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ing a special public avalanche warning for the North Rockies, Cariboos, North Columbia, South Columbia, Kootenay-Boundary, Pur-cells, South Rockies, Lizard and Flathead, and South Coast Inland regions. This warning ap-plies to recreational backcountry users and is in effect from December 26 to December 30.

Recent snowfalls coupled with winds and warm temperatures has placed a heavy load on a fragile snowpack, explains Avalanche Cana-da Public Avalanche Forecaster Joe Lammers.

“The wild swings in weather this season have left a mix of smooth crusts and persistent weak layers in our snowpack,” said Lammers. “This complex snowpack has the potential to surprise backcountry users with large ava-lanches even though riding conditions will be good.”

The stormy days leading up to Christmas produced a touchy snowpack that was provid-ing lots of feedback to users—many natural slides and numerous small avalanches easily triggered by human activity. “People were triggering slides even as they approached slopes,” adds Lammers. “This made the dan-gerous conditions obvious. But that sort of feedback is going to change in the coming days, even though the weak layers  are still there buried under 60 – 100 cm of good pow-der snow.”

Avalanche Canada recommends back-country users stay on simple, low-angle ter-rain; avoid large, steep slopes; minimize expo-sure to overhead hazard; avoid travelling where other users are on slopes above; and re-group in safe zones away from avalanche run-outs until conditions improve. If you do not have the training or experience to assess avalanche terrain and local conditions, it’s a good idea to recreate in areas where the avalanche risk is professionally managed.

All backcountry users must be equipped with essential avalanche safety equipment. Everyone in the party needs an avalanche transceiver, a probe and a shovel every day. It’s equally important that everyone has avalanche training and has practiced using this equip-ment. If an avalanche occurs, the rescue is up to you. There is no time to go for help.

For the avalanche forecast, check www.ava-lanche.ca.

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BARRY COULTERHarley-Davidson of the Koo-

tenays was a busy place on Box-ing Day, Friday, Dec. 26. Dozens gathered to see who the lucky winner would be (hopefully themselves) in theannual raffle Harley-Davidson raffle.

Each year, Harley Davidson of the Kootenays and the local Harley Owners Group (HOG) join together to raise funds through the motorcycle raffle. For the second year in the row, the raffle was in support of the Cranbrook Kimberley Hospice Society,

The Harley-Davidson raffle is the biggest fundraiser of the year for the Cranbrook and Kimber-ley Hospice Society, which pro-vides services for people at the end of their lives, and support

for their families.Three-thousand tickets were

sold for the chance to win some outstanding prizes:

• First prize was a 2014 Har-ley-Davidson Dyna Fat Bob, with a value of 23,545.76.

• Second prize was a 2014 Harley-Davidson Portster 883 Iron, with a value of $13,870.08.

• Third Prize was a Har-ley-Davidson storage bench, with a value of $1,295.

Don Davidson, President of the Hospice Society, said the raf-fle helps the society provide all their services in the East Koote-nay.

“This is the second year that (the Harley Owners Group) has made us their charity of choice. With funds from this raffle, we are able to deliver all of the ser-

vices for the East Kootenay, to help people at the end of their life and their families.”

Ken Betenia, Assistant Direc-tor of HOG, also thanked the various sponsors for their assis-tance: ABC restaurant, the Heri-tage Inn, Moyie Pub, the Sulli-van Pub and Marysville Liquor Store; the Tamarack Centre, Save-On in Cranbrook and Overwaitea in Kimberley and Home Depot.

The  draws for the three priz-es were made by Lee Pratt, Mayor of Cranbrook, Don Mc-Cormick, Mayor of Kimberley, and Bev McCormick, Don’s wife.

Lee Pratt urged the public to become more aware of and give support to the Hospice Society, and Don McCormick praised the work that the society did. “In

spite of the inevitability of death, we really don’t deal with it very well. The services the Cranbrook and Kimberley Hospice Society provides is amazing.”

Bev McCormick drew for third place. The winner of the Harley-Davidson Storage Bench was Jack Johnson of Kimberley. Lee Pratt drew for the winner of the Portster — Bryan Beler of Elkford was the winner. And Don McCormick drew the name for first prize, the Dyna Fat Bob. Dale Cook of Cranbrook was the winner.

For more information on the Cranbrook Kimberley Hospice Society, go to http://www.ck-hospice.com. For more informa-tion on Harley Davidson of the Kootenays, go to harleydavid-sonkootenays.com.

BARRY COULTER PHOTO

Left to right: Don McCormick, Mayor of Kimberley; Don Davidson, President, Cranbrook Kimberley Hospice Society; Lee Pratt, Mayor of Cranbrook; Terry Segarty, Hospice Society board member; Bev McCormick;Ken Betenia, Harley Owners Group Assistant Director; Jeanne Davidson, Hospice Society Coordinator; Bob Gilchrist, Hospice Society Treasurer. In front are the two Harley-Davidson motor-cycles raffled off Friday, Dec. 26, in support of the Cranbrook and Kimberley Hospice Society. Second prize, a Sportster 883 Iron, is in the foreground. The first prize Dyna Fat Bob is behind it.

Harleys raffled to help Hospice

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December, 2014, the Cranbrook RCMP ar-rested an adult male on outstanding warrants for Possession of a Con-trolled Substance for the Purpose of Trafficking. These warrants stemmed from charges out of Dawson Creek from 2010.

This male arrived in Cranbrook earlier in

2014 and assumed an alias name. This male quickly became in-volved in the criminal element of Cranbrook.

Subsequent to his ar-rest last Friday, the Cranbrook RCMP exe-cuted a warrant to search his residence in the Amy Woodland Ele-mentary School area. Inside the residence, police recovered a load-ed shotgun, a significant

amount of cocaine and a large amount of money.

Travis Howard Losi-er, 25 years of age, ap-peared in Cranbrook Provincial Court on the outstanding warrants as well as new Cranbrook charges of Possession of a Weapon for Danger-ous Purpose and Pos-session of a Controlled Substance for the Pur-pose of Trafficking. Losier has been re-manded in custody and is scheduled to make his next court appearance January 12, 2014.

Police would like to thank the community for their cooperation with this investigation. Police are also seeking assistance in regards to an incident that oc-curred on December 14, 2014. On that date, a residence in the South-view area sustained gunshots to the exterior of the residence and to a vehicle parked at that location, by unknown suspects.

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OTTAWA — It could very well be that 2014 is remembered as the year when Canada traded one shadow war for possibly two others.

The flag was barely folded and put away in Kabul, marking a formal end to more than 12 years of counter-insurgency war against the ghostly Taliban, before CF-18s were dispatched to begin pounding extremist tar-gets in Iraq.

The summer offensive by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the al-Qaida splinter group that brought its brutal ca-liphate to the gates of Baghdad, coincided with the under-cutting of Ukraine.

The so-called “little green men” — Russian troops stripped of identi-fiable badges fighting in Crimea and eastern Ukraine while Vladimir Putin’s government de-

nied their presence — competed for the world’s attention alongside black-masked, knife-wielding Islamic State warriors, many of them brutal, bloodthirsty mercenaries who encouraged Muslim faithful to rise up and slaughter westerners in their own backyards.

Both of them struck from the shadows with inscrutable motives and a fury that sowed a mixture of horror, indignation and confusion.

It was brought home for Canadians in a brutal, bloody manner with the Oct. 22 attack on Parlia-ment and the murders of two Canadian soldiers. The would-be jihadists had tenuous links to ISIL, but the group was quick to claim them as their own — and the Harper government was equally ready to make the link.

In a year-end inter-view with The Canadian Press, NATO’s supreme commander suggested

the world has become a less stable, potentially more dangerous place, especially considering Russia is a nuclear power.

Some have suggested the world is on the verge of a new Cold War.

The Islamic State, with its lurid Internet be-headings and tales of me-dieval-mindset massa-cres, represents a differ-ent, potential long-term threat, one that is the West is struggling to wrap its head around.

“Until we address the root causes of the Islamic State, its going to be hard to win this battle with the Islamic State,” said U.S. Gen. Phillip Breedlove, whose remarks carry the faint echo of Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s oft-maligned position.

“We put great pressure on this kind of issue in Afghanistan and you saw it moved to the Maghreb (northern Africa) and the eastern part of Africa. This is an adaptive long-

term problem until we get to the root causes and address those issues.”

It is the standoff with a now economically bat-tered Russia that mostly preoccupies the 59-year-old career U.S. Air Force commander.

“If we can clearly no longer count on Russia as a partner, and we face an issue there that is unre-solvable, this is existential because of the types of weapons Russia holds,” Breedlove said in a tele-phone interview from Brussels.

His comments are rel-atively tame when held up against those from government and academ-ic circles in Poland and the Baltic states, where there is a collective belief that Putin’s long-term goal is to destroy the credibility of NATO by demonstrating it will not use force, regardless of the provocation.

The sentiment is rein-forced by Russian parlia-

mentarians such as Vyacheslav Nikonov, who was ominously quoted by The Financial Times last October as suggesting the crisis over Ukraine “is the most dangerous moment in relations between the Russia and the West since the Cuban missile crisis,” the 1962 showdown be-tween Washington and Moscow that brought the world to the brink of nu-clear war.

Defence analyst George Petrolekas, a re-tired colonel, mused re-cently that the Saudi Ara-bian-induced tanking of world oil prices has done more to check Russian ambitions than anything the West, particularly NATO, has come up with since the Ukrainian crisis began to unfold last win-ter.

Canada’s operations commander, Lt.-Gen. Jonathan Vance, said the reality of 21st century conflict is that much hap-pens outside the military sphere.

The challenge, espe-cially with Russia, is make to sure that the economic perils of low oil and sanc-tions don’t create massive instability and lead to an even more dangerous brinkmanship, he said.

“What we’ve seen in the response by Canada and its NATO allies is a measured response to what Russia is doing,” Vance said.

“It’s safe to say it’s rare-ly useful to further desta-bilize a situation. Our doctrine, our approach, has generally been to re-cover a situation. Wider and worse destabilization

is absolutely not in the best interests of anybody, least of which is Canada.”

Eastern Europe may be the focus of Breed-love’s attention, but Cana-da’s participation in the coalition air campaign against ISIL fills Vance’s schedule. That will con-tinue in the new year as the Harper government decides whether to ex-tend the six month CF-18 combat mission, due to expire in April.

