STORIES OR IDEAS TO SHARE? Drop us an email, a Tweet, a Facebook message, or give us a call if you have any story ideas you would like to share. www.dailybulletin.ca SATURDAY December 8th, 15th & 22nd, 11am – 5pm SUNDAY December 9th, 16th & 23rd 12pm – 5pm MINI MARKETS AT TAMARACK CENTRE Across from the Gift Wrapping Station. THE BULLETIN PROUDLY SERVING KIMBERLEY AND AREA SINCE 1932 | Vol. 79, Issue XX | www.dailybulletin.ca $ 1 10 INCLUDES H.S.T. BYLAW DEBTE SIGNS IN CRANBROOK Our neighbours to the south discuss new bylaw. See LOCAL NEWS page 4 SELKIRK SECONDARY PRINCIPAL’S REPORT What’s happening at the high school this month. SeeLOCAL NEWS page 3 THURSDAY DECEMBER 6, 20 12 Heading back to the PST Resources available to assist businesses make tax transition CAROLYN GRANT [email protected]The provincial NDP say that the time it has taken to re-implement the PST is ri- diculous; and the BC Liber- als say they have moved through a very complex pro- cess as quickly as possible. But while the politicians argue the timeline, the fact is that on April 1, 2013, the HST will be gone and the former PST system will return. For consumers the tran- sition will be simple, and for most, less expensive, as all previous exemptions under the PST (which were subject to HST) will return. Consumers will once again not pay PST on pur- chases like food, restaurant meals, bicycles, gym mem- berships, movie tickets, and others, nor for personal ser- vices like haircuts. Locally, it will mean buy- ers no longer have to pay HST on resort homes, something which local real estate agents had lobbied heavily against. Tourism operators such as golf courses, rafting com- panies and ski hills will no longer have to charge HST, something the industry had maintained was hurting the bottom line, especially in regions close to the Alberta border such as the East Kootenay. For business however, the provincial government always maintained that the HST was simpler and a time-saver. While all exemptions etc. return for consumers, the provincial government is tweaking the legislation that returns British Columbia to the former PST system to make it more simple and convenient for business. New measures to im- prove the PST include: • New online access for businesses, in- cluding the ability to register, update their account, and make payments. • The due date for tax remittance and re- turns for monthly filers will be moved to the last day of the month to match GST remittance, simplifying admin- istration for busi- ness. • The Hotel Room Tax (eight per cent, as it was before July 2010) will now be in- corporated into the PST—no more sepa- rate registration, re- mittance or returns, reducing paper- work. • Businesses can reg- ister with their fed- eral business num- ber, making registra- tion easier. TAX POLICY See PST , Page 3 RCMP will be conducting extra checkstops CAROLYN GRANT [email protected]While Christmas day is still several weeks away, the Christmas season itself is upon us. That means office parties and visiting friends and neighbours. That also means there will be an increased awareness by police and increased check stops to check for impaired drivers. BC has tough impaired driving laws and stats do indi- cate that has saved lives. The province estimates 104 lives have been saved since the immediate roadside prohibition (IRP) system took effect in September 2010. There are peak times when RCMP focus on im- paired driving, such as long weekends and the Christmas season, though it is on the minds of members at all times. “RCMP conduct road checks throughout the year. The focus of these checks is impaired drivers although we look for other infractions and offences as well,” said Cpl. Chris Newel of the Kimberley RCMP. See ROAD CHECKS Page 5 Be prepared for road checks MIKE TURNER PHOTO At 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, December 5, 2012, Cranbrook RCMP and East Kootenay Traffic Services responded to a two vehicle collision about 5 km south of Cranbrook on highway 3/95. A northbound white mini-van crossed the center of the road on icy conditions and struck head on with a southbound dumptruck. The driver of the min-van received minor injuries where as the passenger was trapped in the vehicle and died on scene. The deceased is a 52 year old female from Creston, BC. The driver of the dump truck was not injured. Early investigations reveal that speeding relative to the road conditions was a factor in this collision.
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bylaw debte
signs in cranbrookOur neighbours to the south discuss new bylaw.
see local neWspage 4
selkirk secondary
PrinciPal’s rePortWhat’s happening at the high school this month.
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ThursDAY december 6, 2012
Heading back to the PST
Resources available to assist businesses make tax transition
The provincial NDP say that the time it has taken to re-implement the PST is ri-diculous; and the BC Liber-als say they have moved through a very complex pro-cess as quickly as possible.
But while the politicians argue the timeline, the fact is that on April 1, 2013, the HST will be gone and the former PST system will return.
For consumers the tran-sition will be simple, and for most, less expensive, as all previous exemptions under the PST (which were subject to HST) will return.
Consumers will once again not pay PST on pur-chases like food, restaurant meals, bicycles, gym mem-berships, movie tickets, and others, nor for personal ser-vices like haircuts.
Locally, it will mean buy-ers no longer have to pay HST on resort homes, something which local real estate agents had lobbied heavily against.
Tourism operators such as golf courses, rafting com-panies and ski hills will no longer have to charge HST, something the industry had maintained was hurting the bottom line, especially in regions close to the Alberta border such as the East
Kootenay.For business however,
the provincial government always maintained that the HST was simpler and a time-saver.
While all exemptions etc. return for consumers, the provincial government is tweaking the legislation that returns British Columbia to the former PST system to make it more simple and convenient for business.
New measures to im-prove the PST include:
• New online access for businesses, in-cluding the ability to register, update their account, and make payments.
• The due date for tax remittance and re-turns for monthly filers will be moved to the last day of the month to match GST remittance, simplifying admin-istration for busi-ness.
• The Hotel Room Tax (eight per cent, as it was before July 2010) will now be in-corporated into the PST—no more sepa-rate registration, re-mittance or returns, reducing paper-work.
• Businesses can reg-ister with their fed-eral business num-ber, making registra-tion easier.
While Christmas day is still several weeks away, the Christmas season itself is
upon us. That means office parties and visiting friends and neighbours.
That also means there will be an increased awareness by police and increased check stops to check for impaired drivers.
BC has tough impaired driving laws and stats do indi-cate that has saved lives.
The province estimates 104 lives have been saved since the immediate roadside prohibition (IRP) system took effect in September 2010.
There are peak times when RCMP focus on im-paired driving, such as long weekends and the Christmas season, though it is on the
minds of members at all times.
“RCMP conduct road checks throughout the year. The focus of these checks is impaired drivers although we look for other infractions and offences as well,” said Cpl. Chris Newel of the Kimberley RCMP.
See ROAD CHECKS page 5
Be prepared for road checks
Mike Turner phoTo
At 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, December 5, 2012, Cranbrook RCMP and East Kootenay Traffic Services responded to a two vehicle collision about 5 km south of Cranbrook on highway 3/95. A northbound white mini-van crossed the center of the road on icy conditions and struck head on with a southbound dumptruck. The driver of the min-van received minor injuries where as the passenger was trapped in the vehicle and died on scene. The deceased is a 52 year old female from Creston, BC. The driver of the dump truck was not injured. Early investigations reveal that speeding relative to the road conditions was a factor in this collision.
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Big Brothers Big Sis-ters of Canada will cele-brate its centennial next year, and the Cranbrook branch is joining in the celebrations.
2013 marks 100 years that Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada has been providing mentor-ing programs for young people, both one-to-one and in groups.
Cranbrook’s chapter began in 1977 and by 2011 it had grown to 108 matches between a mentor and a youth.
“In the beginning, it was a group of volun-teers who felt it was re-ally important, and they were the ones making it happen,” said Dana Osiowy, executive di-rector of Cranbrook’s Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS).
“The movement has really grown and be-come far more devel-oped.”
Now BBBS is prepar-ing for a year-long cen-tennial celebration. The national organization will publish a book of mentoring stories, it will
have a stamp in its hon-our, and it provide a unique opportunity for Canadians to talk about the mentors in their own lives.
“Across Canada, the conversation will be about who was your mentor,” said Osiowy. “Everyone will be talking about who has made that change in your life. I am really ex-cited about that.”
In January, BBBS will release a multi-year re-search project on the effects of mentoring on children.
“It will be one of the most comprehensive studies ever done on the subject,” said Osio-wy.
Also part of centen-nial celebrations, BBBS will release marketing research surveys on an-ti-bullying, youth social consciousness, aca-demic success and civic engagement. It will hold a national youth summit in April, and a national mentoring symposium in Novem-ber.
September 18 will be
Big Brother Big Sister Day, supported with community events across Canada.
To mark the centen-nial of Big Brothers Big Sisters in 2013, the Cranbrook Daily Townsman will feature the inspiring stories of several partnerships that have grown through the program over its 35 years in Cranbrook. Starting in January, you can read regular profiles of men-tors and children en-rolled in the program.
Mentors making a differenceBig Brothers Big Sisters of Canada celebrates 100 years of helping children
annalee Gr antTownsman Staff
The Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy have a received a little help from the provincial government to provide programs to adult and family learners in the community.
The provincial gov-ernment announced $30,000 in funding for adult literacy programs and $40,000 for family
programs last week. The funding across
the province totalled $2.4 million for 68 com-munity-based literacy programs for 2012 and 2013 through the Com-munity Adult Literacy Program. That means 6,400 B.C. residents will have accessed to literacy programs when they need it.
Each literacy group like CBAL uses the fund-ing to provide worth-while services including one-on-one tutoring, small classes and pro-grams that target adults, Aboriginal learners, young parents and oth-ers.
“Literacy is essential to an individual’s self-esteem and produc-tivity,” said MLA for Kootenay East Bill Ben-nett. “It enhances per-sonal life, family life, and community life. I am proud to be part of a government that invests in adult literacy pro-grams and contributes to the improved daily life of our citizens and their families.”
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November was an-other busy month at Sel-kirk with lots activities including our Band class heading to a musical fes-tival in Canmore, a great Remembrance Day as-sembly led by Student Council, and some excit-ing sports tournaments at the school.
All of our sports teams represented Sel-kirk very well and with pride. It was great to see the parent and commu-nity support at these home matches. Some memorable moments include both of our Ju-nior volleyball teams placing second in the East Kootenay Zone tournament, our Bantam boys winning a tourna-ment in Creston, and our Senior Girls volleyball
team qualifying for Pro-vincials and placing sixth at the tournament this past weekend.
I would like to thank the coaches of all of our Fall teams for the time, energy, and effort they put into providing these great opportunities for our athletes. In addition
to the great moments in athletics, I would like to thank our teachers who continue to work hard to provide excellent learn-ing opportunities for our students some of which are highlighted in this newsletter. We currently have the following after school clubs running at Selkirk:
Sawbusters, Metal-crafters, Automechanics club
Art club Textiles club Free the Children
club S.A.D.D. groupI continue to be im-
pressed by the commit-ment of the staff and community members who provide these great opportunities for our students. Research indi-cates that the more stu-dents are engaged in ac-tivities in and out of the
classroom the more like-ly they will be successful in school. If you have a child who is not current-ly participating in one of these clubs but is inter-ested in joining please make sure to let us know at the school.
Finally, I would like to thank the Selkirk PAC for their continued support of Selkirk activities and for starting Storm Wear sales at the school. Order forms are available at the school office for any par-ents/guardians interest-ed in purchasing some-thing.
I would also like to thank all parents/guard-ians who responded to the ThoughtStream questions sent to you throughout this month by e-mail. The respons-es to these questions should lead to some meaningful discussion
with staff and parents in the future.
We have a short but busy month of Decem-ber ahead of us with a number of exciting activ-ities including partici-pating in our annual Foodbank Fundraiser, our Christmas dance, concert and assembly.
I wish you all a great holiday!
2012-2013 Calendar of Events
December6/7- Senior Drama
Productions at Centre 64—7:00 pm
13—Dance 6:00—10:00
19—Christmas Con-cert at McKim 7:00 pm
21—Christmas As-sembly 12:35—1:40
21—Last day of Class-es before Winter Break
January 7– First day of classes after break
Selkirk principal’s message
Principal Cling Dolgopol
From Page 1• Retailers will be
allowed to re-fund tax to cus-tomers in a broader range of circumstances.
• Businesses that collect and remit tax will again re-ceive commis-sion of up to $198 per report-ing period (typi-cally monthly).
In the past two months, a number of notices have been post-ed by the government, to assist in the transition back to PST.
