MONDAY DECEMBER 22, 20 14 250-427-8700 Buying or Selling Call Marilyn First THE BULLETIN $ 1 10 BC HUNTERS PROTEST ALLOCATION CHANGES See NEWS page 5 INCLUDES G.S.T. TownsmanBulletin Like Us @kbulletin Follow Us CHRISTMAS GIFTS SPIRIT OF GIVING See LOCAL NEWS page 3 PROUDLY SERVING KIMBERLEY AND AREA SINCE 1932 | Vol. 82, Issue 255 | www.dailybulletin.ca CAROLYN GRANT PHOTO Social and Rec Club members are regular volunteers at the Kimberley Food Bank all year, and they especially enjoy helping out on Christmas Hamper Day. Platzl building has been empty for almost two years CAROLYN GRANT Bulletin Editor Mayor Don McCormick in- formed Council last Monday evening that the Edge Pub building in the Platzl had been sold to as-yet-unidentified buyer. The former pub and hostel building was sold in a court-or- dered sale and McCormick said there were four bidders. “Who it was sold to has not been disclosed at this time,” McCormick said. The building has been empty for almost two years. There is also no word on what plans are for the building, though McCormick said a cou- ple of quite different things could be done with it. Edge Pub sold ARNE PETRYSHEN The local SPCA branch has been busy in the past few weeks, with upgrades and renovations, dona- tion gathering for new kennels and most recently dealing with a quar- antine due to a sick cat. Brenna Baker, manager at the East Kootenay SPCA branch, said they haven’t got a lot of donations for the kennel specifically, though some donations have come in re- cently. “We’ve got a lot of big donations the last few weeks for Christmas,” Baker said. “We got a big one for $5,000. People know that we’re doing work out here and want to give, but no one has specifically come forward for the kennel, so there is definitely still a need for the funding for the kennels.” The shelter has 20 kennels on the way, at a total cost of $30,000. “It’s a crazy amount of money, so the more donations we can get to help out with that, the better our shelter is going to be,” she said. Other upgrades are also hap- pening at the shelter, though they have been delayed because the an- imals had to be quarantined. “We had the ventilation put in and already you can tell the differ- ence with the smell. It’s processing the air in a healthier way. It’s been really positive.” She said it’s been a busy year, but now things are starting to pay off and come together. The quarantine happened after a stray cat was brought in. The cat showed signs of ringworm four days after it came in. The fungus can spread rapidly through the ani- mal population at the shelter. It can also spread to humans. That “It didn’t spread so far,” she said. They were waiting for lab reports when she spoke to the Townsman on Thursday, and would know for sure today. They had to sample all the ani- mals and then send them to a lab, which cultures them for two weeks. Baker said they have been dili- gent about the cleanliness and hope they can allow animals to be brought in and adopted out soon, as that has completely stopped since the infected cat showed up. She said the new healthier up- grades to the shelter will help as well. While December has been busy because of the quarantine mea- sures, November was a busy month for animals coming in and out. “We had lots of animals come in, but we also did a ton of adoptions,” she said. There is also program called Drive for Life, which allows them to transfer animals to other shelters around B.C. if they can’t take them in. “I have a really good relation- ship with the BCSPCA in Richmond and then Pacific Coastal transfers cats and kittens for me for no costs. So we fly them out to Vancouver and they are usually adopted out within two to three days.” In November they did 28 trans- fers and they were all adopted within a few days. There is currently 20 - 30 cats on the Cranbrook shelter’s wait list. “As soon as the renos are done and we’re cleared of the ringworm quarantine, we will have room for every one of those cats.” There are currently 20 cats and one dog at the shelter, which she said is quite low. There are some other cats and dogs that were too young to come into the shelter that were in foster care and are now old enough. “This summer was insane. In July and August we had 112 ani- mals in our care everyday for about 70 days,” she said. “It was very, very stressful and overcrowded and we didn’t have the proper ventilation, so if we got one sick cat in it spreads like wildfire. Now with these reno- vations it should cut that down a lot.” Baker also noted that Cranbrook has an overpopulation of cats, which she wants to address through spaying and neutering through low income vouchers. “There is also a large population of free roaming cats that live in little colonies all over the city,” she said. See SPCA, page 4 Busy year for East Kootenay SPCA
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MONDAYDECEMBER 22, 2014
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PROUDLY SERVING KIMBERLEY AND AREA SINCE 1932 | Vol. 82, Issue 255 | www.dailybulletin.ca
CAROLYN GRANT PHOTO
Social and Rec Club members are regular volunteers at the Kimberley Food Bank all year, and they especially enjoy helping out on Christmas Hamper Day.
Platzl building has been empty for
almost two yearsC AROLYN GR ANT
Bulletin Editor
Mayor Don McCormick in-formed Council last Monday evening that the Edge Pub building in the Platzl had been sold to as-yet-unidentified buyer.
The former pub and hostel building was sold in a court-or-dered sale and McCormick said there were four bidders.
“Who it was sold to has not been disclosed at this time,” McCormick said.
The building has been empty for almost two years.
There is also no word on what plans are for the building, though McCormick said a cou-ple of quite different things could be done with it.
Edge Pub sold ARNE PETRYSHEN
The local SPCA branch has been busy in the past few weeks, with upgrades and renovations, dona-tion gathering for new kennels and most recently dealing with a quar-antine due to a sick cat.
Brenna Baker, manager at the East Kootenay SPCA branch, said they haven’t got a lot of donations for the kennel specifically, though some donations have come in re-cently.
“We’ve got a lot of big donations the last few weeks for Christmas,” Baker said. “We got a big one for $5,000. People know that we’re doing work out here and want to give, but no one has specifically come forward for the kennel, so there is definitely still a need for the funding for the kennels.”
The shelter has 20 kennels on the way, at a total cost of $30,000.
“It’s a crazy amount of money, so the more donations we can get to help out with that, the better our shelter is going to be,” she said.
Other upgrades are also hap-
pening at the shelter, though they have been delayed because the an-imals had to be quarantined.
“We had the ventilation put in and already you can tell the differ-ence with the smell. It’s processing the air in a healthier way. It’s been really positive.”
She said it’s been a busy year, but now things are starting to pay off and come together.
The quarantine happened after a stray cat was brought in. The cat showed signs of ringworm four days after it came in. The fungus can spread rapidly through the ani-mal population at the shelter. It can also spread to humans. That
“It didn’t spread so far,” she said. They were waiting for lab reports when she spoke to the Townsman on Thursday, and would know for sure today.
They had to sample all the ani-mals and then send them to a lab, which cultures them for two weeks.
Baker said they have been dili-gent about the cleanliness and hope they can allow animals to be brought in and adopted out soon,
as that has completely stopped since the infected cat showed up.
She said the new healthier up-grades to the shelter will help as well.
While December has been busy because of the quarantine mea-sures, November was a busy month for animals coming in and out.
“We had lots of animals come in, but we also did a ton of adoptions,” she said.
There is also program called Drive for Life, which allows them to transfer animals to other shelters around B.C. if they can’t take them in.
“I have a really good relation-ship with the BCSPCA in Richmond and then Pacific Coastal transfers cats and kittens for me for no costs. So we fly them out to Vancouver and they are usually adopted out within two to three days.”
In November they did 28 trans-fers and they were all adopted within a few days.
There is currently 20 - 30 cats on the Cranbrook shelter’s wait list.
“As soon as the renos are done
and we’re cleared of the ringworm quarantine, we will have room for every one of those cats.”
There are currently 20 cats and one dog at the shelter, which she said is quite low.
There are some other cats and dogs that were too young to come into the shelter that were in foster care and are now old enough.
“This summer was insane. In July and August we had 112 ani-mals in our care everyday for about 70 days,” she said. “It was very, very stressful and overcrowded and we didn’t have the proper ventilation, so if we got one sick cat in it spreads like wildfire. Now with these reno-vations it should cut that down a lot.”
Baker also noted that Cranbrook has an overpopulation of cats, which she wants to address through spaying and neutering through low income vouchers.
“There is also a large population of free roaming cats that live in little colonies all over the city,” she said.
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Students at Gordon Terrace Elementary in Cranbrook were out celebrating the end of term last week. The two-week break for Christmas and New Year’s is now underway. Let us all rejoice and feast.
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Michelle Lemay of the Kimberley and District Community Foundation receives a $6,522 donaton from teh Kootenay Savings Credit Union manager Dawn Marchi.
Carolyn Grant Photo
Terry Thompson and Dave Sanderson of the Mark Creek Lions present a donaion to the Food Banks’ Heather Smith.
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Karen Soldan from the FOCUS meat draw pres-ents a $500 donation to the Stacey Seward fund-raiser at the Sully on Saturday, December 13.
Cath Oscarson, from the Food Bank, accepts a donation of $1000 cash and $450 groceries from Tegan Bova and Patti Thompson. The money was raised at Girls Night Out in November.
