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Just one day to be a kid again. Jenna Homeniuk, above with Mom Paula, had a visit home this past weekend and was treated to a wonderful day of horseback riding, a dog sled ride and more. Unfortunately, she has had a setback and is now back in Children’s Hospital in Calgary. See Page 3 for more.

It’s a Kimberley tradition that goes way back — Spring Splash. It’s a celebration of skiing, fun and sun, music, the splash pond and the dummy downhill. It’s always been the way Kimberley celebrates the end of the ski season.

This year the Splash is planned for April 6 and 7.

Heather Blackwood from Kimberley Alpine Bulletin file photo Resort says a full week- The highlight of the Spring end of fun has been Splash weekend is always the planned. splash pond.

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Part II

Behind the scenes of a homicide investigation The second in a two-part series on how Kimberley RCMP investigate a homicide CPL. CHRIS NE WEL For the Bulletin

Sunday morning began with another briefing; remember in this case we all lost an hour. All day Sunday investigators followed

up with tips, conducted interviews and gathered evidence. The scene examiners are still at the house. The second scene was examined late Saturday night; the officer guarding the scene was relieved of his duty.

A report to Crown Counsel is being drafted. A subject is in custody, and will appear in court on Tuesday. Crown needs the information so they can prepare.

The next briefing 7 p.m., again every officer involved went over what they had done.

Tasks were assigned, some officers contin-

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An autopsy is scheduled and completed Monday afternoon. The same persons doing the scene examination attend. They gather evidence and work with the pathologist.

They go back to the house; there are still

measurements to be taken. As part of the scene examination a scale drawing of the house and property is completed. In court they need to show where certain items were found.

By Tuesday investigators are beginning wrap things up in Kimberley. This does not mean the paper work and preparation is done. A lot more time will be dedicated to the file over the weeks ahead as a complete package is prepared for court.

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“Used and Unique” enters the economy of recycle and reuse Barry Coulter

Everything old is new again, like the song says.

A new business in Cranbrook is bringing old inanimate objects back to new life. Used and Unique Home Furnishings opened last week at 627-R Cranbrook Street North, just off the Strip behind the Lazy Bear Lodge.

Kimberly Spoljarevic opened the shop last week, and rejuvenation is the name of the game.

Old pieces of furniture and home décor take on new life, and are available for the discerning collector.

Spoljarevic said the items come from everywhere; she picks them up from various locations around town, from advertisements on Kijiji and suchlike outlets, or

even from artists who’ve fixed up pieces themselves. “We’ll sell those for them,” Spoljarevic said.

And indeed, if one is interested in the restoration process, pieces are on sale that you can buy and fix up yourself.

“We’ll also send buyers to your house if you want, check out the piece, and give you a quote.”

Currently on the floor at Used and Unique are all manner of living room-style furniture, shelving, closets, tables, decorative items — the gambit. There is a seemingly infinite inventory of recyclables, of a quality hidden under the disguise of years.

Spoljarevic admits to a passion for furniture

and recycling.

“I have a hard time not bringing everything home,” she said. “But I’m interested in trading and bartering, just get-

ting the hands dirty and getting in there.”

Spoljarevic, originally from Calgary, is impressed with the Cranbrook area, noting its

appetite for recycling and interest in reusing.

“It’s a funny economy these days,” she added. “You’ve got to do your own thing.”

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The brand new building going up on Deer Park Avenue in the Platzl will ultimately house a new indoor climbing wall, the first for Kimberley. The project is expected to be up and running by September. Pictured above is the installation of the truss rods.

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A weekend at home for Jenna; then a setback C AROLYN GR ANT editor@dailybulletin.ca

15-year old Jenna Homeniuk of Kimberley, who has been battling leukemia in Calgary since last August, came home for a visit this past weekend.

It was only a short visit, and Jenna is now back in Children’s Hospital in Calgary, but for a few short hours at least, Jenna left illness behind and enjoyed a day outdoors.

“It’s with a heavy heart I bring you this up-date,” said family friend Shari Lamarche. “Jenna was home in Kimberley this weekend, however it was not to stay. Jenna is yet again beginning her fight with cancer.”

Lamarch says Jenna had a wonderful day thanks to some special people.

“Sunday morning I called Brenda Birrell and asked her if she could arrange for a dog sled ride and horse back ride for Jenna, she didn’t hesitate she said “I will make it happen”. Brenda teamed up with a wonderful person named Jean Terpsma and together gave Jenna and her family a day to remember. It was a day filled with fun, excitement, joy, love and a few tears. I cannot thank these women enough for taking the time to make Jenna’s weekend home a memorable one.

Sadly, shortly after that, Jenna had to return to hospital.

Mom Paula Thomas has sent along this message.

“It brings our family great sadness to inform you all that Jenna has had a relapse. We remain hopeful as Jenna is in very good hands at the Children’s Hospital. I believe in prayer and ask you to please add Jenna to your prayer list. One week ago we were told we would be headed home in a few short weeks. We are now back to square one and will remain in Calgary over the next several months.

“We would like to thank you all for the amazing love and support you have sent us. Your compassion and kind words are with us always.”

Kimberley has raised thousands of dollars to support Jenna and her family since word of her illness was heard last summer.

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Thanks to the generosity of people like Brenda Birrell and Jean Terpsma, Jenna had a wonderful visit home this past weekend.

Behind the scenes of Kimberley homicide From Page 1 Over the course of four days, this does not include the Friday it happened, 10-15 investigators worked 10-18 hour days, following up on information and gathering evidence. In addition to the information gained directly from the scene investigators interviewed a number of people who have information about the subjects involved, a time line prior to the death is important.

The forensic team, along with members involved in the seizing of evidence, begin the long process of examining what they seized. A

“At the same time, Kimberley detachment continues to operate responding to calls for service.

Adjustments are made but crime does not stop with one homicide.” number of exhibits are sent to the lab where qualified experts conduct tests and prepare reports. This in not TV, tests and examinations are not conducted by a select few. Nor is it done in an hour, this can take weeks if not months. The tests have to be very thorough and stand up in court.

As with any major

investigation a number of items are seized and held as exhibits. Each item has to be individually marked, processed and catalogued. In addition the movement of every exhibit is tracked, i.e. sent to the lab for analysis etc. In this case there are well over 150 exhibits.

In the first week it’s likely that more than

1000 man-hours went into the investigation.