U.S. commanders have warned the cam-paign to defeat the ex-tremist threat, using Iraqi ground forces and Syrian resistance fighters, could take up to three years. The next campaign phase, likely to involve training of Iraqi forces, will unfold in the new year.

Canada faces Cold War in Europe, hot war in Iraq in 2015

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Year in review

Looking back on 2014A day by day look at the year past, through the top stories in the Cranbrook Daily Townsman

January 2The receiver-manager in

charge of the Shadow Moun-tain Golf Ltd. confirmed Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013, that the property was sold to a buyers group out of Edmon-ton. The receiver-manager was court appointed to man-age the golf course on Jan. 8, 2013.

The property, now known as River’s Crossing, was pur-chased by Westpoint Capital, an Edmonton investment fund manager.

In 2007, the city boundary was expanded for the inclu-sion of the Shadow Moun-tain development.

* * *It was reported that a

group of backcountry skiers were been rescued after being caught up in an ava-lanche near Golden.

January 6Jumbo Glacier Resort was

the subject of a court case that got underway Monday, Jan. 6, 2014.

The Ktunaxa Nation Council hadpetitioned for a judicial review to determine whether the B.C. govern-ment acted appropriately when it approved a Master Development Agreement for Jumbo Glacier Resort in March 2012. The case was later dismissed, and the Ktu-naxa are currently appealing.

January 7Four people charged over

a series of Cranbrook home invasions appeared in Crim-inal Court. Terrence Albert Allan, Andrew Daryl James Monnette, Megan Wynter Sands and Jay Leonard Hills each had brief court appear-ances in Cranbrook Provin-cial Court on Monday, Janu-ary 6. The four were charged by RCMP who were investi-gating two home invasions and a break-in in Cranbrook over the holiday season.

* * *An Alberta man survived

a close call with an avalanche over the weekend near Spar-wood. Elk Valley RCMP were notified about an avalanche just after 3 p.m. on Sunday, January 5, near the Teck Coal Mountain mine. The mine is south-east of Sparwood.

January 8With more than a centu-

ry’s history in the region, Falkins Insurance became part of Western Financial Group in January . Western announced Monday, Jan. 6 that it had completed acqui-sition of Falkins, which is the

largest general insurance brokerage in the Kootenays. The final purchase came after the two companies en-tered into a strategic partner-ship in May 2005, when Western acquired a 20 per cent ownership stake in Falk-ins. That portion was in-creased to 40 per cent in Au-gust 2010.

January 9A Cranbrook area resi-

dent whose property backs on to Idlewild Park expressed serious concerns about the state of man-made Idlewild Lake, and the problems he said are being caused by the fact that the lake hasn’t been dredged in many years, something that is necessary for the health of the lake and the integrity of the surround-ing land. Idlewild Lake was designed to be dredged reg-ularly, of silt build-up and a system to allow Joseph Creek to bypass the lake while dredging was undertaken was incorporated into the lake’s original design. How-ever, Peter Kleindienst, who lives on the last private prop-erty where the creek goes into the lake, said the lake hasn’t been dredged for more than 20 years, and the resulting silt build-up has left the lake shallow and mal-odorous, and caused the creek to backup on Kleins-dienst’s property.

January 10Cranbrook city council

passed the first three read-ings of a new procedural bylaw that will bring the most pressing matters to the front of the meeting and the information items and less pressing issues to the back of the meeting.

January 13Escalating complaints

about highway conditions throughout the East Koote-nay, particularly in the Elk Valley, led to a lengthy dis-cussion at the Friday, Jan. 10 meeting of the Regional Dis-trict of East Kootenay board of directors. Local elected officials appealed to the B.C. Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure and its highway maintenance con-tractor Mainroad East Koote-nay Contracting to explain why it hadn’t done a better job of cleaning up after the weather event. The board heard from Mainroad and from concerned citizens.

January 14It was reported that the

Ktunaxa Nation Council and Regional District of East Kootenay would work to-gether to draft a Memoran-dum of Understanding (MOU) in 2014.

The project was support-ed by the Ktunaxa Nation Council in November, 2013, and the Regional District of East Kootenay (RDEK) board of directors supported mov-ing ahead with the project on Friday, Jan. 10.

A new trial date was set for Cranbrook man whose lifetime prison sentence for murder was overturned last year. In 2009, Cheyenne Learn was convicted of sec-ond degree murder over the December 2007 shooting death of Tammy Ellis in Cranbrook. He was sen-tenced to life in prison with no hope of parole for 16 years. The new two-week trial was to start on Tuesday, Nov. 25 in Cranbrook.

January 15It was announced that a

new event would be coming to Cranbrook in the form of a multi-cultural festival. Orga-nizers started planning for the inaugural multicultural festival in August.

The two-week trial of Brian Panebianco goy un-derway in Cranbrook Su-preme Court Tuesday, Jan. 14. The 25-year-old Inver-mere man was charged with manslaughter, criminal neg-ligence causing death, rob-bery and assault causing bodily harm in the death of 32-year-old Cory Jarock, who was found deceased April 3, 2012 in the driveway of a home in Invermere’s Tunna-cliffe Heights neighbour-hood.

January 16A couple who live at St.

Mary Lake sounded an alarm after their dog got caught in a

leg trap on Crown land. The dog was freed with the help of a Conservation Officer, and though injured, was ex-pected to recover.

January 17RCMP arrested three peo-

ple for drug trafficking during a road check on Cran-brook Street North on Wednesday, Jan. 15. Cpl. Chris Newel of the Kimber-ley RCMP said police set up a road check after receiving a tip from the public about in-dividuals involved in drug trafficking. Newel said the check had been going for over five hours when the sus-pect vehicle approached. A 44-year-old man was later charged with cocaine traf-ficking.

January 20Cranbrook’s very own

MasterChef Canada contes-tant Danielle Cardozo is hosted a viewing party for the series’ first episode on Monday, Jan. 20 at the Heid Out Restaurant and Brew-house. Cardozo, who works as a sous chef at the Heid Out, has made the Top 50 and will appear in at least the opening episodes of the new Canadian series, which will air on CTV.

January 22It was reported that the

F.W. Green Medical Centre sent out 1,100 letters which effectively ended many Cranbrook residents’ access

to a family doctor. The clin-ic has served notice to pa-tients of Dr. Stuart Mac-donald that they will no longer have a family doctor as of March 1, 2014.

January 23Brian Panebianco was

shaking and unsteady on his feet on Tuesday eve-ning, Jan. 21, as a 12-per-son jury found him not guilty in connection to the death of Cory Jarock.

Members of the jury, made up of Cranbrook, Kimberley and area resi-dents, were also visibly upset as the foreperson an-nounced the verdict. One by one, the court clerk read the charges, and each time, the jury foreperson pro-nounced Panebianco not guilty. Manslaughter, crim-inal negligence causing death, robbery and assault causing bodily harm – not guilty four times.

January 27Friends, family and as-

sociates of Kenny Bridge packed into the Heritage Inn Ballroom Saturday eve-ning, January 25, to cele-brate the awarding of Cran-brook’s Citizen of the Year to Kenny Bridge. Since 1973, the Cranbrook and District Chamber of Com-merce has been awarding Citizen of the Year to Cran-brook residents who have “contributed to the fabric that makes this community special,” as Master of Cere-monies Loree Duczek said.

January 29Cranbrook’s Danielle

Cardozo proceeded to the top 16 in MasterChef Cana-da’s second episode, which aired on CTV on Monday, Jan. 27. Danielle, who works for ?aq’am (St. Mary’s Band) and is a sous chef at the Heid Out Brewhouse and Restaurant, was first announced as a member of the new series’ top 50 last month.

Feb. 3, 2014HSBC gave notice to at

least two Cranbrook non-profits that they should find new banks. In a letter to the CUPW Local 728 signed by HSBC’s head of business banking Nigel Davis, the bank said that upon conducting a “strate-gic review” of personal banking services, it would be closing the accounts.

All winter long, Cranbrook and area residents followed the adventures of Danielle Cardozo (second from right) on MasterChef Canada.

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Feb. 4, 2014Two men charged

over a series of home invasions in Cranbrook had to wait a few more weeks for a bail hearing. Terrence Allan and An-drew Monnette were among four people charged in connection with two home inva-sions and a break and enter in Cranbrook around Christmas 2013.

* * *Cranbrook’s Dan-

ielle Cardozo was through to the top 14 in MasterChef Canada after sailing through the third episode on Sun-day night. Danielle was not seen in the final ver-sion of the episode that went to air on CTV Sun-day night after the Super Bowl. However, sometimes no news is good news as Danielle was not among those cut from the reality se-ries that week.

Feb. 5, 2014The Cranbrook

RCMP released the fourth quarter of 2013 numbers and Cst. Barry Graham was on hand at Monday night’s council meeting to answer questions.

Graham said the numbers drop in almost every category except break and enters, but noted that it is a small

statistical sample for the quarter.

Feb. 6, 2014Cranbrook city

council adopted a bylaw that will enable Medical Marijuana grow opera-tions to operate within industrial zones, in an-ticipation of new federal regulations concerning licensing of MMGOS.

* * *The NDP MLA for

Port Coquitlam came through the Cranbrook and Kimberley area on Wednesday, Feb. 4, on an information gather-ing trip in advance of the upcoming session of the B.C. legislature and the government budget process.

Feb. 7, 2014Cranbrook council

found that the cost of snow removal from all city streets would quick-ly become expensive, as would the use of snow gates to clear snow from in front of driveways. At the Monday, Feb. 3 reg-ular meeting, city staff outlined the costs, ben-efits and disadvantages of the additional snow removal services. The street clearing informa-tion came as a result of a council inquiry on be-half of a resident.

Feb. 11, 2014

Brad Lukowich, the assistant coach with the Lethbridge Hurricanes, was fired from the team on Friday after half a season on the bench. In a terse three-sentence press release, ‘Canes general manager Brad Robson said Lukowich had been “terminated for cause.”

Feb. 12, 2014Police investigated

10 deer traps stolen from a government compound in Cran-brook. On Sunday, Feb. 9, police were called to the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Re-source Operations com-pound on Industrial Road G in Cranbrook. All 10 clover traps were missing from the yard.