They include Notice to Liquor Vendors: BC Returns to PST on April 1, 2013; General Transi-tional Rules for the Re-implementation of the PST; Purchases of Tan-gible Personal Property (Goods) in British Co-lumbia; Leases of Tangi-ble Personal Property (Goods); Tangible Per-sonal Property (Goods) Brought Into British Co-lumbia; Legal Services; Propane Purchasers
and Sellers; Registering to Collect Provincial Sales Tax; Charging, Collecting and Remit-ting PST
Links to these publi-cations, FAQs, an online sign-up form for one-on- one tax consulta-tions for business, along with additional infor-mation about the return to the PST, can be found in the business outreach section of: www.PSTin-BC.ca
More bulletins and notices on the applica-tion of PST in specific circumstances will be added as they become available, so check the website often, or sub-scribe to email updates at the What’s New page at: www.sbr.gov.bc.ca/msbr/whats_new/con-sumer_taxes/whats-new.htm
If you have questions about the return to PST, you can call toll-free at 1 877 388-4440, or email your questions to: [email protected]
Heading back to the
PST
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The College of the Rockies UVic Teacher Education students in 3rd and 4th year have compiled a total of 69 shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child thanks to generous donations from students and faculty. Stephanie McDowell and Stacey Johnson show off the haul before they are sent off to the charity.
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The City of Kimberley is requesting quotations from qualified contractors for the supply of labour, materials and janitorial equipment for the cleaning of the City Hall, R.C.M.P. Building and the Library/Museum Building.
Request for Quotation Documents can be obtained from:
1. www.kimberley.ca under “What’s New”
2. Picked up at Operations Department at City Hall, 340 Spokane Street, City of Kimberley.
Responses will be received by the Manager-Parks, Recreation & Facilities at City of Kimberley, 340 Spokane Street, Kimberley BC, V1A 2E8 NO LATER than 2:00 pm local time, Monday, December 10, 2012.
The City of Kimberley reserves the right to reject any or all quotations/proposals or to accept the quotation/proposal deemed most favorable to the interests of the City of Kimberley. For inquires, please contact Tom Sprado, 250-427-9671.
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Changes to sign bylaw a hot
issue
AnnAlee Gr AntTownsman Staff
The Cranbrook and District Chamber of Commerce has formed an ad-hoc committee to look at Cranbrook City Council’s proposed changes to the sign bylaw ahead of a public consultation session Wednesday.
The Chamber Sign Bylaw Committee met for the first time on Friday, November 30 after concerns were brought up over the city’s new draft sign bylaw that came before council for first reading at the November 19 regular meeting.
Jason Wheeldon, chair of the commit-tee, said it’s import-ant that business owners not jump to conclusions with the proposed bylaw, be-cause it is merely out for public consulta-tion at this point.
“They’re floating it, it’s not set in stone.
They’re looking for public input,” Wheel-don said.
The Chamber has however had a num-ber of concerns brought up by its members, and the committee is current-ly in the process of compiling that infor-mation to bring be-fore council as a del-egation. Wheeldon said the Chamber has looked through the sign bylaw, and they are trying to get as much feedback from their members as they can.
“We have identi-fied a few areas that we would like to have some further discus-sions about,” he said. “We want to make sure that we engage our members.”
Already the pro-posed sign bylaw has been a hot button issue in the city, but Wheeldon stresses that nothing has be-come bylaw yet.
“There’s a lot of confusion,” he said.
The new bylaw al-lows for seven new sign types and chang-es the height and size requirements for
signs. For instance, freestanding signs will only be allowed to be six metres tall, down from 10.6 metres tall, if the new bylaw is ap-proved. This rule is designed to reduce clutter on the skyline through Cranbrook and improve views-capes.
A number of signs that exist in Cran-brook at the moment are slated to be pro-hibited under the new bylaw. Most notably, these include “day-glo”, fluorescent, and luminous signs, as well as sandwich board signs. But any existing signs will be
exempt from the new rules if the bylaw passes as is; however new and renovated signs will be subject to any bylaw changes.
“It’s very important for people to know that the existing sig-nage – if the bylaw is passed – would be legal non-conform-ing,” Wheeldon ex-plained.
The bylaw was last updated in 1977 and Wheeldon said there is room for improve-ment, but it must not impede business in the city. Mayor Wayne Stetski told the Towns-man last week that the bylaw update is part of the Highway 3 beautification project.
“Over the next year, we are going to look at all aspects of Highway 3 through Cranbrook,” said Stetski.
The committee will also consider things like art and sculp-tures, zoning, and the addition of play-grounds and parks along the strip, he said.
Along with the reg-
ulations that the pro-posed bylaw contains, there is a set of guide-lines for businesses to follow when they are planning a new sign.
“Staff has tried to balance off regula-tions versus guide-lines in the bylaw,” said Mayor Stetski.
“People don’t nec-essarily have to follow (guidelines) – we are going to encourage people to follow them because ultimately, in my ideal world, we would have a Cran-brook look to signage.”
The guidelines, for instance, discourage backlit and neon signs. Freestanding signs should be locat-ed in a landscaped base with plants that are suitable for this environment. Sign materials should be natural in character, ideally wood, stone, rock, brick or painted metal. Earth tones or other natural, warm colours are preferred. Signs in downtown Cranbrook should complement the his-torical character of
the area, ideally with design that reflects “turn of the century” architecture.
Once the Chamber committee has com-piled and reviewed the information, Wheeldon said they will go before council and present their findings on behalf of the members. They will also be meeting with council following the public consulta-tion to discuss other concerns that were brought up.
Wheeldon said the ad-hoc committee has a local sign-making business as a member, which is helping them work through the technical aspects of sign construction. They will also be re-viewing sign bylaws in other communities to see what else is out there and how it com-pares to Cranbrook. After the public con-sultation the matter is set to come before council again in the new year.
Cranbrook consulting residents on sign bylaw
Sandwich board signs would be prohibited under the new bylaw.
Firefighting scholarship presented
Photo submitted
College of the Rockies Financial Aid Officer Lois Murray (left), Enzo Salviulo and Laurel Salviulo pres-ent Adam Ravenstein (2nd from right) with the Brandon Salviulo Memorial Scholarship for $1000.
going to school,” he remarks.
Presenting the scholarship to Raven-stein was an emotion-al experience for Brandon’s parents, Enzo and Laurel as they saw their dream of honouring their son realized. They are grateful for all the
help the received along the way.
“Enzo, Morgan, Bryanna and I would like to thank all of the volunteers, business-es and participants for all of the dona-tions over the last three years that al-lowed us to create this scholarship in
Brandon’s name. We want each and every person who helped out to feel that they are a part of this scholarship,” Laurel says.
Information re-garding the fundrais-ing efforts for this fund can be found on the Brandon Salviulo
Memorial Scholar-ship Facebook page.
For more informa-tion about Fire Ser-vices Training at Col-lege of the Rockies, call 250-489-8243 or email: [email protected] or go to: www.cotr.bc.ca/fire
For the Bulletin
The inaugural Brandon Salviulo Me-morial Scholarship for $1000 was recently presented to Adam Ravenstein, a student in College of the Rock-ies’ Fire Services pro-gram.
The Salviulo family have raised over $40,000 so far in mem-ory of their son, Bran-don, who passed away in a tragic ATV acci-dent in 2009. With the help of the Creston Kootenay Foundation, who is managing the funds, the Salviulo’s are honouring Bran-don’s dream of be-coming a firefighter.
Ravenstein, a stu-dent in the Fire Train-ing Certificate pro-gram, was very happy to be the first recipi-ent of this scholar-ship. “I am honoured to be chosen. I love what I’m doing so having this scholar-ship helps me to feel even better about
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This December marks the 35th anniversary of the CounterAttack program and ICBC is once again sup-porting its police partners in the pre-vention of impaired driving during the holiday season.
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The CounterAttack campaign re-minds the public to plan ahead during holiday celebrations and choose a safe way home.
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‘Tis the season for road checks
AnnAlee GrAntTownsman Staff
A group of six Cranbrook teachers who claim they were poi-soned by mercury during their time at Mount Baker Secondary School were vindicated Tuesday as a Supreme Court Justice grant-ed them a new court-ordered compensation board hearing.
In a tersely worded decision from a Vancouver Supreme Court room, Justice A. Saunders said the decision handed down by the Worker’s Compensation Appeal Tribunal in September, 2010 was unfair.
“It was manifestly unfair to the petitioners. The panel’s conclu-sion was patently unreasonable,” Saunders wrote in his ruling.
B.C. Teacher’s Federation pres-ident Susan Lambert is lauding the move that she says has taken too long.
“It’s a long time coming,” Lam-bert told the Townsman. “It’s a good ruling. It’s a strong ruling. That’s very strong language from a Justice.”
Saunders ordered the case be sent back to the WCAT for another hearing, where the teachers will go through the process all over again. The teachers spurred the Supreme Court case after filing a judicial review in June of this year.
The WCAT found in 2010 that the teachers did not suffer mercu-ry poisoning at Mount Baker.
“The panel found that the evi-dence was insufficient to establish that the workers suffered from mercury poisoning,” the ruling said. “The workers did not have an occupational disease due to the nature of their employment.”
Lambert said the six teachers began noticing symptoms of mer-cury poisoning in 2004 and 2005, and have been fighting to be cov-ered by the Worker’s Compensa-tion Board ever since.
“You’re doing it in failing health and initially their concerns were dismissed,” Lambert said. “The impact was serious on their health and has robbed them of the ability to enjoy life.”
The symptoms of mercury poi-soning include fatigue, headaches, joint pain, respiratory problems, tremors, weight loss, memory loss, insomnia, and irritability.
Lambert said the BCTF did an enormous amount of work to in-vestigate the claims made by the teachers. Cranbrook and District Teachers Association president Wendy Turner said in 2010 that the teachers did not enter into these allegations lightly.
“It wasn’t a run of the mill case,” Lambert said. “It was a very unique situation – I mean I hope it’s a unique situation in the prov-ince.”
Lambert worries about the stu-dents who were potentially ex-posed to mercury as well, but said
teachers spent a much larger per-centage of their time in the class-rooms.
“The teachers had to live in these classrooms, and had to live in them year after year,” she said.
Following the BCTF’s claims, School District 5 underwent a $200,000 investigation into the mercury situation at Mount Baker, and conducted some upgrades. Bill Gook, superintendent at the time of the allegations, said in 2010 that he hoped the WCAT rul-ing would prove that Mount Baker is safe for students and staff.
Lambert said the BCTF is “ab-solutely not” happy with SD5’s re-sponse, and said the federation should not have had to take their claims as far as they have.
“The fact that we had to go to this length – to the Supreme Court of B.C.,” she said.
Lambert said the teachers’ concerns were initially dismissed by SD5, and it was a struggle to get to this point. She wonders if the six teachers have any fight left in them after years of health issues and legal wrangling.
“I’m not sure how much ener-gy they have left to work on this file,” she said.
If the WCAT hearing goes ahead without an appeal from SD5, the teachers will have to re-peat a process they completed in 2010.
Teachers who claimed mercury poisoning get new hearing
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Aren’t we all agog with the news of the royal pregnancy? Kate is expecting, and we subjects of the British Em-
pire are rapt.Her morning sickness has pushed out
of the way the news of Syrian civil war, so-called fiscal cliffs, NHL lock-outs and the pipes groaning beneath our feet.
To be fair, this news is of some small historical im-port. The child will ulti-mately be third in line to the Throne of the United Kingdom, presuming that the constitutional rules are rejigged so that if it is a girl, she will inherit even if she eventually has younger brothers.
Again, this moment is only of small historical import. We have to ask ourselves if there will even be a throne for the child to inherit when his or her time comes.
The House of Windsor have most other clans beat when it comes to longevity. Some say it’s because of the Royal family’s Japanese diet. Others say it’s because of the genetic stock inserted by the late Queen Mother’s family, the Bowes-Lyons, doncha know. The Queen’s mother died at age 101. People say that, accordingly, sub-sequent generations of Windsors will all be an equally long-lived bunch.
Let’s apply a little morbid arithmetic, estimating that all members of the House of Windsor who are in line to the throne will achieve centenarian status. After all, people are living long these days. With more focus of personal health, more
awareness of proper nutrition, advances in modern and naturopathic medicine and more comfortable standards of living, more and more of us can reasonably ex-pect to reach 100 years of age, unless fate intervenes.
