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Royal nod for local lawyer Donald Kawano named Queen’s Counsel

ANNALEE GR ANT Townsman Staff

A local lawyer was among 30 in the province who received the title of Queen’s Counsel this week after an announcement by Attorney General and Minister of Justice Shirley Bond.

Donald Kawano is the latest member of the Cranbrook legal community to receive the honour after being nominated by his firm, Rella & Paolini.

“I’m very proud, I’m

humbled by it,” Kawano said.

The title is strictly honorary, but is based on a royal tradition.

Kawano, who practises civil law, explained that members of the Queen’s Counsel were historically lawyers that were trusted to carry out the king or queen’s business. Now the title has taken on a different meaning, with lawyers being named to the list each year.

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Monitoring the urban herd Results of latest deer count in BARRY COULTER

Our ungulate neighbours in Cranbrook seem to be keeping a relatively low profile.

At Monday night’s regular Council meeting, Mayor Wayne Stetski read out the results of two recent counts of urban deer.

A count conducted November 18 by volun-

teers and members of the Cranbrook deer committee turned up 96 deer, both mule deer and white tails. A second count conducted December 2 found 75, though poorer weather on that day may have resulted in the lower count.

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Eyes in the skies: A visit from the Canadian Forces This is part one in a two-part series on Civilian Air Search and Rescue training at the Canadian Rockies International Airport.

Reporter Annalee Grant was invited to tag along and peek inside the world of Canadian Forces Search and Rescue.

Annalee Gr ant Townsman Staff

It was the exact nature of Search and Rescue that left Cranbrook’s Civilian Air Search and Rescue Association members grounded on December 2.

The six CASARA spotters were left staring longingly at the yellow Buffalo aircraft, grounded at the Canadian Rockies International Airport after a snowstorm blew into the area the night before. But it also meant the Canadian Forces SAR Tech crews were grounded as well, and Warrant Officer Jean Tremblay was happy to share that time with the local members and one very lucky reporter.

There was little military formality, with “Mean” Jean Tremblay talking off the cuff with new CASARA spotters, hoping to get certified to ride in the bright yellow CF Buffalo aircraft

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The Canadian Forces Search and Rescue Buffalo from 442 Transport & Rescue Squadron Comox visited Cranbrook on December 1 and 2. that sat with a dusting of snow on the Cranbrook runway. It had traveled from 442 Transport & Rescue Squadron Comox to participate in training operations but was stymied by blowing snow and white-out

conditions.

“Sometimes we’re stuck on the ground and we can’t go search for people because of weather like this,” Tremblay said, speaking in a thick Québécois accent.

The 33-year veteran of

the Canadian Forces changed to SAR in 1984 and has been working out of Comox for the past 12 years. Some SAR Techs never get an operational jump; Tremblay has had seven throughout his career. It makes him an authority on SAR in Canada.

“This is part of Search and Rescue. This is when planes crash,” said Allister Pedersen, Cranbrook’s Provincial Emergency Program Air (PEP Air) Training Officer for the local CASARA branch.

In a real search situation, Tremblay told me the team would have

pushed it and gotten in the air, but for training weather can easily cancel a flight. Snow can also cover a crash sight, which complicates searches and creates an urgency to get in the air when weather is bad.

“A plane that you would have found right away can take a few days,” Tremblay said.

The Buffalo is an extraordinary aircraft that was developed in 1965

by De’havilland. It’s been in use since then – and the exact aircraft that graced the Canadian Rockies two weeks ago has been flying since 1967. What makes

the Buffalo so incredible is its ability to take off in astonishingly short distances. The runway at Cranbrook is 8,000 feet long, but the Buffalo needs a fraction of that space – only 1,210 feet of runway to take off and clear a 50foot obstruction. For comparison, the Dash 8 aircraft that land at Kootenay Rockies every day need four times the runway space as the Buffalo and Cranbrook is capable of landing up to a Boeing 747 if the need ever arises.

It’s that ability that has made it the go-to aircraft for Canadian Forces Search and Rescue teams and bush outfitters across Canada.

The SAR crew is all military, with two pilots, a flight engineer, two SAR Tech members and a navigator. On the Cranbrook stop, three SAR Techs came along

for the ride for training.

Pedersen was instrumental in having his members get the chance to meet with Tremblay and members of the SAR Tech crew, and step aboard the aircraft on December 2.

“They need their flying hours, just like we need our flying hours,” Pedersen told the gathered local spotters. Participating in the training was Corinne Sveinbjornson, Doug Martin, Renny Norsworthy, Connor Wigen, James Richards and Grant Tulloch.

The job of a spotter is to work with SAR Tech and military search teams in the event of a search operation. Locally, the Cranbrook CASARA team uses a two-seater Cessna 182 with a local pilot to conduct training and in the event of an official search.

They are the first in the air when a disaster happens. Searches are conducted for plane crashes, man hunts – anything where an aerial view can be helpful in locating a subject. As the local teams get in the air, they relay information back to a Canadian Forces base such as Comox, who may send out crews if needed.

Once in the air, spotters perform call arounds as they notice things in the horizon.

The procedure is simple, yet training is key in ensuring a successful search. Spotters sit at a window, and every movement is steeped with military precision.

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Cranbrook Chamber caps off fantastic year Annalee Gr ant Townsman Staff

The Cranbrook and District Chamber of Commerce wrapped up a successful year at its monthly luncheon December 12 at the Heritage Inn. President Lana Kirk announced the nominations for its 2013 board of directors, and celebrated those that would be stepping down after the 2012 year is up.

Mike Adams will assume the president position in January. He has previously been a vice president. Dave Butler will be vice president. Janette Sissons will remain as treasurer. and Kirk will step down.

All the nominees were approved without any new ones received from the floor. Incoming directors will be Eliza-

beth Ahlgren, Leah Bradish, Ken Dunsire, Ryan Gibbard and Diane Baher. Retaining their positions will be Allyson Blake, Chris Botterill, Tristen Chernove, Connor Stewart and David Struthers. Leaving the board is Ted Lauritsen, Jim Benson, Karla Shalley and Tracey Whiting.

Kirk said the outgoing directors have put in an incredible amount of hard work during their term and would be missed.

“Without the work and effort that these generous people have given, we could not have done so much,” she said.

The new directors will take their oath at the January 16, 2013 Chamber luncheon at the Heritage Inn. Jason Wheeldon and Warren Bedell presented

the final tally from the Chamber’s annual Turkey Drive that took place December 5.

Wheeldon, who lost a coin toss and appeared wearing the turkey suit that has been the mascot of the drive, was happy to report that the drive shattered all previous records for a total of $27,000 collected.

The celebrity pledgers, including the Townsman’s own publisher Karen Johnston helped collect $6,000 towards the final number.

Wheeldon said the Salvation Army and Cranbrook Food Bank do incredible work year round and the Chamber was happy to help out.

“Their dedication to our community is outstanding,” he said.

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Outgoing directors Jim Benson, Tracey Whiting, Karla Shalley and Ted Lauritsen were celebrated at the Chamber’s Christmas Luncheon on December 12. amounts almost dollar for dollar for every resident in Cranbrook.

“It’s great to see a community of 20,000 raise well over $20,000,” he said.

Jackie Pringle from the Food Bank and Cpt. Kirk Green from the Sal-

vation Army were there to accept a portion of the pledges.

“It was an enormous help to the Food Bank, we can’t help you enough,” Pringle said.

“It’s nice to know when we sit down to our turkey dinner that someone else

is able to celebrate.”

Kirk said the Christmas season looks bright for the Salvation Army customers.

“We are on track,” he said. “The mark of a great community is how they treat their less fortunate, and you can be very

proud.”

To cap off the luncheon, the Chamber announced that Wheeldon was the Citizen of the Year. He will be honoured at the January 16 meeting. See more on Wheeldon in tomorrow’s Townsman.

City increases dog licensing fees Barry Coulter Townsman Staff

Cranbrook City Council conducted a quick first, second and third readings of two

bylaw amendments at Monday night’s regular meeting. These amendments to the Animal Control Bylaw allowed for a new fee structure to

be put in place.

The first three readings took the old fee structure off the books (Bylaw 3760), the second three readings imple-

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mented the new fees (Bylaw 3761).

Increased dog license fees are intended to offset the cost of bylaw enforcement related to animal control. A portion of the revenue will also assist in the creation of a future off-leash dog park in Cranbrook.

The main change to the animal control bylaw is to the following dog licenses (Schedule C in the bylaw): • A license for a female dog, which came to $50 in 2012, will increase to $60 in 2013 and 2014.

• A license for a sterile female dog will go from $33 (2012) to $37 in 2013 and $40 in 2014.

• A license for a male dog will go from $55 (2012) to $60 in 2013 and 2014.

• A license for a sterile male dog will go from $33 (2012) to $37 in 2013 and $40 in 2014.

According to the updated Schedule C in Bylaw 3761, the license for a pitbull remains the same at $1,025 a year. The license for a “vicious dog,” except a pitbull, is $225 a year. A wild animal license is $100 a year.

Mayor Wayne Stetski pointed out at the meeting that the dog license fee is discounted by $25 if it’s renewed early, prior to Feb 28 of each year.

Local NEWS urged drivers last week to slow down and drive to road conditions.

“Police would like to remind motorists to drive for the conditions.

Please do not take unnecessary risks,” he said. “Your family will appreciate you getting home safely.”

Last week a 52-yearold Creston woman was killed in a crash near Cranbrook.

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teer and community activities.

Kawano is active with the Rotary Club and Cranbrook and District Restorative Justice Society, which helps mediate legal concerns outside of court and find solutions that provide a positive solution for the victim of a crime and the offender.

“They like to recognize any people that are looking for other ways to solve legal disputes,” Kawano said.

And through the restorative justice society, Kawano does just that.

day.

“Practising law in my view is one of the helping professions,” he said. “It’s very much like the restorative process. I enjoy dealing with legal issues and presenting arguments on behalf of people.”

The Queen’s Counsel designation will be made official at a ceremony some time in the spring in Vancouver.

Kawano plans to attend, and said it never would have happened without Rella and Paolini.

“I appreciate the support of my firm who nominated me for this designation.”

The information was sent on to the deer committee.

Coun. Bob Whetham is a member of the deer committee, along with Coun. Angus Davis. Whetham took part in the counts. “I feel like I’m getting to know those animals personally,” he said during his Councillor’s Report, to some laughter.

Whetham said one of those animals was a buck, with a string of Christmas tree lights wrapped up in his antlers, maybe acquired when the deer was feeding off an ornamental cedar tree.

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“That’s been relaxed to now it’s an honorary title,” Kawano said.

But that doesn’t mean the title isn’t important. Kawano said members are generally held in high regard by the legal community.

Appointed members of the legal community, the president of the Law Society of B.C. and the Canadian Bar Association select from the nominees each year to grant them the title of Queen’s Counsel.

Kawano said his name was put forward by Donald Paolini and Allan Rella of Rella & Paolini. While he was aware his hat had been thrown into the ring, Kawano said it was still a shock.

“It was a pleasant surprise,” he said.

Only seven per cent of the lawyers in the province can hold the title at any given time, which makes them among an exclusive group.

Kawano will join a growing list of lawyers from Cranbrook and area who have earned the title. Among them are Neil Robertson, Sandra Smaill, John Zimmer, Gerry Kambeitz and Ken Steidl, to name a few.

Kawano’s experience in the legal community extends beyond his time at Rella & Paolini. He said his extracurricular activities may have tipped the scales in his favour as the panel reviewing Queen’s Counsel appointments takes into consideration volun-

He works with offenders who acknowledge that they have done wrong and would like to make the situation right. The voluntary programs helps offenders charged with crimes such as shoplifting write apology letters and find positive community service opportunities to give back to their community.

“Out of that process comes a resolution agreement,” Kawano said. “It’s outside the court process.”

While lawyers often had a stigma about them, Kawano said he enjoys his job because he helps people every

are up in the air, pending results of further counts and the result of lawsuit launched against the District of Invermere. A cull which started there only took 20 animals before a court injunction stopped it.

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A second road fatality Wednesday morning has taken the life of a 63-year-old Radium woman near Invermere.

