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ANNALEE GRANTTownsman Staff

A group of six Cran-brook teachers who claim they were poi-soned by mercury during their time at Mount Baker Secondary School were vindicated Tuesday as a Supreme Court Justice granted them a new court-or-dered compensation board hearing.

In a tersely worded decision from a Vancou-ver Supreme Court room, Justice A. Saun-ders said the decision handed down by the Worker’s Compensation Appeal Tribunal in Sep-tember, 2010 was unfair.

“It was manifestly unfair to the petitioners. The panel’s conclusion was patently unreason-able,” Saunders wrote in his ruling.

B.C. Teacher’s Feder-ation president Susan Lambert is lauding the move that she says has taken too long.

“It’s a long time com-ing,” Lambert told the Townsman. “It’s a good ruling. It’s a strong rul-

ing. That’s very strong language from a Justice.”

Saunders ordered the case be sent back to the WCAT for another hear-ing, where the teachers will go through the pro-cess all over again. The teachers spurred the Su-preme Court case after filing a judicial review in June of this year.

The WCAT found in 2010 that the teachers did not suffer mercury poisoning at Mount Baker.

“The panel found that the evidence was in-sufficient to establish that the workers suffered from mercury poison-ing,” the ruling said. “The workers did not have an occupational disease due to the na-ture of their employ-ment.”

Lambert said the six teachers began noticing symptoms of mercury poisoning in 2004 and 2005, and have been fighting to be covered by the Worker’s Compen-sation Board ever since.

Teachers who claimed

mercury poisoning get new hearing

ANNALEE GR ANTTownsman Staff

The City of Cranbrook is warning residents to stay clear of Elizabeth and Idlewild Lakes for skating purposes due to thin ice.

But fear not, Cranbrook, there is plenty of free skating

opportunities coming up in the next few months.

Chris Zettel, corporate communications officer for the City of Cranbrook said the ice is not yet firmed up enough to allow for winter skating.

“Ice is beginning to form on both lakes at Idlewild Park and

at Elizabeth Lake, as well as the area creeks and streams,” Zettel said. “With the warmer temperatures we’ve seen the past few weeks, the ice is thin and is not safe to be on.

For now, residents are being asked to stay clear.

“We are asking parents and

kids to please stay off all the outdoor ice for your own safe-ty,” Zettel said.

City staff is keeping an eye on the situation and an an-nouncement will be made once the ice is thick enough.

Fill your skates with indoor ice

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Ralph Sultan, BC Minister of State for Seniors, takes a moment from his duties take pose for a photo with fellow server Lourdes Roxas Butalid of Cranbrook. The Minister, MLA for West Vancouver-Capilano, was helping out at the annual Seniors Dinner at the Colombo Lodge on Wednesday, Dec. 5. The dinner, put on by the Colombo Lodge and Rotary Club, is the larg-est gathering of seniors in southeastern B.C., and features food preparation and service by Rotarians, Colombo Lodge mem-bers, City Councillors and other dignitaries. Minister Sultan himself was touring the East Kootenay listening to seniors’ con-cerns. He spent Tuesday in the Elk Valley Communities of Fernie, Sparwood and Elkford. On Wednesday he was in Invermere and Kimberley, and Thursday in Cranbrook. Sultan is the first such Minister of State — the Ministry was created by Premier Christy Clark earlier this fall.

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Big Brothers Big Sis-ters of Canada will cele-brate its centennial next year, and the Cranbrook branch is joining in the celebrations.

2013 marks 100 years that Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada has been providing mentor-ing programs for young people, both one-to-one and in groups.

Cranbrook’s chapter began in 1977 and by 2011 it had grown to 108 matches between a mentor and a youth.

“In the beginning, it was a group of volun-teers who felt it was re-ally important, and they were the ones making it happen,” said Dana Osiowy, executive di-rector of Cranbrook’s Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS).

“The movement has really grown and be-come far more devel-oped.”

Now BBBS is prepar-ing for a year-long cen-tennial celebration. The national organization will publish a book of mentoring stories, it will

have a stamp in its hon-our, and it provide a unique opportunity for Canadians to talk about the mentors in their own lives.

“Across Canada, the conversation will be about who was your mentor,” said Osiowy. “Everyone will be talking about who has made that change in your life. I am really ex-cited about that.”

In January, BBBS will release a multi-year re-search project on the effects of mentoring on children.

“It will be one of the most comprehensive studies ever done on the subject,” said Osio-wy.

Also part of centen-nial celebrations, BBBS will release marketing research surveys on an-ti-bullying, youth social consciousness, aca-demic success and civic engagement. It will hold a national youth summit in April, and a national mentoring symposium in Novem-ber.

September 18 will be

Big Brother Big Sister Day, supported with community events across Canada.

To mark the centen-nial of Big Brothers Big Sisters in 2013, the Cranbrook Daily Townsman will feature the inspiring stories of several partnerships that have grown through the program over its 35 years in Cranbrook. Starting in January, you can read regular profiles of men-tors and children en-rolled in the program.

Mentors making a differenceBig Brothers Big Sisters of Canada celebrates 100 years of helping children

annalee Gr antTownsman Staff

The Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy have a received a little help from the provincial government to provide programs to adult and family learners in the community.

The provincial gov-ernment announced $30,000 in funding for adult literacy programs and $40,000 for family

programs last week. The funding across

the province totalled $2.4 million for 68 com-munity-based literacy programs for 2012 and 2013 through the Com-munity Adult Literacy Program. That means 6,400 B.C. residents will have accessed to literacy programs when they need it.

Each literacy group like CBAL uses the fund-ing to provide worth-while services including one-on-one tutoring, small classes and pro-grams that target adults, Aboriginal learners, young parents and oth-ers.

“Literacy is essential to an individual’s self-esteem and produc-tivity,” said MLA for Kootenay East Bill Ben-nett. “It enhances per-sonal life, family life, and community life. I am proud to be part of a government that invests in adult literacy pro-grams and contributes to the improved daily life of our citizens and their families.”

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Police and emergency personnel are pictured at the scene of a two vehicle collision Wednesday morning, Dec. 5. A 52-year-old woman succumbed to injuries at the scene.

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A 52-year-old woman from Creston was killed in a vehicle collision early Wednesday morning, on Highway 3 south of Cran-brook.

Corp. Shayne Parker of East Kootenay Traffic Ser-vices told media at the scene that extremely icy roads were likely the cause of the accident.

He said members of East

Kootenay Traffic Services and the Cranbrook RCMP detachment responded to reports of a two-vehicle collision about 7:30 a.m. about five kilometres south of Cranbrook.

Police determined that the minivan, heading northbound towards Cran-brook, crossed the centre line and struck a dump truck.

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sustained minor injuries and was eventually treated at hospital. But the passen-ger was trapped in the ve-hicle, and died at the scene while emergency person-nel were trying to extract

her. The driver of the truck was unhurt.

The RCMP also said in a press release that speed relative to road conditions was a factor in the acci-dent.

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C arolyN Gr aNtDaily Bulletin

While Christmas day is still several weeks away, the Christmas season itself is upon us. That means office par-ties and visiting friends and neighbours.

That also means there will be an in-creased awareness by police and increased check stops to check for impaired drivers.

BC has tough im-paired driving laws and stats do indicate that has saved lives.

The province esti-mates 104 lives have been saved since the immediate roadside prohibition (IRP) sys-tem took effect in Sep-tember 2010.

There are peak times when RCMP focus on impaired driving, such as long weekends and the Christmas season, though it is on the minds of members at all times.

“RCMP conduct road checks throughout the year. The focus of

these checks is im-paired drivers although we look for other infrac-tions and offences as well,” said Cpl. Chris Newel of the Kimberley RCMP.

“During the festive season more road checks are used to in-crease awareness so everybody can enjoy a safe and enjoyable holiday.”

This December marks the 35th anni-versary of the Counter-Attack program and ICBC is once again supporting its police partners in the preven-tion of impaired driv-ing during the holiday season.

ICBC reports that despite tougher laws and the annual Coun-terAttack program see-ing reductions in im-paired-related crashes, drinking and driving is still the leading crimi-nal cause of death and remains one of the leading causes of fatal collisions.

The CounterAttack

campaign reminds the public to plan ahead during holiday celebra-tions and choose a safe way home.

Plan your safe ride home before you start drinking. If you’re going to drink, make the smart

choice: choose a desig-nated driver before going out.

Use other safe alter-natives to get home safely: call a taxi, take transit, use a shuttle service, or call a sober friend.

“You’re doing it in failing health and initially their concerns were dis-missed,” Lambert said. “The impact was serious on their health and has robbed them of the ability to enjoy life.”

The symptoms of mercury poison-ing include fatigue, headaches, joint pain, respiratory problems, tremors, weight loss, memory loss, insomnia, and irritability.

Lambert said the BCTF did an enormous amount of work to investi-gate the claims made by the teachers. Cranbrook and District Teachers Asso-ciation president Wendy Turner said in 2010 that the teachers did not enter into these allegations lightly.

“It wasn’t a run of the mill case,” Lambert said. “It was a very unique situation – I mean I hope it’s a unique situation in the province.”

Lambert worries about the stu-dents who were potentially exposed to mercury as well, but said teachers spent a much larger percentage of their time in the classrooms.

“The teachers had to live in these classrooms, and had to live in them year after year,” she said.

Following the BCTF’s claims, School District 5 underwent a $200,000 investigation into the mercury situa-tion at Mount Baker, and conducted some upgrades. Bill Gook, superinten-dent at the time of the allegations, said in 2010 that he hoped the WCAT ruling would prove that Mount Baker is safe for students and staff.

Lambert said the BCTF is “abso-lutely not” happy with SD5’s response, and said the federation should not have had to take their claims as far as they have.

