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MONDAY AUGUST 10, 20 15 Buying or Selling Call Marilyn First 250-427-8700 Michelle Rybachuk East Kootenay Realty INDEPENDENTLY OWNED AND OPERATED 250.421.9239 [email protected]328 3rd Ave. S., Cranbrook - $189,900 This is a great starter home or perfect for those looking to downsize! Beautifully maintained and updated 2+1 bed, 1 bath home on double lot close to schools and parks. Many upgrades including: updated kitchen including plumbing, completely updated bathroom, drywall & paint in LR & kitchen, recently painted exterior. Fully fenced front yard and partially fenced back yard. Two bdrms on main and great loft area upstairs. RV parking, 12x20 storage shed, garden area, alley access. 2406809 Cranbrook South THE BULLETIN $ 1 10 HIROSHIMA THE ATOMIC BOMB Putting the destruction into a local perspective. See NEWS/FEATURES page 2 INCLUDES G.S.T. TownsmanBulletin Like Us @kbulletin Follow Us KOOTENAY DANCE SUMMER INTENSIVE Summer classes at the Kootenay Dance Academy. See LOCAL NEWS page 4 PROUDLY SERVING KIMBERLEY AND AREA SINCE 1932 | Vol. 83, Issue 152 | www.dailybulletin.ca PHOTO COURTESY KIMBERLEY FRAMERS’ MARKET The Kimberley Farmers’ Market, held every Thursday evening on Howard Street, continues to be a huge success, drawing hundreds of people each week. This past Thursday, 41 vendors were signed up to display and sell fresh produce, baked goods and more. The markets continue until September 10. August 10, 7 p.m. Council Chambers CAROLYN GRANT Bulletin Editor As the summer rolls on, most people are thinking camping, the beach, and just getting away. However, Kimberley City Council continues to meet. Their next meeting is to- night, August 10 at 7 p.m. in Council Chambers, upstairs at City Hall. On the agenda tonight is a visit from Chamber Manager Mike Guarnery, who will deliver an update on JulyFest. Other than that, it is a fairly short agenda, but Council has received some correspondence which could provoke some in- teresting discussion. Council has received two let- ters questioning their granting of a business license in Marys- ville for a coffee shop construct- ed of C Cans. See COUNCIL page 3 Grizzly shot in Summer Sub home Niki and Mark Traverse wake up at 4:30 a.m. find grizzly eating dog food CAROLYN GRANT Bulletin Editor In what Conservation Officer Jared Connatty says should be a wake up call to everyone, a griz- zly bear was shot in a Summer Sub home (just on the edges of Kimberley, above Meadow- brook Motors) early Sunday morning. Mark and Niki Traverse were awoken at 4:30 a.m. on Sunday to noises in their kitchen and found a grizzly boar eating dog food. “We have an air conditioner in the bedroom and it drowns out any sound,” said Niki Tra- verse. “But our dog was going nuts. He’s just a little dog, about 20 pounds, but he was outside the bedroom door barking the house down. “I got up to check. Mark stayed in bed. He just said, don’t let the dog out, because there are coyotes. “I came around the corner to the entry way where we have the cat and dog food. I see this huge black mass. I booked it back to the bedroom screaming, ‘there’s a bear in the house!’ Mark’s like, ‘really?’ . ‘Yeah, really.’ “We have a gun cabinet in the bedroom, so Mark unlocked the gun. See GRIZZLY, page 3 At Kimberley City Council tonight
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MONDAYAUGUST 10, 2015
250-427-8700
Buying or SellingCall Marilyn First
250-427-8700
Buying or SellingCall Marilyn First
250-427-8700
Michelle Rybachuk
East Kootenay RealtyINDEPENDENTLY OWNED AND OPERATED
328 3rd Ave. S., Cranbrook - $189,900This is a great starter home or perfect for those looking to downsize! Beautifully maintained and updated 2+1 bed, 1 bath home on double lot close to schools and parks. Many upgrades including: updated kitchen including plumbing, completely updated bathroom, drywall & paint in LR & kitchen, recently painted exterior. Fully fenced front yard and partially fenced back yard. Two bdrms on main and great loft area upstairs. RV parking, 12x20 storage shed, garden area, alley access. 2406809
Cranbrook South
THE BULLETIN$110
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PROUDLY SERVING KIMBERLEY AND AREA SINCE 1932 | Vol. 83, Issue 152 | www.dailybulletin.ca
PHOTO COURTESY KIMBERLEY FRAMERS’ MARKET
The Kimberley Farmers’ Market, held every Thursday evening on Howard Street, continues to be a huge success, drawing hundreds of people each week. This past Thursday, 41 vendors were signed up to display and sell fresh produce, baked goods and more. The markets continue until September 10.
August 10, 7 p.m. Council Chambers
C AROLYN GR ANTBulletin Editor
As the summer rolls on, most people are thinking camping, the beach, and just getting away. However, Kimberley City Council continues to meet.
Their next meeting is to-night, August 10 at 7 p.m. in Council Chambers, upstairs at City Hall.
On the agenda tonight is a visit from Chamber Manager Mike Guarnery, who will deliver an update on JulyFest.
Other than that, it is a fairly short agenda, but Council has received some correspondence which could provoke some in-teresting discussion.
Council has received two let-ters questioning their granting of a business license in Marys-ville for a coffee shop construct-ed of C Cans.
See COUNCIL page 3
Grizzly shot in Summer Sub home
Niki and Mark Traverse wake up at 4:30 a.m. find grizzly
eating dog food
C AROLYN GR ANTBulletin Editor
In what Conservation Officer Jared Connatty says should be a wake up call to everyone, a griz-zly bear was shot in a Summer Sub home (just on the edges of Kimberley, above Meadow-brook Motors) early Sunday morning.
