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Starting the week of April 18th, 2016the Townsman and Bulletin will be coming to your doorstep Tuesday,

Wednesday and Friday. Thank you for welcoming us

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Changes are coming

Thrills Spills and Chills

From The HillsThe local ski season officially came to an

end this weekend at Kimberley Alpine Resort, with the ever-popular and exciting

Spring Splash and other events. See Page 2 for more photos, by Gerry Frederick

GRAND SLAM OF CURLING TOUR CHALLENGE

Volunteers rockOrganizing committee puts out call for

volunteers for November event; meeting to be held April 5 at 7 p.m. at Curling Club.

See VOLUNTEERS, Page 3

Tristen Chernove is pictured speaking to the

crowd at the annual Cranbrook Chamber of

Commerce Evening of Excellence Business Awards

after winning the Award for Business Person of the Year. Chernove, of Elevate Aiports, is Manager of the

Canadian Rockies International Airport, and

his award was the culmination of an evening

of recognizing standout members of the local business community,

Saturday, April 2 at St. Eugene Resort See full

story and special photo feature in Tuesday’s

Townsman. Barry Coulter photo

2016’s Business Person of the Year

BA R RY CO U LT E RFor a week of days in November

of this year, Cranbrook will be the centre of the curling world. And or-ganizers are putting out the call for volunteers to make the event a suc-cess.

Cranbrook has been awarded an event in the Grand Slam of Curling — the Tour Challenge, the second event on the tour — and will see a massive influx of top international curlers, 15 men’s teams and 15 women’s teams in the top tier, and another 30 teams in a second tier.

They will playing in two tiers that will compete at Western Financial Place and the Memorial Arena from Nov. 8-13, 2016.

Organizers are holding an infor-

mation meeting Tuesday evening, April 5, at 7 p.m. at the Cranbrook Curling Centre.

“Come down and get all the de-tails on volunteering for The Tour Challenge, the largest professional curling event in the world, coming to Cranbrook this November,” said Brenna Baker, Marketing and Spon-sorship Manager for the local Tour Challenge committee.

Organizers will also be bringing local curlers to Western Financial Place to do a mock line up at the ticket booths located in Western Fi-nancial Place — a test run in ad-vance of the actual ticket launch April 15, 2016.

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LocaL NEWSdaily townsman

T r e v o r C r aw l e yHundreds of people clad in

blue wandered through the streets of Cranbrook on Saturday on a walk to mark World Autism Awareness Day.

Led by the Cranbrook Bugle Band, the group started at Stee-ples Elementary and walked past the Alliance Church, out onto Cranbrook Street (the Strip), down Victoria Ave and down Sixth Street to end up back at the school.

The walk, which included all ages, began at 11:30 a.m. as the Bugle Band headed up the pro-cession, with kids, parents and MP Wayne Stetski

Themed ‘Light it up Blue’ the walk was just one of many in the province and the world as orga-nizers Ursula McCulloch and Car-olyn Maclean kicked off the first ever instalment in Cranbrook—which they hope to make an an-nual event.

In addition to the presence of

the Bugle Band, members of the Aspire Dance Academy were on hand to give a performance in the Steeples Elementary School gym-nasium before the walk began.

The event was not a fundraiser more than it was a public display of awareness for people with au-tism and service groups who pro-vide services to people with au-tism.

Booths were present from groups like East Kootenay Be-haviour Interventionists, as well

as East Kootenay Child Develop-ment, Pivot Point, East Kootenay Intervention, Blue Lake, Creston and District Community Liv-ing-Therapeutic Riding.

McCulloch wishes to thank all the local businesses who donated prizes that were drawn in a raffle. Thanks also goes out to Just Music, which provided the music, and Sandor Rental, which provid-ed a bouncy castle for the kids.

Prize winners are:One night getaway at Copper-

stone Resort — Tammy WicherukTwo-night stay & play at St Eu-

gene — Kristopher RankinScentsy Gift Basket — David

BuckleyBeachbody shakes — Lucille

Martin$50 gift certificate to Spice Hut

— Kensi GrahamBoston Pizza large pizza —

Taryn VanHoch$25 gift certificate superstore

— Mark Wicheruk

Hundreds walk for autism awareness

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Kootenay-Columbia MP Wayne Stetski was among the many who took part in Cranbrook’s inaugural walk to

mark World Autism Awareness Day.

Tre vor Cr awleyA large plume of smoke was

visible from Cranbrook and the area on Friday afternoon, as the province teamed up with the Rocky Mountain Trench Ecosys-tem Restoration Program to con-duct a controlled burn out near Fort Steele.

The burn, which is covering roughly 110 hectares in and around the Lakit Ridge area, was monitored by trained B.C. Wildfire Service personnel at all times.

Nearby Brewery Ridge was the site of a controlled burn in the spring of 2014.

Ecosystem restoration burns help create landscape level fuel

breaks, reduce the level of forest fuels, mitigate the severity of future fires and decreases wildfire risks.

In addition, prescribed burns also help maintain wildlife habitat and will help increase the forage range of bighorn sheep in the Lakit Ridge area.

Fire is a natural, normal process in many ecosystems and helps maintain a healthy forest. Many plants and animals have adapted to fire in forests, and some depend on regular fire events to reproduce.

All prescribed burns must com-ply with the Environmental Man-agement Act and the open burning smoke control regulations.

