Kimberley Daily Bulletin, August 28, 2012

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Aqamnik school

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August 28, 2012

The St. Mary’s Band pulls off a new school in a year.

Flat Peavine is invading the East Kootenay.

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Mayor Ron McRae welcomes students from Kimberley’s sister city, Annaka, Japan, to Council Chambers and the City of Kimberley. The students were in town on a cultural exchange last week and spent their days engaged in morning English Classes at Blarchmont Learning Centre and afternoons engaged in outdoor activities. See more Page 3.

Timber supply Committee

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Columbia River Revelstoke MLA Norm Macdonald (NDP) spent much of the summer engaged in something of a rarity these days — a provincial government mandated committee that managed to operate in a bipartisan fashion.

Macdonald is the NDP Forestry critic and therefore the Special Committee on Timber

Supply was of particular interest to him.

The Committee was struck by the BC Liberal government to address declining timber supply and issues of forest health within British Columbia’s interior with a focus on assisting the community of Burns Lake after a fire resulted in the loss of Babine Forest Products mill.

Although BC Liberals outnumbered NDP four to three on the commit-

MLA Norm Macdonald tee, Macdonald felt that

the recommendations offered real solutions to timber supply issues.

“It was a good process,” he said. “We went to a lot of communities and found there is tremendous expertise out there.

“We only got three of seven votes, but I felt very comfortable that the final document was indicative of what has gone on.”

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They came, they saw, they shopped.

The Kimberley Helping Hands Food Bank annual garage sale last Saturday was a resounding success, making more than any previous sale.

“Total merchandise and refreshment booth revenue was $7364, fall raffle tickets sales added another $310, reports Food Bank Director Stan Salikin.

“It looks like this year we set a new

record,” Salikin said. “Last year’s garage sale grossed $6970, plus ticket sales.”

The curling rink was jammed with merchandise and jammed with customers from the moment the doors opened, keeping volunteers very busy.

And the volunteers did a tremendous job, Salikin says.

“It was a lot of work to get the sale ready, large crews were on hand from Tuesday right through till Saturday to set the sale up and then on Sat to sell the merchandise and clean up after.

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Big winners at Arts on the Edge M i ke Re d f e r n

For the second year in succession Kimberley metal sculptor Rob Toller won 1st prize in the established artists category at the Arts on the Edge 2012 adjudicated exhibition in the Gallery at Centre 64.

‘Fusion 1’, his hanging sculptural panel combining sawn log sections with a steel framework, was selected by the jurors in a tight competition with Castlegar artist Mirja Vahala’s vivid acrylic painting of a waterfall entitled ‘Flow’ which received 2ndprize.

3rd prize went to Cranbrook photographer Neal Panton for his eye-catching portrait ‘Strange Kind of Beauty’.

Five more cash prizes were awarded in the established artists category. They included Michael Flisak’s huge charcoal and graphite composition, ‘Warped Chair & Violin Neck’, Darlene Purnell’s shining fibreart landscape ‘Sundance’, Tony & Twila Austin’s lifelike repoussé steel sculpture ‘Grass Pickerel’, Angela Gillespie’s humorous acrylic painting ‘A Little Bit Coy Again’, and Sam Millard’s colorful assemblage of digital images from an original oil painting, ‘Perky Peacocks’.

‘Ruffled Feathers’ by Lynne Luker, first prize in the emerging artist category.

The emerging artists category was dominated by a life-size acrylic painting of a heron, ‘Ruffled Feathers’ by Kimberley artist Lynne Luker, which received 1st prize, closely followed by a beautifully costumed whimsical figure sculpture by another Kimberley artist, Darcy Wanuk, which garnered 2nd prize.

The third prize was awarded to a small, colourful photograph, ‘Footstep Vendor’ by young photographer Kristen Murrell.

Four further cash

prizes went to Canal Flats’ artist Leslie Cartwright for her minutely detailed acrylic painting of a cat, Marmalade in the Morning, to a young painter Antonia Sullivan for her digital image ‘Japanese Sunset’, to LaVerna Peters for her whimsical clay and mixed media sculpture ‘Evening in Paris’, and to Darcy Wanuk for ‘Ebony & Ivory’, a black & white merino wool and silk drapery.

The jurors were impressed by the overall quality of the 78 artworks entered in this

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Rob Toller’s ‘Fusion I,’ first prize in the established artists category year’s Arts on the Edge exhibition and particularly noted the high degree of technical mastery evident in the work displayed by several of the emerging artists.

Members of the public still have a few days left to vote for the Peo-

ple’s Choice Award winner which will be announced following the close of the exhibition at 5 p.m. on Saturday, September 1. The Gallery at Centre 64 is open Tuesday through Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m. and admission is free.

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Committee should lead to policy, MLA says

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From the pools at Fairmont (top) to rafting on the St. Mary River (above, left) to hiking the ski hill (above, right) to feeding horses at Fort Steele (below) students from Annaka, Japan had a very Canadian week.

From Page 1 “While the language was very mild, the conclusions mirror what we’ve been saying.”

The many recommendations focused on • engaging local communities and First Nations in future plans; • finding ways to grow more fibre and maximize its value, by utilizing marginally economic stands and/ or investing in fertilization; and • increasing the type and form of area-based tenures to support enhanced levels of forest stewardship and private sector forest investment.

“British Columbians understand the true value of our forests, not just for timber, but for all values. And British Columbians are not willing to accept forest practices that are not based in the principles of social, environmental and economic sustainability,” Macdonald said.

But bipartisanship or not, Macdonald says the report showcases failures of the current government around forestry.

“There’s been a lack of investment in inventory replenishment,” he said. “The resource has been allowed to degrade. That will complicate what is already a challenge.”

However, Macdonald says the recommendations do address problems of supply and stewardship of BC forests. The problem is, will the government act on them or simply shelve them?

“You can’t invest public funds and ask people to participate in a process and then not act,” he said. “It means the government has to change course.”

Macdonald says the budget already put out for the upcoming years continues to cut from forest health dollars, and that has to change.

“This report is a call to action. It was a good process, though by no means perfect. Now it has to be taken from a good consultative process to good public policy.”

The full recommendations of the timber supply committee report can be found at www.gov.bc.ca

Food Bank garage sale nets $7694 From Page 1 “Thanks to all the directors and volunteer staff for you tremendous help. Many of you put in long hours. Your help is very much appreciated.”

Salikin says the Food Bank also wishes to thank the many donors who brought merchandise for sale — the sale couldn’t have happened without them, he said.

He also thanked all who attended and supported the Food Bank through purchases.

Left over merchandise was taken to the Salvation Army in Cranbrook, where it will hopefully be sold for another good cause.

All the funds raised from the Food Bank Garage Sale stays right here in Kimberley to support needy children and families.

Correction

The phone number for contact for the Fight For Jenna fundraiser was incorrect. The correct phone number is 432-9513.

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Big day at St. Mary’s for Aqamnik students St. Mary’s Band celebrates new education centre ANNALEE GR ANT TOWNSMAN STAFF

The St. Mary’s Band celebrated what many told them was impossible on Thursday, August 23, 2012 — the opening of a school in one year.

The nation gathered to celebrate the incredible feat last week, and cheering, tears and smiles were never in short supply.

Chief Cheryl Casimer wore one of those smiles as she congratulated the students and talked about the band’s achievements in education.

“They are going to be very pleased and excited to go into that school,” Casimer said.

It was not an easy process for the nation to get a school from the planning stages to ready-to-go in only one year, but Casimer said they refused to wait in line any longer to provide the students what they needed. Had the nation waited for government funding, Casimer said they would have been number 1,400

on a list of 2,000 First Nations waiting for a new school.

“We’ve done what other First Nations haven’t done,” she said.

The band took the lead and put up its own money to get the building done, and entered into several partnerships for funding. They looked to a modular building design and selected ATCO to construct and transport the sections of the building.

Project Manager Michelle Shortridge, who announced proudly that she is the big sister of an Aqamnik Elementary School student, was one of the driving forces behind the school happening as quickly as it did.

“We needed a new school system and we needed it fast,” she said.

“It was definitely a long, difficult year.”

Casimer said other First Nations across the country have begun to look at what the St. Mary’s Band accomplished for their own projects. MP David Wilks, who appeared on behalf of the Honourable Minister of Aboriginal Affairs John Duncan, said the nation is being looked to as a leader in Ottawa.

