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CP Rail lays off 46 local staff S A L LY M AC D O N A L D Townsman Staff

The Cranbrook/Fort Steele division of Canadian Pacific has lost 46 running trade employees since the beginning of 2013 in a spate of layoffs.

The cuts represent 22 per cent of the running trade workforce – locomotive engineers, conductors and train men.

It does not include engineering, mechanical and management staff.

“Part of it is seasonal work ebbs and flows which occur every year,” said Kevin Hrysak, media relations manager for Canadian Pacific, based in Calgary.

“In and around

Cranbrook it is very commodity based. So if there is any fluctuation there when it comes to vacation and traffic flows it can have an impact, which is something that does occur every year.”

But Canadian Pacific is also undergoing an overhaul of its operations, Hrysak added.

“Also part of it is the reorganization of operations we are going through as a company altogether — changing around traffic patterns as part of our ongoing efficiency and productivity efforts,” said Hrysak.

No comment was provided by the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference before time of print.

CONSPIRACY TRIAL

Police agent Sidekick, BBBS show the power of pink admitted to murder BARRY COULTER

Left to right: Dana Osiowy and Carly Proudfoot of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Cranbrook, and Jason de Rijk of Sidekick Stickers, with funds raised from Sidekick’s sale of pink T-shirts.

B A R RY CO U LT E R

A local small business got involved in a big way with the recent anti-bullying campaign held in Cranbrook.

Sidekick Stickers created hundreds of pink T-shirts which were so in evidence during anti-bullying week.

Proceeds benefitted Big Brothers Big Sisters of Cranbrook (BBBS), who played a lead role in the campaign.

Jason de Rijk, who operates Sidekick Stickers, took on the project because of his admiration of the work that Big Brothers Big Sisters does.

Sidekick Stickers creates stickers, signs, T-shirts, and suchlike accoutrements.

De Rijk accordingly created and sold 310 pink T-shirts for the recent anti-bullying week. After costs, de Rijk donated the proceeds to BBBS.

The total came to $1,700, and the donation was made Wednesday at the BBBS offices downtown.

Dana Osiowy of BBBS Cranbrook explained that anti-bullying initiatives is one of the main outcomes of the work that the organization does. BBBS was involved in the recent anti-bullying campaign, using the theme of “Step Up To Strike Out Bully-

ing.” She added that Sidekick’s donation will be used in support of innovative programming like its teen-mentoring program, whereby Grade 12 students are matched with Grade 5 students.

For more information on Big Brothers Big Sisters of Cranbrook, call 250-4893111. To contact Sidekick Stickers, call 250-919-3807.

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A disclosure statement and an extensive interview with RCMP investigators in 2009 were supposed to canvass every illegal act a lifelong criminal who would become a police agent had ever committed.

But it wasn’t until 10 days before the murder conspiracy trial of three

Cranbrook men began last month that key Crown witness Garry Shank reported to police and a Crown prosecutor that he’d committed a murder.

Lonnie Adams, Colin Correia and Lorne Carry are on trial for conspiring to kill a drug rival in Cranbrook.

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A specialist moving to Cranbrook will receive a bonus for committing to a three-year stint The B.C. government is offering a $100,000 incentive to draw another anesthesiologist to Cranbrook in a program announced Wednesday, March 13.

In order to receive the bonus, the specialist would commit to a three-year stint at East Kootenay Regional Hospital. They would receive $50,000 upon arrival, and $50,000 after a year. The full amount would need to be returned if the anesthesiologist left before the three years was up.

But that’s not likely to be a problem, said John Kettle, chair of the Kootenay East Regional Hospital District board, who was pleased by the government announcement.

“We all know this is the best kept secret in North America. If people come here and see how we live, they don’t want to leave either. So if we can get them here, normally they want to stay,” said Kettle.

Kettle said he has first-hand experience of the need for extra physicians at Cranbrook’s hospital.

“Having just used the facility and gone through an operation at the hospital, I can tell you that any new addi-

“… Having worked as a family physician in rural B.C., I can tell you that there are many rewards to rural practice from a diverse practice to a unique connection with patients and families.”

Health Minister Margaret MacDiarmid

tion to our area and the hospital is great news for the people of the East Kootenay,” he said.

“Having a new anaesthesiologist added to the staff at the hospital is a win-win for everyone.”

The Rural Physicians for British Columbia incentive is a partnership between the Ministry of Health and the B.C. Medical Association (BCMA), developed by the Joint Standing Committee on Rural Issues.

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be a boost to many patients living in areas of the province that just don’t have enough physicians to take care of them,” said Dr. Shelley Ross, president of the BCMA. “The BCMA is committed to providing British Columbians with the highest standard of health care, so if we can make it more attractive for physicians to set up practice in rural areas, we should.”

Health Minister Margaret MacDiarmid, who was a physician in Rossland before entering politics, said there are many reasons for doctors to consider a career in a rural community.

“Helping to fill much-needed rural family physician and specialist positions not only benefits local families, but also provides additional support for physicians and other health-care professionals in the community,” MacDiarmid said. “We often hear about the challenges rural doctors face, but having worked as a family physician in rural B.C., I can tell you that there are many rewards to rural practice from a diverse practice to a unique connection with patients and families.”

This $100,000 incentive is in addition to others announced over the

“We all know this is the best kept secret in North America. If people come here and see how we live, they don’t want to leave either.”

John Kettle, chair of KERHD

past six months to entice physicians to rural areas. In October, the BCMA launched a program that would give family doctors in Cranbrook funds to hire a locum general practitioner with anesthesia training for up to 10 days a year to cover them on vacation or training breaks.

Last month, the government and BCMA began a program to forgive student debt for doctors who practice outside urban areas, and other inducements

to encourage graduating and foreign doctors to choose a rural community to live and work.

Cranbrook is one of 17 communities across B.C. to benefit from the $100,000 incentive. In Interior Health, there is incentives for two family doctors in Clearwater, one in Nakusp and one in Princeton. Northern Health is funded for five family doctors, an internist and an anesthesiologist. Vancouver Coastal is funded for two family doctors. Vancouver Island has five incentive placements: four family doctors and one emergency physician.

While Cranbrook is the only community in the East Kootenay to benefit from the incentive, John Kettle said he knows the need for rural doctors affects the whole province – even all of Canada.

“There is probably no rural area in this country that is overstaffed with general practitioners. It’s probably not going to get better, it’s going to get worse. So we need to be more effective with the people we have and more diligent in making sure that when we get a family doctor in a rural area that we keep them there and keep them happy,” said Kettle.

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Trial hears that Six-day trial set for dangerous RCMP agent driving causing death case admitted murder Continued from page 1 Shank testified earlier this month to signing on to become a police agent in the investigation, including wearing a recording device as he plotted with the three men.

On Tuesday, the head of the RCMP’s combined forces special enforcement unit in Kelowna, Staff Sgt. Cary Skrine, testified during cross-examination about the process of signing on Shank to become an agent.

Shank testified earlier in the trial he wanted to change his life and agreed to work with police. He’s a lifelong criminal who never held a job.

Unlike an informant or confidential source, police agents sign a contract agreeing to perform in scenarios directed by RCMP. Skrine said the process of signing on a police agent is an onerous one, involving detailed interviews and extensive police investigation to determine whether statements given in the interviews are true.

But Shank was never put through a police polygraph test before he became a police agent late in 2009, despite the insistence of one senior member.

Defence lawyer Jim Heller sent a memo to Skrine from another Mountie that said hiring Shank as a police agent couldn’t be done without a polygraph.

Skrine said he hadn’t seen that document.

Another defence lawyer, Don Campbell,

said Shank told police in the interview and disclosure late in 2009 that he’d never committed a murder.

“You’re aware he was adamant he didn’t commit a murder?” asked defence lawyer Don Campbell. “He said, ‘Go ahead and put me on a polygraph.’”

The senior Mountie agreed that Shank lied during his disclosure interviews with police, saying he’d never killed anyone.

“We didn’t detect a lie until he told us about it (before the trial),” Skrine said.

Because potential agents aren’t given their Charter rights, the admissions can’t be used in court. There is also an unwritten agreement that police will not use the incriminating statements to open an investigation and obtain other evidence.

But immunity is not granted, Skrine said.

Heller asked Skrine if police would have signed Shank on as an agent if he had disclosed the murder at the outset.

“Possibly it would have been a dilemma,” Skrine said.

No information about that killing was presented in court.

“I’m not 100 per cent sure how that would be handled,” he said. “If there was a police investigation, I’d want to pass it on, but it’s not in the spirit of the interview.”

The jury trial began in February and is slated to complete at the end of April.

Police release name of Marysville victim RCMP

On March 8, RCMP were called to a home in Marysville. Once inside they located a deceased male, who has been identified as Jordon Lenard Lomsnes, 47.

His girlfriend, Claudia Valarie De Assump-

cao (37), who resided in the home for a year, has been charged with Second Degree Murder.

De Assumpcao attended court in Cranbrook on March 12, where she was remanded in custody until March 18.

