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The East Kootenay Regional Hospital’s � rst baby of 2014 was born Friday, January 3, at 9:19 a.m. Ryden David Duthie came into the world at six pounds, 13 ounces. Parents are Renee and Chris Duthie of Elkford. Welcome to the world, Ryden David, and may your life be happy, healthy, prosperous and long.

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Jumbo Glacier Re-sort is the subject of a court case that is ex-pected to get underway today, Monday, Jan. 6.

The Ktunaxa Nation Council has petitioned for a judicial review that will determine whether the B.C. government acted appropriately when it approved a Master Development Agreement for Jumbo Glacier Resort in March 2012.

“We are seeking to have the province’s de-cision around the ap-proval of the Master De-velopment Agreement quashed, or at least re-viewed,” said Ktunaxa

Nation Council Chair Kathryn Teneese.

The four-season ski resort has been ap-proved by the B.C. gov-ernment to begin con-struction on Jumbo Gla-cier, 55 kilometres west of Invermere.

The Ktunaxa calls this location Qat’muk, which has great spiritu-al significance for its people as the home of the grizzly bear spirit.

After the province approved Jumbo’s Mas-ter Development Agree-ment in 2012, the Ktu-naxa felt the signifi-cance of Qat’muk had not been taken into ac-count.

Jumbo judicial review begins in VancouverThe Ktunaxa’s petition against

the province’s approval of Jumbo Glacier Resort begins in Supreme Court today, Monday, January 6

TOW N S M A N S TA F FA winter storm has

created unstable ava-lanche conditions around Cranbrook and Kimberley.

An avalanche expert is warning people plan-ning to hit backcountry

slopes in eastern British Columbia and western Alberta in the coming days to be extra careful.

Karl Klassen says a major storm tracking across the region could dump up to 50 centi-metres of snow on

mountains and hills in some areas that are al-ready covered by weak layers.

Klassen says ava-lanche forecasters are concerned that snow-mobilers, skiers and snowboarders might be

lulled into a false sense of security after a few years of stable condi-tions.

“We are asking peo-ple to be a bit more cau-tious this year than they were last year,’’ Klassen, warning services man-

ager for the Canadian Avalanche Centre in Revelstoke, said Thurs-day.

“Take on smaller slopes that aren’t as complex, slopes that ar-en’t as steep.’’

The avalanche haz-

ard prompted the B.C. government to close a 45-kilometre stretch of the Trans-Canada High-way from Craigellachie to Revelstoke in both di-rections until at least Friday morning. Traffic was being diverted to

safer routes. The Kootenay Pass

on Highway 3 was closed part of Friday morning for snow re-moval and avalanche control.

Avalanche conditions high around Cranbrook

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Barry CoulterThe Symphony of the

Kootenays will launch its new year and the month of February with a special couple of days featuring some special guests.

February 1 and 2 will be an exciting weekend for the Symphony, back from a year’s hiatus with two successful concerts already under its belt, and and a winter and spring of 2014 that bodes to be a big draw.

Saturday, February 1, will see a performance by Juno Award nomi-ness and two-time CFMA winners the Sul-tans of String. The Sul-tans are kicking off their own new year with the release of their high oc-tane worldbeat-sym-phonic mash-up, “Sym-phony!” at the Key City Theatre on February 1. And the Symphony of the Kootenays is joining them for this very spe-cial evening!

Known for dizzying roots music jams, po-ly-rhythms and revved up riffs, the Sultans of String sound can’t be pinned down — it’s Sable Island meets the Silk Road, with detours through the Gypsy-Jazz coffeehouses of Eastern Europe, next an East Coast Kitchen Party, then over to the majestic Arctic and the bustling markets of Lebanon. Fiery violin dances with kinetic guitar while a funky bass lays down unstoppable grooves. Throughout, acoustic strings meet with a sym-

phony of sound deep-ened by world rhythms that inspire whole audi-ences to get up and dance.

The band is led by J u n o - n o m i n a t e d 6-string violinist Chris McKhool (Jesse Cook, Pavlo) who grew up in a L e b a n e s e - E g y p t i a n (Makhoul) house burst-ing with music and di-versity. Growing up, Chris was fed a steady diet of delicious musi-cality alongside Middle Eastern cuisine and vio-lin lessons.

When McKhool first heard founding guitarist Kevin Laliberté’s rumba rhythm, their musical synerg created Sultans of String’s signature sound – the intimate and playful relationship between violin and gui-tar.

From this founda-tion, the dynamic duo

has grown, featuring such musical friends as 2nd guitarist Eddie Paton, bass master Drew Birston, and Cuban percussionist Chendy Leon, as well as special guests such as folk pop darlings Dala, The Chieftains’ Paddy Moloney, ukulele giant James Hill, and others.

