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Missing men may have crashed into Findlay Creek Searchers find personal items at site but as of press time no sign of vehicle or occupants SALLY MACDONALD Townsman Staff

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An aid station comprised of members of the Cranbrook Society for Community Living hands out water to racers during the 20th annual Wasa Triathlon on Sunday, June 9. See Page 9 for a special photo feature.

Crash trial begins in Cranbrook Trial underway three years to the day after the death of Jaffray’s Ian Shepherd SALLY MACDONALD Townsman Staff

A trial has begun in Cranbrook for a Jaffray man charged with criminal negligence over the death of 23-year-old Ian Shepherd in June 2010.

Kyle Neidig, 26, has

been charged with criminal negligence causing death, impaired driving causing death, and causing an accident resulting in death, after a motor vehicle incident just outside Cranbrook three years ago.

Neidig’s trial is scheduled for Monday, June 10 to Thursday, June 14, followed by a second week in several months, September 9 to 12.

In her opening remarks about the witness testimony set to be

given at the trial, Crown prosecutor Lianna Swanson told Judge Grant Sheard that the two young men, who both lived in Jaffray, came to Cranbrook together on the evening of Thursday, June 10, 2010.

They went to the Mount Baker Hotel, and later to Shotgun Willy’s.

Soon after 2 a.m. Friday morning, they left the nightclub and dropped off two female friends in Cranbrook.

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Search and Rescue teams have found evidence that a vehicle ran off the road into a creek near the area where two young men went missing Saturday.

Stephen Thomson, 21, of Canal Flats, and Nicholas Hoefnagels, 18, from Carstairs, Alberta, left their campsite at Whitetail Lake around 3 p.m. on Saturday, June 8.

At around 2:30 a.m.

Sunday when they hadn’t returned, friends phoned RCMP. A search began early Sunday morning, with Search and Rescue teams from Kimberley and the Columbia Valley joining RCMP for the operation.

According to an RCMP statement, at around noon on Sunday search teams found a spot on Findlay Creek Forest Service Road where a vehicle had left the road, with tracks leading down a steep embankment into Findlay Creek.

A Search and Rescue rope team combed the area and found personal items belonging to the subjects on the bank of

the creek.

After the discovery, the search focused on downstream of this spot on Findlay Creek, using a helicopter as well as ground search teams.

However, a statement from RCMP Monday said there is no sign of either the vehicle the missing men were driving or the men themselves.

“Currently the water levels are very high which makes searching difficult. The area around the creek is steep and rocky, limiting access. The visibility is low.

The RCMP dive team has been involved but the flow of the water is too fast to safely put divers in the water,” said Cpl. Chris Newel of Kimberley RCMP in a statement.

“Friends and family gathered at the site during the search. Victim Services assisted them in dealing with the situation,” said Cpl. Newel.

Findlay Creek Forest Service Road meets Highway 93/95 west of Canal Flats and leads to Whitetail Lake and the Blue Lake Centre.

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As I lie here in the warmth of the early morning sun, trying to compose this piece of poochy prose, I feel myself flush with a sense of guilty pleasure.

I am at this moment overwhelmed with contentment — surrounded, if you will, by an embarrassment of riches. With the caress of the sun, a belly full of kibble and my world veritably exploding in new green growth, I could wonder what previous karma paid for this opulence.

But instead, I close my eyes and let my nose drink in the smell of early June.

One of the scents that drifts to me is that of the wild roses that have just come into bloom in the llama pasture. Their aroma is so rich and heavy that even humans with their impotent noses marvel at the beautiful perfume. Unfortunately, it is a short-lived olfactory gift as the llamas too enjoy roses — the woolly ones think they taste delicious.

An appreciation for the flowers that flourish in late spring and early summer, is one that is shared by many species. Humans, being predominantly visual creatures, are more taken with the colours and the delicate structural design of the blooms. We dogs of course relish the plethora of scents and the delicate structural design of the smells. Regardless, running in slow motion through a field of wild flowers, whether on two legs or four, is a scene and a scent common to the collective unconscious us both.

Another of my favourite vegetations in early summer are the tender shoots of new grass that sprout seemingly everywhere. It is with some consternation that my human watches me seek out these delicate grasses and begin to graze on them. He sees this behaviour as positively undog-like. To him, I am strictly a carnivore and thus eating any kind of plant material is seen as odd. In actuality, however, it maybe one of the very things that distinguishes us as dogs. You see, although our lineage comes directly from wolves — who make their way in the world by devouring other protein-rich creatures — through a process of evolved domestication, we dogs changed.

Just recently, Erik Axelsson, an evolutionary geneticist in Sweden, discovered that dogs have “three key genes involved in the digestion of starch” that wolves do not. Another scientist, UCLA evolutionary biologist Robert Wayne, believes that dogs (then wolves) started hanging out with people 30,000 years ago when humans were hunters and left a lot of scraps around for hungry canines to scavenge.

So dogs, being the intelligent critters we are, decided that humans were all right in our book. Then you silly humans started farming and eating plants. Since we had kind of grown fond of you crazy hominids (and your penchant for leaving food laying about) we dogs decided to stick around and learn to eat our veggies. And so it was that over time the diet of both humans and dogs evolved. As with almost everything done in this special inter-species relationship, we did it together.

So gentle reader, the next time you see a dog nibbling on a little grass it does not mean it is going to rain, or that your pooch has an upset stomach and needs to vomit — it is simply a sign of our love for you. That and the fact it tastes delicious.

However, if by chance we do ingest just a little too much of that deliciousness and accidently leave a little something for you to clean up off the carpet in the morning, remember, it was you who started this whole eating plants thing, so you only have yourself to blame.

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Under Pressure: Part Two

The problem with our pipes This four-part feature series explains the difficulties facing Cranbrook’s pipes. In today’s second article, reporter Sally MacDonald learns why pipes burst and where the problem areas are in Cranbrook

Sally MacDonald Townsman Staff

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am on a tour of Cranbrook’s water system with Director of Public Works Joe McGowan. So far, we’ve seen where our water is stored at Phillips Reservoir, and learnt why Cranbrook is blessed to have lots of pressure in our water distribution system.

In this second article in the “Under Pressure” series, we are looking at how the city reduces the pressure in our water, and why that excess pressure causes problems with leaking pipes.

Because Cranbrook’s water reservoir sits at a higher elevation to the city itself, our water is high pressure. Water gains pressure based on the amount of elevation it loses getting to the tap.