Kristian Rasmussen Invermere Valley Echo

A Vancouver man charged with four counts of dangerous driving causing death in connection with a July 22, 2011 collision between his tractor trailer and a Dodge camper van carrying a California family of four, made his third court appearance by proxy in Invermere Provincial court on Monday, March 11.

Acting as a representative for Jaswinder Singh Bagri, 41, and his lawyer Selwyn Russell Chamberlain, Buffy Blakley requested a Punjabi interpreter be present for the trial and noted that Mr. Chamberlain would be hiring his own forensic expert to analyze the crash.

Appearing for the Crown, Basil McCormick announced plans to use 10 civilian witnesses, a police expert in collisions and a police expert in forensics during the trial.

The defense estimated a seven-day trial, while the Crown requested five days.

Judge Ron Webb found the middle ground and set the trial for six days, which will likely be scheduled for a date in the spring of 2014.

The details surrounding the tragic events of July 22, 2011, began when Mr. Bagri drove his commercial vehicle, which

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A file photo shows the scene of a 2011 crash in Kootenay National Park near Radium Hot Springs, in which a family of four from California was killed. was towing an unloaded flatdeck B-train tractor trailer, southbound on Highway 93 through Kootenay National Park.

A Dodge camper towing a Suzuki SUV and carrying a family of four vacationing in B.C. from Palo Alto, California, was headed northbound near Olive Lake when Mr. Bagri lost

control of his vehicle. The semi trailer crossed the highway centerline and jackknifed directly into the path of the Dodge Camper.

The vacationing family were pinned against a highway guard rail by the impact of the semi trailer, which then ignited, trapping the family in the fire.

Robert Howard, 48, his wife Ana-Maria Dias, 50, and their two daughters Veronica, 9, and Samantha, 11, were killed in the fire.

Mr. Bagri has pleaded not guilty to all four counts. His next court appearance is scheduled for April 8 in Invermere Provincial Court to set a date for his trial.

BC Liberals say NDP involved in ‘kickback scheme’; NDP says accusation is a diversion C ARO LYN G RANT Daily Bulletin

BC Liberals, led by Kootenay East MLA and Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development Bill Bennett are crying foul over what they say is a leaked report from the Auditor General revealing that the NDP created a kickback scheme to funnel money from individual constituency office accounts to a secret account held in Victoria by the NDP Caucus.

Minister Bennett says the report came to him from a member of the media.

He says that money for constituency offices is held in trust

by MLAs and is intended, in accordance with the “Members Manual” to be used for the operations of an MLA office only.

Each NDP MLA agreed to

pay $200 per month into the secret fund, Bennett says, and that means that every NDP MLA agreed to short his or her constituents by $2,400 a year, money that should be used to serve constituents, helping them solve problems, to pay staff, rent premises, etc.

“This is a kickback scheme,” Bennett said. “This is a scheme that uses money that’s intended for constituency offices around this province ... your NDP MLA thought that it was okay to send back $200 a month to the caucus for politically partisan reasons, rather than using that money to look after your constituents.”

“All NDP MLAs have done this including Norm Macdonald,” said Columbia River Revelstoke BC Liberal candidate Doug Clovechok. “They have willingly taken $2,400 a year

since 2006 out of the monies they are given to run their constituency operations. Each had to sign off personally as they are the only ones that can approve the use of these monies and release them to the Party.”

Columbia River Revelstoke MLA Norm Macdonald doesn’t deny the existence of the account, and says the NDP asked the Legislative Comptroller if the account was allowed and were told it was.

“The fund was set up and it was intended for outreach in constituencies where language was an issue,” Macdonald said. “We pooled resources for things like Chinese New Year events. The fund paid someone to do translations and advise on communicating in a different language. It centralized resources.”

Macdonald says that although the Legislative Comptroller said the fund was okay, the Auditor General did not agree.

“He didn’t like funds being carried over year to year,” Macdonald said. “The fund was discontinued when the Auditor General didn’t agree with the comptroller.”

Bennett says the money was used to pay a political operative, one Gabrielle Yui, a former NDP candidate.

“This is a diversion from some very serious issues facing the BC Liberals,” Macdonald said. “First of all, the document isn’t leaked — this is something that was given to all members of the Legislature. For the BC Liberals, Mr. Bennett in particular, these are desperate times. They are trying to change the channel.”

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Women, families, children benefit from grant Province pledges $40,000 for Community Connections Society S a l ly M ac D o n a l d Townsman Staff

The Cranbrook Women’s Resource Centre, Cranbrook Family Connections and Kootenay Child Development Centre will share a $40,000 Community Gaming Grant this year.

Gwen Noble, executive director of Community Connections Society of Southeast BC, which runs all three programs, accepted the grant on Tuesday, March 12 from Koote-

nay East MLA Bill Bennett.

“Community Connections Society is very grateful to be the recipient of a Community Gaming Grant again this year for the Cranbrook Women’s Resource Centre. We were pleased to also learn that our application for Cranbrook Family Connections and the Kootenay Child Development Centre was supported as well with a grant.

“These grants will help to ensure sustain-

ability for these vital hubs of services in our community.

“We need to say a big thank you to MLA Bill Bennett for his advocacy and support in this regard. Mr. Bennett has always seen the value in the services provided through these community hubs and the work being done by our agency and staff. His advocacy in bringing forward the needs of the community to the province has once again resulted in a posi-

tive benefit to this region,” said Noble.

MLA Bennett said the society plays an important role in the community.

“The Community Connections Society of Southeast BC has provided years of support, placing our community at the forefront of their agenda. I am very pleased to see this dedicated organization receive $40,000, so they can continue to meet the increasing demand on their services.”

Bill Bennett, MLA for Kootenay East, and Gwen Noble, executive director of Community Connections Society of B.C., in Cranbrook.

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Kootenay snow pack 90 per cent of normal CAROLYN GR ANT Daily Bulletin

Despite a drier than normal January and February, snow pack levels in the Kootenays remain 89 to 90 per cent of normal. This infor-

mation is according to the latest snow survey from the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operation’s River Forecast Centre.

Additionally, though

snow levels are down from high years in 2011 and 2012, they are higher than levels were in 2009 and 2010 when levels were recorded at 75 per cent of normal.

The report states that

February had wetter than normal conditions on Vancouver Island and in the South Coast, Upper Fraser, North Columbia, South Coast and Lower Fraser. However the southern por-

tion of the interior of the province had drier than normal conditions.

Overall, monthly average temperatures were typically plus two degrees above normal through most areas of the province, and some stations in northern B.C. (e.g. Chetwynd, Mackenzie, Atlin) reached monthly average temperatures that were six to eight degrees above normal.

Due to frontal weather systems that occurred through February, snow basin indices increased through the Upper Fraser, Middle Fraser, South Thompson and Peace regions. Due to drier conditions in southern B.C., snow basin indices decreased in the

Similkameen and Kootenay. March 1 snow basin indices are near normal (90-110 per cent) through the majority of the province. In the Okanagan-Kettle, South Thompson and South Coast, snow basin indices are moderately elevated (110-115 per cent).

Snow basin indices are slightly below normal (90 per cent) in the Nechako, Middle Fraser, Similkameen and Skeena-Nass basins.

As far as flooding is concerned, the River Forecast Centre expects a normal freshet through most of the province.

By this date, the report says, generally about 80 per cent of the annual B.C. snow pack

has accumulated.

At this point there are some indications of an increased likelihood of wetter and cooler weather over the remainder of the snow accumulation season, including a forecasted wetter storm cycle through mid-March.

This suggests that a modest increase in snow pack levels is likely through the remainder of the season.

However given that we are in the latter stages of the accumulation season, the development of very heavy snow packs is unlikely for most regions of the province, and would require significant and persistent storm cycles to occur.

RCMP seek hit and run witnesses Submitted

The Kimberley RCMP are asking for assistance from the public

regarding a hit and run that occurred sometime late afternoon Monday, March 11, 2013 in the

City of Kimberley

Playfield alloCation Meeting March 27th, 2013 at 7:00 pm Aquatic Centre Meeting Room All organizations/groups (baseball, soccer, football, rugby, volleyball, frisbee, concerts, movies, Julyfest, festivals, events, etc.), requesting to utilize the City of Kimberley Playfields in 2013 are to attend the Playfield Allocation Meeting.

Any questions please call the Operations Desk at 250-427-9660.

intersection of the alley ays behind Moyie St. and 4th Ave. in Townsite.

The suspect vehicle struck the concrete foundation of a residential carport, causing damage to the structure, then left the scene without stopping.

Evidence left at the scene indicates the vehicle is light blue in color and likely sustained considerable damage to the passenger side front end.

Anyone who may have witnessed this or has information with respect to this incident is being asked to contact the Kimberley RCMP or Crimestoppers.

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Worms of Burgess provide missing link Discovery pushes fossil record back 200 million years Submit ted by parks c anada

Canada’s 505 million year-old Burgess Shale fossil beds, located in Yoho National Park two and a half hours north of Cranbrook, have yielded yet another major scientific discovery — this time with the unearthing of a strange phallus-shaped creature.

A study that was published online in the journal Nature on March 13 confirms Spartobranchus tenuis is a member of the acorn worms, seldom-seen animals that thrive today in the fine sands and mud of shallow and deeper waters.

