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NHL great Scott Niedermayer was honoured at Friday night’s WHL game between the Kootenay Ice and Spokane Chiefs. Pictured above: Reid Gow of the Chiefs and Jagger Dirk of the Ice take the ceremonial faceoff from Niedermayer and his son Luke, while his wife Lisa Niedermayer, sons Logan Niedermayer, Jackson Niedermayer, Joshua Niedermayer, and Mayor Wayne Stetski and Coun. Angus Davis look on.

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For Scott Niedermayer, there’s no place like home.

The Cranbrook native returned to his stomping grounds for Christmas and was honoured by the City of

Cranbrook in a pre-game ceremony before the Kootenay Ice faced the Spokane Chiefs on Friday.

Accompanied by his wife Lisa and four sons—Logan, Jackson, Joshua and Luke— Niedermayer was presented

with a plaque by mayor Wayne Stetski before a ceremonial puck drop.

He was given a standing ovation by 2,945 fans as he took to the microphone and briefly addressed the crowd.

“This is a special honour,

Cranbrook is a special place, having grown up here, this is where my love and passion for the game began,” said Niedermayer. “Whether it was playing road hockey in my neighbour’s driveway, playing on the local ponds

down at the fire department, and then obviously over at the Memorial Arena and the Kinsmen Arena—this is where I learned to love the game. I made great friends and have a ton of great memories, so It’s always great to

be back.”

Niedermayer, a retired NHLer who captured four Stanley Cups over his 18year career, is currently serving as an assistant coach with the Anaheim Ducks.

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NEWS Deer culls loom in B.C. communities as politicians target bucks and does Dirk Meissner Canadian Press

VICTORIA — The mayor of Oak Bay, British Columbia, gets dead deer alerts.

Nils Jensen barely has time to sit for a coffee when his phone pings and signals another tragic deer fatality in the suburban Victoria community known as the Tweed Curtain for its primarily elderly and refined population.

“I get regular updates,’’ Jensen said, as he gestured to his cell phone. “There it is, the deer count, 38 so far.’’

That number of dead deer in Oak Bay in 2013 is a huge increase, Jensen said, considering there were zero reported deer deaths in 2008.

But the number has been rising steadily over the years.

Oak Bay and several other British Columbia communities, including Invermere, plan to target growing urban deer populations in 2014 to prevent potentially hazardous human-deer interactions.

“Doing nothing is not an option because we can see the rising number of deer-human conflicts,’’ Jensen said.

He said Oak Bay’s deer management strategy includes public education, bylaw enforcement, including prohi-

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bitions on feeding deer, and more signs warning drivers to beware of deer on the streets but that residents can expect the launch of a deer cull sometime next year.

Gerry Taft, the mayor of Invermere, said his community is aiming to apply for a provincial government permit next year to launch its second deer cull because they attack dogs and are no longer way of people.

“The sheer number of deer is a concern for people,’’ Taft said. “On garbage day, when we have curbside pickup, we have groups of deer walking down the street knocking over garbage cans and eating the garbage.’’

Jensen said he can recite numerous brutal and dangerous incidents involving deer in Oak Bay. Police are regularly dispatched to shoot wounded deer after they’ve been hit by cars, and in one instance, officers were forced to put a deer out of its misery when the animal impaled itself trying to leap a fence.

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Urban deer culls will be rearing their heads in B.C. communities in 2014. unsuccessfully. This isn’t an easy issue for anybody. It’s complex.

It’s emotional.’’

Jensen said his recently scheduled deercull meeting with representatives of the Association for the Protection of Fur-Bearing Animals was delayed for several hours because a driver hit a deer in Oak Bay. “That sucked. It was awful,’’ said Lesley Fox, of the animal rights organization. “She was probably about eight months, not quite a year old.’’

Fox, who stopped to tend to the fatally wounded animal, said the fawn suffered at the side of the road for 90 minutes until Oak Bay police officers arrived to relieve its suffering.

Last spring, British Columbia’s Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations Ministry published an urban deer management fact sheet that said urban deer have become a

safety concern due to growing conflicts between people and pets, increases in deer-automobile collisions and the tendency of deer to attract predators, including cougars.

The ministry said it will issue permits to communities opting for culls to reduce deer populations.

“Wildlife experts advise that capturing deer in collapsible clover traps and euthanizing them with a bolt gun is the safest, most efficient and most humane method of deer control in urban areas,’’ the government fact sheet said.

“Clover traps, which resemble oversized hockey nets, are placed in quiet locations to reduce stress on deer.’’

Trained contractors must conduct the culls and the deer meat must be processed by a qualified butcher, and “communities must make full use of healthy deer carcasses resulting from

these culls, for example by donating the meat to First Nations, local food banks or other charitable groups.’’

Taft said Invermere’s first deer cull in December 2011, when 19 deer were killed, revealed the extent of the emotions at stake when a community initiates such action.

Opponents to the deer cull cut the nets that held the deer, followed the cull contractors, slashed their tires and appeared to place deer repellent near the clover net traps, he said.

But Invermere, like Oak Bay, is proceeding with the intention to conduct a deer cull next year, Taft said.

The Invermere Deer Protection Society tried unsuccessfully to sue the community for moving to a cull without properly consulting residents or considering deer mitigation options.

The society has said it will appeal the ruling even though an official community opinion poll suggested that most residents favoured a deer cull.

“We’re trying not to be held hostage by this small group of people who are playing these legal games,’’ Taft said.

He said deer culls are expensive, but communities that feel they’re part of an ungulate invasion want their numbers controlled. Taft said his community wants financial support from the province, but so far all that appears to be coming from the B.C. government are guidelines and permits.

“The cute thing that some of the deer lovers like is we have some raised crosswalks in different parts of town and the deer seem to love crossing the road on the raised crosswalks,’’ he said.

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Christmas Door contest a close call end, winning only by a 1 point score difference was the team from the Health Records department who turned their entire department into a winter wonderland including an entry filled door covered in a holiday candy theme.

The Health Records team narrowly aced out the EKRH Logistics team whose five panel moving delivery door played host to a fireplace trimmed with stockings even when it was opened or closed.

However, the best part of the story is not just the spirit of all those who took part — it is about their gift in giving back to the Cranbrook Food Bank. Together the Interior Health staff holiday party and the door decorating contest donated over 750 lbs of food for the local organization.