In terms of homicide investigations this one was relatively straightforward. There was only one major crime scene, the suspect was apprehended relatively early and witnesses were cooperative.

A gang related shooting would take months if not years of investigation, huge compared to our recent one.

As you can see more than one person or even two or three work on these investigations.

Each person has a role, everything is done in detail. Scene investiga-

tions are slow, time consuming and meticulous.

You only have one chance. Rushing into a scene declaring the person has been deceased for 7.5 hours and mov-

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ing on does not happen.

Computers don’t magically produce important information about suspects or victims.

At the same time, Kimberley detachment

continues to operate responding to calls for service. Adjustments are made but crime does not stop with one homicide.

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Local NEWS Spring Splash at KAR, April 6, 7 Lovebirds thrill Ice crowd Game proposal

From Page 1 Saturday, April 6, Kimberley’s brave, or perhaps just foolhardy, are invited to attempt a ride across the splash pond. Wear a costume, or a bathing suit, and see if you can get up enough speed on the downhill to make it across the water.

Another tradition, the Dummy Downhill, goes Sunday afternoon, as homemade statues on skis are launched into the Resort parking lot. Now is a good time to begin creating your dummy.

“We’ve also added some new, exciting events,” Blackwood said.

“We are going to have snow volleyball, right beside the splash pond.

You can sign up for that at guest services starting now. We are also going to have a family slalom race, a kids treasure hunt and a kids fishing pond. We hope people will sign up for some of the new events.”

And what would Spring Splash be without music? Blackwood says an impressive musical lineup has been booked for the entire weekend.

“We have Shred Kelly from Fernie and the Good Ol’ Goats from Cranbrook,” she said. “Both of these bands were in the top 5 for the region right now in the CBC Searchlight contest. We also have Heather Gemmell and the Peaks.”

While recent unseasonably warm weather has given the hill a beating over the past couple of weeks, Blackwood says the Main will be open for Spring Splash no matter what.

For more information on any Spring Splash event, call Blackwood at 250-432-0313 or check out www. skikimberley.com

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There’s nothing quite like the feeling of knowing you’re about to hit the icy water.

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for interior Health Protection Services Health Protection Services (licensing, environmental health, drinking water, recreational water, air quality, and food safety) are on the move. Beginning Monday, March 18, Health Protection clients will find us at: 103 1700 4th St S Cranbrook BC V1C 6E1 Phone Number: 250-420-2220 (no change from previous) Fax Number: 250-426-3022 (NEW) All staff phone numbers remain the same.

Office hours at the new location will be 8:00 – 12:00 and 1:00 – 4:30.

Cranbrook Hospice Society and East Kootenay Brain Injury Association and Interior Health’s Acquired Brain Injury Case Manager will move to the Cranbrook Health Unit @ 20 – 23rd Avenue South, Cranbrook – also effective March 18 – current phone numbers will remain in effect.

James Hatala proposed to his girlfriend Meghan Dunlop during the Friday, March 15 Kootenay Ice game at Western Financial Place Sally MacDonald Townsman Staff

The crowd at Friday’s Kootenay Ice game was treated to a very special intermission event March 15 when Cranbrook resident James Hatala proposed to his girlfriend of four years, Meghan Dunlop, at centre ice.

It was a nerve-wracking experience for James, who said he had barely slept in the days leading up to the proposal.

“I was extremely nervous,” James told the Townsman on Sunday after having the weekend to recover.

He came up with the proposal idea because Meghan and her family are hockey fans.

“Her family is a hockey family and they have been going to the hockey for decades. I just thought if I could incorporate that somehow, it would probably be pretty special for her,” James said.

The proposal took some planning, he went on, and since James works in Sparwood on night shifts, he had to do much of the organizing when he would usually be asleep.

Complicating things even Trevor Crawley photo further, James needed to ar- Meghan Dunlop says yes to James Hatala at the Kootenay ICE game. range for Meghan to have Saturday off work – which tricky since she is a receptionist at East Kootenay Community Credit Union.

“I had so many other things during the first intermission “So to get through to any- instead. going through my head at that body else, I had to go through “The next thing you know point I didn’t realize there was her,” James said. “So she would we’re being scooted out onto all those people there. I was come home for lunch and as the ice. That was a bit shock- concentrated on the important soon as she would walk out the ing,” James said, adding that things, not shooting a puck door, I’d be on the phone try- he was actually glad it came and not anything else,” he said. ing to figure out who to talk to.” about sooner.

After the couple took their Still, Meghan was not suspi“I was concerned about turns shooting the puck, MC cious at all when the couple what I was going to say sitting Rob Amsing told Meghan there arrived at Western Financial there for an hour, trying to was one more task they had to Place on Friday for the Koote- keep up the facade.” do. Meghan turned around to nay Ice game against the CalBoth Meghan and James see James on one knee. gary Hitmen. Meghan’s par- took turns shooting the puck – Of course, a very surprised ents and sisters, and James’s and neither came close to a and overjoyed Meghan said parents were all at the game – goal. yes to James’s proposal, and and she thought it was strange “I didn’t even hit the net. their family and closest 2,500 to see so many family and I’m glad I hit even the boards, friends cheered in congratulafriends, but James was able to I’m never going to hear the tions. stop her from thinking too end of that one because I do Now, the couple is just endeeply about it, he said. play a little bit of hockey. It joying being engaged before The ruse to get Meghan to was horrible. Some people they set a date and begin plancentre ice was that they had were like, you were just doing ning the wedding – which been chosen to play in a Shoot that to make her feel better. I James says will be a piece of To Win competition. James was like, well, you can think cake after organizing the prohad been working on the plan that, but it isn’t true,” said posal. that the competition would be James.

“I think it will be easy comduring the second intermisHe was barely even aware pared to this!” James said. sion, but some miscommuni- that there were 2,500 people cation meant that it happened watching, James went on.

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The Horse Boy: One family’s journey to heal autism Kimberley Happiness Project brings inspirational film to town For the Bulletin

How far would you travel to heal someone you love? In The Horse Boy, filmmaker Michel Orion Scott captures a magical journey into a little known world. The documentary feature chronicles a couple’s

very personal odyssey as they struggle to make sense of their child’s autism and find healing for him and themselves in this unlikeliest of places.

An intensely personal yet epic spiritual journey, the film follows the family as they trek on horseback through Outer Mongolia in an attempt to help their son. In telling this family’s extraordinary story, The Horse Boy gives voice to the thousands who display amazing courage and creativity everyday in negotiating

this mysterious and often heartbreaking condition.