The accident occurred three kilometres north of Invermere at 9 a.m. Wednesday when a southbound Dodge Dakota driven by the woman lost control and

crossed the centre line.

It slammed head-on into a northbound Chevy Silverado. The passengers in that vehicle, a 27-year-old woman and her threeyear-old son, were taken to hospital with serious but not life threatening injuries.

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Behind the scenes with the birth rate

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any years ago, when I was young and handsome, a friend inveigled me into taking a small role in a film he was making — a proper film, with a real budget and a commercial release, though mercifully it never got much attention. It was a Cold War spoof called “The Last Straw” in which the Soviets were plotting to bring the West to its knees by causing the sperm count in Western males to collapse, and I got the Dr Strangelove role.

This friend — let’s call him Giles Walker, because that was his name — picked me for the role because at the time I was known for making weighty prognostications on the strategic balance and matters pertaining thereto. (You have to make a living.) So I played myself, briefing the leaders of the Free World on the appalling strategic consequences if the Soviet plot succeeded.

You cannot even find this film on YouTube now, I’m pleased to report. However, it did give me a head-start on considering the appalling consequences of a drastic fall in the sperm count of Western men.

This comes in handy at the moment, since that is now actually happening.

In the fifteen years between 1989 and 2005, according to a study just published in the journal Human Reproduction, the sperm count of French men fell by one third. More than 26,000 men were tested in the study, and the number of millions of spermatozoa per millilitre of their semen was falling by almost 2 per cent a year. If that rate of decline has been maintained since the study ended, the count will be down another 13 per cent by now.

Now, admittedly, counting sperm is tricky. You can fit a hundred million of the

little buggers into a teaspoon, they all look alike, and they keep wriggling around. But these results being taken very seriously because they don’t have the usual defects of this sort of study.

The virtue of the French study is that the country has the Fivnat database, a record of some 440,000 cases of infertility problems at 126 government-funded “assisted fertilisation centres” from the 1980s onwards. The researchers chose only the Gwynne 26,200 cases where the problem had proved to be Dyer complete sterility in the female partner – which presumably meant that their male partners were a random sample of the population.

Treatment for infertility is free in France, so there should be no income bias in the data either. For those reasons it is probably the most reliable survey of changing sperm counts over time that has ever been done – and it documents a steep fall in a relatively short time.

The numbers are quite impressive: from 73.6 million sperm per millilitre in 1989 to only 49.9 million per millilitre in 2005. If the rate of decline has stayed the same since 2005, the number now would be around 43 million. Doctors generally regard 15 million as the number below which there will be serious problems with fertility, so there’s another 40 years or so before the problem gets really serious. But still...

There are really three questions here.

One, is the same thing happening elsewhere? Two, what’s causing it? And three, how much does it matter?

Most other scientific studies in developed countries in the past twenty years have also found falling sperm counts, though none of them matched the French

one in scale and precision. There is no comparable research on the trend in developing countries, but it is at least plausible that this may be a global phenomenon.

That mostly depends, of course, on what’s causing it. If it’s environmental factors, are they the same in rich countries and poor ones? A common theory lays the blame on chemicals in the environment like Bisphenol A, found in some plastics, that disrupt endocrine function and change hormonal balances. Another theory blames smoking, drinking alcohol, and high-fat diets. These factors vary from one country to another, and more research is clearly needed.

But let us suppose that the trend is continuing, and that sperm counts are also declining in developing countries. Should you lie awake at night worrying that this is a threat to human survival?

Definitely not. If you’re really worried about keeping human numbers up, then you should be doing something quite different at night. And afterwards, you might lull yourself to sleep pondering whether it would really be such a bad thing if the birth rate dropped for a while.

If this decline in sperm counts is caused by environmental factors, then it can almost certainly be reversed eventually by doing enough research and then eliminating those factors. In the meantime, however, we are passing through the astounding total of seven billion humans beings, on our way to nine or ten billion.

That’s far too many for this finite planet, and a rapid decline in the birth rate, even to below replacement level, would be a Good Thing.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist based in London

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news/features East meets West in lyrical fashion Local translation of Arabic poet on Cranbrook bookshelves

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poems is the first English translation of Abdul Samad’s work.

“The Arabic was a challenge,” Alatrash said. “There is a rhythm in Arabic, a music, that doesn’t carry over into English. I had to find a music, a rhythm in English.”

Getting the bilingual edition properly set on the page so that the English poem complemented the facing Arabic poem took a global group effort. Her publisher, Bruce Batchelor at Agio Publishing House in Victoria, B.C., had no Arabic, so Alatrash contacted an editor in Lebanon (who had little English). With Alatrash acting as go-between, the pages were thus set up so the English and Arabic texts matched.

Alatrash said she gave the poet himself the option of choosing the Arabic typeface.

The titles of each Arabic poem were written out by a master calligrapher.

“Poetry is an interpretation, and a translation of poetry is also an act of interpretation — an expression of feelings,” she said. “My voice is there as well. Some might think it could be a different interpretation, but that’s my feeling.”

In Arabic, poetry is sung. And the importance of poetry in contemporary Arabic and Middle Eastern culture is something that’s missing in Western culture, Alatrash

said.

“Arabic youth can recite poems from beginning to end. It’s important institutionally, like in schools, but also in the hearts of the people. Today there is much revolutionary and political poetry. Some poetry that was sung many years ago is being reposted on YouTube today.

“Hence the title of the book. With the title comes something else.

“If it hadn’t been translated, the poetry may have eventually died. Children of Arabic immigrants in North America may speak Arabic fluently, but they don’t read or write it.”

Alatrash’s next project is a translation of a series of short stories written by a Syrian friend of hers, an obstetrician who has been doing work in refugee camps throughout the ongoing Syrian civil war.

Alatrash’s Syrian hometown, Sweida, has a predominantly Druze and Christian population, so relative calm prevails. As result, there has been an influx of more than 40,000 refugees from other parts of Syria.

Heidi’s Restaurant will host a reading of “So That The Poem Remains,” on Friday, Dec. 14, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. All are welcome to attend.

‘World’s cleanest’ LNG still B.C. goal Tom Fletcher Black Press

VICTORIA — The B.C. government isn’t wavering from its goal of developing clean energy as negotiations continue for an expanding natural gas export megaproject across the north, Premier Christy Clark says.

In a year-end interview with Black Press this week, Clark responded to Coastal First Nations concerns that liquefied natural gas (LNG) processing at Kitimat and potentially Prince Rupert could proceed without external electricity supplies.

Clark said LNG exports to Asia have been her top economic priority in recent months, with the original two

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two-and-a-half year project of Ghada Alatrash has come to full literary fruition, and perhaps made the world a bit more of an intimate, understanding place.

“So That The Poem Remains” is Alatrash’s translation of the poetry of Youssef Abdul Samad, a Lebanese poet living in the U.S., who writes in Arabic. Alatrash has published a bilingual edition of a selection of his work, with the Arabic and English versions of each poems on facing pages.

The book is currently available at Lotus Books, and Alatrash will be giving a public reading from it — in English and Arabic — Friday evening at Heidi’s in Cranbrook.

Youssef Abdul Samad is the voice of the lover in exile. His lyrical poetry has an especial force in the original Arabic, certainly when read by Alatrash. He is passionate about justice, about the human heart. He loves women on all levels, scorns organized religion, despises oppression.

“He’s trying to tell the reader that we stand on common ground,” Alatrash said.

“He’s the Arab voice that is misrepresented in Western media. He’s no fanatic. He cries for justice for all humanity.

“I feel the same way,” Alatrash said. “We are people who love, who love life, who have passion. We are just the same as you.”

Alatrash is originally from Syria, and immigrated to the U.S. In 1986. She currently lives in Cranbrook, but has returned to the Middle East for extended sojourns.

She is thus has a good global perspectives on the divide — and similarities — between East and West.

“There is a huge presence of Western culture in the Middle East,” she said. “The opposite is not true. There’s the political, but not the aspects of Arabic that love peace, passion and culture. There is an absence of Arab culture in the West, especially a lack of Arabic literature and the arts. I’m hoping to fill that gap, even a little bit.”

Alatrash had worked on translations previously, and even excerpted some in the pages of the Daily Townsman. The 175page, three-section volume containing 20

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projects on Haisla Nation land at Douglas Channel growing to eight proposals as international interest in B.C. shale gas development has grown. Confidential negotiations are ongoing with energy companies, and decisions on power supply have not yet been made, she said.

“Our plan has always been for the cleanest LNG produced anywhere in the world, so that’s been hydro, wind power and other renewables as well,” Clark said. “But we’ve always said there’s going to have to be some natural gas power produced to shape it.

“There’s another economic imperative we have, which is to

grow our clean energy industry,” Clark said. “We’ve got the third biggest clean tech industry on the globe, after Germany and California, and we want to keep growing that.”

Last week the Haisla Nation dropped out of its voluntary association with the Haida, Heiltsuk, Gitga’at and other communities who make up the Coastal First Nations. They are still united in opposition to the Enbridge Northern Gateway oil pipeline proposed to go to Kitimat, but the rest of the Coastal First Nations oppose processing LNG directly by mechanical equipment that burns gas.

Clark said full development of B.C. LNG will require con-

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The Coastal First Nations occupy what is now known as the Great Bear Rainforest, a vast area of the north and central B.C. coast with a land use plan negotiated in 1996 with the B.C. and federal governments. A group of U.S.-based environmental foundations matched the two governments’ $60 million financing for the protected areas plan, working with environmental groups Greenpeace, Sierra Club and ForestEthics.

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UPCOMING Kootenay Christian Academy middle school band concert; Thursday, Dec. 13, 7:00pm. KCA Preschool campus, 629 6th St NW Cost: donation for Christmas hampers. FMI 250-426-0166 Book Under Every Tree – until Dec 14th drop off new or gift quality kids/teens/adult books at the Cranbrook Library and other drop off locations in Cranbrook for CBAL’s project. Volunteers needed and fabric donations gratefully received. Katherine 250-417-2896 or khough@cbal.org Take your family back in time to the first Christmas? Then reserve Saturday Dec 15, 2-5pm for One Starry Night! Free activities for ALL AGES! Knox Church, 2100 - 3rd St. S., Cranbrook. FMI: 250-426-7165 Mount Baker Interact Club will be hosting an Amnesty International Write for Rights event on Thurs, Dec 13, 730 pm, - to raise awareness of four international cases of human rights violations. The night will end with a candlelight vigil recognizing the importance of international human rights. Donations will go towards the cost of sending the letters.

December 16-Advent 3 and Special Gift Sunday You are invited to worship with Cranbrook United Church. Many of our congregants bring a small gift for the food bank, or the women’s shelter, or the men’s shelter on this Sunday. Service begins at 10:00 a.m.

Live Outdoor Nativity with live donkey, sheep, youth actors and music from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Monday, Dec 17 and Tuesday, Dec 18th, Cranbrook LDS Chapel, 2210-2nd St. N., Cranbrook. Times: 7:00 & 8:00 p.m.

2012 FREE FAMILY SWIM Wednesday, Dec. 19th, 6:00-7:00 PM is sponsored by Knights of Columbus.

The Royal Stewart Highland Dancers will host their annual Christmas Charity Recital on Thursday, December 20 at 7:00 pm at the Heritage Inn Ballroom. Admission is by donation with all funds going to the Salvation Army Cranbrook. FMI contact Jane at 2580427-8757 or email info@rshd.ca. (www.rshd.ca) Christmas at Baker Hill, Sunday Dec. 23rd, 6:00-7:00 pm.

Instrumental music & carols. The DeHorst Sisters and guest, Jack Telman from Edmonton. Receiving canned goods for Cranbrook Food Bank. Abundant Life Assembly, 501-11 Ave S, Cranbrook.

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The Council of Senior Citizens Organizations (COSCO) is an advocacy group devoted to improving “The Quality Of Life” for all seniors. To become a member contact Ernie Bayer, ph 604-576-9734, fax 604-576-9733, email ecbayer@shaw.ca.

The Cranbrook Kimberley Hospice Society seeks volunteers to help us provide services to persons at the end of life and their families. Training is provided. Call 250-417-2019, Toll Free 1-855-417-2019 if interested.