Feb. 13, 2014Kimberley City

Council Chambers was packed with spectators on Monday evening as Council deliberated on spending $350,000 to upgrade the ice plant at Marysville arena. In the end, Council voted five to two to go ahead, but not before much de-bate, some of it quite passionate.

Feb. 14, 2014The new Sport Chek

store in Cranbrook will soon open its doors.

Brendan Arnold, public relations for Sport Chek’s parent company FGL Sports, said the store is slated to open April 10 and will be looking to hire around 31 people in March.

Feb. 17, 2014The hospital district

approved funding for a host of projects at East Kootenay hospitals, without raising the tax rate for residents. At a meeting on Friday, Feb. 14 of the Kootenay East Regional Hospital Dis-trict, the board of direc-tors approved the 2014 annual budget. The budget includes fund-ing for five capital proj-ects that Interior Health plans to complete in 2014. The hospital dis-trict funds 40 per cent of the projects, while the B.C. government funds the remaining 60 per cent.

Feb. 18, 2014East Kootenay pa-

tients can now see a doctor online from home, even if they don’t have a family doctor, with a new service that has launched in B.C.

Medeo is a virtual health care service that launched last January and already has 10,000 patients and 350 family doctors and specialists signed up.

Feb. 19, 2014Conservation offi-

cers euthanized four young cougars beside a walking trail at Cran-brook’s Elizabeth Lake.

The seven-month-old siblings were put down on Sunday beside the lake, within eyesight of Parkland Middle School, said Cranbrook Conservation Officer (CO) Jared Connatty.

Feb. 20, 2014Cranbrook will know

the results of the next municipal election within half an hour of the close of voting thanks to electronic vot-ing machines. At Mon-day, Feb. 17’s regular meeting, council adopt-ed a bylaw to authorize the purchase of auto-mated voting machines, at a cost of between $12,000 and $14,000.

Feb. 21, 2014An attempt by Coun-

cillor Gerry Warner to introduce scaled busi-ness license fees failed in council on Monday, Feb. 17. At the moment, all businesses in Cran-brook, regardless of size, are required to pay a $150 annual fee for a license.

Feb. 24, 2014

A new local task force tackled the East Kootenay’s childcare crisis.

Starting this spring, the group conducted a child care needs assess-ment for the region. The assessment will seek public input on prob-lems that families face in securing child care, and make recommen-dations on how to alle-viate the issues.

Feb. 25, 2014A number of local

athletes were in Mission last week to compete in the BC Winter Games. Over the weekend, they competed in sports ranging from alpine ski-ing to gymnastics and wrestling.

Feb. 26, 2014Canada defended

their gold medal in men’s hockey on Sun-day morning, defeating Sweden 3-0 to close out the Sochi Games. Cana-dians home and abroad celebrated the perfor-mance as soon as the final buzzer went, in-cluding former Team

Canada captain Scott Niedermayer.

Feb. 27, 2014A Christian retreat

centre beside the St. Mary River in Fort Steele was up for ap-proval by the Agricul-tural Land Commis-sion. Haven of Hope would consist of a lodge, five cabins, a chapel and a caretaker facility on the riverfront property near the junc-tion of the St. Mary and Kootenay Rivers.

Feb. 28, 2014Cranbrook Commu-

nity Theatre held a spe-cial event last week, marking the completion of renovations to the historic Studio Stage Door in downtown Cranbrook. The grand re-opening was held Friday, Feb. 21, at the Heritage building on 11th Avenue South. The event was also a cele-bration of CCT’s 40 years as stewards of the building.

Looking back on 2014Continued from page 3

File photo

Josh Dueck did Kimberley and Canada proud at the Sochi Paralympic Games.

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MarchMarch 4

It appears as if the ru-mours of the Kootenay Ice relocating have been greatly exaggerated. Again. According to a re-port out of the Prince George Citizen, which was picked up by blogs on the internet, an un-sourced rumour has it that the Kootenay Ice was relocate to Winni-peg next year.

March 6Kootenay Ice forward

Tim Bozon was been di-agnosed with Neisseria Meningitis and was in critical condition in a hospital in Saskatoon. Bozon was admitted to Royal University Hospi-tal on Saturday, March 1.

***It was reported that

the majority of the phy-sicians of the F.W. Green Medical Centre were to relocate into the new Baker Street Profession-al Centre this summer.  The move would see the creation of two, separate smaller family practices, the FW Green Clinic and Fisher Peak Family Prac-tice. 

March 7The City of Cran-

brook has been forced to scrap changes to devel-opment fees after the B.C. government re-fused to approve the new bylaw. At its regular council meeting on Monday, March 3, city council rescinded three readings of its Develop-ment Cost Charge Bylaw. It would have seen development cost charges (DCCs) rise, for example, from $2,032 per home in a low densi-ty residential develop-ment to $4,289 per home.

* * *Parts of Cranbrook,

Wasa, Fort Steele, Mead-owbrook and Wardner are experiencing flood-ing after heavy snow gave way to warm tem-peratures and rain this week. Many areas of the city experienced flood-ing, including parts of Joseph Creek, Highway 3, the CP rail yard and Cobham Avenue.

March 12

RCMP arrested a 26-year-old man after another man was stabbed in Cranbrook on Friday, March 7. Police were called when a man was dropped off at East Kootenay Regional Hos-pital on Friday, suffering from serious stab wounds

March 17 You certainly couldn’t

ask for a more successful Paralympic Games than those experienced by Kimberley’s own Josh Dueck. Not only did the sit-skier win two medals, a gold in Super Com-bined and a silver in the downhill, but he lead in his Canadian teammates and carried the flag at the closing ceremonies on Sunday.

March 18No Ice player has

been able to crack the century mark for sin-gle-season points since Jarrett Stoll in 2000-01.

However, Sam Rein-hart did it on Friday against the Hitmen, notching an assist on Philp’s first goal to give him 100 points on the season. He ended the night with two goal and two assist for four points.

March 19 The man who died in

a workplace accident at Teck’s Coal Mountain mine on Sunday has been identified as Miles Bradley Lorenz, 59, from Coleman, Alberta.

The B.C. Coroners Service released the in-formation on Tuesday, March 18.

According to the cor-oner, Lorenz was a water truck driver. On Sunday, March 16, he was filling his truck with water when he was hit by fro-zen rock that fell off a separate vehicle.

March 20More good news-

came out of Saskatoon on Tim Bozon’s health. The Kootenay Ice for-ward was moved out of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and into one of the hospital wards, and doc-tors listed his condition as stable. Bozon’s par-ents said he was awake, moving around in his

bed, trying to feed him-self and trying to speak.

March 21RCMP issue arrest

warrant for repeat of-fender Jason Beaudry.

A countrywide war-rant has been issued for the arrest of high-risk of-fender  Jason Beau-dry  after he was sup-posed to check in with his parole officer on Monday but failed to do so. He had previously vi-olated conditions of his parole on Saturday, March 15.

March 26Three University of

Calgary students were headed on a trip across Europe with only cans of Red Bull as currency and their wits.

Eric Termuende, from Cranbrook, along with teammates Conner Brown and Ben Cannon were embarking on the Red Bull Can You Make It? competition. The trio were to start in London and make their way to Berlin, stopping at checkpoints on the way.

March 27Canadian technology

developed by a Cran-brook-raised man is being used in the search for missing Malaysia Air-

lines Flight 370.Michel Lechmann,

who graduated from Mount Baker Secondary School in 1986, is now a software engineer based in Halifax.

Through his compa-ny, CarteNav Solutions, Lechmann has created a software program in-stalled in the Australian airforce’s P3 Orions, being used in the search for the plane that crashed into the south-ern Indian Ocean earlier this month.

March 28The B.C. government

proposed major changes to the Agricultural Land Commission (ALC), opening the door for East Kootenay farmers to gain permission to use their properties for non-agricultural uses.

Kootenay East MLA and Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett an-nounced the proposed changes Thursday, March 27, in the legisla-ture, the result of the Lib-eral government’s core review of government spending, which Ben-nett is leading.

Our Year in Review continues on Tuesday,

Dec. 30.

Looking back on 2014Continued from page 4

Protect our earth.The Cranbrook Daily Townsman and the

Kimberley Daily Bulletin promote recycling.

We use vegetable-based inks, and our newsprint, tin and aluminum waste is recycled.

F o r t h e tow n s m a nFor the last six years, the Kimber-

ley Nordic Racers has been organiz-ing a New Year’s Eve Torchlight Ski Event at the Kimberley Nordic Trails.

This event has grown every year, and has become a tradition for fam-ily and friends to gather as they ski the beautiful trails of the Kimberley Nordic Centre with three kilometres lit with torches and candles.

Last year over 500 people attend-ed the event and it certainly proved to be a crowd pleaser. Skiers enjoyed the amenities that the lodge has to offer by enjoying snacks and hot beverages after their ski. As well the Nordic Trails offer a fantastic view of the firework display that takes place at the Ski Hill.

This year’s Candlelight Ski is being sponsored by five local busi-nesses. Corporate sponsors include Kimberley Tourism, Kimberley Log-ging Company, Kootenay Savings, Kootenay Mountain Works and Re-

sorts of the Canadian Rockies.The Nordic Racers wish to thank

these sponsors for their support. Their support keeps this event af-fordable for our Community and al-lows entrance by voluntary dona-tions.

The Candlelight Ski takes place between 7 and 10 pm on Wednes-day, December 31, at the Kimberley Nordic Centre. All ages are wel-come and encouraged to partici-pate. Admission is by donation with proceeds supporting the Kimberley Nordic Racers.

The Nordic racers are a group of teenaged skiers that train all year long, and compete in regional, pro-vincial and national races.

If you have not experienced the New Year’s Eve Candlelight Ski be sure to take in this memorable com-munity event this year. For more information please contact Kim Miller at 09coreykim@telus.net or Frank Ackermann at frankacker-mann@me.com.

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Ski by torchlight New Year’s Eve

PAGE 6 MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2014

It’s been an interesting calendar year in Cranbrook, splitting duties on the sports desk and the news desk. I moved off of the sports beat in August to cover a maternity leave for our senior reporter on the news desk. While I’ve had the opportunity to cover some interesting stories recently on the news desk, namely the Cheyenne Learn trial in Cranbrook Supreme Court, this list in primarily devoted to what I feel were the top local stories to come off the sports desk in 2014. Hope you enjoy.