Acorn worms — also known as enteropneusts — are themselves part of the hemichordates, a group of marine animals closely related to today’s sea stars and sea urchins.

“Unlike animals with teeth and bones, these spaghetti-shaped creatures were soft-bodied, so the fossil record for them is extremely scarce,” said lead author Dr. Jean-Bernard Caron, associate professor of earth sciences and ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Toronto and curator of invertebrate paleontology at the Royal Ontario Museum.

“Our analysis of Spartobranchus tenuis, a creature previously unknown to science, pushes the fossil record of the acorn worms back by 200 million years and fundamentally changes our understanding of evolution from this period.”

Since their discovery in the 19th century, some of the biggest questions in hemichordate evolution have focused on the group’s origins and the relationship between its two main branches: the enteropneusts and pterobranchs.

Enteropneusts and pterobranchs look very different, yet share many genetic and developmental characteristics that reveal an otherwise unexpected close relationship.

“Spartobranchus tenuis represents a crucial missing link that serves not only to connect the two main hemichordate

groups but helps to explain how an important evolutionary transformation was achieved,” added Caron. “Our study suggests that primitive enteropneusts developed a tubular structure — the smoking gun — which has been retained over time in modern pterobranchs.”

Hemichordates also share many of the same characteristics as chordates — a group of animals that includes humans — with the name hemichordate roughly translating to ‘half a chordate.’

Spartobranchus tenuis probably fed on small particles of matter at the bottom of the oceans.

“There are literally thousands of specimens at the Walcott Quarry in Yoho National Park, so

it’s possible Spartobranchus tenuis may have played an important role in recycling organic matter in the early Burgess Shale environment, similar to the ecological service provided by earth worms today on land,” said Caron.

Detailed analysis suggests Spartobranchus tenuis had a flexible body consisting of a short proboscis, collar and narrow elongate trunk terminating in a bulbous structure, which may have served as an anchor. The largest complete specimens examined were 10 centimetres long with the proboscis accounting for about half a centimetre. A large proportion of these worms were preserved in tubes, of which some were branched, suggesting the tubes were used as a

Reconstruction by Marianne Collins

Spartobranchus tenuis from the Burgess Shale: individual specimens are pictured within and outside their tubes. dwelling structure.

The Spartobranchus tenuis research team also includes Simon Conway Morris of the University of Cambridge and Christopher B. Cameron of the Université de Montréal.

This study adds to a recent string of Burgess Shale discoveries. Last year Caron and Conway

Morris published a well-publicized study on Pikaia, believed to be one of the planet’s first human relatives.

Managed by Parks Canada in Yoho National Park, the Burgess Shale was recognized in 1981 as one of Canada’s first UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Now protected under the larger

Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Burgess Shale attracts thousands of visitors to Yoho National Park each year for guided hikes to the restricted fossil beds from July to September.

“The Burgess Shale is definitely the Stanley Cup of fossils, and this discovery is a major

score,” said Alex Kolesch, Parks Canada’s manager responsible for the Burgess Shale. “You can literally find and touch hundreds of these creatures on a guided hike to the Burgess Shale.”

To learn more about the Burgess Shale visit: www.burgess-shale. rom.on.ca

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Luck, you’re one mean lady

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SALLY MACDONALD

ee that couple over there, on the right?

They seem pretty average, don’t you think? The guy looks like a bit of a grouch, to be honest, but aside from that – nothing remarkable, right?

Wrong. That is Phoenix couple Diane and Kerry Carmichael, and they have just won the lottery for the second time.

Yes. That’s right. Twice.

Back in 1995, the Carmichaels won $2.5 million in the Arizona Lottery, and the world rejoiced right along with them.

But then, last week, they won another $1 million in the Powerball. The same couple. Who were already millionaires.

For starters, I can’t decide if people who win the lottery should graciously bow out and not enter anymore, or if they should continue to enter because they can afford to put back into the kitty for the next winners.

Anyway, it doesn’t matter, because I don’t like them. Especially because Mrs. Carmichael, our gal Diane, said this to a reporter at azfamily.com: “Good things come in threes. Two down, one to go!”

Well now.

They are still receiving $125,000 a year as the proceeds from the first win. The retired couple plans to speak to a financial planner now that they have another $1 million in the kitty.

If there’s any justice, the planner will tell them to invest in gramophones. No, that’s mean of me. Fax machines.

Diane and Kerry Carmichael of Phoenix, lucky so-and-sos (grumble grumble).

The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was, unfortunately, the first time I gambled upon reaching the legal age.

My friend and I went to a casino and each put a measly $5 into the slot machines. She lost it all; I walked out with $90.

It was a terrible lesson to learn, and it was probably for the best that the next time I gambled, expecting to win 18 times what I put in, I lost $20. I was so disappointed, I’ve never gambled since.

Luck can be a fickle beauty, can’t she?

First she giveth, then she taketh away.

Except if you’re the Carmichaels. Then she giveth and bloody giveth again.

So I was feeling some fairly negative thoughts about Lady Luck this week when I stumbled upon a frankly lovely story about two Iowa friends who had an encounter with luck last week.

Abbey Donohue, 29, was having a look on Facebook and saw that her friend of four years, Paula O’Brien, had posted a link

to an article about her niece, who had been given up for adoption 29 years ago.

“On Sept. 19, 1983, my very first niece was born and given up for adoption. I know it wasn’t an easy decision for my brother to make, but it was the right one for that baby girl,” Paula posted.

Abbey did a double take. She was adopted — and that was her birthday.

“I was like, ‘Oh my god, it’s me’,” Abbey told the Quad-City Times.

Indeed it was. Paula’s brother, who has a different last name, and his then-girlfriend gave their baby up for adoption in 1983, when Paula was 11 years old.

Some 25 years later, Paula makes a friend at a party. She and Abbey have a lot in common, and people even comment that they look a bit alike.

A chance comment four years later leads Abbey to the biological family she never knew.

Although she said she hadn’t felt the need to find them, she’s pleased now and their bond is like sisters, Paula said.

So you see, Luck can be kind of sweet sometimes, turning up a connection no one knew was there. Bringing people closer together. Making lives better.

And I suppose, Luck made life better for the bloody Carmichaels too. I say begrudgingly.

But I tell ya, if they win another lottery, I am going to hit the roof.

Especially if Kerry still refuses to smile about it.

Sally MacDonald is a reporter at the Cranbrook Daily Townsman.

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Saving a literary culture from the trash

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e was becoming very good at There just didn’t seem to be any. The only jumping into dumpsters. lead he had was news of a rabbi who had In the late 1970s, Aaron Lansky recently died, leaving behind 900 Yiddish was on a mission. The McGill graduate books. Yet when Lansky inquired about student was riding his bike all over Mon- them, he was told they had all been shredtreal and parts of Massachusetts, looking ded. He contacted Jewish centres and for books — ones written in Yiddish. His synagogues all over North America, but hunt began in 1976, when Lansky was virtually all said any books written in Yiddish had been shredded, writing his Master’s theburned, buried, or thrown sis on the author Mendaway. le Moykher Sforim.

Thus the dumpster diving.

Sforim’s 1884 novel, Surprisingly, Lanksy’s ‘The Little Man,’ was the BOOKNOTES scavenging produced exvery first modern novel written entirely in YidMike Selby traordinary results. In just over half a year, Lansky had dish. filled his apartment — and Yiddish was the language spoken by European Jews from 900 his parents’ house — with thousands and to 1900 AD. Hebrew was the language thousands of Yiddish books. Knowing he used for reading and writing. World War II couldn’t continue this way, he was struck practically erased Yiddish. While Stalin with the idea of housing them in a Nationkilled off the Yiddish writers, Hitler killed al Yiddish Book Center.

Lansky donned a suit and visited every off the writers and their readers. The creation of Israel made Hebrew the official major Jewish organization across the spoken language and any natural speak- States, asking each one for funding. All of ers of Yiddish didn’t teach it to their chil- them turned him down.

“Stop wasting your time” was the unidren or grandchildren.

To better understand Sforim’s work, versal response Lansky was given. “YidLansky felt he needed to learn this almost dish is a dead language; a sinking ship.” dead language, but at the time, not one He was also told to do something importpost-secondary institution in North ant with his life, like visit Israel.

So in 1979, Lansky (now 24) opened up America taught it. He finally found a professor at the University of Massachusetts the National Yiddish Book Exchange by (a professor of Spanish) who not only himself. It was located on the top floor of knew Yiddish, but agreed to teach Lansky. a dilapidated factory in Amherst, which Lansky commuted 500 km once a week he shared with two artisan potters and a for two years for his lessons. His tuition woman who sold goat’s milk. Using a barely functional manual typewriter, Lanwas simply a bottle of good wine.

The only thing less available to Lansky sky hammered out a press release to anthan Yiddish teachers were Yiddish books. nounce his centre’s opening.

The first call he got was from Leon Uris’s father William. “I have 300 Yiddish books in immaculate condition. How do I get them to you?” The second call was from Marjorie Guthrie, the widow of folksinger Woody. Marjorie, whose mother was Aliza Greenblatt—a Yiddish poet— wanted to know if Lansky was “interested in a collection of books which came from my family?”

