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Regional District of East Kootenay

Maulers’ request sparks fee reduction debate A n n ale e Gr an t Townsman Staff

All the Mountain Town Maulers want to do is skate, but for the Regional District of East Kootenay, the team’s application for a fee reduction became a debate about how they can better serve non-profits.

The local roller derby team submitted an application to the RDEK to have their hourly fee for use of the Dave Henderson Pavilion at the Wycliffe Exhibition Grounds continue at $10 per hour.

Fee restructuring has set the Mauler’s facility use fee at $20 per hour for the 2013 season. The team would like to see the fee continue the way it is.

“We understand that the fees have been restructured for the New Year and appreciate your decisions behind that,” wrote Maulers team member Theresa Prysko.

At Friday’s RDEK meeting, the board denied the request to lower the fee for the team, but amended the motion to encourage the women to apply for a grant in-aid to help them cover costs.

Director Gerry Taft said the use of the Pavilion, regardless of how much is charged per hour, is a bonus for the RDEK as it generally sits unused save for a few special events every year. Taft also pointed

out that the RDEK supports hockey and figure skating, and should support all recreation activities evenly.

“When a new type of recreation comes forward we nickel and dime them,” he said.

Board chair Rob Gay brought up the roller derby team’s commitment to volunteering in the community, and their efforts to clean up the Wycliffe Exhibition Grounds.

“They volunteer to do some clean-up for us,” he said.

Gay pointed out that any volunteer work the team wants to do should be encouraged.

Director Mary Guiliano, who is mayor of Fernie, said her community has greatly benefitted from the actions of its roller derby team, the Avalanche City Roller Girls.

“They offer something that’s really good for the community,” Guiliano said.

Taft said there was absolutely no cost to the taxpayers for the use of the Pavilion, as it sits empty most of the time anyway.

In their application, the Mountain Town Maulers said they have enjoyed the use of the facility.

“We would like to thank you for the last couple months’ use of the facility,” wrote Prysko. “We have enjoyed our time in there and look forward to working

with you and utilizing the space in the 2013 year.”

They also said they wish to use the facility year-round for team practice, adding training days in the off-season to keep their skills sharp.

“During the off season we continue team skating to keep our agility and conditioning, this is very important for our safety,” Prysko wrote. “We have been lucky to have sporadic availability during the off season in the local school gyms the past two years as well.”

Director Bob Whetham suggested it might be time to look at the fee structure for not-forprofits, to see it the RDEK can support them more, or offer reduced rates.

But Area A director Mike Sosnowski said reducing the fees for one facility would be unfair to the rest of the taxpayers throughout the regional district who pay into the pot.

“I just want a little fairness,” he said.

The motion was eventually put forward to oppose the application for fee reduction, with Taft, Gay, director Ron McRae and director Jane Walter voting against it. The board did amend the motion and decided to send a letter to the Mountain Town Maulers to encourage them to apply for a Grant in Aid.

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Wasa man killed in accident early Sunday C A R O LYN G R A NT Daily Bulletin

A single vehicle accident has taken the life of a 52-year old Wasa man.

Cranbrook RCMP and East Kootenay Traffic Services responded to a single vehicle accident at 1:23 a.m. on January 6, 2013.

The accident occurred

on Highway 93/95 near the Wasa Rest Stop.

Police say a 1986 Ford pickup truck was heading north and went off the road to the left. The truck hit the ditch and rolled over once.

The single occupant and driver appears to have died instantly, says Cpl. D. Perpelitz of

East Kootenay Traffic Services. He was not wearing a seat belt.

Perpelitz says road conditions at the time were good, although a light snow was beginning to fall.

The identity of the deceased was not being released at press time pending notification of family.

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The Cranbrook Mountain Town Maulers roller derby squad are pictured in action against the Invermere Killer Rollbots May 12, 2012, at the Memorial Arena in Cranbrook.

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Bring back the KIOTAC Visitors to Kimberley accordion festival call for a 40th edition C AROLYN GR ANT Daily Bulletin

It’s not only local residents who are shocked and dismayed at the decision to cancel the Kimberley International Old Time Accordion Championships. The KIOTAC website is filling up with tributes and comments as well.

And people are wondering if there isn’t something they could do. The Daily Bulletin received a letter from a Mr. Norm Wilson who travels to KIOTAC every year.

Mr. Wilson is appealing to the KIOTAC Committee and Kimberley residents to at least give the festival one more year, so it can celebrate the 40th KIOTAC in style and everyone could have an opportunity to say goodbye.

Mr. Wilson writes: “This is very sad news indeed. It has been a family tradition for us to visit Kimberley and take part in the Accordion festival for over 25 years.

No matter where we live we always seem to find a way to make it … we very much look forward to it each year.

“I understand your reasons for shutting down the festival as we have seen the numbers decline over the years.

Saying that I would strongly urge you to consider ending the festival on the 40th anniversary. I feel you could appeal/market to people as a farewell celebration and end on a high note … one last hurrah.

“I feel people would make the effort to attend knowing it’s the last time to take part and would give people a chance to say good bye.

“It would also give KIOTAC and festival goers a chances to reminisce and look back on the years as there is a lot of fond memories. I feel you would have support from the Town of Kimberley, Tourism BC and its affiliates and not to mention festival attendees to wind down in this fashion. I believe there is time to market and execute a strategy to make this festival possible. I can assure you my family and I and many

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others would be willing to help out in any way we can.”

From Allan Valberg: “I can’t believe it’s over … I’ve spent about 30 of my 49 years, competing, adjudicating, playing dances etc. in Kimberley.

“I think back to the first years … they affected me to the core, meeting Bill Baerg for the first time and seeing the passion he had for the accordion … I’ll never forget that! I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all the volunteers that made each year possible. Thanks to every person I ever played with or just sat and talked with!

“Too many memories to put down … A sincerely heartfelt thank you to Bill and Jeany!”

From Clara Anderson: “I am so sorry to hear that KIOTAC is unable to continue. For the last seven years I have planned my summer holiday around playing and enjoying music in Kimberley during festival week. Friendly little Kimberley is well known for its great people, great concerts, fun dances, friendly competition, terrific adjudicators, and all the dedicated, friendly, hard working festival volunteers. As I am a retired elementary school teacher, I have especially enjoyed watching the progress of the children who competed each year. It is my sincerest wish that they, along with everyone else, will continue to play, practice, enjoy, and continue to raise the profile of the accordion. I’ll also be watching for some of these people to be our future stars in the entertainment business.

“This news did come as a total shock as I am planing my duet pieces.

For the last six years my summer was planned around Kimberley and it will be greatly missed.

“There will be no replacement for Kimberly ever, and i want to express my heartfelt Thank You to all the people that made this event possible for so many years.”