When McKhool first heard founding guitarist Kevin Laliberté’s rumba rhythm, their musical synergy created Sultans of String’s signature sound – the intimate and playful relationship between violin and gui-tar. From this rich foun-dation, the dynamic duo has grown, featur-ing such amazing musi-cal friends as 2nd gui-tarist Eddie Paton (Rob-ert Michaels), bass mas-ter Drew Birston (Chan-tal Kreviazuk, Amanda Martinez), and Cuban

percussionist Chendy Leon (Parachute Club, Alex Cuba), as well as special guests such as folk pop darlings Dala, The Chieftains’ Paddy Moloney, ukulele giant James Hill, and others.

Sultans of Swing and the Symphony take the stage at the Key City Theatre on Saturday, Feb. 1, at 7:30 p.m. And the following afternoon, Sunday, Feb. 2, Chris McKhool returns to the KCT stage with the Sym-phony of the Kootenays for a performance of “Fiddle Fire!,” especially geared for the younger set.

Known as “Canada’s greatest eco-troubadour for young people”, McK-

hool gets children and families dancing, clap-ping, laughing and sing-ing songs. Kids and their parents scat-sing, be-come a rhythm section and join McKhool on stage to play rare per-cussion instruments from around the world! McKhool plays several musical styles; rumba flamenca, Gypsy-jazz, blues, classical, funk, world beat, and East Coast fiddling, support-ed his all-star band and a spectacular full Sym-phony Orchestra!

McKhool and the Symphony of the Koote-nays perform “Fiddle Fire!” on Sunday, Feb. 2, at the Key City Theatre. Showtime 2 p.m.

Symphony hosting a sultanic weekend to kick off Feburary

Sultans of String perform with the Symphony of the Kootenays on Saturday, Feb. 1

Chris McKhool performs “Fiddle Fire” with the Symphony of the Kootenays Sunday, Feb. 2.

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“When we read their reasons for decision, we felt that they had not taken into consider-ation all of the informa-tion that we had provid-ed with respect to our connection to the place and the connection to our spirituality,” said Teneese.

“We are asking the court to determine whether the decision that was taken by the province was indeed taken with full informa-tion.”

The judicial review is scheduled to com-mence on Monday in Vancouver Supreme Court and last for 10 days. However, Teneese said that as of Friday, the hearing had not been confirmed to be going ahead as sched-uled because of a short-age of Supreme Court justices.

“We are proceeding as if it is, because that’s what we’ve been told,” said Teneese. “I’m

There have been three serious avalanch-es in the Golden area in the past two weeks, in-cluding one on Dec. 20 that killed an Edmon-ton man who was snowboarding out of bounds at a ski resort.

In another ava-lanche Dec. 29, two of four people backcoun-try skiing near the Al-berta boundary were injured, one of them seriously. The four were flown out of the area the next day by helicop-ter.

There was another avalanche in the area on Dec. 31 in which a person was seriously hurt.

Klassen said fore-casters hope that the recent avalanches don’t mark the start of a trend this season.

“The layers of snow are just waiting for the wind and snow to over-load them and cause avalanches,’’ he said.

“If it doesn’t happen

naturally, it is almost certainly going to hap-pen if a skier or a snow-mobile touches the wrong place on the wrong slope at the wrong time.’’

Around Cranbrook and Kimberley, most of the backcountry was rated at a high risk of avalanche over the weekend.

In the Purcells re-gion, which covers west of Kimberley and north to Golden, the risk is high in the alpine and treeline, and consider-able below treeline.

In the South Rockies – east of Kimberley and Cranbrook to the Alber-ta border, the risk is also high in the alpine and treeline, and consider-able below treeline.

In the Kootenay Boundary region, which covers south of Cran-brook and over to the West Kootenay, the risk is considerable at alpine and treeline, and mod-erate below treeline.

High risk means there are very danger-ous avalanche condi-tions. Travel in ava-lanche terrain is not recommended.

Klassen said people venturing out need to check local avalanche and weather condi-tions. They should also carry emergency equip-ment such as transceiv-ers, probes and shovels and be properly trained in how to use them.

Being less aggressive on the slopes in such conditions could make all the difference, he suggested.

“We want to remind people that this year isn’t like last year or the year before. You need to be really doing your homework and ensure you are approaching slopes with caution to make sure you don’t trigger one of these weak layers that are hidden from view right now.’’

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scheduled to fly out on Monday morning, so I’m going to be there, and hopefully there will be court.”

In a judicial review, the three parties – in this case, the Ktunaxa, the B.C. government, and Jumbo Glacier Re-sorts Ltd – prepare writ-ten affidavits that are presented to the court.

“Over the past while,

there has been an ex-change of huge amounts of documen-tation that sets out what our respective argu-ments are,” said Te-neese.

The Ktunaxa hope that East Kootenay resi-dents who support their steps to protect Qat’muk will let them know.

“We know there is a

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Local backcountry rated at high risk over weekend

significant number of folks in the region – and probably outside of the region – who did not agree with the decision either,” said Teneese. “Any kind of reflection of that, we would be most appreciative of.”