Mark and Niki Traverse were awoken at 4:30 a.m. on Sunday to noises in their kitchen and found a grizzly boar eating dog food.
“We have an air conditioner in the bedroom and it drowns out any sound,” said Niki Tra-verse. “But our dog was going nuts. He’s just a little dog, about 20 pounds, but he was outside the bedroom door barking the house down.
“I got up to check. Mark stayed in bed. He just said, don’t let the dog out, because there are coyotes.
“I came around the corner to the entry way where we have the cat and dog food. I see this huge black mass. I booked it back to the bedroom screaming, ‘there’s a bear in the house!’ Mark’s like, ‘really?’. ‘Yeah, really.’
“We have a gun cabinet in the bedroom, so Mark unlocked the gun.
How would Cranbrook fare against an atomic bomb?Arne Petryshen
Seventy years ago, on Aug. 6, the first atomic bomb was dropped from a B-29 Superfor-tress over Hiroshima, then three days later on Aug. 9, a second was dropped on Nagasaki. The destruction was un-precedented and diffi-cult to imagine, so let’s try to put in it perspec-tive: What if an atomic bomb was dropped on Cranbrook?
First a little history: At 8:15 a.m. on Aug. 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city, Little Boy, exited the bomb doors of the Enola Gay and fell for 44 seconds before detonat-ing 580 meters above the city. The destructive power was unlike any-thing that had come be-fore, levelling the city and killing 70,000 to 80,000 people — 30 per cent of the population of Hiroshima — in the initial blast and resul-tant firestorm. Another 70,000 were injured. Onlookers reported see-ing a brilliant flash fol-lowed by a loud boom. The U.S. estimated that 12 square kilometres of the city was destroyed.
However despite the colossal damage, Ja-
pan’s war council re-fused to surrender, ex-cept under a number of conditions. Japan also presumed that the U.S. would not have more nuclear bombs ready to drop.
The U.S moved for-ward on a second planned bombing.
On Aug. 9, Bockscar dropped the bomb
nicknamed Fat Man on Nagasaki at 11:01 a.m. Clouds and coal smoke obscured the initial tar-get of Kokura, further east. It exploded 503 meters over the city and generated temperatures of 3,900 degrees Celsius and 1000 km/h winds.
On Aug. 15, the Em-pire of Japan announced its surrender. The em-
peror Hirohito noted the effect the bomb had had on his decision: “Moreover, the enemy now possesses a new and terrible weapon with the power to de-stroy many innocent lives and do incalcula-ble damage. Should we continue to fight, not only would it result in an ultimate collapse
and obliteration of the Japanese nation, but also it would lead to the total extinction of human civilization.”
And so finally, what kind of destruction would Little Boy cause if dropped on Cranbrook? Thanks to an app on Public Radio Interna-tional’s website, finding that out is possible.
With the target on Rotary Park, the bomb detonates over the city.
Within a half of a mile 90 per cent of peo-ple are killed by heavy fire and blast. As well as the destruction of city hall and the entire downtown, the Cran-brook History Centre and Western Financial Place would also fall
into this radius. The Cranbrook Daily Townsman building would also be obliterat-ed.
Further out, at a one mile radius, 70 per cent of people are killed by heavy fire and blast. Ev-erything up to this dis-tance is completely de-stroyed by heavy fire from the explosion at ground zero. That de-struction would scorch half of the Cranbrook Golf Club as well as all the neighbourhoods from Slaterville to 27th Avenue South. And half of the industrial park down to 14th Street South.
Within three miles buildings would be heavily destroyed by fire that spreads from ground zero. That’s the entire City of Cran-brook.
Buildings in Fort Steele, Mayook and Lumberton are safe but windows might be bro-ken, within the 12 mile radius.
Of course, all of this is simply speculation. For a sobering account of what it was like to survive the first bomb read John Hersey’s Pu-litzer Prize winning novel Hiroshima.
Submitted photo
Over 70 years ago, atomic weapons were first detonated over the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.
For the townsmAnInterior Health is seeing an increase in pertussis
cases, also known as whooping cough, and would like to remind parents about the importance of making sure their children’s immunizations are up to date. Pertussis activity is being seen across the region with the majority of cases currently in the Central Okanagan.
“Infants under one year of age are most at risk for serious complications from pertussis,” said Dr. Kam-ran Golmohammadi, Medical Health Officer with Interior Health. “Pertussis starts with similar symp-toms to a common cold (runny nose, sore throat, and mild fever) and then progresses to a cough. The cough can become severe, with or without a classic whooping sound and may be accompanied by gasp-ing, gagging, shortness of breathing and vomiting. In serious cases it can lead to pneumonia, seizures, brain damage or even death.”
Immunization is the best way to prevent the spread of this disease. The pertussis vaccine is part of the routine childhood vaccinations that are given at 2 months, 4 months, 6 months, and 18 months old, and again at age 4 to 6 years (before Kindergar-ten). A pertussis vaccine is also given to teens at 14 to 16 years of age (Grade 9) in British Columbia.
“We are strongly advising all parents to ensure their children are immunized so they are not at risk,” adds Dr. Golmohammadi. “The pertussis vaccine is very safe and effective in preventing the spread of this disease.”
Parents are advised to check their child’s immu-nization record and make sure they are up to date. Information about accessing immunization records can be found at ImmunizeBC.
Whooping cough on the increase
Pratt updates RDEK on Idlewild Parktre vor Cr Awley
There has been a lot of concern about the state of Idlewild Park following the decision by the City of Cranbrook to draw the water levels down.