And the books came and came, and soon financial donations as well. In 1989, Yale University purchased 10,000 books from the centre, to be used in their new Yiddish language studies program. Also in that year, Lansky received the MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant award, for his efforts in cultural preservation.

All this success meant Lansky could no longer hunt for books himself — but he had plenty of volunteers. One was Jacob Schaefer — a holocaust survivor who drove around in a beat-up Chevy Nova hunting for discarded Yiddish books. He has mailed Lansky just over 40,000 volumes.

In 1997 the centre moved to a brand new building adjacent to Hampton College. The new building was much needed, as Lansky had acquired 1.5 million Yiddish books. The centre currently provides books for 600 research libraries in 26 countries. In 2009 the centre digitized its holdings, ironically making Yiddish “proportionally the most in-print literature on the planet.”

Mike Selby is Reference Librarian at the Cranbrook Public Library

The Najibullah Syndrome “Y esterday’s bombings (in Afghanistan) in the name of the Taliban were aimed at serving the foreigners and supporting the presence of the foreigners in Afghanistan and keeping them in Afghanistan by intimidating us,” said Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai on Sunday. What on Earth could he have meant by that?

The “foreigners” he is talking about are the troops from the United States and various NATO countries in Europe that have been in Afghanistan for the past dozen years. They will almost all be gone by the end of next year. Can Karzai seriously think that the Taliban bombs in Kabul and Khost last Saturday, which killed 19 people, were meant to get the Americans, British, Germans, et al, to keep their soldiers in Afghanistan longer?

If he were the leader of al-Qaeda, you can imagine him saying that. It was always al-Qaeda’s goal to get Western military forces entangled in military occupations in the Muslim world, in the belief that that would nurture popular hostility both to the West and to the local leaders who collaborated with it. But Karzai IS a collaborator, parachuted into Afghanistan after the American invasion in 2001.

He may have won the first presidential election in 2005 legitimately, but by the second election in 2009 he has so unpopular that he was only re-elected thanks to massive vote-rigging, tacitly condoned by the United States. And when the Americans leave, he had better leave with them.

So what is all this nonsense about the Taliban bombs being an attempt to persuade the “foreigners” that they have to stay, and to “intimidate” Karzai and his cronies into letting them stay? It can best be explained as a manifestation of the “Najibullah syndrome”.

Najibullah was the Communist leader who Gwynne ruled Afghanistan during the latter stages of the SoviDyer et occupation and immediately after the Russians left.

When the Taliban finally took Kabul in 1996, he was tortured, castrated, dragged through the streets behind a truck, and then hanged from a traffic light. It can be safely assumed that Karzai and his cronies, when they contemplate the forthcoming American departure, are acutely aware of this precedent.

This leads to various flailing attempts by members of the regime to distance themselves from the American occupation forces who originally boosted them into power. Karzai has been increasingly vocal in criticising the NATO forces in Afghanistan, as if he had nothing to do with their presence in the country, and didn’t owe his presidency to them.

Let’s deconstruct that remarkable statement of Karzai’s. The message is that he is an Afghan patriot who is trying to make the “foreigners” go home, whereas the Taliban are trying to keep the Americans and their NATO allies in the country to further their own nefarious purposes. It makes no sense whatever, but what else can he say? That the Taliban are winning, the Americans are

getting out, and he is doomed?

This is not to say that the Taliban will overrun all of Afghanistan after the NATO forces leave. They will undoubtedly gain control of the Pashtun-majority south and east, and they will probably take Kabul.

They didn’t gain control of the Tajik, Hazara and Uzbek minority regions in the north of the country last time, and they may not do so after this bunch of foreigners leave either.

The likeliest post-occupation outcome in Afghanistan, therefore, is a reversion to the situation that prevailed there before 2001. Karzai will either leave or be tortured and killed, as will most of his senior collaborators. Pakistan will be the dominant influence in Taliban-controlled parts of the country, and the minorities will have to fend for themselves.

If this is the final outcome, what have the “foreigners” been doing in the country for the past twelve years? Several thousand of their soldiers have been killed, hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent, and things will be about the same after they leave as they were before they arrived – apart from the al-Qaeda terrorist training camps, which were dealt with before the end of 2001.

For the NATO alliance, which has been searching for a new role ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Afghan operation at least helped to justify its enormous budget. For the U.S., it never made sense from any point of view. And for Afghanistan, it was merely the continuation of a disaster now more than 30 years old.

Gwynne Dyer is a London-based independent journalist.

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UPCOMING Thurs. Mar 14: Get ready for the May 2013 General Election. Make sure you are on the Voters List. Voter registration will take place at Overwaitea Foods between 1:30 pm and 7:30 pm.

OPEN HOUSE – You are cordially invited to attend the 40th Anniversary Celebration of the Charter of Cranbrook First Toastmasters in the Lecture Theatre, College of the Rockies, 7-9 pm, Thursday March 14. No charge for this event. RSVP Elizabeth at 489-5013 or email ef5013@shaw.ca MARCH 16 SOCIAL DANCE, held at the Cranbrook Seniors HALL on 2nd St. South, with music provided by The Don Davies Quartet. Come out from 7-11 with friends and family for ‘ A Wee Bit of Song, a Wee Bit of Fun’. Light lunch served. 250.489.2720.

March 16 St. Patricks Dance - Proceeds to the Kimberley Soccer Assoc. 8:30pm - 1:00am Featuring Hardwater, D.J. Traxx and John John the Leprechaun.

Luck o’ the Irish, Saint Patrick’s Spring Tea. Sat March 16/13. Serving dainty sandwiches and sweets. Bake Sale. 1-3 pm. Catholic Church Hall. Everyone welcome!

St. Patrick’s Tea & Bake Sale, March 16, 1-3 pm (new hours) Senior Citizens Hall Br. 11, 125-17th Ave S., Cranbrook. Info: Judy, 426-2436.

March 17 St Patty’s Fun Spiel Novice curlers tournament. 10 teams of four. Prizes for best dresses person & best dressed team. Pizza party & presentations to follow at the Elks Club. FMI 250-427-2343.

March 18, 7:00 pm Cranbrook Garden Club meeting in the hall of the Christ Church Anglican. Come out and join us - new members always welcome. Call April 778-517-1222.

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Anglican Church Annual Yard Sale, Saturday Mar 23, 9am-noon.

Centennial Hall, 46-13 Ave. S., Cranbrook.

Spring has sprung craft fair, Saturday, March 23rd, 10am-4pm.

Cranbrook Community Living Centre - corner of 14th Ave S and 1st St. S. Lots of vendors and a cafe.

Fraternal Order of Eagles Ladies Auxiliary Pancake Breakfast, Sunday March 24, 8:30 - 11:00 a.m. 711 Kootenay St., Cranbrook.

All proceeds to Kidney Foundation.

Municipal Pension Retirees’ Association meeting, 11:00 am, Monday, Mar 25, Heritage Inn, 803 Cranbrook St. 11:30 am Guest speakers: Barb & Daryl Houser, Purple Shield Funeral Planning. No Host Luncheon, 12:00.

ONGOING Cranbrook’s Bibles for Missions Thrift Store thanks you for your support. 824 Kootenay St. N. Open 10-5, Tues-Sat. A great place to save or volunteer.

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Canadian Cancer Society- if you have spare time and would like to volunteer, interested applicants can call 250-4268916, drop by our office at #19-9th Avenue S, Cranbrook or go to www.fightwithus.ca and register as a volunteer.

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

Kindergarten boosters are available for children between the ages of 4 and 6 years at the Cranbrook Health Unit. For an appointment call 250 420-2207.

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.

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Ice fall 4-2 to Hurricanes TRE VOR CR AWLEY Sports Editor

The Hurricanes opted for some revenge on Wednesday night with a 4-2 victory over the Kootenay Ice in Lethbridge, as they have been relegated to play the role of spoiler following their elimination from the playoffs in Cranbrook on Tuesday.

The Ice were able to climb out from a twogoal deficit, however, the ‘Canes scored a pair of goals within three minutes in the final frame to jump ahead for the lead and the win.

Sam Reinhart and Luke Philp provided the scoring for the Ice, while Tyler Wong, Jamal Watson, Graham Hood and Lenny Hackman got the

goals for Lethbridge.

Mackenzie Skapski had the night off as Wyatt Hoflin got his first start since the end of January in net for Kootenay, making 34 saves, while Christopher Tai got the call for the Hurricanes, making 27 stops for the win.

“He started good early on, but the consistency wasn’t there, however, as a group, we didn’t help him out either,” said Ice assistant coach Chad Kletzel.

Hudson Elynuik, a Midget AAA prospect who is spending the week with his WHL club, appeared in his second consecutive game. Brock Montgomery was a healthy scratch, while Zach McPhee (upper

body) and Levi Cable (lower body) are still out with injuries.

Tanner Muth left the game after the first period, and will get a full assessment on Thursday.

Both teams held each other scoreless after the first period, but the ‘Canes pulled ahead with two goals in the middle frame.