“The fact that we had to go to this length – to the Supreme Court of B.C.,” she said.

Lambert said the teachers’ con-cerns were initially dismissed by SD5, and it was a struggle to get to this point. She wonders if the six teachers have any fight left in them after years of health issues and legal wrangling.

“I’m not sure how much energy they have left to work on this file,” she said.

If the WCAT hearing goes ahead without an appeal from SD5, the teachers will have to repeat a process they completed in 2010.

Six teachers get new compensation hearing

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It was a birthday party to remember for T.M. Roberts Elementa-ry students on Novem-ber 30. There was cake, party games and face painting, but perhaps the best part of the entire event was pulling the lid open on one of the school’s time capsules.

Cranbrook’s largest elementary school cele-brated its 50th anniver-sary last week. The school celebrated with the ultimate children’s birthday party, but it acted as a reunion for former staff, both retired and still teaching in Cranbrook.

The event came about thanks to Dave Humphrey, former prin-cipal of the school in the ‘90s, and a local histori-an. He was of course in attendance along with other long-time staff members. Humphrey generously donated a staff jacket from the school’s 30th anniversa-ry to put in the new time capsule being created by students this year for the 100th anniversary of the school.

Aldo attending were Superintendent of School District 5 Bendi-

na Miller, trustees Trina Ayling, Gayle Brown, Ol-ivia Bessanger and fami-ly members of the school’s first Principal, Jack Allen.

The students got a special message from re-cently departed princi-pal Jason Ludwar, who provided a video mes-sage to wish the school a happy birthday.

Students pulled out a number of items from the time capsule includ-ing a paint set, an issue of the Cranbrook Daily Townsman dated De-cember 10, 1973, a toothbrush and other school supplies. Each item had a note attached to it.

The students took particular interest in a penny that was removed from the capsule, as the Canadian Mint has an-nounced this year that it will be phased out of cir-culation.

Jack Sandburg, who was the school’s first Grade 5 teacher when it opened in 1962, said the school has gone through many changes over the years. He remembers starting out at Amy Woodlands Elementary for the first 10 weeks of the 62/63 school year when the T.M. Roberts

building wasn’t ready yet. The schools split their time in half, with Amy Woodland attend-ing in the morning, and T.M. Roberts students in the afternoon. Sandburg said the switch over at lunch time was a bit hectic.

“Teachers were eager to get in because we had to get our chalkboards worked on,” he said.

When the students finally got into the T.M. Roberts building ahead of the official opening, Sandburg said painting was still underway, but the construction crews were careful to create a quiet workspace for the students.

“They did very little in the classrooms when we were teaching,” he said.

One big change that Sandburg remembers is that there were no class size limits. His first Grade 5 class had 42 stu-dents. But discipline and expectations were differ-ent, and Sandburg said it would be comparable to what teachers see today in their classes.

“The boys and girls were so well behaved,” he said, noting in that regard things haven’t changed, but demands on teachers have in-creased. “There’s just as many nice girls and boys as there are now.”

Karin Robinson, who taught at T.M. Roberts in the ‘70s and still teaches Kindergarten, agrees.

“We have way more needs that we have to meet,” she said.

Every Christmas, T.M. Roberts would put on elaborate Christmas concerts and drama productions. Sandburg said he misses those theatre shows, and wish-es they would have con-tinued.

“I think we’ve lost something there,” he said. “It was an awful pile of work, but worth it.”

The school was origi-

T.M. Roberts School peers into history

nally only eight rooms, and over the years it ex-panded to the back. Robinson remembers two portables being placed outside the school before the expan-sion took place.

The gym doubled in size and the playground equipment changed as safety regulations did. Before the most import-ant pieces of playground equipment were the baseball diamond, see saws and soccer pitch.

Robsinson said the computer lab is of course new, and class size has been reduced significantly over the years. she has also en-

joyed the increased training for teachers and professional develop-ment days that have been added.

“The five profession-al development days that we have are so valu-able,” she said. “You ad-dress the issues of the day, it’s like putting out fires.”

Principals taught every day, and there was a teacher on staff called the “relieving teacher” who stepped in when the principal had ad-ministrative duties.

Sandburg said stu-dents came from the west side of Cranbrook including Wattsville

Road, Jim Smith Lake, Gyro Park and Slater-ville. Now T.M. Roberts attracts students from all over town because of the French Immersion pro-gram.

For both Robinson and Sandburg, the best part of their careers in educations has been the students they teach.

Sandburg remem-bers being busy helping students towards the end of class one day, and two older students offer-ing to help de-escalate a bullying situation. They successfully did, taking the bullying victim under their wing.

“I felt really good,”

Sandburg said, reflect-ing on the leadership shown by the students. “It stuck with me for 50 years.”

Robinson said no two days are the same, and no two classes are the same each year.

“Teaching is an ad-venture every day. You laugh all the time, that’s the beautiful part of teaching. The children are so open and honest,” she said. “The children change, the curriculum changes: I don’t have to move. Every class has its own dynamics.

“It’s a career that I’ve been lucky to have.”

AnnAlee GrAnt photo

T.M Roberts Vice-Principal Mike Taylor gets some student aid in checking out the contents of a time capsule at the school’s 50th annversary celebration Friday, Nov. 30.

“Our Public Works depart-ment does check the ice thick-ness at Idlewild Park on a regu-lar basis,” Zettel said. “The ice must be at least six inches thick before it is considered safe to be on.”

The city also has daily up-

dates available for residents to check at Western Financial Place. The latest ice conditions are available through Leisure Services by calling (250) 489-0220. Thin Ice signs will remain in place at Idlewild and Eliza-beth lakes until the situation is safe.

For now, indoor skating op-portunities are plentiful. Thanks to the Kin Club of Cranbrook, there will be free skate times throughout the month, including on Christmas Eve. Free skating times are Sundays from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., Wednesdays 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

and Fridays 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. On December 24, 27 through 31, and January 2 to 4 times will be 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

For more details visit www.westernfinancialplace.com, and click on Kin Club Public Skating Schedule, or call Lei-sure Services.

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Hot on the heels of a successful production of Steel Magnolias, Cran-brook Community The-atre (CCT) is bringing a classic story with a twist to the Studio/Stage Door in December.

“It’s a Wonderful Life, the Live Radio Show” transports the audience to Studio B in Manhattan where they take part in a live read-ing of the beloved Christmas tale “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Audi-ence members are in for a treat as each actor reads the lines of several characters from the film. On-stage sound effects and commercial jingles are re-created by the cast, setting the scene of this popular radio sta-tion in the 1940s and en-gaging the audience as though they are part of the performance.

When director Terry Miller was asked why he would want to revive “It’s a Wonderful Life, the Live Radio Show” merely two years after he originally presented it, he replied by listing off a long list of contrib-uting factors.

“First was the obser-vation that Christmas is interlaced with a wide variety of tradition,” Miller said. “There are many styles of tradition involving the arts, in-cluding entertainment like movies, plays, choirs and even ballet.

“Then, ‘Wonderful Life’ is such a good story, it is sometimes so important to be remind-

them play the very inter-esting, emotion-filled roles of George and Mary Bailey who are the lead characters of the story. These roles are what anchors the rest of the story. The other three actors play about 25 characters amongst them, an extremely challenging undertak-ing.

“I told these multi-character actors that this is both the easi-est and most difficult acting role they will ever take on. And I have to say that these five actors are at the top of their

games, especially be-cause they also do all of the sound effects for this 1946 radio broadcast.”

Miller said that this experience has a little more weight because it is so different from the very recent production of “Steel Magnolias.”

“Theatre audiences will get the true enjoy-ment of another great show immediately fol-lowing a similarly high quality production.”

Running for just 6 nights on December 7, 8, 12, 13, 14 and 15 at the Studio/Stage Door in Cranbrook, you don’t

want to miss the oppor-tunity to see some of this area’s finest talent, including Sean Swin-wood, Peter Schalk, Sio-ban Staplin, David Popoff, and Jennifer In-glis.

Tickets for “It’s a Wonderful Life, the Live Radio Show” are $13 for CCT members or $15 for non-members and are available at Lotus Books and at the door.

Get into the holiday spirit this Christmas season and join us for a performance of this much-loved story.

ed that our place in the world is not without consequence. This story deserves to be told over and over again. And, it’s

an odd bit of theatre. Theatre is the most fun when we work slightly outside of the normal boundaries. There are

so, so many ways to tell a story.”

Miller said it’s also a very important piece for the actors. “Two of

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Above, left to right: , Peter Schalk, Jennifer Inglis and Sean Swinwood in a scene from “It’s a Wonderful Life, the Live Radio Show.”

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2012

Aren’t we all agog with the news of the royal pregnancy? Kate is expecting, and we subjects of the British Em-

pire are rapt.Her morning sickness has pushed out

of the way the news of Syrian civil war, so-called fiscal cliffs, NHL lock-outs and the pipes groaning beneath our feet.

To be fair, this news is of some small historical im-port. The child will ulti-mately be third in line to the Throne of the United Kingdom, presuming that the constitutional rules are rejigged so that if it is a girl, she will inherit even if she eventually has younger brothers.

Again, this moment is only of small historical import. We have to ask ourselves if there will even be a throne for the child to inherit when his or her time comes.

The House of Windsor have most other clans beat when it comes to longevity. Some say it’s because of the Royal family’s Japanese diet. Others say it’s because of the genetic stock inserted by the late Queen Mother’s family, the Bowes-Lyons, doncha know. The Queen’s mother died at age 101. People say that, accordingly, sub-sequent generations of Windsors will all be an equally long-lived bunch.

