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Vol. 64, Issue 51 Proudly serving Cranbrook and area since 1951 www.dailytownsman.com < Ft. Steele’s eternal wheel Heritage landmark gets new life | Page 2 Nitehawks on the brink > Kimberley vs. Beaver Valley | Page 7 MONDAY MARCH 16, 2015 TownsmanBulletin Like Us @crantownsman Follow Us $ 1 10 INCLUDES G.S.T. 250-427-8700 Buying or Selling Buying or Selling Call Marilyn First BARRY COULTER PHOTO The Cranbrook Bantam Hornets are hosting the 2015 Bantam Tier Two Provincial Championships at Cranbrook’s Memorial Arena from March 14 to 19. Hunter Floris (left) of the Prince George Bantam Cougars and Rylind McKinnon of the Cranbrook Bantam Hornets are pictured taking the ceremonial faceoff from Rick Boekstyn, East Kootenay Director of BC Minor Hockey (centre left) and Tom Shypitka, Cranbrook City Councillor, at Sunday night’s opening ceremonies at the Memorial Arena. Round-robin play got underway March 15,. and elimination games are set for March 18. See more throughout the week in the Townsman. FOR THE TOWNSMAN Four City of Cran- brook Public Works water crews were ac- tively working to restore water service to approx- imately 100 residences Sunday afternoon after a failure in a pressure reducing station over- night Saturday is be- lieved to have caused of up to eight water main breaks across the City. One of the water main breaks has created a large sinkhole on 3rd Street South at 20th Av- enue near the former Muriel Baxter School site. The area has been blocked off and drivers are asked to please avoid the area and use an alternate route. Residents are re- minded that as the water service is restored City crews scramble on sinkhole Sunday Pressure Reducing Station Failure Causes Multiple Water Main Breaks GERRY FREDERICK PHOTO A large sinkhole, some 10 feet on its longest side, appeared this weekend near the intersection of 3rd Street South and 20th Avenue South. and the water turned back on, you could ex- perience dirty or disco- loured water. This is due to the water pressure stirring up sediment in the water lines. The dis- coloured water is not a health concern. Simply run your cold water tap until the water runs clear. The City of Cran- brook apologizes for any inconvenience this has caused. Crews were working hard to restore water service to all the affected residents as soon as possible. RCMP Police are seeking witnesses and identifi- cation of the suspects who set a stolen vehi- cle on fire outside Amy Woodland School. On March 15, at approxi- mately 8 a.m., two males were seen set- ting a vehicle on fire outside of the school on 6th St. South in Cranbrook. The males were wit- nessed fleeing the scene, then returning to ensure the vehicle continued to burn. A good Samaritan witnessing this crime in progress obtained photos of the two as they fled the scene. In of the photographs a male is seen wearing white pants and a black hoodie. The 2011 Ford Escape which was set ablaze had been stolen during the early hours of the morning. Cranbrook RCMP are seeking the public’s assistance in identify- ing these two males. If you have any informa- tion on the identity of these suspects, please contact the Cranbrook RCMP detachment or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) RCMP A neighbourhood resident witnessing a a crime in progress obtained photos of the two suspects as they fled the scene. Police seek arson suspects Two males set fire to stolen vehicle early Sunday morning
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Vol. 64, Issue 51 Proudly serving Cranbrook and area since 1951 www.dailytownsman.com
< Ft. Steele’s eternal wheelHeritage landmark gets new life | Page 2
Nitehawks on the brink >Kimberley vs. Beaver Valley | Page 7
MONDAYMARCH 16, 2015
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BARRY COULTER PHOTO
The Cranbrook Bantam Hornets are hosting the 2015 Bantam Tier Two Provincial Championships at Cranbrook’s Memorial Arena from March 14 to 19. Hunter Floris (left) of the Prince George Bantam Cougars and Rylind McKinnon of the Cranbrook Bantam Hornets are pictured taking the ceremonial faceoff from Rick Boekstyn, East Kootenay Director of BC Minor Hockey (centre left) and Tom Shypitka, Cranbrook City Councillor, at Sunday night’s opening ceremonies at the Memorial Arena. Round-robin play got underway March 15,. and elimination games are set for March 18. See more throughout the week in the Townsman.
FOR THE TOWNSMANFour City of Cran-
brook Public Works water crews were ac-tively working to restore water service to approx-imately 100 residences Sunday afternoon after a failure in a pressure reducing station over-night Saturday is be-lieved to have caused of up to eight water main breaks across the City.
One of the water main breaks has created a large sinkhole on 3rd Street South at 20th Av-enue near the former Muriel Baxter School site. The area has been blocked off and drivers are asked to please avoid the area and use an alternate route.
Residents are re-minded that as the water service is restored
City crews scramble on sinkhole SundayPressure Reducing Station Failure Causes Multiple Water Main Breaks
GERRY FREDERICK PHOTO
A large sinkhole, some 10 feet on its longest side, appeared this weekend near the intersection of 3rd Street South and 20th Avenue South.and the water turned back on, you could ex-perience dirty or disco-loured water. This is due to the water pressure
stirring up sediment in the water lines. The dis-coloured water is not a health concern. Simply run your cold water tap
until the water runs clear.
The City of Cran-brook apologizes for any inconvenience this
has caused. Crews were working hard to restore water service to all the affected residents as soon as possible.
RCMPPolice are seeking
witnesses and identifi-cation of the suspects who set a stolen vehi-cle on fire outside Amy Woodland School. On March 15, at approxi-mately 8 a.m., two males were seen set-ting a vehicle on fire outside of the school on 6th St. South in Cranbrook.
The males were wit-nessed fleeing the scene, then returning to ensure the vehicle continued to burn.
A good Samaritan witnessing this crime in progress obtained
photos of the two as they fled the scene. In of the photographs a male is seen wearing white pants and a black hoodie. The 2011 Ford Escape which was set ablaze had been stolen during the early hours of the morning.
Cranbrook RCMP are seeking the public’s assistance in identify-ing these two males. If you have any informa-tion on the identity of these suspects, please contact the Cranbrook RCMP detachment or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS)
RCMP
A neighbourhood resident witnessing a a crime in progress obtained photos of the two suspects as they fled the scene.
Police seek arson suspects
Two males set fire to stolen vehicle early Sunday morning
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Arne PetryshenAs you drive past Fort
Steele Heritage Town, it’s hard not to marvel at the more than a century old engineering feat that is the water wheel. It stands above the Koote-nay River and tells of a bygone era of gold fever and the Wild West. Thanks to a newly built support, which was in-stalled last week, it will be around for years to come.