In November, the

Ktunaxa held a special event attended by hun-dreds at the Key City Theatre, which ex-plained the significance of Qat’muk through stories, singing and dancing.

“We certainly appre-ciated the numbers of

people who spoke out,” said Teneese.

“I’m hoping that we are going to be able to do further events like that, in terms of sharing our perspective of our homeland with our neighbours.

“It has opened a

door to move down this road of sharing and teaching each other about this place that we all call home. It’s obvi-ously something that is important to all of us.”

For more informa-tion on Qat’muk, visit www.qatmuk.com.

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Performers on stage during the Ktunaxa Nation’s special event about Qat’muk in Cranbrook in November 2013.

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As reported in the Bulletin/Townsman in December, the provin-cial government is pro-posing that a limited entry hunt for grizzly bears could be re-opened in Manage-ment Units 4-20 (the St. Mary Valley and north to Skookum-chuck), and 4-23 (in the Elk Valley) to allow the harvest of five griz-zlies each year for three years.

This target could be altered if more grizzlies are killed than the tar-get, either through hunting or rail and road kills.

Townsman reporter Sally Macdonald spoke to local wildlife ecolo-gist Bob Jamieson, who said that grizzly num-bers are healthy in these areas.

According to Jamie-son’s report, there are now more than 900 grizzlies in the East Kootenay. In the Crown of the Continent region — in the Waterton and Flathead areas and northern Montana — there are an estimated 1,226 bears. In the Ca-nadian Rockies there are an estimated 1,309

bears, and west of the Rocky Mountain Trench there are an es-timated 1,767 bears, for a total of 4,302 bears.

“One of the pieces of the puzzle is that most people don’t realize just how many bears we have now. Grizzly bears are certainly not a species at risk any-more. We have a very healthy population that is producing an excess of bears that are mov-ing into human occu-pied areas,” Jamieson told the Townsman.

Jamieson supports the province’s proposal to reopen the grizzly bear hunt around Kim-berley and in the Elk Valley to manage this population growth.

However, a local wildlife biologist, Dive Quinn, disagrees.

He says Jamieson makes some interest-ing points in his grizzly thesis, but perhaps simplifies grizzly con-servation issues.

“As a biologist I have worked on grizzly stud-ies and conservation ef-forts for over a decade, and have learned that, there are rarely simple conclusions to be made regarding wildlife pop-ulation changes,” Quinn

Grizzly numbers or grizzly behavior?said. “While I whole-heartedly agree that grizzly sightings in the trench are way up, I am not sure that indicates that grizzly numbers are up.”

“We know from col-lar data that grizzlies do come down into the trench on their wander-ings on a regular basis, but in the past they have passed through and re-turned to the moun-tains. So why are more bears using the trench more than in the past?”

Quinn believes one contributor may be the open season on cow elk.

“This hunt, com-bined with the new two-doe open season on whitetail, results in 400 plus elk and hun-dreds of deer gut piles (and who knows how many wounded elk and deer that die later) — all below 1,100 metres in the trench — right where grizzly sightings are on the rise. This is potentially a good rea-son for a grizzly to stick around longer in the

lower elevations it may have avoided in the past.”

In other words, it’s not an increase in bear numbers but a change

in bear behaviour.Quinn also says that

studies by noted ex-perts such as Bruce Ma-cLellan indicate that grizzly densities in the Flathead are declining, not rising.

“Does this mean that population dispersal is taking place, and we should begin to hunt them? Or does this mean that the habitat is changing? We need to ask experts like Dr. Ma-clellan and Dr. Micheal Proctor for insight into this, and not respond to more grizzly sightings with a ‘from the hip’ ap-proach of increased hunting,” Quinn said.

Local conservation group Wildsight con-curs.

Executive Director John Bergenske said in a statement that while it is true that grizzly bear numbers are recovering in this region, it is a sim-plistic misrepresenta-tion to suggest that re-covery is complete and that a hunt is necessary to avoid grizzly encoun-ters with humans.

“Population num-bers can easily give the false impression of an overabundance of bears roaming the region. While approximately 900 grizzly bears do in-habit the Purcells and Rockies between the US border and Golden, these are sometimes broken into small iso-lated populations—par-ticularly in the southern Purcells. Isolated popu-lations are threatened with extinction. Frag-mentation of popula-tions remains a signifi-cant issue and there re-mains a dire need to create and maintain connectivity corridors with adjoining bear populations.

“Hunting will not make people safer. There is no evidence to suggest that opening the hunt will address problem bears wander-ing near human habita-tion. We all need to be-come bear smart and take action on how we influence wildlife be-haviour,” Bergenske said.

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Some ecologists and biologists disagree on the issue of a grizzly hunt.

TOwNsmAN sTAffA travelogue fund-

raiser by the GoGo Grannies on Jan. 15 is on Greece.