Elke Heimann and Nancy Araujo present Cath Oscarson with $2000 for the Food Bank. The funds were raised at the two craft markets held by Marysville Artisans.
The Regional District of East Kootenay (RDEK) Board of Directors is considering an application by Donald and Penelope Roberts to amend the Electoral Area E Zoning & Floodplain Management Bylaw. If approved, the bylaw will amend the text of the R-1, Residential Zone to permit a minimum parcel area requirement of 1270 m2 on the subject property for a proposed subdivision creating two parcels. The subject property is located at 4828 and 4830 Elm Road in the Wasa area as shown on the attached map.
Bylaw No. 2554 cited as “Regional District of East Kootenay – Electoral Area E Zoning & Floodplain Management Bylaw No. 2502, 2014 – Amendment Bylaw No. 4, 2014 (Wasa / Roberts)” will amend the text of the R-1, Residential Zone to permit a minimum parcel area requirement of 1270 m2 for a proposed two parcel subdivision of Strata Lots 1 and 2, District Lot 264, Kootenay District, Plan NES3166 only.
A public hearing will be held at: Wasa Community Hall 6145 Wasa School Road
Wasa, BC Tuesday, December 30, 2014 at 7:00 pm
The Board has delegated the holding of this hearing to the Directors for Electoral Area E and the City of Kimberley.
If you believe that your interest in property is affected by the proposed Bylaw, you may prior to the hearing:
• inspect the Bylaw and supporting information at the RDEK office in Cranbrook from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Monday through Friday, excluding statutory holidays;
• mail, fax or email written submissions to the addresses/numbers shown below; or
• present written and/or verbal submissions at the hearing.
Submissions cannot be accepted after the public hearing.All written submissions are public information pursuant to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. This notice is not an interpretation of the Bylaw.
For more information, contact Jean Terpsma, Planning Technician, at 250-489-0314, toll free at 1-888-478-7335, or email [email protected].
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A Christmas from the past came alive December 17 in the Marysville Museum Schoolhouse. The sound of children’s voices filled the schoolroom as stu-dents from Josie Ham-men and Kristie Sharpe’s Grade 3 classes treated the guests with carol sing-ing, recitation and story-telling.
A stage backed by a
magical Christmas scene of snow-clad mountains, the art work of Caroline Aikin, provided magic and united the class-room in a sense of ex-citement, peace and joy.
The sight of the huge Douglas fir tree festoone d w ith hand-crafted decora-tions made by the stu-dents livened the room. Jacob’s ladders and many coloured
Pioneer Christmas in Marysville museum
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Marysville grade 3 students recreated a pioneer Christmas at the historic school building.
garlands dangled from the branches. Clothes-pages where dressed in cotton. Gingerbread men were a special treat for the students and hot chocolate was shared with visitors.
Clarence Uhll pro-vided accordion music for the carol singing.
Jessie Jensen, a re-tired teacher, spoke of the early pioneer days when Marysville had a smelter and was a busy industrial town.
The museum school came alive as staff, students and friends shared a pio-neer Christmas.
From page 1“So if we can spay and neu-
ter and release them it will be a much better thing and nature will take care of them. Plus they’re not reproducing.”
She said the feral cats can’t just be wiped out, because when you cull one, three cats will move in.
“We have the highest cat population in B.C. per capita,” she said. “In Cranbrook there are hundreds of them.”
She is hoping to work along-side with the city to address the problem.
Some of the renovations were covered through capital grant money through the BCSP-CA that was $16,000. Then she applied through the Communi-ty Initiatives Grant and received $24,000 through that.
Then there was a couple thousand for the kennels. The new kennels will bring the shel-ter up to much higher stan-dards.
Busy year for East Kootenay SPCA
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SPCA Manager Brenna Baker.
MOnday, dECEMbEr 22, 2014 Page 5
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Tom Fle TcherBlack Press
As B.C. hunters packed rooms to protest regulations giving guide-outfitters and their out-of-province clients a larger share of big-game permits, the provincial government argues that the shift is being exaggerated.
The latest increase in the share of guide per-mits to hunt moose, grizzly bear and other restricted animals in limited-entry hunting areas of B.C. totals 618 “hunting opportunities” across the province per year, says a statement from the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Nat-ural Resource Opera-tions. Based on the suc-cess rate of hunts for different species, “this model represents a transfer of approxi-mately 186 animals from residents to guides.”
The B.C. Wildlife Federation’s estimate that the wild game allo-cation policy could re-sult in 5,000 fewer hunt-ing permits for resident hunters under limited entry hunting rules is “not accurate,” the min-istry says.
Forests Minister Steve Thomson said in
an interview he made the decision on the lat-est allocation after a long consultation where the BCWF and the Guide Outfitters As-sociation of B.C. couldn’t agree. The de-cision was to provide certainty for guide busi-nesses, but also took away guides’ rights to pool regional game al-lotments and hunt in vacant guiding territo-ries.
“There are argu-ments over the number, depending on which base you use, and I ex-pect those arguments will continue,” Thom-son said. “At the end of the day we all want the same thing, which is healthy wildlife popula-tions.”
BCWF hosted hunter meetings in Kelowna and Langley this week, and spokesman Jesse Zeman said hunters were lined up out the door in Langley. He said the latest changes are part of a longer-term shift going back more than a decade that has seen a loss of harvest share for resident hunt-ers.
B.C. hunters are con-cerned that the share reserved for guide-out-fitters is now higher
Hunters protest shift favouring non-residents
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Harvest restrictions for guided hunting have been removed for bighorn sheep in the Kootenay region, after a decline caused by over-hunting.
than anywhere else in North America. Under the latest policy, that share is 20 per cent for elk, 20 or 25 per cent for moose depending on the restricted region, 35 per cent for mountain goat, and 40 per cent for grizzly bears.
Open season areas for moose and other an-imals remain in the southern Interior and northeast, where any-one can buy a license and tag to hunt. Abun-dant species such as mule deer, whitetail deer and black bear
have no hunting quotas in any part of B.C.
Zeman said for prized species such as Roosevelt elk on Van-couver Island, winning a resident tag in the lot-tery is rare enough to be a once-in-a-lifetime op-portunity. As hunter
numbers rebound, they increasingly face the choice to aim for anoth-er species, drive long distances to an unre-stricted region, or hire a guide.
The latest changes include returning Koo-tenay bighorn sheep to
a general open season for guided hunting. The restriction that only full-curl rams can be hunted remains in place.
Thomson said the population will be closely watched, and harvest limits returned if necessary. Zeman said the BCWF is con-cerned that this iconic Rocky Mountain trophy could once again be over-hunted.
The popularity of hunting in B.C. contin-ues to increase, from about 81,000 licences issued in 2003 to more than 100,000 last year, which means more resi-dent hunters are losers in regional hunting lot-teries.
BCWF compiled sta-tistics for moose, the most popular big-game target. Moose popula-tions have declined in some areas while both applications from resi-dent hunters and the share reserved for guides has risen.
In 2005 there were 56,000 applications for moose, with only one out of five successful. By 2013, there were nearly 67,000 would-be resi-dent moose hunters, 54,000 of whom were refused a moose tag.
JeFF NagelBlack Press
A major concern for wine stores and B.C. restaurants is the change unveiled recently to the province’s wholesale pricing for-mula for wine that ends the dis-count advantage for independent wine stores.
It may mean little change or even cheaper prices for wines that now cost $15 and under. But the final retail price of pricier bottles is expected to rise sharply come April, in both private and govern-ment stores, and in restaurants.
Wine industry lawyer Mark Hicken has estimated wholesale prices in B.C. will rise 12 to 29 per cent on higher-end wines as a re-sult of the change.
He estimates a bottle that now
retails for $30 will be priced at $33 to $40 under the new model, and the price hikes could be 25 to 50 per cent on the most expensive bottles that now go for $100 and up.
BC Restaurant and Foodser-vice Association president Ian Tostenson said restaurants must pay retail prices and usually charge their patrons double, so the price of a nicer bottle when having dinner out will soar, put-ting more pressure on an already struggling service industry.
Tostensen said restaurants are bracing for 10 to 20 per cent wine price increases on bottles over $17 or $18. He hopes the province will realize it has made an error and correct the wholesale pricing formula.
“I think they’re going to do some adjustments,” he said. “This is supposed to be a revenue-neu-tral exercise. Government doesn’t want to be seen to be putting pric-es up. So there seems to be a mis-calculation somewhere.”
In a statement emailed by her staff, Anton said the standardized wholesale price is to level the playing field for all liquor retailers and enable more competition.
“Trying to guess what each in-dividual retailer will charge per product at this point is complete speculation,” she said, predicting consumers will see little if any change for most products.
Anton said the province is watching to ensure the new poli-cies have no unintended conse-quences.