Thus, Queen Elizabeth at age 86 can expect to reign over us for another 14 years or so. This will make the now 64-year-old Charles 78 when he as-cends the throne, and he shall be our head of state for a further 22. William
Duke of Cambridge, now 30, would be a relatively youthful 66 (and by then, 66 will be the new 46, as they say) when he is crowned King William V. His 36-year-old son or daughter will be on hand to cele-brate this coronation, perhaps thinking ahead to when he or she ascends the throne at age 70 or so, to become the 15th monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, which was formed in 1707.
For the record, I will be 120 years of age at this point — and probably still late with my City utilities bill.
A lot of history can happen in 70 years. The demographics of Britain and the for-mer empire are changing. The world as a whole is becoming more democratic and more pragmatic. We peasants are less in-clined to spend our money on pomp and circumstance, to enable an archaic aristo-cratic minority to maintain a life of ex-treme privilege based on symbolism and outmoded, decrepit tradition.
Even in Britain there has been consid-erable republican sentiment since forever. The countries that now make up Great Britain were even a republic for a short while, though that whole Oliver Cromwell experiment didn’t work out that well. Sup-port for getting rid of the monarchy has ebbed and flowed — mostly ebbed, ever since. At present, it is reckoned about 13 per cent of Brits would support becoming a republic — i.e., getting rid of the monar-chy. Not enough support for a peaceful revolution.
In the 15 countries where the Queen is still “head of state,” republican sentiment is higher. In Australia, the percentage fa-vouring going republic consistently runs above 40 per cent. In Canada, it hovers around the same.
However, even though we are all fully aware of the disconnect of the monarchy from the day-to-day lives of the rest of us, even though an inherited position of su-periority based on ancestry alone is ridic-ulous in modern context, it is true that the magic of a royal progress can still move the most jaded republican heart. Especially if royals in question are young, beautiful and newly wed. William and Kate’s visit to Canada last year (especially Kate’s) proved that.
By the same token, it seems a matter of fact that for the next three generations, the British monarch will be taking his or her place on the throne in autumn of his or her years. After a while, the magic will be gone, and the world, England and the for-mer colonies will move on.
The magic is fading, slowly but surely
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December 5, 2011, was the inaugura-tion of the newly elected Mayor and Council. At that meeting I talked about accountability and my commitment to provide you with an Annual Report Card comparing what I said I was going to do and what has been accomplished. Here is a short summary limited by column space.
An Empowered Community• Encourage, welcome and respect di-
verse viewpoints.We have welcomed and
worked with, the disabled community, businesses, developers and individu-als with a variety of con-cerns and issues. The feedback has been very positive — people know that they can bring their perspectives to the Mayor’s office and leave with the knowledge that they are valued.
• Meet one on one with citizens on weekends.
One Saturday afternoon per month I meet people at coffee shops around town at times and locations advertised in ad-vance.
• Encourage our local radio station to set up a hotline phone-in show.
Once a month I do five minute com-munity updates on both radio stations as they did not support a phone-in format.
• Reinstate Brown Bag Meetings.Hour long Brown Bag meetings are
held once a month in Council Chambers and you’re invited to bring a lunch and share any concerns that you may have.
A Stronger Economy• Provide incentives for business to
invest downtown.We have implemented the Downtown
Revitalization Tax Exemption By-law.• Encourage development within city
limits.Business Licences totalled 1477 to the
end of October, already up 12% over all of 2011, and the value of Building Permits was $28,834,476 which is a 38.5% in-crease over 2011.
• Work with the Downtown Business Association and the Chamber of Com-merce to develop new initiatives.
The Chamber has been asked to pro-vide Council with a report on Barriers to Business in Cranbrook.
We supported the Downtown Busi-ness Association’s request to use 10th Avenue for their Street Fairs and ap-proved free parking downtown for Black Friday.
• Make Cranbrook desirable for high-tech and knowledge based industries.
We need to work on this in 2013 and 2014. I have started a list of com-panies to call and would appreciate hearing your suggestions. For example, we need a men’s clothing
store…• Support local contractors in city de-
velopments.I have asked CABDA to educate us on
improvements that we can make to en-courage development and have met with developers to discuss potential projects. I would like to organize a workshop in 2013 with local contractors to help build knowledge on bidding on city contracts.
• Employment for Youth at a Living Wage.
Keeping our kids in Cranbrook re-quires both an attractive lifestyle, which we have, and employment at a reason-able wage. I’d appreciate your help with this in 2013/2014.
A More Attractive Cranbrook• A full time horticulturalist.We have hired an Arborist/Horticul-
turist on staff to work with city staff, vol-unteers and businesses.
• Establish a Committee to improve Hwy 3 through Cranbrook.
The committee has been established and will begin meeting shortly.
• Create attractive entrances to town.Work has begun on the Elizabeth Lake
entrance improvements which will fea-ture a spectacular Welcome to Cranbrook sign.
Support for Arts and Culture• Council has increased funding for
the Arts Council and are looking for a permanent home for the Arts.
• We celebrated special events with the Filipino and Métis community and are working to firm up relationships with cities in South Korea and China.
A Better Environment• Council provided additional funding
to fight invasive weeds, worked with groups interested in the well-being of Jo-seph Creek, and have supported initia-tives brought forward by Wildsight relat-ed to woodstoves and reducing house-hold waste.
Prudent Fiscal Management• Committed to not increasing proper-
ty taxes more than the cost of living plus 2%. The Inflation Rate in 2011 was 2.9% for Canada and 2.47% for B.C. The 2012 property tax increase in Cranbrook was 4.51%
Support for YouthWe are making progress on getting
youth on every committee of council, and I was part of an ad hoc committee that secured $100,000 from the Columbia Basin Trust for youth initiatives over the next four years.
Improving Social ServicesCranbrook is one of seven communi-
ties in BC working on poverty reduction pilot projects. We have applied for federal funding to improve several aspects of our community for the disabled.
Progress is being made on implement-ing what I said I would do when I was elected as your Mayor. The people of Cranbrook and Council have been great to work with and I encourage you to con-tinue to provide your ideas to us and to share in making our city an even better place to live. Thank-you for a great first year as your Mayor!!
P.S. There is still lots to do, and I’ll focus on that in my next article!
Wayne Stetski is Mayor of CranbrookThe opinions expressed are those of
the author and do not necessarily reflect the position of the City of Cranbrook.
Letters to the editorUPCOMINGCranbrook Kimberley Hospice Society Memory Tree of Love, Tamarack Mall, Dec. 5th to 8th & 12th to 15th. Remember a passed loved one with a snow� ake for a donation to Hospice Society.The students of Selkirk Drama Club will present 2 - one act plays at Centre 64, Kimberley, Dec 6 and 7 at 7:00 pm.Dec. 6: Cranbrook Bugle Band Meeting, 7:00 pm at Kootenay Child Development Centre, 16 - 12th Ave. N., Cranbrook.Candlelight Vigil for the Day of Remembrance & Action to End Violence Against Women. Thurs Dec 6, 6:30 pm. Cranbrook Women’s Center Gardens in back yard. 32-13th Ave. S. Cbk. All welcome.December 7-Nativity Viewing Gallery Open today from 2 to 6 p.m. Cranbrook United Church. For a few minutes of Christmas love, be sure to drop in and just enjoy the views and the variety of lovely tributes to the birth of our Lord and Saviour. Dec 8 - 7th annual Christmas Cookie Walk; continuing until our supply is depleted. Fill a container, which will be provided, with home baked cookies for only $10.00. Starting 1pm at Cbk United Church, corner of Baker & 12th Ave. S.Saturday Dec. 8/12, 2-9 pm, Kimberley Elks Lodge will host a family Christmas Party. Santa arrives at 4pm, there will be loads of activities and goodie bags for the kids. A gift wrapping table by donation. A photographer on site. 250-427-2343 for more infoBook Under Every Tree – until Dec 14th drop o� new or gift quality kids/teens/adult books at the Cranbrook Library and other drop o� locations in Cranbrook for CBAL’s project. Volunteers needed and fabric donations gratefully received. Katherine 250-417-2896 or [email protected] 9- Intergenerational Christmas Pageant. Christmas Pageant and Advent 2 service will take place in the Social Hall at Cranbrook United Church, 10:00 a.m. Come and join us for this traditional Christmas event; stay for a social visit and birthday cake for Jesus.OES, Jubilee Chapter #64 will meet on Monday, December 10 at 7:30 pm sharp. Come early for the Christmas Pot Luck at 6:00 pm sharp, at the Masonic Hall, 401-3rd Avenue South, Cranbrook.Kootenay Christian Academy middle school band concert; Thursday, Dec. 13, 7:00pm. KCA Preschool campus, 629 6th St NW Cost: donation for Christmas hampers. FMI 250-426-0166Take your family back in time to the � rst Christmas? Then reserve Saturday Dec 15, 2-5pm for One Starry Night! Free activities for ALL AGES! Knox Church, 2100 - 3rd St. S., Cranbrook. FMI: 250-426-7165December 16-Advent 3 and Special Gift Sunday You are invited to worship with Cranbrook United Church. Many of our congregants bring a small gift for the food bank, or the women’s shelter, or the men’s shelter on this Sunday. Service begins at 10:00 a.m. Live Outdoor Nativity with live donkey, sheep, youth actors and music from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Monday, Dec 17 and Tuesday, Dec 18th, Cranbrook LDS Chapel, 2210-2nd St. N., Cranbrook. Times: 7:00 & 8:00 p.m.2012 FREE FAMILY SWIM Wednesday, Dec. 19th, 6:00-7:00 PM is sponsored by Knights of Columbus.
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ONGOING ICBL-Duplicate Bridge–Senior Center in Cranbrook. Mon & Wed 7pm, Thurs & Fri 1pm at Scout Hall, Marysville. Info: Maggie 250-417-2868.Tai Chi Moving Meditation every Wednesday 3-4 pm at Centre 64. Starts November 7th. Call Adele 250-427-1939.Cranbrook Phoenix Toastmasters meet every Thursday, noon - 1:00 Heritage Inn. Toastmasters teaches communication & leadership skills. Roberta 250-489-0174. 1911.toastmastersclubs.org.Breast Cancer Support Group meets at McKim Middle School Library, every 3rd Thursday of the month at 7 pm. Contact: Daniela @ 427-2562.Super Christmas Bargains: New & next to new, warm clothing, footwear, small appliances, jewellery, Christmas decor galore! Bibles for Missions Thrift Store, 824 Kootenay St. N., Cranbrook. 778-520-1981.The Cranbrook Skating Club is o� ering skating lessons for learners of all ages. Pre-CanSkate (for pre-schoolers), CanSkate (ages 4 & up), Intro-StarSkate (learn to � gure skate), StarSkate (for advanced levels of � gure skating), CanPowerSkate (skating skills for hockey players) and Adult lessons. Kathy Bates (Registrar) at 250-432-5562.Do you have 3 hours a week to give? Contact the Kimberley Health Care Auxiliary Thrift Shops at 250-427-2503 (Brenda) or 250-427-1754 Gayle) for volunteer opportunities: cashiers, sorters, after hours cleaners.CRANBROOK QUILTERS’ GUILD hold their meetings every 2nd & 4th Tuesday of each month at 7:15pm upstairs in the Seniors’ Hall, 125-17th Ave. S. Everyone welcome. Info: Betty at 250-489-1498 or June 250-426-8817.ESL: CBAL hosts Conversation Cafe Tues 7-9pm, morning class Wed 10am-12noon & Evening class Wed 7pm-9pm. All sessions held at CBAL o� ce 19 9th Ave S (next to the radio station). Childcare upon request. All programs are FREE. FMI: Bruce 250-919-2766 or [email protected]
editorial donnybrookAs I read Dave McGrath’s Tuesday,
Dec. 4 letter, I was struck by two things:In regard to the argument that “Norm
explains his primary role is to spout a nonstop smear campaign against the BC Liberal Party”, one only needs to read the column put in the paper by the MLA of our southern neighbour, Bill Bennett, to see what a real publicly funded smear campaign looks like.
Mr. McGrath must have a difficult time remembering the political reality in B.C. for the past 11 years.
How can Mr. McGrath glamorize Doug Clovechok’s “brag list”, when he has never held the political office of MLA? If we are to be guided by the track-record of Clove-chok’s party – that is the BC Liberal Party – we need to consider the following:
Supports Education: Does larger class sizes, unproductive labour talks with teachers, and cutting Special Education funding mean supporting education?