Earlier in the spring, after a report identified structural deficiencies with the dam, the city chose to draw down the water levels to prevent a possible breach.
At Friday’s RDEK board meeting, Cran-brook mayor Lee Pratt gave an update on the situation to fellow direc-tors, and admitted that the process hasn’t gone as fast as the city had hoped.
“The drawdown is going a little slower than we anticipated,” said Pratt. “We’ve had a few issues, some with the equipment of the dam itself and the valving, and we got that fixed.
“Then, of course, dealing with the minis-tries on the fisheries and environment and so we’ve had some issues
there that we didn’t an-ticipate but we’re work-ing on them and moving forward.
“We feel that even though it’s taken a little longer than anticipated, we’re progressing well and once we get to the point where we want to be, we’ll start getting
going on the design and the rebuilding of the fa-cility.”
Pratt adds that once the city is at that stage, there will be opportuni-ties for public consulta-tion and service organi-zations to get involved with the planning.
“We’ve already had a
survey done with a great turnout of answers on it, so we’ll be putting all that together for when we get the design and the planning and what the end is going to look like,” Pratt said.
“From the city’s standpoint, we want to do it right, we want to
make it bigger and bet-ter than what it was and also look at it as being a great community build-ing project.”
Pratt added that the city has applied for a federal gas tax grant to help with the infrastruc-ture costs of the project.
Stewart wilSon photo
The water levels at Idlewild Lake has been decreasing as part of a drawdown to mitigate fears of a dam failure.
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From Page 1“He came out and
turned on the kitchen light. As soon as he turned on the lights the bear came out into the kitchen, straight toward my husband.
“Thank God I didn’t turn on the light when I checked, that would have been bad.
“The bear was ten feet away and Mark took a shot. He came another three to four feet and Mark took another shot. It was down but still moving. We didn’t want it moving, so Mark took another shot.”
Niki sums the experi-ence up this way.
“It was pretty damn scary. I was freaking out, but my husband is a hunter. We’re the only
house on the block with a gun (a Weatherby 300). I guess the bear picked the wrong house.”
Connatty says the bear pulled apart the window and got through about a three foot by two foot space. The bear also broke the screen door, but its access to the house was through the window.
“The family woke up, heard a noise and found the bear feeding on dog food. Fortunately they had a firearm in the bedroom and shot the bear right in the kitchen.
“It’s a pretty remark-able story because that bear was obviously in the house for some time. They were pretty lucky. An encounter with a
Photo courtesy James archie archibald (Facebook)
This grizzly was shot by Mark Traverse in his Summer Sub kitchen Sunday morning.
bear in an enclosed area is a super high safety concern. When a bear breaks into a home, the chance of contact is ex-
tremely high.”The Traverse family
were managing their at-tractants, Connatty said.
“The dog food was in
a sealed container, ev-erything, including gar-bage, was inside the house,” he said. “These people were doing ev-erything right. They had the gun stored properly, everything was done properly.”
For a bear to get to the point of breaking into a house, it’s been rewarded for this be-haviour before, the CO says.
“These people were managing their attrac-tants, but obviously at some point someone wasn’t, and this bear learned from it.”
“We did one thing wrong,” Niki said. “I left a window open. I’ve lived in this house since 1991 and we always leave a window open
when it’s hot. Not any-more. I’ll never do that again.”
Connatty says the bear was not in great shape.
“He was definitely on a downward slide. It could be he’d been pushed out of his terri-tory by another big griz-zly boar, but it could also be the bear was hungry because it’s a very poor berry year. You could speculate until you’re blue in the face.”
“It wasn’t in great shape,” Niki said. “The CO said by the size of its teeth, he figured it was at least ten years old. But it was skinny and I thought a ten-year old grizzly would be bigger than that.
This is a good re-
minder to everyone, that especially with ber-ries poor this year be-cause of the drought, at-tractants have to be managed carefully from now right through to November.
“That means gar-bage, fruit trees, dog food,” Connatty said. “In town the fruit trees seem to be doing well, but in the upper drainages the berries are not so good.”
If you have a human wildlife encounter you are asked to call the RAPP line at 1-877-952-7277. That will get you in touch with a conserva-tion officer. However, in an emergency situation, it’s best to go through 911.
Grizzly shot in Summer Sub kitchen
From Page 1The letters question
the need for another drive-through coffee business right across the street from one which is just about to open. There is also concern about what it might look like.
Council will also re-ceive the building per-mit report. Mayor Don McCormick has been vocal about how pleased he is to see so much building activity in Kim-berley after a couple of slow years.
While it is nowhere near the boom days of 10 years ago, 2015 has been a good year. 114 building permits were issued from January to July of 2015, compared to 92 in all of 2014 and 79 in 2013. The value of the building permits so far is $58,603.20 reflect-ing a construction value of $6,322,500.
Construction values for the whole year in 2014 were $3,639,180.
The Kimberley Fire Department is request-ing that Council give them the authority to deploy initial attack wildfire apparatus out-side of municipal limits. With the authority granted, the process for deploying out of the boundaries will be streamlined.
With the busy fire season, firefighting re-
sources are stretched throughout the prov-ince, and the Kimberley Fire Department could be asked to respond at any time, as they already have once this summer.
The province reim-burses most expenses when a municipal fire department responds outside of their bound-aries.
Council will also be asked to endorse the signing of the Resort Municipality funding through 2017 in order to access funds from that program.
Mayor Don McCor-mick has been lobbying other resort municipali-ties for a changed fund-ing formula going for-ward after 2017, but in the meantime Kimber-ley will continue to ac-cess these funds for cap-ital tourism infrastruc-ture projects. Council has yet to decide what the projects for 2016 and 2017 will be.