Crews conduct 110-hectare burn near Fort Steele

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A large plume of smoke was visible from Cranbrook and the area on Friday afternoon, as the province teamed up with the Rocky Mountain Trench Ecosystem Restoration Program to conduct a controlled burn.

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SALE OF SURPLUS EQUIPMENTThe City of Cranbrook is inviting bids for the sale of the following:

1974 Muller Cement Mixer 1990 Monroe V-Box Sander/Spreader 2002 Dupliskate Skate Sharpener Custom Water Line Thawing Unit with Ubilt Trailer Fertilizer Sprayer Fertilizer Spreader Lastec Mower Attachment Rammer Tamper Teledyne Frost Breaker Tig Stick Welder Woods Rotary Cutter

The equipment is available for sale on an “as is/where is” basis.

Bid documents will be available from City Hall at 40 – 10th Avenue South Cranbrook, BC. The documents are also available on BCBid and on the City’s web site under “Business – City Tenders”.

Sealed bids, labeled with the Bidder’s name, project name and Owner’s name must be submitted by 2:30 p.m., local time, Thursday, April 14, 2016 to:

The Corporation of the City of CranbrookAttention: Melissa Smith, Financial Services Manager40 - 10th Avenue SouthCranbrook, BCV1C 2M8

Bidders may view the sale items at the City of Cranbrook Public Works Yard at 201 Cobham Ave., Cranbrook, Monday – Friday, March 31 – April 14, 2016, by appointment only. Please call (250) 489-0246 to set up an appointment. Check in with the Public Works Of� ce, on site, is required prior to viewing.

Late submissions will be rejected.

The City reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids submitted.

Recruitment for Committee 2016There is an opportunity for public participation and involvement in the City of Cranbrook advisory committee listed below.

Membership is open to residents of the City of Cranbrook.

Urban Deer Management Advisory Committee

The committee examines the issues related to urban deer within the boundaries of the City of Cranbrook and continues to maintain and monitor an ongoing management plan and report to Council. One position is available.

Terms of reference for all the committees are available on the City’s website – www.cranbrook.ca

Interested individuals are invited to submit a Volunteer Application form available at City Hall or the City’s website – www.cranbrook.ca.

Applications will be accepted at City Hall (attention Kelly Thorsteinson) or by email thorsteinson@cranbrook.ca, no later than Friday, Friday, April 15, 2016 at 4:00 p.m. local time.

The event will be broken down in to 15 men and 15 women’s teams in Tier One—the top level of competi-tion. The same format will be dupli-cated for the Tier 2, which will feature professional curlers that aren’t quite at the elite level.

A strong and committed cadre of volunteers is essential for the event, but Cranbrook’s track record in this regard is strong. Kristi Petrushchak, Manager of the Tour Challenge for Sportsnet, told the Townsman in an earlier interview that Cranbrook’s ex-isting volunteer network, and the 2011 Canada Cup experience made the city a compelling host for the 2016 event.

“The veteran volunteer committee lead by Todd Pellerin are enthusiastic and excited to bring a world class event back to Cranbrook,” Petrush-chak said.”It’s always a plus when you have a community of volunteers that have hosted a large curling event, to take their previous experience and key learnings and help make this

event a greater success for the com-munity.”

Pellerin himself said in an earlier interview with the Townsman that depending on the success of the Tour Challenge, there is potential for the city to host more Grand Slam events in the future.

“If we have a good local buy-in and the sponsorship is good and everyone has a good review after the event, Sportsnet has said that we would be-come one of the city locations that would be on a rotating basis for future events,” he said.

The organizing committee has de-cided to donate 50 per cent of profits back into those minor sport organiza-tions.

The last major curling event that Cranbrook hosted was the Canada Cup of Curling in 2011, which was organized by the Canadian Curling Association, which has nothing to do with the Grand Slam of Curling, as it is organized directly by Sportsnet.

Volunteers needed for Grand Slam of Curling

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For the townsmanOn March 31, 2016

McDonald’s proudly hosted the 6th Annual Wild Fire Basketball Challenge between the Cranbrook Fire Depart-ment and the Mount Baker Wild Girls Basket-ball team. Every year this entertaining event raises money for the British Columbia Pro-fessional Fire Fighters Burn Fund. Through the generous contribution of both McDonald’s Restaurant and the sup-

Courtesy Courtney Magro

Cranbrook McDonald’s Restaurant owner/operator David Kaiser presents a $500 cheque to Cranbrook Fire Fighter Brandon Cavener, as well as other mem-bers of the Cranbrook Fire Department and the Mount Baker Wild Girls Basketball team. The 6th Annual McDonald’s Wild Fire Basketball Challenge, which took place on March 31, 2016, raised $1077.00 for the British Columbia Professional Fire Fighters Burn Fund.

port of the community, this year’s basketball challenge raised $1077.00 for the BC Burn

Fund.“We are proud to

sponsor this yearly match-up between the Cranbrook Fire Depart-ment and the Mount Baker girls basketball team,” said Cranbrook McDonald’s Owner/Op-erator David Kaiser. “It’s always a fun event. And the fact that it benefits an important charity such as the BC Burn Fund is another reason we’re happy to be in-

volved.”All of the proceeds of

the event go to the BC Burn Fund, which as-sists recovering burn pa-tients, as well as provid-ing education on burn prevention throughout the province. “The BC Professional Fire Fight-ers Burn Fund is an amazing charity. It sup-ports both medical care for BC burn survivors as well as research on burn and wound healing,”

said Cranbrook Fire Fighter and event orga-nizer Murray Robertson.

