THURSDAY
FEBRUARY 14, 2013
Cranbrook’s Patterson to BC Hall of Fame
Tritons triumph in Red Deer, Surrey
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Cranbrook has an Olympian for 2014 See Friday’s Daily Townsman
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Liberal leadership candidate making EK visit BARRY CO ULTER
One of the high profile candidates for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada is making a stop in the riding of Kootenay-Columbia — in Cranbrook and Kimberley to be precise. Martha Hall Findlay will be making a visit on Sunday, Feb. 24. She will be
meeting with local party members and supporters at a luncheon at Ric’s Lounge and Grill in the Prestige Inn in Cranbrook and later Sunday at the Old Bauernhaus Restaurant in Kimberley. The public is also welcome to attend these events. Hall Findlay is a Canadian businesswoman, entrepreneur and lawyer from
Toronto. She was elected to Parliament as the Liberal candidate in the Toronto riding of Willowdale in a federal by-election in 2008. She was reelected in the 2008 general election but lost her seat in the 2011 election. She had previously been the party’s candidate for Newmarket-Aurora in the
2004 federal election, losing narrowly to Conservative Belinda Stronach, and was the first declared candidate for the Liberal Party leadership election to succeed Paul Martin in 2006. On November 14, 2012, she officially entered the 2013 leadership race. The candidates have been currently debating
each other in a series of forums around the country. On April 6, 2013, the Liberal Party will hold a “National Showcase” in Toronto, where voting will begin, using preferential ballot. On April 14, the voting will end, and the election result will be announced.
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Wear pink to the rink
Western Financial Place will be “electric” March 2 as school students, the Kootenay Ice and the community come together to promote acceptance SALLY MACDONALD Townsman Staff
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Cranbrook marks V-Day on Friday, Feb. 15, with a production of Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues.” Pictured above are some of the participants. Top row, left to right: Candice Bridge, Michelle McCue, Andrea Grossman, Jennifer Sterling Pierre, Tanya Laing Gahr (director). Front row, left to right: Carol Atherton, Susan Hanson, Danielle Nicholson. See more, Page 4.
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On Saturday, March 2, Western Financial Place will be filled with an atmosphere even more electric than during last month’s Tragically Hip concert. So says Laurie Middle School principal David Standing, who is helping organize a unique anti-bullying event during the Kootenay Ice game against Medicine Hat. Pink The Rink will see students from all of Cranbrook’s schools fill the arena, wearing pink to mark the anti-bullying movement Pink Shirt Day, which is February 27. The event coincides with a School Spirit Night for the Ice, and the game against Medicine Hat is set to be a momentous one.
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