Tyler Wong—like the night before at Western Financial Place in Cranbrook—opened the scoring with a backhand rebound that sailed over Hoflin’s glove. With two minutes remaining in the period, Jamal Watson fired a shot off a faceoff in the Kootenay zone that snuck by the Kootenay netminder.

The Ice managed to

light the goal lamp with 12 seconds left on the clock when Philp finished on a passing play between Jaedon Descheneau and Jagger Dirk with the man-advantage to chip away at the deficit.

Reinhart was able to get a deflection off a shot from Dirk on another powerplay in the third period to even up the scoring at 2-2.

Less than two minutes after Reinhart’s goal, the ‘Canes pulled ahead when Hood beat Hoflin on a backdoor play during a Lethbridge poweprlay.

Hackman notched his first career WHL goal near the halfway mark to round out the scoring for the game.

Prospect getting a taste of WHL life TRE VOR CR AWLEY Sports Editor

It was a dream come true for Hudson Elynuik on Tuesday night, as the 15-year-old donned a Kootenay Ice uniform and played in his first career WHL game against the Lethbridge Hurricanes.

Elynuik, the thirdround selection by the Ice in the 2012 WHL Bantam Draft, made the trip from Calgary to

slide into the lineup, which is missing Zach McPhee and Levi Cable to injuries.

Elynuik, wearing No. 16, took Cable’s spot alongside Luke Philp and Brock Montgomery, and got rewarded with an assist on Montgomery’s goal in the second period.

“It was a great play, too,” said Elynuik. “Me and Philly were just forechecking and I

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The Keeler family would like to send out a huge thank you to all who made Care For Keelers such a special night. Thank you to all who come out, the businesses and individuals that generously donated to the silent auction, Connect Church and the community of Cranbrook for their generous donations given to our benefit to help raise money for our family. A huge thank you to Don Kennedy, Kathy Shuflita and all of the volunteers for spending many hours organizing and planning the whole event. A special thank you to Frank Hackett, Joel Purdy and Sarah Marriott for being the hosts of the event. And we can’t say enough about the incredible entertainment provided by some amazing local talent! Thank you Lysergic Mojo, Trena Spears, the Connect Band and the Good Ol’ Goats. You all truly made it a special night!

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poked to the puck to Philp, and he passed it out to Montgomery, and he shot, got the rebound and buried.”

Elynuik, who has been playing Midget AAA with the Calgary Flames in the AMHL, arrived in Cranbrook on Sunday and will be with the club up until Saturday’s final regular season game.

It’s been a week of watching and learning, he said.

“It’s a huge step from Midget, it’s way faster, big guys out there, way faster pace, harder passes—the

next level to making it to the big leagues or better,” Elynuik said.

Kootenay Ice general manager Jeff Chynoweth got together with his head coach Ryan McGill and head scout Garnet Kazuik to make a decision on bringing up a player.

“We are short bodies,” said McGill, after Tuesday’s game. “He’s a big kid, and his season’s over. This still is about developing players and getting your young guys in to see what they can do and I thought he was fine tonight.”

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PROUD RESULTS: Six members of the Rocky Mountain Dojo competed at the Calgary Cup Kyokushin Karate Tournament March 2nd 2013.

Accompanying the competitors from the Rocky Mountain Dojo were Shihan Don Corrigal; two coaches; family members of the competitors and four senior belts assisted with officiating. The Rocky Mountain Dojo placed third in the team standings. The members of the Rocky Mountain Dojo are looking forward to attending the 30th Canadian Kyokushin Karate Tournament in Vancouver May 4th, 2013. Pictured above: Back row – Wendy McBride bronze; Seri-Anna Schroh silver.

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Celtics rout Raptors 112-88 ASSOCIATED PRESS

BOSTON - Kevin Garnett scored 12 points, passing Jerry West for 15th on the NBA’s career scoring list, and Paul Pierce joined him among the top 20 scorers in league history with 15 points as the Boston Celtics beat the Toronto Raptors 112-88 on Wednesday night.

Garnett needed four points to pass West (25,192 points) and Pierce entered the game nine points shy of tying Charles Barkley (23,757) for 20th.

Garnett hit a bank shot with 10:03 left in the second quarter and received a standing ovation when his milestone was announced during a stoppage a few minutes later. Boston fans returned to their feet again

in the third to recognize Pierce, who responded with a salute back to the crowd.

It was a short night for Boston’s 30-something stars, who were resting comfortably on the bench through the fourth quarter as their teammates finished off the Raptors.

Jeff Green scored 20 to lead the Celtics, who ended a two-game slide and won their 10th straight at home. Jason Terry and Jordan Crawford added 12 points apiece, while Brandon Bass and Avery Bradley both scored 11 for Boston.

Rudy Gay had 19 points and DeMar DeRozan added 17 points for the Raptors, who have lost seven of nine. Terrence Ross

scored 13 for the Raptors, who got within four points before Boston blew it open in the third quarter.

After falling behind by 13 early in the third, Toronto scored nine straight to get right back in it. DeRozan scored 12 in the period, including a three-point play with 6:04 left that pulled Toronto within 60-56.

Pierce answered with four straight to start Boston on a 14-4 run.

Bradley hit a jumper to put Boston up 66-58, then stole a pass and took it in for a layup.

Terry added a 3-pointer to end the run, giving Boston a 74-60 lead. The Celtics closed the period on a 21-6 run, leading 81-62 entering the fourth and making it a short night for Garnett.

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Minor lacrosse gearing up for new season Tre vor Cr awley Sports Editor

Snow may still be on the ground, but the Cranbrook Minor Lacrosse Association is gearing up for their new season, as registration runs up into the first week of April.

Minor lacrosse president Tammy Tait said that registration is up, as the tykes have nearly three teams, while the midget division has enough players to field a squad this year.

“The final numbers aren’t in because we’re still doing registration up until April 8th, but we have a team in each division for the first time in several years,” said Tait.

“Our midgets are looking really good this year and we grew an entire team.”

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Perry suspended four games for late hit on Wild’s Zucker C anadian Press

NEW YORK - Anaheim Ducks forward Corey Perry has been suspended for four games for elbowing Minnesota Wild forward Jason Zucker in the head.

Zucker was helped off the ice after the late hit in the second period of the Ducks’ 2-1 win over the Wild on Tuesday. He did not return.

Perry was assessed a major penalty for interference and a game misconduct on the play. He will forfeit US$115,135.12 in salary The incident occurred when Perry dipped his shoulder and threw an elbow at Zucker’s head, sending him crashing into the corner boards. Zucker stayed down on the ice for about five minutes as he was helped by trainers.

The league said it accepted Perry’s assertion that he did not intend to hurt Zucker, but said the hit was reckless and avoidable.

April 8th, but games will begin at the end of the month, as each age division competes in the Southern Alberta Lacrosse Associaiton (SALA), except for the tykes, who play only in Cranbrook.

“It’s so great for the club because it’s developmental, they don’t travel at tykes, so its a great opportunity for people to try lacrosse without the commitment of travelling,” Tait said.

A treat for the association will be new jerseys through sponsorships with local businesses.

Teck normally has provided medals for an annual tournament, but this year, Tait was given the choice of medals or jerseys.

She opted for new jer-

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seys, which come with new logos, and a full set will be provided to each team in every age division, some of which have never had the luxury.

The youngest team— the tykes—especially needed some jerseys, as they had been using a set that were a little too big.

“Our tykes looked like little ghosts running around on the floor,” laughed Tait.

A few players have a chance to make an impact at the provincial level, as two bantams and three midgets are heading off to the B.C. interior for a chance to make Team B.C. and compete on a national stage.

The season will wrap up with the annual Chris Watson Memorial Tournament in July.

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CLEANING UP THE COMPETITION: The Cranbrook Eagles Boxing Club competed in Spokane this past weekend for the Inland Northwest Boxing Championships. Fighters Dylan Clarke and Shannon Ryan won their championship bouts and Gage Duthie won uncontested. Ryan also received the nod for Best Novice Boxer Award.

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Argentine Jorge Bergoglio elected Pope Francis Nicole Winfield Associated Press

VATICAN CITY — Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina was elected pope Wednesday and chose the name Francis, becoming the first pontiff from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium.

Looking stunned, Francis shyly waved to the crowd of tens of thousands of people who gathered in St. Peter’s Square, marveling that the cardinals needed to look to “the end of the earth’’ to find a bishop of Rome.

In choosing a 76-year-old pope, the cardinals clearly decided that they didn’t need a vigorous, young pope who would reign for decades but rather a seasoned, popular pastor who would draw followers to the faith. The cardinal electors overcame deep divisions to select the 266th pontiff in a remarkably fast, five-ballot conclave.

Francis asked for prayers for himself, and for retired Pope Benedict XVI, whose surprising resignation paved the way for the conclave that brought the first Jesuit to the papacy.

“Brothers and sisters, good evening,’’ Francis said to wild cheers in his first public remarks as pontiff.

“You know that the work of the conclave is to give a bishop to

Rome. It seems as if my brother cardinals went to find him from the end of the earth. Thank you for the welcome.’’

Bergoglio had reportedly finished second in the 2005 conclave that produced Benedict — who last month became the first pope to resign in 600 years.