The Cranbrook GoGo Grannies is starting its fundraising year with another travelogue by the Pfieffers.  

“The Best of Greece” by Gebhart and Sabine Pfeiffer will be held on Wednesday, January 15 at 7 p.m. at the College of the Rockies.

Discover the incredi-ble sites of ancient Greece. Tour Athens to see the Acropolis, Hadri-an’s Arch and Temple of Zeus.

Cross the Corinth Canal to the Pelopon-nesian Peninsula and visit the ruins of the an-cient city of Corinth, Ag-amemnon’s Palace in Mycenae and the am-phitheatre at Epidaurus. Tread the ground where the first Olympics were held in Olympia and consult the oracle of Delphi. Visit Meteora to explore the impressive monasteries perched high on sandstone rocks above town.

Then, a seven-day Aegean cruise across the Marmara Sea to the Bos-porus and Istanbul in Turkey, city on two con-tinents. Visit the Blue Mosque and the Hagia Sofia.

Cruise to Kusadasi

See the best of Greecetravelogue

and visit ancient Ephe-sus, one of the seven churches of the Roman province of Asia. Cruise to various islands in the blue Aegean Sea, each with their unique histo-ry and beauty, like Crete, Rhodes, Mykonos and volcanic Santorini, before returning to Ath-ens.

The GoGo Grannies raises funds to offer di-rect support to grand-

mothers in Africa through the Stephen Lewis Foundation. Many grandmothers have lost their children and are now raising grandchildren under difficult circumstances. The GoGo Grannies supports these heroes through financial means, education, and medical care.

Please visit the Ste-phen Lewis Foundation

website at  www.ste-phenlewisfoundation.org/get-involved/grand-mothers-campaign‎ to learn more about the grannies campaign.

If you have a lot of time or a little time, you can make a unique con-tribution to the group, which would love to welcome you. The next meeting is at 7 p.m. Jan-uary 27 at the Superstore community room.

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New Year’s Eve is always loud in our part of London, but it quieted down after all the drunks eventual-

ly staggered off home — and to our aston-ishment, it stayed quiet all the next day. We waited and waited for the predicted hordes of Romanian and Bulgarian “benefit tour-ists” to throng our streets, stealing and begging and applying for Jobseekers’ Al-lowance (as the dole is now known). But they never showed up.

It’s enough to make you doubt the trustworthiness of the popular press. For months right-wing British politicians and their allies in the tabloid papers have been warning that on Jan-uary 1st, when citizens of the Balkan countries that joined the Euro-pean Union seven years ago finally got the right of free movement throughout the EU, Britain would be inundated by poor Romanians and Bulgarians.

The Conservative Party, which domi-nates Britain’s coalition government, rose to the occasion. Henceforward, the gov-ernment announced, immigrants will be charged for emergency hospital treat-ment, and they will have to wait three months before applying for unemploy-ment benefit.

Prime Minister David Cameron even suggested last month that the principle of free movement of EU citizens among the member countries should be changed to curb “mass populations movements” when new members join. It’s too late to impose that rule on Bulgarians and Ro-manians, who are already EU citizens, he

said, but while they are free to come to Britain and look for a job, “There is not freedom to come and claim.”

This is the “benefit tourism” notion: that poor eastern Europeans will move to the United Kingdom not to get a job, but to live off the state, claiming unemploy-ment pay, social housing, and other ben-efits that should be reserved for honest British workers. Even Cameron has had to

admit that there is no “quantitative evidence” that this phenomenon ac-tually exists. Nevertheless, he talks about it constantly as if it did.

But the whole thing is a charade, and Cameron’s “new” restrictions on im-

migrants don’t actually change anything. In practice, new immigrants to Britain al-ready had to wait three months before gaining access to unemployment bene-fits, and it is not legally possible for Brit-ain to charge EU citizens for medical care. The Conservative Party in Britain has just been churning out fake solutions to phan-tom problems.

The anti-immigrant voters Cameron is pandering to will not change their minds when the predicted tidal wave of Balkan immigrants does not happen, nor will he change his story. He will simply claim that it was his emergency measures that stopped it. But this tempest in a teapot highlights the sheer power of the princi-ple of free movement within the Europe-an Union. It is what makes EU citizenship the gold standard in terms of passports.

Like the United States and the Canadi-

an province of Quebec, several EU coun-tries offer fast-track residence permits to foreigners who will invest a large sum in the local economy: from $400,000 in Greece to $15 million in the United King-dom. But they still actually have to live in the country in question for up to five years before getting their citizenship and passport, and the average jet-setter wants more for his money.

Last November Malta, the smallest EU member, announced a programme that skips the residence requirement and sim-ply sells Maltese passports to “high-value” individuals who are willing to pay the government 650,000 euros ($885,000). It’s a quite reasonable price for a passport that confers the right to live and work almost anywhere in Europe and also offers a visa waiver for travel to the United States.

