TUESDAY APRIL 8, 2014
Jimmy Miller, the Cranbrook Royals and the 1974 Allan Cup
McArthur on Olympic experience
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‘An Evening of Excellence:’ Cranbrook business awards
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Brent Carver honoured for lifetime achievement
Cranbrook — and Canada’s — greatest stage actor recognized with Governor General’s Performing Arts Award B A R RY CO U LT E R
One of Canada’s greatest stage actors — and certainly Cranbrook’s greatest actor — has been recognized for his career and body of work with the Governor Gener-
al’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement. “One of Canada’s most versatile actors, Brent Carver is known for the sensitivity, emotional honesty and
charisma he brings to every role, from Shakespeare classics to new Canadian works, and from intimate cabaret performances to blockbuster musicals,” the Governor General’s Per-
forming Arts Awards website announced last week. “In a career spanning over 40 years he has dazzled audiences and critics across Canada, the United States and the UK.”
Carver spoke to the Townsman last week about his winning the award. “I was quite surprised by it,” he said. “I feel kind of encouraged to keep going.” Lifetime achievement
aside, there are many who think that at this stage of his career, an actor like Carver would be in his artistic prime. “I hope so,” he said. “I left Cranbrook in 1969, and I was performing all through school, of course, then I started — luckily — making a living at it, around 1971 or so. “I feel really grateful that I’ve been able to make a living at it.” Toronto has been Carver’s home for many years, but his roots in Cranbrook are deep. And he appreciates the vibrancy of the local theatrical communities, students and adults.
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Hedley’s Cranbrook concert postponed BARRY COULTER
BARRY COULTER PHOTO
The Cranbrook Health Care Auxiliary’s new board of directors gathered at the East Kootenay Regional Hospital on Monday, April 7. Over the past three years, the CHCA has committed $1.9 million to purchasing equipment for the hospital. Interior Health orders equipment previously approved by the CHCA membership, and as the equipment arrives the CHCA releases the money to pay for it. Front row, left to right: Bonnie Close, Betty Wardle, Kate Fox, Jean Motherwell, Jim Kennelly. Back row, left to right: Linda Riffel, Karen Clark, Pat Bailey, Helen Luke, Karen Wreggett, Melanie Dodgson. Missing from the photo is Elaine Moggey.
Jumbo municipality budget makes waves $200,000 per year for five years is just pro forma document, says Mayor Deck C A R O LYN G R A N T
Those trying to make political points with the new budget for the Jumbo Resort Municipality are simply making something out of nothing, says the mu-
nicipality’s mayor, Greg Deck. Jumbo has hit the news again in recent days as a Ktunaxa Nation challenge to the development was rejected by the B.C. Supreme
Court and news came out of a budget which includes $200,000 in government grants per year for five years. Columbia River-Revelstoke MLA Norm Macdon-
ald brought the budget up in the Legislature last week. “There is no other place in British Columbia where you have a mayor and a council looking after a community of zero people.
The mayor doesn’t even live there, right? The mayor has walked through there, perhaps. But he doesn’t live there, and they don’t hold their meetings there because there’s no building.”
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An anticipated rock concert that was due to take place tonight, Tuesday, April 8, has been postponed. A brief press release from the promoter, Live Nation, said the postponement was because of illness. “Due to illness, the Hedley concert scheduled for April 8 at Western Financial Place in Cranbrook has been postponed,” the release said. “(Promoter) Live Nation and Hedley are working to find a new date for the concert and will release information as it becomes available. “VIP package holders will be contacted by Maple Music to make arrangements as soon as possible.” The release said the bands concerts in Victoria and Abbottsford, scheduled for Thursday, April 10, and Saturday, April 12, respectively, were to go ahead as planned.