The shining star of Sam ReinhartIt was the highly-anticipated draft

year for Kootenay Ice captain Sam Reinhart, the youngest of a trio of brothers who seem destined for the NHL to follow in the footsteps of their father, Paul Reinhart. NHL scouts had their eye on Sam since he was drafted into the WHL as the 15th over-all selection by the Kootenay Ice in 2010.

He went to the WHL podium twice last year capturing Player of the Year and Most Sportsmanlike Player of the Year awards and finished with 105 points, good for fifth in the regular season scoring race. Howev-er, it was his play following the World Ju-niors that made everyone sit up and take notice, where he tallied 55 points in 27 games.

Kootenay Ice playoffsHockey is a team game; you win and

lose as a team, but the trio of Sam Reinhart, Jaedon Descheneau and Zach Franko al-most single-handedly took out the Calgary Hitmen in the first round of the 2014 WHL playoffs. In six games, they scored 17 points. Each. Kootenay went in as the underdog,

the sixth seed going up against the third seed, and won in six games. It was fire wagon hockey in almost all of the games—entertaining for fans but nail biters for the coaches. Kootenay stunned the Hitmen with the first win, before losing twice, one of which was a tight 7-6 OT loss. However, the Ice knotted up the series in Calgary and

came home for an emotional Game Six where Tim Bozon, who had just been released from hospi-tal after battling meningitis, delivered the ceremonial puck drop. Kootenay went

on to win the game 5-3 and the series. De-spite a 3-1 series lead over the Medicine Hat Tigers, the Tabbies were able to battle back and force Game 7, which they won to advance to the Eastern Conference final.

Tim Bozon’s battle with meningitisThe WHL and the rest of the hockey

world reacted in shock when it was an-nounced that Tim Bozon was in a medical-ly induced coma and on the brink of death after being admitted to hospital in Saska-toon with a diagnosis of Nesseria Meningi-tis. Bozon, a blue-chip prospect for the Montreal Canadiens, taken in the 3rd round of the 2012 NHL Draft, played in a game with the Kootenay Ice against the Saskatoon Blades before heading back to the hotel with the team and had a restless night in his room. Ice athletic therapist Cory Cameron made the call to an ambu-lance the next morning, and Bozon was diagnosed with meningitis and put into a coma not even two hours later at the hospi-

tal. After two weeks, he was slowly awak-ened and released a week later, where he briefly returned to Cranbrook before head-ing back to Europe to make what appears to be a complete recovery.

Bandits win Montana State Championship

The Cranbrook Bandits baseball team captured their first state championship this past season after defeating the Medicine Hat Majestics 11-5 in the final game of the tournament. The Bandits went on an unde-feated run of five games, dramatically out-scoring the opposition during their run to the state title. Led by Devon Marra, Tyler Thorn and Brandon Ouillette, along with some great rookie talent such as Kei Chlopan, the Bandits had a successful sea-son under the guidance of head coach Paul Mrazek. The best thing? The entire team is eligible to return for next season to take another shot at a repeat title.

Josh Dueck earns gold at SochiJosh Dueck realized a dream in Febru-

ary when he claimed the first gold medal of his Paralympic career, topping the podium in Super Combined at the Sochi Winter Olympic Games in Russia. Not only did Dueck capture gold, he also nabbed a silver in downhill. It’s more hardware on his shelf, as he already captured numerous awards over his sit-ski racing career, such as a silver medal in the Vancouver Winter Olympics, a gold in the X-Games and a world championship. Dueck recently an-nounced his retirement from competitive skiing as he looks to the next chapter in his life.

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OpiniOn/EvEnts

The main purpose of year-end reviews, of course, is to hold the ads apart. But they can also serve as a kind of annual

check-up on the political health — and also on the economic, demographic and even physical health — of the planet and its teem-ing human population. So imagine that we are a panel of high-priced medicos reviewing the health status of our most important cli-ent, the human race.

The first thing to note is that the client is still piling on weight at an alarming rate – up from two billion units to seven billion in the past seventy-five years — but continues to thrive, for the most part. And most of the ailments that it worries about are mere hypochondria.

Take, for example, the widespread concern (at least in the media and among what Bob Fisk calls the “think-tank mountebanks”) that the emer-gence of the so-called Islamic State in the no man’s land between Iraq and Syria will lead to catastrophe. There will allegedly be a surge in terrorist attacks around the world, a Sunni-Shia religious war spanning the en-tire Middle East, or even a global religious war between Muslims and everybody else.

The Sunni fanatics and the Shia fanatics are far too busy trying to kill each other to have time to spare for attacking non-Mus-lims. (Besides, most Muslims don’t want to attack anybody; they just want to be left in peace.) Quite a lot of the slaughter in Iraq and Syria is driven by religion, but we are still a long way from a religious conflict that directly involves the really important states of the Middle East: Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Iran.

Even the anticipated surge in terrorist attacks outside the region is not likely to come to pass. The only strategic purpose for such attacks by any organised group of Isla-mist extremists is to gain support and re-cruits within their own region. If they can lure Western powers into killing lots of Muslims in their region, then their cause will prosper locally.

As it turns out, Islamic State has not even needed to carry out terrorist attacks in the West to achieve this goal. Videos of Western hostages being beheaded have been enough to get the bombing going again, and Western governments are no more troubled by the sheer pointlessness of the bombing than they were in the past. Both sides are playing for the home audience, and really don’t care much about the impact of their actions on the alleged enemy.

The whole “Islamic State” panic is a tem-pest in a fairly small teacup. The casualties are small, and the entire region matters little economically or strategically except to its own inhabitants. Even in the unlikely event that a Sunni-Shia religious war should en-gulf the whole of the Middle East, it would have no more effect on the rest of the planet than the European wars of religion four centuries ago had on the Middle East. That is to say, hardly any.

So in terms of the global system’s health, the rise of radical Islamism is not a

life-threatening disease. It’s a local infection that will probably have to run its course. If it really gets bad, some quarantine measures may be needed, but this is not ebola.

Speaking of which, the ebola outbreak in Africa

seems on the way to being contained, al-though it will probably remain as a low-lev-el chronic problem in the three West Afri-can countries where it reached epidemic status: Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. There is a small risk that ebola might take root in a densely populated country whose people travel widely, like Nigeria or, even worse, India, but so far, so good.

The other great shock of 2014 was a war in Europe. The Ukrainian revolution of last February was a messy and complicated business, but it need not have ended in Rus-sia’s illegal annexation of Crimea and in a Russian-backed separatist war in Ukraine’s two easternmost provinces.

We owe that mainly to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s world-view as a former agent of the KGB, the Soviet secret police, which (as the old saying had it) thwarted ten anti-Soviet plots for every one that actually existed.

The KGB was full of very clever people — indeed, it was the most intelligent and best informed part of the old Soviet regime, one of the world’s strongholds of institu-tionalised stupidity — but it was also a nest of paranoid fantasists. You may debate to your heart’s content whether this was a Rus-sian cultural phenomenon or an extreme case of the disease that infects every great-power spy agency, but that’s why Putin reacted the way he did.

Western European governments are so divided and introspective that they could not come up with a credible plan to boil an egg, and they care very little about the parts of Eastern Europe beyond the European Union’s borders. The only section of the

American population that sees President Obama’s administration as capable of hatching a plot is the extreme right, and they think he’s a foreign-born Communist plotting the overthrow of the United States.

Various Western politicians showed up in Kiev to cheer the protesters on, but these were just the usual suspects taking advan-tage of a good photo op. Their real intended audience, as usual, was back home. As for NATO, it is another Cold War institution that has long outlived its purpose, but it no more wants to bring Ukraine into the fold than it longs to recruit Mongolia as a mem-ber. Too much trouble, and no profit what-ever.

There was no Western plot, but Putin is driven by the belief that there was. He has taken Russia into a confrontation with the West that it cannot win, and the country’s economy is already crumbling under the twin strains of coping with Western sanc-tions and the collapse of the oil price. He is finding it almost impossible to back away without losing face, but he has nothing to gain by continuing the conflict either. Risk of a new Cold War: minimal.

So far the patient’s health is looking pret-ty good. There is the usual clutter of minor ailments — a mini-civil war here (Libya, South Sudan), civil rights protesters under attack there (Hong Kong, Missouri) – and there is a significant possibility that next year will bring another recession. That’s as inevitable as catching a cold once in a while. But there has been nothing really out of the ordinary this year, nothing that sets off alarm bells.

The only big worry the doctors have is the same one that has bothered them for the past twenty-five years: the patient sim-ply won’t stop smoking. Their increasingly grave warnings are met with empty promis-es to cut back or quit entirely, but not right now, just some time far in the future. Maybe.

Climate change is the spectre at every feast, the unstoppable rot that undermines every positive development. The failure at Copenhagen in 2009 bleeds indistinguish-ably into the fudge at Durban in 2011 and on into the feeble compromise in Lima in 2014, which sets us up for the bigger disap-pointment of Paris in 2015. And even if by some miracle we get a useful agreement in Paris next year, nothing will actually be done until 2020.

The patient thinks there’s still plenty of time to quit. There isn’t.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist based in London

2014: Our hypochondriac planet

Letters to the editorNo parallel state

This in response to Tom Fletcher’s col-umn (‘Nisga’a proving their critics wrong,’ B.C. Views, Dec. 3) and a recent letter to the editor from Ron Johnson (‘Perils of a paral-lel state’).

First, the Nisga’a Nation is not a “parallel state.” As a result of our treaty, we are very much a part of Canada, a fact about which many Nisga’a citizens are extremely proud. In the manner set out in the Nisga’a Treaty, federal and provincial laws apply to Nisga’a Nation, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms applies to Nisga’a government, Nisga’a citizens pay taxes, and Nisga’a citi-zens continue to be entitled to all the rights and benefits of other Canadian citizens.

If anything, our treaty removed the bar-riers of the Indian Act that obstructed our full participation in Canadian society. We

take exception to being separated in any way from Canada.