Let’s apply a little morbid arithmetic, estimating that all members of the House of Windsor who are in line to the throne will achieve centenarian status. After all, people are living long these days. With more focus of personal health, more

awareness of proper nutrition, advances in modern and naturopathic medicine and more comfortable standards of living, more and more of us can reasonably ex-pect to reach 100 years of age, unless fate intervenes.

Thus, Queen Elizabeth at age 86 can expect to reign over us for another 14 years or so. This will make the now 64-year-old Charles 78 when he as-cends the throne, and he shall be our head of state for a further 22. William

Duke of Cambridge, now 30, would be a relatively youthful 66 (and by then, 66 will be the new 46, as they say) when he is crowned King William V. His 36-year-old son or daughter will be on hand to cele-brate this coronation, perhaps thinking ahead to when he or she ascends the throne at age 70 or so, to become the 15th monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, which was formed in 1707.

For the record, I will be 120 years of age at this point — and probably still late with my City utilities bill.

A lot of history can happen in 70 years. The demographics of Britain and the for-mer empire are changing. The world as a whole is becoming more democratic and more pragmatic. We peasants are less in-clined to spend our money on pomp and circumstance, to enable an archaic aristo-cratic minority to maintain a life of ex-treme privilege based on symbolism and outmoded, decrepit tradition.

Even in Britain there has been consid-erable republican sentiment since forever. The countries that now make up Great Britain were even a republic for a short while, though that whole Oliver Cromwell experiment didn’t work out that well. Sup-port for getting rid of the monarchy has ebbed and flowed — mostly ebbed, ever since. At present, it is reckoned about 13 per cent of Brits would support becoming a republic — i.e., getting rid of the monar-chy. Not enough support for a peaceful revolution.

In the 15 countries where the Queen is still “head of state,” republican sentiment is higher. In Australia, the percentage fa-vouring going republic consistently runs above 40 per cent. In Canada, it hovers around the same.

However, even though we are all fully aware of the disconnect of the monarchy from the day-to-day lives of the rest of us, even though an inherited position of su-periority based on ancestry alone is ridic-ulous in modern context, it is true that the magic of a royal progress can still move the most jaded republican heart. Especially if royals in question are young, beautiful and newly wed. William and Kate’s visit to Canada last year (especially Kate’s) proved that.

By the same token, it seems a matter of fact that for the next three generations, the British monarch will be taking his or her place on the throne in autumn of his or her years. After a while, the magic will be gone, and the world, England and the for-mer colonies will move on.

The magic is fading, slowly but surely

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December 5, 2011, was the inaugura-tion of the newly elected Mayor and Council. At that meeting I talked about accountability and my commitment to provide you with an Annual Report Card comparing what I said I was going to do and what has been accomplished. Here is a short summary limited by column space.

An Empowered Community• Encourage, welcome and respect di-

verse viewpoints.We have welcomed and

worked with, the disabled community, businesses, developers and individu-als with a variety of con-cerns and issues. The feedback has been very positive — people know that they can bring their perspectives to the Mayor’s office and leave with the knowledge that they are valued.

• Meet one on one with citizens on weekends.

One Saturday afternoon per month I meet people at coffee shops around town at times and locations advertised in ad-vance.

• Encourage our local radio station to set up a hotline phone-in show.

Once a month I do five minute com-munity updates on both radio stations as they did not support a phone-in format.

• Reinstate Brown Bag Meetings.Hour long Brown Bag meetings are

held once a month in Council Chambers and you’re invited to bring a lunch and share any concerns that you may have.

A Stronger Economy• Provide incentives for business to

invest downtown.We have implemented the Downtown

Revitalization Tax Exemption By-law.• Encourage development within city

limits.Business Licences totalled 1477 to the

end of October, already up 12% over all of 2011, and the value of Building Permits was $28,834,476 which is a 38.5% in-crease over 2011.

• Work with the Downtown Business Association and the Chamber of Com-merce to develop new initiatives.

The Chamber has been asked to pro-vide Council with a report on Barriers to Business in Cranbrook.

We supported the Downtown Busi-ness Association’s request to use 10th Avenue for their Street Fairs and ap-proved free parking downtown for Black Friday.

• Make Cranbrook desirable for high-tech and knowledge based industries.

We need to work on this in 2013 and 2014. I have started a list of com-panies to call and would appreciate hearing your suggestions. For example, we need a men’s clothing

store…• Support local contractors in city de-

velopments.I have asked CABDA to educate us on

improvements that we can make to en-courage development and have met with developers to discuss potential projects. I would like to organize a workshop in 2013 with local contractors to help build knowledge on bidding on city contracts.

• Employment for Youth at a Living Wage.

Keeping our kids in Cranbrook re-quires both an attractive lifestyle, which we have, and employment at a reason-able wage. I’d appreciate your help with this in 2013/2014.

A More Attractive Cranbrook• A full time horticulturalist.We have hired an Arborist/Horticul-

turist on staff to work with city staff, vol-unteers and businesses.

• Establish a Committee to improve Hwy 3 through Cranbrook.

The committee has been established and will begin meeting shortly.

• Create attractive entrances to town.Work has begun on the Elizabeth Lake

entrance improvements which will fea-ture a spectacular Welcome to Cranbrook sign.

Support for Arts and Culture• Council has increased funding for

the Arts Council and are looking for a permanent home for the Arts.

• We celebrated special events with the Filipino and Métis community and are working to firm up relationships with cities in South Korea and China.

A Better Environment• Council provided additional funding

to fight invasive weeds, worked with groups interested in the well-being of Jo-seph Creek, and have supported initia-tives brought forward by Wildsight relat-ed to woodstoves and reducing house-hold waste.

Prudent Fiscal Management• Committed to not increasing proper-

ty taxes more than the cost of living plus 2%. The Inflation Rate in 2011 was 2.9% for Canada and 2.47% for B.C. The 2012 property tax increase in Cranbrook was 4.51%

Support for YouthWe are making progress on getting

youth on every committee of council, and I was part of an ad hoc committee that secured $100,000 from the Columbia Basin Trust for youth initiatives over the next four years.

Improving Social ServicesCranbrook is one of seven communi-

ties in BC working on poverty reduction pilot projects. We have applied for federal funding to improve several aspects of our community for the disabled.

Progress is being made on implement-ing what I said I would do when I was elected as your Mayor. The people of Cranbrook and Council have been great to work with and I encourage you to con-tinue to provide your ideas to us and to share in making our city an even better place to live. Thank-you for a great first year as your Mayor!!

P.S. There is still lots to do, and I’ll focus on that in my next article!

Wayne Stetski is Mayor of CranbrookThe opinions expressed are those of

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editorial donnybrookAs I read Dave McGrath’s Tuesday,

Dec. 4 letter, I was struck by two things:In regard to the argument that “Norm

explains his primary role is to spout a nonstop smear campaign against the BC Liberal Party”, one only needs to read the column put in the paper by the MLA of our southern neighbour, Bill Bennett, to see what a real publicly funded smear campaign looks like.

Mr. McGrath must have a difficult time remembering the political reality in B.C. for the past 11 years.

How can Mr. McGrath glamorize Doug Clovechok’s “brag list”, when he has never held the political office of MLA? If we are to be guided by the track-record of Clove-chok’s party – that is the BC Liberal Party – we need to consider the following:

Supports Education: Does larger class sizes, unproductive labour talks with teachers, and cutting Special Education funding mean supporting education?

What about closing schools?Strong Communities: A slash in fund-

ing for women’s centers, social workers, and other grassroots organizations; cut-ting funding for community outreach workers, mental health and addictions support and services, domestic violence programs, and autism programs; narrow-ing the restrictions for Social Assistance eligibility while increasing the time peo-ple have to wait for help and failing to raise rates. Let’s not forget about the clo-sure of hospitals, courthouses, and a slash to legal aid funding and support.

Opportunities for Families: According to the 2012 Child Poverty Report, B.C. ranked 2nd for Child Poverty in Canada. Poverty advocates have made 15 recom-mendations in the 2012 Child Poverty Report Card. Meanwhile Premier Clark is still touting her “Families First Agenda” while offering little in the way of actual policy change.

Initiatives That Create Jobs:

Is this what offering 201 work Visas to Chinese temporary workers is called? What about tearing up contracts with the HEU, and and privatizing the positions. While we are on the topic about privatiza-tion, lets think about B.C. Rail, B.C. Gas, and what the Liberals want to do with B.C. Hydro.

It seems that Mr. McGrath is mpressed with Doug Clovechok’s efforts to “rebuke socialism...”, yet he is arguing that Clove-chok is fighting for the fundamental be-liefs of socialism (universal health care, universal education, senior care, etc).

Come election day, I will proudly have my white and orange lawn sign up, be-cause I know that Norm MacDonald actu-ally cares about my family, not how he can make a dollar off of my back – or sell my back to the highest bidder!

Jean McDougallKimberley

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Kootenay Ice forward Collin Shirley focuses on the play while being shadowed by Curtis Lazar of the Edmonton Oil Kings during a game at Western Financial Place this season. Shirley has been named to Team West and will compete in the World U17 Hockey Challenge.

Ice forward named to Team WestTRE VOR CR AWLEY

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Kootenay Ice for-ward Collin Shirley will be off to Quebec to compete for Team West in the World U17 Hock-ey Challenge over the Christmas break.

Shirley, 16, is repre-senting the Kootenay Ice for the second straight year, as Jon Martin, Spencer Wand (now retired), Sam Re-inhart and Jaedon De-scheneau competed in the same tournament last year.

The young rookie found out about mak-ing the roster when his family got an email back home in Saska-toon.

“It’s pretty exciting, I guess I didn’t really know if I made it so my mom gave me a call and

I was pretty excited,” said Shirley.