Also a reminded that the Mayor’s Lunch is scheduled for this Wednesday, August 12. If you have any ques-tions arising from this Council meeting or any other City actions, this is a good opportunity to ask them. The lunch be-gins at noon in Council chambers.
Council tonight
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OpiniOn/EvEnts
Tom FleTcherBlack Press
Federal party leaders squared off in their first TV debate Thursday, a mostly polite two-hour exchange of views on the economy, environment and military ac-tion overseas.
The environment segment was most focused on B.C., where Prime Minister Stephen Harper was pressed on stalled pipeline proposals to the west and east coasts as well as to the U.S. Harper said low world prices for energy make it the only sector that is under-performing, while the rest of the economy is growing.
Green Party leader Elizabeth May urged NDP leader Thomas Mulcair to oppose the twinning of the TransMountain oil pipe-line from Alberta to its Burnaby terminal. Mulcair stuck to his position that he will await a federal environmental review.
Harper noted that Liberal leader Justin Trudeau has opposed capital cost allow-ances for liquefied natural gas investors, weakening the case for new gas pipelines. He said his government approved the Northern Gateway pipeline proposed to run to Kitimat with more than 200 condi-tions, because “that’s how the system works.”
Trudeau and Harper sparred over greenhouse gas emission efforts, with
Leaders battle over jobs, pipelines, fighter jets
Letters to the editorHarper’s claims
On August 9, Stephen Harp-er made an astonishing cam-paign announcement. First, he proposed new legislation that would make it illegal for Cana-dians to travel to a number of “terrorist” areas international-ly. Second, he made a sweep-ing claim that every provincial NDP government in Canada has been “a disaster”. These claims are important enough that we should consider them carefully.
The new anti-terror legisla-tion is unnecessary because it is repetitive. There is already legislation prohibiting Canadi-ans from travelling abroad to participate in a number of named terrorist-designated or-ganizations and initiatives. I leave it to others to explore its effectiveness.
On the matter of the slur against every provincial NDP government that has ever been elected in Canada, some cor-rectives are in order. Does he refer to Tony Penikett’s terms in Yukon, where, among a number of notable accom-plishments, Penikett success-fully initiated the Yukon Final Agreement with Yukon’s four-teen First Nations, setting a model that southern Canada has yet to follow?
Does he mean the B.C. re-cord, which includes public in-surance in the form of ICBC; increasing the land for provin-cial parks; creating the Labour Relations Board; instituting
democratic measures in the legislature – including Ques-tion Period -- and the ALR leg-islation to protect B.C.’s agri-cultural land which has been continued by every govern-ment of every political stripe subsequently?
He must include the long history of the NDP in Manito-ba, where the people of that province have often returned the party to office precisely be-cause of its ability to handle chronic difficult economic conditions effectively. He must mean the Nova Scotia govern-ment of Derrell Dexter, which had to assume financial “disas-ters” left by the Progressive Conservatives.
His slur includes the gov-ernments of Tommy Douglas, Alan Blakeney, Roy Romanow, and Lorne Calvert in Saskatch-ewan, which produced an en-viable and perhaps never matched record of balanced budgets and groundbreaking legislation including the first medicare legislation in Cana-da.
The social consensus on the NDP initiatives was so strong that even Premier Brad Wall, the proto-Conservative flying under the Saskatchewan Party banner, has not touched the Crown corporations that pro-tect Saskatchewan peoples’ in-terests in insurance, power, telecommunications, and so on. And he assuredly means Alberta’s Rachel Notley, who has already endured Harper’s premature attack as a “disas-
ter” yet has not been in office long enough to present her first budget.
If Harper can’t campaign on his record, then he should at least hew a little closer to the truth in attacking his oppo-nents – and he should stop try-ing to run against provincial premiers who, after all, are not even candidates in this elec-tion.
Joyce Green
road rage My wife and I had been trav-
eling in our 24 foot motor home and entered Cranbrook about 8 p.m. on Thursday, Au-gust 6. We drove from our home in Southern California to Alaska, then south through Canada, on the Canada High-way, more than 5,000 total miles without incident. Along the way we encountered many Canadians, all of whom were friendly, witty and most helpful to us. It’s been a great experi-ence.
We entered Cranbrook looking for an RV Park at the south end of the City and slow-ly made our way down Cran-brook Street, with almost no traffic, listening to our GPS giv-ing directions to the park. As sometimes happens with a GPS, a direction is given, but the situation for the driver, without confirming with street signs, can lead to temporary confusion. This was exactly our situation, and I made a sudden left turn, apparently, cutting off
a driver behind me. I spend a lot of my driving time checking my rear view mirrors, this time I didn’t. Fortunately, since there was little traffic, no real harm was done. The other driver, however, was irate. If he happens to read this, I was wrong and apologize. He pro-ceeded to honk his horn, ap-propriately, but then flash me the well known one finger sa-lute as he passed. As fate would have it, we met again at anoth-er intersection moments later, coming from different direc-tions, with me turning left and him turning right. He, again, angrily repeated his one finger salute.
This incident of road rage, will in no way change my feel-ings toward Canada or any of the wonderful Canadian peo-ple we’ve encountered. It did, however, remind me, since we live in the Palm Springs/Palm Desert area, where many thou-sands of tourists visit yearly, many from Canada, that some-times situations arise that re-quire a little patience and toler-ance from the locals toward visitors, who may not be famil-iar with the area.
I hope that the other driver, in our situation, never has a moment of indecision, where-in he makes a mistake, but if he does, I hope the offended driv-er treats him with more courte-sy.