“The St. Mary’s Band is highly regarded as

“The St. Mary’s Band is highly regarded as one of the more progressive bands in all of Canada” MP David Wilks one of the more progressive bands in all of Canada,” he said. His statement was greeted by excited cheers and applause from the crowd.

Casimer highlighted the education statistics for aboriginal students across Canada. She said Aboriginal students have a higher drop out rate than the national average and less graduates, but at the Aqamnik School, things are different.

“We were not going to be a part of those dismal statistics,” she said.

Last year, the Aqamnik School had a 95 per cent attendance rate across the student body.

“That was for everyone, not just one class,” Casimer said.

Principal Michael Derech jokingly said they hope for 100 per cent someday, but acknowledged that occa-

sionally an illness can pull the kids away for a day or two.

“We were always able to bring quality education to our students,” he said, explaining that previously the school was scattered among portable classrooms and trailers. “It was never the structure that was bringing the kids to school.”

Derech talked about the incredible teachers that made the little school welcoming, and wondered how much better things will get with the new building.

“Now we can do the things that if we had the space we would have done,” he said. “We constantly struggled with a chronic lack of space.”

Casimer said there was no limit to what the students could accomplish now that they have the space to grow and learn.

“Can you imagine what they’re going to be able to realize in this beautiful facility?” she said.

There were plenty of Thank-Yous to go around during the ceremony, but praise for Shortridge flowed in from speaker after speaker.

“I have great respect for the St. Mary’s Project team,” said Boris Rassin, president of ATCO Sustainable Communi-

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Project Manager Michelle Shortridge receives a gift from her staff: a tool kit for the next time she embarks on a huge project like the Aqamnik Education Centre. ties, adding that he couldn’t believe the band brought the project from construction to student ready in one year.

Members of the band pitched in to get the project manager her very own toolkit – a joke

gift that Shortridge happily accepted and planned to use.

“She stepped up and showed the leadership qualities that are required to take on such a huge project,” Casimer said.

Work on the school

building may appear done, but Casimer said they still need a gym facility – and again, the nation will not be sitting on any waiting list for funding.

“We’re not going to wait around.”

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Invasive plant Flat Peavine; pretty but poisonous For the Bulletin

How exactly Flat Peavine (Lathyrus sylvestris) arrived in the East Kootenay, no one is certain, but it has arrived with invading vengeance. Flat Peavine, now found throughout many parts of North America, is originally a native plant of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

As is the case with many invasive plants, Flat Peavine may have hitchhiked into the East Kootenay area on a vehicle. Or, due to its fragrant pink flowers and climbing nature, it may have arrived as an addition to someone’s flower garden. Perhaps it arrived as a landscape stabilizer for housing developments or as part of a land reclamation project since it was once touted as a long-lived erosion control plant that thrives in disturbed and acidic soils. Alternately, due to its high protein content it may have arrived as a part of ranchers experiment in forage crops.

Regardless of its origin, the use of Flat Peavine as a forage became unlikely when it was discovered to contain high concentrations of diaminobutyric acid (DABA). DABA is poisonous to humans and non-ruminate animals. Ruminate animals such as cattle, goats, sheep, elk, and dear have three to four chambered stomachs. While resting, ruminates bring food back up, chew it, and re-swallow. This process and special ruminant microbes provide some digestive protection and, if Flat Peavine is introduced as forage gradually, ruminates can build up some tolerance.

However, Flat Peavine remains poisonous to ruminate animals in amounts greater than approximately a third of their diet and over the long term, may have poisonous effects in lesser amounts.

While rarely seen in humans, except during times of famine, the symptoms of DABA poisoning in humans, livestock and wildlife can include permanent paralysis, bone deformities, cardiovascular collapse, pain, lameness, convulsions, and death.

Forage shortage that results in increased consumption of Flat Peavine, greater than 35 percent of diet, has been implicated in lower birth rates and a greater number of still births, however further research is required.

Flat Peavine’s use as a garden ornamental, landscape stabilizer or for land reclamation began to fall into question when it was discovered that it was highly invasive. Its invasiveness results from multiple methods of reproduction including seeds, rhizomes and ramets (self-clones), that allow it to quickly take over a surrounding area. Compounding the problem is Flat Peavine’s abil-

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Mainroad, Union talking SALLY MACDONALD Townsman Staff

Bargaining resumed Monday between Mainroad East Kootenay and locked out staff.

The road maintenance contractor issued lockout notice on Sunday, August 19 to 95 staff at its seven maintenance yards in the East Kootenay.

The Mainroad Group said that the local group is the only one in B.C.’s 28 maintenance service areas that did not sign an agreement earlier this year.

Now the two sides are meeting in bargaining talks, said Chris Bradshaw of the B.C. Government and Service Employees’ Union (BCGEU).

“We had a date scheduled and both sides are showing up to that meeting. It remains to be seen whether we will be able to make some progress or not,” said Bradshaw.

Since the lockout started last week, BCGEU members who are Mainroad staff took a strike vote.

Over two days, Monday, August 20

and Tuesday, August 21, the members voted 96.875 per cent in favour of striking if it becomes necessary.

“When it became clear that the employer was going to lock out the workers, the bargaining committee decided that to protect itself and keep the bargaining process continuing, they would take a strike vote,” said Bradshaw.

“We came out of that with over 96 per cent approval rate to take strike action if needed.”

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Advertisement ran on July 10, 2012 and July 16, 2012 contained an error in the area under application. Golden Rock Products Inc. on behalf of the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations (MFLNRO) and Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM), Kootenay Region, applied for Licenses of Occupation (Quarry & Road) and Notice of Work and Reclamation Program for the purpose of extraction of construction stone and rip-rap and road access situated on Provincial Crown land approx 9 km east of Kimberley, BC and containing 6.4 hectares more or less for the quarry and 0.5 hectares more or less for the road.

Flat Peavine, Lathyrus sylvestris

ity to climb (46 to 76 cm without support and up to 2.m+ with support), as well as its tendency to form a dense tendril entangled blanket that chokes out underlying native vegetation.

As a result, Flat Peavine lowers plant biodiversity and forms dense impassable thickets that block hiking trails and wildlife pathways while increasing fire risks. Most importantly, however, Flat Peavine lessens native food sources for wildlife and livestock, leaving in its place a poisonous alternative. The negative economic impact affects the raising of livestock, hunting opportunities and other recreational opportunities.

To date Flat Peavine has been found in the following areas of the East Kootenay: road shoulders predominately on Dicken Road in Fernie and near the Fernie Chamber of Commerce and a couple of sites along Highway #3 between Elko and Fernie. In Cranbrook, a few infestations have been sighted along Jim Smith Road and around the Cranbrook Chamber of Commerce.

Finally, a couple of isolated infestations have been found along the St. Mary’s Lake road, and near Overwaitea in Kimberley. At this time, it appears as though Flat Peavine is more widely distributed in the Central Kootenay.

Many of the known sites have been successfully treated, however new ones continue to

emerge. Flat Peavine is most successfully controlled using herbicides including Clopyralid (Lontrel) or Aminopyralid (Milestone).

Plants respond quickly to herbicide treatments and can be destroyed after one treatment.

While hand pulling and digging could be attempted in a small area such as a home garden, the necessity of removing all the rhizomes make eradication very difficult and annual monitoring and removal is required.

Flat Peavine can be differentiated from other members of the pea family by a single pair of grass-like leaves attached to branches that extend from the main stem. A tendril used for climbing extends out from the center of the leaf pairing.

If you come across Flat Peavine on East Kootenay Crown Land or other community use areas, please contact the East Kootenay Invasive Plant Council at 1-88855EKIPC or coordinator@ekipc. com . Alternately, contact the Provincial Weed Reporting Hotline at 1-888-WEEDSBC www. reportaweed.ca The East Kootenay Invasive Plant Council and its Outreach and Education program gratefully acknowledges the financial support of Columbia Basin Trust, which supports efforts to deliver social, economic and environmental benefits to the residents of the Columbia Basin.

