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PARALYMPIC GLORY

Dueck carries Canada’s flag A gold medal in the Super Combined on Friday; flag honours on Sunday for Kimberley athlete C AROLYN GR ANT Kimberley Daily Bulletin

You certainly couldn’t ask for a more successful Paralympic Games than those experienced by Kimberley’s own Josh Dueck. Not only did the sit-skier win two medals, a gold in Super Combined and a silver in the downhill, but he lead in his Canadian teammates and carried the flag at the closing ceremonies on Sunday.

Dueck’s gold medal performance came on Friday when he finished with a combined time of two minutes 18.20 seconds for the first gold medal of his Paralympic career.

“I’m stunned, speechless, to the moon,’’ Dueck told the Canadian Press. “This is definitely the one achievement that was missing on my bookshelf.’’

“I don’t like to focus on the outcome of what’s going on, but I wanted this and it feels freaking great,’’ he added.

It was then announced prior to the closing ceremonies that he had been chosen to

“I ski because I love to ski, but I compete for Canada, so to have an opportunity to bring the flag in for the closing ceremony is unbelievable” Josh Dueck be flag bearer.

“I’m really excited, I couldn’t be happier,” said Dueck. “I really can’t imagine what will go through my mind when we enter the stadium. What a great honour. I ski because I love to ski, but I compete for Canada, so to have an opportunity to bring the flag in for the closing ceremony is unbelievable.”

Sunday’s closing ceremonies were the first time Dueck was able to make an opening or closing ceremony. He couldn’t go to either in Vancouver, where he won a silver, or the opening in Sochi, because of his race schedule.

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After winning a gold medal in the sit-ski super-combined, Kimberley’s Josh Dueck carries the Canadian flag into the Closing Ceremonies at the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia on Sunday, March 16.

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Samsung stars Fairmont’s Keira Neal in Paralympic promo DAN WALTON Columbia Valley Pioneer

One of the biggest stars of the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games is Keira Neal from Windermere – and she’s not even competing.

Seven-year-old Keira from Windermere Elementary School, whose right leg was amputated shortly after her first birthday, is the focus of a Samsung promotion that is airing worldwide while the 2014 Winter Paralympics are on.

The commercial opens with Keira fitting herself with ski boots.

Asked how they feel after taking a few steps, she hops in front of her dad, Al Neal, before nonchalantly letting him know, “It fits.”

Cut to the top of Sunshine Mountain in Banff, and Keira and her dad are facing the slopes in the Rockies from a towering viewpoint.

“You think you can do this?” Al asks before they begin. “Yeah, I think I can do this,” she replies.

Amid her dad’s encouragement, Keira is first shown taking a few tumbles. But it’s not long before she gets the hang of skiing, and as she glides down the slopes, Keira’s face lights up with a smile that emits a sense of happiness that’s too genuine to have been acted.

The spot concludes with a rhetorical question: “What’s your problem?” before answering with, “Sport doesn’t care.”

While she proves inspirational, the magic of television was alive and well in the commercial, as Keira was already a seasoned skier.

“They wanted her to be a non-skier for it,” her mom Daphne said. “She was a little bit embarrassed about that.”

But nonetheless, she

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Fairmont girl Keira Neal, 7, and her father Al star in a Samsung commercial celebrating the 2014 Sochi Paralympics. carries the message with her.

“It doesn’t matter if you’re missing something, just try it,” Keira said. “I can do it and I lost my leg — everyone should at least try.”

Keira said she enjoyed acting, and that her favourite part of the production was when her dad asked her if she thought she could do it.

“And I’m looking down and I said, ‘Yeah, I think I can do this,’” Keira said.

“Through eye contact we could just tell if the shot went well or not,” Al said. “It was re-

This screenshot taken from the Samsung commercial shows Keira skiing at Sunshine Mountain with her dad following behind. ally cool, a very unique way to connect.”

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ny, and the production company, 72 and Sunny, was very pleased with Keira’s work.

“The producer felt like she was a real natural at acting,” Daphne said.

Keira’s falls were real, but caused by production traffic more so than snow conditions.

“Her small skis couldn’t handle the deep Ski-doo tracks,” Daphne said.

She said that the scenes were compiled

in November and required five days of shooting, including a wardrobe trip to Calgary – the city where she was spotted.

In searching to fill the role for the commercial, a casting agent approached the Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary. The gatekeeping nurse knew that Keira was athletic, and she’s also been involved in promotional videos through the hospital.

Daphne and Al received a call to see if Keira was interested, and she was thrilled, her mom said.

“We went through an application process, had to submit a video and have the producer hold a Skype interview, and Samsung made the ultimate decision to cast her,” she said.

Near her first birthday, Keira’s family learned that a rare form of cancer was present in her leg, and amputation would triple her chances of survival. The tumour was in her quadricep muscle, and a section of Keira’s upper leg was amputated. To allow her maximum range with prosthetic equipment, her lower leg and healthy right foot was then attached to her upper leg via the tibia (the shin bone).

“Basically, her tibia is her femur now, but they rotated it 180 degrees so that it would face backwards,” Daphne said.