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Kimberley getting more commuter service to Cranbrook CAROLYN GRANT Daily Bulletin

After an extensive study of transit usage in Kimberley, BC Transit has decided to grant Kimberley another 1,100 hours per year in transit service.

BC Transit personnel spoke to the City of Kimberley, Interior Health Authority staff, and community groups like Summit Community Servcies, the Kimberley Chamber of Commerce and the College of the Rockies, as well as Kimberley Community Transportation, which manages the service.

Data was collected from a resident survey in the summer of 2012, Kimberley Transportation ride booking

records and monthly ridership counts.

“The conclusion is that we will get an additional 1,100 hours,” said Mayor Ron McRae. “We will see an additional level of service to Cranbrook in particular and BC Transit will maintain existing service as well.. The City has budgeted for an increase as we expected that would be the recommendation.”

The additional 1,100 hour service outlined in the report offers more weekday commuter service to Cranbrook. The option would provide an early morning and early evening trip to Cranbrook, Monday through Friday. This would provide an alternative means of transportation to those employed or

attending school in Cranbrook and reduce the number of single occupancy vehicles on the highway between the two cities. The City and Kimberley Transit Services will work out the exact schedule and details of the new service.

“It is a very good report, very comprehensive” McRae said. “The service to Cranbrook will continue to be a combination of the Interior Health service and BC Transit service.”

The new service will add an additional operating cost of $64,000 of which BC Transit will pay $40,000 and the City $12,000. There will also be a projected $12,000 increase in revenues.

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door to door, dial a ride service within Kimberley and Marysville with two 20-passenger minibuses. Passengers are required to call the dispatch office 24 hours in advance to book a ride. The service operates between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

The vehicles are lift equipped and some school district funding is provided to transport special-needs students to and from school.

The Health Connections Service, funding by the Interior Health Authority operates three round trips per day, two days a week, Tuesdays and Thursdays.

BC Transit also allows its vehicles to be used for the ski shuttle service.

Windermere community group receives $60,300 federal grant Townsman Staff

David Wilks, Member of Parliament for Kootenay-Columbia, on behalf of Lynne Yelich, Minister of State for Western Economic Diversification, announced on Sunday, Jan. 6 federal support for upgrades to the Windermere Community Hall under the Harper Government’s Community Infrastructure Improvement Fund (CIIF).

“Modernization of the Windermere Community Hall will improve the safety of the facility and enhance local community services,” said MP Wilks.

“Our Government’s funding for this project will help to create jobs, growth and long-term prosperity in our community.”

The federal investment of $60,300 will help the Windermere Community Association upgrade the Windermere Community Hall.

The project will improve the energy efficiency, structural integrity, and roof venting and rainwater evacuation systems of the Community Hall.

“We are delighted with the support from the Federal Government for the renovations to the Windermere Community

Hall,” said Anne Picton, Former President, Windermere Community Association.

“We feel this will revitalize the Community Hall and it will become a much more used facility for all ages and groups.”

CIIF supports, on a cost-shared basis, repairs and improvements to existing community infrastructure accessible to the public.

Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD) is delivering the Fund in Western Canada with an allocation of $46.2 million over two years.

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hen will Canadians, led by the country’s one million Aboriginal People, face the inescapable? Reserves are incubators of misery. The entire moribund, ramshackle edifice supported by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development needs to be demolished. It is rotten at its core.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper, whom you might expect would be ideologically predisposed to scrapping the 1876 Indian Act — an explicitly racist tract whose continued existence in our law is a national disgrace — has until now been unwilling to go there. A year ago, at the last aboriginal conference in Ottawa, Harper steered clear of scrapping the Act outright, instead lauding “practical, incremental and real change.”

Yet incremental change, we have seen, barely makes a dent — if it makes it past the gate at all.

It’s not just the tweaks to land-lease management on reserves contained in Bill C-45, which in part ignited the “Idle no More” protests. There have been many attempts at piecemeal repair. In 1996 there was Bill C-79, the Indian Act Optional Modification Act; it died on the order paper. In 2002 there was Bill C-7, the First Nations Governance Act, which attempted to reform reserve administration across the board. It perished in 2003. In 2008 there was Bill C-47, the Family Homes on Reserves and Matrimonial Interests or Rights Act, to redress inequity in the treatment of women. That one died on the order paper three times. It is before Parliament again as Bill S-2.

Amid these and other efforts, conditions on reserves have worsened. In its

2011 status report, the office of the Auditor-General chronicles, in customarily neutral tones, a horror show of civil neglect. On reserves, the high school graduation rate is 41 per cent, compared with a national average near 80 per cent. There’s a worsening housing shortage and huge numbers of the houses that do exist are mould-ridden. Children on reserves are eight times likelier than the national average to be in the care of child and family services.

This is not the upshot of one audit, mind you, but many. There were seven, between 2002 and 2008, chronicling the same problems.

At root, the malaise is economic. Except where there is a nearby resource development, or an enterprise such as a casino, these are communities with no natural economies, served by a remote federal bureaucracy (rather than a conventional municipal or provincial one), in which neither individuals nor the bands themselves hold title to their lands or homes.

The lack of property rights is not incidental. It is fundamental. It prevents the securing of mortgages, the building of equity and the accumulation of wealth. In effect the reserve system incentivizes misery, paying people to live where they cannot work. This is why all sides in this equation, including reserve residents and the taxpayer who bears the cost of Aboriginal Affairs’ $7.4-billion annual budget, feel so viscerally that they are being cheated. They are.

No fundamental change in governance can or should happen without the consent of the governed. So step one — and the most important immediate goal of the Idle No More movement, I would argue — should be the planning of a new Aboriginal Peoples’ Congress, national in scope, with

representation from all 600-plus bands as well as off-reserve indigenous peoples, and the population at large.

At that confab, which might last a month or more, all sides would have their say on a lasting way forward. And the bright lights in the aboriginal movement, such as property-rights advocate and B.C. chief Manny Jules, could make the case, as well as it can be made, for a fundamental break with the past.

To me, in a nutshell, that break looks like this: Give title to the land and the homes to the people who live in them and allow them to manage their property — buy, sell or hold — as they see fit. In areas where there is no natural economy or prospect of creating one, help people start over somewhere else. Such a change might be grandfathered over 25 years, to ease the economic impact on the most disadvantaged.

At the same time, deal decisively and fairly with the backlog of outstanding land claims, numbering at more than 700 — estimated cost, anywhere from $6-billion to $15-billion, at the upper margin. That would require a major effort on the part of the government: It would need to make the case for Canadians collectively taking a one-time only write-down, for the sake of — yes it sounds quaint, doesn’t it, in 2013 — a just society.