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Studying projects to death

N

DP leader Adrian Dix has an- cial level, to go along with court cases and nounced that one of his first acts as direct-action protests. premier would be to withdraw B.C. Speaking of which, the frontal assault from the joint review of the Enbridge pipe- by agitators at the federal Enbridge hearline proposal from Alberta to Kitimat. ings has mostly petered out. After 4,000The two-year federal-led review will be odd people were signed up to speak, most mostly done by next May, didn’t bother, and some but Dix proposes to start a hearings were cancelled. new provincial assessment Apparently slacktivists such to examine the B.C. poras “Jonathan L. Seagull” BC VIEWS tion. He doesn’t know how and “Cave Man” didn’t Tom much it would cost, and make it out of their VanFletcher under questioning he all couver basement suites to but admitted the intention tell the panel oil is bad. is to study the pipeline to Professional environdeath. mentalists are now wringing their hands Fresh from a summer tour of the pipe- over Ottawa’s decision to leave smallerline route to reaffirm solidarity with its scale reviews to the province. This means, opponents, Dix is hardly in a position to for example, that there won’t be a dupliconsider anything but maximum resis- cate federal review of the urgently needed tance. As Premier Christy Clark did in her refit of the John Hart Dam on the Campshowdown with Alberta over benefits, Dix bell River. hinted that provincial permits for river One reader suggested that environand wildlife crossings would be made as mental pioneer Roderick Haig-Brown is expensive as possible, if not refused. still spinning in his grave over the damThe same fate awaits the Kinder Mor- ming of this legendary salmon river. Pergan plan to twin the existing Trans-Moun- haps, but that was in 1947. Does it make tain oil pipeline to Burnaby. Dix left the sense today to lard pointless bureaucracy impression that he would undo the years onto a reconstruction that replaces woodof work that have gone into bringing some en pipes and provides earthquake protecrational sense to environmental approvals tion, without expanding river impact? that can be, and have been, dragged out NDP environment critic Rob Fleming for years. hammered away at the B.C. Liberals about The B.C. hearings would provide an- this in the spring, reminding them that other platform for opponents, and more Auditor General John Doyle had exposed a complaints to justify refusal at the provin- lack of resources in the B.C. Environmen-

tal Assessment Office, even before Ottawa’s changes.

Fleming makes it sound like a huge new burden has been dumped on B.C. False. Provincial assessment already must be done with the participation of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Transport Canada, the provincial ministries of natural resources and energy and mines, and of course aboriginal communities. This is why it’s so long and expensive.

And don’t be fooled into believing that a federal review would go out and count the tadpoles and caribou again. It’s only the desk jobs that have proliferated.

There weren’t just two levels of duplicate review, but three. Earlier in their mandate, the B.C. Liberals exempted major projects such as mines and energy generation from local government control, citing the “provincial interest” similar to the federal authority over projects that cross provincial borders.

I agree with the NDP that B.C. environmental assessment needs more resources, in particular to do the follow-up on approved projects, as called for by the auditor general.

Forest management needs more money too. All the more reason not to waste resources on political gestures.

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The end of an American dream What’s Up? W

hen the first man on the Moon go beyond Earth orbit ... destines our nadied on Saturday, President Ba- tion to become one of second or even rack Obama tweeted: “Neil Arm- third rate stature.� strong was a hero not just of his time, but If NASA (the National Aviation and of all time.� Armstrong’s final comment on Space Administration) wants to put an Obama, on the other hand, American into space now, was that the president’s it has to buy passage on a policy on manned space Russian rocket, which is flight was “devastating�, currently over $50 million and condemned the United per seat. By 2015 the ChiStates to “a long downhill nese will probably be offerGwynne slide to mediocrity.� ing an alternative service Dyer That was two years ago, (which may bring the price when three Americans who down), and before long had walked on the Moon, Neil Armstrong, India may be in the business as well. But James Lovell, commander of Apollo 13, the United States won’t. and Eugene Cernan, commander of ApolThere is likely to be a gap of between lo 17, published an open letter to Obama five and ten years between the retirement pointing out that his new space policy ef- of the Space Shuttle fleet last year and the fectively ended American participation in first new American vehicles capable of the human exploration of deep space. putting a human being into space. Even Armstrong was famously reluctant to then it will only be into low Earth orbit: give media interviews. It took something none of the commercial vehicles now as hugely short-sighted as Obama’s can- being developed will be able to do what cellation of the Constellation programme the Saturn rockets did 41 years ago when in 2010 to make him speak out in public. they sent Neil Armstrong and his colBut when he did, he certainly did not leagues to the Moon. mince his words.

Armstrong was a former military officer “We will have wasted our current $10- who would never directly call the Presibillion-plus investment in Constellation,� dent of the United States a liar or a fool, he said, “and equally importantly, we will but his words left little doubt of what he have lost the many years required to recre- really thought: “The availability of a comate the equivalent of what we will have mercial transport to orbit as envisioned in discarded. For the United States ... to be the president’s proposal cannot be prewithout carriage to low Earth orbit and dicted with any certainty, but is likely to with no human exploration capability to take substantially longer and be more ex-

pensive than we would hope.� In other words, don’t hold your breath.

This is not a global defeat for manned exploration of the solar system. The Russians are talking seriously about building a permanent base on the Moon, and all the major Asian contenders are working on heavy-lift rockets that would enable them to go beyond Earth orbit. It’s just an American loss of will, shared equally by Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. “I know China is headed to the Moon,�

Romney told a town hall audience in Michigan in February. “They’re planning on going to the Moon, and some people say, oh, we’ve got to get to the Moon, we’ve got to get there in a hurry to prove we can get there before China. It’s like, guys, we were there a long time ago, all right? And when you get there would you bring back some of the stuff we left?� Arrogant, complacent, and wrong.

Americans went to the Moon a long time ago, but the point is that they can’t get there now, and won’t be able to for a long time to come. Which is why, in an interview fifteen years ago, Neil Armstrong told BBC science correspondent Pallab Ghosh: “The dream remains. The reality has faded a bit, but it will come back, in time.� It will, but probably not in the United States.

Gwynne Dyer is a London-based independent journalist.

An inside analysis of the HST debacle

As

campaign director for the B.C. them they were dreaming in Technicolor.�

Liberals in the 2009 provincial But upon reflection - and there is a lot election, Martyn Brown presided of that in the book - Brown sees where the over the party’s bald declaration that har- Liberals went fundamentally wrong. monization of the sales tax was not on the “The HST was an issue of such broad radar screen. public importance that it should never “It was a decision that have been imposed withwas never contemplated as out any prior consultation, part of the election plan,� let alone only weeks after writes Brown in a book an election, and in direct published electronically contradiction to the govthis week. “I was so utterly erning party’s stated posiVaughn certain about that fact, that tion. It rep-resented such a Palmer I personally expressed that significant shift in the tax position, on behalf of the burden from businesses to party.� individuals that it was not on a scale that He saw no need to check with anyone would have ever been right to impose it as before putting out the statement. Succes- a done deal.� sive B.C. governments had opposed harMoreover the shift ran counter to evmonizing the provincial sales tax with the erything the Liberals purported to stand much broader federal goods and services for with the electorate. base, fearing to lose control of tax policy “The last thing British Columbians exand anger consumers. pected from the Camp-bell government, Brown, the longtime chief of staff to which had made personal income tax rethen premier Gordon Campbell, couldn’t lief - and household tax relief - so central “fathom� that the position would change. to its vision, was a tax shift that would inBut within weeks, the re-elected Liber- crease their tax burden, especially in the als did reverse the position Brown had ex- midst of a recession. pressed on their behalf. Confronted with “Most taxpayers viewed it as a contra“an unanticipated budget deficit that was dictory assault on their pocketbooks, on growing worse by the day,� Campbell and their house-hold finances, and on their his colleagues made a cash grab for “a one- ability to make ends meet in a time of setime federal payment of $1.6 billion to vere economic duress. Most taxpayers did help defray the impacts of transitioning not believe it would make them better off. from the PST to the HST.�

They believed it would do the opposite.�

The decision would be the ruin of both Brown scoffs at those who blame the Campbell and his party, a development defeat of the tax on a failure to communithat Brown telegraphs via the title of his cate. book, Towards a New Government in B.C., “The decision itself was wrong. It was available for $6 from amazon.com. wrong because of the governing party’s Not that he claims to have foreseen the stated position against the HST, before outcome at the time he was helping the and during the election. It was wrong to Liberals to bring in the HST. “If anyone impose the HST as an economic and fiscal had suggested to me that that would be imperative on the heels of an election in the death knell for Premier Campbell and, which the HST was not an issue and was very likely, for his party, I would have told never discussed.�

He acknowledges a second, no less fatal miscalculation. “The government too readily dismissed the populist appeal of Bill Vander Zalm. It never imagined that he, of all people, would be able to rally and organize public opposition to achieve what was thought to be impossible: conducting a successful initiative that met the legislated thresholds for forcing a binding plebiscite.