As her commercial airs during the 2014 Paralympics in Sochi, Keira most enjoys watching speed skating and hockey, and her mom said she likes to look into which Olympic sports she could potentially compete in, for both summer and winter.

And despite her handicap, Keira’s ski equipment is no different than anyone else’s her size. She can often be found skiing at the Fairmont Hot Springs Resort, but spends a lot of her free time playing ice hockey.

The YouTube video is titled “Keira - Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games,” and is easy to find under the Samsung Mobile YouTube channel.

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Marysville cut from Dueck gets pat on back from PM Hockeyville contest Continued from page 1

C arolyn Gr ant Kimberley Daily Bulletin

It was a valiant voting effort, but in the end the Marysville Arena entry into the CBC Kraft Hockeyville contest simply couldn’t get enough votes to make it to the finals, it was announced Saturday.

The Shaw Centre in Salmon Arm and the Medican Centre in Sylvan Lake, AB were the top two entries in the Western Bracket and

Kingston, ON and Bedeque, PEI are the two finalists for the East Bracket of the contest.

“We are proud to have made the top 16 in the 2014 Kraft Hockeyville competition and look forward to receiving the prize for the Marysville Arena”, says Mayor Ron McRae. “Thank you to everyone who voted.”

Kimberley locals pushed the vote as hard as they could, including mass votes with cell

phones during Dynamiter playoff games last week, but in the end it may just be that the community is too small to gather enough votes.

For making the top 16, Marysville Arena will receive a $25,000 prize, much needed as a new ice plant has been ordered for $350,000.

Winners of the Hockeyville title will get an NHL pre-season game in their community, as well as $100,000 in arena upgrades.

Gold Creek fire destroys workshop, tractor trailer Townsman Staff

A workshop in Cranbrook’s Gold Creek area was destroyed by fire in an early Sunday morning blaze.

Cranbrook Fire and Emergency Services released a statement about the blaze on Sunday, March 16.

At 1:12 a.m., Cranbrook Fire and Emergency Services respond-

ed to a 911 call for a structure fire in the Gold Creek area.

Upon arrival, the first responding firefighters found the workshop to be fully involved and the trailer unit of a tractor trailer parked nearby on fire.

In total, one fire engine, two tenders and eighteen fire personnel responded to the inci-

dent.

The fire was contained to the workshop and trailer.

There were no injuries as a result of the incident.

The fire is currently under investigation by the RCMP. Damages to the building and trailer are estimated to be over $150,000.

“So this is my first time going to the big show and I get to carry the flag! It’s awesome,” Dueck said. “Our team rocked. We’re skiing well. We met our targets.

Tip of the hat to all our coaches and staff, it was cool to see a plan come to fruition.”

“The selection of Josh Dueck as Canada’s flag bearer for the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games closing ceremony was one reflecting the focus of our Canadian team on performing in the moment,” said Team Canada Chef de Mission Ozzie Sawicki. “Josh embraced this and certainly led by example throughout the alpine events at the Games. Canada can be extremely proud of the results from all of our Canadian athletes and I know Josh will lead our Canadian Paralympic Team into the closing ceremony with the pride representative of our entire team.”

Prime Minister Stephen Harper also added his congratulations.

“On behalf of all Canadians, I congratulate Josh Dueck for his

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mation,’’ Hunt said.

Parks Canada has taken efforts to make the avalanche risk known to visitors through additional signage, radio messages, and making avalanche forecasts available through hotels and equipment rental shops, Hunt said.

It’s been a bad weekend for snow slides.

A 36-year-old man from Lloydminster, Saskatchewan died of injuries he suffered Friday night in an avalanche near Blue River, B.C. And a 38-year-old man from Calgary was critically injured Saturday when he and some fellow skiers triggered an avalanche in Banff National Park.

again, our Canadian athletes have shown that they are truly among the world’s best and the entire country is very proud.”

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— A Parks Canada spokesman says the avalanche risk was high in an area where a father and son were killed when snow rushed down the slope where they had gone to toboggan in Lake Louise, Alta.

Banff National Park resource conservation manager Bill Hunt says RCMP requested the aid of Parks Canada Search and Rescue personnel to help look for the two on Saturday afternoon.

Hunt says a Parks Canada team found a partially buried toboggan in the avalanche debris and that helped searchers locate the victims at the base of Mount Fairview on the

shore of Lake Louise.

Hunt says the area where they were found is an “avalanche slope’’ and there are a number of avalanches in that area every year.

He says the avalanche hazard for that region of the park was rated as high, and it isn’t in an area where Parks Canada does avalanche control work.

The names of the victims are being withheld pending notification of their next of kin, but Hunt says it’s believed they were tourists and not familiar with the area or the risk.

“In this case it would appear that we’re dealing with someone who just had no idea even to need to ask for the infor-

impressive performance in the para-alpine men’s super combined (sitting) event, which has earned him a well-deserved gold medal and his second medal of these Paralympic Games. Once

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Josh Dueck celebrates his gold medal in the mens super combined sit skiing during the 2014 Paralympic Games in Sochi.