What about closing schools?Strong Communities: A slash in fund-
ing for women’s centers, social workers, and other grassroots organizations; cut-ting funding for community outreach workers, mental health and addictions support and services, domestic violence programs, and autism programs; narrow-ing the restrictions for Social Assistance eligibility while increasing the time peo-ple have to wait for help and failing to raise rates. Let’s not forget about the clo-sure of hospitals, courthouses, and a slash to legal aid funding and support.
Opportunities for Families: According to the 2012 Child Poverty Report, B.C. ranked 2nd for Child Poverty in Canada. Poverty advocates have made 15 recom-mendations in the 2012 Child Poverty Report Card. Meanwhile Premier Clark is still touting her “Families First Agenda” while offering little in the way of actual policy change.
Initiatives That Create Jobs:
Is this what offering 201 work Visas to Chinese temporary workers is called? What about tearing up contracts with the HEU, and and privatizing the positions. While we are on the topic about privatiza-tion, lets think about B.C. Rail, B.C. Gas, and what the Liberals want to do with B.C. Hydro.
It seems that Mr. McGrath is mpressed with Doug Clovechok’s efforts to “rebuke socialism...”, yet he is arguing that Clove-chok is fighting for the fundamental be-liefs of socialism (universal health care, universal education, senior care, etc).
Come election day, I will proudly have my white and orange lawn sign up, be-cause I know that Norm MacDonald actu-ally cares about my family, not how he can make a dollar off of my back – or sell my back to the highest bidder!
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Kootenay Ice forward Collin Shirley focuses on the play while being shadowed by Curtis Lazar of the Edmonton Oil Kings during a game at Western Financial Place this season. Shirley has been named to Team West and will compete in the World U17 Hockey Challenge.
Ice forward named to Team WestTRE VOR CR AWLEY
Sports Editor
Kootenay Ice for-ward Collin Shirley will be off to Quebec to compete for Team West in the World U17 Hock-ey Challenge over the Christmas break.
Shirley, 16, is repre-senting the Kootenay Ice for the second straight year, as Jon Martin, Spencer Wand (now retired), Sam Re-inhart and Jaedon De-scheneau competed in the same tournament last year.
The young rookie found out about mak-ing the roster when his family got an email back home in Saska-toon.
“It’s pretty exciting, I guess I didn’t really know if I made it so my mom gave me a call and
I was pretty excited,” said Shirley.
“…It was one of my goals after playing U16, the next step was obvi-ously here, and U17, so I’m really excited and happy to be there.”
The World U17 Hockey Challenge is a 10-team international tournament featuring five regions in Canada (Pacific, West, Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic) along with squads from Finland, Russia, United States, Sweden and Slo-vakia.
Team West is usually in tough during the event, with a bronze medal being their high-est finish in the last five years.
High level hockey can be a small fraterni-ty, and five other play-ers on the roster hail
from Saskatoon, which will add some familiari-ty as Shirley noted he knows a couple of his teammates.
“It’ll be good to see them, catch up and stuff, so I’m looking for-ward to it,” he said.
Shirley joins 13 other WHLers on the roster, which is coached by Don MacGillivray, who leads the Winnipeg Blues in the MJHL.
Being thrown into the mix of all that kind of talent is nothing new to Shirley.
“We have a few prac-tices beforehand, so we’ll figure things out,” said Shirley. “But every-thing, you kind of gotta go into it and work with what you got. Hopefully we’ll gel pretty quick and we’ll see how it goes.”
Martin was one of four Ice players to par-ticipate in the tourna-ment last year as he suited up for Team West as well, which finished at the bottom of a strong pool that included the United States, Russia and Team Pacific.
“It was great,” said Martin. “It was a fun time against all those other countries and some of the best hockey at that age group.”
While teams win or lose based on their abil-ity to come together, the international event is also a good measuring stick to see how indi-viduals stack against each other, added Mar-tin.
“It was good to see where you were at and to see how other coun-tries play—it was great,”
he said.Also participating in
the tournament is Cranbrook native Pay-ton Lee, a goaltender who plays for the Van-couver Giants. Lee, 16, is a highly touted pros-pect who will man the crease for Team Pacific during the event. Lee, who started the season in the PIJHL, is em-broiled in a three-way battle for starting duties with the Vancouver Gi-ants.
WHL NOTES: Prince George Cougars cap-tain Brock Hirsche has retired following sea-son-ending shoulder surgery. Hirsche, 20, was limited to just eight games last year while struggling through an-other injury, and only suited up for 18 con-tests this season.
Nitros edge out 4-3 win against Rockets
TRE VOR CR AWLEYSports Editor
The Kimberley Dy-namiters edged out a 4-3 win against the vis-iting Golden Rockets on Wednesday night, breaking a tie in the third period to clinch the victory.
Despite being out-shot in all three frames, the Nitros traded goals with the Rockets over the three periods, until Dallin Wolf scored the game winner with five minutes to go in the affair.
Matthew Mitchell stood in goal for the Nitros, making 33 saves while James Leonard turned away 20 shots for the Rockets.
Golden capitalized once in five chances on the man-advantage, while Kimberley was denied on all three of theirs.
The Dynamiters were playing with a shortened roster fol-lowing suspensions to
Jeremy Mousseau, Tanner Grey and Con-nor Kutzner for a line brawl in Spokane last Friday, while Eric Buckley and Aaron Shubert served sus-pensions for the same reasons in Grand Forks on Saturday.
Dallin Wolf drew first blood 10 minutes into the opening peri-od for the Nitros, but Golden responded with five minutes to go.
Jason Richter put Kimberley in the lead late in the second, but Carson George tied it up on the power play with two minutes re-maining.
Jared Marchi put the Nitros in the lead for the third time less than a minute into the third, but Jacob Bergeron tied it up 12 minutes later.
Wolf scored his sec-ond of the game to win it for the Dynamiters with five minutes to go in the contest.
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Tom Shypitka, Josh Firman, Steve Tersmette and Greg Terrill are all hoping to earn a spot for provincials this weekend in Trail.
Local curling skip to lead team at zone playdownsTre vor Cr awley
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A local curling team will begin their journey to the Tim Hortons Brier curling tournament this weekend in Trail, as they get set for zone play downs.
Tom Shypitka along with Kimberley native Steve Tersmette, are teaming up with Creston curlers Josh Firman and Greg Terrill for a spiel in Trail, with two spots up for grabs for berths into provincials.
The winner of provin-cials wins the right to represent the province at the Briers, which will be hosted by Edmonton in March.
“It’s going to be tough,” said Tersmette, who plays second. “There’s two spots up for grabs and eight teams are going. The eight teams that are compet-ing are there for a rea-son—they’re all good teams.”
The team qualified for provincials last year, and the team is hoping to clinch one of the spots again this year.
“Mostly kind of a learning experience for us last year, just gives us something to build on for this year,” Tersmette added.
The team hasn’t done a whole lot of practicing together—it’s tough to find time to meet when members are spread out between Cranbrook, Kimberley and Cres-
ton—but the four have been throwing rocks to-gether at some cash spiels.
“We’ve done well at those,” said Shypitka, who skips the team. “We won two of those; we went to three in Novem-ber, we won two and lost the third in the final.”
Curling with team members that live in other towns is nothing new to Shypitka, who travelled to Kelowna to curl with Jeff Richards.
“It seems more and more that the teams are going that way,” added Shypitka. “The days of one team being all from the same little town are almost gone now—it’s not like it used to be 10 years ago.”
Both Tersmette and Shypitka expect tough opponents in Trail, sin-gling out Deane Hornig out of Castlegar and Tom Buchy out of Kimberley.
“I’ve probably played all of them before, in one way or another,” said Shypitka. “Probably the top guys—the Deane Hornig team from Trail—that’s the team we lost to a couple weeks ago in the final in that one cash spiel.
“…But any one of those teams can beat each other,” he added. “There’s not a really truly dominant team.”
Tersmette adds that it’s nice to have Shypitka at the helm, with his ex-tensive competitive curl-ing experience to draw
on.“He’s got a really
good sense of the game, he’s makings sound calls,” Tersmette said. “When you’ve got a lot of confidence in your skip and you’re not worried about the strategy and the calls in the game, you just get to focus on your job—sweeping and throwing rocks—and it takes a lot of pressure off.”
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As this winter season approaches, we want to remind you of the City of Cranbrook current Snow and Ice Control procedures to better understand why the City clears snow the way it does. The policy in place clearly identi� es four levels of priorities for streets for City crews to follow:
STREETSClassi� cation “A” – FIRST PRIORITYMajor streets, hospital zones, roads that access emergency service facilities, roads with severe grades and transit routes will be cleared � rst. In some instances, snowfall is heavy enough and continual during the plowing process, that once these routes are cleared crews need to start them over again. That often causes a delay in getting to other areas of the City.
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The ice is just beginning to form on both lakes at Idlewild Park and Elizabeth Lake, along with the creeks and streams in the City. Thin ice creates many dangers for children who are unaware.
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When most people think about the holidays, family festivities and good cheer likely come to mind. What few of us consider is that the holidays also present an increased risk of home � res. Home � res during the holiday season often involve cooking, Christmas trees, candles and holiday decorations. By taking some preventative steps and following simple rules of thumb, most home � res can be prevented during the holidays and beyond.
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NEW YORK—A wave of optimism gave way to tension as the NHL and NHL Players’ Asso-ciation spent a second straight day trying to hammer out a collec-tive bargaining agree-ment.
The sides exchanged proposals during a se-ries of brief meetings on Wednesday after-noon, according to sources, in a bid to close the final gap in negotiations that have spanned more than five months.
The urgency was ev-ident as a group of six league owners shuffled between internal meet-ings and short sessions with players and union staff at a hotel in mid-town Manhattan. At one point, Boston Bru-ins owner Jeremy Ja-cobs could be seen having an animated conversation with dep-uty commissioner Bill Daly outside the nego-
tiating room. Mean-time, players paced the halls while speaking on their cellphones.
Even though the specific details of the new offers weren’t known, one aspect re-vealed another hurdle the sides have to cross _ the length of the deal. The league’s proposal called for a 10-year term while the NHLPA continued to favour a shorter contract, ac-cording to sources.
With tensions rising, commissioner Gary Bettman and NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr kept themselves out of ne-gotiation sessions for a second straight day. However, Bettman did provide a brief update to reporters after a two-hour gathering of the Board of Governors, saying he was “pleased’’ with how things were progressing.
That was about all he was willing to re-veal.
“We are pleased with the process that is ongoing and out of re-spect for that process I don’t have anything else to say and I’m not going to take any ques-tions,’’ said Bettman.
The two sides have cleared their schedules for the rest of the week after successfully get-ting an adjournment from Quebec Labour Board hearings that had been scheduled in Montreal for Thursday and Friday. That panel will only hear argu-ments about the legali-ty of locking out mem-bers of the Canadiens if a deal can’t be reached in the near future.
There was a sense that remained a possi-bility following the first gathering of NHL own-ers since the lockout was enacted in Sep-tember.
“We feel good about the information we got,’’ said Columbus Blue Jackets president John Davidson.
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A community comes together for JumboThe Ktunaxa Nation spearheaded a rally against the proposed Jumbo Glacier Resort on November 30. An estimated 300 to 400
people took part from all walks of life, in an effort to send a message to the provincial government.
The video of the flip went viral; he appeared on the Ellen Show and became something of a celebrity. In addition, the award winning film The Freedom Chair, chronicling Dueck’s life as a sit-skier was cleaning up at film festivals. And through it all, Deuck continued to win with the National Para-Alpine ski team on the World Cup circuit.Now Dueck is being recognized by National Geographic Magazine, and has been chosen as one of 10 National Geo-graphic Adventurers of the Year.
National Geographic says on its website that it selected the 2013 ‘Adventurers’ because of “their remarkable
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Austrian Felix Baumgartner, who broke the sound barrier in October with his free-fall from space, is also among those selected.
“For eight years, Na-tional Geographic has combed the globe to find Adventurers of the Year, each selected for his or her extraordinary achievement in explo-ration, conservation, humanitarianism, and adventure sports. This year, we selected people who are adventure innovators—a surfer riding giants; a skier landing the first sit-ski backflip; a mountain biker pedaling across cultural boundaries; a BASE jumper falling from space; and more,” the website reads.
This is a voting com-petition to pick the People’s Choice for Adventurer of the Year. You can vote for Dueck at ngadventure.com until January 16, 2013.
Dueck, reached at home in Vernon over the weekend, says he’s thrilled at the honour.
