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MAY 23, 2014
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Matt Fraser, long-time Kootenay Ice stalwart and current Boston Bruin, spoke to the Townsman this week about his past year and his NHL playoff breakout. See full story on Page 8. (NHL.com)
Mother of orphaned cubs was shot, COs say ARNE PE TRYSHEN Townsman Staff
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GOTTA WHOLE LOTTA THINGS TO SAY: Country music legend Charley Pride made a whole lotta new friends in Cranbrook Thursday night at Western Financial Place. And over 1,000 were happy to have the Texan arrive, with a smoking hot Texas band — the Pridesmen — to run through several decades of hits. See more next week in the Townsman.
Conservation officers have confirmed that the mother of the two orphaned bear cubs had been shot, likely by a hunter, by mistake, and left unreported. The two cubs were left to fend for themselves.
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Local union says strikes not taken lightly AR N E PE TRYSHEN Townsman Staff
On Monday, teachers in places around the province will begin one-day rotating strikes. In School District 5, the rotating strike will take
place Monday, May 26. Shelley Balfour, president of the Cranbrook District Teachers’ Association said the move to strike is not something teachers do lightly.
“Our teachers have been under tremendous pressure to carry on with ‘business as usual’ in larger classes, with less support and larger numbers of children who require extra support for many
years,” Balfour said. “I believe we have reached a turning point in public education in our province.” Meanwhile, the group that represents B.C.’s 60 public-school boards at the
bargaining table with teachers says promised wage cuts will take effect Monday as well. The BC Public School Employers’ Association says in a letter to the teachers’
union that a five-per-cent wage reduction will jump to 10-per-cent on the first day the teachers’ walkout affects any schools.
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