But the elevation difference is big enough that the city has to work to reduce the pressure in our water to make it safe to turn on the tap.

The safe zone for water pressure is 42 to 65 psi.

Without pressure reducing valves, at Cranbrook’s lowest the pressure would be 260 psi.

To reduce water pressure, Cranbrook is divided into five pressure zones. Every time a trunk water main crosses one of those zones, the city has built a pressure reducing station – there are 13 in total.

Joe has brought me to one of the 13 pressure-reducing stations.

We are standing in a small concrete building, filled with blue-painted 24-inch pipes and the technology used to control the water inside.

“We are in the lucky position where we have to lose energy, as opposed to other folks who have to spend it,” says Joe. “The way we do that is with a pressure reducing valve. It takes the energy and converts it so that less energy comes out than goes in.”

The valves look very complex, but the con-

cept is simple. The water comes through the pipe to a special valve that holds a circular rubber disc, or diaphragm. On the top of the diaphragm, the valve uses a combination of hydraulic pressure and a spring to exert force on the water passing through the valve.

Water coming into the valve is forced to push up the rubber diaphragm in order to pass and continue on its burbling way. Pushing against the rubber diaphragm uses energy, thus causing the pressure to drop.

Utilities staff can control the amount of energy, or pressure that the rubber diaphragm takes away from the water passing through.

“We can control the amount of water going through the valve. If we turn it down, there will be less pressure in the water. If we turn it up, there will be more pressure coming in, less pressure coming out,” Joe explains.

For instance, at one pressure reducing station in the highest elevation zone, the water comes in at 120 psi. The valve drops it down to 50 psi.

The fanciest piece of technology involved in the process is the remote monitoring system. The pressure can be watched remotely using specialty software and a radio linked communication network called SCADA, which stands for Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition.

Sitting in his truck, Joe pulls out his cell phone and opens an app that connects to the city’s SCADA system, showing how he can see water pressure and water quality throughout the city with the touch of a button.

The SCADA system also gives the city accurate data about when the most water is being drawn from the system, and where. This helps

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City of Cranbrook Director of Public Works Joe McGowan explains how pressure reduction works by pointing out the big circular disc that contains a rubber diaphragm to drop the pressure. the city with diagnostics when there is a problem with the pipes.

Cranbrook’s pipes leak surprisingly often, especially in the oldest parts of town on Baker Hill.

“The older pipes get, the less capable they are,” Joe says.

But the age of the pipe is not the only thing that causes it to burst.

If the pipe is not installed properly, it will fail sooner.

The more water the pipe carries and the faster that water travels, the sooner it will fail because the tiny minerals in the water are abrasive in large quantities.

The type of soil surrounding the pipe also plays a role, since moving water creates electricity, and electrons will leave the pipe at a weak point if the soil surrounding the pipe seems more appealing to the electron.

These factors, as well as nicks in the pipes created by rocks or rough

treatment when the pipe was installed, all create weakness in the pipe. And water is mean: it will spot a weakness and prey on it.

“What causes the pipes to fail? It’s very much like a person with high blood pressure.

What will happen is if you have a weakened vein, that’s where the pressure will want to escape,” Joe says. “If there is a weakened portion of the main, that’s where it is going to rupture.”

Plus, Cranbrook’s pipes are getting on in years. On average, our pipes are 30 to 60 years through a 60 to 80-year lifespan.

Since our water gathers so much pressure from the elevation change, in some areas of the community the pipes are more likely to fail sooner.

“In Cranbrook, we’ve got old pipes that are falling apart, and we’ve got pressure issues,” Joe says.

“After World War 2, a

lot of communities grew. We changed from a rural country to an urban country. In order to accommodate that influx, communities built a lot of water and sewer mains. Those mains are getting old, like the people who put them in.”

Like Cranbrook’s roads, the water system needs quite a bit of money spent on it, money the city doesn’t have.

According to a 2012 Infrastructure Report Card, if the city had the

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money, Cranbrook’s water system would need $8.3 million spent on it immediately just to get it up to scratch before the city can begin to replace pipes.

What’s more, water, sewer, storm water and road systems usually need to be fixed at the same time, so the cost of repairs is cumulative.

In Cranbrook, on top of the $8.3 million initial cost the water system needs spent on it, our wastewater system needs $10 million spent on it, storm water $6.3

million, and roads $58 million.

“These staggering dollar values are required prior to the start of any asset replacement program,” explains Joe. Mayor Wayne Stetski has previously said that every $200,000 in new money that the City of Cranbrook adds to its budget is a one per cent increase in property taxes.

In 2012, Cranbrook made 24 repairs to water services, 44 repairs to the water mains under the streets, and one repair to a hydrant.

In older parts of town, each repair costs around $5,000. In newer areas, the figure is closer to $10,000.

Joe drives me through the parts of Cranbrook where the pipes are the weakest.

“I liken it to a popcorn popper,” he says, because the ruptures are coming fast.

We drive down one block on Baker Hill where Joe estimates that every lot has had a break in the past two years.

“In this area, we are digging out water mains once a week,” he says.

The situation may seem dire, but the City of Cranbrook is taking steps to reduce the amount of breaks in the pipe, while it waits for money to replace the pipes.

See Wednesday’s Townsman to learn about those ingenuous measures in the third part of the feature series, “Under Pressure”.

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At the Cranbrook Public Library Peter Brown Hoffmeister encourages overprotective parents to let their children enjoy the outdoors more in ‘Let Them Be Eaten By Bears.’

Kid-lawyer Theodore Boone returns for his fourth adventure in John Grisham’s ‘The Activist.’

Storytime is now in hiatus until the fall. However, the Summer Reading Club begins on June 22, and it looks like it is going to be our best one ever!

On display this month are the beautiful wood paintings of Bunnie Klassen, reflecting her passion for rescue animals.