JeFF NagelBlack Press
The province’s latest liquor reform will make it easier for wine stores to relocate into grocery stores – provided they
offer only B.C. wines – but there’s no sign the government is rethink-ing its change to whole-sale wine pricing that will sharply drive up the price of more expensive
bottles.Friday’s announce-
ment by Justice Minister Suzanne Anton in Lang-ley at Chaberton Estate Winery is being hailed by B.C. wineries be-
cause some supermar-kets that can begin sell-ing wine come April will be barred from stocking foreign wines.
Under the change, existing VQA and inde-
Pricing change worries restaurants
B.C. wines to come to some grocery stores
Attorney General Suzanne Anton
pendent wine stores can relocate or transfer their licence to an eligible grocery store as long as 100 per cent B.C. wine is sold. Those licence transfers won’t be limit-ed by a rule that disal-lows new outlets if there’s an existing one within one kilometre.
Liquor policy reform leader John Yap called it a “winning combina-tion” to allow grocery shoppers to also buy B.C. wine and support the local industry.
“The B.C. wine in-dustry is entering into a new era of winemaking,” added Chaberton co-owner Eugene Kwan.
The new model is different from the store-within-a-store model in that it allows B.C. wine to be on regular grocery store shelves and shop-pers would pay for it at designated registers staffed by trained em-ployees who are at least 19.
Anton said a limited number of new licences – she would not specify how many – will be made available to sell just B.C. wine in grocery stores.
The extra licences will mean more compe-tition for private wine stores that have already been critical of some of the province’s liquor re-forms.
Vancouver lawyer
Mark Hicken, who acts for wine industry cli-ents, predicts there will be “no takers” on wine stores relocating under the new B.C.-only model because they would lose most of their international product lines.
Hicken said the B.C.-only rule may vio-late Canada’s interna-tional trade agreements.
PAGE 6 MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2014
For Premier Christy Clark, the decision to proceed with building Site C is one that will bear fruit over the next 100
years.“Long after this announcement today is
over, long after my working days in this job are over, I believe that the people of our province will continue to prosper and con-tinue to create wealth and opportunity,” she declared Tuesday.
For Energy Minister Bill Bennett, the giant hydroelectric dam on the Peace River “will be the last of its kind,” here or any-where else.
“We don’t have any other shelf-ready Site Cs hanging around out there where you have a river already dammed up (by existing dams) and an opportunity to avail your-self of such a large reser-voir.”
For Site C proponent and BC Hydro CEO Jessi-ca McDonald, “it was a day equally connected to our past as to our future.”
Her point being that going back to the 1960s, the utility and the province flour-ished together on a multi-decade wave of hydroelectric power development that gave B.C. some of the cheapest electricity rates in North America.
“A historic milestone,” said Susan Yurkovich, the Hydro executive vice-presi-dent who shepherded the project though a half-dozen years of scrutiny and controver-sy leading up to Tuesday’s announcement.
Speaking of history, the audience in-cluded current Hydro board member Brad Bennett and the backdrop featured a pho-tograph of his grandfather, former premier W.A.C. Bennett, who launched the prov-ince on the far-reaching era of dam con-struction.
A 100-year undertaking. A multi-gener-ational payoff. History in the making. Vari-ations on those words cropped up repeat-edly Tuesday as the Liberals rationalized Site C as a decision for the ages.
Probably those considerations carried more weight at the cabinet table than the last-minute rationalizing of the budget
numbers, which saw the cost jump by bet-ter than 10 per cent — or almost $900 mil-lion — in the final week before the an-nouncement.
More, too, than the last-minute fiddle that reduced the estimated cost of a mega-watt hour of electricity from Site C by about 25 per cent.
The “saving” arose mainly from a gov-ernment decision to reduce its annual take from Hydro in the form of dividends and water rentals, thereby leaving the utility with more money for its own purposes. Or, to put it another way, the Liberals trans-ferred some of the financial burden from Hydro ratepayers to provincial taxpayers, who are mostly one and the same.
That thumb-on-the-scales manoeuvre allowed the Liber-als to argue that Site C would deliver power at a consider-able advantage over indepen-dent power projects. The pre-vious Gordon Campbell-led Liberal government used to argue the opposite, that pri-
vate power had multiple advantages over public power.
But even as reporters were marvelling at the 180-degree ideological reversal among the Liberals, along came New Democratic Party leader John Horgan to confess that he saw some merit in private power, now that the Liberals were scorning it.
Both positions are as debatable as the numbers on both sides. Site C won’t be up and running until 2024 at the earliest, by which time every current assumption about energy markets, inflation, interest rates, and power needs should have under-gone multiple revisions.
The Liberals gave themselves some margin for things to go wrong. The budget includes a combined $3.5 billion in allow-ances for contingencies, inflation, interest during construction and a project reserve.
Still, you have to wonder about the cost of attracting a workforce in what could be fierce competition with other large re-source projects. Plus there’s the potential escalation in the cost of materials and con-struction, particularly on a drawn-out
schedule with the possibility of further de-lays.
First Nations pose what is likely to be the biggest obstacle to progress. Tuesday’s PowerPoint presentation quoted the fa-vourable verdict from a recent federal-pro-vincial report on efforts to consult First Nations and accommodate their interests.
“There has been meaningful consulta-tion with the potentially affected aboriginal groups (and) consultation has been carried out in good faith ... the process was appro-priate and reasonable in the circumstanc-es.”
It did not quote the less encouraging verdict of the joint federal-provincial re-view of the project itself, which rebuked Hydro on that score: “The panel disagrees with BC Hydro and concludes that the proj-ect would likely cause significant adverse effect on fishing opportunities and practic-es for First Nations.” Ditto for hunting and trapping “and some of these effects cannot be mitigated.”
If the panel is correct in its estimation — it was chaired by Harry Swain, a former federal deputy minister of Indian Affairs — then natives could have ample grounds for a court challenge and maybe a quasi-veto over Site C.
Responding to a question on mitigation, Hydro CEO McDonald pledged to redouble efforts to reach agreements with the affect-ed First Nations. As one of the architects of the new relationship with aboriginal peo-ple under the Campbell government, she’ll need all of her experience and the best of intentions to succeed.
In order to give her some leeway to ne-gotiate, the Liberals put off starting con-struction until next summer, a six-month extension. That, in turn, necessitated a $200-million boost to the budget, to cover off the additional cost in terms of inflation and interest.
Now imagine if the project is tied up for many more months by court battles. B.C. might not have seen the last of the budget revisions.