Cranbrook Quilters’ Guild hold their meetings on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays each month at 7:15 pm upstairs in Seniors Hall, 125-17th Ave. S. All skill levels welcome. FMI Betty 250489-1498 or June 250-426-8817.

Mark Creek Lions “Meet and Greet” the 1st and 3rd Wednesday, from 6:00-6:30 pm. Dinner to follow at Western Lodge. FMI: 250-427-5612 or 427-7496.

Cranbrook Branch of the Stroke Recovery Association of BC. Meetings are from 10:00am-1:00pm the 2nd and 4th Wed. in the lower level of the Senior Citizen’s Hall, 125-17th St. S. Bring bag lunch. Tootie Gripich, 426-3994.

KIMBERLEY North Star Quilters meet 2nd and 4th Monday of each month at 7pm downstairs Centennial Hall, 100 4th Avenue. Everyone welcome. Info: Carol at 250-427-7935 or Joan at 250-427-4046.

The Cranbrook Senior Floor Curling is looking for new members. Curling is Monday and Wednesday afternoons, upstairs in the Curling Rink. Info: Dave at 250-426-5387.

Cranbrook Senior Centre, Branch 11 holding their meetings every third Thursday a month. 1:30pm at the hall. We always welcome new members.

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Kimberley Early Learning Centre Kim 250-427-4468.

StrongStart BC - FREE family drop-in program for preschoolaged children accompanied by a parent. Kimberley Early Learning Centre. Activities include circle time, play centers, nutritious snack and active play. Monday 9 - 12, Tuesday 9 - 12, Thursday 9 – 12, Friday 9 - 12. Gina 250-427-5309.

Treehouse—Families with children 5 & under are invited to come play. Free drop-in program in gym of Kimberley Early Learning Centre. Transportation avail. Tuesdays, 9:00 - 12:00. Diana 250-427-0716.

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Scheifele moves to Canada’s top forward line DONNA SPENCER Canadian Press

CALGARY _ It was a just a year ago that Mark Scheifele declared he wanted to centre Canada’s top forward line at the world junior hockey championship.

He didn’t get his way.

That distinction went to Ryan Strome with Scheifele playing the middle on Canada’s second line.

Scheifele looks like he may get a chance to play on the top unit this year, but as a converted right-winger.

Canadian team head coach Steve Spott had Scheifele on the right side of Edmonton Oilers centre Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and left-winger Jonathan Huberdeau from the start of this week’s selection camp in Calgary.

“I’m willing to play any position, whatever it is,’’ Scheifele says. “Ob-

viously being on the No. 1 line right now with Huberdeau and Nugent-Hopkins, I just want to stay on that, obviously make the team.’’

That he’ll make the team isn’t in question.

The 19-year-old from Kitchener, Ont., would have played for the Winnipeg Jets this season if not for the NHL lockout.

Nu g e nt- Ho p k i n s, Scheifele and Huberdeau were among a dozen players who didn’t play in Wednesday’s 4-1 exhibition loss to the University of Alberta Golden Bears.

Defencemen Dougie Hamilton, Morgan Rielly and Scott Harrington and forwards Strome, Philip Danault, Boone Jenner, Charles Hudon and Brett Ritchie also sat out, meaning they are safe bets to be on 23-player Canadian team announced Thursday night.

Five players cut from national world junior team CALGARY _ The Canadian junior men’s hockey team released five players from its selection camp Wednesday.

Defencemen Adam Pelech and Derrick Pouliot and forwards Francis Beauvillier, Sean Monahan and Tyler Graovac were cut, dropping the number of players competing for 23 spots on the team to 32.

Four goalies, 10 defencemen and 18 forwards remain.

Another nine hopefuls are expected to be released Thursday following an exhibition game against Canadian university players.

Canada’s roster for the upcoming world junior hockey championship in Ufa, Russia, will also be named then.

Canada lost 4-1 in Wednesday’s exhibition game to the University of Alberta.

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Buchy nabs qualifier at zone playdowns TRE VOR CR AWLEY Sports Editor

Despite losing their first shot at the provincial qualifying spot, Team Buchy rallied and overcame their frustrations to beat a team out of Castlegar to clinch the second of two spots to punch their ticket to Parksville in February.

Team Buchy, comprised of Tom Buchy, Dave Toffolo, Darren Will and Dave Stephenson, cruised through their first three matches at Kootenay zone playdowns, defeating Dean Hornig out of Trail to earn a berth into the provincial qualifying draws.

However, Team Hornig got their revenge when it mattered, downing Team Buchy 7-5 to win one of the

qualifiers.

The two teams were tied 3-3 going into the eighth end, but Hornig broke the game open with a triple.

Team Buchy responded with a double, but Hornig posted a single in the final end on their way to victory.

“They got a real solid team,” said Buchy, of the curlers making up Team Hornig. “Three of the four guys on that team have been to the Brier…they’re solid.”

However, Team Buchy was automatically seeded in the draw that determined the second qualifier, with his eventual opponent being Myron Nichol, who defeated Team Shypitka, skipped by Tom Shypitka out of Cranbrook, in the semi

final.

“The guys regrouped really well to get ready for that second game because the last one was over, there’s nothing we could do about it,” said Buchy.

“That was probably our best game of all, our game against Nichol.

There wasn’t too many shots missed there and the nice thing is about this, is that was our fifth game and every game we played we seemed to get a bit stronger.”

The Buchy team deuced in the third and sixth ends and posted singles in three others, while limiting the Nichol team to single points in the fourth and eight ends for a 7-2 win.

Buchy handed out credit to his team members for playing very

well over the weekend, which was impressive, considering they hadn’t done a lot of practice as a team, because Stephenson came in from Kelowna, while Will resides in Fernie.

“Darren Will played outstanding, the way he set up the ends was fantastic,” said Buchy.

“Dave Toffolo was real solid to make sure things were going the way they needed to.”

Stephenson and Buchy go way back to the days when they curled as juniors together, and the Kimberley skip is excited to have him on board.

“Dave Stephenson fit in real well,” Buchy said. “...He’s a good player, a good asset to have on our team and knows the game real well.”

Buchy ended up facing Tom Shypitka and his team over the tournament, winning 9-3 after tripling in the fifth end and notching a deuce in the seventh.

“Tom’s got a really good team with good players,” said Buchy.

“They made provincials last year, they’ve had good success in some cash spiels this year and we know we’re always in tough when we play against those guys. “…They’ve beaten us lots and we’ve beaten them, too, so we just managed to get the win on them this time.”

Parksville, on Vancouver Island, will host the provincial tournament in February, the winner of which will represent B.C. in the Tim Hortons Brier.

NFL players won’t be punished in bounty case SCHUYLER DIXON Associated Press

IRVING, Texas — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said he ``fundamentally disagrees’’ with former league boss Paul Tagliabue’s decision not to discipline players in the New Orleans Saints’ bounty scandal.

Speaking Wednesday after an owners meeting in the Dallas

area, Goodell said he respected his predecessor’s decision, and believed it backed up the commissioner’s conclusion that the Saints ran a bounty program for three years and covered it up.

But Goodell took issue with Tagliabue vacating the yearlong suspension of linebacker Jonathan Vilma and shorter bans for three

other current and former Saints players. In an NFL appeal ruling issued Tuesday, the former commissioner placed much of the blame with the Saints’ coaches and front office.

“I fundamentally disagree that this is something that lies just with coaches and management,’’ Goodell said. “I do think their leadership position needs to

be considered, but I also believe these players were in leadership positions, also.’’

Like Vilma, Saints coach Sean Payton received a yearlong suspension.

Defensive co-ordinator Gregg Williams was suspended indefinitely, and assistant Joe Vitt, who is now the interim head coach, was banned for six games. General manag-

er Mickey Loomis got an eight-game suspension.

“My personal view is I hold everyone responsible,’’ Goodell said.

“Player health and safety is an important issue in this league. We’re all going to have to contribute to that, whether you’re a commissioner, whether you’re a coach, whether you’re a player, and we all have to be held accountable for it.”

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Sports Local talent shines with Avs Tre vor Cr awley Sports Editor

After standing out in high school and club volleyball, local setter Julie-Ann Sternig caught the attention of staff with the women’s College of the Rockies Avalanche volleyball team.

Her talents managed to land her a spot on the squad last year, and the Cranbrook native, who captured rookie of the year honours at the end of last season, is back for her sophomore year with the club.

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Nitro forward Jason Richter accepts his award from Dynamiters board member Tasha Johnston for Player of the Month, handed out before Sunday’s game against the Grand Forks Border Bruins.

Hockey Canada honours legends of the game L aurence Heinen Canadian Press

CALGARY _ Forty years after his legendary goal inspired a generation, Paul Henderson is taking his place among the Canada’s hockey elite.

Henderson, along with longtime coach Dave King and NHL Hall of Famer Mark Messier, were named to the Order of Hockey in Canada on Wednesday.

The program, run by Hockey Canada, annually honours a select number of individuals

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whose “role or service in the game is recognized as extraordinary’’ in this country.

The three join the star-studded inaugural class of 2012 inducted last spring. Honourees a year ago included Jean Beliveau, Cassie Campbell-Pascall, Wayne Gretzky, Gordie Howe and Gordon Renwick.

Henderson, 69, is best known for scoring the winning goal in Game 8 of the 1972 Summit Series to give Canada the victory over the Soviet Union. The

goal is still celebrated in Canadian hockey circles today and has become part of the nation’s identity.

“When I scored that goal, they interviewed me after the game and I specifically remember saying I’ve never been more proud to be Canadian at that minute,’’ Henderson said on a conference call.

Shortly after being informed about the honour, Henderson said that he was still “about six inches off the floor.’’

“Julie is a very smart individual on and off the court. She has a great work ethic and works well with her teammates. She cares about her team and plays as hard as she can.”

Agata Bendkowska Although Sternig could’ve taken her abilities elsewhere, she chose to stay close to home.

“Coming to the College of the Rockies al-

lowed me to stay in my hometown and to still continue to play volleyball,” said Sternig.

Sternig has hopes of becoming a psychologist as she is currently enrolled in university transfer courses while en route to a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Agata Bendkowska, who coaches the women’s team from the sidelines, likes what she sees with Sternig’s skill sets.

“Julie is a very smart individual on and off the court,” Bendkowska said. “She has a great work ethic and works well with her teammates. She cares about her team and plays as hard as she can.”

The team has struggled a bit, but is working hard to prepare for the provincial Pacwest tournament, which the Avs are hosting at the end of the season.

But the team has had a taste of success in the preseason and on their first road trip, which Sternig credits as a highlight of the season.

“My favourite experience so far was winning two of our four games on our first road trip of the season,” Sternig said.

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Frustrated hockey fans fed up with NHL labour strife Dan Gelston Associated Press

Sitting in a hockey locker room, Steve Chase became the latest die-hard fan fed up with the NHL lockout.

Living in Los Angeles, Chase believed the league had squandered all the goodwill built in the area after the Kings won the Stanley Cup. His weekly pickup games with friends became his only taste of the sport he loved because of the ongoing labour strife that has dragged on for months.

So he took a poll of his buddies, then took a pledge: “We’re not coming

back.’’

Not for good. Just not after the lockout is settled, not for a while.

Chase started the grass roots “Just Drop It’’ campaign that encourages fans to boycott one NHL game for every game cancelled after Dec. 21st. No tickets, no TV, no merchandise _ not a minute or a penny spent on the league, punishment for what he believed are continued abuses of loyalty on their fan base.

He made a video and started a Facebook page, urging fans to click the “like’’ button and join the cause. More than 11,000 angry fans

have joined since the weekend, a puck drop in the circle compared to the millions of fans who attend games, but the latest small sign fans won’t again be easily won back.

“People are trying to crush the NHL,’’ Chase said. “That’s not our goal. Our goal is just to get hockey back. Hopefully somebody, somewhere cares about this and decides, ‘Guys, we’ve got to get back and talk.’ The fans are right.

“They’re fighting over our money.’’

The days of letter writing and 30-second phone calls to sports

radio stations have ballooned to steady streams of hashtags, Facebook posts and homemade videos from fans who just want to come in from the cold of this labour battle and watch their slapshots and saves. They are exasperated over a work stoppage with no end in sight and little regard for the fans.