Mike Selby The Ballad of Jacob Peck – Debra Komar The Old House Doctor – Christopher Evers Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book – Lawrence Hill Kitchen Gardening for Beginners – Simon AkeroydLiving the Good Long Life – Martha Stewart Encyclopedia of Gardening Techniques – David Ellis Guy Gourmet – Adina Steiman Trellises, Planets & Raised Beds The Turk Who Loved Apples – Matt Gross How to Buy the Right Plants, Tools, and Garden Supplies – Jim Fox Let Them Be Eaten By Bears

– Peter Brown Hoffmeister Field & Stream Total Fishing Manual – Joe Cermele The First Meadowlark – Joyce Beek (bio) In the Body of the World – Eve Ensler(bio) Perdita – Hilary Scharper (fic) Sweet Sanctuary -- Kim Vogel Sawyer (fic) It Happened At The Fair – Deeanne Gist (fic) Robert Ludlum’s The Utopia Experiment – Kyle Mills (fic) Someday, Someday, Maybe – Lauren Graham (fic) A Delicate Truth – John Le Carre (fic) The Other Typist – Suzanne Rindell (fic) The Perfect Ghost – Linda Barnes (fic) The Interestings – Meg Wolitzer (fic) Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns – Lauren Weisberger (fic) Joyland – Stephen King (fic)

Adult Newly Acquired North America: A World in One Continent – Huw Cordey (970) The Food Allergy Mama’s Easy, Fast Family Meals – Kelly Rudnicki (641.56318) Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition – Colin T. Campbell (613.2) Consumed: Food for a Finite Planet – Sarah Elton (630) The Omni Diet – Tana Amen (613.25) Hitler’s Charisma – Laurence Rees (943.0860) Why Men Fake It – Abraham Morgentaler Continued from page 1 Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation – Michael PolAt around 2:45 a.m. driver arrived on the lan on Friday, June 11, scene, Neidig was out 2010, a commercial of the vehicle, but truck driver came there was no sign of Pines Memorial and upon the accident Shepherd.

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Trial begins three years after crash westbound lane.

The first witness to be called in the trial was Shepherd’s mother, Laurie Shepherd, who was in tears as she talked about her athletic son, who was a part-time bull rider and volunteer firefighter.

Neidig remained composed with his head down as he sat beside his legal counsel Neil Robertson in the courtroom Monday.

The trial continues all week in Cranbrook Provincial Court.

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Theft in Wycliffe

Residents reminded to stay vigilant K ait y Brown

A theft of fuel, a credit card and cash took place in Wycliffe last weekend, June 7 and 8, between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m.

About 300 litres of fuel was stolen when the lock was cut off of a tank mounted on a farm truck of a residence on Porteous Road in Wycliffe.

A visa card and cash from an unlocked vehicle at the same residence was also reported stolen.

Cpl. Chris Newel of the Kimberley RCMP says that citizen vigilance is key in catching culprits.

“The best thing that people can do is just be vigilant, watching out and being vigilant to who is around,” said Cpl. Newel.

“I appreciate that these things happen in the middle of the night

and it’s hard but often times the neighbour or people around the area are our best source of information, if they have seen a vehicle in the area or if they have seen something suspicious.”

The RCMP officer also says that there haven’t been any other reported thefts in the area so far.

“This is certainly something new, where there are farms and acreages around.”

However, residents are advised not to keep valuables in their vehicles and reminded to try to remember to lock their vehicles at all times, in all locations.

Currently, the RCMP does not have more information but they encourage residents to call the RCMP office at 250427-4811 with any details they have about the case.

Motel burns down in Radium Closed Ritz Motel in Radium burned down completely Sunday June 9 – cause unknown Kaity Brown

The Ritz Motel in Radium, which has been closed for a few years, burned down on Sunday, June 9.

There were no injuries and firefighters were able to contain the fire, protecting a nearby hotel which sustained some water damage.

“Our main concern was trying to protect an adjacent motel,” said Dave Dixon, Fire Chief of the Radium Hot Springs Volunteer Fire Department.

“The building has basically been torn down except for one small attached unit that was not involved. We did have an excavator on site as well and he started to tear it down so we could get at some of the hot spots. We couldn’t go into the building at all.”

Currently the cause of the fire is unknown

and investigation is underway.

“It is still not finalized yet. At this point in time there is no known cause but it is definitely a suspicious fire,” said Dixon. “We don’t know what happened.”

Dixon explains that the caretaker of the building was not present at the time of the fire and so he also is unaware of the cause.

“We got called about 4:50 p.m. yesterday afternoon,” Dixon said.

“As we got set up, we called in for additional resources to help us because it was very windy and smoky.

“We are very appreciative of all the help we received from the different fire departments, the ambulances and the police and BC Hydro. A few of the local businesses also supplied us with some food and refreshments while we were there.”

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Local NEWS Cranbrook mayor says municipal audit will cost taxpayers

A r n e P e t rys h e n Townsman Staff

The City of Cranbrook is one of the municipalities that has been chosen by the new Municipal Auditor General to be audited.

The city will be audited under the Learnings from Local Government Capital Procurement Projects and Asset Management Programs, along with a number of other communities.

Cranbrook Mayor Wayne Stetski said the audit will mean extra work for the city, though he added that as with all visitors to Cranbrook, the city welcomes them. “(The audit) will mean extra work for staff to provide the information requested and to discuss it,” Mayor Stetski said.

“Our hope is that we can provide the Municipal Auditor General

with best management practices that can be exported to other municipalities. If there are better management practices that they can identify, we will be happy to implement them. Our understanding is that these are not financial audits which makes sense since, by law, municipalities cannot run a financial deficit.”

Stetski said that city staff talked to the mu-

“Setting up and operating the new Municipal Auditor General’s office costs B.C. taxpayers $3 million this year,” he said. “Since this is a brand new initiative by the province we will track how much it costs the city in staff time. We have been advised that we will not be able to claim these costs back from the Municipal Auditor General or the province of B.C.”

nicipal auditor general’s staff after the city received the letter. The city was told communities of various population sizes across B.C. were chosen to be audited, then selected for what would be audited.

A number of communities are being audited across the province, with a focus on different subject areas.

Stetski said there are two costs to taxpayers.

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VICTORIA – Premier Christy Clark plans to call the B.C. legislature back into session by the end of June, to begin debate on her government’s budget while she campaigns in a by-election.

Clark chaired the first meeting of her new cabinet Monday, after she and the 19 cabinet ministers were sworn at a ceremony at Government House.

She said the session will emphasize the same themes as the B.C. Liberal election campaign, balancing the budget and making the economy, not the government, grow larger.

A by-election in Westside-Kelowna will be announced this week, and Clark said she hopes to have a seat in the legislature by the end of July after losing Vancouver-Point Grey to the NDP in the May 14 general election.