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Bee happy Madame De Klerk’s class at TM Roberts are excited to begin a project on bees, after receiving a $1,000 award from BC Hydro’s Community Champions program

Sally MacDonald Townsman Staff

The students of Madame Ingrid De Klerk will be busy bees in the garden this spring, after winning a $1,000 prize from BC Hydro’s Community Champion program.

BC Hydro announced on Friday, March 14 that the Grade 4 class at TM Roberts will receive $1,000 for their nomination in the program and the sustainability project they will take on this spring.

Madame De Klerk said the students will soon get to work in the school garden, planting pollinating plants to attract bees, as well as ed-

ible plants that they hope to enjoy before the school year ends.

The project will also see the students work on a multi-genre writing project all about bees, and go on a field trip to the IDEAL Society in Jaffray in May. The class showed its support for Columbia Basin Environmental Education Network (CBEEN) by nominating it for a Community Champion award.

While CBEEN was not successful in becoming one of the 2013 finalists, TM Roberts is one of 25 schools across B.C. that was randomly chosen to receive $1,000 for putting forward the nomination.

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Madame Ingrid De Klerk’s Grade 4 class at TM Roberts, pictured with BC Hydro design technician Tyler Hubbard, were excited to receive a $1,000 award from BC Hydro on Friday, March 14.

Community gathers for Cranbrook Conversation Sally MacDonald Townsman Staff

About 65 people gathered at the Heritage Inn in Cranbrook on Thursday, March 13 to talk about the issues facing Cranbrook ahead of this year’s municipal

election.

The lively crowd was at a free workshop called Cranbrook Community Conversation, a joint initiative of the City of Cranbrook and the Association of Kootenay and Boundary Local

Governments, with funding support from Columbia Basin Trust.

While around 100 people RSVP’ed for the event, reaching the maximum for the workshop facilitation, actual numbers were around

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Residents can access the survey on the City’s website and click on ‘Urban Deer Resident Survey’. Residents without access to a computer, printed versions of the survey will be available for pick up at reception at City Hall during regular business hours. Those residents requesting a paper copy must provide photo identification with a City of Cranbrook mailing address to be able to get a survey.

Deadline to complete and return the survey is 4:30pm on Friday March 28, 2014.

65 on the evening.

Mayor Wayne Stetski introduced the event, reminding participants that the purpose of the evening was brainstorming what would make more people vote in the November 15 municipal election. The last election in 2011 had a 32 per cent voter turnout.

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The group was split into tables of about seven people each. Facilitator Leslie Taylor, the former mayor of Banff, led the group through a series of exercises designed to spark discussion about civil issues and local engagement.

First, each table was given a list of government services and asked to separate them by which level of government provides the service: federal, provincial or municipal. Each group then stuck the services to a wall display for each level of government. It was visibly clear that most of the services fell under local government.

Next, the groups were given a paper

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In the third, most complex exercise, after tables were shuffled around, each group was presented with a grid of 20 squares and asked to discuss and name 20 issues facing Cranbrook.

Then each person was given five red dot stickers and personally asked to place those dots on issues they felt were most important.

Following that, each group was given five larger blue dots, and asked to decide as a group which issues were the most important for the city.

At this reporter’s table, the issues included hot topics such as replacing aging infrastructure (such as roads), enhancing a park and walking friendly community, and youth engagement. Interestingly, while urban deer man-

agement did make the list, it was one of few tables that considered it an important issue, and it received only one red dot and no blue dot.

Then each table was asked to think of a factbased question related to each of the five important issues that would help the group have a more informed opinion. An important issue one table identified was the family physician shortage, and the question posed was, ‘How many more family physicians would be needed so that every person in Cranbrook has a family doctor?’

After another table shuffle, the groups were asked to brainstorm on three questions: how can we encourage people to offer themselves as candidates in the municipal election?; how can we encourage people to get informed about municipal issues and candidates?; and how can we encourage people to get out and vote?

A report will be prepared from the evening’s ideas and presented to the AKBLG spring meeting of elected officials, and to Cranbrook city council.

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never actually provided the ministry with a certified copy of the bylaw until November 21, 2013.

In March of 2013, the City was given a Best Practices Guide checklist that provided them with all the information required and the City was invited by ministry staff to ask for help anytime. The certified true copy of the bylaw was the most important document and it was not sent to the Province until late November. The City was also told to send additional financial information required by the ministry and this information was months before it arrived. On November 22, 2013, a City employee emailed the ministry to say, “Please ignore or destroy the background report provided to you … on October 3, 2013.”

Apparently, the City was un-

able to assemble the correct information and in October sent incorrect information to the ministry. A City staffer in another email to ministry staff characterized this comedy of errors as, “another misstep in a difficult undertaking …” He also said, “I am indeed sorry for delay …”

The B.C. Ministry did not refuse to accept the bylaw and in fact various ministry staff worked diligently with City staff to guide them through the process and they remain available to continue assisting the City. The City of Cranbrook failed to follow a simple process followed by hundreds of other municipalities regularly in this province and have, incredibly, attempted to shift the blame to the province.