Second, Johnson’s comment that Nisga’a citizens have become a “landed gentry” is a completely inaccurate portrayal of the state of Nisga’a society. It suggests that through the recognition of our aboriginal title under the Nisga’a Treaty, Nisga’a Nation has some-how magically transformed its economic conditions to that of a 19th century aristo-crat living off rents.

In fact we were not allowed to partici-pate in the industrial revolution, and we need to catch up to the rest of Canada. As tax-paying Canadians, we at Nisga’a Nation still have to earn our daily bread, attract in-vestment to our area and carefully plan and build for the future, just like everyone else in Canada.

This is why we support the development of the liquefied natural gas industry in B.C.,

are seeking to attract investment, and possi-bly operate an LNG facility on Nisga’a lands. As we have indicated to the government of B.C. at recent joint press conferences, our efforts at Nisga’a Nation provide LNG pro-ponents project certainty to support the es-tablishment of the LNG industry in B.C. generally.

Nisga’a Nation strives for sustainable prosperity and self-reliance. We appreciate how Fletcher has kept an open mind to allow his views on the Nisga’a Treaty to evolve. We are optimistic that eventually more people will understand that we want what all citizens of B.C. want – an improved quality of life.

H. Mitchell StevensPresident

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Team Canada and Kootenay Ice captain Sam Reinhart (pictured Friday night in Canada’s win over Slovakia) are undefeated at the 2015 IIHF World Junior Championship heading into Monday’s game against Finland.

Looking for vengeanceCanada looks to take advantage of struggling Finland

Bill BeaconCanadian Press

MONTREAL - Open-ing with a pair of one-sided wins was a confidence booster for Canada but now comes the first real test at the world junior champion-ship: Finland.

Canada (2-0-0) en-ters Monday’s game at the Bell Centre on a high after shutout wins over Slovakia and Germany, but the defending champion Finns (0-1-1) are a sharp step up in competition.

“They’ve yet to win a game, so they’re going to be coming at us,” for-ward Curtis Lazar said Sunday. “It’ll probably be do or die for them.

“They really need to take a step in that direc-tion, and we get the lucky draw of having to face them. We’ve got to try to weather the storm. They’ve got a great team all around and we have to be ready to play.”

It has not gone well so far for Finland, which opened with a gutsy performance in a 2-1 shootout loss to the United States but then went south with a sur-prise 2-1 defeat to Slova-kia after wasting a string of scoring chances.

Many of the same Finnish players, includ-ing defence ace Julius Hinka, captain Artturi Lehkonen and goalie Juuse Saros were riding high at last year’s event

in Malmo, Sweden, when they toppled Can-ada 5-1 in the semifinals before beating the Swedes to claim their first title since 1998.

They are sure to bring the same cautious, patience-testing game they always play to the rematch with Canada, which has seven players back from a year ago.

“They’ve got great goaltending too,” added Lazar, one of the return-ees. “We’re going to have to get some good traffic in front of their goalie.

“Their defence does a great job of moving the puck and they’ve got some crafty forwards as well. So they’re going to keep us on our toes, but if we play the way we can, we’ll be fine.”

Canada has more skill up front than last year’s squad. So far, the goaltending has been perfect and the defence has been solid but for some hairy moments in the second period of Saturday’s 4-0 win when the entire team lost its edge for a spell against Germany.

Zach Fucale, who needed to make only 12 saves in the opening 8-0 rout of Slovakia, will be back in goal after Eric Comrie picked up a 17-save shutout against the Germans.

Fucale was in the net for last year’s loss to the Finns, who took the lead in the second period on

a fluke goal by Joni Nikko after Honka shot the puck in along the boards and saw it take a funny hop in front of the vacated net.

Finnish checking and counterattacking took over after that. The loss guaranteed that Canada would go a fifth straight year without a gold medal.

“I wouldn’t say it’s fresh in my mind, but I remember what hap-pened and I learned from it,” said Fucale. “It’ll certainly serve as a motivator for the game.”

Coach Benoit Grou-lx, an assistant to Brent Sutter last year, doesn’t want to dwell on what happened a year ago. He said both teams are different and this is a new tournament.

The Finns no longer have star forward Teuvo Teravainen, who had three points in the semi-final.

But they have slick forward Kaspari Kapa-nen, a first-round pick of the Pittsburgh Penguins who missed last year’s event with an injury. Fin-land also has six-foot-three dynamo Jesse Pul-jujarvi, who may be their most dangerous forward even if he’s only 16.

“We want to play in the now,” said Groulx. “I know they have a good team, but we also have a good team. We expect a very good game.”

Canada’s advantages

will be playing at home on an NHL-size rink and having a team brim-ming with confidence after two big wins.

Centre Nic Petan had six points in two games, while Robby Fabbri had four and Max Domi, Sam Reinhart, Connor McDavid and defence-man Madison Bowey each had three.

Domi, an Arizona Coyotes prospect who is the son of former NHL enforcer Tie Domi, grew up getting advice not only from his father but from his dad’s friends, like superstars Mario Le-

mieux and Mats Sundin.“I didn’t really listen

to my dad when he got mad at me for not shoot-ing,” Domi said with a laugh. “I’d always over-pass in minor hockey and he’d get on me and say, ‘If you can’t listen to Mario or Mats Sundin, then I don’t know who else can tell you.’ So I’d say all right. I had to fig-ure it out pretty quick.”

Groulx tinkered with his lines late against Germany by putting McDavid between Fab-bri and Jake Virtanen, a Vancouver Canucks’ first-round pick from

Abbotsford, B.C., who is of Finnish descent.

The only Canadian forwards without a point so far are Nick Ritchie and Frederik Gauthier, an ace penalty killer who leads the tournament with an 84.21 faceoff win percentage.

Canada has killed off nine straight penalties so far, but Groulx feels improvements can still be made.

“Our PKers were good but we can still be better,” he said. “We blocked many shots be-cause we got in position to block shots. We still

need improvement in our routes when we kill penalties, but I like the attitude of our PK guys.”

As for Finland, Grou-lx is aware they will be a test for his team.

“They skate well, they have skills, they have a solid goalie and they play very good as a unit,” said Groulx. “They’re very good at blocking the middle of the ice and taking your time and space away, so it’ll be a matter of us of managing the puck well and making sure we put ourselves in position to use our speed.”

Take twoKootenay Ice grab pair of wins over Calgary Hitmen

Taylor rocc aSports Editor

The Kootenay Ice grabbed a pair of crucial victories over the Cal-gary Hitmen this week-end, winning 6-2 on home ice Saturday night before edging the Hit-men 4-3 in Calgary Sun-day afternoon.

Saturday night, Levi Cable answered the call and delivered in enter-taining fashion, register-ing four goals to lead the Kootenay Ice to victory in front of a season-high crowd of 2,976 at West-ern Financial Place.

“I got a lot of shots today and the bounces were going my way, so I thought I’d just throw everything to the net,” Cable said after Satur-day’s win. “A lot of things just happened to go in for me. It was nice.

“It was really good to come back [from the holiday break] and get the win here.”

The 20-year-old na-tive of Hudson Bay, Sask., tallied twice in the first period before steal-ing an errant pass from Hitmen starting goal-tender Mack Shields in

the second period, com-pleting the hat-trick by depositing the puck into the vacated cage.

“He brings a lot of speed,” Ice goaltender Wyatt Hoflin said of Cable Saturday night. “He pushes the de-fencemen back. To-night, he was shooting really well and getting his own rebounds.

“It creates a lot of space when the d-men are backing off to re-spect his speed.”

Cable finished Satur-day’s win with five points, adding a third-period power-play goal as well as an assist on the final marker of the night, an even-strength tally from Jae-don Descheneau with less than five minutes to go in regulation.

Hoflin, making his 24th consecutive start between the pipes for the Ice, had a stellar night of his own, steer-ing aside a season-high 51 shots to earn his 19th win of the 2014-15 cam-paign.

“It’s nice for sure. Ob-viously we want to get two points while we’re missing some key play-ers,” Hoflin said. “It will be that much easier to catch up in the points race when they get back.”

In turning aside 51 pucks Saturday night, Hoflin erased his previ-ous season high of 48 saves, which came in a 3-0 shutout victory on the road over the Medi-cine Hat Tigers Nov. 22.

“You get more touch-es on the puck, the more confidence you have to

make the save,” Hoflin said. “Tonight, [because of] rebounds, I gave up a little more shots than I wanted to. I think I could have brought that [shot total] down by at least 15 shots with some rebound control, but I felt good.”

Sunday afternoon at the Scotiabank Saddle-dome in Calgary, the Ice racked up its fifth-con-secutive victory with a 4-3 win over the host Hitmen. The triumph pulled the Ice (20-17-0-0, 40 points) to within one point of the third-place Calgary Hitmen (19-14-1-2, 41) in the WHL’s Central Division standings.

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Ice forward Luke Philp tallied the eventu-al game-winning goal with less than five min-utes to play in the sec-ond period Sunday.

Cable continued his tear, grabbing his 16th goal of the season and adding another assist, bringing his weekend total against the Hitmen to five goals and two as-sists in two games.

Hoflin tied a Koote-nay Ice franchise record for consecutive appear-ances by a goaltender as he made is 25th straight start between the pipes Sunday afternoon.

Todd Mathews set

the record with 25 con-secutive appearances in net from Jan. 21 to March 14, 2009.

Hoflin’s run began Oct. 24 in a 9-2 setback on home ice against the Calgary Hitmen.

“It’s more about get-ting two points than the records or anything like that,” Hoflin said Satur-day night.

“Getting a break right in the middle [over Christmas] was nice. Obviously I’m coming back fresh. Every time they call my name to start, I’m going to try to be as good as I can for the team and help us get

two points.”The native of Spruce

Grove, Alta., turned aside 34 of 37 shots in Sunday’s win, good enough for a first-star performance.

Next up, the Ice head to Medicine Hat for a Tuesday-night date with the Tigers (25-9-1-1, 52). Medicine Hat is coming off an 8-4 drubbing of the Lethbridge Hurri-canes (9-21-3-2, 23) Sunday afternoon.