Veteran Richmond East MLA Linda Reid is to be nominated for speaker of the legisla-

ture. Clark said there will be no new legislation introduced in the summer session, aside from an updated version of the February budget.

Cabinet ministers were given “mandate letters” itemizing their priorities in the new government. Among those is one to new Education Minister Peter Fassbender, instructing him to seek a 10year agreement with B.C. teachers, whose current contract expires June 30.

Clark also emphasized that the “core review” of government programs would be a key task for all cabinet ministers. That will look for functions that don’t need to be done by government, and on reducing excessive regulation that Clark said is a natural accumulation of governments over time.

Clark acknowledged that B.C.’s public service is already one of the leanest in the country, and said the latest review will not likely result in substantial job losses.

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Expense cleanup must continue

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s she unveiled her new cabinet, Premier Christy Clark promised a “lineby-line” review of government spending to deliver a balanced budget this year.

Statements such as this would have more credibility if politicians subjected their own personal spending to the same scrutiny. That’s still not happening in B.C. Expense accountability has come a long way in the last year, thanks mainly to the work of now-departed Auditor General John Doyle, who swung the cobweb-covered door open on B.C.’s secretive Legislative Assembly Management Committee. Chaired by the speaker and run by senior MLAs from both parties, the committee had been doing pretty much whatever it wanted with MLAs’ own expenses.

Doyle’s audit found that MLA credit card bills were being paid without receipts, part of a lax accounting system that included inaccurate bank records and inadequate management of the legislature gift shop and dining room. The operating budget of the legislature and constituencies runs to more than $60 million a year.

Now-retired speaker Bill Barisoff asked the auditor to give a pass to the $119,000 annual allowance for each of the 85 constituency offices. Transfer amounts and payroll expenses were verified, but constit-

uency expenses were not, likely because these records weren’t kept either.

I’m not suggesting that there has been any misuse of public funds. The point is we don’t know, and the notion of an “honour system” for politicians’ expenses has become unacceptable.

A similar toxic tale has been unfolding in the Senate in Ottawa. It has its own seBC VIEWS cretive committee called the Board of Internal Economy, Tom which was forced into the Fletcher open after trying to sweep Senator Mike Duffy’s housing claims under the red rug of the Senate chamber.

Duffy has lived in Ottawa for decades, first as a TV host and then senator, but he decided the rules were loose enough that he could claim his summer place in Prince Edward Island as his principal residence. An audit has also found he was claiming living expenses in Ottawa while campaigning for the Conservatives back east. It turns out the key ingredient in an honour system is honour.

This mess goes back more than a century in B.C. and Canada, and has its roots in the British Parliament, where MPs and Lords had a system of claiming all sorts of expenses, including construction of a “duck house” and maintenance of the moat around an Honourable Member’s castle.

Many years ago, British MPs convinced

themselves that they were underpaid, and rather than create a public fuss by giving themselves a big raise, they would be able to top it up by claiming up to 250 pounds at a time without receipts. Cheers!

You can imagine how well that worked out. As one observer put it, the system was not only open to abuse, it was actually designed for it.

Here in B.C., the next step is obvious. If you go to the website of Alberta Premier Alison Redford, you can easily find the link to her detailed expense reports, itemized for travel, meals, hotel rooms and so forth.

Alberta cabinet ministers provide the same disclosure.

B.C. cabinet ministers’ travel expenses are now reported, but only as an occasional lump sum.

As a result of Doyle’s revelations last summer, B.C.’s Legislative Assembly Management Committee now meets in public, with transcripts of proceedings available.

But MLA expenses are still not itemized.

Total expenditures are being reported on a quarterly basis, but with no detail to explain why some MLAs have much higher totals than others.

It’s time to sweep out the cobwebs.

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

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Letters to the Editor Spray Fields Water I was pleased to read in the Cranbrook Council Administrative Update that finally our city has provided an alternative fresh water source for the cattle being raised in the G-1 Pond area of the city’s spray irrigation pasture.

For several years our council has known that the water in the run-off ponds, being provided as a drinking source for the cattle, is contaminated. The level of contamination is such that testing shows that it FAR exceeds the cattle watering guidelines used in Alberta and the U.S. The contamination also exceeds the guidelines suggested by the city’s own advisor.

As the beef raised on the city spray fields can potentially end up on our plates, or on those of Albertans or Americans, it is reassuring that the cattle in this part of the

spray fields will be provided with alternative suitable drinking water supply. We will need to wait and see if the city now does anything to prevent the cattle having access to the presently contaminated water in the G-1 Pond. There are also other areas on the spray fields where the quality of water in the run-off ponds could mean other sources of fresh water will be needed for the cattle in these areas.

Thank you, council and city staff, for finally doing the right thing for the cattle, and our food supply, being raised in the G-1 Pond area of the spray fields.

Dave Humphrey Cranbrook

Wasa Triathlon Race 0rganizer Charlie Cooper has done it again!

The weekend of June 8-9, 2013 marked the 20th anniversary of the Triathlon Festival at Wasa Provincial Park. What a successful festival it was!

The amount of energy, organization and co-operation which goes into such a huge event is extremely impressive. This triathlon is known to be the premiere event for this sport – not only for the location but for the professional and quality manner in which it is presented.

Thank you, Charlie Cooper and Barb Fode, for bringing this wonderful event to us.

Your many talented assistants and your ARMY of volunteers are all great ambassadors for the Cranbrook/Kimberley/Wasa area and for the sport of triathlon in general.

Bruce and Denny Williams Cranbrook

Brits won’t admit guilt for empire S ir Eric Griffith-Jones, the attorney-general in the British colony of Kenya at the time of the Mau Mau rebellion, was a sensitive soul who worried that the torture and murder of detainees in the prison camps where suspected Mau Mau supporters were being held was “distressingly reminiscent of conditions in Nazi Germany or Communist Russia.” So he wrote the governor in 1957, warning him that “If we are going to sin, we must sin quietly.”

It stayed quiet for a long time — so quiet that many British people were able to believe that their empire had somehow been nicer than the others. But empires are tyrannies by definition, built by violence and maintained by fear, and the British empire in Africa was no exception.

Half a century late, the British government has finally been forced to admit that.

The Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya in 1952-60 was suppressed with great brutality. The Kenya Human Rights Commission estimates that 90,000 Kenyans were executed, tortured or maimed in British prison camps during the “Emergency”, but nobody was ever punished for the horrors that happened there, and none of the victims ever got an apology. Until now.