The retrofit of the waterwheel has been in the works for a number of years.
Brad Froggatt, man-ager of Heritage Ser-vices at Fort Steele, said the retrofit was badly needed.
“We noticed that — since the original struc-ture supporting the wheel was put in in 1965 and it had never been replaced — we had to do an inspection on it,” Froggatt said. “We real-ized that it was weak and we also noticed that the wheel itself had been listing to one side and rubbing against the frame.”
Froggatt said that since the support wasn’t original to the structure, they decided to replace the structure and pre-serve the wheel, which is the original.
The whole wheel was moved to the current site in 1965 — that’s also when the bottom struc-ture was built to hold the wheel.
The wheel itself was built in 1899 and de-commissioned around 1934. It was originally used in gold mining up Perry Creek. It was an overshot mine and at the time the wheel was used to supply power to two pumps that were used in mining in the Kootenay River.
“You’ll notice if you come out here and look under the wheel itself and if you go down on the ground, you’ll see there are a couple more other pieces of equip-ment around it,” he said. “Those are the rest of the gears and rest of the structures that would’ve been used to power the pumps.”
He said the wheel is the only remaining water wheel of its type that still exists in the area.
“When they found it, it had been sitting in Perry Creek for a long time, so they decided to rescue it,” he said. “It does fall within our in-terpretive scope in that the whole area was known for gold mining.”
The repairs used new wood, so they will be evident for the next few years — until the wood has been weathered.
“It will look the same in the long term,” Frog-gatt said. “We had lots of debates about this wheel, because after all it’s not from Fort Steele. However, being that it’s perched there above the
Kootenay River, visible as you come down the mountain on Highway 3/95, it’s become an iconic symbol for Fort Steele.”
Froggatt said he hopes that they can get some lighting on the wheel so it will be visible at nighttime from the highway.
“When you look at it closely, it’s quite an en-gineering marvel. It’s this huge wooden wheel, with all these scoops on the outside for moving water,” he said. “It’s also braced with long metal rods and supports. It’s really amazing that it’s lasted as long as it has. We don’t find many wood-en structures that big anymore.”
Froggatt said the pro-cess of building the sup-port structure took quite a while.
“It took a few months, because the wood had to be milled locally, and it’s hard to find trees that big,” he said. “Every-thing was measured and pre-cut and brought on-site.”
It was all laid out so that it could be assem-bled immediately once the work started.
They worked with local timber framer Dan Higgs and his partner, as well as students from the College of the Rock-ies timber framing course.
On Wednesday, the crews were at the site with two cranes. They lifted the wheel and sus-pended it while they tore down the old struc-ture and put up the new one.
“Luckily the concrete bases and the middle brackets that hold it to-gether were all still sta-ble and they were in good condition,” Frog-gatt said. They started at 8 a.m. and late Wednes-day night it was assem-bled together with only minor tweaks left to complete.
The same crew is working on a new sup-port for the water tower.
The funding came through the Province of B.C. heritage branch.
“Even though the so-ciety runs the park, it is done through a partner-ship with he province,” he said. “The province technically owns the site.”
The project cost around $75,000.
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compensation and pro-vincial funding just some of a number of topics that were covered at a recent school board meeting in Cranbrook last week.
The crosswalk issue has to deal with the safe-ty issues surrounding the pedestrian crossing from the Safeway park-ing lot to Mount Baker Secondary School on 14th Ave.
Earlier in the year, the school board proposed a 50/50 cost sharing agreement with the City of Cranbrook to install two pedestrian signs at a total cost of $5,400.
The School Board voted to approve Rob Norum, the SD5 secre-tary treasurer, to pro-ceed with the agreement for the cost-sharing plan.
“Those things are a municipal responsibili-ty, but we’re interested in student safety,” said SD5 board chair Frank Lento. “It was unani-mous by the board that we enter into that 50/50 agreement because it’s so delicate right there at Mount Baker and the store there.
“We think that’s im-portant.”
The proposal was ini-tiated by the school dis-trict to install pedestri-an-controlled lights such as the ones at the intersection of Victoria Ave. and 4th St.
Though not consid-ered a high-risk collision area, the intersection by
Mount Baker has been the scene of two acci-dents between 2006-2013 and has been iden-tified as an problem area with vehicle speed.
In both accident cases, the vehicles were rear-ended after stop-ping for pedestrians crossing the street.
The proposed pedes-trian lights will be so-lar-powered, high inten-sity, flashing LED lit school zone signs. The illuminated signs will have controllers to allow for the programming of the signs to flash on the corresponding days and times when the school zone is in effect.
Two advocacy issues, including a progress re-port on a set of recom-mendations from a gov-ernment budget consul-tation document as well as district staff compen-sation, were also ad-dressed.
The board carried a motion to write a letter to Mike de Jong, the B.C. Minister of Finance, ask-ing for an update on a set of 15 recommenda-tions that came out of the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Ser-vices’ (SSCFGS) Report on the Budget 2015 Con-sultations.
“As we see nothing in the 2015 provincial bud-get that appears to ad-dress any of the SSFGS recommendations, our Board would like to know what specific ac-tions the government—and your ministry in particular—has devel-
oped to address these 15 important recommen-dations to restore edu-cation funding to a level that supports the basic needs of public educa-tion in B,C.,” wrote the school board, in a draft letter.
Some of the 15 rec-ommendations in the report include: provid-ing adequate capital funding to school dis-tricts for facility im-provements, seismic up-grades, and additional schools in rapidly grow-ing communities; in-creasing operating grants to post-secondary institutions to address unfunded cost pressures and providing support for proposed new K-12 initiatives such as per-sonalized learning and enhanced trades and technology training, among others.
The board had previ-ously written to the Min-istry of Finance in 2014, asking for the same up-date for the 2014 edition of the report.
“To date, we have re-ceived no response and can only assume one is forthcoming,” wrote the board, in the same letter to the de Jong.
Additionally, the board also approved a motion to send another letter to de Jong regard-ing exempt staff wage freezes, which have been in place since 2009.
