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Local quilter wins Canadian award Judges from national guild pick Jennifer Rea’s piece at Cranbrook show SALLY MACDONALD Townsman Staff
A young Cranbrook mother has won an award for her quilting artwork. At the “Stories in Thread” quilt show on May 31 to June 1, Jennifer Rea brought her thread work piece “Poppies of Perserverance”. “It was a neat experience to see how people were so excited about it. It was really cool. Because I just thought, I want to get it done and out of my place. So the feelings they had towards it were somewhat different to my feelings towards the piece,” Jennifer said. Judges from the Canadian Quilters Association came to the Cranbrook Quilters Guild event, and awarded Jennifer for the piece, which will be featured in “The Canadian Quilter” magazine later this year. The one-of-a-kind piece depicts a collection of poppies. Although she has been quilting for 13 years, Jennifer sewed this quilt using a technique that is new to her, called “free motion”. “You regulate the size of the stitch with how you move the fabric through your sewing machine,” she explained. “It’s a difficult process so you have a
lot of inhibitions.” After taking a course in this style of quilting five years ago, Jennifer was given the pattern for the poppy quilt, but put it away until January this year. She began working on it again, a little each day, adapting the pattern to her own vision. Now all of the hard work has paid off. Now in its 27th year, the Cranbrook Quilters Guild has more than 80 members, and always welcomes more. “We are really trying to make it grow because the membership is getting a little bit older,” Jennifer said. “They are going to do some basics for people who want to start quilting, who have no idea even how to thread a sewing machine.” Jennifer said the guild is a wonderful group to be a part of. “It’s such a creative community, and people are always so positive to see your work. Even if you don’t think it’s that great, they are always very supportive,” she said. “There is a real fellowship that comes with quilting, especially when you get out and meet a lot of other women and you all share the same interSUBMITTED ests. There’s almost an instant Cranbrook quilter Jennifer Rea shows her award-winning piece “Poppies of Perserverance” at the “Stories in Thread” friendship.” quilt show.
Building a better bylaw Blasting of Findlay Creek Council is hoping to update the city’s 26-year-old building bylaw
A R N E P E TRYSHEN Townsman Staff
The City is putting forward a new building bylaw it hopes will help maintain a high quality of building construction in the city and also update the city’s 26-yearold building bylaw. The City also hopes that it can minimize exposure to liability resulting from involvement in issuing build-
ing permits for construction and building inspections. Council was planning to do first and second reading of the bylaw at the June 10 meeting, but decided to postpone it after Coun. Denise Pallesen noted that there was correspondence in the agenda package pertaining to the specific bylaw. “I hate to do this, but
I’d like more time to have a good read of this,” Pallesen said. “There’s so much information in here and I just want to make sure that I’m making an informed decision.” The bylaw will be postponed until the July 15 meeting, so that all of council is present. CAO Wayne Staudt said that city staff would likely recommend doing
the first three readings at that time to move the process along quicker. The building bylaw will see the city increase building fees to help offset the administration costs of processing building permits and inspections, according to city staff, and would not be intended to generate revenue.
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Drastic measures have been taken in the search for two men missing near Canal Flats for over a week TOWNSMAN STAFF
The families of two men whose truck was swept into Findlay Creek a week ago have put up money to speed up the operation. According to Kimberley RCMP Sgt. Laurie Jalbert, the men’s families paid for a blasting permit that allowed some rocks to be blown out at the creek, revealing part of the submerged truck. But she says heavy rainfall that was expected to continue this week is hampering the search for the bodies
and that crews are waiting for another chance to lower a camera into the vehicle. Twenty-one-year-old Stephen Thomson of Canal Flats, B.C., and 19-year-old Nicholas Hoefnagels of Carstairs, Alta., vanished June 9 while camping at Whitetail Lake. Searchers later pinpointed an area where a vehicle had veered off a forest service road near the lake and crashed into the rushing waters of Findlay Creek. With files from Canadian Press