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Cranbrook baker a YouTube sensation With more than 450,000 subscribers to their YouTube channel, Jenn Johns and Paul Dalcanale have created a hit
S A L LY M AC D O N A L D Townsman Staff
A Cranbrook school teacher who bakes in her spare time has turned a hobby into a fully fledged second career where millions of people around the world learn from her. Jenn Johns has loved to bake all her life, and started a custom cake-making business in Cranbrook in March 2011. Around the same time, she and her partner Paul Dalcanale began filming how-to baking videos in their home kitchen and posting them to YouTube with the channel name Cookies, Cupcakes and Cardio. But a funny thing happened: the videos became a hit. In May 2013, YouTube chose Cookies, Cupcakes and
Cardio to compete in its monthly On The Rise contest for the chance to appear on the mega-website’s front page. At the time Cookies, Cupcakes and Cardio had 35,000 subscribers. Today it has more then 450,000. While they didn’t win the YouTube contest, it did lead to a phenomenal opportunity, Johns explained. “Right after that contest, we were selected to join a YouTube program,” she said. The six-month program, called Creator Accelerator, brought 35 relatively inexperienced YouTube creators to Los Angeles to learn more about filming, production and editing of their videos.
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Cranbrook baker Jenn Johns and her niece Elsa recently filmed a popular how-to video for this Frozen cake for YouTube channel Cookies, Cupcakes and Cardio.
Police seek witnesses to JulyFest assault Local business recognized for diversity in workplace C A R O LYN G R A N T Daily Bulletin
Last week, Kimberley RCMP Cpl. Chris Newel said that police were seeking information on an assault at JulyFest but did not give further details at the time. Some details are now being released and police are looking for witnesses to come forward.
Newel says the attack occurred at about 1:30 a.m. on July 20, during JulyFest, when a male was the victim of an unprovoked assault outside a house party on Fortier Street. The victim required medical attention for injuries sustained. The attacker was unknown to the victim, Newel says, and his identity remains a mys-
tery. The attacker has been identified as being about six feet tall, 150 pounds with a slender build and curly, brown, above-shoulder length hair. Anyone who witnessed the assault or has any knowledge of it, is asked to contact the Kimberley RCMP at 250427-4811 or Crimestoppers.
A R N E P E T RYS H E N Townsman Staff
Max’s Place has been recognized for supporting diversity in the workplace. The acknowledgement comes from Cranbrook Society for Community Living’s Employment Options Team by way of a
Diversity @ Work sticker. The sticker, which is displayed in the window, encourages the community to patronize businesses that participate in diversification. The BC EmployNet team, along with the Provincial Networking
Group, developed the program to recognize employers who support a diverse workplace. BC EmployNet is a unified network committed advancing employment support practices.
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