In the draft letter, the board notes that provin-cial teaching and the Ca-nadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) have received modest wage
SD5 to go ahead with Mt. Baker crosswalk plans
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The crosswalk issue has to deal with the safety issues surrounding the pedestrian crossing from the Safeway park-ing lot to Mount Baker Secondary School on 14th Ave.
increases.“Practically, the fail-
ure by the government to recognize that man-agement and exempt staff both need and de-serve a wage increase creates a financial im-balance amongst our employee groups and makes attracting and re-taining the educational leaders vital to a strong public education system difficult,” wrote the board.
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P U B L I C H E A R I N G N O T I C EPublic Notice is hereby given that the Municipal Council of the Corporation of the City of Cranbrook is considering adopting “City of Cranbrook Of� cial Community Plan Amendment Bylaw No. 3819, 2015”.
If adopted, the proposed Of� cial Community Plan (OCP) amendment will change the land use designation of part of the subject property from “Light Industrial” to “Heavy Industrial” designation”.
Approval of the proposed OCP amendment will enable consideration of “Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 3820, 2015”, to permit rezoning a portion of the subject property from “RT - Residential Transition Zone” to “M-3 - Heavy Industrial and Transportation Zone”.
The purpose of the proposed OCP amendment and Zoning amendment is to enable consideration of subdivision of the subject property portion and lot consolidation with the adjoining property to the South.
The subject property is legally described as Lot 1, District Lot 27, Kootenay District, Plan 5155, and is located on Theatre Road as indicated on the reference map above.
“City of Cranbrook Of� cial Community Plan Amendment Bylaw No. 3819, 2015” may be inspected between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays, up until March 23, 2015, as posted on the bulletin board in the foyer at City Hall, or in the of� ce of the Municipal Clerk.
The Public Hearing will commence in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 40 - 10 Avenue South at 6:00 p.m. on March 23, 2015.
All persons who believe that their interest in property is affected by the proposed Bylaw Amendment may submit written presentations to the City of Cranbrook prior to the date of the Hearing and they may also submit written and/or verbal presentations at the Hearing, thereby allowing all persons an opportunity to be heard on this matter.
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P U B L I C H E A R I N G N O T I C EPublic Notice is hereby given that the Municipal Council of the Corporation of the City of Cranbrook is considering adopting “City of Cranbrook Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 3820, 2015”.
The proposed amendment of the Zoning Bylaw will change the zoning of a portion of land legally described as Lot 1, District Lot 27, Kootenay District, Plan 5155, from “RT - Residential Transition Zone” to “M-3 - Heavy Industrial and Transportation Zone”.
The purpose of the Zoning amendment is to enable consideration of subdivision of the subject property portion and lot consolidation with the adjoining property to the South.
The subject property is legally described as Lot 1, District Lot 27, Kootenay District, Plan 5155, and is located on Theatre Road as indicated on the reference map below.
“City of Cranbrook Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 3820, 2015” may be inspected between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays, up until March 23, 2015, as posted on the bulletin board in the foyer at City Hall, or in the of� ce of the Municipal Clerk.
The Public Hearing will commence in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 40 - 10 Avenue South at 6:00 p.m. on March 23, 2015.
All persons who believe that their interest in property is affected by the proposed Bylaw Amendment may submit written presentations to the City of Cranbrook prior to the date of the Hearing and they may also submit written and/or verbal presentations at the Hearing, thereby allowing all persons an opportunity to be heard on this matter.
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Arne Petryshen The city hopes the
the Federal Gas Tax Fund will help pay for some big infrastructure projects in the city’s fu-ture.
At council on March 9, the Finance and Com-puter Services depart-ment recommended that the city send two applications to the Stra-tegic Priorities Fund - Capital Infrastructure Projects Stream portion of the gas tax fund.
The first application
is in the Recreation In-frastructure category to fund the Idlewild Park rehabilitation project. The redevelopment project is expected to cost $2.8 million.
The second applica-tion is in the Wastewater category to fund the Transfer Pipeline re-placement project. That project is expected to cost $6 million.
The Strategic Priori-ties Fund program can fund up to 100 per cent of eligible costs of an el-
igible project.CAO Wayne Staudt
noted a local govern-ment can submit up to two applications for the April 15, 2015 deadline for intake.
“The two projects that we’re recommend-ing we believe are the most important to the city at this time,” Staudt said.
Staudt also noted that there is no firm date for when the successful applications are an-nounced.
City staff recom-mended those two proj-ects after looking at four possible projects. The remaining two are the 2nd Street South corri-dor redevelopment —four phases estimated at a total of $13.2 million — and recreation facility upgrades and energy improvements — esti-mated at $4.5 million.
In both cases, staff found that capital in-vestment is urgently needed and critical to the preservation of the integrity of the assets.
About Idlewild, staff wrote: “Idlewild Park is
a much-loved regional park whose various fea-tures are in dire need of replacement. The Park as a whole has not kept pace with the develop-ment of the community around it. The primary attribute of the Park is Idlewild Lake. At the south end of the lake there is a dam con-structed in the 1930s. The dam has deteriorat-ed and is at risk for fail-ure. The rehabilitation of the dam is critical to maintaining the lake; without the dam, there is no lake.”
About the transfer
pipeline: “The Transfer Pipeline Replacement Project is large-scale, ur-gent and critical. A 4.1 km section of the pipe-line was replaced in 2012. Replacing the re-maining 4.2 km section has been identified as a priority project. Sec-tions of the remaining line have collapsed, re-stricting the flow of sew-age through the line and increasing the potential for leaks.”
In May 2014, Cana-da, BC and UBCM signed the renewed Gas Tax Agreement which provides a 10 year com-
mitment of federal funding for investments in local government in-frastructure and capaci-ty building projects in the province. A key funding programs es-tablished through the agreement is the Gas Tax Strategic Priorities Fund. The fund is an ap-plication-based funding program which pools approximately $28 mil-lion of the $253 million annual federal Gas Tax Fund for strategic in-vestments that are con-sidered larger in scale, regional in impact or innovative.
Idlewild, transfer pipeline included in gas tax application
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F o r t h e to w n s m a nCranbrook Chamber of
Commerce Business Excel-lence Awards nominees have completed their interviews and along with the balance of the city excitedly await the an-nouncement of the award re-cipients at the April 11 Gala at the St Eugene Golf Resort and Casino.
Chamber Executive Direc-tor David D. Hull was pleased with the very positive re-sponse to the new vetting pro-cess that had each nominee meet with a three person panel in a 30 minute format-ted interview process.
“Without exception every nominee and jurist came out of the process exclaiming a re-ally positive review. The nom-inees enjoyed the opportunity to expound on their organiza-tion and their practices.”