Notes: The Kootenay Ice went without D Dylan Overdyk (concus-sion), F Sam Reinhart (World Juniors), D Rinat Valiev (World Juniors)

and D Tanner Faith (upper body) this week-end… With three de-fencemen unavailable and only four others on the roster, Ice affiliate de-fenceman Tanner Lish-chynsky (1995) made his Kootenay Ice debut Sat-urday night. Lishchynsky began the season with the Flin Flon Bombers of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League, register-ing 18 points in 29 games. The 19-year-old Saskatoon native had 78 games of WHL experi-ence under his belt prior to Saturday (Prince George Cougars, 2012-14)…

Ice return in strong formContinued from page 8

Kootenay Ice Scoring SummariesSaturday, dec. 27

calgary HItmen 2 at Kootenay Ice 6

First Period 1. KTN - L. Cable, (12) (Z. Zborosky, M. Alfaro), 3:592. KTN - L. Cable, (13) (unassisted), 18:23Second Period3. KTN - L. Cable, (14) (unassisted), 3:104. KTN - L. Philp, (14) (T. Bozon, T. Lishchynsky), 4:48Third Period 5. KTN - L. Cable, (15) (J. Descheneau, T. Bozon), 0:14 (PP)6. CGY - P. Karnaukhov, (12) (C. Lang, C. Rankin), 6:20 (PP)7. CGY - M. Zipp, (4) (P. Karnaukhov, M. Donald), 8:108. KTN - J. Descheneau, (19) (L. Philp, L. Cable), 15:17Shots 1 2 3 TCalgary Hitmen 11 18 24 53Kootenay Ice 9 9 8 26Goaltenders Saves Mins SV%CGY - Mack Shields 11/15 24:48 0.733 Evan Johnson 9/11 35:12 0.818KTN - Wyatt Hoflin 51/53 60:00 0.962Power playsCalgary Hitmen 1/3 (33.3%)Kootenay Ice 1/3 (33.3%)Three Stars: 1) L. Cable (KTN); 2) W. Hoflin (KTN); 3) T. King (KTN)Attendance: 2,967

Sunday, dec. 28

Kootenay Ice 4 at calgary HItmen 3

First Period 1. KTN - Z. Zborosky, (11) (J. Descheneau, T. Bozon), 10:04 (PP)2. KTN - J. Martin, (4) (L. Cable, T. Murray), 10:493. CGY - A. Tambellini, (20) (C. Lang), 14:49 Second Period4. KTN - L. Cable, (16) (unassisted), 1:255. CGY - K. Helgesen, (11) (B. Thomas, C. Lang), 12:15 (PP)6. KTN - L. Philp, (15) (B. Allbee), 15:037. CGY - A. Tambellini, (21) (K. Helgesen), 19:10 (SH)Third Period - No scoring

Shots 1 2 3 TKootenay Ice 13 6 4 23Calgary Hitmen 17 11 9 37Goaltenders Saves Mins SV%KTN - Wyatt Hoflin 34/37 60:00 0.919CGY - Mack Shields 14/18 35:03 0.778 Evan Johnson 5/5 23:13 1.000Power playsKootenay Ice 1/3 (33.3%)Calgary Hitmen 1/3 (33.3%)Three Stars: 1) W. Hoflin (KTN); 2) A. Tambellini (CGY); 3) K. Helgesen (CGY)Attendance: 10,095

Upcoming GamesDec. 30 at Medicine HatJan. 2 at Red DeerJan. 3 at EdmontonJan. 9 vs. Red Deer Jan. 10 vs. SaskatoonJan. 14 at Moose Jaw

Scoring StatisticsPlayer GP G A PTS PIM Jaedon Descheneau 35 19 25 44 36 Luke Philp 36 15 23 38 12Tim Bozon 22 13 17 30 6Levi Cable 34 16 12 28 4Sam Reinhart 15 8 19 27 2Rinat Valiev 23 5 20 25 31Zak Zborosky 37 11 12 23 8Tyler King 33 4 11 15 25Matt Alfaro 37 5 9 14 14Austin Vetterl 37 3 10 13 30Jon Martin 22 4 8 12 34Troy Murray 37 2 8 10 16Ryan Chynoweth 37 2 6 8 28Bryan Allbee 34 3 3 6 8Tanner Faith 19 1 5 6 29Cale Fleury 36 0 6 6 4Vince Loschiavo 31 3 2 5 6River Beattie 31 2 2 4 21Dylan Overdyk 22 0 3 3 9Wyatt Hoflin 35 0 2 2 2Tanner Lishchynsky 2 0 1 1 0Austin Wellsby 27 0 0 0 4Goaltending StatisticsPlayer W L OTL SO GAA SPWyatt Hoflin 20 14 0 2 3.29 0.901 Keelan Williams 0 3 0 0 5.37 0.850

Kimberley Dynamiters Scoring SummarySunDay, Dec. 28

Fernie GhoStriDerS 6at Kimberley DynamiterS 4

First Period1. KIM - E. Buckley, (J. Jowsey, J. Marchi), 8:18 (PP)2. FER - S. Plaquin, (A. Neufeld, D. Smith), 2:263. FER - A. Neufeld, (unassisted), 2:14Second Period 4. FER - D. Smith, (S. Plaquin, J. Burgess), 7:11Third Period 5. FER - D. Smith, (A. Neufeld, S. Plaquin), 13:51 (PP)6. FER - D. Smith, (D. Robertson, J. Peers), 10:52 (PP)7. KIM - J. Busch, (J. Richter, E. Buckley), 9:21 (SH)8. KIM - L. Lane, (C. Prevost, J. Busch), 6:25 (PP)9. KIM - J. Richter, (B. Saretsky, E. Buckley), 2:53 (PP)10. FER - E. Reid, (unassisted), 0:02 (EN) (SH)Shots 1 2 3 TFernie 9 5 10 24Kimberley 5 11 11 27Goaltenders Saves Mins SV%FER - Brandon Butler 23/27 60:00 0.852 KIM - Tyson Brouwer 18/24 59:30 0.750Power playsFernie 2/5 (40.0%); Kimberley 3/6 (50.0%) Attendance: 738

Upcoming GamesDec. 29 at FernieJan. 2 at Columbia ValleyJan. 3 vs. Columbia ValleyJan. 9 at FernieJan. 10 at GoldenJan. 13 vs. Creston Valley

Goaltending StatisticsPlayer W L OT/L SO GAA SPTyson Brouwer 16 6 3 1 2.73 0.899Liam McBain 2 6 0 0 3.96 0.861

Scoring StatisticsPlayer GP G A PTS PIM Jason Richter 35 27 17 44 10Lincoln Lane 31 8 24 32 32Jordan Busch 34 6 24 30 9Coy Prevost 34 9 19 28 25Eric Buckley 32 9 19 28 82Jared Marchi 35 10 13 23 49Braden Saretsky 27 6 17 23 57Keenan Haase 34 11 8 19 16Jesse Wallace 35 8 9 17 6Marco Campanella 30 7 8 15 28Austin Hancherow 32 4 10 14 10Alex Rosolowsky 30 9 3 12 2Jonas Gordon 25 2 9 11 18Sawyer Hunt 27 3 7 10 6Trevor Van Steinburg 34 2 8 10 8Jordan Roy 10 4 4 8 8James Jowsey 31 1 7 8 2Charles Dagostin 31 0 3 3 25Tyler Kinnon 29 0 3 3 45Brady Revie 24 2 0 2 32Rory Mallard 26 0 2 2 8James Rota (AP) 2 0 1 1 0Tristan Pagura 2 0 0 0 0Jacob Bromley (AP) 1 0 0 0 0Korbyn Chabot (AP) 1 0 0 0 0Tyler Van Steinburg (AP) 1 0 0 0 0

Sunday night showdownFernie Ghostriders edge Kimberley Dynamiters in electrifying affair

Sara Moulton Photo/Fernie Free PreSS

Goaltender Tyson Brouwer makes a stop Sunday night as the Nitros fell to Fernie by a final tally of 6-4.

taylor roCC aSports Editor

What was on the verge of being a one-sid-ed affair turned into a nail-biter Sunday eve-ning at the Kimberley Civic Centre as the Dy-namiters and Fernie Ghostriders went to bat-tle once again in KIJHL action.

Despite battling back from a 5-1 deficit, the Nitros didn’t have enough left for a third-period comeback as the Ghostriders held on for a 6-4 victory.

“We pride ourselves on trying to be the better team in third periods,” said Nitros head coach Jerry Bancks Sunday.

“It was good that we came back. But I thought we kind of handed it to them in the first and second period -- not enough guys doing what we need to do for us to win. [Fernie] is a good team. They’re older and if you give

them a scoring chance, they’re going to bury it. Our mistakes were big mistakes and they took advantage of it.”

After Dynamiters forward Eric Buckley opened the scoring with a power-play marker midway through the first period, Sam Plaquin and Aaron Neufeld re-sponded for the visitors as Fernie took a 2-1 lead to the dressing room after 20 minutes.

Doan Smith, scored the only goal of the sec-ond period to give Fern-ie a 3-1 advantage. The 19-year-old native of Duchess, Alta., went on to register two more goals in the third period to complete the hat trick and added an assist for a four-point performance.

Smith opened the third period with two power-play tallies to give the Ghostriders a com-manding 5-1 advantage before 10 minutes had

expired and it looked as though the night was over for the Dynamiters.

With nothing more to lose, Buckley floated at centre ice despite his team skating on the pen-alty kill. After taking a long stretch pass, the pesky Nitros forward took the puck hard to the net before Jordan Busch followed to clean up the garbage, making it 5-2.

The comeback was on.

Less than three min-utes later, newcomer Lincoln Lane deposited a rebound past Ghostrid-ers goaltender Brandon Butler on the power play to bring the hosts within two. Suddenly, the Dy-namiters only trailed 5-3.

With the clock quick-ly wearing down, Dyna-miters captain Jason Richter stuffed another rebound past Butler, once again on the power play, and the home team was back in it,

trailing 5-4 with 2:53 re-maining in regulation.

Unfortunately for the hosts, that’s as close as they would get.

“We were slow com-ing out the gate. We were slow all game until the last couple minutes,” Richter said Sunday night. “We realized we play them [Monday]. We’ve got to man up and start playing. That’s when our effort really picked up.”

With goaltender Tyson Brouwer on the bench for the extra at-tacker and Fernie cap-tain Dylan Robertson serving a slashing minor for the final 1:53 of regu-lation, the Nitros were unable to capitalize.