Penguins captain Sidney Crosby understood why fans are upset over the third lockout in Commissioner Gary Bettman’s 20-year tenure.

“I don’t blame anyone for being frustrated with this process,’’ Cros-

by said. “Everyone’s got to be frustrated with the way this has gone. It’s pretty easy for everyone involved to feel that way.’’

Kind of like they sing in a song about union executive director Donald Fehr’s old sport, some fans vow it’s one, two, three lockouts and they’re out.

“I wouldn’t blame them if they did that by any stretch,’’ Penguins forward Craig Adams said, “but I can’t predict that.’’

It’s actually pretty easy to call this shot.

For all the angry tweets, texts, threats and organized campaigns,

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@ IDLEWILD & ELIZABETH LAKES The ice is just beginning to form on both lakes at Idlewild Park and Elizabeth Lake, along with the creeks and streams in the City. Thin ice creates many dangers for children who are unaware.

PARENTS: Please advise your children of the DANGERS and to stay off the ice at Idlewild Park until it is six inches thick. The City of Cranbrook Public Works department measures the ice at the lakes.

Please call Leisure Services before going out at 250-489-0220.

HOLIDAY HOURS

CITY HALL/ENGINEERING SERVICES Monday December 24................................. 8:30am to Noon Tuesday December 25 and Wednesday December 26 ....................................... CLOSED Thursday December 27........................... 8:30am to 4:30pm Friday December 28 ............................... 8:30am to 4:30pm Monday December 31............................ 8:30am to 4:30pm Tuesday January 1, 2013 ........................................ CLOSED Wednesday January 2, 2013 .................. 8:30am to 4:30pm

HOLIDAY HOURS WESTERN FINANCIAL PLACE - AQUATIC CENTRE Monday December 24...........................12:00pm to 3:00pm Tuesday December 25 and Wednesday December 26 ....................................... CLOSED Thursday December 27 and Friday December 28 ............................... 6:30am to 9:00pm Saturday December 29 and Sunday December 30 ...........................12:00pm to 8:00pm Monday December 31...........................12:00pm to 3:00pm Tuesday January 1, 2013 ........................................ CLOSED Wednesday January 2, 2013 ................... 6:30am to 9:00pm

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FREE COMMUNITY SPONSORED FAMILY SWIM – SATURDAY DECEMBER 15, 2012

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more than the total in 2003-04, the season before the lockout.

The NHL saw an attendance uptick each of the next three seasons and totalled a record 21,468,121 fans in 201112.

All the bluster of a boycott is easier tweeted than done. Fans can’t quit Sid the Kid, Ovi, Big Z, The Warden, Phil the Thrill and The Doaner.

On Opening Night in January 2013 or October 2013 or November 2015, whenever, the teams will be back ready for the first faceoff.

So will the fans.

At least some of them.

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fans will still pick up the remote and print out tickets as soon as the strife ends.

They always do. In every sport. Remember 1994? After the World Series was wiped out, baseball loyalists vowed never to return to the old ball game. Fueled by super-sized sluggers and retro ballparks, attendance topped 60 million in 1996, 70 million in 1998 and soared to 79,503,175 in 2007.

The NHL, of course, can’t match those numbers. But the story arc is still the same. The NHL drew 20,854,169 fans when the sport returned in 2005-06 — 497,970

The Cranbrook Aquatic Centre is hosting another community sponsored family swim on Saturday December 15, 2012 from 4 to 5pm. It will be free for families to swim at this event, compliments of Shivers. This is a new initiative by the City of Cranbrook Leisure Services department. Are you or your business interested in sponsoring a family swim? Please contact our Aquatics Coordinator at 250-489-0224.

For any non-emergency calls over the holidays, please call the City of Cranbrook After Hours Line at 250-426-2325. For any emergency, please call 911.

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he Unknown Culprits might be flying below the mainstream radar, but to packed audiences in dozens of live rooms across Canada they’ve earned their bones as one of the nation’s most exciting hard-rocking roadbands. The brainchild of Fruitvale BC’s vocalist-guitarist Gary Morrissette, the Toronto-based UCs also feature two Cranbrook hometown boys: vocalist-bassist-artist D’Arcy Booth and drummer Paul Dakin. Although they’ve sadly parted ways amicably to pursue other musical / artistic / career interests, the UCs are reforming to hit the stage at the legendary Byng Roadhouse to rock in the Holiday Season for family, friends...and the entire East Kootenay’s party-hearty contingent.

“We’ve had so many offers, asking us to come back and play all across Canada, but the timing wasn’t right ‘til now,” explains Booth.

“It’s gonna be a crazy weekend...I’m a little apprehensive about how my liver’s gonna handle it!”

Toughened by the staggering geography of Canada, the UCs reflect on the touring positives: “We’ve had pretty epic tours,” admits Booth.

“You cover serious ground, day after day, and often you’re playing dives for nothing just to keep dates filled. But we’ve got friends and family all across Canada, which helps. Regardless of whatever gong-show happened the night before, we’d have to part hard again the next night. That’s when we hatched the slogan: ‘the Unknown Culprits...we only drink when we’re hungover.’

We love roadlife. It’s a blast exploring new places. But it’s always nice to get home and do some laundry.”

“Touring’s always exciting,” says Dakin.

“It’s great, showcasing our songs, making new friends, reuniting with old friends. The tour’s end has a sense of rewarding accomplishment. It was always worth the money, time, and energy. We started

The Unknown Culprits rock the legendary Byng Roadhouse (21 Cranbrook St. N.) the evening of Saturday December 22nd.

Showtime 9 p.m. the countdown to the next tour the day we got back to Toronto.”

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Then the new worries started: will the van make it? Will there be people out? Will we play well? Where are we gonna sleep? Sometimes you’re playing 6 shows in 7 nights across 3 different provinces. By the end of a tour, the levels hilarious stupidity from being cooped up in a van for weeks and surviving wild events increased. It was always great to play another wicked homecoming show in Toronto, but sad to end another amazing journey.”

The UCs hard-rocking blues-rock / alt-rock sound strongly challenges the modern indie-hipster scene. “We

have diverse tastes and like good music of whatever genre,” Booth declares. “Some of that indie-hipster stuff is absolute pretentious garbage, but it’s almost better than the unavoidable auto-tuned electronic pop.”

“The majority of modern popular music isn’t what I consider good,” Dakin agrees.

“Disposable. Quickly forgotten, not standing the test of time. There are many excellent artists out there, however... you will hear them if you dig enough for them. I liked hearing bands we played with, who’re enduring the same struggles we are to be heard. Often, the truly talented don’t get a chance with the modern music industry. I stick to music I’ve always loved, and hope to hear new interesting music, rather than overnight pop sensations that come and go.”

“There’s always trailblazers who lead new musical trends, fol-

lowed by copycats,” adds Morrissette. “The new trend takes over the airwaves, is no longer underground, becomes pop. Hipster music takes inspiration from the same influences we have; classic rock, blues, folk, 90s alternative...but our live attack and recording production are NOT hipster.

Our punk / grunge roots come into play. People are getting tired of folkrock, and electro-dweebs, and want to hear heavy rocking again.”

Although their Byng Roadhouse appearance is a one-shot, the UCs are clear they’re not closing the books forever. “I’m not a naysayer

for the future. I like to think the Culps will always be around to some extent.”

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Sitar virtuoso who brought Indian music to West, mentored Beatles, dies at 92 Muneez a Naqvi And R avi Nessman Associated Press

NEW DELHI _ With an instrument perplexing to most Westerners, Ravi Shankar helped connect the world through music. The sitar virtuoso mentored a Beatle, became a hippie musical icon and spearheaded the first rock benefit concert as he introduced traditional Indian ragas to Western audiences over nearly a century.

From George Harrison to John Coltrane, from Yehudi Menuhin to David Crosby, his connections reflected music’s universality, though a gap persisted between Shankar and many Western fans.

Sometimes they mistook tuning for tunes, while he stood aghast at displays like Jimi Hendrix’s burning guitar.

“My Dad’s music touched millions of people,’’ his daughter, musician Norah Jones, said in a statement. “He will be greatly missed by me and music lovers everywhere.’’

Shankar died Tuesday at age 92. A statement on his website said he died in San Diego, near his Southern California home with his wife and a daughter by his side.

The musician’s foundation issued a statement saying that he had suffered upper respiratory and heart problems and had undergone heartvalve replacement surgery last week.

Labeled “the godfather of world music’’ by Harrison, Shankar helped millions of classical, jazz and rock lovers discover the centuries-old traditions of Indian music.

“He was legend of legends,’’ Shivkumar Sharma, a noted santoor player who performed with Shankar, told Indian media. “Indian classical was not at all known in the Western world. He was the musician who had that training ... the ability to communicate with the Western audience.’’

He also pioneered the concept of the rock benefit with the 1971 Concert For Bangladesh. To later generations, he was known as the estranged father of popular American sing-

Ravi Shankar, pictured in 1966. er Norah Jones.

As early as the 1950s, Shankar began collaborating with and teaching some of the greats of Western music, including violinist Menuhin and jazz saxophonist Coltrane. He played well-received shows in concert halls in Europe and the United States, but faced a constant struggle to bridge the musical gap between the West and the East.

His close relationship with Harrison, the Beatles lead guitarist, shot Shankar to global stardom in the 1960s.

Harrison had grown fascinated with the sitar, a long-necked string instrument that uses a bulbous gourd for its resonating chamber and resembles a giant lute. He played the instrument, with a Western tuning, on the song “Norwegian Wood,’’ but soon sought out Shankar, already a musical icon in India, to teach him to play it properly.

The pair spent weeks together, starting the lessons at Harrison’s house in England and then moving to a houseboat in Kashmir and later to California.

Gaining confidence with the complex instrument, Harrison recorded the Indian-inspired song “Love You To’’ on the Beatles’ “Revolver,’’ helping spark the raga-rock phase of 60s music and drawing increasing attention to Shankar and his work.

Shankar’s popularity exploded, and he soon found himself playing on bills with some of the top rock musicians of the era. He played a

four-hour set at the Monterey Pop Festival and the opening day of Woodstock.

Though the audience for his music had hugely expanded, Shankar, a serious, disciplined traditionalist who had played Carnegie Hall, chafed against the drug use and rebelliousness of the hippie culture.

“I was shocked to see people dressing so flamboyantly. They were all stoned. To me, it was a new world,’’ Shankar told Rolling Stone of the Monterey festival.

While he enjoyed Otis Redding and the Mamas and the Papas at the festival, he was horrified when Hendrix lit his guitar on fire.

“That was too much for me. In our culture, we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God,’’ he said.

In 1971, moved by the plight of millions of refugees fleeing into India to escape the war in Bangladesh, Shankar reached out to Harrison to see what they could do to help.

In what Shankar later described as “one of the most moving and intense musical experiences of the century,’’ the pair organized two benefit concerts at Madison Square Garden that included Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan and Ringo Starr.

The concert, which spawned an album and a film, raised millions of dollars for UNICEF and inspired other rock benefits, including the 1985 Live Aid concert to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia and the 2010

Hope For Haiti Now telethon.

Ravindra Shankar Chowdhury was born April 7, 1920, in the Indian city of Varanasi.

At the age of 10, he moved to Paris to join the world famous dance troupe of his brother Uday. Over the next eight years, Shankar travelled with the troupe across Europe, America and Asia, and later credited his early immersion in foreign cultures with making him such an effective ambassador for Indian music.

During one tour, renowned musician Baba Allaudin Khan joined the troupe, took Shankar under his wing and eventually became his teacher through 7 1/2 years of isolated, rigorous study of the sitar.

“Khan told me you have to leave everything else and do one thing properly,’’ Shankar told The Associated Press.

In the 1950s, Shankar began gaining fame throughout India. He held the influential position of music director for All India Radio in New Delhi and wrote the scores for several popular films. He began writing compositions for orchestras, blending clarinets and other foreign instruments into traditional Indian music.

And he became a de facto tutor for Westerners fascinated by India’s musical traditions.

He gave lessons to Coltrane, who named his son Ravi in Shankar’s honour, and became close friends with Menuhin, recording the acclaimed “West Meets

East’’ album with him.

He also collaborated with flutist Jean Pierre Rampal, composer Philip Glass and conductors Andre Previn and Zubin Mehta.