“It was a very busy five days spanning two weeks for the Chamber with some of the panels sitting all day to work through the categories that had a large number of nomi-nees. One day we had four rooms going simultaneously with 12 judges and an office full of nominees. It was a great day for the Chamber.”
“The awards evening which is certain to be a grand event and celebration busi-ness is already sold out with all 240 tickets spoken for,” said Hull
The list of the nominees up for an award on the 11th are:
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Nominees• Chris Thom• Mike Adams• Chase Thielen• Mike Hambalek• Tom White• Chad Jensen
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professional that provides ser-vices to individuals, groups, or businesses. The recipient demonstrates a consistent ad-herence to the highest quality service and support for their customers.
Nominees• Guidance Planning Strat-
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PublicationsAwarded to a company that
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Nominees• Kootenay Rockies Gran
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Awarded to a business that has demonstrated outstand-ing achievement in the retail
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Nominees• The Flower Pot• Muriel & Jane’s• The Paw Shop• The Bedroom Furniture
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tion Society• Community Connections
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Letters to the editorBill C-51
Thank you Carolyn Grant for your very insightful article on Thursday March 12, 2015. As per your recommendation, I read The Walrus’ article Bill C-51, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, twice. I am still try-ing to get my head wrapped around the implications of Bill C-51 but the article sums it up with the last paragraph. “Not everything in Bill C-51 is objectionable. Some provisions might even be welcome. But without a redoubled investment in our tattered accountability system, the overall package is an ugly one to anyone con-cerned about civil liberties, and should also provoke deep unease for those look-ing for a workable, rational approach to
security.”On a lighter note, check out Mary Walsh
aka Connie’s short video clip on cbc.ca/22minutes, posted 11-3-2015.
Sandra CaveCranbrook
Boneheaded driversRe: Intersection at 3rd Street and Victoria
Avenue, March 13;The acting mayor made a pretty irrespon-
sible remark regarding crosswalks: If we aren’t going to make them safe, then maybe paint black over it to remove them. Really? Shouldn’t the City make the crosswalks safer?
Victoria is a race track, with everyone
jockeying for position where it merges from four to two lanes, and looking to be first up the hill. Downhill is no safer. The crosswalk at Kinsmen Park is basically ignored by speed-ing traffic.
The answer? More enforcement by the RCMP. We travel that street every day, and have seen boneheads pass going up that hill.
It would be appreciated by many people who live on Victoria to see more RCMP pa-trolling at peak traffic times. Hit these speed-ers where it hurts — in the wallet. They will get the message eventually.
Hopefully, a pedestrian won’t be severely hurt or killed before action is taken.
Len MoodyCranbrook
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DON C AYO The province is doing the correct thing
by tying future minimum wages increases to inflation, although you’d never guess it from the outraged reaction to Jobs Minister Shir-ley Bond’s announcement on Thursday.
The government is vilified and Bond is ridiculed in most of the responses I’ve seen, although the odd voice — B.C. Business Council’s executive vice-president Jock Fin-layson, for example — does give credit where credit is due.
This isn’t to dismiss the criticisms out of hand. Bond announced two things — a plan to tie future increases to the province’s Con-sumer Price Index, and a 20-cent-an-hour raise to $10.45. Most critics are eliding over the first point and focusing on the second, the “paltry” raise that leaves the minimum wage well below what a self-supporting worker or family breadwinner needs to live decently.
Whether you think Bond’s number is too small, too large or just right, the wage level is a fair one for debate. And there’s merit to ar-guments put forward by both sides, that too high a wage hurts business and ultimately reduces the number of low-end jobs, and that too low a wage traps workers in poverty.
Data on who works for minimum wage in B.C. feeds both sides in the debate. Low-min-
imum proponents cite figures showing most workers at the bottom of the wage heap aren’t self-supporting or family breadwinners, they’re young people living at home, en-try-level workers who soon move on to bet-ter things, people working part time to sup-plement a family income, and so on. High-minimum advocates say never mind that as long as some, too many, are struggling to support themselves or their families.
Both sides have a point.At different times over the years, I’ve ar-
gued both sides of the issue — counselling caution when I saw a risk of raising the min-imum too far and too fast for the health of the business climate, and urging an increase when the level fell too far behind. By the time Premier Christy Clark announced in 2011 it would rise in three stages to $10.25, it was definitely too far behind — it had been fro-zen at $8 for nearly a decade, and had slipped from being the highest in Canada to the lowest.
Clark’s $10.25 was, in 2012 when it kicked in, the second-highest in Canada. Today it has slipped — again by dint of being overtak-en by almost everybody else — to a tie with Newfoundland and Labrador for ninth low-est. Bond’s 20-cent increase will raise it to a tie with Nova Scotia for fifth lowest.
Dire predictions about the impact on
business of Clark’s increase — it was a whop-ping 28 per cent — never came to pass. This is no doubt because the increase was so over-due, and minimum-wage businesses had been enjoying bargain-basement rates for years. This column noted at the time that second-highest in Canada didn’t look out of line, given the cost of living here.
If the B.C. Federation of Labour’s demand for a $15 minimum in B.C. were to come to pass — I think it has no chance and the num-ber has more to do with political posturing than realistic expectation — I wouldn’t be so sanguine about the potential hit on business. It’s true Seattle is poised to go to $15, by far the highest in the U.S., on April 1, but the impact is yet to be seen. Yet already several business such as restaurants are reported to be closing in anticipation.
It seems to me B.C.’s minimum wage should be near the top level in Canada. This would put it in the ballpark of $10.70 an hour, 25 cents more than Bond announced. That’s close to where it would be now if the $10.25 level of 2012 had been increased to match inflation. If businesses could pay that much then without undue pain, they should be able to pay the equivalent now.
Don Cayo is a columnist with the Vancouver Sun
Minimum wage should aim for $10.70
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Double troubleNitehawks defeat Nitros in double OT to prevent series sweep
Taylor rocc aSports Editor
The Beaver Valley Ni-tehawks had to score twice in double over-time to earn a victory over the Kimberley Dy-namiters Sunday night in Game 4 of the Koote-nay Conference final.
Despite the chal-lenge, the Nitehawks were up to the task.
With the score knot-ted 3-3 and approxi-mately 13 minutes re-maining in double-over-time, the Beaver Valley Nitehawks thought they had won the game after a long point shot sailed over the shoulder of a p a r t i a l l y - s c r e e n e d Tyson Brouwer.