By 2011, the Kenyan survivors of the camps were mostly in their 80s and dying off fast, and the few people in the British Foreign Office who even remembered that ugly episode probably assumed that the shameful details would be buried with them. But then five survivors of the camps lodged a claim against Britain for compensation, on behalf of some 6,000 victims who were still alive, and the whole can of worms was re-opened.

The British government used every legal trick in the book to avoid admitting liability. It even claimed that the victims should be seeking compensation from the

Kenyan government, not from Britain, since that government inherited all of London’s legal responsibilities when Kenya got its independence in 1963. (Is there any limit to the cynicism and hypocrisy of governments bent on covering things up? Perhaps, but it has not yet been discovered.)

When that claim was rejected by the courts, the British government claimed that no fair trial was possible since it was all too long ago: there would be “irredeemable difficulties” in finding relevant witnesses and documents. We’d love to help you, but alas there are no records.

Gwynne Then the lawyers for the claimants discovered that Dyer the government had been concealing the existence of an enormous secret archive, some 8,000 files from 37 former British colonies, which had been removed from the Public Records Office and stored elsewhere. It was hidden precisely because it documented the various crimes and atrocities that the British imperial authorities committed while trying to suppress various independence movements.

In the end, after a court battle so long that two of the five lead claimants died, the British government concluded that it didn’t have a legal leg to stand on. Last week it announced an out-of-court settlement that gave some 5,228 Kenyan survivors of the camps compensation of about $5,700 each. It also agreed to pay the $9 million legal costs that the claimants had run up while the government lied, stalled and stonewalled.

Foreign Secretary William Hague even said that “the British government sincerely regrets that these abuses took place” — but he stressed that the British government was not admitting any legal liability for the actions of the British colonial administration in Kenya. It just felt bad about what

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had happened to those poor old Kenyans long ago, and wanted to make them feel better by giving them some money.

Well, no, he didn’t actually say that last sentence, but why couldn’t he bring himself to say “it was our fault and we’re really sorry for what we did”? Because there are half a dozen other claims waiting to be submitted by the victims of other atrocities during Britain’s long retreat from empire.

There are the relatives of Malaysian villagers who were massacred by British troops in 1948. There are the Greek-Cypriots who fought against British rule in the 1950s and were imprisoned without trial; they claim that many were tortured and executed in the camps. There could even be claims from Yemen, where an Amnesty International report documented torture and genital mutilation of detainees during the revolt against British rule in Aden in the 1960s.

The British government’s strategy is the same in every case: deny, dissimulate, and delay. Hague’s refusal to admit liability, even as he pays off the Kenyan claimants, is part of that larger strategy. And the Foreign Office has already said that any future claims may be dealt with under the controversial secret court system established by the new Justice and Security Act, which comes into effect next month. If you don’t like the law, change it.

It’s that magic word “security” again. So will the Russian government ever offer compensation and apologies to all the people it has illegally detained and tortured in Chechnya over the past twenty years? Will the US government ever make restitution to all the people it has held without trial in places like Bagram and Guantanamo, or handed over to its allies for more imaginative torture than it can do in its own prisons? Don’t hold your breath.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist based in London.

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UPCOMING British Columbia Government Retired Employees Association, Rky Mtn Branch, will be holding their luncheon meeting at the Bavarian Chalet, Cranbrook on June 12th, at 12 noon. Info: Jack Selman 250-489-5930.

Grand Opening of the Immigrant Welcome Center, Thursday June 13th, 9:30 at the Kimberley Public Library. Please join us to learn about the Center services and the other Welcoming Community projects in Kimberley. Info: contact Kim Roberts CBAL Coordinator at kroberts@cbal.org or Pam Bailie CBAL Immigrant Settlement Assistance Worker at wckimberley@gmail.com 250-427-6027 SOCIAL~DANCE to the music of ‘Chapparal’ JUNE 15, at the Cranbrook Seniors HALL 2nd St. South. A great evening of Song and Dance held on Third Saturdays, at 7 pm. EVERYONE WELCOME. Refreshments served. 250.489.2720 The annual Elks Charity Tournament is coming up on June 16 at the Kimberley Golf Course. Includes a prize for every player and a Prime Rib dinner. Sign up your own team or we can find a team for you. Call 250-427-2343 for more info.

Kimberley Nature Park - Father’s Day Hike - Sunday, June 16. Meet at the Higgins St. entrance at 1 pm for a 3 - 4 hr moderate hike.

Join leaders Ellen & Dan Chase 250- 427-5517 Businesses have until June 20th to purchase and register their Urban Artsy Deer for the Cranbrook Summer Artsy Deer Quest.

Everyone else has until Aug. 24th to purchase and decorate their deer for the Great Cranbrook Artsy Deer Round Up and Competition to be held at Art in the Park in Rotary Park. Deer and details available at CDAC Gallery, 135-10th Ave. S., Cranbrook.

The East Kootenay Railway Pensioners Association will be having a Social Luncheon at 12:30 pm, Tuesday June 18th, 2013 at the Bavarian Chalet (Day’s Inn) 600 Cranbrook St.N,Cranbrook BC. All Railway Retiree’s and Spouses are welcome. RSVP by June 14th, 2013. Info: Contact Secretary Frances Allen at 250-426-2720 or Bill Belding at 250- 426-5006 2013 FREE FAMILY SWIM Wednesday, June 19th, 6:00-7:00 PM is sponsored by Kimberley Medical Clinic. Children 18 years & under must be accompanied by an adult.

Lorraine Butler’s Music Studio will be having the year-end Recital at the Knox Church at 7pm. On June 23rd, 2013, Reception following. Everyone Welcome.

ONGOING Breast Cancer Support Group in Kimberley. Info about meetings; Daniela 250-427-2562 or Lori 250-427-4568.

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.

CRANBROOK QUILTERS’ GUILD hold their meetings every 2nd & 4th Tuesday of each month at 7:15pm upstairs in the Seniors’ Hall, 125-17th Ave. S. Everyone welcome. Info: Betty at 250-489-1498 or June 250-426-8817.

Community Acupuncture. By donation – Each Tuesday 4-6 pm, Roots to Health Naturopathic Clinic, Kimberley Health Centre – Lower Level, 260 4th Ave. 778-481-5008. Please visit: www.rootsto-health.com for more info.