Phyllis & Sandy Hellman, Palm Desert, Ca.
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Harper noting he moved ahead on curbing coal power plant emissions three years before U.S. President Barack Obama.
Harper agreed that approval of the Key-stone XL pipeline from Alberta to southern U.S. refineries will likely have to wait for Obama to leave office next year.
May said Harper is nowhere near meet-ing his own commitment to curb emis-sions, as forest fires rage and extreme weather increases all year around.
The debate moderator, Maclean’s mag-azine columnist Paul Wells, asked Harper if he owes Canadians an apology for ap-pointing since-suspended senators Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin and Patrick Brazeau.
Harper did not apologize, saying the prov-inces need a consensus to reform the sen-ate through elections as he proposed, or to abolish it.
Mulcair and Trudeau oppose the cur-rent bombing missions against Islamic State terrorist targets in Syria and Iraq. Mulcair said he would support military action sanctioned by the United Nations or under Canada’s NATO commitments.
Harper said the deployment of six fight-er jets with special forces support is what Canada’s allies want to do, and Islamic State is a “nerve centre” for a global move-ment that has targeted Canada specifical-ly.
Federal party leaders battled on Thursday evening in the first TV debate of the elec-tion.
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For the politically-minded, last Thurs-day evening was a bounty of riches — from the interesting, to the astound-
ing, to the slightly-sad.I speak of course, of the Canadian lead-
ers debate — which would fall under the category of interesting, though I will quali-fy that by the phrase ‘at times’.
For the astounding you have to look no further than the Republican presidential primary debate in the United States where the highly partisan audi-ence clapped like delighted seals at every misogynist, fear of the other, statement made by its array of clowns, led by lead clown Donald Trump.
And for sad, I give you the final episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart at the helm. Yes, The Daily Show falls under the catego-ry of entertainment, but host Stewart’s focus was always politics, and the delivery of the political message by media. And it was sad to see him go.
Let’s start with the Canadian leaders debate. As the pundits parsed every phrase, most came to the conclusion that no one hurt themselves. The Liberal’s Trudeau had a few clear wins and was per-haps a little bit too eager to bust into the conversation at times. Tom Mulcair started
slow and seemed a little stuffy at first but warmed up in the second half. Steven Harper appeared in control and, dare I say, human at times. Elizabeth May proved she belonged on the big stage. Although it was surprisingly easy to pick up the bias of each pundit as they delivered their conclu-sions.
However, it may be the only debate fea-turing all four leaders as they continue to squabble about details for the remaining
debates. And that would be a shame because, if you were undecided before Thursday night, you are likely still undecided.
As for the Republican debate, it was another ex-ample of the basic problem that all Republican presi-
dential candidates face. In order to satisfy the party’s base, which is, shall we say, sit-uated somewhat right of the views of Genghis Khan, candidates must run so far to the right that it’s almost impossible to walk back some of their more outrageous statements when facing the more centrist American undecided voter.
Not that that worried Donald Trump, leading in the polls. In his usual bombastic fashion, Trump managed to deliver zing-ers and one-liners about political correct-ness and the need to make America great
again, without once veering anywhere near actual policy. And candidate Mike Huckabee, while railing against transgen-der people, managed to inform us that the role of the military is “to kill people and break things”. Thanks Mike. Did not know that. And candidate Scott Walker said he doesn’t support abortion even if a wom-an’s life is at risk. The logic behind that is worth a study. In fact the only conclusion I managed to draw from the Republican debate is that the Democrats could likely run a trained chimp against whoever wins the Republican nomination, and still have a very good chance of capturing the White House. At least the chimp would be less likely to say something stupid.
To think I’m going to have to go through the entire American campaign without Jon Stewart and Indecision 2016. It boggles the mind. He has been such a huge presence in American elections for the past 16 years, it’s hard to imagine an election without him. It’s hard to imagine the news without him. He carried most left-leaning Ameri-cans through the Iraq war with his brilliant Mess-O-Potamia segments. His last mes-sage to viewers last Thursday, was to keep sniffing for BS.
With election campaigns in both Cana-da and the United States, the BS won’t be hard to find.
Beware of BS in election debates
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Blue Jays win eighth straight; sweep YankeesMike Fitzpatrick
Associated Press
NEW YORK - Josh Donaldson and Jose Bautista each hit a long home run, and the To-ronto Blue Jays earned their eighth straight vic-tory by beating the New York Yankees 2-0 Sun-day to complete a three-game sweep that tight-ened the AL East race.
Marco Estrada tossed three-hit ball into the seventh inning against the suddenly slumping Yankees, outpitching Masahiro Tanaka during Toronto’s second con-secutive shutout.
In a series that fea-tured the top two offenc-es in the majors, New York mustered only one run and went scoreless
over the final 26 innings. Not since 1999 had the Yankees been blanked in two straight games.
With their 11th win in 12 games, the streaking Blue Jays pulled within 1 1/2 games of the first-place Yankees. It was the first time since May 2003 that Toronto swept New York in a series of at least three games.
On an agitating after-noon for the Yankees, Brett Gardner slammed down his helmet with two hands after ground-ing out with a runner on second to end the third.
The next inning, he was hit in the back by Bautista’s home run ball when a fan in the left-field stands threw it back onto the field.
Estrada (10-6) kept
New York’s dangerous lineup off balance all day, masterfully mixing his 77 mph changeup with a 90 mph fastball and slow curve. He gave up three singles and three walks, striking out six.
The right-hander was lifted after 89 pitch-es with two on in the seventh. LaTroy Haw-kins got out of the in-ning, Aaron Sanchez pitched a hitless eighth and Roberto Osuna worked a perfect ninth for his 10th save.