That is a tall order, clearly. Perhaps it is impossible. Perhaps it is impractical. No doubt it would be inconvenient and costly.

Perhaps there is a better way.

But with the country facing the prospect of prolonged protest, if not Oka-style insurrection, can we avoid discussing it any longer? Idle No More, it seems to me, is a legitimate and not unsurprising response to systemic misery. It should not be about patching up the unfixable.

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Letters to the Editor Carbon dioxide Bill Bennett’s comments reported in last Wednesday’s paper at least show that he is admitting that British Colombia and the rest of Canada are actually emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

But, he totally dismisses that BC’s contribution to global emissions is of any significance.

He maintains that Canada’s contribution to global CO2 is only 2% of the global total. It is actually a tiny bit lower than this, which is swell as long as you don’t think about Canada’s population amounting to just 0.004 per cent of the world’s total. That makes Canada the fourth worst polluter per capita.

It also makes our 34 million inhabitants the seventh largest source of CO2 among all the countries in the world - that’s

seventh from a list of 216 countries and jurisdictions. Hardly insignificant.

As far as BC’s emissions, Bennett’s own government’s figures are 68,700,000 metric tons of CO2 emitted per year, each of which will remain in the atmosphere for approximately 100 years. Again, hardly insignificant.

Bennett would like the rest of us to bury our heads in the (tar) sand with him and pretend that this grave problem is non-existent.

Patrick Bates Kimberley

Misleading It appears that Kootenay East MLA Bill Bennett’s anti-NDP paranoia has resurfaced in his letter of December 28 ( ‘NDP and Jumbo’.)

What seems to have been,

by all accounts, a trivial lapse in a speech on Jumbo by Nelson-Creston MLA Michelle Mungall, has, according to Mr. Bennett, attained the proportions of a province-wide, radical conspiracy aimed at hoodwinking the BC electorate.

If Mr. Bennett is looking for someone who really misled the public, he need look no further than his former premier, Mr. Campbell, who promised, for instance, that his government would not privatize BC Rail.

He then privatized BC Rail and in circumstances so questionable that they have prompted the NDP to promise a public enquiry into the whole sordid mess.

Or he can look no further than his present premier, Ms. Clark On a pre-election ‘Voice of the Province’, February 4, 2001, she said, “We’re not planning massive layoffs in the civil ser-

vice.”

In post-election legislation, between May 2001 and May 2005, there were, for example, cuts to Sustainable Resource Management staff (from 1,520 to 972), Ministry of Air, Water and Land Protection staff (from 1,298 to 897) and family support staff, province-wide (by 8,700.).

I’m sure that Mr. Bennett did not avail himself of the Townsman letters’ columns at that time to protest how Mr. Campbell and Ms. Clark,“deliberately [misled] the public.” as he has claimed Ms. Mungall did, It appears that Mr. Bennett employs a political double standard – something which far too often shows a much greater disregard for the truth than any inconsequential verbal slip.

JC Vallance Fernie

Egypt: the not so bad constitution

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gyptian politics over the past such provisions, and the main reason is nine months has not been an obviously the Brotherhood’s tacit bargain edifying sight, but the new con- with the armed forces. stitution does not spell the end of The deal, which guarantees the milidemocracy in Egypt. It scares the tary’s privileges, was necessary to per36 percent of Egyptian voters who rejected suade the staunchly secular armed forces to accept an Islamic party in government, it, but their fears are probably misplaced. but it had a price: the new The revolution was government could not be made in the big cities, TOO Islamic. This posed a mostly by people who were problem for Morsi, because secular in outlook. HowevMuslim Brotherhood activer, most Egyptian voters ists wanted to use their polive in rural areas that are Gwynne litical power to entrench devout and deeply conserDyer “Islamic” rules in the new vative, so three-quarters of constitution. the votes in the first free So Morsi had to walk a fine line. He had election went to Islamic parties.

The Freedom and Justice Party, the po- to put enough Islamic language into the litical vehicle of the Muslim Brotherhood, constitution to mollify his own supporters, got almost half the votes but it did not real- but not so much that the military would ly get a mandate to impose strict Islamic break their alliance with him. He didn’t law on Egypt. Some of its votes came from walk that line very well.

The whole constitutional process was a people who wanted that, but some came from people who value the Brotherhood’s poisonous battle even before Morsi becharitable work, or were just grateful for its came president last June. In April the Surole as the only real resistance during the preme Judicial Council, whose members had all been appointed by the Mubarak decades of dictatorship.

The Brotherhood’s leadership under- dictatorship, dissolved the newly elected stood that – but another quarter of the House of Representatives on a flimsy prevotes went to “Salafi” parties that have an text, and also dismissed the constituextremist interpretation of Islam. The tion-writing assembly that it had chosen.

But the upper house of parliament is Salafis would obviously steal the votes of the Freedom and Justice Party’s more de- also dominated by Islamist parties, and it vout supporters in the next election unless simply appointed another constituent asthere was some Islamic content in the new sembly with the same make-up. After that it was open war. constitution.

By October most of the non-Islamists in The Brotherhood’s last political platform in 2007 called for a board of Muslim the second constituent assembly had clerics to supervise the government. It also walked out, and the Supreme Judicial insisted that only Muslim men could be- Council was about to dismiss that body come president. “The state which we seek too. Morsi’s clumsy response was to grant can never be presided over by a non-Mus- himself unlimited powers and forbid the lim,” said Mohammed Morsi, who drafted judiciary to dismiss the assembly.

There was an outcry by the opposition, that platform and is now president of a fractious coalition of leftists, liberals and Egypt.

Maybe Morsi still privately thinks that, Christians, and the protestors were inor maybe he has realised that these rules stantly back on the streets. But the constitare unacceptable in a democracy where all uent assembly promptly rendered the citizens are equal. It doesn’t matter. The whole crisis unnecessary by passing the new constitution does not contain any new draft constitution in a 29-hour mara-

thon sitting, so Morsi cancelled his special powers – and on 22 December, Egyptians ratified the new constitution by a 63.8 percent majority.

Small crisis, not many hurt. The army got what it wanted: henceforward, the minister of defence must be a serving officer, and the military will effectively control its own budget. The parliament cannot even debate it.

The Brotherhood got less of what it wanted, but there are bits of Islamic language in the constitution to keep the activists happy. For example, Article 2 of the old constitution (1971) says: “The principles of Sharia are the main source of legislation.”

The new one still says that, but Article 219 adds: “The principles of Sharia include general evidence and foundations, rules and jurisprudence as well as sources accepted by doctrines of Sunni Islam and the majority of Muslim scholars.” And what practical difference does that make?