“…It was one of my goals after playing U16, the next step was obvi-ously here, and U17, so I’m really excited and happy to be there.”

The World U17 Hockey Challenge is a 10-team international tournament featuring five regions in Canada (Pacific, West, Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic) along with squads from Finland, Russia, United States, Sweden and Slo-vakia.

Team West is usually in tough during the event, with a bronze medal being their high-est finish in the last five years.

High level hockey can be a small fraterni-ty, and five other play-ers on the roster hail

from Saskatoon, which will add some familiari-ty as Shirley noted he knows a couple of his teammates.

“It’ll be good to see them, catch up and stuff, so I’m looking for-ward to it,” he said.

Shirley joins 13 other WHLers on the roster, which is coached by Don MacGillivray, who leads the Winnipeg Blues in the MJHL.

Being thrown into the mix of all that kind of talent is nothing new to Shirley.

“We have a few prac-tices beforehand, so we’ll figure things out,” said Shirley. “But every-thing, you kind of gotta go into it and work with what you got. Hopefully we’ll gel pretty quick and we’ll see how it goes.”

Martin was one of four Ice players to par-ticipate in the tourna-ment last year as he suited up for Team West as well, which finished at the bottom of a strong pool that included the United States, Russia and Team Pacific.

“It was great,” said Martin. “It was a fun time against all those other countries and some of the best hockey at that age group.”

While teams win or lose based on their abil-ity to come together, the international event is also a good measuring stick to see how indi-viduals stack against each other, added Mar-tin.

“It was good to see where you were at and to see how other coun-tries play—it was great,”

he said.Also participating in

the tournament is Cranbrook native Pay-ton Lee, a goaltender who plays for the Van-couver Giants. Lee, 16, is a highly touted pros-pect who will man the crease for Team Pacific during the event. Lee, who started the season in the PIJHL, is em-broiled in a three-way battle for starting duties with the Vancouver Gi-ants.

WHL NOTES: Prince George Cougars cap-tain Brock Hirsche has retired following sea-son-ending shoulder surgery. Hirsche, 20, was limited to just eight games last year while struggling through an-other injury, and only suited up for 18 con-tests this season.

Nitros edge out 4-3 win against Rockets

TRE VOR CR AWLEYSports Editor

The Kimberley Dy-namiters edged out a 4-3 win against the vis-iting Golden Rockets on Wednesday night, breaking a tie in the third period to clinch the victory.

Despite being out-shot in all three frames, the Nitros traded goals with the Rockets over the three periods, until Dallin Wolf scored the game winner with five minutes to go in the affair.

Matthew Mitchell stood in goal for the Nitros, making 33 saves while James Leonard turned away 20 shots for the Rockets.

Golden capitalized once in five chances on the man-advantage, while Kimberley was denied on all three of theirs.

The Dynamiters were playing with a shortened roster fol-lowing suspensions to

Jeremy Mousseau, Tanner Grey and Con-nor Kutzner for a line brawl in Spokane last Friday, while Eric Buckley and Aaron Shubert served sus-pensions for the same reasons in Grand Forks on Saturday.

Dallin Wolf drew first blood 10 minutes into the opening peri-od for the Nitros, but Golden responded with five minutes to go.

Jason Richter put Kimberley in the lead late in the second, but Carson George tied it up on the power play with two minutes re-maining.

Jared Marchi put the Nitros in the lead for the third time less than a minute into the third, but Jacob Bergeron tied it up 12 minutes later.

Wolf scored his sec-ond of the game to win it for the Dynamiters with five minutes to go in the contest.


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Tom Shypitka, Josh Firman, Steve Tersmette and Greg Terrill are all hoping to earn a spot for provincials this weekend in Trail.

Local curling skip to lead team at zone playdownsTre vor Cr awley

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A local curling team will begin their journey to the Tim Hortons Brier curling tournament this weekend in Trail, as they get set for zone play downs.

Tom Shypitka along with Kimberley native Steve Tersmette, are teaming up with Creston curlers Josh Firman and Greg Terrill for a spiel in Trail, with two spots up for grabs for berths into provincials.

The winner of provin-cials wins the right to represent the province at the Briers, which will be hosted by Edmonton in March.

“It’s going to be tough,” said Tersmette, who plays second. “There’s two spots up for grabs and eight teams are going. The eight teams that are compet-ing are there for a rea-son—they’re all good teams.”

The team qualified for provincials last year, and the team is hoping to clinch one of the spots again this year.

“Mostly kind of a learning experience for us last year, just gives us something to build on for this year,” Tersmette added.

The team hasn’t done a whole lot of practicing together—it’s tough to find time to meet when members are spread out between Cranbrook, Kimberley and Cres-

ton—but the four have been throwing rocks to-gether at some cash spiels.

“We’ve done well at those,” said Shypitka, who skips the team. “We won two of those; we went to three in Novem-ber, we won two and lost the third in the final.”

Curling with team members that live in other towns is nothing new to Shypitka, who travelled to Kelowna to curl with Jeff Richards.

“It seems more and more that the teams are going that way,” added Shypitka. “The days of one team being all from the same little town are almost gone now—it’s not like it used to be 10 years ago.”

Both Tersmette and Shypitka expect tough opponents in Trail, sin-gling out Deane Hornig out of Castlegar and Tom Buchy out of Kimberley.

“I’ve probably played all of them before, in one way or another,” said Shypitka. “Probably the top guys—the Deane Hornig team from Trail—that’s the team we lost to a couple weeks ago in the final in that one cash spiel.

“…But any one of those teams can beat each other,” he added. “There’s not a really truly dominant team.”

Tersmette adds that it’s nice to have Shypitka at the helm, with his ex-tensive competitive curl-ing experience to draw

on.“He’s got a really

good sense of the game, he’s makings sound calls,” Tersmette said. “When you’ve got a lot of confidence in your skip and you’re not worried about the strategy and the calls in the game, you just get to focus on your job—sweeping and throwing rocks—and it takes a lot of pressure off.”

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The sides exchanged proposals during a se-ries of brief meetings on Wednesday after-noon, according to sources, in a bid to close the final gap in negotiations that have spanned more than five months.

The urgency was ev-ident as a group of six league owners shuffled between internal meet-ings and short sessions with players and union staff at a hotel in mid-town Manhattan. At one point, Boston Bru-ins owner Jeremy Ja-cobs could be seen having an animated conversation with dep-uty commissioner Bill Daly outside the nego-

tiating room. Mean-time, players paced the halls while speaking on their cellphones.

Even though the specific details of the new offers weren’t known, one aspect re-vealed another hurdle the sides have to cross _ the length of the deal. The league’s proposal called for a 10-year term while the NHLPA continued to favour a shorter contract, ac-cording to sources.

With tensions rising, commissioner Gary Bettman and NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr kept themselves out of ne-gotiation sessions for a second straight day. However, Bettman did provide a brief update to reporters after a two-hour gathering of the Board of Governors, saying he was “pleased’’ with how things were progressing.

That was about all he was willing to re-veal.

“We are pleased with the process that is ongoing and out of re-spect for that process I don’t have anything else to say and I’m not going to take any ques-tions,’’ said Bettman.

The two sides have cleared their schedules for the rest of the week after successfully get-ting an adjournment from Quebec Labour Board hearings that had been scheduled in Montreal for Thursday and Friday. That panel will only hear argu-ments about the legali-ty of locking out mem-bers of the Canadiens if a deal can’t be reached in the near future.

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composer and pianist Dave Brubeck, whose pioneering style in pieces such as “Take Five’’ caught listeners’ ears with exotic, challenging rhythms, has died. He was 91.

Brubeck died Wednesday morning of heart failure after being stricken while on his way to a cardiology appointment with his son Darius, said his manager Russell Gloyd. Bru-beck would have turned 92 on Thursday.

Brubeck had a career that spanned almost all American jazz since World War II. He formed The Dave Brubeck Quartet in 1951 and was the first modern jazz musician to be pictured on the cover of Time magazine — on Nov. 8, 1954 — and he helped define the swinging, smoky rhythms of 1950s and ‘60s club jazz.

The seminal album “Time Out,’’ released by the quartet in 1959, was the first ever mil-lion-selling jazz LP, and is still among the bestselling jazz al-bums of all time. It opens with “Blue Rondo a la Turk’’ in 9/8 time — nine beats to the mea-sure instead of the customary two, three or four beats.

A piano-and-saxophone whirlwind based loosely on a Mozart piece, “Blue Rondo’’ eventually intercuts between Brubeck’s piano and a more traditional 4/4 jazz rhythm.

The album also features “Take Five’’ — in 5/4 time — which became the Quartet’s signature theme and even made the Billboard singles chart in 1961. It was composed by Brubeck’s longtime saxo-phonist, Paul Desmond.

“When you start out with goals — mine were to play polytonally and polyrhythmi-cally — you never exhaust that,’’ Brubeck told The Associated Press in 1995. “I started doing that in the 1940s. It’s still a chal-lenge to discover what can be done with just those two ele-ments.’’

After service in World War II and study at Mills College in Oakland, California, Brubeck formed an octet including Des-mond on alto sax and Dave van Kreidt on tenor, Cal Tjader on drums and Bill Smith on clari-net. The group played Brubeck originals and standards by other composers, including some early experimentation in unusual time signatures. Their groundbreaking album “Dave Brubeck Octet’’ was recorded in 1946.

The group evolved into the Quartet, which played colleges and universities. The Quartet’s

first album, “Jazz at Oberlin,’’ was recorded live at Oberlin College in Ohio in 1953.

Ten years later, Joe Morello on drums and Eugene Wright on bass joined with Brubeck and Desmond to produce “Time Out.’’

