar. It has display shelves for collectables, drawers, as well as shelving for glasses, wine bottles and liquor bottles. When the owner’s house was sold, the buyer’s condition was to include the cabinet in the sale. Visit his website at: www.twwoodworks.com Or call: 250 427 0139 Email: twwoodworks@telus.net
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Besold’s showroom walls at his workshop in Meadowbrook are painted candy-coloured green. There he displays a variety of cabinet designs and hardware choices for his clients. His clients are prepared to pay for quality: the minimum price for a kitchen is around $10,000. Moving from the showroom into the workshop, the strong chemical smell of varnish and wood stain is surprisingly absent. It smells clean because he uses green products such as waterbased finishes and formaldehyde-free materials. Missing is the smell of chemicals fuming from his cabinets because of synthetic plastic products and finishes. He also refuses to use tropical hardwood because it is a non-renewable resource. Instead, he chooses sustainable wood such as
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ovie making is a crazy business. It takes months or years of work, hundreds of collaborators and millions of dollars. Or does it? Recently the members of Ojo Rojo, a production team based in Cranbrook, took on the challenge of making a complete short film, from script to screen, in 48 hours. It’s a daunting task, requiring intense creativity, improvisation, shooting on the fly, and buckets of caffeine. In fact, Ojo Rojo means ‘red eye,’ from having so little sleep. Filmmakers Jose Galdamez and Garry Slonowski met at their day job; both are employed at the Ktunaxa Nation Council. Galdamez is a geographic information systems analyst specializing in cartography. Slonowski is the Communications Manager, in charge of marketing, branding, writing and graphic design. Besides a workplace, the two share a deep love of movies. Like most North Americans, Slonowski grew up with movies. When he was younger, he worked at a video store where he could watch,
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discuss, and analyze films to his heart’s content. Galdamez, on the other hand, grew up in El Salvador and Costa Rica and didn’t see a movie until he moved to Canada at age 13. The first movie he saw was Superman 3. It may not have won any awards, but it helped ignite in him an enduring fascination with the medium. “I love film,” he says. “It’s a great way to tell a story.” Slonowski agrees. He has written a few scripts but he hadn’t produced anything until he created a short film with his two young daughters. That film, Attack of the Crab Zombie Army, is a goofy and playful short. A friend of his saw it and mentioned that it looked like a 48 hour film festival-type film. Slonowski did some research and discovered the Calgary Underground Film Festival or CUFF. He approached Jose and proposed that they put together a team. Until two years ago, Galdamez hadn’t shot a lick of video. He had always wanted to give it a try but didn’t know where to begin. Then he
was sent to Victoria for a work event and decided that was his chance. “I was still learning how to operate the camera just before the bus left,” says Galdamez. “I basically jumped in and did interviews and what have you. I was hoping Garry would edit it all when I got back but he was, ‘Yeah, no.’” So they installed some editing software on their computers and started tinkering. “I was really hooked,” says Galdamez. He volunteered to shoot video for friends and for special events. He did more videos for work. He filmed several local sporting events, including Six in the Stix, the Wasa Triathlon and the Sully Shakedown in Kimberley. Eventually, the documentary footage he shot of Six in the Stix won the Kootenay Business Magazine Award for Best Video, though he didn’t even know the footage had been entered in the category. “I don’t know how they got it,” he says. Fast forward to CUFF 2013. On the eve of the contest, entrants are given several prompts, such as genre, prop, and line of dialogue.