Vaughn Palmer is a columnist with the Vancouver Sun
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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.Volunteers always needed for the Marysville Thrift shop! Please contact Marilyn @ 427-4153 or Jean @ 427-7072.Bibles For Missions Thrift Store, 824 Kootenay St. N., Cranbrook - serving our community to benefi t others - at home and abroad. We turn your donations into helping dollars! Open Tues-Sat 10am-5pm. Phone 778-520-1981.Cranbrook Community Tennis Assoc. welcome all citizens to play or learn to play. Call Neil 250-489-8107, Cathy 250-464-1903.East Kootenay Women Executives & Entrepreneurs (EKWEE) meet the fi rst Monday of every month at the Heritage Inn, Dining Room Annex, 7:00PM. Join us for of the menu dinner 5:30-7:00. Pay your own tab. Networking, share accomplishments, education. Bev Campbell 778-481-4883Mark Creek Lions meet 1st and 3rd Wednesdays at the Kimbrook. Meet & Greet from 6:00-6:30pm, supper 6:30-7:00, meeting 7:00-8:00pm. Contact 250-427-5612 or 250-427-7496. New members welcome – men and ladies! Help Big Brothers Big Sisters of Cranbrook: One way you can help is by donating to our “Blue Bin” located outside to the left of Wal- Mart. This bin is there for any clothing items or soft items. (250)489-3111 or email us at @bigbrothersbigsisters.caMasonic Lodges of B.C. and Yukon will supply transportation to cancer patients who have arrived at Kelowna or Vancouver. This free service will be at the destination point. Example: from airport to clinic and clinic to airport on return, also around the destination city. Info may be received from your doctor, Canadian Cancer Society, or by phoning Ron at 250-426-8159.Seniors Autobiographical Writing for those aged 60 or wiser at the Kimberley Library. No writing experience necessary. It’s free. Tuesdays 10:00 - Noon. Register: Kim Roberts CBAL Coordinator 250-427-4468 or [email protected] Cellar Thrift Store Open Mon. to Sat., noon to 4:30 p.m. Our revenues support local programs and outreach programs of Cranbrook United Church. Baker Lane Entry at 2 – 12th Ave. S. Cranbrook, B. C. Donations of new or gently used items welcome.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: Donna at 250-426-7136.Cranbrook Phoenix Toastmasters meet every Thursday, noon -1:00 Heritage Inn. Toastmasters teaches communication & leadership skills. Roberta 250-489-0174. 1911.toastmastersclubs.org.The Canadian Orthopaedic Foundation invites anyone expecting bone and joint surgery to make contact with local volunteers for peer support. The free Ortho Connect program helps to ease the fear, stress and anxiety that go along with surgery and help patients prepare. 1-800-461-3639 ext 4, and ask for Lauralee.Computer skills need updating? CBAL hosts introductory computer classes for those 60 or wiser starting Oct 24th at the Cranbrook Library. Free! Space is limited. Pre-registration required. Call Katherine 250-417-2896Aged10-14? Got the writing bug? CBAL hosts the Youth Writing Group at the Cranbrook Public Library. The 2nd & 4th Wed of each month, 4-5:30pm starting Oct 8th. Free! Call Lori 250-464-1864 or [email protected] (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) non profi t weight loss support group meets EVERY Thursday at 5:00 pm, at Sr Citizen’s Centre, (downstairs) 125 17th Ave S, Cranbrook. Drop in, have fun while losing weight gradually. This Chapter has won an annual B.C. Provincial Award for “Best Avg Weight Loss Per Member”. Info: Marie 250 417 2642Cranbrook Writer’s Group meet on the 4th Monday of the month at the Arts Council. Engage in writing exercises, constructive critiques & share in information on upcoming literary events & contests. Cbk and District Arts Council, 104, 135-10th Ave S, CBK. info: 250-426-4223 www.cranbrookanddistrictartscouncil.comCanadian Cancer Society- if you have spare time and would like to volunteer, interested applicants can call 250-426-8916, drop by our offi ce at #19-9th Avenue S, Cranbrook or go to www.fi ghtwithus.ca and register as a volunteer.Royal Canadian Legion Branch 24; Friday Meat Draw: 4:30- 6:30, Saturday Meat Draw: 3:30-5:30. Parkinson’s Support Group are meeting at 2 pm on the third Wednesday of each month at the Heritage Inn. For more info. phone Linda @ 250-489-4252. No meetings July, Aug or Dec.Do you have the desire to stop eating compulsively? Overeaters Anonymous (a 12-Step Program) meets Wednesdays from 7-8pm at Cranbrook United Church, 2-12th St. S., downstairs. Contact: [email protected] Star Quilters Society Meetings are held the 2nd & 4th Monday at 7:00 PM, basement of Centennial Centre, 100 4th Ave Kimberley. Welcoming all! Info call Heather 250 427-4906
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Students at TM Roberts Elementary School in Cranbrook collected 381 food items from the Cranbrook Food Bank, just in time for Christmas.
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The Royal Stewart Highland Dancers held their annual Christmas Charity Recital at the Heritage Inn on Thursday, December 18. The dancers per-formed many original choreography numbers as well as traditional Highland and National dances. Over $250 was raised for the Cranbrook Salvation Army. Above: Junior Choreography Team , left to right: Nevaeh Bolduc, Jaimee Vancura, Joelle Carlisle, Makenzi Byman, Kimiko Terai. At left: Primary Dancers, left to right: Ava Andersson, Ella Meijer, Emily Cain & Erica Carlisle
First Period1. FER - J. Burgess, (E. Reid, S. Plaquin), 14:122. KIM - J. Busch, (J. Richter, B. Saretsky), 0:21Second Period 3. KIM - B. Revie, (J. Busch), 13:004. FER - J. Burgess, (S. Plaquin), 11:58 (PP)5. KIM - A. Rosolowsky, (J. Wallace, A. Hancherow), 10:08Third Period 6. KIM - K. Haase, (unassisted), 19:08Shots 1 2 3 TFernie 10 4 11 25Kimberley 10 8 8 26Goaltenders Saves Mins SV%FER - Jeff Orser 22/26 58:00 0.846 KIM - Tyson Brouwer 23/25 60:00 0.920Power playsFernie 1/4 (25.0%); Kimberley 0/2 (0.0%) Attendance: 633
Upcoming GamesDec. 28 vs. FernieDec. 29 at FernieJan. 2 at Columbia ValleyJan. 3 vs. Columbia ValleyJan. 9 at FernieJan. 10 at GoldenJan. 13 vs. Creston ValleyJan. 16 at OsoyoosJan. 17 at Norh OkanaganJan. 23 vs. Columbia ValleyJan. 27 at Columbia ValleyJan. 30 at Creston ValleyJan. 31 at Columbia Valley
Goaltending StatisticsPlayer W L OT/L SO GAA SPTyson Brouwer 16 5 3 1 2.60 0.904Liam McBain 2 6 0 0 3.96 0.861
Kimberley Dynamiters defenceman Jordan Busch (#10) took care of business at both ends of the rink Saturday night to help lead the Nitros to a 4-2 victory over the Fernie Ghostriders.
Holiday cheersDynamiters get past Ghostriders before break
Taylor rocc aSports Editor
It took four tries, but after three tight games, the Kimberley Dynamit-ers were finally able to get past the Fernie Ghostriders Saturday night, earning a 4-2 vic-tory heading into a brief holiday break.
“It’s unreal. It’s a nice feeling,” said Kimberley Dynamiters defence-man and alternate cap-tain Jordan Busch fol-lowing the win. “There was a good crowd out tonight. It was the per-fect time to do it. It’s a nice little Christmas gift for all of us. It was a nice job to get [the Ghostrid-ers] tonight and we’re just looking forward to when we get back to play them again.”
Busch took care of business as both ends of the rink Saturday night.
In his own end, the 19-year-old native of Edmonton was able to limit the Ghostriders high-octane group of forwards as only Joel Burgess found enough time and space to beat Nitros goaltender Tyson Brouwer.
Busch was key in blanking Fernie’s lead-ing scorer Doan Smith and a strong supporting cast including Cole Kee-bler, Justin Peers and Aaron Neufeld.
“He has a very high hockey IQ,” Kimberley Dynamiters head coach Jerry Bancks said of Busch. “He sees the ice really well.
“His ability to see the ice, calm things down and make nice little sub-tle passes out of our end, to me, he’s the best in the league at it.”
The steady defence-man also kickstarted the Kimberley attack in the first period, tying the game 1-1 with a heavy blast from the point that
eluded Ghostriders goaltender Jeff Orser.
“[The puck] came off the boards and I knew we had guys going to the net,” Busch said. “I put ‘er on net and I put it in a good place.”
After Brady Revie and Burgess exchanged second-period markers, Alex Rosolowsky took a pass from below the goal line and put anoth-er high puck past Orser to give the hosts a 3-2 lead they wouldn’t re-linquish.
“We’ve got a younger team, a younger group of guys and we’re get-ting better,” Bancks. “We’re starting to learn to play to win, to play for each other a little bit better. That’s the thing you hope for.
“You gamble, when you go young, that it’s going to bite you in the butt. But if we’ve got character kids, they get better. You can work them really hard. We’ve got a group of kids that aren’t afraid to work re-ally hard. We were short [Saturday] and it didn’t really catch us. In the third period, I thought we out skated them. That’s a testament to character as well.”
The Nitros dressed 16 skaters against the Ghostriders, two short of the maximum allow-ance of 18.
Recently acquired forward Lincoln Lane (illness) joined forwards Marco Campanella (upper body), Sawyer Hunt (upper body), Jor-dan Roy (collar bone), and defencemen Jonas Gordon (upper body) and Tristan Pagura (upper body) in the sick bay.
The Ghostriders iced a full lineup, but were without regulars Derek Georgopoulos (lower body), captain Dylan
Robertson (suspended) and defenceman Mat-thew Pronchuk (healthy scratch).
Despite being short bodies, the Dynamiters held off the Ghostriders in the third period.
California kid Keenan Haase provided the insurance goal 52 seconds into the final period, using a bit of home-ice advantage to his benefit.
Cruising across the Fernie blue line, the hulking import used the ever-active end wall as his set-up man, firing a pass to himself off the boards, before snapping the puck through the five-hole of Orser.
The unassisted goal gave the Dynamiters a 4-2 lead and that was all she wrote.
Between the pipes, Brouwer was steady as usual, knocking aside 23 pucks for his 16th win of the campaign. At the other end, Orser was victimized four times on 26 tries.
Burgess registered both goals for the Ghostriders. Forward Sam Plaquin earned helpers on both for a two-point night.
The win moves the Dynamiters to 18-12-1-3 (40 points) and within three points of the sec-ond-place Golden Rockets (19-13-0-5).
The loss drops the Eddie Mountain Divi-sion-leading Ghostrid-ers to 24-5-1-2 (51 points).
“If you get hung up on wins and losses, you can get a little bit dis-couraged,” Bancks said. “You’ve just got to stick with it and keep playing our game. It’s nice to come out on the good side and you have to learn how to win. That’s an important skill -- to believe that you can win.