Shankar’s personal life, however, was more complex.

His 1941 marriage to Baba Allaudin Khan’s daughter, Annapurna Devi, ended in divorce.

Though he had a decades-long relationship with dancer Kamala Shastri that ended in 1981, he had relationships with several other women in the 1970s.

In 1979, he fathered Norah Jones with New York concert promoter Sue Jones, and in 1981, Sukanya Rajan, who played the tanpura at his concerts, gave birth to his daughter Anoushka.

He grew estranged from Sue Jones in the 80s and didn’t see Norah for a decade, though they later re-established contact.

He married Rajan in 1989 and trained his daughter Anoushka as his heir on the sitar. In recent years, father and daughter toured the world together.

When Jones shot to stardom and won five Grammy awards in 2003, Anoushka Shankar was nominated for a Grammy of her own.

Shankar himself won three Grammy awards and was nominated for an Oscar for his musical score for the movie “Gandhi.’’ His album “The Living Room Sessions, Part 1’’ earned him his latest Grammy nomination, for best world music album.

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Local SAR crews take advantage of military stop Continued from page 3 First, the spotter calls out left or right. The pilot then banks the plane in that direction.

Then the spotter provides a clock position for the pilot to look to,

going to be sick on the Buffalo.”

My stomach turned, thinking back to the passenger flights I’ve been on chugging ginger ale and loading up on Gravol.

Tremblay didn’t seem worried. He’s seen it all, but he causally asked the spotters to refrain from throwing up on the spotter window,

said.

Sometimes when a search continues, the spotters are snagged from their local airport and can be stuck on the aircraft for a day, then

“There’s a good chance you’re going to be sick. Don’t feel bad about it. If you’re sick on the Cessna, you’re definitely going to be sick on the Buffalo.” find themselves unceremoniously dropped at a random airport. Tremblay encouraged them to have a bag ready with everything they might need, because you just never know.

“For us, you never know how long a day is going to be,” he said. “If you guys are on board, you’re along for the flight. You never know what you’re going to get.”

Tremblay soothed the concerns of the spotters, who surely imagined themselves stranded at a rural airport. The Canadian Forces pays your way back to wherever you came from – it just might not be on the military aircraft you came off of.

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Warrant Officer Jean Tremblay keeping in mind that as the aircraft banks that position is changing all the time, and describe what they see. The nose of the aircraft is always 12 o’clock. Then they provide an approximate distance and relay with the pilot until he sees whatever it is the spotter is pointing out.

If the spotter is onto something, the SAR Tech team will take over and co-ordinate from there. If the search objective is found, a number of things can happen from informing ground crews, to a team of highly trained Canadian Forces SAR Techs diving out the back hatch of the aircraft and parachuting down to help the victims.

The military uses civilian spotters to provide a rest for the SAR team on flights that can extend anywhere from three hours when in a Cormorant helicopter, to three to six hours in a Buffalo and 13 to 14 hours in a Hercules.

“It’s not a good thing to be falling asleep in the window,” Tremblay

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Master Corporal Tyler Salmond and Warrant Officer Jean Tremblay talk to Cranbrook’s CASARA crew on December 2. spotter window.

“The first couple of times you feel uncomfortable, like you might screw it up,” Tremblay said.

Pedersen said the SAR Techs do their best to train each spotter before they get on the aircraft, and provide help when needed.

“I have found them to be absolutely amazing people to work with and they make you feel really comfortable,” he said.

But for Tremblay, he

said training on the spot when a big search is called will create a great spotter.

“It gets pretty busy when there’s a major search,” he said. “You become a pretty good spotter real quick.”

Tremblay then tackled a subject I’d been wrestling with all weekend leading into the CASARA training. It was the worry I had that morning when I opted for a small, not-so-rich breakfast instead of the eggs and avocado I had

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LONDON — It was an archaeological hoax that fooled scientists for decades. A century on, researchers are determined to find out who was responsible for Piltdown Man, the missing link that never was.

In December 1912, it was announced that a lawyer and amateur archaeologist named Charles Dawson had made an astonishing discovery in a gravel pit in southern England — prehistoric remains, up to 1 million years old, that combined the skull of a human and the jaw of an ape.

Piltdown Man — named for the village where the remains were found — set the scientific world ablaze. It was hailed as the missing evolutionary link between apes and humans, and proof that humans’ enlarged brains had evolved earlier than had been supposed.

It was 40 years before the find was definitively exposed as a hoax, and speculation about who did it rages to this day.

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This is an undated image released by the Natural History Museum in on Wednesday Dec. 12, 2012 of the Piltdown skull. It was an archaeological hoax that fooled scientists for decades. A century on, researchers are determined to find out who was responsible for Piltdown Man, the missing link that never was. may be suspects in the fraud— are marking the 100th anniversary with a new push to settle the argument for good.

The goal, lead scientist Chris Stringer wrote in a comment piece published Wednesday in the journal Nature, is to find out “who did it and what drove them’’ — whether scientific ambition, humour or malice.

Stringer heads a team of 15 researchers — including experts in ancient DNA, radiocarbon dating and isotope studies — examining the remains with the latest techniques and equipment and combing the museum’s archives for overlooked evidence about the evidence unearthed at sites around Piltdown.

“Although Charles Dawson is the prime suspect, it’s a complex story,’’ Stringer, the mu-

seum’s research leader in human origins, told The Associated Press.

“The amount of material planted at two different sites makes some people — and that includes me — wonder whether there were at least two people involved.’’

Doubts grew about Piltdown Man’s authenticity in the years after 1912, as more remains were found around the world that contradicted its evidence. In 1953, scientists from London’s Natural History Museum and Oxford University conducted tests that showed the find was a cleverly assembled fake, combining a human skull a few hundred years old with the jaw of an orangutan, stained to make it look ancient.

Ever since, speculation had swirled about possible perpetrators.

Many people think the evidence points to Daw-

son, who died in 1916.

Other long-dead suspects identified by researchers include Arthur Smith Woodward, the museum’s keeper of geology, who championed Dawson’s discoveries and gave them vital scientific credibility. The finger has also been pointed at museum zoologist Martin Hinton; Jesuit priest and paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin; and even “Sherlock Holmes’’ author Arthur Conan Doyle, who lived near Piltdown.

Stringer said the key may lie in a later find nearby — a slab of elephant bone nicknamed the “cricket bat’’ — that seemed to back up the first Piltdown discovery.

It was revealed as a clumsy fake, carved with a steel knife from a fossilized elephant femur.

One theory is that Hinton — skeptical but

afraid to openly question Woodward, his boss at the museum — might have planted it thinking it would be spotted as a hoax and discredit the whole find. A trunk with Hinton’s initials found in a loft at the museum a decade after his death in 1961 contained animal bones stained the same way as the Piltdown fossils.

Miles Russell, senior lecturer in archaeology at Bournemouth University, thinks the museum’s work may shed new light on how the forgery was done. But he thinks there is little doubt Dawson was the perpetrator.

“He is the only person who is always on site every time a find is made,’’ Russell said.

“And when he died in 1916, Piltdown Man died with him.’’

Russell is author of the new book “The Piltdown Man Hoax: Case Closed’’ — though he doubts speculation about the century-old fraud will stop.

“People love conspiracy theories,’’ he said.

“And this is one of the biggest scientific hoaxes of all time.’’

Whoever was behind it, the hoax delayed consensus on human origins, leading some scientists to question the authenticity of later finds because they did not fit with Piltdown Man. Stringer said Piltdown Man stands as a warning to scientists always to be on their guard — especially when evidence seems to back up their theories.

“There was a huge gap in evidence and Piltdown at the time neatly filled that gap,’’ he said.

“It was what people expected to be found. In a sense you could say it was manufactured to fit the scientific agenda.

“That lesson of Piltdown is always worth learning — when something seems too good to be true, maybe it is.’’

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Glass goes in the yellow bins marked GLASS ONLY.

Ribbons & Bows - cannot be recycled. They can be saved and reused. If they can no longer be reused, they go in the garbage.

Aluminum Pie Plates & Roasters - cannot be recycled. They can be rinsed and reused. If they are not longer usable, they go in the garbage.

Cardboard Boxes - all cardboard and boxboard (like cracker and cereal boxes) are recyclable. Please flatten them to conserve space in the bin or blue bag.

Tin Cans - all tin food and beverage cans can be recycled. They must be rinsed out. Labels can be left on if they are difficult to remove.

Styrofoam - Even though Styrofoam is marked with a #6, it is NOT recyclable in our program. It should go in the garbage if it can’t be reused.

Plastics - all plastics with the triangular recycling symbol and the number between 1 and 6 (except Styrofoam) can be recycled in the yellow bins. They must be clean and every piece of plastic must be numbered. Plastics that are NOT accepted include: #7 plastics, dirty plastics, plastics with no number. They go in the garbage if they can’t be reused.

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The ONLY glass accepted for recycling is container glass. That means jam jars, salsa jars, wine bottles, olive oil bottles, glass iced tea bottles, etc.

NO other glass (including dishes, drinking glasses, picture frame or window glass, decorations and candle holders) is accepted.

If in doubt, please leave it out.

If everyone in Canada wrapped just three gifts in reused paper or gift bags, it would save enough paper to cover 45,000 hockey rinks.

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his is my final newsletter as President of the Cranbrook and District Chamber of Commerce. It has been a great year and I just HAVE to start with thank you’s.

First of all, I would like to thank the 2012 Cranbrook Chamber Board of Directors for an amazing year. Their input, participation, perspective, and dedication

has been remarkable. Those Board members include: Mike Adams (incoming President), Jim Benson, Allyson Blake, Chris Botterill, Dave Butler (incoming 1st VP), Tristen Chernove, Ryan Gibbard, Ted Lauritsen, Karla Shalley, Jeanette Sissons, Connor Stewart, Dave Struthers, and Tracey Whiting. I now look forward to Mike Ad-

ams, the incoming President for 2013, to lead the way.

Another big thank you goes out to the Chamber Staff – Karin Penner, Cathy Bauer, Laura Haley, and Laura Kennedy.

Also, thank you to Maureen Magee and Nella Rounsville who are always there to assist staff at all our functions. I want to also express my gratitude to

those that have spent many hours of volunteer work for the chamber over the year – those taking part in our adhoc committees, those who assisted with our special events, and to our Senior volunteer visitor counsellors. We have had a super busy year and we couldn’t have done all of this without all these people. We are very lucky to have the dedication and support of the Chamber staff and volunteers.

The Chamber’s 2nd annual Black Friday Event on November 16 was a huge success once again. Thank you to City Council for approving the request from the chamber for free parking downtown that day. I look forward to next year’s event.

The Chamber’s Annual Turkey

Drive Day, on December 5, was a busy day for the Chamber Office. Throughout the day, phones were ringing and people were stopping by bringing in donations. We set the goal this year to collect $20 000 and we have shattered that goal, final total to be unveiled very soon!

This money goes to the Cranbrook Food Bank and Salvation Army to ensure, those that need it, get a Turkey Dinner for Christmas. What a great day and what a great response from the community! Thank you to all of you that donated money to our day and thank you to those that took time out of their busy schedules to come down and help out! You have made a huge difference! Also, can’t forget Jason Wheeldon, Chief Turkey

Chair, and Warren Bedell, VP Turkey for kicking this event off every year.

The Cranbrook Chamber Sign Bylaw Committee had its first meeting November 30, 2012.

This committee was created by the chamber to gather information from member businesses on the draft sign bylaw proposed by the City. This committee, chaired by Jason Wheeldon, looks forward to then presenting the results to city council. If you are interested in being part of this committee, please contact the chamber at 250-426-5914.

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We were especially pleased to have 295 survey responses and, with that, received a wealth of information and comments that now can be used to set direction within the City of Cranbrook.

These results can be found on our website at www.cranbrookchamber.com.

