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Vol. 61, Issue 238
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BRUCE KIRKBY PHOTO
Kimberley Alpine Resort opened this past weekend under frigid temperatures. but just prior to opening day, when the weather was a little warmer, a lot of folks were hiking up to hit the fresh powder. Above, Kieran Hickey skies deep powder.
Gaston Lalande is alive and Public gets a say well, contrary to popular rumour on highway safety B A R RY CO U LT E R
Joseph Richard Gaston Lalande is very much alive, thank you very much. Rumours of Monsieur Lalande’s demise, as they say, are greatly exaggerated — but that hasn’t stopped them from spreading around the community with astounding speed. The long-time Cranbrook resident came by the Townsman office Friday to try to put an end to all the talk that he is dead. “I believe it started at the Elko
sawmill,” he said. “Someone started spreading the rumour that I was dead! “I think it was a mistake, but it’s still rude, it’s unprofessional!” Somehow, “people with big mouths” carried that rumour forward. Someone offered their sympathies Lalande’s brothers at church, to their consternation. Lalande even gave the staff at his dentist’s office a great shock. “I had an appointment, and
saw another man sitting in my chair,” Lalande said. “They’d cancelled my appointment — they thought I was dead. “They said ‘we’re sorry, sir, we thought you were deceased.’ They were even getting a (sympathy card) ready for my wife.” Lalande said the gossip had traumatized his wife. “And I’m traumatized too. I’m mad as hell.” We repeat: Joseph Richard Gaston Lalande is alive and well Gaston Lalande is very much and living in Cranbrook.
SALLY MACDONALD Townsman Staff
East Kootenay residents will be able to have a say on highway safety and speed limits at a public forum in January. The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure is asking for public input about speed limits, slow vehicles and wildlife on highways, as well as the overall safety of B.C.’s rural highways, at a regional forum on Tuesday, Jan. 14 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Prestige Rocky Mountain Resort in Cranbrook. The public forum is part of the B.C. government’s Rural Highway Safety and Speed Review.
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