There was an outcry by offended Mal-tese patriots, but they were mollified when Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s government raised the price to 1.15 mil-lion euros ($1.6 million) a few days ago. So now we know the real value of an EU passport.

Any EU passport – Portuguese, Latvi-an, Irish, whatever – gives its holder the right to live anywhere, work anywhere, set up a business anywhere in a community of 28 countries with a total population of more than 500 million people. It is the principle of free movement that makes it so valuable, and no amount of protest by “Little Englanders” on the right of British politics is going to change that.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist based in London

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EU citizenship: The gold standard

Michael Den TanDT

During the just-passed season of giv-ing and filial love, you may have observed that no potential giftee

was more prominent in your in-box, hand figuratively extended, than your favourite political party. Their begging letters, once an occasional intrusion, are now ubiqui-tous. It’s as though they’re desperate, fo-cused to the exclusion of all else on empty-ing your wallet. Surely a political party should have something beyond money – the greater good, say, or a just society – to warm the cockles of its heart?

Well, no. Not any more. Our political parties are cash-starved and ravenous for cash, around the clock, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Thanks to reforms begun by then-prime-minister Jean Chretien in 2004 and broadened by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in 2006 and 2011, we enjoy a wonderfully egalitarian political fund-raising model – that isn’t working. In fact the system itself is helping make our poli-tics meaner, dumber and more myopic than ever before.

Before 1974, when the Election Expens-es Act was passed, political funding in Canada was a free-for-all. The act intro-duced spending limits and requirements for disclosure. But until 2004, when the soon-to-retire Chretien had his Paulian conversion on the road to Damascus, indi-viduals, corporations, unions and other organizations could all still donate. Many large corporations gave to both Liberals and Conservatives, hedging their bets. The New Democrats were propped up by the unions.

Chretien never intended for things to go

in the direction they’ve gone. His reform, Bill C-24, limited corporate and union do-nations to $1,000. Corporations without operations in Canada were banned from giving, as were Crown corporations. Indi-viduals were limited to contributing $1,000 to any riding or candidate, up to a total of $5,000. Any donation of more than $200 had to be disclosed. But C-24 also intro-duced the $2-per-vote subsidy, for any po-litical party that managed to garner two per cent or more of the popular vote.

In 2006, in the full blush of its early pu-ritan zeal, the new Harper government slashed the total individual limit to $1,000, indexed to inflation, and banned corpo-rate and union donations outright. In 2008 Harper famously moved to wipe out the per-vote subsidy, precipitating the coali-tion-prorogation crisis, but was forced to recant. Following his majority win in 2011 he pressed ahead, resulting in the system we have now – no corporate or union do-nations, no per-vote subsidy, a $1,200 indi-vidual annual limit and endless, cadging emails begging for your money.

Until very recently the Tories routinely trounced both the other two major parties in fundraising. In the first nine months of 2013 the governing party raised nearly $13 million, compared with just under $7 mil-lion for the Grits and $4.5 million for the NDP.

All of which leads us to this past Christ-mas season, and the frenetic $2-million challenge between Liberal and Conserva-tive fundraising teams. The top-line driver or “sell” for both was the calendar deadline for receiving the 75 per cent political-do-nation rebate for the 2013 tax year. The

subtext, for householders who are politi-cally engaged, had to be the dawning hor-ror that this is the new normal. Political parties will either stay in your face or they will go bankrupt.

But that may be the least of it. There are more fundamental consequences, as was first pointed out by Ken Whyte in last No-vember’s issue of Maclean’s. The most ob-vious is that fractious, dumb, bitterly per-sonal politics are no longer a matter of po-litical preference; they’re embedded in the system. The Conservatives have estab-lished, most notably with the bonanza they made of the now-defunct federal long-gun registry, that an angry, frightened or re-sentful small donor is a generous small donor. The Liberals are having greater fundraising success now because they’re applying similar methods – micro-target-ing, “action-based” messaging and delib-erate stoking of the fear of Harper himself. The bilious partisanship on Twitter is merely an effervescence of this emerging Canadian political culture.

At the root of it all, some simple ques-tions emerge: Why should a corporation or a union not contribute in a limited way to a political party, if the sums and sources are rigorously disclosed? And who decided that a $1,200 individual limit is reason-able? Political finance reform was intend-ed to remove the bagman from the pro-cess. Instead it has bequeathed to us a system that is dishonest, dysfunctional and ultimately harmful to our politics. It’s time for a review.

Michael Den Tandt is a columnist with Postmedia News

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Phew, that was close. Just before 2013 turned to 2014, astron-

omers spotted an asteroid heading right at us. The Mount Lemmon Survey in Arizona spotted the asteroid at about 11:20 Moun-tain Time on Dec. 31.

A calculation showed that while the as-teroid was faint – 150,000 times smaller than a star you can see with the naked eye – it was coming right at us.