The Nitehawks bench erupted and began spill-ing on to the ice.
But play carried on after the goal was washed away by the nearest official.
At the next stoppage, all four officials congre-gated at centre ice be-fore upholding the call.
The only problem was the puck had crossed the line before ricocheting off the back bar and out of the net.
The Nitehawks weren’t mistaken in their cele-bration, but that didn’t matter as overtime con-tinued.
“Had we lost that game tonight, I wouldn’t feel very good,” said Ni-tehawks head coach and general manager Terry Jones. “But let’s just say that the right thing happened. We got the ‘W’ and now it’s a series. We feel good about what we’ve done in the four games and finally got the result we were looking for.”
After the apparent non-goal came to pass, the two teams ex-changed opportunities before Mitch Foyle snapped a power-play goal past Brouwer to give his team the 4-3 double-overtime victory and extend the series to a fifth game back in Fruitvale Tuesday night.
“Great to see Mitch Foyle get that goal,” Jones said. “Man, oh, man did he work his butt off tonight.
“We’re alive. We’re absolutely alive. It’s a huge win. To fight through the adversity of the series -- we’ve
fought through so many little battles. Losing Andy Miller [to injury] and Jake Boyczuk to suspension. Losing [Ross] Armour [Satur-day] night for most of the game. We scored two in overtime [Sun-day] -- you name it -- we’ve really battled.
“I really gave my guys a lot of credit [Sunday] for their effort. It paid off and we live another day.”
New life didn’t come easy for the Nitehawks as the Dynamiters were intent on ending the best-of-seven series with a four-game sweep on home ice.
“I thought overall it was a great effort,” said Kimberley Dynamiters head coach Jerry Bancks. “We battled hard, didn’t get a lot of breaks, but I like our re-siliency. We get down, we battle back.
“That’s a good team. To beat them four straight, as close as ev-erything has been, is probably expecting a lit-tle too much.”
A slow start for the hosts saw the Nitehawks jump out to an early 1-0 lead as Spencer McLean
opened the scoring 1:28 into the first period.
Only 1:17 later, Bra-den Saretsky continued his torrid scoring pace by sliding one past Nite-hawks goaltender Car-son Schamerhorn to tie the game 1-1.
Sam Swanson re-stored the Nitehawks lead at the midpoint of the first.
With time winding down in the second pe-riod, Dynamiters de-fenceman Justin Meier sent a long, seeing-eye point shot towards the Nitehawks net and it somehow found a way through a mass of hu-manity to tie the game 2-2.
The Dynamiters had battled back.
Foyle put his team ahead 1:12 into the third period, but once again the Dynamiters found a way to claw back into it
as Keenan Haase banged home a re-bound to tie the game 3-3 and bring 978 fans to their feet at the Kimber-ley Civic Centre.
The first overtime period came to pass without a goal and dou-ble overtime proved controversial before Foyle finally ended it with 2:15 remaining.
Brouwer stood tall between the pipes once again, turning aside 38 of 42 shots in only his second loss of the post-season.
At the other end, Schamerhorn returned to the crease for Game 4 after giving way to Drake Poirier for Game 3.
The 17-year-old Kelowna native did what he needed to in stopping 34 of 37 shots.
The Nitehawks and Dynamiters will use Monday as their final
day of rest in the series before getting back at it Tuesday night for Game 5 in Fruitvale.
“We’ve got to play 60 minutes at home,” Jones said. “I think we played way better [in Kimber-ley] than we did at home. Now, we’ve got a little momentum, we’ve got a little belief. We needed to get that wind under our sails and now, I don’t think we change our game.
“We just make sure we get pucks deep and play in the offensive zone. That’s our game. When we forecheck that way, we’re hard to beat. When we break down defensively in our zone, that’s when we’re easy to beat. We’ve got to shore that defensive-zone stuff up and I thought we did a real good job of that [in Game 4].”
The Dynamiters
head to Fruitvale with a second opportunity to eliminate the defending KIJHL-champion Nite-hawks, leading the best-of-seven series 3-1.
The Nitros claimed a 3-0 series lead Saturday night with a 4-3 over-time victory over the Ni-tehawks, fuelled by a hat-trick performance from Saretsky.
“If you had told me at the start of the series that we’d be up 3-1 after four [games], I’d have taken it in a heartbeat,” Bancks said.
“Just get ready to go. Don’t get too high, don’t get too low.”
If necessary, Game 6 is scheduled for 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Kim-berley Civic Centre. Shoulder Game 7 be re-quired, it goes back in Fruitvale Thursday night.
Taylor rocca PhoTo
Beaver Valley Nitehawks goaltender Carson Schamerhorn makes a kick save with Kimberley Dynamiters forward Coy Prevost parked on his doorstep Sunday night during Game 4 of the Kootenay Conference final. The Nitehawks escaped the Kimberley Civic Centre with a 4-3 double-overtime vic-tory to force Game 5 in Fruitvale Tuesday night. The Nitros lead the best-of-seven series 3-1.