The arrogance of power? Brown thinks so. He also disputes that the governing party’s sin was discharged by the departure of Gordon Campbell. “Premier Campbell did lead the charge, “says Brown. “But he stood with an entire team, who commanded the confidence of the legislature and who purported to vote for the HST out of the conviction that it was a politically painful but necessary action that needed to be taken in the public interest. Those individuals deeply underestimated the social licence they had, or could build, for the HST - just as they woefully under-estimated the political price that they would pay for their personal support. For most government MLAs, that day of reckoning has yet to come.�

Indeed, one of the central messages of the book is that Campbell’s successor, Christy Clark (who fired Brown in one of her first acts), has failed to repair the breach of public trust arising out of the HST debacle. He doesn’t like her chances to turn things around in the time remaining before the May 2013 election: “At this point, it would take a near miracle for the B.C. Liberals to form the next government.�

Rough stuff from one who was there through it all in the capacity of (to quote his memorable characterization) both “a fly on the wall and a fly in the ointment.�

Vaughn Palmer is a columnist with the Vancouver Sun.

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UPCOMING Air Cadets - 552 Squadron Cranbrook is holding an Open House and Welcome Back - August 28 from 6-8 pm. Regular Cadet evenings start on Sept. 4th at 6:00 at Cadet HQ, 308 - 10 Ave. S, 2nd Floor. Info: Capt. Bott at 250-426-3685 or Kim MacBride at 250-426-0131. email trainingdesk552@gmail.com Are you an organization that does fall registrations? Contact College of the Rockies Kimberley Campus to sign up for a Community Registration Day. Call 427-7116 x3752 or email kimberley@cotr.bc.ca 2012 FREE PUBLIC SWIM Wednesday, Sept 5th, 5:00-6:00 PM is sponsored by Robert Apps Personal Law. Kootenay Rockies ATV Club - Next Meeting - Wednesday, Sept 5th, 7:00 pm - Days Inn. Cranbrook Curling Centre: Fall Community Registration, 6-8 pm, Wed. Sept 5th at the Curling Centre. Clubs & Organizations: register NOW at Leisure Services. Come & see what Cranbrook has to offer for active living & leisure. Something for everyone - kids, youth, adults and seniors. 250-489-0220 www.cranbrook.ca Motorcycle Toy Run, September 9th. Starting at Higher Ground Coffee Shop, stops in Lake Louise, Golden and ending in Invermere at Lakeside Pub for dinner. 9:30am meet at Higher Ground, departing at 10:30am. Please bring a toy or money donation for the Christmas Bureau. All proceeds are distributed to Families in Need at Christmas time in the Valley. More info: contact 250 341-5646.

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Veterans lace up skates for first ice session TRE VOR CR AWLEY Sports Editor

Training camp hasn’t officially begun, but Kootenay Ice veterans hit the Ice for a session at Western Financial Place under the direction of assistant coaches Chad Kletzel and Jerry Bancks on Monday.

A few alumni also joined the returnees as Brayden McNabb, Adam Cracknell and Nathan Lieuwen also laced up the skates to get some time in before heading off to their respective pro camps in the AHL. Petr Vesely and Jakub Prochazka, the two Czechs selected by the Ice in the CHL Import Draft, also made an appearance, and while their hockey abilities were sharp, it will take a little bit to develop their English-speaking skills.

Kletzel was the point man on the ice, leading the team through drills and Bancks helped out while head coach Ryan McGill watched from the bench and the stands.

Drew Czerwonka, the current captain and one of five returning 20-year-olds, did not join his teammates, but

watched from the bench due to an undisclosed injury.

While camp hasn’t officially begun, the atmosphere is certainly primed for it, especially for the five overagers who will be fighting for a spot.

Joey Leach, Dylen McKinlay, Elgin Pearce, Brock Montgomery and Drew Czerwonka— who’ve become part of a fraternity that can only be created inside a dressing room—will be competing amongst each other for three spots on the club roster.

Kootenay Ice general manager Jeff Chynoweth confirmed that he will head into camp with those five players and will release two of them after their performance in the preseason and consultations with his new coaching staff.

“Since they’ve got to town, we’ve had lots of meetings, trying to get the coaches as much information as we can on the returning players, the prospects, anyone who has a potential to make our hockey club,” said Chynoweth.

“Ryan’s been in contact with head scout Garnet Kazuik as well and from

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Kootenay Ice head coach Ryan McGill (left) confers with his assistant, Chad Kletzel, during a veteran practice at Western Financial Place on Monday. his end, he wants to gather as much information as he can so he can get a bit of a picture for each player.”

Chynoweth also added that a potential NHL lockout won’t affect Max Reinhart, the Kootenay sniper who will likely stick with the Abbotsford Heat of the AHL this season.

It was the first on-ice session with a WHL

team for Kletzel, the replacement for Todd Johnson, the former assistant who left to coach university hockey.

He ran the veterans through a number of exercises late Monday morning, manning the whistle and stopping the play a couple times to seize some teaching moments.

“Being my first practice, [I was] just making

sure the practice went well and we got something accomplished. I think you can see that there are some guys that have experience in this league, guys that know each other and there’s some compete there, which is good,” said Kletzel.

“But we need to make sure that rises as we go through camp and into exhibition to

be ready for what the Western Hockey League level of play and compete is going to present us when the regular season starts.”

Czerwonka, one of the five 20-year-old candidates, has been with the Ice since his rookie season four years ago and will be looking to stick for his fifth and final campaign.

Chynoweth and his staff will have to make the two decisions before a cutoff date in October.

“It’s going to be really tough for us 20-yearolds,” said Czerwonka.

“We’re all friends, all five of us, so it’s going to be a tough time but you just gotta work hard everyday and come ready to work and it’ll all play out itself.”

Teammate Brock Montgomery agrees, noting that cuts are a part of the game and that the five just have to put their heads down and work hard to prove themselves to management.

“Coming back as a 20-year-old this year is a lot different,” said Montgomery. “Last year, you come in and gotta make the team out of 22 guys—you have a better

chance, but now you’ve only got three spots, so it’s a little bit different for the 20-year-olds.

“It’s kind of tough to think that two guys will be leaving, but then again, it’s our job, it’s our career, we know it’s what’s going to happen.

“We’re all fighting for a job, this is what we want to do for a living so everyone is giving it their all.”

Montgomery had a banner year last season, notching 44 points with 22 goals and 22 assists and was named the team’s most improved player at the year-end awards ceremony.

The prospects have been trickling into Cranbrook over the last few days and will join the veterans for fitness testing tomorrow at Western Financial Place. Prospects will also have some ice time available in the morning.

Training camp officially begins on Wednesday and will conclude on Sunday with the annual Blue White Charity Intrasquad game at noon, which is admission by donation with funds going to the United Way.

Prospects ready to shine TRE VOR CR AWLEY Sports Editor

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The Cranbrook contingent in the Spartan Race poses for a picture after the event in Calgary.

Athletes brave tough conditions in obstacle race TRE VOR CR AWLEY Sports Editor

Cranbrook athletes fought through muddy obstacles designed to test their endurance and triumphed at the Spartan Race in Calgary on August 18th.

Lisa Johnson, a trainer with Train Hard, Live Easy, recruited 26 clients to run the race with her, all of whom completed by crossing the finish line.

“We were really proud of them,” John-

son said. “Most of them have never tried anything like that in their lives before, some of them have never done a run or a race before.”

The 26 participants had to battle between 12-15 different obstacles

which included running chest-deep through puddles of mud, crawling a distance under barbed wire and climbing eight-foot walls.

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It’s no secret that the Kootenay Ice will be a younger squad this year, with as many as seven or eight 1995- or 1996-born players on the roster, according to GM Jeff Chynoweth.