A day later, the Minor Plant Electronic Circular said the asteroid would have hit the atmosphere at about 10 p.m. on January 1.

Astronomer Phil Plait at Slate, who shared this startling news, said the asteroid probably burned up over the Atlantic, somewhere between South America and Africa. It was likely about the size of a car, small enough to disintegrate when it came into contact with the atmosphere.

What’s frightening is not this asteroid itself – it posed no great threat to us – but that it was only the second time ever that scientists have known in advance when an asteroid is heading right at us.

In the other case, the asteroid burned up over Africa in 2008.

Both times, we had about a day’s notice. And there’s the terrifying thing.

Not only do we rarely know in advance when an asteroid is coming our way, but on the few occasions we have been aware, there has been only a day to prepare.

That is not enough time for Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck to get in a spaceship and fly into the asteroid to save humanity. Let

alone all the funny business that went on in Armaged-don before the space cow-boys actually left Earth.

The asteroid that ex-ploded over Russia last year – bursting ear drums, shat-tering glass and scaring the bejesus out of thousands of

Russians and those of us who watched dash cam video of the asteroid’s close call – was a complete surprise to scientists. NASA said they found out about it the same way the rest of the world did – when terrified Russians began posting video and photos to social media.

So it’s not that asteroids slipping into Earth’s orbit are a rare occurrence. It hap-pens all the time. Sooner or later, one of them is going to be a serious problem, and we will probably only have a day to deal with it.

We are pretty smart, humankind. We know things. Things like what happened to the dinosaurs. The dinosaurs that were wiped out after an enormous asteroid hit

Earth.I like to think we are smarter than T-Rex,

smarter even than those super creepy ve-lociraptors in Jurassic Park.

So why don’t we have a plan to deal with the threat of an asteroid collision?

Phil Plait tells us that NASA and the B612 Foundation are trying to get better at detecting asteroids.

The B612 Foundation is a San Francis-co-based non-profit started in 2002 by as-tronauts Ed Lu and Rusty Schweickart who, after seeing how fragile Earth looks from space, decided to launch their own mission to protect the little blue planet from asteroids.

Some very smart people working with B612 have developed several plans to de-flect an asteroid, and are now working on ways to detect dangerous asteroids in time to deflect them.

B612 wants to build, launch and oper-ate a deep space telescope with an infrared lens to watch for asteroids. Now they just need funding.

To find out more about B612, visit www.b612foundation.org.

You can read Phil Plait’s column at www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy.html.

Sally MacDonald is a reporter at the Cranbrook Daily Townsman

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Winning isn’t every-thing, but it feels pretty good.

The Kootenay Ice picked up a pair of vic-tories during home ac-tion this weekend, beat-ing the Broncos 3-1 on Friday and surviving the Tigers 4-3 on Sunday.

The latter win was especially sweet in the home barn, as Koote-nay previously lost 5-2 in Medicine Hat on Thursday evening.

The Medicine Hat loss, plus a defeat by Calgary earlier in the week, were games that assistant coach Jay Henderson was not happy with, blaming poor efforts for the end results.

The players ad-dressed their perfor-mances in a team meet-ing before heading into the weekend, according to Tim Bozon.

“We had a long meeting,” Bozon said. “After the game against Calgary, we didn’t play the game we wanted to play. We came into Medicine Hat and we were not ready to play again.”

That meeting trans-

lated into a better show-ing over the last two games, more so against Swift Current, which Henderson was pleased to see.

“Finally, I thought we outplayed them, I felt like we deserved to win that game, I liked the way we came out and responded well after a poor perfor-mance,” Henderson said.

“Tonight [Sunday], again, it wasn’t the ideal game, but we found a way to win and that’s what good teams do.”

Kootenay came to play against Swift Cur-rent, as Bozon scored a pair of goals and Wyatt Hoflin made 21 saves on the road to victory.

Graham Black opened the scoring for Swift Current before Austin Vetterl poked the puck across the line in a scramble to answer back for Kootenay.

Bozon sniped the game-winner from the slot in the third period, and scored an empty net goal, after Vetterl gave him a gift during a two-on-none rush to-wards an empty crease.

“I wanted to score and I see Boz there and

thought maybe I better just pass it in case I do miss the open net,” laughed Vetterl.

“I put it on Boz’s stick—just sharing the love I guess.”

Despite surrender-ing an early goal, Koote-nay came out with some fire and tied it up before

the first period ended. Swift Current put on some pressure in the middle frame before Kootenay dominated at the end of the contest.

“We haven’t had a big first period in a while, so it’s always good to get the momen-tum early in the game,”

said Bozon. “When you press and get lots of scoring chances in the first period, it gives you a lot of confidence throughout the rest of the game and that’s why we did pretty good to-night.”

After a day of rest, Kootenay faced the Ti-

gers again—this time on home ice—and sur-vived a late push to win 4-3 on the back of a bril-liant 51-save perfor-mance from goaltender Mackenzie Skapski.