I typically do not get involved in City business, de-

spite the fact that the provincial government is often a popular target. However, in this case, the story told to the Townsman was so wrong, the record must be corrected. At no time did the City of Cranbrook ever ask me as local MLA for help with this process.

The truth is, the City did not “throw out” the DCC’s. They gave up after completely botching the process because there is an election coming.

The City was not “forced” to “scrap” changes to DCC’s. And there was no “18 month” delay caused by the Province.

The mayor and council wear this black eye. They owe the community an explanation and they owe the Province an apology.

Bill Bennett MLA, Kootenay East

Afghanistan

Mission not accomplished

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ritain’s Prime Minister David Cameron rambled a bit on his visit to Afghanistan last December, but ended up sounding just as deluded as US President George W Bush had been when he proclaimed “Mission accomplished” six weeks after the invasion of Iraq. British troops were sent to Afghanistan, Cameron said, “so it doesn’t become a haven for terror. That is the mission...and I think we will have accomplished that mission.”

Prime Minister Stephen Harper was equally upbeat when addressing Canadian troops just before they pulled out in 2011. Afghanistan no longer represents a “geostrategic risk to the world (and) is no longer a source of global terrorism,” he said. Both men are technically correct, since Afghanistan never was a “geostrategic risk to the world” or “a haven for terror,” but they must both know that the whole war was really a pointless waste of lives.

Obviously, neither man can afford to say that the soldiers who died in obedience to the orders of their government (448 British troops, 158 Canadians) died in vain, but Barack

Obama has found a better way to address the dilemma: he just doesn’t offer any assessment of the campaign’s success. “I never doubted Obama’s support for the troops, only his support for their mission,” wrote former Defence Secretary Robert Gates, and he was right.

So was Obama, in the sense that he realised the mission, whatever its purpose (the definitions kept changing), was neither doable nor worth doing.

But in fact he did support it, at least to the extent of not pulling the plug on it – and 1,685 of the 2,315 American soldiers killed in Afghanistan died on his watch.

Could do better.

Now there’s another “election” coming up in Afghanistan (on 5 April), and at least three-quarters of the remaining foreign troops (perhaps all of them) will be gone from the country by the end of this year, and the whole thing is getting ready to fall apart. This will pose no threat to the rest of the world, but it’s going to be deeply embarrassing for the Western leaders who nailed their flags to this particular mast.

The election is to replace President Hamid Karzai, who has served

Gwynne Dyer two full terms and cannot run again. It will be at least as crooked as the last one in 2009: 20.7 million voters cards have already been distributed in a country where there are only 13.5 million people over the age of 18. Karzai is so confident of remaining the power behind the throne that he is building his “retirement” residence next to the presidential palace, but he’s probably wrong.

His confidence is based on his skill as a manipulator of tribal politics. Indeed, his insistence that the US hand over control of Bagram jail, and his subsequent release of 72 hard-core Taliban prisoners, was designed to rebuild ties with the prisoners’ families and clans before the election. But it is that same Taliban organisation that will probably make all Karzai’s plans and plots irrelevant.

It’s not that the Taliban will sweep back to power all over Afghanistan once Western troops leave. They really only controlled the Pashtun-majority areas of the east and south and the area around the capital even when they were “in power” in 1996-2001, while the Tajiks, Uzbeks and Hazaras of the “Northern Alliance” ruled the rest.

That pattern is likely to reappear, with the Taliban and the northern warlords pushing politicians like Karzai aside – probably not at once, when most or all of the Western troops go home at the end of this year, but a while later, when the flow of aid (which accounts for 97 percent of Afghan government spending) finally stops.

The US-backed government of South Vietnam did not collapse when American troops went home in 1973, but two years later, when Congress cut the aid to Saigon. The Soviet-backed government of Afghanistan did not collapse when Soviet troops withdrew in 1989, but three years later, after the Soviet Union collapsed and Russia cut the aid. It will happen that way again.

The new part-Taliban Afghanistan that emerges will be no

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What’s Up?

Letters to the Editor

On March 7, your front page story stated, “City throws out new development fees.” The story starts by saying the City “was forced to scrap changes to development fees after the B.C. government refused to approve the new bylaw.”

And the article goes on to quote a city councillor as saying the Province is to blame for 18 months’ delay. Another councillor stated that “the bylaw refusal was a black eye for Cranbrook.”

That councillor was actually correct about a black eye for the City, but not for the reasons he thought. The City has completely botched this matter and to be clear, the Province did not “refuse” to sign off on the bylaw, because the City

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more a source of international terrorism than the old part-Taliban Afghanistan was. It was Osama bin Laden and his merry men, mostly Arabs and a few Pakistanis, who plotted and carried out the 9/11 attacks, not the Taliban.

True, bin Laden et al. were guests on Afghan soil at the time, but it is highly unlikely that they told the Taliban about the attacks in advance. After all, they were probably going to get their hosts’ country invaded by the United States; best not to bring it up. And there have been no international terrorist attacks coming out of Afghanistan in the past eight years, although the Taliban already control a fair chunk of the country.