In later years Brubeck com-posed music for operas, ballet, even a contemporary Massa-chusetts.

In 1988, he played for Mikhail Gorbachev, at a dinner in Moscow that then-President Ronald Reagan hosted for the Soviet leader.

“I can’t understand Rus-sian, but I can understand body language,’’ said Brubeck, after seeing the general secre-tary tapping his foot.

In the late 1980s, Brubeck contributed music for one epi-sode of an eight-part series of television specials, “This Is America, Charlie Brown.’’

His music was for an epi-sode involving NASA and the space station. He worked with three of his sons — Chris on

bass trombone and electric bass, Dan on drums and Mat-thew on cello — and included excerpts from his Mass “To Hope! A Celebration,’’ his ora-torio “A Light in the Wilder-ness,’’ and a piece he had com-posed but never recorded, “Quiet As the Moon.’’

“That’s the beauty of music,’’ he told the AP in 1992. “You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn’t make any difference where the theme comes from; the treatment of it can be jazz.’’

In 2006, the University of Notre Dame gave Brubeck its Laetare Medal, awarded each year to a Roman Catholic “whose genius has ennobled the arts and sciences, illustrat-ed the ideals of the church and enriched the heritage of hu-manity.’’

At the age of 88, in 2009, Brubeck was still touring, in spite of a viral infection that threatened his heart and made him miss an April show at his alma mater, the University of the Pacific.

By June, though, he was playing in Chicago, where the Tribune critic wrote that “Bru-beck was coaxing from the piano a high lyricism more typically encountered in the music of Chopin.’’

More acclaim came his way when it was announced that he would be a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors at a ceremony in late 2009.

Brubeck told the AP the an-nouncement would have de-lighted his late mother, Eliza-beth Ivey Brubeck, a classical pianist who was initially disap-

pointed by her youngest son’s interest in jazz. (He added that she had lived long enough to come to appreciate his music.)

Born in Concord, Califor-nia, on Dec. 6, 1920, Brubeck actually had planned to be-come a rancher like his father. He attended the College of the Pacific (now the University of the Pacific) in 1938, intending to major in veterinary medi-cine and return to the family’s 45,000-acre spread.

But within a year Brubeck was drawn to music. He gradu-ated in 1942 and was drafted by the Army, where he served — mostly as a musician — under Gen. George S. Patton in Europe. At the time, his Wolf-pack Band was the only racial-ly integrated unit in the mili-tary.

In an interview for Ken Burns’ PBS miniseries “Jazz,’’ Brubeck talked about playing for troops with his integrated band, only to return to the U.S. to see his black bandmates re-fused service in a restaurant in Texas.

Brubeck and his wife, Iola, had five sons and a daughter. Four of his sons — Chris on trombone and electric bass, Dan on drums, Darius on key-boards and Matthew on cello — played with the London Symphony Orchestra in a birthday tribute to Brubeck in December 2000.

“We never had a rift,’’ Chris Brubeck once said of living and playing with his father. “I think music has always been a good communication tool, so we didn’t have a rift. We’ve al-ways had music in common.’’

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doubt go down in his-tory as one of the larg-est. Parade assembly began at 6:00 pm and by parade time at 7:00 members of JCI Koote-nay had everyone in or-der and ready to go.

Thanks to JCI members and a special thanks to all the businesses, groups, clubs and orga-nizations for your par-ticipation. It would sure be interesting to find out how many thou-sands of people line the streets for this parade

Jim Wavrecan did a

great job in decorating the City of Cranbrook float. The bubbles were a very popular addition to the float. We appreci-ate that the Mayor and Mrs. Stetski, Council-lors Angus Davis and Bob Whetham along with Jamie Hodge, Catherine Ernst, Ann Wavrecan, Jeanette Sis-sons and grandson Kyle all helped to hand out more than 3,000 candy canes.

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office around 7:30 Fri-day morning and it was all positive. Throughout the day there were emails, messages on face book and telephone calls reporting to us that the stores were full, that there were line ups to get into the stores, Con-sumers called to say, what a great day, hit lots of specials, got some fantastic buys, got all my Christmas shopping done.

We did however receive some feedback about the Black Friday name and so, some history. You never know it may come up in the next ver-sion of Trivia Pursuit

“Black Friday” as a term has been used in multiple contexts, going back to the 19th century, where in the United

States it was associated with a financial crisis of 1869. Black Friday is the name given to the day following Thanks-giving Day in the United States, often regarded as the beginning of the Christmas shopping. The day’s name origi-nated in Philadelphia, where it originally was used to describe the heavy and disruptive pe-destrian and vehicle traf-fic which would occur on the day after Thanks-giving. Use of the term started before 1961 and began to see broader use outside Philadelphia around 1975. Later an alternative explanation began to be offered: that “Black Friday” indicates the point at which retail-ers begin to turn a profit, or are “in the black”.

This year saw the big-gest Black Friday to date in Canada, as Cana-

dian retailers embraced it in an attempt to keep shoppers from travelling across the border. Thoughts are that we might consider holding Black Friday the same date as the US Black Friday. Do you have some thoughts you`d like to share with us? Should we stay the same or move to the U.S weekend. Some people even feel we should change the name. Email me at [email protected], we’d like to hear from you.

It was a launch into the Christmas shopping sea-son and our citizens re-sponded. As an advoca-cy group for business in our community, we launched this initiative that reaped benefits for members and non-mem-bers alike!

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The moon took quite a beating in its early days, more than previously believed, scientists re-ported Wednesday.

This surprising new view of the moon comes from detailed gravity mapping by twin space-craft, which slipped into orbit around the celes-tial body earlier this year.

Evidence of a highly fractured lunar interior just below the surface suggests that other rocky planets including Earth would have suffered similar bombardment from space rocks early in their history.

Measurements by the NASA spacecraft called Ebb and Flow also found that the moon’s crust, or outermost layer, is much thinner than scientists

thought — only about 25 miles.

The findings were presented Wednesday at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco and pub-lished online in the journal Science.

Though past mis-sions have measured lunar gravity _ about one-sixth Earth’s pull _ Ebb and Flow are the first spacecraft dedicat-ed to this pursuit.

To collect data, the washing machine-size spacecraft flew in forma-tion, orbiting about 35 miles above the moon’s surface. Their positions allowed them to peer deep into the moon.

The mission is sched-uled to end later this month when Ebb and Flow crash into the moon.

Gravity maps of moon reveal beaten up interior

AssociAted Press

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The two men who will spend an entire year together aboard the In-ternational Space Sta-tion are already bracing for a challenging mis-sion.

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly said Wednesday it will be like spending a whole year at the office. And you never get to leave.

Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will blast off in 2015 for the longest mission ever at the space

station. NASA and the Russian Space Agency want to see how all that weightlessness affects the men.

Russia already has ex-perience with yearlong space travel. But it’s lim-ited to the old Mir space station and more than a decade has passed.

Kelly says his 9-year-old daughter screamed “awesome’’ when she learned the news. Korn-ienko’s wife cried.

Kelly is the brother-in-law of former con-gresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

Astronauts assignedto yearlong space trip

AssociAted Press

WASHINGTON — A panel of outside U.S. ex-perts says NASA is adrift without a coherent vi-sion for where it should be going.

The report is by the National Academy of Sciences. But the panel doesn’t blame the space agency. It faults the pres-ident, Congress and the nation.

President Barack Obama in 2010 told NASA to plan to send as-tronauts to a nearby as-teroid.

But the panel of ex-perts says few in NASA or the space community have embraced that des-tination. NASA hasn’t al-located much money for it and its vague strategic plan avoids mention of an asteroid mission.

Veteran astronaut and panel member Bob Crippen, who piloted the first space shuttle mis-sion, said he has never seen the space agency so unfocused.

NASA officials con-tend they have clear and challenging goals.

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LONDON — Two Austra-lian radio disc jockeys apolo-gized Wednesday after im-personating Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles in a prank call and getting a Lon-don hospital to tell them all about Kate Middleton’s con-dition.

The King Edward VII hos-pital in London acknowl-edged that the Australian radio station made the hoax

call to the hospital in the early hours Tuesday — and that the hospital fell for it.

The 30-year-old Duchess of Cambridge is pregnant and is being treated at the hospital for severe morning sickness.

A woman using the of-ten-mimicked voice of Brit-ain’s monarch asked after the duchess’ health — and was told by a nurse that Kate “hasn’t had any retching with me and she’s been sleeping

on and off.’’ “She’s sleeping at the mo-

ment and she has had an un-eventful night. She’s been given some fluids. She’s sta-ble at the moment,’’ the kindly nurse informed the supposed queen and prince on the sta-tion’s recording. A dog yaps in the background while the alleged queen and prince talk about travelling to the hospi-tal to check in on the patient.

“I would suggest that any time after 9 o’clock will be

suitable to visit,’’ the nurse said. “We’ll be getting her freshened up.’’

The duchess is married to the queen’s grandson, Prince William.

The hospital says the call had been transferred to the ward and the conversation was held with one of its nurs-ing staff. Its telephone proto-cols are now being reviewed, the hospital said in a state-ment.

The Australian station

2DayFM placed the record-ing of the conversation on its website.

Australian radio personal-ities Mel Greig and Michael Christian later apologized for the hoax — along with their station.

“We were very surprised that our call was put through. We thought we’d be hung up on as soon as they heard our terrible accents,’’ they said in a joint statement with the sta-tion. “We’re very sorry if

we’ve caused any issues and we’re glad to hear that Kate is doing well.’’

The duchess is spending her third day in the hospital. William visited his wife at the hospital on Wednesday, while media from around the world camped outside, seek-ing any news on the royal pregnancy.