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STYLE In this case, the genre was found footage and the prop was a spider. Team Ojo Rojo had two days to create a short film using those prompts. They immediately posted to Facebook to see if anyone they knew had an appropriate spider. “It was a lot of firsts for us,” says Slonowski. “I think we finally found our groove about halfway through.” “I personally don’t like ‘found footage’ movies,” notes Galdamez. “I don’t watch them. But the plus side was that, with ‘found footage’ we could make it look bad.” Slonowski nods. “There’s a lot of camera motion and graininess in these.” The trickiest part was finding suitable locations and people willing to work with them. They got permission to shoot important scenes in Dewey’s Pub. And they chose some friends they figured would be naturals to be their actors. Though they were afraid of making their deadline, they completed their film, “Thread.” It’s a dark rogue’s tale featuring thugs and guns. What is hinted at in the outtakes is the fun they had on set. “At the end of the day, we had so many belly laughs,” says Slonowski. “I haven’t laughed like that in I don’t know how long.” Though documentary film making is Galdemez’s favourite, he and Slonowski have ideas and plans for future dramatic films. Their producing partnership will be made trickier by Slonowski’s impending move to Calgary, but they are confident the distance won’t mess with their mojo. And in the meantime, both of them are teaching their kids how to make movies. “I’ve got my kids in training so they can help me,” says Galdamez. “At least they can learn to hold the boom mike.” “Thread” didn’t win at CUFF but “Ojo Rojo” has something better than prizes. Between their two families they have what might be the start of a powerhouse film making dynasty. Crab zombies, beware. To check out their work, go to ojo-rojo.com, or go to youtube.com and search for jgald2010. Attack of the Crab Zombie Army can be seen at: vimeo.com/33138847
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met Dave Peaobody in Grade 9 English. He sat in the same row on the opposite side of the room. The girls in the class immediately noticed that Dave resembled Superman. It wasn’t just the dark hair, or jaw line, there was something that just emanated from him. He was courteous beyond his years and careful with his words. He would take a moment to consider before responding. He is very much still like that today. Dave was born in New Brunswick in 1976, where he spent his first six years getting into all sorts of mischief with his little brother Mike. After his parents divorced in 1983, he and his brother moved about New Brunswick with their mother, staying in Fredericton for five years and Saint John for three. Still not satisfied with her location, his mother , Barbara O’Neil, moved with the boys again to the Purcell Rocky Mountain trench and a little town called Cranbrook. “It was difficult time to move, at 13, deep in that awkward age. It was hard to make friends here at first,” Dave says. “I was always a bit different, too. I was always interested in military history, watching war documentaries when other kids were watching cartoons. Dave went on to earn a Bachelor’s degree in History from the University of New Brunswick. “Mr. McLean at [Mount] Baker was a catalyst for that. He noticed and encouraged my interests in that direction.” Along with an avid hunger for history, Dave also always had a deep desire for travel. After graduation, he accompanied his girlfriend on a path many Cranbrook kids take, and booked a flight for Japan.
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Starting in Tokyo, he taught English for three years, first to adults, and then two years in a Japanese Junior High School. He went through a common experience of alienation on arrival, and worked his way into friendships and community over the next few months as his Japanese improved. Eventually, he found himself longing for a change, a challenge that reached something deeper. Returning to Canada. Dave followed his history bug and enrolled in graduate studies, again at the University of Calgary, earning a Master’s Degree in Military and Strategic Studies. “That was when the latest Afghanistan war was heating up, I had wanted to work in post-conflict reconstruction from a civilian or non-profit perspective. I didn’t mind putting myself in harm’s way, if I could contribute my intelligence and energy for something so meaningful. “While I was working on my degree, I found that the Canadian military was doing a lot of the work I wanted to do. The Afghanistan war was when the military really learned that modern warfare was different than it had been. “There weren’t the good guys in green shirts on our side of the field and the bad guys in red shirts on the far side of the field. The people causing the harm looked just like innocent people all around them. Sometimes using innocent people to hide what they were doing. It was that war where we learned that we needed the support of the local people. We needed to convince we were there to genuinely help, and we genuinely needed the locals to help us find the bad guys. “So my thesis was on Civil-Military
Cooperation. I did a lot of interviews with military people, and the more I learned, the more complex it became, and the more interesting it became to me.” In 2005, Dave Peabody applied to join the military. It took two years to process the application during which he filled his days with construction work and a joined an non-governmental organization to complete a research project about Afghanistan. “I could have stayed there, working at the NGO, but something was missing, so I continued on to the military.” Since 2009, Dave has been an officer with the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI) based in Edmonton.”