“All the people who were selected are amazing and no matter who wins, I’ll always have that nomina-tion.” However, he does urge all his Kimberley friends and supporters to visit the website and
vote.
“You can vote every day,” he said. “Like my friend Shane Gibson, another Kimberley boy said, ‘Dueck, I’m not going to vote for you just because you’re my buddy. I’m going to have a good look at all the nominees.
But I’m very, very ex-cited to have this nomi-nation from National Geographic because it is something I grew up with,” said Dueck. “My dad was a huge fan and I swear he probably owned 90 per cent of
the volumes from the beginning of the 1900s through ‘til now.”
As for life on the World Cup circuit, that remains very much a part of Dueck’s life. He is in training now and the first races are at Panorama in late November. He is also looking forward to the World Cup finals at Sochi, Russia, site of the 2014 Olympic and Paralympic games.
“We get to check out the site,” he said.
He plans to be there in 2014.
“The Olympics are defi-nitely one of my goals right now,” he said. “I enjoy skiing and the opportunity to once again be a Paralympian is something to be trea-sured, so why not?”
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C anadian Press HARTFORD, Conn. — Jazz
composer and pianist Dave Brubeck, whose pioneering style in pieces such as “Take Five’’ caught listeners’ ears with exotic, challenging rhythms, has died. He was 91.
Brubeck died Wednesday morning of heart failure after being stricken while on his way to a cardiology appointment with his son Darius, said his manager Russell Gloyd. Bru-beck would have turned 92 on Thursday.
Brubeck had a career that spanned almost all American jazz since World War II. He formed The Dave Brubeck Quartet in 1951 and was the first modern jazz musician to be pictured on the cover of Time magazine — on Nov. 8, 1954 — and he helped define the swinging, smoky rhythms of 1950s and ‘60s club jazz.
The seminal album “Time Out,’’ released by the quartet in 1959, was the first ever mil-lion-selling jazz LP, and is still among the bestselling jazz al-bums of all time. It opens with “Blue Rondo a la Turk’’ in 9/8 time — nine beats to the mea-sure instead of the customary two, three or four beats.
A piano-and-saxophone whirlwind based loosely on a Mozart piece, “Blue Rondo’’ eventually intercuts between Brubeck’s piano and a more traditional 4/4 jazz rhythm.
The album also features “Take Five’’ — in 5/4 time — which became the Quartet’s signature theme and even made the Billboard singles chart in 1961. It was composed by Brubeck’s longtime saxo-phonist, Paul Desmond.
“When you start out with goals — mine were to play polytonally and polyrhythmi-cally — you never exhaust that,’’ Brubeck told The Associated Press in 1995. “I started doing that in the 1940s. It’s still a chal-lenge to discover what can be done with just those two ele-ments.’’
After service in World War II and study at Mills College in Oakland, California, Brubeck formed an octet including Des-mond on alto sax and Dave van Kreidt on tenor, Cal Tjader on drums and Bill Smith on clari-net. The group played Brubeck originals and standards by other composers, including some early experimentation in unusual time signatures. Their groundbreaking album “Dave Brubeck Octet’’ was recorded in 1946.
The group evolved into the Quartet, which played colleges and universities. The Quartet’s
first album, “Jazz at Oberlin,’’ was recorded live at Oberlin College in Ohio in 1953.
Ten years later, Joe Morello on drums and Eugene Wright on bass joined with Brubeck and Desmond to produce “Time Out.’’
In later years Brubeck com-posed music for operas, ballet, even a contemporary Massa-chusetts.
In 1988, he played for Mikhail Gorbachev, at a dinner in Moscow that then-President Ronald Reagan hosted for the Soviet leader.
“I can’t understand Rus-sian, but I can understand body language,’’ said Brubeck, after seeing the general secre-tary tapping his foot.
In the late 1980s, Brubeck contributed music for one epi-sode of an eight-part series of television specials, “This Is America, Charlie Brown.’’
His music was for an epi-sode involving NASA and the space station. He worked with three of his sons — Chris on
bass trombone and electric bass, Dan on drums and Mat-thew on cello — and included excerpts from his Mass “To Hope! A Celebration,’’ his ora-torio “A Light in the Wilder-ness,’’ and a piece he had com-posed but never recorded, “Quiet As the Moon.’’
“That’s the beauty of music,’’ he told the AP in 1992. “You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn’t make any difference where the theme comes from; the treatment of it can be jazz.’’
In 2006, the University of Notre Dame gave Brubeck its Laetare Medal, awarded each year to a Roman Catholic “whose genius has ennobled the arts and sciences, illustrat-ed the ideals of the church and enriched the heritage of hu-manity.’’
At the age of 88, in 2009, Brubeck was still touring, in spite of a viral infection that threatened his heart and made him miss an April show at his alma mater, the University of the Pacific.
By June, though, he was playing in Chicago, where the Tribune critic wrote that “Bru-beck was coaxing from the piano a high lyricism more typically encountered in the music of Chopin.’’
More acclaim came his way when it was announced that he would be a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors at a ceremony in late 2009.
Brubeck told the AP the an-nouncement would have de-lighted his late mother, Eliza-beth Ivey Brubeck, a classical pianist who was initially disap-
pointed by her youngest son’s interest in jazz. (He added that she had lived long enough to come to appreciate his music.)
Born in Concord, Califor-nia, on Dec. 6, 1920, Brubeck actually had planned to be-come a rancher like his father. He attended the College of the Pacific (now the University of the Pacific) in 1938, intending to major in veterinary medi-cine and return to the family’s 45,000-acre spread.
But within a year Brubeck was drawn to music. He gradu-ated in 1942 and was drafted by the Army, where he served — mostly as a musician — under Gen. George S. Patton in Europe. At the time, his Wolf-pack Band was the only racial-ly integrated unit in the mili-tary.
In an interview for Ken Burns’ PBS miniseries “Jazz,’’ Brubeck talked about playing for troops with his integrated band, only to return to the U.S. to see his black bandmates re-fused service in a restaurant in Texas.
Brubeck and his wife, Iola, had five sons and a daughter. Four of his sons — Chris on trombone and electric bass, Dan on drums, Darius on key-boards and Matthew on cello — played with the London Symphony Orchestra in a birthday tribute to Brubeck in December 2000.
“We never had a rift,’’ Chris Brubeck once said of living and playing with his father. “I think music has always been a good communication tool, so we didn’t have a rift. We’ve al-ways had music in common.’’
Pioneering jazz composer, pianist Dave Brubeck dies
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Dave Brubeck in the 1950s
“When you start out with goals — mine were
to play polytonally and polyrhythmically — you
never exhaust that. I started doing that in
the 1940s. It’s still a challenge to discover what
can be done with just those two elements.’’
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doubt go down in his-tory as one of the larg-est. Parade assembly began at 6:00 pm and by parade time at 7:00 members of JCI Koote-nay had everyone in or-der and ready to go.
Thanks to JCI members and a special thanks to all the businesses, groups, clubs and orga-nizations for your par-ticipation. It would sure be interesting to find out how many thou-sands of people line the streets for this parade
Jim Wavrecan did a
great job in decorating the City of Cranbrook float. The bubbles were a very popular addition to the float. We appreci-ate that the Mayor and Mrs. Stetski, Council-lors Angus Davis and Bob Whetham along with Jamie Hodge, Catherine Ernst, Ann Wavrecan, Jeanette Sis-sons and grandson Kyle all helped to hand out more than 3,000 candy canes.
The feedback started to come to the Chamber
office around 7:30 Fri-day morning and it was all positive. Throughout the day there were emails, messages on face book and telephone calls reporting to us that the stores were full, that there were line ups to get into the stores, Con-sumers called to say, what a great day, hit lots of specials, got some fantastic buys, got all my Christmas shopping done.
We did however receive some feedback about the Black Friday name and so, some history. You never know it may come up in the next ver-sion of Trivia Pursuit
“Black Friday” as a term has been used in multiple contexts, going back to the 19th century, where in the United
States it was associated with a financial crisis of 1869. Black Friday is the name given to the day following Thanks-giving Day in the United States, often regarded as the beginning of the Christmas shopping. The day’s name origi-nated in Philadelphia, where it originally was used to describe the heavy and disruptive pe-destrian and vehicle traf-fic which would occur on the day after Thanks-giving. Use of the term started before 1961 and began to see broader use outside Philadelphia around 1975. Later an alternative explanation began to be offered: that “Black Friday” indicates the point at which retail-ers begin to turn a profit, or are “in the black”.
This year saw the big-gest Black Friday to date in Canada, as Cana-
dian retailers embraced it in an attempt to keep shoppers from travelling across the border. Thoughts are that we might consider holding Black Friday the same date as the US Black Friday. Do you have some thoughts you`d like to share with us? Should we stay the same or move to the U.S weekend. Some people even feel we should change the name. Email me at [email protected], we’d like to hear from you.
It was a launch into the Christmas shopping sea-son and our citizens re-sponded. As an advoca-cy group for business in our community, we launched this initiative that reaped benefits for members and non-mem-bers alike!
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Nominees and Award winners will be an-nounced at our Gala Banquet in March. Don’t miss this oppor-tunity to nominate your favorites and help us celebrate the best Cranbrook has to offer! Nomination forms are on the Chamber’s web site @ www.cran-brookchamber.com or call us at the office 250 426 5914 and we’ll be happy to forward the nomination forms on to you.
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The moon took quite a beating in its early days, more than previously believed, scientists re-ported Wednesday.
This surprising new view of the moon comes from detailed gravity mapping by twin space-craft, which slipped into orbit around the celes-tial body earlier this year.
Evidence of a highly fractured lunar interior just below the surface suggests that other rocky planets including Earth would have suffered similar bombardment from space rocks early in their history.
Measurements by the NASA spacecraft called Ebb and Flow also found that the moon’s crust, or outermost layer, is much thinner than scientists
thought — only about 25 miles.
The findings were presented Wednesday at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco and pub-lished online in the journal Science.
Though past mis-sions have measured lunar gravity _ about one-sixth Earth’s pull _ Ebb and Flow are the first spacecraft dedicat-ed to this pursuit.
To collect data, the washing machine-size spacecraft flew in forma-tion, orbiting about 35 miles above the moon’s surface. Their positions allowed them to peer deep into the moon.
The mission is sched-uled to end later this month when Ebb and Flow crash into the moon.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The two men who will spend an entire year together aboard the In-ternational Space Sta-tion are already bracing for a challenging mis-sion.
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly said Wednesday it will be like spending a whole year at the office. And you never get to leave.
Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will blast off in 2015 for the longest mission ever at the space
station. NASA and the Russian Space Agency want to see how all that weightlessness affects the men.
Russia already has ex-perience with yearlong space travel. But it’s lim-ited to the old Mir space station and more than a decade has passed.
Kelly says his 9-year-old daughter screamed “awesome’’ when she learned the news. Korn-ienko’s wife cried.
Kelly is the brother-in-law of former con-gresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
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WASHINGTON — A panel of outside U.S. ex-perts says NASA is adrift without a coherent vi-sion for where it should be going.
The report is by the National Academy of Sciences. But the panel doesn’t blame the space agency. It faults the pres-ident, Congress and the nation.
President Barack Obama in 2010 told NASA to plan to send as-tronauts to a nearby as-teroid.
But the panel of ex-perts says few in NASA or the space community have embraced that des-tination. NASA hasn’t al-located much money for it and its vague strategic plan avoids mention of an asteroid mission.
Veteran astronaut and panel member Bob Crippen, who piloted the first space shuttle mis-sion, said he has never seen the space agency so unfocused.
NASA officials con-tend they have clear and challenging goals.
Where is NASA going?Expert panel says US space agency isn’t quite sure, needs clear goals
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LONDON — Two Austra-lian radio disc jockeys apolo-gized Wednesday after im-personating Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles in a prank call and getting a Lon-don hospital to tell them all about Kate Middleton’s con-dition.
The King Edward VII hos-pital in London acknowl-edged that the Australian radio station made the hoax
call to the hospital in the early hours Tuesday — and that the hospital fell for it.
The 30-year-old Duchess of Cambridge is pregnant and is being treated at the hospital for severe morning sickness.
A woman using the of-ten-mimicked voice of Brit-ain’s monarch asked after the duchess’ health — and was told by a nurse that Kate “hasn’t had any retching with me and she’s been sleeping
on and off.’’ “She’s sleeping at the mo-
ment and she has had an un-eventful night. She’s been given some fluids. She’s sta-ble at the moment,’’ the kindly nurse informed the supposed queen and prince on the sta-tion’s recording. A dog yaps in the background while the alleged queen and prince talk about travelling to the hospi-tal to check in on the patient.