“That’s what Fernie’s been good at it. They’ve done that to us the first few times. They know how to do it [win]. We’re learning how to do it.”
The Nitros head home for an abbreviat-ed holiday break, before returning to host the Ghostriders Sunday, Dec. 28 (6 p.m.) at the Kimberley Civic Centre. The two teams go right back to it the next night (Monday, Dec. 29 at 7:30 p.m.) in Fernie.
“Spend some time with family back home, friends, get away from the hockey a little bit and enjoy the company of your family and friends,” Busch said of his plans for the reprieve from the rink. “We come back and everybody is excited again to see each other. We’ve got a great group of guys. Ev-erybody wants to get back out on the ice.”
With six regulars out of the lineup and many others sporting bumps and bruises, or fighting illness, the break
couldn’t come at a better time for Bancks’ crew.
“These guys need to go home and get healthy,” Bancks said. “So many of them have either had a bug, or they’ve got a bug com-ing. That’s my biggest thing. Go and have some good times with family and friends, but take care of themselves.
“It’s hectic. And I push these kids hard…They got worn down.
They need to go and get rested up as best they can. Hopefully all their mothers spoil the heck out of them. They’ll maybe put on two or three pounds, but I’ll take care of that first practice and away we go.”
With Saturday’s win, the Ghostriders lead the eight-game season se-ries between the two teams with a record of 2-1-1-0. After closing
December with a home-and-home series, the Nitros and Ghostriders meet Friday, Jan. 9 in Fernie before closing their season series Fri-day, Feb. 6 in Kimberley.
“We’ve got to play our game. We’ve got to play smart. We can’t play individually,” Busch said. “We have to play with the systems, play disciplined and if we play our game, we should be fine.”
Russian ruble threatens livelihood of KHLJames ellingworTh
Associated Press
MOSCOW - The Rus-sia-based Kontinental Hockey League saw itself as the oil-rich rival to the NHL, offering a tempt-ing alternative to playing in North America.
As the league planned to expand as far as Brit-
ain, the money on offer even attracted Russian stars like Ilya Kovalchuk who walked out on a lu-crative NHL deal to re-turn home.
Then came the crash of the ruble this week.
The ruble had been sliding against the dollar for most of the year
against the backdrop of low oil prices and eco-nomic sanctions against Russia, but went into freefall Monday and Tuesday. Following a slight recovery, it has still lost almost half of its value against the dollar this year.
With KHL rules stipu-
lating ruble-only con-tracts, that’s bad news for U.S., Canadian and European imports on the rosters of the league’s 22 teams. Russia’s eco-nomic woes are starting to spread into neigh-bouring nations like Be-larus and Kazakhstan.
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Shining starsDomi, Duclair & Reinhart shine as Canada falls to Russia
Stephen WhynoCanadian Press
TORONTO - The top line of Max Domi, Sam Reinhart and Anthony Duclair showed off some flashes of bril-liance as Canada’s world junior team dominated the play against Russia in its first exhibition game Friday night.
A 2-1 overtime loss was the end result, but outshooting Russia 53-20 left Canada’s play-ers and coaches feeling good about this first im-pression. Nothing was better than the play of the first line.
“We built some in-stant chemistry,” said Duclair, who was robbed of two goals by Russian goaltender Ilya Sorokin. “It goes back to the summer camp, I think Max, Sam and I have some pretty good friendship off the ice and I think it translates well on the ice as well.”
Canada made its final cuts less than two hours after the game, releasing forwards Michael Dal Colle, Jason Dickinson and Rourke Chartier along with defenceman Haydn Fleury. All that’s left is the 22-man roster, which includes Curtis Lazar from the Ottawa Senators.
“We came to the con-clusion that it was time to get our team togeth-er,” coach Benoit Groulx said. “With the addition of Curtis yesterday, we feel that we’re all set to announce our team. That’s why we decided
to make the decision to-night.”
Sorokin was the star of the exhibition game with his 52 saves. Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds forward Sergey Tolchin-sky scored for Russia in regulation when Rein-hart knocked the puck into his own net, and Alexander Sharov had the overtime winner.
But the result wasn’t as important to Groulx as the process.
“I thought we skated well, we pushed the pace, we did a lot of good things with and without the puck,” Groulx said. “Obviously we had our chances, their goalie was phe-nomenal, but for a first game for us, we’re quite happy with the effort and the chances we had.”
Duclair and Domi had some of the best chances. Domi, son of former Toronto Maple Leafs star Tie, set up de-fenceman Josh Mor-rissey for Canada’s only goal of the game.
“We had a lot of grade-A scoring chanc-es,” Domi said. “Some-times that happens, you run into a hot goalie. But you’ve just got to be a little bit more resilient and we should be fine.”
Canadian goaltender Zach Fucale blamed himself for not squeez-ing the puck on Russia’s power-play goal that went in off Reinhart. But Groulx said Fucale played well in making 18 saves.
Fucale was starting
on the same day he was traded in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League from the Halifax Mooseheads to the Quebec Remparts.
“Sometimes days like that happen,” Fucale said. “You’ve just got to zone everything out and make sure you’re ready to play.”
Fucale said the whole team was ready to play, and with a strong start one of the priorities, it’s hard not to be satisfied.
“We were expecting to score a little more for the number of shots we put on the goal,” centre Frederik Gauthier said. “The goalie was really good. But in general our performance, I think, was pretty good. Our coach is happy and I think we’re happy about our performance, too.”
Canada travelled to Ottawa to play its next exhibition game Sunday at Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa against Swe-den.
That game is expect-ed to feature Canada’s real lineup. Forwards Lazar, Connor McDavid, Nic Petan and and de-fenceman Joe Hicketts were held out of Friday night’s game against Russia.
Results were unavail-able at press time.
After playing Sweden, Canada will face Swit-zerland in its final exhi-bition tune-up Tuesday at Bell Centre in Montre-al. The tournament gets under way Boxing Day when Canada goes up against Slovakia.
Matthew Murnaghan Photo/hockey canada IMages
Kootenay Ice captain Sam Reinhart, pictured during summer orientation camp, hit the ice with Team Canada Friday and Sunday for pre-tournament competition ahead of the 2015 IIHF World Junior Championship. Canada fell to Russia in overtime Friday night.
Russian ruble crisis threatens KHLPlayers have already
started to rebel. Reveal-ing he had not been paid for three months at Rus-sian club Yugra Khan-ty-Mansiisk, except small amounts to buy food, forward Ilari Melart told the Ilta Sanomat newspaper in his native Finland he was not “in Siberia for charity.”
For the first time since the league was founded in 2008, KHL management has been forced to deny the league could collapse.
“The league’s finan-cial situation is stable and we’re looking calmly at the current economic
s i t u at i o n . The season
will be finished as planned,” league presi-dent Dmitry Cherny-shenko told media after meeting with club heads Thursday. He dismissed rumours the league could enforce across-the-board pay cuts .
Chernyshenko did suggest some clubs could be removed from the league if they lacked the money to function.
Smaller KHL teams like Yugra depend on the generosity of benefac-tors in Russian regional government and state-run companies. Delays in paying players have
been common in recent years, but have reported-ly increased this season as government budgets come under strain and Russian state oil and gas companies struggle with low prices for products.
Without subsidies, many clubs could be-come financially unsta-ble. Compared to play-ers’ wages, income from ticket sales and TV rights is typically far from enough to keep a club viable. Despite posting league-record crowds last season and reaching the KHL’s Gagarin Cup finals, Czech team Lev Prague withdrew for fi-nancial reasons in July.
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John FlesherASSOCIATED PRESS
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - A federal judge on Friday threw out an Obama administration deci-sion to remove grey wolves in the western Great Lakes region from the endangered species list - a decision that will ban further wolf hunting and trapping in three states.
The order affects wolves in Michigan, Minnesota and Wis-consin, where the combined population is estimated at around 3,700. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service dropped federal protec-tions from those wolves in 2012 and handed over management to the states.
U.S. District Judge Beryl How-ell in Washington, D.C., ruled Fri-day the removal was “arbitrary and capricious” and violated the federal Endangered Species Act.
Unless overturned, her deci-sion will block the states from scheduling additional hunting and trapping seasons for the predators. All three have had at least one hunting season since protections were lifted, while Minnesota and Wisconsin also have allowed trapping. More than 1,500 Great Lakes wolves have been killed, said Jonathan Lov-
vorn, senior vice-president of the Humane Society of the United States, one of several groups whose lawsuit prompted How-ell’s ruling.
“We are pleased that the court has recognized that the basis for the delisting decision was flawed, and would stop wolf recovery in its tracks,” Lovvorn said.
Fish and Wildlife Service spokesman Gavin Shire said the agency was disappointed and would confer with the U.S. De-partment of Justice and the states about whether to appeal.
