Cranbrook Daily Townsman, March 28, 2014

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B.C. tables changes to land reserve SALLY MACDONALD Townsman Staff

The B.C. government has proposed major changes to the Agricultural Land Commission (ALC), opening the door for East Kootenay farmers to gain permission to use their properties for non-agricultural uses. Kootenay East MLA and Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett announced the pro-

posed changes Thursday, March 27, in the legislature, the result of the Liberal government’s core review of government spending, which Bennett is leading. “It’s good news for everybody in the East Kootenay,” Minister Bennett told the Townsman on Thursday.

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The Symphony of the Kootenay’s brass section will play alongside the high school’s concert and jazz bands next month.

Symphony prepares for season finale

Mount Baker Secondary’s concert and jazz bands to play with Symphony of the Kootenays TOWNSMAN STAFF

The Symphony of the Kootenays has had a successful season and will top it all off April 12 and 13 with its season finale, A Celebration of Excellence, at the Key City Theatre. The performances will feature Mount Baker Secondary School’s Concert and Jazz

Bands playing alongside the Symphony, as well as Evan Bueckert, Mount Baker’s music director, as guest conductor, beside Symphony conductor Jeff Faragher. Bueckert said the students are quite excited to be involved in the concert, as well as having the chance to per-

form with the Symphony musicians. “They love this repertoire and have been working very hard since September and are keen to share it,” Bueckert said. “They realize what an amazing chance this is to experience concert preparation and performance at a profes-

sional level and perhaps get an insight into how it might feel to be a career musician. Plus they get to meet some pretty cool people.” This season has marked the first for Faragher as conductor of the Symphony.

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Museum volunteer Dave Humphrey tracked down Frank Martin after seeing the Townsman’s story ARNE PETRYSHEN Townsman Staff

It only took a few days for a Cranbrook resident keen on history to paint a better picture of Sergeant Frank L. Martin. On Tuesday, the Townsman published a story about a group trying to find more information on soldiers who died during WWII and are buried in Holten, the

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Netherlands. The group reached out for information on Sgt. Martin, as he was a resident of Cranbrook. Dave Humphrey, Cranbrook Museum and Archives volunteer, saw the story in the paper and went about searching the archived newspapers of the day.

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