“I would suggest that any time after 9 o’clock will be
suitable to visit,’’ the nurse said. “We’ll be getting her freshened up.’’
The duchess is married to the queen’s grandson, Prince William.
The hospital says the call had been transferred to the ward and the conversation was held with one of its nurs-ing staff. Its telephone proto-cols are now being reviewed, the hospital said in a state-ment.
The Australian station
2DayFM placed the record-ing of the conversation on its website.
Australian radio personal-ities Mel Greig and Michael Christian later apologized for the hoax — along with their station.
“We were very surprised that our call was put through. We thought we’d be hung up on as soon as they heard our terrible accents,’’ they said in a joint statement with the sta-tion. “We’re very sorry if
we’ve caused any issues and we’re glad to hear that Kate is doing well.’’
The duchess is spending her third day in the hospital. William visited his wife at the hospital on Wednesday, while media from around the world camped outside, seek-ing any news on the royal pregnancy.
Officials from St. James’s Palace have said the duchess is not yet 12 weeks pregnant with the couple’s first child.
Radio hoaxers sorry for crank call to Kate’s hospital
Thomas aDamson Associated Press
PARIS — Residents of a sleepy French vil-lage in Bordeaux have been left dumbfounded after discovering their local 18th-century cha-teau was completely bulldozed “by mistake.’’
The mayor’s office in Yvrac said Wednesday that workers who were hired to renovate the grand 13,000 square metre manor and raze a small building on the same estate in southwest France mixed them up.
“The Chateau de Bel-levue was Yvrac’s pride and joy,’’ said former owner Juliette Marmie. “The whole village is in shock. How can this construction firm make such a mistake?’’
Local media report-ed that the construction
French chateau razed ‘by mistake’
Leanne iTaLie Associated Press
NEW YORK — Thanks to the elec-tion, socialism and capitalism are for-ever wed as Merriam-Webster’s most looked-up words of 2012.
Traffic for the unlikely pair on the company’s website about doubled this year from the year before as the health care debate heated up and discussion intensified over “American capitalism’’ versus “European socialism,’’ said the editor at large, Peter Sokolowski.
The choice revealed Wednesday was “kind of a no-brainer,’’ he said. The side-by-side interest among political candidates and around kitchen tables prompted the dictionary folk to settle on two words of the year rather than one for the first time since the accolade began in 2003.
“They’re words that sort of encap-sulate the zeitgeist. They’re words that are in the national conversation,’’ said Sokolowski from company headquar-ters in Springfield, Mass.
Democracy, globalization, mar-riage and bigot — all touched by poli-tics — made the Top 10, in no particu-lar order. The latter two were driven in part by the fight for same-sex marriage acceptance.
Last year’s word of the year was austerity. Before that, it was pragmatic. Other words in the leading dictionary maker’s Top 10 for 2012 were also po-litically motivated.
Harken back to Oct. 11, when Vice-President Joe Biden tangled with Mitt Romney running mate Paul Ryan in a televised debate focused on for-eign policy — terror attacks, defence spending and war, to be specific.
“With all due respect, that’s a bunch of MALARKEY,’’ declared Biden during a particularly tough row with Ryan. The mention sent look-ups of malarkey soaring on Merriam-web-ster.com, Sokolowski said, adding: “Clearly a one-week wonder, but what a week!’’
Actually, it was more like what a day. Look-ups of malarkey represented the largest spike of a single word on the website by percentage, at 3,000 per cent, in a single 24-hour period this year. The company won’t release the number of page views per word but said the site gets about 1.2 billion over-all each year.
Malarkey, with the alternative spell-
ing of “y’’ at the end, is of unknown or-igin, but Merriam-Webster surmises it’s more Irish-American than Irish, tracing it to newspaper references as far back as 1929.
Beyond “nonsense,’’ malarkey can mean “insincere or pretentious talk or writing designed to impress one and usually to distract attention from ulte-rior motives or actual conditions,’’ noted Sokolowski.
An interesting election-related phe-nom, to be sure, but malarkey is no dead Big Bird or “binders full of women’’ — two Romneyisms from the defeated candidate’s televised match-ups with Obama that evoked another of Merriam-Webster’s Top 10 — meme.
While malarkey’s history is shaded, meme’s roots are easily traced to evo-lutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, a Brit who coined the term for a unit of cultural inheritance, not unlike genes and DNA. The retired professor at the University of Oxford made up the word in 1976 for “The Selfish Gene,’’ a book he published light years before the In-ternet and social media’s capacity to take memes viral.
Sokolowski said traffic for meme more than doubled this year over 2011, with dramatic spikes pegged to politi-cal-related subjects that included Romney’s Big Bird and binders re-marks, social media shares of images pegged to Hillary Rodham Clinton tex-ting and Obama’s “horses and bayo-nets’’ debate rebuke of Romney in an exchange over the size of the Navy.
Other words in Merriam-Webster’s Top 10 for 2012:
• Touche, thanks in part to “Survi-vor’’ contestant Kat Edorsson misusing the word to mean “tough luck’’ rather than point well made, before she was voted off the island in May. Look-ups at Merriam-webster.com were up seven-fold this year over 2011.
• Schadenfreude, made up of the German words for “damage’’ and “joy,’’ meaning taking pleasure in the misery of others, was used broadly in the media after the election. Look-ups in-creased 75 per cent. The word in En-glish dates to 1895.
• Professionalism, up 12 per cent this year over last. Sokolowski suspects the bump might have been due to the bad economy and more job seekers, or a knowing “glimpse into what qualities people value.’’
Merriam Webster chooses two words of the year
lexicographers speak
company misunder-stood the renovation plans of the current owner, Russian busi-nessman Dmitry Stroskin, to clean up the manor and restore it to its former baroque glory.
Stroskin was away
when the calamity oc-curred and returned home to discover his chateau, a local treasure boasting a grand hall that could host some 200 people, as well as a sweeping stone stair-case — was nothing but rubble.
“I’m in shock ...I un-derstand the turmoil of the community,’’ local media quoted Stroskin as saying.
He told them he plans to build an exact replica of lost manor on the site.
The 18th century French chateau owned by russian businessman Dmitry stroski was torn down by accident.
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EDMONTON — An Alberta emergency room doctor has told a public inquiry medical staff were once pres-
sured to provide faster care for well-connected people.
Dr. Paul Parks says that in the fall of 2007, staff at the University of
Alberta hospital emer-gency room were or-dered by an executive to see a — quote — “VIP’’ before they dealt with a waiting room full of
other sick people. The VIP was not
named by Parks and nei-ther was the executive.
Parks says staff balked at the request — they re-evaluated the VIP’s condition and de-cided the patient need-ed to wait like everyone else.
Parks says he and his fellow emergency room doctors agreed after-wards that they would never let anyone jump a queue for care.
The inquiry, called by Premier Alison Redford to look into allegations queue-jumping, began hearing from witnesses on Monday.
So far, executives have talked about pref-erential treatment being an accepted practice under the old regional health boards, but no one was able to cite any examples.
Alberta ER staff were ordered to treat ‘VIPs’ faster
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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Pace yourself, and direct your high energy into a project or a discussion with someone you work with. Your energy could hit a home run. Use it well. Others naturally will follow your lead. A friend or loved one expresses his or her affection. Tonight: A must-show. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Your creativity surges, and your imagination wanders. You probably want to take off ASAP, so plan a vacation in the near future. Stay authentic when dealing with a snobby person; it just might rub off on him or her. A friend wants to do something special for you. Tonight: Feed your mind. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Stay centered. You might want to stay close to home. An asso-ciate might need some extra time and attention. You are ex-tremely optimistic, which helps you visualize more of what you want. Know what you want.
Tonight: Say “yes” to an offer. Go for a lazy night. CANCER (June 21-July 22) You might be pursuing the course you want to follow. Fortunately, it coincides with a partner’s or a friend’s idea. Oth-erwise, you would have experi-enced a lot of trouble with this person. Ask what you can do in order to relax more. Remain centered. Tonight: Hang out. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Curb a tendency to overspend, even if you have quite a bit of shopping to do. You might want to adjust your budget some more. A roommate or a family member demonstrates his or her caring through action. Ten-sion builds around a loved one. Tonight: Treat yourself, too. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Beam in more of what you want. You might feel as if no one can stop you. A boss no-tices your stamina when you are determined. You will need to use your creativity to handle everything on your plate. Do not respond to someone’s tantrum. Tonight: Make yourself happy.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Be a cynic, and listen to news carefully. You might want to understand what is happen-ing with a family member or a roommate who is withdrawing. You know this person well. Think about what would be the most effective way to open him or her up. Tonight: Not to be found. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You are likely to verbalize what you’re thinking. Someone might have a strong reaction to your words. You know when enough is enough. Consider distancing yourself from an awkward sit-uation. An associate or a loved one joins you at a key meeting. Tonight: Out and about. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You will decide to take a stand. Others listen and follow your lead. You put your energy -- and money, if need be -- behind your words. Someone you meet today could seem special, but ultimately could be a problem. Take off your rose-colored shades. Tonight: A must appear-ance.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Your detachment could cause quite a reaction. You might look at a situation differently, as a result. A brainstorming session might be the way an associate or loved one tries to draw you back in. Take this action as a compliment. Tonight: Whatever allows your mind to calm down. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) A key person in your life en-joys relating directly to you. You both activate each other’s imagination. Opportunities arise from your conversations. You know what you want, and you focus on those goals when trying to find the right path. Tonight: Dinner for two. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Listen to someone’s suggestion. You might hear some news that surprises you. A friend is certain about what he or she wants, and will push and push to achieve those results. You might as well say “yes” if you can. Tonight: Surround yourself with friends.
Dear Annie: My incredible husband of two years has a 4-year-old daughter with his ex-wife. I have actively helped raise “Christie” since she was barely a year.
We haven’t communicated with the mother since the time we took her to court for refusing visitation, but my hus-band and I have always provided for Christie in every way possible, above and beyond the court-ordered child support. This little girl loves me. I have never tried to replace her mother, encouraged or ex-pected her to call me “Mom,” or even so much as talked badly about her mother in front of her.
But lately, Christie has been question-ing my relationship with her father, saying the reason her mommy and daddy are not together is because of me. When I ask her to do something she doesn’t want to do, she says her mommy says she doesn’t have to listen to me because I am not her mother. Even worse, she’s been told that when my husband and I have a baby of our own, Daddy won’t love her as much as the new baby.
Christie is obviously too young to draw these conclusions on her own, so Mom is giving her these impressions or telling her these things outright. I don’t know why any mother would want to hurt her child this way, but I worry it is going to cause Christie to resent me. How can we handle this? -- Stepmom in the Middle
Dear Stepmom: Many courts now recognize parental alienation. Suggest that your husband speak to his lawyer about this possibility. In the meantime, when Christie is with you, do your best to counter the negative brainwashing. Let her know how much you love her and always will; that a new baby means she will be more important than ever, and the new baby will need a big sister; that ev-eryone in the household has chores to do, and you want her to learn to be a big girl. As she gets older, she will recognize her mother’s bitterness, so please don’t play into that drama.
Dear Annie: I am a recent widow in my mid-70s. I decided after the death of my husband a couple of years ago that I would live out my life alone.
I don’t have much of a social life, but I do attend church services regularly. I find myself sitting next to a man who once spoke to me after the service. After several weeks, I could tell he seemed interested in me. After a few conversations, I realized I am 10 years older than he is.
He seems like a kind and polite man, and his wife has been dead for many years. I am flattered by his attention and shocked at this chain of events. I would appreciate your input on the age differ-ence. I am basically a happy, healthy woman, but this is a situation I could take or leave. So if you tell me to come to my senses, I will say “Goodbye, Columbus.” -- California
Dear California: The age difference is irrelevant as long as you don’t mislead him about it. If you enjoy his company, we say go for it. There is nothing wrong with a companionable friendship, and if either of you is looking for something more, just be sure you are both comfortable with it.
Dear Annie: You printed several re-sponses to “Looking for a Relationship, Too” and included one from “El Paso, Texas,” who suggested that women take up shooting because “guys like a gal with good aim.”
I laughed, thinking of a song from the Broadway musical “Annie Get Your Gun,” which was titled, “You Can’t Get a Man with a Gun.” Thanks for a good chuckle. -- Musical Lover
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Legion fights for poor, homeless vetsern-day veterans as too compliant with govern-ment, an image White concedes they’re trying to change.