Ghostriders defence-man Evan Reid blocked a point shot in the dying moments, before chas-ing down the puck at centre ice and deposit-ing it into the empty net to round out the scoring.

The offensive out-burst from Smith, Fern-ie’s leading scorer, vault-ed him to the top of the KIJHL scoring charts. Smith, who came to the Ghostriders from the Co-lumbia Valley Rockies earlier in December, now has 49 points (28G, 21A) to lead the KIJHL in scoring. Osoyoos Coy-otes forward Aaron Aze-vedo (17-30-47) sits sec-ond in league scoring.

The Dynamiters and Ghostriders won’t get a break from one another as they get right back to it Monday night at the

Fernie Memorial Arena.“It’s a really good test

for our guys,” Bancks said. “Resiliency is a re-ally big word and what you like to see. A bounce back [Monday] -- I would be surprised if we don’t play one of our better games [Monday].”

With Sunday’s win, the Ghostriders (25-5-1-2, 53 points) have built a 10-point advantage in the Eddie Mountain Di-vision. The Golden Rockets (19-13-0-5, 43) sit second while the Dy-namiters (18-13-1-3, 40) remain third.

“We’re definitely going to go in there with a lot of confidence [Mon-day],” Richter said look-ing ahead to the rematch against Fernie. “We know we can play with them. We can score goals against them. We just have to defend better.

“We just have to play harder, play better in our own zone by playing man-on-man. We’ve got to take the body more…That’s definitely going to be a focus.”

Puck drop in Fernie is slated for 7:30 p.m. Mon-day night.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) You could be somewhat with-drawn in the morning. A loved one might decide to pick an argument with you in order to draw you in closer. You tend to not agree with this person a lot, particularly about his or her style of communication. Tonight: Just don’t be alone. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) If you can manage to bypass some of the mental grenades that surround you, you will be a lot happier. Be careful as you attempt to maintain a steady course, because others might act as if you are off-kilter. To-night: Try some exotic cuisine. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You might try to form some-thing solid out of nothing more than loosely related facts and/or feelings. You would be well-advised to pursue your original course. A creative ven-ture with a child could prove to be ultimately frustrating. Tonight: Use your sixth sense. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You often seem to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The nature and strength of your support system will determine what happens in any given situ-ation. Back away from someone who seems a bit off. Tonight: Hang out with a close pal. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You tend to wonder what might be the best course of action. Today, everyone will give you an earful as to what he or she thinks is right and will work. Once you center yourself, you will be able to find an appro-priate response. Tonight: Avoid a warring faction. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You seem to have incorporated a little more serenity into your life as of late. You might not be so spontaneous. You’ll actively continue seeking out relevant and important answers to a di-lemma that faces you. Tonight: Do not back off. Reach out to an important friend. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Pressure seems to build around a matter that you must deal with. You might want to nix any spending for now. You could feel as if a lot is out of your control

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It is with heavy hearts we announce the passing of Mary Vohradsky at the Kimberley Special Care Home on December 22, 2014, just three days before her 97th birthday.Our special, kind and talented mother was born December 25, 1917 in

Linlithgow, Scotland to Walter and Jane Blyth. She immigrated to Canada at the age of 18 months to reside in Cumberland, BC where her father worked in the coal mine. After a short time there, the family moved to Wellington, BC and then on to Coleman, AB.At an early age music became an important part of her life. She was taught by her father who was a classical violinist. Mary’s musical talents developed quickly. She played piano in the Frank Edl and Frank Hosek Orchestras in the Crowsnest Pass starting at the age of 14.In 1938, Mary married Vince Vohradsky of Bellevue, AB and then moved to Kimberley, BC the same year. Together they raised their three children, Walter, Frances and Barbara.Mom was a great homemaker and always had a pantry bursting with canned vegetables and fruits, kitchen containers full of homemade bread and treats like her famous pineapple-cherry square, scotch perkins and shortbread. There were many samples of her embroidery work around our home as well. Mom loved sports, both as a participant and spectator. She loved softball, swimming, bowling, fishing and camping. She hated to miss a hockey game and was an avid fan of the old Kimberley Dynamiters in the 40-50’s right up to the present Junior B Team. The last game she attended was at age 94. She was an active member of the Pythian Sisters for 60+ years, holding many positions. Volunteering for “Meal on Wheels” was another enjoyable activity for her.Through all of these interests, music was her passion. She spent many years playing in local dance bands including, “The Rhythmares”. You could find her “tinkling the ivories” at the Blue Bird Inn and Ta Ta Creek, Elks, KP and Moose Halls. She later became the organist at the Kimberley United Church and continued in this capacity for 30 years, retiring at the age of 88. Mary’s musical legacy lives on through her grandchildren and great grandchildren.Mary is survived by her three children, Walter Vohradsky (Anne) of Merritt, BC, Fran Franklin (Dan) of Courtenay, BC, Barb Streich (Allan) of Kimberley; sister Christine Udahl (Robert); sister-in-law Iris Ruzek; 8 grandchildren; Greg, Vicki, Vincent, Rod, Cindy, Kristen, Sean and Daneen; 13 and 2/3 great grandchildren; special niece, Norma Gates and nephew Gerald Fisher; and many other nieces and nephews.Mary was predeceased by Vince, her husband of 52 years; her brother, Walter; sister and brother-in-law, Margaret and Norman Fisher; and nephew Norman Udahl.Mary’s memorial service will be held on Saturday, January 3, 2014 at 1:00 pm at the Kimberley United Church, 10 Boundary Street, Reverend Christine Dudley officiating. Condolences may be left for the family at www.markmemorial.comNo flowers by family request. If so wished, donations may be made in Mary Vohradsky’s memory to the Kimberley Special Care Home (The Pines), 386 – 2nd Avenue, Kimberley, BC V1A 2Z8The family is most grateful to the dedicated staff of The Pines for their exceptional care of our Mom, Grandma and Great Grandma.

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We build endowment funds that benefit the community forever and

help create personal legacies

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Serving the East Kootenays Tel.: 250-417-1336

Announcements Announcements Announcements

In Memoriam

In Memory of

Frank Pohl

March 1, 1925 - December 29, 2013

You are always in our hearts

and in our thoughts.

The Pohl Family

Coming EventsEast Kootenay

Adaptive Snowsports EKAS

East Kootenay Adaptive Snowsports is looking for students for the 2015 season. EKAS is an adaptive snow-sports club providing nationally certifi ed snowsports instruction to the physically or develop-mentally delayed. We are focused on providing equal opportunity for people who need adaptations to enjoy alpine snowsports.

Adaptive Snowsports ~lessons for alpine starting in January

For more information, call:250-426-6435

email: ekas.club@gmail.com

Personals

KOOTENAY’S BEST ESCORTS

Introducing:

*New* - Hollie - 38Fun ‘n friendly, Playmate

status.

*New* - Lyndsay - 43 Sweet and petite GFE type

*New* - Chanel - 27 Perfect 10 exotic beauty

Lily - 24Sweet doll faced,

curvaceous brunette

Enjoy quality relaxations by our hand-picked beauty’s

Swedish relaxation/massage.

Spoil yourself today!!!

(250)417-2800in/out calls daily

Hiring

Lost & FoundLost: December 17, area of 18th Ave N/Save On Foods in Cranbrook, name: Twilla, long haired black cat, with small white locket patch on chest, about 5-6 years old. Offering reward for safe return. Please call (250)919-7340

Employment

Help WantedCALGARY LOGISTICS CO. is looking for a sales rep. to work in our Cranbrook offi ce. Truck-ing sales experience an asset. Please email resume to:

lynnrick.oneill@gmail.comLooking for house/dog sitter, Jan 23 to Feb 20. Must stay at residence. Please contact, (250)489-9590

Help Wanted

FARM LABOURERS WANTED

3 General Labourers needed by HyTech Pro-duction Ltd operating in 6256 Hwy 95A TaTa Creek, BC V0B 2H0. Seasonal positions Apr 1-Oct 31 2015. $14-16/hr. Weeding, spraying, irri-gation, rogueing and hand planting/harvesting. Farm experience re-quired.

Resumes to be mailed or faxed:

PO 1454 Lethbridge AB,

T1J 4K2. Fax: 403-345-3489.

Obituaries

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FIND EVERYTHING YOUNEED IN THE CLASSIFIEDS

Protect our earth.The Cranbrook Daily Townsman and the

Kimberley Daily Bulletin promote recycling.

We use vegetable-based inks, and our newsprint, tin and aluminum waste is recycled.

Bring your used stamps to

822 Cranbrook St., Cranbrook

NOTICE

This is a year round fundraiser by the Eastern Star for funds to supply Cancer Dressings.

Please bring stamps with a 1/4” around the stamp to the Townsman for Skip Fennessy who picks them up.

Thank you for your support!

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Black Press in the West Kootenay region is seeking a regional Editor to oversee both the Nelson Star and the Castlegar News. The successful candidate will have Editor experience in the community newspaper industry. They will have a keen eye for layout, have an extensive photography resume, be an aggressive user of social media, understand the latest trends in digital media and be able to lead two newsrooms both from a print and digital perspective. This successful candidate will also be part of the senior team for the West Kootenay and will be part of setting the overall vision and goals for these newspapers and websites. This position includes active news and community coverage, engaging editorial and opinion writing, as well as understanding and leading change in our print products and on our websites. This position will be based out of Nelson, B.C. The West Kootenay is often considered one of the best places in B.C. to live and this position would suit any outdoor enthusiast, with spectacular skiing, mountain biking and hiking just outside your door. It is truly a wonderful place to live and to be involved in the community newspaper industry. This position offers a better than average compensation package, that also includes a strong benefits package. If this sounds like the right position for you please send your resume, a cover letter, references and some examples of your work to Karen Bennett at publisher@nelsonstar.com. Please no phone calls.

Regional Editor

Employment

Medical/Dental

Seeking full-time MOA/Practice Managerto join our team at a busy ophthalmology and retinal

subspecialty practice in Vernon.

We strive to provide high quality patient care in a friendly and team-oriented setting. Our offi ce is pa-perless and uses the latest in eye care technology. We are looking for an ex-perienced MOA who is highly organized, able to multi-task and communi-cates effectively.

This position fulfi lls a lead-ership role in our clinic and will command a high wage.

