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Who can plan Canada Day? July 1 in Limbo after Sunrise Rotary announces it can no longer organize annual celebration
SALLY MACDONALD Townsman Staff
Cranbrook may not have Canada Day celebrations this year. Sunrise Rotary notified the City of Cranbrook Leisure Services in December that it could no longer take on organizing the annual event. In recent years, the Canada Day party was held at Moir Park. There was live entertainment, vendors, and a giant birthday cake prepared by the Sam Steele youth ambassadors. The eve-
ning was capped off by a spectacular fireworks display. But the future of the celebration is up in the air after Cranbrook’s Sunrise Rotary Club decided not to plan the event this year. “The decision wasn’t taken lightly. I’ve been the main organizer on it for the past three years and it’s a great event,” said Frank Vanden Broek, past president of Sunrise Rotary. Planning for Canada Day involves applying for several grants, Van-
den Broek explained. Grants usually come from the City of Cranbrook, Columbia Basin Trust, and the federal Canadian Heritage – Celebrate Canada fund. But Vanden Broek said some of that allocation doesn’t come through until the last minute. “Some of the grants, we don’t know for sure whether we have received them or how much we have received until June,” he said.
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Security fright for breast cancer survivor Local woman upset that U.S. airport security patted her down despite a double mastectomy
SALLY MACDONALD Townsman Staff
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RETURN OF THE MAPLE MAN: Grade 1 students Hallie Harris and Sierra Daignault lead their class down the line of dancers at T.M. Roberts Elementary School on January 24. The students were visited by the Maple Man — René Turmel (far back against the wall), who told the students about traditional maple syrup harvesting and French Canadian culture. He later showed the students a few dance steps and finished things off with tasty maple taffy for every student.
A Cranbrook breast cancer survivor is crying foul after an experience at Spokane airport that has upset her deeply. Still undergoing chemotherapy, Lynn Haskin is recovering from her second battle with breast cancer, and she had a second mastectomy in November 2011. She is set to have breast reconstruction surgery next month Earlier in January, Lynn and her husband were travelling to Phoenix for a conference
from Spokane, Washington. Lynn was braced to go through airport security, she says. “They have full body scanners. I had heard about these scanners and how if you have a ‘void’ you may have to be patted down. So I wore a shirt with no bra so they could see that I didn’t have anything there,” Lynn says. However, after Lynn went through the scanner, a female Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer ap-
proached and said Lynn would have to submit to a pat-down. “I didn’t want to be patted down, that’s why I specifically didn’t wear a bra,” Lynn says. “I explained to her that I have had a mastectomy and there is nothing there. She said, ‘Well, it’s procedure. I have to pat you down.’ At this point in time, I really have no choice. I’m going somewhere, I have to be patted down obviously.”
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