“The science clearly shows that wolves are recovered in the Great Lakes region, and we be-lieve the Great Lakes states have clearly demonstrated their ability to effectively manage their wolf populations,” Shire said. “This is a significant step backward.”
State officials acknowledged being caught by surprise and said they would study the judge’s 111-page opinion before deciding what to do next.
“It’s an unusual turn of events,” said Tom Landwehr, Minnesota’s natural resources commissioner.
The ruling is the latest twist in more than a decade of court bat-tles over the grey wolf, which has made a strong recovery after
being shot, poisoned and trapped into near-extermination in the lower 48 states in the last century. Only a remnant pocket in north-ern Minnesota remained when the species was added to the fed-eral endangered list in 1974.
The wolf is now well-estab-lished in the western Great Lakes and in the Northern Rockies, where the minimum population is estimated at around 1,700.
Animal protection advocates repeatedly have sued over federal efforts to drop federal protections in both regions, arguing that the wolf’s situation remains precari-ous. Meanwhile, ranchers and farmers complain of heavy finan-cial losses from wolf attacks on livestock.
A judge in September restored endangered status to wolves in Wyoming, although those in Montana and Idaho remain off the list.
The Fish and Wildlife Service is nearing a final decision on whether to lift protections across the remainder of the lower 48 states, except for a fledgling pop-ulation of Mexican grey wolves in the desert Southwest.
In her opinion, Howell ac-knowledged the issue inspires passions on all sides but said the
Great Lakes wolves kept on US endangered list
administration’s “practical policy rea-sons” for its action in the Great Lakes region don’t trump the requirements
of the federal law, which “offers the broadest possible protections for en-dangered species by design.”
Wikipedia photo
A U.S. judge through our a decision to remove grey wolves in the western Great Lakes region from the endangered species list.
C AnADIAn PressDETROIT - The U.S. border agency says a
Canadian man was shot after allegedly point-ing a handgun at guards at the Ambassador Bridge crossing between Windsor, Ont., and Detroit.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection says in a statement the man stopped his car be-fore the U.S. inspection booth around 3 a.m. Sunday and starting walking towards border officers while waving a gun.
It says the officers ordered him to drop the weapon but that he then pointed it in the of-ficers’ direction, prompting them to open fire.
The agency says the man, who it hasn’t been identified, was treated and released from hospital before being taken into custo-dy.
It says the man has had “previous en-counters” with Canadian law enforcement.
The statement says border and Depart-ment of Homeland Security officials are in-vestigating along with Detroit police.
Spokesman Kris Grogan says no addition-al information will be released at this time.
Windsor police say the man was seen waving a handgun in the parking lot of a local McDonald’s some 20 minutes before the in-cident at the border crossing.
They say that when police arrived he was ordered to drop the weapon but refused, and then pointed the gun at officers, who were not aware of what was happening as they were busy dealing with passersby behind the man.
According to the police statement, the man then told officers “Why haven’t you shot me yet?” and that officers tried to talk him down.
Police say the man then got back into his SUV and drove off before officers could get back to their cruisers.
Canadian man shot by U.S.
border guardsAssoCIATeD Press
New York City’s subways - the biggest U.S. mass transit net-work - serve more than 6 million daily riders who depend largely on a signal system that dates back to the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Antiquated electro-mechan-ics with thousands of moving parts are still critical to opera-tions. Dispatchers still monitor most trains from 24-hour under-ground “towers,” and they still put pencil to paper to track their progress.
That eight-decade-old sys-tem is slowly being replaced by 21st-century digital technology that allows up to twice as many trains to safely travel closer to-gether. But there’s a big caveat: It could take at least 20 years for the city’s 700 miles (1,127 kilo-metres) of tracks to be fully com-puterized.
Of the subway system’s al-most two dozen major lines, just one, the L linking Manhattan and Brooklyn, currently oper-
ates on new, computerized, au-tomated signals. And the mod-ernization of the No. 7 line from Manhattan to Queens has begun, to be completed by 2017.
So, for at least the foreseeable future, New York subway riders can expect the snags, weekend shutdowns and overcrowding they have become accustomed to.
“We’re at the physical limits of what the original technology can carry,” acknowledges Adam Lisberg, spokesman for the Met-ropolitan Transportation Au-thority that New York City Tran-sit’s subways.
But he says safety is not being sacrificed.
“This stuff is old, but it works - it works really well,” he says, his voice rising above the roar of a 400-ton train passing through a Greenwich Village station.
Much of New York’s subways continue to operate with the equipment from the 1930s, kept running by a maintenance team that’s forced to fabricate re-
placement parts long out of pro-duction.
Wynton Habersham, the MTA’s chief of signals and track operations, recently led an Asso-ciated Press reporter and pho-tographer on a walking tour through some of the 22 control “towers” - as the dispatcher spaces are called, though they’re buried deep beneath the streets.
In the cramped, worn-out Greenwich Village tower, MTA workers monitor light boards that show train locations and movement. The dispatchers an-swer phone calls and listen to two-way radio reports while keeping an eye on each train’s progress.
A massive cabinet is arrayed with levers to move switches through a warren of electrical connections to relays that were cutting-edge technology at the same time as the Hindenburg airship.
Hidden from straphangers, these are the guts of the urban transit network that guide sub-
way traffic through nearly 500 stations.
Behind a door off a platform on Manhattan’s West Side at 14th Street is the system’s single gleaming, high-tech operation. It allows about two dozen L trains to move each hour in both directions - compared to about 15 with the old mechanics - on a route that takes an average of 37 minutes.
Amid peeling paint, rusty stairs and old-fashioned metal cabinets is a labyrinth of digi-talized panels and switches that automatically relay signals in the tunnels, tracing both direc-tion and speed without human help. In case of an emergency, however, the computerized con-trols can be manually overrid-den by operators in the cab of each train.
The updating has allowed more cars to be added to the L line, which has become one of the city’s most crowded thanks to growth in Brooklyn’s hip Wil-liamsburg neighbourhood.
NYC subways slowly upgrading from 1930s technology
Missing dog recovered by owner had been dyed to deceiveAssoCIATeD Press
SAN JACINTO, Calif. - Coco, a reddish-brown pit bull with white markings, went missing from her Southern California home on Thanksgiving.
Nearly a month later, she was found and reunited with her owners - but she was a different colour.
Riverside County animal ser-vices officials made the match
when they scanned a stray, black dog for an implanted mi-crochip and found she was list-ed as an 8-month-old red-dish-brown pit bull adopted in October from a San Jacinto shel-ter, the Press-Enterprise report-ed (http://bit.ly/1JxnzqH ).
Officials believe Coco was stolen and dyed in an act of de-ception to make it harder for owners Christopher Ingrassi
and Heather Lowry to find her, said Riverside County Field and Shelter Deputy Director Frank Corvino.
Officials believe the dog es-caped from the thief’s property.
“The dye job is not very good,” Corvino said in a state-ment.
“But it would work if some-one’s looking for their missing, reddish-brown dog.”
Animal Services spokesman John Welsh said Coco shouldn’t suffer any long-term conse-quences from the dye.
Lowry said she was shocked when she learned what had happened to Coco.
“I didn’t think someone would go as far as to dying a dog’s fur to keep them,” she told animal control officials, accord-ing to the statement.
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Police say 3-year-old boy abandoned at
Surrey bus stop
Toronto man ordered to pay $1.5 million in
credit card schemeFARGO, N.D. - Prosecutors described a Toronto
man’s massive credit card fraud scheme as high-tech bank robbery - stealing the identities of 38,000 people in order to bilk dozens of banks. So when he was convicted of mail fraud in February 2011, the federal government began the arduous task of figur-ing out just how much each victim was owed.
Years later, following the government’s petition to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a federal judge ordered Adekunle Adetiloye to pay about $1.5 million in restitution and forfeiture. Adetiloye is ap-pealing the Dec. 8 judgment.
“To be fair to everybody, the losses in this case are uncommon,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Nick Chase said Thursday. “It’s a hard case in many ways to prove up. There’s just not a lot of law out there on any of this. It’s a little uncharted.”
What isn’t clear, Chase said, is whether anyone will see the restitution payments. Adetiloye’s lawyer wouldn’t comment on his client’s financial situa-tion.
Adetiloye’s 18-year prison sentence, issued in January 2012, capped a lengthy international inves-tigation into fake debt-collection agencies. Bank of-ficials, investigators and prosecutors called it one of the most complex schemes perpetrated in the finan-cial industry. It took nearly eight years to investigate and litigate, including the restitution debate.
The case wound up in North Dakota because U.S. Bank, one of the victims, is based in Fargo.
U.S. District Judge Ralph Erickson in March 2012 set both restitution and forfeiture at just $1,700, saying the government did not provide enough “specificity and reliability” to support a larger award.
