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OCTOBER 31, 2012
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Bishop is alive and well and not stuck in Manila Email hacking scamsters are trying out a new scam C A ROLYN GR AN T bulletin@cyberlink.ca
Police are continually warning against scams, and scammers are continually coming up with creative ways to continue to scam. A new scam making the rounds via email is a request for funds to help out an acquaintance who has been robbed in a foreign country. This one is very hard to resist, as the writer describes being stranded in a foreign country with no money or credit cards, just a passport, after a supposed theft. Betty Aitchison from Kimberley received just such an email on Tuesday morning this week. It was from someone she knew, Darryl Bishop of Cranbrook, who is involved with the Sunrise Rotary Club’s Rockies Film Series.
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Colleen Smith had no idea her granddaughter Katey Norton would be up for a prize when she picked up the Burn Fund calendar as a gift to comfort her as she battles brain cancer in Calgary. Smith thought the calendar would be a beautiful reminder of home as Katey, 25, recovers in hospital. Instead, the young woman received a box suite at an upcoming Kootenay Ice game and 12 tickets that she’ll use next time she’s home in Cranbrook. Pictured: firefighters Gord Yee and Gregory Green, Kootenay Ice defenceman Spencer Wand, Colleen Smith with a picture of Katey, firefighter Jeff Brown, Kootenay Ice defenceman Joey Leach and firefighter Tom Kennelly.
Dancing in the teeth of the gale Cranbrook’s Royal Stewart Highland Dancers sailed straight into Tropical Storm Sandy
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The Royal Stewart Highland Dancers got a little more than they bargained for when Hurricane Sandy literally rained on their parade during their cruise vacation. Katie Saffin, Emily Balfour, Katie Macleod and Alexandra Demarchi were set
to leave from Miami for the Sadie Simpson Scholarship competition aboard the Majesty of the Seas. Hurricane Sandy – then a tropical storm – was in Miami wreaking havoc on the usually sunny destination when the girls arrived by airplane. Instructor Jane Nixon and parent chaperones were with
the girls the whole way. Nixon told the Townsman it wasn’t exactly the vacation they had all looked forward to. The cruise was in danger of being cancelled as the storm pounded the city. The dancers decided to brave the weather and explore Miami as best they could.
Nixon said she and the girls took a tour around the city, stopping at famous landmarks like South Beach. Nixon said something was amiss though, as they tried to enjoy the scenery. “The manhole covers were popping out of the ground,” she said. Back in their hotel rooms,
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Nixon said they watched the path of the storm as it ripped through Jamaica. On the Thursday before they left, 12 people had been killed. The death toll grew to 41 by Friday. “It was really frightening,” she said.
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