Kimberley Dynamiters Scoring SummarySaturDay, March 14
Beaver valley NitehawKS 3at KiMBerley DyNaMiterS 4 (Ot)
First Period 1. BVN - R. Armour, (M. Hauck), 11:382. BVN - K. Hope, (R. Anderson, D. Nemes), 10:243. KIM - B. Saretsky, (C. Prevost, K. Haase), 1:34 (PP)Second Period - No scoringThird Period 4. KIM - B. Revie, (J. Richter, J. Wallace), 15:475. KIM - B. Saretsky, (J. Richter), 11:246. BVN - L. Frank, (K. Klimchuk, K. Hope), 8:00Overtime7. KIM - B. Saretsky, (J. Richter), 7:26Shots 1 2 3 OT TBeaver Valley Nitehawks 9 13 7 1 30Kimberley Dynamiters 3 5 13 1 22Goaltenders Saves Mins SV%BVN - Drake Poirier 18/22 62:34 0.818KIM - Tyson Brouwer 27/30 62:34 0.900Power playsBeaver Valley - 0/2 (00.0%); Kimberley - 1/5 (20.0%) Attendance: 975
SuNDay, March 15
Beaver valley NitehawKS 4at KiMBerley DyNaMiterS 3 (2Ot)
First Period 1. BVN - S. McLean, (M. Foyle, W. Sidoni), 18:322. KIM - B. Saretsky, (J. Marchi, J. Richter), 17:153. BVN - S. Swanson, (B. Horcoff, M. Foyle), 10:26Second Period 4. KIM - J. Meier, (B. Saretsky), 3:53Third Period 5. BVN - M. Foyle, (unassisted), 18:486. KIM - K. Haase, (C. Prevost), 12:10Overtime 1- No scoringOvertime 2 7. BVN - M. Foyle, (W. Sidoni), 2:15 (PP)Shots 1 2 3 OT TBeaver Valley Nitehawks 11 10 9 12 42Kimberley Dynamiters 8 12 11 6 37Goaltenders Saves Mins SV%BVN - C. Schamerhorn 34/37 87:45 0.919KIM - Tyson Brouwer 38/42 87:45 0.905
Power playsBeaver Valley - 1/5 (20.0%); Kimberley - 0/2 (00.0%) Attendance: 978
Goaltending StatisticsPlayer W L SO GAA SP MPTyson Brouwer 11 2 2 1.56 0.944 807Brody Nelson 0 2 0 5.60 0.787 139
Round 3: Kootenay Conference FinalKimberley Dynamiters vs. Beaver Valley NitehawksDYNAMITERS LEAD SERIES 3-1Game 1 - Dynamiters 3 at Nitehawks 2 (OT)Game 2 - Dynamiters 6 at Nitehawks 3Game 3 - Nitehawks 3 at Dynamiters 4 (OT)Game 4 - Nitehawks 4 at Dynamiters 3 (2OT)Game 5 - March 17 at Beaver Valley Arena (8 p.m.)*Game 6 - March 18 at Kimberley Civic Centre (8 p.m.)*Game 7 - March 19 at Beaver Valley Arena (8 p.m.)All times Mountain
Times listed below are Mountain* = if necessary
KIJHL Playoffs Statistics & Series
KOOTENAY CONFERENCEPlayoff Scoring LeadersPlayer Team GP G A PTS 1. Braden Saretsky KIM 15 12 6 182. Coy Prevost KIM 15 9 7 163. Ross Armour BVN 13 4 10 144. Cole Keebler FER 11 5 8 135. Spencer McLean BVN 13 10 2 12
Playoff Goaltending Leaders (min. two games played)Player Team GAA W L MP SO1. Brock Lefebvre CTC 1.30 1 2 184 02. Tyson Brouwer KIM 1.54 11 2 807 23. Mitch Martell CTC 2.05 0 2 117 04. C. Schamerhorn BVN 2.22 7 2 649 05. Jeff Orser FER 2.74 6 5 656 0
Kootenay ConferenCe finalBEAVER VALLEY NITEHAWKS vs. KIMBERLEY DYNAMITERSDynamiters lead series 3-1Game 1: Kimberley Dynamiters 3 at Beaver Valley Nitehawks 2 (OT)Game 2: Kimberley Dynamiters 6 at Beaver Valley Nitehawks 3Game 3: Beaver Valley Nitehawks 3 at Kimberley Dynamiters 4 (OT)Game 4: Beaver Valley Nitehawks 4 at Kimberley Dynamiters 3 (2OT)Game 5: March 17 at Beaver Valley Arena (8 p.m.)*Game 6: March 18 at Kimberley Civic Centre (8 p.m.)*Game 7: March 19 at Beaver Valley Arena (8 p.m.)
OKANAGAN/SHUSWAP CONFERENCE Playoff Scoring LeadersPlayer Team GP G A PTS 1. Troy Maclise OSO 15 10 6 162. Brett Jewell OSO 15 7 9 163. Rainer Glimpel OSO 15 6 10 164. Daylan Robertson SUM 13 5 11 165. Aaron Azevedo OSO 15 5 11 16
Playoff Goaltending Leaders (min. two games played)Player Team GAA W L MP SO1. Bailey De Palma KAM 1.63 3 1 184 12. Kristian Stead 1MH 2.20 5 6 681 13. Jacob Mullen KAM 2.25 8 2 694 14. Lawrence Langan OSO 2.31 6 2 494 15. Brett Soles OSO 2.82 3 4 468 1
oKanagan/ShuSwap ConferenCe finalOSOYOOS COYOTES vs. KAMLOOPS STORMStorm lead series 3-1Game 1: Kamloops Storm 2 at Osoyoos Coyotes 7Game 2: Kamloops Storm 4 at Osoyoos Coyotes 3 (2OT)Game 3: Osoyoos Coyotes 3 at Kamloops Storm 6 Game 4: Osoyoos Coyotes 1 at Kamloops Storm 3Game 5: March 17 at Osoyoos Sun Bowl (8:35 p.m.)*Game 6: March 18 at McArthur Park Arena (8 p.m.)*Game 7: March 19 at Osoyoos Sun Bowl (8:35 p.m.)
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Playoff boundKootenay Ice book post-season ticket for 17th straight year
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Kootenay Ice goaltender Wyatt Hoflin dives to make one of his record-setting saves Friday night in a 7-1 victory over the Medicine Hat Tigers. Hoflin set a franchise record for saves in a season as the Ice clinched a playoff spot for the 17th consecutive campaign.
Taylor rocc aSports Editor
The Kootenay Ice are headed back to the post-season for the 17th consecutive campaign after clinching a playoff berth with a resounding 7-1 victory over the Medicine Hat Tigers Fri-day night at Western Fi-nancial Place.
The Ice kept rolling Saturday with a 4-2 vic-tory over the Red Deer Rebels.
The wins pushed the Ice to 36-29-1-3, ensur-ing the team will also finish above the .500 mark for the 16th con-secutive season -- an ac-tive WHL record.
“It’s good to get that out of the way because we don’t have to worry about that,” Ice forward Austin Vetterl said of clinching a playoff spot. “But we’ve still got Ed-monton right behind us. We’ve got to worry about them. We want to finish as high as we can and get some wins.”
With a 32-save per-formance Friday, Koote-nay Ice goaltender Wyatt Hoflin added to the record evening, es-tablishing a new fran-chise benchmark for saves in a season.
With 1,765 saves to his credit this season, Hoflin surpassed goal-tender Tim Winters (1,725 saves) for sole possession of the re-cord, which had stood
since the team’s inaugu-ral season -- 1996-97 -- when it was located in Edmonton.