With more children diagnosed each year than with cancer, diabetes, Down syndrome and AIDS combined, it is estimated in the U.S. alone, cases of autism could reach four million in the next decade.

While theories on its origins abound, there is no consensus in the medical community on either causes or treatment.

Part travel adventure, part insight into sha-

manic healing and part intimate look at the autistic mind, The Horse Boy is a deeply moving documentary odyssey that gives insight into how, in life’s darkest moments, one can find the gateway to joy and wonder.

The Horse Boy is being hosted by the Kimberley Happiness Project at Centre 64 on March 22nd at 730 pm, admission by donation.

For more information email kimberleyhappiness@gmail.com.

New name selected for the brewhouse/restaurant formerly known as Heidi’s It’s official. The highly anticipated new brewhouse/restaurant, formerly known as Heidi’s Restaurant, has a new name.

Heidi Romich, proprietor of Heidi’s who along with partners Marlies Romich and Brewmaster David Beardsell, is reinventing and renovating the establishment, sought public input as to a new name through the Daily Townsman. All in all, 64 people put forward suggestions, totally 196 new names for the new business, as well as 21 names for the beer that shall be brewed there.

It was very cool, very interesting, going following people’s thought processes, these ideas that were coming from their hearts,” Romich said.

And the new name is … “Fisher Peak Brewing Company” for

the brewhouse side, and “The Heid-Out” for the family restaurant side.

The Fisher Peak Brewing Company is awarding prizes for this public creative streak. These include a $250 gift certificate, and four growlers of beer (a growler amounts to 1.89 litres).

And the winners are: Terry Cahill, for The HeidOut. “Due to the fact that Heidi’s reputation is so good in Cranbrook, I do not think is should disappear and be replaced by an animal,” Terry wrote along with the submission.

Paul Willis and Linda Birch tied for the name Fisher Peak Brewing Company.

“Fisher Peak Brew House (honours) our most obviously revered natural landmark,” Willis wrote with his submission.

Honorable mention went to

Cpl. Chris Newel For the Bulletin On March 15, 2013, Cranbrook RCMP executed a search warrant that led to the seizure of a handgun, two rifles, cocaine and marihuana. Three males were arrested when police executed the warrant on 4th Street S in Cranbrook on Friday night.

The 9mm handgun was loaded at the time.

In addition to the fire-

arms, police seized a large quantity of what is suspected to be cocaine. A small quantity of marihuana was also located.

One male is facing weapons and drug charges along with Breach of Probation. He went before a Judicial Justice of the Peace and was released for Cranbrook court April 15.

The other two males were released.

Steve Williams, who suggested “The Fisherville Brewing Company.”

“It was Fisherville that really put the East Kootenay on the map in the 1860s,” Williams wrote. “Perhaps a brewpub associated with that site can put Cranbrook on the map in the world of BC microbrewing.

Heidi said that she herself abstained from voting. But going through the list of names was like a mini-tour of East Kootenay culture — historical, geographical and biological.

In the meantime, renovations are proceeding apace. The liquor primary license and development permit have already been approved by the City of Cranbrook.

Fisher Peak Brewing Company should be up and running by the summer.

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Both parties have betrayed us

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here was some public business conducted in the final frantic days of the B.C. legislature session last week, but you likely wouldn’t have heard much

about it.

Premier Christy Clark’s skimpy governing agenda was overshadowed by the delivery of an internal investigation report into her government’s ethnic outreach program.

A review by four deputy ministers detailed what reporters already knew from a memo and meeting notes leaked to the NDP. The plan started in the premier’s office, led by Clark’s deputy chief of staff, who resigned as soon as it was made public.

A B.C. Liberal Party employee attended the first meeting, expressly intended to organize events to impress immigrant communities, then harvest the goodwill in the form of contact lists for the coming election campaign.

After 10,000 e-mails were collected and 27 interviews conducted, they revealed a few significant details.

Former multiculturalism minister John Yap knew or should have known that the scheme was being kept secret because it was an inappropriate use of government resources. He won’t be back in cabinet, although Clark said he intends to run for re-election in Richmond-Steveston.

Yap’s executive assistant resigned when the report came out, admitting he helped cover the tracks of political meddling in the hiring of three outreach contractors with sufficient loyalty to the party.

Clark insists she knew nothing of this plan. She tabled the investigation report, and then announced that the B.C. Liberal Party had written a $70,000 cheque to the government to cover the estimated cost of the inappropriate political work done by non-political staff.

BC VIEWS Here’s the part taxpayers may not fully appreciate.

Tom There are authorized politiFletcher cal staffers all over the legislature, in the premier’s office, the opposition leader’s office and two teams of caucus employees who spend much of their time digging up dirt on the other party. All are paid by you and me.

A line is crossed only when a non-political employee such as a ministry communications director acts on behalf of the party. The main offender in that capacity was one Brian Bonney, whose records suggested he spent half of his time on party work. He quit in February, before the plan was leaked, and the party paid back half of his salary for the 18 months he was on the public payroll.

NDP outrage over this was blunted by another leaked document. This one was from a never-released 2010 report by Auditor General John Doyle, which condemned

a five-year program of skimming money from NDP constituency office budgets all over the province and using it for political work.

In a nice bit of symmetry, much of the more than $400,000 was spent to put threetime candidate Gabriel Yiu on the NDP caucus payroll. Yiu’s Vancouver-Fraserview candidate page boasts of his ethnic outreach work, which included tirelessly warning B.C.’s Chinese community about the evils of the harmonized sales tax.

In fact, it was the NDP-Yiu operation that inspired a B.C. Liberal copycat plan.

The NDP quietly stopped the budget skimming after Doyle pointed out the blindingly obvious, which is that constituency funds are to serve constituents and are not to be diverted to political organizing.

It was kept under wraps by the secretive Legislative Assembly Management Committee. This is the B.C. Liberal-NDP co-managed trough of undocumented MLA expenses and other questionable payments that Doyle has only recently dragged into the light.

Both of these schemes have the same stink. Both are intentional abuse of taxpayers’ money for the political gain of the dominant parties. There is no moral high ground for either of them.

Tom Fletcher is a columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com. tfletcher@blackpress.ca

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The risk of miscalculation The joint US-South Korean military exercises known as “Key Resolve” and “Foal Eagle” have got underway, and so far the heavens have not fallen.