Please email cover letter and resume to

hhollands.offi ce@me.com

Services

Fitness/Exercise

9 PIECE, PACE hydraulic fi tness circuit and 9 aerobic

boards similar to Curves. Own it for your own home!

EUC $1200. Phone: 250-581-1328

Contractors

• Construction • Renovations • Roofing • Drywall-large or small• Siding • Sundeck Construction

• Aluminum Railings We welcome any restorational work!

(250) 426-8504

GIRO

Merchandise for Sale

Heavy Duty Machinery

A-STEEL SHIPPING DRY STORAGE CONTAINERS

Used 20’40’45’53’ and insulated containers all

sizes in stock. Trades are welcome.

40’Containers under $2500!DMG 40’ containers under $2,000 each. Also JD 544 & 644 wheel Loaders & 20,000 lb CAT forklift.

Wanted to buy 300 size hydraulic excavator.

Ph Toll free 1-866-528-71081-778-298-3192 8am-5pm

Delivery BC and ABwww.rtccontainer.com

Misc. for SaleHOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available. 1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com/newspaper?

Real Estate

Acreage for SalePRIVATE 150 ACRES

5 minutes from Cranbrook . Borders crown land on 3 sides. Mixture of timber and fi elds. Surveyed, drilled well, power and Shaw cable. Not in ALR zoned RR60. Serious inquiries only. $695,000.

250-489-9234

Rentals

Shared Accommodation

ROOM for rent in Cbk, incl util. Must be working or college student, $400. Available im-mediately. (250)426-2479

Suites, Lower1 BDRM, furnished basement suite in Dreamcatcher Chalets, Kimberley.

Available Jan. 1/15. N/S. $850./mo., includes

utilities, cable and internet. Call 403-660-0073

Rentals

Suites, Upper

Kimberley Studio Suite. Furnished, $495./mo. in-cludes utilities, hydro, gas, basic cable and internet. Laundry available on-site. Sorry, no pets. References required.

Call Peter at East Kootenay Realty ~ 250-908-0045 ~

BEAR NECESSITIESHOME WATCH SERVICE

•Planning a holiday and need your home

checked for insurance?

•Snow removal, mail p/u,plants, cat care & more.

BONDED & INSURED

For Peace of Mind Travelcall 250-464-9900

www.thebearnecessities.ca

LEAKY BASEMENT

• Foundation Cracks

• Damp Proofi ng

• Drainage Systems

• Foundation Restoration

Residential / CommercialFree estimates

250-919-1777

SONNY & CHRIS NOMLAND

We rebuild Electrolux vacuums to

like-new condition.

We also repair all other brands.

Phone 250-489-2733

PLAN DESIGNNew construction,

Additions, Renovations, Electrical, Landscape

Start with a good set of plans and be assured your investment will

FEEL, FUNCTION and LOOK GREAT!

Jody ~ 250-919-1575www.CHARLTONHOMES.CA

TIP TOP CHIMNEYSERVICES

“Sweeping the Kootenay’s Clean”

Chimney SweepingFireplace & Woodstove

ServicingVisual Inspections and

InstallationsGutter Cleaning Available

Call for Free Estimatefrom a W.E.T.T Certifi ed

Technician

Richard Hedrich250-919-3643

tiptopchim-neys@gmail.com

To advertise using our “SERVICES GUIDE” in the Cranbrook Daily Townsman, Kimberley Daily Bulletin and The Valley, call us at 250-426-5201, ext. 202.

SERVICES GUIDEContact these business for all your service needs!

CLASSIFIEDSWILL SELL

WHAT YOU WANT SOLD!CALL: 426-5201 EXT. 202Help Wanted

WE ARE ALWAYS

LOOKING FOR CARRIERS.

Give us a call and start walking

today!

250-426-5201 ext 208

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CranbrookKimberleyCrestonFernie

MarysvilleWardnerWasa…

Sell Your Home in the

Classi� eds. It Has

Never Been Easier!

Use 25 words to describe it.

Stop in or email classi� eds@daily-townsman.com

Check out your ad in the newspaper and count all the calls coming in!!

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250-426-5201ext 202

250-427-5333

Take a photo of your house.1.

$55 + tax includes 25

words, and photo.Extra words $1.00

each. Enclose photo. If you require your photo back, please include

a self-addressed, stamped envelope. ALL ADS MUST BE PREPAID – Visa and Mastercard accepted. Your ad will

run up to 2 weeks in the

Cranbrook Daily Townsman (10 times),

Kimberley Daily Bulletin (10 times)). Ad can be cancelled at any time.

Sorry, no refunds.

Ten Reasons to Advertise on a Newspaper Website

1. Frequency: The online newspaper Web site user accesses the Internet almost twice as much as the general user.

2. Credibility: The credibility of the newspaper brand extends to the advertiser. Fifty-nine percent of Web users agree that online advertising is more believable from a trusted Web site. Online, newspaper Web sites are the dominant local media site in most markets.

3. Targeted: If you want to focus on a particular backyard, advertising in an online newspaper is more personal, and more relevant because it is local. Newspapers also publish a plethora of niche sites (youth, women, movie fans, seniors, are illustrative) for virtually any demographic advertisers could possibly hope to reach.

4. Purchasing power: Sixty-two percent of newspaper Web site users purchase online compared with 49 percent of general users. Thirty-nine percent of online newspaper users have incomes higher than $75,000; 65 percent own their homes. Fifty percent of online newspaper users have spent more than $500 online in the last six months, and 63 percent of online newspaper users prefer to find out about new products through the Internet.

5. Content: After e-mail, the most preferred Web content is news, sports, financial information, entertainment news, and shopping – in that order. Sixty-two percent of Internet users visit online newspapers for local news, compared with 39 percent for the local TV station Web site and 23 percent for the local radio station site. Not even Yahoo! or AOL’s Digital City can top this.

6. Retailers prefer newspaper sites: Sixty-five percent of retailers report that newspaper sites are efficient in assisting them in meeting marketing needs compared with other sites.

7. High profile: Research.net reports that, among top executives (CEO, CIO, CFO or owner/partner), Internet advertising ranked above over all other media measured for: “Where I prefer to find our about new products,” “Where I prefer to receive information about companies,” and “Where modern, up-to-date brands advertise.” At the same time, these early adopters of technology also skew younger than the traditional newspaper audience. Forty percent of online newspaper users are aged 18-35.

8. Reinforcement: Seventy-six percent of online newspaper users also read the newspaper in the past seven days, and repetition increases awareness. The Internet Advertising Bureau found that, by increasing the number of online banners from one to two per week, branding results on three key metrics increased 42 percent making online a great, inexpensive way to increase the branding lift of traditional campaigns.

9. Quality: Seventy-five percent of advertisers generally said newspaper Web sites’ advertising was as good or better than other Internet sites.

10. Mix: A variety of recent studies have demonstrated the power of online, when included in a mix with traditional media, to elaborate the brand message. Newspaper print and online products combined have the highest penetration and most desirable audience of any other local medium.

SOURCE: Newspaper Association of America

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Call today and start online advertising.

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PENTICTON101-2601 Skaha Lake Rd.

493-3800(250)

VERNON200-3107 - 48th Ave.

542-3000(250)

ANDRES WIRELESSCherry Lane Mall

(250) 493-4566

KELOWNA2153 Springfield Road

860-2600(250)

WEST KELOWNA#200 - 2180 Elk Rd.

707-2600(250)

CASTLEGAR200-1965 Columbia Ave.

365-6455(250)

NELSONChahko Mika Mall

352-7258(250)

CRANBROOK101 Kootenay St. North

426-8927(250)

TELUS KIOSK

KELOWNA2153 Springfield Road

860-2600(250)

WEST KELOWNA#200 - 2180 Elk Rd.

707-2600(250)

100 MileHouse

KELOWNA2153 Springfield Road

860-2600(250)

PENTICTON101-2601 Skaha Lake Rd.

493-3800(250)

VERNON200-3107 - 48th Ave.

542-3000(250)

WEST KELOWNA#200 - 2180 Elk Rd.

707-2600(250)

ANDRES CAR AUDIO1881 Harvey Avenue

(250) 860-1975

KELOWNA CAR AUDIO1881 Harvey Avenue

(250) 860-1975

KAMLOOPS CAR AUDIO154 Victoria Str

(250) 314-9944

WEST KELOWNA#200 - 2180 Elk Rd.

707-2600(250)

PENTICTON101-2601 Skaha Lake Rd.

493-3800(250)

VERNON200-3107 - 48th Ave.

542-3000(250)

WilliamsLake KELOWNA

2153 Springfield Road860-2600(250)

KAMLOOPS745 Notre Dame Drive

851-8700(250)

PRINCE GEORGE2591A Vance Rd.

563-4447(250)

WILLIAMS AKE299 Oliver Str.

398-8522(250)

L 100 MILE OUSE916 Alpine Ave.

395-4015(250)

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KAMLOOPS745 Notre Dame Drive

851-8700(250)

ANDRES WIRELESSAberdeen Mall(250) 377-8880

ANDRES WIRELESS215 - 450 Lansdowne Mall

(250) 377-8007

ANDRES CAR AUDIO154 Victoria Str

(250) 314-9944

ANDRES BUSINESS300 St. Paul Str.

(250) 377-3773

PRINCE GEORGE2591A Vance Rd.

563-4447(250)

KAMLOOPS745 Notre Dame Drive

851-8700(250)

VERNON200-3107 - 48th Ave.

542-3000(250)

WILLIAMS AKE299 Oliver Str.

398-8522(250)

L 100 MILE OUSE916 Alpine Ave.

395-4015(250)

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KAMLOOPS745 Notre Dame Drive

851-8700(250)

PRINCE GEORGE2591A Vance Rd.

563-4447(250)

100 MILE OUSE916 Alpine Ave.

395-4015(250)

H WILLIAMS AKE299 Oliver Str.

398-8522(250)

L 100 MILE OUSE916 Alpine Ave.

395-4015(250)

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VERNON200-3107 - 48th Ave.

542-3000(250)

ANDRES WIRELESSVilliage Green Mall

(250) 542-1496

KELOWNA2153 Springfield Road

860-2600(250)

WEST KELOWNA#200 - 2180 Elk Rd.

707-2600(250)

KAMLOOPS745 Notre Dame Drive

851-8700(250)

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