This year marked the sixth year in a row that the Cranbrook fire fight-ers have lost the charity basketball game to the MBSS Wild Girls Basket-ball team. Although the members of the Cran-brook Fire Hall tried their best, the high school team was ulti-mately victorious with a final score of 54- 53.

Highlights of this year’s event included the giveaway of a flat screen television, kindly donated by Aaron’s Electronics, which was won by Natalie Brons. There was also a hilari-ous dance-off between Mount Baker Wild Girls basketball player Kal Taye and fire fighter Darcy Kennedy. Accord-ing to pretty much all in attendance, Darcy didn’t stand a chance!

Cranbrook McDon-ald’s Restaurant and the Cranbrook Fire Depart-ment would also like to recognize Sweet Ges-tures for their contribu-tion to the event. Thank you as well to Sam Steele Sweetheart Kelsey Ack-ert and Princess Sarah Ferguson, MBSS Wild Girls Basketball head coach Al Nutini and as-sistant coaches Joe Mc-Gowan and Shaun Pen-ner.

Wild defeat firefighters for 6th straight yearLocal Charity

Basketball Game raises $1077 for BC Professional Fire Fighters Burn Fund.

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LocaL NEWSdaily townsman

Public Consultation:Proposed Amendment of Of� cial

Community Plan

The City of Cranbrook is proposing to amend the City’s Of� cial Community Plan.

On March 21, 2016, City Council gave � rst reading to “City of Cranbrook Of� cial Community Plan Amendment Bylaw No. 3853, 2016”.

If adopted, the proposed Of� cial Community Plan (OCP) amendment will change the land use designation of the properties adjacent to Fire Hall #1 currently used for parking from “Park / Institutional / Recreation” to “Core Commercial”.

Approval of the proposed OCP amendment will enable consideration of a zoning bylaw amendment to change the zoning designation of the properties to accommodate commercial development.

The subject properties are legally described as Lots 45 & 46, Block 88, District Lot 5 Kootenay District Plan 669, as shown on the map below.

A copy of the proposed “City of Cranbrook Of� cial Community Plan Amendment Bylaw No. 3853, 2016” is available at City Hall for public information.

If you require more information or wish to comment on the proposed OCP amendment, please contact Rob Veg, Senior Planner at (250) 489-0241.

Please provide written comments by April 11, 2016.

Public Consultation:Proposed Amendment of Of� cial

Community Plan

The City of Cranbrook is proposing to amend the City’s Of� cial Community Plan.

On March 21, 2016, City Council gave � rst reading to “City of Cranbrook Of� cial Community Plan Amendment Bylaw No. 3852, 2016”.

If adopted, the proposed Of� cial Community Plan (OCP) amendment will change the land use designation of the Fire Hall properties from “Park / Institutional / Recreation” to “Core Commercial”.

Approval of the proposed OCP amendment will enable consideration of a zoning bylaw amendment to change the zoning designation of the properties to accommodate commercial development.

The subject properties are legally described as Lots 42, 43 & 44, Block 88, District Lot 5 Kootenay District Plan 669 (Civic Address: 37 – 11th Avenue South), as shown on the map below.

A copy of the proposed “City of Cranbrook Of� cial Community Plan Amendment Bylaw No. 3852, 2016” is available at City Hall for public information.

If you require more information or wish to comment on the proposed OCP amendment, please contact Rob Veg, Senior Planner at (250) 489-0241.

Please provide written comments by April 11, 2016.

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A brainstorming ses-sion last October involv-ing 24 passionate Cran-brook citizens helped to select the 2016 theme for the Sam Steele Days Parade. Councilor Wes Graham is credited with the tag line “Salute the Boots” when the majori-ty agreed the focus would be on honouring those who serve and protect. The inspiration came from watching our veterans proudly march in their colour party in the parade year after year.

Boot stompin’ fun is for everyone! Any busi-ness, club or organiza-tion will find value in parade participation at only $25 to enter a deco-rated vehicle, walking/riding group or individ-ual dressed in character. Attendees are estimated to be a thick 10,000 along the parade route in the City’s downtown core. Parade applica-

tions are available to download from the offi-cial Sam Steele Days website www.sam-steeledays.org/parade/ or you can call (250) 426-4161 to request one. The parade takes place on Saturday, June 18, from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Deadline to enter is June 10, 2016.

“Fort Steele Heritage Town is thrilled to wel-come back the Steele Scouts during Sam Steele Days” says Ad-ministration Manager, Kathy Allison. The Steele Scouts were in Cranbrook for the festi-val’s 50th Celebration in 2014. “They will be join-ing us in the parade and then returning to the Fort to help us celebrate our opening weekend for the summer.” Ru-mour has it that Sir Sam Steele himself will be represented by their heritage theatre per-formers … watch for him!

Warning: Boot stompin’ fun coming!

Do you love a parade? Sam Steele has one for you!

Barry Coulter photo

The Sam Steele Days is turning into a giant — a monster of fun!

Last year’s event, with 106 entries, re-ceived an incredible amount of positive feed-back from both local and nonlocal entrants, participants and media. The Cranbrook Violin Club, overall winner for the best entry, with their mobile pirate ship and talented young musi-cians playing excerpts of a theme from a popular pirate movie, won $250.

The 2015 City of Cranbrook float, cele-brating 50 Years of Heart in recognition of Cran-brook’s Sweetheart Youth Ambassador Pro-gram, went on to take first place for best mu-nicipal float in the Cal-gary Stampede parade in July - a true reflection of the “Mountains of Opportunity” in Cran-brook.