Donaldson homered into the Yankees’ bull-pen in right-centre on the seventh pitch from Tanaka (8-5), who yield-ed three hits in six in-nings. The right-hander was relieved after 80
pitches.Bautista connected
in the fourth, launching a mammoth drive that struck the facing of the second deck in left field.
Donaldson also went deep in the first inning Friday night, when Bau-tista’s homer in the 10th sent Toronto to a 2-1 vic-tory in the series opener.
TRAINER’S ROOMBlue Jays: 1B-DH
Edwin Encarnacion, who is 5 for 10 with a
home run against Tana-ka, sat out because of a tender finger on his left hand. Encarnacion’s middle finger has been bothering him for a while, and he aggravat-ed it on a swing Satur-day. The team hopes Encarnacion will feel better after the off day Monday, manager John Gibbons said. The slug-ger has reached base safely in 16 consecutive games. ... DH Chris Co-labello writhed on the ground for a frightening moment after getting hit by a high fastball from Adam Warren in the seventh. But replays showed the pitch mostly caught Colabello’s elbow guard, and he re-mained in the game.
Yankees: With the
Yankees scheduled to play 16 days in a row beginning Tuesday, manager Joe Girardi confirmed the club probably will plug in a spot starter at some point to give the rotation extra rest. He said right now he expects it to be someone currently on the staff, making RHP Bryan Mitchell and per-haps Warren the most likely candidates.
NEW ADDITIONToronto optioned re-
serve infielder Muneno-ri Kawasaki to Triple-A Buffalo to open a roster spot for utility infielder Cliff Pennington, ac-quired Saturday in a trade with Arizona. Pen-nington made his Blue Jays debut and struck out as a pinch hitter
with the bases loaded for the second out in the seventh. He stayed in to play second base.
UP NEXTBlue Jays: RHP Drew
Hutchison (10-2, 5.42 ERA) starts Tuesday night at home against Oakland rookie Kendall Graveman (6-7, 3.90), one of four players To-ronto traded to the Ath-letics for Donaldson last November.
Yankees: Top pros-pect Luis Severino makes his second major league start Tuesday night in Cleveland against RHP Carlos Car-rasco (11-8). The 21-year-old Severino threw five impressive in-nings Wednesday in a 2-1 loss to Boston.
Stephen WhynoCanadian Press
Auston Matthews is taking his talents to Switzerland, an unprec-edented move for the projected top pick in the 2016 NHL draft.
Matthews signed a one-year deal with the ZSC Lions in the Swiss National League A, fore-going a junior season with the Everett Silver-tips of the Western Hockey League to play professionally as an 18-year-old.
The American centre going overseas in his draft year is more likely an anomaly than a trend setter, but the Zu-rich-based club will take it.
“He is something special,” general manag-er Edgar Salis said by phone from Switzerland on Friday. “He has good speed, good skill - the whole package. We have good players, and with his hockey IQ I think he can feed our guys and fit the team. He brings ev-erything. That was why we jumped on him.”
At six-foot-two and 194 pounds, Matthews is the runaway favourite to go first in the next draft and would have likely been a top-two or three pick this year had
he not missed the cut for 2015 by three days. The Scottsdale, Ariz., native led the U.S. National Team Development Program’s under-18 squad with 48 points (20 goals, 28 assists) this past season.
Matthews had been linked to the ZSC Lions for months. Salis said someone from CAA Sports, which represents
Matthews, contacted him in the spring ex-pressing interest.
Salis and team offi-cials watched Matthews put up 15 points in seven games to lead the U.S. to gold at the IIHF under-18 world cham-pionships in Zug, Swit-zerland, in April. The initial surprise about Matthews wanting to play in Europe faded at that point.
“Not every day you get a possibility to sign a 17-year-old,” Salis said. “After we saw him in Zug, we didn’t care about the age at the end.”
Work permit red tape held up the signing,
with the final resolution being that Matthews can begin living in Swit-zerland and playing on Sept. 18, the day after he turns 18 years old.
“I think there was a regular process because he was so young and it’s a new situation,” Salis said. “But I really be-lieved that everybody
who was involved, we managed it and we had patience and at the end we are happy with the result.”
Had Matthews stayed in North Ameri-ca, he was set to play for Everett, which owns his Canadian Hockey League rights. In a state-ment released by CAA Sports, Matthews said Silvertips coach Kevin Constantine and Garry Davidson “have been nothing but absolute class acts throughout this entire process.”
“I am deeply grateful to the ZSC Lions for the opportunity to be a part of their wonderful orga-
nization and look for-ward to joining them next month,” Matthews said in the statement.
Matthews is expect-ed to speak to reporters about his decision after a U.S. under-20 exhibi-tion game Saturday in Lake Placid, N.Y.
From the Lions’ standpoint, getting Mat-thews made all the sense in the world. Salis hopes it’s a mutually beneficial season.
“He can help us, and we can help him with our program to develop and help him for his next step,” Salis said. “I think the league we are in here and the speed and ev-erything, it’s pretty good. I think it’s really good. We’ve got a good coach and a good group.”
That coach is Marc Crawford, who won the Stanley Cup with the Colorado Avalanche in 1996 and led Zurich to the Swiss league title in 2014.
Salis believes Craw-ford is a big reason why Matthews decided to sign.
“Knowing that he coached in the NHL with success and he’s doing really well with us and we had success the last couple of years, that helps, for sure,” Salis said.
Western Hockey League
Silvertips prospect opts for SwitzerlandAuston Matthews headed for Zurich to play out NHL draft year
Doug FerguSonAssociated Press
AKRON, Ohio - With no mistakes and two great escapes from the trees, Shane Lowry of Ireland introduced him-self on a world stage Sunday by winning the Bridgestone Invitational.