Article 30 states that “citizens are equal before the law and equal in rights and obligations without discrimination,” but as in the old constitution, there is no separate and explicit guarantee of women’s rights.

Putting that in would have required a major battle with the misogynist rank and file of the Brotherhood, and the old formula would be quite adequate if the courts enforced it.

Nervous secular Egyptians fear that these bits and pieces of Islamic rhetoric are the seeds of a constitutional revolution that will turn the country into an Islamist dictatorship, but there is little evidence for that.

As for the frantic haste with which the constitution was passed – after two years of revolutionary upheaval, the Egyptian economy desperately needs the political stability that a new constitution and fresh elections (due in February) will provide.

It’s not a plot. It’s just the politics of necessity.

Gwynne Dyer is a London-based independent journalist.

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UPCOMING Wed. Jan. 9th The GoGo Granny’s are happy to have Sabine and Gabe Pfieffer present their second travelogue. A short commentary will lead us on a beautiful tour of Loas and Thailand.

College of the Rockies Lecture Theatre at 7:00. Admission is by donation. Norma at 250-426-6111 if you have any questions.

January 9th. Kimberley Garden Club is on winter sessions. January program: will be members brainstorming their program ideas for 2013. Selkirk High School Library 7-9 pm. New members welcome. For more info: Nola 250-427-1948.

The East Kootenay Railway Pensioners Association Social Luncheon, 12:30pm, Tuesday Jan.15th at the Bavarian Chalet (Day’s Inn) 600 Cranbrook St.N, Cranbrook. All Railway Retiree’s and Spouses are welcome. RSVP by Jan.11th. FMI Contact Secretary Frances Allan 250-426-2720 or Bill Belding 250-426 5006 SOCIAL DANCE; JANUARY 26th, 7-11 to the music of ‘TUCKER’S TROUBADOURS’ at the Cranbrook Seniors HALL, 17 Ave S-2 St. S. A MONTHLY, COMMUNITY EVENT. Refreshments served. Flo 250.489.2720 for Dance Schedule.

2013 FREE PUBLIC SWIM Wednesday, February 6, 5:00-6:00 PM is sponsored by Harmony Chapter Eastern Star.

ONGOING Breast Cancer Support Group in Kimberley. Information about meetings please call Daniela 250-427-2562 or Lori 250-427-4568.

Super Christmas Bargains: Bibles For Missions Thrift Store Closed Dec. 23 – Jan. 1, open Wed. Jan. 2 with wonderful bargains for you!

The Cranbrook Skating Club is offering skating lessons for learners of all ages. Pre-CanSkate (for pre-schoolers), CanSkate (ages 4 & up), Intro-StarSkate (learn to figure skate), StarSkate (for advanced levels of figure skating), CanPowerSkate (skating skills for hockey players) and Adult lessons. Kathy Bates (Registrar) at 250-432-5562.

Do you have 3 hours a week to give? Contact the Kimberley Health Care Auxiliary Thrift Shops at 250-427-2503 (Brenda) or 250-427-1754 Gayle) for volunteer opportunities: cashiers, sorters, after hours cleaners.

CRANBROOK QUILTERS’ GUILD hold their meetings every 2nd & 4th Tuesday of each month at 7:15pm upstairs in the Seniors’ Hall, 125-17th Ave. S. Everyone welcome. Info: Betty at 250-489-1498 or June 250-426-8817.

Community Acupuncture. By donation – Each Tuesday 4-6 pm, Roots to Health Naturopathic Clinic, Kimberley Health Centre – Lower Level, 260 4th Ave. 778-481-5008. Please visit: www.rootsto-health.com for more info.

ESL: CBAL hosts Conversation Cafe Tues 7-9pm, morning class Wed 10am-12noon & Evening class Wed 7pm-9pm.

All sessions held at CBAL office 19 9th Ave S (next to the radio station). Childcare upon request. All programs are FREE. FMI: Bruce 250-919-2766 or khough@cbal.org The Compassionate Friends meet 2nd Tuesday each month at 4:00pm at the East Kootenay Child Care Resource and Referral Boardroom (in the Baker Street Mall parking lot) Info: call Laura @ 250 489-1000/Diane @ 250 489-0154 Do you have the desire to stop eating compulsively?

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS (a 12-Step Program) meets Tuesdays from 7-8 pm at Cranbrook United Church, 2-12 S. S., downstairs. Contact: cranbrookoa@hotmail.com.

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 250-489-1498 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.

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Nitros, Nitehawks exchange victories TRE VOR CR AWLEY Sports Editor

The Kimberley Dynamiters split their weekend in a home and home series with the Beaver Valley Nitehawks, as both earned a win in their home barns.

Kimberley played host on Friday at the Civic Centre, earning a 3-1 victory, but fell on the road in Fruitvale by a score of 5-1.

Kimberley continues to occupy third in the Eddie Mountain division, while Fernie scraps with Golden for first.

A second period goal broke a tie, while a marker in the third added some insurance for Kimberley in their win over the ‘Hawks on Friday.

Dan Holland scored at the halfway mark for Beaver Valley, but Sam Nigg responded for Kimberley a few minutes later to pull even.

Brett Luker put the Nitros ahead in the second period, and Matt Barzilay increased the lead to two in the final period with his first career goal in the KIJHL. Matthew Mitchell manned the net for Kimberley, stopping 35 shots, while Zach Pere-

hudoff took the loss at the other side of the rink for Beaver Valley, turning away 25 pucks.

Neither team was able to capitalize on the power play.

Beaver Valley got their revenge on home ice the following night, scoring five unanswered goals to seal up the win.

Michael Bell scored an early first period goal and added another shortly into the second frame. Dallas Calvin and Archie MacKinnon also added markers in the middle period.

Calvin added his second of the game in the final frame, before the Nitros finally got on the board from Eric Buckley.

Mitchell again manned the crease for Kimberley, stopping a whopping 47 shots, while Travis Beekhuizen turned away 22 shots for Beaver Valley.

Buffalo Bills hire new head coach from college ranks JOHN WAWROW Associated Press

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. - Doug Marrone is leaving Syracuse to become the Buffalo Bills’ new coach, according to several reports.

Citing league sources, ESPN.com first reported early Sunday that Marrone was to take over the Bills. The Bills have not confirmed the report. Messages left with Syracuse officials and Marrone’s agent, Jimmy Sexton, have not been returned.

Marrone will replace Chan Gailey, who was fired Monday, a day after the Bills closed their second consecutive season with a 6-10 record. The 48-year-old Marrone went 25-25 in four seasons at Syracuse, his

alma mater, and turned around a program that had gone 26-57 over the previous seven years.