The election will unfold as Karzai wishes, and his preferred candidate (exactly who is still not clear) will probably emerge as the new president, but this truly is a case of rearranging the deck-chairs on the Titanic. The second long foreign occupation of Afghanistan in half a century is drawing to a close, and Afghanistan’s own politics and history are about to resume.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist based in London

KIMBERLEY AND CRANBROOK COMMUNITY CALENDAR

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Municipal Pension Retirees’ Association (MPRA) Meeting, Monday, March 17, 2014, Heritage Inn Hotel, 803 Cranbrook St. N., at 10:45 a.m. Guest speaker: Sarah Taylor, Pharmacist; Medication Reviews 11:30 a.m. Noon: No Host Luncheon.

Stories from Around the World. Join us Monday March 17, College of the Rockies Lecture Theatre. Admission by donation. Info: Norma at 250-426-6111. Percy and John will share images and tell stories that may not combine into a typical travelogue, but certainly promises to be entertaining.

Cranbrook Garden Club Meeting in the hall of Christ Church Anglican at 46-13th Ave. S. Monday, Mar. 17th learn about pruning roses & clematis. Come out and join us! New members always welcome. Info: April at 778-517-1222.

The East Kootenay Railway Pensioners Association will be having a Social Luncheon at 12:30 pm, Tuesday Mar. 18th, 2014 at Arthur’s Sports Bar & Grill (Day’s Inn). All Railway Retiree’s and Spouses are welcome. RSVP by Mar.14th, 2014. Info: Secretary Frances Allen at 250-426-2720 or Myrtle 250-426-2378, Jean 250-426-8338.

Tuesday March 18 and Wednesday March 19 from 1-3; The Friends of the Kimberley Library invite everyone to an Open House and special membership drive at the on-going fundraiser, their Used Bookstore in Marysville. Join the Friends for $5, and select 3 free books. Refeshments and door prizes at the Open House.

2014 FREE FAMILY SWIM Wednesday, March 19th, 6:00-7:00pm is sponsored by Exact Tax. Persons 18 years & younger must be accompanied by an adult.

March 20, 2014 Soup & Bun Luncheon. Includes choice of 3 soups, bun toppers, desserts, beverage. Adults $7. Child $5. Under 6 – free. Cranbrook United Church, corner of Baker & 12th Ave. Sponsored by Women’s Ministry Network. All profits to charity.

Everyone is welcome.

Jubilee Chapter #64. OES will hold their meeting on March 24, at 7:30 PM sharp, in the Masonic Hall at 401-3rd Avenue South, Cranbrook, B.C. We will elect officers for the ensuing year and there will be a Notice of Motion to discuss.

Have Camera Will Travel.... Join Lyle Grisedale - travelogue “Hiking in the Bugaboos” at Centre 64 on Tuesday, March 25 at 7:30 pm.

Admission by donation. Proceeds to Kimberley Arts Council & Expansion Project.

ONGOING Royal Canadian Legion Branch 24; Friday Meat Draw: 4:30- 6:30, Saturday Meat Draw: 3:30-5:30. Mark Creek Lions meet 1st and 3rd Wednesday at the Kimbrook. Meet & Greet from 6:00-6:30pm, supper 6:30-7:00, meeting 7:00-8:00pm. Contact 250-427-5612 or 250-427-7496. New members welcome - men and ladies!

Seniors Autobiographical Writing for those aged 60 or wiser at the Kimberley Library. No writing experience necessary. It’s free.

Tuesdays 10:00 - Noon. Register: Kim Roberts CBAL Coordinator 250-427-4468 or kroberts@cbal.org The Cellar Thrift Store Open Mon. to Sat., noon to 4:30 p.m. Our revenues support local programs and outreach programs of Cranbrook United Church. Baker Lane Entry at 2 – 12th Ave. S. Cranbrook, B. C. Donations of new or gently used items welcome.

Creating a bridge between Cranbrook’s Art scene and Sport scene, The Cranbrook and District Arts Council is holding an Art Exhibition for the month of March titled “Slapshot – Sport in Art”. Local artists submitted their “Sport Themed” work to the Gallery; on display to Friday Mar 28th.

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Stay tuned for the main event It’s going to be a very interesting time in politics next fall, folks. Especially at the municipal level.

Communities in provinces across the country will be electing new mayors and councils. Of course, we will be particularly interested in what will happen locally.

Who will run again? Who won’t? Will the change to four-year terms deter some? Will a councillor from either Kimberley or Cranbrook step up and run against the incumbent mayor? Will either of the incumbent mayors run?

We won’t know for a few months because it’s unlikely anyone will declare this early. I’ve always appreciated the neat and tidy six-week election campaign in Canada. Yes, there is plenty of jockeying for position before the writ drops, especially in jurisdictions such as British Columbia where the election date is set for every four years. But the true campaign, when the voting public is really engaged, is usually the last six weeks.

Even in the U.S. where the run for president now begins two years before the election, the public doesn’t really tune in until just prior to the vote.