Despite being out-shot by a 2-1 margin in the first period, the two teams were tied up at 2-2.

Jaedon Descheneau opened the scoring, taking advantage of a turnover while all alone in front of the Tigers net and pulling a nifty deke to stuff the puck past goaltender Daniel Wap-ple.

However, Tommy Vannelli scored a pow-erplay goal and Chad Labelle notched a maker a minute apart to secure a one-goal lead.

Jon Martin evened it up before the period ended, snapping a shot from the slot top shelf over Wapple on a feed from Landon Peel.

Descheneau pulled the Ice ahead in the middle frame, scoring a carbon-copy of his first goal after another turn-over right in front of Wapple.

“We went hard on the forecheck and their D coughed up some

pucks for us and luckily it came out to me and it was just me and Wapple and I put ‘em in,” said Descheneau.

Zak Zborosky rang a shot off the post and in while rushing the zone and firing over the glove of Wapple on a sharp-angle shot for a two-goal lead five min-utes into the third peri-od.

However, Jacob Doty made it an interesting game in the latter half of the frame, jamming the puck under Skapski during a scramble in front of the crease.

With an empty net and six attackers buzz-ing, Kootenay was able to weather the storm at the end and earn the win, despite being out-shot 54-20.

“That’s way too much work for any goalie. Fifty-four shots on net, that’s should never happen, and ob-viously he’s a good goal-ie and we’re lucky to have him tonight,” said Henderson.

Kootenay gets a brief break before heading to Lethbridge for a mid-week contest against the Hurricanes on Wednesday.

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Canada Finn-ished at World Juniors

BILL BEACONCanadian Press

MALMO, Sweden - There is hope for next year’s team, but that didn’t make it easier for the Canadian players that left the world junior championship without a medal for a second year in a row.

A bid for a first gold medal in five years had died with a 5-1 loss to Finland in the semifi-nals, and a 2-1 loss to Russia in the bronze medal game on Sunday left captain Scott Laugh-ton and his teammates in a gloomy mood.

“When you put on this crest and try to rep-resent your country and can’t even bring a medal back to Canada to the people who’ve been cheering for you, and have 4,000 fans

come down here, it’s heartbreaking,” said Laughton.

Mikhail Grigorenko got a lucky goal off Mathew Dumba’s skate and Eduard Gimatov wired a shot to the top corner in the first peri-od, but Canada could only answer with de-fenceman Josh Mor-rissey’s first of the tour-nament midway through the third peri-od against sharp Rus-sian goalie Andrei Vasi-levski.

It was the second year in a row Canada lost a bronze medal game to Russia after a 6-5 setback last year in the Russian city of Ufa. And it marked the first time Canada has gone without a medal at this event in consecutive years since it happened

three years in a row from 1979 to 1981.

The support was there from the start from hundreds of red-and-white clad Canadi-an fans who went to Sweden to cheer on a team that turned out to be too young, too un-lucky and perhaps not talented enough to win this year’s tournament.

But next year may be different when it is held in Montreal and Toron-to.

Finland ended up capturing the gold medal in a 3-2 OT deci-sion over Sweden, with Buffalo Sabres defence-man Rasmus Ristolain-en notching the game-winner.

Team Canada for-ward Anthony Mantha was named to the tour-nament All-Star team.

Russia captures bronze with 2-1 win over national team

Nitros roll through tough schedule

TRE VOR CR AWLEYSports Editor

The Nitros picked up four of six possible points this weekend in triple-header action.

With three games in as many nights, the Dynamiters fell to the Leafs in Nelson, before beating the Ghostriders in overtime in Fernie and edging the 100 Mile House Wranglers on home ice.

Kimberley has a slight lead on Fernie for second place in the Eddie Mountain Division, while the Thunder Cats are still in first place by a five-point margin.

On Friday in Nelson, all the scoring took place in the second period, as Jason Richter opened the floodgates for the Nitros be-fore the Leafs answered back with three straight goals for a 3-1 win.

Damel St. Pierre and Troy Petrick scored two minutes apart, and Jamie Vlanich posted a shorthanded effort as Leafs goaltender Brad Rebagliati shut the door the rest of the game.

Tyson Brouwer manned the crease for the Dynamiters, mak-ing 24 saves in defeat.

Heading into Fernie on Satur-day, Eric Buckley was the over-time hero, scoring at 4:41 to lift the Nitros to a 3-2 victory.

It was their first meeting since a Dec. 29th meeting at the Kim-berley Civic Centre that ended with a few injuries and a 7-3 Nitro win.

Bryce Perpelitz had a pair of goals—one that came late in the game to force overtime, while Joel Burgess and Matt MacDon-ald provided offence for Fernie.

Dynamiters goaltender Jere-my Mousseau picked up the win with 27 saves.

The two teams traded goals in the first period from Perpelitz and Burgess, before MacDonald put Fernie up in the middle frame.