After announcing “Habemus Papam’’ — “We have a pope!’’ — a cardinal standing on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday revealed the identity of the new pontiff, using his Latin name.

The longtime archbishop of Buenos Aires has spent nearly his entire career at home in Argentina, overseeing churches and shoe-leather priests.

Like other Jesuit intellectuals, Bergoglio has focused on social outreach. Catholics are still buzzing over his speech last year accusing fellow church officials of hypocrisy for forgetting that Jesus Christ bathed lepers and ate with prostitutes.

In a lifetime of teaching and leading priests in Latin America, which has the largest share of the world’s Catholics, Bergoglio has also shown a keen political sensibility as well as the kind of self-effacing humility that fellow cardinals value highly, according to his official biographer, Sergio

Rubin.

Tens of thousands of people who braved cold rain to watch the smokestack atop the Sistine Chapel jumped in joy when white smoke poured out a few minutes past 7 p.m., many shouting “Habemus Papam!’’ or “We have a pope!’’ — as the bells of St. Peter’s Basilica and churches across Rome pealed.

Elected on the fifth ballot, Francis was chosen in one of the fastest conclaves in years, remarkable given there was no clear front-runner going into the vote and that the church had been in turmoil following the upheaval unleashed by Pope Benedict XVI’s surprise resignation.

A winner must receive 77 votes, or two-thirds of the 115, to be named pope.

For comparison’s sake, Benedict was elected on the fourth ballot in 2005 — but he was the clear front-runner going into the vote.

Pope John Paul II was elected on the eighth ballot in 1978 to become the first non-Italian pope in 455 years.

The Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said it was a “good hypothesis’’ that the pope would be installed next Tuesday, on the feast of St. Joseph, patron saint of the universal church.

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Crowds gather in St. Peter’s Square to wait for the election of a new pope at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 13, 2013.

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Calgary zookeeper axed for not closing door on gorillas Bill Gr avel and Canadian Press

CALGARY — A zookeeper has been shown the door after being found responsible for the escape of some gorillas at the Calgary Zoo. Last Friday, several western lowland apes — which can weigh as much as 270 kilograms

— got into what is known as the gorilla kitchen from their enclosure in the rainforest exhibit.

The zoo says a review of what happened determined a keeper, who received a minor injury during a confrontation with one of the gorillas, failed to properly latch a door.

“There could have been terribly tragic consequences,’’ said curator Malu Celli.

“The keeper responsible no longer works at the zoo.

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ust past Europe and not as far as Asia you’ll find the Aegean, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. The country you will find is Turkey, a country known to be the start of ancient civilizations, empires and endless legends.

Turkey is a blending of influences – East meets West, and North marries South. Turkey over-delivers any traveller’s wish-list of history, culture, outdoor adventure, geology, shopping, and beach time.

Start your journey in Istanbul where you can easily spend four or five days exploring this cosmopolitan city once called Constantinople. Not to be missed is the iconic Blue Mosque, and neighbouring Hagia Sophia Church, Underground Cistern and Topkapi Palace.

Stroll the Galata Bridge while local fishermen try their luck. Satisfy your shopping sweet tooth with supple Italian leather, Turkish cotton, teas, caviar, fine silk, cashmere, and carpets. These are a few of the treasures you can expect to haggle over at the Grand Bazaar and the Spice Market. Take a time-out, or end your busy day at the city’s oldest Hamam – or Turkish bath.

Next, the archaeological city of Ephesus. This outdoor museum will blow your mind. Hire a guide to explore this ancient Greek and, later, Roman city. Highlights include the Celsus Library, Temple of Artemis, public toilet, terraced houses occupied by the wealthy, and The Great Theatre – a stadium with a seating capacity of 25,000 people.

It won’t take much for you to imagine Alexander the Great parading down the ancient marble walkway of this once bustling, vibrant city.

Visiting Cappadocia is a must.

This region is a high, dry plateau located in central Turkey.

In ancient times, volcanic eruptions covered the region with thick ash, which then solidified into a soft rock. Over time, wind and water wore away at the plateau, leaving only the hard elements behind.

What exists today is a fairytale landscape of pillars, pinnacles, and chimneys, stretching up to 40 metres into the sky. Splurge on a hot air balloon ride to witness this unique and bizarre landscape at sunrise.

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Hot air balloons gather over Cappadocia, Turkey. castle” in Turkish, is another madeby-nature phenomena and World Heritage site. Seventeen hot springs feed travertines, terraces of carbonate minerals left by the flowing thermal warmed water. The water of Pamukkale is famous for its benefits to the eyes and skin; and its curing properties include asthma and rheumatism symptoms.

If activity beckons you, hike the unspoilt coastal and mountain

paths of the Lycian Way. Discover hill villages, beautiful bays, and breathtaking views. If you’re incredibly ambitious and have the time, this 509-kilometre footpath may have your name on it.

Another brilliant way to explore the turquoise coast is on a handcrafted wooden boat: a Turkish gullet. Turkey’s Mediterranean coastline is a treasure chest of coves, deserted bays and seclud-

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Turkey is affordable and offers excellent value for your travel dollar.

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Visit in the spring or fall when the Mediterranean climate is perfect for seeing the sights, hiking, mountain biking, dining al fresco, or frolicking in the sea.

Turkish people are welcoming, friendly, open people. You will savour a real coffee, drink apple tea as you negotiate carpet prices, taste tomatoes ripened by the sun, sample gently herbed fresh fish and delicious kabobs. You will wake to the sound of prayer and hear it throughout your day.

Turkey is a country that immediately woes you into her timelessness and captivating, easy-going culture.

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NEWS Bid to abolish death penalty fails again in Montana Bill Gr avel and Canadian Press

CALGARY — A proposal to abolish Montana’s death penalty has failed again, a blow for Canadian Ronald Smith, a convicted murderer who has been on death row in the state for 30 years.

A bill to repeal capital punishment and re-

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VERNON, B.C. — A 52-year-old Edmonton man who died at a North Okanagan, B.C., golf course, had more than twice the legal blood alcohol limit when he drove his golf cart over a precipice.

Coroner Andrew Cave says Glenn Daniel Thordarson had a blood alcohol reading of .19 at the time of the June 7, 2012 accident.

Cave found Thordarson’s cart slammed into a rock face at the Predator Ridge course, about 15 kilometres south of Vernon, then veered across a grassy area and over a seven metre embankment, landing on a paved road, below.

A passenger in the cart survived but Thordarson suffered fatal head injuries, including a fractured skull.

The golf cart was limited to just under 19 kilometres per hour and it’s GPS showed it was travelling almost that fast when it rammed the rock face.

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place it with a maximum sentence of life in prison was introduced in the lower house of Montana’s two-tier legislature.

But it once again didn’t get past a judiciary committee which, for the fourth time in the last eight years, voted to table the bill.

The committee stalled similar proposals, which made their way through the state senate in 2007, 2009 and 2011.

The final vote from the 20-member committee was 11-9 in favour of tabling it once again.

“It’s a little more difficult to figure out what the dynamics are and I still believe that there’s sort of a visceral attitude about death. Someone takes a life and they think an eye for an eye,’’ said Sen. Dave Wanzenried, a Democrat, who has sponsored the legislation in the past.

“I think it still resides in some very basic, instinct level,’’ he told The Canadian Press.

“We’ve all grown up with it and until you really begin to examine it —as I did much earlier than some of my col-

leagues here — you tend to think, ‘I know this issue and I’m not interested in knowing any more.’’’

Smith, a 55-year-old originally from Red Deer, Alta., was convicted in Montana in 1983 for shooting to death two cousins, Harvey Madman Jr. and Thomas Running Rabbit, while he was high on drugs and alcohol near East Glacier, Mont.

He had been taking 30 to 40 hits of LSD and consuming between 12 and 18 beers a day.

He refused a plea deal that would have seen him avoid death row and spend the rest of his life in prison instead. Three weeks later, he pleaded guilty. He asked for and was given a death sentence.

He later had a change of heart and has been on a legal roller coaster for the last 25 years. An execution date has been set five times and each time the order was overturned.

Smith still has a clemency application before Montana Gov. Steve Bullock. There is also an outstanding civil action involving the American Civil Liberties

termine if an inmate is to hear arguments on actually unconscious that issue. before receiving the leWanzenried is still thal injection. hopeful the death penSherlock indicated alty will be abolished. the state legislature “I don’t think it’s needed to rejig the stat- hopeless. I think it’s just utes to bring the execu- a matter of the dynamtion protocol into line ics of the hearing,’’ he with Montana’s consti- said. “The opposition to tution. abolition was better orThe state wants to ganized and ... it tends bypass a requirement to to be more of a partisan get the changes ap- issue than we would like proved by the legislature to admit and I’m not 2.8125”sure x 3”why that’s the case.’’ and Sherlock has agreed

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That put all executions on hold.

Sherlock pointed to lack of training for individuals who administer the drugs and a discrepancy over whether two or three drugs should be used during executions.

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“I happen to completely disagree with his assessment that there’s only one possible outcome to this race. ... It’s not a done deal.’’

