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Vol. 63, Issue 176
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TREVOR CRAWLEY PHOTOS
STRAY CAT STRUT: The RCMP, Kootenay Ice and College of the Rockies Avalanche volleyball players hit the catwalk at the annual Cops for Kids all-male fashion show on Wednesday night at the Tamarack Centre. Complete with three acts, the RCMP, Ice and Avalanche all got the chance to walk the walk as they played to the crowd in an effort to upstage each other. The Cops for Kids charity is currently in the middle of their cycling tour, which started in Osoyoos and winds through the East and West Kootenay before returning to Kelowna. See page 3 for more, and Page 2 for a special photo feature.
Society formed to bring SD5 board calls for panel back Cranbrook Airshow on binding arbitration BA RRY COULTER
A new not-for-profit society has been set up to help bring an airshow back to the Canadian Rockies International Airport on a regular basis. Darrell Garton of Calgary, who has worked on airshows in B.C. and Alberta, is working to implement a biennial event, that would take place every two years starting in 2016. “What we’re trying to do is bringing the event back to Cranbrook,” Garton told the Townsman. “I have a couple of airshow people here in Calgary that have been in the airshow industry for several years. We’ve also been asked by some of the people in
Cranbrook to help bring it back. “Over the years, there’ve been one or two, then it stopped, then it came back, then it stopped — that kind of thing. “We’re looking at bringing this back on a two-year term, starting in 2016. “We’re proposing a two-day event, with a twilight show in the evening, with the planes doing the fireworks — that kind of thing. Abbotsford just ran their first twilight show this year, and it went over really well. So this is what we’ve been trying to plan for you guys. Fireworks over the mountains, that kind of thing. It should be pretty exciting.” A society has already been set
up — the Cranbrook International Airshow — which is being run as a not-for-profit. “So if the airshow makes money, all the funds go to pay the bills, with a little bit of reserve in the bank,” Garton said. “Any remaining funds go back to the city — so it will go towards the Air Cadets, the Boys and Girls Club, any of those groups who help out with the event will get some back. So the society doesn’t keep any funds, at the end of the day.” Cranbrook is in a good geographic location for an airshow, Garton said.
See SOCIETY, Page 4
ARNE PE TRYSHEN With files from Tom Fletcher
More than 30,000 B.C. teachers voted almost unanimously Wednesday to end their strike if the B.C. government will send their dispute to binding arbitration. The government, however, had already dismissed the province-wide vote, with Education Minister Peter Fassbender calling it a “ploy.” In School District 5, board chair Frank Lento said he was not surprised by the results of the vote by teachers. On Tuesday, the Board of Education approved sending a letter to Fassbender and the BCTF urging an arbitration panel. “Each side would chose a repre-
sentative and then each representative would chose a chairman,” explained Lento on Thursday. “Then it would be a panel for binding arbitration. “The difference would be each party would select an arbitrator and then each arbitrator would select a chairperson. It’s something that’s happened in the past, years ago there would be arbitration panels to resolve disputes. So we sent that along for their consideration urging them to get the matter resolved.” On August 5, Lento wrote the letter to Fassbender regarding the ongoing labour dispute.
See SCHOOL , Page 3