Officials from St. James’s Palace have said the duchess is not yet 12 weeks pregnant with the couple’s first child.

Radio hoaxers sorry for crank call to Kate’s hospital

Thomas aDamson Associated Press

PARIS — Residents of a sleepy French vil-lage in Bordeaux have been left dumbfounded after discovering their local 18th-century cha-teau was completely bulldozed “by mistake.’’

The mayor’s office in Yvrac said Wednesday that workers who were hired to renovate the grand 13,000 square metre manor and raze a small building on the same estate in southwest France mixed them up.

“The Chateau de Bel-levue was Yvrac’s pride and joy,’’ said former owner Juliette Marmie. “The whole village is in shock. How can this construction firm make such a mistake?’’

Local media report-ed that the construction

French chateau razed ‘by mistake’

Leanne iTaLie Associated Press

NEW YORK — Thanks to the elec-tion, socialism and capitalism are for-ever wed as Merriam-Webster’s most looked-up words of 2012.

Traffic for the unlikely pair on the company’s website about doubled this year from the year before as the health care debate heated up and discussion intensified over “American capitalism’’ versus “European socialism,’’ said the editor at large, Peter Sokolowski.

The choice revealed Wednesday was “kind of a no-brainer,’’ he said. The side-by-side interest among political candidates and around kitchen tables prompted the dictionary folk to settle on two words of the year rather than one for the first time since the accolade began in 2003.

“They’re words that sort of encap-sulate the zeitgeist. They’re words that are in the national conversation,’’ said Sokolowski from company headquar-ters in Springfield, Mass.

Democracy, globalization, mar-riage and bigot — all touched by poli-tics — made the Top 10, in no particu-lar order. The latter two were driven in part by the fight for same-sex marriage acceptance.

Last year’s word of the year was austerity. Before that, it was pragmatic. Other words in the leading dictionary maker’s Top 10 for 2012 were also po-litically motivated.

Harken back to Oct. 11, when Vice-President Joe Biden tangled with Mitt Romney running mate Paul Ryan in a televised debate focused on for-eign policy — terror attacks, defence spending and war, to be specific.

“With all due respect, that’s a bunch of MALARKEY,’’ declared Biden during a particularly tough row with Ryan. The mention sent look-ups of malarkey soaring on Merriam-web-ster.com, Sokolowski said, adding: “Clearly a one-week wonder, but what a week!’’

Actually, it was more like what a day. Look-ups of malarkey represented the largest spike of a single word on the website by percentage, at 3,000 per cent, in a single 24-hour period this year. The company won’t release the number of page views per word but said the site gets about 1.2 billion over-all each year.

Malarkey, with the alternative spell-

ing of “y’’ at the end, is of unknown or-igin, but Merriam-Webster surmises it’s more Irish-American than Irish, tracing it to newspaper references as far back as 1929.

Beyond “nonsense,’’ malarkey can mean “insincere or pretentious talk or writing designed to impress one and usually to distract attention from ulte-rior motives or actual conditions,’’ noted Sokolowski.

An interesting election-related phe-nom, to be sure, but malarkey is no dead Big Bird or “binders full of women’’ — two Romneyisms from the defeated candidate’s televised match-ups with Obama that evoked another of Merriam-Webster’s Top 10 — meme.

While malarkey’s history is shaded, meme’s roots are easily traced to evo-lutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, a Brit who coined the term for a unit of cultural inheritance, not unlike genes and DNA. The retired professor at the University of Oxford made up the word in 1976 for “The Selfish Gene,’’ a book he published light years before the In-ternet and social media’s capacity to take memes viral.

Sokolowski said traffic for meme more than doubled this year over 2011, with dramatic spikes pegged to politi-cal-related subjects that included Romney’s Big Bird and binders re-marks, social media shares of images pegged to Hillary Rodham Clinton tex-ting and Obama’s “horses and bayo-nets’’ debate rebuke of Romney in an exchange over the size of the Navy.

Other words in Merriam-Webster’s Top 10 for 2012:

• Touche, thanks in part to “Survi-vor’’ contestant Kat Edorsson misusing the word to mean “tough luck’’ rather than point well made, before she was voted off the island in May. Look-ups at Merriam-webster.com were up seven-fold this year over 2011.

• Schadenfreude, made up of the German words for “damage’’ and “joy,’’ meaning taking pleasure in the misery of others, was used broadly in the media after the election. Look-ups in-creased 75 per cent. The word in En-glish dates to 1895.

• Professionalism, up 12 per cent this year over last. Sokolowski suspects the bump might have been due to the bad economy and more job seekers, or a knowing “glimpse into what qualities people value.’’

Merriam Webster chooses two words of the year

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company misunder-stood the renovation plans of the current owner, Russian busi-nessman Dmitry Stroskin, to clean up the manor and restore it to its former baroque glory.

Stroskin was away

when the calamity oc-curred and returned home to discover his chateau, a local treasure boasting a grand hall that could host some 200 people, as well as a sweeping stone stair-case — was nothing but rubble.

“I’m in shock ...I un-derstand the turmoil of the community,’’ local media quoted Stroskin as saying.

He told them he plans to build an exact replica of lost manor on the site.

The 18th century French chateau owned by russian businessman Dmitry stroski was torn down by accident.

c anaDian Press

EDMONTON — An Alberta emergency room doctor has told a public inquiry medical staff were once pres-

sured to provide faster care for well-connected people.

Dr. Paul Parks says that in the fall of 2007, staff at the University of

Alberta hospital emer-gency room were or-dered by an executive to see a — quote — “VIP’’ before they dealt with a waiting room full of

other sick people. The VIP was not

named by Parks and nei-ther was the executive.

Parks says staff balked at the request — they re-evaluated the VIP’s condition and de-cided the patient need-ed to wait like everyone else.

Parks says he and his fellow emergency room doctors agreed after-wards that they would never let anyone jump a queue for care.

The inquiry, called by Premier Alison Redford to look into allegations queue-jumping, began hearing from witnesses on Monday.

So far, executives have talked about pref-erential treatment being an accepted practice under the old regional health boards, but no one was able to cite any examples.

Alberta ER staff were ordered to treat ‘VIPs’ faster


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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Pace yourself, and direct your high energy into a project or a discussion with someone you work with. Your energy could hit a home run. Use it well. Others naturally will follow your lead. A friend or loved one expresses his or her affection. Tonight: A must-show. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Your creativity surges, and your imagination wanders. You probably want to take off ASAP, so plan a vacation in the near future. Stay authentic when dealing with a snobby person; it just might rub off on him or her. A friend wants to do something special for you. Tonight: Feed your mind. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Stay centered. You might want to stay close to home. An asso-ciate might need some extra time and attention. You are ex-tremely optimistic, which helps you visualize more of what you want. Know what you want.

Tonight: Say “yes” to an offer. Go for a lazy night. CANCER (June 21-July 22) You might be pursuing the course you want to follow. Fortunately, it coincides with a partner’s or a friend’s idea. Oth-erwise, you would have experi-enced a lot of trouble with this person. Ask what you can do in order to relax more. Remain centered. Tonight: Hang out. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Curb a tendency to overspend, even if you have quite a bit of shopping to do. You might want to adjust your budget some more. A roommate or a family member demonstrates his or her caring through action. Ten-sion builds around a loved one. Tonight: Treat yourself, too. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Beam in more of what you want. You might feel as if no one can stop you. A boss no-tices your stamina when you are determined. You will need to use your creativity to handle everything on your plate. Do not respond to someone’s tantrum. Tonight: Make yourself happy.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Be a cynic, and listen to news carefully. You might want to understand what is happen-ing with a family member or a roommate who is withdrawing. You know this person well. Think about what would be the most effective way to open him or her up. Tonight: Not to be found. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You are likely to verbalize what you’re thinking. Someone might have a strong reaction to your words. You know when enough is enough. Consider distancing yourself from an awkward sit-uation. An associate or a loved one joins you at a key meeting. Tonight: Out and about. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You will decide to take a stand. Others listen and follow your lead. You put your energy -- and money, if need be -- behind your words. Someone you meet today could seem special, but ultimately could be a problem. Take off your rose-colored shades. Tonight: A must appear-ance.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Your detachment could cause quite a reaction. You might look at a situation differently, as a result. A brainstorming session might be the way an associate or loved one tries to draw you back in. Take this action as a compliment. Tonight: Whatever allows your mind to calm down. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) A key person in your life en-joys relating directly to you. You both activate each other’s imagination. Opportunities arise from your conversations. You know what you want, and you focus on those goals when trying to find the right path. Tonight: Dinner for two. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Listen to someone’s suggestion. You might hear some news that surprises you. A friend is certain about what he or she wants, and will push and push to achieve those results. You might as well say “yes” if you can. Tonight: Surround yourself with friends.

Dear Annie: My incredible husband of two years has a 4-year-old daughter with his ex-wife. I have actively helped raise “Christie” since she was barely a year.

We haven’t communicated with the mother since the time we took her to court for refusing visitation, but my hus-band and I have always provided for Christie in every way possible, above and beyond the court-ordered child support. This little girl loves me. I have never tried to replace her mother, encouraged or ex-pected her to call me “Mom,” or even so much as talked badly about her mother in front of her.

But lately, Christie has been question-ing my relationship with her father, saying the reason her mommy and daddy are not together is because of me. When I ask her to do something she doesn’t want to do, she says her mommy says she doesn’t have to listen to me because I am not her mother. Even worse, she’s been told that when my husband and I have a baby of our own, Daddy won’t love her as much as the new baby.