Habitat hosting an open house Jan. 10 Arne Petryshen Townsman Staff

Habitat for Humanity Cranbrook committee will be gearing up to begin its first build in Cranbrook in in the next few months. On January 10 the committee will be having an open house which will feature representatives from Habitat West Kootenay and Habitat for Humanity Boundary. Most notably, Mark Rodgers, chief operating officer for Habitat for Humanity Canada, will be in attendance to answer questions.

Gord Johnston, project leader for the Cranbrook project, said the public is invited to the open house.

“We’re inviting anybody who has expressed interest in Habitat so far and we’re inviting the general public,” Johnston said, adding they are starting the big push for April as they look for goods in kind and volunteers. So far they have about 50 people on the list that have expressed interest in some way in the project, as well as many businesses in the community that are putting forward materials and services.

There is a lot of planning and preparation involved in the project, said Johnston.

“We just really want to make sure

this is a good, solid event for everyone so that we can carry this on,” he said.

“We hope to do more builds obviously in the future, and a lot of that keys on how successful this first build is, so it’s pretty important that this first one goes well.”

Johnston said they will also be recruiting the family during the month of January. Applications will be accepted starting January 2. The partner family has to put in 500 hours toward the build.

“By the end of January we’ll know how many we’ve had apply,” he said.

“It’s quite a process.”

The family pays a no-interest mortgage on the house, so the family has to be self-sufficient, he said, but also demonstrate the need for the assistance.

The house and property have been appraised based on the plans at $151,000, Johnston said.

“Now that’s an affordable house,” he said. “We sell the home to the family for fair-market value. It’s pretty encouraging.”

He said the Slaterville neighbourhood is pretty ideal for the project.

The open house is January 10 at 7:30 p.m. at 120 - 7th Avenue South Cranbrook.

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As December rolled in Erica Phillips and Christine Shumka, part of the leadership team at EKRH, put out a challenge to all departments to consider sharing the holiday spirit and asked them to participate in a decorated door contest.

The rules were pretty simple make it fun, festive or a theme of your choice but to be entered each group was encouraged to make a food donation for the Cranbrook Food Bank.

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Premier Christy Clark visited Cranbrook and Kimberley as part of her campaign tour Cranbrook’s The Good Ol’ Goats made it to the very end of CBC Music’s Searchlight contest, on April 30. Clark and an entourage of dozens of staff, reporters and senior officers looking for up-and-coming new bands. In the end, they placed second to Newfoundland band Sherman Downey and the Ambiguous Case. took a tour of Fab Rite Services

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April A Kimberley man was sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty to a drive-by shooting.

Dustin Plourde, 28, fired at a home on Archibald Street where two women and a baby were living. No one was injured. Plourde said he mistakenly believed it was the home of members of a local drug gang. ***

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Cranbrook’s The Good Ol’ Goats made it to the very end of CBC Music’s Searchlight contest, looking for upand-coming new bands. The band, made up of Mount Baker Secondary School students, beat out almost 3,000 bands across the

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been walking her dog on the closed golf course. Passersby saw the dog struggling in the pond, rescued it and returned it home, not realizing that Blais had also gone into the pond. *** The College of the Rockies announced that it ranked first in Canada and second in the world as an institution for international students, according to the International Student Barometer, put out by the International Graduate Insight Group. *** In April, East Kootenay Crime Stoppers made public a lastditch effort to save its anonymous tipline.

With a depleted and exhausted board, the organization was on the verge of collapse and put out a plea for new volunteers to man the board. The community came through, with dozens of people coming forward to keep the tipline alive and help the RCMP stop crime in the East Kootenay.

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volunteers in April at the annual Volunteer Appreciation and Awards Gala. Jeanne Davidson of the Cranbrook Kimberley Hospice Society was named Volunteer of the Year; Danika Reid was named Youth Volunteer of the Year; the Cranbrook Health Care Auxiliary was named Group Volunteers of the Year; the Beaulacs were named Family Volunteer of the Year. *** Kimberley was hit by tragedy in April when Debbie Blais died after drowning in a retention pond at Bootleg Gap Golf Course. The Marysville woman had

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From fire to flood, new construction and saved heritage buildings, 2013 was a busy year in Cranbrook and Kimberley.

From our viewpoint at the Townsman, we have picked the biggest

stories of the year.

In Part Two, we look at the news from April through June.

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2013: Year in Review Continued from page 4 April, cont’d A collection of portraits by Adolphus “Duffy” Burton kept at the Dr. F.W. Green home were up for grabs by family members.

Duffy Burton painted the portraits of fellow residents while living at the Green Home in the ‘90s, and the home’s staff wanted to give the portraits to the families of those pictured. After the story ran in the Townsman and was picked up by CBC, almost all of the 48 portraits were given to family members, many of whom were touched by the artwork which brought up fond memories.

May Premier Christy Clark visited Cranbrook and Kimberley as part of her campaign tour on April 30. Clark and an entourage of dozens of staff, reporters and senior officers took a tour of Fab Rite Services in Cranbrook followed by a press conference. *** On May 1, MLA hopefuls faced off in the first of two all-candidates forums. The Chamber of Commerce hosted one and JCI Kootenay hosted the second on May 2. B.C. Liberal candidate and incumbent Bill Bennett faced off on policy against B.C. NDP candidate Norma Blissett. *** School District 5 announced the hiring of new superintendent Lynn Hauptman. Before moving to Prince George, Hauptman had spent nearly 10 years working within School District 6 in Kimberley. *** The Target department store opened May 7 after months of renovation work to the south end of the Tamarack Centre. *** Victor Russell Gravelle, accused of of shooting into an apartment in Cranbrook in February pleaded not guilty. ***

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City council decided to give a group intent on saving the brick building behind city hall time to look into options for saving it. A few weeks before the May 6 meeting, council had voted to have it dismantled at some point and the historic bricks repurposed. *** The woman charged in connection with the death of a 19-month old Cranbrook girl pleaded guilty to criminal negligence causing death, on May 13. Tammy Bouvette, 29, was originally charged with second degree murder over the May 2011 drowning death of Iyanna Teeple. On May 16 Bouvette received her sentence of 12 months, plus 12 months for an unrelated charge.

With time served, Bouvette would be out in six months. *** Teck got an okay to continue drug and alcohol testing on its Elk Valley employees even as a grievance goes through arbitration.