Those young guns will be doing everything they can to earn a spot on the roster when training camp begins on Wednesday.

Luke Philp, Tanner Faith, and Jesse WoodSchatz all spent time with the Ice last year as call ups and will be looking to become permanent additions this year.

Other noteable names include Collin Shirley, Kootenay’s firstrounder in the 2011 draft, and Matt Murray, a defenseman taken

Wednesday, August 29 9:15 am – 10:30 am — Prospect Session 10:45 am – 12:00 pm — Veterans Practice 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm — Goalies Session 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm — Prospect Session Thursday, August 30 9:15 am - 10:30 am — Team Blue Practice 11:00 am – 1:00 pm — Team White vs. Team Black 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm — Team White Practice 6:45 pm – 8:45 pm — Team Blue vs. Team Black Friday, August 31 9:00 am - 10:15 am — Team Black Practice 10:45 am – 12:45 pm — Team Blue vs. Team White 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm — Goaltenders Specialty Session 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm — Team Black vs. Team Blue Saturday, September 1 9:00 am – 11:00 am — Team White vs. Team Black 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm — Team Blue vs. Team White Sunday, September 2 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm — United Way Intrasquad Game two rounds later.

Roughly 64 skaters will be making an appearance at camp, as

intrasquad games will feature teams comprised of veterans and prospects.

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NHL talks set to resume Chris Johnston Canadian Press

The battery of lawyers and sprawling negotiating committees are being relegated to the sidelines.

As the NHL’s collective bargaining talks resume in New York on Tuesday, they’ll do so with only four men at the table: NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and his deputy, Bill Daly, on one side; NHL Players’ Association executive director Donald Fehr and his top assistant, Steve Fehr, on the other.

“Both sides agree that this, at this point in time, might be a productive way for us to try and get some traction,” Bettman said when negotiations broke last week.

There’s been very little evidence of traction over the last two months.

While the parties have met face-to-face every week since the end of June, they’ve made very little headway on the framework that will shape the next agreement.

That prompted the first small session with just Bettman, Daly and the Fehrs in Toronto last week, and led to the scheduling of another one with the talks shifting back to New York.

The sides are in need of anything that might encourage progress with a Sept. 15 deadline looming for a lockout.

“When you get into discussions like this sometimes things can become more or less cumbersome depending on the nature of the group and what you’re

NEW YORK - Olympic gold medallist Andy Murray overcame early breaks in the first two sets Monday to win his first-round U.S. Open match 6-2, 6-4, 6-1 over Alex Bogomolov Jr. of Russia.

The third-seeded Murray won the final

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Gary Bettman (left) Commissioner of the NHL and Bill Daly, Deputy Commissioner and chief legal officer of the NHL, will resume negotiations with Donald Fehr and the NHLPA on Tuesday. talking about,” said son’s revenues, every Donald Fehr. “And, you percentage point lost find a way to satisfy ev- would cost the players erybody’s comfort level $33 million. After caand go on. If you try it pitulating in the last one way and that round of negotiations doesn’t really work you and hiring Fehr to lead go try it another way. them in this one, that “If that doesn’t work group appears ready to you try it a third way.” fight against significant The biggivebacks. gest issue In fact, holding up “Hopefully we’ll be Fehr detalks is find- productive when we clared last ing agreeweek that ment on get to it. We have a “the players how the afraid lot to do. I have aren’t league’s revof a locke n u e s always believed that out.” should be For an there is enough agreement split up. time.”

Players reto be made, ceived 57 something Donald Fehr per cent will have to under the give. Bettexpiring man has CBA and the league made it clear that he wants to see that num- believes the owners are ber reduced consider- paying out too much ably. money.

The NHL’s initial “The players have offer involved cutting done very well under the amount to 43 per this deal,” said Bettcent, although it has man. “The average salindicated a willingness ary has gone from $1.45 to negotiate off that million (in 2005-06) to number. $2.45 million, and I Based on last sea- think if given their dru-

Continued from page 8 event based in Vancouver—with a few clients last year.

“We had a hoot and thought it was fun and so we decided, after we looked at a few races, saw Spartan and saw that it was in Calgary nice and close,” Johnson said. “We talked to our clients and just said we thought they could do it.”

Johnson said the event was an easy pitch, as the pictures from Warrior Dash seemed to get her clients fired up.

“After they saw the pictures and we told them about crawling through mud and jumping over fire and stuff like that, it kind of got their attention.”

These racers weren’t greenhorns to pushing their physical limits as Johnson had been training some for as long as six months prior to the event.

“These guys are pretty used to hard training

thers - and they’ve said publicly - they’d be happy to keep playing under this deal even while we negotiate. ...

“My sense is that they prefer to keep things the way they are, and so that slows up the process.”

The sides have looked like competing hockey teams at the conclusion of previous negotiating sessions, with the number of well-dressed attendees often unable to fit together in one elevator.

The gathering will be decidedly smaller on Tuesday as the leaders of the NHL and NHLPA try to push talks in a positive direction.

“Hopefully we’ll be productive when we get to it,” said Fehr. “We have a lot to do. I have always believed that there is enough time.

“If there is a mutual will to do that, I still believe there is enough time to do that before the expiration of the contract.”

so we just added some more strength stuff like pull ups, box jumps, power moves and sprinting,” said Johnson.

Johnson is already planning on organizing another trip to a Spartan Race in Kalispell as more people have come up to her expressing interest in participating in obstacle racing.

She is also planning on taking a few of her more hardcore clients to Tough Mudder, a longer and more extreme obstacle race based in Whistler.

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Gold medallist Andy Murray sharp in first win at US Open Associated Press

Tough obstacles don’t stop local racers All the challenges the racers had to face were spread out over a fivekilometre course, according to Johnson.

Each Cranbrook athlete had to compete with 2,225 other racers in the event, which was completed—on average—in under an hour.

Johnson got the idea after going to Warrior Dash—a similar type of

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five games of the first set and the last four games of the second after falling behind early to the 73rd-ranked Bogomolov.

Murray, who won the gold in his home country earlier this year, is trying to become the first man to win the Olympics and the U.S.

Open in the same year.

He finished with seven aces and 46 winners as he wore down Bogomolov, who was born in Moscow but moved to Miami and competed as an American until this year, when he switched to play for Russia in the Davis Cup.

Defending champ Stosur starts US Open with straight-set win Rachel Cohen Associated Press

NEW YORK - Back at the site of her greatest victory, Samantha Stosur looked like a champion again, not the player who has often struggled this year.

The Australian began the defence of her U.S. Open title Monday with a dominant win, needing 51 minutes to beat 64th-ranked Petra Martic 6-1, 6-1 in the tour-

nament’s first match at Arthur Ashe Stadium before rain suspended play.

The last time Stosur played on this court, she stunned Serena Williams in the 2011 final at Flushing Meadows for her first Grand Slam title. But in so many ways, that 6-2, 6-3 victory was starting to feel as if it happened much more than a year ago.

In 2012, Stosur had

lost in the first round in front of the home fans at the Australian Open.

She lost in the second round at Wimbledon, then again in the first round at the London Olympics.

Sandwiched in between, she made a run to the semifinals of the French Open, but fell apart by committing 21 unforced errors in the third set of her loss to Sara Errani.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) Understand that you can’t do anything to move others into your way of thinking. Remember, you can control no one. Though this might be a depressing thought, keep pushing to find a solution. It is yours to have. Tonight: Let your hair down.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Your intentions might be right on; however, others have their own agendas. You easily are distracted, as you tend to be more interested in what others are up to. Do not let your frustration get the best of you. Maybe you can squeeze everything in. Tonight: Sort through different ideas.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You might want to focus on your ideas and how to make them come to life. Many of you will enjoy yourselves so much that you won’t notice anything else. Do not let your temper get out of control.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) If you discover that someone is being unresponsive, try to get him or her to open up. Be sure to honor this person’s mood, though, and say something appropriately nice yet reserved. Let the other party come forward when he or she is ready. Tonight: Detach from someone’s anger.

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I believe this dance studio is taking advantage of her. I spoke to management, but they said it’s none of my business.

Mom used to be quite frugal, and I worry that she no longer has the judgment to manage her money. Yet I can’t do anything about it other than wring my hands.