Now the Bronx, N.Y., native is set for another challenge two hours down the New York State Thruway. Marrone takes over a Bills team that has not had a winning record since 2004, when it finished 9-7, and has missed the playoffs for 13 straight seasons.

That’s the NFL’s longest active streak.

The Syracuse job was Marrone’s first as a head coach. He has seven years of NFL experience as an assistant. Marrone spent 2006-08 as the New Orleans Saints’ offensive co-ordinator and was the New York Jets’ offensive line coach from 2002-05.

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Ice extend streak to five wins Kootenay has successful weekend on home ice with victories over Broncos, Rebels

TRE VOR CR AWLEY Sports Editor

The Kootenay Ice extended their win streak to five games on Sunday, dumping the visiting Red Deer Rebels 3-2 at Western Financial Place.

Preceding the romp over the Rebels was a 4-1 victory over the Swift Current Broncos on Friday evening in another game on home ice.

The team has visibly improved in every aspect of the game as evidenced by their five consecutive wins, which has allowed everyone to build up their confidence, according to veteran Erik Benoit.

“We got lots of confidence brewing in the room now and all our lines are starting to click and we’re doing the little things right,” said Benoit.

Kootenay has closed the gap in the Eastern Conference standings and are now one point behind the Brandon Wheat Kings for 11th place and nine points outside of a playoff spot.

Swift Current’s loss at Western Financial Place came at the start of a quick two-game road trip, while the Rebels’

dropped their decision at the end of playing four games over five days.

Kootenay did a pretty good job of beating up on the Broncos, which came out a little sluggish and paid for it after Brock Montgomery got his stick on a point shot from Tanner Faith on a power play midway through the first period.

Sam Reinhart doubled the lead in the second period on a shorthanded effort, collecting the puck at the side of the net and banging it in after Jagger Dirk sent a shot that deflected off the backboards.

With less than a minute to go in the frame, Reinhart dug the puck loose along the sideboards, which Benoit picked up and fed Jaedon Descheneau, who sniped his seventh goal of the season.

The Broncos woke up in the third period and put some sustained pressure on the Ice, which resulted in a goal for Tanner LeSann, who put his club up on the board.

However, Kootenay struck back late in the game when Benoit scooped up the puck in

the neutral zone while Broncos netminder Steven Myland was halfway to the bench for an extra attacker.

Despite a valiant dive on Myland’s part, Benoit was able to put the puck into a gaping net to crush all hopes of a Swift Current comeback.

“We got lots of confidence brewing in the room now and all our lines are starting to click and we’re doing the little things right.”

Erik Benoit “I was completely clueless to be honest,” said Benoit, as he didn’t realize Myland had left his net. “Sam [Reinhart] was screaming at my back and telling me that the net was empty, so I just looked up and fired at it.”

Ice goaltender Mackenzie Skapski ended the game with 26 saves, while Myland stopped 16 shots.

Red Deer returned for it’s second matchup with the Ice in five days and left with their sec-

ond consecutive loss.

Kootenay weathered the storm in the first period, as Red Deer held a slight edge, but Skapski was sharp in between the pipes for the hometown team.

However, Red Deer jumped ahead in the second period when Turner Elson beat Skapski top shelf short side with a wrist shot while entering the Ice’s zone.

The Rebels held the lead until the final second of the frame, when Reinhart scored a buzzer beater while on a powerplay.

The young Kootenay sniper was on the receiving end of a passing play between Descheneau and Joey Leach, and he made good on his shot with seven one-hundredths of a second to go on the clock.

Benoit scored a pair of goals in the final period, to give the Ice a twogoal lead. His first marker came off a quick wrist shot that went top corner after skating into the offensive zone, while his second was a tap-in outside the crease that came off a pretty little pass from Luke Philp.

Red Deer managed to cut Kootenay’s lead to only one goal late in the game after Matt Bellerive took advantage of a defensive zone turnover and beat Skapski with a low shot that deflected off something on its way to the net.

Kootenay held off the final assault with the pulled goaltender and extra attacker and even hemmed the Rebels in their own zone, putting at least four shots in the direction of a wide open net.

Bolton Pouliot stopped 45 shots for Red Deer, while Skapski turned away 21 pucks.

The team’s confidence and improvements have allowed all four lines to click together, added Benoit.

“It’s good to roll four lines,” said Benoit.

“When a team is not playing four lines, it’s really tough to keep up the pace for the whole game, so rolling four lines is key for us to get all that energy in the lineup.”

Kootenay gets a day off on Monday before hosting the Edmonton Oil Kings on Tuesday night at Western Financial Place.

NFL playoff picture emerges after wildcard games ASSOCIATED PRESS

Saturday Houston held off Cincinnati 19-13 Saturday in the wild-card round. The victory was built on the rushing of Arian Foster and solid defence, and reversed a slide that saw them lose three of their last four regular-season games to blow home-field advantage in the AFC. That slump began with a 42-14 loss at New England - exactly where they head next Sunday.

Foster gained 140 yards, becoming the first player with at least 100 yards rushing in his first three post-season games. He scored on a 1-yard run and also had eight receptions.

“It only takes one week to turn things

around in the NFL and we did that,” said Foster, whose team lost to Minnesota and Indianapolis to slip to the AFC’s third seed.

Cincinnati (10-7) gained only 198 yards and had 12 first downs.

Its touchdown came on Leon Hall’s interception return.

Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers showed how dangerous they can be when they’re at full strength Saturday night, overwhelming the Minnesota Vikings 24-10 in an NFC wildcard game that was never really close.

John Kuhn scored two touchdowns, DuJuan Harris added another and Rodgers connected with an NFL playoff-record 10 receiv-

ers as he threw for 274 yards. Defensively, the Packers (12-5) finally managed to contain Adrian Peterson and were all over Vikings backup Joe Webb, pressed into service because of Christian Ponder’s elbow injury.

Peterson was held to 99 yards - an improvement after gaining 199 and 210 in the first two games. Webb, who hadn’t thrown a pass all season, was sacked three times and off target all night. His only highlight was a 50-yard scoring pass to Michael Jenkins late in the fourth quarter.

Sunday Wild-card weekend is over in the NFL playoffs, and Seattle’s Russell Wilson is the lone rookie

Wildcard results Seattle Seahawks Baltimore Ravens Green Bay Packers Houston Texans

24 24 24 19

quarterback remaining.

And, Wilson’s Seahawks made a pretty good case that they might be here a while.

Wilson teamed with Marshawn Lynch to lead Seattle to a 24-14 comeback victory Sunday over the Washington Redskins, who finished the game without Robert Griffin III - their star rookie quarterback who appeared to reinjure his right knee.