The United Steelworkers Local 9346 put for-

ward a temporary order to stop the random testing, but it was denied. *** Actor Jeremy Raymond, originally from Cranbrook, had a part in the summer blockbuster Star Trek: Into Darkness. Raymond was picked by director J.J. Abrams after the director saw him in an earlier film. *** On May 24, CBC’s Grant Lawrence was in town filming local band The Good Ol’ Goats for a film a segment that would appear on national TV and radio.

The segment was part of the Beetle Roadtrip Sessions. *** A rupture in the wastewater pipe in the worst possible location forced the City of Cranbrook to pull $1 million out of its reserve fund.

The burst pipe was located at the city’s spray irrigation field in Mayook, 20 feet beneath the newly renovated pump house building. *** June Kootenay East’s newly re-elected MLA

Bill Bennett was given dual responsibilities of in the new cabinet of Premier Christy Clark on June 7. Bennett took the dual rolls as the new head of the Ministry of Energy and Mines as well as the chair of the Core Review committee. *** Longtime Canadian Museum of Rail Travel director Garry Anderson retired from the position and Damon Colgan took on the role. *** The truck of two men who went missing in the Findlay Creek area was found in a fast moving portion of the creek. The men went missing June 8, and the truck was sighted underwater June 18, after the family paid for a blasting permit. The truck was retrieved from the creek on June 25 but there was no sign of Stephen Thomson, 21, of Canal Flats, and Nicholas Hoefnagels, 19, of Carstairs, Alberta.

The body of Thomson was retrieved July 10. *** Heavy rainfall wrecked havoc around the East Kootenay, clos-

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A desperate search began June 26 for a man and vehicle that went into the Bull River above the Aberfeldie Dam the night before.The body of Jaffray’s Zeke Fantuz was retrieved from the river on July 6. ing down many highways in the region. A local volunteer weather observer said he recorded 60 millimetres of rain in 24 hours between June 19 and 20.

On June 26 Wasa was on high alert as water levels rose following the prior week’s heavy rainfall.

*** A desperate search began June 26 for a man and vehicle that went into the Bull River above the Aberfeldie Dam the night before.

Police, search and rescue crews and family and friends were all part of the search up the Bull River Service

Road. The body of Jaffray’s Zeke Fantuz was retrieved from the river on July 6. *** Vandals caused an estimated $3,000 damage to Kinsmen Park trees on June 26. The trees were just planted in May as a part of Arbour Day.

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A charm offensive for 2014?

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ach year at this time, for fun, I offer up a few bold and foolhardy predictions for the year ahead, to be measured against reality 12 months later. Before we move on to the 2014 edition, let’s assess last year’s effort. Sadly, it’s a very mixed bag.

We begin with the obvious. “We don’t need a crystal ball to predict that (Justin) Trudeau will win the Liberal leadership contest, to be decided in April,” I asserted in this space on Dec. 31, 2012. “Once Trudeau becomes leader, and perhaps sooner, the Harper Conservatives will kitchen-sink him. That is, they will throw at him everything in their arsenal, including the customary wicked attack ads.

Trudeau’s every move and utterance will be parsed as never before.”

Nostradamus, eat your heart out.

Given the lay of the land in late 2012, no other outcome was remotely likely. And it was a foregone conclusion that the Conservatives would attack the new Liberal leader personally and early, which they did in April, in a series of mocking, nasty ads. That had long been the governing party’s preferred method of welcoming a new Liberal leader.

I was wrong though, in thinking the attack-ad campaign would be sustained.

The early ads were red meat to the Tory base but backfired with the centre, reinforcing the Conservatives’ negatives and alienating swing voters. For the time being the governing party’s approach appears to be to wait for an unforced error, then leap all over it with tweets and retweets.

Next came a big, wrong prediction: “… a charm offensive, personally led by Stephen Harper, which will be surprisingly

effective. Expect to hear more from Harper this year. Plus, early in July the cabinet will acquire a dramatically fresher, younger and more feminine face.”

Ah, the charm offensive. Hope springs eternal. I first anticipated the charm offensive in 2007, was wrong about it then, and have been wrong about it since. The latest grand opportunity for such a transformation came in August, during the PM’s annual Arctic tour. It failed to materialize. Likewise, last summer’s cabinet shuffle could have put a fresh face on the government. Though a few younger faces joined the mix, the tone did not budge one iota.

Rounding out last year’s column: On the international front I got some of it right, predicting that Iran’s leadership would “undergo an eleventh-hour conversion on the nuclear question.” But I also got some of it quite badly wrong.

“Late in 2013 he (Syrian dictator Bashar Assad) will be tried for war crimes,” I wrote a year ago. Instead Assad is more firmly entrenched than ever, though he has agreed to give up his chemical weapons.

Right then: What’s ahead for 2014?

Here goes nothing.

On the federal scene, as the Trudeau Liberals extend their lead in the polls to a year, and with the Conservatives neckdeep in the Senate expense scandal (which I utterly failed to anticipate, mea culpa), Harper will continue to resist the siren song of personal re-invention. That ship has sailed. The hockey book is out, the musical performances have become routine, but the PM remains who he has always been. His aversion to the media is locked in.

That said, Harper in 2014 will make a visible effort to re-engage – likely through

more frequent speeches, perhaps even more frequent press conferences. He will do so not by choice, but by necessity. The Wright-Duffy mess, the sheer scale of the venality and dishonesty exposed within his own office, among people he appointed, has shaken his personal standing. The only practical remedy is to shore up his positives, namely his reputation for competence and intelligence. He can only do so by communicating.

But the most interesting political fight in 2014, by far, will be between Liberals and New Democrats, with the focus narrowing ever more closely on Quebec. It appears clear now that NDP Leader Tom Mulcair will make no inroads in the West, and that his hopes of a breakthrough in Ontario, outside Toronto, are limited. As the year progresses he will therefore focus all his efforts on preserving his Quebec beachhead. Trudeau also will spend ever more time in Quebec, battling for what he hopes will be a major seat reversal with the NDP there in 2015. There will be no major strategic new direction, on the part of any party, in 2014. What you see now, is what you get, for the foreseeable future.

Overseas, the combination of U.S. engagement with Iran and the chemical-weapons deal with Syria will continue to reduce the threat of a broader Middle Eastern war. This will be the year that the focus of geopolitical concern moves to the Western Pacific, where China is engaged in an increasingly tense regional standoff with Japan, centred on ownership of the Senkaku Islands.