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Dear Annie: My father-in-law loves going to yard sales and likes to buy sale items for our home and our four sons.

The problem is that we have limited space and don’t need all this junk. The toys tend to have a missing part or be partially broken, and the clothes have stains or holes.

My husband wants to simply accept the items because my father-in-law would otherwise be offended. But it upsets me that they give us so many used items. We just got back from a weeklong visit and were barraged with bags of these things. -- Tired of Used Stuff Dear Tired: Even used junk is a gift that requires a “thank you.” Please accept your father-in-law’s yard sale items with graciousness. He means well. Then throw them away as soon as you see a garbage can, give them to charity, fuse them into a garden sculpture or do whatever else you wish with them.

Dear Annie: “Frustrated in the Midwest,” who doesn’t want her parents to attend her children’s school events, comes across as very self-absorbed. I am 63 and was reared in a generation where we enjoyed our families. We included our parents in our lives. I cherish the memories of them sharing our children’s activities.

I have first-hand knowledge of this “new generation” attitude. My oldest son and daughter-in-law have banned me from seeing my grandchildren. My youngest daughter-in-law is downright rude to me. “Family time” is a thing of the past. If a Grandma wants to show love and concern, she is meddling. Merely calling to see if everyone is OK is intrusive. My generation will be passing away soon, and sadly, these kids will wake up too late, if at all. -- One Frustrated Grandma Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. To find out more about Annie’s Mailbox and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

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Quebec student protesters back to action, not class

Andy Bl atchford and Jonathan Montpetit Canadian Press

MONTREAL — The calm of summer was shattered Monday with the return of school to Quebec universities, where some classes were disrupted as protesters disobeyed the back-to-school law.

Chaotic scenes, reminiscent of those seen across the province in the spring, suddenly flared up at two Montreal universities after a relatively quiet summer.

The province passed an emergency law, known as Bill 78, to set stiff fines for people who prevent students from attending class.

A tumultuous standoff erupted in the corridors of Universite de Montreal between security guards and masked protesters. The demonstrators were trying to spring seven of their comrades who had been detained by officials in a fourth-floor classroom.

Two protesters, their faces covered with clothing, warned a news photographer at the school that he had better not try taking pictures of them: ``Be careful,’’ a woman told him. ``They’re going to take care of you.’’

Meanwhile, across town, masked demonstrators entered Universite du Quebec a Montreal and disrupted classes. Protesters also blocked cameras and one person taunted a journalist. ``It’s voyeurism,’’ the demonstrator muttered at the reporter.

The vast majority of Quebec’s students have voted to end their strikes, and the student unrest has hardly been an issue in the current provincial election campaign.

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THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson

Masked demonstrators march through the hallways of the Universite de Montreal as they block the entrance to classrooms Monday, August 27, 2012 in Montreal. Some classes are being disrupted during the return to school of Quebec universities as students disobey the back-to-school law. weeks was peaceful, but Monday’s events, as universities reopened, were a flashback to events that captured international attention last spring.

During the showdown at Universite de Montreal, lines of guards stood shoulder to shoulder to block a hallway. They kept a couple of dozen protesters, most wearing masks, from getting close to the classroom where detained demonstrators were being held.

The guards faced a barrage of shouts and a couple of plastic garbage cans were

tossed in their direction.

At one point, the protesters held a vote about whether to charge the line of guards.

The group decided against rushing the line after not enough people in the huddle raised their hands in agreement.

Moments later, word spread that riot police had entered the building. The protesters scattered, knocking over garbage cans and chairs in their wake.

A fire alarm was also pulled, its sound wailing even into classrooms in departments not involved in the conflict.

Senator’s wife distraught, witness says C ANADIAN PRESS

SASKATOON — A passenger says a senator’s wife charged with causing a disturbance on a flight was upset her husband was experiencing tightness in his chest, but she wasn’t threatening.

Scott Wright, a former ambulance attendant, said he volunteered last Thursday when the crew on the Ottawa to Saskatoon flight asked for anyone with medical experience to help Sen. Rod Zimmer, who wasn’t feeling well.

He said Zimmer’s wife, Maygan Sensenberger, 23, was emotionally distraught by her husband’s condition.

Wright said Zimmer, 69, started feeling better after he was given some oxygen, but Sensenberger was still upset and the couple were fighting with each other over Zimmer’s condition. ``I never at any time felt threatened,’’ Wright said Monday. ``And all of the frustration she expressed while I was there was targeted around the medical condition and the health of her husband.’’

Sensenberger was charged with endangering the safety of the aircraft and causing a disturbance.

On Monday, a Saskatoon provincial court judge released her on the condition that she have no contact with her husband.

Zimmer sat in the front row of the courtroom during the hearing.

Wright said he and several other passengers were doing their best to help. He

said the crew asked him if he believed they needed to land early, but when Zimmer began to feel better, the decision was made to continue on to Saskatoon. ``She saw us doing the primary work so she was continuing to speak out. She was continuing to say, ‘What’s happening?

Is he OK? Tell me he’s going to be OK. Why aren’t you doing more? Why aren’t you doing something?’’’ Wright said. ``She did pause to yell at one or two of the other passengers who were peering over or trying to see what was going on,’’ he continued. ``There was the odd profanity offered.’’

No one was injured in the incident and police say the safety of the aircraft was not compromised.

Wright said the only physical conflict that he saw was between Sensenberger and Zimmer when he was trying to calm her down, although he said he didn’t see anything that may have transpired before he was asked to help out. ``The only grabbing and pushing I saw was between her and him as he was trying to calm her and nudge the hand over and settle her down. I saw none with other passengers. I didn’t see any with passengers or airline personnel,’’ Wright said.

B.C. mountie charged in 2011 pedestrian death C ANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — A White Rock, B.C., Mountie whose actions allegedly led to the death of a pedestrian last year faces criminal charges following an investigation by the Vancouver Police Department.

The department says Const. David Bickle failed to follow guidelines regarding police pursuits and is charged with dangerous driving causing death and bodily harm.

A news release from the department

says that just before 10 p.m. on May 18, 2011, Bickle allegedly continued pursuing a driver who refused to stop and ultimately collided with another vehicle.

The driver then went through a red light and struck a 56-year-old woman who died of her injuries.

In February, the driver pleaded guilty to four charges and is scheduled to be sentenced in September.

Immediately after the collision, the RCMP asked Vancouver Police to investigate Bickle’s role in the incident.

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Hearing begins in Delta teen murder C ANADIAN PRESS

SURREY, B.C. — A young man accused of murdering a 15-yearold girl in a Vancouverarea park two years ago has started a preliminary inquiry ahead of his trial.

The 19-year-old man, who cannot be named because he was 17 at the time of the alleged crime, is charged in the death of Laura Szendrei.

Szendrei was beaten at a park in Delta, south of Vancouver, in September 2010, and the accused was charged with murder

the following February.

The teen appeared in court in Surrey today, at times looking down as the Crown outlined its case against him, details of which are banned from publication.

The girl’s parents were in court for the start of the hearing, and at one point Szendrei’s father walked out in tears.

Police have said Szendrei was on her way to meet some friends, who ran to her when they heard her screams.

Hells Angels raid nets drug charges C ANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — A senior member of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang who was acquitted of drug charges four years ago has been charged with drug trafficking and conspiracy to import cocaine.

RCMP say David Giles, vice president of the Angels Kelowna chapter, as well as six others, were arrested on the weekend after a 20-month investigation that spanned several countries, including Mexico and Panama.

Police say searches were conducted in

Kelowna, Osoyoos and the Lower Mainland on Saturday, and Giles was arrested at a Burnaby casino.

Mounties say they seized assault rifles, handguns, and $4 million in cash during the searches.

In 2008, Giles was found not guilty of possessing cocaine, but his two co-accused each received jail sentences after police seized cocaine in several locations as part of a crackdown on the motorcycle club.

Giles is expected to make a court appearance in Vancouver today.

Elaine Marie Pelletier 1945 - 2012

It is with great sorrow that the family of Elaine Marie Pelletier announces her passing on Thursday, August 23, 2012 in Cranbrook, British Columbia at 67 years of age.