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VM: Was Afghanistan always your destination through those years of waiting? “Yes,” No qualifications. Decided. Resolute. Training was what I expected. There is a tower; we call it ‘the Mega.’ Once you walk in those doors you don’t leave for the next four weeks. New recruits practice marching, practicing drills. I enlisted as an officer, so eventually I was trained
in leadership roles. We learn survival skills, tactics, and basic strategy. The harder they make it, the better it is. The training continues for another four months, but you can communicate with your family and friends and get out on weekends. The immersion is life-changing though. Some people you meet there are friends for life. As an officer, I continued onto more advanced training, mostly physical conditioning in the deep cold, for extended periods of time, under different types of stress. Leadership remained a key focus of the training, heading up larger and larger groups with each course. One time I was leading a training mission as a platoon commander with about forty guys. It was deep night and we were sleep deprived, one or two hours of sleep for many, many days. Some guys fall asleep standing up during those times. You’ll bump into them and they’ll just walk away into the bush. Well, on this occasion, we were marching and heard noise behind us. We all put on our night vision gear to investigate, and sure enough, there was the front of our line coming full circle on us. Big groans all around. We lost so much time on that one. VM: Did you train with women? How was that? Yes, we trained with women. It was a mixed experience just like with the guys. Some are great, focused, strong and determined. Some are probably not suited to the trade, just like the men. Sometimes the human relationship part got complicated, as it does. But most people handle themselves OK.
but I learned a bit of Dari to show respect and find that personal relationship. That goes a long way. We also maintained a sensitivity to the culture we were visiting. We didn’t convert or anything, but we adjusted our behavior on holy days for example. I visited their mess a lot too. I think they had better food then we did! At the time I was there, the biggest risk was from inside threats. Men who were training in the Afghan army and decided to attack from there. Trust and friendship was important at a very real level. It was also in my nature anyhow to learn about the culture, and fold that into the advice I would give for training. VM: How are Canadians perceived there? It depends on who you ask. Some people [in Afghanistan] have an interest in us being there, they have contracts and make money from our presence. Some somewhat agree that we are helping, others clearly don’t. A lot of innocent people have been killed over there. That’s going to affect the society, period. VM: How do you cope with that on a personal level? I’ve never killed anybody, so that’s just a concept for me. The army does have some support, though I suspect from what I’ve seen that it’s a very personal experience and you lean on your upbringing and faith. C: How do you feel about that possibility later in your career? Do you think that people at your level have a responsibility to reduce the number of innocent people harmed?
It was never far from anyone’s mind that this is their problem. We can help, but they are the people who will succeed or fail. And they need to know every step of the way that they succeeded or failed on their own power.
We have a term for it, collateral damage. It’s a very unfortunate part of war. It’s just not as black and white as we would wish. It is precise stuff we’re there to do, and broadly speaking, the military is a blunt instrument. I have noticed a lot of learning and tightening up with the rules of engagement that we work under since the Afghan war broke out. There are more check-ins with superior officers before a soldier can take action, for example. There is a lot of thought that goes into this for many reasons. Remember, the commanders have families too. They understand that value at a personal level. They also understand that if they make mistakes they will lose the population’s support, and so there is no tactical advantage either.