Mark Creek Lions “Meet and Greet” the 1st and 3rd Wednesday, from 6:00-6:30 pm. Dinner to follow at Western Lodge. FMI: 250-427-5612 or 427-7496.

Cranbrook Branch of the Stroke Recovery Association of BC. Meetings are from 10:00am-1:00pm the 2nd and 4th Wed. in the lower level of the Senior Citizen’s Hall, 125-17th St. S. Bring bag lunch. Tootie Gripich, 426-3994.

The GoGo Grannies meet the last Monday of each month at 7:00 at The College of the Rockies. Join us as we raise awareness & funds for Grandmothers raising their Grandchildren in countries devastated by Aids. Norma at 250-426-6111.

ESL: CBAL hosts Conversation Cafe Tues 7-9pm, morning class Wed 10am-12noon & Evening class Wed 7pm-9pm.

All sessions held at CBAL office 19 9th Ave S. Childcare upon request. All programs are FREE. FMI: Bruce 250-9192766 or khough@cbal.org The Compassionate Friends meet 2nd Tuesday each month at 4:00pm at the East Kootenay Child Care Resource and Referral Boardroom (in the Baker Street Mall parking lot) Info: call Laura @ 250 489-1000/Diane @ 250 489-0154 Do you have the desire to stop eating compulsively?

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS (a 12-Step Program) meets Tuesdays from 7-8 pm at Cranbrook United Church, 2-12 S. S., downstairs. Contact: cranbrookoa@hotmail.com.

The Council of Senior Citizens Organizations (COSCO) is an advocacy group devoted to improving “The Quality Of Life” for all seniors. To become a member contact Ernie Bayer, ph 604-576-9734, fax 604-576-9733, email ecbayer@shaw.ca.

The Cranbrook Kimberley Hospice Society seeks volunteers to help us provide services to persons at the end of life and their families. Training is provided. Call 250-417-2019, Toll Free 1-855-417-2019 if interested.

Royal Canadian Legion Branch 24; Friday Meat Draw: 4:30- 6:30, Saturday Meat Draw: 3:30-5:30.

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Report: Tebow to practice with Patriots

A person familiar with the situation says quarterback Tim Tebow is planning to join the New England Patriots at their minicamp on Tuesday.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because no official announcement had been made.

ESPN reported earlier Monday that Tebow will sign with the Patriots.

The AP could not confirm whether the team plans to sign Tebow.

One of the NFL’s most polarizing players, Tebow spent a lost season in 2012 with the New York Jets, barely playing behind struggling starter Mark Sanchez. Tebow was released in April.

A first-round draft pick 2010 by Denver, Tebow helped the Broncos win the AFC West in 2011, then was traded to New York when Denver signed Peyton Manning.

Associated Press

Predators sign D Roman Josi to 7-year, $28 million deal NASHVILLE - The Nashville Predators have signed defenceman Roman Josi to a seven-year, $28 million deal, tying up the other piece of their top defensive line.

General manager David Poile said in a statement Monday that signing Josi was a top priority. Poile says Josi has proven with his growth in Nashville and internationally that he is one of the NHL’s best young defencemen.

Captain Shea Weber had a 14-year, $110 million offer sheet matched by Nashville last July.

The 23-year-old Josi scored 18 points in 48 games for the Predators this season, topping what he did as a rookie in 2011-12. He ranked 19th in the NHL in total minutes played, and he led Switzerland to a silver medal at the world championships.

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Peyton Manning’s protege more comfortable in Year 2 ENGLEWOOD, Colo. - His throws are much stronger in his second season in Denver. His passes zip through defenders’ grasps and into his receivers’ waiting hands to the oohs and ahhs of his teammates and coaches.

Not Peyton Manning - Brock Osweiler.

OK, so, as coach John Fox likes to say, guys are only playing in their underwear now, the pads gathering dust for another six weeks. And sure, Manning is healthier and hardier than he was a year ago at this time, and if everything goes as planned, Osweiler will be buried on the bench again in 2013 except for the occasional cameo.

But Osweiler looks so much more comfortable calling plays and barking out audibles heading into his second NFL season and both his decisions and his throws come noticeably faster.

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Canadian Ryder Hesjedal falls, reportedly pulls out of Tour of Switzerland MERINGEN, Switzerland - Canadian Ryder Hesjedal is reportedly out of the Tour of Switzerland after falling on the third stage.

Reports says the 32-year-old from Victoria fell 150 kilometres into the 203-kilometre stage from Montreux to Meringen. He was transported to a local hospital for further observation.

Hesjedal had been doing well in his comeback race after failing to defend his Giro d’Italia title last month when he was forced to withdraw due to illness.

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Ryan Phillips lets loose on the pitchers mound for the Rocky Mountain Bandits during a game against a team out of Eureka, Montana, over the weekend at Confederation Park.

Bandits coach sees improvement

Young baseball squad getting better with more and more game experience under their cleats TRE VOR CR AWLEY Sports Editor

It’s a youth movement on the Rocky Mountain Bandits squad this year.

With only four 19-year-olds on the team, the younger players have had a baptism by fire as they’ve begun the 2013 campaign of American Legion Baseball.

“We’re coming along defensively and offensively, we got to improve on getting some things done,” said Bandits head coach Paul Mrazek.

“Like cashing runners in when they’re on third base and we have zero or one out, we’re starting to get a little better at that and hit and run, we’re starting to execute that to eliminate the double play.

“In a lot of cases, we’ve been behind three times now, and we’ve been able to come back and take a win, so it’s good the kids see that just because we’re behind, don’t give up, because we’re still in the game and we’ve come back and won

three of them.”

The team had a 2-6 record going into the weekend, where they faced off against a team out of Eureka in a double-header on Saturday afternoon.

The first game was a close 4-3 loss that could easily have been a win for the Cranbrook squad.

“We were right in that game, should’ve won it. We had some base running errors that cost us from cashing in the base runners,” said Mrazek.

The Bandits followed up with a 20-5 blowout in the ensuing rematch.

“We came back—our pitching wasn’t as strong as in the first game—but we hit the ball really well and took advantage of them,” the head coach continued. “…The highlights on Saturday, was Ryan Phillps pitched really well, but because of some base running errors and a couple things didn’t go our way, however, he pitched a complete game with 91 pitches and did real

well.”

Another highlight for Mrazek and the Bandits squad was the performances of second baseman Brandon Ouillette and shortstop Devon Marra.