The American forces have not launched an unprovoked assault on North Korea, despite the strident claims of Pyongyang’s media that the exercises are a cover for exactly such a plan. In fact, joint exercises on this scale — they only involve 13,000 American and South Korean troops – have been held every year of the past forty, and pose no threat whatever to North Korea.

Neither has North Korea chosen to “defend its sovereignty”, as it recently threatened to do, by launching pre-emptive nuclear strikes against both the United States and South Korea. It could certainly do huge damage to South Korea, but despite its successful nuclear and missile tests in the past three months it still lacks all but the most rudimentary capability to hit the United States.

Pyongyang’s nuclear test in February had twice the explosive power of the last one in 2009, but nobody believes North Korea’s claim that it has also made its bomb small enough to fit on the tip of an intercontinental ballistic missile.

Nor does the Unha-3 missile, which Pyongyang used to launch a satellite in December, have the guidance systems and re-entry technology necessary to deliver such a nuclear weapon onto an American target — which would have to be in western Alaska, since that is the limit of the rocket’s range.

There is no doubt that Kim Jong-un’s regime is feeling extremely peeved about the international response to its weapon and missile tests, which has included tighter United Nations trade sanctions that got

unanimous support in the Security Council. Even North Korea’s only ally, China, voted for them.

In a particularly peevish gesture, he has even cut the military hotline between the two sides at Panmunjom. (If you think there’s going to be a crisis, the last thing you want is a secure and rapid means of talking to the other side.)

But it’s really just an empty gesture: an alternative military commuline, used to Gwynne nications monitor cross-border workers at the Kaesong Dyer Industrial Complex, remains open.

But it’s a long way from feeling peeved to feeling suicidal. Any North Korean nuclear attack on an American target would be answered by immediate US strikes that would annihilate the military and civilian leadership in Pyongyang, obliterate its nuclear facilities, and probably destroy much else besides. So North Korea’s threat to launch a “pre-emptive” nuclear strike against the United States, or even against South Korea, is totally implausible.

However, the young and inexperienced North Korean leader may feel the need to prove his mettle to his own military commanders by taking some more limited action against the US-South Korean exercises. That sort of thing can easily go wrong.

There is a widespread perception in South Korea that Seoul was caught offguard by North Korea’s sinking of the warship Cheonan and its artillery attacks on Yeonpyeong island in 2010. North Korea paid no military price for either action, and South Korea’s newly elected president, Park Geun-hye, who took office only two weeks ago, needs to show South Koreans that she is not going to let that happen again.

She probably also hopes that a promise of prompt and severe retaliation will deter North Korea from any future attacks of that sort. So she has engaged in some rhetorical escalation of her own.

She has warned North Korea that any further attacks will be met by instant retaliation that targets not only the units involved in the attack, but also North Korea’s high command.

No doubt this is only intended to deter any such North Korean attack, but in practice it means that there will be much more rapid and uncontrollable escalation if Pyongyang makes a token attack anyway.

Even a conventional war in the Korean peninsula would be hugely destructive.

Just north of the “Demilitarised Zone” between the two countries is the largest concentration of artillery in the entire world, and the mega-city of Seoul is within long artillery range of the border.

North Korea’s population is considerably smaller than South Korea’s, but the North maintains the fourth largest army in the world. Its armed forces operate mostly last-generation weaponry, but the equipment is well maintained and the soldiers appear to be well trained. The last war between the two countries killed over a million people and left all the peninsula’s cities in ruins – and that was over sixty years ago.

If North Korea ignored Park’s warning and made some local attack to demonstrate its displeasure, and Park then felt obliged to act on her threat to go after the North Korean leadership in Pyongyang in retaliation, things could get very ugly very fast.

So far the US-South Korean exercises have gone off smoothly, but the risk of a serious miscalculation first in Pyongyang and then in Seoul is real, and the exercises still have until 25 March to run.

COTR entrance award deadline approaching Submitted

The deadline is quickly approaching for College of the Rockies’ Entrance Awards. Over $50,000 in entrance awards are available to first-year students entering full-time programs at College of the Rockies. Application deadline for many awards is March 28, 2013.

Scholarships and bursaries range from $500 tuition awards up to two-year full tuition scholarships with an approximate value of $7,000. Some awards are presented based on grade-point-average while others are granted based solely on financial need. Awards are also available for specific program areas including engineering,

business administration, culinary arts and trades.

College of the Rockies’ Financial Assistance and Awards Advisor Lois Murray says, “This is an excellent opportunity for students to alleviate some of the financial burden of attending post-secondary and gives them more freedom to focus on what is most important, doing well in classes and enjoying the College of the Rockies experience,” Murray continues.

Application forms and a complete list of awards and deadlines are available at: www. cotr.bc.ca/financialaid.

For more information, contact Lois Murray at 250-489-2751 ext. 3508 or murray@cotr.bc.ca.

College of the Rockies’ Financial Assistance and Awards Advisor Lois Murray is prepared to give away over $50,000 in entrance awards to first-year students.

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UPCOMING United Way Cranbrook and Kimberley invites supporters to an Appreciation Buffet Breakfast at the Heritage Inn, Cranbrook on Thursday, March 21st , 7:00 to 9:00am. RSVP before March 18th 250-426-8833 or crankimbunitedway@shaw.ca East Kootenay Railway Pensioners Association, Social Luncheon 12:30 pm, Tuesday Mar.19th, 2013 at the Bavarian Chalet (Day’s Inn) 600 Cranbrook St.N, Cranbrook. All Railway Retiree’s and Spouses are welcome, RSVP by Mar.15th. More info: Secretary Frances Allen at 250-426-2720 or Charlie Bichon at 250-426-2171.

2013 FREE FAMILY SWIM Wednesday, March 20th, 6:00-7:00 PM is sponsored by Exact Tax. Children 18 years & under must be accompanied by an adult.

PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT GROUP meets at the College of the Rockies on Wednesday, March 20, 7:00 pm. This is a special meeting for men who have been touched by Prostate Cancer.

More Info: Kevin at 427-3322 or Dennis at 489-5249.

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.

Have Camera Will Travel - Join BA and Darryl Price for their travelogue presentation “The Splendours of South America” at Centre 64 on Tuesday, March 26 at 7:30 pm. Admission by donation. Proceeds to Kimberley Arts Council & Expansion Project.