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n one of her periodic purges, my mother handed me a simple, hand-lettered, photocopied booklet, labeled The Mause Creek Dibble Glacier Trail Guide. It may as well have been a treasure map. My biological father, Paul Sims, was well known in the region for connecting youth to the outdoors. In the summer of 1973, he helped a tribe of six keen youth get a grant to build a route that started and finished in Maus Creek, linking Tanglefoot Lake, Cliff (Blue) Lake, Dibble Glacier, Lost (Sunken) Creek, and Horseshoe Creek with a well-defined, well-built trail. The crew, with money from a long-dead program called Opportunities for Youth, also prepared a trail guide for the route, and this was the treasure map that found its way back to me, 40 years later. I had hiked and skied into Tanglefoot and on Dibble Glacier, argued with ATVers illegally tearing up the Mause Creek tairns (Mause Creek is a non-motorized recreation area), and had mountain biked the old mine trail from Mause into Lost Creek, but I had never made the time to link them all up in what is today known as the Five Passes Hike. The trail guide, written the summer I was born, seemed old. I guess that meant I was old too, and that motivated me to get out there. 22| 22 22
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My three-year-old son, Tumi, is always keen to hike, as is my brother, Jeff. The three of us set off to enjoy one of Cranbrook’s most famous loop hikes. The warm, clear days and cool nights of late September promised not only perfect, bug-free hiking weather (important when your hiking partner is a three-yearold), but also the golden promise of the Kootenay’s famous Alpine Larch colours. We started early on a hot, autumn day, hiking through open forest to reach the steep scree of Tanglefoot Pass. Over the pass and down into Tanglefoot Lake we stopped for lunch. Beside a deep, golden layer of larch needles covering the crystal clear mountain waters at lake’s edge, we met four hikers coming down from the high alplands of Windy Pass. We proudly showed them our forty-yearold treasure map. “Where did you get that? I worked on that when I was a teenager!” exclaimed Cranbrook’s Ellen Dearden, née Tomm. “We used to have to cross Pighin’s property to get up there. We’d hike in and work for a week or so until we ran short of food, then we’d come out. We slept in the old Victor Mine cabin, which has since collapsed. “We built the trail up through Marmot
Basin, then up to Tanglefoot Pass, but it has changed over the years. It is much steeper now than when we built it. Others came after to add more sections of trail.” Of the original six crew members, Ellen, Mike Jones, Dave Lye, and Blair Jacobson are still in the area, while Donna-Leigh Goodman and Pat Burnham have moved on. We part ways with our historic connection, with secret insider directions to a spectacular tairnside camp, and continue up and over Windy Pass. New views of the forgotten side of familiar Fisher Peak are a highlight of this section. After a fireside meal under an icy moon, we traverse high across the basin above Cliff Lake (named Blue Lake in the trail guide), to meet the third pass over into Lost Creek. Views of the hastily departing Dibble Glacier, where the BC Nordic Ski Team once trained, greet us from the shadow of the back side of the Steeples. We follow a well-worn trail to Dibble Pass, the fourth pass of the hike, enjoy our last moments in the high country, and drop in to Lost Creek. Back down into the forest we wind on the well-graded trail, passing a marker pointing upwards to Paul’s Pass, a craggy notch into Mause Creek, named for Paul
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Sims, whose vision helped create this trail, and who passed away in 1976. Finally, one final steep push up to the pass into Horseshoe Creek, where a classic trail follows a high traverse above the valley to the final pass back into Mause Creek and our waiting truck. Below us the Kootenay River, Mount Baker, Fort Steele, Cranbrook, and the Purcells off in the distance fill our eyes. All good things must end, and we end this hike with words from the plaque at Paul’s (Inchpost) Pass in our minds:
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Blaisdell in a video you can watch at www.ClearSkyFarm.com/Food-Forest. “One of the key features is growing plants in multiple layers or canopies.” Right now, the food forest feels and looks much like an open field—but on closer inspection you can see rings of different plant guilds rippling out all around. The diversity of the plants is remarkable; Heinz estimates more than 850 plants have gone into the food forest— planted by Clear Sky staff, workshop participants and volunteers. Edible tree species include hazelnut, pine nut, mountain ash, pear, plum, several apples and others, with many stems imported from the University of Saskatchewan’s cold-weather research facility and a century-old tree nursery in Manitoba. Berry crops include Haskap (“honeyberries”), Saskatoon, raspberry, Choke cherry, Goji and more. (Clear Sky Farm also has a plot of seabuckthorn berries.) Herbaceous edibles and medicinals— the smaller perennials like asparagus and Echinacea—anchor the centre of the plot. Landscape architect Leslie Lowe explains that the outside layers provide a buffer to create a microclimate in the centre. At maturity, the
food forest centre could be up to a whole zone warmer than the surrounding area. The food forest is founded on the design principles of Permaculture, an approach to landscaping, farming and even building that aims to create selfmaintaining systems.