We’ll check back a year from now, to see how I did.

Michael Den Tandt is a columnist with Postmedia News.

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Opinion/Events the world’s year in review: Part I

Snowden affair tops the list Gwynne Dyer It’s always dangerous to declare “mission accomplished.”

Former US president George W. Bush did it weeks after he invaded Iraq, and it will be quoted in history books a century hence as proof of his arrogance and his ignorance.

British Prime Minister David Cameron did it a couple of weeks ago in Afghanistan, and you didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. But when Edward Snowden said it this week — “In terms of personal satisfaction, the mission’s already accomplished” — nobody laughed.

Unless you just want a list of events, a year-end piece should be a first draft of history that tries to identify where the flow of events is really taking us. By that standard, Snowden comes first. The former National Security Agency contractor, once an unremarkable man, saw where the combination of new technologies and institutional empire-building was taking us, and stepped in front of the juggernaut to stop it.

“You recognise that you’re going in blind...,” Snowden told the Washington Post. “But when you weigh that against the alternative, which is not to act, you realise that some analysis is better than no analysis.”

So he fled his country taking a huge cache of secret documents with him, and started a global debate about the acceptability of mass surveillance techniques that the vast majority of people did not even know existed.

The bloated American “security” industry and its political and military allies call him a traitor and claim that “everybody already knew that all governments spy,” but that is a shameless distortion of the truth. Almost nobody outside the industry knew the scale and reach of what was going on, nor did the US government and its faithful sidekick, the British government, want them to know.

As Snowden, now living in exile in Russia, put it in a Christmas broadcast on Britain’s Channel 4: “A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all.

They’ll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves, an unrecorded, unanalysed thought.”

Unless, that is, the monster of state-run mass surveillance is brought under control.

US district court judge Richard Leon called the NSA’s mass

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Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden started a global debate about the acceptability of mass surveillance techniques that the majority did not even know existed. surveillance programme “almost Orwellian”, and in a 68page ruling declared that the indiscriminate collection of “metadata” by the government probably violates the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution (relating to unreasonable searches and seizures).

Leon also rejected the spies’ usual defence that their techniques are vital to stop the evil terrorists from killing us all: “The government does not cite a single case in which analysis of the NSA’s bulk metadata collection actually stopped an imminent terrorist attack.” The spooks’ stock response would be that they could have told him, but then they’d have to kill him. The truth is that they snooped on everybody just because they could. It’s called hubris.

This is not just an American issue, though the protagonists in the debate that Snowden has unleashed are inevitably American. These techniques are available to every government, or soon will be. The tyrannies will naturally use them to control their citizens, but other countries have a choice. The future health of liberal democratic societies depends on the restrictions we place on these techniques in this decade.

“The conversation occurring today will determine the amount of trust we can place both in the technology that surrounds us and the government that regulates it,” Snowden said in his Channel 4 broadcast. “Together we can find a better balance, end mass surveillance and remind the government that if it really wants to know how we feel, asking is always cheaper than spying.” He has paid a high price to give us this opportunity, and we should use it.

Now, in no particular order, some other new things this

year, most of them unwelcome.

Have you noticed that protesters are starting to use non-violent techniques to overthrow democratically elected governments?

We have grown familiar with the scenes of unarmed crowds taking over the streets and forcing dictators to quit: it didn’t always succeed, but from Manila in 1986 to Cairo in 2011 it had a pretty good success rate, and at least two dozen dictators bit the dust.

But the crowds were back in Tahrir Square in Cairo last July to overthrow President Mohammed Morsi, who had been elected only one year before in a free election.

Morsi had won with only 51.7 percent of the vote, and a lot of people who did vote for him were holding their noses.

The secular liberals who had made the revolution in 2011 divided their votes between several rival presidential candidates, leaving voters in the second round with only a choice between Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate, and an adversary who was part of the old regime.

Morsi often talked as if he had a mandate to Islamise Egyptian society (though he didn’t actually do all that much), and it alarmed the former revolutionaries. They could and should have waited for the next election, which Morsi would certainly have lost, mainly because the economy was still a wreck. But they were too impatient, so they made a deal with the army and went back out on the square.

Their little pantomime of non-violent protest lasted only two days before the army stepped in and removed Morsi from power. It subsequently murdered about a thousand of Morsi’s supporters in the streets of Cairo to consolidate

its rule, while the men and women who had been the heroes of the 2011 revolution cheered the soldiers on. And now these “useful idiots” are joining Morsi and his supporters in the regime’s jails: the counter-revolution is complete.

But it gets weirder: in Thailand, for the past two months, non-violent protestors have been explicitly demanding the end of democracy. They are relatively privileged people, mostly from Bangkok and the south, who bitterly resent the fact that a series of elected governments led by Thaksin Shinawatra or his sister Yingluck has been spending their tax money to improve the lives of the impoverished rural majority in the north of Thailand.

Naturally, most of the poor vote for the Shinawatras, who win every time there is an election. In 2006, the rich party (“yellow shirts”) conspired with the army to remove the party of the poor (“red shirts”) in a coup, but as soon as there was an election the Shinawatras’ party returned to power.

So now the “non-violent protests” have begun again, supported by the prosperous middle class of Bangkok, and this time they are demanding a non-elected “people’s council” made up (surprise!) of people like them.

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra responded on 9 December by calling an election. But of course the “yellow shirts” don’t want an election, because they would lose it.

They have declared a boycott of the vote, scheduled for February, and resumed their demonstrations. Democracy is their enemy, and non-violence is their weapon.

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New Year’s Eve Candlelight Ski, 7:00-10:00 pm at the Kimberley Nordic Club. Presented by the Kimberley Nordic Club and Kimberley Nordic Racers. Come and enjoy food, friends and beautiful skiing around our 3 km loop lit with torches and candles. Appies, treats & hot beverages available.Admission is by donation, with proceeds to support Kimberley Nordic Racers.

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Abreast in the Rockies Dragonboat Assoc. Meeting Monday Jan. 13, 2014 at 7:00 pm, Mount Baker School Library. Interested paddlers welcome.