Wed April 3rd GoGo Grannies Travelogue. Very exciting Gorilla trek in Rwanda. Join Allister and Denise Pedersen as they take us on a photo journey of this gorilla trek, many other animals and exotic bird watching. Entry is by donation. 7:00pm, College of the Rockies Lecture Theatre. Info: Norma at 250-426-6111.

The GoGo Grannies of Kimberley are having a fund raising African Dinner on April 6 at 6 pm at the Old Bauernhaus. There will be an Silent Auction, Door Prizes and Great Food also a No Host Bar. Contact Ruth at 250-427-2706.

SOCIAL - DANCE held monthly at the Cranbrook Seniors HALL on 2nd St. South, APRIL 6th with music provided by the GREAT CANADIAN BARN DANCE of HILL SPRING, ALBERTA. Come out from 7-11 with friends and family for a night of Great Dance and fun! Call 250. 489. 2720. alcohol-free premise ONGOING Special Olympics BC – Kimberley/Cranbrook now has an Active Start! Active Start is for children with intellectual disabilities ages 2-6, teaching basic motor skills through fun, positive experiences.Thursdays, 10-11am at Kimberley Aquatic Centre ** Transportation available. Call Julia 427.3324 or Cyra 250.919.0757 Royal Canadian Legion Branch 24; Friday Meat Draw: 4:30- 6:30, Saturday Meat Draw: 3:30-5:30.

Registration for Cranbrook Minor Ball is available online at www.cranbrookminorball.net and at Player’s Bench until the end of March 2013.

Cranbrook Senior Centre, Branch 11 holding their meetings every third Thursday a month. 1:30pm at the hall. We always welcome new members.

Play and Learn Parenting/Literacy Program – 8 week registered program for parents with preschool children with a facilitated play and activity component for children.

Kimberley Early Learning Centre Kim 250-427-4468.

StrongStart BC - FREE family drop-in program for preschoolaged children accompanied by a parent. Kimberley Early Learning Centre. Monday 9 - 12, Tuesday 9 - 12, Thursday 9 – 12, Friday 9 - 12. Gina 250-427-5309.

Treehouse—Families with children 5 & under are invited to come play. Free drop-in program in gym of Kimberley Early Learning Centre. Transportation avail. Tuesdays, 9:00 - 12:00. Diana 250-427-0716.

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.

SPECIAL GOSPEL SERVICES: Each Sunday to March 31, 2013, from 3:00 - 4:00 PM Mountain Time. Girl Guides of Canada Hall, 1421 2nd St S Cranbrook. Phone contact: (250) 426-4791.

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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Titans release veteran QB Matt Hasselbeck NASHVILLE - The Tennessee Titans have released veteran quarterback Matt Hasselbeck, a move buying the team more cap space after they couldn’t work out an agreement to trim his $5.5 million salary for 2013.

Hasselbeck, 37, spent the past two seasons with Tennessee, leading the Titans to a 9-7 record and just missing the playoffs on a tiebreaker in 2011 in coach Mike Munchak’s debut season coming off the NFL lockout. Hasselbeck threw for 3,571 yards, the fourth-best passing season in the team’s history and the third highest of his career.

But the Titans used the No. 8 draft selection overall in 2011 on Jake Locker, and they named him their starter for 2012. Hasselbeck still started five straight games after Locker hurt his left shoulder. The 14year veteran has 34,517 yards passing for his career with 201 touchdowns. Due to count $7.5 million against the salary cap made him too pricey to keep for a team still needing help on the defensive line and at linebacker.

General manager Ruston Webster thanked Hasselbeck for the past two years.

“He was an important part of the transition process,” Webster said. “He was a pro at every turn, and he provided an example to the rest of the team. I know that we are a better team for his being here and we wish him the best.”

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Former Canadiens, Golden Seals hockey executive Frank Selke Jr. dead at 83 TORONTO - Noted Canadian sportsman Frank D. Selke Jr. has died at the age of 83.

The son of former Montreal Canadiens general manager Frank S. Selke, Frank Selke Jr. followed in his father’s footsteps as an executive and publicity director of the hockey club from 1951 to 1965.

He appeared in the team photos of six Stanley Cup-winning Canadiens rosters, but never had his name engraved on the trophy.

Selke Jr. then served as the team president of the expansion Oakland Golden Seals, later called the California Golden Seals.

He became involved in the Special Olympics in 1969, serving as an ambassador and fundraiser with the organization for the rest of his life.

Lindsay Glassco, the president and chief executive officer of Special Olympics Canada, confirmed Selke’s passing in a statement Monday.

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NFL to pay $42M to retired players to settle case for using names in promotions MINNEAPOLIS - The NFL has agreed to pay $42 million as part of a settlement with a group of retired players who challenged the league over using their names and images without their permission.

Terms of the settlement were announced on Monday. The league will use the money to fund a trust over the next eight years that will benefit retired players. The settlement also establishes a new licensing agency for retired players to ensure they are compensated for the use of their identities in promotional materials.

Hall of Famer Elvin Bethea and five other retired players filed the federal class-action lawsuit in Minneapolis in 2009 accusing the NFL exploiting retired players’ identities in films, highlight reels and memorabilia to market the league’s “glory days” without compensating the players.

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The mixed curling team of Tom and Lori Buchy and Dave and Robyn Toffolo, which represents the Kimberley Curling Club.

Kimberley curlers return from provincials TRE VOR CR AWLEY Sports Editor

The mixed curling duos of Tom and Lori Buchy, and Dave and Robyn Toffolo had a tough go at the mixed provincial championship in Vancouver over the weekend.

The team won their first game, but lost the following three, which didn’t qualify them for

the playoffs. The team went in as defending champions, capturing the title last year and representing B.C. on the national stage for the Canadian Mixed Curling Championships.

Buchy’s team scored a devastating four points in the ninth end of their opening game against Jay Wakefield of the hosting club to win

10-8 The next game didn’t go so well, as Tyler Klymchuk’s rink, out of Langley, scored four points in the first and sixth ends on their way to a 11-2 win over the Kimberley team.

The four then took on some familiar faces in a team skipped by Fizz McKie out of Sparwood. The two teams

were tied after the fifth end, but McKie deuced in the sixth and ninth end, with a single in the seventh, to win the game at a score of 8-5.