Christie is obviously too young to draw these conclusions on her own, so Mom is giving her these impressions or telling her these things outright. I don’t know why any mother would want to hurt her child this way, but I worry it is going to cause Christie to resent me. How can we handle this? -- Stepmom in the Middle

Dear Stepmom: Many courts now recognize parental alienation. Suggest that your husband speak to his lawyer about this possibility. In the meantime, when Christie is with you, do your best to counter the negative brainwashing. Let her know how much you love her and always will; that a new baby means she will be more important than ever, and the new baby will need a big sister; that ev-eryone in the household has chores to do, and you want her to learn to be a big girl. As she gets older, she will recognize her mother’s bitterness, so please don’t play into that drama.

Dear Annie: I am a recent widow in my mid-70s. I decided after the death of my husband a couple of years ago that I would live out my life alone.

I don’t have much of a social life, but I do attend church services regularly. I find myself sitting next to a man who once spoke to me after the service. After several weeks, I could tell he seemed interested in me. After a few conversations, I realized I am 10 years older than he is.

He seems like a kind and polite man, and his wife has been dead for many years. I am flattered by his attention and shocked at this chain of events. I would appreciate your input on the age differ-ence. I am basically a happy, healthy woman, but this is a situation I could take or leave. So if you tell me to come to my senses, I will say “Goodbye, Columbus.” -- California

Dear California: The age difference is irrelevant as long as you don’t mislead him about it. If you enjoy his company, we say go for it. There is nothing wrong with a companionable friendship, and if either of you is looking for something more, just be sure you are both comfortable with it.

Dear Annie: You printed several re-sponses to “Looking for a Relationship, Too” and included one from “El Paso, Texas,” who suggested that women take up shooting because “guys like a gal with good aim.”

I laughed, thinking of a song from the Broadway musical “Annie Get Your Gun,” which was titled, “You Can’t Get a Man with a Gun.” Thanks for a good chuckle. -- Musical Lover

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Legion fights for poor, homeless vetsern-day veterans as too compliant with govern-ment, an image White concedes they’re trying to change.

``I don’t think we were ever quiet, we were just quiet in how we did our business,’’ he said. ``We never did things too loudly. We were more in the back-rooms working the deals, and for a lot years that kind of stuff worked.’’

The relationship has grown irritable because the Legion gets the sense Veteran Affairs of-ficials are ``talking down to us’’ and that the institution wasn’t changing with the times

and adapting to the needs of Afghan sol-diers, White added.

Despite the distance, the Legion is still onside with the government when it comes to the contentious New Veter-ans Charter, the 2006 overhaul of benefits and entitlements for ex-ser-vice members. The sys-tem was changed from one based largely on pensions-for-life to lump-sum settlements for disabilities.

The charter is cur-rently being challenged in class-action lawsuit by some veterans, who say the payouts under the new system are un-just.

qualify for assistance _ so far to no avail.

White said the in-transigence has left many in his organiza-tion, and veterans at large, dismayed.

``There’s obviously a need out there. It’s obvi-ous it has to be ad-dressed, but we’re cele-brating the War of 1812 more than we’re cele-brating the lives of the people who are relevant today,’’ he said.

Veterans Affairs Min-ister Steven Blaney de-fended the rejection rate by noting that over 10,000 applications to the fund had been ap-proved and the govern-

ment had every inten-tion to maintain the program.

A spokesman for Blaney said there’s no reluctance on the part of the government to dis-cuss the issue, and he expects it will come up.

``This will be dis-cussed at the meeting as will many other subjects important to veterans,’’ Niklaus Schwenker said.

The Legion’s asser-tive public tone reflects a major shift for the or-ganization, which has advocated on behalf of ex-soldiers since the 1920s. Throughout the Afghan war, it was in-creasingly seen by mod-

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OTTAWA _ The Royal Canadian Legion, once counted on by the gov-ernment to be the voice of reason among veter-ans groups, is striking a more defiant tone and demanding federal offi-cials address the issue of burial expenses for poor and homeless ex-sol-diers.

A major annual con-ference among veterans groups is set to get un-derway in Charlotte-town on Thursday, but the issue of the Last Post Fund _ and the fact it has rejected two-thirds of applications since

2006 _ is not on the agenda set by Veterans Affairs.

Brad White, an ex-ar-my officer and the Le-gion’s Dominion Secre-tary, said his organiza-tion will not drop the issue of funeral cover-age.

``I can’t understand why they won’t fix that,’’ said White.

Over the last six years, 20,147 applica-tions were rejected by the Last Post Fund be-cause the deceased vet-eran did not meet the eligibility criteria. To qualify a veteran must have earned less than $12,010 a year and

served in Second World War, Korea, or been in receipt of a veterans dis-ability pension.

There was a public outcry prior to Remem-brance Day over the fund, which is an inde-pendent agency that ad-ministers the burial pro-gram on behalf of the federal government.

White says the fund was not even on the agenda for the meeting, but ``we’re going to put it on the agenda.’’

The fund has peti-tioned the Harper gov-ernment not only to overhaul the rules, but to increase the stipend given to those who do

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Inmate claims he’s too fat to dieof the very small number of death row inmates who are that obese, said Deborah Denno, a Ford-ham University law pro-fessor and expert on le-thal injection. And she said it is unlikely prison-ers would begin stuffing themselves to try to fend off execution.

Richard Dieter, exec-

utive director of the Wa s h i n g t o n - b a s e d Death Penalty Informa-tion Center, which op-poses capital punish-ment, predicted states will find a way around obesity claims by adjust-ing their execution pro-cedures, perhaps by changing the drug or the dosage.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio _ At about 450 pounds (204 kilograms), Ohio death row inmate Ron-ald Post is so fat that his executioners won’t be able to find veins in his arms or legs for the le-thal injection, and he might even break the death chamber gurney, his lawyers say.

If the state is forced to use a backup method that involves injecting the drugs directly into muscle, the process could require multiple doses over several hours or even days and result in a grueling and painful end, they say.

Post, who gained close to 200 pounds (91 kilograms) on death row, is trying to stave off

execution Jan. 16 for the 1983 killing of a motel clerk during a robbery, arguing that because of his obesity, an attempt to put him to death would amount to cruel and unusual punish-ment.

State officials say Post, 53, can be hu-manely executed under both Ohio’s usual meth-od and the untested backup procedure. The warden at the prison where the death cham-ber is situated even test-ed the gurney by piling 540 pounds (245 kilo-grams) of weights on it for two hours.

Post has not present-ed ``sufficient evidence demonstrating that his obesity or other physical conditions will present a substantial risk that his execution cannot be

conducted in a humane and dignified manner,’’ Assistant Attorney Gen-eral Charles Wille said in court papers.

A federal judge in Co-lumbus will hold a hear-ing on Post’s claim later this month.

Post’s case is not without precedent: In 1994, a federal judge in Washington state ruled that convicted killer Mitchell Rupe, at more than 400 pounds (181 ki-lograms), was too heavy to be hanged because he might be decapitated. After numerous court rulings and a third trial, Rupe was sentenced to life in prison, where he died in 2006.

If Post manages to stop his execution be-cause of his weight, the legal precedent may not be far-reaching, because


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D a ry l C a l D e r

Back in late October, signs of the change in season were becom-

ing obvious. Skies were stormy, fall colours were fading and bird populations at Elizabeth Lake made their predictable changes.

Not included in the 30 or so species observed were the shorebirds, swal-lows, flycatchers and war-blers. These birds are un-able to survive our wintery conditions and have made significant flights to the south or west to find some-thing suitable. Many of the birds seen will still be here during the Christmas Bird Count which occurs in Cranbrook on December 29th and in Kimberley on January 5th.

From December 14 through January 5, tens of thousands of volunteers throughout the ‘Americas’ take part in an adventure which has become a family tradition among genera-tions. Families and stu-dents, birders and scien-tists, armed with binocu-lars, bird guides and check-lists go out on an annual mission. For 113 years, the desire to both make a differ-ence and to experience the beauty of nature has driven dedicated people to leave the comfort of a warm house during the Holiday season.

Each ‘citizen scientist’ who annually braves snow, wind or rain to take part in the Christmas Bird Count makes an enormous con-tribution to conservation. Audubon and other organi-zations use data collected in this ‘longest running wildlife census’ to assess the health of bird popula-

tions — and to help guide conservation action.

From feeder-watchers and field observers, to count compilers and re-gional editors, everyone who takes part in the Christmas Bird Count does it for love of birds and the excitement of friendly com-petition — and with the knowledge that their efforts are making a difference for science and bird conserva-tion. In these two local counts, a circular area is di-vided into four quadrants, each of which is examined by one quarter of the par-ticipants from 9 a.m. until about 5 p.m. Afterwards we do a ‘count-up’ or ‘Tal-ly-Rally’ and enjoy a pot luck meal. We encourage those birders who maintain active feeders to participate by listing their ‘visitors’ and submitting them to us.

In addition, a program which is made possible by the efforts and support of thousands of ‘Citizen Sci-entists’, is ‘Project Feeder-Watch’, a research and edu-cation project of the Cor-nell Lab of Ornithology and Bird Studies Canada.

Anyone in the U.S. and Canada with an interest in birds and a feeder to watch is welcome to join. Help sci-entists monitor winter bird populations while you learn more about the birds in your neighborhood. Simply look-up birds.canada.org. The world is changing quickly and birds are feeling the im-pact. Who would have thought that the gregarious and common Evening Gros-beak would disappear from our feeders? We certainly could not have imagined that the Eurasian Col-lared-Dove, a species barely

found in North America when FeederWatch began 25 years ago, would spread from coast to coast and now be a dominant actor in the the dramas that play out in our backyards.