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While attitudes towards drinking and driving have changed considerably over the years, an average of 95 lives are still lost each year and impaired driving remains a leading cause of car crash fatalities in B.C.** Alcohol impacts a person’s judgment, reaction time, coordination and visual functions. Behind the wheel that means it affects a driver’s ability to steer, track moving objects and control speed and lane position. No amount of coffee, food or fresh air can sober up an impaired person – the only cure is time.

So tis the season for some good cheer but make sure you plan ahead for a safe ride home if your festivities involve alcohol.

Here are ICBC’s tips to help everyone get home safe this holiday season.

It’s all in the details. You’ve planned out who you’ll go to the party with, how you’ll get there and what you’ll wear, but have you also planned how you and your friends will safely get home? Choose a designated driver before going out or keep money aside for a bus or taxi. Operation Red Nose is also available in 13 communities to help get you and your car home.

Is it your turn? Share the responsibility to help your friends and family get home safely - ask yourself if it’s your turn to be the designated driver.

Take a stand. Never get in a car with an impaired driver. Ask to get out of the car if necessary. Take a stand and don’t let your loved ones get behind the wheel impaired.

Be a good host. If you’re hosting a party, reward your designated drivers with some fun and easy-to-make mocktail treats, like a smooth Kootenay Koffee or a tingling Lemon Fizz.

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PLAY IT SMART WITH SPIRITED PARTIES Parties catering to adults are often enhanced with a variety of food and beverage options, and alcoholic drinks are a common component of such gatherings.

Party hosts and hostesses who will be offering the spirits to their guests should keep safety in the back of their minds.

Regional Christmas holiday statistics (6 p.m. Dec 24 to midnight Dec 26)**

Many party hosts are unaware that they may be held liable should a person become intoxicated at their event and then go on to injure another person while under the influence. This is why bartenders will stop serving customers who are visibly drunk. Although laws vary from place to place, party hosts should still keep tabs on their guests’ alcohol consumption, cutting off guests who might have had enough to drink. In addition to monitoring alcohol consumption, party hosts can employ these additional practices to keep everyone safe.

Every year during the Christmas holidays, an average of 240 people are injured in 810 crashes in the Lower Mainland.

Every year during the Christmas holidays, an average of 20 people are injured in 90 crashes in the North Central region.

Every year during the Christmas holidays, an average of 50 people are injured in 160 crashes in the Southern Interior.

Every year during the Christmas holidays, an average of 50 people are injured in 170 crashes on Vancouver Island.

Regional New Year’s Eve statistics (6 p.m.

Dec 31 to midnight Jan 1)**

* Collect keys upon entry to the party.

Ask guests who plan to drink alcohol to surrender their car keys to you when they arrive at the party. Guests may be offended at having to relinquish control of their cars, but it is a wise move to remove any temptation to drive away.

Every year during New Year’s Eve, an average of 120 people are injured in 420 crashes in the Lower Mainland.

Every year during New Year’s Eve, an average of 10 people are injured in 50 crashes in the North Central region.

* Remain sober. As the party host, you will have a number of responsibilities, including ensuring your guests’ comfort and safety. Having your wits about you will enable you to make better decisions for you and your guests.

Every year during New Year’s Eve, an average of 30 people are injured in 110 crashes in the Southern Interior.

Every year during New Year’s Eve, an average of 20 people are injured in 90 crashes on Vancouver Island.

* Serve plenty of food. Drinking on an empty stomach is a surefire way to get intoxicated. Be certain to have a number of foods available and encourage guests to dine before you start serving any alcoholic beverages. This way you can reduce the potentially intoxicating effects the alcohol will have on your guests. Though a full stomach won’t guarantee your guests won’t become intoxicated, they are likely to consume less alcohol on a full stomach and the food in their stomach can counter the effects of any alcohol they do consume.

*Fatal victim counts from police data (2008 to 2012). Christmas and New Year’s Day holiday is defined as 6 p.m. December 24 to midnight January 1 of the New Year. Impaired is defined to include alcohol, illicit drugs and medicines. A seriously injured victim refers to a road user who required at least one night in hospital as a result of injuries sustained in an impaired driving related crash. **Crashes and injured victims from ICBC data (2008 to 2012); fatal victims from police data (2008 to 2012). Impaired is defined to include alcohol, illicit drugs and medicines.

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While attitudes towards drinking and driving have changed considerably over the years, an average of 95 lives are still lost each year and impaired driving remains a leading cause of car crash fatalities in B.C.** Alcohol impacts a person’s judgment, reaction time, coordination and visual functions. Behind the wheel that means it affects a driver’s ability to steer, track moving objects and control speed and lane position. No amount of coffee, food or fresh air can sober up an impaired person – the only cure is time.

So tis the season for some good cheer but make sure you plan ahead for a safe ride home if your festivities involve alcohol.

Here are ICBC’s tips to help everyone get home safe this holiday season.

It’s all in the details. You’ve planned out who you’ll go to the party with, how you’ll get there and what you’ll wear, but have you also planned how you and your friends will safely get home? Choose a designated driver before going out or keep money aside for a bus or taxi. Operation Red Nose is also available in 13 communities to help get you and your car home.

Is it your turn? Share the responsibility to help your friends and family get home safely - ask yourself if it’s your turn to be the designated driver.

Take a stand. Never get in a car with an impaired driver. Ask to get out of the car if necessary. Take a stand and don’t let your loved ones get behind the wheel impaired.

Be a good host. If you’re hosting a party, reward your designated drivers with some fun and easy-to-make mocktail treats, like a smooth Kootenay Koffee or a tingling Lemon Fizz.

Don’t Drink & Drive.

PLAY IT SMART WITH SPIRITED PARTIES Parties catering to adults are often enhanced with a variety of food and beverage options, and alcoholic drinks are a common component of such gatherings.

Party hosts and hostesses who will be offering the spirits to their guests should keep safety in the back of their minds.

Regional Christmas holiday statistics (6 p.m. Dec 24 to midnight Dec 26)**

Many party hosts are unaware that they may be held liable should a person become intoxicated at their event and then go on to injure another person while under the influence. This is why bartenders will stop serving customers who are visibly drunk. Although laws vary from place to place, party hosts should still keep tabs on their guests’ alcohol consumption, cutting off guests who might have had enough to drink. In addition to monitoring alcohol consumption, party hosts can employ these additional practices to keep everyone safe.

