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Vol. 61, Issue 173
Calling all actors Cranbrook Community Theatre preparing for season, holding casting call Monday. Sept. 9 A R N E P E T RYS H E N Townsman Staff
Cranbrook Community Theatre is getting set for their upcoming season. The theatre will be having a casting call for upcoming shows on Monday, September 9 at 7 p.m. at the Stage Door. The week after that they will be having their annual general meeting. Terry Miller, active board member, said for the 2013/14 season, instead of having auditions for each show individually, they are doing a casting call. “So all the directors will be in the room for four different plays,” Miller said. “It’s an opportunity for us to see who’s interested in getting involved. It’s a real low-pressure thing.” The casting call is under the direction of production manager Jennifer Inglis. Prospective actors will fill out a form, head onstage with others and be given a couple things to do by the directors, both as a group and individually.
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The tree rings tell all Three-year project measures how forest ingrowth creates stagnant stands
TOWNSMAN STAFF
The clues to the history of our local forests are there, waiting to be read.
Greg Greene, a University of British Columbia PhD student from Vancouver, is studying dendrochronology, or,
what tree rings can tell us about forest history in the Rocky Mountain Trench. Greene spent 10
weeks working in the Trench this summer. His field work included collecting and measuring samples of tree rings,
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Police seek white station wagon after hit and run RCMP
The Cranbrook RCMP is seeking information and/or witnesses in relation to a Motor Vehicle Collision which occurred Tuesday, Sept. 3, at the intersection of Cranbrook Street North and Victoria Avenue. At around 10:20 p.m a white coloured station wagon failed to stop after colliding with a Black F150 at the intersection of Cranbrook Street North and Victoria Avenue. The white station wagon sustained damage to the passenger side panels of the vehicle which included breaking one or more windows and removing the passenger side mirror. RCMP Investigators are seeking information from witnesses who may have observed any portion of the incident involving this vehicle including driving behaviour or the known location of this vehicle. Witnesses are asked to contact the Cranbrook RCMP at (250) 489-3471.
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CHANNELLING A DARK BOSNIAN EXPERIENCE: Actor Candice Fiorentino is returning to Cranbrook with the latest production of Edmonton-based Poeima Producions, “Anatolia Speaks.” The MBSS grad is performing in the one-actor play about a refugee from the war-torn Balkans, at the Studio Stage Door later this month. See more, Page 5.
fire scars and stand densities. He will analyze the results this winter. “I’m looking for evidence of the historic fire regime and stand growth dynamics,” Greene said. Greene’s project encompasses a lot more than the field measurements. He’s working with Randy Harris, team leader of the Rocky Mountain Trench Ecosystem Restoration Program, to develop an overview of in-growth over the last 60 years. “Greg is orthorectifying photo coverage of the Rocky Mountain Trench based on 1951 air photos,” Harris said. “That will give us a true image of how much forest coverage the Trench had back then, and how fast it is encroaching into grasslands.” The data will show how much open forest and grassland has been lost over time. “Ranchers and hunters know grazing ground has been reduced considerably,” Harris said. “But data shows it’s not a straight-across trade of ‘pasture for productive forest’—it’s a trade from pasture to stagnant forest.” A forest becomes stagnant when it reaches too many stems per hectare—when it gets too dense for any trees to thrive.
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