Elaine was born on February 6, 1945 in Kimberley, British Columbia She was a good friend to many who loved to laugh and was cherished by all who knew her. She leaves to mourn her passing her loving husband Pete Pelletier; children Cindy Jones, Cara Picton (Chris Nakahara), Deb Pelletier, Sandi (Dick) Phillips, Linda Pelletier (Christopher Harvey) and Richard Pelletier; grandchildren Shawn, Nicole, Kristen, Jordan, Sam, Colleen, Jennifer, Shelby, Taylor and Tianna; brother Robert (Beatrice) Krottner and sister Irene (John) Dee. She was predeceased by her first husband Gabe Picton, father George Krottner, mother Eugenia Krottner, Josephine Taylor and brother Ted Krottner.

A memorial service for Elaine will be held on Tuesday, August 28, 2012 at 2:00 pm at the Wasa Community Hall. In lieu of flowers, donations in Elaine’s honour can be made to the: Canadian Cancer Society, 19 - 9th Avenue South, Cranbrook, British Columbia, V1C 2L9.

Arrangements entrusted to McPherson Funeral Service.

Condolences for the family can be offered at: www.mcphersonfh.com

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Employment Automotive 1999 Toyota 4 runner SR5, one owner, great condition, $5500 Call 250-342-5309

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Personals

Call (250)421-6124

Obituaries

2200 - 2nd Street South Cranbrook, BC V1C 1E1 250-426-3132

Drop off your photo and name(s) of subject at the Cranbrook Townsman or Kimberley Bulletin ofďŹ ce or email your high-resolution jpeg to bulletinprod@ cyberlink.ca. Photographs will appear in the order they are received.

Education/Trade Schools

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Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Education/Trade Schools

COMMERCIAL BEEKEEPING Certificate Program. GPRC Fairview Campus, Alberta.

Extensive study of beekeeping, Queen rearing and honey business. Paid work experience. Affordable on-campus residences. Starts January 7, 2013. 1-780-835-6630; www.gprc.ab.ca/fairview

TRAIN TO Be an Apartment/Condominium Manager at home! We have jobs across Canada. Thousands of graduates working. 31 years of success! Government certified. www.RMTI.ca or 1-800-6658339, 604-681-5456.

Help Wanted BANNISTER HONDA Maintenance Technician Looking for a motivated, reliable, quality person to perform maintenance on Honda and other manufacture vehicles. Please apply with drivers license and drivers abstract. Attn: Grant Kitzman, 6425-Hwy 97N, Vernon, B.C. 250-545-0531 gkitzman@bannisterhonda.com BUSY RESTAURANT hiring full and part-time staff. Experienced only. Submit resume to Box â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, c/o Cranbrook Daily Townsman, 822 Cranbrook St. N., Cranbrook BC., V1C 7C3.

DOMINOS PIZZA is now hiring delivery drivers and in-store personnel. Earn $12$15/hr.

Paid cash daily.

Please apply to 1000B, Cranbrook St. N.

Reporter Full Time The Free Press, Fernie, BC The Free Press newspaper has an immediate opening for a full time reporter.

We are looking for someone with a journalism degree/ diploma and at least one year of newspaper experience.

The qualiď&#x192;&#x17E;ed applicant must have experience with Indesign and Photoshop and will be expected to work independently, reporting to the Editor.

We are seeking that true journalist who loves to cover everything from the seniorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; bake sale and city council to junior B hockey and school plays.

The reporter is expected to work ď&#x192;&#x;exible hours, including weekends, and must own a car and be prepared to travel across the Elk Valley.

The successful candidate will receive a very competitive salary, car allowance, and an excellent beneď&#x192;&#x17E;t package.

Black Press has over 170 community newspapers across Canada and the United States and for the proven candidate the opportunities are endless.

If you have an interest in the community, excellent writing skills and experience in journalism, and the ability to work to strict deadlines, please send a cover letter, resume, and examples of your writing and photography work to: Angela Treharne Editor The Free Press 342 Second Avenue Box 2350 Fernie, BC V0B 1M0 Fax: (250) 423-3110 Email: editor@thefreepress.ca Only those selected for interview will receive a response.

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Employment

Employment

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

FULL-TIME/PART-TIME at Kimberleys Regalane Bowling Centre. Please apply between 6:30 and 9:00pm. For further questions, please call (250)427-2722 evenings or (250)427-0183 days.

LOCAL COMPANY seeking skilled trades people in the Cranbrook area for the following full-time positions: -Commercial/Transport Mechanic -Welder/Fabricator -Millwright Competitive salary and benefit package, weekday shifts.

Submit resume with references to: Box ‘E’, Cranbrook Daily Townsman, 822 Cranbrook St. N., Cranbrook, BC. V1C 7C3

Business/Office Service

NiRA RESOURCE

MANAGEMENT INC. is looking for the following positions: Machinists,Planners with Piping experience,Carpenters,Pipefitters,Masons, Scaffolders,Equipment Operators,Millwrights, Welders,Labourers, Safety Officers.

We encourage you to apply in confidence to info@niraresources.com with your resume, identifying the position title in the subject line. NiRA clients offer a comprehensive and competitive salary and benefits program. Only those candidates who meet our qualifications will be contacted for an interview.

Business/Office Service

Employment

Employment

Services

Help Wanted

Trades, Technical

WE require a semi retired couple for the position of a live on site manager for a mini storage. Require knowledge of Simply Accounting program and capable of some minor repairs and maintenance. Lovely 1200 sq ft apartment is supplied as part of the package.

Interested parties please contract Bob or Darlene @250426-7366

We’re on the net at www.bcclassified.com

Trades, Technical ALBERTA BASED Company looking for qualified & experienced: Equipment Operators, Mulcher, Feller Buncher & Processor Operators. Out of town & camp work. Safety tickets & drivers abstract required. Email resume: jobs@commandequipment.com Fax 780-488-3002.

Business/Office Service

SERVICES GUIDE Contact these business for all your service needs!

• DRILLERS • BLASTERS • POWDERMEN • CONCRETE LABOURERS VK MASON Local Union Underground Contractor is seeking experienced labor for remote camp job near Kitimat. Looking to hire immediately!

Please contact Ashley Halden at 778-724-2500 or ashley.halden@ vkmason.ca Journeyman Mechanic Do you love the outdoors? OK Tire in Terrace, B.C. NOW HIRING! Excellent renumeration for successful applicant.

Fax resume to (1)-250-635-5367 Attn. General Manager or Email: momack@citywest.ca QUALITY CONTROL Person experienced with Piping & Structural Welding needed for a growing Northern Company.

Competitive wages & benefits.

Please email resume to: info@torqueindustr ial.com.

Fax 250-775-6227 or apply online: www.torqueindustrial.com

Services

Health Products CASH BACK- $10 for every pound you lose. Lose weight quickly and safely and keep it off, results guaranteed! Call Herbal Magic today! 1-800854-5176.

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.

A & A ELECTRIC “At your Service” Licensed and Bonded We specialize in service work and service upgrades.

Call for a quote.

(250)427-7819 (250)581-1200

BEAR NECESSITIES HOME WATCH SERVICE Going on holiday & need your home checked on?

Lawn mowing, watering, p/u mail, cat care & more.

BONDED & INSURED For Peace of Mind Home Vacancy.

(250)464-9900 www.thebearnecessities.ca

CONCRETE WORKS!!

All aspects of concrete work done from start to finish.

Any finish available (stamped, polished, etc.)

Mini Excavator and Dump Truck Service.

No job too big or too small.

For free quotes call Jason (250)464-5595

CUSTOM CLADDING No More Painting Custom cladding is a Maintenance free Pre-coloured Aluminum Product, formed & fit to beautify & protect the exposed wood on your home, for years to come.

DUSTAY CONSTRUCTION LTD Canadian Home Builders Association Award Winning Home Builder Available for your custom home and renovation needs.

You dream it, we build it! www.dustayconstruction.com (250)489-6211

KEN THE HANDYMAN (Ken Bettin)

Since 1997 as your Cranbrook Renovation Specialist in Bathrooms, Hardwood, Floors, Tiles, Basements, Decks & More. ph:(250)417-0059 cell: (250)421-0372 email: fkbetken@telus.net

LEIMAN

CUSTOM HOMES 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 Saturdays & evenings too!

AND RENOVATIONS

Established custom builder for over 30 years.