He locked up victory in this World Golf Championship with a shot through the trees from left of the 18th fair-way that descended over a bunker and set-tled just over 10 feet away for one final birdie and a 4-under 66.
“I was trying to get it to the front right of the green, but I pulled it a little bit,” Lowry said. “Obviously, it went through the tree, and the rest is history. I couldn’t believe I was seeing the ball coming down from there, com-ing down on the green.”
He won by two shots over Bubba Watson, who also shot 66.
Lowry won the Irish Open as an amateur in 2009, and picked up his first European Tour vic-tory in 2012 in Portugal.
In a final round at Firestone against a trio of major champions, Lowry produced a flaw-less card of no bogeys and plenty of emotional fist pumps to celebrate the biggest win of his career. He is the first non-PGA Tour member to win a WGC since
Martin Kaymer at the 2011 HSBC Champions.
“I can’t believe it,” Lowry said. “I’ve played well most of the year, but these last four days are very special.”
Jim Furyk and Justin Rose, who shared the 54-hole lead, couldn’t keep up. Both closed with a 72 to tie for third, four shots behind.
Lowry had a one-shot lead when Furyk made his second bogey on the front nine, but the 28-year-old Irish-man appeared to be in trouble with a wild hook off the 10th tee. Instead, he powered a wedge as high as he could, over a tree and listened for the gallery’s roar to hear the results. It plopped down and rolled to within tap-in range for a birdie that gave him control, and he never let up.
Just as important as his birdies were two pars on the back nine when he was trying to steady his nerves.
Lowry found a deep bunker left of the 14th fairway, came up short of the green and faced an 18-foot par putt that he buried to stay two shots ahead. Watson was up to his old theatrics with a shot out of the trees to 6 feet for birdie on the 17th to get within one shot. Lowry, playing two groups behind, pulled his approach on the 17th and faced a tough chip from behind the green
and he could only get within 6 feet. He holed that for another big par to keep his cushion.
“I was just trying to make two pars coming in after I saw Bubba make his birdie on 17,” Lowry said. “The up-and-down on 17 was probably the biggest up-and-down of the week considering the circum-stances.”
The finish was a bonus and meant he could celebrate early, for it gave Lowry a three-shot margin over Furyk and Rose, the only play-ers still on the course. Graeme McDowell, his friend, waited around to congratulate him out-side the scoring area.
Lowry had qualified eight previous times for the WGCs, and he fa-mously took out Rory McIlroy in the first round of the Match Play in 2013. Furyk played with him Saturday and liked what he saw.
“What I had been told a couple years ago was that he had a beau-tiful short game, kind of a scrappy player,” Furyk said Saturday. “I don’t think that did it justice. I thought he hit the ball pretty well. I liked his game.”
Lowry finished at 11-under 269 and earned $1.57 million, along with a PGA Tour card for the next three years. He had been a special tem-porary member.
Shane Lowry wins Pga Bridgestone Invitational
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COMICSANNIE’S MAILBOX
by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar
HOROSCOPESby Jacqueline Bigar
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Tundra By Chad Carpenter
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Hagar the Horrible By Dick Browne
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ARIES (March 21-April 19) You might want to tone down your approach so that you re-ceive more of what you want. Others no longer seem as re-sponsive as they had been. Ac-tions and good planning make all the difference. Be willing to demonstrate the power of your ideas. Tonight: Head home ear-ly. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) You have the ability to get past a problem that others don’t see. Be as direct as possible with a family member, especially if you feel that his or her idea is out of whack. Be more direct and caring. An idea that seems unattainable really isn’t. Give it time. Tonight: Happy at home. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Be more direct when dealing with a loved one. You might see a situation from a more mate-rialistic and demanding point of view than he or she does. Fi-nancial matters need to be kept in perspective. If you want to succeed, know when to say “no.”
Tonight: Look at the budget. CANCER (June 21-July 22) You will want to see a situation differently from how it is in real-ity. Honor a fast change of pace, but understand that you might be on the path of escapism. Avoid making any decisions at the present moment. Tonight: Beam in more of what you want. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Jupiter, the planet of luck, spends its last 24 hours in your sign. Take advantage of what happens. If a certain matter appears to be out of control, know that the time has come to get it under control. How you do that depends on the situation. Tonight: Go for what you want. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You could be taken aback by what comes up. A friend means well, yet he or she could create a certain amount of confusion. Be realistic about what is pos-sible, but be willing to revisit this situation in a few days or weeks. Tonight: Meet up with a close friend. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Take a risk today instead of postponing it. Timing is with you. Pace yourself, but complete as much as you possibly can right now. Refuse to let a back-and-forth issue dominate your day; put it out of your mind. Do what you must. Tonight: Till the wee hours. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Your imagination seems to awaken. Try to direct this energy toward a matter involving trav-el, a legal matter or a need to educate yourself on a particular topic. You could be taken aback by a problem that emerges. Know that the answer lies with-in. Tonight: All smiles. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Deferring to others allows more give-and-take. Reach out for someone who might be intim-idated by you. You likely will want to avoid a boss who has been demanding a lot from you. You also might not be in the mood to hear his or her opin-ions. Tonight: Opt for closeness. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You could be in a situation where you don’t have your cus-