I feel the need to address the issue of the Cranbrook and District Chamber of Commerce not being able to accommodate opposition leader Adrian Dix on Friday, November 9, 2012. The chamber office was contacted a couple of weeks prior to Mr. Dix arrival and asked if the chamber could host an event by Mr. Dix. Unfortunately, the chamber did not have staff resources to plan and host a luncheon that week as both Laura Kennedy and Cathy Bauer were away at a training course. The chamber would have been unable to host any speaker at that time. The chamber manager did clearly tell the organizers of Mr. Dix trip that our inability to host Mr. Dix on this trip DID NOT preclude the chamber from hosting him at another time. The organizers were also told to contact the chamber if Mr. Dix comes back to Cranbrook, and particularly if this was done early in 2013, as the speaker schedule for the chamber luncheons starts to be planned at that time.

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Today financial and estate planning is a lot more complicated. Today we work for more than one employer during our lifetime. We do not have faith that the funds we paid into the Canada Pension Plan will be available to fund our retirement years.

The Government changes the rules, as they did recently for the Canada Pension Plan.

We tend to live a lot longer than ever before.

With the ever-increasing tax burden levied by all levels of government, there is a growing

concern that you will not have enough money to live comfortably for the whole of your retirement years. And will there be any estate left to pass on to your spouse, children or charities. Financial and health care issues revolving around mental or physical incapacity also must be addressed.

Estate planning has also become more complex.

Your basic “Last Will and Testament” is no longer necessarily adequate to meet your wishes. A Will can not always balance the needs of a current spouse, a previous spouse and children from the previous marriage and from the current marriage. Probate fees have increased in British Columbia compelling people to seek ways to reduce or avoid this “tax”. These strategies require that you determine how the federal income tax act will impact any estate planning

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LOS ANGELES — A galaxy once considered the oldest has reclaimed its title, scientists reported Wednesday.

Poring through Hubble Space Telescope photos, the team recalculated the galaxy’s age and determined it is actually 13.3 billion years old — not a mere 13.2 billion.

The dim galaxy filled with blue stars was first noticed last year by a different group of researchers, who also used the workhorse telescope to make the previous age estimate. It reigned as the most ancient galaxy observed until last

month when it was knocked off its perch by another distant galaxy.

Now it’s back on top after the team used a longer exposure time to get a clearer view of the earliest and far-off galaxies. Seeing the most distant galaxies is like looking back in time and this one existed when the universe was in its infancy — about 380 million years old.

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Astronomers think galaxies started appearing after the Big Bang, the explosion believed to have created the universe 13.7 billion years ago. Our Milky Way — one of hundreds of billions of galaxies — formed about 10 billion years ago. ``We want to know our cosmic roots, how things got started and the origins of the galaxies that we see nowadays,’’ said Harvard University astrophysicist Avi Loeb, who had no role in the latest research.

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CHARLO, N.B. — A village in northern New Brunswick is asking the provincial government to call a byelection after their mayor quit over complaints that some councillors were drinking alcohol in the municipal building.

Jason Carter resigned last week as the mayor of Charlo, a community of 1,300, after he said some councillors were drinking alcohol in his office after village meetings. He said they refused to stop the practice despite his repeated requests.

Carter said the building doesn’t have a liquor licence and he was concerned the village would be liable if any councillors got into an accident after drinking there.

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McIntyre says the council accepted Carter’s resignation because he was difficult to work with and often in conflict with the rest of the council.

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The report does vindicate some of the cost predictions presented

by National Defence in the past, including its estimate that the aircraft will cost about $25 billion over 20 years.

It also shows that as things stand, the cost of simply buying the aircraft would be within the $9 billion set aside by the Harper government to replace Canada’s aging fleet of CF-18s - for now.

The government had initially set aside an $800-million contingency to offset any variables in the actual cost of purchasing the stealth fighters.

But that number has since shrunk by 25 per cent to $602 million as the estimated cost of each F-35 has increased from about $75 million to $87.4 million.

That could be significant as the report says there could be a cost fluctuation of as much as 28 per cent - or $1. 7 billion - if things don’t go as planned.

“Based on the capability of modern aircraft and simulator technology, it is expected that a fleet of up to 65 aircraft will provide sufficient capacity and flexibility to maintain Canada’s defence commitments at home and abroad,” the report concludes.

Yet the report also

says that the loss of an aircraft - or, by inference, the decision to buy fewer than 65 F-35s - “would result in a diminished capacity to undertake and sustain discretionary operations.

“Therefore, operational risk will need to be managed, partly through the assignment of additional flying hours to the remaining aircraft, if lost aircraft is not replaced.”

Industry Canada has also downsized its estimate for how much Canadian business can expect to benefit if Canada does go ahead with its plans to purchase the F-35, from $10.5 billion U.S. to less than $9.8 billion U.S. Exactly why Canadian companies are expected to have $700 million less in opportunities associated with the F-35 is not clear.

While the cost estimates are based on the idea of Canada replacing its CF-18s with the stealth fighter, which remains an option, the government has also directed the Canadian Forces to consider all other possible options.

Defence is currently re-assessing what missions Canada’s next aircraft will be required to fly, what threats it will face and what technology and capabilities are available to Canada.

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OTTAWA - The Defence Department has pegged the full cost of Canada buying, owning, replacing and disposing of 65 F-35 stealth fighters at $44.8 billion over 42 years, according to a report tabled in the House of Commons Tuesday.†It’s the first time Canadians have been presented the full price Canada can expect to bear all the way from the aircraft’s development through to disposal, and it far surpasses any previous figure made public.

The report comes after years of criticism over what has been seen as the Harper government’s refusal to fully disclose how much the F-35s will cost.

The costs have also been made public as the government has been trying to prove to Canadians that it has truly pushed the “reset” button on its plans to purchase F-35s.

Yet even the numbers included in the report aren’t the full story, as the Department of National Defence warned that “these estimates will change as more information becomes available.”

Among the unknowns are inflation, exchange rate changes and a variety of other unknown costs and variables that could affect the cost estimates by billions of dollars.

There are also a number of built-in assumptions that, if proven false, would also raise the price tag.

This includes a prediction the F-35s will be flown 20-per-cent less than Canada’s current fleet of CF-18s and that a total of 3,100 F-35s will be bought by Canada and its allies.

A reduction of 400 aircraft, the report states, would increase Canada’s costs by $500 million.

The report also doesn’t include the cost of acquiring between seven and 11 replacement aircraft that are predicted to be needed as some of Canada’s F-35s crash or are otherwise lost over the course of the program.

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Scientists find first proof of cheese making from 7,500 years ago in Poland Maria Cheng Associated Press

LONDON – Little Miss Muffet could have been separating her curds and whey 7,500 years ago, according to a new study that finds the earliest solid evidence of cheese-making.

Scientists performed a chemical analysis on fragments from 34 pottery sieves discovered in Poland to determine their purpose. Until now, experts weren’t sure whether such sieves

were used to make cheese, beer or honey.

Though there is no definitive test for cheese, Richard Evershed at the University of Bristol and colleagues found large amounts of fatty milk residue on the pottery shards compared to cooking or storage pots from the same sites.

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OTTAWA – The robocalls court challenge took a testy turn Wednesday over the tweets and treatment of one of its star witnesses.

Conservative party lawyer Arthur Hamilton cried foul after it was revealed pollster Frank Graves – asked to leave the courtroom earlier this week so lawyers could confer with the judge _ had examined the Twitter feeds of journalists who were tweeting from inside.

Hamilton produced screen shots from Graves’s own Twitter feed to prove he’d been snooping on the courtroom chat.

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``He did. Hehe,’’ Graves wrote to someone who asked if he checked Twitter from outside the courtroom.

But the social-media mischief did not amuse Hamilton. ``This is not a light matter,’’ the Conservative lawyer said.

Steven Shrybman, who represents the eight Canadians who are challenging the election results in their six ridings, shot back, taking Hamilton to task for his treatment of Graves during a cross-examination.

Hamilton aggressively grilled Graves, of Ekos Research, earlier this week over his past donations to the federal Liberals and inconsistencies in prior court affidavits submitted as

latest finding in Poland but that there was no definitive proof.

He said the discovery of cheese making marked a major development for Neolithic people and gave them a survival advantage by allowing them to turn milk into a form that provided essential calories, proteins and minerals.

At that time, the adult population was largely lactose intolerant, so making a product with less lactose, like cheese,

allowed everyone to digest the nutrients in milk.

Kindstedt said the earliest cheeses were likely similar to spreadable cheeses like ricotta and fromage frais. He guessed that people either ate them soon after they were made or buried them in pots for months afterwards, saving them for the winter when food was scarce.

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bly dull and monotonous,’’ Kindstedt said, noting the prehistoric farmers’ dependence on grain porridge.

After being buried in the ground for months, he said, the cheeses would have been non-perishable, ``bomb-proof ’’ and pretty pungent. ``They probably would not be the first choice for a lot of people today,’’ Kindstedt he said. ``But I would still love to try it.’’

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“I can’t imagine a more egregious form of character assassination.”

Steven Shrybman part of the case.

He was trying to call into question the credibility of Graves as a key witness in the legal bid to overturn Conservative victories in the six closely contested ridings.

Shrybman accused Hamilton of crossing the line and abusing the judicial process. ``I can’t imagine a more egregious form of character assassination,’’ Shrybman said. ``What there was, was taking almost an hour of this court’s time

to allow Mr. Hamilton a platform to assail Mr. Graves’ integrity because – the assertion is – that he didn’t remember the precise nature of a political contribution that he made six years ago.’’

Federal Court Judge Richard Mosley decided the Twitter incident does not preclude Graves from being a witness, although he cautioned it may colour how he views the pollster’s evidence. ``I do not consider that this incident is a matter that would lead me to disqualify Mr. Graves as an expert witness,’’ Mosley said. ``I will have to consider whether it affects the weight I will give to his evidence if I conclude that evidence is

admissible.’’

The heated exchange was the highlight of the third day of the robocalls court challenge, which delved deeply into the legal minutiae surrounding the admissibility of an Ekos report as evidence in the proceedings.

The Ekos report is central to the court case, in which eight people are trying to overturn results in six ridings over allegations that misleading or harassing phone calls kept some people from voting and may have affected the outcome.

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gun,’’ said Paul Kindstedt, a professor of nutrition and food sciences at the University of Vermont and author of ``Cheese and Culture.’’

He was not involved in the study. ``It’s almost inconceivable that the milk fat residues in the sieves were from anything else but cheese,’’ Kindstedt said, adding that many experts suspected cheese was being made in Turkey up to 2,000 years earlier than this

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``It’s a very compelling forensic argument that this was connected to cheese,’’ Evershed said. ``There aren’t many other dairy processes where you would need to strain,’’ he said.

He and colleagues weren’t sure what kind of milk was used, but said there were lots of cattle bones in the region. The study was published online Wednesday by the journal Nature. ``This is the smoking

MONTREAL – A father who stabbed to death his children will be a free man, less than four years later.

Guy Turcotte has been granted his release from a psychiatric institution, with conditions.

The cardiologist had been found not criminally responsible for killing his two children and, since last year’s court verdict, he had been in Montreal’s Pinel institute.

His case provoked a torrent of outrage in Quebec, where Turcotte

is a household name.

He had admitted to stabbing his young children 46 times.

But he said he didn’t remember doing it, hadn’t wanted to do it, and had been experiencing blackouts on the night of the killings.

He said he was distraught over the breakup of his marriage. His wife had left him for a family friend who was her personal trainer.

Turcotte’s release was unanimously approved today by a three-member panel.

He will have to get an-

nual mental-health checkups, continue his therapy, stay out of trouble and avoid all contact with his ex-wife.

His legal woes are not over yet: the Crown has filed to appeal the 2011 court verdict.

Several cases like Turcotte’s, including the 2008 bus-beheading in Manitoba and the Schoenborn child-killings in B.C., have prompted a federal policy change.

The Harper government plans to make it more difficult for mentally ill offenders found

not criminally responsible to be released from custody.

The government announced proposed amendments to the Criminal Code last month, in the latest in a series of tough-oncrime initiatives by the Conservative government.

The Tories plan to introduce a bill in the House of Commons early next year that would make the safety of the public the paramount factor for review boards that determine an offender’s release.

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NDP, Liberals compete for second place Joan Bryden Canadian Press

OTTAWA – Who’s the king of Canada’s opposition castle?

Depends who you ask: the New Democrats, whose 103-seat triumph in 2011 vaulted them to official Opposition status, or the third-party Liberals, who claim their 35-member caucus has been more effective at holding the government to account.