``I don’t think we were ever quiet, we were just quiet in how we did our business,’’ he said. ``We never did things too loudly. We were more in the back-rooms working the deals, and for a lot years that kind of stuff worked.’’
The relationship has grown irritable because the Legion gets the sense Veteran Affairs of-ficials are ``talking down to us’’ and that the institution wasn’t changing with the times
and adapting to the needs of Afghan sol-diers, White added.
Despite the distance, the Legion is still onside with the government when it comes to the contentious New Veter-ans Charter, the 2006 overhaul of benefits and entitlements for ex-ser-vice members. The sys-tem was changed from one based largely on pensions-for-life to lump-sum settlements for disabilities.
The charter is cur-rently being challenged in class-action lawsuit by some veterans, who say the payouts under the new system are un-just.
qualify for assistance _ so far to no avail.
White said the in-transigence has left many in his organiza-tion, and veterans at large, dismayed.
``There’s obviously a need out there. It’s obvi-ous it has to be ad-dressed, but we’re cele-brating the War of 1812 more than we’re cele-brating the lives of the people who are relevant today,’’ he said.
Veterans Affairs Min-ister Steven Blaney de-fended the rejection rate by noting that over 10,000 applications to the fund had been ap-proved and the govern-
ment had every inten-tion to maintain the program.
A spokesman for Blaney said there’s no reluctance on the part of the government to dis-cuss the issue, and he expects it will come up.
``This will be dis-cussed at the meeting as will many other subjects important to veterans,’’ Niklaus Schwenker said.
The Legion’s asser-tive public tone reflects a major shift for the or-ganization, which has advocated on behalf of ex-soldiers since the 1920s. Throughout the Afghan war, it was in-creasingly seen by mod-
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OTTAWA _ The Royal Canadian Legion, once counted on by the gov-ernment to be the voice of reason among veter-ans groups, is striking a more defiant tone and demanding federal offi-cials address the issue of burial expenses for poor and homeless ex-sol-diers.
A major annual con-ference among veterans groups is set to get un-derway in Charlotte-town on Thursday, but the issue of the Last Post Fund _ and the fact it has rejected two-thirds of applications since
2006 _ is not on the agenda set by Veterans Affairs.
Brad White, an ex-ar-my officer and the Le-gion’s Dominion Secre-tary, said his organiza-tion will not drop the issue of funeral cover-age.
``I can’t understand why they won’t fix that,’’ said White.
Over the last six years, 20,147 applica-tions were rejected by the Last Post Fund be-cause the deceased vet-eran did not meet the eligibility criteria. To qualify a veteran must have earned less than $12,010 a year and
served in Second World War, Korea, or been in receipt of a veterans dis-ability pension.
There was a public outcry prior to Remem-brance Day over the fund, which is an inde-pendent agency that ad-ministers the burial pro-gram on behalf of the federal government.
White says the fund was not even on the agenda for the meeting, but ``we’re going to put it on the agenda.’’
The fund has peti-tioned the Harper gov-ernment not only to overhaul the rules, but to increase the stipend given to those who do
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Inmate claims he’s too fat to dieof the very small number of death row inmates who are that obese, said Deborah Denno, a Ford-ham University law pro-fessor and expert on le-thal injection. And she said it is unlikely prison-ers would begin stuffing themselves to try to fend off execution.
Richard Dieter, exec-
utive director of the Wa s h i n g t o n - b a s e d Death Penalty Informa-tion Center, which op-poses capital punish-ment, predicted states will find a way around obesity claims by adjust-ing their execution pro-cedures, perhaps by changing the drug or the dosage.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio _ At about 450 pounds (204 kilograms), Ohio death row inmate Ron-ald Post is so fat that his executioners won’t be able to find veins in his arms or legs for the le-thal injection, and he might even break the death chamber gurney, his lawyers say.
If the state is forced to use a backup method that involves injecting the drugs directly into muscle, the process could require multiple doses over several hours or even days and result in a grueling and painful end, they say.
Post, who gained close to 200 pounds (91 kilograms) on death row, is trying to stave off
execution Jan. 16 for the 1983 killing of a motel clerk during a robbery, arguing that because of his obesity, an attempt to put him to death would amount to cruel and unusual punish-ment.
State officials say Post, 53, can be hu-manely executed under both Ohio’s usual meth-od and the untested backup procedure. The warden at the prison where the death cham-ber is situated even test-ed the gurney by piling 540 pounds (245 kilo-grams) of weights on it for two hours.
Post has not present-ed ``sufficient evidence demonstrating that his obesity or other physical conditions will present a substantial risk that his execution cannot be
conducted in a humane and dignified manner,’’ Assistant Attorney Gen-eral Charles Wille said in court papers.
A federal judge in Co-lumbus will hold a hear-ing on Post’s claim later this month.
Post’s case is not without precedent: In 1994, a federal judge in Washington state ruled that convicted killer Mitchell Rupe, at more than 400 pounds (181 ki-lograms), was too heavy to be hanged because he might be decapitated. After numerous court rulings and a third trial, Rupe was sentenced to life in prison, where he died in 2006.
If Post manages to stop his execution be-cause of his weight, the legal precedent may not be far-reaching, because
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By Tom FleTcherBlack Press
Hospital pharma-cists and medical imag-ing technicians plan to go ahead with brief strikes Thursday and Friday as a mediator at-tempts to reach a settle-ment with 16,000 health science employees at hospitals and clinics across B.C.
Mediator Vince Ready was brought in Tuesday after negotia-tions that started in February failed to pro-duce an agreement. The Health Employers Asso-ciation of B.C. issued a statement Wednesday warning that the unions intend to go ahead with its first rotating strikes despite the mediation effort.
Michael Marchbank, CEO of the employers’ association, said hospi-tals have no choice but to begin postponing non-emergency proce-dures, including sur-gery and diagnostic tests.
“Employers are very concerned about the patient care impact that will result from this ac-tion,” Marchbank said.
The first strike is ex-pected to be by hospital pharmacists, perform-ing essential services only from 9 a.m. to mid-night Thursday. That
would be followed by a 24-hour essential-ser-vice-only strike by med-ical imaging technolo-gists, who perform x-rays, CT and MRI scans, nuclear medi-cine tests and other im-aging procedures.
The Health Science Professionals Bargain-ing Association, repre-senting a group of unions, says there will be no picket lines. Sur-rey Memorial Hospital, recovering from a bro-ken water main that forced closure of the emergency ward and damaged scanning equipment, will be ex-empted from strike ac-tion.
Reid Johnson, presi-dent of the largest union, the Health Sci-ences Association, said the B.C. government’s “co-operative gains” bargaining mandate has not produced an employer wage offer, and the presence of a mediator alone isn’t enough to suspend strike action.
“We tabled a propos-al for four per cent [wage increase] over two years, with no ben-efit concessions,” John-son said. “And that’s in line with the other pub-lic sector agreements that have been reached
Surgery, lab tests to be delayed by strike
Black Press files
Surgical team works at a B.C. hospital: rotating strikes by pharmacists and imaging technicians could delay elective tests and surgeries.
over the last few months under the government’s cooperative gains man-date.”
He said nuclear medicine and other technical specialties are among the high-
est-skilled positions other than physicians, and there are chronic shortages of qualified
staff.B.C. needs to pay
competitive wages and also train more techni-
cians at home rather than recruiting from other countries, John-son said.
maT Thew FisherPostmedia News
Tensions in the Egyptian capital reached new heights Wednesday after three of President Mohammed Mor-si’s aides quit because they believe he has botched the promotion of a draft constitu-tion that had been designed to enhance Islam’s role in gov-ernment and because of a presidential decree that Morsi issued giving him sweeping powers.
The constitution that Morsi proposed last week has triggered unrest that reached a new peak Wednesday with bloody street battles that raged into the night between secularists seeking to dimin-ish the influence of Islam in the document and much more numerous supporters of Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood.
Discontent within Morsi’s inner circle over the draft con-stitution and the likelihood of serious mayhem in Cairo be-cause of it has encouraged the
secularists - a hodgepodge of liberals, left wingers, Coptic Christians and some support-ers of the old, disgraced mili-tary regime - to call this the “decisive battle” in the strug-gle for Egypt’s political future.
But it is hard to see how the secularists can win their demands for a constitution that is not salted with ambigu-ous references to Islam’s role in Egypt such as the current proposal is. No matter how much noise the opposition makes - and it has been mak-ing a lot of noise - the best that the opposition can probably hope for is a slightly watered down version of the docu-ment that the conservative Brotherhood-dominated constitutional assembly came up with and which Egyptians will accept or reject in a snap referendum that was called last week for Dec. 15.
The truth is that hopes for a secular Egypt were doomed the moment the Muslim
Brotherhood chose nearly two years ago to participate in the formal political process. The culprit was democracy.
As hard as it is for secular Egyptians and their western backers to swallow, there are more Egyptians who want Ko-ranic scholars to advise the justice system, favour the in-troduction of Sharia law and demand a formal role for Islam in everyday life than there are Egyptians who are repelled by such theocratic thinking.
Democracy sometimes throws up governments that a substantial minority of the cit-izenry loathe. Speaking most-ly to each other, the secular-ists convinced themselves that the Brotherhood could be defeated at the polls last winter. They are indulging in the same kind of wishful thinking over the constitution now. But wishing something is true does not always make it so.
Remember when all those secularists were interviewed again and again by excited western news anchors last winter. We marveled at these young men and women who spoke such polished English. We admired their idealism, their heroism and their com-mitment to democracy and values similar to our own. The only problem was that a ma-jority of Egyptians who were not so articulate in English and not so western-oriented and therefore not so comfort-ing to a western audience had very different ideas about the future of their country.
The same story is being played out today. The voices that still penetrate in the West think like we do. But the Brotherhood and its ul-tra-conservative allies, the Salafis, can still muster far larger crowds whenever it re-ally wants than the secularists can. This has been proven at the ballot box, was proven at
competing rallies last week-end and was proven again Wednesday outside the presi-dential palace.
The Brotherhood fares better at staging rallies be-cause it is far better organized and focused than the opposi-tion. And it has more support-ers.
Regrettably, there is likely to be more political upheaval after Morsi’s draft constitution is approved. Egypt’s religious and cultural divide is only real and is growing. Wednesday’s clashes, which involved fire bombs, rocks and cudgels, were a warning. The split in Egyptian society, especially in Cairo, is more profound today than ever.
The conflict is likely to get worse as secularists, who only months ago touted the virtues of democracy and led the agi-tation that toppled Mubarark, denounce the Brotherhood and clamour for Morsi to be overthrown or to at least de-
bate the constitution. The Brotherhood claims to be open to talks. Those from the opposition who walked out of constitutional assembly last month claim that this is not so.
The demonstrations and counter-demonstrations that have been taking place around the clock are heartfelt. But in a way this is all political theatre. The only meaningful card that has not yet been played by the opposition would be to urge the generals that they so recently despised to mount a coup on their be-half.
This is hardly a solution. The Islamists, having savoured their first taste of power after nearly eight de-cades on the outside, and knowing with a certainty that they are the majority, would go berserk.
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Back in late October, signs of the change in season were becom-
ing obvious. Skies were stormy, fall colours were fading and bird populations at Elizabeth Lake made their predictable changes.
Not included in the 30 or so species observed were the shorebirds, swal-lows, flycatchers and war-blers. These birds are un-able to survive our wintery conditions and have made significant flights to the south or west to find some-thing suitable. Many of the birds seen will still be here during the Christmas Bird Count which occurs in Cranbrook on December 29th and in Kimberley on January 5th.
From December 14 through January 5, tens of thousands of volunteers throughout the ‘Americas’ take part in an adventure which has become a family tradition among genera-tions. Families and stu-dents, birders and scien-tists, armed with binocu-lars, bird guides and check-lists go out on an annual mission. For 113 years, the desire to both make a differ-ence and to experience the beauty of nature has driven dedicated people to leave the comfort of a warm house during the Holiday season.
Each ‘citizen scientist’ who annually braves snow, wind or rain to take part in the Christmas Bird Count makes an enormous con-tribution to conservation. Audubon and other organi-zations use data collected in this ‘longest running wildlife census’ to assess the health of bird popula-
tions — and to help guide conservation action.