That dropped the Kimberley team down into the ‘C’ event, where they faced Wakefield again in a rematch. The two teams slugged it out and remained tied at 9-9 after 10 ends. Wakefied,

holding the hammer, was able to earn a single point in an extra end to ear the 10-9 victory, which ended the Buchy team’s chances of getting into the playoff bracket.

Keith Switzer and his team, representing the host club, won the provincial tournament, and will head off to nationals in Ottawa in November.

Team named for women’s world hockey championship DONNA SPENCER Canadian Press

Hayley Wickenheiser says a knee injury that kept her out of the Canadian university women’s hockey championship final will not prevent her from playing in the upcoming women’s world championship.

Canada’s all-time leading scorer was among the 23 players named Monday to the roster for the 2013 women’s world championship April 2-9 in Ottawa.

Canada is the defending champion after beating the host U.S. in overtime in last year’s final in Burlington, Vt. Wickenheiser “tweaked” her knee in the CIS semifinal March

9 while playing for the University of Calgary Dinos.

She was unable to play the following day in a 3-2 loss to the University of Montreal in the championship game.

“If it was the Olympic gold-medal final, I think I would have played, but I just couldn’t take a risk with world championships coming up,” the Canadian team captain said Monday.

“I just didn’t feel 100 per cent safe at that moment. I tried, but I couldn’t risk it.”

The forward from Shaunavon, Sask., said she skated Monday and will join her Canadian teammates for pre-tournament preparation

March 26 in Pembroke, Ont. “It was a minor injury I needed a little bit of time with, but I’ll be good to go for camp,” Wickenheiser said.

Dan Church coached Canada to victory in Burlington last year.

He’ll be behind Canada’s bench again both in Ottawa and at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

Along with scout Melody Davidson, Church chose the Canadian team for Ottawa.

The 28 players invited to try out for the Olympic team will be named shortly after the world championship.

“The decision was based on their collec-

tion of work over last year and this year and these just happened to be the players who have performed the most consistently and have earned the opportunity,” Church said.

“I think that’s a good thing leading into the world championships and then moving towards centralization next year. This is their time to perform.”

Canada’s roster for Ottawa is virtually identical to the victorious 2012 team with one exception.

Two-time Olympian Sarah Vaillancourt of Sherbrooke, Que., is back on the team after an extended absence due to a hip injury and

hernia surgery.

Vaillancourt bumped forward Vicki Bendus of Wasaga Beach, Ont., from the world championship squad.

Wickenheiser and Jayna Hefford will play in their 12th world championship and Ouellette her 11th in Ottawa, which was the site of the first women’s world tournament in 1990.

Canada opens April 2 against the U.S. at Scotiabank Place.

Canada’s women will play a Junior B men’s team March 28 in Petawawa and Sweden on March 30 in Pembroke as part of their pre-tournament preparation.

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Hopes high as five of seven Homan splits two games at world Canadian teams in playoff spots women’s curling championship Bill Beacon Canadian Press

Nine long years.

That’s how much time has passed since as many as five Canadian-based teams made the Stanley Cup playoffs.

If the season ended now, there would be five in the post-season, including Montreal, Winnipeg, Ottawa and Toronto in the Eastern Conference and Vancouver in the west.

Only Edmonton and Calgary would be left out, although heading into Monday’s games the Oilers were just two points behind eighth-place San Jose in the West and four points out of first place in the Northwest Division. The Flames were another two points back.

“It’s great to see,” Montreal defenceman Josh Gorges said.

“Canada’s been longing for a team to win a Cup and when you have more teams in the playoffs, obviously the odds are a lot greater.”

However, it is not like Gorges or any other player is rooting for fellow Canadian teams to make it.

They’re only concerned about getting their own teams over the hump.

“It’s exciting, but that’s about it,” added Gorges. “I’m worried about us. I don’t care whether the other teams make it or not, to be honest.”

His teammates said much the same, but that mindset could change if they get into the ampedup atmosphere and media coverage of a playoff series between two Canadian teams.

It hasn’t happened since five clubs made it in 2004.

That year, the Flames downed the Canucks in the first round en route to the Stanley Cup final,

where they lost in seven games to the Tampa Bay Lightning.

The same year, the Maple Leafs beat the Senators in the first round before bowing out to Philadelphia in a conference semifinal. It was the fourth time in a five-year span Toronto downed Ottawa in the post-season.

Montreal also made it in 2004 and beat Boston in the first round before losing to Tampa Bay.

“It’s great to see. Canada’s been longing for a team to win a Cup and when you have more teams in theh playoffs, obviously the odds are a lot greater.”

Josh Gorges The Canadiens, the last Canadian team to win a Stanley Cup in 1993, are battling for first place in the conference with a 19-5-4 record heading into a game Tuesday night against Buffalo.

With 20 games left to play, only a major collapse would keep them out of the post-season.

It’s dicier for the other Eastern Conference clubs.

The Jets (15-12-2) are battling Carolina for first place in the Southeast Division. If they hold on, it will give them third spot in the conference and put the franchise, formerly the Atlanta Thrashers, into the post-season for only the second time in its 13-year history.

An exhausted Winnipeg ended a three-game winning run with a 4-1 loss in Ottawa on Sunday that was their fifth game in eight days, but start a four-game

homestand Tuesday night against Boston.

The Senators (15-8-6), already without star forward Jason Spezza, appeared to have their hopes dashed when Norris Trophy defenceman Erik Karlsson’s season ended with a sliced Achilles tendon on Feb. 13.

When goalie Craig Anderson went down with a sprained ankle on Feb. 21, they looked dead line the water.

But goalies Robin Lehner and Ben Bishop stepped up, as did defenceman Sergei Gonchar, who has a seven-game point streak, and flashy winger Jakob Silfverberg. Ottawa has maintained a 10-1-3 home record and is 2-0-2 in its last four to move into fifth place.

The Leafs (15-12-2) got off to a hot start despite the loss of top line winger Joffrey Lupul three games into the season, but have tailed off alarmingly in the last two weeks. They are 0-3-2 in their last five, although Lupul has returned.

Toronto has not made the playoffs in seven years since the 2004-05 lockout.

The Canucks (13-8-6) are coming off consecutive seasons of finishing first overall in the 30team league but they are in a battle with Minnesota just to win the Northwest Division this season.

They were 3-3-2 in March heading into a showdown with the Wild on Monday night.

It has been three years for Calgary and six for Edmonton since they last played in the post-season.