Including a 4-2 victo-ry over the Red Deer Rebels Saturday night, Hoflin earned his 35th win of the season, set-ting a new franchise re-cord for victories in a season. Hoflin sur-passed Mackenzie Skapski (2012-13), Jeff Glass (2004-05) and Dan Blackburn (1999-00), who previously shared the record with 34 wins each.
“It’s an honour to be up there,” Hoflin said Friday night. “It’s nice. It’s more about the wins for me, but it’s nice to have that record.”
Hoflin also surpassed Skapski’s franchise re-cord for most minutes played in a season. The New York Rangers pros-pect saw 3,642 minutes in the crease during the 2012-13 season. Hoflin moved to 3,670 minutes following Saturday’s win.
“He means a lot to our team. He’s a work-horse,” Vetterl said of Hoflin. “I don’t know how many games he’s played, but he’s played a lot. Without him, I don’t think we’d be at the same spot we are now. Congrats to him. He’s done a great job and I think he’s proved a lot of people wrong.”
Last Saturday in Medicine Hat, the Ice had a difficult time put-
ting pucks past Tigers goaltender Marek Lang-hamer, who back-stopped his team to a 1-0 victory.
Friday at home, the Ice had no problem beating the native of Moravska Trebova, Czech Republic, victim-izing him seven times on 26 shots before Nick Schneider came on in relief.
“It’s the complete op-posite for us,” Hoflin said. “We go from scor-ing no goals to scoring seven goals. It’s good for our confidence.”
Vetterl was one of the goal-scoring culprits, tallying a power-play marker midway through the first period that stood as the eventual game-winning tally.
“It hit the goalie, came up and I kind of panicked,” Vetterl said, recounting his game-winning goal. “I whacked it out of the air and it ended up trickling in. It was nice to get.
“The difference was we came to work [Fri-day]. When we were in Medicine Hat, they con-trolled the game. [Fri-day], we got pucks in on their ‘D’ and we got after them. We got traffic on this goalie [Langhamer]. This goalie is an elite goalie. We talked about that before the game and when you get traffic, lucky things happen.”
Forwards Jaedon De-scheneau and Matt Alfa-
ro each registered two-goal nights, while Luke Philp, Sam Reinhart and Vetterl each cashed in once.
Vetterl’s tally was of particular importance. Apart from standing as the game-winner, it came in quick response to a short-handed effort by Tigers forward Trevor Cox that tied the game 1-1 in the first period.
It took a matter of 29 seconds for Vetterl to erase any damage or momentum the Tigers had following Cox’s breakaway effort.
From there, the Koo-tenay Ice controlled the play.
“We’re a good team, I think they know that,” Vetterl said. “But even more so, it shows if
they’re going to play us [in the first round of playoffs], they’re not going to walk all over us. We’re going to come out and play them hard.”
Following Friday’s victory, the Ice turned in a 4-2 win over the Reb-els in Red Deer.
Vetterl added a goal and two assists against Red Deer, while Alfaro scored the game-win-ner. Vince Loschiavo and Tim Bozon rounded out the scoring for the visitors.
Brooks Maxwell and Scott Feser registered goals for the Rebels.
Hoflin made 33 stops in his 35th win of the season, while Rylan Toth turned aside 20 of 23 shots for the Rebels.
As it stands, the Ice hold the first wild-card seed in the WHL’s East-ern Conference. If the playoffs were to start today, the Ice would face the Calgary Hitmen in first-round action.
The Ice return to ac-tion Wednesday night
when they travel to Le-thbridge to face the Hurricanes.
The final home date for the Ice goes Friday, March 20 at 7 p.m. when the Hitmen visit West-ern Financial Place.
Notes: Prior to Fri-day’s game, Kootenay Ice F Zak Zborosky was named Community Player of the Month for February…Ice F Sam Reinhart was named Male Junior Athlete of the Year by Sport B.C. Friday afternoon…
Kootenay Ice Scoring SummaryFrIday, March 13
MedIcIne hat tIgerS 1 at Kootenay Ice 7
First Period 1. KTN - L. Philp, (30) (J. Descheneau, T. King), 0:382. MHT - T. Cox, (25) (unassisted), 8:20 (SH)3. KTN - A. Vetterl, (12) (T. King, Z. Zborosky), 8:49 (PP)Second Period 4. KTN - M. Alfaro, (11) (Z. Zborosky, A. Vetterl), 2:205. KTN - J. Descheneau, (31) (T. King, L. Philp), 12:546. KTN - S. Reinhart, (18) (T. Lishchynsky, L. Cable), 13:10Third Period 7. KTN - J. Descheneau, (32) (L. Philp, T. Murray), 4:038. KTN - M. Alfaro, (12) (A. Vetterl, C. Fleury), 10:07Shots 1 2 3 TMedicine Hat Tigers 13 12 8 33Kootenay Ice 12 11 9 32Goaltenders Saves Mins SV%MHT - Marek Langhamer 19/26 50:07 0.731 Nick Schneider 6/6 9:53 1.000KTN - Wyatt Hoflin 32/33 60:00 0.970Power playsMedicine Hat Tigers 0/2 (00.0%)Kootenay Ice 1/3 (33.3%)Three Stars: 1) J. Descheneau (KTN); 2) M. Alfaro (KTN); 3) A. Vetterl (KTN)Attendance: 2,374
Saturday, March 14
Kootenay Ice 4 at red deer rebelS 2
First Period 1. RDR - B. Maxwell, (26) (K. Doetzel, R. Sheen), 15:05Second Period 2. KTN - V. Loschiavo, (6) (T. Murray, A. Vetterl), 9:213. RDR - S. Feser, (16) (E. Polei, C. Gay), 12:204. KTN - A. Vetterl, (13) (T. King, J. Martin), 16:09Third Period 5. KTN - M. Alfaro, (13) (A. Vetterl, T. Lishchynsky), 9:506. KTN - T. Bozon, (33) (R. Valiev, L. Cable), 19:29 (EN)Shots 1 2 3 TKootenay Ice 9 8 7 24Red Deer Rebels 9 14 12 35
Goaltenders Saves Mins SV%KTN - Wyatt Hoflin 33/35 60:00 0.943RDR - Rylan Toth 20/23 59:19 0.870Power playsKootenay Ice 0/0 (00.0%)Red Deer Rebels 0/2 (00.0%)Three Stars: 1) W. Hoflin (KTN); 2) E. Polei (RDR); 3) M., Alfaro (KTN)Attendance: 5,087
March ScheduleMarch 6 vs. RDR - 2-1 SOLMarch 7 at MHT - 1-0 LMarch 10 vs. LET - 4-1 WMarch 13 vs. MHT - 7-1 WMarch 14 at RDR - 4-2 WMarch 18 at LethbridgeMarch 20 vs. CalgaryMarch 22 at Calgary
Goaltending StatisticsPlayer W L OT/SL SO GAA SPWyatt Hoflin 35 24 3 3 3.12 0.902 Declan Hobbs 0 0 1 0 3.98 0.875Keelan Williams 1 5 0 0 4.77 0.863
Skapski nets first NHL shutoutFormer Ice goaltender makes 20 saves to blank Buffalo Sabres
Nick MeNdolaAssociated Press
BUFFALO, N.Y. - Mackenzie Skapski keeps checking off ca-reer milestones against the Buffalo Sabres.
