Creston Valley Advance, June 12, 2014

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Bountiful teen rescued from Mount Thompson

Hare Krishna monk visits on fourth walk across Canada

BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff

BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff The saffron-coloured robes of Bhaktimarga Swami make him a highly visible sight as he strides along highways in his fourth cross-Canada walk. The Hare Krishna monk passed through Creston on the weekend, but returned by car from the west side of Kootenay Pass to make a presentation at the Creston Valley Yoga Studio. He then visited the Advance office to continue a discussion from 2006, when he was profiled on his third walk across Canada. “I’ve done a lot more walking since then,” he laughed. “I’ve walked in Israel, Ireland, Guyana, Trinidad and even Mauritius.” Swami made his first “walking meditation” trip across Canada in 1996, walking westward. In 2003, he set out from Cape Spear, N.L., to complete the circle. When he isn’t walking or travelling the world, he lives as a celibate, monastic monk n Markham, Ont., promoting the Hare Krishna message through his involvement with youth and “morality theatre”. “I was trying to understand why I barely even remember Creston,” he said on Monday. “Then I realized that everything looks different because I arrived from a different direction.” In 2006, he arrived from the west along Highway 3A and on this trip he came from the east.

Lorne Eckersley

Bhaktimarga Swami visited Creston during his fourth cross-Canada walk.

See SWAMI, page 2

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Fire damages Yasodhara Ashram temple Page 5

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DISCOVERY REAL ESTATE

A 13-year-old resident of Bountiful is in stable condition at Calgary’s Foothills Medical Centre after being rescued in the dark of night early on Friday. Leroy Palmer sustained serious but not life-threatening injuries and was evacuated via Creston and Cranbook airports after spending about 12 hours at an altitude estimated at 4,600 metres by RCMP Const. Morgan Littlejohn. Palmer was apparently climbing the steep cliffs of Mount Thompson when he lost his footing and slid or fell about 100 metres before coming to rest in a difficult area to access. “Fortunately, Leroy’s brother was able to locate him, and then he sent out cellphone photos of the location, which aided search and rescue technicians in reaching the injured boy,” Littlejohn said on Monday. Creston RCMP and Creston Valley Search and Rescue personnel were aided by a Canadian Forces team from Comox, which arrived in a helicopter and fixed wing aircraft. “The search was complicated by the fact that some males — adults and teens — from the Bountiful community had gone up the mountain on their own in an attempt to locate the boy,” Littlejohn said. See RESCUE, page 3

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