There are $1,300 in cash prizes and 16 rib-bons available to be won in a variety of cate-gories. The Sam Steele Society is grateful to St. Eugene Golf Resort and Casino for their loyal sponsorship of the pa-rade for 10 years. All entry fees and sponsor funds go towards prizes and costs related to the parade. Cranbrook Ro-tary and Lions Club vol-unteers play a crucial role in facilitation of the event. “We simply couldn’t do it without them”, says Sam Steele Society President, Christy Wheeldon. This year Alliance Traffic Group Inc. has gener-ously stepped in to play a professional role in as-sisting with the safety and flow of the parade line up and central fair-grounds. Yes! It’s getting that big!

C aroLYn Gr antKimberley’s Molly

Miller left the Haywood Cross Country Ski Na-tionals in Whitehorse with a handful of gold medals as well as anoth-er Sofie Manarin Award as the best Juvenile Girls Skier in Canada.

Miller, who often races up against com-petitors older than her, decided not to do that in Whitehorse and proved that she is one of the elite juvenile skiers in the country.

“Molly did really well,” said Nicole Perrin, assistant coach for the Kimberley Nordic team, which sent four racers to Whitehorse.

Along with Miller were Annika and Mari-elle Ackermann and MacKenzie McLean.

“Molly won three gold medals and the Sofie Manarin award for overall Canadian points for a juvenile girls skier

for the year,” Perrin said.Perrin says the expe-

rience is invaluable for all the skiers.

“It was a great experi-ence for Annika and McKenzie. Marielle raced in Midget so she was racing up against older girls and she did very well.

Earlier this year, Mill-er won two golds at the BC Games and received the W.R. Bennett Award for Athletic Excellence.

The award is given to one outstanding athlete at each BC Winter and BC Summer Games. The award includes a $2500 bursary and is de-signed to recognize and support the ongoing de-velopment of young athletes.

Now that nationals are done, the ski team gets a brief break before they begin summer conditioning and train-ing in May.

Kimberley skier shines at Nationals

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“Calling someone ‘an old fossil’ is not right. As every erudite person knows, fossil already implies old.”

Sam Webster

W hen I first read about Doctor Burgess Shale’s discovery I was inclined not to believe. When I

read about his claims, I was about to sneer because, you see, he insisted that he had discovered the biggest trilobite in the world right here in the East Kootenay at, of all places, Wycliffe.

Anyway, I made dis-crete inquiries and became determined to go and have a look at this gigantic fossil (the trilobite, not the doc-tor, who had apparently headed back to Calgary in order to write his ‘paper’ on the subject and thus be-come famous) because, like many folk around these parts, I have found trilobites before but they were never gigantic by any stretch of imagination. They’d always looked like the skeletons of those bugs that crawl out occasionally from beneath my down-stairs shower and I was always informed that they were fossils of extinct arthropods. (pods implies that they had lots of legs, like centipods.)

Anyway, when George heard of my proposed adventurous search he made it sound as if I were venturing into Jurassic

Park and insisted on accompanying me, in lieu of the gorgeous blonde scientist in the film. He thought I might emulate my-self and I, naturally, scoffed because I be-lieved that he’d got the wrong word; I as-sumed he meant self- immolate, i.e. sacri-fice myself by setting my foolish body on fire. What nonsense; I was merely going for a gentle stroll and see if I might find this gigantic fossil. It might be as big as that ammonite up by Fernie so I didn’t

reckon on getting it home and putting it in the pool in my front garden, al-though that would have been a real shock to my neighbours, even those that are already fossilized.

Now, in spite of varying opinions on the topic, I am

not a stupid as I look on my driver’s li-cence so I do not intend to announce the area in which I planned to search. Just say that one Sunday morning, after several false starts, George and I set off with a packed (by me) lunch and a positive atti-tude.

By noon, it was raining, by two we were both soaked to the skin and, by six, we were hopelessly lost so we decided to light a big fire and wait for dawn and, of course, this is where the immolation takes place.

After collecting damp wood and at-tempting to burn every scrap of flamma-

ble material that we could find in our back-packs, we found that we were down to a small piece of candle wax that I thought George kept in order to wax his Neanderthal eyebrows, one last match and my secret resort.

Over the years I have attempted to em-ulate my more intelligent friends and so, in the deep recesses of my pack lay a very small bottle of gasoline.

George said, “We’ve got to corporate in this, matie.” He’d recently found an Aus-tralian type bush-hat and a huge sheath knife and was attempting to emulate Croc-odile Dundee from those awful movies. “What is going to happen is: you are going to pour that petrol on to the fire and I, at the same time, will strike this match and toss it on. We’ll soon be laughing, cobber.”

Well, to cut a long story short, a wind came along with the rain. I, carefully as possible in the dark, trickled the precious gas on to what I thought was the fire, George struck that last match and the self- immolation began.

Luckily, my pants were too wet to burst into flame but I did leap about quite a bit in a (Ital) danse macabre and so, despon-dent and without a glimpse of that trilo-bite, George and I tottered about for a bit and found a road. Fortuitously George’s truck had opted to move during the storm to that very road and, for the first time in ages, like its present owner, it started after only about six tries.

Old fossils in fossil country

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Dr Richard Hebda’s discussion of talk on BC’s fossil wealth on Wednesday, March 30, drew more than 150 people, packing the Royal Alexandra Hall at the Cranbrook History Centre. After his talk, Elisabeth Comfort (a long time area resident and fossil col-lector) presented some of her fossils to Dr. Hebda.