The Seahawks (12-5) overcame a 14-0 first-quarter hole - their biggest deficit this season - and will visit the

Washington Redskins 14 Indianapolis Colts 9 Minnesota Vikings 10 Cincinnati Bengals 13

top-seeded Atlanta Falcons (13-3) next Sunday.

In Baltimore, Ray Lewis and the Ravens eliminated Andrew Luck, the No. 1 overall pick, and the Indianapolis Colts with a 24-9 win. The victory delayed Lewis’ retirement for at least another week as Baltimore (11-6) heads to top-seeded Denver (13-3) next Saturday.

The other playoff games next weekend are Green Bay at San Francisco (Saturday) and Houston at New England (Sunday).

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NHL lockout ends with tentative deal Chris Johnston Canadian Press

NEW YORK - After six long months of negotiations, it took one extremely long night to get the NHL out of the boardroom and back on the ice.

A tentative deal to end the 113-day NHL lockout was reached early Sunday morning following a marathon 16-hour negotiating session.

“We have reached an agreement on the framework of a new collective bargaining agreement, the details of which need to be put to paper,” NHL commissioner Gary Bettman told a news conference.

“We’ve got to dot a lot of i’s and cross a lot of t’s.

There’s still a lot of work to be done but the basic framework of the deal has been agreed upon.”

Before the new CBA officially comes into effect, it must be ratified by a majority of both the league’s 30 owners and the union’s membership of approximately 740 players. There is no word when those votes will take place.

“Hopefully we’re at a place where all those things will proceed fairly rapidly and with some dispatch,” said Donald Fehr, executive director of the NHL Players’ Association. “We’ll get back to business as usual just as fast as we can.”

Neither side has announced details of the deal - which came together with the help of U.S. federal mediator Scot Beckenbaugh -but

according to a source, it’s a 10-year agreement with an opt-out option after eight years.

It also includes defined benefit pensions for the players as well as a $64.3-million salary cap in 2013-14.

Other highlights, according to a source, include a seven-year contract term limit for free agents and eight years for players re-signing with the same team. The deal also includes a 35 per cent yearly variance in salary and no more than 50 per cent difference between any two seasons.

“We have reached an agreement on the framework of a new collective bargaining agreement, the details of which need to be put to paper.”

Gary Bettman The participation of NHLers in future Olympics will be made outside of the CBA. “Everyone is obviously relieved that it’s over and done with, for all intents and purposes, and we’re able to kind of move on to what we kind of enjoy doing a lot more than this,” said Phoenix Coyotes captain Shane Doan, who was involved in the negotiations.

It’s not clear when the season will start or how many games will be played, though Winnipeg Jets defenceman Ron Hainsey - also a key

figure in the negotiations - said he expects it to be 48 or 50 games.

The league was on the verge of cancelling a second season due to a work stoppage. The two sides were working against the clock after Bettman set a deadline of Jan. 11 to get a deal done to save a shortened season.

“It was a battle,” said Hainsey. “Gary said a month ago it was a tough negotiation and that’s what it was. The players obviously would rather not have been here but our focus now is to give the fans whatever it is 48 games, 50 games - the most exciting season we can.”

Hainsey said the pension ended up being a key component of the agreement.

“I don’t think there’s any doubt that the pension is the centrepiece of this deal for the players,” said Hainsey.

The lockout will cost the league around 500 regular-season games, depending on whether there is a 48- or 50-game season, but the most important number probably won’t be revealed for at least 18 months. The NHL was coming off seven years of record revenues when the last CBA expired, hitting a high-water mark of US$3.3-billion last season, and it remains to be seen how quickly fans and sponsors will return when the puck is dropped again.

After all, many hoped the league’s lockout cycle would be broken when the entire 2004-05

season was cancelled to get a salary cap. But it turned out the shared history of the parties, which also includes a strike in 1992 and a lockout in 1994-95, was too much to overcome.

“It was concessionary bargaining right from the beginning,” said Doan. “As the players, you kind of understand that and you accepted that. As much as you didn’t want to, we understand that the nature of professional sports has kind of changed with the last couple CBAs starting with football and basketball and obviously hockey.

“We knew we were in that position and I think as a union we got the best deal we could possibly get.”

George Cohen, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service director, called the deal “the successful culmination of a long and difficult road.”

“Of course, the agreement will pave the way for the professional players to return to the ice and for the owners to resume their business operations,” he said in a statement. “But the good news extends beyond the parties directly involved; fans throughout North America will have the opportunity to return to a favourite pastime and thousands of working men and women and small businesses will no longer be deprived of their livelihoods.”

Pittsburgh Penguins star Sidney Crosby, who is desperate to return to

the ice after dealing with concussion issues over the last couple years, said he was happy to hear the news.

“It’s exciting to know we will be back playing hockey,” he told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

The NHLPA membership hired Fehr out of retirement about 21 months before the CBA expired with the express

purpose of getting the players a fair shake in these negotiations. And the union’s executive director made it clear that his players were still stinging after being locked out for an entire season just eight years earlier.

“Obviously, what happened in the last round of negotiations is the starting point for this round of bargaining,”

Fehr told The Canadian Press just before formal talks began with the league at the end of June.

“The players made what can only be characterized as enormous concessions. And so you want to make sure that the players understand what happened the last time and that they take that as the beginnings of where things go from here.”

Key points addressed in new CBA - The CBA will run for 10 years through 2021-22, with an option to terminate the deal after eight years.

- Players receive defined benefit pension plan.

- Owners and players split revenue 50-50 each season, with the players receiving US$300 million in deferred “make-whole payments” to ease the transition from previous system.

- A pro-rated salary cap of $70.2 million for the shortened 2012-13 season followed by a salary cap of $64.3 million in 2013-14. The salary floor will be set at $44 million for both years.

- Seven-year limit on free-agent contracts (eight-year limit when a team signs its own player to an extension).

- A maximum salary variance of 35 per cent from year to year, with no more than a 50 per cent total difference between any two seasons in the contract.

- The minimum salary starts at $525,000 this season and reaches $750,000 for the 10th and final year of the agreement.

- Teams can only walk away from a player in salary arbitration who is awarded at least $3.5 million.

- Each team will be given the option of two “amnesty buyouts” that can be

used to terminate contracts prior to the 2013-14 season or 2014-15 season. The buyouts will cost two-thirds of the remaining amount on a deal - paid evenly over twice its remaining length - and will count against the players’ overall share in revenues, but not the individual team’s salary cap.

- Revenue sharing between teams increased to $200 million annually.

- Any player on a one-way contract who plays in the American Hockey League with a salary in excess of the NHL’s minimum salary plus $375,000 will have the excess amount charged against his team’s salary cap.

- Unrestricted free agency continues to open on July 1.