The last time all the Canadian teams made it was 1985-86 when there were only 21 teams, seven of them in Canada.

Gregory Strong Canadian Press

RIGA, Latvia - Faced with a make-or-break shot with the game on the line, Canada’s Rachel Homan approached her final throw Monday morning just like any other.

She settled into the hack and coolly delivered a perfect draw inside the four-foot ring for a 5-4 victory over Russia. It was another example of the poise Homan displays on the ice, all the more impressive considering

it’s her first appearance at the world women’s curling championship.

The 23-year-old Ottawa skip thrived in the high-pressure moment at the Volvo Sports Center. Make the shot and you remain near the top of the standings. Miss it and you fall into the middle of the pack.

Homan came through to give Canada the victory over Anna Sidorova and the European champions.

“I think it’s a sign of all great skips that

Corey Perry signs eight-year extension with Anaheim Ducks C anadian Press

ANAHEIM, Calif. The Anaheim Ducks have locked up another forward with a longterm extension.

Corey Perry has agreed to an eight-year contract extension worth a reported US$8.625 million average per year.

The announcement - made Monday while the Ducks were taking on the San Jose Sharks at home - comes just

over week after Anaheim signed captain Ryan Getzlaf signed an eight-year, $66-million extension.

The 27-year-old Perry scored 50 goals in 2010-11 season to win the Hart Trophy and the Maurice (Rocket) Richard Trophy as the league’s top goal-scorer.

He has nine goals and 24 points in 25 games this season - his eighth with the club who drafted him in the

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that’s what they can do,” said Canadian coach Earle Morris.

“That’s why there’s only a certain number of people that are successful and continue to win year after year.

Those people that are comfortable in that skip’s position and like to play the high-pressure shots.

“They enjoy being in that environment, they embrace it and she has that quality.

She’s able to do that and that’s what you saw this morning.”

first round (28th overall) in 2003.

The three-time AllStar won a Stanley Cup with Anaheim in 2007.

“Similar to the case with Ryan Getzlaf, Corey wanted to stay in Anaheim and be part of our organization long term,” said Ducks general manager Bob Murray in a statement. “He is an exceptional player who competes with heart and soul and has won at every level.”

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See France at its best on a luxury river cruise Maritime Travel’s Carla Nelson explores the hottest new European travel trend

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f European river cruising isn’t the hottest new travel trend, then I don’t know what is! Since barges turned into luxury vessels plying the rivers of Europe, it has become so popular that many itineraries must be booked a year in advance. The number of new ships entering the market each year is staggering, all due to demand.

So why is this? Well, if you are tired of fighting the crowds and want an in-depth cultural experience without giving up comfort, then river cruising is probably for you.

Most travellers are 50+, have a decent annual income, are fairly well travelled, want some physical activity with your travel, and a fulfilling ‘experience’ instead of just a vacation.

River cruises allow you to immerse yourself in the destination, enjoy local food and wine, visit and mingle with the locals, understand the culture and the history, all with a small group of like-minded travellers… what could be better?

My first river cruise experience combined the best of my worlds – wine, vineyards, lavender and sunflower fields, olive oil, cheese and chocolate, medieval history and culture, spectacular countryside, and a comfortable, well-equipped ship with friendly, multicultural staff, and allowed me to keep active with walking, biking and dancing. Where was I?

On Avalon Waterway’s Scenery cruising the Saone and Rhone Rivers through Burgundy and Provence in France.

This vacation began in Paris with a couple of nights at a hotel, so time to start practicing the high school French and see the must-see sights.

Following that, we visited Beaune, the main centre of the wine trade in Burgundy, and then boarded our ship in Chalon-sur-Saone (a quick, painless embarkation process – after all, there were only 130 passengers).

Chalon is famous for the Niepce Museum, which is devoted to the work of Joseph Nicephore Niepce who is credited with inventing photography in 1816, and also has a lovely riverfront walkway for biking, walking or jogging.

A couple hours of cruising later, a few locks and low bridges, we arrive in Tournus, famous for its Romanesque churches, and pate de foie gras.

Next stop, overnighting in Macon – good food and good wine – think boeuf bourguigon, Beaujolais and Pouilly-Fuisse!

You spend almost two days in Lyon, France’s third largest city, which allows you to experience day and nighttime activities. You must try ‘gratinee lyonnais’ (onion soup with toasted cheese and bread topping). And I

must say, I experienced some great shopping, especially in the shoe shops!

This is also the confluence of the two rivers – Saone and Rhone. Presqu’ile is the peninsula between the Saone and Rhone Rivers and has a beautiful square and some prime real estate.

The next stop, Tournon, has a wonderful chocolate factory on the riverbank, and a real castle complete with moat, suspension bridge and wrought iron chains.

Further downstream, Viviers is one of the most well-preserved medieval towns in southern France. It was fun getting lost in the winding cobblestone streets for the day.

The last two stops on this itinerary are highlights – Avignon and Arles. Arriving in Avignon, your included shore excursion is a walking tour (as it is in every stop), which visits the Palace of the Popes. Avignon is a centre for performing arts and actors wander the streets promoting their shows, which in itself is very entertaining!

Avignon is also the hopping-off stop to visit Chateauneuf du Pape (an area, not just a wine), where I learned to wine taste ‘the correct way’… ahem.

As in many of the stops along the river, local entertainers are brought on the ship in the evening, and after performing for a couple hours, simply get off the ship

and go back home. So you know it is very authentic.

Arles is home to one of the largest Roman amphitheatres, capable of seating 26,000 back in 1AD. Arles is also famous for the tragic last phase of the life of Vincent Van Gogh in 1889.

Upon debarkation in Arles, you travel to Nice in the French Riviera, capital of the Cote d’Azur and home of salade nicoise, the famous Promenade des Anglais, and topless sunbathing on the rocky beaches. What a great trip!

River cruise season is now year-round, with Tulip Time cruises in the Netherlands in early spring and Christmas Market cruises in Germany, but the most popular season is May to September. I recommend either May or September, to avoid the crowds, heat and humidity of Europe in the summer months.

Most cruise tours begin in easy-to-get-to large European cities, such as Amsterdam, Prague, Budapest, Paris or Nice. They include preand post-cruise accommodation and sightseeing. They also include transfers, shore excursions, beer and wine with meals, bottled water, internet, and many things that other cruise vacations do not.