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HONOLULU - President Barack Obama says the United States is reviewing whether to put North Korea back on its list of state sponsors of terrorism as Washington decides how to respond to what he calls an “act of cybervandalism,” not one of war, against a movie company.
Sony Pictures Entertain-ment, which said it cancelled the theatrical release of “The Interview” after distributors re-fused to show it, pledged to find a way to get the film out. “How it’s going to be distribut-ed, I don’t think anybody knows quite yet,” a Sony lawyer said. The comedy involves a plot to assassinate North Korea’s lead-er.
Obama is promising to re-spond “proportionately” to an attack that law enforcement blames on North Korea. “We’re not going to be intimidated by some cyberhackers,” he said.
The president said the U.S. would examine the facts to de-termine whether North Korea should land back on the terror-ism sponsors list.
“We’re going to review those through a process that’s already in place,” Obama told CNN’s “State of the Union” in an inter-view broadcast Sunday. “I’ll wait to review what the findings are.”
While raising the possibility of a terrorism designation, Obama also asserted, “I don’t think it was an act of war. I think it was an act of cybervandalism that was very costly, very ex-pensive. We take it very serious-ly.”
Obama’s description drew immediate scorn from two Re-publicans who are longtime critics of his foreign policy.
“It is a new form of warfare, and we have to counter with that form of warfare with a bet-
ter form of warfare,” said Arizo-na Sen. John McCain.
Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina called it “an act of terrorism” and favoured re-imposing sanctions and adding North Korea to the terrorism list. The U.S. needs to “make is so hard on the North Koreans that they don’t want to do this in the future.”
North Korea spent two de-cades on the list until the Bush administration removed it in 2008 during nuclear negotia-tions. Only Iran, Sudan, Syria and Cuba remain on the list, which triggers sanctions that limit U.S. aid, defence exports and certain financial transac-tions.
But adding North Korea back could be difficult. To meet the criteria, the State Depart-ment must determine that a country has repeatedly sup-ported acts of international ter-rorism, a definition that tradi-tionally has referred to violent, physical attacks rather than hacking.
North Korea threatened to strike back at the United States if Obama retaliated, the Nation-al Defence Commission said in a statement carried by the country’s official Korean Cen-tral News Agency. The state-ment offered no details of a pos-sible response.
The U.S. is asking China for help as it considers how to re-spond to the hack. A senior Obama administration official says the U.S. and China have shared information about the attack and that Washington has asked for Beijing’s co-opera-tion.
The official was not autho-rized to comment by name and spoke on condition of anonym-ity.
China wields considerable leverage over North Korea, but Obama has accused China of carrying out cyberthefts, too.
In the CNN interview, taped Friday in Washington before Obama left to vacation in Ha-waii, Obama renewed his criti-cism of Sony’s decision to
shelve “The Interview,” despite the company’s insistence that its hand was forced after movie theatres refused to show it.
Obama suggested he might have been able to help address the problem if given the chance. “You know, had they talked to me directly about this decision, I might have called the movie theatre chains and distributors and asked them what that story was,” he said.
Sony’s CEO has disputed that the company never reached out, saying he spoke to a senior White House adviser about the situation before Sony announced the decision. White House officials said Sony did discuss cybersecurity with the federal government, but that the White House was never consulted on the decision not to distribute the film.
“Sometimes this is a matter of setting a tone and being very clear that we’re not going to be intimidated by some, you know, cyberhackers,” Obama said. “And I expect all of us to re-member that and operate on that basis going forward.”
David Boies, a Sony lawyer, said “The Interview” is “going to be distributed, and what Sony has been trying to do is to get the picture out to the public,” while protecting the rights of company employers and mov-iegoers.
Boies said theatres “quite understandably” decided not to show the film as scheduled be-cause of the threats. “You can’t release a movie unless you have a distribution channel,” he said.
North Korea has denied hacking the studio, and on Sat-urday proposed a joint investi-gation with the U.S. to deter-mine the true culprit. The White House rejected the idea and said it was confident North Korea was responsible.
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Two NYPD officers fatally shot by gunmanAssociAted Press
NEW YORK - The warning came just moments too late: A man who had shot his ex-girl-friend a few hours earlier had travelled to New York City and vowed online to shoot two “pigs” in retaliation for the po-lice chokehold death of Eric Garner.
Minutes before a wanted poster for Ismaaiyl Brinsley ar-rived in the NYPD’s Real Time Crime Center, he ambushed two officers in their patrol car in broad daylight, fatally shooting them before killing himself in-side a subway station.
Brinsley, 28, wrote on an Ins-tagram account before Satur-day’s shootings: “I’m putting wings on pigs today. They take 1 of ours, let’s take 2 of theirs,” two city officials with direct knowl-edge of the case confirmed for The Associated Press. He used
the hashtags Shootthepolice RIPErivGardner (sic) RIPMike-Brown - references to the two police-involved deaths of blacks that have sparked racially charged protests across the country.
The officials, a senior city of-ficial and a law enforcement of-ficial, were not authorized to speak publicly on the topic and spoke on condition of anonym-ity.
Police said Brinsley ap-proached the passenger win-dow of a marked police car and opened fire, striking Officers Ra-fael Ramos and Wenjian Liu in the head. Brinsley was black; the officers were Asian and His-panic, police said. The officers were on special patrol doing crime reduction work in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn.
“They were, quite simply, as-
sassinated - targeted for their uniform,” said Police Commis-sioner Bill Bratton, who looked pale and shaken at a hospital news conference.
The sudden and extraordi-nary violence stunned the city, prompted a response from a vacationing President Barack Obama and escalated weeks of
simmering ill will between po-lice and their critics following grand jury decisions not to in-dict officers in the deaths of Garner in New York and Mi-chael Brown in Missouri. The New York police union head declared there’s “blood on the hands” of protesters and the city’s mayor.
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Two NYPD officers were killed by a lone gunman on Saturday.
SURREY, B.C. - RCMP are recommending charges against a man who they say struck a three-year-old boy in the face and abandoned him at a bus stop in Surrey, B.C.
Staff Sgt. Joe Johal says police are recommending charges of assault and child abandonment.
Johal says the man is a Surrey resident who is related to the child but would not confirm he is the boy’s father.
The suspect has been released from police custo-dy with conditions and is scheduled to appear in court.
Johal thanked witnesses who contacted police on Saturday morning about the incident as well as those who circulated a photo of the boy on social media.
Callers reported the boy was struck in the face and pushed by a man who then got on a bus, leaving the boy behind.
“A lot of people called and (there were) a lot of tips, and even the arrest that took place was due to a tip from a citizen who observed and called us,” said Johal in an interview on Sunday.
He said police were able to identify the suspect and get him in custody within a few hours.
Workers at a nearby liquor store and others cared for the boy until police arrived, Johal said.
The boy has since been reunited with his mother. The Ministry of Children and Family Development was involved Saturday and will keep the file open, said Johal.
He said the investigation continues and police are still looking to speak with additional witnesses.