Perpelitz scored a powerplay goal in the third to force the extra frame.

Special teams was a factor, as

the Perpelitz’s first goal also came with the man-advantage, while Kimberley’s penalty kill shut out Fernie in seven power-play opportunities.

A pair of quick goals a minute apart in the second period was enough to give Kimberley the 2-1 win in a Sunday afternoon meet-ing with the Wranglers.

Buckley and call-up Brandon Becker struck 60 seconds apart in the second period after a scoreless first frame for a two-goal lead.

Henry Hart scored late in the affair to make it a little interest-ing, but Mousseau and the rest of the Nitros were able to hold on for the win.

The Kimberley goaltender earned his second win of the weekend with a 21 save perfor-mance.

Kimberley hits the road next weekend for a rematch in 100 Mile House before heading to Kamloops for a meeting with the Storm.

Dynamiters pick up two wins after playing three games in three nights

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NOTICETo: Terry Grant Hauser Kathleen Hauser and The Late Ester Lush 100-4086 Standard Hill Rd. Cranbrook, BC V1C 7B5

1970 Glendale Mobile Home Register# 017383

Georgian Properties Ltd. 102 -4086 Standard Hill Rd. Cranbrook , BC V1C 7B5

The above mentioned mobile home and contents will be disposed of 30 days from the date of this notice.

Georgian Properties Ltd.

Business/Offi ce Service

Business/Offi ce Service

Business/Offi ce Service

CLASSIFIEDSWILL SELL

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

BEAR NECESSITIES HOME WATCH SERVICE

Planning a winter holiday and need your home

checked for insurance?

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

BONDED & INSURED

For Peace of Mind Travel call 250-464-9900

www.thebearnecessities.ca

HANDY B8MAN

*Residential Snow Blowing*Home Improvement

projects,* Odd jobs and dump runs.

Call Reeve at 250-422-9336

KOOTENAY BOOKKEEPING &

PAYROLL SERVICES

Providing all accounting and tax services for small

business in the Cranbrook and Kimberley area.

Email Joanne Fraser at

kootenaybooks@gmail.com

IS YOUR COMPUTER SLUGGISH OR HAVING

PROBLEMS?

It’s time for a tune-up! Why unplug everything, send away & wait when

SuperDave comes into your home?

Specializes in: *Virus/Spyware Removal,

*Troubleshooting, *Installations,

*PC Purchase Consulting.

SuperDave offers affordable, superior service

& most importantly; Honesty. SuperDave works Satur-

days & evenings too!

Call SuperDave (250)421-4044

www.superdaveconsult-ing.ca

LEAKY BASEMENT

• Foundation Cracks

• Damp Proofi ng

• Drainage Systems

• Foundation Restoration

Residential / CommercialFree estimates

250-919-1777

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!

UGH!(Sometimes you just have to let go.)

NEW or USED – you’ll find your new wheels in – every

Thursday reaching over 30,000 East Kootenay readers.

To advertise call Dan 250-426-5201, ext. 207Published by the Cranbrook Daily Townsman, and the Kimberley Daily Bulletin.

PAGE 12 MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 2014 DAILY TOWNSMAN / DAILY BULLETIN

Example Spend

$80 4 reward miles x 20 ===

x 20x 20

16080

240$160 8 reward miles$240 12 reward miles

The more you spend the more you earn!

Base Offer Bonus Offer Total Reward MilesWith 20x you’ll earn 20 reward miles for every $20 you spend!**

10%

oroff

your base AIR MILES® reward miles

on your total grocery purchase!*

**Earn 19 Bonus AIR MILES® reward miles and 1 Base reward mile for every $20 spent on eligible groceries. Prices effective at all British Columbia Safeway stores Tuesday, January 7, 2014 only. We reserve the right to limit sales to retail quantities. Some items may not be available at all stores. All items while stocks last. Actual items may vary slightly fro m illustrations. Some illustrations are serving

suggestions only. Advertised prices do not include GST. ®™ Trademarks of AIR MILES International Trading B.V. Used under license by LoyaltyOne, Co and Safeway. Extreme Specials are prices that are so low they are limited to a one time purchase to Safeway Club Card Members within a household. Each household can purchase the limited items one time during the effective dates. A household

is defi ned by all Safeway Club Cards that are linked by the same address and phone number. Each household can purchase the EXTREME SPECIALS during the specifi ed advertisement dates. For purchases over the household limits, regular pricing applies to overlimit purchases. On BUY ONE GET ONE FREE items, both items must be purchased. Lowest priced item is then free. Online and in-store

prices, discounts, and offers may differ.

7JANUARY

Prices in this ad good Tuesday, January 7, 2014 only

TUESDAY

Tuesday, January 7

*With Club Card and Air Miles Collector Card. Minimum $35.00 purchase required. Purchase must be made in single transaction. See Customer Service for details.

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