tomary control. As a result, you might be feeling as if there is little you can do. Allow others to take the reins, and become more of an observer. Be more forthright in your dealings. To-night: Play it cool. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You could be more on top of a personal matter than you re-alize. You might be somewhat exhausted from trying to touch base with a friend or loved one. Listen to the feedback you are getting, especially from some-one close to you. Tonight: Allow your creativity flourish. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Allow more creativity to emerge. You often have many ideas, but you usually do not discuss them. Trust those around you to be open-minded and receptive of your thoughts. Consider your options with greater care. Tonight: Allow yourself to enjoy the moment. BORN TODAY Actor Antonio Banderas (1960), novelist Suzanne Collins (1962), fashion designer Betsey John-son (1942)
Dear Annie: My cousin is getting married soon and another cousin’s girlfriend was invited. They have been dating for years, and I really like her. The problem is, my boyfriend was not invited, even though we, too, have been dating for years. A lot of that was long distance, so many of my family members have not yet met him. When I received my wedding invitation, it was addressed only to me. I was wondering whether it would be rude to ask my cousin whether I could bring my boyfriend. I don’t want to create any problems, but this would be the first family event that my boyfriend could attend and I’d like everyone to meet him. If he cannot attend, I will still go and make sure my cousin’s special day is perfect. -- Don’t Want to Cause Tension Dear Don’t: We commend you for being understanding. It is generally expected that both parties of an established couple are invited, but we double-checked with Lizzie Post of the Emily Post Institute, who said it is not proper for you to ask. Your cousin apparently didn’t know that your relationship was steady and ongoing and the couple may not have felt obligated to include someone they didn’t know. They also may not have room. We think it would be a good idea if you found a way to introduce your boyfriend to your cousin before the wedding. Perhaps the two of you could take the bridal couple out to dinner to celebrate. You might also consider having a small party to introduce him to your relatives so they have an opportunity to get to know him. Dear Annie: My sister does not have her own email address or Facebook page. Everything is in her husband’s name. That means he sees everything I send to her. There are times when I would like to send stuff to my sister in private. I’m not asking her to hide anything important from her husband, but I don’t see the point of him being able to read everything I send. Sometimes there are personal things between sisters that I’d prefer she not share, although if she chooses to, that would be her choice. It wouldn’t be because he is reading them anyway. Knowing that he is looking at everything I send changes the way I write to her and makes it less sisterly. I don’t understand why she refuses to create her own accounts. It’s not that difficult. What’s up with this? -- Annoyed Sis Dear Annoyed: Have you asked your sister directly why her accounts are in her husband’s name? Perhaps it was a mutual decision allowing both of them to have access to each other’s communications and social media posts. This is sometimes a trust issue and not your business. Or maybe she can’t be bothered to set up her own, in which case, you can offer to do it for her. We understand that this annoys you, but it’s not your decision. If you need to say something to your sister that you’d prefer her husband not be privy to, we recommend the old-fashioned way: Pick up the telephone or meet her for coffee. Those types of personal communication are still quite effective. Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to [email protected], or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/AskAnnies. To find out more about Annie’s Mailbox and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.COPYRIGHT 2015 CREATORS.COM
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Agile robots crawling where humans can’tC ar a MCKennaCanadian Press
What started as a fun project for two techies on Vancouver Island more than 25 years ago has now become an in-dustry leader in robotic crawlers.
Inuktun Services Ltd.’s remotely operated vehicles, or ROVs, have combed through the ra-dioactive wreckage of a tsunami-hit nuclear plant in Japan, assisted in search and rescue ef-forts after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, and are being used by the U.S. military.
But despite its inter-national success, the Nanaimo, B.C.-based company remains little known at home.
That’s largely be-cause most of its prod-ucts are sold outside of Canada, said company CEO Colin Dobell.
“We’re not really well-known locally and that’s OK,” he said in a phone interview from the company’s head of-fice.
“We’re more export
than anything...oil and gas and nuclear would be our two biggest mar-kets. But we get into a lot of other kind of oddball stuff too that we never even imagined our equipment would be used for.”
Inuktun’s agile robots are used to access con-fined spaces and hazard-ous environments that humans can’t.
Their clients range
from Pacific Gas and Electric Co., which used crawlers to inspect in-side a natural gas pipe after a fatal pipeline ex-plosion in California five years ago, to Starbucks, which bought cameras to inspect coffee beans on a conveyor.
Earlier this year, Inuk-tun announced it was sending a custom snake-like crawler to the Fukushima Daiichi Nu-
clear Power Plant to as-sess the damage from 2011’s massive earth-quake and tsunami.
After the 9/11 attacks “we sent robotic equip-ment to Ground Zero to do search and rescue and search and recovery efforts,” Dobell said.
“A few years ago, we sold a whole bunch of equipment to the U.S. military to actually use in cross-border tunnel
investigation in U.S.-Mexico borders and also overseas in the Mid-dle East.”
But Dobell said the most compelling stuff is top secret. The company is kept quiet by big-name clients that don’t want the public to know what they’re using the tech-nology for.
When Inuktun began in B.C. in 1989, its own-ers had no idea they would be signing non-disclosure agree-ments with some of the world’s most prominent organizations.
Dobell said that part materialized “largely by accident,” after Inuktun’s co-founders Terry Knight and Al Robinson - both now retired - start-ed the company “as kind of a fun project to take them into retirement.”
“When they started they were building these little swimming ROVs,” he said.
“The idea being you would sit on your boat, throw it over the edge and watch the crabs or chase fish or pick up the keys you dropped.”
Dobell, who came on board in 1996, said the product was too expen-sive for a recreational market, but got the at-tention of the nuclear industry, and spawned the creation of different robotic systems to meet customer demand over the years.
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Colin Dobell, President and CEO of Inuktun, holds a Versatrax Vertical Crawler. Inuktun is a maker of modular mobile robotic crawler vehicles and is based in Nanaimo, B.C.
