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Heidi’s invites suggestions for new brewpub set to help revitalize downtown SA LLY MAC DONAL D Townsman Staff
Ladies and gentleman, don your thinking caps: it’s time to play NAME – THAT – PUB! Heidi Romich, owner of Heidi’s Restaurant in downtown Cranbrook, wants your idea for naming the new brewpub she and business partners Marlies Romich and David Beardsell hope to open this spring. Temporarily named The Black Dog Brewpub, the new development will replace Heidi’s Restaurant with a brewhouse and restaurant — a family friendly dining area on one side, and a restaurant and pub on the other side. Now, Heidi is asking the future patrons of the brewpub to help name it. Ideally, the name will combine an animal with local history and geography. First prize will receive a $250 gift certificate, as well as four “growlers” of the pub’s first brew.
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Bishop John Corriveau of the Diocese of Nelson and elder Annie Capilo of the Ktunaxa Nation take part in a Reconciliation Service at the conclusion of a 10 day Returning To Spirit workshop, bringing Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people together to address the residential school legacy. Thirtyfive participants gathered at the St. Eugene Golf Resort and Casino for a week in early November. Forty years ago, this building served as the St. Eugene Residential School, one of 18 in our province, closing in 1970. It was symbolically significant to conduct this workshop at the source where injustices were acknowledged and positive steps taken to begin the healing process.
RETURNING TO SPIRIT
The paths to reconciliation BARRY COULTER
A chapter in the process of reconciliation and healing between the Ktunaxa First Nation and the Diocese of Nelson over their mutual residential school history has concluded, opening up a new chapter in relations between the two groups. Returning To Spirit (RTS) is a series of workshops; the first for aborig-
inals, the second for non-aboriginals and a third — the Reconciliation Workshop — that brings the two groups together. The St. Eugene Residential School near Cranbrook was the only such school in the Diocese of Nelson, and one of 18 in British Columbia. Mary Richardson, Lay Pastoral Worker to the First Nations of the
East Kootenay for the Diocese of Nelson, explained the process. The first two workshops of Returning to Spirit (RTS) are exactly the same workshop, but given to each group separately. In these workshops the concept of residential school and how it affected the children who attended is brought to light within the workshop along with how such past experienc-
es of our own can also affect our lives. “We all carry baggage from our past and it is what happens to that baggage we carry into the present and into the future,” Richardson said. “In order to become the ‘real you’ you have to let go of the baggage that is weighing you down.
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