- The participation of NHLers in future Olympics has yet to be determined.

The decision will be made outside of the CBA.

- The season will run either 48 games or 50 games and will be kept entirely within the conference. Under the 48-game scenario, teams play everyone outside their division three times and an unbalanced schedule internally, with five games against two rivals and four games against two others.

The 50-game scenario is more straightforward with five games versus divisional opponents and three more against everyone else in the conference.

Lessons to learn in Canada’s fourth-place finish at WJC

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f t e r t h e Canadians lost the bronze medal, the sky began to fall.

Okay, maybe it was just my eyelids drooping because it was so early in the morning.

All jokes aside, the fact that the Canadians failed to medal at the World Juniors isn’t a laughing matter.

It also shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise.

Of course, this was

supposed to be Canada’s year and the return to gold-medal glory because the junior team was loaded with talent freed up due to the NHL lockout.

But all that skill—including an NHL player and 10 first-round draft picks—wasn’t a match for other teams that had something the Canadians lacked: consistency.

Armchair critics will say that the coaching staff wasn’t up to the task, the wrong players were chosen, and call for heads to roll at Hockey Canada.

Those kinds of criticisms aren’t helpful.

I had a chance to in-

terview Emerson Etem last year, a sniper formerly with the Medicine Hat Tigers who is currently in the AHL playing for the Norfolk Admirals.

Etem competed for the Americans in the WJC last year, which finished in seventh place, and he said something that I think applies right now, as it did back then for his U.S. squad.

“It’s fun to see the game of hockey growing now but at the same time, we went there for the gold medal and we didn’t accomplish it,” said Etem, following a game against the Kootenay Ice on Jan. 8, 2012.

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“In a way, it’s a bad feeling, but at the same time, I think you can learn just as much from losing as you can from winning.”

Hockey has grown in Europe—you can see that in teams like the Swedish national squad, which earned silver after failing to repeat a gold medal performance from last year.

The Finns beat Canada 4-1 in exhibition play,

while Switzerland took the Czech Republic to overtime and dropped shootout decisions to the Finns and Russians.

The typical powerhouse teams of Canada, U.S. and Russia are now being challenged by these upstart European countries that are developing quality hockey players and programs.

It’s always a nationalistic affair when the Canadians take to international competition, whether it be the WJC or the World Championship or the Olympics.

But Canada no longer has a monopoly on gold medals, or a monopoly on producing the world’s

best hockey players.

Like Etem said, there is just as much to be learned from losing, as there is from winning, and now is the time for Hockey Canada to sit back and review their approach to preparing for the tournament.

I don’t believe it’s fair to single out individually the coaches, the players, or the goaltenders for the fourth-place finish, but as the old saying goes, you win as a team and you lose as a team.

Fans may lament about what went wrong, but the reality is that the Canadians got beat by better squads when it mattered.

When it mattered in the semifinal, the Canadians lost to the U.S. When it mattered against the Russians for a bronze medal, the Canadians were defeated.

Though hockey fans are disappointed, there’s no shame in losing, especially if you give it your best effort. What matters is how you pick yourself up and recover from that experience.

Now is the time for Hockey Canada to pick itself up and have a good introspective look at the entire process of selecting and preparing players and personnel for future World Junior tournaments.

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NEWS New $20 notes still unusable in vending machines Dean Beeby Canadian Press

OTTAWA, Ont. — Thousands of vending machines still can’t di-

gest those plastic $20 bank notes the government released two months ago, with machine owners blaming

the Bank of Canada for their problems.

As many as half a million machines that scan bank notes needed

Contentious changes to employment insurance came into effect Sunday CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — Contentious changes to employment insurance are now in effect.

Beginning Sunday, people on EI face stricter, more complex rules for keeping their benefits, with the goal of getting unemployed workers back into the workforce sooner.

The government has also launched a new service to provide information on available jobs and labour market conditions to subscribers via e-mail.

The changes to the EI program were first spelled out in May. A suitable search for a job must now include preparing resumes, registering for job banks, attending job fairs, applying for jobs and undergoing competency evaluations.

A suitable job is defined by factors including commuting time, whether the hours are compatible with the claimant’s life and wages.

It will also take into account personal circumstances, such as health, physical capability to perform work, family obligations and transportation

options.

The new rules also break down job seekers into essentially two groups: people who’ve long paid into EI but rarely make a claim and those who are regular users of the system.

A suitable job search for the latter group must include jobs that are similar to what they used to do and if one of those isn’t available after a certain period of time, the job seeker has to take any position they are qualified for and accept as much as a 30 per cent pay cut.

Policing the new system to make sure claimants are following through is expected to cost the government about $7.2 million per year.

But savings to the EI program are expected to be worth $12.5 million in benefits this year and $33 million next year.

Documents posted with the new regulations in December said it’s expected that about 8,000 EI claimants will have their benefits temporarily discontinued until they can prove they are meeting the new rules.

reprogramming to accept the radically redesigned $20 bills, the most popular denomination in Canada.

Some 145 million polymer $20 notes have been put into circulation since Nov. 7, one of a series of new plastic notes intended to thwart counterfeiters and last much longer than their paper-cotton predecessors.

Kim Lockie has been converting his 1,200 machines in Fort McMurray, Alta., full-time for two months, but still has about 300 to go.

His unconverted machines are frustrating customers who can’t use their crisp, new bills.

“I would think less than half the machines in Canada would accept this bill right now,’’ says Lockie, the industry’s point man for the conversion project as an official of the Canadian Automatic Merchandising Association.

Lockie blames the Bank of Canada for failing to heed three years of warnings from owners that they needed a long lead time to recalibrate their vending machines before the official

CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Bank of Canada

The front of the new Canadian $20 bill is shown in a handout photo. release of the new bills.

The Bank of Canada rejects the criticisms, saying its officials have worked closely with the sector, providing vending-equipment manufacturers with sample bills months before the official release so they could create the right software.

“For the $20 note, these final notes were made available in May of 2012, fully six months before the notes were issued into circulation in November 2012,’’ said spokesman Jeremy Harrison.

“Eighty-five companies took advantage of the Bank’s offer, representing the vast majority of equipment manufacturers and suppliers to

the Canadian market.’’

Harrison notes the six-month lead time was twice as long as that provided for the previous series of newly designed bills, the so-called Journey notes released in 2004.

Each vending machine or other device that processes bank notes — such as selfserve checkouts, parking-permit dispensers and even ATMs — can require up to 15 minutes of reprogramming administered on site by a technician using a laptop.

The labour-intensive process is costly, time-consuming and follows weeks or months of software development, testing and train-

ing by manufacturers and service providers.