One vital goal, says Heinz, is to turn “minimal input into maximal yield.” Clear Sky Food Forest and the adjacent Clear Sky Farm—which grows market crops of garlic, fruits and vegetables— are part of the Clear Sky Meditation and Study Centre. Founded in 2004 by Buddhist teacher Doug Duncan Sensei, Clear Sky Centre extends Buddhadharma—the way of the Buddha—and Western mystical teachings into the community via its mediation retreats, workshops and projects. www.ClearSkyCenter.org. Upcoming Food Forest Events Annual Food Forest Workshop: October 5 and 6, 2013, with Richard Walker. Permaculture Design Course: October 13 to 26, 2013, with Jesse Lemieux. Visit www. ClearSkyFarm.com to register or learn more.
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hink back to when you were a kid and imagine a hot, sunny afternoon with a vast blue sky stretching from east to west for as far as you can see. You’re playing with your friends in a sand box, digging holes and pushing around toy trucks. An adult sees you digging and tells you that if you dig far enough you’ll reach China. And suddenly the world becomes bigger than the sand box and the city you live in. Faraway lands seem close enough to dig to.
major businesses forming partnerships across the Pacific, China isn’t simply a place you could get a glimpse of every now and then in Vancouver. It’s right here at home in the East Kootenay. The City of Cranbrook councillors recently made a trip across the ocean to visit potential investment partners.
China? The same place where this toy was made? Where all of that great food comes from? Your imagine drifts to exotic places, trying to picture a far off land packed with more people than you could dream of. Your friend runs over to the monkey bars and you run after them to join in, ditching the dashing dream for more immediate fun. China can wait. Fast-forward from when you were a kid to now. China has grown dramatically over the past few decades. It’s a land of over one billion people and the second largest economy in the world. Jim O’Neil, head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, predicts that China will overtake the US as the world’s largest economy by 2027.
At first glance, China couldn’t seem to be more extremely opposite to the East Kootenay in terms of population, politics, environment, and history. However, with these new connections come increasing cultural interactions. In the summer issue of COHERE, Arlene Pervin wrote about the growing popularity in Dragon Boat racing, which originates in China. Chinese calligraphy (what does that symbol on your shoulder really mean by the way?), Buddhism, martial arts, herbal remedies, fine art, and Chinese food can all be found by roaming around Cranbrook. Chinese celebrations in Cranbrook even go way back to 1912, when locals joined in celebrating the Chinese New Year. So what does this mean for Cranbrook? Will hikers and outdoor adventurists be spotted with portable rice steamers? Will rodeo cowboys be sipping Chinese tea between runs? Maybe, but probably not.
As you look back at that same sandbox, maybe with your child playing in it today, you realize that China doesn’t seem so far away again.
So the next time you’re around a sandbox and you begin wondering how long it takes to dig to China, remember that a lot of China is already here and a lot of Cranbrook is there. And the next time you’re out for a Dragon boat ride or eating Chinese food, just think about that guy or gal 10,000 kilometres away, shredding some gnar, hiking or biking through the backcountry – you may just have something in common.
Culture is a two-way street, and after walking the streets of Shanghai or Beijing one immediately sees how much influence Western culture has had throughout China’s “reform and opening.” Gucci,
With the Chinese government investing heavily in Canadian natural resources and
Louis Vuitton, and Prada shops line the downtown cores like Tim Horton’s does in every Canadian town and city. Some of our favourite outdoor adventures are even gaining popularity in China – from skiing in Hebei, to golfing in Hainan, to hiking in Tibet, to mountain biking in Yunnan – outdoor culture, known in China as “donkey culture,” is growing.
