Cranbrook Daily Townsman, September 06, 2012

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THURSDAY

Weddings, Maternity, Newborn, Families and everything in between.

< The lull before the storm

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Fighters prepare for Cranbrook MMA event | Page 8

The return of Hy Chanthavouth > Cambodian tenor visits home away from home | Page 5

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AURORA BOREALIS: The Northern Lights were glowing above Cranbrook starting about 11:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 4. Rick Nowell at the College of the Rockies also captured the phenomenon, which he said was caused by a solar prominent flare that shot a coronal mass ejection towards the Earth. “When the first part arrived on September 1, a glancing blow from the charged cloud resulted in 10-megaelectron-volt protons hitting our upper atmosphere, growing to a max on September 2 at 2:50 a.m. and fading away September 4 at 12:25 a.m. That energy stirred up the Earth’s current geomagnetic storms and aurora borealis,” said Nowell.

Bennett is back in Kootenay East MLA handed Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development S A L LY M AC D O N A L D Townsman Staff

Kootenay East MLA Bill Bennett has made a return to the cabinet as B.C. Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development. Premier Christy Clark announced a cabinet shuffle Wednesday, September 5 at a swearing in ceremony at Government House in Victoria.

“It’s very gratifying on a personal level for the premier of the province to call (me) up and say she really wants me to be in her cabinet and that she has a lot of faith in me,” Bennett told The Townsman. Bennett is one of five MLAs who did not have a cabinet seat before Wednesday’s shuffle.

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Miss Pat passes the bugle SALLY MACDONALD Townsman Staff

After spending half of her life involved with the Cranbrook Bugle Band, Miss Pat has stepped down. August 31 was the last day Pat Ronalds will serve as the director of the band. She was first a member of the band for seven

THE MATTRESS LIQUIDATORS

After 27 years with the Cranbrook Bugle Band, Director Pat Ronalds is stepping down. Crystal Stevely Muir is taking on the leadership.

years, starting when she was in Grade 7. “At that time they weren’t bringing in girls in junior high. I was an exception,” said Pat. Following that, she had a three-year stint as assistant director, before she become director of the band in 1996.

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