Letters to the editorFive days a week

Reasons Why I Want My Townsman from Monday to Friday!

At the outset I realize the futility of writ-ing this letter given that Black Press has al-ready made its decision in the best interests of their bottom line, however, as a local reader of the Townsman since the early 1980s I feel compelled to express my views in support of the continuation of my be-loved paper five (5) days of the week!

I went through some of the recent edi-tions and came up with this partial list that I enjoy reading, and look forward to, in my local paper:

‘Janus’, ‘Gwynne Dyer’, Mike Selby’s ‘Booknotes’, ‘It Happened this week in Cranbrook’, ‘Peter Warland’, ‘Carolyn Grant’, ‘Barry Coulter’, local nature photographer ‘Stewart Wilson’s pictures.

‘Letters to the Editor’, ‘Opinion pieces’, the ‘PolÍitical Cartoons’, ‘BC Views’ by Tom Fletcher.

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area, Science articles, Prehistory articles, Local News coverage of our community, events, and people of our community (births, marriages, obituaries, anniversa-ries), and, lastly, all of the store flyers (shop locally!)

Now what about the substantial human cost to the Townsman/Bulletin/Kootenay Advertiser workers? An automatic reduc-tion of 40 per cent in their pay, or, being forced to find other part-time jobs to keep their head above water? I doubt that Black Press has considered what impact their corporate decision will have on the em-ployees and their families of our communi-ty.

This is truly a sad time for community based newspapers.

And, for the record, I won’t be reading my newspaper on-line!

Chris JohnsCranbrook

thank you KimberleyAs President of the Kimberley Health

Auxiliary I was honored to represent all the hard working and deciated volunteers at the Opening of the ICU at the Cranbrook Regional Hospital. As an Auxiliary through

our thrift shops (both Kimberley and Marysville) we raised over $90,000.00 for Interior Health with a very healthy propor-tion of the monies going to ICU and along with other equipment that was needed at the Kimberley Health Care Centre.

As I was sitting there listening to all the CEO’s, MLA and other representatives speeches and congratulations to all the or-ganizations and government for their do-nations (which by the way was needed to make the opening of the ICU possible) It struck me that no one thanked the most important people of all being the people who frequent our two shops and support us with donations and buying our products. Our Thrift stores are our only source of rev-enue, we don’t have any other fundraisers to draw from unlike other organization.

Therefore I would like to thank all the people of Kimberley for all their donations to both shops and all the people who shop in our shops if it wasn’t for you we could not make donations that we do every year!

Thank you to the citizens of Kimberley and all our out of town visitors.

Jean MinifiePresident,

Kimberley Health Care Auxiliary

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ONGOINGThe Friends of the Kimberley Public Library used book store in Marysville is open Wed to Sat; 10:30 to 3:30 & Sunday 1:00 to 4:00. Noon every Wednesday, downtown United Church & Centre for Peace, the bells will call you to a time of calm. This is NOT church, rather it is a time to gather in a circle in a welcoming and harmonious space to practice the way of Taize. Wouldn’t you cherish a time to stop? to gather when the bells ring? to join with others in silence, in prayer, in meditative song?Masonic 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.Quilters meet in Kimberley on the 2nd Monday at Centennial Hall at 7:00 PM and the 4th Monday for sewing sessions in the United Church Hall at 10 Boundary Street.MILITARY AMES is a social/camaraderie/support group that meets the fi rst and third Tuesdays of the month in the Kimberley Public Library reading room. All veterans are welcome. For more information call Cindy @ 250 919 3137.Cranbrook Community Tennis Association welcomes all citizens to play or learn to play. Call Neil 250-489-8107, Cathy 250-464-1903.Cranbrook Phoenix Toastmasters meet every Thursday, noon -1:00 Heritage Inn. Toastmasters teaches communication & leadership skills. Roberta 250-489-0174. 1911.toastmastersclubs.org.Canadian 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.cancervolunteer.ca and register as a volunteer.Mark Creek Lions meet 1st and 3rd Wednesdays at the Kimbrook. Supper 6:15-6:45, meeting 7:00-8:00pm. Contact Larry 250-427-5612 or Bev 250-427-7722. New members welcome – men & ladies! The 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.Funtastic Singers meet every Tuesday 6:45 pm at the Cranbrook United Church (by Safeway). No experience necessary. Contact Cranbrook Arts, 250-426-4223.The Cranbrook Quilter’s Guild meet on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of every month, September - June, 7.15 p.m. at the Cranbrook Senior Citizens Hall, 125-17th Ave South. Interested??? Call Jennifer at 250-426-6045. We’re on Facebook and www.cranbrookquiltersguild.ca.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: cranbrookoa@hotmail.comEnjoy Painting? Join ArtGroup 75, Fridays 1pm-4pm, Sept. - June. Seniors Hall, Cranbrook. 125. 17th Ave. S.Hey Kimberley! We need you as Big Brothers and Big Sisters. One hour a week. YOU can make a diff erence in a Child’s life that will last a life time. Info: 250-499-3111.Royal Canadian Legion Branch 24; Friday Meat Draw: 4:30-6:30, Saturday Meat Draw: 3:30-5:30. BINGO at the Kimberley Elks – Mondays, 6:30 start. All welcome.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.