Every year during the Christmas holidays, an average of 240 people are injured in 810 crashes in the Lower Mainland.

Every year during the Christmas holidays, an average of 20 people are injured in 90 crashes in the North Central region.

Every year during the Christmas holidays, an average of 50 people are injured in 160 crashes in the Southern Interior.

Every year during the Christmas holidays, an average of 50 people are injured in 170 crashes on Vancouver Island.

Regional New Year’s Eve statistics (6 p.m.

Dec 31 to midnight Jan 1)**

* Collect keys upon entry to the party.

Ask guests who plan to drink alcohol to surrender their car keys to you when they arrive at the party. Guests may be offended at having to relinquish control of their cars, but it is a wise move to remove any temptation to drive away.

Every year during New Year’s Eve, an average of 120 people are injured in 420 crashes in the Lower Mainland.

Every year during New Year’s Eve, an average of 10 people are injured in 50 crashes in the North Central region.

* Remain sober. As the party host, you will have a number of responsibilities, including ensuring your guests’ comfort and safety. Having your wits about you will enable you to make better decisions for you and your guests.

Every year during New Year’s Eve, an average of 30 people are injured in 110 crashes in the Southern Interior.

Every year during New Year’s Eve, an average of 20 people are injured in 90 crashes on Vancouver Island.

* Serve plenty of food. Drinking on an empty stomach is a surefire way to get intoxicated. Be certain to have a number of foods available and encourage guests to dine before you start serving any alcoholic beverages. This way you can reduce the potentially intoxicating effects the alcohol will have on your guests. Though a full stomach won’t guarantee your guests won’t become intoxicated, they are likely to consume less alcohol on a full stomach and the food in their stomach can counter the effects of any alcohol they do consume.

*Fatal victim counts from police data (2008 to 2012). Christmas and New Year’s Day holiday is defined as 6 p.m. December 24 to midnight January 1 of the New Year. Impaired is defined to include alcohol, illicit drugs and medicines. A seriously injured victim refers to a road user who required at least one night in hospital as a result of injuries sustained in an impaired driving related crash. **Crashes and injured victims from ICBC data (2008 to 2012); fatal victims from police data (2008 to 2012). Impaired is defined to include alcohol, illicit drugs and medicines.

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Kootenay splits with Spokane Ice fall 6-4 at home but rebound with a 2-1 win in the U.S. during home-and-home series

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City honours Niedermayer CONTINUED from page 1

Niedermayer and his family decided to come home and experience Christmas with some snow and ice, which isn’t too common in southern California. His parents and brother, Rob and his family, are still living around Cranbrook.

“We’ve gone out skiing, playing in the snow, a little bit of pond hockey, things like that,” said Niedermayer, “so we’ve had a great time staying out at my brothers place and obviously, the parents are here too, so it’s been good.”

Niedermayer’s career has been particularly special, as he’s won pretty much everything there is to win in junior, professional and international hockey. In addition to four Stanley Cups, Niedermayer has two Olympic gold medals (2002, 2010) a World Junior Championship, a World Cup of Hockey, a World Championship and a Memorial Cup. He won the James Norris Memorial trophy as the NHL’s top defenceman in 2004 and captured the Conn Smythe trophy as the playoff MVP in 2007, when he won his fourth Stanley Cup alongside his brother with the Ducks.

In November, he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame during a ceremony in Toronto.

Family, friends, former coaches and teammates came in from all across

North America to be a part of the event, something that struck a chord with Niedermayer.

“It’s pretty overwhelming so not just being there and seeing the players that are in the Hall of Fame, but to have the support of the people that were there—and the people that weren’t there—I just know how many people supported me when I was playing and cheering me on behind their TV’s and that goes here in Cranbrook as well,” he said.

After retiring in the summer of 2010, he stayed on with the Ducks as a consultant to GM Bob Murray, before signing on as an assistant coach two years later.

Currently, the Ducks are having a pretty good season, tied up with the Chicago Blackhawks at 61 points for first place in the NHL. Niedermayer attributes the success to a youth movement in the roster.

“We got a lot of good young players that I think are key to success in the league,” Niedermayer said. “With the salary cap, it’s hard to hold on to all your players, but if you can keep bringing your good young ones in, you’re going to have some success.”

“We have a lot of good, young players that are playing together right now and believe in each other, so it’s fun to see.”

Kootenay traded favours with the Spokane on the weekend, falling 6-4 at home on Friday, before edging out a 2-1 win on the road in a rematch the following night.

The Ice are tied up with the Wheat Kings at 41 points and sit in seventh place in the Eastern Conference.

Kootenay got some bodies back in the roster as Jagger Dirk, Ryan Chynoweth and Rinat Valiev returned from injuries, while Tanner Faith is still out indefi-

“I think five of their six goals, they didn’t earn them. It felt like we just had too many errors and we have to eliminate that.”

Jaedon Descheneau nitely with an upper body injury.

Jaedon Descheneau led the way with a pair of goals on Friday, but Spokane was able to outscore the Ice later in the game to earn the win.

The Ice also got goals from Zach McPhee and Tim Bozon, while Jackson Playfair and Riley Whittingham both scored twice for Spokane, with Mike Aviani

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Mackenzie Skapski was pulled after two periods, making 26 saves while Wyatt Hoflin finished the game with six stops in the final frame.

Kootenay managed to beat Chiefs netminder Eric Williams four times in 24 shots.

Spokane proved how dangerous they could be with quick goals at the start and end of the second period, both from Playfair.

“It’s never a good thing, that’s for sure,”

said Descheneau. “but we got to adjust and make sure we don’t let those opportunities happen. I think five of their six goals, they didn’t earn them. It felt like we just had too many errors and we have to eliminate that.”

The two teams traded goals in the first period, Aviani first for Spokane on the power play before Descheneau responded by weaving through a few players in the offensive zone and beating Williams with a low shot.

Just 21 seconds into

the second period, Playfair got his first of the game by picking the pocket of an Ice D-man and beating Skapski through the five-hole.

Five minutes later, Oneschuk went between the wickets on a shorthanded breakaway for a two-goal lead for the Chiefs.

Whittingham scooped up a rebound for a 4-1 lead at the later in the frame before the Ice engineered bit of a comeback.

Descheneau onetimed a cross-ice feed at

the side of the net and Zach McPhee scored on a shot on net that pinballed off a few skates to make it 4-3.

