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No fireworks on Canada Day
Life in Anatevka, circa 1905
A R N E P E T RYS H E N Townsman Staff
Canada Day celebrations in Cranbrook will likely be a toned down affair this year, as the city doesn’t have the money to put on anything to rival past years. The plan now is for festivities to take the form of a daytime event at Rotary Park with cake and music. Council did leave an option open for fireworks, in the case there’s an 11th hour proposal. Cranbrook received a grant from Heritage
SALLY MACDONALD PHOTO
Mount Baker Secondary’s production of Fiddler on the Roof opens tonight, Thursday, May 9 at Key City Theatre and plays through to Sunday, May 12. Show times are 7:30 p.m. Thursday to Saturday and a Sunday matinee at 2 p.m. Tickets are $15 for adults; $12 for seniors and students. Pictured above, Teyve, played by Angus Liedtke, tells his wife Golde, played by Brianna Kennedy, about his terrible dream.
Local baker catches YouTube’s eye Cranbrook’s JJ’s Custom Cakery could land on YouTube’s home page – if you cast your vote S A LLY MACDONAL D Townsman Staff
A local cakemaker could land her videos on the home page of YouTube after being nominated in a high-profile contest. Jenn Johns of JJ’s Custom Cakery and her partner Paul Dalcanale create how-to baking videos for their YouTube
channel, Cupcakes and Cardio. Since they started the videos in March 2011, the channel has garnered more than four million views and 35,000 subscribers. “It has just taken off recently,” said Johns. “It’s taken on a life of its own. “We have fans all over the
world and the feedback we get it absolutely amazing.” “We have more subscribers than double Cranbrook. It’s absolutely so humbling. And we are small-time compared to the big YouTubers. That’s why this contest is so huge for us because it could catapult us into that big player category.” One of those subscribers
— Johns doesn’t know who — nominated the channel for YouTube’s monthly “On The Rise” program. The program selects four channels each month that are growing in popularity but haven’t yet reached 100,000 subscribers.
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Canada for $2,500 which matches the city’s budgeted amount of $2,500 for festivities, and so there is $5,000 for celebrations. The city estimated the fireworks alone costing $7,000. A group of volunteers has not yet come forward to plan the event, so city staff and leisure services had been working on a plan for $12,150, but the city would have to contribute another $7,150 to meet that amount.
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Arts council celebrates 40th anniversary CDAC is kicking off the summer with a handful of Cranbrook’s most talented acts K AI T Y BROWN Townsman Staff
The Cranbrook and District Arts Council is having their 40th Anniversary Celebration on Wednesday, May 17 at 7 p.m. at the Ktunaxa Gymnasium, 220 Cranbrook Street. The council is celebrating their achieve-
ments over the past 40 years on the same date, May 17, as the council was founded. They will be showcasing an eclectic mix of talents, from belly dancers to storytelling to Celtic music.
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