UPCOMINGWednesday April 6, 7 PM College of the Rockies Lecture Theatre GoGo Granny Travelogue with Allister Pedersen - Hawaii-The Big Island. Admission by donation to the GoGo Granny’s - supporting Grandmothers in sub sahara Africa.Anglican Church, 46-13th Ave. S. Annual Garage Sale. Saturday April 9th, 9am-noon. Plus Bake Sale sponsored by Anglican Church Youth Group.British Columbia Government Retired Employees Association, Rocky Mountain Branch, will be holding their luncheon meeting at the Heritage Inn on April 13th, 2016 at 12 noon. Our guest speaker will be Dave Morley talking about the Rotary Club. For further information call Ron Kerr at 250-432-0002.April 13. Kimberley Garden Club April Program: TBA. Selkirk High School Library 7-9 pm. New members welcome. For member info: Nola 250-427-1947; other information Marilee 250-427-0527.Kimberley Aquatic Centre FREE FAMILY SWIM: Wednesday, April 20, 6:00-7:00pm is sponsored by Stone Fire Pizzeria. Persons 18 years & younger must be accompanied by an adult.Art movie night presents “Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies“ Fri, Apr 22 at Studio 64, 7:30 pm. Admission by donation to Kimberley Arts Council/Centre 64. Light snacks provided. No host bar. Saturday April 23/16, 10:00 am to 3:00 pm; Open House at the Kootenay Trout Hatchery. Free event – fun and activities for the whole family.

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Injuries weighed heavily in Dynamiters playoff demiseBattle-worn Kimberley Dynamiters were battered, black & blue when final buzzer sounded to end KIJHL championship

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Captain Jason Richter (#40) was just one of many Kimberley Dynamiters playing through significant injury during the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League championship.

Taylor rocc aSports Editor

The Kimberley Dyna-miters never used inju-ries as an excuse for any-thing, even when their dreams of a repeat per-formance on the Koote-nay International Junior Hockey League’s biggest stage were dashed at the conclusion of a 2-1 loss in Game 5 of the league championship series Thursday night in 100 Mile House.

“It’s not an excuse, because everybody has injuries,” said Jerry Bancks, head coach of the Kimberley Dynamit-ers, following Game 5 of the KIJHL champion-ship Thursday in 100 Mile House. “The run we went on last year, in order for that to happen, you have to have some luck, you have to have some bounces, some timely goals, some time-ly saves, some crossbars and then you have to be healthy.

“Every team has their bangs and their bruises, but you’ve got to have some luck.”

Excuse or not, there is absolutely no question that a multitude of seri-ous injuries to key com-ponents weighed heavily into the Dynamiters de-mise against a rough-and-tumble 100 Mile House Wranglers squad that admittedly loved to “bang bodies” according to Brady Ward, a native of Prince Rupert, who tallied the champion-ship-clinching marker Thursday night with less than four minutes re-maining in regulation.

The number of walk-ing wounded began to grow as early as Novem-ber and with each hard-fought series, the bangs and bruises slowly be-came that much more severe.

Captain Jason Rich-ter sits at the top of the list. The 2015 KIJHL scoring champion suf-fered a dislocated rib in November, after which the team shut him down until the final weekend of the regular season.

“[Shutting him down] didn’t do any good because the first time he got hit he was right back to where he was,” Bancks said. “He persevered and these kids see that.

“I haven’t slept for probably three weeks now, because I wonder how long can this con-tinue? Every time you win a round, you know he has to go through it again. But it’s all part of the game. It’s a very, very important part of the game.”

Richter, a 19-year-old native of Cranbrook and commit to the Universi-ty of Jamestown’s fledg-ing American Collegiate Hockey Association’s Div. I program, had been getting frozen be-fore each game in order to play through the pain.

But for Game 5 of the KIJHL championship, the 5-foot-8 spitfire took a pass on the treatment and gutted it out to the final buzzer.

Midway through the third period, the Kim-berley captain was crunched along the boards at centre ice hard enough to send his hel-met flying to the playing surface. Calmly and without so much as a wince, Richter picked up his bucket, returned to the Dynamiters bench and after catching his wind, didn’t miss a shift.

“I’ve never seen a human being as tough as him,” Bancks said.

“That’s all he knows and people have no idea — what you see in games I get in every

practice. Every practice. Not once in a while. Not 90 per cent of the time. That’s what I get from him every practice.”

Despite the injury, Richter didn’t miss a beat during the post-season, leading his team in scoring with eight goals and 19 points through 19 games.

Most recently, de-fenceman Tyler Van Steinburg suffered an acromioclavicular (AC) separation during Game 4 of the KIJHL champi-onship. The AC joint forms where the collar-bone meets the highest point of the shoulder blade.

“He was given the okay,” Bancks said of Van Steinburg playing Game 5. “But I can promise you last year he wouldn’t have played had he not been around this group this year. But he went out and played.”

Prior to that, rugged defenceman Justin Meier — who watched Game 5 from the stands on crutches while wear-ing a heavy knee brace — suffered a torn ACL during Game 3 of the league championship and could face four to five months recovery time.

In Game 2 of the KIJHL championship, Revelstoke native Brodie Buhler suffered a sea-son-ending knee injury.

Veteran forward Jared Marchi was hampered by separated rib carti-lage since mid-February.

California product Keenan Haase suffered a separated shoulder early in the post-season.

“Our power play struggled, but if you’ve been following the se-ries, you’ll see that Keenan Haase and Jason Richter are the key shooters on our power play,” Bancks said. “Both

of them were injured and couldn’t shoot the puck like they’d like to. They couldn’t and that’s part of the reason we struggled on the power play.