Garneau’s automated phone poll asked 6,000 Liberal supporters and members to indicate whether they favoured Garneau, Trudeau, Hall Findlay or Murray, in that order and without mentioning the other four contenders.

It was a not a survey of registered voters, the Murray camp noted, even though the outcome will depend on which campaign is best able to get supporters to register and then actually cast ballots during the week of April 6.

Murray’s camp is hopeful her supporters — urged on by a host of grassroots and online advocacy groups who back her environmental credentials and her plan for electoral co-operation among progressive parties — are more committed than average.

Less than a third of the 294,000 party members and supporters have so far registered to vote. Worried that some 100,000 people who didn’t provide email addresses — the bulk of whom are Trudeau supporters — will be disenfranchised, the front-runner is seeking a one-week extension of Thursday’s registration deadline.

The Murray, Hall Findlay and Martin Cauchon campaigns oppose an extension.

Garneau’s survey also didn’t take into account the fact that the results will be weighted to give each riding equal clout, whether they have 1,000 registered voters or 100.

Without knowing the distribution of each candidate’s support, it’s

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“For those talking about polls and numbers: we’re not naive, and we’re fully aware of the challenge,’’ Hall Findlay said in a statement.

However, she added: “There are some ridings with thousands of registered voters — but each one of those ridings is worth 100 points. There are also a large number of ridings with very few, many with fewer than 50. Each one of those ridings is also worth 100 points. We have run a truly national campaign, and have approached it very strategically.”

Murray said she was surprised by Garneau’s decision to endorse Trudeau, given that he has repeatedly said a coronation is not in the party’s best interests and has accused the front-runner of lacking policy depth, experience and leadership credentials.

Garneau insisted Wednesday that his criticism of Trudeau was “constructive,’’ that the front-runner “has risen to the occasion’’ and proven an unmatched ability to rally people to the party.

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LA PAZ, Bolivia — Conservationists have flown six endangered macaws from Britain to Bolivia in hopes that they can help save a species devastated by the trade in wild animals.

The blue-throated macaws arrived last week at a conservation centre in northeastern Bolivia, close to their natural habitat, and the local Noel Kempff Foundation said Tuesday it hopes to breed or release them.

Such birds were long captured for sale as pets and no more than 130 of the blue-throated macaws

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Scientists find 600-year-old Chinese coin in Kenya ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHICAGO — Scientists from Illinois have found a rare, 600-yearold Chinese coin on the Kenyan island of Manda.

The Field Museum in Chicago announced the find Wednesday.

The joint expedition was led by Chapurukha Kusimba of the museum and Sloan Williams of

the University of Illinois-Chicago.

Researchers say the coin proves trade existed between China and eastern Africa decades before European explorers set sail.

The coin is made of copper and silver.

It has a square hole in the centre so it could be worn on a belt.

Scientists say it was issued by Emperor Yongle of China and his name is written on the coin.

Scientists from Kenya, Pennsylvania and Ohio also participated in the expedition.

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Ancient camel unearthed on Ellesmere Island Margaret Munro Postmedia News

When Natalia Rybczynski unearthed the first few bone fragments on a windswept ridge in Canada’s High Arctic, she knew she was onto something big.

It turns out the paleobiologist at the Canadian Museum of Nature had uncovered the remains of the first camel ever found in the High Arctic.

The remarkable discovery, announced Tuesday, shows the humped creatures lived in forests that extended as far north as Ellesmere Island 3.5 million years ago during a global warm spell that the scientists say holds important lessons for the modern world.

“The camel is an ambassador for climate

change,” says John Gosse, an earth scientist at Dalhousie University and co-author of the report on the camel published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications.

The researchers say the find also provides evidence the camels now plodding over the sand dunes in Africa and the Middle East can trace their origins back to giant camels that evolved in Northern Canada.

The evidence suggests the animals were originally “northern forest specialists,” she says.

And their iconic humps, which store fat, would have been very useful for surviving long, cold Arctic winters.

It also points to the remarkable “versatility and adaptability” of

camels that now put their big feet and humps to use in the desert.

The research team led by the Canadian Museum of Nature was exploring a rich fossil bed on Ellesmere, known as the Beaver Pond site, that contains the remains of a boreal forest and wetland as well as ancient black bears, beavers, horses, rabbits and “deerlets.”

At the suggestion of a geologist at the Geological Survey of Canada, Rybczynski says they headed down to check out a sediment ridge about 10 kilometres to the south.

They knew they were onto something when she uncovered bone fragments on that first visit in 2006. They returned in 2008 and 2010 collecting more than

two dozen bits of bone.

It then took another three years of sleuthing

by Canadian and British researchers to figure out the fragments came from a giant camel’s limb bone.

Mike Buckley at the University of Manchester extracted and analyzed collagen from the bone fragments that had survived over the eons.

He says the cold Arctic climate helped preserve the tightly linked collagen molecules, which vary from species to species.

Buckley’s “collagen fingerprinting” revealed the Ellesmere camel was “nearly identical” to another ancient camel unearthed years ago in the Yukon.

The testing also showed that both Canadian animals were from

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Illustration of the High Arctic camel on Ellesmere Island about three and a half million years ago. the same line of camels that hiked from North America into Asia over the Bering Land Bridge seven to eight million years ago.

Camels originated in North America about 45 million years ago and underwent most of their

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evolution on this continent before dying off.

Over the years camel bones have been unearthed in Alaska and the Yukon, but the Ellesmere find is significant because it is 1,200 kilometres farther north.

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When the scientists put all the pieces together, what emerges is a giant camel about 30 per cent larger than today’s camels, weighing about 900 kilograms and standing about 2.7 metres high at the shoulders.

The camels lived in a boreal forest on Ellesmere dominated by larch trees that provided plenty to eat.

There was 24-hour sunshine in the summer and months of darkness in the snowy winters when the camels grew saggy coats to stay warm and survived on fats stored in their humps.

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Powerful North Korean body dismisses SKorea’s female president and the ‘swish’ of her skirt Associated Press

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea’s first public, senior-level mention of South Korea’s first female president ended up being a sexist jab. The body that controls North Korea’s military complained Wednesday about the “venomous swish’’ of her skirt.

But despite that swipe, and a continuing torrent of rhetoric from Pyongyang threatening nuclear war and other mayhem, President Park Geun-hye is sticking by her campaign vow to reach out to North Korea’s young leader, Kim Jong Un, and to send the country much-needed humanitarian aid.

Public frustration with the last five years of North-South relations, which saw North Korean nuclear tests, long-range rocket launches and attacks that left dozens of South Koreans dead, is a big part of the reason Park is trying to build trust with Pyongyang, even as she and South Korea’s military promise to respond forcefully to any possible attack from the North.

In recent days, North Korea has vowed “merciless’’ retaliation and said it will no longer abide by the

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In this March 8, 2013 file photo, South Korean President Park Geun-hye salutes during a ceremony in Gyeryong, south of Seoul. armistice that ended the Korean War. Pyongyang is angry about ongoing U.S.-South Korean military drills and about new U.N. sanctions, issued over the North’s December long-range rocket launch, which the U.N. called a cover for a banned missile test, and its third underground nuclear explosion, conducted Feb. 12.

On Wednesday, an unidentified spokesman for the North Korean National Defence Commission’s armed forces ministry repeated those threats while decrying South Korea’s own recent rhetoric, including a warning from Seoul that North Korea’s government will “evaporate from the face of the Earth’’ if it ever uses a nuclear

weapon.

“This frenzy kicked up by the South Korean warmongers is in no way irrelevant with the venomous swish of skirt made by the one who again occupies’’ the presidential Blue House, the North Korean spokesman said in a statement. It was the first government criticism of Park to be reported by major North Korean media since her Dec. 19 election.

Park, the daughter of late South Korean dictator President Park Chung-hee, took office Feb. 25. She lived in the Blue House as a girl and, starting from age 22, served for five years as her father’s first lady after a gunman claiming orders from North Korea killed her mother in a botched attack targeting Park Chung-hee.

The term “swish of skirt’’ is often used in Korean to describe women acting in a way seen as overly aggressive, such as housewives trying to micromanage all aspects of their children’s educations.

Moon Mee-kyung, an analyst at the government-affiliated Korean Women’s Development Institute in Seoul, called the North’s use of the term an insult against South Korea and all women.

“We don’t say a ‘swish of pants’ when describing men. The term disparages women as a group,’’ she said.

North Korea, which is a strongly male-dominated society, has a history of making sexist comments about powerful women, including Park.

Before she became president, a poem carried by the government Uriminzokkiri website described Park as a “dirty prostitute’’ and a “yushin prostitute’’ who pulls up her skirts in front of the United States. Park’s father proclaimed what he called a “yushin,’’ or renewal, constitution in 1972 to prolong his dictatorship.

North Korea’s Foreign Ministry in 2009 called then-U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton “a funny lady’’ who sometimes “looks like a primary schoolgirl and sometimes a pensioner going shopping.’’

A North Korean state radio program called then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice “a hen strutting around in the White House, crowing arrogantly’’ and “a bitch running riot on the beach,’’ South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported in 2005.