As Elizabeth Lake began to freeze up, one of the continent’s most familiar wetland birds congregated in the shrinking patches of open water. An instantly recognizable species, the American Coot with its yel-low to orange legs and feet, bright white triangular - shaped bill contrasts stark-ly with the largely all — black plumage. The Ameri-can Coot propels itself at the water’s surface with re-peated forward and back-

ward pumps of the head, and while submerged, this accomplished swimmer and diver uses it’s lobed toes to skilfully manoeuvre its body to forage for aquat-ic plants. On land and in the air, however, it is more awkward. It walks with an ungainly waddle, all the while flicking the cocked tail, exposing the white un-dersides. To take to the air, this clumsy flier requires long running takeoffs, and usually flies low over water with the head, neck and legs outstretched. Prefer-ring freshwater habitats, the American Coot is most commonly found on reed-fringed lakes and ponds, open marshes and

slow-flowing rivers, but in winter it may also be found on salt-marshes, sheltered coasts and estuaries. For nesting, this waterbird re-quires tall vegetation in shallow water.

Most northerly popula-tions migrate southward in search of suitable open water, some as far as Cen-tral America. Outside the breeding season, particu-larly in winter, the coot gathers together in some-times large groups for pro-tection and for socializing. These groups may be called ‘covers’ or ‘rafts’. Sadly, for coots, this bird may locally comprise more than 80% of the diet of Bald Eagles. The hardening freeze was evi-

dently shooing many ducks farther down the flyway but the over 400 coots waited until the last minute for the right conditions. Evidently, the constant patrolling, charging, water splashing and occasional fighting provided enough energy to keep some water open. Like most rails it appears to be a weak flier but has con-siderable stamina once air-borne. We can only guess that the ‘raft’ waited for a cold north wind during the night, pedalling furiously across the water with its feet, lifted off and headed south.

Birds seen at Elizabeth

Lake recently:Eared GrebeTundra SwanCanada GooseMallardGadwallAmerican WigeonRing-necked DuckLesser ScaupBuffleheadRuddy DuckBald EagleRed-tailed HawkAmerican CootKilldeerBonaparte’s GullRock PigeonNorthern FlickerBlue JayAmerican CrowCommon RavenMarsh WrenRuby-crowned KingletNorthern ShrikeEuropean StarlingSong SparrowBrewer’s BlackbirdHouse FinchRed CrossbillPine Siskin

Submitted by Daryl Calder on behalf of Rocky

Mountain Naturalists

Birdwatching with the rocky mountain naturalists

Christmas bird count is grassroots science

Note: I have a lot of emails and some letters on my desk and I will answer each one in the weeks to fol-low. I am sorry for the de-lays but my dog has been ill with diabetes and needed extra attention. However, if in the next few weeks I have not answered your emails then email me again with your questions and we will be happy to help you.

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friendships I think goes like this “Have new friends, but keep the old, the new are silver and the old are gold.” I think you need to pick up the phone and talk to your buddy. She is an under-standing and kind person. I don’t think she will phone

you unless you make the first move. We don’t feel she is jealous of you but she does get a little agitated with you the way you act at times. We do feel she is un-comfortable around your husband because she does not like the way he talks to you; when she is around. We also feel she has talked to you about your husband’s

nasty mouth and gets tired of you feeling sad all the time. I think you both had a slight misunderstanding that can be rectified but you need to make the first move this time. I mean really, if you love your friend you will pick up that phone and tell her you miss her and want her back in your life. That’s what friend do, don’t they?

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Dear Wendy:I am finding it hard this

year to get my financial situ-ation under control. Recent-ly I have inherited a bit of

money and think I should invest it. My husband wants to buy a new car but I am reluctant to spend this money this year. Do you think I am being a miser like he always says to me? I need some advice and trust you and your guide’s opinion.

Feeling out of Car-money

Dear Feeling Out of Car-money:

That’s so cute you made me laugh the way you signed your email. I asked my guides if you had miser-ly ways and they said a def-inite no. However, your

husband has a tendency to like his toys and this car he wants to buy with your in-heritance money is pretty high end. I think you should listen to your “gut” feelings, which are your guides tell-ing you to hold on to your inheritance money this year and invest it wisely. You and I both know that you definitely don’t need an-other car. If your husband wants another new car tell him to buy it himself and make the payments; you have the type of personality that you will not mind that at all.

Wendy

Old friends are like gold: Time to make upaSK WeNDY

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Daryl CalDer photo

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International Forest Products (Interfor)

is looking for full time, part time

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Announcements

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AreYou New to theArea?

We’d like to

Welcome you and your

family with various gifts and local

information!Cranbrook

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In MemoriamIn MemoriamIn Memoriam

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Lost & FoundFOUND: LOVELY blue, knit hat. Left at Elmer Higgens event on Nov. 29/12. Call Chamber to claim. 250-426-5914

FOUND: Short haired, male, grey/white cat in Candy Cane Lane and Cbk. Golf Course

area. (2nd & 3rd St S) Please phone if you have lost the cat

or can identify the owners. 250-489-3072

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Children

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HEAVY DUTY JOURNEYMAN

DIESEL MECHANICrequired in Invermere, B.C.

Permanent full-time position. Wage based on experience. $30 – $38.

Benefit package available. Please fax or email

resume to 250-342-0212

[email protected]

Help Wanted

General FARM WORKER

Position. Hourly salary $10.50/hr.

Employment term-April 22 - Oct 31, 2013. Location of

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Knowledge of market garden operation an asset and at-tributes of candidate are to be energetic, ability to work in constant change, and a willingness to learn. Send resume to Box 10, Fort

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Passionate about print Commercial print company seeking experienced team

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P/T RETAIL Merchandiser wanted, to service stationary products. Previous merchan-dising or planogram experi-ence an asset. Please email resume to:

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Required for an Alberta Trucking Company. One Class 1 Driver. Must have a mini-mum of 5 years experience pulling low boys and driving off road. Candidate must be able to pass a drug test and be will-ing to relocate to Edson, Al-berta. Fax resumes to: 780-725-4430

Seasonal Farm Labourers to carry out fi eld work from April to Oct 2013 in Cranbrook area (approx. 31 weeks) for Monsanto Cana-da Inc., 710 Industrial Road #3, Cranbrook. Valid BC Drivers License required; Farming background an asset; $13./hr; approx. 8 hrs/day and 5 days/week; plus 4% vacation pay. Please fax application to 250-426-4215

Trades, Technical

Employment

Medical/Dental

Certifi ed Dental Assistant Full time opportunity. Available immediately.

Good communication and clinical skills a priority.

Call Dr. Williams 250-489-4731 or email

[email protected]

Trades, TechnicalTERA ENVIRONMENTAL Consultants (TERA) has im-mediate openings for positions in the environmental fi eld. TERA is an environmental consulting services company specializing in the Canadian pipeline, power line, and oil and gas industries. TERA pro-vides its employees with com-petitive compensation andbenefi ts, fl exible working schedules, career growth op-portunities and more. For cur-rent and future opening visit our website www.teraenv.com. To apply e-mail your cover let-ter and resume [email protected]

WARWICK Cabinets in Inver-mere currently seeking experi-enced lacquer sprayer/ fi nish-er. Job entails prep, sanding, staining and lacquer spraying of cabinets, cabinet doors and custom wood projects manu-factured in our modern cabinet shop. Ph: 250-342-6264, Fax: 250-342-3546 or e-mail: [email protected]

Services

Contractors

Merchandise for Sale

AppliancesUSED PROPANE furnace- $600.obo. Brand new, never used, gas stove - $500.obo. Phone 250-426-6296.

Consignment

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TreasuresCONSIGNMENT

250-426-4046 Tues-Sat. 10am-5pm

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Native Crafts,Baby Accessories,Family Clothing, Sports, etc.

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SONNY NOMLAND,has a special price on

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2 fi lters - $1.50, tax included. Also, we have a few

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Kosher SpicesPersonal Care Products

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Pets

Merchandise for Sale

Firewood/FuelFIREWOOD, DRY Pine. $90./half a cord. $160./full cord, delivered. Phone after 6pm (250)427-7180.

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Misc. WantedPrivate Coin Collector Buying Collections, Accumulations, Olympic Gold & Silver Coins + Chad: 250-863-3082 in Town

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Apt/Condo for Rent2BDRM, 1 1/2 BATH Willow View condo unit for rent, in Canal Flats. Great view, 2 parking stalls, F/S, D/W. Walk-ing distance to arena, park and store. $850 + utilities & D.D., references required. Available immediately. Call (250)349-5306 or (250)489-8389, leave mess.

2 BEDROOM UNITavailable in Victoria Villas.

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1 year lease. To view call (778)517-4517

3BDRM UNIT for rent, unfi nished basement, partial new fl ooring, F/S, parking and front yard. No smoking-no pets. 1 year lease, $937./mo + utilities. 1308A 11th St S.

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Apartments: 1&2 Bdrm. Elevator, on-site laundry,

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Suites, Lower2BDRM FULLY furnished

basement suite. No pets/smoking/parties.

$1000./mo. utilities included. Phone (250)417-0059 or

(250)426-5706. Near College & Mall.

Transportation

Cars - Domestic1999 PONTIAC Grand Am. Runs good. 200,000km. $1800./obo. 250-919-0836.

2002 BUICK Century. 131,000km. Good condition. $2800./obo. 250-919-0836

Snowmobiles2007 ARCTIC Cat M8. $5500. Runs great. Call for more information. 250-919-4277

Trucks & Vans

4WD, 209,000 kms, has air bags, headache rack, on Eagle alloy rims, new winters on

stock rims.

ASKING$12,000 OBO

Phone 250-581-0608

2004 Toyota Tundra

2004 Dodge Grand CaravanFully serviced, new frontbrakes, safety inspected.

$5,49500

EK Transmission Ltd.DL#29679

1019 Kootenay St. N.,

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