The two parties have been battling over the title of most effective opposition throughout the fall sitting of Parliament; both frequently claim to have led the charge on various issues and accuse the other of dropping the ball.

The ongoing feud was on display again Wednesday as both parties offered their assessments of the fall sitting in anticipation of an imminent, lengthy Christmas break.

They were united in their condemnation of the Harper government’s alleged arrogance, incompetence and malfeasance. But before long,

they were taking shots at one another as each claimed bragging rights for holding the government to account.

From behind a podium festooned with a large sign proclaiming him ``The Official Opposition,’’ lest anyone forget who beat whom in the last election, NDP Leader Tom Mulcair declared there is only one alternative to the Conservatives. ``The next election is going to be about a clear choice, a clear choice between the Conservatives _ who will make people work two more years to get their old age security, who have scrapped environmental legislation, who are going to go after free, universal, public medical care _ and the NDP, the only party that’s standing up to them and offers an alternative,’’ Mulcair said.

He dismissed suggestions the opposition parties should be teaming up to defeat the government. ``My No. 1 job as leader of the NDP is to rally all progressive forces in Canada under the

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CALGARY – A well blowout that spewed nearly 500 barrels of oil and water onto a central Alberta field last January was caused by a company fracking a well too close to an adjacent one.

But no penalties will result because the blowout didn’t contravene any regulations, Darin Barter, spokesman for the Energy Resources Conservation Board, said Wednesday. ``There weren’t any specific regulations. We require companies to operate safely, but regarding this one, (a rule) wasn’t in place at the time.’’

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The result was a geyser of oil, natural gas, process water and fracking fluids from an adjacent well owned by Wild Stream Exploration. The

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NDP banner and defeat Stephen Harper in 2015,’’ Mulcair said, to applause from NDP MPs gathered behind him.

Moments later, interim Liberal leader Bob Rae and his House leader, Dominic LeBlanc, offered a counter assessment of the session, in which the tiny 35-member Liberal caucus featured as the primary alternative to the Tories. ``We have been an effective opposition. We have stuck to issues that are important to Canadians,’’ LeBlanc asserted.

He maintained the Liberals were ``the only party that consistently and frequently raised questions’’ about teenager Ashley Smith’s death in an Ontario prison.

And he said they led the charge against the F-35 stealth fighter jet fiasco, while ``the NDP were late to the party.’’

Rae bristled at suggestions that the relationship between Liberals and New Democrats seems to be growing more hostile, even as many progressive Canadians are looking for

mixture tainted the field and left a thin film on nearby trees.

The board found both wells were targeting the same formation about 1,800 metres underground.

Midway’s internal guidelines say its drill hole should have been at least 135 metres from any other well. At their closest point, the two well bores were 129 metres apart.

As a result, pressure from the Midway well blew fluids up the Wild Stream bore hole.

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The spill affected 4.5 hectares and required the removal of just over 1,000 tonnes of soil and snow. The board concluded ground water wasn’t affected.

Shortly afterwards, the board issued a bulletin to industry that said drillers would need to understand their surroundings before beginning to frack. A draft directive was issued last week. ``As soon as this draft directive is no longer draft and the rules come into force, it would be enforceable,’’ said Barter.

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Rae said New Democrats – and many pundits – bought ``the fantasy’’ that the Liberal party was ``done for’’ after the 2011 election. But, he said, they’ve been proved wrong. ``I know that Mr. Mulcair ... suffers from this almost total delusion that if he says over and over again that the Liberal party doesn’t exist that maybe it’ll disappear.

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North Korea slammed around world for rocket launch Br adley Kl apper Associated Press

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is drawing no ``red line’’ for North Korea after its successful long-range rocket test, tempering the public condemnation to avoid raising tensions or possibly to avoid rewarding the reclusive communist nation with too much time in the global spotlight.

The U.S. has told the world that it won’t tolerate Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons or Syria’s use of chemical stockpiles on rebels.

North Korea, in some ways, is a trickier case.

The U.S. wants to forcefully condemn what it believes is a ``highly provocative act,’’ and that was the first public reaction from the White House late Tuesday. But it also is mindful of the turmoil on the Korean peninsula and is treading carefully, offering no threat of military action or unspecified ``consequences’’ associated with other hot spots.

Just two years ago, the North allegedly torpedoed a South Korean warship and shelled a South Korean island. Some 50 South Koreans died in the attacks that brought the peninsula to the brink of war.

North Korea already has the deterrent of a nuclear weapons arsenal. The U.S. is bound to protect next-door South Korea from any

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Raising the rhetoric can even serve as a reward for seeking attention to a government that starves its own citizens while seeking to leverage any military advance it makes into much-needed aid. ``No doubt Pyongyang is pleased. It again has unsettled its

leading adversaries. And it is in the news around the world,’’ said Doug Bandow, senior fellow at the Cato Institute.

The United States remains technically at war with the notoriously unpredictable North Koreans, whose opaque leadership has confounded successive American administrations. With no peace

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The three-stage rocket is similar in design to a model capable of carrying a nuclear-tipped warhead as far as California.

Despite its technological advances and military bluster, it’s doubtful that the North intends to strike first against the U.S. North Korea has spent decades threatening but avoiding a direct confrontation with the tens of thousands of American forces in South Korea and Japan. The government has remained firmly in power despite a drought-plagued agricultural sector that leaves many North Koreans in search of food and a crumbling economy that affords few any chance of social betterment. ``It is regrettable that the leadership in Pyongyang chose to take this course in flagrant violation of its international obligations,’’ White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters. He said the U.S. would try to further isolate North Korea in response.

State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland called the launch ``highly provocative and a threat to regional security.’’ It will only further impoverish North Koreans, she said.

Name tag dispute snarls border traffic C anadian Press

OTTAWA _ Traffic returned to normal Wednesday at the busiest trade link between Canada and the United States after some border guards refused to work over concerns a mandatory name tag requirement put their safety at risk.

Commercial vehicles and travellers entering Canada at the Ambassador Bridge port of entry in Windsor, Ont., and also at a crossing in Sarnia, Ont., faced delays throughout much of the day as border officers refused to do work as usual.

By Wednesday afternoon, the agency was reporting no delays at the Windsor crossing while the Sarnia border post saw a minor delay for travellers only.

The head of the union representing Canada’s border guards said workers are concerned that having their names on their uniforms would lead to ``unnecessary’’ health and safety risks to a greater degree than those faced by other law

enforcement agencies requiring name tags. ``They think that by exposing their names and by the fact that we’re seeing millions of passengers on a regular basis ... is actually exposing them even more than police officers,’’ said JeanPierre Fortin, president of the Customs and Immigration Union, who suggested criminals at border posts could use the names on tags to track down guards.

A Human Resources and Skills Development Canada spokesman said investigators were sent to the crossings Wednesday to look into worker complaints of possible danger, but it was determined there were no safety risks.

Fortin said the union sent a notice to its members last week about the requirement, which is being implemented across Canada this week, advising concerned workers to file grievances instead of refusing to work. ``We do realize there was an impact on the

traffic but the bottom line is it’s a right that they can exercise (under labour law) but the union has nothing to do with that,’’ he said.

Fortin said the union has since last year told the Canada Border Services Agency that frontline border workers oppose the requirement.

A spokeswoman for Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said Wednesday that the name tag requirement is here to stay. ``The RCMP and other provincial and municipal police forces across the country provide the public with transparency through wearing name tags.

CBSA should be no different,’’ spokeswoman Julie Carmichael said in an email.

The CBSA said in a statement that name tags are in line with similar policies in place in the Canadian Forces, Correctional Service Canada and United States Customs and Border Protection, whose frontline uniformed officers all wear name tags.

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Atleo said the girl’s death has triggered an overwhelmingly painful reminder of similar tragedies in other First Nations communities across Canada, and they won’t rest until their people have safety and security. ``First Nations have committed to ending violence against and among our peoples, we have called for a national public commission of inquiry on missing and murdered indigenous women and girls, and we will not rest until this is achieved,’’ Atleo said in a news release.

Fowler told reporters the family is comforted by the support from their leaders ``for continuing to take this message forward and to advocate on behalf of us and other families impacted by such tragedies.’’

First Nations Summit Chief Ed John said the death of CJ is a terrible tragedy and another horrific example of violence against aboriginal women.

Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs Grand Chief Stewart Phillip also extended his condolences to the girl’s family and her many friends. ``Another family, another community suffers an inconsolable loss,’’ he said.

Phillip said the growing issue of murdered and missing First Nations women across Canada is nothing short of a national disgrace.

The call for an independent inquiry has been made over the last several years. First Nations leaders say they want the inquiry to include a review of police policies and procedures in regard to searches, investigations and communications between police, officials and families.

The renewed demand comes as RCMP in Kamloops reveal that CJ Fowler was last seen early in the morning on Dec. 5, walking down a main street to catch a bus to her Terrace home.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) If you’re considering the possibility of staying home more often, know that you’ll have to indulge this fantasy sooner or later. You could find a friend or loved one most distracting, though, so you might want to rethink this plan. Tonight: Now for the romp.

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Nancy was always a Rubens type, which was fine with me. After giving birth to our first child, she lost more than 20 pounds, and even her father was impressed. However, two more children followed, and her weight went up to what it was before.

Now, at age 75, she is obese. She has trouble with her ankles and can barely move. She refuses to use a cane or a walker. We constantly argue. She is beginning to look ugly to me. I want to leave, but I can’t because she cannot live alone.

I am depressed. If I die before she does, she will be on her own because our children work, are struggling financially and have their own kids to raise. They have spoken to their mother about the possibility of a retirement home, and she says, “Absolutely not.” What can I do? -- West Valley Dear West: Some of this is not within your control -- your wife’s weight and what happens after you die. It is selfish of her to put this type of burden on her children, so you might want to discuss it directly with them, making contingency plans in case she should outlive you. There are alternatives to retirement homes, including inhome care or one of the children taking Mom in. You, however, are stressed over this and having a rough time. Please talk to your doctor about it.

Dear Annie: My mother-in-law is not a true hoarder, but she’s definitely a packrat. Her house has drawers, cabinets and boxes filled with unfinished craft pieces, papers so old you can’t read the faded print, moldy magazines, dried paint, cracked pottery, broken candy dishes and junk tucked into nooks and crannies so deep no one has seen the contents in years.

She is the only one who knows where anything important might be “filed.” She is widowed and retired and has the time and the physical ability to go through this stuff. Her two children help with yard work and home improvement, but they don’t have time to pick through her collections.

My mother-in-law is not depressed.

She’s just lazy and has poor organizational skills. She spends too much time watching TV and emailing. I am hoping she might recognize herself in your column. How can I convince her to de-clutter before it’s too late? -- Don’t Want To Pick Through the Weeds Dear Don’t: If Mom has poor organizational skills, the idea of going through her vast collection of miscellany is both overwhelming and paralyzing. She needs someone to assist her, one drawer at a time, perhaps once a week, to make it manageable. You could offer to do this or suggest it to another family member.

Or hire a professional organizer. And it’s possible that Mom’s church or other community organization has volunteers who might help out.

Dear Annie: This is for “Devastated Daughter,” whose father died suddenly.

Now she is conflicted about going away to college, because she worries about leaving her mother alone. I agree with your advice that she should go as planned.

Here’s my message to her: Dear Daughter: Your concern for your mother is a beautiful testament to your relationship. She is concerned for you, too.

The best gift you could give her is to follow your dreams, live according to the values you have learned from a loving family and succeed as an independent young woman.

Yes, she may occasionally break down.

But she will go on, and it will be much easier if she knows you are OK. -- Thinking of You in the South 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.

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We could refreeze Arctic, but should we?

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A record loss of Arctic sea ice and faster-than-expected melting of Greenland’s ice cap made worldwide headlines in 2012, but research published in major science journals in the fall suggest warming in the North doesn’t have to continue.

We could refreeze the Arctic, proposed a paper in Nature Climate Change. It wouldn’t even cost that much, said an affiliated study in Environmental Research Letters.

The question is should we?

“In terms of pure technical capacity, any significant nation in the world could do it,” said David Keith, a Calgarian and professor of applied physics at Harvard University, one of the lead authors in both studies.

“The really hard questions here aren’t mostly technical.