Certified Journeyman Carpenters Reliable Quotes Member of the new home warranty program. www.leimanhomes.ca

Call SuperDave (250)421-4044

Kevin 250-421-0110 Krister 250-919-1777

www.superdave consulting.ca

TIP TOP CHIMNEY

Join an elite preschool setting. The Little Acorn is offering limited spots for September registration.

Ages 32 months to Kindergarten.

Subsidies welcome.

Call Shirley Jowsey or Doreen Lethbridge (250)426-4318.

-Window & door frames.

-Patio & deck, beams/ columns/stairs.

-Wood trims & fascia.

-Decorative’s & shutters.

-Functional vents.

-Over 20 colours to choose from.

R.BOCK ELECTRICAL

Call Ken (250)919-2566. kmtapp@shaw.ca.

*Licensed*Bonded*Insured*

Contractors welcome.

Residential, Commercial Service Work No Job Too Small!

(250)421-0175

For reliable, quality electrical work

SERVICES

“Sweeping the Kootenay’s Clean”

Chimney Sweeping Fireplace & Woodstove Servicing Visual Inspections and Installations Gutter Cleaning Available Call for Free Estimate from a W.E.T.T Certified Technician Richard Hedrich (250)919-3643 tiptopchimneys@gmail.com

Classifieds Get Results!

Financial Services DROWNING IN Debt? Helping Canadians 25 years. Lower payments by 30%, or cut debts 70% thru Settlements.

Avoid bankruptcy! Free consultation. Toll Free 1 877-5563500 www.mydebtsolution.com M O N E Y P ROV I D E R . C O M $500 Loan and +. No Credit Refused. Fast, Easy, 100% Secure. 1-877-776-1660.

Legal Services CRIMINAL RECORD? Don’t let it block employment, travel, education, professional, certification, adoption, property rental opportunities. For peace of mind and a free consultation call 1-800-347-2540.

Classifieds Get Results!

Merchandise for Sale

Real Estate

Contractors

Furniture

For Sale By Owner

(*30

2 BEDS. 1 queen (1.5 yrs) and 1 king. Both in Perfect condition! $500./each. Please call Margaret (250)426-3222.

s #ONSTRUCTION s 2ENOVATIONS s 2OOlNG s $RYWALL LARGE OR SMALL s 3IDING s 3UNDECK #ONSTRUCTION s !LUMINUM 2AILINGS 7E WELCOME ANY RESTORATIONAL WORK

NO JOB TOO SMALL

Driveways & Parking Lots 1-888-670-0066

2 Bdrms, 2 baths, open concept. Windows on all sides makes this home bright. A motivated seller.

Call for a viewing, agents welcome to show.

CALL

(250-489-3739)

421-1482

FREE ESTIMATES! CALL NOW!

322,500

$

CRANBROOK

POWER PAVING

FOR SALE BY OWNER

SERVING ALL THE KOOTENAYS Misc Services

Own one of Baker Hill’s nicest Heritage Homes. Lots of character, tastefully decorated.

3 bdrm + den, 2 bath, heated shop/garage. New windows, furnace, hw tank, wiring, plumbing, security system, sprinkler system, beautiful gardens and much much more.

Must be seen to be appreciated.

DO YOU HAVE A special talent?

~Crafting~Quilting~Nails~ Catalogue Sales, etc. Calling all home based businesses.

We have an opportunity to showcase your talents at very affordable prices. Let everyone in the Kootenays know what you have to offer and expand your customer base.

Call Marion at (250)426-5201 ext 202 for all the details, then get ready for some new revenue!

Pets & Livestock

Feed & Hay HAY FOR Sale. Wycliffe; $125./ton; $32./bale-500lbs.

65% Alfalfa.

(250)426-7668

We’re on the net at www.bcclassified.com

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232 10th Ave. S, Cranbrook, B.C. For viewing phone: 250-426-5745 or 250-919-5970.

FOR RESTLESS or cramping legs. A fast acting remedy since 1981, sleep at night, proven for 31 years. Mon-Fri 8-4 EST 1-800-765-8660 www.allcalm.com

GOLD CREEK ACREAGE

MOVING SALE: Larger, likenew washing machine, beautiful coffee tables, area rugs, beautiful oak dining set, medium size wall unit, console T.V.,(in good working condition) and lots more.

To arrange viewing, (250)426-2609

1500 sq. ft., 5 large bedrooms, 2½ baths, on 1 acre.

Out of town taxes.

New roof, upgraded septic system, 2 car - carport.

STEEL BUILDINGHuge Clearance Sale!

20x24 $4,658. 25x28 $5,295. 30x40 $7,790. 32x54 $10,600. 40x58 $14,895. 47x78 $19,838. One end wall included. Pioneer Steel 1-800-668-5422. www.pioneersteel.ca

419,500

$

(250) 919-1011

RV Sites Misc. Wanted Private Coin Collector Buying Collections, Silver Coins etc.

Available now: 250-863-3082

AVORADO RESORT. Beautiful waterfront RV Resort. New Sites For Sale ($63,900). All season, full amenities, clubhouse & beach access. Co-op Resort w/Lifetime Ownership! www.avorado.com Call 250-228-3586.

Open Houses

Open Houses

OPEN HOUSE Wednesday August 29 6:00 to 7:00 pm 310 - 27th Ave. S. $329,900 3+1 bdrm, 2½ bath, new windows & doors, open floor plan. Beautifully landscaped, just under 1/2 acre lot.

K215016 Jeannie Argatoff

250-426-5201

Est. 1898

Call us for more details!!!

BLUE SKY REALTY

250-426-8700 1111 Cranbrook St. N. www.blueskyrealty.ca www.mls.ca

Each office independently owned and operated.

DAILY TOWNSMAN/DAILY BULLETIN

Rentals Homes for Rent BEAUTIFUL NEWER HOUSE FOR RENT IN THE SLOCAN LAKE AREA. AVAILABLE OCT 1st • 4 Bedroom-2 Bath on 2 Acres • Red Mtn. Road above SILVERTON w/ Valhalla views + quiet privacy • N/S , Open to keeping animals • 10 min. drive to Slocan Lake and Village amenities • Storage, treehouses, good access all year round • Minimum 1 Yr Lease • W/D Hookups, F/S plus Earth -Woodstove • $1250 negotiable with proper care of house, land + gardens • References Required • Secure Income Essential • Serious Inquiries Only Call: 250-362-7681 or Mobile 250-231-2174 Email: monikas_2010@ hotmail.com

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Rentals

Transportation

Transportation

Homes for Rent

Cars - Domestic

FOR RENT in Canal Flats.

3bedroom home with 2vehicle detached garage, N/S, small pet okay. Available Aug.1st, $900/mo plus utilities & DD. Phone (250) 349-5306 or (250)489-8389.

Suites, Upper FURNISHED STUDIO suite in Kimberley. $495./mo.

Free laundry, internet, basic cable and utilities.

Call Peter (250)908-0045. Sorry, no pets.

Highland Property Management.

Transportation

Cars - Domestic 1987 PONTIAC Sunbird Convertible, 5-speed, 63,000km.

Burgundy with black poweredtop.

Cassette/CD player. $3,900. (250)489-8481

Small Ads work!

FOR SALE

1998 NEON SEDAN Auto, 155,000 km, winter tires inc.

1750

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Transportation

Transportation

Cars - Domestic

Motorcycles

Trucks & Vans

Trucks & Vans

2009 FORD FOCUS SES

1980 YAMAHA ‘Beluga’ scooter, 700 original km., $650. 1981 Yamaha 80, $550.

Both good condition.

(250)489-3766

1997 FORD F150 4X4

1998 DODGE quad cab, 4 x 4.

Low kms. $5500./obo (250)426-3092

2 door, built in Bluetooth, fully loaded, 44,000 km

$

$

250.417.3164

250-417-3808

13,500 obo

W/CANOPY INCL.

Excellent Condition!

One owner, 166,000 km Asking

7000

$

250.426.3586

Transportation

Boats MUST SELL!! 1992 16ft Vanguard open-bow ski boat.

85HP Yamaha motor. Lots of extras, fish finder, tow ropes, knee board, tube, air pump.

First reasonable offer takes it.

Asking $3000./obo (250)417-5813

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