However, there is one election that will be making noise early and often. It will engage the public, even if it’s only in the sense that, much like watching a car wreck, you can’t look away. It’s going to be

a dirty, backstabbing, political free-for-all and I, for one, can’t wait to watch it.

It’s the race for Mayor of Toronto. We all know that Rob Ford will seek re-election. And Thursday, Olivia Chow resigned her seat in Parliament and declared her intention to take on Ford for the right to hold the gavel in Canada’s largest city.

This is going to be a dog fight. Right versus left. Suburbs versus inner city. And two high profile candidates.

It’s hard to get more Carolyn high profile than Rob Grant Ford. He’s a household name around the world.

Even if you live under a rock in Outer Mongolia, you’d have heard of Rob Ford.

Then there’s Olivia Chow. Widow of the late Jack Layton, the man who single-handedly took the NDP into the role of official opposition, Member of Parliament for Trinity-Spadina (downtown TO), a seasoned politician in her own right. In Toronto, most voters would know her name.

There are other candidates running for mayor, but I predict they will fall by the wayside one and all, buried under the juggernaut of what will be a two-person race — Ford versus Chow.

Chow has experience, political connections at every level of government, a good track record.

Ford has... whatever it is, he has it in spades.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

There is seriously a very good chance that Rob Ford will win this election. The man has survived a series of events which should have killed any chance he had. But they didn’t. He has somehow, through sheer bravado, managed to convince many voters in Toronto that a crack-smoking, lying, often vulgar man, with questionable friends, an iffy record on matters of conflict of interest and the ability to act like a complete buffoon, is still a viable candidate for mayor.

He has managed to turn himself into a victim. And you can bet he’ll play the victim card again and again. He’ll make the press the enemy and say they just won’t leave him alone, even as he courts constant attention from that same body. Why are you bringing up the past?, he’ll ask.

I’ve changed. And some voters will buy it.

They have already allowed Ford a pass on actions that would have killed a lesser politician’s chances.

It’s going to take something special to stop him. The question is — is Olivia Chow going to be able to bring it?

It’s going to be fascinating to watch.

Especially from the comfort of our seats on the warm side of the Rockies, where we know — no matter what — the races for Mayor in Kimberley and Cranbrook will be less interesting. And that’s a good thing.

Carolyn Grant is Editor of the Kimberley Daily Bulletin

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Hitmen overcome Ice in season finale TRE VOR CR AWLEY Sports Editor

Murphy’s law—anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.

The Kootenay Ice slipped to sixth place in the Eastern Conference after their grip on fifth loosened due to a pair of losses against the Calgary Hitmen in a home and home finale this weekend.

With Swift Current snapping at their heels, Kootenay needed either some wins or the Broncos to lose. However, Calgary didn’t make things easy, and Swift Current beat up on the Warriors to finish two points ahead of the Ice and climb up to fifth place.

The regular-season finale between the Ice and the Hitmen was a preview of the first round of the playoffs, as the two teams drew each other after the dust settled from the weekend’s results around the league.

After surrendering a trio of goals on Friday, the Ice battled back to regain the lead, only to have the game end 5-4 in favour of the Hitmen following a shootout.

“We battled back in, but it wasn’t enough and it’s definitely a sour feeling,” said Ice captain Sam Reinhart.

It was a tough night for Kootenay goaltender Mackenzie Skapski, who was beat for two goals after costly giveaways in the defensive zone. Backup Wyatt Hoflin went in after the third goal in the second period to play out the remainder of the game.

Brady Brassart, Joe Mahon, Jake Virtanen, and Greg Chase scored in regulation for Calgary, while Reinhart and Luke Philp both tallied a pair of goals to provide offence for Kootenay.

The Calgary forecheck forced two turnovers in Kootenay territory in the first period to go up 2-0. First it was Brassart who scored, shovelling in a rebound after a giveaway, while Mahone took advantage of a bad bounce off an Ice defender’s skate to double the lead.

Virtanen scored a bizarre goal on a sharp

angle shot in the second period, and that would be it for Skapski in net.

Kootenay organized a response in the latter half of the frame; Reinhart got the ball rolling with a redirection off a point shot from Jagger Dirk.

The Hitmen started getting into penalty trouble and the hammer fell when Greg Chase took two consecutive minors for a four-minute powerplay. Cody Harmsworth was sent to the box less than a minute later and Kootenay was gifted with a brief fiveon-three.

Philp made good on a blast from a few feet inside the blue line to make it a onegoal game. After the goal, the Ice stayed on the man-advantage, and Valiev nearly tied it, but his shot went off the post and out of play.

However, it was the Ice captain who knotted it up in the third period with a tapin on a hard backdoor pass from Valiev at the point.

Philp gave Kootenay the first lead of the night a few minutes later, scooping up a rebound and firing it in with all kinds of mesh to shoot at.

Roughly 33 seconds after Kootenay took

the lead, Chase replied for Calgary, tying it at 4-4, which would stand for the rest of the game.

Skapski drew back into the crease for the shootout, but Brassart notched the game-winner after six rounds. Hitmen netminder Chris Driedger turned away all Kootenay shooters.