However, with two seconds on the clock, Playfair buried another rebound to restore a two-goal lead with the final 20 minutes to go.

Hoflin came into the net to close out the game, but Whittingham scored a flukey goal from the blue line, sneaking a shot under the armpit of the Kootenay Ice goaltender on a dump in.

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Fucale to get first world juniors start for Canada BILL BEACON Canadian Press

MALMO, Sweden - Zach Fucale will finally get his chance in goal for Canada at the world junior championship.

Coach Brent Sutter confirmed that the Halifax Mooseheads goalie will get the start when Canada faces Slovakia in its third group stage game on Monday.

“He’s a very confident guy,” Sutter said of Fucale. “He’s a goalie that has great ability.

He’s won a Memorial Cup at a young age. He’s one of two very good goalies here and he’s going to get an opportunity.”

Jake Paterson of the Saginaw Spirit started Canada’s first two games - a 7-2 romp over Germany and a wild 5-4 shootout loss to the Czech Republic.

It appears Fucale may get additional starts if he has a strong game against Slovakia.

“We’ll see how he plays and we’ll determine that after the game,” said Sutter. “I’m taking it game to game. I haven’t said who’s going to be our number one. We have a plan in place and we’ll see how it unfolds.”

The 18-year-old Fucale played one pre-tournament exhibition game against Finland and is anxious to make

his first start in a game that counts.

“It hasn’t been difficult at all,” he said. “I just wanted to be supportive and stay ready all the time. I’ll just get in the net and play the best I can.

That’s all I can really do.”

Forward Charles Hudon, a fellow Montreal Canadiens prospect, was also in a buoyant mood at practice Sunday as he looks to have earned a regular spot on a line with Jonathan Drouin and Anthony Mantha.

Hudon got the tying goal in the third period that forced overtime and earned Canada an important point in the standings.

“I thought he was really good,” Sutter said of Hudon.

“He created a lot of stuff for us and he got a huge goal at a critical time. He’s had a great attitude. He’s stayed positive.”

He had been sharing a position with 13th forward Taylor Leier, but Leier skated in practice as the extra man on the unit with Bo Horvat, Sam Reinhart and Conner McDavid.

Defenceman Griffin Reinhart will serve the last of a fourgame suspended incurred from a slash at last year’s world junior tournament. He will return for Canada’s last group stage game Tuesday against the United States.

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KIJHL rivalry between Kimberley and Fernie heats up Tre vor Cr awley Sports Editor

It was an emotional finale in a home and home series between the Kimberley Dynamiters and the Fernie Ghostriders on Sunday night.

After losing 4-2 in Fernie the night before, the Nitros hosted their divisional rivals and skated away with a 7-3 win despite losing four players to injury.

“We fought through a lot of adversity,” said Nitro head coach Jerry Bancks. “Basically as the night went on we lost four key players, one in the warmup and three more as the game went on and for a time there it was a little gloomy, but I think the coaching staff did a great job of getting them to believe that it doesn’t really matter who you lose, it’s opportunity.

“You hate to see someone get injured, but in the world of hockey, injuries are opportunity.

So some guys got to play on the powerplay, got more ice time and they stepped up and believed in themselves, so I thought it was a really good character win.”

Despite losing forward Jared Marchi in the warmup, Kimberley jumped off to a hot start, and were rewarded with a goal from Marco Campanella, who snapped in a one-timer on a great feed from Brady Revie behind the net.

However, Joel Burgess tied it up for the Riders in the latter half of the frame with a tap-in at the side of the net.

Just before the final minute kicked off, Dylan Sibbald streaked down the right wing and roofed a wrist shot top shelf from inside the face-off circle.

Heading into the second period, the Nitros

continued to build on their lead.

Brandon Becker, a call-up player, got his first career KIJHL goal, snapping up a loose puck and beating Fernie goaltender Austin Wells with a wrist shot.

Fernie cut into the lead a minute later when Aidan Geiger found himself all alone in front of Kimberley netminder Jeremy Mousseau and deked the puck into the net.

Tyson Klingspohn tallied on a powerplay opportunity to restore the two goal lead after the Riders started getting into penalty trouble.

Near the halfway mark of the game, Revie took a hit near the player benches and went down.

Play was halted and both teams eventually sent to their dressing rooms while athletic trainers, coaches and paramedics surrounded the Nitro forward and stretchered him off the ice.

Earlier in the game, Jason Richter also headed to the dressing room after getting hit into a gate that popped open while rushing down the boards.

“We knew we just had to keep our heads down and stick to our game plan and pretty much just say we gotta win it for those guys who are out,” said Andrew Miller.

After Revie was taken off the ice, play resumed and Alex Rosolowsky increased Kimberley’s lead to three goals, roofing the puck after taking a slick feed from Jordan Busch.

During the middle frame, Kimberley lost captain Darren Martin who was tossed for chasing Kale Johnston around the ice after the Fernie forward delivered a check from behind.

Johnston was also eject-

ed for the infraction.

The Nitros kept up the pressure in the third period, after receiving a four-minute powerplay on a high-sticking penalty that the Fernie bench took exception to, and a coach was punished with a game ejection.

Bryce Perpelitz made the Riders pay with the man-advantage, capitalizing five minutes into the period.

Fernie finally responded on an odd-man rush as Burgess fed Ben Primeau, who slipped the puck five-hole while heading in alone on Mousseau.

Miller answered back for Kimberley late in the game, ripping a shot from inside the offensive zone face-off circle to cap off the scoring.

The Dynamiters also lost Tristan Pagura late in the game with an upper-body injury, according to Bancks.

Mosseau picked up the win with 26 saves while Wells made 27 saves in defeat for Fernie.

Though Kimberley lost the night before, Bancks said he was happy with the effort his team gave in the Fernie Memorial Arena.

The two teams traded goals in the opening period, but Fernie broke the game open in the second frame, scoring twice, while Kimberley only responded once.

The two teams added a goal in the final period, but Fernie held on to it’s one-goal lead to take the edge.

“I thought their goalie won the game for them— all the credit to him,” said Bancks. “…They’re a tough team to play against. They’re physically stronger probably, but I thought we did well.”

Dylan Robertson got the scoring started on a

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The Kimberley Dynamiters celebrate Tyson Klingspohn’s goal on Sunday night at the Civic Centre during a 7-3 win over the Fernie Ghostriders. shorthanded effort with five minutes to go in the opening period, but Eric Buckley answered back in the final 90 seconds to even it up.