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COMICSANNIE’S MAILBOX
by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar
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ARIES (March 21-April 19) You could be overly aware of your image and how a boss sees you. You might want to consider making an alteration. Weigh the pros and cons before you decide to go ahead. Listen care-fully to your inner voice, then apply it appropriately. Tonight: A force to be dealt with. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Detachment will help you see what would be best to do. You even might decide to take off and visit with someone at a dis-tance. Be aware of your limits, especially when it comes to how much time you have. Tonight: Be willing to be adventurous. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Deal with someone directly. You might feel as if this person wants you to head in a certain direction. Recognize the power of having a one-on-one discus-sion. You will be able to head in whichever direction you choose as a result. Tonight: Make it a duo.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) Defer to others whom you feel might know more than you do. By recognizing their exper-tise and demonstrating your openness, you will be seen as a team player. An older relative or friend could surprise you and force you to adjust your plans. Tonight: Accept an offer. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You might venture into a new project only to feel as though you are stuck in quicksand. Brainstorm with a trusted friend to find a more solid approach. Someone could surprise you with a unique idea. Are you up for trying it out? Tonight: Weigh the pros and cons. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Your creativity could take you down a new path where you feel more centered and ener-gized. Be aware of the mixed signals you are sending. Some-one seems to be misreading your intention because of your word choice. Be as clear as you can be. Tonight: With a loved one. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
You could have difficulty deal-ing with someone who is very unpredictable. Avoiding the person simply won’t work. You can postpone this conversation for only so long. A new begin-ning will become a possibility once you have this talk. Tonight: Head home. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You are likely to gain a broader perspective about how to ap-proach a key person. Thanks to others’ feedback, you will see the transformation that could be possible. You might want to make an adjustment to your schedule. Tonight: Squeeze in a favorite stressbuster. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Take care of what you value, as no one else will be able to do it in the same way. Your emotions could be on a roller-coaster ride because of an unexpected development. Maintain a sense of humor. Tonight: Catch up on some last-minute holiday de-tails or shopping. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Complete any last-minute shopping in the morning. You
might need to run several other errands as well. You could find yourself walking into a surprise at home or dealing with a fam-ily member. Be willing to revise your plans. Tonight: Do what you want to do. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You will have a hectic pace to keep up with if you are going to get done what you must. Still, you might be surprised by the power of a cat nap. You’ll find that you will be much more en-ergized as a result. Visit a dear friend if you have time. Tonight: Get some extra R and R. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Others might want to tap into your imagination when they are faced with last-minute holiday hassles. Your creativity is likely to come up with some unusual ideas that will work. Make a point of catching up with some-one you care about. Tonight: Eggnog with friends. BORN TODAY News anchor Diane Sawyer (1945), former first lady Claudia Taylor Johnson (1912), singer Jordin Sparks (1989)
Dear Annie: A few years ago, there was an argument in my husband’s family. Since then, my mother-in-law has stopped having holiday dinners. She invites only one daugh-ter and her family. This hurts my husband, but he will not say anything to his mother. We feel she should invite everyone as usual, and those who wish to participate will come, and those who don’t will stay away. Why punish everyone because a few have decided to carry a grudge? Should my husband say something to his mother, or just leave it alone? -- No More Holidays Dear No More: If your husband prefers not to speak to his mother about this, then please let it go. But we have a different idea. Why not host a family gathering in your home? You can then invite whomever you choose, and Mom can either come or not come. Perhaps that is what she’s been waiting for. Dear Annie: A time ago, someone wrote to suggest that folks stop giving seniors per-fume and bath salts and other products they don’t use. The big suggestion was gift cards to the grocery. I took that to heart and start-ed giving supermarket cards to all the older folks in our family. But I’ve discovered since then that everyone, not only seniors, loves gift cards to their favorite grocery. I used to rack my brain to figure out what to get my husband’s office staff at Christmas and began questioning what to give people we were obligated to buy for but didn’t know that well. My husband initially objected to gift cards “because they know how much you spent,” but the feedback has really convinced him it’s a great idea. My hairdresser told me she really loved the supermarket gift card we gave her because she would buy something “special” that she usually wouldn’t splurge on during her regular shopping. My daughters-in-law each have a favorite department store and love gift cards to those places. My grandchildren love gift cards for music, videos and games. I’ve bought gift cards to restaurants, movie theaters and gas stations, and my local supermarket sells gift cards to just about any place, which makes shopping easy. Considering the amount of time and gas it used to take me to run around town looking for bargains and buying a gift that would be returned or tossed in the back of a closet, this is less expensive than you’d think. The other idea we have for gift giving is for kids. Instead of more dolls and toys, we give lessons: swimming, horseback riding, mar-tial arts, piano. Whatever the child is cur-rently doing, we simply contribute to that en-deavor. They have more than enough “stuff.” -- Florida Lady Dear Florida: More and more people ap-preciate gift cards to stores they frequent. Of course, some people prefer something more personal, but when in doubt, gift cards are usually much appreciated. Thanks for the re-minder. Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Indy,” who lost her job and feels lonely. Please tell her to volunteer for hospice. Three years ago, I lost my husband to can-cer. I was all alone. I attended a local hospice grief-counseling group, and three years later, all nine of us still meet once a month for din-ner. We are connected and understand each other. Hospice always needs more volunteers. You don’t have to have had a loss -- just a passion for people. Our hospice has 300 volunteers. Nursing homes have folks who never have visitors. Now, I have a real purpose. I can serve others, no money needed -- just time and a desire. Please get involved. -- Donna Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to [email protected], or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. To find out more about Annie’s Mailbox and read features by other Creators Syndi-cate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syn-dicate Web page at www.creators.com.COPYRIGHT 2014 CREATORS.COM
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Richard “Dick” Watson Williams
1927 - 2014Go confidently in the
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imagined. - Henry David Thoreau
Richard Williams passed away peacefully in his own home at Garden View Lodge in Kimberley, BC on December 11, 2014.
Dick was born on August 25, 1927 in Regina, Saskatchewan. He grew up exploring Waskana creek, delivering newspapers to the Legislative Assembly, building all sorts of childhood contraptions in his backyard, bicycling about town, and playing hockey on the neighbourhood rink.
He leaves behind his loving wife of almost 63 years Orphee Williams (nee Ashe), 3 daughters Richeal (Ralph) Tweten, Corrine (Rodney) Jerke and Ashelyn (Derek) Redman, son Edwin (Norma) Williams, dearest friend Penny (Colm) Covenden, 14 grandchildren, and 6 great grandchildren. He was predeceased by his father Edwin Williams, his mother Gertrude Williams (nee McKay), and his sister Helen (Bill) Ford.
Dick obtained his Bachelor’s and Law degree from the University of Saskatchewan. A guiding force in his life was the love of nature: after seeing the Rocky Mountains while surveying as a student he decided that upon graduation he would journey west and live in their shadow. He articled with the late Fred M. Pritchard in Taber and then moved to Lethbridge in 1954 and joined the Firm of Davidson and Davidson. In 1957, the firm took the name of Davidson and Williams. Dick was a dedicated lawyer who was honoured to be of service to others. He also loved his time away from the office, spending weekends and holidays at his cabin in Montana or elsewhere in the Rockies. His partners kidded him about planning for his retirement in the mountains the day he started his practice.
Dick was an active member of the community serving as the first chairman of the Lethbridge Community College Foundation and participating in many leadership roles in the Rotary Club.
Dick and Orphee were avid hunters and horseback riders. His first year of retirement was devoted to raising two beautiful colts and living full time at their cabin in BC. They remained living there happily for 24 years. He was thrilled to report that he was able to go for a walk every day with one of his beloved dogs or cats tagging along, constantly on the look out for a white tail buck, a cow elk, a good tree to take for firewood, or signs of the hummingbirds returning in the spring.
In the past three years Dick and Orphee lived at Garden View Lodge in Kimberly but still drove to their cabin each weekend to be closer to nature.
Dick was known for his quick sense of humor and it was rare that he did not have a story or joke to pass along. He never lost his ability to make others smile, even as he courageously orchestrated his final days after three years of battling cancer. His modesty, strength of character, and determination were truly remarkable and inspired many. The family is very appreciative of the staff at Garden View, and at the Cranbrook Oncology (Cancer) Unit, as well as Dr. Lange in Kimberley and Dr. Benke in Lethbridge for their dedication, and thoughtful and passionate care over the past three years.
Dick will be remembered for his smile, twinkling eyes and his love of everything in nature.
In lieu of flowers the family would appreciate donations to the Cancer Society or a Wildlife charity of your choice. A celebration of his life will take place in the summer among the things that inspired him most-family, mountains, wildlife and all things in nature.
Arrangements entrusted to McPherson Funeral Service. Condolences for the family can be offered at:
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Anna Linardic September 28, 1932 -
December 18, 2014A n n a L i n a r d i c ( n e e Prendivoj) passed away peace f u l l y a t h ome surrounded by her loved ones on December 18, 2014 after the quick onset
of leukaemia.
Anna was born September 28, 1932 in Glavotok, Krk,
Yugoslavia, now Croatia. She arrived In Canada in 1957, married her fiancé Ivan Linardic on January 25, 1958 and started a family in Cranbrook. Anna’s life revolved around family, friendship and faith. She touched many lives with her kindness, compassion and generosity.
She is survived by her children, Margaret (Vancouver), John, George, Diane (Syd Willicome) and David (Angela), her grandchildren, Parker and Kimberley Willicome (all in Cranbrook), her sisters Lucy Zec (New York) and Dragica Grubic (New Jersey), cousins Kathy & Cyril Goosney (Cranbrook) and their family, along with numerous cousins, nephews and nieces in Canada, USA and Croatia.
Anna was predeceased by her husband Ivan Linardic (1923-2001), siblings Nikola (Chicago), Dinka and Zvonko (Croatia).
Anna had a great love of gardening. This was apparent to everyone who knew her. All envied her green thumb and her vegetables were first up in the neighbourhood every year. Anna was a phenomenal cook and always ensured that no one ever left her table hungry. She volunteered tirelessly with her church and was an active member of St. Anne’s Sewing Circle, contributing her sewing, knitting and crafting skills. She was generous with her time and was quick to offer a hand whenever needed. She was a beautiful human being.
Prayers at 7 p.m. on Monday, December 22, 2014 at McPherson’s Funeral Services, 2200 2nd Street South, Cranbrook, B.C. A funeral mass will be held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday December 23, 2014 at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 39 10th Avenue South, Cranbrook, B.C. Burial to follow at the Cranbrook Cemetery.
Donations may be made in Anna’s memory to the local charity of your choice.
We have stories to retell, We have pictures in our minds,
We have love in our hearts.We can say good-bye to you with tears in our eyes,
But we will never, ever forget you.
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