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ROSE MARRIOTT, COMMISSIONED ARTIST Acrylics and watercolour. Landscapes, floral and critters. Contact 250 464 9613
KOOTENAY ORIENTEERING CLUB KootenayOrienteering@gmail.com
MAVERICK RIDING CLUB
250. 426. 2801 | MikeandTracy3@shaw.ca
MOUNTAIN TOWN MAULERS ROLLER DERBY GIRLS www.Facebook.com/pages/ Mountain-Town-Maulers
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATURALISTS ScoutFir@shaw.ca
WILDHORSE CYCLE CLUB BikeWildhorse.ca
Crisis Line 1-888-353-CARE(2273)
MARISA PHILLIPS, COMMISSIONED ARTIST Find example work in the Aboriginal People’s Space in the East Kootenay Regional Hospital. Facebook.com/Marisa.Phillips
Confidential telephone services for people in crisis who need emotional support, intervention, a listening ear, and/or information about local resources.
REG PARSONS, BRONZE SCULPTURE & MOUNTAIN PAINTINGS Visit the gallery at: www.RegParsons.com
Street Angel 250-420-2756 1324 2nd Street North Cranbrook Mon-Sun 2pm to midnight Provides a safe environment, hot dinners, computer access, medical services, employment services, warm clothing & bedding +.
PAULA CRAVENS, ACRYLIC PAINTER Visit the gallery at: CrazyRavens.Blogspot.ca
SARA TOPPING, OILS, ACRYLIC PAINTER & TEACHER Contact via: www.Facebook.com/Sara.Topping.3
THE CAKE LADY Cakes, cupcakes & cheesecakes for special events, holidays, or any day! Fully customized or from our collection. Facebook.com/Pages/The-Cake-Lady
STEPHANIE PHILLIPS, MASSAGE THERAPIST Urban Roots:: Hot stone, deep release, relaxation and aromatherapy massage. www.UrbanRootsSalonSpa.ca 250. 417. 3417
TORQUEBLADE The fusion of fitness and fantasy. Phonicambulator: 250-581-0582 Aethermail: Torqueblade@Hotmail.com Facebook.com/Torquenation
KARISSA WALL, STYLIST Jagged Edge Salon:: What are you looking for? Delivered with style. 250. 426. 7416
LA BELLE FAIRY CORSETRY Custom corsetry of the highest quality. Fun to fine styling. www.LaBelleFairy.com
AMY DECHAMPS, STYLIST Urban Roots:: Hair your way, every day to your special day. www.UrbanRootsSalonSpa.ca 250. 417. 3417
CALLING ALL ARTISANS, CRAFTSPEOPLE, AND INDEPENDANT BUSINESS PEOPLE! Advertise your work here. Visit: www.CohereCranbrook.com
KIM BROWN, STYLIST New Image Salon:: Intense & fabulous colour, wild & rock ready cuts. facebook.com//ToRcHeSxToGeThEr TorchesXTogether@Facebook.com
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What is your favourite virtue in others? It really matters to me that people are dependable. Trust is important to me.
Do you have specific quirk?
What is your biggest virture?
I am German, what can I say?
Loyalty.
What do you appreciate most in your friends?
What is your favourite dish to eat in Cranbrook?
Honesty.
Sushi at Sakura.
Wolfgang Besold
What is your ideal of happiness?
What is your favourite destination for travel?
A white sandy beach.
Mexico.
What/who is overvalued?
If you could live anywhere, where would it be?
Facebook.
Mexico.
What about Cranbrook makes you most happy?
Do you have a secret talent?
The trails in the community forest.
Infinite patience.
What about Cranbrook makes you most unhappy?
Which talent would you like to be gifted with?
Box stores.
Public speaking.
What is your favourite Cranbrook spot?
What is your present state of mind?
The big tree look out in Cranbrook Community Forest.
Beach bum.
What do you most hate?
What is your motto?
Tax season.
The glass is always half full.
What is your greatest achievement?
What advice would you give to your younger self?
My two grand kids.
It’s fine the way it is.
Who are your favourite authors/poets?
How would you like to die?
Rumi.
Who are your heroes in real life? The people I respect most are the waiter and waitress out there. After working in the Baurenhaus I have huge respect for the service industry.
Peacefully - with a martini in my hands.
Kootenay Flameworks Hearth & Home Custom Flames Indoor & Out
Fireplace Design . Installation . Sweeps . Supply . Inspections www.kootenayflameworks.com 250 426 9406 Formerly ys The Chimney Gu