The New York Rang-ers’ rookie goaltender made 20 saves to pick up his first NHL shutout in a 2-0 win over Buffalo, three weeks after beat-ing the Sabres to pick up his first NHL win.
“I didn’t even digest the win yet, let alone the shutout,” Skapski said.
The Rangers made him sweat it out despite the last-place opponent. Keith Yandle’s third-pe-riod goal broke a score-less tie, and Martin St. Louis added an empty
net goal to finish it off.“He gave us a chance
to win the hockey game,” defenceman Marc Staal said. “It’s good for him. It’s a good milestone for a goalie. It’s great he can get it early.”
The Rangers have the best record in the league after Saturday’s win, and are 13-1-2 since Feb. 8.
“We have a very un-derrated offensive de-fensive team,” Skapski said. “That’s what makes us the best team in the NHL right now.”
After killing off a pen-alty, the Rangers broke the scoreless deadlock when Yandle’s high wrist shot from the point went through a maze of play-ers to beat a screened Anders Lindback.
“I thought for a sec-ond that I didn’t know if it got tipped, so maybe I shouldn’t celebrate,” Yandle said. “I don’t real-ly remember too much.”
The goal was Yan-dle’s first since being ac-quired from Arizona on March 1.
Lindback made 32 saves for the Sabres, los-ers of six in a row and mired in last place in the Eastern Conference.
Skapski stopped Tyler Ennis with his mask on a breakaway 6:16 into the first period after the Sabres centre got separation from the Rangers’ Marc Staal.
“Approaching the game, I’d only played 60 minutes in the NHL so I was a little bit nervous,”
Skapski said. “That breakaway save in the first period kind of set-tled me down and I had a quick break in the sec-ond period where it was a 2-on-1 play and that propelled me through the rest of the game.”
Skapski slid across to glove a wide-open, high one-timer from Brian Gionta early in the sec-ond. Moments later, he stopped Matt Moulson’s point-blank wrist shot.
“His only two NHL wins are against us; his only two NHL games are against us,” said Sabres defenceman Mike Weber. “I mean, we tried to come at him a little bit harder than our last out-ing at home against them.”
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Obituaries Obituaries
Robert Bruce Ian Sinclair 1942 - 2015
Died February 14th after a 10 month battle with metastatic cancer in Abbotsford B.C.
Pre-deceased by his brother Sandy. Survived by wife Gloria Petersen Sinclair and first wife Leslie Sinclair-McKinnon, by his children Sean, Patrick, Rory (Erika) and Erin, by his step children Robin (Matt) and Andy (Britt), by his grandchildren Conor, Callum, Benjamin, Nathan, Aaron, Vienne, Raphael, Seamus, Hudson and Louisa and by his brother Rory and sister Heather.
Ian was born in Sutton Ontario and raised in Deep River, Ontario. In 1960 he graduated from MacKenzie High School in Deep River as an Ontario Scholar and from the University of Toronto Medical School in 1966. In 1967, Ian relocated permanently to the West to intern at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta and then began Family Practice in Kimberley, British Columbia. Ian moved to Seattle in 1979 to study anesthesiology which was his specialty thenceforward. He returned to Canada in 2003 settling Abbotsford and practicing in Maple Ridge. Ian retired in 2014.
Ian will be remembered as a superb athlete with a drive and determination to excel. He played all sports extremely well: football and later rugby, baseball (pitcher), basketball, and many events in track and field. He was a sprinter: his best time in the 100 yard dash [before meters] was 10.2 seconds and in the 440 yard sprint, 53 seconds. In his mature years he was a dedicated marathoner and made the cut for the Boston Marathon 3 times. There was never a sport that he put his hand in which he did not do well
Ian was a man who not only made friends easily but he also maintained those friendships. He stayed in touch with friends from High School, University, every town he ever lived and every hospital he ever worked.
C anadian PressHALIFAX - The federal government filled a gap in
the benefit program for reservists who are injured during their military service, putting the part-timers on equal financial terms with regular members of the Canadian Forces.
The change announced in Halifax by Veterans Af-fairs Minister Erin O’Toole means the minimum benefit to cover lost earnings for reservists almost doubles from $24,300 to more than $42,000 a year. The military estimates about 200 part-time reservists will benefit when the change goes into effect next month and will cost about $24 million over the next five years.
O’Toole said benefits are being extended to give reservist veterans equal and fair treatment.
The new approach includes reserve force veterans who are enrolled in the vocational rehabilitation pro-gram, including those who are getting benefits from the Defence Department’s service income insurance plan, O’Toole said. It also extends to survivors of re-servists who died as a result of their military service.
The benefit will increase according to pay with each rank above corporal.
The change fills a gap first identified by Veterans Affairs in 2006.
Scott Maxwell, executive director of Wounded Warriors Canada, said the change is about recogniz-ing all veterans even though the government is some-times slow to act.
“We’re OK with that so long as they are listening and they are willing to act,” said Maxwell.
Veterans ombudsman Guy Parent said the in-creased payment is about the debt owed by Canadi-ans to those who serve in uniform.
“It doesn’t matter whether you are a reserve, regu-lar force, where you serve or how you serve,” said Parent. “The debt should be repaid and I think today we made a step closer towards meeting that commit-ment.”
The unequal treatment of reservists has been a sensitive topic for the Conservatives, who have put a politically charged overhaul of the reserve forces on hold. National Defence was supposed to have deliv-ered a new structure for the part-time, volunteer force by this spring’s budget, but it likely won’t be done until after the election, scheduled for October.
Canada sent 27,000 reservists to Afghanistan, and 14 of them were killed during the mission.
Injured reservists to get same benefit as full-time