The two teams met for a rematch on Saturday and the Hitmen ran away with it in the second period to win 6-3.

Chase had a pair, while Ben Thomas, Virtanen Mike Winther and Pavel Padakin all scored for Calgary. Philp, Jaedon Descheneau and Austin Vetterl replied for the Ice. Philp opened the scoring, but Chase tallied twice to give Calgary a 2-1 lead after the first period.

Thomas and Virtanen scored twice in the second period, and Winther got his goal just after the halfway mark of the third period.

Vetterl and Padakin traded goals, while Descheneau also found the back of the net on a late powerplay.

Skapski had another tough night, allowing four goals in 12 shots, and was replaced

by Hoflin in the second period.

WHL sets up trust fund for Tim Bozon SUBMIT TED

Calgary, AB – The WHL has established a trust fund to assist Kootenay Ice player Tim Bozon and his family with medical and rehabilitation costs. The public can make donations at any BMO Bank of Montreal branch in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

Tim Bozon was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit

(ICU) at Royal University Hospital on Saturday March 1, 2014 and was diagnosed with Neisseria Meningitis.

He remains in ICU however doctors have indicated his condition remains critical but stable and improving.

He has been in a coma but doctors are now working to slowly wake him. His family has indicated that Tim has responded to verbal stimuli.

Tim’s parents, Philippe

and Helene, have been overwhelmed by the e-mail and social media messages from people around the world showing their support for their son. The family is very appreciative and will respond sometime in the near future. The family also wants to express thanks to the doctors and staff at Royal University Hospital for the care Tim has received.

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The Kimberley Dynamiters suffered the ultimate heartbreak on Saturday, losing 5-4 to the Creston Valley Thunder Cats after giving up a 4-1 lead in Game 7 of the KIJHL’s Eddie Mountain division final.

The Dynamiters had a 3-1 series lead after four games, but the Thunder Cats were able to complete one of hockey’s toughest challenges by coming back to force—and win—a seven-game series.

Heading into the weekend, the Nitros had a 3-2 series lead, but fell 4-2 on home ice at the Civic Centre on Friday.

With one game to win it all, the Dynamiters grabbed a big lead in the final game of the series, only to have the Thunder Cats storm back in a huge third-period comeback.

Game 7 was a monster special teams battle, with five powerplay goals and one shorthanded marker.

Kimberley got goals from Jared Marchi, Tanner Gray, Bryce Perpeltiz and Tyson Klingspohn.

Carson Cartwright, Andrew Hodder, Jesse Collins, Logan Styler

and Seth Schmidt tallied for Creston.

Kimberley peppered 43 shots on goaltender Kyle Michalovsky, who gave up four goals, while Tyson Brouwer manned the crease for the Dynamiters with 22 saves.

Cartwright tallied first for Creston, but Marchi responded a few minutes later as both teams capitalized on the powerplay in the first period.

Gray scored with a shorthanded effort in the second, while Perpelitz and Klingspohn also lit the goal lamp with the man-advantage for a 4-1 Kimberley lead after two periods.

However, something happened in the final 20 minutes, as momentum shifted to the Thunder Cats.

Hodder got the ball rolling six minutes into the frame, while Collins and Styler scored in the latter 10 minutes to tie up the game.

Schmidt scored the back-breaking goal on the powerplay with 2:06 remaining on the clock to put Creston in the lead.

With the chance to put it away on Friday at home, the Nitros fell 4-2 which forced Game 7.

Reinhart cracks century mark, sets franchise record TRE VOR CR AWLEY Sports Editor

No Ice player has been able to crack the century mark for single-season points since Jarret Stoll in 2000-01.

However, Sam Reinhart did it on Friday against the Hitmen, notching an assist on Philp’s first goal to give him 100 points on the season. He ended the night with two goals and two assist for four points.

“Obviously it was a goal of mine,” said Reinhart, after the first Calgary game on Friday.

“I’m pretty happy that the way the year has gone. I couldn’t have done it without a lot of my teammates and linemates, obviously [Jaedon] Descheneau is a big part of that…”

During the rematch

in Calgary—the final game of the season—Reinhart also collected two assists, giving him a total of 36 goals and 69 assists for 105 points.

That’s one shy of Stoll’s franchise record of 106 points 13 years ago.

Reinhart also broke the single-season franchise record for assists on Friday—formerly 66, which was also held by Stoll.

Though Reinhart missed 12 games due to playing for Team Canada in the World Junior Championship, he tallied his 105 points in only 60 games, finishing fifth overall in league scoring.

Descheneau, finished the season two points shy of the century mark, with 98. He collected 44 goals and 54 assists in 70 games.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Your instincts will help you understand a partner’s needs. Be sensitive with this person. Understand that you are capable of expressing unusual sensitivity.

You might find that you’re not sure how much to give. Don’t worry so much. Tonight: Get into the St. Paddy’s Day mood.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Speak your mind. You’ll sense a change in someone’s demeanor that could concern you. Your efforts count more than you realize. Approach a new situation in a different way. Follow your intuition in order to understand someone’s odd reaction. Tonight: Paint the town green.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You might not be in the right shape to do what is necessary.