They’re questions about what

kind of planet we want and who we are.”

In a world that seems unable to come to grips with carbon dioxide emissions driving climate change, manipulating the Earth’s climate to cool it down has some calling geoengineering a bad idea whose time has finally come.

Scientists have long theorized that injecting reflective particles of some kind into the high atmosphere could reduce the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth’s surface and compensate for the greenhouse effect. High CO2 levels would continue to trap heat, but with less energy coming in to begin with, temperatures on the surface would go down.

Keith’s paper used climate models to cautiously suggest that the method could be adapted to engineer regional effects. The right amount of aerosols in the right place at the right time could restore the Arctic’s frozen glory.

“With an average solar reduction of only 0.5 per cent, it is possible to recover pre-industrial sea ice extent,” the paper says.

“Decisions involving (solar radiation management) do not need to be reduced to a single `global thermostat.’”

A separate paper concluded that it could all be done with a few modified Gulfstream jets widely available on the used market. Annually, it could cost somewhat less than $8 billion about the price of a major oil pipeline.

While Keith believes emissions should be cut, he doesn’t advocate such a plan, at least not yet.

He suggested geoengineering may be a viable response to a “climate emergency” - a sudden collapse of ice sheets or a killing drought.

“If your primary view is pragmatic, and you want to reduce

Bosnian Serb officer convicted for genocide in Srebrenica massacre Mike Corder Associated Press

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal convicted a former senior Bosnian Serb Army commander Wednesday of genocide for playing a key role in Europe’s worst massacre since World War II and sentenced him to life imprisonment.

Judges at the U.N. court said Gen. Zdravko Tolimir was the ``right hand’’ of Bosnian Serb military chief Gen. Ratko Mladic, who is considered the chief architect of the murder of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys at the Srebrenica enclave in eastern Bosnia in July 1995. ``The accused not only had knowledge of genocidal intent of others but also possessed it himself,’’ Presiding Judge Christoph Fluegge said. ``He is therefore responsible for the crime of genocide.’’

Tolimir stood, crossed himself three times and removed his glasses but showed no emotion as Fluegge told him he had been convicted of genocide and would spend the rest of his life in prison.

Before the judgment was read, he told the court: ``I wish for these proceedings to be concluded in accordance with God’s will.’’

Zdravko Tolimir Tolimir, 64, is the latest Serb soldier to be convicted of genocide in the bloody climax of Bosnia’s 1992-95 war that left around 100,000 dead.

Mladic and his political master Radovan Karadzic are still on trial for overseeing Serb atrocities throughout the Bosnian War, including the Srebrenica massacre.

Tolimir was the top Bosnian Serb intelligence officer and a trusted aide of Mladic.

Witnesses called him Mladic’s ``right hand.

His eyes and ears,’’ Fluegge said. Tolimir had, Fluegge added, ``full knowledge of the despicable criminal operations’’ of Bosnian Serb forces who carried out the massacre.

Bosnian Serb forces overran Srebrenica in 1995 despite the presence of Dutch United Nations peacekeepers, who — outgunned and outnumbered — put up virtually no resistance.

Women were bussed

away from the area before the Muslim men and boys were rounded up, taken to remote locations around the town and executed before their bodies were plowed into mass graves. ``The suffering these men went through in the moments leading up to their deaths must have been unbearable.

On many occasions those waiting to be shot saw others executed,’’ Fluegge said.

the risk to Asian farmers who might get hit by high temperatures that make their crops not germinate, then the answer is you should do whatever is actually safe and controllable and produces the outcomes.”

Some environmentalists are starting to think there may be something to that.

“We all agree: mitigation, that’s the thing you should do,” said Steve Hamburg, chief scientist of the U.S.based Environmental Defense Fund. “But everyone also recognizes that even if we did that, we may have climate surprises. We’d be irresponsible not to try and understand what our options are.

“It’s easy to dismiss this as too radical a solution, but that does a disservice to what we don’t know. We need to be prepared with information to understand what our options are or aren’t depending on how things play out.”

If we don’t at least understand the risks, a desperate situation may lead to a disastrous decision, Hamburg said.

Keith Allott, head of climate change for the World Wildlife Fund UK, agrees that research is needed.

“We do see the need for a grown-up conversation about the type of research that may be acceptable at this stage,” he said.

The United Nations, through its Convention on Biological Diversity, has ruled out open-air or large-scale geoengineering experiments.

Current research, including some that Environment Canada is involved in, is restricted to using models to better understand how the Earth’s climate might respond to manipulation.

Hamburg said discussions on everything from how research is conducted to who gets to set the global thermostat are just beginning.

He’s part of the Solar

Radiation Management Governance Initiative, a partnership between his group and several scientific academies from around the world.

“Everybody has to feel like their interests are represented,” he said.

“It can’t be about North American and European voices. It has to be about global voices and global communities being aware of it so that there is some kind of consensus that ignorance is our enemy.”

Peter Mooney of the Ottawa-based Etc Group, an environmental technology watchdog, is skeptical of anyone’s ability to manage geoengineering.

“There’s a marvellous naivete to it all,” he said. “We need to prepare for this horrible thing of Plan B because governments have proved themselves incapable of addressing the real problem. Therefore, we need to have governments go ahead and do Plan B.” But that thinking is flawed, he suggested.

“The governments who screwed up in the first place can’t be expected to take something like planetary systems management and do a better job of it.”

Others hold that geoengineering is just more of the same kind of thinking that caused the problem - a reliance on technical fixes instead of looking at causes.

“They kind of like the fact the problem is hard to solve because it gives you a lever to say we have to make these deep reforms in consumer culture, which I personally would like to see,” said Keith.

But really, he asks, what is society but one technical fix after another? Sanitation, for example, is a technical fix for cities producing sewage.

Mooney feels it’s asking too much of governments to expect they’ll make science-based unbiased

decisions.

“It’s naive to think that once Plan B becomes a political option that governments won’t just take it on and interpret it as they wish.

They will always find scientists who will give them the spin that they want. “(We shouldn’t be) opening up the back door for politicians to creep out of, claiming that, `Don’t worry folks.

We don’t need to do anything because we have technological fixes that we can deploy on short notice.’”

Allott, too, is concerned that geoengineering could become a way to excuse the continued consumption of CO2-causing fossil fuels.

“There are some unfortunate overlaps between parts of the geoengineering community and parts of the fossil fuel lobby,” he said.

“That’s not OK.” He also points out that no plan to manage solar radiation does anything to address ocean acidification, another byproduct of CO2 emissions. The best way forward, he said, is to reduce the emissions in the first place.

“People talk about this as if (geoengineering) is an easy option.

That ain’t true.”

Geoengineering isn’t likely to become a reality any time soon. There are no aerosol-laden planes on a tarmac waiting for clearance to take off.

But the debate is coming, predicted Hamburg.

“We’re not going to put the genie back in the bottle ... (We need) a robust and broad conversation about how to govern research in this area with widely agreed-upon rules of the road.”

Even then, said Keith, we need to cut CO2 emissions.

“If we do this and we do not cut emissions, we just walk further and further off the cliff, like Wile E. Coyote.”

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1501 - 1st Ave. S.

138 - 2100 - 13th St. S.

2002 built bungalow with walkout basement nestled onto 2.47 private acres. Open design with vaulted ceilings in the living area with great room concept. Large country kitchen with breakfast bar. Three well appointed bedrooms. Underground sprinklers and has been landscaped complete with its own bocce pits. Large RV parking area.

Development land or your own private acreage overlooking Elizabeth Lake. 3.32 acre lot with no latecomer fees and some engineering work already completed. Or consider holding property or building your dream home with municipal services available.

3301 - 5th St. S.

8070 Foothills Dr.

$309,900

1933 Kirk Road

D L O S $469,900

$499,900

$250,000

$324,900

$399,900

6229 Poplar Road, Wasa

508 Alma Road

9474 Clearview Road

2+1 bed, 3 bath home in Orchard Park gated community. Open concept floor plan features beautiful hardwood and tiled flooring. Kitchen has solid wood cabinetry & breakfast bar. Door in dining room leads to large covered deck. Living room has natural gas fireplace. Dble attached garage with paved drive.

Just a hop, skip and jump from Wasa lake is this 3+1 bed, 2 bath home on large lot. Living room has vaulted ceilings and beautiful floor to ceiling rock fireplace.

Kitchen has adjoining eating area. Covered decks front and back. Double attached garage. Paved drive.

Custom built home on ½ an acre just a short drive to downtown. This home features spacious rooms adorned with oak cabinets and trim. Custom kitchen with loads of cupboard space. Basement is fully developed with large rec room. Double detached garage.

Gazebo and garden in back yard.

Prime location for view and proximity between Cranbrook and Kimberley. This 2 bed, 2 bath log home sits on 5 gently sloping acres. European style kitchen with adjoining eating area. Main floor living room has wood fireplace. Large loft area upstairs. Walkout basement. Newly drilled well 2010.

504 - 11th Ave. S.

7814 Monroe Lake Rd.

$379,900

$359,900

$389,900

D L O S $369,900

LAND LISTINGS Lot 10&12 Koocanusa Ranch

Highlands home!! This 3+2 bed, 3 bath home has ideal location in the Sylvan Summit area.

Grade level entry home with spacious living areas throughout. Well maintained home with oak accents and large country kitchen.

Oversized attached garage. Fenced yard with mature landscaping.

$394,900

1648 Mt. Pyramid Cres.

D L O S

Immaculate 3 bed, 3 bath grade level entry home constructed with quality finish and features. Open concept main floor with beautiful hardwood and travertine tile flooring. Kitchen has granite countertops and large centre island. Spacious master with 5pc. ensuite. Fully finished basement with in floor heating. Triple car garage.

$500,000

Settled in the serene Mayook valley on 2.64 acres is this 3+3 bed, 3 bath home with breathtaking views of the Steeples.

Open concept home with granite counters, hardwood and tiled floors and cultured stone fireplace. Large deck out back. Triple car garage. RV Parking.

$569,900

412 - 27th Ave. NW

Well maintained manufactured home on 14+ acres with subdivision potential. This 3 bed, 2 bath home has large covered deck to take in all the views. Two 30x30 garage/shops both with insulation, drywall and power.

Excellent investment property.

$489,900

1 Acre lots with views of the Steeples Mountains and Lake Koocanusa.

Gated community in ultimate recreational location.

Gyro Park home on 75’ x 122’ lot with over 1300 sq. ft. on the main floor. Spacious bungalow with original hardwood floors in the living room and additional mud room/sun room at the back section of the home. Large yard and great location across the street from Amy Woodland elementary school.

66’ of lakefront right on Monroe Lake. This 2 storey home is just steps from the lake and features 3 beds and 3 full baths. Main floor is open with large kitchen, dining and living room.

Vaulted ceilings allow for stunning lake views.

Spacious master with exercise area. Double attached garage. Decking on both levels.

7956 Foothills Drive

#1 - 617 - 27th Ave. S.

$189,900

Brand new 2 bed, 2 bath home in rural Mayook Station Estates subdivision. This home has open concept floor plan with hardwood and tile flooring. Full unfinished basement just waiting for design idea.

Large covered deck. Triple attached garage. Short drive to Cranbrook with endless recreation opportunities.

$559,900

$899,900

D L O S

Immaculate half duplex in adult oriented complex. Kitchen has solid oak cabinetry, newer countertops & breakfast nook. Warm & inviting living room adjoins dining room & features a natural gas fireplace & doors to partially covered patio. Cozy rec room & office/3rd bedroom down. Paved drive.

Extremely well maintained home!

$349,900

Lot 11&23 Westview Estates

Lots with drilled wells just 7 minutes outside of Cranbrook in lovely rural community.

Lot 3-14 Foothills Drive

Mayook Station Estates. Lot sizes are between 1.75-2.97 acres with drilled wells. Breathtaking mountain views.

Lot 2-5 Ha Ha Creek Road

4.9-10.4 acre parcels with drilled wells in Ha Ha Valley. Rich in scenery. Located 20 minutes outside of Cranbrook.

Lot A Gold Creek Road

145.8 acres with its own pond/lake! Property is an ideal retreat with potential for an abundant amount of timber and hay.

Prices starting at $99,900 and up