1941 LaFrance
tenth anniversary
The Kimberley Fire Department Social Club is restoring a classic.
Celebrate with the Fresh Water Fisheries Society.
piece of history
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Party at the hatchery
ThursDAY July 11, 2013
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One body located in Findlay Creek Body identified as Stephen Thomson, 21, of Canal Flats SALLY MACDONALD Townsman Staff
After a month-long search, one body has been recovered from Findlay Creek near Canal Flats. Stephen Thomson, 21, of Canal Flats and Nicholas Hoefnagels, 19, of Carstairs, Alberta, were last seen leaving a campsite at Whitetail Lake on June 8. Their truck was pulled out of the fast-flowing Findlay Creek near the falls on June 24, but the men were not inside it. Now, police have recovered one body in the Findlay Creek area that they believe is one of the two presumed drowned missing men. The body, which was located by a police dog, was been turned over the BC Coroners Service for identification and has since been identified as Stephen Thomson. After the two men were reported missing on June 9, a search of the area identified a spot where a vehicle went off the road and into Findlay Creek. Since then police and Search and Rescue teams have been searching the area as conditions permit.
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Lt. Jennifer Matheson and Major Richard Matheson of the Canadian Army, a sister and brother whose parents are Anne and Neil Matheson of Cranbrook, are pictured just before their last deployment to Afghanistan on June 23. They will be spending their time there training members of the Afghan National Army. Ordinarily, the deployments are for six months, but as this is the last one, they will be there from anywhere from six to nine months, wrapping thing up and getting everything ready to come back home.
Camping trip turns into river rescue Truck hung up in Redding Creek Arne Pe tryshen Townsman Staff
A camping trip quickly became a rescue mission for a group up the Grey Creek Pass. The five person group, which included Cranbrook resident Mike Krahn and four of his friends, were cutting wood near their Big Bayou Burger
camp, when a man came running from up the road. “We were about two kilometres up the Grey Creek Pass where you come off the St. Mary’s road,” he said. “We were cutting up some wood and when we shut off saws off, we could hear somebody screaming “help.” The frantic man and his three passengers had crossed Redding Creek earlier and had gotten stuck in the middle of the raging creek on the way back. The man had managed to swim, fighting the current, to the
side then ran about a couple kilometres to get to the campsite. The group hopped into their side-bysides with the man and he lead them up the road about nine kilometres and then down an old skidder trail that takes you to Redding Creek. Krahn said he’d been down the trail before and so was not expecting things to be good. “We get down there and we can see where the alders open up to the river and
sure enough there’s a pickup sitting about 40 feet into the water, half way across the river,” he said. The truck was facing them and leaning hard downriver, being pushed by the strong current. Water was flowing over the hood. On top of the truck were the three other passengers, who said they could feel the truck shifting back and forth from the water. The group anchored the side-by-sides near the water and used a winch line.
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