“But you can’t not give them the opportu-nity. We talked a lot about taking Jason off the power play. But no, when you do what he has done for this organi-zation for all the time he’s been here, he gets the right to do that. I’ll go to the grave saying that was the right choice, because he deserves it.”

Defenceman Jordan Busch missed a game after being on the re-ceiving end of a check to the head in Game 3 of the Kootenay Confer-ence championship against the Beaver Val-ley Nitehawks.

After Game 3 of the Eddie Mountain Divi-sion semifinal, rookie forward James Rota was absent form the lineup and only seen around the rink with a cast on his arm.

Rookie forward Aus-tyn Moser missed time with an ankle injury.

Oft forgotten, even by many Dynamiters faith-ful, is the loss of defence-man Tristan Pagura and forward Jesse Wallace early on during the 2015-16 regular season.

Wallace was a vital member of the Dynamit-ers 2015 KIJHL champi-onship and Pagura was destined to be one of the league’s top puck-mov-ing defencemen, accord-ing to Bancks.

Playoff hockey is an all-out war at any level, and this season, the Dy-

namiters simply got the worst of it. But they never gave up.

“These stories will be there for Kimberley Minor Hockey and Cranbrook Minor Hock-ey as well,” Bancks said. “What these kids have done is kind of neat.”

While many of Bancks’ warriors are set to move on, each was critical in the capturing of the 2015 KIJHL cham-pionship followed by the league’s 2016 regular season crown.

There’s absolutely no reason for these kids to hang their heads as they helped remind junior hockey fans across the province what Kimber-ley Dynamiters hockey is all about. ‘

Matchsticks: Dyna-miters general manager Mike Reid confirmed Sunday afternoon that forward Keenan Haase (1996) has committed to the New England Col-lege Pilgrims NCAA Di-vision III hockey pro-gram for the 2016-17 season… Haase, a native of Mission Viejo, Calif., joins Tyson Brouwer, Eric Buckley, Justin Meier and Jason Richter as Dynamiters heading south of the border for college hockey come 2016-17. Brouwer, Buck-ley, Meier and Richter are all set to play for the University of Jamestown Jimmies (ACHA Div. I)… Defenceman Jordan Busch, 21, is also off to college as he is set to suit up for Concordia Uni-versity of Edmonton (ACAC)…

Fred GoodallAssociated Press

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Marcus Stroman outpitched Chris Archer in his first opening day start, helping the Toron-to Blue Jays begin de-fence of their AL East title with a 5-3 victory

over the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday.

Stroman allowed three runs and six hits over eight-plus innings for the Jays, who won 93 games in 2015 before making a run to the AL Championship Series in their first playoff appear-ance since 1993.

Troy Tulowitzki hit the first home run of the 2016 season, a two-run shot for Toronto. Edwin Encarnacion had two hits and drove in two runs after not having an at-bat in major league exhibition all spring be-cause of injuries.

The Blue Jays, the

highest-scoring team in the majors last year, struck quickly on Encar-nacion’s two-run single in the first.

Archer struck out a Rays opening-day re-cord 12 in five innings. But Encarnacion got him early and Kevin Pil-lar added an RBI single

in the fourth. The right-hander limited the Blue Jays to five hits, but walked three during a 107-pitch outing.

Evan Longoria had two hits and drove in Tampa Bay’s first run with a third-inning sin-gle. Corey Dickerson added a solo homer off

Stroman leading off the ninth and Kevin Kier-maier drove in the final run charged to the start-er with a bloop single off Roberto Osuna.

Osuna got the last three outs for the save.

At 24 years, 338 days old, Stroman became the third-youngest pitch-

er to make an opening day start for the Jays. He earned the assignment after making just four starts, going 4-0 with a 1.67 ERA, in 2015, when he missed most of the season after undergoing surgery on his left knee during spring training.

Stroman solid in first opening day start, Blue Jays beat Rays

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KIJHL CHampIonsHIp

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Kimberley Dynamiters head coach Jerry Bancks (right) watches the play alongside assistant coach Jeff Keiver (left) during Game 5 of the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League championship Thursday night at the South Cariboo Rec Centre in 100 Mile House.

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Above: Forward Eric Buckley (#12) keeps his eyes on a George Bertoia point shot in an attempt to redirect it past Wranglers goaltender Zane Steeves. Below: Rookie Korbyn Chabot (#26) protects the puck from Wranglers vet-eran Justin Bond (#17) during Game 5 of the KIJHL championship.

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Above: Forward Sawyer Hunt (#22) looks up ice during Game 5 of the KIJHL championship at the South Cariboo Rec Centre. Below: Goaltender Tyson Brouwer (#1) makes one of his many jaw-drop-ping saves during the third period of Game 5 of the KIJHL championship Thursday in 100 Mile House.

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Cranbrook RCMP received sev-eral reports from vehicle owners that the wrong license plate was on their vehicle. It appears that sometime overnight somebody took it upon themselves to play an early April Fools prank.

Police are following up with owners and returning license plates to the rightful owners. Po-lice ask you to take a quick look and ensure you have the right li-cense plate on your vehicle.

Suspects could be charged with Mischief, but more impor-tantly it could cause delays in an investigation if police aren’t able to quickly determine ownership. Also it could inconvenience driv-ers should they be stopped when the license plate doesn’t match the vehicle.