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Robert told me I need to pay my own bills. He has a retirement income, and he still works. I receive Social Security. I have always been thrifty, and although I have a debit card, I am only allowed to use it for necessary things like groceries. I pay for my clothes, haircuts, etc. I bought a new coat yesterday with my own money. Robert scolded me and told me to watch my spending.

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I don’t think it’s fair to blame all women for what is on the dating sites. Most of us are not like that. I own my own home and car and love the job I’ve had for 16 years. My kids are all grown and on their own. I have little drama in my life.

My girlfriends and I have been on most of these sites, and all we get are men who only want sex or those who want to marry you the first time they meet you. We are tired of this.

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I have been off and on these sites for six years. I, too, get frustrated and disgusted, but I will walk away for a while and come back with a different attitude. Also, Annie, if he takes your advice and chooses more wisely, he may find what he’s looking for. -- Lady with Morals 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. To find out more about Annie’s Mailbox and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

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“Vic”, “Dad”, “Grandpa”, and “Great Grandpa” is survived by his son Denis (Sandee) of Abbotsford, BC; daughter Penny Newcombe of Cranbrook, BC; four grandchildren and seven great grandchildren - Corie Stedile and children Nathan and Sofia; Jodi (Jay) Yates and children MaKenzie and Kalen; Kelly (Derek) Lefler and child Quynn; and Jason (Trista) Newcombe and children Chase and Spencer.

Vic and Norma met in Vancouver while he was serving in the Canadian Armed Forces. They married in 1944, prior to Vic going overseas. After his extended absence, upon his return, Vic and Norma moved to Nelson, BC in 1946.

Vic worked in carpentry his entire life until retiring in 1986 from the BC Building Corporation. We will all hold dear to our hearts the many hand crafted treasures made with love by “Grandpa”. They will live on for many generations to come.

As Grandpa always hated to say goodbye..... “This is not goodbye, this is a thank you. Thank you for being a guiding hand in our lives, thank you for giving us joy.

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Thank you for the memories we will cherish forever, but most of all, thank you for showing us that there will be a time when we all eventually have to let go”.

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Obituaries McKENZIE, Kenneth Ormond 1917 - 2013

On the afternoon of Tuesday, March 5, 2013, Kenneth Ormond McKenzie, passed away peacefully at the Kimberley Special Care Home at the age of 95 years. Ken was born on December 10, 1917 in Edmonton, Alberta, one of five siblings born to Nicholas and Elizabeth McKenzie. Ken was the last surviving member of his family.

At a young age, Ken’s family moved from Alberta to British Columbia and settled in Kimberley. Ken was the first paperboy to deliver the Kimberley Bulletin in Chapman Camp. He was employed with Cominco as a carpenter for over 40 years. He never tired of using his carpentry skills to make his life and ours better. Ken and Gladys loved to camp and fish and spent many hours together on the lakes in the area. They truly did everything together and loved each other’s company.

Ken married Gladys Hay on August 25, 1945 in Kimberley.

Their marriage was blessed with two children; Rick and Heather. Ken was always known for his keen sense of humour and wit. He loved to tease and have a chuckle with the people around him. He was most definitely a social butterfly and loved to visit with his friends. He was one of the founding members of the Marysville Lions Club back in the early 1950’s.

Left to mourn his passing are his beloved wife, Gladys; his two children Rick (Gerri) and Heather (Robert); five grandchildren Kim (Jason), Russ (Shelley), Melanie (Lee), Nicholas and Kent (Rebecca); three great grandchildren Kaitlyne (Bob), Brad and Kallie and one great great granddaughter, Harlow. Also left are his extended family Jen, Allison, Trevor, Andrew and their children Taylor, Zavin, River, Vann, Noah and Kubrick. There are sistersin-law and many nieces, nephews and cousins that Ken leaves behind.

A very special thanks to the staff of Garden View Village and the Kimberley Special Care Home for their exceptional care of Ken. Ken was proud to have lived his 95 years and was aiming to make 100! The family is planning a private gathering in the summer in honour of Ken. Memorial donations may be made in Ken’s memory to the Pines Memorial & Development Society c/o Bev Banks, 372 108th Avenue, Kimberley B.C. V1A 1C6. Condolences may be left for the family at www.markmemorial.com.

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Position Available â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Finance Manager/ Bookkeeper We are seeking candidates to fill a full-time bookkeeping/financial manager position in our group of Companies consisting of nightly rentals, property management and property services in several corporations located in Fernie.

Our accounting systems are Quick Books and resort lodging software, RDP (Resort Data Processing).

Comfortable skills with other accounting software systems while performing bookkeeping, financial management and financial reporting are required.

Candidates should possess verifiable academic background and including enrollment in a professional accounting course of studies or university/college training.

The position requires that the successful candidate to provide data input through several corporate ledgers, provide high-level management of our various accounting systems and inter corporate activity.

The candidate will work closely with the external accounting companies on the year end reporting.

The position is available immediately and includes competitive remuneration and related benefits.

Please forward written resumes to the following no later than March 26, 2013: Suzanne Halley Manager, Fernie Lodging Company Fax 250 423 8222 Email: jobs@fernielodgingco.com

The City of Cranbrook is currently hiring for the following Summer Student positions:

Student Labourer Playground Supervisor Playground Leader Applications will be received for these positions until Friday, March 29th at 4pm (MST).

To learn more about these positions and other employment opportunities available with the City, visit cranbrook.ca/job-postings.

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Bring your used stamps to 822 Cranbrook St., Cranbrook This is a year round fundraiser by the Eastern Star for funds to supply Cancer Dressings.

Please bring stamps with a 1/4â&#x20AC;? around the stamp to the Townsman for Skip Fennessy who picks them up.

Thank you for your support!

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250-489-1015 or 250-419-2075 KIMBERLEY Chapman Camp - 2 BR apartment for rent. Great location - backs onto rails to trails, forested area. Newer paint and flooring. $650/month incl. util. Covered parking, Laundry on site. No smoking, No pets. Ref. reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d.

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Thompson Creek Metals, a growing diversified metals company, is building the Mount Milligan copper gold mine in north central BC. This new mine is scheduled to come into production in the second half of 2013 and the project team has recently surpassed 3.8 million hours without a lost time incident. If you are interested in joining a safety-first culture, we are currently looking for talented people to join our team in the following areas: Finance and Administration Manager - responsible for the accounting functions for the operation and have a month end reporting responsibility to the Denver head office. Must have their accounting designation and should have 5-10 years accounting experience at a high level and preferably mining or related heavy industry experience The position is an onsite position, 5X2 schedule 8 hours per day.

(2) Senior Accountants - responsible for accounts payable, monthly reporting systems, preparation of monthly financial statements and coordination and preparation of year end audit files. Must have a minimum of (3) years and have or working towards their professional designations.

Mill Maintenance General Foreman â&#x20AC;&#x201C; In this position you will supervise a multishift operations department and partner with the metallurgy and operations departments to safely achieve ore throughput and metal extraction goals.

Mill Operations Supervisor - responsible for the supervision of Mill Operations Technicians in a positive and productive manner.

Health and Safety Superintendent - to proactively manage the operational requirements in the development, implementation and review of strategy, policy, procedures, standards and practices to achieve best practices for a secure, safe and healthy work environment.

HR Generalist - reporting to the HR manager, you will be primarily responsible for providing expertise across employee relations, and remuneration and benefits, as well as supporting efforts to earn Mount Milligan a reputation as an employer of choice.

Detailed job descriptions and qualifications can be found at www.mtmilligan.com All positions offer a competitive salary plus benefits package in line with qualifications and experience. To be considered for our team, please send a cover letter and your resume to: MtMilligan-Resumes@tcrk.com We thank all interested candidates; however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

mart newspapers today recognize they can run a very profitable business by providing relevant, entertaining and innovative ideas and content. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not miss the point, eitherâ&#x20AC;?, says Bill McDonald, group publisher of Metro English Canada. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Maybe there are some trends in place that show some declines in some areas.

But newspapers still deliver a massive audience in every city across the country.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not changing.

The Toronto Star still delivers one million readers every day.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no other medium with that kind of reach in one day.â&#x20AC;? In fact, threequarters of Canadians (13.9 million) read a printed edition of daily newspaper each week, according to NADbank readership data. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Increased media competition, besides raising the editorial bar at dailies, doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t change one crucial factâ&#x20AC;?, says media buyer Bruce Claassen, CEO of GenesisVizeum (Toronto) and chair of Aegis Media Canada. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Daily newspapers offer the same benefits they always have: the ability to reach customers quickly.

Only with a daily paper are you able to choose to do an ad and run with it in two days, and reach a sizeable portion of the population, in a fairly mass, fairly broad and fairly fast way. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a set of qualities very few other media can match.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Major pubishers and media buyers agreeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; strong readership figures are testament to improved product.

For daily delivery of your local newspaper in Cranbrook, call 250-426-5201.

In Kimberley call 250-427-5333.

SOURCE: NADBANK JOURNAL SEPT/08

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A five year survey of more than 3,000 companies found that advertisers who maintained or expanded advertising during a troubled economy saw sales increase an average of 100%.

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