“Brandon Ouillette, our second baseman on both Saturday and Sunday, and Devon Marra, the shortstop, made some great, great plays at their positions,” said

Mrazek. “Big range and throwing guys out by half a step. Major league highlight plays.”

Following the action on Saturday, the Bandits rolled into another double-header on Sunday and took on the Cranbrook senior men’s team.

The game was knotted at 4-4 going into the final inning, but a RBI from Taylor Blackburn

cashed in a runner that put the Bandits ahead by one run for the win.

The senior team got their revenge in the rematch, as Mrazek said “things went a little flat” for the Bandits, which ended with a 9-3 loss.

Next action for the Bandits is this weekend, where they hit the road for a double-header rematch against Eureka in Montana.

Oilers hire Eakins as head coach C ANADIAN PRESS

EDMONTON - The Edmonton Oilers have hired Dallas Eakins as their new head coach, replacing the fired Ralph Krueger.

Eakins is the fourth coach in the past five seasons for the Oilers, who have not made the playoffs since reaching the Stanley Cup final in 2006.

“This isn’t about winning one game or winning one season,” Eakins said. “We want to be in the mix every year to win.”

The 46-year-old Eakins spent the past four

seasons with the AHL’s Toronto Marlies, reaching the Calder Cup final in 2012. That’s when Edmonton general manager Craig MacTavish, who was coaching the Chicago Wolves at the time, first noticed Eakins’ coaching acumen.

After interviewing Eakins at a Toronto hotel, MacTavish said Monday he quickly realized it would make more sense to hire him as a head coach than an associate on Krueger’s staff.

Eakins was considered an up-and-coming name in NHL coaching circles. He reportedly

drew interest from the Dallas Stars and Vancouver Canucks, and MacTavish knew he had to move quickly.

“He had too much polish and pedigree not to land one of the NHL jobs available,” MacTavish said.

Eakins takes over a young roster that includes No. 1 picks Taylor Hall, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Nail Yakupov along with Jordan Eberle and Justin Schultz. His guidance of young players like Jake Gardiner and Nazem Kadri in Toronto played a role in the Oilers hiring him.

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Nick Legacy, a racer out of Calgary, picks up his pace during the run portion of the Wasa Triathlon.

A mother-daughter team of Esther and Nicole Carter, out of Cranbrook, celebrate as they head towards the finish line.

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On the water, on the road, and on the run Triathletes pushed their bodies to the limits at the 20th annual Wasa Lake Triathlon on Sunday, as hundreds of people it the water, the road and the run to complete the Olympic and Sprint distance courses.

The Olympic distance is a 1.5 km swim, a 40 km bike and a 10km run, while the sprint distance is half of each discipline.

The day before the race, on Saturday, the kids took the spotlight with the TriKids race, with shortened distances for ages 4-15

years old.

The event drew athletes not just from the local area, but from Alberta, Saskatchewan, the Lower Mainland and the U.S. As racers crossed the finish line, they were treated to a barbecue before a medal ceremony recognized the top male and female athletes in various age categories.

The event was organized by Charlie Cooper of RM Events, along with an army of close to 300 volunteers.

All photos by Trevor Crawley.

A triathlete prepares for the bike portion of the race while exiting one of the transition zones.

Olympic distance champion Jon Bird shares a few words with Wasa Triathlon race director Charlie Cooper after crossing the finish line.

Young athletes receive medals for top finishes in their respective age divisions.

Announcer Steve King works the microphone as racers come in and cross the finish line.

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SAR teams to hold regional training event in Elko Submitted

Search and Rescue teams from across the Kootenays will be meeting in Elko this weekend for SAREX 2013, a weekend of training designed to improve their ability to respond to emergencies. The event will start on the eve-

ning of Friday, June 14 and end in the afternoon on Sunday, June 16.

The southeast regional SAREX (Search And Rescue EXercise) is held annually somewhere in the East or West Kootenays, and is typically attended by upwards of 50 Search and Rescue vol-

unteers from teams across the region. The event has proven to be a valuable part of SAR training, giving the volunteers an opportunity to train and network with members of other groups, build experience working as part of a large search and rescue operation, and learn

techniques and skills used in other areas.

This year’s event will feature a number of components: the main event on Saturday will consist of several scenarios involving searching by ground and air, tracking, rope rescue and water rescue. On Sun-

day the volunteers will participate in “SAR Games” where members of different SAR teams will be mixed together to compete in a series of challenges, which will afford them many opportunities to learn from one another and have some fun in the process.

Members of the public are welcome to come out and watch the scenarios and events. For details people are welcome to visit the camp at the community centre in Elko, or during the event on Saturday the command post will be located at the Elko Airport.

New invader turns up just south of the border Marilyn Berry Invermere Valley Echo

What animal lives in fresh water, doesn’t have feet or fins, but still finds a way to travel between lakes and then change its watery home?

The answer — Asian clams. Asian clams were found for the first time in Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho last April. The people of Idaho would have been happier if they hadn’t arrived.

When the clams were allowed to grow and multiply in Lake Tahoe, California, they caused

extensive and costly damages.

So what’s the problem with this clam living in a lake?

This freshwater species is non-native, meaning that it came from a different part of the world. It is also invasive, meaning that it can transform the native ecosystems found here.

Asian clams can affect water chemistry, nutrient dynamics, the flow of energy and the food web structure — all of which would drastically alter Lake Windermere

as we know it if they get into our lake.

Asian clams, known scientifically as Corbicula fluminea, may be small, but when allowed to grow in large numbers can cause big damages. In Lake Tahoe, California, the clams live in dense colonies of 10,000 clams per square metre. Damages are caused by the means in which they eat, excrete and build their homes.

Eating: Asian clams are filter-feeders. Each clam can process five gallons of water a day.

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This filtering action moves nutrients through the water. They also feed off the bottom of lakes, re-mobilizing nutrients that may be buried in the sediments.

When nutrients are present in water in unnatural levels they can cause unsightly algae blooms.

Excreting: The Asian clams excrete a substance that fosters the growth of benthic bacteria (slime-like layer), algae, and submerged plants.

Shell-building: Calcium sequestered from the water column into the clam’s shell is later deposited on the lake bottom and can serve as attachment surfaces for other invasive muscles and clams.

If the Asian clams proliferate, these changes in the aquatic ecosystem have the potential to affect key fishery re-

Asian clams have turned up nearby. sources, notably Kokanee salmon, and foster growth of algae and vegetation.