You could find that relating to a child tests your need to control a situation. Your creativity will charge any interaction you have now, especially if you embrace the Irish spirit. Tonight: Enjoy the moment.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Pressure builds, and there are many options. You have a strong intuitive sense today that you’ll put to good use. A discussion with a loved one could be difficult. You might feel as if you have too much to juggle. Try to eliminate as much as you can.

Tonight: At home.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Make yourself available for calls and others’ inquiries. You will receive a spontaneous invitation that you would like to say yes to, but it might force you to cancel other established plans.

Only you can choose what to do.

Tonight: Whatever makes you happy.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You could go overboard when celebrating your Irish heritage.

You might feel uncomfortable when someone brings up your tendency to overindulge. A loved one might try to encourage this conversation, which he or she could feel is long overdue. Tonight: Try to relax.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You might have made plans

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with someone, only to have a last-minute change occur. Be gracious, because you could have an even better time opting to be spontaneous. If you are unattached, the potential for meeting someone is high. Remain open. Tonight: Party away.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) If you want to let go of a tradition or decide not join in with the shamrocks and the greenthemed parties, make it OK. It is quite possible that you need a break from rituals, so take it. By next year, you might be more up for participating. Tonight: Not to be found.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You’ll want to network rather than be stuck in a meeting. You will feel 100 percent Irish today.

Nothing makes you as happy as being the party animal you naturally are. Try to get started early on in your Irish transformation. Tonight: With friends.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You naturally take the lead, whether you’re at work or out socializing. Take charge -- be it at the office, at home or at a

St. Paddy’s Day party. You might need to distance yourself from a situation that is evolving into a power play. Tonight: A must appearance.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Your mind wanders today to distant places or people far away You might need to carefully rethink a decision involving a personal matter. How much are you really willing to reveal? Recognize a limitation instead of avoiding it. Tonight: Try a new spot.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) One-on-one relating could take a new twist, as long as you remain open-minded. Perhaps a discussion about long-term goals with a close friend needs to happen. You also might find that you are changing your values and the kind of people you are with. Tonight: Go with the flow.

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by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar Dear Annie: After 35 years of marriage, my abusive husband asked for a divorce. I had stayed for the children’s sake, but now know that was a mistake. Children grow up thinking abuse is normal.

Since the divorce, I have fallen in love with “Derek.” Derek and his ex-wife both engaged in affairs when the going got rough. Derek has been totally honest with me about this.

He’s in counseling and is committed to being a better man.

The problem is, I can’t kick the feeling that I can’t trust him. Early in our relationship, Derek attended a reunion, drank too much and ended up having sex with an ex-classmate who came to his room. He was forthright about it and very regretful. He swore it would never happen again. We were not having a “rough time” in our relationship, so I don’t know why this happened. Do you think he’s a sex addict? Does he just like the challenge of a conquest? Does he need the excitement of a new partner? Is it to boost his ego?

It’s been four years, and he’s been faithful since. He has talked about marriage, but I’m not sure. I do love him. But the pain of being rejected by my husband was bad enough. It took a lot of counseling to regain my self-esteem. An affair in a second marriage would devastate me.

How can I trust Derek so that I am secure when he’s not with me? Is this relationship too great a risk? We’ve had counseling together and separately and discussed this issue, but I’m still confused. -- Want To Make the Right Decision Dear Want: One episode of cheating in four years does not constitute a sex addiction. We think it’s more a behavior pattern, and counseling plus motivation can change that. However, no marriage comes with a guarantee of fidelity. Derek is trying hard to prove himself trustworthy, but that doesn’t ensure he won’t cheat if your relationship takes a dive. All relationships require a leap of faith, although you do not need to commit to marriage if you aren’t ready.

Dear Annie: My sister put on an antique show at a nearby hall and asked whether I would provide refreshments as a favor.

An elderly man bought a chocolate-chip cookie and broke a tooth. I apologized and explained that I freeze the cookies after they are baked to keep them fresh. But they had been sitting out for 45 minutes, so they should have been plenty soft. He told me that he has problems with his teeth and knew something like this would happen someday, but he’s on disability and wants me to pay for his dental bill.

Am I liable? I am totally clueless. -- Cookies No More Dear Cookies: We have no way of knowing exactly what happened or why, whether you are at fault or whether the man is trying to con you. If you are being threatened with a lawsuit, please talk to a lawyer immediately.

If he is simply asking for money and you feel responsible, whether to offer him anything is up to you, but get a release from him in writing saying that this settles the matter and he will make no additional claim against you.

Dear Annie: This is in response to “Pennsylvania,” the woman whose husband supposedly has been calling escorts. We have not heard his side. She could be a liar.

If he is calling escorts, that means she is not doing her job as a wife. If she checks his cellphone bills, she cannot be trusted. If my wife ever pulled that stunt, we would no longer be married. Not that she could find anything. I keep my private matters well hidden.

-- S. Dear S.: You’re quite a guy. Your wife has our condolences.

Annie’s Snippet for St. Patrick’s Day (author unknown): A best friend is like a fourleaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.

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