Aaron Neufeld and Anthony Gilbert scored consecutive goals in the middle frame before Rosolowsky answered back for Kimberley.

Kurtis Bond put the Riders ahead with a twogoal lead in the final period before Tyler Kinnon tallied for Kimberley, however, the Nitros were unable to complete the comeback.

Jeremy Mousseau took the loss in net with 29 saves while Phoenix Logan-Hill was busy in goal for Fernie with 37 stops.

Ice edge out Chiefs 2-1 in Spokane Continued from page 10 Kootenay got on the board towards the end of the game when a shot from Jordan Steenbergen at the blue line redirected off Bozon to cap off the scoring.

“We were just inconsistent,” said Descheneau. “We had our chances, our times during the game, played well, played hard and were on the body. You see in the second period we scored two goals within five minutes, we had puck possession and when they had the puck, we took the man to them and created

opportunities and we just weren’t consistently doing that.”

Despite the setback at home, the Ice were able to get it done the following night in Spokane, riding their two-goal lead from Levi Cable and McPhee after the first period to the win.

Cable scored 11 minutes in, and McPhee added a powerplay goal a few minutes later for a 2-0 lead after 20 minutes.

Dominic Zwerger added a goal halfway through the middle frame to cut into the Kootenay lead, but that would be it for

scoring as Skapski shut the door with 36 saves on the night.

Both games also featured the two 1997-born prospects in defenceman Dylan Overdyk and forward Austin Wellsby, who are on assignment with their WHL parent squad to cover injuries and the absence of Sam Reinhart and Troy Murray, who are both at international tournaments.

Kootenay has a day trip to Calgary for a rare Monday night contest before heading to Medicine Hat for a Thursday evening tilt with the Tigers.

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Now, my younger daughter is treating me terribly. After high school, I discovered that “Miranda” was a bully to her classmates. She made fun of them and tormented them for years. I had many conversations with both of my daughters about being kind to people, but obviously it never meant a thing to Miranda. I now believe she is transferring that attitude to me. She never misses an opportunity to correct me in front of my grandchildren. She once hurt my feelings so badly, I broke down in tears.

After Thanksgiving, she invited me to go shopping. I was at the designated place, but she wasn’t there. When I phoned, she said she was tied up at the checkout line in another store -- one where she knows I love to shop. I said I couldn’t wait and was going home. She didn’t object. I invited her for Christmas dinner, and she refused to let me know whether she could make it until the day before.

Annie, I have had many surgeries and illnesses over the years, but in spite of that, I have lived a pretty good life. My husband and I have been generous with our children. If you see a problem with my attitude, tell me. I am willing to change. Right now, however, I am considering cutting my losses by limiting my contact with both of them. I am too old to put up with this nonsense. -- North Carolina Dear N.C.: We think your daughters enjoy yanking your chain in whatever direction it will go. We know this can be aggravating, but it does seem that they are close to you, having lunch together and offering to go shopping. If you enjoy that aspect of the relationship, we’d urge you to take the rest with a grain of salt, knowing that this is how they are. But if it is too stressful for you to be in their company, it makes perfect sense to limit contact to what you can tolerate.

Dear Annie: I consider myself a generous person. I never forget the birthdays of my children, grandchildren or friends. I bring casserole dishes to those who are sick or have lost a loved one.

Is it asking too much to get a simple thank you? I wouldn’t care whether it was by text message or email. Have we become so entitled that we can’t take a few minutes out of our busy lives to show gratitude?

I’d like to tell my family and friends that if they don’t get a check, gift or card from me in the future, it’s because they don’t seem appreciative. -- Less Generous Dear Less: Don’t tell us and hope they will see it. Tell them directly. Explain that without an acknowledgement of your gifts, you aren’t sure they are welcome or even that mailed items were received. If there is no word of thanks, you will assume in the future that they prefer not to get your cards, checks and casseroles.

Dear Annie: I just wanted to add my suggestion for “No Hallmark.” My 93-year-old mother recycles greeting cards into beautiful bookmarks. Many go to our local library. She loves to do this, and it keeps her busy. -- Santa Cruz, Calif.

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It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Mary Ellen Fitzpatrick (Nee: Duffy). Mary passed away December 19th, 2013 in Edmonton at the age of 91. She went peacefully in her home, surrounded by loving family, and she goes to meet her beloved Simon who has waited so long to be reunited with her.

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Mary is joined in heaven by her six siblings, who all passed before her. She is survived by her children: Kevin (Trudy) Fitzpatrick, Gerry (Lynn) Fitzpatrick, Sharon (Henry) Rakebrand and Charleen (Rae) Melmoth. She is also survived by her son-in-law Dan (Ana) Innes and John (Alice) Scott who was every bit a son to Mary. Grandchildren mourn: Leslie Fitzpatrick, Denise Rakebrand, Reagan Bartel, Christopher Fitzpatrick, Robyn Schroedl, Jeffery Rakebrand and Jason Scott.

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A: Sale price is net of $2000 rebate of which customer must pay taxes of $240. AA: 64 month lease, first payment in advance, TP $22,848, lev $12,136, taxes extra. AAA: 84 month finance term, bi-weekly payments, 3.5% rate. B: Sale price is net of $3000 rebate of which customer must pay taxes of $360. BB: 64 month lease, first payment in advance, TP $27,136, lev $10,904, taxes extra. BBB: 84 month finance term, bi-weekly payments, 1.9% rate. C: Sale price is net of $1500 rebate of which customer must pay taxes of $180. CC: 64 month lease, first payment in advance, TP $30,272, lev $14,926, taxes extra. CCC: 84 month finance term, bi-weekly payments, 6.99% rate. D: 64 month lease, first payment in advance, TP $21,248, lev $12,262, taxes extra. DD: 84 month finance term, bi-weekly payments, 3.9% rate. E: Sale price is net of $2500 rebate of which customer must pay taxes of $300. EE: 64 month lease, first payment in advance, TP $18,432, lev $6,619, taxes extra. EEE: 84 month finance term, bi-weekly payments, 0% rate. F: 64 month lease, first payment in advance, TP $17,984, lev $7,730, taxes extra. FF: 72 month finance term, bi-weekly payments, 2.9% rate.

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