Unlike native clams and muscles that are transported in their larval phase by fish, larvae of the Asian clam are mobile and can attach

to hard surfaces. Boat hulls and trailers are the most common means of transmitting this and other invasive species.

Since some people take their boats between lakes, they can unknowingly be transporting Asian clams. Lake Pend

Oreille is just a fourhour drive away from Lake Windermere, so the danger of them getting here is real.

The Invasive Species Council of BC’s approved method for preventing the spread of invasive species is to clean, drain and dry any equipment you use in one lake before transporting it to another.

Cleaning means removing all plants and mud, then thoroughly washing everything. To properly drain your boat, drain wells, ballast and engine-cooling water.

Finally, allow time for your boat to completely dry before launching into other waters.

You can make a lasting difference in your community and help prevent the introduction and spread of invasive species in B.C.

Poll suggests Canadians don’t really understand the realities of strokes C anadian Press

TORONTO — A new poll suggest Canadians don’t have a great understanding of the realities of strokes, with nearly one in five thinking most strokes are fatal.

One in six Canadians seem to believe there is nothing a stroke survivor can do to prevent future strokes and more than one-third think the recovery period is limited to a few months.

These statistics are included in the Heart

and Stroke Foundation’s annual report on stroke.

The poll suggests stroke touches the lives of many Canadians, with one in two saying they know someone who had a stroke and one in five reporting they have been involved in the care of a stroke survivor.

The report says 50,000 strokes occur in Canada each year and 315,000 Canadians are living with the effects of stroke.

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The urgency and need for action is clear.’’

Dr. Sean Dukelow is a physiatrist (a specialist in rehabilitation medicine) at the Hotchkiss Brain Institute Faculty of Medicine and the University of Calgary.

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to figure out what help stroke survivors need and to develop ways to assist them.

The report says stroke costs the Canadian economy $3.6 billion a year in physician services, hospital costs, lost wages and decreased productivity. It is the third leading cause of death in Canada.

The polling data are drawn from a telephone poll done for the Heart and Stroke Foundation by the firm Environics.

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She charged him with violating a restraining order and appeared in court last week flanked by bodyguards supplied by victim services. This charge was thrown out.

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Dear Annie: My dear friends’ daughter recently married. When she first got engaged, she announced a small wedding, and I offered to make silk flowers. I do this professionally and had most of the supplies.

Months later, it turned into a huge event.

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Transportation

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Star astronaut Hadfield to retire from Canadian Space Agency C a n a d i a n Pr e s s

LONGUEUIL, Que. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Chris Hadfield has announced heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s retiring from the space program and moving back to Canada after decades away from home.

The famous astronaut announced Monday that he is leaving the Canadian Space Agency next month, and will also be leaving behind his longtime home of Houston, Texas, where he built his career as an astronaut.

He made the announcement at a news conference at the Canadian agencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s headquarters, near Montreal, in his first such event in Canada since his return from space. â&#x20AC;&#x153;(Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be) making good on a promise I made my wife nearly 30 years ago â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that yes, eventually, we would be moving back to Cana-

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Chris Hadfield pictured June 7, 2013. da,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Hadfield said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m looking forward to the next phase of life.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; He said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ready to pursue private interests, outside government.

Hadfield said he hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t decided what he will do next, but plans to do presentations on space while reflecting over the coming year on

his next move. He offered such a presentation Monday, using his news conference to show videos and photos of his time in space.

Hadfield gained international promince during his recent sixmonth trip to the International Space Station, where he used social

media to share experiments, photographs and even a memorable music video.

He says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recovering his physical strength while readjusting to gravity and he expects to be back to normal by around Labour Day. Hadfield says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lost up to five per cent of his bone density in some areas. On the other hand, he says, because he exercised two hours a day while in space heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s able to bench-press more than he used to.

He explained that he wants to take his time deciding what to do next, because he knows of astronauts who have struggled to adjust to life after the space program.

Hadfield said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll hope to have a better idea in about a yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time.

Report: Fourth of NYC could be flood zone by 2050s because of global warming Associated Press

NEW YORK â&#x20AC;&#x201D; New York City officials say new projections show a flood zone will cover a quarter of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s land by the 2050s as rising seas and other effects of

global warming take hold.

Two top aides to Mayor Michael Bloomberg discussed the findings Monday.

Bloomberg is scheduled to present recommen-

dations Tuesday for dealing with climate risks.

The projections by a panel of scientists say 800,000 New York City residents could be living in that flood zone. And 8

per cent of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coastline could flood just from high tides.

Some of the new projections move up estimates made in 2009 from the end of this century to the middle.

Egyptâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s president warns â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;all options are openâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; for Ethiopia Nile dam project Associated Press

CAIRO, Egypt â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Egyptâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s president has warned that â&#x20AC;&#x153;all options are openâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; in dealing with Ethiopiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s efforts to build a dam that threatens to leave Nile-dependent Egypt with a dangerous water shortage.

In a live televised speech

Monday before hundreds of supporters, Mohammed Morsi said Egypt is not calling for war. but his country is â&#x20AC;&#x153;ready to defendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; its water security. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our blood is the alternative,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Morsi said, and the crowd erupted in applause.

The crisis started last month

when Ethiopia diverted the flow of the Blue Nile, one of the Nileâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sources, to make way for construction of the dam. The move took Egypt by surprise.

Morsi says Egypt does not wish harm upon any nation, but that the lives of all Egyptians are connected to the Nile River.

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LONDON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A British museum on Monday successfully recovered what could be the last intact model of a famous German World War II bomber from beneath the English Channel.

The aircraft, nicknamed the Luftwaffeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;flying pencilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; because of its narrow fuselage, was shot down off the coast of Kent county in southeastern England more than 70 years ago during

the Battle of Britain.

It is believed to be the only known complete example of the German Dornier Do 17 bomber. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It has been lifted and is now safely on the barge and in one piece,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; said RAF Museum spokesman Ajay Srivastava. The bomber will be towed into port Tuesday, he added.

The museum had been trying to raise the relic for a few weeks, but the operation was delayed by

strong winds.

In 2008, divers discovered the undamaged aircraft submerged in 50 feet (15 metres) of water.

Experts say the bomber is remarkably undamaged despite the passage of time.

Museum officials plan to conserve the relic and put it on exhibition next to the wreck of a British Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft that also was shot down during the battle.

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