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BC Hydro is pleased to support the upcoming 2016 Association of Kootenay and Boundary Local Governments (AKBLG) conference with a $1,000 donation. Held from April 26 to 28 at the Kimberley Conference Centre, the AKBLG conference will bring together approximately 200 elected and appointed officials and senior staff from over 20 municipalities and four regional districts in southeastern British Columbia. BC Hydro’s Diane Tammen, Community Relations Manager, East Kootenay presented the donation to Kimberley Mayor Don McCormick on Monday, March 14.

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NDP leader John Horgan plans to renew his party’s call to get the “big money” out of B.C. politics, after collecting his own share at a $5,000-a-plate breakfast in Toronto this week.

Horgan’s fundraiser came as NDP critics were accusing Premier Christy Clark of selling access to her govern-ment, most recently with a $10,000-a-plate private dinner in Van-couver.

Horgan said when the legislature session resumes next week, he intends to re-introduce a bill to ban all corpo-rate and union dona-

tions to political parties. It will be the fifth time the NDP has called for the change, which would restrict political parties to individual do-nations only.

Clark, whose B.C. Liberal Party reaps far more in corporate do-nations than the NDP typically receives from unions, now says she wants “real time” disclo-sure of donations to par-ties, and will ask B.C.’s Chief Electoral Officer to make that change.

Both parties have fol-lowed the letter of the current law, which re-quires annual disclo-sure. In election years, it means voters don’t get full information on who

has financed campaigns until after the election.

“They should hap-pen throughout the year,” Clark said Thurs-day. “It would help make the process more transparent.”

Horgan replied that greater transparency avoids the issue of pri-vate access to govern-ment decision-makers in exchange for big do-nations. He said the NDP will continue to follow the current law and make only annual disclosures until the rules change for every-one.

“If [Clark] was genu-ine about taking big money out, or the ac-cess question or the in-

fluence question, she could support our pri-vate member’s bill or she could bring one of her own forward,” Hor-gan said.

Alberta NDP Premier Rachel Notley banned corporate and union donations as soon as her government was elected last year, but has since faced criticism for participating in private gatherings with individ-uals paying $5,000 or more to attend.

Parties fight over fundraisers

Tom FleTcherBlack Press

The B.C. government’s new training and employment pro-gram for single parents on in-come assistance has grown to 2,500 applicants in its first five months.

Social Development Minister Michelle Stilwell said she is en-couraged by the continued growth of applicants, with 60 to 100 people per week applying at WorkBC employment centres. The majority are women, and most are required to seek em-ployment as a condition of assis-tance once their children are three years or older.

“One of the good things that I

see is that about two thirds of those clients who have come for-ward have employment obliga-tions, but one third are not actu-ally obligated to look for work, and they are looking for work,” Stilwell said.

The program covers tuition, daycare and transportation costs for up to a year of on-the-job training or education towards in-demand jobs for single parents on social assistance or disability payments. The benefits can con-tinue for up to the first year of employment, including exten-sion of government-paid dental and other health benefits.

It replaces the previous sys-tem, often referred to as the wel-

fare trap, where single parents would lose their assistance pay-ments and benefits if they went back to school to train for a job.

According to the ministry’s lat-est monthly report, 179 single parents have started jobs since the program began Sept. 1. More than 200 have started training programs.

The largest work category for training is nurse aides and order-lies in health care facilities, where employment counsellors have identified jobs are available.

Other skills in demand are of-fice administration, industrial trades and truck and heavy equipment operation.

Minister nixes lower speed limits, photo radar

Single parent employment growing

To m F l e Tc h e rBlack Press

Transportation Min-ister Todd Stone has ruled out a return of photo radar and lower-ing urban speed limits to help reduce motor vehicle fatalities.

Provincial Health Officer Perry Kendall recommends in a new report that urban areas should have a default speed limit of 30 km/h to protect pedestrians and cyclists from fatal collisions.

Safer roads and ve-hicles have reduced fa-talities for vehicle oc-cupants by almost 80 per cent in the past 40 years, but the death rate for pedestrians has remained stubbornly high, and cyclist fatali-ties have gone up as more people take to bikes in urban areas,

the report says.Kendall said when a

pedestrian is struck by a car travelling 50 km/h, the chances of survival are only 20 per cent. When the vehicle speed is reduced to 30, a pedestrian has about a 90 per cent chance of surviving a direct im-pact.

The current default speed limit for streets in B.C. is 50 km/h, and that includes urban streets where vehicles may be parked on both sides and drivers have little time to see a pe-destrian stepping out. Currently municipali-ties have to post signs to establish a lower limit for any selected street.

Stone said Thursday the idea of lowering de-fault municipal speed limits from 50 to 40 was

debated at last year’s Union of B.C. Munici-palities convention, and “quite resounding-ly defeated.” He said there would have to be a significant change in position of local gov-ernments before he would consider it.

The report also rec-ommends the province consider returning to photo radar speed en-forcement, and Stone restated the B.C. gov-ernment’s long-stand-ing position against it.

“We believe there are more effective tech-nologies that can be employed, and frankly a better way to utilize precious police re-sources than to resur-rect what was largely a failed photo radar pro-gram that was nothing more than a tax grab for British Columbians,”

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nologies is electronic

speed limit signs that can be changed re-motely to reflect weath-er conditions.

Stone said the min-

istry is close to activat-ing its first three loca-tions for electronic speed enforcement, on Highway 1 west of Rev-

elstoke, Highway 5 north of Hope and Highway 99 between Squamish and Whis-tler.

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