From feeder-watchers and field observers, to count compilers and re-gional editors, everyone who takes part in the Christmas Bird Count does it for love of birds and the excitement of friendly com-petition — and with the knowledge that their efforts are making a difference for science and bird conserva-tion. In these two local counts, a circular area is di-vided into four quadrants, each of which is examined by one quarter of the par-ticipants from 9 a.m. until about 5 p.m. Afterwards we do a ‘count-up’ or ‘Tal-ly-Rally’ and enjoy a pot luck meal. We encourage those birders who maintain active feeders to participate by listing their ‘visitors’ and submitting them to us.
In addition, a program which is made possible by the efforts and support of thousands of ‘Citizen Sci-entists’, is ‘Project Feeder-Watch’, a research and edu-cation project of the Cor-nell Lab of Ornithology and Bird Studies Canada.
Anyone in the U.S. and Canada with an interest in birds and a feeder to watch is welcome to join. Help sci-entists monitor winter bird populations while you learn more about the birds in your neighborhood. Simply look-up birds.canada.org. The world is changing quickly and birds are feeling the im-pact. Who would have thought that the gregarious and common Evening Gros-beak would disappear from our feeders? We certainly could not have imagined that the Eurasian Col-lared-Dove, a species barely
found in North America when FeederWatch began 25 years ago, would spread from coast to coast and now be a dominant actor in the the dramas that play out in our backyards.
As Elizabeth Lake began to freeze up, one of the continent’s most familiar wetland birds congregated in the shrinking patches of open water. An instantly recognizable species, the American Coot with its yel-low to orange legs and feet, bright white triangular - shaped bill contrasts stark-ly with the largely all — black plumage. The Ameri-can Coot propels itself at the water’s surface with re-peated forward and back-
ward pumps of the head, and while submerged, this accomplished swimmer and diver uses it’s lobed toes to skilfully manoeuvre its body to forage for aquat-ic plants. On land and in the air, however, it is more awkward. It walks with an ungainly waddle, all the while flicking the cocked tail, exposing the white un-dersides. To take to the air, this clumsy flier requires long running takeoffs, and usually flies low over water with the head, neck and legs outstretched. Prefer-ring freshwater habitats, the American Coot is most commonly found on reed-fringed lakes and ponds, open marshes and
slow-flowing rivers, but in winter it may also be found on salt-marshes, sheltered coasts and estuaries. For nesting, this waterbird re-quires tall vegetation in shallow water.
Most northerly popula-tions migrate southward in search of suitable open water, some as far as Cen-tral America. Outside the breeding season, particu-larly in winter, the coot gathers together in some-times large groups for pro-tection and for socializing. These groups may be called ‘covers’ or ‘rafts’. Sadly, for coots, this bird may locally comprise more than 80% of the diet of Bald Eagles. The hardening freeze was evi-
dently shooing many ducks farther down the flyway but the over 400 coots waited until the last minute for the right conditions. Evidently, the constant patrolling, charging, water splashing and occasional fighting provided enough energy to keep some water open. Like most rails it appears to be a weak flier but has con-siderable stamina once air-borne. We can only guess that the ‘raft’ waited for a cold north wind during the night, pedalling furiously across the water with its feet, lifted off and headed south.
Note: I have a lot of emails and some letters on my desk and I will answer each one in the weeks to fol-low. I am sorry for the de-lays but my dog has been ill with diabetes and needed extra attention. However, if in the next few weeks I have not answered your emails then email me again with your questions and we will be happy to help you.
Dear Wendy:I had a good friend and
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Dear Lost:There is a rhyme about
friendships I think goes like this “Have new friends, but keep the old, the new are silver and the old are gold.” I think you need to pick up the phone and talk to your buddy. She is an under-standing and kind person. I don’t think she will phone
you unless you make the first move. We don’t feel she is jealous of you but she does get a little agitated with you the way you act at times. We do feel she is un-comfortable around your husband because she does not like the way he talks to you; when she is around. We also feel she has talked to you about your husband’s
nasty mouth and gets tired of you feeling sad all the time. I think you both had a slight misunderstanding that can be rectified but you need to make the first move this time. I mean really, if you love your friend you will pick up that phone and tell her you miss her and want her back in your life. That’s what friend do, don’t they?
Wendy
Dear Wendy:I am finding it hard this
year to get my financial situ-ation under control. Recent-ly I have inherited a bit of
money and think I should invest it. My husband wants to buy a new car but I am reluctant to spend this money this year. Do you think I am being a miser like he always says to me? I need some advice and trust you and your guide’s opinion.
Feeling out of Car-money
Dear Feeling Out of Car-money:
That’s so cute you made me laugh the way you signed your email. I asked my guides if you had miser-ly ways and they said a def-inite no. However, your
husband has a tendency to like his toys and this car he wants to buy with your in-heritance money is pretty high end. I think you should listen to your “gut” feelings, which are your guides tell-ing you to hold on to your inheritance money this year and invest it wisely. You and I both know that you definitely don’t need an-other car. If your husband wants another new car tell him to buy it himself and make the payments; you have the type of personality that you will not mind that at all.
Wendy
Old friends are like gold: Time to make upaSK WeNDY
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It is with sadness that the family of Rev. Helen Simonson, formerly of Edmonton, Alberta, announces her passing after a long and difficult struggle with Alzheimer’s. Helen passed peacefully at the “Pines” Kimberley Special Care Home in Kimberley, on December 1, 2012 at the age of 82 years.
Helen leaves to cherish her memory her two children, Marilynn (David) Ryder of Bull River and Murray Simonson of Kimberley; four grandchildren, Kerri Ryder (Jon Pergunas) of Ingleside, Ontario, Tyrel Ryder (Jen Gleeson) of Jaffray and Calvin and Sam Simonson, both of Edmonton, Alberta; and one sister Ethel (Norman) Parham of Nanaimo, BC. She was predeceased by her parents Matilda and Gordon Read; her husband Keith, her son Leslie and her brother Ken Read.
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4 Experienced Hands.
~Home repairs
and renovations.
~Snow removal. ~Senior discount.
250-422-9336
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~Snow removal~Water Plants
~Cat care and more.
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GIVE THE GIFT
of Music
Music teacher Linda Rothero.
30 years experience.
Flute, piano & theory.
Cranbrook and KimberleyCall 778-517-1793
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Canadian Home Builders Association
Award WinningHome Builder
Available for your custom home and renovation
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You dream it, we build it!
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250-489-6211
HEALTHY HABITS Childcare Facility
in Kimberley, currently has childcare spaces available
for children ages 0-5, also taking enrollment
for February.
Call Kristie for more details. 250-427-0209
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For reliable, quality electrical work
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Land Act: Notice of Intention to Apply for a Disposition of Crown LandFrontCounter BC Cranbrook has accepted an application made by Donald G. Bacon
of 440 Wilverside Way, S.E., Calgary, Alberta on behalf of the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resources Operations (MFLNRO), Kootenay Region, for a Licence of Occupation (Residential – Private Moorage) situated on Crown Land fronting 6444 Tie Lake Road on Tie Lake (Lot 17, Plan 5386, District Lot 4590, Kootenay Land Dis-trict) and containing 0.01 hectares more or less.The MFLNRO File Number that has been established for this application is 4405294.
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Light a Candle for Your Loved One...
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Always remembered,Never forgotten.Kate B. King 1898-1993
Employment term-April 22 - Oct 31, 2013. Location of
employment at Fort Steele Farm, Fort Steele, BC.
Knowledge of market garden operation an asset and at-tributes of candidate are to be energetic, ability to work in constant change, and a willingness to learn. Send resume to Box 10, Fort
Required for an Alberta Trucking Company. One Class 1 Driver. Must have a mini-mum of 5 years experience pulling low boys and driving off road. Candidate must be able to pass a drug test and be will-ing to relocate to Edson, Al-berta. Fax resumes to: 780-725-4430
Seasonal Farm Labourers to carry out fi eld work from April to Oct 2013 in Cranbrook area (approx. 31 weeks) for Monsanto Cana-da Inc., 710 Industrial Road #3, Cranbrook. Valid BC Drivers License required; Farming background an asset; $13./hr; approx. 8 hrs/day and 5 days/week; plus 4% vacation pay. Please fax application to 250-426-4215
Trades, Technical
Employment
Medical/Dental
Certifi ed Dental Assistant Full time opportunity. Available immediately.
Good communication and clinical skills a priority.
Trades, TechnicalTERA ENVIRONMENTAL Consultants (TERA) has im-mediate openings for positions in the environmental fi eld. TERA is an environmental consulting services company specializing in the Canadian pipeline, power line, and oil and gas industries. TERA pro-vides its employees with com-petitive compensation andbenefi ts, fl exible working schedules, career growth op-portunities and more. For cur-rent and future opening visit our website www.teraenv.com. To apply e-mail your cover let-ter and resume [email protected]
WARWICK Cabinets in Inver-mere currently seeking experi-enced lacquer sprayer/ fi nish-er. Job entails prep, sanding, staining and lacquer spraying of cabinets, cabinet doors and custom wood projects manu-factured in our modern cabinet shop. Ph: 250-342-6264, Fax: 250-342-3546 or e-mail: [email protected]
Services
Contractors
Merchandise for Sale
AppliancesUSED PROPANE furnace- $600.obo. Brand new, never used, gas stove - $500.obo. Phone 250-426-6296.
Consignment
YourTrade
TreasuresCONSIGNMENT
250-426-4046 Tues-Sat. 10am-5pm
#2 101 - 7th Ave. S., Cranbrook
Native Crafts,Baby Accessories,Family Clothing, Sports, etc.
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Misc Services Misc Services
SONNY NOMLAND,has a special price on
Electrolux canister bags and fi lters, from December 3 to December 14 - (or while
supplies last). 12 Electrolux bags - $9.50.
2 fi lters - $1.50, tax included. Also, we have a few
Electolux rebuilt vacuums on hand.
Phone 250-489-2733 for more information.
WATKINSPRODUCTSWatkins Associate
Loretta-May 250-426-4632www.watkinsonline.com/
lorettamaystewart or at Woodland Grocery.
BiodegradableEnvironmentally Friendly
Kosher SpicesPersonal Care Products
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call us at 250-426-5201, ext. 202.
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Oh Dog’sRescue and Adoption250-429-3453the place to pick up the special dog for your family
Firewood/FuelFIREWOOD, DRY Pine. $90./half a cord. $160./full cord, delivered. Phone after 6pm (250)427-7180.
Misc. for Sale
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Misc. WantedPrivate Coin Collector Buying Collections, Accumulations, Olympic Gold & Silver Coins + Chad: 250-863-3082 in Town
Rentals
Apt/Condo for Rent2BDRM, 1 1/2 BATH Willow View condo unit for rent, in Canal Flats. Great view, 2 parking stalls, F/S, D/W. Walk-ing distance to arena, park and store. $850 + utilities & D.D., references required. Available immediately. Call (250)349-5306 or (250)489-8389, leave mess.
2 BEDROOM UNITavailable in Victoria Villas.
Rent includes w/d and water. $780./mo plus electric.
D/D $390.00 N/P, N/S.
1 year lease. To view call (778)517-4517
3BDRM UNIT for rent, unfi nished basement, partial new fl ooring, F/S, parking and front yard. No smoking-no pets. 1 year lease, $937./mo + utilities. 1308A 11th St S.
Call 250-421-2590CEDAR PARK
Apartments: 1&2 Bdrm. Elevator, on-site laundry,
central location, live-in manager.
Heat & hot water included. N/P, N/S. $675-$800/mo.
(250)489-0134.
Suites, Lower2BDRM FULLY furnished
basement suite. No pets/smoking/parties.
$1000./mo. utilities included. Phone (250)417-0059 or
2002 BUICK Century. 131,000km. Good condition. $2800./obo. 250-919-0836
Snowmobiles2007 ARCTIC Cat M8. $5500. Runs great. Call for more information. 250-919-4277
Trucks & Vans
4WD, 209,000 kms, has air bags, headache rack, on Eagle alloy rims, new winters on
stock rims.
ASKING$12,000 OBO
Phone 250-581-0608
2004 Toyota Tundra
2004 Dodge Grand CaravanFully serviced, new frontbrakes, safety inspected.
$5,49500
EK Transmission Ltd.DL#29679
1019 Kootenay St. N.,
stk#3670
2001 Dodge 1500Fully serviced, full tune-up,
safety inspected,new front brakes.$5,99500
EK Transmission Ltd.DL#29679
1019 Kootenay St. N.,
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