To learn more, contact Carla Nelson at Maritime Travel, 1001 Baker St, Cranbrook, or phone 250-489Cruising the River Rhone in France is a trip that has it all.

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Dear Annie: Like “Well Endowed in Kansas,” my breasts were often the topic of conversation. After my second child was born, my chest ballooned to a size GG on my size8 frame. Carrying around a 1-year-old and an infant in addition to my chest was unbearable. Enduring the leers and snide jokes from disgusting men and the backhanded comments from other women was demoralizing.

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Tuesday, MARCH 19, 2013 Page 15

NEWS

Helicopter hijacked at gunpoint in Quebec prison escape C anadian Press

MASCOUCHE, Que. — A stunning helicopter escape from prison allegedly began with a gun being pulled on a pilot who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

A police charge sheet said accomplices used a .38-calibre handgun to hijack a helicopter and force the pilot to veer off course and toward a prison in St-Jerome.

The two alleged accomplices and the two escaped convicts, who were all arrested within hours, appeared in court Monday.

They were slapped with nearly two-dozen charges.

Police weren’t taking any chances with these prisoners.

“We’re going to need more shackles,’’ one provincial police officer shouted out to colleagues as he emerged from the courthouse garage, where he’d been loading the already-shackled suspects

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Police vehicles block the road leading to a detention centre in St. Jerome, Que., Sunday, March 17, 2013, where two prisoners made a daring escape by helicopter. into a van.

A moment later, the van with the suspects sped away from the courthouse and back to prison, surrounded by police cars with their lights flashing and sirens blaring.

Police said Monday that they considered the suspects armed and extremely dangerous. At least one had been linked in news reports over the years to the Hells Angels criminal biker gang.

There was apparently an exchange of gunfire during the operation.

Provincial police spokesman Benoit Richard said gun shots rang out at a rural cabin where the fugitives had been tracked down the previous day. He said nobody was injured.

The men staged their dramatic daylight jailbreak Sunday when they climbed a rope into a hovering helicopter.

Their freedom was

shortlived as police moved swiftly to track them down at the cabin.

Just before 8:30 p.m.

E.T., about six hours after the escape, police confirmed they had arrested Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau and two other suspects.

Much of the action took place in Chertsey, Que., about 50 kilometres north of the jail in Saint-Jerome from where the inmates escaped.

Officers had blocked

off the main road in Chertsey, not far from the village of St-Marguerite, and were pulling over cars Sunday night.

Earlier Sunday, authorities said 36-yearold Hudon-Barbeau and 33-year-old Danny Provencal had broken out of the jail by clambering up a rope into a waiting helicopter.

Police had tracked down the helicopter about 85 kilometres away in Mont-Tremblant, but only the chop-

per’s pilot was still at the scene.

The pilot was taken to an area hospital where investigators were expected to speak with him. Richard said the pilot was treated for shock and is considered an important witness in the case.

Hours after the jailbreak, a Montreal radio station, 98.5 FM, received a call from a man claiming to be Hudon-Barbeau, who said he was “ready to die’’ as he tried to evade police.

“The way they’re treating me in there, it’s unreal,’’ the man told the radio station.

Richard said Hudon-Barbeau had suffered a non-firearm related injury during the incident and was under guard in hospital.

One news report said he plunged from a two-storey height and broke bones during the helicopter escape.

According to a provincial police release, Hudon-Barbeau was ar-

rested in November 2012 on two firearm-related charges and associating with people who have a criminal record.

Yves Galarneau, the correctional services manager who oversees the St-Jerome jail said he’d never seen anything like Sunday’s dramatic escape in more than three decades on the job.

“As far as I know, it’s a first in Quebec,’’ he told reporters at the scene. “It’s exceptional.’’

While the tactic may have been a first for Quebec, using a chopper to break out of jail has a long and colourful history, and not just in the movies.

A New York businessman, Joel David Kaplan, used a chopper to escape from a Mexican jail in 1971, and went on to write a book about it.

Pascal Payet, a French prisoner, used a helicopter to escape on three occasions, only to be caught by authorities every time.

Off Leash

Page 16 Tuesday, MARCH 19, 2013

Greetings dearest Humantypes:

daily townsman / daily bulletin

An unrestrained dogumentary.

Permit me to introduce myself.

My name – at least the one bestowed upon me by my people – is Boulder. By taxonomy I am of the sub species, canis lupus familiaris, a golden retriever by lineage and man’s best friend by vocation. Put simply, I am a dog.

Now I know it is somewhat unusual for a canine to presume that he has something so important to say that he deserves his own column but I assure you my motives are dog like and thus, benevolent. It is my hope that perhaps a creature looking in from out side the doghouse (or fishbowl if you will) might bring a fresh perspective to the human condition. It is what we dogs do after all, we watch you. Every move, every tic, every tock.

The View from here: Sunsets, like this one I encountered while out walking my human, are beautiful from any perspective, four legged or two.

For over 15,000 years dogs have been fascinated by Homo sapiens. We have worked with you, played with you, comforted you, and been comforted by you. We have been on the same team for quite a while, and in that time we have come to know you possibly better than you know yourselves.

We love you despite your being the most arrogant of species.

In my humble opinion, there is no such thing as a bad human. Sure, some of you misbehave, are self indulgent, and unpredictable, but you no doubt have been poorly trained or were mistreated when you were a pup. I believe that even the most unruly two-legger can be turned around with a little affection and some firm, clear, rules to live by. Humans - being pack animals by nature – are much more comfortable and able to thrive, in a structured environment.

And so, with the help of some photos borrowed from my human, occasional guest writings from my friends Dog Taylor, and Morley the Cat, we will, every Tuesday, endeavour to enrich your lives with a dollop of four-legged insight and perhaps, even bring a smile. These will be, as the name of the column implies, unrestrained rambles.

Our thoughts will follow our noses toward whatever scent we currently find intriguing.

After all, that is what dogs do.

Your pup in perpetuity, Boulder Photos and word processing by Dan Mills

The Last Resort: The residence that Taylor and I share with our humans and - unfortunately - a cat. A quiet location with the rural advantages a dog can appreciate.

May I introduce, my fellow canine and pack-mate, Dog Taylor. We make a good looking pair, don’t you think?

The Very Last Resort: This quaint cottage was built by my humans with designs of making it my principle home. Long on charm but short on central heating, I use it really. The male human however, has been banished there on occasion due to bd behaviour.

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