Lockie’s group had asked the Bank of Canada to release its new plastic $5 and $10 bills at the same time as the $20s to allow for a single recalibration visit to each machine. But the bank decided to issue the two lower denominations simultaneously later this year, forcing vending-machine owners to plan another round of site visits in 2013, absorbing the costs.

Canada’s paper-cotton $20 notes remain in circulation alongside the polymer notes for now, and reprogrammed cash-handling machines are able to handle both kinds.

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Lone wolf in California amuses public with travels Tr acie Cone Associated Press

FRESNO, Calif. — He doesn’t like busy Interstate 5 or eating cattle, at least so far. He gets along with his distant cousins the coyotes, likes to swim and roams a lot — an awful lot — around the northernmost reaches of California.

A week or so ago, California’s lone grey wolf passed his one-year anniversary as a transplant resident with the same technical accoutrements some people possess: a Twitter account and an online site about his travels.

“What strikes me about him is that when I talk to the general public they show remarkable knowledge about his movements, much more than some world events,’’ said Richard Callas, a senior environmental scientist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Far larger than coyotes, wolves were feared and hunted to near-extinction in the U.S. before being protected by the Endangered Species Act. They were reintroduced in the Northern Rockies in the mid1990s, and some migrated into Idaho and Oregon, where they have quickly reproduced.

California’s wolf is known as OR-7 because he was the seventh in

Oregon to be fitted with a GPS tracking collar. While most wolves stay within 160 kilometres of where they were born, OR-7 proved different: he trotted 1,600 kilometres from northeast Oregon to California, then more than 3,200 kilometres since arriving.

Scientists speculate the 3 1/2-year-old is looking for a mate or a new pack, though they know both prospects are remote. He is believed to be the first of the predators to roam within the state’s boundaries since 1924, when the last grey wolf was killed by a trapper intent on making the West safe for cattle.

“The reality is OR-7 is not likely to find a mate in California. He’ll likely pass on without successfully reproducing,’’ said Karen Kovacs, whose job as wildlife program manager for the state Department of Fish & Wildlife has been focused lately on this one animal.

His presence has prompted action by one state and two federal agencies that now have to figure out how to manage the species if others follow in his 12.5-centimetre paw prints. Federal wildlife agencies had not considered California a part of the original wolf recovery plan for western states.

AP Photo/California Department of Fish and Game, File

This May 8, 2012 photo shows OR-7, the Oregon wolf that has trekked across two states looking for a mate, on a hillside in California.

Currently the state is considering a petition that would list the wolf as endangered, as he already is federally in California. Killing the wolf means a $100,000 federal fine.

If the state’s wildlife commission approves the petition come October, authorities would determine how many wolves would be needed to populate a given area before the species would not be considered endangered anymore. It would include a plan to deal with livestock depredation and monitoring for disease such as distemper and rabies.

OR-7 has aroused concerns

among residents of the northeastern counties who fear the wolf will kill livestock, although officials say he has not so far.

The lone wolf also has been celebrated by fans such as @iamgreenbean who this week sent the message, “We are THRILLED to have you’’ to the Twitter account @WolfOR7. The anonymous wolf often tweets about eating ungulates, or asking journalists, “Why the fixation with my love life?’’

So beloved is OR-7 in Oregon that a newspaper cartoonist depicted him as a candidate during the 2012 presidential campaign.

Despite the high tech gadgetry hanging from his neck, sightings are rare. Kovac’s department updates a tracking map when OR-7 moves significantly out of an area, but since July he has been hanging out mostly in Tehama County, and wildlife officers don’t want the public to know exactly where. Cattle ranchers, however, are warned if he gets too close or stays too long in one area.

For the past month, OR-7 has been roaming around the northern and eastern edges of Tehama County around Red Bluff as he follows deer migrating from the northern Sierra to lower grazing areas at around 450 metres.

He has approached Interstate 5 on several occasions, but never crossed the freeway though he has repeatedly crossed less travelled highways.

Researchers have been amazed at the distances OR-7 has covered.

The 4,800 kilometres recorded are just connecting the dots between GPS co-ordinates and don’t count any meandering in between.

“If you look at dispersing grey wolves, OR-7 is clearly on the far end of the bell curve in terms of how far he has travelled,’’ Kovacs said.

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MOSCOW — The day after receiving his new Russian passport from President Vladimir Putin, French actor Gerard Depardieu flew Sunday to the provincial town of Saransk, where he was greeted as a local hero and offered an apartment for free.

Depardieu had sought Russian citizenship as part of his battle against a proposed super tax on millionaires in France.

Putin granted his request last week and then welcomed the actor late Saturday to his residence in Sochi, the host city of the 2014 Winter Olympics. Russian television showed the two men embracing and then chatting over supper, discussing a soon-to-be-released film in which Depardieu plays Russian monk Grigory Rasputin.

Depardieu flew Sunday to Saransk, a town about 500 kilometres east of Moscow, where he was met at a snow-covered airport by the governor and a group of women in traditional costume singing folk songs. He flashed his new passport to the crowd before setting out on a tour of the town.

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The governor invited Depardieu to settle in Saransk and offered him an apartment of his choice, according to reports on state television.

Depardieu has not said where he would take up residence in Russia, only that he did not want to live in Moscow because it is too big and he prefers a village.

The Frenchman has spent a fair bit of time in Russia in recent years, including for the filming of the French-Russian film “Rasputin,’’ and he expresses an admiration for Putin. But it is Russia’s flat 13 per cent income tax that appears to be the biggest draw at the moment as he flees high taxes in France.

France’s new Socialist government tried to raise the tax on income above €1 million ($1.3 million) to 75 per cent from the current 41 per cent.

That plan was struck down by the highest court, but Budget Minister Jerome Cahuzac said Sunday that the government is reworking the law so the superrich will still be asked to pay an elevated rate. He said the government is also considering putting the new tax in place for longer

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Gerard Depardieu poses Sunday with his new Russian passport on a theatre stage, wearing a traditional folk outfit, after he arrived in the city of Saransk, 700 kilometres east of Moscow. than the two years initially imagined.

“I find it a bit pathetic that for tax reasons this man — whom by the way I admire infinitely as an actor — has decided to exile himself,’’ Cahuzac said.

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SANTIAGO, Chile — Chilean President Sebastian Pinera is meeting with his ministers to determine urgent measures in response to a deadly arson attack in the country’s south.

An elderly couple was burned alive in the remote southern region of Araucania on Friday while trying to defend their home. Their family’s vast landholdings had long been targeted by Mapuche Indians who

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Pinera flew to the scene, deployed hundreds of police agents and announced new security measures including the application of Chile’s tough anti-terrorism law.

Politicians over the weekend have been asking the president to declare a state of emergency for Araucania.

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